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Bethany  Theological  Library 

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Dear  Lord,  may  I  be  ever  as  a  saw, 

A  plane,  a  chisel,  in  thy  hand, — 
No,  Lord,  I  take  it  back  in  awe, 

Such  prayer  for  me  is  far  too  grand; 
I  pray,  O   Master,  I  may  lie 

As  on  thy  bench  the  favored  wood; 
Thy  saw,  thy  plane,  thy  chisel  ply, 

And  work  me  into  something  good. 

— George  MacDonald. 


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BRETHREN    PUBLISHING    HOUSE 


July  5,   1904 


$  1 .00  per  Year 


Number  27,  Volume  VI 


The  Kinkaid  Homestead  Act 


Sidney,  Nebraska,  May  9th.  1904. 
bo.   L.  McDor 
lization  Agent.  U.  P.  R.  R.  Omaha,  Nebr. 
Dear  Brother: — Hope   that    the  Colonization   Department  of 
Iflc  Railroad  will  let  It  be  generally  known  amongst 
the    Brethren   that   they  can    secure   MO   acres   of  government 
under  the  new  homestead  law   In  this  district.     There  la 
between   150,000  and  200,000  acres  of  it  for    fi 

eed  members  here,  as  we  are  bul  few  in  number  and  have 
a  good  churchhouse.      Here   Is  a    town  of   1,200   to   1.300  Inhab- 
itants, good  churches  of  other  denominations  and  good  schools. 
e  lived  here  eighteen  years. 

edi     J.  U.  Sllngluff. 
Minister. 

y.   Nebraska,   May  9th,  1904. 
"igh, 

R,  Omaha.   Nebr. 
Dear  Sir: — I  hope  you  will  gel  a  larg<  >1    Brethren 

lea      Land  can  be  obtained  easily 
:    the   new   Kinkaid   law.      The  possibilities   in  western 
breaks  Youra  truly. 

(Slgi 

iugh. 
Izatlon  Agent.  l\  P.  R.  R,  Omaha.  Nebr. 

Itigle- 

nook  it  permits  a  settler  to 

enter  t">40  »■  '  In  Nebraskn  instead  of  160  acres. 

Tl  •  ould  like  to  have 

Brethren  In  I  There  Is  also 

those 
ice    raw    land    un-h  I    law 

■ 
more   meml 

Hope  you  will  maki  tmongat  the  :  &  and 

m    will   avail    themselves  of    tl  i»me- 

■  for  them- 
Fraternally    yours. 

M     M.    Kline. 

P.  s. — W<  originally.     ' 

M.    If.    Kl: 


gh,  who  fnr  years  has  been  favorably 
known  to  the  Brethren  of  1 1  (s  the  Coloniza- 
tion Agent  of  the  Unit  1  will  be  at  the 
service  of  all  Br<  mg  the  line 
of  this  road.  Write  him  at  I  •  raaka,  for  FREE  prlnt- 
tter. 


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Homeseekers'    Excursions 

To  enable  intending  settlers  to  reach  Western  Nebraska  and  the  lands  affected  under  the  Kinkaid  Act  the 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Has   put  in  effect  Homeseekers'  rates  on   the  first  and  third  Tuesdays  of  each  month  at  ra  fare 

plus  S2.00  from  its  Eastern  Terminals,  Council  Bluffs,  Omaha,  Kansas  City 
and  Leavenworth  to  Sidney  and   North   Plan 

Homesteaders  can  thus  visit  the  United  States  Land  Offices  and  get  proper  information 
without  any  unnecessary  expenditure  of  time  and  mon-  v. 


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Rosebud  Indian  Reservation,  South  Dakota,  open  for 
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and  permits  to  go  on  the  reservation,  at  Chamberlain  and 
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Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul 
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The 
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Campbell 
Tract 


in  Fresno  County, 

California, 

Promises  to  become  ilic  leading 
fruit-growing  section  of  California. 
Land  is  cheap,  water  abundant,  loca- 
tion healthful  and  soil  unsure 
The  soil  is  especially  adapted  to  the 
orange,  grape,  fig,  orchard  fruil 
falfa  and   general   farming. 

Plans  are  now  forming  for  a  colo- 
ny of  the  Brethren  on  this  tract.  J. 
S.  Kmis.  proprietor  of  the  old 
sion  farm  at  Covina,  Cal.,  having  al- 
ready purchased  land  in  thi-  district, 
which  has  been  inspected  by  other 
prominent  members  of  the  church. 

Maps  and  information  by 

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The  Real  Attraction 

of  a  College  is  its  educational  atmos- 
phere. Our  courses  range  from  Busi- 
ness up  through  the  regular  College . 
Do  you  want  music?  Mount  Morris  of- 
fers superior  advantages,  not  at  Chicago 
prices,  but  within  your  reach.  Gradu- 
ate from  our  Music  Course  are  well 
trained  and  become  successful  teachers. 
Not  all  can  be  expert  musicians  but  all 
can  be  materially  aided  by  a  good  teach- 
er.  Our  Music  Department  is  first-class 
in    every    particular. 

MOUNT    MORRIS    COLLEGE. 
J.  E.  Miller,  Pros.  Mt.  Morris,  HI. 


ORANGE  AND  WALNUT 

grove  for  sale.  Five  acres  in  south- 
ern California;  4!4-year-old  trees,  al- 
ternate rows.  The  choicest  of  land. 
trees,  and  location.  An  unusual  op- 
portunity for  a  person  with  small 
capital  who  desires  quality.  Must 
sell  to  clear  another  place  in  same 
locality. 

Address: 

E.  I.  AMES. 

6332   Peoria   St.  Chicago,   III. 

30U3        ""> 


■      IK   .1.11   wrilitu 


COLORADO 


SEND    FOR   A    BOTTLE    OF 

Q  UELINE! 


It  Will  Stop  that  Redness, 
Burning  and  Soreness  of  Your 
Eyes.  Oood  for  all  Inflamma- 
tions of  the  Eye.     Only  35  cts. 

THE  YEREM1AN  MEDICAL  CO., 

Quels  M.  Yercmlan,  President, 

BATAVIA.  -  -  ILLINOIS. 

IBI-SH         I  *h»n  wrUliw 

FEW    PEOPLE 

Know  the  value  of  X*lqald  Spray  as  a 
horr.«  cure  for  Catarrh.  Hay  Fever.  Head 
colds  and  other  diseases  of  the  respira- 
tory organs. 

Persons  desiring  to  try  this  highly 
recommended  treatment  should  Immedi- 
ately write  to  E.  J.  Worrt,  61  Main  St., 
Ashland  Ohio. 

He  will  gladly  mall  any  reader  of  the 
Inglenook  one  of  his  new  Atomizers  and 
Liquid  Spray  treatment  on  Ave  days'  tri- 
al, free. 

If  It  gives  satisfaction,  send  him  $2.00. 
two-fifths  regular  price;  If  not,  return 
It  at  the  expired  time,  which  will  only 
cost  you  twelve  cents  postage,  and  you 
will  not  owe  him  a  penny.  It  kills  the 
Catarrh  microbes  In  the  head  and  throaL 

23tl3 


AT    ANNUAL    MEETING. 

We  were  at  Carthage.  Mo.,  during 
the  Annual  Meeting  and  met  many 
of  our  old  friends  and  correspondents 
among  the   Brethren. 

THE   NEW    BOOKS. 

We  distributed  five  thousand  of  the 

new  I'm"!]  Pacific  Railway  folders. 
"What  People  Say  about  the  South 
Platte  Valley,"  while  there. 

SEND   FOR  ONE. 

We  have  a  iew  hundred  "t  these 
books  left  for  free  distribution  and  if 

you  will  drop  us  a  runt  will  send  you 
a  copy  by  lir^t  mail. 

OUR    CARTHAGE    EXCURSION. 

Several  members  accompanied  us 
on  our  excursion  t"  Sterling  and  Sny- 
der and  are  well  pleased  with  the 
country  and   some   will   locate. 

AGENTS  WANTED. 

We  would  like  t..  arrange  with  a 
member  in  every  town  in  the  country 
1.1  distribute  these  folders  and  get  up 

a  party  i'w  I 

LIBERAL   COMMISSIONS. 

We   offer   liberal   commissions   and 

11    any    lands   you    may 
Lirself. 

A   FREE  PASS. 

We    also    arrange    lor    special    I 

ursion  parties  and  free  trans- 
ient who  gets  up  the 
party  to  Colorado  and  return. 

SPECIAL    BARGAINS. 

We    have    special    ba  n    irri- 

]  town  property  dur- 
ing the  summer  month-  and  now  is 
the   nine   to   see   the  country  and   in- 

SNYDER  TOWN   LOTS. 

Parties  who  will  agree  t..  distribute 

dvertising   matter    .nii"ng    their 

friends   can    secure   six    Snyder   town 

lots  for  $100.     1  h  -.11  for  $25 

each  and  you  can  make  $50  profit  by 

ng   them   at   this   1 

TROUT   FISHING   IN   MOUN- 
TAINS. 

We  will  run  special  cheap  rate  cx- 
cursions  from  Sterling  to  Cherokee 
1'ark  every  week  tins  summer.  This 
l-  one  of  the  finesl  resorts  in  Colo- 
The  iri'iii  fishing  is  grand  and 
the  scenery  sublime. 

COME  TO  COLORADO. 

If     j  cmplate    a     trip     for 

health,  pleasure,  recreation  or  invest- 
ment let  us  hear  from  you  and  wc 
will  be  pleased  to  give  all  information 

The  Colorado  Colony  Co., 

Sterling,  Colorado. 

I7tl3       M.ni.f.fj   llM   IX3LISOOI  whM)  <mUn|. 


Over     lOO    Yea 

Of    severest    trials    and  tests    in  all  climes,   in    all  lands,   in  all  seasons, 
has  demonstrated  the  fact  that 

of 

All  remedies  ever  used  or  compounded  to  purify,  cleanse  and  strengthen 

the   blood  and  rid    the    human  system  of  disease, 

none   has   met  with   the 


That  has  attended  the  use  of  that    purest  and  best  of 
household  remedies, 

DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER 

It  is  beneficial  and  an  absolute  cure  for  all  ailments  originating   in  the 
BLOOD,   the   fundamental  principle  of  life. 


Diver  Complaint,   Constipation,    Headache,   Biliousness,   Rheumatism,   Dyspepsia,   Drop- 
sy, Erysipelas,  Ague,  Scrofula  and  all  skin  diseases  and  pains  in  the  bone 
system    yield    to    the    powerful   influence    of    this    tried 
and    true    greatest  of    all    remedies. 

DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER 

Is  handled   through  specially    appointed    retail    agents    onlv.      If  there  is  no  agent    in 

your   locality,    address    the  sole  manufacturer  of  the  genuine  article, 

who   is  a  grandson  of    the  original  discoverer, 

DR.    PETER    FAHRNEY, 

112=114  S.  Hoyne  Avenue, 

CHICAGO,  ILL. 

(Cannot  be  had  at  drugstores.      Remember  this.) 


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Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail 


1  IDAHO 


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is   the   best-watered   arid    State 
winds,    destructive    storms    and 
mate   it   makes   life   bright   and 
We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer 
change   for   the   general   improvement    in    your   condi 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  b 
and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  coun 
swer  and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger 
fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves 
Cheap    homeseekers'   rates   are   made    to   all   prin 
for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting 


in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot  ^ 

:yclones    are   unknown,   and   with    its    matchless    cli-  ^ 

worth  living.  ^ 

to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a  ^ 

tion  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on  ^ 

oth  requirements.     There  is,  however,  only  one  wise  '^ 

try  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an-  £ 

work   teach   us    that    a   few   dollars   spent    in    railroad  ^ 

thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow.  ^ 

cipal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see  ^. 

a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing.  ^ 


Round=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only  in  May 
and  October,  1004.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


PAYETTE    VALLEY   HOME.-Five  Years  from  Sagebrush. 


Arrived  in  Payette  Valley  Feb.  23,  1903.  Settled  on  an  80-acre  tract,  covered  with  sage  brush. 
Cleared  40  acres.  May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.  Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.  June  12  sowed  10  acres 
to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.  Yielded  55  to  acre.  Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 
or   March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 
oats. 

Potatoes  yielded  500  bushels  to  the  acre  and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)   E.  L.  Dotson. 


S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

J.  E.   HOOPER,  Agent,   Oakland,  Kansas. 

Mention  the  INGLENOOK  i 


D.   E.   BURLEY, 
G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R., 


Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance.      Fine      ^ 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


Salt  Lake  City,  Utah.  ^_ 


-felMSLEMSOK 


Vol.  VI. 


July  5,   1904. 


No.  27. 


OLD-FASHIONED    NOOKERS. 


There's  an  old-fashioned  house  in  a  quiet,  shady  grove 

And  an  old-fashioned  couple  live  there; 
There's  an  old-fashioned  gate  by  the  old-fashioned  road 

And  an  old-fashioned  mat  by  the  chair. 
There's  an  old-fashioned  woman  sitting  there 

Knitting  a  pair  of  old-fashioned  hose. 
She's  an  old-fashioned  cap  on  her  old-fashioned  head 

And  she's  dressed  in  her  old-fashioned  clothes. 

There's  an  old-fashioned  clock  on  the  old-fashioned  wall 

With  an  old-fashioned  pendulum  and  hands. 
There's  an  old-fashioned   shelf  o'er  the   old  fireplace, 

With  its  bright  pots,  kettles  and  pans. 
There's  an  old-fashioned  man  sitting  there — 

He's  dreaming  the  hours  away. 
May  he  live  many  years  with  his  old-fashioned  wife, 

May  his   dreams   grow  brighter  every  day. 

There's  an  old-fashioned  carpet  on  the  old-fashioned  floor, 

It  was  woven  in  an  old-fashioned  loom. 
There's  an  old-fashioned  latch  on  the  old-fashioned  door; 

In  the  corner  stands  an  old-fashioned  broom. 
There's  an  old-fashioned   Bible  on  the  stand 

And  an  old-fashioned  hymn  book  near  by. 
They  have  sung  those  songs,  lo!  these  many,  many  years. 

May  they  sing  them  when  in  glory  up  on  high. 

*    ♦   * 
SHOTS    AT    RANDOM. 


The  greatest  rogue  is  the  pious  one. 

Wild  oats  never  produce  solid  grain. 

A  wild  goose  never  lays  a  tame  egg. 

Sift  a  sluggard — all  chaff — no  grain. 

Better  kill  a  lion  while  he  is  a  cub. 

* 
Taffy  is  always  preferable  to  epitaphy. 

You  can't  pick  up  sand  with  a  magnet. 

Idle  men  tempt  the  devil  to  tempt  them. 


An  ant  can  be  busy,  but  he  can't  make  honey. 
Flowers  are  larger  in  fragrance  than  in  form. 
Grown  people  feel  the  truth,  but  children  tell  it. 

Truth  is  truth,  even  when  dressed  in  homespun. 

* 
They  zvho  knozv  nothing  are  confident  of  everything. 

* 
The  world's  shepherd   can  never  feed  the    Lord's 
sheep. 

A  civil  tongue  is  a  better  weapon  than  a  loaded  re- 
volver. 

* 

A  stingy  man  would  have  to  stand  on  his  head  to 
see  heaven. 

* 

An  ugly  thing  is  ugly  and  you  can't  make  it  pretty 
by  liking  it. 

It  is  possible  to  misrepresent  some  people  by  speak- 
ing well  of  them. 

* 

The  true  artist  is  always  telling  the  zvorld  what 
God  has  told  him. 

* 

It  will  puzzle  posterity  to  tell  why  some  men  have 
been  given  statues. 

* 

A  single  rose  in  the  sickroom  is  worth  more  than  a 
bouquet  of  carnations  on  a  grave. 
* 
One  of  the  best  proofs  that  the  Lord  knows  all 
things  is  that  he  did  not  put  eyes  in  tlie  back  of  a 
titan's  head. 

* 

You  may  notch  it  on  de  palin.  sir. 
You  may  carve  it  on  de  wall, 
Dot  de  lii'er  up  a  toad  frog  jumps 
De  ha'der  he  will  fall. 


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THE      INGLENOOK. 


A    WORTHY    MARK    OF    RESPECT    IN    INDIA. 


BY    GALEN    B.     ROYER. 

Through  the  kindness  of  Elder  Wilbur  Stover, 
missionary  for  the  Brethren  at  Bulsar,  India,  the  writ- 
er was  permitted  to  read  the  pages  of  a  copy  of  the 
Christian  Patriot  published  in  that  country.  In  it  was 
an  interesting  editorial  on  the  late  move  of  Lord  Cur- 
zon,  viceroy  of  India.  This  ruler  of  India  has  directed 
that  the  buildings  where  leaders  in  missions  once  la- 
bored shall  be  set  apart  and  preserved,  in  token  of 
the  high  esteem  in  which  the  Indian  government  holds 
the  men  who  labored.  It  is  a  grand  idea,  not  so  much 
that  one  place  on  this  earth  is  better  than  another,  but 
because  those  who  come  after  and  know  of  the  work 
done  by  a  Carey,  a  Hartin,  and  men  who  have  lived 
likewise,  will  realize  that  they  are  standing  in  the  very 
spot  where  those  noble  men  labored,  and  will  be  in- 
spired to  still  greater  efforts.  Then,  too,  where  does 
Christianity  want  a  better  compliment  from  the  gov- 
ernments of  the  world?  Not  that  she  should  stoop  to 
them,  but  that  they  who  are  in  power  should  be  will- 
ing to  recognize  the  silent  influence  of  the  Gospel  in 
heathen  lands.  But  let  the  following  interesting  lines 
be  read  and  the  reader  will  see  a  new  phase  to  mission 
work  in  foreign  lands : 

What  Indian  that  knows  what  is  the  blessedness 
of  being  a  Christian  will  not  feel  proud,  if  pride  is 
justifiable  in  any  case,  that  the  house  of  William  Ca- 
rey, the  building  used  by  the  missionary  chaplain,  Hen- 
ry Martin,  for  public  meetings  and  private  prayer, 
the  church  built  and  the  house  occupied  by  Schwartz 
at  Tanjore,  and  the  residence  of  Dr.  John  Wilson — 
Ambroli  House,  Girgaum,  Back  Road,  Bombay,  are 
to  be  permanently  marked  as  holy  places  to  be  visited 
and  venerated  by  all  pilgrims  in  the  future.  They 
were  one  and  all  spiritually-minded  men,  who  set  no 
value  on  earthly  gains  and  honours,  though  thev  were 
thrust  upon  them  and  who,  while  serving  the  God 
that  they  loved  and  worshiped,  habitually  identified 
themselves  with  the  people  of  this  country  for  whom 
they  had  left  their  country  and  race.  William  Carey 
was  the  father  and  originator  of  all  vernacular  liter- 
ature in  northern  India  and  Maharashtra,  and  it  was 
he  who  produced  the  literary  languages  that  the  mod- 
ern Babu  and  Maratha  write.  Henry  Martin  was  a 
being  of  seraphic  character,  whose  fervor  glorified  the 
chastity  of  his  cultured  natives.  Schwartz  was  as 
simple  and  unsophisticated  as  a  child  of  nature,  whose 
Christian  piety  therefore  was  of  universal  attraction 
and  power;  and  in  Dr.  John  Wilson  manifold  charms 
blended  into  one  harmonious  whole  and  produced  a 
melody  of  life  and  character  that  regaled  the  imagina- 
tion and  gladdened  the  hearts  of  all  races  and  classes 


of  people.  He  was  not  an  ascetic  in  appearance,  but 
essentially  so  in  spirit.  He  had  not  taken  the  vow  of 
poverty  and  did  not  wear  a  costume  of  outward  sin- 
gularity; but  his  innate  humility  and  amiability  of 
spirit  raised  him  to  the  position  of  the  highest  saints, 
whether  of  antiquity  or  the  Middle  Ages ;  and  his  ever 
youthful  countenance,  glorious  with  a  smile  of  supreme 
benignity,  produced  sunshine  wherever  he  went. 
None  feared  to  go  to  him ;  none  was  ever  repulsed 
by  him.  While  a  Governor  or  Viceroy  sat  in  his  sim- 
ply furnished  drawing-room  conversing  with  him,  the 
humblest  native  student  or  acquaintance  could  have 
access  to  him,  his  door  being  never  guarded  by  a  surly 
chaprasi  or  a  wolfish  dog.  The  Ambroli  Mission 
House  was  not  like  a  bungalow  of  a  European  mis- 
sionary or  layman ;  it  was  a  dharma  shala,  a  temple, 
or  church,  where  all  found  free  admittance.  There 
was  no  social  feast  held  under  the  Padri's  roof  at 
which  some  Indians  were  not  present  or  a  prayer-meet- 
ing convened  to  which  Indians,  Christians  and  non- 
Christians  were  not  invited.  No  matter  where  Dr. 
Wilson  was,  or  what  he  was  doing,  he  was  always  as- 
sociated with  the  people  of  this  country;  and  he  was 
proud  to  feel  that  he  had  loyal  Indian  friends  and 
students  about  him  to  participate  in  his  joys  and  sor- 
rows. To  the  Europeans  he  was  equally  attached, 
and  his  highest  joy  was  to  see  both  these  races — the 
Indians  and  Europeans — meet  each  other  as  members 
of  a  common  brotherhood  under  his  roof.  This  re- 
ligious enthusiasm  did  not  narrow  his  sympathies,  but 
widened  them  ;  and  the  man  who  had  assailed  the  re- 
ligions of  the  Hindus  and  Parsees  and  Mohammedans 
with  such  success  that  they  were  enfeebled  forever, 
at  least,  so  far  as  Bombay  was  concerned,  had  his 
most  devoted  friends  and  admirers  among  the  highest 
and  most  erudite  of  their  adherents ;  and  they  would 
wait  on  him  at  his  house  to  do  him  honor.  He  was 
as  generous  in  his  benefactions  as  he  was  ardent  in  his 
sympathies,  and  there  were,  all  sorts  and  conditions  of 
men  besieging  his  door  and  occupying  his  parlor  with 
petitions,  verbal  or  written,  for  help.  There  was  the 
Englishman  that  came  for  a  recommendatory  note  for 
some  post  of  high  honor  and  emoluments  in  the  serv- 
ice of  the  government ;  or  a  Parsi  for  light  on  the  tra- 
ditions of  his  race  and  religion ;  or  a  Hindu  to  go  with 
him  to  some  temple  to  decipher  its  hieroglyphics  and 
read  its  history ;  or  a  Jew  from  Arabia  or  Tartary 
needing  funds  to  retrace  his  steps  homeward,  or  to 
visit  the  holy  land  of  his  fathers.  There  was  no  one 
that  met  with  any  rudeness  from  that  absolutely  per- 
fect gentleman. 

The  government  found  in  him  a  pillar  of  strength 
whose  counsels  helped  them  to  steer  their  ship  of 
state  in  safety  between  the  rocks  of  European  and 
Indian  interests.     While  he  lived  and  labored  as  the 


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friend  of  the  native  and  foreigner,  the  government  did 
not  need  the  aid  of  its  regiments  of  soldiers  or  parties 
of  marines  to  keep  the  peace  of  the  town ;  and  even 
when  in  1857  the  Europeans  in  the  city  of  Bombay 
were  alarmed  by  reports  of  secret  plots  and  seditious 
unrest,  the  word  of  Dr.  Wilson  calmed  equally  the 
official  and  the  unofficial  sections  of  the  European  com- 
munity. Dr.  Wilson  offered  to  walk  through  the  lanes 
and  gullies  of  the  most  dangerous  parts  of  the  town 
alone  in  the  dead  of  night  without  any  fear  of  moles- 
tation, and  the  government  listened  to  his  pacifying 
demonstrations. 

The  Ambroli  Mission  House,  consecrated  by  the  res- 
idence and  labors  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  John  Wilson,  for 
nearly  half  a  century,  was  the  cradle  of  young  Bom- 
bay's birth  and  childhood.  In  it  men  of  the  first  gen- 
eration of  educated  Indians  received  their  training, 
and  met,  afterwards,  for  discussing  questions  of  so- 
cial and  moral  improvement.  The  first  English  essay 
on  social  subjects  composed  by  Dr.  Bhau  Daji,  Ganpat 
Lakshamanj.i,  Daboda  Pandurang,  Bal  Shastri  Jam- 
bekar  and  a  host  of  others  were  produced  under  the 
inspiration  of  the  apostle  of  Ambroli  and  read  under 
his  presidency  before  the  Debating  Society,  started 
by  him  under  his  roof. 

*  *   * 

THEY    DIED    BY    VIOLENCE. 


PIKE'S    PEAK. 


BY    J.    G.    FIGLEY. 

I  have  somewhere  seen  the  statement  that  the  mur- 
der of  rulers  of  countries  goes  in  cycles  and  periods, 
that  the  "  stars  "  proclaimed  it !  At  any  rate  the  fol- 
lowing rulers  have  died  by  violence :  Eglon,  king  of 
Moab,  was  killed  by  Ehud ;  Absalom,  who  revolted 
against  his  father,  David,  was  caught  by  the  head  in  a 
tree  and  was  killed  by  darts ;  king  Nadab,  son  of  Jero- 
boam, was  killed  by  Baaza ;  king  Ela  was  killed  by 
Zimri ;  king  Ahaziah  was  killed  by  Jehu  ;  Athalia  was 
killed  by  Jehoida ;  Jehoiakim,  Jeconiah  and  Zedekiah 
died  in  captivity ;  Crcesus,  Astyages,  Darius,  Dionysius 
of  Syracuse,  Pyrrhus,  Perseus,  Hannibal,  Jugurtha, 
Ariovistus,  Cassar,  Pompey,  Nero;  some  think  Alex- 
ander the  Great  was  poisoned ;  Otho,  Vitellius,  Domi- 
tian,  Richard  II.,  Edward  II.,  HenryVI.,  Richard  III., 
Mary  Stuart,  Charles  I.,  of  England ;  kings  Henry  I., 
II.,  III.,  IV.,  V.,  and  President  Carnot  of  France; 
Alexander  II.,  czar  of  Russia ;  Alexander  and  Draga, 
of  Servia ;  Elizabeth,  of  Austria ;  Presidents  Lincoln, 
Garfield  and  McKinley,  of  the  United  States.  Verily, 
it  is  true  that  "  uneasy  lies  the  head  that  wears  a 
crown,"  for  where  one  attempt  to  kill  a  ruler  has  been 
successful,  there  are  many  that  failed  to  accomplish 
their  object. 

Bryan,  Ohio. 


BY   RILLA   ARNOLD. 

Pike's  Peak  is  the  Mecca  of  American  tourists, 
if  one  is  to  judge  by  the  crowds  of  people  from  every 
section  of  the  country  who  go  there  annually.  Ranch 
men  and  cattle  men  from  the  plains,  miners  from  the 
mountains,  farmers  from  the  Middle  West,  merchants, 
office  .men,  students  and  teachers  from  everywhere, 
mountaineers  and  "  Colonels  "  from  old  Virginia  and 
farther  south,  and  even  the  little  old  lady  from  "  Bost- 
ing,"  are  to  be  seen  there.  Capitalists  and  laborers, 
the  strong  and  the  sick,  young  and  old,  they  are  all 
there,  and  are  all  one  people,  for  the  time  being,  with 
the  same  aims  and  ambitions,  to  see  all  that  can  pos- 
sibly be  seen  and  to  go  up  the  Peak. 

There  are  three  ways  of  ascending  the  mountain, 
the  old  way  of  walking  by  the  trail,  riding  a  burro 
or  by  the  Cog  Road.  A  great  many  walk — the  air 
and  scenery  intoxicate — they  want  to  walk.  One  lady 
went  there  for  her  health  last  summer  who  could  not 
walk  a  block  when  she  arrived,  but  was  there  only 
one  week  until  she  walked  to  the  top  and  back — twen- 
ty-six miles  in  all.  A  good  way  is  to  go  by  easy  stages 
as  far  as  your  strength  will  allow.  It  may  be  only 
a  few  miles  or  to  the  Halfway  House,  but  it  is  well 
to  remember  that  life  is  too  precious  to  risk  it  un- 
necessarily. The  effects  of  the  high  altitude  are  very 
severe  on  most  people — hemorrhages  and  prostration 
resulting  frequently.  Riding  a  little  burro  is  a  very 
good  way — slow  but  sure ;  but  if  one  is  rather  timid 
the  shocks  received  by  watching  the  animal  balance 
himself  on  a  rock  almost  in  midair  are  more  than  the 
effects  of  walking.  The  Cog  Road  is  the  safest  and 
easiest,  but  it  lacks  the  spice  of  adventure  of  the  other 
two  and,  amid  such  grandeur,  to  get  into  a  car  and 
have  a  little  engine  push  you,  does  not  appeal  very 
strongly  to  most  tourists.  This  Cog  Road  is  said  to 
be  the  most  remarkable  of  the  climbing  passenger 
railroads  in  the  world.  It  was  completed  in  1891, 
at  a  cost  of  a  half  million  dollars.  It  climbs,  in  the 
nine  miles  of  its  length,  to  a  height  of  14.147  feet 
above  sea  level.  It  makes  the  ascent  in  three  hours, 
and  a  hundred  people  make  a  load.  The  cost  of  a  tick- 
et is  five  dollars. 

The  best  time  to  be  on  the  Peak  is  at  sunrise,  when 
the  scenery  is  gorgeous.  There  are  several  places 
along  the  trail  where  a  magnificent  view  of  the  plains 
can  be  had.  There  are  many  beautiful  pines  and 
springs  of  cool,  sparkling  water  along  the  trail.  As 
seen  from  Colorado  Springs  or  the  Gateway  of  the 
Garden  of  the  Gods,  Pike's  Peak  is  very  beautiful. 
It  was  discovered  November  13,  1806,  by  Major  Pike. 

Milford,  hid. 


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the    inglenook. 


MARLBOROUGH,     MICHIGAN. 


MARLBOROUGH,   MICHIGAN,   HAS   SOLVED  THE 
TEMPERANCE   PROBLEM    FOR   ALL   TIME. 


BY   C.    R.    KELLOGG. 

An  Important  Suggestion  for  Those  Interested  in  this 
Great  Work. 

There  is  perhaps  no  greater  problem  confronting 
the  American  people  to-day  than  that  of  temperance. 
Many  and  various  are  the  plans  by  which  its  advocates 
are  attempting  to  cope  with  this  great  evil.  The  ef- 
fort has  chiefly  been  along  the  lines  of  law.  In  Ohio, 
any  city,  ward  or  township  that  votes  against  the  liq- 
uor traffic  can  have  it  prohibited.  Local  option  is  a 
feature  in  other  States.  Yet  to  face  the  question  fair- 
ly, it  must  be  admitted  that  all  these  methods  do  not 
eradicate  the  evil,  and  the  problem  is  by  no  means  set- 
tled along  such  lines. 

Under  such  circumstances  the  fact  that  ordinary 
business  men,  bringing  to  this  problem  only  native 
shrewdness,  have  succeeded  in  settling  it  in  a  way 
which  it  seems  no  human  ingenuity  can  surmount, 
calls  for  more  than  a  mere  passing  notice.  It  offers 
interesting  and  valuable  suggestions. 

The  town  of  Marlborough,  Mich.,  in  which  this 
problem  has  had  such  a  fortunate  solution,  is  in  what 
was  once  the  lumber  district  of  western  Michigan. 
When  the  lumber  passed  away,  the  rough  and  lawless 
elements  drifted  into  the  small  towns  and  hamlets, 
and  this  made  the  liquor  interests  very  strong  there. 
There  was  little  for  the  people  left,  as  the  land  had 
only  pine  stumps  interspersed  with  second  growth  oak, 
making  it  fit  for  grazing  only,  but  whatever  else  failed, 
the  liquor  interests  seemed  to  thrive,  and  this  too  at 
the  expense  of  what  improvement  might  have  been 
made. 

There  was  a  general  mark  of  unprogressiveness  on 
everything.  At  Baldwin  Junction,  some  three  miles 
north  of  Marlborough,  there  were  only  two  painted 
houses  in  the  entire  town,  when  the  company  first  be- 
gan operations.  With  no  organized  resistance  against 
the  elements  of  rum  and  lawlessness,  it  was  realized 
that  it  would  never  do  to  let  them  exert  any  influence 
with  the  workmen  of  the  company.  The  officers  of 
the  company,  every  one  of  whom  is  a  firm  Christian, 
were  especially  concerned,  lest  such  a  state  of  affairs 


should  occur,  and  in  this  emergency  they  consulted 
with  Mr.  Howard  H.  Parsons,  one  of  the  leading  and 
most  active  directors  of  the  company.  Mr.  Parsons 
entered  into  this  matter  heart  and  soul, — making  it 
his  sole  aim  to  establish  here  a  community  that  would 
be  the  center  for  good  Christian  influence,  sobriety  and 
thrift. 

He  encouraged  ministers  to  visit  the  new  town,  hold- 
ing meetings  at  the  hotel,  and  advocated  very  strict 
regulations.  But  it  soon  became  evident  that  the  liq- 
uor element  would  gain  a  foot-hold  unless  radical 
measures  were  resorted  to. 

It  was  then  decided  to  incorporate  Marlborough  as 
a  village,  and  a  charter  was  drawn  up,  and  presented 
in  the  form  of  a  bill  at  the  legislature  in  Lansing.  The 
limits  of  the  village  were  included  in  the  land  be- 
longing exclusively  to  the  Cement  Company,  and  the 
latter  in  all  its  deeds  inserted  the  provision  of  for- 
feiture of  land  and  buildings  thereon  as  the  penalty 
for  selling  or  giving  away  any  liquors,  except  such 
as  are  prescribed  as  a  medicine,  and  these  can  be  ob- 
tained only  at  a  drugstore. 

The  result  has  worked  admirably.  There  is  not  a 
cleaner  or  more  model  town  in  Michigan.  There  is 
not  a  saloon  or  jail.  The  workmen  are  steady,  sober 
and  reliable.  The  contrast  is  a  matter  of  comment. 
Not  a  more  quiet  or  orderly  village  can  be  found  any- 
where. 

This  plan  puts  an  effectual  motive  in  the  way  of 
liquor  selling  for  all  time,  and  is  worthy  the  serious 
attention  of  all  who  are  fighting  this  evil.  The 
Marlborough  Land  and  Improvement  Company,  with 
Mr.  Parsons  as  president,  was  one  of  the  results  of 
this  work.  They  purchased  the  land  of  the  cement 
company  and  organized  themselves  to  build  up  a  tem- 
perance town.  The  officers  of  this  company  co-oper- 
ating with  Mr.  Parsons  are  all  like  him,  practical 
business  men, — yet  men  of  high  ideals.  Col.  F.  E. 
Farnsworth,  the  manager  and  treasurer  of  the  com- 
pany, gave  up  his  position  as  cashier  of  the  Union 
National  Bank  of  Detroit,  to  come  and  live  at  Marl- 
borough. He  is  a  director  of  the  Union  National 
Bank. 

There  are  now  about  five  hundred  people  here.  The 
town  is  beautifully  laid  out  with  wide  streets,  parks 
and  a  boulevard  skirtings  the  lake  front.     It  has  a  beau- 


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tiful  hotel  lighted  by  electricity,  heated  by  steam  and 
modern  in  every  way,  a  school  and  business  blocks, 
with  large  hall  in  which  Sunday  services,  Sunday 
school  and  Christian  Endeavor  meetings  are  held. 
$2,500  has  been  raised  toward  a  $10,000  church.  It 
is  not  yet  decided  what  denomination  it  will  be.  Ev- 
ery dollar  subscribed  is  entitled  to  a  vote  in  this  de- 
cision. 

No  man  not  sober  and  industrious  will  be  employed 
by  the  cement  company,  nor  will  he  be  allowed  to  locate 
in  the  village. 

The  number  of  people  employed  by  the  Great  North- 
ern will  eventually  be  1,200  to  1,500,  which  will  make 
a  town  of  4,000  people.  Healthfulness  of  locality  in 
such  a  case  is  very  important.  Marlborough  has  es- 
pecial advantages  in  this  way.  Anyone  afflicted  with 
asthma  and  hay  fever  can  find  almost  instant  relief. 
The  air  is  cool  and  dry,  and  there  is  an  abundance 
of  pure  water.  Its  chief  distinction,  however,  lies  in 
the  fact  that  it  is  the  only  town  in  Michigan  that  has 
settled  the  liquor  question  forever. 

Detroit,  Mich. 

♦  *  * 
BILLIARD    BALLS    MADE    OF    MILK. 


A   CALIFORNIA   HOSPITAL   AND    ALMSHOUSE. 


"  Milkstone,"  or  galalith,  is  manufactured  in  the 
following  manner :  By  a  chemical  process  the  casein 
is  precipitated  as  a  yellowish  brown  powder,  which  is 
mixed  with  formalin.  Thereby  a  hornlike  product  is 
formed.  The  substance,  with  various  admixtures, 
forms  a  substitute  for  horn,  turtle  shell,  ivory,  cellu- 
loid, marble,  amber  and  hard  rubber.  Handles  for 
knives  and  forks,  paper  cutters,  crayons,  pipes,  cigar 
holders,  seals,  marble,  stone  ornaments  and  billiard 
balls  are  now  made  of  skimmed  milk.  The  insolubil- 
ity of  galalith,  its  easy  working,  elasticity  and  proof 
against  fire  make  it  very  desirable.  Already  20,000 
quarts  of  skimmed  milk  are  daily  used  for  this  purpose 
in  Austria. 

$  $  $ 

AN    UNSENTIMENTAL    FACT. 


The  fact  that  Andrew  Jackson  had    no    children 

slightly  mars  the  sentiment  of  the  announcement  that 

his  granddaughter  will  have  a  prominent  position  at 

the  Woman's  Building  at  the  St.  Louis  Exposition. — 

Washington  Post. 

$   *  $ 

READ   GOOD   LITERATURE. 


Young  man,  young  woman,  get  the  best  thoughts 

of  best  writers ;  you  cannot  afford  to  be  without  the 

constant  companionship  of  good  thoughts,  and  good 

thoughts  of  others  create  good  thoughts  in  yourself. 

*J»  *$»  ♦ 

Men  lose  wisdom  just  in  proportion  as  they  are 
conceited. — Beecher. 


BY    M.    M.    ESHELMAN. 

Five  miles  south  of  Stockton,  California,  on  the 
Southern  Pacific  Railway,  on  the  right  side,  one  may 
read,  over  a  three-arched  gateway :  "  San  Joaquin 
County  Hospital  and  Almshouse,"  and  a  walk  of  about 
one-fourth  of  a  mile  brings  one  to  a  set  of  grand 
buildings  in  a  ten  acre  park  set  to  beautiful  shrubbery 
and  flowers.  There  are  six  large  buildings  and  an 
annex,  besides  an  electric  power  house  and  a  steam 
plant  and  many  other  smaller  buildings  to  the  rear 
of  the  main  structures.  Surrounded  by  the  six  main 
edifices  is  a  patoi  or  park  green  with  grass  the  year 
round  and  set  to  flowers  in  nice  niches.  Five  of  the 
large  two  story  buildings,  used  for  wards  for  the  sick 
and  dining  and  cook,  rooms,  have  lower  and  upper 
porches.  Those  facing  on  the  patoi  or  inner  park 
afford  pleasant  seating  places  for  both  the  poor  and 
the  hospital  invalids.  Indeed  the  entire  surroundings 
impress  one  rather  with  the  idea  that  it  is  a  series  of 
magnificent  hotels  for  the  enjoyment  of  the  rich  than 
a  hospital  for  the  poor  and  infirm. 

The  county  owns  440  acres  of  land.  The  buildings 
cost  $75,000,  and  their  capacity  is  240.  The  average 
attendance  is  about  175.  Thirty-five  cows  afford 
enough  milk  but  not  quite  enough  butter.  The  garden 
furnishes  enough  vegetables.  The  poultry  yard  is 
kept  up  with  four  incubators,  and  the  hens  do  a  great 
deal  in  supplying  the  thousands  of  dozens  of  eggs 
used  each  year.  The  land  cost  $17,600.  The  heating 
plant  cost  $9,000,  the  electric  plant  $5,000  and  a  fire 
protection  is  going  in  at  a  cost  of  $4,000. 

My  wife  and  I  were  shown  through  the  wards  where 
the  beds  and  walls  and  floors  are  kept  scrupulously 
clean  and  the  cooking  and  eating  rooms  are  also  spa- 
cious and  cleansed  every  day.  The  cellar,  with  its 
dairy  products,  is  neat  and  sweet.  We  were  in  the 
room  occupied  lately  by  Elder  H.  R.  Holsinger  who 
took  treatment  for  his  ailments  and  had  an  attendant 
day  and  night  and  an  excellent  doctor.  Such  patients 
are  not  paupers  but  hospital  patients  and  pay  their  ex- 
penses, which  are  very  moderate.  In  fact  if  a  man 
or  woman  cannot  pay  they  get  the  treatment  free.  It 
is  not  "  a  poor  house  "  as  eastern  people  are  taught 
a  poor  house.  California  puts  forth  her  best  for  the 
afflicted  and  if  too  poor  to  support  himself  lie  is  given 
a  good  bed,  good  food  and  good  enough  shelter,  flow- 
ers to  look  at  and  to  smell,  and  papers  and  hooks  to 
read  and  the  Gospel  preached  to  him  free.  Some  very 
wealthy  people  are  found  at  these  hospitals,  having 
undergone  surgical  operations. 

A  complete  drug  department,  surgical  outfit,  baths 
and  every  modern  convenience  grace  this  humane  in- 
stitution.    An  artesian  well  affords  pure  soft  water. 


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THE      INGLENOOk. 


THE   MEAT    PACKING   INDUSTRY. 


BY    W.    C.    FRICK. 

Very  few  people  have  the  slightest  idea  of  the  enor- 
mity of  the  packing-  industry  as  it  is  carried  on  in  the 
United  States. 

The  plains  and  corn  lands  of  the  western  and  west 
central  part  of  the  country  furnish  grazing  and  other 
food  for  thousands  of  cattle,  horses,  sheep  and  swine, 
which,  having  attained  their  growth,  are  shipped  to 
the  various  stock  markets  of  the  world  to  be  sold  or 
converted  into  food  products. 

In  the  United  States  upward  of  one  hundred  and 
fifty  firms  are  extensively  engaged  in  the  packing  busi- 
ness and  nearly  all  have  their  products  inspected  by 
officials  of  the  United  States  government. 

The  bulk  of  the  packing  industry  is  carried  on  in 
the  middle  west,  though  most  every  State  in  the  north- 
ern half  of  the  Union  claims  a  greater  or  less  share 
of  it. 

The  most  important  firms  engaged  in  this  industry 
together  with  their  most  extensive  plants  are : 

Armour  and  Company,  at  Chicago,  Kansas  City,  St. 
Joseph,  South  Omaha,  and  Ft.  Worth. 

Swift  and  Company,  at  Chicago,  Kansas  City,  St. 
Joseph,  South  Omaha,  and  Ft.  Worth. 

Nelson  Morris  and  Company,  at  Chicago,  Kansas 
City  and  St.  Joseph. 

Omaha  Packing  Company  at  Chicago,  St.  Joseph 
and  South  Omaha. 

Swartzschild  and  Sulzberger  at  Chicago,  Kansas 
City  and  New  York. 

G.  H.  Hammond  and  Company  at  Chicago,  Detroit, 
St.  Joseph  and  South  Omaha. 

Cudahy  Packing  Company  at  Wichita,  Kansas  City, 
South  Omaha  and  Portland,  Oregon. 

Libby,  McNeil,  and  Libby  at  Chicago,  concerned 
mostly  in  canning  meats. 

Indianapolis,  St.  Paul,  Cincinnati,  Los  Angeles  and 
various  other  cities  are  quite  extensively  engaged  in 
the  packing  business  also. 
'Chicago  is  the  largest  packing  center  in  the  world. 
The  Union  Stock  Yards  of  Chicago,  packing  district 
■included,  covers  an  area  of  nearly  seven  hundred  acres. 
In  these  yards  are  facilities  for  handling  over  450,000 
animals  proportioned  as  follows:  cattle,  75,000;  hogs, 
50,000 ;  sheep,  80,000 ;  horses,  6,000.  ■  Horses,  sheep 
anasswine  are  sheltered  during  cold  weather  but  cattle 
are  exposed  at  all  times. 

The  Stock  Yards  and  Packing  Companies  furnish 
their  own  water,  light  and  sewer  accommodations. 
Two  hundred  and  fifty  miles  of  railroad  and  twenty- 
five  miles  of  streets  furnish  ample  facilities  for  hand- 
ling cattle  and  meat  products. 


Each  company  is  equipped  with  from  twenty-five 
to  one  hundred  teams  of  the  finest  horses  and  wagons 
on  earth.  Armour  and  Company  have  progressed  so 
far  as  to  install  an  electric  car  line  for  the  purpose 
of  handling  freight  between  the  various  parts  of  their 
plant. 

Upward  of  35,000  people  are  employed  by  the  com- 
mission and  packing  firms  of  Chicago.  The  greater 
part  of  these  workmen  are  organized. 

Forty  minutes  witness  the  complete  slaughter  and 
dressing  of  a  beef,  thirty-three  of  a  porker,  and  thirty- 
five  of  a  sheep. 

The  following  figures  will  give  an  idea  of  the  enor- 
mity of  the  packing  business  as  operated  in  Chicago 
during  the  past  winter.  These  figures  represent  the 
number  killed  per  hour : 

Cattle.  Sheep.  Hogs. 

Armour   and   Co 225  560  1,000 

Swift  and  Co.,   240  560  860 

Nelson  Morris  and  Co., 195  350  500 

G.   Hammond   Co.,    170  225  400 

Swartzschild    and    Sulzberger, .  100  230  450 

Anglo-American    Co.,    25               55  600 

Boyd  and  Lunlam.    . .". no  no  400 

Besides  these  over  a  dozen  smaller,  but  by  no  means 
unimportant,  plants  operate  in  Chicago. 

Packing  house  employees  work  on  an  average  about 
eight  hours  a  da)'  the  year  round. 

To  get  a  well-defined  idea  of  the  way  the  work  is 

conducted  one  must  see  it  done.     This  is  but  a  weak 

description  of  the  greatest  industry  of  the  middle  west. 

*   *  <-> 

THE   CITY    OF    KEY   WEST. 


BY   W.   R.    FRY. 

The  city  of  Key  West  is  the  most  southerly  city 
of  the  United  States.  It  is  built  on  a  coral  reef  two 
hundred  miles  south  of  Tampa  Bay  and  about  sixty 
miles  west  of  the  mainland.  Its  population  is  some- 
where near  twenty  thousand.  The  people  are  distinct- 
ly classed  by  four  nationalities,  viz.,  Conchs,  Cubans, 
negroes  and  Americans.  Mosquitoes  are  to  be  found 
at  all  seasons  of  the  year,  much  to  the  annoyance  of 
persons  from  other  places  who  are  compelled  to  make 
a  visit  to  this  beautiful  place,  but  the  natives  do  not 
seem  to  mind  it.  The  climate  is  essentially  tropical 
and  it  is  the  only  city  in  the  United  States  where 
neither  snow  nor  frost  have  ever  been  seen.  During  the 
winter  months  occasionally  a  northerner  strikes  the 
city,  lowering  the  temperature,  when  the  poor  natives 
shiver  and  overcoats  are  in  demand.  Stoves  are  un- 
known. Northern  people  at  first  wonder  why  the 
houses,  or  shacks,  have  no  chimneys. 

Key  West  is  reached  by  steamers  from  New  York 
to  Port  Tampa.     The  city  proper  covers  the  western 


THE'      INGLENOOK. 


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end  of  the  Key  and  is  densely  settled.  The  city  boasts 
of  only  six  brick  buildings.  The  rest  are  one-story 
shacks  that  never  saw  paint  nor  whitewash.  The 
business  shops  are  also  a  failure.  On  some  there  is 
not  even  a  sign.  As  to  soil  there  is  none.  What  takes 
the  place  of  it  is  merely  triturated  coral.  A  pick  is 
invariably  used  with  which  to  make  garden.  Vege- 
tation is  confined  to  a  few  cocoanut  trees  sprinkled 
here  and  there. 

Living  is  comparatively  cheap.  Seventy-five  cents 
will  satisfy  the  ordinary  man  for  a  week,  though  the 
unfortunate  person  from  the  North  is  generally 
charged  from  four  to  six  dollars  a  week  for  a  little 
"grits"  and  "grunts"  (fish). 

Generally  speaking  the  heaviest  work  of  the  natives 
is  sitting  around  doing  nothing,  and  every  one  takes 
his  turn  at  it  without  a  murmur.  Every  day  an  auc- 
tion is  held  on  the  open  street  where  anything  may  be 
bought  from  a  mule  to  a  knitting  needle.  It  is  no 
strange  sight,  when  passing  a  house,  to  see  four  or 
five  goats,  half  a  dozen  hungry-looking  children,  and 
as  many  dogs,  with  pigs  and  chickens  in  numerous 
quantities,  all  of  which  are  privileged  characters.  The 
restaurants  are  noted  for  their  power  to  heal  all  kinds 
of  stomach  trouble.  A  picture  of  one  of  these  res- 
taurants might  interest  the  Nookers.  First  it  must 
have  no  ceiling,  greasy,  smoky  walls,  lighted  with  one 
or  two  kerosene  lamps.  A  limited  number  of  small 
tables  of  which  no  two  are  the  same  size,  and  upon 
each  of  these  tables  a  can  of  condensed  milk  and  a 
bowl  containing  sugar  and  flies.  Now  we  have  a  stalk 
with  six  or  eight  bananas,  and  some  cigars  and  a  lit- 
tle candy.  Now  introduce  twenty  or  thirty  Cubans 
with  wrinkled  linen  trousers,  greasy  undershirts,  straw 
hats,  the  majority  of  them  with  slippers  on  with  no 
stockings.  The  proprietor  must  be  a  dirty  fellow  too, 
in  fact,  worse  than  his  customers.  And  now,  around, 
above  and  over  all  spread  a  thick  layer  of  flies,  with 
an  odor  of  decaying  fruit,  olive  oil,  tobacco,  garlic 
and  coffee.  And  then  let  everybody  talk  at  once,  wave 
their  hands  in  gestures,  while  the  proprietor  has  an 
argument  with  someone  every  few  minutes,  and  on 
the  outside  a  lump  of  boys  chewing  sugar-cane  and 
swearing  in  Spanish.  Now  let  a  cloud  of  smoke  over- 
spread the  scene  and  blot  out  the  whole  thing  from 
view. 

Key  West,  Fla.,  122  Co.  C.  A. 

AN    IRRIGATION    PROBLEM. 


How  can  any  storage  reservoirs,  which  the  Govern- 
ment might  build  at  the  head  waters  of  the  Missis- 
sippi or  the  Missouri,  play  any  part  in  the  diminution 
of  such  floods  as  the  present  one?  is  a  question  fre- 
quently asked.     The  high-water  mark  at  St.  Louis  has 


reached  over  seven  feet  above  the  danger  line,  which 
means  an  enormous  volume  of  water  going  by  every 
minute  and  it  may  well  be  questioned  whether  in  a 
hundred  years  the  Government  could  build  reservoirs 
with  sufficient  capacity  to  appreciably  mitigate  this 
evil. 

A  feature  of  this  flood  storage,  said  Guy  E.  Mitchell, 
Secretary  of  the  National  Irrigation  Association, 
which  may  not  be  generally  understood,  but  which 
would  undoubtedly  accomplish  the  desired  results  may 
be  termed  a  "  secondary  storage."  The  water  storage 
proposition  applied  to  the  Missouri  and  its  great  trib- 
utaries involves  the  question  of  the  irrigation  of  the 
vast  arid  domain  through  which  these  rivers  flow. 
If  irrigation^  storage  reservoirs  were  constructed  on 
these  rivers,  it  is  estimated  that  as  much  as  thirty-five 
million  acres  of  present  desert  land  would  be  reclaimed. 
The  principal  season  of  growing  crops  for  this  area 
would  be  April,  May,  June,  July  and  August,  and  the 
reason  that  the  lands  are  not  irrigated  at  present  is 
that  while  there  is  plenty  of  water  in  the  first  three 
months,  during  July  and  August  when  water  is  ab- 
solutely necessary  to  mature  the  crops,  these  streams 
are  reduced  to  mere  threads.  If  the  storage  reservoirs 
were  built  they  would  supply  water  for  this  land  dur- 
ing July  and  August,  during  the  three  preceding 
months  the  water  for  this  great  area  of  land  would 
be  drawn  directly  from  the  streams  themselves.  By 
means  of  canals  and  ditches  almost  incalculable  quan- 
tities of  the  flood  waters  coming  down  during  April, 
May  and  June,  which  cannot  be  stored  in  the  reser- 
voirs, would  be  taken  out  of  the  rivers  and  spread 
upon  this  land  which  would  take  it  up  like  a  sponge, 
water  which  would  go  down  the  Missouri  river  and 
down  the  Platte  river  and  down  the  Arkansas  river 
into  the  Mississippi  and  thus  add  to  the  flow  of  the 
torrent  there. 

Under  such  a  system  of  irrigation  the  effect  would 
be  the  same  as  though  it  had  been  possible  last  week 
to  spread  out  the  great  flood  of  the  Missouri,  the  Ar- 
kansas and  the  Platte,  and  flood  millions  of  acres  of 
farming  land  in  Wyoming,  Colorado,  Kansas,  Ne- 
braska and  the  Dakolas,  thus  reducing  the  flow  of 
the  lower  reaches  of  the  Missouri  to  below  the  danger 
point. 

The  combined  volume  of  the  water  impounded  in 
storage  reservoirs  at  the  head  waters  of  these  great 
rivers  and  their  tributaries,  and  that  contained  in  a 
network  of  hundreds  of  miles  of  irrigation  canals  and 
ditches,  coupled  with  that  absorbed  by  millions  of  acres 
of  arid  land,  would  have  gone  a  long  way  toward 
palliating  or  preventing  what  will  be  known  as  the 
great  flood  of  1903. 

*   *   * 

Be  thou  the  rainbow  in  the  storms  of  life. — Byron. 


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THE      INGLENOOK. 


THE   MASON    AND    DIXON    BOUNDARY. 


BY    NELLIE   LAMON    MILLER. 

The  Mason  and  Dixon  boundary  line  was  a  dividing 
line  between  the  lands  granted  to  William  Penn  and 
Lord  Baltimore  by  the  king  of  England.  A  dispute 
had  arisen  between  the  owners  and  numerous  quarrels 
had  occurred  between  the  occupants  about  the  enforce- 
ment of  certain  laws  and  the  collection  of  taxes  which 
were  regulated  by  the  product  from  the  lands.  A 
reserve  was  made  in  that  a  portion  of  all  mineral  dis- 
coveries should  revert  to  the  king  of  England.  In  or 
about  the  year  of  1760  the  dispute  as  to  authority  had 
reached  the  stage  when  an  understanding  had  to  be 
had  as  to  a  dividing  line,  and  two  surveyors,  Henry 
Mason  and  Jeremiah  Dixon,  were  employed  to  lay 
out  the  line  as  now  marked. 

These  men  were  under  the  direction  of  a  council, 
or  board  of  commissioners,  composed  of  men  repre- 
senting both  sides  of  the  controversy.  It  was  agreed 
by  these  commissioners  that  the  line  should  start  at 
a  point  twelve  miles  south  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia 
and  on  a  prolongation  of  the  line  running  due  north 
from  a  point  half  way  of  a  line  running  due  west  from 
the  Delaware  Bay  near  the  present  site  of  the  town 
of  Delmar,  Delaware,  to  the  curve  or  arc  with  a  twelve 
mile  radius  from  New  Castle,  Delaware,  which  di- 
vides the  States  of  Delaware  and  Pennsylvania.  In 
the  spring  of  1762  the  active  field  work  on  the  survey 
was  begun  under  the  combined  supervision  of  Messrs.  • 
Mason  and  Dixon.  After  many  hardships  and  dis- 
couragements the  line  was  completed  and  partially 
marked  with  stones  four  feet  long  and  one  foot  square, 
of  a  peculiar  composition  quarried  and  brought  from 
England.  It  was  intended  to  mark  the  line  at  inter- 
vals of  one  mile  with  these  stones  as  far  as  the  proper- 
ties of  Penn  and  Baltimore  extended,  but  after  carry- 
ing out  the  plan  as  far  as  the  east  slope  of  Sideling 
Hill,  five  miles  west  of  Hancock,  Maryland,  the  idea 
of  putting  in  cut  stones  was  given  up  and  instead 
mounds  of  rock  and  earth,  circular  in  shape,  about 
ten  feet  in  diameter  and  from  three  to  six  feet  high 
were  built  at  irregular  intervals. 

The  work  was  finished  as  far  as  Lord  Baltimore 
claimed  any  land  in  1767  near  the  present  meeting 
point  of  the  States  of  Pennsylvania,  Maryland  and 
West  Virginia. 

In  1902  the  States  of  Pennsylvania  and  Maryland 
agreed  to  have  the  old  dividing  line  resurveyed  and 
marked.  Each  State  legislature  appropriated  five 
thousand  dollars  to  pay  the  expenses  of  this  work. 
The  United  States  Coast  and  Geodetic  Survey  De- 
partment were  requested  to  detain  an  engineer  to  take 
charge  of  this  work  and  the  matter  was  put  under  the 


direction  of  a  commission  composed  of  Dr.  W.  B. 
Clark,  professor  of  geology  at  Johns  Hopkins  Uni- 
versity, Baltimore,  on  the  part  of  Maryland,  General 
James,  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  of  Pennsylvania,  for 
Pennsylvania,  and  the  Superintendent  of  the  United 
States  Coast  and  Geodetic  Survey.  Capt.  W.  C. 
Hodgkins  of  the  Coast  and  Geodetic  Survey,  an  en- 
gineer of  national  reputation,  was  detailed  to  this 
work. 

The  method  of  work  was  as  follows :  First  the 
old  marks  were  located  and  identified.  Where  no 
doubt  existed  of  their  position  where  they  were  found 
as  being  set  originally  they  were  assumed  as  correct, 
and  the  survey  to  locate  the  missing  ones  made  these 
assumed  places  as  a  basis.  Most  of  the  old  stones 
were  found  and  identified.  Where  the  missing  stones 
could  not  be  found  a  new  one  of  approximately  the 
same  size  was  attained  and  set  in  its  proper  place  as 
near  as  conditions  permitted.  Stones  were  placed  in 
all  the  mounds  that  could  be  identified  and  immediate 
locations  made,  which  were  marked  with  cut  stones 
with  the  letter  P  cut  on  the  north  side  and  M  on  the 
south  side.  This  work  was  completed  in  the  fall  of 
1903  and  the  famous  boundary  line,  literally  a  division 
between  the  States  of  Pennsylvania  and  Maryland, 
and  figuratively  a  division  between  the  North  and 
South,  is  now  established  and  marked.  Most  of  the 
country  adjacent  to  the  line  is  settled  and  cultivated, 
yet  some  of  the  mountain  section  is  still  wild  and 
rough. 

This  line  was  the  first  and  greatest  achievement  of 
its  time  and  will  always  be  a  noted  landmark  and  a 
monument  to  Mason  and  Dixon. 

Washington,  D.  C. 

♦  4>  ♦ 

MEDICAL    OPINIONS. 


Dr.  Grosvenor,  in  the  Buffalo  Medical  Journal, 
sums  up  his  views  respecting  the  medicinal  use  of 
alcohol  as  follows : 

"  1.  Grave  responsibility  rests  upon  the  medical  pro- 
fession in  the  use  of  alcohol  as  a  medicine,  on  account 
of  its  deleterious  influence  upon  the  system  and  the 
liability  of  the  patient  to  contract  the  habit  of  using 
it  as  a  beverage. 

"  2.  Alcohol  being  an  acrid  narcotic  poison,  the  bot- 
tle containing  it  should  be  labeled  '  Poison,'  as  a  re- 
minder of  this  characteristic,  and  a  warning  to  handle 
it  with  care. 

"  3.  Alcohol,  containing  none  of  the  compounds 
which  enter  into  the  construction  of  the  tissues,  can 
not  properly  be  termed  a  tissue-forming  food. 

"  4.  The  evidence  in  favor  of  the  existence  of  a 
heat-generating  quality  in  alcohol,  is  not  sufficient  to 
warrant  the  belief  that  it  is  a  heat-producing  food. 


tril 


INGLENOOK. 


633 


"  5.  As  a  narcotic  and  anesthetic,  alcohol  has  a 
limited  sphere  of  adaptation,  and  is  much  less  valuable 
than   several  other  narcotics  and  anesthetics. 

"  6.  The  stimulating  effect  of  alcohol  may  be  best 
secured  by  small  doses  frequently  repeated. 

"  7.  From  the  fact  that  its  stimulating  effect  re- 
sults from  its  paralytic  action,  alcohol  is  more  prop- 
erly called  a   depressant  than  a   stimulant. 

"  8.  As  an  antispasmodic  and  antiseptic,  it  may  be 
superseded  by  other  remedies,  without  detriment  to 
the  patient. 

"  9.  Although  alcohol  is  a  positive  antipyretic,  and 
therefore  useful  in  the  reduction  of  bodily  tempera- 
ture, it  is  neither  so  prompt  nor  so  effective  as  several 
other  antipyretics. 

"  10.  In  cases  requiring  a  remedy  which  will  rapid- 
ly evaporate,  alcohol  is  useful  as  an  external  applica- 
tion. 

"11.  So  easy  is  the  acquirement  of  the  alcoholic 
habit,  and  so  ruinous  its  consequences  to  body,  mind 
and  spirit  that  extreme  caution  should  be  exercised 
in  its  use  in  all  cases,  and  its  administration  stopped 
as  soon  as  the  desired  effect  has  been  reached. 

"  12.  Alcohol,  as  a  medicine,  should  be  reserved  for 
emergencies,  unusual  conditions  and  circumstances  in 
which  a  more  reliable  and  less  injurious  remedy  can 
not  be  obtained. 

"  13.  Adulterations  of  alcoholics  are  so  extensive 
and  so  pernicious,  and  their  different  preparations  so 
variable  in  the  amount  of  alcohol  they  contain,  that 
it  is  best  to  demand  pure  alcohol  of  a  definite  strength 
in  medical  prescriptions. 

"  14.  In  the  prescription  of  alcohol,  the  same  care 
as  to  exactness  of  dosage  and  times  of  administration 
should  be  exercised,  as  is  used  in  prescribing  any 
other  powerful  medicine. 

"  15.  When  intended  to  act  therapeutically,  alcohol- 
ics should  not  be  prescribed  as  a  beverage  and  taken 
ad  libitum. 

"  16.  The  fact  that  methyl  alcohol  passes  very  rap- 
idly into  and  out  of  the  system,  is  an  argument  in  fa- 
vor of  its  more  general  use  for  internal  administra- 
tion. 

"  17.  So  deleterious  are  the  effects  of  alcohol  upon 
the  human  body,  that  it  is  eminently  proper  to  in- 
quire whether  its  harmfulness  does  not  overbalance 
its  helpfulness,  and  whether-  it  could  not  be  dropped 
from  our  list  of  therapeutic  agents  without  any  seri- 
ous injury  to  our  patients." 

*  *  * 
EXPOSITION    STAMP    ISSUE. 


the  Commemorative  Series  of  1904,  have  been  placed 
on  sale  at  post  offices  throughout  the  country.  These 
stamps  are  issued  because  of  the  St.  Louis  Expo- 
sition, and  the  series  is  one  that  stamp  collectors  will 
want  to  secure.  Stamps  of  the  special  issue  will  not 
be  sold  after  December  1  next,  and  while  on  sale  will 
not  take  the  place  of  the  ordinary  issues,  which  will  be 
sold  to  customers  unless  the  commemorative  stamps 
are  especially  asked  for.  The  denominations  and  col- 
ors of  the  new  stamps  are  as  follows : 

One  cent,  green;  subject,  Robert  R.  Livingston, 
United  States  Minister  to  France,  who  conducted  the 
negotiations   for  the  Louisiana   Purchase. 

Two  cent,  red;  Thomas  Jefferson,  President  of  the 
United  States  at  the  time  of  the  Louisiana  Purchase. 

Three  cent,  purple :  James  Monroe,  special  ambas- 
sador to  France  in  the  matter  of  the  purchase,  who, 
with   Livingston,   closed  the   negotiations. 

Five  cent,  blue;  William  McKinley,  who,  as  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States,  approved  the  acts  of  Con- 
gress, officially  connecting  the  government  with  the 
St.   Louis   Exposition. 

Ten  cent,  brown;  United  States  map,  showing  the 
territory  of  the  Louisiana  Purchase. 

There  is  no  special  issue  of  postal  cards,  wrappers, 
or   envelopes. — Scientific  American. 

<§»    <$»    4» 
NO    BARGAIN    COUNTERS.. 


Postage  stamps  of  the  special  issue  to  commemo- 
rate the  Louisiana  Purchase  of   1803,  and  known  as 


There  are  no  cheap  things  in  the  spiritual  >prld. 
There  are  no  bargain  days,  and  spiritual  remnants \re 
never  offered  for  sale.  The  soul  that  expects  to  liv> 
in  the  realms  of  the  spiritual  on  a  low-price  basis, 
is  likely  to  miss  the  richest  blessings  to  be  secured 
in  the  kingdom. 

There  is  nothing  cheap  in  the  realm  of  grace ;  while 
the  gifts  of  God  are  "  gifts,"  he  who  would  appropri- 
ate them,  must  pay  a  high  price  for  them.  This  isj 
the  strange  paradox  of  the  inner  life,  yet  those  who 
have  reached  to  any  height  in  it,  are  ready  to  sa^ 
that  the  cost  of  things  is  high.  It  is  not  a  Strang 
law,  this ;  it  is  the  law  that  rules  in  the  realm  of 
love,  which  is  the  realm  of  real  life — all  other  life  is 
"  existence,"  merely. 

The  law  of  love  is  the  law  of  giving — giving  to 
the  utmost  of  life,  and  when  the  heart  has  given 
to  the  full,  poured  out  itself  upon  the  object  of  its 
love,  its  richest  gain   is  realized. 

What  a  willingness  to  live  cheaply  in  the  realm  of 
the  spiritual  life!  My  heart,  be  suspicious  of  thy  con- 
dition, when  it  costs  thee  little  to  live!  Thou  hast  tin- 
life  truly  in  the  hour  that  thou  layest  it  down;  this 
is  the  highest  price  of  spiritual  attainment — for  then 
art  thou  like  unto  thy  Lord. — Baptist  Union. 


634 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


AN    APOSTROPHE   TO    THE    GRASS. 


BY  SENATOR   INGALLS. 

Next  in  importance  to  the  divine  profusion  of 
water,  light  and  air,  those  three  physical  facts  which 
render  existence  possible  may  be  reckoned  the  uni- 
versal beneficence  of  grass.  Lying  in  the  sunshine 
among  the  buttercups  and  dandelions  of  May,  scarcely 
higher  in  intelligence  than  those  minute  tenants  of 
that  mimic  wilderness,  our  earliest  recollections  are 
of  grass ;  and  when  the  fitful  fever  is  ended,  and  the 
foolish  wrangle  of  the  market  and  the  forum  is  closed, 
grass  heals  over  the  scar  which  our  descent  into  the 
bosom  of  the  earth  has  made,  and  the  carpet  of  the 
infant  becomes  the  blanket  of  the  dead. 

Grass  is  the  forgiveness  of  Nature — her  constant 
benediction.  Fields  trampled  with  battle,  saturated 
with  blood,  torn  with  the  ruts  of  cannon,  grow  green 
again  with  grass  and  carnage  is  forgotten.  Streets 
abandoned  by  traffic  become  grass-grown  like  rural 
lanes  and  are  obliterated.  Forests  decay,  harvests 
perish,  flowers  vanish,  but  grass  is  immortal.  Be- 
leaguered by  the  sullen  hosts  of  winter  it  withdraws 
into  the  impregnable  fortress  of  its  subterranean  vi- 
tality and  emerges  upon  the  solicitation  of  Spring. 
Sown  by  the  winds,  by  wandering  birds,  propagated 
by  the  subtle  horticulture  of  the  elements  which  are 
its  ministers  and  servants,  it  softens  the  rude  out- 
lines of  the  world.  It  invades  the  solitudes  of  deserts, 
•climbs  the  inaccessible  slopes  and  pinnacles  of  moun- 
tains, and  modifies  the  history,  character  and  destiny 
of  nations.  Unobtrusive  and  patient,  it  has  immortal 
"vigor  and  aggression.  Banished  from  the  thorough- 
fares and  fields,  it  bides  its  time  to  return,  and  when 
vigilance  is  relaxed  or  the  dynasty  has  perished  it 
silently  resumes  the  throne  from  which  it  has  been  ex- 
pelled but  which  it  never  abdicates.  It  leaves  no  bla- 
zonrv  of  bloom  to  charm  the  senses  with  fragrance  or 
splendor,  but  its  homely  hue  is  more  enchanting  than 
the  lily  or  the  rose.  It  yields  no  fruit  in  earth  or  air, 
yet  should  its  harvest  fail  for  a  single  year  famine 
would  depopulate  the  world. 

♦>  «J*  ♦ 
TO   ANNEX. 


The  attention  of  the  world  to-day  is  divided  be- 
tween the  war  in  the  East,  the  persecutions  in  the 
North  and  the  disorder  and  internal  corruption  of 
Morocco.  Morocco,  speaking  in  general  terms,  is  in 
the  northwest  part  of  Africa  and  is  a  maritime  coun- 
try. On  the  South  it  is  bound  by  the  Great  Desert. 
It  has  an  area  of  two  hundred  and  twenty  thousand 
square  miles  and  has  five  or  six  millions  of  inhabit- 
ants.    The  climate  is  just  as  good  as  that  of  France 


or  Spain,  and  probably  better.  It  has  a  very  few 
good  harbors.  It  might  have  many  more  were  it  not 
for  the  government  which  controls  it.  It  is  under  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  Sultan  who  claims  to  be  a  direct 
descendant  of  the  Prophet  Mohammed,  and  is  an  ab- 
solute monarch.  He  has  six  ministers  whom  he  pre- 
tends to  consult.  He  calls  them  his  cabinet,  etc.,  but 
the  real  facts  in  the  case  are  that  they  are  his  servants 
and  execute  his  orders.  They  faithfully  see  that  the 
subjects  of  his  empire  obey  the  sweet  will  of  their 
monarch. 

His  treasury  is  a  peculiar  structure  in  the  way  of 
architecture,  and  is  as  inaccessible  as  the  Himalayas. 

The  thousands  of  soldiers  under  his  control  in  dif- 
ferent parts  of  the  country  are  paid  a  most  miser- 
able, insignificant  compensation  and  are  compelled  to 
live  by  robbery  and  begging.  His  military  force  does 
not  exceed  sixteen  thousand  men  and  his  marine  force 
is  insignificant. 

This  country  of  Morocco  is  a  mine  of  wealth,  al- 
most utterly  undeveloped.  It  abounds  in  mineral 
wealth — copper,  iron,  and  lead,  and  luxuriant  forests 
grow  there.  They  have  some  specie  of  oak  and  Alep- 
po pine.  Along  the  borders  grows  the  date  palm 
and  it  could  be  made  a  great  article  of  commerce. 
Agriculture  has  been  neglected  and  there  does  not 
seem  to  be  any  desire  to  improve  it.  Some  Indian 
corn  is  grown  and  they  can  raise  good  wheat,  but 
not  much  of  it  is  done. 

These  people  want  to  annex  themselves  to  France. 
They  are  tired  of  their  government.  The  Nookman 
remembers  quite  well  when  in  Palestine  of  hearing 
scores  of  people  say  that  they  were  tired  of  their 
government  and  they  prayed  that  the  time  would 
come  when  Germany,  France,  England  or  the  United 
States  would  dethrone  their  monarch  and  install  a 
better  government.  And  if  these  subjects  of  the  Sul- 
tan of  Turkey  revere  him  to  such  a  small  extent,  how 
much  less  do  those  of  the  Sultan  in  Morocco  respect 
him !  Their  education  is  very  similar  to  that  in  Tur- 
key. A  knowledge  of  the  Koran  is  their  entire  educa- 
tion. A  very  small  per  cent  of  the  populace  are  able 
to  read  and  write. 

As  a  matter  of  fact  England  and  Spain  will  be 
expected  to  protest  against  this  country  being  annexed 
to  France.  Spain  especially  because  she  has  been  de- 
feated a  few  times  in  attempted  invasions  of  Moroc- 
co. And  in  this  melee  of  trouble  they  hope  to  get 
Germany  interested,  but  it  is  presumed  by  best  au- 
thorities that  Germany  will  keep  herself  aloof  from 
the  trouble. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  Morocco  will  get  the  rays 
of  light  of  civilization  sooner  or  later,  and  lift  their 
benighted  people  up  to  a  basis  where  they  can  enjoy 
life. 


THI 


iNGLENOOK. 


635 


HOW    PAPER    MONEY    IS    MADE. 


If  you  will  look  at  the  pictures  upon  a  one-dollar 
bill,  you  will  see  that  the  portrait  of  Martha  Wash- 
ington or  of  Stanton  is  composed  altogether  of  curved 
or  straight  lines — the  only  kind  of  engraving  that  is 
allowed  to  be  done  in  the  bureau ;  because  unless  it  is 
done  in  this  manner,  and  unless  the  lines  are  cut  very 
deep,  the  engravings  cannot  be  used.  Now  this  por- 
trait was  engraved  in  a  piece  of  steel  by  the  use  of  a 
very  sharp  little  instrument  known  as  a  graver. 

Every  little  scratch  on  the  steel  plate  will,  in  print- 
ing, show  a  black  line,  so  you  will  see  how  very  care- 
ful the  engraver  has  to  be  that  he  shall  not  make  any 
false  scratches,  and  that  the  lines  shall  be  just  so  long 
and  just  so  broad. 

Now,  steel  engraving  is  the  direct  opposite  of  wood 
engraving.  The  scratches  and  cuts  made  on  a  wood- 
en  block  will  bejdrite  in  thejprint.  and  it  is  only  the 
uncut  portions  of  the  block  that  print  black ;  while  on 
the  steel  the  unscratched  portion  leaves  the  paper 
white. 

When  a  design  has  been  cut  on  a  steel  plate,  and  it 
is  ready  to  be  printed,  the  ink  is  put  on  the  plate  or 
block,  and  all  the  cuts  and  scratches  become  filled  with 
ink.  Then  the  ink  is  carefully  rubbed  off  of  the  sur- 
face, so  that  none  remains  except  what  is  in  the  lines. 
When  a  piece  of  dampened  paper  is  placed  on  the 
plate  and  subjected  to  very  heavy  pressure,  it  sinks 
into  the  lines ;  and  when  it  is  taken  off  it  draws  the 
ink  out  with  it,  and  thus  the  picture  is  printed  on  the 
paper. 

It  takes  an  engraver  about  six  weeks  or  two  months 
to  complete  one  portrait,  and  a  man  who  engraves 
the  porJxaits_nyyer  does  any  other  kind  of  engraving. 
Each  engraver  does  only_a  certain  portion  of  the  work 
1  in  a  note :  no  one  is  permitted  to.  engrave  an  entire 
note,  so  that  besides  the  portrait  engravers,  there  are 
some  who  do  nothing  but  engrave  the  figures,  the  seal, 
the  lettering,  the  border,  etc.  In  this  way  it  would 
be  impossible  for  an  engraver  to  make  a  complete 
engraving  for  his  own  use,  if  he  were  dishonest 
enough  to  want  to  do  such  a  thing. 

Besides  this  manual  work,  some  of  the  engraving 
is  done  by  machinery,  as  for  example  the  background 
of  the  portrait  and  of  the  borders,  and  the  shading  of 
the  letters — this  being  done  by  what  is  known  as  the 
ruling  machine,  which  can  rule  several  hundred  per- 
fectly   straight    lines    within    an    inch.     The    intricate\ 
scroll  and  lace-like  work  around   the   figures   on  the  1 
face  and  the  back  of  the  note  is  done  by  a  wonderful/ 
machine  known  as  the  geometric  lathe.     This  machine 
consists  of  a  large  number  of  wheels  of  all  sizes  and  in 
all  sorts  of  arrangements,  together  with  a  complicated 
mechanism  of  eccentrics  and  rods,  all  of  which  is  in- 
comprehensible to  any  one  but  an  expert  machinist. 


By  a  proper  adjustment  of  its  parts,  the  delicate  dia- 
mond point  that  moves  about  over  the  face  of  the 
steel  is  made  to  work  out  a  perfect  and  artistic  pat- 
tern with  greater  accuracy  and  much  more  speed  than 
could  be  done  by  hand ;  and  hence  this  delicate  and  in- 
tricate part  of  the  engraving  is  one  of  the  great- 
est obstacles  with  which  the  counterfeiter  has  to  con- 
tend, for  he  finds  it  next  to  impossible  to  imitate  it 
cprrectly. 

Fortunately  for  Uncle  Sam,  the  geometric  lathe  is 
a  very  complicated  and  very  expensive  machine,  and 
the  counterfeiter  is  generally  a  poor  man ;  and  even 
if  he  did  manage  to  lay  up  enough  money  to  buy  the 
lathe,  it  is  hardly  likely  he  would  live  long  enough  to 
learn  how  to  use  it  properly,  for  there  arejanlju-fou* 
men  in  the  .world  who  understand  how  to  operate  it. 

Indeed,  the  man  who  now  has  charge  of  the  geo- 
metric lathe  at  the  Bureau  of  Engraving  and  Print- 
ing is  the  only  one  in  the  United  States  at  the  present 
time  who  knows  how  to  manage  it ;  and  if  anything 
should  happen  to  him  it  might  tangle  matters  up  for 
a  while  in  this  important  branch  of  our  Uncle  Sam's 
big  government. — St.  Nicholas. 


TEETH 


AND 


DIGESTION. 


The  close  connection  between  decayed  teeth  and 
diseases  of  the  digestion  is  pointed  out  by  a  writer  in 
Guy's  Hospital  Gazette. 

The  presence  of  free  acids  in  the  mouth  is  par- 
ticularly harmful.  These  may  come  from  various 
sources,  but  most  commonly  from  the  acid  fermenta- 
tion of  the  carbo-hydrate  food  lodged  on  or  between 
the  teeth  at  the  gums,  and  due  to  the  action  of  micro- 
organisms present  in  the  mouth. 

Normally  the  saliva  is  alkaline,  and  any  acids  pro- 
duced in  the  crevices  of  the  teeth  are  thus  neutralized 
and  decay  prevented.  There  are  two  conditions  under 
which  the  saliva  is  unable  to  neutralize  the  acids  pro- 
duced locally,  namely :  (  1  )  when  it  is  deficient  in 
alkalinity,  and  (21  when  it  is  deficient  in  quantity. 
As  to  the  former,  it  is  well  known  that  the  saliva  be- 
comes less  alkaline  or  even  acid  in  any  condition  of 
prolonged  gastric  digestion,  a  phenomenon  which  oc- 
curs in  nearly  all  cases  of  dyspepsia.  Moreover,  the 
teeth  when  decayed  further  tend  to  keep  up  the  state 
of  chronic  dyspepsia  by  rendering  mastication  imper- 
fect.    A  vicious  circle  is  thus  established. 

To  obviate  this  form  of  dental  disease  the  teeth 
should  be  washed  frequently  with  a  solution  of  which 
one  of  the  ingredients  is  bicarbonate  of  soda.  This 
may  prevent  one  of  the  most  disagreeable  results  of 
the  disease — facial  neuralgia. 
4,    .;•    <fi 

Smiles  are  the  language  of  love. — Hare. 


636 


THE      INGLENOOK, 


EDUCATION  AND  SOCIAL  ECONOMY  BUILDING. 


The  Education  and  Social  Economy  Building  of 
the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  is  of  the  Corin- 
thian order  of  architecture.  It  is  situated  to  the  left 
of  the  main  lagoon,  and  this  and  the  Electricity  Build- 
ing are  the  only  two  buildings  facing  the  Grand  Basin 
with  the  cascades  and  approaches  to  the  terrace  crown- 
ing the  hill  on  which  the  Art  Building  stands.  While 
not  the  largest  in  area,  its  position  makes  it  one  of  the 
most  conspicuous  buildings  in  what  has  been  called  the 
main  picture  of  the  Exposition. 

The  building  fronts  525  feet  on  the  main  thorough- 
fare of  the  Exposition.     The  principal  entrances  are 


prosperity  and  power  largely  depends  upon  the  wealth 
and  strength  of  the  individual. 

Saving  on  the  part  of  the  individual  becomes  a  na- 
tional advantage;  each  one  contributes  his  share  to 
the  support  of  this  great,  grand  and  good  free  govern- 
ment; its  perpetuity  is  assured,  and  more  than  eighty 
millions  of  people  continue  in  the  enjoyment  of  ad- 
vantages, privileges,  and  progress  that  are  peculiar 
only  to  citizens  of  the  United  States. 

Let  saving  in  youth  become  a  habit  and  the  future 
prosperity  of  the  individual  is  assured.  To  illustrate, 
when  a  lad  of  fifteen,  I  hired  to  a  farmer  neighbor, 
whose  custom  it  was  to  pick  up  and  carefully  save, 
every   strip   of  board,   strap,   bits   of   wire  and   iron, 


SCHOOL    PALACE. 


on  the  angles  of  the  building,  and  somewhat  resem- 
tile  the  well-known  form  of  the  triumphal  arch. 
At  each  angle  of  the  building  is  a  pavilion,  forming  a 
supplementary  entrance,  and  these  are  connected  by  a 
colonnade  of  monumental  proportions.  The  four  ele- 
vations are  similar  in  character,  varying  only  as  re- 
quired to  accommodate  the  design  to  the  irregular 
shape  of  the  ground  plan.  A  liberal  use  of  architec- 
tural sculpture  lends  a  festal  character  to  the  other- 
wise somewhat  severely  classical  exterior.  The  screen 
wall  back  of  the  colonnade  gives  opportunity  for  a  lib- 
eral display  of  color  as  a  background  for  the  classic 
outlines  of  the  Corinthian  columns,  affording  liberal 
scope  for  the  mural  decorator, 
•j.  .5.  4. 
THE    ADVANTAGE    OF    SAVING. 


BY    W.    R.    MILLER. 


A  vital  subject! 

A  nation  to  be  perpetuated,  must  depend  on   the 
habits  of  saving  formed  by  her  young  people.     Her 


found  about  the  farm.  He  began  at  once  teaching  me 
the  same  habit,  though  I  frequently  asked,  "  What 
was  the  use  of  saving  such  rubbish  ?  "  "  Lay  it  away 
and  wait "  was  invariably  the  reply ;  usually  I  had  not 
long  to  wait  to  see  the  "  use."  While  hauling,  plow- 
ing or  threshing,  accidents  would  occur,  something 
broken  about  plow,  wagon,  or  machinery,  and  the  in- 
significant hit  of  wire,  bolt,  board  or  leather,  was  the 
very  thing  needed  for  repair,  saving  much  time,  and 
perhaps  a  trip  to  shop  or  town. 

The  value  of  the  habit  became  apparent  and  fas- 
tened itself  upon  me. 

The  advantage  of  saving  will  be  greatest  because  of 
the  habit  formed,  out  of  which  will  grow  a  competency 
to  furnish  a  home,  later  to  own  one,  and  still  later,  to 
rear,  educate,  and  care  for  the  family. 

Department  stores  are  crowded  with  children  barely 
in  their  teens,  few  if  any  having  finished  the  grammar 
school,  and  many  not  farther  than  the  sixth  grade. 
These  children  come,  largely  from  parents  who  do  not 
own  their  homes ;  they  are  launched  into  the  battle  of 
life  illy  prepared  to  wrestle  in  the  fierce  contest,  for 


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which  better  education  and  maturer  years  would  have 
qualified  them. 

Because  of  these  environments  many  think  not  to 
aspire  to  a  higher  calling  than  a  shoveler  of  mud,  a 
domestic,  or  a  cheap  clerkship.  But  learn  to  save  in 
youth  and  a  good  home  is  in  reach  of  all. 

Horace  Greeley  said,  of  the  Resumption  of  Specie 
Payment,  "  The  way  to  resume,  is  to  resume."  The 
way  to  save,  is  to  save !  no  sum  is  too  paltry  to  be 
saved,  it  may  seem  even  as  "  rubbish." 

The  most  difficult  element  in  saving  is  self-denial, 
yet  without  it  little  can  be  accomplished. 

It  is  through  the  small  cracks  and  crevices  of  every 
day  living  that  our  pocket  books  waste  their  precious 
earnings  and  rob  us  of  the  comforts  of  life  we  long 
for. 

Economical,  systematic  living,  studied  and  practiced 
is  a  very  great  essential  in  saving. 

It  should  be  the  ambition  of  every  individual  to  have 
a  bank  account,  for  it  is  a  wonderful  incentive,  once 
we  have  a  sum  in  the  bank  quietly  drawing  interest, 
to  add  to  and  increase  the  working  capital. 

Once  a  penny,  nickel,  dollar,  or  a  week's  earnings 
finds  its  way  into  the  savings  account,  only  extraordi- 
nary circumstances  should  cause  its  removal. 

The  independence,  confidence,  and  ability  to  take 
advantage  of  exceptional  offers  a  bank  account  af- 
fords, must  be  experienced  to  be  appreciated. 

The  Master  said,  "  Gather  up  the  pieces  that  noth- 
ing be  lost." 

466  Jackson  Blvd.,  Chicago. 
♦  *  * 
AUTHOR    OF    DIXIE. 


BY    ADELAIDE    M  KEE    KOONS. 

[Miss  Koons,  of  Mt.  Vernon,  Ohio,  favors  us  with  a 
pen  picture  of  the  author  of  "  Dixie  "  as  he  appears  upon 
the  street  and  in  his  hermit  home. — Ed]. 

Down  the  snowy  road  he  creeps  with  the  slow, 
shuffling  step  of  old  age.  A  huge,  tattered,  dirty 
horse-blanket  envelops  his  bent  figure,  one  corner 
drawn  tight  about  his  crisp,  grizzled  hair,  the  other 
trailing  on  the  ground  behind  him.  From  beneath 
the  rough,  thatched  shelter  of  his  eyebrows,  powdered 
with  snow  no  whiter  than  they,  his  eyes  gleam,  round 
and  jetty  and  untiring  yet  in  their  surveillance  of  the 
world,  despite  the  fact  that  they  have  grown  old  in 
contemplating  its  sin  and  misery.  His  brown,  leath- 
ery skin  is  seamed  and  lined  with  a  network  of 
wrinkles  that  move  back  and  forth  in  response  to  his 
emotions  as  if  governed  by  a  set  of  invisible  strings. 

The  old  man  turns  at  last  into  the  path  that  leads 
up  to  his  tumble-down  cabin.  Surely,  never  a  mean- 
er or  lowlier  shanty  that  affords  a  shelter  to  some 
humble  one  of  earth's  sons,  dared  to  call  itself  a  home. 


But  the  four  bare  walls,  the  meagre  furniture,  the 
poor  wooden  box  that  serves  alike  for  cupboard  and 
table,  the  tiny,  battered  stove,  have  the  look  of  friend- 
ly faces  to  him,  grown  dear  and  familiar  through  long 
association.  He  allows  his  strange  outer  cloak  to 
slip  to  the  floor,  revealing  garments  so  thin  and  tat- 
tered, so  pitifully  inadequate  to  the  winter  season,  one 
wonders  that  the  cold  had  not  long  since  stiffened  his 
poor  old  bones  beyond  all  hope  of  further  motion. 

But  there  is  that  within  the  desolate  cabin  which 
takes  the  place  almost,  of  food  and  fire.  He  takes  his 
old  violin  from  its  worn  case,  his  stiffened  fingers 
closing  over  its  slender  neck  as  a  luckier  man  might 
clasp  the  hand  of  his  child.  He  cuddles  it  under  his 
chin  with  a  gesture  that  is  almost  a  caress,  and  as  the 
bow  glides  over  the  strings,  there  follows  in  its  wake 
such  a  flood  of  memories  that  he  is  caught  up  in  the 
stream  and  swept  away  from  the  present  back  into  the 
golden  days  of  long  ago,  when  life  was  a  joke  to  be 
laughed  at,  and  he  took  no  thought  of  the  morrow. 
What  matter  if  he  is  but  a  vagabond,  one  of  a  little 
company  of  strolling  players,  reeling  out  their  merry 
jigs  for  the  pleasure  of  open-mouthed  country  lads  and 
their  gawky  sweethearts !  Their  admiration  is  open, 
their  applause  unstinted.  What  matter !  His  heart  is 
light,  his  fingers  straight  and  supple.  His  violin  is 
sweet  and  mellow,  and  all  the  day  long  such  jolly, 
rollicking  tunes  go  swinging  through  his  head  and 
tingling  at  the  ends  of  his  fingers  as  they  press  the 
strings  of  the  violin. 

The  little  band  has  done  well  this  evening.  The 
rude  theater  is  crowded ;  the  encores  have  been  many 
and  their  store  of  melodies  is  almost  exhausted,  and 
their  boisterous  audience  is  still  demanding  more. 
The  manager  of  the  orchestra  is  looking  at  him,  sign- 
ing for  him  to  play  again,  and  he  rises  to  his  feet 
scarce  knowing  what  to  give  them.  There  is  a  tune 
that  has  been  singing  in  his  head  all  day.  It  is  but 
a  snatch  of  negro  melody,  sweet  and  wild  and  clear, 
and  he  cannot  forget  it.  He  will  play  that  for  them. 
His  bow  hovers  above  the  strings,  then  down  and 
away  it  goes.  How  the  notes  come  rippling  out,  fall- 
ing over  each  other,  racing  up  and  down  the  scale  in 
sheer  abandon,  now  lagging  behind  with  a  wail  of  de- 
spair, now  leaping  again  with  desperate  resolve,  laugh- 
ing, sobbing,  untii  the  last  breathless  tones  sink  to 
their  tender  close,  and  "  Dixie  "  has  leaped  into  the 
hearts  of  men.  What  a  poor,  paltry  triumph  it  was — 
"  Dixie,"  a  negro  melody, — a  catch  tune  of  the 
wharves  and  fields,  and  yet  the  memory  of  it  is  sweet 
within  him  now,  flooding  the  dim  little  room  with  the 
sunlight  of  the  South,  and  wakening  in  his  heart  the 
memories  of  voices  long  since  hushed  into  eternal 
silence. 

Mt.   Vernon,  Ohio. 


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It  is  a  bright  day.  The  sun  is  beaming  upon  the 
bosom  of  the  waters,  showing  in  all  its  splendor 
the  thousands  of  little  wavelets  leaping  here  and  there, 
revealing  the  constant  change  that  is  going  on  in  the 
deep.  As  one  stands  on  the  shore  and  gazes  into  the 
distance  his  mind  is  bound  to  think  of  the  great 
ocean  of  life.  There  each  of  us  is  a  tiny  wavelet 
skipping  here  and  there,  lasting  but  a  brief  moment  as 
compared  to  the  existence  of  old  Mother  Time. 
The  sages  have  not  missed  it  when  they  talk  of  life 
as  a  span  and  the  grass  withering,  and  old  Father 
Time ;  all  these  mark  changes. 

The  time  has  come  when  our  own  family  tie,  the 
Inglenook,  makes  its  change.  The  Nook  has  been 
fortunate  during  its  life  and  has  never  had  a  change. 

The  scene  is  a  beautiful  summer  day.  The  place,  a 
lovely  grove.  Let  the  canopy  before  us  be  our  mantle. 
Let  the  audience  be  six  thousand  strong  of  honest 
Nookers  who  have  gathered  to  hear  the  valedictory 
of  the  Nookman  and  the  salutatory  of  the  new  one. 
These  six  thousand  Nookers  represent  the  territory 
from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Western  Coast,  from  the 
broad  lands  of  Canada  to  the  keys  on  the  Gulf.  The 
matron,  the  maid,  the  mother,  the  seamstress,  the  old- 
fashioned  Nookers  spoken  of  on  the  first  page,  the 
farmer,  the  man  at  the  bench,  the  man  of  books,  all 
are  represented  in  this  motley  crowd.  The  youth 
whose  cheek  is  blushing  with  life's  vigor,  the  bent 
frame  of  the  father,  the  wrinkled  visage  of  the  care- 


worn mother,  all  these  and  more  are  represented  here. 
They  have  all  gathered  to  say  Good-bye  to  the  Nook- 
man.  During  these  years  the  Nook  has  been  a  con- 
stant medium  between  them.  He  has  touched  their 
lives  through  its  columns.  All  alike  were  eager  to 
grasp  it  and  read  its  contents.  If  you  have  failed  to 
read  his  speech  in  the  last  Inglenook  you  want  to 
pick  it  up  and  read  it  again.  Remember  his  blessings 
upon  our  little  magazine.  He  bows  and  retires  with 
an  introduction  of  the  new  Nookman.  And  as  the 
Nookman  steps  upon  the  platform,  what  an  inspiration 
is  given  him  to  see  the  enthusiasm  that  is  aroused  by 
six  thousand  lives  touching  each  other  through  the 
medium  of  our  little  family  magazine.  He  starts  up- 
on his  new  mission  in  life  with  the  desires  and  prayers 
and  the  united  sentiment  and  hearty  co-operation  of 
thousands  of  well-meaning  people.  As  in  the  days 
gone  by,  shall  we  not  go  hand  in  hand  in  the  study  of 
the  great,  wide  world?  Shall  we  not,  by  observation, 
study  and  work,  labor  for  the  benefit  of  mankind? 
It  does  not  fill  the  place  of  the  church  organ,  is  not  a 
political  vehicle,  is  not  an  educational  journal,  it  is 
simply  an  Inglenook,  a  chimney  comer  magazine  full 
of  good  things,  always  new  because  its  constituency 
with  a  steady  growth  and  increase  are  laboring  to 
bring  the  best  to  the  front.  The  best  is  not  too  good 
for  us.  May  we  not  have  the  hearty  support  of  all 
in  the  days  to  come  ? 

As  to  the  policy  of  the  magazine  under  the  new 
management,  in  many  respects  it  will  remain  the  same. 
The  Nature  Stud}'  Clubs  are  solicited  to  report  some 
of  their  work  done  in  their  various  clubs  and  give  us 
as  a  family  the  fruits  of  their  labors.  The  Nookers 
who  have  talents  along  the  line  of  literary  attainment 
will  find  the  columns  of  the  Inglenook  open  to  them. 
It  shall  be  our  purpose  to  have  the  Nook  grow  and 
develop.  Other  departments  may  be  added  as  the 
demands  come.  We  are  in  a  progressive  age,  and 
nowhere  is  it  more  strongly  felt  than  in  the  Nook 
family,  and  as  soon  as  demands  are  strong  enough 
for  new  departments  they  will  be  installed.  The  pages 
that  have  been  set  apart  for  current  news  will  still  be 
reserved  for  that  place.  When  you  come  home  tired 
from  the  field  and  do  not  have  time  to  read  three  or 
four  dailies  which  have  been  brought  to  your  door 
by  the  rural  postman,  pick  up  the  Inglenook  and  re- 
ceive the  kernels  as  they  have  already  been  prepared 
for  you. 

Now  let  the  good  work  go  on.  Let  the  boys  and 
girls  in  their  research  dig  up  some  golden  gems  that 
others  should  know.  Let  young  men  and  women 
make  a  line  of  union  from  coast  to  coast  and  make 
each  others'  lives  better  by  a  touch  of  the  live  wire 
of  communication.  If  you  appreciate  the  Nook,  pass 
it  on.     Tell  others  about  it.     Do  not  be  selfish.     Do 


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not  forget  other  people's  needs  and  wants.  Much 
latent  talent  lies  undeveloped  because  of  a  neglected 
opportunity.  Let  us  see  how  soon  we  can  have  our 
list  of  Nookers  covering  every  State  and  territory 
in  the  Union.  Now,  with  the  full  assurance  of  the 
hearty  support  and  the  well  wishes  of  the  constituency, 
we  set  upon  our  duties.  God's  blessing  upon  our  lit- 
tle paper. 

*  *  * 

GEARED    TOO    SLOW. 


No  doubt  you  have  noticed  many  times  in  your  life 
of  people  going  about  you  who  were  moving  just  as  if 
they  were  in  no  hurry  whatever.  They  go  about  their 
work  as  if  it  was  a  secondary  matter.  Whether  they 
be  working  for  themselves  or  working  for  any  other 
person,  it  matters  not. 

I  have  in  mind  a  newsboy  who  was  so  dilatory  about 
the  delivery  of  his  papers  that  he  lost  his  job.  George 
Washington,  at  one  time,  said  to  one  of  his  servants 
who  was  in  the  habit  of  being  late,  and  whose  ex- 
cuse was  that  his  watch  was  out  of  repair,  "  You  must 
either  get  a  new  watch  or  a  new  job."  Here  and 
there  all  over  the  world  you  find  people  who  are  crip- 
ples from  one  standpoint;  they  have  a  righthand,  a 
lefthand,  and  a  little  behindhand.  Now  this  class  of 
people  is  not  to  be  despised.  They  are  good  people 
in  many  respects.  They  have  some  splendid  traits  of 
character ;  the  only  thing  in  the  world  that  is  the  mat- 
ter with  them  is  that  they  are  geared  too  slow.  A 
man  once  said  to  the  Nookman  that  there  is  as  much 
difference  in  people  as  anybody.  Now,  as  queer  as 
this  statement  may  seem,  what  an  abundance  of  truth 
there  is  in  it. 

Don't  expect  everybody  to  think  just  as  you  do, 
and  move  just  like  you  do,  and  turn  off  the  amount 
of  work  you  can,  but  remember  there  is  a  difference 
in  how  they  are  geared.  Some  people  think  slowly, 
decide  slowly,  but  when  once  they  have  decided  they 
arc  stable.  The  one  redeeming  feature  about  these 
people  who  are  geared  too  slow  is  that  they  are  not 
fickle  and  unstable,  and  when  they  do  arrive  at  their 
conclusion  or  destination,  they  make  important  factors 
in  society,  church  and  state.  So  do  not  be  too  hasty 
in  your  conclusions  about  them.  Be  as  patient  with 
their  slowness  as  they  are  with  your  bustle  and  con- 
fusion. And  when  your  impatience  grows  to  a 
height  which  is  almost  unbearable,  read  again  the  old 
fable  of  the  "  Tortoise  and  the  Hare." 
♦  ♦  * 
SMOOT'S    CASE. 


turn  the  tables,  and  apply  the  same  rules  of  investiga- 
tion upon  the  honorable  members  who  are  the  proud 
bearers  of  divorce. 

After  all,  how  much  better  is  the  man  who  marries 
a  good  woman,  after  promising  to  protect  and  defend 
her  as  long  as  life  lasts,  then  after  a  time  dismisses 
her  and  marries  another  and  promises  her  the  same 
thing,  and  so  on  until  he  has  married  the  fourth,  than 
the  man  who  marries  the  four  all  at  the  same  time  or 
nearly  so,  or  at  the  very  least,  say,  he  keeps  all  of  them 
in  his  home  and  supports  them  as  he  had  promised  to? 
The  Nook  is  not  in  support  of  polygamy,  bv  any 
means,  but  it  is  a  strong  advocate  of  consistency,  ft 
doesn't  matter  how  far  up  the  scale  you  may  have 
gone,  you  can  never  hide  your  own  black  heart  by  ex- 
posing the  heart  of  another. 

♦  ♦  4* 
YOUR    CHANCE. 


All  you  good  Nookers  now  have  a  new  opportunity 
for  doing  good  to  our  Nook  family.  Here  we  are  just 
starting  on  the  last  half  of  the  year,  just  beginning  a 
new  line  of  Nature  study,  etc.,  and  we  are  going  to 
let  you  send  the  Nook  to  your  friends  all  the  rest  of 
the  year  for  twenty-five  cents.  What  more  valuable 
present  can  you  make  a  friend  than  that:  And  then 
will  you  not  show  your  friends  a  copy  of  it  and  tell 
them  that  they  may  have  it  upon  the  same  terms? 
Please  do  this  as  a  loyal  Nooker  and  as  a  reward  of 
merit  rather  than  a  reward  of  labor,  for  every  ten 
subscribers  we  will  send  you  one  of  Laughlin's  famous 
fountain  pens.  Now  come  along — don't  wait  till  it's 
too  late — the  sooner  the  better  the  offer.  Let  us  see 
what  State  in  the  United  States  has  the  hardest  work- 
ing Nookers.  Indeed,  this  is  a  remarkable  offer  and 
it  ought  to  be  accepted  by  thousands  of  good  lovers  of 
good  things.  If  you  want  some  sample  copies  to 
show  them,  just  say  so  on  a  postal  card  and  they  will 
be  coming  on  the  next  mail.  Who  will  be  the  first  ? 
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CURRENT    HAPPENINGS  | 


A  traveler  of  some  note,  who  has  lately  been  in 
Northern  Siberia,  noticed  a  peculiar  custom  among 
the  natives  there.  Not  that  their  costumes  differed 
so  greatly  from  other  Siberian  people,  nor  that  their 
language  was  materially  changed,  but  because  they 
used  as  an  article  of  diet  a  certain  kind  of  wood. 
Upon  being  asked  why  they  ate  the  wood,  they  said, 
"  Because  we  like  it,"  especially  when  fish  is  plentiful, 
which  forms  a  part  of  their  meal.  They  strip  the 
large  larch  logs  and  proceed  to  eat  the  body  of  the 
log.  These  people  know  by  experience  that  the  fact 
that  they  eat  wood  arouses  the  sympathy  of  strangers, 
and  they  are  shrewd  enough  to  use  it  in  the  presence  of 
strangers  to  excite  their  pity,  and,  by  so  doing,  obtain, 
in  many  instances,  kegs  of  tea  and  tobacco. 

They  scrape  off  the  thick  layers  of  the  wood  im- 
mediately under  the  bark  of  the  log,  and  then  proceed 
to  chop  it  fine  and  mix  it  with  snow  and  boil  it  in 
kettles.  Sometimes  a  little  fish,  venison,  milk  or  but- 
ter is  mixed  with  it. 

$  4»  $ 

A  late  cablegram  announces  the  fact  that  a  con- 
cession has  been  obtained  from  the  Chinese  govern- 
ment to  install  electric  street  car  service  and  to  illum- 
inate the  streets  in  Tien-Tsin,  which  is  a  port  of  Pe- 
king. The  company  has  been  trying  for  a  long  while 
to  obtain  this  grant.  These  will  be  the  first  lines  es- 
tablished in  China,  if  the  project  is  completed.  The 
city  of  Tien-Tsin  has  one  million  inhabitants,  Canton 
being  the  only  city  that  exceeds  it  in  size,  and  it  is  bad- 
ly in  need  of  rapid  transportation  for  the  crowded  pop- 
ulace. There  certainly  are  excellent  openings  for  this 
kind  of  work  in  the  Orient.  The  white  population  of 
the  large  Eastern  Chinese  cities  have  been  expressing 
their  opinions  loudly  to  the  authorities  for  some 
months,  that  the  suburban  population  were  ready  for 
rapid  transit,  but  they  have  been  compelled  to  be  con- 
tent with  the  jinrikisha  for  the  last  thirty  years,  but 
the  capital  had  not  seen  anything  of  it  until  the  last 
five  years.  There  are  over  twenty-five  hundred  of 
them  in  Tien-Tsin,  and  each  of  these  is  compelled  by  a 
municipal  law  to  pay  a  dollar  taxes  to  the  government, 
and  of  course  this  makes  the  transportation  too  ex- 
pensive for  the  poorer  classes  of  people,  but  it  is  sup- 
posed that  the  new  street  car  service  will  more  or  less 
alleviate  their  troubles. 

$      4$»      <$ 

It  is  now  reported  by  Postmaster  General  Payne 
that  with  the  ending  of  the  fiscal  year  there  are  in  op- 
eration throughout  our  republic  twenty-five  thousand 
rural  mail  routes,  bringing  a  daily  mail  service  to 
twelve  and  a  half  millions  of  people,  which  is  over 


thirty  per  cent  of  the  rural  population.  And  now,  in 
order  that  we  may  have  a  still  better  mail  service,  a 
young  man  of  Montana,  by  the  name  of  George  Mains, 
has  perfected  a  new  invention  in  the  way  of  a  mail 
catcher  by  which  our  mails  may  be  taken  on  and 
thrown  off  of  our  fast  mail  trains  by  machinery  with- 
out endangering  the  lives  of  the  post  officials.  Here- 
tofore the  railroad  postmasters  have  been  compelled 
to  reach  out  to  the  fork  at  the  side  of  the  car  and 
draw  the  mail  sack  into  the  car,  which,  sometimes  on  a 
curve  would  put  them  in  danger  of  being  thrown  out 
of  the  door.  In  this  new  device  there  is  a  small  crane 
which  will  deliver  the  sack  inside  of  the  mail  car 
when  the  train  is  running  at  a  high  rate  of  speed, 
which  makes  it  unnecessary  for  the  mail  clerk  to  reach 
for  the  bag.  The  good  thing  about  the  device  is  that 
at  the  same  time  it  receives  a  sack  it  delivers  one  at  the 
station  as  well.  Mr.  Mains  has  other  inventions  of 
lesser  importance  that  will  prove  helpful  in  the  mail 
service.  Let  some  eastern  capitalist  now  come  and 
develop  these  ideas,  that  they  may  serve  the  public. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Joseph  DeWykoff  has  contracted  with  the 
government  of  Cuba  to  raise  the  hulk  of  the  battle- 
ship Maine.  He  has  received  five  thousand  dollars 
cash  and  has  unquestionable  right  to  all  the  goods, 
equipments,  munitions  of  war,  machinery,  and  every- 
thing else  that  belongs  to  the  Maine.  In  all  proba- 
bility he  will  find  many  dead  bodies  yet  in  the  Maine, 
and  he  has  promised  that  these  will  receive  a  Chris- 
tian burial  as  fast  as  brought  to  the  surface;  and 
they  will  be  interred  in  the  cemetery  at  Havana,  un- 
less by  special  act  of"  our  government,  in  which  case  the 
bodies  will  be  brought  to  Arlington  for  burial. 

*  *  * 

Last  week  the  National  Homeopathic  Hospital,  at 
Washington,  D.  C,  was  begun,  the  corner-stone  hav- 
ing been  placed.  This  building  will  be  one  of  a  large 
group  of  what  is  hoped  will,  in  time  to  come,  become 
a  great  national  institution  of  this  branch  of  the  medi- 
cal fraternity. 

Of  late  there  has  been  a  marked  increase  in  the 
price  and  the  market  value  of  iridium.  It  is,  in  com- 
mercial importance,  second  in  the  group  of  platinum 
metals.  It  is  reported  to  have  taken  this  special 
rise  during  the  last  month.  The  effect  pro- 
duced in  the  market  value  of  this  commercial 
luxury  is  due  to  the  fact  that  it  is  of  par- 
ticular importance  to  electricians,  chemists  and  den- 
tists. They  are  excessive  consumers  of  the  various 
alloys  of  iridium  and  platinum.  Recent  reports  in- 
dicate a  very  marked  shortage  in  the  production  of 
this  material,  while  it  is  claimed  that  the  demand  is 
rapidly  increasing. 


THE      INQLENOOK. 


641 


We  are  not  the  only  ones ;  there  are  other  United 
States  besides  the  United  States  of  America.  We 
have  such  a  great,  grand  country,  spreading  from 
ocean  to  ocean  and  from  lakes  to  gulf,  that  it  has 
been  a  custom  with  us  to  speak  of  the  The  United 
States.  Secretary  Hay,  recognizing  this  fact,  has  sent 
forth  his  order,  officially,  that  henceforth  and  forever, 
the  inscriptions,  "  The  United  States  Embassy,"  "  The 
United  States  Consul,"  etc.,  shall  read,  "  The  American 
Embassy,"  "  The  American  Consul,"  etc.  This  may 
appear  to  some  unnecessary ;  but  when  acquainted  with 
the  form  of  the  business  circles  it  becomes  evident  that 
it  conflicts  seriously  with  other  countries,  who  have 
rightfully  selected  their  title,  and  to  avoid  this  con- 
flict our  Secretary  of  State  has  wisely  submitted  this 
proclamation. 

*  *  * 

There  is  a  proverb,  "  Never  too  late  to  do  good." 
And  another,  "  Never  too  old  to  learn."  But  we  be- 
lieve there  is  a  time  when  one  is  too  old  to  do  wrong, 
and  here  is  a  case  which  will  illustrate :  Mr.  Alfred 
Bennett,  who  is  now  past  the  104th  milestone  of  his 
life,  was  fined  $20  in  the  police  court  the  other  day 
for  stealing  a  baby  cab ;  and  now  he  is  serving  out  a 
sentence  in  jail  for  stealing  a  bicycle  since  he  could 
not  pay  his  fine  of  $50.  How  old  will  he  have  to  be 
before  he  learns  to  do  the  right  thing? 

4*   ♦   4* 

The  Western  Union  Telegraph  Company  now  col- 
lects and  distributes  messages  for  the  main  service  of 
the  Marconi  Wireless  Telegraph  Company  of  Amer- 
ica. The  postal  telegraph  of  the  Marconi  systems 
has  for  some  time  past  been  working  under  a  similar 
management.  It  is  said  by  the  means  of  these  systems 
it  will  not  be  difficult  to  have  an  interesting  daily 
newspaper  published  on  board  the  transatlantic  and 
the  transpacific  steamships. 

4»   <fc   ♦ 

Doctor  Edmond  Klamke,  who  is  a  practicing  phy- 
sician and  a  surgeon  of  more  than  ordinary  note,  of 
Ilwaco,  Washington,  has  lately  been  appointed,  by  the 
Russian  government,  to  a  position  in  the  hospital  serv- 
ice at  the  front.  He  is  of  Danish  birth  and  received 
his  medical  education  in  Copenhagen,  Denmark.  He, 
however,  has  a  strain  of  Russian  blood  in  his  veins. 

•J*   ♦  ■$» 

The  young  people  of  Elgin  are  the  recipients  of  a 
rare  treat  in  the  way  of  language  study.  A  class  in 
Greek  has  been  organized  by  Prof.  D.  E.  Chirighotis, 
of  Asia  Minor,  who  is  an  instructor  of  considerable 
ability  and  speaks  the  foreign  languages  with  the  pe- 
culiar exactness  of  an  Oriental  polvglot. 


Miss  Estella  Reel,  who  is  superintendent  of  all 
the  Indian  schools,  is  said  to  be  the  recipient  of  the 
highest  salary  paid  by  the  government  to  any  woman. 
She  receives  three  thousand  dollars  plus  her  expenses, 
and  her  expenses  are  no  mean  thing.  She  spends 
nearly  all  of  her  time  traveling  about  from  one  school  to 
another  all  over  the  country,  and  utilizes  almost  every 
known  means  of  transportation.  When  stage- coaches 
fail,  she  frequently  rides  horseback  for  hundreds  of 
miles,  and  every  one  who  is  acquainted  with  her  says 
she  earns  every  cent  of  her  salary.  She  is,  as  may 
well  be  known,  quite  a  remarkable  person,  and  the 
supervision  which  she  exercises,  over  the  rising  gener- 
ation of  the  nation's  wards,  has  already  revolutionized 
to  a  great  extent  the  system  of  the  management  that 
has  been  adopted. 

♦  *J*  *$» 

News  has  been  received  from  Portland,  Maine,  of 
the  monument  of  Thomas  B.  Reed,  late  Speaker  of  the 
House  of  Representatives.  It  is  a  massive  granite 
shaft,  and  is  decorated  with  a  finely-engraved  laurel 
wreath  and  the  name  of  the  honored  dead.  His  epi- 
taph is  as  follows :  "  His  record  is  with  the  faith- 
ful, brave  and  the  true  of  all  nations  and  ages." 

♦  ♦  *t 

Postmaster  General  Payne  says  that  the  Post 
Office  Department  is  not  going  into  the  censorship 
business  at  all.  It  is  entering  in  no  crusade  against 
advertising  of  any  character,  except  such  as  proves  to 
be  fraudulent.  When  the  post  offices  find  that  certain 
advertisements  are  wholly  worthless  and  that  the  pro- 
mulgators of  these  are  doing  so  to  defraud,  the  Post 
Office  Department  will  exclude  all  such  from  the 
mails. 

♦  *  * 

The  Secretary  of  the  Interior  has  withdrawn  from 
possible  settlement  about  32,000  acres  of  land  in  Colo- 
rado, in  the  southwestern  section,  in  which  it  is  pro- 
posed to  establish  a  National  Park  for  the  preservation 
of  the  Cliff  Dwellers  ruins.  And  it  is  all  right  that 
this  should  be  done.  It  ought  to  have  been  done  long 
ago.  When  we  look  at  the  Cliff  Dwellers  in  the 
Rocky  Mountain  region,  then  we  know  that  they  are 
the  ancients  of  the  earth.  These  simple  Pueblo  farm- 
ers of  a  pre-Columbian  period  had  their  cliff  palaces, 
their  watch  towers,  their  waterholes  and  walls  when 
the  dogs  were  barking  at  the  foot  of  the  pyramids 
fifty  centuries  ago.  When  China  was  just  beginning 
to  dream  of  dragons,  when  the  confusion  of  tongues 
cut  short  the  tower  of  Babel,  watchers  in  the  towers 
on  the  Rocky  Mountain  fastnesses,  with  pillars  of  fire 
by  night  and  of  smoke  by  day.  communicated  with 
each  other  from  hilltop  to  hilltop  in  Colorado. — Na- 
tional Tribune. 


642 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


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AVES. 

The  Book  of  Nature  has  for  its  author  the  great 
Creator  of  the  universe,  and  no  book  in  the  world  is 
so  beautifully  laid  out  in  sections,  chapters  and  para- 
graphs as  the  Book  of  Nature.  It  matters  but  little 
where  one  opens  this  book,  he  will  find  himself  ab- 
sorbed in  the  intense  interest  with  which  it  is  replete. 
It  is  in  a  way  like  other  books,  in  that  the  more  we 
read  the  more  we  want  to  read  and  the  more  valuable 
the  reading  becomes  to  us,  for  we  widen  in  scope  and 
territory  as  we  progress,  and  also  we  are  compelled  to 
come  in  immediate  touch  with  the  Author,  winch  is 
of  incalculable  value. 

Analysis  and  synthesis  are  two  elements  of  study 
that  lend  enchantment  to  the  work.  How  would  the 
Nook  family  like  to  take  up  one  single  chapter  of  this 
great  book  and  study  it  in  particular  while  we  study 
it  as  a  unit  in  a  general  way?  It  is  summertime  now 
and  a  large  number  of  the  Nookers  live  in  the  coun- 
try and  those  who  live  in  the  cities  and  towns  have 
access  to  the  beautiful  parks;  and  so  we  all  have  more 
or  less  of  a  chance  to  study  some  of  our  birds.  And 
as  we  study  them  let  us  learn  some  of  the  easiest 
things  about  them  in  a  scientific  way,  such  as  their 
scientific  names  and  their  branch,  class,  order,  genus, 
species,  and  so  on  as  far  as  it  seems  practical  at  least 
for  our  class. 

And  this  copy  of  the  Nook  you  should  preserve  for 
a  while,  as  it  will  have  the  primary  classification  of 
this  class  in  it.  For  our  own  convenience  we  will 
place  it  here  on  this  first  page  for  reference.. and  it  is 
as  follows: 

AVES. 

1.  Land  Birds. 

(1)  Raptores    (Birds  of  prey). 

(2)  Insessores  (Perching  birds). 

(3)  Scansores  (Climbing  birds). 

(4)  Rasores  (Scratchers). 

(5)  Cursores  (Runners). 

2.  Water  Birds. 

(1)  Grallatores  (Waders). 

(2)  Natatores   (Swimmers). 

Now  let  every  Nooker  who  has  joined  the  class 
commit  these  names  and  learn  what  they  mean,  as  it 
takes  only  a  very  few  minutes  of  your  time  and  you 


will  be  able  in  the  future  to  get  a  great  deal  of  gen- 
uine satisfaction  out  of  a  systematic  study  of  our  own 
birds. 

And  just  here,  before  we  take  up  each  one  in  par- 
ticular, let  us  notice  some  things  that  are  common 
to  all  or  nearly  all  in  this  family.  Birds  form  the 
second  grand  division,  the  warm-blooded  vertebrates. 
Mammals  are  to  be  classed  in  the  first  division,  and 
we  leave  them  to  be  studied  a  little  later. 

The  class  Aves,  or  birds,  differ  from  the  mammals 
in  the  following  points : 

1.  They  are  oviparous,  that  is,  they  hatch  from  eggs. 

2.  They  do  not  suckle  their  young. 

3.  They  are  covered  with  feathers. 

4.  They  are  constructed  for  flight.  (Few  excep- 
tions.) 

5.  They  have  no  teeth.     (A  few  animals  do  not.) 

6.  They  have  bills.     (One  animal  does.) 

7.  Their  digestive  organs  differ  materially  from  the 
other  class,  for  most  birds  have,  in  the  place  of  a 
process  of  mastication,  a  crop  in  which  to  soak  their 
food  and  a  gizzard  with  which  to  grind  it. 

The  feathers  that  cover  them  have  some  resemblance 
to  the  hair  which  covers  the  animal,  and  yet  they  dif- 
fer in  some  very  important  respects.  There  are  three 
parts  of  a  feather.  The  horny  tube  or  quill  part ;  the 
stem,  and  the  lamina;  or  vanes,  which  are  generally 
joined  together  by  barbs  or  teeth  on  their  edges.  This 
is  what  enables  them  to  fly,  these  being  pressed  upon 
the  air  which  furnishes  sufficient  resistance  to  support 
the  fowl.  The  wings  are  the  hands,  or  the  paws,  of 
the  fowl,  with  a  feathery  appendage,  which,  when  put 
in  rapid  motion,  lift  Mr.  Bird  high  in  the  air,  and  he 
propels  himself  skillfully  with  or  against  the  air,  up 
or  down,  around  and  around,  according  to  his  sweet 
wishes. 

The  bones  of  these  little  neighbors  are  hollow ;  and 
there  are  at  least  two  reasons  for  that.  One  is  that 
it  makes  them  much  lighter,  which  thing  is  very  neces- 
sary because  of  their  aerial  transportation;  and  the 
other  reason  is  that  they  are  very  much  stronger  when 
hollow  than  solid,  that  is,  the  same  amount  of  material 
considered. 

Their  caudal  appendage,  or  tail,  which  they  can 
spread  or  close  at  will,  serves  them  as  a  rudder  in 
flight,  and  very  ably  regulates  them  in  their  course. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


643 


And  this  very  necessary  appendage  is  so  arranged  as 
to  be  very  ornamental  to  the  fowl.  Accordingly  Na- 
ture has  varied  it  much  as  to  color,  shape,  size,  so 
that  it  always  carefully  harmonizes  with  other  features 
of  the  particular  bird. 

In  our  next  lesson  we  will  study  some  of  the  "  Birds 
of  Prey." 

THE    ANT    THAT    FARMS. 


The  agricultural  ant,  or  the  ant  that  farms,  is  a 
large,  brown  ant.  It  builds  houses  and  roads,  and  has 
an  army  to  be  called  out  in  time  of  peril.  Really,  it 
seems  to  know  more  than  other  ants.  It  lives  prin- 
cipally in  western  Texas,  and  its  habits  are  very  much 
like  those  of  the  ants  of  the  Old  Bible  times. 

It  is  very  interesting  to  watch  a  company  of  these 
ants  build  one  of  their  houses.  They  first  select  a 
place,  and,  if  the  place  be  on  dry  soil,  they  dig  a  hole 
and  heap  the  dirt  up  very  high  around  it,  at  least  from 
three  to  six  inches  high.  But  if  it  be  low  and  moist 
soil,  the  ant  builds  a  cone-shaped  bank  from  fifteen 
to  twenty  feet  high,  with  the  entrance  near  the  top. 
This  low  soil  may  be  dry  when  the  ants  build,  but 
they  seem  to  know  in  some  way  that  the  ground  may 
be  flooded ;  so  they  build  a  high  house. 

After  the  house  is  built  they  clear  a  tract  of  land 
sometimes  ten  or  twelve  feet  wide  all  around  it.  How 
they  work!  They  cut  down  the  grass.  While  one 
holds  the  grass  down  the  other  cuts  it.  They  carry 
away  all  the  rubbish  and  then  level  the  ground.  All 
weeds  are  removed,  and  only  the  ant  rice,  as  it  is  called, 
and  a  certain  kind  of  grass  are  allowed  to  grow  on  the 
outer  side  of  this  circle.  This  circle  is  called  the  disk, 
and  the  door  is  in  the  center.  Some  naturalists  claim 
that  the  ants  themselves  sow  the  seed  of  the  ant  rice, 
while  others  hold  to  the  idea  that  the  rice  sows  its 
own  seed. 

Be  that  as  it  may,  when  the  grain  is  ripe  they  harvest 
it,  that  is  the  seed,  and  carefully  carry  it  into  their 
storehouses.  If  they  afterwards  find  that  the  seeds 
are  damp  they  will  remove  them  from  place  to  place  to 
dry  them.  The  little  red  ant  makes  them  so  much 
trouble  in  their  houses,  though  he  belongs  to  the  same 
family  as  the  agricultural  ant. 

When  a  colony  of  ants  is  not  disturbed,  it  increases 
greatly  in  numbers,  and  lays  out  its  roads,  some  of 
which  are  as  many  as  one  hundred  yards  long.  These 
roads  lead  from  the  house  in  every  direction.  But 
it  quite  often  happens  that  when  a  new  city  is  being 
built,  an  older  colony  near  by  looks  upon  the  new  peo- 
ple as  invaders  of  their  country,  and  a  battle  is  waged. 
They  fight  very  hard,  and  the  larger  colony  gains  the 
victory  over  the  smaller  one,  of  course.  The  agri- 
cultural ants  are  very  harmless  unless  their  city  is  dis- 


turbed. But  they  are  like  most  people;  when  their 
rights  are  not  respected  they  manifest  their  dislike 
for  the  intruders.  When  you  are  studying  them,  be 
a  little  careful  of  them,  for  they  can  bite. 


DOG    SAVES    A    BOY'S    LIFE. 


Hakey  Steffens,  eight  years  old,  of  57  Myrtle 
avenue,  Brooklyn,  owes  his  life  to  Prince,  his  St.  Ber- 
nard dog,  and  there  is  nothing  too  good  for  the  big  pet 
to-day.  Harry  was  playing  with  Prince  in  Pearl 
street,  near  Myrtle  avenue.  He  was  on  roller  skates, 
when  he  suddenly  slipped  and  fell.  He  was  right  in 
front  of  a  heavily  laden  truck,  which  was  coming  at 
a  rapid  pace. 

Prince  had  been  frolicking  along  at  the  boy's  side, 
and  as  the  lad  fell  almost  under  the  feet  of  the  horses 
the  dog  grabbed  him  by  the  collar  and  dragged  him 
out  of  danger. 

After  dragging  Harry  out  of  the  path  of  the  truck 
Prince  would  not  allow  any  of  the  men  who  witnessed 
the  incident  to  touch  him,  licking  the  boy's  face  and 
whining  until  Harry  jumped  to  his  feet. 

After  seeing  his  young  master  was  all  right  Prince 
jumped  about,  barking  with  joy,  and  allowed  the 
women  who  had  assembled  to  pet  him.  A  physician, 
who  was  in  the  crowd,  examined  Harry  and  said  he 
had  escaped  injury.  The  women  would  have  made 
Prince  sick  feeding  him  bonbons  if  Plarry  had  not 
decided  to  take  him  home. — Boston  Globe,  April  24th. 


SNAKE   CHARMED   BY   MUSIC. 


BY    N.    R.    BAKER. 

A  few  years  ago  a  Mr.  Reeder,  a  well-known  citizen 
of  Whistler,  Ala.,  was  sitting  one  evening  on  his  front 
porch  with  his  wife  and  he  was  playing  on  his  violin. 

The  pillars  of  the  porch  were  composed  of  four 
boards  nailed  together  in  the  form  of  a  hollow  square ; 
the  posts  did  not  touch  the  floor  by  nearly  two  inches, 
resting  on  an  iron  footpiece  to  prevent  decay.  As  the 
music  proceeded,  a  large  "  chicken  "  snake,  as  they 
are  called,  about  five  feet  long,  crawled  out  of  the  hol- 
low  post   and  approached   the   musician. 

The  player  ceased:  the  snake  stopped;  the  serpent';; 
keen  eyes  watched  the  instrument ;.  the  music  contin- 
ued ;  the  snake  again  slowly  approached  the  violinist 
with  upraised  head.  What  would  have  been  the  result 
had  the  music  continued  longer  will  never  be  known, 
for  the  chill  that  crept  up  the  player's  back  stopped 
the  music,  and  a  lucky  thwack  of  a  cane  rendered 
his  snakeship  "  Iwrs  de  combat  "  and  his  ear  out  of 
tune. 


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HOME    DEPARTMENT 


Each  week  the  Nookers  will  find  on  this  page  some 
articles  either  contributed,  written  or  selected  especial- 
ly for  your  domestic  interests.  It  shall  be  our  highest 
ideal  to  meet  the  wants  and  needs  of  your  homes  both 
in  the  city  and  the  country,  and  we  assure  you  that 
your  wants  are  the  best  known  to  the  editor  from  you 
yourselves.  If  the  Nookers  will  write  short '  articles 
for  this  department  or  send  in  ideas,  we  shall  have 
one  of  the  nicest  round  table  talks  concerning  our 
homes,  farms,  shops  and  gardens  that  can  be  had. 
Let  us  see  how  valuable  we  can  make  these  pages  by 
a  hearty  cooperation. — The  Editor. 
*r  *5*  ♦> 
TAFFY    AND    EPITAPHY. 


A  great  many  people  in  this  world  are  strictly 
averse  to  saying  anything  in  the  way  of  encourage- 
ment to  the  young  people,  or  anybody  else  in  fact,  but 
especially  to  the  rising  generations.  How  many  times 
have  you  heard  people  say,  "  Don't  brag  on  them  or 
you  will  spoil  them."  Again  we  say  how  many  times 
have  you  heard  fathers  and  mothers  and  teachers 
scold  the  offender  and  be  continually  showing  his 
weaknesses,  and  when  a  good  turn  or  a  bright  act 
has  been  given  by  the  young  person,  no  mention  is 
ever  made  of  it.     It  always  escapes  notice. 

Servants,  hired  hands  and  domestics  of  all  sorts 
have  all  undergone  the  same  trials.  Very  few  peo- 
ple make  a  practice  of  making  an  open  commendation 
of  the  work  that  is  commendable.  The  Nook  stands 
opposed  to  this  kind  of  work.  The  good  deeds,  the 
kind  words,  a  beneficent  act  of  any  sort  deserves  its 
just  endorsement.  Many  more  people  have  been 
spoiled  through  discouragements  than  because  they 
have  been  bragged  on,  and  yet  in  the  face  of  these 
facts  the  majority  of  men,  upon  the  loss  of  a  relative 
or  friend  will  spend  a  large  share  of  his  earnings  on 
a  piece  of  cold  marble  and  place  it  out  in  some  se- 
cluded spot  and  chisel  some  very  much  cherished  epi- 
taph in  honor  of  the  departed.  Counting  by  square 
feet  of  surface,  there  are  more  lies  in  a  cemetery  than 
any  place  else  in  the  world.  The  people  who  have 
never  thought  in  their  lives  of  saying  one  commend- 
able thing  about  their  side  companion  do  not  hesitate, 
in  the  least,  after  death,  to  make  their  graces  very 
conspicuous.  The  long  obituaries  at  funerals  have  no 
more  taste  than  chalk,  when  the  people  know  that 
the  one  writing  the  obituary  has  been  an  enemy  of  the 
deceased   all  his   life. 


So  again  we  say,  could  the  world  be  induced  to  lay 
aside  the  old  idea  of  not  respecting  the  best  acts  and 
best  thoughts  of  the  young  minds  which  are  develop- 
ing, and  induce  them  to  lay  aside  the  idea  of  waiting 
until  after  death  to  show  the  beautiful  characteristics 
of  their  friends,  and  would  carry  more  flowers  to  the 
sick  room  instead  of  the  casket,  how  much  better  off 
the  world  would  be.  Taffy  is  decidedly  preferable  to 
Epitaphy. 

THE    COUNTRY    GIRL. 


You  bright-eyed,  rosy-cheeked  country  girl,  don't 
you  ever  let  me  hear  you  say  again  that  you  want  to 
go  to  the  city  to  live.  Before  you  go,  if  it  be  that  you 
get  the  consent  of  your  mind  finally  to  go,  first  make 
a  short  visit  to  the  city  and  see  the  pinched  counte- 
nances and  ansemic  faces  of  the  girls  who  live  in  the 
city  and  who  are  compelled  to  work  for  a  living,  no 
matter  who  you  are,  what  you  know,  nor  what  you  are 
worth.  Your  gifts,  whatever  they  may  be,  are  given 
you  by  the  Lord  God  Almighty  in  an  earthen  vessel, 
and  they  will  yield  to  the  strokes  of  sin  upon  it.  The 
late  hours  kept,  the  late  rising,  and  the  poisoned  air 
of  the  crowded  street  car,  the  hall  of  the  theater, 
sprinkled  streets,  the  constant  din  of  the  hurry  and 
bustle,  the  stale  vegetables,  canned  goods,  the  stone 
pavements,  and  thousands  of  steps  to  mount,  and 
scores  of  other  inevitable  things  which  are  enemies  to 
the  physical  man, — all  these  take  away  the  beautiful 
pink  tinge  of  the  rosy  cheek  and  the  bright  sparkle  of 
the  eye  of  the  country  girl  whose  pavements  have 
been  the  grassy  carpet  of  the  orchard  as  she  gathers 
the  luscious  fruits,  and  the  blue-glass  of  the  pastures 
as  she  trips  along  afler  Blossy  and  Buttercup,  and 
whose  street  cars  have  been  the  backs  of  old  Bob  and 
Charlie  as  they  came  in  from  work  with  the  trace 
chains  dangling  at  their  feet,  whose  drinking  water  is 
not  the  muddy  river  water  forced  by  a  machine  through 
the  rusty  pipes,  but  the  unadulterated  ale  of  the  skies 
as  it  bubbles  from  the  spring  when  she  drinks  from  the 
long-handled  gourd. 

Oh  no,  hump-uh ;  never  make  the  change.  And 
you,  city  girl,  look  here,  you  don't  have  to  be  altogether 
inferior  to  your  country  sisters ;  you  must  be  a  good 
friend  to  the  laws  of  nature.  You  eat  your  simple 
food,  retire  early  as  a  rule,  exercise  in  the  morning 
air,  take  your  regular  baths,  and  as  often  as  possible 
visit  your  country  cousin.  Avoid  dissipation,  watch 
your  diet  carefully  and  eat  plenty  of  fruit.     Keep  a 


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clear  conscience.  As  much  as  possible,  attend  places 
of  instruction  where  you  get  the  best  thoughts  of  the 
best  people.  Remember  your  environments  are  not 
what  your  country  sister's  are.  Instead  of  being  as- 
sembled together  as  a  society  once  or  twice  a  week, 
as  in  the  country,  here  you  are  confronted  every  day 
with  vices  that  cross  the  threshold  of  the  city.  Above 
all  remember  that  there  is  a  natural  law  in  the  spiritual 
world,  and  vice  versa.  So  your  conduct,  your 
thoughts,  your  life  in  general  will  make  your  health. 


THE    BLUES. 


CELERY. 


There  are  more  fads  these  days  and  hobbyhorses 
than  there  are  people  to  ride  them.  Everybody  has 
his  own  hobby  or  fad  and  still  there  are  a  few  stand- 
ing to  the  hitching  post  along  the  sidewalk  and  nobody 
to  ride  them.  There  is  the  hot  water  cure  and  the  cold 
water  cure,  and  the  morning  starvation  and  the  even- 
ing starvation,  and  the  fasting  and  the  feasting,  and 
physical  culture  and  fresh  air,  and  last  of  all  a  cure  for 
the  blues.  Now  hobbyhorses  are  good  things  espe- 
cially for  children,  but  there  is  a  time  when  a  man 
ought  to  outgrow  hobbyhorses,  but  some  people  insist 
on  riding  them  all  their  lives. 

In  these  days  of  business  depression,  of  financial 
stringency,  when  more  or  -  less  acute  attacks  of  the 
blues  are  prevalent  and  have  proven  to  be  almost  an 
epidemic,  a  reliable  remedy  would  be  a  delight. 

We  remember  one  time  of  a  lady  who  had  a  very 
severe  attack  of  the  most  miserable  of  all  human  ail- 
ments, and  upon  her  visit  to  her  family  physician,  and 
unloading  the  contents  of  her  miserable  mind,  which 
had  been  so  completely  harassed  by  the  worst  enemy 
to  which  the  human  mind  can  fall  heir,  he  at  length 
said,  "  Take  this  according  to  directions,"  handing 
her  a  little  box  well  wrapped.  Upon  arriving  at 
home  she  at  once  proceeded  to  unwrap  the  box  of 
medicine,  and  found  it  to  contain  a  single  scrap  of 
paper  with  these  words :  "  Let  no  day  pass  without 
doing  something  for  someone."  We  hope  if  anyone, 
under  whose  eye  this  may  chance  to  fall,  is  suffering 
from   this  melancholy  disease,  he  will  give  it  a   fair 

trial. 

$    *    «$» 


A   GOOD   SALVE. 


BY  SARAH   A.   SELL. 


Fresh  butter  the  size  of  an  egg.  Beeswax  the  size 
of  a  hickorynut.  Put  these  in  a  frying-pan  and  add 
a  handful  of  the  inner  bark  of  the  elder.  Fry  well. 
Remove  the  elder,  and  add  two  tablespoonfuls  of 
sweet  oil  and  it  is  ready  for  use. 


This  vegetable  should  have  a  place  in  everybody's 
garden,  not  only  because  it  is  a  very  delicious  table 
vegetable,  but  because  its  medicinal  qualities  in  the 
way  of  a  nerve  tonic  are  among  the  highest,  and  when 
eaten  in  large  quantities  by  those  Who  are  suffering 
more  or  less  from  nervous  trouble,  it  proves  itself  to 
be  a  remedial  agent  of  incalculable  value.  Medical 
men  use  it  largely  in  making  their  nerve  tonics,  and 
though  many  of  these  are  splendid  and  very  costly 
too,  yet  we  know  of  none  that  are  as  valuable  as  the 
raw  vegetable  itself  in  producing  the  desired  results. 
It  need  not  be  reserved  for  table  use  only,  but  it  could 
be  eaten  whenever  convenient  through  the  day,  and 
some  of  our  best  Nookers  say  that  the  morning  is  the 
time  when  the  greatest  benefit  is  experienced  from  the 
use  of  it. 

*5*  <5»  ♦ 

OLIVES. 


Within  the  last  decade  this  country  has  become 
one  of  the  most  olive  consuming  .  countries  in  the 
world.  When  this  fruit  was  first  shipped  to  our  coun- 
try it  was  considered  to  be  a  luxury  for  the  rich,  and 
it  still  remains  that  they  are  used  in  greater  quantities 
in  the  cities  of  the  eastern  part  of  our  country  than 
in  the  rural  districts  and  especially  in  the  West. 
When  the  people  once  learn  to  know  the  value  of  this 
little  fruit  the  importation  of  them  must  necessarily 
be  increased. 

•>  *>  *:» 

CHEAP    LAYER    CAKE. 


BY    MAGGIE    OBER. 


One  egg,  one  cup  sugar,  one  cup  sour  cream,  one 
teaspoonful  soda,  one  teaspoonful  vinegar,  flour  suf- 
ficient.    This  just  fills  three  pie-pans. 


POTATO    BUGS,    GO. 


BY  J.    G.   FIGLEY. 

One  part  Paris  green,  four  parts  flour.     Sprinkle 
vines  when  dew  is  on. 
Bryan,  Ohio. 

4»    *J»    <fr 
CUCUMBER    BUGS.    GO    TOO. 


BY   J.    G.    FIGLEY. 

Sifted  ashes  mixed  with  chimney  soot,  equal  parts, 
for  cucumbers  and  melons. 
Bryan,  Ohio. 


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mi- J    OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE    mil'" 
1 


-BONNIE    WAYNE. 


Wy  say,  my  mamma  she's  got  black  hair,  only  it's 
grey  now  sometimes,  and  there  wuz  a  nuther  woman 
who  lives  over  on  Douglass  Avenue  what  calls  at  our 
house  most  every  day,  and  honest,  they  talk  about 
most  everything  sometimes  and  they  talk  about  me 
too,  and  sometimes  when  I'm  playing  with  my  dollies 
they  don't  think  that  I  hear,  but  I  do;  and  then  they 
talk  awhile  about  Luke  Davis, — that's  the  other  wom- 
an's boy.  I  don't  know  what  her  name  is  nohow,  but 
we  hear  'em,  and  'en  sometimes  we  talk  to  ourselves 
about  other  folks  too,  'cause  we're  playing  like  we're 
big  folks.  And  'en  one  day  we  had  the  bestest  time. 
My  mamma  and  Luke's  mamma  got  to  talking  about 
so  many  things,  and  pretty  soon  the  other  woman  said 
to  my  ma,  "  Mrs.  Wayne,  why  don't  you  get  your  hair 
colored  black  again  ?  "  And  she  told  her  that  it  looked 
so  ugly  and  that  the  people  wuz  a  coloring  their  hair 
this  year  and  a  whole  lot  of  things,  and  my  ma  would 
stand  in  front  of  the  lookingglass  and  look  at  her  hair, 
and  say,  "  Wy,  that  does  look  kind  'o  old  and  grey, 
don't  it?"  And  'en  she  said,  "Less  go  down  town 
and  have  our  hair  colored.  So  they  said  to  us  in  the 
other  room,  "  Children,  will  you  play  here  till  we  come 
back  ?  "  And  my !  Luke  looked  at  me  and  I  looked 
at  him,  and  we  thought  we  would  have  the  bestest 
time,  and  we  did  too.  As  soon  as  they  put  on  their 
best  dresses  they  went  out  to  the  car  line  and  waited 
for  the  street  car,  and  we  watched  them  from  the  win- 
dow till  they  got  on  the  car  and  'en  we  knowed  that 
they  Wouldn't  be  back  for  a  long  time,  and  so  we 
thought  we  would  play  that  we  wuz  keeping  house, 
and  'en  we  got  all  my  playthings  out  and  'en  I  got 
the  dinner  while  Luke  Davis  he  turned  all  the  chairs 
upside  down  for  horses,  and  the  big  rocking  chair  for 
the  delivery  wagon;  and  he  wuz  a  going  to  bring  me 
a  whole  lot  of  groceries  from  down  town,  and  we  had 
the  piano  stool  for  the  ice  wagon,  and  'en  we  played  we 
had  the  bestest  things  for  dinner,  and  'en  I  put  Dora 
to  sleep.  Dora  she's  my  dolly  and  Hattie  is  too,  but 
Hattie  wuz  so  cross  'at  she  wouldn't  go  to  sleep,  and 
I  didn't  know  what  was  the  matter  with  her,  and 
Luke  said  that  he  thought  she  wanted  to  have  her 
hair  colored,  and  'en  I  said  they  wuz  all  a  having  their 
hair  colored  this  year  and  she  could  if  she  wanted  to, 
and  'en  we  did  not  know  what  to  color  it  with  and  we 
hunted  and  hunted,  and  'en  Luke  he  took  the  top  of 
my  pa's  typewriter  and  stood  on  that  and  'en  he  could 
reach  up  to  the  writing  desk  and  'en  he  found  the  ink- 


bottle,  and  my  pa  has  red  ink  too;  and  'en  he  said  he 
alius  liked  to  see  little  girls  have  red  hair,  and  'en  I 
said,  "Do  they  wear  red  hair  this  year?"  And  he 
said  that  sometimes  they  did,  and  'en  I  said  we  would 
use  that,  and  'en  I  held  her  on  her  face  in  my  lap  and 
he  poured  the  red  ink  on  Hattie's  head  and  she  cried 
a  little,  but  we  told  her  that  they  wuz  a  wearing  red 
hair  this  year  a  good  deal  and  she  quit  crying,  and  'en 
when  I  lifted  her  up  to  comb  her  nice  red  hair — my 
doodness !  that  red  ink  wuz  all  over  her  nice  white 
apron  and  it  wuz  all  over  the  carpet  and  it  wuz  all 
over  my  blue  apron,  and  Luke's  fingers  looked  like  he 
had  been  eating  little  red  candies.  My,  I  wish  he  had ! 
So  he  got  the  towel  and  'en  he  wiped  and  wiped  on  the 
floor  and  on  my  apron  and  on  Hattie's  apron,  and 
doodness,  the  more  he  wiped  the  more  it  wuz  all  over 
everything.  And  just  'en  the  street  car  stopped  and 
sure  'nuff  there  wuz  mamma  and  the  other  woman, 
and  mamma  looked  so  funny  with  her  hair  all  black 
that  I  did  not  hardly  know  her,  and  Luke  said  that  he 
didn't  believe  the  other  woman  wtiz  his  mamma  at  all, 
but  it  wuz,  and  'en  we  hurried  and  tried  to  pick  up  all 
the  things  that  we  had  been  playing  with  and  we  got 
the  chairs  all  picked  up  and  the  piano  stool,  and  my 
pa's  typewriter  cover,  and  'en  we  just  hurried  and 
hurried  to  get  the  dishes  all  back  in  the  pantry  before 
they  got  to  the  house,  and  Luke  he  stubbed  his  toe 
on  the  big  rug  by  the  door  and  he  spilled  the  sugar 
all  over  the  floor  and  we  just  couldn't  pick  it  up.  And 
when  we  were  both  down  on  the  floor  hurrying  as 
fast  as  we  could  to  get  it  picked  up,  wy,  here  they  wuz 
at  the  door,  and  when  mamma  opened  the  door  she 
throwed  up  both  hands  and  said,  "  Wy,  Bonnie  Wayne! 
what  in  the  world  are  you  doing?  "  And  they  looked 
at  each  other  and  Luke  looked  at  me  and  I  looked  at 
all  of  them,  and  I  didn't  know  what  to  do  just  then; 
and  when  mamma  saw  that  the  sugar  was  all  over  the 
rug  she  said,  "  My  goodness,  young  one,  look  at  my 
nice  rug."  But  Luke  and  me  had  been  looking  at  it, 
and  I  didn't  see  how  we  could  get  the  sugar  off.  By 
this  time  Luke's  mamma  saw  my  dollie,.  and  'en  she 
said,  "  Mrs.  Wayne,  just  look  at  this  doll's  hair." 
(to  be  continued.) 

I  know  not  what  awaits  me, 

God  kindly  veils  my  eyes, 
And  o'er  each  step  on  my  onward  way 

He  makes  new  scenes  arise; 
And  every  joy  he  sends  me  comes 

A  sweet  and  glad  surprise. 

P.  P.  Bliss. 


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1 


What  and  where  is  the  Round  Tower? 

Round  Tower  is  an  old  tower  one  hundred  and 
eleven  feet  high  standing  in  front  of  a  church  in  Cop- 
enhagen, Denmark.  It  was  built  by  king  Christian 
the  Fourth.  It  has  a  spiral  driveway  paved  wilh 
bricks  wide  enough  for  six  horses  to  be  driven  abreast 

(from  the  bottom  to  the  top.  From  the  top  of  this 
tower  a  very  splendid  view  can  be  had  of  the  pictur- 
esque city  of  the  Danish  capital.  It  is  said  that  when 
Peter  of  Russia  visited  Christian,  king  of  Denmark, 
the  king  took  his  distinguished  visitor  to  the  top  of 
this  tower  to  see  the  magic  sight.  The  Emperor  was 
pleased  with  the  sight  and  remarked  that  its  dizzy 
height  reminded  him  of  the  power  he  had  over  his 
subjects.  He  said  to  Christian,  "  I  have  such  complete 
control  of  my  subjects  that  I  could  command  any  one 
of  them  to  jump  from  the  top  of  this  tower  and  he 
would  obey  me."  Christian  hung  his  head  a  moment 
and  said,  "  That  may  all  be,  but,  friend  Peter,  I  can 
do  more.  I  can  place  my  head  in  the  lap  of  any  one 
of  my  subjects  in  the  darkest  hour  of  the  night  and 
feel  perfectly  safe.  This  you  cannot  do,  or  dare  not 
do." 

Who  is  Jim  Key? 

Jim  Key  is  not  a  person  but  a  very  remarkable  horse 
which  is  on  exhibition  at  the  present  time  in  the  St. 
Louis  Exposition.  You  will  find  him  on  the  Pike. 
He  is  indeed  a  remarkable  animal.  He  can  add,  sub- 
tract, multiply  or  divide  any  numbers  less  than  thirty. 
He  can  spell  any  ordinary  name  and  some  that  are 
not  very  ordinary.  He  can  quote  Scripture,  and  give 
you  the  correct  reference  for  it.  He  can  operate  a 
cash  register  and  make  change  with  money.  He 
knows  a  one  dollar  bill  from  a  two  or  ten.  His  master 
takes  delight  in  having  him  "  spell  down  "  boys  who 
chance  to  want  to  spell  with  the  horse. 
* 

Why  is  a  monkey  wrench  so  called? 

The  monkey  wrench  is  not  so  called  because  of  its 
actual  or  fancied  resemblance  to  a  monkey,  nor  be- 
cause it  is  a  handy  tool  to  monkey  with,  but  it  is  sim- 
ply because  it  is  the  invention  of  Charles  Monchey, 
of  Kings  County,  New  York. 

♦ 

Do  the  Mohammedans  believe  in  Christ? 

Yes,  this  far;  they  think  he  was  a  great  prophet, 
but  they  do  not  believe  he  was  the  Son  of  God,  and, 
too,  they  believe  that  Mohammed  was  a  greater  proph- 
et than  Christ. 


What  is  meant  by  the  hexachord  system  of  music? 

A  musical  system  said  to  have  been  invented  by  an 
Italian  monk  in  the  eleventh  century,  but  some  writers 
give  the  credit  to  early  English  scholars.  The  sylla- 
bles used  in  this  system  were  Ut,  Re,  Mi,  Fa,  Sol,  La, 
Sa,  and  these  were  taken  from  the  lines  of  a  hymn 
to  St.  John  the  Baptist. 

* 

How  much  money  did  the  poor  widow  throw  into  the 
treasury? 

The  Bible  says  two  mites.  Now,  two  mites  make 
a  farthing,  and  four  farthings  make  an  English  penny, 
and  an  English  penny  is  two  cents.  So  you  see  one 
mite  is  a  fourth  of  a  cent,  and  two  mites  would  be 
the  half  of  a  cent,  what  she  cast  into  the  treasury. 
* 
When  is  gold  said  to  be  pure? 

Pure  gold  is  said  to  be  twenty-four  karats.  Thus 
eighteen  karats  gold  contains  eighteen  karats  of  pure 
metal  out  of  twenty-four,  or  three-fourths  pure. 

Please  explain  zero. 

Zero  is  a  point  of  beginning;  the  scale  of  a  ther- 
mometer, or,  in  mathematics,  it  is  a  sign  to  denote  a 
place  below  the  beginning  of  quantity. 
* 
When  was  Theodore  Leschetizky  born? 
In  the  year  1831.     He  was  a  musician,  and  a  noted 
one.     He  received  his  first  music  lessons  from  his  fa- 
ther at  the  age  of  five. 

* 

Is  asafetida  an  animal  or  vegetable  product? 

Vegetable.  It  is  prepared  from  the  roots  of  a  plant 
extensively  grown  in  Persia,  Beloochistan  and  Af- 
ghanistan. 

* 

For  what  does  the  apostrophe  in  the  word  o'clock 
stand? 

It  denotes  the  omission  of  the  letter  "  f  "  and  the 
word  "  the." 

* 

What  is  the  Mason  and  Dixon  line? 
This  has  been  well  answered  on  another  page  of 
this  issue. 

* 
Which  is  correct,  setting  hen.  or  sitting  hen? 
Hens  don't  sit,  they  set. 

* 
Does  wheat  turn  to  cheat? 

See  Gal.  6 :  7. 


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EQUITY    MFG.    AND    SUPPLY    COMPANY, 

153,  155,  156,  159  So.   Jefferson   St., 

Chicago,  Illinois. 


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The  Brethren   Colonies 


IN    THE 


Belt  of  Michigan 


are  an  actual  success.  The  colony  of  the  Lakeview  church  is  located  on  lands 
surrounding  the  village  of  Brethren,  Michigan.  Brethren,  Michigan,  is  lo- 
cated on  the  main  line  of  the  Pere  Marquette  System,  105  miles  north  of 
Grand  Rapids  and  about  14  miles  east  of  Lake  Michigan.  All  conditions  of 
soil,  climate  and  location  make  this  spot  an  ideal  one  for  general  farming, 
fruit-growing  and  stock-raising.  Lands  have  been  sold  to  about  120  families 
of  the  Brotherhood  and  their  families,  of  which  number  about  one-hajf  have 
already  located  and  are  clearing  up  their  places.  The  possibilities  of  this  dis- 
trict are  exceptional.  The  Brethren  tract  embraces  about  20,000  acres,  of 
which  over  11,000  acres  have  already  been  sold.  There  are  just  as  good  and 
as  desirable  locations  remaining  as  those  that  have  been  bought  and  the 
prices  have  not  yet  been  advanced,  but  with  the  improvements  now  going  on, 
developing  the  country  so  rapidly,  it  is  only  a  short  time  till  prices  advance 
considerably.  THE  TIME  TO  BUY  IS  NOW.  Present  prices  range  from 
$7  to  $15  per  acre,  on  easy  terms,  or  less  five  (5)  per  cent  for  cash. 


The  Cadillac  Tract— 25,000  Acres  of  Rich  Agricul- 
tural Lands,  Excellently  Situated  and  Splen- 
didly Adapted  for  Farming,  Fruit-growing  and 
Stock-raising. 

These  lands  are  located  from  one-half  mile  to  6  miles  from  the  hustling  city  of  Cadillac,  the  seat  of  Wexford 
county,  8,000  inhabitants,  all  alive,  and  its  location  on  the  Grand  Rapids  and  Indiana  R'y  (part  of  the  Pennsylvania 
System)  and  on  the  Ann  Arbor  Railroad  (part  of  the  Wabash  System)  together  with  its  other  advantages  render 
it  the  best  trading  point  and'  market  place  in  Northern  Michigan.  Cadillac  and  the  lands  controlled  by  the  ad- 
vertiser are  located  about  98  miles  north  of  Grand  Raptds  and  50  miles  east  of  Lake  Michigan.  They  are  well  wa- 
tered with  springs,  creeks,  rivers  and  lakes  of  pure,  sparkling  water  teeming  with  gamy  fish.  The  soil  varies  from 
a  sandy  loam  to  a  clay  loam,  all  of  it  underlaid  with  clay  and    gravel  subsoil,  which  responds  eagerly  to  cultivation. 

For  illustrated  booklets,  maps  and  information  as  to   reduced  rates  to  these  locations,  address: 


s^-^^-cte: 


XSOIESIE'E, 


district    -/i-g-errt    n^icl^ig-aon.    I^sm-d.    Assn., 

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Grasp  this  Opportunity 
to  Make  Your 

Savings  Work 


Investors. 

Consumers. 


We  are  drawing  to  the  close  of  ourfirst  series 
of  voucher  contracts,  and  if  you  want  to  take 
advantage  of  our  truly  wonderful  opportunity 
to  invest  your  savings  in  our  Co-operative 
association,  upon  our  original  and  scien- 
tific plan  you  should  get  your  application  in 
at  a  very  early  date. 

No  matter  how  modest  your  means,  you  can 
become  a  shareholder  in  this  company  and  at 
once  begin  to  take  advantage  of  its  many  eco- 
nomic features,  every  one  of  which  will  have 
your  approval  and  endorsement.  Our  com- 
pany means  a  new  era  in  the  co-operative  field. 
a  new  low-price  level  and  a  new  degree  of 
purchasing  power. 

Send  your  application  at  once.  Grasp 
this  opportunity  to  make  your  sav- 
ings work. 


How  and  When 
to  Invest 


The  Time  is  Now.  Do  not  postpone 
the  day  when  you  are  going  to  make  a  start  for 
prosperity.  If  you  do,  the  chances  are  you'll 
never  start.  Get  out  of  the  rut  of  the  man  who 
just  lives  each  day  so  he  can  work  the  next. 
Have  an  investment  to  look  after  your  interest 
in  daysof  adversity. 

Some  people  believe  in  investing  their  sav- 
ings but  are  not  satisfied  with  reasonable 
returns  on  their  money.  They  want  to  become 
millionaires  in  a  night.  They  invest  their  mon- 
ey in  all  sorts  of  "get-rich-quick"  schemes  and 
usually  pay  dearly  for  their  experiences.  It  is 
useless  to  save  money  and  then  invest  it  where 
it  will  be  lost  or  even  where  you  cannot  help 
but  worry  about  it. 

In  the  springtime  of  life — in  the  heyday  of 
prosperity,  every  man  and  woman  should  in- 
vest in  an  enterprise  which  is  a  credit  to  Christ- 
ianity as  well  as  to  the  Commercial  World;  so 
that  in  the  days  to  come  they  will  not  have  to 
look  back  upon  the  past  with  feelings  of  regret. 

Our  plan  of  Scientific  Co-operation  elimi- 
nates all  elements  of  failure  and  worry.  Make 
your  savings  work  antl  do  good. 


Profits  on 
Savings  Assured 

Of  all  the  great  i  joney-making  department 
stores  the  Mail  Order  Store  is  the  greatest. 
Its  line  comprises  everything  from  a  toothpick 
to  a  traction  engine.  Every  thing  people  eat, 
wear  and  use  from  youth  to  old  age.  Its  field 
is  not  limited  by  city  and  suburban  limitations, 
but  extends  to  every  farm  and  town  of  this 
country  and  every  country  of  the  globe.  Its 
expenses — selling  and  fixed — are  less  than  any 
other  business.  It's  a  strictlycash  business.  It 
has  few  losses.  It  does  not  depend  on  sea- 
sons or  local  conditions.  It  is  a  "hard  times" 
business.  It  does  not  even  depend  upon  pros* 
perity.  Its  profits  are  large  in  comparison  to 
the  amount  invested.  We  advise  you  to  be- 
come a  co-partner  of,  our  company  on  this 
series  of  vouchers  as  soon  as  possible,  even  if 
you  start  with  but  one  share,  and  thereby 
obtain  the  advantages  of  our  original  co-op- 
erative idea.  You  will  find  your  investment 
the  best  and  safest  you  have  ever  made — you 
buy  into  an  established,  growing  and  success- 
ful business. 


Satisfaction 


Guaranteed 


A  reputation  for  honest  advertising  is 

extremely  valuable,  and  can  be  retained  only 
by  the  most  painstaking  care:  a  single  misrep- 
resentation may  do  more  harm  than  months 
of  eaniest  effort  can  repair.  Advertisingintro- 
duces  our  goods.  Merit  sells  them.  We 
know  a  satisfied  customer  is  our  best  advertise- 
ment. Our  Rule:  "No  Disappointment  in 
What  Lies  Behind  the  Advertisement."  We 
invite  you  to  send  orders  from  our  catalogs, 
circulars  or  advertisements  with  absolute 
assurance  that  you  will  be  protected.  If  the 
price  is  lower  at  the  time  your  order  reaches  us 
we  will  give  you  the  advantage  of  the  reduction 
and  never  charge  you  more  than  the  price 
named  without  first  writing  you  with  full 
explanations  and  getting  your  consent  to  the 
higher  price.  Do  not  hesitate  to  order  any 
article  we  advertise  as  our  positive  guarantee 
goes  with  each  shipment,  and  there  is  no  risk 
on  your  part.  There  is  no  discount  on  the 
quality  of  the  goods  we  send  out  and  our 
representations  are  always  exact.  No  bluster, 
no  display,  just  straightforward  facts.  Now, 
would  you  not  like  to  be  a  co-partner  and  cus- 
tomer of  a  company  which  stands  for  the  appli- 
cation of  the  Golden  Rule  in  business,  and 
Christian  character  upon  the  part  of  each 
worker,  from  the  office  boy  to  the  President? 
Contracts  to  the  extent  of  $135,000  made 
since  February  1st,  19t*4.  Write  for  partic- 
ulars. 


Remember  ! 

While  we  are  working  together,  each  for  the 
other  and  conscientiously  and  earnestly  en- 
deavoring to  build  up  a  large  business,  we  do  it 
on  thebasis  of  treating  each  individual  fairly  and 
under  no  circumstances  place  any  of  our  pa- 
trons, co-operators  or  stockholders  in  an  em- 
barrassing position. 

We  consider  all  correspondence,  business 
transactions,  contracts  on  co-operation,  etc.  as 
sacred  and  never  embarrass  any  one  by  publish- 
ing extracts  from  letters,  names  or  addresses 
of  co-operators  or  customers  without  having 
the  written  con.ent  on  file  in  our  office. 


Albaugh  Bros., 
Dover  &  Co. 


The  Mail  Order  House 


341-43  Franklin  St., 

Chicago,  -  -  Illinois. 


Our  New  General 
Catalog  Free,. 


Our  new  general  merchandise  catalog  will  be 
ready  the  last  of  August  and  will  be  sent  free 
to  every  reader  of  the  Inglenook  answering: 
this  advertisement.  We  will  also  take  pleasure 
in  sending  a  64-page  book  of  testimonials  from 
satisfied  patrons,  the  consent  to  ^use  name 
having  been  secured  in  each  case.  Our  large 
general  Co-operative  Catalog  and  Price  List,  a 
magnificent  book,  contains  a  complete  line  of 
high  grade  General  Merchandise  at  co-op- 
erative money-savini;  prices. 

Careful  attention  is  being  given  to  the  illus- 
trations, descriptions,  prices,  etc.  Each  articlt 
will  be  described  as  if  it  were  the  only  one 
offered  for  sale,  for  the  catalog  must  appeal  to 
the  reason  of  the  one  who  receives  it,  and 
answer  questions  that  may  arise  in  his  mind 
concerning  the  goods  offeredand  thecompany. 
We  work  at  all  times  for  the  interest  of  our 
customers,  and  after  a  most  careful  study  we 
have  originated  a  new  plan  of  Freisrht  and 
Express  Rebates,  about  which  this  Big 
Catalog  will  tell  you  in  detail,  This  means 
the  saving  to  our  patrons  of  thousands  of 
dollars,  yet  our  prices  have  not  been  advanced 
one  cent.  It  is  harder  to  save  money  than  to 
make  money.  Make  saving  easier  by  ordering 
your  goods  from  our  catalog.  Make  your 
savings  make  you  money  by  investing  your 
savings  in  our  co-operalive  institution. 

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Number  28,  Volume  VI 


The  Kinkaid  Homestead  Act 


Sidney,  Nebraska,  May  9th,  1904. 
Mr.   Geo.  L.   McDonaugh, 

Colonization  Agent,  U.  P.  R.  R.,  Omaha,  Nebr. 
Dear  Brother: — Hope  that  the  Colonization  Department  of 
Union  Pacific  Railroad  will  let  it  be  generally  known  amongst 
the  Brethren  that  they  can  secure  640  acres  of  government 
land  under  the  new  homestead  law  in  this  district.  There  is 
between  160,000  and  200,000  acres  of  it  for  free  homesteads. 
We  need  members  here,  as  we  are  but  few  in  number  and  have 
a  good  churchhouse.  Here  is  a  town  of  1,200  to  1,300  inhab- 
itants, good  churches  of  other  denominations  and  good  schools. 
We  have  lived  here  eighteen  years. 

(Signed)      J.   U.   Slingluff, 
Minister. 

Sidney,   Nebraska,   May  9th,   1904. 
Mr.  Geo.   L.  McDonaugh, 

Colonization  Agent,  U.  P.  R.  R.,  Omaha,  Nebr. 
Dear  Sir: — I  hepe  you  will  get  a  large  number  i.f  Brethren 
to  locate  in  western  Nebraska.     Land  can  be  obtained  easily 
under  the  .new  Kinkaid  law.      The  possibilities  in  western  Ne- 
braska are  great.  Yours  truly, 

(Signed)   Ira  S.  Kline. 


Sidney,   Nebraska,    May   9th,    1904. 
Mr.  Geo.  L.  McDonaugh, 

Colonization  Agent,  U.  P.  R.  R-,  Omaha,  Nebr. 

Dear,  Brother: — Referring  to  the  advertisement  in  the  Ingle- 
nook  about  the  new  homestead  law  that  permits  a  settler  to 
enter  640  acres  of  land  in  Nebraska  instead  of  160  acres. 

There  is  plenty  of  good  land  here  and  we  would  like  to  have 
the  Brethren  in  the  East  come  and  take  it  up.  There  is  also 
good  improved  land  that  can  be  bought  reasonable  by  those 
who  do  not  care  to  take  raw  land  under  the  homestead  law. 
We  have  a  churchhouse  in  Sidney  and  good  schools.  We  need 
more  members  and  a  good  missionary  to  work  in  the  town. 
Hope  you  will  make  this  known  amongst  the  Brotherhood  and 
that  some  of  them  will  avail  themselves  of  the  cheap  home- 
seekers'  rates  and  come  to  Sidney,  Nebraska,  and  see  for  them- 
selves. Fraternally   yours, 

(Signed)      M.    M.    Kline. 

P.  S. — We  came  from  Valley  of  Virginia  originally.  Have 
been  here  sixteen  years.  M.  M.  Kline. 


George  L.  McDonaugh,  who  for  years  has  been  favorably 
known  to  the  Brethren  of  the  United  States,  is  the  Coloniza- 
tion Agent  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  and  will  be  at  the 
service  of  all  Brethren  who  may  desire  to  settle  along  the  line 
of  this  road.  Write  him  at  Omaha.  Nebraska,  for  FREE  print- 
ed matter. 


Homeseekers'   Excursions 

To  enable  intending  settlers  to  reach  Western  Nebraska  and  the  lands  affected  under  the  Kinkaid  Act  the 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Has   put  in  effect  Homeseekers'  rates  on  the  first  and  third  Tuesdays  of  each  month  at  rate  of  one  fare 

plus  82.00  from  its  Eastern  Terminals,  Council  Bluffs,  Omaha,  Kansas  City 

and  Leavenworth  to  Sidney  and   North  Platte. 

Homesteaders  can  thus  visit  the  United  States  Land  Offices  and  get  proper  information 
without  any  unnecessary  expenditure  of  time  and  money. 


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men's,    worth 

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Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail 


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is   the   best-watered   arid    State 
winds,    destructive    storms    and 
mate   it   makes    life  bright   and 
We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer 
change   for   the   general   improvement    in   your    condi 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  b 
and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  coun 
swer  and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger 
fares   to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves 
Cheap    homeseekers'   rates    are   made    to   all   prin 
for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting 


in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 
cyclones   are   unknown,   and   with   its   matchless    cli- 
worth  living. 

to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 
tion  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 
oth  requirements.  There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 
try  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  art- 
work teach  us  that  a  few  dollars  spent  in  railroad 
thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow.  ^' 

cipal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see       S1 
a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing.  ^ 


Round=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only  in  May 
and  October,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
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PAYETTE    VALLEY   HOME.— Five  Years  from  Sagebrush. 


3     Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance. 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


Arrived  in  Payette  Valley  Feb.  23,  1903.  Settled  on  an  80-acre  tract,  covered  with  sage  brush. 
Cleared  40  acres.  May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.  Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.  June  12  sowed  10  acres 
to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.  Yielded  55  to  acre.  Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 
or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  gram  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 
oats. 

Potatoes  yielded  500  bushels  to  the  acre  and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)   E.  L.  Dotson. 


^      S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

J.  E.  HOOPER,  Agent,   Oakland,  Kansas. 


Mention  the  INGLENOOK  when  wntin,. 


D.   E.   BURLEY, 

G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R., 

Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 


Fine      $i 


Vol.  VI. 


July  12,  1904. 


No.  28. 


REMEMBER    WHAT    I    SAY,    MY    BOY. 


C.  B.  Gibbs,  13  West  Market  street,  Indianapolis,  thinks 
this  poem,  which  appeals  to  him,  may  appeal  to  others. 
It  was  written  by  Cortland  Ball  in  Detroit,  1873. 

Remember  what  I  say,  my  boy, 

Wherever  you  may  be; 
Be  sure  and  treat  your  fellow-man 

With  due  civility; 
And  if  you  see  a  man  that's  down, 

His  good  try  to  promote, 
And  never,  never,  slight  a  man 

That  wears  a  ragged  coat. 

You'll  find  there's  many  in  this  world 

Who  claim  to  be  of  note, 
Tbat  say  there  is  no  honesty 

Beneath  a  ragged  coat; 
But  heed  not  what  they  say,  my  boy, 

And  reason  on  this  plan — 
That  oft  a  ragged  coat  is  wrapped 

Around  an  honest  man. 

The  squirrel  gnaws  the  bitter  shuck 

For  what  he  finds  within; 
He's  found  that  though  the   outside's   rough, 

There's  sweet  beneath  the  skin, 
So  you  will  find  through  life,  my  boy, 

As  down  the  stream  you  float, 

That  oft  an  honest  heart  doth  beat 

Beneath  a  ragged  coat. 

*    *    * 
SNAPSHOTS. 


No  man  lives  right  who  does  not  live  for  Cod. 


A  man  can  kill  an  elephant,  but  he  can't  create  a 
gnat. 

* 

Love  can  see  beauty  where  the  world  can  only  see 
deformity. 

* 

The  man  who  borrows  trouble  always  pays  a  big 
rate  of  interest. 

* 

Men  are  builders  of  their  own  destiny  and  especially 
of  their  children. 

* 

Everything  good  in  a  man  thrives  best  when  prop- 
erly recognised. 

* 

If  we  had  no  suffering  in  this  life  nobody  could  un- 
derstand what  love  is. 

* 

You  arc  not  helping  your  own  crop  by  censuring 
your  neighbor's  plowing. 

* 

No   man  willfully   wrongs  another   more   than   he 
wrongs  his  nature  in  the  act. 


The  keenest  ax  with  ivhich  to  hew  dozvn  the  tree  of 
love  is  the  ax  of  ingratitude. 
* 

The  man  who  is  willing  to  obey  God  and  decides  to 
do  it,  is  very  likely  to  succeed. 


Sympathy  is  something  you  can't  learn  at  college. 

* 
Success  anywhere  requires  singleness  of  purpose. 

* 
Common  sense  is  a  hard  thing  to  have  too  much  of. 


Do  something  every  day  that  you   would   not  be 
ashamed  to  have  known  in  heaven. 


It  is  never  hard  to  do  the  right  thing.     Where  the 
rub  comes  in  is  in  deciding  to  do  it. 


The  man  who  goes  out  to  meet  trouble  alivays  does 


ludaj  Iscariot  was  not  the  last  man  zcho  lost  all  by 
getting  his  heart  set  on   money  matters. 


Where  hard  ivork  kills  one  man,  'worry  buries  a 
dozen. 


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When  a  man  finds  out  that  he  needs  knowledge  he 
has  his  hand  on  the  gate  that  leads  to  it. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


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THE      INGLENOOK. 


653 


ILLINOIS    BUILDING. 


That  the  architects  might  have  free  scope  in  carry- 
ing out  their  elaborate  plans,  a  site  was  selected  for 
the  Illinois  State  building  on  the  brow  of  a  hill  in 
the  Western  part  of  the  grounds  from  which  a  vista 
of  nearly  the  entire  Exposition  picture  is  obtainable. 

So  large  is  this  pretentious  building  that  it  is  easily 
mistaken  for  one  of  the  exhibit  palaces.  Its  front  is 
200  feet  in  length  and  its  sculpture-crowned  roof  may 
be  seen  from  any  part  of  the  grounds.  The  Trail, 
leading  from  the  foreign  section  to  the  Plateau  of 
States,  passes  in  front  of  the  buildings. 

Neighbors  of  Illinois  are  California,  Idaho,  Tennes- 
see and  Virginia.  The  Temple  of  Fraternity  is  nearby 
and  across  the  broad  avenue  is  the  Japanese  reserva- 
tion where  is  to  be  seen  the  most  beautiful  of  Oriental 
landscape  and  architecture. 

The  interior  of  the  building  has  two  monumental 
features.  A  rotunda  into  which  the  main  entrance 
opens  reaches  from  the  mosaic  floor  to  the  vaulting 
dome,  running  through  all  three  floors  of  the  build- 
ing. Another  feature  is  the  State  room  just  behind 
the  rotunda  which  supplies,  exclusive  of  foyer  and 
stage,  a  floor  area  50x60  feet.  This  room  has  a  deep- 
ly paneled  ceiling  and  on  its  walls  is  a  mural  painting 
— an  epic  frieze  6  feet  wide  telling  the  history  of  Illi- 
nois. This  space  is  spanned  by  trusses  without  a 
single  column. 

The  interior  court  follows  the  general  outline  of 
the  building  in  form  and  style,  and  is  laid  out  in  the 
form  of  a  plaisance  or  garden  of  a  formal  type.  It 
is  also  suggested  that  this  buliding,  the  roof  of  which 
is  practically  on  a  level  with  the  terrace  of  the  Art 
Building,  could  be  successfully  utilized  as  a  prome- 
nade, with  a  roof  garden  and  restaurant  attachment. 

The  contract  price  of  the  building  was  $319,399,  and 
its  builder  was  John  J.  Dunnavant  &  Co.  It  was  com- 
pleted by  Dedication  Day,  was  occupied  at  that  time 
by  the  U.  S.  regular  troops  and  later  was  used  as  a 
sculpture  shop. 

Howard  J.  Rogers,  Chief  of  the  departments  of 
Education  and  Social  Economy  has  charge  of  the  ex- 
hibits to  be  placed  in  this  building. 

*  *  * 
MARY    HAD    A    LITTLE    LAMB. 


Is  there  a  boy  or  girl  in  all  this  broad  country  who 
has  not  heard  of  Mary  and  her  little  lamb?  The 
one,  you  know,  who  followed  her  to  school  one  day 
and  made  the  children  laugh.  Of  course,  every- 
body knows  about  the  little  creature,  and  perhaps 
has  sighed  to  think  that  it  went  the  way  of  all 
mutton  vears  and  vears  ago. 


Perhaps  the  great  majority  of  readers,  when  they 
grew  up  to  be  men  and  women,  came  to  the  con- 
clusion that  Alary  and  her  lamb  were  both  fictions. 
as  much  so  as  the  old  woman  who  lived  in  a  shoe, 
or  Cinderella ;  but,  strange  to  say,  there  was  a  Mary, 
and  also  a  lamb,  and  the  world-famous  ditty  was 
founded  on  fact.  The  author  was  Sarah  J.  Hale, 
who  died  in  Philadelphia  at  the  age  of  eighty-six. 
The  lamb,  as  previously  remarked,  must  have  died 
long  ago.  and  on  Dec.  10,  1889,  the  heroine  of  the 
poem  breathed  her  last. 

Her  name  was  Mary  F.  Sawyer.  She  was  born 
in  Sterling,  Mass.,  in  1806,  and  in  that  town  the 
lamb  episode  is  said  to  have  occurred.  It  does  not 
appear  that  Mary  otherwise  distinguished  herself 
than  in  owning  the  lamb,  but  the  poem  gives  us  the 
assurance  that  Mary  was  a  kind-hearted  girl,  and 
in  that  respect  she  maintained  her  reputation  until 
the  day  of  her  death. 

Her  maiden  name  was  Tyler,  and  as  Aunt  Mary 
Tyler  she  was  known  by  everybody  near,  and  es- 
teemed by  all. 

Thus  the  famous  trio  disappears  from  the  earth, 
Mary  and  her  lamb  and  the  woman  who  made  them 
both  renowned.  The  poem  itself  is  one  of  those 
imperishable  things  like  the  "  Iliad,"  which  genera- 
tions yet  to  come  will  read  with  undiminished  pleas- 
ure. There  is  no  use  speculating  as  to  the  cause  of 
its  popularity — it  has  come  to  stay. 

*   *  * 

FEMININE    MEASUREMENTS. 


Ten  thousand  women  having  been  measured  by  sci- 
entific authority,  it  is  discovered  that  English  women 
are  the  tallest,  the  Americans  next  and  the  French 
last.  American  women,  however,  had  the  greatest 
weight,  which  will  surprise  a  good  many,  while  the 
English  came  second  and  the  French  again  last.  The 
savants  who  made  inquiry  into  these  delicate  matters 
did  not  regard  the  age  of  the  ladies,  nor  did  they 
measure  their  waists.  Singularly  enough,  Americans 
are  said  to  have  the  largest  waists  and  the  narrowest 
chests,  while  women  of  the  Latin  races  have  precisely 
the  reverse.  The  Viennese  ladies  and  women  of  the 
lower  class  are  proverbial  "  lacers."  but  the  pulling 
of  the  corset  string  does  not  seem  to  impair  their 
health  or  in  any  way  affect  their  appearance  beyond 
giving  them  figures  renowned  in  song  and  story.  A 
superb  pair  of  shoulders,  the  deep-bosomed  beauty  of 
the  peasant  girl  and  a  tapering  waist  associated  with 
youth  and  refinement  are  characteristics  of  the  women 
of  European  centers.  It  will  be  conceded  by  statistics 
that  these  women  live  quite  as  long  as  American 
women,  whose  average  shape  represents  no  such  spe- 
cific charm  of  outline. — Boston   Herald. 


654 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


WORMS    AND    BUGS. 


BY    J.    G.    FIGLEY. 

In  this  part  of  Ohio  apple  and  other  fruit  trees  are 
annually  pestered  by  a  species  of  worm,  the  tent 
caterpillars,  which  make  their  nests  in  the  limbs  of 
the  trees  in  April  or  May,  and  sometimes  in  June. 
The  nests  are  covered  with  a  tough  web,  and  when 
the  creatures  are  fairly  well  grown  they  leave  the 
nests  and,  trailing  a  thread  after  them,  if  let  alone, 
will  cover  the  entire  tree  in  a  web,  and  of  course 
it  is  of  no  more  use  that  year.  Some  spray  the 
trees  with  London  purple,  others  tie  corncobs  on 
long  poles,  and,  keeping  the  cobs  soaked  in  coal 
oil,  at  intervals  go  about  and  burn  the  nests  to 
destroy  them.  There  is  danger  in  this  hurting  the 
trees,  as  well  as  in  some  of  the  worms  getting  away 
to  do  further  mischief.  My  remedy  is  to  put  coal 
oil  on  the  nest,  which  absorbs  the  oil,  or  else  ampu- 
tate the  twig  or  limb  if  not  too  large.  This  gives 
me  no  further  trouble  with  them  that  year.  I  do 
not  know  where  the  worms  come  from  or  how  they 
manage  to  make  their  nests  on  the  tree.  They  can 
do  any  amount  of  damage  to  a  tree  by  eating  off  the 
leaves. 

As  a  rule,  after  these  worms  are  annihilated,  a 
few  days  will  elapse  before  another  species  of  worm 
I  call  the  measuring  worm  (from  its  habit  of  trav- 
eling by  putting  head  and  tail  together  and  then 
stretching  out  again),  puts  in  its  appearance.  Ap- 
parently all  at  once  the  trees  are  full  of  them,  busi- 
ly "  munching  "  the  leaves.  If  the  limbs  are  shak- 
en, the  worms  spin  down  on  threads,  and  if  left 
alone  will  go  back  to  the  tree  and  begin  business 
again.  They  can  in  a  very  short  time  make  a  tree 
look  as  though  it  had  been  blasted  by  fire.  Some 
spray  the  trees  after  the  buds  for  fruit  are  formed, 
either  with  Paris  green  or  London  purple,  and  say 
that  if  the  spraying  is  done  at  any  other  time  it  will 
be  of  no  value.  For  my  part,  I  think  as  effective  a 
way  as  any  is  to  shake  the  limbs  of  the  tree  or 
tap  them  with  a  long  pole,  and  by  "  swishing  "  the 
pole  about,  break  off  the  worms'  connection  with 
the  tree,  and  if  you  have  any  chickens  that  are 
half-way  sociable  and  friendly,  they  will  follow 
from  tree  to  tree  and  attend  to  the  worms.  I  think 
some  call  these  "  army  worms,"  but  cannot  get  the 
scientific  name,  though  they  likely  belong  to  the 
order  lepidoptera,  as  do  the  caterpillars,  which  are, 
I  believe,  called  CUsiocampa  Americana.  I  pre- 
sume it  might  be  correct  to  say  that  these  worms 
are  propagated  or  produced  from  eggs  laid  by  the 
butterfly  or  adult  imago. 

As  for  the  worms  that  infest  currant  and  other 
berry  bushes,   some  to    destroy    them    spray    the 


bushes  with  Paris  green  or  London  purple,  some 
use  white  hellebore,  but  from  the  rather  unsafe 
nature  of  these  remedies,  I  never  used  them,  rely- 
ing first  upon  strong  soap-suds,  and  afterward,  by 
way  of  experiment,  found  that  a  not  too  strong 
solution  of  alum  water  was  the  most  effective  way 
to  get  rid  of  the  worms. 

For  the  pieris  oleracea  which  leaves  its  marks  up- 
on our  cabbage  patches,  I  think  that  instead  of  ren- 
dering the  vegetable  rather  unsafe  for  use  by  sprink- 
ling with  a  solution  of  Paris,  green,  it  is  more  ef- 
fective and  sanitary  to  take  some  common  barrel 
salt,  heat  it  well  in  an  oven,  but  do  not  scorch  it, 
then  make  it  fine  with  a  rolling-pin,  and  sprinkle 
each  cabbage  head  with  about  a  tablespoonful  in 
the  morning  while  the  dew  is  on,  and  the  sun  will 
see  that  it  is  dissolved  and  scattered  all  through  the 
head.  It  also  invigorates  the  vegetable.  In  a  lit- 
tle patch  among  the  potatoes  I  have  seen  chickens 
leisurely  walking  from  head  to  head,  deftly  picking 
clean  each  one  from  worms. 

Bryan,  Ohio. 

*>  *z*  *> 

RAILWAY    CAR    FOR    DOCTORS. 

There  has  just  been  constructed  at  Preston,  Eng- 
land, for  the  exclusive  use  of  the  medical  officer 
of  the  Rhodesia  Railway,  in  Africa,  a  unique  car, 
which  provides  for  comfortable  accommodations  by 
day  and  night,  and  suitably  arranged  for  the  climat- 
ic conditions  of  South  Africa.  Each  window  open- 
ing provides  for  a  glass  frame,  a  louvre  frame  and  a 
gauze  dust-proof  frame,  each  of  these  acting  inde- 
pendently in  separate  runs.  The  glass  frame  is 
provided  with  spring  sash  balances,  and  the  louvre 
and  gauze  frames  furnished  with  springs  and  lifts. 
The  independent  gauze  frame  is  entirely  an  innova- 
tion, and  one  which  is  absolutely  essential,  if  com- 
fort is  to  be  considered,  owing  to  the  sand  and  dust 
storms  so  prevalent  in  South  Africa.  The  body  of 
the  carriage  is  divided  into  four  compartments — 
namely,  living  room,  surgery,  lavatory  and  kitchen, 
with  a  balcony  at  one  end  for  the  cook's  use.  The 
living  room  is  fitted  up  complete,  with  a  woven 
rattan  spring  couch,  two  revolving  armchairs,  flap 
tables,  wardrobe  with  mirror  front,  writing  desk 
and  cupboards  and  drawers,  and  two  basket  racks 
over  side  windows.  The  surgery  is  fitted  up  with 
hooks  and  rings  in  roof,  and  also  with  a  guard's 
valve  to  the  vacuum  brake.  The  kitchen  is  fitted 
with  an  open  and  closed  coal  stove,  having  two 
ovens  and  water  boiler  complete. 

The  Pennsylvania  Railroad  has  ordered  a  some- 
what similar  equipment  for  its  line. — Cincinnati  En- 
quirer. 


INGLENOOK, 


055 


BEE    HUNTING    IN  PENNSYLVANIA. 
BY  ORANGE   H.    HINKLE. 

As  bees  are  not  so  plenty  in  Pennsylvania  as  in 
some  western  States,  it  is  more  difficult  to  find 
them.  We  choose  a  clear,  calm  day  and  in  the 
morning  proceed  to  a  hill  where  we  set  bait,  us- 
ing honey  and  oil  of  myrrh,  or  some  other  oil  with 
strong  scent  to  draw  the  bees.  If  this  will  not 
bring  them  we  burn  a  few  combs,  which  is  sure  to 
bring  them.  Soon  one  will  come,  then  two,  then 
four  or  five,  until  there  are  a  number  of  them.  Aft- 
er we  get  a  course,  we  take  sulphur  and  drop  a  lit- 
tle on  one  bee,  and  when  it  leaves  we  time  it  to  see 
about  how  far  it  goes.  Now  we  close  the  bait  box, 
keeping  some  of  the  bees  in  it,  and  go  to  another 
hill  and  open  it,  getting  a  course  from  that  place. 
If  the  two  courses  are  at  different  angles  you  are 
almost  sure  to  find  the  bee  where  the  two  courses 
come  to  a  point.  For  example  take  a  triangle.  The 
two  courses  being  from  the  two  points  opposite 
the  base  line,  come  together  at  the  top. 

They  ^re  found  in  nearly  all  kinds  of  trees  that 
grow  here ;  and  are  from  ten  to  fifty  feet  above  the 
ground.  They  go  into  the  tree  through  small  knot 
holes  or  cracks  caused  by  lightning  or  storm.  How 
do  .you  capture  them,  asks  some  one?  Well,  we 
wait  till  the  sun  has  set ;  and  then  we  take  an  axe 
and  generally  three  times  as  many  buckets  as  the 
honey  will  fill  and  proceed  to  the  tree.  After  fell- 
ing it  we  cut  a  hole  in  where  the  bees  are,  and  by 
that  time  the  bees  are  cross  and  are  flying  in  every 
direction.  Now  the  Pennsylvania  bee  hunter  does 
not  bother  with  mosquito  netting  or  anything  else 
to  protect  his  face  (which  is  the  proper  way),  but 
he  trusts  in  his  cigar  and  the  biting  of  his  tongue. 
So  he  ventures  to  get  the  honey,  watching  carefully 
for  the  queen  ;  and  as  his  nose  is  the  largest  pro- 
jection on  his  face  it  is  sure  to  get  the  first  dab, 
which  almost  knocks  him  over.  But  he  is  bound 
to  win  ;  soon  he  gets  the  queen  and  putting  it  into 
the  hive  the  bees  follow  very  rapidly  and  in  a  few 
hours  the  majority  will  be  captured.  By  this  time 
some  bees  have  eaten  a  great  amount  of  honey  and 
crawl  around  over  the  ground.  Suddenly  the  old 
hunter  jumps  a  tremendous  height  and  pulls  up  his 
pant  leg  to  find  the  bee  about  his  ankle  somewhere. 
I  have  had  this  experience  and  it  is  as  good  as  an 
electrical  shock.  The  hive  is  left  at  the  tree  over 
night  and  in  the  morning  it  is  wrapped  in  a  sheet 
and  brought  home,  and  the  bees  go  to  work.  Gen- 
erally from  four  to  five  pounds  of  honey  and  two 
large  buckets  of  comb  are  procured  from  a  single 
tree. 

Bakers  Summit,  Pa. 


TRANSIT    IN    LONDON. 


This  metropolis  of  the  world  has  more  than  six 
and  one-half  million  souls.  Of  course  when  we 
talk  about  millions  it  is  an  incomprehensible  thing. 
The  only  way  we  can  think  of  it  is  to  endeavor 
to  think  of  a  single  thousand  and  then  try  to  imag- 
ine a  thousand  times  that  number,  and  then  multi- 
ply it  by  the  number  of  millions  you  wish  to  think 
of. 

Well,  six  and  one-half  millions  of  souls ;  where 
do  they  live,  and  what  do  they  all  do,  and  how  do 
they  get  from  one  place  to  another?  In  trying  to 
solve  this  problem,  the  officers  of  the  great  munici- 
pality have  first  placed  the  belt  of  suburban  train 
services  and  the  great  quantity  of  depots  for  the 
accommodation  of  the  public.  And  there  is  an  al- 
most innumerable  quantity  of  street  cars  running 
hither  and  thither  through  the  broad,  straight 
streets.  These  street  cars  are  electric,  cable  and 
horse  cars.  There  are  ancient  and  modern  styles, 
but  with  all  these  styles  every  single  one  which  the 
Nookman  has  ever  seen  was  double  decked.  That 
is,  for  first-class  passengers,  you  ride  inside  the  car, 
and  for  half  price  you  ride  on  top  of  the  car  where 
nice  seats  are  provided  which,  in  good  weather,  is 
the  more  desirable  place. 

On  the  crooked  and  narrow  street,  and  the  streets 
toward  the  corporation  line,  we  find  omnibuses, 
cabs  and  cabriolets  which  assist  the  street  cars  in 
the  surface  transit.  These  omnibuses,  like  the 
street  cars,  are  double  decked.  Passengers  make 
their  ascsnt  by  means  of  a  narrow,  spiral  stairway 
at  the  rear  of  the  vehicle.  As  the  city  develops, 
the  means  of  transit  are  found  to  be  entirely  inade- 
quate to  the  demand.  So  a  few  years  ag'o  the  sub- 
terranean systems  were  installed.  The  regular  sys- 
tem of  cars,  of  no  inconsiderable  size,  penetrates 
the  earth  in  a  regular  network  about  thirty  feet 
beneath  the  surface.  This  is  quite  convenient  to 
the  working  class  of  people,  although  it  is  a  more 
dirty  way  of  traveling  because  the  smoke  does  not 
have  a  chance  to  escape,  and  in  several  ways  it 
makes  it  unpleasant.  And  now  in  the  last  few 
years  the  higher  class  of  people,  and  those  who  re- 
quire several  trips  up  and  down  through  the  city, 
have  asked  for  their  accommodation  that  a  subter- 
ranean system  be  made,  and  to  meet  this  demand 
the  two-penny  (tuppany)  tube  has  been  construct- 
ed, and  to  the  visitors  this  two-penny  (tuppany) 
tube  is  quite  a  sight.  It  is  ninety  feci  under  the 
ground. 

When  you  wish  to  take  a  ride  upon  it,  you  pass 
along  the  street  car  until  you  come  to  a  building 
made  of  beautiful  white  bricks  which  are  glazed. 
On  entering  the  door,  you  step  to  the  ticket   win- 


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THE      INGLENOOK, 


dow,  hand  the  gentleman  two  pence,  which  is  four 
cents  in  our  money,  and  he  gives  you  no  ticket  in 
return  but  passes  you  through  the  door  into  an 
adjoining  room  which,  afterwards,  you  find  to  be 
an  elevator.  When  the  hand  of  the  clock  is  ex- 
actly on  the  dot,  your  elevator  drops  beneath  you 
like  a  shot,  and  you  find  yourself  ninety  feet  below 
in  the  beautiful  station  made  of  these  same  white, 
glazed  bricks.  Everything  is  scrupulously  clean 
and  neat.  The  tube  in  itself  is  double  and  is  only 
large  enough  for  the  passage  of  a  single  train.  The 
whole  thing  is  moved  by  electricity  and  not  one 
speck  of  dirt  of  any  sort.  When  the  train  stops  at 
one  of  these  stations  the  gates  open  automatically. 
The  people  who  board  the  cars  enter  one  door, 
and  they  who  make  their  exit  from  the  cars  do  so 
from  the  other  end  of  the  car.  In  this  way  no  time 
in  loading  and  unloading  passengers  is  lost  un- 
necessarily. And  when  the  last  passenger  is  in,  a 
lever  is  moved,  and  the  gates  and  doors  are  all 
closed,  then  the  train  starts  and  shoots  through  the 
earth  like  an  airship  through  the  canopy  above. 
And  so  the  swerving  crowds  of  the  populace  of  the 
capital  city  of  the  world  are  carried  from  one  place 
to  another. 

A    STAPLE    INDUSTRY. 


In  these  days  when  the  world  is  studying  the  ques- 
tion of  how  to  satisfy  the  appetite,  the  niind  and 
heart,  we  often  find  new  features  rising  in  the  dif- 
ferent fields  which  at  first  attract  our  attention, 
and  later  become  very  commonplace  things.  A 
few  years  ago  when  we  were  studying  about  bet- 
ter means  of  transportation,  and  the  people  spoke 
about  men  and  women  riding  along  the  road  on 
two  wheels,  one  ahead  of  the  other,  it  was  spoken 
of  as  being  impossible.  We  said  something  about 
talking  miles  and  miles  over  a  wire,  and  only  a 
few  months  ago  we  have  been  guilty  of  giving 
birth  to  such  expressions  as  this,  "  that  the  airship 
is  an  impossibility."  And  here  comes  another 
thing  that  has  gone  beyond  the  experimental  stages 
and  has  settled  itself  down  to  be  a  real  article,  of 
commerce  with  which  the  Nook  family  may  be 
more  or  less  statistically  surprised. 

In  the  cities  of  St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis  we  find 
the  largest  frog  markets  in  the  world.  It  is  said 
by  one  of  the  exchanges  that  the  total  receipts  of 
the  last  year  of  all  frog  catchers  in  the  Stafe  of 
Minnesota  exceeded  over  half  a  million  legs,  which 
is  the  only  part  of  the  animal  used,  which  required 
the  massacre  of  more  than  two  million  frogs.  This 
new  industry  is  not  more  than  five  years  old  in  the 
city  of  Minneapolis.  It  is  older  than  in  some  of 
the  other  cities. 


It  is  very  probable  that  the  supply  of  the  South- 
ern cities  will  never  be  exhausted.  In  the  North 
the  frost  drives  them  into  their  winter  homes, 
but  in  the  South  the  seasons  are  much  longer.  It 
is  said  that  the  frogs  in  Minnesota  are  the  very 
best  produced,  and  the  best  thinkers  attribute  it 
to  this  fact,  that  the  State  has  over  ten  thousand 
fresh  water  lakes  where  these  animals  live  and 
have  their  nests.  The  frog  legs  are  purchased  by 
merchants  who  deliver  them  to  the  shippers  and 
then  they  are  distributed  throughout  the  States  ac- 
cording to  the  demand.  The  occupation  gives  em- 
ployment for  more  than  one  hundred  families  who 
make  a  good  living  all  the  year  round.  Demands 
come  flocking  in  for  Minnesota  frogs  from  the  At- 
lantic to  the  Pacific,  and  are  constantly  increas- 
ing. The  largest  demands  come  from  hotels  and 
restaurants  through  the  mining  districts. 

In  New  York  it  is  a  common  thing  to  see  Minne- 
sota frogs  catalogued  on  the  bill  of  fare  in  almost 
any  restaurant  or  hotel.  The  frog  catchers  live 
near  small  lakes  throughout  the  State  and  study 
the  nature  of  the  frog,  to  know  where  to  catch  him 
and  how  to  catch  him.  The  heaviest  catches  are 
in  the  fall  and  spring.  These  animals  breed  very 
fast  and  will  attain  to  full  size  in  three  months'  time. 
This  renders  the  supply  almost  inexhaustible. 
While  the  oyster  is  in  demand  only  for  a  season, 
the  frog  legs  are  good  the  year  round.  It  seems 
that  it  would  be  almost  impossible  as  far  north  as 
Minnesota  is,  when  the  ice  is  two  or  three  feet 
thick,  that  a  man  can  go  out  on  the  water  and  catch 
frogs,  and  yet  it  is  not  a  very  difficult  thing  to 
gather  ten  dollars'  worth  in  a  day.  A  man  who  is 
strictly  up  to  his  business  spends  many  a  sleepless 
hour  in  the  fall  of  the  year  watching  where  these 
frogs  nest,  which  aids  him  materially  in  scooping 
them  out  in  the  winter  when  he  cuts  the  ice  from 
over  them.  Sometimes  it  is  possible  for  him  to 
catch  as  many  as  a  thousand  in  one  of  these  nests. 
When  these  are  carefully  corralled  it  keeps  up  the 
supply  the  year  round  and  makes  the  market  a 
steady  one.  When  he  wishes  to  slaughter  some 
for  the  market  he  does  it  with  a  stick. 

This  occupation  requires  no  investment  of  capital 
whatever,  and  yet  he  realizes  from  three  to  ten 
dollars  a  day  for  the  time  he  is  employed  in  his 
occupation.  The  average  price  of  frog  legs  at 
Boston,  wholesale,  ranges  from  five  to  eight  cents 
a  dozen,  during  the  summer,  and  the  highest  is 
fifteen  cents  in  the  colder  months.  One  of  the  best 
hotels  in  New  York  has  a  standing  order  for  fifty 
dozen  per  day. 

No  possession  can  surpass  or  even  equal  a  good 
library. — Langford. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


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CHIROGRAPHY. 


RAISING    DISHRAGS. 


About  as  interesting  an  excursion  as  could  well  be 
thought  of  would  be  to  bring  the  whole  Nook 
family  to  the  office  of  the  Inglenook  and  then  have 
a  blackboard  large  enough  to  contain  the  auto- 
graphs of  every  single  Nooker.  What  an  inter- 
esting study  it  would  be  to  study  the  individual 
handwriting  of  each  one  of  us !  Has  it  ever  oc- 
curred to  you  that  handwriting  changes  styles 
and  fashions  just  like  clothing  and  customs  of  oth- 
er kinds?  Indeed,  within  the  last  fifteen  years, 
since  the  Nookman  was  in  the  schoolroom,  what  a 
wonderful  change  of  chirography  has  taken  place. 
In  the  correspondence  that  comes  to  this  office  we 
notice  that  young  girls  usually  write  in  large, 
round,  firm  characters,  while  a  surprising  number 
of  young  men  who  have  not  been  especially  trained 
to  any  clerkship,  and  struggling  between  several 
recognized  standards  of  good  masculine  handwrit- 
ing, produce  letters  of  a  nearly  childish  style  of 
penmanship.  But  it  is  supposed  in  these  periods 
of  youth  and  transition  there  will  be  more  or  less 
fascinating  suggestions  of  all  sorts. 

And,  too,  there  is  an  inexhaustible  interest  in  the 
study  of  handwriting,  from  the  point  of  view  of 
the  subtle  clairvoyant  interviewer  of  other  people's 
minds  and  methods.  The  manuscripts  of  the  most 
literary  men  that  come  to  this  office  to-day  are 
written  in  a  small  hand.  The  term  literary  man 
here  used  should  not  be  limited  to  the  producer 
of  pure  literature,  but  it  must  be  taken  in  its  most 
sweeping  connection.  In  that  case  there  will  be 
next  to  nothing  to  say,  especially  if  the  literature 
produced  was  restricted  to  that  which  is  generally 
imbibed  with  style. 

In  all  probabilities  the  typewriter  should  be  cred- 
ited for  a  good  deal  of  bad  penmanship.  It  matters 
not  how  well  a  man  may  know  the  principles  of 
penmanship,  or  music,  or  any  other  of  the  arts, 
but  it  requires  constant  practice  to  retain  or  even 
to  keep  perfection.  And,  too,  we  dare  say  that 
should  an  article  be  well  written  it  has  more  or 
less  lost  its  beauty  from  bad  spelling,  which  is  due 
to-day,  in  a  greater  or  less  degree,  to  our  phonetic 
methods  of  instruction. 

If  you  have  never  taken  any  special  pains  to 
study  the  chirography  of  people,  take  up  some  of 
your  old  correspondence  and  look  over  its  pages 
carefully.  Note  the  size  of  the  handwriting,  the 
slant  of  the  letters  and  the  peculiar  individuality  of 
each.  Compare  that  with  the  individual  as  you 
know  his  character  and  it  makes  one  of  the  most 
interesting  studies  that  you  can  pursue. 

Yes,  chirography  is  changing,  as  is  everything 
else  under  the  sun. 


A  novel  enterprise,  that  of  raising  dishrags,  is  be- 
ing exploited  by  a  number  of  Southern  California 
horticulturists,  who  received  the  inspiration  for  the 
scheme  from  Charles  Richardson,  whose  gardens  in 
Pasadena  are  becoming  famous  for  their  remarkable 
productions.  Mr.  Richardson  has  successfully 
raised  many  growths  new  to  American  soil,  and  this 
year  is  exceeding  all  his  previous  triumphs  by  rais- 
ing thousands  of  dishrags. 

Last  year  Mr.  Richardson's  stringbeans,  which 
measured  forty-three  inches  in  length,  created  a  stir, 
but  dishrag  vines,  which,  with  their  pendant  dish- 
rags, twine  about  orange  trees,  palms,  evergreens 
and  peach  trees,  and  peek  in  at  the  two-story  win- 
dows, bid  fair  to  win  the  championship  from  the 
beans. 

These  dishrags,  or  vegetable  sponges,  as  they  are 
sometimes  called,  are  indigenous  to  Africa,  but  now 
it  has  been  demonstrated  that  they  will  thrive  in 
this  country,  and  they  are  bound  to  become  a  popu- 
lar production. 

The  graceful,  well-foliaged  vines  are  not  only  or- 
namental, but  they  bear  in  profusion  a  fibrous 
sponge  that  is  eminently  useful  for  bathing,  as  well 
as  for  scouring  pans  and  kettles.  Imagine  picking 
dishrags  in  one's  garden  just  as  one  would  pick 
blackberries,  or  imagine  having  vines  all  laden  with 
dishrags  clambering  over  one's  kitchen  windows,  so 
that  all  one  needs  to  do  is  to  stretch  out  an  arm  and 
pull  one  in.  Such  an  arrangement  would  be  much 
easier  than  going  to  the  ragbag  or  buying  dishrags 
at  stores. 

These  curious  vegetables  assume  the  form  and 
appearance  of  cucumbers,  and  hang  on  the  vines 
until  their  green  coats  become  brown  and  dry  like 
parchment.  At  this  stage  they  are  ready  to  har- 
vest. After  they  are  picked  the  brown  coat  is  re- 
moved, and  an  extremely  strong  and  compact  fib- 
rous sponge  is  revealed.  Through  the  center  of 
this  sponge,  in  three  lengthwise  compartments,  are 
many  black  seeds  which  shake  out  easily.  In  the 
Pasadena  garden  these  sponges  have  averaged  eight 
inches  in  length. — National  Tribune. 

*   *   * 
PARTNERSHIP. 


In  southern  Germany  a  man  has  the  following  in- 
scription on  the  front  of  his  humble  domicile: 
"Dieses  Hans  geh'ori  Gott  11  ml  inir"  (This  house 
belongs  to  God  and  me).  It  would  be  infinitely 
better  if  some  Americans  would  go  partners  with 
the  same  Capitalist. 


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THE      INGLENOOK. 


JOAN    OF    ARC. 


BY    MAGGIE    G0BLE. 

Joan  of  Arc,  the  maid  of  Orleans,  was  born  in 
the  village  of  Domremy  in  1412.  She  was  taught 
to  sew  and  spin,  but  could  neither  read  nor  write. 
Her  parents  were  poor  and  she  was  a  peasant  girl 
in  a  country  inn.  She  was  accustomed  to  ride  her 
master's  horse  to  the  watering-place  and  to  do  the 
things  which  in  most  cases  fall  to  the  share  of  men. 
She  was  distinguished  by  her  modest,  industrious 
and  gentle  ways.  She  always  attended  her  church. 
Joan,  like  most  people  then,  believed  in  fairies  and 
when  rambling  in  the  woods,  believed  them  to  come 
from  the  bushes.  This  was  more  especially  true  of 
the  ignorant  classes. 

When  about  thirteen  years  of  age  she  believed 
she  saw  a  flash  of  light,  and  heard  an  unearthly 
voice,  which  commanded  her  to  be  modest,  and  at- 
tend to  her  religious  duties.  When  eighteen  she 
imagined  she  heard  a  voice  which  commanded  her 
to  go  and  fight  for  the  king.  At  first  she  hesitated, 
and  said  that  she  knew  nothing  about  soldiers, 
but  at  last  she  declared  to  her  parents  that  she  was 
going.  They,  of  course,  objected,  and  tried  to  mar- 
ry her  to  an  honest  man  in  the  village. 

She  succeeded  in  making  her  way  to  Baudri- 
court,  stopping  at  every  church  she  passed  to  pray, 
and  informed  him  of  her  errand.  After  some  hesi- 
tation the  governor  furnished  her  with  attendants, 
and  sent  her  to  Chinon,  where  Charles  and  his  little 
court  resided.  When  Joan  came  into  the  court  she 
at  once  pointed  out  the  king  from  among  the  court- 
iers which  surrounded  him,  and  on  going  to  him  re- 
lated her  heavenly  mission.  At  first  he  was  in 
doubt  of  her  real  call,  and  demanded  some  evi- 
dences of  her  inspiration,  whereupon  she  told 
him  a  secret  which  he  knew  was  known  to  no  one 
but  himself,  and  described  and  demanded  to  be 
armed  with  a  certain  sword  which  was  in  the 
church  of  St.  Catharine  of  Flerbois,  which  they 
knew  she  had  never  seen.  She  was  attired  in  a 
martial  dress,  mounted  on  a  warhorse,  and  placed 
at  the  head  of  the  army  with  the  sword  which  she 
had  desired  to  be  brought  her.  Men  followed  her 
that  would  follow  no  one  else. 

On  account  of  her  youthful  gladness  of  counte- 
nance, and  her  graceful  as  well  as  fearless  ways, 
she  was  admired  by  many.  She  set  out  for  Blois 
to  head  the  escort  of  a  force  which  was  about  to  be 
sent  to  the  relief  of  Orleans.  After  ordering  every 
man  in  the  army  to  confess  himself  before  march- 
ing, and  at  the  head  of  her  troops,  carrying  in  her 
hand   a   consecrated  banner,   which  was  a  picture  of 


the   Supreme   Being   grasping   the   earth,   she   pro- 
ceeded to  Orleans. 

In  April,  1429,  she  arrived  at  Orleans  and  ordered 
that  it -should  be  entered  on  the  side  of  Beansse. 
Dunois  knew  the  English  were  strongest  there,  and 
caused  the  other  side  of  the  river  to  be  taken,,  where 
the  English  were  the  weaker.  They  then  crossed 
the  river  in  boats,  entered  the  city,  defeated  the 
English,  and  on  May  4,  compelled  them  to  raise  the 
siege.  On  one  occasion  the  French  were  repulsed, 
and  Joan  received  an  arrow  in  the  neck,  but  she  led 
back  the  French,  and  would  hardly  wait  for  the 
surgeon  to  dress  her  wound.  They  overcame  the 
fort. 

She  succeeded  in  inducing  the  king  to  go  with 
hef  to  Rheims,  accompanied  by  an  army  of  twelve 
thousand  men,  where  he  would  be  crowned  king. 
Jul}',  1429,  she  saluted  the  king  at  Rheims  with 
many  tears. 

She  then  declared  her  mission  ended  and  wanted 
to  go  home,  but  Count  Dunois  persuaded  her  to 
stay.  Soon  afterward  she  was  captured  and  cast 
into  prison,  where  she  remained  many  days ;  then 
she  was  taken  before  the  judge  at  Rouen.  She 
defended  herself,  and  declared  that  she  would  do 
the  same  thing  again  if  she  had  the  opportunity, 
and  again  she  was  thrown  into  prison  without 
other  food  than  bread  and  water.  Her  captors 
caused  her  suit  of  male  attire  to  be  taken  from  her. 
When  placed  within  her  reach,  as  soon  as  she 
saw  it  she  proceeded  to  put  it  on  again.  No  soon- 
er had  she  done  this  than  her  captors  rushed  upon 
her,  and  she  was  bound  to  a  stake  in  the  market- 
place. She  made  a  cross  from  one  of  the  soldier's 
staves,  placed  it  on  her  breast,  and  was  burned  to 
death  as  a  witch. 

There   are   over   three   hundred   statues   of    this 
noble  character  in  France  unto  this  day.    . 
<•  *   * 
SWISS    GIRLS    TO    SERVE    THE    STATE. 


Switzerland  is  to  be  the  first  country  in  the  world 
where  young  girls  are  to  serve  a  term  in  the  service 
of  the  state,  as  young  men  of  other  countries  are 
compelled  to  serve  in  the  army.  The  Swiss  govern- 
ment is  seriously  thinking  of  adopting  the  plan  of  a 
female  physician  of  Zurich,  who  advocates  that  all 
unmarried  girls  be  compelled  by  the  state  to  work 
one  year  in  the  hospitals  without  any  remuneration. 
She  claims  that  not  only  would  the  hospitals  be 
benefited,  but  that  the  girls  themselves  would  get 
a  training  which  would  be  of  great  value  to  them 
in  after  life. 

Be  economical  in  expenditure,  always  living  with- 
in vour  income. 


THE-      INGLENOOK. 


659 


BAALBEK. 


Baalbek  is  one  of  the  most  wonderful  ruins  of  the 
world.  Perhaps  no  ruins  can  exceed  it  in  magnif- 
icence with  the  exception  of  Karnac  or  Palmyra.  The 
word  Baalbek  is  the  same  as  the  Greek  word  Heliop- 
olis,  which  means  "  The  City  of  the  Sun."  The  great 
structure  is  about  1,000  feet  in  length  and  not  quite 
as  broad  as  long.  It  was  built  by  the  worshipers  of 
Baal,  somewhere  between  the  first  and  fourth  cen- 
turies. In  all  probability  it  was  an  attempt  at  the  re- 
production of  what  Solomon  had  built  at  the  time 
when  he  built  the  great  temples  at  Jerusalem  and  Tad- 
mor  in  the  wilderness,  as  referred  to  in  the  Scrip- 
tures. Baalbek  was  destroyed  by  the  Arabs  in  the 
seventh  century.  Under  Constantine  some  of  the  idol 
temples  were  converted  into  Christian  churches.  The 
City  of  the  Sun  is  a  colossal  affair  and  worthy  to  be 
numbered  as  a  masterpiece  of  architecture.  Alto- 
gether there  are  niches,  exedras  or  alcoves  for  two 
hundred  and  fifty  idol  gods. 

In  the  great  pantheon  proper,  which  is  a  rectangle, 
there  were  twelve  gods, — ^six  males  and  six  females, 
the  same  as  in  the  Pantheon  at  Rome.  Near  the  cen- 
ter of  this  wonderful  quadrangle  is  a  magnificent  altar 
thirty  feet  square  and  seven  feet  high,  built  of  huge 
stones,  with  an  immense  laver  on  either  side,  where 
sacrifices  were  made  to  the  gods  of  the  temple. 
Around  the  Temple  of  the  Sun  were  ninety  columns 
seventy  feet  high  and  seven  feet  in  diameter.  These 
granite  columns  were  brought  from  Assouan,  Egypt, 
and  are  truly  magnificent.  They  stand  on  pedestals 
much  larger  than  the  columns  themselves  and  their 
capitals  are  beautifully  engraved  by  a  master  hand. 
The  cornice  shows  the  architectural  skill  of  that  won- 
derful age  and  is  most  colossal. 

To  the  south  of  this  wonderful  building  is  the  temple 
of  Bacchus  which  is  surrounded  by  fifty  of  these  gi- 
gantic columns,  sixty  feet  high  and  six  feet  in  di- 
ameter. In  both  of  these  temples  the  workmanship 
displayed  on  these  columns  is  something  to  be  coveted 
by  our  modern  mechanics.  The  separate  parts  of  each 
column  are  so  neatly  joined  together  that  the  casual 
observer  cannot  tell  where  one  ends  and  the  other 
begins.  Not  all  of  these  columns  are  standing.  The 
reader  will  have  to  imagine  himself  standing  amid  the 
acres  of  ruins.  At  the  rear  of  this  great  court,  where 
the  altar  and  the  lavers  are,  is  the  temple  of  Jupiter ; 
in  approaching  this  place  there  are  thirteen  immense 
steps  leading  up  to  the  colonnade.  In  this  vast  struc- 
ture there  are  huge  stones  that  commonly  measure 
thirty  feet  long,  fourteen  feet  wide  and  nine  feet  high, 
and  on  one  occasion  the  Nookman  actually  measured 
one  which  was  lying  on  the  ground,  which  was  seven- 
ty-two feet  long,  sixteen  feet  wide  and  fourteen  feet 


high,  and  took  a  photograph  of  it.  This  one,  how- 
ever, does  not  lie  within  the  walls  of  the  great  struc- 
ture, but  lies  just  outside  of  the  quarry,  nearly  a 
half  mile  from  the  temple  itself,  and  probably  was  nev- 
er used  by  the  workmen.  How  these  immense  stones 
were  ever  conveyed  to  the  place  of  building  is  a  ques- 
tion that  perhaps  will  never  be  answered.  One  thing 
is  true,  many  thousand  workmen  must  have  been  em- 
ployed in  the  erection  of  such  a  huge  structure. 

In  the  front  building  is  a  hexagonal  court  which, 
too,  is  surrounded  by  smaller  columns  not  so  high.  In 
front  of  the  hexagonal  court  is  a  great  portico,  and 
in  front  of  the  portico  is  a  large  pair  of  stone  steps 
all  carved  from  one  piece  of  stone.  The  entire  city  of 
temples  is  surrounded  by  a  wall.  And  if  this  present 
building  compares  at  all  favorably  with  the  great  city 
of  temples  that  was  built  by  Solomon  in  his  day,  it 
is  no  wonder  that  in  the  time  of  Elijah  it  took  450  men 
to  minister  in  this  great  place  of  worship,  and  that 
there  was  sufficient  room  in  the  various  exedras  to 
contain  all  the  gods  of  myth  and  idolatry. 

In  1759  an  earthquake  made  ruins  of  the  fortifi- 
cations of  the  Arabs  into  which  a  great  temple  had 
been  converted.  Thousands  of  stone  cannon  balls  are 
found  there  now  in  the  excavations  that  are  being 
made  by  Germans.  The  principal  work  of  the  exca- 
vation was  completed  twenty  years  ago,  but  a  little 
was  still  going  on  on  the  fifteenth  day  of  October,  1902, 
when  your  editor  visited  that  place. 

If,  in  the  days  when  the  true  religion  was  in  the 
background,  and  idolatry  was  at  its  height,  people  were 
taught  to  make  sacrifices  and  expend  the  amount  of 
money  that  it  must  have  required  to  complete  such 
structures  as  above  described,  how  much  more  ought 
people  to  do  to-day  when  surrounded  by  free  religious 
liberty,  modern  invention  and  enlightenment  of  the 
twentieth  century  and  widespread  effort  to  evangelize 
the  world. 

•2*  *   * 

HAPPINESS    FROM    WITHIN. 


BY    ELLA    WHEELER    WILCOX. 

How  much  happiness  are  you  getting  out  of  life? 
How  much  enjoyment  of  the  days  of  each  week? 
You  had  better  stop  and  ask  yourself  this  question. 
If  you  are  merely  getting  through  the  present,  with 
an  idea  of  being  happy  in  the  future.  I  fear  you  are 
making  a  mistake. 

Happiness  is  a  habit.  It  is  influenced  more  or 
less  by  environment  or  circumstances,  to  be  sure. 
and  it  can  be  shadowed  temporarily  by  sorrow  and 
augmented  by  good  fortune:  but  in  the  main  hap- 
piness must  come  from  within  you. 

Unless   you    obtain    some   happiness     every     day 


66o 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


now,  you  will  not  find  it  on  any  to-morrow.  If 
you  are  restless,  despondent,  irritable,  and  discon- 
tented, from  dawn  till  bedtime,  and  wear  the  hours 
away  in  an  impatient  waiting  for  better  times,  you 
are  forming  a  habit  which  will  pursue  you  when 
the  better  time  comes. 

I  know  what  I  am  talking  about.  I  have  seen  it 
proved  over  and  over  again.  You  are  building 
your  brain  cells  hour  by  hour,  day  by  day,  to  think 
a  certain  kind  of  thoughts,  and  no  change  of  exter- 
nal conditions  will  undo  this  work  which  you  are 
now  engaged  in.  Of  course  I  am  not  addressing 
people  suffering  from  some  great  loss  or  sorrow. 
Experiences  of  that  nature  must  wear  away.  They 
cannot  be  overcome  in  a  moment,  or  argued  out  of 
the  heart,  but  they  do  not  last — God  has  sent  time 
to  comfort  the  sorrowing. 

It  is  the  people  who  are  discontented  with  their 
-work,  and  with  their  environment,  whom  I  address, 
people  who  are  working  for  the  future,  and  hating 
the  present.  I  believe  in  a  progressive  discontent. 
It  is  a  means  of  growth  ;  but  I  believe  in  forming  a 
habit,  of  being  happy  about  SOMETHING  every 
day.  While  you  work  and  strive  to  change  your 
conditions,  look  around  you  and  find  a  cause  for 
enjoyment. 

Think  of  yourself  as  one  who  sets  forth  on  a 
journey  to  a  desired  goal.  Instead  of  shutting 
your  eyes  and  straining  forward  to  an  end,  open 
them  and  take  note  of  the  blue  sky,  the  green  world, 
the  birds,  the  children  and  the  lovers  as  you  jour- 
ney along.  Be  glad  that  you  are  alive;  enjoy  the 
rainstorm;  take  pleasure  in  passing  a  word  with 
the  friends  you  encounter  and  sit  down  by  the 
roadside  and  converse  with  them  now  and  then. 
Say  to  yourself,  "  This  is  very  cozy  and  cheerful. 
I  will  be  happy  with  my  friend,"  and  all  the  time 
rejoice  that  you  have  a  goal  toward  which  you  are 
pressing. 

Get  something  out  of  the  journey  every  day, — 
some  hour  of  enjoyment,  and  even  if  some  accident 
prevents  you  from  reaching  your  dreamed-of  desti- 
nation, or  delays  you  long,  still  you  have  some 
golden  hours  of  pleasure  strung  upon  the  thread 
of  life.  And,  better  still,  you  have  formed  the 
HABIT  of  enjoyment — you  have  practiced  being 
happy!  And  when  you  DO  reach  your  goal  you 
will  know  how  to  appreciate  the  things  that  you 
have  longed  for. 

Do  not  tell  me  that  you  have  nothing  to  enjoy, 
nothing  to  be  glad  of  in  your  present ;  I  know  bet- 
ter. God  never  made  a  day  that  did  not  possess 
some  blessing  in  it  if  you  look  for  it.  LEARN  TO 
BE  HAPPY  while  you  strive  for  things  to  make 
you  happier. 


PEANUTS. 


It  is  the  custom  in  this  country,  especially  with  our 
boys  and  girls,  to  look  at  a  sack  of  peanuts  as  a  special 
incident  of  some  holiday,  and  it  is  ranked  along  with 
the  sugared  popcorn,  crackerjack,  ice  cream,  etc.,  and 
has  something  especially  to  please  our  organs  of  taste, 
but  with  no  other  value  worth  mentioning.  Dr.  Fur- 
binger  in  one  of  our  late  foreign  exchanges  writes 
a  letter  to  older  heads  on  the  peanut  question  and  in 
a  thoroughly  scientific  way  he  demonstrates  that  pea- 
nuts as  an  article  of  food  are  a  very  rich  treasure. 
They  contain  forty-seven  per  cent  albumen,  nineteen 
per  cent  fat  and  nonnitrogenous  extractive  matters. 
He  recommends  the  use  of  roasted  peanuts  in  the  form 
of  soup  and  mush,  something  like  the  Turks  in  Pales- 
tine use  roasted  pulse.  We  should  think  that  peanuts 
might  be  recommended  as  a  popular  article  of  food 
on  account  of  their  cheapness,  especially  among  the 
poorer  classes  of  people. 

Medical  men  say  they  are  a  splendid-  food  for  the 
corpulent  folk.  People  troubled  with  diabetes  and 
kidney  diseases  should  be  careful  in  using  too  much 
of  this  class  of  food.  But  it  is  a  failing  among  Amer- 
ican people,  especially  among  farmers,  that  we  eat 
too  much  animal  food.  And  it  is  a  glad  day  for  us 
when  we  can  add  one  more  item  to  the  list  of  good, 
nourishing  articles  of  diet  that  do  not  militate  against 
physical  health  and  necessitate  the  destruction  of  life. 

*   *   * 

DAY    DREAMS. 


BY   LULA    C.    MOHLEE. 

A  bright  sunny  summer  day,  a  girl  in  a  hammock, 
out  under  the  trees  with  the  sun  flecks  dancing  over 
her  face ;  a  book  half  slipping  from  her  listless  fingers, 
and  you  are  where  dreams  are  dreamed. 

If  you  are  a  girl  or  have  been  a  girl,  you  know 
what  it  is  to  dream  dreams.  I  mean  the  ones  this  girl 
is  dreaming.  If  you  have  never  been  a  girl  nor  never 
will  be,  perhaps  you  have  read  enough  about  these 
dreams  to  give  you  an  idea  of  what  they  are  like,  but 
you  will  miss  something,  and  nothing  in  your  ex- 
perience will  be  so  delightful. 

She  dreams  of  the  woman  she  means  to  be.  She 
may  never  attain  to  this  dream  lady,  but  she  does  not 
think  of  that  now,  for  she  is  dreaming  not  working 
to  that  noble  end  just  yet.  Give  her  time  and  she 
will  work  hard  enough.  The  dreaming  helps  her  to 
ideas  and  to  plans  how  to  gain  that  wonderful  woman- 
hood. 

Now  don't  be  surprised  if  that  vision  of  just  a 
"  mere  man  "  comes  before  her.  What  is  the  harm  ? 
He  isn't  a  "  common  "  man.  Will  he  ever  material- 
ize? 


the:    inglenook. 


66  i 


Then  she  thinks  of  the  time  when  the  home  as  they 
know  it  at  present  will  be  no  more.  It  brings  sadness 
to  take  the  place  of  the  pleasure  the  first  dreams  gave 
her  and  in  comes  the  thought  and  the  wish  that  she 
could  always  be  a  girl.  Such  a  happy  time.  She 
looks  almost  with  dread  in  her  heart  of  what  the  fu- 
ture may  bring. 

Sorrows  may  come  to  her,  and  the  pain  of  knowing 
that  she  is  a  failure  where  she  meant  to  be  so  much, 
and  of  her  hopes  that  will  nearly  all  prove  to  be  dead 
when  she  thought  she  had  almost  gained  them. 

This,  of  course,  is  the  darkest  side  and  it  does  not 
show  up  so  plainly  as  the  brightest  part,  but  it  looks 
dark  enough  to  make  her  wish  her  girlhood  would 
never  come  to  an  end. 

But  it  is  the  dreams  that  make  us  braver.  We  nev- 
er get  too  old  to  dream,  and  they  only  change  as  our 
condition  in  life  changes.  We  plan  for  ourselves  and 
we  plan  what  life  will  be  to  those  who  are  dear  to  us. 

The  hope  the  girl  has  of  having  her  dreams  come 
true  gives  her  courage  and  it  seems  when  we  have 
given  us  some  pleasure,  we  pay  for  it  by  having  to 
give  up  something  equally  as  dear.  But  every  girl 
can  wish  this  wish  "  three  times  three  "  and  put  her 
whole  soul  into  it,  and  wish  "  she  could  always  stay 
a  girl." 

To  always  stay  a  girl  is  an  impossibility  and  to 
those  to  whom  the  troubles  come — and  that  means  every 
one, — if  we  will,  it  will  help  us  nearer  our  dream  lady. 
How  is  that?  -By  not  allowing  them  to  crush  our 
spirits  nor  make  us  ill  and  cross,  and  by  keeping  the 
petty,  spiteful  thoughts  out  of  mind. 

Failures  and  sorrows  are  sure  to  come  and  the 
women  who  mean  the  most  to  the  world  are  those  that 
have  lived  close  to  the  meaning  of  it  all  and  have  come 
through  it  with  more  wisdom  than  they  had  before 
and  see  the  need  to  give  their  love  to  those  who  go 
through  the  same  burning  way.  Such  women  never 
falter,  for  they  know  it  softens  their  natures,  and  gives 
them  understanding  they  would  never  otherwise  gain. 

Leeton,  Mo. 

TWO    NEW    ELEMENTS. 


TiiiL  discovery  of  two  new  elements  by  an  Ameri- 
can chemist,  Prof.  Charles  Baskerville,  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  North  Carolina,  is  an  event  of  consider- 
able importance,  if  the  chemical  world  accepts  the 
work  of  this  scientist,  as  there  is  every  reason  to 
expect.  The  discovery  was  made  in  the  course  of 
an  extended  investigation  on  thorium,  an  element 
originally  discovered  by  Berzelius,  and  which,  in 
the  form  of  an  oxide,  is  an  important  constituent  of 
the  mantle  of  the  Welsbach  incandescent  gaslight. 
Thorium  is  a  radioactive  substance  of  large  atomic 


weight,  and  the  same  properties  are  also  possessed 
by  the  new  elements,  to  which  the  names  carolinium 
and  berzelium  have  been  assigned  by  Prof.  Basker- 
ville, the  former  in  honor  of  the  State  of  North 
Carolina  and  the  latter  for  the  famous  Swedish 
chemist.  Samples  have  been  submitted  to  Sir 
William  Crookes,  the  veteran  British  authority  in 
chemistry,  and  he  will  endeavor  to  verify  Basker- 
ville's  work,  which,  however,  has  been  received 
favorably  by  chemists  at  large.  With  every  dis- 
covery of  this  kind,  and  especially  of  the  recent 
radioactive  elements,  there  is  a  general  discussion 
as  to  the  nature  of  elements,  and  a  large  number  of 
scientists  now  believe  that  they  are  all  essentially 
the  same  substance,  but  existing  under  different 
conditions.  Nearly  all  the  elements  of  high  atomic 
weight  are  radioactive,  and  it  is  believed  that  they 
are  breaking  up  or  undergoing  some  change. — Cin- 
cinnati Enquirer. 

*   *   * 

SOMETHING    NEW. 


The  Chicago  papers  say  that  a  certain  Mr.  A.  B. 
Hulet  has  a  scheme  by  which  he  expects  to  furnish  the 
infantiles  of  Chicago  with  a  new  fresh  milk.  He 
wants  to  import  ten  thousand  goats  for  this  purpose. 
He  says  that  he  knows  it  is  better  than  cow's  milk  be- 
cause it  has  been  demonstrated  in  other  lands  and 
l'.e  demonstrated  this  fact  to  the  board,  which  he  met, 
by  a  book  which  was  in  his  possession,  showing  the 
superiority  of  goat's  milk.  He  proposes  to  introduce 
a  breed  of  goats  which  he  claims  is  the  best  kind  of 
breed  after  ten  years  of  expert  breeding. 

He  wants  that  the  Oriental  style  of  delivering  milk 
be  installed  with  one  exception.  In  the  Oriental  cities 
some  one  drives  these  goats  from  house  to  house  and 
they  are  milked  by  a  servant  of  the  hotel  or  residence, 
and  then  are  driven  on  to  the  next  place.  Now  he 
suggests  that  the  goats  be  driven  to  the  homes  of  the 
infants  and  the  children  be  permitted  to  nurse  from 
the  goat,  instead  of  drawing  the  milk  into  the  pail  and 
then  again  giving  it  to  the  infant.  He  says  this  plan 
;s  followed  in  some  countries  and  that  the  boards  of 
health  in  these  countries  report  a  low  death  rate.  It 
does  away  with  all  danger  of  the  milk  not  being  fresh, 
and  with  contamination  and  adulteration.  Just  to 
what  extent  Mr.  Hulet  and  his  allies  will  be  able  to 
get  the  mammas  of  Chicago  to  let  their  darlings  root 
around  among  the  long  hair  of  a  nanny,  run  the  risk 
of  being  butted  and  being  subject  to  the  derision  of 
the  public  is  a  problem  yet  to  be  solved,  but  it  is  evi- 
dent that  something  along  the  line  of  pure  foods,  and 
especially  for  our  children  in  the  large  cities,  ought  to 
be  obtained.  And  we  hail  with  joy  this  unique  ef- 
fort, whether  or  not  it  be  accomplished  in  full.  It 
may  be  a  stepping-stone  to  something  final. 


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DEADHEADS. 


One  day  when  we  were  sailing  from  Naples  to 
Beirut  we  chanced  to  lie  four  days  in  the  harbor  of 
Piraeus  on  a  broken  vessel.  After  supper,  while  lean- 
ing over  the  taft'rail,  beholding  the  beautiful  illumi- 
nation of  the  city  in  the  distance,  we  noticed  a  num- 
ber of  men  descending  from  a  small  boat  near  our 
vessel  into  the  water.  Each  of  them  had  an  electric 
light  in  his  hand,  which,  of  course,  was  connected  with 
our  vessel  by  a  cord  long  enough  to  reach  to  the  bot- 
tom of  the  harbor.  The  men  who  remained  in  the 
boat  continually  pumped  air  to  them.  We  knew  the 
vessel  had  been  broken  but  at  the  same  time  we  knew 
they  were  not  repairing  the  vessel.  Upon  inquiry  as 
to  what  these  men  were  doing  one  of  the  shipmen 
told  us  that  they  were  taking  shellfish  from  the  bottom 
of  the  vessel.  We  found  that  these  parasites  were 
clinging  to  the  bottom  of  that  vessel  to  the  extent  that 
we  could  not  make  more  than  two-thirds  the  speed 
that  was  scheduled  for  our  vessel  to  make. 

A  sailor  told  us  that  this  was  no  uncommon  thing, 
that  they  frequently  stopped  to  rid  themselves  of  these 
parasites.  No  man  can  see  such  things  as  these  with- 
out gaining  a  lesson  from  them.  Here  we  are  again 
on  the  ocean  of  life.  How  many  times  we  are  com- 
pelled to  stop  to  clean  the  parasites  from  our  skirts. 
It  begins  at  the  opening  up  of  life.  How  well  do  you 
remember  when  attending  public  school  that  your 
seatmate  would  hold  one  finger  on  the  multiplication 
table  and  another  on  the  problem,  and  perchance 
would   ask   you   how   much   was    seven   times   eight ! 


Here  the  little  fellow  shows  this  characteristic  by  not 
being  willing  to  pass  through  the  labor  to  achieve  the 
success  he  desires.  A  little  later  on  the  same  boy, 
when  he  becomes  a  teacher,  will,  in  spite  of  the  super- 
intendent or  examiner,  obtain  help  from  a  superior 
under  false  pretenses  in  order  to  get  a  certificate  of 
proficiency  so  that  he  may-  be  a  preceptor  in  some 
schoolroom,  to  turn  out  more  deadheads  like  himself. 
Or  it  may  be  that  this  boy,  instead  of  reaching  the 
pedagogue's  chair,  seeks  a  more  dependent  pursuit, 
tries  farming.  But  this  parasitical  characteristic  mani- 
fests itself.  Instead  of  keeping  up  all  his  fences,  trim- 
ming his  orchards,  fertilizing  his  land  to  improve  his 
crops,  he  would  rather  spend  his  time  in  criticising 
his  neighbors,  growling  about  hard  times,  and  making 
an  existence  and  nothing  more.  Of  course  he  bor- 
rows his  tools  from  his  neighbor,  is  never  able  to  buy. 
He  isn't  able  to  shelter  his  cattle,  never  paints  his 
buildings,  he  is  simply  riding  through  on  the  credit 
of  the  agriculturist  and  makes  the  community  look 
horrible  because  of  his  presence  in  it. 

These  parasites  sometimes  find  their  way  to  the 
pulpit.  Instead  of  drinking  deep  from  the  fountain 
of  the  Almighty  and  bearing  gems  of  truth  and  beauty 
by  the  score  to  his  anxious  hearers  and  receiving  the 
baptism  of  the  Holy  Spirit  as  a  crown  for  his  efforts, 
he  is  perfectly  satisfied  to  buy,  for  so  much  a  dozen,  his 
porous  counterfeits  and  palm  them  off  to  his  congre- 
gation at  a  thousand  dollars  a  year.  He  does  not 
mind  receiving  compliments  for  somebody  else's  hard 
labor, — a  literary  thief,  and  a  religious  parasite. 

It  is  a  remarkable  fact  that  our  society  must  have  its 
life-blood  drained  from  its  veins  by  these  detestable 
deadheads.  All  that  is  necessary  to  see  some  of  these 
social  enemies  is  just  to  place  yourself  on  the  corner 
of  the  street  where  every  storebox  is  loaded  and  listen 
to  the  trend  of  the  conversation.  Not  a  respectable 
character  in  the  community  escapes  their  vile  tongues. 
The  man  who  makes  a  success  in  that  neighborhood  in 
any  line  of  life  stands  no  more  chance  for  escape  of 
derision  and  ridicule  by  them  than  the  splinters  on  the 
box  do  of  being  whittled  by  their  jackknives. 

These  fellows  say  that  the  world  owes  them  a  liv- 
ing. They  are  simply  social  parasites,  like  a  louse  on 
a  hog's  back  or  a  flea  on  a  dog,  or  a  prodigal  son 
on  the  truss  rods  of  the  freight  car,  or  the  man  waiting 
for  a  handout  at  the  back  door,  or  the  Christian 
who  only  wants  the  cloak  of  the  church  and  nothing 
more.  These,  and  all  others  of  a  similar  character, 
are  nothing  more  than  the  shellfish  are.  They  are 
impeding  the  progress  of  the  old  ship  of  state,  the  old 
ship  of  Zion,  and  the  ship  of  the  commonwealth. 

Dear  Nooker,  are  you  willing  to  be  classed  with 
these  deadheads  ?  Do  not  let  it  ever  be  said  of  one 
of  our  family  that  he  is  marked  a  deadhead.     Do-  not 


THE      INGLE  NOOK. 


663 


be  tagged  that  way.  Do  not  be  satisfied  with  slip- 
ping through,  escaping  by  the  skin  of  your  teeth.  Do 
not  float  down, — only  dead  fish  go  that  way.  Get 
up,  stand  up,  stay  up,  be  a  social  factor,  amount  to 
something,  do  not  always  be  limping  around  on 
crutches.  Whenever  you  see  a  man  carrying  a  cane 
it  is  evidence  that  he  is  lame  somewhere,  either  in  his 
limbs  or  in  his  head.  Do  not  allow  yourself  to  at- 
tract attention  by  your  inactivity.  Do  not  compel 
your  friends  to  tell  the  untruth  in  your  epitaph  after 
your  departure. 

JUST    A    MINUTE. 


The  other  day  the  Nookman  was  in  Chicago  and 
while  calling  upon  a  certain  business  man  there,  he 
saw  a  notice  on  his  desk  which  read  as  follows :  "  For 
every  minute  you  detain  me  during  business  hours  I 
must  work  one  minute  overtime."  Ah,  pooh! 
What's  a  minute?  How  often  you  see  men  stand  by 
a  fence  and  talk  for  five,  ten,  or  fifteen  minutes,  which 
may  not  be  at  all  necessary  to  themselves  or  the  gen- 
eral public.  Again  it  happens  that  business  men, 
those  who  especially  ought  to  know  better,  waste  pre- 
cious time  in  loitering  around  when  at  that  very  mo- 
ment they  should  have  been  looking  after  the  best  in- 
terests of  the  house.  Young  men  and  women  are  apt, 
for  want  of  knowledge  of  the  value  of  time,  often 
carelessly  to  toss  away  the  moments  of  incalculable 
value  which  in  after  years  they  should  redeem  at  a 
high  premium  were  it  at  all  possible.  How  often  have 
you  heard  the  expression,  "Just  a  minute"?  Dear 
Nooker,  do  you  realize  what  you  ask?  Did  you  ever 
stop  to  think  what  a  minute  is  worth  to  the  world  ? 
Here  are  a  few  carefully  selected  statistics  that  will 
give  you  a  faint  idea  what  is  going  on  on  this  little, 
insignificant  planet  which  we  call  our  home.  Here  is 
what  happens  in  a  minute  in  the  United  States : 

A  ray  of  light  travels  188,000  miles. 

The  United  States  uses  the  telephone  5,950  times. 

The  lowest  musical  tone  creates  990  vibrations. 

The  highest  musical  tone  reaches  2,228,000  vibra- 
tions. 

A  fast  train  travels  a  mile. 

A  street  car  goes  32  rods. 

A  fast  trotting  horse  covers  150  rods. 

A  pedestrian  walks  about  16  rods. 

There  are  925  pounds  of  tobacco  raised,  6.773  cigars 
made,  and  2,292  cigarettes  disappear  in  smoke. 

We  travel  1,086  miles  on  our  journey  around  the 
sun. 

Six  hundred  pounds  of  wool  grow. 
•   We  dig  61  tons  of  anthracite  coal,  and  200  tons  of 
bituminous  coal. 


Twelve  tons  of  pig  iron  are  mined. 
,  The  shops  turn  out  three  tons  of  steel  rails. 

Our  country  makes  fifteen  kegs  of  nails. 

Twelve  bales  of  cotton  come  from  the  field. 

Sixty-six  dollars  in  gold  is  dug  from  the  earth. 

Sixty  souls  are  born,  and  sixty  have  passed  over 
the  river. 

If  each  person  in  the  United  States  would  lose  a 
minute,  there  would  be  lost  over  152  years,  or  more 
than  have  elapsed  since  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence. 

But  it  takes  about  five  hours  to  read  all  the  good 
things  in  a  single  Inglenook. 
*  4*  * 
FALSE    FACES. 


False  faces,  as  a  rule,  are  used  to  mask  the  features 
of  someone  to  make  him  irrecognizable.  As  a  rule,  of 
course,  they  are  used  in  sport.  Sometimes  bad  men 
use  them  as  a  means  of  shielding  their  devilishness. 
But  there  are  cases  in  this  world  where  angels  are 
known  to  wear  them  to  throw  a  mantle  over  their 
graces  and  virtues  that  are  given  to  the  world.  The 
Good  Book  tells  us  that  it  is  possible  to  entertain 
angels  unawares.  Experience  has  taught  us  that  it  is 
impossible  to  know  some  people  until  you  have  thor- 
oughly learned  them  by  the  closest  intimate  life. 

Here  comes  an  example  from  Washington  City  of 
one  of  these  ministering  spirits  who  we  have  reasons 
co  believe  is  guided  by  the  Almighty  Hand.  The 
District  Commissioners  of  Columbia  say  that  about  a 
year  ago  a  certain  man,  whose  name  the}-  are  bound  to 
withhold,  ordered  an  ice  company  to  furnish  all  of  the 
worthy  poor  .with  ice,  and  all  last  summer  the  poor  of 
our  Capitol  city  enjoyed  one  of  the  luxuries  of  the 
wealthy.  No  doubt  in  many  instances  it  helped  to 
drive  away  the  clouds  from  many  a  humble  domicile. 
Such  a  philanthropic  act  as  this  causes  joy  in  Heaven. 
And  again  the  corridors  above  were  made  to  ring 
with  angelic  strains  the  other  day,  when  the  same  man 
came  to  the  same  company  for  the  same  purpose  that 
he  did  last  year.  And  the  poor  are  to  be  made  happy 
this  year.  One  of  the  admirable  qualities  of  this 
lovely  character  is  that  he  will  under  no  circumstances 
allow  the  world  to  put  his  name  in  gold  letters  or  cold 
type,  or  on  blazing  circulars.  He  prefers  to  let  the 
angels  record  it  above. 


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THE      INGLENOOK. 


CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


DEATH  OF  DR.  THEODORE  HERZL. 


Dr.  Theodore  Herzl,  the  noted  author,  and  the 
father  of  the  Jewish  Palestine  ptan,  died  July  third  at 
Vienna.  He  was  one  of  the  men  of  this  world  that 
dared  to  let  the  people  know  what  he  believed,  and  his 
life  corresponded  with  his  teachings.  He  was  a  strong 
advocate  of  the  Old  Testament  doctrine  that  the  Jews 
will  make  a  literal  return  to  Palestine. 

Dr.  Herzl  was  born  in  Budapest,  Austria,  May  2, 
i860.  There  he  was  graduated  from  the  high  school, 
and  in  1878  he  entered  the  law  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Vienna.  He  was  graduated  from  the  uni- 
versity, receiving  the  title  LL.  D.,  and  afterwards  prac- 
ticed law  in  Salzberg.  While  there,  an  appointment  as 
a  judge  was  offered  him  by  the  government  on  condi- 
tion that  he  would  accept  Christianity.  He  angrily 
rejected  the  offer,  and  soon  afterward  left  that  city. 
He  then  entered  journalism. 

From  1891  to  1895  Herzl  lived  in  Paris  as  the  cor- 
respondent of  the  Vienna  Neue  Freie  Prcsse.  In  1896 
he  went  to  London.  There  he  met  Zangwill  and  other 
Hebrew  writers,  and  there,  like  Mordecai  in  "  Daniel 
Deronda,"  he  began  to  dream  of  the  regeneration  of 
Israel.  In  the  same  year  he  was  appointed  one  of  the 
editors  of  the  Presse,  which  he  formerly  represented  at 
Paris.  In  1896  he  wrote  "  Die  Judenstadt,"  the  book 
which  made  him  known  among  his  people. 
*  *  * 
AN     INTERESTING    RELIC. 


In  a  room  of  the  National  Palace,  which  had  not 
been  opened  for  many  years,  is  an  interesting  relic,  evi- 
dently left  there  from  the  time  of  the  old  Museum  of 
the  Sovereigns.  It  is  nothing  less  than  the  charger  of 
the  great  Napoleon. 

The  horse,  which  the  Emperor  had  stuffed,  is  in 
excellent  condition  and  of  great  beauty. 

It  is  white,  with  brown  spots,  rather  small  and  is 
branded  on  the  lift  hip  with  an  "  N,"  surmounted  by 
the  imperial  crown. 

During  the  Second  Empire  this  horse  was  offered 
to  the  French  Government  by  the  Society  of  Natural 
History  of  the  City  of  Manchester.  The  offer  was  ac- 
cepted, but  until  now  the  whereabouts  of  this  interest- 
ing historic  relic  had  been  unknown. 
4*  4»  *J* 
LORD    CURZON'S    INSTALLATION. 


Dover,  England. — Lord  Curzon  of  Kedleston,  vice- 
roy of  India,  was  installed  as  a  lord  warden  of  the 
Cinque  ports,  with  all  the  customary  picturesque  cere- 
monial.    Dover  was  elaborately  decorated  with  flags 


in   honor  of  the  occasion  and   great  crowds  flock«d 
in  to  witness  the  quaint  and  interesting  proceedings. 

Lord  Curzon  first  made  a  triumphant  tour  of  the 
town  and  then  proceeded  to  Dover  castle,  at  the  en- 
trance of  which  he  was  welcomed  by  the  barons  of 
the  Cinque  ports  in  gorgeous  robes. 

A  procession  was  formed,  headed  by  the  mace-bear- 
ers and  bands  and  accompanied  by  all  the  local  notabil- 
ities, and  proceeded  along  a  troop-lined  route  through 
the  town  to  the  college  grounds,  where  the  installation 
ceremony,  which  dates  from  the  year  1265,  was  carried 
out.  The  castle  batteries  saluted  as  the  barons  of  the 
Cinque  ports  promised  allegiance  to  their  new  lord 
warden  and  admiral. 

*  *  * 

There  is  an  old  adage,  "  It  is  an  ill  wind  that  blows 
nobody  good."  Owing  to  the  Oriental  troubles  of  late, 
the  attention  of  the  world  has  been  upon  Russia  and  in 
some  measure  Russia  has  found  favor  in  the  eyes  of 
the  public.  Here  comes  the  knowledge  of  a  most  beau- 
tiful trait  of  character  that  tells  that  there  are  some 
hearts  in  Russia  which  know  the  value  of  kindness. 
Among  the  curious  things  that  arrest  the  attention  of 
the  traveler  in  Moscow,  which  is  one  of  their  largest 
cities,  is  the  absence  of  horsewhips.  There  is  a  law 
forbidding  the  use  of  whips  on  all  vehicles  whatsoever, 
and  the  excellent  condition  of  the  Russian  horses  is  a 
living  evidence  that  the  above  described  law  is  abso- 
lutely humane.  Nothing  can  exceed  the  beauty  of 
the  sleek,  well-groomed  horses  of  Moscow.  This 
thing  is  very  contrary  to  what  one  may  see  in  Paris. 
We  remember  very  distinctly  that  the  last  thing  we 
heard  on  going  to  sleep  and  the  first  thing  we  heard 
on  awakening  during  our  sojourn  in  the  first  city  of 
France  was  the  crack  of  the  driver's  whip. 

The  situation  in  Colorado  is  attracting  world-wide 
attention.  The  Colorado  governor  justifies  the  depor- 
tation of  men  and  other  unusual  proceedings  by  an 
opinion  delivered  by  the  Colorado  supreme  court,  in 
which  opinion  the  court  said  that  when  any  portion  of 
the  State  was  in  insurrection,  the  governor's  power  was 
supreme.  Many  thoughtful  citizens  express  great 
doubt  as  to  the  wisdom  of  the  course  adopted  by  the 
Colorado  governor;  but  those  who  approve  of  that 
course  point  to  the  destruction  of  the  lives  of  the  four- 
teen non-union  men,  together  with  other  lawless  acts 
which  they  charge  against  the  union  miners  and  they 
say  that  under  the  circumstances  strong  and  unusual 
measures  are  necessary  to  the  reestablishment  of  laws 
and  order.  Representatives  of  the  labor  unions,  how- 
ever, deny  that  they  are  at  all  responsible  for  this  law- 
lessness and  they  even  go  so  far  as  to  intimate  that 
the  destruction  of  the  Independence  depot  was  the 
work  of  detectives  in  the  employ  of  the  mine  owners. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


665 


Every  one  agrees  that  South  American  trade  is 
worth  cultivating,  and  the  Chicago  Tribune  directs  at- 
tention to  the  fact  that  while  Germans  and  Englishmen 
seem  to  know  how  to  cultivate  it,  the  Americans  do  not. 
The  Tribune  concludes :  "  It  ought  to  be  easier  to 
drum  up  customers  in  Argentina  or  Brazil  than  in 
China,  but  apparently  it  is  not.  There  is  no  difficulty 
about  selling  goods  to  Mexicans,  but  there  is  when  it 
comes  to  selling  them  to  Chileans  or  Venezuelans. 
The  larger  trade  with  Mexico  is  due  to  the  extension 
of  the  American  railroad  system  into  that  country.  It 
may  be  that  the  Panama  canal  will  stimulate  commer- 
cial intercourse  between  the  United  States  and  the 
States  on  the  west  coast  of  South  America,  but 
without  the  canal  that  intercourse  should  be  more  ex- 
tensive than  it  is.  The  slow  growth  of  American  trade 
with  the  southern  half  of  this  hemisphere  is  inexpli- 
cable and  a  little  mortifying. 
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There  certainly  are  some  big  holes  in  the  bottom  of 
the  ocean,  and  in  all  probability  the  depressions  of  the 
surface  of  the  earth  that  are  submarine  are  greater  than 
the  highest  mountains  that  we  have  above  the  surface 
of  the  earth.  This  was  vividly  demonstrated  a  few 
days  ago  near  the  island  of  Guam.  The  men  in  sur- 
veying a  cable  route  from  Honolulu  to  Manila  made 
the  deepest  sounding  yet  on  record.  They  record 
5,269  fathoms,  which  in  our  measurement  is  31,614 
feet,  which  lacks  only  sixty-six  feet  of  being  six  miles. 
This  is  more  than  two  thousand  feet  greater  than  the 
altitude  of  Mt.  Everest,  the  highest  mountain  in  the 
world.  If  the  water  were  drawn  from  the  ocean  and 
we  could  stand  above  it  and  gaze  down  into  the  depths 
and  then  in  turn  ascend  the  highest  mountain  we  prob- 
ably could  more  ably  appreciate  the  handiwork  of  the 

great  Creator. 

*    «J*   ♦ 

It  is  very  difficult  to  get  the  very  best  information 
concerning  the  war  in  the  Orient.  The  Japanese  claim 
to  be  closing  in  on  Hai-Cheng  from  the  east  and  south, 
and  think  they  will  soon  be  in  possession  of  another 
prize ;  while  the  Russians  claim  that  General  Kuro- 
patkin  reports  that  General  Kuroki's  forces  are  gener- 
ally falling  back.  They  have  evacuated  Khanze  and 
other  villages.  General  Oku's  forces,  he  also  reports, 
have  retreated  to  the  southward  from  points  between 
Hwan  Jin  Siang  and  Sin-Tin,Ting.  General  Kuropat- 
kin  is  in  personal  command  of  his  troops,  who  are  in 
splendid  spirits.  The  Russians  are  holding  Dalin  Pass. 
Major  General  Mistchenko's  troops  are  fighting  con- 
stantly. 

»$.   .♦.   .5. 

John  Alexander  Dowie  in  his  first  sermon  on  his 
return  to  Zion  City  announces  that  he  will  invade  Lon- 
don with  a  "  restoration  host." 


Miss  Clara  Barton  has  lately  resigned  the  presiden- 
cy of  the  Red  Cross  Society  and  will  be  succeeded  by  the 
widow  of  General  John  A.  Logan.  It  is  to  be  remem- 
bered that  this  is  no  humiliation  to  the  great  service 
to  humanity  which  Miss  Barton  has  so  cheerfully  ren- 
dered ;  nor  is  it  the  result  of  any  financial  irregularities 
of  her  administration,  but  let  the  world  know  that  our 
gifts  are  given  in  earthen  vessels  which  do  yield  to  a 
certain  amount  of  pressure.  There  is  a  limit  to  every- 
one's capacity  and  in  order  to  still  be  of  service  to  hu- 
manity there  is  a  time  when  we  must  have  a  vacation, 
and  so  with  Miss  Barton. 

*>    •£•*    ♦> 

Engine  No.  2,400,  built  at  the  local  plant  of  the 
American  Locomotive  Company  for  the  Baltimore  & 
Ohio  Railroad,  is  the  heaviest  and  most  powerful  lo- 
comotive ever  constructed.  It  follows  the  French  type 
used  for  heavy  hauling.  There  are  six  pairs  of  driv- 
ing wheels.  Three  pairs  are  under  the  forward  end 
of  the  boiler  and  the  remaining  three  beneath  the  fire- 
box. The  boiler  is  thirty-eight  feet  in  length,  and  is 
seven  feet  in  diameter.  It  has  5,585  square  feet  of 
heating  surface.  The  grate  surface  is  seventy-two 
square  feet.  The  total  weight  of  the  locomotive  is-over 
320,000  pounds. 

♦  ♦  ♦ 

Uncle  Sam  can  boast  of  having  four  of  the  fastest 
torpedo  boat  destroyers  in  the  world  after  their  de- 
monstration of  speed  and  durability  in  their  race  from 
Norfolk  to  the  torpedo  station,  which  began  late  Thurs- 
day night  and  ended  at  an  early  hour  this  morning. 
The  Lawrence,  Worden,  Whipple  and  Trnxton  left  one 
after  the  other  in  the  order  named  and  ran  down  the 
Atlantic  coast.  In  choppy  seas  they  made  an  average 
speed  of  twenty-seven  knots  an  hour,  using  all  but  one 
boiler.     Throughout  the  run  they  behaved  superbly. 

The  fruit  growers  of  Kentucky  are  happy  this  year. 
They  have  a  very  large  crop;  so  much  so  that  many  of 
them  are  compelled  to  shake  oft'  a  great  deal  of  the 
fruit  to  keep  it  from  damaging  the  trees.  It  is  the 
first  real  large  crop  they  have  enjoyed  for  several 
years  and  they  are  quite  jubilant  over  it.  Especially 
apples,  peaches,  plums  and  berries  are  found  in  abun- 
dance. 

*  *  4» 

"  During  the  eighty-eight  years  of  my  career,"  says 
Russell  Sage,  "  I  have  never  taken  a  vacation."     This, 
doubtless,  is  due  to  the  fact  that  Mr.  Sage  has  been 
extremely  busy  taking  everything  else. — Commoner. 
4»  <&  * 

Again  the  reaper  whose  name  is  Death  has  visited 
our  harvest  fields,  and  taken  from  our  midst  one  of  tin- 
sweet  singers  of  Israel  in  the  person  of  Eva  Bixler 
Tenks,  of  Medford,  Ohio. 


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I  ganize  a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  III.  ;, 


[No  lover  of  nature  can  afford  not  to  study  thoroughly 
-the  following  extract  from  the  Indiana  Geographical 
series  of  textbooks: — Ed.] 

"  The  flowery  leaf 
Wants  not  its  soft  inhabitant.     Secure 
Within  its  winding  citadel  the  stone 
Holds    multitudes.     But    chief,    the    forest   boughs 
That  dance  unnumbered  to  the  playful  breeze 
The  downy  orchard,  and  the  melting  pulp 
Of  mellow  fruit,  the  nameless  nations  feed 
Of  evanescent  insects.     Where  the  pool 
Stands  mantled  o'er  with  green,  invisible 
Amid  the  floating  verdure,  millions  stray. 
Each  liquid,  too,  whether  it  pierces,  soothes, 
Inflames,  refreshes,  or  exalts  the  taste, 
With  varying  forms   abound.     Nor  is   the  stream 
Of  purest  crystal,  nor  the  lucid  air, 
Though  one  transparent  vacancy  it  seems 
Void  of  their  unseen  people." 

&    ♦    ♦ 
RAPTORES    OR    BIRDS    OF    PREY. 


1.  Eyes  lateral,  head  naked,  claws   blunt — vulture. 

2.  Eyes   lateral,  head   feathered,   claws   sharp — hawk. 

3.  Eyes  directed  forward,  outer  toe  versatile — owl. 

There,  my  dear  Nookers,  is  a  simple  little  outline 
which,  if  followed  on  general  principles,  will  give 
you  a  speaking  acquaintance  with  this  family,  and 
as  I  introduce  them  to  you  I  feel  like  making  an 
apology  for  them  as  so  many  people  have  been 
misrepresenting  them.  They  have  been  called  rob- 
bers and  burglars  and  everything  that  is  not  nice, 
just  as  if  they  could  help  their  likes  and  dislikes 
any  more  than  the  lark.  Their  carnivorous  propen- 
sities are  only  in  accordance  with  their  physical 
structure,  which  demands  animal  food. 

Their  place  in  the  economy  of  nature  is  just  as 
fixed  as  that  of  the  animals  on  which  they  prey ; 
and  so  to  associate  them  with  notions  of  cruelty 
and  rapine  is  both  unwarrantable  and  irreverent. 
It  is  in  the  province  of  ever}'  Nooker  to  know  that 
they  do  not  charm  us  with  their  music  nor  delight 
our  eyes  with  their  fancy  colors,  for  you  all  know 
that  if  they  had  either  of  the  above-mentioned 
qualities  it  would  betray  their  presence  to  their 
victims  and  frustrate  the  design  of  their  creation. 
But  they  very  faithfully  perform  their  mission  as 
scavengers,  and  some  naturalists  think  that  like  the 
carnivorous    animals,    they    serve    to    prevent     the 


herbivora  increasing  unduly.  Both  sight  and 
smell  seem  to  guide  them  in  their  search  for  food. 
The  latter  sense  is  remarkably  keen,  and  they  have 
been  seen  to  descend  directly  from  a  great  height 
in  the  air  to  putrefying  food  that  was  concealed 
from  their  vision. 

Notice,  the  above  outline  will  show  that  this  fam- 
ily have  different  heads  and  claws,  but  some  points 
are  similar;  for  instance,  they  all  have  hooked  bills, 
so  they  can  tear  their  meat  to  pieces ;  their  legs 
are  very  short  and  very  muscular,  which  makes 
them  real  stout  birds.  Their  wings  are  especially 
adapted  to  their  peculiar  habits,  as  the  eagle  that 
pounces  down  upon  his  prey  has  great  strength  of 
wing,  while  the  owl  which  approaches  his  prey 
very  cautiously,  has  very  small  and  feeble  wings. 

This  class  of  birds  always  live  in  pairs,  and  they 
choose  their  mates  for  life ;  the)'  are  not  polyga- 
mists,  nor  do  they  grant  divorce.  It  is  rather  re- 
markable that  in  a  large  proportion  of  this  class 
the  females  are  larger  than  the  males;  but  it  is 
probably  for  the  reason  that  they  always  have  the 
care  of  the  young,  which  are  at  first  weak  and  blind, 
like  the  young  beasts  of  prey  among  mammals. 

The  Andean  condor  is  in  all  probability  the  most 
remarkable  of  the  vultures  in  regard  to  size  and 
strength,  and  the  height  to  which  he  soars.  He  is 
about  four  feet  long  and  in  many  instances  he 
measures  ten  to  thirteen  feet  from  tip  to  tip ;  he 
lives  away  up  in  the  mountains  from  ten  to  fifteen 
thousand  feet  above  the  sea  level,  and  he  is  often 
seen  soaring  higher  than  this.  He  not  only  feeds 
on  carrion  or  putrefied  meat,  but  he  will  attack 
lambs  and  young  goats,  and  sometimes  when  two 
or  more  of  them  are  together  they  will  go  so  far 
as  to  venture  upon  a  puma  or  a  llama,  and  you 
know  these  are  the  South  American  lions.  How- 
ever it  is  seldom  that  he  attacks  living  prey  unless 
driven  to  it  and  to  man  he  is  entirely  inoffensive. 

The  Nookers  are  best  acquainted  with  the  turkey 
buzzard;  he  is  purely  a  scavenger,  for  he  not  only 
sucks  the  rotten  eggs  of  their  own  family  and  other 
birds,  but  he  especially  enjoys  the  decaying  bodies 
of  animals  and  fowls  and  they  will  even  devour  the 
carcases  of  each  other.  The  first  time  you  get  a 
chance  watch  him  sail  round  and  round,  up  or  down, 
to  or  from  a  strong  wind  without  even   flapping  a 


THE      INQLENOOK. 


667 


wing.     He  is  a  great  benefit  to  us   in   the  United 
States  as  a  scavenger. 

Eagles  and  hawks  belong  to  this  class,  but  they 
are  not  in  the  habit  of  eating  decayed  meats;  they 
prefer  to  have  theirs  fresh  and  this  requires  a  sharp- 
er mandible  or  bill ;  also  a  sharper  claw.  The 
white-headed  eagle  is  the  chosen  emblem  of  our 
country,  but  in  some  respects  the  Nook  thinks 
that  he  is  not  a  fit  representative;  for  instance,  he 
will  sometimes  make  an  honest  living  and  then 
again  he  will  act  the  part  of  the  freebooter  and 
rob  the  fish-hawk  of  his  well-earned  food.  When 
he  is  searching  for  food  he  will  ascend  to  a  dizzy 
height  and  then  he  will  descend  like  lightning  by  a 
spiral  path  in  preference  to  a  direct  line,  for  he  can 
both  go  faster  and  he  can  alight  with  greater  pre- 
cision and  ease. 

This  is  the  bird  that  is  sometimes  called  the  bald 
eagle,  the  short  white  hair  looking  at  a  distance  as 
if  it  were  bald.  He  is  a  rank  coward  and  can  be 
routed  by  the  little  king-bird  not  larger  than  a 
sparrow. 

Now,  Nookers,  you  read  all  you  can  about  him 
this  week  and  next  week  we  will  have  a  lesson  on 
the  hawks  and  owls. 

*  *  * 

THE    STAG-BEETLE. 


The  stag-beetle  has  a  four-sided  head,  and  is  armed 
with  large,  chestnut-colored  mandibles.  The  man- 
dibles, or  jaws,  of  the  stag-beetle  have  a  large  tooth 
in  the  center,  and  two  pointed  branches  on  the  end. 
The  beetle  can  shut  them  up  or  spread  them  out 
at  will.  The  stag-beetles  are  found  in  the  warmer 
parts  of  both  continents. 

Tt  is  true  that  they  are  found  only  where  there 
are  many  oak  trees.  The  grub  or  the  larvae  live  in 
the  wood  of  the  oak,  and  when  they  are  winged  and 
tan  search  for  food  they  prefer  the  green,  glossy 
leaves  of  the  oak  to  any  other  shrub. 

The  male  beetles  can  be  seen  in  June  at  twilight, 
hovering  around  the  tops  of  the  trees,  sipping  the 
liquid  that  often  oozes  from  the  bough,  and  they 
make  while  doing  this  a  very  noisy  mutter.  The 
females  remain  hidden  at  night,  but  in  the  daytime 
you  may  see  the  beetles,  both  males  and  females, 
roaming  about  in  the  dry  leaves,  or  climbing  upon 
the  trunks  of  the  trees,  and  sometimes  they  hang 
suspended  from  the  limbs  in  a  position  almost  ver- 
tical. 

It  is  a  queer  sight  sometimes  when  an  oak  tree 
has  been  cut  down  and  some  flies,  wasps,  bees  and 
other  insects  gather  there  to  drink  of  the  sap,  to 
see  them  try  to  drive  the  other  insects  away,  to 


keep  them  from  drinking  their  much-loved  bever- 
age. 

I  wish  that  some  of  our  Nooker  boys  and  girls 
would  find  a  bunch  of  them  dining  upon  such  a 
jolly  occasion,  and  you  would  think  that'  some  of 
them  were  not  just  so  polite,  for  they  slap  each 
other  in  the  face  very  cleverly. 

Stag-beetles  have  great  life  and  strength.  They 
have  been  known  to  live  after  having  been  soaked 
in  water  for  three  days  and  nights,  and  after  having 
been  kept  in  alcohol  for  a  period  of  forty  minutes. 
They  have  been  known  to  live  a  year  without  food. 

♦  *  * 
BIG    HORNED    RABBITS. 


The  theory  that  rabbits  are  naturally  militant  is 
perhaps,  not  as  widely  accepted  as  its  champions 
could  wish,  though  the  evidence  adduced  from  time 
to  time  appears  to  be  convincing.  One  difficulty 
has  been  that  the  popular  conception  of  a  rabbit  is 
of  a  shrinking,  small  and  utterly  impotent  bundle 
of  brittle  bones  and  fur  fit  for  wrapping  "  Baby 
Bunting  in."  Doubtless  when  the  public  is  edu- 
cated up  to  the  conception  of  the  horned  rabbit 
of  Indian  Territory,  it  will  be  easier  to  make  them 
out  both  cunning  and  bloodthirsty.  We  are  indebt- 
ed to  the  editor  of  the  Chelsea  Commercial  for  cor- 
roboration of  the  story  that,  while  the  species  is 
still  scarce,  four  horned  rabbits  have  been  shot  on 
one  big  ranch.  It  appears  that  there  are  two  vari- 
eties, one  a  native  of  the  Creek  Nation,  which  is  a 
dwarf  and  harmless,  and  the  other  found  in  the 
Cherokee  County,  which  is  sometimes  as  large  as 
a  greyhound.  Six  of  this  latter  kind,  says  the 
editor,  cornered  a  cow  in  a  ravine  and  kept  her 
prisoner  for  several  days,  because  she  trespassed  on 
their  feeding  grounds,  and  would  have  starved  to 
death  had  she  not  been  discovered  in  time.  The 
cow  was  crazed  with  fright,  and  her  nervous  system 
so  completely  prostrated  that  she  is  rapidly  turning 
white,  and  in  a  short  time  will  not  have  a  red  hair 
on  her  body.  On  the  same  authority  we  are  able 
to  announce  one  other,  and  simultaneous,  develop- 
ment that  appeals  to  the  curiosity  born  in  us.  "  (  hi 
the  Tickeater  farm,  on  Spencer  creek,  has  appeared 
a  variety  of  horned  mice  with  dragon  tails,  and  the 
cats  are  leaving  the  neighborhood  in  droves."  It 
is  possible  that  this  last  bit  of  information  may  not 
be  accepted  at  its  face  value,  and  it  may  be  that  the 
editor  weakens  his  evidence  in  the  matter  of  the 
horned  rabbits  by  adding  it.  But  it  is,  after  all. 
only  the  carping  critic  with  a  constitutional  and 
professional  lack  of  faith  in  any  new  discovery  who 
will  reject  the  story  of  the  six  horned  rabbits  and 
the  frightened  cow. — Cincinnati  Enquirer 


the:    inglenook. 


HOME    DEPARTMENT 


Though  many  be  our  troubles, 
Our  joys  are  more  than  double; 
The  most  of  days  are  cheery. 
And  night  brings  rest  when  weary. 
There  is  always  love  that's  caring, 
And  shielding  and  forbearing. 
Dear  woman's  love  to  hold  us  close 

And  keep  our  hearts  in  thrall. 
There  is  home  to  share  together 
In  calm  or  stormy  weather, 
And  while  the  hearth  flame  burns 

'Tis  a  good  world  after  all. 
*    *   * 

TOO    THICK,    THAT'S    ALL. 


The  other  day  the  Nookman  happened  in  a  restau- 
rant where  Mr.  Nulywedd  and  his  bride  were  en- 
joying a  fine  lunch,  and  while  waiting  to  be  served 
he  overheard  the  following: 

"Is  the  salad  nice,  dear?"  "Lovely!  Perfect- 
ly superb  !  "     "  And  yours  ?  "     "  Heavenly  !  " 

The  temptation  to  lift  the  eyes  from  the  daily 
to  the  two  enthusiasts  was  entirely  too  strong  for 
him,  and  he  tried  to  imagine  what  their  adjectives 
would  sound  like,  for  instance,  if  they  were  looking 
from  the  top  of  old  Rigi  or  Pilatus  upon  the  bosom 
of  Lake  Lucerne  in  a  silver  moonrise,  or  upon  a 
shimmer  of  a  tinted  sea  at  sunrise,  or  upon  a  flock 
of  fleecy,  ruby  clouds,  driven  by  a  lazy  wind  across 
a  daffodil  sky,  or  upon  Mt.  Blanc  with  a  storm 
flag  unfurled  from  her  hoary  battlements  and  pur- 
ple in  the  shadow  of  the  descending  night. 

If  a  single  slice  of  a  hard-boiled  egg,  a  pinch  of 
lettuce,  a  sprinkle  of  vinegar,  and  a  dash  of  pep- 
per is  exquisitely  lovely,  and  too  utterly  utter,  what 
in  the  world  is  left  for  Dame  Nature  and  what  can 
be  said  in  behalf  of  heroism,  courage,  faithfulness, 
love,  mother,  home  and  heaven?  Verily,  verily, 
we  say  unto  our  young  Nookers,  that  wasted  ad- 
jectives and  superabundant  smiles  make  good  com- 
mon sense  very  tired. 

«&  *3*  *$* 
TEDDY'S    LITTLE    HATCHET. 


SELECTED    BY    ELSIE    SANGER. 

Teddy  thought  George  Washington  was  a  great 
man.  He  had  a  beautiful  book  about  him  and  his 
mother  had  read  to  him  again  and  again  the  story 
of  the  hatchet.  Teddy  was  so  truthful  himself  that 
he  would  have  done  just  as  George  Washington  did, 


only  he  would  have  told  the  truth  and  made  no  re- 
marks about  it — that  is,  he  would  have  done  so  be- 
fore he  heard  the  story. 

Teddy's  cousin,  little  Jamie,  said  that  he  thought 
George  was  awfully  silly  for  not  running  away 
when  he  saw  his  father  coming;  but  Teddy  liked  to 
hear  that  George  had  said,  "  I  did  it  father,  I  can- 
not lie,"  and  that  George's  father  had  clasped  him 
to  his  breast  and  said,  "  It  would  have  grieved  me 
less  to  lose  every  tree  in  the  garden  than  to  have 
my  son  to  tell  one  lie." 

On  Tedd}''s  fifth  birthday,  a  nice  tool-box  was 
sent  to  him.  It  had  a  hammer,  saw,  plane,  screws, 
nails,  and  everything — and  a  little  hatchet  with  a 
little  red  stripe  on  the  handle.  Teddy  worked  hard 
for  two  days  sawing,  driving,  planing  and  chopping. 

Teddy's  father  had  a  nice  young  pear  tree  by 
the  kitchen  window.  It  was  going  to  bear  fruit 
for  the  first  time.  Teddy  thought  it  was  such  a 
little  tree  that  it  would  not  make  any  difference  to 
anybody  anyway,  so  he  went  out  and  chopped  it 
down  with  a  few  strokes  of  his  little  hatchet,  and 
it  was  on  the  ground. 

Then  Teddy  went  and  sat  on  the  kitchen  porch 
and  waited  for  his  father  to  come,  so  that  he  might 
tell  him  about  it  and  be  clasped  to  his  father's  arms. 
Just  before  dinner  he  heard  the  gate  swing  open 
and  he  ran  around  to  meet  his  father  and  said,  "  O, 
guess  what  I  did,  father."  His  father  guessed  that 
he  had  bee'n  a  bad  boy,  but  Teddy  said,  "  No,  in 
deed,  you  can't  guess.  I've  cut  down  your  pear 
tree." 

Teddy's  father  said,  "  Well !  "  He  looked  more 
than  he  said.  Then  he  went  around  by  the  kitchen 
window  and  saw  his  nice  pear  tree  cut  down  and 
lying  on  the  ground  in  two  pieces.  Then  he  said 
that  Teddy  might  be  like  George  Washington,  but 
he  was  not  like  George's  father.  He  said  he  was 
not  going  to  have  his  nice  trees  cut  down ;  and  he 
looked  right  at  Teddy  sharply  and  broke  a  little 
switch  off  the  tree.  Teddy  felt  afraid  and  he  ran 
into  the  house  to  tell  his  mother  about  it ;  and  by 
this  time  he  was  very  sorry  indeed.  His  father 
brought  his  little  hatchet  in  and  gave  it  to  his  moth- 
er and  she  locked  it  in  the  bureau  drawer  and  said 
that  Teddy  should  have  it  no  more  for  a  month 
She  took  Teddy  upon  her  lap,  and  told  him  that 
cutting  down  pear  trees  which  belonged  to  some  one 
else  was  almost  as  bad  as  to  tell  a  lie,  that  a  tree 
is  a  living  thing  and  a  useful  thing  which  we  must 


the:    inglenook. 


care  for  and  not  destroy,  and  that  the  pretty  pear 
tree  which  his  father  had  carefully  planted  and 
watered  was  now  dead.  Teddy  offered  his  tool- 
box to  his  papa  to  pay  for  the  pear  tree  and  he  felt 
that  if  George  Washington  was  good  he  still  might 
have  been  a  little  better. 
Bays,  W.  Va.  +  +  + 

A    NEW    DISEASE. 


It  seems  that  modern  science  ever  and  anon  keeps 
ferreting  out  new  enemies  to  the  human  body. 
New  inventions  come  which  produce  new  lines  of 
labor,  which,  in  turn,  create  new  experiences,  which 
subject  workmen  to  new  diseases.  Not  long  since 
a  lecturer  before  the  Royal  Society  of  London  de- 
livered a  well-prepared  discussion  on  the  work  of 
the  Simplon  tunnel.  He  illustrated  his  lecture 
with  some  specimens  of  the  cuttings  from  the  hy- 
draulic drill  which  is  used  by  the  workmen  to  pen- 
etrate the  Alps,  and  which  machine  has  made  it 
possible  to  make  the  unprecedented  progress  that 
they  are  making,  and  explained  that  this  dust,  or 
cuttings,  which  he  exhibited  and  which  it  is  im- 
possible to  avoid,  was  the  very  thing  which  was 
causing  this  new  disease  among  miners.  The  dust 
comes  from  the  rocks  that  are  penetrated  and 
through  respiration  comes  in  contact  with  the 
tissues  of  the  lungs  so  as  to  reduce  their  vitality 
and  predispose  the  miners  to  attacks  of  tubercle 
bacillus.  The  effects  thus  produced  are  similar  to 
those  of  steel  particles  in  file  works  and  the  dust 
in  the  stone-mason's  trade. 

Miner's  acute  consumption  has  only  come  into 
prominence  since  these  great  subterranean  ma- 
chines have  been  introduced,  and  the  reason  is  be- 
cause they  produce  a  greater  amount  of  the  dust 
than  when  the  men  are  working  by  hand.  And 
again  when  a  hole  is  drilled  in  which  a  blasting 
has  been  fired,  in  their  hurry  to  push  the  work,  be- 
cause the  miners  are  now  working  shorter  hours, 
they  rush  back  to  the  blast  before  the  fume  has 
died  away  and  the  dust  has  settled.  This  new  dis- 
ease has  been  christened  phthisis. 

ORANGE     AND     DANDELION     WINE     OR 
CORDIAL. 


Cover  four  quarts  of  dandelion  blossoms  with  four 
quarts  of  boiling  water  and  set  aside  until  luke- 
warm. Stir  in  four  pounds  of  granulated  sugar, 
three  tablespoonfuls  of  yeast,  the  juice  of  three 
oranges  and  the  grated  peel  of  a  lemon.  Mix  well, 
strain,  set  in  a  cold  place  for  two  days,  then  strain 
again.  Pour  into  a  keg,  leave  out  the  bung  and  al- 
low the  contents  to  work  until  clear.  Strain  off 
and  bottle  and  seal. 


KNOWN    TO    BE    GOOD. 


BY    G.    W.    CRISSMAN. 

Pour  a  small  quantity  of  Carbon  Disulphide  on  the 
hill  and  then  cover  with  dirt,  and  the  ants  will  give 
you  no  further  trouble. 

Russel,  Kans. 

♦  «fr  4* 

BAKING    POWDER    BISCUIT. 


Sift  a  quart  of  flour  with  two  rounded  teaspoon- 
fuls  of  baking  powder,  add  a  saltspoonful  of  salt 
and  rub  into  the  dry  mass  two  heaping  tablespoon- 
fuls of  shortening.  Add  enough  cold  milk  to  make 
a  dough  than  can  be  rolled  out,  turn  upon  a  floured 
pastry  board  and  roll  into  a  sheet  a  half  inch  thick, 
taking  care  not  to  have  the  dough  too  stiff.  Cut 
into  biscuit  and  bake  in  a  quick  oven. 

SOUR    MILK    BISCUIT. 


Mix  together  two  cups  of  sour  milk  or  of  butter- 
milk, two  teaspoonfuls  of  melted  butter,  a  tea- 
spoonful  of  soda  dissolved  in  a  very  little  scalding 
water  and  enough  flour  to  make  a  dough  that  can 
be  rolled  out.  Roll  out,  cut  into  rounds  and  bake 
in  a  brisk  oven. 

•2*   •>   * 

VANILLA    ICE    CREAM. 


Make  a  custard  of  a  quart  of  milk,  seven  eggs  and 
two  pounds  of  granulated  sugar.  Stir  until  the 
custard  coats  the  spoon,  take  from  the  fire  and  when 
cool,  flavor  with  quart  of  cream  and  freeze. 


*  *  * 
THISTLES. 


When  troubled  with  Canada  thistles,  see  that  the 
fence  around  that  field  is  hog-proof,  keep  the  rings 
out  of  the  hogs'  noses  and  put  a  sufficient  number  of 
hogs  in  the  field  to  root  it  up  entirely.  This  will  put 
an  end  to  your  Canada  thistles  and  enrich  your  land 
for  the  succeeding  crop. 

At  this  time  of  the  year  many  of  our  Nookers  may 
be  bothered  with  a  small,  yellowish-white  worm  in  the 
curled  leaf  of  the  new  grapeshoot.  It  comes  just 
about  this  time  of  year  and  proves  to  be  very  detri- 
mental, as  Mr.  Worm  is  generally  shielded  by  the  leaf 
and  a  web  which  he  draws  tightly  about  him,  which 
renders  him  difficult  to  reach.  If  you  will  take  about 
one  ounce  of  Paris  green  to  fifteen  gallons  of  water  and 
apply  it  with  a  spray,  Mr.  Moth  will  bid  you  good-bye. 


6/0 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


mil    OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE 

1- 


BONNIE    WAYNE. 


Nen  my  ma  she  looked  cross  at  me  and  they  looked 
at  each  other,  nen  ma  says,  "  What  is  the  matter  with 
Hattie,  Bonnie  ?  "  Nen  I  told  her  that  she  cried  to 
have  her  hair  colored,  and  Luke  and  me  we  just  dot 
some  of  papa's  red  ink  cause  we  couldn't  find  anything 
else,  and  Luke  said  a  good  many  of  them  wuz  a 
coloring  their  hair  red  this  year,  and  so  we  just  put 
it  on  and  I  don't  think  papa  will  care  for  just  a 
little  ink,  will  he?  And  nen  she  said  it  wus  not  the 
ink  she  cared  for  at  all ;  it  wuz  the  ink  all  over  the 
floor  and  it  wuz  on  Hattie's  neck  and  face,  and  on 
her  dress,  and  she  didn't  know  what  she  would  do 
with  me,  and  I  didn't  want  her  to  do  anything  with 
me  at  all ;  I  wuz  all  right ;  it  wuz  Hattie  that  looked 
so  bad  nohow. 

Luke's  mamma  wuz  in  the  other  room  and  my  mam- 
ma went  in  there  and  they  talked  and  talked  the  long- 
est time,  and  Luke  and  me  we  just  looked  at  each 
other;  we  didn't  know  what  to  play  any  more.  Once 
we  listened  at  what  they  said  and  all  we  could  hear 
them  say  wuz  "  fresh  air  "  once  in  a  while,  and  so 
we  thought  they  wuzn't  a  talking  about  what  they 
wuz  a  going  to  do  with  me  for  spoiling  Hattie's  hair. 
Luke  said  he'd  like  to  go  home,  but  couldn't  go  till 
his  mamma  come,  and  I  told  him  I  wuz  a  coming  over 
to  his  house  and  we  would  play  some  more,  and  he 
said  that  we  wouldn't  color  hair  any  more,  and  I  said 
that  Dora  didn't  want  hers  colored  nohow. 

Just  then  our  mammas  came  out  into  the  other  room 
and  they  said  it  was  time  to  go  home ;  and  they  didn't 
do  anything  with  me  either,  only  my  ma  asked  us 
children  if  we  would  like  to  go  to  the  country,  and  I 
said,  "  Down  to  grandpa's  house  ?  "  and  nen  she  said, 
"  No,  way  off,  and  stay  four,  five  or  six  weeks."  Wy 
say,  I  just  jumped  up  and  down.  I  said,  "  Can  I 
take  my  dolls  ?  "  And  nen  she  said,  "  Yes,  I'd  say 
dolls  if  I  were  you.  Just  look  at  Hattie's  hair."  And 
nen  I  wished  that  I  didn't  say  nothing.  Luke  he 
wanted  to  take  his  wagon  and  ball  and  top  and  ever 
so  many  things,  and  nen  his  ma  said,  "  Come  on,  let 
us  go  home,"  and  then  they  said  something  about 
ten  o'clock  to-morrow,  and  away  they  went. 

Nen  I  asked  my  mamma  where  we  wuz  a  going  to- 
morrow and  she  said  that  there  was  a  woman  over  on 
Douglas  avenue  that  wuz  a  coming  after  Luke  and 
me  and  she  will  have  a  whole  lots  of  children  with 
her,  and  she  is  a  going  to  take  us  out  in  the  country 
for  a  whole  long  time.     She  calls  them  the  fresh  air 


children,  and  I  don't  know  what  that  is,  but  we  are 
a  going  to  have  a  nice  time  out  in  the  woods,  mamma 
said,  and  we  could  get  nice  flowers  and  see  so  many 
funny  things  too. 

And  when  they  had  gone  home,  mamma  and  me 
went  to  the  store  to  get  me  a  new  pair  of  red  shoes, 
and  my !  they  are  pretty,  and  when  we  wuz  a  going 
down  to  the  store  on  the  street  car  there  was  a  man  in 
the  seat  in  front  of  me  that  didn't  have  hardly  no  hair 
on  his  head,  and  I  asked  mamma  who  planted  our 
hair  nohow,  and  she  said  that  nobody  planted  it,  but 
that  God  made  it  when  he  created  us,  or  something 
like  that,  and  nen  I  said,  "  God  didn't  give  that  feller 
much,  did  he',  mamma  ?  "  And  mamma  looked  most 
worse  than  she  did  when  I  wuz  a  trying  to  pick  up 
the  sugar,  and  the  man  looked  as  cross  at  me.  I  guess 
he  thought  God  wuzn't  very  good  to  him. 

Mamma,  she  got  me  a  nice  basket  to  put  my  things 
in  to  take  to  the  fresh  air  country,  and  she  put  some 
nice  chocolate  candies  in  it  and  said  I  must  not  eat 
them  till  I  got  on  the  train.  And  so  I  asked  her  when 
we  could  get  on  the  train,  and  she  said  in  the  morn- 
ing. And  nen  we  got  on  another  street  car  to  go 
home  again,  'an  I  guess  the  man  what  pushes  it  was 
in  a  big  hurry,  for  mamma  went  in  and  I  followed 
right  along  after  her,  and  just  as  she  wus  a  going  to 
sit  down  in  a  seat,  wy  that  man  give  it  a  big  jerk 
somehow  and  I  pretty  near  fell  down,  and  I  held  on 
tight  with  one  hand  to  the  box  that  had  my  red  shoes, 
but  I  didn't  have  nothing  in  the  other  hand  and  I 
poked  two  of  my  fingers  in  a  woman's  eyes,  and  she 
hollered  worse  than  I  did.  My !  I  wuz  glad  ma  had 
the  chocolates.  Ma  she  said  I  ought  to  be  careful. 
Well  my,  I  didn't  know  how  to  stop  the  car. 

Papa  said  I  would  have  to  go  to  bed  early  that 
night,  and  I  did,  and  the  next  morning  I  wuz  awake 
before  they  wuz  and  I  told  papa  if  he  wuzn't  never  go- 
ing to  get  up,  and  so  mamma  she  hurried  and  got 
breakfast ;  but  I  wuzn't  very  hungry.  Mamma  put  all 
my  things  in  my  basket,  and  my  red  shoes  and  Dora, 
and  she  wouldn't  let  me  take  Hattie.  And  nen  they 
went  with  me  to  the  street  car  and  when  we  got  to 
the  big  house  where  so  many  big  tootoots  is  and  the 
mostest  people,  and  just  then  here  wuz  that  woman 
what  has  so  many  fresh  air  children,  and  a  man  came 
along  and  just  hollered,  "  All  aboard  nexrainfLogans- 
potCinnatrj"  and  all  the  children  ran  and  mamma 
kissed  me,  and  a  big  tootoot  wuz  right  there. 
(to  be  continued.) 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


6/1 


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1 


A    FEW    QUESTIONS    FOR    THE    NOOKERS    TO  Guess  the  diameter  of  a  silver  dollar  in  inches. 

ANSWER. 


Why  does  an  icicle  grow  with  its  roots  upward : 


How  big  does  the  moon  look  to  you  ? 

Does  a  robin  hop  or  walk  like  a  chicken  ? 

Does  a  cow  pull  grass  to  her  or  away  from  herself?         Why  do  the  leaves  of  the  trees  turn  upside  down 

sometimes  when  the  wind  blows  and  at  other  times 
remain  right  side  up? 


Why  does  the  water  in  a  river  generally  rise  just 
before  the  rain  ? 

* 


Does  your  room  door  swing  to  the  right  or  the  left? 


How  many  pickets  on  your  front  gate,  if  you  have 
one? 

* 

Why  does  the  moss  grow  on  the  north  side  of  a 
tree? 

* 

Has  your  watch  figures  or  Roman  characters  on  the 
face? 

* 

Which   is   the   larger — a   dollar   or   a   twenty-dollar 
gold  piece? 

When  a  train  stops  at  the  station  what  makes  the 
engine  partt  so? 

* 

When  a  train  stops  what  makes  it  always  go  back- 
ward a  little  bit? 

* 

Why   is   the   outside   rail   of   a   railroad   track   the 
higher  on  making  a  curve  ? 

* 

A  cow's  ears — are  they  above  or  below  her  horns, 
and  are  they  in  front  or  behind  her  horns? 


Why  is  it  that  that  particular  species  of  ants  which 
are  called  army  ants  and  which  have  real  battles  among 
themselves,  when  they  take  an  enemy  captive,  always 
take  the  black,  or  negro  ant? 


Explain  how  it  is  that  you  can  sow  a  handful  of 
seeds  gathered  from  the  phlox — and  the  seeds  all  look 
exactly  alike  in  every  way — and  when  they  bloom  you 
have  every  imaginable  color? 


Why  is  it  that  birds  oftentimes  will  fly  along  in 
front  of  a  hunter  just  far  enough  out  of  the  way  to 
be  out  of  the  range  of  the  gun?  Why  don't  they  fly 
entirely  away?  Do  they  know  how  for  the  gun  will 
shoot  ? 

* 

What  are  Logan  berries? 

A  Logan  berry  is  a  cross  between  a  blackberry  and 
a  raspberry.  It  is  about  the  size  of  a  large  black- 
berry and  looks  like  a  large  red  raspberry.  It  is  seed- 
less and  is  a  native  of  California. 

WHO     KNOWS? 


What  is  the  reason  that  a  woodpecker,  sitting  all 
by  himself  on  a  tree,  when  desiring  a  drink  from  a 
brook  near  by,  in  making  his  descent,  stops  several 
times  on  his  way,  looks  around  and  listens  ? 


How  is  it  that  you  may  find  two  eggs  side  and  side, 
both  white,  same  size,  same  shape,  and  lay  them  in 
proper  incubation  for  a  time  and  one  hatijhes  out  a 
long,  wriggling  snake  and  the  other  an  ugly,  moping 

terrapin  ? 


Did  you  ever,  about  noonday,  when  walking  down 
the  road,  see  ten  thousand  times  ten  thousand  mos- 
quitoes dancing  up  and  down  with  the  smallest  pin- 
head  space  between  them?  And  yet  not  one  of  these 
knocks  the  other  headlong  upon  the  grass  or  breaks 
a  leg  or  wing,  even  as  long-  and  delicate  as  they 
are.  Suddenly,  without  notice,  a  peculiarly  high- 
shouldered,  vicious  creature,  with  a  long  and  pendant 
proboscis,  darts  out  of  the  rising  and  falling  cloud  and 
settling  on  your  cheek  or  nose  inserts  his  hypodermic 
poison.  What  possessed  the  little  wretch  to  do  this? 
Did  he  smell  your  blood  while  he  was  dancing? 


672 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


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CONTENTS    OF    LIPPINCOTT'S    MAGAZINE    FOR 
JULY. 


"  The  Love  Affair  of  a  Princess,"  by  Lafayette  Mc- 
Laws ;  "  Old  St.  David's,"  by  Florence  Earle  Coates ; 
"  Moods  and  Memories,"  by  George  Moore ;  "  The 
Baby  Goes  A-Fishing,"  by  Cyrus  Townsend  Brady; 
"  A  Guide,"  by  Richard  Kirk ;  "  The  Court  of  Pan," 
by  Elizabeth  Duer ;  "  The  Maid  of  Sparta,"  by  Aloy- 
sius  Coll;  "Moses,  Jr.,"  by  Ella  Middleton  Tybout; 
"  Because  of  Nellie,"  by  Bertha  H.  Lippincott ;  "  The 
Cathedral  at  Burgos,"  by  S.  R.  Eliott;  "The  Lazza- 
paroola,"  by  Edward  Boltwood ;  "  The  Doorway,"  by 
Ella  Heath ;  "  The  Emancipation  of  Lydia  Duroe," 
by  Mabel  Nelson  Thurston ;  "  A  Thread  of  Scarlet," 
by  Jenette  Lee ;  "  A  Delayed  Heritage,"  by  Eleanor  H. 
Porter ;  "  The  Sunken  Fleet,"  by  Francis  Halley  New- 
ton; "The  Ghost  in  the  Red  Shirt,"  B.  M.  Bower; 
"  Morning,"  by  Emma  P.  Seabury ;  "  Walnuts  and 
Wine." 

*  *  * 

CONTENTS      OF      REVIEW      OF     REVIEWS      FOR 
JULY. 


i.  "  Progress  of  the  Middle  West.'' 

2.  "The  Post  Office  Scandal." 

3.  "  Canadian  Trade." 

4.  "  Governmental    Irrigation." 


5- 
6. 

7- 
8. 


Press    Suppression  .  in    Finland." 
Anemia  in  Porto  Rico." 
Submarine  Mines." 
Panama's  Health   Conditions." 
National   Ambitions   of   Canada." 

SICK-ROOM    ADVICE. 


Do  not  forget  that  kindness  and  tenderness  are  es- 
sential to  successful  nursing. 

Don't  ask  "a  convalescent  if  he  would  like  this 
or  that  to  eat  or  drink,  but  prepare  the  delicacies' 
and  present  them  in  a  tempting  way. 

A  nurse  must  never  get  impatient.  A  sick  per- 
son is  often  irritable  and  sometimes  obstinate,  but 
this  must  be  overcome  by  kindness  and  firmness. 

Do  not  fan  a  sick  person  unless  you  are  requested 
to  do  so,  or  there  is  good  reason  why  you  should. 
A  nervous  person  is  often  made  very  uncomfortable 
by  it. 

The  nurse  must  learn  to  be  cool  and  collected 
in  time  of  trouble.  Any  expression  of  alarm  or  anx- 
iety, at  a  critical  moment,  may  result  disastrously 
to  the  patient. 

In  the  early  morning  hours  the  vital  forces  of  the 
patient  are  at  an  ebb,  and  it  is  often  necessary  to 
add  additional  clothing  to  the  bed  or  provide  some- 
thing stimulating  at  this  time. 

In  bedside  watching  the  nurse's  work  is  often 
very  responsible  and  trying.  And  it  is  here  that 
the  observing  physician  can  readily  determine 
whether  the  nurse  is  experienced  or  not  from  her 
general  bearing. 

Avoid  jarring  the  bed  and  do  not  allow  anyone 
to  sit  on  the  bed.  Avoid  haste.  Do  things  quickly 
by  knowing  what  to  do  and  how  to  do  them.  All 
appearance  of  haste  and  uncertainty  is  annoying  to 
the  patient. 

Unnecessary  noise  and  confusion  should  not  be 
permitted  in  the  sick  room.  Nothing  is  more  ir- 
ritating to  a  nervous  patient  than  loud  talking. 
When  it  is  necessary  to  converse  with  the  sick  let 
the  voice  be  sufficiently  loud  and  clear  to  enable  the 
hearer  to  understand  without  special  effort. 


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The  Brethren   Colonies 


IN    THE 


Fruit  Belt  of  Michigan 


The  basis  of  my  business  is  absolute  and 

unvarying  integrity. 

SAMUEL  S.   THORPE. 


are  an  actual  success.  The  colony  of  the  Lakeview  church  is  located  on  lands 
surrounding  the  village  of  Brethren,  Michigan.  Brethren,  Michigan,  is  lo- 
cated on  the  main  line  of  the  Pere  Marquette  System,  105  miles  north  of 
Grand  Rapids  and  about  14  miles  east  of  Lake  Michigan.  All  conditions  of 
soil,  climate  and  location  make  this  spot  an  ideal  one  for  general  farming, 
fruit-growing  and  stock-raising.  Lands  have  been  sold  to  about  120  families 
of  the  Brotherhood  and  their  friends,  of  which  number  about  one-half  have 
already  located  and  are  clearing  up  their  places.  The  possibilities  of  this  dis- 
trict are  exceptional.  The  Brethren  tract  embraces  about  20,000  acres,  of 
which  over  11,000  acres  have  already  been  sold.  There  are  just  as  good  and 
as  desirable  locations  remaining  as  those  that  have  been  bought  and  the 
prices  have  not  yet  been  advanced,  but  with  the  improvements  now  going  on, 
developing  the  country  so  rapidly,  it  is  only  a  short  time  till  prices  advance 
considerably.  THE  TIME  TO  BUY  IS  NOW.  Present  prices  range  from 
$7  to  $15  per  acre,  on  easy  terms,  or  less  five  (5)  per  cent  f®r  cash. 

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The  Cadillac  Tract— 25,000  Acres  of  Rich  Agricul- 
tural Lands,  Excellently  Situated  and  Splen- 
didly Adapted  for  Farming,  Fruit-growing  and 
Stock-raising. 

These  lands  are  located  from  one-half  mile  to  six  miles  from  the  hustling  city  of  Cadillac,  the  seat  of  Wexford 
county,  8,000  inhabitants,  (all  alive.)  and  its  location  on  the  Grand  Rapids  and  Indiana  R'y  (part  of  the  Pennsylvania 
System)  and  on  the  Ann  Arbor  Railroad  (part  of  the  Wabash  System)  together  with  its  other  advantages  render 
it  the  best  trading  point  and  market  place  in  Northern  Michigan.  Cadillac  and  the  lands  controlled  by  the  ad- 
vertiser are  located  about  98  miles  north  of  Grand  Rapids  and  50  miles  east  of  Lake  Michigan.  They  are  well  wa- 
tered with  springs,  creeks,  rivers  and  lakes  of  pure,  sparkling  water  teeming  with  gamy  fish.  The  soil  varies  from 
a  sandy  loam  to  a  clay  loam,  all  of  it  underlaid  with  clay  and    gravel  subsoil,  which  responds  eagerly  to  cultivation. 

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The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  immense  growth  of 
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place  where  the  industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

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his  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  it. 

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Or  Any  Other  Point?    Take  the 

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Daily  Tourist  Car   Lines 


Chicago,  Missouri  River,  Colorado,  Idaho,  Oregon, 
Washington  and  California  Points. 


ROUND    TRIP   RATES 


From  Chicago, 
From  Missouri  River, 


$50.00 
45  00 


To  San  Francisco  or  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  and  Re- 
turn. Tickets  Sold  Aug.  15  to  Sept.  10,  inclusive. 
Return  Limit,  October  23,  1904. 


One-Way  Colonist's  Rates. 

To  Pacific  Coast  Every  Day,  Sept.  IS  to  Oct.  15. 

From  Chicago,    $33  00 

From  St.  Louis 30  00 

From  Missouri  River 25  00 

Proportionate  Rates  from  all  Points  East. 


The  Union  Pacific  Railroad 

IS    KNOWN    AS  

"The  Overland  Route" 

And  is  the  only  direct  line  from  Chicago  and  the  Missouri 
River  to  all  principal  points  West.  Business  men  and 
others  can  save  many  hours  via  this  line.  Call  on  or 
address  a  postal  card  to  your  nearest  ticket  agent,  or 
Geo.  L.  McDonaugh,  Colonization  Agent.  Omaha, 
Neb. 

E.  L.  LOMAX.  G.  P.  &  T.  A., 
Omaha,   Nebraska. 


A  Town  With  a  Future 


Snyder,  Colorado,  Has  all  the  Ear-marks  of  a  Comer  and 
is    Surely    Destined    to    be    One    of    North- 
eastern   Colorado's    Leaders. 


Snyder  is  beautifully  located  on  the  South  Platte  river 
and  Union  Pacific  Railway,  between  Sterling  and  Denver, 
extending  from  the  river  to  the  brow  of  a  mesa,  one-half 
mile  away.  The  main  street  running  north  and  south  is 
80  feet  wide;  all  other  streets,  60  feet;  alleys,  20  feet;  all 
lots  are  25x125  feet,  excepting  those  fronting  on  the  main 
street,  which  are  25x120. 

For  further  information  about  Snyder  or  South  Platte 
Valley,  address  Geo.  L.  McDonaugh,  Colonization  Agent 
Union  Pacific  Railroad,  at  Omaha.  Neb.,  for  FREE  print- 
ed matter. 

Still  better,  see  some  of  those  who  have  bought  land 
near  Snyder,  Colorado,  or  write  to  them  for  further  in- 
formation. 


The  following  parties  have  bought  land  near  Snyder, 
Colo.: 

Louis  E.  Keltner,  Hygiene,  Colo.;  W.  W.  Keltner, 
North  Dakota;  A.  W.  Brayton,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Daniel 
Grabill,  Lemasters,  Pa.;  J.  L.  Kuns,  McPherson,  Kans.; 
D.  L.  Miller,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Daniel  Neikirk.  Lemasters, 
Pa.;  Galen  B.  Royer,  Elgin,  III:  E.  Slifer,  Mt.  Morris,  111.; 
I.  B.  Trout,  Lanark,  111.;  R.  E.  Arnold,  Elgin,  111. 


Geo.  L.  Studebaker,  of  Muncie,  Indiana,  says : 

"  Sterling  is  a  growing  town  with  a  good  country 
surrounding.     The  members  are  active." 


HOMESEEKERS'  EXCURSION 
to  Snyder,  Colorado, 

With  Privilege  of  Stopping  off  at  Sterling.  Colo., 

AVE    piDC    Pl"s  $3.oo,  for  the  Round  Trip  First 
UnC    rARE   and  Third  Tuesday  of  Each  Month  via 

Union  Pacific  Railroad. 


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The 


Mount 

Campbell 

Tract 


in  Fresno  County, 

California, 

Promises  to  become  the  leading 
fruit-growing  section  of  California. 
Land  is  cheap,  water  abundant,  loca- 
tion healthful  and  soil  unsurpassed. 
The  soil  is  especially  adapted  to  the 
orange,  grape,  fig,  orchard  fruits,  al- 
falfa  and  general   farming. 

Plans  are  now  forming  for  a  colo- 
ny of  the  Brethren  on  this  tract,  J. 
S.  Kuns,  proprietor  of  the  old  Mis- 
sion farm  at  Covina,  Cal.,  having  al- 
ready purchased  land  in  this  district, 
which  has  been  inspected  by  other 
prominent  members  of  the  church. 

Maps  and  information  by 

W.  M.  ROHRER, 

Fresno,  Cal. 

YOUNG  WOMEN  WANTED! 

At  Sherman  Hospital  to  receive  in- 
struction and  take  the  two  years'  course 
of  study  to  become  trained  nurses. 
Graduates  always  in  demand  and  receive 
good  pay  for  their  services. 

For  information  apply  to  Supt.  of 
Sherman   Hospital,   Elgin,   111.,    or 

MBS.    E.    W.    HIGGINS, 
262  Da  Page  St.  Elgin,  HI. 

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$2,500  buys  highly  improved  fruit 
farm  of  20  acres,  including  stock  and 
tools.  One  and  one-half  miles  to  fine 
market. 

J.  L.    EUCKENSTAPP, 

.Bangor,  Michigan. 

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It  Does  Not  Pay  to  Neglect  Your  Eyes ! 

GUEL1NE 

Is  good  all  for  inflammations  of  the  Eyes. 
It  has  cured  thousands  of  others.  It 
will   cure   you.      ::      DO  YuU    KNOW 

LUCINE? 


Dr.  Yeremian  uses  it  in  India  every  day. 
It  is  for  Diarrhoea.  It  works  like  a 
charm.  It  rids  the  intestines  of  all 
germs.  If  not  satisfied  send  us  the  pills 
and  we   will    return   your   money. 

Gueline,  35c.     Lucine,  25c. 

THE  YEREMIAN  MEDICAL  CO., 

BATAVIA.  ILLINOIS. 

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ORANGE  AND  WALNUT 

grove  for  sale.  Five  acres  in  south- 
ern California;  4^2-year-old  trees,  al- 
ternate rows.  The  choicest  of  land, 
trees,  and  location.  An  unusual  op- 
portunity for  a  person  with  small 
capital  who  desires  quality.  Must 
sell  to  clear  another  place  in  same 
locality. 

Address: 

E.  I.  AMES, 

6332   Peoria   St.  Chicago,   111. 

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FEW   PEOPLE 

Know  the  value  of  liquid  Spray  as  a 
home  cure  for  Catarrh.  Hay  Fever,  Head 
colds  and  other  diseases  of  the  respira- 
lory   organs. 

Persons  desiring  to  try  this  highly 
recommended  treatment  should  immedi- 
ately write  to  E.  J.  Worst,  61  Main  St., 
Ashland  Ohio. 

He  will  gladly  mail  any  reader  of  the 
Inglenook  one  of  his  new  Atomizers  and 
Liquid  Spray  treatment  on  five  days'  tri- 
al, free. 

If  it  gives  satisfaction,  send  him  $2.00, 
two-fifths  regular  price;  if  not,  return 
it  at  the  expired  time,  which  will  only 
cost  you  twelve  cents  postage,  and  you 
will  not  owe  him  a  penny.  It  kills  the 
1  'atarrh  microbes  in  the  head  and  throat. 
23U3 

Educate  for  the  Farm 

is  the  song  of  the  modern  educator.  It 
is  now  generall}-  admitted  that  the 
schools  have  too  long  neglected  the 
training  of  young1  men  for  Farm  Life 
and  Business.  In  this  new  movement 
Mount  Morris  College  is  fully  abreast 
of  the  times  and,  along  with  the  other 
work  offers  a  practical  course  in  agricul- 
ture that  meets  present  day  conditions 
and  prepares  thoroughly  for  this  most 
independent  and  highly  remunerative 
profession.  Every  farmer  boy  should 
write   to-day    for    further    information. 

MOUNT    MORRIS    COLLEGE, 
J.  E.  Miller,  Pres.  Mount  Morris,  111. 


COLORADO 


AT    ANNUAL   MEETING. 

We  were  at  Carthage,  Mo.,  during 
the  Annual  Meeting  and  met  many 
of  our  old  friends  and  correspondents 
among  the   Brethren. 

THE   NEW   BOOKS. 

We  distributed  five  thousand  of  the 
new  Union  Pacific  Railway  folders, 
"  What  People  Say  about  the  South 
Platte  Valley,"   while  there. 

SEND  FOR  ONE. 

We  have  a  few  hundred  of  these 
books  left  for  free  distribution  and  if 
you  will  drop  us  a  card  will  send  you 
a  copy  by  first  mail. 

OUR    CARTHAGE    EXCURSION. 

Several  members  accompanied  us 
on  our  excursion  to  Sterling  and  Sny- 
der and  are  well  pleased  with  the 
country  and  some  will  locate. 

AGENTS  WANTED. 

We  would  like  to  arrange  with  a 
member  in  every  town  in  the  country 
to  distribute  these  folders  and  get  up 
a  party  for  Colorado. 

LIBERAL   COMMISSIONS. 

We  offer  liberal  commissions  and 
special  prices  on  any  lands  you  may 
decide  to  purchase  yourself. 

A  FREE  PASS. 

We  also  arrange  for  special  rates 
for  excursion  parties  and  free  trans- 
portation for  agent  who  gets  up  the 
party  to  Colorado  and  return. 

SPECIAL   BARGAINS. 

We  have  special  bargains  in  irri- 
gated farms  and  town  property  dur- 
ing the  summer  months  and  now  is 
the  time  to  see  the  country  and  in- 
vest. 

SNYDER   TOWN   LOTS. 

Parties  who  will  agree  to  distribute 
our  advertising  matter  among  their 
friends  can  secure  six  Snyder  town 
lots  for  $100.  These  lots  sell  for  $25 
each  and  you  can  make  $50  profit  by 
reselling  them  at  this  price. 

TROUT   FISHING  IN   MOUN- 
TAINS. 

We  will  run  special  cheap  rate  ex- 
cursions from  Sterling  to  Cherokee 
Park  every  week  this  summer.  This 
is  one  of  the  finest  resorts  in  Colo- 
rado. The  trout  fishing  is  grand  and 
the  scenery  sublime. 

COME  TO  COLORADO. 

If  you  contemplate  a  trip  for 
health,  pleasure,  recreation  or  invest- 
ment let  us  hear  from  you  and  we 
will  be  pleased  to  give  all  information 
wanted. 

The  Colorado  Colony  Co., 
Sterling,  Colorado. 

I7tl3      Mention  the  INGLLNOOK  when  writing. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


THE    COLONY 


.ON... 


LAGUNA  DE  TACHE  GRANT 

...IN    THE... 

SAN  JOAQUIN  VALLEY,  CALIFORNIA. 


BRETHREN    OAK    GROVE    CHURCH    AND    SUNDAY    SCHOOL. 

Still  continues  to  attract  the  attention  of  homeseekers. 

The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  immense  growth  of 
every  variety  of  crop  which  is  again  in  evidence  establishes  the  fact  that  here  is  the 
place  where  the  Industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN    PEOPLE    DO   EASTERN    FARMING. 
You  don't  have  to  spend  years  learning  a  new  business. 

ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

besides  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
his  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  it. 

SPECIAL     LOW     RATES    TO     CALIFORNIA. 

From  August  15th  to  Sept.  10th  the  railroads  will  sell  Round  Trip  excursion 
tickets  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

From    Chicago $50  00 

From   Mississippi    River 47  50 

From    Missouri    River 45  00 

Final  return  limit,  Oct.  23. 

ALSO    SEPTEMBER    15th    TO    OCTOBER    15th    COLONIST    ONE-WAT    TICKETS 
TO  ANY  CALIFORNIA  POINT. 

From    Chicago $33   00 

From   Mississippi   River 30   00 

From    Missouri    River,    25   00 

By  this  arrangement  you  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 
land.     If  it  suits  you.  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate. 

Land  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre,  including  perpetual  water  right.  Terms,  one- 
fourth  cash;  balance  in  eight  annual  payments. 

From  twenty  to  forty  acres  will  support  the  average  family  in  comfort. 

If  interested  send  your  name  and  address  and  receive  printed  matter  and  our 
local  newspaper  free  for  two  months.     Write  to 

NARES  &  SAUNDERS,    -    Laton,  California. 

26tl3    Wpotmn  il-  iv:i  KNOOK  wnen  wntinv 


50  Brethren  Wanted 

with  their  families  to  fettle  in  the 
vicinity  of  Tyvan,  Canada.  A  good 
working  church,  one  churchhouse 
built  and  steps  taken  for  another  one. 

Best   of  soil,   $10   per   acre. 


near  railroad  town 
Good  water,  good 
and  roads. 

This    chance    will    last    only 
weeks.     Address: 


on    easy    terms, 
people,     schools 

few 


29t4 


H.    M.    BARWICK, 

McPherson,    Kans. 


Cap  Goods! 

Our  business  has  almost  doubled  itself 
during  the  last  year.  We  are  sending 
goods  by  mail  to  thousands  of  perma- 
nent, satisfied  customers  throughout  the 
United  States.     The  reason   is  simple. 

Our  Goods  are  Sellable.     Our  Variety  is 
Larg-e.     Our  Prices  are  Low. 

All  orders  filled  promptly,  postpaid. 
Satisfaction  guaranteed  or  your  money 
refunded.  Send  us  a  sample  order  and 
be  convinced.  Write  us  for  a  booklet 
of  unsolicited  testimonials  and  new  line 
of  samples,  which  will  be  furnished  free. 
Send  at  once  to 

R.   E.    ARNOLD,   Elgin,   III. 

FREESAMPLE 

Send  letter  or  postal  for  rree  SAMPLE 
HINDOO  TOBACCO  HABIT  CURE 

We  cure  you  of  chewing  and  smoking 
for  60c,  or  money  back.  Guaranteed  perfectly 
harmless.  Address  Milford  Drug  Co.,  Milford, 
Indiana,    We  answer  all  letters. 

24tl     M- %'        v,",,'       '" 

Change  of  Climate  Beneficial 

A-fter  your  years  of  toil  and  suc- 
cess, don't  you  want  to  rest  the  re- 
maining? If  you  do,  come  to  south- 
ern California,  where  roses  bloom  all 
the  year,  grass  is  evergreen,  some 
kind  of  fruit  ripening  every  month, 
vegetables  a  perpetual  luxury.  To 
make  these  declining  years  a  delight, 
to  combine  work  and  play,  purchase 
a  walnut,  almond,  fig,  olive,  orange, 
or  lemon  grove;  each  has  its  profit, 
pleasure  and  beauty.  For  particulars 
of  each  write  A.  Hutsinpiller,  P.  O. 
Box  1194,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 


THE  OVERLAND  LIMITED. 
The  Traffic  Department  of  the  Chi- 
cage  &  North- Western  R'y  has  issued 
a  handsome  booklet  descriptive  of  the 
Overland  Limited,  the  most  luxurious 
train  in  the  world,  and  of  the  Chicago, 
Union  Pacific  &  North-Western  Line, 
the  route  of  this  famous  train  to  the 
Pacific  Coast.  Fully  and  interesting- 
ly illustrated.  Copy  mailed  to  any 
address  on  receict  of  two-cent  stamp, 
by  W.  B.  Kniskern.  P.  T.  M.,  Chi- 
cago. 


Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail 


I  IDAHO 


is   the   best-watered   arid    State 
winds,    destructive    storms    and 
mate   it   makes   life   bright   and 
We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer 
change   for   the   general   improvement    in   your   condi 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  b 
and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  coun 
swer  and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger 
fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves 
Cheap    homeseekers'   rates    are    made    to   all    prin 
for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting 


in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 
yclones   are   unknown,   and   with    its   matchless    cli- 
worth  living. 

to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 
tion  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 
oth  requirements.  There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 
try  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 

work  teach  us  that  a  few  dollars  spent  in  railroad 
thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

cipal  Idaho  points.  Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 
a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


Round=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only  in  May 
and  October,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


PAYETTE    VALLEY   HOME.-Five  Years  from  Sagebrush. 


r$     Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance.      Fine 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


Arrived  in  Payette  Valley  Feb.  23,  1903.  Settled  on  an  80-acre  tract,  covered  with  sage  brush. 
Cleared  40  acres.  May  25  sowed  10  acres  to'  wheat.  Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.  June  12  sowed  10  acres 
to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.  Yielded  55  to  acre.  Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 
or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 
oats. 

Potatoes  yielded  500  bushels  to  the  acre  and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)   E.  L.  Dotson. 


S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

J.  E.  HOOPER,  Agent,   Oakland,  Kansas. 


Mention  the  INGLENOOK  when  frntict- 


D.   E.   BURLEY, 
G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R., 

Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 


*■: 


*lN5bEH90K 


Vol.  VI. 


July  19,  1904. 


No.  29. 


OUR    OWN. 


If  I  had  known  in  the  morning 

How  wearily  all  the  day 

The  words  unkind 

Would  trouble  my  mind 

I  said  when  you  went  away, 

I  would  then  have  been  more  careful, 

Nor  given   you   needless  pain; 

But  we  vex  "our  own" 

With  look  or  tone, 

We  may  never  take  back  again. 

For  though  in  the  quiet  evening 

You  may  give  me  the  kiss  of  peace, 

Yet  it  might  be 

That  never  for  me 

The  pain  of  the  heart  should  cease. 

How  many  go  forth  in  the  morning 

That  never  come  home  at  night? 

And  hearts  have  broken 

For  harsh  words  spoken, 

That  sorrow  can  ne'er  set  right. 

We  have  careful  thoughts  for  the  stranger, 

And  smiles  for  the  sometime  guest; 

Yet  oft  for  "  our  own  " 

The  bitter  tone, 

Though  we  love  "our  own"  the  best. 

Ah!  lips  with  the  curve  impatient; 

Ah!  brow  with  look  of  scorn; 

'Twere  a  cruel  fate  .' 

Were  the  night  too  late 

To  undo  the  work  of  the  morn. 

— Margaret  E.  Sangster. 
•J*    •§»    *$t 

SNAPSHOTS. 


Knozvledge  is  valueless  if  ignored. 

* 
Men  do  not  rise  by  always  looking  down. 

God  can't  lift  you  up  until  you  get  down. 
* 

Contentment  'is  the  death  knell  to  Christian  prog- 
ress. 

* 

A  sunny  temper  glides  the  edges  of  life's  blackest 
cloud. — Guthrie. 


Happiness    must    come     from     within     you. — Ella 
Wheeler  Wilcox. 

* 

Every  man  knows  how  good  he  would  be,  were  he 
some  other  man. 

* 

Praise  is  sunshine;  it  warms,  it  inspires,  it  promotes 
growth. — Mrs.  Stowe. 

The  ideal  man  only  exists  in  the  mind  of  a  woman 
before  she  marries  him. 

* 

We  woidd  like  to  knozv  a  man  personally,  zvhose 
father  was  not  at  one  time  well  off. 
* 
This  would  be  a  dismal  world  if  all  men  were  suc- 
cessful financiers  and  none  were  dreamers.  i 
* 
The  average  man  would  rather  believe  he  is  right 
and  suffer,  than  be  convinced  he  is  wrong. 
* 
As  soon  as  a  man  dies,  his  friends  begin  to  wonder 
why  other  people  are  not  as  good  as  he  was. 
* 
A  tender  conscience  is  as  sensitive  to  evil  as  the 
apple  of  the  eye  is  to  the  dust. — Doctor  Davies. 

* 
True  religion  is  like  pure  brass:  the  harder  it  is 
rubbed  the  brighter  it  shines. — Mrs.  T.  N.  Wisdom. 


When  it  comes  to  standing  up  for  their  rights,  some 
men  have  about  as  much  backbone  as  a  soft  boiled 

egg- 

* 

As  long  as  you  do  not  take  your  own  advice,  you 
cannot  blame  the  doctors  for  not  taking  their  own 
medicine. 

True  religion  is  the  poetry  of  the  heart ;  it  has  en- 
chantments useful  to  our  manners;  it  gives  us  both 
happiness  and  virtue. 


674 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


ANOTHER     TIME. 


The  old  story  of  Haman  and  Mordecai  has  been  re- 
peated in  our  presence.  It  has  become  proverbial 
that  he  who  digs  a  pit  for  another  falls  into  it  him- 
self and  ever  has  history  borne  out  this  proverb. 
We  are  indebted  to  the  Cincinnati  Enquirer  for 
the  following  extracts  taken  from  an  article  in  one 
of  their  recent  issues  concerning  Peter  the  Great 
of  Russia.  He  was  one  of  the  most  ambitious 
monarchs  of  which  history  abundantly  attests.  The 
supreme  aim  and  aspiration  of  his  entire  life  was 
the  aggrandizement  of  his  country  and  the  exten- 
sion of  its  domain.  Long  had  he  cherished  in  his 
heart  the  thought  of  conquering  the  entire  conti- 
nent of  Europe.  This  fact  is  known  best  by  the 
will  that  he  left  on  record  at  his  death,  and  com- 
mitted to  his  successors  upon  the  throne,  the  plan 
of  their  future  conduct.  This  testament  having 
been  brought  to  light  furnishes  a  key  to  the  policy 
of  the  present  czar. 

The  instrument  itself  bears  this  heading  or  title : 
"  Copy  of  the  Plan  of  European  Domination  by 
Peter  the  Great  and  His  Successors  to  the  Throne 
of  Russia  and  Deposited  in  the  Archives  of  the 
Palace  of  Peterhof  near  St.  Petersburg."  In  the 
preamble  he  has  inserted  the  most  highly  pietistic 
title,  "  Most  Holy  and  Indivisible  Trinity."  The 
monarch  claims  that  his  judgment  dictates  that 
Providence  has  especially  called  the  Russians  to 
the  general  domination  of  Europe.  This  is  equal 
to  some  of  our  modern  divines  opening  their  dances 
with  prayer,  equally  sacrilegious.  The  following 
are  a  few  of  the  articles  of  the  testament  which  the 
great  anarchist  has  left  to  his  most  ardent  admirers : 

1.  The  Russians  must  be  kept  in  a  continual  state 
of  Avar.  This  is  to  educate  soldiers  to  warlike  dis- 
positions. Nothing  shall  prevent  a  continuance  of 
said  preparation  except  financial  depression. 

2.  By  all  means  we  must  draw  toward  us  out 
of  the  best  nations  of  Europe  generals  in  time  of 
war  and  educated  men  in  time  of  peace,  so  that 
Russia  may  profit  by  the  advantages  of  other  coun- 
tries without  losing  any  of  her  own. 

3.  In  every  instance  we  must  take  part  in  all 
public  affairs  and  discussions  of  an}-  kind  in  Eu- 
rope, especially  in  Germany,  which  is  our  nearest 
neighbor. 

4.  Poland  must  be  divided  and  we  will  do  this 
by  keeping  up  a  continual  disorder  and  perpetual 
jealousy  between  the  two  divided  portions.  Should 
surrounding  nations  interfere  with  our  policv  we 
will  parcel  territory  to  them  temporarily  until  we 
can  retake  what  we  have  yielded. 

5.  We  must  take  from  Sweden  sufficient  terri- 
tory as  to  cause  ourselves  to  be  attacked  by  her 


in  order  that  we  may  have  an  excuse  to  subjugate 
her.  In  order  to  stir  up  a  wrangle  we  must  in 
some  manner  inaugurate  a  rivalry  between  Den- 
mark and  Sweden. 

6.  A  strong  endeavor  must  be  made  to  have  the 
Russian  princes  choose  for  wives  German  princess- 
es to  multiply  family  alliances. 

7.  We  must  seek  alliance  with  England  for  com- 
merce, because  it  is  the  power  most  in  want  by  us 
for  its  navy,  and  which  can  be  the  most  useful  in 
the  development  of  ours.  We  can  trade  timber 
for  gold  and  establish  continuous  relations  between 
her  seamen  and  ours. 

8.  We  must  extend  our  territory  along  the  Baltic 
and  Black  Seas. 

9.  At  all  hazards  we  must  press  towards  Con- 
stantinople. Whoever  shall  reign  there  shall  be  the 
true  master  of  the  world.  We  must  excite  con- 
tinual warfare,  sometimes  with  Turkey,  sometimes 
with  Persia.  Take  possession,  little  by  little,  of 
whatever  shores  it  is  possible.  The  Baltic  and  the 
Black  Seas  will  be  doubly  necessary  for  the  suc- 
cessful downfall  of  Persia.  Penetrate  as  far  as  pos- 
sible the  Persian  Gulf.  Re-establish  ancient  com- 
merce through  Syria  and  advance  to  India.  When 
once  through  we  can  do  without  the  gold  of  England. 

10.  We  must  seek  an  alliance  with  Austria.  We 
must  appear  to  endorse  her  future  aspirations  of 
the  domination  over  Germany ;  and,  underhandedly, 
excite  the  jealousy  of  the  princes.  In  both  cases 
we  must  induce  them  to  apply  to  us  for  help. 

11.  We  should  try  to  get  Austria  to  undertake 
the  expulsion  of  the  Turk  from  Europe,  and  con- 
centrate a  united  effort  of  all  powers  in  a  conquest 
of  Constantinople. 

12.  We  must  gather  around  lis  all  of  the  divided, 
or  schismatic,  Greeks,  who  are  in  Hungary,  Turkey, 
and  Poland,  making  ourselves  their  center  and  sup- 
port, and  by  so  doing  gain  a  universal  dominance 
or  a  sort  of  sacredotal  supremacy.  They  will  be 
so  many  spies  in  the  midst  of  our  enemies. 

13.  Sweden  dismembered,  Persia  overcome,  Po- 
land subjugated,  Turkey  conquered,  our  armies 
united,  the  seas  guarded,  we  will  then  offer  to  share 
and  share  alike  the  universal  monarchy  of  the 
world  to  Vienna  and  Versailles.  If  one  of  these 
two  acquiesce,  which  is  probable,  then  we  must 
make  use  of  that  one  for  the  destroying  of  the  oth- 
er. In  turn  we  must  annihilate  the  remaining  na- 
tions by  beginning  a  struggle  which  would  be  prob- 
lematical because  Russia  will  then  possess  the  en- 
tire East  and  the  major  part  of  Europe. 

14.  In  case  both  refuse  our  proposition  we  will 
excite  one  against  the  other  and  compel  them  to 
mutual  exhaustion.  Then  at  the  decisive  moment, 
Russia   will   launch   upon    Germany   her   traps   set 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


beforehand,  whilst  the  two  Meets,  one  from  the 
Azov  and  the  other  from  the  port  of  Archangel, 
will  come  out  under  the  convoy  of  the  armed  fleet 
of  the  Black  Sea  and  the  Baltic.  Advancing  upon 
the  Mediterranean  and  the  Atlantic  they  will  in- 
undate France  on  one  side,  attack  Germany  on  the 
other,  and  when  these  two  are  vanquished  the  rest 
of  Europe  will  bend  under  the  yoke  without  pro- 
longed resistance.     Thus  can  Europe  be  subdued. 

The  more  one  studies  the  plan  of  this  hard  diplo- 
mat the  more  he  is  able  to  see  in  the  war  to-day 
between  Russia  and  Japan. 

The  outlined  policy  has  well  delineated  the  char- 
acter of  the  great  despot.  In  a  degree  he  was  right 
when  he  said  he  who  rules  at  Constantinople  rules 
the  world.  But  the  difficulty  has  been  that  the 
sultan  of  Turkey  has  been  a  match  for  the  success- 
ors of  Peter  the  Great  and  it  has  been  impossible 
to  carry  out  all  the  requests  of  his  last  will  and 
testament.  To  say  the  least,  the  discovery  of  the 
paper  alluded  to  above  will  be  of  incalculable  value 
to  the  manipulators  of  the  Eastern  campaign. 
*  *  * 
A    WONDERFUL    CAVERN. 


Lehman's  cave  is  seventy  miles  northwest  of  Mo- 
dena,  Utah,  in  White  Pine  county,  Nevada,  at  the 
foot  of  the  Jeff  Davis  Peak.  It  is  a  marvel,  and  aft- 
er the  completion  of  the  San  Pedro  Railway  is  cer- 
tain to  become  the  Mecca  of  thousands  of  tourists. 

An  English  traveler  who  had  explored  the  sub- 
terranean wonders  in  Switzerland  and  Germany,  the 
Mammoth  Cave  of  Kentucky  and  Australia's  big- 
gest caverns,  pronounced  Lehman's  cave  grander 
than  anything  he  had  ever  visited. 

This  cave  has  been  explored  for  about  a  mile. 
A.  B.  Lehman,  after  whom  the  cave  was  named, 
took  up  the  land  at  the  entrance,  for  eighteen  years 
lived  there  improving  the  accessibility  of  many  of 
the  wonders.  The  place  is  now  in  the  hands  of 
Charles  Rowland. 

One  dollar  is  collected  from  persons  who  visit 
the  curiosity.  No  less  than  twenty  noteworthy  fea- 
tures are  contained  in  the  cave. 

One  enters  first  the  large  cavern,  the  "  Temple 
of  the  Gods,"  and  stands  bewildered.  Within  this 
chamber  is  "Washington's  Column,"  four  feet  in 
diameter  and  forty  feet  high;  "Lincoln's  Column," 
"  Grant's  Column  "  and  "  Garfield's  Column,"  each 
three  feet  in  diameter  and  thirty  feet  high.  These 
four  stalagmites  are  pure  white. 

Next  comes  the  "  Bridal  Chamber,"  fifteen  feet 
by  twenty  feet  and  thirty  feet  high,  the  walls  of 
which  are  resplendent  with  sparkling  lime  crystals. 
The  "  Musical  Gallery,"  forty  feet  high,  twelve  feet 
wide  and  fifty  feet  long,  contains  a  crystal   piano. 


From  one  side  of  this  gallery  crystals  shaped  like 
the  fins  of  a  fish  project  from  the  wall  three  or  four 
feet.  LTpon  these  some  one  has  marked  the  musical 
notation,  enabling  one  to  produce  chords  with  a 
purity  of  tone. 

"  The  Needle's  Eye,"  "  Cabinet  Room  "  and 
"  Round  Room  "  all  contain  interesting  specimens 
of  nature's  fancies. 

One  of  the  most  beautiful  features  is  "  Shoshone 
Falls,"  thirty  feet  high  and  eighty  feet  wide,  a  lime 
foundation  built  up  from  the  bottom  until  it 
resembles  a  foaming  deluge,  frozen  while  in  action. 

The  "  Skating  Rink  "  is  a  room  probably  fifty  by 
seventy-five  feet,  the  floor  of  which  is  covered  six 
inches  deep  with  placid  cold  water,  seemingly  all 
ice.  This  illusion  is  hard  to  dispel  until  the  visitor 
has  stepped  into  it. 

The  "  Cypress  Swamp  "  is  fully  an  acre  in  extent. 
The  floor  is  covered  with  beautiful,  fernlike  stalagmatic 
growths,  with  eroded  passageways  in  and  about, 
filled  with  cold  water. 

The  "  Angel  Grotto  "  exhibits  a  facsimile  of  an 
angel  with  one  wing  broken. 

The  "  Grand  Museum,"  "  Cleopatra's  Needle," 
"  Liberty  Enlightening  the  World,"  "  Pillar  of  Beau- 
ty "  and  the  "  Crystal  Palace  "  are  remarkable.  In 
some  of  these  wonderful  chambers  the  stalactites 
combine  with  the  stalagmites  in  fanciful  forms  that 
one  could  spend  hours  studying. 

The  form  of  a  life-size  deer  greets  one  in  the 
"  Grand  Museum,"  while  the  great  organ  is  not 
all  illusion,  having  an  altar-like  base,  with  stalag- 
mites running  to  the  roof  of  the  chamber  like  organ 
pipes. 

The  largest  single  passageway  so  far  discovered 
is  two  hundred  feet  long,  eight  feet  wide  and  one 
hundred  feet  high. 

The  greatest  cavern  is  known  as  the  "  Large 
Room,"  being  twenty  feet  long,  one  hundred  feet 
high  and  one  hundred  feet  wide. 

"  Chaos  "  is  appropriately  named.  One  looks 
down  into  this  chamber  and  the  floor  presents  a 
view  of  confusion.  Huge  blocks  of  stone,  weighing 
tons,  lie  about  as  if  a  cyclone  had  started  to  demol- 
ish the  earth. 

Numerous  side  apertures  indicate  the  presence  of 
a  network  of  still  unexplored  chambers  In  several 
places  fissures,  the  depth  of  which  are  unknown, 
would  indicate  wonderful  areas  below. 

A    current    of   air    plays   through    the    chambers, 
giving  rise  to  the  belief  that  an  undiscovered  exit 
remains  to  be  found   on   the  opposite  side  of  the 
mountain. — Cincinnati  Enquirer. 
*   *   * 

When  a  dog  howls  ai  night,  it  is  a  sign  there  is  no 
mischief  in  which  he  can  engage. 


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THE      INGLENOOK. 


THE    PROBLEM    OF    THE    HOME. 


BY    C.    R.     KELLOGG. 

"  The  jest  of  one  age  becomes  the  truth  of  the 
next,"  said  one  of  our  leading  papers,  the  Youth's 
Companion,  recently.  Newspapers  now  jokingly 
say  that  the  State  of  Illinois  is  situated  in  Chicago ; 
but  a  professor  at  Columbia  University  seriously  as- 
serts that  "  we  will  one  day  see  a  continuous  city 
from  northern  Massachusetts  to  Virginia  along  the 
Atlantic  seaboard."  At  the  present  time  there  is 
almost  a  continuous  city  from  Cleveland  to  Lorain, 
Ohio,  and  it  is  nearly  the  same  way  along  the  en- 
tire shore  of  the  Detroit  River  on  the  American 
side  from  Grosse  Isle  to  Lake  St.  Clair,  a  distance 
of   thirty   miles.     One    authority    states    that    it    is 


CEMENT    HOUSE    IN    SOUTHERN     CALIFORNIA. 

necessary  to  build  thirty  thousand  homes  every 
week  in  the  United  States.  If  immigration  con- 
tinues, this  ratio  must  increase.  The  home  ques- 
tion is  a  very  serious  one  in  this  country.  Rents 
were  never  higher.  People  are  forced  into  flats 
and  apartment  houses  because,  if  ordinary  building 
materials  are  used,  it  is  not  economical  to  build 
anything  else.  More  and  more,  as  the  country  is 
being  deforested,  the  impossibility  of  erecting  frame 
houses  is  becoming  evident.  One  of  our  daily  pa- 
pers took  the  figures  of  an  architect  that  were  made 
three  years  ago  for  building  a  $1,200  frame  house, 
and  comparing  them  with  the  present  prices,  the 
cost  was  over  $1,500. 

It  is  fortunate  for  us  that  in  such  circumstances, 
Portland  cement  construction  promises  to  preserve 
the  home  life  of  our  people  in  the  country  without 
driving  them  to  other  cities,  by  enabling  them  to 
erect  "  homes."  The  cost  is  no  more  than  the 
cheapest  wooden  construction,  if  put  up  by  one  who 
understands  its  manipulation.  It  is  one-half  that 
of  stone.  The  advantages  of  its  being  permanent 
and  fireproof  are  enough  of  themselves,  even  if  the 
matter  of  economy  were  not  considered. 


There  is  a  natural  softness  of  color  in  such  struc- 
tures that  beautifully  harmonizes  with  any  sur- 
roundings, but  any  coloring  desired  may  be  mixed 
in  the  cement  when  it  is  being  used.  While 
Portland  cement  lends  itself  admirably  to  cheap 
construction,  yet  beautiful  structures,  embodying 
the  highest  artistic  skill,  have  been  erected  with  this 
material,  notably  so  the  "  Pompeii,"  at  Saratoga, 
N.  Y.,  in  imitation  of  the  Roman  house  of  Panza, 
as  well  as  many  others  in  various  parts  of  our  coun- 
try. 

Engineers  and  architects  are  beginning  to  give 
cement  the  palm  for  being  the  best  and  strongest 
material  yet  discovered  for  all  structural  purposes. 
We  may  yet  live  to  see  almost  entire  cities  con- 
structed of  this  imperishable  and  most  useful  ma- 
terial. 

In  ages  past,  people  in  other  countries  used  such 
a  composition  for  houses.  In  the  ruins  of  Pompeii 
are  to  be  found  stores,  houses,  public  places  of  all 
kinds  made  of  stone,  brick  and  cement ;  the  Pan- 
theon at  Rome  is  another  example. 

THE    PANTHEON    AT    ROME. 

In  the  southern  part  of  Rome,  or  the  old  city, 
is  to  be  found  yet  to  this  da)'  what  is  to  be  called 
the  Pantheon.  It  is  so  named  because  "  pan  " 
means  many,  and  "  theon  "  means  God,  which  is  a 
literal  description  of  a  building,  because  it  is  a 
house  of  twelve  gods.  There  are  six  males  and  six 
females  in  the  twelve  different  alcoves  or  exedras 
which  are  set  back  in  the  circular  walls  of  the  great 
temple.  It  is  not  as  large  as  some  of  the  more 
pretentious  buildings  of  Rome,  but  was  of  great 
importance,  no  doubt,  in  the  age  in  which  it  was 
built.  It  was  built  by  Augustus  Caesar  in  26  B.  C, 
and  is  constructed  of  stone,  overlaid  with  cement. 

Upon  entering  the  door  and  turning  to  the  right 
and  following  the  circular  wall  back  to  the  place 
of  beginning,  you  find  Mars,  Jupiter,  Uranus,  Sat- 
urn, Vulcan,  Mercury,  Apollo,  Diana,  Vestra,  Jul- 
ius, Neptune  and  Venus,  each  in  its  own  separate 
alcove. 

In  all  probability  the  Pantheon  was  to  ancient 
Italy  what  Westminster  Abbey  is  to  England.  Un- 
der the  dome  of  this  building  rest  the  bodies  of 
Raphael  and  king  Victor  Emanuel  and  other  celeb- 
rities of  like  form.  Standing  under  the  dome  of 
this  ancient  temple,  one  can  but  reflect  upon  the 
history  of  the  past  and  pay  some  deference  to  men 
who  have  made  history  what  it  is. 

THE   RUINS    OF    POMPEII. 

At  the  foot  of  Mt.  Vesuvius  lie  the  ruins  of  the  two 
cities;  on  one  side  Herculaneum,  on  the  other  Pom- 


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peii.  The  former  will  probably  never  be  brought  to 
light ;  the  latter  is  being  uncovered  day  by  day. 

About  200  years  B.  C.  Vesuvius  first  spoke  to  the 
world  that  internal  disturbance  would  not  longer 
allow  her  to  remain  silent,  and  the  wonderful  ex- 
plosion occurred.  Nothing  more  was  known  of  her 
in  particular  until  79  A.  D.  This  later  explosion 
simply  annihilated  this  city,  Pompeii  being  covered 
with  ashes  to  the  depth  of  twenty-six  feet.  Her 
populous  streets,  gigantic  buildings,  history,  gener- 
al education,  all  received  an  instantaneous  inter- 
ment. She  has  remained  as  silent  as  the  grave 
until  recently.  With  pick  and  shovel  the  student 
of  ancient  lore  has  divulged  some  of  her  secrets,  and  as 
one  walks  along  the  streets  of  that  ancient  city  to- 
day, he  is  constantly  confronted  with  the  fact  that 
civilization  was  much  higher  in  those  days  than  we 
sometimes  give  credit  for.  Among  the  many  things 
that  may  be  seen  by  a  visit  to  the  old  city  are : 

First,  a  large  Pantheon  very  similar  in  construc- 
tion perhaps,  to  the  one  we  have  described  above  in  the 


^M^;;r  ,y.'. 


BAKESHOP    AT    POMPEII. 

great  city  of  the  Caesars,  but  it  was  a  god-house  of 
many  idols,  and  by  the  looks  they  had  been  worshiped 
by  millions. 

Second,  there  are  hundreds  of  skeletons  of  horses, 
dogs,  cats,  chickens,  mice,  human  beings,  and  many 
other  things  that  are  not  worthy  of  mention,  which 
show  that  they  were  buried  in  an  instant, — in  a 
moment,  right  in  the  midst  of  busy,  active  life.  Re- 
productions of  these  objects  are  secured  by  drilling 
a  hole  through  the  casing  that  has  been  formed  by 
the  solidifying  of  the  ashes  and  plaster  of  Paris  is 
poured  in,  which,  when  solid,  is  taken  out  and  the 
cast  shows  an  exact  feature  of  the  object  buried. 

Third,  private  residences,  with  parlor,  kitchen, 
dining   room,   water   fountains,   toilet    rooms,   bath 


tubs,  statues,  decorations,  paintings,  and  many  more 
things  we  have  not  space  to  mention. 

Fourth,  the  palace  of  justice,  a  large  building  in 
which  the  supreme  court  was  held,  is  in  a  good 
state  of  preservation.  The  different  rooms  and  of- 
fices tell  the  story  that  their  work  was  very  well 
organized. 

Fifth,  in  some  of  the  stores  is  to  be  found  what  is 
known  to  have  been  clothing,  lamps,  bread,  grocer- 
ies, jewelry,  and  in  some  instances  money  safes  are 
to  be  found,  things  which  we  think  are  very  modern 
inventions.  In  one  house  are  to  be  found  window 
panes  and  glass  ten  by  twelve  inches,  which  are  as 
old  as  the  Christian  era,  which  fails  to  corroborate 
the  statement  of  modern  scientists  "  that  glass  is 
a  modern  invention." 

Sixth,  the  street  crossings  are  plainly  to  be  seen, 
for  they  stand  up  higher  than  the  street  itself,  to 
protect  the  people  from  the  filth  from  the  street 
in  times  of  rain  and  mud. 

Seventh,  the  gutters  worn  in  the  pavement  by  the 
chariot  wheels  to  the  depth  of.iaur_inches  are  to  be 
found,  showing  that  the  city  was  not  new  at  the 
time  of  its  destruction. 

Eighth,  in  one  of  the  best  private  residences, 
which  is  a  magnificent  structure,  is  to  be  found  on 
the  front  doorstep  in  mosaics,  set  in  solid  marble, 
the  letters  H  A  Y  E.  which  in  all  probability 
means  "  welcome." 

Ninth,  many  gardens  are  there  which  are  full  of 
statuary,  beautifully  done. 

Tenth,  restaurants  in  which  large  stone  casks  are 
found,  with  large  vats  which  are  supposed  to  have 
been  used  by  wine-sellers.  One  of  the  most  inter- 
esting things  to  be  seen  is  the  old  grist-mill,  with 
three  conical  burrs,  part  of  which  is  preserved  and 
part  of  which  has  been  broken  off  and  lost.  Near 
by  it  stands  an  old  bakeshop  which  is  to  be  seen 
in  the  accompanying  photogravure  and  within  are 
to  be  found  eighty  loaves  of  bread  which  were,  just 
read}-  to  be  put  in  the  oven,  or  were  in  the  oven  at 
the  time  of  the  explosion.  Each  one  of  these  loaves 
bears  the  name  of  the  baker. 

Eleventh,  at  the  corners  of  many  of  the  public 
streets,  fountains  and  watering  troughs  are  to  be 
found  for  the  convenience  of  the  public,  showing 
that  they  were  not  forgetful  of  their  dumb  animals. 

Twelfth,  the  saddest  things  to  be  seen  are  the 
lewd  paintings  in  many  of  the  public  and  private 
houses  which  tell  plainly  to  what  low  degree  the 
virtue,  morality  and  social  status  had  come.  In 
looking  at  these  living  monuments  of  their  wick- 
edness, one  is  compelled  to  say  to  himself.  "  It  is 
no  wonder  that  God  punished  these  cities  as  he 
did  Sodom  and  Gomorrah  of  old." 


678 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


SOMETHING    ABOUT    MARBLE. 


SPIDER    SEEMS    TO    REASON. 


Very  few  people  who  stand  by  monuments,  or 
mantel-board  or  even  an  ordinary  soda-fountain  are 
at  all  able  to  realize  the  amount  of  time  and  labor 
that  is  expended  in  the  evolution  of  the  completed 
structure  from  the  raw  material.  The  ordinary 
white  marble,  which  is  the  most  common  to  the  Nook 
family,  is  to  be  found  in  several  States  in  our  Re- 
public. The  beautiful  chalk  marble  found  upon  the 
market  is  a  native  of  Tennessee.  The  beautiful 
high  colors  in  the  precious  stone  generally  come 
from  Italy,  Spain,  Belgium  and  France.  The  white 
marble  when  dull  or  dingy  is  hard  to  resuscitate, 
but  the  variegated  kinds  may  be  refreshed  by  a 
few  hours'  polishing,  when  it  becomes  as  new. 

When  taken  from  the  raw  material  it  is  generally 
in  large,  square  blocks.  The  workers  then  place 
these  blocks  under  gang  saws.  A  gang  saw  is 
simply  a  collection  of  many  saws  side  by  side. 
These  gang  saws  have  an  oscillating  movement 
something  like  a  pendulum,  and  they  generally  cut 
these  slabs  from  the  block  aforementioned  one- 
eighth  of  an  inch  thick.  Before  these  are  taken 
away  they  are  carefully  inspected  by  an  expert, 
after  which  they  are  removed  to  another  depart- 
ment where  the  perfect  ones  are  cut  up  by  rip- 
saws to  the  desired  length. 

Now  the  next  process  is  the  rubbing  bed,  which 
is  a  solid  box  imbedded  in  stone,  over  which  is  a 
solid,  cast  iron  wheel,  generally  about  thirteen  feet 
in  diameter  and  four  inches  thick  on  a  vertical 
shaft  fitted  with  ball  bearings.  This  rubbing  bed 
must  be  kept  exactly  true,  which  can  only  be  done 
by  the  most  expert  mechanism.  Sometimes  when 
it  gets  a  little  out  of  level  it  must  be  rubbed  for  a 
week  with  blue  stone  in  order  to  bring  it  to  the 
proper  position  to  work  to  raw  material. 

The  next  process  to  which  the  slabs  are  subject- 
ed is  hand  work,  and  here  they  are  cut  into  their 
final  shape,  whether  it  be  for  mantel,  soda  fountain, 
center  table,  sideboard  or  whatnot.  The  last  of  all 
it  enters  the  polishing  room.  The  principal  tool  in 
the  polishing  room  is  a  roll  of  ticking  about  twelve 
or  fifteen  inches  long.  The  workman  first  applies 
grit,  next  pumice,  third  hone.  Should  it  be  white 
marble  upon  which  he  is  working,  he  might  use 
oxalic  acid,  or  putty  of  zinc  for  finishing,  but  in 
case  he  is  working  on  colored  or  variegated  marble 
his  preference  is  eraory  finishing  putty  or  lead. 
Each  square  foot  of  such  work  costs  one  of  the 
best  workmen  four  hours  of  hard  labor.  While  the 
snowy  white  variety  is  very  beautiful  and  endures 
for  quite  a  while,  yet  the  variegated,  though  it  is 
very  expensive,  is  generally  harder,  more  beautiful, 
and  altogether  more  durable. 


If  you  anchor  a  pole  in  a  body  of  water,  leaving 
the  pole  above  the  surface,  and  put  a  spider  upon 
it,  he  will  exhibit  a  marvelous  intelligence  by  his 
plans  to  escape.  At  first  he  will  spin  a  web  several 
inches  long  and  hang  to  one  end,  while  he  allows 
the  other  to  float  off  in  the  wind,  in  the  hope  that 
it  will  strike  some  object.  Of  course,  this  plan 
proves  a  failure.  He  waits  until  the  wind  shifts, 
perhaps,  and  then  sends  another  silken  bridge  float- 
ing off  in  another  direction.  Another  failure  is  fol- 
lowed by  several  other  similar  attempts,  until  all  the 
points  of  the  compass  have  been  tried. 

But  neither  the  resources  nor  the  reasoning  pow- 
ers of  the  spider  are  exhausted.  He  climbs  to  the 
top  of  the  pole  and  energetically  goes  to  work  to 
construct  a  silken  balloon.  He  has  no  hot  air  with 
which  to  inflate  it,  but  he  has  the  power  of  making 
it  buoyant.  When  he  gets  his  balloon  finished  he 
does  not  go  off  upon  the  mere  supposition  that  it 
will  carry  him,  as  men  often  do,  but  he  fastens  it 
to  a  guy-rope,  the  other  end  of  which  he  attaches 
to  the  island  pole  upon  which  he  is  a  prisoner. 

He  then  gets  into  his  aerial  vehicle,  while  it  is 
made  fast,  and  tests  it  to  see  whether  its  dimensions 
are  capable  of  bearing  him  away.  He  sometimes 
finds  that  he  has  made  it  too  small,  in  which  case  he 
hauls  it  down,  takes  it  apart  and  constructs  it  on  a 
larger  and  better  plan.  A  spider  has  been  seen  to 
make  three  different  balloons  before  he  became .  sat- 
isfied with  his  experiment.  Then  he  will  get  in, 
snap  his  guy-rope  and  sail  away  to  land  as  grace- 
fully and  as  supremely  independent  of  his  surround- 
ings as  could  be  imagined. — Cincinnati  Enquirer. 


SOME     LINES     OF     WORK     FOR     YOUNG     MEM- 
BERS. 


BY    M.    M.    ESHELMAN. 

"Use  or  lose,"  is  a  solid  truism.  Work  or  rust; 
act  or  die ;  grow  or  wither.  The  unchecked  worm 
at  the  root  means  decrease  of  sap ;  loss  of  the  need- 
ful juice  is  loss  of  leaf,  of  bud,  blossom,  fruit — tree 
gone.  Disuse  of  trained  faculties  will  end  in  blight, 
blasting  the  beautiful  blendings. 

Having  been  trained  in  the  power  of  that  thought 
which  gives  strength  "  to  see,  to  foresee,  to  reason, 
to  judge,  to  infer,"  to  take  apart  and  to  put  together, 
what  shall  be  your  specialty? 

The  church  is  a  wide,  a  fruitful  field.  The  rocks 
of  unbelief  and  doubt  must  be  removed  ;  the  sloughs 
of  ignorance  drained ;  the  brush  of  inaction  and  in- 
animation cut  down,  and  in  their  stead  the  tree  of 


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679 


life  nourished,  the  temple  of  the  Holy  Ghost  bur- 
nished. 

One  of  the  best  and  I  may  say  the  most  inviting 
because  of  the  vastness  of  the  possibilities  for  good 
results,  is  illustrating  truth  by  means  of  the  black- 
board. Chalk  has  a  quickening  effect.  Not  a  di- 
vine truth  but  that  can  be  sent  home  to  both  cul- 
tured and  uncultured  heart  by  the  picture  method. 
Some  one  ready  with  chalk,  fertile  in  means  and 
quick  in  thought,  ought  to  engage  the  attention  of 
each  Sunday  school  five  or  ten  minutes  at  its  close 
with  apt  cartoons,  fixing  the  teaching  so  firmly  up- 
on every  pupil  that  the  coming  week  will  hear  it 
discussed  in  every  family  in  the  Sunday-school  area. 

Brother,  sister,  you  are  pining  to  do  something — 
waiting  for  votes  to  panoply  you  with  the  minister- 
ial robe,  are  you?  Go  hunt  chalk,  hang  up  a  black 
surface,  make  marks,  marks !  then  more  marks. 
Study  perspective — copy,  imitate,  work  and  Work 
until  you  can,  with  free  hand  and  ease  of  mind, 
sketch  in  simplest  form.  When  you  can  make  a 
picture  of  a  doctrine,  of  a  truth  past,  a  truth  present, 
a  truth  to  come,  the  church  that  lives  will  find  you. 

Primary  teachers  should  be  able  not  only  to  use 
blackboard  sketches,  but  be  qualified  to  paint  in 
color  at  home  for  class  use  on  Sunday.  Make  re- 
lief map  of  Palestine  for  your  .little  ones.  Use  one 
and  a  half  yards  of  blue  cambric,  stretched  on  frame 
or  box  with  edges  three  inches  high.  Use  clean 
sand  for  hills  and  mountains.  Leave  blue  ground 
for  seas  and  rivers.  Use  pegs  to  represent  towns 
and  cities.  Jerusalem  the  center;  all  the  other 
places  measured  from  there.  After  some  practice 
each  of  your  little  ones  will  be  able  to  set  the  pegs 
as  you  name  the  places.  What  a  field  to  fix  place 
in  the  minds  of  children!  Is  the  field  overworked? 
Almost  wholly  neglected.  Go,  occupy  and  educate 
the  little  ones  in  Bible  geography  and  with  it  other 
truths  of  God. 

*  *  * 
SLACK    WATER    NAVIGATION. 


BY    HARVEY    H.    SAYLOR. 

In  our  study  of  rivers,  we  find  that  there  is  a  vast 
difference  as  to  the  amount  of  fall  that  they 
have  from  their  source  to  their  mouth.  Some 
rivers  have  comparatively  little  fall,  while  oth- 
ers are  very  turbulent  and  noisy  as  they  go 
on  their  way  to  the  ocean.  A  river  with  a 
great  deal  of  fall  is  of  little  or  no  value  for  navi- 
gation, while  on  the  other  hand  those  that  have 
little  fall  can  be  made  of  great  service  in  transport- 
ing products  to  the  different  markets.  The  Monon- 
gahela  River  is  one  that  has  very  little  fall  and 
during  the  dry  seasons  of  the  year  many  miles  of 


its  length  are  made  navigable  by  means  of  locks ; 
a  lock  ten  or  fifteen  feet  high  dams  up  the  water 
for  from  ten  to  twenty  miles,  and  were  it  not  for 
this  the  river  would  be  useless  for  navigation  for 
the  greater  part  of  the  year.  The  river  is  used 
largely  for  the  transportation  of  coal  and  food  sup- 
plies. During  the  drier  parts  of  the  year  when 
navigation  is  impracticable  for  large  barges  or  flats, 
loaded  with  coal,  they  are  loaded  and  left  at  the 
mines  until  the  river  raises ;  ofttimes  one  mine  has 
a  fleet  of  fifty  of  these  barges  each  containing  about 
twenty-five  thousand  bushels  of  coal.  When  the 
barges  are  loaded  it  becomes  necessary  to  employ 
a  pumping  boat  to  keep  the  water  out  that  has 
leaked  into  them  ;  if  this  is  not  done  many  of  them 
will  sink.  After  the  river  raises  sufficiently  these 
barges  are  towed  by  steamboats  down  the  river 
even  as  far  as  New  Orleans  and  points  between. 
Roscoe,  Pa. 

CANNIBAL    FISH. 


Frank  McHaffie,  who  is  one  of  the  most  enthu- 
siastic sportsmen  in  western  Montana,  says  that  he 
is  viewing  with  alarm  the  ultimate  destruction  of 
all  the  smaller  varieties  of  fish  in  the  streams  within 
the  vicinity  of  Missoula.  The  char,  or  bull  trout 
species,  he  says,  are  the  most  destructive  fish  can- 
nibals in  the  waters  to-day,  and  there  is  no  telling 
what  they  are  liable  to  do.  Not  only  do  they  eat 
fish,  but  they  are  likely  to  come  on  land  and  take 
after  sheep  and  other  live  stock.  Mr.  McHaffie, 
who  may  always  be  relied  upon  for  truthfulness 
when  it  comes  to  a  fishing  story,  recalls  an  instance 
when  the  Montana  bull  trout  actually  swallowed  a 
litter  of  some  seventeen  pigs.  The  old  sow,  he 
said,  had  been  in  the  habit  of  swimming  across 
the  Big  Blackfoot  River  every  day,  the  seventeen 
little  pigs  following  after  her.  One  by  one  the  little 
ones  were  found  missing  and  considerable  appre- 
hension was  felt  as  to  their  whereabouts.  Finally 
a  bull  trout  which  weighed  about  eleven  pounds 
was  caught  in  the  act  of  trapping  the  old  sow  and. 
had  it  not  been  for  the  timely  interference  of  Mc- 
Haffie, the  animal  would  have  perished.  It  is  no 
unusual  thing,  Mr.  McHaffie  says,  to  find  boots  and 
shoes  in  their  stomachs  when  they  are  hooked. 
They  are  the  most  destructive  of  fish,  and  Mr.  Mc- 
Haffie is  looking  forward  to  the  time  when  a  bounty 
will  be  offered  on  them. — Selected. 

A  LINEAL  descendant  of  Mohammed  lives  the  life  of 
a  small  shopkeeper  in  Cairo,  Egypt.  The  famous  an- 
cestry of  the  tradesman  is  familiar  throughout  the  city 
and  insures  good  trade,  especially  among  the  tourists. 


68o 


THE      iNGLENOOK. 


HIS    UNKNOWN    FRIEND. 


Mrs.  Willis  was  a  kind-hearted  woman,  who  lived 
in  a  little  college  town.  It  was  the  habit  of  the  friends 
of  members  of  the  graduating  class  to  present  to  them, 
on  commencement  day,  flowers,  books,  or  other  little 
gifts  expressive  of  their  affection  and  good  wishes. 
Mrs.  Willis  had  observed  that  while  some  of  the  more 
popular  lads  were  loaded  with  tokens  of  friendship, 
there  were  others  who  seemed  to  have  no  friends,  and 
were  unnoticed. 

On  the  next  commencement  day,  therefore,  she  made 
•  up  a  bunch  of  flowers,  and  attached  to  it  a  card,  con- 
veying a  kindly  message.  This  she  sent  to  the  usher, 
with  a  request  that  he  should  give  it  to  any  one  of  the 
students  who  happened  to  be  neglected.  A  shy,  awk- 
ward lad  received  it,  and  took  it  with  evident  surprise 
and  pleasure. 

The  incident  soon  passed  from  her  mind.  Ten 
years  later,  however,  she  visited  an  inland  city,  and 
there  became  acquainted  with  a  young  physician  who 
had  already  attained  a  high  standing  among  his  broth- 
er practitioners. 

One  day,  just  before  returning  home,  she  noticed 
in  his  office  a  faded  bunch  of  flowers  under  glass. 

"  That  has  a  story,  which  I  should  like  to  tell  you 
before  you  go,"  he  said.  "  I  began  life  as  a  poor 
farm-boy.  I  had  no  family.  I  saved  money  enough 
to  go  to  school,  and  afterwards  to  college. 

"  But  I  lived  during  three  years  in  dire  poverty.  I 
wore  the  coarsest  clothes ;  I  rented  a  room,  and  cooked 
my  own  food,  which  was  so  scant}'  that  I  used  to 
stagger  as  I  walked  up  to  recitation.  My  poverty 
made  me  dread  to  meet  even  my  fellow-students. 

"  Young  people  need  approbation  and  affection. 
An  occasional  word  of  sympathy  would  have  strength- 
ened me  like  wine.  No  such  word  came ;  there  were 
days  when  all  my  struggles  seemed  useless  to  me,  for 
— who  cared ! 

"  When  at  last  I  stood  on  the  platform,  and  re- 
ceived the  diploma  earned  by  four  years  of  work  and 
privation  I  looked  over  the  masses  of  faces  and 
thought,  '  Not  one  of  them  is  turned  to  me  with  a 
kind  look.'  All  the  other  men  had  their  families  and 
friends.  There  was  nobody  to  give  me  a  good  wish 
at  my  entrance  into  the  world.  I  was  tired,  and  my 
heart  was  sick  and  bitter. 

"  But  just  before  we  left  the  platform,  that  bunch 
of  flowers  was  handed  to  me.  A  card  was  tied  to  it, 
on  which  was  written,  '  From  a  friend  who  hopes  that 
your  life  may  always  bring  you,  as  to-day,  the  reward 
for  honest  endeavor." 

The  doctor's  voice  grew  husky. 
"  Why,  madam,  those  words  saved  me !     I  had   a 
friend !     Somebody  had  approved  me.  cared  for  me ! 


Never  were  roses  as  sweet  as  those !  I  vowed  I  would 
not  disappoint  my  friend;  that  I  would  work  as  I 
had  never  done  before.  I  have  tried  to  do  it ;  I  have 
many  dear  friends  now,  but  not  one  of  them  has  ever 
given  me  such  a  help  as  came  to  me  through  those 
faded  roses." 

Mrs.  Willis  thanked  him  for  his  story,  with  tears  in 
her  eyes,  and  bade  him  farewell. 

The  little  seed  which  she  had  carelessly  planted 
had  given  back  to  her  this  little  rich  flower  and  fruit. 
Every  seed  that  we  plant  brings  forth  its  fruit  and 
flower. 

*  ♦  *J» 

DON'T   BE   TRAGICAL. 


BY   ANITA    METZGER. 

Girls,  whatever  else  you  are  guilty  of,  don't  be 
tragical.  Don't  try  to  "  let  on  "  as  if  there  were 
some  sad  secret  in  your  life,  and  you  were  a  sort 
of  martyr  in  enduring  your  fate.  Nine-tenths  of 
the  girls  I  meet  in  college  life  seem  to  think  there's 
some  sort  of  honor  to  be  gained  if  they  can  succeed 
in  impressing  people  with  the  fact  that  they  have 
a  secret  trouble. 

Then,  too,  so  many  make  their  religion  a  sort 
of  daily  tragedy.  Can't  you  be  a  wholesome,  hon- 
est Christian  girl,  without  acting  as  if  it  were  a 
mighty  thing,  this  religion,  and  you  had  to  strain 
every  nerve  to  keep  your  comprehension  of  it  cor- 
rect? And  if  someone  makes  a  mistake,  don't  shake 
your  head  and  say  in  that  tragical  way  that  "  it's  a 
terrible  thing,"  "  horrid,"  and  "  something  fierce." 
Try  to  think  that  people  make  mistakes  as  a  matter 
of  course,  and  it's  your  business  to  cheerfully  lend 
a  helping  hand  and  then  go  on  your  way  and  forget 
their  fault. 

Don't  make  a  tragedy  of  every  love  and  friend- 
ship that  comes  into  your  life.  Love  and  admire 
people,  honestly  and  sensibly,  but  don't  work  your- 
self up  to  a  tragical  worship  of  every  person  you 
have  a  regard  or  respect  for,  for  when  you  discover 
they  are  human  you'll  be  going  around  saying  how 
your  faith  in  humanity  is  hurt,  and  a  lot  of  such 
things  that  ought  never  to  be  said. 

I'm  sorry  to  say  I  believe  girls  are  much  more 
given  to  these  tragical  tendencies  than  boys  are, 
but  in  either  case  it  is  a  pity.  And  if  you  knew 
how  much  better,  happier  and  more  useful  a  cheer- 
ful, sensible  Christian  girl  is  than  the  tragically 
good  (?)  girl,  you'd  surely  give  up  tragedy  in  favor 
of  common  sense  and  perfect  honesty.  If  you  want 
to  be  really  original,  give  up  stage  actions — be  nat- 
ural. 

McPherson,  Kans. 


"HE 


INGLENOOK 


68 1 


SOME    QUEER    CHINESE    CHARACTERISTICS. 


BY    SADIE    WINE. 


NO    POSTERITY. 


BY   J.    G.    FIGLEY. 


An  American  residing  in  the  Celestial  Empire  is 
impressed  with  many  curious  customs  of  the  peo- 
ple. 

Their  lack  of  progress  is  partly  due,  no  doubt, 
to  the  custom  of  ancestry  worship.  They  regard 
their  ancestors  models  of  perfection  and  to  depart 
in  the  slightest  degree  from  their  beliefs  or  their 
mode  of  performing  labor  is  to  show  them  dis- 
respect. Thus  the  idea  of  making  improvement  in 
any  line  is  never  so  much  as  dreamed  of. 

One  notable  trait  is  their  inaccuracy  in  express- 
ing time  or  distance.  Their  standard  of  measuring 
distance  is  the  "  lie,"  which  is  equal  to  about  half 
a  mile.  On  being  asked  the  distance  to  a  certain 
point  they  say,  for  instance,  "  twenty  lie  " — the  road 
is  level ;  on  inquiring  of  another  place  of  equal  dis- 
tance but  up  grade,  they  say  it  is  "  forty  lie." 
Their  reason  for  this  is  that  it  requires  twice  the 
amount  of  energy  to  travel  the  latter  road.  In  re- 
gard to  age,  a  man  tells  you  he  is  sixty  years  old, 
but  on  closer  inquiry  you  find  he  is  near  seventy. 
On  being  reminded  of  his  mistake,  he  is  surprised 
that  you  should  take  account  of  so  slight  a  dis- 
crepancy. 

The  Chinese  are  said  to  be  very  economical,  not 
only  do  they  eat  rats,  dogs  and  other  unclean  ani- 
mals, but  all  manner  of  dead  animals  they  chance 
to  find ;  even  the  temptation  to  eat  a  dog  that  had 
died  of  poisoning  could  not  be  resisted  and,  strange 
to  say,  no  bad  results  followed. 

An  old  lady  feeling  that  her  earthly  career  was 
about  to  close,  walked  to  the  house  of  a  friend  who 
lived  near  the  cemetery  and  there  awaited  death, 
her  object  was  to  curtail  her  burial  expenses. 

But  the  most  singular  custom  of  all  is  their  man- 
ner of  taking  revenge.  For  example,  a  woman  re- 
ceives an  insult  or  an  injury  from  a  neighbor,  in- 
stead of  flinging  mud  into  the  neighbor's  face  or 
engaging  in  a  war  of  words  with  her,  she  very 
promptly  commits  suicide. 

*   ♦   * 
FAME. 

One  thing  is  certain  in  regard  to  the  fame  to 
which  we  sometimes  aspire.  At  the  best  it  will  be 
transient  in  our  enjoyment  of  life.  When  death  enters 
we  hear  no  more  applause.  Doubtless  we  do  not 
realize  how  quickly  it  will  die  away  in  silence  while 
the  audience  turns  to  look  at  the  new  actor  and  the 
next  scene,  and  our  place  in  society  will  be  filled  as 
soon  as  it  is  vacant. 


Queer  as  it  may  seem  it  is  nevertheless  a  fact  that 
some  of  the  most  prominent  characters  in  the  world's 
history  have  either  no  children  at  all  or  those  who  are 
very  inferior  in  intellect.  History  says  that  Chaucer, 
Shakespeare,  Spencer,  Milton,  Cowley,  Butler,  Dryden 
and  Pope  have  not  a  single  living  descendant  in  the 
male  line.  And  Cowper,  Goldsmith,  Byron  and 
Moore  should  be  classed  with  them.  No  children  were 
born  to, Sir  Philip  Sydney,  nor  Sir  Walter  Raleigh, 
nor  Sir  Francis  Drake.  Cromwell,  Hampden,  Nel- 
son, George  Washington  and  Andrew  Jackson  were 
childless.  To  this  list  should  be  added  Bollingbroke, 
Walpole,  Chatham.  Pitt,  Fox,  Burke  and  Channing. 
The  list  is  increased  by  such  names  as  Bacon,  Locke 
and  Davy,  Hume,  Gibbon  and  Macaulay.  Washington 
Irving  and  Sir  Isaac  Newton  were  celibates. 

Bryan,  Ohio. 

*  *   * 

THE    GREAT    NEED    OF    AN    EDUCATION. 


BY    OLIVE    MAY. 

"'  Our  school  days  are  our  best  days,"  we  often  hear 
said,  and  truly  they  are,  and  how  often  after  they 
are  over  so  many  of  us  have  reason  to  regret  that 
we  did  not  make  better  use  of  them.  Oh.  how  very 
important  it  is  that  parents  should  send  their  chil- 
dren, though  it  cost  them  no  small  sacrifice,  to 
school  or  some  institution  of  learning,  where  they 
will  have  the  advantage  of  good  teachers  to  instruct 
them  that  they  may  not  be,  as  I've  often  heard  said, 
dummies  all  their  lives.  Lost  opportunities  !  How 
sad  it  is  to  hear  some  grey-haired  father  or  mother 
say,  "  Oh.  children,  do  not  miss  such  golden  oppor- 
tunities as  you  have  to-day  for  acquiring  an  edu- 
cation, for  we  did  not  have  such  when  young  and 
how  often  we  have  felt  the  need  of  it." 

There  are  so  many  positions  open  to  those  who, 
though  they  have  not  graduated,  and  it  is  not  neces- 
sary that  they  have  some  big  letters  after  their 
name,  have  but  a  common  school  education.  It  is  so 
much  harder  for  an  unlearned  person  to  obtain  al- 
most any  kind  of  a  position  than  one  who  has  tried 
to  raise  himself  to  a  nobler  manhood  or  womanhood 
by  studying  and  taking  advantage  of  the  spare 
moments. 

Then  let  us,  dear  readers,  take  advantage  of  these 
opportunities,  for  there  are  schools  on  even,-  hand. 
Go  there,  hecome  useful  men  and  women  in  this 
world  and  finally  win  a  crown  in  the  world  to  come. 

Mason  &  Dixon,  Pa. 


682 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


RAISING    ALFALFA. 


The  value  of  alfalfa  as  a  forage  crop,  when  it  can 
be  grown  successfully,  is  undoubted.  Our  impres- 
sion is  that  sufficiently  comprehensive  experiments 
with  it  have  not  been  made  through  the  great  cen- 
tral region  of  our  country.  The  principal  difficulty 
seems  to  be  in  getting  it  started  properly.  When 
once  a  good  stand  has  been  obtained,  it  shows  re- 
markable power  in  resisting  drouth.  To  procure  a 
good  stand  the  proper  preparation  of  the  land  for 
a  seed  bed  is  first  essential.  It  needs  a  rich  soil, 
a  permeable  and  well-drained  subsoil,  completely 
free  from  the  roots  of  perennial  weeds  and  from 
weed  seeds  of  all  kinds.  The  ideal  soil  should  be 
a  well-set  blue  grass  pasture,  or  new  prairie  from 
which  the  sward  has  been  taken  up  and  removed. 
The  next  best  would  be  a  field  which  has  been  put 
through  such  a  system  of  soil  stirring  and  summer 
fallow  as  to  make  it  entirely  clean.  The  seed  should 
be  sown  a  week  or  ten  days  before  corn  planting 
time,  at  the  rate  of  twenty  pounds  an  acre,  if  broad- 
casted, and  fifteen  pounds  if  drilled.  The  crop 
needs  no  attention  after  sowing  until  the  first  blos- 
soms appear  and  the  leaves  begin  to  turn  yellow. 
Then  the  growth  should  be  cut  off  at  once,  clear 
down  to  the  surface  of  the  ground,  even  if  its  height 
should  not  exceed  three  inches.  It  is  right  here  that 
many  fail,  because  they  think  it  is  no  use  to  cut 
the  scant  growth.  The  neglect  to  do  this  accounts 
for  nine-tenths  of  all  the  failures  with  this  crop. 
Almost  as  soon  as  this  first  growth  is  cut  a  new 
growth  starts,  and  in  a  few  weeks  makes  double 
the  amount  of  the  first  crop.  From  that  on  each 
succeeding  crop  becomes  larger,  and  it  is  not  until 
at  the  fourth  year  that  the  maximum  yield  is  ob- 
tained. After  the  third  year  something  must  be 
done  to  subdue  the  weeds  and  grasses  which  will 
invade  the  alfalfa  field,  no  matter  how  clean  your 
land  was  at  the  start.  This  work  is  best  accom- 
plished by  the  use  of  a  sharp-toothed  harrow  as 
soon  as  the  frost  is  out  and  the  ground  settled  in 
the  spring.  The  harrow  can  be  safely  used  even 
though  its  teeth  seem  to  tear  everything  up  by  the 
roots,  as  the  alfalfa  will  be  so  well  rooted  by  this 
time  that  it  is  almost  impossible  to  disturb  it.  The 
mistake  is  often  made  in  harrowing  too  little  instead 
of  too  much.  Nothing  except  such  a  thorough  stir- 
ring of  the  soil  will  enable  the  alfalfa  to  hold  its 
own ;  but  with  such  cultivation,  and  some  applica- 
tion of  good  fertilizers,  a  field  of  alfalfa  should  re- 
main profitable  for  ten  years  or  more.  It  is  better 
to  use  commercial  fertilizers  than  barnyard  ma- 
nures, as  the  latter  will  inevitably  carry  weed  seeds 
into  the  field.  The  feeding  value  of  alfalfa  is  prob- 
ably greater,  to  the  acre,  than  any  other  forage  crop 


we  have,  and  it  cannot  be  too  widely  distributed. 
By  such  careful  methods  as  we  have  indicated  here 
it  may  be  made  profitable  in  many  regions  to  which 
it  has  not  been  thoroughly  adapted.  We  advise 
our  readers  to  try  an  experimental  plot  this  season. 
It  will  perhaps  lead  to  increasing  its  extent  another 
year,  but  do  not  try  it  at  all  unless  you  mean  to 
be  thorough  with  it.  Failures  are  discouraging,  not 
only  to  yourself,  but  they  have  the  effect  of  setting 
others  against  the  crop.  Men  will  note  the  failure, 
but  may  not  investigate  the  cause  which  led  to  it. — 
Plowman. 

CHOOSE    A    MOTTO. 


BY    L.     MARGARET    HAAS. 

An  honored  professor  in  one  of  our  public  schools 
used  to  close  his  morning  talks  to  his  scholars  with 
this  injunction:  "Do  good  because  it  is  right." 
The  firm  lips,  the  broad  forehead,  the  kindly  face, 
the  square  set  shoulders,  the  upright  bearing,  and 
withal  the  scholarship  of  the  man  made  him  at 
once  an  ideal  leader,  teacher  and  friend.  And  his 
simple  words,  how  they  rooted  themselves  deep 
down  in  the  hearts  of  the  young  people  to  whom 
they  were  uttered. 

Do  good  because  it  is  right,  not  from  fear  of 
detection  and  punishment  for  other  than  right-do- 
ing; not  for  the  acclamation  of  the  onlookers;  not 
because  "  Honesty  is  the  best  policy,"  and  will 
eventually  bring  you  in  so  many  dollars  and  cents, 
— but  because  it  is  right. 

I  wish  every  boy  and  girl  reader  of  the  Ingle- 
nook  would  adopt  some  good  maxim  and  make 
it  a  rule  of  his  life.  The  favorite  motto  of  the 
Prince  of  Wales  is  "  Ich  dien,"  "  I  serve."  To 
make  that  a  daily  thought  could  not  be  otherwise 
than  helpful.  It  would  teach  us  the  needful  lesson 
of  humility.  It  would  enforce  obedience.  It  would 
make  of  each  of  us  a  minister,  which  means,  primar- 
ily, a  servant.  It  would  teach  us  to  obey  in  all 
things  the  mandates  of  the  One  who  does  not  err. 
Let  us,  then,  serve  our  friends,  by  giving  them  love 
and  sympathy,  and  a  helping  hand;  our  country, 
by  observing  the  laws  which  our  countrymen  have 
laid  for  the  protection  of  its  people ;  and  our  God, 
by  searching  his  Word  and  doing  his  will. 

Mechanicsburg,  Pa. 

*>   *   •!« 

FORM    A    HABIT. 


Habits  are  a  part  of  you  ;  then  habits  should  be 
good  habits  by  all  means :  set  apart  a  time  for  read- 
ing good  things  at  least  a  few  minutes  each  day. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


683 


THE    FOOTPATH    TO    PEACE.. 


BY    HENRY    VAN    DYKE. 


To  be  glad  of  life,  because  it  gives  you  the  chance 
to  love  and  to  work  and  to  play  and  to  look  up  at 
the  stars;  to  be  satisfied  with  your  possessions,  but 
not  contented  with  yourself  until  you  have  made 
the  best  of  them  ;  to  despise  nothing  in  the  world 
except  falsehood  and  meanness,  and  to  fear  nothing 
except  cowardice ;  to  be  governed  by  your  admira- 
tions rather  than  by  your  disgusts  ;  to  covet  nothing 
that  is  your  neighbor's  except  his  kindness  of  heart 
and  gentleness  of  manners:  to  think  seldom  of  vour 


north  and  525  feet  toward  the  east,  facing  the  main 
lagoon. 

The  design  is  a  bold,  columnated  treatment  of 
the  Corinthian  order.  The  columns  are  carried 
well  down  toward  the  ground,  to  give  height  to  the 
facades.  The  latter  are  well  accentuated  by  ele- 
vated pediments  and  tower  effects  over  the  four 
main  entrances  and  at  the  corners.  Over  the  ac- 
centuated places,  as  well  as  over  the  twin  columns, 
which  form  a  pleasing  variation  of  the  treatment 
of  the  facades,  opportunity  for  ample  sculptural 
decoration  is  supplied. 

The  fenestration  is  bold  and  appropriate,  giving 
ample  light  and    substantial    wall    treatment.     On 


PALACES    OF    ELECTRICITY    AND    VARIED    INDUSTRIES. 


enemies,  often  of  your  friends,  and  every  day  of 
Christ ;  and  to  spend  as  much  time  as  you  can,  with 
body  and  with  spirit,  in  God's  out-of-doors — these  are 
little  guide-posts  on  the  footpath  to  peace. 
#  #  ♦ 
ELECTRICITY    BUILDING. 


The  Electricity  Building  was  erected  by  the  Wil- 
liam Goldie  Sons  Company,  the  contract  price  be- 
ing $399,940.  The  structure  was  planned  by  Walk- 
er and  Kimball,  of  Boston  and  Omaha,  who  were 
the  chief  architects  of  the  Omaha  Exposition.  It 
is  located  on  the  main  central  avenue  and  forms 
one  of  the  leading  elements  of  the  main  Exposition 
picture.     It  has  a  frontage  of  650  feet  toward  the 


two  sides  of  the  building  are  loggies  which  add 
pleasing  effects  of  light  and  shadow.  There  are 
numerous  openings  on  the  facades,  such  as  exhibit- 
ors always  seek  in  selecting  their  exhibit  space. 
The  plan  of  the  building  is  simple  and  well  treated, 
showing  an  effort  to  supply  as  much  exhibit  space 
as  is  possible  with  the  292.000  square  feet  of  floor 
space.  The  exhibit  space  is  compact  and  sym- 
metrical. An  extensive  balcony  sweeps  around 
four  sides  of  the  building,  supplying  100.000  square 
feet  of  additional  space.  The  doors  of  the  build- 
ing are  of  gigantic  dimensions.  11  by  18  feet.  The 
structure  has  176  trusses,  the  largest  span  ben,; 
S2  feet  in  length.  One  hundred  and  eighty-five 
tons  of  iron  and  steel  were  used. 


684 


THE      INQLENOOr.. 


THE    COLOR    OF    SEAWATER. 


The  color  of  sea-water  as  we  look  off  upon  its  sur- 
face is  one  thing,  and  the  color  of  the  water  as  we 
look  down  into  its  depths  is  quite  another  matter.  In 
the  former  case  there  is  shown,  to  a  great  extent  a 
reflection  of  the  sky.  The  sea  is  bright  or  dark  as  the 
sky  is  clear  or  cloud}'.  Again,  the  breeze  that  just 
ruffles  the  surface  changes,  for  a  time,  the  appear- 
ance of  the  sea.  This  aspect  of  the  water  is  always 
changing. 

But  when  we  look  at  the  water  in  a  mass,  it  shows  a 
permanent  color.  We  see  this  color  of  the  water  best 
in  the  billows  raised  before  us.  It  is  blue,  tinged 
more  or  less  with  green. 

Travelers  often  express  great  admiration  for  the  blue 
of  the  Mediterranean.  The  same  blue  is  found  in  in- 
land seas  like  the  Great  Salt  Lake.  On  the  other 
hand,  those  who  have  sailed  into  the  Arctic  regions  say 
that  the  water  there  is  green. 

The  explanation  of  these  facts  was  easily  found 
from  observations  made  from  the  German  ship  Ga- 
jselle,  which  went  out  on  a  voyage  of  scientific  explor- 
ation a  few  years  ago.  It  was  found  that  the  color  of 
the  sea,  varied  according  to  the  percentage  of  salt 
-which  its  waters  contain.  The  more  salt,  the 
more  intensely  blue  is  the  water. 

In  the  tropics,  where  the  evaporation  is  greater  than 
the  rainfall,  there  is  an  excess  of  salt  as  compared 
with  the  Arctic  regions,  where  the  conditions  are  re- 
-versed.  Accordingly,  the  water  about  the  equator 
is  described  as  intensely  blue,  and  that  towards  the 
poles  is  said  to  be  comparatively  green. 

Whenever  green  water  is  met  with  in  the  tropics, 
it  is  found  either  to  belong  to  a  current  from  the  neigh- 
borhood of  the  poles,  or  else  it  is  near  the  shore  where 
a  large  quantity  of  fresh  water  is  being  discharged 
into  the  sea.  In  a  singular  manner  the  blue  water  is 
carried  toward  the  poles  by  the  gulf  stream  and  other 
currents  in  the  ocean. 

In  the  case  of'  inland  seas  in  which  the  water  is 
more  salt  than  any  part  of  the  ocean,  the  blue  is 
correspondingly  intense.  This  is  what  is  reported  of 
the  Caspian,  and  the  Dead  Sea. 

•>   ♦>   •> 
SOME    INDIAN    DISHES. 


BY    MARY    STOVER. 

Curry  is  of  many  kinds  and  differs  according  to 
the  variety  and  amount  of  spices  used  to  form  the 
basis  or  mussalo.  The  way  we  make  it  is  as  fol- 
lows :  Turmeric,  coriander  seed,  cummin  seed, 
kuss-kuss  are  each  browned  separately  and  pound- 
ed fine,   and  about   a  teaspoonful   of  each   kind   is 


taken  to  make  a  curry  for  from  four  to  six  persons. 
To  this  is  added  a  small  piece  of  green  ginger,  two 
or  three  cardamon  seeds,  a  very  little  mustard, 
two  large  or  three  small  dried  red  peppers,  and  one- 
third  of  a  cocoanut.  These  are  all  ground  together 
on  the  curry  stone,  which  is  a  flat,  rough  stone  with  a 
long  round  stone  to  roll  back  and  forth  on  it. 

When  these  ingredients  are  ground  to  a  fine  pulp, 
a  little  butter  is  put  into  the  cooking  vessel  and 
an  onion  cut  up  is  browned  in  the  butter.  To  this 
is  added  the  ground  up  mass  and  browned  thor- 
oughly. Then  water  is  added  to  make  the  proper 
amount.  This  is  common  to  all  curries.  Now  the 
kinds  of  curry  are  almost  unlimited.  If  meat,  cur- 
ry is  wanted,  meat  is  cut  up  and  cooked  until  tender 
in  the  curry.  Vegetable  curry  has  different  kinds 
of  vegetables  cooked  in  the  curry.  Chicken  curry 
is  made  by  cutting  up  the  chicken  and  stewing  it 
in  the  curry.  If  bits  of  cold  meat  and  vegetables 
are  left  over  from  one  meal,  these  may  be  made  in- 
to a  curry  for  the  next.  Then  there  is  the  egg 
curry,  plantain  curry,  lobster,  oyster,  fish,  duck,  etc. 

Now  to  make  the  dish  a  success,  the  cooking  of 
the  rice  is  equally  important.  There  are  different 
ways  of  which  this  is  one:  After  the  rice  is  well 
cleaned,  throw  it  into  a  vessel  of  boiling  water  and 
allow  it  to  boil  rapidly  until  soft.  Then  pour  off 
the  water,  and  dash  plenty  of  cold  water  over  it. 
Pour  this  off  and  tip  the  vessel  sidewise  over  a 
bed  of  coals,  allowing  the  rice  to  drain  and 
steam,  and  when  turned  out  it  will  be  white  and 
all  the  grains  dry  and  separate.  In  serving  it  the 
rice  and  curry  are  dished  separately,  the  rice  is 
passed  first  and  the  curry  put  over  it. 

I  would  not  advise  any  of  our  American  sis- 
ters to  try  to  make  curry  by  the  process  we  do  here. 
If  you  want  to  try,  you  can  get  the  bottled  curry 
powder  with  directions  to  prepare  it,  which  will  be 
a  much  simpler  process  than  the  way  we  have. 
But  having  the  ingredients  at  hand  we  have  them 
prepared  fresh,  and  we  think  it  better,  as  the  mus- 
salo prepared  and  kept  in  this  climate  soon  loses  its 
flavor. 

Some  people  do  not  learn  to  like  curry  even  after 
having  lived  in  India  for  some  time.  Others  soon 
learn  to  like  it.  and  those  who  relish  it  find  nothing 
so  palatable  these  hot  days  as  a  good  plate  of  rice 
and  curry. 

Bulsar,  India. 

♦  ♦>   *S- 

Germany"  is  now  the  best  educated  nation  of  the 
continent,  yet  only  one  hundred  years  ago  German 
teachers  in  many  parts  of  the  country  were  so 
poorly  paid  that  they  used  to  sing  in  front  of  the 
houses  in  order  to  add  to  their  income  by  odd  pence. 


"HE      INGLENOOK. 


68; 


WIGAM. 


BY    ADA    KIRCHER. 

William  David,  or  as  everyone  called  him,  Wig- 
am,  was  little  more  than  a  baby  when  his  father 
died,  leaving  his  mother  without  any  support ;  but 
with  four  small  children  to  support,  of  whom  Wig- 
am  was  the  eldest.  Next  was  Tommy  who  gave 
Wigam  his  strange  cognomen  in  trying  to  pro- 
nounce his  full  name  when  he  was  learning  to  talk. 
Roxy  was  the  third  and  little  baby  sister  was  only 
a  few  weeks  old.  Poor  Mrs.  Jones  was  so  heart- 
broken at  first  she  hardly  knew  what  to  do.  Her 
neighbors  were  very  kind,  but  she  could  not  always 
depend  upon  them.  So  she  did  the  next  to  best 
thing;  took  in  washing,  wove  carpet,  sewed, 
scrubbed,  or  did  any  work  she  could  get.  She  sent 
Wigam  to  school  until  he  was  twelve  years  old ; 
then  he  began  to  try  to  help  his  mother. 

During  the  summer  he  would  go  out  into  the  coun- 
try and  work  for  a  farmer.  It  was  hard  work  and 
Wigam  was  not  used  to  hard  work,  but  he  stuck 
to  it.  Oftentimes  when  night  came  he  would  be 
so  tired  he  could  hardly  keep  his  eyes  open  until 
he  got  to  bed  and  one  night  he  sat  down  on  the 
hay  in  the  hallway  of  the  barn,  just  to  rest  his  tired 
limbs  and  before  he  knew  it  he  was  fast  asleep. 
There  was  a  great  commotion  in  the  farmer's  house- 
hold when  Wigam's  place  was  vacant  at  the  supper 
table,  for  he  was  a  very  kind-hearted  boy  and  won 
the  affection  of  all  those  with  whom  he  came  in 
contact. 

After  that  Wigam  was  allowed  to  retire  earlier 
and  finally  the  long  week  had  passed  and  it  was 
Sunday.  Wigam  was  so  glad  for  he  longed  to  see 
his  mother  and  Tommy  and  the  rest.  How  his  lit- 
tle heart  thumped  when  he  thought  that  he  was 
really  helping  his  dear  mother  who  had  worked  so 
hard  to  keep  him  in  food  and  clothing  and  to  send 
him  to  school.  He  kept  at  his  job  on  the  farm 
all  summer  long.  Sometimes  it  was  hot  and  he 
felt  more  like  resting  in  the  shade  than  working, 
but  he  never  shirked.  One  day  the  farmer  went  to 
the  village  and  as  it  was  drizzling  he  left  nothing 
for  Wigam  to  do.  What  do  you  think  he  did? 
If  he  had  been  like  most  boys  that  question  would 
be  easy  to  answer,  but  not  so  with  Wigam :  he  had 
noticed  the  little  pigs  were  standing  in  the  rain  and 
were  looking  so  wet  and  shivery.  He  remembered 
hearing  the  farmer  say  that  the  pigs  needed  a  shel- 
ter. Why  could  he  not  build  a  shed  for  them!1 
He  had  helped  his  mother  build  chicken  coops  and 
knew  just  how  it  was  done.  He  believed  chicken 
coops  were  not  so  much  different  from  pig  sheds. 
So  he  went  to  work  and  when  the  farmer  returned 


the  shelter  for  the  pigs  was  finished  and  they  were 
snugly  nestled  in  some  straw  that  thoughtful  Wig- 
am had  placed  inside  the  shed. 

Of  course  the  farmer  was  very  much  pleased 
with  Wigam's  work  and  said  so  to  Wigam  ;  and 
Wigam  did  not  expect  a  quarter  or  half  dollar  ex- 
tra for  his  work,  but  felt  himself  well  paid  because 
he  had  pleased  his  friend,  the  farmer,  and  because 
the  pigs  had  a  snug  little  bed. 

At  last  the  summer  months  were  over  and  Wig- 
am was  allowed  to  go  home  and  start  to  school  on 
the  following  Monday. 

Every  summer  he  spent  on  the  farm  and  his  earn- 
ings were  used  to  defray  the  expenses  of  the  family. 

One  day,  not  many  years  after,  a  real  estate  agent 
whose  name  I  forbear  to  mention,  called  at  Mrs. 
Jones'  home,  wishing  to  sell  her  a  small  home  at 
the  edge  of  town.  He  told  her  she  might  pay  for 
it  by  installments.  She  accordingly  bought  the 
home  and  by  her  thrift  and  economy  succeeded  in 
meeting  every  payment. 

Mrs.  Jones  little  knew  the  man  she  had  to  deal 
with,  else  she  would  never  have  entrusted  Wigam 
to  take  the  money  to  the  agent  one  morning  when 
she  was  busy.  On  the  said  morning  the  agent  was 
also  busy,  or  so  it  seemed,  at  least  he  did  not  have 
time  to  give  Wigam  a  receipt. 

When  at  last  Mrs.  Jones  had  the  last  payment 
ready,  and  was  getting  ready  to  take  the  money  to 
the  agent  for  final  settlement,  she  told  WTigam  that 
they  might  now  consider  the  home  as  entirely  theirs, 
but  alas!  the  dishonest  agent  took  advantage  of  the 
poor  widow  and  her  son. 

He  claimed  that  Wigam  had  never  given  him 
that  one  payment,  and  as  Mrs.  Jones  had  no  re- 
ceipt to  show  for  it,  there  was  nothing  else  to  do 
but  to  pay  it  again.  Ah !  little  did  that  dishonest 
agent  know  what  that  meant  to  the  poor  widow 
and  family:  another  month  of  hard  work  and  econ- 
omy, with  scarcely  enough  food  and  clothing,  and 
cold  winter  coming  on.  The  hard  work  began  to 
tell  on  Mrs.  Jones'  health,  so  Wigam  had  to  stay 
out  of  school.  He  liked  to  go  to  school  and  no 
one  knew  what  an  effort  he  had  to  make  to  keep 
his  mother  from  seeing  his  disappointment.  He 
tried  to  keep  a  cheerful  face  and  succeeded  so  well 
that  she  never  guessed  what  was  going  on  in  his 
troubled  mind. 

The  payment  was  met  but  Mrs.  Jones  ruined 
her  eves  in  sitting  up  late  sewing  and  now  the  chil- 
dren care  for  their  mother  very  tenderly,  for  they 
are  all  very  grateful  children. 

Harrisonville,  Mo. 

^      4j»       «J. 

Ideals  are  the  world's  masters. — Holland. 


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UP    AGAINST    A    STUMP. 


To  the  many  Nookers  who  live  on  the  large  West- 
ern prairies  and  in  the  large  cities,  the  above  may  not 
appeal,  because  in  all  probability  they  have  never  had 
the  joyful  privilege  of  running  "  up  against  a 
stump."  But  to  part  of  our  family,  who  have  been 
reared  in  the  wooded  countries,  it  will  appeal  very 
forcibly.  It  requires  no  extraordinary  memory  to 
recollect  the  time  when,  plowing  along  very  smoothly, 
everything  going  well,  all  at  once  they  were  "  up 
against  a  stump."  And  you  who  turn  over  the  sod 
of  the  western  prairie,  it  may  not  require  any  strong 
imagination  to  think  what  your  surprise  would  be  if  at 
an  unexpected  moment,  when  thinking  about  the  fu- 
ture crops,  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye,  you  would 
find  your  three  horses  astride  a  stump  and  the  nose 
of  your  plow  well  into  the  solid  wood.  Then  imagine 
yourself  twisting,  jerking  and  pulling,  trying  to  get 
loose  from  the  stump.  This  is  no  more  real  than  what 
happens  in  many  a  life.  Sometimes  when  our  sky  is 
clear,  when  our  road  is  level,  when  no  enemy  is  in 
sight,  in  an  unguarded  moment,  in  a  little  spell  of 
thoughtlessness,  we  are  "  up  against  a  stump." 

Those  who  have  had  experience  with  stumps  know 
that  some  stumps  when  severed  from  the  tree  soon 
yield  to  the  forces  of  nature,  when  they  are  cut  off 
from  the  source  of  life  they  soon  become  dead.  So 
it  is  true  with  our  lives.     When  we  are  separated  from 


the  uncultivated  forces,  of  which  our  youthful  mind 
is  a  very  good  picture,  we  soon  become  dead  to  our 
former  state,  and  those  old  reminders  of  the  once  pre- 
vailing forces  are  easily  extracted. 

But  there  are  other  stumps  which  are  not  so  easily 
drawn.  You  see  men  sometimes  with  crowbar  and 
shovels,  spades  and  rails,  and  they  dig,  and  pry,  and 
work  and  sweat,  trying  to  extricate  the  roots.  So  it  is 
again  with  some  of  the  preconceived  ideas  that  we  get 
in  early  boyhood  days,  or  through  father's  spectacles, 
and  it  takes  an  endless  amount  of  digging  and  prying 
with  the  instruments  of  investigation  before  we  are 
able  to  get  our  mental  ground  clear,  so  it  is  tillable. 

Again  we  see  stumps  whose  roots  penetrate  the 
earth  to  such  a  depth  that  the  man  who  is  doing  the 
digging  becomes  disgusted  and  ceases  to  dig.  He  is 
well  convinced  that  it  will  never  rot  out,  and  so  he 
gives  it  up.  He  is,  for  sure  and  certain,  "  up  against 
a  stump."  So  it  is  in  our  lives  when  we  come  to  places 
where  the  natural  course  of  a  man's  development 
will  not  allow  those  stumps  to  be  pried  out  by  investi- 
gation. They  must  be  burned  out.  They  must  be 
set  on  fire  with  inspiration  from  the  love  of  humanity 
at  large,  the  love  of  our  friends  in  a  special  way,  and, 
above  all,  a  glimpse  of  the  character  of  the  great  Deity 
who  has  formed  all  things.  Such  an  incessant  fire 
as  this,  when  ignited  upon  the  stump  of  a  man's  in- 
dividuality, will  penetrate  the  very  roots  in  most  cases. 
Of  late  years  men  have  learned  that  one  of  the  most 
expeditious  means  in  this  kind  of  work  is  the  use  of 
dynamite.  This  kind  of  power,  if  rightly  applied,  puts 
the  elevation  of  the  stump  beyond  question  and  scat- 
ters the  remaining  fragments  to  the  four  winds.  Dy- 
namite acts  upon  the  stump  very  much  in  the  same  way 
that  truth  acts  upon  the  life  of  a  man  who  has  been 
laboring  under  false  impressions. 

It  has  been  well  said  by  someone  that  "  truth 
crushed  to  earth  will  rise  again,"  and  if  the  roots  of 
higher  criticism  and  infidelity  and  superstition,  and 
idolatry  in  some  form,  and  above  all  the  forces  of 
ignorance  have  been  holding  down  the  stump  in  your 
field,  up  against  which  you  have  run  time  and  again, 
allow  several  charges  of  the  dynamite  of  truth  to  be 
set  under  the  stump  and  ignited  with  the  fire  of  in- 
spiration and  love,  and  see  the  old  obstacle  go ;  and 
as  you  stand  back  and  admire  the  ease  with  which  it 
was  done,  you  will  be  inspired  to  make  this  a  useful 
element  in  your  life,  and  then  and  there  learn  to  know 
the  value  of  this  wonderful  power  of  truth.  Do  not 
allow  yourself  to  wish  there  were  no  stumps ;  not 
everybody  can  own  a  farm  in  the  smooth  prairie. 
Some  must  plow  around  the  stumps.  If  these  meth- 
ods of  removal  will  be  of  any  assistance  to  you,  tack 
them  on  the  beam  of  your  plow  so  they  will  be  con- 
venient when  you  are  "  up  against  a  stump." 


THE      INQLENOOK, 


687 


JUST    ORDINARY     FOLKS. 


In  the  eighty  millions  of  souls  in  the  United  States, 
how  many  would  be  classed  as  extraordinary  ?  Where 
can  you  put  your  hand  on  a  man  to-day  that  will  in- 
vent a  new  philosophy,  write  a  state  constitution,  elec- 
trify a  senate  or  be  the  founder  of  a  religious  reform- 
ation? And  yet,  as  few  in  number  as  these  extraor- 
dinary people  are,  the  public  in  general  spends  its 
time  in  weaving  wreaths  for  remarkables,  making 
crowns  for  philanthropists,  and  throwing  laurels  at  the 
feet  of  great  men,  while  the  ordinary  man  in  life  sel- 
dom meets  a  word  of  encouragement.  Carelessly 
throwing  aside  every  risk,  let  us  make  a  calculation 
that  there  cannot  be  more  than  one  million  of  extra- 
ordinary people  in  the  United  States.  (If  there  be 
-the  one-thousandth  part  of  this  number.)  What  shall 
we  do  with  the  other  seventy-nine  millions  ?  Shall  we 
pay  them  no  tribute?  Shall  we  give  them  no  en- 
couragement ?  Shall  we  not  recognize  them  as  heroes  ? 
Did  you  ever  see  a  hero  come  to  town,  and  every  single 
person  in  the  city  would  rush  out  into  the  street  to 
greet  him  with  open  hand  to  pay  him  a  tribute,  when 
behind  the  counter,  in  the  kitchen,  or  on  the  pave- 
ment are  people  who  deserve  to  be  classed  much  high- 
er than  he, — mothers  who  have  made  more  sacrifice 
to  raise  their  little  families  than  Alexander  did  to 
conquer  the  world,  fathers  who  have  fought  a  greater 
battle,  to  overcome  the  difficulties  of  life,  than 
was  fought  at  Waterloo?  And  yet,  who  ever  thinks 
that  they  made  any  extraordinary  effort?  And,  after 
all,  is  it  not  for  the  best?  They  would  not  under- 
stand it.  They  could  not  appreciate  eulogy,  they  are 
so  unused  to  it.  Which  one  of  us  wants  to  be  a  Wash- 
ington, to  be  the  father  of  his  country?  Who  desires 
to  be  a  Lincoln,  the  emancipator?  Who  is  ready  to 
make  the  sacrifice  that  it  costs  to  be  a  Martin 
Luther?  Or  Paul,  an  apostle,  or  Moses,  a  law-giver? 
No,  we  are  ordinary  people,  in  ordinary. circumstances, 
with  ordinary  duties  before  us.  Let  us  be  content 
with  our  lot,  but  not  content  with  the  present  con- 
dition of  things.  Let  us  make  our  services  in  life  use- 
ful to  mankind.  The  pendulum  in  twenty-four  hours 
swings  86,400  times,  but  this  does  not  stop  the  clock. 
The  future  lies  before  us  with  all  that  it  means  to  us ; 
let  us  perform  one  by  one  our  everyday  duties  as 
they  come,  and  cheerfully  awnit  those  that  wait  for  us. 

•5*    •■>    *> 
CHANGE    CARS. 


because  you  have  to  make  the  one  mile  and  make  it 
back  again  and  then  make  the  mile  in  the  right  di- 
rection, which  should  have  been  the  first  one  made. 
The  life  that  you  have,  the  opportunities  that  are  be- 
fore you  and  the  ability  that  the  Creator  has  blessed 
you  with  are  things  for  material  use  in  this  world. 
We  are  to  use  and  not  abuse  these  God-given  faculties. 
When  one  sees  that  he  is  beating  the  air  and  climbing 
•.insurmountable  obstacles  and  trying  to  swim  a  river 
that  cannot  be  passed  over,  in  other  words,  trying  to 
defy  the  inevitable,  it  is  simply  a  matter  of  being  on 
the  wrong  train.     Change  cars. 

How  often  we  find  a  farmer  behind  the  counter,  or 
igain,  how  often  does  it  occur  that  whenever  a  man 
has  health  that  is  insufficient  for  any  other  occupation 
he  is  directed  to  the  ministry !  If  he  has  not  sense 
enough  to  learn  anything  else  he  is  sent  to  the  farm. 
A  large  majority  of  men  would  be  found  mauling  a 
horse  over  the  head  with  a  club  if  he  would  get  into 
the  wrong  stall,  but  there  is  no  one  to  maul  the  man 
who  gets  on  the  wrong  train.  He  only  awaits  the  re- 
ward of  merit  that  fate  has  for  him  in  the  end.  So 
the  more  sensible  thing  to  do,  my  dear  Xooker,  is  to 
examine  your  ticket  and  see  whether  or  not  you  are 
on  the  right  train.  If  you  find  that  you  are  not. 
change  cars.  The  earlier  you  do  this  in  life  the  soon- 
er you  will  reach  your  desired  haven.  It  matters  not 
how  much  money  you  have,  it  matters  not  what  knowl- 
edge you  may  be  in  possession  of, — the  more  knowl- 
edge and  the  more  money,  if  on  the  wrong  train,  the 
faster  you  will  travel  in  the  wrong  direction.  Would 
to  God  that  some  kind  canopy  might  thunder  out 
above  you  in  tones  that  reverberate  through  the  uni- 
verse, "Change  cars!" 

TOO    MUCH    FOR    WEAK    HEARTS. 


When  you  see  you  are  on  the  wrong  train  why 
don't  you  change  cars?  What  is  the  use  to  be  going 
in  the  wrong  direction  and  keep  on  going  when  vou 
"know  you  have  to  turn  around  and  come  back?  It 
is  a  waste  of  energy.  Every  mile  you  go  in  the  wrong 
■direction  means  two  miles  ;  yes,  it  means  three  miles. 


It  is  a  good  thing  that  some  of  our  old  misers 
were  not  standing  on  the  platform  in  Paris  on  .Mux 
21,  or  there  would  have  been  several  cases  of  heart 
failure.  The  officials  that  day  delivered  one  hundred 
and  seventy-eight  barrels  of  gold  coin  to  the  French 
government.  These  one  hundred  and  seventy- 
eight  barrels  contained  nine  millions  of  dollars  in 
gold.  As  it  was,  an  intense  excitement  arose  and 
a  heavy  police  protection  was  necessary.  This  pay- 
ment, with  what  has  been  paid  before,  amounts  to 
fifty  millions  of  dollars'  worth  of  the  yellow  stuff 
that  we  have  shipped  to  Europe  in  the  last  two 
months.  And  the  good  thing  about  it  is  that  we 
have  more  if  it  is  needed,  and  it  probably  will  be 
before  the  Panama  canal  purchase  is  all  settled  up 
satisfactorily  with  the  French  government. 
♦   •!•   *f 

The  praise  of  a  fool  is  incense  to  the  wisest  of  us. — 
— Disraeli. 


688 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


CURRENT  HAPPENINGS 


A    STRANGE    LAKE. 


There  is  a  lake  in  Southern  Austria  whose  waters 
maiyelously  disappear  and  reappear.  It  is  on  the  is- 
land of  Cheris,  in  the  middle  of  the  Gulf  of  Quarnero. 
This  strange  lake,  Zirknitz  by  name,  is  about  four  miles 
long.  Villages,  chapels,  castles  are  reflected  in  its 
waters.  Some  years,  in  midsummer,  the  basin  of  the 
lake,  fifty  feet  deep,  will  be  so  entirely  emptied  that 
peasants  plant  barley  where,  four  weeks  before,  they 
were  drawing  their  nets.  When  the  waters  at  length 
return  the  basin  may  be  filled  in  the  course  of  twenty- 
four  hours.  They  come  up  through  funnel-shaped 
limestone  openings  which  connect  with  caverns  and 
subterranean  passages  penetrating  beneath  the  sur- 
rounding mountains.  In  this  neighborhood  is  the 
Grotto  of  Adelsberg,  the  largest  known  cavern  in  Eu- 
rope and  one  of  the  most  beautiful  in  the  world. 

♦  *  <$* 
DOWIE    TO    ASSAIL    ENGLAND. 


In  his  tabernacle  in  Zion  City,  111.,  Dr.  Dowie  an- 
nounced a  plan  for  the  invasion  of  England  with  his 
restoration  host,  saying:  "  We  will  knock  at  the  door 
of  every  house  in  London  including  the  palace  of  the 
King,  and  before  we  leave  England  will  be  aroused  to 
the  need  of  her  own  salvation.  We  will  go  there  in 
our  own  fleet  and  conduct  a  peaceful  war."  Six  thou- 
sand people  made  known  their  desire  to  go  with  him. 

•5*   ♦   ♦ 

Ex-President  Cleveland  has  evidently  not  forgot- 
ten all  his  diplomacy,  for  the  other  day  when  some 
dishes  of  the  White  House  were  sold  and  he  knew  it 
and  wanted  them,  he  had  a  man  up  there  to  bid  them 
off  for  him,  and  the  crowd  did  not  at  first  suspect  it 
but  when  they  did  they  made  the  man  pay  for  the 
rest.  One  dish  that  got  away  he  has  to  pay  fifty  dol- 
lars for  if  he  gets  it.  Some  men  would  run  a  corner 
on  a  round  plate  if  they  couldn't  go  higher  in  gambling 
circles. 

Paul  Morton,  the  Nebraska  man  who  has  been  of- 
fered the  secretaryship  of  the  navy,  has  accepted  the 
offer.  Victor  H.  Metcalf,  of  California,  has  been  ap- 
pointed secretary  of  commerce  and  labor,  and  William 
H.  Moody,  the  present  secretary  of  the  navy,  has  been 
appointed  attorney  general.  Attorney  General  Knox 
leaves  the  cabinet  to  enter  the  Senate,  in  place  of  the 
late  M.  S.  Quay.  Secretary  Cortelyou  leaves  the  cabi- 
net to  become  the  President's  trusted  lieutenant  as 
Chairman  of  the  Republican  National  Committee. 


On  Sunday,  the  third  of  July,  there  was  a  scene  in 
the  streets  of  Portland,  Indiana,  that  will  long  be  re- 
membered by  the  people  who  live  there  and  especially 
by  those  who  took  an  active  part  in  the  battle  of  rail- 
roads. The  Lake  Erie  &  Western,  which  has  been 
running  through  the  town  for  years,  undertook  the 
job  of  keeping  the  Cincinnati,  Bluff  ton  &  Chicago 
railroad  from  using  a  part  of  a  certain  street  that  they 
thought  thev  owned  and  controlled.  The  new  road 
suspected  trouble  by  the  way  the  other  road  acted,  so 
they  took  time  by  the  forelock,  and  to  avoid  a  conflict 
they  laid  track  on  Sunday,  when  they  knew  it  was  im- 
possible to  be  sued. 

The  local  authorities  of  the  Lake  Erie  reported  the 
action  at  once  and  they  sent  a  wreck  train  to  toss  a 
few  cars  across  the  disputed  territory  which  would 
retard  the  work  until  the  next  day,  but  the  citizens, 
who  were  decidedly  in  favor  of  seeing  fair  play,  soon 
put  a  few  ropes  around  the  cars  and  turned  them  over 
out  of  the  road.  The  war  soon  became  exceedingly 
interesting  and  the  Superintendent  of  the  Erie  was  tele- 
graphed for  and  upon  his  arrival  he  stated  that  their 
franchise  did  not  cover  the  disputed  territory,  and  the 
war  ceased. 

What  is  it  people  will  not  do  in  order  to  have  their 
own  way  ? 

•>  •>   •:• 

At  Booneville  we  have  another  example  of  how  the 
public  appreciates  the  public  services  of  an  upright 
man.  A  certain  Mr.  Union  W.  Youngblood,  of  that 
place  was  defeated  there  in  a  convention  because  of 
his  attitude  toward  the  saloon.  During  his  present 
term  of  office  which  was  an  unexpired  term,  he  has 
prosecuted  more  criminals,  and  indicted  more  offenders 
of  the  liquor  law  than  any  of  his  predecessors. 

When  he  entered  upon  the  duties  of  his  office  there 
was  a  slot  machine  in  every  saloon  and  gambling  den 
in  the  town,  and  now  not  one  can  be  found.  He  is 
strict  in  the  enforcement  of  the  law.  It  is  very  queer 
how  people  will  clamor  for  good  laws  and  how  much 
they  can  rally  around  the  flag .  when  nothing  is  in 
sight,  but  when  the  time  comes  to  support  a  man  who 
will  do  the  loyal  thing,  he  is  turned  down  like  a  tramp 
at  the  back  door. 

It  remains  clearly  to  be  seen  that  if  the  people  want 
a  clean  land  they  will  have  to  fight  continually  for  it. 
4»    .>    4» 

The  little  ship  "  Nostra  Madre,"  lately,  in  making  a 
return  voyage  from  Buenos  Ayres  was  followed  by  a 
school  of  hungry  sharks  who  evidently  thought  they 
would  get  a  meal,  when  they  smelled  the  bones  with 
which  the  ship  was  laden.  The  prospect  was  so  good 
for  them  to  accomplish  their  purpose  that  the  sailors 
did  not  sleep  any  during  the  night  and  even  the  cap- 
tain felt  better  when  they  left  the  ship  unharmed. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


689 


The  steamship  "  Norge  "  sailed  from  Copenhagen 
June  22  and  was  last  seen  off  the  Hebrides  on  the 
27th.  Two  small  boats,  containing  twenty-seven  men, 
were  picked  up  by  the  "  Salvia  "  who  report  that  the 
illfated  boat  struck  a  rock  in  a  dense  fog  and  that 
she  carried  seven  hundred  emigrants,  bound  for  New 
York.  The  twenty-seven  are  all  that  were  saved, 
and  they  saw  the  rest  go  down.  After  they  were 
driven  to  the  small  boats,  they  drifted  for  about 
twenty-four  hours  before  the  "  Salvia  "  hove  in  sight. 
It  looked  hard  to  be  compelled  to  witness  such  a  sight, 
and  worst  of  all,  perhaps,  was  to  see  the  helpless 
women  and  the  innocent  little  children  go  down  who 
could  not  understand  what  it  was  all  for. 


A  writer  in  the  July  Review  of  Reviews  says  that 
the  industrial  distress  in  Porto  Rico  is  not  due  to  the 
lack  of  markets  or  the  low  wage  rate,  but  to  a  disease 
known  as  uncenariaesis,  which  is  prevalent  among 
ninety  per  cent  of  the  peasantry  of  the  island.  It  is 
caused  by  a  tiny  parasite  which  destroys  the  haemeglo- 
bin  of  the  blood.  A  campaign  is  under  way  for  the 
suppression  of  the  infirmity,  and  if  this  can  be  accom- 
plished the  writer  says  that  a  new  life  will  be  infused 
into  the  laboring  people,  with  which  will  come  ambi- 
tion, and  Porto  Rico  will  be  transformed  into  a  hive 
of  agricultural  industry. 

<s>  <g.  *> 

Over  in  Ohio  the  other  day  there  was  a  man  who 
fell  dead  while  he  was  having  a  quarrel  with  his  neigh- 
bor over  a  little  hay  in  the  field.  He  was  seventy  years 
old  and  his  name  was  David  Grossnickel.  He  be- 
came so  enraged  that  his  anger  was  too  much  for  his 
heart  and  he  fell  dead.  At  the  post  mortem  examina- 
tion the  coroner  said  it  was  caused  by  a  bad  heart. 
We  believe  he  was  exactly  right,  for  a  man  seventy 
years  old  who  would  stand  up  and  quarrel  with  a 
neighbor  over  a  little  hay  when  he  was  so  busy  must 
surely  have  a  bad  heart.  Wonder  more  men  don't  die 
of  a  bad  heart. 

Alton  B.  Parker,  of  New  York,  has  been  nomi- 
nated as  Democratic  candidate  for  President.  Thomas 
T.  Taggart,  of  Indiana  was  selected  as  chairman  of  the 
Democratic  campaign  committee,  and  it  is  said  that  his 
selection  will  prove  entirely  satisfactory  to  the  presi- 
dential candidate. 

*  *  * 

Kansas  is  flooded.  The  Kansas  river  is  out  of  the 
banks  and  is  frightfully  high.  It  is  higher  than  it 
was  last  year  at  any  time  during  the  flood  and  is  still 
rising  very  rapidly.  The  residents  of  the  smaller 
towns  along  the  river  are  compelled  to  move  out,  and 
the  packing  houses  and  business  rooms  are  vacated. 


South  Africa  has  her  share  of  troubles  in  the  way 
of  scourges,  and  now,  of  late,  leprosy  is  to  be  classed 
with  the  rest.  The  fact  is  it  was  hardly  known  to 
exist,  except  possibly  by  a  few,  yet  Dr.  Turner  says 
that  he  had  109  cases  as  far  back  as  1895,  and  that 
there  are  now  over  200  cases.  The  disease  is  defying 
the  most  heroic  efforts  of  the  physicians.  The  tribes 
of  the  Hottentots  and  the  Kaffirs  are  suffering  more 
from  the  plague  than  anyone  else.  The  Europeans  are 
not  bothered  badly  with  it.  Some  think  it  is  because 
they  eat  so  much  fish,  but  that  can  hardly  be,  for  the 
most  of  the  fish  is  sent  to  Johannesburg. 

Zion  City,  as  well  as  the  rest  of  northern  Illinois, 
is  suffering  from  the  long-continued  drouth,  and  the 
other  day  the  followers  of  the  third  Elijah  got  very 
tired  of  the  dry  weather  and  they  told  their  leader  that 
they  would  prefer  a  little  rain,  whereupon  the  prophet 
took  the  matter  to  the  only  one  higher  power,  and 
while  he  yet  prayed  it  rained.  At  least  so  say  the  loyal 
disciples  of  the  overseer  of  Zion  City.  Well,  why 
not? 

*  *  # 

The  Armenian  bishops  in  Persia,  by  cabling  an  ap- 
peal to  Secretary  of  State,  Hay,  "  in  the  name  of  Chris- 
tianity and  humanity,  to  save  innocent  lives  from 
Turkish  barbarians,  who  were  massacring  thousands," 
have  again  raised  the  question  of  American  interven- 
tion in  Turkey.  The  matter  has  been  under  consider- 
ation by  the  American  Cabinet  and  opportunity  may  be 
taken  of  the  approaching  visit  of  the  American  fleet  to 
Turkish  waters. 

*  *  •:♦ 

Edwin  Forrest,  of  Wabash,  Ind.,  has  struck  it  rich 
at  High  Rolls,  N.  M.,  where  he  has  discovered  a 
twelve-foot  vein  of  copper  ore  on  a  mineral  claim 
owned  by  him.  Mr.  Forrest  is  now  at  High  Rolls 
superintending  the  working  of  the  mine,  which  is  turn- 
ing out  ore  assaying  $30  a  ton.  The  shaft  is  down 
forty  feet,  and  it  is  expected  to  become  one  of  the 
greatest  producers  in  the  Sacramento  mountains. 

*  ♦  ♦ 

Telegraphic  advices  received  at  Mexico  City  show 
that  there  is  danger  of  war  between  the  republics  of 
Salvador  and  Guatemala,  and  that  the  troops  of  the  two 
countries  are  marching  to  the  border  region.  There 
are  also  reports  of  a  coming  revolution  in  Honduras. 


Felix  Tanner,  who  achieved  fame  by  a  forty-day 
fast,  has  built  a  boat  in  the  shape  of  a  barrel  and  in 
it  will  make  the  attempt  to  sail  around  the  world. 
Wellington,  X.  Z..  his  present  residence,  will  be  the 
starting  point. 


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THE      INGLENOOK. 


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over  this  country.     Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.     Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time,  * 

taking   the    work    up    with   the    current    issue.     Back   numbers  cannot  be  furnished.     Any  school  desiring  to  or-  *£ 

ganize  a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  111.  X 

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OWLS    AND    HAWKS.— Lesson  3. 


The  owl  family  is  the  only  family  of  Raptores  that 
are  nocturnal.  They  make  their  living  after  night  by 
prowling  around  and  pouncing  upon  the  little,  harm- 
less vermin  which  chance  to  be  belated  for  some  rea- 
son. In  order  that  they  may  be  successful  in  their 
search  they  are  provided  by  nature  with  the  very- 
softest  of  feathers  that  make  no  more  noise  than  a 
shadow.  Their  sense  of  hearing  is  the  most  acute, 
which  enables  them  to  hear  the  slightest  noise  or 
rustle  in  the  leaves,  which  leads  to  the  capture  of  the 
victim. 

There  are  about  two  hundred  species  of  them,  but 
we  will  study  only  a  few  of  them  now.  Here  are 
the  names  of  a  few: 

1.  The  Snowy  Owl. 

2.  The  Great  Horned  Owl. 

3.  The  Barn  Owl. 

4.  The  Screech  Owl. 

The  Snowy  Owl  is  the  largest  one  of  the  family  and 
is  so  called  from  the  beautiful  white  feathers  that 
cover  him.  But  his  voice  is  not  so  beautiful,  for  he 
utters  a  shrill  cry  that  horrifies  the  other  birds  and 
sounds  terrible  in  the  cheerless  places  which  he  in- 
habits. 

The  Great  Horned  Owl  is  distinguished  from  the 
others  by  the  tufts  of  feathers  upon  his  head  which 
he  can  raise  at  will,  which  makes  him  look  like  a  cat, 
and  for  that  reason  he  is  sometimes  called  the  "  cat 
owl." 

The  Barn  Owl  is  a  native  of  Europe,  and  this 
country.  He  is  a  very  useful  animal  in  destroying 
rats  and  mice.  He  conceals  himself  in  the  daytime 
and  in  the  night  he  sallies  forth  in  search  of  prey. 

The  little  Screech  Owl  is  the  smallest  of  the  family 
and  probably  the  best  known  to  you  all.  He  is  the 
fellow  that  you  hear  when  you  are  coming  home  a 
little  late  and  you  quite  well  remember  the  shrill  cry 
that  starts  the  little  animals  with  horror. 

There  are  some  features  that  are  common  to  all 
the  owl  family.     For  instance: 

They  are  the  only  birds  whose  ears  are  on  the  out- 
side, or  external  ears. 

Their  heads  are  very  large  and  compiratively 
Tound. 


Owls  are  the  only  birds  that  can  bring  both  eyes 
simultaneously  to  bear  upon  an  object. 

Their  eyes  are  very  large  and  round  and  have  large 
pupils,  so  as  to  admit  a  great  deal  of  light ;  the  eye  is 
protected  by  a  disc  of  feathers  around  it. 

The  Hawk  family  constitutes  a  section  of  the  Falcon 
division  of  the  Raptores.  They  are  closely  allied  to 
the  Falcons,  but  they  have  short  legs  and  tails.  The 
Goshawk  is  probably  the  finest  bird  of  the  tribe,  dis- 
tinguished for  its  large  size,  its  beautiful  plumage, 
and  its  elegant  shape.  It  has  a  very  peculiar  way  of 
killing  its  prey ;  it  generally  swoops  down  upon  a 
rabbit,  squirrel,  or  pheasant  and  carries  it  high  into 
the  air  and  then  brings  it  to  the  ground  with  a  dash, 
and  just  before  reaching  the  ground  it  will  let  loose 
of  it  so  it  will  be  stunned  by  the  fall,  and  the  bird 
passes  on  with  a  swoop,  only  to  return  in  a  second 
or  as  soon  as  he  can  get  his  equilibrium.  Manv  of 
these  are  found  in  northern  Europe,  and  something 
similar  here. 

Kites  are  another  section  of  the  Falcon  family. 
They  have  long  wings  and  forked  tails.  They  have 
the  peculiar  power  of  remaining  poised  in  the  air 
almost  without  motion.  Their  prey  consists  mostly 
of  rats,  mice,  young  poultry  and  small  reptiles. 

The  little  Sparrow  Hawk,  though  one  of  the  small- 
est, is  a  typical  Falcon.  He  has  a  notched  bill.  When 
he  lights  he  closes  his  wings  so  that  he  seems  to  dis- 
appear, which  assists  him  to  avoid  the  gun  of  the 
hunter  and  not  to  allow  his  prey  to  know  of  his 
proximity.  And,  to  assist  him  further,  he  has  the 
power  to  imitate  a  young  bird's  cry,  which  thing  often 
brings  the  parent  birds  out  of  the  nest,  and  then  he 
gets  the  young  birds  for  his  prey.  In  the  Philippine 
Islands,  South  Africa,  and  Senegambia,  the  Secretary 
Bird  is  the  principal  representative  of  the  order  of  the 
Raptores. 

•3*    «■!•    *;* 

NEIGHBORLY. 


Mrs.  J.  S.  Stutsman,  of  Virginia,  Nebr.,  sends  the 
Nature  Study  Nookers  an  interesting  note  concern- 
ing- her  buff  bantam  cockerel. 

The  mother  of  fifteen  little  chicks  had  weaned 
them  entirely  too  early  to  suit  them,  and  their  loud 
cries  of  distress  aroused  the  sympathy  of  this  little 
hero,  and  to  show  his  appreciation  of  their  position. 


THE.       INGLENOOK. 


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he  called  them  to  him  and  began  to  feed  them, 
and  care  for  them,  which  kind  treatment  they  heart- 
ily appreciated.  It  was  entirely  satisfactory  to  all 
parties  concerned.  He  is  since  with  them  constant- 
ly and  protects  them,  feeds  them,  and  roosts  with 
them  at  night.  Charity  is  found  elsewhere  than  in 
the  human  family. 

*   *   * 

TABBY,  THE  CAT,  AND  THE  YOUNG  ALLI- 
GATOR. 


eats  them.     If  grown-up  birds  come  in  his  way,  he 
kills  and  eats  them.     He  is  as  cruel  as  a  hawk. 


CROCODILE    A    GOD. 


Our  Tabby,  the  cat,  showed  great  curiosity,  not  un- 
mixed with  jealousy,  when  Beelzebub,  the  young 
alligator,  was  installed  as  another  family  pet.  And 
she  acquired  the  unkind  habit  of  walking  up  to 
him  at  every  chance  and  showing  her  displeasure 
by  deliberately  cuffing  him  with  her  paw.  Then 
she  would  retire  with  a  show  of  dignity,  as  if  she 
had  performed  a  duty.  This  was  done  once  too 
often,  for  the  little  alligator  had  evidently  remem- 
bered her  former  insults,  and  this  last  proved  too 
much.  His  eyes  flashed,  and  when  Tabby  was 
walking  away  he  scrambled  after  her,  seized  her 
tail  and  clung  to  it  viciously.  This  frightened  the 
bullv,  and  she  started  on  a  race  around  the  room, 
taking  flights  over  chairs  and  tables,  with  the  alli- 
gator clinging  desperately  to  her  tail.  When  we 
released  the  frightened  Tabby  we  were  surprised 
to  find  the  alligator  none  the  worse  for  his  wild  ex- 
perience, and  with  widely  distended  jaws  breathing 
a  general  defiance;  but  Tabby  treated  the  alligator 
ever  after  with  due  respect. — Our  Dumb  Animals. 

*   *   + 

THE    BLUE    JAY. 


CY   BESSIE   WEDLOCKE,   AGE   13. 

The  blue  jay  is  a  brave,  busy  bird.  He  is  not 
afraid  of  the  cold  weather.  After  all  the  song  birds 
have  gone  away,  you  may  see  him  dodging  among 
bare  trees.  If  he  can  find  enough  food  to  keep  him 
alive,  he  will  stay  with  us  all  winter. 

Mr.  Blue  Jay  is  dressed  in  grand  style.  His  tail 
is  blue,  with  black  bars  across  it,  and  the  ends  of  his 
long  feathers  are  tippel  with  white.  He  has  a  black 
collar  around  his  neck,  his  face  is  white,  his  bill  is 
black,  his  crest  and  back  are  light  purple,  with  here 
and  there  pretty  marks  in  black  and  white.  His  eyes 
are  brown.  He  makes  his  nest  of  twigs  and  leaves. 
His  mate  lays  five  eggs  every  year.  Mrs.  Blue  Jay's 
eggs  are  greenish-gray  spotted  in  brown. 

Mr.  Blue  Jay's  faults  arc  many.  He  steals  other 
birds'  eggs  and  breaks  and  eats  them.  If  there  are 
young  birds  in  the  nest,  he  tears  them  in  pieces  and 


Many  beasts  and  some  reptiles  are  worshiped  as 
sacred  by  the  Malays  along  the  Malacca  Straits. 
They  are  particularly  impressed  with  the  belief  that 
the  crocodile  is  a  spirit  of  the  water.  Therefore, 
these  ugly  monsters  are  not  only  extremely  plenti- 
ful there,  but  they  are  so  daring  that  they  make 
most  of  the  waterways  dangerous  even  for  persons 
in  boats. 

The  Englishmen  who  dwell  in  that  part  of  the 
country  declare  that  hardly  a  week  passes  without 
the  killing  of  a  native  by  a  crocodile.  The  brute 
swims  slowly  along  behind  the  rude,  flimsy  canoes 
and  dugouts  used  there  and  suddenly  switches  his 
terrible  tail  around  in  such  a  way  as  to  sweep  the 
man  out  of  the  boat  into  the  water. 

Here  and  there  along  the  banks  of  the- black  riv- 
ers will  be  seen  strips  of  white  cloth  and  baskets 
full  of  fruit  and  rice,  attached  to  trees  or  saplings 
close  to  the  water.  These  are  offerings  made  by  the 
natives  to  some  crocodile  that  has  his  haunt  just 
under  the  bank. 

Now  and  then,  however,  a  crocodile  becomes  so 
ferocious  and  kills  so  many  persons  that  even  the 
superstitious  natives  feel  it  necessary  to  dispatch 
him.  Then  they  use  an  ingenious  and  curious  meth- 
od. They  make  a  small  bamboo  raft  about  three 
feet  square,  and  to  this  they  attach  a  long  rope  made 
of  loosely  plaited  cotton.  At  the  end  is  a  huge 
hook,  to  the  shank  of  which  they  tie  a  live  chicken. 

They  set  the  chicken  on  the  raft  and  shove  it  out 
into  the  stream.  The  poor  fowl  cackles  and 
screams,  trying  to  release  itself  from  the  line ;  this 
attracts  the  crocodile,  who  darts  at  it  and  gulps  it 
down.  The  next  moment  the  raft  bobs  below  the 
surface. 

The  villagers  follow  the  course  of  the  raft  as  it 
goes  down  the  stream,  and  after  a  day  or  two,  when 
the  crocodile  has  wearied  himself  thoroughly  by  his 
struggles,  they  paddle  out  and  haul  it  in.  The 
crocodile  comes  ashore  without  much  fighting 
and  is  killed  with  ease. 

It  is  very  rare  for  a  crocodile  to  escape  once  he 
has  swallowed  the  bait,  for  the  hook  goes  deep 'into 
his  stomach  and  the  loosely  plaited  rope  is  so  soft 
that  the  brute's  teeth  have  no  effect  on  it. — Cincin- 
nati Enquirer. 

•:•   •:•  * 

You  overpray  when  you  ask  the  Lor. I  to  do  things 
that  you  ought  to  do  yourself. 


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the:    inglenook. 


HOME    DEPARTMENT 


AN     OLD-FASHIONED     GARDEN. 


BY   SUSIE   M.    BEST. 

Hollyhocks  and  four-o'clocks, 

Oleanders  in  a  line. 
Morningglories,  red  and  white, 

Blossoming  upon  the  vine. 

Lady's-slippers,  fine  and  frail, 

Bouncing-betties,  I  declare, 
And  petunias,  subtly  sweet, 

Shed  their  fragrance  on  the  air. 

Look,  the  larkspur  lifts  its  head 

Right  beside  the  marigold! 
In  a  corner,  topping  all, 

Stands  the  sunflower,  bright  and  bold. 

Quaint  old  garden!     Others  may 
Praise  the  florist's  cultured  art, 

Thou  forevermore  shalt  be 
First  and  fairest  in  my  heart. 

THE    MODEL    KITCHEN. 


BY    CHARLES    MARTIN. 

(Next  week  will  appear,  under  this  same  head  by  the 
same  author,  an  article  worthy  of  every  housekeeper's 
attention.  This  article  precedes  the  other  for  the  reason 
that  these  practical  points  ought  to  be  studied  first. — Ed.) 

1.  Its  most  convenient  shape. 

2.  Its  perfect  system  of  ventilation. 

3.  Its  overhead  transoms  furnish  volumes  of  fresh 
air  without  any  draughts. 

4.  Its  absolute  freedom  from  smoke,  steam  and 
smell  of  cooking. 

5.  Its  unique  arrangement  of  windows. 

6.  Its  novelty  of  being  perfectly  lighted  with 
only  two  lamps. 

7.  Its  proper  distance  from  and  connection  with 
the  dining  room. 

8.  Its  great  amount  of  table  and  closet  room. 

9.  Its  faultless  arrangement  of  tables,  closets,  cab- 
inets, meal  bins,  drawers,  coffee  and  spice  mills, 
water  tanks,  sinks,  wash  bowl,  etc..  etc. 

10.  It  provides  the  best  and  most  convenient 
place  for  everything. 

11.  It  has  no  waste  room,  nor  dark  corners. 

12.  It  is  the  easiest  kitchen  in  the  world  to  keep 
clean. 

13.  It  provides  the  only  way  that  one-half  of  the 
kitchen  may  always  be  kept  cool. 


14.  It  supplies  abundance  of  fresh  air  to  every 
part  of  the  room. 

15.  It  has  a  hot  and  cold  water  sprinkler  over 
the  kitchen  catch  basin  for  washing  vegetables. 

16.  It  possesses  the  advantage  of  enabling  the 
housewife  or  servants  not  only  to  perform  their 
work  in  pure,  cool,  healthful  atmosphere,  but  with 
one-third  less  actual  labor  than  any  kitchen  yet 
discovered  to  me. 

Hampton,   Tenn. 

*  *  ^ 

SANITARY. 


There  exists  a  large  company  of  women,  who,  with 
the  best  intentions  for  the  care  of  their  houses  and 
their  children,  still  commit  one  heinous,  hygienic  sin 
by  what  may  not  be  inaptly  called  "  furniture  wor- 
ship," and  so  careful  are  they  of  carpets,  soft  cover- 
ings and  curtains  that  some  rooms  in  their  houses  are 
maintained  in  a  cellar-like  darkness  except  for  short 
intervals  when  they  are  thrown  open  for  "  company." 
If  one  thing  is  more  certain  than. another  it  is  the  fact 
that  all  sorts  of  microscopic  growths  love  the  dark- 
ness. One  has  only  to  search  a  dark  spot  in  the  for- 
est to  find  myriads  of  them,  and  dark,  sunless  closets 
and  corners  come  a  close  second,  with  molds,  and  if 
we  examine  carefully,  a  dust  filled  with  spores.  The 
army  of  scientists  who  are  studying  the  nature  and 
habits  of  the  microbes  inimical  to  health  and  life  have 
lately  been  making  extensive  experiments  on  the  effect 
of  exposing  them  to  the  action  of  light,  and  with  one 
accord  they  tell  us  that  the  ceratures  were  principally 
killed  outright,  but  the  residue  had  their  vitality  so 
interfered  with  that  they  could  not  and  did  not  develop 
normally  if  at  all.  Sunshine  is  a  very  cheap  article, 
has  no  offensive  odor  like  sulphur,  and  can  be  easily 
applied ;  and  what  matters  it  if  the  carpet  does  fade 
a  few  shades,  if  the  room  can  be  wholly  sweet  and 
wholesome.  There  are  some  parlors,  especially  in 
country  houses,  haunted  by  an  abiding  musty  odor ; 
they  never  had  a  thorough  bathing  in  sunlight. — 
The  Independent. 

It  is  true  that  love  cannot  be  forced,  that  it  cannot 
be  made  to  order,  that  we  cannot  love  because  we 
ought  or  even  because  we  want  to:  but  we  can  bring 
ourselves  into  the  presence  of  the  lovable ;  we  can 
enter  into  friendship  through  the  door  of  discipleship ; 
we  can  learn  to  love  through  service. — Hush  Black. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


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LITTLE  THINGS. 


If  we  will  only  rightly  use  little  things,  it  is  sur- 
prising how  much  may  sometimes  be  done  with  them. 
A  vizier,  having  offended  his  royal  master,  was 
condemned  to  life-long  imprisonment  in  a  high  tower, 
and  every  night  his  wife  used  to  come  and  weep  at  its 
foot.  "  Go  home,"  said  the  husband,  "  and  find  a 
black  beetle,  and  then  bring  a  bit  of  butter  and  three 
strings — one  of  fine  silk,  one  of  stout  twine,  another 
of  whip-cord — ahd  a  strong  rope."  When  she  came 
provided  with  everything,  he  told  her  to  put  a  touch 
of  butter  on  the  beetle's  head,  tie  the  silk  thread  around 
him  and  place  him  on  the  wall  of  the  tower.  De- 
ceived by  the  smell  of  butter,  which  he  supposed  was 
above  him,  the  insect  continued  to  ascend  till  he  reached 
the  top,  and  thus  the  vizier  secured  the  silk  thread. 
By  it  he  pulled  up  the  twine,  then  the  whip-cord,  and 
then  the  strong  rope,  by  which  he  finally  escaped. 
It  was  a  little  stone  that  slew  Goliath. 
It  was  a.  common  basket  that  saved  the  life  of  a 
great  apostle. 

It  was  a  spider's  web  spun  across  the  opening  of  the 
cave  in  which  the  great  Scottish  patriot  was  hid  that 
made  the  soldiers  not  think  of  searching  for  him 
there. 

Let  us  never  despise  small  instruments,  for  by  them 
God  sometimes  works  in  bringing  about  great  re- 
sults. 

There  were  only  two  small  fishes,  but  from  them 
Jesus  fed  the  multitude,  so  that  it  says,  "  Likewise  of 
the  fishes  as  much  as  they  would." — Housekeeper. 

KING    EDWARD'S    COFFEE    MAKER. 


The  king  is  most  particular,  not  only  as  to  the 
way  his  own  food  is  prepared,  but  also  as  to  that 
served  to  his  guests.  But  on  no  particular  is  he  so 
fastidious  as  he  is  over  the  making  of  his  coffee,  and 
he  takes  about  with  him  everywhere  his  own  special 
coffee  maker,  a  Turk,  whose  services  he  secured 
abroad.  The  king  and  queen  possess  many  lovely  sets 
of  China,  but  none  of  which  they  are  more  fond  than 
of  the  coffee  service  v/hich  was  given  to  them  on  the 
occasion  of  their  silver  wedding  by  the  king  of  Den- 
mark.— London  Mail. 

♦   •>   ♦ 

"  Do  not  worry,  eat  three  square  meals  a  day ;  say 
your  prayers,  be  courteous  to  your  creditors ;  keep 
your  digestion  good,  steer  clear  of  biliousness;  exer- 
cise, go  slow,  and  go  easy.  Maybe  there  are  other 
things  that  your  special  case  needs  to  make  you 
happy,  but  my  friend,  these  I  reckon  will  give  you  a 
good  lift." — Abraham   Lincoln. 


LIGHT    DUMPLINGS.— Bake    Day    Dinner. 


BY  SARAH  A.    SELL. 

Tajce  a  piece  of  bread  dough  the  size  of  a  large 
tin  cup  when  worked.  Into  this  work  one  egg,  and 
make  into  cakes  the  size  of  an  egg,  and  set  to  raise. 

Put  one  quart  of  water  in  a  kettle,  drop  in  a  lump 
of  butter  size  of  a  hickorynut ;  when  it  boils  drop  in 
the  cakes  and  cover  tight ;  boil  ten  minutes ;  do  not 
remove  the  lid  until  done.     Serve  with  milk  and  sugar. 


SPICE    CAKE. 


BY    SISTER    J.    E.    PRICE. 

Yolks  of  four  eggs,  whites  of  two  eggs,  two  cups 
of  brown  sugar,  one-half  cup  of  melted  butter,  one- 
half  cup  of  sour  milk,  one  teaspoonful  of  soda,  one 
and  one-half  teaspoonful  of  cinnamon,  one  teaspoonful 
of  cloves,  one-half  teaspoonful  nutmeg,  two  cups  of 
flour.  Dissolve  the  soda  in  the  sour  milk,  bake  in 
layers.  Beat  whites  of  two  eggs,  sweeten  and  put 
between  layers. 

Dallas  Center,  Iowa. 

«&    ♦    •£ 
FLOUR   PUDDING. 


BY    SISTER    PEARL   STIVER. 

Take  one  quart  of  flour,  one  pint  of  sweet  milk,  two 
eggs,  one  tablespoonful  of  butter,  one  tablespoonful 
of  sugar,  one  teaspoonful  of  salt,  two  teaspoonfuls  of 
baking  powder. 

*>  ♦  ♦ 

CURRANT    JELLY. 


BY    SISTER    MARY    SHINHAM. 

Take  one  quart  of  currant  juice,  one  pint  of  water, 
add  as  much  sugar  as  water  and  juice.  Boil  until  it 
jellies. 

C ear f oss,  Md. 

$    <gi    4 

CORNBREAD. 


One  pint  of  corn  meal,  one  pint  of  wheat  flour,  one- 
half  cup  butter  or  lard,  one-half  cup  sugar,  two  well- 
beaten  eggs,  one  cup  buttermilk,  one  teaspoonful  soda. 
Bake  in  a  well-greased  pan  forty-five  minutes. 

*   *   * 

Better  try  and  fail  than  to  fail  to  try. 


694 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE 


BONNIE    WAYNE. 


Nen  I  vvuz  most  scared  to  death  when  I  first  saw  the 
big  toot-toot  a  coming  right  toward  me,  and  I  cried 
to  get  away  from  it  a  little,  and  that  woman  that  had 
so  many  little  fresh-air  children  took  me  from  papa  and 
said  she  would  not  let  anything  hurt  me ;  nen  papa  and 
mamma  waved  a  dood-bye  to  me  and  the  woman  car- 
ried me  up  the  steps  into  the  cars,  and  you  never  saw 
so  many  children.  Wy,  the  whole  car  was  full  of  them, 
and  some  of  them  had  little  boxes  with  their  little 
dinners  and  things  in,  and  some  had  their  playthings 
wrapped  up  in  paper-  but  I  kept  hold  of  that  little 
basket  mamma  got  for  me  down  town. 

I  had  lots  of  nice  things  in  it,  I  had  an  orange,  a  ba- 
nana, and  some  cakes  ;  then  I  had  Dora,  and  when  mam- 
ma wuzn't  looking  I  put  Hattie  in.  I  didn't  open  my 
basket  when  I  was  in  the  car,  'cause  I  was  afraid  some 
of  the  children  would  get  Dora,  and  nen  I  wuz  afraid 
that  woman  would  see  Hattie's  red  hair,  'cause  I  don't 
think  she  knows  they  are  wearing  their  hair  red  this 
year  sometimes  nohow. 

Nen  Luke  Davis,  he  wuz  away  down  to  the  other 
end  of  the  car  and  he  wanted  me  to  come  where  he 
wuz  and  nen  I  went  and  the  old  car  wiggled  so  that 
I  couldn't  walk  very  good,  and  nen  I  got  pretty  near 
to  where  Luke  wuz  and  I  fell  down  awful  hard  and 
I  bumped  my  nose  on  the  seat  and  made  it  bleed  and 
I  said  I  wished  I  wuz  home,  and  the  woman  said 
that  I  would  be  all  right  in  a  little  while,  but  I  wuzn't, 
for  when  I  went  to  go  back  to  my  seat  I  saw  every- 
body a  laughing  and  I  though  they  wuz  a  laughing  at 
me ;  but  nen  Luke  looked  at  Hattie,  and  there  I  had 
spilled  her  out  of  my  basket  when  I  fell  down  and  all 
the  people  saw  her  red  hair,  and  it  made  me  cry,  and 
Luke  he  saw  that  I  wuz  pouty  and  he  came  where  I 
wuz  and  he  opened  his  box  and  showed  me  what  he 
brought,  and  th'  laws-a-me — wy  say — he  had  a  ball,  a 
top,  some  string,  a  whole  handful  of  marbles,  two 
nails,  'nd  he  had  got  his  Uncle  Tom's  knife,  and  he 
said  that  we  would  have  a  nice  time  out  in  the  country, 
and  I  forgot  what  I  wuz  a  crying  about  and  he 
wouldn't  tell  me,  so  I  quit. 

Nen  the  train  stopped  at  a  big  town  and  there  wuz 
lots  of  people  out  there,  and  nen  I  asked  that  woman 
if  my  papa  was  out  there,  and  she  said  that  he  wus 
away  off  and  I  come  pretty  near  crying  again ;  nen 
some  more  fresh-air  children  got  on  the  train.  Nen 
that  woman  told  us  all  to  eat  our  dinners,  'cause  we 


would  be  to  our  place  pretty  soon,  so  I  got  out  one 
of  my  cakes  and  took  a  bite  off  of  it  and  nen  there 
wuz  a  dog  came  along  that  belonged  to  one  of  the 
boys  as  he  wuz  a  taking  him  along  with  him  to  the 
country  to  play  with ;  and  that  bad  dog  took  my  cake 
and  ran  off  with  it,  and  nen  I  did  want  to  cry  and 
nen  that  woman  gave  me  a  nicer  cake  than  I  had. 

Nen  a  man  with  a  blue  coat  and  lots  of  nice  gold 
buttons  on  his  coat  came  in  the  cars  and  hollered  big 
loud  "  ANN !  "  something  and  I  didn't  know  what  he 
said,  and  Luke  asked  the  woman  what  he  said  and  she 
said  he  said  Anoka.  Nen  the  woman  said  here  wuz 
where  Luke  and  me  wuz  to  get  off,  and  so  I  got  my 
basket,  and  Luke  got  his  box  and  nen  I  couldn't  find 
my  mamma  and  Luke  said,  "  Don't  you  know  we  left 
them  to  home  ?  "  Wy,  say  I  wuz  scared  awful  bad. 
That  woman  took  me  by  one  hand  and  Luke  by  the 
other  and  we  went  out,  and  I  said,  "  Are  you  going 
with  us  too?"  and  she  said  she  wuz  not  a  going  with 
us,  and  nen  I  thought  I  would  cry  again,  and  nen  she 
said  that  she  had  a  nice  lady  there  that  would  take 
care  of  us  every  day  till  she  came  back. 

Nen  that  woman  she  gave  us  to  a  nice  lady  and  told 
us  that  her  name  wuz  Mrs.  Marshal,  and  she  gave  her 
a  letter  and  said  that  she  would  find  our  names  in 
that,  nen  she  kissed  us,  nen  the  cars  started  off  and 
I  wanted  to  go  too,  but  Mrs.  Marshal  said,  "  I  want 
you  to  go  with  me  and  see  lots  of  nice  things."  Nen 
she  took  my  basket  and  Luke's  box  and  we  went  with 
her  and  I  went  to  get  off  of  the  steps  there  by  that 
train  house  and  I  fell  off  and  rammed  my  hands  into 
the  mud  and  Mrs.  Marshal  didn't  see  me  and  I  thought 
I  would  hurry  and  rub  it  off,  so  I  rubbed  it  on  my 
apron  and  it  made  it  all  black,  and  nen  she  looked 
around  and  saw  it  and  nen  she  said,  "  Wy,  wy,  wy '  " 
My,  I  wuz  glad  I  didn't  spill  my  basket  again,  'cause 
she  would  have  seen  Hattie. 

Mr.  Marshal  wuz  a  holding  the  pretty  horses  and 
he  had  a  nice  little  doggie  sitting  on  the  seat  with 
him,  and  he  said  that  the  little  boy  could  sit  with 
him  and  the  little  girl  with  mamma,  so  I  looked  for 
mamma,  and  she  wuz  not  there.  I  knowed  she  wuzn't 
my  mamma  if  he  did  call  her  so.  I  wanted  to  sit 
where  that  nice  doggie  wuz,  but  just  nen  Mrs.  Mar- 
shal opened  a  pretty  box  and  said,  "  Are  you  children 
hungry  ? "  And  nen  I  said  I  wuz,  for  the  dog  had 
got  my  cookie  on  the  train.  My !  she  had  a  lot  of 
fine  strawberries,  and  some  cake  with  red  candies  on 
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What  is  the  trouble  between  Japan  and  Russia? 

Russia  wants  a  good  outlet  to  Oriental  waters,  and 
doesn't  want  to  pay  for  it;  she  tried  to  get  through 
India  once  and  failed ;  she  has  established  Port  Ar- 
thur and  Dalny,.  but  these  ports  are  frozen  four  or 
five  months  in  the  year  and  now  she  wants  to  go 
down  through  Korea  and  have  a  more  southern  route. 
After  all,  it  is  only  the  carrying  out  of  the  last  will 
and  testament  of  Peter  the  Great. 


What  is  the  difference  between  a  square  mile  and  a 
mile  square? 

No  difference :  but  two  miles  square  is  twice  as 
much  as  two  square  miles.  A  square  mile  is  a  tract  of 
land  in  the  form  of  a  square,  each  side  of  which  is 
a  mile,  and  two  square  miles  would  be  two  such 
tracts ;  while  two  miles  square  would  be  two  miles 
on  each  side,  and  would  contain  four  square  miles, 
or  twice  as  much  as  two  square  miles. 
*i* 

Why  is  foolscap  paper  so  called? 

This  is  old ;  it  dates  back  to  the  time  of  Charles  II. 
When  he  wanted  to  use  some  government  paper  and 
saw  the  stamp  of  the  liberty  cap  that  Cromwell  had 
put  on  it,  he  asked  what  it  meant,  and  upon  being  in- 
formed, he  said,  "  Take  it  away,  I  will  have  nothing 
to  do  with  a  fool's  cap."  That  size  of  paper  has  long 
borne  the  name. 

♦ 

What  is  the  highest  city  in  the  world? 

It  is  said  that  the  capital  of  Ecuador,  Quito,  is  two 
miles  above  the  sea  level ;  Denver,  Colo.,  is  only  a  little 
over  a  mile,  and  that  is  high. 
* 

How  long  has  it  been  since  the  first  president  was  in- 
augurated? 

Subtract  April  30.  1789,  from  July  20,  1904,  and 
you  have  it. 

* 

Who  was  "Old  Silver  Leg"? 

Peter  Stuyvesant,  the  fourth  and  last  governor  of 
New  Amsterdam,  1647-1664. 
♦ 
What   was    Mark  Twain's  real   name? 
Samuel  Langhorne  Clemens. 


Is  it  a  fact  that  the  dragon  fty  can  fly  backward  as  well 
as  forward? 

Yes,  it  is  a  fact ;  he  darts  from  angle  to  angle  with 
the  rapidity  of  a  flashing  sword,  and  just  as  rapidly  in 
the  air  without  ever  turning  around.  It  is  said  that 
his  eye  has  twelve  thousand  lenses  which  enables  him 
to  see  equally  well  in  every  direction. 


How  can  I    retain  the  color  in  canned  fruits? 

Either  hang  a  thick  cloth  in  front  of  the  fruit  cup- 
board to  exclude  the  light  or  else  wrap  each  can  with 
paper  and  mark  on  the  outside  what  is  in  the  can. 

* 
What  is  good  for  bee  stings? 

Ammonia ;  if  you  have  none,  use  baking  soda ;  or 
wet  some  wood  ashes  and  lay  on.  The  bite  is  acid, 
the  cure  is  alkali. 

* 

Why  do  my  turkeys   mope  around  and  look  sick? 
Lice,   woman,   lice!     Catch   one   and   look   at   him; 
that  is,  the  turkey  and  the  louse  too. 

* 

What  is  the  origin  of  asparagus? 

The  farthest  we  can  trace  it  brings  it  to  the  time 
when  it  was  a  wild  seacoast  plant  of  England. 

* 

Where  are  the  richest  tin   mines  in  the  world? 
The  island  of  Banca  is  almost  a  solid  block  of  tin 
and  of  a  superior  quality. 

* 

What  is  the  best  way  to  remove  freckle-? 
Dip  the  finger  in  water  and  then  in  saltpeter,  and 
touch  each  spot. 

Our  cellar  floor  has  moldy  spots  on  it  often;  how  reme- 
dy? 

Ventilate  often,  and  throw  some  lime  on  the  spots. 


How  old  is  Bonnie  Wayne? 

She  was  three  years  old  the  nineteenth  day  oi   last 
March. 


Does  the  greyhound  run  by  siglit  only? 
Yes;  and  the  bulldog  by  scent  only. 


Where   is   Eddy-tone    lighthouse? 

Off  the  south  coast  of  Cornwall.  England. 


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(Concluded  from  Page  694.) 
it,  and  I  picked  the  candies  oft"  and  ate  them  and  gave 
the  cake  to  Luke.  Nen  we  saw  so  many  piggies  in 
the  field,  and  little  colties.  Nen  we  come  to  a  big 
white  house  and  a  girl  wuz  standing  there,  and  Mrs. 
Marshal  said,  "  Hello,  Mabel,"  and  I  said,  "  Whose 
little  girl  is  that  ?  "  and  she  said,  "  That  is  my  little 
girl,  and  you  may  play  with  her." 

(to  be  continued.) 

*  *  * 
TITULAR    CHRONOLOGY    OF    A    GREAT    MAN. 


Infancy, Baby 

Childhood, ' Willy 

At  school, Jonesey 

In  the  office, Bill 

At  the  bar, William  Wirt  Jones,  Esq. 

During  the  war, Corporal  Jones 

After  the  war, General  William  W.  Jones 

On  the  stump,.  ..."  Our  distinguished  fellow-citizen  " 

In  Congress, Representative  William  W.  Jones 

After  the  landslide, Ex-Congressman  Jones 

"  Taken  care  of," U.  S.  Consul  W.  W.  Jones 

For  his  bread  and  butter, "  Our  elevator  man  " 

Pensioned, No.    1,935,610 

Superannuated, Old  Bill  Jones 

In  the  obituary  column 

"A  once  famous  soldier  and  politician." 

— Smart  Set. 
*  *  * 

WHAT    SHE    WANTED. 


Little  three-year-old  Helen  had  been  put  to  bed, 
but  soon  there  was  a  call,  "  Mamma,'  I  don't  like  it  up 
here  alone."  So  I  carried  up  her  doll,  Happy.  She 
cuddled  it  in  her  arms  and  I  went  down  again.  By 
and  by  the  same  call,  "  Mamma,  I  don't  want  to  be 
alone  with  Happy."  As  I  had  never  stayed  with  her 
till  she  slept,  and  it  was  very  inconvenient  then,  I  ran 
up  hastily  and  said,  "  Helen,  you  have  Happy  in  your 
arms,  and  papa  and  mamma  downstairs,  and  God  all 
about  you,  watching  over  you  with  love.  You  must 
be  a  good  girl  and  go  to  sleep."  "  Is  God  really 
here?  "  "  Yes,  really."  So  she  laid  her  cheek  in  her 
hand  and  prepared  to  fall  asleep,  and  I  went  down 
a  second  time.  In  a  few  minutes  I  heard  again  the 
half   wail,   and   rushed   up-stairs   impatiently,    "  Well, 


Helen,  what  now?  "  "  Oh  mamma!  "  and  she  put  out 
her  arms  imploringly,  "  I  don't  want  Happy,  and  I 
don't  want  God.  I  want  somebody  with  a  skin  face." 
Wives  and  Daughters. 

NOBODY. 


Mrs.  L.  W.  Owen,  547  North  County  street,  Waukegan, 
111.,  contributes  a  number  of  poems  worth  keeping,  and 
also  this  literary  curiosity  in  rhyme: 

"  If  nobody's  noticed  you,  you  must  be  small, 
If  nobody's  slighted  you,  you  must  be  tall, 
If  nobody's  bowed  to  you,  you  must  be  low, 
If  nobody's   kissed  you,   you're   ugly  we  know, 
If  nobody's  envied  you,  you're  a  poor  elf, 
If  nobody's  nattered  you,  flatter  yourself. 
If  nobody's  cheated  you,  you  are  a  knave, 
If  nobody's  hated  you,  you  are  a  slave, 
If  nobody's  called  you  a  '  fool '  to  your  face, 
Somebody's  wished  for  your  back  in  its  place; 
If  nobody's  called  you  a  '  tyrant '  or  '  scold  ' 
Somebody  thinks  you  of  a  spiritless  mold; 
If  nobody  knows  of  your  faults  but  a  friend, 
Nobody  will  miss  them  at  the  world's  end, 
If  nobody  clings  to  your  purse  like  a  fawn, 
Nobody'll  run  like  a  hound  when  it's  gone; 
If  nobody's  eaten  his  bread  from  your  store, 
Nobody'll  call  you  a  'miserly'  'bore'; 
If  nobody's  slandered  'you — here  is  our  pen — 
Sign  yourself  nobody,   quick  as  you  can." 

♦    *    •> 

THE    SALOON    AS    A    BANK. 


You  deposit  your  money — and  lose  it! 

Your  time — and  lose  it ! 

Your  character — and  lose  it ! 

Your  strength — and  lose  it ! 

Your  manly  independence — and  lose  it ! 

Your  self-control — and  lose  it ! 

Your  home  comfort — and  lose  it! 

Your  wife's  happiness — and  lose  it! 

Your  own  soul — and  lose  it ! 

.5.  4f  *$. 

This  world  is  God's  work-house,  in  which  he  is 
working  out  the  plan  of  salvation  for  fallen  man ;  and 
he  will  give  us,  as  members  of  his  body,  plenty  to 
do — some  one  thing  and  some  another  thing.  If  we 
can  only  work,  not  as  men-pleasers,  but  as  clay  in 
the  hands  of  the  potter,  to  be  made  into  vessels  of 
honor  for  his  service. — The  Bible  Advocate. 


The  Brethren  Colonies 


IN    THE 


Fruit  Belt  of  Michigan 


are  an  actual  success.  The  colony  of  the  Lakeview  church  is  located  on 
lands  surrounding  the  village  of  Brethren,  Michigan.  Brethren,  Michigan, 
is  located  on  the  main  line  of  the  Pere  Marquette  System,  105  miles  north 
of  Grand  Rapids  and  about  14  miles  east  of  Lake  Michigan.  All  conditions 
of  soil,  climate  and  location  make  this  spot  an  ideal  one  for  general  farm- 
ing, fruit-growing  and  stock-raising.  Lands  have  been  sold  to  about  120 
families  of  the  Brotherhood  and  their  friends,  of  which  number  about  one- 
half  have  already  located  and  are  clearing  up  their  places.  The  possibili- 
ties of  this  district  are  exceptional.  The  Brethren  tract  embraces  about 
20,000  acres,  of  which  over  11,000  acres  have  already  been  sold.  There  are 
just  as  good  and  as  desirable  locations  remaining  as  those  that  have  been 
bought  and  the  prices  have  not  yet  been  advanced,  but  with  the  improve- 
ments now  going  on,  developing  the  country  so  rapidly,  it  is  only  a  short 
time  till  prices  advance  considerably.  THE  TIME  TO  BUY  IS  NOW. 
Present  prices  range  from  $7  to  $15  per  acre,  on  easy  terms,  or  less  five 
(5)   per  cent  for  cash. 

For  illustrated  booklet  and  information  in  regard  to  rates,  address 
Samuel  S.  Thorpe,  District  Agent  Michigan  Land  Association,  Cadillac, 
Mich. 


THE    CADILLAC   TRACT. 


The  basis  of  my  business  is  absolute  and 
unvarying  integrity. 

samuel  s.  thorpe.  25,000   Acres    of  Rich  Agricul- 

tural  Lands,  Excellently  Situated  and  Splen- 
didly Adapted  for  Farming,  Fruit-growing  and 
Stock-raising.  . 

These  lands  are  located  from  one-half  mile  to  six  miles  from  the  hustling  city  of  Cadillac,  the  seat  of  Wexford 
county,  8,ooo  inhabitants,  (all  alive,)  and  its  location  on  the  Grand  Rapids  and  Indiana  R'y  (part  of  the  Pennsylvania 
System)  and  on  the  Ann  Arbor  Railroad  (part  of  the  Wabash  System)  together  with  its  other  advantages  render 
it  the  best  trading  point  and  market  place  in  Northern  Michigan.  Cadillac  and  the  lands  controlled  by  the  ad- 
vertiser are  located  about  98  miles  north  of  Grand  Rapids  and  50  miles  east  of  Lake  Michigan.  They  are  well  wa- 
tered with  springs,  creeks,  rivers  and  lakes  of  pure,  sparkling  water  teeming  with  gamy  fish.  The  soil  varies  from 
a  sandy  loam  to  a  clay  loam,  all  of  it  underlaid  with  clay  and    gravel  subsoil,  which  responds  eagerly  to  cultivation. 

For  illustrated  booklets,  maps  and  information  as   to  reduced  rates  to  these  locations,  address: 


S^^2v£TTE 


S_    THORPE. 


^Istiict    Agent    !L^EIc3n,igra,n.    I_ja,n-d.    Assn., 

iDept.  :L/£, 


^txi^lxxxxox'     Dansrers. 


A 

1  HSyF*,    'Ljtk  yK**<-f*'^~  ^?r3\ 


fi  FARMHOUSE ;  an  orchard  ;  a  little  girl.  Out 
from  the  trees  the  tart  little  apples  peep.  The 
berries  are  beginning  to  ripen  on  the  bush.  The 
little  rogue  wipes  her  mouth  on  her  apron  so  mother 
shall  not  discover  that  she  has  poached  on  forbidden 
ground.  It's  such  fun  to  munch  green  apples,  even 
if  they  are  dreadfully  sour. 

A  sick  girl.  The  unripe  fruit  has  taken  its  re- 
venge and  the  little  poacher  groans  with  pain.  The 
alarmed  mother  looks  with  anxiety  on  the  contorted 
features  of  her  darling  girl  while  the  movement  of  the 
little  one's  hands  to  her  stomach  indicate  more  clearly 
than  words  could  convey  what  the  trouble  is.  What 
can  mother  do?  Father  is  far  away  in  the  field  and 
it  is  miles  to  the  village  doctor.  All  at  once  she  re- 
members the  little  bottle  on  the  shelf,  which  father 
brought  from  the  city  only  the  other  day  just  for 
such  emergencies.  Grandma  put  it  in  his  pocket,  say- 
ing it  was  a  good  medicine  for  the  bowels  and  stomach. 
"  You  don't  know,  John,"  she  added,  "  how  soon  you 
might  need  it  for  the  little  ones." 

It  did  not  take  the  mother  long  to  get  the  bottle  and 
give  her  sick  girl  a  liberal  dose  of  the  Stomach  Vigor. 
She  repeated  the  dose  at  frequent  intervals  according 
to  directions.  The  child  became  restful  and  quiet  and 
■after  a  refreshing  slumber  she  was  up  bright  and 
early  the  next  morning,  chasing  the  ducks  in  the  yard 
and  otherwise  making  her  presence  known.  On  mam- 
ma's advice,  combined  with  her  own  experience,  she 
kept  away  from  green  apples. 

Such  in  brief  is  the  history  of  the  use  of  DR. 
PETER'S  STOMACH  VIGOR  repeated  hundreds  of 


times  each  recurring  season.  It  is  not,  however,  only 
in  instances  where  unripe  and  unwholesome  fruit  has 
been  par-taken  of  that  it  shows  its  remarkable  efficacy, 
but  in  all  relaxed  conditions  of  the  bowels  in  young 
and  old.  To  use  the  words  of  a  grateful  mother, — 
one  who  knows,  "  It  is  worth  its  weight  in  gold." 
It  is  a  true  helper  in  time  of  emergency. 

There  are  few  if  any  readers  of  the  Inglenook 
who  are  not  familiar  with  DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD 
YITALIZER  and  with  DR.  PETER'S  STOMACH 
VIGOR  as  well.  It  will  not  be  out  of  place,  however, 
to  call  attention  to  the  distinction  between  the  two. 
DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER  is  used  with 
marked  success  in  the  treatment  of  blood  and  consti- 
tutional diseases,  including  many  forms  of  stomach 
trouble,  such  as  indigestion,  constipation,  flatulency, 
etc.,  while  DR.  PETER'S  STOMACH  VIGOR  has 
established  its  reputation  in  the  cure  of  all  relaxed 
and  weakened  conditions  of  the  stomach  and  bowels 
in  which  class  we  find  diarrhoea,  cholera  morbus,  dys- 
entery, cramps,  bloody  flux,  summer  complaint,  etc. 
There  is  also  a  form  of  dyspepsia,  known  as  acid  dys- 
pepsia, for  which  this  remedy  has  proven  a  real  boon. 
DR.  PETER'S  STOMACH  VIGOR  is,  as  its  name 
indicates,  a  stomach  strengthener — a  remedy  for  such 
bowel  troubles  as  are  particularly  prevalent  during  the 
summer  season.  The  only  satisfactory  remedy  in  the 
treatment  of  this  class  of  ailments  is  one  which  will 
strengthen  the  relaxed  condition  of  the  bowels,  allay 
the  irritation  which  is  always  present  and  remove 
the  inflammation.  Such  a  remedy  is  DR.  PETER'S 
STOMACH  VIGOR. 

A  little  pamphlet  descriptive  of  this  remedy,  with 
many  valuable  hints  on  the  proper  treatment  of  sum- 
mer ailments,  replete  with  testimonials,  will  be  sent 
gratis  to  anyone  desiring  it.  It  will  be  found  particu- 
larly valuable  to  mothers  who  have  little  ones  under 
their  care. 

FIVE  PERSONS  IN  ONE  FAMILY  CURED. 

Dayton,  Ohio,  February  15,  1904. 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111.: 

Dear  Sir, — The  past  summer  was  a  bad  one  for  our  lo- 
cality. A  great  many  people  had  the  bloody  flux,  and 
many  babies  died  from  cholera  infantum.  In  one  family 
five  persons  were  taken  sick,  but  they  all  escaped,  as  they 
used  Dr.  Peter's  Stomach  Vigor  and  Oleum.  I  can  give 
to  any  one  who  should  feel  interested  the  name  of  these 
people.  Respectfully. 

Mrs.  E.  Sweibat. 

The  popularity  of  DR.  PETER'S  STOMACH  VIG- 
OR increases  with  every  season  and  thousands  of  tes- 
timonials received  bespeak  the  merits  of  this  prepara- 
tion. Like  the  DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER 
it  is  not  to  be  had  in  drugstores,  but  can  be  procured 
from  the  agents  who  supply  the  BLOOD  VITALIZ- 
ER, or  direct  from  the  manufacturer. 


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turist who  is  looking  for  a  good,  new  location." 

D.  R.  Yoder,  of  Goshen,  Ind.:  "'Such  as  would  want  to  go  would  find  good  openings  in 
the  vicinity  of  Ft.  Worth  and  Dallas,  Texas." 

H.  T.  Williamson  writes:  "Two  carloads  of  this  party  from  Carthage,  Mo.,  took  in  what  was 
termed  i:he  "Circle  Trip,"  and.  as  far  as  I  know,  were  delighted  with  the  country  from  the  time 
they  left   Carthage  till  the}1-  reached   Ft.  Worth,  Texas." 

C.  M.  Wenger,  of  South  Bend,  Ind.:  "  I  was  favorably  impressed  with  the  general  appear- 
ance of  the  country,  the  rich  soil  and  large  per  cent  of  smooth,  tillable  soil  to  be  found  through- 
out." 

A.  B.  Barnhart,  Hagerstown,  Md.,  has  this  as  his  view:  "I  was  favorably  impressed,  so 
much  so  that  I  would  recommend  to  any  of  our  people  who  contemplate  a  change  to  consider 
the   great    Southwest   as   to   its   agricultural   and  industrial  advantages." 

Isaac  Frantz,  Pleasant  Hill,  Ohio,  one  of  the  tourists  accompanying  the  party  says:  "And  my 
impressions  of  the  Southwest  are  so  favorable  that  if  I  were  young  again  Ohio  could  not  hold 
me." 

John  E.  Mohler,  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  says  this,  speaking  of  his  Rock  Island  trip;  "There  were 
about  seventy  of  us  who  made  the  trip  after  the  Conference  at  Carthage  and  I  think  all  of  them 
were    delightfully    surprised.     The    country    itself  was  a  revelation,  worthy  of  the  trip." 

S.  M.  Goughnour,  of  Ankeny,  Iowa,  has  this  to  say:  "Yes,  I  must  say  the  country,  especially 
Oklahoma,  impressed  me  much  more  favorably  than  I  expected." 

R.  E.  Burger,  of  Allerton,  111.,  writes  as  follows:  "I  now  feel  that  I  can  conscientiously  rec- 
ommend  the    South    and    Southwest   as    a    good  place  to  invest  money." 

Henry  Studebaker,  Tippecanoe  City,  Ohio,  thinks  that.  "The  country  we  were  through 
promises  great  things  for  the  future.  From  Ft.  Worth  to  Enid  the  crop  indications  surpass  any- 
thing I  ever  saw/' 

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General  Merchandise  Catalogues  where  we  do  not  have 
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business  and  we  are  needing  more  help. 

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Consumers. 


We  are  drawing:  to  the  close  of  our  first  series 
of  voucher  contracts,  and  if  you  want  to  take 
advantage  of  our  truly  wonderful  opportunity 
to  invest  your  savings  in  our  Co-operative 
association,  upon  our  original  and  scien- 
tific plan  you  should  get  your  application  in 
at  a  very  early  date. 

No  matter  how  modest  your  means,  you  can 
become  a  shareholder  in  this  company  and  at 
once  begin  to  take,  advantage  of  its  many  eco- 
nomic features,  every  one  of  which  will  have 
your  approval  and  endorsement.  Our  com- 
pany means  a  new  era  in  the  co-operative  field, 
a  new  low-price  level  and  a  new  degree  of 
purchasing  power. 

Send  your  application  at  once.  Grasp 
this  opportunity  to  make  your  sav- 
ings work. 


How  and  When 
to  Invest 


The  Tinie  is  >*ow,  Do  not  postpone 
the  day  when  you  are  going  to  make  a  start  for 
prosperity.  If  you  do,  the  chances  are  you'll 
never  start.  Get  out  of  the  rut  of  the  man  who 
just  lives  each  day  so  he  can  work  the  next. 
Have  an  investment  to  look  after  your  interest 
in  daysof  adversity. 

Some  people  believe  in  investing  their  sav- 
ings but  are  not  satisfied  with  reasonable 
returns  on  their  money.  They  want  to  become 
millionaires  in  a  night.  They  invest  their  mon- 
ey in  all  sorts  of  "get-rich-quick"  schemes  and 
usually  pay  dearly  for  their  experiences.  It  is 
useless  to  save  money  and  then  invest  it  where 
it  will  be  lost  or  even  where  you  cannot  help 
but  worry  about  it. 

In  the  springtime  of  life — in  the  heyday  of 
prosperity,  every  man  and  woman  should  in- 
vest in  an  enterprise  which  is  a  credit  to  Christ- 
ianity as  well  as  to  the  Commercial  World:  so 
that  in  the  days  to  come  they  will  not  have  to 
look  back  upon  the  past  with  feelings  of  regret. 

Our  plan  of  Scientific  Co-operation  elimi- 
nates all  elements  of  failure  and  worry.  Make 
vi.ui  savings  work  and  do  good. 


Profits  on 
Savings  Assured 

Of  all  the  great  i  joney-making  department 
stores  the  Mail  Order  Store  is  the  greatest. 
Its  line  comprises  everything  from  a  toothpick 
to  a  traction  engine.  Everything  people  eat, 
wearand  use  from  youth  to  old  ase.  Its  field 
is  not  limited  by  city  and  suburban  limitations, 
but  extends  to  every  farm  and  town  of  this 
country  and  every  country  of  the  globe.  Its 
expenses — selling  and  fixed — are  less  than  any 
other  business.  It's  a  strictlycash  business.  It 
has  few  losses.  It  does  not  depend  on  sea- 
sonsor  local  conditions.  Itis  a  "hard times" 
business.  It  does  not  even  depend  upon  pros- 
perity. Its  profits  are  Jarge  in  comparison  to 
the  amount  invested.  We  advise  you  to  be- 
come a  copartner  of  our  company  on  this 
series  of  vouchers  as  soon  as  possible,  even  if 
you  start  with  but  one  share,  and  thereby 
obtain  the  advantages  of  our  oriental  co-op- 
erative idea.  You  will  find  your  investment 
the  best  and  safest  you  have  ever  made — you 
buy  into  an  established,  growing  and  success- 
ful business. 


Satisfaction 


Guaranteed 


A  reputation  for  honest  advertising:  is 

extremely  valuable,  and  can  be  retained  only 
by  the  most  painstaking  care:  a  single  misrep- 
resentation may  do  more  harm  than  months 
of  earnest  effort  can  repair.  Advertisingintro- 
duces  our  goods.  Merit  sells  them.  We 
know  a  satisfied  customer  is  our  best  advertise- 
ment. Our  Rule:  "No  Disappointment  in 
What  Lies  Behind  the  Advertisement."  We 
invite  you  to  send  orders  from  our  catalogs, 
circulars  or  advertisements  with  absolute 
assurance  that  you  will  be  protected.  If  the 
price  is  lower  at  the  time  your  order  reaches  us 
we  will  give  you  the  advantage  of  the  reduction 
and  never  charge  you  more  than  the  price 
named  without  first  writing  you  with  full 
explanations  and  getting  your  consent  to  the 
higher  price.  Do  not  hesitate  to  order  any 
■  article  we  advertise  as  our  positive  guarantee 
goes  with  each  shipment,  and  there  is  no  risk 
on  your  part.  There  is  no  discount  on  the 
quality  of  the  goods  we  send  out  and  our 
representations  are" always  exact.  No  bluster, 
no  display,  just  straightforward  facts.  Now, 
would  you  not  like  to  be  a  co-partner  and  cus- 
tomer of  a  company  which  stands  for  the  appli- 
cation of  the  Golden  Rule  in  business,  and 
Christian  character  upon  the  part  of  each 
worker,  from  the  office  boy  to  the  President? 
Contracts  to  the  extent  of  $135,000  made 
since  February  1st.  1904,  Write  for  partic- 
ulars. 


Remember! 

While  we  are  working  together,  each  for  the 
other  and  conscientiously  and  earnestly  en- 
deavoring to  build  up  a  large  business,  we  do  it 
on  thebasisof  treating  each  individual  fairly  and 
under  no  circumstances  place  any  of  our  pa- 
trons, co-operators  or  stockholders  in  an  em- 
barrassing position. 

We  consider  all  correspondence,  business 
transactions,  contracts  on  co-operation,  etc  as 
sacred  and  never  embarrass  any  one  by  publish- 
ing extracts  from  letters,  names  or  addresses 
of  co-operators  or  customers  without  having 
the  written  consent  on  file  in  our  office. 


Albaugh  Bros., 
Dover  &  Co. 


The  Mail  Order  House 


341-43  Franklin  St., 

Chicago,  -  -  Illinois. 


Our  New  General 
Catalog  Free. 


Our  new  general  merchandise  catalog  will  be 
ready  the  last  of  August  and  will  be  sent  free 
to  every  reader  of  the  Inglenook  answering" 
this  advertisement.  Wewill  also  take  pleasure 
inseiidiug  a  M -page  book  of  testimonials  from 
satisfied  patrons,  the  consent  to  ^use  name 
been  secured  in  each  case.  Our  large 
general  Co-operative  Catalog  and  Price  List,  a 
magnificent  book,  contains  a  complete  line  of 
high  grade  General  Merchandise  at  co-op- 
erative money-saving  prices. 

Careful  attention  is  being  given  to  the  illus- 
trations, descriptions,  prices,  etc.  Each  article 
will  be  described  as  if  it  were  the  only  one 
offered  for  sale,  for  the  catalog  must  appeal  to 
the  reason  of  the  one  who  receives  it,  and 
answer  questions  that  may  arise  in  his  mind 
concerning  the  goods  offered  and  the  company . 
Wework  at  all  times  for  the  interest  of  our 
customers,  and  after  a  most  careful  study  wc 
have  originated  a  new  plan  of  Freight  and 
Express  Rebates,  about  which  [hi 
Catalog  will  tell  you  in  detail.  This  means 
the  saving  to  our  patrons  of  thousands  of 
dollars,  yet  our  prices  have  not  been  advanced 
one  cent.  Itis  harder  to  save  money  than  to 
make  money.  Make  saving  easier  by  ordering 
■■■<>.  from  our  catalog.  Make  your 
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Return  Limit,  October  23,  1904. 


One-Way  Colonist's  Rates. 

To  Pacific  Coast  Every  Day,  Sept.  15  to  Oct.  15. 

From  Chicago $33  00 

From  St.  Louis 30  00 

From  Missouri  River,    25  00 

Proportionate  Rates  from  all  Points  East. 


The  Union  Pacific  Railroad 

IS    KNOWN    AS  

"The  Overland  Route" 

And  is  the  only  direct  line  from  Chicago  and  the  Missouri 
River  to  all  principal  points  West  Business  men  and 
others  can  save  many  hours  via  this  line.  Call  on  or 
address  a  postal  card  to  your  nearest  ticket  agent,  or 
Geo.  L.  McDonaugh,  Colonization  Agent,  Omaha, 
Neb. 

E.  L.  LOMAX,  G.  P.  &  T.  A., 
Omaha,   Nebraska. 


A  Town  With  a  Future 


Snyder,  Colorado,  Has  all  the  Ear-marks  of  a  Comer  and 
is   Surely   Destined   to   be    One   of   North- 
eastern   Colorado's    Leaders. 


Snyder  is  beautifully  located  on  the  South  Platte  river 
and  Union  Pacific  Railway,  between  Sterling  and  Denver, 
extending  from  the  river  to  the  brow  of  a  mesa,  one-half 
mile  away.  The  main  street  running  north  and  south  is 
80  feet  wide;  all  other  streets,  60  feet;  alleys,  20  feet;  all 
lots  are  25x125  feet,  excepting  those  fronting  on  the  main 
street,  which  are  25x120. 

For  further  information  about  Snyder  or  South  Platte 
Valley,  address  Geo.  L.  McDonaugh,  Colonization  Agent 
Union  Pacific  Railroad,  at  Omaha,  Neb.,  for  FREE  print- 
ed matter. 

Still  better,  see  some  of  those  who  have  bought  land 
near  Snyder,  Colorado,  or  write  to  them  for  further  in- 
formation. 


The  following  parties  have  bought  land  near  Snyder, 
Colo.: 

Louis  E.  Keltner,  Hygiene,  Colo.;  W.  W.  Keltner, 
North  Dakota;  A.  W.  Brayton,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Daniel 
Grabill,  Lemasters,  Pa.;  J.  L.  Kuns,  McPherson,  Kans.; 
D.  L.  Miller,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Daniel  Neikirk,  Lemasters, 
Pa.;  Galen  B.' Royer,  Elgin,  111.;  E.  Slifer,  Mt.  Morris,  111.; 
I.  B.  Trout,  Lanark,  III.;  R.  E.  Arnold,  Elgin,  111. 


Geo.  L.  Studebaker,  of  Muncie,  Indiana,  says: 

"  Sterling  is  a  growing  town  with  a  good  country 
surrounding.     The  members  are  active." 


HOMESEEKERS'  EXCURSION 
to  Snyder,  Colorado, 

With  Privilege  of  Stopping  off  at  Sterling,  Colo., 

AVC    pi  DP   plus  $200'  for  the  Round  Trip  First 
VllE    TAIIC   and  Third  Tuesday  of  Each  Month  via 

Union  Pacific  Railroad. 


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INGLENOOK. 


The 


Mount 

Campbell 

Tract 


in  Fresno  Connty, 

California, 

Promises  to  become  the  leading 
fruit-growing  section  of  California. 
Land  is  cheap,  water  abundant,  loca- 
tion healthful  and  soil  unsurpassed. 
The  soil  is  especially  adapted  to  the 
orange,  grape,  fig,  orchard  fruits,  al- 
falfa and  general   farming. 

Plans  are  now  forming  for  a  colo- 
ny of  the  Brethren  on  this  tract,  J. 
S.  Kuns,  proprietor  of  the  old  Mis- 
sion farm  at  Covina,  Cal.,  having  al- 
ready purchased  land  in  this  district, 
which  has  been  inspected  by  other 
prominent  members  of  the  church. 

Maps  and  information  by 

W.  N.  ROHRER, 

Fresno,  Cal. 


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HINDOO  TOBACCO  HABIT  CURE 

We  cure  you  of  chewing  and  smoking 
for  60c,  or  money  beck.  Guaranteed  perfectly 
harmless.  Address  Milford  Drug  Co.,  Milford, 
Indiana,    We  answer  all  letters. 


ELQIN  &  WALTHAM  WATCHES  1 

I  Of  all  sizes  and  kinds.      Men's  size  Elgins  as  3 

I  low  as  34.95-   Other  watches  from  88  cents  to  « 

S3$.ooeach.     I  sell  all  kinds  of  good  watches,  ' 


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I  cheap.     Catalogue  free.     Also  samples  and  3 

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tion.    H.  E-  Newcomer,  Mt.  Morris,  111.  \ 


30tl3  Mention  the  INGLENOOK  when  writing. 


It  Does  Not  Pay  to  Neglect  Tour  Eyes ! 

GUELINE 

Is  good  all  for  inflammations  of  the  Eyes. 
It  has  cured  thousands  of  others.  It 
will   cure   you.      ::      DO  YOU    KNOW 

LUCINE? 


Dr.  Yeremian  uses  it  in  India  every  day. 
It  is  for  Diarrhcea.  It  works  like  a 
charm.  It  rids  the  intestines  of  all 
germs.  If  not  satisfied  send  us  the  pills 
and  we   will    return   your   money. 

Gueline,  35c.     Lucine,  25c. 

THE  YEREMIAN  MEDICAL  CO., 

BATAVIA.   ILLINOIS. 

11126         Mention  the  INGLENOOK  when  writing. 

ORANGE  AND  WALNUT 

grove  for  sale.  Five  acres  in  south- 
ern California;  4j^-year-old  trees,  al- 
ternate rows.  The  choicest  of  land, 
trees,  and  location.  An  unusual  op- 
portunity for  a  person  with  small 
capital  who  desires  quality.  Must 
sell  to  clear  another  place  in  same 
locality. 

Address: 

E.  I.  AMES, 

6332   Peoria  St.  Chicago,   111. 

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FEW   PEOPLE 

Know  the  value  of  Liquid  Spray  as  a 
home  cure  for  Catarrh,  Hay  Fever.  Head 
colds  and  other  diseases  of  the  respira- 
tory organs. 

Persons  desiring  to  try  this  highly 
recommended  treatment  should  immedi- 
ately write  to  E.  J.  "Worst,  61  Main  St., 
Ashland   Ohio. 

He  will  gladly  mail  any  reader  of  the 
Inglenook  one  of  his  new  Atomizers  and 
Liquid  Spray  treatment  on  five  days'  tri- 
al, free. 

If  it  gives  satisfaction,  send  him  $2.00, 
two-fifths  regular  price;  if  not,  return 
it  at  the  expired  time,  which  will  only 
cost  you  twelve  cents  postage,  and  you 
will  not  owe  him  a  penny.  It  kills  the 
Catarrh  microbes  in  the  head  and  throat. 

23tl3 

It  Costs  Nothing 

to  learn  full  particulars  about  Mount 
Morris  College  Scholarships.  They 
were  established  to  aid  worthy  young 
people.  Tou  may  be  able  to  secure  one. 
The  founders  furnish,  the  College 
awards  them.  Tour  part  is  to  try  for 
one.  Many  a  man  never  succeeds  be- 
cause he  never  tries.  Don't  let  this  be 
true  of  you.  Better  write  for  particu- 
lars at  once.  It  costs  you  nothing. 
Yours  to  please  and  help, 

MOUNT     MOBBIS     COLLEGE, 
J.  E.  Miller,  Pres.  Mt.  Morris,  HI. 


COLORADO 


AT   ANNUAL    MEETING. 

We  were  at  Carthage,  Mo.,  during 
the  Annual  Meeting  and  met  many 
of  our  old  friends  and  correspondents 
among  the  Brethren. 

THE  NEW   BOOKS. 

We  distributed  five  thousand  of  the 
new  Union  Pacific  Railway  folders, 
"  What  People  Say  about  the  South 
Platte  Valley,"  while  there. 

SEND  FOR  ONE. 

We  have  a  few  hundred  of  these 
books  left  for  free  distribution  and  if 
you  will  drop  us  a  card  will  send  you 
a  copy  by  first  mail. 

OUR    CARTHAGE    EXCURSION. 

Several  members  accompanied  us 
on  our  excursion  to  Sterling  and  Sny- 
der and  are  well  pleased  with  the 
country  and  some  will  locate. 

AGENTS  WANTED. 

We  would  like  to  arrange  with  a 
member  in  every  town  in  the  country 
to  distribute  these  folders  and  get  up 
a  party  for  Colorado. 

LIBERAL   COMMISSIONS. 

We  offer  liberal  commissions  and 
special  prices  on  any  lands  you  may 
decide  to  purchase  yourself. 

A  FREE  PASS. 

We  also  arrange  for  special  rates 
for  excursion  parties  and  free  trans- 
portation for  agent  who  gets  up  the 
party  to  Colorado  and  return. 

SPECIAL   BARGAINS. 

We  have  special  bargains  in  irri- 
gated farms  and  town  property  dur- 
ing the  summer  months  and  now  is 
the  time  to  see  the  country  and  in- 
vest. 

SNYDER  TOWN   LOTS. 

Parties  who  will  agree  to  distribute 
our  advertising  matter  among  their 
friends  can  secure  six  Snyder  town 
lots  for  $100.  These  lots  sell  for  $25 
each  and  you  can  make  $50  profit  by 
reselling  them  at  this  price. 

TROUT  FISHING  IN   MOUN- 
TAINS. 

We  will  run  special  cheap  rate  ex- 
cursions from  Sterling  to  Cherokee 
Park  every  week  this  summer.  This 
is  one  of  the  finest  resorts  in  Colo- 
rado. The  trout  fishing  is  grand  and 
the  scenery  sublime. 

COME  TO  COLORADO. 

If  you  contemplate  a  trip  for 
health,  pleasure,  recreation  or  invest- 
ment let  us  hear  from  you  and  we 
will  be  pleased  to  give  all  information 
wanted. 

The  Colorado  Colony  Co., 

Sterling,  Colorado. 

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THE      INGLENOOK. 


Bonnet  Straw  Cloth 


»»», 


SISTER,  have  you  a  knack  of  mak- 
ing your  own  bonnet?  Here's 
news  for  you — money  saving  news 
We  carry  a  large  stock  of  bonnet 
straw  cloth,  manufactured  especially 
for  us,  from  our  own  designs.  Four- 
teen different  styles  and  colors.  Rice 
Net,  Wire  Chiffon,  Braid,  etc.,  with  a 
large  assortment  of  Ribbon  and  Mous- 
seline  de  Soie  for  strings.  Weare  the 
only  house  making  a  specialty  of  these 
goods.  Write  for  free  samples  and 
prices. 


Albaugh  Bros.,  Dover  &  Co. 


34' =343  Franklin  Street, 


Chicago,  111. 


Farms  You  Will  Buy 

East  Central  Kansas  is  the  best  part 
of  the  State  for  general  farming  and 
raising  stock.  Well  watered,  Marion 
county's  average  crop  acreage  is  110,000 
acres  corn,  90.000  acres  wheat.  40.000 
acres  oats,  20,000  acres  alfalfa.  We 
have  some  good  farms  for  sale  at  a  bar- 
gain. Will  say  to  the  Brethren  that  are 
thinking  of  changing  their  location  that 
they  will  do  well  to  investigate  our 
country.  Good  bargains  near  church. 
Any  information   cheerfully  furnished. 


GARRISON 


STUDEEAKEE, 
Florence,  Kansas. 


50  Brethren  Wanted 

with  their  families  to  settle  in  the 
vicinity  of  Tyvan,  Canada.  A  good 
working  church,  one  churchhouse 
built  and  steps  taken  for  another  one. 

Best   of  soil,   $10  per   acre, 
near    railroad    town,    on    easy    terms. 
Good    water,     good    people,     schools 
and   roads. 

This    chance    will    last    only    a    few 
weeks.     Address: 

H.   M.   EARWICK, 

29t4  McPherson,    Kans. 


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Churchmember.  The  object  of  this  book  is  to  teach  morality  and  to  correct  social  evils. 
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Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail 


1  IDAHO 


is   the   best-watered   arid   State 
winds,    destructive    storms    and 
mate   it   makes   life   bright   and 
We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer 
change   for   the   general    improvement    in   your   condi 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  b 
and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  coun 
swer  and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger 
fares   to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves 
Cheap    homeseekers'   rates    are    made    to   all    prin 
for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting 


in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot  ^ 

cyclones   are   unknown,   and    with   its    matchless    cli-  i 

worth  living.  5 

to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a  ^ 

tion  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on  ^ 

oth  requirements.     There  is,  however,  only  one  wise  ^ 

try  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an-  £ 

work   teach   us   that  a   few   dollars   spent   in    railroad  i 

thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow.  ^ 

cipal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see  ^ 

a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing.  ^ 


Round=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only  in  May 
and  October,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


PAYETTE    VALLEY   HOME.-Five  Years  from  Sagebrush. 


S     Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance. 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat.  Oats  and  Barlev. 


Arrived  in  Payette  Valley  Feb.  23,  1903.  Settled  on  an  80-acre  tract,  covered  with  sage  brush. 
Cleared  40  acres.  May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.  Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.  June  12  sowed  10  acres 
to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.  Yielded  55  to  acre.  Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 
or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 
oats. 

Potatoes  yielded  500  bushels  to  the  acre  and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)   E.  L.  Dotson. 


A      S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

£      J.  E.  HOOPER,  Agent,   Oakland,  Kansas. 


Mention  the  tHGLENOOK  ■ 


D.    E.    BURLEY, 
G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  0.  S.  L.  R.   R., 

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Vol.  VI. 


July  26,  1904. 


No.  30. 


A    JULY    QUESTION. 


When  within  the  coolest  glade 
It  is  ninety  in  the  shade, 
When  the  butter  turns  to  oil 
And  the  ice  begins  to  boil; 
When  you're  burning  through  and  through- 
Is  it  hot  enough  for  you? 

When  you're  charged  to  not  forget 
Sundry  items  for  your  pet, 
When  you  let  it  slip  your  pate 
Till  it  comes,  alas,  too  late, 
When  your  wife  gets  through  with  you — 
Is  it  hot  enough  for  you? 

When  your  creditors  some  day 
Draw  for  bills  you  cannot  pay, 
And  your  banker  crustily 
Says  you're  checks  are  all  n.  g., 
When  you're  harrassed  till  you're  blue — 
Is  it  hot  enough  for  you? 

Then  when  we  get  through  this  world, 
And  to  somewhere  else  are  hurled, 
When  we  reach  that  other  life 
And  are  freed  from  worldly  strife, 
Shall  we  hear  'mid  steam  and  stew — 
"  Is  it  hot  enough  for  you?  " 

*>    ■!*    •> 

SNAPSHOTS. 


A  little  love  will  leaven  a  long  life. 
The  true  prayer  is  a  humble  petition. 
Misery  loves  company  and  generally  gets  it. 

A  heart  full  of  hate  is  a  poor  field  for  hope. 

* 
A  thing  is  not  necessarily  honest  because  it  is  legal. 

* 

The  pessimist  regards  everything  that  glitters  as  a 
gold  brick. 

* 
■  Open  the  windows  and  live  all  over  the  house, 
will  enjoy  the  neighbor's  call  better  and  he  will  think 
more  of  you. 


We  must  live  for  Christ  here  if  we  would  live  with 
Him  hereafter. 

* 

Prosperity  becomes  a  poison  when  it  grows  at  the 
expense  of  piety. 

* 

7/  we  had  the  nerve  of  some  book  agents,  we'd  be 
riding  in  a  private  yacht. 

* 

If  Truth  had  the  speed  of  a  lie,  some  gossips  would 
have  to  go  out  of  business. 

Paradoxical  as  it  may  seem,  you  can  save  yourself  a 
lot  of  trouble  by  getting  rid  of  it. 
* 
Blessed  is  the  man  who  will  take  hold  of  the  cold 
end  of  a  prayer  meeting. — Talmage. 
* 
A  practical  education  is  not  a  practical  one  if  it  in- 
duces only  the  desire  to  make  money. 
* 
One  swallow-  does  not  make  a  spring,  but  some- 
times a  swallow  (of  whiskey)  causes  a  fall. 

*  \ 

The  greatest  university  in  the  world  is  in  the  home\ 

where  the  youth  sits  at  the  feet  of  a  devoted  mother.  J 

When  a  man  is  tinder  a  cloud,  the  silver  lining  theory 
don't  look  so  nice  as  it  does  when  we  are  telling  the 
other  fellow  all  about  it. 

* 
Russell  Sage  says  he  never  took  a  vacation.     We 
would  rather  have  the  good  times  he  has  missed  than 
all  the  money  he  has,  and  his  cares. 
* 
Are  you  acquainted  ivith  a  lot  of  people  zvho  are 
continually  putting  medicine  down  their  throats  into 
their  stomachs  hoping  to  cure  a  bad  imagination? 
$ 
Some  men  say  they  don't  join  church  because  there 
are  hypocrites  in  the  church,  and  they  knozv  as  well  as 
they  are  living  that  there  arc  more  of  them  outside 
tlian  there  are  inside. 


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HABITS  OF  SEA  DWELLERS. 


The  ancients  had  many  quaint  ideas,  about  the  fishes 
inhabiting  the  seas,  and  legends  illustrating  their  per- 
sonal habits  are  legion,  says  the  New  York  Tribune. 
According  to  them,  they  held  converse  with  man,  and 
in  many  instances  aided  him  in  his  daily  occupations, 
thus  showing  that  they  possessed  nearly  all  the  at- 
tributes of  human  beings,  though  in  a  lesser  degree. 
During  the  early  historical  period  so  many  of  these 
legends  were  proved  to  be  false  that  it  became  fashion- 
able, except  among  the  uneducated,  to  deny  to  fishes 
almost  all  human  passions  or  emotions,  and  to  refer 
to  them  as  "  voiceless  and  emotionless  creatures." 
More  recent  investigations,  however,  have  demonstrat- 
ed that  fishes,  as  well  as  land  animals,  are  largely 
swayed  by  the  same  emotions,  and,  in  their  own  limited 
way,  give  expression  to  these. 

Fishes  have  certain  means  of  demonstrating  their 
emotions,  such  as  erecting  their  scales  or  fin  rays  when 
under  the  influence  of  anger  or  terror,  as  feathers  or 
hairs  are  erected  in  birds  and  mammals.  As  fishes 
have  eyes  without  movable  eyelids,  cheeks  incased  with 
bony  plates  or  covered  with  hard  scales,  which  are 
scarcely  suitable  for  smiling,  while  external  ears  are 
wanting,  one  can  hardly  expect  to  find  special  expres- 
sions, as  of  joy,  pain,  astonishment,  etc.,  so  well 
marked  as  in  some  of  the  higher  grades  of  animals,  in 
which  the  play  of  features  often  affords  an  insight  in- 
to their  internal  emotions. 

Change  of  Color. 

Change  of  color  is  one  of  the  best  indexes  to  the 
emotions.  When  the  fish  is  sick  its  color  is  apt  to  be 
faint,  while  when  in  health,  angry  or  breeding,  the 
colors  stand  out  brightly  and  vividly.  One  of  the 
best  examples  of  the  effect  of  the  emotions  on  color 
is  that  of  the  stickleback.  This  species  has  a  violent 
temper,  and  appears  to  be  always- carrying  an  imagin- 
ary chip  on  its  shoulder.  During  the  breeding  season 
combats  between  the  males  are  exceedingly  common. 
When  fighting  their  brilliant  colors  stand  out  vividly, 
but  after  the  combat  is  over,  the  defeated  one,  his 
gay  colors  faded,  hides  his  disgrace  among  his  more 
peaceable  companions.  Even  then  he  is  not  left  in 
peace,  as  the  victor  seems  to  take  delight  in  persecut- 
ing him  in  many  ways. 

The  parrot  fishes  are  also  noted  for  their  "  scrappv  " 
proclivities,  and  the  same  color  changes  are  noted  in 
them  as  in  the  sticklebacks. 

Fishes,  again,  are  charged  with  being  voiceless,  but 
nothing  could  be  farther  from  the  truth,  as  more  than 
three  hundred  species  are  known  to  produce  sound. 

Fish  That  Make  Noise. 

The   Sclcenidaj   are   probably  the  best  examples   of 


the  falsity  of  the  above  charge.  These  fishes,  which 
are  called  "  maigres,"  emit  sounds  having  a  mean  of 
about  twenty-five  seconds,  and  also  various  notes,  usu- 
ally degenerating  into  a  humming  sound,  either  from 
excess  or  want  of  intensity.  When  traveling  in 
schools,  these  sounds  may  be  heard  from  a  depth  of 
twenty  fathoms.  It  has  been  suggested  that  the  story 
of  the  songs  of  the  fabled  sirens  had  its  origin  in  the 
utterance  of  schools  of  these  fishes. 

When  captured,  the  scad,  or  horse  mackerel,  the 
globefish,  the  grunt,  the  pigfish  and  the  hogfish  make 
sounds  resembling  the  grunting  of  a  pig,  while  one  of 
the  best  known  of  the  fishes  along  the  South  Atlantic 
seaboard,  the  croaker,  gets  its  name  from  the  croak 
it  gives  when  taken  into  the  boat.  The  barbel  and 
carp  also  croak  when  taken  out  of  the  water. 

A  species  of  Tetrodon  is  called  "  seafrog "  by  the 
natives  of  Malabar,  India,  on  account  of  the  noise  it 
makes  when  captured.  The  red  gurnard  has  earned 
the  name  of  "  seacock  "  from  the  crowing  noise  which 
it  makes,  while  another  species  is  called  the  "  piper  " 
for  the  same  reason. 

Sounds  Like  a  BelL 

A  siluroid  found  in  the  Rio  Parana,  and  called  the 
armado,  is  remarkable  for  a  harsh,  grating  noise  which 
it  emits  when  caught  with  hook  and  line,  and  this  can 
be  distinctly  heard  while  it  is  still  beneath  the  sur- 
face. The  Corina  nigra,  a  fish  in  the  Tagus,  emits 
sounds  resembling  the  vibrations  of  a  deep-toned  bell, 
gong  or  pedal  pipe  of  an  organ.  Sea  herrings,  when 
the  net  has  been  drawn  over  them,  have  been  observed 
to  do  the  same,  also  the  fresh  water  bullhead  of  our 
waters.  According  to  Francis  Day,  he  obtained  sev- 
eral sheat  fishes,  macrones  vittatus,  locally  termed  "  fid- 
dler fish,"  at  Madras,  India,  and  "  on  touching  one 
which  was  lying  on  some  wet  grass,  it  erected  its 
armed  spines,  emitting  a  sound  resembling  the  buzzing 
of  a  bee,  and  apparently  in  anger  or  fear." 

An  amphibious  siluroid  fish,  clarias  macracanthus, 
on  being  taken  into  the  hand,  is  said  to  squeal  and 
shriek.  Certain  of  the  blennies  also  make  a  noise  sim- 
ilar to  this.  The  big  Jewfish  of  the  Gulf  of  Mexico 
will  often  break  the  stillness  of  the  night  with  his 
"  Boom!  Boom!  "  delivered  monotonously  for  a  con- 
siderable time. 

Legend  of  Pascagoula  River. 
The  legend  of  Pascagoula  river  and  its  mysterious 
music,  deemed  supernatural  by  the  Indians  and  the 
early  whites  who  heard  it,  has  since  been  explained  as. 
the  noise  made  by  the  sea  drums.  In  speaking  of  this 
still  current  legend  a  recent  writer  says :  "  It  may  of- 
ten be  heard  there  on  summer  evenings.  The  listener 
being  on  the  beach,  or,  yet  more  favorably,  in  a  boat 
floating  on  the  river,  a  low,  plaintive  sound  is  heard 
rising  and   falling  like  that  of  an  aeolian    harp,  and 


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seeming  to  issue  from  the  water.  The  sounds,  which 
are  sweet  and  plaintive,  but  monotonous,  cease  as  soon 
as  there  is  any  noise  or  disturbance  of  the  water." 

In  the  days  of  old  Rome  the  muranas,  or  sea  eels, 
were  supposed  to  have  a  regular  language,  "  low  and 
sweet,"  says  an  ancient  writer,  "  and  with  an  intona- 
tion so  fascinating  that  few  could  resist  its  influence," 
and  it  is  also  said  that  the  Emperor  Augustus  even  pre- 
tended to  understand  their  words. 

In  the  South  Seas. 

When  Humboldt  visited  the  South  seas  in  1803, 
about  7  P.  M.  on  Feb.  20  an  extraordinary  noise  start- 
led the  crew.  At  first  it  was  like  the  beating  of  many 
drums  in  the  distance,  and  then  the  sounds  seemed  to 
come  from  the  ship  itself,  near  the  poop.  At  first  the 
terrified  crew  thought  that  breakers  were  at  hand,  and 
then  that  the  vessel  had  sprung  a  leak ;  but  it  was  soon 
discovered  that  the  sounds  were  produced  by  fishes. 

Musical  Shellfish. 

Sir  J.  Emerson  Tennent  tells  of  a  visit  he  made  to 
Ceylon  in  1848,  when  he  went  in  a  boat  to  hear  some 
of  the  famous  water  music  at  Batticalva.  He  was 
rowed  quietly  to  the  spot  by  moonlight,  where  the 
sounds  came  up  from  the  water  like  the  gentle  thrills 
of  a  musical  chord  or  the  faint  vibrations  of  a  wine- 
glass when  the  rim  is  rubbed  with  a  moistened  finger. 
It  was  not  one  sustained  note,  but  a  multitude  of  tiny 
sounds,  the  sweetest  treble  mingled  with  the  lowest 
bass.  The  natives  said  that  the  music  was  made  by  a 
shellfish  at  the  bottom,  which  they  called  the  "  crying 
shell." 

Fishes  are  supposed  to  make  these  noises  for  the 
purpose  of  attracting  their  mates.  It  is  said  that  fish- 
ermen often  take  fish  during  the  spawning  seasons 
by  imitating  the  sounds. 

Formerly  it  was  believed  that  fishes  could  not  hear, 
as  they  had  no  ears,  but  anatomists  have  proved  that 
they  have  organs  of  hearing,  though  not  external  ones. 
As  water  is  denser  than  air,  the  sounds  made  in  the 
latter  do  not  penetrate  the  former  readily  and,  unless 
they  are  sufficiently  loud  to  produce  well-defined  me- 
chanical vibrations  in  the  water,  are  not  apt  to  be 
heard  by  fishes  unless  they  should  happen  to  be  close 
to  the  surface.  It  is  very  probable  that  most  of  the 
fishes  cannot  distinguish  and  appreciate  differences  of 
tone  as  the  higher  animals  are  enabled  to  do.  There 
are  numerous  well-authenticated  instances  of  fishes  re- 
sponding to  noises  in  the  air,  which  would  seem  to  in- 
dicate that  certain  species  have  their  hearing  much 
better  developed  than  others. 

Shad  Dance  to  Music. 
Many  ancient  writers  have  described  the  fishes'  love 


of  music,  and  Rondolet,  the  famous  naturalist,  tells 
how  on  one  occasion  he  made  a  school  of  shad  dance 
to  his  fiddling. 

It  is  said  that  in  Germany  clupeat  finta  delights  in 
musical  sounds.  Therefore,  when  fishing  the  fisher- 
men fasten  to  the  nets  bows  of  wood,  to  which  are 
suspended  a  number  of  small  bells,  which  chime  in 
harmony  together  on  the  nets  being  moved.  The  fish 
are  thought  to  be  thus  attracted  to  their  destruction 
and  as  long  as  the  alluring  sounds  continue  they  cease 
all  efforts  to  escape.  The  same  method  is  followed  on 
the  Danube  river  when  fishing  for  certain  species. 

The  legend  that  they  were  caught  in  Egypt  by  sing- 
ing to  them  is  not  without  its  plausibility.  In  Japan 
the  tame  fish  are  summoned  to  dinner  by  melodious 
gongs,  while  on  the  Dholpore  river,  in  India,  they  are 
called  up  out  of  the  muddy  depths  by  the  ringing  of 
a  handbell.  In  Europe  it  is  common  for  carp  and 
goldfish  in  private  ponds  to  respond  to  the  whistle  of 
the  person  who  feeds  them,  no  matter  at  what  time 
he  calls.  In  Tahiti  the  native  chiefs  have  pet  eels, 
which  come  to  the  surface  when  their  master  whistles, 
while  they  pay  no  attention  to  the  calls  of  strangers. 

Fear  to  Scare  Fish  Away. 

In  Sweden  at  the  present  time  the  church  bells  are 
not  rung  during  the  bream  season  lest  the  fish  should 
take  flight  and  desert  the  region,  while  during  the 
pilchard  fishery  the  people  are  no  less  careful  of  their 
sensitiveness  to  sound. 

The  natives  of  the  Gold  Coast  colony,  West  Africa, 
when  fishing  on  the  inland  waters  or  rivers  on  moon- 
light nights,  make  use  of  a  piece  of  glass — broken 
bottle  generally — and  metal,  thereby  making  a  musical 
tinkle  to  attract  the  fish  before  the  handnet  is  cast. 

The  sense  of  taste  is  evidently  not  well  developed 
in  fishes,  and  this  is  very  evident  from  the  circum- 
stances under  which  fishes  seize  and  swallow  their 
prey.  Those  species  which  are  carnivorous  are  of 
necessity  compelled  to  catch  with  their  mouths  and 
retain  a  firm  hold  of  the  active  and  slippery  food  they 
are  destined  to  devour;  to  divide  or  masticate  their 
food  would  be  impracticable,  and  even  were  they  per- 
mitted to  do  so  the  water  which  perpetually  washes 
over  the  exterior  of  their  mouths  obviously  precludes 
the  possibility  of  appreciating  savors. 

Have  Acute  Sense  of  Smell. 

As  the  olfactory  nerves  are  of  large  size  and  cover 
a  wide  service,  the  sense  of  smell  in  fishes  is  acute,  and 
this  is  evident  from  the  selection  they  make  in  their 
food.  Fishermen  know  well  that  tainted  bait  is  not 
so  tempting  as  fresh  bait ;  a  very  hungry  fish  will  not 
be  particular,  but  the  odor  of  stinking  bait  is  repug- 
nant to  fishes  generally.  Fishes  are  also  attracted  by 
agreeable  scents,  as  was  first  proved  by  Aristotle. 


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THE  CASCADES. 


COMMUNING    WITH    NATURE. 


The  focal  point  of  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Expo- 
sition is  a  composition  made  up  of  three  big  cascades, 
the  largest  in  the  world ;  the  Colonnade  of  States,  an 
ornamental  screen  of  Ionic  columns  forming  a  back- 
ground for  fourteen  statues  each  symbolical  of  one 
of  the  States  or  Territories  in  the  purchase ;  three 
highly  ornate  buildings,  including  Festival  Hall  in  the 
center  and  two  ornate  restaurant  pavilions  at  either 
end.  Added  to  this  and  filling  in  the  picture  are  lawns, 
gardens,  flower  beds,  trees,  vases,  walks  and  approach- 
es. 

No  decorative  feature  of  the  Exposition  has  attract- 
ed so  much  attention  throughout  the  world  as  the  Cas- 
cade Gardens,  nor  does  any  other  portion  of  the  Fair 
approach  it  in  grandeur.  The  dome  of  the  Festival 
Hall,  in  the  center  of  the  peristyle,  is  much  larger  than 
that  of  St.  Peter's  at  Rome.  It  was  designed  by  Cass 
Gilbert  of  New  York.  Restaurant  pavilions,  peristyle 
and  cascades  and  the  general  scheme  of  the  Grand  Ba- 
sin was  done  by  Mr.  E.  L.  Masqueray,  Chief  of  De- 
sign of  the  Exposition. 

The  statutes  which  ornament  the  approaches  to 
the  cascades,  represent  famous  characters  in  Amer- 
ican history.  Marquette,  Joliet,  Lewis  and  Clarke,  De- 
Soto  and  Laclede  appear  in  the  approach  to  the 
eastern  cascade.  Keokuk,  Robert  Livingston,  James 
,  Monroe,  Franklin,  Hamilton,  Narva;z,  Boone  and  Sit- 
ting Bull  appear  in  the  approach  to  the  western  cas- 
cade. These  side  cascades  symbolize  the  Atlantic  and 
Pacific  oceans. 

On  the  center  fountain  at  the  head  of  the  main  cas- 
cade, in  front  of  Festival  Hall,  appears  a  gigantic 
statue  of  Liberty  raising  the  veil  of  Ignorance  and  pro- 
tecting Truth  and  Justice.  The  entire  stretch  of  the 
gardens  is  1,900  feet  wide  by  1,100  feet  in  depth 
as  they  recede  from  the  edge  of  the  Grand  Basin.  The 
main  or  center  cascade  is  290  feet  long  and  the  two 
side  cascades  each  300  feet  long.  The  approaches  to 
each  cascade  are  each  390  feet  long.  The  paths  be- 
side the  Grand  Basin  are  50  feet  wide. 

Sculpture  for  the  main  cascade  was  designed  by 
H.  H.  McNeil,  and  that  for  the  side  cascades  by  Isadore 
Konti.  The  open  space  between  the  cascades  is 
parked  in  lawn  with  borders  of  flowers,  which 
change  with  the  seasons  during  the  Exposition  period. 
Jets  of  water  along  the  sides  of  the  cascades  are 
thrown  100  feet.  Under  the  main  cascade  where 
the  water  takes  its  deepest  plunge  is  a  subterra- 
nean grotto,  beautifully  lighted,  supplying  a  view  of 
the  tumbling  waters  of  the  cascade  through  three  big 
arcaded  openings.  Here  refreshments  are  served 
amid  the  coolness  induced  by  the  curtain  or  veil  of 
water  which  forms  one  side  of  the  grotto. 


BY   ORA   V.    BOWMAN. 

Oftentimes,  when  wandering  about,  I  recall  the 
words  of  Job,  "  Speak  to  the  earth  and  it  shall  teach 
thee,"  and  wonder  at  the  beauties  that  lie  yet  untold 
to  us,  which  might  reveal  themselves  did  we  but  speak 
to  Mother  Earth. 

The  beauties  of  life  are  numberless  and  how  few 
appreciate  them.  Many  of  us  are  in  the  world  but 
not  of  it.  We  stroll  through  the  fields  and  wood, 
choosing  some  secluded  spot  where  we  can  spend  a 
few  hours  with  some  book,  telling  of  the  beauties  of 
nature,  while  all  about  us  myriads  of  living  beings  ex- 
ist, each  with  a  special  history  of  its  own,  and  offering 
great  problems  of  interest.  Why  not  make  our  Na- 
ture study  a  reality? 

The  hours  are  not  lost  which  we  spend  with  nature. 
They  develop  character.  The  soul  that  has  crushed 
out  the  love  of  Nature  can  hardly  fail  to  suffer  from 
the  loss.  I  do  not  mean  that  such  a  person  is  neces- 
sarily bad,  but  his  ideals  cannot  be  high  and  his  rev- 
erence for  his  Creator  cannot  be  so  great. 

Perhaps  there  may  be  some  to  whom  Nature  has 
never  spoken ;  who  see  no  beauty  in  the  towering  hills, 
feel  no  rapture  at  the  sight  of  a  glorious  sunset,  ex- 
press no  emotion  at  the  sight  of  the  mighty  billows 
or  shed  no  tear  at  the  sight  of  a  little  lonely  flower 
peeping  out  from  a  snow-covered  earth.  Who  can 
wonder  that  such  ones  say  life  is  cold  and  hard? 

No  doubt,  to  some  of  us,  on  a  bright  summer  day, 
life  seems  a  luxury,  when  the  blue  sky  dazzles  with 
brightness,  the  air  full  of  song  and  sweet  scents  of 
flowers.  But  have  you  ever  enjoyed  the  sight  of  the 
wildness  of  Nature, — when  the  heavens  were  lighted 
with  flashes  of  lightning,  the  air  groaning  with  peals  of 
thunder  and  the  heavy  black  clouds  heaving  forth 
their  deluge  of  water?  Commune  often  with  Nature 
and  your  life  will  become  stronger,  better  and  nobler. 

"  And  thus  our  life  exempt  from  public  haunt. 
Finds  tongues  in  trees,  books  in  running  brooks. 
Sermons  in  stones,  and  good  in  everything.'' 

Morrill,  Kansas. 

*  *  ♦ 

LOSS    FROM    FLOODS. 


As  a  result  of  cloudbursts  at  Little  Rock,  Arkansas, 
which  caused  the  rise  of  the  Arkansas  river,  thou- 
sands of  acres  of  growing  cotton  crops  were  under 
water  and  in  some  places  entirely  washed  out.  The 
damage  is  the  greatest  experienced,  and  the  Agricul- 
tural Department  has  recommended  the  planting  of 
corn,  sweet  potatoes  or  peas  instead  of  cotton. 


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UNITED  STATES  INSPECTOR  OF  MEATS. 


BY   WALTER   C.    FRICK. 

All  firms  in  the  United  States  engaged  at  all  ex- 
tensively in  the  slaughter  and  dressing  of  horses,  cat- 
tle, sheep,  and  swine,  or  the  salting,  canning,  and 
packing  of  their  products  must  have  these  animals  and 
their  products  inspected  by  officials  of  the  United 
States  Government. 

By  means  of  competitive  civil  service  examinations, 
meat  inspectors,  .assistant  meat  inspectors,  and  other 
employes  are  secured  to  conduct  the  examinations  of 
animals  and  the  stamping  of  their  carcasses  and  prod- 
ucts. 

Only  licensed  veterinary  surgeons  are  eligible  to  the 
position  of  meat  inspector.  Other  employes  of  this 
department  need  to  be  possessed  of  only  a  common 
education. 

All  inspectors  and  assistants  have  free  access  to  all 
parts  of  a  packing  plant  and  wear  numbered  badges 
by  which  to  identify  themselves. 

Each  abattoir  is  designated  by  an  official  number. 
All  its  products  are  identified  by  its  number,  each  case 
of  meat  put  on  the  market  by  the  firm  bearing  it. 

An  ante-mortem  (before  death),  and  post-mortem 
(after  death)  examination  is  made  of  all  animals 
slaughtered,  and  no  animal  is  allowed  to  enter  or  leave 
such  an  establishment  except  it  has  passed  both  these 
tests. 

No  animal  is  slaughtered  except  in  the  presence  of 
a  government  inspector. 

During  inspection  an  animal  or  carcass  found  to  be 
diseased  or  otherwise  unfit  for  human  food  is  marked, 
during  ante-mortem  inspection  by  placing  in  the 
ear  a  metal  tag  bearing  the  words  "  U.  S.  Condemned  " 
and  a  serial  number,  during  post-mortem  inspection  by 
sealing  to  the  carcass  a  red  tag  bearing  the  same  words. 
It  is  a  criminal  offense  to  remove  these  tags  except 
so  directed  by  an  inspector. 

Condemnation  is  pronounced  on  all  animals  affected 
with  the  following  diseases  or  ailments :  Hog  cholera, 
swine  plague,  anthrax,  rabies,  scab,  and  lumpy  jaw  in 
advanced  stages,  tuberculosis,  advanced  stages  of  preg- 
nancy, animals  too  young  or  emaciated  to  produce 
wholesome  food,  and  various  other  causes  needless  to 
mention  here. 

During  the  slaughter  of  an  animal  all  parts  of  the 
carcass  are  retained  separate  from  all  others  of  its  kind 
so  that  they  may  be  identified  in  case  the  carcass  is 
condemned. 

A  separate  room  under  Government  lock  and  key 
is  provided  for  the  retaining  of  condemned  meat  until 
such  a  time  as  the  inspector  can  supervise  the  destroy- 
ing of  it. 


Destroying  of  condemned  meat,  "  tanking,"  the  in- 
spector calls  it,  is  done  as  follows;  Large,  deep,  iron 
tanks  are  provided  for  the  final  condemnation.  These 
have  an  opening  in  the  bottom  through  which  to  empty 
the  contents.  When  condemned  meat  is  to  be  de- 
stroyed this  outlet  is  sealed  shut  by  the  inspector. 
The  condemned  carcasses  are  then  thrown  in,  the  top 
opening  sealed  shut,  and  a  sufficient  head  of  steam 
turned  on  to  destroy  it  for  all  food  purposes. 

A  detailed  report  of  all  animals  killed,  the  num- 
ber condemned,  and  their  final  disposition  is  made  to 
Agricultural  Department  at  Washington  each  day. 

Carcasses  or  parts  of  carcasses  of  animals  intended 
for  canning  purposes  are  not  stamped.  Those  shipped 
from  one  abattoir  to  another  for  the  same  purpose, 
even  though  the  abattoirs  are  in  two  different  States, 
are  not  stamped.  A  car  containing  such  a  shipment 
of  meat  is  securely  sealed  with  Government  seals. 
These  seals  must  not  be  broken  except  in  the  presence 
of  an  inspector  or  his  assistant  or  with  his  permis- 
sion. 

All  cases,  barrels,  kegs,  etc.,  of  inspected  meat  must 
be  marked  with  an  official  stamp  to  certify  to  the  in- 
spector of  their  contents.  Grooved  spaces  are  cut  into 
the  cases  sufficiently  large  to  admit  the  stamps  to  pre- 
vent their  being  torn  off.  These  stamps  are  affixed  by 
means  of  transparent  varnish  or  glue,  and  are  coated 
over  with  the  same  substance.  After  being  affixed 
they  are  immediately  cancelled  by  means  of  a  rubber, 
stamp  containing  five  parallel  waved  lines,  the  name 
of  the  inspector  and  the  number  of  the  abattoir  over 
which  he  has  charge. 

The  affixing  of  these  stamps  is  done  by  employes  of 
the  firm  using  them,  but  under  the  supervision  of  a 
Government  employe. 

A  complete  record  of  these  stamps  is  kept  by  the 
Department  at  Washington. 

Each  case,  barrel,  keg,  etc.,  of  inspected  meat  used  in 
foreign  trade  must  have  stenciled  upon  it  the  official 
number  of  the  establishment  in  which  it  was  packed, 
the  weight  and  number  of  pieces  contained  therein,  the 
marks  under  which  it  is  shipped,  and  the  words,  "  For 
Export,  Inspected  according  to  act  of  Congress,"  of 
certain  date.  If  the  products  are  to  be  consumed  with- 
in U.  S.  Territory  the  words,  "  For  Interstate  Trade," 
are  substituted.  For  all  shipments  a  certificate  of  in- 
spection, in  addition  to  the  regular  stamp,  must  be  ob- 
tained from  the  inspector  in  charge. 

All  packages  containing  inspected  horse  meat  are 
marked  to  indicate  the  species  of  animal  from  which 
taken.  Special  stamps  are  used  in  marking  inspected 
horse  meat. 

No  other  animals  are  allowed  to  be  slaughtered  or 
certified  to  in  an  establishment  engaged  in  the  slaugh- 
ter and  packing  of  horse  flesh. 


ThE      IN6LENOOK. 


703 


Only  one  company  engaged  in  the  packing  of  horse 
flesh  has  U.  S.  Inspection.  This  company  operates  a 
plant  at  Linnton,  Oregon. 

Microscopic    Inspection    of    Pork. 

Germany,  France  and  Austria  have  strict  laws  re- 
garding the  importation  of  American  meats.  Because 
of  this  fact  all  pork  products  intended  for  export  to 
these  countries  are  subjected  to  a  microscopic  examina- 
tion for  trichinea  in  addition  to  the  regular  inspec- 
tion. 

Three  samples  of  muscle  are  taken  from  each  car- 
cass intended  for  such  inspection.  Each  set  of  samples 
is  placed  into  a  small  tin  box  together  with  a  num- 
bered tag.  A  duplicate  of  this  tag  is  attached  to  the 
carcass  to  which  the  samples  belong.  This  is  to  in- 
sure identification  in  case  the  carcass  is  rejected. 

Separate  cellars  are  provided  at  all  abattoirs  in  which 
to  store  and  cure  microscopically  inspected  meat,  and 
no  other  meats  are  allowed  to  be  placed  therein.  These 
cellars  are  securely  locked,  the  keys  remaining  in  the 
possession  of  a  trusted  employe  of  the  inspection  bu- 
reau. No  meat  can  be  stored  or  removed  without  his 
knowledge. 

An  accurate  account  of  all  meat  handled  in  these 
cellars  must  be  kept. 

During  the  cutting  of  carcasses  extreme  care  is  taken 
that  the  two  classes  of  meat  are  not  mixed.  Work 
is  suspended  long  enough  to  clear  away  all  other  meat 
before  micro,  meat  is  cut. 

A  stamp,  similar  to  those  placed  upon  carcasses  of 
export  meat,  is  used  to  certify  microscopically  inspect- 
ed meat.  It  is  purple  in  color,  however,  and  is  cov- 
ered with  a  tin  having  a  raised  center  to  prevent  it's 
being  rubbed  off  in  transit. 

This  inspection  is  the  most  rigid  that  is  held. 

While  U.  S.  Inspection  is  a  great  advertisement 
to  the  firms  whose  products  are  inspected,  it  serves  the 
country  in  a  great  measure  because  of  the  fact  that 
it  serves  to  destroy  all  meat  affected  by  disease  which 
would  otherwise  be  imposed  upon  the  public. 

Nearly  one  hundred  and  twenty  firms,  representing 
one  hundred  and  fifty  abattoirs,  and  controlling  prac- 
tically the  whole  packing  industry  have  their  products 
inspected  by  the  United  States  Government. 

Chicago,  III. 

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HARVEST  OF  SALT. 


The  most  remarkable  harvest  field  in  the  'bhiited 
States,  if  not  in  the  whole  world,  is  located  in  the  Heart 
of  the  Colorado  Desert.  The  spot  is  known  as  SalSpn, 
and  it  lies  265  feet  below  the  level  of  the  sea. 

The  crop  which  is  harvested  is  salt.     So  plentiful  1. 


the  natural  deposit  of  this  necessary  article  that  it  is 
plowed  with  gang  plows,  is  scraped  into  windrows  as 
hay  is  raked  in  the  field,  and,  like  hay,  it  is  stacked 
into  heaps  from  the  windrows  and  is  then  loaded  into 
wagons  and  later  into  cars  to  be  carried  to  the  reduc- 
tion works  three  miles  away. 

This  field  is  literally  white  to  the  harvest,  and  a  most 
phenomenal  harvest  it  is.  Over  a  briny,  oozy  marsh 
lies  a  crust  of  salt  six  to  sixteen  inches  thick.  As 
often  as  removed  the  crust  quickly  forms  again,  so 
that  crop  after  crop  is  taken  from  the  same  ground. 
In  fact,  although  these  harvests  have  been  going  on 
nearly  twenty  years,  and  two  thousand  tons  of  market- 
able salt  are  annually  taken  from  the  beds,  but  ten 
acres  of  the  1,000-acre  field  have  been  broken. 

The  laborers  employed  in  breaking  up  the  salt  crust, 
in  loading  the  salt  on  the  wagons  and  taking  it  to  the 
mills,  in  cleaning  and  preparing  it  for  market,  are 
mostly  Japanese  and  Indians.  In  the  summer  season 
the  temperature  reaches  130  to  140  degrees  at  Salton, 
and  white  men  are  unable  to  endure  the  work,  exposed 
to  the  burning  rays  of  the  sun. 

The  Coachella  Valley,  in  which  this  great  field  of 
salt  lies,  is  ninety  miles  long  and  from  ten  to  thirty 
miles  wide.  Its  1,600  square  miles  of  territory  lie 
wholly  below  the  level  of  the  sea,  its  greatest  depres- 
sion being  275  feet.  The  southern  portion  of  the  val- 
ley is  devoid  of  vegetation  save  where  irrigation  has 
been  introduced,  but  about  the  northern  portion  of  the 
valley  the  sage  and  mesquite  have  obtained  a  foothold 
in  the  sandy  soil. 

Near  Indio,  in  the  northern  portion  of  the  valley, 
an  artesian  well  was  drilled  a  few  years  ago  and  a 
copious  supply  of  water  was  obtained.  Now  more 
than  250  of  these  wells  are  pouring  their  waters  over 
the  thirsty  soil,  and  a  large  tract  of  land  has  been 
brought  into  a  high  state  of  cultivation.  The  lands  t 
about  the  salt  fields,  however,  are  too  strongly  impreg- 
nated with  salts  and  alkali  to  offer  any  inducemen^s'to 
the  rancher  now  or  in  the  future. — Cincinnati  Enquir- 
er. 

•S*   *   * 

A  Parliamentary  return  shows  that  since  1851 
and  to  1903,  nearly  4,000,000  of  Irish  have  emigrated, 
the  exact  total  being  3,981,011,  equivalent  to  74  per 
cent  of  the  average  population  of  Ireland. 

During  the  year  1903,  40,659  Irishmen  emigrated, 
of  which  number  the  United  States  received  33,501. 

In  1585  the  corps  pique  (a  corset)  was  a  hard  wood- 
en mold  into  which  the  wearer  was  compressed  and 
suffered  from  the  splinters  of  wood  that  penetrated 
the  flesh.  It  took  the  skin  off  the  waist  and  made 
the  ribs  ride  up,  one  over  the  other. 


704 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


TO  COMMON  SCHOOL  GRADUATES. 


BY   PROF.    C.    M.    JAMES. 

This  event  marks  an  epoch  in  your  lives.  It  says  to 
the  world  that  you  have  passed  a  creditable  examina- 
tion in  the  common  school  branches.  You  have  hon- 
ored your  parents  and  your  teacher;  and  I  trust  the 
taxpayers  throughout  the  States  will  be  recompensed 
for  the  money  they  have  expended. 

While  there  is  much  we  can  commend  in  your  pres- 
ent attainments,  and  while  we  are  all  proud  of  you, 
yet  you  must  remember  that  you  have  only  begun  that 
great  struggle  for  an  education. 

Although  you  may  have  passed  a  very  creditable  ex- 
amination in  Arithmetic  and  while  you  may  be  quite 
proficient  in  that  branch,  I  must  admonish  you  that  you 
have  scarcely  started  upon  the  realms  of  Mathematics. 
There  yet  lies  before  you  Algebra,  Geometry,  Trigo- 
nometry and  perhaps  Calculus.  While  you  are  to  re- 
ceive a  certificate  of  proficiency  in  Grammar,  yet  I 
would  remind  you  that  you  have  not  passed  the  first 
mile  post  in  your  language  studies ;  you  have  as  yet 
only  become  familiar  with  a  part  of  one  language, 
while  there  yet  lie.  before  you,  at  least  four  or  five 
languages  to  acquire,  before  you  can  be  said  to  be 
educated. 

You  have  learned  just  the  surface  of  Geography.  It 
is  yet  within  your  educational  career  to  explore  the 
earth's  interior,  for  every  stratum  has  been  analyzed 
and  made  an  object  of  study.  There  yet  lies  before 
you  in  this  field  the  great  promise  of  Astronomy.  The 
earth  must  be  followed  in  its  billions  of  miles  around 
the  sun,  and  the  planets  and  stars  are  to  be  made  an 
object  of  research. 

You,  no  doubt,  are  able  to  read  intelligently  a  page 
of  printed  matter  and  have  read  a  few  good  books, 
yet  there  is  the  Literature  of  a  thousand  years  and  of 
a  hundred  bards  with  which  to  become  familiar.  You 
are  to  be  granted  a  diploma  in  United  States  History, 
yet  I  would  remind  you  that  this  comprises,  in  a  very 
indefinite  way,  the  study  of  four  hundred  years  of  his- 
tory of  one  country,  while  you  have  yet  to  work  out  six 
thousand  years  of  World's  History  before  you  can 
begin  to  claim  authority  in  this  one  field. 

That  great  field  of  science  lays  before  you  a  realm 
of  undiscovered  possibilities.  The  beasts  of  the  field, 
the  fowls  of  the  air,  the  shining  minerals  of  the  deep 
earth,  seed  time  and  harvest,  bud  and  flower,  blossom 
and  fruit,  are  all  to  be  made  the  source  of  lessons  of 
usefulness  as  well  as  joy.  The  great  possibilities  of 
transportation  and  communication  are  to  be  studied. 

And  then  there  are  the  social  and  moral  problems 
to  be  solved,  which  are  to  save  the  world.  While  I 
would  exhort  you  not  to  stop  short  of  these  high  at- 
tainments ;  yet  I  would  have  you  complete  first  a  four 


years'  course  in  a  high  school,  and  then  a  good  strong 
course  in  some  university  or  technical  school.  My 
young  friends,  if  one  iota  of  your  education  has  had 
for  its  ultimate  object  such  a  low  object  as  money 
making  only,  your  instructors  have  failed  to  give  you 
that  which  was  most  helpful.  No,  my  young  friends, 
the  function  of  the  common  schools  is  to  produce  noble 
young  men  and  women ;  men  and  women  to  exemplify 
the  religion  of  Christ ;  men  and  women  more  able  to 
fulfill  the  duties  of  citizenship  and  to  enlighten  their 
fellowmen ;  men  and  women  with  common  sense  and 
the  ability  to  do. 

If  you  have  no  higher  ideal  in  the  use  of  your  di- 
plomas than  that  they  will  enable  you  to  better  earn 
a 'livelihood,  I  must  frankly  tell  you  that  your  educa- 
tion has  failed  in  its  fullest  sense  and  you  are  obtain- 
ing these  documents  under  false  pretense.  This  par- 
ticular view  of  our  common  schools  has  given  the  op- 
ponents of  popular  education  an  opportunity  to  get  in 
their  work  against  higher  education.  They  tell  you 
high  schools  are  all  right  and  quite  necessary  in  cities, 
but  are  useless  and  will  not  pay  in  the  country.  I  have 
always  been  unable  to  understand  that  high  form  of 
reasoning,  which  seeks  to  find  an  excuse  for  educating 
one  class  of  people  and  denying  it  to  another.  If  a 
high  school  education  is  a  good  thing  for  a  banker's 
son  and  daughter,  it  is  a  good  thing  for  a  farmer's 
son  and  daughter,  and  if  the  banker's  son  and  daughter 
have  the  privilege  of  a  high  school  education,  just  so 
should  the  farmer's  son  and  daughter  have  the  same 
privilege  by  having"  the  seat  of  learning  established 
in  their  own  locality. 

Again  let  me  urge  upon  you  that  graduating  from 
the  common  schools  does  not  indicate  that  your  train- 
ing has  ceased  or  has  obtained  any  degree  of  com- 
pleteness. It  simply  signifies  that  you  have  completed 
the  first  step  in  this  great  scheme  of  education  and  are 
thus  ready  for  further  development.  May  you  nor 
any  of  your  friends  never  offer  that  intolerable  excuse 
for  not  entering  school  again  in  the  fall,  that  you  have 
graduated. 

The  matter  of  obtaining  an  education  is  a  struggle 
as  is  everything  else,  but  by  grasping  the  present  op- 
portunities we  will  in  the  end  certainly  succeed. 
Strive  to  turn  your  power  already  acquired  to  the  art 
of  observation.  I  say  to  you,  it  was  Martin  Luther's 
ability  to  observe  the  time,  place  and  manner  of  swing- 
ing the  rock  of  the  Reformation  into  position  and  pro- 
duce the  great  lake  of  Religious  Independence  that 
made  him  great.  Abraham  Lincoln  observed  the  great 
rock  of  governmental  authority  and  swung  it  into 
power  and  the  lake  National  Freedom  was  the  result. 
May  we  thus  be  able  to  see  our  opportunities  for  good 
and  utilize  them  in  every  way  possible. 
Fairfield,  Ind.,  July  4. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


/OS 


PETERS'  MOUNTAIN. 


BY  H.  B.  FLESHMAN. 

Peter's  Mountain  is  a  range  of  the  Alleghany  sys- 
tem. It  takes  the  name  of  Peter's  Mountain  after  it 
•  leaves  Alleghany  county,  in  Virginia,  and  is  the  boun- 
dary line  between  Monroe  county,  West  Virginia,  and 
Giles  county,  Virginia,  the  top  of  the  mountain  being 
the  line.  It  extends  to  New  River  in  Giles  county, 
where  the  river  breaks  through  the  mountain  and  is 
called  Narrows  of  New  River,  where  a  little  town  is 
situated  among  the  hills  called  Narrows ;  from  there 
the  mountain  is  called  East  River  Mountain.  It  was 
named  for  Christian  Peters,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of 
Peters'  Mountain  valley. 

This  old  mountain  presents  a  beautiful  scene  in  win- 
ter when  covered  with  frozen  fog  and  snow.  With  the 
sun  shining  bright  upon  it,  it  presents  a  scene  which 
no  artist  can  paint.  Then  we  have  here  what  we  call 
mountain  storms.  Wind  will  blow  from  twelve  to 
forty-eight  hours,  seemingly  without  ceasing,  with 
such  fury  that  farmers  have  quite  a  job  picking  up 
scattered  fence  rails.  The  most  remarkable  feature 
about  the  wind  is  that  it  rages  only  on  the  north  and 
in  the  valley,  while  on  the  south  it  is  calm.  Another 
beautiful  sight  is  the  mountain  when  fired.  Some- 
times it  originates  on  the  north  side,  and  again  on  the 
south.  When  it  comes  over  from  the  south,  it  comes 
down  on  the  farmers  on  the  north.  And  then  it's 
"  Hurrah !  boys,  the  fire  is  out,"  and  such  a  time  to 
keep  it  off  the  fences,  sometimes  fighting  fire  all  night 
long  and  where  is  the  man  or  boy  who  does  not  enjoy 
fighting  fire.  It  is  a  grand  sight  to  see  a  zig-zag 
string  of  fire,  several  miles  long,  burning  at  night. 
The  north  of  this  mountain  is  rich  and  fertile,  produc- 
ing good  crops  of  corn,  and  is  well  timbered.  The 
south  is  rocky  and  barren,  with  short  underbrush  and 
scrubby  oaks.  A  large  portion  is  covered  with  huckle- 
berry bushes,  which  yield  an  immense  crop  of  fine, 
delicious  berries,  especially  the  big  blue  berrv.  The 
bushes  do  not  bear  every  year.  In  the  year  1903  was 
the  largest  crop  known  for  years.  It  was  estimated 
that  one  thousand  bushels  were  gathered  in  that  year. 
The  people  went  in  wagons,  buggies,  on  horseback  and 
on  foot,  some  would  camp  over  night  and  bring  back 
gallons  of  berries,  in  spite  of  the  copperhead  and  rattle- 
snake which  abound  in  that  region.  The  latter  having 
rattles  on  its  tail,  gives  warning  when  approached. 
The  Big  Marsli  has  bushes  five  and  six  feet  high.  One 
can  sit  on  a  horse  and  pick  berries.  The  Pine  Swamp 
and  Huckleberry  Ridge  are  noted  places  for  this  splen- 
did fruit.  The  lowest  depression  on  the  mountain  is 
the  Low  Gap,  one  half  mile  to  top.  The  highest 
point  is  the  Big  Butt,  close  to  the  Gap.  One  can  stand 
on   the  top  and  see  into  Monroe.   Greenbrier,   Sum- 


mers,  Raleigh,   Fayette  and   Mercer    counties,   West 
Virginia,  and  Giles  county,  Virginia. 

We  have  here  several  large  sugar  orchards  along 
the  foot.  In  February  and  March  the  trees  are  tapped. 
Then  comes  sugar  making.  I  have  spent  several  days 
at  the  sugar  camp,  carrying  water  and  boiling  it  down 
into  syrup.  Then  the  best  time  of  all — "  stirring  off." 
And  we  have  here  also  some  of  the  finest  springs  gush- 
ing out  of  the  mountain,  flowing  down  through  the 
valley.  Its  crystal  water  is  as  pure  as  ever  run  out 
of  the  earth.  The  springs  never  freeze  nor  go  dry. 
Every  family  is  supplied  with  good  water.  The  moun- 
tain is  a  guide  to  the  farmer  in  planting  corn.  They 
are  safe  in  planting  until  the  mountain  gets  green  to 
the  top.  The  game  of  the  past  was  deer,  bear,  wolves 
and  smaller  game.  The  old  hunter  would  put  on  his 
moccasins,  shoulder  his  rifle,  and  go  in  search  of  game. 
He  generally  brought  back  a  deer  or  bear  as  his  spoil, 
but  they  have  most  all  disappeared  before  the  hunters' 
leaden  bullets.  Many  changes  have  taken  place,  many 
who  have  looked  upon  Peters'  Mountain  have  taken 
their  last  look.  They  are  gone  to  return  no  more. 
But  I  see  no  change  on  this  old  mountain.  It  stands 
as  a  sentinel  down  through  the  ages,  showing  us  the 
wonderful  works  of  nature. 

Dear  Mount,  from  here  I  often  see 

Your  towering  height  that's  plain  to  me. 
The  closing  aspect  I  have  seen 

Changing  by   turns  from  blue  to  green. 
The  azure  that  I  now  behold 

In  Autumn  will  be  turned  to  gold. 
In  winter  time  it's  spotless  white 

Angelic  brightness — noonday  light; 
Sometimes  in  joy  you  roll  your  head; 

And  sometimes  weep  for  those  who're  dead. 
My  youthful  days  will  soon  be  past 

And  hoary  age  will  come  at  last. 
With  fondest  hopes,  to  endless  day 

I  soon  will  tread  the  shining  way. 
Blest  guardian!     Thou  hast  pointed  me 

Up  to  that  land — Eternity. 

Lindside,  Va. 

4.    <{»    * 

VERY     IMPORTANT     ABOUT    THE     HORSE. 


The  stomach  of  a  horse  is  a  single  bag  and  a  very 
small  one.  It  is  too  little  to  contain  even  an  ordinary 
feed  of  oats.  By  the  time  that  two-thirds  of  it  has 
been  swallowed,  as  much  is  passing  out  of  the  stom- 
ach as  is  being  eaten.  In  consequence  of  this  a  very 
large  proportion  of  a  horse's  food  is  not  digested  in 
the  stomach,  but  is  shoved  along  into,  the  bowels. 
The  horse  in  a  state  of  nature  is  an  animal  that  is 
almsot  always  feeding.  He  cannot,  like  the  cow  or 
ox,  pack  away  a  large  quantity  of  food,  and  then  lie 
down  and  chew  it  thoroughly,  nor  indeed  at  all. — The 
New  York  Livery  Stable. 


706 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


EARTH'S   STRANGEST  PEOPLE. 


BY  RICHARD   SPAMER. 

The  history  of  the  Cliff  Dwellers  who  to-day  inhabit 
the  famous  Painted  Desert  of  the  Colorado  in  Ari- 
zona and  adjacent  territory  in  our  great  Southwest, 
goes  back  to  the  dawn  of  time.  By  their  daily  lives 
they  form  the  connecting  link  between  the  nomadic 
tribes  of  our  North  American  Indians  and  the  modes 
and  customs  as  now  pursued  by  ourselves.  They  are 
called  the  Cliff  Dwellers  because  they  live  in  the  cliffs 
and  canyons  of  the  vast  region  that  stretches  through 
Arizona  and  New  Mexico.  Their  habitations  are  the 
former  cavern  occupied  by  the  cave  bear,  the  tiger 
and  other  big  and  terrible  quadrupeds  from  whence 
the  ancestors  of  the  Cliff  Dwellers  drove  the  beasts  and 
made  their  caves  their  semi-human  abode.  This  dis- 
possession of  the  wild  animals  by  these  men  was  a 
labor  of  fiercest  necessity.  Their  picturesque  folk-lore 
tells  of  the  invasion  of  their  erstwhile  homes  in  the 
river  valleys  by  an  implacable  foe  from  the  North, 
probably  the  ancestors  of  the  Apaches,  thousands  of 
years  ago.  To  forefend  their  own  extermination  and 
henceforth  oppose  the  invaders,  these  Cliff  Dwellers 
battled  with  the  beasts  of  the  mountain  for  possession 
of  their  dwelling  places.  They  won,  at  what  fearful 
cost  no  history  tells,  and  in  their  victory  they  lost  their 
very  name.  They  henceforth  were  designated  by  their 
habits.  Men  called  them  Cliff  Dwellers.  But  a  meas- 
ure of  compensation  came  to  them.  By  reason  of  their 
now  fixed  abode  the  arts  of  peace  grew  among  them. 
They  became  expert  in  the  domestic  arts.  The  weav- 
ing of  blankets  that  puts  to  shame  the  mechanical 
skill  of  the  white  man's  power  loom,  bead-work,  iron- 
work and  wondrous  pottery  began  to  be  turned  out 
"by  them.  They  cultivated  marvelous  tribal  customs ; 
they  produced  dancers  the  most  agile  and  actors  the 
most  facile;  a  luminous  oratory  flourished  among 
them,  and  this  advancement  was  made  by  them,  in  all 
human  probability,  hundreds  if  not  thousands  of  years 
before  the  keels  of  Columbus  first  vexed  the  Atlantic's 
waves.  In  modern  times  the  Cliff  Dwellers  came  to 
be  known  as  Zunis  and  Mokis,  and  to-day  for  the  first 
time  in  all  their  strange,  eventful  history,  three  hun- 
dred handsome  and  impressive  members  of  the  Zuni 
and  Moki  tribes  have  been  brought  to  St.  Louis  where, 
in  the  Cliff  Dwellers'  concession  they  pursue  their 
daily  avocations  precisely  as  in  their  mountain  fast- 
nesses of  the  Colorado.  An  immense  rock,  over  one 
hundred  fee?  in  height,  and  otherwise  massive  and  im- 
posing, has  been  placed  at  the  disposal  of  these  Cliff 
Dwellers,  who  straightway  went  to  work  to  make  it 
fit  for  their  habitation.  They  modeled  rooms  and 
carved  mysterious  passages  into  it,  and  into  these  apart- 
ments they  brought  all  their  implements  so  that  to  all 


intents  and  purposes  they  might  live  in  the  heart  of 
the  metropolis  of  the  Mississippi  Valley  just  as  they 
do  at  home.  They  have  built  a  theatre  in  the  center 
of  a  vast  mountainous  quadrangle,  and  in  it  they  per- 
form the  strangest  of  semi-savage  rites,  the  eagle 
dance,  the  war  dance,  the  peace  dance  and  for  the  first 
time  away  from  the  Wolpi  where,  in.  1897,  white  men 
first  saw  this  wondrously  fascinating  pagan  ceremony, 
the  Snake  Dance,  by  which  the  Mokis  implore  their 
God,  Gitche  Manitou,  for  rain.  At  Wolpi,  four  days 
before  the  actual  ceremony,  the  swiftest  runners  of 
the  Mokis  are  sent  forth  by  the  tribe  priests  to  gather 
in  the  hundreds  of  rattlesnakes,  blue  racers  and  every 
variety  of  poisonous  reptiles  employed  in  this  strange 
pageantry,  and  the  Moki  priests  not  only  handle  them 
with  impunity,  but  at  the  proper  moment  set  them 
free  so  that  in  hunting  their  holes  these  serpents  may 
tell  the  earth  spirit  that  the  priests  have  commanded 
them  to  open  the  clouds.  It  is  authenticated  that  be- 
yond cavil  that  it  always  rains  five  days  after  the 
Snake  Dance  of  the  Mokis  of  Wolpi.  This  dance  is 
reproduced  at  the  Cliff  Dwellers'  concession  at  the 
World's  Fair  in  all  its  native  wizardy.  It  is  the  talk 
of  the  World's  Fair  to-day  that  no  educational  or  scien- 
tific society,  no  aggregation  of  travelers,  no  coterie  of 
cultured  people  has  so  far  visited  the  Fair  without  go- 
ing to  see  the  Cliff  Dwellers  and  their  weird  and  fas- 
cinating ceremonies. 

*  ♦  ♦ 

THE    SWEDE    AHEAD. 


The  Yankee  is  not  the  only  fellow  whose  head  is 
full  of  tricks,  nor  is  he  the  only  one  who  has  the  power 
of  invention.  Occasionally  we  find  people  from  for- 
eign shores  whose  ideas  make  us  open  our  eyes  in 
surprise.  This  has  been  demonstrated  recently  by  a 
Swede  who  has  invented  a  telephone  for  army  service. 
The  telephone  is  peculiarly  constructed  by  placing  a 
dry  cell  within  the  cylinder  of  the  'phone,  which  in- 
cludes both  the  receiver  and  the  mouth  piece,  and  yet 
small  enough  to  be  carried  in  the  pocket.  Accom- 
panying each  instrument  may  be  carried  13,000  feet 
of  thin  copper  wire  by  the  aid  of  which  he  is  constant- 
ly kept  in  connection  with  those  who  are  his  directors 
and  superiors.  Headquarters,  fire  brigades,  police 
protection,  scouts,  spies  and  all  of  these  are  near  at 
hand  when  this  new  invention  becomes  universal.  It 
seems  that  the  world  is  bent  on  turning  all  the  blessings 
into  cursings.  This  new  device  might  be  used  in  fur- 
thering civilization  and  for  pleasure  of  the  populace 
instead  of  being  used  for  war. 

It  is  being  gobbled  right  away  by  France,  Italy. 
Spain,  Portugal,  United  States,  Great  Britain,  Austria, 
Russia,  Greece  and  Turkey,  which  shows  that  we  are 
seeking  after  a  more  rapid  destruction  of  our  fellow- 
man  rather  than  the  development  of  him. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


707 


THE    POWERS    OF    WOMEN. 


BY  CLEVELAND   HOLLAR. 

Having  read  in  the  Inglenook  and  other  papers 
about  the  attainments  of  women  in  this  present  age,  I 
shall  endeavor  to  write  concerning  the  general  powers 
of  women,  and  their  effect  upon  civilization. 

In  the  last  several  decades  women  have  come  very 
prominently  to  the  front  and  have  wrought  many 
things  so  peculiarly  characteristic  of  their  natures  that 
they  have  attracted  a  great  deal  of  attention.  They 
have  become  so  popular  and  so  accomplished  in  many 
works  that,  when  in  competition  against  men,  the 
preferences  are  given  to  them  instead  of  men.  They 
are  given  much  more  respect  by  the  public  at  large 
than  it  is  customary  to  respect  men.  There  must  be 
some  cause  for  this  and  many  men  have  probably  at- 
tributed this  distinction  to  their  own  personal  ability; 
but  this  does  not  coincide  with  the  facts  of  history. 

In  the  days  when  the  Pharaohs  and  the  Shepherd 
kings  ruled  the  land  of  Egypt,  women  were  seldom 
mentioned;  at  the  time  of  the  Athenian  supremacy 
they  were  looked  upon  as  a  degrading  factor  in  society  ; 
and  even  in  the  days  of  Rome  they  were  still  very  far 
in  the  background.  Surely  if  personal  ability  be  their 
secret  of  success  it  would  have  manifested  itself  long 
before  this,  and  they  would  have  been  recognized. 
Finding  this  improbable,  we  must  look  for  some  other 
cause. 

By  tracing  history  from  the  time  of  the  Roman  su- 
premacy, we  find  a  marked  change  in  affairs,  after  the 
peoples  who  came  in  to  possess  the  bequests  of  the 
dying  empire  had  become  settled  and  things  began  to 
take  to  themselves  shape  and  form  again.  With  the 
close  of  the  Dark  Ages  woman  seems  to  have  emerged 
from  her  former  state  of  obscurity,  and  to  have  donned 
in  its  embryonic  stage,  the  brilliant  attire  in  which  she 
presents  herself  to  the  world  to-day.  But  why  was 
this  ?     And  how  was  it  brought  about  ? 

The  facts  are  these :  When  these  Germanic  tribes  en- 
tered the  Roman  provinces  they  were  barbarians  who 
had  nothing  to  present  to  civilization  except  personal 
worth,  respect  for  the  gentler  sex,  and  an  aptitude  for 
civilization.  Their  personal  worth,  however,  was  the 
most  striking  feature.  It  was  the  thing  the  world 
most  needed  at  that  time.  But  it  must  be  remembered 
that  was  only  an  effect  of  a  visible  cause.  Their  per- 
sonal worth  would  not  have  been  so  great  had  it  not 
been  augmented  by  their  respect  for  women ;  and  yet, 
queerest  of  all,  their  reverence  for  them  was  due  only 
to  the  then  prevalent  idea  that  woman  is  peculiarly 
divine,  excelled  by  the  gods  only.  So  it  may  plainly 
be  seen  that  the  whole  thing  hinges  upon  an  old  super- 
stition. And,  though  women  surpass  men  in  some 
works,  it  has  been  proven  that  man's  brain  power  is 


the  greater ;  and  that  woman's  great  distinction  to-day 
is  due  to  the  fact  that  we  have  inherited  a  great  deal 
of  our  forefathers'  superstition. 

This  is  an  age  wherein  superstitious  ideas  are  still 
prevalent.  Many  of  the  ideas  and  customs  of  the 
Germanic  barbarians,  our  progenitors,  have  clung 
to  us  despite  the  tide  of  civilization  that  has  swept 
over  us.  Take  the  case  of  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe, 
for  instance.  Were  there  not  many  other  writings 
produced  upon  the  same  subject?  Were  not  their 
authors  as  well  qualified  and  of  as  brilliant  intellects 
as  she?  And  were  not  their  words  as  well  chosen 
and  their  points  as  well  fixed?  But  did  any  of  them 
produce  the  profound  enthusiasm  that  Uncle  Tom's 
Cabin  has  witnessed?  Of  course  not.  Uncle  Tom's 
Cabin  was  produced'  by  feminine  hand,  and  was  so 
enthusiastically  received  rather  for  its  feminine  touch 
than  for  its  superiority  over  man's  productions,  due 
to  the  old  superstition  that  woman  is  ever  man's  su- 
perior.    Joan  of  Arc  presents  a  similar  illustration. 

Personal  ability,  therefore,  will  not  stand  the  test, 
and  woman  would  be  as  far  in  the  background  to-day 
were  it  not  for  this  old  superstition,  as  she  was  in  the 
days  of  the  Pharaohs ;  and  Socrates,  Plato,  and  Aris- 
totle and  Caesar,  Cicero  and  Cato. 

Their  effect  upon  civilization  has  been  wonderful  in 
a  moral  way.  Men  in  their  reverence  for  them  have 
omitted  many  of  their  former  evil  practices.  And  in 
a  political  sense,  if  we  desire  to  carry  it  further,  they 
have,  through  the  instrumentality  of  the  personal 
worth  of  men  and  the  old  superstition,  blotted  forever 
from  the  face  of  the  earth  the  archaic  age  of  civili- 
zation and  are  the  grand  ushers  of  this  golden  indus- 
trial age. 

We  will  all  acknowledge  that  to  cling  to  these  old 
superstitious  ideas  is  not  the  best ;  yet  it  may  be  well 
that  this  one  at  least  has  clung  to  us,  for  whatsoever 
man  worshipeth,  if  he  thinks  it  to  be  divine,  tendeth  to 
draw  him  unto  his  best  thoughts  and  actions. 

So  it  may  be  plainly  seen  that  woman  is  not  general- 
ly more  worthy  than  man,  for  even  her  high  esteem 
in  social  circles  is  only  an  assumed  one,  as  proven 
above ;  but  that  with  popular  sentiment  in  her  favor, 
she  has  a  greater  influence  and  thus  she  has  gained  the 
ascendency. 

Hardin,  Mo. 

«p  «j*  .j. 

Of  the  twenty-six  barons  who  signed  the  Magna 
Charta,  three  wrote  their  names  and  twenty-three 
made  their  mark.  This  is  all  changed  now.  Every 
baron  can  write,  but  only  a  few  succeed  in  making 
their  mark. 

•>  *   * 

You  can  cry  in  secret,  but  you  can't  enjoy  a  joke 
alone. 


7o8 


HI 


INGLENOOK. 


GRAPE    CULTURE    IN    KANSAS. 


BY    ALPHA    L.    MILLER. 

Grapes  as  a  moneymaker  in  Kansas  are  not  as  suc- 
xessful  as  they  would  be  if  higher  cultivated  or  more 
.carefully  cultivated,  nevertheless  grapes  are  produced 
in  Kansas  of  excellent  flavor,  rich,  dark  color  and  of 
good  size  and  compact  bunches.  They  find  a  ready 
-market  in  nearby  cities  and  towns. 

The  peculiar  soil  of  Wyandotte  county,  Kansas — a 
rich,  sandy  loam,  deep  subsoil  and  good  drainage  is 
-adapted  to  the  culture  of  a  good  grade  of  grapes,  and 
-many  tons  of  the  fruit  are  grown  annually  near  Kan- 
sas City,  Mo. 

The  varieties  grown  are  the  Champion,  Moore's 
Early,  Warden  and  the  Concord. 

The  vineyard  is  started  from  cuttings,  planted  in 
rows.  The  plants  or  cuttings  are  planted  in  rows 
eight  feet  apart  and  set  seven  feet  apart  in  the  row. 
"The  first  year  the  young  plant  makes  little  progress. 
Cultivation  is  kept  up  all  summer,  and  the  plant  is 
;also  hoed  and  ~kept  free  of  all  weeds.  No  trellis  is 
needed  at  this  period  of  the  plant's  existence;  but  a 
.-stake  is  driven  close  to  the  plant  to  protect  it  from 
-the  passing  plow. 

The  second  year  the  vine  is  trimmed  rather  close; 
-only  a  couple  of  shoots  are  left,  these  are  tied  to  the 
-trellis — a  wire  stapled  to  posts  set  two  rods  apart 
in  the  vine  row,  and  are  kept  well  cultivated  and  hoed 
during  the  summer.  The  vine  does  not  yield  much 
the  first  year, — some  kinds  not  at  all,  and  the  fruit 
is  of  poor  quality. 

The  third  year  two  more  wires  have  been  added 
to  the  trellis,  making  three  wires  in  all ;  this  is  all  that 
is  required. 

The  vines  are  trimmed  in  early  spring,  all  the  vines 
or  branches  are  removed  except  four  of  the  thriftiest 
branches  of  the  stalk.  These  are  usually  the  branches 
that  grow  near  the  bottom  of  the  stalk  next  the 
ground.  On  these  branches  are  left  four  joints  or  buds, 
and  the  branch  is  severed  a  little  past  the  fourth  bud 
or  joint,  then  these  branches  are  tied  to  the  trellis 
wire  with  wrapping  yarn.  The  two  top  branches  are 
tied  to  the  second  and  third  wire,  the  other  two 
branches,  the  lower  and  the  outside  ones,  are  tied  to 
the  first  and  second  wire. 

In  the  latter  part  of  May  the  branches  are  trimmed 
again,  this  is  called  summer  trimming.  Each  bud  on 
the  four  branches  sends  out  a  fruit  stem  or  branch, 
this  is  what  bears  the  fruit,  and  to  get  firmer  and  bet- 
ter bunches  this  fruit  stem  is  severed  at  the  fourth 
bud,  leaving  just  four  bunches  of  grapes  to  the  start- 
ing bud,  sixteen  to  the  branch  and  sixty-four  to  each 
„-stalk  or  vine.     A  little  later  in  the  summer  the  new 


bearing  branches  for  the  next  year  are  selected  and 
tied  to  the  trellis. 

The  cultivation  for  the  third  year  is  even  more 
thorough  than  before  and   every   weed   is   destroyed. 

The  vine  bears  pretty  well  on  this  year,  and  just  as 
soon  as  the  fruit  begins  to  ripen  it  is  removed  with  a 
sharp  knife  from  the  stalk,  all  the  green  and  imperfect 
berries  are  removed,  and  the  bunches  are  placed  in  ten 
pound  baskets  to  be  sent  to  market. 

The  yield  of  a  vine  four  or  five  years  old  is  about 
ten  pounds  and  from  one  ton  to  three  tons  to  the  acre. 
Many  bunches  measure  eight  inches  in  length  and  are 
plump  and  compact. 

I  will  illustrate  the  varieties  of  planting  and  the  dif- 
ferences in  the  ripening  of  the  fruit.  One  vineyard  is 
on  a  northern  slope,  the  rows  are  fully  nine  feet  apart 
and  run  north  and  south.  This  fruit  ripens  a  little 
late,  it  is  of  extra  fine  flavor  and  very  juicy,  with  large 
berry  and  long  bunches. 

Another  vineyard  is  one  planted  on  a  terraced  south- 
ern slope,  each  row  rising  above  the  other.  The 
vines  are  planted  east  and  west  and  the  rows  are  scant 
eight  feet  apart.  This  fruit,  although  of  the  same 
variety  as  the  former,  ripens  much  sooner  and  the 
bunches  are  not  near  so  large.  The  berry  is  of  good 
flavor,  but  smaller. 

Another  vineyard  on  the  same  place,  of  the  Concord 
variety,  is  twenty-six  years  old  and  still  bears  good 
fruit. 

The  fruit  is  nearly  all  marketed  in  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
From  there  it  is  hauled  or  shipped  to  suburban  towns. 
It  commands  a  fair  price,  depending  on  the  yield  and 
quality.  The  price  varies  from  one-fourth  cent  a 
pound  to  five  cents  and  sales  are  either  by  the  single 
basket  or  by  the  whole  load,  one  hundred  baskets  mak- 
ing a  fair  sized  load.  The  grape  market  was  good 
last  year  in  Kansas  City,  owing  to  the  scarcity  of 
blackberries  and  raspberries.  The  price  averaged 
about  or  nearly  two  cents  a  pound. 

Olathe,  Kans. 

*  *  * 

OILED  ROADS  IN  CALIFORNIA. 


Santa  Clara  county,  in  California,  began  oiling 
roads  in  1892,  and  now  has  about  seventy  miles  of 
such  highways.  The  results  have  been,  according  to 
the  State  Bureau  of  Public  Highways,  on  the  whole, 
highly  satisfactory.  In  the  first  stages  of  the  experi- 
menting with  oil  sprinkling  there  were  strenuous  ob- 
jections by  some  of  the  people  to  this  method  of  im- 
proving the  highways.  The  chief  grievance  was  the 
fact  that  when  the  oil  was  first  applied  it  rendered  the 
road  disagreeable  to  travel  upon  and  had  a  tendency  to 
soil  vehicles  and  clothing.  This,  however,  proved  to 
be  only  a  temporary  trouble,  as  in  a  few  days,  when  the 


-r  hi 


INGLENOOK. 


709 


oil  had  been  properly  worked  in  and  the  surface 
smoothed  and  packed  by  thorough  rolling,  sufficed  to 
harden  the  surface  and  keep  it  clean.  It  was  soon 
realized  that  the  inconvenience  caused  by  the  first  ap- 
plication of  oil  was  not  nearly  so  great  as  was  caused 
by  the  first  application  of  gravel.  In  the  latter  case  it 
requires  nearly  a  year  for  the  road  to  become  packed 
and  smooth,  while  with  oil  the  time  required  to  put 
it  in  readiness  for  easy  and  dustless  travel  is  only  a  few 
days.  Oil  has  the  advantage  over  water  in  the  fact 
that  where  applied  there  is  absolutely  no  dust,  and 
where  the  roadbed  is  properly  prepared  there  is  prac- 
tically no  mud  during  the  rainy  season. 

The  cost  per  mile  of  watering  the  valley  roads  of 
Santa  Clara  county  has  averaged  about  $87  per  season, 
exclusive  of  the  cost  of  water,  expenditures  for  water 
wagons,  repairs,  etc.,  and  with  that  added  the  cost  per 
mile  per  annum  has  been  about  $123.  The  cost  of  oil- 
ing a  mile  of  road  the  first  season  is  about  $90.  For 
the  second  season  about  $50,  with  a  decreasing  expense 
each  season  following.  This  estimate  includes  the  en- 
tire expense  of  oiling,  and  shows  a  saving  over  water 
of  $33  per  mile  the  first  year  and  $73  per  mile  the  sec- 
ond year,  a  saving  in  expense  which  is  pretty 
sure  to  appeal  strongly  to  the  taxpayers.  In  applying 
the  oil,  Glover's  road-oiling  wagon  and  other  wagons, 
with  tank  and  sprinkler  attached,  have  been  used. 
From  100  to  400  barrels  a  mile  have  been  used  on  the 
first  application  of  oil  to  the  roadbed,  depending  to 
some  extent  upon  the  width  oiled,  ordinarily  about 
twelve  feet.  The  famous  "  Alameda,"  between  San 
Jose  and  Santa  Clara,  is  oiled  to  a  width  of  sixty  feet. 
The  oil  is  heated  by  steam  to  a  temperature  of  300  de- 
grees at  a  cost  of  eight  cents  a  barrel,  the  expansion 
resulting  being  about  three  per  cent.  The  quantity 
used  per  mile  is  estimated  after  heating.  Bakersfield 
oil  is  used,  of  a  specific  gravity  of  fourteen  to  seven- 
teen degrees,  costing  ninety  cents  per  barrel  and  up- 
ward, according  to  the  distance  to  be  hauled  from  the 
railroad  station. — Cincinnati  Enquirer. 

PENNSYLVANIA    GERMAN    AND    THE    COLLEGE. 


DY    D.    C.    REBER. 

First,  the  amount  of  Pennsylvania  German  spoken. 
Second,  the  amount  of  educational  advantages  enjoyed 
in  the  public  schools  before  going  to  college. 

The  Pennsylvania  German  dialect  affects  the  col- 
lege student  most  in  the  acquisition  of  correct  articula- 
tion and  pronunciation  of  the  English  language.  He 
will  therefore  realize  the  greatest  difficulty  in  acquir- 
ing the  English  accent  and  in  overcoming  the  German 
brogue.  But  his  vernacular  will  also  prove  disad- 
vantageous to  him  somewhat  in  constructive  work  in 
English  both  oral  and  written,  such  as  debating,  ex- 


temporaneous speaking  and  formal  composition  work. 
German  idioms  which  present  themselves  continually 
must  be  overcome  and  English  idioms  have  to  be 
learned. 

To  suppose  a  case,  a  young  man  is  reared  in  a  home 
where  Pennsylvania  German  is  spoken  exclusively,  but 
.he  receives  a  good  common  school  education,  even 
through  a  village  high  school.  At  seventeen  or  eight- 
een he  attends  college.  If  he  stays  in  college  long 
enough  to  finish  a  course  of  two  years  or  more,  and 
speaks  English  exclusively  during  this  time,  he  may 
leave  college  experiencing  no  hindrance  in  thinking  or 
speaking. 

The  most  unfavorable  case  to  be  supposed,  on  the 
other  hand,  is  where  Pennsylvania  German  is  the 
mother  tongue  and  no  school  advantages  are  had  after 
the  age  of  ten  or  twelve  years.  If  such  an  individual 
enters  a  college  at  eighteen  or  twenty,  it  is  very  likely 
that  he  will  have  great  difficulty  in  thinking  in  Eng- 
lish as  well  as  in  expressing  his  thought  orally.  The 
odds  are  very  much  against  such  an  individual.  And 
it  is  only  by  the  proper  kind  of  sympathy  and  en- 
couragement on  the  teacher's  part  and  a  great  deal  of 
determination  on  the  pupil's  part  that  success  in  school 
can  be  obtained  under  such  circumstances. 

Another  source  of  discouragement  to  the  Pennsyl- 
vania German  in  college  is  that  his  peculiar  brogue 
noticeable  in  conversation  and  recitation  may  furnish 
occasion  for  amusement  or  even  ridicule  for  his  fel- 
low-students. If  he  is  timid  or  backward,  this  may 
be  a  serious  annoyance  to  his  comfort  and  may  prove 
an  obstacle  in  his  career  as  a  student. 

But  fortunately,  in  the  onward  march  of  education- 
al progress,  Pennsylvania  German  as  a  mother  tongue 
is  rapidly  going  into  disuse,  so  that  what  has  proven 
a  perplexing  problem  to  the  professor  of  elocution  is 
now  no  longer  such,  comparatively  speaking. 

Thus  far  I  have  discussed  only  the  unfavorable 
phase  of  the  question.  May  there  not,  however,  be 
some  advantage  in  a  young  man's  being  able  to  speak 
this  local  dialect?  If  he  ever  takes  up  the  study  of 
classic  German,  it  will  prove  helpful  in  getting  a  Ger- 
man vocabulary  and  German  word-order  more  easily 
than  his  English  classmate  can  get  them. 

Elizabethtown,  Pa. 

+  *  + 

SOMEBODY. 


Somebody  did  a  splendid  deed; 
Somebody  proved  a  friend  in  need; 
Somebody  sang  a  beautiful  song; 
Somebody  smiled  the  whole  day  long; 
Somebody  thought.  " 'Tis  sweet  to  live;" 
Somebody  said.  "  I'm  glad  to  give;  " 
Somebody  fought  a  gallant  fight; 
Somebody  lived  to  shield  the  right; 
Was  that  somebody  you? 


710 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


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GOT    A    MATCH? 


Not  long  since  while  walking  down  the  street  we 
chanced  to  meet  two  young  Americans  who  attracted 
our  attention  on  their  approach.  On  coming  closer, 
one  of  them  looked  up  into  our  faces  and  said,  "  Mr., 
got  a  match?"  We  shook  our  heads  and  passed  on. 
The  longer  we  thought,  the  more  we  thought.  It  was 
easy  to  tell,  by  the  pinched-up  face,  sallow  complexion, 
sunken  eyes,  stooped  shoulders,  careless  gait,  what 
he  wanted  with  a  "  match."  On  his  face  in  glowing 
letters  of  truth  was  it  written,  "  This  boy  is  a  cigar- 
ette fiend."  WANTED  A  MATCH!  Poor  fellow; 
little  did  he  realize  that  inch  by  inch,  hour  by  hour,  he 
was  burning  away  his  young  manhood.  The  dearest 
friend  he  had  in  the  world  might  tell  him  in  tender- 
est  words  of  the  appalling  danger  into  which  he  was 
falling,  and  it  would  have  sounded  to  him  foolishness, 
for  the  influence  of  his  enemy  had  become  so  fixed 
in  the  tissues  of  his  body  that  he  could  not  longer 
resist  the  temptation. 

Got  a  match?  We  could  hardly  keep  from  telling 
him  that  his  match  was  in  the  inebriate  asylum,  the 
hospital,  and  the  grave. 

It  is  a  battle  to  fight  when  one  is  compelled  to  re- 
sist the  temptation  of  preaching  sermons  to  such  speci- 
mens of  fallen  humanity.   - 

Would  to  God  that  some  means  might  be'  brought 
to  bear  upon  such  conditions  as  this,  so  that  the  young 
men  might  "  see  themselves  as  others  see  them." 


Hardly  a  day  passes  by  but  some  or  all  of  us  are 
more  or  less  guilty  of  exaggerating.  It  is  one  of  the 
easiest  habits  into  which  one  can  fall.  There  are  so 
many  names  for  it.  Some  people  call  it  a  "  white  lie," 
some  "  a  stretched  blanket  "  and  a  multitude  of  other 
names,  any  or  all  of  which  are  very  significant.  And 
while  exaggerate  sounds  rough,  yet  it  is  about  the 
smoothest  name  that  can  be  applied.  One  is  hardly 
cognizant  of  how  some  things  sound  until  he  has  had 
time  to  reflect. 

The  other  day  there  were  some  men  on  the  street 
talking  about  the  many  things  that  street-talkers  talk 
about ;  among  other  things  the  question  of  "  poor 
land "  came  in  their  way.  One  fellow  was  from 
southern  Illinois ;  he  said  they  were  bothered  with 
hardpan  in  their  soil,  and  that  the  soil  was  so  thin 
that  the  hardpan  stuck  out  of  the  ground  as  high  as 
the  third  wire  of  the  fence.  The  other  fellow,  who 
had  become  dissatisfied  with  his  home  in  southern 
Indiana,  said  they  were  not  bothered  with  hardpan 
down  there,  but  with  hills  and  clay  knobs,  and  that 
their  soil  was  so  thin  that  a  man  could  not  raise  any- 
thing; not  even  the  interest  on  a  note. 

The  Kentuckian  standing  by  said  they  had 
land  at  home  that  was  poorer  than  that.  He  said  they 
had  some  that  was  so  void  of  fertility  that  a  man 
could  not  even  raise  his  voice.  This  seemed  to  end 
the  controversy  on  that  point.  The  conversation  then 
drifted  towards  the  weather,  and  several  passing  re- 
marks were  made  about  the  excessive  heat.  When 
they  were  through  a  man  from  Nebraska  said,  "  You 
fellers  hain't  got  it  hot  here.  Out  West  we  had  to 
put  ice  in  the  ponds  to  keep  the  ducks  from  laying 
hard-boiled  eggs." 

Now  you  can  see,  by  listening  to  a  conversation 
of  this  kind  how  it  sounds  when  you  get  to  exag- 
gerating. While  a  great  many  times  such  things  are 
said  or  spoken  for  the  fun  of  the  thing,  yet  some 
people  are  not  prepared  to  take  such  things  in  jest, 
but  insist  on  taking  them  in  earnest.  Here  is  where 
the  folly  of  exaggeration  comes  in.  We  are  not  al- 
ways able  to  know  upon  whom  we  have  influence 
in  speech,  action  and  life. 

*  *  * 
WHITE  LIES. 


It  is  possible  that  you  may  be  able  to  recall  from 
the  time  of  your  earliest  recollections  many  references 
that  have  been  made  in  your  presence  of  "  White 
Lies."  Have  you  ever  considered  the  subject  closely? 
Did  it  ever  occur  to  you  that  a  lie  was  a  lie,  whether 
it  was  large  or  small,  white  or  black,  bond  or  free? 
And  has  it  been  demonstrated  to  you  that  a  little  white 


THE-      INGLENOOK. 


711 


lie  becomes  black  the  moment  it  strikes  the  air,  and  is 
as  black  as  any  lie  that  hell  can  invent. 

The  object  that  some  people  have  in  using  these 
zvhite  lies  is  to  evade  the  truth,  and  in  the  evasion  of 
the  truth  it  is  equal  to  telling  the  untruth.  It  is  ad- 
missible that  it  is  not  always  compulsory  nor  absolute- 
ly necessary  to  tell  all  the  truth  all  the  time,  at  all 
places,  not  as  a  matter  of  legality,  but  a  matter  of  ex- 
pediency. However,  this  admission  does  not  legalize 
the  evasion  of  the  truth  when  it  should  be  spoken. 
There  are  people  in  the  world  who  could  not  be  hired 
for  any  reasonable  amount  of  money,  to  go  into  one's 
bedroom  and  take  money  out  of  their  clothing,  but 
these  very  same  individuals  would  cram  a  fifteen- 
year-old  boy  down  in  the  car  seat  to  evade  the  pay- 
ment of  a  rightful  fare  that  rightfully  belongs  to  the 
railroad  company.  There  are  men  who  would  pay 
every  cent  they  owe  in  a  business  transaction  and 
would  not  be  guilty  of  obtaining  goods  under  false  pre- 
tense from  their  neighbors,  but  would  sit  down  on 
the  rail  fence  by  the  cornfield,  under  a  shade  tree, 
and  deliberately  lie  to  the  assessor  about  the  amount 
of  goods  they  possess  that  are  assessable.  They  try  to 
make  themselves  believe  that  it  is  all  right  to  evade  the 
payment  of  taxes  because  they  go  to  the  government. 
These  men  have  neighbors,  no  doubt,  who  would  not 
think  of  cheating  any  of  their  neighbors  or  friends  in 
a  trade,  but  who  would  coolly  and  calmly  haul  two- 
thirds  of  a  load  of  gravel  on  the  roads  and  charge  the 
supervisor  up  with  a  full  load.  This  little  white  lie  is 
all  right  because  they  are  working  for  the  township. 

Have  any  of  these  little  zvhite  lies  ever  come  under 
your  observation?  Has  the  devil  ever  come  right  close 
to  you  and  whispered  in  your  ear  that  these  little 
evasions  are  only  white  lies  and  are  not  wrong,  and 
that  it  is  necessary  to  stretch  the  truth  a  little  some- 
times in  order  to  get  there?  Has  the  devil  ever  suc- 
ceeded in  getting  you  to  ridicule  the  "  George  Wash- 
ington-hatchet-cherry-tree-story "  ?  Be  it  remembered 
that  these  white  lies  not  only  turn  black  as  soon  as 
the  air  strikes  them,  but  they  are  the  most  contagious 
of  all  poisonous  contagions.  No  sooner  do  you  give 
birth  to  one  of  them  than  it  makes  you  free  and  easy, 
and  unconscious  of  the  pain  that  it  requires  to  be  the 
parent  of  another  which  is  greater  in  dimensions  and 
more  far-reaching  in  its  influence.  These  white  lies 
are  detrimental  to  society,  church  and  state.  They 
are  the  mask  of  the  hypocrite  and  the  sword  of  the 
political  demagogue  and  shield  of  the  social  impostor. 

Would  to  God  that  the  Inglenook  family  would 
make  a  strong  effort  to  renovate  our  homes  of  this 
terrible  enemy  to  better  civilization.  It  is  our  desire, 
wishes  and  prayer  that  the  boys  and  girls  of  the 
Inglenook  fraternity  may  become  flowers  of  society, 
pillars  of  the  church  and  state,  and  angels  in  heaven. 


TOO  SLOW  FOR  US. 


Amid  the  hustle  and  bustle  of  the  Western  civiliza- 
tion we  find  that  most  of  us  become  so  impatient  that 
we  say  "  things  are  very  slow."  But  in  this  country 
we  do  not  understand  the  meaning  of  the  term  "  slow." 
If  our  commercial  men  who  leave  the  hotel  two  min- 
utes before  train  time  and  stand  around  the  ticket 
window  waiting  for  mileage,  on  one  foot,  under  the 
extreme  pressure  of  half  a  minute,  then  pace  up  and 
down  the  platform  for  about  fifteen  seconds,  looking 
up  and  down  the  track  to  see  if  "  she's  coming," — if 
they  could  only  see  the  leisure  with  which  European 
commercial  men  saunter  down  the  street  or  in  the  cab, 
smoking  their  cigar,  it  would  put  them  to  utter  dis- 
gust and  impatience. 

If,  on  entering  the  hotel,  they  could  see  the  stewards 
taking  an  order,  going  to  the  nearest  shop  for  steak 
and  preparing  it,  giving  them  plenty  of  time  to  deliber- 
ately read  the  morning  news,  it  would  so  shock  the 
nerves  of  the  Western  men  that  they  would  not  enjoy 
their  dinner  when  they  had  it. 

If  our  business  men  who  are  in  the  habit  of  using 
eight  or  ten  stenographers  to  discharge  the  volume  of 
their  daily  work  could  just  once  be  entangled  in  a 
business  transaction  with  some  oriental  man,  who  is 
called  a  splendid  business  man  in  that  country,  and 
bargain  and  bargain  with  him  for  half  a  day,  getting 
very  impatient  only  to  return  and  take  up  the  business 
another  day,  etc.,  for  a  period  of  weeks  before  the 
trade  could  be  completed,  they  would  wish  themselves 
back  on  American  soil.  These  people  who  growl  and 
grumble  at  our  limited  express  trains  and  our  three- 
railed  trolleys  that  run  fifty  miles  per  hour,  and  our 
rapid  street  transit,  if  they  could  only  be  in  Japan  and 
get  into  a  little  railroad  car,  just  large  enough  to  hold 
four  persons,  propelled  by  three  Japs  walking  along 
behind  pushing  the  car  on  a  two-foot  gauge  track  over 
a  very  hilly  and  crooked  route,  their  impatience  no 
doubt  would  reach  its  zenith. 

It  would  be  delightful  to  see  some  of  our  nervous 
westerners,  who,  sitting  at  their  desk  with  the  receiver 
in  one  hand  and  the  mouthpiece  in  the  other,  yelling 
at  the  central  girl  to  give  them  a  certain  connection, 
and  wondering  why  they  all  wanted  to  use  the  'phone 
at  once.  If  they  could  only  be  in  Turkish  dominion 
just  a  little  while  and  endeavor  to  send  a  telegram 
across  the  country,  and  the  agent  would  hand  the  dis- 
patch to  some  Arab,  who  would  deliver  it  on  horseback. 
and  they  would  find  that  it  had  not  arrived  within  a 
week  from  the  time  of  sending,  then  their  Yankee 
blood  would  boil  until  Fahrenheit  would  not  be  able 
to  register  it. 

*   *   * 

It  is  sometimes  easier  to  prove  a  lie  than  it  is  to 
prove  the  truth,  but  you  cannot   prove  so  long. 


712 


THE      INQLENOOK. 


CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


WILL    BE   PHOTOGRAPHED. 


HE    GOES    A-WOOING. 


King  AlphonsoXIII  is  donning  himself  in  his  best, 
preparatory  to  go  a-wooing.  Unless  something  ma- 
terially changes  his  plan,  the  latter  part  of  July  will 
find  him  in  England  asking  for  the  hand  of  Princess 
Victoria,  who  is  the  daughter  of  the  Duke  of  Con- 
naught.  He  goes  under  the  blanket  of  the  office,  as  his 
visit  is  to  be  to  the  courts  of  the  king  and  his  fellow- 
rulers,  but  society  gossips  say  that  Cupid  has  been 
getting  in  his  effective  work. 

Alphonso  was  eighteen  years  old  last  spring;  his 
sweetheart  celebrated  her  eighteenth  birthday  last  win- 
ter. The  father  of  his  intended  is  wealthy  and  it  may 
be  seen  with  eyes  that  are  not  the  eyes  of  a  prophet 
that  there  is  just  a  tincture  of  state  policy  in  the  whole 
affair.  Alphonso  needs  money.  Spain  needs  the  al- 
liance of  the  British  Empire,  and  besides  the  marriage 
of  the  young  king  into  the  family  of  a  brother  to  the 
king  of  England  is  no  mean  thing. 

This  little  piece  of  diplomacy  is  said  to  have  been 
planned  by  Maria  Christina,  who  is  delighted  at  the 
present  prospect  of  affairs,  however  there  is  no  pos- 
sibility of  a  conflict. 

The  king  of  Spain  is  a  Catholic,  while  his  lady  is  a 
Protestant,  but  it  is  said  that  Sarto  has  made  satisfac- 
tory arrangements,  and  it  is  quietly  reported  that  the 
young  princess  may  become  a  Catholic  before  long. 

*   *   * 

STATISTICS    OF    THE    STRIKE. 


Strikers  in  Chicago,  18,000. 

Others  thrown  out  of  work,  10,000. 

Strikers  in  all  cities,  50,000. 

Idle  in  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  8,000;  in  Kansas  City. 
8,000;  in  Ft.  Worth,  Texas,  1,500;  in  South  Omaha, 
4,000;  in  East  St.  Louis,  5,000;  in  St.  Paul,  Minn., 
1,000;  in  New  York,   1,000;  at  minor  points,  4,000. 

Cities  affected,  nine. 

Strikers'  demands  :  Uniform  wage  scale  ;  the  mini- 
mum pay  for  unskilled  labor  to  be  the  maximum  here- 
tofore, 1834  cents  an  hour  and  ten  hours. 

Agreements  for  all  departments ;  above  all  else,  rec- 
ognition of  the  Union. 

Daily  loss  in  wages,  $50,000. 

Daily   loss   in   business   to   packers,   estimated,    one 
million  dollars. 
Average  daily  receipts  of  cattle,  12,000. 
Average  daily  receipts  of  hogs,  20,000. 
Average  daily  receipts  of  sheep,  11,000. 
Average  daily  receipts  of  calves,  800. 


The  Dowager  Empress  of  China,  has,  so  it  is  re- 
ported, commanded  the  attendance  of  a  Japanese  pho- 
tographer at  the  palace  to  take  her  portrait.  The  rea- 
son for  Her  Majesty's  decision  to  be  photographed  is 
that  the  people  may  be  able  to  worship  her  imperial 
image,  as  in  Japan.  Having  her  photograph  taken  is  a 
new  experience  to  the  Empress,  and  is  a  proof  of  her 
progressive  ideas,  for  in  days  past  any  attempt  to  de- 
pict her  would  have  been  considered  an  act  of  sacri- 
lege. 

*  *  * 

Fred  Pacik,  a  boy  fourteen  years  of  age,  has  made 
himself  famous  as  a  traveler,  although  he  is  nothing 
but  the  ordinary  boot-black.  Four  years  ago,  when  he 
was  a  boy  of  ten,  he  left  his  home  in  San  Francisco,  as 
a  mascot  of  Company  A,  First  California  Regiment, 
going  to  the  Philippines,  arid  Fred  has  continued  wan- 
dering ever  since.  He  has  never  paid  any  railroad 
fare  nor  steamship  fare,  and  seems  to  be  proud  to 
boast  of  it.  He  carries  no  baggage  and  has  no  valise. 
The  clothes  he  wears  and  his  "  shine  box  "  is  his  en- 
tire paraphernalia.  This  "  shine  box  "  is  a  queer-look- 
ing sight.  Fred  has  been  in  almost  every  country  in 
the  world,  having  traveled  from  San  Francisco,  around 
to  New  York,  and  his  "  shine  box  "  on  the  sides  and 
ends  is  literally  covered  with  coins,  beer  checks  and 
medalions  that  he  has  gathered  through  the  countries 
where  he  has  shined.  This  shows  what  a  boy  of  de- 
termination will  do  under  adverse  circumstances.  If 
boys  of  good  raising  could  be  endowed  with  that  sort 
of  determination,  they  would  turn  the  world  upside 
down. 

*  ♦  * 

A  sad  accident  has  happened  to  the  Doremus  Con- 
gregational Sunday  school  at  6:55  last  Wednesday 
evening,  near  Glenwood,  111.  Engineer  F.  E.  Hoxey 
of  engine  No.  144  must  bear  the  blame !  On  passing 
through  the  village  of  Glenwood  he  was  accosted  by 
J.  W.  Smott  who  had  overheard  the  orders  to  stop 
No.  144  and  allow  an  excursion  of  Sunday  school 
scholars  to  pass.  Smoot  begged  Hoxey  to  get  off  the 
south-bound  track,  and  after  a  while  he  consented,  but 
it  was  too  late,  the  excursion  came  crashing  into  a 
few  of  the  coal  cars  which  had  been  lost  at  a  small 
grade  not  far  behind,  killing  seventeen  and  injuring 
one  hundred  and  twenty.  If  Hoxey  had  had  ten  sec- 
onds more  he  would  have  removed  the  cars  and  pre- 
vented the  accident. 

*•>  •$•   ♦ 

One  day  last  week,  near  Oakford,  111.,  a  terrible 
cyclone  passing  through  the  country,  caught  a  mov- 
ing passenger  train,  lifting  the  cars  high  into  the  air 
and  instantly  killing  the  baggagemaster.  No  other 
serious  damage  done. 


the:    inglenook. 


713 


Mrs.  Mary  Baker  G.  Eddy,  the  founder  of  the 
Christian  Science  denomination,  has  caused  a  new 
rule  to  be  added  to  the  laws  of  her  church  for  the  pro- 
tection of  herself  from  annoying  intrusion  by  her  ad- 
miring followers:  It  is  headed:  "Thou  Shalt  Not 
Steal."  It  says :  "  Neither  a  Christian  Scientist,  his 
student,  or  his  patient,  not  a  member  of  the  Mother 
Church,  shall  daily  and  continuously  haunt  the  Eddy's 
drive  by  meeting  her  one  hour  every  day  when  she 
goes  out,  on  penalty  of  being  disciplined  and  dealt 
with  justly  by  her  church.  Mrs.  Eddy  objects  to  said 
intrusion,  inasmuch  as  she  desires  one  hour  for  herself. 
And  she  who,  forty  years,  has  '  borne  the  burden  and 
heat  of  the  day  '  should  be  allowed  this.  The  only 
exception  to  this  by-law  is  on  public  occasions  when 
she  has  the  privilege  of  seeing  others  and  of  being 
seen." 

*  *   * 

German  papers  say  that  the  present  condition  of 
Colorado  is  a  disgrace  to  civilization.  Wonder  what 
they  think  about  the  condition  of  affairs  in  Russia, 
Armenia,  Manchuria,  and  the  Mountains  of  Lebanon, 
and  other  places  closer  home.  It  might  stir  up  a  feel- 
ing of  barbarism  or  uncivilization  when  Germany  suc- 
ceeds in  stopping  the  Russian  ships  from  relieving 
the  German  Lloyd  steamships  of  their  mails.  It  is 
easy  to  tell  our  neighbors  how  to  do  when  they  are 
in  trouble,  but  when  we  have  troubles  of  our  own 
sometimes  we  are  subject  to  their  remarks  as  well. 

*  *   * 

During  the  past  year  the  American  Sunday-school 
Union  has  established  2,542  new  Bible  schools.  There 
have  been  many  conversions  in  these  schools  and 
those  previously  established  by  the  society;  has  estab- 
lished 133  churches,  developed  from  the  schools.  Its 
agents  have  made  221,568  visits  to  families  in  sec- 
tions where  there  are  no  churches  or  pastors ;  have  dis- 
tributed 27,161  copies  of  the  Bible  among  needy  fam- 
ilies and  in  the  school  established  by  the  society ;  and 
259  missionaries  have  labored  in  the  neglected  sections 
in  forty-two  States  and  Territories. 


At  Boston,  Mass.,  one  of  the  largest  grain  elevators 
in  the  world  was  destroyed  by  fire  during  the  past 
week.  The  flames  from  this  building  damaged  two 
other  buildings,  owned  by  the  same  company,  which 
caused  a  loss  of  one  million  dollars.  The  fire  was 
caused  by  lightning. 

*fr    4»    •$• 

"  Their  fate  is  but  the  common  fate  of  all."  Mark 
Twain  (Samuel  L.  Clemens)  and  his  two  daughters 
arrived,  last  week,  from  Italy,  on  the  steamship  "Prinz 
Oskar,"  bringing  with  them  the  body  of  Mrs.  Clem- 
ens, who  died  recently  in  that  country.  Interment  at 
Elmira,  New  York. 


A  cloudburst  over  the  hills  northeast  of  Manila 
caused  a  flood  which  has  destroyed  San  Juan  del 
Monte.  Two  hundred  lives  were  lost.  The  low-lying 
districts  were  inundated.  The  homes  of  Americans 
and  foreigners  are  isolated.  Transportation  through 
the  streets  is  carried  on  in  boats  only.  Rain  has  fall- 
en for  twenty-seven  hours,  totally  seventeen  and  one- 
fifth  inches,  which  is  unprecedented.  Communica- 
tion with  outside  places  is  interrupted.  The  damage  to 
property  is  estimated  at  $2,000,000. 

*  *   * 

The  French  government  is  prepared  to  adopt  for- 
cible measures  to  obtain  order  in  Morocco  and  carry 
out  the  plans  for  French  supervision  of  the  customs. 
Three  cruisers  are  held  in  readiness  to  proceed  to  Mo- 
rocco if  tribal  disturbances  near  Tangier  threaten  to  in- 
terfere with  the  execution  of  these  plans.  France  is 
acting  in  cooperation  with  the  Sultan,  but  advices  in- 
dicate that  some  of  the  tribes,  including  the  followers 
of  Raisuli  are  seeking  to  prevent  the  carrying  out  of 
the  customs  supervision  which  the  Sultan  granted  to 
France. 

*s»  *  * 

The  London  Times  correspondent  at  Ragoon  says 
that  Captain  E.  R.  Rost,  of  the  Indian  medical  service, 
has  succeeded  in  cultivating  the  bacillus  of  leprosy  and 
has  made  a  substance  from  the  cultures  which  he  calls 
leprolein,  and  which,  when  injected  into  lepers  has 
marked  beneficial  action,  alleviating  the  symptoms  of 
the  disease.  Over  one  hundred  cases  of  leprosy  are 
being  treated  in  Burmah  by  injection  of  this  substance 
and  the  treatment  is  also  being  tried  in  thirty  places  in 
India.  Already  four  cases  have  been  reported  cured 
and  in  the  great  majority  of  those  under  treatment  the 
improvement  is  marked. 

*  ♦  «> 

During  the  revolution  of  Ecuador,  and  prior  to  this 
time,  General  Flores  had  taken  great  part  in  Ecua- 
doran politics.  During  the  latter  part  of  the  revolu- 
tion, about  1895,  General  Flores  was  exiled,  the  con- 
servative administration  having  been  overthrown  by 
the  revolution.  News  now  comes  under  the  Associ- 
ated Press  Dispatch  that  General  Reinaldo  Flores  died 
at  Lima,  July  4. 

*  *   * 

Russf.ll  Sage  says  that  he  is  in  favor  of  the  Presi- 
dential candidates  running  on  their  merits  without 
using  any  money  in  the  campaign.  This  is  certain- 
ly right  from  a  financial,  social  and  patriotic  stand- 
point. 

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Professor  Marks,  of  the  Training  School  of  Louis- 
ville, Ky.,  refused  admission  to  four  Filipino  stu- 
dents on  the  ground  that  they  were  colored. 


714 


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The  Inglenook  Nature  Study  Club 


This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various  Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized 
over  this  country.  Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.  Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time, 
taking  the  work  up  with  the  current  issue.  Back  numbers  cannot  be  furnished.  Any  school  desiring  to  or- 
ganize a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin.  111. 

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NAMING  THE  FORGET-ME-NOT. 


FIGHT    WITH    ALLIGATOR. 


F.  C.  Woods,  Muncie,  Ind.,  sends  this  little  gem,  the  au- 
thorship of  which  he  does  not  know. 

When  to  the  flowers  so  beautiful 

The  Father  gave  a  name, 

Back  came  a  little  blue-eyed  one; 

All  timidly  it  came. 

And  standing  at  its  Father's  feet, 

And  gazing  in  His  face, 

It  said  in  low  and  trembling  tones, 

"  Dear  God,  the  name  Thou  gavest  me, 

Alas,  I  have  forgot!" 

Kindly  the  Father  looked  Him  down 

And  said,  "  Forget-Me-Not." 

REVIEW  QUESTIONS. 


How  many  known  species  of  birds  are  there? 

In  what  way  are  they  classified? 

What  are  the  two  divisions  ? 

What  are  the  orders  of  land  birds? 

Name  the  orders  of  water  birds. 

Describe  the  characteristics  of  the  Raptores. 

What  is  said  of  their  habits? 

What  is  noticeable  in  their  plumage? 

Name  the  families  of  this  order. 

How  do  hawks  differ  from  owls? 

Describe  the  characteristics  of  the  Raptores. 

Which  family  of  this  order  is  nocturnal  ? 

Describe  the  turkey  buzzard. 

Note. — These  questions  are  put  here  for  your  bene- 
fit. If  you  look  at  them  and  do  not  review  them  for 
the  sake  of  the  study  it  will  not  be  the  fault  of  the 
class  or  the  Inglenook.  We  hope  all  our  boys  and 
girls  will  do  this  and  thus  prepare  for  an  examina- 
tion on  the  whole  class  of  Aves  sometime  in  the  fu- 
ture when  we  have  covered  the  ground.  No  doubt 
while  you  have  been  studying  these  lessons  you  have 
found  a  great  deal  more  than  was  in  the  lesson  text. 
Next  week  we  will  have  a  lesson  on  another  family 
of  this  order  that  always  sit  or  perch  on  a  branch  or 
pole.  They  are  called  preaching  birds  or  Insessores. 
See  what  you  can  find  out  about  them  until  the  Nook 
reaches  vou. 


Of  late  years  alligators  seem  to  be  acquiring  a  bad 
habit  of  prowling  around  the  harbor  foreshores  of 
Port  Darwin,  South  Africa.  At  dusk  one  day  an 
aboriginal,  rejoicing  in  the  name  of  Mubbleburra,  em- 
ployed on  a  pearling  lugger,  divested  himself  of  his 
scanty  attire  with  the  intention  of  having  a  dip. 
He  was  swimming  and  was  about  midway  between 
the  shore  and  the  boat  when  a  huge  alligator  sud- 
denly arose  alongside  of  him.  The  reptile  struck 
Mubbleburra  on  the  side  of  the  head  with  one  of 
its  forepaws,  one  of  the  claws  penetrating  the  man's 
face  and  inflicting  a  severe  injury.  In  the  next 
instant  it  seized  its  victim  in  its  jaws  and  inflicted 
some  terrible  wounds  in  the  man's  shoulder  and 
back.  A  more  horrible  and  apparently  hopeless  po- 
sition cannot  well  be  conceived.  Any  white  man 
similarly  circumstanced  would  probably  have  yield- 
ed up  the  ghost  forthwith. 

Probably  some  old  tribal  stories  of  hair-breadth 
escapes  from  similar  tight  corners  flashed  through 
his  mind.  In  any  case,  with  great  courage  and 
coolness  he  wriggled  himself  around  and  managed 
to  insert  his  thumbs  in  the  eye  sockets  of  the  alli- 
gator with  such  force  and  effect  that  the  brute  let 
go  its  hold  and  beat  a  temporary  retreat.  Muddle- 
burra,  torn  and  bleeding  as  he  was,  immediately 
dived  to  the  bottom,  and  struck  out  in  the  direction 
of  the  boat.  Coming  up  occasionally  for  breath,  he 
appears  to  have  dodged  the  alligator  and  succeeded 
in  scrambling  into  the  dingy.  As  he  did  so  the 
brute,  which  had  been  following  him,  made  a  rush 
and  bit  through  or  broke  the  painter  of  the  boat — 
a  new  I  %-inch  rope — within  six  inches  of  the  stem. 
Muddleburra  broke  a  limb  from  one  of  the  man- 
grove trees  and  paddled  himself  ashore.  Ques- 
tioned concerning  his  adventure  later,  Muddleburra 
said :  "  My  word,  suppose  that  one  young,  strong 
pfeller  alligator,  me  die  quick ;  that  one  old  pfeller 
— no  more  too  much  strong  quick  pfeller." 

We  learn  that  Muddleburra  is  in  a  fair  way 
toward  complete  recovery  after  his  unique,  or,  at 
least,  sensational  experience;  but  until  he  is  planted 
away  in  some  tree  in  his  final  bark  envelope,  he 
will  be  able  to  show  scars  on  his  person  attesting 
to  the  truth  of  his  tale. — Cincinnati  Enquirer. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


715 


A   LION. 


We  think  it  would  be  an  excellent  thing  if  all  chil- 
dren were  as  sensitive  to  praise  and  blame  as  the  dog 
in  the  following  story.  And  if  Lion  felt  so  much 
mortification  over  coming  into  the  parlor  with  muddy 
feet,  cannot  our  boys  be  a  little  more  careful  than 
he  was  even? 

A  Newfoundland  dog  owned  by  a  New  Orleans 
lady  gave  an  entertaining  illustration  of  the  fact  that 
in  some  way  dogs  comprehend  what  is  said  to  them. 

One  day  a  lady  called  on  his  mistress,  and  during 
her  visit  Lion  came  in  rather  shyly,  lay  down  on  the 
parlor  carpet  and  went  to  sleep.  The  conversation 
ran  on,  and  the  visitor  finally  said : 

"  What  a  handsome  Newfoundland  dog  you  have." 

Lion  opened  one  eye. 

"  Yes,"  said  the  mistress,  "  he  is  a  very  good  dog, 
and  takes  excellent  care  of  the  children."  Lion 
opened  the  other  eye  and  waved  his  tail  complacently 
to  and  fro  on  the  carpet.  "  When  the  baby  goes  out 
he  always  goes  with  her  and  I  feel  sure  that  no  harm 
can  come  to  her,"  his  mistress  continued.  Lion's  tail 
thumped  up  and  down  violently  on  the  carpet.  "  And 
he  is  so  gentle  to  them  all,  and  such  a  playmate  and 
companion  to  them,  that  we  would  not  take  $1,000 
for  him."  Lion's  tail  now  went  up  and  down,  to 
and  fro,  and  round  and  round  with  great,  undis- 
guised glee.  "  But,"  said  the  mistress,  "  Lion  has 
one  serious  fault."  Total  subsidence  of  Lion's  tail, 
together  with  the  appearance  of  an  expression  of  great 
concern  on  his  face.  "  He  will  come  in  here  with 
his  dirty  feet  and  lie  down  on  the  carpet  when  I  have 
told  him  time  and  again  that  he  mustn't  do  it." 

At  this  point  Lion  would  doubtless  have  remon- 
strated if  he  could ;  but,  being  speechless,  he  arose 
with  an  air  of  the  utmost  dejection  and  humiliation 
and  slunk  out  of  the  room,  with  his  lately  exuberant 
tail  totally  crestfallen. — D\imb  Animals. 
*  *  * 
THE   TREE    TOAD. 


Early  in  the  Spring  he  crawls  from  the  water,  and 
:.  little  later  he  climbs  trees  where  he  peeps  and 
chirps  because  it  is  going  to  rain  or  because  it  is  not, 
as  the  case  may  be,  and  according  to  your  own  idea  of 
things.  Some  think  it  is  because  the  sun  is  going 
to  shine  or  because  the  wind  is  going  to  blow  and 
some  don't,  it  is  owing  to  how  much  superstition  you 
have  been  raised  on  as  to  these  things. 

In  fact  he  is  a  croaker;  some  of  these  tree  toads 
are  brown  with  white  spots ;  some  are  olive  brown 
with  red  spots ;  others  have  yellowish  colors  with 
black  and  white  spots,  and  still  another  kind  of  a 
light  color  with  a  black  cross  on  his  back.  They  are 
about  two  inches  long  when  standing  on  the  ground. 
When  winter  shuts  down  on  him  he  sneaks  away  in- 
to his  hiding  place  until  Spring  comes  again. 

MANY    A   TIME. 


A  gkeat  many  of  our  Nature  Study  class  on  a  sum- 
mer evening,  no  doubt,  have  heard,  in  the  tree  near 
by,  a  screeching  tree  toad.  And  in  all  probability 
some  who  read  this  article  have  been  guilty  of  trying 
to  find  the  little  fellow,  and  after  a  long,  long  search 
\<>u  may  have  been  successful. 

If  you  have  been  the  lucky  one,  you  have  found 
that  this  little  fellow  is  exceedingly  small  accdrding 
to  the  amount  of  noise  he  makes.  Strange  as  it  mav 
seem  to  you  this  dry  land  tree  toad  is  hatched  in  the 
water;  In-  is  hitched  from  a  jelly  covered  e^s^;  next  he 
becomes  a  tadpole,  and  finally  he  comes  out  of  the  wa- 
ter .1   little   froq-. 


The  size  and  weight  of  the  body  of  fowls  figures 
largely  in  their  being  able  to  move  quickly.  Have 
you  ever  driven  down  the  road  in  your  carriage  and 
suddenly  come  upon  a  flock  of  geese  on  the  narrow 
road?  And  did  you  drive  straight  through  the  flock? 
If  you  did,  did  you  run  over  one?  Not  one  time  in 
ten  thousand  can  you  succeed  in  getting  a  wheel  of 
the  vehicle  across  the  neck  of  one  of  these  lubberly 
fowls,  even  if  one  were  mean  enough  to  desire  such 
a  thing.  They  are  under  the  very  wheels  of  the 
carriage  and  between  the  hoofs  of  the  horses,  and 
yet  they  manage  somehow  to  flap  and  waddle  until 
they  are  across  the  dead  line  and  reach  the  realm  of 
safety.  Bodily  they  are  very  stupid,  corpulent  and 
lazy,  nevertheless  they  are  generally  equal  to  any 
emergency. 

THE   SANDPIPER. 


Sometime  ago  the  Philadelphia  Times  gave  an  in- 
teresting account  of  a  naturalist  of  Brazil  who  made 
an  expedition  up  the  Amazon  river  to  one  of  the  many 
islands  there  for  the  purpose  of  shooting  spoonbills, 
ibises  and  other  magnificent  birds  which  abounded 
there.  His  design  was  completely  baffled.  By  the 
time  he  had  reached  the  coveted  spot  a  wretched  little 
sandpiper,  having  taken  notice  of  his  approach,  pre- 
ceded him  continually  and  constantly  uttering  his 
telltale  cry,  which  arouses  the  feeling  of  fear  of  every 
single  bird  in  hearing  distance.  Throughout  the  en- 
tire day  did  this  individual  bird  continue  its  self-im- 
posed duty  of  sentinel  to  others,  effectually  prevent- 
ing the  approach  of  the  hunter  to  the  game,  and  he 
managed  to  keep  out  of  range  of  his  gun. 

This  instance  shows  an  extra  amount  of  instinct. 


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THE      INGLENOOK. 


HOME    DEPARTMENT 


THAT    FEATHER    BED. 


/ 

NEATNESS   IN   DRESS   AT   HOME. 


BY    M.    C.    WILCOX. 

Sing  we  of  that  feather  bed, 

Cause  of  dull  and  aching  head, 

Cause  of  lassitude  and  languish, 

Cause  of  sleepless  nights  and  anguish, 

Friend  of  nightmares— horrid  visions, 

Never  bringing  sweet  Elysians. 

Lingereth  its  memory  yet, 

For  we  never  can  forget, 

All  the  evil  it  hath  brought  us, 

All  the  lessons  it  hath  taught  us, 

All  the  headache,  stupor,  dullness — 

Of  all  evils,  complete  fullness, 

Coming  from  "  the  long  ago." 
"  Grandmother's  feather  bed,  you  know," 
"  Her  grandmother's  too,"  they  say, 
"  Nursed  the  sick  ones  all  the  way." 

Yes,  it  did,  and  still  it  holds 

Disease  germs  within  its  folds, 

Typhoid,  typhus  leave  their  stamp, 

Foul  and  poisonous  gases  damp. 

Fetid  exhalations  foul, 

Like  infernal  demons  prowl, 

Driving  all  sweet  thoughts  away, 

Bringing  longings  for  the  day, 

Bringing  aches  in  heart  and  head, 

Oh,  that  cruel  feather  bed! 

Hydra  head  and  forked  tongue, 

Lurk  the  feather  beds  among, 

Lurking  demons  dwell  within 

That  compendium  of  sin, 
"  Multum  in  parvo  "  can  be  said 

Of  that  fertile  feather  bed. 

If  my  rhyme  doth  merit  meed, 

'Tis  by  chance  we're  all  agreed; 

But  if  it  doth  merit  blame, 

On  the  feathers  rest  the  shame; 

Feather  beds  have  been  the  cause 

That  has  altered  freedom's  laws 

Brings  no  rest  to  tired  head, 

Brings  but  pains  and  aches  instead. 

Give  us  straw,  or  husks,  or  springs, 

Hair  or  cotton — that  which  brings 

Sweet  repose  to  weary  brain 

With  no  evil  in  its  train. 

Hear  us  mothers!    Hear  us  wives! 

Hear  for  sake  of  human  lives! 

Hear  us  maidens,  daughters  hear! 

Away  with  feathers,  never  fear, 

Give  us  floor  with  blanket  spread 

Rather  than  "  that  feather  bed." 
*    *    * 
It  isn't  a  good  plan  to  make  the  home  attractive. 
Life  is  a  serious  matter  and  shouldn't  be  wasted  in 
enjoyments,  no  matter  if  they  are  innocent. 


The  importance  of  neat,  tasteful  house  dressing 
can  not  be  over  estimated.  The  matron  who  appears 
before  the  members  of  her  family  in  a  shabby,  soiled 
■'  wrapper,  and  makes  the  excuse — if,  indeed,  she  takes 
the  trouble  to  make  one  at  all — that  "  it  is  so  much 
more  comfortable,"  has  little  idea  of  the  possible  con- 
sequences of  such  a  course. 

Could  she  but  realize  that  her  dress  is  an  evil  ex- 
ample to  her  daughters,  and  one  productive  of  con- 
sequences that  will  reach  far  beyond  her  own  span 
of  life;  that  her  husband  and  sons  cannot  fail  to 
draw  comparisons  between  her  dress  and  that  of  the 
ladies  they  meet  in  other  homes,  and  that  these  com- 
parisons cannot  fail  to  decrease  their  respect  for  her, 
she  might  be  induced  to  give  more  attention  to  her 
personal  appearance.  Not  even  the  burden  of  care 
and  constant  employment  can  furnisli  a  sufficient  ex- 
cuse for  careless  personal  habits,  for  few  things  are 
more  important  to  the  well-being  of  a  family. 

There  is  an  old  saying  to  the  effect  that  an  untidy 
mother  has  disobedient  children ;  and  while  neither 
parents  nor  children  may  realize  the  wherefore  of  it, 
yet  there  is  always  a  lack  of  respect  and  indifference 
to  the  authority  of  a  mother  who  takes  no  pride  in 
her  personal  appearance. 

And  it  is  not  the  mother  alone  upon  whose  shoulders 
rests    the    burden    of    responsibility    for    home    neat- 
ness and  order  in  dress,  the  father  has  his  duties  to 
after  as  well,  and  should  never  fail  to  insist  up- 
n   the   younger   members    of    the    family   presenting 

mselves  with  well-kept  hands,  clean  faces,  neatly 
ed  hair  and  orderly  dress  at  least  at  every  meal 
the  family  should  all  be  present  if  possible. 
$  $  .j. 
IT    PAYS. 


Plants  cannot  live  without  leaves,  and  when  such 
pests  as  thistles  and  sassafras  abound  it  is  only  neces- 
sary to  keep  them  cut  down  to  destroy  them.  It  is 
true  that  some  farmers  cut  them  down  frequently 
and  yet  they  continue  to  grow,  but  they  live  because 
they  get  breathing  spells ;  that  is,  the  farmer  allows 
them  to  grow  some  before  he  cuts  them  down  again. 
They  must  be  cut  down  close  to  the  ground  and  again 
chopped  off  as  soon  as  they  make  the  least  growth. 
They  may  appear  vigorous  and  full  of  life,  but  sooner 
or  later  they  will  be  suffocated  and  perish,  as  they 
cannot  live  without  leaves. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


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FRESH    AIR. 


SWEET   PICKLE. 


The  air  is  a  cordial  of  incredible  value. 

It  is  the  close  confinement  indoors  that  kills,  for 
human  beings  were  not  made  to  live  constantly 
within  walls. 

Luxurious  homes  and  habits  of  indolence  are  re- 
sponsible to  no  inconsiderable  degree  for  the  ill- 
health  of  civilized  communities. 

Eat  out  of  doors,  rest  out  of  doors,  if  possible, 
work  out  of  doors,  and  consider  it  a  high  privilege 
to  sleep  with  windows  wide  open. 

Breathe  pure  and  fresh  air,  and  get  all  you  can 
of  it,  for  it  is  food  as  essential  as  bread  and  other 
articles  of  daily  necessity.— Presbyterian  Banner. 

*  <t>  * 
MY   MONKEY. 


I  wish  to  tell  you  about  a  rare  and  valuable  white- 
faced  monkey  which  was  brought  by  a  friend  of  mine 
from  Central  America.  He  was  no  ordinary  monkey, 
even  in  Central  America,  where  many  varieties  of 
monkeys  abound.  Indeed,  he  was  such  an  unusual 
and  interesting  specimen  that  a  man  connected  with 
a  circus  offered  a  price  for  him  which  would  buy  a 
handsome  pony.  He  had  a  beardless  and  wrinkled 
face,  resembling  a  thoughtful  and  wise  old  man. 
Like  most  monkeys,  he  was  very  mischievous,  and 
would  take  useful  articles  from  their  places  and  hide 
them  where  they  could  not  be  found  for  days.  He 
was  very  proud  of  a  red  jacket  which  had  been  given 
him,  and  would  scream  with  rage  when  anyone  at- 
tempted to  take  it  from  him. 

In  this  country  his  environments  were  quite  dif- 
ferent from  those  in  his  native  land,  for  there  he  was 
with  his  monkey  friends  and  companions,  playing  in 
the  trees,  eating  tropical  fruit  and  sleeping  in  his 
rustic  woodland  home,  but  here  it  was  very  different, 
as  he  was  a  stranger,  with  no  monkey  friends,  no  na- 
tive food  and  no  rustic  woodland  home.  With  all 
these  changes  he  naturally  became  lonely  and  longed 
for  a  playmate  and  companion ;  therefore  he  sought  for 
and  won  the  heart  and  paw  of  a  little  kitten,  a  Miss 
Tabby.  It  was  sweet  to  see  their  affection,  playing  and 
sleeping  together.  It  seemed  that  this  climate  did 
not  agree  with  him,  for  he  had  not  been  in  this  coun- 
try very  long  before  he  became  sick,  but  was  never 
too  sick  to  caress  and  care  for  the  little  kitten.  One 
day  the  kitten  went  to  sleep  nestled  in  the  arms  of 
the  sick  little  monkey.  He  fell  asleep  also,  never  to 
wake  again.  The  household  witnessed  a  sad  but  pret- 
ty scene.  There  lay  the  monkey  with  his  lifeless 
arms  folded  around  the  kitten  in  his  last  tender  em- 
brace.— Home  Magazine. 


BY  AMY   ROOP. 

For  seven  pounds  of  fruit  pared,  take  four  pounds 
of  sugar,  one  pint  of  vinegar,  mace,  cinnamon  and 
cloves ;  boil  this  together  and  pour  hot  over  such  fruit 
as  does  not  need  cooking. 

Westminster,  Md. 

MIXED    PICKLE. 


BY    ADALINE    HUSTON. 

Take  small  green  tomatoes  quartered,  cucumbers 
cut  in  small  pieces,  celery,  cauliflower,  green  beans, 
cabbage  cut  coarse,  a  few  onions  cut  in  quarters, 
mango  peppers,  quartered,  a  few  small  peppers,  some 
small  pieces  of  horse  radish ;  boil  the  onions  and  beans 
separately  a  few  minutes  in  salt  water,  scald  the  to- 
matoes in  vinegar ;  let  all  lay  in  salt  water  twelve 
hours  except  the  onions  and  beans,  drain  as  dry  as 
possible;  mix  white  mustard  seed  through  it,  a  tea- 
spoonful  of  ground  mustard  to  the  gallon,  then  pour 
over  good  vinegar  cold. 

Mishawaka,  Ind. 

MIXED     PICKLE. 


BY    J.    E.    PRICE. 

One  peck  of  green  tomatoes  cut  in  small  pieces, 
one  gallon  of  small  onions,  let  stand  over  night  in 
salt,  drain,  chop  fine  one-third  of  the  tomatoes,  cook 
all  in  one  gallon  of  vinegar.  While  hot  put  in  three 
quarts  of  sour  cucumbers  cut  in  small  pieces,  some 
chopped  celery  and  cooked  cauliflower. 

Dressing.  One  cup  of  flour,  one  cup  of  ground 
mustard,  one  pint  of  sugar,  turmeric  for  coloring, 
add  mixed  spices  and  celery  seed,  pour  over  the  pic- 
kles, seal  in  glass  jars. 

Dallas  Center,  Iowa. 

VINEGAR  PICKLE. 


BY     ELSIE     HUFF. 

One  peck  of  peaches,  three  pounds  of  sugar,  one 
pint  of  good  vinegar.  Dip  the  peaches  with  the  peel- 
ing on  into  hot  water,  wipe  dry,  put  them  into  a 
kettle  with  enough  water  to  cover  them,  boil  until 
soft.  Take  them  out  of  the  kettle,  put  in  the  vinegar 
and  sugar,  boil  fifteen  minutes.  Put  the  peaches  in- 
to the  hot  syrup  and  while  hot  put  in  glass  cans  and 
seal.     Cling  peaches  are  the  best  kind  to  use. 

Ft.  Defiance,  Va. 


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THE      INGLENOOK. 


OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE    rl||i 


BONNIE    WAYNE. 


Nen  Mr.  Marshall  he  went  out  to  the  big  barn 
and  took  the  horses  in  there  and  Mrs.  Marshall  said 
for  Luke  and  me  to  go  with  her  and  so  we  did  and 
'en  Mabel  she  kissed  me,  nen  she  kissed  Luke  and 
she  said  that  she  wuz  glad  to  see  us,  but  I  don't  see 
what  fur,  'cause  I  never  saw  her  before.  I  set  my 
basket  down  on  the  porch  and  old  Bux,  that's  Mabel's 
dog,  he  came  and  smelled  of  my  basket  and  he  wuz 
going  to  take  it  away  and  Mabel  she  just  hollered 
at  him  and  he  looked  awful  shamed  and  went  off 
and  I  guess  he  didn't  feel  glad  'cause  we  had  come. 

Mabel,  she  said,  "  What  have  you  got  in  your  bas- 
ket?" and  before  I  could  tell  her  to  save  my  life  she 
had  the  top  off  of  it  and  she  took  everything  out, 
and  there  wuz  Dora  and  Hattie.  When  she  saw  Hat- 
tie  with  her  red  hair,  she  nearly  had  a  fit  and  I  didn't 
like  it  very  well,  and  Luke  saw  that  I  wuz  mad,  and 
he  took  me  out  in  the  yard  for  a  walk  and  we  got 
some  of  the  prettiest  roses  and  we  made  some  bou- 
quets and  he  trimmed  my  hair  with  them  and  he  said 
I  wuz  his  little  queen,  and  I  don't  know  whether  that 
wuz  nice  or  not.  Do  you  know  whether  they  are  nice 
folks  or  not? 

Mr.  Marshall  came  in  from  the  barn  and  he  saw 
me  with  the  roses  and  he  said,  "  There's  my  little 
girl  all  trimmed  up  a'ready,"  and  I  don'  think  I  am 
his  girl  at  all  'cause  I  wuz  always  papa's  girl  when 
I  wuz  at  home,  but  I  guess  I  can  be  his  girl  while  I 
am  out  here  in  the  country  with  Luke. 

Nen  there  wuz  a  big  boy  there  that  wuz  a  helping 
Mr.  Marshall  to  feed  the  horses  and  he  came  to  the 
house  and  got  a  tin  pail  out  of  the  house  and  he  went 
out  to  the  barn  and  he  called  old  Bux.  He  said, 
"  Huh  Bux !  huh  Bux !  huh  Bux !  "  and  old  Bux  he 
just  run  as  fast  as  he  could  and  I  asked  Mrs.  Mar- 
shall where  he  wuz  agoing  and  she  said  he  wuz  a 
going  after  the  cows,  and  I  said,  "  What  is  the 
cows  ?  "  and  she  said,  "  They  are  the  old  bossies  that 
we  milk  to  get  milk  from."  Nen  I  told  her  that  we 
get  ours  from  Mike  Johnson's  wagon  when  he  comes 
around  every  morning.  And  pretty  soon  here  came 
the  cows  and  old  Bux  after  them  and  they  wuz  the 
biggest  cows  too;  my!  I  wuz  afraid  of  them,  but 
Mrs.  Marshall  said  they  would  not  hurt  me  so  I  asked 
her  if  I  might  go  with  her  big  boy  to  the  barn  to  see 
them,  and  nen  Mr.  Marshall  took  me  by  the  hand 
and  led  me  down  the  long  path  to  the  door  of  the 


barn.  And  don't  you  think  Frank  wuz  a  sitting  down 
by  the  side  of  one  of  the  cows  on  a  little  stool  and  he 
wuz  just  making  the  milk  run  into  the  pail  in  just 
tiny  little  streams.  Nen  Mr.  Marshall  asked  me  what 
I  thought  about  it  and  nen  I  said,  "  When  you  get 
done  milking,  how  do  you  turn  the  milk  off?"  and 
nen  they  both  just  laughed  at  me  as  hard  as  they 
could  and  I  don't  know  what  they  wuz  a  laughing 
at  for  we  turn  off  the  hydrant  when  we  want  the 
water  to  stop  running.  But  they  have  such  funny 
things  out  here  in  the  country  nohow. 

Nen  Mr.  Marshall  took  me  around  in  the  barn  in 
front  of  the  cows  and  he  gave  me  some  corn  in  my 
hand  and  he  told  me  to  give  it  to  the  cows  and  so  I 
did,  and  my!  I  wuz  afraid.  She  just  run  out  her 
long  tongue  at  me  and  f  runned  back  a  little,  and 
they  laughed  again  at  me,  and  I  wuz  a  going  to  the 
house  but  Frank  coaxed  at  me  to  stay,  and  I  tried  it 
again  and  she  got  the  corn  out  of  my  hand  and  she 
touched  my  hand  with  her  tongue  and  it  was  all  rough 
like  my  mamma's  nutmeg  grater.  And  I  asked  Mr. 
Marshall  if  that  hurt  the  poor  cow  to  have  such  a 
rough  tongue,  and  he  said  that  wuz  the  nature  of  the 
critter. 

When  we  came  out  of  the  barn,  Luke  he  saw  me 
and  he  hollered  at  me  and  said,  "  Oh  Bonnie,  Oh 
Bonnie."  Nen  I  saw  him  and  I  hollered,  "  Whoop- 
ee !  "  Nen  he  said,  "  Just  come  here  and  see  what 
I  have  found,"  and  nen  I  told  Mrs.  Marshall  if  I 
could  go,  and  she  let  me  go,  and  when  I  got  over 
there  by  the  fence,  what  do  you  suppose  wuz  there? 
There  wuz  the  funniest  things  that  went  weee — weee 
— weee — ,  and  they  had  the  funniest  tails  that  wuz 
all  curly  and  looked  like  they  wuz  done  up  on  papers 
so  they  would  curl  better  and  I  said,  "  Wy,  what  is 
them,  Luke?"  And  nen  he  said  that  they  wuz  pigs. 
And  there  wuz  one  big  one  that  went  Booh  hooh  and 
I  was  scared  again.  My !  but  the  piggies  wuz  red 
and  Luke  thought  they  wuz  pretty  near  as  red  as  Hat- 
tie's  hair. 

I  wanted  to  take  one  of  the  pigs  to  the  house  to 
play  with,  and  Luke  said  all  right  so  I  got  down  by 
the  fence  and  reached  my  hand  through  and  got  a 
hold  of  one  of  them  and  then  he  began  to  cry  weee — 
weee — weee — ,  and  I  pulled  harder  and  the  great 
big  one  said  Booh  booh — hooh — hooh,  and  she  had 
her  mouth  wide  open  and  she  came  right  at  me  and 
I  wuz  afraid  she  wuz  agoing  to  eat  me  all  up  and  I 
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INGLENOOK. 


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«#jTfie  Q.  &  &.  EepaHmewt. *>H^ 


I 


« 


What  is  a  good  antiseptic  for  bath  tubs? 

Ammonia  has  been  quite  generally  used  for  some 
years  to  dispel  the  odor  of  perspiration,  but  sweet 
spirits  of  niter,  perhaps,  is  superior  to  it  in  most 
respects.     Use  only  a  few  drops  in  the  tub. 

* 

What  is  Caffeine? 

Caffeine  is  the  active  agency  in  coffee.  It  bears 
the  same  relation  to  coffee  as  theine  does  to  tea,  and 
as  nicotine  does  to  tobacco  and  alcohol  to  whiskey, 
and  we  might  say  the  active  agent  in  any  narcotic. 
It  is  the  one  thing  that  is  detrimental  to  coffee  topers. 

Who  was  Philip  Nolan? 

Philip  Nolan  is  the  hero  of  the  story,  "  The  Man 
Without  a  Country,"  by  Edward  Everett  Hale. 
Whether  Nolan  was  ever  a  real  character  may  be  \ 
question  by  some,  but  at  any  rate  this  character  rep- 
resents the  times  in  which  he  is  supposed  to  have 
lived  very  admirably. 

* 

Why  are  cloves  so  called,  and  from  whence  did  they 
come? 

They  are  called  cloves  from  the  Latin  word  clavus, 
which  means  "  nail,"  to  which  they  have  a  very  strik- 
ing resemblance,  and  as  an  article  of  commerce  they 
come  principally  from  the  Indies,  which  it  is  said 
is  their  native  home. 

* 

What  is  the  best  way  to  get  rid  of  the  new  weed  that 
we  farmers  call  the  Russian  thistle? 

There  are  several  ways  given  by  experts,  some  of 
which  harmonize  and  some  of  which  conflict  in  the- 
ory. We  think  the  best  method  is  to  watch  with 
patience,  for  ere  long  a  bug  will  appear  on  the  scene 
which  is  a  stranger  to  scientists,  with  a  name  as  long 
as  a  hypocrite's  prayer,  and  it  will  go  for  that  thistle 
and  destroy  it  root  and  branch. 

* 

Who  may  contribute  articles  to  the  Nook? 

We  solicit  articles  for  the  columns  of  the  Nook 
from  all  well-meaning  persons  who  are  unprejudiced 
and  unbiased  in  their  ideas,  and  are  conservative,  not 
radical,  who  will  write  their  articles,  leaving  out  per- 
sonalities. We  want  those  who  are  able  to  feel  happy 
if  their  articles  are  rejected  altogether ;  those  who  write 
for  the  upbuilding  of  our  young  people  upon  sub- 
jects of  universal  interest. 


What  is  the  best  means  of  ridding  a  house  of  flies? 

First  sweep  the  house  with  a  broom  that  has  been 
dipped  in  water  containing  carbolic  acid,  and  then 
wipe  all  the  upholstery  furniture  with  a  rag  or  a 
sponge  dampened  with  the  same  solution,  and  then 
keep  the  dog  out  of  the  house. 

* 
What  is  parsley? 

Parsley  is  an  aromatic,  umbelliferous  garden  vegeta- 
ble with  divided  leaves,  and  is  used  in  cooking  and 
sometimes  in  garnishing.  It  comes  from  Egypt  or- 
iginally, and  mythology  tells  us  that  it  was  used  an- 
ciently to  adorn  the  head  of  Hercules. 


Our  chrysanthemums  this  year  are  attacked  by  small 
aphides  or  flies,  and  they  seem  to  do  no  good  at  all? 
What  shall  I  do  to  get  rid  of  them? 

One  of  the  best  means  is  to  take  a  shovel  of  hot 
coals  and  drop  some  smoking  tobacco  on  the  fire  and 
hold  it  immediately  underneath  the  leaves  and  Mr. 
Aphides  will  take  his  departure. 


Do  sponges  belong  to  the  animal  kingdom,  or  to  the 
vegetable  kingdom? 

Sponges  verily  belong  to  the  animal  kingdom,  how- 
ever, they  should  be  classed  with  the  very  lowest 
forms  of  animal  life,  and  they  approach  the  vegetable 
kingdom  so  clo'sely  that  they  have  some  traits  of 
character  that  belong  to  vegetables.  For  instance, 
they  are  local,  that  is,  they  become  fixed  to  rocks  and 
increase  in  size  by  a  regular  process  of  growth,  simi- 
lar to  vegetables.  They  consist  of  a  framework 
which  is  sometimes  of  a  series  of  elastic,  fibrous  sub- 
stances and  sometimes  it  is  made  up  of  a  collection 
of  hard,  silicious  spicules  and  they  contain  a  jelly-like 
substance  which  without  question  is  animal  matter, 
which  is  their  real  life,  and  when  they  are  caught 
they  must  be  buried  for  some  time  in  the  sand  and 
afterwards  soaked  and  washed  before  they  can  be 
used.  They  are  obtained  by  diving.  The  best 
sponges  grow  about  eight  or  ten  fathoms  beneath  the 
surface  of  the  water.  In  some  instances,  however,  on 
the  Bahama  Islands,  for  instance,  sponges  are  ob- 
tained by  means  of  a  long  fork  or  hook.  The 
sponges  which  we  have  on  our  markets  here  are  the 
most  inferior  quality,  as  a  rule. 


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(Concluded  from  Page  718.) 
told  Luke  to  make  her  go  away  and  he  said  he 
couldn't,  and  he  thought  she  wuz  a  biting  me  and  he 
began  to  cry,  and  when  he  cried  I  thought  she  wuz 
a  biting  him,  and  nen  I  cried  too,  and  nen  Frank  came 
running  out  there  and  he  hollered  to  me  to  let  it  go, 
and  I  said,  "  I  don't  want  to  let  it  go,  I  want  to  take 
it  to  the  house  to  play  with,  and  just  then  Mrs. 
Marshall  came  and  she  had  a  broom  in  her  hand. 
(to  be  continued.) 

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GRANDMA'S    PUMPKIN    PIES. 


Grandma  was  expecting  company  for  dinner — the 
minister  and  his  wife  and  little  girl.  So  she  was  very 
busy  that  morning  cooking  all  sorts  of  good  things 
and  among  the  other  things  were  the  famous  pumpkin 
pies  made  just  as  her  grandma  had  made  them. 

Her  grandma!  Why,  it  almost  made  Nannie  dizzy 
to  think  about  grandma's  grandma. 

Nannie  was  standing  on  a  chair  close  beside  the 
table,  helping  grandma  cook.  She  had  come  out  in 
the  country  the  day  before  to  try  and  get  over  la 
grippe. 

"  I  should  think,"  said  Nannie,  "  that  that  way  to 
make  pumpkin  pies  wouldn't  be  very  good,  'cause  it's 
such  old  style. 

"  Old  style's  the  best  for  pies,  I  guess,"  laughed 
grandma.  "  You  see  if  it  ain't.  Now  I  suppose, 
child,  you  never  do  have  'em  in  the  city,  do  you?" 

"  Only  the  kind  that  lives  in  cans,"  answered  Nan- 
nie. "  And  papa  says  they  can't  hold  a  candle  to 
yours ;  but  I  never  could  see  why  they'd  want  to." 

"  I  should  think  they  couldn't !  "  said  grandma,  de- 
cidedly. "  And  now,  child,  we  are  ready  for  the  sea- 
soning. Just  hand  grandma  the  spice  box  over  there, 
won't  you  ?  " 

Nannie  put  her  nose  down  to  smell  when  the  box 
was  opened. 

"  Ah,  how  good,  grandma !  It  smells  more  like 
Christmas  than  minister's  folks,  I  think." 

"  There's  ginger  and  mustard  standing  right  be- 
side each  other,"  said  grandma.  "  That's  the  beauty 
of  doing  your  own  work,  dear,  'cause  they  look  just 
alike ;  but  I  could  go  to  them  in  the  dark,  and  not 
make  a  mistake." 

Just  then  some  one  knocked  at  the  sitting-room 
door  and  grandma  had  to  go. 


"Now,  dearie,  don't  get  into  mischief,  will  you?" 
she  said,  as  she  started. 

And  Nannie  did  not  really  intend  to,  but  grandma 
was  gone  a  long  time,  and  by  and  by  Nannie  began 
to  think  it  would  be  a  good  joke  to  put  the  mustard 
in  the  place  of  the  ginger. 

"  Papa  dearly  loved  a  joke,"  she  thought,  "  and  so 
do  I.     How  they  all  will  laugh !  " 

So,  quick  as  a  thought,  she  changed  them. 

"  Now,  p'r'aps  it  will  be  better  than  ginger.  May- 
be I'll  discover  something,"  she  thought,  trying  to 
quiet  her  conscience. 

When  grandma  came  back  everything  looked  all 
right,  and  she  hurriedly  seasoned  the  pies  and  put 
them  in  the  oven. 

"  The  land  knows  Mrs.  Pipkin  is  the  beater  of  a 
stayer,"  she  said,  as  she  shut  the  oven  door  and 
looked  at  the  clock. 

But  everything  was  ready  when  the  minister's  fam- 
ily came,  and  grandma's  cap  and  Nannie's  apron  were 
stiff  and  spotless. 

The  dinner  was  good,  and  they  all  ate  as  though 
they  enjoyed  it.  And  grandma  who  justly  prided 
herself  on  her  cookery,  beamed  with  delight  over  the 
way  things  disappeared. 

When  the  pies  were  brought  on  the  minister's  wife 
said :  "  Now  we  are  to  have  some  of  the  famous 
pumpkin-pie  that  we  have  heard  so  much  about." 

Nannie's  heart  plumped  down  like  lead  as  she 
looked  at  grandma's  happy  face  as  she  handed  around 
the  great  golden  wedges. 

But  what  was  the  matter  with  it? 

They  all  took  one  mouthful  and  then  a  hasty  drink 
of  water. 

Grandma  quickly  tasted  hers,  then  looked  at  Nan- 
nie's crimson  face,  and  Nannie  burst  out  crying: 

"  O  grandma,  it  was  a  joke,"  she  sobbed  on. 

No  one  laughed  at  all,  but  grandma  rose  and  took 
Nannie's  hand  and  took  her  upstairs  and  put  her  to 
bed  right  in  broad  daylight. 

"  O  grandma,"  said  Nannie,  when  they  had  all 
gone,  and  grandma  had  come  up  stairs,  "I  am  dis- 
graced forever!     I'll  never  play  a  joke  again." 

"  It's  no  joke  at  all  when  it  hurts  folks'  feelings," 
said  grandma. 

And  Nannie  has  been  very  careful  ever  since  to 
remember  that. 


The  Brethren  Colonies 


IN    THE 


Fruit  Belt  of  Michigan 


are  an  actual  success.  The  colony  of  the  Lakeview  church  is  located  on 
lands  surrounding  the  village  of  Brethren,  Michigan.  Brethren,  Michigan, 
is  located  on  the  main  line  of  the  Pere  Marquette  System,  105  miles  north 
of  Grand  Rapids  and  about  14  miles  east  of  Lake  Michigan.  All  conditions 
of  soil,  climate  and  location  make  this  spot  an  ideal  one  for  general  farm- 
ing, fruit-growing  and  stock-raising.  Lands  have  been  sold  to  about  120 
families  of  the  Brotherhood  and  their  friends,  of  which  number  about  one- 
half  have  already  located  and  are  clearing  up  their  places.  The  possibili- 
ties of  this  district  are  exceptional.  The  Brethren  tract  embraces  about 
20,000  acres,  of  which  over  11,000  acres  have  already  been  sold.  There  are 
just  as  good  and  as  desirable  locations  remaining  as  those  that  have  been 
bought  and  the  prices  have  not  yet  been  advanced,  but  with  the  improve- 
ments now  going  on,  developing  the  country  so  rapidly,  it  is  only  a  short 
time  till  prices  advance  considerably.  THE  TIME  TO  BUY  IS  NOW. 
Present  prices  range  from  $7  to  $15  per  acre,  on  easy  terms,  or  less  five 
(5)   per  cent  for  cash. 

For  illustrated  booklet  and  information  in  regard  to  rates,  address 
Samuel  S.  Thorpe,  District  Agent  Michigan  Land  Association,  Cadillac, 
Mich. 


THE    CADILLAC   TRACT. 


The  basis  of  my  business  is  absolute  and 

unvarying  integrity. 

SAMUEL  S.  THORPE. 


25,000  Acres  of  Rich  Agricul- 
tural Lands,  Excellently  Situated  and  Splen- 
didly Adapted  for  Farming,  Fruit-growing  and 
Stock-raising. 

These  lands  are  located  from  one-half  mile  to  six  miles  from  the  hustling  city  of  Cadillac,  the  seat  of  Wexford 
county,  8,ooo  inhabitants,  (all  alive,)  and  its  location  on  the  Grand  Rapids  and  Indiana  R'y  (part  of  the  Pennsylvania 
System)  and  on  the  Ann  Arbor  Railroad  (part  of  the  Wabash  System)  together  with  its  other  advantages  render 
it  the  best  trading  point  and  market  place  in  Northern  Michigan.  Cadillac  and  the  lands  controlled  by  the  ad- 
vertiser are  located  about  98  miles  north  of  Grand  Rapids  and  50  miles  east  of  Lake  Michigan.  They  are  well  wa- 
tered with  springs,  creeks,  rivers  and  lakes  of  pure,  sparkling  water  teeming  with  gamy  fish.  The  soil  varies  from 
a  sandy  loam  to  a  clay  loam,  all  of  it  underlaid  with  clay  and    gravel  subsoil,  which  responds  eagerly  to  cultivation. 

For  illustrated  booklets,  maps  and  information  as   to  reduced  rates  to  these  locations,  address: 


s-^-i^tte: 


S.    THOBPE, 


^istiict   Ag-ent    3\/£icl2.ig,a.n.    I^ar^d    ^.ssn., 

IDept.    ILvdl, 

C-A-IDXX-i31._A-C,     MICHIGAN. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


THE    COLONY 


...ON.. 


LAGUNA  DE  TACHE  GRAM 

...IN    THE... 

SAN  JOAQUIN  VALLEY,  CALIFORNIA. 


BRETHREN  OAK  GROVE  CHURCH  AND  SUNDAY  SCHOOL. 

Still  continues  to  attract  the  attention  of  homeseekers. 

The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  immense  growth  of 
every  variety  of  crop  which  is  again  in  evidence  establishes  the  fact  that  here  is  the 
place  where  the  industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN   PEOPLE    DO  EASTERN   FARMING. 
You  don't  have  to  spend  years  learning  a  new  business. 

ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

besides  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products,  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
his  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  it. 

SPECIAL    LOW    RATES    TO    CALIFORNIA. 

From  August  15th  to  Sept.  10th  the  railroads  will  sell  Round  Trip  excursion 
tickets  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

From    Chicago $50   00 

From   Mississippi   River 47   50 

From    Missouri    River 45   00 

Final  return  limit,  Oct.  23. 

ALSO    SEPTEMBER    15th    TO    OCTOBER    15th    COLONIST    ONE-WAT    TICKETS 
TO  ANT  CALIFORNIA  POINT. 

From    Chicago $33   00 

From  Mississippi    River 30   00 

From    Missouri    River , 25   00 

By  this  arrangement  j'ou  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 
land.     If  it  suits  you,  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate. 

Land  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre,  including  perpetual  water  right.  Terms,  one- 
fourth  cash;  balance  in  eight  annual  payments. 

From  twenty  to  forty  acres  will  support  the  average  family  in  comfort. 

If  interested  send  your  name  and  address  and  receive  printed  matter  and  our 
local  newspaper  free  for  two  months.     "Write  to 

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it  fails  to  nourish  the  organs  of  the  body,  your  sup- 
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DR.   PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER  was  compounded  more  than  one 

hundred  years  ago   by  an  old  German  physician  who,  for 

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For  the  Brethren 


It's  a  new  country  to  you,  possibly,  and  it  is  new,  and  also  a  good  one.  We  are  talking  of 
northern  Texas  around  Dallas  and  Fort  Worth,  and  along  the  line  of  the  great  Rock  Island  Sys- 
tem through  that  country.  You  want  to  read  this  page  of  the  Nook  from  week  to  week. 
There's  going  to  be  something  in  it  about  that  country  from  people  who  were  down  there  a 
week  or  so  ago,  and  we  will  give  you  their  views  and  opinions  as  to  the  availability  of  that  coun- 
try for  the  kind  of  people  that  read  the  INGLENOOK.  They  are  people  who  know  because 
they  have  seen  it  all.  You  ought  to  see  it,  and  maybe  will.  When  you  get  ready,  we  are. 
Here's  what  some  of  them  say  about  their  trip: 

David  C.  Bosserman:  "The  country  impressed  us  as  being  a  favorable  place  for  the  agricul- 
turist who  is  looking  for  a  good,  new  location." 

D.  R.  Yoder,  of  Goshen,  Ind.:  "Such  as  would  want  to  go  would  find  good  openings  in 
the  vicinity  of  Ft.  Worth  and  Dallas,  Texas." 

H.  T.  Williamson  writes:  "Two  carloads  of  this  party  from  Carthage,  Mo.,  took  in  what  was 
termed  the  "Circle  Trip,"  and,  as  far  as  I  know,  were  delighted  with  the  country  from  the  time 
they  left  Carthage  till  they  reached  Ft.  Worth,  Texas." 

C.  M.  Wenger,  of  South  Bend,  Ind.:  "  I  was  favorably  impressed  with  the  general  appear- 
ance of  the  country,  the  rich  soil  and  large  per  cent  of  smooth,  tillable  soil  to  be  found  through- 
out." 

A.  B.  Barnhart,  Hagerstown,  Md.,  has  this  as  his  view:  "I  was  favorably  impressed,  so 
much  so  that  I  would  recommend  to  any  of  our  people  who  contemplate  a  change  to  consider 
the   great   Southwest   as   to   its   agricultural   and  industrial  advantages." 

Isaac  Frantz,  Pleasant  Hill,  Ohio,  one  of  the  tourists  accompanying  the  party  says:  "And  my 
impressions  of  the  Southwest  are  so  favorable  that  if  I  were  young  again  Ohio  could  not  hold 
me." 

John  E.  Mohler,  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  says  this,  speaking  of  his  Rock  Island  trip:  "There  were 
about  seventy  of  us  who  made  the  trip  after  the  Conference  at  Carthage  and  I  think  all  of  them 
were    delightfully    surprised.     The    country    itself  was  a  revelation,  worthy  of  the  trip." 

S.  M.  Goughnour,  of  Ankeny,  Iowa,  has  this  to  say:  "Yes,  I  must  say  the  country,  especially 
Oklahoma,  impressed  me  much  more  favorably  than  I  expected." 

R.  E.  Burger,  of  Allerton,  111.,  writes  as  follows:  "I  now  feel  that  I  can  conscientiously  rec- 
ommend   the    South   and    Southwest   as    a    good  place  to  invest  money." 

Henry  Studebaker,  Tippecanoe  City,  Ohio,  thinks  that,  "  The  country  we  were  through 
promises  great  things  for  the  future.  From  Ft.  Worth  to  Enid  the  crop  indications  surpass  any- 
thing I  ever  saw." 

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of  voucher  contracts,  and  if  you  want  lo  take 
advantage  of  our  truly  wonderful  opportunity 
to  invest  your  savings  in  our  Co-operative 
association,  upon  our  original  and  scien- 
tific plan  you  should  get  your  application  in 
at  a  very  early  date.. 

No  matter  how  modest  your  means,  you  can 
become  a  shareholdi-r  in  this  company  and  at 
once  begin  to  take  advantage  of  its  many  eco- 
nomic features,  every"  one  of  which  will  have 
your  approval  and  endorsement.  Our  com- 
pany means  a  new  era  in  ihe  co-operative  field, 
a  new  low-price  level  and  a  new  degree  of 
purchasing  power. 

Send  your  application  at  once.  Grasp 
tliis  opportunity  to  wake  your  sav- 
ings work. 


How  and  When 
to  Invest 


The  Time  is  Now.  Do  not  postpone 
the  day  when  you  are  going  to  make  a  start  for 
prosperity.  If  you  do.  the  chances  arc  you'll 
never  start,  (l.et  out  of  the  rut  of  the  man  who 
just  lives  each  day  so  lie  can  work  the  next. 
Have  an  investment  to  look  after  your  interest 
in  days  of  adversity. 

Some  people  believe  in  investing  their  sav- 
ings but  are  not  satisfied  with  reasonable 
returns  on  their  money.  They  want  to  become 
millionaires  in  a  night.  They  invest  their  mon- 
ey in  all  sorts  of  "get-rich-quick"  schemes  and 
usually  pay  dearly  for  their  experiences.  It  is 
useless  to  save  money  and  then  invest  it  where 
it  will  be  lost  or  even  where  you  cannot  help 
but  worry  about  it. 

In  the  springtime  of  life — in  the  heyday  of 
prosperity,  every  man  and  woman  should  in- 
vest in  an  enterprise  which  isa  credit  to  Christ- 
ianity as  well  as  to  the  Commercial  World;  so 
that  in  the  days  to  come  they  will  not  have  to 
look  back  upon  the  past  with  feelings  of  regret. 

Our  plan  of  Scientific  Co-operation  elimi- 
nates all  elements  of  failure  and  worry.  Make 
your  saving's  work  and  do  cood. 


Profits  on 
Savings  Assured 

Of  all  the  great  i  />ney-making  department 
stores  the  Mail  Order  Store  is  the  greatest. 
Its  line  comprises  everything  from  a  toothpick 
to  a  traction  engine.  Everything  people  eat, 
wearanduse  from  youth  to  old  age.  lis  fi^lat 
is  not  limited  by  city  and  suburban  iimiuuimis, 
but  extends  to  every  farm  and  town  of  this 
country  and  every  country  of  the  globe.  Its 
expenses — selling  and  fixed — are  less  than  any 
other  business.  It's  a  strictlycash  business.  It 
has  few  losses.  It  does  not  depend  on  sea- 
sonsor  local  conditions.  Itis  a  "hard  times" 
business.  It  does  not  even  depend  upon  pros* 
perity.  Its  profits  are  large  in  comparison  to 
the  amount  invested.  We  advise  you  to  be- 
come a  co-partner  of  our  company  on  this 
series  of  vouchers  as  soon  as  possible,  even  if 
you  start  with  but  one  share,  and  thereby 
obtain  the  advantages  of  our  original  co-op- 
erative idea.  You  will  find  your  investment 
the  best  and  safest  you  have  ever  made — you 
buy  into  an  established,  growing  and  success- 
ful business. 


Satisfaction 

Guaranteed 


A  reputation  for  honest  advertising  is 
extremely  valuable,  and  can  be  retained  only 
by  the  most  painstaking  care:  a  single  misrep- 
resentation may  do  more  harm  than  months 
of  earnest  effort  can  repair.  Advertising  intro- 
duces our  goods.  Merit  sells  them.  We 
know  a  satisfied  customer  is  our  best  advertise- 
'  ment.  Our  Rule:  "No  Disappointment  in 
What  Lies  Behind  the  Advertisement."  We 
invite  you  to  send  orders  from  our  catalogs, 
circulars  or  advertisements  with  absolute 
assurance  that  you  will  be  protected.  If  the 
price  is  lower  at  the  time  your  order  reaches  us 
we  will  give  you  the  advantage  of  the  reduction 
and  never  charge  you  more  than  the  price 
named  without  first  writing  you  with  full 
explanations  and  getting  your  consent  to  the 
higher  price.  Do  not  hesitate  to  order  any 
article  we  advertise  as  our  positive  guarantee 
goes  with  each  shipment,  and  there  is  no  risk 
on  your  part.  There  is  no  discount  on  the 
quality  of  the  goods  we  send  out  and  our 
representations  are  always  exact.  No  bluster, 
no  display,  just  straightforward  facts.  Now, 
would  you  not  like  to  be  a  co-partner  and  cus- 
tomer of  a  company  which  stands  for  the  appli- 
cation of  the  Golden  Rule  in  business,  and 
Christian  character  upon  the  part  of  each 
worker,  from  the  office  boy  to  the  President? 
Contracts  to  the  extent  of  J135.000  made 
since  February  1st,  19M.  Write  for  partic- 
ulars. 


Remember  I 

While  we  are  working  together,  each  for  the 
other  and  conscientiously  and  earnestly  en- 
deavoring to  build  up  a  large  business,  we  do  it 
on  the  basis  of  treating  each  individual  fairly  and 
under  no  circumstances  place  any  of  our  pa- 
trons, co-operators  or  stockholders  in  an  em- 
barrassing position. 

We  consider  all  correspondence,  business 
transactions,  contracts  on  co-operation,  etc  as 
sacred  and  never  embarrass  any  one  by  publish- 
ing extracts  from  letters,  names  or  addresses 
of  co-operators  or  customers  without  having 
the  written  con  unt  on  file  in  our  office. 


Albaugh  Bros., 
Dover  &  Co. 


The  Mail  Order  House 


341-43  Franklin  St., 

Chicago,  -  -  Illinois. 


Our  New  General 
Catalog  Free. 


Our  new  general  merchandise  catalog  will  be 
ready  the  last  of  August  and  will  be  sent  free 
to  every  reader  of  the  Inglenook  answering 
this  advertisement.  We  wil  1  also  take  pleasure 
in  sending  a  K4-page  book  of  testimonials  fron. 
satisfied  patrons,  the  consent  to  luse  name 
having  been  secured  in  each  case.  Our  large 
general  Co-operative  Catalog  and  Price  List,  a 
magnificent  book,  contains  a  complete  line  of 
high  grade  <jencral  Merchandise  at  co-op- 
erative money-savinc  prices. 

Careful  attention  is  being  given  to  the  illus- 
trations, descriptions,  prices,  etc.  Each  article 
will  be  described  as  if  it  were  the  only  one 
offered  for  sale,  for  the  catalog  must  appeal  to 
the  reason  of  the  one  who  receives  it,  and 
answer  questions  that  may  arise  in  his  mind 
concerning  the  goods  off  eredand  the  company. 
We  work  at  all  times  for  the  interest  of  our 
customers,  and  after  a  most  careful  study  we 
have  originated  a  new  plan  of  Freight  and 
Express  Kehates,  about  which  this  Big' 
Catalog  will  tell  you  in  detail.  This  means 
the  saving  to  our  patrons  of  thousands  of 
dollars,  yet  our  prices  have  not  been  advanced 
one  cent.  Itis  harder  to  save  money  than  to 
make  money.  Make  saving  easier  by  ordering 
your  goods  from  our  catalog.  Make  your 
savings  make  you  money  by  investing  your 
savings  in   our  co-operative  institution. 

Won't  You  Join  Hands  With  Us? 


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REAPING    AND    SOWING.— By  Agnes  Neff. 

CONTRIBUTIONS. 

THE    KRITIK   ON    THE    TRANE.— By   Geo.  Haldan. 
DRINKING    FOUNTAIN    FOR  BIRDS.— By  D.  L.  Miller. 
THE  BLACK  BELT.— By  Roscoe  Conklin  Bruce. 
ON    TO    YOUR    JOB.— By  Prof.  C.  M.  James. 
COMMERCIAL   VALUE   OF    MUSIC— By  Etha  A.  Evans. 
TEMPORARY    TEETH.— By   E.  E.   Blickenstaff.   D.  D.  S. 
SERVICE.— By  Lina  N.  Stoner. 
WHO    SENT    THE    DREAM?— By  Mary  P.  Ellenberger. 


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LITTLE  THINGS. 
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ELGIN,    ILLINOIS 


BRETHREN    PUBLISHING    HOUSE 


vugust  2,   1904 


$  1 .00  per  Year 


Number  31.  VcHuma  VI 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


ARE   YOU   GOING   TO 

California,  Washington, 
Oregon,  Idaho 

Or  Any  Other  Point?    Take  the 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Daily  Tourist  Car   Lines 


Chicago,  Missouri  River,  Colorado,  Idaho,  Oregon, 
Washington  and  California  Points. 


ROUND    TRIP   RATES 


From  Chicago, 
From  Missouri  River, 


$50.00 
45.00 


To  San  Francisco  or  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  and  Re- 
turn. Tickets  Sold  Aug.  15  to  Sept.  10,  inclusive. 
Return  Limit,  October  23,  1904. 


One-Way  Colonist's  Rates. 

To  Pacific  Coast  Every  Day,  Sept.  15  to  Oct.  15. 

From  Chicago ?33  00 

From  St.  Louis,  30  00 

From  Missouri  River,   25  00 

Proportionate  Bates  from  all  Points  East. 


The  Union  Pacific  Railroad 

IS    KNOWN    AS  

"The  Overland  Route" 

And  is  the  only  direct  line  from  Chicago  and  the  Missouri 
River  to  all  principal  points  West.  Business  men  and 
others  can  save  many  hours  via  this  line.  Call  on  or 
address  a  postal  card  to  your  nearest  ticket  agent,  or 
Geo.  L.  McDonaugh,  Colonization  Agent,  Omaha, 
Neb. 

E.  L.  LOMAX,  G.  P.  &  T.  A., 
Omaha,   Nebraska. 


A  Town  With  a  Future 


Snyder,  Colorado,  Has  all  the  Ear-marks  of  a  Comer  and 
is   Surely   Destined   to   be    One   of   North- 
eastern   Colorado's    Leaders. 


Snyder  is  beautifully  located  on  the  South  Platte  river 
and  Union  Pacific  Railway,  between  Sterling  and  Denver, 
extending  from  the  river  to  the  brow  of  a  mesa,  one-half 
mile  away.  The  main  street  running  north  and  south  is 
80  feet  wide;  all  other  streets,  60  feet;  alleys,  20  feet;  all' 
lots  are  25x125  feet,  excepting  those  fronting  on  the  main 
street,  which  are  25x120. 

For  further  information  about  Snyder  or  South  Platte 
Valley,  address  Geo.  L.  McDonaugh,  Colonization  Agent 
Union  Pacific  Railroad,  at  Omaha,  Neb.,  for  FREE  print- 
ed matter. 

Still  better,  see  some  of  those  who  have  bought  land 
near  Snyder,  Colorado,  or  write  to  them  for  further  in- 
formation. 


The  following  parties  have  bought  land  near  Snyder, 
Colo.: 

Louis  E.  Keltner,  Hygiene,  Colo.;  W.  W.  Keltner, 
North  Dakota;  A.  W.  Brayton,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Daniel 
Grabill,  Lemasters,  Pa.;  J.  L.  Kuns.  McPherson,  Kans.; 
D.  L.  Miller,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Daniel  Neikirk,  Lemasters, 
Pa.;  Galen  B.  Royer,  Elgin,  I1L;  E.  Slifer,  Mt.  Morris,  111.; 
I.  B.  Trout,  Lanark,  111.;  R.  E.  Arnold,  Elgin,  111. 


Geo.  L.  Studebaker,  of  Muncie,  Indiana,  says: 

"  Sterling  is  a  growing  town  with  a  good  country 
surrounding.     The  members  are  active." 

HOMESEEKERS'   EXCURSION 
to  Snyder,  Colorado, 

With  Privilege  of  Stopping  off  at  Sterling,  Colo., 
UllE   TAnX   and  Third  Tuesday  of  Each  Month  via 

Union  Pacific  Railroad. 


PRIZE    CONTEST 

HOW    TO    GET    A    VALUABLE     PREMIUM 


WE   ARE    GOING   TO    GIVE   A    FEW   VALUABLE    PREMIUMS,  AND  ALL   OUR   INGLENOOK  FRIENDS 

ARE    INVITED    TO    ENTER    THE    CONTEST. 


Here     Tliey     _A_r-e  ! 

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cents   each,   or  with   premium   as   per   our   offer*   at   75   cents  each,  will  receive  one  set  Literature  of  All 
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2.  The   one   holding  second  place   will   receive  a   splendid    ladies'    or    gentlemen's    watch    (whichever    pre- 

ferred).    The    watch    is    equal    to    one    that    regularly  retails   for  about 

3.  The  one  holding  third  place  will  receive  a  good  Teacher's  Bible,  Arabian  Morocco,  divinity  circuit,  worth 

4.  The   one    holding   fourth   place   will    receive   the   book  "  Modern  Fables  and  Parables,"  worth   

riptions   receive  a    good    fountain    p 

Cash  must  accompany  each  order. 


5-     Each  person   sending   10  or  more  subscriptions   receive  a    good    fountain    pen,    either    ladies'    or    gentle- 
men's,   worth,    


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No-w     is      Your     Tizrxe. 

Right  now  is  the  time  to  make  things  count.  Get  a  good  start  and  you  will  come  out  all 
right  in  the  end.  The  one  who  goes  at  it  at  once  with  a  determination  to  win  stands  a  good 
chance  to  get  a  S25.ro  set  of  books  FREE. 

Do  not  say  that  you  do  not  have  a  good  territory  and  it's  no  use  to  try.  Our  experience 
leads  us  to  believe  that  one  place  is  as  good  as  another.  Some  places  where  we  least  expect 
subscriptions  we' get  the  most.  It  is  up  to  you  whether  or  not  you  get  this  fine  set  of  books. 
SOME  ONE  IS  GOING  TO  GET  THEM.  Let  every  loyal  Nooker  get  out  and  hustle.  Aim 
at  the  top.  Don't  be  satisfied  with  anything  less.  ALL  THESE  PRIZES  ARE  GOING  TO 
BE  GIVEN  TO  SOME  ONE.  Go  to  work  at  once.  Who  will  send  the  first  list?  (In  sending 
your  list,  please  mention  that  you  are  entering  the  contest.) 

Contest     Closes. 

To  give  all  a  fair  chance  we  have  decided  not  to  close  this  INGLENOOK  CONTEST  until 
August  31.  All  orders  received  by  us  up  to  and  including  last  mail  on  August  31,  1904,  will  be 
counted.     Many  are  taking  an  active  part  in  the  contest.    The  fortunate  ones  arc  going  to  be  the  Ao* 

ones  who  keep  continually  at  it.  Remember,  at  the  close  of  the  contest  should  you  not  have  been  fortunate  enough  to 
receive  one  of  the  four  prizes  named,  you  will  be  entitled  to  prize  No.  5,  a  good  Fountain  Pen,  for  each  ten  subscriptions  sent 
us.      It  is  worth  your  while  to  try  for  No.  1.     Don't  procrastinate.     Now  is  your  time  to  do  the  best  work. 


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-the:    inglenook. 


MANCHESTER   COLLEGE! 


A*  Delightful  Home  for  Students.     Thirteen  Desirable  Courses.    Faculty  Sub* 
stantially  Augmented.    Nine  Universities  Represented  in  the  Train- 
ing of  the  Faculty.  Enrollment  Making  Harked  Increase. 


Write  for  plan  to  help  Bible  Students  who  are  preparing  to  do 
more  efficient  work  in  the  church.  Fathers  and  mothers,  sons  and 
daughters  are  interested  in  this  institution  because  of  the  thorough- 
ness of  the  work  and  the  uplifting,  moral  influence.  FALL  TERM 
OPENS  SEPTEMBER  6.  For  catalogue  and  particulars  address  the 
President,  North  Manchester,  Indiana.  3U2 


Cap  Goods! 

Our  business  has  almost  doubled  Itself 
during  the  last  year.  "We  are  sending 
goods  by  mall  to  thousands  of  perma- 
nent, satisfied  customers  throughout  the 
United  States.      The  reason  is  simple. 

Our  Goods  are  Sellable.     Our  Variety  la 
Large.     Our  Prices  are  Low. 

All  orders  filled  promptly,  postpaid. 
Satisfaction  guaranteed  or  your  money 
refunded.  Send  us  a  sample  order  and 
be  convinced.  Write  us  for  a  booklet 
of  unsolicited  testimonials  and  new  line 
of  samples,  which  will  be  furnished  free. 
Send  at  once  to 

R.   E.   ARNOLD,   Elgin,   I1L 

Change  of  Climate  Beneficial 

After  your  years  of  toil  and  suc- 
cess, don't  you  want  to  rest  the  re- 
maining? If  you  do,  come  to  south- 
ern California,  where  roses  bloom  all 
the  year,  grass  is  evergreen,  some 
kind  of  fruit  ripening  every  month, 
vegetables  a  perpetual  luxury.  To 
make  these  declining  years  a  delight, 
to  combine  work  and  play,  purchase 
a  walnut,  almond,  fig,  olive,  orange, 
or  lemon  grove;  each  has  its  profit, 
pleasure  and  beauty.  For  particulars 
of  each  write  A.  Hutsinpiller,  P.  O. 
Box   1 1 94,  Los  Angeles,   Cal.       23,3 


$2,500  buys  highly  improved  fruit 
farm  of  20  acres,  including  stock  and 
tools.  One  and  one-half  miles  to  fine 
market. 

J.  L.   BUCKENSTAPP, 

Bangor,  Michigan. 

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FEW   PEOPLE 

Know  the  value  of  Liquid  Spray  as  a 
home  cure  for  Catarrh,  Hay  Fever,  Head 
colds  and  other  diseases  of  the  respira- 
tory  organs. 

Persona  desiring  to  try  this  highly 
recommended  treatment  should  immedi- 
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Ashland   Ohio. 

He  will  gladly  mall  any  reader  of  the 
Inglenook  one  of  his  new  Atomizers  and 
Liquid  Spray  treatment  on  five  days'  tri- 
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If  it  gives  satisfaction,  send  him  $2.00, 
two-fifths  regular  price;  If  not,  return 
it  at  the  expired  time,  whick  will  only 
cost  you  twelve  cents  postage,  and  you 
will  not  owe  him  a  penny.  It  kills  the 
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UGUNA  DE  TACHE  GRANT 

...IN    THE... 

SAN  JOAQUIN  VALLEY,  CALIFORNIA. 


BRETHREN    OAK    GROVE    CHURCH    AND    SUNDAY    SCHOOL. 


Still  continues  to  attract  the  attention  of  homeseekers. 

The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  immense  growth  of 
every  variety  of  crop  which  is  again  in  evidence  establishes  the  fact  that  here  Is  the 
place  where  the  industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN    PEOPLE    DO    EASTERN    FARMING. 
You  don't  have  to  spend  years  learning  a  new  business. 

ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

besides  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
his  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  it. 

SPECIAL     LOW    BATES    TO     CALIFORNIA. 

From  August  15th  to  Sept.  10th  the  railroads  will  sell  Round  Trip  excursion 
tickets  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

From    Chicago ?50   00 

From   Mississippi   River 47   50 

From    Missouri    River, 45   00 

Final  return  limit.  Oct.  23. 

ALSO   SEPTEMBER    15th    TO    OCTOBER,    15th    COLONIST    ONE-WAY    TICKETS 
TO  ANT  CALIFORNIA  POINT. 

From    Chicago $33   00 

From   Mississippi   River 30   00 

From   Missouri    River 25   00 

By  this  arrangement  you  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 
land.     If  it  suits  you,  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate. 

Land  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre,  Including  perpetual  water  right.  Terms,  one- 
fourth  cash;  balance  in  eight  annual  payments. 

From  twenty  to  forty  acres  wili  support  the  average  family  In  comfort. 

If  interested  send  your  name  and  address  and  receive  printed  matter  and  our 
local  newspaper  free  for  two  months.     Write  to 

NARES  &  SAUNDERS,   -    Laton,  California. 

2btl3    Mention  the  INOLEMOOK  when  writtag. 


COLORADO 


AT    ANNUAL    MEETING. 

We  were  at  Carthage,  Mo.,  during 
the  Annual  Meeting  and  met  many 
of  our  old  friends  and  correspondents 
among  the  Brethren. 

THE  NEW  BOOKS. 

We  distributed  five  thousand  of  the 
new  Union  Pacific  Railway  folders, 
"  What  People  Say  about  the  South 
Platte  Valley,"  while  there. 

SEND  FOR  ONE. 

We  have  a  few  hundred  of  these 
books  left  for  free  distribution  and  if 
you  will  drop  us  a  card  will  send  you 
a  copy  by  first  mail. 

OUR    CARTHAGE    EXCURSION. 

Several  members  accompanied  us 
on  our  excursion  to  Sterling  and  Sny- 
der and  are  well  pleased  with  the 
country  and  some  will  locate. 

AGENTS  WANTED. 

We  would  like  to  arrange  with  a 
member  in  every  town  in  the  country 
to  distribute  these  folders  and  get  up 
a  party  for  Colorado. 

LIBERAL   COMMISSIONS. 

We  offer  liberal  commissions  and 
special  prices  on  any  lands  you  may 
decide  to  purchase  yourself. 

A  FREE  PASS. 

We  also  arrange  for  special  rates 
for  excursion  parties  and  free  trans- 
portation for  agent  who  gets  up  the 
party  to  Colorado  and  return. 

SPECIAL   BARGAINS. 

We  have  special  bargains  in  irri- 
gated farms  and  town  property  dur- 
ing the  summer  months  and  now  is 
the  time  to  see  the  country  and  in- 
vest. 

SNYDER  TOWN   LOTS. 

Parties  who  will  agree  to  distribute 
our  advertising  matter  among  their 
friends  can  secure  six  Snyder  town 
lots  for  $ioo.  These  lots  sell  for  $25 
each  and  you  can  make  $50  profit  by 
reselling  them  at  this  price. 

TROUT  FISHING   IN   MOUN- 
TAINS. 

We  will  run  special  cheap  rate  ex- 
cursions from  Sterling  to  Cherokee 
Park  every  week  this  summer.  This 
is  one  of  the  finest  resorts  in  Colo- 
rado. The  trout  fishing  is  grand  and 
the  scenery  sublime. 

COME  TO  COLORADO. 

If  you  contemplate  a  trip  for 
health,  pleasure,  recreation  or  invest- 
ment let  us  hear  from  you  and  we 
will  be  pleased  to  give  all  information 
wanted. 

The  Colorado  Colony  Co., 
Sterling,  Colorado. 

17U3      Mention  the  INOLKNOOK  when  wriUn*. 


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Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail      I 


1  IDAHO 


is   the   best-watered    arid    State 
winds,    destructive    storms    and 
mate   it  makes   life   bright   and 
We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer 
change   for   the   general   improvement    in    your    condi 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  b 
and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  coun 
swer  and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger 
fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves 
Cheap   homeseekers'   rates   are   made    to   all    prin 
for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting 


in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 
yclones   are   unknown,   and    with    its   matchless    cli- 
worth  living. 

to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 
tion  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 
oth  requirements.  There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 
try  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 

work  teach  us  that  a  few  dollars  spent  in  railroad 
thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

cipal  Idaho  points.  Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 
a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


Ronnd=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only  in  May 
and  October,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


PAYETTE    VALLEY   HOME.-Five  Years  from  Sagebrush. 


Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance. 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


Arrived  in  Payette  Valley  Feb.  23,  1903.  Settled  on  an  80-acre  tract,  covered  with  sage  brush. 
Cleared  40  acres.  May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.  Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.  June  12  sowed  10  acres 
to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.  Yielded  55  to  acre.  Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 
or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 
oats. 

Potatoes  yielded  500  bushels  to  the  acre  and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)   E.  L.  Dotson. 


S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

J.  E.  HOOPER,  Agent,   Oakland,  Kansas. 


D.   E.   BURLEY, 
G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R„ 

Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 


Mention  the  INGLEN'inK   * 


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Fine      s 


AlNSbENSOK 


Vol.  VI 


August  2,  1904. 


REAPING    AND    SOWING. 


BY   AGNES    NEFF. 

If  you  would  reap  rich  golden  grain 
Be  careful  what  you  sow; 

If  carelessly  we  scatter  weeds 
Among  the  grain  they'll  grow. 

If  idle  words  and  thoughtless  deeds 
Our  time  spent  all  in  vain 

Are  seeds  that  we  are  sowing  here 
We'll  gather  them  in  pain. 

But  should  we  scatter  them  with  care 
The  precious  seeds  of  truth 

The  harvest  time  will  then  be  joy 
We'll  reap  the  golden  fruit. 

Milford,  Ind. 

+    *    * 

SNAPSHOTS. 


You  don't  have  to  pray  loud  to  reach  the  Father's 
ear. 

* 

The  worst  bore  on  earth  is  the  man  with  a  griev- 
ance. 

* 

Less  theology   and   more   Christianity   might   help 
some. 

* 

The  wages  of  sin  may  be  paid  in  money  or  in  ali- 
mony. 

The  trouble  ivith  the  chronic  borrower  is  that  he  is 
ahvays  looking  for  an  encore. 
* 
Even  the  man  who  believes  in  the  efficacy  of  prayer 
should  keep  one  eye  on  the  devil. 
* 
Don't  strew  flowers  on  the  coffin  of  those  in  whose 
pathway  during  life  you've  strewn   thorns'. 

Many  a  candidate  zvho  runs  for  office  discovers  that 
his  opponent  has  a  walkover. 


If  a  man  is  sensitive  he  should  keep 
of  other  people's  business. 


There  is  no  harm  in  talking  about  your  neighbor 
you  find  only  good  things  to  say. 


No.  31. 

his  nose  out   \ 
ou  \ 


You  are  excusable  if  a  man  deceives  you  once.     You 
get  what  you  deserve  if  he  deceives  you  twice. 
* 

It  does  not  take  long  after  you  have  met  the  average 
old  bachelor  to  discover  the  reason  why  he  is. 

When  a  young  man  works  his  way  through  college 
he  demonstrates,  at  least,  his  ability  to  get  a  job. 
* 

Do  good  unto  those  who  hate  you.     You  may  run 
for  office  some  day  and  will  need  their  vote. 
* 

If  it  wasn't  for  the  fact  tliat  a  fool  and  his  money 
are  soon  parted,  a  lot  of  promoters  would  have  to  go 
to  work. 

* 

Making  a  child  happy  requires  a  very  small  invest- 
ment, but  its  dividends  beat  the  Standard  Oil  com- 
pany's stock. 

* 

You  may  be  able  to  watch  a  fool  to  some  extent, 
but  the  Nook  does  not  know  of  any  protection  from 
the  careless  man. 

* 

Some  men  are  so  mean  that  they  cannot  see  a  crime 
denounced  in  a  newspaper  but  that  they  feel  that  tltey 
have  been  attacked. 

* 

Somehow  we  have  a  great  admiration  for  the  woman 
who  likes  onions  and  would  rather  eat  them  than  go 
to  a  social  function. 

* 

It  may  be  that  your  wife  would  rather  have  a  kind  , 
word  and  some  new  clothes  now,  than  to  have  silver 
handles  on  her  coffin  and  a  big  brown  tombstone  with 
a  five-dollar  lie  chiseled  on  it  by  and  bv. 


"HI 


INQLENOOr. 


J  THE  KRITIC  ON  THE  TRANE§ 

*  BY  GEORGE  HALDAN.  $ 

The  visitor  to  the  St.  Louis  Fair  is  struck  first  of 
all  by  the  vast  extent  of  the  grounds  and  the  beautv  of 
the  exhibition  palaces.  No  fair  was  ever  built  on  1240 
acres  of  land  before,  and  if  future  companies  learn  the 
lesson  of  convenient  sight-seeing  from  the  worn-out 
millions  who  come  here,  the  fairs  of  the  future  will  not 
be  so  widely  scattered.  President  Francis  said  re- 
cently, in  a  public  address,  that  if  no  criticism  except- 


earth  meet  to  admire  and  praise  the  triumphs  of  art, 
science  and  philosophy  which  spring  from  the  entire 
earth  at  the  touch  and  beck  of  intelligent  industry — 
here  but  three  short  years  ago  stood  the  forest  primeval. 
This  part  of  Forest  Park,  so  wild  and  tangled,  which 
furnished  the  people  of  St.  Louis  so  close  a  communion 
with  the  heart  of  nature,  was  not  given  up  without  a 
keen  sense  of  losing  something  which  could  never  be 
replaced.  But  all  is  over  now — the  transformation,  al- 
most a  miracle — is  full  and  complete.  The  stately 
trees  have  fallen  by  the  woodman's  axe ;  underbrush 
and  debris  have  melted  away ;  winding  paths,  rugged 
gorges,  slimy  pools,  mud,  mire,  all  things  ugly  or  inar- 
tistic have  vanished,  or,  by  the  touch  of  labor,  been 


~ 


LOOKING  NORTH   FROM  THE  CASCADE. 


ing  "too  large"  came  to  them  the  exposition  company 
would  feel  highly  satisfied  with  the  fair.  A  good  wit 
said  to  me  yesterday  that  the  fair  was  larger  in  the 
evening  than  in  the  morning,  because  at  night  every 
"foot"  was  an  "acher." 

Viewed  from  the  outside  by  day  or  night,  the  eye  is 
greeted  with  a  beauty  and  grandeur  of  architecture 
which  leads  one  on  and  on  or  causes  him  to  stop  and 
exclaim:  "What  wonders  have  been  wrought!"  The 
wonder  increases  too  with  the  recollection  that  here, 
where  to-day  numberless  spires  and  domes  are  upheld 
by  thousands  of  massive  columns,  here,  where  by  night 
myriads  of  incandescent  bulbs  flash  forth  the  glory  of 
invention ;  here  where  the  high  and  lowly  of  all  the 


changed  into  open  plazas,  fresh  water  lagoons,  with 
playing  fountains  above  them,  shaded  walks,  skirted 
by  variegated  flower  gardens,  with  heroic  statues 
standing  everywhere  among  them,  or  broad  fields  over 
which  man  has  "framed  the  roof,  to  gather  and  roll 
back  the  anthems"  of  the  anvil  and  the  loom.  From 
any  angle  by  day  or  night,  the  splendid  outlook  pro- 
claims the  highest  forms  of  modern  thought. 

Just  through  the  gate  on  the  right  of  the  main  en- 
trance the  snow-topped  Tyrolean  Alps,  a  grand  repro- 
duction of  the  Swiss  mountains  lift  themselves  far 
above  the  clamor  and  dust  of  the  street.  On  the  left 
hand  lies  the  model  street  of  a  model  city,  showing  the 
latest    and    best    street    pavings,    waterworks,    public 


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buildings,  playgrounds,  and  other  municipal  equip- 
ments. Just  in  front,  stretching  between  the  palaces  of 
Manufactures  and  Varied  Industries,  guarded  on  either 
side  and  at  the  north  end  by  an  heroic  statue,  and 
crowned  at  the  farthest  point  by  the  historic  Louisiana 
Purchase  monument,  the  St.  Louis  plaza  leads  one  di- 
rectly to  the  north  end  of  the  Grand  Basin  with  three 
famous  pieces  of  statuary  looking  over  it.  Among 
these  the  one  of  the  Cowboy  at  rest  at  the  feet  of  his 
faithful  steed  is  a  favorite. 

The  views  from  this  point  beggar  any  description. 
That  thrill  of  admiration  and  that  expanse  of  soul 
which  come  to  one  with  glimpses  of  the  sublime  in  Art 
or  Nature,  sifts  between  the  lines  and  refuses  to  be 
transferred  to  paper. 


tains,  wrapped  in  a  halo  of  summer  sun  by  day  and 
electric  glory  by  night,  compose  what  is  for  me  the  fin- 
est sight  in  the  world,  because  it  is  the  grandest  I  have 
yet  seen.  Since  the  nations  and  tribes  of  men  were 
shaken  together  by  the  crusades,  the  cosmopolitan 
spirit,  which  improves  on  every  past  achievement,  rules 
the  minds  of  men  and  no  one  dares  to  predict  the  splen- 
dors of  the  future;  but  to-day  the  Terrace  of  States 
holds  first  place  among  the  works  of  architectural  dec- 
orations, designed  and  erected  in  modern  times. 

From  Festival  Hall  occupying  the  central  position 
with  a  diameter  of  200  feet,  a  seating  capacity  of  3,500, 
the  colonnade  extends  a  distance  of  750  feet  on  either 
side,  passing  the  fourteen  statues  erected  in  commem- 
oration of  the  fourteen  states  included  in  the  Louisiana 


VIEW  FROM  EAST  CASCADE. 


Looking  toward  the  south  the  eye  catches  at  one 
grand  sweep,  the  basin  200  feet  wide  and  a  quarter  of 
a  mile  in  length,  lined  on  either  side  with  a  double  row 
of  maple  trees,  through  which  the  greensward  and  the 
white  cement  walks,  backed  by  the  palace  of  education 
on  the  one  hand  and  the  palace  of  electricity  on  the 
other,  form  a  picture  able  to  entrance  the  attention  of 
an  artist,  were  it  not  for  the  bewitching  Terrace  of 
States  beyond.  That  veritable  marble  crescent,  1.500 
feet  in  length,  so  far  transcends  all  other  details  of 
this  view  as  to  rivet  the  attention  of  every  eye.  Rising 
by  steps  and  slopes  from  the  water's  edge  to  a  height 
of  200  feet,  bearing  the  statue  of  peace  against  the 
hazy  blue  of  the  sky,  and  variegated  every  foot  of  the 
distance  with  gay  gold  and  silver  figures,  fountains 
and  flowers,  every  detail  blending  in  perfect  harmony 
with  every  other  part,  the  whole  tempered  with  falling 
floods  from  the  cascades  and  sprays  from  the  foun- 


territory  and  ends  in  the  Rotunda  restaurant  pavilions. 
The  water  falls  90  feet,  has  a  forward  flow  of  300  feet 
and  spreads  gradually  downward  from  45  feet  at  the 
top  to  350  feet  at  the  base.  As  one  gazes  on  this  beau- 
tiful structure  erected  at  a  total  cost  of  a  million  dollars 
he  experiences  a  keen  sense  of  regret  that  a  creation  so 
magnificent  must  endure  for  so  short  a  season. 

The  main  exhibition  palaces  cover  about  fourteen 
acres  of  ground  each,  with  the  exception  of  the  Agri- 
culture structure,  which  roofs  twenty-three  acres. 
These  gigantic  buildings  differing  in  style  of  architec- 
ture, but  all  agreeing  in  the  grandeur  of  massive- 
ness,  stretch  one  and  one-half  miles  west  from  the 
government  building.  The  best  idea  of  the  grounds 
may  be  had  from  a  ride  on  the  intramural  railway 
which  winds  and  turns  for  a  distance  of  several  miles 
in  and  out  among  the  trees  and  roadways,  while  the 
buildings  may  best  be  seen   from  a  ride  on  the  la- 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


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goon  about  8:30  P.  M.,  just  when  the  fountains  and 
electricity  have  been  turned  on.  The  accompanying  il- 
lustrations are  intended  to  give  the  reader  a  faint  idea 
of  the  splendor  of  the  greatest  achievement  of  the 
twentieth  century. 

*  *   * 

ILLINOIS    AT    THE    WORLD'S    FAIR. 

BY    EMILY   GRANT   HUTCH1NGS. 


Third  Brilliant  Military  Reception  at  the  State  Building — 

How   the    Prairie    State   Looms    up    Largely   in 

Mining    and    Agriculture. 

St.  Louis,  July  13. — The  third  of  a  series  of  bril- 
liant military  receptions  was  given  last  night  at  the 


home  on  the  hill  west  of  the  Cascades  is  almost  with- 
out an  exposition  rival.  However,  the  World's  Fair 
has  something  more  of  Illinois  than  social  attractions 
to  offer  to  the  visiting  public. 

The  advantage  of  nearness  to  the  seat  of  the  World's 
Fair,  which  made  possible  the  great  displays  of  Mis- 
souri, was  enjoyed  and  made  use  of  almost  as  fully 
by  the  sister  State  of  Illinois.  In  every  department 
of  the  Exposition  the  great  resources  of  Illinois  are 
shown. 

The  State  home  is,  with  possibly  two  exceptions,  the 
most  pretentious  of  all  the  State  buildings,  and  cer- 
tainly its  location  is  the  most  commanding.  From  the 
intramural  cars  this  great,  white  structure,  with  its 
generous  verandas  and  its  wealth  of  ornament,  can  be 


SECTION  OF  PALACE  OF  MACHINERY. 


Illinois  building  on  the  World's  Fair  grounds.  The 
Second  regiment,  with  General  Scott  at  its  head,  acted 
as  host,  and  the  receiving  line  included,  in  addition  to 
the  officers  of  the  regiment  and  their  wives,  the  two 
hostesses,  Mrs.  Craig  and  Mrs.  Coleman,  wives  of 
two  of  the  commissioners,  who  are  detailed  to  preside 
over  the  building  during  the  first  two  weeks  of  July. 

The  reception  was  tendered  to  Governor  and  Mrs. 
Yates,  and  it  afforded  an  opportunity  for  the  personnel 
of  the  Exposition  and  the  social  leaders  of  St.  Louis 
to  meet  the  Governor  of  Illinois.  In  the  course  of  the 
evening  elaborate  refreshments  were  served  and  the 
charming  affair  closed  with  a  grand  military  ball. 

As  a  center  of  social  gayety  the  magnificent  State 


seen  at  several  points.  It  is  not  on  the  Plateau  of 
States,  but  is  the  important  member  of  another  State 
group  on  The  Trail,  directly  west  of  the  Cascade  Gar- 
dens. Across  the  way  lie  the  beautiful  gardens  of 
Japan,  and  the  Lincoln  museum  is  directly  north. 

The  building  is  designed  along  the  lines  of  the 
French  Renaissance,  but  it  is  entirely  modern  in 
treatment.  For  instance,  in  the  relief  ornament  of 
frieze  and  cornice  the  fleur-de-lis  is  replaced  by  the 
ear-of-corn  motif.  This  is  Illinois  Renaissance  and  is 
something  more  than  cut  and  dried  ornament.  It  is 
symbolic  of  the  State. 

The  two  great  statues  that  greet  the  visitor  are 
those  of  Lincoln  and  Douglas.     The  grand  central  re- 


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ception  hall  is  done  in  tones  of  ivory,  green  and  gold, 
with  floor  of  tile.  The  medallion  center  of  the  tile  is 
the  great  seal  of  the  State.  At  one  side  of  the  broad 
staircase  is  a  raised  platform  on  which  stands  a  grand 
piano.  This  elevated  apartment  serves  as  a  reception 
and  music  room. 

Opening  from  the  great  hall  are  reading  rooms,  rest 
rooms  and  the  office  of  the  Commission.  On  the  floor 
above  are  the  suites  of  apartments  for  the  governor, 
the  Commission  and  the  officers  of  the  building.  The 
wives  of  the  Commissioners  serve  as  hostesses,  each 
one  doing  the  honors  for  a  period  of  ten  days  at  a 
time. 

One  of  the  most  noteworthy  features  of  the  Illinois 
State  home  is  its  verandas.  From  these  every  part 
of  the  Exposition  grounds  can  be  seen,  and  the  night 
view  is  especially  glorious.  The  building  was  de- 
signed by  Illinois  architects,  erected  by  Illinois  labor 
and  furnished,  for  the  most  part,  by  Illinois  firms. 
Hence  it  is  really  an  expression  of  the  State  it  repre- 
sents.    Its  cost  was  ninety  thousand  dollars. 

Aside  from  the  State  home,  the  most  remarkable  ex- 
hibits of  the  State  are  those  in  the  Palace  of  Mines 
and  Metallurgy  and  the  Palace  of  Agriculture.  In  the 
former  there  is  abundant  evidence  that  Illinois  is  pri- 
marily a  mining  State,  while  the  latter  wholly  contra- 
dicts this  notion.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  Illinois  ranks 
second  to  Pennsylvania  in  the  production  of  coal,  and 
its  quarries  yield  a  fine  quality  of  both  sand  and  lime 
stone.  The  booth  in  the  Palace  of  Mines  contains 
the  largest  block  of  soft  coal  ever  removed  from  a 
mine.  It  is  6x7x8  feet  in  size  and  was  hoisted  335 
feet  from  the  shaft.  In  the  coal  exhibit  there  are 
specimens  of  the  product  of  over  fifty  mines,  with 
chemical  analysis  showing  their  respective  heating  ca- 
pacity. 

There  is  a  large  display  of  the  clay  industry  of  the 
State,  including  bricks,  tile  and  pottery.  In  addition 
there  are  shown  splendid  specimens  of  flur  spar,  lead 
and  zinc.  If  these  varied  mineral  products  suffice  to 
convince  the  visitor  that  Illinois  is  primarily  a  mining 
State,  he  should  straightway  inspect  the  two  Illinois 
displays  at  the  west  side  of  the  grounds. 

In  the  Palace  of  Horticulture  there  is  an  extensive 
table  exhibit  of  fresh  fruit,  especially  of  apples  and  the 
more  ephemeral  fruits,  such  as  berries  and  plums. 
However,  the  best  display  of  all  is  in  the  Palace  of 
Agriculture.  In  the  cold  storage  case  in  the  dairy 
section  are  two  exceptionally  good  pieces  of  butter 
sculpture.  They  are  the  busts  of  those  two  great 
Illinoisans,  Lincoln  and  Grant. 

By  far  the  largest  and  most  significant  part  of  the 
exhibit  is  the  collection  of  samples  of  corn,  planted, 
cultivated  and  harvested  by  boys.  The  league  of  corn 
growers  now  numbers  nine  thousand  members  and 
there  are  eleven  hundred  prizes  each  year,  the   first 


being  five  hundred  dollars.  Each  boy  submits  ten 
ears  of  corn  from  his  own  patch,  together  with  an  ac- 
count of  his  experiences  and  methods.  The  prize  win- 
ners have  attached  their  photographs  to  the  little  pyra- 
mid of  ten  ears  of  fine  corn.  For  the  farming  indus- 
try of  the  State  nothing  could  possibly  be  better  than 
this  annual  contest.  The  boy  is  taught  to  look  upon 
the  scientific  cultivation  of  the  soil  as  something  worthy 
his  best  effort.  That  in  which  he  takes  a  personal 
pride  ceases  to  be  drudgery.  As  a  result  of  this  corn 
contest,  much  of  the  danger  that  all  the  farmer  boys 
will  seek  the  great  cities  may  be  averted,  and  it  is  well 
that  the  great  Exposition  should  encourage  the  boys 
in  their  worthy  enterprise. 

*  *  * 
A    DRINKING     FOUNTAIN     FOR     BIRDS. 


BY    D.    L.    MILLER. 

Outside  my  library  window,  just  at  the  edge  of  the 
lawn,  where  the  green  grass  gives  place  to  the  pansy, 
gladiolii  and  rose  beds  I  have  placed  a  drinking  foun- 
tain and  bathing  fountain  for  the  birds.  For  years, 
during  the  long,  hot,  thirsty  days  of  summer,  thou- 
sands of  God's  feathered  songsters  have  been  made 
glad  and  happy  at  the  fountain  of  fresh  water.  This 
summer  the  rains  have  been  scanty  and  the  birds,  not 
finding  water  in  the  usual  places,  come  in  great  num- 
bers to  drink  and  bathe.  I  sat  at  my  window  a  few 
days  ago  and  counted  sixty-four  birds  in  a  single  hour, 
and  at  another  time  ninety-five  in  the  same  length  of 
time  that  came  to  the  refreshing  fountain  to  quench 
their  thirst  and  to  take  a  plunge  bath  in  the  water. 
Among  the  number  I  observed  robins,  blue  jays,  black- 
birds, cat-birds,  sparrows,  flickers,  red-headed  wood- 
peckers, and  golden  robins. 

It  was  from  the  grass  at  the  side  of  the  drinking 
fountain  that  the  red-headed  woodpecker  so  industri- 
ously carried  away  the  corn  and  hid  it  in  nook  and 
cranny,  crack  and  crevice  wherever  a  secret  place 
could  be  found,  reported  in  the  Nook  several  years  ago. 

A  little  kindness  like  this  shown  the  birds  pays  a 
large  per  cent  in  satisfaction  that  comes  from  seeing 
them  enjoy  themselves.  My  presence  in  the  garden 
among  the  flowers  is  taken  as  a  matter  of  course  by 
them  and  they  have  become  quite  tame.  All  of  God's. 
creatures  are  susceptible  to  acquaintanceship  if  treat- 
ed kindly. 

The  drinking  fountain  is  nearly  under  the  shade  of 
an  old  Siberian  crab  apple  tree  of  great  size  and  dense 
foliage.  Where  the  heavy  boughs  part  a  platform  has 
been  placed  with  railing  around  it  and  here  one  may 
rest  in  the  shade  among  the  leaves  of  the  tree  and  come 
in  close  touch  with  the  nesting  birds.  In  a  box  close  at 
hand  a  couple  wrens  have  taken  up  their  abode  and 
on  a  bough  just  above  your  head  a  pair  of  robins  set  up 


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housekeeping  this  summer.  While  the  nest  building 
was  in  progress,  owing  to  the  prevailing  drought,  the 
birds  found  a  great  scarcity  of  mud  with  which  to 
daub  the  nest  to  make  it  secure.  Noticing  the  diffi- 
culty I  moistened  the  ground  with  water  beneath  my 
window.  The  birds  at  once  found  the  little  bed  of 
mortar,  ready  made,  and  soon  had  the  inner  coating 
of  mud  ready  to  receive  the  softer  layer  of  feathers 
and  down  for  the  tiny  eggs  that  soon  came. 

Later  in  the  season  one  of  the  young  birds  more  am- 
bitious than  the  rest  tried  his  wings  and  came  half 
flying  and  tumbling  to  the  ground.  Fearing  that  the 
youngster  might  fall  a  prey  to  the  cat  I  caught  it  with 
the  purpose  of  replacing  it  in  the  nest.  It  gave  a  sud- 
den cry  of  fear  and  alarm  and  instantly  the  parent 
birds  came  darting  at  me  with  loud,  shrill  cries.  The 
notes  of  alarm  sounded  by  the  old  birds  were  taken 
up  in  the  maples,  with  which  the  street  is  lined,  and 
in  half  a  minute  or  less  more  than  a  score  of  robins 
had  joined  in  their  protest  against  my  interference 
with  the  fledgling.  I  placed  it  on  the  ground  and  it 
hopped  to  a  place  of  safety  under  a  rosebush  near  at 
hand.  Up  to  this  time  there  had  been  complete  har- 
mony in  the  action  of  the  robins,  but  now  that  the 
young  bird  had  escaped  the  parents  changed  their 
tactics  and  made  it  apparent  that  they  no  longer  want- 
ed the  help  of  their  neighbors.  One  or  two  who  lin- 
gered were  promptly  driven  away. 

How  like  that  of  some  people,  I  thought,  was  the 
action  of  the  robins.  In  time  of  distress  and  trouble 
our  souls  melt  within  us  and  we  are  glad  for  help. 
But  when  the  storm  is  over  and  the  clouds  clear  away 
we  are  sufficient  unto  ourselves  and  even  forget  and 
show  ingratitude  to  our  helpers. 

Mt.  Morris,  III. 

COMMERCIAL    VALUE    OF    MUSIC. 


BY  ETHA  A.  EVANS. 

What  is  it  that  one  musician,  who  does  not  work 
any  harder,  composes  more  pieces,  or  in  other  ways 
burns  more  of  the  inspiration  oil,  is  accepted  more 
quickly  than  his  next  studio  neighbor  as  a  man 
of  transcendent  genius,  while  the  other  is  simply  ig- 
nored ? 

What  is  there,  in  short,  in  the  make-up  of  any 
man  that  induces  the  world  to  accept  him  at  his 
own  valuation? 

One  composer,  faithful  to  his  art,  goes  through 
this  life  unnoticed  and  perhaps  dies  in  poverty ; 
while  after  his  death  people  praise  his  works  and 
call  him  great.  Then  it  is  that  an  original  manu- 
script of  his  might  command  a  good  figure,  but  the 
faithful  old  master  is  past  enjoying  it.  Another 
man  will  compose,  say  one  or  two  pieces,  and  be 
placed  in  comparative  affluence. 


Although  popular  music  is  short  lived  it  brings 
large  returns  for  little  work. 

The  most  popular  song,  from  a  publisher's  stand- 
point, composed  within  the  last  twenty  years  was, 
"  After  the  Ball."  Six  hundred  thousand  copies 
were  sold  during  its  popularity  of  a  few  months. 
It  is  never  heard  now,  but  these  figures  indicate 
the  commercial  value  of  music  in  the  United  States. 

When  the  Italian  impresario  with  the  street  pi- 
ano, grinds  out  that  quaint  burst  of  melody,  "  Hia- 
watha," it  may  interest  one  to  know  that  four  hun- 
dred thousand  copies  have  been  sold.  Hiawatha 
was  the  reigning  success  of  last  summer  and  was 
bought  of  the  publishing  house  of  another,  after  it  had 
been  published  but  six  months,  for  ten  thousand  dol- 
lars. 

When  the  strains  of  "  In  the  Good  Old  Summer 
Time  "  greet  one's  ear  it  may  alleviate  one's  grief 
to  know  that  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  copies 
of  the  piece  were  disposed  of  before  the  public  was 
sated. 

"  Bedelia "  some  time  ago  was  valued  by  one 
music  publishing  company,  which  sold  it  to  another, 
at  twenty  thousand  dollars. 

"The  Gondolier,"  a  composition  popular  in  the 
west  for  the  last  five  months,  was  sold  for  five  thou- 
sand dollars  in  cash. 

A  popular  bass  solo  by  W.  H.  Petrie,  namely 
"  Asleep  in  the  Deep,"  sold  to  the  extent  of  two 
hundred  thousand  copies  and  brought  its  composer 
five  thousand  dollars. 

The  author  of  more  serious  and  what  is  intended 
to  be  "  great  literature  "  may  well  look  about  him 
in  amazement.  But,  he  may  argue,  does  art  also 
comprehend  the  requirements  of  the  landlord,  the 
butcher  and  the  baker?  If  so,  the  composer  of  so- 
called  popular  music  is  the  J.  Pierpont  Morgan  of 
the  studio. 

Songs  are  sold  to  jobbers  and  retailers  by  the 
publishers  at  seven  cents  to  fifteen  cents  each. 
Of  this  the  author  gets  from  four  to  seven  cents, 
according  to  his  standing  and  the  regard  the  pub- 
lisher may  have  for' his  future. 

An  author  drawing  four  cents  on  each  of  two 
hundred  thousand  copies  would  have  eight  thou- 
sand dollars  to  spend.  If  he  scored  such  a  success 
as  "  After  the  Ball  "  or  "  On  the  Banks  of  the  Wa- 
bash "  he  would  have  sixteen  to  twenty  thousand 
dollars. 

When  one  contrasts  the  returns  with  the  work 
done  it  seems  out  of  proportion.  It  is  said  that 
"  Dolly  Gray  "  was  composed  in  three  hours.  "  Be- 
delia "  in  one  day. 

Compared  to  the  rewards  of  literary  efforts  these 
profits  are  enormous.  That  charming  historical 
novel,  "  When  Knighthood  was  in  Flower,"  by 
Chas.  Major,  whose  pen  name  is  Fdward  Caskoden. 


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was  the  product  of  a  year's  work  and  sold  about 
300,000  copies.  This  brought  the  author  something 
less  than  ten  cents  a  copy  and  yielded  $30,000  for 
the  work  of  a  year. 

A  book  such  as  "  Kim,"  on  which  Kipling  spent 
a  year,  netted  him  ten  thousand  dollars.  This  book 
sold  less  than  fifty  thousand  copies  and  Kipling  re- 
ceived a  royalty  of  ten  per  cent. 

Buford,  N.  Dak. 

-£•-:-•:• 

ON   TO    YOUR   JOB. 


BY  PROF.   C.  M.  JAMES. 

Nine-tenths  of  the  failures  in  this  world  are  due 
to  the  fact  that  people  are  not  prepared  to  meet 
their  battles  successfully.  They  hurry  through 
school,  if  through  at  all,  hustle  to  the  front,  anxious 
to  get  into  business,  and  choose  a  profession  on 
the  spur  of  a  moment  or  as  the  circumstances  seem 
to  dictate,  regardless  of  the  fact  that  they  are  whol- 
ly unprepared  for  it.  My  friends  in  this  condition, 
you  will  be  forever  handicapped  in  whatever  calling 
you  embark,  be  it  farming,  housekeeping,  or  exe- 
cuting great  commercial  enterprises,  if  you  do  not 
seek  to  acquire  a  considerable  amount  of  education ; 
yet  you  may  have  all  these  attainments  and  without 
common  sense  and  the  ability  to  do,  you  will  be  a 
failure. 

Though  you  speak  with  the  tongues  of  college 
professors  and  of  philosophers,  and  have  not  com- 
mon sense,  you  will  become  as  sounding  brass  or 
tinkling  cymbals. 

William  Hawley  Smith,  that  great  apostle  of  edu- 
cation and  preacher  of  righteousness  to  unregener- 
ate  schoolteachers,  tells  a  story  of  one  evening 
when  he  was  going  from  Chicago  to  Quincy,  111., 
to  deliver  a  lecture.  The  evening  was  cold  and 
rainy  and  the  night  dark,  and  as  he  was  hurrying, 
through  the  train  sheds  he  was  accosted  by  a  grimy- 
visaged  and  stalwart  Irish  gentleman.  He  had  on 
clothes  which  marked  him  as  one  of  the  engineers 
on  the  great  trains  that  go  out  from  that  city.  Up- 
on conversation  with  him  he  proved  to  be  an  old 
schoolmate  of  Mr.  Smith ;  he  begged  of  Mr.  Smith 
to  make  the  run  down  to  Quincy  in  company  with 
him.  The  invitation  was  accepted  and  his  friend 
found  him  a  comfortable  seat  in  the  engine  cab, 
and  when  the  signal  was  given  the  engineer  put 
his  hand  on  the  throttle  and  the  ponderous  machin- 
ery began  to  move.  Soon  they  were  passing 
through  the  company's  switch  yards,  guided  by  a 
hundred  signal  lights,  on  out  over  the  broad  prairies ; 
then  quietly  admonishing  the  fireman  to  "  feed  her 
up  a  little,"  he  turned  the  throttle  wide  open.  They 
flew  through  hamlets  and  then  rounded  curves. 
Now  he  turned  a  lever;  once  he  left  his  seat  and 


tightened  up  a  tap  which  he  said  might  have  de- 
railed the  whole  train  had  it  been  lost. 

Upon  a  given  signal,  wholly  unintelligible  to  Mr. 
Smith,  the  engineer  side-tracked  the  train  and  in  ex- 
actly three-fourths  of  a  minute  a  train  going  in  the 
opposite  direction  whirled  by.  In  three  hours  and 
fifty  minutes  they  arrived  at  Quincy,  111.,  a  distance 
of  225  miles.  Mr.  Smith  asked  his  friend  to  come  to 
his  lecture  that  night,  to  which  he  consented,  and 
Mr.  Smith  hurried  on  with  his  committee  to  meet 
his  engagement.  A  vast  throng  had  assembled  and 
he  lectured  on  "  Education."  He  tried  to  show 
what  it  included  and  what  a  failure  we  would  make 
in  case  we  were  deficient  in  some  of  the  subjects  of 
the  curriculum.  In  the  course  of  his  remarks  he 
tried  to  give  a  definition  of  an  educated  man.  He 
said,  "  An  educated  man  is  one  in  whom  all  the 
faculties  of  the  individual  are  harmoniously  and 
systematically  developed." 

After  the  lecture,  as  he  was  passing  out  through 
the  vestibule,  he  was  again  accosted  by  his  old  friend 
and  schoolmate,  who  said,  "  An'  Billy,  that  was  a 
foin  lecture  of  yours,  but  I  am  thinking  I  can  give 
you  a  definition  of  an  educated  man  that  will  beat 
yours."  Mr.  Smith  told  him  to  proceed.  "  Well 
sir,  Billy,  an  educated  man  is  one  who  is  on  to  his 
job." 

So,  my  young  friends,  we  would  have  you  be  on 
to  your  job.  That  Irishman  may  not  have  known 
how  to  extract  the  cube  root  of  a  given  number, 
but  he  did  know  how  to  run  an  engine,  and  have 
common  sense  enough  to  apply  it,  to  gain  the  side- 
track safely  and  allow  the  lightning  express  to 
pass,  and  lose  the  least  possible  amount  of  time. 
The  engineer  may  not  have  been  able  to  tell  the 
difference  between  a  participial  adjective  and  a 
participle  with  the  use  of  adjectives,  but  he  was 
able  to  make  a  very  close  discrimination  in  the  rat- 
tle of  his  machinery  which  told  him  of  a  loosened 
tap,  which  if  neglected  might  have  hurled  a  score  of 
lives  into  eternity. 

An  old  Arabic  legend  tells  the  story  of  a  wise 
people  who  lived  in  the  valley  of  Vir.  Understand- 
ing the  influence  of  a  wise  leader,  they  had  long 
desired  to  have  a  king  whom  the  beasts  would  fol- 
low, the  sun  worship,  the  waters  obey  and  the  peo- 
ple love.  Long  years  of  search  had  failed  to  reveal 
to  them  a  man  of  the  desired  kind.  One  day  Rai- 
ma, their  wisest  sage,  went  up  into  a  mountain  to 
pray  to  the  gods  for  the  long-wished-for  king.  Aft- 
er offering  a  prayer  he  arose  to  descend  the  moun- 
tain, when  there  came  toward  him  a  man  clad  in 
the  native  garb  of  the  forests.  The  man  was  fol- 
lowed by  a  lion  on  which  were  sores.  As  the 
strange  man  accosted  Kalma,  the  lion  licked  the 
stranger's  hands,  and  immediately  the  sores  were 


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healed.  Pleased,  at  least,  to  find  a  man  whom  the 
beasts  would  follow,  Kalma  asked  permission  to 
visit  the  stranger's  house.  Following  a  winding 
mountain  path  they  came  upon  a  cleft  of  rocks  on 
which  was  built  a  log  cabin,  into  which  apparently 
no  sunlight  had  ever  shed  its  golden  rays.  As  the 
two  men  entered  the  light  shone  in  every  crevice 
of  the  rude  structure  and  even  the  knots  changed 
into  the  brilliancy  (?)  of  diamonds. 

The  stranger  then  took  Kalma  farther  up  the 
mountain  where  he  showed  him  a  silvery  lake,  rest- 
ing pleasantly  between  two  great  mountains.  The 
strange  man  told  Kalma  that  once  no  lake  occupied 
this  place  and  that  only  a  stream  of  water  flowed 
down  the  recess.  One  day  he  observed  a  rock  far 
up  the  mountain  side,  which  if  placed  at  the  point 
where  the  stream  flowed  out  from  between  the 
two  mountains,  would  effectually  dam  in  the  wa- 
ters and  produce  a  great  lake.  He  accordingly  ac- 
complished his  work  and  the  lake  was  the  result. 
Whenever  the  people  of  the  valley  below  were  suf- 
fering from  drought,  he  pushed  the  rock  aside  and 
permitted  some  of  the  water  to  flow  down  and  water 
the  lowlands. 

Kalma  shouted  in  triumph:  "I  have  found  the 
man  for  whom  we  have  been  so  long  searching. 
For  I  have  seen  the  beasts  follow  him,  the  sun  break 
the  opaque  denseness  of  the  fogs  in  its  effort  to 
worship  him.  I  have  seen  the  waters  compelled  to 
obey  his  command,  and  I  know  the  people  in  the 
valley  have  cause  to  love  him.  Come,"  he  said, 
"  and  be  crowned  our  king." 

Therefore  be  strong,  valiant,  observant ;  be  ready, 
prepared,  willing;  be  "  on  to  your  job."  The  world 
is  looking  for  leaders ;  thousands  are  ready  to  fol- 
low. Do  your  part  well;  compel  the  world  to  ad- 
mire you  and  your  accomplishments  while  you  are 
here,  and  miss  you  when  you  are  gone.  Be  "  on  to 
your  job." 

Fairfield,  Ind. 

♦   ♦   «$* 

ARIZONA    CACTUS    FARM. 


A  mile  south  of  Phoenix,  close  to  the  usually  dry 
channel  of  Salt  River,  is  one  of  the  oddest  farms  in 
America.  It  is  planted  to  nothing  but  cactus,  of  every 
form  found  within  Arizona.  Each  kind  is  cultivated 
under  the  same  conditions  that  prevail  upon  its  native 
heath,  to  as  great  an  extent  as  is  possible,  and  most  of 
them  thrive  well  under  the  hot  skies  of  southern  Ari- 
zona, cared  for  by  experts. 

The  main  owner  of  the  farm  is  Dr.  R.  E.  Kunz,  a 
college-bred  German  scientist,  who  has  taken  up  the 
study  of  cacti  and  their  cousins  as  his  life  work.  A 
physician,  he  has  particularly  studied  the  plants  for  the 
possibility  of  securing  products  valuable  in  medicine. 
And  the  utilitarian  side  has  appealed  to  him  in  other 


ways  and  he  knows  the  plants  wherefrom  come  good 
fruit,  those  that  bear  good  water  for  the  thirsty  desert 
traveler  and  those  useful  to  the  architecture  of  the  ab- 
original housebuilder.  Arizona  has  become  the  source 
of  supply  for  cactus  for  most  all  the  botanical  gardens 
of  the  world,  and  this  demand  for  plants  has  increased 
till  a  lucrative  industry  has  arisen  from  what  would 
seem  to  the  uninitiated  one  of  the  most  unpromising 
floral  fields  of  the  world. 

The  most  prominent  of  the  cacti  of  the  garden  is 
the  saguaro.  It  is  one  of  the  landmarks  of  the  deserts. 
Its  large  white  flowers  cover  the  end  of  everv  branch 
in  April  and  May,  followed  by  a  greenish  yellow  fruit, 
which,  when  it  bursts,  discloses  a  scarlet  pulp  filled 
with  black  seeds.     This  is  very  nutritious. 

Another  species  of  far  greater  use,  if  not  attraction, 
is  cereus  thurberi  or  pitaya  of  the  natives,  which  was 
named  after  the  late  Dr.  George  Thurber.  editor  of  the 
American  Agriculturist  of  New  York.  Its  northern 
limit  is  115  miles  from  Phoenix  in  a  southwesternly 
direction,  and  extends  into  Sonora  southward.  The 
flower  is  white,  nocturnal  and  smaller  than  that  of  the 
saguaro. 

The  fruit  of  this  species  is  of  delicious  taste,  and  for 
months  is  the  support  of  tribes  of  Indians,  who  then 
feast  upon  it.  The  pulp  is  also  dried  for  future  use, 
and  a  syrup,  as  well  as  an  intoxicating  liquor,  is  made 
from  the  fresh  fruit.  The  Yaquis,  Papagoes  and 
Pimas  largely  subsist  on  the  fruit  of  this  cactus.  The 
stems  of  this  cactus  grow  from  6  to  20  feet  high. 

Perhaps  the  queerest  cactus  of  all  America  is  Cereus 
greggii  of  Arizona,  known  to  Mexicans  as  Jara  )natra- 
ca.  Unlike  any  other  cactus,  it  has  a  very  large  tuber 
in  place  of  fibrous  roots,  and  it  resembles  a  great 
sugar  beet  below  the  surface,  weighing  from  two  to 
14  pounds.  The  stems  are  not  more  than  two  to  four 
feet  high,  as  thick  as  a  finger  and  covered  with  very 
short  pines.  The  tuber  is  medicinal,  used  externally  in 
Mexico.  It  is  the  Arizona  night-blooming  cereus, 
fragrant,  the  flower  white  and  large  as  a  saucer. 

Englemann's  hedgehog  cereus  known  as  Echino- 
ccreits  cngehnanni,  grows  in  clumps  of  from  two  to 
twenty  joints,  having  very  large  brownish  white  spines, 
from  one  to  one  and  one-half  feet  in  height.  Its  bril- 
liant rose-colored  flowers,  very  fragrant,  appear  in 
April,  and  by  the  latter  part  of  May  are  followed  by  a 
crimson  edible  berry  of  the  size  and  flavor  of  a  large 
strawberry. 

"Opintia"  is  the  prickly  pear  family,  of  which  we 
have  many  species  of  various  colors.  The  flat-jointed 
bear  in  some  cases  fine  fruit,  while  the  round-branched, 
often  twisted  like  a  rope,  have  a  woody  fruit  unfit  for 
food.  These  are  met  with  on  the  desert,  tableland  and 
mountains.  But  most  of  these  are  seen  together  culti- 
vated on  the  cactus  farm  near  Phoenix. — Cincinnati 
Enquirer. 


73° 


the:     inglenook. 


THE    BLACK    BELT. 


BY  ROSCOE  CONKLING  BRUCE. 


Not  long  ago  I  had  the  pleasant  duty  of  driving  Mr. 
N.  T.  Bacon  about  Macon  county.  Mr.  Bacon  is 
the  author  of  an  intensely  interesting  series  of  ar- 
ticles in  the  Yale  Review  upon  the  present  condi- 
tion of  Russia.  Though  specially  interested  in  the 
industrial  and  financial  status  of  Russia,  Mr.  Bacon 
makes  some  very  acute  observations  on  the  so- 
cial condition  of  the  Russian  peasant.  Before  com- 
ing to  Tuskegee  he  had  been  at  some  pains  to  as- 
certain, by  horseback  inspection,  the  status  of  the 
negro  peasantry  in  another  county  of  the  Alabama 
black  belt.  It  must  be  remembered  that  this  gentle- 
man is  a  trained  observer, — indeed  I  may  say  with- 
out inaccuracy  that  his  business  is  that  of  observ- 
ing; and  hence  he  observes  with  a  caution,  a  close- 
ness, a  justness,  that  are  quite  beyond  the  powers 
of  the  ordinary  man. 

"  The  negro  has  one  difficulty,"  says  Mr.  Bacon 
in  his  last  article,  "  from  which  the  ex-serf  is  free. 
There  is  no  difference  in  race  between  peasant  and 
noble,  so  that  the  peasant  has  no  social  obstacle  to 
overcome  to  rise  to  the  highest  position  in  the  state, 
if  he  has  the  ability  and  energy ;  while  the  faintest 
trace  of  negro  blood  condemns  the  individual  in 
our  country  to  social  ostracism.  But  even  this 
seems  to  be  turning  to  the  negro's  advantage. 

"  Its  first  effect  was  to  drive  the  negroes  together 
for  mutual  support.  Whereas,  at  the  close  of  the 
war,  they  were  fairly  well  distributed  over  the  rich- 
er parts  of  the  South,  they  have  drifted  together 
so  that  many  counties  show  now  over  eighty  per 
cent  of  the  population  colored.  They  have  been 
most  degraded  where  the  whites  are  fewest,  the 
remnant  being  mainly  Jewish  merchants  who  were 
exploiting  the  negroes  most  usuriously,  as  the  Jew- 
ish middlemen  have  done  with  the  peasants  of  Rus- 
sia. But  three  new  features  have  lately  developed 
which  cooperate  to  improve  the  situation.  First,  an 
improved  demand  for  labor  has  led  the  planters  to 
improve  the  quarters,  so  that  the  scandal  of  the 
one  room  cabin  for  a  whole  family  is  slowly  passing 
away.  Second,  the  concentration  has  made  the  ne- 
groes easier  to  reach,  and  the  industrial  missions 
are  beginning  to  exert  an  influence  all  the  more 
powerful  because  nominally  they  do  not  aim  at  the 
negroes'  morals  or  religion,  but  only  to  improve  his 
temporal  state.  These  institutions  are  making  the 
negroes'  path  easier  in  enough  neighborhoods  to 
affect  the  general  average  sensibly.  The  region 
around  Tuskegee  is  notably  less  degraded  than 
similar  districts  fifty  miles  away.  Its  radius  is  plain 
for  at  least  ten  miles.  The  number  of  one-room 
cabins  for  that   distance  is  very  small,  and   many 


farmers  have  patent  seeders  and  other  simple  ma- 
chinery, and  they  are  fairly  provided  with  cattle. 
There  is  scarcely  a  white  farmer  in  this  district." 

This  relatively  prosperous  condition  of  the  negro 
peasantry  in  the  neighborhood  of  Tuskegee  Insti- 
tute is  unmistakable,  and  is  again  and  again  re- 
marked by  persons  who  have  some  standard  of  com- 
parison. The  school  raises  the  level  of  life  in  this 
community  not  only  by  the  well-known  farmers' 
conferences,  of  which  I  shall  speak,  but  also  indi- 
rectly by  enrolling  young  men  and  women,  and  boys 
and  girls  from  the  surrounding  district.  Just  a  few 
evenings  ago  I  happened  to  be  driving  through  a 
neighboring  plantation,  when  to  my  delight  I  heard 
in  an  old  unreconstructed  cabin  some  little  children 
singing  songs  which  they  had  learned  at  the  gra- 
cious kindergarten  "  ovah  thah  to  de  No-ormal," 
and  with  the  little  songs  those  children  took  home, 
I'm  sure,  something  of  the  sweet  spirit  of  the  kin- 
dergarten. 

Thirteen  Annual  Farmers'  Conferences  have 
been  held  at  Tuskegee,  and  at  the  twelfth  some 
statistical  data  were  gathered.  The  total  number 
of  persons  attending  that  session  was  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  1,500,  and  of  these  the  enumerators 
were  able  to  register  503,  of  whom  150  were  fe- 
males. The  purpose  of  the  conference  is,  of  course, 
to  come  at  the  heads  of  families ;  the  conference  is 
a  means  of  utilizing  the  insight  of  the  shrewdest 
of  these  older  men  and  women  for  the  benefit  of 
all,  and  of  impressing  the  stupid  and  shrewd  alike 
with  modern  ideas  upon  farming,  and  wholesome 
views  of  life  and  living.  Fifty  per  cent  of  the  per- 
sons registered  were  male  heads  of  families,  and 
333  were  between  twenty  and  forty-nine  years  of 
age,  inclusive.  Some  eighty-two  per  cent  of  the 
503  persons  were  born  in  Alabama  and  Georgia,  and 
to-day  eighty-six  per  cent  of  them  live  in  Alabama. 
Almost  every  county  in  Alabama  was  represented. 

The  statistics  of  conjugal  condition  show  rather 
plainly  that  the  males  in  this  group  of  persons  marry 
relatively .  late,  that  is  to  say,  comparison  with  cer- 
tain other  groups  of  negroes  show  this.  Sandy 
Spring,  Maryland,  and  Farmville,  Virginia,  have  been 
studied  intensively  by  experts,  working  under  the 
United  States  Bureau  of  Labor,  and  the  negro  males 
in  those  two  communities  marry  appreciably  earlier 
than  the  males  of  the  Tuskegee  conference.  I  am 
clearly  of  the  opinion  that  a  higher  development  of 
thrift  accounts  for  this  postponement  of  marriage.  It 
marks  a  development  of  foresight  and  self-control. 
Out  of  ninety-seven  women  of  marriageable  age, — 
fifteen  years  and  over, — there  were  seventy-nine  moth- 
ers, to  whom,  up  to  date,  357  children  had  been  born ; 
and  seventy-six  per  cent  of  the  children  were  living. 
In  connection  with  this  it  is  important  to  note  that 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


731 


the  number  of  children  is  small  enough  to  indicate 
prudence,  while  large  enough  not  to  be  available  as 
an  illustration  of  race  suicide.  President  Roosevelt 
certainly  should  not  feel  injured  because  the  ladies 
of  the  conference  had  an  average  of  4.52  children. 
A  very  important  matter  is  the  fact  that  so  large 
a  percentage  of  the  children  are  living.  Of  a  sim- 
ilar group  of  268  children,  counted  at  Cinclare  and 
Calumet,  in  Louisiana,  only  57.5  per  cent  were  liv- 
ing, as  against  76.4  per  cent  of  the  conference  chil- 
dren. While  the  conference  women  are  fortunately 
less  prolific  than  those  of  Cinclare  and  Calumet,  the 
mortality  of  the  children  among  the  conference  peo- 
ple is  sensibly  smaller, — in  both  aspects  an  important 
advance  in  civilization. 

In  view  of  the  fact  that  for  so  many  years  the  con- 
ference has  utilized  every  source  to  stimulate  the  ne- 
groes in  the  black  belt  to  increase  the  efficiency  of 
the  rural  school,  the  answers  to  the  inquiry  as  to 
"  length  of  school  term  in  negro  school  nearest  your 
residence  "  are  interesting.  At  the  earlier  conference 
it  was  found,  in  the  words  of  Principal  Washington, 
"  that  in  what  is  known  as  the  black  belt  of  the  South 
the  schools  lasted  in  most  cases  but  three  months." 
The  statistics  of  this  recent  conference  happily  show 
that  at  the  school  available  to  eleven  per  cent  of  the 
309  families  the  terms  were  three  months  or  less ;  to 
14.9  per  cent  the  terms  were  three  months  or  less :  to 
per  cent  were  five  months ;  to  10.7  per  cent  six  months ; 
and  to  38.2  per  cent  more  than  six  months !  Now 
for  only  eleven  per  cent  of  the  schools  to  last  but 
three  months  and  38.2  per  cent  to  last  more  than  six 
months  registers  an  advance  in  civilization, — an  ad- 
vance largely  attributable  to  the  annual  Tuskegee  Ne- 
gro Conference.  At  the  tenth  conference  Mr.  W.  E. 
B.  DuBois  reached  the  conclusion  that  in  the  case 
of  over  twenty-five  per  cent  of  the  schools  the  patrons 
voluntarily  contributed  taxes,  which  lengthened  the 
term  from  one  to  two  months  each  year;  and  a  very 
careful  study  of  the  twelfth  and  thirteenth  confer- 
ence convinces  me  that  the  support  of  the  negro  rural 
schools  through  voluntary  local  taxation  is  increas- 
ingly popular  and  effective.  In  tragic  contrast  with 
these  opportunities  for  the  young  men  and  women, 
the  boys  and  girls  of  to-day,  is  the  naked  fact  that 
forty-two  per  cent  of  the  heads  of  families  answering 
the  question  have  had  in  all  their  lives  no  schooling  at 
all !  To  these  conference  people, — Mr.  Washington's 
children,  every  one, — I  would  apply  the  words  by 
which  Shakespeare  described  the  minutes  of  our  life, — 
"  In  ceaseless  toil  all  forward  do  contend." 

Director  Tuskegee  Institute,  Alabama. 
♦  ♦•* 

When  love  and  wisdom  drink  out  of  the  same  cup 
in  this  every-day  world,  it  is  the  exception. — Mine. 
Neckar. 


PRAYING    BY    MACHINERY. 


In  the  country  of  Thibet,  north  of  the  Himalaya 
mountains  is  to  be  found  a  people  who  are  martyrs 
of  folklore.  These  people  think  their  spiritual  life  is 
to  be  a.  continual  struggle  against  demons  which  are 
as  hard  to  conquer  as  the  mountain  passes  of  the 
Himalayas.  They  have  many  gods  to  whom  they 
pray  which  are  classified  according  to  rank  and  func- 
tion, and  each  one  has  a  special  name,  besides  they 
have  general  names.  For  instance  here  is  a  form  of 
one  of  their  common  prayers  in  general  terms :  "  To 
the  yellow  god,  black  god,  white  god,  and  the  green 
god,  please  kindly  take  us  all  up  with  you  and  do 
not  leave  us  unprotected,  but  destroy  our  enemies." 

In  order  to  pray  to  so  many  gods  about  so  many 
things  as  the  people  have  to  pray  in  a  superstitious  land, 
these  people  find  human  agencies  entirely  inadequate 
to  the  demand.  So  they  have  invented  a  little  wheel 
about  the  size  and  shape  of  a  pint  tin  cup.  except  that 
it  has  no  handle  on  like  a  tin  cup,  and  that  it  has  a 
cover  on  the  top  as  well  as  on  the  bottom.  Then  it 
has  a  wire  running  through  the  cup  from  top  to  bot- 
tom, and  on  the  end  of  this  wire  is  placed  the  handle. 
Then  on  the  top  of  the  cup  is  a  little  chain  about  three 
inches  long  on  which  is  fastened  a  heavy  metal  bulb. 
One  offering  prayers  takes  this  machine  in  his  right 
hand,  gives  it  a  little  simple  whirl  by  which  means 
the  bulb  is  started  in  a  circular  motion  around  the 
stand.  Each  revolution  is  one  prayer,  and  by  this 
method  one  may  offer  a  number  of  prayers,  and  it  is 
to  be  supposed  very  eloquent  ones  in  a  very  short 
time. 

It  seems  that  this  would  be  a  splendid  thing  for 
American  people  who  are  so  busy  that  they  do  not 
have  time  to  pray.  In  all  probability  they  would  be 
but  very  little  more  mechanical  than  these  prayers  that 
are  offered  here.  The  novel  feature  of  this  prayer 
wheel  which  the  people  of  Thibet  spend  much  of  their 
time  in  turning  is,  "  that  if  turned  the  wrong  way, 
everything  that  was  done  before  is  now  undone." 

Elder  D.  L.  Miller,  with  whom  many  of  the  Nookers 
are  acquainted,  visited  that  country  one  time  and  suc- 
ceeded in  procuring  one  of  these  Thibetan  prayer 
wheels.  When  coming  home  on  the  train,  and  while 
explaining  to  some  of  the  passengers  this  invention  of 
the  man  of  Thibet,  a  certain  gentleman  asked  to  have  it 
in  his  hands.  To  this  Brother  Miller  kindly  assented, 
and  after  the  gentleman  had  given  it  several  whirls  his 
wife  tauntingly  remarked,  "  Jim,  you  have  prayed 
more  in  the  last  two  minutes  than  you  have  done  before 
in  all  your  life."  While  this  was  given  in  a  jest  it 
meant  a  great  deal  to  Jim,  and  to  all  the  others  who 
were  listening. 

*  +   * 

Unbidden  guests  are  often  welcomest  when  they 
are  gone. — Shakespeare. 


732 


THE      INGLENOOK 


WHO   SENT  THE  DREAM? 


BY    MARY    P.    ELLENBERGER. 

It  was  settled.  All  the  plans  and  arrangements  for 
the  first  burglary  were  made. 

A  very  suitable  outfit  of  «ools,  consisting  of  crow- 
bars, chisels,  etc.,  were  safely  stowed  away  in  the  loft 
of  the  old  barn  in  one  of  Mrs.  Heath's  best  hemstitched 
pillowslips,  and  Dick  Heath,  who,  under  the  capable 
tutorship  of  Jack  Evans  was  fast  developing  into  a  wild, 
bad  boy,  crept  stealthily  up  the  stairs  to  his  small  but 
cozy  and  comfortable  room  to  bed.  He  felt  very  brave 
and  quite  grown  as,  standing  tip  toe,  he  touched 
the  low  ceiling  with  the  tips  of  his  long,  slim  fingers. 
True,  there  was  a  creepy  sensation  once  in  a  while  in 
the  region  of  his  spine,  but  pooh !  that  amounted  to 
nothing.  At  heart  Dick  was  not  really  a. bad  boy, 
but  he  had  read  quite  a  number  of  yellow  books,  with 
glaring  picture  covers,  and  his  brave  soul  cried  out 
to  him  for  an  opportunity  to  revel  in  heroic  deeds  of 
daring.  And  then  his  mother  was  dead  and  Dick 
was  only  sixteen,  and  felt  much  honored  by  the  de- 
cided preference  shown  him  by  Jack  Evans,  the  swag- 
gering bully  of  school  yard  and  street.  Jack  was 
eighteen,  his  father  was  by  far  the  richest  man  in  the 
village,  in  fact  was  considered  quite  a  merchant  prince 
when  his  new  brick  store  was  opened  to  the  public. 

Jack  was  deep,  vicious  and  cunning  and  as  great  a 
coward  as  ever  closed  teeth  over  vile  cigarettes  or 
stole  drinks  from  the  family  medicine  flask.  And 
when  with  ignoble  ingratitude  he  conceived  the  plan  of 
robbing  his  own  father's  store  Dick  Heath  occurred 
to  him  as  the  most  likely  accomplice  at  his  command. 

Dick  was  shocked  with  the  idea  at  first,  but  he  soon 
found  that  Jack  would  brand  him  with  cowardice  if  he 
refused,  and  as  Jack  explained,  "  If  we  are  caught, 
why  it's  nobody  but  pa,  and  he  would  never  expose 
-us,  and  besides  we're  not  going  to  be  caught,  we're 
too  sharp,"  with  a  shrewd  wink  and  a  well-met  slap 
on  Dick's  back.  Jack  was  to  tamper  with  a  window 
in  the  rear  of  the  store  room  when  secure  from  de- 
tection, and  they  were  to  make  their  entrance  into  the 
store  in  the  dead  of  night,  secure  a  new  suit  of  clothes, 
with  hat,  boots,  etc.,  for  each  of  them,  with  fifty  dol- 
lars apiece  and  a  supply  of  cigarettes  and  chewing 
tobacco  and  were  to  flee  to  a  place  unknown.  Every- 
thing was  to  be  done  in  skillful  haste. 

As  Jack  lay  down  in  his  clean,  white  bed  he  felt 
quite  a  hero  in  anticipation  of  the  great  and  daring 
deed.  He  had  scarcely  fallen  asleep  when  a  pebble 
struck  the  window  of  his  room  (this  being  the  signal 
agreed  upon),  he  sprang  from  the  bed,  struck  a  match 
and  let  it  flare  an  instant  before  the  window  in  answer 
to  Tack's  signal,  and  hastily  donned  his  clothing  which 


lay  near  to  hand  and  in  a  few  seconds  they  were  on 
their  way  to  the  store. 

It  was  a  small  job  to  open  the  window  with  which 
Jack  had  tampered,  secure  the  coveted  booty,  and  slip 
out  again,  when  to  Dick's  horror  he  heard  approach- 
ing footsteps  and  missed  Jack  from  his  side.  Jack  had 
the  money,  Dick  had  the  bundle  of  goods  which  he  in- 
stantly dropped.  He  sprang  forward;  he  was  light 
and  agile  and  ran  like  the  wind,  but  his  pursuers  kept 
hot  on  his  trail.  On  and  on  he  ran,  his  eyes  starting 
from  his  head,  his  hair  standing  on  end  in  terror,  the 
cold  air  like  ice  to  his  burning  lungs.  Nearer,  nearer, 
his  pursuers  came,  he  tried  to  cry  for  mercy,  his  tongue 
was  stiff,  his  blood  congealed  with  horror  at  his  ter- 
rible situation,  and  just  as  he  fell  staggering  against 
the  fence  his  palsied  limbs  refused  to  mount,  a  hand 
closed  about  his  weak  young  arm  with  a  grasp  of 
steel. 

"Oh!  oogh!" 

"  Dick  Heath,  in  the  name  of  all  that's  wonderful, 
what's  a  ailin'  you  ?  I  say  wake  up !  wake  up !  I  nev- 
er hearn  sech  goins  on  in  all  my  born  days,  turn  over 
and  lay  on  tother  side.  I  just  thought  when  I  saw 
you  a  takin'  the  third  help  of  fresh  sausage  for  your 
supper  that  you'd  have  bad  dreams  over  it.  I  declare 
I  thought  the  hul  house  wus  full  of  pesty  thieves." 

Now  Dick  had  always  felt  a  sort  of  contempt  for 
his  quiet  stepmother,  she  seemed  such  a  very  ordinary 
person  when  compared  with  the  heroines  of  the  sen- 
sational tales  he  had  read. 

But  when  he  became  fully  awake  and  saw  her  stand- 
ing calm  and  strong  by  his  bedside,  his  sentiments 
took  a  sudden  change.  Dick  had  always  been  con- 
sidered a  very  smart  boy,  but  there  in  that  moonlit 
room  he  did  the  brightest  thing  of  his  life  when  he 
threw  his  trembling  arms  about  his  stepmother's  neck 
and  with  his  face  hidden  on  her  shoulder  sobbed  out 
the  whole  shameful  story  of  his  temptation  and  his 
weakness. 

All  this  happened  twenty-five  years  ago.  There  is 
a  grave  in  an  obscure  corner  of  the  village  churchyard 
where  the  body  of  Jack  Evans,  exconvict,  after  a  life 
of  crime  was  laid  in  a  dishonored  grave  where  it  has 
long  since  returned  to  dust.  Each  Sabbath  the  simple 
village  folks  flock  to  the  little  church  to  drink  in  the 
sweet  and  holy  teaching  that  falls  from  the  lips  of 
their  gentle  pastor,  familiarly  and  lovingly  called 
"  Dick  Heath." 

Turney,  Mo. 

*:-   *   •> 

There's  sunshine  after  rain,   dear  friends, 

There's  sunshine  after  rain; 
And  twilight  comes  when  darkness  ends 

To  usher  day  again. 

*>    «$»    «|t 

Woman's  heart  is  still  an  unsolved  riddle. — Rivarol. 


THE      iNGLENOOK. 


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SERVICE. 


BY   LINA    M.    STONER. 

"  Good  evening,  Etta,  I'm  glad  to  see  you,  but  sorry 
to  find  you  in  poor  health ;  I  know  of  something 
that  will  bring  back  the  roses  to  your  cheeks  and 
make  you  strong  again."  "  O,  Etta  is  ready  and 
willing  to  go,"  said  Mother  Gray,  looking  at  her 
daughter  with  an  air  of  resignation.  "  But  she  has 
a  work  to  do,  and  we  all  should  want  to  live  as  long 
as  we  can — "  "  I  wonder  who  would  want  to  live 
in  this  sinful  world  !  "  replied  Etta,  with  a  dismal 
look  in  her  large,  blue  eyes.  Defeated  in  her  pur- 
pose the  visitor  changed  the  conversation  to  a  more 
agreeable  subject,  and  after  a  brief  call  she  left  the 
invalid  to  her  meditations.  Trained  from  early 
childhood  that  this  world  is  a  dark  and  dreary  vale, 
through  which  we  pass  to  joys  beyond ;  that  we 
owe  it  no  service,  that  the  highest  purpose  in  life 
is  a  bright  and  happy  ending,  that  the  sooner  the 
great  change  takes  place,  the  more  interesting  and 
impressive ;  living  in  such  an  atmosphere,  was  it 
strange  that  the  frail  flower  soon  faded  and  the 
work  she  should  have  done  was  left  for  other  hands 
to  do? 

"  I  want  to  be  an  angel, 

And  with  the  angels  stand," 

sang  a  little  boy  as  he  returned  from  Sunday  school. 
"Why  do  you  sing  that  song,  Albert?"  asked  his 
mother.  "  Because  I  want  to  be  an  angel,  O  moth- 
er, may  I,  can  I  not  be  one?"  The  mother  lovingly 
drew  her  child  to  her,  opened  her  Bible  and  read 
that  "  angels  are  ministering  spirits,  sent  forth  to 
minister  for  those  who  shall  be  heirs  of  salvation." 
"  It  is  better  for  you,  my  son,  to  want  to  be  a  man, 
a  noble,  useful  man ;  to  do  the  work  God  wants 
you  to  do,  to  be  an  heir  of  God  and  joint  heir  with 
Christ,  and  at  last  to  sit  down  with  Christ  upon 
his  throne,  this  is  far  better  than  to  be  an  angel." 
The  song  was  left  unsung,  but  a  lesson  was  learned 
that  has  not  been  forgotten. 

Was  it  wrong  for  Etta,  in  her  view  of  life,  to 
overlook  its  birds  and  flowers  and  see  but  its  sin 
and  woe?  Had  she  not  read  in  some  uninspired 
book  that  the  good  die  young?  Was  not  her  ear 
trained  to  catch  the  discordant  notes  of  earth,  while 
melodies  rich  and  beautiful  floated  by  unheeded? 
Was  it  strange  that  she  longed  to  see  the  glories  of 
life's  setting  sun  and  to  hear  the  harmony  of  ce- 
lestial music?  Was  it  wrong  for  the  little  boy  to 
want  to  be  a  bright  and  shining  angel,  his  brow  en- 
circled by  a  golden  crown,  his  hands  grasping  palms  of 
victory  ? 

Heaven  with  its  palms  and  crowns  and  ajigels  is 
a  reality,  a  most  inspiring  scene  to  him  who  is  in 
the  spirit  to  catch  a  glimpse ;  but  it  is  not  prepared 


for  dreamers  who  would  plume  their  wings  and  soar 
from  cares  that  belong  alone  to  them  ;  it  is  not  for 
selfish  beings  who  withhold  the  cooling  draught 
from  famishing  souls  and  pant  for  crystal  streams 
in  whose  waters  they  have  no  right  to  lave.  It 
is  for  little  ones  on  whose  robes  are  no  earth  stains ; 
it  is  for  willing  feet  that  have  been  swift  on  er- 
rands of  love  and  mercy,  be  their  journey  long  or 
short ;  for  warriors  who  have  fought  and  bled 
but  whose  palms  have  been  cut  upon  life's  battle- 
field. 

My  dear  young  friends,  look  up.  Heaven  with 
its  unspeakable  joys  is  just  above  the  clouds ;  look 
around,  earth  with  its  golden  harvest  is  ready  for 
the  sickle ;  look  to  yourselves,  to  the  temples  which 
bear  the  stamp  of  the  divine  Image,  then  pause  and 
listen  to  the  words  of  the  venerable  apostle  of  the 
Gentiles :  "  I  beseech  you  therefore  brethren,  by  the 
mercies  of  God,  that  ye  present  your  bodies  a  liv- 
ing sacrifice,  holy,  acceptable  unto  God,  which  is 
your  reasonable  service." 

Ladoga,  hid. 

•?•  ♦  ♦ 

COTTON    PROSPECTS. 

Preparations  are  beginning  to  be  made  for  the  new 
crop,  but  these  have  not  progressed  very  far.     There 
is  some  talk  of  an  increase  in  acreage  this  season,  but  it 
is  doubtful  if  there  will  be  any  increase  in  the  North- 
ern Alabama  district,  because  of  the  profound  scarcity 
of  labor.     This  has  been  the  serious  handicap  in  the 
past,  and  it  will  probably  not  be  without  its  influence 
this  season,  because  of  the  fact  that  the  large  amount" 
of  money  the  negroes  have  made  as  a  result  of  the 
high  prices  of  the  staple  has  rendered  them  largely 
unfit   for   the   work    in   hand.     Some   of   the    largest 
planters  here  report  the  leaving  of  large  numbers  of 
their  tenants  because  of  this  fact,  and  it  is  the  general 
sentiment  here  that  the  labor  will  be  harder  to  control 
this  year  than  ever  before.     Furthermore,  there  is  not 
much  land  available  for  cotton  that  has  not  already 
been  seeded  the  past  two  or  three  years.     The  planters 
have  done  their  best  to  increase  the  production  of  cot- 
ton  in   accordance   with   the   increasing  needs  of   the 
spinners  of  the  world,  and  they  have  exhausted  almost 
every  expedient  in  their  efforts  in  this  direction,   in- 
cluding the  planting  of  practically  all  of  their  available 
land.     That  they  have  failed  is  due  to  nature  and  not 
themselves.     With   favorable  conditions  the  last  year 
acreage  would  have  produced  12,500,000  bales  without 
difficulty,  and  with  even  a  similar  acreage  to  that  of 
last  year  the  largest  crop  in  the  history  of  the  United 
States  can  be  produced  under  favorable  climatic  con- 
ditions. 

*  •:•  * 

Next  to  dressing  for  a  rout  or  ball,  undressing  is  a 
woe. — Byron. 


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MAKING    A    MARK. 


There  can  be  little  doubt,  if  an)',  that  mottoes  and 
proverbs  have  their  effect  on  one's  life.  We  often 
hear  it  said  that  these  mottoes  have  become  the  active 
principle  in  the  character  of  the  one  who  cherishes 
them.  This  is  true  to  a  greater  or  lesser  extent,  and 
yet  it  is  not  always  so ;  sometimes  there  is  no  appre- 
ciation of  them  in  their  fullness.  There  is  an  adage 
that  has  been  going  the  rounds  from  the  graduate  of 
the  common  school  until  it  has  reached  the  professor 
of  the  university,  that  we  should  "  set  our  mark  high 
and  strive  to  reach  it."  And  a  few  men  in  this  world, 
whether  the)'  know  of  this  motto  or  not,  have  done 
well.  Some  have  failed ;  but,  after  all,  isn't  it  a  fact 
that  everybody  makes  his  own  mark  in  life? 

If  you  climb  to  the  top  of  Washington  Monument 
you  will  find  the  pencil  marks  of  somebody  who  tried 
to  make  his  mark  high.  There  are  hundreds  and  hun- 
dreds of  names  written  all  over  these  white  marble 
walls,  although  it  is  strictly  forbidden. 

The  same  thing  is  true  in  Paris,  France.  One  may 
climb  the  dizzy  heights  of  985  feet  of  Eiffel  Tower, 
only  to  find  that  some  one,  who  wanted  the  people 
to  know  he  had  been  there,  penciled  his  name  there- 
upon. 

Mammoth  Cave,  Kentucky,  the  Natural  Bridge,  of 
Virginia,  the  Jug  Rock,  of  Indiana,  and  a  hundred 
other  places  bear  marks  of  those  people  who  are  mak- 
ing their  mark  in  life.  Not  long  since  we  saw  a 
man  sit  right  down  in  the  middle  of  a  mud  road ;  he 
left  his  mark.  It  would  not  take  a  philosopher  to 
know  that  a  man  who  is  free  from  intoxication  would 


not  do  a  thing  like  that;  so  his  mark  meant  some- 
thing. 

Last  winter  you  remember  seeing  some  of  the  boys 
going  along  the  street  and  emptying  their  mouths, 
which  were  full  of  amber,  out  on  the  beautiful  white 
snow;  of  course  they  made  their  mark,  which  meant 
something,  and  it  meant  a  great  deal. 

A  few  days  ago  a  man  walked  down  the  street  and 
attracted  our  attention.  He  had  a  large  rosy  nose. 
This  mark  had  not  been  placed  there  suddenly,  but 
by  years  of  premeditated  effort.  It  was  a  mark  of 
years  of  toil  and  thousands  of  dollars,  but  he  had 
made  his  mark  in  life.  Some  people  do  not  make  a 
mark  until  after  they  are  dead  and  their  friends  make 
it,  by  chiseling  a  rosy  epitaph  on  their  tombstone. 

And  still  there  is  a  class  of  mark-making  that  we 
have  not  mentioned  that  is  by  no  means  of  lesser  val- 
ue. Some  characters  in  the  world  have  the  power  to 
make  an  invisible  and  yet  indefaceable  mark  upon  the 
hearts  and  minds  of  others.  Mt.  Vernon  and  Wash- 
ington's monument  may  mean  a  great  deal  to  the  world, 
but  the  character  of  the  father  of  our  country  means 
more.  The  fact  that  Abraham  Lincoln  was  president 
of  the  United  States  and  that  he  was  a  rail  splitter 
may  be  items  that  are  precious  to  the  historian,  but 
the  fact  that  Abe  Lincoln  had  an  undaunted  character 
is  what  makes  him  great  in  the  hearts  of  the  people. 

Harriet  Beecher  Stowe  has  not  made  her  mark  be- 
cause she  wrote  a  book — thousands  of  people  have 
written  books — but  because  she  has  caused  thousands 
of  people  to  think,  therefore  she  has  made  her  mark 
that  cannot  be  effaced. 

Arnold  Winkleried  stood  before  his  countrymen  in 
the  gap  of  the  Alpine  mountains  and  sacrificed  his 
life  for  his  country.  Other  men  have  done  the  same, 
only  this  hero  did  it  at  a  time  when  his  country  de- 
manded it,  and  it  set  Switzerland  free,  and  it  is  free 
to-day.  His  life's  blood,  spattered  on  the  rugged  Al- 
pine heights,  left  a  mark.  The  beautiful  grassy  car- 
pet of  nature  may  have  carelessly  covered  over  the 
ugly  sight,  yet  in  the  hearts  of  the  people  of  Swit- 
zerland Arnold  Winkleried  still  lives. 

In  Bethlehem  of  Judea,  in  a  little,  lonely  cavern  at 
the  foot  of  the  mountain,  is  an  old  stable,  and  in 
front  of  one  of  these  mangers  is  a  little  silver  star 
planted  in  the  floor  of  the  solid  rock.  This  is  said  to 
be  the  spot  where  Jesus  Christ  was  born.  It  may 
be  the  exact  spot  and  it  may  be  a  few  feet  away  from 
there;  God  knows.  Jesus  Christ  did  not  make  that 
mark;  but  by  the  sinless  spotless  life  he  lived  he 
has  made  a  mark  in  the  lives  of  millions  who  will 
be  loyal  to  him  until  the  messenger  of  death  over- 
takes them. 

Dear  Nooker,  we  stand  in  favor  of  making  a  mark ; 
but  let  us  consider  where  the  mark  is  to  be  made.  Let 
us  not  be  satisfied  with  chiseling  our  marks  in  mar- 


"THE-      INGLENOOK. 


735 


ble,  and  on  tablets  of  memory,  or  the  pages  of  history, 
which  soon  yield  to  the  forces  of  nature,  but  let  us 
establish  our  sacred  memories  in  the  hearts  of  men. 
And, 

"  To  live  for  those  who  love  us 

Whose  hearts  are  kind  and  true, 
For  the  heaven  that  smiles  above  us, 
And  the  good  that  we  can  do." 

*    *    *£ 
LITTLE    THINGS. 

"  Little  drops  of  water, 
Little  grains  of  sand. 
Make  the  mighty  ocean 
And  a  pleasant  land." 

This  little  poetical  gem  has  been  given  to  the 
world  by  some  one  who  has  been  thinking  about 
the  value  of  little  things.  But  by  the  majority  of 
people  little  things  are  not  given  the  prominent  place 
they  should  occupy.  Do  we  realize  that  it  is 
the  two-cent  postage  stamps  that  build  our  govern- 
ment post  offices,  pay  the  salaries  of  thousands  of 
mail  carriers  and  postmasters,  rural  route  men,  and 
train  officials,  and  that  it  is  the  five-cent  street  car 
fare  that  builds  thousands  of  miles  of  track  like  spi- 
der webs  in  our  cities  ?  The  amount  of  money  that 
is  collected  in  one-cent  slot  machines  surpasses  be- 
lief. Most  of  the  missionary  money  that  supports  the 
soldiers  of  the  army  of  Christ  on  foreign  shores  is 
obtained  by  the  penny  collection.  Several  large  pub- 
lishing houses  in  the  United  States  are  running,  print- 
ing Sunday-school  supplies  because  of  the  penny  col- 
lections. Miles  and  miles  of  earth,  thousands  of  feet 
deep,  measurements  that  go  beyond  our  calculation, 
show  that  all  this  earth  of  ours  is  made  up  of  single 
atoms  of  dirt.  The  great  ocean  which  is  supposed 
to  be  over  five  miles  deep  is,  after  all,  in  reality  made 
up  of  single  drops  of  water.  Dollars  are  made  of 
cents,  hours  of  minutes,  a  man's  life  of  a  few  days. 
a  book  is  made  of  many  thoughts,  etc.  In  every  av- 
enue of  life  we  find  that  large  things  are  only  com- 
posites, and  it  is  the  little  things  that  are  prominent. 
Many  of  these  little  things  compose  large  ones. 

Not  much  can  be  done  in  a  minute ;  not  much  can 
be  bought  for  a  penny ;  not  much  can  be  accomplished 
with  a  single  drop  of  water,  and  yet  a  sufficient  num- 
ber of  these  drops  will  turn  a  mill ;  a  sufficient  num- 
ber of  grains  of  sand  will  make  a  seashore ;  a  sufficient 
quantity  of  money  will  buy  almost  any  possession  on 
earth ;  a  sufficient  number  of  minutes,  and  you  have 
time  enough  to  write  a  history  of  the  world.  And  so 
it  is  with  our  lives, — little  deeds,  like  thoughts,  little 
lessons  learned,  little  duties  performed  go  to  make  up 
the  great  character  of  our  lives. 

A  little  gotten  here  and  there  from  the  flower  bed 
of  truth  and  beauty,  and  we  have  the  bouquet  of  a 
gentle  disposition.     A  little  gathered  here  and  there 


from  the  fountain  of  knowledge,  and  we  have  a  use- 
ful education.  A  little  accomplished  here  and  there, 
and  we  have  a  life  that  when  done  will  be  a  monu- 
ment everlasting,  valuable  not  only  to  the  one  who 
has  lived  that  life  but  to  those  who  came  under  its 
influence. 

<'  ♦  -:* 

TIP. 


In  all  probability  a  great  many  of  the  Nook  fam- 
ily remember  a  few  years  ago  about  one  of  the  larg- 
est elephants  in  the  world  in  New  York  City,  by  the 
name  of  "  Tip."  He  became  so  unruly  that  his  keep- 
ers could  hardly  manage  him,  and  his  bad  habits  and 
bad  characteristics  grew  in  him  until  he  had  to  be 
killed  to  keep  him  from  killing  the  men,  as  he  had 
killed  several  in  his  lifetime.  The  poor  fellow  was 
induced  to  eat  some  bread  that  has  been  loaded  with 
poison,  and  in  a  few  minutes  he  was  deprived  of  all 
the  power  he  ever  had  to  kill.  It  is  to  be  supposed 
that  the  majority  of  people  were  glad  to  hear  of  his 
destruction,  because  of  the  danger  of  life  in  letting 
him  live. 

But  how  inconsistent  it  is  for  us  to  rejoice  over 
the  destruction  of  such  a  monster  that  is  so  great  an 
evil  to  mankind,  when  yet  right  beneath  our  doors 
are  monsters  killing  hundreds  and  thousands  of  our 
best  men,  and  we  let  them  live  from  year  to  year ; 
let  them  go  unchained,  and  not  only  that,  but  we  le- 
galize their  authority  to  kill  people  just  as  long  as 
they  "  divvy  up."  We  say  we  are  sorry  that  they  kill 
people,  and  we  say  we  are  sorry  that  the  saloon  is 
in  our  midst,  and  it  annoys  us  so  much,  and  causes 
tears  to  come  in  our  eyes  sometimes  when  we  pray, 
to  hear  the  orphans  and  widows  cry,  and  we  sincere- 
ly pity  the  fellow  with  a  lost  character,  lost  proper- 
ty, lost  home,  and  the  loss  of  the  hope  of  heaven. 
We  teach  that  it  is  wrong  to  murder  when  a  man 
beats  your  brains  out  with  an  ax  or  a  club,  but  this 
legal  way  of  murdering  arouses  no  suspicion  on  our 
part.  It  is  one  of  these  monsters  that  is  fastening 
himself  upon  us  like  the  jelly  fish  to  the  bottom  of 
the  ship,  or  like  the  leech  fastening  itself  to  the  body, 
and  is  a  regular  blood-sucker  to  the  financial,  social 
and  spiritual  man. 

Reverence  the  highest,  have  patience  with  the  low- 
est. Let  this  day's  performance  of  the  meanest  duty 
by  thy  religion.  Are  the  stars  too  far  distant,  pick  up 
the  pebble  that  lies  at  thy  feet,  and  from  it  learn  the 
all. — Margaret  Fuller  Ossoli. 


For  there  was  never  yet  a  philosopher. 
That  could  endure  the  toothache  patiently. 

— Shakespeare. 


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THE      INGLENOOK. 


CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


England  has  again  been  insulted  by  the  sinking  of 
the  British  steamer,  "  Knight  Commander."  Sufficient 
aggravation  had  been  caused  by  the  seizure  of  the 
steamer  "  Malacca  " ;  and  it  was  very  difficult  for  the 
officials  to  control  the  feelings  of  the  people  in  regard 
to  that,  but  since  the  sinking  of  the  "  Knight  Com- 
mander "  there  is  a  unanimous  pressure  demanding 
that  the  navy  be  used  to  secure  immediate  restitution. 

One  of  the  English  papers  used  this  language,  "  that 
it  is  an  outrage  of  the  most  gratuitous  and  barbarous 
kind."  The  British  battleship  has  left  Hong-Kong  to 
guard  her  interests  which  are  being  menaced  by  the 
Russian  squadron,  in  fact  some  of  the  British  people 
regard  this  depredation  as  an  act  of  war,  and  are  ask- 
ing "  what  the  British  government  is  for,  that  she  does 
not  resent  the  insult."  The  more  conservative  men  are 
having  trouble  in  holding  back  the  impulsive  forces 
that  are  behind  them.  Danger  of  a  further  complica- 
tion is  apparent. 

The  interests  of  the  United  States  have  been  inter- 
fered with  in  the  sinking  of  this  British  vessel,  as  much 
goods  on  board  belonged  to  the  United  States,  and 
besides  this  the  steamship  "  Korea  "  of  the  Pacific  Mail 
and  the  "  Gaelic  "  of  the  O.  &  O.  steamship  line  are 
among  the  vessels  now  on  the  way  from  San  Francisco 
to  Yokohama,  and  are  very  much  in  danger  of  seizure 
by  the  Russian  cruisers.  Things  look  favorable  just 
now  for  a  general  mixup,  although  we  hope  that  the 
greater  powers  will  not  get  entangled  in  the  melee. 

#  *  * 

The  Philippines  are  said  to  be  a  mine  of  wealth.  One 
of  the  surgeons,  namely,  Dr.  J.  M.  Feeney,  says  in  a 
recent  communication  that  he  has  been  in  almost  every 
part  of  the  archipelago,  and  he  thinks  everything  be- 
ing considered,  it  is  the  richest  country  in  the  world. 
He  says  that  in  some  of  the  more  obscure  corners, 
where  civilization  has  not  penetrated,  he  has  found 
scores  and  scores  of  natives  wearing  chunks  of  gold 
just  as  it  comes  from  nature.  They  also  have 
copper  in  unlimited  quantities.  As  soon  as  some  way 
is  found  by  which  titles  may  be  conveyed  to  the  proper 
authorities  so  that  these  mines  can  be  opened,  there  is 
going  to  be  a  grand  rush  for  these  mountains.  It  is 
said  that  already  a  goodly  number  of  old  miners  of  the 
Western  States  are  "  hugging "  claims  which  they 
expect  to  make  them  wealthy. 

*  *   * 

Santos  Dumont,  the  great  airship  man,  whose  aerial 
vehicle  was  ruined  some  time  since  at  the  Exposition, 
expresses  himself  as  being  not  defeated  by  fate,  but 
by  unfair  opponents,  and  returns  home  saying  he  will 
not  make  another  attempt  to  participate  in  the  contest 
at  the  Fair. 


At  the  great  international  congress  of  women,  at 
Berlin,  Germany,  not  long  since,  honors  were  conferred 
upon  .Mrs.  Mar)'  Church  Terrell.  She  stands  second  ' 
to  none,  unless  it  be  Susan  B.  Anthony.  She  has  been 
president  of  the  international  association  of  colored 
women,  and  was  for  five  years  a  member  of  the  School 
Board  of  the  District  of  Columbia.  She  is  a  gradu- 
ate of  Oberlin  College,  studied  one  year  in  Paris,  and 
another  in  Berlin.  In  her  veins  runs  the  genuine  negro 
blood.  Mrs.  Terrell  made  an  address  in  Berlin  to  the 
International  Congress  of  Women,  first  in  English. 
When  she  was  told  that  her  audience  did  not  all  un- 
derstand, she  immediately  proceeded  to  redeliver  the 
address  in  French,  and  then  in  German.  No  other  per- 
son present  could  have  possibly  accommodated  the  en- 
tire convention  as  did  Mrs.  Terrell.  She  is  tall,  slen- 
der and  possesses  a  fine  presence,  and  is  unusually  elo- 
quent, with  a  command  of  language  that  is  truly  won- 
derful. She  is  not  dark,  and  except  that  her  hair  is 
kinky,  she  might  be  taken  for  an  Indian.  At  the  con- 
clusion of  her  address  she  was  forced  to  come  for- 
ward and  bowed  a  number  of  times  before  she  was 
permitted  to  take  and  keep  her  seat.  She  was  invited 
afterwards  to  attend  the  reception  of  the  Empress  as 
one  of  the  honored  guests. 

*   *   * 

The  last  reports  from  the  commercial  dilemma  in 
Chicago,  indicate  that  more  than  seventy-five  hun- 
dred members  of  the  Allied  Trades  Unions  in  the 
Stock  Yards  obeyed  the  orders  to  join  the  butchers 
already  on  the  strike.  Thirty  thousand  men  are  idle 
because  of  the  sympathetic  measures  they  have  taken 
with  their  friends  who  ordered  the  trouble.  The  team- 
sters' union  made  a  strong  endeavor  to  reach  peace,  in 
fact  several  attempts,  but  each  time  a  sporadic  out- 
break of  violence  would  undo  what  measures 
had  been  taken  for  peace.  Chicago's  greatest 
industry  is  practically  at  a  standstill.  The  most 
conservative  thinkers,  who  are  in  a  position  to 
know  about  the  general  feelings  of  the  men, 
say  that  it  is  altogether  probable  that  the  railroad  men 
such  as  the  switchmen  and  the  freight  handlers,  are 
ready  to  refuse  to  handle  the  products  of  packers  at 
any  moment  they  have  received  orders  to  that  ef- 
fect. This  will  only  add  to  the  already  complicated 
disaster.  +   +   ^ 

President  Roosevelt  has  appointed  as  Commission- 
er of  Education  of  Porto  Rico,  Dr.  Roland  P.  Falkner. 
Dr.  Falkner,  of  late,  has  been  Chief  of  Division  of  Doc- 
uments in  the  library  of  Congress.  Dr.  M.  G.  Brum- 
baugh, of  Pennsylvania,  was  Commissioner  of  Edu- 
cation under  President  McKinley.  Dr.  Samuel  Mc- 
Cune  Linsay  has  resigned  to  take  effect  October  ist, 
next.  Dr.  Falkner  is  thirty-eight  years  old,  is  a  grad- 
ate of  '95  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  He 
has  studied  in  Halle,  Berlin  and  Leipsic,  Germany. 


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Some  of  the  cows  in  the  vicinity  of  Chicago  will  be 
compelled  to  sign  the  temperance  pledge.  The  inspec- 
tors of  the  city  health  department  have  held  in  sus- 
picion for  some  time  some  of  the  dairy  products  that 
are  being  brought  to  the  city,  and  upon  investigation 
it  was  found  that  many  of  the  farmers,  who  have  been 
furnishing  milk,  have  been  feeding  their  cows  on  wet 
malt  from  the  breweries.  We  do  not  think  the  cows 
would  be  guilty  of  this  misdemeanor  themselves  if  they 
could  get  anything  else,  and  therefore  the  fault  lies 
with  the  farmers ;  but  they  cannot  be  prosecuted  as  they 
have  a  right  to  feed  their  cows  what  they  want  to.  But 
the  dairymen  who  dispose  of  their  goods  in  Chicago 
have  been  ordered  by  the  authorities  to  stop  selling 
their  milk,  and  a  heavy  penalty  is  provided  for  milk 
dealers  who  sell  milk  from  any  of  these  farms.  Thou- 
sands of  gallons  have  already  been  returned  to  the 
farmers  as  unfit  for  use.  The  excitement  over  the  mat- 
ter has  caused  investigation  of  over  six  hundred  farms 
and  something  near  thirteen  thousand  cows,  and  as  a 
result  over  one  hundred  and  forty  of  these  farms  have 
been  condemned. 

News  from  the  Orient  says  that  at  New  Chwang  a 
bloody  fourteen-hour  battle  was  fought,  July  24.  in 
which  thirty  thousand  of  the  czar's  troops  suffered 
a  severe  defeat.  The  battle  began  at  six  o'clock  in  the 
morning  and  the  Russians  were  put  to  rout  about  dark. 
The  field  was  sorely  contested  and  the  Russians  held 
their  ground  until  5  P.  M.  It  is  said  that  the  Japanese 
line  was  fifteen  miles  long.  One  of  the  main  charges 
in  the  battle  was  an  incessant  storm  of  shot  and  shell 
from  the  Mikado's  army,  and  they  fairly  had  to  sweep 
the  field  clear  of  Russians  before  they  would  flee. 
Considerable  damage  has  been  done  to  Russian  prop- 
erty since  the  battle.  The  principal  part  of  the  en- 
gagement was  the  artillery  operation.  It  is  consid- 
ered a  crushing  blow  to  the  Russians.  This  was  one 
of  their  strongholds  and  the  town  was  definitely  evac- 
uated by  them  in  hot  haste.  Corroborative  news  has 
been  received  from  the  Russians  direct,  from  the  Jap- 
anese direct,  and  later  from  Paris,  which  gives  but 
little  chance  for  the  circulating  reports  to  be  anything 
but  true. 

♦   *5*   ♦ 

Mr.  J.  Parker  Smith  died  at  his  summer  home  at 
Lake  Coma,  after  a  lingering  illness.  He  was  one  of 
Chicago's  capitalists,  also  a  cousin  of  Paul  Morton, 
Secretary  of  the  Navy.  He  was  born  in  Maine,  seven- 
ty-six years  ago,  and  has  been  engaged  in  the  ice  busi- 
ness in  Chicago  for  forty-five  years. 

Paul  Kruger's  remains  are  to  be  taken  to  South 
Africa  for  burial.  The  British  government  has  at  last 
given  permission  for  the  remains  to  be  removed. 


Everything  is  not  all  peace  along  the  "  Pike." 
Some  things  come  very  near  ending  in  tragedies.  Not 
long  since  complaint  was  laid  in  to  the  manager  that  the 
clothing  of  the  Filipinos  was  rather  scanty.  Accord- 
ingly pants  were  ordered  for  them  which  were  ig- 
nored by  the  heathen,  who  cast  them  to  one  side  and 
run  away  in  the  bushes  to  hide  as  before.  After  a  con- 
tinued discussion  President  Francis,  and  several  others, 
have  concluded  to  withdraw  further  persecution  to  the 
down-trodden  people,  and  he  accordingly  rescinded  his 
former  orders  and  says  that  he  doubts  if  it  be  advisable 
to  have  them  wear  clothing  they  do  not  like. 

*  *  •:• 

The  National  Association  of  colored  women  was  to 
have  held  their  convention  at  St.  Louis,  but  to  their 
sorrow,  found  that  the  fair  managers  at  St.  Louis  have 
discriminated  against  the  negroes  at  every  crook  and 
turn  possible,  and  in  one  of  their  late  sessions  Mrs. 
Booker  T.  Washington  plead  that  they  hold  their  con- 
vention at  some  other  place.  When  she  had  concluded 
her  eloquent  appeal,  every  delegate  in  the  conven- 
tion, except  those  from  St.  Louis,  acquiesced. 

Mrs.  Hobart  Benson,  of  Altoona,  Iowa,  is  to  be 
recorded  with  the  brave.  One  day  last  week,  on  re- 
turning home  she  found  a  large  rattlesnake  with  its 
fangs  sunken  into  the  flesh  of  her  little  three-year-old 
daughter,  as  she  was  sitting  on  the  floor.  Our  hero- 
ine seized  the  writhing  snake  and  literally  wrung  its 
neck. 

*J»  «5*   «$» 

The  little  disturbance  that  has  been  continually  go- 
ing on  between  the  Pennsylvania  railroad  and  the 
Western  Union  Telegraph  Company  concerning  some 
poles  and  wires,  has  just  been  settled  and  the  hatchet 
buried.  The  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company  has  con- 
sented to  make  a  present  of  eleven  million  dollars  to 
the  Western  Union  Telegraph  Company, 
•j    *    ■> 

Sir  Chentung  Liang-Cheng,  a  Chinese  minister  at 
Washington,  D.  C,  left  for  Mexico  City.  In  his  pos- 
session are  duplicate  credentials  from  the  Emperor  of 
China  to  President  Diaz,  of  Mexico.  It  will  possibly 
take  him  three  or  four  weeks  to  accomplish  his  end. 
This  is  probably  the  first  legation  that  China  has  ever 
sent  to  the  Spanish-American  Republic. 

*  *   * 

Sixty-eight  hundred  dollars  was  taken  from  the 
Custom  House  safe  at  San  Diego,  Cuba,  the  1st  inst., 
while  the  cashier  was  out. 

*  •!»  «g» 

Ex-President  Cleveland,  who  has  been  ill,  at  the 
home  of  Joseph  Jefferson,  at  Buzzards  Bay,  Mass.,  is 
convalescent. 


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THE      INGlENOOK. 


The  Inglenook  Nature  Study  Club      I 

This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various  Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized  X 

over  this  country.     Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.     Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time,  •f 

taking   the   work   up    with   the    current    issue.     Back    numbers  cannot  be  furnished.     Any  school  desiring  to  or-  % 

ganize  a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  111.  * 

K.,t,,t,,;MM'*'M"M"t"M'*"M"M"t"M"M^^^^ 


LOVING-KINDNESS. 


Be  kind  to  dumb  creatures 

Nor  grudge  them  your  care, 
God  gave  them  their  life 

And  your  love  they  must  share. 
He  who  the  sparrow's  fall  tenderly  heeds 
Will  look  lovingly  on  compassionate  deeds 

*   *   * 

CLASS    AVES. 


ORDER   INSESSORES. 

Last  week  we  announced  that  this  week  we  would 
take  up  the  study  of  the  order  of  Insessores  or  birds 
which  perch,  and  it  is  to  be  remembered  that  this  is 
one  of  the  largest  families,  numerically,  that  we  have 
in  the  class  AVES.  Most  of  you  have  learned  by 
this  time  that  there  are  many  ways  of  classifying  birds. 
We  can  classify  them  by  their  feet,  by  their  food,  by 
their  habits,  or  possibly  their  feathers.  But  the  first 
classification  we  chcose  to  make  is  according  to  their 
bills,  and  so  for  this  lesson  to-day  we  will  more  par- 
ticularly study  the  shape  of  their  bills  or  mandibles. 

First  is  the  Conirostres,  or  cone-billed,  and  to  this 
classification  belong  such  families  as  the  Crows, 
Finches,  Starlings,  Woodpeckers,  etc.  Remember 
that  each  of  these  represent  families  and  not  single 
individual  birds,  and  all  of  these  families  have  their 
cone-shaped  bill,  which  means  that  at  the  base  of  their 
bill  it  is  much  larger  and  slopes  toward  an  apex  or 
point,  which  renders  their  bill  almost  exactly  the  shape 
of  a  cone. 

Second,  the  Dentirostres,  or  tooth-billed.  To  the 
tooth-billed  family  belong  the  Thrush  family,  the  fam- 
ily of  Shrikes  and  Warblers.  Of  course  the  Thrush 
family  is  divided  into  several  families,  and  the  Shrikes 
may  be  divided  up  into  many  individual  families  and 
the  Warblers  are  very  numerous,  but  this  is  only  the 
general  classification. 

Third,  the  Tenuirostres,  or  thin-bill.  The  charac- 
teristic family  of  this  division  is  the  Hummingbird, 
and  when  we  undertake  to  discriminate  between  all  the 
families  of  the  Hummingbird  we  have  a  study  almost 
wholly  within  itself.  For  instance,  the  Ruby  Throat, 
Purple  Throat,  Nootka  Sound,  the  Anna,  the  Coste's, 
Broad-tailed,  the  Mango,  etc. 

Fourth,  the  Fissirostres,  or  split-bills.  To  this  fam- 
ily belong  such  birds  as  have  their  bills  split  almost 


to  their  throat.  For  instance,  the  Night  Hawk,  Whip- 
poor-will,  Goat-sucker,  Purple  Martin,  and  Chuck- 
wills-widow.  These  birds  and  others  of  like  charac- 
ter, when  they  open  their  mouth  wide,  show  but  very 
little,  if  any  bill,  and  when  closed  show  but  very  little 
more;  hence  the  name  split-bill.  Secure  a  photograph 
of  one  of  this  family,  and  notice  how  discriminate  the 
name  is  of  their  nature.  There  are  other  classifica- 
tions in  regard  to  their  bills  that  belong  to  the  land 
and  the  water  birds,  but  these  four  classifications  ap- 
ply more  particularly  to  the  classification  of  the  In- 
sessores or  perching  birds.  And  now  for  a  little  more 
specific  study  we  return  to  the  first-named  division, 

CONIROSTRES. 

The  first  family  under  this  division,  that  we  named 
above,  was  the  Crow  family,  and  we  will  have  our 
first  lesson  under  this  class  about  the  Crow.  Many  of 
the  Nookers  remember  that  we  had  a  study  of  the 
Crow  not  so  very  long  since,  but  there  are  more  birds 
besides  the  crow  individual  that  belong  to  this  Crow 
family.  In  the  individual  crow  family  we  have  the 
American  Crow,  Hooded  Crow,  Carrion  Crow,  and 
besides  these  individual  crows  we  have  the  Rook, 
Raven,  Jackdaw,  Magpie  and  Jay. 

ROOK. 

This  bird  is  not  very  well  known  in  America,  be- 
cause it  is  an  English  bird.  But  it  is  very  much  like 
the  crow,  which  our  farmer  Nookers  know  so  well. 
Rooks  invariably  live  in  colonies,  many  thousands  go- 
ing off  together  and  building  their  nests  in  the  tops 
of  neighboring  trees. 

In  these  bird  towns,  or  rookeries,  there  seem  to  be 
certain  laws  which  all  understand  and  generally  obey, 
at  least  they  do  so  better  than  people  do  in  many 
instances.  One  of  these  laws  is  that  no  rook  shall 
build  his  nest  within  the  limits  of  the  town  unless  he 
was  hatched  there  and  is  a  full-fledged  native.  And 
another  forbids  young  rooks  going  outside  the  town 
to  build.  If  any  rook  disobeys  these  laws,  the  other 
birds  promptly  tear  down  his  nest  and  drive  him 
from  the  town,  back  to  his  native  town. 

They  are  said  to  hold  courts  for  the  trial  of  offenders. 
The  birds  assemble  upon  the  trees,  the  guilty  one  sit- 
ting by  himself,  with  drooping  head :  and  after  much 
croaking  and  flying  hither  and  thither,  which  we 
may  imagine  is  their  way  of  examining  the  witnesses 


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and  hearing  the  pleas  of  the  advocates,  the  charge  of 
the  judge,  and  the  verdict  of  the  jury,  after  which 
they  pounce  upon  the  unfortunate  offender  and  ex- 
ecute the  sentence,  whatever  it  may  be. 

RAVEN. 

The  Raven  is  the  largest  bird  of  the  Crow  family. 
He  is  also  the  largest  percher.  He  is  a  type  of  the 
Crow  family,  and  deviates  in  this  that  he  has  bristles 
around  his  bill  and  is  more  solemn  looking  than  the 
other  members  of  the  Crow  family.  He  is  regarded 
by  the  natives  of  Asia  as  an  ill  omen.  The  American 
Raven  is  a  scarce  bird  in  some  of  the  districts,  being 
seldom  seen,  and  consequently  his  characteristics  are 
but  little  known. 

The  European  species  is  more  abundant  and  is  found 
to  be  a  very  familiar  bird.  Ravens  are  said  to  live  to 
a  great  age,  and  the  same  pair  has  been  known  to 
build  their  nest  in  the  same  spot  for  many  successive 
years.  However,  these  last  two  named  characteristics 
are  quite  common  in  the  Crow  family.  First,  that  of 
great  age,  and,  second,  that  of  the  inclination  to  re- 
turn to  their  former  home  each  year  and  rebuild  their 
nests.  The  Raven  has  been  long  known  to  students 
of  nature,  for  we  remember  that  it  was  the  first  mod- 
est bird  that  left  the  ark  family  in  search  of  the  green 
olive  leaf.  She  was  also  the  messenger  that  was  cho- 
sen by  the  Almighty  God  to  feed  his  prophet  Elijah 
at  the  brook  Cherith.  The  young  Ravens  may  be  so 
tamed  as  to  become  very  amusing  pets,  but  they  require 
almost  constant  watching  because  of  their  mischievous 
nature. 

While  your  editor  was  sojourning  through  Palestine 
he  saw  many  of  these  Ravens,  on  a  trip  from  Jeru- 
salem to  Jericho.  The  strange  part  of  it  was  that 
these  ravens  here  are  of  dove  color  and  not  of  the 
inky  black  that  the  raven  generally  takes.  This  is  an 
exception,  however,  and  not  the  rule.  In  studying 
this  lesson  it  will  be  well  for  the  Nookers  to  look  up 
the  work  they  had  on  the  Crow  as  a  sort  of  a  review, 
and  study  their  manner  of  building  nests,  their  food, 
their  enemies,  and  their  migration  ;  and  next  week  we 
will  take  up  the  other  three  members  of  the  Crow  fam- 
ily, namely,  the  Jackdaw,  Magpie  and  the  Jay.  Let 
us  see  who  can  have  the  best  lesson  on  the  Crow,  Rook 
and  the  Raven. 

4»    4»    .;. 
A    TERRIBLE    TURTLE. 


Since  then  he  has  been  tied  by  a  half-inch  rope  and  fed 
on  bloodsuckers.  Wednesday  night  the  rope  gave  way 
to  the  mighty  strain  put  upon  it  by  the  turtle,  who  can 
carry  a  160-pound  man  on  its  back  without  experienc- 
ing any  inconvenience,  and  he  is  now  roaming  at  large, 
although  searching  parties  have  made  every  effort  to 
locate  him.  He  was  to  have  been  sold  to  the  Forepaugh 
circus  in  July  and  exhibited  as  the  largest  turtle  ever 
taken  in  Maine's  inland  waters,  and  it  is  understood 
that  $50  was  offered  for  him  by  the  circus  people. 
Thus  his  loss  is  a  great  misfortune. 

*   *   * 
A    MINIATURE    BUFFALO. 


There's  a  new  and  strange  beast  at  the  Philadelphia 
Zoo,  extremely  rare  in  any  country  but  his  own,  which 
is  the  island  of  Celebes,  Eastern  Archipelago,  south  of 
the  Philippines. 

When  his  keeper  pronounces  its  name  it  sounds  like 
"  I  know  her."  But  the  animal  is  a  male.  It  is  an 
anoa,  a  curious  specimen  of  dwarf  buffalo,  allied  to  the 
tamarau,  and  it  has  13  pairs  of  ribs. 

It  looks  more  like  a  big  goat  than  any  animal  known 
to  the  Americans.  Its  coat  is  as  brown  as  a  bear's  and 
furry.  It  has  a  pair  of  short,  curved  horns  and  the 
head  and  legs  of  a  ram,  also  the  bucking  propensity  of 
both  ram  and  goat. 

It  is  fed  on  oats  and  hay.  The  best  natural  history 
book  on  the  subject  has  anoa  listed  as  "  shy  and  retir- 
ing," but  the  keeper  of  the  specimen  at  the  Zoo  takes 
exception  to  that  designation,  recalling  readily  several 
experiences  he  has  had  in  being  butted. 

*   *  * 
SQUIRRELS    MOTHERED    BY    CAT. 


At  Brewer,  Maine,  people  are  staying  in  at  night  for 
fear  of  an  eight-and-one-half-foot  turtle  who  has  es- 
caped from  captivity  and  is  said  to  be  more  dangerous 
to  meet  than  a  bull  dog. 

The  ugly  brute  was  captured  at  Hines's  pond  a  week 
ago,  and  it  took  the  united  efforts  of  three  strong  men 
to  get  him  into  a  wagon  without  injury  to  themselves. 


While  rambling  over  the  country  Henry  Miller,  of 
Hanover,  Penn.,  found  a  squirrel's  nest  that  had  fallen 
from  a  tree  and  which  still  contained  four  very  young 
gray  squirrels. 

Miller  brought  the  squirrels  home,  and  as  an  exper- 
iment placed  them  in  the  nest  of  a  cat  whose  kittens 
had  been  drowned. 

The  cat  took  kindly  to  the  squirrels  and  is  giving 
them  complete  attention,  with  the  result  that  the  chil- 
dren of  the  forest  are  thriving  splendidly  under  the 
care  of  their  foster  mother. 

*  *  * 

The  bees  are  in  the  orchard 

Gathering  their  honey. 
The  hens  are  in  the  meadow 

Hatching  eggs  for  money. 
The  crops  are  all  agrowin' 

The  very  be5t  they  can. 
No  excuse  at  all.  sir, 

For  the  lazy  man. 


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"HI 


INGLENOOK. 


HOME    DEPARTMENT 


WHO    IS    YOUR    BOSS? 


Who  is  your  boss?     Does  he  go  on  two  legs, 

Or  is  he  the  demon  who  lurks  in   the  dregs 

Or  a  roister's  glass?     Does  he  bide  from  you  far 

Or  rise  in  the  smoke  of  a  fragrant  cigar? 

Who  is  your  boss?     In  your  desk  does  he  lurk 

To  drive  you  all  day?     Is  it  Worry  or  Work? 

Don't  cavil,  you  rascal;  you  worship  some  Joss, 

Be  it  man,  thing  or  habit.     Come,  who  is  your  boss? 

Who  is  your  boss?     Come,  be  honest;  don't  hedge. 
Does  it  bear  a  stamped  eagle  and  wear  a  milled  edge? 
Whose  tag  are  you  wearing?     Whose  song  do  you  sing? 
For  whom   do  you  dance  when  they  pull   on   the   string? 
Whose    brand    are    you    wearing?     What    cult    have    you 

bagged? 
By  whom  or  by  what  has  your  collar  been  tagged? 
You  may  be  the  boss  of  some  one  that  I  sing, 
But  this  is  the  question:   Who's  pulling  your  string? 

My  boss?     Ah,  I'll  tell  you:    A  slip  of  a  girl 
Who  fetters  my  heart  with  the  gyve  of  a  curl 
Straying  down  on  her  brow  like  a  thief  gone  amiss 
On  his  way  to  her  red  lips  to  steal  him  a  kiss. 
She  scolds  me  and  holds  me  and  molds  me  at  will, 
Nor  ever  my  fluttering  heart  will  be  still 
When  she  brushes  my  cheek  with  the  wisp  of  her  curl, 
But  who'd  not  be  bossed  by  a  slip  of  a  girl? 
<$»   $    •> 

THE    TEMPORARY    TEETH. 


BY   E.    E.    BLICKENSTAFF,   D.    D.    S. 

Children  have  twenty  temporary  or  deciduous 
teeth,  the  germs  of  which  as  well  as  of  the  permanent, 
exist  in  the  jaws  even  previous  to  birth,  and  begin  to 
make  their  appearance  about  the  sixth  or  seventh 
month;  however  the  time  varies  in  different  children. 

About  the  second  or  third  year  the  temporary  teeth 
are  complete  and  fully  developed  and  require  and 
should  receive  the  same  care  to  preserve  them,  both 
for  usefulness  and  beauty,  as  is  exercised  toward  the 
permanent  set. 

All  parents  should  be  impressed  with  the  fact  that 
the  beauty  and  regularity  of  the  permanent  teeth  de- 
pend in  a  large  measure  upon  the  care  and  condition  of 
the  temporary  ones. 

There  is  no  reason  why  the  temporary  teeth  should 
not  remain,  comfortably  in  place,  until  the  permanent 
ones  erupt.  Many  a  child  would  be  saved  from  untold 
suffering,  and  the  parents  spared  much  trouble  and 
anxiety,  by  having  these  teeth  properly  cared  for. 

Nature  never  intended  that  children's  teeth  should 
be  lost  or  removed  by  decay ;  but  that  they  should  re- 


main in  place  until  they  give  way  for  the  permanent 
ones  by  the  absorption  of  their  roots.  This  is  neces- 
sary for  two  reasons,  at  least.  First,  if  the  temporary 
or  "  first  tooth  "  is  lost  before  its  time,  the  space  which 
it  occupied  becomes  more  or  less  closed  so  that  the 
"  second  tooth  "  is  crowded  from  its  normal  position. 
Second,  if  the  pulp  dies  from  exposure  by  decay,  the 
tooth-roots  are  not  absorbed  and  if  left  in  place  too 
long,  they  will  change  the  course  of  the  permanent 
tooth  and  cause  it  to  erupt  out  of  position,  either  inside 
or  outside  the  arch. 

We  often  see  the  bad  results  of  this  condition  where 
the  cuspid  or  "  eye-tooth,"  so  called  tusk,  has  erupted 
high  on  the  gum  or  where  the  bi-cuspids  erupt  in  the 
roof  of  the  mouth,  sadly  marring  both  speech  and 
beauty.  Had  the  temporary  teeth  been  filled  and  kept 
in  place  until  time  for  the  permanent  ones  to  erupt  and 
then  removed,  these  conditions  would  not  have  oc- 
curred. 

Mothers,  teach  your  children  to  use  the  brush  and 
pick,  keep  their  mouths  as  clean-  as  their  hands, — 
clean  in  every  sense  of  the  term  and  there  will  be  but 
little  decay.  "  Happy  the  child  who  is  suffered  to  be 
what  God  meant  it  to  be." 

Flora,  hid. 

*  •$>  * 

HOT    WATER. 


Under  many  conditions  hot  water  is  one  of  the 
most  potent  remedial  agents  that  can  be  employed, 
and  often,  when  intelligently  used,  it  accomplishes 
more  than  drugs. 

But,  like  many  other  things  powerful  for  good,  its 
abuse  may  prove  injurious,  and  produce  results  quite 
opposite  to  what  was  intended. 

The  effect  of  warm  or  moderately  hot  water  ap- 
plied to  the  surface  of  the  body  is  to  cause  the  blood 
vessels  and  tissues  of  the  skin  and  underlying  re- 
gions to  become  relaxed,  and  to  lose  for  the  time  be- 
ing their  natural  tone.  The  blood  supply  of  the  re- 
gions is  much  increased  and  the  pores  are  opened. 
If  the  entire  body  has  been  immersed  this  action  pro- 
duces marked  changes  in  the  distribution  of  the  blood, 
and  a  considerable  portion  of  this  fluid  is  taken  from 
the  interior  of  the  body  and  brought  close  to  the  sur- 
face. If  cold  air  now  strikes  the  body,  a  sudden  chill 
is  very  likely  to  be  the  result. 

This  explains  the  great  ease  with  which  one  takes 
cold  after  a  warm  bath,  particularly  if  this  has  been 
prolonged,  and  it  also  suggests  the  natural  remedy. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


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This  is  quickly  to  sponge  the  entire  surface  with  cold 
water  before  using  the  towel,  which  should  be  ap- 
plied briskly.  In  this  way  the  relaxation  is  followed 
by  prompt  contraction,  the  circulation  is  made  active 
instead  of  sluggish,  and  a  delicious  sense  of  vigor  and 
stimulation  is  produced. 

Hot  water  is  necessary  properly  to  cleanse  the  face 
and  neck,  and  to  stimulate  the  pores  to  cast  off  the 
fatty  material  which  might  otherwise  stagnate  and 
cause  pimples  or  blackheads.  Unless  followed  by  a 
dash  of  cold  water,  however,  the  relaxed  tissues  are 
not  stimulated,  and  premature  wrinkles  and  flabbiness 
of  the  skin  inevitably  follow.  Steaming  the  face  and 
throat,  although  beneficial  at  the  time,  is  sure  to  be 
followed  by  results  disastrous  to  the  complexion  un- 
less counteracted  in  this  way. — Cincinnati  Enquirer. 


*  *   * 
HOW   TO    BE    HAPPY. 


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"  We  shall  have  at  least  three  hours  for  skating,"\said 
Charlie,  and  just  then  they  came  in  sight  of  old  Goftjdy 
Stevens'  hut.  Infirm  as  she  was,  she  stood  out  in  the 
cold  trying  to  split  some  kindlings  from  a  pine  stick 

"  Let's  stop  and  help  her,"  suggested  Charlie. 

"  Not  I ;  I  am  in  a  hurry  to  get  to  the  pond,"  replie 
Rufus  gruffly,  and  he  passed  on. 

"  Please  go  in  and  get  warm,  and  I  will  bring  you 
in  kindlings  enough  to  last  you  a  week,"  said  Charlie 
gently  taking  the  wood  from  her  trembling  hands. 

"  You  have  lost  a  good  half  hour,"  cried  Rufui 
scornfully,  when  at  last  he  appeared  at  the  pond. 

"  But  perhaps  I  have  gained  a  blessing,"  whispered 
Charlie  to  himself,  remembering  how  the  old  woman 
had  asked  God  to  reward  him. 

Then  came  an  hour  of  merry  strife,  cutting  circles,-: 
playing  "  Fox  and  Geese,"  etc.,  till  he  saw  Ned  Percys 
standing  on  the  bank  with  longing  eyes,  for  Ned's } 
mother  was  too  poor  to  buy  him  skates.  "  Mine  would  I 
just  fit  him,"  thought  Charlie,  and  in  a  moment  he  hadj 
gained  the  shore. 

"  Halloa,   Ned !  "  he   called   cheerily,   "  I   will  take 
turns  with  you,  for  I  should  hate  to  have  my  skatej 
grow  rusty  while  I  am  sitting  down  to  rest."    And  fc 
more  than  an  hour  he  insisted  upon  Ned's  keepir 
them. 

When  they  went  home  Rufus  walked  sulkily  alorfg 
while  Charlie  whistled  all  the  way. 

"  I   don't  see  why  you  enjoy  life  so  much  better 
than  other  folks,"  muttered  Rufus  discontentedly ;  "  I 
should  think  it  was  Easter  morning  with  you  all  the 
|'    year  round." 

"  I  don't  know,  I  am  sure,"  answered  Charlie,  "  un- 
less it  is  because  I  have  learned  that  the  secret  of 
being  happy  is  to  try  to  make  somebody  else  happy 
!   too." — Child's  Paper. 


TOMATO    CATSUP. 


BY  SISTER  S.   C.   SMUCKER. 

Take  one  bushel  of  ripe  tomatoes,  wash  and  cut  them 
up,  put  on  to  boil.  As  fast  as  the  juice  oozes  out,  strain 
it  through  a  flour  sieve  until  nothing  is  left  but  seeds 
and  skins ;  boil  and  strain  two  green  peppers  with  the 
tomatoes ;  put  the  juice  back  into  the  kettle,  add  one 
pint  of  vinegar,  one  pint  of  sugar,  a  small  teacup  two- 
thirds  full  of  salt.  Make  two  bags  of  cheese  cloth 
about  six  inches  square ;  in  one  put  one  tablespoonf ul 
of  ground  mustard,  two  tablespoonfuls  each  of  ground 
ginger,  cayenne  pepper,  and  ground  black  pepper;  tie 
up  the  bag,  leaving  room  to  swell.  In  the  other  bag  put 
two  tablespoonfuls  each  of  ground  cinnamon,  allspice, 
cloves,  one  tablespoonful  of  mace,  and  four  ground  nut- 
megs ;  tie  up  and  put  both  bags  into  the  juice;  boil  hard 
for  six  hours ;  mash  the  bags  with  a  spoon ;  when  it  is 
done  take  out  the  bags  and  bottle  the  catsup. 

Timberville,  Va. 

4»   *   * 

TOMATO    CATSUP. 


BY    SISTER    MINNIE    M.    WHISTLER. 

Take  one  pail  of  green  tomatoes  chopped  fine ;  sprin- 
kle with  salt  and  let  stand  over  night ;  take  two  medium 
sized  heads  of  cabbage  chopped  fine,  one  small  red  pep- 
per, two  tablespoonfuls  each  of  ground  cinnamon  and 
nutmeg,  one-fourth  cup  of  celery  seed ;  pour  the  water 
from  the  tomatoes  and  mix  with  cabbage  and  other  in- 
gredients, put  into  granite  kettle  with  enough  vinegar 
to  cover ;  cook  one  hour,  add  two  cups  of  sugar,  put  in 
glass  jars  and  seal  while  hot. 

Udell,  Iowa. 

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CHOW-CHOW. 


BY  SISTER  MARY  REDDICK. 

Take  two  gallons  of  green  tomatoes,  an  equal 
amount  of  cabbage,  six  green  peppers,  six  red  peppers 
(if  wanted),  one-half  dozen  onions;  chop  each  separ- 
ately, then  mix  all  together,  salt  to  suit  the  taste,  then 
put  in  a  bag  and  hang  over  night  to  drain  ;  in  the  morn- 
ing squeeze  it  dry  with  the  hands:  season  with  cinna- 
mon, cloves,  allspice,  celery  seed  and  one  quart  of 
grated  horse-radish;  boil  vinegar  enough  to  cover. 
put  in  a  pound  of  sugar  (brown  preferred)  :  then  heat 
all  together.     It  is  much  nicer  canned. 

Sheridan.  Mo. 


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THE      INGLENOOK. 


•'•"'▼   OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE 


BONNIE    WAYNE. 


Wy  I  didn't  get  that  pig  at  all.  You  see  Mrs.  Mar- 
shall just  come  a  running  to  me  and  she  grabbed  me  by 
the  arm  and  she  jerked  me  away  from  the  fence  so  fast 
that  it  nearly  broke  my  arm,  and  Frank  he  hollered 
"  Su  boy  thar  "  and  the  big  hog  pig  said  "  Booh  booh," 
and  old  Bux  he  said  bow  wow  wow  wow,  and  nearly 
jumped  over  the  fence  he  was  so  mad,  and  Mabel  she 
just  jumped  up  and  down.  Just  then  here  came  grand- 
ma with  her  spectacles  on  the  top  of  her  head  and  her 
cane  in  her  hand,  and  she  said  "  wy  the  laws-ame  " 
"  what  in  the  world  is  the  matter  with  the  chile?  " 

Well,  I  never  did  have  such  a  time  in  all  my  life,  and 
it  was  all  over  that  little  red  pig  too,  and  if  they  would 
have  let  me  alone  I  would  a  took  him  up  to  the  house 
and  nen  the  big  one  couldn'  acted  so  smart.  But  Luke 
he  said  that  pigs  wasn't  to  play  with  nohow,  and  he  was 
the  fellow  that  called  me  over  there  in  the  first  place 
too. 

Nen  we  went  to  the  house  and  Grandma  she  told  me 
that  if  my  mamma  had  seen  me  by  the  hog  pen  she 
would  have  been  scared  and  I  told  her  that  I  seen  her 
run  clean  upstairs  one  day  when  a  little  mouse  got  after 
her,  and  Mr.  Marshall  he  just  laughed  and  laughed  and 
old  Bux  he  looked  up  at  me  and  grinned  and  he 
wagged  his  tail  at  me  and  he  looked  as  if  he  wanted  to 
talk  and  I  think  if  he  could  talk  he  would  say  that  he 
wuz  glad  that  we  came  out  here  to  the  country. 

Nen  I  put  my  hand  on  his  head  and  patted  it,  and 
just  then  he  gave  a  big  Kii-yii-kii-yii  and  a  jump  and 
ran  over  me  and  knocked  me  down  on  the  ground  and 
I  cried  and  Frank  he  picked  me  up  and  wuz  a  laughing 
and  he  said,  "  Sis,  the  country  is  a  little  too  rough  on 
you,  ain't  it?  "  Nen  I  said,  "  What  was  that?"  There 
wuz  a  big  bird  as  big  as  old  Bux  after  him  with  its 
wings  dragging  on  the  ground  and  its  tail  spread  out 
like  old  Granny  Baker's  fan.  And  he  had  a  long  red 
worm  on  his  nose  and  he  said,  "  Gobble-gobble-gobble," 
and  he  just  kept  on  saying  it. 

Nen  Mr.  Marshall  he  laughed  and  said,  "  Bonnie, 
that's  a  turkey  gobbler."  My  I  wuz  scared.  I  wished 
that  turkey  gobble  was  after  that  big  pig  instead  of  old 
Bux.  Nen  I  would  a  got  the  pig.  Luke  he  took  the 
broom  that  Mrs.  Marshall  had  and  he  took  after  the 
gobble-gobble  and  he  run  him  around  the  house  three 
times  and  I  bet  he  wuzn't  glad  we  come  too.  Nen  I 
laughed  so  that  the  tears  wuz  all  gone  again.  My !  that 
woman  on  the  cars  said  I  would  see  so  many  nice 
things  out  here  in  the  country,  but  I  don't  think  that 


that  gobble  and  the  big  pig  is  nice  at  all,  and  the  big 
cows  neither.  My !  I  wuz  a  getting  sleepy  and  I  wished 
my  mamma  wuz  there  but  she  wuzn't  and  so  Mrs.  Mar- 
shall put  me  in  a  little  trundle  bed  to  sleep  and  she  said 
it  used  to  be  Mabel's  when  she  was  a  little  girl  like  me. 
Nen  Mabel  she  went  and  got  Dora  and  Hattie  and  she 
put  them  in  bed  with  me,  and  she  said  that  she  wuz 
afraid  that  they  might  cry  in  the  night  and  want  to  go 
home  so  she  put  them  with  me.  Then  they  all  had  to 
take  another  laugh  at  Hattie's  red  hair.  Nen  Frank  he 
wanted  to  know  how  she  came  to  have  red  hair  and  I 
just  wouldn't  tell  but  I  bet  Luke  told  him  all  about  it 
for  I  guess  he  slept  with  Frank  upstairs. 

Wy,  say,  pretty  soon  I  heard  some  one  say,  "  Oh 
Bonnie!  Oh  Bonnie!  "  and  I  couldn't  think  who  it  wuz 
but  I  said  "  Whoopee !  "  and  then  I  knowed  that  it  was 
Grandma  and  she  said,  "  Haint  my  little  girl  a  going  to 
get  up  this  morning?"  My!  but  they  have  awful 
short  nights  out  here  in  the  country,  don't  they? 
When  I  got  up  I  found  that  Dora  had  got  out  of  bed 
on  one  side  and  Hattie  on  the  other  and  Mrs.  Marshall 
said,  "  You  must  have  done  a  lot  of  kicking  last  night, 
Bonnie,"  and  I  said  that  I  guess  that  wuz  when  the  old 
pig  wuz  after  me  and  the  old  gobble  wuz  after  old 
Bux,  and  Grandma  said,  "  Poor  Yungun,  she  was  awful 
tired  last  night." 

♦    «2*    4* 
FROM    GRANDMA. 


My  Dear  Friends: — 

I  wish  that  all  the  mothers  and  grandmothers  knew 
how  much  Luke  and  Bonnie  love  to  hear  me  read  the 
Inglenook  to  them.  They  sat  on  the  floor  the  other 
evening  and  listened  while  I  read  the  articles  one  after 
another  and  would  say,  "  Now,  Grandma,  read  another 
one,"  until  I  nearly  gave  out  and  until  they  both  got  so 
tired  that  they  fell  over  on  the  floor  and  were  almost 
compelled  to  yield  to  sleep,  and  they  can  hardly  wait 
until  it  comes  each  week. 

And  Mabel  and  Frank  just  fairly  quarrel  to  see 
which  one  gets  it  first.  Of  course  when  Frank  is  in  the 
field  when  the  rural  postman  comes,  Mabel  and  Bonnie 
skip  up  to  the  box  and  then  she  has  time  to  read  some 
before  Frank  comes  to  dinner.  During  the  noon  hour 
he  reads  the  long  pieces  in  front  and  then  in  the  even- 
ing they  both  get  together  and  study  the  Natural  His- 
tory. I  hope  Bonnie  and  Luke  will  have  a  good 
time  while  they  are  at  our  house. 

Very  truly  yours, 

Grandma  Marshall.    ; 


"HI 


INGLENOOK. 


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Where  is  Ft.  Thomas? 

It  is  across  the  Ohio  river  from  Cincinnati,  near 
Newport,  Ky. 

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Which  are  the  six  most  powerful  nations  of  the  world 
at  the  present  time? 

United  States,  England,  Germany,  France,  Austria, 
and  Japan. 

* 

What  is   the  longest  word   in  the   English   language? 

Smiles.  S-M-I-L-E-S.  Because  it  is  a  mile  from  the 
first  letter  to  the  last  one.  (The  editor  does  not  know 
exactly  whether  this  question  was  asked  as  a  pun  or  as 
a  real  statistical  fact.  If  the  answer  is  not  satisfactory, 
ask  again.) 

What  is  a  watershed? 

A  watershed  is  a  height  of  land  between  two  river 
systems.  For  illustration :  In  the  mountains  in 
West  Virginia  and  Western  Pennsylvania,  notice  the 
waters  flow  west  into  the  Ohio,  and  east  toward  the 
Potomac  and  Susquehanna. 

* 

What  is  an  abstract? 

An  abstract  is  an  instrument  of  writing  which  shows 
all  the  transfers  through  which  a  piece  of  real  estate 
has  gone  from  the  time  it  was  owned  by  the  govern- 
ment up  to  the  present  time.  Sometimes  in  municipal 
affairs,  an  ordinary  abstract  only  dates  back  as  far  as 
the  completing  of  an  addition  to  the  city. 

In  whose  writings  do  we  find  these  words,  "  The  plow- 
man homeward  plods  his  weary  way  "? 

The  above  quotation  is  an  extract  from  the  first  stan- 
za of  an  "  Elegy  in  a  Country  Churchyard,"  by 
Thomas  Gray.    The  first  stanza  is  as  follows : 

"  The  curfew  tolls  the  knell  of  parting  day, 

The  lowing  herds  wind  slowly  o'er  the  lea; 
The  plowman  homeward  plods  his  weary,  way 
And  leaves  the  world  to  darkness  and  to  me." 

Of  all  the  different  kinds  of  pianos,  what  make  is  con- 
sidered the  best? 

We  hesitate  to  answer  this  question  directly,  for  two 
reasons :  First,  because  the  Nookman  is  not  a  musi- 
cian, and  second,  because  it  is  our  purpose  to  treat  all 
good  people  alike,  and  there  are  several  first-class  pi- 
anos and  it  would  be  wrong  for  us  to  say  that  one  is  so 
much  better  than  another,  and  hence  we  hesitate  to 
render  a  decision  on  this  point. 


Which  is  the  wolverine  State? 
Michigan. 

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Do  all  languages  have  the  definite  article?. 
No.     The   English   language   has   one, — the.     The 
Latin  has  none,  the  German  has  three  and  the  Greek 
has  twenty-four. 

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Are  the  common  crow  and  the  raven  the  same? 

No,  they  are  not  the  same.  The  raven  is  much  larger 
than  the  crow  and  has  bristles  around  its  bill,  whereas 
the  crow  has  not.  We  also  notice  that  the  raven's  neck 
is  much  stronger  and  the  mandible  is  stouter.  How- 
ever, they  compare  in  some  respects  as  well  as  contrast 
in  the  above.  They  are  the  same  color  and  make  the 
same  cawing  sound.  When  taken  young  either  will 
make  very  good  pets.  Among  the  natives  of  Asia  the 
raven  is  regarded  with  awe  and  reverence  and  some- 
times the  chiefs  and  prophets  of  the  tribes  will  wear  a 
bunch  of  its  feathers  in  their  hair,  believing  that  it  will 
increase  their  wisdom.     See  nature  study  page. 

* 
Who  are  the  Druses? 

The  Druses  are  a  religious  sect  of  people  on  the 
mountains  of  Lebanon,  north  of  Palestine.  They  are 
not  Jews,  Mohammedans  nor  Christians.  They  are 
Transmigrationists,  that  is,  they  believe  in  the  trans- 
migration of  the  Spirit.  When  a  man  dies  his  soul  de- 
parts and  enters  an  unknown  body  or  enters  a  snake, 
horse,  rabbit  or  some  other  animal,  and  for  this  reason 
they  will  not  punish  or  destroy  the  animal  life  in  any 
respect.  And  their  belief  also  makes  them  fearless  and 
bold.  They  believe  their  life  cannot  be  taken,  of  course, 
and  in  this  event  they  will  face  death  fearlessly.  A  few 
years  ago  when  the  English  were  trying  to  conquer 
them  they  would  march  right  to  the  mouth  of  the  can- 
non and  endeavor  to  catch  the  cannon  balls,  demon- 
strating their  faith  in  their  religion. 

* 
How  is  electricity  made? 

Your  question  is  too  broad  to  be  discussed  in  such  a 
.•mall  space,  but  the  briefest  answer  possibly  that  can 
be  made  is  that  there  are  three  kinds  of  electricity, 
frictional,  dynamic  and  static.  Electricity  really  is  not 
made,  only  in  the  sense  that  butter  is  made.  Possibly 
it  could  be  said  that  butter  is  made  by  being  drawn 
from  the  milk  ;  in  this  sense  electricity  is  made  by  being 
drawn  from  the  atmosphere.  But  in  a  truer  sense  of 
creation  there  can  be  no  ingredient  or  composition  of 
ingredients  formed  to  construct  the  basis  called  elec- 
tricity. 


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THE      INGLENOOK. 


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THE   DIFFERENCE. 


The  man  who  lugs  a  melon  home 

And  finds  it  isn't  ripe 
Is  very  apt  to  think  some  words 
That  looks  like  these  !* — : 

— **!! — *  in  type. 

The  pa  who  carries  babe  at  night, 

All  through  the  house  and  back, 
Is  apt  to  speak  this  sentence  ** — 
!!—*!—!—*  when 

He  steps  upon  a  tack. 

A  lady  who  is  going  out 

Has  callers  come  and  stay; 
She  tries  to  lightly  chat,  but  this 
n *]* n 

Is  what  she'd  like  to  say. 

Upon  a  smooth  banana  peel 
A  deacon  chanced  to  tread, 
And  here's  !* — !! — * 
—  !* — a  brief  shorthand  report 
Of  what  the  deacon  said. 

A  lady  with  her  parasol 

A  passer's  optic  caught — 
He  said:  "Pray  do  not  mention  it," 
But  here  *!!—!*!*— 

!*! —  is  what  he  thought. 

— Chicago  Post. 
*    *   * 

A    GOOD    OLD    WORLD. 


outcasts  that  we  see  around  us — it  will  not  do  to  con- 
demn them  as  wholly  bad.  No  one  is  ever  wholly 
lost.  To  deny  this  is  to  make  of  all  theology — yes, 
and  of  religion — a  mockery. 

A  kind  word  will  awaken  a  noble  response  in  many  a 
man  apparently  lost  to  all  that  is  good  in  life. 

Have  you  the  kind  word,  or  have  you  the  usual 

censure  ? — Selected. 

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THE   VALUE    OF    A    LAUGH. 


It's  a  good  old  world,  no.  matter  if,  at  times,  it 
does  seem  that  things  are  going  to  the  "  demnition 
bow-wows." 

At  a  low  theater  the  other  day,  where  the  audience 
was  made  up  of  a  motley  crowd  of  men  and  boys, 
a  player  came  on  the  stage  and  sang  a  cheap  drinking 
song,  a  song  in  laudation  of  the  convivial  cup. 

He  had  a  good  voice  and  his  pantomine  was  clever, 
but  the  song  drew  only  a  light  round  of  applause. 

For  an  encore  the  singer  chose  a  sentimental  song, 
another  cheap  affair  but  one  that  had  the  saving  grace 
of  a  noble  theme — the  undying  love  of  a  mother  for 
her  boy.  This  time  the  audience  broke  into  hearty 
and  prolonged  applause. 

There  was  a  lot  of  good  in  that  audience  notwith- 
standing its  questionable  pursuit.  From  the  "  seamy 
side  "  of  life  it  came,  and  yet  the  mother-love  senti- 
ment touched  it  deeply,  showing  that  it  was  far  from 
lost  to  the  innate  goodness  that  lurks  in  every  one. 

And  so  it  is  wherever  you  go.     The  moral  and  social 


Eighteen  hundred  persons  were  in  a  New  York 
theatre  a  few  nights  ago  when  the  top  floor  of  the 
building  broke  into  a  blaze'.  A  half  a  dozen  fire  en- 
gines thudded  out  in  the  street  and  still  the  audience 
in  the  theatre  did  not  know  it.  It  was  not  until  police 
officers  appeared  and  quietly  told  the  men  and  women 
present  that  the  building  was  on  fire  and  that  the 
performance  must  be  considered  as  ended  that  they 
had  any  intimation  of  their  danger.  Then  very  nat- 
urally there  was  excitement.  Everything  was  favor- 
able for  a  panic,  and  panic  under  such  circumstances 
meant  death.  "  Slowly,  don't  rush,"  said  the  captain 
of  police ;  "  I'll  club  the  first  man  who  starts  to  run." 
With  the  opening  of  the  doors  the  terrifying  noises 
had  come  to  the  ears  of  the  persons  were  were  want- 
ing to  get  out,  and  the  smell  of  smoke  added  to  their 
terror.  There  was  danger  and  all  knew  it.  Reason 
was  about  to  be  cast  to  the  winds  and  a  mad  struggle — 
senseless  and  savage — was  about  to  be  entered  upon. 
And  then  someone  laughed.  The  laugh  was  sane  and 
hearty  and  that  minute  the  trouble  was  over.  No 
panic  after  that.  A  man  may  laugh  in  the  face  of 
danger,  but  not  in  the  face  of  that  sort  of  danger  un- 
less there  is  cause  for  it.  Not  one  who  heard  the 
laugh  in  this  theatre  but  was  reassured.  Courage  "and 
common  sense  and  a  feeling  of  security  returned.  If 
one  could  laugh  who  need  fear?  And  the  result  was 
that  everybody  walked  out  of  the  building  in  safety. 
There  is  a  lesson  here  that  should  not  be  forgotten. 
Nearly  all  of  the  disasters  in  theatres  and  public  halls 
are  caused  by  panic.  In  practically  every  instance 
loss  of  life  could  have  been  avoided  by  coolness  and 
self-possession.  This  is  a  thing  that  it  is  worth  while 
to  remember.  Laugh  if  you  can  in  such  an  emer- 
gency, but  if  you  can't  do  that  keep  your  wits  under 
control  and  thereby  save  your  life  and  the  lives  of 
others. — Indianapolis  Sentinel. 


The  Brethren  Colonies 


IN    THE 


Fruit  Belt  of  Michigan 


are  an  actual  success.  The  colony  of  the  Lakeview  church  is  located  on 
lands  surrounding  the  village  of  Brethren,  Michigan.  Brethren,  Michigan, 
is  located  on  the  main  line  of  the  Pere  Marquette  System,  105  miles  north 
of  Grand  Rapids  and  about  14  miles  east  of  Lake  Michigan.  All  conditions 
of  soil,  climate  and  location  make  this  spot  an  ideal  one  for  general  farm- 
ing, fruit-growing  and  stock-raising.  Lands  have  been  sold  to  about  120 
families  of  the  Brotherhood  and  their  friends,  of  which  number  about  one- 
half  have  already  located  and  are  clearing  up  their  places.  The  possibili* 
ties  of  this  district  are  exceptional.  The  Brethren  tract  embraces  about 
20,000  acres,  of  which  over  11,000  acres  have  already  been  sold.  There  are 
just  as  good  and  as  desirable  locations  remaining  as  those  that  have  been 
bought  and  the  prices  have  not  yet  been  advanced,  but  with  the  improve- 
ments now  going  on,  developing  the  country  so  rapidly,  it  is  only  a  short 
time  till  prices  advance  considerably.  THE  TIME  TO  BUY  IS  NOW. 
Present  prices  range  from  $7  to  $15  per  acre,  on  easy  terms,  or  less  five 
(5)   per  cent  for  cash. 

For  illustrated  booklet  and  information  in  regard  to  rates,  address 
Samuel  S.  Thorpe,  District  Agent  Michigan  Land  Association,  Cadillac, 
Mich. 


THE    CADILLAC    TRACT. 


The  basis  of  my  business  is  absolute  and 

unvarying  integrity.  _ 

samuel  s.  thorpe.  25,000  Acres    of  Rich  Agricul- 

tural Lands,  Excellently  Situated  and  Splen- 
didly Adapted  for  Farming,  Fruit-growing  and 
Stock-raising. 

These  lands  are  located  from  one-half  mile  to  six  miles  from  the  hustling  city  of  Cadillac,  the  seat  of  Wexford 
county,  8,000  inhabitants,  (all  alive,)  and  its  location  on  the  Grand  Rapids  and  Indiana  R'y  (part  of  the  Pennsylvania 
System)  and  on  the  Ann  Arbor  Railroad  (part  of  the  Wabash  System)  together  with  its  other  advantages  render 
it  the  best  trading  point  and  market  place  in  Northern  Michigan.  Cadillac  and  the  lands  controlled  by  the  ad- 
vertiser are  located  about  98  miles  north  of  Grand  Rapids  and  50  miles  east  of  Lake  Michigan.  They  are  well  wa- 
tered with  springs,  creeks,  rivers  and  lakes  of  pure,  sparkling  water  teeming  with  gamy  fish.  The  s©il  varies  from 
a  sandy  loam  to  a  clay  loam,  all  of  it  underlaid  with  clay  and    gravel  subsoil,  which  responds   eagerly  to  cultivation. 

For  illustrated  booklets,  maps  and  information  as   to  reduced  rates  to  these  locations,  address: 


s^-h^ittx1 


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THOEPE, 


JDistiict    _^_gre33.t    ^CxolbJ.g'ari    I_ia,rxd.    Assn., 

3Z>ept.    IL/£, 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


Bonnet  Straw  Cloth 

CJISTER,  have  you  a  knack  of  mak- 
kJ  ing  your  own  bonnet?  Here's 
news  for  you — money  saving  news. 
We  carry  a  large  stock  of  bonnet 
straw  cloth,  manufactured  especially 
for  us,  from  our  own  designs.  Four- 
teen different  styles  and  colors.  Rice 
Net,  Wire  Chiffon,  Braid,  etc.,  with  a 
large  assortment  of  Ribbon  and  Mous- 
seline  de  Soie  for  strings.  We  are  the 
only  house  making  a  specialty  of  these 
goods.  Write  for  free  samples  and 
prices. 

Albaugh  Bros.,  Dover  &  Co. 


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Chicago,  III. 


Farms  You  Will  Buy 

East  Central  Kansas  is  the  best  part 
of  the  State  for  general  farming  and 
raising  stock.  Well  watered,  Marion 
county's  average  crop  acreage  is  110,000 
acres  corn,  90,000  acres  wheat,  40,000 
acres  oats,  20,000  acres  alfalfa.  We 
have  some  good  farms  for  sale  at  a  bar- 
gain. Will  say  to  the  Brethren  that  are 
thinking  of  changing  their  location  that 
they  will  do  well  to  investigate  our 
country.  Good  bargains  near  church. 
Any  information  cheerfully  furnished. 


GARRISON 


STUDEEAKEK, 

Florence,  Kansas. 


50  Brethren  Wanted 

with  their  families  to  settle  in  the 
vicinity  of  Tyvan,  Canada.  A  good 
working  church,  one  churchhouse 
built  and  steps  taken  for  another  one. 

Best  of  soil,  $10  per  acre,    ' 
near    railroad    town,    on    easy    terms. 
Good    water,    good    people,    schools 
and   roads. 

This    chance    will    last    only   a    few 
weeks.     Address: 


29t4 


H.   M.   BARWICK, 

McPherson,    Kans. 


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Practical  wisdom  of  a  particularly  high  order  is 
sometimes  referred  to  as  "  horse  sense."  This  is  a  de- 
served tribute  to  one  of  man's  most  useful  friends,  and 
the  compliment  might  with  propriety  be  extended  to 
most  of  the  four-footed  kind.  Animals  live  close  to  na- 
ture, and  as  a  result  lead  normal,  healthy  lives.  If  a 
horse  becomes  sick,  which  seldom  happens  in  his  natur- 
al state,  turn  him  loose  in  a  pasture  and  he  will  quickly 
find  and  eat  the  herbs  that  set  him  right.  That  is  horse 
sense.  A  sick  cat  will  cure  its  ailments  by  eating  cat- 
nip. That  is  "  horse  sense  "  in  the  cat.  When  a  man 
becomes  ill,  he  generally  sends  to  the  nearest  drugstore 
for  a  suppply  of  medicine  of  which  he  knows  little  or 
nothing  and  which  may  contain  dangerous  drugs  and 
mineral  poisons.  That  indicates  a  lack  of  "  horse 
sense."  He  would  show  practical  wisdom  by  taking  a 
few  doses  of  DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER, 
the  old  time-tried  herb-remedy  which  is  made  on 
"  sound  sense  "  principles  from  medicinal  herbs,  roots 

and  leaves. 

<5>  <S>  <S> 

RECOMMENDS    ITSELF. 


Herndon,  Kans. 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Sir: — On  my  missionary  trips  I  frequently  hear 
your  Blood  Vitalizer  spoken  of.  When  once  it  is  known, 
it  increases  in  demand.  The  people  purchase  it  without 
any  recommendation,  as  your  medicine  recommends  it- 
self. Yours  Truly, 

(Rev.)    C.    Meyer. 


CURED    HIM    COMPLETELY. 


Newburg,   Wis. 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

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ordered   last   winter   has   all   been   used   up.     It   has    done 

me    great    good.     It    cured    me    completely    of    the    after 

effects  of  the  grippe. 

Yours  very  truly, 

Pastor  St.  Trinity  Church.  Joseph  Huber. 

«>   <S>   <8> 

EXCELS    ALL    MEDICINES. 


Schaller,  Iowa. 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

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and  gives  satisfaction.  I  would  like  to  keep  it  on  hand 
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to  sufferers.  I  desire  to  do  this  for  the  following  rea- 
sions:  First,  it  has  served  me  as  a  cure.  I  was  suf- 
fering with  stomach  trouble  for  years.  I  now  feel  well 
and  keep  well  with  careful  diet. 

Secondly,  your  Blood  Vitalizer  excels  all  medicines 
which  I  have  used.  I  can  therefore  recommend  it  heart- 
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(Rev.)   H.   H.  Schwietert. 

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drugstore  medicine.  It  is  sold  only  through  agents  or 
direct  by  the  maker.  Printed  matter,  chuck  full  of 
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CHICAGO,  ILL 


THE      INGLENOOK, 


The 


Mount 

Campbell 

Tract 


fa  Fresno  Connty, 

California, 


Promises  to  become  the  leading 
fruit-growing  section  of  California. 
Land  is  cheap,  water  abundant,  loca- 
tion healthful  and  soil  unsurpassed. 
The  soil  is  especially  adapted  to  the 
orange,  grape,  fig,  orchard  fruits,  al- 
falfa and  general   farming. 

Plans  are  now  forming  for  a  colo- 
ny of  the  Brethren  on  this  tract,  J. 
S.  Kuns,  proprietor  of  the  old  Mis- 
sion farm  at  Covina,  Cal.,  having  al- 
ready purchased  land  in  this  district, 
which  has  been  inspected  by  other 
prominent  members  of  the  church. 

Maps  and  information  by 

W.  N.  ROHRER, 

Fresno,  Cal. 


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Annual  Stockholders'  Meeting 


OUR  ANNUAL  SHAREHOLDERS'  MEETING  was  held  on  July  4th.  Twenty-six  of  our 
leading  shareholders,  some  coming  a  distance  of  five  hundred  miles,  were  present.  All  declare 
it  was  the  most  enthusiastic  and  encouraging  business  meeting  they  ever  attended.  Investigation 
showed  that  the  assets  of  the  Corporation  are  increasing  at  the  rate  of  nearly  two  thousand  dollars 
per  month,  and  that  the  dividends  this  year  promise  to  be  10  per  cent  or  more.  The  1904  series  of 
voucher  contracts  ($150,000  worth)  was  closed  out  in  five  months.  Thus  the  first  five  months  of 
Scientific  Co-operation,  as  first  inaugurated  and  applied  by  us  in  America,  closed  in  a  blaze  of  glory. 
Already  Scientific  Co-operation  is  a  success.  Already  our  shareholders  are  reaping  the  benefits  in 
immense  savings  and  in  dividends  on  their  investments.  Our  merchandise  sales  are  increasing  daily, 
and  our  selling  expenditures  are  decreasing  daily.  We  want  you  as  a  partner  in  our  Mail  Order 
Business,  which  is  organized  on  an  original,  scientific  co-operative  plan. 


Prompt  Action  Nec- 
essary. 

Co-operation  aims  to  do  for  the 
small  capitalist  what  the  large 
capitalist  is  doing  for  himself.  If 
you  have  $100  you  cannot  start  in 
business  with  it,  at  least  not  in  a 
business  which  yields  any  kind  of 
returns.  You  must  deposit  it  in  a 
savings  bank  or  invest  it  in  secur- 
ities and  be  contented  with  small 
interest. 

By  co-operation  you  can  make 
the  small  capital  yield  the  hand- 
some percentage  of  returns  which 
the  banker  or  the  merchant  secures 
from  his  large  investment.  "A.  B. 
D.  &  Co.  Stock"  through  co-oper- 
ation puts  you  in  business  for 
yourself,  no  matter  how  small  your 
capital,  and  puts  you  on  an  equality 
with  the  powerful  merchant  as  far 
as  earning  power  for  your  dollar  is 
concerned. 

Co-operation  puts  you  in  a  position  for  a 
25  per  cent,  opportunity  where  otherwise 
you  remain  shackled  to  the  i  per  cent, 
dictum  of  the  savings  bank. 

Our  stock  is  for  sale  only  to  gain  the  co- 
operation of  thousands  of  customers — past, 
present  and  future.  Remember  you  buy 
mto  an  established  mail  order  business 
receiving  mora  than  a  thousand  dollars 
nearly  every  day  right  now.  No  Experiment. 
No  risk.  Just  Expansion  and  O-operation. 
.  Write  to-day  for  application  blanks. 


Our  Idea 

To  do  the  right  thing,  at  the  right 
time,  in  the  right  way;  to  do  some  things 
better  than  they  were  ever  done  before; 
to  eliminate  errors;  to  know  both  sides 
of  the  question;  to  be  courteous;  to  be  an 
example;  to  work  for  love  of  the  work; 
to  anticipate  requirements;  to  develop 
resources;  to  recognize  no  impediments; 
to  master  circumstances;  to  act  from 
reason  rather  than  rule;  to  be  satisfied 
with  nothing  short  of  perfection  in 
scientific  co-operation. 

Woii't  you  join  our  Family? 


Albaugh  Bros., 
Dover  &  Co. 

The  Mail  Order  House 


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Chicago,    -    Illinois. 


What  Is  Your  Capital 
Doing  For  You? 

Prompt  action  on  your  part  is 
necessary  to  secure  your  stock  at 
"ground-floor"  quotations.  It  was 
unanimously  decided,  at  the  Stock- 
holder's Meeting,  that  no  more 
stock  should  be  sold  at  less  than 
$125.00  per  share,  which  is  a 
premium  of  $25.00  on  each  share, 
and  judging  from  past  experience, 
it  is  more  than  likely  that  the  stock 
will  command  a  heavier  premium 
by  the  end  of  the  business  year. 

We  now  have  nearly  Five 
Hundred  people  interested  with  us; 
and  in  order  to  enlist  hundreds 
more  of  co-operators,  the  manage- 
ment has  decided  to  increase  the 
capital  stock  of  the  Company  to 
$500,000  and  issue  a  new  series  for 
$150,000  worth  of  voucher  con- 
tracts. 

You  should  take  advantage  of  this 
exceptional  opportunity,  by  getting  your 
application  in  for  a  part  of  this  1905  series. 

Remember:  One  judicious  investmeEtmay 
be  worth  years  of  labor.  There  is  nothing: 
to  give  away  in  our  proposition.  It  is  nut  a 
promotor's  scheme,  but  a  straight-forward, 
nigh-grade,  strictly  legitimate  mercantile 
enterprise  and  every  dollar's  worth  of  stock 
sold  represents  an  actual  125  cents  of  value 
— (hat's  why  the  stocks  sell  at  a  premium. 
Write  to-day/or  application  blanks. 


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A  Town  With  a  Future 


Snyder,  Colorado,  Has  all  the  Ear-marks  of  a  Comer  and 
is    Surely   Destined   to   be    One   of   North- 
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Grabill,  Lemasters,  Pa.;  J.  L.  Kuns,  McPherson,  Kans.; 
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place  where  the  industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN  PEOPLE  DO  EASTERN  FARMING. 

You  Gon't  have  to  spend  years  learning"  a  new  business. 

ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

besides  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
his  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  it. 

SPECIAL    LOW    RATES    TO    CALIFORNIA. 

Prom  August  15th  to  Sept.  10th  the  railroads  will  sell  Round  Trip  excursion 
tickets  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

From   Chicago,    $50  00 

From   Mississippi   River 47  50 

From    Missouri    River, 45  00 

Final  return  limit,  Oct.  23. 

ALSO    SEPTEMBER    15tli   TO    OCTOBER    15th    COLONIST    ONE-WAY    TICKETS 
TO  ANT  CALIFORNIA  POINT. 

From    Chicago $33   00 

From   Mississippi   River 30   00 

From    Missouri    River 25   00 

By  this  arrangement  you  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 
land.     If  it  suits  you,  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate. 

Land  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre,  including  perpetual  water  right.  Terms,  one- 
fourth  cash;  balance  in  eight  annual  payments. 

From   twenty  to  forty  acres  will  support  the  average  family  in  comfort. 

If  interested  send  your  name  and  address  and  receive  printed  matter  and  our 
local  newspaper  free  for  two  months.     Write  to 

NARES  &  SAUNDERS,   -    Laton,  California. 

26tl3    Uonuon  the  INfiLKNOOK  when  wilting 


A  Free  Trip 


We  are  running  cheap  excursions 
from  Chicago,  St.  Louis  and  inter- 
mediate points  to  Denver,  Sterling, 
Snyder  and  other  Colorado  points  ev- 
ery month.  If  you  can  help  us  to 
get  up  a  party  to  come  out  from  your 
locality,  will  furnish  free  transporta- 
tion for  your  own  personal  use  to 
accompany  them  on  the  above  named 
trip. 

MILLIONS    OF   DOLLARS 

are  being  expended  by  the  United 
States  government  on  irrigation  en- 
terprises and  what  was  once  known 
as  "The  Great  American  Desert"  is 
beginning  to  bloom  and  blossom  in  a 
manner  wonderful  to  behold. 

OUR    FARMERS 

are  prosperous  and  contented.  It  is 
plain  to  be  seen  that  they  are  making 
more  money  on  40  or  80  acres  of  ir- 
rigated land  than  can  be  realized  on 
more  than  double  the  amount  of  land 
"  Back  East,"  and  a  trip  through  the 
South  Platte  Valley,  Colorado,  will 
convince  you  of  this  fact. 

CHEAP  LANDS  AND  EASY  PAY- 
MENTS. 

We  sell  a  few  irrigated  farms,  or 
town  lots  in  Denver,  Sterling  or  Sny- 
der at  lowest  figures  and  give  easy 
terms  of  payment.  Will  sell  a  limited 
number  of  Snyder  lots  on  $5.00 
monthly  payments. 

WRITE  TO-DAY. 

Don't  wait  for  some  one  else  to  get 
in  ahead  of  you  on  the  best  bargains. 
If  you  cannot  come  yourself,  let  us 
know  just  what  you  want  and  how 
much  money  you  wish  to  invest  and 
will  make  selections  for  you. 

We  wish  to  arrange  with  one  mem- 
ber in  every  town  or  county  to  co- 
operate with  us  in  this  enterprise. 
Advertising  matter  free. 

The  Colorado  Colony  Co., 
Sterling,  Celorado. 

I7tl3      Mention  tho  INQLENOOK  when  writing. 


A  POWER  FOR  GOOD 


When  a  disturbance  appears  in  the  bodily 
functions  and  your  feelings  indicate  that  your 
system  is  out  of  order,  you  will  make  no  mistake 
in  resorting  to 


i>  m 


DR.  PETER" 
BLOOD  YITALIZER 


without  delay.  It  is  a  power  for  good  It  soothes 
and  calms  the  irritated  conditions  and  gives 
4  health  and  strength.  Thousands  have  experienced 
its  medicinal  charm.  Not  sold  in  drugstores,  but 
by  special  agents  only,  or  direct  from  the  pro- 
prietor, 

I  DR.    PETER    FAHRNEY, 

112=114  S.  Hoyne  Avenue, 

CHICAGO,  ILL. 


Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail 


I  IDAHO 


is  the  best-watered  arid   State 
winds,    destructive    storms    and 
mate   it  makes   life   bright   and 
We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer 
change   for   the   general   improvement    in    your    condi 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  b 
and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  coun 
swer  and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger 
fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves 
Cheap    homeseekers'    rates    are    made    to   all   prin 
for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting 


in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot  ^ 

cyclones   are   unknown,   and    with   its   matchless    cli-  5 

worth  living.  J 

to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a  ^ 

tion  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on  ^ 

oth  requirements.     There  is,  however,  only  one  wise  §■ 

try  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an-  ^ 

work   teach   us   that   a   few   dollars   spent   in    railroad  ^ 

thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow.  ^ 

cipal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see  ^ 

a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing.  ^ 


Round=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only' in  May 
and  October,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


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PAYETTE    VALLEY   HOME.— Five  Years  from  Sagebrush. 


Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance. 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


Arrived  in  Payette  Valley  Feb.  23,  1903.  Settled  on  an  80-acre  tract,  covered  with  sage  brush. 
Cleared  40  acres.  May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.  Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.  June  12  sowed  10  acres 
to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.  Yielded  55  to  acre.  Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 
or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 
oats. 

Potatoes  yielded  500  bushels  to  the  acre  and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)   E.  L.  Dotson. 


S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

J.  E.  HOOPER,  Agent,   Oakland,  Kansas. 


Mention  the  1NGLENOOK  when 


D.   E.   BURLEY, 
G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R„ 

Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 


Fine      §.; 


ft  I  NSLtNOOK 


Vol.  VI. 


August  9,  1904. 


No.  32. 


SERVICE. 


BY    MAY    C.    STONER. 

Do  you  seek  a  victor's  crown 

And  a  robe  of  spotless  white? 
Lay  your  life  for  Jesus  down 

Work  for  him  from  morn  till  night; 
Bring  the  lost  ones  to  the  fold 

To  the  realms  of  peace  and  light. 
Then  you'll  walk  the  streets  of  gold 

In  the  city  of  delight. 

You  would  see   his  smiling  face; 

You  would  hear  his  loving  voice? 
Then  with  patience  run  your  race, 

And  in  trials  e'er  rejoice. 
Gently  lead  the  wand'rer  home, 

Set  the  captive  pris'ner  free, 
Then  he'll  say,  "  My  blessed,  come, 

Ye  have  done  it  unto  me." 

Ladoga,  Ind. 

.;.    4.   .». 

SNAPSHOTS. 


Self-conquest  is  the  greatest  of  all  victories. 

*> 
Cod  created  hope  when  listening  to  repentance. 

.5. 

In  all  affairs  of  vice  you  can  afford  to  be  a  fool. 

* 
There  is  no  xvealth  like  the  heart's  wealth — content. 

A  too-virtuous  'wife  is  like  six  consecutive  dishes  of 
honey. 

* 

A  man  is  usually  most  distinguished  after  he  is  ex- 
tinguished. 


Being  honest  for  policy's  sake  is  neither  good  policy 
nor  good  honesty. 

* 

The  pursuit  even  of  the  best  of  tilings  ought  to  be 
calm  and  tranquil. 


Many  of  those  comprising  the  upper  crust  of  society 
are  not  even  well-bred.  , 


Learning  is  wealth  to  the  poor,  and  honor  to  the 


The  man  without  a  purpose  lives  on,  but  he  enjoys 
not  life. 

* 

One  of  the  very  best  of  earthly  possessions  is  pos- 
sessions. 

* 

He  who  kicks  a  cow  kicks  a  big  chunk  of  profits  in- 
to the  gutter. 

*• 

In  adversity  a  man  sometimes  comes  to  know  him- 
self for  the  first  time. 

* 

It  pays  to  take  some  stimulant  now  and  then;  that 
is,  it  pays  the  saloon-keeper. 
*:* 

When  an  American  heiress  is  looking  for  a  title  she 
does  her  shopping  in  Europe. 

The  more  you  drink  to  other  people's  health  the  more 
you  drink  to  the  ruin  of  your  own. 
* 

The  measure  of  success  is  the  degree  in  which  men 
make  themselves  valuable  to  others. 


Cooking  and  self-abnegation  are  no  longer  fashion- 
able in  a  wife,  but  they  make  excellent  doormats. 
* 
A  woman  declares  to  a  man  that  he  is  perfect,  and 
the   man   never  notices  that  she  does  not  attempt  to 
prove  it. 

* 

//  is  the  tootsy-wootsy  girl,  frail  and  gentle  to  the 
naked  eye,  who  turns  out  to  be  a  Gibraltar  of  prej- 
udices and  desires  to  her  astonished  husband. 
<* 

None,  therefore,  who  fears  or  grieves,  or  worries 
or  who  is  anxious,  is  free ;  but  whoever  is  released  from 
griefs,  fears  and  anxieties  is  by  that  very  tiling  re- 
leased from  slavery. 


746 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  9,   1904. 


Ithe  kritic  on  the  trane! 


BY  GEORGE  HALDAN. 

'1 1*1 1*1  i*i  i*i  1*1  ,*r  1*1 1*1  iti  >*i  i*i  1 


The  Great  Salt  Lake  is  a  body  of  natural  brine  occu- 
pying the  main  depression  within  the  Salt  Lake  valley 
in  the  north  central  part  of  Utah.  In  all  probability 
this  lake  is  a  small  remnant  of  what  formerly  was  a 
large  inland  sea,  filling  the  entire  valley  extending  be- 
yond the  present  boundaries  of  Nevada  and  Idaho  on 
the  west  and  north,  and  almost  reaching  Arizona  on 
the  south.  The  evidences  remaining  which  demon- 
strate almost  beyond  doubt  that  such  a  thing  existed 
are  the  shorelines,  terraces,  both  carved  and  built. 
The  rippling  marks  of  sea  waves  and  other  littoral 
phenomena  on  the  mountain  slopes  that  once  formed 
its  shores  and  the  sediment  of  its  floors. 

This  body  of  water  has  been  an  object  of  attraction 
to  scientists  from  the  earliest  announcement  of  its  ex- 
istence, and  we  think  that  the  interest  at  present  is  re- 
garded greater  than  usual  perhaps  on  account  of  the 
surprisingly  rapid  shrinkage  during  the  past  two  years, 
which  is  much  in  advance  of  the  more  conservative  de- 
crease of  the  last  two  decades. 

A  French  traveler  of  some  note  learned  from  some 
of  the  Indian  tribes  of  the  Mississippi  valley,  the  story 
of  a  great  sea  lying  high  amid  the  solitudes  of  the 
Western  Mountains.  His  name  was  Baron  La  Hon- 
tan,  and  his  accounts  date  back  as  far  as  1689.  At  dif- 
ferent intervals  since  then,  men  have  given  certain  data 
regarding  the  existence,  size,  utility,  etc.,  of  this  won- 
derful body  of  water,  but  no  complete  survey  of  the 
lake  has  been  reported  since  1869  when  it  was  said  to 
be  about  50  miles  wide  and  75  miles  long,  with  an 
area  of  2,125  square  miles.  Of  course  this  cannot  be  re- 
lied upon  as  being  true  at  the  present  date,  because  the 
valley  floor  of  the  lake  is  conspicuously  flat,  so  that 
with  the  slight  fall  of  water  the  level  gives  rise  to  what 
appears  to  be  a  disproportionately  great  recession,  and 
the  rise  of  a  few  feet  would  result  in  flooding  the  val- 
ley clear  to  the  Wasatch  Mountains. 

Some  years  ago  it  was  determined  by  sounding  that 
the  maximum  depth  was  30  feet  and  the  average  depth 
was  13  feet,  which  is  surprisingly  small  in  both  di- 
mensions. 

The  river  supply  of  the  lake  is  nearly  all  derived 
from  the  Eastern  side  and  consists  of  the  drainage  of 
the  small  basin  near  the  Wasatch  Mountains.  The  Jor- 
dan river  is  probably  the  first  of  importance  among  the 
tributaries  which  brings  an  overflow  from  the  Utah 
Lake.  The  Weber  and  Bear  rivers  are  next  in  impor- 
tance, but  the  observer  can  easily  see  that  the  source 
of  supply  is  entirely  inadequate  to  the  amount  of  evap- 
oration to  which  this  body  of  water  is  subjected,  which 
not  only  decreases  the  area  of  its  surface  and  depth, 


but  also  increases  its  salinity.  Scientists  agree  that  this 
lake  is  certain  to  disappear  from  the  map  within  the 
near  future,  even  the  date  of  its  epitaph  has  already 
been  given.  Some  have  placed  it  at  twenty-five  years 
and  others  at  forty  years.  When  an  examination  of 
the  surface  level  of  the  lake  is  made,  we  find  that  in  the 
last  sixteen  years  the  net  fall  has  been  eleven  and  one- 
half  feet,  while  in  the  last  three  years  it  has  been  fully 
three  feet ;  it  has  a  noticeable  increase  over  the  pre- 
vious years. 

Now  as  the  rate  of  fall  is  increasing  and  the  deepest 
part  of  the  lake  was  only  thirty-six  feet  in  1850,  it  is 
easily  calculated  that  it  will  be  ready  for  cultivation 
inside  of  forty  years. 

Another  man  who  has  been  studying  the  situation, 
figures  this  way:  He  compares  the  cubic  contents  of 
the  lake  in  1886,  and  the  same  at  the  present  time, 
and  by  such  calculations  figures  that  the  disappear- 
ance is  scheduled  to  occur  within  twenty-five  years. 
There  may  be  three  reasons,  or  one  of  the  three  rea- 
sons, why  the  Salt  Lake  is  disappearing.  One  is  the 
evaporation ;  another,  the  extensive  use  of  water  for 
irrigation  purposes,  and  the  third,  a  subterranean  out- 
let.    However,  the  latter  is  one  of-  conjecture. 

We  do -not  see  how  anyone  would  be  able  to  deter- 
mine successfully,  as  yet,  the  truth  of  this,  but  there 
are  evidences  that  point  somewhat  in  this  direction. 
It  seems  to  us  that  the  stronger  evidence  would  be  the 
insufficiency  of  its  tributaries  to  the  demand  made  upon 
it  by  the  large  surface  it  has  for  evaporation,  having 
only  three  small  rivers  feeding  it,  and  a  surface  of 
over  2,000  square  miles  for  evaporation  besides  the 
heavy  draught  that  is  made  upon  it  by  irrigation. 
There  are  indications  of  a  strong  character  on  the  sides 
of  the  surrounding  mountains,  that  this  lake  at  one  time 
had  a  depth  of  600  feet  more  than  it  now  has,  and  if 
this  be  true  in  any  rrieasure,  it  remains  evident  that  we 
are  witnessing  the  speedy  completion  of  the  physical 
change  that  has  been  in  progress  for  many  centuries. 
Most  of  the  physical  changes  of  the  globe  occur  slowly 
and  do  not  give  evidence  of  themselves  upon  the  map 
for  generations  to  follow,  but  in  all  probability  the 
Great  Salt  Lake  will  be  an  exception  to  the  rule. 

GOVERNMENT    INSPECTION    OF    MEATS. 


BY  DR.  C.    W.  JOHNSON,  GOVERNMENT  INSPECTOR. 

At  a  time  when  new  food  products  and  pure  food 
are  so  prominently  set  forth  in  the  columns  of  both 
newspaper  and  magazine  throughout  the  country,  it 
is  especially  apropos  that  considerable  importance 
should  be  attached  to  the  inspection  of  meats  and  live 
stock  as  conducted  by  the  Federal  Government. 

Government    inspection    of    meats,    while    largely 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  9,  1904. 


747 


known  of  in  a  general  way,  principally  through  the 
medium  of  the  advertised  products,  is  but  vaguely  un- 
derstood except  by  those  directly  interested  in  carry- 
ing on  the  work.  There  are  several  reasons  for  this 
lack  of  knowledge  in  a  subject  which  actually  concerns 
the  vitality  and  life  of  the  nation.  In  the  first  place, 
the  inspection  of  meats  as  a  Government  proposition 
is  young,  having  been  in  operation  but  some  twelve 
years,  and  for  only  about  half  that  period  has  it  in  any 
way  approached  its  present  efficient  service. 

Second,  the  importance  of  such  inspection  being  so 
little  understood  by  the  public  may  be  due  to  congres- 
sional inaction  in  not  allowing  sufficient  appropriations 
for  extending  the  service  to  its  ultimate  requirements; 
which  lack  of  interest  by  Congressmen  may  be  due  to 
absence  of  concerted  and  intelligent  influence  from 
their  constituency.  As  a  result  the  Bureau  is  hampered 
and  curtailed  in  its  plans  and  finds  it  all  but  impos- 
sible to  secure  sufficient  and  competent  ability  to  make 
a  reasonable  showing.  The  work  calls  for  a  large 
force  of  high  grade  Veterinarians  possessing  a  technic- 
al and  practical  knowledge. 

A  third  reason  for  the  scarcity  of  information  pos- 
sessed even  by  those  who  have  watched  the  Inspectors 
at  work,  is  that  the  inspection  is  carried  on  so  system- 
atically, deftly  and  rapidly  by  these  experts  that  it 
does  not  attract  especial  attention. 

The  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry,  which  is  an  impor- 
tant factor  in  the  Agricultural  Department,  is  ably 
looked  after  by  Dr.  D.  E.  Salmon,  who  has  been  chief 
of  the  Bureau  since  its  inception,  directing  its  affairs 
from  Washington,  D.  C,  with  the  aid  of  numerous 
expert  assistants,  many  of  whom  have  been  on  the 
force  ever  since  Government  inspection  was  inaugu- 
rated. 

All  along  the  Canadian  border  and  the  line  between 
Mexico  and  the  United  States,  at  the  larger  towns,  as 
well  as  at  the  seaports  of  both  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific, 
there  are  "  Stations  "  located,  each  in  charge  of  an  ex- 
pert inspector  detailed  to  examine  carefully  every  head 
of  stock  that  enters  or  leaves  the  United  States,  thus 
making  the  introduction  or  prevalence  of  an  infectious 
or  contagious  disease  certain  of  detection.  The  ex- 
amination for  Meat  Inspector  before  the  Civil  Service 
Board  is  very  rigid,  calling  for  an  extensive  range  of 
technical  and  practical  knowledge.  In  this  examina- 
tion none  but  graduated  Veterinarians  are  allowed  to 
compete,  and  but  comparatively  few  of  these  meet  all 
the  requirements.  However,  the  list  of  eligibles  being 
constantly  exhausted,  success  in  passing  an  examina- 
tion usually  is  equivalent  to  an  appointment. 

The  duties  of  Meat  Inspector  may  be  roughly  class- 
ified as  Ante  Mortem  and  Post  Mortem,  each  requiring 
a  large  force. 

As  to  the  relative  importance  of  these  two  classes 
of  work  there  is  really  no  difference.     An  inspector  is 


required  to  be  familiar  with  both  as  he  often  is  trans- 
ferred from  one  to  the  other  as  occasion  demands.  But 
in  the  case  of  Ante  Mortem  inspection,  the  force  is 
spread  from  the  quarantine  line  at  the  south  where 
they  guard  against  the  introduction  of  Texas  fever,  to 
the  New  England  States  where  they  have  recently 
stamped  out  an  outbreak  of  malignant  foot  and  mouth 
disease.  Located  at  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  is  a  dipping 
plant,  through  which  southern  cattle  are  passed  to  rid 
them  of  the  "  tick,"  which  is  the  means  of  propagating 
Texas  fever,  and  at  the  principal  packing  centers  a  sim- 
ilar arrangement  exists  for  dipping  sheep  affected  with 
"  scab,"  in  charge  of  competent  Ante  Mortem  Inspec- 
tors. 

A  large  number  of  cattle  are  exported  alive  and 
these  also  exact  fine  judgment  on  the  part  of  the  Ante 
Mortem  Inspectors. 

Then,  throughout  the  Western  grazing  country,  they 
are  fast  freeing  from  diseased  conditions  droves  of  cat- 
tle and  sheep  by  dipping  them  before  making  shipment, 
thus  saving  to  ranchmen  and  others  thousands  of  dol- 
lars each  year,  it  being  considered  both  wiser  and 
cheaper  to  treat  the  animals  in  this  manner  before  they 
leave  for  the  packing  centers. 

But  this  work  does  not  end  with  the  ranches,  for, 
located  at  all  the  principal  packing  centers  the  Govern- 
ment Inspectors  are  to  be  found  condemning  animals 
for  various  causes,  such  as  Ansemia,  Hog  Cholera,  ad- 
vanced cases  of  Pregnancy  and  numerous  acute  in- 
flammatory conditions. 

Another  feature  in  this  connection  and  one  amazing 
in  proportion  even  to  one  who  is  informed,  is  the  cur- 
tailment of  receipts  in  this  class  of  undesirable  animals. 
Where  formerly  a  shipper  would  send  such  stock  to 
market,  willing  to  take  what  they  would  bring,  now, 
understanding  that  they  will  be  condemned  by  the  U. 
S.  Inspectors  and  be  practically  a  dead  loss,  they  re- 
frain from  shipping  them.  All  of  these  points,  which 
can  be  outlined  but  inadequately  in  a  magazine  article, 
are  to  be  found  in  interesting  detail  in  the  Annual  Re- 
port of  the  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry,  published  in 
Washington,  D.  C. 

After  the  Ante  Mortem  inspection  of  animals  natur- 
ally follows  the  Post  Mortem  work  as  carried  on  at 
the  large  abattoirs  throughout  the  country.  This  sub- 
jecc  I  believe  to  be  of  sufficient  importance  to  be  given 
in  a  later  article. 

82  Exchange  Building,  Chicago,  III. 
(To  be  Continued.  I 
4f  *  ♦ 

With  regard  to  manner,  be  careful  to  speak  in  a 
soft,  tender,  kind  and  loving  way.  Even  when  you 
have  occasion  to  rebuke,  be  careful  to  do  it  with  mani- 
fest kindness.  The  effect  will  be  incalculably  better. 
— Hosca  Ballon. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— August  9,  1904. 


LEARNING  BY  DOING    AT    TUSKEGEE. 


The  Year's  Work. 

The  contrast  between  manual  training,  as  taught  in 
such  a  school  as  Girard  College  in  Philadelphia,  or  the 
St.  Louis  Labor  Manual  Training  School,  and  industri- 
al training,  as  managed  at  Tuskegee,  is  notable.  Writ- 
ing in  1887  of  the  St.  Louis  School,  Samuel  Chapman 
Armstrong  said :  "  It  is  no  experiment.  It  is  the  con- 
trast to  perfection  of  the  fine  methods  of  training  head 
and  hand  together  that  I  know  of I  only  here  re- 
mark that  such  a  labor  school  belongs  rather  to  a  high 
civilization.  The  student's  support  is  assured  by  the 
accumulated    savings    of    educated    generations.      At 


Special  mention  should  be  made  of  the  steam  en- 
gineers, all  of  whom  took  this  year,  in  addition  to  the 
regular  theory  classes  in  engineering,  a. course  treat- 
ing electric  currents  and  dynamo  management. 

But  the  productive  work  at  Tuskegee  is  funda- 
mental pedagogically,  and  deserves  careful  attention. 
For  23  years  Tuskegee  has  been  in  process  of  con- 
struction, and  has  relied  upon  the  student  body  for 
much  skilled  labor.  To  display  the  effectiveness  of  this 
labor,  it  may  be  worth  while  to  describe  the  products 
of  a  few  shops  during  the  school  year  just  closed.  The 
farm  accounts  cannot  be  made  up  until  the  farm  sea- 
son closes. 

The  Tuskegee  brickyard  made  during  the  year  two 


Carnegie  Library. 


TUSKEGEE     INSTITUTE    GROUNDS. 


Hampton,  for  instance,  the  bread  and  butter  and 
clothes  question  is  primary,  if  not  paramount.  They 
(the  students)  must  have  something  to  eat  before  they 
can  be  taught,  so  we  pay  them  for  their  work,  instead 
of  being  paid  for  what  work  we  give  them."  At  Tus- 
kegee also,  students  are  paid  for  their  work.  Girard 
secures  finished  workmanship.  Tuskegee  secures  val- 
uable products  and  industrious  workers. 

Of  course  it  must  not  be  assumed  for  a  moment  that 
either  in  the  three  Rs  or  in  the  industries  Tuskegee  has 
eliminated  class-room  instruction.  After  the  tradi- 
tional class-room  method,  Night  School  students  (who 
accumulate  from  productive  industry  such  credits  at 
the  Treasurer's  office  as  will  later  on  defray  expenses 
in  the  Day  School)  pursue  academic  studies  each  night, 
and  at  certain  periods  of  the  day  receive  instruction  in 
mechanical  drawing  and  the  theories  that  underlie  the 
respective  industries. 


million  and  one  hundred  thousand  brick — which  would 
bring  a  fancy  price  in  New  York.  They  have  a  hand- 
some dull  red  color,  and  are  solid  and  durable.  The 
contrast  between  the  brick  in  Cassedy  Hall,  one  of  the 
earlier  buildings,  and  the  bricks  in  Douglass  Hall,  which 
has  just  been  completed,  exhibits  the  extraordinary 
advance  made  in  this  industry.  The  improvement  is 
due,  first,  to  the  fact  that  the  Cassedy  Hall  bricks  were 
laboriously  made  by  hand,  (at  the  rate  of  8,900  per 
day  of  ten  hours)  ;  whereas  the  Douglass  Hall  bricks 
were  made  by  steam  machinery,  (at  the  rate  of  30,000 
per  day)  ;  and  second,  to  the  fact  that  the  bricklayers 
have  been  increasing  their  efficiency  from  year  to  year. 
Anent  the  use  of  modern  machinery  at  the  brickyard,, 
it  is  interesting  to  note  that,  whereas  in  the  old  days 
boys  were  assigned  to  the  brickyard  against  their  will, 
now  the  waiting  list  of  eager  applicants  is  a  large  one. 
These  bricks  have  been  laid  by  the  Masonry  Divis- 


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ion,  which  has  this  year  completed  four  large  buildings 
— The  Huntington  Memorial  and  Office  Buildings,  the 
Douglass  Hall,  and  Emery  Dormitory  No.  I.  In  ad- 
dition the  division  has  almost  completed  Emery  Dor- 
mitory No.  2,  and  has  done  other  brick-work  such  as 
that  on  cottages,  and  the  building  of  a  new  pumping 
station ;  Huntington  Memorial  Building,  a  three-story 
edifice  with  two  wings  and  a  front  projection  accentu- 
ating the  front  entrance,  built  of  machine-made  Indian- 
red  bricks  with  red  mortar,  is  a  model  of  Twentieth 
Century  school  building  design  and  construction.  The 
ground  space  is  11,179  square  feet,  and  the  structure 
contains  about  900,000  bricks.  In  the  basement  is  an 
ample  gymnasium  for  girls,  and  the  main  center  of  the 


A  part  of  the  lumber  used  by  the  carpenters,  and  all 
the  laths  used  by  masons  come  directly  from  the  divis- 
ion of  Sawmilling. 

The  roofs  put  on  by  the  carpenters  are  covered  with 
tin  by  the  students  of  the  Tinsmithing  Division.  Be- 
sides 105  coffee  pots,  394  dippers,  423  dust  pans,  446 
slop  pans,  763  buckets,  and  other  tinware  innumerable 
in  kind  and  quantity,  this  division  made  6,375  square 
feet  of  gutters  and  valleys. 

During  the  year  the  division  of  Electricity  installed 
one  7-kilowatt  dynamo  for  street  lighting,  removing 
the  street  lights  from  the  large  monocycle  alternator 
to  the  small  dynamo;  kept  in  operation  in  27  buildings 
a  total  of  1717  lights;  and  installed  lights  in  Douglass 


THE    DAIRY    HERD. TUSKEGEE     INSTITUTE,    TUSKEGEE,    ALABAMA. 


third  story  an  assembly  room  seating  300  persons. 
Douglass  Hall  is  a  girls'  dormitory  with  33  bed-rooms 
and  a  large  study  hall ;  and  in  style  is  an  outgrowth  of 
the  colonial  type.  The  Emery  Dormitories  represent 
the  purely  colonial  type ;  each  building  is  of  dark  red 
brick  and  mortar,  and  contains  38  bed-rooms  and  one 
sitting  room.  The  Office  Building,  built  on  Mormon 
lines,  contains  the  offices  of  Principal,  his  Secretary, 
the  Treasurer,  the  Auditor,  the  Business  Agent,  and 
also  contains  the  Post  Office,  Bank,  etc.  Finally,  all 
the  excavating,  lathing  and  plastering  done  on  the 
grounds  were  done  by  the  Masonry  Division. 

The  carpenters  follow  and  work  along  with  the 
brickmasons ;  most  of  the  wood-work  on  the  buildings 
mentioned — and  an  immense  amount  it  was,  some  of  it 
very  intricate — and  an  infinite  number  of  other  jobs 
have  been  done  by  the  students  in  the  division  of  Car- 
pentry. 


Hall,  Emery  Dormitory  No.  I,  and  the  Academic 
Building.  For  this  division  the  crowning  achievement 
for  the  year  was  the  installation  of  one  150-kilowatts 
dynamo. 

Even  more  significant  is  the  year's  work  of  the 
Steam  and  Engineering  Division.  Its  foundry  turned 
out  9  tons  of  sash-weights  for  buildings,  II  tons  of 
casting  for  machinery,  stoves,  boiler,  agricultural  im- 
plements, etc. ;  besides  the  castings  for  250  iron  beds 
for  the  dormitories.  The  division  filled  an  important 
order  from  the  German  Government  for  castings  for 
cotton-gin  machinery.  .Moreover,  the  division  repaired 
40  pieces  of  machinery  for  other  divisions,  including 
metalworking,  woodworking,  agricultural,  and  steam 
machinery.  To  increase  the  steam  supply  for  heating 
the  buildings,  two  new  boilers  were  installed.  The 
Douglass  Hall  and  Emery  Dormitory  No.  1.  were  fit- 
ted with  steam  heating  system,  cast  iron  radiators  be- 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— August  9,  1904. 


ing  used;  and  also  water  works  service  such  as  lava- 
tories, sanitary  closets,  etc.  The  machine  and  engineer- 
ing division  installed,  with  the  aid  of  the  brickmasons, 
a  new  water  works  system ;  this  plant  is  equipped  with 
a  new  tower  and  tank,  40-horse  power  boiler  and  du- 
plex pump  and  has  a  capacity  of  10,000  gallons  per 
hour.  This  plant  furnishes  the  water  needed  by  the  live 
stock.  During  the  month  of  April  637,739  gallons 
were  pumped  from  this  plant.  The  students  made  the 
installations  to  which  reference  has  been  made  in  ac- 
cordance with  drawings  which  were  made  in  the  Me- 
chanical Drawing  Room.  Almost  daily  13  steam  en- 
gines and  11  steam  boilers  are  in  operation,  and,  al- 
though student  engineers  and  firemen  are  used  exclu- 
sively, not  one  serious  mishap  or  wreck  occurred 
during  the  year. 

In  conclusion  let  me  say  that  in  the  mass  of  details 
thus  awkwardly  presented,  the  reader  will  observe,  ( 1 ) 
that,  although  I  have  purposely  dealt  with  a  handful 
of  Tuskegee's  shops,  I  have  nevertheless  dealt  with  a 
large  number  of  trades;  and  (2)  that  each  student  may 
learn,  and  often  does,  more  than  one  trade.  The 
student  in  the  masonry  division  regularly  learns  what 
in  the  North  and  urban  South  constitutes  two  distinct 
trades —  (1)  Lathing  and  Plastering,  and  (2)  Brick- 
masonry.  Similarly,  engineering  is  distinct  from  the 
work  of  a  machinist,  and  the  machinist  may  be  a  "  vise- 
hand  "  or  a  "  machine-tool  "  man ;  finally,  the  steam 
fitter  is  distinct  from  the  other  three.  But,  at  Tuske- 
gee,  the  same  boy  learns  the  four  trades.  In  addition 
to  these,  moulding,  casting  and  plumbing  are  taught  in 
the  Machine  and  Engineering  Division.  The  Tuske- 
gee  boy  does  not  put  all  his  eggs  in  one  basket ;  he  is 
equipped  for  earning  his  living  under  the  actual  in- 
dustrial conditions  of  the  South. — Tuskegee  Student. 
«5*  *$*  ♦> 
CHOICE    OF    COMPANIONS. 


BY    CORA    BEARD. 

The  chameleon  changes  its  color  to  agree  with  that 
of  surrounding  objects. 

All  of  us  by  nature  possess  this  quality  to  such  a 
degree  that  our  character,  habits  and  principles  take 
their  form  and  color  from  those  of  our  intimate  as- 
sociates. Association  with  persons  wiser,  better  and 
more  experienced  than  ourselves,  is  always  more  or 
less  inspiring  and  invigorating. 

We  enlarge  our  field  of  observation  through  their 
eyes,  profit  by  their  experience,  and  learn  not  only  by 
what  they  have  enjoyed,  but  which  is  still  more  in- 
structive, from  what  they  had  suffered.  If  they  are 
stronger  than  ourselves  we  become  participators  in  their 
strength.  Hence  companionship  with  the  wise  and  en- 
ergetic never  fails  to  have  a  most  valuable  influence 
on  the  formation  of  character. 

Young  men   are   in   general   but   little   aware  how 


much  their  reputation  is  affected  in  the  view  of  the 
public  by  the  company  they  keep.  The  character  of 
their  associates  is  soon  regarded  as  their  own. 

If  they  seek  the  society  of  the  worthy  and  the  re- 
spectable it  elevates  them  in  the  public  estimation,  as 
it  is  an  evidence  that  they  respect  themselves  and  are 
desirous  to  secure  the  respect  of  others. 

On  the  contrary,  intimacy  with  persons  of  bad  char- 
acter always  sinks  a  young  man  in  the  eyes  of  the 
public.  People  learn  what  his  taste  is,  what  sort  of 
company  he  prefers,  on  no  doubtful  ground,  and  what 
the  result  of  his  own  principles  and  character  will  be. 

Only  those  who  are  elevated  in  mind  and  character 
can  lift  us  up,  while  the  ignoble,  degraded  and  debased 
drag  us  down.  No  man  of  position  can  allow  himself 
to  associate,  without  jeopardy,  with  the  profane,  the 
Sabbath-breaking,  the  drunken  and  the  licentious,  for 
he  lowers  himself  without  elevating  them. 

Keep  company  with  persons  rather  above  than  be- 
low yourself;  for  gold  in  the  same  pocket  with  silver 
loseth  both  of  its  weight  and  color.  In  all  society  it 
is  advisable  to  associate,  if  possible,  with  the  highest ; 
not  that  the  highest  are  always  the  best,  but  because 
if  disgusted  there  you  can  at  once  descend;  but  if  we 
begin  at  the  lowest,  it  is  impossible  to  ascend.  It 
should  be  the  aim  of  the  young  man  to  seek  the  so- 
ciety of  the  wise,  the  intelligent  and  the  good.  He 
that  sinks  into  familiarity  with  persons  much  below 
his  own  level  will  be  constantly  weighed  down  by  his 
base  connections,  and  though  he  may  easily  sink  lower, 
he  will  find  it  hard  to  rise  again.  Better  be  alone 
than  in  bad  company.  "  Evil  communications  cor- 
rupt good  manners." 

It  is  not  alone  the  low  and  dissipated,  the  vulgar  and 
profane,  from  whose  examples  and  society  you  are 
in  danger.  But  there  are  persons  of  apparently  decent 
morals,  of  polished  manners  and  interesting  talents,  but 
who,  at  the  same  time,  are  unprincipled  and  wicked, 
who  make  light  of  sacred  things  and  scoff  at  religion ; 
these  are  the  persons  whose  society  and  influence  are 
most  to  be  feared. 

Many  a  young  man  has  thus  been  led  on  by  his 
elders  in  iniquity  till  he  has  been*  initiated  into  all  the 
mysteries  of  debauchery  and  crime,  and  ended  his 
day  a  poor,  outcast  wretch.  Live  with  the  culpable 
and  you  will  be  apt  to  die  with  the  criminal.  Bad 
company  is  like  a  nail  driven  into  a  post,  which  after 
the  first  or  second  blow  may  be  drawn  out  with  little 
difficulty,  but  being  driven  in  to  the  head  it  can  only  be 
drawn  by  the  destruction  of  the  wood.  Evil  company 
is  like  tobacco  smoke, — you  cannot  be  long  in  its  pres- 
ence without  carrying  away  a  taint  in  it.  "  Let  no  man 
deceive  himself,"  says  Petrarch,  "  by  thinking  that  the 
contagions  of  the  soul  are  less  than  those  of  the  body. 
They  are  greater ;  they  sink  deeper  and  come  on  more 
unexpectedly." 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  9,   1904. 


751 


Good  company  not  only  improves  our  manners  but 
also  our  minds,  and  intelligent  associations  will  become 
a  source  of  enjoyment  as  well  as  of  edification.  Good 
company  is  that  which  is  composed  of  intelligent 
and  well-bred  persons,  whose  language  is  chaste  and 
good,  whose  sentiments  are  pure  and  edifying,  whose 
deportment  is  such  as  pure  and  well-regulated  educa- 
tion and  correct  morals  dictate  and  whose  conduct  is 
directed  and  restrained  by  the  pure  precepts  of  religion. 

Water  will  seek  its  own  level.  So  do  various  ele- 
ments of  society.  Tell  us  whom  you  prefer  as  com- 
panions and  we  can  tell  who  you  are  like.  Do  you 
love  the  society  of  the  vulgar?  Then  you  are  already 
debased  in  your  sentiments.  Do  you  seek  to  be  with 
the  profane?  In  your  heart  you  are  like  them.  Are 
jesters  and  buffoons  your  choice  companions?  He 
who  loves  to  laugh  at  folly  is  himself  a  fool.  Do  you 
love  and  seek  the  society  of  the  wise  and  good?  Is 
this  your  habit?  Had  you  rather  take  the  lowest  seat 
among  these  than  the  highest  seat  with  others  ?  Then 
you  have  already  learned  to  be  good.  You  may  not 
make  very  rapid  progress,  but  even  a  good  beginning 
is  not  to  be  despised.  Hold  on  your  way  and  seek  to 
be  the  companion  of  those  who  fear  God.  So  shall 
you  be  wise  for  yourself  and  wise  for  eternity. 

Uniontown,  Md. 

*  *  ♦ 
THE    SUNDAY    STONE. 


All  our  Sabbath  deeds  are  written  there,  and  we  shall 
see  them  at  the  last. 

Be  very  careful  to  keep  your  Sabbath  pure  and 
white,  and  do  not  allow  the  dust  of  worldliness  and  sin 
to  tarnish  the  purity  of  the  blessed  day. 

"  Remember  the  Sabbath  day  to  keep  it  holy." — 
Christian  Treasury. 

.>    4»   4» 

A    BARREN    WASTE- 


In  one  of  our  English  coal  mines  there  is  a  constant 
formation  of  limestone,  caused  by  the  trickling  of  wa- 
ter through  the  rocks.  This  water  contains  a  great 
many  particles  of  lime,  which  are  deposited  in  the 
mine,  and  as  the  water  passes  off,  these  become  hard, 
and  form  limestone. 

This  stone  would  always  be  white,  like  marble,  were 
it  not  that  men  are  working  in  the  mine,  and  as  the 
black  dust  rises  from  the  coal  it  mixes  with  the  soft 
lime,  and  in  that  way  a  black  stone  is  formed. 

Now,  in  the  night,  when  there  is  no  coal-dust  rising, 
the  stone  is  white;  then  again,  the  next  day,  when  the 
miners  are  at  work,  another  black  layer  is  formed, 
and  so  on  alternately,  black  and  white,  through  the 
week  until  Sunday  comes.  Then,  if  the  miners  keep 
holy  the  Sabbath,  a  much  larger  layer  of  white  stone 
.than  before.  There  will  be  the  white  stone  of  Satur- 
day night  and  the  whole  of  Sunday,  so  that  every 
seventh  day  the  white  layers  will  be  about  three  times 
as  thick  as  any  of  the  others.  But  if  they  work  on 
the  Sabbath,  they  see  it  marked  against  them  in  the 
stone.     Hence  the  miners  call  it  "  the  Sunday  stone." 

Perhaps  many  who  now  break  the  Sabbath  would 
try  to  spend  it  better  if  there  were  a  "  Sunday  stone  " 
where  they  could  see  their  unkept  Sabbaths  with  their 
black  marks. 

But  God  needs  no  such  record  on  earth  to  know  how 
all  our  Sabbaths  are  spent.     His  record  is  kept  above. 


The  coast  of  Labrador  is  the  edge  of  a  vast  solitude 
of  rocky  hills,  split  and  blasted  by  the  frosts  and  beaten 
by  the  waves  of  the  Atlantic  for  unknown  ages.  A 
grand  headland,  yellow,  brown  and  black  in  its  naked- 
ness, is  ever  in  sight,  one  to  the  north  of  you  and  one  to 
the  south.  Here  and  there  upon  them  are  strips  and 
patches  of  pale  green  mosses,  lean  grasses  and  dwarf 
shrubbery.  There  are  no  forests  except  in  Hamilton 
inlet.  Occasionally  miles  of  precipices  front  the  sea,  in 
which  fancy  may  roughly  shape  all  the  structures  of 
human  art. 

More  frequent  than  headlands  and  perpendicular  sea 
fronts  are  the  sea  slopes,  often  bald  and  tame,  and 
then  the  perfection  of  all  that  is  picturesque  and  rough. 
'  In  the  interior  the  blue  hills  and  stony  vales  that  wind 
up  from  among  them  from  the  sea  have  a  summer- 
like and  pleasant  air. 

One  finds  himself  peopling  these  regions  and  dot- 
ting their  hills,  valleys  and  wild  shores  with  human 
habitants,  but  a  second  thought,  and  a  mournful  one  it 
is,  tells  that  no  men  toil  in  the  fields  away  there,  no 
women  keep  the  homes  off  there,  no  children  play  by 
the  brooks  or  shout  around  the  country  schoolhouse, 
no  bees'  come  home  to  the  hive,  no  smoke  curls  from 
the  farmhouse  chimney,  no  orchard  blooms,  no  bleating 
sheep  fleck  the  mountain  side  with  whiteness  and  no 
heifer  lows  in  the  twilight. 

There  is  nobody  there,  there  never  were  but  a  miser- 
able and  scattered  few,  and  there  never  will  be.  It  is 
a  great  and  terrible  wilderness,  thousands  of  miles 
in  extent  and  lonesome  to  the  very  wild  animals  and 
birds.  Left  to  the  still  visitation  of  the  light  from  the 
sun,  moon  and  stars  and  the  auroral  fires,  it  is  only  fit 
to  look  upon  and  then  be  given  over  to  its  primeval 
solitariness. 

But  for  the  living  things  of  its  waters,  the  cod,  sal- 
mon and  seal,  which  bring  thousands  of  fishermen  to 
its  waters  and  traders  to  its  bleak  shores,  Labrador 
would  be  as  desolate  as  Greenland.  The  time  is  now 
coming  when  with  good  steamship  accommodations  the 
invalid  and  tourist  from  the  States  will  be  found  spend- 
ing the  brief  but  lovely  summer  here,  notwithstanding 
its  ruggedness  and  desolation. 
*   *  * 

It  is  not  good  that  the  man  should  be  alone. — 
Scripture. 


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A     NIGHT'S     RIDE    ON    THE    TRAIN. 


BY  H.  M.  BARWICK. 

10  P.  M.  All  a-b-o-a-r-d !  and  the  long  train  began 
to  move.  The  train  being  heavily  loaded  with  passen- 
gers and  our  coach  being  a  through  one,  the  Conductor 
was  a  long  time  getting  to  us ;  so  long  that  pretty  soon 
heads  began  to  nod;  some  chins  resting  on  the  breast 
of  the  sleeper  pressed  the  lips  together  so  closely  that 
there  was  a  hissing  from  each  corner  of  the  man's 
mouth  like  escaping  steam  from  a  steam  engine  when 
it  begins  to  move ;  other  heads  went  backwards  until 
they  were  at  right  angles  to  the  backbone,  and  their 
chins  were  up  about  where  their  forehead  should  be. 
With  some  their  mouths  were  wide  open,  looking  like 
the  entrance  to  a  large  sewer  pipe,  nostrils  dilated,  and 
one  leg  stretched  beyond  its  common  length  until-  it 
reached  across  the  aisle  and  forward  past  the  seat  in 
front  of  the  man,  but  he  was  sleeping,  sleeping,  sleep- 
ing. 

For  myself  I  tried  to  pillow  my  head  on  the  softest 
edge  of  the  window  frame  for  a  while,  then  on  the  arm 
of  the  car  seat,  then  I  changed  positions  half  a  dozen 
times  in  a  few  minutes  in  order  to  find  some  kind  of 
duplex  folding  of  joints  by  which  my  anatomy  of  six 
feet  two  could  be  comfortably  squeezed  into  three  feet 
six  without  damaging  the  frame  work  of  my  body  be- 
yond repair.  With  my  head  in  the  window,  my  neck 
stretched  at  tight  tension  across  two  sharp  wood  edges, 
the  most  of  my  body  in  the  car  seat  and  my  lower  ex- 
tremities folded  partways,  then  twisted  together  and 
hung  over  the  side  of  the  seat  and  finally  tucked  out 
of  sight  beneath  my  bed,  I  began  to  feel  sleepy  after 
a  countless  number  of  painful  thoughts,  a  few  groans 
and  several  notions  to  give  it  all  up  for  a  bad  job. 

But  just  now  hear  that  snoring  apparatus  begin 
work  just  in  front  of  me,  low  in  tone  at  first  but  each 
suction  increased  a  little  in  tensity  and  much  in  noise 
until  it  seemed  that  unless  his  head  was  screwed  to- 
gether pretty  well,  the  whole  thing  would  explode. 
Whether  or  not  he  ever  studied  music  I  do  not  know 
but  unconsciously  he  struck  the  various  pitches  of  the 
musical  scale  with  skill.     Well  even  this  song  got  old 

and  we  were  surely  go-i-n — g,  g-o i . 

What  came  next  ?  Why  ?  "  T-ic-k-ets  "  "  Tickets 
I  say!!!"  "Shake  him"  said  the  Conductor  to  the 
Brakeman  and  several  ligaments  were  stretched  to 
their  full  limit  in  the  pulling  and  rolling  that  it  took  to 
open  the  eyes  of  the  sleepy  man.  Such  as  this  and 
much  more  continued  for  some  time  until  we  again  felt 
sleepy,  then  came  another  case  of  roaring  and  shouting 
to  awaken  a  man  and  after  showing  his  ticket  he  was 
found  to  be  in  the  wrong  car  and  twenty  miles  past  his 
getting-off  place.  With  the  hair  around  his  forehead 
erect  like  bristles  and  a  few  exclamatory  remarks  about 


such R.  R.'s  and  conductors,  he  left  the  car  not  half 

as  sleepy  as  he  had  been  just  ten  minutes  before. 

So  it  goes  all  night  and  every  little  event  harrows 
one's  nerves  until  they  are  magnified  in  our  feelings 
and  memories  many  times.  Once  again  something 
goes  thump  and  a  tiny  little  voice  let  loose  a  terrific 
solo  without  invitation  from  any  one  in  the  car.  It  was 
a  little  baby  that  rolled  over  and  off  of  its  bed  onto  the 
hard  floor.  Its  cries  were  much  out  of  proportion  to 
its  damages,  just  like  most  of  the  damage  suits  of  older 
people  against  railroad  accidents.  Some  people  who 
never  were  babies  and  yet  think  there  is  no  place  for 
babies,  expressed  some  feelings  about  different  kinds 
of  kids  which  they  wished  people  would  learn  to  leave 
at  home. 

In  spite  of  all  such  things  as  a  snoring  quartette, 
crying  babies,  mad  passengers,  the  trumpet  call  for 
tickets,  the  all  night  long  chatter  and  chitter  of  a  young 
couple  in  the  rear  end  of  the  coach  and  other  vicissi- 
tudes to  a  nervous  being,  some  slumbered  and  slept.  At 
last  came  a  hearty  laugh.  As  we  were  leaving  our  car 
in  the  depot  at  Minneapolis  we  saw  a  frightened  man 
make  the  jump  of  his  life  as  he  thought.  While  cross- 
ing the  many  tracks  amid  the  many  trains  he  saw  an 
approaching  train  that  to  him  seemed  to  mean  sure 
death  unless  he  could  be  miraculously  saved  by  making 
a  heroic  jump,  which  he  did,  but  across  the  wrong 
track  for  there  was  no  train  on  that  track  for  ten  miles 
in  either  direction.  In  his  haste  and  confused  state  of 
mind  he  failed  to  distinguish  on  which  track  the  train 
was  moving.  Laughable  mistakes  as  well  as  distress 
ing  accidents  accompany  railroad  travel. 


TRUE    GREATNESS. 


BY  EARL  EMERSON  LICHTEN WALTER. 

True  greatness  does  not  inhere  alone  in  the  great 
strength  of  the  body,  in  the  craftiness  of  the  mind, 
or  even  in  the  development  of  the  intellect,  but  in 
the  development  of  the  religious  faculties.  In  gen- 
eral, greatness  is  eminence  of  ability;  but  there  are 
so  many  different  qualities  in  which  a  man  may  be 
eminent,  that  there  are  as  many  different  forms  of 
greatness.  These  different  forms  should  be  clearly 
marked  out,  that  when  we  say  a  man  is  great,  we  may 
know  exactly  what  we  mean. 

In  the  rudest  ages  of  the  world,  physical  strength 
was  preeminent  in  work  or  war.  Then,  as  long  as 
human  affairs  were  controlled  by  brute  force,  the 
physical  giant  was  considered  the  great  man,  and  was 
honored  for  his  big  bone  and  stout  muscle. 

After  man  passed  this  stage  and  the  first  signs  of 
the  development  of  the  intellect  were  noticed,  cun- 
ningness  or  craftiness  became  the  essential  qualifica- 


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tion  of  greatness.  The  nimble  brain  was  superior  to 
the  brawny  arm  of  the  giant. 

As  man  advances  in  his  development,  finding  qual- 
ities more  valuable  than  physical  strength,  'cunning 
and  craftiness,  he  comes  to  value  the  higher  intel- 
lectual faculties,  understanding,  imagination  and  rea- 
son. He  has  a  desire  for  a  higher  education,  for  a 
development  of  these  faculties,  that  he  may  be  power- 
ful in  the  world.  Power  to  think  is  the  faculty  he 
begins  to  value  most,  ability  to  devise  means  for  at- 
taining ends  desired,  power  to  originate  ideas,  to  ex- 
press them  in  speech  and  organize  them  into  insti- 
tutions. Power  may  be  thought  to  be  an  evidence  of 
greatness,  as  it  really  is  but  mere  intellectual  power 
has  control  only  over  the  body  and  intellect,  and  it  is 
the  higher  nature  of  man  we  wish  to  exalt.  He 
who  is  eminent  in  ability  is  thought  to  be  a  great  man. 

But  there  are  qualities  grander  and  nobler  than  the 
intellect :  the  moral,  the  affectional,  the  religious  fac- 
ulties, the  power  of  justice,  of  love,  of  holiness,  of 
trust  in  God  and  obedience  to  his  laws.  These  are 
the  eternal  right.  For  man  to  execute  the  power  of 
justice,  certain  duties  to  his  fellowmen  devolve  upon 
him,  which  must  be  performed.  He  cannot  be  great 
and  live  for  self  only,  but  must  live  for  others  and 
spend  his  energies  for  them,  for  the  protection  of 
their  lives  and  to  lift  them  from  the  crafty  or  intel- 
lectual sphere  into  the  spiritual. 

Man  must  fulfill  the  power  of  love.  If  he  is  truly 
great,  his  love  for  others  is  beyond  that  of  his  own 
life.  Some  one  has  said  that,  "  Love  is  of  such  a  re- 
fining, elevating  character,  that  it  expels  all  that  is 
mean  and  base,  it  bids  us  think  great  thoughts  and 
do  great  deeds."  To  be  truly  great,  man's  character 
must  be  beyond  reproach,  he  must  be  pure  and  his 
life  fully  sanctified  to  God.  Finally  he  must  trust  God 
and  obey  his  laws.  God  is  his  Creator,  all-wise  and  all- 
powerful,  and  it  naturally  follows  that  man  should 
trust  him,  obey  his  supreme  laws  and  seek  his  help 
and  guidance  in  all  he  undertakes,  in  fact  he  can- 
not be  truly  great  without  it.  These  are  the  highest 
qualities  of  man.  Whoever  is  most  eminent  in  these 
is  the  greatest  of  great  men.  He  is  as  much  above 
the  merely  intellectually  great  men  as  they  are  above 
mere  cunning  or  force. 

Thus  we  have  four  different  kinds  of  greatness : 
bodily  greatness,  crafty  greatness,  intellectual  great- 
ness, religious  greatness.  Men  in  different  degrees  of 
development  will  value  different  kinds  of  greatness. 
A  man  who  has  great  strength  of  body  will  value  the 
giant  most.  A  man  who  is  cunning  will  think  he  is 
a  great  man.  An  intellectual  man  will  praise  a  man 
who  is  an  originator  of  great  ideas.  But  a  truly  re- 
ligious man  will  consider  him  preeminent  who  is  work- 
ing for  the  best  interests  of  his  fellowmen  and  his 
God.     It  takes  greatness  to  see  greatness.     Belial  can- 


not honor  Christ.  How  can  a  little  child  appreciate 
Plato  or  Aristotle?  The  child  thinks  as  a  child,  and 
every  man  thinks  in  his  own  sphere.  If  we  wish  to 
see  greatness  in  others  we  must  be  great  ourselves. 
The  loftiest  form  of  greatness  is  never  popular  in  its 
own  day.  Men  cannot  understand  it  and  their  minds 
are  not  ready  to  receive  it.  An  African  negro  would 
consider  a  juggler  a  greater  man  than  Franklin.  Co- 
lumbus was  mocked  by  the  people  of  his  time.  Herod 
and  Pilate  were  popular  in  their  day.  They  were  men 
of  property  and  standing.  They  got  nomination  and 
honor  enough.  Jesus  of  Nazareth  got  no  nomination 
and  instead  of  worldly  honor  he  got  a  cross  between 
two  thieves  and  a  crown  of  thorns,  and  when  he  died 
eleven  Galileans  gathered  together  to  lament  their 
Lord. 

Smithville,   Ohio. 

*  *5*  * 

THE    EARTH'S    AGE. 


What  is  the  age  of  the  earth  ?  In  the  remarkable 
address  which  he  delivered  in  1894  at  the  Oxford 
meeting  of  the  British  Association,  the  late  Lord  Salis- 
bury dealt  with  the  "  prodigality  of  the  ciphers  "  which 
geologists  and  biologists  had  put  at  the  end  of  the 
earth's  hypothetic  life.  But  he  remarked  that  the  the- 
ories of  these  savants  required  at  least  all  this  elbow 
room.  Now  we  have  another  theory  to  add  to  its  many 
predecessors.  If  Prof.  Rutherford,  of  New  Zealand, 
whose  paper,  read  before  the  Royal  Institution  recent- 
ly, has  excited  the  widest  interest,  is  right,  the  great 
heat  which  is  known  to  exist  in  the  earth's  center  is 
due  to  radium.  We  must,  therefore,  entirely  recon- 
struct our  ideas  as  to  the  age  of  the  planet.  Turning 
to  Lord  Kelvin,  who  was  on  the  platform,  Prof.  Ruth- 
erford said  that  the  earth  was  probably  not  over  20,- 
000,000  years  old.  Geologists,  however,  speak  of  many 
million  more  years,  and  at  the  time  that  he  formulated 
his  estimate  of  100,000,000  years  Lord  Kelvin  made 
this  reservation — "  unless  some  new  -source  of  energy 
were  discovered."  Prof.  Rutherford's  idea  is  that  in 
radium  this  new  source  has  been  found.  According 
to  Prof.  Rutherford's  theory,  if  the  internal  heat  is 
due  to  the  presence  of  radium,  the  gradual  cooling 
down  of  the  earth  will  be  indefinitely  postponed,  and 
that  scientific  fear  of  a  time  when  the  heat  of  the 
sun  shall  have  so  far  diminished  that  this  earth  will 
have  ceased  to  be  capable  of  supporting  life  in  conse- 
quence of  the  intense  cold  is  postponed  for  many  mil- 
lions of  years,  for  the  probability  is  that  the  heat  of 
the  sun  is  also  due  not  to  combustion,  as  was  at  one 
time  supposed,  but  to  unceasing  radio-activity.  Here, 
indeed,  is  food  for  thought,  but,  as  Lord  Goschen  said 
at  the  Royal  Society's  dinner,  science  of  itself  can  never 
diminish  interest  in  the  mysteries  of  the  soul  and  hu- 
man heart  and  the  progress  of  the  study  of  the  hu- 
manities. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— August  9,   1904. 


CELTIC    ART. 


BY   MYLES  J.    MURPHY. 

The  Irish  Exhibition  at  the  World's  Fair  in  St. 
Louis  presents  the  most  wonderful  collection  of  Cel- 
tic historic  art  that  has  been  made  in  modern  times,  if 
not  in  the  history  of  the  world.  The  artistic  industries 
in  which  the  Irish  race  for  centuries  antedating  the 
■Christian  period  excelled,  are  given  prominence  in  this 
exhibit.  These  are  illustratd  from  earliest  times,  chief- 
ly as  regards  the  Celtic  period,  by  facsimiles  of  the 
bronze  and  gold  work  of  that  time,  and  also  by  full 
size  casts  of  architecture  and  sculpture  in  stone.  The 
famous  cross  of  Muinedach  at  Monasterboice  is  among 
the  objects  there  represented.  A  series  of  facsimiles 
of  the  illuminated  and  also  of  literary  manuscripts 
brings  down  this  representation  of  an  important  prov- 
ince of  Irish  art  and  scholarship  from  the  7th  century 
Book  of  Kells  to  the  14th  or  15th  century.  This  il- 
lumination of  manuscripts  was  an  art  in  which  old 
Irish  scribes  surpassed  all  others  in  skill.  The  rare 
grace  of  the  intricate  designs  would  puzzle  the  most 
skilled  chirographist  of  the  present  day  to  imitate 
without  special  training.  Colors  which  are  bright  and 
fresh  to-day,  many  centuries  after  the  hand  which 
laid  them  on  the  vellum  has  crumbled  into  dust,  are  a 
mystery  to  the  painter.  With  the  makers  of  these  won- 
derful inks,  the  secret  has  passed  away.  None  to-day 
can  tell  of  what  they  were  composed.  From  the  15th 
century  until  the  close  of  the  Williamite  Wars,  there 
was  little  art  work  in  Ireland.  The  people  were  too 
"busy  in  the  struggle  for  political  existence,  but  from 
the  close  of  the  17th  century  to  the  early  19th  century 
Ireland  was  famous  for  the  artistic  beauty  and  technic- 
al mastery  of  its  silver  plate  manufacture,  and  the 
generosity  of  private  owners  and  public  bodies  has  en- 
abled a  very  interesting  and  valuable  collection  of  this 
beautiful  art  to  be  brought  together. 

Some  specimens  of  antique  Irish  furniture,  remark- 
able for  beauty  of  carving  are  also  shown,  including 
the  only  existing  example  of  a  member's  chair  from 
the  Irish  House  of  Commons.  A  fine  collection  of 
Cork  and  Waterford  art  glass  of  the  18th  and  19th 
centuries  helps  to  illustrate  the  art  industries  of  this 
period. 

Closely  connected  with  the  historic  art  industries 
of  the  country  are  the  historic  relics  commemorative  of 
distinguished  Irishmen  or  of  salient  epochs  in  Irish 
history.  Relics  commemorative  of  the  Volunteer  move- 
ment, the  Confederation  of  Kilkenny,  the  Williamite 
Wars,  and  the  Insurrection  of  1788  have  been  kindly 
lent  by  various  owners,  and  personal  relics  of  great 
interest  associated  with  the  names  of  Swift,  Grattan, 
Burke,  Henry  Joy  McCracken,  O'Connell,  Parnell, 
Father  Matthew  and  other  distinguished  Irishmen  have 
been  obtained.     An  extensive  series  of  Irish  coins  has 


been  obtained,  and  a  number  of  articles  representing 
minor  arts,  industries  and  social  life  in  Ireland  prior 
to  the  19th  century. 

A  collection  of  Irish  prints  and  engravings  is  a  fit- 
ting completion  to  these  exhibits.  This  section  has 
been  formed  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Strickland  of 
the  National  Gallery,  with  the  double  object  of  present- 
ing a  series  of  portraits  of  distinguished  Irishmen  and 
masterpieces  of  the  country,  and  of  its  towns  as  th'ey 
existed  in  earlier  times,  and  at  the  same  time  illustrat- 
ing the  art  and  craft  of  engraving,  which  was  at  one 
time  brought  to  a  high  point  of  development  in  Ire- 
land. The  collection  of  Irish  historic  portraits  is,  per- 
haps, the  most  complete  that  it  has  yet  been  possible 
to  bring  together.  It  will  include  portraits  of  Hugh 
O'Neil,  Earl  of  Tyron ;  of  the  famous  Franciscan, 
Luke  Wadding,  represented  by  an  example  from  the 
very  rare  engraving  of  the  portrait  at  Rome ;  of  Sars- 
field,  the  hero  of  Limerick ;  Walker,  the  defender  of 
Londonderry ;  the  Great  Duke  of  Ormodo,  Provost 
Usshur,  Castlereagh,  Gattan,  Flood,  Lord  Charlemont, 
O'Connell,  Davis,  Parnell,  James  Barry,  Crocker,  and 
many  others  who  have  played  on  one  side  or  another  a 
leading  part  in  Irish  history,  or  been  connected  with 
Irish  literature  and  art.  Malton's  interesting  series  of 
old  Dublin  views  are  shown,  as  well  as  the  scarce  views 
of  the  Dublin  Painter,  Jonathan  Fisher,  and  others. 
Some  interesting  and  scarce  old  maps  have  been  ac- 
quired. 

MACARONI. 


Standing  on  the  wharf  in  Italy,  watching  the 
swarthy  Italians  unloading  their  shiploads  of  Amer- 
ican flour  and  taking  it  up  to  the  macaroni  mills,  and 
on  their  return  bringing  thousands  of  boxes  of  the 
prepared  article,  and  filling  up  these  empty  vessels 
with  these  boxes  of  macaroni  and  shipping  it  back  to 
our  ports,  one  is  made  to  wonder  why,  when  we  have 
the  raw  material  and  we  have  the  demand,  that  the 
thing  we  are  so  badly  in  need  of  must  be  the  manu- 
facturing skill.  And  now  it  remains  necessary  that 
we  must  allow  these  Italians  to  have  this  secret  of 
macaroni  manufacturing  all  by  themselves,  and  yet 
every  year  spend  enough  money  in  sending  flour  over 
and  bringing  macaroni  back,  to  furnish  one-fourth 
the  demand. 

Our  agricaltural  department,  in  1889,  sent  an  agent 
abroad  to  buy  some  seed  wheat  of  the  very  hardiest 
kinds.  He  succeeded  in  getting  a  good  load  of  sam- 
ples. These  were  carefully  cared  for  by  the  depart- 
ment, which  has  resulted  in  great  things.  Consider- 
ably over  ten  millions  of  bushels  of  this  hard  wheat 
was  grown  in  the  Northwest  last  year. 

The  macaroni  mills'  of  this  country  have  been  doing 
their  utmost  to  supply  our  home  demand,  but  there 


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seems  to  be  a  disposition  on  the  part  of  the  consumers 
to  think  that  the  American  macaroni  is  of  an  inferior 
quality.  Now  what  is  the  matter ;  is  it  the  inferior 
quality  of  our  wheat?  Is  it  that  we  lack  manufac- 
turing skill,  or  is  it  that  we  love  to  be  duped,  as  a  na- 
tion, by  a  foreign  product,  or  shall  we  say  that  it  is 
because  we  do  not  like  to  patronize  home  industries? 

Statistics  show  that  last  year  we  imported  more 
than  one  million  dollars'  worth  of  macaroni  and  ver- 
micelli. If  the  consumers  of  the  stuff  could  make 
just  one  trip  to  Naples  and  see  the  macaroni  fields 
where  acres  of  it  is  hanging  on  poles,  out  in  the  sun  to 
dry,  with  bushels  of  flies  surrounding  it  all  and  hun- 
dreds of  dogs  tripping  here  and  there  through  the 
down-hanging  vermicelli,  and  scores  of  donkeys  and 
camels  trotting  through  the  rows  made  for  conveni- 
ence in  hanging  and  taking  down  the  product,  and  as 
they  go,  raising  a  cloud  of  dust  with  their  feet,  and  the 
dirty,  greasy,  careless  working  men  and  women  han- 
dling the  material,  both  green  and  dry,  some  ques- 
tions would  arise  in  our  minds,  and  some  curious  feel- 
ings probably  would  arise  in  our  stomachs.  We 
would  naturally  question  the  westerners  whether  we 
needed  a  new  recipe  or  whether  our  women  are  too 
clean,  or  whether  we  have  a  different  kind  of  flies  in 
this  country.  It  does  seem  that  if  America  would 
wake  up  to  the  fact  that  we  have  the  material  and  we 
have  the  laborers,  and  we  need  the  employment,  and 
we  have  the  skill  to  produce  it ;  we  have  the  power  to 
manufacture  it,  and  we  have  the  demand  to  use  it  and 
why  not  America  for  Americans? 

*  *  * 
RUBBER   AND    SUBSTITUTES. 


cultivated.  In  addition  to  the  sap,  the  seeds  of  this 
tree,  it  has  recently  been  ascertained,  yield  a  light  yel- 
low oil  which  can  be  employed  as  a  substitute  for  lin- 
seed oil,  and  is  worth  about  one  hundred  dollars  a  ton. 
It  is  obtained  by  grinding  the  husk  and  kernel  together, 
one-fifth  of  their  weight  in  oil  being  obtained.  Brazil, 
Peru  and  Bolivia  continue  to  furnish  more  than  half  of 
the  world's  supply,  and  here  also  improved  methods  of 
culture  have  been  introduced.  In  connection  with 
vegetable  rubber,  two  mineral  hydrocarbons  which 
have  certain  common  properties  are  employed.  These 
are  gilsonite  and  elaterite,  and  they  may  be  so  treated 
as  to  form  a  mineral  rubber  which  unites  perfectly 
with  that  obtained  from  trees.  Gilsonite,  which  is  an 
asphaltic  mineral  found  in  veins,  is  employed  in  mak- 
ing waterproof  paints  and  varnishes.  Elaterite  is  a 
soft,  elastic  variety  of  asphalt,  and  is  used  in  making 
waterproof  and  heatproof  varnishes  which  are  also 
flexible.  Both  of  these  materials  are  insulators  of  elec- 
tricity, and  have  considerable  application. 

*   *   * 
SWEDISH    HOTELS. 


A  matter  of  considerable  economic  importance  is 
the  decline  in  the  production  of  India-rubber,  which  is 
constantly  being  required  to  a  greater  extent  in  the 
arts.  In  many  cases  the  decline  is  due  to  wasteful  and 
short-sighted  methods  of  obtaining  the  sap,  and  in 
certain  countries  the  industry  has  been  put  under  Gov- 
ernment supervision.  In  the  meantime  in  various  Brit- 
ish colonies  experimental  culture  is  being  attempted  to 
ascertain  whether  rubber-raising  cannot  become  a  per- 
manent agricultural  industry. 

In  Trinidad,  Castillon  and  Funturnia  trees  are  now 
being  grown,  and  it  has  been  found  that  the  latter 
yield  a  marketable  production  when  four  and  one-half 
years  old,  while  the  other  varieties  require  twice  as 
long.  In  the  Egyptian  Soudan  there  is  a  fine  oppor- 
tunity for  rubber  culture,  especially  in  the  Bahr-el 
Ghazal,  and  measures  have  been  taken  by  the  govern- 
ment to  prevent  wasteful  and  reckless  treatment  of  the 
trees. 

In  the  Malay  Straits  settlements  the  Para  rubber 
tree  (Hevea  Brasilicnsis)  has  been  acclimatized  and  is 


At  Kjeflinge  there  is  a  large  hotel  standing  near  the 
station.  On  entering  the  dining'  room  door  you  are 
surprised  to  see  one  large  table  in  the  center  of  the 
room  filled  with  black  bread,  white  bread,  spis-brod, 
liver  wurst,  souse,  dried  beef,  horse  meat,  smoked  eel, 
pickeled  eel,  cheese,  butter,  and  a  lot  of  plates  and 
knives  and  forks.  Around  the  wall  are  a  number  of 
small  tables,  large  enough  for  two  persons  each,  with 
nothing  upon  them.  The  guest  is  expected,  without  an 
invitation,  to  walk  to  this  center  table  and  provide 
himself  with  a  plate,  knife  and  fork,  and  help  him- 
self to  whatever  meats  and  pastry  his  appetite  dictates, 
and  then  sit  down  at  one  of  these  small  tables  at  the 
side  of  the  room  and  partake  of  the  repast.  About 
the  time  a  stranger  helps  himself  the  second  or  third 
time  and  is  almost  ready  to  leave  the  table,  he  is  sur- 
prised to  see  a  ladv  coming  towards  him,  having  on  a 
neat  white  apron,  with  her  hands  full  of  dishes  steam- 
ing with  fragrance  from  the  choice  vegetables  and 
palatable  meats  of  what  they  call  a  warm  dinner.  In 
a  moment  one  realizes  that  he  has  partaken  too  freely 
of  the  good  things  that  were  in  the  first  course.  In 
the  second  course  he  finds  warm  potatoes  and  other 
vegetables,  with  either  boiled  or  roast  beef,  and  a 
number  of  other  meats,  and  it  is  impossible  for  a  man 
to  sample  all  of  the  good  things  they  bring  to  him. 
The  principal  regret  that  he  has  is  that  some  one 
did  not  inform  him  that  the  center  table  was  only  to 
satisfy  his  appetite  until  the  waiter  could  assist  him  to 
something  better.  Indeed,  it  is  a  man's  own  fault  if 
he  goes  away  from  a  Swedish  hotel  without  enough 
to  eat. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— August  9,  1904. 


THE    VIOLIN. 


BY    MARGUERITE    BIXLER. 

The  exact  origin  of  the  violin  is  unknown — the  in- 
strument as  we  have  it  to-day  is  what  has  come  to  us 
through  evolution,  from  times  unrecorded.  Mythology 
dates  its  birth  to  a  time  when  the  Nile  overflowed  and 
left  on  its  banks  a  dead  tortoise.  In  time,  nothing 
was  left  in  the  shell  but  nerves  and  cartilage  which  con- 
tracted, making  it  sonorous.  One  day  Orpheus,  in 
walking  along  the  shore,  struck  his  foot  against  the 
shell  and  was  so  charmed  with  the  sound  that  it  gave 
him  the  idea  of  the  lyre.  Hence  the  origin  of  fiddles 
and  catgut  is  classic,  as  well  as  picturesque.  Orpheus 
and  Apollo  are  pictured  with  fiddles  but  tracing  a  bow 
seems  to  be  in  vain.  Three  thousands  years  before  our 
era  a  king  of  Ceylon  invented  a  four-stringed  instru- 
ment played  with  a  bow,  but  this  too  is  tradition. 

Historically,  the  early  fiddle  period  shows  the  instru- 
ment being  struck  by  a  plectra,  ajid  it  was  not  until  the 
•early  French  period  that  a  bow  was  used  to  sus- 
tain tones.  This  instrument  was  called  a  Ribee  and 
was  pear-shape  (similar  to  our  mandolin),  with  first 
two  and  later  three  strings.  Just  where  the  instru- 
ments with  four  strings  tuned  in  fifths  were  made  is  a 
fact  unknown.  However,  the  first  crude  instruments 
show  the  origin  of  all  the  principal  features  which 
were  brought  to  so  high  a  state  of  perfection  between 
the  closing  decades  of  the  seventeenth  century  and  the 
beginning  of  the  eighteenth  by  makers  whose  work 
"has  never  since  been  surpassed. 

Standing  foremost  among  these  great  artists  are  the 
members  of  the  celebrated  Amati  family  who  were  the 
founders  of  the  "  Cremona  School  "  from  which  so 
many  fine  old  Italian  violins  have  come,  and  have  been 
indiscriminately  called  "  Cremonas." 

Another  celebrated  family  of  Cremonese  artists  was 
that  of  the  Guarneri.  The  founder,  Andreas  Guar- 
rierius,  whose  instruments  bear  dates  from  1650- 1695, 
-was  a  pupil  of  Nicolo  Amati. 

Another  famous  Cremonese  maker — the  last  great 
artist  of  the  school — was  Antonio  Stradivari,  1649- 
1737.  Stradivari  was  Nicolo  Amati's  most  famous 
pupil.  His  instruments,  it  is  said,  yield  neither  to 
Nicolo  Amati  nor  those  of  Joseph  Guarnerius.  There 
are  only  a  few  of  these  in  existence  and  they  are  sought 
after  by  millionaires. 

Undoubtedly  the  greatest  of  the  German  violin  mak- 
ers was  Jacob  Stainer,  1621-1683.  While  less  power- 
ful than  those  given  by  the  great  Italian  makers,  his 
instruments  are  beautifully  finished  and  of  infinite 
sweetness. 

The  English  violin  makers  of  the  so-called  "  Lon- 
don School  "  were  very  numerous,  and  many  of  their 
quaint  instruments  are  still  deservedly  prized. 


The  violin  is  one  of  the  noblest  of  instruments. 
More  can  be  expressed  upon  it  than  any  other  instru- 
ment, except  the  organ.  It  is  capable  of  conveying 
all  the  various  shades  of  feeling,  and  its  singing  powj 
eFs  are  beyond  description. 

Next  to  the  human  voice,  for  the  best  interpreta- 
tion of  song,  I  place  the  violin. 

East  Akron,  Ohio. 

♦  *$»  * 

HARD    LUCK    AND    HARD    SENSE. 


One  of  the  keenest  politicians  that  this  country  ever 
produced  took  a  vacation  and  went  to  Europe.  At  the 
suggestion  of  friends  whom  he  met  in  London  he  de- 
cided to  secure  the  services  of  that  useful  functionary 
known  as  a  "  man,"  a  combination  of  valet  and  com- 
panion. He  reduced  the  applicants  to  one,  and  was 
about  to  complete  the  negotiations  when  the  fortunate 
person  began  to  tell  him  of  his  career,  his  ambitions, 
opportunities  and  misfortunes — a  genuine  hard-luck 
story.  The  politician  listened  for  a  while  and  then 
suddenly  interposed :  "  I  find  that  I  do  not  want 
you,"  and  when  pressed  for  his  reason,  added :  "  I 
never  hire  hard-luck  people,  especially  the  kind  who 
talk  about  it." 

There  seems  to  be  an  injustice  in  this,  and  there 
doubtless  is.  At  the  same  time  this  politician  was  a 
judge  of  men  or  he  would  not  have  been  a  successful 
politician. 

Most  persons  who  have  achieved  success  are  obliged 
to  listen  to  hard-luck  stories  despite  their  efforts  to 
avoid  them.  The  main  reason  the  modern  merchant 
or  manager  surrounds  himself  by  an  office  guard, 
and  protects  himself  by  anterooms  and  swinging  gates, 
is  to  escape  callers  who  want  to  take  up  his  time  by 
narratives  of  their  misfortunes. 

Every  large  centre  of  population  has  its  army  of 
hard-luck  sufferers,  and  among  them  are  men  of  edu- 
cation, men  of  position,  men  who  are  almost,  but  not 
quite,  strong  enough  to  reach  success. 

Their  point  of  view  is  out  of  compass ;  their  bear- 
ings are  wrong;  their  attitude  is  that  some  one  who 
has  succeeded  must  make  amends  for  their  own  short- 
comings. These  unfortunates  are  probably  the  most 
hopeless  persons  in  the  world — hopeless  not  so  much 
in  their  own  ideas  as  in  the  possibilities  of  their  ref- 
ormation. When  a  man  places  his  own  inadequacy  on 
ill  luck  he  is  not  worth  anything  to  anybody — not  even 
to  himself. 

Luck  is  the  tide,  nothing  more.  The  strong  man 
rows  with  it  if  it  makes  toward  his  port.  He  rows 
against  it  if  it  flows  the  other  way.  Fair  or  foul, 
flood  or  ebb,  he  rows.  And  the  world  has  very  little 
time  to  waste  on  the  man  who  complains  that  the  tide 
did  not  turn  at  every  bend  to  suit  his  course. 


THE    INGLEXOOK.— August  9.   1904. 


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WESTERN    NORTH    DAKOTA. 


BY   E.    A.    EVANS. 

In  Western  Xorth  Dakota  there  is  some  magnifi- 
cent scenery,  in  fact,  in  one  sense,  it  is  the  most 
beautiful  portion  of  the  State.  Here  there  are  high, 
rugged  bluffs,  where  a  full  view  of  Fort  Buford,  the 
Missouri  and  Yellowstone  rivers  can  be  obtained, 
and  deep,  cool  canons  where  springs  of  fresh  water 
abound  and  flowers  grow  in  beautiful  profusion. 
There  are  veins  of  good  coal  where  man  can  get 
all  the  fuel  he  desires,  and  plenty  of  lovely  cedar 
trees. 

Here  one  can  see  where  the  Indians  once  camped 
in  their  tepees  and  smoked  the  peace-pipe.  There 
is  one  circle  of  stones  after  another,  which  they 
used  to  hold  the  tepee  down  at  the  bottom  and 
keep  it  from  blowing  away.  These  are  especially 
noticeable  on  the  high  bluffs  where  the  Indians 
could  command  a  full  view  of  all  military  maneu- 
vers at  Fort  Buford.  The  government  formerly 
kept  a  detachment  of  soldiers  here  to  quell  all  dis- 
turbances that  should  arise  among  the  Indians. 
Xine  years  ago  the  soldiers  disbanded,  for  then  the 
Red  Man  no  longer  infested  the  surrounding  coun- 
try as  he  once  did. 

There  is  also  a  peculiar  rock  formation  here.  It 
is  old  cedar  stumps  that  have  petrified.  There  are 
many  interesting  relics  of  the  good  old  times ;  times 
that  the  country  will  never  see  again. 

As  we  are  in  such  proximity  to  Montana,  we  have 
some  wild  animals  that  are  to  be  feared.  Occasion- 
ally a  mountain  lion  or  a  cougar  strolls  from  his 
native  haunts  and  pays  us  a  visit,  but  is  very  un- 
welcome. There  are  plenty  of  moose,  deer  and  an- 
telopes, especially  in  the  winter.  There  are  some 
porcupines ;  rattlesnakes  and  coyotes  galore. 

The  climate  is  good  and  the  air  is  delightfully  pure. 
The  temperature  is  from  ten  to  seventeen  degrees 
higher  here  than  in  the  central  and  eastern  portions 
of  the  State. 

Buford,  N.  Dak. 

*  *  ♦ 
THE    RADIO    VIBRATOR. 


An  invention  which,  it  is  asserted,  may  revolutionize 
medical  science  and  throw  into  insignificance  such  dis- 
coveries as  radium  and  the  X-ray.  has  been  brought 
to  completion  in  the  laboratories  of  the  State  Univer- 
sity by  Warren  F.  Bleeker,  formerly  instructor  of 
chemistry  in  the  University  of  Colorado. 

For  years  Mr.  Bleeker  has  worked  on  his  invention, 
which  he  calls  the  radio  vibrator.  For  the  past  three 
months  he  has  worked  in  the  laboratory  of  Prof.  Hu- 
bert C.  Carel,  Professor  of  Chemistry  at  the  university. 
•   The  instrument  is  based  on  the  theory  that  the  ele- 


ments of  the  human  body,  when  the  body  is  in  per- 
fect health,  vibrate  in  perfect  harmony.  When  the 
body  is  in  a  diseased  condition  this  normal  tone  is 
destroyed.  By  the  therapeutical  application  of  the 
radio  vibrator,  it  is  declared,  the  deranged  tone  of  the 
body  may  be  restored  to  a  normal  condition.  The  in- 
ventor does  not  claim  for  his  instrument  all  curative 
power,  but  by  actual  trials  remarkable  results  are  said 
to  have  been  accomplished  in  curing  nervous  diseases. 

The  radio  vibrator  is  a  small,  nickel-plated  metal  box 
about  four  inches  long,  three  inches  wide  and  one  inch 
in  thickness.  From  one  end  two  wires  about  four  feet 
long  extend.  These  wires  terminate  in  small  circular 
disks  which  are  applied  to  the  affected  parts  of  the 
body.  The  box  contains  a  mysterious  compound  of 
chemicals  known  only  to  Mr.  Bleeker  and  his  assist- 
ants. The  vibrations  of  the  chemicals  within  the  box 
are  transmitted  by  means  of  the  wires  and  disks  to 
the  human  body.  As  soon  as  applied  the  action  of 
the  chemicals  within  the  box  is  calculated  to  cause 
sympathetic  normal  vibrations  in  the  diseased  body, 
thus  restoring  the  patient  to  health. 

Speaking  of  the  invention  of  Mr.  Bleeker,  Prof. 
Carel  said : 

"  The  invention  involves  just  four  things — first,  the 
scientific  theory  that  the  normal  tone  of  the  human 
body  is  caused  by  the  vibration  of  the  elements  com- 
posing it ;  second,  the  mathematical  deduction  and  de- 
termination of  what  chemical  elements  are  to  be  used 
and  in  what  proportion,  and  this  may  vary  according 
to  the  temperament  of  each  person;  third,  the  prepa- 
ration for  each  individual  case  of  the  instrument, 
and,  fourth,  the  therapeutic  application  of  the  instru- 
ment." 

*  *   * 

THE    CHINESE    WAY. 


When  a  Chinese  Duke  wishes  to  marry  he  gets  a 
go-between  to  select  a  bride  for  him.  Then  he  pro- 
poses to  the  father  and  haggles  over  the  monetary 
question.  That  settled,  he  has  his  first  interview  with 
the  bride-elect.  This  interview  has  its  peculiarities. 
He  does  not  see  her  face  nor  does  he  speak  a 
word  to  her ;  he  bows  and  scrapes  and  flourishes  his 
hands  at  her  and  talks  a  little  to  the  mother,  while  a 
band  provided  by  him  plays  all  the  time.  To  those 
who  know  what  Chinese  music  is  like  and  also  that 
the  suitor  is  fashionably  perfumed  with  asafoetida  the 
truly  exquisite  nature  of  this  interview  will  be  fully 
apparent.  Others  must  guess  it.  It  lasts  for  two 
hours.  These  visits  are  repeated  at  regular  intervals, 
and  the  bridegroom  does  not  see  the  bride's  face  or 
talk  to  her  until  he  has  taken  her  home  after  the  wed- 
ding. To  complete  the  <  rilbertian  nature  of  the 
thing,  if  he  does  not  like  her  then  he  can  send  her 
hack. 


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LEAKS. 

It  is  not  the  financier  who  takes  big  risks,  operates 
on  large  scales,  works  thousands  of  men  and  builds 
many  large  buildings  that  always  succeeds  the  best  fi- 
nancially. While  it  is  true  that  nothing  is  gained  un- 
less something  is  ventured,  and  it  is  true  as  well  that 
unless  some  seed  is  sown  no  harvest  can  be  reaped,  yet 
in  the  majority  of  cases  our  successful  business  men 
are  those  who  have  stopped  the  little  leaks  that  are  sure 
to  be  found  around  such  a  volume  of  business.  The 
farmer  picks  up  the  large  potatoes  because  they  are  the 
pride  of  his  eye;  he  feels  fully  satisfied  with  the  ef- 
forts of  the  year,  and  in  his  supreme  satisfaction  he 
is  prone  to  carelessness  and  leaves  lying  around  on  the 
ground  the  small,  inferior  potatoes  that  would  aid 
materially  in  the  saving  of  the  corn  crop  as  well  as 
in  the  hast)'  growth  of  the  shoats.  And  thirdly,  it 
would  remove  from  the  ground  all  the  transient  growth 
that  would  likely  cause  his  trouble  the  next  year.  But 
how  often-  is  this  done  ?  How  many  times  have  you 
noticed  the  farmer's  barn  with  no  eaves-troughs  to  pre- 
vent the  water  from  running  down  on  the  manure  bed, 
wasting  much  valuable  strength  that  his  clay  knobs  are 
so  much  in  need  of?  Hundreds  of  rails  are  found  off 
the  fence  lying  scattered  around  over  the  farm,  be- 
cause they  are  only  rails  and  do  not  mean  anything ; 
but  in  the  aggregate  these  little  leaks  mean  a  great 
sinking  fund. 

It  isn't  the  grocer  that  succeeds  in  turning  out  more 
groceries  in  his  delivery  wagon  from  his  door  than 
all  of  his  competitors  that  can  be  counted  the  most  suc- 
cessful man  in  town,  but  it  is  the  man  who  sees  that 


every  single  customer  is  satisfied ;  that  not  twice  as 
much  wrapping  paper  and  string  is  used  as  Is  neces- 
sary, that  the  scales  do  not  tip  sufficiently  hard  at  each 
stroke  to  cause  a  great  loss  in  the  end  of  a  barrel  of 
sugar. 

It  isn't  the  manufacturer  that  loads  the  largest  for- 
eign steamships  and  the  longest  freight  trains  with  his 
product  that  lives  the  longest  in  a  business  career,  but 
it  is  the  man  who  heats  the  building  with  exhaust 
steam,  that  keeps  every  wheel  in  motion,  that  system- 
atizes labor. 

The  sawyer  who  would  succeed  finds  sale  for  his 
sawdust,  his  slabs,  and  bark,  and  can  so  manage 
his  work  that  he  may  take  a  load  of  sawed  lumber  to 
market  and  bring  back  some  logs  to  the  mill  on  his  re- 
turn trip  and  save  time.  The  little  leaks,  the  drains 
constantly  dripping,  are  the  things  that  go  to  make  up 
this  great  thing  that  we  know  to  be  success  in  life,  or 
the  antagonist  to  success, — -"failure. 

The  drygoods  merchant  may  sell  thousands  of  yards 
and  empty  hundreds  of  boxes,  but  unless  he  success 
fully  gets  rid  of  his  remnants,  unless  he  has  a  unique 
way  of  taking  advantage  of  the  fractional  purchase,  he 
is  a  loser  in  the  end. 

As  a  rule  it  isn't  the  days  and  hours  that  are  used 
in  a  man's  life,  in  the  business  way,  that  are  so  valu- 
able to  him  as  the  spare  moments  that  are  snatched 
here  and  there  and  used  judiciously.  By  working  ten 
hours  a  day  for  a  number  of  years  a  man  may  make 
a  livelihood,  but  after  the  ten  hours  are  over  each  day 
he  may  cultivate  the  habit  of  reading  at  stated  periods 
or  by  having  a  little  workshop  where  he  can  turn  his 
mind  from  labor  to  relief,  and  with  pleasure  pursue 
some  little  side  line  that  is  not  only  a  pleasure  but  a 
profit. 

Men  have  gained  literary  and  mechanical  educations, 
have  entered  the  legal  profession  and  have  gained  re- 
nown in  many  different  avenues  of  life  simply  by  stop-] 
ping  the  little  leaks  and  taking  advantage  of  the  waste. 

»:•  ♦  ♦ 

WITHOUT    MONEY. 


/Many  a  man  is  rich  without  money.  Thousands  of 
5ien  with  nothing  in  their  pockets  are  rich.  The  man 
l\vho  is  born  with  a  good,  sound  constitution,  good 
stomach,  stout  heart,  perfect  limbs,  .and  fairly  good 
headpiece  is  rich.  Good  bones  are  better  than  gold ; 
tough  muscles  are  better  Tnan  silver,  and  the  nerves_ 
that  flash  fire  and  carry  energy  to  every  function  are 
letter  than  houses  and  lands. 

le  best  inheritance  that  can  be  left  to  anyone  is  the 
memory  of  a  good  father  and  mother.  It  is  an  un- 
questionable fact  that  good  breeds  and  bad  breeds  of 
men  exist,  as  well  as  good  and  bad  breeds  among  herds 
and  flocks. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  9,   1904. 


759 


It  is  true  that  education  may  do  much  toward  devel- 
oping either  good  or  bad  qualities  in  man ;  it  may  check 
bad  qualities  and  develop  good  ones,  but  it  is  a  far 
greater  thing  to  inherit  the  better  disposition  to  start 
with. 

The  man  who  is  born  with  a  congenial  disposition 
and  is  patient,  cheerful  and  hopeful,  has  a  mine  of 
wealth  that  cannot  be  taken  away.  Horace  Greeley 
once  said,  "  Riches  take  wings ;  fame  vanishes  like 
vapor ;  marble  decays ;  one  thing  'remains, — charac- 
ter." 

When  we  see  a  man  sitting  around  with  a  droop- 
ing head,  sunken  eyes  and  bleared  countenance,  when 
we  hear  him  talk  of  the  hard  times  and  discourage- 
ments, when  we  see  him  painting  clouds  and  shadows, 
when  we  see  him  wading  mud  and  sloughs  of  despond- 
ency, and  he  tells  us  about  how  oppressive  the  rich 
are  to  the  poor,  and  how  the  world  owes  him  a  living, 
and  how  the  wealth  of  the  world  is  so  unequally  di- 
vided, why  would  it  not  be  a  good  thing  for  us  to 
help  that  man  take  an  inventory  of  his  possessions? 
Let  us  ask  him  how  much  money  he  would  take  and 
allow  us  to  amputate  his  right  limb,  or  dig  his  right 
eye  out,  or  saw  off  the  fingers  of  his  right  hand,  or 
give  him  three  months'  of  ague  each  year,  or  what  the 
size  of  a  check  would  have  to  be  to  induce  him  to 
lie  under  the  pressure  of  typhoid  fever  for  three  weeks 
each  fall ;  and  then  ask  him  that  in  case  the  kidnap- 
pers would  take  his  oldest  son  and  his  baby  daughter 
what  the  ransom  would  be  that  he  would  offer  for 
them?  And  should  he  see  the  favorite  child  of  his 
"bosom  lying  in  the  cold  embrace  of  death,  with  a  little 
bouquet  of  flowers  in  the  hand  that  cannot  grasp  or 
appreciate  them,  what,  then,  would  be  the  sacrifice  by 
him  could  he  call  back  to  existence  that  life  that  he 
had  watched  over,  the  one  that  he  has  protected  even 
with  his  own  life?  And  then,  after  his  wife  has  been 
sick,  nigh  unto  death  for  weeks  or  months,  and  he 
has  the  care  of  little  ones,  not  until  then  does  he  fully 
realize  the  value  of  a  wife  and  companion  who  is  inter- 
ested in  the  home  equally  as  much  as  himself.  In  such 
a  time  ask  him,  "  What  is  the  size  of  the  check  that 
would  have  to  be  given  you  to  take  from  your  side  this 
noble  companion  of  yours  ?  "  Is  he  not  rich  ?  Does 
he  not  have  wealth?  One  of  the  best  things  in  the 
world  to  dispel  our  shadows  and  clouds  is  to  take  an 
inventory  of  our  blessings. 

If  we  would  put  a  price  on  the  pure  air  that  we 
breathe,  on  the  valuable  time  that  is  given  us,  on  the 
sweet  rest  that  the  evening  shades  bring,  on  the  sweet- 
ness that  comes  with  the  morning  air,  on  the  love  and 
harmony  of  the  quiet  home,  on  the  valued  friendships 
that  we  obtain  and  maintain,  on  the  opportunities  we 
enjoy,  and  the  other  thousands  upon  thousands  of 
blessings  of  almost  incalculable  value,  what  an  enor- 
mous sum  we  would  have  in  the  aggregate. 


WHAT    NEXT? 


Aerial  navigation  has  scarcely  been  born  in  the 
world,  when  already  here  comes  news  from  The 
Hague  that,  after  a  prolonged  and  heated  discussion 
of  words  in  Congress  recently,  our  airships 
are  to  be  used  for  the  destruction  of  our  people. 
A  few  men,  in  fact,  many  men,  did  their  very  best 
to  prevent,  by  an  enactment  of  the  international 
law  in  the  world's  Congress,  the  use  of  aerial  navi- 
gation in  national  or  international  conquest.  But 
all  this  has  been  repealed,  and  now  it  has  been  de- 
cided that  it  will  be  no  insult  to  any  government 
to  use  this  deadly  machine  for  the  destruction  of 
an  enemy.  Objections  to  it  heretofore  were  not 
from  the  phase  that  it  was  too  deadly  a  machine, 
but  because  it  was  not  deadly  enough. 

They  said  that  its  lack  of  precision  would  render 
it  unfit  for  battle.  But  where  will  it  end  and  how 
much  legislation  is  it  going  to  take,  and  what  pre- 
cautions will  have  to  be  met  to  keep  some  black- 
mailer, freebooter  or  enemy  from  sailing  around 
over  a  city  like  London  or  New  York,  and  throw 
down  some  letters  and  say  to  them,  "  Hand  over 
five  hundred  millions  to  me  or  I'll  blow  you  to 
atoms  by  to-morrow  noon  ?  "  After  all  it  is  another 
misuse  of  the  blessings.  Not  a  single  blessing  in 
this  world  do  we  have  but  what  could  be  made  a 
curse  by  its  misuse.  Cold  water  is  one  of  the  best 
things  in  this  wide  world,  and  yet  we  can  get  into 
enough  of  it  to  drown  us. 

4»    ,$,    4$, 

OUR    PRIZE    CONTEST    CLOSES    AUGUST  31,    AT 
4  P.  M. 


At  4  o'clock  is  the  last  mail  that  we  receive  at  the 
office,  and  we  will  close  the  contest  on  that  mail,  be- 
cause this  will  be  the  last  mail  in  August,  and  on  the 
first  day  of  September  we  will  find  out  who  gets  the 
$25  library. 

We  are  glad  to  say  that  the  contestants  have  been 
sending  in  subscriptions  lively,  and  we  are  also  happy 
to  say  that  not  one  has  run  far  in  advance  of  the  rest. 
There  are  several  running  a  nice  even  race,  and  there 
is  still  room  for  those  who  have  not  yet  entered  the 
contest.  If  you  can,  get  out  and  work  diligently  and 
secure  a  valuable  prize.  Every  day  and  almost  every 
mail  brings  us  good  results  of  some  one's  work. 

Let  every  loyal  Nooker  speak  to  someone  about  this 
valuable  offer  and  see  whether  we  cannot  double  our 
family  in  the  next  few  weeks.  All  it  requires  is  for 
each  subscriber  to  get  one  more  and  the  task  is  com- 
pleted. Do  it  now.  The  earlier  you  begin  (he  longer 
lime  they  will  receive  the  INGLENOOK  for  the  money. 
*   *    * 

So  teach  us  to  number  our  days,  that  we  may  apply 
our  hearts  unto  wisdom.- — Scripture. 


760 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  9,  1904. 


CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


A    DARK    SPOT    ON    RUSSIA'S    HISTORY. 


On  the  twenty-seventh  of  July,  at  9 :  30  in  the  morn- 
ing. Minister  Von  Plehve,  of  Russia,  was  assassinated. 
This  is  a  shock  to  the  Russian  government,  to  the  czar, 
pope,  and  in  fact  to  civilization.  It  is  another  bold 
dash  of  anarchy  against  law  and  order.  The  minister 
was  born  in  1884,  studied  law  and  became  much  at- 
tached to  court.  He  has  held  several  responsible  po- 
sitions in  the  government.  He  began  at  Moscow, 
went  from  there  to  Vladimir,  next  to  Tula  Vologda, 
thence  to  Warsaw,  from  whence  he  was  promoted  to 
St.  Petersburg  higher  courts.  He  has  distinguished 
himself  by  his  success  in  investigating  conspiracies, 
and  it  was  his  ability  to  uncover  such  things  that  led 
to  his  death.  He  was  not  a  man  of  learning,  but  from 
his  youth  he  was  educated  in  official  circles  and  slow- 
ly but  surely  pushed  himself  ahead. 

Prior  to  the  time  the  emperor  called  him  to  the 
Department  of  the  Interior,  he  had  about  forty  years 
of  office.  He  was  appointed  Secretary,  of  State 
for  Finland.  He  is  author  of  the  present  code  of 
laws.  His  assassin  was  arrested  by  a  detective  on 
a  bicycle.  At  the  explosion  of  the  bomb  the  assassin 
himself  was  literally  filled  with  splinters,  in  his  face, 
arms  and  abdomen,  yet  he  endeavored  to  escape  and 
when  arrested  made  no  resistance,  but  refuses  to  give 
his  name.  The  explosive  is  believed  to  have  been 
composed  of  pyroxylin.  The  force  of  the  explosion 
was  so  terrific  that  it  broke  every  window  within  a 
half  mile,  reduced  heavy  pave  stones  to  powder, 
and  threw  heavy  irons  across  the  canal.  The  second 
bomb  was  found  in  the  possession  of  a  suspected 
individual,  but  was  rescued  by  the  hotel  clerk. 

Pope  Pius  X  expresses  his  sorrow  in  these  words : 
"  How  awful !  "  Let  us  hope  that  worse  events  than 
war  are  not  impending  in  Russia. 

The  general  public  has  but  little  idea  of  the  enor- 
mous cost  of  news  from  the  seat  of  war.  When  you 
see  the  long  columns  of  war  items  in  the  papers,  how 
manv  have  ever  stopped  to  think  that  each  word  costs 
fifty  cents  to  get  it  across  the  waters?  It  is  estimated 
bv  men  who  pretend  to  know,  and  ought  to  know, 
that,  comparatively  speaking,  the  newspapers  of-  the 
Associated  Press  to-day  are  paying  ten  million  dol- 
lars a  year  to  get  news  from  the  Russian-Japanese  war. 
On  an  average  it  costs  the  lives  of  about  two  cor- 
respondents each  year,  and  the  sickness  and  wounds 
of  about  twenty.  There  are  about  two  hundred  cor- 
respondents at  the  seat  of  war.  Each  correspondent 
sends  about  one  thousand  words  per  week,  so  that 
makes  about  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  per  week, 
for   messages.       These   two   hundred    correspondents 


get  about  seventy-five  dollars  per  week  salary, 
which  is  fifteen  thousand  dollars  in  the  aggregate. 
There  are  other  expenses  of  about  fifteen  thousand 
dollars,  making  a  total  of  about  one  hundred  and  fifty 
thousand  dollars  per  week  for  the  flock.  Some  news- 
papers go  to  the  extravagance  of  chartering  dispatch 
boats  at  fifteen  hundred  dollars  per  week. 

Dr.  Anita  Newcomb  McGee,  who  left  this  country 
several  months  ago  in  charge  of  ten  Red  Cross  nurses 
to  assist  the  Japanese,  has  been  appointed  super- 
intendent of  the  nurses  of  the  Japanese  Red  Cross 
Society.  The  Japanese  government  has  also  conferred 
the  rank  of  an  afficer  upon  her.  Each  American  nurse 
in  the  party  will  have  a  Japanese  nurse  to  accompany 
and  instruct  her  in  the  language,  custom,  and  other 
details  while  they  are  pushing  to  the  front.  Their 
services  are  recognized  by  the  Japanese  government 
as  being  very  valuable  on  the  field. 
*   *  * 

Strikes!  Strikes!  Unions!!  Unions!!!  It  is  to  be 
hoped  that  unions  will  unify  some  of  these  days  to  the 
extent  that  the  whole  world  will  be  united,  then  we 
will  have  what  we  had  in  the  beginning.  Here  comes 
word  from  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  that  the  initial  step  has 
been  taken  for  the  formation  of  an  organization,  in- 
cluding all  the  maritime  crafts  in  the  world.  It  is 
said  that  Daniel  F.  Keefe  and  other  leaders  have  been 
working  for  years  to  bring  this  about,  and  they  suc- 
ceeded in  having  committees  appointed  to  draft  reso 
lutions  in  favor  of  such  an  organization.  This  new 
association  has  received  applications  from  several  ma 
rine  labor  organizations  over  the  country,  including 
Europe,  Russia,  Japan  and  others.  Some  time  in  this 
month  they  have  a  convention  in  Sweden  where  thej 
federation  will  be  completed  if  possible. 
-:*♦*:♦ 

In  the  House  of  Commons  of  English  Parliament 
recently,  during  the  discussion  of  the  South  African 
affairs.  Secretary  Lyttleton  announced  that  the  gov- 
ernment intended,  next  year,  to  give  to  the  Transvaal 
representative  institutions  by  substituting  elected  for 
nominated  members  of  the  Legislative  Counsel. 

Third  Assistant  Postmaster  General  Madden  is 
working  at  a  set  of  rules  by  which  the  business  men 
may  send  third  and  fourth  class  mail  matter  without 
affixing  stamps  to  each  individual  piece.  This  is  to 
save  the  business  men  unnecessary  time  and  labor. 
To  avoid  discrepancies,  restrictions  must  be  placed  that 
not  less  than  two  thousand  identical  pieces  be  mailed 
at  one  time  and  even  then  before  these  pieces  are 
mailed  the  amount  of  postage  must  be  paid  in  cash 
to  the  Postmaster.  Congress  made  provision  for  this 
measure  at  the  last  session. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  9,  1904. 


761 


The  White  House  does  not  look  pretty  just  now. 
It  is  just  as  white  as  ever,  and  whiter  than  it  is  some- 
times, for  it  has  just  gone  through  the  renovation 
process,  but  no  flag  floats  over  it  and  the  great  white 
building  is  dark  at  night.  Not  a  single  light  in  the 
whole  mansion.  The  presidential  family  is  away,  and 
when  the  President  leaves  the  White  House,  even  for 
a  day,  down  comes  the  flag ;  nothing  doing  in  an  of- 
ficial way  until  he  comes  back.  Then  when  the  whole 
family  goes  away,  of  course  there  are  no  occupants  of 
the  White  House,  except  a  few  servants  who  hide 
away  in  the  underground  regions  somewhere. 
*   *   * 

The  work  on  the  Tonto  Basin  reservoir  is  being 
pushed  along  with  much  rapidity.  The  government 
can  always  be  relied  upon  to  deal  justly  with  the  peo- 
ple. 

A  Terre  Haute  railroad  man  is  to  be  catalogued 
with  the  inventors.  His  name  is  J.  P.  Clark.  His 
long  experience  on  the  railroad  has  not  been  spent 
foolishly.  In  thinking  about  the  needs  of  his  com- 
pany, he  has  devised  means  by  which  torpedoes  may  be 
placed  on  the  track  while  the  train  is  running  at  any 
speed.  The  magazine  is  operated  from  the  rear  plat- 
form of  the  train,  and  the  torpedoes  are  placed,  of 
course,  to  warn  the  following  trains,  thus(  preventing 
rear  end  collisions.  He,  of  course,  has  it  patented. 
$    *£    •> 

Mr.  Clark,  the  railroad  inventor,  in  the  above  para- 
graph, is  fully  equalled  by  an  invention  of  Mrs.  Helen 
Tracy  Myers,  M.  D.,  of  Colorado  Springs,  formerly  of 
Jamestown,  N.  Y.,  who  has  invented  and  patented  an 
iceless  refrigerator.  She  has  succeeded  in  cooling  by 
means  of  evaporation  so  that  ice  is  unnecessary.  She 
exhibits  at  the  World's  Fair. 
•:•  *  * 

The  work  of  planting  date  palms,  just  received 
from  the  Sahara  desert,  on  the  government  experiment 
station  farm  at  Mecca,  has  been  completed  by  Prof. 
Steubenrauch  and  Superintendent  Mills,  of  Pomana. 
In  the  foreign  shipment  there  were  one  hundred  and 
sixty  female  plants ;  forty  male  plants  were  taken 
from  the  Pomona  experiment  station  for  pollenization 
purposes.  The  plants  are  looking  and  doing  fine. 
Another  shipment  is  expected  in  a  few  weeks  to  ar- 
rive from  Asia.  It  seems  that  the  climatic  conditions 
of  California  are  ideal  for  date  palm  culture. 

4»    4»    »> 

The  great  flood  of  Galveston  has  suggested  to  peo- 
ple that  they  need  protection  and  one  and  a  half  mil- 
lion dollars  has  been  expended  to  build  a  structure  to 
protect  the  city  against  further  destruction  by  flood. 
Nearlv  two  years  work  has  been  expended  and  a  final 
touch  was  given  to  the  wall  on  the  last  day  of  July, 


and  Galveston  money  built  the  wall.  The  citizens  sub- 
scribed freely  when  the  bonds  were  issued,  which 
was  another  manifestation  of  their  unwavering  faith 
in  their  ability  to  recover  from  the  hurricane  and  the 
flood.  The  whole  country  has  shown  their  sympathy 
and  encouragement  during  the  grief-stricken  moments 
of  the  Galvestonians.  Loads  of  foods  and  supplies 
were  sent,  even  from  as  far  north  as  Philadelphia. 
They  are  making  preparations  now  to  raise  the  grade 
of  this  city  about  seventeen  feet  above  the  average  tide. 
The  wall  is  sixteen  feet  wide  at  the  bottom  and  five 
feet  at  the  top, — seventeen  feet  above  the  tide.  Solid 
granite  and  concrete  are  the  materials  used.  It  is 
three  and  one-fourth  miles  long.  It  is  estimated  that 
the  grading  of  the  city  will  cost  two  and  one-fourth 
millions,  payment  of  which  will  be  made  possible  by 
remission  of  seventeen  years  of  State  tax.  Engineers 
think  that  three  years  will  be  required  to  complete  it. 

*  *   * 

The  Pullman  Car  Company,  of  Pullman,  111.,  since 
July  4,  have  discharged  fully  two  thousand  men. 
There  has  been  no  strike  nor  any  ill  feelings  particu- 
larly among  the  men,  but  it  is  simply  a  matter  of  no 
demand  for  the  cars  as  usual,  but  these'  men  will  all 
have  to  be  employed  before  winter  again,  and  probably 
more.  They  cannot  use  them  at  the  present  time, 
which  is  rather  a  sad  thing  on  the  part  of  the  work- 
men, for  many  of  these  workmen  can  do  nothing 
else  but  work  at  their  special  trade. 
.$.   .5.  $ 

It  is  given  out  by  excellent  authority  that  the  Mis- 
souri Pacific  Railroad  and  the  Wabash  System  have 
consolidated  into  one  company,  and  that  Joseph  Ram- 
sey, Jr.,  who  is  at  the  present  time  president  of  the 
Wabash  System,  will  be  placed  in  charge  of  the  en- 
tire Gould  System.  It  is  supposed  by  the  majority  of 
people  that  Mr.  Ramsey  will  not  take  charge  of  the 
work  until  Mr.  Gould  returns  from  Europe,  but  plans 
along  this  line  are  being  formulated  and  official  ac- 
tion will  be  taken  as  soon  as  Mr.  Gould  returns.  Two 
things  are  quite  certain :  one  is  that  Mr.  Ramsey  is 
quite  competent  to  handle  the  entire  system,  and  the 
other  is  that  Mr.  Gould  already  has  too  much  to  see 
to.  to  give  sufficient  time  to  the  new  addition  of  their 
system,  so  without  question  the  new  arrangement  will 
be  better  for  the  system.  Mr.  Ramsey  has  recently 
completed  the  Pittsburg  extension  of  the  Wabash  at 
a  great  cost,  which  will  no  doubt  be  immensely  profit- 
able to  the  system. 

*  *   * 

There  are  now  seven  hundred  million  acres  of  pro- 
ductive forest  land  in  the  United  States.  The  annual 
cutting  of  timber  amounts  to  thirty-five  billion  feet 
per  year ;  of  timber,  three  billion  feet :  for  railroad 
ties,  twenty-two  million  :  for  fence  posts,  three  million. 


762  THE    INGLENOOK.— August  9,  1904. 

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The  Inglenook  Nature  Study  Club 


This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various  Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized 
4    over  this  country.     Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.     Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time, 
' '    taking  the   work   up   with   the   current   issue.     Back  numbers  cannot  be  furnished.     Any  school  desiring  to  or- 
ganize  a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  111. 

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When  all  the  gay  scenes  of  the  summer  are  o'er, 

And  Autumn  slow  enters,  so  silent  and  sallow, 
The  millions  of  warblers,  that  charmed  us  before, 

Have  fle'd  in  the  train  of  the  sun  seeking  swallow, 
The  bluebird,  forsaken,  yet  true  to  his  home, 

Still  lingers,  and  looks  for  a  milder  to-morrow, 
Till  forced  by  the  horrors  of  winter  to  roam, 

He  sings  his  adieu  in  a  low  note  of  sorrow. 
*    *    * 
CLASS    AVES— ORDER    INSESSORES. 


Families,    Jay,    Daw,    Pie.       Characteristics,    Conirostres, 
Noisy,  Greedy,  Both  Modest  and  Gay  in  Color. 

THE    MAGPIE. 

The  Magpie,  which  in  Great  Britain  is  so  common 
and  familiar,  is  comparatively  little  known  in  the 
United  States,  its  haunts  being  confined  to  the  terri- 
tory directly  west  of  the  Mississippi,  where,  in  some 
districts  it  appears  to  be  abundant.  It  is  a  very  rest- 
less bird  and  keeps  moving  about  from  place  to  place. 
It  possesses  the  voracity  of  its  family,  being  very  fond 
of  the  eggs  and  young  of  other  birds,  especially  those 
of  chickens,  pheasants  and  partridges,  but  is  quite  well 
satisfied  with  carrion  when  other  food  is  scarce. 

Like  the  crow  it  feeds  on  insects,  larvae  and  worms ; 
sometimes  alighting  on  the  backs  of  cattle,  eating  the 
eggs  which  are  embedded  in  the  skin. 

As  to  personal  appearance  there  are  two  kinds  of 
Magpies  found  within  the  limits  of  the  United  States, 
the  common  and  the  yellow-billed.  The  head,  neck, 
back  and  throat  of  the  common  Magpie  are  black,  the 
shoulders  white,  and  the  tail  and  small  upper  wing 
coverlets  are  a  rich  green.  The  yellow-billed  species 
are  very  much  the  same  in  size  and  color  as  the  a"bove 
with  the  exception  that  the  bill  is  a  bright  yellow, 
and  crown  of  the  head  green.  This  last-mentioned 
is  an  inhabitant  of  upper  California. 

THE  JAY. 

Many  different  colored  varieties  constitute  the  fam- 
ily of  Jays,  and  they  are  found  in  many  countries,  in 
fact  few  of  the  warmer  lands  are  without  some  kind 
of  a  noisy  bird  that  belongs  to  this  family.  This 
group  alone  possesses  almost  all  of  the  bright  tints 
in  the  color  of  their  coats. 

There  are  about  eleven  species  in  the  United  States. 
In  the  East  is  the  Blue  Jay  and  the  Canadian  Jay ;  in 
the  South  the  Florida  Jay  ;  and  in  the  West  and  north- 


west, the  Ultramarine  Jay,  Steller's  Jay,  Prince  Maxi- 
milian's Jay,  Mexican  Jay  and  Beechy's  Jay. 

More  people  are  familiar  with  the  Blue  Jay,  how- 
ever, with  his  high-peaked  crest,  black  whiskers,  cun- 
ing  disposition  and  his  great  fondness  for  the  eggs  of 
other  birds.  His  showy  plumage,  attractive  form  and 
graceful  movements,  as  well  as  his  restless  activity, 
render  him  one  of  the  most  prominent  inhabitants  of 
our  woodland. 

THE    COWARD    BLUE    JAY. 

The  Blue  Jay  is  a  sneaking,  thieving  coward,  who 
would  not  dare  attack  his  enemies,  but  will  go,  in  their 
absence,  to  their  nests  and  suck  the  eggs  or  destroy 
the  young.  He  is  spoken  of  thus  by  Audubon :  "  The 
Cardinal  Grossbeak  will  challenge  him,  and  beat  him 
off  the  ground.  The  Red  Thrush,  the  Mocking  Bird, 
and  many  others,  although  inferior  in  strength,  never 
allow  him  to  approach  with  impunity ;  the  Jay,  to  be 
even  with  them,  creeps  silently  to  the  nest  in  their  ab- 
sence, and  devours  their  eggs  or  young  whenever  he 
finds  an  opportunity.  I  have  seen  one  go  his  round 
from  one  nest  to  another  every  day  and  suck  the  newly- 
laid  eggs  of  the  different  birds  in  the  neighborhood 
with  as  much  regularity  as  a  physician  would  call  on 
his  patients.  I  have  also  witnessed  the  sad  disap- 
pointment it  experienced,  when,  on  returning  to  its 
own  home,  it  found  its  mate  in  the  jaws  of  a  snake, 
the  nest  upset,  and  the  eggs  all  gone." 

The  Canadian  Jay  is  very  quiet,  being  the  only  one 
of  the  Jay  family  that  seems  content  without  gay  dress, 
he  being  clad  in  very  modest  plumage. 

Prince  Maximilian's  Jay  was  first  discovered  in  the 
Rocky  Mountains.  In  color,  form  and  habits  it  differs 
from  any  other  member  of  this  group,  being  what  is 
called  an  aberrant  species,  having  but  one  character- 
istic of  his  brothers,  greed.  The  other  members  are 
very  much  like  the  type,  Blue  Jay. 

THE   DAW. 

The  Daw,  or  Jack  Daw,  as  it  is  sometimes  called,  is 
found  only  in  Europe.  Their  favorite  haunts  are 
church  steeples  or  ruins.  They  are  very  much  like  the 
type  of  the  crow  family,  in  that  they  are  gregarious, 
noisy  and  greedy.  Where  he  lives  he  is  known  as 
Shakespeare  puts  it, 

"  The  loud  daw,   his  throat 
Displaying,    draws 
The  whole  assembly  of 
His  fellow  daws." 


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THE    HERMIT    CRAB. 


The  most  disconsolate  fellow  that  walks  the  beach 
is  the  hermit-crab  whose  shell  has  become  too  snug 
for  comfort.  If  it  were  his  own,  as  the  clam's  is,  it 
would  grow  with  his  growth,  and  always  be  a  perfect 
fit ;  but  to  the  hermit  there  comes  often  a  "  moving 
day,"  when  a  new  house  must  be  sought.  Discourag- 
ing work  it  is,  too.  Most  of  the  doors  at  which  he 
knocks  are  slammed  in  his  face.  A  tweak  from  a 
larger  pincer  than  his  own  will  often  satisfy  him  that 
the  shell  he  considers  "  distinctly  possible,"  and  hope- 
fully ventures  to  explore,  is  already  occupied  by  a  neat 
but  coldly  unsympathetic  relative. 

Finding  no  empty  shell  of  suitable  size,  the  hermit 
may  be  driven  to  ask  a  brother  hermit  to  vacate  in 
his  favor.  The  proposition  is  spurned  indignantly, 
and  a  fight  ensues.  The  battle  is  to  the  stronger. 
Often  the  attacking  party  has  considerable  trouble  in 
cleaning  out  the  shell,  having  to  pick  his  adversary  out 
in  bits.  A  periwinkle  or  a  whelk  may  be  attacked  in 
a  like  manner  by  a  hermit  who  is  hard  pressed  and 
has  taken  a  fancy  to  that  particular  shell.  If  the 
householder  be  feeble,  the  conquest  is  easy.  If  lusty, 
he  holds  the  fort. 

At  last  the  search  is  over.  The  shell  is  cleaned  and 
ready. 

"  Yes,  this  will  do !  But  how  my  back  does  ache ! 
I  mustn't  delay  a  minute !  Is  anybody  looking  ? 
Here  goes,  then ;  and  may  I  never  have  to  move 
again !  " 

In  the  twinkling  of  an  eye  the  caudal  hooks  let  go 
their  hold  deep  in  the  spiral  of  the  old  shell,  and  have 
safely  anchored  the  weak  and  flaccid  body  to  the  in- 
ner convolutions  of  the  new  one. 

It  is  all  over ;  an  empty  shell  lies  on  the  sand, 
and  a  larger  one  is  near  it  with  a  sleepy-looking  her- 
mit crab  in  it.  Poke  him,  and  he  leans  languidly  out 
over  his  pearly  balcony,  as  if  to  say:  "  If  this  dead- 
ly monotony  is  not  broken  soon  I  shall  die !  " 

But  behind  this  "  society  mask  "  the  cramped 
muscles  are  stretching  out  and  adjusting  themselves 
in  absolute  contentment  to  the  roomy  spaces  offered 
them. 

*  *  * 

ABOUT    EAGLES. 


A  writer  who  has  studied  the  habits  of  eagles 
among  the  Scottish  hills  says  that  the  birds  construct 
their  eyries  toward  the  end  of  March  and  the  eggs, 
which  number  two  or  three,  are  laid  in  April.  Eagles 
seem  to  prefer  for  a  nesting  site  some  ancient  pine  with 
a  southern  position  and  wide  outlook  or  a  ledge  on  a 
cliff,  but  this  writer  noticed  that  they  sometimes  build 
their  eyries  on  quite  small  rocks,  where  they  can  be 
got  at  without  much  difficulty,  while  all  around  are 
immense  precipices  where  man's  foot  has  never  trod. 


It  has  been-  said  that  the  eagles  will  fearlessly  attack 
any  one  attempting  to  rob  their  eggs  and  young,  but 
this  is  probably  much  less  often  the  case  than  is  gen- 
erally supposed.  When  one  of  a  pair  if  eagles  is 
trapped  or  shot  the  remaining  bird  has  often  great  dif- 
ficulty in  finding  a  mate  and  may  haunt  its  nesting 
site  for  several  years  by  itself.  While  soaring  round 
and  round  their  eyrie  the  eagles  utter  a  musical  note 
somewhat  similar  to  the  cry  of  the  wild  goose. 

Young  eagles  when  first  hatched  are  white  balls  of 
down  and  many  weeks  elapse  before  they  are  able  to 
leave  the  eyrie.  Their  parents  supply  them  with  a 
very  liberal  larder,  consisting  principally  of  ptarmi- 
gan, grouse  and  blue  hares.  The  rush  of  their  wings 
as  they  swoop  down  on  their  luckless  prey  may  on  a 
still  day  be  heard  at  a  great  distance.  Eagles  at  times 
will  carry  off  lambs  and  young  deer  and  have  been 
known  to  drive  deer  over  a  precipice  and  to  tear  them 
to  bits  while  lying  lifeless  at  the  foot.  Sometimes  they 
will  even  condescend  to  bear  off  moles  and  mice  to  their 
eyrie.  Although  the  eagle,  as  a  rule,  prefers  to  cap- 
ture his  prey  himself,  yet  at  times  he  is  not  above  feed- 
ing on  the  dead  carcass  of  a  deer  or  sheep  and  often 
gorges  himself  to  such  an  extent  that  he  is  unable  to 
rise  after  his  too  hearty  meal. 

In  most  localities  of  Scotland  where  the  eagle  has 
its  home  there  will  also  be  found  the  hooded  crow. 

The  eagle  will  seldom  if  ever  attack  the  hoodie,  but 
whenever  the  king  of  birds  ventures  too  near  the 
former's  nesting  tree  the  angry  hoodie  will  immediately 
drive  off  the  intruder.  It  is  laughable  to  see  the  eagle 
flying  for  dear  life  before  the  fierce  onslaughts  of  the 
enraged  crows,  which  swoop  and  dash  after  him  with 
shrill  "  crass  "  until  he  is  far  from  their  nesting  site. 
4.  .$.  $ 
HOW  OLD  IS  A  FISH? 


Professor  J.  S.  Thomas,  an  English  Biologist,  has 
brought  to  light  some  very  interesting  things  in  re- 
gard to  the  finny  tribe.  He  claims  to  have  found  the 
key  by  which  he  may  very  accurately  determine  the 
age  of  a  fish.  He  does  it  by  means  of  their  scales. 
He  catches  a  number  of  them  and  carefully  examines 
their  scales,  and  then  the  fishes  are  labeled  and  re- 
turned to  the  sea  for  future  observation.  In  some 
cases,  of  course,  they  are  never  returned,  but  in  many 
instances  he  is  able  to  catch  them  from  year  to  year 
and  notice  the  traces  of  growth  distinctly  from  year  to 
year,  with  a  certain  fixed  regularity. 

He  claims  that  this  means  is  easily  done  in  species 
of  fish  like  the  cod  family.  Most  anyone  knows  that 
the  ordinary  mud  carp  can  be  caught  and  liberated 
very  easily.  And  it  has  already  been  proven  that  his 
scales  show  his  age  very  conspicuously.  If  this  be 
true  in  fresh  water  fishes,  why  not  in  salt  water  fishes? 


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HOME    DEPARTMENT 


THE  OLD  FARM  GATE. 


BY    S.    MINERVA    BOYCE. 

The  old  farm  gate  at  the  foot  of  the  hill, 

On  rusty  hinges  is  hanging  still, 

The  winding  path  that  led  to  the  wood, 

And  the  maple  grove  where  the  cattle  stood 

In  the  heat  of  the  day,  with  half-closed  eyes, 

While  chewing  their  cuds  and  switching  the  flies — 

1  see  them  to-day  in  memory  still 

As  I  stand  by  the  gate  at  the  foot  of  the  hill. 

The  sheep  on  the  hillside  are  bleating  again, 

The  old  horse  whinnying  there  in  the  lane; 

And  down  by  the  roadside  are  roses  of  June, 

Where  the  hermit  thrush  warbles  a  plaintive  tune, 

And  the  voice  of  the  brook,  as  it  hastens  along, 

Blends  softly  again  with  the  nightingale's  song; 

The  vision  has  passed,  and  turning  at  will, 

I  leave  the  old  gate  at  the  foot  of  the  hill. 

*    *    * 
THRESHING    TIME. 


At  this  season  of  the  year  a  great  percentage  of 
the  Nookers,  who  live  in  the  country  where  wheat  is 
grown  are  enjoying  a  real  festival  that  comes  only 
once  a  year,  known  as  "  threshing  time," — a  thing  we 
hold  in  abeyance  with  a  sort  of  dread,  and  yet  it  comes 
with  a  sort  of  relish.  Although  it  is  accompanied  with 
the  severest  kind  of  work,  yet  it  is  also  attended  with 
a  sufficient  quantity  of  push  and  hustle  and  united  ef- 
fort of  the  business  enterprise  that  it  gives  it  a  tone 
of  social  enjoyment  that  we  cannot  afford  to  be  with- 
out. 

How  it  fills  our  whole  being  with  joy  when  we 
hear  the  first  whistle  of  the  steam  thresher  on  the  first 
morning  of  the  season,  and  the  boys  begin  to  take  the 
wagon  beds  off  and  put  on  the  hay  racks,  and  then 
sort  out  the  horses  and  get  the  gentlest  teams  together 
so  they  are  safe  to  drive  up  beside  the  separator ;  how 
the  women  folks  make  an  extra  purchase  of  the  meat 
man  that  morning, — all  these  signs  and  more  go  to 
tell  that  threshing  time  has  come.  Within  a  few  mo- 
ments one,  two,  three  and  even  a  dozen  or  fifteen, 
sometimes  more,  of  the  neighbors,  who  form  the 
"  ring "  have  assembled,  awaiting  the  orders  of  the 
man  whose  wheat  is  to  be  threshed  that  day.  A  few 
instructions  are  given  and  they  scatter  to  the  fields, 
the  stack  or  to  the  mow,  as  the  case  may  be,  and  be- 
gin with  that  eagerness  which  means  that  something 
is  to  be  done.  When  once  every  man  has  his  place 
and  work  begins,  and  a  quantity  of  the  golden  grain 


is  tossed  high  into  the  air,  the  anxious  farmer  makes 
his  way  to  see  the  precious  treasure  as  it  rolls  from 
the  machine,  in  triumph.  The  men  work  diligently, 
although  the  temperature  is  almost  more  than  one 
can  stand,  being  supplied  occasionally  with  a  good 
draught  of  the  unadulterated  ale  of  father  Adam,  by  a 
faithful  attendant  whose  business  it  is  to  see  that 
these  men  do  not  famish  from  thirst.  Presently  a 
signal  is  given,  either  by  the  dinner  bell  or  the  dinner 
horn  or  the  wave  of  the  hand  of  the  maiden  on  the 
porch,  and  then  the  whistle  from  the  engine  and  the 
broad  smile  from  the  engineer  indicates  that  the  feeder 
should  throw  his  last  sheaf.  Everybody  drops  their 
work  and  fairly  goes  on  the  trot  to  the  house.  The 
good  housewife  has  prepared  a  whole  row  of  wash- 
tubs,  basins  and  bowls  in  front  of  the  house  on  the 
green  sward,  filled  with  nice  cool,  fresh  water,  because 
she  knows  the  men  are  in  a  hurry  and  they  are  hot 
and  impatient,  and  they  all  want  to  wash  at  once,  and 
hence  this  precaution.  On  the  old  picket  fence  hangs 
a  row  of  nice  clean  towels  so  abundantly  ample  to  meet 
the  wants  of  the  thresher  men.  No  sooner  do  they 
pass  a  comb  through  their  short  hair,  which  has  been 
cut  short  because  of  the  two  weeks  of  dusty  work, 
than  the  good  wife  shouts,  "  Dinner  is  ready."  Then 
the  men  of  brawn,  the  bread-makers  of  the  country, 
file  in,  sometimes  single  and  sometime  in  a  double 
row,  and  hastily  take  their  seats  along  the  board  that 
is  spread  with  the  best  that  nature  affords. 

If  the  lady  of  this  home  has  had  the  proper  amount 
of  experience  or  training,  she  has  three  or  four  helpers. 
It  is  customary,  sometimes,  for  the  wives  and  daugh- 
ters of  the  men  who  help  to  thresh,  to  come  and  as- 
sist the  lady  of  the  house.  Sometimes  this  is  all  right 
and  sometimes  it  proves  to  be  a  perfect  nuisance.  The 
old  adage  that  "  Too  many  cooks  spoil  the  broth  "  is 
only  too  true  in  some  cases.  But  we  repeat  what  we 
said  before ;  she  ought  to  have  three  or  four  good 
helpers,  and  then  have  their  work  outlined  and  have 
them  to  understand  that  each  one  is  to  do  her  respect- 
ive work  and  nothing  more.  For  instance:  let  Mary 
see  that  drinks  are  furnished,  that  coffee,  tea,  water  and 
milk  be  supplied  according  to  the  wishes  of  the  men. 
Let  Jane  attend  to  the  pastries,  cutting  and  passing 
of  bread,  pies  and  cakes,  if  there  be  cakes, — a  thing 
which  threshermen  generally  despise.  Let  Susie  be 
responsible  for  the  vegetables  and  meats,  and  let  the 
lady  of  the  house,  unless  she  has  the  fourth  helper,  see 
that  nothing  is  burned  up  in  the  kitchen  and  that  the 
necessary  "  after  preparations  "  are  made  toward  the 


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close  of  the  meal.  Should  she  have  the  fourth  helper, 
which  is  the  probable  ideal,  her  business  is  to  see 
that  each  of  the  helpers  do  their  part  well. 

Nothing  pleases  a  set  of  threshermen  more  than  to 
have  a  systematized  service  at  the  table ;  to  see  that 
things  are  first,  clean,  second,  well-cooked,  and  third, 
promptly  served.  The  lady  who  fails  in  either  of  these 
in  any  great  degree  has  made  a  failure  to  some  extent. 
*  *  * 
SUNDAY    SICKNESS. 


INSECT    POWDER. 


Amowg  the  many  ills  to  which  the  human  family 
falls  heir,  one  of  the  most  abominable,  damaging  and 
unpleasant  misfortunes  is  commonly  unnamed,  but 
which  deserves  the  name  of  "  Sunday  sickness."  It  is 
that  peculiar  ailment  which  renders  one  unfit  to  at- 
tend the  services  on  the  Lord's  day,  or  to  perform  any 
other  duties  whatever,  that  take  on  a  religious  nature. 

For  some  reason,  perhaps  not  known  to  all,  there  is 
an  inclination  on  the  part  of  a  great  many  to  want  to 
lounge  and  loaf  about  home,  to  lie  in  bed  late  on  Sun- 
day morning.  Among  others,  to  go  visiting ;  some 
few  become  peevish  and  fretful,  out  of  sorts ;  rather 
rest,  because  they  are  tired  from  the  strain  and  ten- 
sion of  the  week's  work. 

It  might  be  a  happy  thought  to  some  of  our  Nook 
family  should  it  be  that  any  of  us  are  troubled  with 
this  complaint,  to  have  a  recipe  here  for  this  kind 
of  Sunday  sickness,  along  with  other  recipes  which 
belong  to  the  family  household. 

Rise  at  seven ;  not  later.  Take  a  cold  water  bath ; 
not  only  the  face,  but  the  entire  body.  Let  neither  sum- 
mer nor  winter  make  a  change  in  this.  Eat  a  plain 
breakfast.  Then  mix  up  and  take,  internally,  a  dose  of 
the  following  compound :  Equal  parts  of  Will,  Push, 
Energy,  Determination,  Self-respect,  Respect  for  God's 
day,  Respect  for  God's  Book  and  for  God's  house,  and 
'a  desire  to  be  somebody.  Stir  well  and  add  just 
enough  love  to  make  it  sweet.  Repeat  the  dose  every 
three  minutes  until  church  time,  unless  the  desired 
effect  is  reached  sooner.  If  the  day  is  stormy,  make 
an  external  application  of  a  good  pair  of  overshoes, 
raincoat  and  umbrella. 

Many  a  girl  looks  sullen  and  ill  at  ease  if  her  mother 
comes  into  the  room  when  she  is  entertaining  a  young 
man  friend.    The  young  man  is  sure  to  notice  this  and 
mentally  mark  it  down  against  the  girl.    A  man  who  is 
worth  anything  puts  a  higher  estimate  on  the  girl  who 
is  frankly  but  unaffectedly  affectionate  in  her  home, 
and  considerate  of  her  mother. 
*    *   * 
The  love  of  praise,  howe'er  concealed  by  art, 
Reigns  more  or  less,  and  glows  in  ev'ry  heart. 

— Young. 


A  GOOD  insect  powder  for  lice  is, — One  pound  of 
sulphur,  into  which  has  been  thoroughly  mixed  one 
tablespoonful  of  carbolic  acid. 

•$•  *  * 
ROASTED    APPLES. 


BY    SARAH    A.    SELL. 

Take  good  tart  apples ;  pare  and  halve  and  place 
them  in  a  pan ;  put  a  pinch  of  butter  on  each  half, 
sprinkle  sugar,  cinnamon,  a  little  flour,  and  put  in 
the  oven  to  roast. 

Nezvry,  Pa. 

•j.  .♦.  .». 

TO    PRESERVE    CORN. 


Boil  the  corn  in  the  ear  for  ten  minutes,  cut  from 
the  cob  and  allow  a  quart  of  salt  to  four  quarts  of 
the  kernels.  Stir  well  together,  put  into  a  stone  crock, 
make  a  brine  strong  enough  to  bear  up  an  egg  and 
pour  over  the  corn  until  it  is  covered.  Stir  well  with 
a  wooden  paddle.  Spread  over  the  top  of  the  jar  a 
thin  cloth  with  salt  on  it.  Whenever  you  take  out  any 
corn  replace  the  salted  cloth.  When  you  wish  to  use 
some  of  the  corn  take  it  out  and  soak  for  some  hours 
in  cold  water,  changing  this  frequently.  If  too  salty 
you  may  let  it  come  to  the  boil  in  the  last  water. 

DRYING    SWEET    CORN. 


Select  good  ears  of  sweet  corn,  husk,  take  off  silk 
carefully,  but  do  not  wash ;  shave  with  a  sharp  knife, 
not  too  close  to  the  cob,  into  a  large  tin  pan  or  wooden 
bowl,  scrape  cob  to  get  all  the  milk  of  the  corn ; 
when  about  three  quarts  are  cut  off,  line  a  large  drip- 
ping-pan with  flour-sack  paper,  being  careful  to  have 
sides  and  edges  covered ;  pour  in  corn,  spread,  and  put 
at  once  in  moderate  oven ;  stir  frequently,  and  leave 
in  oven  fifteen  or  twenty  minutes.  Set  a  table  out 
in  the  sun,  cover  with  a  cloth,  pour  the  corn  upon  it, 
and  spread  out  evenly  and  thinly.  Before  sunset  bring 
the  corn  in  and  spread  on  a  table  in  the  house ;  in  the 
morning  heat  again  in  oven  and  spread  again  in  the 
sun  as  before.  If  directions  are  closely  followed,  the 
corn  will  be  thoroughly  dried  on  the  evening  of  the 
second  day,  and  when  shaken  will  rattle ;  store  in  paper 
bag  as  soon  as  cooled.  Prepare  in  small  quantities, 
because  it  must  not  stand  long  after  being  shaven,  but 
should  at  once  go  into  the  oven  to  heat. 

When  all  is  dried,  put  in  oven  for  final  heating; 
place  to  cool,  pour  into  the  bag.  tie  closely,  and  hang 
in  a  cool,  dry,  dark  place. 


766 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  9,   1904. 


OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE    if 


BONNIE    WAYNE. 


Nen  when  I  came  out  in  the  room  where  the  folks 
were,  Mr.  Marshall  said,  "  Good  morning,  Bonnie ;" 
and  Grandma  were  sitting  and  reading  the  Inglenook 
and  she  looked  over  her  glasses  and  said,  "  Bless  her 
little  heart,  she  had  a  big  day  of  it  yesterday  and  she 
had  to  have  a  good  nap ;  go  out  to  the  kitchen,  honey, 
and  Mrs.  Marshall  will  give  you  your  breakfast." 
Mabel  said,  "  There  comes  the  little  lady,  come  right 
along  here  and  wash  your  face  in  this  nice,  cool  water 
and  you  will  feel  good  and  you  will  like  your  breakfast 
better ;  "  and  she  told  me  that  she  and  Frank  had  been 
out  picking  the  raspberries  and  that  I  might  have  some 
of  them  for  my  breakfast.  'Nen  Frank  came  in  laugh- 
ing and  said,  "  Here,  Bonnie,  is  some  of  the  good 
cream  from  that  milk  that  you  saw  me  milk  out  at  the 
barn  last  night." 

'Nen  I  said,  "Where's  Luke?"  and  Frank  said  he 
sent  Luke  with  old  Bux  to  take  the  cattle  to  the  pas- 
ture ;  'nen  I  said,  "  Is  Luke  coming  back  any  more  ?  " 
'Cause  I  wuz  afraid  that  he  would  go  home  and  leave 
me  out  here  in  the  country.  When  I  got  my  breakfast 
and  found  Hattie  and  Dora  and  got  them  in  the  little 
wagon  that  Mabel  used  to  have  when  she  wuz  a  little 
girl,  I  took  them  out  to  have  a  ride  in  the  yard  and  I 
saw  Luke  and  old  Bux  down  by  the  spring  house,  and 
Luke  just  hollered  to  me  and  said  for  me  to  come  down 
there,  'nen  I  said,  "  Is  there  any  of  those  red  pigs  down 
there  ?  "  And  he  said  there  wuz  none  of  them  there, 
and  so  I  took  the  dolls  down  there  to  the  spring  house 
and  we  had  the  bestest  time  for  a  long  time.  You  see, 
Mrs.  Marshall  had  been  down  there  before  breakfast, 
and  she  had  a  great  big  long  bucket  that  had  a  cover 
on  it,  and  it  had  a  hole  in  the  middle  and  a  long  stick 
through  the  hole  and  she  had  the  whitest  water  in  there 
that  I  ever  saw ;  it  looked  like  that  milk  that  Frank 
got  down  to  the  barn  last  night,  and  I  thought  it  wuz 
so  white  that  I  asked  Luke  if  he  thought  Mrs.  Marshall 
would  care  if  I  washed  Dora's  dress  in  that  and  he 
said  that  he  didn't  think  she  would  care  a  bit,  so  I  took 
oft"  her  dress  and  lifted  up  the  little  lid  that  wuz  on  it 
and  put  the  dress  in  and  we  just  punched  that  stick  up 
and  down  and  the  white  water  got  in  my  eyes,  and  all 
over  Luke's  blue  coat,  and  all  over  the  floor ;  'nen  there 
wuz  little  yellow  specks  come  all  over  the  top  and  Luke 
said,  "  Let  me  look  in  there  and  see  if  it  is  clean." 
And  when  he  looked  in  he  saw  that  there  wuz  a  whole 
big  lots  of  that  yellow  stuff  in  there,  and  he  said,  "  Oh, 


lookie,  Bonnie !  "  and  he  took  a  handful  out  and  we 
made  it  into  little  bailies  and  stuck  them  up  against  the 
wall,  and  they  looked  awful  nice;  and  then  Luke  took 
a  little  paddle  and  smeared  a  lot  of  it  all  over  the 
screen  door  to  keep  the  flies  out,  and  it  made  the  door 
look  like  it  wuz  painted  yellow,  and  just  then  Mrs. 
Marshall  came  in  and  she  said,  "  What  in  the  world 
are  my  children  doing?"  and  Luke  said,  "We  are 
keeping  out  the  flies,"  and  she  looked  so  funny  and  she 
hollered  to  Mr.  Marshall  to  come  there  quick,  and  I 
thought  we  had  done  something  bad;  but  when  he 
came  he  just  laughed  as  hard  as  he  could  and  said,  "  I 
guess  you  children  had  better  go  with  me,"  and  he 
winked  at  Mrs.  Marshall,  and  she  shook  her  head 
about  like  Mamma  does  just  before  we  are  getting 
company,  or  when  the  minister  is  at  our  house  for  din- 
ner. 

Frank  had  the  harness  on  old  Barney  and  Charley, 
and  Mr.  Marshall  said  to  Frank,  "  Can't  you  take  these 
children  with  you?  "  and  he  said,  "  Yep,"  and  he  lifted 
me  up  on  old  Charley,  and  he  put  Luke  on  old  Barney, 
'nen  he  got  on  behind  me  and  we  went  with  him  out  to 
the  field,  where  he  wuz  cutting  down  some  grass,  and 
he  said  that  he  wuz  a  going  to  make  some  hay. 
"  There  now,  you  children,  play  around  here  any  place 
you  want  to  and  I  will  call  you  when  I  go  to  dinner," 
he  said,  and  we  had  a  good  time  out  there.  There  wuz 
a  little  brook  there,  and  there  wuz  some  little  fishes  in 
it  and  we  waded  in  and  tried  to  catch  them,  but  they 
would  slip  out  of  my  fingers  every  time.  'Nen  we 
picked  some  flowers,  and  found  some  pretty  shells  and 
a  lot  of  nice  little  stones,  and  then  Luke  found  a  great 
big  bird  in  the  corner  of  the  fence,  and  she  had  the 
longest  neck  and  she  stretched  out  her  neck  as  far  as 
she  could  and  said  h-i-s-s-s-s,  and  I  wuz  afraid 
of  her  and  Luke  got  a  stick  and  he  hit  her  and  she  run 
after  him  and  she  bit  him  on  the  heel  and  he  cried ; 
.and  'nen  I  cried  too,  and  so  I  got  a  big  brush  and  I  ran 
after  that  big  bird  and  she  went  back  to  the  fence 
and  we  went  to  the  gate  where  Frank  left  us,  and  we 
could  see  him  coming  and  we  heard  something  going 
ding-dong-ding-dong  and  Luke  said,  "  I  wonder  if 
they  have  school  out  here  ?  " 

(to  be  continued.) 

Blessed  be  the  hand  that  prepares  a  pleasure  for  a 
child,  for  there  is  no  saying  when  and  where  it  may 
bloom  forth. — Douglas  Jerrold. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  9,  1904. 


767 


J/| 


What  are  the  fifteen  decisive  battles  of  the  world? 

Marathon,  Windfield-Lippe,  Hastings,  Siege  of  Or- 
leans, Saratoga,  Pultowa,  Siege  of  Syracuse,  Metarus, 
Tours,  Arbela,  Chalons,  Blenheim,  Valmy,  Sedan, 
Gettysburg,  Waterloo,  Spanish  Armada,  Siege  of  Se- 
vastopol, Manila. 

* 

What  is  our  new  editor's  name? 

Though  the  editor  is  strongly  in  favor  of  impersonal 
journalism,  since  this  question  has  been  asked  several 
times,  he  will  answer  the  question  directly.  His  name 
is  E.  M.  Cobb  and  his  former  address  was  College  Cor- 
ner, Ohio. 


Do  bees  and  other  insects  have  perspiratory  glands? 
Yes.    But  this  question  will  be  more  fully  discussed 
when  our  Nature  Study  reaches  that  point. 


What  are  some  of  the  very  latest  words  that  have  come 
into  the  English  language? 

In  the  International  dictionary  of  1903  there  are  25,- 
000  new  words  that  have  come  into  the  language  in  the 
last  ten  years,  and  it  is  very  hard  to  tell  the  ones  that 
have  come  in  at  the  very  last  moment.  They  are  most- 
ly if  not  altogether  brought  in  through  the  sciences 
and  arts  and  will  be  found  among  their  terms. 


How  much  do  animals  know? 

This  is  a  question  which  is  under  much  discussion 
at  this  time,  but  if  it  is  studied  carefully  it  will  be 
found  that  most  if  not  all  of  the  actions  of  the  lower 
animals  are  caused  by  instinct  or  by  imitation.  A  cat 
will  learn  to  love  a  place  and  if  taken  away  in  a  bag 
many  miles,  around  many  .crooks  and  turns,  it  will  re- 
turn to  the  place  upon  which  it  has  learned  the  "  rat- 
holes."  That  is  instinct,  and  calls  for  no  knowledge 
on  the  part  of  the  animal,  but  it  is  different  with  the 
dog.  It  will  follow  its  master  about  from  place  to 
place,  as  devoted  to  him  as  ever,  be  he  in  the  city  or 
country.  But  this  is  instinct  just  the  same.  God  gave 
the  dog  to  man  for  his  companion.  The  Eskimo  has  a 
dog  which  followed  him  to  the  extreme  northern  part 
of  the  world.  The  Australian  has  with  him  the  Dingo, 
the  shepherd  has  the  collie,  and  so  on,  each  class  of 
men  are  provided  with  a  dog  to  suit  his  climate,  and 
a  faithful  friend  he  makes,  ready  at  any  time  to  lay 
down  his  life  for  his  master.  So  you  see  that  this  is 
God-given  instinct  and  not  development  of  knowledge. 
An  animal  may  be  trained  and  educated  and  this  some- 
times reaches  very  near  to  knowledge,  but  stops  there. 

As  was  said  in  the  beginning,  there  are  two  laws  of 
sense  in  the  lower  creation,  instinct,  and  imitation. 
We  have  discussed  instinct,  but  imitation  is  different. 
What  teaches  a  parrot  to  talk?  Why,  imitation.  He 
hears  words  said  and  takes  them  up  and  repeats  them. 
He  has  a  degree  of  sense,  not  intellect,  for  this  special 
faculty,  which  few  of  this  class  have. 

Turn  an  old  farm  horse  out  in  the  farm-yard  and  he 
will  go  and  get  a  drink  of  water  and  then  go  to  the 
barn,  straight  into  his  respective  stall.  What  law  is 
this?  It  is  the  law  of  repetition.  He  has  been  led  over 
the  same  route  so  many  times  that  he  is  familiar  with 
the  routine. 


How  far  back  in  history  can  the  onion  be  traced?  The 
apple? 

The  onion  first  came  from  India.  Next  we  find  it 
in  Egypt,  2,000  years  before  the  Christian  era,  where 
the  people  worshiped  it  as  something  sacred.  The 
apple  was  brought  from  the  East  by  the  Romans,  in  an 
early  period.  The  crabapple  is  indigenous  to  Great 
Britain.  Cherries  were  known  as  far  back  as  the  sev- 
enteenth century. 

* 

Who  is  George  Haldan? 

George  Haldan  is  one  of  the  subscribers  of  the  In- 

glenook,  also  a  contributor  and  will  be  heard  from 

quite  regularly,  under  the  heading  "  The  Kritic  on  the 

Trane."    He  expects  to  write  about  objects  of  interest 

in  the  different  parts  of  the  United  States  as  he  is 

hauled  to  and  fro  through  the  country  on  some  of  our 

best  trains. 

* 

# 
What  is  the  longest  word  in  the  English  language? 

This  question  was  asked  last  week  and  we  answered 
it  from  the  point  of  a  conundrum  or  "  pun,"  but  this 
week  we  answer  it  according  to  the  decision  reached 
by  a  class  of  thirty-eight  who  have  been  trying  to  find 
the  longest  word  in  the  English  language.  It  was  de- 
cided by  them  to  be  "  disestablishmentarianism.  " 


Are  Oklahoma,  Arizona  and  New  Mexico  likely  t"  be 
admitted  as  States  very  soon? 

Their  chances  are  favorable,  especially  Oklahoma 
and  New  Mexico.  Immigration  has  done  much  for 
them,  and  with  the  industrious  class  of  people  that 
have  been  sent  south,  and  the  development  they  have 
made  in  the  last  few  years,  the  probabilities  arc  that 
the  demands  for  statehood  will  be  made  ere  long. 


768 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  9,   1904. 


*  * 

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%    t    1 1  **  *     *        '""    + 


That  Everybody's  Magazine  really  has  the  biggest 
"  scoop  "  of  the  era  in  Thos.  W.  Lawson's  "  Story  of 
Amalgamated  "  is  abundantly  shown  by  the  first  in- 
stallment of  the  series  proper  which  is  in  the  August 
number.  The  foreword  was  portentous  with  promise 
of  startling  disclosures.  The  initial  chapters  introduce 
the  secret  organization  of  Standard  Oil  and  its  actual 
master,  who  is  a  person  almost  unknown  to  the  public. 
It  is  a  wonderful  picture  Mr.  Lawson  gives  of  the 
huge  business  machine  which  has  its  headquarters  at 
26  Broadway,  New  York,  and  he  paints,  for  the  first 
time  in  his  real  colors,  the  man  he  declares  to  be  the 
greatest  business  genius  of  the  period,  Henry  H.  Rog- 
ers. Then,  with  brutal  directness,  he  describes  how  in 
dividing  the  profits  of  the  Amalgamated  deal  the  big- 
gest financiers  in  Wall  Street  were  tricked  and  de- 
ceived like  the  veriest  crowd  of  tyros.  It  is  the  most 
sensational  instance  of  the  double  cross  in  modern 
finance. 

*   *   * 

TEN    MINUTES    TO    LIVE. 


On  board  an  English  steamer,  a  little  ragged  boy, 
aged  nine  years,  was  discovered  the  fourth  day  out 
from  Liverpool  to  New  York,  and  carried  before  the 
first  mate,  whose  duty  it  was  to  deal  with  such  cases. 

When  questioned  as  to  his  object  in  being  stowed 
away,  and  who  brought  him  on  board,  the  boy,  who 
had  a  beautiful,  sunny  face,  and  eyes  that  looked  like 
the  very  mirror  of  truth,  replied  that  his  stepfather  did 
it  because  he  could  not  afford  to  keep  him  nor  pay  his 
passage  to  Halifax,  where  he  had  an  aunt  who  was 
well  off,  and  to  whose  home  he  was  going. 

The  mate  did  not  believe  the  story,  in  spite  of  the 
winning  face  and  truthful  accents  of  the  boy.  He  had 
seen  too  much  of  stow-aways  to  be  easily  deceived  by 
them,  he  said,  and  it  was  his  firm  conviction  the  boy 
had  been  brought  on  board  and  provided  with  food  by 
the  sailors.  The  fellow  was  very  roughly  handled  in 
consequence. 

Day  by  day  he  was  questioned  and  requestioned,  but 
always  with  the  same  result.  He  did  not  know  a  sailor 
on  board,  and  his  father  alone  had  secreted  him,  and 
given  him  the  food  which  he  ate. 

At  last  the  mate,  wearied  by  the  boy's  persistence  in 
the  same  story,  and  perhaps  a  little  anxious  to  incul- 
pate the  sailors,  seized  and  dragged  him  on  the  fore- 
deck,  and  told  him  that  unless  he  told  the  truth  in  ten 
minutes  he  would  hang  him  from  the  yard-arm. 


He  then  made  him  sit  down  under  it  on  the  deck. 
All  around  him  were  the  passengers,  and  the  sailors 
of  the  middy  watch,  and  in  front  of  him  stood  the  in- 
exorable mate  with  his  chronometer  in  his  hand,  and 
the  officers  of  the  ship  by  his  side. 

It  was  the  finest  sight,  said  our  informant,  that  I 
ever  beheld,  to  see  the  pale,  proud,  sorrowful  face  of 
that  noble  boy,  his  head  erect,  his  beautiful  eyes  bright 
through  the  tears  that  suffused  them.  When  eight 
minutes  had  fled,  the  mate  told  him  he  had  but  two 
minutes  to  live  and  advised  him  to  speak  the  truth  and 
save  his  life ;  but  he  replied  with  the  utmost  simplicity 
and  sincerity,  by  asking  if  he  might  pray. 


The  mate  said  nothing,  but  nodded  his  head  and 
turned  pale  as  a  ghost,  and  shook  with  trembling  like 
a  reed  shaken  by  the  wind.  And  then  all  eyes  turned 
on  him,  the  brave  and  noble  little  fellow — the  poor  boy . 
whom  society  owned  not,  and  whose  own  stepfather 
could  not  care  for — there  he  knelt  with  clasped  hands 
and  eyes  turned  up  to  heaven,  while  he  repeated  audi- 
bly the  Lord's  Prayer,  and  prayed  the  Lord  Jesus  to 
take  him  to  heaven. 

Our  informant  adds  that  there  then  occurred  a  scene 
as  of  Pentecost.  Sobs  broke  from  strong,  hard  hearts, 
as  the  mate  sprang  forward  to  the  boy  and  clasped  him 
and  blessed  him,  and  told  him  how  sincerely  he  be- 
lieved his  story,  and  how  glad  he  had  been  brave 
enough  to  face  death,  and  be  willing  to  sacrifice  his  life 
for  the  truth  of  his  word. — Christian  Work. 


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IN    THE 


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falfa and  general   farming. 

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Finds  Scientific  Cooperation 
A  Great  Success 


Annual  Stockholders'  Meeting 


OUR  ANNUAL  SHAREHOLDERS'  MEETING  was  held  on  July  4th.  Twenty-six  of  our 
leading  shareholders,  some  coming  a  distance  of  five  hundred  miles,  were  present.  All  declare 
it  was  the  most  enthusiastic  and  encouraging  business  meeting  they  ever  attended.  Investigation 
showed  that  the  assets  of  the  Corporation  are  increasing  at  the  rate  of  nearly  two  thousand  dollars 
per  month,  and  that  the  dividends  this  year  promise  to  be  10  per  cent  or  more.  The  1904  series  of 
voucher  contracts  ($150,000  worth)  was  closed  out  in  five  months.  Thus  the  first  five  months  of 
Scientific  Co-operation,  as  first  inaugurated  and  applied  by  us  in  America,  closed  in  a  blaze  of  glory. 
Already  Scientific  Co-operation  is  a  success.  Already  our  shareholders  are  reaping  the  benefits  in 
immense  savings  and  in  dividends  on  their  investments.  Our  merchandise  sales  are  increasing  daily, 
and  our  selling  expenditures  are  decreasing  daily.  We  want  you  as  a  partner  in  our  Mail  Order 
Business,  which  is  organized  on  an  original,  scientific  co-operative  plan. 


Prompt  Action  Nec= 
essary. 

Co-operation  aims  to  do  for  the 
small  capitalist  what  the  large 
capitalist  is  doing  for  himself.  If 
you  have  $100  you  cannot  start  in 
business  with  it,  at  least  not  in  a 
business  which  yields  any  kind  of 
returns.  You  must  deposit  it  in  a 
savings  bank  or  invest  it  in  secur- 
ities and  be  contented  with  small 
interest. 

By  co-operation  you  can  make 
the  small  capital  yield  the  hand- 
some percentage  of  returns  which 
the  banker  or  the  merchant  secures 
from  his  large  investment.  "A.  B. 
D.  &  Co.  Stock"  through  co-oper- 
ation puts  you  in  business  for 
yourself,  no  matter  how  small  your 
capital,  and  puts  you  on  an  equality 
with  the  powerful  merchant  as  far 
as  earning  power  for  your  dollar  is 
concerned. 

Co-operation  puts  you 'in  a  position  for  a 
25  per  cent,  opportunity  where  otherwise 
you  remain  shackled  to  the  4  per  cent, 
dictum  of  the  savings  bank. 

Our  stock  is  for  sale  only  to  gain  the  co- 
operation of  thousands  of  customers — past, 
present  and  future.  Remember  you  buy 
into  an  established  mail  order  business 
receiving  mora  than  a  thousand  dollars 
nearly  every  day  right  now.  No  Experiment. 
No  risk.     Just  Expansion  and  C°-operation. 

//  'rite  to-day  for  application  blanks. 


Our  Idea 

To  do  the  right  thing,  at  the  right 
time,  in  the  right  way;  to  do  some  things 
better  than  they  were  ever  done  before; 
to  eliminate  errors;  to  know  both  sides 
of  the  question;  to  be  courteous;  to  be  an 
example;  to  work  for  love  of  the  work; 
to  anticipate  requirements;  to  develop 
resources;  to  recognize  no  impediments; 
to  master  circumstances;  to  act  from 
reason  rather  than  rule;  to  be  satisfied 
with  nothing  short  of  perfection  in 
scientific  co-operation. 

Won't  you  join  our  Family? 


Albaugh  Bros., 
Dover  &  Co. 

The  Mail  Order  House 

341=43  Franklin  St. 
Chicago,    =    Illinois. 


What  Is  Your  Capital 
Doing  For  You? 

Prompt  action  on  your  part  is 
necessary  to  secure  your  stock  at 
"ground-floor"  quotations.  It  was 
unanimously  decided,  at  the  Stock- 
holder's Meeting,  that  no  more 
stock  should  be  sold  at  less  than 
£125.00  per  share,  which  is  a 
premium  of  §25.00  on  each  share, 
and  judging  from  past  experience, 
it  is  more  than  likely  that  the  stock 
will  command  a  heavier  premium 
by  the  end  of  the  business  year. 

We  now  have  nearly  Five 
Hundred  people  interested  with  us; 
and  in  order  to  enlist  hundreds 
more  of  co-operators,  the  manage- 
ment has  decided  to  increase  the 
capital  stock  of  the  Company  to 
§500,000  and  issue  a  new  series  for 
$150,000  worth  of  voucher  con- 
tracts. 

You  should  take  advantage  of  this 
exceptional  opportunity,  by  getting:  your 
application  in  for  a  part  of  this  1905  series. 

Remember:  One  judicious  investment  may 
be  worth  years  of  labor.  There  «s  nothing 
to  give  away  in  our  proposition.  It  is  not  a 
promotor's  scheme,  but  a  straight-forward, 
high-grade,  strictly  legitimate  mercantile 
enterprise  and  every  dollar's  worth  of  stock 
sold  represents  an  actual  Ylh  cunts  of  value 
— that's  why  the  stocks  sell  at  a  premium ■ 
//  'rite  to-day  for  application  blanks. 


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PARTIAL  TABLE   OF  CONTENTS. 


POEM. 

THE  EVENING  HOUR.- 

CONTRIBUTIONS. 


-By   L.    Margaret  Haas. 


MEAT  INSPECTION  BY  THE  GOVERNMENT.— By  Dr. 

C.  W.  Johnson. 
THE  "  N  "  RAVS.— By  J.  G.  Figley. 
MISTAKES  ABOUT  SCHOOL.— By  D.  L.  Mohler. 
THE  KRITIK  ON  THE  TRANE.— By  George  Haldan. 
NOTED  RELICS  IN  OHIO.— By  Charity  Vincent. 
MONUMENTS  AND  MEN.— By  Owen  Eldo  Metzger. 
THE  RANDOLPH  FARM.— By  B.  B.  Switzer. 
HOW    FRENCHMEN    SING  THE  "  MARSEILLAISE."— 

By  Marguerite  Bixler. 


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BRETHREN    PUBLISHING    HOUSE 


igust  16,    1904 


$  1 .00  per  Year 


Number  33,  Vcrium*  VI 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


ARE   YOU   GOING   TO 

California,  Washington, 
Oregon,  Idaho 

Or  Any  Other  Point?    Take  the 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Daily  Tourist  Car   Lines 


Chicago,  Missouri  River,  Colorado,  Idaho,  Oregon, 
Washington  and  California  Points. 


ROUND    TRIP   RATES 


From  Chicago, 
From  Missouri  River, 


$50.00 
45.00 


To  San  Francisco  or  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  and  Re- 
turn. Tickets  Sold  Aug.  15  to  Sept.  10,  inclusive. 
Return  Limit,  October  23,  1904. 


One-Way  Colonist's  Rates. 

To  Pacific  Coast  Every  Day,  Sept.  15  to  Oct.  15. 

From  Chicago,   $33  00 

From  St.  Louis •.  30  00 

From  Missouri   River,    25  00 

Proportionate  Bates  from  all  Points  East. 


The  Union  Pacific  Railroad 

IS    KNOWN    AS  

"The  Overland  Route" 

And  is  the  only  direct  line  from  Chicago  and  the  Missouri 
River  to  all  principal  points  West.  Business  men  and 
others  can  save  many  hours  via  this  line.  Call  on  or 
address  a  postal  card  to  your  nearest  ticket  agent,  or 
Geo.  L.  McDonaugh,  Colonization  Agent,  Omaha, 
Neb. 

E.  L.  LOMAX,  G.  P.  &  T.  A., 
Omaha,   Nebraska. 


MORE  BEETS- 
HIGHER  PRICE 


Producers    Will    Get    $400,000     More 
Than    Last  Year. 


"  Denver  Poft:  " 

The  sugar  beet  crop  of  Colorado,  according  to  reports 
received  from  our  field  men  all  through  the  South  Platte 
Valley,  will  be  not  less  than  10  per  cent  in  excess  of  that 
of  last  year,"  said  Charles  Eoettcher,  of  the  Great  West- 
ern Sugar  company.  "  The  outlook  was  never  so  good 
as  it  is  this  year.  Last  year  the  yield  in  tons  was  slightly 
less  than  400,000,  and  it  was  marketed  at  $4.50  a  ton. 
This  year  it  will  be  fully  450,000  tons  and  the  market 
price  already  agreed  on  is  $5  a  ton.  This  will  make  a' 
difference  to  the  producer  of  some  $400,000.  It  is  too 
early  to  make  an  estimate  on  the  amount  of  sugar  the 
beets  will  contain.  That  will  not  be  possible  for  a  couple 
or  more  weeks.  But  the  general  outlook  was  never  bet- 
ter for  a  large  beet  crop  than  it  is  at  present.  We  have 
had  plenty  of  water  and  no  severe  or  injurious  storms 
over  the  areas  planted  in  beets.  If  nothing  untoward 
occurs  the  crop  will  be  a  banner  one." 


The  following  parties  have  bought  land  near  Snyder, 
Colo.: 

Louis  E.  Keltner,  Hygiene,  Colo.;  W.  W.  Keltner, 
North  Dakota;  A.  W.  Brayton,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Daniel 
Grabill,  Lemasters,  Pa.;  J.  L.  Kuns,  McPherson,  Kans.; 
D.  L.  Miller,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Daniel  Neikirk,  Lemasters, 
Pa.;  Galen  B.  Royer,  Elgin.  111.;  E.  Slifer,  Mt.  Morris,  111.; 
I.  B.  Trout,  Lanark,  111.;  R.  E.  Arnold,  Elgin,  111. 


Geo.  L.  Studebaker,  of  Muncie,  Indiana,  says: 

"  Sterling  is  a  growing  town  with  a  good  country 
surrounding.     The  members  are  active." 


HOMESEEKERS'   EXCURSION 
to  Snyder,  Colorado, 

With  Privilege  of  Stopping  off  at  Sterling,  Colo., 

ONE    FA  HP   Plus  S3-00'  for  the  R°"n<l  Trip  First 
UllC    TAnX   and  Third  Tuesday  of  Each  Month  via 

Union  Pacific  Railroad. 


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All  these  prizes  are  going  to  be  given  to  some  one  and  they  will  likely  go  where 
you  least  expect  them.  Oo  to  work  at  once  and  you  will  be  surprised  to  see  how  easy  it 
will  be  to  get  up  a  big  list. 

Remember,  the  price  of  the  Nook  is  only  25  cents  from  now  to  January   I,  IQ05. 

See  our  advertisement  on  another  page. 

Oontest     Oloses. 

To  give  all  a  fair  chance  we  have  decided  not  to  close  this  INGLENOOK  CONTEST  until 
August  31.  All  orders  received  by  us  up  to  and  including  last  mail  cm  August  31,  1904,  will  be 
counted.     Many  are  taking  an  active  part  in  the  contest.    The  fortunate  ones  are  going  to  be  the 

ones  who  keep  continually  at  it.  Remember,  at  the  close  of  the  contest  should  you  not  have  been  fortunate  enough  to 
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us.      It  is  worth  your  while  to  try  for  No.  1.     Don't  procrastinate.     Time  is  fleeting. 

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THE      INGLENOOK. 


THE    COLONY 


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LAGUNA  DE  TACHE  GRANT 


.IN    THE... 


SAN  JOAQUIN  VALLEY,  CALIFORNIA. 


BRETHREN  OAK  GROVE  CHURCH 

Still  continues  to  attract  the  attention  of  homeseekers. 

The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  immense  growth  of 
every  variety  of  crop  which  is  again  in  evidence  establishes  the  fact  that  here  is  the 
place  where  the  industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN   PEOPLE   SO   EASTERN   T ARMING. 
You  aon't  have  to  spend  years  learning  a  new  business. 

ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

besides  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
his  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  it. 

SPECIAL    LOW    RATES    TO    CALIFORNIA. 

From  August  15th  to  Sept.  10th  the  railroads  will  sell  Round  Trip  excursion 
tickets  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

From    Chicago $50   00 

From   Mississippi   River,    47   50 

From    Missouri    River 45   00 

Final  return  limit,  Oct.  23. 

ALSO    SEPTEMBER    15th    TO    OCTOBER    15th    COLONIST    ONE-WAY    TICKETS 
TO  ANY   CALIFORNIA  POINT. 

From   Chicago $33  00 

From  Mississippi  River,    30  00 

From   Missouri    River,    25   00 

By  this  arrangement  you  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 
land.     If  it  suits  you,  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate. 

Land  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre,  including  perpetual  water  right.  Terms,  one- 
fourth  cash;  balance  in  eight  annual  payments. 

From  twenty  to  forty  acres  wili  support  the  average  family  in  comfort. 

If  interested  send  your  name  and  address  and  receive  printed  matter  and  our 
local  newspaper  free  for  two  months.     Write  to 

NARES  &  SAUNDERS,   -    Laton,  California. 

33tI3     Mention  the  fNfJLKNOOK  when   "-ntui- 


A  Free  Trip 


We  are  running  cheap  excursions 
from  Chicago,  St.  Louis  and  inter- 
mediate points  to  Denver,  Sterling, 
Snyder  and  other  Colorado  points  ev- 
ery month.  If  you  can  help  us  to 
get  up  a  party  to  come  out  from  your 
locality,  will  furnish  free  transporta- 
tion for  your  own  personal  use  to 
accompany  them  on  the  above  named 
trip. 

MILLIONS    OF   DOLLARS 

are  being  expended  by  the  United 
States  government  on  irrigation  en- 
terprises and  what  was  once  known 
as  "  The  Great  American  Desert  "  is 
beginning  to  bloom  and  blossom  in  a 
manner  wonderful  to  behold. 

OUR    FARMERS 

are  prosperous  and  contented.  It  is 
plain  to  be  seen  that  they  are  making 
more  money  on  40  or  80  acres  of  ir- 
rigated land  than  can  be  realized  on 
more  than  double  the  amount  of  land 
"  Back  East,"  and  a  trip  through  the 
South  Platte  Valley,  Colorado,  will 
convince  you  of  this  fact. 

CHEAP  LANDS  AND  EASY  PAY- 
MENTS. 

We  sell  a  few  irrigated  farms,  or 
town  lots  in  Denver,  Sterling  or  Sny- 
der at  lowest  figures  and  give  easy 
terms  of  payment.  Will  sell  a  limited 
number  of  Snyder  lots  on  $5.00 
monthly  payments. 

WRITE  TO-DAY. 

Don't  wait  for  some  one  else  to  get 
in  ahead  of  you  on  the  best  bargains. 
If  you  cannot  come  yourself,  let  us 
know  just  what  you  want  and  how 
much  money  you  wish  to  invest  and 
will  make  selections  for  you. 

We  wish  to  arrange  with  one  mem- 
ber in  every  town  or  county  to  co- 
operate with  us  in  this  enterprise. 
Advertising  matter  free. 

The  Colorado  Colony  Co., 
Sterling,  Colorado. 

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The  Pecos  Valley  lies  in.  the  Southeastern  part  of  New 
Mexico  and  is  one  of  the  most  famous  irrigated  countries  of 
the  world.  By  filling  out  the  attached  coupon  full  informa- 
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VERY  LOW  EXCURSION  RATES 

TO    SAN    FRANCISCO   AND 

LOS    ANGELES. 

Via  the  North-Western  Line,  will 
be  in  effect  from  all  stations  August 
IS  to  September  10,  inclusive,  with 
favorable  return  limits,  on  account  of 
K.  T.  Conclave  and  meeting  of  I.  O. 
O.  F.  Sovereign  Grand  Lodge  at  San 
Francisco.  Special  trains,  personally 
conducted,  leave  Chicago  August  IS 
and.  25  on  itineraries  that  provide 
stop-overs  and  interesting  side  trips. 
Two  solid  fast  trains  through  to  Cal- 
ifornia daily.  "  The  Overland  Limit- 
ed" (electric  lighted  throughout)  less 
than  three  days  en  route.  Another 
fast  daily  train  is  "The  California 
Express,"  with  drawing  room  and 
tourist  sleeping  cars.  For  itineraries 
and  full  information  apply  to  agents 
Chicago   &   North-Western    Railway. 


Change  of  Climate  Beneficial 

After  your  years  of  toil  and  suc- 
cess, don't  you  want  to  rest  the  re- 
maining? If  you  do,  come  to  south- 
ern California,  where  roses  bloom  all 
the  year,  grass  is  evergreen,  some 
kind  of  fruit  ripening  every  month, 
vegetables  a  perpetual  luxury.  To 
make  these  declining  years  a  delight, 
to  combine  work  and  play,  purchase 
a  walnut,  almond,  fig,  olive,  orange, 
or  lemon  grove;  each  has  its  profit, 
pleasure  and  beauty.  For  'particulars 
of  each  write  A.  Hutsinpiller,  P.  O. 
Box  1194,  Los  Angeles,   Cal.       231 


$2,500  buys  highly  Improved  fruit 
farm  of  20  acres.  Including  stock  and 
tools.  One  and  one-half  miles  to  fine 
market. 

J.  I.  BLICKENSTAPP, 

.Bangor,  Michigan. 

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Farm  for  Rent 


A  choice,  highly-improved  stock  and 
grain  farm  of  234  acres,  more  or  less, 
to  suit  the  tenant.  Situated  40  miles 
north  of  Chicago,  near  the  Chicago,  Mil- 
waukee &  St.  Paul  R.  R.  Special  terms 
to  middle-aged,  up-to-date  farmer  (Ger- 
man preferred),  who  can  give  good  ref- 
erences and  is  financially  strong  enough 
to  carry  on  a  stock  and  grain  farm. 
Those  interested  must  apply  at  once,  as 
the  owner  desires  to  secure  a  tenant 
now  for  next  season.  For  further  par- 
ticulars apply  to 

MARTIN     LUX. 
it  Wads  worth,   HI. 


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Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail      I 


I  IDAHO 


is   the   best-watered   arid    State 
winds,    destructive    storms    and 
mate   it   makes   life   bright   and 
We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer 
change   for   the   general    improvement    in    your   condi 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  b 
and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  coun 
swer  and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger 
fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves 
Cheap    homeseekers'   rates    are    made    to   all   prin 
for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting 


in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 
cyclones   are   unknown,  and    with    its   matchless    cli- 
worth  living. 

to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 
tion  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 
oth  requirements.  There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 
try  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 

work  teach   us   that   a   few   dollars   spent   in    railroad 
thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow, 
cipal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 
wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


Round=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only  .in  May 
and  October,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


PAYETTE!  VALLEY   HOME— Five  Years  from  Sagebrush. 


Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance. 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat.  Oats  and  Barley. 


Fine      & 


Arrived  in  Payette  Valley  Feb.  23,  1903.  Settled  on  an  80-acre  tract,  covered  with  sage  brush. 
Cleared  40  acres.  May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.  Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.  June  12  sowed  10  acres 
to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.  Yielded  55  to  acre.  Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 
or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 
oats. 

Potatoes  yielded  500  bushels  to  the  acre  and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)   E.  L.  Dotson. 


S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

J.   E.  HOOPER,   Agent,   Oakland,   Kansas. 


D.   E.   BURLEY, 
G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R., 

Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 


Mention  the  INGLENOOK  -. 


*IN5LEN50K 


Vol.  VI. 


August  16,  1904. 


No.  33. 


THE    EVENING    HOUR. 


BY    L.    MARGARET    HAAS. 

When  the  sunset  gleam  has  faded  from  the  west, 
And  the  darkling  clouds  have  closed  the  golden  gate, 
Then   the   wind   that  sways   the   spruce  trees 
Gently  wafts  away  our  burdens, 

Leaving  us  in  sweet  communion  with  our  Guest. 

All  about  us  is  the  stillness  of  the  night, 
Broken  only  by  the  whisper  of  the  pines 
To  the  winds  caressing  softly 
Their  tall  forms  that  ever  upward 

Point  to  realms  of  love  where  reigns  eternal  light. 

Holy  Comforter,  this  hour  is  thine  alone; 
O,  bring  to  our  remembrance  truths  divine; 
In  the  city  street  and  market 
We  are  prone  to  be  forgetful — 

Abide  in  us  and  keep  us  near  the  throne. 

Camp  Hill,  Pa. 

*    *    * 

SNAPSHOTS. 


When  hope  wanes  strength  goes. 


"  Women  knozv  the  way  to  rear  up  children.' 


"  No  ivork  in  the  world  pays  like  the  mother-work." 


To  have  a  show  these  days  a  man  must  be  an  ac- 
cumulator. 

* 
"A   child-kiss  set  on  thy  sighing  lips  shall  make 
thee  glad." 

* 
The  true  soldier  is  always  ready  to  help  put  a  stop 
to  the  lighting. 

* 

To  borrow  trouble  is  to  pay  the  interest  it  takes 
from  your  work. 

* 

The  fellozv  zvho  thinks  he  knows  it  all  changes  his 
mind  after  he  is  married. 

* 

Somehow  or  other  a  high  hat  always  seems  to  ac- 
centuate a  low  forehead. 


"  The   eternal   God  is   thy   refuge,   and   underneath 
are  the  everlasting  arms." 


The  world  is  Hooded  with  papers  and  books,  and  we 
can  learn  something  each  day. 
* 

A  small  quantity  of  carbolic  acid  will  greatly  bene- 
fit the  whiteivash  in  killing  lice. 


It's  generally  a  man's  oziii  fault  if  a  bunco  roper 
bamboozles  him  more  than  once. 
* 
The  man  who  saves  his  money  is  alzvays  ready  to 
take  advantage  of  a  profitable  investment. 

*  . 

"  Industry  is  cheap.  It  is  laziness  that  costs.  It 
has  cost  many  a  bright  man  a  bright  career." 

* 

One  rule  for  winter  is  never  to  lean  the  back  against 
anything  cold.  New  skaters  should  try  and  keep  this 
law. 

Think  once  before  you  act,  twice  before  you  speak, 
and  spend  the  day  in  thought  before  you  commit  it  to 
paper. 

* 

We  would  like  to  read  a  good  story  wherein  the 
heroine  was  not  tall  and  willowy,  with  "  sun-kissed 
hair,"  and  the  hero  was  not  forever  "gnawing  his 
tawny  mustache." 

It  is  painful  to  have  trouble  and  disappointment, 
but  that  is  a  part  of  the  course  in  the  school  in  which 
God  has  placed  us  to  learn  fellowship  and  useful- 
ness.— C.  F.  Yoder. 

* 

The  design  of  God's  providential  dispensations  is 
seldom  understood  at  first.  We  ought,  therefore,  to 
believe,  though  zve  understand  not.  and  to  give  our- 
selves up  to  the  Divine  disposal.  The  great  work  of 
faith  is,  to  embrace  those  things  which  we  know  not 
now,  but  sliall  know  hereafter. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— August  16,  1904. 


I  THE  KRITIC  ON  THE  TRANE  | 

& —  »*« 

%  BY  GEORGE  HALDAN.  T 

♦K"K~K~K-^--t"H^<"H"M":'  ■;■  •;■  *  »:■  •;":«■>♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦»> 

POPOCATEPETL  AS  REAL  ESTATE. 


It  isn't  every  day  that  the  ordinary  man  is  permitted 
to  see  such  an  extraordinary  change  of  real  estate  as 
was  made  one  day  last  week  in  Mexico.  Although  the 
ultimatum  was  reached  at  that  time,  the  trade  has  been 
going  on  for  practically  two  years.  The  men  who  have 
been  bartering  were  Captain  Charles  Holt,  of  New 
York  City,  and  General  Gaspar  Sochoa,  of  Mexico. 
The  real  estate  in  question  was  the  old  extinct  Volcano 
of  Popocatepetl.  Mr.  Holt  has  spent  about  fifty  thou- 
sand dollars  of  his  and  other  people's  money  in  making 
this  contract,  but  he  has  only  paid  this  in  getting  ready 
to  make  the  final  transaction  which  cost  three  hundred 
million  dollars  in  gold,  and  for  this  he  is  to  have  a 
clear  title  of  the  big  mountain  and  all  its  contents 

Both  parties  are  aware  that  the  mountain  is  an  almost 
solid  bank  of  sulphur.  Besides  the  mountain  itself, 
with  its  valuable  sulphur  deposits,  the  contract  covers 
twenty-five  hundred  acres  of  park  land  at  the  foot  of 
the  mountain,  and  forty  thousand  acres  of  forest  land 
which  contain  a  supply  of  water  power  sufficient  to 
furnish  any  amount  of  horse  power  required  by  the 
Company  for  their  contemplated  project.  In  the  tim- 
ber they  will  be  able  to  find  lumber  necessary  to  build 
all  the  other  towers  for  their  shafts  and  trestles  for 
their  aerial  railway,  because  such  a  railway  will  have 
to  be  constructed  to  carry  their  mining  products  to  the 
railway  below.  A  cog  railway  is  to  be  built  on  the  top 
of  the  mountain,  and  it  is  even  hinted  that  they  are  to 
build  a  hotel  and  sanatorium  for  consumptive  people. 

Another  source  of  revenue  that  this  new  company 
expects  is  from  the  almost  countless  acres  of  ice  on 
the  top  of  this  mountain  that  is  so  pure  and  so  hard 
that  it  is  fairly  blue.  This  can  be  quarried  and  shipped 
to  the  cities  below,  especially  to  the  city  of  Mexico, 
at  a  very  much  cheaper  rate  than  they  can  get  it  from 
the  ice  factories. 

The  Company  proposes  to  spend  about  five  hundred 
thousand  dollars  in  gold  on  and  around  the  mountain 
within  the  next  six  months.  They  have  received  or- 
ders from  one  New  York  firm  already  for  twenty  mil- 
lion dollars  worth  of  sulphur  to  be  delivered  in  the 
next  five  years,  at  the  rate  of  two  hundred  thousand 
tons  per  annum.  Ten  million  tons  of  sulphur  are  al- 
ready blocked  out  and  ready  for  shipment  as  soon  as 
the  aerial  railway  is  completed.  The  mouth  of  the 
mountain  is  about  seventeen  thousand  feet  above  the 
level  of  the  sea.  In  all  probability  the  majority  of  this 
stuff  will  be  shipped  to  Vera  Cruz,  which  will  make  a 
good  gulf  market  easily  reached  by  the  world. 


The  Chairman  of  the  Company  is  Fernando  Gon- 
zalez, son  of  the  Mexican  president  of  that  name.  The 
Vice  President  is  Robert  B.  Roosevelt,  Uncle  of  our 
President.  The  government  report  which  has  never 
been  disputed  shows  that  there  are  one  hundred  and 
forty-eight  million  tons  of  sulphur  in  the  crater  of  this 
wonderful  volcano,  at  a  depth  of  seven  hundred  feet, 
and  according  to  the  best  calculations  it  is  increasing 
annually,  at  the  rate  of  one  per  cent,  which  means  a  mil- 
lion and  a  half  tons  annual  increase. 

No,  it  isn't  every  day  that  an  old  extinct  volcano  like 
this  is  transferred  like  real  estate  and  it  is  probable  that 
your  Kritic  will  not  see  another  one  soon. 

♦   *$•   "5* 
MEAT    INSPECTION    BY    THE    GOVERNMENT. 


BY  DR.   C.    W.  JOHNSON. 

Having  reviewed  briefly  in  a  previous  number  the 
inspection  of  live  stock  by  the  U.  S.  Government  In- 
spectors, and  considered  the  work  to  the  point  where 
the  animals  arrive  at  the  large  shipping  centers,  we  will 
resume,  taking  Chicago  as  the  basis  of  operations. 

Approximately  speaking,  the  "  Stock  Yards  "  cover 
700  acres  of  ground  divided  into  two  nearly  equal  por- 
tions ;  one-half  being  the  "  Yards  "  proper  for  the 
handling  of  the  live  animals ;  the  other  half  being 
"  Packingtown,"  where  the  animals  are  killed  and  the 
carcasses  disposed  of.  As  the  hog  and  sheep  sections 
are  "  double-decked  "  or  two  stories  high,  the  actual 
area  is  much  increased  thereby.  To  those  who  have 
not  visited  the  Yards,  it  is  necessary  to  know  that  this 
vast  territory  is  covered  with  thousands  of  pens  laid 
off  in  squares  intersected  by  streets  and  alleys  and  all 
numbered  and  lettered  like  a  portion  of  a  city.  Lo- 
cated at  convenient  points  are  scale  houses  where  the 
animals  are  weighed,  and  feed  warehouses  for  the  con- 
venience of  such  stock  when  "  held  over,"  as  it  is  not 
customary  to  keep  the  animals  in  the  Yards  more  than 
a  few  hours.  Following  the  arrival,  a  train  load  of 
stock  is  unloaded  rapidly,  taking  about  ten  minutes. 
The  animals  are  then  distributed  to  some  of  the  near 
by  pens  where  they  are  scrutinized  by  prospective  buy- 
ers and  as  soon  as  a  sale  is  made,  they  are  driven 
through  one  of  the  scale  houses  and  weighed,  when 
the  drivers  for  the  packing  houses  take  them  to  the 
various  destinations. 

It  is  while  being  weighed  that  the  animals  undergo 
inspection  by  the  Federal  authorities.  Any  animal 
showing  evidence  of  disease  is  tagged  with  a  metal  tag 
bearing  a  serial  number  and  henceforth  is  isolated  and 
kept  under  Government  supervision  until  finally  dis- 
posed of. 
•    Using   the  hog   as   a   type    for    further   considera- 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  16,   1904. 


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tion  of  this  subject  and  taking  for  granted  it  has 
passed  the  Ante  Mortem  inspection,  we  find  it  in  the 
packing  house,  where,  after  being  killed,  passed 
through  the  scalding  vat  and  divested  of  its  hair,  is 
placed  with  head  nearly  severed  before  the  Government 
Inspector.  Its  introduction  to  the  Inspector  at  this 
juncture  is  to  determine  whether  there  is  any  evidence 
of  tuberculosis.  This  is  done  by  carefully  feeling  the 
glands  located  in  the  neck  at  the  point  of  incision.  If 
these  glands  indicate  their  normal  condition  the  ani- 
mal is  passed  as  healthy  by  this  Inspector.  On  the 
contrary,  if  he  detects  traces  of  disease,  he  attaches  a 
condemnation  tag  to  the  carcass  and  the  animal  is  held 
subject  to  his  order.  The  presumably  healthy  animal 
now  passes  down  the  line  through  various  stages  of 
the  work  of  conversion  into  pork  and  attracts  little 
attention  from  the  Inspector  until  it  reaches,  what  is 
called  in  the  packing  houses,  "  the  gutters'  bench." 

It  is  here  that  the  internal  viscera  is  removed  from 
the  carcass  and  thrown  upon  a  bench  where  several 
workmen  are  busy  converting  the  mass  into  classified 
products.  Here  also  is  stationed  one  of  Uncle  Sam's 
Inspectors.  As  the  lungs,  liver,  heart  and  intestines 
are  exposed  in  turn  he  gives  each  a  critical  glance  to 
discover  any  abnormal  condition,  and  so  expert  has  he 
become  in  judging  the  healthy  tissues  from  the  dis- 
eased, that  his  decisions  are  both  rapidly  and  accurately 
made. 

There  are  several  diseases  made  manifest  here  that 
may  easily  have  escaped  the  first  inspector,  viz.,  among 
others,  pneumonia,  pleurisy,  jaundice,  hog  cholera  and 
even  tuberculosis.  Should  symptoms  be  found  war- 
ranting it,  the  Inspector  attaches  a  condemnation  tag 
as  in  the  previous  case  and  the  animal  is  held  for 
further  orders. 

Passing  rapidly  down  the  line  we  reach  the  "  split- 
ting rail  "  where  the  carcass  is  divided  into  two  equal 
parts  by  splitting  lengthwise  of  the  backbone.  Here 
is  located  another  Inspector,  intent  upon  gathering  in 
what  may  possibly  have  been  overlooked  by  his  asso- 
ciates. He  has  some  advantages  here,  for  the  carcass 
has  been  washed  clean  from  blood,  etc.,  and  it  is  next 
to  an  impossibility  for  the  slightest  abnormal  condi- 
tion to  escape  him.  In  fact,  so  thorough  are  the  In- 
spectors that  many  hogs  are  tagged  as  suspicious 
which  are  afterwards  released.  Each  packing  house  is 
provided  with  a  closed  condemnation  room  in  which 
are  placed  condemnations  for  the  day  and  which  is 
locked  by  a  Government  employe,  the  key  being  held 
in  his  possession  until  the  animals  are  finally  disposed 
of. 

After  the  animals  are  allowed  to  cool  thoroughly, 
usually  on  the  following  day,  the  Inspector  in  charge 
of  the  house  with  an  assistant  goes  over  the  whole 
number  condemned,  carefully  cutting  into  the  different 
groups  of  glands  and  examining  every  portion  of  the 


carcass  critically,  taking  all  the  time  necessary  to  ex- 
ercise sound  judgment. 

A  report  of  each  animal  tagged,  as  to  condition  and 
disposition,  must  be  forwarded  to  Washington,  D.  C, 
each  day.  Such  carcasses  as  are  ultimately  condemned 
are  placed,  under  the  supervision  of  an  Inspector,  in  a 
large  tank,  the  tank  previously  having  been  sealed  at 
the  bottom  with  a  government  seal,  and  sufficient  offal 
and  refuse  is  placed  therewith  to  make  the  mass  unfit 
for  food  products,  when  the  tank  is  again  sealed  by 
Uncle  Sam's  representative  and  the  contents  are 
cooked  for  several  hours  under  steam  pressure  until 
nothing  remains  but  grease  and  fertilizer.  The  seal  is 
now  broken  and  the  oil  is  drawn  off  for  lubricating 
purposes,  etc. 

The  Inspection  of  cattle,  sheep  and  calves  is  conduct- 
ed under  practically  the  same  methods,  modified  only 
to  meet  the  requirements  necessary  in  the  operation  of 
dressing  the  carcass. 

I  have  refrained  from  giving  statistics  and  much 
detail  matter  that  can  be  obtained  if  desired  through 
the  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry,  Washington,  D.  C. 

The  microscopic  examination  of  pork  products  in- 
tended for  exportation  to  certain  European  countries 
is  to  vouchsafe  the  shipping  of  meat  not  infected  with 
Trichinae.  A  large  amount  of  pork  is  thus  affected, 
but  as  high  temperature  is  fatal  to  its  being,  it  is  only 
necessary  to  cook  the  meat  thoroughly  in  order  to  ren- 
der it  healthful.  This  work  is  carried  on  in  Chicago 
by  some  sixty  young  women  under  direction  of  a 
Meat  Inspector  from  the  B.  A.  I.  and  is  required  by 
the  Foreign  Governments  before  they  will  accept  the 
meat. 

One  more  topic  worthy  of  mention  and  not  general- 
ly known  is  the  inspection  of  meats  destined  for  the 
United  States  Army.  For  the  past  three  years  the 
Subsistence  Department  has  maintained  its  own  In- 
spectors, selected  from  the  B.  A.  I.  These  are  sta- 
tioned at  the  principal  points  where  purchases  are 
made,  and  are  held  responsible  for  the  character  and 
quality  of  the  meat,  whether  cured  and  smoked  as  bacon 
and  hams,  or  canned  in  one  of  the  numerous  products 
now  furnished  the  Army  as  regular  rations. 

The  Subsistence  Department  has  specific  instruc- 
tions which  are  carried  out  to  the  letter,  regarding  the 
class  of  meat  furnished  the  soldiers,  and  it  is  no  ex- 
aggeration to  say  that  the)-  secure  the  best  obtainable, 
the  price  being  a  secondary  consideration. 

Now,  a  final  word  regarding  the  B.  A.  I.  and  its 
work.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  through  lack  of  funds 
or  any  cause  whatever  they  should  be  prevented  from 
assuming  a  scope  where  they  can  deal  effectually  with 
the  small  dealer  as  well  as  the  large  houses  and  thus 
place  all  our  people  in  a  position  to  avoid  the  dis- 
astrous evils  propagated  through  the  sale  of  diseased 
meat. 


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THE   I NGLENOOK.— August  16,  1904. 


THE    N-RAYS. 


BY  J.   G.   FIGLEY. 

Two  French  philosophers  and  scientists,  the  Messrs. 
Charpertier  and  Blondlot,  have  invented  an  instrument 
by  which  with  the  aid  of  electricity  and  a  fluorescent 
screen,  they  have  succeeded  in  producing  or  bringing 
out  what  they  call  "  the  N-Rays."  in  honor  of  the 
University  of  Nancy.  By  following  out  to  a  certain 
extent  the  plans  of  Dr.  Roentgen  in  the  famous  X- 
Rays  which  penetrate  any  object  or  substance,  and 
turn  it  inside  out,  so  to  speak,  for  inspection,  the 
learned  gentlemen  in  their  N-Rays  see  the  illumination, 
aura  or  radiation,  a  sort  of  nimbus  or  halo,  of  the  op- 
eration of  people's  muscular  apparatuses.  An  apt  com- 
parison would  be  the  light  produced  by  an  electric 
plant  at  work. 

Washington  Irving  makes  Diedrich  Knickerbocker 
say  in  his  "  History  of  New  York,"  that  the  French 
people  are  essentially  gifted  with  what  he  calls  "  a 
ponderosity  of  thought  and  a  profoundness  of  reflec- 
tion." However  that  may  be,  it  is  certain  that  about 
fifty  years  ago,  one  Baron  von  Reichenbach.  a  Prus- 
sian, succeeded  in  discovering  what  he  called,  for  want 
of  a  better  name,  "  Odic-force  "  or  "  Od-Force."  This 
was  a  personal  illumination,  somewhat  in  the  nature 
of  an  electric  light,  surrounding  the  persons  of  those 
confined  in  a  darkened  room,  in  which  the  Baron  car- 
ried on  his  experiments. 

These  N-Rays  are  supposed  to  be  of  a  silvery  color, 
and  the  more  intense  the  action  of  the  subject,  the 
brighter  will  be  the  rays.  At  any  rate,  this  is  one  step 
toward  solving  the  problem  concerning  man's  psychic 
nature  which  has  worried  various  classes  of  people  for 
so  long,  the  Spiritualists  as  usual  declaring  all  to  be 
caused  by  disembodied  people. 

There  is  a  psychic  condition  that  some  people  are,  I 
believe,  divinely  endowed  with,  which  we  find  men- 
tioned in  sacred  writings,  where  they  are  called 
"  seers,"  and  which  condition  may  or  may  not  be  self- 
induced,  and  which  in  effect  often  is  the  same  as  the  N- 
Rays,  and  in  some  as  powerful  even  as  the  X- 
Rays.  I  refer  to  what  is  usually  called  clairvoyance 
or  clear-seeing,  a  species  of  mental  or  spiritual  illum- 
ination by  the  aid  of  which,  with  the  natural  eyes 
closed,  the  seer  may  be  able  to  in  a  general  way  anni- 
hilate space,  nothing  apparently,  ordinary,  can  be  kept 
from  their  sight  however  distant  it  may  be. 

I  have  heard  of  some  of  these  seers  who  claim  to  be 
able  to  distinguish  the  mental  attitude  of  people  by  the 
color  of  their  personal  aura ;  it  depends  upon  their  per- 
sonality or  personal-magnetism  so-called.  If  a  persorl 
was  angry,  his  color  was  red,  if  in  a  peaceful,  spiritual 
mood,  his  color  was  snow-white,  etc.  The  whole  mat- 
ter had  and  has  nothing  to  do  with  spirits,  but  is  a  fac- 


ulty inherent  in  man,  which  may  or  may  not  be  success- 
fully developed  or  cultivated. 

I  think  the  whole  matter  goes  to  prove  the  trinity  of 
the  human  system,  soul,  spirit,  body,  and  that  the  life- 
force  is  akin  to  electricity  and  operative  in  the  same 
way ;  and  that  consequently  the  soul  operating  the 
mind  is  the  central  battery,  located  in  the  upper  and 
back  part  of  the  brain,  and  the  nerves,  the  fluid  cours- 
ing through  which  are  alive  only  by  the  power  of  the 
spirit  unfolding  them,  are  the  lines  of  transmission. 

A  person  who  is  stricken  by  paralysis  is  affected  in 
precisely  the  same  way  and  with  the  same  results  as 
the  one  who  is  stricken  by  lightning.  A  "  glancing 
stroke  "  sometimes  does  not  kill ;  the  same  may  be  said 
of  a  "  full  stroke."  Why  so,  then  ?  I  think  it  proves 
what  I  have  been  trying  to  explain.  Man  is  a  human 
electric  battery,  for  want  of  a  better  name,  and  by 
studying  himself  as  such,  I  think  he  will  discover  and 
traverse  the  whole  universe  of  thought  and  mind  and 
allied  principles,  and  by  and  by  be  able  to  prove  the 
true  philosophy  of  existence  without  the  aid  of  a  single 
solitary  ghost. 

It  is  by  the  aid  of  the  God-given  electricity  inherent 
in  man,  that  mind-reading  or  telepathy,  and  thought- 
transfefence  or  mental  telephony  is  accomplished,  pre- 
cisely the  same  as  by  the  aid  of  an  electric  apparatus 
telephone  or  telegraph  messages  are  received  and  sent. 
How  truthfully  does  the  inspired  Psalmist  declare  that 
man  is  "fearfully  and  wonderfully  made,"  Psa.  139: 
14-17.  Considering  all  these  things,  even  speculative 
as  they  may  appear  to  be,  how  strongly  and  how  clearly 
it  behooves  each  and  every  one  of  us  to  make  practical 
application  of  the  twelfth  chapter  of  Romans,  laying 
particular  stress  upon  the  opening  verse. 

Bryan,  Ohio. 

*  *  * 

MISTAKES    ABOUT    SCHOOL. 


BY   D.    L.    MOHLER. 

How  many  of  our  boys  and  girls  realize  and  know 
why  they  are  sent  to  school?  It  is  possible  that  some 
of  them  may  think  they  are  sent  to  get  them  out  of 
the  way  at  home.  In  some  extreme  cases  that  may  be 
true,  but  as  a  general  rule  it  is  not.  Our  government 
would  not  ask  us  to  pay  taxes,  build  convenient  school- 
houses,  hire  accomplished  teachers  and  expend  a  lot  of 
money  for  fuel  to  comfortably  heat  their  buildings, 
through  the  cold  winters,  simply  to  get  our  little  folks 
out  of  the  way  of  their  parents  at  home.  Others  may 
think  school  is  simply  a  place  for  fun,  but  it  is  not 
in  the  absolute  sense. 

Boys  and  girls,  it  is  true,  must  have  some  fun  and 
it  is  all  right  to  have  fun  at  school,  too,  at  the  proper 
time ;  yet  if  it  were  the  only  purpose,  we  certainly 
would  not  need  schools.     Still  others,  and,  too,  we  are 


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773 


glad  to  say  this  class  is  few  in  number,  think  or  seem 
to  think,  that  school  is  the  place  where  all  sorts  of  mis- 
chief are  bred,  and  to  see  how  much  trouble  they 
can  cause  their  instructors ;  and  the  strongest  types 
of  this  class,  in  the  most  extreme  cases,  possibly  seek 
to  become  famous  by  winning  out  in  just  such  so- 
ciety riots  as  this,  but  school  is  not  the  place,  nor  is  it 
supposed  to  be  the  place,  where  mischief  is  taught  or 
allowed  to  any  great  degree.  There  are  schools  where 
some  such  boys  and  girls  are  sent  that  they  may  learn 
,  to  behave.  Those  are  reform  schools,  but  they  are  not 
the  ordinary  schools  about  which  we  are  talking. 

It  certainly  is  not  the  most  elevating  place  to  be  from 
one  standpoint,  and  yet  when  one  is  in  need  of  just 
such  training  it  is  an  excellent  place  to  be,  and  we 
ought  to  be  glad  that  the  government  provides  for  the 
unfortunate.  We  hope  none  of  the  Nookers  will  ever 
need  to  be  sent  to  such  a  place. 

The  majority  of  our  boys  and  girls,  with  their  par- 
ents, think  the  great  purpose  of  our  Public  School  sys- 
tem is  to  teach  the  children  to  read,  write,  spell  and  ci- 
pher; these  things  are  taught  in  the  school,  it  is  true, 
and  the  school  in  which  these  are  not  taught  is  not 
worth  much ;  but  that  is  not  the  sole  purpose  of  the 
school.  All  these  are  means  to  an  end ;  but  the  end 
that  we  wish  to  accomplish  is  a  purpose  of  much 
greater  importance. 

The  chief  aim  and  end  of  our  public  school  system  is 
the  intellectual  development  of  our  boys  and  girls  to 
useful  citizenship ;  men  and  women  who  can  think  and 
know  for  themselves.  Have  you  ever  stopped  to  think 
just  how  you  would  feel  at  the  cross-roads  if  you  could 
not  read  the  guide  board  ?  It  is  almost  impossible  for 
those  who  can  pick  up  a  daily  paper  and  scan  its  pages 
and  glance  through  its  contents  in  a  few  moments  to 
appreciate  the  feelings  of  those  who  cannot  tell  one  let- 
ter from  another. 

We  are  well  aware  that  the  body  grows  strong  from 
use  so  long  as  it  is  not  overworked.  The  same  is  true 
with  the  mind ;  each  problem  you  solve,  each  sentence 
you  analyze  or  diagram  strengthens  your  power  of  in- 
dividuality, if  properly  managed,  besides  aids  the  de- 
velopment of  the  intellect.  In  solving  difficult  prob- 
lems you  have  gained  the  victory  and  it  draws  a  vital 
thread  through  your  character  which  leads  you  on  to 
persistent  effort  in  the  future.  Even  the  smallest  pu- 
pil enjoys  victory  over  such  things,  or  at  least  should. 

The  process  of  mind-growth  is  encouraged  by 
school  work  until  your  mind  is  strong  enough  to  solve 
the  most  difficult  problems  given  in  our  textbooks. 
When  we  are  graduated  from  such  institutions,  it  is 
supposed  that  our  minds  have  been  sufficiently  devel- 
oped that  we  are  not  only  able  to  solve  the  textbook 
problems  that  have  been  given  to  us  in  the  different 
channels  of  learning,  but  that  we  are  able  to  discrim- 
inate the  daily  problems  of  life  that  meet  us  in  every- 


day life,  and  not  only  cope  with  them,  but  overcome 
them. 

As  we  step  out  on  the  threshold  of  life,  we  should 
not  only  be  prepared  to  meet  the  individual  and  domes- 
tic problems  that  may  be  ours  to  overcome,  but  those 
of  church,  state,  and  even  the  national  character  which 
are  ours  to  encounter  as  well.  Men  and  women  are 
supposed  to  have  their  minds  sufficiently  developed 
that  they  may  understand  the  duties  of  citizenship  and 
Christian  courage.  The  government  has  learned  that 
it  is  cheaper  to  educate  the  people  and  help  them  to  be- 
come citizens  than  to  leave  them  in  ignorance  and  pun- 
ish them  for  disobedience,  and  it  is  not  only  cheaper  but 
a  great  deal  better  and  has  higher  motive.  But  one  se- 
rious mistake  is  being  indulged  in  by  the  majority  of 
our  boys  and  girls,  and  here  is  a  word  of  warning; 
don't  quit  school  too  soon ;  so  many  of  us  think  that 
when  we  are  graduated  from  the  common  schools,  we 
need  nothing  more;  and  we  are  sorry  to  say  that  a 
number  of  our  parents  are  saying  to  their  boys  and 
girls  that  they  got  along  with  such  an  amount  of 
knowledge  and  we  can  too.  Don't  be  satisfied  until 
you  have  used  every  opportunity  at  your  command  for 
gaining  an  education.  If  a  high  school  and  an  aca- 
demic course  are  within  your  reach,  avail  yourself  of 
that  privilege  by  all  means.  Then  do  not  fail  to  take  a 
good  college  course,  and  do  not  stop  short  of  the  uni- 
versity. 

You  may  say  you  do  not  have  the  means  to  do  this  ; 
strive  for  them,  work  your  way  through ;  don't  be  sat- 
isfied until  you  are  at  the  top.  Do  not  be  in  a  hurry, 
if  you  are  thirty  before  you  have  finished  your  educa- 
tion ;  twenty  years  will  count  more  after  vou  are  pre- 
pared for  services  than  the  whole  fifty  years  would 
count  were  you  unprepared  for  your  duty. 

Leeton,  Mo. 

*  *  * 

ICELAND    IS    AMERICAN. 


Consul  Mahin,  of  Nottingham,  reports  that  Ice- 
land, cut  off  from  the  world  save  for  slow  mails,  is  to  be 
linked  to  other  countries  by  wireless  telegraph  with  the 
Shetland  Islands  or  the  mainland  of  the  United  King- 
dom, more  than  600  miles.  The  Icelandic  Parliament 
has  voted  a  yearly  subsidy  of  $9,380  for  20  years,  and 
also  for  similar  communication  between  Reykjavik  and 
the  principal  towns  of  Iceland. 

Four-fifths  of  the  foreign  trade  of  the  Island  is  with 
Denmark  and  Great  Britain.  In  1900  the  imports  to- 
taled $2,507,902  and  exports  $2,571,921. 

A  single  merchant  at  Reykjavik  last  year  bought  salt 
fish  for  $300,000  cash  and  exported  it  mostly  to  Spain. 
Emigration  has  not  been  great  in  recent  years.  Farm- 
ing has  made  great  progress  owing  to  the  agricultural 
schools.  A  butter  export  on  the  Danish  system  has 
been  commenced  and  the  stock  of  cows  is  increasing. 


774 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  16,   1904. 


MONUMENTS    AND    MEN. 


Address  by  Owen  Eldo  Metzger. 

Monuments  and  men  sustain  a  very  close  and  pe- 
culiar relation.  They  are  inseparable.  If  we  go  back- 
to  the  earliest  dawn  of  history  we  find  the  same  re- 
lation existing  there  as  is  manifest  in  our  present  age. 
Some  of  the  greatest  engineering  and  architectural 
feats  in  all  history  have  been  displayed  in  erecting 
monuments  to  commemorate  the  life  of  man.  For  in- 
stance the  great  pyramids  in  Egypt  which  have  stood 
for  over  four  thousand  years,  and  been  regarded  as  one 
of  the  great  wonders  of  the  world,  were  erected  by  the 
Pharaohs  as  monuments  to  mark  their  last  resting 
place.  In  fact,  in  the  early  history  of  the  race,  kings 
and  men  of  power  would  spend  the  greater  part  of 
their  life  in  planning  and  erecting  a  monument  to 
commemorate  their  life. 

Man  as  a  rule  precedes  the  monument,  either  in 
person  or  by  his  deeds.  In  looking  over  a  cemetery 
you  see  it  dotted  with  little  white  shafts  of  marble, 
which  have  been  erected  as  monuments  to  mark  the 
last  resting  place  of  the  persons  who  have  preceded 
them.  They  have  been  erected  by  persons  who  have1 
had  an  interest  in  the  life  of  the  departed  one. 

There  are  two  kinds  of  monuments,  those  which 
are  erected  to  commemorate  the  life  of  a  person  after 
he  is  dead,  by  way  of  something  in  tangible  form 
for  that  purpose,  the  other  kind  that  which  the  person 
builds  himself  by  the  deeds  and  acts  which  he  has 
wrought  during  his  life,  and  are  carved  in  the  lives 
of  his  fellow-men  and  on  the  universe  itself.  This 
monument,  which  the  person  erects  himself,  cannot 
be  effaced  by  the  centuries,  but  stands  for  all  time  as 
an  imperishable  record  of  his  life. 

The  monuments  of  men  which  have  the  greatest 
influence,  and  impress  the  lives  of  men  are  those> 
which  have  been  erected  by  the  persons  themselves, 
by  their  deeds  and  acts.  In  1821  the  grand  structure, 
"  Bunker  Hill  Monument  "  was  erected  in  honor  and 
remembrance  of  our  patriotic  forefathers,  who  gave 
their  life's  blood  for  their  country  and  posterity.  It  is 
not  this  imposing  structure,  which  towers  toward  the 
sky  for  which  we  remember  and  honor  these  patriots, 
but  we  honor  and  respect  them  for  the  principles  for 
which  they  fought  and  the  noble  deeds  which  they 
wrought,  which  still  live  and  grow  sweeter  and  dearer 
as  years  come  and  go.  Time  will  efface  the  monu- 
ment which  man  has  erected  and  it  will  crumble  to 
dust,  but  as  long  as  there  remains  a  spark  of  civiliza- 
tion and  a  desire  for  freedom,  so  long  will  that  monu- 
ment stand  which  has  been  erected  in  the  hearts  of 
the  people.  That  grand  monument  which  stands  in 
Washington  city,  which  was  erected  in  honor  of 
George  Washington,  and  stands  without  a  peer  in  the 
whole   world,    does   not   reveal   the   greatness   of   the 


man  lo  us.  While  it  in  itself  makes  an  imposing  ap- 
pearance, yet  it  sinks  into  insignificance  compared 
with  that  grand  living  monument  which  survives  him 
in  the  heart  of  every  American  citizen,  and  which 
continues  to  grow  and  will  survive  the  cycles  of  all 
the  centuries. 

Not  all  the  grand  monumental  display  that  we  see 
throughout  the  land  is  a  sure  sign  that  the  life  of 
the  person  to  whom  the  monument  has  been  erected 
was  worthy  the  eulogy  given  it.  The  Pharaohs  who 
reared  those  mighty  pyramids  in  honor  of  themselves 
were  despised  most  of  all  men,  by  their  subjects  who 
were  compelled  to  do  the  work  and  supply  the  means. 
It  is  the  monument  that  a  person  builds  by  his  noble 
deeds  and  good  acts  which  forms  a  correct  repre- 
sentation of  what  his  life  has  been,  and  eternity  can- 
not change  or  efface  it. 

When  man  shall  be  called  before  his  God  for  judg- 
ment he  need  not  wait  to  hear  what  the  judgment 
will  be,  but  he  will  be  able  to  see  for  himself,  when 
God  shall  unveil  the  universe,  which  is  the  living 
monument  upon  which  is  written  every  deed,  act  and 
thought  of  his  life.  If  the  theory  be  true  that  every 
thought  and  act  causes  vibrations  in  the  ether  and 
that  these  vibrations  make  an  impression  upon  every 
object  with  which  they  come  in  contact,  and  as  ether 
pervades  everything  and  everywhere  in  limitless  space, 
therefore  our  thoughts  and  deeds  will  be  written  upon 
the  whole  universe.  The  inscription  upon  this  monu- 
ment will  be  enough  when  revealed  to  satisfy  the  mind 
of  a  person  as  to  his  condition,  no  matter  how  elab- 
orate may  have  been  the  edifices  erected  by  his  friends 
to  convey  the  idea  to  the  passer-by  that  his  life  was  a 
grand  and  glorious  success. 

The  fact  that  a  person's  life  has  been  eulogized  by 
his  surviving  friends  cannot  change  the  record,  when 
the  final  test  shall  come,  which  he  himself  has  carved 
out  on  the  lives  of  his  fellow-men. 

We,  as  a  class  of  1904,  are  leaving  a  little  landmark 
here  upon  the  campus  of  this  college,  as  a  mark  which 
will  convey  the  fact  to  succeeding  classes  and  friends 
of  the  institution  that  we  as  a  class  have  been  here  and 
finished  our  course  of  study.  I  hope  that  each  suc- 
ceeding class  may  likewise  leave  a  mark  of  some  kind, 
and  that  this  custom  may  continue  until  additional 
ground  will  have  to  be  purchased  to  place  them  upon. 
But  if  this  little  mark  is  the  only  monument  by  which 
the  class  of  '04  can  be  remembered,  our  lives  will 
have  been  one  of  the  grossest  failures.  It  is  the  monu- 
ment which  we  will  erect  after  we  leave  these  walls, 
by  what  we  do  and  what  we  accomplish  in  this  world, 
that  will  be  a  memorial  by  which  this  institution  will 
be  honored  and  by  which  it  will  remember  us.  The 
greatest  monument  that  any  institution  of  learning 
can  have  is  that  which  the  classes  that  have  gone  from 
the  institution  have  erected  bv  their  lives. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  16,   1904. 


775 


Let  us  as  a  class  of  '04  erect  such  a  monument  by 
our  accomplishments  and  good  deeds,  which  shall  tower 
to  the  very  skies,  and  as  the  years  come  and  go  and 
time  will  have  left  its  marks  upon  our  brow  and 
thinned  our  number,  may  the  last  surviving  member 
with  hoary  head  and  trembling  with  age  and  cares  of 
life  lay  the  last  stone  on  the  pinnacle  of  a  monument 
which  shall  be  an  honor  to  the  class  of  '04  and  this 
institution  and  one  which  time  and  eternity  cannot 
efface. 

Rossville,  Ind. 

*  *  # 

NOTED    RELICS    IN    OHIO. 


BY  CHARITY  VINCENT. 

The  State  of  Ohio  is  a  rich  field  for  archaeological 
research.  No  other  state  in  the  Union  can  boast  of 
more  valuable  resources  of  this  character.  It  abounds 
in  prehistoric  forts,  mounds,  graves  and  similar  relics. 
The  largest  and  best  preserved  of  these  valuable  finds 
is  Fort  Ancient,  in  Warren  County,  which  is  the  most 
interesting  remains  of  its  character  now  extant  in  the 
world.  Distinguished  scholars  from  other  States  and 
foreign  countries  frequently  visit  this  place  to  take  ad- 
vantage of  its  fine  opportunities  for  archaeological 
study.  Models  of  Fort  Ancient  are  to  be  found  in 
many  of  the  leading  Museums  of  Europe. 

The  walls  of  this  old  fort  are  very  irregular.  Fol- 
lowing the  middle  of  the  embankment  the  distance 
around  it  is  nearly  three  and  one-half  miles.  North  to 
South  it  measures  less  than  one  mile  and  about  one 
hundred  acres  are  enclosed  within  these  walls. 

Of  the  many  curious  relics  found  at  Fort  Ancient,  the 
copper  pieces  seem  to  excite  the  most  interest.  There 
are  many  of  these  pieces  and  they  represent  breast- 
plates, celts,  ear  ornaments  and  bracelets.  In  pre- 
historic days  the  present  art  of  handling  copper  was  not 
known,  of  course,  and  these  pieces  were  rudely  made 
by  the  Indians  by  simply  hammering  native  copper  in- 
to whatever  shape  they  desired.  Very  remarkable 
bracelets,  etc.,  were  made  in  this  manner.  The  in- 
dividual pieces  were  found  folded  and  hammered 
together,  evidently  for  the  sake  of  destroying  their 
identity.  They  now  appear  simply  as  folded 
pieces  of  copper,  and  in  many  cases  are  brittle 
with  rust.  Some  of  them,  however,  if  straightened 
to  their  original  shape  would  be  plates  eight 
and  one-half  inches  long  and  four  inches  wide. 
In  this  collection  the  bracelets  are  about  the  best  pre- 
served in  shape.  What  many  of  the  pieces  are  is  a 
matter  of  mystery,  for  they  are  being  kept  in  the  folded 
condition  in  which  they  were  found. 

A  few  broken  slate  ornaments  and  several  dozen 
pieces  of  galenite  were  found  with  these  copper  pieces. 
All  these  were  buried  beneath  almost  a  hundred 
sheets  of  mica. 


For  the  sake  of  caring  for  these  rare  relics  the  Ohio 
State  Legislature  purchased  this  old  fort,  together  with 
surrounding  territory,  making  in  all  about  three  hun- 
dred acres  of  land  rich  with  prehistoric  interest,  to  be 
converted  into  a  free  public  park.  This  has  been  placed 
in  the  care  of  the  Ohio  State  Archaeological  and  His- 
torical Society  and  is  rapidly  being  made  one  of  the 
finest  historical  museums  of  the  country. 
4.  *j»  «$. 
OLDEST    CHESTNUT    TREE. 


On  the  farm  of  Irwin  H.  Shantz,  who  lives  near 
Spinnerstown,  Bucks  County,  Pennsylvania,  stands  a 
mammoth  chestnut  tree,  one  that  eclipses  all  the  rest  of 
the  giant  chestnut  trees  in  the  Keystone  State.  Two 
feet  above  the  ground  the  circumference  of  this  tree 
measures  exactly  36  feet.  The.  tree's  height  is  60 
feet,  and  10  feet  from  the  ground  are  two  branches, 
one  to  the  left  and  the  other  to  the  right,  and  the  cir- 
cumference of  the  former  is  eight  feet,  the  latter  nine 
feet  two  inches.  Ten  feet  above  the  ground  its  great 
branches  extend,  one  of  them  six  feet  four  inches  in 
circumference,  each  of  the  others  a  few  inches  less.  Its 
boughs  spread  nearly  90  feet. 

The  age  of  this  tree  is  known  to  be  at  least  221  years, 
from  tales  told  by  ancestors  of  the  proprietors  of  the 
property  on  which  the  tree  stands.  No  one  ever 
thought  of  cutting  this  giant  down  except  in  1876,  at 
the  time  of  the  Centennial  in  Philadelphia,  when  the 
Exposition  Commission  offered  the  proprietor  $100  for 
an  unbroken  section  of  the  trunk  one  foot  from  the 
ground.  What  saved  the  mammoth  tree  from  de- 
struction was  the  fact  that  no  saw  long  enough  to  cut 

it  could  be  procured. 

3»  4»  $ 

SUCCESS. 


SELECTED  BY  LOVINA  S.  ANDES. 

Never  be  cast  down  by  trifles.  If  a  spider  breaks 
his  thread  twenty  times,  twenty  times  will  he  mend  it 
again.  Make  up  your  mind  to  do  a  thing,  and  you 
will  do  it.  Fear  not,  if  a  trouble  comes  upon  you; 
keep  up  your  spirits,  though  the  day  be  a  dark  one. 

Men  who  have  the  right  kind  of  material  in  them 
will  assert  their  personality,  and  rise  in  spite  of  a 
thousand  adverse  circumstances.  You  cannot  keep 
them  down.  Every  obstacle  seems  only  to  add  to  their 
ability  to  get  on. 

Success  lies,  not  in  achieving  what  you  aim  at, 
but  in  aiming  at  what  you  ought  to  achieve  and  press- 
ing forward  sure  of  achievement  here,  or,  if  not 
here,  hereafter.  There  may  be  so-called  success  which 
is  really  a  failure,  and  a  failure  which  is  truly  a 
success. 

Lancaster,  Pa. 


776 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  16,  1904. 


HOW  FRENCHMEN  SING  THE  "  MARSEILLAISE." 


BY    MARGUERITE    BIXLER. 

The  Russian  national  hymn,  the  English  "  God  Save 
the  Queen," — of  which  "  My  Country  'Tis  of  Thee  " 
is  the  American  version — the  German  "  Watch  on  the 
Rhine "  and  the  world-famous  Marseillaise  hymn  of 
France  are  beyond  doubt  the  finest  national  anthems 
in  existence.  Bv  many  critics  the  "  Marseillaise  "  is 
considered  the  best.  Born  of  a  sudden  inspiration  of 
its  author,  Rouget  de  1  Isle,  it  certainly  has  a  marvel- 
ously  inspiring  strain,  and  it  has.  in  the  course  of  its 
history,  accomplished  marvels. 

Colonel  Higginson,  in  writing  reminiscences  of 
Paris,  relates  how  he  heard  it  sung  by  a  French  audi- 
ence at  the  celebration  of  the  anniversary  of  the  fall 
of  the  Bastille.  "  Nothing  of  the  kind  in  this  world," 
he  says,  "  can  be  more  impressive  than  the  way  in  which 
an  audience  of  six  thousand  French  radicals  receive 
the  wonderful  air.  I  observed  that  the  group  of  young 
men  who  led  the  singing  never  once  looked  at  the 
notes,  and  few  even  had  any,  so  familiar  was  it  to 
all.  There  was  a  perfect  hush  in  that  vast  audience 
while  the  softer  parts  were  sung,  and  no  one  joined 
even  in  the  chorus  at  first,  for  everybody  was  listen- 
ing. The  instant,  however,  that  the  strain  closed,  the 
applause  broke  like  a  tropical  storm,  and  the  clapping 
of  hands  was  like  the  taking  flight  of  a  thousand  doves 
all  over  the  vast  arena.  Behind  those  twinkling  hands 
the  light  dresses  of  ladies  and  the  blue  blouses  of 
workingmen  seemed  themselves  to  shimmer  in  the  air. 
There  was  no  coarse  noise  of  pounding  on  the  floor 
or  drumming  on  the  seats,  but  there  was  a  vast  cry 
of  '  Bis !  Bis ! '  sent  up  from  the  whole  multitude,  de- 
manding a  repetition.  When  this  was  given,  several 
thousand  voices  joined  in  the  chorus.  Then  the  ap- 
plause was  redoubled,  as  if  the  hearers  had  gathered 
new  sympathy  from  one  another,  after  which  there 
was  still  one  more  applauding  gust,  and  then  an  ab- 
solute quiet." 

East  Akron,  Ohio. 

THE    RANDOLPH    FARM. 


BY    B.    B.    SWITZER. 

Those  who  are  acquainted  with  United  States  his- 
tory know  that  the  Randolphs  were  among  the  first 
English  settlers ;  the  farm  they  occupied  contained 
seven  thousand  acres,  and  was  surveyed  by  George 
Washington  under  Lord  Fairfax,  about  the  time  of 
the  Revolutionary  War,  Lord  Fairfax  owning  all  the 
land  between  the  Potomac  and  the  Rappahannock 
rivers.  It  was  then  Fairfax  county,  but  in  laying  out 
the  counties  this  farm  fell  in  Fauquier  county,  Vir- 
ginia. The  house  which  is  still  in  good  repair,  was 
built  in  T783. 


In  the  yard  may  be  found  locust  trees  which  are 
four  feet  in  diameter;  mulberry  trees  that  have  grown 
three  feet  in  diameter.  There  is  one  sassafras  tree 
thirteen  feet  in  circumference.  The  yard  is  beautiful 
and  contains  about  one  acre. 

/  The  family  graveyard  is  near  by  where  one  gen- 
eration after  another  have  been  laid  by  those  who  in 
their  turn  have  followed  them.  The  present  owner 
fcf  the  farm,  Bishop  A.  M.  Randolph,  who  resides  in 
Norfolk,  comes  up  to  the  farm  two  or  three  months 
each  summer. 

They  long  since  have  laid  away  their  seventy  slaves 
to  rest,  and  hired  help  has  taken  their  places.  Thomas 
Jefferson's  mother  was  a  Randolph ;  Chief  Justice 
Marshall  married  one  of  the  girls. 

The  Randolphs  belong  to  the  Episcopal  church  and 
re  a  kind  and  obliging  people. 

At  the  present  time  the  farm  contains  only  about 
sfcc  hundred  acres,  and  is  called  "  Eastern  View."  Not 
faV  away  is  an  old  water  mill,  dated  1712,  and  still 
grimis  corn  for  its  customers. 

Midland,   Va. 

4»   4>   4» 

A    BOON    TO    THE    IRISH. 


Could  one  be  totally  ignorant  of  the  conditions  of 
the  Irish  people  as  regards  society,  church  and  state, 
as  he  wanders  through  the  Island,  he  would  be  almost 
in  ecstasy  as  he  is  wholly  occupied  in  taking  in  the 
sights,  that  are  thrust  upon  him. 

He  enjoys  the  novelty  of  the  jaunting  car,  with  its 
two  seats  which  are  situated  on  the  sides  of  the  vehicle, 
over  the  wheels,  while  the  driver  is  seated  almost 
astride  the  horse.  One  is  compelled  to  admire  the 
beautiful,  macadamized  roads  which  are  among  the 
best  in  the  world,  lined  on  either  side  with  a  stone  wall 
beautifully  whitewashed,  overhung  with  laurel  and  oc- 
casionally a  weeping  willow,  having  for  a  background 
the  emerald  mead  which  is  an  undulating  landscape 
surmounted  by  an  occasional  castle,  which  is  a  monu- 
ment of  the  days  of  yore.  Between  these  tiny  hills  are 
frequently  found  loughs  or  lakes  whose  waters  are  like 
crystal.  By  the  roadside,  occasionally,  are  found 
groups  of  houses  which  are  one  story,  narrow  and  very 
long,  containing  two,  three  and  sometimes  four  rooms 
which  are  crowded  up  against  each  other  in  immediate 
succession.  These  are  built  of  brick  or  stone  and  are 
invariably  white-washed  and  are  covered  with  thatched 
roofs.  At  the  end  of  these  houses  is  an  old-fashioned 
chimney.  It  is  veritably  true  that  they  keep  "  the  pig 
in  the  parlor,"  in  some  instances. 

Following  the  jaunting  car  are  groups  of  bareheaded 
and  barefooted  children  running  at  the  top  of  their 
speed 'and  crying  at  the  top  of  their  voice.  "  tuppens- 
hapeny-fur-a-scramble-sur  "  (two-pence-half-penny- 
for-a-scramble-sir) . 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  16,  1904. 


777 


But  as  soon  as  one  stops  and  asks  of  the  farmer  his 
condition,  and  learns  that  he  pays  two  pounds  a  year 
per  acre  ($10.00)  and  that  the  land  is  really  on  the 
market  for  five  pounds  per  acre,  and,  hy  figuring,  in 
the  meantime,  find  that  in  two  and  one-half  years  he 
would  pay  the  purchase  price  of  the  land  in  rentals,  we 
can  again  see  something  of  the  squalor  and  poverty  to 
which  the  Irish  are  subjected.  Then  when  we  find 
that  the  English  government  imposes  upon  them  the 
care  of  fifty  thousand  troops,  each  year,  which  they 
have  no  more  use  for  than  they  do  for  a  quarter  sec- 
tion of  the  moon ;  and  last  of  all  if  we  could  but  know 
the  percentage  of  church  taxes  that  is  placed  upon 
these  poor  people,  and  with  what  loyalty  they  cling  to 
their  religion,  regardless  of  the  cost,  the  picture  would 
be  intensified.  Should  the  traveler  be  accustomed  to 
our  broad  prairies  of  corn  and  waving  fields  of  golden 
grain,  the  contrast  that  meets  his  eye  in  Ireland  would 
be  so  vivid  that  he  would  never  forget  the  picture. 
When  he  sees  the  small,  irregular  fields  of  timothy, 
Irish  potatoes,  mangels  and  especially  whole  hill  tops 
covered  with  heather,  he  would  begin  to  understand 
that  the  Irish  truly  have  a  hard  lot. 

About  one-seventh  of  the  area  of  the  Island  consists 
of  peat  bogs,  which  of  course  is  absolutely  fit  for  noth- 
ing but  for  fuel,  and  their  climate  renders  it  impossi- 
ble for  the  home  consumption  to  satisfy  the  large  out- 
put. But  the  day  has  dawned  when  a  new  era  has  op- 
ened to  these  people.  A  bill  has  finally  found  its  way 
through  Parliament  by  which  these  Irish  may  buy 
homes  of  their  own,  which,  prior  to  this  time,  was  al- 
most an  impossible  thing. 

And  another  great  blessing  that  has  come  to  them 
lately  is  a  clever  invention  in  the  way  of  disposing  of 
their  over-supply  of  fuel.  They  now  have  a  plan  by 
which  they  can  compress  this  peat  into  briquettes  and 
by  this  means  they  will  be  able  to  dispose  of  all  the  pro- 
duct they  can  get  before  the  public.  First  of  all  it  is 
cut  from  the  slough  or  bog,  by  machinery,  something 
like  we  cut  ice,  and  it  is  then  taken  directly  to  the  plant 
without  the  usual  delay  of  air  drying  or  kiln  dry- 
ing. 

When  once  taken  to  the  factory  it  is  packed  into  ro- 
tary cylinders  which  are  revolved  at  a  wonderful 
speed,  the  peat  in  the  interior  being  beaten  while  the 
cylinder  rotates.  The  centrifugal  force  of  this  cylinder 
expels  all  or  nearly  all  of  the  moisture  in  the  product, 
and  then  by  means  of  electrodes  connected  by  conduct- 
ors with  the  dynamo,  placed  for  the  purpose  of  dry- 
ing the  peat,  is  included  in  the  electrical  circuit.  The 
resistance  of  the  peat  generates  heat  and  by  this  means 
is  carbonized.  A  mass  of  black  globules  is  the  result, 
and  retains  all  the  properties  of  the  raw  material.  It 
is  then  passed  to  the  kneading  machines  and  after 
being  well  mixed  is  moulded  into  briquettes  or  left 
to  dry  and  harden.     If  it  is  dried  without  being  pressed 


into  briquettes  it  must  be  crushed  and  screened  into 
different  grades. 

Some  one  has  quaintly  said  that  in  England  and  Ire- 
land they  do  not  have  weather,  they  only  have  samples 
of  weather,  which  fact  renders  it  almost  impossible  to 
dry  any  sort  of  product  by  the  heat  of  the  sun ;  there- 
fore this  process  alleviates  that  sort  of  trouble. 

This  will  certainly  be  a  great  blessing  to  the  poor 
people  of  Ireland,  because  it  will  make  their  land  as 
valuable  as  if  it  were  underlaid  with  coal  mines.  It 
seems  that  Northern  Germany  might  well  install  some 
of  these  new  process  methods  for  development. 

Sweden,  at  the  present  time,  is  taking  from  Ireland 
two  million  tons  of  these  compressed  briquettes,  annu- 
ally. What  would  the  amount  of  exports  be  could  they 
supply  the  demand? 

Within  fifty  miles  of  the  city  of  Chicago  are  thou- 
sands of  acres  -of  this  peat  that  might  be  turned  into 
fuel  if  we  would  only  occupy  the  field.  It  is  said  that 
one  ton  could  be  produced  at  the  almost  incredibly  low 
cost  of  $1.21. 

The  prepared  peat  is  almost  entirely  smokeless  as  a 
fuel.  It  burns  to  the  very  last  vestige,  and  leaves  clean 
white  ashes  and  no  clinkers. 

*>   4*    * 

THE    COST    OF    A    CAMPAIGN    TRAIN. 


How  Political  Candidates   Keep   the   Money   Moving. 

The  cost  of  campaigning  by  special  train  is  not 
small.  A  completely  comfortable  campaign  train  must 
have  a  private  car  for  the  use  of  the  man  who  is  doing 
the  brunt  of  the  work  and  his  secretaries  and  assistant 
speakers.  Then  there  must  be  another  car  for  the 
reporters  of  the  press  associations,  the  reporters  of  the 
particular  newspapers  of  the  States  through  which  the 
train  is  passing,  and  for  the  campaign  committees  of 
the  State.  There  must  be  a  dining-car.  Man  may 
live  by  tinned  goods  alone  for  a  day  or  two,  but  a  buf- 
fet-car trip  of  more  than  two  days  is  simply  murderous. 
The  Pullman  Company  charges  from  thirty  to  fifty  dol- 
lars a  day  for  the  use  of  its  cars.  Most  railroads  will 
attach  a  special  car  to  a  regular  train,  provided  seven- 
teen full  fares  are  paid ;  most  railroads  charge  a  dol- 
lar a  mile  for  running  a  special  train.  The  commis-j 
sary  department  costs  a  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  more 
or  less,  a  day.  Speakers  who  are  not  candidates  re- 
ceive from  twenty-five  to  one  hundred  dollars  a  day 
for  their  services.  Frequently  the  entire  company  of 
passengers  goes  to  a  hotel  in  a  city  where  there  is  an 
overnight  stop ;  in  some  cases  the  National  Committee 
pays  the  landlord,  at  other  times  the  bills  are  paid 
by  the  State  or  the  city  committee.  But  it  is  perfectly 
clear  that  whatever  else  campaigning  by  special  train 
may  accomplish,  it  keeps  money  moving. — Lindsay 
Denison,  in  Everybody's  Magazine  for  Angust. 


778 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  16,  1904. 


WASHINGTON    ON    ZION    HILL. 


That  Sunday  I  shall  not  soon  forget.  From  the 
library  that  Tuskegee  owes  to  the  munificence  of  Mr. 
Carnegie  I  had  got  a  pile  of  magazines  and  a  few 
books  and  was  just  making  ready  to  be  secretly  com- 
fortable when  a  sharp  rap  on  the  door  halted  my  prep- 
arations. Principal  Washington  extends  to  me  an  in- 
vitation to  drive  with  him  to  the  "  Rally  "  of  the  Bap- 
tist church  on  the  other  side  of  the  town ;  he  is  to  de- 
liver an  address. 

Promptly  accepting  the  invitation  I  slipped  on  has- 
tily the  whitest,  thinnest,  coolest  clothes  my  grip  could 
muster.  The  sky  was  lurid  with  the  blaze  of  the  sun, 
the  wind  even  on  these  sandhills  was  beyond  resur- 
rection, and  the  mercury  had  evaporated.  The  team — 
a  pair  of  Tuskegee-bred  horses,  young,  clean-limbed 
and  eager — was  waiting  at  Mr.  Washington's  gate 
impatiently.  In  a  moment  mine  host  came  briskly 
down  the  gravel  path  from  his  house,  greeted  me  in 
his  hearty  way,  and,  lo !  we  were  whisked  down  the 
road  in  a  rush  of  breeze. 

This  powerful  man  by  my  side,  grave  and  silent,  but 
alert  and  keenly  observant,  I  have  grown  greatly  to 
admire.  He  has  made  an  oasis  of  thrift  and  intelli- 
gence in  a  desert  of  shiftlessness  and  ignorance ;  in  a 
wilderness  he  has  been  true  to  a  great  ideal.  One 
quality  which,  as  much  as  any,  accounts  for  the  con- 
tinuous, the  inevitable,  the  glacial  advance  of  Mr. 
Washington,  is  unswerving  common  sense.  Crotchets 
and  prejudices,  praise  and  blame,  momentary  ills  and 
joys,  none  of  these  disturb  this  man's  balance  and 
fixity  of  purpose;  he  steadily  gazes  through  sham 
and  sentiment  and  detail,  upon  the  essential,  and  for 
the  essential  he  unceasingly  strives. 

What  would  he  have  to  say  at  the  rally?  I  won- 
dered. In  New  York  and  Boston  and  Washington 
and  Chicago  I  had  again  and  again  heard  Mr.  Wash- 
ington address  white  audiences.  Who  that  was  in  the 
great  audience  at  Madison  Square  Garden  last  Febru- 
ary to  hear  Mr.  Carnegie,  President  Eliot,  Dr.  Frissell, 
and  Dr.  Washington  speak  in  behalf  of  Hampton  could 
forget  the  overwhelming  effect  of  Mr.  Washington's 
words  ?  "  Reduced  to  the  last  analysis  there  are  but 
two  questions  that  constitute  this  country's  race  prob- 
lem. The  answer  to  the  one  rests  with  my  people, 
the  other  with  the  white  race.  For  my  race  one  of  its 
dangers  is  that  it  may  grow  impatient  and  feel  that  it 
can  get  upon  its  feet  by  artificial  and  superficial  ef- 
orts  rather  than  by  the  slower  but  surer  process 
hich  means  one  step  at  a  time  through  all  the  con- 
ductive grades  of  industrial,  mental,  moral  and  so- 
cial development  which  all  races  have  had  to  follow 
which  have  become  strong  and  independent.  I  would 
counsel :  We  must  be  sure  that  we  shall  make  our 
greatest  progress  by  keeping  our  feet  on  the  earth,  and 


by  remembering  that  an  inch  of  progress  is  worth  a 
yard  of  complaint.  For  the  white  race  the  danger  is 
lat  in  its  prosperity  and  power  it  may  forget  the 
Slaims  of  a  weaker  people ;  may  forget  that  a  strong 
|ce,  like  an  individual,  should  put  its  hand  upon  its 
haart  and  ask,  if  it  were  placed  in  similar  circum- 
stances, how  it  would  like  the  world  to  treat  it ;  that 
the  snsanger  race  may  forget  that  in  proportion  as  it 
lifts  up  the  poorest  and  weakest  even  by  a  hair's 
breadth,  it  strengthens  and  ennobles  itself." 

This  is  the  lofty  doctrine  of  statesmanship.  On 
such  an  occasion,  the  plane  of  thought  and  feeling  and 
method  of  expression  is  of  course  immeasurably  be- 
yond the  range  of  what  I  figured  his  audience  at  the 
"  Baptis'  Cha'ch "  to  have.  How  would  this  man, 
with  his  easy  mastery  of  a  cultivated  audience  in  the 
Xorth,  master  the  rally  ? 

I  began  to  notice  groups  of  rather  quietly-dressed 
colored  people,  men  and  women  and  children,  has- 
tening across  the  fields  and  along  the  road  toward  the 
church,  which  I  could  now  discern  in  its  shimmering 
whiteness  set  like  a  beacon  at  the  utmost  top  of  Zion 
Hill.  As  we  neared  the  neat  little  building,  Mr.  Wash- 
ington ran  a  very  gauntlet  of  greetings,  grotesque  but 
genuine,  greetings  which  he  scrupulously  acknowl- 
edged with  a  certain  shyness  which  could  not  quite 
conceal  a  glow  of  appreciation. 

At  the  door  of  the  church  the  parson,  robust  and 
dark  as  night,  and  good  humored,  met  us.  As  Prin- 
cipal Washington  entered,  the  choir  started  up  "  Swing 
Low,  Sweet  Chariot,"  but  every  eye  in  the  congrega- 
tion, despite  the  seductions  of  the  song,  was  fixed 
upon  the  Moses  of  the  Negro  people.  The  congrega- 
tion, sociologically  considered,  was  transitional :  the 
gray-haired,  gentle-mannered  freedman  rubbed  shoul- 
ders with  the  smartly-attired  New  Issue ;  the  black 
mammy  of  the  old  regime,  with  beaming  face  and 
snowy  apron,  sat  without  her  'kerchief, — for  even  she 
has  become  adjusted  to  the  new  order  of  things — be- 
side the  ribbon-bedecked,  bright-eyed  school  girl. 
And  the  tactful  pastor,  himself  a  product  of  the 
schools  and  freedom,  has  kept  this  place  a  solace  for 
the  older  generation,  and  a  church  for  the  new. 

After  another  hymn  by  the  choir  and  prayer  by  a 
visiting  preacher,  the  pastor  arose  in  quiet  dignity 
to  introduce  the  speaker  of  the  occasion.  Reverend 
Gadsen  in  clear,  mellow  tones  expressed  the  gratitude 
of  his  congregation  for  Mr.  Washington's  long-con- 
tinued and  substantially-expressed  interest  in  them, 
their  church  and  their  school — for  this  congregation 
helps  support  the  Booker  T.  Washington  Public 
School.  "  Our  people,"  said  the  pastor,  "  in  their 
preparation  for  the  next  world  have  not  forgotten  this 
world."  And  to  the  evident  delight  of  the  guest  he 
read  a  long  list  of  members  of  the  church,  who,  since 
Mr.  Washington's  last  visit,  had  bought  land,  built 


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comfortable  homes,  painted  their  houses,  developed 
vegetable  gardens,  begun  poultry  raising  on  a  larger 
scale,  etc.  "  And  there  is  a  brother  here  to-day,"  said 
the  preacher,  looking  with  a  broad  smile,  while  the 
congregation  tittered,  into  the  face  of  a  serious  voung 
man  who  sang  a  shrill  tenor  in  the  choir,  "  there  is  a 
brother  here  to-day  who  painted  his  house  red  all 
over  this  week,  so  that  Mr.  Washington,  when  he  came 
to-day,  wouldn't  think  that  John  lived  in  an  unpainted 
house!  " 

After  another  plantation  melody — not  a  coon  song, 
but  a  genuine  plantation  melody,  unordered  and  to 
alien  ears  grotesque,  but  strangely  touching — Prin- 
cipal Washington  rose  to  speak.  In  his  hand  was 
that  inevitable  pencil,  and  on  his  face  the  gentlest  smile 
of  a  stern  father  who 'wants  his  children  to.  be  joyful 
occasionally,  but  always  to  be  sensible,  prudent  and 
mature.  "  I  rejoice  with  you,"  he  said,  "  in  your  suc- 
cesses, but  in  your  jubilations  do  not  forget  the  vic- 
tories yet  to  be  won."  And  then  for  an  hour,  to  the 
most  attentive  listeners  I  have  ever  seen,  he  talked 
simply  and  directly  of  some  of  the  ways  in  which  they 
could  raise  the  level  of  their  lives.  He  emphasized 
in  minute  and  telling  detail  the  subtle  influence  for 
wholesome  family  life  of  a  comfortable  house  with  its 
gardens  of  vegetables,  its  orchard,  its  pigs  and  its 
poultry.  The  deeper  sources  of  social  enjoyment  are 
in  the  home,  not  in  the  en  masse  activities  of  the  camp 
meeting  and  the  street.  Then,  too,  the  evils  of  the 
Negro  habit  of  pouring  the  plantation  on  court  day 
into  the  gallery  of  the  court  room,  there  to  satiate  a 
morbid  curiosity  in  the  older  folks,  and  develop  it  in 
the  young,  were  outlined  with  illustrations,  humor- 
ously pathetic,  drawn  from  life — outlined  and  effect- 
ively denounced.  That  frailty  of  taking  the  quarrels 
of  the  children  to  the  court  for  settlement  did  not  elude 
the  speaker's  fearful  irony;  he  expressed  his  delight  in 
the  admirable  custom  of  the  judge  to  fine,  with  in- 
variable generosity,  both  defendant  and  plaintiff ! 
Nor  had  the  searching  eye  of  Mr.  Washington  failed 
to  note  the  effect  of  the  Saturday  excursion  to  town, 
upon  the  sales  of  the  dispensary ;  ten  years  ago  the 
deacons  felt,  and  now  some  more  youthful  members 
of  the  church  feel,  in  conscience  bound  to  support  that 
dispensary,  when  the  wives  and  children  could  put 
the  nickels  and  dimes  and  quarters  to  infinitely  better 
use  than  does  the  bar-keeper!  And,  of  course,  I\lr. 
Washington  paid  his  respects  to  the  "  hollerin'  preach- 
er " — the  fellow  who  has  an  idea  that  the  Almighty 
is  a  bit  deaf,  and  who  therefore  fiercely  paws  the 
Bible,  and  lifts  his  voice  to  the  very  skies.  The  "  hol- 
lerin' preacher"  has  gone  out  of  business,  at  least  in 
this  community;  and  this  congregation  must  decently 
support  their  more  modern  minister.  Finally,  the 
speaker  emphasized  the  importance  of  using  the  church 
as  an  instrument  for  ennobling  the  actual  life  of  the 


community,  and  cited  as  a  case  in  point  the  practice 
of  this  church  to  help  support  the  public  school. 

I  have  spoken  of  Mr.  Washington's  noble  mastery 
of  the  Madison  Square  Garden  audience,  and  of  his 
eloquence  there,  but  I  am  tempted  to  feel  that  at  the 
rally  of  the  Baptist  church  on  Zion  Hill  that  memo- 
rable Sunday,  he  displayed  in  his  homely  sympathy  and 
common  sense,  an  equal,  though  different  eloquence. 
For  the  heart  of  Tuskegee's  principal,  unaffected  by 
what  men  regard  as  the  greater  affairs  of  the  spacious 
world,  is  with  the  poor  and  lowly  of  his  people.  And 
they  strive  to  realize  his  ideas,  to  be  sensible  and  pru- 
dent and  mature,  because  in  many  ways  he  is  to  them 
a  father. 

SKILLED    ESKIMOS. 


A  heavy  harpoon  line,  used  in  the  hunt  for  securing 
walruses,  is  made  of  the  skin  of  the  "  square  flipper  " 
seal,  an  animal  about  eight  feet  long.  For  such  use 
the  skin  is  not  removed  from  the  seal  in  the  usual  way, 
but  is  pulled  off  without  cutting  it,  as  one  might  pull 
off  a  wet  stocking.  The  whole  hide  is  thus  preserved 
in  the  form  of  a  sack.  It  is  then  placed  in  the  water 
and  allowed  to  remain  there  several  days,  until  the 
thin,  outer  black  skin  becomes  decomposed.  This,  to- 
gether with  the  hair,  is  readily  pulled  off,  and  a  clean, 
white  pelt  remains. 

Two  men  then  take  the  pelt  in  hand,  and  with  a 
sharp  knife  cut  it  into  one  long,  even  white  line  by  be- 
ginning at  one  end  and  cutting  round  and  round  until 
they  reach  the  other  end.  One  skin  will  make  three 
hundred  feet  of  line.  In  this  condition  it  is  allowed 
partially  to  "dry,  after  which  it  is  tightly  stretched  and 
dried  thoroughly  in  the  sun.  The  result  is  a  hard, 
even,  white  line,  three-eighths  of  an  inch  in  diameter, 
but  equal  in  strength  to  a  heavy  Manila  rope. 

I  have  seen  such  a  line  imbedded  in  the  flesh  of  a 
walrus  at  one  end  and  spiked  to  the  hard  ice  at  the  out- 
er end  by  a  stout  iron  pin.  Held  by  six  men.  it  plowed 
a  furrow  six  inches  deep  through  the  ice,  bent  the  spike 
and  dragged  the  six  men  to  the  edge  of  the  ice,  where 
the  tug  of  war  ended  ;  the  victorious  walrus  took  the 
unbreakable  line  with  him  into  the  sea. 

Finer  lines,  such  as  those  used  for  fishing  or  for 
winding  whipstocks.  ami  thread  for  sewing  purposes, 
are  manufactured  from  rainbow  sinew.  The  best  is 
that  obtained  from  along  the  spine,  which  is  always 
saved  from  the  carcass.  The  Eskimo  prepares  it  by 
drying  it  and  then  rubbing  it  until  it  grows  quite  soft. 
Then  it  is  readily  flayed  out  into  the  libers  which  are 
used  for  needlework. 

When  coarser  thread  is  required,  these  individual 
fibers  are  plaited  together  with  wonderful  neatness  and 
rapidity.  One  woman  can  make  fifty  or  sixty  yards  of 
this  thread  in  a  dav. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— August   16,   1904. 


COUNTRY    BOY    IN    THE    CITY. 


At  first  thought  it  would  be  natural  that  the  city 
boy  has  the  best  chance  to  succeed  in  the  city.  He 
knows  the  streets,  the  prominent  officials  and  business 
men,  at  least  by  repute,  and,  above  all,  he  is  acquainted 
with  city  ways  of  doing  business.  He  has  appar- 
ently every  advantage  in  the  start,  and  ought  to  make 
a  success  of  town  life. 

And  yet  the  undoubted  fact  remains  that  the  country 
boy  who  comes  to  the  city  will  outstrip  his  city  cousin 
nearly  every  time.  Why  this  is  so  looks  like  a  conun- 
drum ;  but  it  is  not  so  difficult  a  matter  to  solve,  after 
all. 

The  country  boy  succeeds  mainly  because  he  is  not 
afraid  of  hard  work.  Perhaps  the  city  boy  does  not 
appreciate  what  an  easy  time  he  has.  His  school  is 
just  around  the  corner,  and  he  does  not  have  to  get  up 
before  seven  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  his  evenings 
are  his  own  for  study  or  play  as  it  may  be.  He  wears 
good  clothes,  has  plenty  of  holidays,  and  there  is  al- 
ways something  in  the  way  of  amusement  going  on. 
He  has  practically  no  chores  to  do,  and  altogether  he 
leads  a  very  pleasant  existence.     - 

In  the  country  the  boy  goes  to  school  six  months  in 
the  year  and  works  the  other  six.  He  begins  to  do 
chores  about  the  time  he  is  able  to  walk,  and  by  the 
time  he  is  ten  is  doing  enough  to  appall  the  average 
city  boy. 

He  learns  to  plant  potatoes  and  corn  and  other  crops. 
He  may  complain  about  his  back  hurting  him.  Why, 
that's  good  for  boys — makes  'em  grow !  He  thinks  the 
kink  will  never  come  out  of  his  spinal  column,  and  the 
next  morning  when  they  rout  him  out  of  bed  before 
sun  up  to  go  to  the  field  for  another  day  till  it  is  too 
dark  to  see,  he  is  as  stiff  as  a  chair.  Oh,  that's  all 
right !     It  will  do  him  good. 

Just  as  soon  as  he  is  big  enough  to  hold  the  plow  in 
the  furrow,  he  has  to  get  at  it ;  and  if  there  is  hard- 
er and  hotter  work  than  plowing  an  old  cornfield  on  a 
May  day,  he  does  not  think  it  has  been  revealed. 
Pitching  hay  makes  every  muscle  ache,  but  he  must 
keep  up.  Then  there  are  harvesting  and  threshing; 
and  he  pulls  through  them,  too,  though  he  falls  asleep 
over  his  supper.  There  is  husking  corn,  when  the 
frosty  shucks  saw  through  his  chapped  skin.  There 
are  milking  and  feeding,  and  a  whole  lot  of  chores  that 
must  be  done,  whether  the  boy  has  worked  eighteen 
hours  that  day  or  not.  If  he  works  in  a  country  store 
he  opens  up  at  about  five  in  the  morning  and  goes  to 
bed  behind  or  under  the  counter  at  ten  or  eleven  at 
night. 

But  the  country  boy  is  not  killed  by  hard  work,  and 
when  he  comes  into  the  city  and  gets  a  place  where 
he  has  to  open  the  store  at  seven  in  the  morning  and 
put  up  the  shutters  at  seven  or  eight  at  night,  he  thinks 
it  fun. 


The  city  boy's  perceptions  are  quicker;  his  intellect 
has  a  wider  range,  and  his  judgment  is  fully  as  good 
as  the  country  boy's ;  but  he  has  not  the  energy  and 
perseverance  of  his  sturdy  rival,  and  he  does  not  know 
so  well  how  to  save  money,  for  he  does  not  appreciate 
its  value. 

The  country  boy  hardly  knows  what  it  is  to  have  a 
penny  to  spend  on  luxuries.  Many  a  farmer's  son 
has  never  had  an  entire  dollar  of  his  own  until  he  is 
well  on  in  his  teens.  To  such  a  boy  a  weekly  wage 
of  four  or  five  dollars  seems  like  a  fortune,  and  when, 
by  dint  of  saving,  he  accumulates  a  hundred  dollars, 
he  feels  that  his  future  is  assured. 

He  is  not  afraid  of  hard  work ;  he  is  industrious  and 
saving.  With  the  desire  to  learn  comes  the  power, 
and  it  does  not  take  him  long  to  master  the  intricacies 
of  business.  He  feels  that  this  is  his  life-work,  and  he 
is  not  deterred  by  any  obstacle,  however  great. 

Is  it  wonderful,  then,  that  the  country  boy  often 
succeeds  where  the  city  boy  fails?  Of  course,  it  is 
not  claimed  that  all,  or  that  the  majority  of,  city  boys 
fail ;  that  would  be  absurd :  but  it  is  beyond  question 
that  city  boys  do  not  use  their  opportunities  as  they 
should.  They  have  not  enough  ambition,  or  rather, 
perhaps,  that  quality  which  has  been  called  "  stick-to-it- 
iveness." 

*   ♦   * 

RUBBER. 

That  "  Necessity  is  the  mother  of  Invention  "  is 
proved  over  and  over  again  in  the  history  of  nations. 
As  our  forests  go  before  the  woodman's  ax,  we'  dive 
into  the  earth  for  coal  and  petroleum,  and  into  the  air 
for  electricity ;  and  as  our  timber  is  becoming  scarce, 
from  the  carpenter's  standpoint,  the  man  of  thought- 
is  furnishing  us  paper,  iron,  cement,  brick,  tiling  and 
other  materials  from  which  to  construct  our  homes. 
So,  as  one  demand  comes,  a  supply  follows,  and  as  the 
world  progresses  other  demands  come  and  other  sup-  • 
plies  are  made  in  accordance. 

Only  a  few  years  ago  most  of  the  men  in  the  United 
States  wore  leather  boots,  but  at  the  passing  away  of 
the  boots,  being  supplanted  by  the  shoe,  it  was  quite 
necessary  that  we  have  rubber  shoes  manufactured  in 
order  to  protect  these  light  leather  shoes  from  the 
rough  weather.  In  order  to  furnish  the  world  with 
rubber  shoes,  rubber  had  to  be  obtained.  It  was  found 
that  in  some  countries,  for  instance,  in  Central  Africa, 
East  Central  South  America  and  some  parts  of  Mex- 
ico, and  the  Island  of  Ceylon,  there  is  a  plant 
which,  if  cultivated,  produces  a  great  quantity  of  ma- 
terial from  which  this  rubber  is  made.  Of  course  in 
the  beginning  it  was  found  in  its  natural  state  but  it 
very  soon  came  under  successful  agriculture,  and  it 
has  been  demonstrated  already  that  the  world  is  self- 
supporting  on  this  question. 


THE    INGLEXOOK.— August  16.  1904. 


781 


The  men  have  practically  abandoned  the  use  of  rub- 
ber shoes,  but  the  women,  wearing  light  weight  shoes, 
need  protection  against  the  wet  and  cold  seasons. 
When  one  knows  of  the  immense  quantity  of  rubber 
goods  that  we  are  consuming  by  the  trade,  and  would 
now  notice  the  decrease  in  the  consumption  of  rubber 
goods  for  footwear,  he  would  suppose  that  the  mar- 
ket would  be  flooded  beyond  the  power  of  the  public 
to  again  set  it  in  action.  But  such  is  not  the  case. 
There  is  a  constant  increasing  demand  caused  by  the 
rapid  development  of  the  electrical  industry.  For  in- 
stance, in  the  last  twenty  years  the  use  of  electricity 
has  been  many  times  doubled,  and  knowing  as  we  do, 
by  experience,  that  rubber  is  one  of  the  finest  insula- 
tors and  nonconductors,  thousands  and  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  miles  of  wire  are  wrapped  each  year,  and 
this  more  than  makes  up  for  the  trade  that  formerly 
was  had  in  footwear. 

It  is  said  that  the  plantations  in  Mexico  and  South 
America  are  being  enlarged,  and  in  Ceylon  many 
flourishing  plantations  are  now  found  where  the  trees 
are  raised  from  the  seeds  and  in  some  places  real  nur- 
series are  found  similar  to  our  fruit  tree  nurseries  in 
this  country,  and  where  these  little  trees  are  raised 
from  the  seed  and  then  transplanted,  the  fact  is  de- 
monstrated that  this  resource  will  not  soon  be  ex- 
hausted. And  we  are  in  no  immediate  danger  of  a  rub- 
ber famine  so  long  as  capital  can  be  interested  in  these 
plantations.  In  this,  like  other  cases,  capital  and  rub- 
ber must  be  united. 

*  *,  ♦ 

HALE'S    FIRE    FIGHTERS. 


The  most  thrilling  exhibition  of  the  art  of  battling 
with  fire  that  has  ever  been  given  is  that  furnished  by 
Chief  Hale  and  his  splendid  company  at  the  west  end 
of  the  Pike  at  the  St.  Louis  Fair.  The  exhibition  takes 
place  in  a  great  enclosed  arena  in  which  a  great  pano- 
rama of  New  York  City  is  shown.  Feats  of  dexterity 
in  responding  to  alarms,  hose  coupling,  quick  hitching 
and  many  kindred  acts  are  shown  by  men  who  hold 
the  world's  record  for  speed.  Nor  are  the  men  the 
only  actors  in  the  drama.  Chief  Hale  has  an  auxiliary 
company  of  trained  horses  whose  intelligence  seems 
human.  The  strange  sight  of  horses  dashing  at 
hoops  of  fire  and  leaping  through  them  is  an  illus- 
tration of  what  may  be  done  with  such  intelligent  ani- 
mals. 

The  performance  proper  begins  when  New  York 
City  is  enshrouded  in  night.  At  one  end  of  the  arena 
is  seen  the  fire  station.  The  firemen  are  asleep  in  their 
beds ;  the  horses  munching  the  hay  in  their  stalls.  Sud- 
dently  an  explosion  occurs  in  a  five  story  house  directly 
in  front  of  the  audience.  Flames  and  smoke  pour  from 
the  windows,  in  which  soon  appear  white-robed  figures 
appealing  for  help.     An  alarm  is  turned  in  by  a  police- 


man. The  audience  hears  the  gong  in  the  station  and 
the  latter  place  is  a  scene  of  excitement  instantly.  Men 
leap  from  their  beds  and,  sliding  down  the  brass  poles 
to  the  floor  below,  catch  and  hitch  the  flying  horses. 
In  an  instant  the  apparatus  is  out  of  the  house  and 
speeding  to  the  scene  of  the  fire.  Ladders  and  hose  are 
run  up  to  the  top  of  the  burning  building,  the  helpless 
occupants  are  taken  down  by  life  lines  and  other  con- 
trivances and  the  whole  scene  is  of  so  realistic  and 
thrilling  a  character  that  it  is  indeed  difficult  to  realize 
that  it  is  merely  a  performance,  not  an  actual  scene. 

In  addition  to  the  fire-fighting  performance  there  is 
much  for  the  visitor  to  see  in  the  museum  attached  to 
the  building.  A  fire  -engine  purchased  by  George 
Washington  for  the  Alexandria,  Va.,  Fire  Department 
in  1764  stands  alongside  of  the  "  Torrent,"  an  engine 
which  the  traitor,  Benedict  Arnold,  often  assisted  to 
operate.  Many  other  antique  pieces  of  fire  apparatus 
line  the  sides  of  the  building  and  in  the  center  are  the 
most  perfect  specimens  of  modern  engines.  Hale's 
Fire  Fighters  give  a  performance  that  is  at  once  in- 
structive and  amusing. 

WHY    ICE    DOESN'T     SINK. 


It  is  one  of  the  most  extraordinary  things  in  this 
extraordinary  world,  writes  Henry  Martyn  Hart  in  a 
magazine,  that  water  should  be  the  sole  exception  to  the 
otherwise  universal  law  that  all  cooling  bodies  contract 
and  therefore  increase  in  density. 

Water  contracts  as  its  temperature  falls  and  there- 
fore becomes  heavier,  and  sinks  until  it  reaches  39  de- 
grees. At  this  temperature  water  is  the  heaviest ;  this 
is  the  point  of  its  maximum  density.  From  this  point  it 
begins  to  expand.  Therefore  in  winter,  although  the 
surface  may  be  freezing  at  a  temperature  of  32  degrees, 
the  water  at  the  bottom  of  the  pool  is  six  or  seven  de- 
grees warmer. 

Suppose  that  water,  like  everything  else,  had  gone 
on  contracting  as  it  cooled  until  it  reached  the  freezing 
point ;  the  heaviest  water  would  have  sunk  to  the  low- 
est place  and  there  become  ice.  Although  it  is  true 
that  eight  pints  of  water  become  nine  pints  of  ice,  and 
therefore  icebergs  float,  showing  above  the  surface  an 
eighth  of  their  bulk,  still,  had  the  water  when  at  the 
bottom  turned  into  ice,  the  stones  would  have  locked 
it  in  their  interstices  and  held  it  there,  and  before  win- 
ter was  over,  the  whole  pool  would  have  become  solid 
ice  and  all  I  he  poor  fish  would  be  entombed  in  clear, 
beautiful  crystal. 

*  *  + 

For  it  stirs  the  blood  in  an  old  man's  heart. 

And  makes  his  pulses  fly, 
To  catch  the  thrill  of  a  happy  voice. 

And  the  light  of  a  pleasant  eye. — Willis. 


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A    POTTER. 


Just  as  you  enter  the  Damascus  gate  in  the  north 
wall  of  the  city  of  Jerusalem,  and  turn  to  the  left  a 
few  steps,  you  find  there  within  the  wall  the  shop  of 
an  old  potter,  who  has  been  turning  out  products  from 
his  wheel,  lo !  these  many  years.  With  eagerness  we 
watched  him  make  pots  and  jars  of  various  sizes, 
shapes  and  kinds.  He  had  only  one  kind  of  clay,  and 
he  tempered  all  the  clay  in  one  vat.  He  had  but  one 
wheel,  and  it  was  run  by  the  same  foot  power.  He 
had  only  one  furnace,  and  every  piece  of  earthenware 
was  burned  in  the  same  fire.  But  how  many  different 
kinds  of  vessels  he  did  turn  out ! 

Notwithstanding  the  years  of  experience  he  had,  oc- 
casionally he  would  mar  or  dint  one  of  his  choicest 
vessels,  and  in  an  instant  of  half  disgust  and  half  sur- 
prise, he  would,  with  one  clap  of  his  hands,  crush  :he 
vessel  into  a  ball  of  mud,  throw  it  upon  the  wheel,  start 
it  in  motion,  moisten  his  hands  and  try  it  over  again. 
When  the  finished  vessel  suited  the  eye  of  the  artist, 
as  to  perfection,  it  was  set  away  to  dry,  preparatory 
to  being  placed  in  the  furnace.  We  -watched  and 
wondered  and  meditated.  We  thought,  How  like  is 
life ;  each  man  a  little  ball  of  clay ;  each  man  himself 
a  potter,  the  old  wheel  of  time  constantly,  silently  and 
carefully  turning  away  the  years.  Each  ball  of  mud 
was  tempered  alike ;  each  man  comes  upon  the  stage 
of  action  through  the  gateway  of  birth ;  hence  "  all 
men  are  created  equal,"  all  the  same  kind  of  mud, 
all  being  turned  upon  the  old  wheel  of  time,  all  being 
fashioned  by  the  hand  of  some  potter,  all  awaiting  the 
crucible  furnace  to  test  the  mechanism.     Could  we  but 


realize  how  it  is  that  day  by  day,  as  the  wheel  of 
time  turns,  we  are  slowly,  but  surely,  fashioning  the 
vessel  that  we  are  to  be  in  future  years,  the  probabili- 
ties are  that  we  would  be  more  careful  in  the  execution 
of  the  vessel.  And  could  we  stand  back  and  see  the 
vessel  as  it  appears  to  the  observer — in  other  words, 
"  could  we  see  ourselves  as  others  see  us  " — we  prob- 
ably would  change  its  fashion. 

The  good  Book  tells  us  that  we  can  make  one 
vessel  unto  honor  and  one  unto  dishonor.  This  is 
true.  The  potter  may  have  made  a  vessel  for  the  re- 
ception of  holy  wine  which  commemorates  the  shed- 
ding of  the  blood  of  the  Savior,  or  the  vessel  may  be 
made  to  hold  the  intoxicating  drink  which  condemns 
both  body  and  soul.  So  may  we  be  transformed,  while 
we  are  being  tempered  by  the  powers  of  the  Higher 
Influence,  to  be  receptacles  for  the  higher  life,  or  we 
may  be  fashioned  by  the  influence  of  the  evil  one  until 
we  become  receptacles  for  base  desires,  evil  communi- 
cations and  corrupt  thoughts. 

Characters,  like  buildings,  are  built  one  brick  at  a 
time,  and  when  once  fashioned  cannot  be  remodeled 
except  by  being  completely  torn  down  and  built  anew, 
which  in  ordinary  cases  costs  as  much  as  if  not  more 
than,  a  new  building.  So  it  is  impossible  to  make  a 
good  character  out  of  a  bad  one.  The  only  way  is  to 
tear  down  the  old  life  and  begin  a  new  one.  The  ex- 
perience of  years  that  come  to  us,  serves  the  same  pur- 
pose in  our  lives  as  the 'action  of  the  sun  does  upon 
the  potter's  clay.  It  gets  it  ready  for  the  fiery  trials 
of  the  furnace  which  are  sure  to  come.  As  a  piece  of, 
pottery  cannot  be  transformed  after  it  is  burned,  so 
are  our  characters  hard  to  change  when  once  thev 
have  been  formed. 

We  noticed  our  old  friend,  the  potter,  could  very 
easily  take  a  ruined  vessel  when  it  was  in  the  green, 
and  remould  or  remodel  into  a  new  one,  but  after  it  had 
been  burned,  and  it  was  imperfect,  small  or  large,  there 
was  no  recourse  and  it  had  to  be  broken,  for  it  could 
not  be  made  over.  It  was  fit  for  nothing  but  to  be 
ground  to  dust  and  used  for  mortar  in  the  walls  of 
the  city.  l  So  it  is  with  us.  After  our  characters  have 
been  fashioned  by  the  evil  one  and  we  have  become 
case-hardened  in  sin  and  iniquity  and  immorality,  it 
is  next  to  impossible  ever  to  remould  or  refashion  our 
characters  and  make  them  fit  for  the  higher  class  of 
society  or  the  spiritual  development  which  Christianity 
demands. 

STROMBOLI. 


About  a  half  a  day's  ride  from  Naples,  Italy,  toward 
the  southern  point  of  the  country,  on  a  good  steamship, 
brings  you  in  sight  of  the  "  Lighthouse  of  the  Mediter- 
ranean." Stromboli  is  an  active  volcano  submerged  in 
the  waters  of  the  sea,  except  the  apex  of  the  cone 
which  is  at  a  sufficient  height  above  the  water  to  make 


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a  beautiful  light  tower.  Almost  as  accurately  as  the 
ticking  of  a  watch  does  the  old  lighthouse  emit  her 
volumes  of  fire,  every  fifteen  minutes.  The  tourist  al- 
most goes  into  ecstasy  as  he  leans  over  the  taffrail  and 
watches  the  convulsions  of  the  old  mountain,  four 
times  an  hour.  He  willingly  awaits  the  intervening 
moments  in  contemplation  and  meditation  just  to  see 
the  next  repetition  of  the  same  thing.  It  is  visible  at 
least  an  hour  before  the  vessel  reaches  it,  and  you  can 
see  it  for  an  hour  after  the  vessel  has  passed,  making 
such  impressions,  that  when  once  seen  they  are  never 
forgotten. 

It  is  hard  to  say  just  how  high  these  volumes  of  fire 
are  thrown  into  the  air,  but  it  is  generally  supposed 
from  fifteen  to  thirty  feet.  These  pulsations  generally 
come  two  at  a  time ;  however,  not  always,  but  always 
come  fifteen  minutes  apart.  The  volcano  throws  out 
fire,  smoke,  molten  lava  and  ashes,  and  this  stream  of 
molten  stuff,  according  to  the  way  the  wind  is  blowing, 
flows  down  the  side  of  the  mountain  like  a  little  river 
of  fire,  and  one  eagerly  watches  it  until  it  dies  out  in 
the  darkness  of  the  night. 

One  of  the  interesting  things  about  the  mountain  is, 
that  there  are  three  small  cities  or  towns  lo- 
cated at  the  base  of  the  apex  of  the  cone  just 
above  the  water  line,  each  of  which  has  about 
twelve  or  fourteen  hundred  inhabitants.  This 
seems  almost  incredible,  yet  it  is  true,  and  any- 
one passing  by  in  the  daytime  can  easily  see  them,  and 
those  passing  by  night  may  behold  the  illumination, 
and  one  is  compelled  to  believe  his  own  eyes,  and  yet 
he  wonders  how  many  thousands  of  millions  of  dollars 
it  would  take  to  hire  him  to  live  in  such  jeopardy.  It 
seems  like  open  murder  and  suicide  to  think  of  casting 
one's  lot  in  such  a  place,  and  yet  hundreds  of  people 
live  right  there  on  the  top  of  this  volcano  in  the  middle 
of  the  sea.  Who  knows  what  moment  it  will  be  wholly 
submerged?  Who  knows  what  moment  an  explosion 
will  split  the  mountain  from  base  to  summit  and  the 
waters  of  the  angry  sea  roll  in  on  the  inhabitants  like 
Mount  Pelee  of  the  Martinique  disaster  or  old  Ve- 
suvius of  Pompeian  days,  when  brought  face  to  face 
with  jeopardy?  In  this  sort  of  way  one's  blood  almost 
curdles  and  refuses  to  circulate,  but  due  meditation 
and  reflection  brings  one  to  himself  sufficiently  that  he 
can  recall  the  fact  that  we  do  the  very  same  things  at 
home  in  an  equally  cold-blooded  way,  with  just  as  little 
concern,  and  very  little  is  said  about  it ;  in  fact,  the 
public  hardly  notices  the  situation.  A  few  people  are 
awakening  to  the  fact  that  we  are  in  danger,  but  they 
are  very  few  comparatively  speaking. 

We  have  narrowly  escaped  the  evils  of  slavery,  and 
as  the  days  go  by  we  more  heartily  appreciate  our  free- 
dom from  it ;  but,  like  the  people  of  Johnstown,  we 
have  been  warned  again  and  again  of  the  danger  of  in- 
temperance, and  yet  we  trudge  leisurely  on,  not  heed- 


ing the  warnings  of  those  who  awake  to  the  fate  of 
the  nations  and  laughing  at  their  earnest  endeavors  to 
free  us  from  the  embrace  of  death. 

Thousands  of  men  who  would  shudder  at  the  thought 
of  building  a  home  on  Stromboli  would,  without  hes- 
itancy, build  their  home  right  across  the  street  from  a 
saloon,  gambling  den  or  hell-hole  and  run  all  the  risks 
or  social,  domestic,  moral  or  spiritual  contamination, 
and  never  dream  of  placing  their  feet  in  the  devil's 
traps. 

In  this  world  a  great  deal  depends  upon  getting  used 
to  things.  We  see  things  sometimes  that  startle  us, 
and  then  when  we  see  them  again  and  again  we  become 
accustomed  to  them  and  they  appeal  no  longer  to  our 
conscience  as  being  a  source  of  danger,  and  we  do  not 
feel  that  we  should  be  constantly  watchful. 

And,  too,  such  things  stealthily  creep  upon  us  be- 
cause, as  a  rule,  they  are  concealed,  or  partlv  concealed, 
by  the  cover  of  some  social  fad  or  charitable  institution 
and  sometimes  wear  the  cloak  of  Christianity,  to  such 
an  extent  that  they  seem  perfectly  safe,  and  we  pass 
them  by  without  criticism. 

«|r      ,$.      «$, 

THE    WRONG    TITLE. 


It  has  always  been  customary  to  speak  of  other  life 
than  humanity,  as  the  lower  animals,  and  yet  when 
their  characteristics  are  studied  on  a  fair  and  square 
basis,  in  comparison  to  that  of  man,  it  just  seems  ap- 
parently that  they  have  the  wrong  epitaph. 

Man  is  the  only  one  of  the  whole  lot  that  shows  by 
his  action  to  have  lower  ideals,  lower  sentiments  than 
the  rest. 

To  illustrate :  How  many  of  the  lower  animals  do 
you  suppose  could  be  taught  to  chew  tobacco,  eat 
pickles  or  drink  cocktails?  How  many  of  them  could 
you  take  with  you  to  one  of  our  first-class  hotels  and 
have  them  enjoy  a  menu  as  it  reads?  You  could  nlace 
a  hot  coffee  pot  in  every  dog  kennel  in  the  country 
and  yet  you  could  not  teach  a  dog  to  drink  coffee.  It 
would  be  hardly  possible  for  you  to  teach  your  fa- 
vorite horse  to  eat  ice-cream.  You  could  lay  a  chew 
of  tobacco  by  the  gate-post  or  doorstep  till  after  church 
is  out  and  not  a  dog  in  town  would  molest  it.  You 
could  leave  your  box  of  cigars  open  for  a  week  and 
not  a  rat  or  a  mouse  would  indulge  in  your  luxury. 

Of  course  you  could  shut  a  hog  up  in  a  pen  and 
compel  him  to  wallow  in  the  mud,  but  a  man  will 
do  it  out  of  choice,  and  if  you  had  a  stream  of  whiskey 
as  big  as  the  Amazon  river  flowing  down  through  the 
United  States,  man  would  be  the  only  animal  in  all 
God's  creation  that  would  go  crazy  over  it. 

No,  man  is  the  only  animal  that  is  capable  of  doing 
such  unreasonable  life-killing  things;  the  only  one  that 
cares  to  be  disobedient  to  nature  and  is  willing  to  pay 
the  price  of  disobedience. 


784 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  16,  1904. 


CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


At  a  family  reunion  at  Beaver,  Pa.,  last  week,  forty 
persons  died  of  ptomaine  poison,  from  eating  ice 
cream. 

*  *>   ♦> 

The  population  of  Ireland,, fifty  years  ago,  was  eight 
millions.  The  recent  census  reports  it  to  be  four  and 
a  half  millions. 

*  *   * 

In  Paris  there  is  one  police  to  every  three  hundred 
and  seven  persons ;  in  London  to  every  four  hundred 
and  eight,  and  in  New  York  one  to  every  four  hundred 
and  fifty-eight. 

<£     *     * 

Perhaps  few  of  us  realize  how  large  Russia  is ;  she 
is  twice  and  a  half  as  large  as  the  United  States  and 
Alaska  combined.     She  has  thirty  thousand  miles  of 
seacoast,  one-half  of  which  is  ice  bound. 
<$»  ♦  *$• 

August  8,  at  Pueblo,  Colo.,  another  horrible  train 
accident  occurred  in  which  over  100  lives  were  lost. 
First  reports  were  that  one  hundred  and  twenty-five 
had  been  fatally  wounded  or  killed  outright,  but  the 
latest  news  say  that  one  hundred  and  six  is  the  correct 
number.  Be  it  as  it  may,  it  is  a  horrible  disaster.  The 
World's  Fair  special  on  the  Denver  and  Rio  Grande 
was  passing  over  a  high  bridge  at  a  good  rate  of  speed 
and  the  fireman  with  torch  in  hand  was  endeavoring 
to  inspect  the  condition  of  the  track,  knowing  about 
the  rain  and  rising  waters  from  the  north,  when  all 
at  once,  without  notice,  the  entire  bridge,  train  and  all 
went  down  with  a  crash.  Bodies  of  the  unfortunates 
were  found  for  miles  below  along  the  stream.  This 
is  another  link  in  the  great  chain  of  horrors  and  dis- 
asters of  the  year. 

The  last  reports  from  the  seat  of  war  is  that  the 
deadly  work  at  Port  Arthur  has  been  resumed.  The 
world  wonders  what  the  result  will  be ;  both  armies 
are  well  worn  and  fatigued  and  have  plunged  both 
governments  hopelessly  in  debt. 

*  *   * 

1  An  aged  lawyer  of  New  York,  Judge  McCune.  who 
so  mysteriously  disappeared  some  weeks  ago,  is  still 
missing,  and  his  friends  are  greatly  alarmed. 

The  coining  of  the  silver  dollar  by  the  United 
States  government  is  now  a  thing  of  the  past.  Special 
provision  for  such  coinage  made  by  the  Sherman  Sil- 
ver Act  expired  last  week.  Best  authorities  say  that 
henceforth  the  dollar  paper  bills  will  be  the  sole  out- 
put of  that  denomination. 


Admiral  Taylor  of  the  United  States  Navy  died 
recently  of  peritonitis,  at  the  general  hospital  at  Cop- 
percliff,  Ontario.  He  commanded  the  battleship  "  In- 
diana "  at  the  siege  of  Santiago. 


A  tunnel  twenty-five  miles  long,  reaching  a  depth 
of  eighteen  hundred  feet  below  the  sea  level,  is  con- 
templated between  Vacqueros  Bay,  Spain,  and  Tan- 
gier, Africa.  If  this  project  is  carried  into  effect  it 
will  be  the  deepest  tunnel  in  the  world.  Another  one 
beneath  the  river  Elbe,  at  Hamburg,  Germany,  is 
planned  to  provide  a  more  satisfactory  connection  be- 
tween the  two  sides  of  the  harbor.  A  Frankfort  firm 
has  a  bid  of  $1,700,000  on  the  job. 
*   *   »s 

The  government  has  just  put  out  a  new  Philippine 
coin ;  it  is  worth  about  half  a  cent  in  our  money  and 
is  called  a  centavo.  They  are  rather  pretty  in  ap- 
pearance, even  better  looking  than  our  coin.  They  are 
about  the  size  of  a  $2.50  gold  piece,  one  side  bearing 
the  figure  of  a  man  seated  at  an  anvil,  looking  out 
over  the  sea  at  a  mountain  in  the  distance.  The  re- 
verse side  bears  a  spread  eagle  resting  on  a  shield 

•fr   ♦   ♦> 

Washington  Monument  was  struck  by  lightning 
the  other  day.  It  has  been  struck  a  number  of  times 
before,  but  always  happened  to  be  struck  when  no  one 
was  in  it.  But  this  last  time  there  were  plentv  of 
people  inside  to  report  what  the  sensation  seemed  like 
to  them.  The  big  elevator  inside,  which  usually  .oc- 
cupies fifteen  minutes  in  ascent  or  descent,  was  about 
half  way  down  when  the  bolt  struck  the  monument. 
It  extinguished'  all  the  electric  lights,  burned  out  all 
the  'phone  boxes  and  frightened  the  people  in  the 
elevator  almost  to  fits.  No  serious  damage  done. 
«$»    *j»    * 

A  very  ingenious  method  is  employed  in  the  Philip- 
pines to  secure  an  adequate  amount  of  gas.  Cocoanut 
oil,  which  is  one  of  their  staple  native  products,  is 
slowly  fed  into  strong  cast  iron  retorts ;  afterwards 
these  retorts  are  brought  to  a  red  heat  in  furnaces. 
This  produces  a  very  high  quality  of  illuminating  gas, 
free  from  smoke  and  tar. 

It  is  said  in  the  Electrical  Review  that  the  Marconi 
interests  in  Canada,  have  successfully  completed  .ne- 
gotiations with  the  government  there  for  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  system  of  seven  wireless  telegraph  sta- 
tions between  Montreal  and  the  straits  of  Belle  Isle, 
as  an  aid  to  navigation.  Four  of  these  stations  will 
be  in  operation  by  the  end  of  this  month,  and  the 
whole  system  by  the  beginning  of  the  year.  All  pas- 
senger ships  in  these  waters  will  be  equipped  with 
signaling   and.    receiving    apparatus. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  16,  1904. 


785 


The  postmaster  at  Pleasant  Hill,  W.  Va.,  was 
caught  by  post  office  inspectors  and  charged  with 
sending  circular  letters  through  the  mail,  claiming  that 
he  was  an  engraver,  and  was  proposing  to  use  bank 
notes  at  one  dollar  for  ten  dollars'  worth  of  spurious 
money.  In  his  correspondence  are  to  be  found  the 
names  of  people  from  all  parts  of  the  country. 

*  *  * 

It  is  expected  in  the  near  future  that  the  paper 
makers  in  the  country  will  join  in  the  union  strike 
unless  special  concessions  are  made  by  the  employers. 
Especially  is  this  true  for  Fox  river  valley  near  Ap- 
pleton,  Mich. 

Reports  from  Berlin,  Germany,  say  that  the  Em-' 
pire  is  suffering  a  severe  drought,  and  that  the  crops 
are  damaged  badly.  Some  of  the  newspapers  of  Ger- 
many contain  pictures  of  people  exploring  the  river 
bed  at  Dresden,  where  the  river  may  be  crossed  on 
foot.  Some  eight  hundred  canal  boats  are  lying 
stranded  in  the  river  Oder,  above  Berlin,  and  thirty- 
eight  coal  boats  are  unable  to  discharge  their  cargo 
because  the  river  boats  cannot  operate. 
$  4*  $ 

The  most  beautiful  volume  in  the  Congressional  Li- 
brary at  Washington  City  is  a  Bible  which  was  tran- 
scribed on  parchment,  by  a  monk,  in  the  sixteenth 
century.  The  lettering  is  in  the  German  text  and  each 
letter  is  perfect ;  there  is  not  a  scratch  or  blot  from 
lid  to  lid.  Each  chapter  begins  with  a  large  illumina- 
ted letter  in  which  is  drawn  a  figure  of  a  saint,  some 
incident  of  whose  life  the  chapter  tells. 

*  *   * 

The  Czar  of  Russia  has  telegraphed  Mr.  Witte, 
President  of  the  Russian  Council  of  Ministers,  of- 
fering him  the  position  of  Minister  of  the  Interior, 
which  office  is  now  vacant  by  the  assassination  of 
Von  Plehve. 

*  *  * 

Capetown,  South  Africa,  is  to  have  an  internation- 
al industrial  exposition,  to  continue  for  three  months, 
opening  next  November.  The  government  proposes 
to  make  splendid  exhibits,  and  to  offer  prizes  for  the 
best  products. 

*  *    * 

Last  year  the  Kansas  river  floods  destroyed  twenty 
million  dollars'  worth  of  property  and  about  one  hun- 
dred lives.  The  Bureau  of  Forestry  urges  the  plant- 
ing of  trees  as  a  preventative.  The  Kaw  river 
changes  its  course  so  often  and  so  quickly  that  it 
proves  disastrous  to  the  surrounding  country.  It  is 
hoped  that  by  planting  Cottonwood  trees,  which  are  of 
a  quick  growth,  on  either  side  of  the  belt  of  about  two 
hundred  and  fifty  feet,  they  will  serve  as  a  protection 
against  this  continual  changing  of  the  bed  channel. 


The  first  annual  reunion  of  the  United  States- 
Spanish  war  veterans  will  be  held  at  St.  Louis  instead 
of  Indianapolis,  on  account  of  the  failure  to  get  stop- 
over privileges  from  the  railroads. 

*  *  * 

At  El  Paso,  Texas,  under  the  Santa  Fe  station 
were  found  eight  large  sticks  of  dynamite  and  two 
dozen  nitroglycerin  caps,  so  arranged  that  a  heavv 
jar  would  cause  them  to  explode.  As  yet  no  one 
knows  the  object  nor  the  perpetrators. 

*  *  * 

A  new  fuel  is  being  manufactured  in  California 
which  is  made  from  twigs  and  leaves  of  the  eucalyptus 
tree,  mixed  with  crude  petroleum.  It  is  said  to  burn 
freely  and  give  good  results.  This  timber  is  said  to 
be  immune  from  the  attack  of  the  teredo,  and  there- 
fore piles  are  made  from  it  which  last,  it  is  said,  much 
longer  than  the  yellow  pine.  The  demand  for  them 
is  greater  than  the  supply  at  the  present  time. 
•2*   ♦   * 

The  farmers  in  the  Yakima  Valley  of  Washington, 
have  planted  one  thousand  acres  of  cantaloupes  this 
season.  The  lands  are  irrigated  and  produce  excep- 
tionally fine  specimens  of  these  sweet  canta- 
loupes. On  this  kind  of  land  they  ought  to  be  able 
to  produce  from  three  hundred  to  four  hundred  crates 
of  muskmelons  to  the  acre.  Their  greatest  trouble  is 
that  they  will  have  to  be  carried  to  the  Eastern  cities 
for  market,  which  will  cost  from  $1.50  to  $3  per  crate 
for  transportation.  But  of  course  in  our  modern  re- 
frigerator cars  and  rapid  transit,  they  are  supposed  to 
arrive  in  good  condition. 

-j.  -:♦  .$. 

Another  flying  machine  has  been  invented  by  one 
Mr.  John  P.  Holland,  who  is  the  successful  inventor 
of  the  submarine  torpedo  boat.  His  apparatus  differs 
greatly  from  the  other  flying  machines,  in  that  it 
consists  of  wings  with  bamboo  frames,  and  the  enlire 
weight  of  the  thing  will  not  exceed  twenty-five  pounds. 
It  is  very  simple  in  construction,  and  he  vows  that 
any  man  can  use  it  on  sight.  He  said  that  it  will  not 
necessarily  cost  more  than  ten  dollars.  He  also  states 
that  it  would  be  no  difficult  matter  to  go  from  Xew 
York  to  Chicago  in  a  day.  Thirty-four  years  of  his 
valuable  life  has  been  spent  on  the  flying  machine  prob- 
lem. This  is  the  fifth  different  principle  that  he  has 
tried,  the  other  four  having  failed.  He  works  several 
years  on  each  principle  before  giving  it  up.  Before 
he  attempted  the  fifth  aeroplane,  he  spent  a  few  years 
on  the  study  of  the  flight  of  birds,  after  which  he  has 
modeled  his  new  machine.  (  >f  course  lie  holds  back 
the  details  of  the  construction  until  the  government 
grants  him  a  patent.  If  Mr.  Holland  succeeds  as  lie 
thinks,  tin's  will  help  Chicago  ami  New  York  to  solve 
their  transit  problems. 


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The  Inglenook  Nature'  Study  Club 

This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various  Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized 
over  this  country.  Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.  Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time, 
taking  the  work  up  with  the  current  issue.  Back  numbers  cannot  be  furnished.  Any  school  desiring  to  or- 
ganize a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  111. 


AVES.— (Class.) 

Insessores. — (Order.)      Swallow. — (Family.)      Type.- 

(The  Swift.) 


The  Swallow  family  is  characterized  by  their  great 
power  of  wing,  wide  mouths,  and  short  legs.  The 
plumage  of  their  bodies  is  firm  and  close ;  their  wing 
feathers  are  long  and  stiff,  and  pointed,  and  their  tails 
are  long,  and  forked ;  all  of  which  are  adapted  to  great 
speed.  There  are  four  principal  branches  of  the  Swal- 
low family.  The  Swift  is  the  type.  He  is  sometimes 
called  the  Chimney  Swallow.  Then  there  are  the  Barn 
and  Bank  Swallows,  which  are  so  well  known  to  the 
most  of  us,  as  we  have  seen  them  so  many  times 
around  our  barns  and  along  the  creek. 

The  Swift,  which  is  sometimes  called  the  "  Jack 
Screamer,"  spends  the  most  of  his  time  on  the  wing, 
wheeling  with  wonderful  velocity,  occasionally  soar- 
ing very  high,  and  uttering  his  shrill  screams.  He 
captures  great  quantities  of  insects  to  give  to  his 
young,  retaining  them  in  a  kind  of  pouch  under  the 
tongue. 

Our  Chimney  Swallow  is  a  little  fellow,  and  general- 
ly goes  and  comes  in  flocks,  and  builds  his  nest  in  the 
hollow  of  some  old  trees  or  in  an  unused  chimney,  and 
a  great  many  times  he  uses  a  chimney  that  is  in  con- 
stant use  by  the  family.  These  birds  seem  to  have 
great  sport  when  the  time  comes  to  go  to  roost. 

They  will  all  circle  round  and  round  a  great  many 
times  and  finally  those  that  are  nearest  the  chimney 
will  fall  into  the  chimney  and  so  on,  until  they  are  all 
in,  and  in  the  meantime  they  all  keep  up  a  constant 
chatter  as  if  they  were  in  the  greatest  glee.     When  the 
Chimney  Swallows  are  making  their  migrations  they 
often  gather  by  the  thousands  and  roost  for  several 
nights  in  the  same  place  before  they  scatter  out  to  their  J 
respective    places    of   nesting.      Prof.    Audubon    once  / 
found  an  old  sycamore  tree  down  by  Louisville,  Ky.,j 
where  they  had  often  had  a  rendezvous  as  they  came ' 
and  went  from  the  warmer  to  the  cooler  climes  and| 
vice  versa.     He  went  one  morning  to  see  them  come} 
from  the  hollow  of  the  tree  where  they  had  roosted  the  • 
night  before  and  he  says  that  by  his  watch  it  took  them 
more  than  thirty  minutes  to  leave  the  tree  in  a  perfect  I 
black  stream  so  one  can  but  faintly  imagine  the  real 
number  of  birds  that  will  accumulate  in  such  a  place. 

The  nest  of  the  Chimney  Swallow  is  a  nice  specimen 


of  workmanship.  It  is  composed  of  only  a  few  sticks 
but  is  nicely  woven  and  the  sticks  which  are  laid  up 
similar  to  a  rail  fence  are  all  glued  together  at  the  cor- 
ners by  a  secretion  of  the  salivary  glands  of  the  bird. 

The  Bank  Swallow,  or  Sand  Martin  as  he  is  some- 
times called,  is  also  called  the  Republican  Swallow,  as 
he  builds  his  nests  by  the  hundreds  on  the  side  of  a 
bank  or  cliff  and  the  nest  is  in  the  shape  of  a  gourd 
and  is  of  fine  construction.  They  come  together  and 
go  together  and  live  as  a  family,  hence  the  name. 

The  Barn  Swallow  spends  his  summer  months  amid 
the  rafters  of  the  farmer's  barn  in  a  most  comfortable 
nest  made  carefully  and  artistically  of  mud  and  nicely 
lined  with  the  choice  feathers  which  he  is  able  to  find 
here  and  there  around  the  barnyard.  Did  you  ever  try 
to  watch  him  as  he  flies  around  in  the  evening?  Can 
you  follow  him  with  your  eye?  He  almost  baffles  the 
quickest  eye  in  his  skillful  curves  and  zigzags ;  and  yet 
he  flits  on,  untiringly,  mounting  and  falling,  skim- 
ming and  sailing,  until  the  eye  is  tired  of  the  endless 
circuit. 

The  Edible  Swallow  is  not  a  native  here  and  there- 
fore is  more  or  less  a  stranger  to  the  most  of  us.  But 
he  is  well  known  to  the  Chinese  people,  for  they  hunt 
him  very  successfully.  They  will  pay  great  prices  for 
the  nest  of  this  bird.  They  use  it  as  an  article  of  diet. 
The  bird  in  constructing  the  nest  secretes  a  gelatinous 
fluid  which  when  soaked  in  water  and  dissolved  makes 
a  very  rich  soup,  which  the  Chinese  prize  very  highly. 

*t*  ♦   +> 

A    REMARKABLE   BIRD. 


j  After  seventy-five  years  of  captivity,  a  female  eagle 
6wl  has  just  died  in  an  aviary  in  England.  Brought 
from  Norway  in  1829,  this  bird  within  the  last  thirty 
years  has  reared  no  less  than  ninety  young.  Although 
the  eagle  owl  is  reputed  to  live  to  a  great  age,  there 
appear  to  be"  but  a  few  recorded  instances  where  the 
age  could  be  definitely  ascertained.  A  golden  eagle 
which  died  at  Vienna  in  1719  was  known  to  have 
been  captured  one  hundred  and  four  years  previously, 
and  a  falcon,  of  what  species  is  not  recorded,  is  said 
to  have  attained  an  age  of  one  hundred  and  sixty- 
kwo  years.  A  white-headed  vulture  taken  in  1706 
died  in  the  zoological  gardens  at  Vienna  in  1824,  thus 
living  one  hundred  and  eighteen  years  in  captivity. 


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NON-DRINKING    ANIMALS. 


It  is  news  that  there  are  several  other  creatures 
beside  the  camel  able  to  get  along  for  extended  periods 
without  drinking.  Sheep  in  the  southwestern  deserts 
of  America  go  for  forty  to  sixty  days  in  winter  with- 
out drink,  grazing  on  the  green,  succulent  vegetation 
of  that  season. 

Peccaries  in  the  desert  of  Sonora  live  in  little  dry 
hills,  where  there  is  no  natural  water  for  long  periods. 
They  cannot  possibly  find  water,  in  fact,  for  months 
at  a  time.  The  only  moisture  they  can  obtain  comes 
from  roots  and  the  fruits  of  cacti. 

But  the  most  extraordinary  case  is  that  of  the  pocket 
mouse,  one  of  the  common  rodents  of  the  desert. 

This  little  creature,  by  the  way,  has  a  genuine  fur- 
lined  "  pocket  "  on  the  outside  of  his  cheek.  When  it 
is  hungry,  it  takes  food  from  this  pocket  with  its  paw, 
just  as  a  man  would  pull  a  ham  sandwich  from  his 
pocket. 

One  of  these  mice  has  been  kept  for  three  years  with 
no  other  food  than  the  mixed  birdseed  of  commerce. 
During  this  period  it  had  not  a  taste  of  either  water 
or  green  food. 

Other  experimenters  have  found,  in  fact,  that  these 
mice  in  captivity  refuse  such  treats,  not  seeming  to 
know  that  water  is  good  to  drink. 

The  birdseed  put  before  this  mouse  contained  not 
more  than  ten  per  cent  of  moisture,  which  is  less  than 
is  necessary  for  digestion.  Stuff  so  dry  as  this  can- 
not even  be  swallowed  until  it  is  moistened  by  saliva. 

Yet  this  remarkable  mouse  gave  nothing  but  his  time 
to  the  interests  of  science. 

He  suffered  nothing  in  health  or  spirits  during  his 
captivity.  The  "  absolutely  abstemious  age "  of 
which  Edward  Lear  wrote  is  completely  out-classed. 

The  question  is  seriously  raised  whether  this  mouse 
is  provided  with  a  condensing  apparatus  by  which  it 
is  able  to  absorb  moisture  from  the  atmosphere.  At 
night,  and  in  the  burrows,  the  humidity  is  much  high- 
er than  in  the  daytime  above  ground,  but  it  never 
reaches  the  dew  point. 

These  interesting  facts  of  natural  history  suggest 
possibilities  in  the  way  of  cures  for  the  incorrigible 
inebriate. 

It  might  be  possible — there  is  no  limit  to  the  powers 
of  science — to  inoculate  the  inebriate  with  the  blood 
of  the  pocket  mouse,  and  relieve  him  of  the  thirst  which 
at  present  requires  pints  of  beer  to  assuage. 
*  It  would  be  too  much  to  hope  that  the  inebriate 
would  also  become  capable  of  living,  like  the  mouse, 
exclusively  on  birdseed.  But  perhaps  he  would  re- 
quire such  a  quantity  of  birdseed  that  it  would  cost 
him  more  than  an  ordinary  meat  diet. 

The  supply  of  pocket  mice  for  the  purpose  of  what 
might  be' called  teetotal  virus  is  limited,  but  the  camel 


still  remains.  On  second  thought  it  might  be  unwise 
to  try  to  graft  the  capabilities  of  the  camel  on  to  an 
intemperate  biped. 

The  change  would  cut  both  ways. 

The  camel,  it  is  true,  can  go  for  many  days  without 
drinking.  But  it  has  to  take  in  a  corresponding  sup- 
ply of  drink  beforehand.  It  would  be  a  sad  thing 
to  evolve  a  man  who  was  capable  of  taking  in  at  one 
mighty  draught  enough  drink  to  last  for  several  days. 
— London  Express. 

.;.    ♦;*    .5. 
A    CROW    STORY. 


A  worthy  gentleman  who  resided  on  the  river  Dela- 
ware near  Easton,  had  raised  a  crow  with  whose 
tricks  and  society  he  used  frequently  to  amuse  him- 
self. The  crow  lived  long  in  the  family,  but  at  length 
disappeared,  having,  as  was  then  supposed,  been  shot 
by  some  vagrant  gunner,  or  destroyed  by  accident. 

About  eleven  months  after  this,  as  the  gentleman, 
one  morning,  in  company  with  several  others,  was 
standing  on  the  river  shore,  a  number  of  crows  hap- 
pening to  pass  by,  one  of  them  left  the  flock,  and  flying 
directly  toward  the  company,  alighted  on  the  gentle- 
man's shoulder  and  began  to  gabble  away  with  great 
volubility  as  one  long  absent  friend,  naturally  enough, 
does  on  meeting  with  another. 

On  recovering  from  his  surprise,  the  gentleman  in- 
stantly recognized  his  old  acquaintance,  and  endeav- 
ored, by  several  civil  but  sly  maneuvers,  to  lay  hold 
of  him ;  but  the  crow,  not  altogether  relishing  quite  so 
much  familiarity,  having  now  had  a  taste  of  sweet 
liberty,  cautiously  eluded  all  his  attempts ;  and  sud- 
denly glancing  his  eye  on  his  distant  companions, 
mounted  in  the  air  and  left  them,  soon  overtook  and 
mingled  with  them,  and  was  never  afterward  seen 
to   return. — Wilson's   "American    Ornithology." 

A    MONSTROSITY. 


BY    MRS.    J.   S.    STUTZMAN. 

In  my  henyard  1  have  a  freak  of  nature  that  may 

be   interesting  to  our   students  of  nature.     I    have   a 

chicken   six   weeks  old   which   has   three  legs,  and  it 

seems  to  be  in  perfect  health.     In  most  ways  he  is 

perfectly  normal,  but  the  third  limb  grows  from  the 

rear  of  his  backbone,  being  fast  at  the  top  end  of  the 

thigh.     The  limb  grows  and  develops  some,  but  it  is 

not  as  large  as  the  oiks  upon  which  he  walks  because 

they  are  developed  by  exercise.     He  seems  to  be  real 

spry  and  enjoys  living  as  well  as  the  rest. 

Virginia,  .\Tcbr. 

*  *  + 

In  the  sprint;-  a  young  man's  fancy  lightly  turns  to 
thoughts  of  love. — Tennyson. 


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HOME    DEPARTMENT 


THE    KITCHEN. 


If  there  is  one  room  in  the  house  which,  more  than  all 
others,  should  be  well  equipped  as  to  essential  utensils 
and  conveniences,  it  is  the  kitchen.  Yet  in  the  major- 
ity of  homes,  many  of  them  otherwise  well  regulated, 
just  the  reverse  of  this  is  the  case.  The  kitchen  is  lit- - 
erally  the  base  of  supplies — the  center  round  which  the 
complex  and  delicate  system  of  home  life  revolves. 
When  things  run  smoothly  and  comfortably  in  the  kit- 
chen the  chances  are  that  there  will  be  no  hitching  in 
the  rest  of  the  household  machinery.  On  the  con- 
trary, if  the  cooking  stove  or  range  is  poor  or  worn 
out,  if  the  fuel  is  scarce  or  of  poor  quality,  if  there  are 
few  or  no  conveniences  for  lightening  the  labor  or 
making  it  a  pleasant  duty,  if  the  kitchen  is  cold,  com- 
fortless and  untidy,  or  hot,  dark  and  stuffy,  a  corre- 
sponding hitching  and  jarring  in  the  running  of  things 
throughout  the  house  may  be  expected. 

Fine  carpets,  curtains  and  chairs  in  the  main  part  of 
the  house,  which  is  oftenest  seen  by  visitors,  seems  to 
satisfy  the  ambition  of  many  women,  who  give  no 
thought  to  convenient  kitchen  furnishings  and  uten- 
sils. The  first  and  most  important  essentials  of  a  kit- 
chen are  plenty  of  air  and  light,  and  the  kitchen  of  all 
rooms  in  the  house  needs  these  purifiers.  Oiled  floors 
are  best,  but  in  small  families  a  rag  carpet  saves  much 
scrubbing.  Old  pieces  of  carpet  or  newspapers  spread 
over  carpet  or  floor  on  busy  days  saves  much  cleaning 
of  carpet  or  floor.  Papers  are  of  service  in  the 
kitchen  in  numberless  ways.  They  may  be  put  under 
kettles,  or  slop  pails,  and  on  the  kitchen  table  when 
any  especially  mussy  work  is  in  progress.  A  sink  with 
a  pump  at  each  end  for  hard  and  soft  water  should  be 
in  every  kitchen.  Nearly  all  modern  houses  have  a 
cupboard  opening  into  both  kitchen  and  dining  room, 
through  which  food  or  soiled  dishes  may  be  passed. 
Where  cupboard  room  is  limited,  hooks  may  be  fas- 
tened to  the  under  side  of  shelves  to  hang  cups,  pit- 
chers, etc.,  on.  Another  necessity  is  a  table,  which 
should  be  six  feet  long  and  three  feet  wide,  with  draw- 
ers on  each  side  for  dish  towels,  holders,  spices,  rolling 
pin,  knives  and  other  things  oftenest  used.  A  high 
stool  and  an  open  space  under  the  middle  of  the  table 
between  the  drawers  on  either  side,  so  that  the  house- 
keeper can  sit  when  her  work  will  permit,  are  neces- 
sary conveniences.  Nothing  contributes  more  to  the 
forlorn  appearance  of  a  kitchen  than  the  miscellaneous 
throwing  and  hanging  around  of  coats,  hats  and  rub- 
bers.    If  these  things  must  be  kept  in  the  kitchen,  let 


there  be  a  closet  for  their  especial  use  built  in  one  cor- 
ner, and  let  there  be  an  unalterable  law  that  every  mem- 
ber of  the  family  ghall  attend  to  keeping  his  own  things 
in  the  closet  when  not  in  use.  Another  kitchen  comfort 
is  a  low  rocking  chair,  where  the  tired  housekeeper, 
when  she  is  waiting  for  something  or  has  a  spare  mo- 
ment, can  rest.  A  word  as  to  the  kitchen  toilet  will  not 
be  amiss  here.  The  best  dress  for  kitchen  and  other 
housework  is  a  cotton  one,  not  too  light  colored,  and 
of  such  material  as  will  stand  frequent  washings. 
Many  seem  to  prefer  to  work  in  a  woolen  dress,  and  of 
course  it  may  be  protected  to  a  great  degree  by  the 
generous  gingham  apron  and  gingham  sleeves  to  draw 
over  the  dress  sleeves  and  reaching  above  the  elbows 
and  held  in  place  by  a  rubber  cord  run  in. 

But  any  dress  subjected  to  the  inevitable  happenings 
of  the  best  regulated  kitchen,  in  preparing  dinner,  or 
the  cleaning  and  scouring  which  come  afterward,  can- 
not retain  its  nice  appearance  long,  unless  it  will  stand 
the  ordeal  of  washtub  and  ironing  table.  A  nice  model 
for  a  calico  or  gingham  dress,  escapes  the  floor  well 
all  round,  is  four  yards  wide  at  the  bottom,  but  gored 
at  the  top  of  the  skirt,  to  do  away  with  any  fullness  at 
the  waist.  Most  of  the  fullness  is  gathered  at  the  back. 
The  waist  may  be  lined  with  thin,  unbleached  muslin, 
and  the  sleeves  lined  or  not,  as  one  prefers.  An  un- 
lined  sleeve  irons  more  easily.  If  the  sleeve  has  a  shir 
run  for  an  elastic  band,  the  sleeve  may  be  readily 
pushed  up  to  any  height  while  at  work.  The  rubber 
can  be  untied  and  drawn  out  when  the  dress  is  washed. 
The  skirt  and  waist  are  joined  in  one  piece.  The  turn 
down  collar  and  sleeves  may  be  edged  with  lace  or  col- 
ored Hamburg  edging.  A  belt  like  the  dress,  or  any 
other  kind  preferred,  may  be  worn  with  it. 

SEEDING    THE    LAWN. 


If  properly  prepared  in  good  season,  in  the  fall  is 
rather  the  best  time  for  seeding  the  lawn,  still  if  proper 
care  is  taken  to  prepare  the  ground  and  to  secure  good 
seed  so  that  the  first  opportunity  for  doing  the  work 
can  be  taken  advantage  of,  spring  seeding  can  be  made 
successful.  While  blue  grass  makes  the  best  sward 
and  will  stand  closer  cutting  and  more  of  it  than  any 
other  kind  of  grass,  yet  it  is  very  slow  to  start  and  re- 
quires two  to  three  years  to  make  much  show,  but  after 
it  once  gets  fairly  started  it  will  gradually  crowd  out 
the  other  grasses,  taking  full  possession.  Coarse 
grasses,  like  timothy  and  orchard  grasses,  are  not  suit-' 
ed  for  the  lawn.'     Neither  are  any  of  the  large  clovers. 


THE   INGLENOOK.— August  16,  1904. 


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A  very  good  mixture  of  grasses  is  equal  parts  by 
weight  of  blue  grass,  sweet  vernal  grass  and  white  clo- 
ver. Use  plenty  of  seed  in  order  to  secure  a  good 
stand.  Seedsmen  sell  a  mixture  of  grasses  especially 
for  lawn  purposes,  and  when  these  can  be  secured 
readily  it  will  be  advisable  to  purchase.  But  it  will 
pay  to  have  the  ground  prepared  in  good  season,  to 
sow  early  and  to  use  plenty  of  seed,  rolling  in  the 
spring  after  the  grass  starts. 
♦  ♦  * 
BUYING   SHOES. 


RICE    PUDDING. 


"  People  who  buy  ready-made  shoes  would  find 
their  footgear  much  more  comfortable  if  only  they 
would  stand  up  instead  of  sitting  down  to  be  fitted," 
said  an  experienced  salesman.  "  Nine  out  of  ten  cus- 
tomers, especially  ladies,  want  to  sit  in  a  comfortable 
chair  all  the  time  they  are  fitting  shoes,  and  it  is  with 
difficulty  that  one  can  get  them  to  stand  a  few  minutes, 
even  after  the  shoe  is  fitted.  Then,  when  they  begin 
to  walk  about  a  little,  they  wonder  why  the  shoe  is  less 
easy  than  when  it  was  first  tried  on.  The  fact  is  that 
the  foot  is  smaller  when  one  is  sitting  than  when  one 
is  walking  about.  Exercise  brings  a  larger  quantity 
of  blood  to  the  feet,  and  they  swell.  The  muscles,  too, 
require  a  certain  amount  of  room.  In  buying  shoes 
this  must  be  borne  in  mind,  or  one  cannot  hope  to  be 
shod  comfortably."  .     .    . 

COLOR    IN    DRESS. 


Not  one  woman  in  ten  realizes  the  importance  of 
ascertaining  and  making  a  careful  study  of  one  par- 
ticular color  most  becoming  to  her  and  of  always  hav- 
ing a  touch  of  it  introduced  in  some  part  of  her  dress. 
The  auburn-haired  woman  looks  best  in  brown  shad- 
ing into  the  tones  of  her  hair  or  in  rich  dark  greens. 
The  yellow-haired  girl  can  wear  red.  The  greens,  too, 
are  delightful  on  her,  also  certain  yellows  and  black. 
White  is  less  becoming,  but  she  must  be  brilliant  in 
complexion  or  else  most  delicate  as  to  the  tints  to  wear 
grays  and  blues  to  advantage.  Blue,  particularly  the 
cold  and  plate  blues,  are  best  adapted  to  brunettes. 
The  woman  whose  hair  is  a  dull  brown  and  whose  com- 
plexion and  eyes  lack  brilliancy,  may  still  be  most  at- 
tractive, but  she  should  avoid  bright-hued  or  glit- 
tering hats.  Dull  browns,  neither  yellowish  nor  red- 
dish, should  be  selected.  Avoid  the  satin  straws. 
Take  the  dull  finish. 

*  *  * 

Lemons  were  used  by  the  Romans  to  keep  moth 
from  their  garments,  and  in  the  time  of  Pliny  they 
were  considered  an  excellent  poison.  They  are  na- 
tives of  Asia.  ^  ¥>  £ 

Don't  furnish  your  wife  with  labor-saving  appli- 
ances. It  is  cheaper  to  get  a  new  wife  when  the  old 
one  is  worn  out. 


Here  is  a  recipe  from  Good  Housekeeping: 

One  quart  of  milk  to  make  it  nice 

Only  nine  teaspoonfuls  of  rice, 

Nine  teaspoonfuls  of  sugar,  too, 

Also  a  pinch  of  salt  mixed  through; 

Two  teaspoonfuls  of  any  flavor 

Of  which  you  want  the  dish   to  savor. 

I,  by  my  own  idea  possessed, 

Consider  lemon  is  the  best. 

Bake  for  two  hours — not  fast  nor  slow, 

But  in  a  moderate  oven — so 

When  it  is  done,  it  ought  to  seem 

Thick  as  the  richest  kind  of  cream. 

$    -$     $ 

PICCA     LILLI. 


BY  SISTER  LISETTA  BROWN. 

Take  one  peck  of  green  tomatoes,  two  large  heads  of 
cabbage,  twelve  green  peppers,  twelve  large  onions, 
eight  tablespoonfuls  of  salt,  two  tablespoonfuls  of 
ground  cloves,  three  tablespoonfuls  of  black  pepper, 
three  tablespoonfuls  of  ground  mustard,  three  table- 
spoonfuls of  cinnamon,  one-half  pint  of  white  mustard, 
two  pounds  of  brown  sugar.  Squeeze,  and  cook  in  vin- 
egar for  two  hours. 

Whitewater,  hid. 

&  4*  * 

TO    MEASURE    WITHOUT    SCALES. 


The  following  table  will  be  found  convenient  when 
you  are  without  scales  : 

One  fluid  ounce  contains  two  tablespoonfuls. 

One  drachm,  or  sixty  drops,  makes  a  teaspoonful. 

One  rounded  tablespoonful  of  granulated  sugar,  or 
two  of  flour  or  powdered  sugar,  weigh  one  ounce. 

One  liquid  gill  equals  four  fluid  ounces. 

One  fluid  ounce  (one  quarter  of  a  gill)  equals  eight 
drachms. 

A  piece  of  butter  as  large  as  a  small  egg  weighs  two 
ounces. 

Nine  large  or  twelve  small  eggs  weigh  one  pound 
with  the  shells  off. 

One  level  teacupful  of  butter  or  granulated  sugar 
weighs  half  a  pound. 

One  quart  of  sifted  flour  (well  heaped)  weighs  one 
pound. 

A  common-sized  tumbler  holds  about  one-half  pint. 

*   *   * 
RECIPE    WANTED. 


Anna  Norman,  of  Maitland,  Mo.,  wants  a  recipe 
for  putting  up  cucumber  pickles  in  alcohol.  Who  can 
answer?    Send  answer  to  the  Inglenook. 


790 


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miij   OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE 


BONNIE    WAYNE. 


'Nen  Frank  said  "  Hurry  up  children,  didn't  you 
hear  the  dinner  bell  ?  "  My !  I  didn't  think  it  wuz 
time  for  dinner  already  but  we  were  having  such  a 
good  time  that  we  forgot  all  about  the  time  I  guess. 
Frank  let  us  ride  the  horses  to  the  barn  and  when  we 
stopped  at  the  little  brook  to  let  the  horses  drink  I  came 
very  near  slipping  into  the  water,  for  when  old  Barney 
put  his  head  down  to  the  water  to  drink  he  came  near 
throwing  me  over  his  head,  but  I  took  hold  of  the  han- 
dles of  the  harness  and  held  on  as  tight  as  I  could. 

When  we  got  to  the  barn  Mr.  Marshall  said,  "  Well, 
how  did  you  get  along  ?  "  and  I  said  that  we  had  a 
good  time  for  a  long  time  until  a  great  big  bird  came 
very  near  getting  hold  of  Luke  and  we  came  away  in 
a  hurry.  'Nen  he  wanted  to  know  what  kind  of  a 
bird  it  wuz  that  wuz  after  Luke,  and  I  told  him  how  it 
would  stick  out  its  neck  and  would  h-i-s-s-s-s-s-  at  us 
and  try  to  bite  us,  and  he  took  another  big  laugh  and 
said  that  he  bet  it  wuz  his  old  pet  goose  that  had  a  nest 
out  there  by  the  pasture  fence,  and  he  said  that  she  wuz 
a  cross  old  thing  and  that  it  wuz  a  wonder  that  she 
did  not  bite  us  and  we  thought  so  too. 

'Nen  we  had  the  bestest  dinner,  I  thought  everything 
wuz  so  good,  and  Mrs.  Marshall  gave  Luke  and  me 
some  nice  milk  to  drink,  and  before  the  dinner  wuz 
over  I  wuz  so  sleepy  that  I  could  hardly  hold  my  eyes 
open  and  so  Grandma  said  that  yungun  has  to  have  a 
nap  after  dinner,  and  so  I  went  into  the  bedroom  and 
took  Hattie  and  Dora,  and  we  had  a  long  nap  and 
when  I  got  up  Frank  had  gone  to  the  field  and  we  did 
not  get  to  go  along  at  all,  and  I  told  Luke  that  I 
thought  he  might  have  waited  but  Luke  said  he  wuz 
in  a  hurry  to  get  the  corn  all  plowed  so  he  could  cut 
wheat  and  I  didn't  know  what  the  wheat  wuz ;  so 
Mabel  took  us  out  to  the  orchard  and  we  looked  over 
the  fence  into  the  wheatfield  and  saw  the  nice  long 
wheat  straws  with  the  big  heads  on  them  and  Mabel 
took  some  of  the  heads  and  rubbed  them  in  her  hands 
and  showed  us  how  the  grains  are  in  the  heads. 

When  we  got  back  to  the  barn,  Mr.  Marshall  had 
a  big  red  wagon  with  fans  out  in  the  yard,  and  it  wuz 
the  funniest  thing,  and  I  asked  him  what  it  wuz,  and 
he  said  "  it  wuz  a  self-binder."  'Nen  I  said  "  what  is 
that  ?  "  and  he  told  Mabel  to  tell  me  all  about  it  and  so 
she  said  "  that  it  wuz  to  cut  that  wheat  that  we  saw  up 
in  the  field  by  the  orchard,  and  it  would  bind  them  into 
sheaves  ready  for  the  threshing-machine."     But  there 


wuzn't  anything  funny  about  that  so  we  went  out  to 
the  pump  to  get  a  drink  'cause  they  don't  have  any  hy- 
drants here  and  we  always  have  to  go  to  the  pump  to 
get  a  drink.  And  while  we  were  there  Luke  put  his 
hand  on  the  pump  spout  and  he  told  me  to  pump  and 
so  I  did  and  he  would  drink  from  his  hand,  and  all  at 
once  while  he  wuz  a  drinking  there  wuz  a  lot  of  water 
came  down  from  the  top  of  the  pump  on  me  and  I 
thought  I  wuz  drowned  and  it  went  down  Luke's  back 
and  he  hollered  and  Mr.  Marshall  said,  "  What  is  the 
matter?"  and  we  told  him  nothing  'cause  it  wuz  so 
funny  we  did  not  want  to  go  away. 

'Nen  we  climbed  up  to  see  where  the  water  came  out 
and  we  found  a  big  hole  where  the  handle  wuz  fastened 
on  to  the  pump  and  we  thought  we  would  stop  up  that 
hole  and  so  Luke  got  down  and  I  stayed  up  there  and 
he  handed  me  some  little  stones  and  I  put  them  in 
there  and  they  went  down  clear  to  the  bottom  I  guess. 
I  could  hear  them  say  plumk-plunkety-plunk,  down 
there,  and  I  told  Luke  that  it  wuzn't  getting  full  and 
he  took  his  hat  and  got  a  big  hatful  of  little  stones  and 
he  held  them  for  me  and  I  put  them  in  the  pump  and 
pretty  soon  I  couldn't  get  any  more  down  there  and 
'nen  we  thought  we  could  pump  and  it  wouldn't  pour 
out  on  us  like  it  did  before  and  so  we  tried  and  don't 
you  think  it  wouldn't  pump  at  all  and  'nen  Luke  said 
he  bet  we  had  done  the  mischief  again  and  I  didn't 
know  what  that  wuz,  and  he  said  that  he  thought  we 
had  better  play  somewhere  else,  so  we  went  up  in  the 
haymow  to  get  the  eggs  and  when  we  got  up  there  we 
could  look  out  the  window  and  see  all  around  and  it 
wuz  fine  and  just  then  Frank  came  home  from  the 
field,  and  he  waved  his  hand  at  me  and  I  waved  back 
and  I  told  Luke  he  wuzn't  mad,  and  he  said,  "  Just 
wait  a  minute,"  and  sure  enough  when  he  tried  to 
pump  some  water  for  the  horses  the  pump  would  not 
move. 

(to   be  continued.) 


P.  S. — I  just  wrote  a  letter  to  my  mamma  a  littl 
while  ago  and  I  told  her  what  a  good  time  we  arl 
having  out  here  on  the  farm,  and  I  told  her  that  I 
wish  she  would  take  the  Inglenook,  'nen  she  could 
see  what  a  good  time  we  have,  'cause  Grandma  Mar- 
shall always  reads  about  our  vacation  to  Luke  and 
me.  That  woman  that  had  so  many  fresh  air  chil- 
dren came  to  see  me  yesterday,  but  you  bet  I  didn'1 
go  home  with  her.  I  am  going  to  stay  here  unti' 
school  commences  this  fall  if  Mr.  Marshall  will  lei 
me.  Bonnie   Wayne 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  16,  1904. 


791 


r 


Who  is  Clara  Barton? 

Clara  Barton  is  a  lady  of  more  than  ordinary  ability, 
as  well  as  untiring  energy  in  caring  for  the  oppressed. 
She  bore  an  important  part  in  caring  for  the  sick  and 
wounded  after  the  Civil  War,  in  the  Franco-Prussian 
War  and  in  the  Spanish-American  War,  and  she  was 
president  of  the  American  Red  Cross  Society  for  a 
long  time. 

* 

How  and  when  did  Christianity  become  prominent  in 
Rome? 

Christianity  was  no  doubt  introduced  by  the  apos- 
tles themselves.  Notwithstanding  the  persecution  of 
Nero  and  Diocletian,  Christianity  spread  rapidly  in 
the  beginning.  Constantine  the  great  was  the  first  em- 
peror, and  during  his  reign  Christianity  was  not  only 
tolerated,  but  was  the  established  religion  of  the  state. 

* 

Hqw  was  the  present   German  Empire  formed? 

In  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1870,  just  at  the  close 
of  the  Franco-Prussian  war,  treaties  were  concluded 
between  Prussia  and  South  German  states,  whereby 
they  were  united  as  a  single  empire.  King  Wilhelm, 
of  Prussia,  was  elected  emperor  of  Germany,  and  was 
crowned  at  Versailles,  June,  1871. 

* 

What  does  the  Inglenook  consider  as  the  most  im- 
portant events  in  the  history  of  the  last   ten  years? 

The  Spanish-American  war  by  all  means,  so  far  as 
America  is  concerned,  because  through  it  the  United 
States  becomes  the  world-power  and  is  recognized  as 
such  by  all  Europe. 

* 

From  what  sources  does  reliable  information  of  ancient 
history  come? 

From  inscriptions  on  tablets  that  have  been  un- 
earthed, ancient  ruins,  coins,  medals,  legends  and  a  few 
good  Greek  and  Roman  books. 

* 

What  are  some  of  the  greatest  disasters  of  1903-4? 

The  Iroquois  fire,  Chicago ;  the  Baltimore  fire ;  the 
General  Slocum  disaster,  of  New  York  Harbor;  the 
Mining  Strikes  of  Colorado,  and  the  Meat  Strikes. 

Who  was  Cyrus  the  Great? 

Cyrus  the  Great  was  king  of  Persia  from  588  B.  C. 
:o  522  B.  C.  Some  of  his  principal  achievements  were 
the  conquest  of  Media,  Lydia  and  Babylon. 


Will  the  Nook  please  tell  in  what  States  women  vote? 

This  differs  according  to  what  is  being  voted  for. 
For  instance  in  Wyoming,  Colorado,  Utah  and  Idaho 
women  have  equal  suffrage  with  men.  In  Kansas 
women  have  equal  rights  with  men  in  most  all  of  the 
school  and  municipal  elections.  And  then  women  have 
school  suffrages  only  in  the'  following  States :  Michi- 
gan, Minnesota,  New  Hampshire,  Oregon,  Massa- 
chusetts, New  York,  Vermont,  Illinois,  Connecticut, 
Nevada,  Wisconsin,  Washington,  Arizona,  Montana, 
New  Jersey,  North  Dakota,  South  Dakota,  and  Ohio. 
When  it  comes  to  voting  on  the  issuing  of  municipal 
bonds,  women  are  allowed  to  vote  in  the  States  of  Mon- 
tana and  Iowa.  In  Louisiana,  women  who  are  tax  pay- 
ers may  vote  on  questions  of  public  expenditure.  In 
England  women  may  vote  for  all  local  officers,  but  not 
for  members  of  parliament. 

What  changes  were  made  by  the  twelfth  amendment 
in  the  manner  of  electing  presidents  and  vice-presidents? 

Each  elector  now  votes  for  one  person  for  pres- 
ident and  another  for  vice-president,  while  in  the  orig- 
inal clause  they  each  voted  for  two  persons  one  of 
whom  was  to  be  president  and  the  other  vice-presi- 
dent, according  to  the  number  of  votes  received.  If 
the  electors  failed  to  elect,  the  House  chooses  from  the 
three  highest  instead  of  the  five  highest,  as  in  the  orig- 
inal clause: 

* 

What  animal   does   Proverbs  30:  26  have  reference   to? 

The  Coney,  as  it  is  called,  belongs  to  the  family  of 
the  Rodents,  or  gnawing,  fur-bearing  animals,  such  as 
rabbits,  beavers,  etc.,  and  is  found  in  the  mountains  of 
Syria,  Mozambique,  and  Southern  Africa.  It  is  more 
commonly  known  as  the  Daman. 
* 

Who  were  some  of  the  great  men  who  have  died  re- 
cently? 

Gen.  James  Longstreet,  Gen.  John  B.  Gordon,  Ex- 
Governor  Chas.  E.  Foster,  Ex-Governor  Asa  S.  Bush- 
nell,  Marcus  A.  Hanna.  M,  S.  Quay,  Levi  Lciter  and 
Paul  Kruger. 

* 

Who  was  Timon  of  Athens? 

Timon  of  Athens  was  the  chief  character  in  one  of 
Shakespeare's  dramas   which   took  its  name   from   its 
hero,  Timon  the  Man-hater. 
*> 

Who  wrote  "My  country,  'tis  of  thee"? 
S.  F.  Smith. 


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* 


* 


MISCELLA 


ITEOTJS    [ 


LIPPINCOTT'S    MAGAZINE    NOTES    FOR 
AUGUST. 


The  family  of  President  Roosevelt  has  other  lit- 
erary talent  besides  his  own.  Maude  Roosevelt,  his 
cousin,  contributes  a  novelette,  called  "  Social  Logic," 
to  the  August  number  of  Lippincott's  Magazine  which 
substantiates  the  talent  of  her  race.  It  is  a  tale  of  the 
somewhat  sordid  life  well-bred  women  have  to  lead  in 
New  York  boarding-houses,  but  the  heroine  of  Miss 
Roosevelt's  story  emerges  through  many  thrilling  so- 
cial adventures  to  the  lot  for  which  Nature  planned 
her — a  happy  marriage. 

*  *  4> 
LESLIE'S    MONTHLY    MAGAZINE    FOR    AUGUST. 


'Ralph  Conner  begins  a  new  novel,  "  The  Pros- 
pector," in  the  August  Fiction  number  of  Leslie's 
Monthly  Magazine,  and  the  first  chapters  promise  a 
better  story  than  either  "  The  Sky  Pilot  "  or  "  Black 
Rock."  There  are  eleven  other  stories  in  this  number, 
by  such  people  as  George  Hibbard,  Henry  C.  Row- 
land, Alice  MacGowan,  Holman  F.  Day,  H.  I.  Greene 
and  Rex  E.  Beach,  and  they  cover  nearly  every  vari- 
ety of  up-to-date  fiction. 

J.  Adam  Bede,  the  humorist  of  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, has  a  most  amusing  article  on  "  The  Spell- 
binders," whom  we  all  expect  to  listen  to  during  the 
next  few  months,  in  which  he  tells  a  number  of  good 
stories.  There  are  also  remarkable  photographs  of  the 
St.  Louis  Fair  and  portraits  of  the  men  who  created 
that  exposition,  and  a  helpful  little  sketch  of  the  cost 
of  a  visit  to  St.  Louis  this  summer. 

The  delightful  verses  by  Kennett  Harris,  with  some 
remarkably  good  drawings  by  Reginald  Birch,  are  an 
attractive  feature  of  the  number,  and  Mrs.  Call's 
monthly  paper  on  "The  Freedom  of  Life,"  as  usual,  is 
well  worth  reading  and  thinking  about. 
*  *  *> 
HOW    BEER    FIRST    CAME    TO    ENGLAND. 


The  vineyards  wrap  Ischia  from  seashore  to  moun- 
tain peak  in  a  shimmering  screen  of  green.  Vines 
hang  from  tree  to  tree,  making  a  leafy  roof  overhead 
and  green,  sun-pierced  walls  to  the  long  alleys,  where 
innumerable  classic  bunches  grow.  The  grapes  are 
still  small  and  immature,  but  exquisite  in  form  and 
color.  In  October,  the  season  of  the  vintage,  this  must 
be  the  most  beautiful  place  on  earth.     Here  one  under- 


stands why  the  Roman  soldiers  in  Britain,  when  they 
first  saw  the  Kentish  hop-vines,  thought  they  had  i 
found  the  nearest  thing  to  the  grape  the  savage  north-  j 
land  produced.  In  their  efforts  to  make  wine  from 
hops  they  produced  the  first  beer  made  in  England. — 
Maud  Howe,  in  August  Lippincott's. 
*  *  ♦ 
A    LITTLE    HEROINE. 


"  Nannie,  dear,  I  want  you  to  hem  those  napkins 
this  afternoon,  without  fail.  Can  I  trust  you  to  do 
it?  I  must  go  out  for  the  whole  afternoon,  and  can- 
not remind  you  of  them,"  said  Mrs.  Barton  to  her  lit 
tie  girl. 

"  Yes,  mother  dear,  I  will;  you  can  trust  me,"  an- 
swered Nannie. 

Now  Nannie  did  not  like  to  hem  napkins  any  better 
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dow, and  then  she  stopped. 

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key  out  here,  and  a  trained  dog,  and  they're  playing 
lovely  tricks.    Come  on !  " 

"  I  can't;  I  promised  mother,  and  she  trusted  me, 
she  answered. 

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they  left  her. 

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kissed  Nannie. 

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anything  brave ;  I  only  kept  my  promise,"  answere< 
Nannie,  wonderingly. 

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one's  duty  than  to  save  a  life.  You  did  a  brave,  nobl 
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Barton. — Our  Little  Ones. 

♦   ^/  ♦ 
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JESUS    IS    ABLE. 

Having   been    given    "  all    power,"    Matt 
28:  18,    and   having   destroyed   the 
works   of  the  devil,   1   John 
3:  8.  Jesus  is  able  to, 
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4:  21. 
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THE    BLOOD. — Heb.    9:22. 


1.  Peace .  has    been    made    through    th 
blood.     Col.   1:  20. 

2.  Justified  by  the  blood.     Rom.   5:9. 

3.  Redemption  by  the  blood.     Eph.   1:1 
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blood.     Heb.  10:  19. 

7.  Overcome    in    heaven    by    the    blooi 
Rev.   12:  11. 

S.   Then    sing    the    song    forever    to    tig 
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A  Great  Success 


Annual  Stockholders'  Meeting 


OUR  ANNUAL  SHAREHOLDERS'  MEETING  was  held  on  July  4th.  Twenty-six  of  our 
leading  shareholders,  some  coming  a  distance  of  five  hundred  miles,  were  present.  All  declare 
it  was  the  most  enthusiastic  and  encouraging  business  meeting  they  ever  attended.  Investigation 
showed  that  the  assets  of  the  Corporation  are  increasing  at  the  rate  of  nearly  two  thousand  dollars 
per  month,  and  that  the  dividends  this  year  promise  to  be  10  per  cent  or  more.  The  1904  series  of 
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Scientific  Co-operation,  as  first  inaugurated  and  applied  by  us  in  America,  closed  in  a  blaze  of  glory. 
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immense  savings  and  in  dividends  on  their  investments.  Our  merchandise  sales  are  increasing  daily, 
and  our  selling  expenditures  are  decreasing  daily.  We  want  you  as  a  partner  in  our  Mail  Order 
Business,  which  is  organized  on  an  original,  scientific  co-operative  plan, 


Prompt  Action  Nec= 
essary. 

Co-operation  aims  to  do  for  the 
small  capitalist  what  the  large 
capitalist  is  doing  for  himself.  If 
you  have  $100  you  cannot  start  in 
business  with  it,  at  least  not  in  a 
business  which  yields  any  kind  of 
returns.  You  must  deposit  it  in  a 
savings  bank  or  invest  it  in  secur- 
ities and  be  contented  with  small 
interest. 

By  co-operation  you  can  make 
the  small  capital  yield  the  hand- 
some percentage  of  returns  which 
the  banker  or  the  merchant  secures 
from  his  large  investment.  "A.  B. 
D.  &  Co.  Stock"  through  co-oper- 
ation puts  you  in  business  for 
yourself,  no  matter  how  small  your 
capital,  and  puts  you  on  an  equality 
with  the  powerful  merchant  as  far 
as  earning  power  for  your  dollar  is 
concerned. 

Co-operation  puts  you 'in  a  position  for  a 
25  per  cent,  opportunity  where  otherwise 
you  remain  shackled  to  the  4  per  cent. 
dictum  of  the  savings  bank. 

Our  stock  is  for  sale  only  to  gain  the  co- 
operation of  thousands  of  customers — past, 
present  and  future.  Remember  you  buy 
into  an  established  mail  order  business 
receiving'  mora  than  a  thousand  dollars 
nearly  every  day  right  now.  No  Experiment. 
No  risk.     Just  Expansion  and  CfMjperation. 

II "rite  to-day  for  application  blanks. 


Our  Idea 

To  do  the  right  thing,  at  the  right 
time,  in  the  right  way;  to  do  some  things 
better  than  they  were  ever  done  before; 
to  eliminate  errors;  to  know  both  sides 
of  the  question;  to  be  courteous;  to  be  an 
example;  to  work  for  love  of  the  work; 
to  anticipate  requirements;  to  develop 
resources;  to  recognize  no  impediments; 
to  master  circumstances;  to  act  from 
reason  rather  than  rule;  to  be  satisfied 
■with  nothing  short  of  perfection  in 
scientific  co-operation. 

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The  Mail  Order  House 

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What  Is  Your  Capital 
Doing  For  You? 

Prompt  action  on  your  part  is 
necessary  to  secure  your  stock  at 
"ground-floor"  quotations.  It  was 
unanimously  decided,  at  the  Stock- 
holder's Meeting,  that  no  more 
stock  should  be  sold  at  less  than 
$125.00  per  share,  which  is  a 
premium  of  825.00  on  each  share, 
and  judging  from  past  experience, 
it  is  more  than  likely  that  the  stock 
will  command  a  heavier  premium 
by  the  end  of  the  business  year. 

We  now  have  nearly  Five 
Hundred  people  interested  with  us; 
and  in  order  to  enlist  hundreds 
more  of  co-operators,  the  manage- 
ment has  decided  to  increase  the 
capital  stock  of  the  Company  to 
§500,000  and  issue  a  new  series  for 
$150,000  worth  of  voucher  con- 
tracts. 

You  should  take  advantage  of  this 
exceptional  opportunity,  by  getting"  your 
application  in  lor  a  part  of   this   19D5  series. 

Remember:  One  judicious  in  vestment  may 
be  worth  years  of  labor.  There  .s  nothing: 
to  give  away  in  our  proposition.  It  is  nota 
promotor's  scheme,  but  a  straight-forward, 
high-grade,  strictly  legitimate  mercantile 
enterprise  and  every  dollar's  worth  of  stock 
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THE      INGLENOOK. 


30,000  ACRES 


IRRIGATED 


Government  Land 


NOW    OPEN  FOR 


HOMESTEAD 


UNDER  THE   NEW 

IRRIGATION   LAW 

The  United  States  Govern- 
ment  Constructs  the  Canals, 
Reservoirs  and  Lateral  Ditch- 
es to  the  Land,  and  Maintains 
them  for  10  Year*  at  a  cost  of 

ONLY  $2.50  AN  ACRE 


FEB     YEAR. 


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and  Canals  Belong  to  Homesteader. 


Land    Close   to    Railroad    and    Good 
Markets  Can  be  Secured  By 

ACTUAL  SETTLERS 
ONLY. 


Mr.  L.  H.  Taylor,  the  United  States 
Engineer  in  charge  of  work,  says: 
"  It  is  likely  that  most  of  those  set- 
tlers who  desire,  can  find  employment 
for  themselves  and  teams  on  the  ca- 
nals during  at  least  a  part  of  their 
spare  time  for  the  next  two  or  three 
vears." 


For  Information  Write  to 

GEO.  L.  McDONAUQH, 

COLONIZATION    AGENT 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Omaha,  Neb. 


ARE    YOU    GOING    TO 

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OREGON,  IDAHO 

Or  Any  Other  Point?    Take  the 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Daily  Tourist  Car  Line 


BETWEEN 


Chicago,    Missouri    River,    Colorado, 

Idaho,  Oregon,  Washington  and 

California  Points. 


ROUND    TRIP    RATES 

From    Chicago,   $50.00 

From  Missouri  River,    \   45.00 

To  San  Francisco  or  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  and  Return.  Tickets  sold  Aug. 
15  to-  Sept.  10.  inclusive.  Return  lim- 
it, October  23,  1904. 


ONE-WAY    COLONIST'S    RATES. 

To  Pacific  Coast  Every  Day,  Sept.  15 
to  Oct.  15. 

From  Chicago $33  00 

From  St.  Louis,   30  00 

From   Missouri  River 25  00 

Proportionate  rates  from  all  points 
East. 


The  Union  Pacific  Railroad 

— Is  Known  As — 

"The  Overland  Route" 

And  is  the  only  direct  line  from 
Chicago  and  the  Missouri  River  to 
all  principal  points  West.  Business 
men  and  others  can  save  many 
hours  via  this  line.  Call,  on  or  ad- 
dress a  postal  card  to  your  nearest 
ticket  agent,  or  Geo.  L.  McDon- 
augh,  Colonization  Agent,  Omaha. 
Xebr. 

E.    L.    LOMAX,    G.    P.    &    T.    A., 
Omaha,  Nebraska. 


MORE  BEETS- 
HIGHER  PRICE 


Producers     Will    Get    $400,000    More 
Than  Last  Year. 


"  Denver  Post  ": 

"The  sugar  beet  crop  of  Colorado, 
according  to  reports  received  from  our 
field  men  all  through  the  South  Platte 
Valley,  will  not  be  less  than  10  per 
cent  in  excess  of  that  of  last  year,"  said 
Charles  Boettcher,  of  the  Great  West- 
ern Sugar  company.  "  The  outlook 
was  never  so  good  as  it  is  this  year. 
Last  3'ear  the  yield  in  tons  was 
slightly  less  than  400,000,  and  it  was 
marketed  at  $4.50  a  ton.  This  year  it 
will  be  fully  450,000  and  the  market 
price  already  agreed  on  is  $5  a  ton. 
This  will  make  a  difference  to  the 
producer  of  some  $400,000.  It  is  too 
early  to  make  an  estimate  on  the 
amount  of  sugar  the  beets  will  "con- 
tain. That  will  not  be  possible  for 
a  couple  or  more  weeks.  But  the  '■ 
general  outlook  was  never  better  for 
a  large  beet  crop  than  it  is  at  present. 
We  have  had  plenty  of  water  and  no 
severe  or  injurious  storms  over  the 
areas  planted  in  beets.  If  nothing 
untoward  occurs,  the  crop  will  be  a 
banner  one." 


•     The   following  parties  have  bought 
land  near  Snyder,  Colo.: 

Louis  E.  Keltner,  Hygiene,  Colo.; 
W.  W.  Keltner,  North  Dakota;  A.  W. 
Brayt'on,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Daniel 
Grabill,  Lemasters,  Pa.;  J.  L.  Kuns, 
McPherson,  Kans.;  D.  L.  Miller,  Mt. 
Morris,  111.;  Daniel  Neikirk,  Lemas- 
ters, Pa.;  Galen  B.  Royer,  Elgin,  III.; 
E.  Slifer,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  I.  B.  Trout, 
Lanark,  111.;  R.  E.  Arnold,  Elgin,  111. 


Geo.  L.  Studebaker,  of  Muncie,  In- 
diana, says:  "Sterling  is  a  growing 
town  with  a  good  country  surround- 
ing.    The   members   are  active." 


HOMESEEKERS'     EXCURSIONS 

To  Snyder,  Colorado, 

With  privilege  of    stopping    off    at 
Sterling,  Colo., 

One  Fare  Plus  $2.90  for  the  Round  Trip 

First  and  Third  Tuesday  of 
Each  Month  via 

Uuion  Pacific  Railroad 


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The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  immense  growth  of 
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place  where  the  Industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN    PEOPLE    DO    EASTERN    FARMING. 
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ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

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his  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  it. 

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tickets  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

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From   Missouri    River 25   00 

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land.     If  it  suits  you,  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate. 

Land  sells  for  530  to  $60  per  acre,  including  perpetual  water  right.  Terms,  one- 
fourth  cash;  balance  in  eight  annual  payments. 

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We  are  running  cheap  excursions 
from  Chicago,  St.  Louis  and  inter- 
mediate points  to  Denver,  Sterling, 
Snyder  and  other  Colorado  points  ev- 
ery month.  If  you  can  help  us  to 
get  up  a  party  to  come  out  from  your 
locality,  will  furnish  free  transporta- 
tion for  your  own  personal  use  to 
accompany  them  on  the  above  named 
trip. 

MILLIONS    OF   DOLLARS 

are  being  expended  by  the  United 
States  government  on  irrigation  en- 
terprises and  what  was  once  known 
as  "  The  Great  American  Desert "  is 
beginning  to  bloom  and  blossom  in  a 
manner  wonderful  to  behold. 

OUR   FARMERS 

are  prosperous  and  contented.  It  is 
plain  to  be  seen  that  they  are  making 
more  money  on  40  or  80  acres  of  ir- 
rigated land  than  can  be  realized  on 
more  than  double  the  amount  of  land 
"  Back  East,"  and  a  trip  through  the 
South  Platte  Valley,  Colorado,  will 
convince  you  of  this  fact. 

CHEAP  LANDS  AND  EASY  PAY- 
MENTS. 

We  sell  a  few  irrigated  farms,  or 
town  lots  in  Denver,  Sterling  or  Sny- 
der at  lowest  figures  and  give  easy 
terms  of  payment.  Will  sell  a  limited 
number  of  Snyder  lots  on  $5.00 
monthly  payments. 

WRITE   TO-DAY. 

Don't  wait  for  some  one  else  to  get 
in  ahead  of  you  on  the  best  bargains. 
If  you  cannot  come  yourself,  let  us 
know  just  what  you  want  and  how 
much  money  you  wish  to  invest  and 
will  make  selections  for  you. 

We  wish  to  arrange  with  one  mem- 
ber in  every  town  or  county  to  co- 
operate with  us  in  this  enterprise. 
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Sterling,  Colorado. 

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Mount 

;    Campbell 

Tract 

in  Fresno  County, 

California, 

Promises  to  become  the  leading 
fruit-growing  section  of  California. 
Land  is  cheap,  water  abundant,  loca- 
tion healthful  and  soil  unsurpassed. 
The  soil  is  especially  adapted  to  the 
orange,  grape,  fig,  orchard  fruits,  al- 
falfa and  general   farming. 

Plans  are  now  forming  for  a  colo- 
ny of  the  Brethren  on  this  tract,  J. 
S.  Kuns,  proprietor  of  the  old  Mis- 
sion farm  at  Covina,  Cal.,  having  al- 
ready purchased  land  in  this  district, 
which  has  been  inspected  by  other 
prominent  members  of  the  church. 

Maps  and  information  by 

W.  N.  ROHRER, 

Fresno,  Cal 


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PAYETTE.  VALLEY    HOME— Five  Years  (rom  Sagebrush. 


•^  Arrived    in    Payette    Valley    Feb.    23,    1903.     Settled   on    an   80-acre   tract,   covered   with    sage   brush. 

•5  Cleared  40  acres.     May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.     Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.     June  12  sowed  10  acres 

j"5  to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.     Yielded  55  to  acre.     Had  this  grain  been  sown  in   February 

^t  or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

^  Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 

•  j  oats. 

!^  Potatoes    yielded    500   bushels    to    the    acre    and  many  of  them  weighed  3   to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 

;^  the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)   E.  L.  Dotson. 


:•»      S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

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'^  Mention  the  INGLEUOOK  wnen  -mtta« 


D.   E.   BURLEY, 
G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R., 


Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance.      Fine      3? 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat.  Oats  and  Barley. 


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Vol.  VI. 


August  23.   1904. 


No   34. 


THE    OUTCAST. 


How  many  men  there  are 
Who  ride  in  fortune's  car, 

And  bolt  and  bar  their  doors  against  the  poor; 
Because  they've  lots  of  gold 
Their  hearts  turn  icy  cold; 

They  ought  to  be  condemned  for  it,  I'm  sure. 

While  speaking  of  the  race 

As  they  tramp  from  place  to  place, 

Why,  some  of  them  are  men  from  top  to  toe; 
And  if  they  are  in  need, 
Of  the  circumstance  take  heed; 

And  remember  that  the  poor  tramp  has  to  go. 

I  lately  saw  a  tramp 

Whom  the  people  called  a  scamp 

And  upon  him  turned  their  dogs  lest  he  might  steal; 
But  as  he  turned  away 
There  I  saw  him  kneel  and  pray, 

And  I  know  that  God  above  heard  his  appeal. 

Oh,  it's  little  do  we  know 

How  he  tramped  through  rain  and  snow, 

How  he  once  had  lived  as  happy  as  a  king; 
Till  misfortune's  cruel  dart 
Had  pierced  his  manly  heart, 

And  took  from  him  his  home  and  everything. 

I  once  heard  a  tramp  relate 
The  sad  story  of  his  fate, 

Of  how  he  was  an  outcast  shunned  by  all; 
How  he  lived  a  happy  life, 
Had  a  loving  child  and  wife, 

But,  alas!  like  Eve  that  woman  had  to  fall. 

Oh  she  proved  so  weak  and  frail, 
There's  no  need  to  tell  the  tale, 

How  it  turned  his  manly  heart  to  sad  despair; 
And  he  never  since  has  smiled 
On  that  wife  and  pretty  child. 

But,  alas!  he  is  so  lonely  everywhere. 

So  if  you  meet  a  tramp 

And  he  bears  misfortune's  stamp 

And  is  worthy  of  your  aid,  why,  freely  give; 
Give  him  a  hearty  grip; 
Wish  him  luck  upon  his  trip; 
'   And  remember  that  the  poor  tramp  has  to  live. 

*    *    * 

SNAPSHOTS. 


Many  a  woman's  ill  health  is  due  to  her  imagination. 


We  lift  ourselves  up  by  reaching  dotvn  to  help  others. 


A   man    usually  smiles  zvhen   another  man   invites 
him  to  do  so. 

* 

"  It  might  have  been  "  is  a  sort  of  second  cousin 
to  "I  told  you  so." 

* 

There  is  a  common  error  among  mm  and  women 
that  the  conventional  sin  is  virtuous. 
* 

Some  men   try   to   carry   the  zvorld   on   their  backs 
while  somebody  else  is  carrying  their  families. 


Men   will  spend  years   learning   a   trade   and   then 
expect  to  pick  up  the  art  of  living  in  a  moment. 
* 
Speaking  of  passing  away  the  time,  do  you  know 
of  anything  more  successful  than  a  promissory  note? 
* 
If  people  could  only  realize  the  omnipresence  of  God 
they  would  probably  yield  less  often  when  tempted  to 
sin. 

A  well-known  confidence  operator  confesses  that  he 
can  rob  three  zvise  men  while  he  is  becoming  ac- 
quainted with  a  fool. 

* 

A   )nan  who   turns  in   late  at   night  and  turns  out 
late  in  the  morning  is  apt  to  turn  up  at  his  place  of 
business  at  the  wrong  time. 
* 

Prayer  when  engaged  in,  in  spirit  and  in  truth,  con- 
tains within  itself  its  ozi'n  ansii'er.  in  the  heavenly  calm 
and  repose  which  it  communicates. 

One  of  the  chief  elements  in  winning  success  in  any 
line  of  effort  is  the  cheerful  spirit.     To  do  efficient 
zi'ork  the  cheerful  habit  must  be  cultiz-ated. 
* 

"  /  shall  pass  through  this  zcorld  but  once.  Any 
good  thing  therefore  that  I  can  shozv  to  any  human 
being,  let  me  do  it  iio-i'.  for  I  shall  not  pass  this  way 
again." 


'94 


THE    IXGLEXOOK.— August  23.  1904. 


GLENWOOD. 


Let  the  artist  be  satisfied  to  put  on  canvas  the  face 
of  the  man  who  has  gained  renown,  won  fame,  or  by 
some  great  act  stolen  the  hearts  of  his  countrymen. 
Let  the  sculptor  spend  his  youthful  years  in  giving 
speaking  existence  to  cold  marble  after  the  fashion  of 
one  who  has  won  a  battle,  written  a  constitution,  or 
freed  a  nation  of  slaves.  Let  the  orator  with  magnifi- 
cent strains  of  eloquence  sing  the  praises  of  remarka- 
bles  and  extnsordinaries,  build  thrones  for  magnates 
and  weave  garlands  of  laurel  for  victories,  but  let  our 
more  humble  mission  be  to  chronicle  one  kind  act 
shown  to  the  lost,  fallen  and  disgraced.  In  the  bustle 
and  confusion  of  throwing  our  garlands  and  palm 
branches  at  the  feet  of  our  great  men,  thousands  of 
homeless,  friendless  and  almost  soulless  people  are  for- 
gotten. 

What,  with  our  onward  march  of  progress,  our 
thronged  commercial  centers,  overwhelmed  with  an 
innumerable  army  going  about  their  daily  vocations 
unconscious  of  anyone  else  or  anything  else,  the  out- 
cast is  overlooked.  The  politics  of  our  land  are  left 
to  a  few  demagogues,  our  religion  to  a  few  aristocrats, 
and  our  society  to  a  few  cranks :  and  the  great  swarm 
of  teeming  millions  of  humanity  becomes  lost  in  the 
clouds  of  dust  from  the  shuffling  feet  of  the  marching 
hosts. 


In  the  melee,  vulgarity,  profanity,  intemperance, 
adultery,  prostitution,  sin,  crime,  and  a  score  of  other 
evils,  all  join  hands,  stealing  a  march  upon  them 
headed  by  the  satanic  majesty. 

The  government  has  no  time  to  spare  to  look  after 
the  unfortunate  outcast  and  orphan.  Her  time  must 
be  spent  in  the  acquiring  of  more  territory,  and  in 
watching  other  nations  in  their  international  conflicts. 
The  church  has  no  time  to  care  for  this  class  of  peo- 
ple, because  they  cannot  enrich  her  coffers ;  her  time 
must  be  spent  in  long  vacations  for  the  pastor  and 
prominent  members  of  the  church,  that  is,  during  the 
summer  season,  and  the  winter  season  must  be  spent 
in  games  and  entertainments  to  hold  the  membership. 
What  time  and  money,  therefore,  has  she  to  spend  on 
the  poorer  element? 

Society  cannot  afford  to  waste  time  on  this  miser- 
able class  that  is  next  to  the  brute  creation.  No,  in- 
deed, they  would  not  get  their  white  hands  soiled  in 
lifting  up  the  fallen.  Their  time  and  money  must  be 
spent  at  the  clubhouse,  secret  society  hall,  park,  on 
Sunday  excursions,  in  the  dance,  theatre,  opera,  and 
thousands  of  other  places  where  the  social  circle 
calls.  So  what  is  to  become  of  the  waifs,  the  maimed, 
the  halt  and  the  blind? 

It  is  only  due  to  our  State  governments  to  say  that 
some  of  them  have  provided  insane  asylums,  county 
poor  farms,  orphan  asylums,  and  institutions  of  char- 


THREE    HUXDRED    AND    FIFTY    BOYS    AT    THE    TABLE. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  23.  1904. 


795 


ity  of  various  kinds ;  but  the  great  trouble  is  they  art 
no  sooner  established,  or  even  contemplated,  than  they 
fall  into  the  hands  of  the  political  demagogue  and  re- 
main there,  the  charity  of  the  institution  is  lost  sight  of, 
and  it  is  only"  left  for  a  playground  for  office-seekers 
to  fight  over. 

If  churches,  societies,'  the  government  itself,  and 
even  business  men  would  only  awake  to  the  fact  that 
they  cannot  afford  this,  things  would  be  materially 
different,  but  until  the  crime  has  become  so  gross  as  to 
appeal  to  the  attention  of  the  general  public,  we  will 
have  to  continue  to  labor  under  the  present  conditions.. 

The  solution  of  the  problem,  however,  has  been  of- 
fered to  the  public  gratuitously  by  one  Oscar  L.  Dud- 
ley, who  had  been  for  some  years  identified  with  the 
humane  society  in  the  great  city  of  Chicago,  and  who 
is  a  man  very  unassuming  in  his  nature,  seeking  no 
fame,  soliciting  no  honor,  and  asking  for  no  public 
applause ;  but  whose  diplomacy  and  power  for  techni- 
calities are  so  thoroughly  developed  that  he  becomes 
more  than  an  ordinary  man,  'and  is  very  extraordinary 
in  his  character. 

In  June,  1887,  having  obtained  privilege  from  the 
State  of  Illinois,  he  proceeded  to  establish,  in  one  of 
the  suburbs  of  the  great  city  of  Chicago,  a  Manual 
Training  School,  for  boys.  He  picked  up  ten  urchins 
on  the  street  and  rented  a  building  and  four  acres  of 
ground   for   their  home.     These   premises   were   very 


soon  outgrown.  Before  the  end  of  the  year  was  over, 
one  hundred  boys  had  found  refuge  under  the  eaves  of 
this  rendezvous. 

It  is  to  be  remembered  that  there  are  two  classes  of 
boys  among  the  street  waifs, — delinquents  and  depen- 
dents. The  delinquents  are  boys  who  have  committed 
some  gross  crime  which,  but  for  their  age,  would  com- 
mend them  to  the  penintentiary.  The  dependents  are 
boys  who  have  the  proper  characteristics  and  the 
proper  environments  to  make  them  criminals  in  the 
near  future,  but  have  either  not  had  the  opportunity, 
or  else  their  crimes  have  not  been  discovered.  The 
line  of  distinction  is  very  hard  to  draw  between  these 
two  classes,  because  some  are  classed  with  the  delin- 
quents whose  crimes  really  belong  to  another,  and 
sometimes  the  delinquents  are  classed  with  the  depend- 
ents because  their  crimes  have  not  been  discovered. 

The  Glenwood  school  deals  only  with  the  depend- 
ents. So  far.  the  State  of  Illinois  or  the  United 
States  government  has  not  given  a  single  dollar  for 
the  maintenance  of  the  Glenwood  Manual  Training 
School,  but  every  single  dollar  has  been  donated. 

The  policy  of  the  institution  is, 

1.  To  be  situated  in  an  agricultural  section. 

2.  To  establish  a  family  plan  of  government. 

3.  To  be  religious,  but  not  sectarian. 

4.  To  receive  instruction  in  agriculture  and  man- 
ual training. 


WHERE    Till-:    BOYS    MAKE    T(XILS    AND    MACHINERY. 


796 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  23,   1904. 


5.  That  the  boys  are  to  be  looked  after  by  the  in- 
stitution after  they  are  gone  from  it. 

This  policy  has  been  faithfully  carried  out  so  far. 
The  institution  now  owns  three  hundred  acres  of  the 
best  land  in  Illinois,  and,  besides.  Mr.  Dudley  rents 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres.  The  family  form  of 
government  is  fully  carried  out.  About  thirty  or 
thirty-five  boys  live  in  each  of  the  ten  cottages,  which 
are  two-story  buildings,  the  matron  of  the  cottage  liv- 
ing on  the  first  floor  and  the  teacher  on  the  second 
floor.  The  boys'  rooms  in  the  cottages  are  so  ar- 
ranged as  almost  to  surround  the  rooms  of  the   in- 


it  is  to  be  remembered  that  these  street  waifs  enter  the 
institution  full  of  vermin  and  filth,  and,  without  ex- 
ception, leave  the  institution  perfect  little  gentlemen. 
Not  one  per  cent  of  them  have  ever  endeavored  to 
escape  from  the  institution,  and  none  of  them  practi- 
cally leave  with  any  ill  feeling. 

The  boys  do  the  work  that  is  to  be  done  around  the 
institution.  Mr.  Dudley  hires  but  one  farmer  to  su- 
perintend the  farm,  and  he  is  given  twenty-five  boys 
for  whom  he  becomes  absolutely  responsible.  A  baker 
superintends  the  baking  and  all  the  pastry  that  is  used 
about  the  home.     A  mechanic   superintends   the   ma- 


THE    EOYS    WASH    AND    IRON    THEIR    OWN    CLOTHES. 


structors,  so  that  any  irregularity  reports  itself  to 
headquarters.  The  cottages  are  all  brick  buildings 
of  the  latest  styles  of  architecture,  very  pleasant 
and  comfortably  heated  with  steam,  lighted 
by  electricity,  provided  with  the  best  sanitary  ar- 
rangements, such  as  bath  rooms,  toilet  and  gymna- 
siums. A  swimming  pool,  which  cost  thirty-six 
hundred  dollars,  has  been  built  for  the  accommoda- 
tion of  these  boys,  a  thing  in  which  they  glory  more 
than  any  other  one  thing  on  the  grounds.  So  perfectly 
has  been  the  ventilation,  so  pure  the  diet,  so  ample  their 
clothing,  so  perfect  their  protection  that  only  five 
deaths  have  occurred  in  seventeen  years  in  handling 
five  thousand  boys.     This  is  a  remarkable  record  when 


chinery  hall  where  the  boys'  mechanical  ideas  are  de- 
veloped. Just  to  show  the  extent  to  which  this 
is  carried  on,  your  editor  saw  a  little  steam  engine, 
complete  in  every  particular  and  in  operation,  that  is 
a  product  of  the  boys'  department.  In  the  forging 
department  they  learn  actually  to  turn  out  with  the 
use  of  the  hammer  and  anvil  every  principal  thing 
that  is  necessary  for  forgemen  to  make.  They  also 
have  the  wood-working  department  where  cabinet 
making  is  taught,  also  carpentry.  These  departments 
are  well  fitted  with  suitable  machinery.  In  the  laun- 
dry the  boys  are  well  trained  to  wash  and  iron,  so 
that  it  is  done  neatly,  with  just  as  small  an  expense 
bill  as  possible,  and  that  the  work  may  be  done  in  the 


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shortest  possible  time.  They  also  have  a  shoe  depart- 
ment where  the  boys  make  shoes  for  the  entire  fami- 
ly at  the  home.  At  present  there  are  three  hundred 
and  fifty  boys,  and  there  would  be  twice  that  number 
if  they  had  room  for  them. 

One  thing  that  is  necessary  to  increase  the  family 
is  for  the  friends  of  the  institution  and  those  interested 
in  child  saving,  to  donate  their  means,  and  the  proper 
cottages  will  be  erected  at  once  and  the  boys  invited 
in.  There  is  no  trouble  in  getting  the  children  in,  but 
the  trouble  is  in  providing  a  place  for  them. 

A  little  monthly  paper  is  being  edited  and  published, 


The  gardener  has  his  corps  of  boys  who  not  only 
look  after  the  well-kept  gardens,  but  each  boy  in  the 
institution  is  allowed  a  flower  bed  near  his  own  cot- 
tage, which  he  takes  individual  pride  in  keeping. 

The  institution  furnishes  its  own  gas  and  electricity. 
In  the  power  house  are  three  large  furnaces,  only  one 
of  which  is  used  in  the  summer  time  and  two  are  held 
in  reserve,  and  in  the  winter  time  the  two  are  used  and 
one  is  held  in  reserve. 

In  the  administration  building  is  to  be  found  the 
general  library  of  over  thirty-five  hundred  volumes, 
to  which  the  boys  have  access.     The  matrons  call  and 


THEY    ARE    LEARNING    TO    BE     WOODWORKERS. 


called  the  "  Glenwood  Boy,"  which  keeps  the  boys  in 
touch  with  the  home  institution  after  they  have  flown 
from  its  parental  roof.  This  department  might  be 
enlarged  and  made  more  profitable  with  the  proper 
effort. 

Under  the  direction  of  Mr.  J.  D.  Coleman,  the  boys 
receive  physical  culture  training  each  day.  Mr.  Cole- 
man handles  his  army  of  three  hundred  and  fifty  boys 
with  all  the  military  skill  of  a  general,  and  the  boys  are 
so  perfectly  trained  that  in  a  careful  observation  of  a 
half  hour  we  saw  no  blunders.  They  have  a  brass  band 
of  their  own,  colonels,  adjutants,  captains,  and  other 
officers  of  the  army. 


get  the  books  and  take  them   to  the  private  reading 
rooms  of  their  several  cottages. 

The  dining  room  is  a  sight,  once  seen,  never  to  be 
forgotten  :  to  see  three  hundred  and  fifty  boys  inarch 
in  without  a  misstep  or  blunder  or  any  disorderly 
talking  of  any  kind,  is  something  marvelous  when  it 
is  considered  that  these  boys  have  never  known  any 
law  and  order  or  respect  for  anyone.  You  hear  no 
loud  commands  here,  no  boisterous  conversation  and 
see  no  rudeness.  There  seems  to  be  no  inclination  on 
the  part  of  any  of  the  boys  to  rule  over  the  rest :  no 
partiality  is  shown  in  the  least  degree.  Cripples  and 
colored  bovs.  larsre  and  small,  old  and  young,  receive 


THE    INGLENOOK—  August  23,  1904. 


HERE    IS    WHERE    THE    BOYS    LEARN    TO    FORGE. 


the  same  kindness  at  the  hands  of  the  matrons  and  in- 
structors and  officials. 

There  are  six  large  school  rooms,  each  provided 
with  a  lady  who  is  a  special  lover  of  children  and  es- 
pecially prepared  for  this  class  of  work,  except  the 
advanced  room,  which  is  under  the  charge  of  the  su- 
perintendent of  all  the  rooms.  The  boys  are  taught 
all  the  fundamental  principles  of  education  that  are 
offered  in  the  common  schools,  besides  their  manual 
training.  Half  of  them  attend  school  in  the  forenoon, 
while  the  other  half  are  in  the  shops,  on  the  farm  and 
in  the  gardens.  The  afternoon  program  is  completely 
changed  around  and  those  who  were  in  school  take  the 
place  of  those  who  were  at  their  work  in  the  forenoon. 

One  is  carried  away  in  astonishment  with  the  pecul- 
iar way  in  which  everything  takes  on  regularity  and 
system. 

It  is  certainly  beautiful  to  see  how  government 
through  love  carries  with  it  no  marks  of  brutality 
and  unkindness,  and  how  even  most  of  the  unfortu- 
nates may  be  led  into  a  higher  life  through  these  ave- 
nues. Mr.  Dudley's  motto  is  and  always  has 
been,  "  Better  to  save  than  to  reform,"  and  the  results 
from  Glenwood  show  that  he  is  making  his  motto  life- 
like. 

Why  cannot  other  men,  other  States,  other  commu- 


nities, other  cities  do  the  same  as  Mr.  Dudley  is  doing 
at  Glenwood  ?  Why  can  we  not  have  hundreds  of  like 
institutions  through  which  the  children  may  be  saved?' 
While  philanthropic  citizens  v/ho  seek  ways  to  bene- 
fit their  fellows  have  done  much  in  founding  univer- 
sities, colleges,  libraries,  and  other  institutions,  etc., 
yet  certainly  the  indigent  children  of  our  great  cities 
have  a  first  claim  upon  the  means  and  charity  of  our 
citizens,  who,  it  is  hoped,  when  they  learn  of  such  in- 
stitutions as  Glenwood,  will  be  inspired  to  give  liber- 
ally of  their  means  to  the  support  of  this  and  like  in- 
stitutions. May  God  bless  such  labors  of  love  and. 
save  the  children. 

*   *   * 

THE  EXTRAVAGANT  UNITED  STATES. 


The  expenditure  of  the  United  States  Government 
is  less  in  proportion  to  the  population  than  that  of 
most  other  countries.  Seven  dol-lars  and  ninety-seven 
cents  a  head ;  that's  the  figure.  For  Germany  it's 
$9.45;  for  France,  $17.84:  for  Great  Britain,  $21.39; 
for  Canada,  $9.30;  for  New  Zealand,  $38.38.  Except 
in  political  campaigns  it  is  unnecessary  to  view  with 
alarm  the  reckless  and  profligate  extravagance  of  the 
Federal  Government. — With  the  Procession,  Every- 
body's Magazine  for  August. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  23,   1904. 


799 


THERE    ARE    SIX    SCHOOLROOMS    I.IKE    THIS. 


THE    BARN    TO    THE    LEFT    IN    THE    DISTANCE. 


8oo 


THE    INGLENOOK—  August  23,   1904. 


THE  KRITIC  ON  THE  TRANE 

BY  GEORGE  HALDAN. 
NO    CORNER    ON    KINDNESS. 


In  traveling  over  the  states  at  the  present  time  it  is 
impossible  to  find  a  place  where  you  will  not  be  con- 
fronted, more  or  less,  with  some  phase  of  the  results 
of  trusts,  strikes  and  labor  unions,  and  you  hear  them 
discussed  pro  and  con  from  the  easiest,  slow  commg 
conversation  to  the  high-spirited  arguments,  which 
sometimes  end  in  quarrels,  fights  and  riots.  The  par- 
ticipants in  these  debates  are  of  all  classes  of  people, — 
the  educated  and  the  uneducated,  rich  and  poor,  high 
and  low.  There  is  hardly,  a  single  vocation  in  which 
some  sort  of  trust  or  union  is  not  formed.  There  is 
hardly  a  single  manufactured  product,  around  which 
some  monopoly  has  not  thrown  its  arms. 

But  I  have  been  noticing,  during  the  last  week, 
one  thing  that  has  not  yet  entered  into  the  combine 
or  trust,  neither  have  there  been  any  restrictions  placed 
upon  it,  and  that  is  kindness.  Kindness,  evidently, 
has  not  entered  the  trusts. 

The  other  day,  in  a  little  obscure  village  in  middle 
Indiana,  a  little  girl  entered  the  store,  and  with  two 
wistful  eyes  that  were  almost  ready  to  fill  with  tears, 
she  glanced  through  the  glass  show  case  at  some  beau- 
tiful slates  that  were  bound  with  red  felt  and  wrapped 
with  black  lace.  They  were  double  slates,  with  a  groove 
cut  in  the  frame  fit  to  hold  a  pencil.  How  nice  they 
would  be  for  her,  but  alas !  she  was  poor.  Her  father 
had  a  large  family  and  had  to  work  by  days'  work 
to  support  it.  She  knew  that  it  was  out  of  her  reach 
altogether,  but  she  never  said  a  word — only  looked. 

On  the  other  side  of  the  store,  leaning  against  the 
opposite  show  case,  stood  the  country  doctor,  reading 
his  morning  paper  which  the  mail  man  had  just 
brought.  He  "noticed  the  little  ragged  child,  and 
stepping  up  to  her  said,  "  Did  you  see  something  you 
wanted?"  She  said,  "Yes,  sir,  I  would  like  to  have 
one  of  those  slates,  but  my  papa  is  so  poor  I  will 
have  to  wait  until  next  year."  The  Doctor  asked  the 
price  of  the  slate,  paid  it  and  handed  it  to  the  little  girl. 
Her  eyes  fairly  danced,  so  did  her  feet  and  her  heart. 
Twenty-five  cents  scattered  the  black  clouds,  made  a 
heavy  heart  light,  made  an  education  possible,  shoul- 
dered the  burdens  of  a  well-laden  father,  adminis- 
tered practical  Christianity  and  made  business  for  the 
storekeeper. 

The  next  day  in  Chicago,  I  saw  a  Salvation  Army 
girl  standing  on  one  of  the  business  corners  in  the 
great  second  Metropolis  of  America,  with  a  banner 
over  her  head,  asking  for  help  to  carry  out  the  great 
mission  that  the  Salvation  Army  had  undertaken.     She 


was  patient ;  she  stood  there  for  hours.  Her  limbs 
were  almost  paralyzed  with  fatigue.  She  frequently 
changed  hands  to  support  the  banner  against  the  stiff 
breeze.  Occasionally  an  openhearted  soul  dropped  a 
penny  into  the  slot  to  support  her  work.  Presently  a 
boot-black  came  along  and  dropped  down  at  her  feet, 
snd  began  to  brush  her  dusty  shoes  and  black  them. 

She  said,  "  How  dare  you  be  so  impudent  ?  "  He 
said.  "  Excuse  me.  Miss,  I  thought  you  deserved  hav- 
ing your  shoes  shined.  You  have  been  working  hard 
all  morning.  Everybody  has  been  helping  the  mission, 
but  nobody  has  been  helping  you.  Please  accept  this 
kindness  from  me."  The  girl  expressed  her  gratitude 
with  tears  instead  of  words.  There  is  no  corner  on 
such  kindness  as  this. 

Down  in  Washington  City  last  week,  a  gentleman 
went  to  one  of  the  ice  companies  and  ordered  that  ice 
be  taken  to  all  the  poor  families  in  the  city.  He  does 
not  belong  to  trusts  either.  He  paid  for  the  ice  out  of 
his  own  salary. 

The  organizations  that  gather  all  the  little  children 
in  the  crowded  districts  of  the  cities  and  take  them  to 
the  country  on  a  fresh  air  vacation  to  give  them  some 
real  pleasure,  real  life  and  real  freedom,  these  people 
belong  to  no  monopoly. 

Recently  an  old  lady  who  wished  to  make  a  visit 
to  one  of  her  friends,  for  the  first  time  in  her  life  en- 
tered a  street  car.  She  did  not  understand  the  signals 
nor  the  stopping  places.  She  was  not  acquainted  with 
the  busy  life  which  the  people  led  who  rode  on  the 
street  cars.  It  took  much  patience  on  the  part  of  the 
conductor  to  have  her  keep  her  seat  until  the  proper 
destination  had  been  reached.  When  other  people 
arose  to  leave  the  car,  she  would  almost  involuntarily 
arise  and  endeavor  to  go  with  them,  but  he  succeeded 
in  cultivating  his  patience,  and  each  time  spoke  kindly 
to  her,  when  someone  said  to  him,  "  Such  people  are 
a  great  deal  of  trouble,  aren't  they?  "  He  said,  "  My 
mother  will  be  old  some  time.  God  bless  the  old 
mothers  who  have  lost  their  best  years." 

No,  there  is  no  corner  on  kindness,  I  am  glad  to  say.. 

SEATTLE. 


BY    MRS.    C.    H.    MAUST. 

Standing  at  Green  Lake,  a  suburb  of  Seattle,  and 
looking  north  one  sees  nothing  but  a  large  forest  of 
fine  firs  and  cedars.  To  the  west  are  the  snow-covered 
tops  of  the  Olympic  Mountains  which  present  them- 
selves to  view.  To  the  south  is  the  city  itself,  and  the 
Sound  covered  with  boats  of  all  sizes  and  kinds,  from 
the  smallest  canoe  to  the  largest  steamship  and  battle- 
ship ;  on  the  east  are  the  Cascade  Mountains,  among1 
whose  peaks  Mt.  Rainier  lifts  its  lofty  height  as  mon- 
arch of  the  entire  situation. 


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801 


Seattle  has  a  fine  timber  belt  full  of  busy  saw  mills, 
also  in  the  immediate  vicinity  we  have  what  we  call 
ranches,  which  interpreted  in  the  language  of  farming 
states  would  be  called  truck  patches.  The  smallest  of 
these  ranches  vary  from  one  to  five  acres,  and  the 
largest  of  them  has  as  high  as,  possibly,  fifty  acres. 
Among  them  are  chicken  ranches,  garden  ranches, 
fruit  ranches,  dairy  ranches,  etc.  These  are  the  prin- 
cipal ones;  there  are  many  others. 

The  berries  are  especially  fine  here  and  grow  in 
abundance.  It  is  reported  that  the  finest  and  largest 
strawberries  are  grown  here.  Many  of  the  fruit  trees 
have  such  a  luxuriant  growth  that  the  fruit  would  de- 
stroy the  branches  of  the  trees  were  they  not  properly 
cared  for. 

Apples,  cherries,  prunes,  plums,  pears,  apricots,  to- 
gether with  market  gardening  and  dairying  are  a 
grand  success. 

Seattle  is  a  city  of  two  hundred  thousand  inhabi- 
tants, and  furnishes  a  good  market  always,  never  to 
be  overstocked,  because  whenever  the  supply  is  more 
than  the  demand,  .it  is  shipped  to  Alaska  and  other 
points. 

The  United  States  Navy  Yard  lies  sixteen  miles  to 
the  south  where,  at  the  present  time,  are  a  number  of 
battleships,  and  from  the  mechanical  standpoint,  they 
present  a  grand  spectacle ;  but  when  one  thinks  of  the 
deadly  mission  upon  which  they  are  bent,  it  makes 
one's  heart  sad  to  look  at  these  machines  of  death. 
The  Navv  Yards  employ  from  five  hundred  to  a  thou- 
sand men  daily.  The  ship  yards  of  Seattle  employ  from 
ten  to  fifteen  hundred  men  daily. 

Our  climate  is  especially  fine.  In  the  month  of  July, 
in  the  middle  of  the  day,  the  mercury  has  registered 
regularly  between  seventy  and  eighty  degrees ;  of 
course  the  mornings  and  evenings  along  the  coast  here 
are  quite  cool.  The  rainy  season  comes  in  Septem- 
ber, which  does  not  mean  that  it  rains  continually,  but 
that  we  have  more  rain  then  than  at  any  other  season 
of  the  year.  During  the  rainy  season  of  the  year  we 
have  many  more  pleasant  days  than  we  do  rainy  ones, 
but  during  these  rainy  times  we  have  no  thunder 
storms  and  very  few  flashes  of  lightning,  cyclones, 
hail  storms  and  blizzards  that  so  often  disturb  the  rest 
of  nervous  people  in  the  East.  We  enjoy  the  green 
grass  the  year  round.  We  leave  our  potatoes  in  the 
ground  and  dig  them  as  we  use  them.  There  is  no 
danger  of  frost.  All  kinds  of  fine  flowers  may  be  left 
out  of  doors  through  the  winter  season  ;  roses  bloom 
continually.  Blackberries  have  been  picked  at  Christ- 
mas. Those  who  are  especially  fond  of  hunting  the 
finny  tribe  find  ample  opportunity  for  the  sport  here. 

Station  B.  Seattle.  Wash. 

4*  4f  * 
I  thank  God  I  am  as  honest  as  any  man  living  that 
is  an  old  man  and  no  honester  than  I. — Shakespeare. 


PETROLEUM    IN    CALIFORNIA. 

California's  product  of  crude  petroleum  in  1903 
amounted  to  twenty-five  million  barrels.  Of  this 
amount  the  Kern  River  fields,  four  miles  from  Bakers- 
field,  produced  sixteen  million  barrels,  or  nearly  66j^ 
per  cent  of  all  the  oil  produced  in  the  state.  And  this 
in  spite  of  the  fact  that  the  Kern  River  fields  cover  a 
territory  hardly  more  than  five  miles  square,  and  of 
the  additional  fact  that  the  fields  have  been  in  opera- 
tion but  little  more  than  four  years.  Even  as  early  as 
1901  Kern  County  shipped  52.7  per  cent  of  all  the  oil 
produced  in  the  state,  and  this  with  only  two  hundred 
and  thirty-three  wells  in  operation.  Now  there  are 
eight  hundred  and  seventy-six  active  wells  in  the  Kern 
River  fields,  and  the  daily  product  of  the  individual 
wells  ranges  from  thirty  to  four  hundred  barrels.  The 
average  product  of  the  well  is  said  to  be  one  hundred 
barrels  daily.  But  this  is  probably  in  excess  of  the 
actual  product,  for  at  that  rate  the  total  product  "of  the 
year  1904  would  be  over  thirty-two  million  barrels,  or 
twice  the  total  output  for  the  year  1903. 

In  spite  of  the  fact  that  the  daily  shipments  of  oil 
from  Bakersfield  are  sixty  thousand  barrels,  vvhile  the 
home  consumption  is  large,  there  are  immense  quanti- 
ties of  petroleum  accumulating  at  the  fields.  The 
Standard  Oil  Company,  which  has  established  itself 
there  as  a  buyer,  refiner  and  shipper,  has  not  less  than 
six  million  barrels  in  storage,  to  say  nothing  of  the  oil 
held  in  reserve  by  the  various  operating  companies. 
Consequently  the  ingenuity  of  the  oil  people  has  been 
greatly  exercised  to  secure  adequate  facilities  for  stor- 
ing the  surplus  product  of  oil. 

Naturally,  the  Standard  Oil  Company  is  the  largest 
storer  of  oil.  It  began  by  erecting  the  regulation  tubu- 
lar steel  tank,  but  gave  up  the  idea  when  it  came  to  real- 
ize the  actual  producing  capacity  of  the  fields.  Then  it 
began  constructing  trie  earthen  storage  reservoir, 
which  means  but  little  more  than  a  hole  in  the  ground. 
The  size  of  these  reservoirs  increased  as  the  prodigious 
product  of  the  wells  was  contemplated  by  the  builders. 
The  largest  of  the  storage  reservoirs  constructed  and 
operated  by  the  Standard  Oil  Company  has  a  total 
capacity  of  five  hundred  thousand  barrels.  These  res- 
ervoirs are  circular  in  form,  and  their  diameters  vary 
from  four  hundred  to  five  hundred  feet,  and  their 
depth  from  fourteen  to  sixteen  feet.  The  first  of  the 
reservoirs  to  be  constructed  were  cemented  over  their 
beds  to  prevent  the  oil  from  seeping.  But  even  that 
expedient  is  considered  too  expensive  now,  and  tin- 
earth  composing  the  beds  is  now  merely  tamped  well 
before  the  oil  is  turned  in.  The  reservoirs  as  soon  as 
evcavated  and  tamped  arc  roofed  over  with  inch 
boards,  nailed  upon  framework,  and  the  boards  are- 
covered  with  tar  paper,  in  order  to  protect  the  oil  from 
the  elements.  Then  the  reservoirs  are  ready  to  receive 
oil. — Cincinnati  Enquirer. 


802 


THE    1NGLENOOK— August  23,   1904. 


THE    STORY    OF    A    RED    UMBRELLA. 


BY   BOOKER  T.    WASHINGTON. 

One  day  I  was  in  the  state  of  Iowa,  and  I  saw  a  man 
planting  corn, — a  white  man.  This  man  was  sitting 
down. 

I  don't  know  as  other  people  have  noticed  the  fact, 
hut  the  colored  people  certainly  have,  that  whenever 
you  see  a  white  man  at  work,  he  usually  is  sitting 
down. 

Well,  I  stood  there  and  watched  that  white  man 
plant  corn.  Apparently,  all  he  had  to  do  was  to  hold 
back  two  spirited  black  horses  to  keep  them  from 
■working  themselves  to  death.  As  I  watched  this  man 
I  tried  to  analyze  the  process, — tried  to  appreciate  all 
that  the  machine  was  doing,  and  to  understand  just 
how  it  did  the  work. 

This  one  machine  plowed  the  ground,  laid  off  the 
ground  in  furrows,  dropped  fertilizer  in  the  furrows, 
and  dropped  the  corn,  and  then  covered  up  the  seed. 
All  the  man  who  tended  the  machine  had  to  do  was  to 
sit  down  on  the  machine  and  drive  the  horses.  And 
he  was  sitting  down  under  a  red  umbrella  to  shelter 
him  from  the  sun,  at  that. 

Not  very  long  after  that  I  was  in  the  state  of  Ala- 
bama, and  I  saw  a  negro  farmer  planting  corn.  Shall 
I  tell  you  how  he  did  it? 

First  a  man  came  along  to  plow  the  ground.  He 
was  driving  one  poor  old  mule  who  went  at  the  rate  of 
half  a  mile  an  hour,  and  even  at  that  rate  frequently 
came  to  a  stop.  The  man  holding  the  plow  had  a 
pole  about  five  yards  long.  When  the  old  mule 
stopped,  the  man  would  beat  him  with  the  pole.  The 
old  mule  would  cock  up  one  ear  and  travel  on. 

Occasionally  something  about  the  harness  would 
break,  and  then  the  man  would  have  to  stop  and  fasten 
-that  together.  The  harness  was  made  partly  of  rope 
.and  partly  of  rags,  with  a  piece  of  leather  here  and 
there.  Pretty  soon  the  man  had  to  stop  again  to  tie 
up  his  own  suspender.  He  was  one  of  the  class  which 
Ave  down  South  call  "  one  gallus  farmers."  The  plow 
-which  the  old  mule  drew  scratched  open  a  furrow 
about  four  inches  wide  and  about  two  inches  deep. 

After  this  man  had  plowed  the  ground — that  was 
what  he  called  the  process — another  man  came  along 
with  another  mule,  hitched  to  a  marker,  to  lay  the 
ground  off  in  furrows.  A  third  man  came  along  to 
drop  the  corn  in  the  furrows,  and  a  fourth  man, — or 
perhaps  a  woman, — to  cover  the  corn. 

Now,  under  any  conceivable  circumstance,  can  that 
black  man,  planting  corn  in  that  way  in  Alabama,  com- 
pete with  the  white  man  I  saw  planting  corn  in  Iowa? 

There  may  be  prejudice  in  this  country  in  some  re- 
spects, but  I  tell  you  one  thing  that  has  not  got  a  bit  of 
■prejudice,  and  that  is  the  American  dollar.     A  man 


who  wants  to  buy  it  is  going  to  buy  it  where  he  can 
get  it  the  cheapest.  What  he  wants  is  the  best  and 
most  corn  he  can  get  for  his  money.  He  does  not 
care  whether  that  corn  was  raised  by  a  white  man  sit- 
ting down  in  Iowa,  or  by  a  colored  man  standing  up 
in  Alabama. 

Now,  my  idea  of  industrial  education  for  the  negro 
is  to  have  it  make  him  able  to  raise  corn  just  as  the 
white  man  raises  it.  I  would  give  the  young  negro 
man  so  much  skill  and  energy  and  ambition  that  he 
can  sit  down  to  do  his  planting  behind  two  good 
horses — may  even  sit  down  under  a  red  umbrella  if 
he  wishes  to. 

There  is  a  vast  difference  between  being  worked  and 
working. 

For  two  hundred  and  fifty  years,  during  slavery,  the 
negro  was  worked.  Is  it  to  be  wondered  at  that  in 
this  time  the  people  of  my  race,  as  a  general  thing, 
lost  sight  of  the  beauty  and  dignity  of  labor  for  its 
own  sake,  and  failed  to  feel  the  inspiration  which 
comes  to  a  man  who  knows  that  each  extra  stroke  with 
the  hoe  which  his  arms  deliver,  each  new  idea  which 
he  can  utilize  for  the  greater  efficiency  of  his  work, 
means  just  so  much  more  in  the  results  which  he  is  to 
enjoy  ? 

The  objection  is  sometimes  made  to  industrial  edu- 
cation for  the  negro  that  it  merely  teaches  him  to  work 
as  he  worked  in  the  days  of  slavery,  and  that  having 
had  generations  of  hard  work,  something  else  is  now 
his  due. 

It  seems  to  me  that  what  industrial  education  as 
taught  at  Tuskegee  and  Hampton,  and  at  other  similar 
institutions,  is  doing,  is  to  teach  the  negro  how  not  to 
work  as  he  did  in  slavery  days,  but  how  to  work  in 
such  an  intelligent  manner  that,  with  less  expenditure 
of  effort  than  he  made  then,  he  may  get  infinitely 
more  profitable  results. 

If  fndustrial  training  has  any  value  for  the  negro, 
it  will  consist  in  teaching  him  rather  not  how  to  work, 
but  how  to  make  the  forces  of-  Nature — air,  water, 
horse-power,  steam,  and  electric  power — work  for 
him  ;  in  teaching  him  how  to  lift  labor  up  out  of  toil  and 
drudgery  into  that  which  is  dignified  and  beautiful. 
The  negro  in  the  South  works,  and  works  hard ;  but 
too  often  his  lack  of  skill,  coupled  with  ignorance,  leads 
him  to  do  his  work  in  the  most  costly  manner,  and 
this  has  tended  to  keep  him  near  the  bottom  of  the 
ladder  in  the  material  world.  Industrial  education 
will  remedy  this,  by  teaching  the  negro  how  not  to 
drudge  in  his  work. 

The  negro  may  work  in  cotton,  and  have  no  trouble 
so  long  as  his  labor  is  confined  to  the  lower  forms  of 
work — the  planting,  the  picking,  and  the  ginning.  But 
when  he  attempts  to  follow  the  bale  of  cotton  which 
he  has  produced  up  through  the  higher  stages  of  man- 
ufacture, where  there  is  employment  the  year  through, 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  23,  1904. 


803 


he  is  told  too  often  that  he  is  not  wanted.  The  negro 
may  work  in  wood  and  iron,  and  no  one  will  object  to 
his  cutting  down  trees  and  sawing  boards,  or  to  his 
digging  iron  ore  and  making  pig  iron,  but  let  him 
try  to  follow  the  log  into  the  factory  where  it  is  made 
into  furniture,  or  let  him  try  to  follow  the  pig  iron 
into  the  shop  where  it  is  manufactured  into  cutlery, 
and  he  is  barred  out.  What  is  the  objection?  Either 
that  the  negro  lacks  the  skill,  coupled  with  brains,  to 
compete  with  the  white  man,  or  that,  when  white  men 
refuse  to  work  in  the  same  shop  with  the  colored  men, 
not  enough  skilled  and  educated  colored  men  can  be 
found  to  superintend  and  man  every  part  of  any  one 
large  industry.  The  negro  must  become,  to  a  great 
extent,  an  intelligent  producer  as  well  as  a  consumer 

At  the  same  time,  the  negro  should  be  taught  that 
industrial  development  is  not  an  end,  but  simply  a 
means  to  an  end".  As  Professor  W.  E.  B.  Du  Bois  puts 
it,  "  The  idea  should  not  be  simply  to  make  men  car- 
penters, but  to  make  carpenters  men." 

Frederick  Douglass,  of  sainted  memory,  in  address- 
ing the  people  of  his  race,  years  ago,  once  said  :  "  We 
are  to  prove  that  we  can  better  our  own  condition. 
One  way  to  do  this  is  to  accumulate  property.  This 
may  sound  to  you  like  a  new  gospel.  You  have  been 
accustomed  to  hear  that  money  is  the  root  of  all  evil, 
and  expressions  to  that  effect.  On  the  other  hand, 
property — money,  if  you  please — will  purchase  for  us 
the  only  condition  by  which  any  people  can  rise  to  the 
dignity  of  genuine  manhood ;  for  without  property 
there  can  be  no  leisure ;  without  leisure  there  can  be 
no  thought ;  without  thought  there  can ,  be  no  inven- 
tion ;  without  invention  there  can  be  no  progress." 

I  do  not  believe  the  world  ever  takes  a  race  seriously, 
in  its  desire  to  influence  the  government  of  a  nation  in 
any  large  degree,  until  a  great  number  of  individuals 
— members  of  that  race — have  demonstrated,  beyond 
question,  their  ability  to  control  and  develop  individual 
business  enterprises ;  to,  as  one  might  say,  plant  corn 
under  their  own  umbrellas. 

Tuskegce,  Ala. 

*fr    *    4» 
INDIAN    SERVANT    GIRLS. 


Among  the  many  means  tried  as  solutions  of  the 
servant  girl  problem  has  been  the  employment  of  In- 
dian girls  as  domestics.  The  management  of  the  Lin- 
coln Institute  at  Philadelphia  is  responsible  for  the 
experiment,  and  has  no  reason  to  regret  having  made 
it.  The  institution  is  a  training  school  for  Indian  girls 
and  boys  under  the  wing  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church.  Among  the  pupils  at  this  institution  are  giris 
from  the  Winnebago,  Mohawk,  Chippewa,  Oneida, 
Seneca,  Onondaga,  Menominee,  Tuscarora,  Cheyenne 
and  Sioux  nations.  A  thorough  training  is  given  the 
girls  in  cooking,  sewing,  washing  and  ironing  and  the 


general  work  of  a  domestic.  Most  of  the  girls  arrive 
at  the  institution  with  a  tendency  to  act  like  little  In- 
dians, and  when  punished  for  a  fault  become  sulky  and 
unmanageable.  These  objectionable  traits,  however, 
speedily  yield  to  kind  but  firm  treatment,  and  once  the 
girls  become  interested  in  their  duties  they  are  tracta- 
ble and  easily  taught. 

Strange  to  say,  the  sewing  school  is  presided  over 
by  a  woman  who  has  been  blind  nearly  all  her  life  and 
for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  has  taught  sewing 
without  being  able  to  see  one  of  her  pupils  or  the  work 
they  do.  She  is  able  to  tell  by  the  sense  of  touch  alone 
whether  or  not  a  girl  is  doing  her  work  properly.  The 
girls  are  taught  to  sing  together,  which  they  do  well. 

The  girls  have  all  been  given  civilized  names,  but 
some  insist  on  clinging  to  the  names  they  were  known 
by  among  their  relatives.  Thus  Miss  Maggie  Jones 
is  better  pleased  when  called  Maggie  Red  Shirt,  Ella 
Brown  doesn't  care  to  be  addressed  in  any  other  way 
than  as  Little  Standing  Bear  and  Mabel  Johnson  is 
'almost  insulted  if  referred  to  by  any  name  but 
Running  Wolf.  Among  themselves  the  girls  maintain 
the  attributes  popularly  supposed  to  be  typical  of  In- 
dians. They  are  not  talkative,  do  not  romp,  go  about 
their  duties  or  their  play  in  a  serious  way,  are  not 
quarrelsome,  do  not  "  chum,"  but  seem  to  live  quite 
happily  as  a  sort  of  big  family  party,  and  behave  at  all 
times  sedately  and  with  a  natural  grace  of  demeanor 
that  is  very  attractive.  Many  of  the  Indian  girls  are 
quite  pretty.  Some  bear  so  little  resemblance  to  the 
popular  idea  of  what  "  Rosalie,  the  Prairie  Flower," 
should  look  like  as  to  call  into  question  in  the  mind  of 
the  beholder  the  clear  strain  of  their  blood.  As  a  mat- 
ter of  fact,  there  are  scarcely  any  girls  in  the  Home  who 
are  not  pure-blooded  Indians.  They  are  proud  of  their 
lineage,  too,  and  have  no  reason  to  be  ashamed  of  it. 

->    *!*    ♦ 
THE    STRONG    RIGHT    EYE. 

The  majority  of  men  and  women,  according  to  Dr. 
George  M.  Gould,  are  not  only  right-handed,  but  right- 
eyed  ;  that  is,  the  right  eye  sees  better  than  the  left. 
From  this  flow  some  curious  results.  For  instance, 
right-eyedness  explains  why,  in  the  development  of 
violin  playing,  the  difficult  and  rapid  fingering  was  al- 
lotted to  the  less  expert  left  hand,  while  the  easy  bow- 
ing fell  to  the  dexterous  right  hand.  The  reason,  as 
Dr.  Gould  thinks,  is  because  the  ordinary  position  of 
the  violin  is  such  that  the  right  eye  most  readily  sees 
the  motions  and  positions  of  the  fingers  on  the  strings. 
In  a  similar  way  the  right  eye  compels  the  more  awk- 
ward left  hand  to  direct  the  gun  barrel,  while  the  right 
hand  has  simply  to  hold  the  trigger.  In  chopping,  the 
weaker  left  arm  has  to  direct  and  enforce  the  blow, 
while  the  stronger  right  plays  a  subordinate  part  for 
the  convenience  of  the  rieht  eve. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— August  16,  1904. 


A    BRILLIANT    SUNSET. 


BY    ETHA    A.    EVANS, 

As  we  gaze  on  a  beautiful  painting  of  some  great 
master  of  art,  we  admire  its  wonderful  likeness  to  the 
real ;  we  note  the  harmonious  blending  of  colors  and 
the  exquisite  shading.  We  say.  "  Surely  this  man 
possesses  genius." 

Nature  presents  the  highest  forms  of  art  and  from 
lit  all  other  arts  are  derived.  What  is  more  beau- 
tiful than  the  laughing  waters  of  a  tiny  streamlet 
wending  their  way  joyously  through  a  cool  and  shady 
forest;  now  turned  aside  from  their  course  by  a  huge 
rock  jutting  out  from  the  moss-covered  bank  or  there 
replenished  by  a  cool  and  delightful  spring. 

One  of  Nature's  most  beautiful  and  instructive  pic- 
tures, to  me,  is  the  sunset.  As  the  sun  is  disappear- 
ing o'er  the  distant  horizon,  streaks  of  red  tint  the 
.azure  canopy  of  heaven  and  the  departing  sun  is  one 
mass  of  red  and  gold  grandeur.  One  is  held  con- 
stantly entranced  by  the  ever-changing  colors,  which 
render  the  scene  more  charming  to  the  eye.  On  the 
windows  of  the  houses  are  reflected  some  of  the  crim- 
son rays  from  this  great  candle.  After  Apollo  and 
his  attendant  Muses,  disappear,  the  vision  slowly  van- 
ishes and  all  earth,  lulled  to  sleep  by  the  soft  voice  of 
the  wind,  sinks  into  the  deepening  shades  of  twi- 
light and  the  oblivion  of  solemn  night. 

It  is  magnificent !  So  grand  that  it  leaves  a  deep 
impression  on  one's  mind.  One  should  strive  to 
make  one's  life  so.  Plodding  on  daily,  letting  one's 
light  shine  bravely  forth,  not  obtrusively,  but  in  a 
simple,  true-hearted  way,  shedding  warm  rays  into 
the  hearts  of  the  lonely  and  cheerless  ones,  doing  some 
good  act  each  day.  Then,  as  one  goes  down  through 
old  age,  leaving  "  foot-prints  in  the  sands  of  time,"  the 
passing  away,  the  sunset,  will  be  a  brilliant  one  and 
the  good  deeds  we  have  done  will  live  on,  reflected 
in  some  one  else's  heart. 
Buford,  N.  Dak. 

♦  *  * 

SAW    SEVEN    LIONS. 


A  hunter  of  big  game  in  Central  Africa  tells  the 
following  storv  of  what  happened  one  day  after  he  had 
shot  an  antelope:  "  Leaving  the  boy  who  was  with  me 
to  cut  off  the  buck's  head  and  follow  me,  I  tracked 
the  wounded  bull.  Its  spoor  took  me  in  the  direction 
of  camp  and  presently  turned  into  a  patch  of  fresh 
green  grass  about  breast  deep.  I  went  through  this 
for  a  bit  and  then  stepped  on  a  high  tuft  of  old  grass 
to  look  for  my  boy.  As  I  glanced  round  I  saw  the  head 
of  a  lion  about  40  yards  away.  Only  two  cartridges 
remained  in  my  pouch.  However,  I  raised  my  rifle  to 
fire  at  the  head,  when  up  popped  another,  then  an- 
other, until  I  counted  no  fewer  than  six  lions.     While 


following  the  spoor  I  had  been  going  around  in  a  half 
circle  and  just  beyond  the  lions  I  could  see  my  boy 
coming  toward  me  straight  for  them.  They  were  all 
watching  me  by  this  time  and  I  signaled  for  him  to  go 
back,  but  he  did  not  understand  me,  and  still  came  on 
until  about  30  yards  from  them.  He  was  carrying  the 
lechwe  (antelope)  head  on  his  shoulders  and  immedi- 
ately he  saw  the  lions  he  stopped  dead  and  I  heard  him 
ejaculate  'Hoh !'  They  turned  their  heads  at  this  and 
some  o.f  them  grunted  something  also  resembling 
'Hoh !'  As  they  turned  I  had  a  splendid  opportunity 
for  a  shot  at  the  head  of  the  biggest,  but  with  the  am- 
munition I  had  and  the  position  of  myself  and  the  na- 
tive in  the  long  grass  I  thought  it  rather  risky. 

"I  shouted  to  the  boy  to  make  a  detour  and  come 
alongside  me,  which  he  did,  the  lions  watching  him  all 
the  time.  We  tried  to  drive  them  out  of  the  grass  into 
the  open  beyond,  where  I  would  have  felt  safe  in  firing, 
but  they  were  feeding  on  the  lechwe  which  I  had 
wounded  and  as  we  approached  a  lioness  put  her  tail 
in 'the  air  and  growled.  So,  considering  discretion  the 
better  part  of  valor,  and  as  dusk  was  coming  on,  we 
beat  an  orderly  retreat.  We  were  near  the  head  of  the 
channel  which  I  had  crossed  previously,  and,  to  get 
round  the  top  end  where  it  was  shallow,  to  cross,  we 
had  to  walk  within  sight  of  the  lions  for  200  or  300 
ya/ds  and  then  wade  across  knee  deep.  When  I  got 
to  the  other  side  I  looked  back  and  counted  the  heads 
of  seven  lions  against  the  skyline ;  they  had  followed 
us  to  the  water's  edge. — Cincinnati  Enquirer. 

*  *  * 

POWER    OF    PLEASANTNESS. 


The  amount  of  happiness  that  a  thoroughly  pleasant 
woman  can  create  has  never  yet  been  measured.  Even 
a  negatively  pleasant  woman,  who  does  not  do  nor  say 
unpleasant  things,  is  extremely  restful  and  apt  to  be 
approvingly  remembered  by  her  family  and  friends. 
A  recent  philosopher  has  given  the  sage  advice  to  the 
modern  Ccelebs  in  search  of  a  wife,  "  Always  choose 
a  girl  whose  mouth  turns  up  at  the  corners,"  and  :f 
that  advice  is  followed  the  chances  for  a  happy  home 
are  certainly  doubled. 

Some  arts  and  talents  are  beyond  the  powers  of  those 
of  us  who  are  "  just  average."  It  may  well  dishearten 
the  ordinary  woman  to  contemplate  ideas  of  beauty, 
of  social  charm,  of  artistic,  literary,  or  even  business 
genius  among  her  sisters,  and  to  be  expected  to  rise  up 
and  be  gifted  and  successful  herself,  when  she  knows 
perfectly  well  that  she  cannot  do  anything  of  the  sort. 
But  the  power  of  pleasantness  is  possible  to  every  one. 
It  may  come  more  natural  to  be  unhappy,  or  bored,  or 
pessimistic,  but  being  pleasant  is  nevertheless  always 
attainable  and  sustainable,  and  makes  life  happier,  on 
the  whole,  than  extraordinary  gifts  and  talents. 

A  home  with  one  thoroughly  pleasant  person  in  it  is 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  16,   1904. 


805 


never  a  hopelessly  unhappy  home.  As  a  factor  in 
home-making,  the  resolution  to  be  pleasant,  to  keep  in 
tune,  to  "  put  a  cheerful  courage  on,"  is  worth  any  ten 
accomplishments  and  graces.  The  photographer 
knows  so  well  the  charm  lent  to  the  most  common- 
place countenance  by  a  sunny  expression  that  his 
"  Look  pleasant,  please,"  has  come  to  be  a  joke.  How 
many  dreary  countenances  he  sees  that  cannot  even 
brighten  to  order,  and  how  many  dreary  homes  must 
lie  in  the  background !  And  if  his  sisters  would  only 
•carry  his  suggestion  home  and  practice  it,  what  domes- 
tic deserts  would  blossom  as  the  rose ! 

There  are  moments,  perhaps,  when  a  woman's  ut- 
most fortitude  cannot  enable  her  to  be  positively  pleas- 
ant. Such  moments  grow  more  and  more  rare  as 
pleasantness  becomes  a  steady  habit,  but  they  exist. 
At  such  times  the  value  of  being  negatively  pleasant 
comes  in.  To  have  control  enough  to  come  through  a 
disagreeable  crisis  without  having  done  or  said  the  un- 
pleasant thing  is  to  acquire  real  power  over  others,  as 
well  ,as  ourselves.  To  be  pleasant  does  not  imply 
weakness  nor  invite  being  trampled  upon.  On  the  con- 
trary, the  pleasant  woman  gets  her  way  where  the  im- 
perious or  nagging  woman  is  defeated.  Pleasantness 
is  a  power  which  many  women  neglect,  but  which  the 
wise  woman  acquires  early  and  learns  to  value  more 

every  year. — Selected. 

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A    CURIOUS    PLANT. 


The  storing  of  coal  at  Gibraltar  is  accomplished  by 
means  of  a  very  curious  plant,  which  has  just  been  com- 
pleted for  the  pumping  station  at  Landport  by  a  firm 
of  Leeds  contractors.  In  this  huge  rock-fortress  the 
coal  store,  boiler  house  and  the  engine  room  adjoining 
are  worked  under  compressed  air,  and  are  necessarily 
air-tight.  The  store  to  which  the  coal  has  to  be  con- 
veyed is  hewn  out  of  the  solid  rock,  and  is  absolutely 
bomb-proof.  A  special  feature  is  the  arrangement  of 
the  coal  plant  in  such  a  way  that  it  does  not  inter- 
fere with  the  air  pressure.  The  coal  is  lifted  from 
the  coal  tip  fifty-seven  feet  below  the  horizontal  travel- 
er. The  skip  by  which  the  coal  is  conveyed  is  raised 
by  means  of  a  steel  wire  rope,  working  over  pulleys 
and  round  a  driving  drum.  The  skip  is  lowered  into 
a  receiving  hopper,  where  it  discharges.  At  the  bot- 
tom of  the  hopper  is  an  automatic  arrangement,  con- 
sisting of  a  hinged  door  controlled  by  a  lever  and  a 
balance  weight ;  this  door  opens  when  there  is  suf- 
ficient coal  in  the  hopper  to  overcome  the  balance, 
•closing  again  as  soon  as  the  coal  is  discharged,  and 
thus  avoiding  the  escape  of  air.  From  this  point  the 
coal  gravitates  into  the  coal  store,  where  it  is  used  in 
the  boiler  house  for  generating  steam  for  pumping 
purposes.  The  time  occupied  by  the  skip  in  traveling 
from  coal  tip  to  coal  store  is  two  minutes.     At  this 


end,  and  on  a  level  with  the  motors,  a  sentry  box  is 
hewn  out  of  the  rock,  where  the  man  who  controls 
the  gearing  for  hoisting  the  skip  is  housed,  and  has 
practically  a  full  view  of  all  three  operations. 

*   *   * 

KITE    AS    A    LIFE    SAVER. 


Of  late  ihe  kite  has  emerged  from  the  position  of  a 
mere  toy,  and  has  been  successfully  employed  for  mete- 
orological observations  at  high  altitudes.  A  still  more 
recent  application  of  the  kite  principle  is  as  a  life-sav- 
ing apparatus  to  be  carried  on  shipboard,  its  particular 
duty  being  to  establish  communication  between  a 
stranded  vessel  and  the  adjacent  shore.  It  stands  to 
reason  that  a  ship  in  this  position  generally  has  the 
assistance  of  the  wind  in  carrying  anything  shoreward, 
and  it  would  be  far  easier  to  launch  a  kite  under  such 
conditions  than  it  would  be  to  fire  a  rocket  in  the  re- 
verse direction. 

The  kite  carries  a  guide  rope,  and  contains  in  a 
pocket  a  set  of  signals  and  instructions.  It  is  also  fur- 
nished with  apparatus  for  telephonic  communication 
between  the  crew  and  their  would-be  rescuers. 

This  life-saving  kite  is  the  invention  of  Count  Bros- 
sard,  who  is  to  be  regarded  as  an  amateur  rather  than 
a  professional  man  of  science.  Critics  of  his  quaint 
appliance,  while  admitting  its  general  utility,  have 
questioned  whether  telephonic  communication  would 
be  possible  in  a  howling  tempest.  The  kite  is  said, 
however,  to  have  been  recently  tested  with  complete 
success  at  London  and  at  Brest. 

MUSICAL    NOTES. 


BY   MARGUERITE   BIXLER. 

According  to  the  "  Syntagma  Musicum  "  organs 
were  only  fit  to  accompany  the  monophonic  chorals 
of  the  church.  An  English  historian,  the  monk  VVuls- 
ton,  relates  that  the  organ  built  in  951  for  the  Win- 
chester Cathedral  has  four  hundred  pipes  and  thirl  ecu 
pairs  of  bellows,  the  latter  requiring  several  men  to 
blow  them.  Those  built  later  in  Halbersitadt,  Magde- 
burg and  Erfurt  possessed  formidable  keys  more  than 
a  hand  broad  which  could  only  be  pressed  down  by 
the  fists. 

The  use  of  the  fife  and  the  flute  can  be  traced  to 
more  than  two  thousand  years  before  the  Christian 
era.  The  flute  was  the  favorite  pastoral  instrument 
of  the  Greeks  and  Romans,  and  was  indispensable  in 
military  bands,  and  at  funerals.  The  Egyptian  sat  in 
tailor  fashion  on  the  ground  and  thus  sounded  his  dole- 
ful monotones  in  leisure  hours  through  his  two  tn 
three  feet  long  flute. 


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There  seems  to  be  a  feeling  predominant  among 
some  classes  of  people  that  the  habit  of  strong  drink 
is  a  personal  matter,  and  it  may  be  that  a  man  has  a 
right  to  do  as  he  pleases  about  drinking,  but  from  the 
broader  view  it  seems  that  drinking  is  just  like  any 
other  necessary  evil,  as  stealing  or  gambling.  It  not 
only  affects  the  one  who  indulges  but  other  people  as 
well.  A  man  may  demand  personal  liberty,  and  though 
he  be  granted  personal  liberty  to  drink  all  the  slop  he 
wants  to,  yet  he  would  soon  ask  for  personal  liberty 
to  spend  his  hard-earned  wages,  rob  his  children  of  an 
education,  liberty  to  maul  his  wife  on  his  late  return 
home,  liberty  to  allow  his  property  to  be  sold  at  the 
door  of  the  court  house,  and  liberty  to  accompany  some 
magistrate  to  the  insane  asylum.  It  is  a  queer  personal 
liberty  that  the  devil  gives  to  men  through  the  agency 
of  strong  drink.  It  is  the  sort  of  liberty  -that  puts,  a 
man  in  favor  with  himself,  in  one  sense  of  the  word, 
physically,  socially,  morally,  educationally  and  spirit- 
ually. 

Another  argument  that  the  devil  has,  is  that  it  is 
healthful  to  drink.  Ordinary  articles  of  diet,  such  as 
bread,  meat,  milk  and  fruit  when  taken  in  proper  quan- 
tities, produce  no  harmful  effects,  but  on  the  other 
hand,  do  much  good.  But  it  is  well  known  that  the 
active  principle  of  all  intoxicating  liquors  is  alcohol, 
and  that  alcohol  is  not  a  food,  but  a  poison,  and  that  is 
the  difference. 

Chemical  science  has  demonstrated  the  fact  that 
there  is  more  real  life  and  nutrition  in  a  single  cracker 
than  there  is  in  a  gallon  of  beer.     Now  just  figure  at 


five  cents  per  glass,  how  much  you  pay  for  a  gallon  of 
beer  and  let  that  be  the  price  of  the  cracker.  Now 
where  is  the  consistency,  when  you  growl  at  the  price 
of  meat  and  then  pay  that  kind  of  a  price  for  your  so- 
called  nourishment  and  never  growl  about  that?  The 
remainder  of  the  gallon  of  beer  is  composed  of  coloring 
matter,  alcohol  and  water.  You  have  no  need  for  a 
coloring  matter,  you  can  easily  obtain  water  elsewhere, 
the  poison  that  is  in  the  alcohol  you  have  no  need  for, 
whatever,  and  the  nutriment  that  corresponds  to  the 
value  of  the  cracker,  can  be  purchased  at  a  much 
cheaper  rate  at  the  grocery  store. 

Medical  science  rightfully  claims  that  men  who  are 
addicted  to  the  use  of  liquor  are  very  hard  to  operate 
upon  successfully,  and  on  several  different  occasions 
it  has  been  demonstrated  that  these  are  facts.  For  in- 
stance :  two  young  men  were  operated  upon  for  appen- 
dicitis. The  one  who  was  addicted  to  the  liquor  habit, 
remained  in  the  hospital  for  months,  and  the  other  one, 
who  was  perfectly  free  from  narcotics  and  intoxicants, 
was  out  and  skating  on  the  ice,  three  weeks  after  the 
operation.  In  cases  of  cuts  or  bruises,  caused  from  an 
accident,  the  wound  is  much  more  readily  healed  on 
those  who  are  abstinents. 

Then,  again,  a  continued  use  of  alcohol  and  liquors 
brings  about  a  chemical  change  in  the  tissues  of  the 
human  body.  The  organs  as  well  as  the  functions  be- 
come deranged.  The  heart,  being  habitually  stimu- 
lated, is  often  very  seriously  affected.  The  walls  of 
the  arteries  lose  their  natural  elasticity  long  before  ma- 
turity, but  the  most  disastrous  effects  of  all  are  seen 
when  the  individual  looses  control  of  his  mind ;  when 
the  idiotic  stare  takes  the  place  of  the  peaceful  quiet 
in  a  man's  eye,  and  the  maniac  laugh  supplants 
the  beautiful  voice  that  was  once  his;  it  then  becomes 
apparent  that  the  demand  of  strong  drink  is  literally 
driving  men  from  the  throne  of  judgment.  Drink  in- 
creases an  appetite  for  more.  Stealthily,  insiduously 
it  gains  complete  control  of  the  victim  ere  he  is  aware, 
and  holds  him  like  the  tentacles  of  the  devil  fish  or  the 
roots  of  a  great  tree,  firm  within  its  grasp. 

There  is  an  argument  produced  by  his  Satanic  maj- 
esty that  it  is  the  liquor  traffic  that  furnishes  employ- 
ment for  so  many  hundreds  and  thousands  of  men,  but 
it  has  been  proven  time  and  again  by  commercial  and 
industrial  investigation,,  that  if  the  same  amount  of 
money  were  expended  and  invested  in  any  other  line 
of  business  an  equally  or  greater  number  of  people 
would  receive  better  employment  at  higher  wages. 
This  is  truly  a  farce,  and  besides  this  it  would  alleviate 
the  difficulty  of  firms  and  corporations  who  do  not 
want  to  employ  men  who  drink. 

Employers  have  found  that,  in  order  to  turn  out  a 
good  volume  of  business  without  any  serious  mixups 
and  complications,  employees  must  have  clear 
heads  and  firm  hands,  which  cannot  be  had  bv  those 


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who  indulge  in  the  drink  habit.  Besides  drink  is  the 
source  of  many  vices,  and  when  it  conies  to  that 
the  government  has  just  as  good  a  right,  and  it  is  just 
as  much  her  duty  to  legislate  against  the  evils  of  in- 
temperance as  it  is  against  contagious  diseases,  such 
as  smallpox,  diphtheria,  and  others. 

Temperance  consists  in  the  moderate  use  of  every- 
thing good,  and  a  total  abstinence  of  what  is  known  to 
be  injurious.  If  the  drink  habit  could  be  removed 
from  our  social  circles  by  the  suppression  of  the  manu- 
facture of  the  soul-destroying  evil,  it  would  place  a 
great  many  of  our  so-called  Christians  on  a  much 
easier  seat,  because  there  are  many  of  them  to-day  that 
would  like  to  be  under  the  cloak  of  Christianity,  and 
yet,  when  you  place  them  face  to  face  with  the  ques- 
tion itself,  they  would  not  sign  a  remonstrance,  they 
would  not  refuse  to  employ  men  who  drink,  they  would 
buy  ice  from  the  saloon  men,  they  would  receive  dona- 
tions of  charity  from  them,  and  in  a  great  many  ways 
give  them  a  kind  of  a  back  door  encouragement.  And 
these  Christians  are  the  very  ones  who  need  the  most 
protection,  outside  of  the  drunkard  himself,  because 
they  are  the  people  who  have  weak  characters,  and 
wherein  the  characters  are  weak  the  government  ought 
to  be  strong. 

Now  what  are  you  going  to  do  to  help  alleviate  this 
trouble  ? 

♦   ♦  * 

HOBBYHORSES. 


The  little  boy  who  is  so  unfortunate  in  this  world 
as  not  to  be  able  to  own  a  hobbyhorse  is  compelled  to 
be  content  with  riding  astride  a  broom  stick,  fork  han- 
dle, or  any  other  convenient  substitute  that  he  may 
find  for  a  horse.  But  every  boy  has  to  have  a  horse. 
He  cannot  imitate  Papa  in  driving  and  riding  without 
a  horse. 

The  more  favored  class  of  boys  hugely  enjoy  their 
hobbyhorses,  and  what  is  more  pleasing  than  to  see 
the  wild,  eager  look  in  the  boy's  eyes  when  he  steps  up 
and  takes  hold  of  the  bridle  of  his  first  new  hobbyhorse, 
and  with  the  triumphant  swing  of  his  foot,  mounts  and 
sits  astride  and  gallops  away  into  illimited  fields  of 
•ecstasy  ? 

These  things  are  all  right  in  their  place,  but  they  only 
have  one  place  in  the  world.  The  only  grudge  that  we 
•can  possibly  hold  against  the  hobbyhorse  is  on  account 
of  one  of  its  chief  characteristics.  A  great  many  horses 
have  the  peculiar  faculty  of  throwing  the  rider  when 
he  wants  to  ride,  but  the  hobbyhorse  is  different. 
Many  a  man  would  get  off  his  hobby  and  ride  a  decent 
horse,  were  it  not  that  the  hobby  succeeds  in  holding 
him  where  he  was  when  a  boy.  In  other  words,  there 
are  a  few  men  in  this  world  that  never  leave  their 
childhood  far  enough  to  get  away  from  their  hobby - 
liorses,  and  they  go  through  life  riding  a  hobbyhorse 


that  is  worse  than  a  wooden  one.  We  find  them  in  the 
political  arena,  intelligent  men,  too,  who  will  select  a 
certain  hobby,  and  every  single  conversation,  argument 
and  speech  will  concentrate  itself,  and  finally  wind  up 
right  on  the  back  of  that  hobbyhorse.  People  in  busi- 
ness matters,  sometimes  narrow  themselves  down  to 
such  a  channel  that  they  cannot  converse  upon  any 
other  subject,  except  their  hobby,  be  it  whatever  it  may. 

In  church  affairs  it  is  no  uncommon  thing  to  find  an 
individual,  who,  in  writing,  speaking  or  in  private  con- 
versation, turns  everything  possible  towards  his  hobby. 
Ministers  sometimes  preach  from  Genesis  to.  Revela- 
tion and  see  nothing  in  a  single  chapter  between,  but 
their  special  hobby,  whether  it  be  a  doctrinal  point,  his- 
torical fact  or  a  religious  tenet. 

Nothing  is  more  harmful  to  Christianity  to-day  than 
the  different  sects  and  denominations  which  go  to  make 
up  the  great  church  of  Christianity ;  than  for  the  lay- 
man to  select  a  certain  pet  hobby  and  persist  in  riding 
it  to  the  satisfaction  of  himself  and  to  the  disgust  of 
everybody  else. 

There  is  not  a  man  in  five  hundred  who  would  lit- 
erally take  a  "little  hobbyhorse  out  into  the  street  and 
get  astride  it  and  ride  there  for  ten  or  fifteen  minutes, 
for  any  reasonable  amount  of  money,  and  yet  thousands 
of  men  are  doing  that  very  thing  in  the  different  ways 
mentioned  above. 

Now  ask  yourself  this  queston,  "  Have  I  a  hobby, 
and  do  I  ride  him  ?  " 

<*   *  *$• 

DIFFERENT    KIND. 


In  olden  times  a  man  by  the  name  of  Ogg,  pos- 
sessed an  iron  bedstead,  and  some  authorities  claim 
that  it  was  nine  feet  wide  and  fifteen  feet  long.  This 
would  seem  altogether  practical,  as  history  claims 
that  Ogg  was  a  great  giant  and  in  all  probability  need- 
ed just  such  a  place  for  repose. 

But  we  cannot  understand  altogether  the  idea  of 
a  certain  man  in  the  Orient  who  lately  has  placed  his 
order  with  one  of  the  factories  in  Sheffield,  Eng.,  for  a 
bedroom  suit  to  be  made  of  solid  silver.  He  is  so  much 
ashamed  of  it  himself  that  he  will  not  divulge  to  his 
nearest  friends  his  name.  The  suit  is  to  be  solid  silver 
throughout,  and  includes  a  bedstead,  cabinet,  dresser, 
table,  a  dozen  chairs,  three  foot-baths  and  three  hot 
water  cocks.  The  designs  are  all  of  oriental  character 
and  are  to  be  of  the  most  elaborate  description.  Each 
of  the  four  pillars  of  the  bedstead  is  to  be  sur- 
mounted by  female  figures,  gracefully  modeled,  three 
feet  in  length.  The  finishings  of  the  room  itself  in 
which  this  suit  is  to  be  placed,  is  of  sterling  silver. 
+   *   * 

How  much  a  dunce  that  has  been  sent  to  roam, 

Excels  a  dunce  that  has  been  kept  at  home. 

— Cowper. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— August  23,  1904. 


CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


Another  time  the  Sultan  of  Turkey  has  become  so 
aggravating  that  United  States  government  cannot 
longer  permit  his  insults' to  the  stars  and  stripes.  The 
authorities  are  obliged  to  send  three  of  our  war  ves- 
sels into  the  port  of  Smyrna  and  demand  justice  at 
their  hands.  Although  we  have  numerous  and  well- 
equipped  missions  in  the  Ottoman  Empire,  yet  the 
Americans  are  shown  but  little  respect.  But  as  usual 
the  war  vessels  floating  under  the  United  States  colors 
caused  him  to  again  promise,  as  he  has  many  times 
before,  that  he  would  be  good.  His  policy  is  to  go  just 
as  far  as  it  is  possible  to  go  concerning  the  ones  upon 
whom  he  cares  to  intrude,  and  then  at  the  last  moment 
when  there  is  no  other  ultimatum,  he  does  the  inevita- 
ble thing,  and  is  strictly  acting  out  the  policy  of  Peter 
the  Great.  Probably  if  the  governments  which  he  in- 
sults would  occasionally  take  a  port  or  two  or  a  state 
or  two,  he  would  relinquish  some  of  his  claims. 

*  4*    <|* 
1 

The  Frisco  Railroad  System  has  reached  out  an- 
other finger  of  her  strong  hand  and  absorbed  the  Mo- 
bile, Jackson  and  Kansas  City  Road,  also  including  the 
Gulf  and  Chicago  road,  which  was  very  recently  ac- 
quired by  the  Mobile  Road.  By  this  consolidation  the 
Frisco  Svstem  will  have  a  through  line  from  St.  Louis 
and  Kansas  City  to  Mobile,  Ala. 

A  stroke  of  lightning  causes  a  $150,000  loss  to  the 
Cleveland  Cliffs  Iron  Company,  of  Gladstone,  Mich., 
the  lightning  striking  the  chemical  department  and 
burning  the  structure  to  the  'ground.  There  was  no 
insurance. 

♦  4>  * 

The  postmaster  at  "  The  Hermitage,"'  the  home  of 
Andrew  Jackson,  near  Nashville,  Tenn.,  recently  died, 
and  the  negroes  of  that  district  demand  that  the  office 
be  given  to  one  of  their  race.  They  have  two  Republi- 
can voters  in  the  precinct,  and  there  is  one  white  Re- 
publican. The  latter,  however,  is  a  wealthy  man  and 
says  he  would  not  have  the  office.  It  seems  that  the 
Republican  voters  of  the  state  are  in  sympathy  with 
this  action,  as  the  petition  which  is  being  circulated  is 
pretty  generally  signed.  This  will  no  doubt  bring  up 
the  negro  question  again,  as  some  of  the  State  officials 
say  they  will  carry  the  matter  to  the  President. 


The  Caribbean  squadron,  commanded  by  Admiral 
Sigsbee,  has  been  ordered  to  Hayti  to  settle  troubles 
there ;  so  says  Minister  Powel.  It  is  said  that  the 
soldiers  sided  in  with  the  mobs  in  stoning  and  other- 
wise maltreating  the  foreigners. 


A  great  work  is  going  on  in  the  city  of  Chicago  in 
the  way  of  trying  to  remove  from  their  business  streets 
a  great  deal  of  the  heavy  traffic  so  as  to  give  more 
room  for  the  crowded  populace.  To  do  this  it  is  nec- 
essary to  tunnel  under  the  city.  Chicago  is  very  flat 
for  this,  and  it  is  the  purpose  of  the  Illinois  Tunneling 
Company  to  simply  honeycomb  the  earth  beneath  this 
great  city,  but  chief  engineer  Ericson,  Mayor  Harrison 
and  the  Aldermen  have  practically  run  up  against  a 
stump.  In  working  on  LaSalle  street  at  a  depth  of  52 
feet,  they  have  come  in  contact  with  a  water  main. 
The  subterranean  water  passage  cannot  be  shut  off 
without  removing  the  fire  protection  in  the  heart  of 
the  city,  which,  of  course,  is  not  practical.  Work  is 
temporarily  suspended  until  a  solution  of  the  problem 
is  reached. 

*  ♦  + 

A  newspaper  man  in  New  York  became  so  worried 
about  beef  that  he  has  been  confined  in  an  insane  asy- 
lum, because  he  imagines  that  he  was  Nebuchadnezzar 
and  must  subsist  upon  grass,  which  shows  how  citi- 
zens of  Gotham  are  worrying  over  the  Chicago  strike. 

*  *   + 

Albert  Angell,  of  Orange,  N.  J.,  claims  to  have 
perfected  a  process  of  converting  rock  into  a  silkv  fiber 
capable  of  being  spun  into  fine  cloth,  thus  making  pos- 
sible fireproof  clothing  wholly  of  mineral  composition. 

«l»  41  <$» 

Late  experiments,  in  dentistry,  by  Profs.  Redard 
and  Emery,  of  Geneva,  Switzerland,  have  revealed  the 
fact  that  a  patient  in  a  dark  room  with  his  eyes  exposed 
to  a  sixteen-candle  blue  light  for  three  minutes  loses 
the  sense  of  pain. 

*  ♦  • 

A  five-hour  battle,  in  the  straits  of  Korea,  resulted 
in  complete  victory  for  the  Japanese,  the  Russian 
cruiser  "  Rurik  "  of  the  Vladivostok  fleet  being  sunk  by 
Admiral  Kamimura's  squadron  and  the  cruisers  '*  Ros- 
sia  "  and  "  Gromoboi  "  badly  damaged.  The  fighting 
was  of  a  desperate  nature,  the  opposing  naval  forces 
pouring  a  perfect  hail  of  shot  upon  each  other.  Toward 
the  close  of  the  battle  the  Russian  fire  grew  steaddy 
weaker  as  gun  after  gun  was  disabled.  It  is  supposed 
that  many  were  killed  before  the  vessel  went  down. 
The  Japanese  will  next  center  their  forces  upon  Port 
Arthur,  even  to  the  abandonment  of  operations  in 
Manchuria.  Their  army  has  been  strongly  re-en- 
forced. One  on  the  heights  between  Lungwungtao 
and  Pigeon  bay,  another  occupies  the  hills  near  Louisa 
bay.  The  Russian  commander  of  Port  Arthur  reports 
that  the  Japanese  had  captured  Taku  hill  only  three 
and  one-half  miles  from  the  inner  line  of  forts.  From 
this  hill  Japan's  guns  have  an  unobstructed  range  of 
three  miles. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  23,   1904. 


809 


Ten  persons  out  of  fourteen  were  killed  by  the  over- 
turning of  a  gasoline  launch  on  the  Potomac  river  the 
other  day :  notwithstanding  the  disaster  the  racing  and 
cheering  of  the  crowds  continued. 

*   *   * 

It  is  certain  that  the  strike  leaders  are  secretly  en- 
deavoring to  bring  about  peace  negotiations,  and  un- 
less something  unforeseen  happens,  the  end  of  the  strike 
is  near.  The  reason  for  this  is  that  they  are  afraid  that 
the  unions  that  are  assisting  the  relief  fund  might 
stop  their  donations  if  they  thought  a  settlement  was 
near  at  hand.  Secretly  they  are  formulating  peace 
plans,  while  publicly  they  advocate  war,  and  it  is  to  be 
hoped  that  the  former  will  be  victor.  At  a  recent  meet- 
ing of  the  business  men  an  organization  was  formed  to 
raise  funds  to  further  assist  the  strikers. 


At  Versailles,  Pa.,  the  railway  signal  company's 
plant  exploded,  demolishing  three  buildings  and  seri- 
ously injuring  three  of  the  employes.  It  is  said  that 
every  window  in  the  vicinity  was  broken  and  that  the 
report  could  be  heard  a  mile.  The  building  contained 
several  hundred  railroad  torpedoes.     It  is  not  known 

how  they  were  ignited. 

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The  city  of  Manila,  P.  I.,  is  to  have  a  water  supply 
and  a  sewerage  system.  Steps  are  being  taken  for  the 
letting  of  contracts  and  an  issue  of  bonds  has  been 
authorized  to  meet  the  cost.  The  government  at 
Washington  has  approved  the  plans.  It  is  said  that  the 
work  will  cost  practically  two  millions. 

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A  highway  robber,  at  Willow  Grove,  Pa.,  wdiich 
is  a  pleasure  resort,  succeeded  in  wrecking  an  auto- 
mobile containing  four  persons,  who,  he  supposed, 
were  in  possession  of  a  considerable  amount  of  money  ; 
and  he  was  not  mistaken.  He  succeeded  in  getting 
ten  thousand  dollars  in  money  and  a  lot  of  jewelry. 
The  robber,  of  course,  got  away  and  he  so  disabled  the 
machine  that  the  parties  had  to  walk  two  miles  to  a 
toll  gate. 

$    4.    <£ 

World's  Fairs  are  all  the  go;  and  the  international 
industrial  exhibition  is  to  be  opened  sometime  next  No- 
vember at  Cape  Town,  South  Africa.  The  fair  will 
continue  three  months.  The  government  intends  to 
make  a  comprehensive  official  exhibit  of  local  products, 
and  offers  nice  prizes  for  light  locomotives,  motor  cars. 
i  and  other  light  machinery. 

A  new  Mall  is  being  opened  in  London,  beginning 
at  Charing  Cross,  which  in  all  probability  will  result 
in  the  removal  of  the  statue  of  Charles  I.     The  West- 


minister Council  and  the  government  office  of  works 
are  discussing  the  question  rather  lively.  It  is  to  be 
supposed  that  this  will  be  another  link  in  the  mysteri- 
ous chain  of  history  which  already  surrounds  this  piece 
of  statuary.  After  the  king  had  been  executed,  the 
Commonwealth  of  the  government  decided  to  tear  the 
statue  down,  and  it  was  sold  to  a  brazier  by  the  name 
of  Rivers,  with  the  understanding  that  it  should  be 
broken  up,  but  it  seems  that  this  man  could  see  into 
the  future  and  he  buried  this  statue  awaiting  results. 
As  soon  as  he  had  the  monument  buried  he  began  to 
manufacture  knives  and  forks  with  bronze  handles 
which  he  said  were  made  out  of  the  statue,  and  he  sold 
them  by  the  thousand.  When  the  kingdom  was  re- 
stored he  saw  another  opportunity  awaiting  him  and 
he  sold  the  statue  back  to  the  government  at  a  large 
Pront-  *  *   * 

A  young  man  by  the  name  of  S.  F.  Cole,  eighteen 
years  old,  of  Catskill,  N.  Y.,  has  made  the  world's  best 
record  on  the  typewriter  this  week.  He  has  written 
28,944  words  in  seven  hours,  or  about  68  words  in  a 
minute.  The  best  record  before  this  was  one  made  by 
Miss  Mattie  F.  Pretty,  in  the  Senate  Office  in  Wash- 
ington, on  the  last  day  of  July,  who  wrote  22,000  words 
in  the  same  length  of  time. 

*  *  ♦ 

The  Baldwin  locomotive  works  at  Philadelphia  is 
just  about  to  complete  the  smallest  locomotive  they 
have  ever  built,  and  in  all  probability  the  smallest  one 
that  was  ever  built  in  the  United  States.  It  is  to 
weigh  twenty-five  hundred  pbunds  when  finished,  and 
is  to  go  to  Japan.  It  is  built  on  the  narrow  gauge  plan 
and  is  expected  to  do  the'  work  of  two  coolies,  pushing 
cars  of  tea,  rice  and  other  natural  products.  They 
think  it  will  prove  economical,  thus  producing  motive 
power  cheaper  than  the  wages  of  two  men. 

*  *   * 

In  the  strike  districts  of  Chicago,  where  the  men 
have  been  out  of  employment  for  weeks,  and  hunger 
stares  the  population  in  the  face,  and  filth,  worn,-  and 
excitement  have  brought  the  nerves  of  the  people  to  the 
very  strongest  tension,  have  now  added  to  their  list  of 
horrors  typhoid  fever.  Several  cases  have  been  known 
to  be  fatal  already  and  the  malady  is  still  spreading, 
but  it  is  hoped  that  it  will  be  successfully  met  by  the 
physicians,  as  weil  as  the  treaty  of  peace  soon  to  be 
formed  between  labor  and  capital. 

*  *   * 

Ax  American  Indian  is  imprisoned  at  Fond  du  Lac. 
who  is  charged  with  having  abandoned  his  two  chil- 
dren, a  boy  aged  four  and  a  girl  aged  twenty-,  who  were 
later  found  to  have  been  devoured  hv  wolves,  leaving 
their  clothing  torn  and  bloody.  After  a  severe  repri- 
mand he  was  sentenced  to  two  years  in  prison. 


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The  Inglenook  Nature  Study  Club 


This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various   Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized 

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CLASS    AVES— ORDER   INSESSORES. 


This  family  of  birds  is  the  principal  type  of  the 
Fissirostres.  The  bills  or  mandibles  are  very  broad 
and  flat  toward  their  base,  and  the  slit  or  fissure  be- 
tween them  is  carried  far  back  under  the  eye.  This  ar- 
rangement gives  them,  when  the  mandibles  are  moved 
apart,  a  very  broad  and  widely-opened  mouth,  as  is 
common  in  the  Goat-sucker.  The  purpose  of  all  this 
is  to  allow  these  birds  to  take  insects  on  the  wing, 
which  they  do  while  rapidly  passing  through  the  air 
with  open  mouth.  No  better  ,trap  could  be  devised 
for  catching  tiny  prey  than  is  formed  by  their  large 
mouths,  which  are  furnished  with  bristles  hanging 
from  the  roof  of  their  mouth  and  which  are  moistened 
by  sticky  saliva.  Insects  are  prevented  from  escap- 
ing by  becoming  hopelessly  entangled  in  this  death 
trap. 

This  family  is  also  found  where  the  Raptores  end, 
and  where  the  Insessores  begin.  As  is  stated  in,  the 
heading,  the  Night-hawk,  Whip-poor-will  and  Chuck- 
wills-widow  are  the  best  known  members  of  the  family. 
There  are  some  things  they  have  in  common ;  their 
wide  mouths,  small,  sharp  bill,  slightly  hooked,  the 
short  legs,  small  feet,  long,  sharp  wing,  and  wide- 
spreading  tail.  All  of  them  have  the  downy  softness 
of  the  Owl  Family,  and  can  fly  equally  as  noiseless, 
yet  they  take  of  the  habits  of  the  Insessores  inasmuch 
as  they  perch.  There  is  one  mistaken  idea  in  this 
family,  in  that  some  think  the  Night-hawk  and  Whip- 
poor-will  to  be  the  same.  But  this  is  not  true.  First, 
because  the  Whip-poor-will  is  a  nocturnal  bird  while 
the  Night-hawk  does  his  work  in  daytime,  which 
proves  that  his  name  is  a  misnomer,  because  we  find 
him  retiring  just  as  the  Whip-poor-will  goes  to 
work.  The  Whip-poor-will  is  strictly  a  nocturnal 
bird  and  never  appears  in  daylight,  except  it  be 
disturbed  from  its  resting  place,  which  is  gener- 
ally sitting  lengthwise  of  a  rail  or  some  large 
branch  of  a  tree,  but  no  sooner  has  the  sun  dis- 
appeared behind  the  Western  hill  and  the  shades  of 
the  evening  have  closed  around  the  thicket  which  gives 
it  a  cover  by  day,  than  it  bestirs  itself,  and  peeps  out 
upon  the  dim  landscape  over  which  the  pale  moon  is 
casting  a  feeble  glare.  It  is  then  that  its  sweet,  plead- 
ing, tender,  sprightly,  yet  mournful,  notes  are  heard 
echoing  upon  the  still  air,  Whip-poor-will !  Whip-poor- 
will  ! ! 


Again  the  Night-hawk  does  not  have  the  bristles  in 
his  mouth,  and  has  a  narrow  forked  tail,  while  the 
Whip-poor-will  does  have  the  bristles,  and  has  a  broad 
tail  rounded  like  a  fan.  The  Night-hawk  perches  as 
other  Insessores,  while  the  Whip-poor-will,  as  we  have 
said  above,  perches  lengthwise  and  looks  more  like  a 
knot  on  a  rail  than  having  the  form  and  comeliness  of 
a  bird.  The  Night-hawk  builds  a  scanty  nest  while 
the  Whip-poor-will  builds  no  nest,  but  lays  two  white 
eggs  on  the  bare,  smooth,  level  surface  of  a  rock  or 
the  hard,  dry  ground,  without  grass,  sticks  or  leaves. 
And  as  we  know,  most  birds,  when  their  nest  is  dis- 
turbed, will  either  destroy  the  eggs  or  leave  the  nest, 
yet  the  Whip-poor-will  differs  from  all  his  neighbors, 
'and  will  deliberately  take  the  eggs  in  his  mouth  when 
he  sees  his  nest  is  in  danger  and  remove  them  to  a 
place  of  safety. 

Again,  in  the  distribution  of  birds,  the  Night-hawk 
is  found  almost  all  over  the  United  States,  while  the 
Whip-poor-wills  and  Chuck-wills-widow  are  confined 
to  much  narrower  limits.  The  Chuck-wills-widow 
scarcely  gets  North  of  Virginia,  while  the  Whip-poor- 
wills  are  plentiful  in  the  Ohio  valley,  and  the  Night- 
hawk  is  found  as  far  north  as  Maine. 

The  habits  of  the  Chuck-wills-widow  are  very  simi- 
lar to  those  of  the  Whip-poor-will  and  are  equally  in- 
teresting. In  the  pine  forests  of  South  Carolina  it  is 
abundant,  where  its  familiar  and  oft-repeated  cry  of 
"  Chuck-wills-widow !  "  is  kept  up  during  a  great  part 
of  the  night.  It  is  impossible  to  find  language  to  con- 
vey a  just  idea  of  the  impression  which  the  notes  of 
this  bird  produce  upon  the  mind.  Imagine  ourselves 
in  the  midst  of  a  southern  forest ;  tall  pines,  inter- 
spersed with  oaks  and  other  forest  trees,  occupy  the 
ground  for  many  miles  around,  covering  it  with  a 
broad  canopy  of  shade,  with  here  and  there  a  wide 
opening  vista,  through  which  the  light  may  penetrate. 
The  sultry  air  is  beginning  to  feel  the  cooling  effects 
of  the  falling  dew, — the  tree-tops  wave  gently  in  the 
twilight  gale, — the  feathered  songsters  that  have  ten- 
anted the  air  during  the  long  day  have  retired  to  their 
nests, — the  bee  hums  no  more  with  her  busy  wing, 
and  all  Nature  is  seemingly  gathered  into  a  sweet  re- 
pose, over  which  the  quiet  moon  reigns  with  a  serene 
majesty.  This  lull,  however,  is  but  temporary,  and  is 
the  interregnum  between  the  dominion  of  day  and  the 
empire  of  night ;  soon  the  screams  of  the  wild-cat  are 


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heard  in  the  distance,  as  she  sallies  forth  in  quest 
of  her  evening  meal;  the  hooting  of  some  monstrous 
owl,  that  sails  like  a  dim  spectre  overhead,  salutes 
the  ear;  frogs,  lizards,  and  other  reptiles  are  hopping, 
skipping,  and  jumping  about  our  feet;  the  whole  air 
becomes  tenanted  with  a  numerous  insect  life;  and  a 
mingled  chorus  of  hum,  buzz,  and  chirp,  everywhere 
prevails.  We  pause  at  one  of  the  beautifully-expanded 
vistas,  through  which  the  full-orbed  moon  gently  darts 
her  silvery  beams,  and  gaze  in  silent  admiration  upon 
the  beauty  of  the  scene;  suddenly  a  swift-winged, 
noiseless  phantom  sails  across  our  track  and  alights 
upon  a  tree  near  by ;  it  is  then  that  we  will  listen  to  one 
of  the  most  singular  notes  that  is  heard  by  night. 
Even  the  soft,  full-toned,  and  richly-varied  song  of 
the  Mocking  Bird,  with  which  it  is  often  blended,  can- 
not drown  the  sweetly-cadenced  voice  of  this  plain 
and  unobtrusive  bird,  as  he  sits  and  "  Chucks  "  and 
"  Chuck-wills-widow  "  away,  during  the  .  live-long 
night. 

The  unmeaning  name  of  Goat-sucker  has  been  ap- 
plied to  various  members  of  this  family  of  birds,  the 
•  ignorant  inhabitants  of  the  countries  where  they  are 
found  supposing  that  they  sucked  the  milk  from  their 
flocks,  which  is  not  only  improbable,  but  altogether  ab- 
surd. There  are  many  species  found  in  various  parts 
of  the  world,  some  of  them  being  quite  large,  and  some 
not  less  noisy.  Upon  these  last  has  been  bestowed  the 
appropriate  name  of  Night  Jars. 

*  *  *' 
HORSE    INTELLIGENCE. 


A  Boston  gentleman  connected  with  the  National 
Tube  Works  sends  us  the  following,  for  the  truth  of 
which  he  vouches: 

My  friend  was  a  ship-builder ;  his  ship-yard  was 
some  miles  from  his  house,  which  distance  he  had  to 
cover  on  horseback.  He  had  a  white  horse  that  had 
served  him  long  and  faithfully  in  this  capacity. 

One  da.y  his  horse  fell,  for  some  cause  that  I  do  not 
remember,  and  he  was  thrown  to  the  ground  and 
severely  cut  on  the  head. 

He  was  unconscious  for  some  time,  and  when  he 
■  came  to,"  found  the  horse  standing  by  him. 

After  a  while  he  gathered  himself  up  and  attempted 
:ffo  mount  the  house,  but  every  time  he  tried  fell 
back. 

Finally,  the  horse  walked  to  the  side  of  a  large  rock 
which  stood  near.  The  gentleman  crawled  along  to 
it  and  after  hard  work  got  on  the  horse,  and  then  the 
horse  walked  slowly  and  carefully  home  with  him, 
the  rider  being  in  a  semi-conscious  condition.  The 
family  removed  him  from  the  horse  on  his  arrival 
home  and  put  him  to  bed.  He  was  a  long  while  re- 
covering from  his  accident,  and  one  day  when  con- 


valescing,  the   horse,   being  brought   to   the   window 

where  the  gentleman  sat,  showed  unmistakable  signs 

of  pleasure  at  seeing  his  master  once  more 

*  *   * 

CAT   ADOPTED    ORPHAN  'COONS. 

Colonel  L.  L.  Hawkins  yesterday  secured  a  new 
prize  for  his  collection  of  weird  and  wonderful  ex- 
hibits at  the  city  museum  in  Portland,  Oregon.  The 
doughty  Colonel  has  excelled  himself  in  his  latest  ac- 
quisition and,  if  one  desires  to  see  such  a  bizarre 
thing  as  pussy  cat  mothering  a  litter  of  young  rac- 
coons he  may  be  gratified  at  the  City  Hall.  All  pre- 
vious happy  family  records  have  been  broken  by  an  old 
mother  cat  rejoicing  in  a  family  of  two  baby  'coons 
and  her  own  proper  kitten,  which  Colonel  Hawkins 
secured  at  Beaverton  and  has  now  comfortably  in- 
stalled at  the  museum. 

A  few  days  ago  some  boys  killed  a  female  raccoon 
near  Beaverton,  and  upon  beating  the  brush  discovered 
her  nest  with  four  little  ones  in  it  clamoring  for  their 
mother.  The  baby  'coons  were  taken  to  the  home  of 
Mrs.  B.  L.  Griffitts,  near  by,  where  a  cat  was  rearing 
a  family  of  four  kittens.  The  kittens  were  given  to 
another  feline,  in  which  the  maternal  instinct  was 
strong  and  the  little  'coons  substituted  without  pro- 
test from  the  mother..  In  a  short  time  two  of  the 
little  wild  kittens  died,  but  the  other  pair  thrived  in 
their  new  environment,  and  the  story  of  the  cat  with 
the  'coon  family  became  something  of  a  sensation  in 
the  neighborhood. 

Colonel  Hawkins  heard  of  it  and  made  the  twenty- 
mile  drive  out  and  back  for  the  purpose  of  bringing 
the  wonder  to  Portland.  Mrs.  Griffitts  finally  consent 
ed  to  lend  the  family  to  the  museum,  and  as  an  evi- 
dence of  good  faith  one  of  the  kittens  was  brought 
along  with  the  little  'coons  to  complete  the  picture"  of 
mixed  domesticity. 

*   *   * 

THE    TURTLE    DOVE. 


A  recent  writer  says :  "  One  of  the  most  complete 
misapprehensions  with  regard  to  the  voices  of  bird- 
dom  occurs  when  we  listen  to  the  monosyllabic  coo  of 
the  '  restful  turtle  dove.'  By  no  means  a  musical 
sound  in  itself,  yet  it  is  so  bound  up  in  our  minds  with 
the  sleepy  glamour  of  summer  afternoons  that  we 
imagine  the  sitting  dove  as  crooning  to  herself  from 
sheer  contentment  with  her  lot.  '  Very  different  is  the 
reality.  That  drowsy  monosyllabic  is  the  voice  of  the 
male  dove.  Usually  he  is  siring  peremptory  orders 
to  his  wife  to  get  off  the  nest,  in  order  that  he  may 
take  her  place,  and  if  she  hesitates  to  obey  he  enforces 
his  commands  with  sharp  pecks  upon  the  head.  At 
other  times  he  seems  merely  to  order  her  off  the  nest 
for  the  pleasure  of  witnessing-  her  devotion  to  his  per- 
son." 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  23,   1904. 


HOME    DEPARTMENT 


THE   WHETTING    OF    THE    SCYTHE. 


From  o'er  the  heath,  there  comes  a  breath, 

That  sends  my  mem'ry  straying, 
To  the  morning  chimes  of  the  olden  times. 

In  the  good  old-fashioned  haying, 
The  sweeping  snath,  the  rolling  swath. 

The  mower  strong  and  lithe. 
And  the  cheery  music  of  the  stone. 

The  whetting  of  the  scythe. 

Ka-lenk,  ka-lenk,  ka-lenk,  ka-lenk. 

In  rythmic  accents  ringing, 
Ka-lenk,  ka-lenk,  ka-lenk.  ka-lenk. 

No  sweeter  strain  is  clinging, 
Ka-lenk,  ka-lenk,  ka-lenk,  ka-lenk. 

Then  hearts  were  free  and  blithe. 
Ka-lenk,  ka-lenk,  ka-lenk.  ka-lenk, 

The  whetting  of  the  scythe. 

Progression's  sway  has  hushed  the  lay. 

So  fraught  with  hallowed  yearning. 
That  sacred  charm  of  the  dear  old  farm. 

To  which  there's  no  returning, 
The  ruthless  arts  from  saddened  hearts. 

Have  wrung  no  harder  tithe. 
Than  the  cheery  music  of  the  stone, 

The  whetting  of  the  scythe. 

Ka-lenk,  ka-lenk,  ka-lenk,  ka-lenk. 

The  dewy  meadows  blending, 
Ka-lenk,  ka-lenk,  ka-lenk.  ka-lenk. 

The  song  bird  voices  blending, 
Ka-lenk,  ka-lenk,  ka-lenk.  ka-lenk. 

What  deep  emotions  writhe. 
Ka-lenk,  ka-lenk,  ka-lenk.  ka-lenk. 

The  whetting  of  the  scythe. 
*   *    * 

HOW   SOME   PEOPLE   DO. 


BY    ALICE    VANIMAN. 

As  we  travel  around  visiting  the  many  different 
homes  we  find  it  quite  interesting  to  note  how  some 
people  do  things.  We  also  find  that  the  way  some 
people  do  is  not  always  good,  for  our  appetites  and 
good  health.  But  we  must  take  the  bad  along  with 
the  good  and  thank  the  Lord  that  it  is  as  well  with  us 
as  what  it  is.  Strange  as  it  may  seem,  it  is  a  fact  that 
there  are  not  two  persons  exactly  alike  either  in  looks 
or  their  ways  of  doing  things.  From  the  king  on  his 
throne  down  to  the  servant  girl  in  the  kitchen  all  have 
their  own  special  ways  of  looking  at  and  doing  things, 
and  yet  have  we  not  all  learned  what  we  know  from 
some  one  else?'  How  many  are  there  of  us  who  can 
give  ourselves  the  credit  for  what  we  know  or  for  the 


way  we  do  things?  If  we  do  keep  house  or  cook  a 
little  different  from  some  others,  have  we  not  got- 
ten   the    idea    of    it    from    a    book,    or    from    some 


one    we    used    to    know    years    ago?      It 


few 


things  along  this  line  of  housekeeping  that  I  es- 
pecially wish  to  mention,  for  I  consider  the  home  to 
be  the  very  best  place  on  earth.  It  should  be  a  little 
earthly  heaven,  and  there  should  be  order,  system  and 
cleanliness  in  a  well-regulated  home. 

Why  should  an  unmarried  woman  living  all  alone  in 
a  couple  of  rooms,  no  family  cares,  not  much  work  to 
do,  allow  her  house  to  be  touseled  up  from  morning  till 
night  ?  One  shoe  is  under  the  table,  one  on  the  sofa ; 
dresses  lying  around  on  the  backs  of  chairs.  News- 
papers and  books  on  the  bed  and  everywhere  else. 
Soiled  cups,  plates  and  kettles  sitting  on  stove,  chairs 
and  even  on  the  floor.  This  I  have  seen  often,  and  once 
ventured  to  give  a  little  advice  on  how  easy  it  is  to 
keep  things  in  order.  But  the  answer  I  received  was 
that  "  it  was  easier  to  tell  about  than  to  do." 

One  time,  while  visiting  in  the  country,  we  were  in- 
vited to  visit  a  family  of  old  people  living  all  alone 
There  were  so  many  bed  bugs  everywhere  I  was  afraid 
to  hang  up  my  cloak  and  bonnet.  We  sat  to  the  table 
and  I  thought  I  had  never  seen  such  a  soiled  tablecloth 
in  all  my  life.  It  looked  as  if  it  had  not  been  washed 
for  months  and  it  would  only  have  been  such  a  little 
work  to  have  had  it  in  order. 

I  sat  one  bright  summer  day  in  the  house  of  what 
seemed  to  be  a  very  industrious  woman  and  wondered 
what  good  is  this  beautiful  sunshine  and  fresh  air  to 
her.     Her    clothes    hung    in    the    wardrobe — shut    up! 
tight — mouldy  and  musty.     Her  pillows,  bed  clothes 
and  sofa  were  so  musty  I  could  scarcely  sleep  for  th< 
bad  odor.     She  knew  we  were  coming,  and  a  littl 
sunshine   and   fresh   air   would  have  made   all  things 
right.    I  remarked  one  day  that  I  thought  it  would  be 
so  nice  to  live  in  the  country  during  the  summer  where, 
one  could  air  his  clothing  often,  as  we  do  not  have 
such  a  good  opportunity  in  the  large  city.    "  Yes,"  sh 
said,  "I  think  I  shall  put  my  clothes  out  some  time  thii 
summer  too."     Poor  woman,  if  she  could  only  under- 
stand that  her  clothes  needed  to  be  out  and  aired  not 
once,  but  many  times  during  those  beautiful  summer 
months.     While  visiting  at  the  home  of  a  well-to-do 
family  I  went  to  the  kitchen  one  morning  to  wipe  the 
dishes,  when  lo,  and  behold,  the  mistress  was  washing 
them  in  the  washpan,  and  a  dirty  one  it  was,  too.    The 
boy  had  washed  his  feet  in  it  and  the  girl  had  just  fin- 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  23,   1904. 


813 


ished  washing  out  a  very  dirty  pair  of  socks  and  the 
germs  had  not  even  been  rinsed  out  with  hot  water  be- 
fore those  beautiful  cups  were  washed,  and  I  dried 
them  on  a  towel  that  had  been  used  for  a  face  towel  un- 
til it  was  soiled.    Then  it  could  be  used  for  dishes. 

It  is  not  an  easy  matter  to  get  away  from  one's  home 
training,  and  I  thank  the  Lord  for  one  that  I  have  had 
a  clean,  tidy  mother.  One  must  learn,  however,  to 
make  the  best  of  things  and  thank  the  Lord  that  it  is 
no  worse.  May  the  good  Lord  help  us  to  set  our  own 
houses  in  order  thus  giving  a  good  example  to  those 
who  may  come  to  us. 

Malmo,  Sweden. 

4»   *   * 

WASHING    DISHES. 


If  we  can  wash  dishes  nicely  we  are  in  a  fair  way  to 
become  nice  housekeepers  in  other  respects. 

This  from  the  New  York  Tribune  may  prove  use- 
ful for  those  of  us  who  are  in  families  as  helps  or  are 
mistresses  of  our  own  homes. 

We  have  certain  rules  at  Carlisle  that  do  not  apply 
in  a  private  family ;  but  let  all  our  girls  read  this  clip- 
ping and  see  if  they  can  improve  on  the  suggestions : 

Put  the  dishes  in  hot  suds. 

Use  the  dish  mop  freely,  and  transfer  them  to  the 
other  pan  to  be  rinsed. 

Let  this  second  pan  be  very  large  and  have  a  wooden 
drainer  fitted  in  two  inches  from  the  bottom,  so  that 
the  boiling  water  poured  over  the  dishes  will  drain  off 
them. 

This  is  the  best  and  safest  way  of  draining.  ' 

Wash  pots,  spiders  and  kettles  with  an  iron  dishcloth. 

Where  food  has  adhered  firmly  to  the  bottom  of  the 
saucepan  and  it  is  difficult  to  scrape  it  off,  let  the  pan, 
filled  with  soapsuds,  stand  on  the  back  of  the  stove  for 
a  few  moments. 

Wash  pots  and  kettles  outside  and  inside,  rubbing 
off  any  pot  black  on  the  bottom  with  a  piece  of  news- 
paper. 

When  dishes  and  kitchen  utensils  are  washed  in  this 
way,  dishcloths  and  dishtowels  will  not  become  foul 
and  require  such  continual  washing  with  soda  and 
scalding  water  as  is  usual. 

PASS    IT    ON. 


BY  A.  BLANCHE  LENTZ. 

Here  is  an  idea  that  has  proved  such  a  help  to  me 
that  I  want  my  Nook  sisters  to  share  it.  It  is  especially 
directed  to  those  who  use  a  gasoline  stove  that  is  not  a 
self-generator.  Others  may  read  it  too  and  then  pass 
it  on  to  those  who  may  profit  by  it. 

Many  of  you   know  how   dirty   and  soot-begrimed 
\  the  burners  of  these  gasoline  stoves  become.    Well,  all 


this  may  be  avoided  by  generating  with  alcohol, — wood 
alcohol.  Keep  a  bottle  of  it  near  the  stove.  When  a 
burner  is  to  be  used,  fill  the  little  cup  with  alcohol,  apply 
the  match  and  when  it  has  burned  down  turn  on  the 
gasoline.  At  the  end  of  a  week  of  daily  use  you  can 
rub  your  fingers  over  the  burner  and  they  will  scarcely 
be  soiled. 

*  *   * 

APPLE    COBBLER. 


A  substitute  for  apple  dumplings :  To  one  quart 
of  flour  add  a  heaping  teaspoonful  of  baking  powder, 
and  enough  sweet  cream  to  make  a  soft  dough.  Roll 
thin  and  line  a  deep  pan.  Pare  and  core  tart  apples 
and  fill  the  pan,  then  cover  them  with  some  of  the 
dough.  Prick  the  dough  with  a  fork  and  place  in  a 
moderate  oven.  After  baking  to  a  slight  crispness, 
pour  over  it  a  syrup  made  of  one  cup  of  water  and  one 
cup  of  sugar.  Bake  for  about  one  hour  and  serve 
warm  with  sugar  and  milk. 

♦>   *  ♦ 

Two  voung  girls  went  down  street  the  other  day,  ar- 
rayed in  "  swell  "  new  suits  of  what  looked  to  be  the 
most  expensive  kind  of  linen  crash,  of  the  coarse  vari- . 
ety  so  much  in  vogue.  "  Do  you  see  those  girls'  linen 
suits?  "  some  one  said.  "  They  are  made  out  of  dish- 
toweling,  the  kind  that  comes  at  five  cents  a  yard,  and 
the  girls  told  me  that  they  didn't  cost  a  dollar  apiece, 
all  told,  including  buttons  and  thread."  The  girls  made 
them  with  narrow  gores,  on  account  of  the  width  of  the 
goods,  and,  put  cunning  little  pockets,  buttoned  with 
a  flap,  on  the  left  side  of  the  shirt-waist.  They  wore 
with  them  turn-over  collars  made  of  the  same  material, 
tied  with  a  brown  and  white  dotted  ribbon,  and  a  brown 
velvet  belt.  Girls,  here's  an  idea  for  you.  a.  m.  k. 
♦   *  4* 

Don't  fail  to  growl  and  grumble  about  the  hard 
times  of  the  farmer.  It  will  keep  the  happiness  of 
your  family  under  proper  restraint. 

WHEN. 


When  cherries  grow  on  apple  trees. 

And  kittens  wear  lace  caps, 
And   boys   their  sisters   never  tease. 

And  bears  wear  woolen  wraps; 
When  all  the  nursery  dolls  and  toys 

Begin  to  dance  and  play. 
When  little  boys  and  little  giris 

May  lie  in  bed  all  day. 

When  donkeys  learn  to  sing  and  dance, 

When  pigs  talk  politics; 
When  London  is  a  town  in  France, 

When  two  and  two  make  six; 
When  drops  of  rain  are  real  pearls. 

When  coal  is  clear  and  white. 
Then  little  boys  and  little  girl- 

-May  sit  up  late  at  night. 

— G.  Clifton  Bingham,  in  X.  V.  Tribune. 


ii4 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  23.   1904. 


Ullf   OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE    till 


BONNIE  WAYNE. 


My!  but  Frank  wuz  mad  about  that  pump.  He 
couldn't  get  a  bit  of  water  out  of  it-  and  he  told  Mr. 
Marshall  that  if  he  had  known  that  he  couldn't  get 
water  from  the  well  that  he  would  have  watered  the 
horses  at  the  creek  down  in  the  pasture.  And  Mr. 
Marshall  said,  "What  is  the  matter  of  the  pump?" 
'Nen  Frank  said  he  thought  that  those  town  kids  had 
put  a  lot  of  gravel  in  the  top  of  the  pump  so  that  it 
could  not  draw  water.  Luke  and  me  laid  still  in  the 
haymow  and  looked  out  of  the  cracks  and  we 
thought  Mr.  Marshall  would  laugh  like  he  did  about 
the  butter  on  the  screen  door,  but  he  looked  very  sober 
like  he  wuz  thinking  awful  hard  about  something  and 
I  guess  he  wuz ;  Luke  said  that  he  wuz  afraid  that  he 
would  make  us  go  home,  but  I  didn't  think  that,  'cause 
he  said  that  he  wuz  glad  that  we  came  and  it  wouldn't 
be  nice  to  send  us  home  so  soon ;  do,  you  think  so  ? 

Just  then  Mr.  Bradley  came  long  and  Frank  asked 
him  to  help  him  with  the  pump  and  so  all  three  of  them 
took  hold  of  the  pump  and  pulled  it  out  by  the  roots 
and  they  turned  it  upside  down  and  my !  I  didn't  think 
we  had  put  that  much  sand  down  its.  throat !  And  Mr. 
Bradley  said,  "Why,  Mr.  Marshall,  does  Mabel  do  such 
tricks  as  that?  I  thought  she  wuz  too  old  for  that." 
And  before  he  could  say  anything,  Frank  said,  "  Naw 
— there  are  a  couple  of  town  kids  out  here  on  a  fresh 
air  vacation  and  I  think  the}'  are  pretty  fresh  too,"  and 
he  said  it  like  he  wuz  all  out  of  fix  about  it.  Mr. 
Marshall  poured  some  water  in  the  pump  and  they 
twisted  it  together  again.  'Nen  they  hooked  it  fast  to 
the  big  wheel  way  up  high  and  the  wind  wuz  blowing 
and  it  just  pumped  as  fast  as  it  could.  'Nen  we  wuz 
afraid  that  they  would  scold  us  and  we  went  down 
through  the  barn  and  around  through  the  orchard  and 
came  in  through  the  kitchen  where  Mabel  and  Grand- 
ma and  Mrs.  Marshall  wuz  and  Grandma  says,  "  Laws- 
a-me,  here's  my  children  "  and  she  washed  us  and  said 
that  we  must  hurry  and  get  ready- for  dinner.  'Nen  she 
wanted  to  know  what  we  had  been  playing  at,  and 
Luke  said  that  we  had  been  up  in  the  haymow  after  the 
eggs  and  she  wanted  to  know  where  the  eggs  were 
and  we  told  her  that  we  had  left  them  on  the  fanning- 
mill  in  the  barn  and  so  we  did,  for  we  wuz  in  a  hurry 
to  get  out  of  the  barn  and  we  forgot  all  about  the  eggs. 
Frank  didn't  hardly  get  his  hair  combed  till  he  said, 
"  How  could  you  kids  reach  up  high  enough  to  put 
that  gravel  in  the  pump  ?  "  He  never  asked  us  if  we 
did  it  but  Luke  never  thought  and  he  said,  "  Wy  Bon- 


nie, she  stood  on  the  trough  and  I  handed  the  gravel 
up  to  her  and  she  put  it  in  the  pump,"  and  Grandma 
she  hung  her  head  to  one  side,  and  said  to  herself, 
"  Well-for-the-land-sakes  ;  "  Mrs.  Marshall  looked  sur- 
prised, and  Mabel  said,  "  Wy  Bonnie," — and  Mr. 
Marshall  wuz  carving  the  meat  and  as  he  passed  my 
plate  to  me  he  said,  "  Now  if  I  give  my  little  girl  a 
nice  piece  of  meat  will  she  fill  another  pump  with  grav- 
el this  afternoon?  'Nen  I  thought  sure  he  wuz  going 
to  scold  me  and  I  wuz  going  to  cry  but  I  guess  he  saw 
that  I  wuz  sorry  that  I  had  been  a  bad  girl  and  so  he 
said  that  if  I  would  go  and  take  a  nap  right  after  din- 
ner that  he  would  take  Luke  and  me  with  him  to  drive 
in  the  cart  and  that  we  would  drive  the  ponies. 

So  Luke  and  I  went  round  on  the  front  porch  to  take 
a  nap  where  it  wuz  cool,  and  we  couldn't  go  to  sleep 
for  we  wanted  to  talk  about  the  ride  we  were  going  to 
have.  I  asked  Luke  where  we  were  going,  and  he  said 
that  he  had  heard  Frank  and  Mr.  Marshall  say  that 
they  were  going  to  thresh  to-morrow  and  that  he  would 
have  to  go  and  tell  the  men  to  come  and  help  them  and 
so  he  thought  there  wuz  where  we  were  going  and  sure 
enough  there  wuz  where  we  went.  And  my!  it  wuz 
fun.  We  went  to  so  many  houses  and  everybody  wuz 
so  glad  to  see  us  with  Mr.  Marshall  and  he  would  tell 
the  folks  that  we  were  his  children.  And  they  all  said 
that  they  would  come  and  help  thresh  the  next  day. 
And  we  came  back  past  the  town,  and  we  bought  ever 
so  much  meat  and  a  great  big  lot  of  bread.  'Nen  Mr. 
Marshall  asked  us  if  we  liked  lemonade  and  we  told 
him  that  we  did,  and  he  said  that  the  threshers  did  too 
and  so  he  got  a  little  basket  full  of  lemons  and  told  the 
man  to  bring  out  two  gallons  of  ice  cream  by  half-past 
eleven  sure  and  he  said  that  he  would.  And  I  told 
Luke  that  I  wished  that  our  papas  and  mammas  would 
thresh  in  town  too  and  he  laughed  and  looked  wise 
and  said  that  we  had  nothing  to  thresh  and  I  don't  see 
why,  but  sometimes  he  thinks  he  is  so  smart.  And 
when  we  got  home  Mabel  and  her  mamma  had  baked 
three  of  the  biggest  and  nicest  cakes  with  little  red 
candies  all  over  them,  and  Grandma  had  some  cabbage 
all  chopped  up  fine  with  salt  and  vinegar  on  it  and  she 
let  us  taste  it  too,  but  I  bet  it  aint  as  good  as  the  ice 
cream.  'Nen  she  said  here  is  the  heart  you  may  have, 
and  I  never  knew  that  cabbage  had  a  heart,  but  we 
ate  it  and  it  wuz  awful  good.  I  tell  you  that  grandma 
always  knows  what  is  good  for  us,  don't  she?  Well, 
we'll  have  a  good  time  to-morrow,  I  bet.  j 

(to  be  continued.) 


THE    INGLEKOOK.— August  23,  1904. 


815 


«*!  Tfis  Q.  &  &.  department.  j#»" 


't, 


U 


Is  it  true  that  glass  is  a  modern  invention? 

No,  there  are  instances  where  pieces  of  glass  may  be 
traced  fifteen  to  twenty-five  hundred  years  before  the 
Christian  era,  especially  some  of  Egyptian  origin. 
Glass  is  said  to  have  been  first  used  about  750  years  be- 
fore Christ.  Phoenicians  ate  supposed  to  have  in- 
vented the  transmutation  of  glass.  Glass  was  intro- 
duced into  Rome  in  the  time  of  Cicero,  and  has  reached 
a  remarkable  degree  of  proficiency  among  the  Romans. 
Glass  was  not  used,  it  is  claimed  by  some  authorities, 
for  windows  until  300  A.  D.,  but  the  Nookman  saw 
pieces  of  glass  in  Pompeii  that  had  been  excava- 
ted there  that  was  covered  up  in  J2.  A.  D.  Glass  tear 
bottles  (Psalms  56:8)  are  being  uncovered  in  Pales- 
tine and  Greece  along  the  Mediterranean  sea  which  cer- 
tainly are  of  very  ancient  origin. 


Is  it  true  that  the  shark  has  seven  rows  of  teeth? 

It  is  supposed  to  be  true  that  they  possess  seven  rows 
of  teeth,  but  it  must  be  understood  that  they  only  use 
one  row  at  a  time,  the  other  rows  lying  down  inside  of 
the  mouth  waiting  their  turns  at  mastication.  They  are 
placed  behind  the  edge  of  the  jaw,  erecting  themselves 
in  time  to  take  successfully  the  place  of  the  first  row. 
When  one  notices  how  sharp  their  incisors  are  it  is  no 
wonder  they  can  bite  off  a  rope  as  if  it  were  a  pack 
thread. 

* 

Whore  was  Roosevelt  when  he  was  sworn  is  as  presi- 
dent? 

In  the  private  library  of  Mr.  Wilcox,  in  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.  The  oath  was  administered  by  the  United  States 
Judge,  John  R.  Hazel,  at  3 :  30  P.  M.,  Sept..  24,  1901. 


Is  the  Morse  alphabet  used  in  cablegrams  the  same  as 
in  telegrams? 

Just  the  same  alphabet  is  used,  but  when  the  opera- 
tor is  receiving  a  telegram  he  receives  it  by  sound  as 
the  instrument  makes  dots,  dashes  and  spaces,  and  must 
be  governed  altogether  by  the  reception  of  these  sounds. 
In  receiving  a  cablegram  the  operator  must  be  seated 
in  a  dark  room,  as  the  batteries  which  charge  his  wire 
cannot  be  made  sufficiently  strong  to  cause  the  instru- 
ment to  click  and  it  only  discharges  flashes  of  light  for 
the  dots,  dashes  and  spaces,  and  he  must  receive  these 
messages  by  sight  and  not  by  hearing.  This  is  the  ma- 
terial difference  between  cablegrams  and  telegrams. 


What  enables  a  fly  to  walk  on  the  ceiling? 

It  has  been  supposed  that  their  ability  to  do  this  rests 
in  the  miniature  air  pump  in  the  bottom  of  their  feet. 
This  was  found  to  be  untrue  through  scientific  investi- 
gation and  a  new  theory  was  advanced  that  travelling 
was  made  possible  by  the  means  of  a  viscous  substance 
which  exudes  from  the  hairs  on  their  feet.  But  the 
best  information  that  can  be  gained  on  this  question  is 
that  they  walk  upside  down  on  smooth  surfaces 
through  the  agency  of  capillary  adhesion. 

* 

How  did  Paul  Kruger  escape  from  the  Transvaal? 

He  escaped  through  Portuguese  territory  to  a  1  hitch 
man-of-war,  in  October,  1900.  He  went  to  Europe  and 
sought  the  intervention  of  the  powers,  in  the  hope  that 
he  could  save  the  South  African  republic.  His  mis- 
sion failed,  and  he  remained  in  exile.  He  died  recently 
with  a  broken  heart. 


How  far  is  the  sun  from  the  earth? 
The  sun  is  92,500,000  miles  from  the  earth.     The 
latter  receives  only  one  two-billionths  of  the  solar  heat. 
* 

What  are  the  ten  largest  cities  in  the  world  in  their 
order  at  the  present  time? 

London,  New  York,  Paris,  Berlin,  Chicago,  Vienna, 
Canton,  Pekin  and  Philadelphia. 


What    is    the    distance    between    New    York    and    Phila- 
delphia? 

Any  good  map  of  scale  will  tell  you.    The  distance 
is  about  ninety  miles. 

* 

What  was  the  attendance  at  the  World's   Fair  on  the 
Fourth  of  July? 

One   of  the   St.   Louis   papers   stated   that    it    was 
172,140. 

* 

Is  it  a  fact  that  persons  holding  a  silver  dollar  bearing 
the  date  of  1844  will  be  given  a  free   trip  to  the  World's 
,  Fair? 

No. 

* 

What  is  the  address  of  James  Whitcomb  Riley? 

Indianapolis,  Indiana,  care  Union  Trust  Company. 

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What  day  of  the  week  was  January  5.  1866? 

Friday. 

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Who  is  the  poet  laureate  of  England? 
Alfred  Austin. 


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THE  GOLDEN  RULE  EXEMPLIFIED. 


Early  one  morning,  while  it  was  yet  dark,  a  poor 
man  came  to  my  door,  and  informed  me  that  he  had 
an  infant  child  very  sick,  which  he  was  afraid  would 
die.  He  desired  me  to  go  to  his  home,  and,  if  possible, 
prescribe  some  medicine  to  relieve  it.  "  For,"  said  he, 
"  I  want  to  save  its  life  if  possible."  As  he  spoke  this 
the  tears  ran  down  his  face.    He  then  added : 

"  I  am  a  poor  man ;  but,  doctor,  I  will  pay  you  in 
work  as  much  as  you  ask  if  you  will  go."  I  said,  "  Yes, 
I  will  go  with  you  as  soon  as  I  take  a  little  refresh- 
ment." 

"  O,  sir,"  said  he.  "  I  was  going  to  try  to  get  a 
bushel  of  corn,  and  get  it  ground,  to  carry,  and  I  am 
afraid  the  child  will  die  before  I  get  home.  I  wish 
you  would  not  wait  for  me,"  and  then  added — "  We 
want  to  save  the  child's  life  if  we  can." 

It  being  some  miles  to  his  house,  I  did  not  arrive 
there  until  the  sun  was  two  hours  high  in  the  morn- 
ing, where  I  found  the  mother  holding  her  sick  child, 
and  six  or  seven  little  ragged  boys  and  girls  around 
her,  with  clean  hands  and  faces,  looking  as  their  moth- 
er did.  lean  and  poor.  On  examining  the  sick  child,  I 
discovered  it  was  starving  to  death !  I  said  to  the 
mother — 

"  You  don't  give  milk  enough  for  this  child." 

She  said,  "  I  suppose  I  don't." 

"  Well,"  said  I,  "  you  must  feed  it  with  milk." 

She  said,  '"  I  would,  sir,  but  I  can't  get  any  to  feed 
it  with." 

I  then  said,  "  It  will  be  well  then  for  you  to  make  a 
little  water  gruel,  and  feed  your  child." 

To  tljis  she  said,  "  I  was  thinking  I  would  if  my 
husband  brings  home  some  Indian  meal.  He  has  gone 
to  try  to  get  some,  and  I  am  in  hopes  he  will  make  out." 

She  said  all  this  with  a  sad  countenance.  I  asked 
her  with  surprise,  "  Why,  madam,  have  you  nothing 
to  eat  ?  " 

She  strove  to  suppress  a  tear,  and  answered  sorrow- 
fully, "  No  sir,  we  have  had  but  little  these  some  days." 

I  said,  "  What  are  your  neighbors,  that  you  should 
suffer  among  them  ?  " 

She  said,  "  I  suppose  they  are  good  people ;  but  we 
are  strangers  in  this  place,  and  don't  wish  to  trouble 
any  of  them,  if  we  can  get  along  without." 

I  thought  I  would  give  the  little  child  a  little  manna, 
so  I  asked  for  a  spoon.  The  little  girl  went  to  the  table 
drawer  to  get  one,  and  her  mother  said  to  her,  "  Get 


the  longest  handled  spoon."  As  she  opened  the  drawer, 
I  saw  only  two  spoons,  and  both  with  the  handles  brok- 
en off,  but  one  handle  was  a  little  longer  than  the  other. 
Thinks  I  to  myself  this  is  a  very  poor  family,  but  I 
will  do  the  best  I  can  to  relieve  them.  While  I  was  pre- 
paring the  medicine  for  the  sick  child,  I  heard  the  old- 
est boy  (who  was  about  fourteen)  say,  "You  shall 
have  the  biggest  piece  now,  because  I  had  the  biggest 
piece  before."  I  turned  round  to  see  who  it  was  that 
manifested  such  a  principle  of  justice,  and  I  saw  four 
or  five  children  sitting  in  the  corner,  where  the  oldest 
was  dividing  a  roasted  potato  among  them.  And  he 
said  to  one.  "  You  shall  have  the  biggest  piece  now," 
etc.  But  the  other  said,  "  Why,  brother,  you  are  the 
oldest,  and  you  ought  to  have  the  biggest  piece." 

-  "  No,"  said  the  other.  "  I  had  the  biggest  piece  be- 
fore." 

I  turned  to  the  mother,  and  said :  "  Madam,  you 
have  potatoes  to  eat  I  suppose  ?  " 

She  replied,  "  We  have  had,  but  that  is  the  last  one 
left ;  and  the  children  have  now  roasted  that  for  their 
breakfast." 

On  hearing  this,  I  hastened  home,  and  informed  my 
wife  that  I  had  taken  the  wrong  medicine  with  me  to 
the  sick  family.  I  then  prescribed  a  gallon  of  milk 
and  two  loaves  of  bread,  some  butter,  meat  and  pota- 
toes, and  sent  my  boy  with  these,  and  had  the  pleasure 
to  hear  in  a  few  days  that  they  were  all  well. 

The  principle  of  juctice  manifested  in  those  children 
delighted  my  soul,  and  was  a  rich  reward  for  all  my 
labor.  O,  how  good  and  how  pleasant  it  is  for  breth- 
ren to  dwell  together  in  unity  and  love !  To  see  them 
in  time  of  distress  and  starvation  so  just  and  liberal 
as  to  give  each  one  his  full  share  of  roasted  potato,  was 
a  pleasant  sight.  O,  the  sweet  words,  "  You  shall  have 
the  biggest  piece  now,  because  I  had  the  biggest  piece 
before!  "  May  every  child  embrace  this  just  and  lov- 
ing principle! — .V.  Y.  Cabinet. 

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— Chapman. 


The   Brethren   Colonies 


IN    THE 


Fruit  Belt  of  Michigan 


are  an  actual  success.  The  colony  of  the  Lakeview  church  is  located  on 
lands  surrounding  the  village  of  Brethren,  Michigan.  Brethren,  Michigan, 
is  located  on  the  main  line  of  the  Pere  Marquette  System,  105  miles  north 
of  Grand  Rapids  and  about  14  miles  east  of  Lake  Michigan.  All  conditions 
of  soil,  climate  and  location  make  this  spot  an  ideal  one  for  general  farm- 
ing, fruit-growing  and  stock-raising.  Lands  have  been  sold  to  about  120 
families  of  the  Brotherhood  and  their  friends,  of  which  number  about  one- 
half  have  already  located  and  are  clearing  up  their  places.  The  possibili- 
ties of  this  district  are  exceptional.  The  Brethren  tract  embraces  about 
20,000  acres,  of  which  over  11,000  acres  have  already  been  sold.  There  are 
just  as  good  and  as  desirable  locations  remaining  as  those  that  have  been 
bought  and  the  prices  have  not  yet  been  advanced,  but  with  the  improve- 
ments now  going  on,  developing  the  country  so  rapidly,  it  is  only  a  short 
time  till  prices  advance  considerably.  THE  TIME  TO  BUY  IS  NOW. 
Present  prices  range  from  $7  to  $15  per  acre,  on  easy  terms,  or  less  five 
(5)   per  cent  for  cash. 

For  illustrated  booklet  and  information  in  regard  to  rates,  address 
Samuel  S.  Thorpe,  District  Agent  Michigan  Land  Association,  Cadillac, 
Mich. 


THE    CADILLAC    TRACT. 


The  basis  of  my  business  is  absolute  and 

unvarying  integrity. 

SAMUEL  S.  THORPE. 


25,000  Acres  of  Rich  Agricul- 
tural Lands,  Excellently  Situated  and  Splen- 
didly Adapted  for  Farming,  Fruit-growing  and 
Stock-raising. 

These  lands  are  located  from  one-half  mile  to  six  miles  from  the  hustling  city  of  Cadillac,  the  seat  of  Wexford 
county,  8,ooo  inhabitants,  (all  alive,)  and  its  location  on  the  Grand  Rapids  and  Indiana  R'y  (part  of  the  Pennsylvania 
System)  and  on  the  Ann  Arbor  Railroad  (part  of  the  Wabash  System)  together  with  its  other  advantages  render 
it  the  best  trading  point  and  market  place  in  Northern  Michigan.  Cadillac  and  the  lands  controlled  by  the  ad- 
vertiser are  located  about  98  miles  north  of  Grand  Rapids  and  50  miles  east  of  Lake  Michigan.  They  are  well  wa- 
tered with  springs,  creeks,  rivers  and  lakes  of  pure,  sparkling  water  teeming  with  gamy  fish.  The  seil  varies  from 
a  sandy  loam  to  a  clay  loam,  all  of  it  underlaid  with  clay  and    gravel  subsoil,  which  responds  eagerly  to  cultivation. 

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vegetables  a  perpetual  luxury.  To 
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market. 

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East  Central  Kansas  is  the  best  part 
of  the  State  for  general  farming  and 
raising  stock.  Well  watered,  Marlon 
county's  average  crop  acreage  Is  110,000 
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acres  oats,  20,000  acres  alfalfa.  We 
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gain. Will  say  to  the  Brethren  that  are 
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You  must  cure  disease  by  supplying  to  the  system 
the  natural  material  necessary  for  rebuilding  the  worn- 
out  and  affected  parts.  You  would  never  think  of 
mending  a  stone  bridge  over  a  river  with  flour  paste, 
neither  would  you  try  to  extinguish  a  fire  by  throw- 
ing oil  on  it,  but  you  would  choose  the  proper  ma- 
terial in  both  cases.  You  mend  your  shoes  with  leath- 
er, your  garments  with  cloth ;  so  in  sickness,  the  prop- 
er material  must  be  supplied.  When  that  has  been 
done,  the  system  will  repair  itself.  Xothing  else  will 
answer  the  purpose.  You  cannot  appease  a  hungry 
stomach  with  wind,  or  quench  thirst  with  dry  fruit. 

DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER  is  com- 
pounded from  Nature's  medicinal  herbs.  It  is,  in 
fact.  Nature's  remedy,  as  it  contains  the  natural  ele- 
ments in  the  proportion  which  the  body  demands  in 
order  to  maintain  a  normal  equilibrium.  The  BLOOD 
VITALIZER  is  not  only  a  medicine  of  highly  cura- 
tive power,  but  a  tonic,  which  helps  nature  to  build 
up  the  sick,  enfeebled  system,  thereby  fulfilling  the 
mission  assigned  to  the  medicine,  by  its  discoverer, 
over  a  hundred  years  ago. 

TELLS    ABOUT    HIS    WIFE. 

Blanket,  Tex.,  June  28,  1904. 
Dr.  P.  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Sir: — It  is  now  seven  years  ago  since  I  received 
the  first  copy  of  your  paper  "  The  Surprise."  I  suppose 
seme  one  gave  you  my  name.  I  received  several  copies 
after  that,  but  I  would  throw  them  aside,  calling  them 
"  patent  medicine  "  circulars. 

One  rainy  day,  however,  when  I  was  out  of  something 
to  read,  I  picked  up  one  of  your  papers  and  read  it 
through.  I  found  it  different  from  anything  I  had  read. 
I  said  to  my  wife,  I  am  going  to  send  for  some  of  that 
Blood  Vitalizer.  She  was  in  her  45th  year  and  in  poor 
health.  She  looked  as  if  she  had  been  dried  and  smoked. 
While  using  the  Blood  Vitalizer  she  gained  13  pounds 
in  weight  and  her  skin,  to  our  surprise,  became  as  clear 
and  white  as  when  she  was  a  girl.  I  used  it  for  rheuma- 
tism and  have  never  been  troubled  with  it  since. 

Yours  Truly, 

W.   P.   McKinney. 


CAN   WORK    AGAIN. 

Allegheny,  Pa.,  May  29,  1904. 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago.  111. 

Dear  Sir: — I  was  confined  to  my  bed  by  a  very  sore 
leg  and  foot.  I  used  many  different  medicines  but  they 
did  no  good.  Finally  I  was  advised  to  try  your  Blood 
Vitalizer  and  after  the  use  of  a  few  bottles  I  was  cured. 
I  am  now  able  to  work  again.  I  can  recommend  your 
Blood  Vitalizer  to  every  one  as  a  good  medicine. 

Yours  Truly. 

Chas.  Ebert. 

A    GRATEFUL    WOMAN. 

Waco,  Texas,  Feb.  18,  1904. 
Dr.  P.  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Sir: — Had  it  not  been  for  your  Blood  Vitalizer  I 
know  I  would  have  been  confined  to  my  bed.  I  was  af- 
flicted with  rheumatism  and  extreme  nervousness,  which 
at  my  age,  65  years,  made  life  almost  unendurable. 

My  wonderful  improvement  I  owe.  next  to  God.  to  your 
Blood  Vitalizer.  My  neighbors  who  have  used  it  are  also 
full  of  its  praise.  Yours  Truly, 

400  21st  St.  Louisa  Mohr. 

SAVED    HIS    LIFE. 

Stanton,  Nebr..  June  18,  1904. 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Sir: — Enclosed  find  an  order  for  medicine  which 
please  send  to  my  son  Joseph  Kumpenberger,  in  Washing- 
ton, Mo.  He  was  in  a  very  bad  fix.  all  the  doctors  in 
Washington  gave  him  up.  He  was  half  dead.  One  of 
them  said  he  had  consumption,  another  said  his  lungs 
were  destroyed,  and  so  on.  I  have  saved  his  life  by  the 
use  of  your  Blood  Vitalizer  and  put  the  doctors  to  shame. 
The  trouble  appears  to  have  been  in  his  stomach  with 
general    emaciation.  Respectfully, 

Mrs.  B.  Westerman. 

Such   is   the   testimony    of   people   who   have   used 
this  time-tried  herb  remedy.     It  is  not  necessary  how- 
ever that  you  should  go  by  the  word  of  others.     Try 
for  yourself  and  be  convinced  that  the  DR.  PETER'S 
BLOOD  VITALIZER  is  the  peer  of  all  blood  and! 
constitutional  remedies  ever  prepared.     It  is  not  sold  j 
in  drugstores  but  is  supplied  to  the  people  direct  by 
special  agents   appointed   in   every   community.     Fur- 
ther particulars  gladly  furnished  by  the  proprietor. 


DR.   PETER    FAHRNEY, 


112=114  S.  Hoyne  Avenue, 

CHICAGO,  ILL. 


Catarrh  ==  Head  Colds  ==  Deafness 


Why  Suffer  When  Liquid  Spray  Will  Cure  Yon? 

We  Will  Mail  it  on  Trial  Free. 


Don't  take  medicine  in  the  stomach  to  kill 
germs  of  disease  in  the  head.  LIQUID  SPRAT 
immediately  relieves  and  cures  Catarrh,  Head 
Colds,  Hay  Fever,  Asthma,  Buzzing  and  Roaring 
in 'the  head,  Partial  Deafness  and  La-  Grippe. 
You  cannot  cure  Catarrh,  Asthma  and  Hay  Fever 
with  the  same  remedy,  don't  be  deceived.  Each 
disease  must  be  treated  by  the  Specific  that  re- 
moves the  c-  use  of  that  disease.  Our  new  Spe- 
cifics act  directly  upon  the  cause,  hence  diseases 
disappear. 

liquid  SPEAY  is  the  only  common  sense 
treatment  of  the  world  to-day.  Others  some- 
times relieve  but  fail  to  cure.  Our  Medicator 
converts  the  fluid  oil  specifics  into  the  finest  medi- 
cated vapor  which  penetrates  the  obscure  air 
cells  and  tubes,  even  to  the  inner  ear.  and  makes 
breathing  easy,  and  heals  the  sore  places  by  lining 
the  inner  surface  with  the  antiseptic  healing  oils. 

LIQUID  SPEAY  is  absorbed  by  the  mucous 
membrane  and  is  carried  to  every  cavity  of  the 
head  by  natural  breathing,  destroying  the  germs 
of  disease  in  the  head,  throat  and  lungs.  Thou- 
sands of  our  old  customers  will  be  glad  to  test 
this  new  treatment.  To  prove  that  this  is  not 
idle  talk,  we  will  mail  our  Medicator  and  the 
proper  specific,  free,  to  any  reader  of  this  paper 
naming  his  ailment. 

OUR    SPECIAL    OFFER. 

I   will   mail   any   reader  of  the  Inglenook  who 
will   name  his   ailment   one   of   my   Spray   Medi- 
cators  and  four  drachms  LIQUID  SPRAY  suited 
to   his   disease   on   FIVE   days    trial   Free.     If    it 
gives   satisfaction,   send  me   $2.00    (which   is  two- 
fifths   price),  if  not  satisfactory  return   it  at  the 
expired  time  which   will  on]#r  cost  you   12   cents 
postage  and  you  will  not  owe  me  a  penny.     No 
one  can  ask  a  better  offer. 
If  you  have  Rheumatism  or  Kidney  trouble,  mention  it  and    I    will    include   free,   a  sample   treatment   of   Australian   Life 
Tablets.     This  remedy  acts  upon  the  Uric  Acid  poison   in  the  plasma  of  the  blood  and  Quickly  relieves  and  permanently  cures 
these  diseases. 

If    you    are    tired    of   being  imposed    upon,    try   a   cure    that   cures,    and    her*    it    is.     Write    to-day    as    this    announcement 
may   not  appear  again. 


Address :    E.  J.  Worst,  61  Elmore  Block.  Ashland,  Obio. 


We  have 
you.      You 


IMPORTANT    ANNOUNCEMENT. 

This  announcement  is  made  expressly  for  the  readers  of 
the  Inglenook  and  their  friends,  and  we  shall  hope  to  hear 
from  all  of  the  Inglenook  readers.  You  need  this  treatment, 
Just  mention  the  Inglenook  and  we  will  send  you  something 
that  will  make  our  acquaintance  a  mutual  benefit. 
Kou sands  of  testimonials,  but  they  won't  cure 
mi  st  try  the  treatment  yourself  to  get  the  benefit. 

TAKE    NOTICE. 

Please    remember    that    in   addition    to   our    Spray    treatment 
fer  'licenses  of  the  air  passages,  we  offer  one  of  the  best  rem- 
-             ver    discovered    for    Rheumatism    ami    Kidney    trouble. 
Hi  kl\    kidneys    bring    on    Rheumatism,    hence    these    two    dls- 
o  together.     "We  have  no  faith  in  a  remedy   that  prom- 
MBS   to  'Hi-   everything  for   they  generally  cure   nothing.     We 
it'ii    the   cause   of  each  general   disease   with   a   specific   for 
-ease,  hence  the  disease  itself  disappears.      Our  Austral- 
ian Life  Tablets  have  won  a  great  fame  for  quick  and  lasting 
cures    for   Rheumatism  and   Kidney   trouble.     We   are  anxious 
El re  people  try  them.     We  will   include  a    sample   treat- 
ment   of   this   remedy    with    the   Spray   Medicator   if   you    have 
either  Rheumatism  or  Kidney  trouble  and  ask  for  it,  or  if  you 
[.n-i.r   We  will  send  a  sample  of  this1  treatment  with  full  direc- 
tly.    Yon  are  to  keep  your  money  until  we  demonstrate 
tint    our   treatments   are   worth    the   price  asked.     When    writ- 
Mi.:     name  your  ailm-nr.  I 


Agents 
Wanted. 


Address 


Extracts  from  A.  L.  Taber's  Letters.  - 

Ashland,  Ore..  July  10.  150-1. 
Mr.  E.  J.  Worst: — I  enclose  Express  Order  for  another  lot 
of  Medieators  and  Tablets.  I  am  selling  more  of  your  goods 
now  than- ever  before.  The  Tablets  are  selling  much  better 
than  formerly.  I  have  made  $76.30  in  the  last  four  days, 
retailing  to  individual  customers,  r  can  make  $20.00  more 
Friday  and  Saturday.  (Signed)    A.  L.  Taber. 

Lake  Side.  Ore..  July  16,  1904. 
Mr.  E.  J.  Worst: — I  received  the  goods  O.  K.  I  am  having 
some  big  days.  I  cleared  $71.30  during  the  last  four  days. 
The  other  gentleman  who  has  been  traveling  with  me.  has 
i  I  ire  business  and  is  going  to  devote  all  his 
time  to  the  sale  of  your  Medii  ators  and  Tablets,  w.  ... 
to  make  some  big  sales.  Yours  truly.  A    L.  Taber. 

Burns,   Ore.,   July   29.   1904. 
Mr.    E.    J.    Worst: — Enclosed    find    Money    Order    for    more 
We   iust  arrived  here  yesterday  and  have  worked   one 
,!  mi  £26.20.  Yours  truly.  A.  L.  Taber. 

p.  S. — Mr.  Taber  has  beer  selling  our  Medieators  and  Tab- 
four  years  in  California  and  Oregon.  He  has  sold  In 
this  time  many  thousand  dollars  worth.  He  has  frequently 
written  me  that  he  seldom  makes  less  than  $12  a  day,  I 
mentioned  this  in  addition  to  the  extracts  from  his  letters 
on  even  dates  above,  to  show  what  an  agent  can  do  when  he 
gives   ill  I  la  time  to  the  sale  of  - 

E.  J.  WORST,  61  Elmore  Block,  Ashlafld,  OfalO. 


Do  You 
Believe 


That  a  man  can  conform  his  life  or  square  his  business  in  agreement  with 
New  Testament  standards?  That  the  Golden  Rule  can  be  applied  in  busi- 
ness without  inviting  financial  suicide?  No!  Then  read  no  further.  We 
only  solicit  people  who  believe  as  we  do  on  the  score  of  Christian  character 
in  business.  We  aim  to  have  our  business  owned  and  controlled  at  all 
times  by  people  of  character  and  clean  lives. 


Our   Plan  of 
Co-operation 

Is  entirely  original  with 
Mr.  H-  P.  Albaugh.  the 
President  of  the  corpora- 
tion, and  lias  never  been 
used  before  in  connection 
with  any  business  enter- 
prise. The  plan  has  been 
canvassed  by  the  best  le- 
gal and  business  talent  in 
the  country  and  has  been 
universally  pronounced 
*•  Co-operation  "  reduced 
to   a   science. 

It  is  so  easy  that  a  child 
can  secure  somewhat  of  a 
holding,  and  there  is  ab- 
solutely no  chance  for  one 
or  more  to  take  advantage 
of  any  Co-operator. 

This  unique  proposition 
is  being  protected  by  the 
copyright  and  patent  laws 
and  eliminates  the  ele- 
ments of  failure  from  the 
business. 


A  SURE  ^oOCHER  STOCK  0r  A  SAFE 

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A  sound        1*^tto  Investment. 


Use  of 
Capital 


There  is  no  promoter  or 
fiscal  agent,  bank  or  un- 
der-writing institution 
getting  a  rake-off.  but  ev- 
ery dollar  goes  into  the 
Treasury  of  the  Company 
and  is  used  in  extending 
its  business. 

The  money  coming  from 
the  placing  of  these  con- 
tracts just  drips  into  the 
Treasury  month  after 
month  and  year  after 
year  as  a  conservative, 
legitimate  business  -needs 
its  extension  capital.  The 
funds  are  also  laid  up 
against  the  future  in  such 
a  way  that  no  one  can  get 
the  money  before  maturi- 
ty, nor  is  it  affected  by 
bank  failure,  rascality  or 
depression. 


Our  Purpose 

It  is  to  enlist  a  large  number  of  Co- 
operators — men,  women  and  children, 
all  over  this  great  country,  in  every 
community,  who  will,  impelled  by  the 
sense  of  ownership  and  personal  profit, 
make  it  their  business  to  become  walk- 
ing, talking  advertisements  for  their 
great  establishment,  who  no  matter  if 
they  hold  but  one  share,  will  feel  proud 
of  the  ownership  and  do  as  owners  do, 
Talk  the  Business — Push  the  Business 
— BOOM  THE  BUSINESS.  In  other 
words — we  want  our  stockholders  to  be 
active  in  and  for  the  business — be 
owners,  customers  and  advertisers — all 
in  one. 

We  want  every  reader  who  can  fur- 
nish credentials  to  become  a  stockhold- 
er in  this  Company  and  help  make  tb.e 
largest  Mail  Order  House  and  the 
greatest  Co-operative  store  in  the 
world.  If  you  are  a  farmer,  a  labor- 
er, a  clerk,  a  merchant,  or  a  banker — 
connection  with  our  "Co-operative  insti- 
tution will  be  worth  many  times  what- 
ever investment  you  may  make,  in  the 
information  you  will  gain.  It  will  ac- 
quaint you  with  the  machinery  of  busi- 
ness— promotion,  advertising,  buying 
and  selling,  accounting,  managing  and 
financing  one  of  the  world's  greatest 
stores.  Stockholders  are  always  wel- 
come to  visit  the  establishment,  and 
pains  will  be  taken  to  acquaint  them 
with    every  detail. 

Our  books  and  every  transaction  are 
open  to  their  inspection  and  we  deal 
with  them  only  upon  the  basis  of 
frankness  and  willingness  to  present 
each  and  everv  side  of  the  business  to 
the  broad  daylight  of  investigation. 

"We  want  YOTJ  to  join  ITS  and  ask 
vou  to  write  for  complete  information 
which  we  will  send  free  of  charge  on 
re  loest. 


Detailed  Plan  of 
Capitalization 

The  capital  stock  of  the  Company  is 
$500,000,  consisting  of  5.000  shares  of 
$100.00  each  and  divided  as  follows: 

At  present  the  Five  Directors  and 
the  Associate  Stockholders  hold  (1,000 
shares)    §100,000  worth   of  stock. 

The  Co-operators  who  purchased  the 
1504  series  of  voucher  contracts  hold 
(1,500  shares)   $150,000  worth  of  stock. 

The  If 05  series  of  voucher  contracts 
f  1,500  shares)  $150,000  worth  of  stock, 
is  now  offered  for  sale,  arid  is  being 
subscribed   at  a   very  rapid  rate. 

The  other  (1.000  shares)  $100,000 
worth  of  stock  is  to  be  held  in  the 
treasury  for  the  purpose  of  selling  out- 
right or  disposing  of  as  the  stockhold- 
ers may  determine.  Now.  dear  Xook- 
er,  do  not  confound  this  liberal  offer  of 
making  you  a  partner  in  the  business 
with  many  of  the  schemes  in  which 
you  are  asked  to  join  and  which  are 
heing  floated  by  some  financial  insti- 
tution for  the  enrichment  of  a  few 
promoters. 

There  is  no  such  risk  in  putting  your 
money  into  a  legitimate,  high-grade 
business  which  has  a  successful  record 
of  four  years  standing.  There  are  no 
"  ifs  "  nor  "  ands  "  in  A.  B..  D.  &  Co's 
stock.  It  is  "pay  dirt"  right  now  and 
for  sale  only  to  gain  the  Co-operation 
of  thousands  of  customers.  It  is  not 
a  matter  of  money  now.  but  instead  the 
connection  and  affiliation  we  desire  and 
offer  you  the  best  opportunity  you  ever 
had  to  engage  in  actual  co-operation 
by  a  moderate  investment  in  this  great 
enterprise.  Possibility  equals  $3,000 
in  20  years  by  saving  ~\\  cents  per  day. 


Nothing  Succeeds  Like  Success 

Co-operation  is  a  success  and  noth- 
ing is  succeeding  like  "  Scientific  Co- 
operation." It  has  gained  us  new 
friends  in  many  States.  What  is  its 
great  charm  ?  What  brings  into  our 
circle  of  Co-operators  hundreds  of  en- 
thusiastic men  and  women  from  all 
walks  of  life?  Scientific  Co-operation 
is  a  new  force  of  industry,  the  inspira- 
tion of  which  is  fraternity,  the  method 
is  economy,  the  principle  is  business 
logic.  It  eliminates  the  middleman, 
gives  the  producer  and  consumer  a 
chance  to  do  their  business  without 
paying  tribute  to  "  go  betweens."  The 
producer  gets  more  for  his  labor;  the 
consumer  pays  less  for  his  needs,  and 
the  profits  flow  back  into  the  pockets 
of  all  the  people  who  create  them. 

Scientific  Co-operation  as  first  in- 
augurated and  applied  by  our  Company 
is  the  only  practical  basis  on  which  a 
safe  co-operative  Mercantile  business 
can  be  conducted.  It  is  the  kind  of  or- 
ganization that  makes  for  success,  and 
in  the  history  of  the  Co-operative 
movement,  this  is  the  first  time  that 
such  a  comprehensive  general  mer- 
chandise business  has  been  attempted 
and  so  practically  conducted.  Its  suc- 
cess has  been  instantaneous,  phenom- 
enal. The  response  coming  from  th*? 
people  on  this  proposition  of  Co-opera- 
tion is  nothing  short  of  marvelous. 
The  1&04  series  of  voucher  contracts, 
$150,000  worth,  were  made  in  five 
months,  and  the  next  series  promise  to 
be  closed  out  in  even  less  time.  Write 
us  to-day.  This  advertisement  will  be 
read  by  nearly  20,000  people  and  there 
are  not  1.500  shares  for  sale.  Better 
write  us  at  once  or  this  opportunity 
may  escape  you.  Possibility  equals 
$3,000  by  saving  15  cents  a  day  for 
10   years. 


Albaugh  Bros.,  Dover  &  Co.,  * 


The  Mail  Order  House, 
=343  FrantliB  Street,  Chicago. 


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THE   MAN  WHO  FEELS. 

CONTRIBUTIONS. 

EDUCATION  AND  RELIGION.— By  Marcus  A  Witter. 

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LOYALTY   TO  THE   CHURCH.— By   Maud   Hawkins. 

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ELGIN,    ILLINOIS 


BRETHREN    PUBLISHING    HOUSE 


-ugust  30,   1904 


$  1 .00  per  Year 


Number  35,  Volumt  VI 


the:    inglenook. 


30,000  ACRES 


IRRIGATED 


Government  Land 


NOW    OPEN  FOR 


HOMESTEAD 


UNDER  THE   NEW 

IRRIGATION   LAW 

The  United  States  Govern- 
ment Constructs  the  Canals, 
Reservoirs  and  Lateral  Ditch- 
es to  the  Land,  and  Maintains 
them  for  10  Year*  at  a  cost  of 

ONLY  $2.50  AN  ACRE 

PEE     YEAB.. 

This  Includes  Water.     After   10  Years  Water 
and  Canals  Belong  to  Homesteader. 


Land    Close    to    Railroad    and    Good 
Markets  Can  be  Secured  By 

ACTUAL  SETTLERS 
ONLY. 


Mr.  L.  H.  Taylor,  the  United  States 
Engineer  in  charge  of  work,  says: 
"  It  is  likely  that  most  of  those  set- 
tlers who  desire,  can  find  employment 
for  themselves  and  teams  on  the  ca- 
nals during  at  least  a  part  of  their 
spare  time  for  the  next  two  or  three 
years." 


For  Information  Write  to 

GEO.  L.  McDONAUGH, 

COLONIZATION    AGENT 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Omaha,  Neb. 


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Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Daily  Tourist  Car  Line 


BETWEEN 


Chicago,    Missouri    River,    Colorado, 

Idaho,  Oregon,  Washington  and 

California  Points. 


ROUND    TRIP    RATES 

From    Chicago,    $50.00 

From  Missouri  River,  45.00 

To  San  Francisco  or  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  and  Return.  Tickets  sold  Aug. 
15  to  Sept.  10,  inclusive.  Return  lim- 
it, October  23,  1904. 


ONE-WAY    COLONISTS    RATES. 

To  Pacific  Coast  Every  Day,  Sept.  15 
to  Oct.  15. 

From   Chicago $33  00 

From  St.  Louis,   30  00 

From   Missouri   River 25  00 

Proportionate  rates  from  all  points 

East. 


The  Union  Pacific  Railroad 


— Is  Known  As — 

"The  Overland  Route" 

And  is  the  only  direct  line  from 
Chicago  and  the  Missouri  River  to 
all  principal  points  West.  Business 
men  and  others  can  save  many 
hours  via  this  line,  Call  on  or  ad- 
dress a  postal  card  to  your  nearest 
ticket  agent,  or  Geo.  L.  McDon- 
augh,  Colonization  Agent,  Omaha. 
Nebr. 

E.    L.    LOMAX,    G.     P.    &    T.    A., 
Omaha,  Nebraska. 


MORE  BEETS- 
HIGHER  PRICE 


Producers     Will    Get    $400,000    More 
Than  Last  Year. 


"  Denver  Post": 

"  The  sugar  beet  crop  of  Colorado, 
according  to  reports  received  from  our 
field  men  all  through  the  South  Platte 
Valley,  will  not  be  less  than  10  per 
cent  in  excess  of  that  of  last  year,"  said 
Charles  Boettcher,  of  the  Great  West- 
ern Sugar  company.  "  The  outlook 
was  never  so  good  as  it  is  this  year. 
Last  year  the  yield  in  tons  was 
slightly  less  than  400,000,  and  it  was 
marketed  at  $4.50  a  ton.  This  year  it 
will  be  fully  450,000  and  the  market 
price  already  agreed  on  is  $5  a  ton. 
This  will  make  a  difference  to  the 
producer  of  some  $400,000.  It  is  too 
early  to  make  an  estimate  on  the 
amount  of  sugar  the  beets  will  con- 
tain. That  will  not  be  possible  for 
a  couple  or  more  weeks.  But  the 
general  outlook  was  never  better  for 
a  large  beet  crop  than  it  is  at  present. 
We  have  had  plenty  of  water  and  no 
severe  or  injurious  storms  over  the 
areas  planted  in  beets.  If  nothing 
untoward  occurs,  the  crop  will  be  a 
banner  one." 


The  following  parties  have  bought 
land  near  Snyder,  Colo.: 

Louis  E.  Keltner,  Hygiene,  Colo.; 
W.  W.  Keltner,  North  Dakota;  A.  W. 
Brayton,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Daniel 
Grabill,  Lemasters,  Pa.;  J.  L.  Kuns, 
McPherson,  Kans.;  D.  L.  Miller,  Mt. 
Morris,  111.;  Daniel  Neikirk,  Lemas- 
ters, Pa.;  Galen  B.  Royer,  Elgin,  111.; 
E.  Slifer,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  I.  B.  Trout, 
Lanark.  111.;  R.  E.  Arnold,  Elgin,  111. 

Geo.  L.  Studebaker,  of  Muncie,  In- 
diana, says:  "Sterling  is  a  growing 
town  with  a  good  country  surround- 
ing.    The  members   are  active." 

HOMESEEKERS'     EXCURSIONS 

To  Snyder,  Colorado, 

With  privilege  of  stopping  off  at 
Sterling,   Colo., 

One  Fare  Plus  $2.00  for  the  Round  Trip 

First  and  Third  Tuesday  of 
Each  Month  via 

Uuion  Pacific  Railroad 


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HERE    ABE    A    FEW    OF     THE    GOOD     THINGS     WE    HAVE    TO     OFFER: 

A  Normal  College  that  prepares  teachers  for  all  grades  of  certificates. 

A  Complete  College  course  that  compares  with  anything  in  the  west. 

The  College  and  Normal  Courses  lead   to  State  certificates  without  examinations. 

Excellent  Buildings  and  Equipments. 

Expenses  are  as  low  as  is  possible  with  first-class  service. 

Our  last  Tear's  Students  will  take  out  of  the  Public  Funds  of  McPherson  county- 
alone  over  $10,000  this  year.     This  shows  talent  and  home  appreciation. 

Our  graduates  occupy  enviable  positions  in  the  business,  educational  and  religious 
world. 

The  Moral  and  Religious  Influences  are  unsurpassed.  No  saloons  in  the  city.  The 
teachers  come  in  close  personal  contact  with  the  students. 

We  have  a  Superior  Faculty. 

We  put  more  stress  on  our  Bible  School  than  any  other  college  we  know  of. 

The  President  of  the  college,  Edward  Frantz,  is  dean  of  the  Bible  school  and  is 
recognized  as  having  no  superior  in  his  line  of  work.  He  has  been  instructor 
in  his  line  of  work  in  McPherson  college  for  the  past  nine  years,  and  is  devoting 
his  entire  time  to  the  Eible.  You  can  do  no  better  than  to  take  a  course  here. 
Remember  tuition  in  Bible  Deportment  is  free.  Come,  study  the  Bible,  pre- 
pare yourself  for  mission  work.  Sunday-school  teacher,  preacher  and  make  your- 
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There's  no  Risk  in  taking  our  course  in  writing  or  business.  If  you  are  not  satisfied 
with  the  instruction  you  get  from  Prof.  Fahnestock,  you  pay  no  tuition.  This 
should  appeal  to  those  wishing  a  Business  course  or  a  Penmanship  course. 

Frof.  Fahnestock  is  a  little  more  skillful  in  execution  than  the  average  John  or 
Bill,  that  helps  some  of  his  pupils.  He  has  taught  Bookkeeping  and  Penman- 
ship for  thirty  years — that  helps  others.  Writing  is  one  of  his  specialties. 
If  you  want  all  he  knows  about  it,  come  to  McPherson.  If  you  want  to  be 
entertained,  go  to  Sell's  circus.  Some  people  say  Fahnestock  is  the  best.  All 
1     say  he  is  conscientious.     If  you  believe  this,  he  can  help  you. 

If  you  have  but  Little  Means,  write  and  mention  the  Nook.  We  have  an  interesting 
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We  have  a  $50  Course  for  $5  for  the  first  twelve  readers  of  the  Nook  that  write  us. 
Postmark  on  envelope  will   determine  who  is  first.     College  opens  Sept.   6. 

36tf  McPHERSON    COLLEGE,    McPherson,  Kans. 


India: 
A  Problem 


THE  BLACK  HILLS. 


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A  Profusely  Illustrated  Book 
By  W.  B.  Stover. 


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You  have  read  some  of  Bro.  D.  L. 
Miller's  travels  in  his  books  as  well 
is  in  the  Gospel  Messenger.  You  re- 
member  how  interesting  they   were. 

Do  you  know  that  he  is  going  to 
take  another  trip,  and  that  he  is  go- 
ing to  start  by  the  first  of  Septem- 
ber? He  and  his  wife  are  to  visit 
several  countries  in  Europe,  Asia,  Af- 
rica, and  even  Australia,  and  he  will 
have  his  camera  with  him  and  will 
illustrate    his    articles    copiously. 

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Inglenook  on  this  Trip. 


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ONLY  twenty-five  cents.  Just  think 
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THE    COLONY 


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SAN  JOAQUIN  VALLEY,  CALIFORNIA. 


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Still  continues  to  attract  the  attention  of  homeseekers. 

The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  immense  growth  of 
every  variety  of  crop  which  is  again  in  evidence  establishes  the  fact  that  here  is  the 
place  where  the  industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN    PEOPLE    DO    EASTERN    FARMING- 
You  aon't  have  to  spend  years  learning  a  new  business. 

ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

besides  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
his  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  it. 

SPECIAL    LOW    BATES    TO    CALIFORNIA. 

From  August  15th  to  Sept.  10th  the  railroads  will  sell  Bound  Trip  excursion 
tickets  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

From    Chicago $50   00 

From   Mississippi  River,    47   50 

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By  this  arrangement  you  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 
land.     If  it  suits  you,  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate. 

Land  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre,  including  perpetual  water  right.  Terms,  one- 
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The 
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in  Fresno  County, 

California, 

Promises  to  become  the  leading 
fruit-growing  section  of  California. 
Land  is  cheap,  water  abundant,  loca- 
tion healthful  and  soil  unsurpassed. 
The  soil  is  especially  adapted  to  the 
orange,  grape,  fig,  orchard  fruits,  al- 
falfa and   general   farming. 

Plans  are  now  forming  for  a  colo- 
ny of  the  Brethren  on  this  tract,  J. 
S.  Kuns,  proprietor  of  the  old  Mis- 
sion farm  at  Covina,  Cal.,  having  al- 
ready purchased  land  in  this  district, 
which  has  been  inspected  by  other 
prominent  members  of  the  church. 

Maps  and  information  by 

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Fresno,  Cal. 

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church,  in  a  beautiful  Western  city. 
Applicant  must  be  a  good  and  economic- 
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from  $20  to  $25  a  month  the  year  round 
for  the  right  person.  Both  man  and 
wife  are  owners  and  teachers  in  a  Com- 
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conveniences.  A  girl  treated  as  a  mem- 
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ceived from  this  inquiry  there  will  be 
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Reitz,  Principal  and  Business  Manager, 
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near  a  good  live  church  in  Central  Indi- 
ana. Good  land,  good  roads,  good  mar- 
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address  "  Parmer,"  Care  Inglenook. 
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Farms  You  Will  Buy 


East  Central  Kansas  Is  the  best  pnrt 
of  the  State  for  general  farming  and 
raising  stock.  Well  watered,  Marlon 
county's  average  crop  acreage  1b  110.000 
acres  corn.  90.000  acres  wheat.  40.000 
acres  oats.  20.000  acres  alfalfa.  We 
have  some  good  farms  for  sale  at  a  bar- 
gain. Will  say  to  the  Brethren  that  are 
thinking  of  changing  their  location  that 
they  will  do  well  to  investigate  our 
country.  Good  bargains  near  church. 
Any   Information   cheerfully  furnished. 

GARRISON  &  STUDEBAKER, 

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I      Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail 


1  IDAHO 


is  the  best-watered  arid  State  in  America.  Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 
winds,  destructive  storms  and  cyclones  are  unknown,  and  with  its  matchless  cli- 
mate it  makes  life  bright  and  worth  living. 
We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer  to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 
change  for  the  general  improvement  in  your  condition  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  both  requirements.  There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 
and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  country  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 
swer and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger   work   teach   us    that   a   few   dollars   spent   in    railroad 
fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves   thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

Cheap    homeseekers'    rates   are    made    to   all   principal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 
for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting  a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


Round=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only  in  May 
and  October,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
2T  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


PAYETTE;  VALLEY    HOME.— Five  Years  from  Sagebrush. 


Arrived  in  Payette  Valley  Feb.  23,  1903.  Settled  on  an  80-acre  tract,  covered  with  sage  brush. 
Cleared  40  acres.  May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.  Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.  June  12  sowed  10  acres 
to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.  Yielded  55  to  acre.  Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 
or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 
oats. 

Potatoes  yielded  500  bushels  to  the  acre  and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)  E.  L.  Dotson. 


S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

J.  E.   HOOPER,  Agent,   Oakland,  Kansas. 


D.   E.    BURLEY, 
G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R., 

Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 


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Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


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Vol.  VI. 


August  30,  1904. 


No.  35. 


THE    MAN    WHO    FEELS. 


The  man  who  feels  is  a  happier  wight 

Then  the  man  who  is  callous  and  cold, 
For  if  he  weeps  in  the  gloom  of  the  night 

He  laughs  in  the  sunbeam's  gold; 
And  if  the  tide  of  his  iife  runs  low, 

It  reaches  the  summits  of  cheer; 
He  knows  the  heights,  as  the  depths  below, 

And  he  smiles  through  a  pitying  tear. 
And  after  it  all,  when  all  is  done, 
The  world  has  most  of  the  gladdening  sun, 
For  the  twilight   lingers  when   day  is   done, 

And  the  sun's  benediction  is  dear. 

The  man  who  feels  is  happier  far — 

I  say  it  again  and  again — 
Then  ever  can  be,  or  ever  are, 

The  pitiless  sons  of  men; 
For  if  he  sighs  for  his  own  gray  woes, 

He  sighs  for  another's  too; 
If  the  plant  of  pain  in  his  bosom  grows, 

It  is  covered  by  sympathy's  dew. 
And  after  it  all,  when  all  is  said, 
Still  pity  and  love  forever  arc  wed; 
That  the  heart  unfeeling  is  chill  and  dead 

Is  true,  and  forever  is  true. 

The  man  who  feels  is  a  dear  God's  gift 

To  a  sorrowful,  travailing  world; 
By  the  hands  that  the  burden  of  life  uplift 

Is  the  flag  of  our  peace  unfurled. 
We  need  not  the  souls  that  are  callous  as   Fate, 

And  selfish,  and  wedded  to  greed, 
But  the  pitying  tear  for  our  fallen  estate 

We  need — and  we  ever  shall  need. 
And  after  it  all,  when  all  is  past, 
'Tis  the  deed  of  love  that  alone  may  last, 
And  the  rest  is  chaff  in  the  winnowing  blast, 

In  the  garden  of  life,  a  weed. 
$    <$•    *j» 
SNAPSHOTS. 


High  living  docs  not  make  lofty  living. 

* 
"  Do  "  prevents  more  evil  than  "  Don't." 

* 
The  visible  is  not  the  only  shadow  of  the  real. 

* 
Angels   would   rather   hear  our  prayers   than   our 
praises. 


Parleying  'with  sin  brings  paralysis  of  the  spirit. 
* 

Add  nothing  to  your  pleasures  that  subtracts  from 
your  character. 

* 

You  cannot  be  a  gentleman  unless  you  learn  of  the 
gentlest  of  men. 

* 

If  you  have  knowledge,  let  others  light  their  candles 
at  it. — T.  Fuller. 

* 

The  more  good  habits  you  form,  the  less  room  you 
have  for  bad  ones. 

//  every  man  saved  his  time  as  he  saves  his  money 
he  ivould  have  money. 

* 

The  stone   that  shrinks  from    the   polishing  never 
gains  the  power  to  shine. 

* 

The  best  testimonial  of  an  employer  to  an  employe 
is  a  voluntary  increase  of  salary. 
* 
The  'world's  real  rulers  reign  not  in  the  roll  of  the 
thunder,  but  in  silence  of  sunshine. 
* 
If  you  can't  talk  fluently,  comfort  yourself  with  the 
reflection  that  vou  can  work  fluently. 


Some  men's  idea  of  a  good  time  is  nothing  to  do 
and  all  the  rest  of  their  lives  to  do  it  in. 

* 

Sometimes  the  people  are  going  to  church  in  spite 
of  the  things  the  preacher  does  to  attract  them. 
* 
He  is  the  'wisest  who  is  content  to  make  money  slow- 
ly and  take  the  rational  pleasures  of  life  as  he  goes 
along. 

* 

II 'e  have  no  words  except  praise  for  the  dead.  This 
is  natural,  as  we  usually  exhaust  our  whole  stock  of 
blame  on  them  while  alive. — Puck. 


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THE   INGLENOOK.— August  30,  1904. 


EDUCATION    AND    RELIGION. 


BY    MARCUS    A.    WITTER. 

There  is  an  increased  interest  in  .education.  This 
is  shown  in  the  liberal  endowment  of  colleges  and  uni- 
versities. It  is  no  longer  startling  to  hear  of  a  man 
making  a  single  gift  of  a  million  dollars  or  even  of 
several  millions  to  an  institution  of  learning.  Religious 
education,  too,  is  emphasized  more  than  formerly.  The 
church  is  making  larger  provision  for  the  education  of 
its  workers  and  is  endeavoring  to  bring  to  all  the  op- 
portunity for  religious  instruction. 

These  two  facts  have  raised  the  question  what  is 
the  relation  between  Education  and  Religion?  Mod- 
ern thought  views  education  as  an  organic  process.  It 
is  a  development  from  within  and  its  work  consists  not 
in  mechanically  building  up  the  individual  by  the  pre- 
sentation of  external  material  but  in  the  right  direc- 
tion of  latent  and  native  capacities.  Religious  thought 
views  religion  as  the  life  of  the  soul.  It,  too,  is  there- 
fore organic.  If  both  education  and  religion  are  or- 
ganic and  if  both  alike  deal  with  life  as  a  process,  there 
must  of  necessity  be  a  vital  relation  between  them. 

In  the  light  of  this  twofold  development  the  con- 
clusion is  reached  that  the  two  processes,  education  and 
religion,  cannot  go  on  independently,  that  equal  re- 
spect must  be  given  to  both,  that  religion  must  be 
viewed  as  a  process  of  education,  and  education  as  a 
general  process  dealing  with  all  the  powers  of  the 
soul. 

Modern  education  is  defective.  It  ignores  the  re- 
ligious aspect  of  the  individual.  Modern  religious 
work  is  defective.  It  should  be  more  educative.  The 
vital  relation  between  education  and  religion  has  been 
ignored  and  the  theory  has  arisen  that  there  can  be  a 
true  education  apart  from  religion.  The  public  schools 
have  been  brought  under  this  vicious  influence  and  all 
religious  training  has  been  omitted  from  the  curricu- 
lum. The  church  too  has  ignored  her  dependence  on 
education.  Our  religious  work  fails  to  provide  ade- 
quate religious  instruction. 

In  these  two  facts  we  have  a  vision  of  the  nation's 
greatest  peril.  A  generation  is  growing  up  without 
religious  training.  Here  is  the  root  of  manifold  perils. 
Increased  lawlessness  must  result  from  this  neglect. 
Deprived  of  the  means  of  moral  and  spiritual  devel- 
opment it  is  impossible  to  possess  a  keen  appreciation 
of  moral  law.  Lawlessness  and  atheism  are  the  legiti- 
mate and  certain  fruit  of  the  neglect  of  religious  edu- 
cation and  we  are  already  beginning  to  reap  them. 
The  extent  of  this  neglect  demands  our  most  serious 
thought.  Our  state  has  forbidden  all  positive  religious 
teaching  in  the  public  schools. 

We  have  a  Bible-less  and  a  godless  common  school 
system.  This  is  true  also  of  our  higher  institutions  of 
learning.    A  large  percentage  of  th^  students  of  these 


institutions  cannot  name  the  books  of  the  Bible  or  tell 
anything  of  their  contents ;  and  many  cannot  even  cor- 
rectly repeat  the  Lord's  Prayer.  Men  and  women  ig- 
norant of  the  Bible  and  with  no  clear  conception  orf  the 
cardinal  truths  of  Christianity  are  going  out  from  these 
institutions  to  become  the  world's  leaders.  Is  it 
strange  that  ours  is  a  materialistic  age  and  that  relig- 
ious fervor  is  wanting? 

The  homes  cannot  supply  this  lack  because  in  the 
majority  of  the  homes  there  is  no  one  capable  of  giv- 
ing this  instruction.  In  many  homes  religious  instruc- 
tion has  no  place  whatever.  The  child  is  taught  noth- 
ing of  the  higher  life.  He  has  no  higher  ideal  than 
that  of  expediency.  The  only  realities  to  him  are  the 
coarse  material  things  of  life.  From  a  godless  home 
he  goes  to  a  godless  school,  where  the  material  aspect 
of  life  is  still  more  emphasized.  His  teaching  there  is 
such  as  to  foster  a  dependence  upon  the  things  which 
the  eye  can  see  and  the  hands  handle,  while  the  more 
important  realities  of  God  and  the  higher  life  are  not 
referred  to.  The  real  problems  of  life  are  never  raised. 
What  is  life?  How  can  I  bring  myself  into  harmony 
with  the  eternal  laws  of  life?  What  is  my  highest 
destiny  ?  What  is  my  relation  to  my  God,  to  my  fel- 
low-men, and  to  the  universe  of  which  I  am  a  part? 
All  of  these  questions  are  left  not  only  unanswered 
but  unraised.  He  is  not  even  brought  to  give  them  a 
serious  thought.  He  passes  through  the  college  ig- 
norant of  the  principles  of  Christianity  and  goes  out 
into  the  world  with  his  being  warped,  and  with  a 
training  that  utterly  fails  to  assist  him  in  bringing  his 
life  into  harmony  with  God  and  the  world  of  men. 
He  is  left  a  discordant  element  in  society  and  fails  to 
find  his  own  highest  good,  thus  hindering  others,  a 
bane  to  the  world  in  which  he  lives. 

And  does  our  religious  work  in  the  church  supply 
what  is  lacking  in  the  public  schools  ?  It  is  indeed  sad 
that  the  answer  must  be.  "  It  does  not."  There  is  an 
abundance  of  preaching  but  a  dearth  of  teaching.  The 
method  pursued  is  out  of  harmony  with  the  mind 
taught.  It  fails  to  assist  men  to  live  in  touch  with  the 
Infinite. 

We  turn  to  the  Sunday  school  with  more  hope  of 
finding  ample  provision  for  the  religious  needs  of  the 
growing  mind.  Here  is  an  institution  whose  sole  pur- 
pose is  to  afford  religious  instruction.  But  even  here 
the  true  principles  of  education  are  lost  sight  of. 
Many  of  its  teachers  are  unskilled  and  ignorant  of  the 
laws  of  mental  growth.  Not  only  are  the  lessons  poor- 
ly presented  but  the  lessons  themselves  are  illy  adapted 
to  the  widely  varying  needs  of  The  different  classes  of 
pupils.  The  graded  Sunday  school  is  a  rarity.  The 
fact  that  the  spiritual  life  is  a  growth  is  lost  sight  of 
and  old  and  young,  saint  and  sinner,  the  spiritually 
mature  and  the  babes  in  Christ  all  alike  study  the  same 
:  lesson.    The  attempt  to  adapt  the  lessons  by  means  of 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  30,  1904. 


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graded  helps  to  all  ages  and 'conditions  is  not  sufficient. 
No  sleight  of  manipulation  can  make  the  same  subject 
matter  equally  helpful  to  all  stages  of  development. 
The  subject  matter  should  be  chosen  with  due  regard 
to  the  unfolding  life  of  the  pupil.  The  lessons  should 
lead  the  pupil  upward  step  by  step.  The  present  sys- 
tem lacks  adaptability  and  continuity.  The  lessons 
present  bits  of  Scripture  and  as  they  are  most  fre- 
quently studied  lead  to  a  piecemeal  rather  than  an  or- 
ganized knowledge  of  the  Bible.  The  system  does  not 
meet  the  needs  of  the  growing  soul  and  for  this  rea- 
son fails  to  hold  the  pupil  in  the  Sunday  school  year 
after  year. 

What  we  need  above  all  else  is  method  in  our  Sun- 
day school,  not  a  new  set  of  devices  but  a  knowledge 
of  how  the  soul  grows  and  what  material  and  what 
means  are  most  conducive  to  the  successive  stages  of 
growth.  Would  that  in  some  way  we  might  be  made 
to  realize  the  importance  of  this  matter. 

Let  us  pause  to  view  the  young  men  of  to-day.  Be- 
hold the  energy,  the  life  and  the  power  there  repre- 
sented. That  energy  should  be  used  in  promoting  the 
general  welfare,  but  we  know  too  well  that  the  clash  of 
interests,  discord,  and  strife  shall  consume  it.  The 
welfare  of  others  is  forgotten  in  the  mad  rush  for  gold 
and  for  the  accomplishment  of  selfish  ends.  Little 
heed  is  given  to  the  rights  of  others.  Much  of  the 
present  day  "  success  "  is  acquired  by  trampling  under- 
foot the  weaker  brother. 

Oh  for  the  time  when  man's  hand  shall  be  raised 
against  man  no  more.  When  all  shall  be  united  in  one 
great  brotherhood,  each  helping  all  and  each  being 
helped  by  all.  But  before  that  can  be,  the  race  must  be 
educated  in  religion  and  morals.  There  must  be  a 
larger  view  of  religion  and  education. 

Religion  is  not  rendering  obedience  to  a  fixed  stand- 
ard of  morality.  Soul  saving  is  not  the  process  of 
laying  on  man  certain  external  laws  and  then  by  re- 
wards and  punishments  inducing  him  to  submit  to 
them.  Religion  is  deeper.  "  Religion  is  as  broad  as 
life  itself  and  life  without  religion  is  impossible." 

True  religion  brings  to  man  the  truth,  and  the  truth 
makes  him  free  with  a  freedom  that  is  freedom  indeed. 
But  when  religion  fails  to  assist  man  to  grow  in  the 
knowledge  of  Him  whom  to  know  is  life  eternal,  then 
it  becomes  a  cloud  without  water,  a  tree  without  fruit. 
The  function  of  religion  is  to  attune  the  life  of  man  to 
the  divine  harmony  of  the  universe.  And  to  do  this 
it  must  teach  him  the  laws  of  his  own  being,  and  his 
relation  to  his  fellows,  his  world  and  his  God.  It  must 
watch  and  control  his  whole  life. 

And  what  shall  be  our  view  of  education  ?  Certainly 
not  the  teaching  of  mere  facts.  Education  has  for  its 
aim  the  development  of  the  whole  man.  This  includes 
his  religious  life.  The  day  is  past  when  this  can  be  dis- 
puted.   In  the  light  of  modern  research  it  is  impossible 


for  any  one  to  hold  that  religion  is  not  natural  to  the 
human  mind.  To  deny  expression  to  this  highest 
phase  of  life  is  a  crime  against  the  human  mind.  Yet 
the  state  commits  this  crime.  Mrs.  Rebecca  Harding 
Davis  is  right  when  she  says,  "  If  religion  is  banished 
from  the  schools  the  next  generation  will  be  merely 
educated  animals  with  no  higher  motive  in  their  work 
than  the  poor  little  monkeys  on  the  street  who  have 
been  taught  to  dance  for  their  living.  That  the  chil- 
dren of  a  moral,  God-fearing  nation  should  be  brought 
up  in  ignorance  of  God  and  Christ  is  too  preposterous 
a  scheme  for  consideration." 

The  disposition  of  this  problem  will  determine  all 
future  history.  Shall  our  education  be  religious? 
Shall  the  children  of  this  generation  receive  this  ines- 
timable boon  ?  Shall  their  whole  life  be  permitted  to 
unfold  and  develop  or  shall  one  side  of  the  plant  be 
blighted,  shrivel  away,  and  dying  bring  death  upon  the 
whole?  And  shall  our  religious  work  educate?  Shall 
the  church  be  true  to  her  function  and  deal  with  soul 
growth  after  the  manner  in  which  souls  grow?  To 
fail  at  this  point  is  to  be  fruitless  and  in  the  all-wise 
economy  of  God  to  be  fruitless  is  to  share  the  fate  of 
the  barren  fig  tree. 

Deny  the  world  these  boons  and  we  will  be  followed 
by  a  lawless  generation  of  atheists,  skilled  in  grafting 
and  immorality,  but  strangers  to  the  higher  life.  But 
let  religion  and  education  work  together  to  uplift  the 
race  and  the  next  generation  will  walk  with  God  and 
their  daily  life  will  attain  a  sweet  and  active  harmony 
more  profound  than  our  most  tranquil  hours. 

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CONDITION    OF   RUSSIA'S   POOR. 


To-day  Russia's  140,000.000  and  more  of  people  are 
comparatively  secure  and  content  under  despotism. 
Why?  Because,  while  they  are  illiterate,  ignorant, 
degraded,  as  a  rule  they  have  enough  to  eat  and  drink. 
They  are  superstitious,  it  is  true,  but  religious  super- 
stition is  not  sufficient  to  make  millions  of  people  sub- 
mit to  a  Government  that  engenders  starvation  through 
taxation.  Russia's  rulers  have  been  shrewd  ;  they  have 
not  tried  to  make  their  ignorant,  illiterate  people  in- 
telligent, but  they  have  been  careful  so  to  govern  that 
the  people  would  not  rebel,  yelling :  "  Bread  or 
blood."  Nobody  becomes  a  Nihilist  in  Russia  save  an 
educated  man,  who  is  a  political  enthusiast  or  is  a 
member  of  the  nobility  who  has  become,  through  dis- 
appointed official  ambition  in  the  army  or  navy  or  civil 
service,   a  bitter,   vindictive   malcontent. 


I  am  no  orator,  as  Brutus  is ; 

But,  as  you  know  me  all,  a  plain  blunt  man, 

That  love  my  friend. 

— Shakespeare. 


820 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  30,  1904. 


MOTHER-LOVE    NOT    ALWAYS    A    BLESSING. 


BY  C.  S.   CARR,  M.  D. 

We  read  a  great  deal,  in  poetry  and  prose,  about 
mother-love.  A  mother's  devotion  to  her  children,  the 
constancy  that  never  flags,  the  self-sacrifice  that  knows 
no  limit.  This  has  always  constituted  a  theme  over 
which  writers  of  all  schools  and  temperaments  have 
waxed  eloquent. 

Yet,  in  spite  of  all  this  merited  praise,  there  is  an- 
other side  of  the  question.  A  mother's  love  for  her 
children,  notwithstanding  all  the  beauty  and  poetry 
that  it  suggests,  sometimes  oversteps  itself.  At  least, 
it  would  seem  so,  to  a  thoughtful  observer. 

We  have  in  mind  an  instance  which  has  repeated  it- 
seif  a  great  many  times  since.  At  a  hotel,  surrounded 
by  everything  that  was  lovely  and  beautiful,  broad 
stretches  of  blue  waters  and  green  fields,  the  beating  of 
surf,  flecks  of  clouds  across  the  sky,  the  music  of  a 
trained  orchestra,  the  chatter  of  happy  people,  all  art 
and  nature  seemed  to  conspire  to  make  every  one 
happy. 

A  mother  was  there  with  her  child,  perhaps  four  or 
five  years  of  age,  a  beautiful  little  girl,  of  amiable  dis- 
position, in  good  health,  without  the  slightest  occasion 
for  complaint,  or  anything  resembling  fretfulness. 

Yet  that  mother  and  that  child  were  in  a  perpetual 
quarrel.  Every  time  they  came  to  the  table  together, 
the  mother  was  haggardly  trying  to  placate  the  child, 
by  offering  her  this  and  offering  her  that,  and  tender- 
ing her  the  other,  in  the  most  beseeching  and  abject 
manner  possible.  The  child,  in  her  turn,  was  scolding, 
fretting,  striking  petulantly  at  the  fork  with  which  her 
mother  was  meekly  offering  her  choice  bits.  Every- 
where  they  went  this   little    family   fracas   followed. 

As  soon  as  the  child  became  separated  from  her 
mother  she  immediately  became  as  pleasant  and  as 
tractable  as  the  ordinary  child.  She  could  run  about, 
fall  down  and  get  up  again,  with  no  harm  or  show  of 
dissatisfaction,  if  only  her  mother  was  not  near  by. 
But  just  as  soon  as  her  mother  came  within  reach  her 
ceaseless  whine  began,  and  the  dreary  monotony  of 
highkeyed  criticism  and  complaint  resumed. 

Her  mother  would  say  to  her :  "  Now,  my  dear, 
won't  you  have  a  little  bit  of  this  ?  "  or,  "  Shall  I  go 
and  get  you  a  drink  of  water  ?  "  "  Now,  let  me  ar- 
range your  cushion  a  little  better.''  To  all  of  these 
suggestions  the  child  would  give  some  petulant  answer, 
never  once  returning  to  her  mother  a  kind  word  or 
respectful  glance. 

What  was  the  cause  of  this  performance  ? 

It  was  plain  to  anyone  who  observed,  even  for  a 
moment.  The  mother  was  over  anxious  concerning 
the  welfare  of  her  child.  She  loved  her  child  so  much 
that  she  was  unconsciously  making  a  fool  of  her.  The 
mother  seemed  anxious  only  to  be  doing  some  menial 


service  for  her  daughter,  and  the  daughter  had  become 
so  accustomed  to  the  abject  manner  of  her  mother, 
that  she  had  come  very  naturally  to  expect  these  at- 
tentions. 

Not  only  expect  them,  but  to  look  for  an  increase  of 
attention  every  day.  The  mother  had  reached  her  lim- 
it. She  could  think  of  nothing  more  that  she  could 
do  for  her  child.  All  day,  every  day,  without  ceasing, 
whenever  the  two  were  together,  this  mother  was  con- 
triving some  new  service  for  the  daughter  she  so  much 
loved,  and  the  daughter  meeting  her  mother  uniformly 
with  insolence  and  unthankful  conduct. 

Just  as  soon  as  the  mother  disappeared,  the  child's 
ill  temper  disappeared.  The  child  did  not  expect 
these  attentions  of  other  people,  and  had  learned  by  ex- 
perience that  when  she  was  among  the  other  guests 
she  must  take  care  of  herself,  must  look  after  her  own 
welfare,  and  she  seemed  to  enjoy  being  allowed  to  re- 
ly upon  her  own  resources. 

When  her  mother  returned  the  trouble  returned.  It 
was  as  if  the  mother  was  some  evil  genius,  that 
brought  with  her  a  thousand  demons  to  stir  her  daugh- 
ter into  every  species  of  atrocious  conduct. 

Never  once  did  the  mother  complain.  As  the  child 
became  more  and  more  hateful,  and  her  treatment  of 
her  mother  more  inexcusable,  the  cringing  of  the 
mother  became  more  apparent,  and  her  willing  humili- 
ation more  complete. 

In  our  opinion,  nothing  could  have  happened  more 
thoroughly  to  demoralize  that  little  girl  than  the  pesti- 
ferous presence  of  such  a  mother.  In  our  opinion, 
that  mother  could  not  have  invented  any  means  by 
which  she  could  more  thoroughly  degrade  her  child, 
than  the  course  of  ridiculous  indulgences  which  she 
constantly  showered  upon  her. 

The  child  was  a  beautiful  girl,  naturally  of  a  sweet 
disposition.  With  any  one  else  she  was  chatty,  help- 
ful, and  possessed  good  manners.  Many  a  time  we 
have  wandered  with  the  child  out  upon  the  beach,  and 
roamed  through  fields  and  meadows,  and  she  made  an 
interesting  and  attractive  companion.  But  for  our  rec- 
ollection of  her  treatment  of  her  mother,  we  should 
have  thought  her  one  of  the  most  angelic  little  girls 
of  our  acquaintance. 

No  doubt,  the  mother's  treatment  of  her  child  was 
dictated  by  loving  impulses.  If  she  thought  at  all 
she  thought  she  was  doing  the  best  thing  for  her  child. 
She  loved  her  so  much  that  she  was  willing  to  suffer 
every  indignity  the  child  chose  to  heap  upon  her. 

We  wonder  if  this  mother  ever  did  think  seriously 
concerning  the  welfare  of  the  child  she  was  trying  to 
bring  up.  Surely  a  moment's  reflection  must  have 
shown  her  that  the  child's  manner  must  react  unfav- 
orably upon  her  moral  development.  Just  a  little  bit 
of  firmness,  even  the  most  gentle  sort  of  consistent 
governfhent,   would   have   guided   the   little   girl   into 


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filial  obedience  to  her  mother,  and  a  respectful  bearing 
in  her  presence. 

There  is  such  a  thing,  of  course,  as  overgovern- 
ment.  Fault-finding  with  children  is  entirely  unnec- 
essary. Demonstrations  of  endearment,  protestations 
of  affection,  are  all  right  in  their  place.  But  these 
things  can  be  overdone.  They  are  frequently  over- 
done. It  is  indisputably  true  that  the  average  mother, 
especially  of  these  times,  does  vastly  more  harm  by 
overindulgence  of  her  children  than  she  does  good. 

A  child  ought  to  be  treated  justly.  But  flattery, 
personal  praise,  constant  attentions  of  a'petty  nature, 
soon  become  very  irksome  to  a  child,  and  instead  of 
winning  its  love  simply  excite  its  contempt.  A  firm, 
gentle,  steady  course,  in  which  the  child  is  taught  to 
depend  upon  itself,  wait  upon  itself,  even  run  and  fetch 
things  for  its  mother,  and  do  service  for  others,  such 
a  treatment  of  a  child  is  vastly  more  valuable  than  that 
sickly,  wishy-washy,  miching  method  in  which  so 
many  mothers  indulge  themselves. 

Some  day  the  little  girl  above  referred  to  will  grow 
up  to  be  a  woman.  She  may  outgrow  the  mischievous 
influence  that  her  mother  has  had  upon  her.  She  may 
become  a  good  woman  in  spite  of  it  all.  But  if  she  does 
she  will  be  sure  to  look  back  upon  her  mother's  treat- 
ment of  her  as  a  sorry  mismanagement,  dictated  more 
by  a  tender  heart  than  a  steady  brain. 

But  the  chances  are  that  the  girl  will  grow  to  de- 
spise her  mother.  "Every  sordid,  hateful  instinct  which 
the  child  possesses  will  be  nurtured,  until  what  was 
originally  a  very  excellent  little  child  will  come  to  be 
a  domineering,  fault-finding,  hateful  shrew  of  a  wom- 
an. If  she  does  come  to  this  end  it  will  be  the  direct 
result  of  her  mother's  bringing  up. 

It  would  be  far  better  for  such  a  child  to  be,  in  early 
years,  consigned  to  the  almshouse  or  an  orphans'  home, 
where  mechanical  obedience  is  enforced,  and  absolute 
discipline  carried  out.  Even  such  treatment  as  this 
would  be  better  than  the  treatment  that  her  mother 
was  giving  her.  But  these  are  the  two  extremes  of 
what  ought  to  be.  The  mawkish  mewlings  of  a  moth- 
er's foolish  devotion  to  a  thankless  child  are  worse 
than  the  harsh,  cold-blooded  discipline  of  the  orphans' 
asylum.    A  thousand  times  worse. 

No.  After  we  have  read  all  these  beautiful  things 
about  a  mother's  love,  a  mother's  devotion,  a  mother's 
self-sacrifice,  the  picture  of  that  mother  and  her  girl 
keeps  coming  up,  and  a  thousand  other  similar  pic- 
tures are  arrayed  alongside  of  it. 

Unless  a  mother's  love  can  be  tempered  by  common 
sense,  and  guided  by  a  rational  purpose,  the  quicker 
it  is  brought  to  an  end  the  better  it  will  be  for  both 
mother  and  child.  Such  a  mother  is  not  only  a  fool, 
but  she  is  guilty  of  a  refined  cruelty  of  much  more 
damaging  character  than  as  if  she  were  guilty  of  phys- 
ical violence. 


BOOKS   VS.    MEDICINE. 


One  could  wish  that  the  doctor  of  medicine  oc- 
casionally called  in  the  doctor  of  letters  in  cases  of 
mental  distress.  There  is  a  tonic  quality  in  books, 
properly  chosen,  which  is  as  beneficent  to  the  mind  as 
change  of  scene  or  doses  of  flat  water.  People  do  not 
realize  that  the  shortest  way  from  the  quagmire  of  the 
modern  unrest  is  a  total  forgetfulness  of  self,  and  few 
know  that  the  healthiest  nepenthe  is  to  be  found  in 
reading.  The  word  disease  signifies  the  negation  of 
ease,  and  most  forms  of  neurotic  sickness  are  a  deliber- 
ate effort  on  the  part  of  the  invalid  to  make  himself  un- 
easy. If  doctors  were  to  prescribe  a  course  of  Cervan- 
tes, or  Moliere,  or  Balzac,  or  Sterne,  or  Dickens,  or 
even  Shakespeare,  and  as  strictly  enjoin  thoroughness 
in  this  course,  as  they  would  if  the  treatment  were  a 
matter  of  diet  or  medicine,  many  of  their  patients 
would  begin  to  mend  from  the  first  moment  that  these 
magicians  had  given  them  a  forgetfulness  of  self.  It  is 
true  that  Poe  declares  in  the  "  Raven,"  "  Vainly  I  had 
sought  to  borrow  from  my  books  surcease  of  sorrow," 
but  the  opinion  of  the  world  is  overwhelmingly  against 
him.  Good  reading  is  a  forgetfulness  of  cares,  and  by 
the  same  token,  it  is  an  education  in  all  those  qualities 
which  make  life  sweet  and  greatly  to  be  desired.  It  is 
the  valetudinarian  who  most  certainly  tells  one, 
petulantly  enough,  that  he  never  reads  books. 

<$»   .;.   4» 

A    NEW    COMPASS. 


M.  Heit,  a  French  inventor,  has  devised  a  new 
type  of  compass,  which  is  of  an  automatic  nature.  The 
direction  of  the  compass  by  this  arrangement  is  auto- 
matically registered  minute  by  minute,  so  that  by  con- 
sulting the  chart  the  ship's  officers  can  ascertain  the 
route  traversed  at  any  time  during  the  passage.  The 
compass  card,  instead  of  having  in  its  center  an  agate 
resting  on  -fixed  steel  points,  is  fixed  on  a  steel  pivot, 
which  rests  on  a  fixed  agate.  The  latter  is  immersed  in 
a  drop  of  mercury,  which  serves  to  conduct  the  cur- 
rent of  electricity  that  makes  the  registering  of  the 
movements  of  the  apparatus  possible. 

$    <£    $ 

THE    WISE     CELESTIAL. 


CHINA  may  be  a  little  belated  in  adopting  electric 
traction,  but  now  that  the  time  for  the  innovation  has 
come  the  wily  Chinee  does  not  propose  to  give  away 
the  privilege  for  nothing,  as  his  Western  brother  does. 
A  project  is  under  consideration  for  the  construction 
of  23  miles  of  electric  trolley  lines  in  the  streets  of 
Shanghai,  but  the  franchise  stipulates  a  yearly  rental 
of  $500  per  mile  of  single  track  and  $750  per  mile  of 
double  track. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— August  30,  1904. 


THE  EARLY   CHRISTIAN   HYMNS. 


BY  OLIVE  MILLER. 

"  The  cradle  of  music  as  an  art  may  be  traced  back 
to  the  beginnings  of  Christianity.  The  Old  World 
had  fulfilled  its  destiny,  and  the  good  tidings  of  a  new 
gospel  were  heard  in  Palestine :  and  the  hopes  of  a 
future  and  better  life  filled  the  hearts  of  men." 

The  jov  and  freedom  which  came  from  this  knowl- 
edge of  a  loving  and  pardoning  Savior  created  a 
change  of  thought  and  sentiment  which  distinguishes 
the  music  of  the  Christians  from  that  used  by  the 
heathen  in  the  temple  worship  of  the  gods.  Internal 
dissensions  and  the  sweep  of  the  devastating  hordes 
from  the  north  had  robbed  the  Roman  empire  of  much 
of  the  pomp  and  glory  which  characterized  the  reign  of 
the  heathen  kings.  Men  had  lost  their  faith  in  the 
gods,  and  were  now  turning  with  joy  to  the  new  re- 
ligion which  offered  them  the  hope  of  a  future  life ; 
and  the  peace  and  trust  which  filled  their  souls  could 
naturally  but  find  adequate  expression  through  the 
medium  of  song. 

We  have  no  real  knowledge  of  the  exact  character 
of  the  music  of  the  first  Christian  congregations.  But 
we  know  almost  to  a  certainty  that  it  was  purely  vocal. 
Instrumental  music  was  excluded  at  first  from  the 
church  service,  because,  having  been  abused  by  the 
Romans  in  the  temple  service  of  the  gods,  it  savored 
too  much  of  heathen  worship.  As  late  as  the  fourth 
century  St.  Hieronymus  says :  "  A  Christian  maid 
should  not  know  what  a  lyre  or  flute  is."  This  custom, 
however,  was  more  strictly  adhered  to  in  the  churches 
of  the  Occident  than  in  the  Orient. 

The  early  hymns  and  psalms  were  presumably  taken 
from  the  Hebrew  temple  service  and  some  were  prob- 
ably of  Greek  origin.  The  psalms  in  versified  form 
were  sung  by  priests  and  people,  and  it  is  probable 
that  some  of  these  old  Hebraic  psalm  tunes  are  still  to 
be  found  in  some  synagogues  of  the  scattered  rem- 
nants of  the  Jewish  race.  The  Greek  forms  of  temple 
service  were  first  copied  by  the  Orientals  and  later 
passed  on  to  the  churches  of  the  Occident. 

The  great  love  which  the  early  Christians  mani- 
fested for  their  singing  is  attested  by  a  passage  from 
Plinius :  "  On  certain  days,  they  will  assemble  before 
sunrise,  and  sing  the  praise  of  their  God."  And  an- 
other writer  says  of  the  sect  of  Therapeutists,  "  After 
supper  their  sacred  songs  began.  When  all  were 
arisen,  they  selected  from  the  rest  two  choirs, — one 
of  men  and  one  of  women, — in  order  to  celebrate 
some  festival ;  and  from  each  of  these  a  person  of  a 
majestic  form,  and  well  skilled  in  music,  was  chosen 
to  lead  the  band.  They  then  chanted  hymns  in  honor 
of  God,  composed  in  different  measures  and  modula- 
tions, now  singing  together,  and  now  answering  each 
other  bv  turns." 


In  the  church  service,  at  first  the  entire  congregation 
participated  in  the  singing  of  the  psalms  and  hymns. 
This  custom  was  adhered  to  by  the  church  at  Milan 
until  the  beginning  of  the  seventh  century,  but  long 
before  this  the  masses  had  been  excluded  from  the 
song  service  of  the  Roman  church.  The  purpose  of 
this  exclusion  was  to  make  possible  a  greater  per- 
fection in  musical  development  in  order  to  attract  the 
heathen  converts,  many  of  whom  were  from  the  higher 
walks  of  life.  Hence  at  the  council  of  Laodicea  (A. 
D.  367)  it  was  prescribed  that  "  only  ordained  chanters 
shall  sing."  But  according  to  this  ordinance,  singers 
had  to  be  trained  in  order  to  fulfill  the  requirements 
in  an  efficient  manner,  and  for  this  purpose  a  singing 
school  was  established  in  Rome  in  the  fourth  century 
through  the  efforts  of  Pope  Sylvester.  The  results  of 
this  school  were  important  and  far-reaching.  The 
teachings  of  the  old  Greek  theorists  were  revived 
and  new  principles  of.  music  were  established  which 
were  later  passed  on  t<?  the  other  schools. 

In  connection  with  the  growth  and  development  of 
the  music  of  this  period  we  must  mention  the  efforts 
of  St.  Ambrose,  bishop  of  the  church  of  Milan.  To 
him  is  attributed  the  choosing  and  fixing  of  four  dia- 
tonic scales  for  the  music  of  hymns  and 
psalms.  He  collected  many  old  hymns,  encouraged 
the  setting  and  composing  of  new  ones,  and  himself 
wrote  the  words  of  many.  The  celebrated  "  Te  Deum 
Laudamus  "  is  said  to  have  been  conjointly  composed 
by  St.  Ambrose  and  St.  Augustine. 

As  before  mentioned,  the  singing  in  some  churches 
was  conducted  by  the  entire  congregation,  in  others 
by  ordained  chanters ;  but  in  time  of  the  persecution 
of  the  church  caused  so  much  diversity  in  the  manner 
of  worship  that  St.  Gregory,  head  of  the  Roman 
church,  endeavored  to  revise  the  entire  system  of  the 
musical  part  of  the  church  service.  Accordingly  he 
collected,  composed  and  rearranged  the  sacred  music 
which  he  chose  to  embody  in  a  book  called  the  Anti- 
phonarium.  This  book  he  fastened  with  a  chain  to  the 
altar  of  St.  Peter,  at  the  same  time  declaring  it  to  be 
the  liturgical  form  of  worship  for  all  time  to  come. 
St.  Gregory  established  new  singing  schools  in  Rome 
and  often  assisted  personally  in  the  instruction. 

About  A.  D.  604  the  Roman  singers  advanced  into 
Gaul  and  Brittany,  and  with  the  aid  of  St.  Boniface 
established  singing  schools  among  the  warlike  tribes 
of  these  countries.  But  their  missionary  efforts  were 
short-lived,  for  as  soon  as  these  enthusiastic  apostles 
had  died,  the  people  relapsed  into  heathendom.  Be- 
sides, these  rough  and  uncultured  barbarians  with 
their  dissipated  lives  and  "  voices  hardened  with 
drink  "  were  unable  to  appreciate  or  to  execute  this 
new  element  of  refinement  which  civilization  had  thrust 
upon  them. 

Charlemagne,   that    remarkable    ruler    whose    ideas. 


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523 


were  far  in  advance  of  the  age  in  which  he  lived  (768- 
814)  was  also  a  great  lover  and  patron  of  music.  He 
established  vocal  instruction  in  his  high-schools  and 
often  engaged  singing  masters  from  Rome  to  improve 
the  methods  of  his  schools.  Thus  the  idea  of  music 
as  an  art  was  slowly  disseminated  throughout  the 
tribes  of  the  west. 

However  there  was  one  great  step  yet  to  be 
taken  before  music  could  make  the  progress  which 
has  brought  it  to  the  perfection  of  the  modern  period. 
Up  to  the.  ninth  century  all  that  we  know  of  the  state 
of  music  shows  that  all  the  hymns  and  psalms  were 
single-voiced, — that  is,  sung  in  unison ;  the  idea  of 
harmony — the  singing  of  different  parts  simultaneous- 
ly— had  not  been  introduced,  although  some  different 
industrious  and  learned  monks  had  made  some  few 
rare  efforts  toward  this  end,  in  the  solitude  of  their  se- 
clusion. Owing  to  the  unsettled  state  of  society  caused 
by  the  upheavals  and  insurrections  which  were  con- 
stantly bearing  down  upon  the  Christian  nations,  the 
peaceful  cultivation  of  the  arts  had  been  painfully  hin- 
dered; and  communications  being  then  so  scarce,  the 
improvements  which  some  monks  did  perfect  rarely 
went  beyond  the  limits  of  their  own  seclusion. 

The  great  influence  and  importance  of  the  works  of 
St.  Gregory  cannot  be  overestimated.  A  freer  tone 
seemed  to  possess  the  spirit  of  his  songs,  deepened  and 
enriched  as  they  were  by  the  holy  influences  of 
Christianity.  The  Gregorian  chant  is  the  foundation 
from  which  all  the  older  musical  compositions  of  the 
Catholic  church  have  been  built  up.  "  It  needed  only 
one  step,  and  the  solid  foundation  of  that  beautiful 
art  temple,  which  stands  in  its  wonderful  glory  be- 
fore us  to-day  would  be  laid ;  and  this  step  was  the 
discovery  of  harmony  and  its  general  use  in  the  prac- 
tice of  choral  music." 

Elgin,  III. 

ALCOHOL   MOTORS. 


Within  recent  years  the  production  of  alcohol  in 
Germany  has  been  stimulated  by  beneficial  legislation 
whereby  for  industrial  purposes  it  is  free  of  revenue 
duty,  and  the  result  has  been  that  in  addition  to  an  ex- 
tensive use  in  chemical  and  manufacturing  processes 
it  is  being  increasingly  employed  for  small  internal 
combustion  motors.  Alcohol  has  been  found  particu- 
larly useful  for  automobiles,  and  as  the  combustion 
under  full  load  is  practically  complete,  there  are  no 
offensive  odors  as  in  the  case  of  gasoline  and  naphtha. 

Since  gasoline  has  a  higher  heat  of  combustion  than 
alcohol  in  the  ratio  of  2  to  I,  to  perform  the  same  work, 
a  greater  weight  of  the  latter  is  required,  but  this  is 
diminished  by  the  fact  that  with  alcohol  a  greater 
amount  of  heat  is  obtained  in  the  form  of  work.  Con- 
sequently, it  takes  four  parts  of  alcohol  by  weight  to 


accomplish  the  same  amount  of  work  as  three  parts  of 
petroleum,  and  the  question  resolves  itself  into  one  of 
cost,  in  German}'  this  being  in  favor  of  alcohol.  Fur- 
thermore, the  question  has  to  be  considered  in  Euro- 
pean countries  such  as  Germany,  that  petroleum  is  a 
foreign  product,  while  alcohol  is  produced  from  the 
extensive  fields  of  potatoes  which  are  universally  cul- 
tivated throughout  the  empire.  For  an  alcohol  motor 
there  are  certain  differences  from  the  internal  com- 
bustion motor  using  petroleum.  As  there  is  water 
present  with  the  alcohol  more  heat  is  required  to  evap- 
orate it  so  as  to  render  it  ready  for  explosion,  but  this 
is  readily  supplied  by  either  the  exhaust  gases  or  from 
the  cylinder  walls.  Also  a  greater  degree  of  com- 
pression for  the  air  and  alcohol  vapor  is  required  than 
is  necessary  with  gasoline.  It  would  appear  that  the 
alcohol  motor  has  been  sufficiently  developed  to  com- 
pete with  other  internal  combustion  motors  for  auto- 
mobiles where  the  fuel  can  be  provided  at  a  suitable 
price,  and  this  is  now  a  matter  of  industrial  and  legis- 
lative conditions. 

«$»  <$»   *j. 

A    NEW   SUNSHINE   RECORDER. 


The  new  Dawson-Lauder  sunshine  recorder  con- 
sists of  a  drum  on  which  silver  chloride  paper  is  fas- 
tened under  a  film  of  celluloid.  An  outer  cover  is  ro- 
tated by  clockwork  in  24  hours,  and  a  narrow  slit  is 
thus  directed  to  the  sun.  A  hood  protects  the  slit  from 
diffused  light,  and  allows  an  error  of  about  half  an 
hour  in  the  clock  before  sunlight  is  cut  off  from  the 
slit.  The  drum  with  the  sensitive  paper  travels  along 
the  axis  of  the  cylinder,  so  that  the  record  of  a  num- 
ber of  days  is  obtained,  one  below  the  other.  The 
chloride  of  silver  paper  makes  possible  a  standard  of 
intensity  of  sunshine  which  can  be  reproduced.  The 
same  size  of  paper  is  employed  at  all  seasons,  and  the 
instrument  can  be  used  in  polar  as  well  as  temperate 

latitudes. 

4.    •:•    .:- 

RELIGIONS    IN    RUSSIA. 


To  many  the  nature  of  Russia's  religion  is  only 
vaguely  understood.  Christianity  was  introduced  into 
the  country  in  the  ninth  century.  The  Established 
church,  says  one  authority,  is  identical  in  doctrine  with 
the  Greek  church.  The  liturgy,  which  is  read  in 
Slavonic,  is  the  one  used  originally  by  the  church  at 
Constantinople.  Until  recently  any  form  of  dissent 
was  not  tolerated.  Under  the  laws  of  Alexander  II, 
Catholics  and  Protestants  have  equal  rights  with  mem- 
bers of  the  Established  church. 
*   *  * 

He  who  tells  a  lie  is  not  sensible  how  great  a  task- 
he  undertakes ;  he  may  be  forced  to  tell  twenty  more 
to  maintain  that  one. 


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THE    INGLENOOK— August  30,  1904. 


LOYALTY    TO    THE    CHURCH. 


BY  MAUD  HAWKINS. 

Is  there  anything  in  church  affiliation?  Anything 
of  permanent  benefit  to  either  the  individual  or  the 
organization?  Carefully  and  conscientiously  consid- 
ered, we  must  inevitably  reach  an  affirmative  conclu- 
sion. 

The  subject  is  important.  Worthy  the  fertile  brain 
of  a  Beecher,  or  the  vivid  imagination  of  a  Talmage. 
We  can  only  hope  therefore  to  suggest  ideas  and  direct 
thoughts  into  channels  that  will  stimulate  a  firm,  un- 
wavering determination  to  follow  conviction  in  a 
good  cause. 

A  fundamental  principle  of  all  church  organization 
is  the  temporal  and  spiritual  betterment  of  the  com- 
municants. 

Of  course  in  speaking  of  the  church  we  include  all 
religious  denominations  who  acknowledge  and  accept 
Jesus  Christ  as  the  Son  of  God,  and  the  Savior  of  the 
world,  and  who  not  only  subscribe  to  this  faith,  but 
actually  require  of  communicants  an  apparent  and 
earnest  effort  to  conform  to  the  teachings  and  exam- 
ple of  the  Great  Founder  of  our  religious  system. 

If,  then,  we  find  ourselves  affiliating  with  that  vast 
multitude  who  have  manifested  their  faith  in  the  sys- 
tem by  joining  themselves  to  some  branch  of  the 
Christian  church,  we  should  be  able  to  give  an  intel- 
ligent reason  therefore.  Assuming  that  you  will  grant 
this  point  as  established,  without  taking  the  time  to 
discuss  it,  it  is  apparent  that  loyalty  to  that  branch 
to  which  we  especially  adhere  will  not  only  be  expected 
bv  those  in  immediate  fellowship,  but  will  be  looked 
for  bv  sister  denominations,  and  even  by  those  having 
no  connection  with  church  organization. 

In  identifying  ourselves  with  a.  particular  denom- 
ination, we  do  not  array  ourselves  against  all  or  any 
other,  but  simply  manifest  a  choice  in  particular  tenets 
of  faith,  or,  it  may  be  form  of  church  government. 

Having  thus  subscribed  to  the  requirements  of  some 
particular  branch  of  the  Christian  church,  it  natur- 
ally follows  that  we  are  entitled  to  all  the  benefits 
arising  from  such  affiliations,  both  spiritual  and  tem- 
poral. If  therefore  we  actually  share  in  the  mutual 
benefits,  it  of  right  belongs  to  us  in  turn  to  contribute 
with  a  zeal  worthy  of  the  high  cause  we  have  espoused, 
all  in  our  power  to  its  complete  success. 

Loyalty  to  our  church  is  not  the  prejudiced  impulse 
of  sectarianism,  but  the  natural  impulse  of  an  honest 
heart  willing  to  contribute  as  well  as  to  enjoy. 

In  thus  contributing  we  feel  that  it  is  but  carrying 
out  the  principles  inculcated  by  our  divine  Teacher, 
who  taught  his  followers  to'  "  render  to  Caesar  the 
things  that  be  Caesar's."  The  spiritual  benefits  (which 
are  of  paramount  importance)   of  church  membership 


cannot  in  their  entirety  be  considered  here,  yet  we  may 
briefly  notice  a  few  of  them.  Thus  the  abstracting  of 
our  thoughts  from  the  absorbing  struggle  for  temporal 
advantage.  The  tendency  to  direct  our  minds  in  a 
purer  and  loftier  channel,  thereby  bringing  the  creature 
in  communication  with  the  Creator,  inspiring  faith, 
hope,  love  in  the  former,  and  confidence  in  the  omnipo- 
tence and  omnipresence  of  the  Deity.  And  may  we 
not  with  confidence  feel  that  such  frequent  meditation 
not  only  purifies  and  exalts  our  thoughts,  but  that  it 
will  touch  the  tender  sympathies  of  "  Him  who  heareth 
the  young  ravens  cry  "  and  "  noteth  every  sparrow's 
fall." 

Jesus  says,  "  I  am  the  vine,  ye  are  the  branches." 
Is  not  the  relationship  intimate?  Think  of  this  rela- 
tionship with  the  purest  life  ever  lived !  Can  such 
meditation  fail  to  stimulate  the  better  element  of  our 
nature,  and  thus  draw  us  into  a  conscious  relationship 
with  the  Father  through  the  Son. 

These  meditations  lift  us  out  of  self  and  selfishness 
into  that  broader,  grander  life,  which  the  universal 
fatherhood  of  God  and  brotherhood  of  man  teaches. 
There  is  indeed  inspiration  in  such  meditations.  In- 
spiration for  nobler,  purer  life.  Inspiration  for  striv- 
ing subject  to  the  present  life,  ephemeral  in  its  com- 
parative duration,  to  the  life  eternal ;  the  spirit  life 
which  through  an  innate  consciousness  as  well  as  by 
Divine  revelation  we  are  assured  is  as  eternal  as  God 
himself,  for  it  comes  from  him  and  is  therefore  co- 
eternal  with  him. 

Mystery,  do  you  say?  We  admit  it,  and  the  great- 
est philosophers  of  all  ages  have  sought  in  vain  for 
a  solution  of  the  mystery  of  life.  Yet  none  deny  its 
existence.  If  church  relationship  so  brings  us  in  touch 
with  the  spiritually  minded  as  to  the  more  frequently 
lead  our  minds  heavenward  and  homeward,  thus  pre- 
paring us  for  its  final  enjoyment,  it  is  plain  that  loyalty 
to  that  relationship  is  essential  and  needs  no  logical 
reasoning  to  establish  its  claim  upon  us. 

Loyalty  to  conviction  and  a  good  cause  never  fails 
to  bring  the  esteem  of  our  fellows,  and  better  still  it 
brings  the  approbation  of  a  good  conscience. 

The  temporal  benefits  also  are  apparent,  and  claim 
recognition.  No  individual  is  living  up  to  his  high- 
est privilege  who  does  not  surround  himself  with 
the  best  associations  available  to  him.  The  best  lit- 
erature, companions,  and  helps  to  mental,  moral  and 
physical  development  within  his  reach.  These,  it  is 
true,  may  partially  be  enjoyed  outside  the  pale  of  any 
church,  but  they  may  all  be  obtained  in  their  fullness 
within  the  church. 

If  undesirable  elements  are  sometimes  to  be  con- 
tended with  in  the  church,  you  will  not  escape  them 
by  remaining  out  of  it,  for  they  abound  to  a  greater 
extent  outside  than  within  the  church. 

Our   contention    rather   is   that    we   stand   a   better 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  30,  1904. 


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chance  of  being,  doing,  and  receiving  good  within  the 
church  than  without  it.  Fear  of  bringing  upon  our- 
selves the  disapproval  of  valued  associates  will  have  a 
restraining  influence  over  us  that  is  never  felt  when 
under  no  such  restraint.  Every  individual  is  influ- 
enced by  his  suroundings  and  associates :  not  all  in 
the  same  degree,  but  all  to  some  extent.  Hence  the 
better  and  purer  the  surroundings,  it  follows  that  the 
individual  is  benefited  just  as  certainly  as  effects  fol- 
low cause. 

Good  habits  and  morals  are  economical.  If  you  re- 
verse the  conditions,  you  evidently  reverse  the  results. 
A  pious  and  temperate  life  conserves  health  and  is 
therefore  conducive  to  longevity  and  happiness.  Op- 
posite conditions  of  life  have  opposite  tendencies  as  a 
natural  result,  often  leading  to  destitution,  disease  and 
death. 

We  need  a  like  devotion  and  loyalty  to  Christ  to- 
day. The  want  of  this  is  the  cause  of  much  of  our 
feebleness.  A  few  Christians,  whose  hearts  .  beat 
true  to  Christ,  and  who  are  willing  to  perform  any 
duty  are  of  more  benefit  to  him  than  an  army  of  in- 
different partisans,  who  are  fearful  and  disheartened. 
Loyalty  to  Christ,  as  loyalty  to  a  friend,  means  sincere 
devotion  to  him,  as  will  place  upon  the  heart  a  sense 
of  one's  personal  duty  to  do  all  he  can  for  him.  To  be 
loyal  to  Christ,  one  must  be  faithful  at  all  times,  par- 
ticularly in  trying  times,  and  when  do  we  need  him  ■ 
more?  The  very  essence  of  loyalty  is  watchfulness 
and  fidelity  in  seeing  that  everything  is  done  in  har- 
mony with  the  Divine  Pattern.  The  worship  must  be 
in  spirit  and  truth.  The  praying  must  be  fervent  in 
the  Holy  Ghost  and  the  name  of  Christ.  The  songs 
must  be  sung  with  grace  in  the  heart  to  the  Lord.  The 
offerings  must  be  made  cheerfully,  proportionately 
and  regularly.  And  the  desire  of  giving  the  Gospel 
to  the  whole  world  must  be  evident.  In  a  word,  loyalty 
to  Christ  means  unswerving  faithfulness  to  the  Word 
of  God  and  willing  submission  to  the  Holy  Ghost  in  all 
things  and  at  all  times. 

Towanda,  Pa. 

ANOTHER   WAY. 


The  traveler  looking  at  the  face  of  a  timepiece,  in 
Italy,  is  at  first  surprised  to  see  two  rows  of  characters 
on  the  dial. 

The  outside  row  of  characters  you  find  to  be  I.  II, 
III,  etc.,  up  to  XII,  and  immediately  under  each  one 
of  these  vou  have  13,  14,  etc.,  up  to  24.  They  do  not 
say  A.  M.  and  P.  M.,  neither  are  their  timetables  bur- 
dened with  such  things  as  these ;  they  only  have  light 
and  heavv  type  to  designate  the  forenoon  and  after- 
noon. 

If  they  want  to  indicate  five  minutes  after  twelve, 
midnight,  it  would  be  written  0.05.  without  any  letter 


whatever.  If  you  wanted  to  write  five  minutes  be- 
fore one  in  the  morning,  it  would  be  written  0.55,  be- 
cause it  belongs  to  the  new  day  and  not  to  the  old.  I  f  it 
was  ten  minutes  after  noon,  it  would  be  recorded  12.10. 
Of  course  it  seems  awkward  at  first  and  these 
numbers  are  somewhat  confusing,  but  it  requires  but 
very  little  time  to  get  used  to  this  method  of  calculating 
and  indicating  time.  It  is  just  as  easy  to  associate  15, 
18  and  21  with  3,  6,  and  9  as  it  is  to  say  fifteen  minutes 
to  three  when  the  hand  is  at  nine.  It  is  only  a  matter 
of  convenience  and  after  a  little  use  of  this  method  of 
keeping  time,  one  is  compelled  to  say,  honestly,  that 
their  method  is  less  perplexing  than  ours  when  once 
accustomed  to  both. 

♦  ♦  ♦ 

THE    OLDEST    CLOCK. 


The  oldest  working  clock  in  Great  Britain  is  that  of 
Peterborough  Cathedral,  which  dates  from  1320,  and 
is  conceded  to  have  been  made  by  a  monastic  clock- 
maker.  It  is  the  only  one  now  known  that  is  wound 
up  over  an  old  wooden  wheel.  This  clock  is  twelve  feet 
in  circumference,  carrying  a  galvanized  cable  about  300 
feet  in  length,  with  a  leaden  weight  of  three  hundred- 
weight. The  cable  has  to  be  wound  up  daily.  The 
gong  is  a  great  tenor  bell  of  the  cathedral,  which 
weighs  thirty-two  hundred-weight,  and  is  struck  hour- 
ly by  an  eighty-pound  hammer.  The  gong  and  the 
striking  parts  of  the  clock  are  some  yards  apart,  com- 
munication being  by  a  slender  wire.  The  clock  is  not 
fitted  with  a  dial,  but  the  time  is  indicated  on  the  main 
wheel  of  the  escapement,  which  goes  round  once  in 
two  hours.  This  clock  is  of  the  most  primitive  design, 
more  so  than  the  famous  one  made  for  Charles  V.  of 
France  by  Henry  de  Nick. 

4*   .$.  4. 
VOLCANIC    CORKS. 


Prof.  Angelo  Heilprin,  whose  studies  of  the  re- 
cent West  Indian  volcanic  disturbance  have  thrown 
much  light  on  the  mighty  geological  forces  involved, 
has  been  puzzled,  as  were  other  scientists,  to  account 
for  the  great  volcanic  cork,  which  rose  to  a  height  of 
a  thousand  feet  out  of  the  crater  of  Mt.  Pelee.  If  this 
mass  was  molten  lava  what  caused  its  sudden  solidifica- 
tion, so  that  instead  of  rolling  over  the  rim  of  the  crater 
and  flowing  down  the  mountain  side,  it  was  reared  in 
a  gigantic  pedestal  of  solid  rock  ?  The  difficulty  of 
answering  this  question,  and  a  study  of  similar  forma- 
tions (on  a  much  smaller  scale,  however),  in  other 
volcanic  regions,  has  led  Prof.  Heilprin  to  adopt  the 
view  that  the  mass  was  in  reality  an  old  cork  of  rock, 
which  had  collected  in  the  crater  and  long  ago 
solidified.  The  recent  eruption  loosened  this,  and  the 
vast  forces  pent  up  below  gradually  raised  it  above 
the  cratef's  rim. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  30,  1904. 


THE    GOOD    RESOLUTION. 


BY  MARTHA  B.  LAHMAN. 

Lucia  and  Marie  had  been  fast  friends  for  years. 
They  were  sitting  in  the  parlor  in  the  twilight,  silently, 
when  Lucia  broke  the  monotony  by  saying :  "  Marie, 
what  in  the  world  is  the  matter  with  you  ?  You  are  not 
the  same  jolly  girl  you  used  to  be." 

"  I  will  tell  you,"  said  Marie.  "  I  have  been  revolv- 
ing some  grave  and  serious  thoughts  in  my  mind  re- 
cently." 

"  Oh !  do  tell !  "  broke  in  her  friend,  "  are  you  think- 
ing of  marrying  ?  " 

"  No,  that  is  not  it,"  said  Marie.  "  I  have  been  a 
little  conscience  smitten  lately,  and  wonder  if  I  do  ex- 
actly right." 

"  Why,  in  what  particular,  dear  girl  ? "  inquired 
Lucia,  "  I  have  always  considered  you  a  worthy  com- 
panion, and  one  to  be  imitated." 

"  That  is  just  where  the  point  lies,"  said  her  friend, 
"  am  I  worthy  of  imitation  ?  " 

"  I  have  been  a  member  of  the  church  for  a  number 
of  years,  but  I  have  not  made  a  full  surrender.  I  at- 
tend church  services  regularly,  and  take  part  in  prayer 
meeting  and  the  like  of  that,  but  is  it  right  to  tell  how 
we  love  Jesus,  and  to  say  we  mean  to  go  on  to  perfec- 
tion, and  turn  right  around  and  go  to  a  dance  perhaps 
the  next  evening?" 

"  O,  Marie '  Are  you  going  to  quit  the  dance  ?  "  re- 
plied Lucia,  "  for  my  part  I  see  nothing  wrong  in  it. 
Why  David  danced,  and  our  minister  does  not  oppose 
it  strongly,  in  fact,  it  is  only  a  harmless  amusement." 

"  Well,"  rejoined  Marie,  "  I  have  considered  it 
prayerfully,  and  can  come  to  no  other  conclusion." 

"  Yes,  but  you  know  we  do  not  attend  the  public  ball 
room,  we  only  go  to  private  parlor  dances  where  the 
company  is  selected." 

"  I  know,  but  after  all,  I  can  not  see  it  in  any  other 
light  now,"  answered  Marie. 

"  But  what  will  Mr.  Altgood  think?  "  ejaculated  the 
other. 

"  If  he  is  the  common  sense,  practical  man  I  take  him 
to  be,  he  will  not  hinder  me.  I  have  been  reading  my 
Bible  of  late,  and  find  dancing  to  be  decidedly  wrong. 
There  are  so  many  ways  I  can  spend  my  time  more 
profitably,  to  say  nothing  of  the  influence  I  am  exerting 
over  others.  Do  you  not  remember  what  our  Sunday- 
school  teacher  said  last  Sunday  about  our  influence 
living,  even  after  we  have  passed  to  the  '  spirit '  world  ? 
and  besides,  I  do  not  think  any  of  us  would  want  to 
spend  our  last  moments  in  such  a  way.  I  once  knew  a 
young  man  who  died  within  an  hour  after  leaving  the 
ball  room,  and  another  one  who  was  shot  and  killed  at 
a  dance,  by  one  intoxicated.  I  think  sometimes  there 
is  more  drinking  at  these  dances  than  we  girls  know 
of." 


"  I  am  sorry  you  have  come  to  that  decision.  I  am 
not  ready  yet  to  quit  dancing,"  said  Lucia. 

Others  entered  the  room,  and  no  more  was  said  on 
the  subject  just  then.  But  Marie  fell  into  a  sweet, 
peaceful  sleep  that  night,  while  her  friend  tossed  and 
retossed,  trying  in  vain  to  get  the  conversation  from 
her  mind.  Two  weeks  passed,  when  Mr.  Altgood 
called  at  the  home  of  Marie  to  ask  her  to  accompany 
him  to  a  dance. 

She  was  as  firm  as  ever,  and  replied  that  she  had  re- 
solved to  quit  dancing.  He  said,  "  You  will  accom- 
pany me,  although  you  should  not  dance,  will  you 
not  ?  " 

"  No,  Mr.  Altgood,  I  am  sorry  if  I  disappoint  you, 
but  I  have  decided  not  to  go  at  all." 

"  Very  well,  if  that  is  your  decision,  I  shall  not  in- 
terfere." 

"  But,  Mr.  Altgood,  if  you  desire  to  go,  I  shall  not 
keep  you  from  going,"  said  she. 

"  No,  Miss  Marie,  with  your  permission,  I  shall  pre- 
fer to  remain  with  you." 

The  evening  of  the  dance  found  Lucia  there,  but  all 
wondered  why  her  friend  was  not  there.  Lucia  did 
not  enjoy  herself  as  much  as  usual  that  evening,  she 
could  not  quite  shake  oft  the  impression  that  conversa- 
tion left  on  her  mind.  And  before  many  weeks,  she, 
too,  was  ready  to  make  the  same  resolution. 
#     #     *     *     # 

Six  years  later,  when  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Altgood  were 
seated  around  their  own  fireside,  with  two  bright  and 
happy  children,  Mr .  Altgood  suddenly  remarked, 
."  Wife,  do  you  know  I  am  very  glad  you  resolved  to 
quit  dancing  when  you  did,  for  really  it  was  quite  a 
temptation  to  me,  sometimes  when  the  boys  would  of- 
fer me  a  '  social  '  drink,  and  it  was  drawing  pretty 
heavily  on  my  pocketbook  too,  for  the  girls  always  ex- 
pected refreshments  ;  then,  too,  evening  dress  was  quite 
extravagant.  But  more  than  all,  I  believe  your  health 
is  better  since  you  quit  dancing." 

Franklin  Grove,  III. 

*  *  * 

STRANGE    CANNIBALS. 


An  interesting  story  is  told  by  the  Commissioners 
who  have  been  engaged  for  the  last  eighteen  months 
in  fixing  the  Anglo-German  frontiers  in  West  Africa 
between  the  town  of  Yola  and  Lake  Tchad. 

The  region  traversed  is  little  known  owing  to  the 
hostility  of  the  tribes.  The  Fulani  villages  were  found 
quite  friendly,  but  beyond  Lau,  a  large  town  on  the 
Bernu,  there  lay  a  mountainous  region  inhabited  by 
pagans,  who  in  many  cases  were  cannibals. 

They  were  found  to  be  a  most  industrious  people, 
who  cultivated  their  fields  with  a  good  deal  of  method. 
In  most  cases,  says  Reuter,  they  were  practically  nak- 
ed, but  were  always  armed.     Even  when  at  work  in 


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the  fields  plowing  they  carried  a  full  kit  of  spears, 
shields  and  poisoned  arrows. 

The  arrows  are  much  dreaded,  for  the}'  are  tipped 
with  a  deadly  poison  extracted  from  vegetables  and 
from  dead  bodies.  This  is  carried  in  small  bottles, 
and  when  fresh  it  proves  fatal  in  a  few  minutes. 

These  people  are  adepts  at  game  stalking,  and  dis- 
guise themselves  as  birds  and  animals  in  order  to  ap- 
proach their  prey. 

They  are  smaller  than  the  Fulani,  being  often  quite 
dwarfish,  and  they  live  in  flimsy  grass  huts  perched  in 
inaccessible  nooks  among  the  mountains. 

At  Kuta  the  Sheikh  of  British  Bomu  rode  out  to 
greet  Colonel  Jackson,  at  the  head  of  300  horsemen 
and  a  large  number  of  men  on  foot.  He  was  accom- 
panied by  a  band  and  dancing  girls. 

His  people  carried  enormous  spears,  and  some  wore 
old  armor,  while  the  horses  were  caparisoned  with 
housings  like  those  of  the  Crusaders. 

The  survey  has  proved  that  existing  maps  are  to  a 

large  extent  inaccurate,  and  has  placed  the  boundary 

farther  to  the  east,  thus  enlarging  the  British  sphere. — 

Cincinnati  Enquirer. 

$  $  $ 

REINDEER    IN    ALASKA. 


at  every  50  miles,  the  mails  can  be  carried  at  the  rate 
of  200  miles  per  day.  If  the  mineral  industry  contin- 
ues to  grow,  50,000  teams  of  reindeers  would  not 
supply   the   demand. 

■     A    LETTER    FROM    OUR    HOOSIER    HYMN 
WRITER. 


The  wisdom  of  the  Government's  efforts  to  intro- 
duce the  reindeer  into  Alaska  grows  more  and  more 
apparent  every  day.  In  the  near  future  these  animals 
will  be  found  to  be  of  immense  value  in  the  opening 
up  of  the  country.  The  country  is  especially  adapted 
to  these  animals,  owing  to  the  immense  amount  of 
long  white  moss,  covering  about  400,000  acres  in 
Alaska,  which  they  feed  upon.  In  using  dogs  the  na- 
tives have  to  take  along  fish  for  food,  but  with  the 
reindeer  all  they  have  to  do  is  to  turn  them  loose,  and 
they  will  immediately  paw  away  the  snow  and  find 
their  moss  food.  In  order  to  familiarize  the  Eskimos 
with  these  animals,  the  missionary  stations  at  which 
they  are  being  educated  have  taken  up  the  plan  of 
showing  them  how  to  properly  care  for  and  use  them. 

The  great  drawback  has  been  in  obtaining  the  rein- 
deer. All  along  the  Northern  Siberian  coast,  where 
they  are  so  numerous  it  is  difficult  to  get  the  natives 
to  part  with  them,  owing  to  their  superstition  about 
the  animals,  and  those  which  were  obtained  were  se- 
cured through  barter.  Notwithstanding  this,  a 
herd  of  6,000  was  collected,  and  these  are  rapidly  in- 
creasing in  numbers.  The  Government  is  now  spend- 
ing $25,000  annually  for  the  education  of  the  Eskimos 
in  the  care  and  use  of  these  valuable  animals.  The 
capacity  of  a  reindeer  for  team  work  is  remarkable. 

As  their  hoofs  are  very  broad  and  the  body  light, 
they  are  able  to  travel  over  the  snow's  crust  without 
breaking  in.  They  can  carry  a  sled  of  600  pounds 
from  50  to  90  miles  a  day,  and  it  is  found  with  relays 


Dear  Miss  Bixler: 

You  ask  me  to  tell  something  about  my  hymn-writ- 
ing. I  gladly  do  so,  and  trust  it  may  prove  interesting 
to  the  Nook  family. 

From  early  childhood  I  was  fond  of  music,  poetry 
and  beautiful  thoughts.  Early  in  my  "  teens  "  I  wrote 
some  verses  and  later  some  of  my  poems  appeared  in 
our  county  paper,  attracting  favorable  notice.  Thus 
encouraged,  I  sent  poems  to  The  Religious  Telescope 
and  after  a  time  received  letters  asking  me  to  write 
hymns  for  some  singing  books  which  were  being  pre- 
pared. 

I  had  never  thought  of  engaging  in  this  line  of  work, 
but  felt  deeply  impressed  to  make  the  effort,  and 
have  been  more  successful  than  I  dared  to  hope.  More 
than  eight  hundred  hymn-poems  have  gone  out  into 
the  world  from  my  pen. 

The  hymns  I  have  sent  out  often  reappear  in  unex- 
pected places,  reminding  me  of  the  promise,  "  Cast 
thy  bread  upon  the  waters  and  thou  shalt  find  it  again 
after  many  days." 

My  hymn,  "  Happy  in  the  Love  of  Jesus,"  was  for 
three  years  a  favorite  at  the  Winona  Lake  Bible  Con- 
ference, and  it  was  a  joy  to  me  to  feel  that  my  testi- 
mony for  Christ  was  thus  given  to  so  many  people. 

The  Spirit's  help  and  blessing  has  been  invoked  upon 
my  work  and  I  gratefully  feel  that  it  has  been  given. 
The  work  is  very  dear  to  me  and  it  is  a  channel 
through  which  my  holiest  thoughts  and  feelings  find  ex- 
pression. Suggestions  for  hymns  come  to  me  from 
sermons,  reading  and  many  other  sources. 

It  has  been  my  aim  to  have  my  hymns  strong  and 
cheerful,  and  bear  no  traces  of  my  invalidism  even 
when  I  have  been  sad  and  weary.  Only  in  one,  "  Rest- 
ing by  the  River,"  have  I  meant  to  refer  directly  to  my 
physical  afflictions'.  My  hymns  are  usually  written 
in  the  forenoons ;  from  nine  till  twelve  o'clock  I  call 
my  working  hours.  I  nearly  always  write  the  first 
copy  of  a  hymn  on  a  slate,  then  rewrite  it  on  paper, 
perhaps  making  some  changes.  Fanny  Crosby's  great 
work  has  been  an  inspiration  to  me.  and  now  I  am 
glad  that  my  work  is  an  inspiration  to  others. 

It  is  my  chief  desire  that  Jesus  may  be  glorified 
through  me,  so  that  He  may  say  of  me  when  1  see 
Him  face  to  face,  as  He  said  of  one  long  ago.  "  Sin 
hath  done  what  she  could."  Jennie  Wilson. 

S.  Whitley.  Ind. 

The  devil  never  bothers  to  shake  barren  trees. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— August  30,  1904. 


THE    OHIO    BAPTIST    ASSEMBLY. 


BY  ADELAIDE  M  KEE  KOONS. 

Held  at  Lake  Hiawatha  Park,  Mount  Vernon,  Ohio. 

During  the  month  of  July — this  year  from  July 
25th  to  August  4 — there  is  held  at  Hiawatha  Park, 
Mount  Vernon,  Ohio,  one  of  the  characteristic  gather- 
ings of  the  age.  There  are  many  of  such  in  the  coun- 
try, all  modeled  after  the  famous  "  Mother  Chatau- 
qua "  Assembly,  but  this  Assembly  which  convenes 
on  the  shores  of  Lake  Hiawatha  is  particularly  for- 
tunate in  its  setting.  Nowhere  is  there  a  scene  more 
picturesque,  nowhere  is  there  such  a  combination  of 
rustic  beauty  and  city  comforts.  I  know  of  no  place 
where  a  man  may  take  his  family  and  have  such  an 
ideally  good  time.  There  is  something  for  everybody 
to  do — from  the  grandmother  down  to  the  youngest 
child — there  is  something  for  everybody  to  learn,  and 
to  enjoy. 

Arriving  at  Mount  Vernon,  one  takes  the  trolley  car 
and  is  borne  over  a  winding  road  to  the  Park,  some- 
thing over  a  mile  and  a  half  north  of  the  city.  There 
is  no  time  to  describe  the  beauties  of  this  celebrated 
summer  resort,  in  full.  At  night,  one  is  especially 
struck  with  the  gate  entrance,  which  is  profusely  il- 
luminated with  countless  electric  lights.  Close  by  is 
the  lake,  set  like  a  jewel  'mid  the  encircling  rim  of 
hills — indeed  the  general  contour  of  the  Park  is  that  of 
a  vast  amphitheatre — and  from  the  opposite  side  of 
the  lake,  at  night,  the  gate,  with  its  two  tall  towers,  and 
myriad  lights,  is  reflected  in  the  rippling  water,  like 
nothing  so  much  as  a  huge  organ  with  mighty  pipes  of 
gold,  that  seem  to  vibrate  to  some  mysterious  rhythm 
which  our  ears  cannot  apprehend,  as  the  waves  set  the  ■ 
long  golden  columns  of  light  aquiver. 

Here,  when  the  Assembly  is  in  full  force,  some  hun- 
dreds of  tents  gleam  whitely  through  the  trees,  and 
the  long,  winding  path,  the  Auditorium,  the  Dining 
Hall  and  quaint  Dairy  Kitchen  hum  with  busy  life. 
There  are  headquarter  tents,  league  tents,  missionary 
tents,  innumerable,  to  say  nothing  of  many  others,  oc- 
cupied by  private  families,  and,  I  spoke  awhile  ago 
of  a  happy  combination  of  picturesqueness  and  com- 
fort, in  every  tent  is  a  well-laid  pine  floor,  and  an  elec- 
tric light.  There  are  also  about  a  hundred  cottages 
within  the  Park,  each  one  as  comfortable  and  com- 
modious as  it  is  possible  to  imagine,  while  the  price 
for  such  accommodations  is  within  the  reach  of  all. 

Although  the  management  of  the  Assembly  is  in  the 
hands  of  members  of  the  Baptist  church,  though  they 
do  "  the  heavy  work,"  and  experience  the  usual  lack  of 
gratitude  and  appreciation  therefor,  every  man,  wom- 
an, or  child  who  wishes  to  go  there  for  rest,  inspiration 
or  education,  is  invited  to  do  so,  and  cordially  wel- 
comed and  made  to  feel  that  the  feast  was  spread  for 
him — he  is  not  a  guest — he  is  at  home. 


The  series  of  lectures  just  concluded  this  year,  con- 
tained three  by  Miss  Florence  Ben-Oliel,  a  Jewess,  who 
appeared  in  Jewish  costume,  and  lectured  on  Jewish 
feasts  and  religious  observances.  The  curriculum 
embraces  a  broad  range  of  subjects,  from  Froebel's 
methods  of  child  training  to  the  American  Navy. 
Captain  Richmond  Pearson  Hobson,  of  Santiago  fame, 
delivered  one  of  the  best  lectures  ever  heard  at  the 
Park,  on  the  needs  of  the  American  Navy.  His  lec- 
ture, which  lasted  over  two  hours,  was  a  wonderful 
compilation  of  facts,  statistics  and  incidents,  all  touch- 
ing upon  the  great  need  for  an  adequate  navy.  He  be- 
lieves that  when  the  Great  Powers  begin  to  quarrel 
over  China,  as  quarrel  they  will,  and  a  world  war  is 
imminent,  America  is  the  only  nation  on  earth  that 
can  and  will  cast  a  vote  for  peace, — if  she  has  the 
navy  to  back  up  her  decision ; — an  ingenious  theory 
which  we  may  live  to  see  justified  or  disproven. 

There  are  also  Bible  studies,  song  and  vesper  serv- 
ices, and  an  earnest  searching  after  the  Truth  in  all 
its  forms.  The  man  is  dull  indeed,  who  does  not  carry 
away  some  good,  after  a  ten  days'  camp  within  the 
borders  of  the  Baptist  Assembly.  It  makes  decidedly 
for  humanitarianism,  that  broad  feeling  of  brother- 
hood and  fellowship,  which  will  never  prevail  until  all 
the  world  is  attuned  to  the  same  chords  of  love,  intel- 
ligence and  understanding. 

502  E.  High  St.,  Mi.  Vernon,  Ohio. 
*  *  * 
THE   TURBINE    ENGINE. 


Despite  Admiral  Melville's  assertion  that  fifteen 
years  of  experimenting- are  still  necessary  before  steam 
turbines  will  be  of  any  practical  or  general  use  on 
ocean  liners  and  warships,  it  is  a  significant  indica- 
tion of  the  revolution  in  steam  engineering  when  three 
of  our  largest  builders  of  steam  engines  have  added  to 
their  lines  types  of  the  newer  form  of  prime  mover. 
The  gist  of  the  situation  at  the  present  time  was  aptly 
expressed  by  a  speaker  at  the  joint  convention  of  the 
American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers  and  the 
Institution  of  Mechanical  Engineers  of  Great  Britain — 
which  august  assemblage,  by  the  way,  gave  an  entire 
evening  of  its  valuable  time  to  the  discussion  of  the 
steam  turbine.  The  speaker  maintained  that  the  de- 
cision as  to  which  is  the  better  form  of  prime  mover 
is  dependent  not  on  their  relative  efficiency  in  terms  of 
steam  consumption,  but  rather  on  the  basis  of  dollars 
and  cents,  which  surely  is  the  rational  standard  for 
comparison.  It  is  agreed  that  the  highest  type  of  re- 
ciprocating engine  is  more  economical  in  its  use  of 
steam  than  any  turbine  so  far  developed,  but  in  the  case 
of  simple  engines  the  turbine  is  cheaper  as  to  first 
cost,  occupies  less  space  per  unit  of  power,  requires 
less  attendance,  and  is  subject  to  smaller  expense  for 
repairs  and  maintenance.     Under  these  circumstances 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  30.  1904. 


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the  turbine  is  here  to  stay.  The  next  point  to  be  de- 
termined is  what  vacuum  can  be  economically  main- 
tained on  the  exhaust.  The  nearer  the  vacuum  ap- 
proaches completeness  the  more  perfectly  will  the  en- 
gine operate,  but,  as  the  expense  for  equipment  and 
operation  rapidly  increases  as  a  perfect  vacuum  is 
neared,  the  cost  of  increased  efficiency  in  time  exceeds 
its  value. — Cincinnati  Enquirer. 
$  *  4» 
IMMENSE    SULPHUR    DEPOSIT. 


In  the  outlying  foothills  of  the  great  San  Francisco 
Mountains,  in  northern  Arizona,  there  has  been  dis- 
covered an  immense  deposit  of  volcanic  sulphur  in  the 
extinct  crater  of  Sunset  Peak.  To  the  energy  and 
ability  of  Hon.  J.  J.  Sanders,  a  mining  engineer  of 
Prescott,  Ariz.,  this  yellow-capped  mountain  that  has 
stood  so  silent  for  centuries  is  soon  to  become  the  scene 
of  great  industrial  activity.  The  people  of  the  United 
States  consume  annually  a  vast  quantity  of  sulphur 
and  produce  very  little.  Looking  at  the  United  States 
Government  statistics  for  the  year  1901,  we  find 
that  we  produced  7,690  tons  of  sulphur,  valued  at 
$223,340,  and  in  the  same  year  we  consumed  525,745 
tons ;  thus  it  will  readily  be  seen,  that  a  vast  home 
market  is  ready  to  receive  the  output  of  the  Arizona 
mountain. 

The  volcanic  sulphur  deposits  of  Italy  and  Sicily 
are  owned  and  controlled  by  the  Anglo-Sicilian  Sul- 
phur Company,  Limited,  of  London,  England,  an 
English  trust,  from  which  company  most  of  the  sulphur 
consumed  in  the  United  States  is  purchased,  prices 
ranging  from  $21  to  $60  a  ton. 

Sunset  Peak  is  situated  nine  miles  north  of  Cliffs 
Station,  on  the  Santa  Fe  Railway,  and  fifteen  miles 
in  a  northeasterly  direction  from  Flagstaff,  Ariz.  A 
level  wagon  road  from  either  point  through  an  un- 
broken forest  leads  the  way  to  the  base  of  the  mountain 
where  the  altitude  is  7,000  feet  above  sea  level.  The 
mountain  is  conical  in  shape  and  rises  abruptly  to  an 
altitude  of  8,000  feet  above  the  level  of  the  sea. 

The  crater  is  about  3,000  feet  across  and  gently 
slopes  down  into  the  heart  of  the  great  mountain,  a 
distance  of  about  750  feet,  where  it  closes.  Surround- 
ing the  crater  is  a  rim  at  least  600  feet  in  width,  where- 
in Mr.  Sanders  procured  his  samples  that  assay  60 
per  cent  pure  sulphur. 

*  *  ft 

ELECTRIC   ORE   FINDING  SYSTEM. 


An  extraordinary  hunt  for  buried  mineral  treasure 
has  taken  place  at  the  Westminster  Palace  Hotel,  near 
London.  Round  a  long,  shallow  box  half  filled  with 
soil  stood  a  number  of  scientists,  inventors,  mine  own- 
ers and  city  men.  They  held  telephone  receivers  to 
their  ears  and  listened  attentively  to  a  clicking  sound 
resembling  that  made  by  a  busy  woodpecker. 


Some  distance  from  the  box — or  "  lucky  tub."  as 
some  called  it — stood  instruments  that  transmitted 
electric  currents  through  the  supposed  auriferous  soil 
contained  in  the  box.  Simultaneously  Alfred  Wil- 
liams, a  clever  inventor  with  an  American  accent, 
prodded  mysterious,  wired  implements  into  the  soil. 
The  prospectors  (by  telephone)  informed  him  of  the 
variations  in  sound  of  the  woodpecking. 

"  We  are  coming  to  something  now,"  he  presently 
whispered,  and  he  stuck  a  number  of  matches  in  the 
soil  in  a  manner  that  suggested  cribbage.  But  as  a 
matter  of  fact,  he  was  staking  out  his  claim. 

"  Here  it  is  at  last!  "  exclaimed  the  operator,  stick- 
ing in  another  match.  His  assistant  ran  up  with  a 
garden  trowel.  The  suspense  was  breathless.  Two 
lady  spectators  looked  pale  and  hoped  the  "  find " 
would  prove  to  be  diamondiferous.  Their  disappoint- 
ment was  obvious  when  the  scientific  miner  shoveled 
away  the  earth  and  revealed  a  piece  of  lead  piping. 

But  from  the  inventor's  point  of  view  the  demon- 
stration was  a  success,  and  subsequent  trials  resulted  in 
real  ore  being  unearthed. 

The  purpose  of  the  new  electrical  ore-finding  system, 
which  is  owned  by  a  limited  company,  is  to  discover 
the  mineral  wealth  of  the  earth  without  boring  for  it. 

*  *  * 
SUN    SPOTS. 


Sir  Norman  Lockyer,  the  British  astronomer,  has 
advanced  a  remarkable  new  theory  concerning  the 
utility  of  sun  spots.  Sir  Norman  contends  that  the 
discovery  and  understanding  of  these  phenomena  will 
prove  one  of  the  most  beneficial  additions  to  the  world 
in  general.  He  believes  that  such  knowledge  may  en- 
able astronomers  to  convert  the  sun  into  an  agent  to 
enable  the  nations  to  cope  with  droughts  and  famines. 
The  spots  on  the  sun  may  render  it  possible  to  predict 
with  practical  certainty  the  coming  of  famine  and  the 
exact  part  of  the  world  where  it  will  take  place. 
*  ■<•  ■> 
MASK    WITH     THE    LIFE    BELT. 


A  German  inventor,  working  on  the  theory  that 
most  persons  who  are  drowned  are  really  overcome  by 
the  waves  which  cannot  be  kept  from  dashing  into  the 
face  of  the  victim,  has  invented  a  mask  to  be  worn  in 
connection  with  a  life  preserver,  and  this  he  thinks 
will  be  the  means  of  saving  many  lives.  It  is  pro- 
vided with  valves,  which  will  not  permit  of  the  en- 
trance 'of  water,  but  which  respond  easily  to  suction, 
so  that  the  breathing  of  the  wearer  is  not  interfered 
with. 

*  ♦  *fc 

A  jest's  prosperity  lies  in  the  ear 

Of  him  that  hears  it ;  never  in  the  tongue 

Of  him  that  makes  it— Shakespeare. 


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KEEP    OFF    THE    GRASS. 


Did  you  ever  see  a  coon  skin  tacked  upon  a  barn 
door?  It  was  not  a  difficult  matter,  when  you  stood 
looking  at  the  skin  as  it  was  stretched  to  its  very  lim- 
its, to  guess  about  the  size  of  the  coon  which  originally 
wore  the  beautiful  coat  of  fur.  We  are  often  reminded 
of  a  picture  like  this  as  we  pass  through  the  world. 

We  often  see  signs  on  trees,  or  upon  the  corners  of 
the  fences,  "  Xo  Hunting."  That  does  not  tell  the 
size  of  the  man  who  owns  the  farm  as  to  the  avoirdu- 
pois or  as  to  feet  and  inches,  nor  does  it  give  you  any 
idea  of  his  facial  expression,  but  as  a  rule  you  may 
make  a  fair  estimate  of  his  soul.  There  are  dozens 
and  scores  of  excuses  which  the  farmers  give  as  to 
why  they  stick  up  these  signs,  and  yet  many  of  them 
do  not  protect  the  game  on  their  farms  because  they 
want  to  hunt,  themselves :  nor  do  they  protect  it  be- 
cause they  want  to  protect  the  lives  of  the  animals  as 
game,  or  because  they  have  a  special  prick  of  con- 
science in  taking  life :  but  it  must  be  admitted  that  in 
the  majority  of  cases  it  is  done  to  show  how  much  ter- 
ritory belongs  to  John  Jones,  and  that  he  has  absolute 
control  of  every  inch  of  that  ground,  and  that  he  de- 
fies the  population  of  the  earth  even  to  tread  upon  his 
possessions.  It  is  barely  possible  that  this  precaution 
is  necessary  in  extreme  cases  when  privileges  are 
abused. 

Sometimes  these  signs  take  the  form  of  "  No  Tres- 
passing Allowed,"  which  is  no  doubt  the  best  photo- 
graph of  a  man's  selfish  disposition  and  his  stingy 
soul. 

That  which  is  true  in  the  country  is  true  in  the  city 
as  well;  some  fellow  upon  whom  the  town  has  con- 
ferred a  responsibility  instead  of  an  honor,  as  he  sup- 


posed, has  mistaken  his  calling  and  the  position  itself, 
has  swelled  his  head  until  he  causes  all  the  grass  plots 
and  little  parks  to  be  protected  by  little  reminders 
erected  at  the  entrances.  "  Keep  off  the  grass." 

What  is  grass  for?  It  is  just  grass,  green  grass,  or- 
dinary grass,  nature's  grass,  the  carpet  of  the  earth. 
The  children  may  play  out  in  the  road  or  street  where 
there  is  either  dust  or  mud  but  they  dare  not  play  on  the 
grass  just  because  a  few  bullies  demand  the  right  to 
play  golf,  tennis  or  baseball.  But  no,  the  thing,  the 
very  thing  that  God  intended  that  the  children  should 
do  dare  not  be  done  because  some  one  must  show  his 
authority.  It  makes  everybody  wish  there  was  no  grass 
or  else  that  they  were  where  there  was  plenty  of  it,  and 
when  you  see  a  sign  on  the  corner  of  the  fence,  you 
feel  as  if  you  did  not  care  to  visit  the  man  or  the  farm, 
because  of  the  peculiar  feeling  that  you  might  be  tres- 
passing. ^ 

Every  avenue  of  life  is  more  or  less  affected  with  this 
same  disease.  You  often  pick  up  an  interesting  paper 
or  magazine,  and  almost  the  first  thing  you  see  at  the 
beginning  or  at  the  end  of  the  article  is,  "  Copy- 
righted." It  is  another  way  of  saying  "  Keep  off  the 
grass,"  "  No  dogs  allowed  in  the  park,"  "  No  children 
allowed  in  this  church,"  and  all  kindred  warnings. 

There  is  evidently  an  unconscious  egotism  about 
this  sort  of  thing.  A  man  may  have  had  a  good  farm ; 
there  may  have  been  some  good  game  on  his  farm ; 
another  man  may  have  had  a  good  blackberry  patch; 
the  newspaper  man  may  have  had  a  good  article ;  but 
suppose  he  did !  It  was  only  a  little  good  horse  sense 
mixed  up  with  a  good  deal  of  imagination,  which  made 
it  well  worth  reading ;  nothing  that  a  person  would  par- 
ticularly like  to  steal,  but  here  and  there  a  paragraph 
worth  culling,  just  like  in  the  other  instances  there 
might  be  a  few  berries  worth  taking,  or  there  might 
be  a  few  quails  worth  shooting. 

But  so  it  goes;  some  men  would  pay  more  for  a 
copyright  than  the  article  is  worth ;  some  men  will 
pay  more  for  signboards  than  they  would  for  all  the 
fence  the  hunters  would  tear  down  or  all  the  stock 
they  shoot.  The  whole  thing  seems  like  a  mismatched 
threat  against  philanthropy,  generosity,  and  brotherly 
kindness.  Think  of  it!  "Trespassers  forbidden  un- 
der penalty  of  the  law."  Many  a  man  in  this  world 
would  grow  larger  if  his  hide  were  not  so  tight  that  he 
couldn't.  He  is  like  an  old  buggy  wheel  that  is  felloe 
bound,  and  the  spokes  loose  on  account  of  it.  We  say 
some  men,  thank  God  not  all  men,  are  this  way.  Now 
look  here,  friends,  it  is  only  Inglenook  advice  to  you 
that  if  you  have  a  well  that  furnishes  more  water  than 
you  can  use,  just  let  the  wayfaring  man  have  a  cool 
quaff  from  its  fountain.  If  you  have  a  farm  that  pro- 
duces more  than  you  can  possibly  use  and  dispose  of, 
don't  let  any  go  to  waste  and  nobody  get  any  good  out 
of  it.     Why  not  make  other  souls  happy? 


THE   JNGLENOOK.— August  30,  1904. 


831 


If  God  has  given  you  a  talent  with  which  you  can 
help  others,  don't  put  a  padlock  on  it  and  not  let  the 
world  have  access  to  it.  It  doesn't  belong  to  you  any- 
way ;  it  is  only  yours  as  a  tenant  and  you  are  wonder- 
fully responsible  for  the  way  in  which  you  use  it  too. 
If  you  have  a  lot  of  berries  that  are  going  to  waste — let 
the  poor  be  happy  at  your  expense — no  your  credit, 
not  expense,  for  you  have  all  you  want  anyway.  Be 
a  brother  to  mankind,  a  philanthropist  on'  a  small 
scale.  Why  not  let  the  beggar  glean  in  your  harvest 
field  ?  If  you  have  written  an  article  for  the  good  of 
the  people,  let  the  people  have  it.  If  it  was  not  for 
them,  throw  it  in  the  basket  and  do  not  act  like  the  dog 
in  the  manger — not  eat  nor  let  anyone  else  eat. 

If  you  have  a  sermon  that  is  helpful  to  the  church- 
and  the  world,  do  not  put  it  in  your  inside  vest  pocket 
and  keep  it  there.  Tell  your  brethren  to  preach  it 
wherever  they  want  to.  Jesus  said  lots  of  good  things 
and  they  are  in  print  and  he  never  placed  a  copyright 
upon  them  although  other  people  have. 

* 

Let  it  never  be  said  of  any  of  the  Nook  family  that 
they  are  going  along  through  the  world  under  a  pad- 
lock, a  copyright,  or  a  signboard,  for  fear  somebody 
else  will  tramp  upon  their  fields,  rights  and  privileges. 
Be  neighborly;  be  sociable;  above  all,  be  useful  to  the 
world.  On  the  other  hand,  be  sensible ;  remember 
that  life  runs  upon  general  rules  and  not  special  ones 
and  that  there  are  exceptions  to  all  rules.  If  there 
were  not,  the  rule  would  not  be  a  rule.  It  would  be 
an  axiom ;  a  self-evident  truth. 

Don't  turn  blessings  into  cursings;  don't  be  unrea- 
sonable enough  to  think  that  a  few  rude  boys  ought  to 
tramp  down  all  the  green  grass  under  a  baseball  dia- 
mond at  the  sacrifice  of  all  the  little  children  in  the 
city  who  suffer  for  the  want  of  it.  Don't  think  that 
the  farmer  can  afford  not  to  protect  himself,  his  stock, 
his  farm,  and  his  personal  property,  to  a  reasonable  de- 
gree, against  men  who  have  no  principle  nor  character ; 
but  at  all  events  and  under  all  circumstances  it  is  pos- 
sible to  obey  "  The  Golden  Rule." 

FORCE   OF   GRAVITY. 


It  almost  surpasses  belief  when  one  comes  face  to 
iace  with  the  actual  contrast  between  going  up  and  go- 
ing down,  and  the  only  difference  in  the  world  between 
going  up  and  going  down  is  force  of  gravity,  because 
there  can  be  nothing  more  certain  than  that  all  bodies 
possess  that  quality  known  as  inertia.  This  quality 
renders  it  possible  for  a  body,  when  once  started,  to 
fnove  on  forever  until  some  force  other  than  itself  re- 
pels it  or  resists  it.  It  also  makes  it  possible  for  the 
same  body,  when  once  stopped,  to  never  start  unless 
some  power  other  than  itself  sets  it  in  motion. 


It  is  queer  how  little  we  think  of  this  wonderful 
power  that  is  round  about  us  all  the  time,  and  yet  there 
is  not  a  day  passes  but  what  we  see  it  illustrated  in  some 
manner.  Think  of  the  exertion  it  takes  for  a  boy  to 
cast  a  ball  high  up  into  the  air.  and  yet  he  is  only  able 
to  throw  it  a  few  feet  and  with  no  power  to  start  it 
back  except  force  of  gravity :  it  requires  of  the  earth 
considerable  resistance  to  stop  its  progress  on  its  re- 
turn. 

The  most  nimble  athlete  is  only  able  to  jump  a  very 
few  feet  from  the  ground  when  all  his  powers  are 
summoned,  and  yet  force  of  gravity  will  almost  crush 
a  man  to  death  in  falling  from  the  third  or  fourth  story 
of  a  building. 

In  one  of  our  cities  recently,  an  architect  in  walking 
over  the  fourth  story  of  an  unfinished  building,  ap- 
proached the  elevator  used  by  the  workmen  to  carry 
the  material  to  the  top  of  the  building,  and  carelessly 
stepped  upon  it  without  being  sure  that  it  was  locked, 
and  it  at  once  began  to  descend  rapidly.  The  gentle- 
man endeavored  to  close  his  eyes  and  abide  by  the  in- 
evitable, but  his  eyes  refused  to  shut  because  it 
was  their  purpose  to  secure  a  convenient  place  to  light. 
but  before  the  elevator  had  reached  the  bottom  of  its 
descent  it  had  tightened  the  rope  that  connected  it 
with  the  horse,  which  was  the  power  used  in  elevation. 
The  sudden  tension  of  the  rope  frightened  the  horse 
almost  into  spasms  and  the  man  in  charge  of  the 
horse  stood  trembling  as  if  he  expected  a  half  score  of 
men  to  come  tumbling  down  the  shaft ;  but  when  the 
man  on  the  elevator  stepped  to  the  ground  unharmed, 
the  melee  ended  in  a  fit  of  laughter  from  all  parlies 
except  the  poor  horse ;  but  for  the  first  time  in  his  life 
the  architect  realized  how  easy  it  is  for  a  man  to  go 
down  in  this  world. 

A  man  may  strive  for  all  of  his  life  to  reach  the  top 
rung  in  the  ladder  of  popularity,  fame  and  honor,  and 
yet  the  result  of  an  unguarded  moment  may  land  him 
at  the  bottom  of  the  shaft.  A  man  may  be  well  up  in 
financial  circles  and  yet  by  a  careless  step  on  an  un- 
safe platform  he  may  land  where  all  is  debris  and  ob- 
livion. A  man  may  carefully,  brick  by  brick,  build  a 
noble  character  and  become  an  example  to  the  world, 
and  yet  in  a  moment  of  indiscretion  commit  a  criminal 
act  that  will  render  him  ineligible  as  a  criterion  the 
remainder  of  his  life. 

SEVEN     HUNDRED     MORE. 


Ix  the  last  few  weeks  there  have  been  over  seven 
hundred  new  names  added  to  our  Xinik  family  which 
is  certainly  very  encouraging.  This  means  that 
S(  IMEBODY  has  been  thoughtful  of  his  neighbor  and 
asked  him  to  share  his  enjoyment  with  him.  If  all  the 
faithful  Nookers  will  follow  the  example  we  will  have 
doubled  our  number  ere  the  snow  tlies. 


832 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  30,  1904. 


CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


Friday,  August  19th,  a  terrible  tornado  swept  over 
the  city  of   St.   Louis,   killing  two  persons,   injuring 
twenty,  and  destroying  considerable  property. 
4»   4»  *  $ 

A  fire  in  the  Arsenal  at  Toulon,  France,  raged  a 
day  and  a  night.  The  troops  had  to  be  called  out  and 
neighboring  cities  were  called  for. 

4.     4$»     4» 

Regis  H.  Post,  of  New  York,  is  to  be  secretary  of 

Porto  Rico,  and  E.  R.  Rockwell,  of  Washington,  to 

be  auditor. 

4*   4.  $ 

Secretary  of  Agriculture,  James  Wilson,  and  Sen- 
ator Kittredge  have  gone  bug  hunting  in  the  Black 
Hills. 

*  *  * 

Rev.  Thomas  Leland,  who  has  been  denouncing 
mining  strikes,  was  waited  on  by  a  delegation  of 
masked  men  at  Victor,  Colo.,  and  warned  to  leave 
town.  He  did  not  go,  he  said  he  was  busy  preaching. 
One  preacher  has  a  backbone. 

♦  ♦   * 

The  king  of  Saxony  is  suffering  from  asthma ;  he 
sleeps  sitting  in  a  chair.' 

4.    4.   4. 

A   cloudburst  at  Leadville,   Colo.,   undermined   a 
great  portion  of  the  city,  causing  great  damage. 
.>  4*  4* 
August  12  was  a  great  day  for  astronomers.     Bril- 
liant meteoric  showers  were  numerous,  lasting  for  five 
or  ten  seconds. 

4*  ♦  *> 

Smallpox  is  epidemic  in  Dowie's  city. 
4,    <$»   4, 

Roosevelt  gave  Mr.  Morgan's  firm  the  arranging 
of  the  details  of  the  Panama  Canal  transfer,  commis- 
sion of  one  per  cent,  or  four  hundred  thousand  dollars. 
Morgan  likes  Roosevelt. 

4.   4.   4. 

One  hundred  people  lost  their  lives  by  an  express 
train  falling  through  a  trestle  at  Steele's  Hollow,  near 
Pueblo,  Colo. 

Nine   thousand    Armenians   have    been    massacred 

lately  in  Asia  Minor. 

4.   4.   4. 

Cliff  Baxter  and  John  Enright  endeavored  to 
swim  a  race  from  Brooklyn  bridge  to  Coney  Island. 
After  seven  hours  both  became  crazy  from  physical 
effort.    They  were  probably  affected  a  little  before. 


Joseph  Leiter  has  sold  the  town  of  Ziegler,  111. ; 
the  deed  conveys  seventy-five  acres  of  land.  Consid- 
eration, $489,500. 

A    cloudburst    at    Fisher    Canon,   near    Trinidad, . 
Colo.,  killed  William  Haigh  and  William  Richardson. 
4.  4.  4. 

A  fire  in  the  Academy  of  Music,  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
caused  a  loss  of  $400,000. 

•>    4-     * 

Pennsylvania  will   dedicate  Antietam   Monument 
on  the  seventeenth  of  September. 
4,   4.   4. 

Lucille  Wilson,  of  South  Dakota,  who  is  roughing 
it  on  her  brother's  cattle  ranch  in  Wyoming,  has  actu- 
ally run  down  and  captured  two  antelopes. 
4,   4.   4. 

The  Art  Palace  at  the  World's  Fair  has  been  mort- 
gaged for  a  million  to  guarantee  the  restoration  of  the 
park  after  the  Fair. 

The  Finns  are  among  the  most  gentle  and  kindest 
people  of  the  world,  but  Nicholas  II.,  the  Czar,  is  de- 
termined on  crushing  them. 

Maine  furnishes  ninety  per  cent  of  the  toothpicks 
in  the  United  States.     The  wonderful  output  of  these 
factories  is  "  in  everybody's  mouth." 
4.  4.  4. 

The  Tenth  Annual   Bible  Conference,   at  Winona 
Lake,  Ind.,  is  from  August  21  to  31. 
4.  4.  4, 

Gen.  Kuropatkin  will  have  to  get  along  a  week  or 
two  without  the  Czar.    He  has  a  new  boy  at  his  house. 
4.  4.  4. 

Fred  Howe,  nineteen,  since  returning  from  the 
Philippines  in  June,  1902,  has  traveled  nine  thousand 
miles,  mostly  on  foot,  in  search  of  his  parents.  Each 
place  he  visits,  he  is  informed  that  they  have  just 
moved  some  place  else. 

4»    4*    4. 

The  most  dastardly  crime  of  the  year  was  com- 
mitted in  Statesboro,  Georgia,  by  a  mob  which  actu- 
ally burned  alive  two  negroes,  Paul  Reed  and  Will 
Cado,  who  murdered  Henry  Hodges,  wife  and  three 
children.  They  were  sentenced  to  hang  Sept.  9. 
4,   4.   4, 

In  spite  of  what  Republicans  and  Democrats  say, 
the  Treasury  Department  at  Washington  says  there 
is  more  money  in  circulation  to-day  than  ever  before 
in  the  country.  If  he  wanted  to,  Uncle  Sam  could  give 
each  soul  in  his  dominion  $31.06. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  30,  1904. 


833 


William  D.  Crane,  a  New  York  scientist,  has  dis- 
covered a  bed  of  kelp  just  inside  of  Cape  Flattery. 
This  is  the  material  of  which  iodine  is  manufactured. 
Heretofore  we  obtained  kelp  from  Scotland. 

4*  *   * 

Two  princes,  George  and  Konrad,  of  Bavaria,  are 
making  a  tour  of  America.  They  are  at  St.  Louis  this 
week. 

*  *   * 

Sir  Thomas  Lipton  has  decided  to  build  Shamrock 
IV.  and  to  challenge  again  for  the  American  cup. 

*  4»   4* 

Along  the  Cloverleaf  railway,  near  Mariom  Ind., 
the  body  of  William  Denny  was  found  in  a  mutilated 
condition.  Two  colored  men  had  murdered  him  and 
robbed  him  of  six  dollars. 

*  *  * 

Harry  Sweet,  of  Butte,  Montana,  a  telegraph  em- 
ploye, was  rendered  unconscious  for  two  hours  by  a 
stroke  of  lightning.  The  lightning  struck  a  tree  near 
by,  which  stunned  Sweet.  Upon  opening  the  bosom 
of  his  shirt,  the  doctor  found  an  exact  photographic 
image  of  the  tree  printed  on  his  breast. 
4-   4>  4> 

Mrs.  Herman  Miller,  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  has  kindly 
waited  upon  George  Sterling,  an  old  bachelor,  for 
three  years.  He  gave  her  a  letter  and  told  her  not  to 
open  it  until  after  his  death.  Immediately  after  his 
burial  she  opened  the  supposed  worthless  letter  which 
contained  ten  thousand  dollars. 

*  *  * 

George  Roby,  aged  fifty,  a  blacksmith  of  Cam- 
bridge City,  Ind.,  extracted  a  pin  from  his  ear  a  few 
days  ago  which  his  mother  says  was  swallowed  by  him 
when  he  was  a  child. 

4»    4>    $ 

Robert  Gibbons,  aged  eleven,  was  hooked  to  death 

by  a  cow. 

4>    4*   4* 

A  large  glass  plant  at  Millville,  N.  J.,  will  start  by 
Sept.  15. 

4>  4>  * 

After  an  idleness  of  two  weeks,  the  slate  quarries 
of  Argyl,  Pa.,  will  resume  work. 

*  4»   4» 

Mrs.  M.  E.  Turner,  of  Grenada,  Miss..  seventy- 
Bur  years  of  age,  was  driven  from  home  with  an  ax 
ill   the   hands   of   her   husband    who   is   eighty   years 
old,  because  he  was  jealous  of  her. 
4.   <$   41 

At  Marion,  Ind.,  James  Sweetser,  one  of  Marion's 
wealthy  men,  died  because  of  grief,  his  daughter  hav- 
ing suicided. 


m 


At  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  Mrs.  J.  G.  Lightle  paid  back 
twenty-one  thousand  dollars  to  the  Life  Insurance 
Co..  who  had  just  paid  it  to  her  upon  the  loss  of  her 
husband,  when  she  was  apprised  of  the  fact  that  Ed. 
Pitts'  body  had  been  buried  in  the  place  of  her  hus- 
band's body. 

.>   4*   41 

H.   M.   Stevenson,  of   Chicago,  arriving  at   Xew 
York  from  Europe,  was  met  at  the  pier  by  a  cab  which 
he  had  ordered  by  wireless  telegraphy. 
4"    *    <$• 

Rudolph  Spanner,  fifteen  years  old,  was  terribly 
bitten  by  a  vicious  horse  and  barely  escaped  with  his 
life. 

4*    4*    4* 

At  Enfield,  Conn.-,  some  thieves  carried  away  a  lot 
of  beehives. 

August  20  was  Pennsylvania  day  at  the  Fair.  The 
parade  was  magnificent. 

4>   4-   * 

The  old  colonial  farm  of  one  of  the  Penn  manors 
was  sold  by  the  sheriff  this  week  to  satisfv  claims  held 
against  it. 

All  the  horse  shoers  in  Philadelphia  celebrated  a 
vacation  together  one  day  last  week,  imposing  a  pen- 
alty of  twenty-five  dollars  on  any  smith  who  kept  his 

shop  open  that  day. 

4.   4.   4. 

At  West  Manayunk,  the  constable  was  compelled 
to  shoot  an  Italian  to  protect  his  own  wife  while  set- 
tling up  a  riot. 

Daniel  Hogan  was  killed  while  coupling  cars  at 
Snider,  Pa. 

4*    +    4» 
A  snip  canal  is  to  be  constructed  across  the  state  of 

Florida. 

4.   4,  4$ 

A  canal,  known  as  the  Florida  Coastline  Canal, 
from  St.  Augustine  to  Key  West.  380  miles  long,  is 
about  completed. 

4»    4>    4" 

Eastern  railroads  are  running  freight  trains  four 
days  a  week  on  account  of  light  traffic. 

*  *  + 

A  KNITTING  machine  company,  at  York,  Pa.,  has 
passed  into  the  hands  of  a  receiver. 

A  Baltimore  syndicate  is  erecting  a  new  knitting 
mill  in  Philadelphia. 

*  +   * 

A  foot  bridge  near  Blaine.-.  Pa.,  broke  down,  in- 
juring one  hundred  persons,  some  seriously. 


§34 


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This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various  Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized 
over  this  country.  Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.  Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time, 
taking  the  work  up  with  the  current  issue.  Back  numbers  cannot  be  furnished.  Any  school  desiring  to  pr- 
ganize  a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook.  Elgin,  111. 


CLASS    AVES— ORDER    INSESSORES. 


Family  Kingfisher. 

Characteristics. —  Long,  slender  bill ;  large  head ; 
heavy  body ;  short  legs ;  small  feet,  and  outer  and  mid- 
dle toes  together  as  far  as  the  last  joint. 

By  the  banks  of  some  quiet,  running  stream,  or 
smooth,  grassy  millpond,  where  the  willow,  hazel  and 
other  shrubs  dip  their  branches  into  the  water,  may  of- 
ten be  heard  a  shrill,  chattering  note  which  resembles 
a  police  whistle  and  echoes  itself  away  in  the  distance. 
This  is  the  note  of  the  Kingfisher,  which  is  given  as 
an  alarm  of  danger  at  the  approach  of  some  one.  He 
flies  some  distance  up  and  down  the  stream  where  he 
selects  a  new  standpoint  from  which  he  intently  eyes 
every  motion  of  the  finny  tribe  below,  until  one  particu- 
larlv  suited  to  his  taste  comes  within  the  range  of  his 
deadly  aim,  when  he  makes  a  sudden  winding  sweep 
and  darts  below  the  surface  of  the  water,  and  seizing 
his  fish  by  the  tail  with  his  powerful  bill,  bears  it  away 
to  some  stump  or  rock  and  threshes  it  until  it  is  dead, 
when  he  immediately  swallows  it  whole,  always  head 
first. 

This  singular,  and  yet  elegant  bird  is  a  lone  repre- 
sentative of  his  tribe  in  the  United  States ;  but  being 
abundant  wherever  fresh  water  and  good  fishing  are 
to  be  found,  it  has  become  quite  familiar,  occupying 
as  prominent  a  space  in  our  Natural  History,  as'  the 
pretty  little  European  species  does  in  the  rural  land- 
scapes in  Great  Britain.  The  form  and  appearance  of 
the  Kingfisher  are  peculiar.  A  long,  sharp,  and  pow- 
erful bill ;  a  large  head,  surmounted  by  a  crest  that 
adds  fierceness  to  its  look;  a  thick  neck  and  robust 
body,  but  rather  small  in  proportion  ;  wings  ample ; 
legs  very  short  and  feet  small,  with  outer  and  middle 
toes  together  until  as  far  as  the  last  joint.  The  upper 
parts  of  the  plumage  are  bluish  lead  color,  lower  parts 
mostly  white;  in  the  male,  a  band  of  black  crosses 
the  upper  part  of  the  breast;  in  the  female  the  blue 
tint  is  not  so  perceptible,  and  the  band  across  the 
breast  is  a  reddish  brown,  and  belly  being  girted  with 
a  broad  belt  of  the  same  color. 

Its  favorite  places  of  resort  are  near  inland  streams, 
lakes,  and  mill-ponds,  especially  where  a  clayey  or 
gravelly  bank  arises  to  some  height  above  the  water's 
edge ;  here  the  male  and  female  assist  each  other  in 
digging  out  a  hole,  running  horizontally  to  the  depth 


of  four  or  five  feet,  and  sometimes  as  much  as  ten  or 
fifteen  feet,  and  about  one  or  two  feet  below  the  sur- 
face of  the  ground. 

This  hole,  which  is  just  large  enough  to  admit  the 
body  of  the  bird,  is  widened  towards  the  extremity 
into  an  oven-shaped  apartment,  of  sufficient  size  to 
allow  of  the  birds  turning  freely  about;  here  the  nest, 
which  is  composed  of  a  few  sticks  and  feathers,  is 
placed.  The  female  mostly  lays  six  pure  white-  eggs, 
which  she  hatches  in  about  sixteen  days,  the  male  tak- 
ing his  turn  with  his  mate  in  the  process  of  incubation. 
To  this  hole  the  same  pair  will  sometimes  resort  for 
many  successive  years. 

*   *   * 

THE    CAT   CAME    BACK. 


B.  V.  Wolf,  agent  of  the  North  German  Lloyd 
Steamship  Company  in  Middletown,  N.  Y.,  has  a  cat 
that  he  has  for  months  been  trying  to  get  rid  of.  She 
has  been  given  to  farmers  who  have  taken  her  miles 
away  to  their  homes,  time  after  time,  -but  she  has 
never  failed  to  put  in  an  appearance  again  at  the  Wolf 
mansion,  after  brief  absences.  The  other  day  Mr. 
Wolf  went  to  New  York.  He  put  the  cat  in  a  bag 
and  placed  it  under  the  seat  of  the  car.  When  the 
train  reached  Sterlington,  Mr.  Wolf  dropped  the  cat 
out  of  the  window.  Sterlington  is  forty  miles  from 
Middletown.  Mr.  Wolf  transacted  his  business  in  New 
York  and  went  home.  This  was  on  Tuesday.  When  h« 
went  home  to  supper  on  Thursday  night  and  sat  dowr 
by  his  hearthstone  there  was  the  same  cat.  She  gol 
up,  rubbed  herself  on  her  master's  legs,  and  purree 
in  a  way  that  showed  how  she  appreciated  his  littlfj 
joke.  Wolf  sat  down  and  seemed  dazed  for  a  minute 
Then  he  stroked  the  cat  fondly,  but  respectfully,  ancfl 
said,  "  You  can  stay  here  as  long  as  you  live,  if  it's  ; 
hundred  years.  I'll  get  a  gold  collar  for  you  anc 
tie  it  full  of  red  ribbons.  Pussy,  you're  a  dandy."^ 
Dumb  Animals..- 

*  +  * 

SEA    LIONS    SMART    FEEDERS. 


Those  who  are  constantly  associated  with  animal 
at  the  zoo  see  many  comical  and  interesting  sights,' an' 
keepers  of  such  places  have  many  stories  to  relate. 

The  sea  lions  are  very  much  "  smarter  "  than  thei 
appearance  suggests,  and  while  they  are  always  inter 


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esting,  their  method  of  feeding  is  one  of  the  most 
amusing  things  in  the  gardens.  The  keeper  brings  to 
the  edge  of  the  pond  a  pail  of  fish,  which  average  per- 
haps a  foot  in  length,  and  flings  each  one  as  far  out  as 
he  can,  when  the  sea  lions,  with  amazing  rapidity, 
swim  to  get  them.  I  think  that  I  have  never  yet  seen 
a  fish  strike  the  water,  as  a  lion  catches  it  before  it  has 
time  and  swallows  it  head  first. 

+   *   * 
HOW    BIRDS    DRINK    AT    SEA. 


"  When  I  was  a  cabin  boy,"  said  an  elderly  sailor, 
"  I  often  used  to  wonder,  seein'  birds  thousands  of 
miles  out  at  sea,  what  they  done  for  fresh  water  when 
they  got  thirsty. 

"  One  day  a  squall  answered  that  question  for  me. 
It  was  a  hot  and  glittering  day  in  the  tropics,  and  in 
the  clear  blue  sky  overhead,  a  black  rain  cloud  ap- 
peared all  of  a  sudden.  Then,  out  of  empty  space,  over 
100  seabirds  came  dartin'  from  every  direction.  They 
got  under  the  rain  cloud,  and  they  waited  there  for 
about  ten  minutes,  circlin'  round  and  round,  and  when 
the  rain  began  to  fall,  they  throwed  their  heads  back 
and  they  drank  their  fill. 

"  In  the  tropics,  where  the  great  seabirds  sail  thou- 
sands of  miles  away  from  shore,  they  get  their  drinkin' 
water  in  that  way.  They  smell  out  a  storm  a  long  way 
off;  they  travel  100  miles,  maybe,  to  get  under  it,  and 

thev  swaller  enough  raindrops  to  keep  them  goin'." 
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GREEN    PEAS    FOR    FELINES. 


It  is  generally  supposed  that  cats  are  carnivorous 
animals,  yet  from  investigations  recently  undertaken 
by  a  French  cat  fancier  it  would  appear  that  vegeta- 
rians are  to  be  found  even  among  the  feline  tribe. 

Green    peas — cooked — are    among    the    vegetables 
mostly  favored  by  these  four-footed  gourmets,  and  as- 
paragus is  regarded  as  an  extraordinary  dainty,  even 
ijijjthe  white,  hard  stalks,  usually  rejected  by  the  most 
fastidious  "humans,"  being  eagerly  devoured.    Haricot 
ji  Deans  and  sorrel  are  not  much  thought  of,  nor  spinach, 
)ut  cooked  chicory  and  lettuce  are  more  to  their  taste, 
arrots  are  generally  appreciated,  and  are  said  to  be 
jeneficial  to  cat  health.    The  are  also  excessively  fond 
)f  maize,  either  green  or  even  the  hard  grains  when 
:ooked. 

Fruit  apparently  does  not  appeal  to  puss,  apples, 
)ears,  peaches  and  apricots  failing  to  rouse  her  appe- 
ites.  On  the  other  hand,  they  show  a  decided  taste  for 
nelons  and  bananas,  while  some  are  found /to  be  ab- 
olutely  greedy  over  cocoanut  in  any  form. 

There  is  evidently  likely  to  be  an  opening  in  the  fu- 
ure  for  a  cat's  vegetable  man  to  compete  with  the  per- 
patetic  cat's  meat  man  of  the  present. 


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BEETLES    FIGHT    TO    A    FINISH. 


There  are  beetles  in  England  (of  the  family  known 
to  the  scientists  as  Telephoridas)  that  are  popularly 
called  soldiers  and  sailors,  the  red  species  being  called 
by  the  former  name  and  the  blue  species  by  the  latter. 
These  beetles  are  among  the  most  quarrelsome  of  in- 
sects and  fight  to  the  death  on  the  least  provocation. 
It  has  long  been  the  custom  of  English  boys  to  catch 
and  set  them  fighting  with  each  other.  Thev  are  as 
ready  for  battle  as  game  cocks,  and  the  victor  will  both 
kill  and  eat  his  antagonist. 

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BACILLI    LIVED     FOR    2,000    YEARS. 


In  opening  a  tomb  which  had  been  undisturbed  since 
about  200  years  before  Christ,  remnants  of  goats  and 
dogs  which  had  been  buried  with  the  body  were  found 
and  when  these  were  examined  closely  they  were  found 
to  contain  a  number  of  living  bacilli. 

As  this  tomb  had  been  hermetically  sealed  for  more 
than  2,000  years  it  has  thus  proved  that  there  is  prac- 
ticallv  no  limit  to  the  life  of  these  death-dealing  organ- 


MEADOW    LARKS. 


Did  you  hear  a  voice  from  the  meadow  calling, 
"  Sweet,  sweetheart?  "  That  is  the  meadow  lark.  His 
name  tells  where  to  look  for  his  nest;  it  is  on  the 
ground  at  the  foot  of  a  bunch  of  tall  grass.  It  is  made 
of  grass  and  covered  over ;  sometimes  it  has  a  covered 
path  leading  to  it.  He  is  a  large  bird,  larger  than  a 
robin ;  his  color  is  a  speckled  brown  and  yellow,  and 
you  can  tell  him  best  by  the  dark  moon-shaped  figure 
on  his  breast.  His  food  is  chinch-bugs,  tomato-worms, 
wire-worms,  crickets.  June-bugs,  grasshoppers,  cut- 
worms, weevils,  and  such  harmful  things.  Truly  the 
farmer  has  a  long  list  of  helpers — wind,  rain,  sun,  air, 
earth,  frost,  plants,  etc.,  besides  nearly  all  birds  and 
some  insects  and  animals. 

*    •!•     * 

OYSTER    CAN    GROW    SKIN. 


New  York  scientists  are  much  interested  in  the  re- 
sults of  a  series  of  experiments  recently  conducted  by 
R.  C.  Scheidt.  which  seem  to  show  conclusively  that 
the  oyster  although  naturally  inhabiting  ;i  shell,  can 
grow  a  skin  if  occasion  requires. 

Experimenter  Scheidt  deprived  oysters  of  one  of 
their  shells  and  then  exposed  them  to  pure  light,  with 
the  result  that  the  animals  secreted  pigment  over  the 
whole  of  their  body.  The  chemical,  or  blue,  rays  pro- 
duced the  same  pigment,  but  none  was  formed  when 
the  "\  ster  was  subjected  to  red  rays.  On  putting  the 
bivalves  in  darkness  all  pigment  disappeared. 


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THE    I NGLENOOK.— August  30..  1904 


HOME    DEPARTMENT 


PREPARING    GROUND    FOR    WINTER    WHEAT. 


Now  is  the  time  to  plow  for  winter  wheat ;  the  earlier 
the  better.  It  is  this  neglect  to  plow  early  that  causes 
so  many  wheat  fields  to  go  into  the  winter  with  a 
small,  uneven  growth,  due  to  dry  weather  at  seeding 
time,  and  sometimes  to  exceedingly  late  seeding,  be- 
cause the  land  was  not  moist  enough  to  sow  on  ac- 
count of  late  plowing.  No  matter  how  late  the  fall 
may  be,  if  the  land  is  plowed  now  while  it  is  moist  and 
properly  tilled  until  seeding  time,  it  will  retain  moisture 
enough  to  germinate  the  seed  and  start  a  good  growth, 
while  if  plowing  is  neglected  until  late  in  August  or 
September,  and  if  these  months  should  be  dry  i.  is 
doubtful  whether  the  crop  will  start  at  all  until  the  fall 
rains  ;  at  any  rate  it  will  be  uneven  and  spotted. 

This  is  one  of  the  chief  advantages  of  early  fall 
plowing.  That  it  is  true  no  one  can  deny.  Let  me 
quote  from  Prof.  F.  H.  King,  the  leading  authority 
on  soil  in  the  United  States : 

"  When  the  soil  grains  are  separated  from  each  other 
so  as  to  develop  an  open,  crumbly  condition,  then  the 
rate  of  capillary  rise  of  water  through  it  is  greatly  re- 
duced. Thus  plowing  so  thoroughly  checks  the  loss 
of  water  from  the  soil  beneath  the  stirred  portion  that 
in  one  case  seven  very  drying  days  failed  to  appreci- 
ably decrease  the  mean  amount  of  water  in  the  upper 
four  feet  of  field  soil,  while  an  immediately  adjacent 
and  entirely  similar  land,  not  plowed,  lost  during  the 
same  the  full  equivalent  of  17.5  inches  of  rain,  or  more 
than  9.13  pounds  per  square  foot." 

The  above  experiment  is  only  one  of  many,  all  tend- 
ing to  show  the  important  truth.  We  have  all  noticed 
that  during  a  drought  we  can  scarcely  find  any  mois- 
ture in  the  ground  that  is  being  plowed,  while  in  that 
which  was  plowed  early  and  kept  harrowed  moist  earth 
can  be  found  by  removing  a  few  inches  of  the  dust 
mulch  with  the  toe.  We  are  familiar  with  the  moist 
condition  of  well  worked  summer  fallow.  What 
causes  abundance  of  moisture?  The  answer  is  plain. 
It  is  saved  by  plowing  and  harrowing  and  not  used  by 
crops,  and  early  plowed  land  will  approximate  to  the 
same  condition.  . 

In  addition  to  the  great  saving  of  moisture  early 
plowing  places  the  soil  in  the  best  condition  for  the 
manufacture  of  food  plants.  The  stirring  and  aera- 
tion of  the  soil  aid  the  work  of  the  nitrogen-forming 
bacteria,  and  instead  of  having  its  food  supply  depleted 
by  growing  weeds,  the  soil  will  have  added  to  its  store 


of  nourishment.     This  is  the  reason  summer-fallowed 
land  is  richer. 

* 

Much  of  the  land  which  will  be  plowed  for  wheat 
the  coming  fall  is  stubble.  The  crops  just  removed 
were  thin  and  killed  out  in,  spots,  and  weeds  have  a 
good  start  already.  A  month  or  two  would  allow 
many  of  them  to  mature  weeds  and  insure  a  good  crop 
(of  weeds)  for  the  future.  Early  plowing  will  pre- 
vent all  this. 

Land  plowed  now  will  turn  up  in  good  shape  and  be 
fine  and  mellow,  while  if  left  until  a  drought  comes  it 
will  be  hard  and  lumpy,  and  require  more  harrowing 
than  it  would  if  plowed  and  kept  harrowed 
occasionally,  and  then  will  not  be  in  good  mechanical 
condition.  Think,  too,  of  the  extra  amount  of  energy 
required  to  turn  the  hard,  dry  soil,  and  take  pity  on  the 
poor  horses. 

Perhaps  I  am  in  the  wrong  in  supposing  that  Au- 
gust and  September  will  be  hot,  dry  months.  This  may 
be  true,  and  again  it  may  not.  Taking  one  year  with 
another,  they  are  usually  dryer  than  July.  At  any 
rate,  there  is  nothing  to  be  lost  by  plowing  now,  and 
there  is  sure  to  be  a  gain  in  plant  food  if  not  in  the 
moisture  advantages. 

Some  one  will  bring  forth  the  objection  that  the 
manure  must  be  hauled  first,  and  that  will  take  some 
time.  If  the  manure  is  very  coarse  it  may  be  best  to 
plow  it  under,  and  if  so,  its  hauling  will  take  many 
weeks,  but  most  manure  that  has  lain  in  the  yard  dur- 
ing the  summer  and  has  been  trampled  by  stock  is  fine 
enough  to  spread  readily  on  plowed  ground,  if  it  is 
carefully  done.  Indeed,  top  dressing  for  wheat  is  the 
better  way,  if  actual  tests  count  for  anything.  If  yoi' 
have  much  manure  to  handle,  look  up  the  merits  of  the 
manure  spreader.  I  believe  it  to  be  a  more  valuabk 
tool  than  a  binder,  and  one  which  will  soon  pay  for  it 
self  if  rightly  used. 

$   4»  4f 

IT    IS    A    DUTY    TO    MAKE    THE    HOME 
ATTRACTIVE. 


BY  MRS.   M.  M.  BOLLINGER. 

In  a  recent  issue  of  the  Inglenook,  in  the  home  de 
partment.  I  saw  the  following  paragraph : 

"  It  isn't  a  good  plan  to  make  the  home  attractivi 
Life  is  a  serious  matter  and  shouldn't  be  wasted  in  er 
joyments,  no  mattter  if  they  are  innocent." 


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837 


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Now  it  seems  to  me  that  it  is  a  good  plan  and  the 
most  sacred  duty  of  every  wife  and  mother  to  make 
the  home  as  attractive  as  she  can.  Although  life  is  a 
serious  matter  I  believe  it  is  too  serious  to  allow  any 
opportunity  for  doing  good  to  pass ;  and  the  time  spent 
in  making  the  home  attractive  is  not  wasted,  but  is 
used  for  the  upbuilding  of  mankind,  leading  all  to 
that  better  home  beyond,  which  Christ  is  preparing  for 
all  who  love  and  serve  him,  and  be  sure  that  he  is 
making  it  as  attractive  as  possible.  He  tells  us  of  the 
golden  streets,  of  angels  robed  in  white,  singing  beau- 
tiful songs,  no  partings,  no  tears,  no  sorrow,  no  pain 
or  death  shall  enter  there. 

While  some  people's  ideas  of  an  attractive  home 
might  differ,  I  think  that  the  most  attractive  homes  are 
not  always  the  ones  that  show  evidence  of  lavish  ex- 
penditure and  too  often  are  but  gilded  cages,  with 
its  inmates  for  prisoners ;  but  it  is  the  one  that  no  mat- 
ter how  poor  in  furnishing  it  may  be,  is  always  neat 
and  tidy,  blessed  with  plenty  of  fresh  air  and  sun- 
light; with  peace  and  contentment  written  upon  all 
around ;  where  love  and  perfect  sympathy  prevail : 
where  one  and  all  may  go  and  be  sure  of  a  hospitable 
welcome. 

It  is  not  necessary  to  have  money  to  have  an  at- 
tractive home,  for  many  of  the  gewgaws,  such  as  end- 
less sofa  pillows,  tidies  and  bric-a-brac  which  lie  scat- 
tered about  are  a  nuisance  and  no  adornment  whatever 
to  the  home,  and  are  a  useless  and  extravagant  use  of 
both  time  and  money,  but  if  this  money  were  spent 
judiciously  in  the  purchase  of  books  or  a  few  choice 
pictures,  it  might  serve  as  a  real  attraction,  and  if  the 
mother  would  use  the  time  she  spends  in  making  use- 
less articles  in  recreation  or  study,  thus  fitting  herself 
to  be  a  cheerful,  intelligent  and  sociable  companion  to 
her  loved  ones  instead  of  the  cross,  tired  and  fretful 
ones  which  too  many  of  us  become. 

Home  should  be  a  haven  of  rest  for  the  tired,  care- 
worn husband,  where  he  may  cast  aside  the  work  and 
1  worry  of  the  day  and  enjoy  a  sociable,  quiet  hour,  and 
be  sure  of  that  sympathy  in  times  of  trouble  which 
lighten  one's  burdens.  For  the  children  too  it  should 
be  the  most  attractive  place  of  any,  so  that  they  will 
prefer  the  home  roof  in  preference  to  the  low,  vile 
haunts  of  sin  such  as  the  saloons  and  gambling  dens 
which  are  luring  our  young  folks  away  from  our 
homes   by   every    attraction    which    they    can    invent. 

So,  mothers,  let  us  early  teach  our  little  ones  that 
home  is  the  best  place  by  being  a  real  companion  and 
playmate  to  them,  surrounding  them  with  flowers,  mu- 
sic and  good  literature.  Do  not  think  any  portion  of  the 
J  house  too  good  for  their  occupancy,  at  the  same  time 
teaching  the  necessity  of  being  careful  and  respect- 
ful. Arrange  your  table  just  as  neatly  and  attractively 
for  them  as  for  a  guest  and  take  just  as  much  trouble 
in  the  preparation  of  the  viands. 


ittiara 
ted  to 


Teach  them  always  to  be  neat,  modest  and  attractive 
in  their  dress  and  habits  and  to  do  a  portion  of  the 
work,  so  that  they  may  feel  that  they  are  helpers.  Do 
not  discourage  their  first  efforts,  but  praise  and  en- 
courage them  all  you  can. 

Do  not  be  partial  with  the  girls  but  serve  girls  and 
boys  alike;  that  is,  take  just  as  much  care  to  have  the 
boy's  room  as  attractive  and  dainty  as  the  girl's  and 
take  just  as  much  care  of  their  personal  appearance. 

I  am  sorry  to  say  that  as  a  rule  it  is  the  girls  that 
get  the  best  room  and  adornments  for  it  and  again  the 
mothers  see  that  the  little  girl  is  neat  and  tidy  but  neg- 
lect to  look  after  the  boy's  appearance,  so  ofttimes  he 
has  the  appearance  of  a  little  ragged,  dirty  tramp.  In 
teaching  school  nine  years  I  found  this  often  the  case, 
and  mothers,  it  is  very  wrong. 

As  every  one  is  more  kind,  polite  and  amiable  with 
pleasant  surroundings  and  neat  and  tidy  appearance, 
perhaps  the  boy  would  lose  some  of  his  roughness  and 
ill-manners  if  more  care  were  taken  with  him. 

Do  not  scold,  but  be  firm  and  if  necessary  to  punish 
do  so  in  as  gentle  a  manner  as  possible. 

Allow  them  all  the  innocent  amusements  that  you 

can,  so  that  you  keep  them  under  the  home  roof  and 

point  them  to  the  Giver  of  all  gifts  and  the  better  home 

beyond. 

•&  4.  .> 

SOMETHING    ABOUT    GRANITE    KETTLES. 


BY    N.   J.    ROOP. 

When  your  granite  or  porcelain  kettle  gets  so  burnt 
and  discolored  inside  as  to  be  unfit  to  look  at,  put  it 
on  a  bed  of  hot  coals,  or  any  hot  fire  where  there  is  no 
smoke,  and  burn  it  out.  Turn  so  as  to  get  all  parts 
burned,  and  it  will  come  out  as  a  new  kettle.  Of  course 
the  fruit  acid  has  destroyed  the  glazing  and  that  cannot 
be  restored.  Not  a  bit  of  the  granite  will  burn  off, 
as  I  have  tried  three  different  times. 

When  piants  are  crowded  they  compete  for  plant 
food  and  moisture.  The  thinning  of  plants  in  rows 
will  enable  the  grower  to  secure  a  crop  during  a  dry 
season  when  it  would  be  impossible  to  do  so  if  they 
were  crowded  in  the  rows.  Every  weed  that  grows 
near  a  plant  takes  from  the  soil  the  elements  for  the 
support  of  the  plant  and  appropriates  moisture  that 
may  be  desirable.  The  best  remedy  for  drought  is 
thorough  cultivation,  which  destroys  weeds  and  pre- 
vents the  escape  of  moisture. 
*   *   * 

The  mangers  and  feed  troughs  should  be  kept  as 
clean  as  possible.  Naturally  cleanly  horses  do  better 
when  their  food  is  placed  before  them  in  good  condi- 
tion. 


S3S 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  30,  1904. 


&fr^&^^&^^ 


'II 


J   OUI 


OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE    If 


BONNIE    WAYNE. 


'Nen  Grandman  said,  "  Now  you  children  must  go  to 
bed  early  to-night,  so  you  can  get  up  early  in  the 
morning  and  see  the  threshers  and  see  the  big  toot- 
toot,  and  I  said  that  I  did  not  want  to  see  the  big  toot- 
toot,  for  I  wuz  afraid  that  it  wuz  coming  to  take  us 
home.  'Nen  Luke  said,  "  Oh  you  are  always  afraid  of 
everything,"  and  I  guess  I  am  but  I  didn't  want  to  go 
away  before  I  could  see  them  thresh. 

So  Luke,  he  went  with  Frank  to  put  the  cows  down 
the  lane  and  I  went  out  on  the  porch  and  Grandma 
pumped  me  a  big  wash-pan  full  of  water  and  I  washed 
my  feet  and  'nen  I  told  them  all  good  night  and  put  off 
to  bed  and  it  wuz  hardly  dark.  When  Grandma  put 
my  little  nighty  on  and  I  said  my  little  "  Now  I  lay  me 
down  to  sleep,"  she  patted  my  pillow  and  said,  "  Bless 
her  life  anyway,"  and  pulled  the  sheet  over  me  and 
kissed  me  goodnight  and  it  wuz  just  a  little  bit  till  I 
heard  something  go  bang — rattle-te  whang-bang,  and 
my !  it  scared  me  and  I  said  right  out  loud,  "  What  is 
that,  Grandma  ?  "  and  she  didn't  say  anything  and  'nen 
I  looked  into  her  bed  and  she  wuzn't  there  and  I  wuz 
afraid,  for  it  wuz  all  dark  and  I  had  to  feel  with  my 
hands  and  I  just  couldn't  find  her  at  all,  so  I  went  out 
in  the  other  room  to  see  if  I  could  find  anybody  else 
and  there  they  all  were  and  they  had  the  lamp  lighted 
and  I  said,  "  My  goodness,  ha'i'nt  you  going  to  bed  at 
all  to-night  ?  "  and  'nen  they  all  began  to  laugh  at  me 
and  they  said  it  wuz  morning.  'Nen  I  said  where  is  the 
sun  ?  And  they  said,  "  He  isn't  up  yet.  Bonnie,  you 
beat  him  this  morning." 

'Nen  I  asked  them  what  made  that  big  noise  and  Mr. 
Marshall  said  that  wuz  Mabel  who  had  stubbed  her  toe 
and  fell  down  with  a  dishpan  full  of  dishes  and  broke 
them  nearly  all,  and  he  said  that  he  guessed  that  I 
would  have  to  go  with  him  to  town  and  get  some  more 
for  the  threshers  to  eat  their  dinners  upon  and  so  I  got 
another  ride  in  the  cart  and  I  wanted  Luke  to  go  too 
but  he  wouldn't  do  it  for  he  wuz  afraid  that  the  big 
toot-toot  would  come  while  we  were  gone,  but  it  didn't 
and  when  we  came  back  there  wuz  a  lot  of  men  there 
and  lots  of  wagons  and  horses,  and  Frank  put  all  the 
cows  in  the  woods  and  shut  the  gate.  He  could  have 
all  the  other  gates  open  and  the  men  would  drive  every 
place  and  there  wuz  an  old  grandpap  there  and  every- 
body called  him  Mr.  Dixon  and  he  wuz  the  bestest  old 
man.  He  gave  me  some  candy  and  he  took  me  all 
around  and  showed  me  everything  and  we  went  to  the 
machine  and  the  engine  and  the  man  let  me  pull  the 


toot-toot  and  I  thought  it  wuz  fun ;  if  Luke  and  me 
could  have  that  to  play  with  we  could  plav  cars. 

Then  the  men  came  from  the  field  with  great  big 
loads  of  wheat  on  the  wagons  and  they  would  throw  it 
in  the  machine  and  my!  how  it  would  growl  and  chew 
up  the  wheat,  and  when  grandpap  Dixon  took  me  back- 
further  I  saw  that  the  machine  had  a  trunk  pretty  near 
like  an  elephant  and  dear  me !  how  he  did  blow  out  the 
straw !  it  just  made  a  great  big  stack  out  there  behind 
the  barn. 

I  said  I  wished  that  they  would  thresh  in  town  so 
we  could  have  a  nice  strawstack  like  that.  'Nen  Luke 
he  had  to  get  smart  again  and  laugh  at  me.  Some  of 
the  men  had  awful  dirty  faces  and  they  looked  like  the 
men  in  town  who  haul  the  coal  to  our  house. 

Pretty  soon  Mr.  Marshall  said,  "  Mabel,  it  is  about 
time  that  you  make  that  lemonade,"  and  she  made  a  big 
bucket  full  and  Frank  took  it  and  passed  around  to  the 
men  and  how  they  did  like  it  and  I  heard  one  of  them 
say  that  Mr.  Marshall  wuz  the  only  man  around  there 
that  gave  the  men  lemonade  and  that  they  liked  to 
thresh  there  and  I  think  I  do  too.  'Nen  when  dinner 
time  came  I  don't  know  where  they  all  came  from  but 
there  wuz  enough  to  fill  the  big  long  tables  that  Mrs. 
Marshall  had  fixed  for  them,  and  they  thought  that 
wuz  the  bestest  dinner,  and  some  wuz  going  to  leave 
the  table  and  Mr.  Marshall  said,  "  Hold  on,  boys,  an- 
other course  yet,"  and  there  came  Mabel  and  Mrs. 
Bradley  with  the  ice  cream  that  we  got  to  town  the 
day  before  and  I  had  forgotten  all  about  that,  and  they 
thought  that  wuz  the  finest  thing  yet  and  they  all  talkec 
about  the  nice  dinner ;  and  while  they  were  eating  their 
dinner  Luke  said  we  could  have  some  fun  down  to  the 
engine,  and  so  we  went  down  there  and  he  got  the  hose 
down  off  the  water  wagon  and  the  water  just  pourec 
out  and  he  had  me  hold  it  and  he  took  the  shovel  and 
dug  some  big  holes  and  he  said  we  would  make  some 
lakes  and  oceans  and  fill  them  with  water  and  builc 
some  boats  and  put  on  them  but  he  couldn't  make  the 
oceans  as  fast  as  I  could  put  the  water  in  them  and  the) 
all  ran  over.  'Nen  there  wuz  a  big  lake  around  there 
and  just  then  the  man  that  runs  the  engine  came  out 
there  and  he  talked  awful  loud  and  said  Luke  and  me 
wuz  the  meanest  kids  in  the  country,  and  I  told  him  we 
lived  in  town  and  he  said,  "  No  wonder  then,"  and  ] 
don't  know  what  he  meant  by  that ;  but  just  thei 
grandma  hollered  and  said,  "  Come,  children,"  and  we 
runned  away  to  the  house. 

(To  be  continued.) 


THE    IXGLENOOK.— August  30,  1904. 


839 


^l  Tfie  Q*  &  Q.  JJepartmettt*  \^ 


Stif 


u 


Who  is  the  author  of  the  present  Constitution  of  the 
United  States? 

The  basis  of  the  Constitution  was  drafted  from  the 
set  of  resolutions  drawn  by  James  Madison,  which 
were  submitted  to  the  constitutional  convention  by 
Edmund  Randolph,  of  yirginia.  This  was  in  1787. 
Other  plans  were  submitted  and  discussed  and  three 
months  later  the  Convention  appointed  a  committee  to 
report  a  constitution  embodying  the  proposals  it  had 
already  approved.  This  committee  was  N.  Gorham, 
Oliver  Ellsworth,  James  Wilson.  Edmund  Randolph 
and  John  Rutledge.  They  submitted  their  report  Au- 
gust 6,  which  was  somewhat  amended  by  the  conven- 
tion and  reported  to  Congress  in  September.  A  month 
later  Congress  submitted  the  constitution  to  the  Leg- 
islatures of  the  various  States  for  ratification. 
* 

Who  are  the  members  of  the  present  Cabinet? 

John  Hay,  Secretary  of  State ;  Leslie  M.  Shaw,  Sec- 
retary of  Treasury ;  William  H.  Taft,  Secretary  of 
War ;  William  H.  Moody,  Attorney-General ;  Henry 
C.  Payne,  Postmaster  General ;  Paul  Morton,  Secretary 
of  Navy ;  E.  H.  Hitchcock,  Secretary  of  Interior ; 
James  Wilson,  Secretary  of  Agriculture ;  Victor  How- 
ard Metcalf,  Secretary  of  Commerce  and  Labor. 
* 

Who  built  the  Suez  Canal? 

It  was  built  by  Count  de  Lesseps,  who  organized  a 
company  with  two  hundred  million  francs  for  that  pur- 
pose. It  is  a  hundred  miles  long  and  took  five  years 
to  build  it,  and  was  opened  November  17,  1869. 

Has  Columbus,  Ohio,  been  the  capital  ever  since  the 
admission  of  the  State  into  the  Union? 

No.  The  capital  was  at  Chillicothe  from  1800  to 
1810;  from  1810  to  1816  at  Zanesville;  since  which 
time  it  has  been  at  Columbus. 


Who  is  the  author  of  the  Missouri  Compromise? 
Henry  Clay.    However,  it  resulted  from  a  resolution 
n  of  Senator  Thomas,  of  Illinois,  which  probably  gave 
(  „i  Mr.  Clay  his  fundamental  ideas. 


What  is  the  address  of  Andrew  Carnegie? 
No.  2  E.  91st  St.,  New  York  City,  N.  Y.,  and  Skibo 
Castle,  Sutherland,  North  Britain. 
+ 
Where  is  the  home  of  J.  Pierpont  Morgan? 
219  Madison  Ave.,  New  York. 


What  and  where  is  Westminster  Abbey? 

It  is  the  church  in  which  the  monarchs  of  England 
have  been  crowned  for  the  last  thousand  years,  and 
where  persons  of  celebrity,  including  the  sovereigns 
and  members  of  the  royal  families,  have  been  buried 
for  several  centuries  in  the  past.  It  is  located  in  the 
city  of  London,  in  the  district  that  is  called  Westmin- 
ster. 

* 

Who  were  the  commanders  of  the  Monitor  and  Merri 
mac  during  the  Civil  War? 

The  Monitor  was  commanded  by  John  S.  Worden 
and  Lieutenant  Franklin  Buchanan  was  captain  of  the 
Merrimac. 

When  did  the  first  troops  embark  for  Cuba  during  the 
Spanish-American  War? 

June  14,  1898,  in  Tampa,  Fla.,  on  a  fleet  of  thirty- 
seven  transports,  and  arrived  seven  days  later  at  San 
Diego. 

* 

When  and  by  whom  was  the  first  sewing  machine  pat- 
ented? 

The  first  sewing  machine  was  patented  by  Elias 
Howe  in  1846. 

* 

Was  ist  das  langste  Wort  in  der  deutschen  Sprache? 
Gesundheitswiederherstellungsmittelzusammenmi- 
schungsverhaltnissmassigkundiger. 


What    is    the    correct   pronunciation    of   the    President's 
surname? 

Ro-ze-velt. 

* 

When  did  the  first  newspaper  advertisement  appear? 

The  first  newspaper  advertisement  appeared  in  1652. 

* 

What  is  the  salary  of  the  Cabinet  officers? 

$8,000  per  annum. 


Who  is  ruler  of  Japan? 

Mutsuhito  is  the  Mikado  of  Japan. 

* 
What  is  the  salary  of  a  naval  cadet? 
Five  hundred  dollars  per  year. 


Who  is  emperor  of  Russia? 
Nicholas  II. 


840 


THE    INGLENOOK.— August  30,  1904. 


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* 


IvIISCELI 


-^-2STEO"CTS 


THIS    SIDE    AND    THAT. 


BELIEVING    WHAT    WE    UNDERSTAND. 


BY  W.  F.  M'CAULEY. 

A  is  America,  land  of  the  free; 

B  is  for  Beer,  that  destroys  liberty. 

C's  the  Church  member,  supreme  at  the  polls: 

D  is  for  Drunkenness,  ruining  souls. 

E's  for  Election,  where  ballots  are  cast; 

F  is  Forgetfulness  till  it  is  past. 

G  is  the  Glory  we  think  is  secure; 

H  the  Heart-breaks  that  our  people  endure. 

I's  Independence  the  nation  affects; 

J  is  the  Juggernaut  car  on  our  necks. 

K  is  the  King  that  our  fore-fathers  downed; 

L  is  the  License  that  Alcohol  crowned. 

M  is  the  Manhood  we  boastingly  claim; 

N  is  the  Nuisance  we  breed  to  our  shame. 

O  is  an  Orator — Fourth  of  July; 

P's  Politician,  a  dollar  would  buy. 

Q's  for  the  Question  with  skill  we  debate; 

R  the  Rum-shop  that  debauches  the  State. 

S  is  for  Statesmen  we  pause  to  admire; 

T  is  for  Traitors,  who  boldly  conspire. 

U  is  our  Union,  from  many  made  one; 

V  is  the  Violence  to  her  that's  done. 
W's  Watchfulness  over  our  foes; 

X  is  an  X-ray  that  apathy  shows. 

Y  is  for  Yankees,  inventive  and  bold; 
Z  the  Zigzag  many  tread,  as  of  old. 


— Selected. 


*   *   * 


HIS    LOVE. 


Into  our  lives,  in  many  simple,  familiar,  homely 
ways,  God  infuses  this  element  of  joy  (his  love)  from 
the  surprises  of  life,  which  unexpectedly  brighten  our 
days  and  fill  our  eyes  with  light.  He  drops  this  add- 
ed sweetness  into  his  children's  cup  and  •makes  it  run 
over.  The  success  we  were  not  counting  on,  the  bless- 
ing we  were  not  trying  after,  the  strain  of  music  in  the 
midst  of  drudgery,  the  beautiful  morning  picture  or 
sunset  glory  thrown  in  as  we  pass  to  and  from  our 
daily  business,  the  unsought  word  of  encouragement 
or  expression  of  sympathy,  the  sentence  that  meant  for 
us  more  than  the  writer  or  speaker  thought — these,  and 
a  hundred  others  that  every  one's  experiences  can  sup- 
ply, are  instances  of  what  I  mean.  You  may  call  it 
human  goodness — it  often  is ;  but  always  call  it  God's 
love,  for  that  is  always  in  it.  These  are  the  overflow- 
ing riches  in  his  grace ;  these  are  his  free  gifts. — Long- 
fellow. 


A  man  once  came  into  Mr.  Day's  store  and  asked : 

"  Do  you  believe  in  the  Trinity  ?  " 

"  Yes  sir." 

"  Do  you  understand  it?  " 

"  No  sir." 

"  How   then   can   you   believe   it.     I   never  believe 
things  that  I  do  not  understand." 

"How,"  said  Mr.  Day,  "  can  I  raise  my  hand  to  my 
head?" 

"  By  contracting  the  muscles  of  your  arm." 

"  But  how  can  I  contract  the  muscles  of  my  arm  ?  " 

"  The  will  acts  upon  the  nerves,  and  causes  the  con- 
traction of  the  muscles." 

"  How  does  the  will  act  upon  the  nerves,  and  what 
is  the  will  ?  " 

The  man  at  last  replied : 

"  I  do  not  know." 

Mr.  Day  told  him,  "  Since  you  cannot  understand 
the  simplest  processes  of  life,  do  not  attempt  to  under- 
stand all  of  Jehovah.     Let  God  manage  his  own  af- 
fairs in  his  own  way  and  believe  that  he  is  the  truth." 
4.   4»   41 
THE    BEST. 


The  best  law — the  golden  rule. 

The   best   education — self-knowledge. 

The  best  philosophy — a  contented  mind. 

The  best  statesmanship — self-government. 

The  best  theology — a  pure  and  beneficent  life. 

The  best  medicine — cheerfulness  and  temperance. 

The  best  war — the  war  against  one's  weaknesses. 

The  best  music — laughter  of  an  innocent  child. 

The  best  science — extracting  sunshine  from  a  cloud) 
way. 

The  best  art — painting  a  smile  upon  the  brow  ol 
childhood. 

The  best  telegraphing — flashing  a  ray  of  sunshiw 
into  a  gloomy  heart. 

*  *  * 

A  dispatch  from  London,  under  date  of  July  8 
signifies  that  the  discussion  of  the  Irish  Land  Bill  ir 
the  House  of  Commons  is  still  in  the  course  of  pro 
cedure,  and  they  are  having  a  hot  fight.  It  is  to  bi 
hoped  that  the  poor  Irish,  who  are  suffering  some  op 
pression  in  this  direction,  will  be  relieved  of  the  strin 
gency  and  be  allowed  to  purchase  homesteads  and  pa; 
for  them  on  reasonable  terms. 


The  Brethren  Colonies 


IN    THE 


Fruit  Belt  of  Michigan 


<M  I 


Sibil 


IS" 

he>tif 


are  an  actual  success.  The  colony  of  the  Lakeview  church  is  located  on 
lands  surrounding  the  village  of  Brethren,  Michigan.  Brethren,  Michigan, 
is  located  on  the  main  line  of  the  Pere  Marquette  System,  105  miles  north 
of  Grand  Rapids  and  about  14  miles  east  of  Lake  Michigan.  All  conditions 
of  soil,  climate  and  location  make  this  spot  an  ideal  one  for  general  farm- 
ing, fruit-growing  and  stock-raising.  Lands  have  been  sold  to  about  120 
families  of  the  Brotherhood  and  their  friends,  of  which  number  about  one- 
half  have  already  located  and  are  clearing  up  their  places.  The  possibili- 
ties of  this  district  are  exceptional.  The  Brethren  tract  embraces  about 
20,000  acres,  of  which  over  11,000  acres  have  already  been  sold.  There  are 
just  as  good  and  as  desirable  locations  remaining  as  those  that  have  been 
bought  and  the  prices  have  not  yet  been  advanced,  but  with  the  improve- 
ments now  going  on,  developing  the  country  so  rapidly,  it  is  only  a  short 
time  till  prices  advance  considerably.  THE  TIME  TO  BUY  IS  NOW. 
Present  prices  range  from  $7  to  $15  per  acre,  on  easy  terms,  or  less  five 
(5)  per  cent  for  cash. 

For  illustrated  booklet  and  information  in  regard  to  rates,  address 
Samuel  S.  Thorpe,  District  Agent  Michigan  Land  Association,  Cadillac, 
Mich. 


THE    CADILLAC    TRACT. 


The  basisol  my  business  is  absolute  aud  f 

unvarying  integrity. 

samuel  s  thorpe  25,000   Acres    of  Rich  Agricul- 

tural  Lands,  Excellently  Situated  and  Splen- 
didly Adapted  for  Farming,  Fruit-growing  and 
Stock-raising. 

These  lands  are  located  from  one-half  mile  to  six  miles  from  the  hustling  city  of  Cadillac,  the  seat  of  Wexford 
:ounty,  8,000  inhabitants,  (all  alive,)  and  its  location  on  the  Grand  Rapids  and  Indiana  R'y  (part  of  the  Pennsylvania 
System)  and  on  the  Ann  Arbor  Railroad  (part  of  the  Wabash  System)  together  with  its  other  advantages  render 
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Ashland   Ohio. 

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Inglenook  one  of  his  new  Atomizers  and 
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will  not  owe  him  a  penny.  It  kills  the 
Catarrh  microbes  in  the  head  and  throat. 

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Catarrh  ==  Head  Colds  ==  Deafness 


Why  Suffer  When  Liquid  Spray  Will  Cure  Yoh? 

We  Will  Mail  it  on  Trial  Free. 


Don't  take  medicine  in  the  stomach  to  kill 
germs  of  disease  in  the  head.  LIQUID  SPRAY 
immediately  relieves  and  cures  Catarrh,  Head 
Colds,  Hay  Fever,  Asthma,  Buzzing  and  Roaring 
in  the  head.  Partial  Deafness  and  La  Grippe. 
You  cannot  cure  Catarrh,  Asthma  and  Hay  Fever 
with  the  same  remedy,  don't  be  deceived.  Bach 
disease  must  be  treated  by  the  Specific  that  re- 
moves the  cause  of  that  disease.  Our  new  Spe- 
cifics act  directly  upon  the  cause,  hence  diseases 
disappear. 

LIQUID  SPEAY  is  the  only  common  sense 
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times relieve  but  fail  to  cure.  Our  Medicator 
converts  the  fluid  oil  specifics  into  the  finest  medi- 
cated vapor  which  penetrates  the  obscure  air 
cells  and  tubes,  even  to  the  inner  ear,  and  makes 
breathing  easy,  and  heals  the  sore  places  by  lining 
the  inner  surface  with  the  antiseptic  healing  oils. 

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head  by  natural  breathing,  destroying  the  germs 
of  disease  in  the  head,  throat  and  lungs.  Thou- 
sands of  our  old  customers  will  be  glad  to  test 
this  new  treatment.  To  prove  that  this  is  not 
idle  talk,  we  will  mail  our  Medicator  and  the 
proper  specific,  free,  to  any  reader  of  this  paper 
naming  his  ailment. 

OUR    SPECIAL    OFFER. 


I   will   mail   any   reader  of  the  Inglenook  who 
will    name   his   ailment   one   of   my   Spray    Medi- 
cators  and  four  drachms   LIQUID   SPRAY   suited 
to    his    disease    on    FIVE    days    trial    Free.     If    it 
gives   satisfaction,   send   me   $2.00    (which    is   two- 
fifths   price),   if  not  satisfactory  return   it   at   the 
expired    time   which    will    only   cost   you    12    cents 
postage  and  you  will   not  owe  me  a  penny.     No 
one  can  ask  a  better  offer. 
If  you  have  Rheumatism  or  Kidney  trouble,  mention  it  and    I   will    include  free,   a   sample   treatment   of   Australian   Life 
{Tablets.     This  remedy  acts  upon  the  Uric  Acid  poison  in  the  plasma  of  the  blood  and  quickly  relieves  and  permanently  cures 
hese  diseases. 

If   you    are    tired    of   being   imposed    upon,    try    a   cure   that   cures,    and    here    it    is.     Write    to-day    as    this    announcement 


ay  not  appear  again. 


Address :    E.  J.  Worst,  61  Elmore  Block,  Ashland,  Ohio. 


IMPORTANT    ANNOUNCEMENT. 

his  announcement  is  made  expressly  for  the  readers  of 
Inglenook  and  their  friends,  and  we  shall  hope  to  hear 
im  all  of  the  Inglenook  readers.  You  need  this  treatment, 
t  mention  the  Inglenook  and  we  will  send  you  something 
t  will  make  our  acquaintance  a  mutual  benefit.  We  have 
msands  of  testimonials,  but  they  won't  cure  you.  You 
nust  try  the  treatment  yourself  to  get  the  benefit. 

TAKE    NOTICE. 

Please    remember    that    in    addition    to   our   Spray    treatment 

«or  diseases  of  the  air  passages,  we  offer  one  of  the  best  rem- 
dles  ever  discovered  for  Rheumatism  and  Kidney  trouble. 
iJtckly  kidneys  bring  on  Rheumatism,  hence  these  two  dis- 
sases  go  together.  We  have  no  faith  In  a  remedy  that  prom- 
ses  to  cure  everything  for  they  generally  cure  nothing.  We 
reat  the  cause  of  each  general  disease  with  a  specific  for 
.hat  disease,  hence  the  disease  Itself  disappears.  Our  Austral- 
an  Life  Tablets  have  won  a  great  fame  for  quick  and  lasting 
ures  for  Rheumatism  and  Kidney  trouble.  We  arc  anxious 
hat  more  people  try  them.  We  will  include  a  sample  treat- 
nent  of  this  remedy  with  the  Spray  Medicator  if  you  have 
■ither  Rheumatism  or  Kidney  trouble  and  ask  for  It,  or  If  you 
we  will  send  a  sample  of  this  treatment  with  full  dlrec- 
ily.  You  are  to  keep  your  money  until  we  demonstrate 
hat  our  treatments  are  worth  the  price  asked.  When  writ- 
ng,  name  your  ailment. 


Extracts  from  A.   L.  Taber's  Letters. 

Ashland,  Ore.,  July  10,  1004. 
Mr.  E.  J.  Worst: — I  enclose  Express  Order  for  another  lot 
of  Medlcators  and  Tablets.  I  am  selling  more  of  your  goods 
now  than  ever  before.  The  Tablets  are  selling  much  better 
than  formerly.  I  have  made  §76.30  in  the  last  four  days, 
retailing  to  individual  customers.  I  can  make  $20.00  more 
Friday  and  Saturday.  (Signed)    A.  L.  Taber. 

Lake  Side.  Ore.,  July  16,  1904. 
Mr.  E.  J.  Worst: — I  received  the  goods  O.  K.  I  am  having 
some  big  days.  I  cleared  $71.30  during  the  last  four  days. 
The  other  gentleman  who  has  been  traveling  with  me.  has 
given  up  his  picture  business  and  is  going  to  devote  all  his 
time  to  the  sale  of  your  Medieators  and  Tablets.  We  expect 
to  make  some  big  sales.  Yours  truly.  A.  L.  Taber. 

Burns.  Ore.,  July  29,   1904. 
Mr.    E.    J.    Worst: — Enclosed    find    Money    Order    for    more 
goods.     We  just  arrived  here  yesterday  and  have  worked  one 
day  and  made  $26.20.  Yours  truly,  A.  L.  Taber. 

P.  S.— Mr.  Taber  has  been  selling  our  Medlcators  and  Tab- 
lets for  four  years  In  California  and  Oregon.  He  has  sold  in 
this  time  many  thousand  dollars  worth.  He  has  frequently 
written  me  that  he  seldom  makes  less  than  $12  a  day.  I 
mentioned  this  In  addition  to  the  extracts  from  his  letters 
on  even  dates  above,  to  show  what  an  agent  can  do  when  he 
gives  all  his  time  to  the  sale  of  our  goods. 


Vgents 

^  Wanted. 


Address 


E.  J.  WORST,  61  Elmore  Block,  Ashlafld,  Ohio. 


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After  months  of  arduous  labor 
we  are  bringing  to  completion  a 
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This  mammoth-  book,  which  weighs 
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We  have  employed  the  best  expert 
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many  of  our  orders  are  shipped  direct 
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Our  relation  to  these  manufactu- 
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attention.  The  fact  that  we  have 
been  dealing  with  many  of  them  for 
about  four  years  and  our  business 
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our  company  a   deserving  prestige. 

We  have  our  bookkeeping,  order- 
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thoroughly  systematized  and  have 
put  all  in  readiness  for  the  rush  of 
business  as  soon  as  our  new  cata- 
logue is  distributed.  The  Inglenook 
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expressed  surprise  at  our  present  fa- 
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hereby  agree  to  send  this  catalogue 
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to  a  mailing  label,  same  to  be  used  in 
sending  to  you  free  of  charge  our 
new  catalogue.  We  make  this  offer 
to  Inglenook  readers  because  we 
know  you  are  worthy  of  our  greatest 
consideration,  and  hundreds  of  Nook- 
ers  are  now  our  customers,  many 
know  us  personally,  while  it  is  our 
earnest  desire  to  make  the  acquaint- 
ance and  secure  the  patronage  of  ev- 
ery one  of  you. 

We  want  to  merit  all  this,  too,  and 
only  ask  for  a  fair  hearing  and  trial 
order.  Note  the  explanations  on  this 
page  about  our  name.  Write  your 
name  and  address  plainly  and  send 
your  application  for  our  large  new 
catalogue  now.     It  is  free. 


Freight  and  Express 
Refunds 

Our  corporation  is  the  first  to  work 
out  in  a  practical  manner  a  plan  for 
refunding  to  patrons  freight  and  ex- 
press charges  and  yet  not  affect  the 
price  of  the  goods  offered  one  iota. 
By  a  careful  comparison  of  prices 
named  ■  in  our  New  Catalogue  with 
any  other  catalogue  you  will  find  that 
our  quotations  are  on  a  competitive 
basis  and  in  many  instances  lower. 
Yet  we  have  arranged  to  refund  to 
our  patrons  the  money  they  pay  out 
for  freight  and  express.  These  re- 
funds are  paid  under  simple  rules  and 
conditions  which  are  fully  explained 
in  our  new  catalogue  and  also  in  a 
special  circular  which  we  will  send  to 
any  address  upon  request. 

Under  the  old  methods  you  paid  the 
carriage  charges  year  in  and  year  out, 
irrespective  of  how  much  goods  you 
bought.  Under  our  new  plan  you  are 
rewarded  by  being  a  regular  and  good 
customer  by  credit  for  the  freight 
and  express  charges  you  pay.  It 
pays  you  to  send  your  orders  to  an 
appreciative  and  progressive  com- 
pany, which  is  looking  to  your  inter- 
ests in  all  matters.  Save  all  expense 
bills  received  in  return  for  freight 
and  express  charges  on  goods  from 
our  company,  as  these  receipts  are 
the  same  as  money  to  you.  Write  for 
particulars. 


Our  Company  Name 

While  the  directors  of  our  corpora- 
tion have  authorized  the  purchase 
outright  of  several  other  companies 
and  we  receive  the  mail  addressed  in 
the  names  of  all  the  companies  we 
have  bought  out.  we  have  never 
changed  our  name  or  effected  any 
consolidation  since  receiving  our 
charter  from  the  State  of  Illinois. 

The  name  of  our  corporation  is  Al- 
baugh  Bros.,  Dover  &  Co.,  and  the  ad- 
dress is  341-343  Franklin  Street,  Chi- 
cago, 111.  Remember  three  things 
about  our  Company  name —  (1)  There 
is  a  personality  about  it.  (2)  It  has 
never  been  changed  since  our  corpo- 
ration was  organized.  (3)  It  has  ap- 
peared continually  on  the  last  cover 
page  of  the  Inglenook  for  many 
months.  The  following  short  expres- 
sions are  often  printed  in  connection 
with  our  name.  (1>  "Scientific  Co- 
operation." (2)  "  The  Mail  Order 
House."     (3)   "  That's  the  place." 

We  want  to  get  our  fine  new  cata- 
logue to  you  at  the  earliest  possible 
moment  and  make  these  explanations 
so  there  may  be  no  confusion  or  delay 
in  reaching  us  with  your  requests. 
Send  all  correspondence  to 

Albangh  Bros.,  Dover  &  Co. 

34"-343  Franklin  St.. 
CHICAGO,   ILL. 


Quality  and  Price 
of  Goods 

In  the  heading  we  name  quality 
first  because  it  should  mean  more 
than  any  other  thing  to  our  patrons. 
We  are  listing  in  our  fine  new  cata- 
logue a  good  quality  of  Merchandise, 
as  we  feel  convinced  that  the  day  of 
considering  cheapness  only  is  pass- 
ing. Our  positive  guarantee  goes 
with  each  and  every  article  and  your 
money  is  cheerfully  refunded  if  goods 
are  not  satisfactory.  While  quali- 
ty has  not  been  overlooked,  the  prices 
are  right,  too,  and  we  only  ask  you  to 
compare  same  with  any  other  cata- 
logue in  the  country  as  proof  of  our 
statement.  We  also  ask  you  to  com- 
pare goods  received  from  our  house 
with  articles  procurable  at  home,  or 
merchandise  received  from  other 
companies.  We  do  not  claim  to  have 
conquered  the  world  or  anything  of 
the  sort,  but  we  do  know  that  so  far 
as  we  have  gone  we  have  struck  bed- 
rock on  the  score  of  "  Quality  and 
Prices."  If  you  place  an  order  for 
merchandise  before  you  have  exam- 
ined our  new  catalogue  we  will  "  both 
lose  money." 


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POEM. 

THE  PLUCKING  OF  A  FLOWER  FREES  THE  SOUL.- 
By  Will  Winn. 

CONTRIBUTIONS. 

THE  KRITIC  ON  TFIE  TRANE— By  George  Haldan. 

STRING  AND  BOW.— By  Marguerite  Bixler. 

THE  MAKING  OF  A  PAIR  OF  SHOES.— By  D.  L.  Miller 

CANCER.— By  E.  E.  Rinehart,  M.  D. 

TO-MORROW.— By  Lulu  C.  Mohler. 

HOW  WE  THINK.— By  Mary  I.  Sensemah. 

LIGXON.— F.v  A.  W.  Vaniman. 


EDITORIALS. 

HARD  TIMES. 
DON'T,  GIRLS. 


VERY  DIFFICULT. 
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ELGIN,    ILLINOIS 


BRETHREN    PUBLISHING    HOUSE 


iptember  6,  1904 


$  1 .00  per  Year 


Number  36,  Volume  VI 


One   Day   in   Nevada 

(COPY) 

Kearney,  Nebraska,  August  20th,  1904. 
Mr.  Geo.  L.  McDonaugh, 

Omaha,  Nebraska, 
Dear  Brother :-- 

On  our  return  home  we  stopped  a  day  at  Reno,  Nevada.   Here  we 
were  shown  over  the  country  by  Col.  Maxson.   One  can  readily  see 
here  what  can  be  done  by  irrigation.   This  once  dry,  barren, 
parched  country  now  abounds  in  beautiful,  fertile  fields  of  alfal- 
fa, grass  and  grain.   In  the  afternoon  we  had  the  pleasure,  of  being 
entertained  at  and  shown  over  the  farm  of  Governor  Sparks,  which 
is  a  few  miles  from  Reno.   The  Governor  has  a  beautiful  home,  sur- 
rounded by  a  beautiful  grove.   We  were  shown  over  the  farm  by  the 
Governor,  who  takes  great  pride  in  farming. and  stock  raising.   The 
men  were  harvesting  his  oats,  which  had  grown  to  a  remarkable 
height  and  were  well  filled.   They  stood  straight,  which  showed 
that  they  have  not  the  wind  to  blow  down  their  grain,  as  ofttimes 
happens  in  other  States.   We  were  shown  as  fine  a  herd  of  Hereford 
cattle  as  was  ever  our  privilege  to  see.   There  were  about  seventy- 
five  cows  with  their  calves  feeding  upon  as-  fine  blue  grass  pasture 
as  one  ever  saw.  'To  think  that  a  few  years  ago  this  farm  was  a 
dry,  barren  desert  hardly  seems  credible.   What  has  been  done 
here  can  be  done  at  other  places.   And  as  the  Government  is  now 


opening  up  thous 

ands 

of  acres 

of  irrigated  land  for 

homes 

tead 

,  we 

would 

recommend 

all 

those 

who 

contemplate 

mak 

ing 

a  c 

hange 

of 

loca- 

tion 

and  securing  a 

home 

to 

Investigate , 

and 

go 

and 

see 

this 

coun- 

try  for  themselves.   In  our  journey  through  the  western  States  we 
met  with  some  who  came  west  poor,  but  to-day  have  an  independent 
living.   But  let  no  one  think  of  going  to  a  new  country  without 
enduring  some  of  the  hardships  of  a  frontier  life.   We  feel  our- 
selves greatly  indebted  to  Col.  Maxson  and  Governor  Sparks  for 
their  kindness  in  showing  us  their  beautiful  homes  and  valley. 

(Signed)  GEO.  L.  STUDEBAKER, 

Muncie,  Indiana. 

For  information  About  Cheap  Railroad  Rates  to  reach  these  Lands  Write  ta 
Geo.  L.  McDonaugh,  Colonization  Agent  U.  P.  R.  R.,  Omaha,  Neb. 


THE:      fNGLENOOK. 


30,000  ACRES 


IRRIGATED 


Government  Land 

In   Nevada 

NOW    OPEN  FOR 

HOMESTEAD 


UNDER  THE   NEW 

IRRIGATION   LAW 

The  United  States  Govern- 
ment Constructs  the  Canals, 
Reservoirs  and  Lateral  Ditch- 
es to  the  Land,  and  Maintains 
them  for  10  Years  at  a  cost  of 

ONLY  $2.50  AN  ACRE 

FEB     TEAK. 

This  Includes  Water.     After  is  Years  Water 
and  Canals  Belong  to  Homesteader. 


Land   Close  to    Railroad   and   Good 
Markets  Can  be  Secured  By 

ACTUAL  SETTLERS 
ONLY. 


Mr.  L.  H.  Taylor,  the  United  States 
Engineer  in  charge  of  work,  says: 
"  It  is  likely  that  most  of  those  set- 
tlers who  desire,  can  find  employment 
for  themselves  and  teams  on  the  ca- 
nals during  at  least  a  part  of  their 
spare  time  for  the  next  two  or  three 
years." 


For  Information  Write  to 

GEO.  L.  McDONAUQH, 

COLONIZATION    AGENT 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Omaha,  Neb. 


ARE    YOU    GOING    TO 

CALIFORNIA,  WASHINGTON, 
OREGON,  IDAHO 

Or  Any  Other  Point?    Take  the 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 


Daily  Tourist  Car  Line 

BETWEEN 

Chicago,    Missouri    River,    Colorado, 

Idaho,  Oregon,  Washington  and 

California  Points. 


Stop  Off  at  Reno,  Nevada, 

And  Investigate  the  Irrigated  Govern- 
ment Land.  Call  on  v  r.  L.  H.  Taylor, 
U.  S.  Engineer,  for  information. 


ONE-WAY    COLONIST'S    RATES. 

To  Pacific  Coast  Every  Day,  Sept.  15 
to  Oct.  IS. 

From   Chicago $33  00 

From  St.   Louis 30  00 

From    Missouri    River 25  00 

Proportionate  rates  from  all  points 
East. 


The  Union  Pacific  Railroad 

— Is  Known  As — 

"The  Overland  Rente " 

And  is  the  only  direct  line  from 
Chicago  and  the  Missouri  River  to 
all  principal  points  West.  Business 
men  and  others  can  save  many 
hours  via  this  line.  Call  on  or  ad- 
dress a  postal  card  to  your  nearest 
ticket  agent,  or  Geo.  L.  McDon- 
augh,  Colonization  Agent,  Omaha. 
Nebr. 

E.    L.    LOMAX,    G.    P.    &    T.    A., 
Omaha,  Nebraska. 


MORE  BEETS- 


HIGHER  PRICE 


Producers     Will    Get   $400,000    More 
Than  Last  Year. 


"  Denver  Post  ": 

"  The  sugar  beet  crop  of  Colorado, 
according  to  reports  received  from  our 
field  men  all  through  the  South  Platte 
Valley,  will  not  be  less  than  10  per 
cent  in  excess  of  that  of  last  year,"  said 
Charles  Boettcher,  of  the  Great  West- 
ern Sugar  company.  "  The,  outlook 
was  never  so  good  as  it  is  this  year. 
Last  year  the  yield  in  tons  was 
slightly  less  than  400,000.  and  it  was 
marketed  at  $4.50  a  ton.  This  year  it 
will  be  fully  450,000  and  the  market 
price  already  agreed  on  is  $5  a  ton. 
This  will  make  a  difference  to  the 
producer  of  some  $400,000.  It  is  too 
early  to  make  an  estimate  on  the 
amount  of  sugar  the  beets  will  con- 
tain. That  will  not  be  possible  for 
a  couple  or  more  weeks.  But  the 
general  outlook  was  never  better  for 
a  large  beet  crop  than  it  is  at  present. 
We  have  had  plenty  of  water  and  no 
severe  or  injurious  storms  over  the 
areas  planted  in  beets.  If  nothing 
untoward  occurs,  the  crop  will  be  a 
banner  one." 


The  following  parties  have  bought 
land  near  Snyder,  Colo.: 

Louis  E.  Keltner.  Hj'giene,  Colo.; 
W.  W.  Keltner,  North  Dakota;  A.  W. 
Brayton.  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Daniel 
Grabill,  Lemasters,  Pa.;  J.  L.  Kuns, 
McPherson,  Kans.;  D.  L.  Miller,  Mt. 
Morris,  III.;  Daniel  Neikirk,  Lemas- 
ters, Pa.;  Galen  B.  Royer,  Elgin,  111.; 
E.  Slifer.  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  I.  B.  Trout, 
Lanark,  111.;  R.  E.  Arnold,  Elgin,  111. 


Geo.  L.  Studebaker,  of  Muncie,  In- 
diana, says:  "Sterling  is  a  growing 
town  with  a  good  country  surround- 
ing.    The   members   are   active." 

HOMESEEKERS'     EXCURSIONS 

To  Snyder,  Colorado, 

With  privilege  of  stopping  off  at 
Sterling,  Colo., 

One  Fare  Plus  $2.90  for  the  Round  Trip 

First  and  Third  Tuesday  of 
Each  Month  via 

Uuion  Pacific  Railroad 


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Brawntawns 


Truly  Cure 


Dyspepsia 


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Have  cured  some  of  the  worst 
cases — those  that  doctors  could 
not  cure.  If  you  have  DYSPEP- 
SIA, INDIGESTION,  and  want 
to  be  cured,  use 

BRAWNTAWNS 


To  give  the  reades  of  the  Ingle-  T 

nook  a  chance   to  use   BRAWN=  ♦? 

TAWNS,   and  test  their   curative  % 

properties,  we  offer  a  50-cent  box  y 

of     BRAWNTAWNS,     30    days'  J 

treatment,  for  25  cents,  if  sent  with  ♦ 

this     advertisement    before    Sept.  X 

10,  1904.  J* 

Don't  be  satisfied  with  what  we  J* 

say,   but    write    for   testimonials.  A 

We  will  return  the  postage,  2  cts.  *f 

Victor  Remedies  Co.,  | 


FREDERICK,    MD. 


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Farms  You  Will  Buy 


East  Central  Kansas  is  the  best  part 
of  the  State  for  general  farming  and 
raising  stock.  Well  watered,  Marion 
county's  average  crop  acreage  is  110,000 
acres  corn,  90,000  acres  wheat,  40,000 
acres  oats,  20,000  acres  alfalfa.  We 
have  some  good  farms  for  sale  at  a  bar- 
gain. Will  say  to  the  Brethren  that  are 
thinking  of  changing  their  location  that 
they  will  do  well  to  investigate  our 
country.  Good  bargains  near  church. 
Any  information  cheerfully  furnished. 

GARRISON  &  STUDEBAKER, 
Florence,  Kansas. 

Wild    Rose   Sheep    Farm 

Breeds  Cheviot  Sheep.  Wool  and  mut- 
ton of  best  quality.  Rams  and  ewes  for 
sale. 

HOWARD     H.     KEIM, 


34tl3 


Box  1,  Ladoga,  Iud. 


SAY,  BROTHER, 

Tou  have  been  wanting  a  good  farm 
near  a  good  live  church  in  Central  Indi- 
ana. Good  land,  good  roads,  good  mar- 
kets, near  a  good  town.  If  interested, 
address  "  Parmer,"  Care  Inglenook. 
34t4 


WANTED! 


Girl  or  woman  between  20  and  35 
years  of  age  to  do  general  house  work  in 
the  home  of  a  family  of  the  Brethren 
church,  in  a  beautiful  Western  city. 
Applicant  must  be  a  good  and  economic- 
al cook,  neat  about  her  work  and  person. 
An  earnest  and  faithful  sister  of  the 
church  preferred.  A  letter  from  the 
home  minister  or  elder  to  that  effect  to 
accompany  the  application.  Will  pay 
from  $20  to  $25  a  month  the  year  round 
for  the  right  person.  Both  man  and 
wife  are  owners  and  teachers  in  a  Com- 
mercial College.  Have  built  a  new  Col- 
lege building  this  year  with  all  modern 
conveniences.  A  girl  treated  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  family.  Only  persons  need 
apply  who  have  good  health,  who  are 
willing  to  work  and  appreciate  kind 
treatment  and  a  good  home.  A  photo 
accompanying  the  application  will  be 
appreciated.  Out  of  all  applications  re- 
ceived from  this  inquiry  there  will  be 
Ave  selected  to  choose  from.  This  is  an 
excellent  opportunity  for  the  right  per- 
son to  see  the  West,  and  at  the  same 
time  have  a  good  home,  at  good  wages. 
Address  all  applications  direct  to  B.  C. 
Reitz,  Principal  and  Business  Manager, 
Missoula.  Montana. 3514 


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BAKERS 


GROCERIES 

In  our  Equity  Grocery 
Department,  as  all  our 
other  departments, 
QUALITY  is  the  ce- 
ment that  binds  the  in- 
terests of  Equity  people. 
Send  your  next  order 
for  groceries  to      ::      : : 

Equity  Mfg.  and  Supply  Co., 

153-155-157-159  S.  Jefferson  St., 
CHICAGO. 


IN  THE   INGLENOOK. 

There  is  always  room  for  wide- 
awake advertisers,  who  can  appre- 
ciate the  superior  advantages  of 
our  journal.     Write  us. 


The 


Mount 

Campbell 

Tract 

in  Fresno  County, 

California, 

Promises  to  become  the  leading 
fruit-growing  section  of  California. 
Land  is  cheap,  water  abundant,  loca- 
tion healthful  and  soil  unsurpassed. 
The  soil  is  especially  adapted  to  the 
orange,  grape,  fig,  orchard  fruits,  al- 
falfa  and   general   farming. 

Plans  are  now  forming  for  a  colo- 
ny of  the  Brethren  on  this  tract,  J. 
S.  Kuns,  proprietor  of  the  old  Mis- 
sion farm  at  Covina,  Cal.,  having  al- 
ready purchased  land  in  this  district, 
which  has  been  inspected  by  other 
prominent  members  of  the  church. 

Maps  and  information  by 

W.  N.  ROHRER, 

Fresno,  Cal. 


FREE  SAMPLE 

Bend  letter  or  postal  for  free  SAMPLE 
HINDOO  TOBACCO  HABIT  CORE 

We  cure  70a  of  chewing  and  smoking 
for  60c,  or  money  back.  Guaranteed,  perfectly 
harmless.  Address  Milford  Drag  Co.,  Milford, 
indiana.    We  answer  all  letters. 

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Mcpherson  college 


A  College  of  which 
Kansas  is    Proud. 


HERE    ABE    A    FEW    OF     THE    GOOD     THINGS    WE    HAVE    TO     OFFER: 

A  Normal  College  that  prepares  teachers  for  all  grades  of  certificates. 

A  Complete  College  course  that  compares  with  anything  in  the  west. 

The  College  and  Normal  Courses  lead  to  State  certificates  without  examinations. 

Excellent  Buildings  and  Equipments. 

Expenses  are  as  low  as  is  possible  with  first-class  service. 

Our  Last  Year's  Students  will  take  out  of  the  Public  Funds  of  McPherson  county 
alone  over  $10,000  this  year.     This  shows  talent  and  home  appreciation. 

Our  graduates  occupy  enviable  positions  in  the  business,  educational  and  religious 
world. 

The  Moral  and  Religious  Influences  are  unsurpassed.  No  saloons  in  the  city.  The 
teachers  come  in  close  personal  contact  with   the  students. 

We  have  a  Superior  Faculty. 

We  put  more  stress  on  our  Bible  School  than  any  other  college  we  know  of. 

The  President  of  the  college,  Edward  Frantz,  is  dean  of  the  Bible  school  and  is 
recognized  as  having  no  superior  in  his  line  of  work.  He  has  been  instructor 
in  his  line  of  work  in  McPherson  college  for  the  past  nine  years,  and  is  devoting 
his  entire  time  to  the  Eible.  You  can  do  no  better  than  to  take  a  course  here. 
Remember  tuition  in  Bible  Deportment  is  free.  Come,  study  the  Bible,  pre- 
pare yourself  for  mission  work.  Sunday-school  teacher,  preacher  and  make  your- 
self useful. 

There's  no  Risk  in  taking  our  course  in  writing  or  business.  If  you  are  not  satisfied 
with  the  instruction  you  get  from  Prof.  Fahnestock,  you  pay  no  tuition.  This 
should  appeal  to  those  wishing  a  Business  course  or  a  Penmanship  course. 

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1  IDAHO 


is  the   best-watered   arid    State 
winds,    destructive    storms    and 
mate  it  makes   life   bright   and 
We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer 
change  for   the  general   improvement   in   your   condi 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  b 
and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  coun 
swer  and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger 
fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves 
Cheap    homeseekers'   rates   are    made    to   all    prin 
for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting 


in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 
cyclones    are   unknown,  and    with    its    matchless    cli- 
worth  living. 

to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 
tion  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 
oth  requirements.  There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 
try  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 

work   teach   us   that   a   few   dollars   spent   in    railroad 
thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow, 
cipal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 
wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


Round=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only  in  May 
and  October,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


PAYETTE;  VALLEY   HOME.— Five  Years  from  Sagebrush. 


5     Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance. 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat.  Oats  and  Barley. 


Arrived  in  Payette  Valley  Feb.  23,  1903.  Settled  on  an  80-acre  tract,  covered  with  sage  brush. 
Cleared  40  acres.  May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.  Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.  June  12  sowed  10  acres 
to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.  Yielded  55  to  acre.  Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 
or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 
oats. 

Potatoes  yielded  500  bushels  to  the  acre  and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)  E.  L.  Dotson. 


A      S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

£      J.   E.  HOOPER,  Agent,   Oakland,  Kansas, 


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Mention  the  ITJGLENOGK  when  writing. 


I 


Fine      s. 


Salt  Lake  City,  Utah.  >: 


ftlNSLtMOOK 


Vol.  VI. 


September  6,  1904. 


No.  36. 


THE  PLUCKING  OF  A   FLOWER  FREES 
ITS    SOUL. 


A  tulip  and  a  violet  were  growing  side  by  side. 
The  violet  lay  lowly.     The  tulip  flaunted  wide 
Her  coarse,  plebeian  petals,   coquetting  with   the  sun, 
Her  cheeks  with  heightened  color  at  the  notice  she  had  won 
Through  beauty's  dower. 

A  maiden  passed  along  that  way,  seeking  fragrant  bloom — 
A  little  maid  of  charity — she  helped  to  cheer  the  doom 
Of  dreary  army  hospitals  where  dying  soldiers  lay, 
Wounded  with  the  memories  of  the  men  they  strove  to  slay 
By  brutish  power. 

Not  a  single  glance  gave  she  to  the  tulip  bold; 
Tenderly  she  felt  among  the  tangled  moss  and  mold 
To  where  the  little  violet  was  hiding — all  unseen, 
But  pouring  forth  her  perfume  with  her  wonted  modest  mien, 
Self-heedless  flower. 

Her  body  bruised  and  broken,  the  violet  lay  dead 
Within  the  maiden's  grasp.     And  then  the  tulip  said: 
"You  foolish  little  flower,  'tis  plain  as  plain  can  be 
You  should  have  asserted  more  of  self.     Just  look  at  me — 
I  never  cower." 

The  tulip  hung  there  until  it  rotted  on  its  withered  stem. 
The  dying  soldiers  smiled — while  souls  of  violets  wafted  them 
To  realms  where  waves  of  fragrance  from  God's  own  presence 

roll,  ' 
For  the  petal  is  the  body,  but  the  perfume  is  the  soul 
Of  a  flower. 

— Will  Winn. 
*    *    * 

SNAPSHOTS. 


A  lie  is  none  the  better  for  being  set  to  music. 

* 
A  man's  spirit  does  not  always  grow  holier  as  his 
salary  grows  heavier. 

* 

You  cannot  expect  better  manners  from  your  cliil- 
dren  than  you  give  them. 
* 
Love  is  the  prize  most  worth  gaining,  most  easily 
gained  and  most  often  lost. 
* 

Some  men  are  praying  for  a  heavenly  blessing  who 
need  to  pray  for  some  earthly  brains. 
* 

Some  men  give  their  zvives  ten  cents  for  the  church 
for  the  same  reason  that  they  buy  a  lightning-rod. 


You  will  need  faith  to  fight  fakes. 

* 
The  devil  never  bothers  to  shake  barren  trees 

* 
Our  service  does  not  depend  on  our  smartness. 

* 
Character  may  be  lost  but  it  never  can  be  stolen. 

* 
A  song  in  the  heart  is  worth  two  in  the  choir. 

* 
There  never  zvas  an  audience  so  small  as  to  deserve 
a  small  sermon. 

■  * 

None  of  the  currents  that  belong  to  this  world  flow 
towards  heaven. 

* 

You  will  never  have  to  love  your  enemies  very  long; 
the  process  will  kill  them. 

* 

Many  a  young  man  thinks  lie  must  be  initiated  into 
life  as  if  it  were  a  secret  society. 
* 
Many  men  use  but  one  or  two-faculties  out  of  the 
score  with  which  they  are  endowed. 
* 
Is  it  fair  to  expect  to  get  gold  out  of  a  sermon  when 
you  only  put  copper  into  the  service? 
* 
Men  who  pride  themselves  on  being  hard  headed 
are  often  mere  tools  in  the  hands  of  other  men. 
* 
The  average  boy  would  a  good  deal  rather  carry  in 
all  the  coal  next  door  than  pick  up  a  little  kindling 
at  home. 

* 

Each  one  of  us  is  bound  to  make  the  little  circle  in 
which  he  lives  better  and  happier;  each  one  of  us  is 
bound  to  see  that  out  of  that  small  circle  the  widest 
good  may  flow;  each  one  of  us  may  have  fixed  in  his 
mind  that  out  of  a  single  household  may  How  influ- 
ences that  will  stimulate  the  whole  commonwealth  and 
the  whole  civilized  ivorld. 


842 


THE  INGLENOOK—  September  6,  1904. 


I  THE  KRITIC  ON  THE  TRANE| 

I  I 

%  BY  GEORGE  HALDAN.  T 

I  I 

►I<  'X*  '?  *♦'  't'  '♦'  i*  *t'  ^  'fr  't  'X"  "ft  't'  't'  'I*  '♦'  *fr  *^^' '?  v  '1*  'ft  't*  'I*  *£*  '*'  v  'ft  'l*  v  v  ft'  ft*  't1  'I*  't'  >fr  *t« 

Look   at   Your    Pencil. 


In  these  days  of  scientific  investigation  when  all 
the  branches  of  education  are  being  well  developed, 
a  great  deal  of  attention  is  being  paid  to  psychology, 
phrenology  and  other  studies  peculiar  to  the  deline- 
ation of  character.  Quite  a  good  deal  of  emphasis 
is  being  laid  upon  the  study  of  palmistry  and  the 
reading  of  faces,  etc.  All  these  have  their  place  in 
the  world  and.  are  very  useful,  and  most  people  may 
derive  some  benefit  from  a  careful  study  of  one 
or  all  of  them.  However,  these  avenues  of  learning 
are  exactly  the  same  as  many  others.  They  may  be 
a  blessing  or  a  curse,  as  the  case  may  be,  according 
to  the  way  they  are  used. 

In  traveling  on  the  train,  if  a  man  has  his  eyes 
and  ears  open  to  the  things  that  are  suggested  to 
him,  there  are  many  ways  of  studying  the  character, 
which  make  splendid  guides. 

The  other  day  a  man  was  telling  me  how  he  had 
learned  to  delineate  character  by  the  way  men  sharpen 
their  lead  pencils.  He  was  a  business  man,  had  doz- 
ens and  scores  of  men  constantly  under  his  employ. 
We  talked  all  the  way  about  it  from  New  York  to 
Boston.  Finally  he  said  to  me,  "  I'll  give  you  a  key 
to  the  result  of  my  investigations  along  this  line." 
Taking  out  a  well-sharpened  lead  pencil,  he  drew 
from  his  pocket  a  bit  of  tablet  and  sketched  for  me 
this,  No.  I.  "  There."  said  he,  "when  you  see  a  fel- 
low sharpen  a  lead  pencil  like  that  you  may  depend 
upon  it  that  he  is  painstaking,  conscientious,  and  will 
do  good  work  at  a  five  or  ten  cent  counter,  and  will 
have  his  financial  report  absolutely  correct  to  the  pen- 
ny, but  he  is  not  quick  of  perception  or  active  in 
purpose.  Many  things  in  the  way  of  buying  and  sell- 
ing that  are  items  of  success  in  the  end  would  pass 
him  by  unnoticed,  but  as  to  veracity,  honesty,  upright- 
ness you  may  depend  upon  him,  and  if  you  have  such 
a  counter  in  your  store  he  will  serve  your  purpose 
as  well  as  any  man  in  the  world." 


Then  he  drew  figure  No.  II.  "  Now,"  he  said,  "  do 
you  see  the  difference  between  that  and  the  first  one 
I  drew?  This  man  is  just  the  opposite  of  the  other. 
He  is  very  quick  of  perception;  he  sees  the  point  in 


a  minute,  but  what  he  gains  in  that  and  what  he  gains 
in  neatness,  for  he  is  extremely  fastidious,  he  loses 
in  patience.  When  I  get  boys  in  my  store  who  sharp- 
en their  pencil  in  this  manner,  I  find  them  to  be  the 
most  impatient,  irresolute  men  in  the  house.  They 
do  very  well  as  long  as  everything  goes  smoothly, 
but  they  cannot  be  depended  upon  in  case  of  emer- 
gency." 

"  There,"  said  he  as  he  finished  No.  Ill,  "  you  see 
how  blunt  that  point  is  and  how  short  the  bevel.  That 
man  is  stubborn,  even  to  the  extent  that  we  call 
'  bullheadedness,'  and  has  an  unusual  will  power,  but 
in  nearly  every  case  you  will  find  him  to  be  un- 
scrupulous and  sometimes  even  vicious.  His  con- 
science seldom  appeals  to  him,  and  he  is  almost  void 
of  self-confidence  or  confidence  in  other  people.  He 
seems  to  suspicion  everybody  as  being  an  enemy,  at 
least  not  a  friend." 


As  the  gentlernan  from  Boston  finished  figure  No. 
IV,  he  said  to  me,  "  Well,  there  is  a  queer  thing,"' 
"  but,"  he  said,  "  as  queer  .as  it  seems,  this  is  one 
of  the  most  desirable  men  that  any  man  may  have 
at  his  command.  Without  exception  you  find  him 
devoted  to  any  assigned  duty,  whether  it  be  sweep- 
ing the  floor  or  using  the  yard  stick  or  taking  care 
of  the  cash.  He  is  absolutely  deliberate,  purposeful, 
is  trustworthy  to  the  fullest  extent  of  the  term,  and1 
is  not  only  a  brilliant  employe,  but  a  man  in  whose 
care  you  may  leave  your  business  when  you  are  away." 

"  No.  V  represents  a  man  who  is  careless,  slovenly 
and  not  trustworthy.     If  you   should  be  so  unlucky 


as  to  hire  an  employe  of  this  kind,  and  discover  that 
he  sharpens  his  lead  pencil  in  this  manner,  it  would 
be  policy  and  prudent  on  your  part  to  find  a  reason- 
able excuse  to  dismiss  him  before  he  costs  you  mon- 
ey, because  he  is  sure  not  to  be  the  man  you  want  in 
your  store  or  office." 

Just  as  the  train  pulled  up  to  a  station  where  they 
had  five  minutes  for  lunch  he  said,  "  Now  while  the 
train  stops  I'll  sketch  for  you  the  best  man  in  the 
house.     Here  is  the  way  my  chief  clerk  sharpens  his 


THE  INGLENOOK  —  September  6,  1904. 


843 


pencil,"  and  he  drew  No.  VI.  He  said,  "  Do  you 
see  how  perfect  and  symmetrical  this  is.  That  means 
that  this  man  is  exceedingly  conscientious.  He  is 
economical  and  has  an  eye  for  business,  extremely 
fastidious  in  personal  matters,  tidy,  hopeful  in  tem- 
perament, cheerful,  sees  the  bright  side  of  things,  and 
I  always  leave  him  feeling  that  everything  is  safe 
when  in  his  charge.  And  in  fifteen  years'  experience 
I  have  never  experienced  anything  else." 

"  Now,  look  here,"  he  said.  "  Before  our  lesson 
is  over  I  want  to  draw  for  you  a  pencil  figure  of  my 
traveling  salesman,  who  is  continually  on  the  road 
and  brings  me  more  orders  than  any  other  man  in 
the  district.  This  is  No.  VII.  He  is  a  hustler,  but 
he  has  a  little  tendency  to  recklessness.  He  has  but 
very  little  regard  for  the  feelings  of  others.  He  is 
of  a  sanguinary  temperament.  He  makes  one  of  the 
most  successful  collectors  I  have  ever  had  in  my  em- 
ploy. 


"  One  more  and  then  we  will  leave  the  study  with 
you.  Here  is  No.  VIII.  Should  you  come  in  con- 
tact with  a  man  who  sharpens  his  pencil  in  this  man- 
ner it  will  not  take  you  five  minutes  to  notice  that  he 
is  a  conceited  man,  pompous  and  practically  good  for 
nothing.  He  would  lose  business  and  custom  for  any 
business  concern  inside  of  three  weeks." 

I  have  been  thinking  over  this  matter  a  great  deal 
since  I  had  this  talk  with  this  gentleman,  and  I  find 
that  there  is  a  great  deal  in  the  study  of  it.  It  will 
not  always  hold  good.  Remember  that  there  are  ex- 
ceptions to  all  rules,  and  some  other  elements  enter 
into  a  man's  character  occasionally  that  are  not  ac- 
counted for  in  this  manner  of  study.  But  you  will 
be  surprised  to  see  the  amount  of  real  information 
that  may  be  brought  out  from  this  method  of  study. 

*   *  * 
STRING    AND    BOW. 


BY    MARGUERITE    BIXLER. 

"  The  material  for  violin  strings  and  bows  must 
be  prepared  with  great  care.  Tom  Hood  once  prayed 
heaven  to  '  reward  the  man  who  first  hit  upon  the 
very  original  notion  of  sawing  the  inside  of  a  cat 
with  the  tail  of  a  horse ; '  but  really  no  one  seems  to 
know  whether  catgut  was  used  for  string  manufac- 
ture. There  is  no  doubt  about  the  horse  hair  for 
bows,  and  whatever  may  have  been  the  original  sub- 


stance used  for  violin  strings,  the  fact  is  that  nowa- 
days and  for  a  long  time  they  have  been  made  alto- 
gether from  the  small  intestines  of  lambs  and  sheep, 
the  best  quality  being  obtained  from  animals  reared 
on  dry  mountainous  pastures.  The  string-making 
month  is  September,  and  the  process  is  quite  long, 
tedious  and  not  particularly  agreeable,  involving  care- 
ful separation  of  the  membranes  and  repeated  wash- 
ings, dryings,  scrapings  and  immersions  in  certain 
chemicals  before  the  final  cutting  into  strings  of  the 
required  length  and  thickness.  It  will  not  do  to  pur- 
chase strings  indiscriminately,  for  sometimes  excel- 
lent violins  are  made  to  appear  quite  inferior  by  the 
injudicious   selection   of   strings   and   bows. 

"  The  bow  being  the  primary  motive  power  of  vi- 
olin music,  its  proper  manufacture  is  of  the  great- 
est importance ;  but  it  is  perhaps  the  least  difficult 
of  all  the  violin  paraphernalia  to  produce,  though  its 
present  efficiency  was  not  reached  without  exhaustive 
experimentation.  It  is  composed  of  horse  hair  neatly 
fastened  on  a  slightly  flexible  frame  of  wood,  grace- 
fully bent. 

"  The  bow  is,  par  excellence,  the  one  adjunct  which 
makes  it  possible  to  produce  and  sustain  the  violin's 
marvelous  varieties  of  tone.  Great  performers  have 
imitated  on  its  strings  almost  every  animal,  from  the 
bird  and  cat  to  the  human  being,  and  every  shade 
and  variety  of  human  feeling'  and  passion  have  been 
reproduced  by  master  players  like  Paganini,  Sivori, 
de  Beriot,  Ole  Bull,  and  our  more  modern  virtuosi." 

Did  you  ever  think  that  violin  playing  will  in  time 
injure  the  walls  of  a  building?  It  certainly  will. 
"  Of  course,"  says  an  authority,  "  it  takes  continuous 
playing  for  many  years  to  loosen  masonry  or  to  make 
iron  brittle. 

I  have  often  thought  of  what  the  result  might  be 
if  a  man  would  stand  at  the  bottom  of  a  nineteen- 
story  light  well  on  the  first  floor  of  the  Masonic  tem- 
ple in  Chicago  and  play  there  continuously.  The  re- 
sult could  be  more  easily  seen  there  than  almost  any- 
where else,  because  the  vibration  gathers  force  as  it 
sweeps  upward.  It  is  the  regularity  which  means  so 
much,  because  it  is  the  regularity  of  vibration  that 
makes  it  powerful. 

East  Akron,  Ohio. 

*  *  * 

The  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company  has  recently 
completed  three  tracks  that  are  laid  with  the  heaviest 
rails  that  were  ever  used  by  any  railroad.  The  rails 
weigh  one  hundred  and  forty-two  pounds  to  the  yard, 
which  is  seventeen  pounds  heavier  than  any  before 
used.  They  are  on  the  Delaware  line,  are  ballasted  in 
concrete,  and  nine  inch  girders  are  used  to  bind  them. 
The  curves  and  spurs  are  laid  with  the  same  weight 
rails.  The  railroad  men  claim  they  will  wear  for 
twenty-five  years  without  repair. 


844 


THE  INGLENOOK.— September  6,  1904. 


THE    MAKING    OF    A    PAIR    OF    SHOES. 


BY  D.   L.    MILLER. 

It  is  a  long  look  from  the  days  when  I,  a  barefoot- 
boy,  trudged  over  the  frosty  road  on  a  bright  autumn 
morning  to  the  village  shoemaker  to  be  "  measured  " 
for  a  pair  of  winter  boots  to  be  worn  until  springtime 
and  the  longed-for  barefoot  days  came  again — to  the 
modern  shoe  factory  of  the  twentieth  century.  I  recall 
vividly  how  I  saw  and  watched  the  maker  of  boots  and 
shoes  with  hammer,  awl  and  wooden  pegs,  the  latter 
held  in  the  mouth  for  convenience  sake,  soling  the 
foot  wear  which  he  made  entirely  by  hand.  It  was 
slow  and  tedious  work  as  compared  with  the  lightning 
express  methods  used  in  the  up-to-date  factory  of  to- 
day. 

Embowered  among  shade  trees,  in  the  rich  and 
beautiful  Lebanon  Valley,  Pa.,  is  the  town  of  Ann- 
ville,  with  a  population  of  some  over  2000  souls,  and 
here  lives  our  Bro.  A.  S.  Kreider,  president  of  the 
A.  S.  Kreider  Shoe  Company.  Some  years  ago  he 
began  in  a  small  way  the  manufacture  of  shoes  by 
machinery,  and  the  business  has  grown  until  to-day  the 
company  has  factories  at  Annville,  Palmyra  and  Eliza- 
bethtown,  Pa.,  and  when  running  at  full  capacity  some 
seven  or  eight  hundred  people  are  employed  and  the 
output  of  finished  foot-gear  is  about  nine  pairs  per 
minute. 

Three  hours  spent  in  the  large  factory  at  Annville 
with  Bro.  Kreider  as  guide  and  teacher,  convinced  me 
that  what  this  broad-shouldered,  genial  maker  of 
foot-wear  does  not  know  about  the  minutest  detail  of 
his  business  is  not  worth  considering.  I  acquired  more 
information  as  to  modern  shoemaking  in  three  hours 
than  I  had  learned  in  all  my  life  before. 

In  a  general  way  it  may  be  said  that  the  leather, — kid, 
calf  and  goat,  in  many  shades  of  color,  with  oak,  union 
and  hemlock  tanned  soles, — is  fed  into  the  insatiable 
mouth  of  the  great  factory  and  the  result  is  over 
5000  pairs  of  finished  shoes  for  every  day  of  10  hours, 
among  which  are  some  of  the  best  shoes  in  the  world. 
In  the  making,  each  shoe,  from  start  to  finish,  passes 
through  no  less  than  65  pairs  of  human  hands  and 
45  different  machines.  To  describe  the  work  done 
by  each  pair  of  hands  and  each  machine  would  make 
a  shoe  Nook  of  this  issue.  I  can  only  very  briefly  and 
in  part  refer  to  details. 

The  leather  from  which  the  shoe  is  cut  is  carefully 
inspected  by  an  expert  and  each  piece  is  measured  by 
a  machine  that  tells  just  how  many  square  inches  are 
in  it.  It  is  then  passed  to  the  cutters  where  great  skill 
is  displayed  in  getting  the  greatest  possible  number 
of  uppers  with  the  least  possible  waste.  In  the  leather 
room  is  to  be  found  kid  leather  of  the  finest  quality 
in  the  world,  and  it  is  tanned  in  this  country,  for  we 


lead  the  world  in  tanning.  A  few  years  ago  French 
kid  held  the  palm,  but  an  American  discovered  the 
vici  kid  process  and  left  the  French  tanner  far  in 
the  rear.  He  made  millions  out  of  his  process  and 
died  a  premature  death. 

After  passing  through  the  cutting  department  the 
parts  of  the  shoes  are  "  assembled  "  and  now  begins 
the  work  of  the  machines.  The  shoes  are  sized,  last- 
ed, nailed,  sewed,  button-holed,  eyeletted,  folded, 
marked,  numbered,  pasted,  cemented,  pressed,  waxed, 
burnished,  ironed,  polished,  dressed  and  cleaned  ready 
for  boxing,  and  this  work  is  all  done  by  machinery. 

Some  of  the  intricate  pieces  of  mechanism  seem 
almost  gifted  with  human  intelligence.  Here  is  one 
that  sews  on  the  buttons.  These  are  fed  into  the 
machine  from  a  hopper,  a  button  coming  to  the  right 
place  at  the  right  time.  A  loop  is  thrown  over  the  eye 
of  the  button  by  the  machine  and  the  eye  is  turned 
flat  side  down  just  as  the  needle,  carrying  a  heavy 
thread,  comes  through  it  and  it  is  secured  so  strongly 
in  its'  place  that  you  can  only  pull  it  off  by  breaking  the 
thread  or  tearing  the  leather.  All  this  is  done  so 
rapidly  that  the  eye  refuses  to  follow  the  quick  motion 
of  the  machine.  Just  as  rapidly,  and  with  greater 
precision  and  neatness  than  can  be  done  by  hand, 
are  the  button-holes  worked,  the  eyelets  inserted,  the 
hooks  fastened,  and  the  stitching  done,  the  latter  by 
a  machine  that  makes  three  rows  of  stitches  in  one 
operation. 

The  soles  are  sewed  on  by  a  machine  that  brings 
to  the  inventor  three  cents  royalty  for  every  pair  of 
shoes  soled.  A  counting  attachment  tells  the  story 
of  each  day's  work  and  as  these  machines  are  used  in 
hundreds  of  factories,  the  income  of  the  patentee  must 
be  a  princely  sum.  Our  old  shoemaker  twisted  his 
thread  over  his  knee  with  his  hand,  applying  the  wax 
in  the  same  way  and  then,  fastening  a  bristle  in  each 
end,  was  ready  for  work.  The  machine  under  consid- 
eration uses  the  very  best  quality  of  twisted  linen 
thread  wrapped  on  great  spools  containing  thousands 
of  yards.  As  the  thread  passes  through  the  machine 
heated  wax  is  applied  and  when  sewing  is  finished  it 
cools  and  hardens  and  the  work  is  much  better  done 
than  it  can  be  by  human  hands. 

Another  ingenious  little  machine  reaches  out,  with 
wonderful  accuracy,  to  the  stitches  in  the  soles  of  the 
shoes  and  presses  notches  between  the  stitches,  giving 
the  upper  edge  of  the  sole  at  the  side  of  the  shoe  the 
appearance  so  common  in  foot-wear  these  days. 

Who,  of  the  readers  of  the  Nook,  ever  heard  of 
ironing  shoes?  The  ironing  machine  is  heated  by 
electricity  and  after  its  work  is  done,  the  shoe  is  much 
improved  in  appearance.  The  finishing  machines  are 
supplied  with  brushes  as  soft  to  the  touch  as  velvet 
and  when  the  shoes  are  placed  in  the  boxes  ready  for 


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the  trade  they  are  as  nearly  perfect  as  human  skill  and 
ingenuity  can  make  them. 

As  I  left  the  factory  I  said  to  the  man  of  shoes, 
"  Hands   are  not   to  be   counted."     "  No,"   was   the 
quick  reply,  "  It's  brains  against  hands  now." 
*  *   * 
A   BROKEN   DISH. 


Joe  was  the  village  idiot,  and  like  many  an  unfortu- 
nate of  his  class,  often  surprised  people  by  his  shrewd 
sayings.  He  had  an  odd  habit  of  calling  at  the  neigh- 
bors' towards  sundown,  where  he  could  sit  by  the 
kitchen  fire  an  hour  at  a  time,  muttering  in  his  fool- 
ish, harmless  way.  He  came  to  our  house  the  other 
night  when  mother  was  busy  preparing  tea.  In  one  of 
her  journeys  from  the  dining-room  she  dropped  a  china 
bowl,  breaking  it  in  a  dozen  pieces. 

This  little  act  seemed  to  give  Joe  infinite  delight. 
He  rubbed  his  hands  over  the  stove,  and  chattered 
and  chuckled  more  like  some  animal  than  a  human  be- 
ing. Then  looking  with  a  silly  leer,  he  said :  "  Folks 
is  like  dishes  mostly;  you  can't  handle  such  kind 
rough,"  pointing  to  the  ruin  on  the  floor.  "  Ain't 
good  for  much  when  they're  broken,  and  they  break 
mighty  easy.  "  Rolling  his  eyes  toward  the  more  com- 
mon ware  ranged  on  the  kitchen  shelves,  he  contin- 
ued :  "  That's  the  sort  of  use.  They're  the  people  to 
do  the  work  in  the  world!  Not  so  nice  and  purty  as 
t'other,  but  you  don't  have  to  treat  'em  so  tender.  " 
Poor  Joe !  I  wonder  if  his  mind  were  not  like  delicate 
porcelain,  which  some  careless  hand  let  fall  in  early 
life,  hopelessly  shattering  it. 

Mother,  with  that  rare  sympathy  belonging  only  to 
mature  motherhood,  humored  his  fancy  by  saying: 
"  Well,  Joe,  you  know  all  kinds  of  dishes  are  needed 
at  a  feast.  There  is  a  greater  supper  than  this  to  take 
place  by  and  by.  When  the  Master  comes  to  sit  down 
at  the  table  he  will  want  something  besides  the  china 
and  silver.  It  won't  make  so  much  difference  then 
what  we  are,  if  only  we  bring  the  food  he  expects. 
The  Lord  never  looks  for  'strong  meat'  in  a  vessel 
which  can  carry  only  milk." 

Joe  looked  at  her  with  his  vacant  stare,  showing 
that  he  but  dimly  understood  her  meaning  though  he 
seemed  to  comprehend  Scriptural  ideas  easier  than 
any  others.  Does  this  verify  the  words  of  the  prophet, 
that  a  wayfaring  man,  though  a  fool,  shall  not  err 
therein? 

Watching  the  fragments  as  the}  were  brushed  in- 
to the  dust-pan,  he  burst  forth  again.  "  Ha !  ha ! 
Guess  He'll  take  care  of  the  pieces !  Things  don't 
get  broken  in  his  hands  though.  He  knows  the  dif- 
ference between  tin  and  chiny !  " 

Half-witted  words,  perhaps,  but  hiding  a  depth  of 
meaning  full  of  truth  and  pathos.  Are  we  not,  as 
Christians,   responsible   for   some  of  the  broken   ves- 


sels in  the  Lord's  treasure-house:  Though  there  may 
be  but  a  few,  like  Joe,  whose  minds  are  a  complete 
wreck,  are  there  not  among  us  many  sensitive,  highly- 
organized  natures,  whom  in  our  rude  jostling  we  have 
given  a  jar  they  will  feel  for  life?  It  may  not  have 
been  in  the  shape  of  a  harsh  word  or  an  unkind  act, 
but  simply  in  withholding  the  sympathy  and  encour- 
agement we  might  have  given,  or  even  in  the  failure 
to  recognize  that  the)'  are  more  delicate  mold.  To 
how  many  thirsting  souls  they  might  have  carried 
the  water  of  salvation  had  not  their  power  been  weak- 
ened ! 

We  never  place  fragile  glass  upon  the  heated  stove, 
but  we  do  subject  each  other's  characters  and  modes 
of  action  to  fire  of  scathing  criticism  or  uncharita- 
ble remark,  and  then  wonder  that  thev  do  not  stand 
the  test.  We  carefully  protect  our  porcelain  from  un- 
due frost  and  cold,  but  leave  many  a  soul  shivering 
from  indifference  or  neglect.  I  believe  with  Joe  that 
the  Son  of  man  will  "  gather  up  the  fragments,  that 
nothing  be  lost,"  and  at  the  marriage  supper  of  the 
Lamb  we  shall  recognize  many  a  broken  vessel  that 
here  on  earth  we  condemned  as  unfit  for  use,  because 
failing  to  act  in  the  way  we  judged  best. 

'*  Things  never  get  broken  in  his  hands !  "  Shall 
they  in  yours,  Christian,  when  he  has  made  you  your 
brother's  keeper  ? — Selected. 

TRUSTFULNESS. 


In  a  poor  but  thrifty  peasant's  home  sat  a  voung 
mother  plying  her  needle  in  the  autumn  twilight  for 
the  wee  Willie,  whose  ringing  laughter  from  the  little 
garden  told  its  own  sweet  tale.  The  husband  sat  near 
his  wife,  in  that  weary  listlessness  which  is  made  such 
a  luxury  by  a  hard  day's  toil.  "  How  shall  we  ever  get 
on  when  winter  comes,  George?  'Tis  hard  enough  in 
summer,  what  will  it  be  then  ?  "  The  question  awoke 
something  within  that  man's  slumbering  soul  that  sent 
a  quiet  glow  over  every  look  and  tone.  "  Mary.  lass, 
what  art  making  there  ?  " 

"  A  warm  winter  coat  for  Willie,  George." 

"  I  guessed  as  much.  Does  the  young  rogue  know 
about  it  ?  " 

"  Not  he,  dear  lamb." 

"  Won't  you  tell  him  to  hinder  his  worrying  about 
winter?  " 

"He  worry!  Why.  hearken  to  him,  Georyc.  He's 
as  happy  as  the  day  is  long;  and  even  if  he  had  the 
sense  to  think  about  winter,  he'd  trust  mother  to  keep 
him  warm." 

"  Aye,  lass,  and  I  vow  the  boy  is  wiser  than  his 
mother." 

Mary's  eye  filled  as  she  caught  her  husband's  upward 
look,  and  the  cloud  of  distrust  was  rolled  from  the 
hearth  by  her  child's  trustfulness. — Selected. 


846 


THE  INGLENOOK.— September  6,  1904. 


CANCER. 


BY  E.  E.  RINEHART,   M.  D. 


In  the  long  catalogue  of  diseases  with  which  human- 
ity is  afflicted  there  is  scarcely  one  to  be  more  dread- 
ed or  that  has  been  so  unsuccessfully  treated  by  the 
medical  faculty  as  cancer.  Until  within  the  last 
quarter  of  a  century  the  real  name  and  cause  of  the 
disease  were  involved  in  obscurity.  Cancer  was  looked 
upon  as  rare,  and  the  death  of  the  patient  as  certain. 

Cancer  is  a  disease  to  which  both  male  and  female, 
young  and  old  are  subject;  it  is  seldom,  however,  met 
with  in  very  young  persons,  and  by  far  more  preva- 
lent in  women  than  in  men,  and  assumes  a  variety  of 
forms :  but  from  the  incipient  to  advanced  stage 
undergoes  many  changes,  so  that  to  any  but  those 
thoroughly  acquainted  with  the  disease  it  is  difficult 
to  diagnose  correctly. 

There  are  different  causes  to  which  the  develop- 
ment of  cancer  may  be  attributed.  The  most  common 
are  such  as  blows,  bruises,  cuts,  freezing,  burns,  or 
anything  that  obstructs  the  circulation. 

Most  persons  having  cancer  can  ascribe  its  origin  to 
one  or  more  of  these  causes ;  there  are  other  causes  that 
might  be  mentioned,  but  these  are  the  chief  ones.  It 
has  been  claimed  by  some  that  certain  kinds  of  food 
and  narcotics  cause  cancer,  such  as  tomatoes,  pork, 
tobacco,  etc. ;  but  I  am  satisfied  from  a  careful  obser- 
vation that  tomatoes  never  did  cause  cancer,  and  they 
are  one  of  the  best  blood  purifiers  we  have.  The 
Tews  are  not  supposed  to  eat  pork,  but-  they  do  have 
cancer ;  neither  does  the  use  of  tobacco  of  itself 
cause  cancer,  however,  we  may  lay  it  down  as  a  general 
law  in  regard  to  the  cause  of  cancer,  that  anything 
that  has  a  tendency  to  weaken  the  vitality  of  a  person 
may  predispose  to  the  development  of  cancer :  we  then 
onlv  need  some  local  irritation  to  cause  its  appearance 
on  the  surface,  then,  like  the  mistletoe  on  the  oak, 
living  upon  and  of  it,  yet  an  independent  growth. 

Cancer  is  divided  and  subdivided  into  different 
forms ;  first  we  have  what  is  termed  an  Epithelioma 
(or  skin  cancer).  This  form  of  cancer  may  be  classi- 
fied under  four  distinct  heads,  viz:  fissure,  black  scaly, 
warty  and  eating  cancer.  Fissure  cancer  makes  its 
appearance  in  the  form  of  a  crack,  usually  looks  deep 
like  a  cut  with  a  knife,  most  generally  appears  on  the 
lip,  sometimes  on  the  hand,  and  at  the  junction  of 
the  ear  with  the  head.  This  fissure  or  crack  generally 
enlarges  and  deepens,  while  the  surrounding  parts 
become  hard,  dry  and  painful. 

The  black  scaly  cancer  is  another  variety  of  the 
epithelial  species  and  appears  first  as  a  dry,  hard 
scale  with  an  itching  or  burning  sensation  of  the  face, 
arm  or  hand.  This  scale  in  time  falls  off,  leaving  a 
slightly  red,  irritable  surface,  from  which  moisture  ex- 


udes, soon  forming  another  scale  larger  than  the  first, 
which  in  time  again  falls  off,  and  this  process  is  con- 
tinually going  on ;  the  surface  all  the  while  growing 
larger,  until  at  last  the  scale  ceases  to  form,  and  an 
open,  unsightly  sore  remains.  This  sore  now  spreads 
in  every  direction,  and  is  very  painful  when  exposed 
to  the  air. 

Warty  cancer  makes  its  appearance  in  the  form  of 
an  ordinary  wart ;  most  generally  upon  the  face. 
From  the  top  or  head  of  this  wart  moisture  exudes, 
forms  a  slight  scale  which  after  becoming  dry  falls 
off  and  is  replaced  by  another  larger  and  thicker 
which,  like  the  scaly  form,  again  falls  off,  and  this 
process  is  continued.  The  wart  or  tumor  all  the  while 
is  growing  larger  and  its  base  taking  a  deeper  and 
broader  hold.  Eating  cancer  is  first  discovered  as  a 
small  ulcer,  which  spreads  rapidly,  eating  its  way 
through  every  form  of  tissue,  and  is  the  most  destruc- 
tive of  any  of  the  epithelial  variety.  It  attacks  every 
part  of  the  body,  and  no  time  should  be  lost  in  arrest- 
ing its   destructive  course. 

The  next  form  of  cancer  is  the  one  that  invades  the 
female  breast ;  of  these  are  several  varieties  but  all 
presenting  the  same  symptoms,  viz :  the  presence  of  a 
hard,  knotty,  irregular  tumor,  sharp,  lancinating  pains, 
adhesions  at  some  point,  and  as  it  approaches  the  soft- 
ening stage,  attachment  of  the  skin  to  the  tumor,  dark, 
leaden  color  if  unchecked,  it  ulcerates  at  this  point 
and  the  discharge  is  very  offensive.  Any  lump  which 
may  appear  in  the  breast  should  not  be  neglected. 

There  are  other  forms  of  cancer  that  invade  the 
female  breast,  such  as  the  scirrous,  encephaloid  or 
rose  cancer,  fungus,  hnematodes,  melamoris,  the 
two  latter  being  more  destructive  in  their  nature  and 
running  a  very  rapid  course. 

Kokomo,  Ind. 

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IS   IT   REFORM    OR    DEFORM? 


At  its  late  session  in  St.  Louis,  the  National  Edu- 
cational Association  made  another  attempt  to  introduce 
the  "  spelling  reform."  The  English  is  the  latest  lan- 
guage. Its  foundation  was  the  Anglo-Saxon.  But  a 
wealth  of  additions  has  been  made  to  it  from  other 
tongues.  The  appropriation  of  words  from  languages 
that  had  a  pretty  well-defined  system  of  spelling  has 
made  the  English  seem  like  a  heterogeneous  mass. 

The  effort  of  the  present  "  reformers  "  is  to  intro- 
duce a  phonetic  system,  or  something  closely  related 
to  the  phonetic.  As  yet,  about  a  dozen  words  only 
have  been  changed  at  all  by  the  patent  process ;  and 
some  of  them  are  used  to  the  old  way  almost  univer- 
sally, with  a  decided  preference  for  the  unamended 
spelling.  Up  to  date  the  path  of  the  reformers  has 
been  rough  and  steep. 

A  few  years  ago  at  the  Illinois  State  Teachers'  As- 


THE  INGLENOOK.— September  6,  1904. 


847 


sociation,  at  Springfield,  one  enthusiastic  reformer, 
with  a  megaphone  voice,  introduced  a  resolution  that 
a  committee  be  appointed,  which  should  do  everything 
in  its  power  to  bring  into  general  use  the  simplified 
spelling  of  the  dozen  words  that  the  National  Educa- 
tional Association  had  selected  for  scouting  purposes 
into  the  territory  of  the  conservatives.  A  prodigious 
amount  of  work  was  outlined — printing  tracts,  distri- 
buting appeals,  making  addresses,  and  numerous  other 
things  that  our  memory  has  not  carried — in  fact,  flood 
the  State  with  printed  and  oral  advice  on  the  evil 
effect  of  the  twelve  unfortunate  words.  Of  course 
it  was  understood  that  those  words  were  to  bear  the 
brunt  of  the  attack,  while  another  company  should 
come  along  later  for  reinforcement,  ■  and  additional 
progress.  The  resolution  closed  with  an  appropriation 
of  fifty  dollars  to  defray  expenses. 

A  broad  smile  crept  over  the  faces  of  the  peda- 
gogues. It  was  as  if  a  mountain  had  labored  and 
brought  forth  a  mouse — a  small  dead  mouse.  One  man 
with  a  well-developed  sense  of  the  ridiculous  arose  and 
moved  that,  in  view  of  the  great  responsibility  and 
enormous  task  imposed  on  the  committee,  each  mem- 
ber of  it  be  voted  a  salary  of  five  thousand  dollars  a 
year.  The  motion  was  not  more  inconsistent  than  the 
resolution.  The  latter  was  passed  by  a  sort  of  per- 
missive indulgence,  but,  so  far  as  we  know,  the  heart 
of  the  committee  never  throbbed  once. 

The  above  is  an  illustration  of  the  checkered  history 
of  spelling  reform.  In  a  practical  age,  people  will  not 
spend  time,  money,  and  energy  to  accomplish  some- 
thing that  promises  no  genuine  profit  when  attained. 
There  will  always  be  a  few  advocates  of  changes ;  but 
their  power  will  prove  inadequate  to  the  task. 

At  present  we  are  going  backward  rather  than  for- 
ward in  the  simplification  of  spelling.  This  is  seen 
more  in  works  of  fiction  than  in  any  other  department 
of  literature;  and  the  copyright  laws  are  the  cause. 
An  American  book  meets  a  far  readier  sale  in  Eng- 
,  land,  if  it  spells  "labor"  "labour."  and  "honor" 
"  honour,"  and  similar  words  likewise.  Financial  suc- 
cess weighs  more  than  empty  sentiment  any  day,  and 
the  self-appointed  reformers  have  already  lost  more 
than  they  have  gained. 

But  the  National  Educational  Association  blazed  out 
a  new  path.  The  fact  that  no  one  present  was  able  to 
give  a  list  of  words  that  the  organization  had  already 
agreed  to  reform,  as  it  was  reported  at  the  time,  had 
better  be  passed  over  silently  in  deference  to  the  feel- 
ings of  the  reform  champions.  The  new  path  is  an 
effort  to  appoint  a  committee  of  thirty,  with  the  dis- 
posal of  $2,000  a  year  for  five  years,  that  shall  attempt 
to  force  a  few  selected  words  into  commercial  use  in 
their  artificial  dress.  Advertisers  are  to  be  importuned 
to  employ  them  so,  and  newspapers  and  magazines  are 
to  be   constrained  to  "  follow   copy  "   in  the  case  of 


"  tho,"  "thru,"  and  "  thoro."  This  appropriation  is 
conditioned  on  another  ten  thousand  dollars  being 
raised  by  the  reformers.  The  chaim  is  advanced  that 
literature  will  not  be  slow  to  follow  where  business 
leads.  The  opinion  seems  to  be  that  the  regeneration 
of  these  few  words  will  be  cheap  at  twenty  thousand 
dollars.  They  are  intended,  however,  as  an  opening 
wedge. 

The  prospect  is  that  this  effort  will  fail.  It  is 
neither  desirable  nor  practical  to  carry  phonetic  spell- 
ing to  its  logical  end ;  and  to  use  it  in  spots  only  is 
more  confusing  than  to  keep  hands  off.  Take,  for  in- 
stance, the  word  "thought."  The  reformers  clamor 
for  "  thot."  By  the  same  rule  "  bot  "  should  stand  for 
"  bought,"  which  might  be  clear ;  "  sot  "  should  take 
the  place  of  "  sought,"  and  of  course  would  be  con- 
fused with  the  noun  of  the  same  spelling;  "  tot  "  could 
be  one  of  several  verbs ;  while  "  rot  "  could  be  either  of 
two  verbs  or  two  nouns,  all  in  common  use.  Our  lan- 
guage is  puzzling  enough,  as  all  admit,  without  the 
phonetic  scalpel  of  the  reformer.  The  fact  is  that, 
if  we  go  to  the  legitimate  end  of  reformed  spelling,  we 
will  have  a  deformed  language.  Thousands  of  new 
words  would  have  to  be  coined  to  avoid  the  confusion 
resulting  from  spelling  words  alike  that  are  now  dis- 
similar. At  every  port  of  entry  our  reform  committee 
would  have  to  stand  with  cudgel  and  pruning-hook 
to  batter  down  and  cut  off  the  outlawed  appendages 
of  French.  Latin,  and  Greek  words.  We  suggest  that 
a  good  place  to  begin  is  on  the  names  of  Polish  and 
Russian  immigrants  to  our  shores.  The  English  lan- 
guage, with  all  its  peculiarities  of  spelling,  is  here  to 
stay,  and  we  see  no  reason  why  anybody  who  is  able 
to  learn  how  to  spell  should  desire  a  change.  Those 
who  can't  spell  now,  could  do  no  better  after  the  "  de- 
formation "  has  taken  place. — Religious  Telescope. 

ETERNAL    SPRING. 


You  say,  "  The  soul  is  nothing  but  the  result  of  bod- 
ily powers."  Why,  then,  is  my  soul  the  more  luminous 
as  my  bodily  powers  begin  to  fail  ?  Winter  is  on  my 
head,  but  eternal  spring  is  in  my  heart.  I  breathe  the 
fragrance  of  the  lilacs,  the  violets  and  the  roses,  as  at 
twenty  years.  The  nearer  I  approach  the  end,  the 
plainer  I  hear  sounding  the  immortal  symphonies  of  the 
worlds  which  invite  me.  It  is  marvelous,  yet  simple. 
It  is  a  fairy  tale  and  yet  it  is  history.  For  half  a  century 
I  have  been  writing  my  thoughts  in  prose  and  verse, 
history,  philosophy,  drama,  romance,  satire,  ode  and 
song.  I  have  tried  all,  but  feel  I  have  not  said  a  thou- 
sandth part  of  what  is  in  me.  When  my  body  goes 
down  to  the  grave  you  may  say  that  I  have  finished 
my  day's  work.  The  tomb  closes  on  twilight  to  open 
with  dawn.  My  work  is  only  beginning.  I  see  it 
mounting  and  mounting  forever. — /  'ictor  Hugo. 


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THE  INGLENOOK.— September  6,  1904. 


TO-MORROW. 


BY  LULU  C.  MOHLEK.  - 

Over  the  land  of  the  beautiful  Rhine  is  thrown  a 
dreamy  web  of  wonderful  charm :  a  land  that  has 
helped  the  world  to  write  her  book  of  history  and  has 
given  this  book  its  most  wonderful  pages  of  romance, 
legend,  heroism  and  song. 

Who  is  it  who  does  not  like  to  read  the  legends  of 
which  Germany,  and  especially  the  Black  Forest  and 
the  Rhine  are  so  full  ? 

Some  of  these  legends  contain  beautiful  lessons  and 
I  want  to  tell  you  one.  A  German  student  named 
Lek  made  a  journey  on  foot  from  Leipsic  to  the  Mid- 
dle Rhine.  He  went  in  a  round-about  way  visiting 
many  old  towns  and  ruins  on  his  trip. 

Just  about  sunset  one  evening,  he  came  to  the  top  of 
a  hill  and  was  surprised  to  see  at  its  foot  a  town  of 
which  he  had  never  heard.  It  was  unlike  any  village 
he  had  ever  seen.  So  quaint  and  ancient  looking  that 
he  knew  it  must  be  centuries  old ;  but  it  seemed  queer 
that  he  had  never  heard  of  it.  Strange  old  banners 
hung  from  the  steeples ;  but  he  concluded  it  would  be 
a  safe  place  to  spend  the  night  there  which  was  fast 
coming  on,  for  he  saw  it  had  a  church  and  an  inn. 

He  descended  the  hill  and  entered  the  town  and  met 
a  man  oddly  dressed.  Lek  asked  him  where  he  could 
find  lodging  for  the  night.  The  man  gave  his  an- 
swer in  a  dialect  with  which  he  was  not  familiar,  but 
he  guessed  the  last  words  rightly. 

"  Why  do  you  wish  to  know?  " 

"  I  am  a  traveler,"  answered  Lek,  "  and  I  must  re- 
main here  until  to-morrow." 

"  To-morrow ! "  said  the  man,  throwing  up  his 
hands.  "To-morrow!  For  us,"  pointing  to  himself, 
"  there  is  no  to-morrow.  I  must  hurry  on."  And  so 
he  left  him. 

Lek  went  on  into  the  town  and  every  one  he  met 
was  surprised  when  he  asked  for  lodging  until  the 
morrow.  He  went  to  the  inn  and  asked  for  a  room 
for  the  night.  Here  he  found  quite  a  party  of  men 
drinking  and  having  a  merry  time.  They  were 
dressed  very  richly  and  had  long  purses  full  of  an- 
cient coin.  The  landlord  looked  as  if  he  was  very  rich, 
being  dressed  like  a  king.  They  seemed  to  think  Lek's 
request  for  lodging  a  great  joke;  they  laughed  over  it 
and  slapped  their  knees  in  their  mirth.  At  last  the 
landlord  looked  solemn  and  he  said  to  the  young  man : 

"  Don't  you  know,  have  you  not  heard  ?  We  have 
no  to-morrows ;  our  nights  are  long,  long  slumbers ; 
each  one  is  a  hundred  years." 

Then  the  men  turned  from  him  and  went  to  talking 
together  in  an  eager  manner. 

The  shadows  of  evening  grew  darker.  Men  and 
women   ran   to   and   fro   in   the   streets.      Even'   one 


seemed  in  a  hurry  as  though  much  must  be  said  and 
done  in  a  brief  time. 

Presently  a  great  bell  rang  out  from  a  steeple.  The 
hurrying  people  paused.  Each  one  lifted  his  hands, 
waved  them  in  a  circle,  and  cried : 

''Alas!  To-morrow!  Hurry  good  men,  all,  good 
women,  all,  hurry  !  " 

At  last  the  young  man  began  to  think  his  reason  had 
left  him.  that  he  had  gone  mad  and  it  was  all  a  dream 
his  fancy  had  conjured  up. 

Near  the  inn  was  a  public  square.  The  grass  which 
covered  it  was  dry  and  dead,  and  in  the  center  of  it 
stood  an  old  withered  tree,  under  which  a  fair  young 
girl  sat  dressed  in  costly  robes  and  adorned  with 
heavy  jewelry.  She  seemed  to  take  little  interest  in 
what  went  on  around  her  and  was  not  hurried  and 
anxious  as  was  every  one  else.  This  seemed  strange 
to  Lek  so  he  went  to  her,  thinking  she  would  not  be 
so  rude  as  the  others  were,  and  told  her  he  wanted 
lodging  and  food  until  the  morrow,  but  every  one  was 
so  odd  and  paid  no  attention  to  him,  and  he  wanted  her 
to  tell  him  what  it  all  meant. 

And  this  is  what  she  told  him  : 

"  To-morrow!  The  word  is  a  terror  to  most  of 
them ;  it  is  no  terror  to  me, — they  are  days  of  dis- 
appointments ;  I  had  them  once, — I  am  glad  they  do 
not  come  oftener  to  me.  I  shall  go  to  sleep  at  mid- 
night, here  where  I  was  deserted.  You  are  a  stranger, 
I  see.  You  belong  to  the  world ;  every  day  has  its  to- 
morrow. Go  away  to  your  own  people,  and  to  your 
life  of  to-morrows.    This  is  no  place  for  you  here." 

Just  then  the  bell  rang  again.  The  hurrying  people 
stopped  again  in  the  street,  waved  their  hands  wildly 
and  cried : 

"  Haste,  haste,  good  men,  all,  good  women,  all.  The 
hour  -'s  near.    Good  men,  all,  good  women,  all,  hurry !  " 

It  was  night  now  and  a  storm  was  coming.  Lek 
was  more  anxious  than  ever  to  get  a  place  to  stay. 

The  maiden  asked  him  if  he  had  a  true  heart  and  he 
told  her  he  had  always  been  true  to  himself,  his  fellow- 
man  and  to  his  God. 

"  Then  you  will  be  saved  when  the  hour  comes. 
They  only  go  down  with  us  who  are  untrue.  All  true 
hearts  have  to-morrows." 

The  storm  was  fast  approaching.  The  girl  got  up 
and  went  to  the  brow  of  the  hill  and  Lek  followed  her. 

"  Sit  you  here,"  she  said,  "  and  do  not  leave  the 
place  until  the  cocks  crow  for  morning.  A  true  heart 
never  perished  with  the  untrue.  My  duty  is  done. 
Farewell !  " 

The  bell  sounded  the  hour  of  eleven  and  the  people 
wrung  their  hands  and  cried  out  as  before. 

At  last  the  storm  swept  over  the  hills,  the  winds  bent 
the  trees,  but  not  a  drop  of  rain  fell.  All  was  still  for 
a  moment  and  that  mysterious  bell  pealed  the  midnight 
hour ;   then   came   a   thunder-crash    which   seemed   to 


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shake  the  hills.     Lek  crossed  himself  and  fell  on  his 
knees. 

The  cloud  soon  rolled  away,  the  moon  came  out 
again,  revealing  the  lovely  valley,  but  the  village  was 
gone. 

In  the  morning  at  sunrise  a  cow-herd  came  up  the 
hill.  He  and  the  student  talked  about  the  tempest. 
Then  Lek  asked  him  what  had  become  of  the  village 
that  was  in  the  valley  the  day  before. 

"  There  is  no  village  in  the  valley,"  said  the  cow- 
herd. "  There  never  was  but  one.  That  was  sunk 
hundreds  of  years  ago;  if  you  saw  any  village  there 
it  was  that ;  it  comes  up  only  once  in  a  hundred  years, 
yesterday  it  was  that ;  and  then  it  only  remains  for  a 
single  day.  Woe  betide  the  traveler  that  stops  there 
that  day.  Unless  he  have  a  true  heart,  he  goes  down 
with  the  town  at  midnight.  The  town  was  cursed  be- 
cause it  waxed  rich,  and  became  so  wicked  that  there 
was  found  in  it  only  one  true  heart." 

There  is  so  much  to  be  done,  so  many  to  be  kind  to, 
so  many  ugly  corners  in  ourselves  to  file  away,  no  end 
to  things  to  study,  no  limit  to  the  things  our  mind  can 
attain ;  and  such  a  short  time  to  do  it  in.  We  have  no 
to-morrows  here.  Haste  good  people,  we  have  only 
to-day  to  do  all  these  things. 

We  must  harry  and  get  our  hearts  true,  and  learn 
that  beautiful  faith  that  when  we  close  our  eyes  when 
the  city  goes  down,  not  a  fear  shakes  our  soul  when 
we  "  meet  our  Savior  face  to  face."  Get  your  heart  so 
true  that  it  is  a  pleasure  to  think  of  that  time,  and  not 
a  terror,  come  when  it  may.  Only  the  earthly  part  of 
us  cries  out  in  fear  and  wants  to  stay  here,  being 
afraid  to  go  through  the  veiled  beyond;  but  as  a  poet 
said,  our  .501;/  is  like  this — 

Son   of   Eternity,   fettered   in   Time,    and   an   exile, 

The  Spirit  tugs  at  his  chains  evermore,  and  struggles  like 
flames   ever  upward. 

Still  he  recalls  with  emotion  his  Father's  manifold  man- 
sions, 

Think  of  the  land  of  his  fathers,  where  blossomed  more 
freshly   the   flowers, 

Shone  a  more  beautiful  sun,  and  he  played  with  the 
winged    angels. 

Then  grows  the  earth  too  narrow,  too  close;  and  home- 
sick for  heaven 

Longs   the   wanderer   again. 

"  Hurry,  hurry  the  hour  is  near." 

The  city  is  going  down  some  night,  with  its  heavy 
burden  of  untrue  souls.  May  there  be  a  beautiful 
spirit  to  lead  your  true  soul  out  before  the  hour  of  mid- 
night. 

The  best  way  is  not  to  enter  the  city,  but  stay  on  the 
heights,  for  it  may  win  your  heart  to  untruth.  Oh ! 
get  your  heart  true  and  you  will  discover  as  Lek  did 
that— 

"  The  davs  of  evil  have  no  to-morrows, — no  not  once 


in  a  hundred  years.  Only  good  deeds  have  to-mor- 
rows. I  will  be  true:  so  shall  to-morrows  open  and 
eternal." 

Lccton.  Mo. 

•>    *5»    •> 

THE    PARABLE    OF    TOBACCO. 


SELECTED  BY  MABELLE  MURRAY. 

Thent  shall  the  kingdom  of  Satan  be  likened  unto 
a  grain  of  tobacco  seed,  which,  though  exceedingly 
small,  being  cast  into  the  ground,  grew  and  became  a 
great  plant,  and  spread  its  leaves  rank  and  broad,  so 
that  huge  and  vile  worms  made  their  habitation  there- 
upon. 

And  it  came  to  pass,  in  the  course  of  time,  that  the 
sons  of  men  beheld  it,  and  thought  it  beautiful  to  look 
upon  and  much  to  be  desired  to  make  lads  look  big 
and  manly.  So  they  put  forth  their  hands  and  did 
chew  thereof.  And  some  it  made  ill,  and  others  to 
vomit  most  filthily.  Yet  they  returned  to  their  chew- 
ing, and  it  grew  upon  them  so  that  they  became  weak 
and  unmanly,  and  said :  "  We  are  enslaved,  and  can't 
cease  from  chewing  it."  And  the  mouths  of  all  them 
that  were  enslaved  became  foul  and  were  seized  with 
a  violent  spitting,  and  they  did  spit  even  in  ladies'  par- 
lors and  in  the  house  of  the  Lord.  And  the  saints  of 
the  Most  High  were  greatly  plagued  thereby. 

And,  in  the  course  of  time,  it  came  also  to  pass  that 
others  snuffed  it  and  were  taken  suddenly  with  nasal 
spasms,  and  did  sneeze  with  mighty  sneezes,  insomuch 
that  their  eyes  were  filled  with  tears,  and  they  did 
look  exceedingly  silly. 

And  yet  others  cunningly  wrought  the  leaves  there- 
of into  rolls,  and  did  set  fire  to  one  end  thereof,  and 
suck  vehemently  at  the  other  end  thereof,  and  did  look 
very  grave  and  calf-like,  and  the  smoke  of  their  defile- 
ment ascended  up  forever  and  ever. 

And  the  cultivation  thereof  became  a  great  and 
mighty  business  in  the  earth,  and  the  mer- 
chant-men waxed  rich  by  the  commerce  thereof,  and 
it  came  to  pass,  that  even  the  ministers  of  grace  de- 
filed themselves  therewith,  and  the  poor,  who  could 
not  buy  books,  nor  bread,  nor  shoes  for  their  little 
ones,  spent  their  earnings  for  it. 

And  the  Lord  was  greatly  displeased  therewith  and 
said:  "Wherefore  this  waste?  Why  do  these  little 
ones  lack  bread  and  shoes  and  books?  Turn  now 
your  fields  into  corn  and  wheat,  and  put  this  evil  thing 
from  you,  and  be  temperate  ami  defile  not  yourselves 
any  more,  and  I  will  bless  you  and  cause  my  face  to 
shine  upon  you." 

But  they  all  exclaimed  with  one  accord.  "  We  can- 
not cease  from  chewing,  snuffing  and  puffing.  We 
are  slaves  to  the  weed." 

2522  Stevens  Avenue,  Parsons,  Kans. 


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THE  INGLENOOK.— September  6,  1904. 


HOW    WE    THINK. 


MISS    HELEN    KELLER    GRADUATES. 


BY  MARY  I.   SENSEMAN. 

We  have  a  primary  and  a  secondary  means  of  think- 
ing. The  primary  is  that  which  employs  words.  The 
words  may  be  disconnected  or  grouped  into  sentences. 
The  quality  of  primary  thinking  depends  upon  the  sec- 
ondary and  upon  education  in  general.  More  or  less 
mental  effort  is  required  to  think  with  words. 

Secondary  thinking  is  really  the  basis  of  thought:, 
the  actual  mental  power.  It  is  that  with  which  the 
individual  is  born,  although  it  is  apparently  subject  to 
change  under  the  influence  of  education.  Conscience, 
instinct,  will,  reason,  emotion,  talent,  and  tact  are 
properties  of  it. 

To  get  before  you  more  plainly  exactly  what  I  am 
driving  at,  notice  your  own  thinking  a  few  moments. 
You  are  going  to  do  one  of  two  things.  You  feel  that 
this  one  is  what  you  should  do.  Conscience  has  said 
so,  but  it  did  not  repeat  a  word  of  any  language  in  so 
doing.  You  make  yourself  do  that  thing,  although 
you  wish  to  do  the  other.  Will,  and  perhaps  reason, 
is  employed,  usually  without  the  repetition  of  a  word. 
Secondary  thinking  is  simply  the  thinking — the  feeling 
— we  do  without  words. 

I  said  it  is  only  apparently  influenced  by  education, 
while  primary  thinking  is  almost  wholly  so.  To  think 
in  words  we  must  know  words,  and  we  learn  them  in 
public  schools  and  in  general  experience.  To  be  happy, 
to  be  able  to  judge  between  right  and  wrong,  to  read 
the  partial  character  of  our  neighbors,  to  have  the 
ability  to  acquire  knowledge  and  to  put  it  into  effect, 
all  are  what  one's  nature  is.  And  wordless  thinking 
is  natural  thinking.  Education  develops  our  latent 
characteristics.  It  generates  new  words,  so  that  we 
are  better  fitted  to  put  the  characteristics  to  use  by 
verbal  communication. 

To  illustrate  that  education  only  apparently  affects 
a  person's  nature :  One  boy  may  be  graduated  from  a 
university  with  a  knowledge  of  five  times  the  number 
of  words  of  the  English  language  that  he  had  before 
he  entered  school.  He  tries  business  and  fails ;  a  pro- 
fession and  fails ;  mechanics,  and  fails ;  rag-peddling, 
and  succeeds.  He  is  a  "  born  "  rag-man,  and  all  his 
education  could  not  broaden  his  secondary  thinking 
beyond  its  natural  capacity. 

Our  conduct  is  determined  by  the  degree  of  develop- 
ment education  has  brought  about. 

In  all  this  we  find  that  we  think  without  words.  Do 
not  dumb  animals  do  exactly  the  same  ?  The  difference 
is  that  a  horse  can  not  look  at  a  man  and  say,  "  You 
are  mean ;  "  but  he  can  give  him  a  vicious  kick  in  the 
ribs,  which  is  just  as  expressive  of  the  horse's 
thoughts. 

Rural  Route  No.  3,  Covington,  Ohio. 


Helen  Keller,  the  gifted  blind  and  deaf  girl,  grad- 
uated from  Radcliffe  college  at  Cambridge,  crowning 
the  labors  of  her  teacher,  companion,  and  friend,  Miss 
Annie  M.  Sullivan. 

The  remarkable  career  of  this  girl  in  the  pursuit  of 
education  alone  has  been  sufficient  to  attract  the  at- 
tention of  the  world,  but  beyond  this  she  has  written 
two  books,  has  had  an  institution  for  teaching  the 
blind  in  London  named  for  her,  and  has  won  the 
friendship  of  such  men  as  Bishop  Brooks,  Alexander 
Graham  Bell,  Joseph  Jefferson,  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes  and  Mark  Twain.  Indeed  the  latter,  in  his 
warm-hearted  enthusiasm,  has  declared  that  the  two 
most  interesting  characters  of  the  nineteenth  century 
are  Napoleon  and  Helen  Keller. 

When  Miss  Keller  appeared  with  the  members  of 
her  class  to  receive  her  degree  there  was  nothing  about 
her  outwardly  to  distinguish  her  from  other  girls.  She 
is  tall,  of  good  figure,  erect  carriage,  and  has  a  re- 
markably fine  complexion.  Her  hair  is  brown,  there 
is  only  a  slight  defect  in  her  sightless  eyes,  and  her 
hands,  those  wonderful  hands  that  help  her  to  see  and 
hear  so  much,  are  large  and  well-shaped. 

This  extraordinary  girl  was  born  in  Tuscumbia. 
Ala.,  on  June  27,  1880.  Up  to  the  time  she  was  eigh- 
teen months  old  she  displayed  no  unusual  precocity, 
for  the  stories  she  remembers  hearing  of  her  infancy 
are  only  such  as  may  have  been  said  of  the  first  knowl- 
edge in  her  book,  "  The  Story  of  My  Life."  When 
she  reached  that  age,  however,  she  was  stricken  with 
a  severe  illness.  "  They  called  it  acute  congestion  of 
the  stomach  and  brain,"  she  writes.  But  when  this 
attack  had  passed  it  left  her  deaf  and  sightless, 
with  only  infantile  memories  of  "  glimpses  of  broad, 
green  fields,  a  luminous  sky,  trees  and  flowers,  which 
the  darkness  that  followed  could  not  blot  out."  To 
all  intents  and  purposes  she  knew  as  little  as  the  day 
she  was  born. 

From  that  time  until  she  was  nearly  seven  years  old 
she  was  a  passionate  child,  striving  to  learn  some- 
thing of  the  mysteries  of  life  as  best  she  could  in  her 
terribly  limited  way.  In  her  autobiography  she  has 
been  perfectly  frank  in  settling  down  stories  showing 
her  outbursts  of  passion,  and  tells  of  how  she  first  dis- 
covered the  use  of  a  key  by  locking  her  mother  in  a 
pantry  and  the  glee  she  experienced  at  her  mother's 
efforts  to  break  out  of  the  closet. 

It  was  through  a  visit  of  a  famous  oculist  in  Balti- 
more that  Mr.  Keller,  who  had  hoped  the  doctor  could 
help  restore  his  little  daughter's  sight,  first  was  put 
upon  the  track  that  Helen  has  since  followed  so  suc- 
cessfully. The  oculist  advised  Mr.  Keller  to  consult 
Dr.  Alexander  Graham  Bell,  of  Washington,  who 
could  give  him  some  information  as  to  schools  for  the 


THE  INGLENOOK.— September  6,  1904. 


851 


deaf  and  blind.  Dr.  Bell  suggested  writing  to  Mr. 
Anagnos,  director  of  the  Perkins  institution  of  Bos- 
ton, the  scene  of  Dr.  Howe's  labors  with  the  blind. 
This  was  in  the  summer  of  1886.  In  March  of  the 
following  year  Miss  Anne  Mansfield  Sullivan  went  to 
begin  her  work  of  teaching  the  little  blind  and  deaf 
girl  in  Alabama.  Through  her,  Miss  Keller  writes, 
"  I  came  up  out  of  Egypt  and  stood  before  Sinai,  and 
a  power  divine  touched  my  spirit  and  gave  it  sight  so 
that  I  beheld  many  wonders,"  a  phrase  that  shows  she 
knows  her  Bible. 

The  story  of  Miss  Sullivan's  work  has  been  told 
many  times,  but  never  with  such  heartfelt  appreciation 
as  in  her  pupil's  own  words. 

"  Have  you  ever  been  at  sea  in  a  dense  fog,"  she 
w'rites,  "  when  it  seemed  as  if  a  tangible  white  dark- 
ness shut  you  in,  and  the  great  ship,  tense  and  anxious, 
groped  its  way  toward  the  shore  with  plummet  and 
sounding  line,  and  you  waited  with  beating  heart  for 
something  to  happen  ?  I  was  like  that  ship  before  my 
education  began,  only  I  was  without  compass  or 
sounding  line,  and  had  no  way  of  knowing  how  near 
the  harbor  was.  '  Light !  Give  me  light !  '  was  the 
wordless  cry  of  my  soul,  and  the  light  of  love  shone  on 
me  in  that  hour." 

It  was  some  time  before  Miss  Sullivan  succeeded 
in  making  her  young  pupil  realize  the  connection  be- 
tween the  words  spelled  with  her  fingers  and  the  actual 
meaning  of  the  words,  the  first  real  glimmer  of  un- 
derstanding coming  one  day  at  the  pump  in  the  yard, 
when  Helen  realized  that  "  w-a-t-e-r  "  spelled  slowly 
meant  the  cool  flood  that  poured  out  of  the  spout.  But 
her  progress  was  so  rapid  that  in  October  of  the  same 
year,  the  director  of  the  Perkins  institute  said  the  ad- 
vancement had  been  "  a  triumphal  march  from  the  be- 
ginning." 

In  1884  she  went  to  New  York  to  study  in  a  school 
for  the  deaf.  Although  never  fond  of  city  life,  she  was 
happy  there,  particularly  when  she  was  allowed  to 
walk  in  Central  park,  and  two  years  later  she  began 
her  Cambridge  career  by  entering  a  school  to  be  pre- 
pared for  Radcliffe.  Through  all  these  years  of  toil 
at  Cambridge  Miss  Sullivan  attended  all  the  classes 
with  the  blind  girl,  spelling  into  her  hand  "  with  in- 
finite patience  all  that  the  teachers  said." 

■  Helen  took  the  preliminary  examination  for  Rad- 
cliffe in  June,  1897,  anc'  passed  in  everything,  receiv- 
ing "  honors  "  in  German  and  English. 

Miss  Keller's  progress  at  this  school  was  partially 
interrupted  by  a  difference  of  opinion  between  her  in- 
structors and  Miss  Sullivan  over  the  state  of  her 
health,  the  instructors  declaring  she  was  working  too 
hard  and  should  take  five  years  for  the  course  instead 
of  the  four  allotted.  Miss  Sullivan  won  her  point,  but 
Miss  Keller  withdrew  from  the  school  and  studied  un- 
der a  tutor. 


When  Helen  took  her  final  examination  for  Rad- 
cliffe in  June,  1899,  an  unexpected  difficulty  arose, 
which  she  overcame  in  a  way  that  was  a  veritable  tour 
de  force.  Miss  Sullivan  was  not  permitted  to  read  the 
questions  to  her,  but  an  instructor  in  the  Perkins  in- 
stitute, who  was  a  stranger  to  her,  was  selected  for  the 
task.  This  man  copied  the  papers  for  her  according  to 
the  American  system  of  writing  for  the  blind.  Miss 
Keller  could  get  along  well  with  this  in  the  languages, 
but  when  it  came  to  geometry  and  algebra  troublearose, 
for  the  student  only  knew  the  English  signs  and  sym- 
bols for  these  studies.  By  sheer  will  power  she  figured 
them  out  successfully. 

One  of  the  most  extraordinary  things  about  the  de- 
velopment of  this  wonderful  nature  is  the  manner  in 
which  MisS  Keller  can  "  see  "  with  her  hands.  She 
has  been  a  frequent  visitor  at  the  Boston  museum,  and 
to  enable  her  to  "  see  "  the  statues  a  ladder  is  placed 
in  front  of  each  sculpture,  and.  after  climbing  up  on 
it,  she  runs  her  hands  over  the  head  and  then  the  face 
and  arms.  Some  of  her^  comments  show  clearly  how 
she  grasps  the  meaning  of  the  marbles  as  quickly  as 
if  she  had  ordinary  vision.  Of  Apollo,  she  said  it  was 
"  grand  beyond  description ;  "  of  another  god  she  re- 
marked, "  He  has  an  exalted  look,"  and  of  Medusa, 
"  Her  expression  is  painful." 

Upon  being  led  to  the  bas-relief  of  some  dancing 
girls,  she  asked,  "  Where  are  the  choristers?  "  and  of 
another  representing  five  singers  she  exclaimed,  "  One 
is  silent!  "  when  her  fingers  touched  the  closed  lips  of 
one  of  the  group.  That  she  has  a  strong  sense  of 
humor  is  shown  by  her  comment  on  Euripides :  "  He 
is  not  so  handsome  as  Pericles." 

For  several  years  she  has  spent  the  summer  months 
at  Wrentham,  Mass.,  always  with  the  faithful  Miss 
Sullivan,  her  family,  and  her  favorite  dog,  a  bull  ter- 
rier.— Chicago  Tribune. 

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SAW    AN    OKAPI. 


Major  James  Harbison  has  just  returned  to  Eng- 
land after  a  prolonged  journey  through  the  dense 
forests  of  Central  Africa,  during  the  course  of  which 
he  saw  the  okapi  in  its  natural  habitat.  This  is  a  par- 
ticularly dense  forest,  the  trees  being  thickly  inter- 
woven with  creepers  and  tangled  undergrowth.  On 
the  sixth  day  his  party  encountered  the  spoor  of  the 
okapi.  This  was  followed  for  several  hours,  when 
suddenly  the  party  came  upon  the  animal  fifteen  feet 
in  front  of  them.  Before  the  major  could  obtain 
his  rifle  from  one  of  the  natives  accompanying  him  the 
okapi  had  escaped  in  the  thick  undergrowth.  It  stood 
between  ten  and  eleven  feet  in  height,  was  of  a  general 
tawny  color  about  its  body  and  was  striped  over  the 
loins.  The  natives  say  that  Major  Harrison  is  the 
first  white  man  who  has  seen  the  animal  in  its  native 
wilds. 


THE  INGLENOOK.— September  6,  1904. 


LIGNON. 


BY  A.  W.  VANIMAN. 

Lignon  is  a  small  red  berry  that  somewhat  resem- 
bles the  cranberry  of  America.     It  is  smaller  in  size 
than  the  cranberry  but  resembles  it  in  color  and  taste. 
It  is  a  fruit  that  is  a  source  of  immense  income  to  the 
poor   pine   wood   dwellers    of    Sweden.      I    have   not 
heard  of  it  growing  any  other  place  except  Sweden. 
It  grows  principally  in  a  poor  quality  of  soil,  among 
the  rocks  and  pine  trees.     It- grows  on  small  stalks 
only  a  few  inches  high.    They  begin  to  ripen  soon  aft- 
er the  first  of  August  and  are  found  in  the  market  un- 
til in  October.     No  other  fruit  is  so  plentiful  nor  so 
much  used  in  Sweden  as  lignon.     It  is  really  wonder- 
ful to  see  the  immense  traffic  that  is  carried  on  with 
this  little  berry.     It  requires  no  cultivation,  growing 
wild  in  the  woods,  where  the  stalks  in  many  places 
literally  cover  the  ground.     The  plants  are  thornless, 
and  the  berries  are  not  difficult  to  gather.    Whole  train 
loads  are  shipped  to  Germany  when  the  prices  are  not 
too  high.     The  price  ranges  from  ten  to  twenty-five 
ore  per  litre.     (Three  to  eight  cents.)     A  litre  being  a 
little  more  than  a  quart.    Last  year,  1903,  was  especial- 
ly fruitful  for  lignon,  and  thousands  of  dollars'  worth 
of  the  fruit  wasted  for  want  of  market  and  persons  to 
care  for  it.     The  market  became  so  glutted  that  the 
pickers   could   in  many   cases  find  no   sale   for  their 
picking.     This  year  some  enterprising  persons  are  ar- 
ranging to  buy  up  the  fruit  in  case  of  a  glut  and  hold 
it  for  a  later  market.     They  will  arrange  to  preserve 
it  in  some  way  so  that  it  can  be  marketed  later.     One 
of  the  good  qualities  of  this  fruit  is  that  it  is  so  easily 
kept.    It  can  be  placed  in  bottles,  without  cooking  and 
by  simply  filling  up  the  bottles  with  water  and  cork- 
ing, it  will  keep  for  a  long  time.     I  have  eaten  such 
fruit  so  preserved  that  had  been  kept  two  years,  and  I 
do  not  know  how  much  longer  it  would  keep.    Almost 
every  family  must  have  some  for  "  sylt,"  as  it  is  called. 
It  is  what  we  call  preserves,  although  there  may  not 
be  much  sugar  with  it.     It  is  served  with  meat.    The 
American  custom  of  eating  preserves  on  bread  is  prac- 
tically  unknown   in    Sweden.     But   to   eat  preserved 
fruit  with  meat  is  a  general  custom.     The  fruit  grow- 
ing as  it  does,  upon  the  very  poorest  kind  of  soil,  where 
people  have  a  hard  time  of  making  a  living  out  of 
mother  earth,  is  only  another  illustration  if  how  the 
Creator  has  planned  a  means  of  support  for  man  which 
is  not  found  where  the  land  is  better  adapted  to  farm- 
ing purposes. 
Malmo,  Sweden. 

*  *  * 

THE   NEW   INDIAN. 


When    Senator  Dawes,   nearly  twenty  years   ago, 
carried  through  Congress  a  law  securing  for  the  In- 


dian a  home  which  he  could  possess  and  improve  ex- 
clusively in  his  own  right,  he  foresaw  all  too  clearly 
the  perils  to  which  a  red  man  would  be  exposed  as  soon 
as  the  whites  around  him  realized  that  he  had  some- 
thing more  of  which  he  could  be  stripped. 

Hence  there  was  inserted  in  the  act  a  provision  that 
the  laud  allotted  to  an  Indian  should  be  inalienable  for 
twenty-five  years,  and  free  of  taxes  during  the  same 
period. 

But  the  white  frontiersman  was  not  frightened  by 
that. 

There  was  no  law  to  prevent  an  Indian's  leasing  his 
allotment  to  a  white  man;  and  the  exemption  of  his 
acres  from  taxation  did  not  involve  the  exemption  of 
the  personal  property  which  the  Indian  might  acquire 
in  making  his  acres  habitable. 

So  in  due  course  the  bulk  of  the  Indian  allotments, 
and  no  small  share  of  what  they  produced,  found  their 
way  by  one  device  or  another  into  the  control  of  the 
white  man. 

In  order  to  prevent  the  complete  denudation  of  the 
Indian,  the  Government  insisted  upon  the  approval  of 
every  lease  by  the  authorities  at  Washington,  and  of 
late  has  even  designated  sundry  district  attorneys  to 
appear  for  Indians  who  are  unrighteously  taxed. 

Again  the  frontiersman  proves  equal  to  the  emer- 
gency. 

He  taunts  the  Indian  with  letting  the  Government 
treat  him  like  a  child,  and  tells  him  that  he  ought  to 
assert  his  manhood,  shake  himself  free  of  such  lead- 
ing strings,  and  strike  out  for  himself. 

A  red  man  who  has  acquired  the  dangerous  little  of 
learning,  who  can  speak  broken  English  and  write  his 
own  name,  falls  a  ready  victim  to  that  sort  of  flattery. 
The  result  has  been  the  rise  of  the  "  new  Indian,"  who 
insists  that  he  has  a  right  to  lease  his  lands  to  whom 
and  at  what  rental  he  pleases,  independent  of  any  out- 
side interference,  and  who  retains  private  counsel  at 
fat  fees  to  do  for  him  in  the  courts  what  the  Govern- 
ment's lawyer  is  willing  to  do  without  compensation. 
With  the  invasion  of  his  landholdings  by  railroads,  the 
Indian  finds  a  further  reason  for  insisting  upon  his 
independence. 

The  Government,  anxious  to  protect  him,  employs 
agents  to  assess  the  value  of  so  much  of  his  land  as  a 
road  takes  for  his  right  of  way,  and  to  fight  for  a 
proper  compensation;  but  the  frontiersman  whispers 
in  his  ear: 

"  These  Government  fellows  are  all  in  collusion  with 
the  railroads.  They  accept  a  small  price  for  you, 
when,  if  you  did  business  for  yourself  like  a  white 
man,  you  could  get  a  big  price  just  as  well." 

So,  step  by  step,  the  new  Indian  has  been  egged  on 
to  strike  for  his  emancipation. 

The  Government  still  holds  fast  to  the  principal  of 
the  funds  on  deposit  in  the  Treasury  for  the  account 


THE  INGLENOOK.— September  6,  1904. 


853 


of  the  several  tribes,  paying  the  tribesmen  only  the  in- 
terest. The  new  Indian  now  wishes  the  Government 
to  do  with  the  money  on  deposit  what  it  has  done  with 
the  land  in  many  of  the  reservations — divide  it  up,  and 
give  each  individual  his  share. 

His  dream  is  of  the  time  when  every  red  man  can 
wave  a  last  farewell  to  his  Federal  guardian  and  live 
his  own  life  as  the  white  man  does. 

Let  it  be  noted  that  all  Indians  are  not  new  Indians. 

There  is  still  a  large  remnant  of  the  race  who  believe 
generally  in  the  beneficence  of  the  Great  Father  and 
his  Council  at  Washington,  and  refuse  to  be  drawn 
into  any  scheme  looking  toward  separation. 

They  frankly  say  that  they  cannot  cope  with  the 
white  man  in  doing  business  in  the  white  man's  way. 

Hitherto,  all  Indians  have  been  grouped  together 
in  the  laws.  The  Dawes  act,  for  example,  authorizes 
the  President,  in  his  discretion,  to  allot  the  land  of  any 
tribe  in  severalty,  not  to  those  members  of  the  tribe 
who  wish  allotments,  but  to  all  alike. 

No  recognition  of  the  individual  traits,  wishes,  in- 
terests, or  advancement  of  any  Indian  appears  in  the 
act  except  in  prescribing  the  privileges  of  one  who  has 
cut  loose  from  his  tribal  entanglements  and  taken  up 
land  like  an  ordinary  homesteader. 

The  opening  of  the  Indian  Territory,  where  all  the 
most  powerful  elements  of  the  population  belong  to  the 
■  educated  "  class,  has  been  seized  upon  by  the  advo- 
cates of  individualism  as  the  opportune  time'  for  mak- 
ing a  change  in  the  practice  of  generations. 

The  latest  Indian  budget  bill  authorized  the  removal 
of  all  restrictions  upon  the  alienation  of  their  lands 
jby  any  of  the  members  of  the  Five  Civilized  Tribes 
who  desired  it,  and  who  could  satisfy  the  Secretary  of 
the  Interior  of  their  ability  to  care  for  their  own 
affairs. 

This  is  but  the  entering  wedge. 

From  now  on  we  may  expect,  at  frequent  intervals, 
the  release  of  one  tribe  after  another  from  its  un- 
qualified tutelage. 

The  Secretary  of  the  Interior  has  laid  down  a  code 
of  rules  for  judging  of  the  fitness  of  an  Indian  apply- 
ing for  emancipation. 

The  present  Secretary  is  paternal  and  conservative 
in  spirit ;  his  successor  may  be  an  easy-going 
man  or  a  radical.  The  regulations  prescribed  by  one 
Secretary  are  amendable  at  will  by  another,  and  the 
trend  of  events  is  toward  the  extinction  of  differences 
of  status  between  the  two  races. 

What  else  is  to  be  looked  for,  then,  than  the  gradual 
merger  of  the  guarded  Indian  system  of  landholding 
into  the  free  tenure  of  the  white  man  ? 

The  generation  of  Indians  now  passing  away  re- 
mains distrustful  of  its  powers,  while  the  one  coming 
on  is,  as  a  rule,  either  indifferent  or  independent. 

At  the  instigation  of  their  white  neighbors,  and  able 


to  make  a  brave  show  of  their  smattering  from  the 
schools,  they  will  soon  be  rid  of  all  obstacles  to  the 
disposal  of  their  land  as  thev  choose. 

Does  any  one  suppose  that  the  money  .in  the  treas- 
ury will  be  long  in  following  the  land? 

It  will  not  do  to  say  that  the  great  change  which 
is  impending  will  be  wholly  bad  for  the  Indian. 

A  percentage  of  the  race  will  survive  the  upheaval 
the  rest  bring  on ;  and  they  will  be  a  contingent  worth 
saving. 

Perhaps,  as  to  those  who  fall  bv  the  wavside,  it  may 
be  consoling  to  reflect  that  to  have  retained  them  long- 
er under  the  pauperizing  influences  of  the  svstem  on 
which  they  have  been  reared,  would  have  been  merelv 
to  postpone  the  evil  day,  not  to  avert  it. — The  Xation. 

A   NEW    PROCESS. 


The  new  method  for  the  administering  of  anaesthet- 
ics invented  by  Dr.  James  Taylor  Gwathmey,  of  New 
York,  will,  it  is  believed,  probably  revolutionize  this 
branch  of  surgical  practice.  The  new  method  has  been 
thoroughly  tested,  and  exhaustive  experiments  have 
proved  its  entire  success. 

The  new  invention  includes  a  process  for  procuring 
an  exact  two  per  cent  chloroform  and  98  per  cent  oxy- 
gen combination.  Experiments  have  been  made  on 
cats  with  this  mixture.  The  cats  were  pronounced 
dead  after  a  prolonged  application,  but  came  back  to 
life  under  treatment.  The  animals  then  sustained  half 
an  hour's  unconsciousness  from  the  chloroform  and 
oxygen  before  death  finally  came. 

Dr.  Gwathmey  began  his  experiments  six  vears  ago. 
He  was  led  to  the  final  solution  of  the  problem  through 
the  works  of  Sir  Frederic  Hewitt,  one  of  King  Ed- 
ward's physicians,  to  whom  a  German  physician  had 
suggested  the  chloroform  and  oxygen  idea.  The  Ger- 
man doctor's  experiments  had  not  been  successful, 
chiefly  because  of  the  inability  to  procure  the  proper 
combination.  Dr.  Gwathmey  invented  an  apparatus 
for  securing  an  exact  combination.  The  instrument 
consists  of  a  singe  glass  tube,  into  which  the  chloro- 
form is  poured.  By  means  of  a  simple  mechanism, 
as  much  of  the  drug  is  allowed  to  mix  with  oxvgen 
drawn  to  the  tube  from  a  siphon,  through  a  rubber 
pipe,  as  the  operator  wishes,  and  it  is  then  sent  through 
another  tube  to  the  muzzle  over  the  patient's  face. 

Ether  and  air  arc  recognized  all  over  the  world,  savs 
Or.  Gwathmey.  as  the  safest  means  known  for  an- 
aesthetizing. Dr.  Gwathmey  found  that  ether  and  air 
killed  a  cat  in  eighteen  minutes,  chloroform  and  air  in 
six  minutes,  chloroform,  ether  and  air  in  twenty-two 
minutes,  and  chloroform,  ether  and  oxygen  in  fortv- 
nine  minutes.  The  last  mixture  is  not  so  safe,  how- 
ever, as  chloroform  and  oxvsfen. — Selected. 


854 


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What  right  have  the  people  of  to-day  clamoring  and 
shouting  about  hard  times?  It  has  become  an  epi- 
demic; it  is  just  like  any  other  contagious  disease  that 
pervades  our  land ;  when  some  one  suggests  it  to  us  we 
begin  to  look  on  that  side  of  the  question  which  seems 
apparently  true.  We  become  so  accustomed  to  take 
up  with  what  is  going  the  rounds  that  we  do  it  as  a 
sort  of  second  nature,  and  unconscious  that  it  is  more 
or  less  detrimental  to  us,  since  everybody  is  made,  more 
or  less,  over  the  same  pattern  and  we  all  begin  to  cry 
"  hard  times." 

Indeed  we  are  so  accustomed  to  the  prevailing  senti- 
ment that  we  will  sing  hard  times  while  we  are  eating 
beefsteak  at  twenty-five  cents  per  pound,  accompanied 
with  three  kinds  of  bread  served  on  the  best  of  china ; 
eat  scalloped  oysters  which  cost  fifteen  cents  per  dozen. 
We  stretch  our  feet  out  upon  Brussels  carpet  or  lazily 
throw  ourselves  into  a  four  dollar  hammock  swung 
over  a  well-kept  lawn,  in  the  shade  of  a  costly  shade 
tree,  around  all  of  which  is  a  beautiful  border  of  flower 
beds.  When  we  get  tired  of  this  kind  of  leisure,  we 
retire  into  our  costly  libraries,  lighted  by  electricity, 
filled  with  morning  and  evening  papers  and  several  of 
the  latest  magazines ;  and  yet  every  line  we  read  seems 
to  take  on  the  aspect  of  "  hard  times."  The  editor  is 
so  saturated  with  his  environments  that  he  really  gets 
his  magazines  and  papers  full  of  hard  times.  While 
reading  we  are  interrupted  with  the  telephone  call  and 
some  neighbor  wants  to  talk  to  us  about  hard  times. 

After  entirely  fatiguing  our  brain  with  hard  times 
in  the  paper  and  from  the  'phone,  a  neighbor  steps  in 
and  intensifies  our  feeling  until  bedtime.     Before  re- 


tiring we  throw  ourselves  into  a  forty-dollar  bathtub 
and  next  into  a  twenty-five  dollar  bed  and  sleep  away 
our  troubles.  In  the  morning  we  rise  to  take  an  auto- 
mobile ride  in  the  cool,  fresh  air,  and  as  we  pass 
through  the  busy  streets  and  out  into  the  country  lanes, 
where  we  get  the  fragrance  of  the  blossoming  clover, 
it  is  a  hard  matter  for  us  to  think  of  hard  times,  but 
we  are  so  used  to  it  that  in  spite  of  ourselves  we  use  it 
as  a  subject  of  conversation. 

Some  time  during  the  week  wife  takes  an  electric 
car  and  runs  into  New  York,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Phil- 
adelphia, or  whatever  the  great  center  may  be.  to  do 
shopping.  Hard  times  is  the  theme  during  shopping 
hours,  calling  hours  and  business  hours  everywhere. 

It  is  quite  customary  to  take  long  summer  vacations, 
Sunday  excursions,  European  tours,  and  yet  this  does 
not  affect  the  spirit  of  our  song.  No,  we  cry  hard 
times  in  the  church,  in  society,  in  the  state,  in  the  home, 
and  yet  not  one  out  of  a  thousand  of  us  knows  anything 
about  hard  times.  If  we  only  knew  some  of  the  real 
facts  that  existed,  that  there  are  people  to-day,  just 
such  people  as  we  are  from  the  standpoint  of  creation, 
who  are  living  in  miserable  little  huts,  not  ten  feet 
square,  with  no  ventilation,  no  light,  nothing  but  filth 
and  hunger,  penury,  ignorance,  heathenism  and  idol- 
otry ;  if  we  could  see  a  family  of  five  or  six  sit  down 
to  a  repast  of  one  egg  for  the  entire  family,  nothing 
more,  and  try  to  satisfy  their  hunger  between  meals 
on  a  few  pumpkin  seeds,  we  could  begin  to  under- 
stand something  about  "  hard  times."  If  we  had  not 
enough  clothing  to  cover  our  nakedness,  and  had  to 
resort  to  a  warmer  climate  in  order  to  live,  hard  times 
would  begin  to  show  itself  in  a  true  light ;  and  yet  just 
exactly  such  conditions  as  these  exist,  and  they  are  not 
overdrawn. 

There  are  plenty  of  people  in  the  world  to-day 
young  women  of  twenty  years,  nice,  bright,  intelligent 
young  women,  working  for  twenty-four  dollars  a  year. 
Young  men  of  fourteen  and  fifteen  years  work  for 
eight  dollars  a  year.  If  we,  who  are  living  in  such 
luxury,  could  walk  thirteen  or  fourteen  miles  oves 
mountains,  pull  off  our  shoes  and  wade  the  moun 
tain  streamlets  and  thus  wend  our  way  to  the  sanctu 
arv  of  the  Lord  on  the  Sabbath  day,  we  probably 
would  enjoy  our  religion  better  than  we  do.  If  we 
could  raise  our  corn  meal  with  our  own  hoe,  and  our 
bacon  with  the  product  of  our  own  double  shovel  plow, 
we  would  probably  relish  it  better  than  we  do  th^ 
fine  pastries  and  culinary  delicacies  that  we  have  to- 
day made  by  the  hand  of  another. 

No,  the  trouble  is  the  world  is  moving  so  fast  thai 
we  are  in  a  constant  swirl  which  renders  us  half  dizzy, 
and  we  are  hardly  conscious  of  what  is  going  on.  We 
are  crying  "  hard  times  "  simply  out  of  a  mechanical 
routine  or  repetition. 

It  has  not  been  long  in  this  country  since  our  girls 


THE  INGLENOOK.— September  6,  1904. 


dressed  in  calico  and  our  boys  in  woolsey.  Our  win- 
dow glasses  were  6x8,  and  greased  paper  at  that ; 
bare  floors  were  a  common  thing ;  rag  carpets  oc- 
casionally, ingrain  scarce,  and  Brussels  a  tradition. 
Our  outings  were  half  days  along  the  creek  fishing; 
our  Thanksgiving  dinner  at  Uncle  John's,  and  our 
evenings  were  spent  in  rag  sewings,  apple  cuttings 
and  corn  huskings.  Our  Carnegie  libraries,  high 
schools,  academies  and  colleges  were  8x10  log  houses, 
with  a  big  fireplace  and  a  few  chinks. 

It  is  wonderful  how  little  we  appreciate  the  blessings 
that  have  come  to  us  through  progress.  If  the  wheels 
of  time  could  make  one  revolution  backwards  and  take 
us  all  back  to  our  boyhood  days,  and  then  in  a  night's 
time  bring  us  back  to  the  present,  perhaps  this  sarcas- 
tic, peevish,  whining  and  growling  about  "  hard 
times  "  would  be  lessened. 

*   *  * 
VERY    DIFFICULT. 


thing  is  to  QUIT  IT.    The  only  way  to  be  anybody  is 
to  BE  somebody,  and  be  it  RIGHT  AWAY. 

*   *  -> 
DON'T,    GIRLS. 


A  congregation  of  colored  people  once  appointed 
a  committee  to  draft  resolutions  for  the  construction 
of  a  new  church  building.  The  committee  reported 
to  the  congregation  as  follows : 

Resolved,  first,  that  we  build  a  new  churchhouse. 
Second,  that  we  use  the  material  in  the  old  one  for 
which  to  build  the  new.  Third,  that  we  leave  the  old 
one  stand,  for  use,  until  the  new  one  is  built. 

Now  it  is  evident  to  the  ordinary  thinker  that  this 
is  a  very  difficult  problem,  as  the  committee  found  be- 
fore they  finished  their  task. 

But  this  is  the  very  same  plan,  only  in  different 
words,  that  many  men  are  pursuing  in  this  life.  For 
instance :  many  people  start  out  to  lead  a  Christian  life, 
by  first  deciding  that  they  are  going  to  be  Christians. 
Second,  by  making  a  new  man  out  of  the  old  man  that 
he  had  been  all  the  time,  and  third,  that  he  is  going  to 
keep  the  same  associates,  read  the  same  books,  present 
the  same  character  that  he  has  heretofore,  until  he  is 
overcome  by  that  strange,  mysterious  feeling  that  he 
expects  to  overtake  him,  which  is  termed  "  conversion." 

Then  there  is  another  as  badly  mistaken  as  himself, 
who  is  addicted  to  the  drink  habit ;  he  has  resolved  to 
quit,  and  he  has  resolved  to  do  it  by  tapering  off.  He 
does  not  see  the  fallacy  of  his  argument.  Why  does 
not  a  murderer  say  he  will  quit  killing  people  on  the 
same  plan?  If  he  killed  ten  last  year,  why  not  say  he 
will  only  kill  nine  this  year,  and  eight  next  year.  etc.  ? 

Now,  sincerely,  do  you  deem  this  a  good  policy  to 
pursue?  Suppose  a  liar  who  told  eight  lies  last  year 
would  only  tell  five  this  year,  would  that  be  the  straight 
thing?  The  man  who  stole  fifty  thousand  last  year 
would  only  steal  forty  thousand  this  year ;  would  he 
be  on  the  road  to  quitting?  You  see  the  same  old 
church-building  proposition  remains.  The  only  way 
to  do  a  thing  is  to  DO  IT.     The  only  way  to  quit  a 


In  these  days  of  romance  and  fiction,  girls,  it  is 
no  uncommon  thing  for  a  young  lady  to  let  her  heart 
run  away  with  her  head.  She  thinks  she  loves  a 
young  man,  and  she  doesn't  know  why.  It  is  im- 
possible for  her  to  see  anything  but  the  bright  side 
of  things.  He  is  manly,  portly,  good-looking  and  de- 
voted to  her.  What  more  does  she  want  ?  Of  course 
she  is  not  able  to  know  all  the  qualities  that  go  to 
make  up  manliness.  She  forgets  that  good  looks 
don't  last  always  and  that  his  devotion  depends  large- 
ly on  her  ability  to  hold  it. 

Now  this  dilemma  is  worse  than  it  looks  to  be  up- 
on first  notice.  It  is  more  serious  than  one  conjec- 
tures. The  way  out  of  it  is  for  her  to  bring  brains 
as  well  as  heart  to  bear  upon  the  subject.  Whv 
doesn't  she  ask  herself  this  question  (it  would  do  no 
good  for  anyone  else  to  ask  it).  "If  this  man  grows 
poor  or  old  or  ugly,  will  I  love  him  just  as  well  then 
as  now?  Should  it  be  that  fortune  favors  him  and 
he  is  successful  in  whatever  line  he  undertakes,  will 
I  still  love  him  enough  to  stand  by  him  through  good 
as  well  as  ill  report?"  This  domestic  love  rests  on 
the  basis  of  mutual  respect.  If  kept  it  brings  peace 
and  happiness ;  if  lost,  it  brings  disgrace,  woe  and  mis- 
er}-. Beauty  and  love  songs  will  not  keep  the  do- 
mestic machinery  running  smoothly.  Men  want  love, 
but  they  also  want  solid  comfort.  Kisses  are  good, 
but  they  won't  make  up  for  bad  coffee  and  biscuits. 
It  is  a  rule  that  works  both  ways. 

A  man  cannot  neglect  his  wife  for  weeks  and  ex- 
pect to  smooth  things  over  by  caressing  her  and  tell- 
ing her  how  much  he  loves  her.  Xow.  girls,  be 
thoughtful  and  sensible.     Don't  be  foolish. 

♦  *  * 

A     RARE     TREAT. 


The  readers  of  the  Inglenook  will  consider  it  a 
rare  treat  when  they  know  that  Eld.  D.  L.  Miller  has 
promised  to  furnish  our  readers  with  articles  from  his 
pen  while  in  Europe,  Asia,  Africa,  and  Australia ;  and 
it  wili  be  of  special  interest  to  know  that  after  he 
crosses  the  equator  and  perhaps  before,  he  will  illus- 
trate his  articles  by  the  use  of  his  splendid  camera 
which  he  takes  with  him. 

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will  send  them  a  sample  copy  of  the  [NGLENOOK  and 
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THE  INGLENOOK.— September  6,  1904. 


CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


Editors  Derr  and  O'Brien,  of  Manila,  now  realize 
the  impropriety  of  running  a  paper  called  "  Freedom  " 
in  Luzon. 

&     4&     4> 

The  post  office  department  has  not  been  self-sustain- 
ing since  1884.  It  has  shown  a  yearly  deficit  ranging 
from  three  millions  to  eleven  and  a  half  millions.  To- 
tal expenditures  have  increased  from  forty-seven  mil- 
lions to  one  hundred  and  thirty-nine  millions. 

•>    ->    4» 

Senator  Hoar,  of  Massachusetts,  who  has  been  ill 
for  several  weeks,  is  reported  to  be  dying  at  his  home 
in  Worcester. 

4»  ♦  *> 

For  the  third  time  this  year  the  Standard  Oil  Com- 
panv  has  declared  a  dividend.  The  dividends  aggre- 
gate twenty  per  cent  this  year,  twelve  per  cent  under 
last  year. 

Miss  Mary  Treadway,  of  Dubuque,  Iowa,  chris- 
tened the  United  States  gunboat,  "  Dubuque,"  at  Nor- 
ris  Heights,  X.  Y. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Mary  Cunningham,  of  Milton,  Massachu- 
setts, bequeathed  seven  hundred  thousand  dollars  to 
her  own  town  with  which  to  beautify  the  place.  The 
town  is  of  such  natural  beauty  and  so  well  provided 
with  every  means  of  comfort  and  convenience,  and  is 
arranged  in  such  aristocratic  taste  that  the  city  bosses 
hardly  know  what  to  do  with  her  bequest. 

Mrs.  Mary  E.  Fuller,  wife  of  Chief  Justice  Fuller 
of  the  United  States  supreme  court,  died  of  heart  dis- 
ease while  at  the  Fuller  summer  cottage,  "  Mainestay," 
at  Sorrento,  Maine. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Nancy  May,  who  committed  murder  four 
years  agp,  and  whose  case  had  been  carried  to  higher 
courts,  was  sentenced  to  ten  years'  imprisonment.  A 
pardon  was  handed  her  by  the  governor  just  as  she 
was  entering  the  penitentiary. 

*  *   * 

The  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Attessa,  Italy,  were 
thrown  into  a  panic  the  other  evening  by  the  escape  of 
forty  lunatics,  who  were  awaiting  a  train  at  a  railroad 
station. 

*  *   * 

Secretary'  of  Agriculture  Wilson  recently  made  a 
trip  west,  and  reports  rapid  progress  in  the  establish- 
ment of  a  wireless  telegraph  system  of  fire  alarms 
throughout  the  various  forest  reserves.  It  is  to  be  un- 
der the  control  of  the  government. 


As  the  result  of  an  elevator  accident  in  a  ten-story 

building  in  New  York,  a  few  days  ago,  one  man  was 

killed,  another  fatally  injured  and  sixteen  badly  hurt. 

^  •&   ♦ 

Miss  Mary  Reynolds,  of  Sibley,  Iowa,  sails  in  No- 
vember for  Pekin,  there  to  become  the  tutor  of  the 
grandchildren  of  the  Empress  Dowager,  making  her 
home  with  a  family  of  missionaries. 

*  *i»    4* 

One  of  the  officers  of  the  Society  of  Scientific  Re- 
search, in  Berlin,  during  the  recent  journey  in  northern 
Syria,  acquired  a  pure  silver  coin,  having  a  perfect 
Aramean  inscription  of  the  king  of  Schamol,  who 
reigned  eight  hundred  years  before  Christ. 

*  &  ♦ 
The    Wesleyan    Methodists    in    England    think    of- 

adopting  a  new  rule  by  which  a  pastor  may  stay  at  one 
place  as  long  as  his  work  is  up  to  the  mark,  on  the 
theory  of  individual  responsibility  for  individual 
churches.    Heretofore  they  have  had  a  three-year  limit. 

*  *  * 
Near  Dover,  York  County,  Pennsylvania,  is  to  be 

built  a  model  village.  A  seventy-acre  farm  is  to  be 
laid  out  in  lots  of  seven  acres,  each  being  the  home  of 
one  wealthy  family.  They  will,  in  common,  employ 
gardeners  to  dress  their  plantations. 

*  *   * 
Santos-Dumont  has  cabled  from  Paris  to  have  his 

air-ship  returned  to  France  from  St.  Louis.  This 
probably  means  quit. 

Four  persons  were  killed  and  seventeen  injured  at 
Chicago  by  a  train  running  over  a  trolley  car. 

*  *  * 
The  British  steamer  "  Inverkip  "  was  sunk  as  the 

result  of  a  collision  off  Fastnet  Rock,  Ireland,  twenty 
persons  being  drowned. 

*  *  * 

The  women  of  Merchantville,  N.  J.,  are  adopting  a 
four-weeks-old  boy  found  bv  the  chief  of  police. 
Dances,  euchre  parties  and  fairs  are  being  arranged 
for,  for  the  benefit  of  the  boy.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the 
boy  will  have  sense  enough  not  to  follow  his  many 
mammas.     His  chances  are  slim,  however. 

The  seizure  of  Bird  Island,  about  one  hundred  and 
twenty  miles  north  of  Dominica,  by  the  British  war- 
ship "  Tribune  "  is  under  investigation  by  the  State 
Department. 

*  *   •> 

The  famous  portrait  of  Ariosto  has  been  purchased 
from  the  Dernley  collection  for  the  national  gallery  of 
England,  for  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars. 


THE  INGLENOOK.— September  6,  1904. 


857 


A 


More  than  twenty-six  thousand  survivors  of  the 
Union  Army  of  the  Civil  War,  representing  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  were  the  guests  of  Boston  last 
week. 

4»  ♦  ♦ 

The  American  squadron  has  sailed  away  from 
Smyrna.  American  schools  and  missions  in  Turkey 
are  to  have  the  same  treatment  as  others. 

*  «l*   «i» 

More  Jewish  massacres  are  reported  by  the  Russian 
government  as  the  result  of  riots  in  the  towns  of  Par- 
chevo  and  Ostrovetz. 

The  Czar  of  Russia  has  decided  to  abolish  corporal 
punishment  as  an  act  of  grace  signalizing  the  birth  of 
an  heir  to  the  throne. 

«fc      4$f      & 

A  deed  signed  by  the  native  chiefs  of  the  Manua  Is- 
lands, of  the  Samoan  group,  conceding  them  to  the 
United  States,  has  been  forwarded  to  Washington. 

*  *  * 

[  A  channel,  through  the  weed  marshes  of  the  Up- 
per Nile,  is  to  be  cut  at  an  expense  of  $17,000,000.  It 
is  also  proposed  to  cut  a  new  course  for  the  White 
Nile  from  Boz  to  Tanfikia,  a  distance  of  200  miles  at 
a  cost  of  $30,000,000.  The  whole  Soudan  may  be  ir- 
rigated. 

*  4»  ♦ 

Postmaster  McKay,  of  DesMoines,  Iowa,  asks  the 
government  to  allow  women  to  carry  the  mail. 

*  *  * 

The  Russian  government  has  closed  a  contract  with 
Lewis  Nixon,  an  American  shipbuilder,  for  the  con- 
struction of  a  number  of  ships  for  the  Black  Sea  Fleet. 

*  *  •> 

The  Paraguayan  revolution  is  spreading.  The  Rev- 
olutionists have  seized  several  towns  and  are  rapidly 
approaching  the  city.  The  object  is  to  overturn  their 
present  government. 

*  ♦  * 

At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Piedmont  Baptist  asso- 
ciation, at  Pleasant  View,  Va.,  twenty  persons  were 
poisoned  by  eating  ice  cream. 

*  ♦   4> 

The  shortage  of  attendance  of  men  at  public  wor- 
ship is  to  remedied,  it  is  hoped,  by  the  suggestion  that 
the  preachers  are  to  so  construct  their  churches  that 
tluy  will  have  one  or  two  side  doors  which  will  fill  the 
churches  with  men  who  will  be  compelled  to  go  in  by 
force  of  habit. 

Officials  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railway  contem- 
plate the  installation  of  telephones  for  dispatching 
trains,  instead  of  telegraph. 


Germany  is  suffering  from  a  phenomenal  drouth. 

*  ♦  ♦ 

Mrs.  Ellen  Kelley,  of  Philadelphia,  was  burned  to 
death  in  an  accident  caused  by  a  faulty  gasoline  stove. 

Thomas  Taylor,  guard  on  the  South  Side  Elevated 
railway,  Chicago,  received  a  handsome  reward  of  $100 
from  the  Woodland  bank  for  the  recovery  of  a  satchel 
containing  nearly  S14.000,  which  was  lost  by  a  mes- 
senger. 

4>  <$»   $ 

In  making  a  balloon  ascension  and  on  coming  down, 

in  a  parachute,  Jacob  Husman,  an  aeronaut,  fell  into 

the  middle  of  Lake  Alice,  at  Fergus  Falls,  Minn.,  and 

was  drowned. 

<£   3»   $ 

August  closes  with  a  shadow  over  the  Russians. 
They  are  almost  completely  surrounded  by  Japanese 
forces.  In  their  precipitous  retreat  they  have  aban- 
doned a  large  amount  of  supplies. 

*  ♦  ♦ 

Pope  Sarto  has  ordered  an  automobile  for  his  own 
special  benefit.  It  is  said  that  he  was  induced  by  Car- 
dinal Ferrari,  Archbishop  of  Milan,  to  purchase  it.  At 
first  the  Cardinal  suffered  some  severe  criticism. 

Two  cruisers,  the  "  Minneapolis  "  and  the  "  Colum- 
bia," raced  at  twenty  knots  an  hour  from  Newport,  R. 
I.,  to  Hampton  Roads,  Va.  The  Minneapolis  was  the 
victor  by  three  minutes. 

*  +  * 

George  Tomlinson  and  Carl  Myers,  both  of  New 
York,  undertook  a  balloon  race  from  St.  Louis,  World's 
Fair,  to  the  Washington  Monument.  Unless  they  have 
better  luck  than  judgment,  the  undertaking  will  proba- 
bly end  in  a  tragedy. 

*  *   * 

Mrs.  Mary  Pf.ttit.  of  Philadelphia,  was  instantly 
killed  while  attempting  to  light  a  gas  jet  when,  for  some 
unknown  reason,  the  pipes  exploded. 

Postmaster  General  Payne  suggests  to  Germany 
that  we  ought  to  have  a  two-cent  postage  rate  between 
Llnited  States  and  Germany.  Germany  has  not  yet 
acquiesced. 

*>   •£*   •> 

Godfrey  Hainer.  a  flagman  on  the  Philadelphia  and 
Reading  railroad,  carelessly  stood  on  the  track  while 
signaling  a  train  and  was  instantly  hurled  into  eternity. 

*  *  * 

Anna  Boros,  of  Budapest.  Austria.  17  years  old, 
kissed  the  lips  of  her  dead  father  and  died  the  next  day 
in  terrible  agony  from  blood  poison. 


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The  Inglenook  Nature  Study  Club 

This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various  Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized 
over  this  country.  Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.  Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time, 
taking  the  work  up  with  the  current  issue.  Back  numbers  cannot  be  furnished.  Any  school  desiring  to  or- 
ganize a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  111. 

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CLASS    AVES. 


Order    Incessores,    Family    Oriole. — Robert    of    Lincoln. 

Queer  as  it  ma}'  seem,  the  Bobolink  has  three  sep- 
arate and  distinct  names.  In  the  north  he  is  called  the 
Bobolink,  when  he  migrates  southward  he  is  called  the 
Reed-bird  of  the  Carolinas,  and  he  retains  this  name 
while  he  is  in  the  swamps  along-  the  Delaware  River 
and  his  similar  favorite  haunts.  Migrating  further 
south,  he  takes  on  the  name  of  Rice-bird  of  Alabama. 
Singular  as  it  may  seem,  he  belongs  to  the  order  of 
Insessores  because  he  may  be  classed  as  a  percher.  He 
is  classed  among  Passeres  because  he  migrates,  and 
the  peculiarity  about  his  migration  is  that  he  does  not 
make  one  continuous  flight,  but  makes  two  or  three 
cessations  as  above  indicated.  He  is  also  among  the 
Oscines,  because  he  is  one  of  the  beautiful  songsters 
of  the  north  country ;  but  he  loses  this  quality  as  he 
goes  south. 

But  the  most  extraordinary  feature  of  this .  bird  is 
not  peculiar  to  many  other  birds  and  that  is  that  he 
changes  his  plumage  as  well  as  his  song  as  he  pro- 
ceeds southward,  losing  his  beautiful  colors  with  which 
he  dons  himself  in  the  north  and  arrays  himself  in  his 
more  modest  grey.  His  habits  are  changed  as  well. 
He  changes  from  a  luxury  to  a  necessity ;  in  the  north 
he  is  a  songster,  and  now  he  becomes  the  object  of  dil- 
igent search  by  sportsmen.  He  probably  has  the  wid- 
est range  of  any  of  the  Passeres,  being  from  Labrador 
to  Patagonia. 

The  following  beautiful  description  of  this  bird  is 
from  the  pen  of  Washington  Irving:  "  The  happiest 
bird  of  our  spring,  and  one  that  rivals  the  European 
lark  in  my  estimation,  is  the  Boblincoln  or  Bobolink, 
as  he  is  called.  He  arrives  at  that  choice  period  of  our 
year  which,  in  this  latitude,  answers  to  the  description 
of  the  month  of  May,  so  often  given  by  the  poets. 
With  us  it  begins  about  the  middle  of  May,  and  lasts 
until  nearly  the  middle  of  June.  Earlier  than  this, 
winter  is  apt  to  return  on  its  traces,  and  to  blight  the 
opening  beauties  of  the  year ;  later  than  this  begin  the 
parching  and  panting  and  dissolving  heats  of  summer. 
But  in  this  genial  interval  Nature  is  in  all  her  fresh- 
ness and  fragrance ;  '  the  rains  are  over  and  gone,  the 
flowers  appear  on  the  earth,  the  time  of  the  singing  of 
birds  is  come,  and  the  voice  of  the  turtle  is  heard  in 
the  land.'     The  trees  are  now  in  their  fullest  foliage 


and  brightest  verdure ;  the  woods  are  gay  with  the 
clustered  flowers  of  the  laurel ;  the  air  is  perfumed  by 
the  sweet  brier  and  the  wild  rose ;  the  meadows  are 
enameled  with  clover  blossoms ;  while  the  young  apple, 
the  peach,  and  the  plum  begin  to  swell,  and  the  cherry 
to  glow  among  the  green  leaves. 

"  This  is  the  chosen  season  of  revelry  of  the  Bobo- 
link. He  comes  amid  the  pomp  and  fragrance  of  the 
season;  his  life  seems  all  sensibility  and  enjoyment, 
all  song  and  sunshine.  He  is  to  be  found  in  the  soft 
bosoms  of  the  freshest  and  sweetest  meadows,  and  is 
most  in  song  when  the  clover  is  in  blossom.  He 
perches  on  the  topmost  twig  of  a  tree,  or  on  some  long, 
flaunting  weed,  and  as  he  rises  and  sinks  with  the 
breeze,  pours  forth  a  succession  of  rich,  tinkling  notes, 
crowding  one  upon  another  like  the  outpouring  melody 
of  the  Skylark,  and  possessing  the  same  rapturous 
character.  Sometimes  he  pitches  from  the  summit  of 
a  tree,  begins  his  song  as  soon  as  he  sits  upon  the  wing, 
and  flutters  tremulously  down  to  the  earth,  as  if  over- 
come with  ecstasy  at  his  own  music.  Sometimes  he  is 
in  pursuit  of  his  paramour,  always  in  full  song,  as  if 
he  would  win  her  by  his  melody,  and  always  with  the 
same  appearance  of  intoxication  and  delight. 

"  Of  all  the  birds  of  our  groves  and  meadows,  the 
Bobolink  was  the  envy  of  my  boyhood.  He  crossed 
my  path  in  the  sweetest  weather  and  the  sweetest  sea- 
son of  the  year,  when  all  Nature  called  to  the  fields, 
and  the  rural  feeling  throbbed  in  every  bosom,  but  when 
I,  luckless  urchin !  was  doomed  to  be  mewed  up  during 
the  livelong  day  in  that  purgatory  of  boyhood,  a 
school-room.  It  seemed  that  the  little  varlet  mocked 
at  me  as  he  flew  by  in  full  song,  and  sought  to  taunt 
me  with  his  happier  lot.  Oh,  how  I  envied  him !  No 
lessons,  no  task,  no  hateful  school ;  nothing  but  holi- 
day, frolic,  green  fields,  and  fine  weather.  Had  I  been 
then  more  versed  in  poetry,  I  might  have  addressed 
him  in  the  words  of  Logan  to  the  Cuckoo : 

'  Sweet    bird,   thy   brow   is   ever   green, 
Thy  sky  is   ever   clear; 
Thou    hast   no    sorrow   in   thy   note, 
No   winter   in   thy   year. 

'Oh!   could   I   fly,   I'd   fly  with   thee, 
We'd  make,   on  joyful  wing, 
Our   annual   visit    round   the    globe, 
Companions    of   the   spring.' 

"  Further  observation  and  experience  have  given  me 
a  different  idea  of  this  little  voluptuary,  which  I  will 

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venture  to  impart  for  the  benefit  of  my  school-boy 
readers,  who  may  regard  him  with  the  same  unquali- 
fied envy  and  admiration  which  I  once  indulged.  I 
have  shown  him  only  as  I  saw  him  at  first,  in  what  I 
may  call  the  poetic  part  of  his  career,  when  he  in  a 
manner  devoted  himself  to  elegant  pursuits  and  enjoy- 
ments, and  was  a  bird  of  music,  and  song,  and  taste, 
and  sensibility,  and  refinement.  While  this  lasted  he 
was  sacred  from  injury ;  the  very  school-boy  would  not 
fling  a  stone  at  him,  and  the  merest  rustic  would  pause 
to  listen  to  his  strain.  But  mark  the  difference.  As 
the  year  advances,  as  the  clover  blossoms  disappear, 
and  the  spring  fades  into  summer,  he  gradually  gives 
up  his  elegant  tastes  and  habits,  doffs  his  poetic  suit 
of  black,  assumes  a  russet,  dusky  garb,  and  sinks  to 
the  gross  enjoyment  of  common  vulgar  birds.  His 
notes  no  longer  vibrate  on  the  ear;  he  is  stuffing  him- 
self with  the  seeds  of  the  tall  weeds  on  which  he  lately 
swung  and  chanted  so  melodiously.  He  has  become  a 
'  bon  vivant,'  a  '  gourmand ;  '  with  him  now  there  is 
nothing  like  the  '  joys  of  the  table.'  In  a  little  while 
he  grows  tired  of  plain,  homely  fare,  and  is  off  on  a 
gastronomical  tour  in  quest  of  foreign  luxuries.  We 
next  hear  of  him,  with  myriads  of  his  kind,  banquet- 
ing among  the  reeds  of  the  Delaware,  and  grown  cor- 
pulent with  good  feding.  He  has  changed  his  name  in 
traveling :  Boblincoln  no  more,  he  is  the  Reed-bird 
now,  and  much-sought-for  tidbit  of  Pennsylvania  epi- 
cures, the  rival  in  unlucky  fame  of  the  Ortolan ! 
Wherever  he  goes,  pop !  pop !  every  rusty  firelock  in 
the  country  is  blazing  away.  He  sees  his  companions 
falling  by  the  thousands  around  him. 

"  Does  he  take  warning  and  reform?  Alas,  not  he! 
Incorrigible  epicure !  again  he  wings  his  flight.  The 
jice  swamps  of  the  South  invite  him.  He  gorges  him- 
self among  them  almost  to  bursting ;  he  can  scarcely 
fly  for  corpulency.  He  has  once  more  changed  his 
name  and  is  now  the  famous  Rice-bird  of  the  Caro- 
linas. 

"  Last  stage  of  his  career,  behold  him  spitted  with 
dozens  of  his  corpulent  companions,  and  served  up  a 
vaunted  dish  on  the  table  of  some  Southern  gas- 
tronome. 

"  Such  is  the  story  of  the  Bobolink:  once  spiritual, 
musical,  admired,  the  joy  of  the  meadows,  and  the 
favorite  bird  of  spring;  finally  a  gross  little  sensualist, 
who  expiates  his  sensuality  in  the  larder.  His  story 
contains  a  moral  worthy  of  attention  of  all  little  birds 
and  little  boys,  warning  them  to  keep  to  those  refined 
and  intellectual  pursuits  which  raised  him  to  so  high 
a  pitch  of  popularity  during  the  early  part  of  his  ca- 
reer; but  to  eschew  all  tendency  to  that  gross  and  dis- 
sipated indulgence  which  brought  this  mistaken  little 
bird  to  an  untimely  end." 


ROBIN    STAMPEDES    CATS. 


A  pair  of  robins  have  made  their  home  and  raised 
their  broods  of  young  for  several  years  on  the  premises 
of  Mrs.  Haight  at  Thirteenth  and  Salmon  streets,  Port- 
land, Ore.,  and  appear  to  have  come  to  the  conclusion 
that  they  own  the  property.  The  female  is  at  present 
sitting  on  some  eggs,  and  her  mate  is  making  himself 
busy  protecting  her.  Cats  which  stray  on  the  premises 
are  fiercely  attacked  by  the  bold  bird  and  driven  off. 
Even  children  making  themselves  too  prominent  about 
the  cherry  tree  in  which  the  nest  is  are  threatened  by 
the  bird,  which  pounces  down  as  if  to  peck  their  eyes 
and  causes  them  to  "  throw  up  their  hands  "  and  move 
away.  A  cat  belonging  to  the  family  enticed  its  flock 
of  kittens  outdoors  to  gambol  in  the  sunshine  yester- 
day, and  the'  old  robin,  seeing  danger  ahead  for  the 
young  robins  when  they  might  leave  the  nest,  dashed 
down  among  the  kittens  and  pecked  and  mauled  them 
till  they  yelled  bloody  murder.  When  the  old  cat  came 
running  to  protect  them,  the  robin  dashed  violently 
in  her  face,  and,  seizing  a  tuft  of  fur  over  one  eve, 
tore  it  out,  leaving  a  bare  spot  as  large  as  a  dime. 
This  daring  bird  is  not  one  of  the  old-fashioned  robin 
redbreasts  so  often  mentioned  by  poets,  but  the  gen- 
uine Oregon  robin,  with  long,  strong  and  sharp  bill 
and  the  energy  and  daring  of  a  hawk.  Cats  will  do 
well  to  keep  away  from  the  premises  until  the  young 
robins  are  able  to  fly  away. 

♦   ♦   •!• 
ALBINO    ROBIN    A    PARIAH. 


A  tale  of  an  albino  robin  comes  from  Chatham,  N. 
J.,  and  only  the  fact  that  citizens  of  known  veracity 
have  seen  the  bird  saves  the  story  from  being  stamped 
as  a  myth.  The  robin  made  its  home  in  Chatham  in 
the  spring  of  1903,  and  that  is  cited  as  a  vindication 
of  the  veracious  residents,  because  persons  of  alco- 
holic imaginations  do  not  generally  see  white  robins 
two  seasons  in  succession.  As  a  general  rule,  they  are 
booked  to  see  camels  crossing  yellow  bridges  the  sec- 
ond season. 

The  albino  is  said  to  have  been  ostracized  by  all  the 
self-respecting  robin  redbreasts,  and  lives  with  the  vul- 
gar, low-down  swamp  robins.  It  shuns  human  beings 
and  generally  breakfasts  on  the  golf  links  near  the 
ninth  hole  about  five  o'clock,  and  at  dusk  makes  for 
the  woods  on  the  Fuller  property.  The  bird  resem- 
bles the  ordinary  robin  in  size  and  form,  but  instead 
of  the  red  breast  it  has  a  broad  dash  of  white,  while 
its  wings  and  head  are  covered  with  feathers  flecked 
with  the  same  color  in  abundance.  It  is  said  by  those 
who  are  versed  in  bird  lore  that  this  is  what  has  made 
it  a  pariah  among  its  kind  and  forced  it  to  live  prac- 
tically alone. 


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THE  I NGLENOOK.— September  6,  1904. 


HOME    DEPARTMENT 


TRUTH. 


Thou  must  be  true  thyself, 

If  thou  the  truth  would  teach; 
Thy  soul  must  overflow,  if  thou 

Another's  soul  would  reach; 
It  needs  the  overflow  of  heart 

To  give  the  lips  full  speech. 
'  O  happiest  word  below, 

Earnest  of  joy  above, 
To   sweeten   many   a    cup   of  woe 

By  deeds  of  holy  love." 
«$*    ♦$*    «2* 

CANNING   FRUIT. 


BY  ETTA  ARNOLD  ECKERLE. 

In  the  cold,  dreary  days  of  winter,  it  is  a  pleasure 
to  the  housewife  to  be  able  to  bring  to  the  table, — 
fruit  from  her  cupboard,  as  nice  as  the  day  it  was 
canned. 

In  our  fruit  canning,  three  things  are  the  cause  of 
much  spoiled  fruit :  Fruit  that  is  too  ripe,  a  fire  that 
is  too  slow,  and  covers  that  do  not  fit.  Before  putting 
the  hot  fruit  in  the  jar,  the  cover  and  rubber  should  be 
fitted,  to  see  that  it  will  screw  down  evenly-  all  around. 
We  waste  much  of  our  time  and  price  of  fruit,  by  sav- 
ing too  many  old  covers  and  rubbers.  If  the  edges 
are  turned  up  all  around, — throw  them  away.  By  the 
use  of  a  tack  hammer,  a  small  leak  may  often  be  rem- 
edied, after  the  cover  is  on  the  jar.  Buy  the  best  and 
thickest  rubbers  obtainable.  It  is  sometimes  necessary 
to  use  two  rubbers.  Be  sure  to  have  the  jars  heated, 
with  the  rubbers  on  and  covers  to  fit,  before  filling  with 
fruit  and  invert  them  to  see  that  they  do  not  leak. 

Do  not  put  the  fruit  up  too  dry.  It  is  the  rich 
juice  that  adds  to  the  good  taste  of  the  fruit.  In  the 
seedy  berries,  many  can  the  juice  alone.  By  putting 
so  much  water  on  the  fruit  that  you  have  juice  left  for 
jelly,  you  spoil  the  good  taste  of  both  jelly  and  fruit. 

In  canning  peaches,  apples,  etc.,  do  not  fill  the  jar 
with  the  fruit  alone,  and  then  try  to  put  on  the  juice, 
but  put  in  fruit  and  juice  together,  with  each  ladleful, 
in  the  desired  proportion. 

While  "  doing  up  "  the  dishes  go  the  rounds  of  the 
jars,  giving  each  one  a  turn, — several  times, — to  make 
sure  there  is  no  leak. 

By  all  means,  can  the  fruit  as  soon  as  you  get  it. 
By  letting  it  stand  several  hours,  it  gets  a  dark  color 
and  loses  good  flavor.  Buy  a  cake  of  paraffine  wax — 
melt,  and  put  on  all  preserves,  jellies  and  canned  sau- 
sage, that  is  not  in  air-tight  vessels.  It  will  be  worth 
to  you  many  times  the  price  you  paid  for  it. 
Lanark,  III. 


POINTS     IN    COOKERY. 


Never  make  pie  crust  in  a  warm  room  and  never 
mix  it  with  a  spoon,  but  with  an  ice  cold  knife.  Use 
only  ice  water  in  moistening  the  pastry  and  shorten- 
ing. The  shortening  should  be  cold  and  firm.  Butter 
makes  the  best  pastry.  It  is  false  economy  to  substi- 
tute anything  else  for  it. 

Bake  pie  crust  in  a  very  hot  oven,  not  so  hot  that  it 
will  burn  before  the  lower  crust  is  done  and  yet  hot 
enough  to  prevent  the  shortening  from  melting  before 
it  browns.  If  an  oven  is  more  or  less  slow  the  lard  or 
butter  will  ooze  out  and  make  the  dough  a  heavy  mass. 
All  pie  crust  should  be  thoroughly  chilled  just  before 
it  is  put  into  the  oven. 

Never  beat  and  stir  whites  of  egg,  but  "  whip  "  them 
in  light,  firm  strokes.  If  the  recipe  calls  for  well- 
whipped  whites,  never  use  eggs  that  refuse  to  be 
whipped  to  a  froth  stiff  enough  to  be  cut  with  a  knife. 
Too  long  a  whipping  of  egg  whites,  however,  will 
sometimes  make  them  tough. 

In  boiling  or  steaming  puddings  never  allow  the 
water  to  stop  bubbling  for  more  than  a  moment.  Have 
ready  boiling  water  to  pour  immediately  into  the  kettle 
when  the  water  begins  to  boil  down. 

In  regard  to  seasoning  it  is  better  to  adhere  strictly 
to  the  recipe.  One's  taste  is  not  often  the  best  guide 
in  this  matter.  Some  women  really  seem  to  be  lack- 
ing in  sense  of  taste,  though  they  will  seldom  admit  it 
What  to  them  is  delicious,  is  sometimes  very  disagree- 
able to  other  persons.  Many  dishes  are  completely 
spoiled  by  over  or  under  seasoning.  The  printed 
recipes  in  the  established  cook  books  are  generally 
correct. 

*  *  * 
WORRY    AND    INDIGESTION. 


Worry  is  but  one  of  the  many  forms  of  fear ;  so  that 
worry  tends  to  the  production  of  indigestion.  Indi 
gestion  tends  to  put  the  body  of  the  subject  in  a  condi 
tion  that  favors  worry.  There  is  thus  established  a 
vicious  circle  which  tends  to  perpetuate  itself,  each  el- 
ement augmenting  the  other.  It  is  necessary  to  secure 
a  cheerful,  wholesome  atmosphere  for  the  dyspeptic 
He  should  eat  his  meals  at  a  table  where  there  is  good 
fellowship,  and  where  good  stories  are  told.  He 
should  himself  make  a  great  effort  to  contribute  his 
share  of  this  at  the  table,  even  if  it  be  necessary,  as  ii 
was  in  one  case  under  my  care,  for  him  to  solemnly 
and  seriously  collect  funny  paragraphs  from  the  press, 
and  at  first' interject  them  spasmodically  during  lulls 


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861 


in  the  conversation  at  the  table,  the  very  efforts  and  de- 
termination of  the  man,  to  correct  his  own  silent 
habits  at  the  table,  to  correct  his  feeling's  of  discour- 
agement and  worry,  were  in  themselves  a  promise  of 
success.  The  effort  made  was  adequate  to  the  obsta- 
cles to  be  overcome.  He  succeeded,  and  the  spectacle 
of  that  man  trying  to  be  funny  at  the  table  when  he 
felt  thoroughly  discouraged  and  blue  is  one  never  to 
be  forgotten. 

Laughing  is  in  itself  a  useful  exercise  from  the 
standpoint  of  digestion.  It  stirs  up  all  the  abdominal 
organs,  it  increases  the  circulation  of  blood,  it  increases 
peristalsis,  it  increases  the  secretion  of  gastric  juices. 
Five  minutes'  deliberate  laughing  after  each  meal 
would  be  an  excellent  prescription  for  some  people. 

*  *  * 
SOMETHING    BEYOND. 


None  of  us  would  ever  amount  to  much  if  we  did 
not  reach  out  for  something  beyond.  The  trouble  is 
that  what  is  greatest  and  best  does  not  always  seem  to 
be  so,  and  we  strain  after  the  showy  things.  The  poet 
Tennyson  has  said  that  all  men  are  like 

"An  infant  crying  in  the  night: 
An  infant  crying  for  the- light: 
And  with  no  language  but  a  cry." 

No  one  is  so  wise,  so  successful,  or  so  old,  that  in 
the  depths  of  his  heart  he  does  not  reach  out  with 
something  of  a  child's  helpless  longing  in  his  heart 
for  something  better  and  brighter. 

*  ♦   4» 

By  removing  the  fence  in  front  of  the  homestead 
and  having  a  smooth,  green  lawn  you  may  vastly  im- 
prove the  appearance  of  the  place,  and  a  good  appear- 
ance always  adds  to  the  value. 

*  *  * 

Skin  the  farm  and  everybody  else  you  come  in  con- 
tact with,  and  live  only  for  yourself. 

*  *  + 

Do  not  allow  the  horses  to  pass  the  night  with  all  the 
sweat  and  dirt  on  them  that  they  have  accumulated 
during  the  day. 

*  *  * 

Raising  poor  horses  is  one  of  the  most  unprofitable 
of  products  as  the  raising  of  good  ones  is  one  of  the 
most  profitable. 

4*  $  $ 

It  is  generally  conceded  that  bearing  apple  trees 
need  manure,  but  if  a  tree  which  has  been  in  blossom 
is  manured  some  year  when  no  blossoms  are  formed, 
its  growth  is  so  stimulated  that  it  takes  a  year  or  two 
for  it  to  get  to  bearing  again. 


COOL    DRINKS    FOR    HOT    DAYS. 


Switchel. 


Blend  thoroughly  one  tablespoonful  of  powdered 
ginger  with  four  tablespoonfuls  molasses,  to  which 
add  one  cup  of  vinegar  and  one  quart  of  cold  water. 
Stir  until  thoroughly  mixed,  fill  glasses  with  shaved 
ice  and  pour  the  mixture  over.    Good. 

Russian   Tea. 

Steep  four  tablespoonfuls  of  tea  in  one  quart  of 
freshly  boiled  water,  strain  and  add  three  strips  of 
candied  orange  peel,  one  teaspoonful  of  Jamaica  rum, 
one  teaspoonful  of  preserved  strawberries  and  one- 
half  slice  of  lemon.  Let  cool  and  pour  into  glasses 
half  filled  with  chipped  ice. 

Gingerade. 

Put  one  quart  of  water  and  one  cupful  of  sugar  on 
to  boil.  Add  one-fourth  ounce  of  white  ginger  root 
and  let  boil  twenty  minutes  or  more.  Remove  from 
fire  and  add  one  cupful  orange  juice  and  the  juice  of 
one  lemon.  Strain  and  cool ;  serve  with  powdered  ice 
and  a  preserved  cherry  in  each  glass. 

Nectar. 

To  one  cupful  of  raspberry  or  strawberry  juice  add 
the  juice  of  one  lemon  and  two  tablespoonfuls  of  pine- 
apple juice.    Sweeten  to  taste  and  serve  ice  cold. 

*  *  * 
DUTCH    APPLE    PUDDING. 


BY  GERTRUDE  E.   SHAFER. 

One  pint  flour,  ij^  teaspoons  baking  powder,  I 
scant  half  teaspoon  of  salt. 

Rub  1  tablespoonful  lard  into  these.  Beat  one  egg 
light;  add  to  it  Y\  cup  milk,  and  stir  into  the  flour. 
Spread  into  a  well-greased  pan.  Pare,  core  and 
quarter  some  sour  apples ;  place  them  on  the  dough, 
sprinkle  thickly  with  sugar  and  cinnamon.  Bake  20 
minutes  and  serve  warm  with  sweet  milk. 

Bremen,  Ind.,  Rural  Route  No.  5. 
*  *  * 

In  the  Japanese  army  every  soldier  carries  with  him 
a  kettle  made  of  paper.  The  kettles  are  filled  with  wa- 
ter, the  outside  being  also  dampened,  are  then  hung 
over  the  fire  and  in  ten  minutes  the  water  is  boiling. 
It  is  claimed  that  these  kettles  can  be  used  eight  or 
ten  times  and  then  they  may  be  thrown  away,  at  the 
total  expense  of  about  two  cents.  A  Jap  by  the  name 
of  Daiju  is  the  inventor. 

<3»  3>  * 

One  advantage  of  growing  corn  in  an  orchard  is  that 
it  breaks  the  wind  and  aids  in  that  respect  to  secure  a 
straight  growth  of  the  trees. 


W>2 


THE  INGLENOOK.— September  6,  1904. 


OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE    1#- 


BONNIE    WAYNE. 


'Nen  the  man  that  puts  the  wood  in  the  engine  wuz 
awful  mad,  and  he  said  some  naughty  words  and  I 
don't  think  Mr.  Marshall  liked  it  very  well.  Anyhow 
he  didn't  look  like  he  wuz  in  very  good  humor,  and  all 
the  men  just  stood  around  there  and  laughed  just  like 
they  had  never  seen  any  water  before,  and  I  couldn't 
see  what  they  were  all  laughing  about,  for  some  of 
them  said  that  the  water  man  had  to  go  to  the  creek 
to  get  more  water. 

And  don't  you  think,  Luke  asked  the  man  if  we 
couldn't  go  with  him  and  he  looked  as  cross  at  him 
and  said,  "  Well,  I  guess  nit."  'Nen  I  asked  Mr. 
Marshall  if  he  meant  that  we  could  go,  and  he  said, 
"  You  and  Luke  had  better  go  and  get  the  cows  and 
see  if  you  can  get  into  some  more  mischief,"  and  he 
didn't  sav  it  like  he  wuz  glad  that  we  came,  and  he 
didn't  ask  me  if  I  would  be  his  girl,  while  I  wuz  out 
here  in  the  country,  either. 

'Xen  we  got  the  little  express  wagon  that  Mabel 
used  to  have  and  we  put  Dora  and  Hattie  in  the  wagon 
and  a  big  doll  that  Mabel  has,  too,  and  we  went  down 
to  the  big  woods  after  the  cows  and  it  wuz  the  longest 
wavs.  but  Luke  he  wuz  the  horse  and  I  wuz  the  driver 
and  all  the  dolls  were  in  the  wagon.  We  wuz  having 
the  nicest  time  when  all  at  once  there  was  a  big  hog  in 
the  fence  corner,  that  didn't  see  us  till  we  got  right  up 
to  her,  and  I  guess  she  saw  Hattie's  red  hair,  for  she 
said  "  Booh-hooh-hooh  "  and  she  pretty  near  scared 
me  to  death.  Luke,  he  jumped  and  upset  the  wagon 
and  spilled  the  dolls  out,  and  I  thought  it  wuz  the  hog 
that  upset  them,  and  that  she  wuz  a  going  to  eat  them, 
and  I  began  to  cry  and  Luke  said,  there  wuz  no  use  of 
being  a  baby  and  getting  scared  over  a  litttle  thing 
like  that,  and  I  said,  "  I  guess  you  were  scared  too." 
But  the  hog  was  glad  enough  to  get  away  and  she  went 
down  the  lane  so  fast  that  she  made  so  much  dust  that 
we  couldn't  see  her. 

When  we  got  down  to  the  woods,  there  was  a  big 
pile  of  fence  rails  and  another  pile  of  clapboards  and 
Luke  said,  "Say,  Bonnie,  do  you  know  what  we  can 
do?"  And  I  said  "No."  and  he  said,  "We'll  just 
make  us  a  play  house  out  of  these  things."  and  I 
thought  it  would  be  fun,  and  so  we  went  to  work  and 
we  soon  had  a  nice  play  house  out  of  the  rails  and  the 
clapboards.  We  went  to  an  old  log  that  wuz  there 
and  we  got  a  great  big  piece  of  moss  and  we  spread  it 
in  the  house  for  a  carpet,  and  there  wuz  some  nice  little 
blocks  there  that  the  men  had  cut  off  the  logs  with  the 


machine,  and  we  took  some  of  them  for  our  chairs 
and  they  made  nice  ones  too.  'Nen  we  got  a  short 
piece  of  board  from  the  pigpen  for  a  table  and  1  took 
Grandma's  shawl  that  I  had  in  the  wagon  for  the  dolls 
to  ride  on,  and  put  it  on  the  table  for  a  tablecloth. 
'Nen  Luke  found  some  round  red  stones  that  wuz  hol- 
low and  he  said  that  Mr.  Marshall  called  them  tiles, 
and  we  used  them  for  a  stove. 

Down  by  the  fence  a  little  further  we  found  great 
big  long  grape  vines  and  we  got  a  lot  of  them  and  we 
fixed  them  up  over  the  door  and  they  looked  awful 
nice.  Luke  said  that  there  wuz  a  sink  hole  below  the 
other  gate  and  he  thought  he  could  get  something 
down  there  that  would  help  us  out  with  our  house,  and 
we  put  off  down  there  and  there  wuz  a  lot  of  trash  that 
they  had  piled  off  there  to  get  rid  of  it.  We  just 
found  the  nicest  dishes  and  cups  and  coffee  pots  and 
whole  lots  of  nice  things,  and  we  took  them  back  to 
the  house  and  when  we  went  to  fix  them  up,  we 
couldn't  hardly  see  and  Luke  said,  "  What  are  we  go- 
ing to  do  for  a  light  in  here?  "  and  then  we  happened 
to  think  that  Mr.  Marshall  had  sent  us  down  there  to 
set  the  cows  and  there  it  wuz  dark,  and  we  started  to 
run  to  the  house.  Just  as  we  got  ready  to  go  we  met 
Mrs.  Marshall  and  Mabel,  and  I  said,  "  Maybe  they 
have  come  to  visit  us."  Luke  didn't  think  so,  and  he 
wanted  to  get  the  cows  in  a  hurry  but  I  didn't  know 
where  the  cows  were,  and  it  wuz  so  dark  that  I  wuz 
afraid. 

Mrs.  Marshall  said,  "  What  in  the  world  are  you 
children  doing  so  long?  "  We  told  her  that  we  were 
playing  house  and  that  they  should  go  in  and  see  the 
nice  things  that  we  had  and  it  wuz  so  dark  that  they 
could  not  see  at  all,  so  they  said  they  would  come  back 
sometime.  Mabel  took  me  and  the  dolls  to  the  house 
and  Mrs.  Marshall  took  Luke  and  went  after  the  cows. 
Before  they  got  back  with  the  cows,  Grandma  had  put 
me  to  bed  and  I  never  saw  them  any  more  till  in  the 
morning.  When  I  went  out  in  the  room  in  the  morning 
I  couldn't  see  out  of  one  eye  and  the  other  one  wuz 
pretty  near  shut  and  they  all  laughed  at  me,  and 
Grandma  said,  "  Wy,  the  laws-a-me-uh,  what  in  the 
world  is  the  matter  with  our  little  girl  ?  "  Mr.  Matf- 
shall  said  that  1  had  been  in  the  poison  vines  some- 
where, but  we  told  them  we  did  not  see  any  of  thai 
anywhere.  Luke  told  them  that  we  had  got  sonu 
grapevines  to  put  on  our  house  and  they  all  hollerec 
and  said,  "  That's  it,  that's  it,"  and  Frank  lifted  mf 
up  to  the  glass  so  I  could  see  myself  and,  honestly,  1 
could  hardly  see  my  own  eyes.  My  fingers  just  stud 
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863 


^pTfie  Q*  &  &♦  ©efiartment*"!^ 


Where   may   I    obtain   the   poem   entitled   "  The   Village 

Choir"? 

The   Old  Village    Choir. 


By  Ben].   F.   Taylor. 


(While  we  regret  that  it  requires  so  much  space  to  answer 
this  question,  vet  nothing  is  too  good  for  our  friends;  hence  we 
publish  it  in  full.  It  is  to  be  found  in  a  collection  of  poems  by 
William  Cullen  Bryant.) 

I  have  fancied  sometimes  the  Bethel-bent  beam 

That  trembled  to  earth  in  the  patriarch's  dream, 

Was  a  ladder  of  song  in  that  wilderness  rest, 

From  the  pillow  of  stone  to  the  blue  of  the  Blest, 

And  the  angels  descending  to  dwell  with  us  here 

"  Old  Hundred  "  and  "  Corinth  *'  and  "  China  "  and  "  Mear." 

All  the  hearts  are  not  dead  and  under  the  sod, 

That  those  breaths  can   blow   open   to   heaven   and   God! 

Oh!  "Silver  Street,"  leads  by  a  bright  and  shining  road, — 

O,  not  to  the  hymns  that  in  harmony  flowed. 

But  the  sweet  human  psalms  of  the  old-fashioned  choir. 

To  the  girl  that  sang  alto,  and  the  girl  that  sang  air. 

"Let  us  sing  to  God's  praise,"  the  minister  said; 

All  the  psalm-books  at  once  fluttered  open  at  "  York." 

Sunned  their  long  dotted  wings  in  the  words  that  he  read, 

While  the  leader  leaped  into  the  time  just  ahead, 

And  politely  picked  up  the  keynote  with  a  fork; 

And  the  vicious  old  viol  went  growling  along 

At  the  heads  of  the  girls  and  the  rear  of  the  song. 

O,  I  need  not  a  wing; — bid  not  a  genii  come 

With  a  wonderful  web  from  Arabian  loom, 

To  bear  me  again  up  the  river  of  time, 

When  the  world  was  in  rythm  and  life  was  its  rhyme, 

And  the  streams  of  the  years  flowed  so  noiseless,  and  narrow 

That  across  it  there  floated  the  song  of  a  sparrow, 

For  a  sprig  of  green  caraway  carries  me  there, 

To  the  old  village  church  and  the  old  village  choir, 

Where  clear  of  the  floor  my  feet  slowly  swung. 

And  tuned  the  pulse  .of  the  praise  as  they  sung, 

Till  the  glory  aslant  from  the  afternoon  sun 

Seemed  the  rafters  of  gold  in  God's  temple  begun. 

You  may  smile  at  the  nasals  of  old  deacon  Brown, 

Who  followed  by  scent  till  he  ran  the  time  down; 

And  dear  sister  Green,  with  more  goodness  than  grace, 

Rose  and  fell  on  the  tunes  as  she  stood  in  her  place, 

And  when  "  Coronation  "  exultantly  flows. 

Tried  to  reach   the  high  notes  on  the  tips  of  her  toes — 

To  the  land  of  the  leal  they  have  gone  with  their  song, 

Where  the  choir  and  the  chorus  together  belong. 

O,  be  lifted,  ye  gates!     Let  us  hear  them  again, — 
Blessed  song,  blessed  singers,  forever,  Amen. 


Who    has    the    right    of    suffrage    in    Kansas? 

Males,  natives,  twenty-one  years  of  age,  six  months' 
residence  in  state,  thirty  days  in  precinct.  Foreign 
males  twenty-one  years  of  age,  one  year  in  the  United 
States,  six  months  in  state,  thirty  days  in  precinct, 
declared  intention  to  become  a  citizen.  All  females 
qualified  same  as  males  as  to  age  and  residence  may 
vote  at  school  and  municipal  elections. 


How  does  the  citizen  contribute  to  the  support  of  the 
United   States    government? 


By  taxation,  direct  and  indirect. 


What  is  the  salary  of  a   member  of   Congress? 

$5,000  per  year,  a  mileage  of  twenty  cents  per  mile, 
with  an  allowance  of  a  private  secretary,  paid  by  the 
government,  and  $125  for  stationery. 
* 

How  may  amendments  be  made  to  the  Constitution? 

Congress  shall  call  a  convention  for  proposing 
amendments  to  the  constitution  whenever  two-thirds 
of  both  Houses  shall  deem  it  necessary ;  or  upon  appli- 
cation of  the  Legislatures  of  two-thirds  of  the  several 
states.  When  the  proposed  amendment  is  ratified  by 
the  Legislatures  of  three-fourths  of  the  states ;  or  by 
conventions  in  three-fourths  of  the  states :  whichever 
method  is  proposed  by  Congress. 
* 
How  did  the  United  States  obtain   Florida? 

By  paying  Spain  five  millions  of  dollars. 

What  were  the  main  points  in  the  Compromise  of  1850? 

First,  California  to  be  a  free  state.  Second,  Utah 
and  Mexico  to  have  no  provision  respecting  slavery. 
Third,  four  states  to  be  made  of  the  territory  of  Texas, 
with  no  provision  concerning  slavery.  Fourth,  aboli- 
tion of  the  slave  trade  in  the  district  of  Columbia. 
Fifth,  a  more  rigorous  law  for  the  recovery  of  the  run- 
away slaves. 

♦ 

Where  are  the  Wyandotte  Caves? 

They  are  in  Crawford  County,  Indiana,  near  Leav- 
enworth, also  near  the  big  Blue  River.  They  are 
noted  for  their  great  caverns  of  stalactites  and  stalag- 
mites. The  cavern  is  about  twenty-two  miles  long  and 
is  one  of  the  wonders  of  the  Hoosier  State. 
* 

What   and   where   is  Jug   Rock? 

Jug  Rock  is  a  very  queer  formation  standing  on  a 
base  about  thirteen  feet  in  diameter.  The  waist  of  the 
rock  just  above  the  base,  is  about  nine  feet  in  diameter, 
then  it  bulges  like  a  jug  until  it  reaches  about  fifteen 
feet  in  diameter,  then  gently  tapers  toward  the  top  until 
it  reaches  a  diameter  of  not  more  than  five  feet.  The 
entire  jug  is  about  forty-five  or  fifty  feet  high,  and  on 
the  top  of  this  jug  is  a  large  fiat  rock  two  or  three  feet 
thick,  and  about  twenty  feet  long,  and  eleven  or  twelve 
feet  wide,  with  nothing  to  support  it  but  its  center 
resting  on  the  top  of  the  jug.  It  is  situated  in  Martin 
county,  Ind.,  about  a  half  a  mile  from  West  Shoals. 
Visitors  are  always  delighted  with  their  visit  In  the 
Jug  Rock. 


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BONNIE    WAYNE. 


(Continued  from  Page  862.) 


out  like  sticks,  and  they  itched  so  I  could  hardly  live. 
Grandma  put  me  back  to  bed  and  Mabel  took  the  pofay 
and  went  after  the  doctor,  and  Mr.  Marshall  went  up- 
stairs to  see  Luke. 

OVER   A   GLASS    OF   WINE. 


They  had  been  introduced,  of  course,  but  he  spoke 
to  her  first  at  dinner. 

"  May  I  pour  you  a  little  wine?  "  he  asked. 

"  Thank  you,"  she  said  simply,  "  a  little.  I  drink 
only  claret." 

"  You  don't  care  for  the  sweet  wines  ?  " 

"  I  don't  think  I  really  ca"re  for  any  wine,  but  this 
is  what  we  drink  at  home.  You  did  not  pour  any  for 
yourself,"  she  added  a  moment  later. 

He  smiled. 

"  It  would  be  for  the  first  time  in  my  life  if  I  had." 
'  "  How  strange !  "     She  looked  at  him  point  blank 
with  a  pair  of  clear  and  very  kind  blue  eyes.     "  Have 
you  scruples?    Do  you  think  it  wrong?" 

"  Well  " — he  drew  a  long  breath — "hardly.  Yet  for 
me  it  would  be  wrong." 

The  color  deepened  on  her  cheek  a  little.  He  saw 
her  check  back  a  word  from  her  lips,  and  the  shadow 
that  swept  over  her  face  was  sweeter  than  any  bright- 
ness. But  he  could  not  appropriate  her  unmerited 
sympathy. 

"  No — no,"  he  declared,  laughing  slightly.  "  It  is  not 
at  all  a  temptation  to  me.  I  have  never  known  the 
taste  of  any  sort  of  liquor.  I  think  I  have  a  great  ad- 
vantage against  fate  in  this,  and — I  mean  to  keep  it." 

"  Then  you  are  afraid,  after  all." 

"  Sometimes  we  recognize  danger  though  we  may 
not  fear  it." 

"'  If  it  be  danger  you  must  fear  it.  You  do,  or  you 
would  not  take  precautions." 

He  looked  down  and  met  her  earnest  glance.  She 
was  forgetting  her  dinner. 

"  If  you  were  not  afraid,"  she  went  on  impulsively, 
"wine  should  seem  to  you  as  harmless  as  water.  It  is 
because  you  have  a  fear  that  you  will  not  touch  it." 

He  was  at  a  loss  just  here.  It  was  difficult  to  match 
her  candor  without  a  touch  of  seeming  discourtesy. 


"  Suppose  I  drtnk  to  your  better  courage,"  she  said. 
A  roguish  dimple  showed  itself.  "  The  deadly  cup  has 
no  terror  for  me." 

He  raised  his  crystal  goblet  and  drank  to  her  in1 
sparkling  water,  saying  gently,  "  But  of  my  cup  no  one 
need  be  afraid." 

There  was  a  pause.  She  had  not  lifted  the  wine  to 
her  lips.  A  servant  came  to  remove  the  course  and 
someone  spoke  to  her  across  the  table.  When  he 
could  claim  her  attention  again  he  was  ready  with  a 
bright  remark  about  the  beauty  of  some  roses  in 
vase  near  them. 

"  Yes — so  pretty — pretty,"  she  said  vaguely,  and 
then  with  purpose  in  her  tone,  "  We  had  not  exhausted 
our  topic,  I  think.  May  I  ask  is  it  your  conviction  that 
liquor  should  not  be  used  in  any  form  ?  " 

"  You  are  unmerciful,"  he  deprecated.  "  Think  how 
ungracious  it  would  seem  to  object  to  anything  amid 
such  surroundings." 

"  Never  mind  about  being  complimentary,"  she  re 
plied  gravely.  "  I  am  trying  to  reflect — to  decide, 
have  never  before  given  one  serious  thought  to  this 
question  of  temperance.  The  people  I  live  among — 
and  they  are  all  upright,  intelligent  and  refined — re- 
gard a  moderate  use  of  liquor  as  almost  indispensa- 
ble. Surely  you  must  admit  that  there  are  thousands 
and  thousands  who  are  not  in  any  way  injured  by  its 
use?  " 

"  I  know,"  he  said  quickly,  "  but  there  are  millions 
and  millions — the  jails  will  tell  you — the  hospitals — 

He  stopped  abruptly 

"Yes,"  she  said  thoughtfully,  "  yes.  But  why  nol 
take  the  good  and  avoid  the  evil?  We  need  not  be 
come  drunkards  because  we  use  liquor  ?  " 

He  met  the  appeal  of  her  earnest  eyes  with  a  look  as 
earnest. 

"  Since  you  desire  it,"  he  answered  steadily,  "  let  mi 
say  one  word,  and  then,  I  think  I  will  say  no  more 
If  you  never  touch  liquor,  you  not  only  need  not,  yoi 
cannot  become  a  drunkard.  But,  if  once  it  crosse! 
your  lips,  the  first-  step  is  made." 

There  was  a  long  silence  between  them.  The  res 
of  the  guests  went  on  talking  gayly.  Presently  shi 
spoke,  but  so  low  that  he  had  to  bend  his  ear  to  listen 

"  You  have  given  me  a  wonderful  message,"  shi 
said.  She  laid  aside  her  glass  of  wine,  and  in  the  sim 
pie  act  he  knew  there  was  consecration. — Ladies 
Home  Journal. 


The  basis  of  my  business  is  absolute  and 
unvarying  integrity. 

SAMUEL  S.  THORPE, 
Founder  of  the  Brethren  Colony.  Brethren,  Mich. 


BUY  A   FARM   IN 
MICHIGAN 


Live  in  a  climate  that  is  equable  and  salubrious — where 
there  are  no  drouths  or  failures— where  all  conditions  are 
conducive  to  health  and  prosperity.  Invest  in  rich  soil  that 
yields  sure  crops. 

The  Cadillac  Tract 


In  Wexford  and  Missaukee  counties,  Michigan;  one- 
half  to  6  miles  from  the  bustling  city  of  Cadillac,  on  the  main 
line  of  Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  (Pennsylvania  System)  and 
Ann  Arbor  (Wabash  System)  railways. 


25,000  Acres,  $5.00  to  $15.00 

per  acre;  less  five   (5)   per  cent  for  cash,   or   on   easy  terms,   if   desired. 

One= Fourth  Down,  Balance  in  i,  2  and  3  Years 

The  ideal  soil — a  sandy  loam  with  clay  and  gravel  sub-soil.  The  Cadillac  Tract  was  formerly  a  thick  tim- 
ber land,  covered  with  a  heavy  growth  of  gigantic  trees — a  strong  guarantee  in  itself  of  a  rich,  responsive  soil; 
splendidly  adapted  to  farming,  fruit-growing  and  stock-raising;  all  the  crops  characteristic  of  the  temperate  zone 
can  be  grown  to  their  greatest  excellence  in  The  Cadillac  Tract.  Clear,  sparkling  water,  good  schools  and 
churches;  free,    graveled    pike    roads,    lots    of    fish    and    game. 

A  gilt-edge  opportunity  for  the   bona-fide  settler. 

For  illustrated  descriptive  booklet  and  map,  containing  detailed  information  with  letters  of  farmers  from 
other  states   now   living  adjacent  to  The  Cadillac   Tract,  fill  out  the  coupon  below  and  mail  to 


Send  me  all 
literature  and 
information 
pertaining  to  the 
Cadillac  Tract 
as  advertised  in 
the  Inglenook. 


S.  S.  THORPE,  suite  a,  Webber  Building,  Cadillac,  Mich. 

District  Agent  Michigan  Land  Association. 


-Is     ',   A  few  improved   farms   for   sale — $2,000    to   $20,000. 


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Along  the  Rock  Island  Raiload 
in  the  Southwest 


Have  you,  as  a  reader  of  the  NOOK,  ever  seriously  considered  the  possibilities  of  the  Southwest  as  a  place 
for  settlement  ?    Unless  you  have  been  there,  probably  you  do  not  know  very  much  about  it. 

Those  who  have  seen  the  country  are  delighted  with  it.  After  seeing  it  on  the  Excursion  from  the  last  An- 
nual Meeting  from  Carthage,  Isaac  Frantz  said  that  "  if  he  were  a  young  man  again,  OHIO  COULD  NOT 
HOLD  HIM."  Now  why  is  it  such  a  good  place?  Well,  the  land  is  good,  the  crops  as  sure  as  anywhere, 
,,,„.,,,,,,,.,,.,,,,.,,,.,,,,  tt^,  .utiii,  and  better  than  in  most  places,  the  climate  is  superb, 
f, ,  p.      ,  s=^S^^^^^=7    t     Prlces  a,v  low  now  and  going  up  all  the  time.     The 


%  *  llifjTwjHnTiTi jj      %     people  are  just  the  same  as  those  around  you  at  home. 

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do  as   well — that   he    can   visit,   investigate   and   sat-    .{• 


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as  the  Southwest.  1  tQry  of  not  a  few  Wg  Oklahoma  cities.    To  locate  with- 

The   Lowest   Rates   of  the  Year  X  nl  "  ^e  Sphere  of  Influence,"  of  such  a  place  requires 

<£  judgment,  either  personally,  or  in  somebody  else  whc 

fwill  be  in  effect  via  Rock  Island  System,  August  23 
»    and  September   13  and  27  to  Texas.   Oklahoma  and 

X 

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X  4> 

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tsale,  $20  from  Chicago.     Correspondingly  low  rates  T               .                       T                         .„ 

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4*    from  many  other  points.  X  * 

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t*****************************^^^^^      about  it  for  the  asking— TRY  US. 


We  will  put  you  in  touch  with  people  of  like  faith  who  have  seen  it,  and  people  who  are  going  there,  an 
those  who  are  there.    If  you  want  to  know,  ASK.    We  will  do  all  the  rest  in  the  way  of  exact  and  reliable  infoi 
mation.     It  is  the  people  first  in  who  win  out.     There  will  be  later  chances,  but  it  will  cost  you  from  two  1 
ten  times  the  present  cost  for  the  delay.    Let  us  tell  you  quickly   and   confidentially   where  this  place   is   to 
found  and  what  is  now  doing  there.     "  WRITE  TO-DAY." 

JOHN   SEBASTIAN, 
Passenger  Traffic  Manager,  Rock  Island  System, 

Chicago. 


A  Word  to  the  Wise 

Is  sufficient.       If  you  are  sick,   ailing,    or  out  of  sorts, 
you  will  make  no  mistake  by  resorting  to 

Dr.  Peter's  Blood  Vitalizer 


The  old  time-tried  herb  remedy.     It  builds  up,  strengthens 

and  rejuvenates  as  nothing  else  can.     Thousands 

have  found  it   a  help  in  time  c  f  need. 

Mr.  George  Janke,  Middletown,  Conn.,  says:  "I  could 
neither  eat  nor  sleep,  but  the  BLOOD  VITALIZER 
restored  my  health." 

It  is  not  a  drugstore  medicine,  but  is  supplied  to  the  peo- 
ple direct  by  local  agents  appointed  in  every  com- 
munity.     Further  particulars  gladly  sup- 
plied   by  the  proprietor, 


DR.    PETER    FAHRNEY, 
112-114  S.  Hoyne  Ave.,  -  -  Chicago,  111. 


Wonderful 
Stove  Offer 


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shown,   the  greatest  values  ever 
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Ranges  and  Heating  stoves  see  o 
catalogue. 

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thing  shipped  out. 

Our  practical  and  successful  ] 
co-operation,  which  means  work 
gether,  enables  us  to  furnish  the 
saving  prices  '  found  in  our  "I 
catalogue.  The  significance  of  tr 
'"  Equity  "  plays  an  important  par 
filling  of  all  orders  sent  us. 

Our  business  success  lies  in  t 
that  in  the  very  beginning  we  set 
following  four  guide  posts:  Pron 
Thoroughness,  Efficiency  and 
We  solicit  the  patronage  of 
whether  shareholder  ■  or  not. 

When  placing  your  next  order 
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BRETHREN  OAK  GROVE  CHURCH 

Still  continues  to  attract  the  attention  of  homeseekers. 

The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  immense  growth  of 
Ivery  variety  of  crop  which  is  again  in  evidence  establishes  the  fact  that  here  is  the 
§lace  where  the  Industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN   PEOPLE   BO    EASTERN    FARMING-. 
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ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

esides  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
is  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  it. 

SPECIAL    LOW    BATES    TO    CALIFORNIA. 

From  August  15th  to  Sept.  10th  the  railroads  will  sell  Bound  Trip  excursion 
ickets  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

From    Chicago $50  00 

From   Mississippi   River 47  50 

From    Missouri    River 45  00 

Final  return  limit.  Oct.  23. 

ALSO    SEPTEMBER    15th   TO    OCTOBER    15th    COLONIST    ONE-WAT    TICKETS 
TO  ANT.  CALIFORNIA   POINT. 

From    Chicago *33   00 

From  Mississippi  River 30  00 

From   Missouri   River I 26  00 

By  this  arrangement  you  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 
ind.     If  it  suits  you.  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate. 

Land  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre,  Including  perpetual  water  right.  Terms,  one- 
>urth  cash;  balance  in  eight  annual  payments. 

From  twenty  to  forty  acres  wili  support  the  average  family  in  comfort. 

If  interested  send  your  name  and  address  and  receive  printed  matter  and  our 
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address  the  President, 

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Very   Low   Rates  South 
and  Southwest 

will     sell 

al  homeseekers  excursion  tickets 

from  Chicago  via  St.  Louis  to  a  large 

number   of   points   in   the   South    and 

Southwest    at    the    very    low    rate    of 

(I  trip.     Dates  of  sale. 

13  and  27.     Write  for  time  cards 

and    full    particular-. 

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Is  the  Time  to  Send  for 
Our  Mammoth  New 
Catalogue! 


A  New  Catalogue 

After  months  of  arduous  labor 
we  are  bringing  to  completion  a 
fine  new  catalogue  filled  from  cover 
to  cover  with  reliable  merchandise. 
This  mammoth  book,  which  weighs 
nearly  four  pounds,  will  come  from 
the  press  within  twenty  days  and  we 
have  every  reason  to  believe  will 
prove  a  splendid  surprise  to  all  our 
customers. 

"We  have  employed  the  best  expert 
help  and  ten  large  printing  presses 
are  at  our  disposal  until  the  last  cat- 
alogue is  finished.  All  our  experi- 
ence and  the  knowledge  of  expert  cat- 
alogue help  has  been  brought  to  bear 
in  making  this  book  a  marvel  of  per- 
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pedia. A  new,  clean,  up-to-date, 
price-making  and  reliable  Depart- 
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your  fall  goods  until  you  have  exam- 
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Present  Facilities 

Our  new  location  in  a  modern  fire- 
proof and  commodious  building  right 
in  the  downtown  wholesale  district 
gives  us  the  best  of  facilities  for  han- 
dling your  orders  accurately  and 
promptly.  Eight  thousand  square 
feet  of  space  is  now  filled  and  storage 
room  occupied  in  another  section  of 
the  city.  While  we  have  a  goodly 
stock  of  merchandise  on  hands,  yet 
many  of  our  orders  are  shipped  direct 
from  the  factories. 

Our  relation  to  these  manufactu- 
rers is  the  most  pleasant  and  we  have 
term  contracts  so  that  our  patrons' 
interests  are  given  the  most  exacting 
attention.  The  fact  that  we  have 
been  dealing  with  many  of  them  for 
about  four  years  and  our  business 
has  shown  a  gradual  increase  gives 
our  company  a  deserving  prestige. 

"We  have  our  bookkeeping,  order- 
receiving,  letter-filing,  recording, 
billing  and  shipping  departments 
thoroughly  systematized  and  have 
put  all  in  readiness  for  the  rush  of 
business  as  soon  as  our  new  cata- 
logue is  distributed.  The  Inglenook 
readers  who  have  called  upon  us  have 
expressed  surprise  at  our  present  fa- 
cilities and  we  take  this  means  of 
telling  every  Nooker  about  it.  We 
are  ready  for  your  orders  and  we 
thank  you  in  advance  for  a  liberal 
patronage. 


Catalogue  Free 

Our  fine  new  catalogue  is  being 
printed  upon  an  extra  good  grade  of 
paper,  will  weigh  nearly  four  pounds 
when  ready  for  shipment,  and  we 
hereby  agree  to  send  this  catalogue 
free  of  cost  to  each  and  every  Ingle- 
nook  reader  who  requests  a  copy.  All 
you  need  to  do  is  invest  a  penny  for 
a  postal  card  and  send  a  written  re- 
quest to  us,  when  your  name  and  ad- 
dress will  be  transferred  immediately 
to  a  mailing  label,  same  to  be  used  in 
sending  to  you  free  of  charge  our 
new  catalogue.  We  make  this  offer 
to  Inglenook  readers  because  we 
know  you  are  worthy  of  our  greatest 
consideration,  and  hundreds  of  Nook- 
ers  are  now  our  customers,  many 
know  us  personally,  while  It  is  our 
earnest  desire  to  make  the  acquaint- 
ance and  secure  the  patronage  of  ev- 
ery one  of  you. 

We  want  to  merit  all  this,  too,  and 
only  ask  for  a  fair  hearing  and  trial 
order.  Note  the  explanations  on  this 
page  about  our  name.  Write  your 
name  and  address  plainly  and  send 
your  application  for  our  large  new 
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Freight  and  Express 
Refunds 

Our  corporation  is  the  first  to  work 
out  in  a  practical  manner  a  plan  for 
refunding  to  patrons  freight  and  ex- 
press charges  and  yet  not  affect  the 
price  of  the  goods  offered  one  iota. 
By  a  careful  comparison  of  prices 
named  in  our  New  Catalogue  with 
any  other  catalogue  you  will  find  that 
our  quotations  are  on  a  competitive 
basis  and  in  many  instances  lower. 
Yet  we  have  arranged  to  refund  to 
our  patrons  the  money  they  pay  out 
for  freight  and  express.  These  re- 
funds are  paid  under  simple  rules  and 
conditions  which  are  fully  explained 
in  our  new  catalogue  and  also  in  a 
special  circular  which  we  will  send  to 
any  address  upon  request. 

Under  the  old  methods  you  paid  the 
carriage  charges  year  in  and  year  out, 
irrespective  of  how  much  goods  you 
bought.  Under  our  new  plan  you  are 
rewarded  by  being  a  regular  and  good 
customer  by  credit  for  the  freight 
and  express  charges  you  pay.  It 
pays  you  to  send  your  orders  to  an 
appreciative  and  progressive  com- 
pany, which  is  looking  to  your  inter- 
ests in  all  matters.  Save  all  expense 
bills  received  in  return  for  freight 
and  express  charges  on  goods  from 
our  company,  as  these  receipts  are 
the  same  as  money  to  you.  Write  for 
particulars. 


Our  Company  Name 

While  the  directors  of  our  corpora- 
tion have  authorized  the  purchase 
outright  of  several  other  companies 
and  we  receive  the  mail  addressed  in 
the  names  of  all  the  companies  we 
have  bought  out,  we  have  never 
changed  our  name  or  effected  any 
consolidation  since  receiving  our 
charter  from  the  State  of  Illinois. 

The  name  of  our  corporation  is  Al- 
baugh  Bros.,  Dover  &  Co.,  and  the  ad- 
dress is  341-343  Franklin  Street,  Chi- 
cago, 111.  Remember  three  things 
about  our  Company  name —  (1)  There 
is  a  personality  about  it.  (2)  It  has 
never  been  changed  since  our  corpo- 
ration was  organized.  (3)  It  has  ap- 
peared continually  on  the  last  cover 
page  of  the  Inglenook  for  many 
months.  The  following  short  expres- 
sions are  often  printed  in  connection 
with  our  name.  (1)  "Scientific  Co- 
operation." (2)  "The  Mail  Order 
House."     (3)   "That's  the  place." 

We  want  to  get  our  fine  new  cata- 
logue to  you  at  the  earliest  possible 
moment  and  make  these  explanations 
so  there  may  be  no  confusion  or  delay 
in  reaching  us  with  your  requests. 
Send  all  correspondence  to 


Albaugh  Bros.,  Dover  &  Co. 

341-343  Franklin  St., 
CHICAGO,  ILL. 


Quality  and  Price 
of  Goods 

In  the  heading  we  name  quality 
first  because  it  should  mean  more 
than  any  other  thing  to  our  patrons. 
"We  are  listing  in  our  fine  new  cata- 
logue a  good  quality  of  Merchandise, 
as  we  feel  convinced  that  the  day  of 
considering  cheapness  only  is  pass- 
ing. Our  positive  guarantee  goes 
with  each  and  every  article  and  your 
money  is  cl-eerfully  refunded  if  goods 
are  not  satisfactory.  "While  quali- 
ty has  not  been  overlooked,  the  prices 
are  right,  too,  and  we  only  ask  you  to 
compare  same  with  any  other  cata- 
logue in  the  country  as  proof  of  our 
statement.  We  also  ask  you  to  com- 
pare goods  received  from  our  house 
with  articles  procurable  at  home,  or 
merchandise  received  from  other 
companies.  We  do  not  claim  to  have 
conquered  the  world  or  anything  of 
the  sort,  but  we  do  know  that  so  far 
as  we  have  gone  we  have  struck  bed- 
rock on  the  score  of  "Quality  and 
Prices."  If  you  place  an  order  for 
merchandise  before  you  have  exam- 
ined our  new  catalogue  we  will  "  both 
lose  money." 


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PARTIAL  TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


POEM. 

EIN  KLAGELIED. 

CONTRIBUTIONS. 

HOW   SOME  PEOPLE   LIVE.— By  Alice  Yaniman. 
AMERICANISMS.— By  Clyde  E.  Bates. 
COUNTRY  BOY  IN   THE  CITY.— By  Clara  E.  Stauffer 
OUR   NATIONAL   SONGS.— By  Marguerite  A.  Bixler. 
BE   NATURAL.— By  Etna  A.  Evans. 
ROANOKE.— By  J.  J.  Miller. 

INDUSTRIAL    SCHOOL   AT    WASHINGTON.—  B 
Stephens. 

EDITORIALS. 

IN  THE  ROUGH.  DOING    YOUR    BEST. 

WASTING  NERVE   ENERGY. 


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eptember  1  3,   1904 


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Number  37,  Volume  VI 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


30,000  ACRES 


IRRIGATED 


Government  Land 

In   Nevada 

NOW    OPEN  FOR 

HOMESTEAD 


UNDER  THE   NEW     , 

IRRIGATION   LAW 

The  United  States  Govern- 
ment Constructs  the  Canals, 
Reservoirs  and  Lateral  Ditch- 
es to  the  Land,  and  Maintains 
them  for  10  Year*  at  a  cost  of 

ONLY  $2.50  AN  ACRE 

PEK     YEAB. 

This  Includes  Water.      After  10  Years  Water 
yfand  Canals  Belong  to  Homesteader. 


Land    Close    to    Railroad    and    Good 
Markets  Can  be  Secured  By 

ACTUAL  SETTLERS 
ONLY. 


Mr.  L.  H.  Taylor,  the  United  States 
Engineer  in  charge  of  work,  says: 
"It  is  likely  that  most  of  those  set- 
tlers who  desire,  can  find  employment 
for  themselves  and  teams  on  the  ca- 
nals during  at  least  a  part  of  their 
spare  time  for  the  next  two  or  three 
years." 


For  Information  Write  to 

GEO.  L.  McDONAUGH, 

COLONIZATION    AGENT 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Omaha,  Neb. 


ARE    YOU    GOING    TO 

CALIFORNIA,  WASHINGTON, 
OREGON, IDAHO 

Or  Any  Other  Point  ?    Take  the 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 


Daily  Tourist  Car  Line 

BETWEEN 

Chicago,    Missouri    River,    Colorado, 

Idaho,  Oregon,  Washington  and 

California  Points. 


Stop  Off  at  Reno,  Nevada, 

And  Investigate  the  Irrigated  Govern- 
ment Land.  Call  on  Mr.  L.  H.  Taylor 
U.  S.  Engineer,  for  information. 


ONE-WAY    COLONISTS    RATES. 

To  Pacific  Coast  Every  Day,  Sept.  IS 
to  Oct.  IS. 

From   Chicago $33  00 

From  St.  Louis,   30  00 

From   Missouri   River,   25  00 

Proportionate  rates  from  all  points 
East. 


The  Union  Pacific  Railroad 

— Is  Known  As — 

"The  Overland  Ronte" 

And  is  the  only  direct  line  from 
Chicago  and  the  Missouri  River  to 
all  principal  points  West.  Business 
men  and  others  can  save  many 
hours  via  this  line.  Call  on  or  ad- 
dress a  postal  card  to  your  nearest 
ticket  agent,  or  Geo.  L.  McDon- 
augh,  Colonization  Agent,  Omaha. 
Nebr. 

E.    L.    LOMAX,    G.    P.    &    T.    A., 
Omaha,  Nebraska. 


MORE  BEETS- 
HIGHER  PRICE 


Producers     Will    Get    $400,000    More 
Than  Last  Year. 


"  Denver  Post ": 

"The  sugar  beet  crop  of  Colorado, 
according  to  reports  received  from  our 
field  men  all  through  the  South  Platte 
Valley,  will  not  be  less  than  10  per 
cent  in  excess  of  that  of  last  year,"  said 
Charles  Boettcher,  of  the  Great  West- 
ern Sugar  company.  "  The  outlook 
was  never  so  good  as  it  is  this  year. 
Last  year  the  yield  in  tons  was 
slightly  less  than  400,000,  and  it  was 
marketed  at  $4.50  a  ton.  This  year  it 
will  be  fully  450,000  and  the  market 
price  already  agreed  on  is  $5  a  ton. 
This  will  make  a  difference  to  the 
producer  of  some  $400,000.  It  is  too 
early  to  make  an  estimate  on  the 
amount  of  sugar  the  beets  will  con- 
tain. That  will  not  be  possible  for 
a  couple  or  more  weeks.  But  the 
general  outlook  was  never  better  for 
a  large  beet  crop  than  it  is  at  present. 
We  have  had  plenty  of  water  and  no 
severe  or  injurious  storms  over  the 
areas  planted  in  beets.  If  nothing 
untoward  occurs,  the  crop  will  be  a 
banner  one." 


The  following  parties  have  bought 
land  near  Snyder,  Colo.: 

Louis  E.  Keltner,  Hygiene,  Colo.; 
W.  W.  Keltner,  North  Dakota;  A.  W. 
Brayton,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Daniel 
Grabill,  Lemasters,  Pa.;  J.  L.  Kuns, 
McPherson,  Kans.;  D.  L.  Miller,  Mt. 
Morris,  111.;  Daniel  Neikirk,  Lemas- 
ters, Pa.;  Galen  B.  Royer,  Elgin,  111.; 
E.  Slifer,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  I.  B.  Trout, 
Lanark,  111.;   R.  E.  Arnold,  Elgin,  III. 

Geo.  L.  Studebaker,  of  Muncie,  In- 
diana, says:  "  Sterling  is  a  growing 
town  with  a  good  country  surround- 
ing.   The   members   are   active." 

HOMESEEKERS'     EXCURSIONS 

To  Snyder,  Colorado, 

With  privilege  of  stopping  off  at 
Sterling,  Colo., 

Oae  Fare  Plus  $2.00  for  the  Round  Trip 

First  and  Third  Tuesday  of 
Each  Month  via 

Uuion  Pacific  Railroad 


THE      INGLENOOK, 


500  Bible  Studies 


.  Compiled  by  : 


HAROLD   F.  SAYLES 


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This  new  book  contains  500  short, 
sharp,  concise,  Outline  Bible  Read- 
ings, contributed  by  prominent  work- 
ers from  all  over  the  world.  The  se- 
lections cover  a  larger  range  of  sub- 
jects, and  will  be  very  useful  to  one 
in  private  study,  as  well  as  helpful 
in  preparing  to  conduct  a  meeting  on 
short  notice.  The  book  will  be  in- 
valuable to  ministers.  It  will  be 
found  very  helpful  in  preparing  out- 
lines for  Bible  study  and  for  prayer 
meeting.  It  will  prove  a  source  of 
pleasure  and  profit  for  all  Bible  stu- 
dents. 

The  collection  is  being  enthusias- 
tically received,  and  is  also  sold  at  a 
price  within  reach  of  all.  Books  of 
this  character,  but  containing  far  less 
material,  often  sell  for  $1.00  or  more. 

The  book  includes  a  complete  in- 
dex of  subjects  arranged  alphabetic- 
ally.    Note  a  few  of  the  outlines: — 

JESUS    IS    ABLE. 

Having   been    given    "  all    power,"   Matt. 
28:  18,    and    having   destroyed   the 
works  of  the  devil.   1   John 
3:  8,  Jesus  is  able  to, 
Save  to  the  uttermost,  Heb.  7:  26. 
Make  all  grace  abound,  2  Cor.  9:  8. 
Succor  the  tempted,  Heb.  2:  18. 
Make  us  stand,  Rom.  14:  4. 
Keep  us  from  falling,  Jude  24. 
Subdue  all  things,  Philpp.  3:21. 
Keep  that  committed  to  him,  2  Tim. 

1:  12. 
Perform  what  he  has  promised,  Rom. 

4:  21. 
Do  above  all  we  ask  or  think,   Eph. 
3:  20. 
Knowing   his   grace   and   power,    shall 
we    not    come   and    say,    "  Vea.    Lord "  ? 
Matt.  9:28.  P.  S.  Shepherd. 

THE    BLOOD. — Heb.    9:22. 

1.  Peace    has    been    made    through    the 
blood.     Col.   1:  20. 


Justified  by  the  blood. 


Rom.   5:  9. 
Eph.    1: 


Redemption  by  the  blood. 

Col.  1:  14;  1  Pet.  1:  18. 

This   redemption   is   eternal.     Heb.    9: 

11-14;  Heb.  10:  10-15. 

Cleansed  by   the  blood.     1   John   1:7; 

Rev.  1:  5;  Rev.  7:  14. 

We    enter    into    the     holiest    by    the 

blood.     Heb.  10:  19. 

Overcome    in    heaven    by    the    blood. 

Rsv.  12:  11. 

Then    sing    the    song    forever    to    the 

blood  of  the  Lamb.     Rev.  5:  9. 

Rev.  J.  R.  Dean. 

Price,   limp    cloth    cover,   25   cents, 
prepaid. 

BBETHREN    PUBLISHING    HOUSE, 

Elgin,   Illinois. 


Mr.  Dooley  truthfully  says:  "  Oppor- 
tunity    knocks     at     iviry     man's     door 

wanst." 

Opportunity  is  Knocking  at 
Your  Door  Now! 

Listen :  In  the  great  Southwest 
there  are  some  mighty  good 
chances  for  a  hustler.  The 
Southwest  is  growing  —  its 
growth  attests  its  fertility  and 
diversity  of  resource.  Why  not 
go  there  yourself  and  grow  with 
the  country?  Those  who  are  go- 
ing now  are  "  getting  in  on  the 
ground  floor." 

It's   up  to   you  to  Act   Quickly  ! 

Write  and  we  will  tell  you  of  specific 
openings  for  the  farmer,  fruit-grower 
and  stock-raiser. 

Tell  us  what  interests  you. 


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OFFICE 

The  Atchison,  Topeka 

&  Santa  Fe   Ry.  System, 

Railway  Exchange,  Chicago. 

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INAUGURATION    OF    PARLOR 
CAR    SERVICE. 


Between  Chicago,  Council  Bluffs  and 
Omaha. 


In  addition  to  its  already  remark- 
ably complete  train  service  between 
Chicago  and  the  Missouri  River,  the 
management  of  the  North-Western 
Line  announces  that  between  Chica- 
go and  Omaha  there  will  hereafter  be 
included  a  service  of  Parlor  Cars, 
through  without  change,  on  day  train 
leaving  Chicago  daily  at  10:  IS  A.  M. 
This  is  in  addition  to  the  service  al- 
ready in  existence  of  through  Buffet 
Smoking  and  Library  cars,  which  are 
at  the  disposal  of  the  Parlor  and 
Pullman  car  passengers  without 
charge. 

The  Parlor  Car  service  on  the  Chi- 
cago &  North-Western  Railway  is  al- 
ready famous,  all  of  those  little  de- 
tails which  go  so  far  towards  per- 
fecting the  comfort  of  patrons  being 
looked  after  with  scrupulous  care. 
The  equipment  is  of  the  highest  type, 
and  the  inauguration  of  this  service 
between  Chicago  and  Omaha,  over 
the  only  double  track  railway  between 
Chicago  and  the  Missouri  River, 
marks  another  stepping-stone  in  the 
upward  progress  of  transportation  de- 
velopment as  exemplified  on  the 
North-Western   Line. 

The  Parlor  Car  leaves  Chicago 
daily  at  10'  15  A.  M.,  reaching  Oma- 
ha 11:40  P.  M.  Eastbound.  train  No. 
12,  carrying  similar  equipment,  leaves 
Omaha  7:  10  A.  M-.  reaching  Chicago 
8:00  P.  M.  It  will  be  noted  '.hat  The 
schedules  are  fast  ones.  There  are 
four  trains  daily  in  each  direction  be- 
tween Chicago  and  Omaha,  with  di- 
rect connections  for  Colorado,  Utah, 
Yellowstone  Park  and  the  Pacific 
Coast. 


Worth  Looking  Into! 


If  you  thought  you  could  get 
$1,000.00  for  an  investment  of  twenty- 
five  cents,  and  it  was  honest  and 
straightforward,  you'd  take  it,  would- 
n't you?     Now  see  here! 

You  have  read  some  of  Bro.  D.  L. 
Miller's  travels  in  his  books  as  well 
as  in  the  Gospel  Messenger.  You  re- 
member  how   interesting  they   were. 

Do  you  know  that  he  is  going  to 
take  another  trip,  and  that  he  is  go- 
ing to  start  by  the  first  of  Septem- 
ber? He  and  his  wife  are  to  visit 
several  countries  in  Europe,  Asia,  Af- 
rica, and  even  Australia,  and  he  will 
have  his  camera  with  him  and  will 
illustrate    his    articles    copiously. 

He  Will  Write  Especially  for  the 
Ioglenook  on  this  Trip. 

You  could  not  take  this  trip  for  a 
thousand  dollars  and  yet  we  will  send 
you  the  Inglenook  till  Jan.  1,  1905  for 
ONLY  twenty-five  cents.  Just  think 
of  it.  It  may  be  that  your  friends 
would  like  a  chance  at  this  bargain. 


Brethren  Publishing  House 
Elgin,  Illinois. 


To  ADVERTISE 

Judiciously  is  an  art,  and  many  make 
a  failure  because  they  lack  knowl- 
edge. Advertisers  will  be  helped  by 
our  advertising  experts  in  securing 
the  best  possible  results. 

Brethren  Publishing  House, 
Elgin,  Illinois. 


WHAT  MEDICINE  CAN  DO 

It  is  idle  nonsense  to  talk  about  this  and  that  medicine  curing  this  and 
that  malady.  All  the  best  remedy  can  do  is  to  assist  nature  in  its  effort 
to   throw   off   disease. 

Dr.  Peter's  Blood  Vitalizer 


by  its  mild  yet  active  properties  purifies  and  enriches  the  blood,  stimulates 
the  functional  activity  of  the  vital  organs.  Nature  does  the  rest — health 
follows.  That  is  the  secret  of  .  the  success  of  this  old  time-tried  herb 
remedy.     Thousands    have    testified    to    its    health-giving    powers. 

Mrs.  Pauline  Baessler,  Hard}".  Iowa,  writes  under  date  of  June  30,  1904.: 
"  For  two  years  my  health  had  been  very  poor.  I  suffered  with  backache, 
palpitation  of  the  heart  and  malaria.  The  Lord  only  knows  how  I  suf- 
fered, but  thank  His  name  your  Blood  Vitalizer  has  built  up  my  system 
again.  The  backache  and  heart  trouble  have  entirely  disappeared.  I  am 
glad  to  say  that  after  taking  six  bottles  of  the  Blood  Vitalizer  I  enjoy  such 
good  health.  I  only  wish  that  all  who  suffer  would  turn  to  your  medi- 
cine,  as   I   am  sure  it   has  no   equal.     May   God's   blessing  be   with   you." 

Not  a  drugstore  medicine.  It  is  supplied  to  the  people  direct  by  special 
agents  appointed  in  every  community.  Further  particulars  gladly  furnished 
by    the    proprietor 


DR.   PETER    FAHRNEY, 
1 12-114  S.  Hoyne  Ave.,  -  -  Chicago,  111. 


the:    inglenook. 


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Brawntawns 


Truly  Cure 


Dyspepsia 


! 


Have  cured  some  of  the  worst  T 
cases — those  that  doctors  could  »:* 
not  cure.  If  you  have  DYSPEP-  f 
S1A,  INDIGESTION,  and  want  % 
to  be  cured,  use  % 


BRAWNTAWNS 


To  give  the  reades  of  the  Ingle- 
nook  a  chance  to  use  BRAWN= 
TAWNS,  and  test  their  curative 
properties,  we  offer  a  50-cent  box 
of  BRAWNTAWNS,  30  days' 
treatment,  for  25  cents,  if  sent  with 
this  advertisement  before  Sept. 
10,  1904. 

Don't  be  satisfied  with  what  we. 
say,  but  write  for  testimonials. 
We  will  return  the  postage,  2  cts. 

Victor  Remedies  Co., 

FREDERICK,    MD. 


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Farms  You  Will  Buy 


East  Central  Kansas  Is  the  best  part 
of  the  State  for  general  farming  and 
raising  stock.  Well  watered,  Marlon 
county's  average  crop  acreage  Is  110,000 
acres  corn,  90,000  acres  wheat,  40,000 
acres  oats,  20,000  acres  alfalfa.  We 
have  some  good  farms  for  sale  at  a  bar- 
gain. Will  say  to  the  Brethren  that  are 
thinking  of  changing  their  location  that 
they  will  do  well  to  investigate  our 
country.  Good  bargains  near  church. 
Any  information   cheerfully  furnished. 

GARRISON  &  STUDEBAKER, 

Florence,  Kansas. 

Wild    Rose    Sheep    Farm 

Breeds  Cheviot  Sheep.  Wool  and  mut- 
ton of  best  quality.  Rams  and  ewes  for 
sale. 

HOWARD     H.     KEIM, 
34tl3  Box  1,  Ladog-a,  In  il. 

FARM    FOR    RENT 

200  acres.  4  mi.  to  3  towns.  New 
house  and  barn.  Two  sets  buildings, 
young  orchard,  good  water,  good  soil, 
new  land,  best  blue  grass  region  of 
Indiana.  Brethren  church  at  farm,  grav- 
e]  mads,  rural  mail  delivery,  telephones. 
Address  "  Farmer  "  care  of  Inglenook. 
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WANTED! 


Girl  or  woman  between  20  and  35 
years  of  age  to  do  general  house  work  in 
the  home  of  a  family  of  the  Brethren 
church,  in  a  beautiful  Western  city. 
Applicant  must  be  a  good  and  economic- 
al cook,  neat  about  her  work  and  person. 
An  earnest  and  faithful  sister  of  the 
church  preferred.  A  letter  from  the 
home  minister  or  elder  to  that  effect  to 
accompany  the  application.  Will  pay 
from  $20  to  $25  a  month  the  year  round 
for  the  right  person.  Both  man  and 
wife  are  owners  and  teachers  in  a  Com- 
mercial College.  Have  built  a  new  Col- 
lege building  this  year  with  all  modern 
conveniences.  A  girl  treated  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  family.  Only  persons  need 
apply  who  have  good  health,  who  are 
willing  to  work  and  appreciate  kind 
treatment  and  a  good  home.  A  photo 
accompanying  the  application  will  be 
appreciated.  Out  of  all  applications  re- 
ceived from  this  inquiry  there  will  be 
five  selected  to  choose  from.  This  is  an 
excellent  opportunity  for  the  right  per- 
son to  see  the  West,  and  at  the  same 
time  have  a  good  home,  at  good  wages. 
Address  all  applications  direct  to  E.  C. 
Reitz,  Principal  and  Business  Manager, 
Missoula,  Montana. 3514 


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Department,  as  all  our 
other  departments, 
QUALITY  is  the  ce- 
ment that  binds  the  in- 
terests of  Equity  people. 
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CHICAGO. 


IN  THE   INGLENOOK. 

There  is  always  room  for  wide- 
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Mount 

Campbell 

Tract 

in  Fresno  County, 

California, 

Promises  to  become  the  leading 
fruit-growing  section  of  California. 
Land  is  cheap,  water  abundant,  loca- 
tion healthful  and  soil  unsurpassed. 
The  soil  is  especially  adapted  to  the 
orange,  grape,  fig,  orchard  fruits,  al- 
falfa and  general   farming. 

Plans  are  now  forming  for  a  colo- 
ny of  the  Brethren  on  this  tract,  J. 
S.  Kuns,  proprietor  of  the  old  Mis 
sion  farm  at  Covina,  Cal.,  having  al- 
ready purchased  land  in  this  district, 
which  has  been  inspected  by  other 
prominent  members  of  the  church. 

Maps  and  information  by 

W.  N.  ROHRER, 

Fresno,  Cal. 


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If\  A  I_ |  /""V  is  the  best-watered  arid  State  in  America.  Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 
IL//\I  IV^  winds,  destructive  storms  and  cyclones  are  unknown,  and  with  its  matchless  cli- 
mate it   makes  life  bright   and  worth  living. 

We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer  to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 
change  for  the  general  improvement  in  your  condition  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  both  requirements.  There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 
and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  country  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 
swer and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger  work  teach  us  that  a  few  dollars  spent  in  railroad 
fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves  thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

Cheap  homeseekers'  rates  are  made  to  all  principal  Idaho  points.  Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 
for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting  a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


SETTLERS'    RATES 


Ronnd=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only  in  May 
and  October,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta-  ^ 
tions  on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip  5" 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


«: 
& 


Daily   from   September   IS  to   October   15,   1904,    the   same   cheap   one-way   second-class   settlers'   rates  ^ 

will   be    in    effect   from   the    East   to   points    on    our     line  as  have  heretofore  been  made  in  the  Spring  and  ^' 

Fall  months,  as  follows:  ^; 

To  Butte,  Anaconda.  Pocatello,  ^: 

Ogcten,  Salt  Lake,  and  lnterme-  To  Huntington  and  main  ^. 

diate   points.  line  intermediates.  ^T 

Chicago, ' $30.00  $30.50  & 

Bloomington, 28.80  29.30  ^'. 

Peoria 28.00  28.50  8P 

St.   Louis, 26.00  27.50  & 

Kansas   City,   Leavenworth.  Atchison  and  St.  Joseph,....    20.00  22.50  ^. 

Council  Bluffs  and  Omaha, 20.00  22.50  * 

Sioux  City, , 22.90  ■  25.40  & 

St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis 22.90  25.40  fc 

Proportionate    rates    will    be   made   from    other   stations    in    Illinois,    Iowa,  etc.  & 


r$     Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance.      Fine      $i 
!f  Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley.  fj 


\8  '       Arrived    in    Payette    Valley    Feb.    23,    1903.     Settled   on   an  80-acre   tract,   covered   with   sage   brush.  S^ 

rJ5<  Cleared  40  acres.     May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.     Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.    June  12  sowed  10  acres  ^ 

^  to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.     Yielded  55  to  acre.     Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 

^  or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

^  Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 

.^  oats. 

!^              Potatoes   yielded   500  bushels    to   the   acre   and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of  Jl 

■^  the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.                                                       (Signed)  E.  L.  Dotson.  8^ 

.•$                                                                                                                                                D.   E.   BURLEY,  ^ 

4  S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio.                                                              G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R.,  g; 

5  J-  E-  HOOPER,  Agent,  Oakland,  Kansas.                                                                      Salt  Lake  City,  Utah.  5i 

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Vol.  VI. 

September  13,  1904.                                      No.  37. 

EIN    KLAGELIED. 

Wann  er  da  war  zu  sehne, 

Dass  sie  so  Sach  trage 
Er  hot  geschriewe  vun  Gold 

Mei  Herz  ist  voll  Truwel, 

Mei   Auge  voll   Thrane, — 

Un  kostlichem  G'wand. 

's  is  meh  als  Elend, 

Mehnt  awer  ah   Bonnets, 

So  weit  mer  als  sehne. 

Mit  Blumme  un  Band. 

Ieh  guck  urn  mich  als  rum 

Er  daht  awer  doch  nau 

Un   sehn   viel   das   schlecht   is, 

Zum  Timotheus   schreibe; 

Un  so  arg  wenig  Leut, 

Wege  Weiber  vun  "  Diener  " 

Das  duhne  was  recht  is. 

Die  der  Hochmuth  duht  treibe. 

Der  Hochmuth   ruhlt  Alles, 

Verleicht  tschotsch   ich   sie  letz 

So   weit   mer   als   sehne, 

Un  steh  in  ihr  Licht; 

In  Hauser  und  Kleider, 

Sie  sin   all   ufrichtig     t 

Ich   denk  ofter  zuriick 

Un  duhne  ihre  Pflicht. 

An  die  herrlich  alt  Zeit 

Mer  hen  all   unser   Fehler, 

Un  wunner  was  doch  noch 

Dehl   grosse   und    Dehl   klehn; 

Bekommt  vun  der  Leut. 

Ich  wehss,  ich  hab  meine, 

Vielleicht    hot's    meh    gute, 

So  schreib  ich  niks  meh. 

Als  ich  als   amol  mehn; 

<•*•$• 

Ich  kann  awer  just  schotsche, 

SNAPSHOTS. 

So  weit  als  ich  sehn. 

"Wie   woll  mer  dresse"? 

Und's  nekst  net  viel  besser; 

A  trade  well  learned  is  better  than  great  expecta- 

"Was soil  mer  esse?" 

tions. 

Sie  verttreibe  die  Zeit. 

* 

Base  Ball  un  Crokey; 
Ich  mehn's   guckt  so  kinnisch, 

The  dentist  gets  right  down  to  the  root  of  the  trou- 
ble. 

Sie  mehne's  is  schon. 

Es  nemmt  nau   achtzig   Yard, 

* 

For    en    Weibmensch    en    Frac 

k;                             We'd  like  to  go  Ashing  just  once  zvhen  only  the  little 

Die  Falte  sin   hinne, 

Vorn  guckt's   wie  en  Sack. 

fish  get  away. 

* 

Die  Mannslut  duhn  schwatze, 

Awer  gleiche   es  just  so; 

There  is  no  promise  of  pardon  for  confessing  the 

Denn  en  Madel,  dass  plehn  is, 

sins  of  others. 

Krickt  ost  net, en  Boh. 

* 

Un  die  parrer  sin  ah 

Nimme,  wie  sie  als  ware, 

One  sivallow  will  not  make  a  summer,  but  enough 

Sie  duhn  nau  trage, 

of  them  will  make  a  "  gonner." 

Was  sie  gut  konnte  spare. 

* 

Sie   hen   schier  alle   Bart 

Dehl  Mustasches  (!!)'s  is  wohr 

Men  love  goodness,  but  marry  beauty,  which  ac- 

Un predigen   die  Heiligung 

counts  for  the  present  matrimonial  tangle. 

Mit  Lefze  voll   Hoor, 

Ihr  Weiber  kann  mer  denke, 

* 

Sin  net  hinner  Hand. 

Attainment  is  a  hope  rather  than  a  possession,  and 

Sie   hen   Rossels   un   Blume, 

enduring  and  striving   in   hope  is  the  normal  condi- 

Un  Fedder  un   Band. 

tion  of  him  who  would  attain. 

Hen   Ring  uf  die  Finger, 

Un  Watsche  un  Kette, 

* 

Un    gucke   gar  stolz, 

Nearly  every  man  would  like  to  have  a  job  that 

Wie  sie  sin'  will  ich  wette. 
Ich   wunner   als   amol, 

would  permit   him  to  get  up  whenever  he  pleased  in 

Was  der  Paulus  dhat  sage, 

the  morning  to  begin  it. 

866 


THE   INGLENOOK.— September  13,  1904. 


IRISH    FORTS    AND    CASTLES. 


Off  the  coast  of  Ireland,  north,  west  and  south, 
lies  island  behind  island.  Few  know  them  and  still 
fewer  realize  the  wealth  of  antiquarian  remains  which 
have  lain  hidden  there  for  more  than  a  thousand 
years.  First  in  interest,  as  in  age,  come  the  defensive 
works  of  uncertain  date,  beginning  in  the  fourth  cen- 
tury B.  C.  Of  these  the  promontory  forts  are  the 
simplest  in  construction,  being  defended,  often  on  three 
sides,  by  the  high  cliffs  toward  the  sea,  necessitating 
only  a  single  line  of  defense  on  the  landward  side. 
They  belong  to  an  age  of  cyclopean  masonry,  when 


a  trapdoor  overhead,  was  easily  killed  by  the  spear- 
man above.  It  is  rare  to  find  a  spring  of  water  with- 
in the  fort.  There  was,  however,  usually  a  spring 
some  200  or  300  yards  away. 

Situated  for  the  most  part  on  cliffs  or  on  great  hill- 
sides overlooking  the  sea,  these  coast  forts  command- 
ed a  magnificent  view.  Round  them  the  sea  birds 
circle,  calling.  The  huge  waves  of  the  Atlantic  sweep 
up,  beating  against  them  in  vain,  and  afar  off  the 
lines  of  a  mountainous  coast  stand  out  blue  in  the 
softened  atmosphere,  running  down  sheer  into  the  sea, 
with  the  long  line  of  white  gray  smoke  telling  of  the 
burning  kelp  along  their  base. 


BLARNEY    CASTLE,    IRELAND. 


the  stones  were  piled  together,  one  above  the  other, 
mortarless,  but  with  a  power  of  resistance  which  yields 
only  to  the  hand  of  man.  Some  of  the  forts  are  con- 
structed in  the  well-known  "  ring-wall  "  type,  to  be 
found  throughout  the  British  Isles,  Central  Europe 
and  Mashonaland. 

At  Fahan,  near  Bentry,  the  fort  was  obviously  res- 
idential, instead  of  being  merely  used,  as  in  many 
cases,  for  a  place  of  short  retreat  during  the  hasty 
raids  of  Danish  or  earlier  invaders.  Here  a  "  souter- 
ram  "  is  to  be  found  and  a  careful  system  of  defense. 
For  the  enemy,  entering  through  the  contracted  pas- 
sage, if  he  escaped  the  first  attack,  found  himself  sud- 
denly confronted  by  a  wall,  and,  the  only  exit  being 


fn  the  interior  of  the  country,  upon  some  of  the 
more  prominent  hilltops,  are  to  be  found  the  ruins 
of  many  of  the  ancient  castles.  There  was  a  time 
in  the  early  days  of  Ireland  when  she  was  her  own 
ruler,  and  these  castles  were  their  means  of  protec- 
tion against  their  enemies,  and  as  old  as  they  are  a 
great  number  of  them  remain  to  this  day  in  a  good 
state  of  preservation. 

Among  the  most  interesting  that  may  be  seen  to- 
day is  "  Blarney  Castle,"  about  seven  miles  distant 
from  Cork.  It  is  interesting  because  of  the  well-pre- 
served ruins  that  now  remain,  and  also  from  the  stand- 
point of  history  connected  with  it.  It  is  a  large  struc- 
ture, some  forty  feet  square,  built  on  the  side  of  a 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  13.  1904. 


867 


hill.  The  lower  side  is  about  one  hundred  and  ten 
feet  to  the  top  of  the  castle,  the  upper  side  about 
eighty  feet.  Underneath  the  cliff,  upon  which  this 
castle  is  built,  is  a  large  cave  or  cavern,  in  which  the 
soldiers  could  secure  themselves  when  they  wanted  to 
surprise  the  enemy.  This  castle  was  built  by  the  Mc- 
Carthy's, kings  of  the  monsters,  in  1446,  and  in  all 
probability  was  a  very  strong  fortification.  The  low- 
er rooms  in  the  buildings  were  used  for  guard  rooms. 
On  the  second  story  were  dining  rooms  on  one  side 
and  living  rooms  on  the  other.  The  third  story  was 
tised  for  bedrooms,  and  the  fourth  story,  or  the  top, 
contains  a  beautiful  observatory.  The  hill  upon  which 
it  stands  is  a  high  hill,  which  gives  this  castle  a  view 
of  a  large  portion  of  territory  in  southern  Ireland. 
Many  beautiful  valleys  can  be  seen  nestling  between 
the  emerald  hills  and  crystal  loughs,  and  the  chalk- 
white  macadamized  roadways  winding  their  way  here 
and  there,  protected  on  either  side  by  a  whitewashed 
stone  wall,  overhanging  with  laurel,  presenting  a  pic- 
turesque appearance.  Of  course  Ireland  finally  be- 
came subject  to  England  and  the  castles  were  left  in 
ruins. 

About  1812  a  Catholic  priest,  named  Father  Prouty, 
immortalized  this  castle  by  bestowing  blessings  upon 
this  certain  stone,  on  the  lower  edge  of  the  cornice, 
and  called  it  "  Blarney  Stone."  The  stone  is  so  placed 
that  he  thought  it  would  be  quite  an  athletic  feat  for 
one  to  kiss  it,  and  he  decreed  that  whoever  would 
make  a  successful  attempt  to  kiss  this  stone  by  draw- 
ing himself  up  from  below,  by  means  of  his  own 
strength,  should  ever  afterward  be  witty,  eloquent  and 
prosperous.  The  poor  Irish  visit  this  place  from  all 
parts  of  the  world,  hoping  to  be  blessed  as  their  lead- 
er had  promised.  This  is  no  doubt  the  reason  that 
the  name  "  Blarney  Stone "  has  ever  clung  to  this 
place. 

*  ♦>  ♦ 
MORAL    COURAGE. 


Constance  was  a  plump,  rosy-cheeked  girl  of  thir- 
teen when  we  first  learned  to  know  her.  While  her 
features  were  not  very  regular,  her  fair  complexion 
and  brown  eyes  made  her  almost  pretty.  She  had  a 
little  sister,  perhaps  three  years  younger  than  herself, 
and  the  two  were  scarcely  ever  separated.  Their  father 
had  died  some  years  before,  and  their  mother  was  now 
married  to  an  ignorant,  coarse-looking  man,  of  whom 
one  heard  nothing  very  good. 

The  family  lived  in  a  small  cabin  in  an  out-of-the- 
way  nook,  and  they  were  very  poor.  People  hardly 
knew  how  they  did  manage  to  live  from  day  to  day. 
To  make  matters  worse  their  mother  was  in  very 
feeble  health,  having  for  years  suffered  from  a  slow 
decline.  In  this  way  time  dragged  heavily  along  for 
nearly  two  years.  In  the  meantime  the  man's  health 
had  also  become  entirely  shattered,  be  too  having  be- 


come a  victim  of.  that  fatal  disease.  The  mother  died, 
and  how  sadly  the  girls  turned  away  from  her  grave, 
would  be  impossible  to  tell. 

The  relatives  of  the  girls  now  came  and  offered  to 
take  Constance  and  her  sister  with  them  from  the  fu- 
neral, but  she  declined  the  offer.  A  wealthy  uncle  and 
aunt  who  were  childless,  went  and  offered  to  give  them 
a  good  home,  but  still  Constance  refused.  Their  friends 
argued  with  her;  they  told  her  that  their  lives  would  be 
ruined  if  they  lived  alone  .with  their  stepfather,  whom 
they  knew  she  did  not  love.  Her  only  answer  was  that 
he  was  not  well,  and  she  would  not  leave  him.  They 
told  her  if  she  staid  with  him  they  all  would  disown 
her  and  never  have  anything  to  do  with  them.  She  re- 
fused to  leave  him.  Then  the  relatives  sent  the  legal 
guardian  of  the  girls  to  persuade  them  to  leave  him,  or 
if  necessary,  to  take  them  away  by  force,  and  put  them 
into  a  more  suitable  home.  He  not  only  failed  to 
change  the  minds  of  the  girls,  but  he  quailed  before  the 
determination  of  those  calm  brown  eyes,  and  went 
awav  without  them.  Then  their  friends  mourned  them 
as  dead  and  made  no  further  effort  to  save  them. 

During  this  time  the  stepfather  was  slowly  going 
down  with  consumption,  and  before  many  months  had 
rolled  over  that  sad,  desolate  home,  he  was  confined  to 
his  bed.  Still  Constance  and  her  sister  staid  by  him, 
and  did  what  they  could  to  relieve  his  wants  and  suf- 
fering. They  seemed  forsaken  by  all  the  world.  It 
now  looked  as  if  they  must  all  starve  together,  but  at 
this  time  some  of  the  man's  relations  came  and  took 
him  to  their  own  home.  People  thought  now  that  the 
sick  man  is  in  friendly  hands  the  girls  will  surely 
leave  him.  but  they  did  not.  They  went  with  him,  and 
as  faithfully  and  tenderly  cared  for  him  as  they  had 
done  before.  They  never  left  him  until  he,  too,  was 
beyond  the  reach  of  human  help.  After  he  had  been 
laid  by  their  mother's  side,  and  the  earth  had  closed 
over  him  she  did  not  love,  but  had  nursed  as  tenderly 
as  she  did  her  own  mother,  Constance  felt  that  her 
work  was  done. 

During-  all  this  trying  ordeal  even  slander  had  never 
dared  to  taint  the  purity  of  her  young  womanhood, 
and  now  her  relatives  instinctively  recognized  the  high 
motives  that  had  prompted  her  in  her  strange  course. 
Instead  of  disowning  her,  they  meekly  bowed  before 
the  little  girl  who  had  the  moral  courage  to  defy  her 
friends  and  all  the  world,  and  follow  the  course  duty 
marked  out  for  her.  Her  friends  furnished  them  a 
good  home,  and  some  years  later  she  became  the  wife 
of  one  of  the  kindest  and  purest  of  men,  the  son  of  one 
of  the  best  families  in  that  country.  God  will  ever 
bless  his  faithful  children ! — The  Children's  Friend. 
<•  *$»  * 
Never  esteem  anything  as  of  advantage  to  thee  that 
shall  make  thee  break  thy  word  or  lose  thy  self-respect. 
— Marcus  Aurclius. 


868 


THE   INGLENOOK.— September  13,  1904. 


HOW    SOME   PEOPLE   LIVE. 


BY  ALICE  VANIMAN. 

-  It  is  interesting  to  me  to  note  the  habits  and  customs 
of  the  people  at  different  places  where  we  visit.  It 
seems  to  me  sometimes  that  I  learn  more  by  study- 
ing people  than  by  reading  books,  for  what  we  see  and 
hear  makes  a  more  lasting  impression  upon  us  than 
what  we  read  out  of  books.  The  differences  in  the 
war  people  live  and  how  some  people  live  is  often  a 
mystery  to  us.  How  true  the  saying  "  that  one-half 
the  world  does  not  know  how  the  other  half  lives.  " 

Here  in  Sweden  the  working  women  work  hard. 
Some  of  them  do  most  of  the  farm  work.  They 
help  in  building  houses,  carry  mortar'  and  stone  and 
brick  just  like  the  men.  They  help  in  cleaning  off  the 
parks,  and  many  help  in  keeping  the  streets  clean. 

The  fishing  business  is  quite  an  industry  in  this  coun- 
try. While  the  women  as  a  rule  do  not  go  out  in  boats 
and  do  the  fishing,  they  are  there  often  at  three 
o'clock  in  the  morning  to  take  the  fish  when  the  boats 
come  in.  These  small  herring  or  "  sill  "  as  they  are 
called,  must  be  cleaned,  rinsed,  laid  in  salt  a  couple  of 
hours,  then  dried  a  little  and  smoked.  Some  of  our 
sisters  smoke  sills.  They  are  required  to  stand  over 
the  hot  fire  in  a  very  smoky  "room  and  sprinkle  water 
on  the  fire  all  the  time  to  keep  the  proper  temperature 
till  the  fish  are  done.  Two  hours  is  required  to  each 
batch  of  fish.  Six  persons  can  clean,  smoke,  and  pack 
about  8000  fish  in  one  day.  The  one  who  smokes  them 
gets  from  25  to  30  cents  a  day  for  her  work,  the 
others  get  less  pay.  One  sister  is  a  widow  with  several 
children  to  support,  but  she  gets  through  somehow. 

A  brother  tells  us  what  a  great  walker  he  is.  He 
once  walked  10  Swedish  miles  in  20  hours  and  did  not 
get  very  tired.  A  Swedish  mile  is  six  English  miles. 
He  says  he  can  easily  walk  six  to  eight  Swedish  miles 
in  a  day  and  not  mind  it.  The  other  day  he  said  "  I 
must  go  over  here  a  little  ways  on  some  business  and 
I  will  return  soon."  He  walked  three  English  miles 
and  back  again  and  said  that  was  nothing.  A  Danish 
sister  walked  nine  English  miles  to  meeting  and  home 
again  the  same  day  many  times  in  her  life. 

The  majority  of  servants,  especially  in  the  country 
have  very  little  variety  in  their  "  bill  of  fare."  Some 
brethren  say  that  when  they  were  servants  they  had 
only  black  bread  and  smoked  salt  pork  with  sour  milk 
three  times  a  day.  Others  get  black  bread  with  sour 
milk  and  lard  as  a  spread.  This  I  have  seen  more  than 
once.  Is  it  any  wonder  that  the  boys  and  girls  long 
to  go  to  America,  the  land  of  freedom  and  plenty? 

A  young  sister  is  housekeeper  for  her  two  brothers 
and  a  drunken  father.  The  father  is  very  mean  to 
her  sometimes.  One  evening  she  got  home  a  little 
late  from  prayer  meeting.  Her  father  had  locked  the 
door  on  her  and  she  was  compelled  to  sleep  on  the  hard 


floor  outside.  Another  time  she  went  home  from 
prayer  meeting  and  found  her  father  quite  drunk.  He 
had  mislaid  a  10  kroner  piece  and  accused  the  dear 
girl  of  having  stolen  it.  He  ran  after  her  and  threat- 
ened to  beat  her  if  she  would  not  hand  over  the  money. 
The  sister  cried  and  plead  with  her  father  to  spare  her. 
She  said,  "  You  know,  father,  I  have  never  stolen 
anything  in  all  my  life."  "  Yes,  I  know,"  he  said, 
"  but  one  time  must  be  the  first,  and  this  religion  of 
yours  is  the  worst  thing  I  have  to  deal  with.  "  Soon 
after  he  found  the  money  in  his  own  pocket  just  where 
he  himself  had  put  it.  The  dear  sister,  however, 
seems  not  to  lose  her  trust  in  the  dear  Master,  but  con- 
tinues to  serve  him. 

So  each  heart  knoweth  its  own  sorrow.  It  seems, 
sometimes,  that  some  have  almost  more  than  their 
share  of  the  sorrows  of  this  life.  But  those  who  lean 
on  that  strong  arm,  should  not  fear  the  evils  which  man 
can  do  to  them.  Jesus  Christ  is  able  to  help  us  all 
over  the  hard  places  and  land  us  safely  on  the  other 
side. 

Malmo,  Sweden. 

♦  *  * 
THE    BOY    WHO    DID    HIS    BEST. 

He  is  doing  his  best,  that  boy  of  sixteen  stretched 
out  before  a  bright  fire  in  an  old  tanning  shed.  Re- 
clining upon  an  old  sheep-skin,  with  book  in  hand,  he  is 
acquiring  knowledge  as  truly  as  any  student  at  his  desk 
in  some  favored  institution,  with  all  the  conveniences 
and  facility  for  learning. 

He  is  doing  his  best,  too, — this  same  boy,  Claude, 
as  he  helps  his  master  prepare  the  sheep  and  lambs' 
skins  for  dyeing,  so  that  they  can  be  made  into  leather. 
He  is  doing  his  best  by  obedience  and  by  respectful 
conduct  to  his  master,  in  endeavors  to  do  his  work  well, 
although  he  often  makes  mistakes,  as  his  work  is  not 
so  well  suited  to  his  tastes  as  the  study  of  Greek  and 
Latin. 

"  See  there,  young  rapscallion !  "  calls  out  Gaspard 
Beaurais,  the  tanner.  "  See  how  you're  mixing  up  the 
wools !  "  For  Claude's  wits  were  "  wool-gathering," 
sure  enough ;  but  he  was  not  sorting  the  wool  aright. 

"  Aye,  aye,  sir,"  replied  the  apprentice,  "  but  I  will 
fix  them  all  right."  And  he  quickly  sets  to  work  to  re- 
pair his  mistake. 

"  He'll  never  make  a  tanner,"  said  Gaspard  to  his 
wife,  "  and  much  I  fear  he'll  never  be  able  to  earn  his 
bread." 

"  Sure  enough,"  replied  his  wife.  "  And  yet  he's 
good  and  obedient,  and  never  gives  back  a  word  to  all 
your  scolding." 

And  in  after  years,  when  the  aged  couple  received 
handsome  presents  from  the  distinguished  man  who 
had  been  their  apprentice,  they  thought  of  these  words. 

One  evening  there  came  a  stormy,  boisterous  wind, 
and  the  little  stream,  in  which  the  tanner  was  wont  to 


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wash  the  wool  upon  the  skins,  was  swollen  to  a  torrent. 
To  attempt  to  cross  it  by  the  ford  at  such  a  time  would 
render  one  liable  to  be  carried  down  the  stream  and  be 
dashed  to  pieces  on  the  rocks. 

"  We  must  get  all  the  skins  under  cover,"  said  Gas- 
pard  to  his  apprentice.  "A  storm  is  at  hand."  The 
task  was  finished,  and  the  tanner  was  about  to  return 
to  his  cot  and  Claude  to  his  shed,  when  the  boy  ex- 
claimed : 

"  Surely,  I  heard  a  cry.  Some  one  is  trying  to  cross 
the  ford !  "  And  in  an  instant  he  darted  toward  the 
river,  followed  by  his  master  carrying  the  lantern. 
Some  villagers  were  already  there ;  and  a  strong  rope 
was  tied  around  the  waist  of  the  brave  boy,  who  was 
about  to  plunge  into  the  stream,  for  a  man  on  horse- 
back was  seen  coming  down  the  river,  both  rider  and 
horse  much  exhausted.  Claude  succeeded  in  grasp- 
ing the  rein ;  and  the  strong  hands  of  his  master  that 
held  the  rope  drew  him  to  shore,  and  all  were  saved. 

Soon  after,  the  stranger  sat  by  the  tanner's  fire, 
having  quite  won  the  hearts  of  the  good  man  and  his 
wife  by  his  kind  and  courteous  manners. 

"  What  can  I  do  for  your  brave  son?  "  he  asked. 

"  He's  none  of  ours,  and  not  much  credit  will  he  be 
to  any  one,  we  fear.  He  wastes  too  much  time  over 
useless  books,"  was  the  bluff  reply  of  the  honest  tan- 
ner, who  could  not  see  what  possible  use  Claude's 
studies  would  be  to  him. 

"  May  I  see  the  books  ?  "  asked  the  stranger. 

Claude  being  called,  brought  the  books  of  Greek  and 
Latin  classics,  and  stood  with  downcast  face,  expect- 
ing to  be  rebuked.  But  instead,  he  received  words  of 
commendation  from  the  gentleman,  who,  after  some 
talk  and  questions,  was  astonished  at  the  knowledge 
the  boy  had  acquired. 

A  few  months  later,  instead  of  the  old  tanning-shed 
for  a  study,  Claude  might  be  seen  with  his  books  in  a 
handsome  mansion  at  Paris,  the  house  of  M.  de  Val- 
Jais,  whose  life  he  had  saved,  and  who  had  become  his 
friend  and  benefactor.  The  boy  felt  that  he  had  only 
done  his  duty,  and  that  he  was  receiving  much  in  re- 
turn ;  and  he  determined  to  make  every  effort  to  meet 
the  expectation  of  his  patron. 

He  succeeded.  Claude  Capperonier.  the  boy  who  did 
his  best,  became  the  most  distinguished  Greek  and 
l.alin  scholar  of  his  time.  At  the  age  of  twenty-five. 
he  filled  the  chair  of  Greek  professor  in  the  Royal  Col- 
lege in  Paris.  More  than  this,  he  became  a  man  who 
feared  God.  and  was  much  beloved  for  his  goodness 
and  amiable  qualities. 

He  never  forgot  his  former  master  and  wife.  Their 
old  age  was  cheered  by  many  tokens  of  remembrance 
in  the  form  of  substantial  gifts  from  the  man  who. 
when  a  boy,  studied  so  diligently  by  the  fire  of  their 
old  shed,  but  who,  "  would  never  make  a  tanner." — 
Well  Spring. 


RECREATION    IN    CHANGE. 


Whatever  may  be  said  against  hobbies,  there  is 
nothing  more  wholesome  for  man,  woman  or  child 
than  an  enthusiastic  interest  in  something  outside  of 
the  regular  life  work.  It  has  often  been  proved  that 
turning  from  the  not  overcongenial  routine  of  the  day 
to  some  chosen  avocation  gives  true  rest  and  enjoy- 
ment. If  the  interest  is  an  out-of-door  one,  so  much 
the  better.  The  ardent  student  of  birds,  plants  or 
stones  generally  shows  the  advantages  of  his  hobbv  in 
his  firm  step,  healthful  color,  and  bright  eyes.  For  lit- 
erary people — indeed,  for  all  indoor  workers,  and  they 
are  the  majority — there  is  no  better  medicine.  Chil- 
dren are  naturally  interested  in  animal  and  vegetable 
life,  and  with  a  little  help  and  guidance  will  often  en- 
joy making  a  study  of  some  one  family.  Beetles  may 
seem  uninteresting  to  the  casual  observer,  but  at  least 
one  bright  boy  is  an  enthusiastic  student  of  them.  His 
leisure  for  two  years  has  been  largely  devoted  to  col- 
lecting and  classifying  specimens,  some  of  which  are 
wonderfully  beautiful,  and  he  never  lacks  an  object 
for  a  ramble  or  occupation  for  rainy  days.  One  of  the 
choicest  collections  of  shells  we  ever  saw  was  gathered 
by  the  mother  of  a  large  family,  in  the  leisure  of 
middle  life,  and  continues  to  be  a  source  of  pleasure 
to  herself  and  a  large  circle  of  friends. 
*  *  * 
GREAT    POWER    OF    SODIUM. 


The  modern  development  of  electrical  metallurgy 
has  been  responsible  for  the  cheap  production  of  metals 
which  but  a  few  years  ago  were  little  more  than  "scien- 
tific  curiosities.      Aluminium    is    now    so   extensively 
used  that  it  no  longer  attracts  attention,  and  metallic 
sodium  has  been  reduced  in  price  to  a  little  over  25 
cents  a  pound  in  England.    If  it  were  practicable  to  use 
sodium  as  the  positive  element  in  a  primary  battery  it 
might  have  important  results  for  automobiles.     It  has 
been  calculated  that  a  pound  of  sodium  has  four  times 
the  heat  energy  of  a  pound  of  gasoline.    As  prices  go, 
this  would  make  sodium  representing  a  given  amount 
of  heat  energy  cost  about  twice  as  much  as  gasoline  of 
the  same  energy.     But  if  a  great  demand  for  sodium 
sprang   up,   the   price   would   naturally    fall,   and   the 
sodium  primary  battery  might  become  available.     The 
automobilist  would  carry  his  can  of  calcium  carbide 
lor  his  lamp,  and  his  cans  of  sodium  for  his  batteries. 
both  products  of  the  electrical  factory,  one  giving  him 
light  and  the  other  giving  him  power. 
*   *   * 
The  best  of  men 
That  e'er  wove  earth  about  him  was  a  sufferer : 
A  soft,  meek,  patient,  humble,  tranquil  spirit : 
The  first  true  gentleman  that  ever  breathed. 

— Decker. 


870 


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A    NIGHT    IN    A    DUNGEON. 


It  was  an  old  and  yellow  manuscript  that  Jack  and 
Arthur  found  in  the  bottom  of  the  little  hair-covered 
trunk  up  in  the  attic.  Perhaps  the  reason  it  had  es- 
caped notice  was  that  the  trunk  was  lined  with  paper 
of  nearly  the  same  color.  However  that  may  be,  none 
of  us  had  ever  seen  it  before,  and  when  on  that  rainy 
afternoon  we  were  all  gathered  in  the  sitting  room 
Aunt  Harriet  opened  it. 

"  It  is  in  your  great-grandfather's  handwriting,"  she 
said,  and  of  course  we  all  crowded  around  to  see  it. 
"  Your  great-grandfather  was  a  Frenchman,  and  of 
course  this  is  written  in  French."  This  brought  forth 
a  number  of  disappointed  exclamations,  but  when 
Aunt  Harriet  added,  "  And  if  you  wish,  I  will  trans- 
late it  as  I  go  along,"  the  faces  of  the  group  brightened, 
and  all  settled  themselves  comfortably  to  hear  what 
Great-grandfather  DAlmar  had  to  tell : 

It  was  a  piece  of  ill  luck  that  I  at  last  fell  into  the 
duke's  hands.  He  had  long  sought  to  do  me  some 
harm  in  payment  for  the  trick  I  played  him  in  running 
off  with  the  woman  he  loved,  but  for  fifteen  years  I 
had  avoided  him  and  escaped  his  vengeance.  At  last, 
however,  I  was  snared  by  two  of  the  duke's  retainers, 
and,  being  blindfolded,  was  conveyed  whither  I  know 
not,  for  when  the  bandage  was  removed  I  was  being  led 
through  a  large  stone  hall  and  my  conductors  were 
making  ready  to  thrust  me  into  a  narrow  dungeon 
which  one  of  them  unlocked.  It  was  of  no  avail  to 
reason  with  the  men.  They  were  under  the  duke's  or- 
ders and  dare  not  disobey  him. 

So  they  closed  the  door  upon  me  and  pushed  the 
bolts  in  place  with  a  crash,  and  I  was  alone.  The  dun- 
geon was  entirely  made  of  stone,  with  but  one  small 
and  strongly  barred  window  near  the  roof.  The  only 
piece  of  furniture  in  the  room  was  a  small  stone  bench, 
upon  which  I  seated  myself  to  think  over  the  sudden 
circumstance  which  had  placed  me  in  this  strange  and 
unpleasant  position. 

Not  a  bit  of  anything  was  to  be  seen.  In  fact,  the 
cell  was  bare  of  everything  except  the  bench  on  which 
I  sat,  and  that  was  merely  a  projection  from  the  stone 
wall.  I  had  always  been  accustomed  to  have  good 
things  to  eat  when  I  wanted  them,  and  the  thought  of 
being  without  food  for  any  length  of  time  was  not  very 
pleasant.  In  fact,  I  had  never  been  without  my  regu- 
lar three  meals  a  day. 

There  seemed  no  possible  way  of  escape,  and  all  I 
could  hope  for  was  clemency  from  the  duke.  I  thought 
he  would  hardly  dare  kill  me  in  his  own  house.  He 
might  perhaps  try  to  starve  me  to  death.  But  at  these 
thoughts  I  clinched  my  hands  and  shut  my  teeth  firmly 
together.     I  would  not  give  up  without  a  struggle. 

The  moonlight  commenced  to  shine  in  through  the 
bars  of  the  window,  first  in  sickly  little  streaks  and 


then  as  the  moon  rose  higher  in  a  blaze  of  white  light.  I 
There  was  some  companionship  in  this,  and  it  cheered ! 
me  a. little,  and  as  the  feeling  of  hunger  had  almost, 
passed  away  I  determined  to  make  myself  as  com- 1 
fortable  as  possible  with  the  limited  resources  within  I 
reach.  Removing  my  coat,  I  rolled  it  up  to  form  a  pil-  j 
low,  and  then,  after  offering  up  my  customary  prayer, 
I  lay  down  upon  the  stone  bench  and  in  a  few  minutes,  I 
like  a  tired  schoolboy,  I  was  lost  in  a  deep  and  dream-  i 
less  sleep. 

How  long  I  slept  I  cannot  say,  but  after  a  time  I 
awoke  with  a  sensation  as  if  I  were  choking.    The  sen- 
sation did  not  cease  when  I  left  my  improvised  bed.  I 
It  seemed  rather  to  increase.  ,  Why  this  should  be  1 1 
could  not  discover  until  as  I  again  sat  on  the  bench  il 
perceived  peculiar  vapors  issuing,  as  it  seemed,  from 
the  stone  sides  of  my  prison.     On  closer  examination! 
I  found  in  the  walls  at  each  end  of  my  cell  a  number  of 
small  holes,  which  were  without  doubt  connected  with 
pipes  on  the  outside  of  the  wall. 

A  sudden  horrible  suspicion  assailed  me.  Was  the  I 
duke  trying  to  exterminate  me  with  the  fumes  of  some  I 
deadly  gas?  I  tried  to  reach  up  and  stop  the  holesl 
with  my  hands.  By  standing  on  tiptoe  I  could  just} 
reach  two,  but  was  forced  to  withdraw  my  hands  im- 
mediately as  a  stream  of  steam  was  forced  against  [ 
them.  Almost  suffocated  with  the  fumes,  I  rushed  to 
the  bench  and,  mounting  it,  managed  to  grasp  the  iron 
bars  of  the  window  and  pull  my  head  up  to  breathe  I 
some  of  the  fresh  air.  This  was  not  an  easy  task,  but  I 
by  forcing  an  arm  out  and  around  a  bar  I  managed  to 
cling  there,  where  I  could  breathe  the  pure  air. 

Hanging  in  this  way,  I  gradually  became  insensi-j 
ble,  and  when  I  regained  consciousness  I  found,  to  myl 
great  delight,  that  the  instrument  of  torture  had  beenl 
removed.  Could  it  be  possible  that  the  duke  was  I 
watching  me  from  some  concealed  hole  and  was  in-l 
dieting  this  punishment  upon  me  for  the  pleasure  of 
seeing  me  suffer?  It  made  my  blood  boil  to  think  of 
such  a  thing. 

I  was  beginning  to  regain  strength  and  courage  whenl 
a  new  dread  presented  itself.     As  I  lay  on  the  floor  oft 
the  cell  I  was  horrified  to  see  the  roof  slowly  but  sure- 
ly descending  upon  me.     It  was  a  matter  of  but  a  fe 
minutes  when  my  life  would  be  crushed  out  by  tin 
great  weight  of  stone.     I  had  heard  of  similar  mean; 
being   employed    to    punish    criminals    in    the   Italia: 
prisons  and  it  had  always  made  me  faint  and  sick  to 
think  of  such  a  thing. 

Down  it  came,  slowly,  but  not  for  a  moment  stayi: 
its  deadly  approach.  I  could  touch  it  now  with  m 
hand  as  I  stood  up.  I  fell  on  my  knees  to  pray.  Whet 
I  again  stood  upright  my  head  struck  the  still  descend- 
ing roof.  I  endeavored  to  stand  straight,  using  all  mj 
might  to  resist  the  downward  pressure,  but  in  vain, 
Again  I  fell  on  my  knees.     The  weight  reached  mj 


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871 


head  and  pressed  me  farther  down.  I  was  now  lying 
on  my  face.  The  air  felt  hot  and  unbearable.  I  turned 
on  my  back  and  with  my  hands  and  knees  tried  to  push 
back  or  at  least  stop  the  farther  descent  of  that  awful 
wall. 

As  I  did  so  I  thought  I  could  hear  a  chuckling  noise 
which  sounded  like  laughter.  At  length,  in  hopeless 
despair,  I  lay  still  and  awaited  the  end.  My  body  was 
pressed  gently  against  the  floor.  The  weight  on  my 
chest  was  so  great  that  I  could  not  breathe.  I  made  a 
violent  effort  to  scream,  then  moaned  faintly,  and  that 
was  all  I  was  conscious  of. 

That  was  not  the  end,  however.  The  bright  sun 
shining  into  my  place  of  torture  and  imprisonment 
roused  me  to  consciousness  and  brought  back  the  awful 
remembrance  of  the  evening  before.  The  roof  had 
been  raised  to  its  original  position  and  there  was  noth- 
ing to  show  that  it  had  ever  moved.  My  head 
throbbed  with  fever  and  a  burning  thirst  parched  my 
throat  and  mouth.  I  cried  aloud  for  some  one  to 
bring  me  water,  but  there  was  no  answer. 

Then  I  rose  and  flung  myself  with  all  my  weak 
strength  against  the  bolted  door,  but  it  gave  not  an 
inch.  I  staggered  to  the  seat  and  fell  upon  it,  with 
my  face  against  the  stones,  in  order  to  gain  some  slight 
relief  from  the  coolness.  I  placed  my  tongue  and  lips 
against  the  stone,  but  it  gave  only  momentary  relief. 

Hark!  What  was  that?  Surely  it  was  the  sound 
of  running  water.  What  other  torture  would  they  offer 
me  ?  I  wondered.  How  close  the  water  sounded !  I 
turned  my  head  and  saw,  to  my  delight,  streams  of 
pure  water  flowing  from  the  holes  of  which  I  have  al- 
ready spoken.  I  flung  myself  to  the  ground  with  a  cry 
and  commenced  to  lap  up  the  water  which  was  fast 
covering  the  floor.  The  fiend !  It  was  not  water,  but 
some  fiery  liquid  which  scorched  and  shriveled  up  the 
skin  of  my  mouth.  I  flung  myself  back  on  the  seat  and 
resolved  not  to  move  again,  but  patiently  await  death. 

But  the  water  still  kept  on  flowing.  What  did  it 
mean  ?  It  was  creeping  slowly  up  to  the  bench.  Was 
drowning  in  this  fiery  liquid'  to  end  my  sufferings  at 
last?  Well,  I  would  lie  still  and  let  its  mission  be  ac- 
complished without  a  struggle.  But  this  was  impossi- 
ble. The  instinct  of  self-preservation  was  still  strong 
within  me,  and  I  stood  up.  The  water  was  now  up  to 
my  waist  and  rising.  What  would  be  the  use  of  pro- 
longing life  by  swimming  in  this  liquid'  I  might  as 
well  give  up  and  die.  Still  I  struck  out  with  my  arms 
and  tried  to  keep  my  head  above  the  liquid.  In  my 
feeble  state  it  was  hard  work. 

I  tried  to  float.  My  head  sank,  and  again  T  put  forth 
my  little  strength  and  managed  to  keep  on  the  surface 
for  a  short  time.  Then  I  felt  that  I  couldn't  hold  out 
any  longer.  I  sank  once  and  rose  again,  making  no 
effort  to  save  myself.  Then  I  sank  and  rose  once  more. 
Then  I  realized  that  I  could  rise  but  once  again  and 


opened  my  eyes   to  catch  a  glimpse  of  the   sunlight 
streaming  in  at  the  other  end  of  the  cell. 

To  my  intense  delight  I  saw  only  a  head  of  beautiful 
golden  hair,  and  a  little  voice  which  came  from  the 
child  who  had  her  arms  about  my  neck,  said :  "  Why. 
papa,  why  do  you  shiver  and  shake  so  when  you  take 
a  nap?  Come,  .leave  your  musty  old  books  and  go 
down  to  the  spring  with  me  to  get  a  drink  of  water." 
4»  *$>  4» 
TEASING    CHILDREN. 


Teasing  is  a  relic  of  barbarism  that  we  inherited 
from  our  faraway  heathen  ancestors,  and  is  some- 
thing that  has  lingered  with  us  much  too  long  alreadv. 
The  savages  love  to  tie  up  an  enemy  and  taunt  and 
torment  him  until  he  dies.  They  like  to  have  their 
victim  scream  and  struggle  and  suffer.  Our  teasing 
takes  a  little  milder  shape,  as  one  would  expect  when 
we  consider  the  character  of  our  victims.  Since  we 
do  not  find  it  safe  to  tease  an  able-bodied  man  very 
much,  and  as  it  is  not  convenient  to  tie  people  nowa- 
days, we  pick  on  a  class  that  are  not  dangerous,  that  is, 
we  tease  the  children.  Just  why  those  who  were  un- 
fortunate enough  to  come  into  this  world  from  ten  to 
fifty  years  later  than  we  should  be  expected  willingly 
to  submit  to  be  teased,  has  never  been  very  well  ex- 
plained. Possibly  it  may  be  because  we,  too,  had  to 
endure  being  teased  when  we  were  children,  and  now 
we  want  to  take  out  our  revenge  for  the  wrongs  we 
suffered,  on  the  younger  generation.  However  this 
may  be,  the  fact  remains  that'  many  people  dearly  love 
to  tease  and  taunt  the  children,  and  the  angrier  the 
child  becomes  the  better  they  seem  to  like  it.  Xot 
quite;  if  the  child  becomes  so  angry  that  it  flies  all  to 
pieces  and  does  and  says  things  it  should  not,  they  like 
to  use  their  superior  strength  and  authority  to  punish 
it  back  into  quiet  again.    They  seem  to  enjoy  this,  too. 

Xow  no  thinking  man  or  woman  believes  for  a 
moment  that  teasing  will  make  a  child  happier  or  bet- 
ter or  more  even  tempered.  Most  people,  if  brought 
face  to  face  with  the  question,  admit  that  teasing  spoils 
the  disposition  of  the  child,  and  no  one  has  ever  been 
able  to  give  a  good  reason  why  it  should  be  done.  If 
you  tease  a  horse  he  will  soon  snap  at  you,  and  you 
cannot  blame  him  for  it,  either.  We  would  then  in  the 
interest  of  children,  beseech  all  who  are  interested  in 
the  moral  advancement  of  the  race,  and  who  love 
children,  that  they  deny  themselves  of  this  very  self- 
ish pleasure  of  teasing  children.  Some  one  has  wisely 
said  that  if  you  cannot  get  along  without  teasing  some- 
thing, get  yourself  a  mean  dog  and  tease  him.  That. 
however,  would  hardly  be  serving  the  dog  right. — 
Children's  Friend. 

*   *  * 

'!i  in  often  comes  to  visit  us.  hut  generally  we  are  not 
in. — Abbe  Kou.v. 


872 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  13,  1904. 


AMERICANISMS. 


BY  CLYDE  E.  BATES. 


THE  COUNTRY   BOY   IN   THE   CITY. 


BY    CLARA    E.    STAUFFER. 


If  an  American  gentleman,  visiting  in  England, 
should  receive  a  note  stating  that  his  wife's  body 
would  be  sent  to  him  in  a  box,  charges  io£  5  s.,  his 
heart  would  begin  to  palpitate  unless  he  understood 
that  the  Englishman  meant  "  dress  waist "  when  he 
said  "  body." 

Americanisms  come  from  every  place  in  our  country 
and  from  all  classes.  The  Indian  has  given  us  "  bury 
the  hatchet ;  "  the  Negro,  "  take  the  cake;  "  the  Dutch- 
man, "  Dutch  as  sour  krout  "  and  "already  yet ;"  the 
cowboy,  "  clean  the  ranch,"  and  the  college  student, 
"'  com'ption  fit  "  and  "  flunk,"  meaning  a  failure  in 
studies.  At  one  of  our  universities  the  students  have 
gone  so  far  as  to  give  the  principal  parts  of  flunk,  as, 
flunco,  fluncere,  suspensi,  expellum. 

The  East  "  calculate,"  the  South  "  reckon,"  and  the 
West  "  suppose  "  and  "  guess."  The  hoe-cake  is  a 
Southern  and  negro  term,  which  has  a  peculiar  history. 
Formerly  it  was  baked  on  a  hoe  and  to  turn  the  cake 
the  hoe  was  given  a  flip  in  order  to  accomplish  this. 
After  the  hoe-cake  was  eaten  they  then  gave  a  dance 
called  the  "  hoe  down."  And  when  the  negro  had 
eaten  the  "  hoe-cake  "  and  danced  a  "  hoe  down  "  he 
could  for  a  short  time  nearly  forget  his  troubles  and 
his  hatred  to  his  white  owner. 

Politics  and  history  have  added  a  few  words  to  our 
list.  There  was  once  a  time  in  our  history  that  if  a 
Republican  was  seen  in  the  Democratic  ranks  on  elec- 
tion day,  he  was  known  as  a  "  mugwump."  Salt  river 
is  a  noted  stream  in  American  history  up  which  one  po- 
litical party  makes  a  retreat  every  four  years.  "  Not 
worth  a  continental  "  carries  our  minds  back  to  the 
time  of  the  Revolution  when  money  was  worth  only 
two  cents  on  the  dollar. 

If  a  lady's  hat  is  on  crooked,  our  Western  cowboys 
say  it  is  "  catawampous."  "  Heeled,"  is  a  word  used 
by  the  miners  principally,  and  a  description  of  a  heeled 
miner  is  something  like  this — a  man  with  two  thirty- 
eight  calibre  revolvers,  two  bowie  knives  and  a  Win- 
chester or  two,  or  in  other  words  a  walking  "  arsenal." 
In  the  South  a  man  that  is  ill-tempered  and  ready  to 
abuse  his  wife  is  "  rantankerous  "  and  when  he  gets 
in  a  hurry  he  is  "  rambunctious." 

Many  a  blunder  has  been  made  on  account  of  Amer- 
icanisms having  more  than  one  meaning.  In  one  of 
our  neighboring  towns  a  lady  bid  her  lady  caller  good- 
day  and,  as  any  might  do,  asked  her  to  come  back 
again,  and  to  her  astonishment  the  lady  turned  and 
came  back.  A  street  car  conductor  when  the  car  was 
about  to  go  through  a  narrow  tunnel  said  "  look  out  " 
and  a  Frenchman,  doing  so,  nearly  lost  his  life  by  it. 

Elgin,  II!. 


My  dear,  promising  young  men  who  are  thinking 
of  going  to  the  city  to  live,  let  me  give  you  one  gentle 
hint,  "  Look  before  you  leap." 

First  of  all  consider  well  your  object  in  going.  If 
you  are  going  only  to  make  money  and  as  you  think 
have  a  snap,  stay  where  you  are,  for  you  have  about 
nine  chances  in  ten  of  being  disappointed.  If,  on 
the  other  hand,  you  are  going  there  to  develop  .your 
talents  in  some  line  of  work,  which  will  benefit  you 
and  your  fellow-men,  you  have  a  good  opportunity 
to  succeed,  for  the  strong-muscled,  strong-brained, 
big-hearted  country  boy  can  be  the  city  boy's  su- 
perior almost  every  time.  So  there  are  great  oppor- 
tunities there  for  him  if  he  has  a  strong  character 
and  plenty  of  grit.  Another  hint,  "  Put  your  Bible 
in  your  trunk  and  use  it  often."  Seek  God's  people 
after  you  are  there,  and  you  will  be  safe.  Without 
these  you  are  in  a  perilous  condition. 

To  the  young  man  who  is  going  to  town  for  a 
snap,  let  me  say,  "  Count  your  present  blessings." 
Study  well  the  sweet,  pure  faces  of  your  brothers 
and  sisters  who  always  were  so  true.  Then  your 
dear  parents  must  be  appreciated.  It  they  are  not 
already  in  the  grave,  their  very  hearts  are  beating 
for  you.  They  always  so  gladly  share  every  joy  of 
home  with  you. 

This  class  of  boys  find  city  life  much  different,  es- 
pecially so  if  they  go  alone.  A  small  room  may  be 
home.  Restaurant  eating  soon  becomes  monotonous 
and  he  thinks  of  mother's  pumpkin  pies  and  so  many 
other  good  things.  If  he  is  fortunate  enough  to  get  I 
work,  he  must  forever  stay  by  it.  Unless  he  pre- 
pares himself  in  some  line  of  work,  he  is  worse  off 
than  his  country  cousin  at  home.  As  for  pleasure, 
he  is  in  a  different  world.  Almost  every  turn  re- 
quires some  of  that  hard-earned  money.  Instead  of  II 
quiet  drives  along  country  roads  with  his  companions 
whom  he  has  known  for  years,  the  noisy  parks  and 
street  cars  take  the  place  as  he  escorts  his  city  friends. 
Boys  often  think  they  are  very  smart  and  can  han- 
dle themselves,  but  a  few  years  of  experience  teaches 
them  that  money  goes  and  pleasures  fade.  The  city 
has  wealthy  men  but  many  poor  ones.  Poor  they  are 
in  money,  character  and  body.  Wealth  is  not  a  test 
of  character  either.  Even  the  strong  country  boy 
fades  before  his  allotted  time  for  lack  of  good  air  and 
true  pleasures.  We  see  country  boys  drift  to  the  low- 
est depths,  and  they  are  not  always  the  worst  class  at 
first  either.  He  is  naturally  curious,  and  there  are 
many  traps  on  all  sides  to  catch  him.  Even  the  boy 
who  goes  to  the  city  for  a  grand  purpose  in  life  of- 
ten  changes.     It   is   not   uncommon   to  see  our  own'. 


THE   INGLENOOK.— September  13,  1904. 


873 


young  men  change  and  become  fascinated  with  city 
pleasures,  and  even  neglect  the  society  of  our  mod- 
est young  women  for  the  sake  of  some  fashionable 
girl  of  lightmindedness  and  high  society.  It  gives 
us  no  little  concern  when  we  see  them  drift.  An- 
other great  barrier  the  good  boy  meets  is  the  lodge. 
Men  tell  him  he  is  not  a  man  if  he  does  not  join 
some  order  and  protect  himself  or  his  family  as  he 
becomes  older  in  life. 

It  takes  a  great  boy  to  become  a  great  man.  For 
a  country  boy  to  become  great  in  the  city,  he  must 
remain  true  to  his  principles,  true  to  his  God,  true 
to  his  work.  He  must  choose  for  his  associates  his 
equals  or  those  above  him,  read  good  books,  and  ever 
;  strive  to  develop  his  mind  and  heart,  and  keep  his 
body  pure. 

A  country  boy  with  much  backbone  has  many  ad- 
vantages over  the  city  boy.  First,  he  has  a  more 
natural  conception  of  things,  stronger  body,  stronger 
mind,  and  an  inherited  love  for  work.  He  is  quick 
to  learn.  From  this  rank  come  many  of  our  great 
men.  They  are  a  credit  to  the  city  when  there,  and 
we  thank   God  we  have  such  boys. 

Indianapolis,  Ind. 

*  *  * 

WHAT   IT    COSTS. 


Few  persons  would  guess  the  vast  amount  of  stuff 
it  constantly  requires  to  run  our  public  departments  at 
our  national  capital.  The  following  gives  an  idea  of 
the  elaborate  outfit  one  of  them  requires.  This  is  for 
the  department  of  the  Interior  alone. 

A    well-equipped    force  of   carpenters,    machinists, 
electricians,  etc.,  is  maintained  in  the  Custodian's  offic^ 
for  the  purpose  of  attending  to  the  maintenance  ani 
repair  of  the  various  offices  and  bureaus.    The  mate- 
rial of  the  division  includes  a  modern  carpenter  shoj 
with  all  sorts  of  labor-saving  machinery ;  a  large  en-l 
gineer  force,  a  repair  shop  for  typewriters,  and  such! 
other  branches  of   industry   as  are   required    for   the? 
maintenance  of  a  business  as  varied  and  large  as  that 
of  the  Interior  Department.     The  coal  used  includes] 
3,000  tons  of  bituminous  coal  and  1,700  tons  of  anthra- 
cite.   To  properly  keep  up  the  fires  and  to  supply  tin 
many  open  fireplaces  61   cords  of  wood  are  required 
annually,  and  to  furnish  the  right  chill  for  the  drink- 
ing water  1,500,000  pounds  of  ice  are  necessary.     Th< 
Department  also  uses  225  iron  buckets,  720  brooms,  72a 
whisk     brooms,      240     dust     brushes,      120     scrul 
brushes.      120      hair      brushes,      15      dozen      combs. 
1,760      boxes       of       matches,       6,000        cakes        of 
toilet    soap,    3,000    pounds    of    laundry    soap.     1 .200 
glass  tumblers,  50  wash  bowls,  and  50  wash  pitchess, 
100  dozen  papers  of  tacks  of  various  kinds,  10  kegs  Si 
nails,  425  chairs,  4,000  yards  of  the  best  quality  body 
Brussels  carpet,  2,500  yards  of  carpet  lining.     It  must 


be  remembered  that  these  figures  do  not  represent  all 
of  the  articles  named  that  are  used  in  the  Department. 
For  instance,  the  furniture  purchased  is  merely  to  re- 
place that  worn  out  during  the  year,  and  the  figures 
show  what  must  be  bought  annually.  Thus  the  speci- 
fication for  the  bids  this  year  call  for  140  desks,  12 
typewriter  tables,  275  yards  of  blue-black  cloth  to  be 
used  in  recovering  desks,  and  300  dozen  towels. 

THE    EFFECTS    OF    ALTITUDE. 


The  British  Thibet  expedition  which  has  required 
the  existence  of  troops  at  altitudes  of  from  10,000  to 
15,700  feet  above  sea  level,  has  furnished  a  number 
of  instances  of  the  effect  of  high  elevation  on  life  and 
habits.  There  has  been  considerable  mountain  sickness 
among  the  men,  who  were  quite  unused  to  such  alti- 
tudes, and  also  a  large  amount  of  indigestion  due  to 
undercooked  food.  At  elevations  of  15,000  feet,  water 
boils  at  about  180  degrees  Fahrenheit,  and,  consequent- 
ly, the  ordinary  amount  of  cooking  is  quite  inadequate. 
At  such  a  height  it  is  almost  impossible  to  boil  rice 
properly,  while  of  the  several  kinds  of  dal  or  red  len- 
til of  India  there  is  only  one  variety  that  can  be  cooked 
at  heights  over  10,000  feet.  For  such  elevations  there 
should  have  been  provided  cooking  vessels  with  air- 
tight lids,  provided  with  safety  valves  which  would 
blow  off  at  a  pressure  of  15  pounds  to  the  square  inch, 
or  approximately  that  of  the  atmosphere  at  sea  level. 
Another  effect  of  the  altitude  and  temperature  was  the 
difficulty  in  the  operation  of  the  magazines  of  the 
rifles  and  the  mechanism  of  the  Maxim  guns  on  ac- 
count of  the  congealing  of  the  oil,  which  lost  its  lubri- 
cating- properties. 

*   *   * 

CHANGES    IN    RUSSIAN    WOMEN. 


JL 


/ 


Wonderful  is  the  change  wrought  in  the  position 
of  Russian  women  during  the  last  200  years.  Once 
upon  a  time  their  lot  differed  little  from  that  of  their 
sisters  in  Constantinople,  as  a  girl  never  came  in  con- 
tact with  men  before  her  marriage.  Now,  many  Rus- 
sian girls  go  abroad,  especially  to  study  medicine. 
There  are  to-day  300  Russian  women  students  at  the 
University  of  Berlin.  The  Russian  woman  doctor  fur- 
nishes a  distinct  type.  She  usually  cuts  her  hair  short 
and  cares  very  little  about  her  personal  appearance. 
1  She  is  often  the  mother  of  a  large  family,  and  supports, 
by  her  earnings,  a  lazy  husband  in  the  bargain.  On 
being  shown  over  a  hospital  I,  on  one  occasion,  actually 
mistook  the  woman  doctor  in  charge  for  a  "  maid  of  all 
work,"  and  passed  her  by  in  the  hall. 
*  ♦  * 

If  you  will  always  remember  that,  whatever  you  are 
doing,  God  stands  by  as  a  witness,  you  will  never  err  in 
all  your  acts. — Epictctus. 


874 


THE   INGLENOOK.— September  13,  1904. 


OUR    NATIONAL    SONGS. 


BY  MARGUERITE  A.  BIXLER. 

War  songs  spring"  into  being  when  a  nation's  heart 
is  overflowing  with  loyalty.  All  races  from  time  im- 
memorial, have  had  their  war  songs.  They  begin  the 
poetry  of  nations.  The  Iliad  chanted  the  glory  of 
Grecian  arms.  The  bards  of  the  Celts  and  Teutons 
gave  both  lyrics  and  laws  to  their  people.  From  these 
same  sources  came  the  inspiration  of  the  old  war  songs 
of  France.  Our  country  has  been  fortunate  in  timely 
war  songs.  From  the  time  preceding  the  Revolution- 
ary War  it  has  never  lacked  for  soul-stirring  ballads. 

More  than  a  hundred  years  ago  the  first  great  war 
song  came  into  existence.  "  Hail  Columbia  "  has  oc- 
cupied a  hallowed  place  in  the  hearts  of  all  true  Amer- 
icans. This  song  was  written  by  Joseph  Hopkinson, 
and  was  first  sung  in  Philadelphia,  by  a  young  man 
named  Fox.  The  singer  was  forced  to  sing  the  song 
again  and  again,  while  his  hearers  joined  in  the  chorus 
with  a  heartiness  and  a  volume  of  sound  that  rivaled 
the  roar  of  distant  Niagara.  The  new  song  spread 
throughout  the  land  like  wildfire,  and  became  the  war 
song  of  the  Young  Republic. 

The  War  of  1812  was  responsible  for  the  most  popu- 
lar song  of  the  Yankee  Nation — the  "  Star  Spangled 
Banner."  It  was  the  work  of  a  young"  and  patriotic 
lawyer,  Francis  Scott  Key.  Key,  with  John  S.  Skinner, 
agent  for  the  exchange  of  prisoners,  was  detained  un- 
der a  guard  of  British  sailors  on  their  own  vessel,  the 
Surprise,  whence  they  witnessed  the  attack  upon  Fort 
McHenry.  Owing  to  their  position  the  American  flag 
on  the  staff  at  the  fort  was  seen  distinctly  through  the 
night  by  the  glare  of  the  battle,  but  before  dawn  the 
firing  ceased,  and  the  prisoners  anxiously  watched 
for  daylight  to  see  what  colors  floated  on  the  ramparts. 
The  excess  of  patriotic  feeling  experienced  by  Key 
when  he  saw  that  the  Stars  and  Stripes  had  not  been 
hauled  down  found  expression  in  the  soul-stirring 
words  of  "  The  Star  Spangled  Banner."  On  reaching 
Baltimore  he  finished  the  lines  of  the  song,  which  he 
had  written  on  the  back  of  a  letter,  and  gave  them  to 
Captain  Eades  with  directions  to  have  a  number  of 
copies  printed,  and  that  the  song  should  be  sung  to  the 
air,  "  Anacreon  in  Heaven."  Seizing  the  first  copy 
from  the  press,  the  Captain  hastened  to  the  old  tavern 
where  singers  were  accustomed  to  assemble.  The 
verses  were  first  read  aloud  and  then  at  the  request  of 
all  present,  Ferdinand  Durang  mounted  a  chair  and 
sang  for  the  first  time  the  song  that  steadily  gained 
popularity  until  now  it  is  officially  accepted  as  our  na- 
tional air. 

A  song  that  appeals  less  to  the  warlike  spirit  of  the 
nation  than  to  that  love  of  country  upon  which  all  real 
patriotism  is  founded,  is  "  My  Country,  'tis  of  Thee." 


Samuel  Francis  Smith  wrote  this  hymn  while  he  was 
a  theological  student,  and  it  was  first  sung  at  a  chil- 
dren's celebration  in  Boston,  on  July  4th,  1832. 

It  required  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  to  show  what 
the  country  could  do  in  the  way  of  war  songs.  None 
were  closer  to  the  popular  heart  than  those  of  Dr.  Geo. 
Root.  "  The  Battle  Cry  of  Freedom,"  "  Tramp, 
Tramp,  Tramp,  the  Boys  are  Marching "  and  "  We 
are  Coming  Father  Abraham,  Three  Hundred  Thou- 
sand Strong,"  by  Luther  O.  Emerson. 

It  remained  for  Julia  Ward  Howe, — a  gentle,  God- 
fearing woman — to  chant  "  The  Battle  Hymn  of  the 
Republic."  Her  "  John  Brown  "  song  and  other  pa- 
triotic ballads  made  her  known  through  the  country. 

The  famous  war  song  of  the  Southland,  "  Dixie," 
which  is  now  sung  in  Northern  cities,  was  written  by 
Dan  Emmet,  the  veteran  minstrel,  who  wrote  it  as  a 
plantation  melody  while  he  was  with  Bryant's  Min- 
strels, shortly  before  the  Civil  War. 

Historically,  there  are  always  helpful  things  to  be 
gleaned  from  a  nation's  songs  and  hymns.  In  "  Ori- 
gin and  Stories  of  Songs  and  Hymns  "  will  be  found 
more  along  this  line  than  space  will  permit  in  these 
columns. 

*   *   * 

WHAT   IS    IT? 


The  third  rail  of  the  Interurban  Railroad  between 
Tacoma  and  Seattle  is  moving  in  the  direction  of  Ta- 
coma  at  the  rate  of  two  feet  each  year.  The  movement 
of  the  rail  is  causing  the  company  considerable  trou- 
ble and  if  it  continues  will  become  very  embarrassing. 

Chief  Engineer  Bosworth  has  given  the  matter  care- 
ful study,  but  is  unable  to  solve  the  mysterious  phe- 
nomenon. After  careful  watching  he  has  found  that 
the  third  rail  moves  faster  in  hot  than  in  cold  weather 
and  says  that  during  very  warm  days  it  has  moved 
as  much' as  two  inches  in  the  direction  of  Tacoma,  but 
at  night  it  recedes  slightly. 

The  force  that  is  moving  the  rail  is  apparently  irre- 
sistible. In  many  places  along  the  line  the  ties  im- 
bedded in  the  roadbed  are  pushed  along  by  the  rail,  re- 
quiring additional  section  work  to  keep  the  road  in 
order.  Some  unexplained  mystery  of  electric  energy 
is  charged  with  the  cause. 

A  greater  part  of  the  distance  between  Tacoma  and 
Seattle  the  third  rail  is  laid  on  the  east  side  of  the 
track.  Engineer  Bosworth  has  noticed  that  on  small 
portions  of  the  rail  at  switches  and  elsewhere  where 
the  third  rail  is  on  the  west  side  of  the  track  it  moves 
toward  Seattle. 

*  *  * 

I  have  been  driven  many  times  to  my  knees  by  the 
overwhelming  conviction  that  I  had  nowhere  else  to 
go.  My  own  wisdom,  and  that  of  all  about  me,  seemed 
insufficient  for  the  dav. — Abraham  Lincoln. 


THE   INGLENOOK.— September  13,  1904. 


875 


BE    NATURAL! 


BY    ETHA    A.    EVANS. 

Do  not  strive  to  be  any  other  but  what  you  are. 
Some  one  may  do  some  particular  thing  which  in 
them  looks  nice,  but  that  particular  action  may  not 
suit  you  at  all. 

Affectedness  should  be  avoided !  Have  you  ever 
noticed  the  different  expressions  and  tricks  of  the 
faces  of  women  you  pass  on  the  street  or  meet  oth- 


One 


carrv  herself  with  a  swing  that  is 


absolutely  ridiculous.  Another  will  screw  up  her  eyes 
into  some  unnaturalness,  while  another  will  purse  up 
her  mouth  as  if  she  said,  "  Prunes  and  prisms  "  hours 
in  front  of  her  mirror.  Avoid  such  actions.  They 
are  detrimental  to  one's  career. 

Do  not  scorn  words  of  one  and  two  syllables.  Have 
a  little  mercy  for  your  fellow-creatures  and  do  not 
render  them  breathless  with  extravagance  from  your 
vocabulary.  The  most  forcible  language  and  one  that 
appeals  to  all  classes  alike  is  the  one  composed  of 
concise  and  simple  little  words.  Talk  with  reason. 
Above  all  you  do,  don't  gush! 

I  must  confess  the  situation  is  alarming  when  some 
people  begin  to.  talk.  They  reel  out  words  of  a  won- 
drous length  and  in  a  powerful  tone  with  such  a 
knowing  and  superior  look  that  one  feels  like  an 
idiot  just  escaped  from  some  asylum  and  having  but 
one  desire,  that  to  laugh. 

How  charming  it  is  to  meet  the  well-bred  man  or 
woman  who  is  unconscious  of  self  and  who  talks  sim- 
ply, yet  elegantly,  and  in  such  a  manner  as  to  leave  an 
impression  on  one's  mind  of  originality  and  education. 

On  the  other  hand,  have  you  ever  met  the  person 
that  in  a  half-hour's  talk  will  tell  you  all  about  his 
family  affairs,  and  with  a  few  ahs  and  primps  how 
much  papa  is  worth,  that  they  have  been  to  college, 
never  did  a  lick  of  work,  etc.  ? 

Such  persons  leave  nothing  to  be  guessed  at,  con- 
sequently interest  in  them  wanes  and  one  is  disgusted 
by  their  vain  actions.  They  are  neither  well-bred  nor 
well  educated.  These  people  are  generally  of  the  class 
called  "  nouveau  riche." 

No  matter  what  transpires,  what  fame  you  gain, 
do  not  become  "  puffed  up  "  so  that  you  are  not  your 
own  charming  self. 

Buford,  N.  Dak. 

<•  *  <s> 

MEDICINAL    WEEDS. 


In  a  recent  bulletin  of  the  United  States  Department 
of  Agriculture  attention  was  called  to  the  fact  that  cer- 
tain well-known  weeds  now  either  generally  or  locally 
infesting  the  country  are  the  sources  of  crude  drugs 
at  the  present  time  obtained  wholly  or  in  part  by  im- 
portation from  abroad.     Roots,  leaves  and  flowers  of 


several  of  the  species  most  detrimental  in  the  United 
States  are  gathered,  prepared  and  cured  in  Europe, 
and  not  only  form  useful  commodities  there,  but  sup- 
ply to  a  considerable  extent  the  demands  of  foreign 
lands.  Hence  it  appears  probable  that  while  weeds 
can  hardly  be  made  desirable,  still  in  his  fight  to  ex- 
terminate them  the  farmer  may  be  able  to  turn  some  of 
them  to  account.  Some  of  the  plants  coming  within 
the  class  are  in  many  states  subject  to  antiweed  laws, 
and  farmers  are  required  to  take  measures  toward 
their  extermination.  It  seems,  therefore,  desirable  to 
make  these  pests  sources  of  profit  where  that  is  feasible. 
To'  help  the  farmers  to  obtain  the  best  possible  re- 
sults for  such  products,  instructions  for  collecting  and 
preparing  crude  drugs  from  weeds  are  briefly  given 
in  the  bulletin.  The  plants  mentioned  are  burdock, 
dandelion,  the  docks,  couch  grass  and  pokeweed  (prin- 
cipally root  drugs),  foxglove,  mullein,  lobelia,  tansy, 
gum  plant,  scaly  grindelia,  boneset,  catnip,  hoarhound, 
yarrow,  fleabane,  blessed  thistle,  jimson  weed  and  poi- 
son hemlock  (of  which  either  the  leaves,  flowers,  herb 
or  seeds  are  used  in  medicine),  and  also  wormseed  and 
black  and  white  mustards,  of  which  only  the  seeds  are 
used. — Selected. 

*    ^   4 
WOMEN    ARE    SCARCE. 


According  to  the  census  of  1901,  the  males  of  Can- 
ada numbered  2,751,708,  whereas  the  females  could 
muster  only  2,619,607.  Hence  the  male  majority  was 
132,101.  This  is  a  state  of  affairs  that  is  incidental  to 
all  pioneer  communities.  As  a  rule  in  a  new  country 
the  men  go  in  first,  clear  the  land,  build  the  houses  and 
then  bring  in  wives.  This  is  the  usual  sequence  of 
events,  whether  it  be  desirable  or  otherwise. 

If  there  are  130,000  men  who  are  doing  this  pioneer 
duty,  the  estimate,  by  no  means  a  large  one,  is 
accounted  for;  They  will  in  due  time  bring  with  them 
their  wives  or  send  for  them,  and  then  their  happiness 
will  be  complete.  It  will  be  observed  that  the  disparity 
of  the  sexes  is  most  marked  in  the  new  districts.  In 
all  Quebec  there  are  only  10  more  males  than  females. 
In  Ontario,  with  large  areas  being  opened  up  for  set- 
tlement, there  are  about  10,000  more  males  than  fe- 
males. Manitoba  is  22,000  females  short.  British 
Columbia  is  about  50,000  short,  while  in  the  unorgan- 
ized territories  the  females  are  outnumbered  by  two  to 
one. 

All  this  goes  to  show  that  it  is  in  the  pioneer  districts 
that  the  men  predominate.  However,  in  spite  of  the 
balance  of  numbers  against  the  women,  there  are  in 
Canada  1.564.011  unmarried  females  of  various  ages. 
In  the  early  days  of  Canada's  history,  when  ship  loads 
of  damsels  were  brought  from  France  to  espouse  the 
King's  soldiers,  the  experiment  was  scarcely  a  success. 
Canada  needs  men  as  well  as  women. 


THE   INGLENOOK.— September  13,  1904. 


ROANOKE. 


BY    J.    J.    MILLER. 

As  a  matter  of  interest  to  the  Nook  family,  from 
,  a  geographical  standpoint,  I  write  the  following,  know- 
ing as  I  do  the  real  conditions.  No  one  can  have  a 
better  idea  of  the  geography  of  any  country .  than 
to  study  its  people,  climate  and  products.  Here  is 
what  we  have  seen  in  Roanoke  since.  1898.. 

.  We  have  grown  almost  everything  here  in  the  way 
of  crops  except  wheat,  rye,  barley,  flax,  timothy  and 
clover.  We  grow  two  crops  of  Irish  potatoes  on  the 
same  ground  in  one  year.  The  first  planting  comes 
in  January  or  February,  and  then  again  in  July  or 
August.  We  have  some  garden  truck  growing  all  the 
year  round.  There  has  not  been  a  day  that  I  know 
of  for  more  than  three  years  that  we  could  not  get 
something  out  of  our  garden  to  eat. 

Irish  potatoes  yield  enormously,  and  sweet  pota- 
toes also.  Last  summer  was  a  very  dry  summer, 
although  we  dug  over  one  hundred  and  forty  bush- 
els of  sweet  potatoes  from  less  than  one  acre  of 
ground.  This  summer  has  also  been  dry  and  hot; 
corn  almost  a  failure;  the  sweet  potato  crop  is  prom- 
ising. We  have  some  at  this  writing  that  weigh 
from  three  to  four  pounds.  Peanuts  do  exceeding- 
ly well.  TcTnTustrate :  We  dug  six  bushels  from  a 
spot  of  ground  fifty-one  feet  square,  and  very  little 
attention  was  given  them  after  planting,  no  fertilizer 
being  used.  We  dug  twenty-one  and  a  half  bushels 
of  Irish  potatoes  from  a  spot  of  ground  fifty-one 
by  fifty-four  feet,  barnyard  manure  being  used  as  fer- 
tilizer. These  are  facts  and  not  exceptions,  as  we 
expect  our  forthcoming  crop  to  yield  fully  as  well. 

Two  of  my  neighbors,  farming  in  partnership,  plant- 
ed three  and  one-half  acres  in  watermelons,  and  sold 
their  crop  in  July  for'  ^500. 

Roanoke,  La. 

$  &  $ 

CARRYING    WEAPONS. 


Ordinarily  there  is  no  good  reason  why  a  private 
citizen  should  carry  concealed  weapons  within  the  cor- 
porate limits  of  the  towns  and  cities  of  this  country, 
and  every  adult  person  in  full  possession  of  his  fac- 
ulties ought  to  realize  the  foolishness  and  danger  of 
it.  But,  nevertheless,  it  is  quite  a  common  thing 
for  men  to  go  equipped  for  hostile  action,  in  spite  of 
the  laws  and  ordinances  which  make  the  practice  il- 
legal. The  offenders  usually  can  give  no  reason  for 
arming  themselves  except  it  be  a  vague  fear  of  being 
held  up  by  a  highwayman  or  assaulted  by  some  enemy 
with  a  personal  grievance. 

But  none  of  these  reasons  is  wholly  sufficient  un- 
der the  law,  while  as  a  matter  of  actual  experience  it 


is  well  known  that  the  man  who  looks  for  trouble 
is  the  one  most  likely  to  find  it.  Keep  unarmed  and 
go  unharmed  is  the  advice  of  the  police  and  the  best 
authorities  on  criminology.  One  who  is  not  prepared 
to  protect  himself  is  apt  to  stay  away  from  the  dark 
corners  of  a  city  where  danger  lurks.  Furthermore, 
in  case  of  an  encounter  with  a  footpad  or  a  thug  the 
chances  of  escaping  safe  and  sound  are  better  where 
no  resistance  is  made.  In  such  a  predicament,  discre- 
tion is  the  better  part  of  valor,  and  pride  and  courage 
may  be  laid  aside  for  the  time  being  without  any 
loss  of  honor.  A  gentleman  who  is  held  up  may  well 
consider  that  his  life  is  more  valuable  to  those  de- 
pending on  him  than  the  few  dollars  and  other  val- 
uables he  is  required  to  surrender.  To  "  lay "  for 
an  enemy  or  be  prepared  to  meet  his  assault  with 
equal  force  is  looked  upon  as  an  evidence  of  bravery 
among  a  certain  class  and  in  certain  localities ;  but 
whenever  bloodshed  results  in  such  encounters,  the 
murderer,  when  he  comes  to  his  senses,  is  usually  quick 
to  lament  the  fatality  and  condemn  himself  for  his 
crime.  It  is  far  better  to  go  unrevenged  than  to  go 
through  life  with  a  tortured  conscience.  There  are 
but  few  wrongs  that  justify  manslaughter,  and  sure- 
ly a  business  difficulty  or  misunderstanding  is  not  one 
of  them. — Kansas  City  Journal. 

4»  4»  * 

INDUSTRIAL    SCHOOL    OF    WASHINGTON. 


BY    JENNIE    STEPHENS. 

The  industrial  school  of  the  State  of  Washington 
is  located  in  Lenio  county,  four  miles  south  of  Cen- 
tralia,  near  the  N.  P.  R.  R.  The  value  in  real  es- 
tate and  personal  property  is  seventy  thousand  dol- 
lars. It  is  an  institution  that  the  State  can  well  feel 
proud  of  in  caring  for  its  inmates  and  throwing  a 
homelike  influence  around  them  to  make  useful  cit- 
izens of  them  in  the  future. 

At  the  State  Industrial  school  there  are  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty-six  boys  and  twenty-five  girls,  ages 
ranging  from  ten  to  eighteen  years.  Half  of  this 
number  can  perform  all  the  work  required  in  keep- 
ing up  the  institution,  and  also  have  regular  hours  in 
school. 

The  opinion  of  the  board  regarding  manual  train- 
ing for  the  inmates  of  the  industrial  school  is  that 
they  ought  to  be  employed  to  as  great  an  extent  as 
possible  in  the  manufacturing  of  articles,  not  only 
for  their  own  use  in  the  school  in  which  they  are 
confined,  but  also  for  the  use  of  the  other  institu- 
tions under  the  control  of  the  board.  This  course 
has  been  followed  and  machinery,  tools,  etc.,  have 
been  gradually  added  to  the  shoeshop  and  tailoring 
departments.  In  the  shoe  department  are  manufac- 
tured all  the  shoes  and  slippers  for  the  members  of 


THE    I XGLENOOK.— September  13,  1904. 


877 


he  State  Soldiers'  Home  and  all  the  shoes  for  the 
ale  inmates  of  the  two  hospitals  for  the  insane.  In 
e  tailoring  department  is  manufactured  all  the  clotti- 
ng for  the  males  of  the  insane  hospital,  and  for  the 
Eastern  Washington  Hospital  as  well. 

For  the  State  Soldiers'  Home  they  are  now  mak- 
ing all  the  underwear,  overshirts  and  overalls.  Four 
complete  sets  of  carpenter  tools  employ  a  number  of 
boys  each  day  in  charge  of  a  competent  instructor. 
The  board  contemplates  increasing  the  capacity  of  the 
shoeshops  so  as  to  be  able  to  make  slippers  and  shoes 
for  all  the  male  inmates  at  the -hospitals  for  the  sane, 
both  male  and  female. 
Centralia,  Wash. 

♦  •:•  * 

LITTLE    MISS    CRUSOE. 


•  "  I  want  to  go  out  rowing  without  father  or  Ned. 
some  day.  All  you  have  to  do  is  just  to  hold  the  oars 
and  pull  this  way,"  said  little  Helen  Grey  to  her 
mother. 

"  Yes,  and  all  there  was  to  do,  two  years  ago  to  see 
the  well,  was  to  take  a  seat  in  a  bucket !  but  you  came 
very  near  being  drowned,  my  child,"  said  the  mother. 

"  I  was  small  then ;  but  I'm  big  now ;  and  I  want  to 
have  my  own  way,  mamma,  sometimes,"  said  Helen, 
pettishly. 

When  the  girls  of  the  neighborhood  came  from 
school  that  afternoon,  Helen  was  not  with  them.  The 
lun  was  almost  gone  down  when  her  mother  sent 
around  to  enquire  for  her.  All  she  could  find  out  was 
that  she  had  asked  to  be  dismissed  at  recess,  and  that 
she  had  then  bought  a  bag  of  cakes  and  peanuts. 

The  little  bay  which  made  up  into  the  town  was  di- 
vided by  "  Moose  Island,"  on  whose  hundred  acres  a 
few  sheep  were  pastured  in  summer. 

Helen's  father's  land  ran  from  the  main  street  down 
to  the  bay,  where  it  ended  in  a  precipice.  On  the  edge 
of  this  bank  was  a  large  oak  with  a  seat  in  it. 

Her  father  went  there  to  look  for  her.  He  found,  to 
his  dismay,  that  Ned's  dory  had  been  loosed  from  its 
moorings  and  was  gone !  Her  mother  remembered 
the  conversation  of  the  morning,  and  was  in  great  dis- 
tress lest  her  child,  in  trying  to  "  have  her  own  way," 
might  have  been  carried  out  to  sea  by  the  current. 

The  alarm  soon  spread  through  the  town.  The 
church  bells  were  rung,  and  the  boys,  always  ready  for 
noise,  set  up  the  wildest  shouts,  making  the  sea  and 
forest  ring  with  "  Helen,  Helen,  Hel-en-n-n  !  " 

But  there  was  no  answering  word.  When  the  bells, 
the  horns,  and  the  boys  were  still  for  a  moment,  all  was 
as  quiet  as  the  grave. 

When  the  night  set  in,  dark  and  chilly,  the  kind 
neighbors  divided  into  bands  to  search  the  woods  and 
the  water.  Sail-boats  and  small  sloops  went  out 
through  the  rough  channel.  All  night  they  sought, 
but  neither  the  little  girl  or  the  boat  was  found. 


Every  family  in  the  small  town  was  in  affliction. 
No  one  could  think  of  sleep ;  lights  were  burning  in 
every  house,  and  persons  were  coming  and  going  in 
hope  of  hearing  some  news. 

The  day  dawned  and  wore  away,  and  another  terri- 
ble night  set  in.  Who  can  ever  tell  the  anguish  of 
those  parents? 

On  the  second  morning  a  farmer's  boy  rowed  over 
to  "  Moose  Island  "  with  salt  for  his  sheep :  and  there. 
sitting  on  a  rock,  her  face  blistered  with  tears,  and 
half-hidden  in  dirt,  sat  our  young  lady,  looking  more 
like  a  little  Indian  than  like  the  neat  little  girl  that 
wanted  to  have  her  own  way. 

Her  story  was  that  she  had  rowed  thus  far,  and  by 
some  wonderful  skill  had  run  into  the  beach !  She  ran 
up  the  bank,  gathered  checkerberries,  had  a  picnic 
from  her  paper  bag,  and  played  with  the  lambs.  See- 
ing that  the  sun  was  low,  she  ran  down  towards  the 
boat.     But  there  was  no  boat  there ! 

She  called  and  screamed ;  but  the  surf  which  beat 
wildly  against  the  shore  drowned  her  cries.  She  called 
till  weary,  and  then  fell  asleep.  Next  morning  she 
wandered  about,  hoping  to  hail  a  passing  boat.  She 
tore  her  clothes  among  the  brambles  and  called  till  she 
could  no  longer  hear  her  own  voice  for  hoarseness. 
She  had  nothing  to  eat  all  that  day,  and  was  sick  with 
hunger,  weariness,  and  fright.  She  said  she  heard  the 
bells  and  the  horns,  but  could  not  make  her  own  voice 
heard. 

The  rough  boy,  who  was  very  kind,  seemed  like  an 
angel  to  her.  He  carried  her  down  to  the  boat,  and  as 
he  began  rowing  he  gave  a  loud  blast  on  one  of  the 
horns  that  had  been  left  in  the  boat  over  night. 

This  brought  the  townfolks  to  the  shore,  and  when 
they  saw  a  little  girl  in  the  boat,  they  set  up  a  loud  cry 
of  joy.  Strong  men  wept,  and  mothers  threw  them- 
selves on  their  knees  on  the  beach,  and  thanked  God 
for  her  deliverance. 

Helen  was  very  much  ashamed  of  her  disobedience, 
but  very  thankful  to  God  who  spared  her  life,  and  was 
a  less  willful  girl  ever  after  that. 

Her  playmates  were  all  very  happy  to  see  her,  but 
when  their  joy  was  over  they  could  not  resist  the 
temptation  to  tease  her  a  little,  and  called  her  "  Miss 
Crusoe."  When  she  passed  along  on  her  way  to 
school,  sometimes  a  roguish  boy  would  call  out,  "  Here 
conns  'the  ancient  mariner.'" — Selected 

*   *   * 

Ami  1  have  said  and  I  say  it  ever. 
As  the  years  go  on,  and  the  world  goes  over, 
'Twere  better  to  be  content  and  clever 
In  tending  of  sheep,  and  inssing  of  clover, 
In  grazing  of  cattle  and  growing  of  grain, 
Than  a  strong  man  striving  for  fame  and  gain. 

— Joaquin  Millet. 


878 


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Did  you  ever,  in  the  spring  of  the  year  before  the 
warm  summer  days  had  come,  see  clinging  to  the  vine 
or  the  under  side  of  the  leaf  somewhere  the  cold, 
dark,  dreary,  gray  and  almost  lifeless  chrysalis,  which 
in  itself  was  the  very  image  and  representation  of 
death  ?  And  have  you  ever  taken  the  pains  to  watch 
it  develop  into  the  most  beautiful  butterfly,  whose 
wings  nature  had  painted  in  her  choicest  colors,  and 
by  which  she  was  abk  to  mount  to  the  heavens  or  fly 
to  the  ends  of  the  earth  at  will?  Do  vou  not  think 
nature  is  more  pleased  to  see  the  beautiful  butterfly 
than  the  old,  dead  chrysalis? 

In  the  autumn  of  the  year  you  have  many  times 
walked  through  the  forests  and  beheld  bushels  of 
acorns  that  lay  scattered  al]  over  the  ground.  No 
doubt  you  have  thought  and  meditated  upon  the  fu- 
ture of  these.  Some  of  them,  of  course,  were  preyed 
upon  by  herbivorous  animals,  others  perhaps  were 
crushed  by  the  foot  of  the  pedestrian,  while  still  oth- 
ers have  sunk  beneath  the  tufts  of  grass  to  deposit 
their  little  germs  of  life  beneath  the  soil ;  and,  after 
many  weary  months  in  the  gloomy  darkness  of  a  lit- 
tle narrow  house,  have  awakened  to  the  light  of  day, 
the  sunshine  of  summer,  the  fertility  of  the  warm 
showers,  and  day  by  day  and  year  by  year  have  de- 
veloped into  the  great,  sturdy,  majestic  oaks.  One 
cannot  help  but  see  that  nature  is  more  pleased  with 
this  development  than  to  have  had  the  little  acorn 
remain  forever  in  the  embrace  of  death. 

Compare  the  solid  block  of  cold,  heartless  marble 
as  it  lies  in  the  heap  just  removed  from  the  bowels 
of  the  earth  with  the  graceful  piece  of  sculpture  which 


was  the  result  of  years  of  honest  toil  by  the  patient 
artist's  hand.  What  a  wonderful  change  has  been 
brought  about  by  this  development !  Can  any  on< 
deny  that  the  microscope  or  the  telescope  become: 
more  powerful  as  we  add  strength  to  their  lenses 
Why  should  men  spend  years  and  dollars  to  procure 
stronger  lenses?  Simply  because  they  want  to  adc 
power  to  vision.  Education  opens  a  little  wider  th 
door  of  the  narrow  life.  It  cuts  out  the  drearv  drudg- 
ery from  our  lives  and  instead  makes  us  taste  the 
exhilaration  of  feeling  that  one  receives  as  his  pow 
ers  unfold;  like  the  little  rosebud  which  strains  ev- 
ery nerve  in  its  little  frame  to  burst  open  the  little 
boll  of  the  bud  that  opens  its  petals  and  flings  oui 
its  beauty  and  fragrance  to  the  world. 

An  education  means  to  the  young  man  or  the 
young  woman  the  same  as  it  means  to  the  genera 
on  the  battlefield  to  climb  to  the  dizzy  heights  of  thj 
tower  or  castle  to  gain  a  wider  horizon  that  he  may 
scan  the  fields  for  the  approach  of  the  enemy.  This 
same  development  gives  our  young  people  a  clearer 
vision,  a  wider  outlook  in  which  they  may  more  sue 
cessfully  meet  ignorance,  which  is  our  common  en 
emy. 

Development  makes  it  possible  for  one  to  escape 
being  a  wealthy  ignoramus,  which  thing  is  one  oi 
the  most  undesirable  lives  in  the  world.  It  also  as 
sists  one  to  fit  himself  for  a  superior  place  in  life 
and  to  get  a  glimpse  of  the  joy  of  real  life. 

Are  you  able  to  realize  that  a  block  of  solid  pig 
iron,  which  is  very  heavy  indeed,  can  be  developed 
or  converted  into  such  a  shape  that  it  would  be  wortt 
fifty  times  its  own  weight  in  gold?  This  may  be 
done.  If  this  were  converted  into  hair  springs  foi 
watches  the  thing  would  be  accomplished.  The  same 
thing  is  true  in  life.  The  raw  material,  the  unde- 
veloped man,  the  uncultured  brain,  the  wild  heart  is 
an  unworked  gold  mine.  Through  this  course  oi 
growth  and  development  it  is  possible  for  the  soul  tc 
enjoy  self-discovery  which  opens  up  continents  of  pos- 
sibilities that  otherwise  would  remain  undiscoverec 
throughout  the  entire  life.  It  enlightens  one  as  i 
citizen,  so  that  he  may  be  able  to  see  through  th< 
sophistries  of  our  political  harangue  sufficiently  to  vot< 
intelligently  upon  public  measures.  To  become  famil 
iar  with  history  and  science,  which  teach  us  how  tc 
make  life  healthy  and  successful,  puts  one  in  posi* 
tion  to  have  expert  advice,  training,  high  ideals,  life- 
long friendship  of  bright,  ambitious  young  people 
many  of  whom  will  occupy  high  places  in  life  latei 
on. 


Development  teaches  how  to  acquire  power,  marsha 
one's  mental  forces  effectively,  to  center  thought  wit! 
power,  to  acquire  means  of  obtaining  noble  pleasure: 
which  wealth  cannot  purchase.  It  makes  it  possiblt 
to  gain  that  character  wealth,  which  is  the  soul's  prop- 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  13,  1904. 


879 


erty,  which  conflagrations  cannot  consume,  floods  can- 
not deluge,  tornadoes  cannot  destroy,  and  time  cannot 
efface.  Thieves,  even,  are  not  able  to  steal  character, 
nor  the  soul. 

Our  coin  is  a  valuable  medium  of  exchange,  but  were 
it  left  in  the  cold  earth,  its  value  to  humanity  would 
be  practically  nothing.  So  are  our  young  men  and 
women  of  to-day ;  uncultured,  untried,  undeveloped, 
they  are  zeros;  encouraged,  enlightened,  developed, 
they  are  HEROES. 

*J*    4*    **• 
DOING    YOUR    BEST. 


There  are  times  in  our  lives,  though  we  be  among 
the  most  confirmed  optimists,  when,  if  we  are  honest 
with  ourselves,  we  must  acknowledge  disappointment; 
and,  however  determined  the  effort  may  be  to  see  the 
bright  side  of  things,  each  one  is  bound  to  see  some 
shadows  in  his  life  that  cannot  be  easily  dispelled. 
And  perhaps  there  is  no  moment  in  our  lives  that  is 
more  gloom}-  and  casts  a  darker  shadow  than  the  one 
when  we  compare  our  achievements  with  our  oppor- 
tunities. 

If  we  could  have  side  by  side  two  pages,  upon 
one  of  which  is  written  each  and  every  opportunity  in 
our  lives  from  infancy  to  maturity,  and  upon  the  oth- 
er the  achievements  and  accomplishments  that  we 
have  perfected,  all  by  ourselves,  then  we  could  bal- 
ance accounts  and  see  the  wonderful  amount  of  work 
remaining  undone.  Then  intensify  the  shadow  by- 
placing  by  the  side  of  our  record  the  record  of  one 
who  has  been  a  real  help  in  this  world  to  make  it 
happier  and  brighter,  some  hero  or  philanthropist 
whose  years  have  been  so  useful  and  beneficial  to  the 
human  family. 

Men  cannot  be  measured  by  the  sizes  of  the  houses 
they  build,  the  amount  of  money  they  possess,  or  the 
education  they  may  have  obtained.  A  man  is  only 
useful  to  mankind  when  he  has  done  his  best  to  utilize 
all  the  reserve  forces  at  his  command.  If  it  be  in  a 
financial  way  he  must  give  of  his  millions  to  make 
the  world  happier.  If  knowledge  be  his  store,  he  must 
impart  it  to  the  millions,  and  if  his  possessions  be 
houses  and  lands,  he  must  utilize  them  in  a  way  that 
will  do  the  most  possible  good  to  the  greatest  num- 
ber of  people. 

The  wise  man  would  have  us  look  to  the  ant  as 
an  example  of  doing  our  best.  In  all  probability  the 
ant  is  the  most  prodigious  worker  in  all  the  world, 
below  man  (if  it  be  below  man  in  this  respect),  not 
because  its  labors  are  so  much  more  fruitful  of  visible 
or  tangible  results,  but  because  of  the  large  per  cent 
of  time  and  strength  it  uses  in  performing  its  duties. 
This  is  the  true  measure  of  life,  "  when  we  do  what 
we  can." 

There  may  be  many  reasons  why  men  do  not  al- 
ways do  their  very  best.     One  of  them  may  be  that 


we  lack  faith,  patience  and  charity.  Some  men  may 
stand  back  because  of  the  false  modestv  regarding 
their  own  ability.  They  hesitate  to  do  for  fear  of 
being  outdone.  It  seems  that  this  self-fear  is  one 
of  the  greatest  influences  for  evil  that  is  brought  up- 
on ourselves.  Good  clothes  have  so  long  constituted 
the  passport  of  social  intercourse  that  the  heart  and 
brains  go  to  seek  elsewhere. 

Will  you  not  please  remember  that  no  man  in  this 
world,  not  one,  was  born  unneeded?  He  was  sent 
upon  the  great  arena  to  contribute  his  little  portion 
to  the  great  whole.  Remember  that  the  strength  of 
the  chain  is  as  great  as  the  strength  of  the  weakest 
link.  Also  remember  that  you,  yourself,  are  a  link  in 
some  great  chain  of  influence.  You  have  your  circle 
of  friends  and  that  chain  of  influence  is  just  as  strong 
as  your  individual  link  of  character  makes  it.  If  you 
are  not  doing  your  level  best,  you  are  taking  from 
the  strength  of  that  chain  proportionately.  Remem- 
ber, each  brick  in  a  building  has  its  office,  whether  it 
be  the  first  or  fourth  story.  Let  us  banish  this  self- 
fear  and  do  our  best. 

♦  *>   ♦ 

WASTING    NERVE    ENERGY. 


So  many  people  needlessly  and  recklessly  waste  their 
nerye  energy.  They  drum  the  chair  or  the  desk  with 
their  fingers  or  tap  the  floor  with  their  toes.  They 
holffl  their  hands.  They  sit  in  a  rocking  chair  and 
roclt  for  very  dear  life.  If  they  go  up  stairs  they 
make  the  whole  body  do  the  work  that  was  intended 
only}  for  the  legs.  If  thev  write  or  sew  they  get 
down  to  it  with  a  vengeance  and  contract  their  brows 
and,  wrinkle  their  foreheads  and  grind  their  teeth. 

If  they  have  an  unusual  task  to  do  they  screw  and 
contract  and  contort  every  muscle  of  the  body,  mak- 
ing themselves  tense  and  rigid  all  over,  when  the  work 
perhaps  required  but  one  set  of  muscles,  or  perhaps 
the  mind  only,  as  the  case  may  be. 

Wasting  nerve  energy  !  Frittering  it  away !  Dis- 
sipating it  needlessly ! 

Little  things,  to  be.  sure,  but  little  things  have  a 
way  of  adding  themselves  up  into  big  things.  Some  day 
when  some  emergency  arises  and  they  need  to  draw 
•  m  their  nerve  energy  they  will  find  that  the  supply 
lias  been  exhausted,  that  they  are  nervous  bankrupts, 
thatt  they  have  unconsciously,  day  by  day.  frittered 
awaw  their  nerve  force,  and  there  is  no  longer  any 
reserve  to  draw  upon. 

*  *   * 

\Y\n  1  fit  respect  for  the  feelings  of  others  usually 
originates  in  selfishness,  and  issues  in  hardness  and 
repulsiveness   of   manner. — Smiles. 

*  *  * 

"  Moral  is  to  physical  power  as  three  to  one." — Na- 
poleon I. 


S8o 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  13.  1904. 


CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


THE    WAR. 


St.  Petersburg  is  full  of  the  wildest  rumors,  claim- 
ing that  Kuropatkin  has  been  taken  prisoner,  and  that 
Port  Arthur  has  fallen.  No  word  has  been  received 
from  him  for  a  few  days.  The  Russians  are  in  three 
divisions  on  the  east  side  of  the  Taitze  river,  and  a 
series  of  Japanese  troops  surround  them  from  Mukden, 
by  way  of  Yentai,  even  beyond  Liaoyang.  The  situa- 
tion of  Kuropatkin's  army  is  certainly  critical,  with 
the  entire  Japanese  forces  on  one  side  and  the  Yalu 
river  and  the  Japanese  railroad  on  the  other.  The  Jap- 
anese, in  case  of  necessity,  can  well  spare  three  strong 
divisions  lying  south  of  Yentai.  There  are  five  divis- 
.  ions  already,  surrounding  the  enemy  and  the  remain- 
ing three  are  amply  able  to  resist  any  attempt  at 
escape  or  any  attempt  from  the  small  division  of 
Russians  at  Sinmintin,  several  miles  northwest,  or 
to  serve  as  pickets  and  notify  the  forces  of  any  new  re- 
inforcements of  Russians.  The  Russian  cavalrv  is 
evidently  insufficient.  The  fortifications  at  Liaoyang 
which  were  thought  to  be  so  strong  by  the  Russians, 
were  abandoned  by  them  on  the  fifth,  and  the  last 
word  which  has  been  received  from  Kuropatkin  was 
a  telegram  saying,  "  Our  retreat  is  being  carried  out 
under  heavy  pressure  with  the  Japs  at  our  heels.  The 
task  is  additionally  difficult,  owing  to  the  condition 
of  the  roads  and  the  river  which  is  flooded."  The 
fighting  has  been  continuous  since  Aug.  24. 
*  *  * 
OUR   CONTEST    CLOSED. 


The  prize  contest  that  has  been  announced,  from 
time  to  time,  in  the  Inglenook,  closed  Aug.  31,  at  4 
P.  M.,  the  results  of  which  are  as  follows : 

Miss  Nola  Grove,  of  Indiana,  secured  the  highest 
number  of  subscribers,  and  is  duly  entitled  to  the  li- 
brary, "  Literature  of  All  Nations." 

The  second  highest  number  of  subscribers  was  sent 
in  by  Elmer  N.  Flory,  of  Illinois,  and  Miss  Cora 
Bates,  of  Indiana,  the  two  being  tie.  The  business 
manager,  the  circulation  manager  and  the  editor  in 
conference,  gave  them  until  Sept.  10  to  work  off  the 
tie ;  the  result  of  which  will  be  given  later.  The  one, 
of  these  two,  getting  the  highest  number  before  Sept. 
10,  will  receive  the  watch  and  the  other  the  Bible. 

Omer  Caskey,  of  Iowa,  received  the  book  entitled, 
"  Modern  Fables  and  Parables,"  which  was  the  fourth 
prize.  Several  have  sent  us  ten  names  and  have  re- 
ceived the  fountain  pen  as  their  reward. 

Our  contest  was  successful.  The  Ixglenook  sub- 
scription list  has  been  increased  by  over  eight  hundred. 
You  will  hear  from  us  again. 


A  school  for  teaching  employes  telegraphy  and 
shorthand  has  been  successfully  opened  at  Montreal, 
by  the  Canadian  Pacific  railway. 


Trade  depression  and  drought  have  caused  nearly 
seven  hundred  Chinese  to  leave  Australia  in  the  last 
year. 

*  ♦  ♦ 

A  German  colony  settled  at  Haifa,  Palestine,  thir- 
ty-four years  ago.  To-day  all  of  the  ninety  families  are' 
prosperous.  They  raise  grapes  and  make  wine  free 
from  alcohol  which  is  sold  to  the  natives. 

*  $  * 
Some  villainous  criminal  attempted  to  blow  up  the 

flood  gates  of  St.  Mary's  by  the  use  of  dynamite.  Had 
they  accomplished  their  purpose  the  town  would  have 
been  literally  annihilated  by  one  of  the  most  destruc- 
tive floods  in  the  history  of  our  country. 

•>     .>     £ 

A  cloudburst  occurred  in  the  mountains  of  Ari- 
zona, during  a  recent  storm,  which  practically  ruined 
the  Santa  Fe  railroad  lines  in  that  vicinity. 

*  *   ♦ 
The  city  council  of  Chicago  has  empowered  Mayor 

Harrison  to  appoint  a  committee  of  eleven  aidermen 
whose  duty  it  will  be  to  effect  a  settlement  in  the  great 
strike  difficulty. 

4*    41    4> 

A  trust  has  been  formed  of  all  the  leading  raisin 
seeding  concerns  along  the  Pacific  coast.  They  will 
control  the  output  and  regulate  the  price.  Last  year 
they  put  out  twelve  hundred  carloads.  The  combined 
capital  is  one  million. 

*  *  + 

The  Mexican  government  has  granted  the  request 
of  the  United  States  for  the  extradition  of  Vance  Ful- 
kerson,  who  is  charged  with  embezzlement  committed 
at  the  El  Paso  custom  house. 

R.  C.  Burough,  owner  of  the  automobile  that- 
plunged  into  the  river,  at  Rush  Street  bridge,  Gricago, 

is  dead. 

*  *  * 

Senator  Hoar,  of  Massachusetts,  is  convalescent. 
4>  ,$*  $ 

The  district  attorney  of  Cripple  Creek,  Colo.,  has 
charged  seventy-five  persons  with  complicity  in  the 
recent  mob  riots,  malicious  mischief,  false  imprison- 
ment, and  assault  with  intent  to  kill. 

*  *   * 

Canadian  manufacturers  say  that  nearly  7,000, 
working  men  are  out  of  employment. 


THE    I NGLENOOK.— September  13.  1904. 


881 


The  panic  at  Assuncion  is  indescribable.  Foreign- 
ers from  all  parts  of  Paraguay  are  under  the  protection 
of  the  diplomatic  corps.  Preparations  for  hostility 
and  for  negotiations  are  alike  being  pushed  forward. 
It  is  hoped  that  we  will  not  have  a  repetition  of  the  ori- 
ental trouble. 

4»   4»   *5» 

At  Armourdale,   Kans.,   five   persons  were   injured 
by  the  explosion  of  a  barrel  of  turpentine,  caused  by 
the  careless  handling  of  a  candle  by  workmen. 
4>    4»    4> 

A  Rock  Island  train  was  derailed  near  Princeton, 
Mo.,  and  twenty-five  persons  seriously  injured. 

*  *   * 

Record  of  the  Public  Land  office,  ending  with  June, 
shows  that  16,258,892  acres  of  public  land  were  dis- 
posed of  during  the  last  year.  Total  cash  received  for 
these  was  $8,795,893. 

*  *  * 

'  A  report  from  Denver,  Colo.,  says  that  the  labor 
troubles  have  cost  the  state  nearly  a  million  dollars. 

*  *   * 

At  the  chapel  of  the  Peterhof  palace,  in  St.  Peters- 
burg, a  new  heir  to  the  throne  of  Russia  was  chris- 
tened Alexis   Nicholaivitch,   and  the   Czar  decorated 
the  child  with  the  cross  of  St.  Andrew. 
4»    4>    * 

Webster  City,  Iowa,  is  trying  a  new  experiment. 
They  are  to  have  a  city-owned  daily  newspaper. 

*  ♦  '♦ 

Thomas  W.  Lawson,  who  was  put  out  of  business 
by  the  amalgamated  financial  embarrassment,  an- 
nounced Thursday  that  he  would  resume  business  un- 
der the  old  name  of  Lawson,  Arnold  &  Co. 

*  *  * 

Professor  Jenks,  of  Cornell  University,  who  was 
sent  to  China  by  the  United  States  to  confer  with  the 
authorities  in  regard  to  the  introduction  of  the  gold 
standard  in  that  country,  has  left  Pekin  to  return  to 
America. 

4*    4*    4» 

The  newspapers  of  Rome  comment  very  favorably 
on  the  scheme  for  the  erection,  in  their  city,  of  a  mon- 
ument to  Shakespeare. 

.;.   4,   4. 

Missouri  State  University  has,  at  St.  Louis  Ex- 
hibition, a  reproduction  of  the  original  tombstone  of 
Thomas  Jefferson. 

4.   4,  4, 

Brick  and  stone  masons  in  the  city  of  Mexico,  who 
only  got  fifty  to  seventy-five  cents  a  day,  two  years 
ago,  are  now  getting  from  two  to  two  and  a  half  dol- 
lars. 


It  is  said  to  be  a  fact  that  John  Kolle,  a  German 

carpenter  of  Reynoldsville,  Pa.,  was  discharged  from 

the    Lebanon    sanitarium.    Saturday,    in    good    health. 

John  is  now  minus  a  stomach.    The  first  case  on  record 

of  this  kind   was  in  Vienna,  Austria ;  the  second  at 

New  York  hospital,  and  this  is  the  third.    He  eats  solid 

food  and  promises  to  successfully  survive  the  loss  of 

an  organ  so  valuable. 

4.  4.  4, 

Dr.  William  Osler,  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  has  re- 
cently received  an  appointment  by  King  Edward  as 
regius  professor  of  medicine  at  Oxford  University. 
He  will  be  knighted  from  date,  and  it  is  whispered  that 

nobility  awaits  him. 

4>   4>    4. 

The  Maharajah  of  Mysore,  the  youngest  of  the 
reigning  princes  in  India,  of  the  first  rank,  is  making 
a  visit  to  England.  He  was  installed  by  Lord  Cur- 
zon  three  years  ago. 

4>    4>    4, 

Thomas  Herring,  a  dumb  and  paralyzed  man,  71 

years  of  age,  who  has  not  spoken  a  word  for  years, 

enjoyed  the  return  of  his  speech,  Saturday,  upon  being 

frightened    nearly    to    death    at  .  seeing   his    house    in 

flames. 

4»    4>    4> 

Russian  soldiers  have  opportunity  frequently,  to 
admire  the  cleanliness  and  completeness  of  the  con- 
tents of  the  knapsacks  of  the  fallen  Japanese  soldiers. 
Besides  a  good  supply  of  wholesome  food,  and  a  suf- 
ficient quantity  of  ammunition,  each  knapsack  con- 
tained a  tooth  brush,  a  comb,  a  towel  and  a  map  of 
Southern  Manchuria  on  a  large  scale. 


One  of  the  latest  things  the  devil  has  invented  is 
"  a  bucket-shop "  for  women.  It  is  in  the  city  of 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  the  office  is  conducted  by  Mrs. 
M.  M.  Folliet.  She  manages  the  offices  and  employs 
women  and  girls.  It  is  bad  enough  for  men  to  gamble 
and  lose  their  hard-earned  wages  and  fortunes,  but  it 
is  a  great  deal  worse  when  our  gentler  sex  become  in- 
volved in  the  clutches  of  so  great  an  evil. 
4,   4,   4, 

John  Eiland,  vice  president  of  the  Portales.  New 
Mexico,  while  on  a  business  trip  to  old  Mexico,  fell 
into  the  hands  of  brigands  who  demand  a  large  ran- 
som for  the  life  of  their  victim.  His  wife  has  wired 
United  States  Consul  to  endeavor  to  secure  his  re- 
lease. 

*  *  * 

A  renewal  of  anti-Semitic  excesses  in  Russia  is 
reported  through  private  sources  at  Berlin.  Main- 
lews  have  been  killed  or  wounded.  Strong  military 
measures  have  been  taken  to  restore  order. 


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The  Inglenook  Nature  Study  Club 

This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various  Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized 
over  this  country.  Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.  Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time, 
taking  the  work  up  with  the  current  issue.  Back  numbers  cannot  be  furnished.  Any  school  desiring  to  or- 
ganize a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  111. 


CLASS  AVES.- ORDER  INSESSORES. 


The    Humming-bird. 

All  told,  there  are  about  three  hundred  species  of 
humming-birds,  all  of  which  are  confined  to  Amer- 
ica, and  all  but  two  or  three  are  tropical.  They  are 
undoubtedly  the  most  brilliantly  colored  of  all  the 
feathered  tribe.  Their  small  bodies  are  shaped  just 
right  for  rapid  and  accurate  movement  in  the  air. 
So  much  stronger  in  proportion  are  the  muscles  of 
the  wings  that  they  are  enabled  to  fly  constantly  for 
hours,  and  so  swiftly  that  the  eye  can  hardly  follow 
them  in  their  flight  from  flower  to  flower,  never  as 
much  as  stopping  to  get  the  honey  and  insects  of 
the  flower,  but  standing,  apparently  motionless,  for 
you  can  hardly  see  their  wings  as  they  fan  the  air, 
remaining  over  the  flower  until  they  have  sucked  all 
the  nectar  and  eaten  all  the  insects  there.  Their  pow- 
er of  endurance  is  remarkable.  The  humming  sound, 
from  which  they  take  their  name,  is  produced  by  the 
rapid  motion  of  the  wings. 

It  is  a  general  opinion  that  they  live  on  nothing 
but  honey  or  the  juice  of  the  flowers  at  which  they 
are  always  seen,  but  although  the}'  are  very  fond  of 
this,  yet  they  are  of  more  worth  for  the  fact  that  they 
subsist  mostly  on  the  numerous  insects  which  infest 
the  plants.  In  this  way  they  are  a  benefit  and  in 
no  way  are  they  harmful. 

In  the  study  of  any  bird  or  animal  of  any  kind  it 
will  be  observed  that  they  are  wonderfully  adapted  to 
their  surroundings.  This  is  especially  noticeable  in 
the  humming-bird.  In  color  it  resembles  the  flow- 
ers which  it  is  constantly  among ;  its  wings  are  strong, 
enabling-  it  to  flv  about  untiringly  from  place  to  place ; 
and  its  bill,  or  mandible,  as  it  is  more  properly  called, 
is  so  shaped  as  to  just  fit  the  flower  which  the  bird 
more  habitually  frequents.  Thus,  the  tropical  species 
have  bills,  some  curved,  some  straight,  some  long,  some 
short,  some  round,  some  oval,  and  some  triangular. 
The  northern  varieties  all  have  long,  slender  and 
straight  mandibles. 

The  tongue  is  split  into  two  long,  tubular  filaments, 
which  can  be  suddenly  darted  out  to  a  considerable 
distance,  owing  to  the  ligaments  which  are  fastened 
over  the  top  of  the  skull.  At  the  end  of  the  tongue 
there  are  two  hollow  tubes,  one  for  sucking  the  honey 
and  one  for  catching  the  insects  thus  serving  a  dou- 
ble purpose. 


The  northern  species  which  inhabit  the  country 
around  most  of  our  homes  is  called  the  ruby  throat. 
The  color  of  the  feathers  in  the  region  of  his  throat 
is  a  very  beautiful,  changeable  ruby,  and  when  the 
bird  is  circling  around  from  flower  to  flower,  the  sun 
produces  some  of  the  most  beautiful  tints,  such  as  are 
only  seen  in  nature. 

This  family  has  one  characteristic  dividing  it  from 
many  of  the  other  families  and  that  is  that  they  go 
almost  invariably  in  pairs. 

The  nest  is  very  small  and  cup-shaped,  made  of 
the  finest  down  they  can  obtain  from  vegetables,  and 
covered  with  lichen  and  moss,  glued  together  by  the 
saliva  of  the  bird.  It  contains  two  Arte  little  white 
eggs  about  the  size  of  a  pea. 

Deviating  from  the  type,  the  humming-bird,  we  find 
the  Honey-sucker,  of  which  there  is  not  much  to  be 
found  out,  and  the  Hoopoos.  These  latter  are  some- 
what like  the  type  except  that  they  are  larger,  not  so 
swift,  perch  when  they  feed  upon  the  honey  and  in- 
sects, and  have  a  pretty  crest  which  can  be  opened 
and  closed  at  will.  The  creeper  of  this  order  verges 
into  the  order  of  Insessores  or  perchers. 

Although  the  humming-bird  is  confined  to  Amer- 
ica, yet  there  is  a  kind  of  birds  in  the  Orient  which 
belong  to  this  family  and  indeed  look  very  much  like 
our  own  American  variety.  These  are  called  sun- 
birds.  The  greatest  difference  is  that  they  sit  while 
extracting  the  nectar  from  the  flower.  However,  they 
are  one  of  the  oscines,  or  singers,  having  a  pretty 
song  like  our  red-birds,  and  mocking-birds,  while  the 
regular  humming-bird  utters  a  shrill  cry,  lacking 
sweetness  and  harmony :  courage,  also,  is  a  charac- 
teristic of  this  family.  The  male  is  a  great  protector, 
while  the  female  will  not  leave  the  nest  readily,  even 
after  it  has  been  desecrated. 

Watch  this  little  fellow  as  he  goes  on,  day  by  day, 
always  seeming  cheerful  as  he  flits  from  flower  to 
flower,  and  think  how  nicely  the  Creator  has  fitted 
him  to  cope  with  his  surroundings. 

EAGLE   STOLE   PIG. 


Taking  with  them  a  cream-colored  pig  weighing 
thirty-five  pounds  to  prove  their  statements,  Timothy 
Ryan,  a  farmer,  fifty  years  old,  living  in  the  Okaw 
bottoms,  fifteen  miles  southeast  of  Belleville,  111.,  and 


THE    I XGLENOOK.— September  13,  1904. 


883 


John  Mason,  aged  thirty,  and  employed  by  Ryan,  went 
to  Belleville  the  other  morning  and  told  a  remarkable 
story  of  how  they  secured  the  porker  from  the  sky 
after  shooting  at  an  immense  bird,  supposed  to  be  an 
eagle,  which  was  soaring  high  above  them,  and  which 
the)'  think  held  the  pig  in  its  talons. 

They  say  that  while  at  work  in  a  field  near  their 
home  they  saw  a  huge  bird  several  hundred  feet  above 
their  heads  flying  slowly  toward  the  south. 

Ryan  had  his  rifle  with  him  and  shot  at  it. 

Then,  according  to  both  Ryan  and  Mason,  they 
saw  something  fall  from  the  bird's  talons.  The  object 
struck  the  side  Of  a  hay  stack  in  the  field  where  they 
were  at  work.  Going  there,  they  say,  they  found  a 
cream-colored  pig  lying  beside  the  bottom  of  the  hay 
stack.  Through  its  neck  was  a  wound,  evidently 
made  by  the  bullet  from  Ryan's  rifle.  Along  its  sides 
were  scratches  and  wounds  that  looked  as  if  they 
were  made  by  the  talons  of  a  bird. 

When  Ryan  and  Mason  again  looked  to  see  if  the 
big  bird  had  been  hit  by  the  bullet,  they  saw  it  flying 
rapidly  to  the  south. 

It  looked  larger  than  an  eagle,  both  say. 

Ryan  says  he  had  no  pigs  near  the  field  where  he 
and  Mason  made  their  find.  Furthermore,  the  pigs 
he  does  have  are  not  cream-colored. 

Eagles  are  scarce  in  the  vicinity  of  Belleville,  but  in 
the  Okaw  bottoms  where  the  country  is  broken,  they 
are  not  unknown. 

Ryan  says  he  inquired  among  the  farmers  in  the 
neighborhood  where  he  lived,  but  none  report  losing 
any  pigs. 

THE    BLACK    COCKATOO. 


THE    QUAGGA. 


The  black  Cockatoo  is  another  and  very  interesting 
member  of  the  Psittaci,  or  Parrot  Family.  Its  home  is 
on  the  islands  of  the  Malay  Archipelago,  and  its  chief 
food  is  the  kernel  of  the  kanari  nut.  This  nut  is  cov- 
ered with  a  fleshy  substance  like  apple  pulp,  which  is 
easily  eaten  by  many  birds,  but  the  Black  Cockatoo  is 
the  only  bird  that  can  get  the  kernel  out  of  the  inside 
of  the  shell  which  is  as  smooth  as  glass.  This  is  part- 
ly owing  to  the  great  power  of  the  beak. 

This  is  the  way  that  he  does  it ;  holding  the  smooth 
nut  in  the  hollow  of  the  upper  mandible,  he  saws  a 
notch  in  it,  then  by  holding  it  in  one  claw,  he  is  able  to 
pick  a  leaf  with  his  beak  and  wrap  it  around  the  nut. 
to  prevent  it  from  slipping  while  he  takes  it  in  his  beak 
again  and  by  a  sharp  nip,  chips  off  a  part  of  the  shell. 
The  kernel  is  divided  into  flakes  which  he  now  gets 
By  thrusting  his  long  tongue  into  the  hole  just  made. 
The  whole  of  this  action  does  not  take  him  as  long  as 
it  does  to  tell  it,  for  this  bird's  chief  characteristic  is 
greediness,  and  at  this  rate  he  will  consume  many  nuts 
in  an  hour. 


An  interesting  correspondence  on  the  disappearance 
of  the  quagga  from  South  Africa  has  been  proceeding 
for  some  time  in  the  Cape  Times.  Mr.  Sclater,  Di- 
rector of  the  South  African  Museum,  confirms  the 
statement  that  this  intersting  species  is  now  extinct. 
Though  frequently  confused  with  it  by  hunters  and 
sportsmen,  it  can  be  recognized  at  a  glance  from  the 
Burchells  or  the  mountain  zebra  by  the  fact  that  only 
the  front  half  of  the  barrel  and  the  head  are  marked 
with  the  characteristic  zebra  stripes*  The  legs  and 
the  hind  half  of  the  barrel  are  a  very  light  brown  or 
almost  white.  This  animal  formerly  ranged  over  the 
plains  of  the  Orange  River  Colony  and  the  northern 
and  central  parts  of  Cape  Colony ;  apparently  it  never 
extended  north  of  the  Vaal  or  east  of  the  Kei.  It  was 
very  numerous  in  the  days  of  Harris  and  Gordon  dim- 
ming, and  apparently  soon  after  that  became  scarce  in 
the  colony,  where  it  probably  was  finally  exterminated 
about  i860.  It  survived  a  good  many  years  later  in 
the  Orange  River  Colony,  probably  until  1878  at  least, 
.j.  $.  & 

B.  B.  SwiTZER,  of  Midland,  Ya.,  writes  an  interesting 
story  of  an  old  horse  he  once  owned  while  living  in 
Illinois,  which  seemed  to  think  that  it  was  his  special 
business  to  take  care  of  his  mate  that  was  blind.  On 
one  occasion  when  the  blind  horse  was  in  the  pasture 
field,  and  the  other  one  in  the  stable,  their  master  put 
some  corn  fodder  on  an  old  wagon  in  the  barnyard, 
and  then  the  horse  which  was  in  the  stable  was  turned 
out  to  eat  from  it.  He  took  one  bite.  Evidently  he 
thought  of  his  mate,  for  in  a  moment  he  walked 
straight  to  the  gate  entering  the  pasture  field,  pushed 
it  open  with  his  shoulders  and  proceeded  directly  to 
the  blind  horse.  He  touched  the  blind  horse's  nose 
with  his  nose  and  returned  in  a  straight  line  to  the 
wagon,  the  blind  horse  following  at  his  heels.  To- 
gether they  ate  the  fodder.  This  animal  has  done 
similar  tricks  on  different  occasions. 

*  *   * 
(  ).\  the  plantation  of  John  11.  Roberts,  near  Roberts- 

ville,  S.  C.  there  is  a  tree,  if  not  destroyed  by  this  time, 
that  does  not  touch  the  ground  by  six  feet.  A  pine  sap- 
ling, cut  down  at  some  period  unknown  to  the  oldest 
inhabitant,  lodgad  on  a  limb  of  an  adjacent  tree. 
The  growth  of  the  tree  and  limb  gradually  closed 
around  it  until  it  became  completely  embedded.  Draw- 
ing its  life  from  the  tree  it  grows  and  presents  a  lux- 
urious appearance.  All  trace  of  the  stump  from  which 
it    was    cut    has    long    since    disappeared. — American 

.  [gricttltttrist. 

*  *   •> 

Our  lives  are  the  little  garden  plots  in  which  it  is 
our  privilege  to  drop  seeds.     We  shall  have  to  eat  the 
fruits  of  the  seeds  which  we  are  planting  these  days.—/ 
./.  A'.  Miller,  P.  D. 


884 


THE   INGLENOOK.— September  13.  1904. 


HOME    DEPARTMENT 


YOUR   CHANCE. 


In  this  Home  Department  we  want  you  all  to  feel 
that  you  have  perfect  liberty  to  help  each  other.  We 
want  our  magazine  to  be  a  medium  through  which 
people  may  be  helpful  to  each  other.  Tf  you  farm- 
ers want  to  suggest  to  each  other  how  to  sow  fall 
wheat,  put  up  cornfodder,  store  pumpkins,  crib  corn, 
fatten  hogs,  or  things  of  that  sort,  just  take  one  of 
these  subjects  and  tell  it  in  just  as  few  words  as  pos- 
sible. Next  week  let  some  other  man  give  his  meth- 
od. No  one  rule  will  work  well  in  all  localities,  per- 
haps. We  need  advice  about  raising  tomatoes,  cotton, 
hay  of  different  kinds. — all  these  things  will  be  very 
helpful. 

Then  there  are  the  women  folks,  who  have  oppor- 
tunity to  assist  each  other  in  canning  fruit,  taking  care 
of  garden  stuff,  sorting  out  their  winter  chickens,  mak- 
ing domestic  work  light,  washing  and  ironing  Cloth- 
ing, dyeing  old  clothing,  and  a  thousand  and  one  things 
that  a  number  of  women  do  not  know  anything  about. 
Some  have  already  given  us  some  very  good  articles. 
Let  us  have  more  of  them. 

*  *  * 
THE    DISHES    WIPE    THEMSELVES. 


Have  two  good-sized  dishpans  and  plenty  of  hot 
water,  boiling  hot  or  nearly  so,  a  soap  shaker  and  a 
good  dish  mop.  Fill  one  pan  about  half  full  of  hot 
water  and  make  a  strong  soap  suds.  Fill  the  other 
pan  about  two-thirds  full  of  hot  watei  for  rinsing. 
Plunge  your  glassware  into  the  soap  suds  until  you 
have  it  all  in,  or  you  have  in  all  that  you  can  put 
under  water.  Wash  each  piece  thoroughly  and  put 
into  the  rinsing  water  until  you  have  the  glass  all 
washed  or  as  much  in  the  rinse  as  you  can  get  un- 
der water. 

Have  towels  spread  out  on  your  table,  two  or  three 
thicknesses,  the  table  backed  up  against  the  wall. 
Take  the  glassware  out  of  the  rinse,  and  place  bottom 
up  on  the  towels.  Then  wash  and  rinse  the  silver- 
ware as  you  did  the  glasses,  and  when  out  on  the 
towels  see  that  all  spoons  are  placed  bottom  up.  Next 
wash  cups  and  saucers,  sauce  dishes,  plates,  vegeta- 
ble and  other  odd  dishes,  until  the  Work  is  completed, 
keeping  the  suds  pan  well  filled  with  dishes  about  all 
the  time,  filling  in  underneath  with  dishes  as  you  wash 
off  from  the  top.  The  object  in  doing  so  is  to  have 
them  as  hot  as  possible  when  they  go  into  the  rinse, 
thus   cooling  the  rinsing  water  as  little  as  possible. 


As  the  suds  become  cool  pour  off  a  part  or  all  of  it 
and  replenish  from  the  rinse  water,  unless  you  have 
a  great  quantity  of  hot  water  to  use,  and  keep  your 
rinse  water  as  hot  as  possible  by  renewals. 

By  keeping  the  suds  and  rinse  hot,  I  have  hot  dish- 
es all  the  time,  the  suds  washes  them  clean,  the  rinse 
water  rinses  them  clean,  and  as  'the  dishes  are  placed 
on  their  edges  on  the  towels  (being  kept  as  close  to- 
gether as  possible  so  they  will  not  cool  before  they  are 
dry),  they  drain  perfectly  dry  in  a  very  short  time, 
and  have  a  clean  look  and  a  high  polish  than  can  hard- 
ly be  given  them  when' washed  and  wiped  in  the  usual 
way.  By  this  method  I  save  about  half  the  time  usu- 
ally taken  to  wash  dishes,  and  the  results  to  me  are 
more  satisfactory  than  when  I  washed  and  wiped 
them. — Mary  Magoun,  Maine. 

*• 4»   * 
COOKING    CHICKEN    "MOTHER'S    WAY." 


Clean  and  joint  the  chicken  as  for  frying,  using 
an  old  fowl ;  clean  the  giblets,  and  put  the  whole 
in  a  stewpan  and  partly  cover  with  boiling  water,  sim- 
mering until  tender,  which  will  be  about  an  hour — 
perhaps  a  little  longer.  There  should  be  no  water 
left  in  the  pan  when  the  chicken  is  done,  and  if  there 
is,  open  the  lid  and  let  it  evaporate.  Dish  up  the 
chicken,  and  put  it  where  it  will  keep  hot.  Into  the 
pan  put  a  large  tablespoonful  of  butter,  and  as  soon 
as  it  is  melted  stir  in  two  tablespoonfuls  of  flour,  mix- 
ing well,  but  do  not  brown,  and  as  soon  as  smooth 
add  one  pint  of  fresh  milk,  and  stir  continuously  un- 
til it  boils,  when  it  must  be  taken  from  the  fire,  salt 
and  pepper  added,  and  the  well-beaten  yolks  of  two 
eggs  stirred  in  while  it  is  still  hot  enough  to  cook 
them,  though  the  gravy  must  not  boil  after  the  eggs 
are  added.  Pour  this  over  the  chicken  and  serve  with 
rice  or  mashed  potatoes. 

Smothered  Chicken.— Clean  and  draw  a  young 
chicken,  split  it  down  the  back,  season  with  pepper 
and  salt,  lay  in  a  dripping  pan,  pour  over  it  a  cupful 
of  hot  water  and  place  in  the  oven  until  it  is  tender. 
As  soon  as  the  chicken  begins  to  brown,  have  pre- 
pared two  tablespoonfuls  each  of  butter  and  flour, 
rubbed  to  a  smooth  paste,  and  spread  over  the  chicken, 
basting  it  every  ten  minutes  with  the  drippings  in 
the  pan.  When  the  chicken  is  done,  take  it  up  and 
make  a  gravy  as  follows:  Set  the  pan  containing  the 
drippings  on  the  stove,  pour  into  it  a  cupful  of  rich 
milk  and  stir  until  it  boils,  season  to  suit  and  pour 
over  the  chicken. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  13,  1904. 


885 


Fried  Chicken. — Joint  the  chicken,  salt  and  pep- 
per it,  roll  in  flour.  Put  sweet,  fresh  lard,  about  an 
inch  deep,  in  the  skillet  and  let  it  get  smoking,  but 
not  scorching  hot,  then  lay  the  joints  of  the  chicken 
in  without  crowding,  turning  each  piece  as  soon  as 
seared,  which  will  be  almost  immediately,  turning  it 
several  times,  then  draw  the  skillet  back  and  cover, 
letting  it  cook  for  a  few  minutes  longer,  or  until  you 
iire  sure  it  is  cooked  through.  Then  take  up  and 
place  where  it  will  keep  hot  while  the  remainder,  if 
any,  is  cooked  in  the  same  way,  when  it  should  be 
added  to  that  already  dished.  Pour  off  all  the  fat 
except  about  three  tablespoonfuls,  return  the  skillet 
to  the  fire  and  stir  into  the  fat  two  scant  tablespoon- 
fuls of  flour,  and  when  the  mixture  is  smooth  add 
about  three  gills  of  sweet  milk,  stirring  constantly 
until  it  boils,  when  it  should  be  immediately  poured 
over  the  chicken,  or,  preferably,  into  a  bowl,  and  serve 
the  whole  hot. 

OLIVE-OIL    PICKLES. 


PICKLES. 


BY    ETTA   ARNOLD    ECKERLE. 

Peel  and  slice  50  cucumbers  of  medium  size.  Also 
peel  and  slice  one  pint  of  small,  white  onions.  Mix. 
(Omit  onions  if  you  like.)  Put  in  colander  and  sprin- 
kle with  two-thirds  cup  of  salt.  Put  light  press  on 
them  and  let  drain  three  hours.  Then  take  from  col- 
ander and  pour  over  them, — 

£  cup  vinegar. 

3  tablespoons  olive  oil. 

1  tablespoon  ground  mustard. 

I  tablespoon  celery  seed. 

Put  in  open  stone  jar.  Do  not  heat  any  part  of 
the  mixture.  Set  away  in  cool  place,  and  in  two  or 
three  weeks  it  will  be  ready  for  use.  This  is  tried 
and  excellent. 

Lanark,  III.  *  *  * 

CRABAPPLE    PICKLES. 


BY    MRS.    ADAM    CRIPE. 

Put  the  apples  in  a  steamer  and  steam  until  done. 

Then  put  in  glass  jars  and  have  a  syrup  ready  to  suit 

the  taste,  and  pour  over  them  while  hot.     Then  seal 

tight. 

Holmesville,  Nebr. 

$  <l»  $ 

ALCOHOL    PICKLES. 


BY    MRS.    G.    G.    GRADY. 

Prepare  the  pickles  the  same  as  for  canning. 
4  pennyweight  of  salicylic  acid. 
One-half  pint  alcohol. 

One-half  cup  salt ;  to  one  gallon  of  vinegar. 
Milford,  Ind.,  R.  F.  D.  No.  1. 


BY    MRS.    G.    G.    GRADY. 

Prepare  the  pickles  the  same  as  for  canning;  for 
two  hundred  and  fifty  small  or  large  pickles,  take  two 
gallons  of  vinegar,  four  ounces  of  salt,  two  ounces  of 
white  mustard,  two  ounces  of  cloves,  two  ounces  of 
allspice,  two  ounces  of  alum.  Put  the  spices  in -sacks 
and  boil  with  the  vinegar.  Pack  the  pickles  in  the 
jar,  and  put  a  few  horse-radish  roots  on  top  of  the 
pickles,  and  pour  the  vinegar  over  the  pickles  while 
boiling  hot.     Then  put  a  weight  on. 

Milford,  Ind.,  R.  F.  D.  No.  1. 
*t-  *J*  ♦ 
CUCUMBER    CATSUP. 


BY    MRS.    P.    H.    SHOWALTER. 

Take  two  teacups  of  grated  cucumbers,  three  pints 
of  vinegar,  one  cup  of  sugar,  one-half  cup  of  grated 
horseradish,  one-half  tablespoon  black  pepper,  one  ta- 
blespoon of  salt,  and  a  little  mustard  and  celery  seed. 
Let  come  to  a  boil  and  bottle  well. 

Scotts  Ford,  Va. 

*  *  * 

PICKLES. 


BY    MRS.    ROSA    BATES. 

Three  quarts  of  good  cider  vinegar,  one  teacup  of 
salt,  four  ounces  of  good  alcohol,  four  pennyweight 
of  salicylic  acid;  mix  all  together  and  pour  over  cold. 
This  makes  enough  to  cover  two  gallons  of  pickles. 
College  Comer,  Ohio. 

*  ♦  ♦ 
POTATO     SALAD. 


BY    ROSE   BRADLEY. 

Three  large  potatoes  pared  and  cooked  well.  Then 
mush,  add  ^  cup  sweet  cream,  2  tablespoonfuls  sugar. 
Yz  teaspoonful  ground  mustard.  3  hard-boiled  eggs, 
chopped  up  fine ;  add  salt  and  vinegar  to  taste  and 
mix  all  together  well.  Let  cool  and  it  is  ready  for 
use. 

Belleville,  Kans. 

There  is  no  better  fertilizer  for  onions  than  a  mix- 
ture of  bone  dust  and  ashes  (unbleached  hard  wood 
ashes).  Use  500  to  1,000  pounds  of  the  former  with 
double  this  quantity  of  ashes.  Spread  broadcast  and 
harrow  in  lightly  a  month  before  planting.  ( )n  soi 
needing  nitrogen  an  application  broadcast  of  [50 
pounds  of  soda,  after  the  onions  have  commenced  to 
grow,  will  produce  marked  results. 


886 


THE   INGLENOOK— September  13,  1904. 


OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE 


BONNIE    WAYNE. 


When  Mr.  Marshall  came  downstairs  he  said  that 
Luke  wuz  awful  sick  and  he  wuz  glad  that  Mabel  wuz 
gone  after  the  doctor.  I  asked  grandma  if  she  thought 
the  doctor  would  give  us  very  nasty  medicine  and  she 
thought  not  for  the  poison. 

The  next  day,  when  the  doctor  came.  I  could  see 
pretty  well  and  I  wuz  feeling  very  well  but  poor  Luke 
did  not  and  he  could  not  eat  any  of  the  good  things  that 
they  fixed  up  for  us.  The  doctor  talked  to  me  a  long 
time  and  I  showed  him  Dora,  and  Mabel  had  to  go  and 
get  Hattie  and  show  him  her  hair,  and  he  laughed  like 
he  never  saw  any  red  hair  before.  He  wanted  me  to  go 
with  him  for  a  ride  and  Mr.  Marshall  said  that  I  might 
go  as  far  as  the  mail  box.  and  so  I  did,  and  the  doctor 
has  the  prettiest  little  pony.  It  is  a  spotted  little  fel- 
low, and  it  has  an  ugh'  place  on  its  hip,  and  I  asked  the 
doctor  if  it  had  been  vaccinated.  I  thought  he  would 
hurt  himself  laughing  again  and  I  asked  him  what  he 
wuz  laughing  at  and  he  said  that  wuz  where  it  wuz 
branded  when  it  wuz  wild  out  in  the  pasture. 

'Nen,  when  we  got  up  to  the  mail  box,  there  wuz  a 
man  lying  on  the  ground  in  the  hot  sun  by  the  road, 
with  an  ugly  mark  in  his  face,  and  I  asked  the  doctor  if 
he  wuz  branded  too,  and  he  turned  his  head  around 
the  other  way  a  minute,  and  then  he  said  that  he 
guessed  that  he  wuz,  for  he  was  drunk  and  somebody 
had  branded  him. 

When  I  got  back  to  the  house  I  did  not  feel  good, 
for  I  wuz  warm  and  I  itched  so  I  could  hardly  stand  it. 
'Nen  grandma  put  some  of  the  white  stuff  all  over  me 
that  the  doctor  left  for  me  to  use.  The  next  day  Luke 
and  I  both  felt  better  and  we  wanted  to  go  down  to  the 
woods  to  play,  and.  we  were  afraid  to  play  around 
there,  but  Frank  said  he  would  go  with  us  and  he  did, 
and  when  we  got  there  he  took  a  pole  and  took  the 
nasty  old  poison  vine  off  the  house  and  he  got  some 
wild  grapevines  and  put  them  over  our  house,  and 
just  then  Ethel  Bradley  and  her  cousin  came  through 
the  woods,  and  they  stopped  and  played  with  us  for  a 
long  while. 

We  had  a  good  time  playing  like  we  were  house- 
keeping ;  Luke  would  go  out  to  the  field  to  plow  and  I 
would  get  dinner  for  him  and  the  company ;  you  see 
the  girls  were  company.  We  went  out  and  got  a  lot 
of  clover  flowers  for  bouquets  to  put  on  the  table,  and 
we  had  water  from  the  brook  for  coffee  and  some  of 
the  same  kind  for  cream  to  put  on  it.  'Nen  we  took 
some  of  those  dishes  that  we  got  the  other  day,  and 


washed  them  and  set  the  table,  and  Frank  went  back 
to  the  house  and  told  them  up  there  what  we  were  do- 
ing down  at  the  woods,  and  don't  you  think  here  came 
Mabel  and  her  papa,  and  Mr.  Marshall  had  a  water- 
melon and  he  cut  it  and  let  us  have  that  for  our  din- 
ner, and  Mabel  had  made  us  some  little  pies,  and  grand- 
ma made  some  nice  big  soft  ginger  cookies,  and  Mrs. 
Marshall  sent  a  handful  of  dried  beef  sliced  as  fine  as 
paper  and  I  wuz  tickled  most  to  death  'cause  I  just 
knew  that  Luke  would  come  home  from  work  so  hun- 
gry and  tired  like  my  papa  does  in  the  city.  (I'd  like  ' 
to  see  my  papa  too.)  I  had  just  laid  the  beef  down  a 
minute  to  brush  the  flies  off  the  table  when  old  Bux 
came  in  to  see  us,  and  he  saw  the  beef  and  he  helped 
himself  to  it  all  at  one  mouthful  and  it  wuz  gone.  Then 
if  I  didn't  get  the  broomstick  and  I  made  him  get  out 
of  there  in  a  hurry.  When  I  hit  him  he- jumped  back 
against  the  rails ;  'nen  he  thought  some  one  else  hit  him 
and  he  jumped  again  and  fell  over  the  doll  wagon  and 
spilled  them  out  again  ;  and  I  like  to  have  never  finished 
the  dinner. 

But  pretty  soon  it  wuz  ready  and  I  didn't  have  any 
way  to  call  Luke  to  dinner,  and  Ethel  took  the  paper 
that  Mabel  had  around  the  cookies  and  rolled  it  up  like 
a  horn  and  she  said  toot-toot-toot,  and  we  could  see 
Luke  wave  his  hat  at  us  and  here  he  came  riding  one 
broomstick  for  a  horse  and  leading  another. 

He  soon  put  them  in  the  stable  and  fed  them  grass, 
and  we  laughed  at  him,  for  he  pulled  the  grass  and 
laid  it  on  their  heads.  'Nen  he  wanted  us  to  let  him 
have  some  of  the  water  that  we  had  brought  from  the 
creek  to  water  them  with  and  we  didn't  hardly  have 
enough  left  for  the  table. 

I  told  Luke  that  he  wuz  to  sit  at  the  head  of  the  table 
and  serve,  and  he  thought  there  wuz  no  use  of  putting 
on  so  much  style  out  here  in  the  country,  and  I  winked 
at  him  that  we  had  company  and  he  took  the  knife  and 
sliced  the  watermelon  and  pretty  near  every  piece  fell 
on  the  ground  before  he  got  it  ready  to  eat  and  the 
girls  laughed  and  laughed. 

Grandma's  cookies  were  splendid,  and  my  I  hated  it 
so  because  old  Bux  had  to  get  so  smart  and  take  all 
the  beef,  but  we  had  a  good  time  anyway.  After 
dinner  we  were  going  to  wash  dishes,  and  Ethel  wuz 
trying  to  get  a  rail  loose  to  make  another  table  with 
and  it  wuz  fast  and  we  helped  her  to  get  it  loose.  'Nen 
we  heard  something  go  wizzizzizz  and  she  ran  out  and 
says,  "  Bumblebees ! !    Run,  run !  " 

(To  be  Continued.) 


THE   INGLENOOK.— September  13,  1904. 


887 


^jTfie  Q.  &  &.  department.  M^ 


I 


■^"^8 


What  is  the  process  of  admitting  new  States  into  the 
Union? 

Nothing  regular.  Generally,  however,  the  first  is  to 
acquire  a  sufficient  population ;  second,  to  make  appli- 
cation to  Congress ;  third.  Congress  grants  the  terri- 
tory to  call  a  convention  to  adopt  the  constitution ; 
fourth,  the  constitution  is  submitted  to  Congress ;  fifth, 
Congress  to  approve  it ;  sixth.  Congress  declares  the 
territory  admitted  as  a  state;  seventh,  a  new  star  is 
added  to  the  flag  the  following  Fourth  of  July. 


Is  Hongkong  a  part  of  the  mainland  of  Asia  or  is  it 
an   Island? 

Hongkong  was  originally  an  island  off  the  coast 
of  China  but  it  now  includes  the  opposite  peninsula 
of  Knowloon,  which  is  a  part  of  the  mainland  of 
China.  This  peninsula  was  ceded  to  Great  Britain  by 
Ihe  treaty  of  1861.  The  island  of  Hongkong  was 
taken  by  Captain  Elliott.  Aug.  23,  1839,  and  was 
ceded  to  Great  Britain  in  1841. 


What  are  the  names  of  the  different  kinds  of  clouds? 

Cirrus,  cumulus,  stratus  and  nimbus.  Cirro-cum- 
ulus, cirro-stratus  and  cumulo-stratus.  Cirrus  means 
feathery ;  cumulus  means  in  bunches ;  stratus  means 
in  layers,  and  nimbus  means  raincloud.  Cirro-cum- 
ulus would  mean  bunches  of  feathers ;  cirro-stratus 
means  layers  of  feathers ;  cumulo-stratus  would  mean 
layers  of  bunches,  or  bunches  in  layers. 


What  is  a  good  way  to  rid  a  cistern  of  snails? 

The  only  good  way  is  to  use  a  metal  pump,  because 
snails  will,  in  spite  of  everything,  cling  to  a  wooden 
pump.  If  any  chemicals  are  put  in  to  kill  the  snails, 
it  will  unfit  the  water  for  use. 


Does   the   vote   for  president  at   the    November   election 
include  the  votes  of  the  Porto  Rico  and  Hawaiian  Islands? 

No,  only  the  citizens  of  the  States  vote  for  President. 

* 
What  is  the  population   of   Russia? 
Russia  in  Europe  has  112,920,053  inhabitants.     The 
Russian  empire  has  129,004,514. 

* 

What    is  the  population   of  Porto   Rico  and  also  of  the 
Hawaiian  Islands? 

The  population  of   Porto   Rico   is  953,243 ;  of  the 
Hawaiian  islands,   109,020. 


Why  is  a  trip  taken  by  a  bridal  pair  called  a  honey- 
moon? 

It  is  due  to  an  old  Teutonic  custom  of  drinking  di- 
luted honey  for  thirty  days  after  the  wedding.  Thirty 
days  being  the  age  of  a  moon  gave  rise  to  the  term 
honeymoon,  which  was  applied  then  to  the  month  fol- 
lowing the  marriag'e  and  not  the  trip. 

When  was  cotton  first  shipped  from  this  country  as 
an   export? 

In  1785  one  bag  was  sent  from  Charleston,  S.  C, 
to  Liverpool,  England,  twelve  were  sent  from  Phila- 
delphia and  one  from  New  York. 
♦> 

What   is  mother-of-pearl? 

The  mother-of-pearl  is  a  nacreous  animal,  laminal 
of  the  pearl  oyster.     It  is  used  in  the  manufacture  of 
knife  handles,  buttons,  studs,  etc. 
•> 

How  many  feet  are  there  in  a  knot? 

A  knot,  or  nautical  mile,  contains  6,085  feet  plus, 


In  what  kind  of  shells  are  pearls  found? 
In  almost  any  bivalve,  especially  in   oysters,  mus- 
sels and  clams. 

*   ♦   * 

USE    THE    SAME    NEST. 


A  true  story  of  a  cat  and  her  kittens  living  together 
with  an  old  hen  and  her  chicks  in  the  same  nest,  which 
would  please  Ernest  Seton-Thompson.  John  Bur- 
roughs or  any  naturalist,  comes  from  Cedar  Falls, 
Iowa.  Stories  of  antagonistic  animals  living  together, 
of  a  duck  raising  a  family  of  chickens,  of  a  dog  nursing 
kittens,  etc.,  are  common,  but  the  Cedar  Falls  tale  is  a 
true  one,  and  is  indeed  strange. 

For  the  past  two  weeks  C.  Holm,  a  tailor,  missed 
his  pet  hen  and  concluded  that  she  had  been  stolen, 
until  this  week,  when  she  noticed  her  picking  worms 
in  tin.'  yard  and  followed  her  to  her  nest  in  an  old 
shed.  One-half  of  this  nest  was  occupied  by  Mine. 
Dorcas  and  her  fluffy  chickens,  and  by  the  side  of 
the  hen  in  the  same  nest,  cuddled  up  and  fast  asleep, 
lay  a  black  cat  and  her  three  little  kittens.  The 
mother  cat  and  her  kittens  and  the  mother  hen  and 
her  chicks  were  apparently  happy  and  contented  and 
at  peace  with  the  world.  The  tailor  did  not  disturb 
the  happy  family,  but  permitted  many  of  the  neighbors 
and  friends  to  view  the  odd  sight. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  13,  1904. 


* 
* 


A  A  ifc  m  ib  ife  »jji  ijt  1^1  i* 

1* 


* 


The  secret  method  of  multiplying  millions  by  which 
the  enormous  fortunes  of  Standard  Oil  and  other  big 
financial  institutions  were  created  veritably  out  of 
nothing  is  the  text  of  the  September  installment  of 
"  Frenzied  Finance,"  by  Thomas  W.  Lawson,  in 
Everybody' 's  Magazine.  It  is  no  exaggeration  to  say 
that  the  article  is  of  the  most  sensational  interest  and 
importance.  The  story  of  how  Standard  Oil  set  about 
getting  the  control  of  banks  and  trust  and  insurance 
companies ;  how  it  juggled  their  funds  so  as  to  ex- 
tend its  operations ;  the  process  of  the  "trustification  " 
of  corporations  as  they  practice  it,  and  the  upbuilding 
of  the  greatest  financial  power  in  America  to-day, 
makes  a  revelation  of  the  most  startling  significance. 
The  mystifying  complexities  of  finance  offer  no  diffi- 
culties Mr.  Lawson  cannot  get  past,  and  his  explana- 
tions are  extraordinarily  clear  and  convincing.  He 
frankly  states  his  own  participation  in  the  Amalga- 
mated deal,  declares  that  the  various  partners,  includ- 
ing himself,  received  much  less  than  the  share  of  the 
profits  they  were  entitled  to,  and  winds  up  an  extra- 
ordinarily impressive  article  with  a  picture  of  how 
the  Amalgamated  deal  was  carried  through  in  the 
National  City  Bank. 

*  *:•  * 

THE    DIFFERENCE    OF    SUNSHINE. 


A  little  girl  named  Mary  was  standing,  looking 
out  of  a  window  which  overlooked  a  pleasant  enough 
country,  but  just  then  the  sky  was  gray  and  dull,  and 
the  poor  girl's  heart  was  heavy.  It  was  not  that  she 
had  any  great  trouble  just  then,  but  she  was  feeling 
vexed,  disappointed,  and  worried.  She  was  weary  of 
play,  weary  of  her  lessons,  weary  of  her  companions ; 
in  fact  she  was  discontented. 

Her  grandmother  was  sitting  by  the  fire  reading, 
and  Mary  turned  round  to  her  and  said : 

"  What  a  dull  place  this  is,  grandmamma.  Only 
look  how  gray  and  uninteresting  everything  looks  out- 
side." 

The  old  lady  got  up  from  her  seat  and  looked, 
and  said  quietly : 

"  Very  gray." 

But  while  they  stood  looking,  the  sun  burst  out, 
and  lighted  up  the  grass  and  water,  and  tipped  the 
distant  hills,  and  cast  clear  shadows  on  the  lawns,  and 
scattered  the  clouds.  Even  little  Mary's  heart  seemed 
to  be  warmed,  and  she  turned  around  to  her  grand- 
mother and  said : 


"  See  what  a  difference  the  sunshine  makes!  " 

"  Yes,  Mary ;  you  would  scarcely  think  it  the  same 
world.  You  can  see  now  a  thousand  beauties  that 
were  hidden  from  your  eyes,  afid  what  was  dull  and 
gray  is  now  bright  and  joyous." 

Is  it  not  the  same  when  the  Sun  of  Righteousness 
shines  in  the  heart  ?  All  is  changed.  Flowers  spring 
up  on  all  sides,  and  the  cold  heart  grows  warm  and 
happy. 

To  have  ideas  is  to  gather  flowers.  To  think  15 
to  weave  them  into  garlands. 

It  is  not  labor  that  hurts  anybody,  but  rather  fret- 
ting over  the  prospect  of  labor  to  be  gone  through 
with. — Exehange. 

♦  *$*  ♦ 

TWO    SMART    DONKEYS. 


C.  F.  Lathe,  of  Lathe's  Island,  111.,  maintained  thai 
the  donkey  was  the  most  intelligent  animal  in  the  whole 
caravansary.     "  The  donkey  is  much  more  intelligent 
than  people  imagine,"  he  said.     "  I  have  a  fine  fanr 
and  in  my  barn  are  two  donkeys.     One  night  I  was 
sitting  in  the  house  when  the  donkeys  began  to  bra) 
and  keep  it  up  so  incessantly  that  I  knew  something 
was  wrong.     I  went  to  the  barn  and  found  that  ole 
Bob,  one  of  the  horses,  was  not  in  his  stall.     I  aske( 
the  man  about  it  and  he  said  that  Bob  had  not  comi 
up  from  the  pasture.     I  called  the  horse,  but  he  die 
not  come,  and  the  donkeys  kept  on  braying  incessantly 
To  put  a  stop  to  the  unearthly  noise  I  let  the  donkey 
out.   Like  a  flash  they  disappeared  in  the  darkness  on  i 
keen  run.     I  could  not  begin  to  keep  up  with  them,  bu 
they  guided  me  to  where  old  Bob  was  lying  flat  on  hi 
back  in  a  gully  partly  filled  with  water.     His  four  fee 
were  sticking  straight  up  in  the  air,  but  he  manage' 
with  difficulty  to  keep  his  nose  above  the  water.     W 
got  him  on  his  feet  and  you  never  saw  animals  s 
tickled    as    those    donkeys    were.     They    just    dance 
about  and  capered  back  to  the  barn,  one  on  each  sid 
of  the  old  horse  which  owed  his  life  to  them,  and  thei 
braying  expressed  their  joy  at  his  deliverance  just  a 
plainly  as  though  it  was  said  in  English.     It  seen 
hard  to  believe,  but  it's  true  just  the  same." 

*$»  *j*  ♦$» 

The  highway  of  holiness  is  along  the  commone: 
road  of  life — along  your  very  way.  In  wind  and  rail 
no  matter  how  it  beats,  it  is  only  going  hand  in  han 
with  him. — Mark  Guy  Pearse. 


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BUY   A    FARM   IN 
MICHIGAN 


Live  in  a  climate  that  is  equable  and  salubrious — where 
there  are  no  drouths  or  failures — where  all  conditions  are 
conducive  to  health  and  prosperity.  Invest  in  rich  soil  that 
yields  sure  crops. 

The   Cadillac  Tract 


* 


The  basis  of  my  business  is  absolute  and 
unvarying  integrity. 

SAMUEL  S.  THORPE, 
Founder  of  the  Brethren  Colony.  Brethren.  Mich. 


In  Wexford    and   Missaukee    counties,   Michigan;  one-  X 

half  to  6  miles  from  the  bustling  city  of  Cadillac,  on  the  main  J- 

line  of  Grand  Rapids  &    Indiana   (Pennsylvania   System)  and  <£ 

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25,000  Acres,  $5.00  to   $15.00 

per  acre;  less  five   (5)   per  cent   for  cash,   or   on   easy  terms,   if   desired. 

One=Fourth  Down,  Balance  in  i,  2  and  3  Years 

The  ideal  soil — a  sandy  loam  with  clay  and  gravel  sub-soil.  The  Cadillac  Tract  was  formerly  a  thick  tim- 
ber land,  covered  with  a  heavy  growth  of  gigantic  trees — a  strong  guarantee  in  itself  of  a  rich,  responsive  soil; 
splendidly  adapted  to  farming,  fruit-growing  and  stock-raising;  all  the  crops  characteristic  of  the  temperate  zone 
can  be  grown  to  their  greatest  excellence  in  The  Cadillac  Tract.  Clear,  sparkling  water,  good  schools  and 
churches;  free,    graveled    pike    roads,    lots    of    fish    and    game. 

A   gilt-edge  opportunity  for  the   bona-fide  settler. 

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For   illustrated    descriptive   booklet    and   map,   containing  detailed  information   with   letters  of  farmers   from    X 
other  states  now   living  adjacent   to  The  Cadillac  Tract,  fill  out  the  coupon  below  and  mail  to  a 


Send  me  all 
literature  and 
information 
pertaining  to   the 
Cadillac  Tract 
as  advertised  in 
the  Inglenook. 


S.  S.  THORPE,  suite  a,  Webber  Building,  Cadillac,  Mich.  I 

District  Agent  Michigan  Land  Association. 

ill     A   few  improved   farms   for   sale— $2,000    to   $20,000. 


the:    inglenook. 


Mcpherson  college 


A  College  of  which 
Kansas  is    Proud. 


HEBE  ABE  A  FEW  OF  THE  GOOD  THINGS  WE  HATE  TO  OFFEB: 

A  Normal  College  that  prepares  teachers  for  all  grades  of  certificates. 

A  Complete  College  course  that  compares  with  anything  in  the  west. 

The  College  and  Normal  Courses  lead   to  State  certificates  without  examinations. 

Excellent  Building's  and  Equipments. 

Expenses  are  as  low  as  is  possible  with  first-class  service. 

Our  Last  Year's  Students  will  take  out  of  the  Public  Funds  of  McPherson  county 
alone  over  $10,000  this  year.     This  shows  talent  and  home  appreciation. 

Our  graduates  occupy  enviable  positions  in  the  business,  educational  and  religious 
world. 

The  Moral  and  Religious  Influences  are  unsurpassed.  No  saloons  in  the  city.  The 
teachers  come  in  close  personal  contact  with  the  students. 

We  have  a  Superior  Faculty. 

We  put  more  stress  on  our  Bible  School  than  any  other  college  we  know  of. 

The  President  of  the  college,  Edward  Frantz,  is  dean  of  the  Bible  school  and  is 
recognized  as  having  no  superior  in  his  lin*  of  work.  He  has  been  instructor 
in  his  line  of  work  in  McPherson  college  for  the  past  nine  years,  and  is  devoting 
his  entire  time  to  the  Bible.  You  can  do  no  better  than  to  take  a  course  here. 
Remember  tuition  in  Bible  Department  is  free.  Come,  study  the  Bible,  pre- 
pare yourself  for  mission  work.  Sunday-school  teacher,  preacher  and  make  your- 
self useful. 

There's  no  Bisk  in  taking  our  course  in  writing  or  business.  If  you  are  not  satisfied 
with  the  instruction  you  get  from  Prof.  Fahnestock.  you  pay  no  tuition.  This 
should  appeal  to  those  wishing  a  Business  course  or  a  Penmanship  course. 

Frof.  Fahnestock  is  a  little  more  skillful  in  execution  than  the  average  John  or 
Bill,  that  helps  some  of  his  pupils.  He  has  taught  Bookkeeping  and  Penman- 
ship for  thirty  years — that  helps  others.  Writing  is  one  of  his  specialties. 
If  you  want  all  he  knows  about  it,  come  to  McPherson.  If  you  want  to  be 
entertained,  go  to  Sell's  circus.  Some  people  say  Fahnestock  is  the  best.  All 
say  he  is  conscientious.     If  you  believe  this,  he  can  help  you. 

If  you  have  hut  Little  Means,  write  and  mention  the  Nook.  We  have  an  interesting 
proposition  for  you  if  you  want  a  Eusiness  Course  or  a  course  in  Penmanship. 

We  have  a  $50  Course  for  $5  for  the  first  twelve  readers  of  the  Nook  that  write  us. 
Postmark  on  envelope  will   determine  who  is  first.      College  opens  Sept.   6. 

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McPHERSON    COLLEGE.    McPherson,  Kans. 


DAILY  EXCURSIONS  TO 

CALIFORNIA 

Through  first-class  and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  points  in  California 
and  Oregon  every  day  in  the  year. 

5  PERSONALLY  CONDUCTED  EXCURSIONS 

EVERY    WEEK. 

LOWEST  RATES, 

SHORTEST  TIME   ON    THE    ROAD, 

FINEST   SCENERY,  VARIABLE    ROUTES. 

You  can  leave  home  any  day  in  the  week  and  travel  in  tourist  cars 
on  fast  trains  through  to  the  coast.  For  descriptive  pamphlets  and 
full  information  inquire  of  nearest  agent. 

Chicago  &  North-Western  Railway. 


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Job   Printing 


The  Kind  that  Brings  Re- 
sults, the  Kind  you  needn't 
be  ashamed  of,  the  Kind 
that  is  Cheapest  in  the  End 
because  Just  as  You  Want 
it, — Furnished  by 

BRETHREN     PUBLISHING    H0U5C 
Elgin,   Illinois. 


Along  the  Rock  Island  Raiload 
in  the  Southwest 


Have  you,  as  a  reader  of -the  NOOK,  ever  seriously  considered  the  possibilities  of  the  Southwest  as  a  place 
3r  settlement  ?     Unless  you  have  been  there,  probably  you  do  not  know  very  much  about  it. 

Those  who  have  seen  the  country  are  delighted  with  it.  After  seeing  it  on  the  Excursion  from  the  last  An- 
ual  Meeting  from  Carthage,  Isaac  Frantz  said  that  "  if  he  were  a  young  man  again,  OHIO  COULD  NOT 
IOLD  HIM."     Now  why  is  it  such  a  good  place?     Well,  the  land  is  good,  the  crops  as  sure  as  anywhere, 

M^^^hH"^**************     and  better  than  in  most  places'  the  climate  is  superb' 

♦  prices  are  low  now  and  going  up  all  the  time.     The 

*  people  are  just  the  same  as  those  around  you  at  home, 
%  but  the  great  thing  about  it  all,  is  the  marvelous  way 
%     the  countrv  is  growing.     To-dav  a  cornfield,  next  year 


Cheap  Rates 


Rock  Island! 
System  l 


Southwest 

There    isn't    a    section    of    the    globe    where    a    man    X 


isfy   himself   of   its    worth    so    easily    and    cheaply —    .5. 

as   the  Southwest.  »> 


The  Lowest  Rates  of  the  Year 


$     a  village,  the  year  following,  a  town  with  electric  lights, 

with  a  little  money  and  a  big  capacity  for  work  can    ^1 

.j  ,,     ...    t  .  .■     .         j      .     *     five  years  hence  a  lustv  citv  with  whizzing-  trolleys  and 

do   as   well — that   he   can   visit,   investigate   and   sat-    .j,  •>  -         -  B  J 

shouting  hackmen  at  the  Station.  That  is  the  his- 
tory of  not  a  few  big  Oklahoma  cities.  To  locate  with- 
in "  the  Sphere  of  Influence."  of  such  a  place  requires 
judgment,  either  personally,  or  in  somebody  else  who 
does  know. 

If  you  ask  us  if  we  know  of  such  a  coming  place, 
we  tell  you  that  we  do.  Where  it  is  we  are  not  telling 
vou  just  now.  Later  you  will  learn  about  it.  We  are 
f  not  advertising  the  locality  for  the  reason  that  prices 
would  double  while  you  slept.  We  want  the  BRETH- 
REN to  have  the  first  chance,  and  we  will  tell  you  all 
about  it  for  the  asking — TRY  US. 


will  be  in  effect  via  Rock  Island  System.  August  23  £ 
and  September  13  and  27  to  Texas,  Oklahoma  and  3. 
Indian  Territory. 

Round    trip,   good   twenty-one   days   from    date   of 
•   sale,  $20  from  Chicago.     Correspondingly  low  rates 
from   many  other  points. 

Write  or   call   for  free  booklets. 

GEO.  F.  LEE,   Gen.  Agt.  Pass.  Dept., 
91    Adams    St.,  Chicago. 


We  will  put  you  in  touch  with  people  of  like  faith  who  have  seen  it,  and  people  who  are  going  there,  and 
hose  who  are  there.  If  you  want  to  know,  ASK.  We  will  do  all  the  rest  in  the  way  of  exact  and  reliable  infor- 
nation.  It  is  the  people  first  in  who  win  out.  There  will  be  later  chances,  but  it  will  cost  you  from  two  to 
en  times  the  present  cost  for  the  delay.  Let  us  tell  you  quickly  and  confidentially  where  this  place  is  to  be 
otind  and  what  is  now  doing  there.     "  WRITE  TO-DAV." 


JOHN   SEBASTIAN, 
Passenger  Traffic  Manager,  Rock  Island  System, 

Chicago. 


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Wonderful 
Stove  Offe 


For  the  most  complete  11 
shown,  the  greatest  values  eve| 
in  cast  iron  and  steel  cook 
Ranges  and  Heating  stoves  see| 
catalogue. 

Our  "binding"  guarantee  back 
thing  shipped  out. 

Our  practical  and  successful 
co-operation,  which  means  woi 
gether.  enables  us  to  furnish  tt 
saving  prices  found  in  our 
catalogue.  The  significance  of 
"  Equity  "  plays  an  important  pe 
filling  of  all  orders  sent  us. 

Our  business   success   lies 
that  in  the  very  beginning"  we  sc 
following  four  guide  posts:  Pro 
Thoroughness,    Efficiency    and 
We    solicit    the   patronage    of 
whether   shareholder   or    not. 

When  placing  your  next  ordei 
ber    the    firm    with    the   name 
oreij  man  his  just  dues. 


Equity  Mfg.  and  Supply  Company, 

'53=155  So.  Jefferson  Street,  Chicago,   III 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


THE   COLONY 


.ON. 


.AGUNA  DE  TACHE  GRANT 


...IN    THE... 


SAN  JOAQUIN  VALLEY,  CALIFORNIA. 


BRETHREN  OAK  GROVE  CHURCH 

Still  continues  to  attract  the  attention  of  homeseekers. 

The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  immense  growth  of 
J»rery  variety  of  crop  which  is  again  in  evidence  establishes  the  fact  that  here  is  the 
flace  where  the  Industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN  PEOPLE  DO  EASTERN  FARMING. 

Tou  don't  have  to  spend  years  learning  a  new  business. 

ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

esldes  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
Is  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  it. 

SPECIAL    LOW    RATES    TO    CALirORNIA. 

From  August  15th  to  Sept.  10th  the  railroads  will  sell  Round  Trip  excursion 
ckets  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

From    Chicago $50  00 

From   Mississippi   River 47  50 

From    Missouri    River 45  00 

Final  return  limit.  Oct.  23. 

ALSO    SEPTEMBER    15th    TO    OCTOBER    15th    COLONIST    ONE-WAT    TICKETS 
TO  ANY  CALIFORNIA  POINT. 

From    Chicago $33   00 

From   Mississippi    River j 30   00 

From    Missouri    River, 25   00 

By  this  arrangement  you  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 
Hid.     If  it  suits  you,  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate. 

Land  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre,  Including  perpetual  water  right.  Terms,  one- 
Jurth  cash;  balance  in  eight  annual  payments. 

From  twenty  to  forty  acres  wlli  support  the  average  family  in  comfort 

If  interested  send  your  name  and  address  and  receive  printed  matter  and  our 
ical  newspaper  free  for  two  months.     Write  to 

(ARES  &  SAUNDERS,    ■    Laton,  California. 


Cap  Goods! 

Our  business  has  almost  doubled  itself 
during  the  last  year.  We  are  sending1 
goods  by  mail  to  thousands  of  perma- 
nent, satisfied  customers  throughout  the 
United  States.     The  reason  is  simple. 

Our  Goods  are  Reliable.     Our  Variety  Is 
Large.     Our  Prices  are  Low. 

All  orders  filled  promptly,  postpaid. 
Satisfaction  guaranteed  or  your  money 
refunded.  Send  us  a  sample  order  and 
be  convinced.  Write  us  for  a  booklet 
of  unsolicited  testimonials  and  new  line 
of  samples,  which  will  be  furnished  free. 
Send  at  once  to 

R.   E.   ARNOLD,   Elgin,  111. 

Bible  Institute 

...AND... 

Canton  College 

Fall  Term  Opens  Sept.  15,  1904. 


Affords  excellent  facilities  for  se- 
curing a  thorough  and  practical  edu- 
cation. 

COURSE  OF  STUDY.— BIBLICAL, 
MUSICAL,  LITERARY,  COM- 
MERCIAL, SHORTHAND, 
AND   TYPEWRITING. 

Our  instructors  are  experienced 
teachers,  having  been  trained  in  some 
of  the  best  Colleges  and  Universities. 
They  give  personal  instruction  to  each 
student. 

The  social,  literary,  moral,  and  re- 
ligious influence  is  the  VERY  BEST. 

For  further  information  write  for 
catalogue  to 

BIBLE  STUDENT  COMPANY, 

Or  E.  S.  Young.  President, 

1338  Fulton  St.,  Canton,  Ohio. 

HOME    VISITORS'    EXCURSION. 

Sept.  6,  13,  20  and  27  and  Oct.  11th 
the  C.  M.  &  St.  P.  Ry.  Co.  will  sell 
round  trip  tickets  for  one  fare  plus 
$2.00  to  Certain  points  in  Indiana, 
Ohio  and  Kentucky,  good  for  30  days. 

For  full  details  call  at  any  Milwau- 
kee Ticket   Office. 

J.  B.  HOPKINS.  AGT. 

Very   Low   Rates  South 
and  Southwest 

The  Wabash  Railroad  will  sell 
special  homeseekers  excursion  tickets 
from  Chicago  via  St.  Louis  to  a  large 
number  of  points  in  the  South  and 
Southwest  at  the  very  low  rate  of 
-J"  fo  i  "fund  i  rip.  Dates  of  - 
Sept.  13  and  27.  Write  for  time  ..inl- 
and   full    particu 

F.   A.    PALMER.   A.   G.   P.   A., 
311  Marquette  BIdg.,  Chicago,  111.. 


New  Catalogue 

We  have  been  just  as  exact- 
ing about  the  prices  in  our  New 
Catalogue  as  Uncle  Sam  is 
about  the  postage  it'  takes  to 
bring  this  big  book  to  your 
home.  We  know  the  prices  are 
right  and  we  want  every  read- 
er of  the  Inglenook  to  profit 
therby.  A  copy  of  this  New 
Catalogue  weighing  nearly  four 
pounds  will  be  sent  Free  upon 
request  and  you  cannot  afford 
to  place  a  single  order  for 
goods  until  you  have  examined 
our  prices.  Send  a  postal  card 
with  your  name  and  address 
upon  it  and  leave  the  rest  to 
Uncle   Sam  and   Us. 

Refunds 

We  refund  to  our  patrons 
freight  and  express  charges  on 

a  plan  that  is  meeting  with  great  favor.  Upon  investigation  you 
will  find  that  our  prices  are  not  one  whit  higher  than  the  very 
best  quotation  of  any  Mail  Order  House  in  the  country  and  yet 
we  make  it  possible  for  you  to  get  back  every  cent  you  pay  out 
for  freight — or  express.  Write  for  particulars  concerning  this 
matter  and  best  quotations  on  anything  you  desire  to  purchase. 
Our  Co-operative  methods  save  money  for  both  parties — our  un- 
paralleled offer  in  regard  to  transportation  charges  merits  inves- 
tigation. 


Our  Guarantee 


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Our  customers  take  no  risk  whatever,  in  ordering  goods  as 
we  guarantee  satisfaction  or  money  back,  and  this  statement  is 
unqualified  in  its  application.  It  is  only  on  this  basis  that  we 
bid  for  your  patronage  and  our  part  of  this  arrangement  is  ful- 
filled without  question  or  quibble.  Ask  us  to  mail  you  64-page 
book  of  testimonials  from  satisfied  patrons  and  remember  we  have 
the  consent  from  each  person  to  use  extracts  from  letters  and 
make  public  their  words  of  commendation.  We  never  betray 
the  confidence  of  our  patrons  and  are  never  satisfied  until  they 
are  satisfied. 


Bonnet   Goods 


I  Albaugh  Bros.,  Dover  &  Co., 

%  THE    MAIL  ORDER    HOUSE, 

|  341=344  Franklin  Street,         :        :         Chicago,  III. 


Fourteen  styles  of  straw  for  bon- 
nets. Prices  one-half  what  you 
have  been  paying.  Fine  assort- 
ment of  goods  for  winter  bonnets 
just  in  and  prices  very  low. 
Samples  sent  free  upon  applica- 
tion. We  also  furnish  bonnet  pat- 
terns and  make  bonnets  to  order. 
Chiffon,  Braid,  '  Tie  Goods,  Rice 
Net,  Silk-covered  Wire,  etc.,  al- 
ways kept  in  stock  in  large  quanti- 
ties, also  full  line  of  Cap  Goods. 

Write  for  Particulars, 
Samples  and  Prices. 


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PARTIAL  TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


POEM. 

THE    BOOT-BLACK'S    LAMENT. 

CONTRIBUTIONS. 

SEED   THOUGHTS   FOR  THE   HEART'S   GARDEN.— By 

Josephine  Hanna. 
THE  TRAIN   TO   HUMDRUM.— By  George  Haldan. 
-MISSION   OF  SAN   LUIS   REV.— By  Guy  E.  Mitchell. 
WHAT    IS    LIFE    WITHOUT    A    PURPOSE?— By   C.   S. 

Carr,  M.  D. 
SHOULD    ONE    GO    AWAY    TO    SCHOOL?— By  D.  (  Iwen 

Cottrell. 
DISH  WASHING.— By  Nannie  .1.  Roop. 


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Reservoirs  and  Lateral  Ditch- 
es to  the  Land,  and  Maintains 
them  for  10  Years  at  a  cost  of 

ONLY  $2.50  AN  ACRE 

FEB     TEAE. 

This  Includes  Water.      After   10  Years   Water 
and  Canals  Belong  to  Homesteader. 


Land    Close   to    Railroad    and    Cood 
Markets  Can  be  Secured  By 

ACTUAL  SETTLERS 
ONLY. 


Mr.  L.  H.  Taylor,  the  United  States 
Engineer  in  charge  of  work,  says: 
"It  is  likely  that  most  of  those  set- 
tlers who  desire,  can  find  employment 
for  themselves  and  teams  on  the  ca- 
nals during  at  least  a  part  of  their 
spare  time  for  the  next  two  or  three 
years." 


For  Information  Write  to 

GEO.  L.  McDONAUGH, 

COLONIZATION    AGENT 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Omaha,  Neb. 


ARE   YOU    GOING   TO 

CALIFORNIA,  WASHINGTON, 
OREGON,  IDAHO 

Or  Any  Other  Point  ?    Take  the 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Daily  Tourist  Car  Line 


BETWEEN 


Chicago,    Missouri    River,    Colorado, 

Idaho,  Oregon,  Washington  and 

California  Points. 


Stop  Off  at  Reno,  Nevada, 

And  Investigate  the  Irrigated  Govern- 
ment Land.  Call  on  Mr.  L.H.  Taylor 
U.  S.  Engineer,  for  information. 


ONE-WAY    COLONIST'S    RATES. 

To  Pacific  Coast  Every  Day,  Sept.  15 
to  Oct.  15. 

From   Chicago $33  00 

From  St.  Louis 30  00 

From   Missouri    River 25  00 

Proportionate  rates  from  all  points 
East. 


The  Union  Pacific  Railroad 


— Is  Known  As — 

"The  Overland  Roote" 

And  is  the  only  direct  line  from 
Chicago  and  the  Missouri  River  to 
all  principal  points  West.  Business 
men  and  others  can  save  many 
hours  via  this  line.  Call  on  or  ad- 
dress a  postal  card  to  your  nearest 
ticket  agent,  or  Geo.  L.  McDon- 
augh,  Colonization  Agent,  Omaha. 
Nebr. 

E.    L.    LOMAX,    G.    P.    &    T.    A., 
Omaha,  Nebraska. 


45  Bushels  Wheat 
to  the  Acre 


South  Platte  Valley 


"  Democrat": 

W.  L.  Henderson,  who  owns  the  farm 
at  the  end  of  the  wagon  bridge  across 
South  Platte  River,  opposite  Sterling, 
■  Colo.,  realized  over  $3,500  from  wheat 
raised  on  cp  acres.  It  went  45  bushels 
to  the  acre  ;ind  weighed  62  pounds  to 
the  bushel. 


The  following  parties  have  bought 
land  near  Snyder,  Colo.: 

Louis  E.  Keltner,  Hygiene,  Colo.; 
W.  W.  Keltner,  North  Dakota;  A.  W. 
Brayton,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Daniel 
Grabill,  Lemasters,  Pa.;  J.  L.  Kuns, 
McPherson,  Kans.;  D.  L.  Miller,  Mt. 
Morris,  111.;  Daniel  Neikirk,  Lemas- 
ters, Pa.;  Galen  B.  Royer,  Elgin,  111.; 
E.  Slifer,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  I.  B.  Trout, 
Lanark,  111.;  R.  E.  Arnold,  Elgin,  111. 


Geo.  L.  Studebaker,  of  Muncie,  In- 
diana, says:  "Sterling  is  a  growing 
town  with  a  good  country  surround- 
ing.    The  members   are  active." 


Homeseekers' 

Excursions 

To  Snyder,  Colo., 


With   privilege  of    stopping    off    at 
Sterling,   Colo., 

One  Fare  Plus  $2.00  for  the  Round  Trip 


First  and  Third  Tuesday  of 
Each  Month  via 

Uuion  Pacific  Railroad 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


BIBLES! 


An  entirely  new  ediiion  of  cheap,  large 
type  Family  f-ibles.  Large  quarto,  size 
10}4xl2}4  inches. 


No.  I.  Imitation  of  leather,  arabesque, 
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crushed  panel,  antique  gilt  sides  and 
back  titles,  comb  edges,  weight,  8 
lbs., 1.85 


No.  6N.  Imitation  of  Leather,  raised 
panel,  fu'l  gilt  side,  back  and  edges, 
weight,  11  lbs., $3.00 

A  clasp  on  any  of  the  above  Bibles,  35 
cents  additional. 

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Elllngtn,  Hios. 


GOSPEL  SONGS  and  HYMNS 

No.  1. 

Has  a  wonderful  sale,  and  the  book 
still  LIVES.  We  are  receiving  or- 
ders daily  for  this  book  and  have 
sold  more  than  40,000  copies  since  it 
has  been  published.  There  is  only 
one  reason  for  this.  It  is  simply  be- 
cause 

THE    SONGS    AND    HYMNS    IT 
CONTAINS    STILL    LIVE. 

This  book  is  used  by  thousands  in 
the  Sunday  school,  young  people's 
meeting  and  general  song  service.  It 
contains  208  pages  and  sells  at  30 
cents  each,  or  four  for  $1.  Send 
your  orders  to 

BRETHREN    PUBLISHING    HOUSE, 
Elgin,   Illinois. 


India: 
A  Problem 

A  Profusely  Illustrated  Book 
By  W.  B.  Stover. 

It  gives  a  splendid  description  of 
India  and  mission  work  connected  there- 
with. The  actual  experience  of  our 
missionaries  is  given  in  this  work.  Cloth 
£1.25.  Morocco,  £2.00.  Write  for  terms 
to  agents.    Address, 

BRETHREN    PUBLISHING    HOUSE, 
Elgin,    Illinois. 

The    Inglenook 
COOK  BOOK 


We  have  sent  out  thousands  of 
these  Cook  Books  as  premiums. 
So  great  was  the  demand  that  a 
second  edition  was  published. 
We  are  still  receiving  numerous 
calls  for  this  Cook  Book.  For  this 
reason  we  have  decided  to  dispose 
of  the  few  remaining  copies  at 
25  cents  per  copy.  To  insure  a 
copy  it  will  be  necessary  for  you 
to  order  at  once.      .      .      Send  to 


Brethren  Publishing  House 

Elgin,  Illinois. 


WANTED ! 

Two  girls  in  McPherson  College  to 
work  for  board  while  attending  col- 
lege.    Write   at   once. 

WANTED ! 

Two  advanced  students  to  do  tutor 
work  while  attending  McPherson 
College.     Write  at  once. 

WANTED ! 

A  man  to  do  janitor  work  the  year 
round.  Good  salary.  Write  Mc- 
Pherson College. 

WANTED ! 

More  persons  to  become  acquaint- 
ed with  the  Bible  Department  of  Mc- 
Pherson College.  Tuition  Free.  It 
is  our  intention  to  not  only  maintain 
McPherson  College  as  headquarters 
for  Bible  Study,  but  to  still-  further 
increase  its  usefulness  by  bringing  its 
work  before  a  larger  number  of  per- 
sons. 

WANTED ! 

A  College  student  to  act  as  Libra- 
rian while  pursuing  a  College  Course. 

Mcpherson  college. 

MANCHESTER 
COLLEGE 

The  Music  Department  is  under 
the  direction  of  a  trainer  of  teachers. 
Here  is  a  rare  opportunity  for  you, 
under  a  superior  director  and  teacher. 
Write  at  once  for  catalogue.  Ad- 
dress the  President. 

NORTH    MANCHESTER,    IND. 


WANTED ! 

Two  girls  to  work  (or  board  and  attend 
McPherson  College. 

S.  B.  Fahnestock,  Sec. 

THE  BLACK  HILLS. 


The    Richest    Hundred    Square    Miles 
in   the    World. 

The  Black  Hills,  in  the  southwest- 
ern part  of  the  State  of  South  Da- 
kota, produce  one-third  of  the  gold 
found  in  the  United  States,  and  are 
said  to  be  the  richest  one  hundred 
square  miles  in  the  world.  A  new 
booklet  on  the  Black  Hills  has  been 
issued  by  the  North-Western  Line, 
with  a  fine  detailed  map  of  this  won- 
derful region.  Send  four  cents  in 
stamps  for  a  copy  of  the  booklet  to 
W.  B.  KNISKERN,  P.  T.  M.  Chi- 
cago &  North-Western  R'v,  Chicago, 
III. 


-A.     STRO  3STG 


healthy  and  in  the  prime  of  life  may  go  for  years,  a 
slave  of  hard  work  and  not  notice  any  bad  effects. 
After  awhile,  however,  he  will  find  that  his  joints  and 
muscles  are  not  as  pliable  as  they  used  to  be.  He  will 
find  that  they  are  getting  stiff  and  sore.  He  will  get 
an  ache  here  and  a  pain  there.  Possibly  a  touch  of 
rheumatism.  These  are  natvire's  danger  signals 
showing  that  some  assistance  is  needed  to  make  re- 
pairs of  the  wear  and  tear  of  the  system.  If  he  is  a 
wise  man  he  will  heed  these  symptoms  and  do  some- 
thing for  himself  before  it  is  too  late. 

The  trouble  is  that  a  man  when  he  first  feels  these 
symptoms  imagines  that  they  are  not  serious  and  that 
they  will  soon  pass  away.  As  he  gets  on  in  years 
these  troubles  become  more  prominent  and  if  not 
checked  will  make  him  an  invalid,  when  he  ought  to 
be  enjoying  the  fruits  of  his  labor.  Of  all  known 
remedies  for  keeping  the  body  and  system  strong  and 
vigorous  there  is  probably  none  which  equals  DR. 
PETER'S  BLOOD  VITAL1ZER.  It  eliminates  all 
the  impurities  from  the  vital  fluid,  including  the  uric 
acid,  the  cause  of  rheumatism,  and  makes  new,  red, 
rich  blood  and  sound,  solid  flesh  and  muscle.  It  has 
become  one  of  the  most  popular  of  medicines. 

SUFFERED    FOR    FORTY-FIVE    YEARS. 

Green  Camp,  Ohio,  Aug.  1,  1904. 
Dr.  Peter  Fabrney,  Chicago,  III. 

Dear    Sir: — Your    Blood    Vitalizer    has    been    used    with 


great  success  by  myself  and  wife.  I  was  a  great  sufferer 
from  salt  rheum.  I  had  it  for  45  years  and  failed  to  find 
any  relief  until  I  tried  your  Blood  Vitalizer.  That  gave 
me  the  relief  I  have  sought  for  all  these  years.  I  am 
"feeling  well  for  a  man  of  my  years.  I  have  still  some  of 
your  medicine  and  it  shall  remain  our  family,  doctor. 

To  show  my  gratefulness  to  yon,   I  am  going  to  do  all  j 
I   can   to  make  the  Blood  Vitalizer  known  to  the  people. 
Yours   very  truly, 

C.  Wasserbeck,  Sr. 

WAS    TERRIBLY    WEAK. 

Bigelow,  Kans.,  July  30,  1904. 
Dr.   Peter   Fahrncy,    Chicago.   111. 

Dear  Sir: — I  am  not  in  the  habit  of  writing  testimonials 
but  I  think  one  is  certainly  due  your  Blood  Vitalizer.  I 
have  been  a  sufferer  from  general  weakness,  brought  on, 
I  think,  largely  by  the  grip.  I  was  so  weak  I  could 
scarcely  get  around  in  the  house.  I  have  taken  your 
Blood  Vitalizer  and  it  has  done  me  so  much  good.  It  is 
a  good  medicine  and  as  such  I  have  recommended  it  to 
several  of  my  friends  and  always  with  the  same  good  re- 
sults. Yours  truly, 

Mrs.  Nancy  Coffie. 

DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER  is  not  a 
drugstore  medicine.  It  is  sold  to  the  people  direct  or 
through  special  agents.  A  record  is  made  of  every 
bottle  before  it  leaves  the  laboratory  by  means  of  a  i 
registered  number.  In  purchasing  see  to  it  that  this 
numbeY  has  not  been  erased  or  tampered  with. 


DR.    PETER    FAHRNEY, 


112=114  S.  Hoyne  Avenue, 

CHICAGO,  ILL 


HI 


INGLENOOK. 


Mcpherson  cohege 


A  College  of  which 
Kansas  is    Proud. 


HERE    ARE    A    PEW    OF     THE    GOOD     THINGS    WE    HAVE    TO     OFFER: 

A  Normal  College  that  prepares  teachers  for  all  grades  of  certificates. 

A  Complete  College  course  that  compares  with  anything  in  the  west. 

The  College  and  Normal  Courses  lead  to  State  certificates  without  examinations. 

Excellent  Building's   and   Equipments. 

Expenses  are  as  low  as  is  possible  with  first-class  service. 

Our  Last  Tear's  Students  will  take  out  of  the  Public  Funds  of  McPherson  county 
alone  over  $10,000  this  year.     This  shows  talent  and  home  appreciation. 

Our  graduates  occupy  enviable  positions  in  the  business,  educational  and  religious 
world. 

The  Moral  and  Religious  Influences  are  unsurpassed.  No  saloons  in  the  city.  The 
teachers  come  in  close  personal  contact  with   the  students. 

We  have  a  Superior  Faculty. 

We  put  more  stress  on  our  Bible  School  than  any  other  college  we  know  of. 

The  President  of  the  college,  Edward  Frantz.  is  dean  of  the  Bible  school  and  is 
recognized  as  having  no  superior  in  his  line  of  work.  He  has  been  instructor 
in  his  line  of  work  in  McPherson  college  for  the  past  nine  years,  and  is  devoting 
his  entire  time  to  the  Bible.  You  can  do  no  better  than  to  take  a  course  here. 
Remember  tuition  in  Bible  Department  is  free.  Come,  study  the  Bible,  pre- 
pare yourself  for  mission  work,  Sunday-school  teacher,  preacher  and  make  your- 
self useful. 

There's  no  Bisk  in  taking  our  course  in  writing  or  business.  If  you  are  not  satisfied 
with  the  instruction  you  get  from  Prof.  Fahnestock,  you  pay  no  tuition.  This 
should  appeal  to  those  wishing  a  Business  course  or  a  Penmanship  course. 

Prof.  Fahnestock  is  a  little  more  skillful  in  execution  than  the  average  John  or 
Bill,  that  helps  some  of  his  pupils.  He  has  taught  Bookkeeping  and  Penman- 
ship for  thirty  years — that  helps  others.  Writing  is  one  of  his  specialties. 
If  you  want  all  he  knows  about  it,  come  to  McPherson,  If  you  want  to  be 
entertained,  go  to  Sell's  circus.  Some  people  say  Fahnestock  is  the  best.  All 
say  he  is  conscientious.      If  you  believe  this,  he  can  help  you. 

If  you  have  hut  Little  Means,  write  and  mention  the  Nook.  We  have  an  interesting 
proposition  for  you  if  you  want  a  Business  Course  or  a  course  in  Penmanship. 

We  have  a  $50  Course  for  $5  for  the  first  twelve  readers  of  the  Nook  that  write  us. 
Postmark  on  envelope  will   determine  who  is  first.     College  opens  Sept.   6. 

36tf  McPHERSON    COLLEGE.    McPherson,  Kans. 


DAILY  EXCURSIONS  TO 

CALIFORNIA 

Through  first-class  and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  points  In  California 


and  Oregon  every  day  In  the  year. 


5  PERSONALLY  CONDUCTED  EXCURSIONS 


EVERY    WEEK. 


LOWEST  RATES, 

SHORTEST  TIME   ON    THE    ROAD, 

FINEST   SCENERY,  VARIABLE   ROUTES. 

You  can  leave  home  any  day  )n  the  week  and  travel  In  tourist  cars 
on  fast  trains  through  to  the  coast.  For  descriptive  pamphlets  and 
full  Information  inquire  of  nearest  agent. 

Chicago  &  North-Western  Railway. 


L 


YOUR   IDLE  MONEY 

carefully  and  properly  invested  will 
earn  7  to  20  per  cent  per  annum 
for  you,  regularly  and  safely.  For 
eight  years  we  have  heen  dealing  in 
high-grade  interest-hearing  invest- 
ment securities,  and  if  you  have  any 
idle  funds  on  hand,  large  or  small, 
we  will  tell  you  how  and  where  you 
may  invest  it  honestly  and  profit- 
ably, and  we  use  the  greatest  possi- 
ble care  to  make  every  dollar  invest- 
ed absolutely  secure.  "Write  to  us 
for    full    particulars.     Address : 

NEWCOMER  AND  PRICE, 
30eow  Mt.  Morris,  UL 


Farms  You  Will  Buy 


East  Central  Kansas  is  the  best  part 
of  the  State  for  general  farming  and 
raising  stock.  Well  watered,  Marion 
county's  average  crop  acreage  is  110,000 
acres  corn,  90,000  acres  wheat,  40,000 
acres  oats,  20,000  acres  alfalfa.  "We 
have  some  good  farms  for  sale  at  a  bar- 
gain. Will  say  to  the  Brethren  that  are 
thinking  of  changing  their  location  that 
they  will  do  well  to  investigate  our 
country.  Good  bargains  near  church. 
Any  information   cheerfully  furnished. 

GARRISON  &  STUDEBAKER, 

Florence,  Kansas. 

Wild    Rose    Sheep    Farm 

Breeds  Cheviot  Sheep.  Wool  and  mut- 
ton of  best  quality.  Rams  and  ewes  for 
sale. 

HOWARD     H.     KEIM, 
34tl3  Box  1,  Ladoga,  Ind. 


Via  Dubuque,  Waterloo  and  Albert  Lea. 
Fast  Vestibule  Night  train  with  through 
Sleeping  Car,  Buffet-Library  Car  and  Free 
Reclining  Chair  Car.  Dining  Car  Service 
en  route.  Tickets  of  agents  of  I.  C.  R.  R. 
and  connecting  lines. 

A.  H.  HANSON.  0.  P.  A.,  CHICAOO. 


Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail 

— ■  •  ■ — 

^  |f\    A    I— |/~\    >s  the   best-watered   arid   State  in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 

^  1L^/"V1  IV,/    winds,    destructive    storms    and  cyclones   are  unknown,  and   with   its   matchless   cli- 

'.^  mate  it  makes   life  bright  and  worth  living. 

^  We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer  to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 

^  change   for   the   general    improvement   in   your   condition  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 

?5  account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  both  requirements.     There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 

^5  and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  country  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 

^  swer  and   many  conditions  to  investigate. ' 

■  j.  _  Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger  work   teach   us   that   a  few   dojlars   spent   in   railroad 

|^  fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves  thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

;^»  Cheap    homeseekers'   rates   are    made    to   all   principal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 

^  for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting  a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


Round=  Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only  in  May 
and  October,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


SETTLERS'    RATES 


Arrived  in  Payette  Valley  Feb.  23,  1903.  Settled  on  an  80-acre  tract,  covered  with  sage  brush. 
Cleared  40  acres.  May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.  Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.  June  12  sowed  10  acres 
to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.  Yielded  55  to  acre.  Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 
or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 
oats. 

Potatoes  yielded  500  bushels  to  the  acre  and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)   E.  L.  Dotson. 

D.   E.   BURLEY, 
S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio.  G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R., 

J.  E.  HOOPER,  Agent,  Oakland,  Kansas.  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

Mention  the  INGLENOOK  when  writui,.  40U3 


Daily  from  September  15  to  October  15,  1904,  the  same  cheap  one-way  second-class  settlers'  rates 
will  be  in  effect  from  the  East  to  points  on  our  line  as  have  heretofore  been  made  in  the  Spring  and 
Fall  months,  as  follows: 

To  Butte,  Anaconda,  Pocatello, 

Ogden,  Salt  Lake,  and  lnterme-  To  Huntington  and  main 

diate   points.  line  intermediates. 

Chicago, $30.00  $30.50 

Bloomington, 28.80  29.30 

Peoria, 28.00  28.50 

St.   Louis 26.00  27.50 

Kansas  City,  Leavenworth,  Atchison  and  St.  Joseph,....   20.00  22.50 

Council  Bluffs  and  Omaha 20.00  22.50 

Sioux  City 22.90  25.40 

St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis 22.90  25.40 

Proportionate    rates    will    be    made   from    other    stations    in    Illinois,    Iowa,  etc.                                                     tf; 


Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance.      Fine      gj 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


ainSiMok: 


Vol.  VI. 


September  20,  1904. 


No.  38. 


THE   BOOTBLACK'S    LAMENT. 


Lines  suggested  to  the  author  at  a  railroad  station  while 
watching  and  listening  to  the  white  and  the  colored  boot- 
blacks.    Author   unknown. 

The  white   boys   call   me   "  nigger  " 

And  "woolly  head"  and  such; 
I  guess  when  I  get  bigger, 

I  then  won't  mind  it  much. 
Just  now  it  kind  o'  gets  me, 

Whenever  they're  in  sight; 
It  vexes  me  and  frets  me 

Although  my  heart  is  white. 

They  chase  me  down  the  valley, 

And   push   me   off  the  walk; 
They  box  me  in  the  alley, 

And  kick  me  when  I  talk. 
I'm  cuffed  by  ev'rybody, 

I'm  in  a  sorry  plight; 
They  call  me  "  Blackleg  Toady," 

Although  my  heart  is  white. 

I  never  robbed  a  hencoop, 

Nor  sacked  a  melon  patch; 
Although   I  saw  a  white  troop 

The  darkies  could  not  match. 
I  ne'er  go  shooting  craps,  nor 

Do  what  is  not  just  right; 
I  keep  the  golden  rule,  for 

My  heart  is  always  white. 

'Tis   hard  to  watch   my  chances, 

To  make  an  honest  shine 
When  a  gentleman  advances 

A  nickel  or  a  dime, 
To  black  his  boots  to  suit  me, 

From  morning  up  to  night, 
As  black  as  I  myself  be, 

Although  my  heart  is  white. 

Must  this  go  on  forever? 

Can  darkies  never  rise 
And  get  some  justice  ever 

On   this  side  paradise? 
As   long  as  they  are  mortal 

Can  they  not  get  their  right? 
Beyond  the  shining  portal 

Will   they  not   then   be  white? 

v    *i*    *r 

Don't  let  your  life  become  stagnant  because  you 
cannot  go  over  the  dam ;  go  through,  though  it  be 
slow,  and  thus  become  the  purer  by  so  doing. — Earl  R. 
Goshom. 


SEED  THOUGHTS  FOR  THE  HEART'S  GARDEN. 


By    Josephine    Hanna,    Flora,    Ind. 

While  indecision  is  looking  back  at  yesterday,  and 
peering  ahead  at  to-morrow,  to-day  is  going  by  on 
The  Lightning  Express. 

* 

No  matter  how  fast  one  travels,  he  loses  both  time 
and  capital,  going  the  wrong  way. 
* 
Scraps  of  time,  dyed  in  the  wisdom  of  ages,  and  put 
together  by  the  stitches  of  industry,  is  the  stuff  out  of 
which  great  men  make  their  mantles. 
* 
Do  not  play  with  purpose, — it  spoils  it  for  anything 
else. 

* 

If  you  lose  your  temper,  somebody  will  discover  it 
on  the  spot,  but  you'll  be  ashamed  to  own  it. 
* 
There  zcould  be  more  fiinished  jobs,  if  there  was 
as  much  time  spent  on  the  last  half  of  undertakings 
as  there  is  on  the  first  half. 
* 
Since  it  takes  a  while  to  make  them,  and  we  cannot 
wear  them  out,  it  pays  to  make  our  habits  of  things  be- 
coming: foolish  habits   become  fools,   and  habits  of 
wisdom,  the  ivise. 

* 

Do  not  put  yourself  into  a  stew  to  feed  the  trouble 
you  wish  to  kill. 

* 

If  you  arc  waiting  for  the  opportunity  of  a  lifetime, 
turn  the  thing  around  and  you'll  have  something  bet- 
ter without  waiting  for  it, — a  lifetime  of  opportunity. 
* 
A  flaw  in  character,  like  that  in  damaged  goods, 
brings  an  immediate  and  surprising  discount  on  its 
value. 

* 

Good  intentions  cannot  be  placed  to  our  credit  until 
Ihey  are  cashed. 


8go 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  20,  1904. 


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$  BY  GEORGE  HALDAN. 

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The  monotony  of  waiting  around  a  railroad  station 
is  one  of  the  severest  kind,  but  once  in  a  while  some- 
thing transpires  that  dispels  the  gloom  of  the  wasted 
hours. 

While  sitting  in  a  crowded  passenger  station,  the 
other  day,  there  was  a  peculiar  type  of  a  woman  en- 
tered the  door  hurriedly.  She  fluttered  into  the  wait- 
ing room  just  six  minutes  before  train  time.  She  had 
a  grip,  large  telescope,  three  paper  boxes,  hand  satchel, 
umbrella,  chatelaine  pocketbook,  handkerchief,  band- 
boxes, and  a  birdcage.  She  promiscuously  unloaded 
herself  in  the  middle  of  the  waiting  room,  and  nervous- 
ly dumped  the  smaller  packages  on  the  window  ledge 
of  the  ticket  window,  and  screamed  out  with  a  nervous 
cry:  "  Give  me  a  ticket,  please!  "  Just  as  she  made 
this  request  she  dived  into  the  hand  satchel  and  pulled 
out  a  chatelaine,  closed  the  hand  satchel,  opened  the 
pocketbook,  took  out  a  roll  of  bills,  dropped  her  hand- 
kerchief, and  picked  it  up,  and  put  the  pocketbook  back 
into  the  satchel,  and  nervously  scanned  the  room  to  see 
who  was  looking. 

During  all  this  pantomime  the  ticket  seller  slowly 
arose  from  his  seat  near  the  telegraph  operator's  desk, 
and  glanced  at  her  with  all  the  rigidity  and  coldness 
of  a  mad  lion  that  has  just  been  aroused  from  his 
lair,  and  the  careful  observer  could  see  the  masseter 
muscles  of  his  cheek  quiver  as  he  gritted  his  teeth, 
but  never  said  a  word.  She  looked  at  him  unthought- 
edly,  wondering  why  she  did  not  get  her  ticket.  Her 
patience  being  finally  exhausted,  she  yelled :  "  Will 
you  please  give  me  my  ticket  ?  "  The  man,  without  re- 
laxing or  changing  his  expression,  said :  "  Where  do 
you  want  to  go  ?  "  "  Oh,  I  forgot !  I  want  to  go  to 
Humdrum.  There's  lots  of  time,  isn't  there  ?  "  Her 
voice  was  a  real  tremolo.  She  hurled  a  bundle  of  un- 
counted bills  through  the  window,  took  her  purse  out  of 
the  satchel,  opened  it  and  looked  in,  hung  it  at  her 
side,  and  began  to  tap  on  the  floor  impatiently  with  her 
foot.  The  man  inside  of  the  window  deliberately  se- 
lected a  little  pasteboard,  looked  it  over  closely,  read 
it  all  over  on  both  sides  and  then  brought  a  stamp 
down  on  it  like  he  expected  to  make  an  impression  that 
would  be  indelible  forever.  He  then  punched  it  slow- 
ly and  methodically,  counted  the  money  by  carefully 
separating  the  bills  which  were  in  a  lumpy  mass,  then 
pushed  the  ticket  through  the  window. 

There  was  a  smile  of  satisfaction  swept  over  the 
face  of  the  woman  like  the  flit  of  a  sunbeam,  only  to  be 
followed  by  one  of  exasperation  and  determination, 
and  she  wheeled  around,  made  one  sweep  with  both 


arms   which   successfully    surrounded   all   of   her   be- 
longings, and  made  a  run  for  the  railroad  track. 

"  Here,"  calls  the  man  through  the  window.  In 
vain  he  called.  She  could  not  hear ;  her  mind  was 
intently  fixed  upon  the  coming  train.  "  Hey  !  Hey  !  " 
was  passed  along  the  crowd  until  one  of  the  porters 
touched  her  on  the  arm  and  she  cried:  "  Oh!  "  and 
suddenly  wheeling  around  she  made  a  desperate  rush 
for  the  ticket  window,  and  gasped,  almost  with  a 
fainting  breath,  "  You  didn't  give  me  my  change !  " 
He  handed  her  the  money  without  a  smile,  without  a 
twinkle  of  his  eye,  without  a  word.  He  only  looked 
with  the  gaze  of  a  statue. 

This  time  she  counted  her  money  and  while  count- 
ing it  she  laid  her  umbrella,  bandboxes  and  three  small 
paper  boxes  and  the  little  hand  satchel  on  the  window 
ledge,  causing  a  lot  of  waiting  people,  not  having 
tickets,  to  glare  and  dance  around  nervously,  fearing 
they  would  miss  their  train.  Just  at  this  time  a  tall, 
sturdy,  middle-aged  man  shouted  out  at  the  top  of- 
his  voice,  which  filled  the  whole  room  with  a  vol- 
ume of  undistinguishable  tones,  "  All  aboard  for  Hum- 
drum !  "  And  with  a  shriek,  like  a  lot  of  college  girls 
escaping  a  fire  or  a  mouse,  she  ran  for  the  gate. 
But  the  grinning  porter  had  been  watching  her  all 
the  time  and  he  carefully  picked  up  her  umbrella,  par- 
cels and  other  truck,  just  as  she  was  ready  to  enter 
the  coach.  As  he  gently  touched  her  on  the  elbow, 
she  flew  at  him  like  a  caged  tiger. 

Finally  it  dawned  upon  her  that  some  one  had  been 
more  mindful  than  herself,  and  she  quickly  grasped 
her  belongings  with  a  nervous  hand  and  smiled.  "  I 
thank  you,"  forgetting  that  a  tip  might  be  in  place, 
and  again  wheeled  around  and  in  the  attempt  to  pass 
through  the  gate,  dropped  her  umbrella,  which  an  old 
gentleman,  near  by,  picked  up  for  her. 

In  her  great  excitement  she  opened  her  purse  and 
began  to  tremble  as  she  tried  to  find  her  ticket  for 
the  gateman,  and  then  finally  turned  her  gloves  inside 
out.  But  the  gateman  knew  a  thing  or  two :  he 
grinned  at  a  policeman,  who  was  standing  near  by, 
and  winked  at  a  traveling  man,  and  then  shouted  to  the 
woman  :  "  It  is  in  your  mouth  !  "  Up  went  her  hand 
and  she  clutched  her  ticket  and  in  a  wild  frenzy  pressed 
it  into  the  hand  of  the  gateman,  and  slipped  through 
in  time  to  finally  get  a  seat,  out  of  breath,  heart  palpi- 
tating, cheeks  flushed,  and  her  umbrella  sticking  point 
upward.  With  a  long-drawn  sigh  that  would  give 
credit  to  a  martyr,  she  dropped  into  her  seat,  hurriedly 
making  an  invoice  of  her  belongings,  when  at  that  mo- 
ment it  dawned  upon  her  that  this  might  be  the 
wrong  train,  and  she  turned  around  in  such  excitement 
that  her  broad-brimmed  straw  hat  sawed  the  occu- 
pant of  the  next  seat  across  the  face,  and  without  stop- 
ping to  ask  pardon,  shouted  in  his  face,  "  Is  this  the 
train  for  Humdrum?" 


THE    INGLENOOK. — September  20,  1904. 


HOW    A    WIRELESS    MESSAGE    TRAVELS. 


What  is  the  nature  of  a  message,  or  a  simple  sig- 
nal, sent  by  wireless  telegraphy?  In  what  does  such 
a  message  consist,  after  it  has  left  the  sending  in- 
strument and  before  it  reaches  the  receiver?  Only  a 
few  years  ago,  we  are  told  by  an  editorial  writer  in 
I  The  Electric  World  and  Engineer,"  there  was  con- 
siderable diversity  of  opinion  regarding  the  nature 
of  the  waves  employed  in  wireless  telegraphy  and 
their  propagation.  Now,  however,  there  is  practical 
unanimity  of  opinion  among  scientific  men  that  they 
'are  nearly  the  same  as  the  electro-magnetic  waves 
discovered  and  studied  by  Hertz,  the  German  physi- 
cist, the  chief  respect  in  which  they  differ  being  the 
way  in  which  the  "  wireless  "  wave  clings  to  the  sur- 
face of  the  earth,  following  the  curvature  as  it  travels 
over  long  distances.  The  writer  suggests  an  analogy 
by  which  we  may  get  an  idea  of  this  electro-magnetic 
wave.    He  says : 

"  Perhaps  the  easiest  picture  to  form,  in  the  mind's 
'eye,  of  a  wireless  sheet  wave  is  to  consider  a  net,  like 
an  enormous  seine  or  fishing-net.  invisible  to  the  eye, 
emitted  from  the  sending  antenna  and  running  out 
from  it  at  the  speed  of  light  in  all  directions,  spread- 
ing as  it  runs.  *  *  *  After  a  few  wave-lengths  from 
the  origin,  the  net  will  occupy  the  form  of  an  inverted 
hemisphere.  At  the  ground  the  horizontal  lines,  or  the 
warp,  will  represent  magnetic  flux  lines ;  while  the 
vertical  lines,  or  the  woof,  will  represent  electric  lines. 
The  net  propagates  itself  everywhere,  at  light  speed, 
in  a  direction  perpendicular  to  the  surface.  It 
tries  to  get  away  from  itself  sideways.  Every  cord 
in  the  net  extends  elastically  from  the  tension  due  to 
moving  sideways.  The  net  is  constantly  increasing 
in  dimension,  and  in  the  length  of  each  cord  as  it 
advances.  But  no  cord  moves  at  any  time  in  the  di- 
rection of  its  own  length — that  is,  the  pull  along  a 
cord  in  one  direction  is  exactly  balanced  by  the  pull 
in  the  opposite  direction,  so  there  can  be  no  resultant 
force,  or  component  of  force,  along  any  cord,  tending 
to  move  it  longways.  All  the  pull  which  gives  rise  to 
movement  makes  each  cord  travel  sideways,  or  perpen- 
dicularly to  its  length  and  to  the  net." 

A  curious  analogy  between  the  electro-magnetic  net 
and  a  material  net  moving  over  the  ground  is  noted 
by  the  writer.  If  the  ground  were  absolutely  smooth, 
a  vertical  moving  net  whose  lower  edge  just  touched 
would  not  be  bent  from  the  vertical  by  the  contact. 
Likewise  in  the  case  of  the  electro-magnetic  net  a  per- 
fectly conducting  surface  will  not  bend  the  edge  that 
touches.  But  just  as  an  actual  net  dragged  over  a 
rough  surface  would  be  bent,  at  the  lower  edge,  by 
friction,  so  a  surface  of  imperfect  conductivity  will 
cause  the  electro-magnetic  wave  surface  or  "  net  "  to 
drag  back.  The  wave  at  the  ground,  moving  always 
perpendicular  to  its  own   surface,  thus  runs  into  the 


ground,  dragging  part  of  the  net  after  it  and  draw- 
ing out  the  fibers  still  more.    To  quote  further : 

"Moreover,  if  the  material  net  were  carried  over 
posts  or  obstructions  at  a  sufficiently  rapid  rate,  rents 
would  be  torn  in  the  bottom  of  the  net,  and  at  the 
gaps  the  edges  of  the  net  would  be  bent  back  by  the 
contact,  or  out  of  the  perpendicular  plane.  So  in  the 
electric  net,  a  brick  wall  is  no  obstruction,  but  a  metal 
rod  or  a  lightning  conductor  takes  the  part  of  a  post 
in  the  material  case  and  tears  a  gash  out  of  the  net. 
The  edges  of  the  net  at  the  gash  are,  however,  bent 
back  as  they  tear,  and  as  the  net  moves  on  the  edges 
take  a  lateral  or  sideways  motion,  in  addition  to  the 
regular  advancing  motion,  tending  to  draw  the  edges 
of  the  rent  together,  and  seal  up  the  gash,  at  the  same 
time  drawing  upon  the  net  as  a  whole  to  do  this,  and 
executing  the  repair  with  some  general  attenuation. 
The  electric  net,  being  bent  at  the  gash  out  of  the 
regular  shape,  can  mend  itself  automatically  by  taking 
a  component  of  force  and  motion  that  would  corre- 
spond to  longways  propagation  in  the  uninjured  net. 
Assuming  that  we  have  a  clearly-defined  working 
theory  of  the  nature  of  wireless  telegraph  waves,  we 
need  convenient  means  of  experimental  exploration  in 
the  air  and  open  field  in  order  to  make  rapid  progress 
in  our  knowledge  of  the  subject.  What  we  want  is  a 
measuring  instrument  so  sensitive  that  when  connected 
in  the  middle  of  an  exploring  rod  observations  can  lie 
collected  in  many  different  directions  and  at  many 
different  elevations." — Literary  Digest. 

GRASS    GROWS    FAST. 


It  has  been  the  experience  of  those  who  have  lawns 
and  keep  them  cut  that  grass  grows  very  rapidly  this 
year,  and  it  is  found  necessary  to  operate  the  lawn 
mower  much  more  frequently  than  is  the  usual  cus- 
tom. "  I  have  taken  care  of  lawns  for  many  years," 
said  an  aged  man  as  he  stopped  the  machine  and  wiped 
the  perspiration  from  his  face,  "  and  I  never  saw 
grass  grow  so  fast  as  it  does  this  year.  Last  winter 
I  had  to  shovel  all  the  time  to  keep  the  snow 
from  the  walks,  and  this  summer  I  have  to  run  the 
lawn  mower  all  the  time  to  keep  the  lawn  looking  well. 
I  guess  they  have  got  a  grudge  against  me  and  are 
bound  to  keep  me  busy  winter  and  summer.  When 
I  stop  to  rest  and  look  up  into  the  trees  I  see  a  larger 
number  of  leaves  than  ever,  for  the  vegetation  is  re- 
markably thick.  That  makes  me  think  that  it  will 
not  be  many  weeks  before  I  will  have  to  begin  cleaning 
up  the  leaves  every  day.  and  I  guess  the  task  will  be 
a  big  one  this  year.  I  ain't  grumbling  at  all.  1  like 
to  see  good  growing  weather.  I  was  just  speaking 
about  the  coincidence  of  lots  of  snow,  lots  full  of  grass 
and  trees  fuller  than  ever  of  loaves ;  for  the  three  com- 
bine to  give  me  a  busy  year." 


892 


THE  INGLENOOK.— September  20,  1904. 


FATHER   O'KEEFE,    SAN   LUIS    BET   MISSION.    CALIFORNIA.— (Courtesy  Sunset  Magazine.) 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  20,  1904. 


893 


MISSION    OF    SAN    LUIS    REY. 


BY   GUY   E.    MITCHELL. 

Restoration  of  Picturesque  Spanish  Ruins  in  California. 
The  palmy  days  of  the  Eighteenth  Century  are  be- 
ing revived  in  Southern  California.  Brown-robed 
Franciscan  monks  have  reappeared  at  the  ancient  mis- 
sion of  San  Luis  Rey,  fifty  miles  north  of  San  Diego,  a 
citadel  of  strength  and  a  haven  of  rest  in  the  early 
days.  But  for  two  generations  this  mission  has  been 
almost  entirely  deserted,  until  in  recent  years  it  has 
become  a  mere  picturesque  ruin,  its  gray  walls  and 
arches   crumbling,  and   its   capacious  halls   and  lofty 


taught  and  carried  on.  Within  the  shadow  of  the 
church,  artisans  and  skilled  workmen  labored  at  their 
various  tasks.  Water  was  brought  in  irrigation  ditches 
from  the  nearest  stream  flowing  from  the  snow-capped 
Sierras,  and  field,  orchard  and  garden,  reclaimed  from 
the  desert,  yielded  of  their  abundance.  The  Francis- 
cans were  the  teachers  of  irrigation  of  the  Southwest, 
and  this  is  perhaps  the  deepest  and  most  lasting  mark 
which  they  left  on  California's  civilization. 

This  new  activity  at  San  Luis  Rey  has  become  as 
an  entire  surprise  to  the  quiet  neighborhood.  Patri- 
otic Americans  have  been  engaged  for  some  years  past 
in  an  effort  to  preserve  some  of  the  old  missions  from 
further  decav  and  even  to  restore  them,  to  a  certain 


SAN   LUIS    REY   MISSION.    CALIFORNIA.  —I Courtesy  Sunset  Magazine.) 


towers  abandoned  and  silent — a  decaying  monument 
of  the  former  glory  of  Spain's  church  and  state. 

Beginning  about  the  middle  of  the  Eighteenth  Cen- 
tury the  Franciscans  created  a  chain  of  these  mission 
settlements  extending  from  San  Diego,  near  the  Mex- 
ican border,  to  Sonoma,  north  of  San  Francisco. 
They  were  located  about  one  day's  journey  apart,  to 
convenience  travelers,  but  this  feature  was  only  in- 
cidental to  the  great  spiritual,  educational  and  eco- 
nomic work  which  they  did  for  California,  before  the 
time  of  the  American  occupation. 

The  Mission  Fathers  selected  the  most  fertile  spots 
in  beautifully  sheltered  valleys  for  their  settlements. 
Here  they  built  their  churches,  founded  their  schools 
and  established  communities  which  took  firm  root  upon 
the  soil.  Each  community  was  made  self-sufficient 
and  self-sustaining.     The  useful  arts  and  trades  were 


extent..  But  those  most  familiar  with  this  work  did 
not  dream  that  the  industrious  followers  of  St.  Francis 
would  ever  return  t&  make  practical  use  of  the  old 
landmarks.  Even  now  it  is  not  known  but  that  the 
movement  is  to  extend  to  other  historic  spots. 

Return  of  the  Monks. 

However  that  may  be,  the  gentle  brotherhood  has 
come  back  to  San  Luis  Rey.  The  old  church  has  been 
repaired  and  services  are  again  held  beneath  its  ven- 
erable roof.  The  cloisters  are  being  rebuilt  and  the 
irrigation  aqueducts  reconstructed.  The  fields  will  be 
tilled  again  and  yield  the  same  loyal  support  to  the 
community. 

The  leader  in  the  movement  is  Father  O'Keefe,  who 
came  unheralded  from  Mexico  and  quietly  set  upon 
the  restoration  of  the  old   landmark.     His   fellow-la- 


'894 


THE   INGLENOOK.— September  20,  1904. 


borers  are  all  members  of  the  Franciscan  order  and 
perform  their  heavy  manual  work  in  the  brown  cas- 
socks that  were  familiar  to  generations  now  passed  and 
forgotten.  Father  O'Keefe  does  not  expect  to  revive 
the  former  economic  life  of  the  settlement  in  all  its 
amplitude.  Much  has  happened  since  his  predecesors 
toiled  and  taught  and  ruled  in  these  lovely  Southern 
Valleys.  Modern  people  have  come  with  modern  im- 
provements, and  there  is  now  no  need  of  the  paternal 
scheme  which  did  so  much  for  the  simple  population 
of  the  country  a  century  or  more  ago.  Father 
O'Keefe's  plan  is  to  convert  the  old  mission  into  a 
self-sustaining  Franciscan  college.  Thus  the  spiritual 
and  educational   work  will  live  again,  but  the  social 


laying  the  foundation  of  prosperity,  pointing  the  way, 
and  inviting  the  people  to  enter  into  their  heritage. 
While  its  resources  are  far  greater  than  those  of  the 
devoted  missionaries  who  planted  the  seed  of  Cali- 
fornia, its  spirit  is  much  the  same.  It  is  helping  the 
people  to  help  themselves. 

In  one  respect  the  Mission  Fathers  were  better  sit- 
uated than  Uncle  Sam.  They  could  locate  their  set- 
tlements in  the  choicest  spots  without  encountering 
the  "  sooner,"  the  speculator  or  the  land-grabber  who 
had  anticipated  them  by  filing  on  the  property  under 
preposterous  land  laws.  The  cream  of  the  country 
was  open  to  the  real  settler  and  homebuilder  in  those 
days.    There  will  be  many  a  new  "mission  "  founded  in 


ARCHES    OF    SAX    Ll"IS    REY    MISSION,   CALIFORNIA. —  (Courtesy   Sunset  Magazine.) 


and  economic  features  will  not  be  restored,  beyond 
what  is  necessary  to  meet  the  necessities  of  the  monks 
themselves. 

Pioneers  of  Civilization. 
The  Mission  Fathers  were  the  pioneers  of  European 
civilization  among  the  Coast  hills  of  California.  They 
supplied  leadership  and  instruction  to  those  who  were 
engaged  in  founding  homes  and  wresting  a  living 
from  the  gaunt  appearing  desert.  The  work  which 
they  began  must  still  be  continued,  and  upon  a  vastly 
larger  scale,  but  it  has  passed  to  other  hands — to  the 
government  of  America  and  to  an  army  of  settlers 
who  come  from  all  parts  of  the  world.  The  govern- 
ment is  supplying  both  the  capital  and  the  expert 
knowledge  needed  in  this  conquest  of  the  desert.     It  is 


California — in  the  whole  great  West — missions  dedicat- 
ed to  industry,  thrift  and  the  satisfaction  of  that  craving 
for  homes  upon  the  soil  which  is  a  healthy  American 
characteristic.  But  the  future  of  these  "  missions  "  de 
pends  in  large  measure  upon  the  intelligence  of  Con- 
gress as  a  guardian  and  trustee  of  its  children  who  are 
to  build  up  and  occupy  these  productive  lands.  Under 
existing  laws,  speculators  are  taking  up  in  single  en- 
tries from  four  to  eight  times  as  much  land  as  is  rea 
sonably  necessary  for  the  support  of  a  family.  They 
are  getting  title  to  this  land  without  living  upon  it  for 
a  day  or  an  hour,  since  the  laws  do  not  require  them 
to  do  so.  While  the  richest  agricultural  lands  are  be- 
ing rapidly  acquired  for  speculation  and  monopoly 
under  one  law,  the  splendid  forests  which  clothe  the 


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Western  mountains  are  being  consolidated  into  great 
holdings,  under  another  law,  to  be  held  against  the 
needs  of  coming  generations.  These  things  are  noth- 
ing less  than  a  crime  against  the  children  of  the  United 
States. 

And  the  lesson  taught  by  the  brown-robed  Fran- 
ciscan monks  of  San  Luis  Rey  was  one  of  helpfulness 
and  self-dependence,  but  not  greed  and  rapacity.  Will 
their  successor,  the  United  States,  teach  the  same  les- 
son to  her  children  or  will  she  carelessly  allow  the  in- 
terloper to  wrongfully  profit  at  their  expense?  Con- 
gress has  been  asked  to  take  some  action  on  the  land 
laws  of  the  United  States.  It  has  failed  or  refused 
thus  far  to  do  so.  If  it  recognizes  public  sentiment, 
it  must  no  longer  evade  this  issue,  of  importance  to  the 
West  and  to  the  United  States. 

Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

*  *  * 

BUTTERFLIES    AND    MOTHS. 


The  two  insects  commonly  known  as  the  moths 
and  butterflies  together  form  the  order  Lepidoptera, 
signifying  "  scales  on  the  wings."  They  are  easily 
distinguished  from  each  other,  although  there  is  no 
special  characteristic  that  separates  them.  We  can 
say  that  all  butterflies  are  diurnal  in  their  flight,  while 
moths,  with  many  exceptions,  are  nocturnal. 

The  bodies  of  these,  like  all  other  insects,  consist  of 
the  head,  thorax  and  abdomen.  On  the  head  are 
placed  the  antennae,  eyes  and  mouth.  The  antennae 
are  supposed  to  be  the  organs  of  hearing.  The  only 
difference  found  in  these  is  that  the  antennae  of  all 
butterflies  are  knobbed  at  the  end.  while  those  of  moths 
are  never  knobbed  but  are  very  often  beautifully 
feathered.  The  eyes  are  compound,  containing  not 
less  than  16,000  facets  each.  Many  species  have  sim- 
ple eyes  concealed  between  the  two  prominent  com- 
pounds. The  mouth  parts  are  fitted  so  as  to  form  a 
long  sucking  tube. 

On  the  thorax  are  found  the  organs  of  locomotion, 
consisting  of  two  pairs  of  wings  and  three  pair  of  legs. 
They  use  their  legs  mainly  for  perching  and  very  sel- 
dom for  crawling  and  hence  these  have  become  very 
slender  and  weak,  while  in  some  species  of  butterflies. 
the  anterior  pair  have  become  simply  incidentary. 

The  wings  are  covered  with  numerous  scales  im- 
planted by  a  short  stalk  and  laid  over  each  other  like 
tiles  in  a  roof.  To  these  miscropic  scales  is  due  the 
variety  of  shading  and  beautiful  coloring  so  conspic- 
uous in  the  butterfly. 

It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  nature  adapts  itself  to 
its  surroundings.  So  is  it  true  here.  The  coloring  in 
these  insects  varies  according  to  swiftness  of  flight. 
Many  moths  that  cling  closely  to  the  trunks  of  trees 
are  so  nearly  the  tree  bark's  color  that  the  moth  is 
hard  to  find. 


These  insects  undergo  a  complete  metamorphosis ; 
that  is,  after  emerging  from  the  egg  and  before  reach- 
ing the  full  development,  they  pass  through  the  larva 
and  pupa  stages,  the  latter  being  one  of  total  inactivity 
as  far  as  the  outer  manifestations  are  concerned.  The 
larva  is  commonly  known  as  the  caterpillar. 

It  differs  from  the  true  worm  in  that  it  has  legs. 
Therefore  a  person  that  means  to  use  "  worms  "  in  its 
right  sense  should  not  call  caterpillars  worms. 

X*o  sooner  has  the  larva  emerged  than  it  begins  to 
eat  abundantly  and  in  a  few  days  has  grown  so  large 
that  it  needs  a  new  skin.  The  old  skin  is  then  cast 
off  and  with  it  the  entire  lining  of  the  alimentary  canal. 
It  changes  skin  in  this  manner  five  times  usually,  but 
in  the  case  of  tiger  moth,  this  is  done  ten  times.  Moths 
and  butterflies  remain  in  the  larva  stage  for  periods 
varying  from  a  few  weeks  to  three  years  as  the  case  of 
the  goat  moth.  During  this  period  they  increase  enor- 
mously in  weight,  the  goat  moth  gaining  72,000  times 
its  original  weight.  When  the  caterpillar  reaches  its 
full  growth,  its  instincts  are  changed  and  it  weaves  a 
couch  or  cocoon  in  which  it  is  more  or  less  enclosed. 
After  a  time  it  throws  this  off  and  comes  forth  as  the 
pupa.  The  duration  of  this  stage  varies  from  a  few 
weeks  to  several  months.  When  the  pupa  is  matured, 
the  pupa's  case  cracks  open  toward  the  anterior  end. 
The  insect  emerges  with  wings,  which  at  first  crumpled 
take  up  their  peculiar  shape  and  size  in  a  couple  of 
hours. 

Butterflies  in  many  cases  seem  to  go  in  flocks.  Sir 
J.  Tennant  once  witnessed  a  mighty  host  of  butterflies 
of  a  white  or  pale  yellow  hue,  apparently  miles  in 
breadth  and  of  so  great  extension  that  their  passing 
occupied  hours. 

The  food  of  these  insects  consists  mainly  of  the  sweet 
liquid  from  the  nectaries  of  flowers,  which  is  reached 
by  their  long  tongue.  Although  their  food  is  gen- 
erally from  the  loveliest  vessels,  it  has  been  noticed  that 
some  of  the  loveliest  species  desire  more  vulgar  diet. 

Butterflies  and  moths  are  distributed  all  over  the 
globe,  occurring,  however,  in  greatest  variety  in  trop- 
ical lands. 

Among  the  smallest,  but  most  troublesome  of  moths 
are  those  little  pests,  the  clothes  moths.  These  are  a 
few  that  have  left  the  original  vegetable  food  and  taken 
to  that  of  animal  origin.  Of  the  leaf  rolling  moths  the 
codling  moth  is  best  known. 

It's  larva  is  the  worm  so  frequently  found  in'apples. 
Then  there  are  the  geometrids  whose  larva  are  the 
well-known  measuring  worms. 

While  some  moths  are  "  pests."  others  are  very  use- 
ful to  man  directly,  the  silk  worm  leading  in  this  re- 
spect. These  in  fact  are  among  the  most  useful  of  all 
insects.  The  true  silk  worm  is  a  native  of  China  but 
has  been  carried  to  all  warm  climates.  Like  other  cat- 
erpillars they   form  their  cocoons  and  then  these  are 


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steamed  or  heated  to  kill  the  pupa  within  and  the  silk 
is  then  unwound  and  after  proper  treatment,  becomes 
the  commercial  silk.  There  is  a  species  of  butterfly 
that  lives  in  the  snows  of  the  Snowy  Mountains  and  in 
the  peaks  of  Colorado  and  Labrador.  It  is  supposed 
that  this  form  is  a  remnant  of  an  arctic  fauna  which 
extended  over  the  Northern  United  States  when  the 
country  was  covered  by  the  great  ice  sheet,  and  on  the 
retreat  of  the  glacier,  these  colonies  were  stranded  upon 
these  high  peaks  as  the  only  places  cold  enough  for 
their  existence. — Sadie  Stutsman,  in  College  Rays. 
*  *$•  ♦ 
WHAT   IS    LIFE   WITHOUT   A    PURPOSE  ? 


BY    C.    S.    CARS,    M.    D. 

We  saw  a  man  the  other  day  reaping  grain  with  a 
modern  reaper  and  binder.  First,  there  was  the  binder 
with  its  intricate  machinery,  cutting  the  grain  and  de- 
positing it  in  even  bound  bundles  on  the  ground,  and 
three  strong  horses  that  were  drawing  the  machine. 

Second,  the  driver  who  was  directing  the  machine, 
having  charge  of  the  proper  adjustments  of  all  its 
parts. 

Third,  the  grain  that  was  being  harvested. 

As  we  watched,  we  reflected  something  as  follows: 
The  reaping  machine  with  the  attached  horses  might 
be  likened  to  the  human  body.  There  was  an  intricate 
mechanism  capable  of  performing  great  labor.  The 
utility  of  it  depends  upon  the  perfection  of  its  parts 
which  must  be  kept  in  order.  Every  joint  of  friction 
oiled.  Every  lever  strong  and  properly  adjusted. 
Every  wheel  true  and  firm.  The  horses  must  be  obe- 
dient and  in  possession  of  sufficient  strength  to  carry 
on  the  work  without  hesitation  or  delay. 
*   *   * 

To  attain  the  highest  success  in  life  one  must  have 
a  good  body,  a  strong  body.  A  body  capable  of  per- 
forming the  work  with  skill  and  strength.  The  body 
must  have  sufficient  motive  power  to  keep  it  going 
steadily  and  resistlessly. 

But  with  the  best  of  bodies,  in  the  best  of  health, 
nothing  can  be  accomplished  unless  it  be  associated 
with  a  good  driver.  Like  the  reaper,  it  must  have  a 
good  intellect  to  guide  it.  A  good  reaper,  driven  about 
the  fields  aimlessly,  would  accomplish  nothing.  The 
perfection  of  its  machinery  would  be  broken  up. 

So  a  man  with  a  strong,  well-balanced  body  will  ac- 
complish nothing  in  the  world  unless  there  is  some 
one  at  the  helm  guiding,  giving  direction  and  meaning 
to  its  activity. 

Thus,  we  must  have  a  good  body  and  clear  intellect 
to  make  life  a  success. 

But  this  is  not  all.  There  must  be  an  object  in  life. 
There  must  be  a  purpose.  The  man  and  the  reaper 
are  not  sufficient.  There  must  be  grain.  A  man  may 
have  a  good  body  and  a  keen  intellect.     He  may  suc- 


ceed by  the  use  of  his  body  and  intellect  in  surround- 
ing himself  with  every  species  of  comfort  and  nothing 

come  of  it. 

*  *  * 

We  reflected,  as  we  watched  the  man  and  the  reaper, 
how  much  better  for  the  man  and  the  reaper  had  he 
selected  some  clean,  shady  yard,  made  perfectly 
smooth,  where  no  root  or  stone  could  obstruct  his 
passage.  He  could  have  traveled  around  and  around 
and  around  without  any  danger  of  injuring  the  ma- 
chinery or  hurting  his  horses,  and  he  himself  be  care- 
fully guarded  and  sheltered  from  sun  and  storm.  He 
would  not  have  so  quickly  worn  the  paint  off  his 
reaper,  or  exposed  himself  or  his  horses  to  the  sting 
of  bees  or  the  scratches  from  briers,  or  the  heat  of  the 
sun.  Why  does  he  go  out  into  the  harvest  field  and 
subject  himself  to  all  of  these  incidental  hardships, 
when  he  could  have  operated  his  splendid  machine  in 
a  safe  place  ?  The  answer  suggests  itself — there  would 
be  no  purpose.  After  all,  it  is  the  gathered  grain  that 
constitutes  the  only  rational  justification  for  the  ma- 
chine, the  man,  and  the  horses.  The  machine  is  not 
operated  merely  to  perpetuate  itself,  the  horses  are  not 
working  primarily  for  their  own  comfort  and  longev- 
ity, the  man  is  not  driving  the  machine  with  the  sole 
view  of  having  an  easy  time  or  protecting  himself 
from  the  exigencies  of  climate.  He  has  a  purpose  in 
view — gathering  grain. 

In  doing  this,  to  be  sure,  he  tries  to  make  himself 
as  comfortable  as  he  can.  He  tries  to  operate  his  ma- 
chine with  as  little  wear  and  tear  as  possible.  He  ex- 
poses his  horses  not  more  than  is  necessary,  but  ex- 
posure and  wear  and  tear  are  inevitable  to  the  accom- 
plishment of  his  purpose. 

*  *  * 

Thus  it  is  with  human  life.  We  may  have  health 
crowned  with  good  intellect,  and  yet  no  purpose  in 
life,  at  least  no  higher  purpose  than  securing  safety 
and  comfort,  and  avoiding  hardships  of  all  sorts.  A 
human  being  who  is  living  only  to  perpetuate  his  own 
existence,  striving  only  to  secure  his  own  comfort, 
is  precisely  as  foolish  as  the  man  with  the  reaper  driv- 
ing around  and  around  in  a  shady  yard  where  there  is 
no  grain  to  reap.  Having  driven  around  and  around 
until  old  age  has  stopped  his  career — what  of  it  all? 
Nothing. 

But  out  in  the'fields,  jolting  over  stones  and  bogs, 
subjected  to  sun  and  wind,  overcoming  a  thousand  ob- 
stacles, some  grain  is  also  gathered  and  sent  out  into 
the  civilized  world  on  its  mission  of  nourishment,  car- 
rying to  thousands  of  unknown  persons  strength  and 
vitality. 

Although  the  driver  would  be  safer  and  more  com- 
fortable in  the  shady  yard,  driving  around  and  around, 
yet  the  uselessness  of  his  mission  would  make  his  task 
an  intolerable  one.  Far  better  to  bear  the  discomfort 
of  actual  labor  in  the  fields  than  to  attempt  to  bear  the 


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ennui  and  despondency  that  is  sure  to  result  from  use- 
less effort. 

*  *  * 

If  a  man  devotes  the  strength  that  comes  from  health 
and  the  powers  of  intellect  to  the  one  purpose  of  per- 
petuating health  and  intellect,  of  what  use  is  it  all  ? 
Unless  through  these  powers  he  reaches  out  into  the 
world  of  human  activities  and  adds  something  to  the 
utility  or  the  goodness  of  the  world — what  is  the  use 
of  it  all? 

The  consciousness  that  he  is  doing  for  himself  only, 
very  quickly  reacts  upon  him  to  narrow  and  embitter 
his  own  life.  He  becomes  a  pessimist.  He  becomes  a 
grumbler.  He  looks  upon  every  other  man  as  a  natural 
enemy.  He  measures  life  by  its  sordid  possessions: 
His  satisfaction  in  life  is  limited  by  his  sensuous  en- 
joyments. 

Unless  he  has  accomplished  something  which  will 
redound  for  the  good  of  the  whole,  his  life  is  sure  to 
become  either  a  farce  or  a  tragedy. 

*  *  * 

Not  all  reapers  gather  the  same  kind  of  grain,  nor 
do  all  men  accomplish  the  same  kind  of  good  for  the 
benefit  of  the  world.  The  only  contribution  some  peo- 
ple can  make  to  the  wealth  of  the  world  is  a  good  ex- 
ample and  a  cheerful  spirit  in  the  midst  of  adversity, 
a  trusting,  willing  helpfulness  and  sincere  attitude 
toward  others  under  the  most  trying  and  discouraging 
situations.  Indeed,  such  a  life  is  no  mean  contribution 
to  the  world's  good. 

Another  one  may  be  so  circumstanced  that  through 
invention  or  scientific  discovery  he  may  add  to  the  com- 
fort and  satisfaction  of  millions.  Another  man  through 
his  ability  to  speak  or  write  may  be  sending  forth  into 
the  world  words  of  cheer  and  helpfulness.  Another  one 
may  use  his  wealth  in  such  a  way  as  to  perpetuate  his 
benefactions  to  the  world  for  many  generations  after 
.his  name  has  been  forgotten. 

But  in  one  way  or  another  an  opportunity  is  given 
each  one  to  gather  more  than  he  needs  for  himself,  to 
bring  into  existence  valuable  products  which  he  can 
share  with  others.  *   *   * 

The  man  who  habitually  thinks  first  of  himself  soon 
comes  to  think  only  of  himself.  The  man  who  strives 
for  the  maintenance  and  pleasure  of  his  own  family, 
with  no  thought  of  other  families  about  him,  is  broader 
than  the  man  who  lives  only  for  himself, — yet  he  is  a 
narrow  man.  A  man  who  does  not  forget  the  good  of 
the  community  in  which  he  lives  is  still  broader  than 
the  man  who,  like  the  beast  of  the  jungle,  fights  only 
to  protect  his  own  little  brood  about  him. 

The  patriot  who  loves  his  own  country,  with  no  re- 
gard for  the  other  countries  of  the  earth,  is  still  too 
small  a  man  to  enjoy  the  best  things  this  world  has  to 
give. 

It  is  only  that  man  who  lives  in  the  world,  sympa- 


thizes and  feels  with  every  other  human  being,  allows 
neither  creed  nor  nationality,  neither  color  nor  curious 
speech  to  prejudice  him — it  is  he  only  that  can  enjoy 
the  earth  in  its  fullness. 

Here  we  are  together  on  a  little  planet — not  a  very 
large  one — all  of  us  together  subject  to  the  same  con- 
ditions of  life,  the  same  atmospheric  and  cosmic  forces. 
About  the  whence  or  the  whither  we  know  very  little. 
But  we  are  here  now  and  we  are  here  together.  Our 
happiness  and  our  destiny  are  inseparably  linked  to- 
gether. No  man  can  make  himself  completely  happy 
until  every  other  man  is  happy  also.  The  man  who 
loves  the  world  most,  loves  himself  best.  The  man 
who  strives  to  make  his  community  better  is  uncon- 
sciously putting  forth  the  highest  effort  for  the  good 
of  his  own  family. 

That  man  loves  his  country  with  the  highest  form 
of  patriotism  who  does  not  forget  the  other  nations 
of  the  earth,  who  hopes  to  see  every  people  happy  and 
contented.  *   *  * 

Narrowness  and  unhappiness  always  go  together. 
Narrowness  is  only  another  word  for  meanness.  A 
mean  man  is  always  a  narrow  man,  and  is  inevitably 
a  discontented  and  unhappy  man.  The  man  who 
thinks  of  self  only  is  doing  the  worst  possible  thing 
for  himself.  Health  is  nothing,  intellect  is  nothing, 
except  they  are  both  devoted  to  purposes  higher  than 
individual  gain  or  personal  gratification. 

It  is  for  the  beasts  of  the  field  to  strive,  each  one 
for  his  own  good,  forgetful  of  the  interest  of  others. 
It  is  for  the  snarling  tiger  and  the  hissing  serpent  to 
care  only  for  their  own  -brood,  to  defend  only  their 
own  young,  looking  upon  others  as  their  natural  prey 
and  as  their  legitimate  spoil. 

But  this  sort  of  life  is  not  for  men  and  women.  No 
man  can  be  truly  happy,  no  woman  really  comfortable, 
who  is  indifferent  to  the  good  of  others,  who  cares 
nothing  for  the  world  about  them. 

A  broad  life  reacts  upon  the  man  and  brings  bless- 
ings that  the  narrow  man  knows  nothing  of.  A  man 
may  lead  a  broad  life  and  yet  an  obscure  one.  He 
may  possess  the  earth  in  all  of  its  essential  beauty  and 
value  and  yet  have  no  legal  title  to  any  of  it. 

The  happiest  man  and  the  greatest  man  is  the  one 
with  the  broadest  sympathies,  the  one  who  wishes  the 
whole  world  well,  the  one  who  strives  in  his  own  hum- 
ble way  to  make  the  world  a  little  better  when  he  leaves 
it  than  it  was  when  he  found  it. — Editor  Medical  Talk, 
Columbus.  Ohio. 

*   *   ♦ 

Do  not  draw  a  line  of  separation  between  the  house 
of  God  and  the  house  of  business.  The  counting-house 
and  the  shop  may  be  as  much  the  house  of  God  as  the 
holiest  shrine  where  generations  knelt  in  prayer. — F. 
B.  Meyer. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  20,  1904. 


SHOULD    ONE    GO    AWAY    TO    SCHOOL  ? 


BY    D.    OWEN    COTTRELL. 

It  is  the  purpose  of  this  article  to  discuss  the  in- 
creasing tendency  for  all  young  people  to  take  the  last 
school  work  they  get  at  a  boarding  school,  and  enum- 
erate some  of  its  advantages. 

One  great  advantage  is  that  it  permits  the  student 
to  work  under  decreased  hindrances,  especially  if  the 
proper  choice  of  schools  is  made.  From  the  age  of 
fourteen  to  twenty,  young  people  are  prone  to  spend 
their  evenings  otherwise  than  at  serious  study.  This 
detracts  from  the  general  standard  of  work  done,  and 
lays  the  foundation  for  regrets  in  future  years.  Be- 
sides this,  the  cares  and  duties  about  home  (especially 
if  the  home  is  on  the  farm),  take  up  time  and  absorb 
interest. 

Often  one  objection  parents  have  is  that  for  a  time 
home  ties  must  be  broken.  Here  remember  that  later 
on  it  may  not  be  for  them  to  choose  where  their  chil- 
dren shall  go,  then  is  it  not  wise  that  they  go  for  the 
first  time  where  they  are  under  the  right  kind  of  in- 
fluence and  supervision  ?  It  is  hardly  the  part  of  wis- 
dom to  plan  as  if  children  were  always  to  remain  at 
home  merely  because  the  idea  of  their  departure  is 
.sad.  You  may  be  acting  selfishly  in  hindering  their 
preparation  for  a  lifetime  of  activity. 

At  a  good  school  the  student  has  the  benefit  of 
specialists  along  each  line  of  study.  This  daily  contact 
with  matured  minds  is  worth  as  much  or  more  than 
the  lessons  to  be  learned  from  the  text  books.  The 
contact  with  other  associates  and  methods  leaves  a 
valuable  and  indelible  impression  upon  the  mind,  one 
that  all  time  cannot  efface.  Regularitv  of  habits  is 
formed,  and  this  is  worth  much  to  the  youth.  An- 
other trait  of  character  developed  is  thoroughness. 
New  ideas  are  created,  and  a  deeper  insight  into  life 
is  given.  All  these  things  take  time  to  be  perfected, 
and  this  is  why  a  longer  rather  than  a  shorter  time 
should  be  spent  at  a  proper  school.  However  thor- 
ough or  lengthy  the  work  at  home  may  have  been,  bet- 
ter work  is  always  expected  of  those  who  have  after- 
ward spent  even  a  disproportionately  short  time  in  a 
reputable  school. 

Sometimes  it  is  a  question  whether  this  will  be  a 
paying  investment.  It  ought  to  be  no  question  with 
parents  whether  their  sons  and  daughters  are  becoming 
good  bank  vaults,  provided  only  they  are  becoming 
good  and  useful  men  and  women.  On  the  other  hand, 
there  are  parents,  and  a  good  company  of  them,  who 
go  to  considerable  sacrifice  to  move  where  there  is  a 
good  school.  Some  young  people  go  at  their  own  ex- 
pense, these  need  not  fear  the  wisdom  of  their  choice. 
One  thing  must  be  borne  in  mind,  if  a  matter  of  this 
kind  is  put  off,  it  may  readily  happen  that  in  a  short 


while  there  has  been  a  change  of  affairs  which  makes 
it  impossible :  of  this  every  community  has  its  own  ex- 
amples. 

Higher  state  schools  tend  not  to  concern  themselves 
with  morals  of  discipline.  A  number  of  our  readers 
prefer  church  schools.  These  largely  maintain  them- 
selves through  meritorious  work.  In  choosing  among 
them  there  are  other  things  to  be  borne  in  mind  besides 
proximity.  Any  of  these  will  send  a  catalogue  upon 
application,  and  will  help  you  choose  your  studies.  It 
is  always  best  to  be  sure  that  your  English  and  other 
common  branches  are  well  in  hand  before  attempting  to 
specialize. 

The  Nookman  expressly  asks  whether  the  student 
had  better  jump  from  the  eighth  grade  directly  to  the 
Preparatory  Course,  or  whether  he  ought  to  take  a 
High  School  course.  Here  let  us  advise  that  one's 
last  work  be  taken  at  a  boarding  school,  this  almost 
without  regard  to  what  the  rank  of  that  work  is. 
Whether  one  should  take  a  High  School  course  de- 
pends largely  upon  the  character  of  the  work  the  High 
School  does.  The  author  is  well  aware  that  each 
High  School  has  the  reputation  among  its  own  of  do- 
ing thorough  work,  and  that  with  utter  disregard  to 
what  is  really  done.  "  Our  faith  in  them  exceeds  all 
the  faith  even  found  in  Israel."  Given  unsatisfactory 
teachers  or  a  school  where  8  to  10  solid  subjects  are 
taught  at  once  in  addition  to  4  to  6  lighter  ones,  our 
advice  is  to  go  elsewhere :  such  schools  are  ruinous 
to  their  own  ends.  In  attending  a  school  where  there 
are  many  fully  organized  departments  one  has  the  I 
opportunity  to  select  between  many  subjects  of  equal  I 
educative  value.  In  the  long  run,  the  student  ought 
to  prove  stronger  and  do  better  work  if  the  Prepara- 
tory Course  is  taken  where  the  College  Course  is 
given. 

Maryland  Collegiate  Institute,  Union  Bridge,  Md 

$      *$.      4$ 

MANCHURIAN    HOUSES. 


From  the  dwelling  of  the  rich  banker  to  the  hut  of 
the  savage,  says  the  author  of  "  The  Long  White 
Mountain,"  all  houses  in  Manchuria  are  alike  in  four 
respects  so  far  as  circumstances  will  admit.  First™ 
all  face  the  south,  because  that  is  the  quarter  from 
which  the  good  influences  come,  and  it  has  the  in- 
cidental advantage  of  keeping  the  cruel  north  wind, 
at  the  back.  Secondly,  Manchurian  houses  are  alt 
one-storied.  Thirdly,  the  front  of  the  house  is  filled 
with  movable  window  frames,  with  lattice  panes  oft 
paper,  not  glass.  As  the  summer  advances  the  paper 
can  be  torn  away  and  the  house  ventilated,  and  then 
when  winter  returns  the  paper  is  very  inexpensive  to 
replace.  Fourthly,  built  up  against  the  wall  there  is 
a  k'ang-  running  the  length  of  the  interior  and  com- 
municating between  room  and  room. 


THE    I XGLENOOK.— September  20,  1904. 


The  k'ang  is  a  platform  about  two  and  a  half  feet 
high  and  five  feet  broad,  made  of  brick.  Inside  is 
a  flue  carried  four  or  five  times  up  and  down  the 
whole  length  of  the  k'ang.  At  one  end  is  a  boiler,  in 
which  the  family  dinner  is  cooked. 

Outside  in  the  yard  is  a  chimney  ten  or  twelve  feet 
high,  which  creates  a  draft  through  the  flue.  Thus 
all  the  smoke  and  heat  of  the  kitchen  fire  pass  back- 
ward and  forward  through  the  k'ang,  warms  it  thor- 
oughly and  finally  emerges  through  the  chimney.  The 
top  of  the  k'ang  is  covered  with  matting  made  of 
strips  of  bamboo  or  the  rind  of  the  tall  millet. 

The  convenience  and  economy  of  the  k'ang  are 
marvelous.  Throughout  the  day  it  serves  as  a  place 
on  which  to  sit  and  talk.  At  meal  times  it  is  the  din- 
ing room.  The  food  is  served  on  small  tables  a  foot 
high,  around  which  the  family  squats. 

In  the  evening  the  beds  are  unrolled,  and  it  forms 
the  general  sleeping  place.  In  the  cold  weather,  with 
the  thermometer  below  zero  outside  and  below  freez- 
ing point  even  within,  a  nice  warm  k'ang  makes  a 
most  agreeable  bed  on  which  to  sleep. 

It  is  wonderful  how  little  fuel  is  required  to  heat  it. 
A  boy  lights  a  wisp  of  straw  and  stuffs  it  in  a  hole  at 
the  foot  of  the  k'ang.  It  seems  impossible  so  insig- 
nificant a  fire  can  affect  the  great  mass  of  brickwork. 
But  in  about  half  an  hour  a  gentle  glow  pervades  the 
top  of  the  k'ang,  and  all  night  long  it  remains  delight- 
"fully  warm. 

If  in  ignorance  we  ever  ordered  more  fuel  for  the 
k'ang,  we  only  made  it  insufferably  hot.  Occasionally 
in  inns  we  found  k'angs  so  scorching  by  reason  of 
several  series  of  dinners  having  been  cooked  or  be- 
cause our  beds  were  too  near  the  boiler  that  we  were 
compelled  to  sleep  on  the  floor  or  on  tables  or  else 
lay  on  a  quantity  of  straw  under  our  bedding  to  miti- 
gate the  heat. — Republican, 

♦  *  ♦ 

PROOF    AGAINST    COLD. 


The  severest  cold  has  no  terrors  for  insect  life.  It 
has  been  shown  by  experiments  that  insects  may  be 
artificially  or  naturally  frozen,  subjected,  indeed,  to 
very  low  temperature,  without  killing  or  even  injuring 
them.  Eggs,  larvae,  the  pupae,  the  stages  in  which  most 
insects  pass  the  winter,  are  perfectly  immune  to  cold. 

It  is  a  common  idea  that  cocoons  of  insects  serve  as 
a  protection  against  cold,  but  this  is  entirely  errone- 
ous. They,  like  the  summer  webs  of  webworms,  are 
a  protection  against  birds  and  insect  parasites,  but 
not  against  cold.  The  cocoons  of  summer  broods  arc 
as  stout  and  thick  as  those  of  the  generations  that  pass 
■the  winter.  Moths,  butterflies  and  other  insects  build 
stouter  and  more  compact  cocoons  in  tropical  and  tor- 
Ed  countries  than  they  do  in  those  climates  where  they 


are  besieged  by  winter.  There  are  many  insects, 
allied  to  the  builders  of  cocoons,  that  make  no  such 
covering,  the  pupa,  or  the  chrysalis,  being  left  entirely 
exposed.  And  so  little  heat  is  maintained  by  the  pu- 
pae of  insects  that  no  matter  how  thick  the  cocoons 
they  are  always  too  slight  to  repel  freezing  cold. 

Certain  degrees  of  frigidity  seem  to  have  vastly 
different  effects  on  different  species  of  insects.  Gnats 
and  midgets  dance  in  the  winter  sunshine;  butterflies 
— vanessa,  grapta  and  sometimes  collias — skim  over 
the  snow ;  wasps  and  bees  wind  their  way  through 
the  leafless  woods,  ground  beetles  run  quickly  over  the 
cold  earth,  crickets  peep  from  beneath  stones  and  rot- 
ting logs,  while  other  species — the  vast  majority  in 
fact — are  locked  in  the  lethargy  of  hibernation.  One 
of  the  commonest  evidences  of  this  hibernation  is  to 
be  seen  when  firewood  is  carried  into  the  house  and 
placed  near  the  warm  stove.  It  takes  only  a  short  time 
to  bring  out  a  swarm  of  ants  that  were  sleeping  in 
beetle  borings,  their  common  retreat. — St.  Nicholas. 

4»   4»   4» 

SETTING    CLOCKS    FAST. 


It  is  a  common  thing  to  find  the  clocks  in  nine  out 
of  ten  households  either  15  minutes  or  half  an  hour 
fast,  and  should  you  happen  to  be  in  a  hurry  or  mention 
the  fact  that  you  have  to  be  going,  you  are  at  once 
reassured  by  the  fact  that  you  have  no  cause  to  hurrv, 
as  the  clock  is  so  much  ahead  of  time. 

Has  it  ever  occurred  to  you  why  clocks  are  usually 
put  ahead?  Some  physicians  have  said  it  was  due  to 
laziness,  for  it  is  such  a  satisfaction  to  the  lazy  man 
to  find  when  he  has  to  get  up  at  7  in  the  morning 
and  strains  his  half-closed  eyes  to  look  at  the  clock, 
that  it  is  a  half-hour  fast,  and  he  has  so  much  more 
time  to  doze,  with  the  result  that  he  oversleeps  him- 
self anyhow,  and  misses  the  train  or  boat. 

Said  a  Walnut  street  watchmaker,  when  asked  about 
the  subject : 

"  Yes,  it  is  a  peculiar  thing  with  most  people  to  put 
their  clocks  fast,  and,  while  there  may  be  some  satis- 
faction in  it  when  it  comes  to  dozing  a  little  longer, 
there  is  really  no  advantage  in  it,  for  when  you  waki 
up,  say  at  6,  and  glance  at  the  clock,  and  it  registers 
6:30,  the  fact  remains  that  it  is  a  half  hour  fast. 
While  this  may  make  you  feel  easier,  knowing  thai 
you  still  have  30  minutes  to  doze,  I  confess  1  don't 
see  much  advantage  in  it. 

"Why  not  have  the  clink  right?  It  is  the  same 
thing  in  the  end. 

"  Suppose  railroads  were  to  put  this  into  practice, 

how  many  trains  do  you  think  people  would  miss 
thereby?  This  putting  clocks  fast  is  really  only  a 
pleasant  form  of  deception,  which  people  like  to  prac- 
tice on  themselves,  but  it  dees  more  harm  than  srood." 


900 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  20,  1904. 


A   RIDE  ON   THE  FAST    MAIL. 


It  is  significant  that  the  one  train  which  makes  the 
Chicago-St.  Paul  run  in  ten  hours,  carries  no  passen- 
gers. 

To  ride  on  it  is  a  privilege  acquired  by  few.  Yet 
a  journey  on  this  train,  which  carries  none  but  gov- 
ernment mail  clerks  and  its  crew,  is  an  experience, 
especially  if  the  journey  be  made  on  the  "  fireman's 
side  "  of  the  huge  locomotive  which  pulls  it.  It  is  a 
revelation  of  what  fast  passenger  service  means  and 
a  liberal  education  in  appreciation  of  the  cool  nerve 
and  absolute  competency  of  the  men  who  run  fast 
trains. 

The  fast  mail  over  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  and  St. 
Paul  Railway  leaves  Chicago  every  night  of  the  year 
with  from  twenty  to  fifty  tons  of  mail  aboard  and 
reaches  St.  Paul  every  morning  with  its  burden  of 
letters  and  packages  in  time  to  transfer  to  other  trains 
to  the  Pacific  coast  to  connect  with  mail  boats,  north 
into  the  Dominion,  east  and  west  into  adjoining  states 
and  radiating  over  a  dozen  lines  of  railway  into  every 
nook  and  cranny  of  the  Northwest. 

If  one  asks  why  the  fast  mail  carries  no  passengers 
he  is  answered  that  there  are  other  trains  which  do 
that  work.  Another  reason  is  apparent  after  a  jour- 
ney on  the  "  head  end  "  with  the  two  cinder-marked 
and  grease-smudged  gods  of  the  machine  that  pulls  it. 
Ten-hour  service  means  speed.  On  a  glorious  night 
•not  long  ago  the  fast  mail  pulled  out  of  Milwaukee  on 
time,  swinging  along  at  an  easy  gait  through  the  maze 
of  green,  white  and  red  switchlights  until  the  last 
tall  semaphore  arm  signaled  "  all  clear."  Then  Engin- 
eer Sullivan's  long  right  arm  shot  forward  through  the 
dark  suddenly,  the  hoarse  syncopation  of  the  exhaust 
changed  suddenly  to  a  long,  wailing  roar,  and  the  tre- 
mendous locomotive  seemed  to  limber  up  in  every 
joint  as  she  swung  forward  into  the  night. 

"  He  trun  her  in  compound,"  the  fireman,  Wood- 
land, explained.  His  father  in  his  early  life  had  ap- 
prenticed him  to  a  jeweler.  He  had  a  back  like  an  ox 
and  an  arm  like  an  oak  tree. 

Mile  posts  began  to  fade  in  regular  succession  and 
telegraph  poles  flew  by  so  fast  it  was  hardly  possible 
to  count.  The  track  ahead  took  on  an  uncanny  gray- 
ish haze,  but  the  speed  constantly  increased.  The  big 
locomotive  slowed  down  for  nothing.  She  took  sharp 
curves  like  a  race  horse  and  lunged  into  the  long  tan- 
gents like  a  singed  cat.  Engineer  Sullivan  didn't  talk 
much.  He  was  pretty  busy  watching  the  track.  When 
he  did  talk  it  was  to  the  point. 

"  Forty-five  miles  out  of  Milwaukee,  including  the 
trip  through  the  yards  and  suburbs,  where  we  had  to 
slow  down,  in  forty-six  minutes,"  he  said. 

He  dropped  to  the  ground  and  oiled  up  almost  on 
the  run.  Two  minutes  elapsed,  the  big  machine  was 
readv  to  go  again,  but  the  conductor  appeared  out  of 


the  gloom  and  remarked  that  a  journal  on  a  mail  car 
had  run  hot. 

Hot  journals  are  not  serious  in  themselves,  but  six 
minutes  clipped  from  the  schedule  of  a  train  which 
must  run  while  in  motion  at  a  rate  of  slightly  more 
than  55  miles  an  hour  for  408  miles,  is  a  very  im- 
portant matter.  Engineer  Sullivan  swore  softly  and 
drowned  his  wrath  in  copious  applications  of  more 
oil  to  the  big  engine's  stuffing  boxes.  Then  he  mount- 
ed the  towering  cab  again  and  the  race  was  on  for  the 
second  time. 

Woodland  grinned. 

"  We'll  run  like  a  pup  with  a  tin  can  tied  to  his  tail 
now,"  he  confided. 

We  did.  Mile  posts  and  telegraph  poles  became 
one  long  procession,  with  scarcely  perceptible  distances 
between  them.  The  air  rushed  through  the  open  cab 
windows  like  a  cyclone,  and  the  mail  cars,  trailing 
along  behind,  rocked  and  swung  on  their  springs  like 
so  many  drunken  men.     The  pace  was  tremendous. 

One's  sensations  were  much  like  those  when  the 
horses  enter  the  last  eighth  on  a  fast  track  and  40,- 
000  people  in  the  grand  stand  begin  to  cheer.  The 
speed  gradually  increased  from  51  to  58,  then  to  62, 
66,  71,  74  and  76  miles  an  hour ;  then,  on  the  crest 
of  a  "  hill,"  the  summit  of  an  up  and  down  grade,  it 
suddenly  jumped  to  84  and  then  to  92  miles  an  hour — 
a  mile  and  a  half  a  minute,  and  one  felt  an  insane  de- 
sire to  yank  the  throttle  away  out  and  see  if  it  were 
not  possible  to  make  three  miles  a  minute. 

It  was  a  pace  that  made  the  government  mail  of- 
ficials grin,  but  it  was  no  pace  for  sedate  burghers  and 
business  men. 

At  Rio  the  pace  suddenly  fell  off.  Engineer  Sulli- 
van looked  at  his  watch. 

"  On  time,"  he  said  briefly.  The  Fast  Mail  cov- 
ered the  remaining  few  miles  at  a  handy  clip,  stopped 
for  a  minute  at  a  crossing  and  swung  into  Watertown, 
93.1  miles  from  Milwaukee,  on  time  to  a  second. 

Ninety-three  miles  in  a  trifle  more  than  100  minutes 
actual  running  time ! 

Reeling  off  the  miles  at  a  speed  of  practically  a  mile 
a  minute,  Engineer  Sullivan  passed  the  yard  limits  at 
Sparta  on  time,  only  to  find  the  signals  out  against 
him,  and  Train  No.  2,  which  had  the  right  of  way 
because  it  was  a  southbound  train,  losing  time  and  late. 
The  heavy  mail  train  pulled  into  clear  on  a  siding  and 
twelve  minutes  lapsed  before  the  bright,  white  head- 
light of  the  southbound  passenger  showed  around  a 
curve. 

Twelve  minutes  lost  was  a  handicap,  but  it  did  not 
mean  much  after  the  other  things  that  had  happened. 
The  big  A2  locomotive,  with  driving  wheels  seven 
feet  in  diameter,  swung  out  on  the  main  line  again, 
and  after  a  few  strokes  of  her  pistons,  sent  the  speed 
rate  climbing. 


THE   INGLENOOK.— September  20,  1904. 


901 


Eighty-eight  miles  an  hour  was  interesting,  but  not 
sensational,  after  having  made  92  miles  an  hour.  The 
heavy  train  pulled  into  North  La  Crosse  on  time — 
26  miles  in  235-2  minutes. 

To  handle  a  big  train  requires  several  qualities  most 
men  value — absolute  self-confidence  and  self-reliance 
on  the  part  of  the  engine  driver,  conservative  nerve 
and  daring  resourcefulness  and  lightning  quickness 
of  judgment  which  must  not  be  nearly  right,  but  ab- 
solutely unerring. — Curtis  L.  Mosher,  in  the  St.  Paid 

Dispatch. 

♦  ♦  ♦ 

.      POLITENESS. 


It  is  an  easy  matter  to  teach  a  little  child  to  be 
polite,  to  say  "  please,"  "  thank  you,"  "  yes  sir,"  "  no 
ma'am."  The  child  readily  picks  up  these  words 
and  they  soon  become  a  part  of  its  nature,  and  will 
prove  an  inestimable  blessing  to  it  through  life. 
They  fit  a  child  for  any  kind  of  society,  and  often 
serve  as  a  passport  where  rude  and  boorish  manners 
would  be  debarred.  Unless  these  little  courtesies 
are  learned  early  in  life,  they  never  seem  to  fit  well. 
Even  if  they  are  acquired  later  on  they  appear  un- 
graceful and  awkward.  A  child  that  habitually 
speaks  respectfully  to  others,  has  the  best  possible 
safeguard  against  the  exhibition  of  an  ugly  temper. 
One  can  hardly  speak  politely  and  at  the  same  time 
give  way  to  a  bad  temper. 

Every  one  knows  that  it  is  a  great  deal  pleasanter 
to  be  with  a  child  or  a  man  that  continually  talks 
mildly  and  politely  than  with  one  who  storms  and 
rages  and  yells.  As  you  will  likely  have  to  be  with 
your  children  many  days  and  even  years,  it  will  re- 
pay you  well  to  teach  them  to  be  mild  and  gentle 
and  polite  in  all  their  conversation.  Let  them 
know  that  rudeness  and  crying  and  screaming  will 
not  gain  their  purpose;  that  a  "still  small  voice" 
will  move  you  to  grant  their  wishes  much  sooner 
than  a  storm  that  threatens  to  break  the  rocks. 
You  can  hardly  spoil  a  child  any  more  than  by  giv- 
ing up  to  him  just  because  you  fear  he  will  make  a 
fuss  and  show  his  ugly  disposition. 

Take  two  children,  perhaps  two  years  old,  and 
one  will  say  "  please  "  when  he  wants  something  and 
will  thank  you  when  he  gets  it.  If  he  is  refused  he 
will  not  fret  nor  tease  nor  storm.  Another  child 
of  the  same  age,  when  he  wants  something,  will  dive 
in  to  get  it  with  all  his  might,  and  if  he  is  refused  he 
raises  a  howl  until  he  compels  his  mother  to  give 
up  to  him.  Take  the  same  boys  twenty  years  later, 
;i in  1  one  will  be  a  quiet,  orderly,  polite  boy  who  is 
respected  by  all,  while  the  other  will  be  a  coarse 
rowdy  whom  good  people  have  little  use  for.  Remem- 
ber always,  however,  that  if  you  want  to  teach  your 


child  politeness,  you  must  set  him  the  example. 
Children  are  very  apt  to  imitate  what  others  do,  es- 
pecially if  it  is  not  right.  The  only  way  to  teach 
1  child  is  to  teach  by  precept  and  example. — Children's 
Friend. 

♦   ♦  ♦ 

RAILROAD    TRAVEL    SAFER. 


Railroad  travel  is  becoming  safer  every  year,  de- 
spite the  faster  time  trains  are  making.  This  fact  is 
made  apparent  in  a  report  that  has  just  been  compiled 
by  the  United  States  Interstate  Commerce  Commission, 
covering  the  railroad  accidents  in  the  country  during 
the  months  of  January,  February  and  March  of  this 
year.  During  that  quarter  there  were  forty  passengers 
and  181  employes  killed  and  995  passengers  and  1,902 
employes  injured,  making  in  all  221  persons  killed 
and  2,797  injured  in  train  accidents.  Other  mishaps 
to  employes  and  passengers,  not  the  result  of  train  ac- 
cidents, bring  the  total  number  of  casualities  up  to 
13,363,  being  79  passengers  and  840  employes  killed 
and  1,590  passengers  and  10,854  employes  injured. 

To  persons  not  familiar  with  railroad  casualties, 
this  list  of  mishaps  for  three  months  may  seem  ap- 
palling. But  it  is  an  improvement  over  the  record 
of  the  corresponding  three  months  of  the  preceding 
year.  In  the  first  three  months  of  1903  the  total 
killed  in  railroad  travel  aggregated  nearly  250  more 
than  in  the  first  three  months  of  this  year,  while  the 
total  injured  was  1,000  more.  The  process  of  cou- 
pling and  uncoupling  cars  is  still  highly  dangerous, 
as  indicated  by  the  70  deaths  resulting  from  this  op- 
eration  during  the  first  quarter  of  the  present  year. 
This  is  a  decrease  of  eight  in  the  deaths  from  the 
same  cause  in  the  preceding  three  months. 

The  total  number  of  collisions  and  derailments  in 
the  months  of  January,  February  and  March  of  this 
year  was  2,799,  °f  which  1,659  were  collisions.  Less 
than  350  of  these  accidents  affected  passenger  trains, 
however.  These  smashups  cost  the  railroad  com- 
panies a  pretty  penny.  The  damage  to  cars,  engines 
and  roadway  involved  in  the  accidents  of  the  three 
months  in  question  aggregated  $2,256,000. 

There  is  a  steady,  decline  in  the  number  of  fatalities 
from  falling  off  cars,  the  reduction  in  the  three  months 
being  32  per  cent.  This  very  likely  is  due  to  the  in- 
creased use  of  air  brakes  on  freight  trains,  diminish- 
ing the  necessity  for  employes  in  charge  of  such  trains 
to  ride  on  top  of  box  cars. 

♦  •$»  •** 

"  I  long  have  thought  myself  a  fool : 
Now  shallow  to  myself  I  seem,  and  dull." 
That  pleases  me!  like  reason  that  doth  sound; 
The  first  old  man  of  sense  I  yet  have  found !  " 
— Goethe.  Translation. 


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When  people  have  contagious  diseases  the  law  de- 
mands that  they  are  quarantined.  This  is  done  to 
protect  their  friends  from  becoming  concaminated  with 
the  disease.  A  respectable,  loyal  citizen  would  not 
object  to  being  quarantined,  because  he  knows  that  it 
is  for  his  benefit  and  for  the  benefit  of  others,  but 
some  who  have  a  little  tincture  of  anarchy  and  law- 
lessness refuse  and  suffer  the  consequences. 

A  quarantine  flag  placed  over  a  house  is  a  grand 
hailing  sign  of  distress.  People  know  that  all  is  not 
well  within.  Some  people  pity  the  inmates  quite  a 
good  deal ;  others  pass  by  carelessly.  Some  are  fright- 
ened because  of  the  danger  they  think  they  are  in 
in  passing  the  house.  It  is  wonderful  what  precau- 
tions some  take  in  covering  their  nostrils  and  refrain 
from  breathing  as  they  pass  by. 

If  such  experiences  would  make  impressions  suf- 
ficiently indelible  upon  their  minds  that  they  could  al- 
ways carry  out  these  principles,  it  would  be  a  bless- 
ing and  a  God-send  to  them. 

The  other  day  a  gentleman  and  his  little  boy  passed 
by  a  house  that  was  quarantined  for  smallpox.  They 
noticed  the  flag.  They  hurried  by.  The  little  boy 
covered  his  face  with  his  one  hand  while  his  papa 
pulled  him  hurriedly  by  with  the  other  hand.  After 
they  had  passed  by  we  saw  him  look  up  into  his  fa- 
ther's face  and,  while  we  could  not  hear  what  he  said, 
we  supposed  they  were  talking  about  the  dangers  of 
the  epidemic,  and  frorn  the  same  face  into  which  the 
boy  was  looking  hung'  a  large  bowl  fastened  to  a 
crooked  stem,  from  which  emitted  perfumes  that  were 
so  strong  that  the  pure  air  was  defiled  by  it.     The 


poor  child  was  taught  to  see  the  sign  of  "  distress  " 
upon  the  house,  which  meant  something  wrong  inside, 
and  he  should  have  been  also  apprised  of  the  fact  that 
the  sign  on  his   father's  face  meant  the  same  thing. 

Not  long  after,  the  boy  met  a  man  on  the  street 
with  a  cherry  nose  and  little  red  veins  running  in 
every  direction  from  the  end  of  the  nose  like  the  legs 
of  a  spider,  which  was  another  hailing  sign  of  "  dis- 
tress." This  is  a '  quarantine  flag,  showing  that  the 
man  who  lives  on  the  inside  is  suffering  from  a  won- 
derful epidemic,  and  that  something  should  be  done 
immediately  for  his  case  or  he  is  a  lost  man.  When 
you  see  some  brown  stuff  wrapped  in  thin  white  pa- 
per, sticking  between  the  lips  of  a  young  man,  it  means 
that  he  needs  the  attention  of  some  one  at  once. 

In  passing  along  the  street  have  you  not  observed 
the  picture  of  a  white  cup,  overflowing  with  foam, 
bearing  the  words  above,  "  Saloon  "  ?  That  is  a  quar- 
antine sign  that  something  is  radicallv  wrong  with- 
in. These  signs  indicate  an  epidemic  of  the  very  worst 
character,  and  should  be  avoided  much  more  care- 
fully than  the  red  flags  that  we  see  above  the  doors 
of  people's  homes.  , 

You  probably  have  noticed  ladies  of  no  extraordi- 
nary ability,  wealth  nor  possession  in  life,  who  en- 
deavor- to  cover  their  poor  mortal  bodies  with  eyery 
conceivable  article  that  will  in  any  way  say  to  the 
public,  "  We  want  to  be  noticed."  Bedecked  from 
head  to  foot  with  costly  jewelry,  which  probably  has 
not  been  paid  for,  and  wrapped  in  rattling  skirts  of 
the  choicest  silks,  which  were  worn  years  ago  by  lit- 
tle worms,  and  upon  a  broadbrimmed  hat  have  a  num- 
ber of  feathers  of  little  birds  who  gave  up  their  life 
in  order  that  fair  maids  might  have  their  beautiful 
plumage,  she  goes  waddling  down  the  street  in  a  very 
unnatural  gait,  with  her  spine  curved  in  the  latest 
style  and  her  face  covered  with  the  latest  tint  of  face 
powder,  expecting  to  attract  the  attention  of  all  who 
meet  her.  Such  demonstrations  as  these  certainly  call 
out  the  sympathy  of  sensible  people  who  pity  then 
as  much  or  more  than  if  they  would  fee  a  smallpo: 
flag  above  their  door,  because  a  physician  would  hav 
at  least  some  control  of  a  case  of  smallpox,  but  who 
is  to  get  her  rid  of  these  influences  that  destroy  both 
body  and  soul?  Let  us  not  be  impartial  with  these 
flags.  Pay  the  same  respect  to  one  as  the  other,  anc 
remember  that  they  are  sig'ns  of  warning  and  appall- 
ing danger. 

THE    PHONOGRAPH. 


It  is  one  thing  to  place  the  tubes  of  a  phonograpr 
to   the   ear  and   listen   to  the  speech,   song  or  music 
which  is  so  perfectly  given  by  the  machine,  but  it  i 
quite  another  thing  to  be  able  to  dictate  to  the  phono- 
graph  so  that  what  is   said   will   sound   like  a   well- 


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903 


connected  speech  when  it  is  reproduced  by  the  ma- 
chine. 

There  are  many  men  who  are  able  to  stand  before 
ten  thousand  people  and  make  an  eloquent  address, 
or  stand  before  a  large  family  of  sorrowing  friends 
and  preach  the  funeral  of  a  dear  one  who  is  being 
laid  away,  or  perform  a  ceremony  at  the  hymeneal 
altar,  surrounded  by  hundreds  of  spectators,  without  the 
slightest  tinge  of  embarrassment ;  or  possibly  they  could 
make  a  political  speech  from  a  stump  or  the  rear  plat- 
form of  a  train,  amid  the  shouts  and  applause  of 
thousands  of  politicians,  but  these  same  men  when 
placed  at  the  mouthpiece  of  a  phonograph  are  likely 
to  quail  under  the  supreme  embarrassment  of  the  sit- 
uation. Somehow  they  are  continually  confronted 
with  an  unquestionable  consciousness  that  every  syl- 
lable, sound  or  hesitation  is  faithfully  recorded  by  the 
little  instrument.  If  they  stutter,  shout,  whisper,  lisp, 
or  whatever  defect  or  proficiency  they  may  acquire  or 
possess  is  certain  to  be  taken  down  and  reproduced 
exactly  as  they  give  it ;  and  it  is  reproduced  to  such 
a  degree  of  perfection  that  anybody  who  has  ever 
seen  them  or  heard  them  speak  will  recognize  their 
voice,  and  it  is  impossible  for  them  to  deny  that  they 
ever  said  it. 

The  minister  may  make  certain  statements  in  his 
sermon  and  a  large  majority  of  the  hearers  will  for- 
get, another  portion  of  them  will  not  be  certain,  and 
the  remainder  will  contradict  each  other  about  the 
technicalities  of  the  statement.  The  mourners  at  the  fu- 
neral are  so  grief-stricken  and  their  hearts  so  tender 
that  the  technicalities  of  the  speaker  do  not  appeal  to 
them.  The  politicians  are  sure  to  interpret  the  state- 
ments of  the  orator  according  to  their  own  political 
views  of  the  question  at  issue,  but  the  little  phono- 
graph is  absolutely  impartial  and  is  not  affected  by 
wit,  humOr,  pathos,  joy  or  sorrow.  It  records  only 
what  is  given  it,  and  in  the  very  tone  and  accent  in 
which  it  is  given.  It  is  not  carried  away  with  tears, 
gestures  or  smiles,  but  it  records  in  unmistakable  terms 
every  word  that  has  been  said.  This  fact  is  what 
makes  the  embarrassment  come  to  the  person  who 
tries  to  talk  to  a  phonograph. 

It  seems  that  :if  the  people  to-day  could  realize  that 
their  lives  are  being  recorded  in  the  hearts  of  their 
countrymen  and  their  characteristics  arc  either  being 
cherished  or  disregarded,  and,  last  of  all,  that  every 
act,  speech  and  thought  is  being  recorded,  in  the  great 
book  above,  men  would  be  more  careful  what  they 
say  and  do. 

Many  men  use  language  on  the  street  they  would 
not  use  in  the  home.  Some  young  men  and  young 
women  use  language  out  in  company  that  they  would 
not  use  before  their  mother.  Christians  often  do 
things  they  would  not  have  their  pastor  see  them  do 
for  anything  in  the  world,  much   less  would   they  he 


willing  to   have   the   Savior   come   and   find   them   in 
the  very  act. 

So  it  seems  to  me,  in  order  to  avoid  this  embarrass- 
ment, the  best- way  is  to  form  a  habitual  recollection 
of  God's  presence. 

♦   ♦  «$» 

OUT    OF    PLACE. 


The  ordinary  things  of  life  seldom  attract  atten- 
tion. They  become  so  commonplace,  as  we  see  them 
day  by  day,  that  our  attention  is  seldom  if  ever  ar- 
rested at  a  repetition  of  the  same  thing,  but  when  we 
see  such  things  as  are  especially  contrary  to  the  or- 
dinary routine  of  life  we  are  just  sure  to  take  special 
notice,  and  very  often  make  remarks  about  them. 

When  we  see  a  man  or  a  family,  or  an  inanimate 
object  out  of  place,  out  of  the  proper  environments, 
it  solicits  remarks. 

The  other  day  in  one  of  our  large  cities  a  prom- 
inent man, — a  man  of  note  for  his  Christian  piety 
and  loyalty  to  his  Christian  profession,  unfortunate- 
ly stepped  under  the  awning  of  a  saloon  on  one  of 
the  principal  streets  to  shield  himself  from  the  down- 
pouring  rainstorm.  There  was  nothing  improper  in 
this.  Awnings  are  made  for  protection.  People  are 
expected  to  get  out  of  the  rain.  And  had  some  old 
beer-bloat  or  man  of  worthless  character  stood  there 
for  two  days  nobody  would  have  noticed  it,  but  the 
moment  this  Christian  gentleman  stepped  in  the  door- 
way of  the  saloon  it  arrested  the  attention  of  the  by- 
standers and  he  was  accordingly  put  to  ridicule,  which 
was  slightly  embarrassing  to  him. 

It  was  remarkable  to  see  how  quickly  Christian  peo- 
ple and  even  moral  people  of  the  lower  classes  noticed 
that  the  gentleman  was  out  of  place,  and  so  it  is  in 
this  world.  Let  a  man  of  unprincipled  character  do 
what  he  will  so  it  does  not  conflict  too  seriously  with 
the  laws  of  the  land,  no  mention  is  ever  made  of  it; 
but  the  devil  and  all  his  angels  are  keeping  close  tab 
on  the  daily  walk  of  a  Christian  man  or  woman,  and 
well,  too.  it  is,  for  many  times  it  keeps  us  from  fall- 
ing. The  point  is  that  the  man  who  has  no  place 
in  the  world  cannot  get  out  of  place,  but  the  man 
who  has  a  character  and  an  influence,  name,  honor, 
religion,  family  respect,  self-respect,  can  and  will,  if 
not  careful,  occasionally  step  out  of  place.  This  not 
only  occasions  remarks,  but  lends  influence  in  an  un- 
healthy way. 

*   •:•  * 

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THE    INGLENOOK.— September  20,  1904. 


I  CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


The  United  States  seems  to  be  in  a  peculiar  di- 
lemma. The  Japanese  Consul  General  of  San  Fran- 
cisco asks  that  the  Russian  armed  transport,  Lena, 
be  commanded  to  leave  the  port  within  twenty-four 
hours.  The  United  States  is  sure  to  offend  either 
Japan  or  Russia  in  the  decision  she  will  be  compelled 
to  make. 

Latest  reports  from  the  seat  of  war  say  that  Gen- 
eral Zarsakitch  with  three  thousand  men  has  been 
captured  and  several  wounded.  Kuroki  is  also  re- 
ported to  be  in  trouble.  Five  submarine  boats  are  be- 
ing built  in  Boston  for  Japan. 

*  *   * 

Mobs  at  the  Chicago  stockyards  attacked  nonunion 
men  in  street  cars  and  resisted  the  police  force.  Nearly 
fifteen  hundred  union  men  and  their  sympathizers,  at 
the  corner  of  Root  street  and  Princeton  Avenue,  at- 
tacked a  street  car  containing  many  women  and  chil- 
dren. Eight  persons  were  injured.  The  policemen 
of  the  stockyards  had  great  difficulty  in  dispersing 
the  rioters.  They  had  no  sooner  reached  their  quar- 
ters than  a  second  call  was  sent  in  and  when  they  re- 
turned to  the  same  corner  they  found  the  mob  had 
again  congregated  and  had  renewed  the  attack  upon 
the  nonunion  men. 

A  dealer  in  Berlin,  Germany,  has  issued  a  price 
list  which  quotes  the  degree  of  nobility  in  certain 
German  states,  at  thirty  thousand  dollars,  the  title  of 
Baron,  fifty  thousand,  Spanish  nobility,  four  thou- 
sand, Turkish  titles  from  two  thousand  dollars  down 
to  a  piaster  and  Persian  orders  at  low  prices.  Con- 
sulates in  various  South  American  countries  and  in 
Persian  countries  are  reported  to  be  on  sale  at  prices 
ranging  from  twelve  to  twenty-four  hundred  dollars. 
He  probably  will  be  able  to  fix  some  prices  with  the 
United  States  ere  long. 

*  *  * 

Reports  are  current  that  the  Illinois  Central  Rail- 
road has  purchased  the  entire  issue  of  five  million 
dollar  bonds  of  the  new  Indianapolis  railroad,  and  will 
extend  their  line  into  that  city  immediately. 


Rear  Admiral  Schley  will  shortly  hand  to  the 
public  his  autobiography  under  the  title,  "  Forty-five 
Years  Under  the  Flag." 

*  ♦   *> 

There  is  a  project  on  foot  by  the  school  board  of 
Chicago,  to  give  all  the  crippled  children  a  course  in 
manual  training. 


The  American  school  for  boys,  at  Erzerum,  Tur 
key,  was  destroyed  by  fire,  it  is  said,  through  acci 

dent,   last  January.     The  American  school  for  girls,  I 

at  the  same  place,  was  burned,  it  is  said,  by  accident.  I 

It  is  also  said  that  by  accident  there  will  be  just  as  I 

many  other  fires  as  there  are  American  schools  estab-  I 

lished,   until   Uncle    Sam   banishes   Abdul   Hamid   to  I 

some  unknown  island  in  the  South  Sea,  not  for  life,  I 
but  a  period  of  199  years. 

Mrs.  Anna  Walker,  widow  of  the  late  Congress-  I 
man  Walker,  of  Pennsylvania,  has  fallen  heir  to  her  I 
father's  estate  of  fifty  millions.  Although  she  is  one  II 
of  the  richest  women  in  the  world  she  will  continue.  I 
to  manage  the  chemical  company  in  her  father's  stead.   I 

*  ♦  * 

George  B.   Slam,   who  was  an   Episcopalian,  was   I 
buried    with    strange    rites.      After    services    by    the    I 
church   rector,  the  body   was  taken  to  the  cemetery    I 
where  the  final  services  were  conducted  at  the  grave.    I 
Katawaga,  who  for  many  years  has  been  Indian  valet    I 
for  Senator  Slam,  appeared  at  the  head  of  his  mas-    I 
ter's   grave   and   after   pronouncing  an   invocation   to    | 
the   gods   of  his   countrymen,   opened   the   cave   and 
liberated  six  white  doves.     Now-a-days  men  can  fol- 
low  the   latest    fashions,    even   after   they   are    dead, 
though  they  be  even  pagan  fashions. 

*  *  * 

General  M.  S.  Hascal  died  at  his  home  in  Oak 
Park,  Chicago.  He  graduated  from  West  Point  in 
the  class  with  Phil  Sheridan,  and  took  part  in  many 
battles  during  the  civil  war. 

*  <J>  * 

August  Moller,  Jr.,  American  vice  consul  at  Val- 
paraiso, Chili,  is  dead. 

*  *   * 

George  Gould  has  just  purchased  an  English  bull- 
dog for  five  thousand  dollars.  Poor  dog,  poor  man, 
poor  judgment. 

*  *  * 

A  syndicate  from  New  York  City  has  taken  a  thir- 
ty-six-million-dollar slice  of  Chicago  street  railway 
stock. 

Barney  Oldfield,  in  a  race,  lost  control  of  his 
motor  and  his  automobile  crashed  into  a  fence,  killing 
two  men,  badly  injuring  himself,  and  completely  de- 
molishing his  car.  This  is  becoming  as  common  as 
"  didn't  know  it  was  loaded." 
4.    *5»    *S» 

Mrs.  Anna  M.  Walker,  who  recently  has  been 
made  a  millionaire  by  her  father's  estate,  presented 
a  twenty-dollar  bank  note  to  each  of  her  six  hundred 
employes,  with  her  compliments.     They  did  not  strike. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  20,  1904. 


905 


It  is  reported  from  Rome  that  two  hundred  and  fifty 
tourists,  including-  Englishmen  and  Americans,  owe 
their  safety  to  St.  Bernard  dogs.  They  had  climbed 
more  than  eleven  thousand  feet  up  the  Alps  when 
they  met  a  terrible  snowstorm  and  were  in  despair 
until  rescue  was  brought  from  the  famous  hospice. 
•$•    *t»   4* 

Five  women  were  killed  and  the  engineer  and  a 
porter  badly  injured,  on  the  westbound  limited  ex- 
press on  the  Canadian  Pacific  railroad,  at  Winnipeg, 
Manitoba.  The  accident  was  caused  by  an  open 
switch. 

*  *   * 

Manchester  College  opened,  fall  term,  the  6th 
inst.,  in  the  highest  of  spirits.  Not  only  is  there  an 
increase  numerically,  but  the  student  body  possesses 
the  finest  qualities  and  characteristics.  The  facultv 
this  year  is  exceptionally  strong.  Every  department 
is  well  reprseented. 

*  +  * 

Mount  Morris  College  opened,  fall  term,  the  6th 
inst.,  with  an  enrollment  of  125.  The  college  is  prom- 
ised success  under  the  presidency  of  Prof.  Miller  and 
his  cabinet  of  proficient  instructors.  A  Department 
of  Agriculture  has  been  installed.  The  66th  Anni- 
versary address  was  given  by  the  editor  of  the  Ingle- 
Nook. 

*  ♦  * 

The  steamer  Baltic,  carrying  3,271  passengers, 
twenty-six  hundred  of  whom  were  steerage  passen- 
gers, arrived  at  New  York  this  week.  Among  the 
steerage  was  William  Riley,  a  cattleman,  who  has 
made  his  two-hundred-and-fourth  round  trip  across 
the  Atlantic. 

•3*    4*    * 

Policemen,  near  Milan,  Italy,  have  discovered  the 
ghosts  and  haunts  that  have  been  possessing  some  va- 
cant houses  in  the  vicinity.  They  were  found  to  be 
a  gang  of  coiners  and  smugglers. 

*  *   * 

Quite  an  excitement  is  being  produced  in  Spain's 
capital  as  to  how  to  determine  who  is  the  mother  of 
two  baby  boys  in  the  hospital.  The  mothers  of  the 
two  children  are  in  adjacent  rooms  and  for  some  rea- 
son the  children  have  been  mixed.  The  mothers  are 
dissatisfied  and  the  wits  of  the  most  skillful  physicians 
and  nurses  have  been  exhausted.  Reference  will  prob- 
ably be  made  to  the  courts. 

4*    4»    * 

Cape  Colony,  owing  to  a  serious  decline  in  revenue, 
has  been  compelled  to  reduce  salaries  of  cabinet  and 
other  high  officials  in  order  to  reduce  expenses. 

*  *  * 

John  Philip  Sousa  is  arranging  for  his  fourth 
visit  to  Europe  with  his  famous  band. 


Prominent  mine  workers  of  Hazelton,  Pa.,  are  ar- 
ranging to  edit  a  weekly  newspaper  devoted  to  the  in- 
terests of  mines. 

*  ♦>   -> 

At  Norristown,  Pa.,  several  hives  of  angry  bees, 
made  so  by  fire  and  water,  prevented  the  firemen  from 
saving  the  Eureka  Paper  Mill,  which  now  suffers  the 
loss  of  $6,000. 

John  Alexander  Dowie  is  to  receive  another  pro- 
motion at  his  own  hand  some  time  this  week.  In  the 
outcoming  issue  of  the  "  Leaves  of  Healing "  an- 
nouncements will  be  made  of  this  promotion.  In  the 
organization  of  the  Christian  Catholic  church  he  sim- 
ply denominated  himself  as  teacher.  In  1901  he  called 
himself  "  Elijah  the  Restorer/'  and  next  Sunday  has 
been  set  apart  as  the  day  when  Zion's  host  will  crown 
him  the  "  First  Apostle  of  God."  He  claims  to  have 
received  a  special  revelation  of  1  Cor.  12:28. 

«5*  ♦  *£ 

President  Roosevelt  is  requested  to  call  a  second 
convention  of  The  Hague  Convention,  where  com- 
pulsory arbitration  wili  be  asked  for.  The  powers 
are  becoming  tired  of  slaughter  in  the  Orient.  Com- 
pulsory arbitration  may  be  like  the  weatherman's  re- 
port ;  he  said,  "  It  would  never  get  warmer  until  ice- 
bergs in  the  north  melted,  and  they  would  never  melt 
until  it  got  warmer."  What  is  the  difference  between 
war  and  the  force  of  arbitration  at  the  point  of  the 
bayonet  ? 

♦  *§►  * 

McPherson  College  opened  Tuesday  morning 
with  a  large  attendance  on  the  first  day.  It  is  expected 
that  the  enrollment  will  reach  500  by  the  end  of  the 
week.  McPherson  College  has  been  growing  in  popu- 
larity on  account  of  the  splendid  work  they  do  and  they 
are  now  reaping  the  profits  from  it.  This  promises 
to  be  the  best  year  in  the  history  of  the  college. 
$  .|.  $ 
OUR    CONTEST. 


Our  contest  which  closed  Aug.  31.  and  which  re- 
sulted in  a  tie  between  Bro.  Elmer  Flory.  of  llliii"is, 
and  Sister  Cora  Bates,  of  Indiana,  was  continued  un- 
til Sept.  10,  at  which  time  a  decision  was  reached  ; 
Brother  Flory  having  secured  forty  subscribers  and 
Sister  Mates  thirty-nine.  This  entitles  Brother  Flory 
to  the  watch  and  Sister  Bates  to  the  Bible  which  will 
be  sent  immediately.  Again  we  thank  all  of  our  con- 
testants for  the  many  good  words  they  have  said  for 
our  magazine,  and  the  nine  hundred  new  subscriptions 
that  wc  have.  Thanking  you  for  past  favors  and 
trusting  for  future  ones,  we  are. 

Your  obedient  servant. 

The  Editor. 


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"  To  him  who,  in  the  love  of  nature,  "holds 
Communion  with  her  visible  forms,  she  speaks 
A  various  language:  for  his  gayer  hours 
She  has  a  voice  of  gladness,  and  a  smile 
And  eloquence  of  beauty;  and  she  glides 
Into  his  darker  musings  with  a  mild 
And  healing  sympathy,  that  steals  away 
Their  sharpness,  ere  he  is  aware." 
*    *    •> 
CLASS    AVES— ORDER    INSESSORES. 


BIRD  OF   PARADISE. 

This  bird  was  so  named  from  the  absurd  belief  pre- 
vailing, when  it  was  first  introduced  to  the  civilized 
world,  that  it  had  no  feet;  the  cunning  natives  were 
accustomed  to  cutting  them  off  and  asserting  that  the 
bird  hung  to  the  trees  by  its  plumage,  and  that  it 
passed  the  breeding  season  in  Paradise,  and  that  it 
fed  on  dew. 

The  Bird  of  Paradise  is  the  native  of  New  Guinea 
and  the  surrounding  islands  only.  The  bills  of  these 
birds  are  so  long  and  slender  that  some  naturalists 
have  placed  them  among  the  family  of  Tenuirostres. 
They  are  distinguished  for  their  remarkable  plumes 
which  are  of  different  kinds  and  various  species,  usu- 
ally consisting  of  feathers  prolonged  from  the  shoul- 
der tufts  or  from  the  tail.  In  the  majority  of  the 
species  there  is  a  most  brilliant  display  of  color.  The 
bodv,  breast  and  lower  parts  are  of  a  deep,  rich  brown  ; 
the  front  set  close  with  black  feathers  pied  with 
green ;  the  throat  is  of  a  rich,  golden  green ;  the  head 
yellow ;  the  sides  of  the  tail  have  a  long,  full,  splendid 
plume  of  downy  feathers  of  a  soft,  yellow  color. 

The  poetical  story 'that  this  bird  feeds  on  dew  is,  of 
course,  false  and  its  food  consists  of  grasshoppers  and 
other  insects,  together  with  seeds  and  figs.  Thou- 
sands of  these  beautiful  birds  are  compelled  to  surren- 
der their  lives  annually  into  the  hands  of  cruel  mur- 
derers, because  of  the  empty  vanity  of  a  proud  nation 
of  women  demand  their  beautiful  feathers  in  the  mil- 
liner's trade.  How  can  a  Christian  be  satisfied  in  his 
heart  to  take  the  life  of  one  of  God's  creatures  for 
a  purpose  so  ignoble. 

THE  BOWER-BIRD. 

Another  interesting  bird  of  the  Eastern  hemisphere 
is  the  Bower-bird  of  Australia.  Its  chief  peculiarity 
consists  in  the  curious  bowers  which  it  builds  of  close- 
ly  interwoven   branches,    and   twigs,   drawn   together 


so  as  to  meet  at  the  top,  forming  a  sort  of  a  tunnel.] 
The  entrance  is  brushed  perfectly  clean,  and  is  dec-l 
orated    with    bright    pebbles,    shells,    feathers,    small] 
bleached     skeletons     and    other    ornamental     articles,) 
some    of    which    must    evidently    have    been    carried 
for     a     long     distance.        These     bowers     are     en-l 
tirely     separate     from     their     nests,     and     are     onlyl 
used     as     playgrounds     where    a     large     number    of 
them  assemble  as  if  they  were  having  a  festival,  ap-j 
parently  to  exhibit  their  charms  to  the  birds  whose! 
affections   they   hope   to   win.      The  male   birds   strut! 
up  and  down  in  a  stately  fashion  and  do  their  best  to 
display  their  fine  forms  and  graceful  movements  to  the 
females  that  are  quietly  looking  on. 

The  Bower-bird  is  a  typical  percher  and  is  almost 
a  model  as  to  size,  shape  and  graceful  movements, 
and  is  strictly  an  artist  when  it  comes  to  the  erection 
of  a  home. 

4*  ♦  * 

TRICKS    OF    GROUSE. 


The  grouse  has  a  hundred  tricks  of  defense.  It  wil 
lie  still  until  the  hunter  is  within  a  yard  of  it,  then  soar 
straight  upward  in  his  front,  towering  like  a  wood 
cock;  again,  it  will  rise  40  yards  away,  and  the  sound 
of  its  wings  is  his  only  notice  of  its  presence.  It  will 
cower  upon  a  branch  under  which  he  passes,  and  his 
cap  will  not  be  more  than  a  foot  below  it  as  he  goes, 
and  though  it  has  seen  him  approaching  it  will  remain 
quiescent  in  fear  until  his  back  is  turned.  It  will  rush 
then,  and  when  he  has  slewed  himself  hurriedly  around 
he  will  catch  only  a  glimpse  of  a  brown,  broad  wing 
far  away. 

Wounded  and  falling  in  the  open,  it  will  be  found — 
if  it  is  found  at  all — with  the  telltale  speckles  of  its 
breast  against  the  trunk  of  some  brown  tree,  against 
which  its  feathers  are  indistinguishable,  and  the  black 
ruff  about  the  neck  of  the  male  will  be  laid  against  the 
darkest  spot  of  the  bark.  Often  it  will  double  like  a 
fox ;  often  as  man  draws  near,  it  will  spring  noiselessly 
into  some  spruce  and  hide  until  he  passes,  dropping 
then  to  the  ground  and  continues  his  feeding;  often, 
too,  it  will  decline  to  take  wing,  though  unhurt,  and 
will  run  fast  for  half  a  mile — so  fast  that  the  most 
expert  woodsman  will  be  unable  to  keep  pace  with  it. 
This  it  will  do  only  on  leafy  ground  and  never  whs 
snow  would  betray  its  tracks. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  20,  1904. 


907 


SMART    MONKEY. 


By  what  process  of  mental  action  the  monkey  ar- 
rived at  the  conclusion  water  could  put  out  fire,  is  not 
known  to  his  keepers,  but  Chet,  the  educated  simian 
in  the  large  cage  at  Glen  Island,  the  other  day,  proved 
himself  worthy  of  being  considered  more  seriously 
hereafter  than  a  mere  place  in  which  to  store  peanuts. 

Some  smoker,  in  passing  the  cage  where  one  hun- 
dred or  more  monkeys  are  kept,  threw  a  lighted  match 
on  the  straw,  which  flared  up  in  a  moment.  The  ani- 
mals, which  have  a  dread  of  fire  since  their  experience 
with  civilized  man,  immediately  gave  a  realistic  repro- 
duction of  a  crowd  of  tenants  in  a  fire  panic.  The 
chattering  and  screeching  was  great,  and  all  except 
one  of  the  animals  took  to  roof  and  fire  escape — other- 
wise the  topmost  perches  and  cage  bars. 

The  single  exception  was  Chet,  the  ring-tailed  Bra- 
zilian and  smartest  simian  of  them  all.  As  much  like 
the  cool-headed  human  as  could  be,  including  the 
looks,  he  shoved  the  big  pan  of  drinking  water  close 
to  the  burning  straw,  tippled  it  over  and  gravely  sat 
down  to  watch  the  water  put  out  every  vestige  of  a 
blaze.  Then,  in  delight  at  his  success  as  an  amateur 
fireman,  the  ring-tailed  simian  jumped  rope  through 
himself.  Patrolman  Dowling,  who  came  up  with  a 
hose  about  he  time  the  fire  was  out,  told  the  many 
persons  around  the  cage  who  had  seen  the  monkey's 
clever  performance,  that  he  believed  Chat  had  acted 
from  experience.  The  monkey  had  been  burned  sev- 
eral times  by  cigars  and  firecrackers,  and  had  learned 
to  take  away  the  pain  by  putting  the  burned  part  in 
cold  water.  Thus,  he  reasoned,  he  could  put  out  the 
objectionable  fire  with  water.  This,  at  least,  is  Dow- 
ling's  explanation. 

THE   UNREASONING    DOG. 


peated  with  practically  the  same  results.  The  dog 
never  mastered  the  problem.  He  could  not  see  the 
relation  of  that  stick  to  the  opening  in  the  fence. 
One  time  he  worked  and  tugged  three  minutes  try- 
ing to  pull  the  stick  through.  Of  course,  if  he  had 
had  any  mental  conception  of  the  problem,  or  had 
thought  about  it  at  all,  a  single  trial  would  have  con- 
vinced him  as  well  as  a  dozen  trials.  Mr.  Morgan 
tried  the  experiment  with  other  dogs,  with  like  re- 
sult. When  they  did  get  the  stick  through  it  was  al- 
ways by  chance. — John  Burroughs,  in  Harper's  Mag- 
azine for  August. 

•5*   *>  «J* 

SLOWEST   THING    ON    EARTH. 


Of  all  the  absurd  forms  of  locomotion  practiced  by 
the  creatures  of  the  deep,  the  most,  preposterous  is 
that  of  the  mussel.  Squids  will  startle  you  by  dart- 
ing backward,  crabs  hustle  off  sideways  at  a  lively 
gait ;  but  nothing  save  the  dull  brain  of  "  some  kind 
of  clam  critter."  pondering  over  the  transportation 
problem  in  those  remote  epochs  when  time  was  no  ob- 
ject, could  have  evolved  so  slow  and  cumbersome  a 
method.  You  may  often  see  mussels  climb  up  the  piles 
of  a  wharf  toward  the  high-water  mark.  Notice  the 
black  threads  attached  to  the  clam.  They  do  the  busi- 
ness. The  mussel  shoots  out  a  spray  of  gelatinous 
stuff  in  the  direction  he  wants  to  go.  and  this  hardens 
into  those  black  threads.  He  lets  go  the  old  ones  and 
climbs  up  by  the  new.  You  can  trace  his  progress  up 
the  pile  by  the  bunches  of  old  threads  which  he  leaves 
behind  at  intervals.  It  has  never  been  figured  out 
whether  he  could  go  a  mile  in  less  than  a  year,  but  it 
would  be  safe  to  back  the  mussel  in  the  animals' 
"  slow  race." 

.;.    ^    .;. 
TRAINED    TORTOISES. 


Lloyd  Morgan  relates  at  some  length  the  experi- 
ments he  tried  with  his  fox  terrier.  Tony,  trying  to 
teach  him  how  to  bring  a  stick  through  a  fence  with 
vertical  palings.  The  spaces  would  allow  the  dog  to 
pass  through,  but  the  palings  caught  the  ends  of  the 
stick  which  the  dog  carried  in  his  mouth.  When  the 
master  encouraged  him  he  pushed  and  struggled  vig- 
orously. Not  succeeding,  he  went  back,  lay  down, 
and  began  gnawing  the  stick.  Then  he  tried  again, 
and  stuck  as  before,  but  by  a  chance  movement  of 
his  head  to  one  side  finally  got  the  stick  through. 
His  master  patted  him  approvingly  and  sent  him  for 
the  stick.  Again  he  seized  it  by  the  middle,  and. 
of  course,  brought  it  up  against  the  palings.  After 
some  struggles  he  dropped  it  and  came  through  with- 
out it.  Then,  encouraged  by  his  master,  he  put  his 
head  through,  seized  the  stick  and  tried  to  pull  it 
through,  dancing  up  and  down  in  his  endeavors.  1  ime 
after  time  and  day  after  day  the  experiment  was  re- 


Japanese  and  Korean  showmen,  in  addition  to  their 
skill  as  jugglers  and  acrobats,  display  a  truly  mar- 
velous skill  in  teaching  animals  tricks.  They  not  only 
exhibit  educated  bears,  spaniels,  monkeys  and  goats, 
but  also  trained  birds,  and.  what  is  the  most  aston- 
ishing of  all.  trick  fish.  (  )ne  oi  the  most  curious  ex- 
amples of  patient  training  is  an  exhibit  by  an  old 
Korean  boatman  of  a  dozen  drilled  tortoises. 

Directed  by  his  songs  and  a  small  metal  drum,  they 
march  in  line,  execute  various  evolutions,  and  con- 
clude by  climbing  upon  a  low  table,  the  larger  ones 
forming  of  their  own  accord  a  bridge  for  the  smaller, 
to  which  the  fiat   would  otherwise  be  impossible. 

When  they  have  all  mounted  they  dispose  themselves 
in  three  or  four  piles  like  so  many  plates. 

Let  no  man  talk  of  freedom  until  he  is  sure  he  an 
govern  himself. — Goeihc. 


908 


THE   INGLENOOK.— September  20,  1904. 


HOME    DEPARTMENT 


WASHING    DISHES    WITHOUT    SOAP. 


BY   NANNIE  J.    ROOP. 

An  article  in  a  late  Inglenook  recommends  wash- 
ing dishes  in  soapsuds.  Bah!  Everyone  knows  that 
soap  is  made  from  dirty  grease,  or  from  sick  animals, J- 
or  those  mangled  en  route  to  market.  Lard  that  is  fi 
to  eat  is  too  expensive.  Now  what  is  on  dishes  to  nee<_ 
soap  ?  They  are  not  porous,  and  the  dirt  is  not  rubbe^ 
into  them,  as  in  our  clothing,  and  if  any  lady  thinks, 
that  soap  is  the  thing  to  remove  clear  grease,  let  hen 
try  to  extract  it  from  clothing;  experience  proves  if, 
nearly  impossible. 

Soap  is  made  of  an  extract  of  lye  and  grease,  mak-  j 
ing  a  suitable  agent  to  soften  real  dirt,  but  not  to  ex-  i, 
tract  oil. 

You  may  say,  we  rinse  off  all  the  soap.  Do  you  al- 
ways wash  the  dishes  yourself  ?  In  my  experience  that 
is  left  to  unskilled  help,  mostly  to  children,  and  the 
thorough  rinsing,  very  questionable.  I  would  rather 
turn  my  plate  upside  down  and  eat  off  it  at  the  next 
meal,  than  to  eat  the  essence  of  filthy  soap.  Every  dish- 
washer knows  that  soap  makes  a  slippery  dishcloth. 

There  are  other  things  to  wash  dishes  with  that  are 
sanitary  and  that  will  cleanse.  One  would  be  borax ; 
if  that  is  too  expensive,  take  sal  soda,  which  is  three 
pounds  for  a  dime,  a  very  small  bit-  will  answer  for 
a  dishpan  of  water.  Another  would  be  baking  soda. 
It  is  very  dainty  and  effective  too.  And  for  folks  who 
live  in  the  country,  whey  made  of  sour  milk,  is' an  ex-, 
cellent  cleanser  and  very  cheap.  Upon  the  table  on 
which  we  wash  dishes,  stands  a  jar  of  clear  whey  all 
the  time,  and  a  cupful  is  enough  for  a  large  dish  pan 
of  hot  water,  then  there  is  no  soap  smell  on  the  dishes 
and  no  slippery  dishcloth. 

Whey  attacks  grease  in  a  manner  that  is  surprising 
to  those  who  have  not  tried  it.  It  will  cleanse  a  churn 
that  has  become  greasy,  and  even  a  butter  bowl,  where 
soap  has  no  effect.  It  must  be  boiling  hot  to  take  the 
grease  out  of  wood  or  cloth.  It  will  also  cleanse  the 
hands  and  not  destroy  the  softness  of  the  skin  like  soap 
does. 

Warrensburg,  Mo. 

♦  *  * 

A    SUN    BATH    FOR    THE   HAIR 


There  is   no   better  tonic   for  the   hair   than   sun- 

'  shine,  just  pure,  free,  unadulterated  sunshine.     It  has 

more  potency  than  any  compound  mixed  in  the  chem- 


's  laboratory  and  is  more  efficient  than  any  drug 
>und  in  the  apothecary's  shop. 

Sit  outdoors  in  the  sunshine  an  hour  every  day. 
Loosen  the  hair  and  let  the  sun  shine  on  it  and  the  air 
blow  through  it.  In  the  summer,  days,  go  without  a 
hat  as  much  as  possible.  The  hair  needs  to  be  venti- 
lated to  keep  it  healthy. 

There  is  no  danger  of  getting  too  much  sunshine 
on  the  hair.  It  will  bring  it  to  its  normal  color,  and 
even  if  it  gets  a  bit  sunburned  it  will  not  hurt  it.  The 
sunburn  will  soon  wear  off. 

Airing  and   sunning  the   hair  every   day   not   only 

keeps  it  sweet  and  clean,  but  it  is  good  for  the  scalp 

also.     The  sun  will  soon  cure  any  disease  of  the  scalp 

and  make  it  healthy  and  active,  and  a  healthy  scalp 

makes  strong,  beautiful  hair.     No  danger  of  the  hair 

falling  out   when  the   scalp  is  all   right.     Wash  the 

•  hair  about  every  three  or  four  weeks  in  warm  water 

;  and  a  good,  pure  soap.    Use  nothing  else  on  it.    Rinse 

it  thoroughly  in  tepid  water  and  sit  out  doors  and  let 

the  sun  and  air  dry  it.     Or  in  the  winter  time  sit  by 

la  sunny  window  until  the  hair  is  dry. 

Brushing  the  hair  every  day,  "  a  hundred  strokes," 
jas  our  grandmothers  used  to  say,  will  make  it  soft  and 
glossy  as  silk. 

This  is  all  that  is  needed  to  keep  the  hair  in  fine 
^condition.  Just  cleanliness,  sunshine  and  brushing, 
tf  your  hair  is  harsh,  or  thin,  or  uneven,  or  scraggly, 
br  stringy,— no  matter  what  the  trouble  is,  just  try  the 
Sunshine  treatment  a  few  months,  sitting  in  the  sun- 
shine every  day,  the  air  freely  circulating  through  the 
hair,  and  you  will  find  all  your  hair  troubles  and  scalp 
diseases  disappearing  and  a  clean,  sweet-smelling 
healthful  head  of  hair  will  be  sure  to  result. — Selected. 

HELPFUL    HOUSEHOLD    SUGGESTIONS. 

A  small  piece  of  charcoal  put  in  the  pot  when  boil- 
:g  cabbage,  will  prevent  it  filling  the  house  with  the 
'smell. 

In  icing  cake  dip  the  knife  in  cold  water  frequently, 
and  it  will  go  on  more  smoothly. 

If  oil  has  been  spilled  on  coarse  woolen  material, 
apply  dry  buckwheat,  plentifully  and  faithfully,  chang- 
ing it  frequently  till  the  grease  has  been  extracted. 
KTever  attempt  to  wash  out  such  spots  or  use  any  liquor 
in  them. 

Never  clean  oilcloth  with  soapsuds  or  a  brush,  but 
wipe  it  with  a  clean  cloth  wrung  out  of  milk  and  water. 

When  milk  is  used  in  tumblers,  wash  them 
first  in  cold  water,  afterwards  rinse  in  hot  water. 


THE    I NGLENOOK.— September  20,  1904. 


909 


The  stains  on  your  linen  can  be  easily  removed,  but 
the  quick  process  will  be  very  apt  to  destroy  the  fabric. 
A  slower  but  better  way  is  to  rub  the  stain  on  both 
sides  with  yellow  soap.  Mix  starch  and  cold  water 
to  a  thick  paste  and  rub  it  well  into  the  linen  on  both 
sides  of  the  stain.  Spread  the  linen  on  the  grass,  if 
possible  in  the  sun  and  wind,  till  the  stain  disappears. 
If  not  entirely  removed  in  two  or  three  days,  rub  off 
the  paste,  and  renew  the  process.  Lemon  juice  added 
to  the  paste  is  good. 

The  juice  of  the  tomato  is  said  to  be  excellent  to  re- 
move ink,  wine  and  fruit  stains,  but  we  have  never 
tried  it. — Domestic  Monthly. 

*   *   * 

CHERRY    ICE. 


Boil  one  quart  of  water  and  two  cups  of  sugar  ten 
minutes.  Dip  out  two  tablespoonfuls  and  reserve. 
Add  to  the  bulk  a  tablespoonful  of  gelatine  that  has 
been  dissolved  and  strain  it  into  the  freezer.  When 
cold  add  the  juice  of  two  lemons  and  a  tablespoon 
of  orange  flower  water,  and  freeze,  turning  the  crank 
slowly.  Beat  the  white  of  an  egg  stiff,  heat  the  sirup 
that  was  reserved,  and  turn  it  on  to  the  egg,  beating 
until  a  stiff  cream.  Mix  this  through  the  ice,  remove 
the  dasher,  and  stir  the  ice  until  smooth.  Make  a 
hollow  in  the  center,  piling  it  up  at  the  sides  of  the 
can,  and  fill  it  with  a  pint  of  cherries  that  have  been 
stoned  and  mixed  with  a  tablespoonful  of  powdered 
sugar  and  half  a  cup  of  chopped  almonds.  Spread 
the  ice  over  the  top,  repack  the  freezer,  and  let  it 
stand  three  hours.  To  serve,  turn  out  and  cut  in 
slices. 

j»   <fr    * 

ROLLED    APPLE    DUMPLINGS. 


Make  a  rich  baking  powder  biscuit  dough,  roll  it 
out  in  a  sheet  half  an  inch  (or  less)  thick,  cover 
thickly  with  chopped  or  sliced  apples,  and  roll  up  as 
compactly  as  possible.  Now  cut  this  roll  into  sections 
about  two  inches  thick  and  place  these  in  a  granite 
pan.  Mix  1  dessert-spoon  flour  through  1  cup  sugar, 
add  a  little  more  than  1  cup  cold  water,  and  cook  ten 
minutes.  Dip  this  over  the  dumplings  with  a  spoon. 
Sprinkle  cinnamon  or  any  spice  to  suit,  and  bake  to  a 
good  brown.  Serve  with  cream  and  sugar,  or  hard 
sauce. 

$  *  4* 

NEW    WAYS    OF    SERVING    TOMATOES. 


Tomatoes  are  so  good  as  a  salad  that  it  seems  too 
bad  to  ever  cook  them.  Still,  fried  tomatoes  are  de- 
licious, and  sometimes  may  be  made  to  serve  in  place 
of  a  meat  dish  at  luncheon.  Slice  the  tomatoes  with- 
out peeling  into  rather  thick  slices.  If  the  vegetable 
is  overripe  it  will  fall  to  pieces  in  the  pan,  so  be  sure 


that  the  slices  are  firm.  Dip  them  in  crumbs,  brush 
with  oil,  and  again  dip  in  bread  crumbs.  Fry  in  a  lit- 
tle butter,  and  just  before  taking  out  pour  into  the  pan 
half  a  cupful  of  sweet  cream.  Stir  this  quickly  and 
pour  the  sauce  over  the  tomatoes.  It  will  be  thick  like 
a  cream  sauce.  Season  with  salt  and  red  pepper. 
♦  4*  4* 
REFRESHING    FOR    AN    INVALID. 


Peach  foam  is  suggested  as  a  novelty  in  invalid 
cookery.  It  is  made  by  taking  half  a  cupful  of  pow- 
dered sugar,  the  white  of  an  egg  and  one  cupful  of 
peach  pulp.  Beat  with  a  silver  spoon  in  a  large  bowl 
for  thirty  minutes,  and  the  result  is — or  should  be — 
a  velvety  cream.  The  same  authority  gives  grape 
foam,  which  consists  simply  of  the  white  of  one  egg 
beaten  stiff  and  added  to  two  tablespoonfuls  of  grape 
juice.  Add  a  little  scraped  ice  and  sprinkle  with  pow- 
dered sugar. — Tribune. 

*$»   <&    4t 
PRESERVED    WATERMELON    RIND. 


Take  the  rind  of  the  melon,  pare  off  the  outside 
green  and  cut  into  shapes  or  small  squares.  Soak  for 
an  hour  in  salt  water  on  back  of  stove.  Then  wash 
thoroughly,  put  into  preserving  kettle  with  three  and 
one-half  pounds  of  granulated  sugar,  one  large  lemon 
sliced  (remove  seeds),  put  in  ginger  root  to  flavor  it. 
Cook  until  the  juice  is  thick  and  the  preserves  have 
the  appearance  of  citron. 

*$»   *   *3» 
CORN    FRITTERS. 


Take  I  qt.  tender  grated  corn,  1  gill  sweet  cream, 
salt  and  pepper  to  taste,  1  oz.  butter.  Drain  the  milk 
from  the  corn,  add  the  cream  and  butter  and  flour  to 
make  a  rather  thick  batter.  Add  4  well-beaten  eggs. 
Drop  the  batter  into  boiling  lard,  one  spoonful  at  a 
time.  When  a  pale  brown  on  both  sides,  remove  with 
a  strainer  and  lay  on  a  hot  dish  to  drain  for  one  mo- 
ment, and  serve. 

*  *   * 

SQUASH   GEMS. 


One  cup  squash,  2  cups  flour.  1  cup  milk.   1  egg, 
2  tablespoons  sugar,  I  teaspoon  cream  tartar.  J4  tea- 
spoon soda,  a  little  salt.     Bake  in  gem  tins. 
*   *   * 

In  applying  manure  to  the  soil,  aim  to  give  the  kind 
that  the  soil  requires.  This  may  be  known  by  careful 
observation  of  the  kind  and  quality  of  the  foods  al- 
lowed the  stock.  The  value  of  the  manure  depends 
entirely  on  the  material  of  which  it  is  composed.  It 
is  impossible  to  make  rich  manure  from  inferior  feed- 
ing materials. 


9io 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  20.  1904. 


OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE 


BONNIE    WAYNE. 


'Nen  we  ran  as  fast  as  we  could,  but  the  bumble- 
bees would  fly  around  our  heads  and  pretty  soon  one  of 
them  stung  Ethel  and  she  cried  so  that  Luke  heard  her, 
and  he  came  running  as  fast  as  he  could.  I  guess  he 
thought  it  wuz  me  and  he  asked  us  what  wuz  the 
matter  and  he  didn't  see  the  bumblebees  and  one  of 
them  popped  him  on  the  eye  and  he  cried  too.  I  wuz 
going  to  the  house  to  get  Mr.  Marshall,  when 
just  then  Frank  came  along  and  he  saw  what  wuz 
the  matter  and  he  told  us  to  put  some  mud  on  the 
places  where  the  bees  had  stung  us,  and  so  I  wuz  the 
doctor.  I  took  a  white  handkerchief  and  tied  knots 
in  it  so  it  would  fit  my  head  and  make  me  look  like  a 
nurse  at  the  hospital. 

Then  Frank  helped  us  to  move  our  house  down  by 
the  creek  away  from  the  bumblebees.  We  found  a 
nice  place  under  a  big  elm  tree,  and  we  took  some  rails 
and  clapboards.  'Nen  we  went  back  to  the  other 
house  and  we  watched  when  the  bees  were  not  look- 
ing to  take  a  little  of  the  moss  that  we  had  for  a  car- 
pet and  we  took  it  down  to  the  new  house  and  spread 
it  down  there. 

'Nen  Luke  took  his  coat  and  doubled  it  up  and 
laid  his  head  on  it  and  he  wuz  sick  and  I  got  some 
mud  down  by  the  creek  and  mixed  it  up  a  little.  'Nen 
I  put  it  on  his  eyes  and  told  him  he  must  not  open 
his  for  two  hours.  But  Ethel  wuz  in  a  worse  fix 
than  Luke.  She  wuz  stung  on  the  mouth  and  I  took 
a  board  that  wuz  there  and  made  her  a  lean-back 
chair  and  put  the  mud  on  her  mouth  and  took  Luke's 
red  handkerchief  and  tied  it  around  her  face  and  neck 
and  told  her  that  she  could  not  talk  for  two  hours, 
and  she  said  she  didn't  know  how  she  could  keep 
from  talking  for  two  hours. 

Every  time  I  would  try  to  change  the  mud  and  put 
fresh  mud  on  her  lips  she  would  talk  some  anyway. 
Luke  wuz  lying  down  and  he  wuz  asleep  and  I  just 
couldn't  change  the  mud  on  him,  so  I  took  some  water 
and  wet  the  mud  that  wuz  on  his  eyes  and  one  time  he 
wuz  lying  on  his  back  and  I  went  to  pour  some  water 
on  his  eyes  and  a  lot  of  it  went  in  his  ear  and  he 
jumped  like  there  wuz  more  bumblebees  after  him 
and  he  hollered  so  it  pretty  near  scared  me  to  pieces, 
and  I  jumped  so  that  I  spilled  some  more  on  him. 
'Nen  he  got  up  and  he  said  that  he  didn't  want  me  for 
a  doctor  any  more. 

'Nen  Mabel  came  to  see  us  and  she  said  that  Mrs. 
Marshall  thought  that  the  children  ought  to  have  a 


III! 


nice  supper  and  she  sent  us  some  bread  and  milk  and 
some  nice  dishes  to  eat  it  from,  and  Mabel  fixed  our 
supper  for  us  and  we  all  sat  down  by  the  creek  on 
the  bank  and  we  were  having  a  real  nice  time  eating 
and  talking.  'Nen  here  came  a  big  toad  hopping  along 
and  I  guess  he  didn't  see  me,  for  he  jumped  right  into 
my  dish  and  splashed  the  milk  all  over  my  lap  and  he 
just  sat  there  and  winked  at  me,  and  I  wuz  afraid  of 
him  and  I  cried,  and  they  all  hollered  for  me  to  set 
the  dish  down  on  the  ground,  but  I  didn't  want  to,  for 
I  wuz  afraid  that  he  would  eat  all  of  my  milk  and 
bread.  'Nen  after  awhile  the  sun  wuz  pretty  near 
down  and  we  had  to  go  home  and  we  wuz  so  tired  that 
we  could  hardly  walk,  and  just  as  we  wuz  going  to 
bed,  Mr.  Marshall  said  that  we  wuz  going  fishing  to 
morrow. 

Mrs.  Marshall  had  a  big  dishpanful  of  tomatoes  and 
she  had  been  canning  fruit  all  day  and  wuz  very  tired. 
but  Mabel  wuz  helping  her  and  they  worked  very  hard 
to  get  done,  so  we  could  go  a  fishing  to-morrow. 
Luke  and  me  both  thought  it  wuz  fun  to  see  them  can 
.  fruit  and  so  we  thought  we'd  play  at  it ;  and  we  went 
out  on  the  back  porch  and  there  we  found  the  old  cal 
and  a  whole  lot  of  kittens  and  we  thought  it  would  be 
fun  to  can  some  cats  and  so  we  tried  it ;  and  there  wuz 
a  hole  in  the  floor  of  the  porch  and  we  just  poked  then 
down  there,  but  didn't  have  enough  to  fill  the  hole. 

The  kittens  didn't  care  much,  but  I  don't  think  the 
old  cat  liked  to  have  her  little  cats  canned,  for  she 
would  come  and  rub  around  us  and  sing,  but  we  tolc 
her  that  we  were  canning  them  so  that  they  woulc 
keep  all  winter  but  she  didn't  seem  to  understand  anc 
she  cried  about  it  and  I  didn't  like  to  hear  her  cry 
so  I  told  Luke  to  tell  Frank  that  the  old  cat  wuz  cry 
ing,  and  Frank  came  out  there  and  asked  us  wha' 
wuz  up  and  I  said  that  we  were  canning  cats  and  w< 
were  putting  up  the  little  ones  first  and  the  big  one,1 
wouldn't  be  canned  and  that  she  wouldn't  even  let  u: 
can  the  little  ones  without  crying  about  it. 

"  Well,"  he  says,  "  you  beat  all  the  yunguns  I  eve: 
saw,"  and  he  laughed  till  the  whole  family  came  ou 
and  grandma  said  that  we  had  better  go  to  bed,  bu 
Mr.  Marshall  said  that  we  had  to  get  the  cats  oii 
before  we  went  to  bed,  and  Frank  and  Mr.  Marshal 
lifted  up  the  floor  of  the  porch  and  he  made  us  craW 
under  and  pick  them  out  and  we  could  hardly  find  then 
in  the  dark.  As  fast  as  we  would  get  them  out,  thi 
old  cat  would  take  them  in  her  mouth  and  carry  then 
in  the  wood  house  and  put  them  in  a  box. 
( To  be  Continued.) 


THE    IXGLRXOOK.— September  20,  1904. 


911 


X 


^#2  Tfie  Q*  &  &♦  Uepartment*  t#^ 


They  are  undeveloped  mosquitoes. 
* 

Are   tomatoes   fruit   or   vegetable? 

Vegetable.  One  way  of  distinguishing  between 
fruit  and  vegetables  is  that,  generallv  speaking,  vege- 
tables are  planted  each  year  while  fruits  remain  in  the 
ground  from  one  year  to  another. 


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and 
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lo- 
an 

id      In    making  vicious   and   unruly  horses    docile,    what   do 
y  horsemen   administer  and  how  do  they  administer  it? 
The  editor  is   unable  to  answer  this  directlv.  out- 
side of  this  that  the  best  thing  in  the  world  for  vicious 
animals  is  to  make  them  know  that  you  are  educating 
them  and  not  breaking  them.     Rule  by  love  and  not 
j,  by  fear,  but  if  some  horsemen  in  the  Nook  family  can 
Kid  jive  us  the  name  of  the  drug  that  is  administered  we 
would  be  thankful  for  it: 


tin 


Please  give  the  address  of  Helen  Gould. 
Irvington-on-Hudson,  or  579  5th  Ave.,  Xew  York. 

Who  said,  "  Civilization   carries  hell   on   her  borders  "  ? 
We   think   it   was    Rousseau,    but    if   anv    Xookers 
know  it  to  be  otherwise,  please  let  us  know. 


What  are  the  little  wigglers  found  in   open   rain   water 
barrels? 


What  causes  the  blades  of  grass  and  the  leaves  of  trees 
;|l  :o  be  green   in   color? 

For  the  same  reason  that  some  people  have  light 
lair  and  some  dark,  some  animals  have  gray  coats  and 

,  some  white,  some  snakes  have  one  color  of  skin  and 
-nine  another.      It   is  all   due  to  the   density  of  pig- 

j  nentum  or  coloring  matter,  and,  technically  speaking, 
lie  coloring  is  not  in  the  grass  but  in  the  eye  and  is 

,  iroduced  according  to  the  quantity  of  rays  of  light  ab- 

„l  orbed. 


What  God  has  therefore  joined  together  let  no  man 
ml  asunder."  Whom  do  you  say  God  has  joined  to- 
other, as  there  are  so  many  that  do  not  live  peaceably 
ogether  after  they  are  married? 

God  is  not  the  agent  in  uniting  persons,  except  they 
re  united  through  love  only.  When  animal  passion, 
idles,  beauty,  romance  and  such  like  agencies  are 
he-  means  employed  in  uniting  people  in  matrimony, 
'  t  is  not  holy  matrimony  and  God  has  nothing  to  do 
vith  it.  God  is  love,  and  loves  only  the  agency  he 
leals  with  in  controlling  the  world.  Don't  attribute 
ny  of  the  devil's  meanness  to  God. 


What  are  the  causes  and  results  of  the  Interstate  Com- 
merce Act? 

There  was  a  lack  of  uniformity  in  transportation 
charges  between  the  different  states.  The  act  estab- 
lished uniformity. 

•> 

What  is  a  good  recipe  for  oak  stain? 

Two  ounces  each  of  American  potash  and  pearl  ash 
to  one  quart  of  water.     Handle  carefully  or  you  will 
blister  your  hands.     You  can  buy  it  at  the  paint  store 
cheaper  than  you  can  run  the  risk. 
* 

Why  do  you  think  France  assisted  the  United  States 
during  the  Revolution? 

Chiefly  the  enmity  between  France  and  England, 
partly  due  to  the  persuasive  powers  of  Ben  Franklin 
and  the  sympathetic  enthusiasm  of  Marquis  de  La 
Fayette. 

* 

As  a  young  school  teacher  I  would  like  some  advice  as 
to  the  improvement  of  reading  in  public  school. 

First  give  more  time,  more  practice,  more  care,  teach 
naturalness,  expression,  get  the  idea  of  the  text-book 
out  of  the  pupil's  mind,  and  use  the  Inglenook  for 
side  reading  for  all  classes  and  grades. 
* 

Is  it  true  that  county  taxes  are  higher  on  account  of  the 
rural  free  delivery  system? 

Xo,  we  think  not.  The  government  pays  the  bill 
direct.  The  only  way  this  could  be  is  that  the  govern- 
ment requires  good  roads  where  these  rural  free  de- 
liveries go,  and  the  making  of  good  roads  might  in- 
crease the  county  tax. 

What   is  eucain? 

It  is  the  name  of  a  new  anaesthetic  which  makes  the 
parts  of  the  body  in  which  it  is  injected  insensitive, 
yet  the  patient  does  not  lose  consciousness.  An  opera- 
tion might  last  three  hours,  and  the  patient  be  sensible 
of  it  all  the  time,  and  vet  not  suffer  from  it. 


What  is  the  best  compound  for  welding  steel  and  iron? 

We  think  long  experience  and  good  management 
is  the  first  consideration.  The  iron  should  be  spark- 
ling hot  and  the  steel  a  bright  cherry  and  the  weld 
should  be  made  of  the  first  blow,  using  borax  as  a 
flux.  The  best  Belgian  welding  powder  consists  01 
four  hundred  parts  of  iron  filings,  four  hundred  parts 
of  borax,  forty  parts  of  balsam  copaiba  and  sixtj  pari-. 
or  sal  ammoniac:  mix.  heat  and  pulverize  finch. 


912 


THE   INGLENOOK.— September  20,  1904. 


*  * 


WHEN    WILL    THE    PANAMA    CANAL    BE 
FINISHED  ? 


A  member  of  Congress  has  said  that  the  Panama 
Canal  will  be  completed  in  1912,  but  John  Findley 
Wallace,  the  man  who  is  to  have  active  superintend- 
ence of  the  construction  of  the  canal,  will  make  no 
prediction  as  to  the  date  of  the  completion  of  the  work 
and  will  hazard  no  estimate  of  the  actual  cost  of  the 
enterprise.  He  does  not  care  anything  about  what 
effect  promises  of  speedy  completion  of  the  project 
might  have  on  political  fortunes  or  stock  investments. 

"  If  it  were  a  question  of  removing  dirt  or  blasting 
rock  or  doing  masonry  work,"  said  Mr.  Wallace,  "  I 
could  furnish  an  estimate  of  time  and  cost  of  con- 
struction by  a  little  figuring,  but  I  must  first  know 
how  many  muscular  ohms  the  workman  we  will  have 
on  the  canal  exerts  in  a  day  as  compared  with  what 
a  husky  Irish  laborer  does  in  this  country.  It  is 
necessary  to  know  how  much  a  team  will  stand,  how 
many  hours  men  can  work  and  with  what  energy. 
No  intelligent  estimate  of  the  time  to  build  the  canal 
can  be  made  until  we  have  made  the  start.  I  can 
only  make  one  prediction,  and  that  is  that  the  United 
States  will  build  it  more  promptly,  better  and  with  less 
waste  of  money  than  any  other  nation  in  the  world 
possibly  could.  We  will  do  our  best,  and,  you  know, 
the  American  best  is  a  whole  lot  better  than,  any  one 
else's  best." — Leslie's  Monthly  Magazine  for  Septem- 
ber. 

♦  *  * 
OUR   OPPORTUNITIES. 


We  must  first  convince  ourselves  thoroughly  of  the 
truth  that  circumstances,  however  difficult,  are  always 
— without  exception,  opportunities,  and  not  limitations. 

They  are  not  by  any  means  opportunities  for  taking 
us  in  the  direction  that  our  own  selfishness  would 
have  us  go;  they  are  opportunities  which  are  meant 
to  guide  us  in  the  direction  we  most  need  to  follow — 
in  the  ways  that  will  lead  us  to  the  greatest  strength 
in  the  end. 

The  most  unbelieving  of  us  will  admit  that  "  there 
is  a  destiny  which  shapes  our  ends,  rough  hew  them 
as  we  may,"  and  it  is  in  the  stupid  resistance  to  hav- 
ing our  ends  shaped  for  us  that  we  stop  and  groan  at 
what  we  call  the  limitations  of  circumstances. 

If  we  were  quickly  alert  to  see  where  circumstances 
had  placed  the  gate  of  opportunity,  and  then  steadily 


persisted  in  going  through  it,  it  would  save  the  loss 
of  energy  and  happiness  which  results  from  obstinately 
beating  our  heads  against  a  stone  wall  where  there  is 
no  gate,  and  where  there  never  can  be  a  gate. — Annie 
Payson  Call,  in  Leslie's  Monthly  Magazine  for  Sep- 
tember. 

4>   if*   & 

THE    MAN   WHO    FIRST    RAN    NIGHT   TRAINS, 
HENRY    GASSAWAY    DAVIS. 


Henry  Gassaway  Davis  found  his  first  advance- 
ment when  he  secured  the  coveted  position  of  brake- 
man  on  a  freight  train  on  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio 
Railroad.     It  was  not  long  before  he  was  advanced 
to  the  more  responsible  position  of  freight  conductor, 
responsible  in  these  days,  far  more  so,  relatively,  in 
those.     At  twenty-four  he  was  again  promoted,  this 
time  to  the  position  of  superintendent  in  charge  of 
the  running  of  all  the  trains.     He  introduced  an  in- 
novation  which   marked   a   decided   advance   step   in 
railroading.     Up  to  that  time,  it  had  not  been  consid- 
ered practicable  to  run  trains  at  night ;  when  night- 
fall  came,   freight  trains  and   passenger  trains   alike 
were  "  tied  up,"  their  journeys  to  be  resumed  only 
when  daylight  came.     Davis  held  there  was  no  good! 
reason  why  they  should  not  be  run  by  night  as  well  asl 
by  day,  and  proved  it.    His  first  night  train  from  Cum-I 
berland  to  Baltimore  marked  an  important  epoch  inl 
railroading. — Leslie's  Monthly  Magazine  for  Septem-i 
ber. 

*&  4»  4» 

MUD    FUEL. 


The  carbonaceous  mud,  mainly  derived  from  del 
caying  grasses,  with  no  moss,  of  the  Great  Cedail 
Swamp,  about  15  miles  from  Boston,  yields  an  equal 
quantity  of  gas  of  higher  illuminating  power  tharl 
can  be  derived  from  the  gas  coals  commonly  used  I 
The  residuum  of  coke  of  the  very  finest  type  foil 
metallurgical  purposes,  wholly  free  from  sulphur,  ill 
about  800  pounds  to  the  ton  of  dried  fuel  put  into  thil 
coke  ovens.  There  are  about  150,000,000  tons  dr]l 
weight  in  this  bog,  which  is  but  one  of  many  in  thi 
southeastern  part  of  Massachusetts. 

A  better  mud  fuel  exists  in  the  great  Dismal  Swamp  ■ 
the  rice  lands  of  Georgia,  the  hummocks  of  the  EverB 
glades  and  the  rice  and  sugar  lands  of  Texas  an<| 
Louisiana. 


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The  basisof  my  business  is  absolute  and 
unvarying  integrity. 

SAMUEL  S.  THORPE, 
]l        Founder  of  the  Brethren  Colony,  Brethren.  Mich. 


BUY   A    FARM   IN 
MICHIGAN 


Live  in  a  climate  that  is  equable  and  salubrious — where 
there  are  no  drouths  or  failures — where  all  conditions  are 
conducive  to  health  and  prosperity.  Invest  in  rich  soil  that 
yields  sure  crops. 

The   Cadillac   Tract 


In  Wexford  and  Missaukee  counties,  Michigan;  one- 
half  to  6  miles  from  the  bustling  city  of  Cadillac,  on  the  main 
line  of  Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  (Pennsylvania  System)  and 
Ann  Arbor  (Wabash  Sysiem)  railways. 


25,000  Acres,  $5.00  to   $15.00 

per  acre;  less  five   (5)  per  cent  for  cash,   or   on   easy  terms,   if   desired. 

One=Fourth  Down,  Balance  in  i,  2  and  3  Years 

The  ideal  soil — a  sandy  loam  with  clay  and  gravel  sub-soil.  The  Cadillac  Tract  was  formerly  a  thick  tim- 
ber land,  covered  with  a  heavy  growth  of  gigantic  trees — a  strong  guarantee  in  itself  of  a  rich,  responsive  soil; 
J  splendidly  adapted  to  farming,  fruit-growing  and  stock-raising;  all  the  crops  characteristic  of  the  temperate  zone 
J  can  be  grown  to  their  greatest  excellence  in  The  Cadillac  Tract.  Clear,  sparkling  water,  good  schools  and 
•   churches;  free,    graveled    pike    roads,    lots    of    fish    and    game. 

A  gilt-edge  opportunity  for  the   bona-fide  settler.  * 

For   illustrated    descriptive   bookl»>.    and    map,   containing  detailed  information  with  letters  of  farmers  from    v 
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A   few   improved   farms   for  sale— $2,000   to   $20,000. 


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The  Kind  that  Brings  Re- 
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WANTED! 


Girl  or  woman  between  20  and  35 
years  of  age  to  do  general  house  work  in 
the  home  of  a  family  of  the  Brethren 
'church,  in  a  beautiful  Western  city. 
Applicant  must  be  a  good  and  economic- 
al cook,  neat  about  her  work  and  person. 
An  earnest  and  faithful  sister  of  the 
church  preferred.  A  letter  from  the 
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ber of  the  family.  Only  persons  need 
apply  who  have  good  health,  who  are 
willing  to  work  and  appreciate  kind 
treatment  and  a  good  home.  A  photo 
accompanying  the  application  will  be 
appreciated.  Out  of  all  applications  re- 
ceived from  this  inquiry  there  will  be 
five  selected  to  choose  from.  This  is  an 
excellent  opportunity  for  the  right  per- 
son to  see  the  West,  and  at  the  same 
time  have  a  good  home,  at  good  wages. 
Address  all  applications  direct  to  E.  C. 
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Tract 


in  Fresno  County, 

California, 

Promises  to  become  the  leading 
fruit-growing  section  of  California. 
Land  is  cheap,  water  abundant,  loca- 
tion healthful  and  soil  unsurpassed. 
The  soil  is  especially  adapted  to  the 
oraVge,  grape,  fig,  orchard  fruits,  al- 
falfa and  general   farming. 

Plans  are  now  forming  for  a  colo- 
ny of  the  Brethren  on  this  tract,  J. 
S.  Kuns,  proprietor  of  the  old  Mil 
sion  farm  at  Covina,  Cal.,  having  al- 
ready purchased  land  in  this  district, 
which  has  been  inspected  by  other 
prominent  members  of  the  church. 

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Fresno,  Cal. 


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JESUS    IS    ABLE. 

laving   been    given    "  all   power,"    Matt. 
28:  18,    and    having   destroyed   the 
works   of   the   devil,    1    John 
3:  8,  Jesus  is  able  to, 
Save  to  the  uttermost,  Heb.  7:  25. 
Make  all  grace  abound,  2  Cor.  9:  8. 
Succor  the  tempted,  Heb.   2:  18. 
Make  us  stand,  Rom.  14:  4. 
Keep  us  from  falling,  Jude  24. 
Subdue  all   things,  Philpp.  3:21. 
Keep  that   committed   to  him,   2   Tim. 

1:  12. 
Perform  what  he  has  promised,  Rom. 

4:  21. 
Do   above   all    we   ask   or   think,    Eph. 
3:  20. 
Knowing    his    grace    and    power,    shall 
re   not    come   and    say,    "  Yea,    Lord "  ? 
Tatt.  9:28.  F.  S.  Shepherd. 

THE    ELOOD.-Heb.    9:22. 

.  Peace    has    been    made    through    the 

blood.     Col.  1:  20. 
.  Justified   by  the  blood.     Rom.   5:9. 
,  Redemption   by  the  blood.     Eph.  1:7; 

Col.  1:  14;  1  Pet.  1:  18. 
.  This    redemption    is    eternal.      Heb.    9: 

11-14;  Heb.  10:  10-15. 
.  Cleansed  by    the   blood.     1   John    1:7; 

Rev.  1:5;  Rev.   7:  14. 
.  We    enter    into    the     holiest    by    the 

blood.      Heb.   10:  19. 
•  Overcome    in    heaven    by    the    blood. 

Rev.   12:  11. 

Then    sins    the    song    forever    to    the 

blood  of  the  Lamb.      Rev.   5:  9. 

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THE      INGLENOOK. 

Mr.  Dooley  truthfully  says:  "  Oppor- 
tunity knocks  at  iviry  man's  door 
war.st."' 

Opportunity  is  Knocking  at 
Your  Door  Now! 

Listen :  In  the  great  Southwest 
there  are  some  mighty  good 
chances  for  a  hustler.  The 
Southwest  is  growing  —  its 
growth  attests  its  fertility  and 
diversity  of  resource.  Why  not 
go  there  yourself  and  grow  with 
the  country?  Those  who  are  go- 
ing now  are  "  getting  in  on  the 
ground  floor." 

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INAUGURATION    OF    PARLOR 
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Between  Chicago,  Council  Bluffs  and 
Omaha. 


In  addition  to  its  already  remark- 
ably complete  train  service  between 
Chicago  and  the  Missouri  River,  the 
management  of  the  North-Western 
Line  announces  that  between  Chica- 
go and  Omaha  there  will  hereafter  he 
ncluded  a  service  of  Parlor  Cars, 
through  without  change,  on  day  train 
leaving  Chicago  daily  at  10:  IS  A.  M. 
This  is  in  addition  to  the  service  al- 
ready in  existence  of  through  Buffet 
Smoking  an*  Library  cars,  which  are 
at  the  disposal  of  the  Parlor  and 
Pullman  car  passengers  without 
charge. 

The  Parlor  Car  service  on  the  Chi- 
cago &  North-Western  Railway  is  al- 
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tails which  go  so  far  towards  per- 
fecting the  comfort  of  patrons  being 
looked  after  with  scrupulous  care. 
The  equipment  is  of  the  highest  type, 
and  the  inauguration  of  this  service 
between  Chicago  and  Omaha,  over 
ihe  only  double  track  railway  between 
Chicago  and  the  Missouri  River, 
marks  another  stepping-stone  in  the 
upward  progress  of  transportation  de- 
velopment as  exemplified  on  the 
North-Western  Line. 

The  Tarlor  Car  leaves  Chicago 
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ha 11:40  P.  M.  Easthound,  train  No. 
U.  carrying  similar  equipment,  leaves 
Omaha  7:10  A.  M..  reaching  Chicago 
8:00  P.  M.  It  will  be  noted  '.hat  the 
schedules  are  fast  ones.  There  are 
four  trains  daily  in  each  direction  be- 
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rect connections  for  Colorado,  Utah, 
Yellowstone  Park  and  the  Pacific 
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wall  of  the  warm- 
ing closet  as  shown 
Ln  the  illustration 
is  equipped  with 
two  tea  shelves. 
The  illustration  to 
the  right  shows 
the  shelf  down  and 
to  the  left  shows 
the  shelf  up  in 
place  out  of  the 
way  when  not  in 
use. 


IN  THE  STEEL  RANGE  LIN 

Our  Equity  represents  all  thj 
first-class  in  construction, 
in  equipment,  ond  embodies  al 
latest  improvements.  "We  havi 
voted  this  page  in  our  catalogue 
sectional  illustration  of  our  E 
Steel  Range  to  give  a  more  coi 
hensive  unders  tan  ding  to  our 
tomers,  and  make  it  easier  for 
to  appreciate  the  extraordinary 
we  are  offering  at  the  exceptifl 
low  price  we  quote  for  this  first- 
range. 

bend  Your  Order  to  u 
an  Equity  Steel  Sange.  If  yo'  i 
not  perfectly  satisfied  with  the 
ity,  the  operation,  the  constn 
and  the  price  after  you  have 
and  examined  the  range,  retu 
we  will  pay  freight  both  wayi 
refund  your  money  in  full. 

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caseing. 


THIS  SPLENDID 
FEATURE 

s  one  of  the  new  im- 
provements and  very 
desirable  because  it 
makes  it  convenient 
to  handle  the  broiling 
iron  and  affords  a 
perfect  coalshute,  ob- 
viating the  necessity 
of  removing  the  lids 
when  putting  coal  in 
the  fire  box.  The 
opening  has  a  swing 
door  and  slide  draft. 


PLEASED  CUSTOMERS 
are  the  best  recommendation  for  our  Equity 
Steel  Range,  and  the  satisfaction  our  Equitv  is 
giving  our  customers  who  are  now  using  it  is 
convincing  proof  that  we  have  succeeded  in 
placing  on  the  market  a  good  first  class  steel 
range  at  the  lowest  price  ever  before  quoted. 
We  therefore  are  justified  to  recommend  this 
steel  range  in  the  highest  of  terms. 

THE  CAPACITY 
of  our  Equity  Steel  Range  will  be  appreciated 
by  every  user,  and  by  looking  over  the  Illustra- 
tion above  you  will  observe  that  it  has  a  large 
oven  with  sliding  oven  shelf.  It  has  six  cook- 
ing holes  on  the  main  top.     It  has  two  drop  tea 


shelves.     It  has  large  warming  closet,  a  large 
reservoir  and  a  broad  broiler  door. 

When  you  desire  to  use  the  steel  range  for 
coal,  you  place  the  end  linings  in  the  firebox 
and  reverse  the  grate  as  shown  in  the  illustra- 
tion under  -"Coal  Grate."  When  you  wish  to 
burn  wood,  you  lift  out  the  two  end  linings  as 
shown  under  the  words  "Wood  Grate."  When 
burning  wood  the  fire-box  has  capacity  for  a 
good  long  stick  as  it  has  an  extension  back. 
The  ash-pan   is   large  and   of  good   capacity. 


IN  MAKING  SELECTION 
by  referring  to   the  opposite  page  you   will  find 
below    the   illustration,    dimensions    of    the    sizes 
in  which  we  construct  our  Equity  Steel   Range, 
Our  Equity  Steel  Range  constructed  of  good  material,  fully  warranted,  embodying  pII  t*e  lateet  improvements  and. best  eauipments,  j 
m  construction,  economical  in  consumption  of  fuel,  is  the  outcome  of  years  of  study  and  is  the  production  of  experiments  that  give  it  po 
superiority  over  other  ffrst-class  ranges  and  meets  every  requirement  expected  of  a  steel  raDge. 


and  to  determine  the  size  you  want,  firsl 
into  consideration  the  amount  of  rooni 
have  in  your  kitchen,  the  number  of  pK 
to  cook  for,  and  you  can  tell  exactly  whl<p 
to  order. 

WATER  FRONT. 

In  the  fire-box  we  furnish  a  water-front,  | 
desired,  at  an  additional  cost  of  $2.25.  Of 
it  is  understood  that  the  range  must  b<|j 
where  there  is  city  water  works  or  (K 
pressure  from  a  tank,  as  it  requires  pressh 
circulate  the  water  through  the  water-frol 


RE^EMBVR  "WE   GUARANTEE  SAFE  PEL! 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


THE   COLONY 


...ON... 


,AGUNA  DE  TACHE  GRANT 


.IN    THE. 


SAN  JOAQUIN  VALLEY,  CALIFORNIA. 


BRETHREN  OAK  GROVE  CHURCH 


Still  continues  to  attract  the  attention  of  homeseekers. 

The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  immense  growth  of 
[very  variety  of  crop  which  is  apain  in  evidence  establishes  the  fact  that  hero  is  the 
JJlace  where  the  Industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN  PEOPLE  DO  EASTERN  FARMING. 

Tou  aon't  have  to  spend  years  learning  a  new  business. 

ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

lldes  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
i  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  it. 

SPECIAL    LOW    RATES    TO    CALIFORNIA. 

From  August  15th  to  Sept.  10th  the  railroads  will  sell  Round  Trip  excursion 
(Jckets  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

From    Chicago $50  00 

From   Mississippi   River 47  60 

From    Missouri    River 46  00 

Final  return  limit,  Oct.   23. 

LSO    SEPTEMBER    15th    TO    OCTOBER    15th    COLONIST    ONE-WAY    TICKETS 
TO  ANT  CALIFORNIA  POINT. 

From    Chicago , 533   00 

From  Mississippi   River 30  00 

From    Missouri    River 25   00 


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By  this  arrangement  you  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 
•nd.     If  it  suits  you.  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate. 

Land  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre,  including  perpetual  water  right.  Terms,  one- 
>urth  cash;  balance  in  eight  annual  payments. 

From  twenty  to  forty  acres  wlli  support  the  average  family  In  comfort 

If  interested  send  your  name  and  address  and  receive  printed  matter  and  our 
'!.:■'       cal  newspaper  free  for  two  months.     Write  to 


ARES  &  SAUNDERS,    ■    Laton,  California. 


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MANCHESTER 
COLLEGE 


Pall  Term  opened  Sept.  •',  with  every  as- 
surance of  a  successful  year. 

College  Department  enrollment  shows 
unite  an  increase. 

The  Normal  English  (a  professional 
course  for  teachers  I  is  a  special  at- 
traction to  young  teachers  and  pros- 
pective teachers. 

The  Bihle  Department  is  well  attended, 
and  the  grade  of  students  is  excellent. 
The  classes  in  New  Testament  Greek 
anil   Hebrew  are  attracting  attention. 

Local  patronage  shows  increase. 

Onr  superior  teaching  force  is  a  sub- 
stantial  drawing  card. 

Manchester  College  offers  you  a  great 
opportunity  for  Christian  scholarship. 
Students  will  be  enrolling  throughout 
the  fall  term. 

First  Winter  Term  opens  Nov.  8,  and 
vou  ought  to  be  one  of  the  large  num- 
ber coming  at  that  time. 

Take  note  of  the  moderate  expense. 
Your  correspondence  is  solicited. 

For  catalogue  and  particulars  address 
the  President. 

KOBTH    MANCHESTER.    INDIANA. 


Very   Low   Rates  -South 
and  Southwest 

The  Wabash  Railroad  will  sell 
special  homeseekers  excursion  tickets 
from  Chicago  via  St.  Louis  to  a  large 
number  of  points  in  the  South  and 
Southwest  at  the  very  low  rate  of 
$20  for  the  round  trip.  Dates  of  sale, 
Sept.  13  and  27.  Write  for  time  cards 
and    full    particulars. 

F.  A.   PALMER,   A.   G.  P.  A., 
311  Marquette  Bldg.,  Chicago,  111. 

HOMESEEKERS'     EXCURSIONS 


To  the  Northwest,  West  and  South- 
west,  and    Colonist   Low 
Rates   West, 


Via  the  North-Westem  Line.  Ex- 
cursion tickets  at  greatly  reduced 
rates  are  on  sale  to  the  territory  indi- 
cated above.  Standard  and  Tourist 
Sleeping  Cars,  Free  Reclining  Chair 
Cars  and  "  The  Best  of  Everything." 
For  dates  of  sale  and  full  particulars 
apply  to  Agents  Chicago  &  North- 
western R'v. 

THE  OVERLAND  LIMITED. 


The  Traffic  Department  of  the  Chi- 
cage  &  North-Western  R'y  has  issued 
a  handsome  booklet  descriptive  of  the 
Overland  Limited,  the  most  luxurious 
train  in  the  world,  and  of  the  Chicago, 
Union  Pacific  &  North-Western  Line, 
the  route  of  this  famous  train  to  the 
Pacific  Coast.  Fully  and  interesting- 
ly illustrated.  Copy  mailed  to  any 
address  on  receipt  of  two-cent  stamp, 
by  W.  B.  Kniskern.  P.  T.  M..  Chi- 
cago. 


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New  Catalogue 

We  have  been  just  as  exact- 
ing about  the  prices  in  our  New 
Catalogue  as  Uncle  Sam  is 
about  the  postage  it  takes  to 
bring  this  big  book  to  your 
home.  We  know  the  prices  are 
right  and  we  want  every  read- 
er of  the  Inglenook  to  profit 
thereby.  A  copy  of  this  NEW 
Catalogue  weighing  nearly  four 
pounds  will  be  sent  Free  upon 
request  and  you  cannot  afford 
to  place  a  single  order  for 
goods  until  you  have  examined 
our  prices.  Send  a  postal  card 
with  your  name  and  address 
upon  it  and  leave  the  rest  to 
Uncle   Sam  and   Us. 


Refunds 


We    refund    to    our    patrons 
freight  and  express  charges  on  .         f;„,f:__   vn„ 

a  plan  that  is  meeting  with  great  favor  Upon  'nvesl.gat  on  you 
will  find  that  our  prices  are  not  one  whit  higher  than  the  very 
best  quotation  of  any  Mail  Order  House  in  the  country  and  ye 
we  make  it  possible  for  you  to  get  back  every  cent  you  pay  out 
for  fieight-or  express.  Write  for  particulars  concerning  this 
matter  and  best  quotations  on  anything  you  desire  to  purchase. 
Ou  Co-operative  methods  save  money  for  both  parties-our  un- 
paralleled offer  in  regard  to  transportation  charges  merits  inves- 
tigation. 


Our  Guarantee 


Our  customers  take  no  risk  whatever  in  ordering  goods  as 
we  guarantee  satisfaction  or  money  back,  and  this  statement  is 
unqualified  in  its  application.  It  is  only  on  this  basis  that  we 
bid  for  your  patronage  and  our  part  of  this  arrangement  is  ful- 
fi  led  without  question  or  quibble.  Ask  us  to  mail  you  64-page 
book  of  testimonials  from  satisfied  patrons  and  remember  we  he 
the  consent  from  each  person  to  use  extracts  from  letter,  and 
make  public  their  words  of  commendation.  W  never  betray 
the  confidence  of  our  patrons  and  are  never  satisfied  until  they 
are  satisfied.  


Bonnet   Goods 


Fourteen  styles  of  straw  for  bon- 
nets. Prices  one-half  what  you 
have  been  paying.  Fine  assort- 
ment of  goods  for  winter  bonnets 
just  in  and  prices  very  low. 
Samples  sent  free  upon  applica- 
tion. We  also  furnish  bonnet  pat- 
terns and  make  bonnets  to  order. 
Chiffon,  Braid,  Tie  Goods,  Rice 
Net,  Silk-covered  Wire,  etc.,  al- 
ways kept  in  stock  in  large  quanti- 
ties, also  full  line  of  Cap  Goods. 

Write  for  Particulars, 
samples  and  Prices. 


Albaugh  Bros.,  Dover  &  Co., 

THE    MAIL   ORDER    HOUSE, 

341=344  Franklin  Street,        :        :         Chicago,  111. 


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PARTIAL  TABLE   OF  CONTENTS. 


II 


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POEM. 

DO   THE    BEST 


YOU   CAN. 


CONTRIBUTIONS. 

THE   KRITIC   OX   THE   TRANE.— By  George  Haldan. 

ST.   PETERSBURG.— By  A.  W.  Vanimari. 

CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE.— By  Claude  H.  Murray. 

THE  GUARDO  AT   NORFOLK.— By  Ellis  Blake  Barkley. 

THE    VALUE    OF    A    PURPOSE    IN    LIFE.— By  Susie  M. 

Hout. 
ON  THE   WAY   TO   PALESTINE.— Bv  \Y.  R.  Miller. 


EDITORIALS. 

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ELGIN,    ILLINOIS 


BRETHREN    PUBLISHING    HOUSE 


ember  27,   1  904 


$  1 .00  per  Year 


Number  39,  Volume  VI 


THE      (NGLENOOK, 


30,000  ACRES 


IRRIGATED 


Government  Land 

In   Nevada 

NOW    OPEN  FOR 

HOMESTEAD 


UNDER  THE   NEW 

IRRIGATION   LAW 

The  United  States  Govern- 
ment Constructs  the  Canals, 
Reservoirs  and  Lateral  Ditch- 
es to  the  Land,  and  Maintains 
them  for  10  Year*  at  a  cost  of 

ONLY  $2.50  AN  ACRE 

FEB    TEAS. 

This  Includes  Water.      After  ie  Years  Water 
and  Canals  Belong  ta  Homesteader. 


Land    Close   to    Railroad    and    Good 
Markets  Can  be  Secured  By 

ACTUAL  SETTLERS 
ONLY. 


Mr.  L.  H.  Taylor,  the  United  States 
Engineer  in  charge  of  work,  says: 
"  It  is  likely  that  most  of  those  set- 
tlers who  desire,  can  find  employment 
for  themselves  and  teams  on  the  ca- 
nals during  at  least  a  part  of  their 
spare  time  for  the  next  two  or  three 
years." 


For  Information  Write  to 

GEO.  L.  McDONAUGH, 

COLONIZATION    AGENT 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Omaha,  Neb. 


ARE    YOU    GOING   TO 

CALIFORNIA,  WASHINGTON, 
OREGON,  IDAHO 

Or  Any  Other  Point?    Take  the 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 


Daily  Tourist  Car  Line 


Chicago,    Missouri    River,    Colorado, 

Idaho,  Oregon,  Washington  and 

California  Points. 


Stop  Off  at  Reno,  Nevada, 

And  Investigate  the  Irrigated  Govern- 
ment Land.  Call  on  Mr.  L.H.  Taylor 
U.  S.  Engineer,  for  information. 


ONE-WAY    COLONISTS    RATES. 

To  Pacific  Coast  Every  Day,  Sept.  15 
to  Oct.  15. 

From   Chicago $33  00 

From  St.  Louis 30  00 

From   Missouri   River 25  00 

Proportionate  rates  from  all  points 
East. 


The  Union  Pacific  Railroad 

— Is  Known  As — 

"The  Overland  Route" 

And  is  the  only  direct  line  from 
Chicago  and  the  Missouri  River  to 
all  principal  points  West.  Business 
men  and  others  can  save  many 
hours  via  this  line.  Call  on  or  ad- 
dress a  postal  card  to  your  nearest 
ticket  agent,  or  Geo.  L.  McDon- 
augh,  Colonization  Agent,  Omaha. 
Nebr. 

E.    L.    LOMAX,    G.    P.    &    T.    A., 
Omaha,  Nebraska. 


45  Bushels  Wheal 

to  the  Acre 


South  Platte  Valley 


"  Democrat": 

W.  L.  Henderson,  who  owns  the  fan 
at  the  end  of  the  wagon  bridge  acrosi 
South  Platte  River,  opposite  Sterling 
Colo.,  realized  over  83,500  from  whea 
raised  on  90  acres.  It  went  45  bushel, 
to  the  acre  and  weighed  62  pounds  t( 
the  bushel. 


The  following  parties  have  bougl 
land  near  Snyder,  Colo.: 

Louis  E.  Keltner,  Hygiene,  Colo. 
W.  W.  Keltner,  North  Dakota;  A.  W 
Brayton,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Dana 
Grabill,  Lemasters,  Pa.;  J.  L.  Kunl 
McPherson,  Kans.;  D.  L.  Miller,  M 
Morris,  111.;  Daniel  Neikirk,  Lemas 
ters,  Pa.;  Galen  B.  Royer,  Elgin,  II 
E.  Slifer,  Mt.  Morris,  III.;  I.  B.  Trout 
Lanark,  111.;  R.  E.  Arnold,  Elgin, 


Geo.  L.  Studebaker,  of  Muncie, 
diana,   says:   "Sterling  is   a    growi 
town  with  a  good  country  surround 
ing.     The  members   are  active." 


Homeseekers' 

Excursion* 

To  Snyder,  Colo., 


With  privilege  of    stopping    off 
Sterling,  Colo.,   . 

One  Fare  Plus  $2.00  for  the  Sound  Tr 

First  and  Third  Tuesday  of 
Each  Month  via 

Uuion  Pacific  Railros 


THI 


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And  the  one  who  shows  you  the  way  will  prove  a  friend 
indeed.  You  have  tried  many  remedies  faithfully  with- 
out permanent  relief;  and  it  is  not  strange  that  you  begin  to 
wonder,  in  despair,  if  there  is  after  all  any  means  of  restoring  to 
you  that  most  priceless  of  all  possessions,  good  health.  But,  stop 
a  moment!    Just  take  this  view  of  your  case.    Say  to  yourself: 

"  Sickness  is  not  a  natural  condition.  God  never  intended 
me  to  be  a  poor  disease-ridden  creature,  without  relief  or  hope 
of  happiness  in  life.  There  must  be  some  way  back  to 
health,  for  surely  Nature  provides  a  remedy  for  every  ill  if  we 
could  but  find  it." 

There  is  a  way,  which  Nature,  herself,  has  provided ! 
There  is  a  remedy  that  may  cure  you  —  a  very  old,  time-tried 
remedy  which  has  been  known  as  Dr.  Peter's  Blood 
Vitahzer  for  over  1 00  years.  It  is  Nature's  own  medicine, 
because  it  is  made  from  natural  materials;  the  herbs,  barks 
and  leaves  gathered  by  skilled  hands  from  the  fields  and 
woods.  It  was  first  made  by  Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  the  "  old 
herb  doctor,"  in  1780,  and  this  remarkable  preparation  —  just 
as  he  onginally  prepared  it  for  the  people  of  the  Blue  Ridge 
Mountain  district  of  Pennsylvania — has  been  handed  down 
through  three  generations  to  the  present  proprietor. 

Thousands  have  been  cured  by  it,  many  of  them  suffering 
from  the  very  trouble  which  you  find  such  a  heavy  burden. 
Now,  don't  you  think  that  a  remedy  that  has  relieved  so  much 
suffering  and  done  so  much  good  in  the  world,  is  entitled  to 
your  confidence?  And  don't  you  think  it  would  be  wise  — 
the  only  safe  thing  —  to  give  it  a  trial  ? 

Dr.  Peter's  Blood  Vitahzer  is  not  a  ready-made,  drug  store 
medicine.  It  is  sold  only  through  agents  or  direct  from  the 
laboratory.      If  no  agent  is  at  hand  write  to 

Dr.  Peter  Fahrney 

112-114   South    Hoyne   Avenue,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 


!-SE       INGLENOOK. 


Mcpherson  college 


A  College  of  which 
Kansas  is    Proud. 


HERE  ABE  A  FEW  OF  THE  GOOD  THINGS  WE  HAVE  TO  OFFER: 

A  Normal  College  that  prepares  teachers  for  all  grades  of  certificates. 

A  Complete  College  course  that  compares  with  anything  in  the  west. 

The  College  and  Normal  Courses  lead  to  State  certificates  without  examinations. 

Excellent  Buildings  and  Equipments. 

Expenses  are  as  low  as  is  possible  with  first-class  service. 

Our  last  Year's  Students  will  take  out  of  the  Public  Funds  of  McPherson  county 
alone  over  $10,000  this  year.     This  shows  talent  and  home  appreciation 

Our  graduates  occupy  enviable  positions  in  the  business,  educational  and  religious 
world. 

The  Moral  and  Beligious  Influences  are  unsurpassed.  No  saloons  in  the  city.  The 
teachers  come  in  close  personal  contact  with  the  students. 

We  have  a  Superior  Faculty. 

We  put  more  stress  on  our  Bible  School  than  any  other  college  we  know  of. 

The  President  of  the  college,  Edward  Frantz,  is  dean  of  the  Bible  school  and  is 
recognized  as  having  no  superior  in  his  line  of  work.  He  has  been  instructor 
in  his  line  of  work  in  McPherson  college  for  the  past  nine  years,  and  is  devoting 
his  entire  time  to  the  Bible.  You  can  do  no  better  than  to  take  a  course  here. 
Remember  tuition  in  Bible  Department  is  free.  Come,  study  the  Bible,  pre- 
pare yourself  for  mission  work.  Sunday-school  teacher,  preacher  and  make  your- 
self useful. 

There's  no  Bisk  in  taking  our  course  in  writing  or  business.  If  you  are  not  satisfied 
with  the  instruction  you  get  from  Prof.  Fahnestock,  you  pay.no  tuition.  This 
should  appeal  to  those  wishing  a  Eusiness  course  or  a  Penmanship  course. 

Frof.  Fahnestock  is  a  little  more  skillful  in  execution  than  the  average  John  or 
Bill,  that  helps  some  of  his  pupils.  He  has  taught  Bookkeeping  and  Penman- 
ship for  thirty  years — that  helps  others.  Writing  is  one  of  his  specialties. 
If  you  want  all  he  knows  about  it,  come  to  McPherson.  If  you  want  to  be 
entertained,  go  to  Sell's  circus.  Some  people  say  Fahnestock  is  the  best.  All 
say  he  is  conscientious.      If  you  believe  this,  he  can  help  you. 

If  you  have  but  Little  Means,  write  and  mention  the  Nook.  We  have  an  interesting 
proposition  for  you  if  you  want  a  Business  Course  or  a  course  in  Penmanship. 

We  have  a  $50  Course  for  $5  for  the  first  twelve  readers  of  the  Nook  that  write  us. 
Postmark  on  envelope  will   determine  who  is  first.    Studunts  may  enter  any  time. 

36tf  McPHERSON    COLLEGE.    McPherson,  Kans. 

DAILY  EXCURSIONS  TO 

CALIFORNIA 

Through  first-class  and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  points  in  California 
and  Oregon  every  day  in  the  year. 

5  PERSONALLY  CONDUCTED  EXCURSIONS 

EVERY    WEEK. 

LOWEST  RATES, 

SHORTEST  TIME   ON   THE    ROAD, 

FINEST   SCENERY,  VARIABLE    ROUTES. 

You  can  leave  home  any  day  in  the  week  and  travel  in  tourist  cars 
on  fast  trains  through  to  the  coast.  For  descriptive  pamphlets  and 
full  Information  Inquire  of  nearest  agent. 

Chicago  &  North-Western  Railway. 


Cap  Goods! 

Our  business  has  almost  doubled  Itself 
during  the  last  year.  We  are  sending 
goods  by  mail  to  thousands  of  perma- 
nent, satisfied  customers  throughout  the 
United  States.     The  reason  is  simple. 

Our  Goods  are  Reliable.     Our  Variety  is 
large.     Our  Prices  are  Iiow. 

All  orders  filled  promptly,  postpaid. 
Satisfaction  guaranteed  or  your  money 
refunded.  Send  us  a  sample  order  and 
be  convinced.  Write  us  for  a  booklet 
of  unsolicited  testimonials  and  new  line 
of  samples,  which  will  be  furnished  free. 
Send  at  once  to 

R.    E.    ARNOLD,    Elgin,    111. 


Farms  You  Will  Buy 


East  Central  Kansas  is  the  best  part 
of  the  State  for  general  farming  and 
raising  stock.  Well  watered,  Marion 
county's  average  crop  acreage  is  110,000 
acres  corn,  90.000  acres  wheat,  40,000 
acres  oats,  20,000  acres  alfalfa.  We 
have  some  good  farms  for  sale  at  a  bar- 
gain. Will  say  to  the  Brethren  that  are 
thinking  of  changing  their  location  that 
they  will  do  well  to  investigate  our 
country.  Good  bargains  near  church. 
Any  information   cheerfully  furnished. 

GARRISON        TUDEBAKER, 

Florence,  Kansas. 

Wild    Rose    Sheep    Farm 

Breeds  Cheviot  Sheep.  Wool  and  mut- 
ton of  best  quality.  Rams  and  ewes  for 
sale. 

EOWABD     H.     KEIM, 
34tl3  Box  1,  Ladoga,  Ind. 

FARM   FOR  SALE 

200  acres.  4  miles  to  3  towns.  New 
house  ami  barn.  Two  sets  buildings, 
young  orchard,  good  water,  good  soil, 
new  land,  best  blue  grass  ,  region  of 
Ind  fan  a.  Brethren  church  at  farm,  grav- 
el roads,  rural  mail  delivery,  telephones. 
Address   "  Farmer"   care  of  Inglenonk. 

1Ql4     U-iin  VhmK   i"hon  writing. 


The    Inglenook 
COOK  BOOK 


We  have  sent  out  thousands  of 
these  Cook  Books  as  premiums. 
So  great  was  the  demand  that  a 
second  edition  was  published. 
We  are  still  receiving  numerous 
calls  for  this  Cook  Book.  For  this 
reason  we  have  decided  to  dispose 
of  the  few  remaining  copies  at 
25  cents  per  copy.  To  insure  a 
copy  it  will  be  necessary  for  you 
to  order  at  once.      .      .      Send  to 


Brethren  Publishing  House 

Elgin,  Illinois.    . 


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1  IDAHO 


js   the  best-watered   arid   State 
winds,    destructive    storms    and 
mate   it   makes   life  bright  and 
We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer 
change   for   the   general    improvement   in   your   condi 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  b 
and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  coun 
swer  and   many  conditions  to  investigate. 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger 
fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves 
Cheap    homeseekers'    rates    are    made    to   all   prin 
for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting 


in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 
cyclones    are    unknown,   and    with   its   matchless    cli- 
worth  living. 

to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 
tion  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 
oth  requirements.  There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 
try  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 

work  teach  us  that  a  few  dollars  spent  in  railroad 
thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

cipal  Idaho  points.  Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 
a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


RoDnd=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only  in  May 
and  October,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


SETTLERS'    RATES 

Daily  from  September  IS  to  October  IS,  1904,  the  same  cheap  one-way  second-class  settlers'  rates 
will  be  in  effect  from  the  East  to  points  on  our  line  as  have  heretofore  been  made  in  the  Spring  and 
Fall  months,  as  follows: 

To  Butte,  Anaconda,  Pocatello, 

Ogden,  Salt  Lake,  and  interzne-  To  Huntington  and  main 

dlate   points.  line  intermediates. 

Chicago, $30.00  $30.50 

Bloomington, 28.80  29.30 

Peoria 28.00  28.S0 

St.   Louis 26.00  27.50 

Kansas  City,  Leavenworth,  Atchison  and  St.  Joseph 20.00  22.50 

Council  Bluffs  and  Omaha, 20.00  22.50 

Sioux  City 22.90  25.40 

St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis 22.90  25.40 

Proportionate   rates   will   be   made   from   other   stations   in   Illinois,   Iowa,  etc. 


Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance. 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


Arrived  in  Payette  Valley  Feb.  23,  1903.  Settled  on  an  80-acre  tract,  covered  with  sage  brush. 
Cleared  40  acres.  May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.  Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.  June  12  sowed  10  acres 
to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.  Yielded  55  to  acre.  Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 
or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 
oats. 

Potatoes  yielded  500  bushels  to  the  acre  and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)   E.  L.  Dotson. 


S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

J.   E.  HOOPER,  Agent,   Oakland,  Kansas. 


D.   E.    BURLEY, 

G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.   R., 

Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

Ideation  the  INGLENOOK  when  wnttn..  tOtlS 


Fine      $j 


AlMSbENSOK 


Vol.  VI. 


September  27,  1904. 


No.  39. 


DO    THE    BEST    YOU    CAN. 


Don't  frown   when  everything  goes  wrong 

But  try  to  make  things  right; 
Just  whistle  down  the  angry  words, 

Or  sing  with  all  your  might. 

The  way  is  rough  sometimes,  I  know 

The  sky  is  overcast, 
But  sunshine  greets  us  after  storm 

And  all  is  well  at  last. 

So  wear  a  smiling  face,  my  boys, 

Do  the  best  that  e'er  you  can, 
A  kindly  word  and  a  sturdy  deed 

Is  far  the  better  plan. 

Then  whistle  and  smile  and  sing, 
Be  cheerful  and  brave  each  day; 

The  world's  all  right,  if  we  make  it  so, 
And  we  only  pass  once  this  way. 

*    *    * 
SNAPSHOTS. 


No  man  can  ever  get  right  until  he  tells  God  that  he 
has  been  wrong. 

* 

Let  us  give  thanks  and  let  us  give  others  occasion 
to  be  thankful. 

* 

The  times  are  said  to  be  so  hard  that  only  a  rumor 
gains  currency. 

1 1  our  principles  arc  not  worfh  living  and  dying  for, 
what  arc  they  good  for? 

* 

There  is  no  chain  strong  tenough  to  bind  the  man 
whom  Christ  makes  free. 

* 

Don't  be  in  too  much  haste.    Never  go  fast  enough 
to  pass  a  counterfeit  dollar. 
* 

"All  things  come  to  him  -who  waits,"  except  suc- 
cess, prosperity .  'wealth,  and  such  I rides. 

"  Heaven  is  not  reached  by  a  single  bound."  but  the 
other  place  may  be  if  yon  should  take  the  whiskey 
route. 


Money-making  plans  and  soul-saving  plans  do  not 
prosper  well  together. 

* 
To  make  character  better  than  one's  natural  quali- 
ties is  to  achieve  greatness. 
* 

The  teacher  zvho  is  not  proud  of  his  calling  -will 
never  make  his  pupils  proud  of  him, 

* 
The   devil   can   cause  you   many   troubles,   but  he 
can't  keep  you  from  telling  the  Lord  about  them. 
* 
Whenever  God  finds  a  man  who  has  the  courage  to 
starve  to  death  in  his  service,  the  devil  is  badly  fright- 
ened. 

* 
The  man  -who  insists  that  the  Bible  is  out  of  date 
-would  probably  be  liappier  if  he  could  say  it  is  out  of 
print. 

* 

The  darkest  hour  in  the  history  of  any  young  man 
is  when  he  sits  down  to  study  how  to  get  money  with- 
out honestly  earning  it. 

* 

Have  a  noble  ideal;  for,  -we  believe,  whatever  good 
we  try  to  do  or  be,  although  we  fail,  it  (the  good) 
will  be  given  us,  as  a  recompense  in  life. 
* 

"  To  thee  J  o-we  much  of  my  prominence,"  said  a 
little  man  as  he  affectionately  stroked  an  old  silk  hat. 
(Poor  man.  poor  hat.  poor  prominence.) 
* 

Rough  treatment  at  the  hands  of  others  is  not  a 
serious  bar  to  progress.  "  Why,  if  people  didn't  kick 
me  about  occasionally,'    said  the  font-hall.  "  I  would 

never  rise  in  the  -world." 

* 

.-/  great  many  people  who  arc  trying  to  get  to 
heaven  grow  -weary  along  the  way.  not  from  over-ex- 
ertion, but  from  creeping.  The  man  who  takes  half 
an  hour  to  -walk  to  the  front  gate  always  feels  like 
hanging  on  it  when  he  gets  there. 


9i4 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  27,  1904. 


I  THE  KRITIC  ON  THE  TRANe! 

J  BY  GEORGE   HALDAN.  % 

*  ¥ 

One  of  the  most  pleasant  experiences  that  I  have 
enjoyed  for  years  was  tendered  me  by  a  friend  of 
mine,  Mr.  E.  C.  Miller,  of  South  Bend,  Ind.,  who 
is  a  representative  of  the  Studebaker  Wagon 
Works  of  that  city,  and  by  whose  permission  we 
give  you  the  following  account  of  a  trip  in  a  spe- 
cial car  furnished  by  the  I.  C.  Ry  Co.  through 
the  timber  belt  of  the  Mississippi  Delta. 

Mr.  Miller  purchases  annually  nearly  a  million 
dollars'  worth  of  lumber  to  be  used  in  the  con- 
struction of  the  Studebaker  vehicles.  In  this  spe- 
cial car  was  president  J.  M.  Studebaker  and  sev- 
eral other  capitalists  who  were  investigating  the 
wealth  of  the  Mississippi  Delta  as  a  timber  land. 

The  Studebaker  people  already  own  about  for- 
ty thousand  acres,  which,  for  most  part,  is  well 
covered  with  mills  which  supply  the  great  hungry 
machines  of  the  factories  of  the  north.  The  great 
timber  field  of  the  South  has  the  finest  developed 
hard  wood  district  in  the  United  States  to-day, 
and  it  is  to  this  locality  that  the  manufacturers 
must  look,  largely,  for  their  timber  supply  in  years 
to  come. 

These  lands  are  densely  covered  with  a  fine  qual- 
ity of  oak  and  hickory,  which  are  the  principal 
wood  factors  in  wagon  construction.  There  are  also 
large  quantities  of  gum  and  cypress.  The  cypress 
is  already  well  known  to  the  commercial  world, 
but  the  gum  is  a  very  fine  bodied  timber.  It  is 
practically  new  on  the  timber  market  and  will,  in 
all  probability,  be  in  great  demand  when  it  has 
been  properly  introduced.  It  will  creditably  sup- 
plant some  of  the  timbers  which  are  now  com- 
manding  high  values. 

There  are  millions  of  trees  here  in  these  al- 
most impenetrable  forests,  three  to  four  feet  in 
diameter  and  from  sixty  to  seventy  feet  to  the 
first  limbs.  The  lands  in  the  Mississippi  Delta  are 
also  very  valuable  after  the  timber  has  been  re- 
moved, as  the  quality  of  the  soil  is  unexcelled.  It 
is  of  a  dark,  rich  color  and  is  exceedingly  deep. 
In  fact  the  natives  say  that  in  putting  down  wells 
from  forty  to  fifty  feet  deep  they  find  nothing  but 
the  same  kind  of  soil  that  is  on  the  surface.  And 
old  plantation  men,  who  have  had  some  of  it  un- 
der cultivation  for  years,  say  it  produces  just  as 
well  to-day  as  when  they  began,  and  they  know 
nothing  about  fertilizing. 

The  products  consist  largely  of  corn  and  cotton, 
principally  cotton,  and  this  land  will  produce  from 
one  to  one  and  a  half  bales  per  acre,  which  ordi- 


narily sells  on  the  market  for  about  fifty  dollars 
per  bale,  and  the  cost  of  production  per  bale  does 
not  exceed  twenty  dollars.  So  one  may  easily  see 
the  profit  in  farming  in  this  country,  as  compared 
with  the  worth  of  the  land.  The  purchase  price  of 
the  land  in  most  instances  ranges  from  ten  to  fif- 
teen  dollars   per  acre  with  the  timber  off. 

Game  in  these  forests  is  plentiful.  Deer,  bears 
and  wildcats  are  in  abundance.  In  the  logging 
camps  sometimes  the  boys  obtain  splendid  speci- 
mens of  the  above  named  animals,  and  in  one  of 
their  camps  a  couple  weeks  ago  two  splendid  pan- 
thers were  caught,  whose  hides  are  now  hanging 
upon  the  cabin  door. 

The  entire  trip  was  an  enjoyable  one,  as  our  din- 
ing car  was  equipped  with  the  daintiest  viands  that 
our  country  affords  and  prepared  by  an  excellent  cook. 

<*   ♦   ♦ 

SUNDAY    SCHOOL    EXTENSION  WORK. 


To  a  great  many  of  our  Nook  readers  it  will  not 
probably  be  news  to  say  that  the  extension  work  has 
been  begun  in  Chicago,  because  so  many  of  them  have 
been  helpful  in  producing  the  results  already  obtained ; 
but  to  those  who  have  not  yet  become  acquainted  with 
the  work,  we  give  the  following  information : 

Chicago,  you  know,  has  hundreds  and  thousands 
of  neglected  children,  crying  aloud  for  help.  A  little 
band  of  workers  in  the  great  city  of  Chicago,  repre- 
senting our  Fraternity,  hearing  this  cry,  started  an 
Extension  Fund  about  three  years  ago,  and  up  to  the 
present  time  they  have  two  Sunday  schools  in  opera- 
tion,— one  on  the  South  side  of  the  city  where  the 
members,  who  are  too  far  away  to  attend  the  regular 
home  church  services,  can  meet  in  Sunday  school  on 
Sunday  morning,  and  prayer  meeting  and  teachers' 
meeting  on  Thursday  night.  The  other  school  is  on 
446  Van  Buren  St.,  in  the  district  where  there  are 
many  neglected  homes,  and  which  is  in  easy  reach 
from  all  parts  of  the  city.  As  a  number  of  our  Breth- 
ren are  living  at  this  point,  they  are  able  to  give  it 
considerable  attention,  and  as  a  result  from  the  two 
schools  more  than  one  hundred  children  have  been 
taken  off  the  streets. 

It  takes  some  means  to  carry  on  a  work  like  this,, 
and  the  plan  that  the  committee  has  adopted  to  secure 
means  sufficient  to  enlarge  the  work  is  as  follows : 

Thev  make  a  present  of  ten  cents  to  any  applicant 
who  will  promise  to  endeavor  to  invest  the  ten  cents 
and  to  make  as  much  out  of  it  as  it  is  possible  in  a  sin- 
gle season,  and  to  return  the  proceeds  to  the  commit- 
tee. The  work  is  developing  nicely.  The  boys  and 
girls  who  have  invested  dimes  have  had  as  much  as 
$1.00  and  some  even  $2.00  as  the  returns  from  their 
ten  cents  invested. 

Now  to   further  encourage  this  work  and  to  help 


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those   who  are   interested   in   saving  the   children   of 
Chicago,  the  workers  have  undertaken  to  write  a  book 
to  explain  all  this  to  those  who  are  interested,  and 
they   have   succeeded   admirably.      The   name   of  the 
book  is  "  Sunday-school  Extension  Work."    It  is  writ- 
ten by  five  authors,  well  known  to  most  of  the  Nook- 
ers.     They  are,  Mrs.  D.  L.  Miller,  or  better  known 
as  Aunt  Lizzie  Miller ;  Galen  B.  Rover ;  W.  R.  Miller ; 
Millard  R.  Myers,  and  Ralph  W.  Miller.     The  prin- 
cipal subjects  treated   in  this   work  are: 
First,  Chicago  and  her  Boys  and  Girls. 
Second,  The  Children  of  the  Bible. 
Third,  The  Children  of  the  Orient. 
Fourth,  The  Sunday  School  Extension. 
Fifth,  Our  Young  People. 

Each  member  has  given  special  attention  to  the  sub- 
jects treated,  and  hundreds  of  letters  of  congratula- 
tions have  been  received  by  the  committee.  Three 
thousand  of  these  books  were  printed  and  they  have 
never  been  placed  on  sale.  They  do  not  sell  the  books, 
they  are  to  be  given  away.  The  committee  is  ex- 
tremely anxious  to  receive  the  names  of  Sunday-school 
workers,  who  would  like  to  have  one  of  the  books  and 
who  will  invest  a  dime.  Now  here  is  your  opportun- 
ity ;  this  is  the  plan : 

Write  a  letter  stating  that  you  will  invest  a  dime, 
provided  your  papa  and  mamma  or  somebody  will 
furnish  you  the  dime,  or  if  the)'  will  not,  let  the  com- 
mittee know  and  they  will  furnish  the  dime,  and  when 
you  have  decided  to  do  this,  they  will  send  you  a  book 
free,  postpaid,  as  a  present  and  then  when  you  have 
invested  the  dime  and  made  as  much  money  out  of  it 
as  possible,  you  send  the  money  to  this  committee  and 
they  will  use  it  in  furnishing  dimes  for  other  boys 
and  girls.  And  so  you  see  the  family  of  little  boys 
and  girls,  as  workers  all  over  the  country,  will  con- 
tinue to  increase  rapidly  and  thereby  be  instruments 
in  saving  the  little  boys  and  girls  in  the  great,  wicked 
city  of  Chicago. 

1  lr  if  you  do  not  have  an  opportunity  to  invest 
your  dime  to  profit,  send  the  committee  fifty  cents  and 
let  them  find  children  who  will  invest  the  dimes,  and 
for  vour  kindness  we  will  send  you,  as  a  present,  one 
"i  these  books. 

Now  this  is  the  plan  that  the  committee  told  your 
editor,  they  have  proposed  to  use  in  the  future,  and 
they  have  some  1500  books  that  they  wish  to  dispose 
of.  Now  we  would  suggest  that  those  who  are  in 
sympathy  with  Sunday-school  work,  and  are  interested 
in  the  salvation  of  the  children,  take  up  this  matter  at 
once  and  assist  in  any  way  you  can.  Send  fifty  cents 
if  possible,  if  you  cannot  do  it,  give  some  of  the  chil- 
dren, in  vour  congregation,  dimes  to  invest ;  if  that 
cannot  be  done,  write  out  a  list  of  the  names  of  the 
children  and  send  it  to  the  committee.  Send  the 
names  ami  the  money  to  the  Sunday  School  Extension 


Fund,    care    M.    R.    Myers,   466   Jackson    Boulevard, 
Chicago. 

As  is  stated  above,  your  editor  has  investigated 
this  work  and  believes  it  to  be  a  very  worthy  cause, 
and  that  is  the  reason  why  we  give  it  space  in  the 
columns  of  the  Inglenook.  The  Inglenook  is  a 
young  people's  paper  and  its  columns  always  stand 
wide  open  to  work  that  will  improve  the  condition 
and  welfare  of  our  young  people,  wherever  they  may 
be, — in  Chicago  as  well  as  other  corners  of  the  earth. 
And  we  send  this  article  broadcast  over  the  world 
with  God's  choicest  blessings  upon  it. — Editor. 

4$»        ->        <$> 

THE    MODERN    CHURCH    SUPPER. 


A  lot  of  women  will  get  together,  belonging  to  a 
church  or  a  lodge  society,  and  decide  they  must  have 
some  money  to  help  along  the  exchequer,  says  an  ex- 
change. An  ice  cream  or  some  other  kind  of  supper 
is  always  in  order.  '  The  work  at  once  commences. 
These  ladies,  a  half  dozen  of  them,  will  commence  to 
work  a  week  ahead.  They  will  search  the  neighbor- 
hood for  chairs,  tables  and  donations  of  cakes,  cream, 
coffee  and  a  dozen  other  necessities.  Days  will  be 
spent  in  worry  and  work.  The  time  finally  comes. 
The  place  where  the  supper  is  to  be  given  is  filled  with 
anxious  members  of  the  society  who  fear  it  will  not 
be  a  success.  The  day  finally  comes  with  a  few  dol- 
lars in  the  treasury  over  and  above  the  necessary  ex- 
penses. The  members  of  the  families  have  been 
dragged  into  the  reception  room  and  filled  with  ice 
cream  and  berries,  or  whatever  the  supper  may  consist 
of,  the  head  of  the  household  has  contributed  a  dollar 
or  so  to  the  supper,  and  his  wife  has  spent  several 
hard  days'  work  and  worry  over  the  thing  and  what 
does  it  amount  to?  Fifty  cents  apiece  from  all  the 
members  would  have  produced  double  the  financial 
income  and  with  no  inconveniences  to  any  one.  but  the 
supper  must  be  given,  and  no  doubt  always  will  be- 
cause women  like  to  work  and  worry. — Ex. 

*   *   * 
KNOWLEDGE    OR    INSTINCT. 


I'm  i.e  Lewis  Kob,  of  Iowa,  says:  "  A  flock  of 
blackbirds  committed  depredations  upon  my  small 
patch  of  corn  until  '  forbearance  ceased  to  be  a  virtue.' 
I  shot  at  them  four  times  one  afternoon,  and  twice  the 
next  morning.  Since  then  they  have  kept  shy  of  my 
corn.  They  were  not  emigrating,  because  they  were 
there  two  or  three  tiir.es  for  more  than  a  week.  The 
question  is.  do  they  know  where  the  dead  line  is:  do 
they  have  knowledge  of  a  certain  boundary  ?  "  Who  of 
the  Nbokers  will  answer  this  question  for  Uncle 
Lewis  ?  " 

To  despair  of  man  is  to  dishonor  God. —  Thorold. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— September  27,  1904. 


ST.    PETERSBURG. 


BY  A.    W.   VANIMAN. 

St.  Petersburg,  the  capital  of  Russia,  is  an  inter- 
esting city  to  visit.  It  is  a  city  of  one  and  a  half  mil- 
lion souls  and  is  situated  on  the  river  Neva.  It  was 
founded  by  Peter  the  Great,  in  1703.  Moscow  had 
been  the  capital  of  Russia  previous  to  this,  but  he  de- 
cided to  found  another  capital  and  named  it  after  him- 
self. He  was  no  doubt  a  great  man  in  more  senses 
than  one.  Although  coming  to  the  throne  at  the  age 
of  seventeen  he  was  not  above  working,  and  the  house 
which  he  is  said  to  have  built  and  where  he  lived  is 
still  standing,  and  contains  his  furniture  which  he 
himself  made.  The  river  which  runs  through  the 
middle  of  the  city  freezes  so  hard  in  the  winter  that 
railroad  tracks  can  be  laid  on  the  ice  and  trains  be 
run  over  the  tracks.  They  hold  a  Christmas  carnival 
each  year,  which  is  held  on  the  ice  in  front  of  the  pal- 
ace. Their  almanac  in  Russia  is  thirteen  days  behind 
ours,  so  they  hold  their  Christmas  so  much  later  than 
we  do.  The  ice  also  freezes  so  thick  in  the  harbor  that 
navigation  is  practically  impossible  in  the  winter,  and 
for  this  cause  has  Russia  been  seeking  an  ice-free  har- 
bor in  eastern  Asia,  and  her  aggressive  attitude  there 
is  the  cause  of  the  war  which  she  has  on  her  hands. 

On  the  bank  of  the  river  is  the  royal  winter  palace. 
It  is  an  immense  structure.  Looking  at  it  from  the 
outside  one  is  impressed  with  its  immensity,  but  when 
one  takes  a  look  through  the  interior,  one  is  almost 
lost  in  wonderment  at  the  expensive  embellishment 
that  is  found  here.  One  room  is  entirely  covered 
with  gold.  Being  the  winter  palace,  it  is  open  to  vis- 
itors during  the  summer,  but  not  in  the  winter  during 
the  czar's  stay  there.  The  summer  palace  is  at  Peter- 
hof.  some  miles  from  Petersburg".  No  one  is  allowed 
to  enter  Russia  without  a  passport,  and  that  must  be 
"  vised  "  by  a  Russian  consul  beforehand.  When  one 
enters  the  port  and  before  you  land,  an  officer  comes 
on  board  and  demands  your  passport.  He  takes  it  to 
an  office  where  it  is  registered  and  stamped,  'after 
which  it  is  returned  to  you.  When  you  reach  your 
hotel  the  clerk  demands  your  passport  which  he  at 
once  sends  to  the  police  office,  where  a  record  of  the 
same  is  made. 

In  visiting  Petersburg,  a  knowledge  of  German 
or  French  is  a  great  help,  as  these  languages  are  spoken 
in  all  the  principal  business  houses.  The  city  of  St. 
Petersburg  is  well-built,  but  one  misses  the  street-car 
facilities  which  one  would  expect  in  a  city  of  its  size. 
They  use  horse  cars,  and  some  of  these  run  on  the 
streets  like  a  wagon  without  tracks.  These  latter 
might  be  called  omnibusses. 

The  unit  of  value  is  the  rubel,  worth  about  fifty 
cents.  This  is  divided  into  one  hundred  parts,  called 
"  kopeks." 


Among  the  .places  of  interest  to  be  visited  is  the 
building  containing  the  imperial  carriages.  Here  are 
kept  on  exhibition  all  the  imperial  carriages  from  Peter 
the  Great  down  to  the  present  czar's  crowning  car- 
riage. There  are  something  like  fifty  of  them  all  told. 
The  carriage  which  Peter  used  is  said  to  have  been 
made  by  himself.  The  windows  are  composed  of  bits 
of  isinglass  or  mica  a  few  inches  square  and  held  in 
place  by  iron  straps.  Some  of  the  older  ones  are  not 
very  elegant,  but  those  used  by  the  later  rulers  as 
crowning  carriages  are  gold  covered  even  to  the  wheels. 
Among  the  carriages  on  exhibition  is  the  one  in 
which  Alexander  II  was  riding  at  the  time  he  was 
killed  by  the  bomb.  The  carriage  is  badly  damaged, 
but  the  first  bomb  did  not  kill  him.  He  got  out  of  the 
carriage  when  another  bomb  was  thrown,  which  caused 
his  death.  The  bombs  used  in  those  days  were  not 
so  deadly  as  are  used  now,  as  evidenced  by  the  terrible 
execution  of  the  one  which  killed  Minister  of  the  In- 
terior, M.  de  Plehve,  in  Petersburg,  on  August  2. 

In  the  fortress  church  are  deposited  all  the  bodies 
of  the  rulers  of  Russia  from  Peter  on  down.  The 
bodies  rest  in  large  sarcophagi  of  marble  or  granite. 

The  zoological  museum  is  very  interesting ;  the  item 
of  the  greatest  interest  to  us  was  the  skeleton  of  a 
mammoth  whale.  The  Latin  name  is  Balanoptcra 
Sibbaldii.  The  skeleton  is  about  ninety  feet  long,  has 
sixty-three  vertebrae,  the  largest  being  about  fifteen 
inches  in  diameter.    The  head  is  about  twenty  feet  long. 

No  one  visits  Petersburg  without  visiting  the 
churches  of  which  there  are  many.  In  all  these 
churches  are  found  many  jewel-covered  images,  which 
are  worshiped  by  those  who  attend  these  places.  Each 
worshiper  selects  one  or  two  images  which  suit  his 
fancy  and  stands  before  each,  crossing  himself,  and 
in  many  cases  getting  down  on  the  floor  and  bowing 
the  head  to  the  floor  time  and  again.  He  usually,  be- 
fore leaving,  goes  up  to  the  image,  which  is  covered 
with  glass,  and  kisses  the  glass  several  times. 

In  each  church  is  found  a  person  who  sells  candles, 
and  the  greater  part  of  the  worshipers  buy  these  can- 
dles, light  them  at  some  candle  already  burning,  and 
set  it  in  a  candlestick  in  front  of  one  or  more  of  the/ 
images.  Then  he  can  go  his  way  feeling  that  the  can 
die  is  offering  up  supplications  for  him,  to  the  virgi: 
Mary.  There  are  no  benches  or  seats  in  these  churches, 
and  the  worshipers  stand  during  the  ordinary  services 
which  last  something  like  two  hours,  and  consist  in 
chanting  by  the  priests,  singing  by  the  choir  of  men 
and  small  boys,  burning  of  incense,  etc.  At  the  close 
of  the  service  a  Bible  is  brought  down  where  the  audi- 
ence can  approach  it,  which  one  by  one  kisses,  and 
then  kisses  the  priest's  hand.  Many  other  things 
might  be  said  concerning  Petersburg,  but  this  will 
suffice  for  this  time. 

Mdlmo,  Sweden. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— September  27,  1904. 


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"WITHOUT    WAX." 


Many  are  the  English  words  that  have,  beautiful 
stories  back  of  them.  Some  of  these  are  mere  le- 
gends more  or  less  mythical,  but  others  are  abso- 
lutely true,  and  they  give  a  new  force  and  beauty 
to  the  words  when  we  hear  or  use  them.  The 
"  storied  ancestry  "  of  our  Saxon  words  is  hard  to 
trace,  but  those  bequeathed  us  by  the  Latins  and 
Greeks  hold  within  themselves,  like  hard-shelled 
nuts,  kernels  that  are  full  of  life. 

Take  the  simple,  oft-used  word  "  sincere."  The 
Latins  would  have  written  it  "  sine  cera,"  and  said 
I  without  wax."  It  seems  the  term  came  from  the 
common  deception  practiced  by  the  men  who  made 
images  and  statues  of  all  kinds  for  sale.  Every  Ro- 
man house,  porch  and  garden  had  to  be  adorned 
with  statues  to  be  in  the  fashion  of  that  day ;  so 
there  was  a  constant  demand  for  them,  and  great 
profit  to  the  skilled  workman.  As  a  natural  result, 
imitators  went  into  the  business,  and  to  hide  their 
poor  carving  they  filled  out  the  scars  and  defects 
with  a  firm  white  wax,  which,  when  polished,  so 
closely  resembled  the  marble  that  the  blemishes 
could  not  be  detected  at  first.  However,  time,  the 
relentless,  revealed  them.  The  wax  would  gradual- 
ly become  discolored  and  fall  away,  leaving  the 
statue  worse  than  ever,  and  anything  but  beau- 
tiful. 

So  we  have  the  word  "  sincere  "  ("  without 
wax  ")  applicable  only  to  those  whose  characters 
— always  self-carved — are  without  deception,  claim- 
ing no  beauty  nor  symmetry  not  their  own. 

Why  should  a  marble-cutter  have  given  his  whole 
business  reputation  for  a  gain  so  brief  and  hence 
so  small?  It  meant  such  complete  and  inevitable 
ruin  that  we  laugh  at  his  childish  act.  But  are 
we  not  equally  foolish  to  claim  goodness,  abilities, 
accomplishments,  traits  of  character,  prestige,  finan- 
cial standing,  social  connections,  or  anything  not 
rightfully  ours?  They  are  desirable,  priceless  in 
their  value,  yet  claiming  them  does  not  make  them 
ours,  and  we  deceive  only  a  few  shortsighted  peo- 
ple and  those  for  a  brief  day.  To  be  no  more,  no 
less  than  what  we  are,  yet  to  make  that  self  at- 
tain our  own  high  standard,  should  be  the  chief 
personal  ambition  of  each  life. 

To  pretend  a  friendship  for  others  that  we  do 
not  feel  is  to  make  a  present  to  them  of  that  which 
is  a  fraud  and  a  cheat.  Gifts  to  be  gifts  must  be 
voluntary.  Friendship  is  never  to  be  had  "on  de- 
mand," so  the  false  friend  has  no  excuse  for  his 
or  her  hypocrisy.  There  are  ten  thousand  degrees 
between  enmitv  and  love,  the  lowest  and  highest 
emotions  of  the  human  heart.  There  is  no  reason 
why  we  should  swing  like  pendulums  from  one 
extreme  to  the  other. 


I  love  to  think  of  the  heart  as  a  watch,  the 
handiwork  of  the  Jeweler  of  the  universe,  given 
into  our  possession  to  care  for,  control  and  enjoy. 
Only  he  knows  and  can  really  understand  its  in- 
tricate mechanism ;  only  he  can  repair  it  when  bro- 
ken by  grief.  It  is  ours  to  shut  out  the  dust  of 
the  world,  to  ward  off  dangers,  to  polish  its  gold, 
to  preserve  its  purity,  and  to  keep  it  securely  from 
that  arch  burglar,  the  evil  one. 

Why  the  little  time-piece  we  carry  in  our  pocket 
runs  thus  and  so  we  do  not  know.  Why  our  hearts 
are  attracted  to  some  people  and  repelled  bv  oth- 
ers none  of  us  can  say.  But  we  need  not  trouble 
ourselves  with  such  questions.  We  are  responsible 
for  the  care  and  use,  not  the  mechanism  of  the 
machine.  By  broadening  our  sympathies,  putting 
ourselves  in  touch  with  others,  and  cultivating  a 
higher  regard  for  them,  we  come  to  feel  an  interest 
in  those  we  could  never  love.  This  interest  may  be 
frankly  and  frequently  expressed — by  looks  and  ac- 
tions as  well  as  by  words — without  the  least  in- 
sincerity. Social  life  demands  a  quick,  responsive 
interest  among  us,  but  it  never  demands  more  than 
this.  It  is  not  necessary  to  love  every  one,  though 
it  is  necessary  that  we  hate  none.  It  is  our  foolish 
habit  of  exaggeration,  of  using  constantly  the 
strongest  words  at  our  command,  that  makes  us 
seem  to  be  insincere  when  we  do  not  mean  to  be. 
We  belie  ourselves ;  we  know  that  we  give  wrong 
impressions,  but  we  do  not  know  how  to  alter  or 
atone  for  them.  Only  by  patient  striving  for  sin- 
cerity can  we  attain  it. 

"  To  thine  own  self  be  true  "  must  be  our  guide, 
while  over  each  hearthstone  we  carve  the  beauti- 
ful phrase.  "  sine  cera." — Lee  McCrae,  in  Young  Peo- 
ple's Weekly. 

BLUNDERS    OF    PAINTERS. 


Tinoret,  an  Italian  painter,  in  a  picture  of  the 
"  Children  of  Israel  "  gathering  manna  has  taken  the 
precaution  to  arm  them  with  the  modern  invention  of 
guns.  Cigoli  painted  the  aged  Simeon  at  the  cir- 
cumcision of  the  infant  Savior,  and  as  aged  men  in 
these  days  wear  spectacles  the  artist  has  shown  his 
sagacity  by  placing  them  on  Simeon's  nose.  In  a 
picture  by  Verrio  of  "  Christ  Healing  the  Sick  "  the 
lookers-on  are  represented  as  standing  with  periwigs 
on  their  heads.  To  match,  or  rather  exceed,  this  lu- 
dicrous representation,  Durer  has  painted  "  The  Ex- 
pulsion of  Adam  and  Eve  From  the  Garden  of  Eden  " 
by  an  angel  in  a  dress  fashionably  trimmed  witli 
tlounces.  The  same  painter  in  his  scene  of  "  Peter 
Denying  Christ "  represents  a  Roman  soldier  very 
comfortably  smoking  a  pipe  of  tobacco. 
* 

"  It  is  bad  policy  to  be  rude  to  children." 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— September  27,  1904. 


CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE. 


BY  CLAUDE  H.   MURRAY. 

Much  has  been  said  and  written  concerning  the 
principles  and  teachings  of  the  comparatively  modern 
cult  known  to  the  world  as  "  Christian  Scientists ;  " 
and  it  is  very  difficult,  if  not  impossible,  to  dis- 
cover any  authority  which  is  not  more  or  less  prej- 
udiced toward  one  or  the  other  side,  and  it  is  not 
claimed  that  the  following  compilation  is  en- 
tirely free  from  censure.  However,  the  authors  con- 
sulted have  had  excellent  advantages  for  a  study  and 
observation  at  close  range,  and  their  words  carry  con- 
viction among  their  contemporaries. 

The  basis  on  which  Christian  Science  rests  is  given 
in  a  quotation  from  Mrs.  Eddy's  own  words :  "  God 
is  everything ;  matter  has  no  existence,  but  is  an  illu- 
sion of  mortal  mind.  Sin,  sickness,  death,  plagues,  tor- 
nadoes, earthquakes,  etc.,  do  not  exist,  being  onlv  il- 
lusions." According  to  their  conception  and  teach- 
ing, God  is  "  the  great  I  am,  all-knowing,  all-seeing, 
all-acting,  all-loving,  eternal  principle,  not  person,  the 
father  and  mother  of  mind  and  the  universe."  Their 
plan  of  salvation  is,  "  the  way  to  be  rid  of  sin  is  to  be- 
lieve there  is  no  sin ;  the  way  to  be  rid  of  sickness  and 
death  is  to  believe  that  these  do  not  exist." 

In  their  arraignment,  the  authors  consulted  note  the 
following:  Christian  Science  is — 1.  A  great  book- 
selling scheme  for  enriching  its  founder  and  her  im- 
mediate followers ;  the  principles  and  foibles  of  the 
system  are  contained  in  a  book  written  and  published 
by  Mrs.  Eddy,  and  all  the  faithful  must  of  necessity 
procure  this  volume.  2.  A  system  of  infidelity,  wrest- 
ing and  perverting  the  scriptures  to  suit  its  pur- 
pose ;  or,  where  these  are  opposed  to  its  teachings, 
flatly  contradicting  the  meaning.  3.  It  dethrones  God 
as  represented  by  the  Bible,  and  would  set  in  his 
place  an  impersonal  something  called  principle,  love, 
life,  truth.  4.  It  degrades  Christ  by  attempting  to 
wrest  from  him  his  divine  nature,  making  him  but  a 
human  being.  5.  It  furnishes  the  best  school  of  hy- 
pocrisy extant,  by  denying  the  material  existence  of 
natural  objects  and  experiences,  as  pain,  accidents, 
sickness,  etc.  6.  It  is  the  foe  of  the  home,  under- 
mining the  marriage  relation.  7.  It  is  a  mass  af  silly 
foibles,  such  as,  "  heredity  has  no  influence,"  "  by  sim- 
ply thinking  a  thing  is  so  it  is  so  in  reality,"  "  hunger, 
thirst,  pain,  etc.,  are  simply  the  results  of  a  certain 
habit  of  thought, — consequently,  to  think  the  opposite 
would  annul  the  feeling,  would  satisfy  the  natural  ap- 
petites." 8.  Its  adherents  are  inconsistent,  and  nec- 
essarily so ;  they  have  great  liking  for  material  things, 
particularly  money  and  power,  which,  according  to 
their  so-called  system,  have  no  existence,  and,  conse- 
quently, should  not  be  matters  of  concern  to  such  ad- 


vanced spirituality.  9.  It  claims  to  be  Christ's  religion, 
at  the  same  time  making  the  assertion  that  this  religion 
was  a  sealed  mystery  to  the  world  until  the  advent  of 
Mary  Baker  Eddy  about  35  years  ago !  How  long 
and  patiently  the  centuries  had  awaited  the  coming 
of  this  gifted  (  ?)  revelator !  10.  It  is  an  almost  exact 
counterpart  of  an  old  pagan  Hindu  philosophy,  known 
in  India  for  four  thousand  years ;  and  of  this  philoso- 
phy the  gifted  Punditi  Ramabai  says :  "  What  has 
this  done  for  the  people  of  India?  A  tree  is  judged  bv 
its  fruits.  Americans  are  a  people  of  some  sympathy ; 
everything  is  real ;  you  feel  that  when  others  are  starv- 
ing, you  ought  to  give  them  something  to  eat.  But  in 
India  they  do  not  feel  any  sympathy  for  others ;  they  ■ 
do  not  help  the  needy ;  why  should  they  help  who 
claim  the  suffering  is  not  real, — that  the  dying  chil- 
dren are  not  real?  The  first  result  of  this  philosophy 
is  the  basest  cruelty,  for  sufferers  no  compassion,  but 
supreme  egotism."  And  such  is  the  "science"  (  ?) 
that  Christian  Scientists  would  have  us  accept! 

As  seen  by  its  fruits,  this  is  a  cult  of  supreme  self- 
ishness. It  fosters  the  spirit  that  seeks  wealth  for  the 
purpose  of  self-indulgence.  If  the  sick  want  to  be 
cured,  they  must  come  with  the  cash,  for  poverty  is 
an  "  illusion  of  mortal  mind  "  that  cannot  move  hearts 
to  pity.  Its  adherents  lavish  their  wealth  upon  ma- 
terial buildings  of  stone,  and  adorn  them,  that  they 
may  gratify  their  own  aesthetic  tastes.  And  why  not? 
For  them,  squalid  poverty,  with  its  cries  of  sick  chil- 
dren in  fetid  atmosphere,  dying  for  lack  of  pure  air, 
has  no  existence ;  the  sickness,  the  pain,  the  impure 
atmosphere,  the  dying  child,  are  the  "  illusions  of  mor- 
tal mind."  Can  you  think  of  a  system  better  suited 
to  dry  up  the  fountain  of  human  kindness?  If  it  had 
full  sway,  would  it  not  change  the  garden  of  a  Chris- 
tian country  into  the  desert  of  paganized  India  ? 

Consider  its  teachings,  in  comparison  with  those  of 
Christ  as  indicated  by  the  parenthetical  references : 
"  One  sacrifice,  however  great,  cannot  atone  for  sin." 
(Heb.  9:26.)  "Evil  has  no  real  existence."  (Luke 
7:21.1  "  Man  co-exists  with  God  and  the  universe." 
(Gen.  1:27.)  "God  never  created  matter."  (Gen. 
1:1.)  "Jesus  did  not  die."  (Rom.  14:9.)  "God 
is  not  influenced  by  man."     (John  14:  13.) 

Elgin,  III. 

THE  UNCULTURED  PURSUIT  OF  CULTURE. 


Some  years  ago  Americans  took  it  rather  hard  when 
a  distinguished  fellow-countryman  said  that  we 
were  the  most  common-schooled  and  least  culti- 
vated people  in  the  world.  Since  then  we  have 
made  long  strides  in  many  of  the  things  which 
tend  to  culture,  but  it  is  doubtful  whether  the  pres- 
ent feverish  anxiety  for  it  on  the  part  of  intelli-  I 
gent   people,   and   the  wrong   conception   of  it   fre-  I 


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quently  manifested  by  some  of  its  supposed  apos- 
tles are  not  farther  removed  from  the  genuine  than 
the  former  national  indifference  to  it. 

Definitions  are  hazardous,  but  it  may  be  said 
without  risk  of  going  far  astray  that  culture  con- 
sists in  an  attitude  of  mind  which  is  the  result  of 
good  breeding  and  of  various  liberalizing  and  re- 
fining influences.  One  might  go  farther  and  quote 
Emerson  that  "  the  foundation  of  culture,  as  of 
character,  is  at  least  the  moral  sentiment." 

Culture  is  not  a  matter  of  acquirements,  and, 
hence,  there  are  no  reliable  prescriptions  for  at- 
taining it.  One  may  be  a  college  graduate  with 
a  creditable  knowledge  of  literature,  music,  and 
art,  and  with  no  sins  of  omission  or  commission 
in  social  usages,  and  yet  be  uncultured.  This  is 
what  the  mass  of  people  fail  to  understand.  Like 
Selma  White  they  feel  that  there  is  a  desirable 
something  possessed  by  others  no  richer  and  per- 
haps not  so  solidly  educated  as  themselves,  which 
they  lack,  but  they  cannot  see  what  the  difference 
is.  So  in  the  hope  of  gaining  this  vague  some- 
thing the  Sel'ma  Whites  struggle  to  pattern  them- 
selves after  their  selected  models. 

Nothing  could  be  more  uncultured.  Self-poise 
and  serenity  of  spirit  are  the  very  essence  of  true 
culture.  The  possessor  of  them  has  no  fear  of 
being  considered  unenlightened  through  ignorance 
of  current  usages  in  speech  or  manners.  Most  of 
us  know  persons  with  whom  it  is  a  matter  of  pride 
to  be  familiar  with  the  use  of  every  variety  of 
spoon  and  fork  in  a  jeweler's  assortment  and  to 
know  the  latest  fads  in  menus  and  in  fashions 
of  serving.  This  may  seem  a  vulgar  ambition,  but 
not  much  less  cultivated  is  the  pride  in  having  at 
the  tongue's  end  information  concerning  the  new- 
est writers,  artists,  actors  and  musicians.  There 
are  many  people  with  a  genuine  interest  in  all 
.these  matters,  to  whom  such  information  comes 
as  naturally  as  a  knowledge  of  the  records  of  dif- 
ferent racers  to  a  horse  lover.  The  mistake  lies 
in  being  ashamed  of  ignorance  on  such  topics  and 
in  supposing  that  culture  requires  one  to  keep  up 
to  date  in  all  these  subjects,  when  the  truth  is  that 
the  absorption  of  the  time  and  attention  in  people 
and  achievements  of  trivial  importance  and  of 
ephemeral  interests  tends  to  mental  superficiality 
and  crudity. 

The  speech  is  at  once  the  quickest  and  the  surest 
index  of  culture.  But  even  in  this  respect  no  hard 
and  fast  rules  can  be  given  for  distinguishing  the 
cultured  from  the  uncultured  person.  The  school- 
teacher who  is  a  model  of  grammatical  precision 
and  the  elocutionist  who  is  a  purist  in  pronuncia- 
tion and  articulation  may  both  be  very  unculti- 
vated, while  people  of  considerable  breadth  of  cul- 
ture may  be  guilty  of  some  inaccuracies  in  the  use 


and  pronunciation  of  words.  It  may  grate  some- 
what upon  the  ear  when  a  person  with  pretensions 
to  culture  uses,  for  example,  the  word  lady  or 
gentleman  where  modern  usage  decrees  that  wom- 
an or  man  should  be  employed.  However,  neither 
the  right  nor  the  wrong  use  of  any  test  words  of 
this  sort  can  be  taken  as  a  sure  indication  of  cul- 
ture or  its  lack. 

The  editor  of  a  leading  literary  journal  recently 
declared  that  no  cultured  person  pronounces  the 
word  none  as  if  it  were  written  nun.  We  should 
have  a  curious  line-up,  if  the  cultured  were  sepa- 
rated from  the  uncultured  on  any  such  basis  of 
division.  Such  tests  may  serve  to  distinguish  the 
class  whom  the  same  writer  elsewhere  calls  "  the 
enlightened."  But  those  who  are  in  this  sense  of 
the  term  enlightened  are  often,  unfortunately,  very 
uncultured. 

The  general  over-anxious  effort  for  enlightenment 
and  the  straining  after  culture  which  are  in  them- 
selves antagonistic  to  the  spirit  of  repose  and  to 
the  self-possession  which  characterize  the  thing 
sought,  make  one  inclined  to  wonder  pessimistic- 
ally if  our  last  state  is  not  likely  to  be  worse  than 
our  first.  But  there  is  a  self-conscious  stage  in  all 
development,  and  when  we  shall  have  ceased  to 
make  "  culture  hum "  so  vigorously,  we  may  find 
that  we  have  reached  the  point  where  Lowell's 
criticism  is  no  longer  merited. — Edith  Dickson,  in  The 
Interior. 

-fr   *   •> 

BIBLICAL    INJUNCTION    REVERSED. 


Most  farmers,  and  especially  boys,  take  trouble  to 
hunt  down  a  snake  when  they  are  really  the  farmers' 
friends.  Many  persons  will  leave  a  carriage  or  team 
in  the  road  to  kill  a  snake  they  see  upon  the  roadside. 
And  as  for  the  blacksnake  that  lives  under  the  house 
or  old  porch,  it  is  a  greater  enemy  to  mice  and  rats 
than  the  best  cat  could  possibly  be,  while  it  would  not 
harm  an  infant ;  in  fact,  could  be  tamed  to  be  very  in- 
teresting. Kindness  always  wins  snakes,  and  they 
will  show  it  as  perceptibly  as  most  creatures.  A 
blacksnake  pet  is  more  cleanly  than  a  dog  or  cat.  is 
far  less  trouble,  will  respond  to  the  familiar  call  just 
as  quickly,  show  every  evidence  of  affection  as  sin- 
cerely, and  if  its  fangs  should  scratch  the  skin  or  even 
penetrate  the  flesh,  the  result  is  not  so  annoying  as  the 
scratches  from  the  briars  that  come  from  picking  ruses 
or  blackberries. — Easton  (Md.)  Gazette. 

•5*  ♦  ♦ 

How  shall  we  rest  in  ii.nl?  By  giving  ourselves 
wholly  to  him.  If  you  give  yourselves  by  halves  you' 
cannot  find  full  rest.  There  will  ever  he  a  lurking 
disquiet  in  that  half  which  is  withheld. — Jean  Nicolas 
Grow. 


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THE    GUARDS    AT    NORFOLK. 


BY    ELLIS    BLAKE    BARKLEY. 

After  two  years  experience  I  have  found  that 
the  navy  is  not  nearly  so  hard  a  life  as  I  had  ex- 
pected to  find  it  prior  to  my  enlistment.  The  life 
is  as  everywhere  else,  "  what  you  make  it."  The 
change  from  that  of  a  civilian  makes  it  rather  hard 
at  first,  perhaps,  for  some  to  become  accustomed  to 
the  military  ruling  and  its  duties. 

This  St.  Helena  Island  Guardo  at  Norfolk,  Vir- 
ginia, is  the  largest  the  government  affords.  Its 
name  was  given  it  when  only  a  small  island  a  short 
distance  from  the  mainland.  Since  that  time  the 
intervening  channel  has  been  filled  in  sufficiently  to 
allow  a  road  to  be  built  across. 

The  guardo  is  used  as  a  station  for  reserve  men 
and  a  training  station.  It  consists  of  about  one 
hundred  and  fifty  acres,  two  receiving  ships,  the 
Franklin  and  Richmond,  three  two-story  bar- 
racks, a  mess  hall,  brig,  scrubbing  room  in  con- 
nection with  bath  rooms,  boiler  house,  disinfectant 
plant,  bowling  alley,  billiard,  pool  room  and  can- 
teen ;  the  rooms  for  the  equipment  stores,  general 
stores,  provision  .  supplies,  armory,  clothes  lines, 
wash  house;  the  carpenter  shop,  blacksmith  shop, 
plumbing  and  paint  shops.  All  of  these  buildings 
have  been  built  as  convenient  to  the  ships  as  pos- 
sible, bringing  them  all  rather  at  one  corner  of  the 
reservation. 

From  the  ships  are  gangways  to  docks  leading 
to  the  land.  Along  these  docks,  also  along  an- 
other to  the  reserve  torpedo  boat  station,  are  twen- 
ty row  boats  hanging  on  davits.  Close  to  the  land 
and  these  docks  are  floats  which  give  the  men  more 
room  for  scrubbing  than  the  scrubbing  room  af- 
fords. 

The  Franklin  is  headquarters.  The  captain  has 
his  quarters  on  the  gun  and  spar  deck  aft.  The  com- 
missioned officers  have  their  rooms  aft  on  the  berth 
deck.  All  the  offices  with  the  exception  of  the  post 
office  are  on  this  ship.  The  executive,  general,  de- 
tail, pay,  dentist's  and  surgeon's  offices  are  on  the 
gun  deck.  On  the  berth  deck  are  the  equipment 
office,  library,  sick  bay  and  court-martial  room. 
There  is  room  for  all  the  men  working  aboard  to 
sleep  on  her  lower  decks,  while  the  spar  deck's 
billets  are  filled  with  the  men  of  two  landsmen  di- 
visions. 

The  Richmond  has  the  rooms  of  the  first  lieu- 
tenant and  warrant  officers.  All  the  men  waiting 
assignment  and  those  in  the  general  detail  sleep  on 
her  upper  decks.  The  berth  deck  is  equipped  with 
tables  and  benches  where  the  same  men  eat.  For- 
ward on  this  deck  is  another  brig  generally  used 
for   general   court-martial   prisoners.     The   gun    deck 


has  the  galley  forward  where  the  cooking  is  done 
for  the  mess  just  mentioned. 

Two  of  the  barracks  are  filled  with  eight  di- 
visions of  landsmen  for  training.  Each  division 
contains  seventy  men.  The  third  barracks  has  the 
marine  guard  on  its  second  floor  while  on  the  lower 
floor  is  the  band  with  one  division  of  landsmen. 

The  brig  has  thirty  cells  in  it  with  a  large  en- 
closure for  men  not  having  solitary  confinement  to 
do,  such  as  having  five  or  ten  days,  single  or  dou- 
ble irons  as  the  captain  sees  fit  to  give  them  ac- 
cording to  their  offense. 

The  room  for  scrubbing  is  equipped  with  large 
tubs  provided  with  hot  and  cold  water,  where  they 
scrub  their  clothes,  hammocks  and  bags.  There 
are  twenty-eight  shower  baths  in  the  bath  room. 
The  boiler  house  has  four  large  boilers  which  fur- 
nish the  supply  for  the  whole  island. 

The  disinfectant  plant  has  a  steam  sterilizer  and 
various  other  utensils  used  in  that  work.  The 
bowling  alley  has  two  alleys  and  under  the  same 
roof  are  two  pool  rooms  with  one  billiard  table 
and  the  canteen  which  allows  the  men  to  buy  such 
articles  as  stationery,  stamps,  tobacco,  ice  cream, 
lemonade,  etc. 

When  a  recruit  first  arrives  he  finds  himself  in 
practically  a  new  world.  He  is  hustled  around  to 
the  doctor,  who  re-examines  and  has  him  vacci- 
nated, to  the  equipment  store  room,  where  he  re 
ceives  his  allowance  of  forty-five  dollars'  worth  of 
clothing,  to  the  master  at  arms,  who  marks  them 
then  to  the  bath  rooms  and  last  to  the  barber,  who 
takes  his  long  hair  away  from  him.  He  will  have 
gone  through  all  this  before  noon  of  the  day  of  his 
arrival. 

In  the  afternoon  the  landsmen  for  training  fall 
in  for  quarters  and  the  chief  petty  officer  in  charge 
of  his  division  begins  to  teach  him  the  method  of 
keeping  his  clothes  in  a  bag.  During  this  period 
he  will  find  out  how  many  clothes  he  has,  con- 
sisting of  a  suit  of  blue,  one  suit  of  dress  whites 
three  suits  of  undressed  whites,  two  suits  of  heavy 
and  light  underwear,  one  overcoat,  sweater,  neck- 
erchief, lanyard,  three  white  hats,  one  blue  hat, 
one  watch  cap,  three  pairs  of  heavy  and  light  socks, 
two  pairs  of  shoes,  a  pair  of  leggings,  two  towels, 
three  bars  of  salt  water  soap,  a  scrubbing  brush 
a  blacking  outfit,  a  large  knife,  three  spools  o: 
thread,  a  package  of  needles,  and  their  mess  gear, 
The  hammock  contains  a  hair  mattress  and  a  dou 
ble  woolen  blanket. 

All  the  men  but  the  landsmen  are  in  the  gen- 
eral detail.  They  as  a  general  rule  are  sent  to 
their  respective  classes,  as  cooks  to  the  commis- 
sary steward,  hospital  apprentices  to  the  hospital 
steward,     veomen    to   the    ship's     writer,     painters, 


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plumbers,  blacksmiths  to  the  shops  corresponding 
to  their  rate. 

The  boilermakers,  machinists,  firemen  and  coal 
passers  are  sent  to  the  Richmond  to  await  assign- 
ment to  some  ship,  as  the  engineer's  force  is  the 
only  branch  which  does  not  need  some  particular 
training  to  learn  the  navy  method. 

They  have  an  artisans'  school  in  the  navy  yard 
where  all  blacksmiths,  plumbers,  carpenters  and 
painters  are  put  through  a  three  months'  term. 

Very  near  every  rate  has  its  school,  the  yeomen's 
being  stationed  at  Brooklyn,  the  gunners'  mates 
have  one  at  Washington,  the  electricians  at  Brook- 
lyn, the  hospital  apprentices  at  the  Norfolk  Naval 
Hospital,  while  the  petty  officers'  school  is  on  some 
ship. 

With  the  exception  of  the  hospital  corps  all  grad- 
uates have  an  increase  of  two  dollars  in  their  pay, 
though  it  is  to  be  hoped  there  will  be  no  excep- 
tion in  the  near  future. 

1st  cl.  H.  A.,  U.  S.  R.  S.,  Franklin,  Norfolk,  i'a. 

*  *  * 

OUR   BLESSINGS. 

We  believe  that  the  United  States  of  America  is 
one  of  the  most  favored  lands  in  the  world,  and  one 
of  the  pleasantest  places  on  earth  to  live.  The  country 
is  healthy,  the  soil  productive  and  the  years  are  fruit- 
ful. Famine  and  pestilence  have  never  swept  any  large 
portion  of  this  favored  land.  When  we  add  to  this 
the  peace,  the  safety  and  the  opportunities  that  we 
enjoy,  we  are  made  to  believe  that  nowhere  else  on 
earth  are  the  people  so  blessed  as  are  the  citizens  of 
the  I  nited  States.  YV'c  can  study  the  history  of  the 
world  and  we  can  learn  of  no  age  and  no  country  in 
which  the  people  are  more  blessed  than  we  are  now. 
''  To  whomsoever  much  is  given  of  him  will  much  be 
required,"  says  Jesus.  Yet  in  this  land  of  liberty,  of 
peace  and  of  plenty  there  are  people  who  are  as  poor 
id  as  miserably  devoid  of  the  blessings  of  life  as  the 
ople  were  in  other  lands  in  the  dark  ages  of  the 
world.  It  is  sad  to  contemplate  how  many  bright, 
intelligent  people  are  languishing  now  behind  prison 
bars,  some  doomed  to  spend  their  lives  in  that  hope- 
less confinement.  Guilty  they  may  be,  and  justly  suf- 
fer the  penalty  for  their  wrong  doing,  but  it  is  none 
[In   less  sad,  because  they  yielded  to  crime. 

"  We  know  not  all  the  power 

With  which  the  dark  temptation  came 
In  some  unguarded  hour." 

Crime  is  largely  the  result  of  the  influence  of  others, 
if  the  environments  that  surrounded  them  in  youth. 
Perhaps,  if  these  criminals  when  young  had  been 
properly  brought  up  and  trained  in  the  way  they 
should  go,  their  lives'  history  would  have  been  entirely 
different  from  what  it  is. 


[inter 


Then,  too,  there  are  so  many  poor  and  destitute 
children  now  in  our  large  cities  whose  lives  are  as 
bare  of  comfort,  of  joy  and  of  opportunities  for  im- 
provement, as  were  the  children  of  ignorant  and  su- 
perstitious ages.  While  they  may  not  be  actually 
starving  for  the  necessaries  of  life,  their  spiritual  lives 
are  perishing  for  lack  of  home  influence  and  proper 
training.  There  are  so  many  happy  homes  in  this 
beautiful  land  where  these  little  outcasts  could  be 
blessed  with  love,  with  home  and  with  Christian  in- 
fluence, where  they  could  grow  up  to  become  useful 
men  and  women.  We  who  enjoy  all  the  blessings  of 
this  life  and  this  goodly  land  ought  not  to  be  at  ease 
in  Zion  until  we  have  done  what  we  could  to  those 
who  are  poor  and  homeless  and  destitute.  If  they  be 
taken  out  to  good  country  homes  where  they  will 
be  taught  to  become  moral  and  virtuous,  and  taught 
to  become  kind  by  being  brought  in  contact  with  ani- 
mals on  the  farm,  the  foundation  is  laid  for  good  cit- 
izens. If  we  leave  them  to  grow  up  in  vice  and  ig- 
norance we  can  expect  nothing  but  criminals ;  if  we 
bring  them  up  in  the  way  they  should  go,  we  can  ex- 
pect Christians.  May  we  then  do  what  we  can  to 
share  our  blessings  with  those  who  are  less  favored 
than  we,  for  in  sharing  our  blessings  with  others  we 
will  double  the  enjoyment  that  they  bring. — Children's 
Friend. 

4»     <£     41 

STRANGE    COUNTRY. 


"  ABYSSINIA,  if  you  want  strangeness,  is  the  coun- 
try for  you  to  visit,"  said  a  traveler. 

"  In  Abyssinia,  when  the  chief  offends  the  Em- 
peror, he  is  sent  for,  and  his  ruler,  taking  him  aside, 
gives  him  in  private  a  sound  thrashing  with  a  club. 

"  When  two  men  quarrel,  the  first  person  who  ap- 
proaches is  asked  to  settle  the  dispute.  No  matter 
what  the  decision  of  this  arbiter  may  be  the  con- 
testants will  abide  by  it.  They  are  required  to,  in 
fact,  by  law. 

"  The  warriors  of  Abyssinia  salute  their  ruler  or 
commemorate  a  victory  by  firing  their  rifles  straight 
up  in  the  air.  Often  the  balls,  descending,  kill  many 
soldiers  and  citizens.  No  matter.  Such  accidents 
teach  the  people,  it  is  held,  to  be  unafraid. 

"  The  Emperor  is  his  own  detective  bureau.  He  has 
a  powerful  telescope  set  in  a  high  tower  within  his 
palace  gates,  and  every  little  while  he  runs  to  the  tel- 
escope and  studies  through  it  all  the  going  nn  in  the 
city.    Thus  he  detects  much  crime. 

"  The  Abyssinians  are  descended  from  the  son  of 
Solomon  and  the  Queen  oi  Sheha,  and  they  wear  the 
toga  precisely  as  the  Romans  wore  it. 

"  hi  this  country  the  li'ms  are  as  plentiful  as  mos- 
quitoes in  New  Jersey." 


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THE    INGLEXOOK.— September  27,  1904. 


THE    VALUE    OF    A    PURPOSE    IN    LIFE. 


BY  SUSIE   M.    HOUT. 

Horace  Mann,  one  of  the  great  educators  of  his 
day,  was  urged  by  friends  to  give  up  his  work  along 
educational  lines  and  enter  the  halls  of  congress.  He 
replied,  "  I  have  a  great  deal  of  respect  for  men  in 
public  life,  but  I  have  more  respect  for  my  own  life 
work.  If  I  know  anything,  it  is  the  science  and 
art  of  teaching,  and  to  this  work,  please  God,  I  shall 
devote  the  whole  of  my  life,"  and  he  kept  his  word. 
Who  can  say,  that  the  life  of  Horace  Mann  would 
be  honored  and  respected,  as  it  is  to-day,  and  that  his 
life  would  have  had  such  a  far-reaching  influence,  had 
he  given  up  his  life  purpose,  and  entered  congress? 
This  illustrates  the  value  of  a  purpose,  or  an  unbiased 
aim  in  life,  which  should  animate  the  whole  being  of 
every  young  man  and  woman  to-day ! 

There  was  a  time,  in  the  history  of  nations,  and 
even  in  the  early  history  of  our  own  nation,  when  it 
was  necessary  for  men  and  women  to  be  manysided, 
in  their  capacity  for  work,  but  that  age  has  passed, 
as  did  the  age  of  chivalry,  and  we  are  on  the  threshold 
of  a  new  age,  in  which  the  vast  fields  of  knowledge 
have  been  so  widely  developed,  that  it  is  impossible 
for  one  to  specialize  along  all  the  various  lines.  While 
a  general  education  is  to  be  desired,  still  there  should 
be  one  predominant  purpose,  in  the  life  of  everyone. 
The  adage  aptly  applies,  that,  "  He  who  is  Jack  of  all 
trades,  is  master  of  none."  The  demand  of  the  age 
is  for  men  and  women  who  have  a  single  purpose 
in  life,  and  are  striving  and  working  to  make  that 
line  of  work  a  success. 

It  is  possible  for  one  to  have  a  limited  knowledge 
of  how  many  things  are  done,  but  only  one  thing  can 
be  done  to  perfection.  Men  who  have  been  able  to 
enter  various  professions,  and  be  successful,  are  the 
exception  and  not  the  rule. 

Carlyle  has  said,  that  the  first  requisite  to  success 
is  to  carefully  find  your  life  work,  and  then  bravely 
carry  it  out ;  therefore,  before  deciding  what  our  pur- 
pose in  life  shall  be,  we  should  consider  well  the 
various  avenues,  that  are  open  to  every  one,  and  de- 
cide upon  that  line  of  work,  to  which  we  seem  the  best 
fitted.  Many  times  a  decided  stand,  to  accomplish 
some  great  purpose  in  life,  is  half  the  battle,  the 
heights  are  easily  scaled,  and  success  crowns  our  ef- 
forts. 

Our  motto  should  be  that  of  a  famous  Xorseman, 
"  Either  I  will  find  a  way,  or  make  one."  This  same 
sturdy  independence  should  characterize  us  in  the 
battle  of  life.  It  should  be  our  desire  to  surmount 
every  obstacle.  He  who  falters  and  faints,  at  hard 
climbing,  will  be  the  first  to  shrink  duty,  and  is  on  the 
road  to  failure. 


Persons  of  marked  mental  powers,  have  been  known 
to  fail,  for  the  simple  reason  that  they  lacked  stick- 
tuitiveness,  or  tenacity  of  purpose.  They  have  entered 
various  professions,  but  did  not  continue  in  any  one 
long  enough  to  achieve  success,  while  if  they  had  stuck 
resolutely,  with  a  tenacity  of  purpose  to  one  profession, 
success  would  not  have  been  uncertain. 

Would  you  know  the  secret,  which  caused  this  great 
and  glorious  America  to  be  discovered?  You  will 
find  it  in  the  unbiased  purpose,  that  so  dominated  the 
heart  and  soul  of  one  man,  that  poverty,  treachery 
and  the  jeers,  of  those  who  should  have  befriended 
him,  could  not  daunt.  Columbus  did  not  fear  the 
storms  of  an  unknown  sea.  Why?  Because  he  had 
a  single  purpose  which  nothing  could  daunt.  He 
firmly  believed  there  was  an  undiscovered  continent 
to  the  west.  He  also  believed  he  was  to  discover  it. 
His  undaunted  will  caused  him  to  overcome  all  obsta 
cles.  His  purpose  was  accomplished ;  we  to-day  are 
enjoying  the  results  of  his  persistent  purpose.  Would 
you  be  a  benefit  to  humanity,  have  a  purpose,  and  fol 
low  it,  with  the  same  tenacity. 

When  Xapoleon  was  told  that  the  unsurmountable 
Alps  lay  in  the  way  of  having  his  plans  carried  out 
he  replied,  "  There  shall  be  no  Alps."  This  shows  the 
sturdy  determination  of  the  man.  The  way  was  made, 
the  Alps  were  crossed.  He  also  said,  "  The  word  '  im- 
possible '  is  a  word  only  to  be  found  in  the  dictionary 
of  fools."  His  intense  enthusiasm  to  accomplish  his 
purpose  so  influenced  his  men  that  they  were  moved 
to  action. 

All  obstacles  will  disappear  before  a  man  resolutely 
determined  to  accomplish  a  single  purpose  and  each 
lesson  learned  from  experience  will  be  used  as  a  step- 
ping stone  to  greater  and  more  glorious  victories. 
There  are  many  instances  where  inglorious  defeat 
ends  the  career  of  the  timid  and  despondent,  when  the 
same  tenacity  of  purpose  would  have  crowned  their 
lives  with  success. 

Bishop  Hall  has  said,  "  There  is  many  a  rich  stone: 
laid  up  in  the  bowels  of  the  earth ;  there  is  many  a 
fair  pearl  laid  up  in  the  bosom  of  the  sea  that  was 
never  seen,  or  never  shall  be."  And  so  it  is  in  lifi 
All  around  us  are  many  gems  unseen,  and  why?  Be^ 
cause  there  is  not  that  unsurmountable  will,  that  sin- 
gleness of  purpose,  that  will  overcome  all  obstacles, 
and  be  brought  to  the  surface,  and  the  shore,  and  be  a 
benefit  to  mankind. 

Almost  all,  who  have  been  eminently  great  in  life, 
have  had  one  great  purpose  and  have  steadfastly  pur- 
sued it.  This  may  be  observed  in  the  lives  of  those 
who  are  striving  to  obtain  an  eduation.  Observation  1 
teaches  that  the  most  successful  students  are  those 
who  have  a  great  purpose  before  them,  and  are  pre- 
paring themselves  that  they  may  be  able  to  accom- 
plish that  purpose,  while  those  who  have  no  particu- 


fe. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  27,  1904. 


923 


lar  aim  in  view  are  not  as  interested  and  as  enthusi- 
astic in  their  work. 

Young  man  !  Young  woman !  Would  you  be  em- 
inently great  and  successful  in  life?  If  you  have  not 
a  single  aim  or.  purpose  in  life  toward  which  you  are 
ever  striving,  decide  upon  one.  It  will  help  you  over 
the  many  hard  places  in  life.  Whether  it  be  in  the 
fields  of  literature,  education,  philanthropy,  govern- 
ment, or  the  heroes  of  a  Christian  age,  "  Go  forth 
brave,  loyal,  and  successful." 
Sharpsburg,  Md. 

*  *  * 
VEGETARIANS    FREE    FROM    APPENDICITIS  ? 


Certain  scientists  are  now  advancing  the  opinion 
that  appendicitis  is  much  more  prevalent  among 
meat  eaters  than  among  vegetarians — in  fact,  that 
it  exists  in  proportion  to  the  amount  of  meat  con- 
sumed. 

"  Inflammation  of  the  appendix  may  be  produced 
by  a  local  cause,  such  as  the  introduction  into  the 
intestines  of  foreign  bodies ;  but  this  cause,  if  it 
exists,  is  exceptional,"  says  a  recent  medical  jour- 
nal article.  "  In  fact,  the  disease  is  general  and 
has  an  epidemic  character,  the  manifestations  of 
the  condition  being  frequent  during  epidemics  of 
grippe.  The  tissue  of  the  appendix  also  has  a  close 
analogy  with  that  of  the  tonsil,  appendicitis,  like 
tonsilitis,  being  the  result  of  infection,  the  microbe 
of  which  is  not  known." 

In  explaining  why  this  infection  has  become  more 
common  of  late  years,  M.  Lucas  Championniere,  a 
noted  French  authority,  has  recently  prepared  an 
exhaustive  communication  to  the  Academy  of  Med- 
icine. In  this  author's  opinion  grippe  is  the  com- 
mencement of  appendicitis,  but  although  due  to  the 
grippe,  appendicitis  is  present  almost  solely  in  those 
countries  where  flesh  food  is  used,  and  above  all, 
abused.  In  fact,  it  is  always  much  more  severe 
in  those  patients  who  eat  meat  excessively. 

When  appendicitis  occurs,  the  only  remedy  for 
its  cure  is  an  operation,  but  the  trouble  may  be 
prevented  by  a  semi-vegetarian  regime  and  by  a 
Return  to  the  periodical  use  of  purging.     . 

The  investigation  which  M.  Championniere  has  just 
made  establishes  the  rarity  of  symptoms  which  in- 
dicate appendicitis  before  the  appearance  of  grippe. 
According  to  statements  coming  from  various  parts 
of  the  world,  cases  of  appendicitis  commonly  coin- 
cide with  the  grippe.  However,  after  the  grippe 
the  disease  appears  generally  only  in  those  coun- 
tries where  meat  is  largly  used,  for  example,  in 
Australia. 

In  Porto  Rico  the  disease  is  not  found  among 
the  vegetarian  population,  but  it  does  occur  among 
the  Americans  who  eat  meat.  Tn  France,  among 
the  vegetarian  people,  appendicitis  is  very  rare  or 


not  present  at  all,  while  the  disease  increases  in 
proportion  as  the  use  of  meat  is  increased.  This 
is  the  result  of  the  observations  in  Brittany,  in  the 
population  of  the  mountains,  in  the  center  of  France, 
and  elsewhere.  In  Roumania  statistics  show  that 
there  is  one  case  out  of  22,000  cases  of  illness  among 
the  vegetarians,  and  one  case  out  of  221  cases  of 
illness  among  the  meat  eaters  of  the  country.  The 
same  observations  might  be  made  of  Belgium,  Al- 
giers, Tonkin  and  New  Caledonia. 

In  the  prisons  and  in  all  the  closely  packed  in- 
stitutions, which  are  always  the  easy  prey  to  grippe, 
and  where  the  regime  is  almost  solely  vegetarian, 
one  might  say  there  are  no  cases  of  appendicitis. 

The  examination  of  the  statistics  of  many  schools 
and  convents  gives  the  same  results,  there  being 
no  appendicitis  where  the  regime  is  vegetarian.  M. 
Championniere  concludes  that  meat  eating  favors 
intestinal  affections  and  appendicitis  following  the 
grippe,  and  that  the  reduction  of  this  regime  is 
to  be  advised. 

♦   •$•   «■> 

STONE    AGE    MAN. 


In  Somersetshire,  England,  may  be  seen  manv  "  bar- 
rows " — burying  places  of  prehistoric  man.  Long 
ages  ago,  when  the  elephant  and  rhinoceros,  the  lion 
and  bear,  the  hyena  and  wolf,  the  great  elk  and  the 
reindeer  were  among  the  common  animals  of  Eng- 
land, primitive  man  and  savage  beasts  lived  in  caves 
in  this  region. 

At  the  entrance  to  these  caves  the  aborigines,  clad  in 
skins,  kept  fires  burning  for  warmth  and  for  protec- 
tion from  the  wild  beasts.  It  was  here  that  they  made 
flint  hatchets,  knives  and  arrowheads.  Not  long  ago 
a  trench  was  being  dug  within  the  mouth  of  one  of 
these  caves  for  the  purpose- of  draining. 

It  was  found  necessary  to  break  up  the  stalagmite 
floor  of  two  thick  layers.  Between  the  layers  was  a 
deposit  of  cave  earth  and  stones,  in  which  was  dis- 
covered the  skeleton  of  a  man  of  very  great  antiquit) 
in  an  excellent  state  of  preservation.  With  it  were 
found  several  flint  knives  and  flakes.  Experts,  who 
made  a  careful  examination  of  the  skull,  which  has  pro- 
jecting brows  and  receding  frontal  hone,  have  de- 
cided that  it  belongs  to  the  stone  age  and  is  of  a  type 
intermediate  between  the  palaeolithic  and  neolithic  ages. 

Apparently  the  body  had  been  placed  in  a  small  pas- 
sage leading  off  from  the  great  passages  to  the  stalac- 
tite caves  and  had  been  prevented  from  disturbance 
by  stones  piled  around  it.  The  stalagmite  floor  had 
formed  over  it,  effectually  preserving  it  to  the  present 
day. 

*   ♦    •$• 

Arrow-swift  the  present  sweepeth,  and  motionless 
forever  stands  the  past. — Schiller. 


924 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  27,  1904. 


ON    THE    WAY    TO    PALESTINE. 


BY  W.  R.   MILLER. 

Over  the  Wabash  from  Chicago  to  Buffalo,  the  first 
525  miles  of  our  long,  tedious  6,000  miles  of  land 
and  sea  travel  have  been  unwound  and  the  weather, 
country  and  railroad  have  all  seemed  to  conspire 
to  make  the  trip  thus  far  a  most  pleasant  one. 
The  Wabash  through  this  run  has  one  of  the 
smoothest  of  tracks  and  best  equipped  roads  that 
it  has  been  my  privilege  to  enjoy. 

The  country  through  Canada  from  Detroit  to 
Buffalo  is  very  much  like  Illinois  save  that  the 
farms  are  broken  up  into  small  fields,  and  fenced 
by  old-time  split  rail  worm  fences.  The  amount 
of  this  kind  of  fence  with  the  miles  and  miles  of 
stump  fences  shows  the  vast  amount  of  labor  which 
has  been  bestowed  on  these  broad  acres  of  beau- 
tiful, fertile  soil  to  transform  it  from  the  heavy 
timberland  into  grain  fields  and  splendid  apple 
orchards. 

We  get  a  glimpse  of  old  Niagara  as  we  cross 
the  gorge  some  distance  below  the  falls.  Anyone 
who  has  not  yet  visited  this  one  of  the  seven  won- 
ders of  the  world  can  well  afford  to  make  this 
journey  for  the  splendor  and  the  magnitude  of  Niagara 
Falls  as  they  burst  upon  his  sight  for  the  first 
time.  I  shall  not  attempt  any  description  of  the 
falls,  as  others  have  written  and  failed  to  convey 
to  the  mind  any  adequate  idea  of  their  grandeur. 
To  be  realized  they  must  be  seen. 

As  time  goes  by  and  opportunity  presents  itself 
and  at  the  request  of  your  editor,  an  occasional 
letter  will  be  forwarded  to  the  Nook  readers. 
*  ->   * 

TELEPHONE    CONGESTION. 


The  rush  to  participate  in  desirable  bargain  sales 
in  department  stores  is  the  natural  result  of  at- 
tractively worded  advertisements,  and  thus  it  is 
amply  provided  for  in  the  matter  of  additional 
clerks.  But  let  100  customers  unexpectedly  enter 
a  large  store  at  the  same  moment  on  the  hottest 
day  in  July  and  ask  for  blankets,  and-  it  is  a  com- 
paratively easy  matter  to  transfer  sufficient  clerks 
to  the  blanket  counter  to  take  care  of  this  phenom- 
enal rush  and  unheard-of  demand  ;  or  the  stock  of 
blankets  can  be  quickly  distributed  among  the 
counters  and  thus  expedite  the  sales  and  save  much 
time  for  the  purchasers. 

Now,  the  rush  in  telephone  calls  does  not  come 
in  answer  to  advertisements  offering  bargains ;  does 
not  come  periodically  or  in  any  specified  season  ; 
does  not  come  in  quiet  hours,  and  never  sends  pre- 
vious notice  of  its  coming.  It  arrives  at  the  tele- 
phone exchange  in  the  most  unexpected  moments, 


comes  from  the  very  quarter  least  expected  and  is 
often  due  to  causes  never  dreamed  of  as  likely  to 
occur.  Yet,  "  central's "  customers  swarm  more 
rapidly  about  its  counter  or  position  and  are  far 
more  insistent  on  being  waited  on  instantly  than 
ever  the  buyers  of  blankets  would  consider  good 
form  or  courteous. 

And  the  unfortunate  part  of  the  whole  transaction 
is  that,  if  these  rush  calls  center  in  one  position 
or  in  one  section  or  counter  of  the  switchboard,  it 
is  very  difficult  and  usually  impossible  to  distribute 
them  among  the  other  operators  or  counters  or 
sections.  As  a  rule,  these  panic  rushers  must  be 
taken  care  of  by  the  operators  whose  respective 
positions  are  the  centers  of  swarming,  frenzied  call- 
ers. Had  even  a  brief  notification  been  sent  to  the 
exchange  that  a  rush  could  be  expected,  provision 
might  have  been  planned. 

How  to  anticipate  these  unexpected  panic  rushes 
and  be  fully  prepared  to  expeditiously  handle  the 
enormous  increase  in  calls  is  a  problem  that  some 
of  the  brightest  minds  of  the  country  are  endeavor- 
ing to  solve.  The  modern  telephone  exchange  is 
planned  so  that  "  central  "  can  promptly  take  'Care, 
during  a  brief  period  of  an  hour  or  so,  of  a  very 
large  increase  in  the  average  hourly  load  or  duty. 
Yet  it  is  one  thing  to  temporarily  take  care  of  three 
or  four  times  the  ordinary  average  load,  including  the 
busy  hours,  and  quite  a  different  proposition  to  face  an 
unexpected  increase  ten  times  greater  than  the  av 
erage  duty  and  extending  over  a  period  of  many 
hours  or  even  throughout  several  days. 

NEW    SWINDLING    GAME. 


"  There's  all  sorts  of  ways  of  making  a  living,  and 
I've  seen  many  queer  things  in  this  line,"  says  a 
hospital  attache,  "but  the  strangest  of  all  is  that 
of  being  a  '  fake  relative.'  Don't  know  what  that 
is,  hey?  Well,  neither  did  I  until  I  came  here, 
but  it's  a  great  graft  all  the  same,  and  it  gets  the 
money. 

"  We  are  continually  receiving  at  the  morgue 
here  the  bodies  of  unidentified  men  and  women. 
Death  is  frequently  the  result  of  suicide  or  acci- 
dent. In  either  case  the  newspapers  print  a  pretty 
fair  description  of  the  remains,  which  is  furnished 
by  the  morgue  authorities  in  the  hope  that  it  may 
bring  in  some  relatives  to  identify  the  body,  and 
thus  save  the  county  expense.  Then  the  '  fake  rel- 
atives '  get  in  their  work.  There  is  a  lot  of  these; 
harpies,  but  it  is  seldom  they  interfere  with  one 
another.  They  seem  to  recognize  the  right  of  pre- 
emption, and  the  first  one  on  the  scene  is  usually 
left  free  to  work  the  claim.  The  '  fake  relative ' 
has  studied  the  newspaper  description  so  well  that 
he    can    give    a   reasonably    good    word    picture    of 


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the  appearance  of  the  dead  person.  He  asserts  that 
the  body  is  that  of  a  cousin  or  something  of  that 
sort  and  1-eaves  with  the  avowed  intention  of  mak- 
ing arrangements  for  a  funeral  as  soon  as  the  in- 
quest is  over. 

"  A  day  or  so  later  a  genuine  relative  shows  up, 
and  the  fakir  makes  it  his  business  to  be  near  at 
hand.  He  convinces  the  genuine  mourner  that  he 
is  a  distant  cousin,  and  announces  his  intention 
of  defraying  all  the  expenses  of  the  funeral,  which 
is  welcome  news  to  the  real  relative.  But  he  is 
a  little  short  to-day,  having  given  all  his  spare  cur- 
rency to  the  undertaker  as  a  guarantee  payment, 
and  if  the  mourner  would  like  to  chip  in  $5  or  $10 
for  flowers  or  carriages,  why,  it  would  be  accepta- 
ble. Glad  to  get  out  of  the  heavy  tax  incident  to 
burial,  the  real  relative  generally  unbelts,  and  the 
fakir  disappears  for  a  day  or  two,  until  the  coast 
_is  clear  for  another  operation  of  the  same  kind. 

"  Why  don't  the  hospital  authorities  break  up 
the  practice?  Well,  there's  lots  of  reasons.  One 
is  that  those  who  are  victimized  rarely  make  com- 
plaint." 

4*  ♦  4* 

ACTION    OF    LIGHTNING. 


Sir  Oliver  Lodge  recently  gave,  at  the  British  In- 
stitute of  Architects,  a  practical  demonstration  of 
the  action  of  lightning,  more  especially  as  regarding 
lightning  conductors.  The  electrically  charged 
cloud  was  represented  by  a  thin  sheet  of  metal 
mounted  on  nonconducting  standards  charged  from 
a  battery  at  pleasure,  and  placed  in  a  position  slop- 
ing downwards  from  front  to  back,  so  that  the  model 
lightning  conductors  could  have  their  points  brought 
nearer  to  or  farther  from  the  under  surface  of  the 
"  cloud  "  by  shifting  their  positions  on  the  table. 
Sir  Oliver  Lodge  placed  in  operation  successive 
conductors  of  three  different  substances — copper, 
iron  and  wet  string.  The  copper  was  the  most  in- 
tense and  rapid  conductor,  producing  a  sharp  crack 
at  the  flash  ;  the  iron  took  it  with  less  noise,  the 
wet  string  with  hardly  any,  yet  it  was  efficient  in 
protecting  the  two  other  conductors.  Sir  (  (liver 
Lodge  maintained  that  iron  was  quite  as  efficient  a 
conductor  as  copper — and  more,  that  the  intensity 
of  action  of  copper  was  more  likely  than  iron  to 
set  up  side-flash,  which,  in  protecting  buildings,  had 
been  the  origin  of  most  lightning  accidents.  Sir 
Oliver  illustrated  and  described  his  classification  of 
lightning  into  two  kinds,  "  A-llash  "  and  "  B-flash." 
The  former  was  the  normal  discharge  of  lightning 
from  an  over-charged  cloud  direct  to  the  earth;  the 
B-flash  occurred  when  a  large  cloud  discharged  into 
a  smaller  one,  generally  though  not  necessarily  be- 
low it,  which  was  overcharged  suddenly  and  dis- 
charged   to    earth    with    that    violence.     Sir    (  (liver 


Lodge  proceeded  to  illustrate  why  the  B-flash  might 
be  expected  to  be  more  sudden  and  intense  than  the 
A-flash,  and  proportionately  more  difficult  to  pro- 
tect against,  though  he  would  not  say  that  all  light- 
ning injuries  had  resulted  from  B-flashes. 
3»  .3.  * 
TREE    STUMPS    PRIZED. 


Mention  has  been  made  here  already  of  the  pro- 
cess of  utilizing  the  stumps  of  pine  trees  which  have 
been  left  in  the  ground  by  the  woodchoppers.  This 
has  taken  form  in  an  industry  which  is  being  carried 
on  by  the  Weyerhauser  syndicate,  said  to  be  one 
of  the  largest  lumbering  concerns  in  the  world. 
This  has  just  taken  it  up  and  has  just  bought  out 
the  plants  already  established,  and  is  installing  more. 

All  the  region  about  the  head  of  Lake  Superior 
is  or  was  covered  with  pine  timber,  and  when  this 
was  cut,  the  stumps  have  remained  on  the  ground. 
Pine  stumps  do  not  rot  as  do  those  of  hardwoods, 
and  the  presence  of  these  stumps  has  been  a  serious 
obstacle  to  the  spread  of  farming  in  the  region. 
And  now  comes  the  pine  tar  company  and  offers 
to  clear  a  farm  of  all  its  old  stumps,  or  to  pay  the 
owner  three  dollars  for  every  cord  of  them  that  he 
will  pull  himself.  For  farmers  throughout  thou- 
sands of  acres  this  is  an  inestimable  boon,  and  it 
opens  hundreds  of  thousands  more  acres  as  fast 
as  the  stumps  are  got  out. 

The  company  has  invented  or  applied  existing 
processes  of  distillation  of  wood  to  the  pine  stumps, 
and  is  securing  a  combined  product  of  great  value. 
There  is  a  large  amount  of  turpentine  in  these  dry 
stumps,  a  high  grade  of  lubricating  oil,  a  good 
amount  of  tar,  and  finally  excellent  charcoal. 

The  discovery  that  lubricating  oil  was  to  be  se- 
cured from  stumps  by  carrying  the  distilled  product 
to  its  last  analysis  is  quite  new,  and  no  machines  for 
producing  this  have  yet  been  installed,  but  they  are 
to  be  placed  at  once  in  the  company's  first  plant,  a 
few  miles  south  of  Duluth,  Minn.  Six  large  retorts 
are  already  in  use  and  more  will  be  built  at  once  at 
various  points  in  the  pineries.  Not  only  are  the 
stumps  used,  but  whatever  roots  can  be  got  out  are 
highly  prized  for  their  product. 
*   *   * 

"  Leah  us  not  into  temptation."  No  man  was  ever 
so  far  advanced  into  the  divine  life  as  not  to  need  to 
utter  these  words.  In  fact,  the  holiest  breathe"  this 
petition  with  the  most  frequency.  And  if  an  angel 
should  he  sent  from  heaven  into  the  midst  of  us.  it 
would  he  ever  upon  his  lips. — George  Bowen. 

«|»    4»    *( 

To  be  patient  under  a  heavy  cross  is  no  small  praise : 
to  he  contented  is  more ;  but  to  be  cheerful  is  the  high- 
est pitch  of  Christian  fortitude. — Bishop  Hall 


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If  you  are  a  close  observer  you  will  notice  that  al- 
most all  bronchos  you  see  carry  a  "  brand,"  and  most 
people  recognize  them  by  the  brand  the  moment  they 
see  them.  Every  breed  of  horses,  cows,  sheep  or  hogs 
has  its  special  shape,  color  and  size,  which  mark  its 
particular  place  and  sphere. 

Each  nationality  of  men  has  its  peculiar  character- 
istics in  height  of  forehead,  width  of  cheek,  color 
of  skin,  quality  of  hair,  etc.,  that  locates  the  man  be- 
yond question.  And  have  you  ever  thought  how  ac- 
curately nature  puts  her  trade-mark  upon  everything 
so  that  it  can  scarcely  be  adulterated?  Of  course  the 
Chinaman  could  cut  off  his  queue,  and  put  on  Amer- 
ican clothes,  but  he  is  still  a  Chinaman.  The  Filipino 
in  European  dress  feels  very  awkward.  How  gro- 
tesque and  amusing  it  seems  when  you  see  a  bear  or 
hog  dressed  up  in  a  man's  clothes.  Just  as  unmis- 
takably as  each  and  everything  has  its  place  in  this 
world  and  manifests  itself  conspicuously,  so  do  the 
habits  and  characteristics  of  men,  mentally,  morally 
and  religiously,  bring  themselves  to  the  surface. 

Men  and  women  are  actually  branded.  It  requires 
no  artist  in  this  line  to  detect  a  pious  woman  from  the 
proud  and  arrogant.  A  woman  dressed  in  the  finest 
of  silk  and  rigged  from  top  to  toe  in  all  sorts  of  jew- 
elry may  say  she  is  not  proud.  So  may  a  man  say 
that  his  horses  are  not  breechy  which  carry  the  poke. 
It  is  to  be  presumed  that  the  poke  did  not  make  the 
horse  breechy,  but  it  is  the  very  best  sign  in  the 
world  that  he  is  a  breechy  horse,  or  he  would  not  be 
wearing  it.  Jewelry  and  fine  clothes  may  not  make 
a  man  or  woman  proud,  but  they  are  the  best  signs 


or  evidence  in  the  world  that  such  people  are  proud.  I 
Chains,  wheelbarrows  and  grindstones  on  the  side-j 
walk  indicate  a  hardware  within.  Calicoes,  ginghams  I 
and  muslins  exhibited  in  the  front  window  speak  to  I 
the  casual  observer  that  drygoods  are  for  sale  here. 

So  when  you  see  the  cherry  rose  on  a  man's  face  and  I 
the  red  veins  running  like  spider  legs  over  his  face, 
you  can  guess  that  he  is  branded,  and  when  you  see 
the  yellow  color  of  his  eyes,  and  the  pallor  of  his 
skin,  the  dead,  harsh  look  of  his  once  beautiful  hair, 
sunken  breast,  stooped  shoulders,  slackened  gait,  he 
is  branded  as  a  cigarette  fiend.  Just  as  smallpox, 
measles  and  other  physical  diseases  manifest  them- 
selves, so  moral  and  spiritual  disease  crops  out  prom- 
inently. 

A  man  might  just  as  well  deny  having  the  small- 
pox when  the  blotches  are  on  his  face,  or  the  typhoid 
fever,  when  his  temperature  is  up  to  106,  as  to  deny 
being  dissipated  when  the  above  signs  are  found 
on  him. 

No,  young  man  and  young  woman,  don't  allow  your- 
selves to  be  mistaken  or  deceived.  If  your  character 
is  as  above  reported,  you  are  branded  that  way,  and 
the  people  know  it ;  if  you  are  questionable,  the  world 
knows  it  and  God  knows  it ;  don't  allow  yourselves  to 
be  deceived.  Very  few  men  succeed  in  wearing  false 
faces  any  length  of  time.  You  may  pass  for  more  than 
you  are  worth,  once  in  a  while,  but  when  you  are  found 
out  subsequently,  your  value  depreciates  wonderfully 

fast. 

4*   ♦   ♦ 

BACKBITING. 


In  the  great  circle  of  your  acquaintances  do  you 
know  of  anybody  who  has  the  habit  of  continually 
talking  about  his  fellow-men  in  a  disrespectful  way, 
by  talebearing  and  gossiping  and  by  damaging  mis- 
representations?    This  is  backbiting. 

In  case,  after  you  have  made  a  careful  survey  of 
your  acquaintances,  you  should  determine  on  one  or 
two  characters  as  being  this  sort  of  people,  could 
you  not  get  the  consent  of  your  mind  quietly  to  in- 
form them,  at  your  earliest  convenience,  that  back- 
biting belongs  to  dogs  and  not  to  people,  and  that 
not  only  is  it  the  habit  of  dogs,  but  very  mean  dogs, 
at  that? 

Backbiting"  is  not  characteristic  of  good  citizens, 
much  less  of  good  Christians.  When  a  man  think, 
of  sanctified  Christians  he  would  naturally  concludi 
that  they  have  no  teeth  to  use  in  this  way.  A  good 
Christian  cannot  be  found  nibbling  away  at  the  back 
of  a  brother,  nor  will  he  be  continually  breaking  off 
chunks  of  the  church's  property  and  be  eagerly  gnaw 
ing  away  at  it  as  if  it  belonged  to  him.  Some  pre- 
tended Christians  think  it  their  duty  to  correct  the 
mistakes  of  the  church  members  by  continually  gnaw- 


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ing  away  at  the  property  of  the  church,  and  they  so 
nearly  ruin  their  teeth  by  so  doing  that  they  cannot 
masticate  the  spiritual  food  that  is  given  them  by 
the  pastor  weekly. 

Then  there  are  people  in  the  world  who  are  not 
Christians,  not  even  the  Christian  professors,  who  are 
citizens  of  our  country  and  who  make  themselves  and 
everybody  else  miserable  by  continually  chewing  at 
the  government,  President,  Congress  and  our  local 
lawmakers,  chewing  away  with  all  the  wisdom  of  a 
storebox  loafer,  trying  to  remodel,  reform  and  re- 
construct our  laws  and  our  mistakes. 

In  the  meantime  it  might  occur  to  you  that  you  have 
a  tooth  or  two  in  your  head  that  has  been  doing  some 
•of  this  gnawing,  and  you  might  make  a  dental  in- 
vestigation ;  and  in  case  you  find  such  an  unruly  in- 
cisor or  molar,  just  visit  the  dental  parlor  where  teeth 
are  extracted  without  pain,  and  get  the  thing  removed, 
root  and  branch. 

No,  backbiting  is  the  earmark  of  a  hypocrite  and 

.an  anarchist. 

4,   4.   ♦> 

DO    IT   WELL. 


but  each  man  is  required  to  use  all  the  talent  he  has, 
in  all  the  ways  he  can,  all  the  time  that  is  spared  him. 


There  is  no  course  of  action  or  habit  which  brings 
with  it  more  solid  satisfaction,  or  is  more  profitable 
in  the  long  run,  than  doing  things  well.  A  man  who 
does  the  best  he  can.  as  a  rule,  does  well  not  only  for 
himself  but  for  others. 

The  poor  workman  and  the  careless  workman  is 
the  man  that  is  continually  out  of  employment  and 
hunting  for  a  job.  And  if  he  is  lucky  enough  to  get  a 
position  he  is  able  to  keep  it  only  during  the  busy 
seasons  when  the  employer  must  get  his  work  out 
•one  way  or  another ;  and  when  business  slacks  up 
a  little  and  the  payroll  must  be  shortened  the  foreman 
is  sure  to  discharge  the  poor  workman  and  keep  the 
best  class  of  men  in  his  employ. 

No,  the  day  has  ccme  when  a  man  who  does  well 
succeeds,  and  the  man  who  does  not  care  does  not 
succeed ;  he  does  not  stay  and  he  does  not  have  a 
permanent  job.  Some  one  said,  "  A  thing  worth  do- 
ing is  worth  doing  well."  Why  should  a  thing  be 
•done  at  all  if  it  cannot  be  done  well?  A  thing  poorly 
done  must  either  be  done  over  or  forever  remain  un- 
finished. It  is  no  satisfaction  to  the  man  who  owns 
it,  nor  is  it  a  credit  to  the  man   who  does  it.     It  is 

^r 1  money  poorly  spent;  it  is  valuable  time  lost;  it  is 

valuable  space  unworthily  occupied.  Although  the 
world  is  large,  there  is  no  place  in  it  especially  adapted 
for  "  nothing."  Although  there  is  a  great  deal  of 
time,  there  is  no  time  to  be  poorly  spent.  Although 
there  are  millions  of  people  in  the  world,  none  of 
them  were  designed  to  use  a  part  of  their  talent. 
'Those  who  have  much  talent  are  to  do  the  hard  things, 
and  those  witli  half  a  talent  are  to  do  the  small  things  : 


*  *   * 
THE    BRIGHT    SIDE. 


It  may  be  poetical  fancy  to  think  and  speak  about 
the  bright  side,  but  it  is  more.  It  is  the  duty  of  every 
one  to  look  on  the  bright  side  of  life.  People  who  are 
full  of  sunshine,  cheer  and  life  are  a  boon  to  society, 
and  benefactors  to  the  world. 

Have  you  ever  noticed  men  as  they  meet  ?  One  says, 
"  How  are  you  this  morning,  John  ?  "  And  with  a 
long-drawn  sigh,  as  an  introduction,  right  hand  upon 
hip,  left  hand  upon  breast,  John  replies,  "  Why.  I 
have  the  headache  and  the  backache ;  and  I  do  not 
sleep  well ;  I  can't  eat  anything,  and  my  crops  are 
poor ;  I  am  having  bad  luck  with  my  stock,"  etc. 
With  these  expressions  comes  a  picture  upon  his 
countenance  which  is  a  better  index  to  his  inward 
feelings  than  what  he  has  said.  His  mouth  drawn 
at  the  corners,  his  eyes  half-filled  with  tears,  his  hair 
badly  kept,  all  together  make  his  neighbor  feel  as  if 
the  man  was  ready  to  give  up  the  race.  But  he  is  not 
going  to  die,  don't  be  alarmed.  It  is  only  the  way 
he  has  been  educated  to  take  life. 

Finally,  when  he  gets  through  with  his  lengthy 
description  of  how  he  feels,  he  still  has  enough  breath 
to  say,  "  How  are  you,  James  ?  "  In  the  meantime 
James  has  been  holding  his  energies  back,  hoping 
to  see  his  well-ladened  brother  fully  relieved  of  his 
burden.  Now  is  his  opportunity.  First  of  all  he  takes 
on  the  "Quaker  Oats"  smile;  his  eyes  fairly  glisten 
when  he  advises  his  friend  that  he  is  well  and  happy, 
everything  going  right,  and  that  we  had  such  a  beau- 
tiful day ;  and  he  talks  about  the  singing  birds  and 
the  beautiful  dress  of  nature,  the  clear  sky  and  so 
many  of  our  wonderful  blessings  that  poor  John  has 
dropped  his  hands  and  for  once  straightened  up  and 
forgotten  his  gout  and  dyspepsia,  neuralgia  and  rheu- 
matism. And  thus  James  goes  on  through  the  world, 
day  after  day.  scattering  sunshine  wherever  lie  _ 
enjoying  life  thoroughly,  because  he  is  continually 
making  people  happy  and  lifting  them  to  a  higher 
sphere  in  life.  Cheerful  persons  always  impart  hope, 
happiness  and  joy  to  the  aged,  infirm  and  sick. 

True  happiness  remains  through  sunshine  and 
shadow,  through  darkness  and  light.  It  comes  from 
within.  It  is  a  habit.  It  is  a  cultivated  habit.  It  is 
a  disposition  to  be  coveted.  It  is  possible  for  you  to 
obtain  it.  Why  would  it  not  be  a  good  thing  to  or- 
ganize sunshine  clubs? 

&   $   4 

A  max  without  self-restraint  is  like  a -barrel  with- 
out hoops,  and  tumbles  to  pieces, — Henry  Ward 
lieecher. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— September  27,  1904. 


CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


The  Pennsylvania  railroad  system  is  in  suspense, 
expecting  a  "  walk-out  "  of  their  trainmen  as  a  re- 
sult of  a  ballot  taken  by  the  members  of  the  brother- 
hood of  trainmen.  They  are  demanding  an  increase 
of  wages. 

The  State  Department  is  awaiting  a  reply  from 
Japan  and  Russia,  concerning  the  permanent  disposal 
of  the  Russian  cruiser  Lena  which  is  being  disman- 
tled at  San  Francisco.  If  Russia  requests  and  Japan 
consents  they  will  be  allowed  to  return  with  the  full 
surrender  of  arms.  Should  Japan  not  consent,  she 
cannot  leave  the  United  States  without  committing  a 
breach  of  neutrality. 

A  chemical  laboratory  for  the  examination  of  im- 
ported food  products  has  been  opened  in  New  York 
City   by   the   department   of   agriculture. 
»!*  ♦  ♦!* 

It  is  reported  that  two  thousand  men  were  killed 
and  four  thousand  wounded  in  a  recent  three-days' 
battle  between  the  Uruguayan  government  forces  and 
the  revolutionists. 

*  *  * 

The  town  of  Eldorado,  Texas,  has  been  attacked 
and  nearly  taken  by  immense  clouds  of  mosquitoes  of 
enormous  size.  The  residents  are  tortured  almost  be- 
vond  endurance  and  some  are  reported  to  have  lost 
their  reason  caused  by  the  poisonous  bites  of  the  in- 
sects. 

*  *   * 

At  Wittenburg  College,  Ohio,  at  the  opening  of  the 
fall  term,  four  students  were  seriously,  if  not  fatally, 
injured  in  a  class  rush. 

*  ♦   * 

The  authorities  of  Washington  have  requested  the 
Russian  government  to  release  the  cargoes  of  the 
steamers  Arabia  and  Calchas,  seized  by  the  Vladivos- 
tok squadron.  Although  the  Calchas  is  a  British  ves- 
sel, it  had  an  American  cargo. 

*  *  * 

Fred  H.  Cutting,  formerly  president  of  a  savings 
bank  at  Otto,  Woodbury  county,  Iowa,  after  two  years 
of  hiding,  has  been  arrested  by  Chicago  policemen  and 
is  held  under  fourteen  charges  of  embezzlement,  forg- 
ery and  false  banking,  and  a  shortage  of  $112,000. 

*  ♦   * 

Soldiers  are  starving  to  death  at  Port  Arthur. 

*  ♦  ♦ 

At  Melrose,  Mass.,  a  Boston  electric  car  was  blown 
to  pieces  by  dynamite.     Six  killed,  fifteen  injured. 


As  a  result  of  the  annual  fight  between  the  Fresh- 
man and  Sophomore  classes  of  Purdue  University, 
Lafayette,  Ind.,  Frank  Miller  is  dying  at  his  home. 
The  Sophomores  took  the  Freshman  to  the  Wabash 
river  bridge  and  commanded  him  to  yell  for  the 
Sophomores  or  be  smeared  from  head  to  foot  with 
black  paint.  Upon  his  refusal  to  comply  with  their  de- 
mand he  was  thrown  into  the  river  and  repeatedly 
driven  back  from  the  shore  by  his  opponents.  When 
will  institutions  learn  to  rule  out  barbarism  and 
teach  civilization  and  horse  sense  ?  Our  institutions 
of  learning  should  have  for  their  ultimate  object  the 
making  of  citizens  and  not  bullies. 
•J*  ♦   ♦ 

Joseph  Fallons,  an  eight-year-old  boy  of  Chicago, 
was  bitten  by  a  mad  dog  on  July  4,  and  died  from 
hydrophobia  at  the  Presbyterian  hospital. 

*  *  ♦ 

The  Rev.  Joseph  Tonello,  pastor  of  the  Italian 
church  of  St.  Anthony,  Joliet,  111.,  is  in  receipt  of  a 
personal  gift  of  a  beautiful  double  painting,  represent- 
ing "  Ecce  Homo  "  and  "  Mater.  Dolorosa  "  together 
with  a  personal  letter  of  congratulations  from  Pope 
Pius  X  at  Rome.  This  is  probably  the  first  letter  of 
the  kind  received  by  any  person  in  this  country.  It 
was  the  26th  anniversary  of  the  priesthood  of  Rev. 
Tonello. 

*  *  * 

Two  would-be  assassins  arrived  in  Vera  Cruz,  Mex- 
ico, Sept.  5,  from  Barcelona,  Spain.  It  is  conjectured 
they  had  planned  to  assassinate  President  Roosevelt, 
but  on  their  arrival  they  were  promptly  apprehended, 
and  it  is  believed  that  short  work  will  be  made  of  them. 
The  Mexican  government  has  the  strictest  newspaper 
censorship  in  the  world. 

*  *   * 

Next  week  we  will  be  able  to  tell  the  readers  of] 
the  Inglenook  how  they  can  get  a  first-class  weekly 
farm  paper,  the  rest  of  this  year  and  all  of  next  year, 
at  a  very  reasonable  price,  in  fact  almost  for  nothing. 
We  have  made  arrangements  with  the  "  Farmer's 
Voice  "  by  which  we  expect  to  know  by  next  issue 
just  what  proposition  we  can  make  and  we  anticipate 
a  hearty  response  from  our  farmer  Nookers. 

The  government  of  the  Netherlands  has  finally  de- 
cided to  erect  a  Palace  of  Peace  given  by  Andrew 
Carnegie,  in  the  woods  of  Scheveningen  on  a  hill 
overlooking  the  ocean. 

*  *   * 

The  Right  Rev.  Doctor  Randall  Thomas  Davidson, 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  is  now  on  a  visit  to  the 
United  States.  He  will  attend  the  congress  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  the  United  States,  at 
Washington. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  27.  1904. 


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CROP   REPORT. 


Farm  crop  conditions  over  the  state  of  Wisconsin 
are  satisfactory.  Some  hay  was  injured  in  curing  by 
frequent  showers,  but  the  yield  was  heavy.  Pas- 
tures in  execllent  condition  except  in  the  southern 
and  eastern  part  of  the  State,  where  the  drouth  last 
month  was  especially  severe.  Corn  has  made  rapid 
growth  and  with  warm  weather  will  make  a  fair  show- 
ing for  a  good  crop.  Potatoes  are  doing  well,  making 
rapid  growth  and  not  troubled  by  bugs.  Tobacco 
small,  but  doing  well.  Average  condition  ninety  per 
cent.  Total  acreage  of  sugar  beets  is  estimated  at  15,- 
300  acres,  with  the  largest  acreage  in  Rock,  Chippewa, 
Brown  and  Waukesha  counties.  Apples  are  falling 
badly.  

There  are  few  peaches  in  Berrien  county,  Mich., 
this  year.  Apples  and  potatoes  are  good.  Wheat  will 
average  twelve  to  fifteen  bushels  per  acre.  In  Oak- 
land county  the  potatoes  are  late  and  small.  The 
wheat  is  poor  and  yield  light.  Grasshoppers  in  enor- 
mous numbers.  Apples  in  excellent  condition.  Hay 
will  yield  about  one  ton  per  acre.  Wheat  will  average 
about  three-fourths  of  a  normal  yield  in  Oceana  coun- 
ty.    Apples  about  one-third  short. 


In  Buena  Vista  county,  Iowa,  the  weather  is  very 
favorable  for  corn  and  small  grain.  The  hay  crop  is 
verv  heavy  and  is  put  up  in  good  condition.  The 
oat  crop  is  good  but  troubled  with  red  rust.  Hamilton 
Runty  is  a  paradise  of  crops.  Great  fields  of  waving 
corn  and  small  grains  feast  the  eye  on  all  sides  and  it 
is  little  wonder  that  the  farmers  here  are  happy. 


All  the  grain  of  North  Dakota  looks  well  and  the 
wheat  promises  a  heavy  crop.  There  is  a  great  growth 
of  grass.  Cattle  on  pasture  are  fat.  Wild  hay  yielded 
enormously  in  the  southern  part  of  the  state.  Millet 
and  other  forage  crops  are  late,  but  doing  well.  Hail 
storms  have  damaged  the  crops  of  Grand  Forks  and 
Nelson  counties.  Wheat  is  filling  well,  but  the  flax 
is  not  up  to  the  average.  The  corn  crop  is  likely  to  be 
poor.  The  market  price  of  cattle  is  low,  while  that  of 
horses  is  high.  The  creameries  are  giving  good  re- 
turns and  are  doing  exceedingly  well. 


The  average  yield  of  hay  in  Kansas  is  estimated  at 
one  Ion  per  acre  in  Coffey  county.  The  apple  crop  is 
poor.  Outlook  for  corn  and  potatoes  discouraging. 
The  wheat  crop  is  seriously  damaged  in  Butler  county, 
it  was  not  cut  for  three  weeks  after  ripening.  The 
tatoes  are  rotting  badly.  Apples  one-fourth  of  a 
>p.  The  potatoes  in  Johnson  county  are  rotting  in 
the  ground  because  of  heavy  rains,  and  the  crop  has 
been  damaged  three-fourths. 


A  coon  yield  of  corn  is  promised  in  LaSalle  coun- 
111.     Hav  crop  short  but  harvested  in  good  con- 


dition. Cattle  are  scarce  and  hard  to  get  at  any  price. 
The  crops  in  Schuyler  county  not  up  to  usual  average. 
There  are  very  few  apples  in  Marion  county.  Two 
years  ago  there  were  nearly  a  million  barrels  shipped 
from  this  county,  but  at  present  it  looks  as  if  there 
would  be  hardly  a  carload.  In  Vermilion  county 
there  are  no  large  orchards.  Stock  raising  and  dairy- 
ing is  the  principal  business.  There  is  a  small  acre- 
age of  wheat  in  Coles  county,  but  a  fair  yield.  Pota- 
toes are  excellent ;  apples  light. 


Potatoes  appear  quite  promising  both  east  and 
west.  Advices  indicate  a  liberal  acreage  to  be  har- 
vested in  Colorado  and  parts  of  the  northwest.  The 
acreage  of  the  entire  United  States  shows  a  slight 
increase  over  last  year.  The  potato  market  is  now 
on  a  strictly  midsummer  basis.  However,  prices  gen- 
erally proved   fairly  satisfactory  to  growers. 


The  wool  market  proved  quite  active  during  the 
season  which  is  just  closing.  Owing  to  the  continued 
keen  demand,  as  reported,  over  half  of  the  1905  clip 
will  be  contracted  for  before  the  present  year  is  out. 
Good  western  quarter  blood  is  quoted  at  eighteen 
to  twenty-five  cents  per  pound,  at  the  Atlantic  sea- 
board. 


Eastern  tradesmen  aver  that  the  egg  production 
of  Kansas,  Oklahoma  and  Texas  is  enlarging.  How- 
ever, some  profess  to  believe  that  last  year's  restriction 
in  fall  receipts  from  mid-western  districts  may  be 
repeated  the  next  few  months.  The  wholesale  hand- 
lers of  Michigan  have  organized  an  association. 


Now  that  hop  picking  is  in  progress  in  some  lo- 
calities, dealers  are  inclined  to  reduce  their  early  ex- 
travagant estimates  for  the  Pacific  yield.  This  is  par- 
ticularly true  of  Oregon.  Recent  contracts  for  hops 
on  the  Pacific  coast,  were  largely  at  eighteen  and 
twenty   cents   per   pound. 


The  1904  onion  crop  is  being  bothered  exceedingly 
by  maggots.  This  is  true  in  Wisconsin  and  Mich- 
igan, as  well  as  in  New  York  and  other  eastern  sec- 
tions. Comparatively  few  complaints  are  made  of 
smut.  Onion  markets  generally  are  in  a  healthy  con- 
dition. 


CANNING  interests  claim  there  will  be  a  smaller 
tomato  crop  available  this  year  than  past,  when  the 
output  of  the  United  States  reached  10.150,000  cases. 
The  reduction  in  acreage  in  Maryland  ranges  from 
twenty  to  forty  percent. 


\>  1  i  RDING  to  officials  of  the  Ozark  fruit  growers' 
association,  the  Texas.  Arkansas.  Indian  Territory  and 
Missouri  peach  crop  this  season  is  three  times  as 
large  as  any  previous  year.  The  association  is  seek- 
ing to  enlarge  its  foreign  outlet  tor  Elbertas. 


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The  Inglenook  Nature  Study  Club 


This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various  Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized 
over  this  country.     Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.     Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time, 
J    taking  the   work   up   with   the   current   issue.     Back  numbers  cannot  be  furnished.     Any  school  desiring  to  or- 
.  •    ganize  a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  111. 


THE    EARLY    OWL. 


An  owl  once  lived  in  a  hollow  tree, 
And  he  was  as  wise  as  wise  could  be. 
The  branches  of  learning  he  didn't  know 
Could  scarce  on  the  tree  of  knowledge  grow. 
He  knew  the  tree  from  branch  to  root, 
And  an  owl  like  that  could  afford  to  hoot. 

And  he  hooted — until,  alas!  one  day, 

He  chanced  to  hear  in  a  casual  way, 

An  insignificant  little  bird 

Making  use  of  a  term  he  had  never  heard. 

He  was  flying  to  bed  in  the  dawning  light 

When  he  heard  her  sing  with  all  her  might: 

"Hurray!     Hurray!  for  the  early  worm!" 

"Dear  me,"  said  the  owl,  "what  a  singular  term! 

I  would  look  it  up  if  it  weren't  so  late, 

I  must  rise  at  dusk  to  investigate. 

Early  to  bed  and  early  to  rise 

Makes  an  owl  healthy  and  stealthy  and  wise!  " 

So  he  slept  like  an  honest  owl  all  day. 
And  rose  in  the  early  twilight  gray. 
And  went  to  work  in  the  dusky  light 
To  look  for  the  early  worm  at  night. 
He  searched  the  country  for  miles  around, 
But  the  early  worm  was  not  to  be  found, 

So  he  went  to  bed  in  the  dawning  light 
And  looked  for  the  "  worm  "  again  next  night. 
And  again  and  again  and  again  and  again 
He  sought  and  he  sought,  but  all  in  vain, 
Till  he  must  have  looked  for  a  year  and  a  day 
For  the  early  worm  in  the  twilight  gray. 

At  last  in  despair  he  gave  up  the  search 
And  was  heard  to  remark  as  he  sat  on  his  perch 
By  the  side  of  his  nest  in  the  hollow  tree: 
"The  thing  is  as  plain  as  night  to  me — 
Nothing  can  shake  my  conviction  firm, 
There's  no  such  thing  as  the  early  worm." 

— Selected. 

CLASS    AVES— ORDER    INSESSORES. 


Cross-bill  and  Horn-bill. 
The  Cross-bill  family  are  distinguished  by  crossing 
of  the  points  of  the  beak,  and  a  horny  scoop  at  the 
tip  of  the  tongue.  This  anomalous  form  of  mandible 
does  not  particularly  unfit  it  for  eating  insects  and 
soft  fruit,  but  it  peculiarly  adapts  it  to  obtain  food 
from  the  seed  of  the  pine  and  fir  cones.  These 
seeds  are  concealed  beneath  hard  scales.  To  secure 
them  the  bird,  clinging  to  the  slender  twig  with  one 
foot,  grasps  the  cone  with  the  other,  then  inserting 
its  bill  between  the  scales ;  by  drawing  the  lower 


mandible  sideways,  the  scales  are  pried  apart,  whe 
the  tongue,  which  is  furnished  with  a  peculiar  horn; 
scoop,  darts  into  the  opening,  dislodges  the  see> 
and  carries  it  to  the  mouth.  It  can  also  extrac; 
kernels  from  hard  shells  with  its  powerful  beat] 
It  will  cut  an  apple  in  two  to  get  at  the  pips.  Whe: 
confined  in  a  cage  it  skillfully  draws  the  wires  fror 
the  wood  and  liberates  itself.  Cross-bills  are  brighl 
happy  birds.  They  fly  in  small  flocks,  often  visit 
ing  gardens  in  the  North,  playing  among  ever 
greens.  Their  movements  are  very  quick ;  they  dar 
off  as  suddenly  as  they  come.  There  are  three  spe 
cies  of  them  in  this  country. 

The   Horn-bill. 

The  Horn-bills  of  Africa  and  southern  Asia  ar 
conspicuous  for  the  size  of  their  bills,  which,  how 
ever,  are  so  filled  with  air  cavities  as  to  be  ver; 
light.  And  in  the  case  of  the  Rhinoceros  Horn-bi 
the  bill  is  surmounted  by  an  extraordinary  protuber 
ance  which  looks  like  another  bill  turned  upsid 
down. 

The  upper  protuberance  is  hollow,  and  it  is  sup 
posed  that  it  serves  as  a  sort  of  sounding  board  am 
by  means  of  reverberation  adds  force  to  the  cr 
of  the.  bird.  The  nest-building  habit  of  the  two 
horned  Horn-bill  is  exceedingly  odd.  Having  select 
ed  a  hollow  tree  the  female  takes  her  place  withii 
the  hole  and  makes  her  nest  of  her  own  feathers 
while  the  male  from  the  outside  plasters  up  the  hoi 
with  mud,  leaving  only  a  very  small  opening,  suf 
ficiently  large  for  the  beak  of  the  imprisoned  female 
This  serves  as  a  means  of  ventilation  and  also  a; 
a  window  through  which  her  mate  feeds  her,  unti 
her  young  family  is  fully  fledged,  and  during  thi 
time  she  requires  constant  care  from  her  attentiv 
companion  to  satisfy  her  ravenous  appetite.  Ther< 
are  several  species  of  these  in  India  and  Africa 
*  *  * 
HAVE    SINGING    MATCHES. 


Queer  features  of  Chinese  life  are  the  bird-sing 
ing  contests  which  are  frequent  in  Chefu  during  thi 
summer  months.  At  first  the  birds  were  used  b; 
thrifty  merchants  of  Chefu  merely  to  advertise  am 
attract  attention  to  their  wares,  but  of  late  years  th 
custom  has  developed  until  the  morning  song  festiva 
is  .1  part  of  the  life  of  the  busy  little  city. 


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Chefu  has  a  splendid  harbor  and  the  climate  there  is 

finer   than   in   any   part   of   China.       Every   morning 

crowds  of  people  flock  to  the  qua}-  at  an  hour  when 

Americans  are  still  sleeping,  to  await  the  arrival  of  the 

liztj  merchants  with  their  pet  songsters.     It  is  as  much  an 

event  to  many  of  the  natives  as  a  baseball  game  is  to 

the  average   American.     Down  the   streets  come   the 

merchants  with  their  bird  cages  carefully  wrapped  in 

dark  coverings.     When  they  reach  the  water  front  they 

all  remove  these  somber-looking  wrappings  together. 

irni In  an  instant  the  air  is  filled  with  exquisite  warblings 

isiand  thrills  from  the  throats  of  a  hundred  happy  birds 

iric  to  whom  the  fresh  breezes  from  the  harbor  and  the 

flood  of  morning  sunlight  suddenly  let  in  on  their  dark 

heirless  acts  like  a  tonic.     Many  travelers  in  the  far  East 

unsay  that  it  is  unlike  any  music  they  have  ever  heard 

night  before. 

These  birds  seem  to  be  peculiarly  gifted,  and  under 
the  invigorating  influence  of  the  bracing  sea  air  are 
() datable  to  perform  vocal  feats  that  put  other  birds'  efforts 
ttspiin  the  shade.  They  are  a  source  of  profit  to  their 
owners,  for  a  board  of  judges  is  present  at  all  these 
morning  musicales  to  confer  prizes  upon  these  song- 
jjj  a[  sters,  who  have  acquitted  themselves  most  artistically. 
Ii0,  The  birds  seem  to  be  aware  of  this,  for  they  sing  with 
,rrall  the  power  of  their  little  lungs,  in  an  evident  effort 
om-bi  not  to  be  surpassed  by  their  many  rivals. 

*   *   * 
npsill  NATURE'S   MARVEL   iHVniV   ;:, 


There  are  few  things  in  nature  more  wonderful 
mill  than  the  common  impulse  which  seizes  those  millions 
a  of  undeveloped  insects  living  in  dark  tunnels  under- 
it  tut  neath  the  ground  and  urges  them  to  cut  their  way  up- 
selti  ward,  that  they  may  complete  their  appointed  life  in 
the  upper  air.  Stirred  by  this  strange  unrest,  the 
athec  mighty  host  begins  to  move.  What  engineering  skill 
IkIio  directs  their  course  aloft?  What  instinct  guides  their 
ii| movements  and  enables  them  with  unerring  accuracy 
In  burrow  to  the  sunlight? 

If  we  suppose  that  a  pupa  reaches  the  surface  before 
il  is  quite  prepared  to  transform  or  when  the  surface 
reached  that  weather  or  other  conditions  retard  the 
flge  1"   the   winged   form,  we  have  the   influences 
il  require  il  to  build  a  shelter.     Its  manner  of  pro- 
ding   is   interesting   and   ingenious.      It   brings   up 
its  burrow  a  little  ball  of  mud  which   it  carries 
een  its  mouth  and  strong  forepaws.     The  latter 
admirably    designed    for    digging.      The     pellets 
e  placed  atop  of  one  another,  as  a  mason  would  lay 
gies    while   building   a    circular    tower.      They    arc 
listened  by  saliva,  which  serves  as  a  sort  of  cement, 
il  are  pushed   down  upon   each  other   by   the  head 
and  feet,  and  thus  adhere  tenaciously. 

The  inside  is  smoothed  by  continued  motion  of  the 
jaws,  as  a  plasterer  spreads  mortar  upon  a  wall.     It 


is  not  varnished,  however,  as  some  naturalists  have 
asserted.  The  top  is  closed  and  the  builder  awaits 
within  the  signal  to  emerge,  whereat  it  breaks  through 
the  top,  or  occasionally  the  side  wall.  Like  a  frontier 
pioneer,  it  leaves  its  house  and  moves  on,  joining  the 
mighty  procession  of  its  migrant  fellows.  The  huts 
stand  empty  in  the  silent  cicada  city,  like  an  aban- 
doned mining  town  whose  "  boom  has  burst,"  or  like 
the  winter  quarters  of  an  army  when  the  spring  cam- 
paign calls  afield. 

♦   *$•   «$» 
A   FUNNY   FISH. 


The  funniest  little  fellow  in  salt  water  is  the  puffer, 
or  swell  fish.     Fisherman  call  him  the  blow  fish. 

When  he  is  swimming  around  at  ease,  with  nothing 
to  alarm  him,  he  looks  queer  enough,  for  the  skin  of 
his  abdomen  is  all  loose  and  wrinkled,  and  he  has  such 
a  funny  little  tail  and  such  ridiculous  little  fins  and 
such  a  big.  three-cornered  head  that  he  looks  entirely 
absurd.  His  mouth,  instead  of  being  big  and  gaping, 
as  most  fish  mouths  are,  is  only  a  tiny  round  hole  at 
the  end  of  a  pointed,  conical  snout.  Out  of  this  cir- 
cular mouth  protrude  his  teeth,  like  those  of  a  rabbit. 

He  would  be  about  as  homely  a  fish  as  could  be 
made  if  it  were  not  for  the  beautiful  orange  and  yel- 
low and  silver  coloring  that  play  all  over  him. 

But  queer  as  he  looks  when  he  is  at  ease,  it  is  only 
when  he  is  frightened  or  excited  that  he  becomes 
really  funny.  If  he  is  hooked,  for  instance,  he  comes 
to  the  surface  grinding  those  protruding  teeth  so 
that  the  sound  may  be  heard  a  good  many  feet  away. 
And  then,  as  soon  as  the  hand  touches  him,  he  begins 
to  grunt  hoarsely,  and  with  each  grunt  he  swells  a 
bit,  till  within  a  few  moments  he  has  puffed  himself 
so  full  of  air  that  he  is  quite  round  and  firm,  like  a 
ball.  So  thoroughly  does  he  distend  himself  with  air 
that  when  the  fishermen  hurl  him  at  the  water  with  all 
their  force,  as  they  often  do,  he  will  bounce  just  like 
a  rubber  ball. 

If  he  is  dropped  into  the  water  alter  blowing  him- 
self full  of  air,  he  floats  on  it  as  lightly  as  thistledown, 
and  he  will  stay  that  way  until  he  has  assured  himself 
that  danger  has  gone  by.  He  does  the  same  when  he 
is  pursued  by  other  fish.  And.  as  he  floats  almost 
entirely  out  of  water,  with  only  a  little  bit  of  his  hard, 
spiny  body  sunk  under  the  surface,  very  few  fish  can 
hurt  him  once  he  is  inflated. 

4»  «$.  £ 

Till';  horizon  of  life  is  broadened  ehiellx   by  the  en- 
largement of  heart. — Hugh  Black. 
*  *  * 
Not  in  the  clamor  of  the  street, 
Xot  in  the  shouts  and  plaudits  of  the  throng, 
But  in  ourselves,  are  triumph  and  defeat. 

— Henry  IVadsworth  LongfelU 


932 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  27,  1904. 


H:OME    DEPARTMENT 


»'i 


THE    FAITHFUL    WIFE. 


Mrs.  Marie  E.  E.  Shultz,  907  North  2nd  Ave.,  Ft.  Dodge,  Iowa, 
translated  the  following  from  German.  She  does  not  know 
the  name  of  the  author. — Ed. 

Who  is  man's  truest  comrade? 

Who  shares  his  every  fate? 
Who  helps  to  bear  the  burdens 

That  him  so  oft  o'ertake? 
Who  stays  and  never  falters, 

When  danger  lurks  so  near, 
When  in  the  battle  royal 

Life  seems  so  hard  to  bear? 

When  in  the  darkest  hour, 

By  cruel  fate  oppressed, 
Where  did  your  soul  find  comfort, 

Encouragement  and  rest? 
When  friends  from  you  departed, 

The  world  looked  cold  and  chill. 
Who  was  the  friend  so  faithful 

That  remained  there  good  or  ill? 

When  on  life's  stormy  voyage 

Your  bark  was  tempest  tossed 
And  on  the  surging  billows 

Your  little  craft  seemed  lost; 
When  the  lightnings'  flash  and  fire 

Surrounded  keel  and  mast, 
Who  stayed  with  you  undaunted, 

So  bravely  to  the  last? 

If  death  could  answer  questions, 

When  in  his  cold  embrace, 
He'd  tell  of  love's  devotion 

That  time  cannot  efface. 
Of  a  comrade  true  and  loyal, 

The  greatest  boon  in  life; 
She  needs  no  introduction — 

It  is  "  The  Faithful  Wife." 

♦    *i*   *$• 
A    GREAT    SHEEP    COUNTRY. 


BY   HOWARD   H.    KEIM. 

Some  days  ago  the  writer  came  home  from  a  visit 
to  middle  Tennessee.  In  the  counties  bordering  on 
the  famous  Cumberland  table  land,  the  "  woods  pas- 
ture "  is  fine.  There  are  tens  of  thousands  of  acres 
of  veritable  sheep  paradise  with  almost  no  sheep  at 
all.  But,  of  course,  there  is  a  reason.  The  indolent 
white  man,  the  lazy  "  nigger  "  and  the  dogs  of  both 
are  hindrances. 

Winter  wheat  and  oats  are  the  only  feed  that  are 
required  except  in  bad  "  spells "  of  weather,  when 
sheep  should  be  given  some  good  clover  hay.  In  sum- 
mer the  flocks  may  range  the  woods  and  feed  on  the 


rich  grasses  and  pea  vines.  In  autumn  they  may  b 
taken  in  on  tame  pasture  of  winter  wheat  and  oats 
and  ewes  and  early  lambs  will  thrive  on  this  cheap  feed 
By  the  time  spring  is  well  established  the  lambs  ar. 
worth  from  four  to  six  dollars  a  head  to  go  to  mar 
ket  and  the  ewes  may  be  shorn  of  nearly  two  dollar 
worth  of  wool  and  then  be  put  out  again  in  the  wood 
to  pasture.  It  would  be  necessary  to  have  some  on. 
interested  in  keeping  watch  with  a  good  shotgun 
This  would  largely  cut  out  the  prowling  cur  an( 
would  add  a  valuable  industry  to  this  fair  climate 

The  winters  in  Tennessee  are  very  mild,  seldon 
having  a  heavy  freeze;  only  frost  enough  to  clea 
the  atmosphere  and  make  it  healthful. 

In  visiting  a  leading  wool  market  in  Nashville,  w. 
found  that  wool,  like  we  sold  at  home  in  Indiana  a 
twenty  cents  per  pound,  was  bringing  twenty-fivi 
cents  per  pound  in  Tennessee.  In  some  sections  o 
this  great  country  it  means  ignorance  not  to  b 
well-fed  and  well-clothed.  In  the  milder  climate  o 
the  southland,  living  conditions  are  ideal  at  a  mini 
mum  cost  for  labor,  food  and  fuel,  and  there  is  a  feel 
ing  of  comfort  with  plenty  of  time  to  be  wise. 

Wild  Rose  Sheep  Farm,  Ladoga,  Ind. 


FLOWERS   AND    SICKNESS. 


The  old  notion  still  holds  among  many  people  o; 
this  and  other  lands  that  flowers  are  not  wholesomi 
in  a  sleeping  room.  Certain  plants,  among  which  an 
the  geranium,  the  lily,  and  the  begonia,  are  supposec 
for  some  unexplained  cause  to  give  off  an  odor  a- 
night  especially  obnoxious.  Scientific  knowledge  anc 
numerous  experiments  have  repeatedly  disposed  o 
these  delusions,  and  it  is  a  great  pity  that  peopli 
should  deprive  themselves  of  the  pleasure  and  sati$i 
faction  to  be  derived  from  flowers  for  reasons  whicf 
are  not  reasons  at  all.  It  is  true  there  are  a  few 
tropical  plants  which  give  off  a  perfume  unhealth 
ful  to  breathe  at  any  time,  but  these  plants  are  ra# 
and  only  number  a  few  of  tens  of  thousands  at  th< 
most.  The  green  leaves  of  all  flowers  are,  on  th< 
other  hand,  most  beneficial,  since  they  purify  the  al 
Even  the  doctors  are  beginning  to  recognize  that  the) 
may  aid  in  the  cure  of  disease,  and  a  hospital  in  New 
York  has  a  flower  ward  which  is  used  for  the  treat- 
ment of  suitable  cases. 

Suppose  one  is  confined  to  his'bedroom  with  a  bac 
cold,  an  attack  of  influenza,  bronchitis,  or  even  cofc 


' 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  27,  1904. 


933 


umption,  he  cannot  do  better  than  surround  him- 
self with  pots  of  any  kind  of  plant  that  has  a  pro- 
usion  of  green  leaves.  Geraniums  are  the  least  valu- 
able in  this  respect,  and  strong-smelling  flowers,  like 
nusk,  should  be  avoided.  How  the  leaves  act  as 
herapeutic   agents    is    easily   explained.      What    ren- 

,,.  l  lers  the  air  of  a  room  stuffy  and  unwholesome  is  the 
arbonic  acid  we  breathe  forth.  Moreover,  they  give 
)ff  in  vapor  the  water  taken  up  by  the  roots,  and  thus 
ist  the  part  of  a  bronchitis  kettle.  Consequently  the 
>atient  is  refreshed,  and,  provided  there  is  suffici- 
jncy  of  the  plants,  he  is  exhilarated.  Even  people 
n  health  would  do  well  to  give  this  pleasant  cure  a 
rial,  especially  during  the  months  when  so  much 
ime  is  spent  indoors,  and  when  ventilation  is  at  its 
vorst.  They  would  find  themselves  suffering  less  en- 
mi,   fewer  headaches,   fewer  colds,   and   would   also 

|(j„  letter  resist  the  attack  of  serious  lung  diseases. 
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MIXED    PICKLES. 


BY   MINNIE  B.   FORNEY. 


Two  gallons  of  green  tomatoes  sliced.     One  gallon 
bi  if  medium-sized  cucumbers ;  cut  the  cucumbers  cross- 
sic  0  vise,  then  lengthwise  about  two  inches  long.     One- 
mini  lalf  gallon  of  large,  white  onions  and  one  gallon  of 
i<el;mall  whole  onions.     Four  gallons  of  cabbage    (cut 
is  for  slaw).     Mix  all  together  with  one  cup  of  salt, 
et  stand  twenty-four  hours,  drain  off,  then  add  one 
)int  of  grated  horseradish,  one-half  pound  of  white 
nustard  seed,  two  teacupsful  of  ground  black  pepper, 
me  ounce  of  celery  seed,  two  ounces,  each,  of  ground 
:innamon  and  tumeric.     Mix  all  together  well.     Boil 
me  and  one-half  gallons  of  good  cider  vinegar  and 
lour  over   the   mixture,   let   stand  over   night,   drain 
>ff,   boil   vinegar   again   and   pour   on   pickles,    let   it 
..tand  over  night,  drain  off  and  boil  again ;  the  third 
ime  add  one  pound  of  sugar,  then  put  on  the  pickles 
me  pound  of  ground  mustard,  moistened  with  some  of 
lie  vinegar,  and  add  when  it  is  cold.     Put  away  and 
t  is  ready  for  use. 
Kearney,  Nebr. 

*$*    *$♦   4* 


DILL   PICKLES. 


In  order  to  have  the  best  dill  pickles  one  must 
lave  nice,  large,  straight  cucumbers,  such  as  White 
Spine  Improved  or  Improved  Long  Green.  These 
nust  in  every  case  be  planted  on  good  soil,  sandy 
nam  which  has  recently  been  in  clover  sod,  prefer- 
ilile.  Keep  off  the  bugs,  spray  them  with  bordeaux 
nixlure.  As  to  the  dill,  a  five-cent  paper  of  new  seed, 
wvn  anywhere  in  any  kind  of  soil  where  it  is  given 
nly  half  a  chance,  will  produce  plenty  of  dill.  Then 
)esides  it  is  liable  to  reproduce  itself  like  weeds  from 


year  to  year  if  you  do  not  take  pains  to  eradicate  it. 
Now  gather  a  lot  of  nice,  smooth,  straight  cucumbers 
about  seven  inches  long,  soak  them  twenty-four  hours 
in  clean,  fresh  well  water,  then  brush  them  clean  with  a 
stiff  brush,  and  pack  in  layers  interspersed  with  dill 
plants.  Of  course  these  must  all  be  thoroughly 
cleansed.  When  the  barrel  or  jar  is  well  packed 
weight  down  well  with  a  heavy  stone  and  cover  and 
pour  over  all  a  weak  brine.  ( A  cupful  of  salt  to  a 
bucketful  of  water.)  In  ordinary  weather  the  pickles 
will  be  good  to  eat  in  ten  days  or  two  weeks. 
4>  &  4» 
SWEET    PICKLES. 


BY  LIDA  CADWALLADER. 

One-half  bushel  green  tomatoes ;  six  large  onions, 
sliced.  Sprinkle  through  them  one  teacup  of  salt,  let 
stand  over  night,  then  drain  good.  Take  two  quarts 
of  water,  one  quart  of  vinegar,  in  which  boil  the  to- 
matoes and  onions  five  minutes;  drain  good  again. 
Take  five  quarts  of  vinegar,  two  pounds  of  brown 
sugar,  one-half  pound  ground  mustard  (wet  the  mus- 
tard in  some  cold  vinegar  before  stirring  into  the  hot 
vinegar),  two  tablespoonsful,  each,  of  cloves,  ginger 
and  cinnamon,  one-half  teaspoonful  of  cayenne  pep- 
per. In  this  boil  the  tomatoes  fifteen  minutes.  It  will 
keep  in  open  jars  but  best  if  sealed  airtight. 

Prairie  City.  Iowa. 

♦  •}>  ♦ 
CHOW-CHOW. 


BY    MRS.    SALLIE  V.    SMUCKER. 

One  peck  of  green  tomatoes,  one  peck  of  ripe  ones. 
One  dozen  of  onions ;  one  dozen  green  peppers  :  three 
heads  of  cabbage.  Chop  it  all  fine  and  salt,  leave  it 
stand  over  night  and  drain  well.  One  teaspoonful, 
each,  of  black  pepper,  white  mustard,  celery  seed, 
ground  cloves  and  ground  mustard ;  two  of  ground 
cinnamon  ;  three  of  tumeric,  and  three  pounds  of 
sugar.  Put  enough  vinegar  on  to  cover  and  boil  one 
hour. 

Timbcrville,  J 'a. 

4»    ♦    + 
SWEET    APPLE    CRICKLES. 


BY   MRS.    A.    F.    YOUNG. 

One  pint  of  good  vinegar,  one  quart  of  water,  one 
tablespoonful,  each,  of  whole  cloves  and  allspice.  Put 
in  granite  kettle  and  boil.  Take  seven  pounds  of 
sweet  apples,  pared  and  quartered,  drop  in  a  few  at 
a  time  and  cook  until  tender.  Then  put  the  fruit  into 
cans,  using  a  wire  ladle.  When  all  the  apples  have 
been  cooked,  pour  over  the  remainder  of  the  vinegar 
and  seal.     Crab  apples  may  Ik-  used  the  same  way. 

Prairie  Cilv.  Iowa. 


934 


THE    INGLENOOK.— September  27,  1904. 


OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE 


BONNIE    WAYNE. 


The  next  morning  we  got  up  awful  early,  and  the 
sun  had  not  come  up  yet  when  we  had  brexfus,  and 
when  Grandma  came  out  to  brexfus  she  had  her  lit- 
tle red  shawl  around  her  shoulders  and  her  specks 
upon  the  top  of  her  head.  Frank  had  been  to  the  barn 
and  had  put  the  harness  on  the  ponies  and  he  had  fed 
them  a  good  brexfus.  Mr.  Marshall  got  the  canvas 
from  the  binder  and  some  ropes  from  the  hay  fork 
in  the  barn.  'Nen  he  hunted  all  the  fishpoles  that  he 
could  find  around  the  place  and  put  them  in  the 
spring  wagon.  Mabel  hunted  the  camp  stools,  rugs, 
some  pieces  of  carpet,  a  whole  lot  of  comforts  and 
a  cot  for  Grandma  to  sleep  on,  for  they  sard  that  she 
could  not  sleep  on  the  ground  like  the  rest  of  us. 

While  all  this  wuz  a  going  on  we  wondered  where 
Luke  wuz,  and  I  thought  maybe  he  wuzn't  up  yet, 
and  what  do  you  think  ?  Here  he  came  as  fast  as  he 
could  run  and  he  said,  "  I've  got  'em,"  and  he  held 
out  an  old  tin  can,  and  it  had  a  lot  of  ugly,  long, 
wiggly  fish  worms  in  it.  I  said,  "  We're  not  going 
to  have  those  things  along,"  and  then  Mr.  Marshall 
said  that  they  were  to  put  on  the  hooks  to  get  the 
fish  to  bite,  and  then  I  understood  that  they  had  to 
go  along,  so  Luke  ran  down  to  the  wagon  and  put 
them  under  the  seat. 

Mrs.  Marshall  had  sent  Frank  to  the  barn,  after 
that  big  basket  what  Mr.  Marshall  uses  to  carry 
corn  to  the  horses,  and  when  he  brought  it  to  the 
house  she  just  filled  it  with  bread  and  pies  and  cakes 
and  all  of  the  goodest  things  that  she  had  made  the 
day  before.  'Nen  Mabel  and  I  had  to  take  a  sack 
and  go  to  the  orchard  and  get  a  lot  of  those  yellow 
harvest  apples,  and  some  of  those  big  red  peaches 
that  grow  down  by  the  dryhouse,  and  we  put  most 
more  of  'em  in  the  sack  than  we  could  carry.  And 
when  we  got  back  pretty  near  to  the  porch,  there 
was  Grandma  standing  up  on  a  chair  with  a  pair  of 
scissors,  cutting  off  the  nicest  bunches  of  grapes  until 
she  had  a  tin  pail  pretty  near  full. 

Mr.  Marshall  came  into  the  room  and  said,  "  All 
aboard  for  the  lake."  'Nen  we  began  to  hurry.  We 
gathered  up  the  things  that  we  had  to  eat  and  filled 
the  spring  wagon  full,  'nen  Grandma  said,  "  Don't 
forget  to  lock  the  house."  'Nen  Mabel  says,  "  My 
goodness,  ma,  we  didn't  put  the  cats  out."  So  Mrs. 
Marshall  said,  "  Children,  you  get  the  cats  out,  while 
I  get  Luke's  overcoat."  'Nen  Mabel  and  I  run  into 
the    kitchen    and    looked    under    the    stove,    and    sure 


enough  there  wuz  the  cats,  but  we  ran  so  fast  tha 
it  scared  the  cats  and  they  ran  into  the  other  roor 
and  we  ran  after  them  as  fast  as  we  could,  and  on 
of  the  cats  ran  under  the  bed  and  the  other  one  be 
hind  the  piano.  Mabel  got  the  broomstick  and  w 
got  after  the  one  that  wuz  under  the  bed  and  hi 
eyes  looked  just  as  green,  and  he  would  spit  at  us  an 
make  big  tails,  and  pretty  soon  out  he  ran,  and  u; 
the  stairs  he  went  and  we  just  laughed  and  laughec 

Mr.  Marshall  and  Frank  would  holler,  "  Hurrv  uj 
here."  'Nen  Grandma  would  say,  "  Well  wait,  th 
children  can't  get  the  cats  out."  When  we  got  u 
stairs  we  couldn't  find  old  Nigger  for  the  longesj 
time,  and  pretty  soon  when  I  looked  behind  the  dooij 
he  said,  "  Meow !  "  and  ran  between  my  feet  ani 
down  the  stairs  again  and  we  went  so  fast  down  th 
stairs  that  it  scared  him  and  he  jumped  through  th 
window  and  broke  the  window  glass,  and  Mrs.  Mar 
shall  had  to  take  Frank's  old  coat  and  stuff  in  th 
window,  and  she  said,  "  Now  I'll  worry  about  tha 
all  the  time  I  am  gone,  for  fear  some  burglar  will  ge 
in  to-night  and  steal  something." 

Just  as  we  got  in  the  wagon,  and  Luke  opened  th 
gate,  Mr.  Marshall  said,  "  Here  comes  the  haymaker.' 
I  didn't  know  what  he  meant,  'cause  I  couldn't  se 
nobody,  and  Mabel  told  me  that  he  meant  that  th 
sun  was  coming  up.  And  there  it  wuz  just  about  a 
big  as  our  little  wash  tub.  just  right  on  the  tops  o 
the  trees  down  in  the  woods. 

Mr.  Marshall  and  Frank  sat  on  the  front  seat  am 
drove  the  ponies.  Grandma  and  Mrs.  Marshall  sa 
on  the  back  seat,  and  they  made  a  little  seat  betweei 
them  for  Mabel  and  Luke  and  I.  I  held  Dora  01 
my  lap  pretty  near  all  the  way.  When  we  went  pas 
the  orchard  old  Bux  was  standing  there  grinning,  a, 
much  as  to  say  he  wanted  to  go  too.  Mr.  Marshal 
said,  "  Now  go  back,  Bux,  like  a  good  fellow ;  yen 
watch  things  till  we  come  back."  Old  Bux  droppec 
his  head  and  went  back  towards  the  house,  but  afte: 
we  got  a  way  down,  pretty  near  to  Mr.  Bradley's 
Luke  said,  "  Why  here  is  old  Bux,  trotting  along  urn 
der  the  wagon."  'Nen  we  couldn't  drive  him  ba£| 
any  more  so  we  had  to  let  him  go  along. 

We  didn't  get  to  the  lake  till  pretty  near  ten  o'clock 

We  drove  into  a  nice  woods,  where  there  wuz  lots  01 

shade  and  nice  green  grass.     Mr.  Marshall  said 

think  this  would  be  a  nice  place  for  a  camp."     01 

.Bux  ran  down  to  the  lake  and  jumped  in  and  coole.6 

(Continued  on  page  936.) 


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THE    I NGLENOOK.— September  27,  1904. 


935 


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Below  are  some  questions  sent  to  the  Nookman 
rhich  he  is  not  able  to' answer  satisfactorily,  and  he 
jrns  them  over  to  the  large  family. 

First,  A  Nooker  from  India  wants  one  of  our 
amily  to  invent  a  way  to  convert  cocoanut  shells  into 
ouse  roofing.  As  a  suggestion  to  think  from,  we 
ote  that  the  first  must' be  a  softening  process  and  the 
econd  a  hardening  process.  The  rest  is  assured. 
Biere  is  a  fortune  in  it. 

Second,  A  Nooker  from  New  Jersey  wants  to  know 
ae  proper  time  for  transplanting  a  rubber  tree,  also 
f  slipping  it. 

Third,  A  Nooker  from  Idaho  wants  the  song  with 
le  chorus :     "  Be  home  early  to-night,  my  dear  boy." 

Fourth,  A  Nooker  from  Virginia  wants  to  sub- 
:ribe  for  a  paper  that  is  especially  devoted  to  the  in- 

rests  of  farm  laborers. 

Anyone  who  will  be  kind  enough  to  send  us  the  an- 
wer  to  any  or  all  of  these  questions  will  not  only  con- 
er  a  favor  upon  the  editor,  but  upon  the  inquirer  as 
/ell. 


Mil 9    What  is  known  of  the  early  history  of  the  Sphinx? 

tt   was  probably  built  about  the  same  time  as  the 

ntdilreat  Pyramid  by  Cheops,  about  1082,  B.  C,  under 

ie  fourth  dynasty  of  Egypt.     It  is  a  solid  piece  of 

1  *  ranite.  seemingly  hewn  out  of  a  mountain.     It  repre- 

hat  d  ents  the  body  of  a  crouching  lion,  with  the  head  of 

111  <)  man.     The  body  is  146  feet  long;  and  the  head  with 

I  ie  neck  is  about  100  feet  high  ;  the  fore  legs  and  paws 

re  thirty-five  feet  long. 

* 

4    Do  you  consider  canned  vegetables  and  fruits  harmful? 
j  i  Ripe  vegetables  and  fruits  that  are  well  cooked  and 
in  (  leaned,  put  up  in  glass  or  earthenware,  are  not  like- 
Pi  /   to    result    in    anything   harmful.      Sometimes    bad 
n  causes  bad  results.     Food  not  sufficiently  cooked 
imetimes  becomes  tainted  and  is  not  healthful. 

♦ 
Is  there  any  remedy  to  cure  horses  of  cribbing? 
Nothing  except  temporarily.     A  wide  strap  buckled 
ghtly  around  his  neck  will  prevent  a  horse  from  do- 
lg  so  while  hitched  to  a  post,  but  nothing  will  cure 
im  permanently  of  it  except  to  remove  his  head. 
* 

a  person  living  on  a  rural  free  delivery  route  corn- 
led  to  have  a  government  mail  box,  or  may  he  have  an 
inary  box,  and  will  the  carrier  have  to  put  the  mail  in 
ordinary  box? 

He  must  have  a  special  box  approved  by  the  post 
ffice  department. 


Why  is  there  so  much  said  of  late  in  a  great  many  pub- 
lications against  the  use  of  tobacco? 

Simply  because  experience  as  a  nation  tells  the 
people  that  tobacco  is  an  enemy  to  the  body,  to  soci- 
ety, to  the  home,  to  the  church,  and  to  the  soul.  It 
retards  mastication,  suspends  insalivation.  and  impairs 
digestion.  It  is  a  poison.  'When  chewed  it  is  ab- 
sorbed by  the  mucous  membrane  and  enters  the 
blood.  Sufficient  quantity  or  continued  use  produces 
nausea,  vomiting,  fainting,  cold  sweats,  nervousness, 
or  an  artificial  appetite  for  the  nasty  weed.  If  smoked, 
the  muscles  of  the  nerves  are  more  or  less  injured 
by  swallowing  the  poisonous  saliva  which  destroys 
appetite,  digestion  and  in  many  cases  produces  con- 
stipation. The  "  tobacco  heart  "  so  often  spoken  of 
to-day  is  the  inevitable  result  of  the  continuous  use 
of  cigarettes  by  feeble-minded  boys  and  girls. 


Would  you  advise  a  cold  plunge  bath? 
'    As  a  rule,  no.    As  an  exception,  yes.    It  takes  a  very 
strong  constitution  to  be  benefited  by  a  cold  plunge 
bath.     Yet   it  is  a  bad  constitution   which   cannot  be 
benefited  by  a  cold  sponge  bath. 


Is  there  any  harm  in  using  alcohol  as  a  gargle? 

No  serious  result  is  likely  to  immediately  follow, 
and  yet  alcohol  is  too  strong  to  be  used  as  a  gargle. 
What  is  the  use  of  using  the  poisonous  stuff  when 
other  things  are  much  better? 


Is  there  any  place  in  the  Bible  where  cousins  are  for- 
bidden to  marry? 

We  think  not  in  so  many  words,  but  the  general 
tenor  of  the  Bible,  the  laws  of  heredity,  society  and 
nature  forbid  it,  as  well  as  experience  and  common 
sense. 

* 

Is  alcohol  a  safe  liquid  to  inject  into  the  ear  and  what 
is  its  effect? 

It  evaporates  very  quickly,  chills  the  delicate  mem- 
branes and  is  very  likely  to  cause  inflammation.  Glyc- 
erine is  much  better  than  alcohol. 


State  the  causes  of  the  dark  ages? 

Lack  of  nationality,  demoralizing  luxury,  influx  of 
barbarians,  increase  of  nobility,  prevalence  of  hypo- 
crisy, a  lack  of  Christianity,  and  the  low  state  of 
morals. 


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the  mostest  pretty  shells  and  Luke  rolled  up  his  pants 
and  waded  in  after  some  water-lilies.  Frank  un- 
hitched the  ponies,  Mr.  Marshall  put  up  the  canvas 
for  the  tent,  and  Grandma  and  Mrs.  Marshall  got  the 
dinner  ready.  They  spread  the  carpet  and  rugs  down 
on  the  grass  for  a  table,  and  said,  "  Come,  children, 
to  dinner." 

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"  The  really  good  workman  is  never  idle,  unem- 
ployed. The  man  who  devoted  the  energy  of  his 
young  life  to  learn  any  one  thing  well,  who  was  sat- 
isfied only  when  he  knew  that  one  thing  as  well  as 
or  better  than  any  one  else — that  man  you  never  see 
unemployed.  Instead  of  seeking  employment,  he  is 
sought  after.  He  may  be  only  a  mechanic,  but  he  is 
master  of  his  position,  and  therefore  can  afford  to  be 
as  highminded  as  a  statesman.  He  may  be  only  a 
toiler,  but  he  can  be  as  noble  as  a  prince.  He  may 
not  be  a  learned  man,  but  he  can  make  a  first-class 
boot  or  shoe,  or  run  a  first-power  engine,  or  shape 
a  perfect  bridgeway." 

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Not  long  ago  a  piece  of  mail  arrived  at  the  St.  Paul 
post  office  inscribed  "  Nelson  Noot  Corfenor  Senpol." 
And  it  was  as  plain  as  day  to  the  postal  clerks  that 
the  letter  was  for  Governor  Knute  Nelson,  St.  Paul. 
Another  letter  was  mailed  in  Germany  addressed  to 
a  man  at  Pioneer  Press  office — no  city,  no  state,  no 
country,  but  it  went  straight  to  the  Pioneer  Press  of- 
fice, St.  Paul,  Minn.,  U.  S.  A.,  and  was  delivered  to 
the  man  addressed.  Another  letter  was  mailed  in 
Ireland  addressed  to  a  man  "  at  the  first  house  in 
America "  and  was  promptly  delivered  at  the  hotel 
near  the  landing  in  New  York  patronized  by  immi- 
grants. 

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Here  is  something  worth  knowing.  When  a  splin- 
ter has  been  driven  deeply  into  the  hand  it  can  be  ex- 
tricated without  pain  by  steam.  Nearly  fill  a  wide 
mouth  bottle  with  hot  water;  place  the  injured  part 
over  the  mouth  and  press  it  slightly.  The  suction 
will  draw  the  flesh  down  and  in  a  minute  or  two  the 
steam  will  extricate  the  splinter  and  the  inflammation 
together. 


SNAKE    CULTURE   IN    AUSTRALIA. 


Snakes,  according  to  the  prevailing  popular  notion 

should  be  killed  at  sight  as  utterly  useless  and  posi 

tively  dangerous  creatures,  but  in  Australia  they  ar< 

now  being  systematically  reared  for  the  sake  of  thei 

skins,   which   have   a   considerable    commercial   valu 

in  London,  Paris  and  New  York.     Snake  skin  is  th 

fashionable  material  for  slippers,  belts,  bags,  purses 

card   cases,   jewel   boxes,    dressing   table   accessories 

etc.     Rabbit  trappers  supplement  their  means  consider 

ably   by  catching   young   snakes   and   extracting  th 

poisonous   fangs.     The  blacks  are  also  expert  snak 

catchers.     To  them  the  snake  is  an  agreeable  articl 

of  diet. 

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JESUS    IS    ABLE. 

laving   been    given    "all   power,"    Matt. 
28:  18,    and   having   destroyed   the 
works  of  the  devil,   1  John 
3:  8,  Jesus  is  able  to, 
Save  to  the  uttermost,  Heb.  7:  25. 
Make  all  grace  abound,  2  Cor.  9:  8. 
Succor  the  tempted,  Heb.  2:  18. 
Make  us  stand,  Rom.  14:  4. 
Keep  us  from  falling,  Jude  24. 
Subdue  all  things,  Philpp.   3:21. 
Keep  that  committed  to  him,   2  Tim. 

1:  12. 
Perform  what  he  has  promised,  Rom. 

4:  21. 
Do  above  all   we  ask  or  think,   Eph. 
3:  20. 
Knowing   his    grace   and   power,    shall 
e   not    come   and   say,    "Yea,    Lord"? 
ratt.  9:28.  F.  S.  Shepherd. 

THE    BLOOD. — Heb.    9:22. 

Peace    has    been    made    through    the 
blood.     Col.  1:  20. 

Justified  by  the  blood.     Rom.   5:9. 
Redemption  by  the  blood.     Eph.  1:7; 
Col.  1:  14;  1  Pet.  1:  18. 
This   redemption   is   eternal.     Heb.    9: 
11-14;  Heb.  10:  10-15. 
Cleansed  by   the  blood.     1   John   1:7; 
Rev.  1:  5;  Rev.  7:  14. 
We    enter    into    the     holiest    by    the 
blood.     Heb.  10:  19. 

Overcome    in    heaven    by    the     blood. 
Rev.  12:  11. 

Then    sing    the    song    forever    to    the 
}    blood  of  the  Lamb.     Rev.  5:  9. 

Rev.  J.  R.  Dean. 

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Yonr  Door  Now! 

Listen  :  In  the  great  Southwest 
there  are  some  mighty  good 
chances  for  a  hustler.  The 
Southwest  is  growing  —  its 
growth  attests  its  fertility  and 
diversity  of  resource.  Why  not 
go  there  yourself  and  grow  with 
the  country?  Those  who  are  go- 
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INAUGURATION  OF  PARLOR 
CAR  SERVICE. 


Between  Chicago,  Council  Bluffs  and 
Omaha. 


In  addition  to  its  already  remark- 
ably complete  train  service  between 
Chicago  and  the  Missouri  River,  the 
management  of  the  North-Western 
Line  announces  that  between  Chica- 
go and  Omaha  there  will  hereafter  he 
included  a  service  of  Parlor  Cars, 
through  without  change,  on  day  train 
leaving  Chicago  daily  at  10:  15  A.  M. 
This  is  in  addition  to  the  service  al- 
ready in  existence  of  through  Buffet 
Smoking  and  Library  cars,  which  are 
at  the  disposal  of  the  Parlor  and 
Pullman  car  passengers  without 
charge. 

The  Parlor  Car  service  on  the  Chi- 
cago &  North-Western  Railway  is  al- 
ready famous,  all  of  those  little  de- 
tails which  go  so  far  towards  per- 
fecting the  comfort  of  patrons  being 
looked  after  with  scrupulous  care. 
The  equipment  is  of  the  highest  type, 
and  rhe  inauguration  of  this  service 
between  Chicago  and  Omaha,  over 
the  only  double  track  railway  between 
Chicago  and  the  Missouri  River, 
marks  another  stepping-stone  in  the 
upward  progress  of  transportation  de- 
velopment as  exemplified  on  the 
North-Western    Line. 

The  Parlor  Car  leaves  Chicago 
daily  at  10:  15  A.  M.,  reaching  Oma- 
ha 11:40  P.  M.  Eastbound.  train  No. 
12,  carrying  similar  equipment,  leaves 
Omaha  7:  10  A.  M.,  reaching  Chicago 
8:00  P.  M.  It  will  be  noted  that  the 
schedules  are  fast  ones.  There  are 
four  trains  daily  in  each  direction  be- 
tween Chicago  and  Omaha,  with  di- 
rect connections  for  Colorado,  Utah, 
Yellowstone  Park  and  the  Pacific 
Coast. 


Worth  Looking  Into! 


If  you  thought  you  could  get 
$1,000.00  for  an  investment  of  twenty- 
five  cents,  and  it  was  honest  and 
straightforward,  you'd  take  it,  would- 
n't you?     Now  see  here! 

You  have  read  some  of  Bro.  D.  L. 
Miller's  travels  in  his  books  as  well 
as  in  the  Gospel  Messenger.  You  re- 
member  how   interesting  they   were. 

Do  you  know  that  he  is  going  to 
take  another  trip,  and  that  he  is  go- 
ing to  start  by  the  first  of  Septem- 
ber? He  and  his  wife  are  to  visit 
several  countries  in  Europe,  Asia,  Af- 
rica, and  even  Australia,  and  he  will 
have  his  camera  with  him  and  will 
illustrate   his    articles    copiously. 

Be  Will  Write  Especially  for  the 
Ioglenook  on  tbis  Trip. 

You  could  not  take  this  trip  for  a 
thousand  dollars  and  yet  we  will  send 
you  the  Inglenook  till  Jan.  1,  1905  for 
ONLY  twenty-five  cents.  Just  think 
of  it.  It  may  be  that  your  friends 
would  like  a  chance  at  this  bargain. 


=    ADDRESS  : 


Brethren  Publishing  House 

Elgin,  Illinois. 


To  ADVERTISE 

Judiciously  is  an  art,  and  many  make 
a  failure  because  they  lack  knowl- 
edge. Advertisers  will  be  helped  by 
our  advertising  experts  in  securing 
the  best  possible  results. 

Brethren  Publishing  House, 
Elgin,  Illinois. 


EQUITY    MFG.    AND    SUPPLY    CO.,    CHICAGO,    ILL. 


Sectional 

Illustration 

of  Our 


STEEL  RANGE  mghes 


Grai 


WARMING 
GLOSET. 

On  our  Equity 
Steel  Range  we 
furnish  a  complete 
high  warming  clos- 
et, strongly  made, 
well  arranged  and 
supported  on  each 
Bide  by  heavy 
nickel  plated  cast- 
ings. The  back 
wall  of  the  warm- 
ing closet  as  shown 
in  the  illustration 
is  equipped  with 
two  tea  shelves 
The  illustration  to 
the  right  shows 
the  shelf  down  and 
to  the  left  shows 
the  shelf  up  in 
place  out  of  the 
way  when  not  in 
use. 


IN  THE  STEEL  RANGE  I 

Our  Equity  represents  all 
first-class  in  construction, 
in  equipment,  ond  embodies 
latest  improvements.  We  hai 
voted  this  page  in  our  catalogii 
sectional  illustration  of  our  I 
Steel  Range  to  give  a  more  c<j 
nensive  understanding  to  oij 
tomers,  and  make  it  easier  fa) 
to  appreciate  the  extraordinary 
we  are  offering  at  the  except! 
low  price  we  quote  for  this  firs) 
range. 

feond  Your  Order  to 
an  Equity  Steel  Sange.  If  ji 
not  perfectly  satisfied  with  tht 
ity,  the  operation,  the  constr 
and  the  price  after  you  havi 
and  examined  the  range,  ret) 
we  will  pay  freight  both  waj 
refund  your  money  in  full.  1 
Keservoifc 
Ql  caseing  wit 

bestos    b  o 
preventing 
we    can    t 
the  cast  ire 
ervoir 
when  desir 
do  not  recoi 
it  as  it  is 
servicable 
asbestos 
s  te  e 
caseing. 


THIS  SPLENDID 
FEATURE 

s  one  of  the  new  im- 
provements and  very 
desirable  because  it 
makes  it  convenient 
to  handle  the  broiling 
Iron  and  affords  a 
perfect  coal  shute,  ob- 
viating the  necessity 
of  removing  the  lids 
when  putting  coal  in 
the  fire  box.  The 
opening  has  a  swing 
door  and  slide  draft. 


PLEASED  CUSTOMERS 
are  the  best  recommendation  for  our  Equity 
Steel  Range,  and  the  satisfaction  our  Equitv  is 
giving  our  customers  who  are  now  using1  it  is 
convincing  proof  that  we  have  succeeded  in 
placing  on  the  market  a  good  first  class  steel 
rang-e  at  the  lowest  price  ever  before  quoted. 
We  therefore  are  justified  to  recommend  this 
steel  range  in  the  highest  of  terms. 

THE  CAPACITY 
of  our  Equity  Steel  Range  will  be  appreciated 
by  every  user,  and  by  looking  over  the  illustra- 
tion above  you  will  observe  that  it  has  a  large 
oven  with  sliding  oven  shelf.  It  has  six  cook- 
ing holes  on  the  main  top.    It  has  two  drop  te; 


shelves.     It   has   large   warming  closet, 
reservoir  and  a  broad  broiler  door. 

When  you  desire  to  use  the  steel  range  for 
coal,  you  place  the  end  linings  in  the  firebox 
and  reverse  the  grate  as  shown  in  the  illustra- 
tion under  "Coal  Grate."  When  you  wish  to 
burn  wood,  you  lift  out  the  two  end  linings  as 
.^hown  under  the  words  "Wood  Grate."  When 
burning  wood  the  fire-box  has  capacity  for  a 
good  long  stick  as  it  has  an  extension  back. 
The   ash-pan   is   large  and   of  good   capacity. 


IN  MAKING  SELECTION 

by  referring   to   the  opposite  page  you  will   find 

below    the   illustration,    dimensions    of    the   sizes 

in  which  we  construct  our  Equity  Steel  Ra__„ 

Our  Equity  Steel  Range  constructed  of  good  material,  fully  warranted,  embodying  Ml  tve  latest  improvements  and  best  equipments.  irf«J 

in  construction,  economical  in  consumption  of  fuel,  is  the  outcome  of  years  of  sti'dy  and  is  the  production  of  experiments  that  give  it  pW 

superiority  over  other  first-class  ranges  and  meets  every  requirement  expected  of  a  steel  range 


and  to  determine  the  size  you  want,  fir 

into    consideration    the    amount    of    roc 

have   in   your   kitchen,    the    number    of 

to  cook  for,  and  you  can  tell  exactly  wh 

to  order. 

WATER  FRONT. 

In  the  fire-box  we  furnish  a  water-fron 
desired,  at  an  additional  cost  of  $2.25.  01  p 
it  is  understood  that  the  range  must  1 
where  there  is  city  water  works  or 
pressure  from  a  tank,  as  it  requires  pres 
circulate  the  water  through  the  water-fi 


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RE7TEMBER  WE   GUARANTEE  SAFE  PELEBi- 


HI 


INGLENOOK. 


THE    COLONY 


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LAGUNA  DE  TACHE  GRANT 


...IN    THE... 

SAN  JOAQUIN  .VALLEY,  CALIFORNIA. 


BRETHREN  OAK  GROVE  CHURCH 

Still  continues  to  attract  the  attention  of  homeseekers. 

The  uniform  success  of  those  yvho  have  settled  here  and  the  immense  growth  of 
every  variety  of  crop  which  is  again  in  evidence  establishes  the  fact  that  here  is  the 
place  where  the  Industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN  PEOPLE  DO  EASTERN  FARMING. 

Tou  aon't  have  to  spend  years  learning  a  new  business. 

ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

besides  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
his  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  It. 

SPECIAL    LOW    RATES    TO    CALIFORNIA. 

From  August  15th  to  Sept.  lpth  the  railroads  will  sell  Round  Trip  excursion 
tickets  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

From   Chicago $60  00 

From   Mississippi   River i 47  50 

From    Missouri    River, ." 45  00 

Final  return  limit,  Oct.  22. 

ALSO    SEPTEMBER    15th   TO    OCTOBER    15th    COLONIST    ONE-WAT    TICKETS 
TO  ANT  CALIFORNIA  POINT. 

From   Chicago $33  00 

From  Mississippi   River 30  00 

From   Missouri   River 25  00 

By  this  arrangement  you  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 
land.     If  it  suits  you,  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate- 
Land  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre.  Including  perpetual  water  right.     Terms,  one- 
fourth  cash;  balance  In  eight  annual  payments. 

From  twenty  to  forty  acres  wili  support  the  average  family  in  comfort 
If  interested  send  your  name  .and  address  and  receive  printed  matter  and  our 
local  newspaper  free  for  two  months.     Write  to 

I  NARES  &  SAUNDERS,   ■    Laton,  California. 

J3tn    KtnUon  thr  [WiLEKOOK  "hen  <rrtUD« 


Sent  on  Approval 

TO    RESPONSIBLB    PBOPLB 

Laughlin 

FOUNTAIN 
PEN 


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Guaranteed  Finest  Grade  1ft. 

SOLID  GOLD  PEN 

To  testthe  merits  of  this  pub- 
lication as  an  advertising  me- 
dium we  offer  you  choice  of 


These    d* 
Two      «]) 
Popular 
Styles 

11  For 
III  Only 


1.00 

I    Postpaid 
I     to  any 
I    address 


(By  regUrtevred  mall  8c  extra) 

I  Holder  Is  made  of  tbe  finest 
quality  hard  rubber.  In  four 
simple  parts,  fitted  with  very 
bleheit  grade,  large  size  14k. 
gold  pen,  any  flexibility  de- 
aired  —  Ink  feeding  device 
perfect. 

Either  style— Richly  dold 
Mounted  for  presentation 
purposes  $1.00  axtra. 

Grand  Special  Offer 

You  may  try  the  pen  a  week 
If  you  do  not  find  It  as  repre-  ' 
sented,  fully  as  fine  a  value 
as  you  can  secure  for  three 
times  the  price  In  any  other  | 
makes,  If  not  entirely  satis-  |J 
factory  In  erery  respect,  re-  - 
turn  It  and  -we  will  sendyoa  f 
SI -10  for  it,  the  extra  10c.  is 
for  your  trouble  in  ivrUlng  us 
Mnd  to  shoiv  our  confidence  in 
the  Laughlin  Pen— (Not  one  I 
customer  In  5000  has  asked  | 
for  their  money  back.) 

Lay  this   Publication      I 
down  and  write  NOW      I 

Safety  Pocket  Pea  Holder  I 
gent  free  of  charge  with  eacb  1 
Pen. 

ADDRESS 

Laughlin  Mfg.  Go.  i 

inrurl.wold  Si.  Detroit . Mich. 


THE  OVERLAND  LIMITED. 


The  Traffic  Department  of  the  Chi- 
cage  &  North-Western  R'y  has  issued 
a  handsome  booklet  descriptive  of  the 
Overland  Limited,  the  most  luxurious 
train  in  the  world,  and  of  the  Chicago, 
Union  Pacific  &  North-Western  Line, 
the  route  of  this  famous  train  to  the 
Pacific  Coast.  Fully  and  interesting- 
ly illustrated.  Copy  mailed  to  any 
address  on  recetst  of  two-cent  stamp, 
by  W.  B.  Kniskern.  P.  T.  M..  Chi- 
cago. 


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New  Catalogue 

We  have  been  just  as  exact- 
ing about  the  prices  in  our  New 
Catalogue  as  Uncle  Sam  is 
about  the  postage  it  takes  to 
bring  this  big  book  to  your 
home.  We  know  the  prices  are 
right  and  we  want  every  read- 
er of  the  Inglenook  to  profit 
thereby.  A  copy  of  this  NEW 
Catalogue  weighing  nearly  four 
pounds  will  be  sent  Free  upon 
request  and  you  cannot  afford 
to  place  a  single  order  for 
goods  until  you  have  examined 
our  prices.  Send  a  postal  card 
with  your  name  and  address 
upon  it  and  leave  the  rest  to 
Uncle  Sam  and  Us. 

Refunds 

We  refund  to  our  patrons 
freight  and  express  charges  on 

a  plan  that  is  meeting  with  great  favor.  Upon  investigation  you 
will  find  that  our  prices  are  not  one  whit  higher  than  the  very 
best  quotation  of  any  Mail  Order  House  in  the  country  and  ye 
we  make  it  possible  for  you  to  get  back  every  cent  you  pay  out 
for  freight— or  express.  Write  for  particulars  concerning  this 
matter  snd  best  quotations  on  anything  you  desire  to  purchase. 
Our  Co-operative  methods  save  money  for  both  parties— our  un- 
paralleled offer  in  regard  to  transportation  charges  merits  inves- 
tigation. 


Our  Guarantee 

Our  customers  take  no  risk  whatever  in  ordering  goods  as 
we  guarantee  satisfaction  or  money  back,  and  this  statement  is 
unqualified  in  its  application.  It  is  only  on  this  basis  that  we 
bid  for  your  patronage  and  our  part  of  this  arrangement  is  ful- 
filled without  question  or  quibble.  Ask  us  to  mail  you  64-page 
book  of  testimonials  from  satisfied  patrons  and  remember  we  Have 
the  consent  from  each  person  to  use  extracts  from  letters  and 
make  public  their  words  of  commendation.  We  never  betray 
the  confidence  of  our  patrons  and  are  never  satisfied  until  they 
are  satisfied. 


Bonnet  Goods 


Fourteen  styles  of  straw  for  bon- 
nets. Prices  one-half  what  you 
have  been  paying.  Fine  assort- 
ment of  goods  for  winter  bonnets 
just  in  and  prices  very  low. 
Samples  sent  free  upon  applica- 
tion. We  also  furnish  bonnet  pat- 
terns and  make  bonnets  to  order. 
Chiffon,  Braid,  Tie  Goods,  Rice 
Net,  Silk-covered  Wire,  etc.,  al- 
ways kept  in  stock  in  large  quanti- 
ties, also  full  line  of  Cap  Goods. 

Write  for  Particulars, 
samples  and  Prices. 


Albaugh  Bros.,  Dover  &  Co., 

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PARTIAL  TABLE   OF  CONTENTS. 


-By   Elizabeth   Thomas. 

THE    HEART'S    GARDEN.— By 


POEM. 

A  SUMMER  EVENING.- 
SEEDTHOUGHTS    FOR 
Josephine  Hanna. 

CONTRIBUTIONS. 

TO  THE  SLUGGARD.— By  Adah  Baker. 
THE  CASTAWAY.— By  Kathryn  Barkdoll. 
AN  HISTORIC  SPOT.— By  H.  W.  Strickler. 
BAD  LITTLES.— By  Grace  Longanecker. 
CUBAN  HOUSES.— By  Etha  Evans. 
LURAY  CAVE.— Bv  Anna  Bowman. 


EDITORIALS. 

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ELGIN,    ILLINOIS 


BRETHREN    PUBLISHING    HOUSE 


October  4,   1  904 


$  1 .00  per  Year 


Number  40,  Volume  VI 


THE      fNGLENOOK. 


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30,000  ACRES 


IRRIGATED 


Government  Land 


In    Nevada 


NOW    OPEN  FOR 


HOMESTEAD 


UNDER  THE   NEW 

IRRIGATION   LAW 

The  United  States  Oovern= 
ment  Constructs  the  Canals, 
Reservoirs  and  Lateral  Ditch- 
es to  the  Land,  and  Maintains 
them  for  10  Year*  at  a  cost  of 

ONLY  $2.50  AN  ACRE 

FES    TEAS. 

This  Includes  Water.      After  10  Years   Water 
and  Canals  Belong  to  Homesteader. 


Land   Close   to    Railroad   and   Oood 
Markets  Can  be  Secured  By 

ACTUAL  SETTLERS 
ONLY. 


Mr.  L.  H.  Taylor,  the  United  States 
Engineer  in  charge  of  work,  says: 
"  It  is  likely  that  most  of  those  set- 
tlers' who  desire,  can  find  employment 
for  themselves  and  teams  on  the  ca- 
nals during  at  least  a  part  of  their 
spare  time  for  the  next  two  or  three 
years." 


For  Information  Write  to 

GEO.  L.  McDONAUQH, 

COLONIZATION    AGENT 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Omaha,  Neb. 


ARE    YOU    GOING    TO 

CALIFORNIA,  WASHINGTON, 
OREGON,  IDAHO 

Or  Any  Other  Point  ?    Take  the 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 


Daily  Tourist  Car  Line 

BETWEEN 

Chicago,    Missouri    River,    Colorado, 

Idaho,  Oregon,  Washington  and 

California  Points. 


Stop  Off  at  Reno,  Nevada, 

And  Investigate  the  Irrigated  Govern- 
ment Land.  Call  on  Mr.  L.H.  Taylor 
U.  S.  Engineer,  for  information. 


ONE-WAY    COLONISTS    RATES. 

To  Pacific  Coast  Every  Day,  Sept.  15 
to  Oct.  IS. 

From  Chicago $33  00 

From  St.  Louis 30  00 

From   Missouri   River,    25  00 

Proportionate  rates  from  all  points 
East. 


The  Union  Pacific  Railroad 

— Is  Known  As — 

"The  Overland  Route" 

And  is  the  only  direct  line  from 
Chicago  and  the  Missouri  River  to 
all  principal  points  West.  Business 
men  and  others  can  save  many 
hours  via  this  line.  Call  on  or  ad- 
dress a  postal  card  to  your  nearest 
ticket  agent,  or  Geo.  L.  McDon- 
augh,  Colonization  Agent,  Omaha. 
Nebr. 

E.    L.    LOMAX,    G.    P.    &    T.    A., 
Omaha,  Nebraska. 


45  Bushels  Wheal 
to  the  Acre 


South  Platte  Valley 


"  Democrat": 

W.  L.  Henderson,  who  owns  the  fari 
at  the  end  of  the  wagon  bridge  acrol 
South  Platte  River,  opposite  Sterling 
Colo.,  realized  over  $3,500  from  whea 
raised  on  co  acres.  It  went  45  bushel 
to  the  acre  and  weighed  62  pounds 
the  bushel. 


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The  following  parties  have  bough' 
land  near  Snyder,  Colo.: 

Louis  E.  Keltner,  Hygiene,  Colo. 
W.  W.  Keltner,  North  Dakota;  A.  W 
Brayton,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Dan| 
Grabill,  Lemasters,  Pa.;  J.  L.  Kuns 
McPherson,  Kans.;  D.  L.  Miller,  Mt 
Morris,  111.;  Daniel  Neikirk,  Lemas 
ters,  Pa.;  Galen  B.  Royer,  Elgin,  111, 
E.  Slifer,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  I.  B.  Trout 
Lanark,  111.;  R.  E.  Arnold,  Elgin,  111 


Geo.  L.  Studebaker,  of  Muncie,  la 
diana,  says:  "Sterling  is  a  ^rowinj 
town  with  a  good  country  surround' 
ing.     The   members   are  active." 


Homeseekers' 

Excursions 

To  Snyder,  Colo., 

With  privilege  of    stopping    off   a! 
Sterling,  Colo., 

One  Fare  Plus  $2.00  for  the  Round  Trij 

First  and  Third  Tuesday  of 
Each  Month  via 

Uuion  Pacific  Railroad 


the:    ingle:  nook. 


A    SPLENDID    OPPORTUNITY 

is  open  for  several  ambitious  young 
people  to  help  themselves  to  an  educa- 
tion. Because  of  our  large  attendance 
we  must  provide  for  more  workers. 
First   come,   first  served. 

MOUNT  MORRIS    COLLEGE. 
J.  E.  Miller,  Pres.  Mt.  Morris,  HI. 


LOW  RATES  TO  TBE  PACIFIC  COAST 

Via    the    Chicago,    Milwaukee    &    St. 
Paul    Railway. 

$33  to  San  Francirco,  Los  Angeles 
and  many  other  points  in  Califor- 
nia. 
$33  to  Portland,  Tacoma.  Seattle  and 
many  other  points  in  Oregon  and 
Washington. 
$28.30    to    Butte,    Helena    ancl    many 

other  points  in  Montana. 
$28.30  to  Salt   Lake  City,  Ogden   and 
a   number  of  other  points   in   Utah 
Idaho    and    Colorado. 
$30.50    to    Spokane    and    other    East- 
ern Washington  points. 
Tickets  on  sale  every  day  until  Oc- 
tober  15.     Further   information  about 
rates,  routes  and  train   service  gladly 
furnished   by   the   ticket  agent,  or  by 
writing  to 

F.  A.   MILLER, 
Gen'l.  Pass.  Agent,  Chicago. 


LOW  BATES  TO  TBE  SOUTHWEST 

Via    the    Chicago,    Milwaukee    &    St. 
Paul    Railway. 

$20  for  one  way  ticket  to  any  point 
in  Oklahoma  or  Indian  Territory  and 
many  points  in  Kansas.  Correspond- 
ingly low  rates  to  Texas  and  New 
Mexico.  Tickets  are  second  class — 
colonist — and  will  be  on  sale  October 
4  to  18. 

Ask  the  ticket  agent  for  complete 
information,    or    address 

F.   A.   MILLER, 
Gen'l.  Pass.  Agent,  Chicago. 


Mr.  Dooley  truthfully  says:  "  Oppor- 
ehunity  knocks  at  Jviry  man's  door 
wan  st." 

Opportunity  is  Knocking  at 
Your  Door  Now! 

Listen :  In  the  great  Southwest 
there  are  some  mighty  good 
chances  for  a  hustler.  The 
Southwest  is  growing  —  its 
growth  attests  its  fertility  and 
diversity  of  resource.  Why  not 
go  there  yourself  and  grow  with 
the  country?  Those  who  are  go- 
ing now  are  "  getting  in  on  the 
ground  floor." 

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For  The  Sick  ! 


Let  every  sufferer  who   has  failed  to  find 

relief  from  ordinary  remedies, 

listen   to   this! 

YOU  WANT  TO  GET  WELL,  DON'T  YOU  ? 
And  the  one  who  shows  you  the  way  will  prove  a  friend 
indeed.  You  have  tried  many  remedies  faithfully  with- 
out permanent  relief;  and  it  is  not  strange  that  you  begin  to 
wonder,  in  despair,  if  there  is  after  all  any  means  of  restoring  to 
you  that  most  priceless  of  all  possessions,  good  health.  But,  stop 
a  moment!    Just  take  this  view  of  your  case.    Say  to  yourself: 

"  Sickness  is  not  a  natural  condition.  God  never  intended 
me  to  be  a  poor  disease-ridden  creature,  without  relief  or  hope 
of  happiness  in  life.  There  must  be  some  way  back  to 
health,  for  surely  Nature  provides  a  remedy  for  every  ill  if  we 
could  but  find  it." 

There  is  a  way,  which  Nature,  herself,  has  provided ! 
There  is  a  remedy  that  may  cure  you  —  a  very  old,  time-tried 
remedy  -  which  has  been  known  as  Dr.  Peter's  Blood 
Vitalizer  for  over  1 00  years.  It  is  Nature's  own  medicine, 
because  it  is  made  from  natural  materials;  the  herbs,  barks 
and  leaves  gathered  by  skilled  hands  from  the  fields  and 
woods.  It  was  first  made  by  Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  the  "old 
herb  doctor,"  in  1  780,  and  this  remarkable  preparation  —  just 
as  he  originally  prepared  it  for  the  people  of  the  Blue  Ridge 
Mountain  district  of  Pennsylvania  —  has  been  handed  down 
through  three  generations  to  the  present  proprietor. 

Thousands  have  been  cured  by  it,  many  of  them  suffering 
from  the  very  trouble  which  you  find  such  a  heavy  burden. 
Now,  don't  you  think  that  a  remedy  that  has  relieved  so  much 
suffering  and  done  so  much  good  in  the  world,  is  entitled  to 
your  confidence  ?  And  don't  you  think  it  would  be  wise  — 
the  only  safe  thing  —  to  give  it  a  trial  ? 

Dr.  Peter's  Blood  Vitalizer  is  not  a  ready-made,  drug  store 
medicine.  It  is  sold  only  through  agents  or  direct  from  the 
laboratory.      If  no  agent  is  at  hand  write  to 

Dr.  Peter  Fahrney 

112-114   South    Hoyne  Avenue,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 


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Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail 

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^  |~"V    A     l—I  /~V     is   the   best-watered   arid    State  in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 

S  lL/r\l  M\_/     winds,    destructive    storms    and  cyclones   are   unknown,   and    with    its   matchless    cli- 

^  mate   it   makes   life  bright   and  worth  living. 

«»  We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer  to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 

^  change   for   the   general    improvement   in   your   condition  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 

-^  account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  both  requirements.     There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 

^  and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  country  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 

^5  swer  and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

■  S  Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger  work  teach  us   that   a   few  dollars   spent   in   railroad 

"^  fares   to  investigate  thoroughly  a   new  country  saves  thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

•^  Cheap   homeseekers'   rates   are   made   to  all   principal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 

^  for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting  a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


Round=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only  in  May 
and  October,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


SETTLERS'     RATES 


Daily  from  September  15  to  October  15,  1904,  the  same  cheap  one-way  second-class  settlers'  rates 
will  be  in  effect  from  the  East  to  points  on  our  line  as  have  heretofore  been  made  in  the  Spring  and 
Fall  months,  as  follows: 

To  Butte,  Anaconda,  Pocatello. 

Ogden,  Salt  Lake,  and  lnterme-  To  Huntington  and  main 

diate   points.  line  intermediates. 

Chicago, $30.00  $30.50 

Bloomington, 28.80  29.30 

Peoria, 28.00  28.50 

St.   Louis 26.00  27.50 

Kansas   City,  Leavenworth,   Atchison  and  St.  Joseph,....    20.00  22.50 

Council  Bluffs  and  Omaha :   20.00  22.50 

Sioux  City 22.90  25.40 

St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis 22.90  25.40 

Proportionate    rates    will   be   made   from    other   stations    in    Illinois,    Iowa,  etc. 


i$     Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance.      Fine      $1 
^  Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


^  Arrived    in    Payette    Valley    Feb.    23,    1903.     Settled    on    an    80-acre    tract,    covered    with    sage    brush. 

r$  Cleared  40  acres.     May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.     Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.    June  12  sowed  10  acres 

:>5  to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.     Yielded  55  to  acre.     Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 

■^  or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

^  Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 

.^,  oats. 

Potatoes    yielded    500   bushels    to    the    acre    and  many  of  them  weighed  3   to  5  pounds  each,   four  of 

•5  the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)   E.  L.  Dotson. 

£  D.   E.   BURLEY, 

-»  S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio.  G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R., 

5  J-  E-  HOOPER,  Agent,  Oakland,  Kansas.  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

"^  Mention  the  INGLENOOK  when  wntim  *0tl3 


^inSl-lNSok: 


Vol.  VI. 


October  4,  1904. 


No.  40. 


A   SUMMER   EVENING. 


BY  ELIZABETH  THOMAS. 

The  sun  low  sinking  in  the  west 
Has  turned  the  purple  clouds  to  gold, 

It  gleams  o'er  hill  and  woodland   crest, 
While   creeping  shadows  soft  enfold. 

And  o'er  the  wide  expanse  of  blue. 

Where  shining  stars  will  soon  be  seen. 

Is  thrown  a  soft  and  roseate  hue 
Quite  bordered  round  in  living  green. 

The  morning-glories  on  the  wall 
Have  tightly  shut  their  starry  eyes. 

The   pearly   dew-drops   softly   fall 

Free  offerings  from  the  cloudless  skies. 

The  bee  returns  on  wearied  wings 
To  seek  its  hive  with  honey  lade, 

And  hoarse  and  weird  the  cricket  sings 
Within  the  hedgerows'  darkening  shade. 

Safe  nestled  in  the  leafy  trees, 
Our  feathered  friends  all  hushed  and  still, 

Save  plaintive  sound  borne  on  the  breeze 
Of  boding  owl  or  whip-poor-will. 

Oh,  beauteous,  lovely  summer  time, 

Thy  gifts  are  spread  with  bounteous  hand. 

This  earthly  home,  a  favored  clime, 
There's  peace  and  plenty  o'er  the  land. 

Butler,  Ind. 

♦  ♦  ♦ 

SEEDTHOUGHTS  FOR  THE  HEART'S  GARDEN. 


BY  JOSEPHINE  HANNA. 

Don't  make  contentment  a  stool  for  idleness. 

* 
The  steeper  the  hill,  the  more  each  step  mil  count. 

* 
Poverty  has  cleared  the  ground  for  some  big  crops. 

* 
Trifles,    held    near,   shut    out   more   sunlight    than 
mountains  in  their  proper  places. 

* 

Hoot  at  hobbies  much  as  you  will,  they  carry  men 
as  far,  and  as  fast,  as  any  other  horses  on  the  road. 


The  man  of  grit  is  his  own  tool  sharpener. 

You  may  not  have  to  run  so  fast  to  overtake  op- 
portunity, but  you  will  need  a  strong  grip  to  seize  and 
hold  it. 

* 

Aspiration  is  the  spirit  of  growth,  for  the  sake  of 
which  it  blinds  the  eye  to  acquirement,  and  points 
to  possibility. 

The  interest  upon  zvhat  is  attained  to-day,  is  going 
to  count  above  that  upon  what  we  are  intending  to 
do  sometime. 

* 

Consistency  may  not  be  so  fashionable  as  some  other 
jewels,  but  it  is  better  than  the  diamond  for  revealing 
its  possessor's  zvorth. 

* 

One  little  key  may  unlock  a  great  door  of  oppor- 
tunity, but  'tis  'well  to  keep  several  in  your  pocket, 
for  fear  it  might  not. 

* 

/  cannot  tell  your  character  by  your  handwriting, 
but  I  can  tell  it  by  other  people's  writing,  if  you  'will 
shozv  me  the  books  you  read.  Every  book  tells  two 
tales. 

* 

The  boy  "who  is  frittering  away  his  time  now.  and 
expecting  to  do  some  great  thing  when  he  becomes 
a  man.  is  knocking  the  bottom  out  of  the  thing  before 
it  is  done. 

* 

Sensational  news  and  yellow-backed  literature  use 
the  same  material  from  which  to  make  hobos  that 
strong  books  and  papers  make  presidents :  but  they  do 
it  about  as  quickly. 

* 

//'  things  came  by  chance,  the  Patent  Office  would 
be  uncalled  for:  it  would  take  more  than  a  blind  man 
— or  rather  less  than  a  blind  man.  in  the  sense  of  lit- 
tleness— to  claim  that  the  whole  chain  of  the  universe 
came  by  chance,  and  then  ask  for  a  patent  right  on 
some  little  fob  of  his  own. 

Flora.  Ind. 


938 


THE   IXGLENOOK.— October  4,    1904. 


TO    THE    SLUGGARD. 


BY  ADAH  BAKER. 

We  are  launched  upon  the  great  ocean  of  life.  God 
in  his  infinite  wisdom  has  placed  us  there.  Do 
you  ever  pause  to  take  a  retrospective  view  of  cir- 
cumstances to  see  what  progress  the  oars  have 
been  making?  Has  observation  ever  shown  you 
men — living  in  God's  beautiful  world,  blessed  with 
talents  which  he  has  withheld  from  brutes  and 
given  to  them — whose  lives  were  wasted  to  them- 
selves and  to  humanity  simply  because  they  had 
formed  the  deep-rooted  habit  of  doing  nothing? 
Have  you,  teacher,  ever  realised  a  vagueness  in 
your  manner  of  teaching  that  speaks  of  results 
other  than  those  of  success?  Do  you  ever  feel  that 
you  are  grinding  away  in  the  constantly  deepening 
old  ruts,  wearying  alike  both  you  and  your  pupils? 

Are  you,  young  student,  satisfied  to  let  the  gold- 
en-winged moments  of  time  fly  swiftly  by  and  then 
come  to  recitation  realizing  that  you  are  barely  ac- 
quainted with  the  lesson  assigned.  Have  you, 
reader,  ever  felt  that  you  were  wasting  your  time, 
energy  and  talents  until  they  were  as  dormant  as 
if  in  the  grave?  Have  not  each  and  every  one 
of  you  at  some  time  heard  those  prophetic  old 
words  come  ringing  in  your  ears,  seen  them  star- 
ing you  fixedly  in  the  eye  and  proclaiming,  "  Thou 
art  the  man  "  ? 

If  you  have  once  realized  that  this  grim  mon- 
ster of  sluggishness  is  forever  at  your  side,  slowly 
but  surely  fastening  his  fangs  into  your  charac- 
ter and  taking  from  you  your  precious  lifeblood, 
then  may  you  not  allow  this  sense  of  guilt  to  hover 
round  about,  to  envelop  you  with  its  penetrating 
power,  until  you  can  no  longer  endure  its  awful 
presence,  until  you  decide  to  make  your  spare  mo- 
ments busy  ones?  May  you  not  consider  it  a  spe- 
cial visitation  of  God's  power  calling  the  sluggish 
one  to  wake  up? 

Perhaps  you  think  this  is  pictured  beyond  rea- 
son. But  I  wish  it  could  be  pictured  much  more 
vividly — in  fact,  so  much  more  that  each  one  feeling 
this  sense  of  guilt  will  make  a  desperate  effort  to 
lift  himself  higher,  where  he  can  breathe  the  pure, 
vivifying  air  of  honest,  earnest  effort.  When  will  the 
majority  of  the  people  wake  up  to  the  fact  that  they  are 
going  to  be  held  personally  accountable  for  the 
talents  which  God  has  lent  them  for  a  season  ? 

Doubtless  many  of  you  have  already  enlisted  in 
the  service  of  the  King.  If  so,  what  a  good  foun- 
dation for  work  you  have  laid.  But  do  you  think 
that  those  few  honest  efforts  so  completely  trans- 
formed your  spiritual  nerve  and  sinew  that  you 
have  fallen  into  grace,  that  you  have  reserved  for 
you  one  of  the  uppermost  seats  in   heaven?     My 


dear  friend,  I  fear  you  are  mistaken  in  this.  Bless4 
ed  is  the  one  that  is  never  quite  satisfied  with  his 
efforts,  the  one  who  is  trying  to  outdo  his  formei 
self,  the  one  that  first  teaches  to  himself  the  hard 
lessons  which   he   aims  to  teach   to   others. 

God   pity  the  man   who   is   slumbering  away   irj 
the  little  cradle  of  self-satisfaction.     You  know  his 
zenith,  be  it  high   or  low,  has  been   reached,   anrl 
you  know  equally  as  well  the  result  that  must  fol-B 
low — that  his  star  is  fast  fading.     What  an  awak- 
ening it  would  be  to  the  church  and  society  in  gen- 
eral if  men  would  not  permit  themselves  to  read 
their  zenith  in  this  worlds — just  die  in  the  harness* 
as  Paul  and  other  noteworthy  divines  did. 

To  be  sure,  we   cannot   all   do  great  things.     Ill] 

is   consoling   to   know   that   there   are   little   thingsB 

H 
for  little' people  to  do  and  it  is  most  essential  thallj 

each  one   is   striving  hard   to   successfully   managclj 

his   own   sphere.     But   it   might  be  well   to  some-B 

what  enlarge  that  sphere,  thereby  gaining  a  greateili 

field  of  vision,  a  greater  cup  of  blessings.     As  thflll 

long  winter   evenings   are   approaching,   instead  oill 

dozing  in  the  rocking  chair  why  not  get  a  few  gooc'H 

outline  books  and  do  some  systematic  Bible  stud\W 

made  none  the  less  acceptable  if  done  by  the  cheer>lj 

home    fireside  ?      Maybe    some    Sunday-school    classBj 

is  in  need  of  your  services.     And  it  maj'  be  you U 

reader,  whom    God  has  favored  with   some  talei$M 

and  lots  of  pluck,  upon  whom  the  world  is  wait-j   - 

ing — yes,  it  may  be  reaching  out  hands   pleading 

for  your  services.     At   any   rate,   be   doing   some 

thing  useful.     It  is  cramping  your  mental  stature 

to   allow   yourself  to   become    lazy   or   inattentive 

A  teacher  once  said  it  were  better  to  repeat  th< 

multiplication  table  than  to  sit  in  services  and  b( 

inattentive. 

Even  the  miser  with  all  of  his  shortsightedness! 
takes  great  pleasure  in  the  fact  that  he  has  exer 
cised  concentrated  effort.  Is  it  possible  that  thi 
children  of  the  light  have  a  lesson  to  learn  frorr 
him  ? 

But  again,  this  power  which  is  seeking  to  dep 
stroy  comes  along  asking  such  questions  as  these 
"Does  it  pay?"  "Why  do  anything  more  thai 
eat  and  sleep  ?  "  "  Why  be  anything  but  a  brute  ?  '1 
If  we  were  expecting  a  brute's  reward  then  sue! 
arguments  might  be  plausible.  But  one  canno1 
wipe  out  his  soul's  existence.  Therefore  be  on  til! 
alert,  thou  sluggard.  Cultivate  that  bit  of  sou 
which  God  has  placed  within  you.  Be  able  to  sa} 
you  have  done  your  best,  be  it  much  or  little.  Bu 
if  one  questions  still  farther  why  the  propriety  o 
all  this,  we  might  say,  To  increase  your  enjoy 
ment  of  life  after  death,  to  make  you  more  able  ti 
appreciate  the  glorious  presence  of  the  only  perfec 
type  of  humanity. 

Palestine,  Ohio. 


THE   INGLENOOK.— October  4,    1904. 


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A    SUGGESTION. 


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\  One  of  our  great  problems  in  this  country  is  how 
to  provide  the  best  education  and  training  in  citizen- 
ship for  our  increasing  foreign  population.  New 
methods  are  continually  being  devised  by  which 
these  new-comers — as  well  as  many  native  born,  but 
practically  alien  citizens — may  be  brought  into  sympa- 
thetic   relationship    to  the  other  members  of  the  com- 

■  munity. 

We    have    learned    that    mere    technical  or  routine 

schooling  is  only  a  small  part  of  true  education,  for 

neilthose  lowest  in  the  social  scale  quite  as  much  as  for 

those  more  fortunate.     Wholesome  amusement,  social 

relaxation  and  intercourse  are  recognized  as  valuable 

■  and  necessary  elements  in  the  life  of  young  and  old. 
Men  and  women   interested  in  social   betterment  are 

''^combining  the  ideas  of  learning  and  amusement, 
seeking  for  union  in  the  school  and  the  playground. 
The  idea  is  to  make  of  each  school  a  social  center,  for 
classes,  clubs,  amusements,  lectures,  social  gatherings, 
— a  neighborhood  center  which  should  be  stimulating 
ami  uplifting  to  fathers  and  mothers  as  well  as  to  the 
children,  and  which  should  develop  an  interest  in  the 
school  and  the  wider  opportunities  for  which  it  stands. 
Another  point  mentioned  by  students  of  the  sub- 
Iject  is  the  utter  difference  in  the  point  of  view  between 
our  foreign  born  residents  and  ourselves.  The  neces- 
sity for  sympathetic,  tactful  training  of  these  strangers 
in  our  midst,  in  American  standards  and  ideas,  should 

,  Jnot  need  to  be  enforced  upon  us,  but  it  seems  to  be 
:  often  overlooked.  The  suggestion  seems  a  very  perti- 
nent one  that  the  best  results  will  be  attained  by  having 
regularly  organized  clubs  or  classes  among  those  of 
the  same  'nationality,  to  be  taught  by  those  of  the  same 
race  who  have  become  good  American  citizens. 

But  we  must  not  forget  that  even  when  the  home 
lias  signally  failed,  we  have  yet  the  boys  and  girls 
themselves  to  be  reckoned  with,  and  they  can  be 
brought  not  only  to  see  but  to  choose  the  better  way. 

— Home  Magazine. 

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AUSTRALIAN   TOTEMS. 


An  interesting  report  of  the  investigations  by  Pro 
fessor  Baldwin  Spencei  into  the  question  of  "totem- 
ism  "  in  Australia  is  given  in  a  Melbourne  paper. 
\  arious  myths,  it  seems,  exist  as  to  the  origin  of  the 
totem.  The  aborigines  believe  that  in  what  they  call 
the  dream  times  there  lived  beings,  half  animal,  half 
plant,  which  were  transformed  into  human  beings 
and  wandered  about  making  the  natural  features  of  the 
country.  Each  ancestor  carried  a  stick,  and  with  that 
stick  the  spirit  of  the  ancestor  is  associated.  Each 
place  where  an  ancestor  has  wandered  is  believed  to 
have  a  spirit,  such,  for  instance,  as  an  emu  spirit,  a 


kangaroo  spirit,  etc.,  and  each  child  born  in  that  par- 
ticular place  is,  say,  an  emu  child  or  a  kangaroo  child 
and  so  on.     Thus  it  is  that  each  child  has  its  totem. 

As  to  the  ceremonial,  if  a  woman  or  child  see  it,  the 
eyes  are  put  out  or  death  inflicted.  The  professor 
was  initiated  by  one  group  and  was  thus  permitted  to 
see  the  ceremonies.  The  initiators  bedaubed  them- 
selves with  ocher,  down  and  their  own  blood  and,  after 
going  through  a  grotesque  dance,  related  to  the  nov- 
ices the  doings  of  the  ancestors.  The  aborigines  be- 
lieve that  reincarnation  is  continually  going  on,  so 
that  many  living  people  are  accepted  as  reincarnations 
of  some  celebrity.  As  to  the  religious  or  magical  as- 
pect, every  person  believes  he  has  influence  over  the 
animal  or  plant  after  which  he  is  called,  even  to  the  ex- 
tent of  causing  it  to  increase.  As  a  rule,  the  totem 
is  edible,  and  in  the  great  majority  of  cases  the  totem 
is  the  food  supply,  wherefore  the  power  of  increasing 
the  totem  is  of  importance.  The  original  rarely  eats 
his  own  totem,  but  he  has  no  objection  to  giving  it  to 
others  to  eat. — St.  lames'  Gazette. 


HIGH-SPEED   ELECTRIC   LINES. 

President  Mellen's  reported  declaration  that 
within  ten  years  a  speed  of  seventy-five  miles  an  hour 
will  be  made  by  cars  of  the  New  York,  New  Haven  & 
Hartford  Railroad  by  means  of  electricity,  indicates 
that  the  inauguration  of  the  new  epoch  of  railroading 
is  close  at  hand.  Undoubtedly  the  nearness  of  this 
time  will  be  determined  by  the  ability  of  the  railroad 
companies  to  meet  the  financial  burdens  involved. 
Grades  must  be  eliminated,  curves  straightened  and  a 
general  overhauling  of  the  line  will  be  necessary  be- 
fore the  new  and  expensive  electrical  equipment  for 
maintaining  high  speeds  can  be  installed.  Locomo- 
tives have  been  run  in  this  country  repeatedly  at  a 
speed  in  excess  of  seventy-five  miles  an  hour  for  short 
distances,  so  that  it  is  not  all  necessary  to  wait  for  an 
electrical  equipment  in  order  to  make  fast  time.  But 
the  ability  of  an  engine  to  generate  steam  to  maintain 
a  speed  of  seventy-five  miles  an  hour  for  the  distance 
between  Boston  and  New  York  is  not  demonstrated. 
Trains  have  been  run  in  this  country  at  the  rate  of 
one  hundred  miles  an  hour  for  a  minute  or  two.  but  the 
boiler  is  not  large  enough  to  generate  steam  to  main- 
tain this  speed.  So  nearly  has  the  limit  of  develop- 
ment in.  this  section  been  reached  that  we  cannot  rea- 
sonably expect  a  locomotive  to  maintain  a  speed  in 
excess  of  a  mile  a  minute  for  any  great  distance. 
But  with  an  electrical  equipment  such  difficulties  as  are 
met  in  maintaining  speed  by  a  moving  boiler,  are 
not  encountered.  An  electric  engine  capable  of  going 
at  the  rate  of  a  mile  in  two-thirds  of  a  minute  can 
make  the  last  mile  of  a  Boston-Xew  York  trip  in  just 
as  good  time  as  the  first. 


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THE   INGLENOOK.— October  4,    1904. 


THE  CASTAWAY. 


BY  KATHRYN  BARKDOLL. 

This  at  once  suggests  to  me  the  outcasts,  those  who 
have  not  been  blessed  with  the  goodness  of  God 
and  his  divine  Book,  the  privilege  which  so  many 
of  us  enjoy  and  do  not  appreciate.  Most  of  us 
have  been  reared  in  Christian  homes  and  God's 
blessings  have  been  showered  upon  us  so  freely 
that  we  consider  them  common.  We  do  not  re- 
alize what  conditions  would  exist  if  these  bless- 
ings were  taken  from  us  and  we  were  placed  in 
the  environment  of  many  young  people  in  this 
great  world.  Many  would  be  only  too  glad  to  ac- 
cept God's  Word  if  they  only  knew  of  it. 

How  many  souls  in  China,  South  America  and 
other  countries  are  thirsting  for  the  living  water. 
Are  we  doing  all  we  can  to  help  those  who  are 
castaway?  I  fear  not.  Since  our  heavenly  Fa- 
ther has  been  so  very  kind  as  to  place  us  in  good 
surroundings,  should  we  not  make  better  use  of 
the  time  he  has  allotted  to  us? 

Sometimes  a  castaway  may  be  found  out  on  the 
high  seas  in  an  open  boat  adrift  for  some  cause  or 
other,  not  knowing  when  or  where  he  will  land. 
The  chances  are  that  he  will  never  enter  a  safe 
harbor.  If  such  ones  were  shown  Jesus  the  Lead- 
er they  could  be  saved,  for  if  the  Lord  is  our 
Shepherd  we  will  not  want. 

Notwithstanding  the  blessed  promises  it  seems 
so  easy  to  drift  away  from  the  Shepherd's  tender 
care.  It  is  evident  that  we  are  becoming  way- 
ward when  we  lose  interest  in  the  Bible.  Though 
we  do  not  give  up  reading  it,  yet  we  do  not  have 
the  love  for  it  we  once  had.  We  find  excuses 
for  sin  instead  of  condemning  it  and  enthusiasm 
in  the  church  services  grows  less.  All  of  these 
are  signs  of  our  drifting  out  alone  and  so  be- 
coming castaways. 

If.  we  examine  ourselves  and  find  this  our  case 
we  must  at  once  look  to  the  Pilot  of  Galilee.  Steer 
directly  for  the  haven  of  rest  and  we  will  anchor 
safely  at  home.  The  reason  we  grow  indifferent 
towards  God  and  his  work  is  that  we  are  un- 
willing to  sacrifice  pleasures  of  the  world  to  do 
God's  will. 

So  long  as  we  live  there  is  danger  of  our  yield- 
ing to  temptation.  There  is  a  constant  warfare 
between  us  and  the  evil  one.  Everyone  who  tries 
to  do  the  right  realizes  this  fact.  All  of  us  have 
been  tempted.  Even  our  dear  Savior  was  tempted 
but  he  had  the  power  to  resist  and  so  have  we, 
for  he  has  made  us  dead  to  sin  and  alive  unto 
righteousness. 

Our  strength  is  in  loving  and  trusting  him.  We 
are  likely  to  fail  if  we  depend  on  our  own  strength 


but  we  can  overcome  with  the  help  of  Jesus.  We 
must  work,  watch  and  pray  to  be  faithful  to  the 
end,  for  when  the  man  once  esteemed  honest  and 
true  becomes  a  defaulter  it  is  remembered  that 
he  attended  church  regularly  and  seemed  to  be  a 
true  Christian,  and  so  he  brings  reproach  upon 
the  name  of  Christ,  not  because  Christ  is  unable 
to  save  but  because  he  has  not  remembered  that 
he  was  dead  to  sin.  If  we  live  according  to  what 
Paul  says; — "  But  I  keep- under  my  body  and  bring 
it  into  subjection,  lest  that  by  any  means  when  I 
have  preached  to  others,  I  myself  should  be  a  cast- 
away " — the  case  will  be  far  different  with  us. 

How  can  we  become  castaways  if  we  always 
look  into  the  face  of  the  Master  and  remember  that 
because  he  has  conquered  once,  "  Faith  is  the  vic- 
tory "  for  us  ? 

It  is  sad  that  there  are  castaways  while  an  om- 
nipotent Savior  is  pleading  for  them  to  grasp  his 
hand  and  be  kept.     Let  us  tell  them  of  him  an 
show  them  that  he  can  save  to  the  uttermost. 

Batavia,  III. 

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GIFTS   TO    WARSHIPS. 


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Considerable  diversity  is  shown  in  the  gifts  which 
the  different  cities  and  states  have  selected  for  the 
naval  vessels  which  have  been  named  in  their  honor. 
The  New  York,  with  a  liberality  befitting  the  metro- 
politan city,  was  presented  with  a  silver  service,  a 
bell,  some  flags,  an  athletic  outfit,  an  organ  and  a 
library,  having  a  total  value  of  nearly  $15,000.  The 
Massachusetts  received  a  library,  a  flag  and  a  statue, 
worth  altogether  little  short  of  $2,500.  Oregon  led 
in  diversity  of  gifts,  presenting  12  articles,  ranging 
from  a  photograph  of  the  ship  worth  $5,  to  a  clock 
worth  $4,000.  Albums,  paintings  and  punch  bowa 
were  also  included. 

The  Boston  received,  among  other  things,  a  twenty- 
five-dollar  Bible.  The  Castine,  probably  because 
Maine  is  a  prohibition  state,  was  presented  with  a 
$300  punch  bowl  and  nothing  else.  The  Brooklyn 
received  a  silver  service  worth  $8,000.  Wilmington, 
N.  C,  presented  a  Bible  and  a  punch  bowl  to  the  ves- 
sel named  in  its  honor,  in  an  evident  desire  to  neu^ 
tralize  things  as  much  as  possible.  The  Kearsarge 
is  the  recipient  of  not  only  a  Bible  but  a  pulpit,  to 
neither  of  which  any  value  is  assigned  on  the  depart- 
ment records,  from  the  evident  desire  of  the  donors 
not  to  measure  spiritual  agencies  in  the  medium  of 
trade. 

Altogether  $110,000  worth  of  articles  of  designated; 
value  have  been  received  by  the  ships,  besides  a  great 
many  against  which  no  price  has  been  set.     A  silver 
service  is  the  most  general  gift.    A  library  comes  sec- 
ond in  the  frequency  of  its  appearance  on  the  list  and 


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flags  or  ensigns  third.  Only  one  newspaper  is  re- 
corded in  the  list,  and  that  is  the  "  Baltimore  Sun 
Supplement, "  whatever  that  may  mean.  Most  of 
these  gifts  have  come  from  the  municipal  or  state  gov- 
ernment, but  in  some  cases  from  private  contributors 
and  occasionally  from  the  two  sources  combined.  In 
the  case  of  the  Kearsarge  it  is  believed  that  friends  of 
the  Kearsarge  veterans  were  the  benefactors. 

SPACE   TELEGRAPHY. 


In  the  industrial  world  the  St.  Louis  Fair  will 
probably  mark  the  epoch  of  the  introduction  of  space 
telegraphy  and  steam  turbine.  The  former  is  dis- 
played in  a  variety  of  attractive  and  striking  ways  and 
is  sure  to  educate  the  visiting  public  from  far  and 
wide  as  to  what  is  actually  being  accomplished.  The 
successful  utilization  of  space  telegraphy  by  the  Japan- 
ese and  Russian  forces  in  the  conduct  of  their  hostili- 
ties keeps  this  comparatively  new  invention  in  the  pub- 
lic eye,  so  that  the  St.  Louis  exhibits  are  especially 
timely. 

It  is  announced  that  the  De  Forest  people  are  rushing 
the  completion  of  a  receiving  and  transmitting  sta- 
tion at  Chicago  in  the  hope  of  .exchanging  messages  be- 
fore the  Fair  is  over.  In  any  event,  they  have  suc- 
ceeded in  reaching  Springfield,  111.,  which  is  105 
miles  distant  by  our  line.  While  this  distance  is  ex- 
ceeded every  day  on  the  ocean  it  is  a  memorable 
achievement  in  overland  work,  especially  in  view  of  the 
\,  fact,  that  the  tower  from  which  the  signals  are  flashed 
is  built  of  iron,  which  has  a  marked  effect  in  limiting 
the  radius  of  possible  successful  action. 

Art  Hill,  the  highest  point  in  the  Fair  grounds,'  is 
•crowned  with  a  long  distance  space  telegraphy  sta- 
in tion  in  the  shape  of  a  wooden  mast  210  feet  high,  car- 
rying the  antennae,  or  wires  used  in  sending  out 
the  ether  impulses.  The  paraphernalia  is  located  in  a 
building  at  the  base  of  the  mast.  This  same  com- 
pany has  ten  operative  sets  of  instruments  on  exhi- 
bition at  seven  different  stations. 

Another  prominent  feature  of  the  Fair  landscape  is 
the  wireless  tower,  at  the  entrance  of  Orleans  Plaza. 
This  is  three  hundred  feet  high,  built  of  steel,  and 
equipped  with  express  elevators  running  to  an  observa- 
tion platform  at  the  top.  The  space  telegraphy  station 
is  located  on  a  platform  at  a  one-hundred-foot  eleva- 
tion, from  which  press  dispatches  are  sent  to  local 
newspapers  at  the  rate  of  twenty-five  to  thirty-five 
f  words  per  minute.  The  Signal  Corps  exhibit  of  their 
wireless  equipment  and  the  wireless  auto  stations  used 
in  New  York  for  transmitting  "  curb  "  quotations  to 
the  offices  of  neighboring  brokers  are  other  features 
of  the  very  comprehensive  wireless  exhibit  to  be  seen 
at  the  Fair. 


PRODUCED    COMET'S    TAIL. 


The  beautiful  red  twilights  that'  we  have  been  wit- 
nessing recently  are  due,  according  to  the  modern 
scientist,  to  the  presence,  floating  in  the  air,  of  clouds 
of  minute  particles  of  matter,  which  might  be  de- 
scribed as  dust  did  not  that  name  carry  with  it  a  sug- 
gestion of  particles  much  larger  than  those  believed 
to  cause  this  refraction.  It  has  been  shown  that 
every  substance,  whether  solid  or  liquid,  is  giving 
off  emanations  that  are  probably  either  molecules, 
atoms  or  corpuscles  and  that  these  constitute  the  nuclei 
of  condensation.  The  so-called  zodiacal  light,  as  well 
as  the  aurora  borealis,  and  even  comets'  tails,  are  be- 
lieved to  be  due  to  these  .  same  particles  of  matter 
floating  about  in  planetary  space.  Indeed,  Professor 
Nichols,  of  Columbia  University,  and  Prof.  Hull,  of 
Dartmouth,  working  together,  have  succeeded  in  pro- 
ducing in  the  laboratory  an  artificial  comet's  tail. 
This  result  was  obtained  by  putting  into  an  hour  glass, 
from  which  all  the  air  had  been  carefully  exhaust- 
ed, a  mixture  of  emery  and  lycopodium  powder.  The 
hour  glass  was  held  vertical  in  order  to  allow  the 
powders  to  run  through,  and  at  the  same  time  a 
strong  horizontal  beam  of  light  was  directed  at  the 
small  part  of  the  glass.  The  repulsive  action  of  light 
pressure,  which  is  believed  to  be  the  principle  of  pro- 
ducing comet  tails,  on  the  emery  was  such  a  small 
fraction  of  the  attraction  of  gravity  that  there  was 
practically  no  deviation  from  the  vertical.  For '  the 
smaller  particles  of  the  lighter  powder  repulsion  and 
attraction  were  more  nearly  equalized,  and  there  was  a 
perceptible  deflection  from  the  vertical,  with  an  illumi- 
nation resembling  in  a  striking  manner  the  tail  of  a 
comet. 

*   *   * 
CONCERNING    BORAX. 


Do  you  know  how  useful  borax  is  in  the  household? 
It  is  one  of  the  most  powerful  antiseptics  known.  It 
is  used  to  wash  the  head — as  much  as  one  can  hold 
in  the  hollow  of  the  hand  to  about  a  quart  of  water — 
it  destroys  dandruff,  it  allays  the  heat  of  sunburn, 
bleaches  out  tan  and  redness,  helps  freckles  and  moths 
to  a  great  degree,  in  a  weak  solution  relieves  inflam- 
mation of  the  eyes — as  after  crying  and  in  rheumatic 
affections,  and  is  an  invaluable  ingredient  in  almost 
every  dentifrice  and  cure  for  canker  in  the  mouth 
and  for  any  gum  boil. 

It  cleans  the  brush  and  comb.  It  is  a  whitener  and 
purifier  everywhere  when  used  with  discretion. 

The  laundress  finds  it  softening  hard  water,  whiten- 
ing her  clothes  without  destroying  them. 

The  table  maid  finds  it  giving  new  luster  to  her 
glass,  lays  her  silver  in  a  hot  solution  of  it  and  does 
not  have  to  cleanse  it  laboriously,  half  so  often. 


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AN   HISTORIC   SPOT. 


BY  ELDER  H.    W.   STRICKLER. 

He  is  no  ordinary  man  who  becomes  so  deeply 
interested  in  the  affairs  of  this  life,  or  becomes  so 
thoroughly  attached  to  any  country  that  he  does  not, 
at  times,  suffer  his  mind  to  wander  back  to  the  place 
of  his  birth  and  the  home  of  his  childhood,  and  seek 
some  lonely  retreat  to  meditate  over  the  memories 
of  bygone  days. 

How  wonderfully  crude  and  undeveloped  must  be 
the  soul  of  a  man  who,  in  such  a  reverie,  is  not  able  to 
behold  the  care  of  our  heavenly  Father  in  his  pro- 
tection over  us  and  his  mysterious  way  of  caring  for 
the  millions  of  this  great  world. 

As  the  writer  pens  these  lines  in  a  mood  similar  to 
the  one  above  described  in  an  imagination  that  is  not 
all  imagination,  he  stands  in  one  of  the  most  historic 
spots  of  the  United  States — Fayette  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania. It  is  not  a  large  count}-,  only  contains  about 
eight  hundred  square  miles,  but  it  is  fairly  pregnant 
with  history  of  the  last  two  centuries.  It  received  its 
name  from  the  great  French  general,  Marquis  de  La 
Fayette. 

One  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago  England  and 
France,  the  two  great  rivals,  contended  for  dominion 
over  the  vast  region  of  territory  watered  by  the  head 
streams  of  the  Ohio.  It  was  in  this  same  county  that 
two  great  forces  marched  respectively  under  the 
"  Bourbon  lilies "  and  "  The  Cross  of  St.  George," 
over  the  hillsides  and  meadows  lying  between  the 
Youghioghenv  and  Monongahela  rivers.  It  is  the 
soil  of  what  is  now  Fayette  county  which  drank  the 
first  blood  spilled  in  the  memorial  conflict,  which  gave 
proud  America  and  her  citizens  their  freedom. 

Fayette  county  was  the  battlefield  where  old  Do- 
minion and  the  Keystone  state  fought  for  the  mas- 
tery. It  is  here  that  George  Washington  fought  his 
first  battle,  and  here  he  made  bis  first  _and  last  sur- 
render to  an  enemy.  Across  those  hills  and  valleys 
and  streams,  the  armies  of  the  brave  Braddock 
marched  in  pride  and  confidence  to  assault  the  French 
strongholds  at  the  source  of  the  Ohio.  And  when 
the  survivors  of  the  proud  hosts  returned  by  the  same 
route,  flying  in  disorder,  shame  and  disgrace  from 
the  bloody  fields  of  battle,  it  was  here  that  their  daunt- 
less leader  fell,  wounded  and  bleeding,  and  the  loyal 
followers  of  the  great  man  laid  him  beneath  the  clods 
of  the  valley  in  Fayette  county,  a  few  yards  west  of 
the  little  brooklet  which  since  bears  his  name.  The 
pathetic  story  of  General  Braddock's  life  and  death 
may  be  read  with  profit  by  many  who  contemplate  an 
engagement  in  an  unjust  cause. 

On  the  shore  of  the  Monongahela  river,  in  this 
county,  was  held  the  first,  also  the  last  public  meet- 
ing convened  by  the  insurgent  leaders  in  the  famous 


insurrection  of  1791-94.  And,  when  at  last  the  gov 
ernment  sent  an  army  to  enforce  the  laws,  the  militan 
columns  marched  through  Fayette  county  and  the  com 
manding  general  established  his  headquarters  at  th 
county-seat  where  he  received  assurance  of  submissioi 
from  the  insurgent  leaders. 

This  county  lays  claim  to  many  historical  facts 
among  which  are  the  construction  of  the  great  Na 
tional  road,  the  building  of  the  first  steamboat  that  de 
scended  the  Monongahela,  the  Ohio  and  the  Missis 
sippi  rivers;  the  erection  of  the. first  iron  furnao 
west  of  the  Alleghany  Mountains ;  the  first  recorded 
instance  of  the  use  of  bituminous  coal  of  westen  .;, 
Pennsylvania  as  a  fuel,  and  its  first  application  to  thj 
manufacture  of  coke. 

Originally  this  county  was  the  southern  part  o 
Westmoreland  county.  The  southern  line  is  the  fa 
mous  Mason  and  Dixon  line,  so  it  is  apparent  that  th 
southern  border  of  Fayette  county,  for  many  years 
formed  a  part  of  the  free  state  frontier  against  the  d§ 
minion  of  African  slavery. 

The  principal  water  courses  of  the  county  are  thj 
Youghioghenv,  Monongahela,  Cheat  river,  George 
Creek,  Duelp  Creek,  (so  frequently  mentioned  in  Rev 
olutionary  history),  Redstone,  Jacob's  Creek,  Indiai 
Creek,  Meadow  Run,  Big  and  Little  Sandy  and  Dun 
kards  Run.  The  mountain  ranges  of  the  county  a| 
Chestnut  Ridge  and  Laurel  Hill.  These  stand  abou 
twenty-five  hundred  feet  above  the  sea  level  and  abou 
one  thousand  feet  above  the  neighboring  valleys 
They  have  been  the  monarchs  who  have  silent! 
watched  over  this  grand  panorama  through  the  ages 
like  the  Sphinx  over  the  Sahara  or  Gibraltar  over  tfi' 
gate  of  the  Mediterranean.  West  of  the  LaurS 
Hills  the  soil  in  the  bottoms  is  excellent  for  grain  am 
fruits  and  is  well  adapted  to  the  requirements  of  agri 
culture. 

Loraine,  III. 

WHAT    IS    ELECTRICITY  ? 


First  we  must  ask  what  is  positive  electricity  anil 
the  answer  is  still  we  do  not  know.     For  myself  I  w ' 
not   even   guess,   beyond   supposing  it   to  be   a   mod'1 
of  manifestation,  or  a  differentiated  portion,  of  the  con! 
tinuous   and   all-pervading   ether.     It   seems   to   exisl 
in  lumps  the  size  of  the  atoms  of  matter  and  no  por|; 
tion  of  it  less   in  bulk  than  an  atom   has  ever  beei1 
isolated   nor   appears   likely   to   be    isolated.     But   al, 
though  it  may  have  bulk,  it  appears  as  if  it  had  no  ap 
preciable  mass ;  the  massiveness  of  inertia  of  the  ator 
is  probably  due  to  something  else ;  in  fact,  to  the  pos 
session  of   negative   charges   in   equal   amount.     Thi 
part  of  the  doctrine  is  not  yet  certain.     More  invest!' 
gation  is  urgently  needed  into  the  meaning  and  prop 
erties  of  positive  electricity.     Meanwhile  we  shall  onl;, 
be  following  the  lead  of  Prof.  J.  J.  Thomson  if  we  as 


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THE  INGLENOOK.— October  4.    1904. 


943 


ume  that  a  unit  of  positive  electricity  has  a  massive- 
Less  (or  what  is  often  inaccurately  called  "weight") 
ither  zero  or  very  small,  most  probably  very  small ; 
'h  >erhaps  about  one  per  cent  of  the  mass  of  some  atoms 
«  if  matter  may  be  due  to  the  positive  electricity  which 
hey  contain. 

But  concerning  negative  electricity  we  know  a  great 
leal  more.  This  exists  in  excessively  minute  particles, 
ometimes '  called  electrons  and  sometimes  called  cor- 
uscles;  these  are  thrown' off  the  negatively  charged 
erminal  in  a  vacuum  tube  and  they  fly  with  tremen- 
lous  speed  till  they  strike  something.  When  they 
trike  they  can  propel  as  well  as  heat  the  target 
nd  they  can  likewise  make  it  emit  a  phosphor- 
scent  glow,  especially  if  it  be  made  of  glass  or  pre- 
ious  stones.  If  the  target  is  a  very  massive  metal 
ike  platinum,  the  sudden  stoppage  of  the  flying  elec- 
rons  which  encounter  it  causes  the  production  of  the 
thereal  pulses  known  as  X-rays.  Electrons  are  not 
ery  easy  to  stop,  however,  and  a  fair  proportion  of 
hem  can  penetrate  not  only  wood  and  paper,  but  sheets 
f  such  metals  as  aluminium  and  other  moderately 
liin  obstacles.  That  is  because  they  are  extremely 
mall,  much  smaller  than  the  atoms  of  matter. 


S. 


PHOTOGRAPHING    THE    STARS. 


he  relative  positions  of  the  stars  of  the  Pleiades 
e  been  measured  with  great  accuracy  by  several 
minent  astronomers  during  the  past  half  century, 
n  recent  years  excellent  photographs  of  the  group 
ave  been  secured,  which  afford  a  new  means  of  de- 
irmining  these  relative  positions  with  extreme  pre- 
ision.  In  1859  Temper  discovered,  visually,  a  large, 
ery  faint  nebula  around  Merope,  one  of  the  princi- 
al  of  the  group.  Photographs  made  about  twenty 
ears  ago  by  the  Henry  brothers,  of  Paris,  and  by 
loberts,  in  England,  showed  a  large  number  of  wisps 
nd  streaks  of  nebulosity  involving  Merope,  Maia, 
Ucyone  and  other  stars  of  the  group.  Barnard's 
otographs,  obtained  in  1893,  by  means  of  a  large 
rait  lens  and  with  very  long  exposures,  show  that 
nebulosity  is  of  enormous  extent,  completely  en- 
ping,  and  extending-  far  beyond,  the  stars  of  the 
p  which  can  be  seen  by  the  unaided  eye ;  the  lat- 
photographs  are  on  a  small  scale  and  do  not  show 
le  intricate  filamentous  structure  of  the  nebulosity. 
1  Recently  the  two-foot  reflecting  telescope  of  the 
"erkes  Observatory  has  been  employed  by  the  writer 
1  photographing  the  Pleiades.  This  instrument  is 
specially  well  adapted  for  photographing  not  only  the 
reat  numbers  of  very  faint  stars  of  the  group,  but 
Iso  the  extremely  faint  extensions  of  nebulosity,  and 
ir  depicting  with  the  greatest  sharpness  the  minute 
■  etails  of  structure  of  the  nebula. — Harper's  Magfc 


EAT    LESS    MEAT. 


Reports  of  restaurant  keepers  make  it  evident  that 
the  Beef  Trust  is  going  to  feel  the  effects  of  the  strike 
of  its  employes  for  many  months  to  come.  Thousands 
of  persons  have  quit  eating  meat  in  order  to  signify 
their  disapproval  of  the  Beef  Trust's  methods,  and  it 
is  believed  that,  having  got  out  of  the  habit  of  meat 
eating,   it  will   take  a   long  time  to   win   them   back. 

The  experience  of  a  restaurant  which  feeds  twelve 
thousand  persons  a  day  is  probably  typical  of  the  ex- 
periences of  many  others.  This  restaurant,  the  largest 
in  Xew  York,  reports  that  with  the  beginning  of  the 
strike  there  was  a  remarkable  increase  in  the  demand 
for  cereals,  fruit  and  vegetables  and  a  big  decrease  in 
the  demand  for  meat  of  all  kinds.  This,  too,  despite 
the  fact  that  the  restaurant  made  absolutely  no  in- 
crease in  its  charges  for  meat. 

The  only  reason  for  the  lessened  demand,  therefore, 
must  have  been  a  sentimental  one — a  desire  to  punish 
the  Beef  Trust.  Old  patrons  of  the  restaurant  who 
have  eaten  meat  steadily  for  years  are  now  calling 
for  rice  and  milk  or  eggs  and  vegetables,  and  give 
no  sign  of  returning  to  their  old  habits. 

The  theory  is  .  that  these  persons,,  having  once 
stopped  eating  meat,  have  discovered  that  they  are 
much  better  off  in  hot  weather  without  it,  or  at  least 
without  so  much  as  they  had  been  in  the  habit  of 
consuming,  and  it  is  probable  that  the  smaller  checks 
that  go  with  a  diet  of  rice  and  milk  also  have  been 
a  factor  in  the  situation.  At  all  events,  proprietors 
of  restaurants  do  not  look  for  a  return  of  the  normal 
demand  for  meat  until  cold  weather  sets  in. 

*  •:*  * 

ANCIENT    MIRRORS. 


Wilkinsox,  the  historian,  shows  that  the  world  is 
indebted  for  mirrors  to  the  ancient  Egyptians.  At 
first  they  were  made  of  metal,  so  well  compounded 
and  polished  that  some  recently  dug  up  from  Thebes 
have  regained  a  wonderful  luster  after  burial  for 
thousands  of  years.  Oval  in  shape,  they  were  fastened 
to  carved  wooden  handles.  References  are  made  to 
such  lookingglasses  in  Exodus  and  Job.  The  Greeks 
and  Romans  made  similar  mirrors  of  silver. 

At  Murano,  near  Venice,  in  the  thirteenth  century, 
the  republic  protected  the  trade  and  jealously  guarded 
its  secrets,  securing  a  lucrative  business  for  a  century 
and  a  half.  Mirrors  were  then  made  from  cylinders 
of  glass  flattened  on  stones,  carefully  polished,  bev- 
eled at  the  edges  and  silvered  by  an  amalgam. 

Pliny  says  that  the  earliest  glass  mirrors  were  made 
of  black  volcanic  glass.  Through  the  Middle  Ages 
glass,  backed  with  thin  metallic  sheets,  came  into  use 
and  "  bull'seyes,"  or  glass  globes,  into  which,  while 
hot,  a  metalic  mixture  was  blown  for  hacking. 


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THE   INGLENOOK.— October  4,    1904. 


BAD    LITTLES. 


EY  GRACE  LONGANECKER. 

From  the  bad  little  thoughts  and  deeds  have  sprung 
the  most  heinous  crimes.  A  youth  inclined  to  evil- 
thinking  or  evil  doing,  left  unguarded,  will  wreck  his 
character  and  soul. 

To  illustrate :  A  youth  steps  into  a  hall  to  hear  a 
noted  atheist  lecture.  The  speaker  presents  a  pleas- 
ant picture  to  the  youthful  mind  and  after  a  while 
gains  his  confidence.  "  I  believe  as  he  does,  "  says  the 
youth,  and  so  the  evil  impression  is  made.  He  jour- 
neys on  through  life,  seeking  the  associations  in  har- 
mony with  his  mind  until  something  perchance  may 
change  his  evil  course.  Nobody  or  nothing  seems  to 
influence  him  as  much  as  the  noted  infidel.  On  he 
goes,  from  bad  to  worse,  until  he  dies,  a  lost  soul 

Or,  again,  says  a  small  tot,  "  papa  drinks  whiskey. 
I  will  taste  just  a  little  drop."  (But  father  does  not 
want  him  to.)  He  tastes,  as  resolved,  and  his  taste 
grows,  until  it  requires  gallons,  numerous,  to  quench 
his  thirst.  Every  succeeding'  drink,  must,  necessarily, 
be  greater,  until  he  becomes  a  drunkard  and  dies  of 
delirium  tremens.  Do  you  know  our  lives  are  made 
up  of  littles  and  if  we  do  not  guard  against  these  bad 
little  deeds  or  thoughts,  they  will  grow  of  their  kind? 

Do  not  tell  a  white  lie  or  you  soon  will  be  telling 
black  ones. 

Do  not  touch  a  cigar  or  you  will  soon  be  smoking  a 
tobacco  pipe. 

Do  not  touch  a  glass  of  liquor  or  you  will  soon  be- 
come a  drunkard. 

Do  not  read  immoral  books  or  you  will  hastily  im- 
bibe the  spirit  thereof.  Let  us  beware  of  all  bad  lit- 
tles for  the  greatest  of  men  have  not  been  above  car- 
ing for  them.  I  once  read  of  a  merchant  seeking  to 
employ  an  office  boy.  He  sent  out  his  advertisement, 
stating  all  who  applied  should  come  with  recommenda- 
tions. The  day  appointed  to  receive  the  applicants  ar- 
rived. Many  of  the  boys  had  recommendations  car- 
ried by  careless,  dirty  hands,  while  some  yet  used  un- 
becoming language.  One  bright  fellow,  with  no  pa- 
pers to  show,  was  chosen  as  the  boy.  "  Why  did  you 
employ  one  without  references  ? "  asked  a  friend. 
"Without  reference!"  said  the  business  man,  "Did 
you  notice  how  politely  he  answered  me?  How  quiet- 
ly he  closed  the  door?  How  clean  his  hands  were  in 
spite  of  his  scanty  clothing?  How  he  picked  up  a 
book  which  I  purposely  dropped  on  the  floor?  Why, 
he  had  the  best  recommendation  of  all."  This  boy 
was  trained  to  care  foi  the  littles  and  not  one  bad  lit- 
tle presented  itself  as  he  was  being  scanned  by  his 
employer. 

So  when  Jesus  employs  us  in  his  service,  he  wants 
us  to  be  free  from  all  bad  little  traits ;  for  he  then  can 
use  us  best  to  his  honor  and  glory. 


May  he  help  us  watch  each  little  deed  or  thought 
performed  in  one  little  moment. 
Hartville,  Ohio. 

*  *  * 

CORN    FODDER. 


Thus  far  in  many  states  the  season  has  been  an 
unusually  favorable  one  for  the  growth  of  most  all 
kinds  of  vegetation.  Both  early  and  late  planted  corn 
fields  are  promising.  The  growth  of  stalks  in  many 
instances  is  beyond  the  general  average,  yet  there 
seems  to  be  the  usual  number  of  promising  ears,  and 
all  indications  seem  to  point  to  an  excellent  yield  of 
good  corn.  The  excellent  growth  of  stalks  is  such 
as  to  be  very  encouraging  to  the  farmer  who  is 
short  on  hay.  Few  farmers,  however,  who  have  much 
meadow  are  short  of  hay.  Good  corn  fodder  is  not 
fully  appreciated  by  every  farmer.  In  some  caseSj 
probably,  its  feeding  value  may  be  well  understood, 
but  the  "  trouble  "  of  feeding  or  properly  preparing 
it  is  the  reason  it  is  not  more  generally  used.  Where 
so-called  "  trouble  "  results  in  profit  it  should  be  suf 
ficient  incentive  to  go  ahead  anyway.  It  is  a  well 
known  fact  that  the  best  paying  farms — and  those 
that  have  lands  that  are  continually  increasing  in  fer; 
tility — are  those  on  which  plenty  of  live  stock  ii 
raised.  A  Western  farmer  for  a  good  many  years 
was  classed  as  a  "  cattle  crank  "  because  he  raised 
corn,  he  said,  "  as  much  for  the  value  of  the  fodder 
as  the  grain."  His  idea  was  that  when  he  sold  any-; 
thing  off  the  place  it  "  must  go  off  on  four  feet."  He 
was  almost  as  careful  of  saving  his  corn  fodder  as| 
his  hay  crop.  As  soon  as  husking  could  be  done  it 
was  attended  to,  and  the  fodder  was  at  once  hauled' 
from  the  fields  and  put  under  cover,  or  ricked  and} 
carefully  capped. 

His  method  of  handling  was  to  cut  close  to  the 
ground  as  soon  as  the  corn  was  well  glazed.  The 
shocks  were  small,  which  insured  quick  drying  01J 
curing.  At  the  ground  the  butts  were  well  spread  sc 
as  to  insure  good  circulation  of  air.  Much  of  the 
crop  was  thus  secured  with  a  decided  green  color  in-, 
stead  of  the  usual  yellow  and  hard  stalks,  which  come1 
from  late  cutting  and  protracted  curing,  or  leaving, 
it  unnecessarily  long  in  the  fields  to  battle  with  th<| 
elements. 

Corn  that  is  left  too  long  before  it  is  cut  becomes, 
harsh  and  the  leaves  break  considerably  in  handling 
When  it'  is  delayed  until  frost  has  touched  it,  much  0! 
the  nutrition  is  lost.  Another  advantage  of  having 
small  shocks  is  it  can  be  hauled  up  near  the  barn 
where  the  field  is  near  by.  If  there  is  plenty  of  barr 
flo'or  space  it  can  be  filled  with  shocks  after  they  art 
field  cured,  and  husking  can  be  done  on  rainy  days 
Of  course,  this  would  not  be  practical  on  farms  where 
immense  fields  of  corn  are  raised,  or  where  the  field; 


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945 


are  located  long  distances  from  the  barn.  But  on 
small  farms  the  plan  will  be  found  to  be  a  good  one 
—as  there  are  many  days  that  corn  could  be  husked 
tn  the  barn,  when  weather  conditions  would  not  per- 
mit the  operation  on  the  field.  Low-bodied  wagons 
:>r  "  stone-boats  "  would  be  best  to  haul  the  stalks  on 
from  the  field. 

On  large  farms,  where  the  corn-stalk  shredder  is 
fed  the  great  value  of  properly  .cured  corn  fodder 
is  fully  appreciated.  It  is  well  to  wait  until  the  corn 
lias  reached  the  hardening  stage  before  cutting.  With 
some  varieties  this  is  when  it  is  well  glazed,  but  with 
rthers  it  would  be  too  soon.  Judgment  must  be  used. 
,11C|  Dn  one  occasion  a  Western  farmer  who  had  hun- 
Ireds  of  acres  of  corn  was  asked  by  an  Eastern 
armer,  "  What  in  the  world  do  you  expect  to  do  with 
ill  your  corn  fodder?  "  "  Well,"  said  the  Westerner, 
I  expect  to  stack  all  I  can  outside,  and  the  balance 
•stmjwe  will  put  in  the  barn." 

There  is  no  crop  raised  on  the  farm  that  is  so  great- 
y  wasted  as  the  corn-stalk  fodder  crop.  The  old- 
ime  method  of  topping  the  corn,  then  pulling  the 
ars,  and  afterward  breaking  or  cutting  the  stalk  be- 
:ore  plowing  could  be  done,  has  passed.  It  was  a 
,'crv  expensive  method,  necessitating,  according  to 
experimental  tests  made  at  the  Maryland  Station,  the 
raveling  of  about  18  miles  on  each  acre  to  harvest 
he  crop  of  corn  and  get  rid  of  the  stalk  butts  before 
mother  crop  could  get  in.  When  time  is  money  the 
nethod  plainly  proves  "  corn  doesn't  pay." 

Save  the  corn  fodder  and  have  stock  enough  on 
he  farm  to  consume  it.  The  greatly  increased  sup- 
>ly  of  manure  resulting  will  almost  pay  for  the  keep- 
ig  of  the  stock,  and  there  will  be  something  to  sell 
n  the  winter  and  spring  that  can  "  go  off  the  farm 
m  four  feet." 

If  you  will  not  increase  your  stock  any,  do  not  let 

he  corn  fodder  remain  out  in  the  fields  all  winter  as 

onspicuous  reminders  of  careless  or  indifferent  farm- 

ng.    Make  some  use  of  the  stalks.    Haul  them  in  and 

nake  a  V-shaped  shed  covered  with  rails  and  topped 

vitli  corn  stalks  for  the  poultry  to  enjoy  as  a  scratch- 

ng  shed  and  in  that  way  get  some  winter  eggs,  or 

ilse  use  the  stalks  for  shed  roofs  for  the  protection 

1    iheep  or  calves. — Cincinnati  Enquirer. 

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and  Labor  reviews  briefly  the  conditions  and  re- 
quirements which  are  of  interest  as  showing  the 
progress  of  women  in  the  fatherland. 

It  is  not  every  woman  who  can  obtain  a  position 
in  the  German  postal  service,  so  strict  are  the  gov- 
ernment regulations  respecting  age,  character,  edu- 
cation and  health.  A  government  medical  examiner 
pronounces  upon  the  health,  which  must  be  perfect; 
the  age  must  not  exceed  30  or  be  under  18,  and  a 
good  common  school  education  is  a  primary  requi- 
site. Possessing  all  these  qualifications  the  woman 
candidate  is  eligible  only  to  a  position  as  assistant 
in  the  post  office,  and  the  highest  salary  she  can 
hope  for  is  $119  a  year.  In  the  telegraph  and  tele- 
phone service,  however,  all  grades  of  positions  are 
open  to  women,  though  the  rules  of  admission  are 
equally  strict,  and  no  women  with  children  are  em- 
ployed. Four  thousand  women  are  now  engaged  in 
the  telephone  service  of  the  German  empire,  it  is 
stated,  1,000  of  them  being  in  Berlin.  The  hours 
are  light,  ranging  from  six  to  eight  hours  a  day. 

•£  ♦  * 
PHONOGRAPH'S    ORIGIN. 


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Women  have  become  an  indispensable  factor  in  the 
ierman  postal  telegraph  and  telephone  service,  it 
eems,  in  spite  of  the  conservatism  which  prevented 
he  utilization  of  feminine  activities  in  public  work 
n  Germany  until  nearly  half  a  century  later  than 
France  and  England.  United  States  Consul 
VIonaghan.  of  Chemnitz,  in  his  recent  communica- 
ion  to  the  United  States  Department  of  Commerce 


An  accident — a  cut  on  the  finger — caused  Edison  to 
invent  the  phonograph,  or  talking  machine. 

Mr.  Edison  told  the  story  of  this  invention  to  a  re- 
porter. At  the  time,  he  said,  he  was  singing  into  a 
telephone,  and  in  the  telephone's  mouthpiece  he  had 
placed  for  safe  keeping  a  fine  steel  point.  Suddenly 
this  point  cut  his  finger.  He  found  to  his  surprise, 
that  it  had  been  moving  here  and  there  and  round- 
about, guided  by  the  vibrations  of  his  voice. 

He  placed  a  strip  of  yellow  paper  under  the  steel 
point,  replaced  it  in  the  mouthpiece  and  said  the 
alphabet.  The  steel,  while  he  spoke,  ran  over  the 
paper,  and  for  each  letter  of  the  alphabet  it  made  a 
different  mark,  or  scratch. 

This  was  what  Mr.  Edison  had  hoped  for.  He  now 
held  the  steel  point  still  and  drew  the  paper  scratches 
slowly  over  it.  There  was  given  forth,  very  faintly, 
the  alphabet  as  he  had  repeated  it. 

Thus  the  principle  of  the  phonograph — the  regis- 
tering and  the  reproduction  of  the  voice's  vibrations — 
was  discovered  through  the  cutting  of  a  finger.  It 
was  Edison's  finger,  though,  that  was  cut.  Smith's 
or  Brown's  might  have  been  quite  hacked  off  and  no 
phonograph  would  have  resulted. 

*   *   * 

I  kxi'i.lt  to  pass  through  the  world  but  once: 
therefore,  there  be  any  kindness  I  can  show  you,  or' 
any  good  thing  I  can  do  to  any  fellow  human  being, 
let  me  do  it  now.  Let  me  not  defer  or  neglect  it. 
for  I  shall  not  pass  this  way  again. — Edward  Court- 
ney. Earl  of  Devonshire. 


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THE   IXGLEXOOK.— October  4.    1904. 


CUBAN    HOUSES. 


SAVING    VOLTAGE. 


BY  E.   A.    EVANS. 

Cuban  architecture  is  verv  unlike  that  of  the  Amer- 
icans, in  fact,  in  Havana,  a  house  modeled  on  Ameri- 
can plans  is  pointed  out  to  the  visitor  as  a  curiosity. 
In  passing  along  the  streets  of  a  city  the  exterior  of  a 
Cuban  house  presents  a  very  uninviting  appearance. 
It  is  usually  adjoining  a  store  of  some  kind,  has 
wooden  shutters,  not  always  made  of  slats,  but  often 
made  of  a  solid  piece  which,  when  closed,  excludes 
all  light  from  that  side.  It  requires  a  stretch  of  im- 
agination to  penetrate  the  walls  and  see  within  a  pic- 
ture more  than  ordinarily  pleasing.  It  is  therefore 
astonishing  to  be  walking  down  a  narrow,  dingy  street, 
that  can  be  crossed  in  two  or  three  good-sized  steps  to 
suddenly  find  one's  self  gazing  into  someone's  home 
and  to  see  beyond  the  entrance  room  beautiful  foun- 
tains, tropical  plants,  etc.  As  you  know,  the  houses 
in  the  tropics  are  built  so  as  to  be  as  cool  as  possibb. 
Cuban  city  houses  and  many  country  ones  are  built 
around  a  court  and  have  very  high  ceilings  to  insure 
coolness. 

There  is  a  very  beautiful  house,  or  rather  a  pabce, 
as  it  should  be  styled,  in  Havana  with  a  long  hallway, 
twenty-five  feet  wide  by  one  hundred  feet  long,  marble- 
tiled  with  marble  pillars  supporting  the  high  ceiling : 
from  either  end  extend  narrower  hallways,  along 
which  are  bedrooms.  It  is  hard  to  imagine  that  this 
is  the  second  floor  of  a  building,  the  third  floor  of 
which  is  a  cigar  factory  and  the  first  floor  its  office ; 
nevertheless  it  is  true. 

In  the  bedrooms  of  many  homes  are  Spanish  beds, 
black  iron  with  gilt  trimmings,  especially  a  gilt  me- 
dallion at  the  foot.  The  bed  almost  invariably  has  an 
arrangement  for  supporting  a  mosquito  bar,  for  this 
is  a  necessity  in  that  country. 

The  "  cuarto-bano,"  or  bath  room,  is  very  different 
from  the  kind  we  are  used  to  in  the  United  States.  It 
is  fitted  with  a  large  tub  lined  with  white  tiling  and 
sunk  into  the  floor,  often  to  the  depth  of  four  feet. 
These  tubs  vary  in  size,  some  being  large  enough  for 
swimming  pools.  The  bath  is  taken  in  cold  water  as 
there  is  no  way  of  heating  sufficient  water  to  fill  a 
tub.     Usually  there  is  a  shower  attachment. 

The  doors  of  the  homes  generally  have  a  great  brass 
knocker,  others  more  modern  have  an  electric  bell  by 
which  the  visitor  announces  his  coming.  In  wealthier 
homes  a  porter  sits  at  the  open  door  all  day  and  be- 
hind the  closed  door  at  night,  thus  combining  the  of- 
fices of  porter  and  sentinel  together. 

Buford,  N.  Dak. 

*-*  * 

Eminent  pietv  is  essential  to  eminent  usefulness. — 
Dr.  Andrew  Reed. 


"  Few   motormen    know   how   to   run   a   street   ca 
without  wasting  a  large  amount  of  energy,"  said  aJ 
old  street  car  man.  "    and  the  fact  was  impressed  01 
my  mind  rather  forcibly  the  other  day  by  an  amus 
ing  incident  on  a  street  car  uptown.     The  car  hai 
been  bumping  along  roughly,  a  fact  which  genera: 
indicates   a    waste. of   power.       A     well-known     ma} 
walked  to  the  front  platform  and  asked  the  motorma; 
to  permit  him  to  run  the  car  for  a  few  blocks.     Th| 
motorman   declined   the   interference   until   he   foun 
out  the  man  was  an  expert  in  that  line.     As  soon  al 
the    well-dressed   man   took   charge    the   car    ran    a 
smoothly    as    if    running   on    a    glass    surface.      Hi 
method  was  simple.     He  would  turn  on  the  full  vol1 
age,  get  the  car  under  headway  and  then  shut  off  th 
current  and  allow  the  car  to  cover  a  considerable  dis 
tance  as  a  result  of  its  own  momentum.     Nearly  al 
the  time  he  would  have  nothing  to  do  but  handle  thl 
brake  for  the  purpose  of  slowing  down  or  stoppinB 
at  the   crossings.      '  If   every  man   running  a   car   il 
Xew  Orleans,'  he  said  to  the  motorman,  '  would  nil 
the  car  on  the  principle  indicated,  the  saving  to  th* 
company 'in  power  would  amount  to  enough  to  alio1 1 
the  company  to  double  the  salary  of  every  motorma  A 
in  the  company's  employ.'    The  well-dressed  man  whl 
had  thus   entertained  the   passengers   while   instruc1 1 
ing  the  motorman  was  President  Foster  of  the  Rai 
ways    Company,    an   old    motorman    himself,    and   t 
knew  what  he  was  doing  when  he  took  charge  of  tr 
car,  and  no  doubt  he  was  correct  in  all  he  said  aboi 
the  tremendous  waste  of  voltage  by  men  who  ha\| 
not  thoroughly  mastered  the  business  of  being  goof 
motormen." 

*   •:•  * 
TURNS    MILK    INTO    POWDER. 


There  are  two  processes  of  treating  milk  for  tl 
purpose  of  rendering  it  into  the  form  of  powder.  Oi 
of  these  is  the  invention  of  a  Swedish  scientist,  tl- 
data  having  been  secured  from  the  United  States  C01 
sular  reports.  The  other  process  is  the  invention  < 
Dr.  Campbell.  A  new  process  is  now  announced  fro:[ 
England,  which  is  on  lines  entirely  different  from  tl 
others  mentioned.  The  apparatus  by  which  this  dr; 
ing  is  accomplished  is  known  as  the  Just-Hatmaki 
milk-drying  machine,  and  was  the  object  of  much  a 
tention  at  the  recent  Royal  Agricultural  Society  sho\ 
where  it  was  on  exhibition. 

The  process  is  extremely  simple,  and,  from  all  r 
ports,  very  rapid.  The  cylinders  are  heated  by  stea 
to  a  surface  temperature  of  about  two  hundred  degre 
Fahrenheit.  They  are  separated  from  each  otb 
about  one-eighth  of  an  inch  and  revolve  inversel 
making  about  six  revolutions  per  minute.     The  mi 


THE   IXGLENOOK.— October  4,    1904. 


947 


to  be  dried  is  fed  continuously  upon  the  revolving 
cylinders,  and,  passing  between  them  is  spread  in  a 
thin  uniform  layer  upon  the  surface  of  each  cylinder. 
The  milk  solids  are  then  removed  in  continuous  sheets, 
as  the  cylinders  revolve,  by  stripping  knives  held  in 
contact  with  the  cylinders.  By  this  process  milk  is 
reduced  to  dryness  in  less  than  thirty  seconds.  The 
sheets  of  dry  milk  are  afterward  pulverized  by  being 
passed  through  a  sieve. 

♦  ♦  •$* 

INSECT    TAILORS. 


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In  tailoring  establishments  the  cutting  department 
represents  the  highest  trained  skill.  To  plan  a  gar- 
ment and  then  cut  its  various  parts  from  the  stuff  is 
■  distinctly  the  work  of  a  finer  intelligence  than  to  put 
the  parts  together.  It  may  be  forcing  analogies  too 
far,  but  at  least  it  is  a  fancy  that  lies  close  to  fact  that 
the  highest  order  of  insects,  the  hymenopetra,  perhaps 
contains  species  that  cut  from  the  leaves  of  plants  a 
covering  for  their  young,  which  pieces  they  unite  upon 
a  fixed  and  traditional  but  apparently  premeditated 
plan.  The  cutting  or  parasol  ants  may  be  grouped 
with  these  species,  and  the  leaf-cutting  bee  has  even 
a  better  claim  to  the  first  honors  in  the  cutters'  asso- 
ciation of  their  guild.  Her  brooding  nest  is  a  tapes- 
tried tube  made  in  soft  wood  in  the  pith  of  an  alder 
Stock,  the  hollow  of  a  tree,  an  opening  in  an  old  wall, 
the  shelter  of  a  cornice,  or  a  hole  in  the  ground.  Hav- 
ing chosen  and  arranged  her  quarters,  she  proceeds  to 
get  material  to  drape  its  walls.  You  may  see  her  then 
squat  upon  a  rose  leaf,  revolving  upon  her  feet  while 
she  uses  her  jaws  as  scissors,  thus  clipping  out  a  cir- 
cular patch,  which  she  carries  to  her  quarters.  The 
ece  is  thrust  into  the  tube,  with  the  serrated  edge, 
is  alleged,  habitually  placed  upon  the  outside.  The 
asticity  of  the  cutting  causes  it  to  cling  to  the  walls, 
ml  when  a  dozen  pieces,  more  or  less,  are  laid  in  and 
erlapped,  a  small  thimble-shaped  cell  is  formed. 
<>  this  the  mother  drops  an  egg,  and  puts  a  bit  of 
:  bread  'and  seals  up  the  cell  with  a  cutting  or  two. 
ke  cells  are  added  until  they  are  lengthened  out  into 
a  chamber  two  or  three  inches  long.  Other  chambers 
How,  the  mother  placing  half  a  dozen  cells  in  every 
ic,  until  her  maternal  zeal  is  satisfied,  which  at 
pes  is  not  until  several  separate  rooms  are  tapes- 
tried. This  feat,  in  the  number  of  pieces  cut  and 
placid,  rivals  that  of  our  grandams'  patchwork  quilts. 
For  the  bee  may  cut  and  carry  and  drape  one  thousand 
pieces  ere  her  task  is  done. 

•:*•:•♦ 
LOST   DOG. 


They  were  discussing  the  marvelous  power  where- 
by lost  clogs  find  their  way  home  unerringly  from 
great  distances.     The  clergyman  in  the  party  leaned 


over  and  patted  the  muzzle  of  his  bull  terrier. 
"  Here's  a  dog,"  he  said,  "  that,  getting  lost,  got 
home  again  in  the  strangest  way  you  ever  heard  of. 
Vixen  and  I  are  constant  companions  in  town.  We  are 
together  all  day,  and  on  account  of  my  lame  foot  we 
always  ride  in  hansoms.  Vixen  seldom  walks,  but 
every  morning  you  may  see  her  in  a  hansom  on 
Broadway.  One  day  she  got  lost — how,  I  don't 
know.  At  any  rate,  she  was  lost  from  S  o'clock 
in  the  morning  until  7  o'clock  in  the  evening,  and 
she  comes  back  home,  as  large  as  life,  in  her  hansom, 
like  any  lady.  The  driver  of  the  hansom  said 
he  was  standing  in  front  of  Sherry's  when  he  saw 
Vixen  jump  into  his  carriage  and  seat  herself  on 
the  cushions  calmly. 

Here,  get  out  o'  that,'  he  said. 

"  But  \  ixen,  without  moving,  gave  an  odd,  fret- 
ful bark. 

Get  out,'  he  repeated,  drawing  nearer. 

"  She  barked  again.  Now  the  driver  perceived 
that  she  was  no  ordinary  street  cur.  He  patted  her 
on  the  back.  Her  handsome  collar  caught  his  eye, 
and  he  read  on  it  her  name  and  address. 

You're  mighty  far  from  home,  doggie,'  he  said. 
'  I  believe  you  are  lost.  On  a  chance  I'll  drive  vou 
to  this  here  street  and  number,  and  maybe  there'll 
be  a  ten-spot  in  the  job  for  me.' 

"  He  drove  Vixen  home,  and  out  of  the  job  he 
made  two  ten-spots.'' 

The  clergyman  laughed.  "  Did  you  ever  hear  a 
stranger  dog  story  than  this?  What  do  you  think 
of  Vixen,  anyway?  What  do  you  think  of  a  little 
dog  that,  when  she  gets  lost,  just  takes  a  hansom 
home?  " 

INSOMNIA. 


The  use  of  the  warm  bath  for  the  purpose  of  in- 
ducing sleep  is  very  efficient.  The  bath  should  be  ad- 
ministered in  a  room  whose  temperature  is  65  to  75  de- 
grees Fahrenheit.  The  patient  is  made  to  stand  with 
his  head  over  the  edge  of  the  tub,  and  his  head  and  face 
are  then  rapidly  douched  with  water  at  100  degrees 
Fahrenheit.  The  cooling  of  the  body  by  the  air  and 
the  hot  spong-.ng  of  the  head  send  the  blood  to  the 
head,  dilating  the  vessels  of  the  entire  brain.  The 
whole  body  is  then  immersed — except,  of  course,  the 
head — in  a  bath  at  98  degrees  Fahrenheit,  which  is 
rapidly  raised  to  a  temperature  of  105  degrees  to  no 
degrees.  In  a  few  minutes  the  patient  is  taken  from 
the  bath,  wrapped  in  warm  blankets,  and  taken  to  his 
room,  where  night  clothes  are  put  on,  a  warm  bottle 
placed  at  his  feet,  and  possibly  some  liquid  food  ad- 
ministered. 

♦   •>   ♦ 

CrcL'MiiERS  were  originally  tropical  vegetables. 


948 


THE   INGLENOOK— October  4,   1904. 


LURAY    CAVE. 


BY    ANNA    BOWMAN. 

"Been  to  Luray?"  "Oh  yes,"  and  wandered  for 
an  hour  and  a  half  through  "  fairy  land  "  where  tiny 
liquid  fairies  are  ever  working,  dropping,  dropping, 
never  tiring  even  though  it  takes  one  hundred  and 
twenty  years  to  form  one  cubic  inch  of  their  product. 

Guides  .conveyed  our  party  through  and  invited  us 
"  to  keep  off  the  grass."  So  we  could  only  gaze  at 
the  "  Fish  Market  "  and  "  Vegetable  Garden,  "  and 
admire  the  "  Ampitheater,  "  "  Throne  Room  "  and 
"  Statuary  Hall,"  and  wonder  why  the  beautiful  "  Ball 
Room  "  should  have  a  "  Cemetery  "  and  "  Potter's 
Field  "  adjoining. 

The  statuary  in  these  caverns  is  fine, — "Christ  Bless- 
ing Little  Children,"  "  The  Madonna,"  and  figures 
of  animals  being  almost  perfect.  There  are  columns 
over  fifty  feet  high,  and  one  of  these  at  some  remote 
time  has  fallen  and  lies  as  it  fell,  like  a  monarch  of 
the  forest  shorn  of  its  glory. 

The  hangings  and  draperies  are  something  wonder- 
ful. The  "  Wet  Blanket  "  could  be  improved  upon, 
hanging  as  it  does  from  the  ceiling,  dripping  and  tat- 
tered ;  its  striped  border  shows  quite  plain.  A  shawl 
hanging  near  is  quite  as  good  though  more  tattered, 
while  draperies  and  portieres  abound  in  all  conceivable 
places. 

"  Titania's  Veil,"  another  kind  of  formation  hangs 
in  folds,  white  and  shining  like  silk.  There  is  a  pipe 
organ  on  which  the  guide  played  a  tune  and  cheered  us 
with  sweet  chords  from  "  chimes  "  near  by. 

To  spend  a  day  in  such  a  wonderland  as  Luray  is 
a  rare  privilege.  It  makes  us  enjoy  nature  and  rev- 
erence the  power  whose  hand  is  behind  it  all  and 
whose  plans  never  fail. 

Glcnsted,  Mo. 

♦    *   *5* 

NEW    PROCESS    OF    GALVANIZING. 


The  Engineer  this  week  gives  publicity  to  a  new 
process  of  galvanizing,  which  has  now  reached  a  com- 
mercial stage.  It  is  known  as  "  Sherardizing.  "  The 
point  of  interest  about  it  is  that  iron  and  steel  can  be 
coated  with  a  thin,  even  deposit  of  zinc  at  a  tempera- 
ture below  the  melting  point  of  zinc.  The  first  step 
in  the  process  is  to  free  the  iron  from  scale  and  oxide 
by  any  of  the  well  known  methods,  such  as  dipping 
in  an  acid  solution  or  sand  blasting.  The  articles  to  be 
rendered  rustless  are  then  placed  in  a  close  iron  re- 
ceptacle charged  with  zinc  dust,  which  is  heated  to  a 
temperature  of  from  500  to  600  degrees  F.  for  a  few 
hours  and  allowed  to  cool.  The  drum  is  then  opened 
and  the  iron  articles  removed,  when  they  are  found  to 
be  coated  with  a  fine  homogeneous  covering  of  zinc, 


the  thickness  depending  upon  the  temperature  and  the 
length  of  time  of  treatment.  It  will  be  observed  thai 
the  temperature  required  to  bring  about  this  result  is 
about  200  degrees  below  the  melting  point  of  zinc. 
The  low  temperature  required  makes  the  process) 
cheap  as  compared  to  the  process  of  dipping  in  molten] 
zinc,  and  has  the  additional  advantage  that  it  does  not 
deteriorate  iron  or  steel  of  small  section  to  the  sam« 
extent  as  hot  galvanizing.  The  whole  of  the  zinc  is 
consumed ;  there  is  no  wasting  of  zinc  as  in  the  hoi 
galvanizing  process.  This  new  process  of  dry  galva 
nizing  is  not  limited  to  the  coating  of  iron  with  zinc 
but  it  has  been  successfully  applied  to  coating  irorf 
with  copper,  aluminium  and  antimonv. 

"UNTO    ME." 


While  it  is  the  plain  duty  of  the  church  as  the  bod) 
of  Christ  to  do  good  to  the  poor  and  the  needy,  and  alle 
viate  distress  wherever  found,  yet  the  fact  that  th< 
church  does  do  this,  or  that  the  church  does  no' 
do  this,  in  no  way  relieves  the  individual  member  fron 
personal  responsibility.  The  language  of  the  Judg( 
of  all  the  earth,  as  given  by  the  Savior  (Matthew 
25),  is  to  the  individual,  "Come  ye  blessed  of  m; 
Father,  inherit  the  kingdom  prepared  for  you  from  thi 
foundation  of  the  world,"  for  "  I  was  an  hungred 
and  ye  gave  me  meat ;  I  was  naked,  and  ye  clothec 
me;  a  stranger,  and  ye  took  me  in."  Then  he  adds 
"  Inasmuch  as  ye  did  it  unto  one  of  the  least  of  thesi 
my  brethren,  ye  did  it  unto  me."  To  the  others  hi 
will  say,  "  Depart  from  me.  Inasmuch  as  ye  did  i 
not  to  the  least  of  these  my  brethren,  ye  did  it  not  t( 
me."  This  will  be  the  final,  the  irrevocable  test  a 
the  judgment  day — not  what  your  neighbors  haVi 
done,  not  what  your  church  has  done,  but  what  y< 
as  an  individual  have  done,  or  left  undone.  No  clai 
of  the  human  family  comes  nearer  filling  the  descrip 
tion  of  the  "  least  of  these  my  brethren  "  than  the  lit 
tie  innocent  children.  Whatsoever  we  do  unto  th 
we  do  unto  Jesus.  While  not  all  can  take  in  the  lr 
strangers,  all  can  assist  to  feed  and  clothe  them.  I 
God  has  intrusted  you  with  some  of  the  good  thing 
of  this  world,  you  can  give  of  that  to  assist  the  wori 
of  rescuing  children,  and  then  you  are  preparing  vour 
self  to  hear  the  welcome,  "  Come  unto  me." — ChM 
dren's  Friend. 

*  *  * 
GOT    MONSTER    SHARK. 


Captain  Rasmussen,  of  the  Norwegian  steame 
Avalon,  which  arrived  in  Baltimore  the  other  day  fror 
Jamaica  ports,  tells  how  he  caught  a  shark  in  th 
harbor  of  Port  Maria  after  feeding  him  for  three  days 
On  Saturday,  August  20,  a  huge  shark  began  to  pla; 
around  the  ship  and  tempting  bait  was  sent  him  with  ; 


"PWnreandt 
be  observed 
»«t  this  result 


«S  point  o 
ite  tie  i 


hidden  in  the  meat.     By  a  trick  known  only  to 
"Hatfie  fish  the  bait  was  swallowed  and  the  hook  left. 
Tired  of  feeding  meat  to  the  fish  Captain  Rasmus- 


ans  ,n  baited  with  bones,  and  as  these  disappeared  down 
pwes  le  maw  of  the  hungry  fish  pieces  of  greased  wood 


K  J>  in  the  bd 
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v%  in  nolia  ere  substituted.  This  was  kept  up  at  intervals  dur- 
'"t  does  no  ;g  Saturday  and  Sunday,  and  Captain  Rasmussen  lost 
•'■'  Ike  sam  itience  and  gave  up  the  expectation  of  catching  the 
it  i  ih.  On  Monday  morning  the  shark  was  seen  ca- 
sting about  the  ship.  This  angered  Captain  Ras- 
Ivajtussen,  and  he  decided  to  make  another  effort.  This 
as  successful.     The  shark  swallowed  the  meat  and 


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coating  ira  Dok  and  was  soon  being  pulled  on  board  by  the  ship's 
indlass,  all  the  time  making  a  vicious  effort  to  re- 
ase  himself.  As  the  fish  was  being  pulled  over  the 
de  Captain  Rasmussen  recognized  that  he  was  game, 
nd  to  haul  him  on  deck  meant  perhaps  trouble  to 
lurch  as  the  bod  )me  onc  '^  n0^  a  general  breaking  up  of  movable 
eneedundal  rticles  within  the  radius  of  the  captive's  operations. 
be  tact  thai  lb  Six  bullets  were  sent  into  the  head  of  the  shark  when 
church  does  n|  e  was  close  to  the  rail,  but  even  this  load  of  lead  did 
nal  member  fro  ot  quiet  him.  At  last,  after  hanging  him  awhile,  the 
;e  of  the  Judj  sh  succumbed  and  was  lowered  on  deck.  He  meas- 
llattbs  red  thirteen  feet  and  was  one  of  the  most  vicious  of 
e  blessed  of  4  le  shark  family. 

lor  ton  from  ll  Captain  Rasmussen,  on  the  solicitation  of  the  na- 
ns an  hungrs  ves,  presented  them  with  the  carcass  with  the  under- 
,  and  ye  clothe  tanding  that  they  would  return  to  him  the  backbone. 
Then  he  ail  "his  was  promised,  but  later,  when  they  had  the  shark 
lie  least  of  thl  1  their  possession,  the  Captain  was  notified  that  his 
[0  the  olhers I  esire  could  not  be  complied  with.  Intending  to  de- 
ncb  as  ye  did  land  the  backbone  Captain  Rasmussen  went  ashore, 
ve  did  it  not  rtiere  he  found  the  fish  being  sold  in  steaks  to  the 
revocable  test  eople.  He  arrived  in  time  to  stop  this,  until  he  could 
t  ike  a  knife  and  secure  enough  of  the  backbone  to  make 
cane. 
Xo  da  I  When  he  ripped  the  carcass  open  he  found  in  the 
ling  the  fccr.  tomach  of  the  fish  not  only  the  beef  bones  he  had 
aited  the  hook  with,  but  the  pieces  of  greased  wood, 
untotk  hovving  the  marks  of  the  teeth  of  the  monster .- 
lake  in  fell 


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Cincinnati  Enquire! 


A   WOMAN'S    HOOKS. 


"  Why  do  they  make  these  new-fangled,  cobweb 
liirt  waists  that  women  wear  buttons  in  the  back?" 
sked  the  young  benedict. 

As  he  asked  his  male  friend,  naturally  the  friend 
lidn't  know. 

"  I    suppose,"    continued    the   newly   married    man, 

you  might  just  as  well  ask  '  Why  is  a  cow? '  You 
ire  just  as  likely  to  get  a  reasonable  answer.  There 
sn't   anything   logical    in    women's    fashions.      Xow. 

shirt  waist  buttoning  down  the  front  is  a  sensible 
nstitution.    So  they're  made  to  fasten  in  the  back. 

'  1  never  would  have  noticed  it  if  it  wasn't  for  the 


' 


fact  that  it  is  constantly  thrust  upon  me  in  a  practi- 
cal manner.  Every  time  we  are  going  out  together 
anywhere  my  wife  asks  me  to  hook  her  waist.  It's 
no  job  for  a  man.  I'd  rather  saw  half  a  cord  of  wood 
any  day. 

"  In  the  first  place,  I  never  get  the  hooks  into  the 
corresponding  eyes.  After  I  think  I've  got  'em  all 
fastened  I  invariably  find  that  there  is  one  hook  at 
the  top  or  bottom  for  which  there  is  no  eye  or  one 
eye  for  which  there  is  no  hook.  Then  there  is  the 
neckband.  It  has  three  or  four  fasteners  at  least. 
and  you  must  have  deft  fingers  to  make  them  connect. 

"  Now,  suppose  our  shirts  were  fastened  down  the 
back  with  hooks  and  eyes,  what  would  be  the  situa- 
tion ?  Why,  we  wouldn't  stand  it ;  not  a  minute.  No- 
body could  hire  men  to  wear  shirts  built  that  way, 
no  matter  if  a  dozen  Harry  Lehrs  decreed  that  it  was 
the  proper  caper. 

"  But  a  woman  will  accept  any  old  garment,  no  mat- 
ter how  constructed,  without  a  murmur,  if  it's  the 
latest.     In  fact,  she  won't  have  anything  else. 

"  Look  at  the  way  shirt  waist  sleeves  are  made 
now.  The  bulge  used  to  be  at  the  shoulder,  sort  of 
balloon  excrescences,  so  that  a  woman  of  ordinary 
build  required  two  seats  in  a  car.  Xow  the  bulge  is 
.near  the  wrist  and  gets  in  the  butter.  I  suppose  the 
next  move  will  be  to  have  balloons  at  the  elbows. 

"  Why  is  it?     Xobody  knows  why." 

And  no  answer  being  forthcoming,  they  both  gave  it 
up. 

4*  ♦  ♦ 

DEADLY    DUST. 


Xo  man  or  woman  should  brush  a  hat  or  coat  in  a 
room  containing  food,  yet  many  people  of  excellent 
disposition  and  culture  will  use  the  brush  vigorously 
in  the  hall,  while  the  room  doors  are  open.  Is  this 
in  accordance  with  common  sense?  Think!  The 
things  brushed  have  accumulated,  from  far  and  near, 
numberless  abominations  living  and  dead.  They  have 
settled  in  or  on  the  article,  and  the  center  of  the  home 
is  the  place  selected  to  set  them  again  free,  enabling 
them  thus  to  pass  on  chance  drafts  throughout  the 
house  and  be  breathed  and  swallowed  by  its  residents. 
*  *  + 
BIBLES    FOR    THE    BLIND. 


There  is  a  Xew  York  publishing  house  which  sells 
Bibles  for  the  blind.  The  letters  are  embossed  and 
stand  out  in  relief  sufficiently  high  to  enable  the  trained 
fingers  of  the  "  reader  "  to  interpret  a  whole  word 
almost  as  quickly  as  the  eye  transmits  the  same  intelli- 
gence to  the  mind.  The  Bible,  printed  in  eight  vol- 
umes can  be  had  for  $8,  but  as  only  a  small  portion 
of  the  blind  can  afford  to  buy  them,  the  sale  of  the 
books  is  necessarily  small. 


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CHARACTER. 


Horace  Greeley  said,  "  Fame  vanishes  like  a  vapor, 
riches  take  wings,  monuments  crumble  and  decay :  one' 
thing  remains, — Character."  Character  is  the  one 
thing  and  the  only  thing  which  is  of  human  origin  or 
creation  that  endures  forever.  Almost  everything 
which  man  makes,  perishes  with  time.  Character  is 
eternal.  It  is  a  creature,  too,  which  each  individual 
can  and  must  build  and  provide  for  himself.  It  is 
possible  that  we  can  assist  another  in  laying  the 
foundation  stones  for  character ;  it  may  be  even  that  we 
can  guide  and  direct  in  the  placing  of  some  very  impor- 
tant building  stones  in  this  great  structure,  but  we  can- 
not build  for  another.  It  is  possible  for  us  to  labor 
under  the  delusion  that  we  are  to  gain  success  in  this 
life,  and,  some  even  go  so  far  as  to  think  we  can 
gain  eternal  life  upon  the  credit  of  the  virtues  and  pure 
character  of  another.  Some  men  expect  to  go  to 
heaven  on  their  wife's  religion. 

Character  is  the  masterpiece  of  man  which  elicits  ei- 
ther praise  or  condemnation.  And  when  once  a  char- 
acter is  built,  if  the  construction  has  not  been  rightly 
made,  it  is  subject  to  the  storms  of  life  to  such  a  de- 
gree that  it  must  yield  to  the  inevitable. 

It  takes  years,  and  even  a  whole  life,  to  build  a 
solid,  permanent  character ;  and  yet  character  has  such 
a  peculiar  construction  that  should  it  contain  one  flaw 
and  the  dart  of  the  enemy  assail  that  particular  point, 
the  whole  character  falls  with  it,  and  becomes  a  heap 
of  ruins  and  an  ocean  of  debris. 

This  structure  differs  from  the  ordinary  one  in 
this,  that  other  buildings  may  be  set  on  temporary 
foundations  and  remodeled  if  impaired,  but  the  build- 


1 


ing  of  character,  if  impaired,  bears  the  stain  fc 
ever.  It  is  like  a  chain  whose  united  strength 
represented  by  the  weakest  link.  A  flaw  in  a  chj 
acter  is  like  a  stitch  that  has  been  dropped  from 
knitting.  The  whole  fabric  is  likely  to  ravel, 
who  aspires  to  enduring  fame  must  place  to  his  cred 
day  after  day  and'  year  after  year,  achievements 
good  deeds.  Shakespeare  has  said,  "  The  evil  tb 
men  do  lives  after  them ;  the  good  is  often  interr 
with  their  bones."  While  this  may  be  true,  to  sor 
extent,  yet  we  cannot  help  but  be  wonderfully  co 
nizant  of  the  fact  that 

"  Lives  of  great  men  all  remind  us 
We  can  make  our  lives  sublime, 
And,  departing,  leave  behind  us 
Footprints  on  the  sands  of  time." 

Such  lives  will  live  when  material  things  ha' 
perished  from  the  earth.  Each  person  who  is  phy 
cally  and  mentally  sound  has  an  opportunity  in  ] 
own  sphere  and  environment  to  achieve  this  nobili 
of  character. 

Each  good  deed  is  valuable  in  proportion  to  the  o 
portunity  and  ease  of  its  performance.  Things  th 
cost  nothing  are  worth  nothing.  People,  as  a  rule,  a 
likely  to  jump  at  bargains,  and  especially  if  things  a 
marked  below  cost,  when  the  very  mark  itself  oug 
to  be  evidence  that  something  is  materially  wron 
The  goods  are  not  face  value  or  the  owner  is  ford 
to  sell  at  a  loss.  Everything  has  its  intrinsic,  vain! 
You  cannot  afford  to  be  found  in  possession  of  an  e<i 
cation,  an  inheritance,  a  religion,  a  character  or  an 
thing  else  that  costs  nothing.  You  must  pay  tl 
price. 

Good  deeds  which  are  commensurate  with  the  o 
portunity  for  their  performance  are  the  perfect  fjs| 
Ailment  of  human  duty  and  obligation.  The  gre; 
est  lives  in  this  world  cannot  be  measured  by  epitapl 
monuments,  military  achievements  or  by  the  recon 
of  court  intrigue.  Men  may  accomplish  much  alof 
these  lines  and  yet  fail  in  character  building.  Gen 
ine,  irreproachable  character  compels  even  your  en 
mies  to  speak  well  of  you,  compels  your  friends  to  lei' 
you,  and  insures  that  God  will  respect  you. 
j.  .**  .j, 
THE    HONEST    MAN. 


No  doubt  it  was  a  queer  sight  to  the  bystande 
when  Diogenes  appeared  on  the  street,  lantern 
hand,  searching  diligently  for  an  honest  man.  Bi 
what  he  did  has  been  imitated  by  the  public  ever  sine 
Not  so  much  because  they  wanted  to  follow  a  phi 
osopher,  nor  even  because  they  thought  it  was  a  ma 
ter  of  philosophy,  but  because  honest  men  are  in  d 
marrd.  The  whole  world  to-day,  in  every  avenue  < 
life,'  is  anxiously  awaiting  the  coming  of  the  hone 
man.     There   is  not  one   single  calling  in   life   whic 


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is  good  for  its  ultimate  object  that  has  any  use  for 
e  dishonest  man. 

Every  one  admires  the  honest  man ;  even  the  vicious 
id  disreputable  do ;  yes,  even  the  dishonest  man  does, 
e  requires  no  placard  to  announce  his  honesty.  He 
quires  no  badge,  emblem  or  sign  telling  of  his  in- 
ird  purposes.  He  asks  for  no  horn  to  be  blown, 
lling  of  his  virtues.  He  seeks  not  the  applause  of  the 
iblic.  He  is  known  and  respected  by  all. 
X'ot  every  man,  though  he  be  ever  so  honest,  is  able, 
all  times,  to  meet  his  obligations.  He  may  be  hard 
)  and  obliged  to  obtain  credit  on  store  bills ;  he  may 
irrow  money  and  have  many  creditors,  and  still  be 
lotutely  honest.  Honesty  consists  not  only  in  liv- 
g  up  to  intentions,  but  to  promises  as  well.  He  meets 
ose  who  are  his  creditors  as  a  man  of  his  station 
ould.  He  is  open  and  frank,  and  uses  no  deception, 
e  does  not  evade  the  truth  and  act  a  lie,  but.  simply 
forms  them  of  what  he  expects  to  do  and  how  he 
ipes  to  do  it.  His  friends  are  men  to  whom  he  is 
ider  obligation. 

The  honest  man  must  of  necessity  be  industrious, 
e  could  not  be  otherwise  because  he  would  be  wast- 
g  time.  He  is  also  economical ;  there  is  no  honest}' 
wasting  means,  time  or  talent.  He  regards  that 
e  misappropriation  of  money,  belonging  to  others,  is 
ual  to  theft.  Do  you  wonder  that  the  honest  man 
cceeds  ?  There  are  times  when  dishonesty  wins  for 
season.  But  ultimately  it  will  appear  that  credit 
d  confidence  are  a  better  capital  than  cash.  And  any 
iod  business  man  or  firm  in  the  country,  who  are 
aling  ou  a  fair  and  square  basis,  will  tell  you  that 
eir  credit  is  worth  more  than  their  capital. 
Poverty  is  no  crime,  nor  is  lack  of  riches  a  dis- 
ice,  but  the  want  of  a  good  name,  or  the  lack  of 
strong  character,  is  without  excuse.  Every  one 
jy  acquire  it.  None  are  excused  who  do  not  pos- 
ss  it.  So  with  all  your  getting,  with  all  the  acqui- 
i'in  of  this  world's  possessions,  let  your  first  and 
st  possession  be   HONESTY. 

NOTHING    DOING. 


It  makes  a  very  interesting  study  to  watch  a  cer- 
in  class  of  people  who  are  always  out  of  work.  You 
id  them  sitting  on  the  street  corners,  holding  down 
rbstones  or  drygoods  boxes,  or  traveling  through  the 
untry  with  broom  handles  on  their  shoulders,  upon 
lich  hang  bundles  of  rags,  stopping  at  back  doors 
d  asking  for  something  to  eat,  saying  they  cannot 
id  work. 

There  are  two  classes  of  tramps ;  one  is  the  worthy, 
ifortunate  tramp  and  the  other  is  the  counterfeit 
imp.  Counterfeit  tramps  are  the  ones  who  have  no 
siness  tramping.  They  are  able-bodied  and  can 
)rk,  and  the  only  reason  thev  are  not  working  is  be- 


cause they  don't  want  to.  Thev  claim  that  trusts  or 
some  other  social  conditions  are  to  blame  for  the  tie- 
up  of  labor.  But  proper  examination  of  these  condi- 
tions generally  results  in  finding  out  that  there  is  a 
screw  loose  somewhere.  Some  of  these  people  are 
dissipated ;  some  are  shiftless :  some  are  slovenly,  while 
others  have  been  drifting  about  for  years  in  a  sort 
of  go-as-you-please  existence. 

In  this  day  and  age  of  ours,  especially  in  this  coun- 
try of  ours,  there  is  no  excuse  for  idleness.  There  is 
always  plenty  of  work  for  willing  hands. 
•  It  is  true  we  may  not  always  get  just  exactly  what 
we  think  we  want,  and  in  the  majority  of  cases  we  do 
not  know  exactly  wdiat  we  want.  Probably  not  more 
than  one  person  in  fifty  of  those  who  are  looking  for 
certain  jobs,  know  enough  to  fill  them.  So  many 
people  are  not  willing  to  pay  the  price  for  the  position 
they  wish  to  hold.  Many  strive  to  hold  positions  that 
require  an  education  which  they  do  not  possess. 

Others,  again,  envy  a  station  in  life  held  by  a  man 
of  wealth,  which  position  they  could  not  ably  fill  had 
they  the  means  of  a  Rockefeller  at  their  command. 
They  lack  the  training,  natural  ability,  experience  or 
one  or  more  of  the  valuable  constituents  that  go  to 
make  up  a  successful  life,  and  are  not  willing  to  begin 
at  the  bottom  of  the  ladder  and  ascend  consecutively 
rung  by  rung  until  they  reach  the  top,  but  make  a  jump 
or  two  to  secure  a  foothold  on  one  of  the  upper  rungs 
and  are  very  sorely  disappointed  and  prejudiced  when 
the  envied  position  is  gained  by  an  opponent  who  pos- 
sesses accomplishments  which  merit  it. 

As  a  matter  of  course,  then  they  fall  back  to  the 
bottom.  At  this  stage  many  of  them  join  the  idle 
class,  claim  they  have  lost  faith  in  humanity,  speak 
reproachfully  of  every  one,  attempt  to  make  a  living 
by  crime  and  wholly  unfit  themselves  for  honest  em- 
ployment. Employers  appreciate  merit.  Competen- 
cy and  efficiency  are  always  in  demand. 

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THE   INGLENOOK.— October  4,    1904. 


CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


An  immense  panoramic  picture  of  the  battle  of 
Waterloo  is  being  pair  Led  in  Paris  by  Joseph  Van 
Driesten.  He  has  the  figures  of  200,000  men  in  the 
rough  sketch. 

United  States  Commissioner  Staden,  at  Portland, 
Oregon,  has  decided  that  Chinese  women  who  marry 
Chinese  citizens  may  remain  here.  A  recent  case  is 
that  of  Doe  Gum  Yip,  a  Chinese  woman,  who  Was  ar- 
rested on  the  charge  of  entering  our  borders.  It  so 
happened  that  she  married  after  her  arrest,  and  thus 
escaped  deportation. 

♦  *2*   *> 

The  main  building  of  the  University  of  Minnesota, 
one  of  the  great  educational  centers  of  the  Northwest, 
was   destroyed   by   fire   Sept.   24,   entailing  a   loss   of 
$125,000,  fully  covered  by  insurance. 
4*    *&    *5* 

Two  trains,  each  carrying  a  heavy  list  of  passengers, 
came  together  in  a  frightful  head-on  collision  near 
Knoxville,  Tenn.,  Sept.  24,  instantly  killing  fifty-four 
persons  and  injuring  one  hundred  and  twenty,  several 
of  whom  will  probably  die.  The  accident  happened 
in  broad  daylight,  and  there  is  apparently  no  valid  ex- 
cuse. 

We  are  glad  to  note  through  editorial  correspond- 
ence that  the  Collegiate  Institute,  at  Union  Bridge, 
Md.,  has  passed  the  hundredth  mark  on  their  enroll- 
ment list. 

*  ♦  ♦ 

A  statistical  expert  says,  "  More  money  is  spent 
in  this  country  for  candy  than  hats,  shoes  and  gloves 
combined,"  but  what  is  more  astounding  is  that  there 
is  more  spent  for  whiskey  than  for  all  of  them  com- 
.  bined. 

«5»    *$»    •> 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Green  Kelley,  in  her  will,  re- 
membered charitable  and  educational  institutions  to  the 
amount  of  $300,000. 

•>   ♦   * 

A  great  body  of  lead  carbonate  is  reported  to  have 
been  uncovered  at  Leadville,  Colo.  It  is  said  to  cover 
a  distance  of  1,100  feet  and  150  feet  through.  This 
ore  body  is  believed  to  be  a  continuation  of  the  Old 
Dome  shoot  that  gave  Leadville  its  world-wide  prestige 
in  early  days. 

•5*  *>  *> 

King  George  of  Saxony  is  dangerously  ill,  and  it 
is  feared  that  he  will  die.  He  is  seventy-one  years 
old  and  has  been  ruler  of  Saxony  only  two  years,  suc- 
ceeding his  brother  on  June  19,  1902.  If  he  dies 
Prince  Friedrich  will  succeed  to  the  throne. 


A  discontinuance  of  the  policy  of  furnishing  free| 
text  books  and  free  school  supplies  has  been  recom 
mended  by  Professor  Hutchmur,  of  Bridgeton,  N.  J. 
schools.  He  claims  that  if  the  pennies  spent  daily 
for  chewing  gum  were  applied  by  all  pupils  to  this 
purpose  the  supplies  would  be  provided  for  without 
recourse  to  the  school  fund,  and  that  the  plan  would 
inculcate  a  spirit  of  self-denial. 

♦   4»   ♦ 


Later  news  from  Naples  say  that  the  eruptions  of 
Mt.  Vesuvius  increase  in  number  and  violence.  Mon- 
day's news  say  that  stones  were  hurled  to  a  height 
of  sixteen  feet,  and  one  stone  especially  was  conject- 
ured to  weigh  about  two  tons.  The  instruments  at 
the  observatory  register  1,844  violent  explosions  in  an 
hour.  All  vegetation  within  one  mile  of  the  crater 
has  disappeared.  The  huts  of  the  guides  have  been 
burned.  People  of  the  surrounding  villages  have  left 
their  homes. 

*  *  * 

The  Czar  of  Russia  has  virtually  deposed  Kuropat- 
kin  as  Commander-in-Chief  by  appointing  General 
Grippenberg  tc  command  the  second  army.  Grand 
Duke  Nicholas  may  be  in  supreme  command  of  all 
the  troops  in  the  far  East.  The  Czar  talks  of  sending 
seven  hundred  thousand  more  men.  It  is  thought 
that  a  great  naval  battle  is  in  progress  at  the  present, 
off  Port  Arthur. 

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There  is  a  movement  on  foot  to  revise  the  musi 
in  the  Roman  Catholic  churches  in  the  United  States 
which  has  been  approved  by  Archbishop  Farley,  which 
dispenses  with  all  the  lady  singers  in  the  choir. 

*  -:•  * 

Both  the  Russian  and  Italian  thrones  have  been 
provided  with  heirs  within  a  few  weeks  of  each  other. 
An  heir  to  the  throne  of  Italy  was  born  Sept.  15  to 
Queen  Helena.  He  has  been  named  Humbert,  after 
the  late  king,  his  grandfather.  A  brother  of  the  king 
of  Italy  would  have  succeeded  to  the  throne  if  this] 
son  had  not  been  born. 

*  <!«  »j» 

The  crisis  at  Port  Arthur  is  stated  to  be  rapidly 
approaching.  The  speedy  capture  of  the  last  line  of 
defense  is  anticipated.  For  some  days  the  Russian 
fire  has  not  been  so  vigorous  as  usual,  because  their 
supply  of  ammunition  is  supposed  to  be  nearly  ex-. 
hausted.  The  end  may  be  near  at  hand.  The  Japan- 
ese turning  movement  makes  Kuropatkin's  position  at 
Mukden  daily  more  precarious. 

*  *  * 

Six  business  blocks  were  entirely  destroyed  by  fire 
at  Idaho  Falls,  Idaho,  Sept.  11.  Total  loss  about 
$350,000. 


THE   INGLE  NOOK.— October  4,    1904. 


953 


The  Japanese  are  reported  to  have  captured  nine 
Drts  in  a  four-day  battle  at  Port  Arthur  at  a  cost  of 
vree  thousand  men. 

*  ^  * 

At  the  village  school  at  Pleasant  Ridge,  seven  miles 
orth  of  Cincinnati,  during  the  morning  recess,  thirtv- 
(vo  school  girls  crowded  into  the  outbuilding  assigned 
3  them.  Instantly  the  floor  gave  way,  throwing  the 
creaming  children  into  the  offal  beneath.  Xine  of 
lem  were  instantly  drowned  and  twenty-three  barely 
scaped  alive,  some  of  whom  will  die  from  internal 
oisoning. 

4»   «$*   * 

After  a  sharp  debate  the  Knoxville  Presbvterv,  of 
he  Cumberland  Presbyterian  church,  in  session  at 
Concord,  Tenn.,  defeated  the  proposition  of  union 
,'ith  a  northern  branch  of  the  church  by  a  vote  of 
wenty-nine  to  thirteen. 

*  *fr  4» 

Rothschild  paid  $5,000  for  two  fleas.  He  objects, 
lowever,  to  paying  the  engineers  on  his  New  York 
inderground  railroad  $3.50  a  day.  Modern  com- 
nercialism  is  rapidly  putting  human  beings  on  a  cheap- 
r  scale  than  fleas. 

4»    <£    4» 

J.  Pierpont  Morgan,  Jr.,  has  come  over  from  Eng- 
and  and  is  going  to  spend  his  next  four  months  learn- 
ng  his  father's  business,  so  that  he  may  succeed  to 
he  management  when  the  great  magnate  retires,  Tan. 

*  *  * 

Another  most  disastrous  storm  visited  the  East 
m  the  night  of  Sept.  14,  ravaging  most  of  the  Atlantic 
ill  that  night  and  the  next  day.  Loss  of  life  and 
>roperty  have  been  reported  all  along  the  coast.  A 
:old  wave  accompanied  the  storm. 

It  has  been  recently  reported  that  the  Natoma  vine- 
yard winery,  fifteen  miles  northeast  of  Sacramento, 
al.,  together  with  the  fermenting  plant  and  distillery, 
,vere  burned  to  the  ground.  It  is  said  that  this  was 
Be  of  the  largest  plants  of  this  kind  in  the  State,  and 
:he  loss  probably  will  reach  $300,000. 
*!•  *  * 

I'".  M.  Pease,  of  Philadelphia,  made  a  forced  march 
for  Chicago  one  day  this  week  for  which  he  paid  the 
Pennsylvania  railroad  company  $1,664.  The  run  was 
382  miles  from  Philadelphia,  and  was  made  in  three 
minutes  less  than  eighteen  hours.  This  was  done  that 
he  might  participate  in  a  business  deal  of  a  quarter 
af  a  million. 

*  *  * 

Four  persons  were  burned  to  death  in  a  New  York- 
tenement  on  Sept.  13. 


Admiral  Dewey  has  been  in  the  United  States  navy 
fifty  years. 

*  *  * 

The  Japanese  have  established  a  "  protectorate " 
over  Korea.  If  things  turn  out  right  for  Japan  that 
"  protectorate "  will  eventually  bear  a  wonderfully 
close   resemblance   to   our   benevolent   assimilation   of 

the  Philippines. 

.♦.  *j,  ♦;♦ 

Lady  Curzon  is  believed  to  be  slightly  convalescent, 
although  she  is  yet  critically  ill.  Mrs.  L.  Z.  Leiter 
and  her  daughter  Nannie,  passed  through  Chicago, 
Saturday,  on  their  way  to  New  York,  expecting  to 
board  the  first  steamship  that  will  carry  them  toward 
the  sick  chamber  of  Lady  Curzon. 


On  last  Friday  old  Mt.  Vesuvius  broke  forth  in  the 
most  spectacular  convulsion  of  the  last  ten  years.  A 
great  stream  of  red  hot  lava  was  discharged,  threaten- 
ing wide  destruction.  Thousands  of  awe-stricken 
persons  watched  the  spectacle  with  great  anxiety.  The 
crust  around  the  crater  was  broken  away  and  magnif- 
icent flurries  of  red  hot  ashes  and  sparks  were  thrown 
700  feet  high. 

Prince  Herbert  Bismarck,  oldest  son  of  the  late 
Prince  Bismarck,  is  dead. 

>♦.  <g»   .•* 

Sept.  15  the  bridge  across  Lake  St.  Croix,  near 
Stillwater,  Minn.,  took  fire,  during  which  time  a  great 
crowd  of  people  gathered  on  the  bridge  to  witness  the 
fire.  The  entire  structure  gave  way,  carrying  the 
fire  crew  and  the  crowd  with  it.  Two  were  killed  and 
five  injured. 

«$t  •$.  *{. 

The  Pullman  car  works  at  Pullman,  Ilk.  shut  down 
Sent.  15,  and  seven  thousand  five  hundred  men  are 
now  out  of  employment. 

♦  •$»  * 

Three  branches  of  the  International  Harvester 
Company,  the  McCormick  and  Deering  plants  at  Chi- 
cago and  one  at  Piano,  Ilk,  have  shut  down,  throwing 
nine  thousand  men  out  of  employment.  The  com- 
panies claim  that  the  season  is  dull  and  there  is  no 
call  for  machines. 

•5*  *  *2* 

The  total  attendance  at  the  St.  Louis  Fair  to  Sept. 

10  was  9,994,510. 

4.   .;.   ►> 

People  are  now  permitted  to  ascend  Mount  Vesu- 
vius, as  the  eruption  has  greatly  diminished.  Stones 
ejected  from  the  crater  do  not  rise  beyond  a  height  ■  >!' 

one  hundred  and  fifty  feet. 


95-1 


THE   IXGLEXOOK.— October  4,    1904. 


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The  Inglenopk  Nature  Study  Club 

This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various  Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized 
over  this  country.  Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.  Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time, 
taking  the  work  up  with  the  current  issue.  Back  numbers  cannot  be  furnished.  Any  School  desiring  to  or- 
ganize a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  111. 


CLASS    AVES— ORDER    INSESSORES. 


The  Sparrows  are  an  interesting  group  in  this 
family.  There  are  many  species,  but  the  two  most 
common  in  this  country  are  the  Song  Sparrow,  one  of 
the  earliest  warblers  of  the  spring,  and  the  Chipping 
Sparrow,  so  familiar  to  every  one.  There  is  a  brown 
Sparrow  very  much  like  the  Chipping  Sparrow,  but 
a  more  shy  bird,  brighter  in  color,  and  having  a  longer 
tail.  Just  before  migrating  in  the  Autumn  to  the 
south,  these  birds  lose  their  shyness,  come  nearer  to  the 
habitations  of  men  and  are  seen  flitting  about  in  little 
flocks.  , 

The  Song  Sparrows  are  our  earliest  and  latest 
musicians.  Those  nesting  in  the  far  north  pass  the 
latitude  of  Xew  England  late  in  November,  and  return 
in  early  March ;  always  in  full  song,  with  notes 
"  louder,  clearer,  and  more  vibratory  than  those  that 
come  to  us  and  remain  to  breed.  "  Individuals  have 
been  known  to  sing  "  nine  entirely  different  sets  of 
notes,"  usually  uttering  them  one  after  another  in  the 
same  order.  It  nests  both  on  the  ground  and  in  the 
trees,  only  the  older  birds  selecting  the  latter,  as  though 
taught  by  experience  the  greater  security.  The  male 
is  attentive  to  his  mate,  and  when  their  home  is  com-  . 
pleted,  and  the  female  sits  contentedly  upon  her  eggs, 
he  brings  her  food  and  lingers  near  by  to  cheer  her 
with  his  Song. 

The  beauties  and  pleasing  quality  of  the  Sparrow 
family,  of  late  years,  have  been  almost  forgotten  and 
have  been  supplanted  with  a  sort  of  special  detest  and 
disgust  which  has  been  brought  about  by  the  intro- 
duction of  the  English  Sparrow  who  has  made  him- 
self quite  a  fiend.  The  primary  idea  in  the  importation 
of  the  English  Sparrow,  no  doubt,  is  good  enough, 
but  it  has  long  since  been  proven  that  the  remedy  is 
worse  than  the  disease.  Although  our  country  is  sub- 
to  the  nuisance  of  a  great  many  pests,  and  our  scien- 
ject  to  the  nuisance  of  a  great  many  pests,  and  our 
scientists  are  doing  their  best  to  arrive  at  some  success- 
ful plan  by  which  they  might  be  removed,  yet  it  is 
thought  by  some  of  our  men  who  have  actually  experi- 
enced the  trouble,  that  these  little  fellows  do  more 
damage  to  crops  and  to  our  other  little  birds  than  the 
former  nuisance  to  which  we  have  been  subjected. 

In  fact,  in  many  instances,  bounties  have  already 
been  offered  for  his  capture,  and  several  of  our  large 
cities  are  asking  for  means  of  extermination.     Thev 


fTTTTTrt 

multiply  very  rapidly  and  are  exceedingly  impOi 
sitious.  They  will  enter  the  nest  of  some  other  bird. 
even  those  much  larger  than  themselves  and  literally 
drive  them  from  their  habitation. 

There  is  a  Sparrow  in  Palestine  which  is  an  ediblel 
Sparrow.  It  is  no  uncommon  thing  to  see  the  lads 
of  the  little  country  villages  armed  with  their  sling, 
which  is  a  direct  descendant  of  David's  sling,  killing! 
these  Sparrows  by  the  scores  and  selling  them  to  the] 
hotelkeepers.  And  it  is  no  uncommon  thing  to  hav« 
them  served  at  the  tables  of  the  very  best  hotels  in  the 
Orient.  The  Xookman  has  enjoyed  dishes  of  this  kind 
in  Jerusalem,  Damascus  and  Xaples,  Italy.  This 
family  of  Sparrows,  no  doubt,  have  existed  ever 
since  the  beginning  of  the  Christian  era,  because  out 
Savior  in  his  life-time  spoke  of  "  two  sparrows  being 
sold  for  a  farthing.  "  which  price  is  still  current  untc 
this  day. 

»>   *   ♦> 
GROUND    SQUIRRELS. 


A  wholesale  massacre  to  aim  at  the  destruction  cH 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  ground  squirrels  is  in  con 
templation  by  the  farmers  in  the  region  lying  betweer 
Los  Angeles  and  Redondo. 

The  squirrels  dangerously  infest  the  country  this 
season.  It  is  said  that  so  many  have  never  beeii 
seen  here  before.  They  are  always  a  terrible  pest,  bul 
this  year  their  numbers  are  fairly  appalling. 

One  of  the  prominent  farmers  in  the  hay  land.1 
about  Gardena  says  that  he  estimates  that  he  loses  tht 
entire  crop  from  one  acre  out  of  every  ten  bv  the  in 
roads  of  the  squirrels. 

At  the  Horticultural  Commission  recently  it  wa: 
stated  that  if  this  man's  calculations  are  correct  he  il 
an  unusually  lucky  farmer.  An  instance  is  on  recon 
there  of  a  farmer  losing  his  entire  crop  of  berries  fron 
the  squirrels  near  Long  Beach. 

The  farmers  have  come  to  the  conclusion  that  the; 
are  wasting  their  efforts  trying  to  struggle  with  thi 
pest  alone:  that  the  only  remedy  is  in  all  getting  to 
gether  and  slaughtering  them. 

Many  plans  have  been  tried  to  get  rid  of  them.  A 
one  time  the  county  offered  a  bounty  on  squirrel  hides 
It  would  have  bankrupted  the  treasury.  Thev  hav 
tried  shooting  them.  Useless.  Poison  is  tried  witl 
some  success.  Carrots  are  filled  with  strychnine  am 
covered  with  mud  to  remove  the  smell  of  human  hand; 


The  plan  that  is  proprosed  for  the  massacre  is  to 
asphyxiate  the  whole  tribe  in  one  grand  gas  smell. 

The  idea  is  advocated  by  the  Horticultural  Com- 
missioners. Bi-sulphide  of  carbon  is  to  be  placed  on 
ctton  balls  and  forced  down  the  squirrel  holes,  all 
ides  in  the  squirrel  colony  having  been  stopped  up 
previously.  The  gas  formed  by  ignition  is  heavier  than 
the  air  and  descends  into  the  holes.  All  the  inhabi- 
Ants  are  soon  suffocated. 

It  is  said  the  gophers  will,  at  the  first  smell  of 
the  gas,  hurriedly  throw  up  a  dam  of  earth  clear 
across  the  hole  and  thus  shut  off  the  fumes :  but 
squirrels  perish. 

As  showing  the  number  that  can  be  reached  at  a 

single  ignition,  a  Long   Beach   farmer  recently  tried 

drowning  them  out.   Pouring  water  into  one  colony, 

:it  19  squirrels  came  up  and  were  killed,  and  many  more 

probably  were  drowned  in  the  depths  of  the  hole. 

DROWNING   BEAR. 


THE   INGLEXOOK.— October  4,    1904. 


955 


Bumbo,  the  performing  black  bear  at  Luna  Park, 
fell  into  the  water  yesterday,  and  for  his  pains  he  got 
rolled  on  a  barrel,  filled  to  the  muzzle  with  whiskey,  got 
a  Turkish  bath,  and  lastly  was  given  a  real  old-fashion- 
ed allopathic  "  sweat.  " 

Bumbo  had  done  his  trick  of  rolling  a  barrel  for  the 
few  people  who  braved  the  rain  to  see  him  yesterday 
afternoon,  and  his  trainer,  Paul  Spessardy,  started 
with  him  to  his  cage.  Bumbo  decided  he  wanted  a 
swim  when  he  was  crossing  the  lagoon,  and  in  he 
plopped,  muzzle,  chain  and  all.  He  swam  under  the 
circus  ring  and  there  got  tangled  in  his  chain  and 
sank.  Spessardy  and  the  clowns  jumped  in,  tucked 
a  hawser  about  Bumbo  and  derricked  him  ashore.  He 
looked  like  a  dead  bear,  and  Spessardy  began  figuring 
on  the  value  of  his  carcass. 

"  Roll  him  on  a  bar'l,  "  suggested  Peter  Barlow. 
The  crew  derricked  poor  Bumbo  on  a  barrel,  and  he 
got  rolled  and  punched  and  bumped  much  like  a  half- 
drowned  human  being.  Spessardy  had  meantime 
retired  in  his  grief  and  called  for  an  ambulance,  with 
the  information  that  Mr.  Bumbo  had  been  half 
drowned.  Dr.  Smith  came  from  the  Reception  Hos- 
pital, and  when  he  saw  what  all  the  fuss  was  about  he 
swore  softly  to  himself. 

"  Help  us  save  him.  Doc,  "  pleaded  Spessardy. 
"Doc"  obliged  by   suggesting  whiskey   and   aconite. 

"  Then  give  him  an  alcohol  rub.  a  hot  compress  and 
hold  his  .hand  until  he  wakes  up.  "  he  added,  as  he 
swung  off  in  the  bus. 

Bumbo  opened  his  eyes  with  a  "  where-am-I-at  " 
expression  after  a  while,  and  found  whiskey  and 
laconite  ad  libitum  awaiting  him.  He  took  to  it.  and 
in  the  end  tried  to  hug  the  Salvage  Corps  in  his  joy. 

Tohn  Henry  came  around  about  this  time  and  sug- 


gested a  Turkish  bath.  So  Bumbo  was  derricked  into 
a  wagon  and  dropped  into  the  steam  room  of  the  Acme 
Baths,  and  there  he  was  boiled  until  he  squealed  for 
mercy  and  forgot  his  intoxication.  As  a  final  stroke 
Bumbo  was  put  to  bed  in  a  strait-jacket  made  of 
blankets,  where  his  allopatic  "  sweat  "  lasted  till  morn- 
ing. 

FANCIES    OF    CATS. 


"  I  see  items  in  the  papers  sometimes  saying  that 
all  cats  like  this  or  that  article  of  diet,  "  said  the  man 
in  the  household  pet  store.  "  Xow  those  tales  are  true 
and  at  the  same  time  they  aren't  true,  because  no  two 
cats  that  I  ever  saw  liked  the  same  kind  of  food. 

"  There  are  no  animals  that  vary  so  much  in  their 
ways  and  tastes  and  habits  as  cats.  You  take  any  two 
dogs  of  the  same  breed  and  their  ways  are  pretty  much 
alike.  But  cats  vary  a  great  deal  more  than  people. 
This  shows  in  the  things  they  like  to  eat. 

"  There's  Tom  and  Nancy,  those  two  white  Angoras 
over  there.  Theyboth  like  cooked  meat  and  milk,  but 
after  that  they  differ.  Tom  goes  perfectly  daffy  over 
green  peas :  Nancy  won't  touch  peas,  but  she'll  eat 
beans  in  any  form  until  she  looks  as  though  she'd 
swallowed  a  baseball.  Nancy  likes  green  corn,  too. 
Tom  won't  touch  it. 

"  Then  I've  known  a  cat  that  would  eat  oranges — 
after  you'd  peeled  them —  as  long  as  you  would  feed 
them  to  her.  She'd  turn  up  her  nose  at  any  other  kind 
of  fruit.  I've  heard  of  still  another  cat  that  liked 
apples :  and  another,  a  pampered  pet  in  a  rich  house 
makes  bananas  and  cream  her  staple  diet.  There's  a 
big  row  in  that  house  if  her  bananas  and  cream  aren't 
there  when  she  gets  up  in  the  morning. 

"  I've  known  other  cats  that  were  fond  of  cake  and 
carrots  and  creamed  potatoes  and  boiled  onions  and 
cheese.  In  fact,  there  isn't  anything  in  the  range  of 
human  diet,  except  highly  seasoned  dishes,  that  some 
cat  or  other  hasn't  picked  as  a  favorite  food. 

"  I  suppose  that  olives  come  nearest  to  being  liked 
by  all  cats,  but  there  are  some  that  won't  touch  olives. 
Even  in  the  matter  of  milk  their  tastes  vary.  One  cat 
wants  cream  and  isn't  at  all  modest  about  asking  for 
it.  One  refuses  cream  and  likes  milk  as  thin  as  pos- 
sible. I  had  one  big  tomcat  who  wouldn't  touch  his 
milk  until  it  was  warmed. 

"  All  cats  are  supposed  to  go  daffy  over  catnip,  but 
the  rule  falls  down  even  there.  That  big  black  Tom 
over  in  the  corner  would  never  look  at  it.  Catnip 
makes  most  of  them  crazy,  you  know,  just  like  liquor 
with  humans.  I've  figured  it  out  that  the  black  Tom 
is  a  temperance  cat.  " 

+  *  * 

CULTIVATE  forbearance  till  vour  heart  yields  a  fine 
crop  of  it.  Pray  for  a  short  memory  as  to  all  unkind- 
ness. — Spnrgeon. 


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HOME    DEPARTMENT 


WHAT    ARE    ENJOYMENTS  ? 


BY     MRS.     M.     M.     BOLLINGER. 

In  a  previous  paper  I  said  that  we  should  allow  the 
children  all  the  innocent  enjoyment  in  the  home  that 
we  could. 

Now  the  question  arises,  "  What  are  innocent  enjoy- 
ments? And  although  people's  opinions  differ  in  the 
answer  to  this  question,  parents  should  be  very  care- 
ful in  their  choice. 

I  believe  that  all  will  agree  with  me  when  I  say  that 
innocent  enjoyments  are  those  that  do  not  become  tire- 
some or  pall,  that  are  harmless,  elevating  and  con- 
ducive to  health,  peace,  contentment  and  happiness. 

Owing  to  the  different  dispositions  and  tempera- 
ments of  different  people,  what  would  be  an  enjoyment 
to  one,  would  be  but  a  source  of  annoyance  to  an- 
other; so  parents  study  their  children  so  as  to  direct 
them  in  a  proper  selection  of  enjoyments,  teaching 
them  that  whatever  injures  their  health  or  character 
should  be  avoided ;  for  many  of  the  so-called  enjoy- 
ments or  pleasures  of  to-day,  are  not  real,  true  en- 
joyments, but  counterfeits,  excitements  or  stimulants 
which  act  upon  the  people  engaging  therein  very  much 
like  a  drink  of  alcohol  which  excites  or  warms  for  a 
time,  but  when  its  effects  are  gone,  or  worn  away, 
leaves  its  victims  in  a  tired,  despondent  state,  with  an 
intense  longing  for  more. 

People,  who  engage  in  the  counterfeit  pleasures  are 
rarely  contented,  but  are  filled  with  regret  and  disgust 
at  first  but  unless  morally  strong  crave  for  more  and 
so,  soon  become  dead  and  blind  to  true  enjoyment  be- 
cause they  are  so  filled  up  with  the  unreal  as  to  ex- 
clude the  real. 

L.  E.  Landon  says,  "  Restraint  is  the  golden  rule  of 
enjoyment,"  and  I  believe  that  it  is ;  because  we  do  not 
thoroughly  enjoy  ourselves  if  indulging  in  anything 
that  conscience  says  is  wrong,  hence  we  should  con- 
stantly ask  ourselves  the  question,  "  Is  it  injurious 
to  me  in  any  way  ?  "  before  engaging  in  any  work  or 
sport. 

There  are  many  simple  enjoyments  such  as  sleep, 
health,  sight,  hearing,  home,  speech,  liberty  and  work ; 
these  blessings  which  God  has  given  us  to  enjoy,  we  do 
not  prize  while  engaged  in  counterfeit  pleasures,  but 
many  times  go  on  in  our  heedless,  headlong  way  until 
they  are  partially  or  completely  ruined,  when  too  late 
we  realize  their  value. 

So,  while  there  are  manv  innocent  amusements  in 


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and  body,  we  should  early  teach  ourselves  to  put  si 
much  love  and  zeal  into  our  work  as  to  make  it 
true  enjoyment;  to  see  the  beauties  of  sky,  fields  am 
forests ;  the  inanimate  work  of  nature  which  is  con 
stantly  changing,  showing  new  beauties,  presenting 
new  ideas,  leading  us  to  appreciate,  although  we  can 
not  understand,  that  Supreme  power  which  is  per 
forming  a  grander,  nobler  work  than  ever  has  been  o 
ever  will  be  perfomed  by  man. 

Active,  innocent  enjoyments  should  employ  hot! 
mind  and  body,  be  useful,  instructive  and  beneficial  i 
the  health.  They  may  be  divided  into  two  divisions 
those  for  children  and  for  adults,  and  although  the; 
may  be  separate,  yet  each  may  indulge  in  the  othel 

As  soon  as  the  child  can  walk  and  understand,  th 
mother  should  give  it  some  employment  that  will  inter   ;: 
est,   so  that  it  will  learn  to  work  through  play  an' 
enjoy  it. 

For  children  under  seven  years  and  sometimes  olde 
there  is  no  greater  pleasure  than  blowing  bubbles  wit' 
a  pipe,  spool  'or  straw, — while  it  is  very  instructiv 
if  taught  to  observe  the  colors,  causes  of  colors,  shap< 
cause  of  the  shape,  what  it  is,  and  why  they  burst. 

Give  colored  paper,  scissors  and  paste ;  have  ther 
cut  strips  four  inches  long  and  one  inch  wide  an 
paste  into  chains.  Encourage  them  to  cut  original  de 
signs  from  one  colored  paper  and  paste  them  on  ar 
other  so  as  to  represent  calico  or  wall  paper. 

Let  them  cut  pieces  of  paper  six  inches  square,  begi 
at  one  corner  about  one  inch  from  each  side  and  ci 
slits  an  inch  apart,  then  cut  strips  and  weave  int 
mats.  This  is  one  design  but  they  may  original 
some  and  material  may  be  bought  if  so  desired,  bt 
I  prefer  to  let  them  do  the  work  themselves  as  it 
more  instructive — teaching  them  to  depend  upon  then 
selves.  Have  them  make  collections  of  leaves,  cofi 
beans,  peas,  stones,  form  into  a  scrap  book  or  cabin* 
and  label  kind,  color,  where  found,  etc.  Have  thel 
trace  or  draw,  if  they  can,  such  things  as  fruits,  vegi 
tables,  eggs,  flowers,  leaves,  dishes  and  insects  upc 
heavy  cardboard  and  prick  about  one-eighth  of  a 
inch  apart  and  sew  with  colored  threads.  If  this 
done  in  the  season  of  the  year  when  the  fruits  ar 
vegetables  are  ripening  and  the  children  are  allowc 
a  small  garden  of  their  own  to  tend  and  are  led  1 
observe  the  changes  that  occur,  it  is  much  more  e 
fective. 

Give  them  pieces  of  cloth  and  teach  them  to  mal 
dresses  for  dolly.  Teach  them  to  build  chairs,  tab! 
boxes,  houses,  barns  and  any  other  straight  form  wi' 
toothpicks  and  peas.     If  boys  are  inclined  to  whittl 


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t  them  do  so,  but  insist  upon  their  making  something 
id  not  to  whittle  aimlessly. 

Now  I  think  I  hear  some  mother  saying,  "  O,  what 
litter   there    would   be."     Why,    to   be    sure,    there 
ould   for  a  time,  but  you  can  now  teach  them  to 
ave  a  place  for  everything  and  put  everything  in  its 
lace.     Do  not  do  it  yourself  but  insist  upon   their 
oing   it   as  soon   as   they  have  finished,   but   do   not 
:old  them  to  make  them  do  it.     Lay  your  hand  gent- 
■  upon  their  shoulder,  lead  them  to  it,  ask  them  to  do 
politely  and  stand  over  them  until  it  is  done.     After 
lis  is  done  two  or  three  times  it  will  not  be  necessary, 
if  it  is,  make  them  forfeit  their  play,  sit  on  a  chair, 
some   other   slight   punishment.     Now    I    think    I 
!0Jaar,  "  It  would  take  so  much  time,  I  never  could  do 
Yes,  it  will  take  time,  but  the  few  minutes  spent 
1  preparing  and  helping  the  children   in   their  play 
ill  allow  more  time  for  work,  for  they  will  be  era- 
.  loyed  and  you  will  not  have  to  worry  about  their 
,i  stting  into  mischief,  so  can  work  without  interruption 
id  even  if  you  have  to  do  this  at  some  sacrifice  to 
surself   you   will   be   rewarded   by   good,   kind,   po- 
le  dispositioned    children,    instead   of   peevish,    mis- 
|i.  lievous  ones,  and  may  enjoy  the  knowledge  that  you 
,lvJid  your  duty. 

For  older  people  out-door  sports  are  the  best ;  such 

x,i  i  rowing,  fishing,  skating,  playing  ball  or  croquet  if 

3t  engaged  in  on  the  Lord's  Day. 

For  some  horseback  riding  is  both  an  enjoyment  and 

medicine,  and  some  might  think  bicycle-riding  an 

■  1  ljoyment,  but   I  condemn  it,  as  it  is  too  apt  to  be 

,  irried  to  excess,  and  if  so,  is  ruinous  to  the  health. 

For  the  indoor  sports  marbles,  dominoes,  lotto,  in- 

ructive  cards,  such  as  Bible  cards,  authors,  historical, 

, ' geographical  and  arithmetical,  and  there  are  some  oth- 

,-son  a  similar  plan  such  as  are  used  by  teachers  in 

1'f  IK 

.     ie  schoolroom,  but  on  no  account  should  the  pedro 
,  k  :ck  or  crokonole  or  carom  boards  be  allowed,  as  they 
,|"e  gambling  games.     They  may  have  dissected  maps 
,,    id  animals,  and  the  magic  lantern,  if  choice  is  made 
1  selecting  the  pictures,  the  camera,  good  literature 
11I  music. 
|1  These  should  supply  all  sources  of  enjoyment  to  a 
aiming  mind,  but  even  these  should  not  be  indulged 
1  lc>  excess. 
If  we  always  try  to  consider  duty  a  pleasure  we  will 
row  up  to  be  moral,  upright  men  and  women,  pre- 
trial  for  that  home  beyond  which  will  not  be  filled 
ith  excitements,  changes  of  fashion,  etc.,  but  there 
ill  be  no  change;  all  will  be  peace  and  happiness. 

/  'cstaburg,  Mich. 

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SWEET   PICKLED    BEETS. 


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Boil  equal  parts  of  vinegar  and  sugar  to  a  rich  syrup, 
and  pour  boiling  hot  over  the  beets.  Then  cover  close- 
ly. May  be  spiced  with  whole  cloves  and  stick  cinna- 
mon if  preferred.  .   .   . 

TOMATO    MARMALADE. 


Allow  equal  weights  of  peeled  tomatoes  and  sugar 
and  the  juice  and  grated  rind  of  a  lemon  to  each  two 
pounds  of  fruit.  Mix  all  together  and  let  stand  over 
night.  In  the  morning  boil  slowly,  stirring  frequent- 
ly, until  the  mixture  becomes  a  smooth,  thick  mass. 
Skim  as  required.  Seal  in  marmalade  pots  or  in 
small  self-sealers. 

HOME    MADE    APPLE    BUTTER. 


■  ,-'1  ■■  Boil  the  beets  until  they  are  quite  tender,  then  slip 
rfliftlfif  their  skins  and  allow  to  cool.  When  cold  cut 
wltfjingthwise  into  pieces  the  size  of  a  small  cucumber. 


One  among  the  very  finest,  most  palatable  and 
health-giving  culinary  commodities  that  always  graces 
the  always  well-furnished  table  of  the  farmer  is  that 
most  exquisite  old-fashioned  home-made  apple  but- 
ter. One  of  the  cherished  recollections  of  many  of  the 
older  class  of  people  is  the  picture  of  the  autumn  days 
when  the  huge  piles  of  ripened  apples,  whose  cheeks 
having  been  kissed  red  by  the  sun  of  summer  skies 
were  gathered  in  and  the  young  "  lads  and  lassies  " 
of  the  immediate  community  were  all  invited  in  to 
"  pare  and  quarter  and  core  "  and  make  merry  with 
happy  peals  of  laughter.  The  old  copper  kettle  with 
its  seething  depths  of  cider  at  the  proper  time  and 
condition  received  the  meaty,  tarty  bits  of  quartered 
fruits  which  had  been  prepared  by  deft  fingers.  Then, 
when  the  mingled  mass  of  boiling  cider  and  added 
apples  began  to  gurgle  and  bubble,  all  attention 
and  interest  for  the  next  half  dozen  hours  centered 
around  the  kettle,  or  rather  its  precious  contents. 
This  indeed  became  "  stirring "  time  in  the  nrocess. 
The  stirring  had  to  be  done  in  no  hap-hazard  way  and 
was  regarded  as  rather  an  irksome  task,  excepting  in 
the  case,  which  was  very  common,  where  one  of  the 
fair  young  sex  had  hold  of  the  other  side  of  the 
long-handled  "  butter  stirrer,"  which  always  made  a 
difference  of  over  one-half.  In  fact,  under  the  above 
condition  of  labor,  to  the  question  which  sometimes 
rang  in  from  the  other  room,  "  Aren't  you  folks  tired 
now,"  generally  the  response  echoed  back,  "  Not  in 
the  least."  But  finally,  and  often  in  the  wee,  small 
hours  of  morning,  the  "  butter "  got  done.  The 
precious  contents,  twenty  to  thirty  gallons,  ( those  old 
kettles  had  wonderful  capacity  to  match  the  wonder- 
ful capacity  and  size  of  those  old-fashioned  families) 
was  stored  in  crocks  and  jars  ready  for  the  long  win- 
ter's use.  The  unfortunate  population  who  are  crowd- 
ed in  the  large  cities  and  purchase  apple  butter  which 
contains  not  a  drop  of  real  apple  or  cider,  know  little 
about  the  pure,  exquisite  article  made  on  the  farm 
out  of  the  "  pure  stuff." — P.  B.  Brubaker,  in  Mt. 
Morris  Index. 


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OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE 


BONNIE  WAYNE. 


Mrs.  Marshall  said,  "  You  all  eat  like  harvest 
hands,  "  and  I  guess  we  did,  for  we  got  up  so  early 
that  morning  and  drove  so  far  that  we  were  'awful 
hungry.  Luke  tried  to  play  he  wuzn't  very  hungry, 
but  it  was  just  because  he  wanted  to  go  fishing  so  bad. 
He  had  to  go  to  the  wagon  and  get  that  can  of  fish 
worms  and  set  'em  down  close  to  where  he  wuz,  so  he 
would  be  ready  to  go. 

After  dinner  Mr.  Marshall  said,  "  Now,  Ma.  you 
and  mother  do  up  the  dishes,  and  Frank  you  water  the 
horses  and  tie  those  lines  all  to  our  fish  poles,  and  I'll 
go  down  here  to  the  boat-house  and  see  if  I  can  rent 
a  boat.  "  And  he  told  Mable  to  get  a  little  pail  of 
apples  and  take  them  along,  'cause  maybe  we  wouldn't 
get  back  till  pretty  near  night.  It  wuzn't  very  long 
till  Mable  said,  "  There,  I  heard  papa  whistle,"  and  we 
looked  down  towards  the  lake  and  he  was  waving  his 
hand  to  us. 

'Nen  we  all  started  and  took  the  stuff  that  Mr. 
Marshall  had  told  us  to  bring,  and  when  we  got  down 
there  he  had  the  nicest  boat  tied  fast  to  a  tree  with  a 
long  chain.  He  said,  "  Come  on  Bonnie,  "  and  he 
reached  out  his  hand  to  me  and  I  gave  a  little  jump 
and  he  caught  me  and  let  me  down  into  the  boat  and 
1  was  scared  I  could  hardly  stand  up.  It  was  so  teet- 
ery-tottery,  but  Mable  and  I  sat  down  on  a  little  board 
at  the  front  end  and  Grandma  got  in  next.  She  put 
some  of  those  rugs  on  the  bench  that  wuz  in  the  middle 
of  the  boat  and  Mrs.  Marshall  sat  down  with  her. 
There  wuz  a  little  stool  for  Mr.  Marshall  to  sit  down 
on,  on  one  side,  and  one  for  Frank  on  the  other.  They 
had  great  long  paddles  that  they  used  to  row  the  boat, 

When  we  were  all  in  the  boat  but  Frank,  Mr.  Mar- 
shall says,  "  Now,  look  out,  give  her  a  shove,  Frank ;  " 
and  Frank  pushed  on  the  boat  and  it  started  out  in 
the  water  and  the  boat  felt  like  it  was  going  to  upset 
and  Mable  screamed  and  I  came  pretty  near  dropping 
Dora  out  in  the  water.  Old  Bux  stood  on  the  bank 
and  whined,  and  Mable  said,  "  Poor  fellow,  let's  let 
him  go  along,"  and  Frank  said,  "  That  won't  do,  he'll 
get  tired  of  boat  riding  and  when  we  get  out  in  the 
middle  of  the  lake,  he'll  jump  out  and  drown.  "  So 
we  went  on  without  him. 

When  we  got  away  out  in  the  middle  of  the  lake, 
there  wuz  some  poles  sticking  up  out  of  the  water,  and 
Mr.  Marshall  said,  "  Here's  the  place."  'Nen  Frank 
had  a  big  piece  of  iron  in  the  back  part  of  the  boat  that 
wuz  tied  to  the  hay  rope  and  he  let  that  way  down  in 


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'Nen  they  put  their  paddles  down  in  thei 
boat  and  got  the  fish  poles,  and  put  some  worms  on   ' 
the  hooks  and  gave  each  one  of  us  a  pole.     'Nen  Mr. 
Marshall  says,  "  Keep  still,  mus'n't  anybody  say  a  word 
'cause  the  fish  won't  bite,  "  and  my  goodness,  we  ha 
to  keep    still    the    longest    time.     I    pretty    near  wen 
asleep  and  dropped  my  fish  pole,  but  all  at  once  every 
bodv  began  to  holler  and  I  looked  around  and  Grandma 
had  a  great  big  fish  on  her  hook  and  Frank  wante 
to  help  her   pull   it  out,   but   Grandma   said,   "  Neve: 
mind,  chile ;   I  fished  before   I   ever  saw  you."     Mr] 
Marshall  says,  "  Mother,   don't  let  him  go,  that's  a 
big    black    bass,    and    he's    a    gamy    fellow."      The 
fish  flopped  around  in  the  water  and  he'd  run  around 
the  boat  and  get  tangled  up  in  our  lines.     Then  he'd 
run  the  other  way  and  try  to  get  down  under  the 
water  and  try  to  jump  out  of  the  water,  but  when  he'd 
run  from  the  boat,  Grandma  would  let  the  reel  run  and 
then  she  would  wind  him  up  again.     'Nen,  pretty  soonj 
he  got  tired  out  and  she  pulled  him  into  the  boat,  mjs 
but  she  wuz  tickled,     When  she  took  him  off  of  the 
hook  she  patted  him  on  the  back  and  said,  "  I  got  yoiij 
old  fellow ;  we'll  have  you  for  supper. 

We  fished  for  a  long  time  and  all  of  us  caught  some 
fish.  Luke  and  me  had  the  most  fun  when  the  fish  got 
on  our  hooks  and  we  had  to  have  help  to  get  them  o: 
When  the  fish  got  on  my  hook,  he  begin  to  jerk  it  anil 
I  wuz  afraid  he  wuz  going  to  get  away  from  me  and 
I  started  to  Mr.  Marshall  with  it.  He  began  to  laugh 
and  said,  "  Pull  him  out,  pull  him  out !  "  But  I  wuz 
afraid  to  pull  him  in  the  boat  where  I  wuz,  cause  I 
didn't  want  to  take  him  in  my  hands  like  Grandma 
did. 

Mrs.  Marshall  said  she  thought  we  had  fishing 
enough  for  once  and  she  thought  it  would  be  fun  m 
go  and  get  some  water  lilies,  so  we  wound  up  our  lines 
and  put  the  poles  in  the  bottom  of  the  boat,  put  our 
fish  in  the  bucket,  and  Frank  and  Mr.  Marshall  got 
the  oars  and  away  we  went  over  to  the  south  side. 
When  we  got  over  there,  there  wuz  the  mostest  pretty 
posies  and  their  leaves  laid  right  flat  down  on  top 
of  the  water.  They  wuz  about  as  big  round  as  a  pie 
pan.  We  would  roll  up  ourselves  and  lean  over  the  sidf 
of  the  boat  and  put  our  hands  down  in  the  water  and 
get  hold  of  the  flower  stems  and  pull  them  out.  ] 
guess  we  got  most  a  bushel  of  those  pretty  flowers 
We  ate  the  apples  and  peaches  that  we  brought  along 
but  we  were  getting  hungry  and  wanted  to  go  home 
for  supper. 


(TO   BE   CONTINUED.) 


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THE   INGLENOOK.— October  4,    1904. 


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What  makes  yeast  rise? 

When  the  yeast  is  put  into  the  flour  and  potatoes 
ermentation  begins,  and  what  happens  is  this,  tiny 
ttle  trees,  or  we  better  say  whole  forests  of  tiny  little 
■ees  actually  grow  in  a  few  hours  time.  You  cannot 
ee  them  with  the  naked  eye ;  you  have  to  use  a  glass, 
ut  you  can,  with  the  naked  eye,  see  hundreds  of 
ttle  holes  in  the  dough  and  these  little  holes  are 
iere  simply  because  these  little  yeast  plants  are  there 
nd  spread  the  dough  away.  And  by  hundreds  and 
lousands  of  these  little  trees  growing  in  a  piece  of 
ough,  makes  the  dough  much  larger  in  bulk. 


What  makes  the  wheels  on  a  street  car  go  around? 

That  depends  on  the  street  car.  In  those  pulled  by 
orses,  the  wheels  go  around  because  they  have  to,  as 
ie  car  is  pulled  forward  by  the  horses.  The  same 
ling  is  true  of  the  cable  car.  On  the  electric  car, 
ither  the  trolly  or  the  third  rail  system,  the  wheels 
re  turned  by  cog  gear  which  is  under  power  of  a 
lotor  and  this  motor  is  fed  by  the  current  from  the 
ower  house.  The  rails  are  charged  with  the  current 
rom  the  power  house  and  the  trolley  wire  above  con- 
ected  with  the  rails  by  the  long  iron  pole  that  you  see 
n  the  top  of  the  car,  teturns  the  current  to  the  power 
ouse. 

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Why  not  publish  an  Illinois  edition  of  the  Inglenook? 

(There  have  been  several  state  editions  given,  but 
seems  that  the  majority  of  the  people  are  not  inter- 
sted  in  these  special  editions,  except  the  people  who 
ve  in  the  state,  and  we  want  to  write  such  editions 
s  will  interest  all  of  our  readers  as  much  as  possible, 
f  we  should  print  a  number  all  music,  or  poetry, 
fence,  religion,  education,  fiction,  history  or  geog- 
aphy,  only  those  would  be  interested  as  are  specially 
wen  to  these  studies,  and  each  issue  is  so  arranged 
s  to  adapt  the  Inglenook  to  the  wants  of  the  whole 
aniily. 

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If  T  didn't  have  any  yeast  and  could  not  get  any  anv- 
raere  how  could  I  make  some,  or  how  can  you  make  yeast 
ilu in  you  do  not  haw  any  to  start  with? 

In  this  case  it  would  be  necessary  to  go  to  grandma's 
md  get  some  hops  and  after  boiling  them  use  the  juice 
vith  the  right  proportions  of  mashed  potatoes  and 
lour  which  will  produce  fermentation  and  the  little 
■east  plant  starts  to  grow.  When  you  make  your  first 
latch  of  bread  save  out  sufficient  yeast  for  the  next 
iine. 


Please  give  a  short  sketch  of  the  life  of  John  Muir.  the 
geologist. 

John  Muir  was  born  at  Dunbar.  Scotland,  April  21, 
1838 :  educated  in  Scotland  and  University  of  Wiscon- 
sin :  A.  M.,  Harvard,  and  LL.  D.,  University  of  Wis- 
consin ;  was  married  in  1880  to  Miss  Louise  Strentzel. 
He  is  the  discoverer  of  Muir  Glacier,  Alaska,  author  of 
many  magazine  and  newspaper  articles  on  Physio- 
graphy and  natural  history  of  Alaska  and  the  Pacific 
Coast.  He  visited  the  Arctic  regions  on  the  United 
States  steamer  Coru'in  in  search  of  the  De  Long  expe- 
dition. He  has  been  an  active  worker  for  forest  pres- 
ervation and  establishment  of  national  reservations  and 
parks.  His  address  is  Martizes.  Cal. 
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How  old  is  St.  Peter's  church  at  Rome? 

The  building  was  begun  under  Pope  Nicholas  V, 
in  1450,  but  the  work  was  delayed  nearly  fifty  years. 
Under  Julius  II  a  new  plan  was  prepared.  Raphael 
had  charge  of  the  building  for  some  time.  Michael 
Angelo  designed  the  dome  and  nearly  completed  it. 
The  facade  is  by  Carlo  Maderno,  and  the  colonnade 
by  Bernini.  The  church  was  consecrated  by  Urban 
VIII,  Nov.  18.  1628. 

How  is  glass  made  into  different  shapes? 

In  the  first  place  glass  is  melted  sand,  then  by  recipes 
known  only  to  glass  makers,  it  is  made  into  different 
consistencies  and  colors  and  as  to  shape  it  is  either 
moulded,  blown  or  spun.  .For  instance  a  lamp  or 
bottle  is  actually  blown  into  a  mould  by  the  operator 
at  the  end  of  a  long  tube.  Plate  glass  is  rolled  into 
a  hollow  cylinder  and  cut  in  two  by  spinning  a  thread 
of  redliot  glass  across  this  cylinder,  lengthwise,  which 
causes  it  to  break  perfectly  straight.  Class  thread 
is  spun  and  not  moulded  or  blown. 
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How  do  they  warm  ships  in  cold  weather? 

A  very  ingenious  method  of  heating  is  installed  on 
the  majority  of  our  large  ocean  steamers.  Instead  of 
allowing  the  exhaust  steam  from  the  engines  to  escape 
into  the  air  it  is  caged  in  another  set  of  pipes  and  sent 
to  the  different  compartments  through  radiators,  which 
not  only  heat  the  rooms  perfectly  but  saves  a  great 
deal  of  expense  in  the  way  of  fuel. 

Do  you  think  in  Sunday  sclmnl  a  pupil  ought  to  be  al- 
lowed to  read  the  answers  from  the  quarterly? 

If  you  are  playing  at  teaching,  yes.  If  you  are  real- 
ly trying  to  teach,  NO. 


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A    FATHER'S    LOVE. 


She  was  a  winsome,  wee  girl,  just  lisping  her  first 
words,  yet  I  learned  a  lesson  from  her — a  child  of 
extraordinary  beauty  and  the  especial  darling  of 
her  father's  heart. 

She  toddled  into  the  room  one  day  greatly  ex- 
cited and  pleased,  saying,  "  Baby  fin'  wo'm.  Papa, 
me  fin'  long  wo'm." 

"  What  can  the  baby  mean?  "  papa  finally  asked. 

"  Ugh !  "  some  one  exclaims,  "  she  has  found  a 
worm,  and  has  been  playing  with  it,  too,  I  am 
sure." 

But  the  baby  was  not  satisfied  with  just  this 
notice  being  taken  of  her  treasure.  She  extended 
her  tiny  hands  ever  so  far  apart,  to  show  how  long 
her  "  pitty  wo'm  "  was,  and  she  laughed  in  high 
glee  as  she  went  back  to  her  new  plaything,  say- 
ing, "  Me  doin'  to  play  wid  me  pitty  wo'm." 

Every  one  laughed  at  baby's  antics  over  her  new- 
ly-found treasure.  But  the  father,  ever  watchful, 
followed  in  a  minute  or  two  to  see  what  it  was 
that  the  baby  was  playing  with. 

And,  oh,  how  quickly  baby  was  snatched  away 
from  danger!  for  there,  almost  within  reach  of  the 
little  hands  eager  to  caress  it,  lay  a  viper  which 
had  crawled  from  an  old  chimney  near.  Seizing 
a  weapon,  he  soon  killed  the  snake,  and  took  it 
away  from  baby's  sight,  and  returned  to  his  nearly 
heart-broken  child. 

But  baby  was  crying  with  all  her  might.  Then 
the  father  took  her  in  his  arms.  She  struggled  to 
get  away  from  him,  but  he  only  drew  her  closer 
to  him. 

Soon  she  found  words  to  express  her  indigna- 
tion arid  grief,  "  You  is  bad,  papa !  You  is  b-a-d ! 
Oh,  my  own  pitty  wo'm !  " 

But  the  father's  arms  still  surrounded  her,  and 
pressed  her  closer  to  his  heart.  Not  a  word  had 
he  spoken  excepting,  "  My  darling,"  when  he  first 
took  her  in  his  strong,  loving  arms. 

After  a  while  she  rested  contentedly  there;  but 
her  sobs  and  words  still  told  of  her  sorrow  and 
anger,  "  You  is — bad,  papa,"  being  repeated,  but 
at  greater  intervals. 

Finally  her  whole  attitude  was  changed,  and  she 
seemed  to  become  conscious  of  her  father's  love 
to  her  and  her  love  to  him,  though  she  was  not 
willing  to  drop  her  rebellious  words.  She  raised 
one  little  arm  and  placed  it  around  his  neck,  and 


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patted  his  cheek  with  the  other  hand ;  then,  drop 
ping  her  face  to  his,  she  sobbed,  but  in  her  mos 
loving  tone.  "  Y-o-u  i-s  b-a-d,  papa,"  and  droppec 
asleep,  still  clasped  jii  her  father's  arms. 

Ah!  thought  I,  as  I  witnessed  this  scene,  this  i 
bereavement  and  sorrow's  message  to  us.  Love 
infinite  love,  exercised  by  an  all-wise  heavenly  Fa 
ther.  Our  Father  sees  that  our  ambitious  plans 
either  for  pleasure  or  profit,  upon  which  we  hav 
set  our  minds  and  hearts,  are  dangerous  to  us,  ani 
illustrates  them.  We  are  so  charmed  with  the  lov 
of  the  earthly  home  and  friends  that  we  do  no 
care  enough  for  our  heavenly  home,  and  he  re 
moves  them. 

And,  like  this  little  child,  we,  too,  murmur  an 
grieve  and  cry  unto  him,  for  we  do  not  understanc 
Yet  all  the  time  infinite  love  and  wisdom  is  ou 
refuge,  until  finally  we  drop  asleep,  sheltered  i 
his  protecting  arms. — Western  Advocate. 
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A   BRIDGE    OF    KETTLES. 


Perhaps  the  most  remarkable  bridges  in  the  worl 
are  kettle  bridges,  of  which  Cossack  soldiers  are  ex 
pert  builders.  The  materials  of  which  they  are  con 
structed  are  soldiers'  lances  and  cooking  kettles,  an 
fastened  together  by  means  of  ropes  to  form  a  raf' 
A  sufficient  number  of  these  rafts,  each  of  which  wi 
bear  the  weight  of  half  a  ton,  are  fastened  together 
and  in  the  space  of  an  hour  a  bridge  is  formed  o 
which  an  army  may  cross  with  confidence  and  safet) 
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DILEMMA    OF    A    TRAVELER    IN    RUSSIA. 


A  traveler  getting  outside  of  St.  Petersburg  dis 

covered  when  he  tried  to  re-enter  the  city  that  he  ha 

left  his  passport  in  the  bedroom  of  his  hotel.     Th 

guards  refused  to  let  him  pass :  refused  to  send  fc 

the  passport.    "  According  to  you,  said  he,  "  the  onl 

thing  for  me  to  do  is  to  throw  myself  into  the  Neva! 

"  No!  "  said  the  sentry,  "  suicide  in  Russia  is  strii 

against  the  law." 

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Instead  of  saying  that  man  is  the  creature  of  cii 
cumstance,  it  would  be  nearer  right  to  say  that  man 
the  architect  of  circumstances.     It  is  character  whic 
builds  an  existence  out  of  circumstance.     From  tr: 
same  material  one  man  builds  palaces,  another,  hovel 


-G.  H.  Lezuis. 


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SAMUEL  S.  THORPE. 
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JESUS    IS    ABLE. 

Having   been    given    "  all   power,"    Mat 
28:  18,    and   having   destroyed   the 
works   of  the  devil,   1  John 
3:  8,  Jesus  is  able  to, 
Save  to  the  uttermost,  Heb.  7:  25. 
Make  all  grace  abound,  2  Cor.  9:  8, 
Succor  the  tempted,  Heb.  2:  18. 
Make  us  stand,  Rom.  14:  4. 
Keep  us  from  falling,  Jude  24. 
Subdue  all  things^  Philpp.  3:21. 
Keep  that   committed   to  him,   2   Tin 

1:  12. 
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4:  21. 

Do  above  all   we  ask  or  think,   Ep! 
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Matt.  9:28.  F.  S.  Shepherd. 

THE    BLOOD. — Heb.   9:22. 

1.  Peace    has    been    made    through    tl 
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2.  Justified   by  the  blood.     Rom.   5:9, 

3.  Redemption  by  the  blood.     Eph.   1: 
Col.  1:  14;  1  Pet.  1:  18. 

This   redemption    is   eternal.     Heb. 

11-14;  Heb.   10:  10-15. 

Cleansed  by   the  blood.     1   John   1: 

Rev.  1:  5;  Rev.   7:  14. 

"We    enter    into    the     holiest    by    tl 

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Normal  College  that  prepares  teachers  for  all  grades  of  certificates. 
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ie  President  of  the  college,  Edward  Frantz,  is  dean  of  the  Bible  school  and  is 
recognized  as  having  no  superio'r  in  his  line  of  work.  He  has  been  instructor 
in  his  line  of  work  in  McPherson  college  for  the  past  nine  years,  and  is  devoting 
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of.  Pahnestock  is  a  little  more  skillful  in  execution  than  the  average  John  or 
Bill,  thart  helps  some  of  his  pupils.  He  has  taught  Bookkeeping  and  Penman- 
ship for  thirty  years — that  helps  others.  "Writing  is  one  of  his  specialties. 
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entertained,  go  to  Sell's  circus.  Some  people  say  Fahnestock  is  the  best.  All 
say  he  is  conscientious.  If  you  believe  this,  he  can  help  you. 
you  have  hut  Little  Means,  write  and  mention  the  Nook.  We  have  an  interesting 
proposition  for  you  if  you  want  a  Business  Course  or  a  course  in  Penmanship. 

e  have  a  $50  Course  for  $5  for  the  first  twelve  readers  of  the  Nook  that  write  us. 
Postmark  on  envelope  will   determine  who  is  first.    Students  may  enter  any  time. 


if 


McPHERSON    COLLEGE.    McPherson,  Kans. 


DAILY  EXCURSIONS  TO 

CALIFORNIA 

Through  first-class  and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  points  In  California 


and  Oregon  every  day  in  the  year. 


i  PERSONALLY  CONDUCTED  EXCURSIONS 


EVERY    WEEK. 


LOWEST  RATES, 
SHORTEST  TIME   ON   THE    ROAD, 
INEST   SCENERY,  VARIABLE    ROUTES. 

You  can  leave  home  any  day  In  the  week  and  travel  In  tourist  cars 
i  fast  trains  through  to  the  coast.  For  descriptive  pamphlets  and 
1  information  Inquire  of  nearest  agent. 

licago  &  North-Western  Railway. 


YOUR   IDLE  MONEY 

carefully  and  properly  invested  will 
earn  7  to  20  per  cent  per  annum 
for  you,  regularly  and  safely.  For 
eight  years  we  have  been  dealing  in 
high-grade  interest-bearing  invest- 
ment securities,  and  if  >*6u  have  any 
idle  funds  on  hand,  large  or  small, 
we  will  tell  you  how  and  where  you 
may  invest  it  honestly  and  profit- 
ably, and  we  use  the  greatest  possi- 
ble care  to  make  every  dollar  Invest- 
ed absolutely  secure.  Write  to  us 
for    full   particulars.     Address: 

NEWCOMER  AND  PRICE, 
30eow  Mt.  Morris,  HI. 


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|  ELGIN  &  WALTHAM  WATCHES 

E  Of  all  sizes  and  kinds.  *  Men's  size  Elgin: 
»  low  as  54.95.  Other  watches  from';88  ceats  to  3 
t  $35.00  each.  I  sell  all  kinds  of  good  watches,  * 
I  cheap.  Catalogue  free.  lAlso  samples  and  2 
»  pri:eli;t  of  C  A  P^GOO  DS  free  upou  applica-  3 
[  tiim.     H.  E.  Newcomer,  Mt.  Morris,  III.         j 

30-13  Mention  the  INGLKNOOK  when  writing. 

Farms  You  Will  Buy 


East  Central  Kansas  is  the  best  part 
of  the  State  for  general  farming  and 
raising  stock.  Well  watered,  Marion 
county's  average  crop  acreage  iB  110,000 
acres  corn,  90,000  acres  wheat,  40,000 
acres  oats,  20,000  acres  alfalfa.  We 
have  some  good  farms  for  sale  at  a  bar- 
gain. Will  say  to  the  Brethren  that  are 
thinking  of  changing  their  location  that 
they  will  do  well  to  investigate  our 
country.  Good  bargains  near  church. 
Any  information  cheerfully  furnished. 

GARRISON       STUDEBAKER, 

Florence,  Kansas. 

Wild    Rose    Sheep    Farm 

Breeds  Cheviot  Sheep.  Wool  and  mut- 
ton of  best  quality.  Rams  and  ewes  for 
sale. 

HOWARD     H.     KEIM, 
14tl3  Eos  1,  Iiadojra,  Ind. 

The    Inglenook 
COOK  BOOK 


We  have  sen;  out  thousands  of 
these  Cook  Books  as  premiums. 
So  great  was  the  demand  that  a 
second  edition  was  published. 
We. are  still  receiving  numerous 
calls  for  this  Cook  Hunk.  For  this 
reason  we  have  decided  to  dispose 
of  the  few  remaining  copies  at 
25  cents  per  copy.  I'd  insure  a 
copy  it  will  he  necessary  for  you 
In  order  at  once.      .      .      Send  to 


Brethren  Publishing  House 

Elgin,  Illinois. 


EQUITY    MFG.    AND   SUPPLY    CO..    CHICAGO,    ILL. 


Sectional 

Illustration 

of  Our 


WARMING 
CLOSET. 

On  our  Equity 
Steel  Range  we 
furnish  a  complete 
high  -warming  clos- 
et, strongly  made, 
well  arranged  and 
supported  on  each 
side  by  heavy 
nickel  plated  cast- 
ings. The  back 
wall  of  the  warm- 
ing closet  as  shown 
In  the  illustration 
is  equipped  with 
two  tea  shelves 
The  illustration  to 
the  right  shows 
the  shelf  down  and 
to  the  left  shows 
the  shelf  up  in 
place  out  of  the 
way  when  not  in 
use. 


STEEL  RANGE 


IN  THE  STEEL  RANGE  I 

Our  Equity  represents  all 
first-class  in  construction, 
in  equipment,  ond  embodies 
latest  improvements.  We  h 
voted  this  page  in  our  catalog 
sectional  illustration  of  our 
Steel  Range  to  give  a  more  ( 
hensive  understanding  to  \ 
tomers,  and  make  it  easier  f 
to  appreciate  the  extraordina 
we  are  offering  at  the  excep  i  , 
low  price  we  quote  for  this  firjui ' 
range. 

Send  Your  Order  to 
an  Equity  Steel  Sange.  If 
not  perfectly  satisfied  with  tl 
ity,  the  operation,  the  cons 
and  the  price  after  you  ha 
and  examined  the  range,  re 
we  will  pay  freight  both  ■ 
refund  your  money  in  full. 

Eeservoi; 
caseing 
bestos    b ( 
preventing 
We    can 
the  cast  h 
ervoir 
when  desi 
do  not  recc 
it  as  it  is 
servicable 
asbestos 
s  te  e 
caseing. 


THIS  SPLENDID 
FEATURE 

s  one  of  the  new  im- 
provements and  very 
desirable  because  it 
makes  it  convenient 
to  handle  the  broiling 
iron  and  affords  a 
perfect  coal  shute,  ob- 
viating the  necessity 
of  removing  the  lids 
when  putting  coal  in 
the  fire  box.  The 
opening  has  a  swing 
door  and  slide  draft. 


PLEASED  CUSTOMERS 

|rre  i*^?  best  recommendation  for  our  Equity 
Steel  Range,  and  the  satisfaction  our  Equitv  is 
giving  our  customers  who  are  now  using  it  is 
convincing-  proof  that  we  have  succeeded  in 
placing  on  the  market  a  good  first  class  steel 
range  at  the  lowest  price  ever  before  quoted. 
We  therefore  are  justified  to  recommend  this 
steel  range  in  the  highest  of  terms. 

THE  CAPACITY 
of  our  Equity  Steel  Range  will  be  appreciated 
by  every  user,  and  by  looking  over  the  illustra- 
tion above  you  will  observe  that  it  has  a  large 
oven  with  sliding  oven  shelf.  It  has  srfx  cook- 
ing holes  on  the  main  top.     It  has  two  drop  tea 


shelves.     It   has   large   warming   closet,   a   large 
reservoir  and  a  broad  broiler  door. 

When  you  desire  to  use  the  steel  range  for 
coal,  you  place  the  end  linings  in  the  firebox 
and  reverse  the  grate  as  shown  in  the  illustra- 
tion under  "Coal  Grate."  When  you  wish  to 
burn  wood,  you  lift  out  the  two  end  linines  as 
shown  under  the  words  "Wood  Grate."  When 
burning  wood  the  fire-box  has  capacity  for  a 
good  long  stick  as  it  has  an  extension  back. 
The  ash-pan  is  large  and  of  good  capacity. 

IN  MAKING  SELECTION 

by  referring  to   the  opposite  page  you  will  find 

below    the   illustration,    dimensions   of    the    sizes 

n  which  we  construct  our  Equity  Steel   Range, 


and  to  determine  the  size  you  want,  fir 
into    consideration     the    amount    of    roo 
have  in  your  kitchen,    the   number   of 
to  cook  for,  and  you  can  tell  exactly  wb 
to  order. 

WATER  FRONT. 

In  the  fire-box  we  furnish  a  water-fron  I 
desired,  at  an  additional  cost  of  $2.25,  OfB 
it  is  understood  that  the  range  must  1| 
where  there  is  city  water  works  or  r 
pressure  from  a  tank,  as  it  requires  presl 
circulate  the  water  through  the  water-fij 


..    REMEMBER  WE   GUARANTEE  SAFE  DEL  F 
in  rnnSt-rnJSSniT  5^««£i?^«°«™™™«««£  33P&  ma?eria1'  fnlly  warranted,  embodying  all  t*e  latest  improvements  and  best  eouipments. 
Si^iSS^^^tS^^Mi^S^^H0!^?11  is  the  outc.ome  of  years  of  Btudy  and  is  the  production  of  experiments  that  give  it  p< 
superiority  over  other  ffrst-class  ranges  and  meets  every  requirement  expected  of  a  steel  raDge:  1 


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THE    COLONY 


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LAGUNA  DE  TACHE  GRANT 


...IN    THE... 


SAN  JOAQUIN  VALLEY,  CALIFORNIA 


CANCER 

Cured  without 
Surgery  or 
Pain. 
Our  latest 
book  which 
we  will  send 
free  of  charge 
tells  allabout 
Cancer  and 
all  chronic 
and  malig- 
nant diseas- 
es ,  and  how 
they  can  be 
cured  at  home  quickly  and  at  small  ex- 
pense, reference,  patients  cured  in  every 
State  and  Territory,  ministers  &  bankers 

Address,  Brs.  Rinebart  k  Co.,  lock  Box  20.  Kokumo,  hi 


Still  continues  to  attract  the  attention  of  homeseekers. 

The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  immense  growth  of 
►very  variety  of  crop  which  is  again  in, evidence  establishes  the  fact  that  here  is  the 
place  where  the  Industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN  PEOPLE  DO  EASTERN  FARMING. 

Tou  aon't  have  to  spend  years  learning  a  new  business. 

ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

jesides  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
lis  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  it. 

SPECIAL     LOW    BATES    TO     CALIFORNIA. 

From  August  15th  to  Sept.  10th  the  railroads  will  sell  Bound  Trip  excursion 
ilekets  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

From    Chicago $50   00 

From   Mississippi   River 47   50 

From    Missouri    River 45  00 

Final  return  limit.  Oct.  23. 

ALSO    SEPTEMBER    15th    TO    OCTOBEB    15th    COLONIST    ONE-WAY    TICKETS 
TO  ANT  CALIFORNIA   POINT. 

From    Chicago $33   00 

From   Mississippi    River 30   00 

From    Missouri    River 25   00 

By  this  arrangement  you  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 

If  it  suits'you.  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate. 
Land  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre,  Including  perpetual  water  right.     Terms,  one- 
th  cash;  balance  in  eight  annual  payments. 

From  twenty  to  forty  acres  will  support  the  average  family  in  comfort 
If  interested  send  your  name  and  address  and  receive  printed  matter  and  our 
acal  newspaper  free  for  two  months.     Write  to 

WRES  &  SAUNDERS,    ■    Laton,  California. 

33tlJ    HwJltoil  Ihl  fflOxfewQOK  wh«  writing 


Via  Dubuque,  Waterloo  and  Albert  Lea. 
Fast  Vestibule  Night  train  with  through 
Sleeping  Car,  Buffet- Library  Car  and  Free 
Reclining  Chair  Car.  Dining  Car  Service 
en  route.  Tickets  of  agents  ol  I.  C.  R.  R. 
and  connecting  lines. 


A.  H.  HANSON.  O.  P.  A..  CHICAGO. 


SL. 


India: 
A  Problem 

A  Profusely  Illustrated  Book 
By  W.  B.  Stover. 

It  gives  a  splendid  description  of 
India  and  mission  work  connected  there- 
with. The  actual  experience  of  our 
missionaries  isgiven  in  this  work.   Cloth, 

Si.:;.     Morocco.   S2.00.     Write  for  terms 
to  agents.    Address, 

BRETHREN    PUBLISHING    BOUSE. 

Elgin.    Illinois. 


Exactly  as 
Illustrated 


Without 
Reservoir 


Without 
Reservoir 

or 

Warming' 

Closet, 


Write  for 

Our  Free 

Stove 

Catalog- 


■TSfiiSlr  Amherst  Range 

Positively  the  highest  grade  steel  range.  It  has  high  shelf,  warming  closet,  deep  reservoir,  heav 
rich  nickel  trimmings  and  mountings,  asbestos  lining,  malleable  iron  frames,  steel  plates  and  an  oven  tha 
is  to  all  intents  and  purposes,  hermetically  sealed.  It  will  stay  that  way  for  years,  and  will  bake  more 
quickly,  more  perfectly  and  with  less  fuel  than  other  ranges.  No  special  "firing  up,"  no  wasteful  piling1 
on  of  fuel  with  our  Amherst  range.  You  cannot  make  a  more  serious  mistake  than  to  buy  an  inferior, 
steel  range,  which  seems  to  be  cheap,  but  for  which  you  will  have  to  pay  three  or  four  times,  when  repairs 

and  wasted  fuel  are  considered. 
Buy  our  Amherst,  for  the  first 
cost  is  the  only  cost  of  this  range. 

Write  for  our  Free  Catalogue, 

and  you  will  get  a  book  containing 
a  fine  illustration  of  the  merchan- 
dise we  sell,  full  descriptions  ana 
astonishingly  low  prices.  This  book 
will  tell  you  how  we  refund  freight 
and  express  charges,  explain  ouK 
binding  guarantee,  and  name  rock 
bottom  prices. 

Don't   Fail   to    Send    a  Postal 
For  Our  Free  Catalogue. 


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Number  41.  Volume  VI 


30,000  ACRES 


IRRIGATED 


Government  Land 

In   Nevada 

NOW    OPEN  FOR 

HOMESTEAD 


UNDER  THE   NEW 

IRRIGATION   LAW 

The  United  States  Govern- 
ment Constructs  the  Canals, 
Reservoirs  and  Lateral  Ditch- 
es to  the  Land,  and  Maintains 
them  for  10  Years  at  a  cost  of 

ONLY  $2.50  AN  ACRE 


PER     YEAB. 


This  Includes  Water.     After   io  Years   Water 
and  Canals  Belong  to  Homesteader. 


Land    Close   to    Railroad    and    Qood 
Markets  Can  be  Secured  By 

ACTUAL  SETTLERS 
ONLY. 


Mr.  L.  H.  Taylor,  the  United  States 
Engineer  in  charge  of  work,  says: 
"  It  is  likely  that  most  of  those  set- 
tlers who  desire,  can  find  employment 
for  themselves  and  teams  on  the  ca- 
nals during  at  least  a  part  of  their 
spare  time  for  the  next  two  or  three 
years." 


For  Information  Write  to 

GEO.  L.  McDONAUGH, 

COLONIZATION    AGENT 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Omaha,  Neb.. 


THE      fNGLENOOK. 
ARE    YOU    GOING   TO 

CALIFORNIA,  WASHINGTON, 
OREGON,  IDAHO 

Or  Any  Other  Point?    Take  the 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 


Daily  Tonrist  Car  Line 

BETWEEN 

Chicago,    Missouri    River,    Colorado, 

Idaho,  Oregon,  Washington  and 

California  Points. 


Stop  Off  at  Reno,  Nevada, 

And  Investigate  the  Irrigated  Govern- 
ment Land.  Call  on  Mr.  L.  H.  Taylor 
U.  S.  Engineer,  for  information. 


ONE-WAY    COLONIST'S    RATES. 

To  Pacific  Coast  Every  Day,  Sept.  15 
to  Oct.  IS. 

From  Chicago $33  00 

From  St.  Louis,   30  00 

From    Missouri   River,    25  00 

Proportionate  rates  from  all  points 
East. 


The  Union  Pacific  Railroad 


— Is  Known  As — 

"The  Overland  Route" 

And  is  the  only  direct  line  from 
Chicago  and  the  Missouri  River  to 
all  principal  points  West.  Business 
men  and  others  can  save  many 
hours  via  this  line.  Call  on  or  ad- 
dress a  postal  card  to  your  nearest 
ticket  agent,  or  Geo.  L.  McDon- 
augh,  Colonization  Agent,  Omaha. 
Nebr. 

E.    L.    LOMAX,    G.    P.    &    T.    A., 
Omaha,  Nebraska. 


45  Bushels  Wheat 
to  the  Acre 


South  Platte  Valley 


"Democrat": 

W.  L.  Henderson,  who  owns  the  farm 
at  the  end  of  the  wagon  bridge  across 
South  Platte  River,  opposite  Sterling, 
Colo.,  realized  over  $3,500  from  wheat  I 
raised  on  o?  acres.  It  went  45  bushels  I 
to  the  acre  and  weighed  62  pounds  to 
the  bushel. 


The  following  parties  have  bought 
land  near  Snyder,  Colo.: 

Louis  E.  Keltner,  Hygiene,  Colo.; 
W.  W.  Keltner,  North  Dakota;  A.  W. 
Brayton,  Mt.  Morris,  III.;  Daniel 
Grabill,  Lemasters,  Pa.;  J.  L.  Kuns, 
McPherson,  Kans.;  D.  L.  Miller,  Mt. 
Morris,  111.;  Daniel  Neikirk,  Lemas- 
ters, Pa.;  Galen  B.  Royer,  Elgin,  III.; 
E.  Slifer,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  I.  B.  Trout, 
Lanark,  III;  R.  E.  Arnold,  Elgin,.  111. 


Geo.  L.  Studebaker,  of  Muncie,  In- 
diana, says:  "Sterling  is  a  growing: 
town  with  a  good  country  surround- 
ing.    The   members   are   active." 


Homeseekers' 

Excursions 

To  Snyder,  Colo., 


With  privilege  of    stopping    off    at 
Sterling,   Colo., 

One  Fare  Plus  $2.00  for  the  Round  Trip 

First  and  Third  Tuesday  of 
Each  Month  via 

Uuion  Pacific  Railroad 


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HI 


INGLENOOK. 


McPHERiON  COLLEGE 


A  College  of  which 
Kansas  is    Proud. 


HEBE    ARE    A    PEW    OF    THE    GOOD     THINGS    WE    HAVE    TO     OFFER: 

A  Normal  College  that  prepares  teachers  for  all  grades  of  certificates. 
Complete  College  course  that  compares  with  anything-  in  the  west. 

The  College  and  Normal  Courses  lead   to  State  certificates  without  examinations. 

Excellent  Buildings  and  Equipments. 
wslifl    Expenses  are  as  low  as  is  possible  with  first-class  service. 

Our  Last  Tear's  Students  will  take  out  of  the  Public  Funds  of  McPherson  county 
alone  over  $10,000  this  year.     This  shows  talent  and  home  appreciation. 

Our  graduates  occupy  enviable  positions  in  the  business,  educational  and  religious 
world. 

The  Moral  and  Religious  Influences  are  unsurpassed.  No  saloons  In  the  city.  The 
teachers  come  in  close  personal  contact  with   the  students. 

We  have  a  Superior  Faculty. 

We  put  more  stress  on  our  Bible  School  than  any  other  college  we  know  of. 

The  President  of  the  college,  Edward  Frantz,  is  dean  of  the  Bible  school  and  is 
recognized  as  having  no  superior  in  his  line  of  work.  He  has  been  instructor 
in  his  line  of  work  in  McPherson  college  for  the  past  nine  years,  and  is  devoting 
his  entire  time  to  the  Bible.  You  can  do  no  better  than  to  take  a  course  here. 
Remember  tuition  ir.  Bible  Department  is  free.  Come,  study  the  Bible,  pre- 
pare yourself  for  mission  work.  Sunday-school  teacher,  preacher  and  make  your- 
self useful. 

There's  no  Risk  in  taking  our  course  in  writing  or  business.  If  you  are  not  satisfied 
with  the  instruction  you  get  from  Prof.  Fahnestock,  you  pay  no  tuition.  This 
should  appeal  to  those  wishing  a  Business  course  or  a  Penmanship  course. 

Prof.  Fahnestock  is  a  little  more  skillful  in  execution  than  the  average  John  or 
Bill,  that  helps  some  of  his  pupils.  He  has  taught  Bookkeeping  and  Penman- 
ship for  thirty  years — that  helps  others.  Writing  Is  one  of  his  specialties. 
If  you  want  all  he  knows  about  it,  come  to  McPherson.  If  you  want  to  be 
entertained,  go  to  Sell's  circus.  Some  people  say  Fahnestock  is  the  best.  All 
say  he  is  conscientious.     If  you  believe  this,  he  can  help  you. 

If  you  have  hut  Little  Means,  write  and  mention  the  Nook.  We  have  an  interesting 
proposition  for  you  if  you  want  a  Business  Course  or  a  course  in  Penmanship. 

We  have  a  $50  Course  for  $5  for  the  first  twelve  readers  of  the  Nook  that  write  us. 
Postmark  on  envelope  will   determine  who  is  first.    Students  may  enter  any  time. 

36tf  McPHERSON    COLLEGE.    McPherson,  Kans. 


DAILY  EXCURSIONS  TO 

CALIFORNIA 

Through  first-class  and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  points  in  California 


and  Oregon  every  day  In  the  year. 


5  PERSONALLY  CONDUCTED  EXCURSIONS 


EVERY    WEEK. 


LOWEST  RATES, 

SHORTEST   TIME   ON    THE   ROAD, 

FINEST  SCENERY,  VARIABLE   ROUTES. 

You  can  leave  home  any  day  in  the  week  and  travel  in  tourist  cars 
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East  Central  Kansas  is  the  best  part 
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raising  stock.  Well  watered,  Marlon 
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acres  corn.  90.000  acres  wheat,  40,000 
acres  oats,  20,000  acres  alfalfa.  We 
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Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail 

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^  r*V    A    I— 1/"\     is   tne   best-watered   arid   State  in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 

^  IL/iil  MV-/  winds,  destructive  storms  and  cyclones  are  unknown,  and  with  its  matchless  cli- 
mate it  makes  life  bright  and  worth  living. 
We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer  to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 
change  for  the  general  improvement  in  your  condition  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  both  requirements.  There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 
and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  coumry  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 
swer and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger   work   teach   us   that   a   few   dollars   spent   in    railroad 
fares   to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves   thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

Cheap    homeseekers'   rates   are    made    to   all   principal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 
for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting  a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


Ronnd=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only  in  May 
and  October,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Taul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


SETTLERS'    RATES 


Daily  from  September  IS  to  October  15,  1904,  the  same  cheap  one-way  second-class  settlers'  rates 
will  be  in  effect  from  the  East  to  points  on  our  line  as  have  heretofore  been  made  in  the  Spring  and 
Fall  months,  as  follows: 

To  Butte,  Anaconda,  Pocatello, 

Ogden,  Salt  Lake,  and  interme-  To  Huntington  and  main 

diate  points.  line  intermediates. 

Chicago, • $30.00  $30.50 

Bloomington, 28.80  29.30 

Peoria 28.00  28.50 

St.   Louis 26.00  27.50 

Kansas   City,  Leavenworth,  Atchison  and  St.  Joseph,....    20.00  22.50               «■ 

Council   Bluffs  and  Omaha, 20.00  22.50               *" 

Sioux  City, 22.90  25.40              £ 

St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis,  22.90  25.40 

Proportionate    rates    will    be    made   from   other    stations    in    Illinois,    Iowa,  etc. 


^     Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance.      Fine 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


Arrived    in    Payette    Valley    Feb.    23,    1903.     Settled    on    an    80-acre    tract,    covered    with    sage    brush.  ^f 

Cleared  40  acres.     May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.      Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.     June  12  sowed   10  acres  «j£; 

to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.     Yielded  55  to  acre.     Had  this  grain  been  sown   in   February  ^ 

or  March   the  yield  would  have  been   much   larger.  j2[. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and   in  October   we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer  ,*. 

oats.  ^! 

Potatoes    yielded    500    bushels    to    the    acre    and  many  of  them   weighed  3  to   5  pounds  each,   four  of 

the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)  E.  L.  Dotson.  ^ 

D.   E.   BURLEY,  j£ 

S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio.  G.   P.  &  T.  A.,  O.   S.  L.  R.   R.,  £ 

J.   E.   HOOPER,   Agent,    Oakland,   Kansas.  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

mention  [he  IKCLUMjuk    wiitm  writing  (OtlK  ^- 


ikl  NSbENSOK 


Vol.  VI. 


October  11,  1904. 


No.  41. 


FAREWELL    TO    THE    SUMMER. 


)i   i 


With  noiseless  flight  the  summer  days 

Flit  by,  like  wild  birds  speeding 
To  some  far-distant  summer  clime, 

Our  futile  cries  unheeding. 

A  subtle   chillness   in   the   air 

Foretells  the  frost-king's  coming; 
Though  many  a  flower  gives  fragrance  yet, 

And  insects  still  are  humming. 

Loud  from  the  fields  the  crickets'  song 

Tells  summer's  waning  glory; 
While,  far  and  wide,  the  katydid 

Repeats  her  sland'rous  story. 

Like  summer  days  our  years  flit  by; 

No  mortal  art  can  stay  them. 
Like  swift-winged  birds  they  take  their  flight; 

No  prayers  nor  tears  delay  them. 

Time's  snowflakes   settle  here  and  there, 

Time's  footprints  mark  our  faces. 
Those  marks,  no  gentle  summer  rain, 

No  summer  sun  erases. 

Yet  need  we  tearfully  lament 

That  summer  days  are  waning, 
Neglect  their  fragrance  and  their  fruits, 

Give  way  to  sad  complaining? 

Life's  skies  are  soft  and  clear  and  blue, 
Life's  fields,  with  treasures  teeming. 

O'er  fruits  and  flowers  of  varied  hue, 
Life's  golden   sun  is  streaming. 

Heed  not  chill  winter's  stern  approach, 

Repress  each  idle  murmur. 
Beyond  his  snows,  his  frost,  his  gloom, 

Faith  sees  a  brighter  summer. 

—Prof.  N.  A.  Barrett. 
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SEED-THOUGHTS    FOR   THE   HEART'S    GARDEN. 


BY    JOSEPlllNli    IIANNA. 


Heroism  and  foolhardiness  arc  not  any  blood  kin. 


Multiply  murder  into  tear,  and  you  have  what  some 
men  count  valor. 


An  army  may  be  made  of  many  men,  but  a  Itero 
must  stand  alone. 


Even  ignorance  is  wise  in  hiding  it's  face. 

* 
Fate  is  the  scape-goat  of  many  a  man's  failures. 

* 
If  you  will  catch  your  ideal,  you  can  show  it  to  bet- 
ter advantage. 

To  be,  to  be  seen,  is  the  motto  of  the  fellow  who 
is  not  bisr  enough  to  see. 


If  last  night's   nightmare  was  a   dream,   why   be 
frightened  at  to-night's  shadozvsf 
* 
If  we  could  see  ourselves  as  others  see  us.  houses 
might  be  furnished  without  mirrors. 
* 
Policy  is  a  pretty  poor  motive  sometimes,   but   it 
will  always  move  littleness  to  action. 
* 
It  is  not  our  needs,  so  much  as  our  neighbor's  super- 
fluities, which  make  us  so  hankering  and  discontented. 
* 
There  arc  some  things  men  learn  by  'what  they  have 
not  learned,  that  would  be  worth  knowing  in  time. 
•■> 
If  a  man  starts  from  where  a  boy  ought  to  be  he 
would  not  get  very  far  without  going  pretty  fast. 


If  you  think  your  are  "  passing  time  away  "  or 
"  killing  it,"  remember  you  arc  at  the  other  end  of  the 
handle. 

* 

.  /  good  tiling  in  your  character  will  not  cancel  a  bad 
one,  but  a  bad  tiling  in  it  will  cancel  many  good  ones. 
if  you  arc  not  careful. 

If  yo'  stop  in  a  mudhole  yo'll  sink,  brudder, 

And  dais  why  I  doan'  stop,  I  say. 
When   things  go  awry, 
I  '  git  up  dar,'  an'  try 
To  pull  out,  fo'  I  slop,  an'  go  on  (adder. 


962 


THE   INGLENOOK.— OctoL"i 


1904 


UNCLE    SAM'S    OCEAN    POST    OFFICE. 


BY    D.    L.    MILLEE. 

Under  President  Harrison's  administration,  John 
Wanamaker,  of  Philadelphia,  was  made  Postmaster 
General,  and  it  is  a  pit}'  that  such  men  as  he  are  not  kept 
at  the  heads  of  the  Government  business  departments 
■iara  long  series  of  years  instead  of  being  changed  to 
meetthe^  requirements  of  the  old  political  cry,  "  To  the 
victor  belong  the  spoils.  "  The  great  Philadelphian 
c  into  the  Postoffice  Department  the  energy,  the 
common-sense  business  methods  and  the  integrity 
that  has  made  him  one  of  our  greatest  merchants.  Al- 
ways on  the  alert  to  improve  the  postal  service  he  found 


t«" 


1: 


^wolT 


Most  of  the  mail  was  put  on  board  the  day  befor 
sailing.  A'  the  last  moment  a  great  mail  wagon 
clashed  up  to  the  dock,  the  belated  mail  sacks  well 
hastily  swing  r.board,  even  as  the  Leviathan  of  the  se: 
moved  sbv.d  tnd  majestically  from  her  wharf.  Whilcj 
the  "  Deutschland  "  is  plowing  the  ocean,  making  ai 
high  as  692  miles  in  twenty-four  hours,  the  mail  clerks 
are  all  busy  distributing,  sorting  and  arranging  the  mail 
for  its  destination.  Each  one  handles  some  20,ooq 
letters  per  day,  of  eleven  hours. 

On  this  voyage  Messrs.  Magley  and  Gwinn  handled 
3.500  pieces  of  registered  mail.  Some  of  the  packages 
made  up  of  bank  notes  were  worth  thousands  of  dollars, 
while  others  were  of  little  value.     Great  care  is  exer 


■ 


THE       DEUTSCHLAND       OF   THE   HAMBURG-AMERICAN    LINE. 


our  foreign  mail  service  in  great  need  of  help.  He 
/  had  the  business  foresight  to  see  what  was  needed  and 
'.the  quick  business  energy  to  supply  the  want.  He 
established  an  Ocean  Postoffice,  modeled  after  the  rail- 
way mail  service,  on  one  of  the  North  German  Lloyd's 
fastest  boats.  Now  the  service  has  been  extended  and 
we  have  offices  on  the  North  German  Lloyd,  the  Ham- 
burg-American, the  White  Star  and  the  American  lines 
of  fast  steamers,  and  the-  service  has  very  materi- 
ally expedited  the  handling  of  the  mails. 

Our  present  voyage  gave  us  the  pleasure  of  meet- 
ing Mr.  Homer  S.  Magley,  of  Columbia  City,  Ind., 
in  charge  of  the  mails  on  the  "  Deutschland,"  an  effi- 
cient officer,  and  a  genial,  courteous  gentleman,  and 
this  is  also  true  of  his  assistants  Messrs.  Gwinn  and 
Thompson.  The  readers  of  the  Nook  are  indebted  to 
Mr.  Magley  for  .the  data  contained  in  this  article.  He 
showed  the  writer  every  possible  consideration  and 
every  opportunity  to  examine  into  the  working  of  the 
service.  What  is  here  given  may  be  regarded  as  cor- 
rect. It  was  written  on  board  the  "  Deutschland  " 
nearly  two  thousand  miles  from  New  York. 


cised  in  handling  the  registered  mail.  Each  piece  has 
triplicate  receipts,  one  goes  with  the  article  registered 
to  be  signed  by  the  receiver,  one  remains  in  the  office 
on  board  the  ship  and  the  other  goes  to  the  Postoffice 
at  New  York.  Registered  mail  on  present  voyage  was 
arranged  for  seven  different  railway  offices  and  six 
large  cities  in  Germany. 

Only  the  mail  for  Germany  is  handled  on  the  trip, 
and  of  the  twenty-two  hundred  and  fifty  sacks,  four 
hundred  and  twenty-two  for  the  Empire  were  car& 
fully  assorted  and  put  in  bundles  for  destination. 
This  work  was  all  done  on  the  voyage  by  five  clerks 
and  two  assistants.  The  sailors  bring  the  sacks  of 
mail  from  the  hold  of  the  ship,  empty  the  contents  on 
large  tables  in  the  office  and  cut  the  strings  about  tha 
bundles.  After  the  mail  has  been  properly  assorted 
the  sailors  consign  it  to  its  proper  place. 

The  "  Deutschland  "  sailed  from  New  York  Sept. 
1,  and  Tuesday  evening,  the  7th,  the  mail  for  Germany 
and  Northern  Europe  was  all  distributed,  tied  up  in 
sacks,  sealed  for  transportation  and  placed  on  deck 
ready  for  landing  at  Plymouth,  England.     Even  the! 


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ill 


wift  German  boat  is  too  slow  for  Uncle  Sam's  for- 
ign  Sea  Post  Service.  The  mail  for  Noithern  Europe 
;  taken  by  fast  train,  from  Plymouth  to  London,  thence 
ia  Flushing  and  Queensboro  to  the  Continent,  and  six 
d  ten  hours  before  we  reach  Hamburg,  the  letters 
rought  over  on  the  "  Deutschland  "  have  been  dis- 
ributed  in  that  city.  Only  letters  are  expedited  in  this 
^ay.  Newspapers,  books,  etc.,  are  taken  to  Hamburg 
n  the  "  Deutschland.  "  Were  it  not  for  the  Sea  Post 
Service  it  would  take  from  two  to  three  days  longer 
or  letters  to  reach  their  destination. 

England  sends  mail  only  in  English  boats  and  as  a 
esult  it  requires  an  average  of  two  to  three  days 
onger  for  English  mail  to  reach  its  destination  in 
\merica  than  for  ours  to  reach  them.  We  dispatch 
nail  only  on  the  fastest  boats  on  the  sea. 

One  of  the  rules  of  the  Postal  Union  is  that  letters 
)r  papers  unpaid  or  partly  paid  are  carried,  and  double 
jostage  collected  upon  delivery.  On  this  voyage  Mr. 
VTagley  and  his  helpers  handled  over  ten  thousand  un- 
>aid  or  partly  paid  letters  and  about  two  thousand 
tewspapers  in  the  same  class.  All  of  these  had  to  be 
"ated  and  "  postage  due  "  stamped  upon  them.  Here 
s  where  the  careless  and  indifferent  correspondent  gets 
1  his  work.  He  puts  a  two-cent  stamp  on  a  foreign 
ettcr  instead  of  a  five-cent,  and  his  correspondent  pays 
he  extra  three  cents  and  also  a  fine  of  three  cents  for 
:he  negligence  of  the  party  who  wrote  the  letter.  The 
United  States  collected,  last  year,  over  $400,000  in 
inpaid  postage. 

Once  upon  a  time  the  writer  received  a  heavy  mail 
Jat  Frederickshaven,  Denmark.  Some  of  the  letters 
were  overweight  and  should  have  had  ten  cent  stamps 


class  passage  on  the  boats,  and  in  everything  except 
sleeping  quarters  they  are  well  provided  for.  Four 
men  are  crowded  into  cabins  none  too  large  for  two. 
An  improvement  in  this  respect  should  be  made.  Men 
who  work  as  hard  as  these  men  do  and  who  are  con- 
stantly on  the  alert  lest  mistakes  be  made,  should  have 
ample  cabin  room. 

The  "  Deutschland  "  receives  about  S600  per  ton 
for  letters  and  $75  per  ton  for  second-class  matter,  in- 
cluding, books  and  parcel  post.  The  American  line 
receives  $4  per  mile,  without  reference  to  the  amount 
of  mail  carried.  These  four  steamship  lines  make 
fifty-two  trips  a  year,  and  receive  for  the  service  $624,- 
000  annually  for  carrying  mail. 

The  present  voyage  has  "been  a  most  trying  one  to 
the  Postal  Clerks.  The}'  had  over  2,200  sacks  of  mail 
to  care  for.  Over  1,500  were  landed  at  Plymouth, 
Eng.,  our  first  stop,  three  hundred  and  fifty  at  Cher- 
bourg, France,  and  the  rest  at  Hamburg;  this  being  the 
heaviest  mail   ever    carried    on   the    "  Deutschland.  "' 

At  Cherbourg,  after  the  boat  which  came  out  to  meet 
us  to  take  off  mail  and  passengers,  came  alongside 
and  was  made  fast  and  the  gangways  placed  and  fast- 
ened, a  busy  scene  was  witnessed  as  the  mail  bags  were 
hastily  passed  from  the  "  Deutschland  "  to  the  tender. 
While  this  was  going  on,  the  boats  separated  and 
dumped  five  sacks  of  mail  into  the  sea.  Fortunately 
only  two  men  were  on  the  gangway  and  these  clung 
to  the  framework  and  by  great  exertion  climbed  on 
board.  A  boat  was  sent  out  after  the  floating  mail 
sacks ;  they  were  brought  aboard  and  the  mail  clerks 
opened  them,  emptied  out  the  water  and  mail,  and  put 
the  wet  mass  into  drv  sacks.     The  accident  caused  us 


—  _.__..  __0  __      —        ._ —  ___     r 

on  instead  of  five  cent  stamps;  for  these  he  paid  ten    /some  delay. 


cents  each  and  the  unpaid  postage  bill  was  $1.40  on/' 
the  lot.     It  was  a  heavy  mail. 

The  Postoffice  on  board  the  ship  is  a  very  busy 
place.  From  early  morning  until  late  at  night  the  work 
g©es  and  when  the  mail  is  heavy  the  night  gives  but 
little  rest  to  the  weary  clerks.  Eleven  hours  a  day  is 
the  allotted  time  for  work,  but  with  so  much  work  to 
b<  1  lone  these  are  often  exceeded. 

The  Letter  Sorting  office  is  on  the  main  deck  of  the 
skip  and  occupies  a  room  about  25  x  30  feet.  Two 
port  holes  supply  fresh  air,  and  round  about  the  room 
are  rows  of  letter  cases  and  open  mail  sacks,  ready  to 
receive  what  is  entrusted  to  their  keeping.  In  this 
ninin  all  the  registered  mail  is  cared  for.  A  room  on 
I  In-  lower  deck  thirty  feet  square,  with  rack  room  for 
we  hundred  and  fifty  open  mail  sacks,  i>  where  news- 
papers, In  inks,  magazines  and  other  mailable  articles 
re'i  eh  e  due  attention. 

The  mail  clerks  make  an  average  of  twelve  round 
trips  a  year.  Mr.  Maglcy  has  crossed  the  Atlantic 
sixty-eight  times  and  is  making  two  voyages  a  month 
at  this  time.     The  government  secures  for  them  first- 


The  work  of  the  Ocean  Postoffice  would  be  greatly 
lessened  if  the  government  insisted  upon  foreign 
countries  putting  up  and  despatching  their  mail  accord- 
ing to  the  rules  laid  down  by  the  Postal  Convention. 
This  is  not  done  and  the  result  is  that  the  labor  of  the 
clerks  is  greatly  increased  and  the  work  materially 
retarded.  Information  at  hand  shows  that  if  our  gov- 
ernment insists  in  haying  this  clone,  the  Postal  ( )ffi- 
cials  in  most  foreign  countries  will  gladly  put  up  the 
mail  as  it  is  done  in  the  United  Statgs. 

It  is  not  an  uncommon  thing  on  the  west-bound 
trip  to  receive  from  Italy  and  1 '.recce  70,000  letters 
loose  in  the  sacks.  They  were  tied  in  bundles  in  the 
start  but  the  work  was  so  carelessly  done,  and  the 
material  used  so  inferior  that  the  bundles  separated. 
doubtless,   before    leaving   the   mailing    office. 

In  all  our  larger  towns  and  cities  mails  are  made  up 
for  all  the  principal  points  in  Europe,  while  in  turn 
all  the  offices  in  Europe  make  up  mail  for  but  fifteen 
offices  in  the  United  State.--.  1  lur  government  is  ahead 
of  all  Europe  in  expediting  mail  to  foreign  lands 
and  we  are  proud  of  her  record,  but   we  must   take  a 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— October  11,  1904. 


back  seat  when  it  comes  to  the  mail  service  at  home. 
Germany,  Austria  and  England  all  have  the  Parcel 
Post  by  which  articles  are  delivered  to  patrons,  weigh- 
ing up  to  twelve  pounds,  about  four  hundred  percent 
cheaper  than  we  pay  the  great  express  companies  at 
home  for  the  same  service.  But  all  of  this  is  another 
story  and  the  limit  of  this  letter  has  been  reached  and 
there  is  much  of  interest  left  unsaid. 
•:•  •:«  •:• 
WORLD'S    SUBMARINES. 


In  the  near  future  the  world'will  hear  of  submarines, 
or  rather  submersibles  of  thousands  of  tons,  if  Alan 
Burgoyne,  of  the  Royal  United  Service  institu- 
tion prophesies  aright.  In  his  idea,  the  submarine  of 
the  future  will  be  a  vessel  of  special  type,  but  with  no 
specialty  of  form  essential,  capable  of  navigating  not 
only  on  the  surface,  but  also  beneath  and  continuing 
its  course  in  a  direct  line  for  the  object  it  was  desired 
to  reach,  while  retaining  stability  in  every  sense,  and 
being  under  the  complete  control  of  its  commander. 
It  must  also  possess  the  maximum  of  speed,  safety,  of- 
fensive power  and  habitability,  a  trustworthy  means  of 
propulsion  and  a  complete  independence  of  all  exterior 
help  while  in  action.  He  thinks  there  is  no  reason  why 
a  large  submersible  should  not  have  a  surface  speed 
of  twenty-six,  or  even  thirty  knots.  To  the  speed 
under  water  he  attaches  slight  importance,  the  present 
totally  submerged  speed  of  seven  or  eight  nautical  miles 
would  be  ample.  It  must  be  capable  of  submergence, 
"  full}'  "  if  badly  pressed,  "  partly  "  for  entering  action, 
and  thus  presenting  as  small  a  target  as  possible.  Sub- 
marines at  present  are  open  from  end  to  end,  hence 
a  single  breach  fills  the  whole  vessel.  They  might 
easily  be  subdivided  into  several  separate  compart- 
.  ments,  and  a  detachable  safety  boat,  capable  of  holding 
the  entire  crew  and  buoyant  enough  to  rise  to  the  sur- 
face, could  easily  be  fitted.  In  the  event  of  submarines 
being  entangled  at  sea  bottom,  there  is  no  means  of 
informing  friends  above  of  the  predicament.  To  this 
end  he  suggests  that  the  boats  be  fitted  with  one  or 
more  small  buoys  capable  of  being  freed  by  the  with- 
drawal of  a  retaining  rod  and  connected  telephonically 
with  the  interior. 

*   *   * 

COPPER    AND    ELECTRICITY. 


Iron,  copper  and  zinc  have  been  the  essential  ele- 
ments in  the  creation  of  the  industrial  and  transpor- 
tation condition  of  the  present  age,  as  well  as  the  me- 
chanical appliances  which  form  so  important  factors 
in  ministering  to  the  necessities,  comforts  and  con- 
veniences of  the  present  day  life.  The  taking  away 
of  gold  and  silver  would  reduce  the  finances  of  the 
world  to  chaos.  Iron  and  copper,  however,  are  the 
main  pillars  of  the  metallic  structure,  while  zinc,  in  ad- 
dition to  many  other  virtues,  possesses  the  unique  qual- 


ity of  being  the  only  electrically  negative  metal,  an 
without  it  copper,  for  electrical  purposes,  would  b 
often  useless. 

The  uses  of  copper  are  innumerable,  and  great  in 
dustries  are  dependent  upon  it  which  afford  direct  enf 
ployment  to  several  thousands  of  persons,  most  o 
whom  are  skilled  workmen,  and  annually  add  in  wage 
not  less  than  $5,000,000  to  the  wealth  of  the  world 
The  stone  ages  of  humanity  were  followed  by  thi 
bronze  age,  in  which  copper  and  tin  were  the  only  met 
als  used.  The  age  of  iron  followed  that  of  bronze 
the  steel  age  of  the  latter  half  of  the  nineteenth  cen 
tury  being  but  a  higher  development  of  the  iron  age 

While  iron  and  steel  are  maintaining  their  own  po 
sition  and  gaining  ground,  another  metal  has  arise] 
to  claim  at  least  a  portion  of  the  honors  of  the  tw 
tieth  century,  and  copper  is  the  foundation  of  the  el- 
trical  age,  just  as  it  was  the  fundamental  metal  of  thj 
age  of  bronze. 

Of  the  many  uses  of  copper  its  application  in  tl 
many  electrical  devices  is  the  most  important.  In 
hands  of  Fraklin  and  Volta  electricity  was  little  mor< 
than  a  plaything,  while  to-day  it  has  become  one  o: 
the  prime  factors  of  life,  and  the  uses  that  we  considei 
multifarious  and  the  installations  that  we  deem  im 
mense  are  but  the  precursors  of  greater  things,  o: 
which  we  may  sometimes  dream,  and  from  which  un. 
substantial  fabric  the  flash  of  genius  and  the  fires  o: 
labor  will  bring  forth  the  perfect  fruit. 

A  full  enumeration  of  the  electrial  uses  of  coppei 
would  require  volumes.  The  metal  is  an  integral  fac- 
tor in  all  electrical  installations.  And  as  the  use  ol 
electricity  is  daily  increasing  it  necessitates  a  corrl 
sponding  increase  in  the  use  of  copper. 


The  highest  pay  which  a  woman  can  draw  in  th< 
German  telephone  offices  is  $357,  which  is  said  tc 
afford  a  comfortable  living  in  Germany,  but  it  is  a 
low  wage  compared  to  that  to  be  obtained  in  Eng- 
land, where  experienced  telephone  clerks  get  $600 
and  the  chief  supervisors  are  paid  as  high  as  $2,550. 
In  Germany,  however,  it  must  be  noted  that  women 
on  their  withdrawal  from  active  labor  after  the  pre- 
scribed number  of  years  of  faithful  work  are  award- 
ed a  government  pension  on  the  same  plane  with  the 
men. 


Business  is  done  largely  on  faith.  The  man  whc 
establishes  a  reputation  for  not  being  worthy  of  trus 
and  confidence  will  find  man}'  obstacles  in  his  way 
On  the  other  hand  the  one  who  is  known  to  be  honest 
industrious  and  true  will  find  all  ready  to  give  him  a 
helping  hand.  The  man  who  is  known  to  be  dishonest, 
although  wealthy,  is  shunned  by  good  business  men. 
They  want  cash  from  him.  They  do  not  want  him 
on  their  books. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  u,  1904. 


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TUBERCULOSIS. 


BY    C.    E.    CARNEY,    M.    D. 

Tuberculosis  is  an  infectious,  communicable  dis- 
ase  due  to  the  bacillus  tuberculosis  of  Koch,  who  dis- 
overed  it,  and  made  his  investigation  public  at  Berlin 
n  1 

Definition.  A  chronic  disease  caused  by  bacillus  tu- 
»|rculosis.     It  may  be  local  or  general,  and  may  involve 

is  my  organ  and  almost  any  tissue  in  the  body.  When 
■esulting  in  the  lung,  deposits  of  tubercle  structure 
vhich  in  turn  undergo  ulceration  and  softening  which 
esults  in  a  septic  infection,  are  characterized  by 
jrogressive  failure  of  health,  fever,  cough,  emaciation 
ind  exhaustion. 

Causes.  Hereditary  and  acquired  susceptibility  to 
he  influence  of  Tuberculosis.  It  is  questionable  if  an 
ndividual  is  born  with  Pulmonary  Tuberculosis.  Gen 
•ral  predisposition  may  be  inherited  directly  from  par- 
nts  who  have  themselves  suffered  from  Tuberculosis 
>r  from  those  who,  in  consequence  of  alcoholism,  or 
my  other  constitutional  vice,  have  transmitted  a  feeble 
:onstitution  to  their  children.  Inherited  predisposi- 
ion  is  exceedingly  common,  and  signifies  a  diminished 
(resistance  to  the  cells  of  the  body  to  tuberculosis  in 
fection.  General  predisposition  includes  the  individ- 
ual's surroundings  in  so  far  as  they  affect  the  consti- 
ution  and  lower  the  general  vitality.  People  in  the 
ilks  where  they  are  crowded  in  tenements  are  more 
frequently  affected  than  those  who  have  had  the  best 
surroundings,    not    only    because    of    their    increased 

(i  ihances  of  exposure,  but  also  from  their  feeble  resist- 
iance. 

A  local  predisposition  is  created  by  any  diseased 
condition  of  the  mucous  membranes  or  organs  most  ex- 
posed to  infection,  such  as  Bronchitis,  Pneumonia  and 
Catarrhal  inflammations  of  the  mucous  membranes  of 
the  nose  and  of  the  pharynx.  It  may  develop  as  a 
cause  of  one  of  the  acute  infectious  diseases,  particular- 
Iy  measles  and  influenza.  Therefore  it  may  be  seen 
that  no  age  is  exempt  from  tuberculosis. 
Delphi,  Ind. 

♦   ♦   ♦ 

NEW    SUN    SPOTS. 


edge,  an  extensive  stretch  of  eruptions  of  brilliant 
■  radiance,  which  were  visible  only  near  the  edge  of  the 
sun,  and  afterward  these  could  be  recognized  therein 
by  day  spots  which,  through  spherical  shortenings, 
were  in  form  similar  to  lines.  As  further  advance  was 
made  toward  the  center  of  the  sun's  meridian,  the 
group  of  spots  increased  in  size,  and  soon  took  enor- 
mous dimensions.  On  August  27  the  group  assumed 
the  curious  shape  of  a  beautifully-formed  garland, 
which  showed  in  its  western  part  a  huge  black  mass 
like  a  rosette,  and  consisted  of  very  numerous  single 
spots.  On  August  28,  when  the  group  already  had 
the  center  of  the  sun  behind  it,  it  possessed  a  total 
length  of  69,489  miles. 

This  gigantic  area  of  eruption  was  followed  in  the 
south  spot  zone  at  an  interval  of  two  days  by  a  smaller 
eruption  with  a  black  spot  of  still  very  respectable 
size,  and  this  was  followed  by  a  third  in  the  same  zone 
of  likewise  large  dimensions,  having  one  main  spot 
and  several  smaller  spots,  which  had  extended,  by 
August  28,  three  days  after  its  appearance,  over  a  dis- 
tance of  from  34,740  miles  to  38,601  miles.  Also  in 
the  northern  spot  zone,  with  a  length  of  almost  the 
same  as  the  area  of  eruption  first  described,  there  ap- 
peared several  small  spots,  so  that  simultaneously  there 
were  four  groups  observable.  Prof.  Stentzel  counted 
on  the  sun's  disk,  so  far  as  the  weather  allowed  him, 
six  independent  sun  spots  in  1901,  seven  in  1902,  36 
in  1903,  and  up  to  August  28,  this  year/  72. 


SATAN'S    LEGACY. 


Prof.  Stenzel  announces  to  the  scientific  world  that 
,'.  since  August  22  he  has  observed  on  the  southern 
hemisphere  of  the  sun  several  exceptionally  large  and 
numerous  small  spots.  Since  the  disappearance,  on 
July  27,  of  the  last  of  the  extensive  June  and  July 
groups  of  spots,  these  products  of  condensation  still 
continued  to  show  themselves,  but  they  invariably  re- 
mained small  and  inconspicuous. 

On  the  night  of  August  21  and  22,  however,  there 
appeared  on  the  southern  spot  zone,   on   the  eastern 


There  is  only  one  spot  on  the  earth's  surface  that 
has  actually  been  willed,  deeded  and  bequeathed  to 
His  Satanic  Majesty.  This  spot  lies  four  miles  and 
a  half  south  of  Helsingfors,  Finland.  A  few  years 
ago  Lara  Huilariene  died  in  the  little  town  of  Pielis- 
jarvi,  in  the  above-named  country,  leaving  considerable 
property  in  the  shape  of  landed  estate.  How  he  had 
come  into  possession  of  so  much  land  no  one  seemed 
to  know,  but  as  he  was  a  very  bad  citizen  it  was  gen- 
erally admitted  that  he  was  in  league  with  Wintahausu 
.  (Satan),  and  that  they  had  many  business  deals  with 
each  other.  This  somewhat  startling  opinion  was  veri- 
fied when  among  old  Huilariene's  papers  a  certified 
warranty  deed  was  found  which  deeded  to  Satan  all  his 
earthly  possessions.  The  will  was  to  the  same  effect. 
The  family  have  repeatedly  tried  to  break  the  will,  but 
so  far  have  been  unsuccessful ;  thus  the  records  plainly 
show  that  His  Sulphuric  Majesty  has  a  legal  righl 
and  title  to  some  excellent  ground  in  the  near  vicinity 
of  Helsingfors.  The  simple  people  of  the  neighbor- 
hood have  changed  the  course  of  the  road  which  for- 
merly skirted  the  Huilariene  homestead  and  declare  that 
they  would  not  enter  the  possessions  of  Satan  &  Co. 
for  all  the  money  that  the  three  estates  would  bring. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— October  u,  1904. 


FORTY   REASONS  WHY   I   AM   NOT  A 
CHRISTIAN    SCIENTIST. 


"  Ephraim  feedeth  on  the  wind  and  followeth  after  the 
east  wind." 

No.  I.  I  am  not  a  Christian  Scientist  because  Rev. 
Mrs.  Mary  Baker  G.  Eddy  has  written  a  so-called  book 
entitled  "  Science  and  Health."  Further  reasons  might 
seem  superfluous  to  those  who  have  read  it ;  but  there 
are  others  for  the  more  fortunate. 

No.  2.  Because  Mrs.  Eddy  says,  "  God  never  creat- 
ed matter  " — whereas  the  Bible  says.  "  In  the  beginning 
God  created  the  heaven  and  the  earth."  This  sad  con- 
flict of  authorities  might  account  for  the  spread  of 
skepticism,  if  Mrs.  Eddy  did  not  modestly  add,  "  Noth- 
ing we  can  say  or  believe  regarding  matter  is  true,  ex- 
cept that  matter  is  unreal."  This  ability  to  correct  the 
Bible  with  ease  and  assurance  shows  how  carefully 
Mrs.  Eddy  must  have  read  the  newspapers  from  before 
the  creation. 

No.  3.     Because  Mrs.  Eddy,  reasoning  ( ?)  by  inver- 
,  sion,  says,  "  There  is  no  pain  in  truth,  and  no  truth  in 
pain ;  "  "  There  is  no  matter  in  mind  and  no  mind  in 
matter." 

No.  4.  I  am  not  a  Christian  Scientist  because  the 
Rev.  Mrs.  M.  B.  G.  Eddy  informs  us  that  sin,  sick- 
ness and  death  are  "  delusions  "  from  which  Christian 
Science  can  free  us.  Of  course  Christian  Scientists  ad- 
mit that  these  things  are  "  apparent  "  to  those  confined 
to  the  realms  of  sense;  and  (to  use  Mrs.  Eddy's  logic) 
they  are  not  apparent  to  those  in  the  realms  of  non- 
sense. 

No.  5.  Because  Rev.  M.  B.  G-  Eddy's  remarks  about 
death  bear  so  striking  a  resemblance  to  the  words  of 
Satan  in  Gen.  3:4,  "  And  the  serpent  said  unto  the 
woman,  '  Ye  shall  not  surely  die '  " — only  apparently. 

No.  6.  Because  Christian  Scientists,  like  Sadducees, 
do  not  believe  in  angels,  and  like  the  Pharisees,  they 
thank  God  they  are  not  sinners  like  other  men. 

No.  7.  Because  of  the  following  quotation  from 
"  Science  and  Health,"  which  but  thinly  disguises  the 
author's  excruciating  modesty — "  The  perusal  of  the 
author's  publication  heals  sickness  constantly.  If  pa- 
tients sometimes  seem  worse  from  reading  this  book, 
the  change  may  arise  from  the  alarm  of  the  physician 
or  may  mark  the  crisis  of  the  disease.  Perseverance 
in  its  perusal  has  generally  healed  them  completely." 

Curing  bodies  which  have  no  existence,  through 
reading  her  immaterial  book  (price  3  fiat  dollars)  re- 
minds one  of  the  snake  which  slowly  disappeared  by 
swallowing  his  tail.  Nothing  but  a  promise  of  health 
could  induce  anyone  to  wade  through  this  book,  but, 
certainly,  as  Satan  said,  "  All  that  a  man  hath  will 
he  give  for  his  life." 

No.  8.  I  am  not  a  Christian  Scientist  because  Mrs. 
Eddy  says,  "  He  who  is  ignorant  of  hygienic  law  is 


more  receptive  of  spiritual  power."  This  precludes 
person  of  even  average  intelligence  or  cleanliness  fron 
becoming  a  great  success  as  a  Christian  Scientist, — bu 
of  course  where  ignorance  is  bliss  and  money,  'twer 
folly  to  be  otherwise. 

The  danger  of  teaching  physiology  to  a  Christiai 
Scientist  is  proved  by  Mrs.  Eddy's  statement  that  "  yoi 
can  even  educate  a  healthy  horse  so  far  in  phvsiolog- 
that  he  will  take  cold  without  his  blanket.  The  epi 
zootic  is  a  humanly  evolved  ailment  which  a  wild  horsi 
might  never  have."  Thus,  like  the  wild  ass,  "  the  foo 
is  happy  that  he  knows  no  more." 

No.  9.  I  am  not  a  Christian  Scientist,  because  th) 
Bible  says,  "  Thou  shalt  not  kill,"  and  the  police  in  mos 
cities  seem  unable  to  distinguish  the  effects  of  prac 
ticing  Christian  Science  from  the  results  of  othe 
methods  of  suicide  and  murder. 

No.  10.  Because  St.  Paul  had  an  incurable  afnictioi 
which  he  considered  real,  and  also  himself  had  cure* 
many  real  people,  and  knew  almost  as  much  as  Mrs 
Eddy  on  some  subjects. 

No.  11.  Because  it  has  been  observed  that  althougl 
those  addicted  to  Christian  Science  do  not,  like  othei 
people,  die,  still  sooner  or  later,  even  without  the  helj 
of  doctors,  they  experience  a  difficulty  in  living  longer    •' 

No.  12.  Because  Mrs.  Eddy's  book  says  we  need  tt 
be  free  from  the  "  sense  of  sin ;  "  but  not  from  the  sin- 
ful  soul.  The  practical  advantage  of  this  state  0: 
mind  can  be  readily  understood  by  anyone  who  haj 
ever  felt  at  all  hampered  by  a  conscience,  or  fear  o! 
the  penitentiary.  Solomon  says,  "  Fools  make  a  mod 
at  sin,"  and  one  of  Shakespeare's  fools,  who  was  evS 
dently  a  Christian  Scientist,  said  of  conscience — "  I'l 
not  meddle  with  it;  it  is  a  dangerous  thing;  it  make 
a  man  a  coward ;  it  fills  one  full  of  obstacles ;  it  madi 
me  once  restore  a  purse  of  gold ;  it  beggars  any  mar 
that  keeps  it ;  it  is  turned  out  of  all  towns  and  citiei 
for  a  dangerous  thing." 

No.  13.  I  am  not  a  Christian  Scientist  because  Mrs 
Eddy  says  that  except  for  "  mortal  mind,"  strychnin/ 
would  be  as  harmless  for  babes  as  milk  (city  milk  0; 
course).  Just  what  the  result  would  be  if  everyon< 
had  lost  his  "  mortal  mind  "  and  "  se'nse  of  sin  "  anc 
common  sense,  is  perhaps  apparent  only  to  those  ir 
that  condition ;  still  it  is  doubtful  whether  strvchnini 
and  mud  would  ever  become  a  popular  food  for  infants 

No.  14.  Because  a  person  who  believes  absolutely 
that  matter,  sin  and  suffering  are  really  unreal,  and  wh( 
therefore  never  felt  a  pang  of  pain  or  conscience,  cat 
logically  have  no  more  human  sympathy  than  a  deac 
Turk. 

No.  15.  Because  denying  the  reality  of  matter  is  no 
so  cheap  an  anti-fat  remedy  as  might  be  imagined  i: 
one  has  to  pay  five  phantom  dollars  to  an  ethereal  doc- 
tor per  each  alleged  thing  or  treatment. 

No.   16.     Because  Mrs.  Eddy's  book  says,  "  Adan 


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is  a-dam  (i.  c,  an  obstruction)  ;  this  suggests  the 
thought  of  something  fluid,  of  mortal  mind  in  so- 
lution." This  delicious  imbecility  rather  suggests  the 
thought  that  somebody's  "  mortal  mind "  is  in  dis- 
solution ;  but  since  we  are  told  this  book  "  is  not  the 
work  of  human  pen,"  Mrs.  Eddy  is  of  course  "  not 
responsible." 

,  No.  17.  I  do  not  believe  in  Christian  Science  be- 
cause it  teaches  that  Adam  fell  up,  i.  e.,  "  evolution  is 
the  law  of  life;  "  for  instance,  whereas  in  the  time  of 
Balaam  only  one  dumb  ass  was  able  to  speak,  now  there 
are  many  advocates  of  Christian  Science. 

No.  18.  Because  a  Christian  Scientist  who  thought 
herself  "  all  mind,"  lost  her  mind ; — the  danger  of  thus 
attaining  nothingness  should  be  a  warning  to  all  Chris- 
tian Scientists  -who  have  not  already  so  disposed  of  both 
mind  and  body. 

No.  19.  Because  so  many  matter-of-fact  Christian 
Scientists  wear  theoretical  clothes  and  transparent  eye- 
glasses to  improve  the  appearance  of  merely  apparent 
matter,  which  disappears  when  examined  in  the  light 
of  Christian  Science ;  and  also  run  up  large  grocery 
bills  in  fattening  immaterial  no-bodies. 

20.  Because  I  have  learned  the  difference  be- 
tween "  poise  "  and  avoirdupois  since  seating  myself 
with  indecent  haste  upon  an  illusive  banana  peel,  twist- 
ing my  spiritual  spinal  column  on  the  subjective  side- 
walk, and  forgetting  to  murmur,  "Sit  still  my  soul! 
thou  at  least  must  not  lose  thy  composure  nor  thy 
awareness  of  the  eternal  immaterialities ;  "  for  the  Rev. 
Mrs.  M.  B.  G.  Eddy  says,  "  Bones  have  only  the  sub- 
stantiality of  thought — they  are  only  an  appearance  " 
Man  is  indestructible  and  eternal — hence  no  break- 
age can  really  occur."  "  I  have  no  fear  that  matter 
can  ache,  swell  or  be  inflamed  " — "  I  am  not  hurt!  " 

No.  21.  Because  a  Christian  Scientist  says,  "  Noth- 
ing can  resist  the  power  of  thought  " — except,  per- 
haps, green  apples  and  the  solar  system. 

No.  22.  I  am  not  a  Christian  Scientist  because  the 
Bible  calls  the  Devil  the  father  of  lies,  whereas  a  book 
on  Christian  Science  trying  to  defend  its  ancestry, 
says,  "  a  lie  is  all  the  devil  there  is,"  and  then  proceeds 
to  create  enough  lies  to  make  several  herds  of  swine 
rush  violently  down  a  steep  place  into  the  sea  and  be 
choked. 

No.  2$.  I  am  not  a  Christian  Scientist,  because  if  I 
believed  death  were  only  "  apparent,"  I  should  be  un- 
able fully  to  enjoy  attending  the  Rev.   Mrs.  

— "  apparent  "  funeral. 

No.  24.  I  am  not  a  Christian  Scientist  because  the 
alleged  cures  of  nominal  ailments  prove  nothing  since 
many  more  "  mind  cures  "  have  been  effected  by  kiss- 
ing remnants  of  supposed  saints,  and  by  bathing  in  the 
sacred  sewer  of  Mecca,  and  by  doctors  of  medicine, 
than  by  reading  Mrs.  Eddy's  book  of  dogmatic  inco- 
herencies    (price  three  imaginary  dollars).     Any  one 


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of  the  first  three  methods  would  be  far  more  certain 
and  agreeable ;  but  "  there  is  no  accounting  for  tastes." 
No.  25.  I  am  not  a  Christian  Scientist  because  Mrs. 
Eddy  claims  originality  for  her  conceits,  whereas  it  has 
been  well  said,  she  "  revives  the  condemned  falsehoods 
of  the  Arians,  the  Nestorians,  the  Sibyllians  and  the 
Docetee  and  fuses  them  together  into  one  monstrous 
and  inconsistent  heresy."  Still  we  would  not  degrade 
the  term  heresy  by  applying  it  to  Christian  Science 
(pagan  nonsense)  any  more  than  to  the  gold  fever  or 
Tiddle-de-winks. 

No.  26.  Because  Mrs.  Eddy  says,  "  The  propertv 
of  alcohol  is  to  intoxicate,  but  if  the  '  common 
thought '  of  the  majority  had  endowed  it  with  nourish- 
ing quality,  like  milk,  it  would  produce  a  similar  ef- 
fect." This  unique  application  of  the  principle  of 
"  majority  rule,"  shows  how  a  spirituous  Christian 
Scientist  can  get  apparently  drunk  with  "  no  sense 
of  sin,"  by  putting  the  blame  on  the  "  common 
thought "  of  the  un-spiritual  majority  outside  this 
fool's  Paradise,  where  conscience  and  rheumatism  are 
called  by  other  names. 

No.  27.  Because  Mrs.  Eddy's  book  of  prepared 
mush,  which  explains  how  to  be  bald  and  not  believe 
it,  says,  "  Heat  and  cold  are  products  of  mind,"  so  that 
a  Christian  Scientist  not  having  a  mind,  is  never  too 
hot  or  too  cold.  This  fancied  independence  of  the 
weather  bureau  explains  why  so  many  Christian  Sci- 
entists seemingly  enjoy  the  climate  of  Boston  and 
Chicago. 

No.  28.  I  do  not  believe  in  Christian  Science  be- 
cause it  is  a  vain  attempt  to  restore  the  happy  days 
of  old,  before  the  invention  of  microbes  and  the  Poly- 
chrome Bible. 

No.  29.  Because  Mrs.  Eddy's  book  says,  "  Food 
neither  strengthens  nor  weakens  the  body."  This  is 
another  illustration  of  the  ease  with  which  her  book 
disposes  of  the  most  familiar  facts,  and  that,  too,  with- 
out disturbing  the  credulity  of  her  well-dressed,  self- 
satisfied  followers. 

No.  30.  Because  the  Bible  says,  "  The  legs  of  the 
lame  are  unequal,"  and  therefore  since  I  acquired  an 
"  apparent  "  wooden  leg  I  cannot  conscientiously  say, 
"  I  am  whole  despite  outward  appearances :  "  nor  can 
I  "  solemnly  affirm  that  the  injured  member  is  well, 
strong  and  beautiful." 

No.  31.  I  am  not  a  Christian  Scientist  because  "  dux 
feniina  facti "  (the  leader  was  a- woman),  and  the 
world  has  never  yet  recovered  from  woman's  first  at- 
tempt at  leadership,  (c.  f.  Spiritualism  and  the  Fox  1  y  I 
Sisters;  the  revival  of  theosophy  and  Madame  Blavat- 
sky). 

Xo.  32.  Because  the  Bible  says.  "  Let  your  women 
keep  silence  in  the  churches."  whereas  Mrs  Eddy,  with 
perhaps  greater  foresight,  disregards  this  requirement 
as  impracticable. 


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No.  33.  Because  it  would  give  the  Sphinx  hysterics 
to  hear  a  Christian  Scientist  say,  after  working  three 
hours  on  a  Thanksgiving  dinner,  in  a  vain  attempt  to 
fill  an  immaterial  stomach  having  no  apparent  limits : 
"  My  mortal  body  is  nothing  but  a  belief  and  an  il- 
lusion ;  I  am  all  spirit  and  no-body ;  I  did  not  eat  that 
third  piece  of  mince  pie  because  it  tasted  good,  for 
'  physical  sensation  is  nothing,'  nor  to  sustain  life,  for 
'  food  neither  strengthens  nor  weakens  the  body,'  and 
'  death  is  an  acquired,  not  a  natural,  habit.'  " 

No.  34.  Because  Mrs.  Eddy  has  made  a  "  Key  to 
the  Scriptures,"  which  as  a  Bible  commentary  is  far  su- 
perior to  the  New  York  World. 

No.  35.  Because  Mrs.  Eddy's  book  says  "  audible 
prayer  to  a  personal  God  is  a  hinderance  " — to  a  Chris- 
tian Scientist ;  but  our  prayers  are  intended  to  be  a 
hinderance — to  Satan. 

No.  36.  Because  Mrs.  Eddy's  "  parody  on  logic  " 
says,  "  The  blood,  heart,  lungs,  brains,  etc.,  have  noth- 
ing to  do  with  life." 

No.  37.  Because  Christian  Scientists  employ  a  no- 
menclature of  Emersonian  phrases  in  which  the  ex- 
pression of  ideas  is  carefully  avoided.  In  this  way 
they  can  evade  all  arguments  and  most  indictments  for 
manslaughter. 

No.  38.  Because  Christian  Science  teaches  that 
"  evil  is  an  illusion  and  an  error:  "  whereas  the  Bible 
says  "  if  we  say  we  have  no  sin  we  deceive  ourselves  " 
— but  not  the  public. 

No.  39.  Because  Christian  Scientists  have  resolved 
to  reject  the  testimony  of  the  senses  and  therefore 
"  they  will  not  believe,  though  one  rose  from  the  dead." 
This  indifference  to  facts  reminds  one  of  the  Irish- 
man's remark  about  the  dead  snak;e  which  continued 
to  move  its  tail :  "  He's  dead,  but  he  ain't  conscious 
of  it  yet." 

No.  40.  I  am  not  a  Christian  Scientist  because 
Christian  Science  substitutes  rhetoric  for  logic,  fanati- 
cism for  philosophy,  poetical  high  license  for  reason, 
mystical  swash  for  Scriptural  truth,  and  a  Metaphysic- 
al-Painkiller for  Christianity. — Frederick  Erdman,  in 
Rain's  Horn. 

*>   *>   * 

SHIFTLESS    TRICKS    FOR    A    FARMER. 


To  try  to  farm  without  manure.- 

To  plant  more  acres  than  can  be  taken  care  of. 

To  work  with  poor  tools,  and  to  sow  poor  seed. 

To  buy  at  public  sales  what  is  not  needed,  because 
it  sells  cheap. 

It  is  shiftless  to  keep  poor  stock.  A  poor  cow  eats 
as  much  as  a  good  one. 

To  lounge  about  stores  and  groceries  when  it  is 
possible  to  be  doing  something  at  home. 

To  raise  frogs  and  mosquitoes  in  the  front  yard. 
'  To  have  a  pig-wallow  in  the  road  near  the  gate. 


To  allow  the  hogs  and  sheep  to  wander  at  their  owl 
sweet  will  over  their  owner's  and  his  neighbor's  prem- 
ises. 

To  cut  the  wood  for  the  kitchen  fire  day  by  day  anc 
then  burn  it  green.  It  is  worse  to  leave  it  for  the  wiff 
to  cut. 

To  let  the  cattle  fodder  themselves  at  the  haystack 
It  saves  a  little  labor,  but  the  waste  will  make  theii 
owner  poor. 

To  have  the  outhouse  and  well  near  each  other, 
They  should  never  be  less  than  200  feet  apart.  The 
outhouse  should  be  below  not  above  the  well. 

To  leave  tools  of  any  kind  lying  out  in  the  weather 
to  put  them  away  uncleaned,  or  to  loan  them  to  shift 
less  and  careless  neighbors. 

To  turn  the  cattle  out  into  the  bare  fields  in  cold 
weather  when  there  is  nothing  for  them  to  eat  there, 
and  they  lose  flesh  shivering  in  the  cold. 

It  is  shiftless  to  allow  weeds  to  occupy  any  portion 
of  the  farm,  and  very  shiftless  to  allow  bushes  to  oc- 
cupy several  rods  of  ground  along  the  fence  rows. 

To  plant  an  orchard  and  then  to  allow  cattle  to 
browse  the  trees ;  to  leave  vacant  places  in  a  young 
orchard;  to  allow  a  young  orchard  to  remain  in  grass. 

It  is  short-sighted  policy  to  elect  to  the  township 
and  county  offices  the  men  who  can  not  support  them- 
selves in  the  ordinary  pursuits  of  life.  It  is  alsf 
costly. 

It  is  a  thoughtless  and  a  very  dangerous  thing  for 
a  fanner  to  put  his  name  on  any  paper  presented  by 
a  stranger.  Also,  to*  go  on  the  notes  of  friends  and 
neighbors. 

•  It  is  reckless  to  buy  trees  of  an  utter  stranger ;  alsd§ 
groceries,  spices,  and  such  articles  as  can  be  easily1 
adulterated.  Nine  times  out  of  ten  one  will  be  cheated 
by  so  doing. 

It  is  a  shiftless  trick  to  employ  the  teacher  who  will 
work  for  the  least  wages.  It  is  as  bad  to  leave  a 
family  of  boys  and  girls  to  grow  up  without  good 
books  and  papers. 

To  wade  through  mud  to  the  barn  and  outbuildings 
when  g'ood  dry  paths  can  so  easily  be  made.  To  pay 
heavy  doctor's  bills  for  wife  and  children  because 
their  feet  became  wet  through  lack  of  good  paths. 

It  is  a  heartless  thing  for  a  farmer  to  allow  his  wife, 
to  work  sixteen  or  eighteen  hours,  when  his  own 
work  is  completed  in  ten  hours.  On  the  farm  as 
elsewhere  husband  and  wife  should  be  "  equal  part- 
ners." 

To  have  no  garden  and  to  buy  stale  vegetables  ofj 
a  huckster.  It  is  nearly  as  bad  to  have  a  miserable, 
little  garden,  which  the  good  wife  and  her  eiirl  pain- 
fullv  weed,  and  secure  a  few  stunted  vegetables,  when 


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977 


A  fast  freight  train  on  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio 
Railroad,  near  Cumberland,  Md.,  Sept.  23,  struck  a 
wagon  loaded  with  seven  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  of 
dynamite  at  a  crossing.  The  engineer  and  fireman 
were  killed  and  many  houses  wrecked. 

*  *  * 

The  report  that  peace  had  been  declared  between 
the  Uruguayan  government  and  the  Revolutionists 
under  General  Munez  was  confirmed  at  Buenos  Ayres 
last  Sunday.  It  is  anticipated  that  foreign  govern- 
ments will  file  heavy  claims  for  damages  to  their  resi- 
dents. 

*  *  * 

Adolph  J.  Lichtstern,  a  broker  on  the  board  of 
trade,  retired  from  business,  having  cleared  two  and 
a  half  millions  in  two  deals.  His  fortune  before  was 
two  millions.  Any  thoughtful  person  can  see  at  a 
glance  the  enormity  of  crime  in  such  business. 

*  *  * 

Work  in  the  plants  of  Deering,  McCormick  and 
Piano  divisions  of  the  International  Harvester  Com- 
pany, which  had  been  closed  since  Sept.  10,  was  re- 
sumed Monday  on  the  open  shop  basis.  The  9,000 
employes  went  back  to  their  old  places  as  individuals, 
li  and  agreed  to  reductions  in  pay  of  ten  to  twenty  per 
cent,  and  a  fifty-seven-and-a-half-hour  week.  Never- 
theless a  meeting  of  the  unions  was  called  to  consider 
the  situation. 

*  *  ♦ 

The  theory  that  Rhodesia  was  the  country  from 
which  King  Solomon  obtained  his  gold,  is  gaining 
ground.  Recent  explorations  at  Great  Zimbabwe  con- 
firm this  report.  It  is  said  to  date  to  1000  B.  C,  and 
that  it  belonged  to  a  race  who  were  the  gold  purveyors 
of  the  world. 

*  ♦  ♦ 

1  >m  hundred  and  fifty  firemen,  including  the  chief, 
in  a  desperate  battle  of  sixteen  hours  with  the  lurid 
ffimes  which  consumed  the  Cudahy  packing  house, 
of  New  York  City,  were  several  times  overcome  by 
tin-  Eumes  of  ammonia  and  the  gases  from  soft  coal. 
The  cellars  contained  upwards  of  four  hundred  tons 
of  coal  which  was  a  solid  mass  of  fire.  Immediately 
in  connection  was  the  ice  plant  which  supplied  am- 
monia to  the  packing  house  through  pipes.  The 
Ellmes  from  this  chemical  mowed  down  the  firemen 
like  a  Gatling  gun.  ll  is  estimated  that  the  loss  is 
three  hundred  thousand. 


Tn\i  Mi  i  aii  1  -, .  President  nf  the  International  Mcr- 
antile  agency,  which  struck  the  rocks  of  financial  dis- 
istcr  a  few  days  ago,  is  supposed  to  he  hiding  in  Chi- 
ago  with  a  million  dollars  on  his  person  and  that  he 
s  not  hunting  Brazil  as  was  supposed. 


William  Waldorf,  pastor,  sailed  from  New  York 
to  London  on  the  S.  S.  Celtic,  Sept.  30.  He  had  thir- 
ty-nine pieces  of  ordinary  baggage  besides  a  mysterious 
iron-bound  strong  box,  which  was  taken  directly  to 
his  cabin.  People  who  are  extravagant  with  their 
conjectures  think  the'  little  box  was  stuffed  with  se- 
curities. 

The  funeral  of  Senator  Hoar,  of  Massachusetts, 
took  place  Monday,  Oct.  3.  The  President  sent  the 
following  message  to  the  family :  "  Accept  my  most 
profound  sympathy.  The  loss  is  not  yours  only,  but 
of  all  those  who  believe  in  the  lofty  standard  of  purity, 
integrity  and  fearlessness  in  public  life." 

*  ♦  ♦ 

The  entire  family  of  Harrison  Standiford,  con- 
sisting of  eight  members,  is  lying  at  the  point  of  death 
at  their  home  at  English,  Ind.,  as  a  result  of  having 
been  poisoned  by  drinking  water  from  a  newly-dug 
well.  Upon  examination  health  officers  found  the  wa- 
ter to  be  loaded  with  copperas. 
♦<•  ♦  ♦ 

Miss  Clytif.  Griggs,  a  seven  teen-year-old  "  Hello 
girl,"  of  Kansas  City,  received  a  letter  from  a  lawyer 
at  Cape  Nome,  Alaska,  saying  that  her  aunt  had  died 
there  leaving  an  estate  of  a  half  million. 

*  •:•   * 

George  Washington  Bradley,  ninety-seven  years 
old,  said  to  have  been  the  oldest  confederate  veteran, 
died  at  St.  Louis  while  on  a  visit  to  the  Fair.     His 
home  was  in  Houston,  Texas. 
<•   t-   * 

Timbermen  say  that  recent  forest  fires  in  Oregon 
have  destroyed  seven  million  dollars'  worth  of  timber. 
4*  *  ♦ 

At  Belgrade,  Servia,  on  Sept.  21,  Peter  Karageorge- 
vitch.  the  chosen  successor  of  Draga  and  Alexander, 
the  murdered  queen  ami  king  of  the  Servians,  was 
crowned.  Although  numerous  threats  were  made  to 
take  the  new  king's  life,  the  affair  went  off  without 
any  hostile  demonstration.  Although  all  the  powers 
had  instructed  their  ministers  to  attend,  except  the 
Russian  government,  the  Russian  newspapers  express 
the  kindliest  sentiments  toward  Servia  and  her  ruler. 
•5*  •$•  ♦ 

ElGH  iv  negroes  were  driven  from  the  town  of  South 
Fork,  Kv.,  by  a  mob  after  a  negro  woman  who  had 
Stabbed  a    farmer's  wife. 

*  *    * 

AMERICAN  engineers  have  found  a  way  of  diverting 
the  waters  of  the  Chagres  river  in  the  Pacific  so  as 
to  eliminate  the  difficult  problem  of  dealing  with  that 
turbulent  stream  in  the  construction  of  the  Panama 
Canal. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— October  n,  1904. 


This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various  Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized 
over  this  country.  Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.  Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time, 
taking  the  work  up  with  the  current  issue.  Back  numbers  cannot  be  furnished.  Any  school  desiring  to  or- 
ganize a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  111. 


K"t"M">'M"M"H"M"M"M"M'^^^  a 


THE    FLIGHT    AND    PLUMAGE    OF    BIRDS. 


We  now  close  the  discussion  of  the  order  of  In- 
sessores;  not  that  we  are  done,  but  we  have  studied 
a  sufficient  number  to  show  how  each  may  be  studied 
with  profit.  Before  we  pass  to  the  study  of  Natatores, 
or  swimmers,  we  give  one  lesson  upon  the  flight  and 
color  of  birds  in  general,  and  to  the  student  of  Or- 
nithology, the  flight  of  birds,  and  the  motion  of  the 
wings  peculiar  to  the  different  tribes,  will  form  an 
interesting  subject  for  observation.  To  the  practiced 
eye,  this  is  quite  a  sure  indication  of  the  class  to 
which  the  bird  belongs. 

Bv  those  who  are  familiar  with  the  easy  and  un- 
restrained flight  of  the  Eagle,  he  is  ■  at  once  recog- 
nized. Now  he  'soars  in  graceful  curves  at  an  im- 
mense height,  as  though  intent  on  viewing  the  whole 
earth  beneath  him, — then  with  unmoving  wings  glides 


in  a  horizontal  course  until  lost  in  the  deep  blue 
vault  of  heaven.  The  motions  of  the  Turkey  Vul- 
ture are  also  of  a  most  singular  and  interesting  char- 
acter. These  birds  may  often  be  seen  sailing  over- 
head for  hours  together,  moving  in  curves  or  gently 
undulating  lines,  rising  and  falling  at  pleasure,  with 
but  little  apparent  motion  of  the  wings,  and  some- 
times ascending  in  easy  circles  beyond  the  reach  of 
vision. 

The  Woodpecker  describes,  in  its  course  through 
the  air,  a  waving  line,  which  is  in  consequence  of  the 
wings  being  alternately  closed  and  expanded  at  in- 
tervals during  flight.  The  Sparrows  also  perform 
a  zizzag  course,  rising  and  falling  first  to  the  one  side 
and  then  to  the  other.     In  the  Fly-catchers  the  mo- 


tion of  the  wings  is  rapid  and  steady;  sometimes  in 
long-continued  flight  their  course  is  slightly  undu- 
lating. The  Humming  Bird  darts  with  the  swiftness 
of  an  arrow,  and  the  vibrations  of  its  wings  are  so 
incessant  as  to  render  them  almost  invisible ;  while  the 
Heron  and  the  Crane  wheel  their  heavy  bodies 
through  the  air  with  a  slow  but  steady  flapping  of 
a  pair  of  ample,  curving  wings,  their  heads  drawn 
in  towards  the  body,  and  their  long  legs  following  like 
a  rudder. 

It  is  very  evident  that  the  very  shape  of  the  wings, 
and  the  arrangement  and  texture  of  the  feathers  com- 
posing them,  must  have  a  material  effect  upon  the 
flight  of  birds.  A  long,  pointed,  flat  wing,  with  stiff 
and  close-set  primaries,  is  undoubtedly  best  adapted 
to  rapidity  of  motion.  This  will  be  most  observabk 
in  the  Swallow,  the  Humming  Bird,  and  the  Nigh! 
Hawk,  which  of  all  birds  are  the  most  remarkabk 
for  the  nimbleness  and  agility  of  their  movements 
How  beautifully  does  the  Swallow  skim  over  tffl 
meadows  and  lakes,  or  mount  aloft  in  the  air,  now 
wheeling  to  the  one  side  and  then  darting  like  an  ar- 
row to  the  other!  And  how  graceful  are  the  antic! 
of  the  Night  Hawk  as  he  pitches  his  aerial  summer 
sets,  or  gambols  with  matchless  ease  across  the  sky ! 

It  will  be  observed  that  the  wings  of  birds  of  rapic 
flight  are  seldom  very  concave  beneath ;  on  the  con 
trary,  they  are  generally  quite  flat  when  extended 
This  flatness,  although  it  contributes  to  the  velocit; 
of  motion  as  the  bird  sweeps  along,  destroys  to  i 
great  extent  the  power  of  direct  ascent.  Where  thl 
wines  are  of  a  moderate  length   and   concive.  as  ii 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  n,  1904. 


979 


the  Owl,  and  composed  of  loose,  soft  feathers,  the 
flight  is  buoyant  and  noiseless,  and  quite  different 
from  that  of  the  Falcon,  the  feathers  being  too  soft 
and  yielding  to  produce  any  whistling  or  rushing 
noise.  A  short,  rounded,  concave  wing,  is  mostly 
peculiar  to  birds  of  terrestrial  habits,  as  it  will  at  once 
be  seen  that  this  form  is  least  adapted  to  extensive 
progress  through  the  air.  The  wings  of  the  Par- 
tridge and  of  the  Pheasant  are  of  this  shape. 

Appendages  of  various  kinds  are  occasionally  at- 
tached to  the  wings  of  birds : — the  direct  uses  of  these 
cannot   be    readily   ascertained.      We    must   therefore 


conclude  that  they  were  designed  rather  as  orna- 
ments than  to  minister  to  the  comfort  or  convenience  of 
the  bird.  In  the  Leona  Night  Jar,  a  bird  allied  to 
the  Night  Hawk,  and  a  native  of  Africa,  from  the 
center  of  the  upper  wing  coverts  issues  a  slender 
flowing  shaft  about  twenty  inches  in  length,  and 
tipped  for  about  five  inches  with  a  broad  web.  In 
some  the  scapularies  are  elongated  into  delicate  and 
graceful  plumes,  as  in  the  Heron  and  Crane. 

While,  as  has  been  shown,  most  birds  possess  the 
power  of  flight  in  a  greater  or  less  degree,  yet  there 
are  a  few  species  to  which  it  has  been  wholly  denied. 
This  is  in  consequence  of  two  separate  peculiarities 
in  the  development  of  those  organs  which  are  so  nice- 
ly adapted  to  their  aerial  habits.  In  the  Ostrich  and 
Emu  we  see  merely  the  rudiment  of  a  wing,  desti- 
tute of  the  ordinary  bony  and  muscular  structure : 
and  in  the  Penguin  and  Auk,  the  wing,  although  pos- 
sessed of  considerable  muscular  power,  is  converted 
into  an  organ  of  aquatic  progression,  and  is  covered 
with  close,  stiff,  and  scale-like  feathers. 


The  tail  also  exerts  considerable  influence  in  guid- 
ing the  motions  of  the-bird  through  the  air,  acting  as 
a  rudder  to  direct  its  course,  and  it  also  assists  great- 
ly in  preserving  a  proper  equilibrium,  both  in  motion 
and  while  at  rest.  The  form  of  the  tail  differs  widely 
in  different  species;  perhaps  there  is  no  other  part 
of  its  plumage  in  which  so  great  a  diversity  exists, 
and  often  the  male  and  female  are  so  unlike  in  this 
respect  as  scarcely  to  be  recognized  as  being  different 
sexes  of  the  same  bird. 

*>  ♦  •$• 

TOADS    TWENTY    DOLLARS    EACH. 


The  wonderful  insect-killing  capacity  of  the  toad 
is  known  in  a  general  way  to  the  enlightened  few. 
An  imported  colony  of  toads  may  be  the  salvation  of 
a  flower  garden.  We  now  have  some  interesting  fig- 
ures which  show  that  every  toad  in  the  garden  may 
be  worth  twenty  dollars  or  more.  Many  gardeners 
give  their  children  a  cent  a  piece  for  every  cutworm 
destroyed,  considering  this  is  a  low  estimate  for  the 
damage  caused  by  these  insects.  From  May  I  to 
August  1  a  toad  may  destroy  2,160  cutworms,  which 
it  would  cost  $21.60  to  destroy  by  hand.  English 
gardeners  are  said  to  pay  as  much  as  $25  per  100  for 
toads  for  colonizing  purposes. 
♦  *J«  ♦ 
THE    ALBINO    AGAIN. 


There  is  a  short  article  in  the  September  6th  issue' 
of  the  Inglenook,  in  which  some  doubts  are  ex- 
pressed as  to  there  ever  having  existed  such  a  thing 
as  a  white  or  "  albino  "  robin.  In  the  summer  of 
1897,  while  camping  with  a  party  of  friends  near 
Mount  Vernon,  Ohio,  I  caught  with  my  own  hands 
an  albino  robin.  The  bird  was  not  quite  full  grown, 
and  was  pure  white,  without  a  fleck  of  color  on 
breast  or  wings.  It  was  beyond  question  a  robin, 
and  not  a  young  dove  or  pigeon,  because  the  mother 


robin,  an  ordinary  looking  redbreast,  fluttered  pit- 
couslv  about  me  with  cries  of  fear,  while  I  carried 
her  fledgling  to  camp. 

I  kept  the  bird  during  the  day,  but  as  I  could  not 
feed  it,  I  gave  it  its  liberty  and  never  saw  it  again. 
An  article  describing  mv  capture  of  this  albino  robin 
was  published  in  the  Mount  Vernon  papers  at  the 
lime,  and  is  now  in  my  possession,  to  settle  the 
doubts  of  unbelievers. 

Adelaide  McKee  Koons. 


980 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  II,  1904. 


HOME    DEPARTMENT 


OLD-FASHIONED    APPLE    CUTTINGS. 


BY   MAMIE  VINEY. 

Who  has  not  heard  some  old  grandmother  give  a 
description  of  the  times  of  long  ago  when  they  were 
girls?  Of  how  they  would  ask  a  dozen  or  two 
young  couples  to  meet  at  their  house  some  evening, 
and  would  have  ten  or  twelve  bushels  of  apples  piled 
on  the  floor  in  a  heap  ready  to  begin  the  apple-cut- 
ting. Of  course  it  would  not  hurt  the  floor  as  they 
had  no  carpets  in  those  days  to  be  careful  of,  and  gen- 
erally had  but  the  one  room  for  everything,  so,  of 
course,  the  crowd  must  be  according  to  the  accommo- 
dations they  could  give.  After  all  were  seated  in  a 
circle  and  each  supplied  with  a  knife  and  a  pan  of 
apples  the  work  would  begin.  Of  course  much  talk- 
ing and  laughing  went  on  with  the  apple  cutting  and 
sometimes  the  cores  would  be  forgotten. 

A  tub  was  placed  in  the  center  of  the  circle  to  re- 
ceive the  apples  after  they  were  peeled,  quartered  and 
cored.  When  the  tubs  would  get  full  they  were  carried 
to  a  scaffold  prepared  for  them  with  long  boards 
about  two  feet  wide  to  be  set  in  the  sun  to  dry.  It 
took  a  long  time  for  them  to  dry  in  the  sun  and  every 
night  they  were  piled  up,  one  big  board  above  the 
other  to  keep  the  dew  off  and  if  it  rained  they  must 
be  covered  better  yet. 

When  the  apples  were  all  cut,  the  hostess  would 
pass  the  pie  as  was  the  custom.  When  this  part  of 
the  exercises  was  over,  then  came  the  "  bussin'-bee  " 
or  "  kissing  party  "  as  it  was  called.  All  chose  part- 
ners and  played  games  until  the  parents  thought  it 
time  for  all  to  go  to  bed,  when  the  crowd  would  dis- 
perse, going  on  horseback  or  on  foot  as  they  had  come, 
instead  of  in  fine  buggies  and  runabouts  as  they  do 
now.  Instead  of  the  good  old-time  jolly  apple-cut- 
tings now  we  have  to  hire  help  to  get  our  apples  cut  or 
anything  else  we  want  done.  How  the  greed  for 
money  has  changed  our  lives  from  the  simple  ways 
of  our  fore-parents,  and  now  we  hardly  know  who 
our  neighbors  are,  because  we  are  so  selfish  and  un- 
sociable. 

And  the  same  is  true  of  our  religious  lives ;  instead 
of  the  pure,  trustful  lives  our  foreparents  lived,  we 
are  never  satisfied,  always  complaining,  not  seeing 
the  countless  blessings  pouring  continually  on  our 
unthankful  beings. 

College  Comer,  Ohio. 


SIMPLE    HOME    REMEDIES. 


Among  the  simple  home  remedies  which  the  house 
mother  will  find  most  efficacious  hot  water  stands 
first,  for  many  are  the  aches  and  pains  which  it  will 
relieve. 

A  sudden  sore  throat  will  be  relieved  almost  mir- 
aculously by  the  application  of  hot  water  cloths,  and 
a  swallow  of  hot  water  held  in  the  mouth  for  a  few 
seconds  will  often  relieve  a  sick  headache.  Applica- 
tions of  hot  water  cloths  to  the  soles  of  the  feet  and 
the  back  of  the  neck  will  soothe  a  nervous  headache 
almost  immediately;  the  patient  should  be  kept  very 
quiet,  and  allowed  to  fall  asleep  if  this  is  possible. 

Rheumatism  and  neuralgia  are  nearly  always  caused 
by  the  patient  taking  cold,  and  pieces  of  flannel  of 
suitable  size  wrung  out  of  hot  salt  water  and  applied 
to  the  seat  of  the  pain  will  relieve  the  agony  without  re- 
sorting to  drugs.  Toothache  and  earache  will  often 
respond  to  this  treatment  when  the  use  of  dry  heat 
or  a  hot  water  bottle  has  no  effect.  The  pain  which 
a  small  boy  suffers  after  indulging  in  green  apples 
is  a  symptom,  not  a  disease,  and  a  simple  remedy, 
such  as  a  tablespoonful  of  castor  oil,  is  all  that  is 
necessary;  to  relieve  the  pain  apply  towels  wrung 
from  hot  water,  one  after  the  other,  until  relief  is 
obtained.  If  hot  water  applications  are  used  at  all 
they  must  be  continuous  and  the  change  of  cloth  be 
made  before  the  one  in  use  has  cooled.  If  the  applica- 
tions are  allowed  to  cool  upon  the  sufferer  they  ared 
worse  than  no  treatment  at  all. 

It  is  said  that  filling  the  ear  with  warm,  but  not 
hot  water,  and  then,  after  allowing  the  water  to  run 
out,  plugging  the  orifice  with  a  bit  of  cotton  wet  with 
glycerin,  and  sprinkled  with  red  pepper,  will  cure 
a  severe  earache  when  everything  else  fails.  Since 
earache  and  toothache  are  the  result  of  exposure  to 
the  cold,  the  patient  should  be  placed  in  a  comfortable 
position,  near  a  radiator,  or  hot  fire,  and  allowed  to 
keep  very  quiet  so  he  can  fall  asleep. 

Salt  is  another  simple  home  remedy  whose  proper- 
ties are  not  always  appreciated.  Warm  salt  water, 
held  in  the  mouth,  will  stop  the  flow  of  blood  caused 
by  a  drawn  tooth,  and  will  cure  a  toothache  many 
times  when  other  remedies  fail.  It  is  also  useful  as 
a  gargle  for  sore  throat  and  hoarseness,  and  salt  water 
drawn  up  into  the  nostrils  every  morning  will  arrest 
the  further  development  of  catarrh. 

Tepid  water  and  salt  form  an  excellent  emetic 
which  is  also  harmless  when  given  to  a  person  whc 
has   taken   poison ;   this   same  mixture  may  be  usee 


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981 


with  good  effect  as  an  eye  wash  for  weak  eyes.  Small 
doses  of  salt,  repeated  from  time  to  time,  are  said 
to  be  efficacious  in  arresting  a  hemorrhage,  and  nose- 
bleed can  be  stopped  many  times  by  sponging  the 
face  and  neck  in  cold  salt  water. 

When  children  are  given  nuts  of  any  kind  for  des- 
sert, they  should  be  well  salted,  for  not  only  does 
this  make  them  more  palatable,  but  more  digestible, 
as  well,  and  prevents  the  colic  which  is  so  often 
caused    by  eating  too  many  nuts. 

Every  one  knows  the  tonic  quality  of  salt  used 
in  the  daily  bath,  but  not  only  does  it  act  as  a  tonic 
on  the  skin,  but  will  clear  and  brighten  a  sallow  com- 
plexion. 

When  changing  the  stockings  after  the  feet  have 
been  wet,  rub  the  soles  with  salt,  preferably  warm 
salt  that  has  been  heated  in  the  oven,  and  no  ill  re- 
sults will  follow  the  exposure.  Bathing  the  feet  with 
cold  salt  and  water  is  also  good  to  prevent  the  usual 
consequences  of  an  exposure  to  wet  weather. 

A  little  salt  mixed  with  powdered  chalk  and  orris 
in  equal  quantities  makes  an  excellent  toothpowder, 
and  salt  mixed  with  ordinary  dentifrice  will  harden 
and  strengthen  the  gums.  A  pinch  of  salt  held  in  the 
mouth  and  swallowed  slowly  as  it  dissolves  is  used 
by  many  singers  and  public  speakers  as  a  simple 
and  effective  means  of  clearing  the  throat. 

One  should  make  a  practice  of  trying  simple  reme- 
dies for  the  ordinary  ills  of  life,  and  of  all  home  reme- 
dies none  are  more  worthy  a  trial  than  these  two. 

THE   HOUSEWIFE'S    VACATION. 


Vacation  time  is  two-thirds  over.  Most  members 
of  the  family  have  already  taken  their  two  weeks  of 
freshening  up  and  the  last  trips  are  being  planned  for. 

Has  mother's  vacation  been  arranged?  A  va- 
cation !  You  can  see  her  raising  her  hands  in  protest 
at  the  bare  suggestion  that  she  should  require  an  out- 
ing'or  that  money  should  be  expended  upon  her. 

"Why  should  I  go  away?"  she  deprecates.  "Fa- 
ther really  ought  to  take  that  ocean  trip;  he's  looking 
so  fagged  out,  and  the  boys  have  been  working  stead- 
ily for  a  year.  The  girls  have  never  seen  anything 
of  their  country  and  they  really  ought  to  begin  travel- 
ing a  little.  I  haven't  been  working  except  around  the 
house.  I  may  take  a  trip  with  father  next  year.  I 
really  don't  feel  the  need  of  one  this  summer." 

In  reality,  if  any  one  is  in  need  of  two  weeks  of 
change  it  is  she  who  has  been  in  charge  of  a  house 
for  a  twelve  month  and  a  day. 

The  families  of  the  mothers  should  rise  up  and  in- 
sist upon  a  vacation  for  them. 

Where  shall  the  housewife  go  to  recuperate? 

The  mother  will  gain  real  rest  and  strength  just  in 
proportion  as  her  vacation  be  in  contrast  to  her  or- 


dinary surroundings  and  occupation.  If  she  lives  in 
the  country  the  most  good  will  be  gained  by  a  trip  to 
some  city  to  enjoy  its  churches,  libraries,  art  galleries 
and  excitement.  If  she  live  in  the  city  let  her  go 
where  the  view  of  ocean,  mountain  or  country  seems 
boundless  and  suggestive  of  peace.  When  she  re- 
turns to  her  home  there  will  be  roses  in  her  cheeks  and 
light  in  her  eyes.  Father  in  his  natural  obtuseness  will 
wonder  how  a  week  or  two  could  bring  back  so  much 
of  her  girlish  charm. 

*  *   * 
TOMATO   JAM. 


Select  sound,  ripe  tomatoes,  throw  them  into  boil- 
ing water  for  a  minute  or  two,  and  slip  off  their  skins. 
Cut  them  small,  and  cook  them  very  slowly  in  pre- 
serving kettle  until  soft.  Then  rub  them  through  a 
sieve  with  a  wooden  spoon.  Weigh  the  pulp  and  to 
each  pound  allow  one  pound  of  loaf  sugar  and  the 
juice  and  grated  peel  of  one  lemon.  Cook  together, 
allowing  it  to  boil  quicklv  until  the  fruit  looks  clear 
and  rich.  Turn  into  dry  hot  jars  and  seal.  If  the 
flavor  of  ginger  is  liked  one  tablespoonful  may  be  add- 
ed to  each  peck  of  tomatoes. 
*  *  * 
PRESERVED    TOMATOES. 


Select  firm,  even-sized  tomatoes.  Scald  and  peel 
carefully,  and  allow  one  thinly-sliced  lemon  and  one 
pound  of  sugar  to  each  pound  of  tomatoes.  Put  them 
in  layers  in  a  stone  jar  and  let  set  over  night.  In  the 
morning  gently  pour  off  the  juice  into  preserving 
kettle,  and  boil  it  to  a  rich  syrup.  Then  skim  care- 
fully, add  the  tomatoes,  and  simmer  gently  until  clear. 
Seal  when  cold.  The  yellow  pear-shaped  tomatoes 
have  a  delightful  flavor  and  make  a  very  handsome 
preserve. 

♦   *   ♦ 

SWEET    PICKLED    CUCUMBERS. 


Prepare  and  quarter  rirte  cucumbers,  take  out  the 
seeds,  and  lay  in  brine  for  nine  days,  stirring  every 
day.  Then  take  from  the  brine  and  leave  in  clear  wa- 
ter for  one  day.  Lay  them  next  in  alum  water  (a 
lump  of  alum  the  size  of  a  hickory  nut  to  a  gallon  of 
water)  over  night.  Make  a  syrup  in  the  proportion  of 
three  pints  of  brown  sugar  to  one  quart  of  good  cider 
vinegar,  and  two  tablespoon  fills  each  of  stick  cinna- 
mon, mace  and  peppercorns  lied  in  a  piece  of  muslin. 
Skim  the  syrup  carefully,  lav  in  the  cucumbers  (there 
should  be  sufficient  syrup  t"  cover  them)  and  simmer 
verj  gently  for  fifteen  minutes, 
•j.    .;.    <« 

If  Alt.  Everest,  29,002  feet,  were  set  down  in  the 
Nero  Peep,  31,614  feet,  there  would  still  be  lu.uh  one- 
half  mile  of  water  above  its  summit. 


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OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE 


BONNIE  WAYNE. 


When  we  got  to  the  shore  the  boys  tied  the  boat 
to  the  post  that  wuz  along  the  bank  and  Mr.  Marshall 
gave  them  a  padlock  to  fasten  it  with  so  that  no- 
body  could  use  it  until  we  came  back,  for  they  might 
take  it  away  and  'nen  leave  us  an  old  dirty  boat  or 
leaky  one  in  its  place. 

'Nen  we  went  up  to  the  tent  and  Grandma  and 
Mrs.  Marshall  got  out  their  basketfuls  of  good  things 
which  they  brought  along  from  home  and  Frank  built 
a  fire  out  of  some  sticks  and  brush  that  wuz  close 
to  the  tent.  'Nen  Luke  and  Frank  took  the  scales  off 
of  some  of  those  fish  we  got  and  Mabel  and  her  mam- 
ma fried  them  for  our  suppers,  and  my,  but  they  wuz 
good.  Grandma  said,  "  It  always  makes  me  hungry 
to  go  a-fishing,"  and  Mrs.  Marshall  said  she  guessed 
we  were  all  hungry.  It  seemed  so  funny  to  use  the 
fire,  out  in  the  woods  for  a  stove  and  to  get  water  from 
the  lake  instead  of  the  well.  After  the  dishes  wuz 
washed  there  wuz  a  whole  lot  of  little  children  from 
some  other  tents,  came  over  to  play  with  Luke  and 
me,  and  we  played  ring-around-the-rosy  and  drop-the- 
handkerchief  and  whole  lots  of  games  until  we  were 
nearly  all  tired  out. 

When  we  sat  down  to  rest  a  little  we  heard  the 
nicest  music  and  when  we  listened  we  found  out  that 
it  wuz  the  people  who  wuz  in  the  boats  way,  way 
out  on  the  lake,  they  sang  the  mostest  pretty  songs 
like,  "  Nearer,  my  God,  to  Thee,"  "  Jesus,  Lover  of 
my  Soul,"  "  Rescue  the  Perishing,"  "  Sweet  Galilee," 
"  Let  Your  Lower  Lights  be  Burning,"  and  they  had 
the  prettiest  red,  green  and  blue  lights  on  their  boats 
and  we  all  sat  there  and  listened  until  we  pretty  near 
went  to  sleep  and  Grandma  said  she  thought  it  wuz 
time  for  us  all  to  be  in  bed.  'Nen  we  had  a  time  fixing 
the  beds.  Of  course  Grandma  had  to  sleep  on  one  of 
the  good  cots,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Marshall  had  their 
cots  too,  but  us  children  had  to  make  our  beds  out 
of  the  blankets  and  coverlets  on  the  ground.  So 
Mabel  and  I  had  ours  in  one  corner  and  Frank  and 
Luke  theirs  in  the  other,  and  when  we  wuz  all  tucked 
in  snug,  Mr.  Marshall  fastened  down  the  door  of  the 
tent  and  said,  "  Now  let's  see  who  can  go  to  sleep 
the  quickest,  and  dream  about  catching  the  biggest 
fish."  So  we  all  tried  to  go  to  sleep,  but  it  wuz  not 
long  until  I  heard  something  go  "  wooz-obz-zuuz- 
wuz  "  and  'nen  something  bit  me  hard  on  the  cheek 


and  I  hollered  "  bumblebees,"  'cause  I  thought  of 
those  bumblebees  that  wuz  down  in  our  playhouse 
in  the  woods,  and  Grandma  begin  to  laugh  and  said, 
"  Those  are  not  bumblebees,  honey,  they  are  mosqui- 
toes." 'Nen  I  said,  "What  is  skeeters?"  'Nen 
Frank  he  had  to  laugh  and  he  said,  "  Girl,  don't  you1 
have  skeeters  in  town  ?  " 

It  wuz  not  long  until  the  skeeters  began  to  bite  all 
of  them  and  Mrs.  Marshall  said,  "  Well,  I  can't  stand 
this,  we'll  have  to  do  something,"  and  Grandma  said, 
"  We'll  have  to  make  a  smudge,"  and  I  said,  "  Grand- 
ma, how  do  you  make  a  smudge  ?  "  She  told  Frank 
and  Luke  to  run  out  and  get  some  coals  from  the 
fire  where  we  cooked  supper  and  brought  them  into 
the  tent  and  put  some  leaves  and  little  sticks  and  lit- 
tle pieces  of  rags  on  the  coals,  and  it  made  the  aw- 
fulest  smoke  and  Grandma  says,  "  I'll  bet  the  mos- 
quitoes will  get  out  now,"  and  Mr.  Marshall  said, 
"  The  rest  of  us  will  do  well  if  we  don't  get  out  too." 
He  said  that  the  remedy  wuz  worse  than  the  disease. 
I  don't  know  what  he  meant  by  that,  but  I  guess  it 
must  be  so,  for  what  he  says  is  so  whether  it  is  so  08 
not.  So  after  we  wuz  pretty  near  smoked  to  death. 
Mabel  opened  the  door  of  the  tent  and  let  the  smo 
out  and  said,  "  Now  maybe  we  can  sleep  some,"  bi 
it  wuzent  long  until  they  wuz  after  us  again.  So 
Grandma  got  the  candle  out  of  the  box  and  lighted 
it  and  she  said,  "  Why,  just  look  at  them,"  and  they 
wuz  just  sitting  around  all  over  inside  of  the  tent  and 
Frank  said  they  were  whetting  up  their  bills  for  anoth- 
er fight,  and  Grandma  would  hold  the  candle  under 
them  and  burn  them  and  they  would  go  "  zzziiitt,"  ana 
'nen  they  would  fall  dead.  After  she  had  burned  ever 
so  many  of  them  we  could  go  to  sleep  all  right,  and 
my !  it  wuz  a  nice  place  to  sleep  after  the  skeeters  wiffl 
all  killed. 

We  never  got  up  the  next  morning  until  the  sun 
wuz  way  up  high  and  after  we  ran  some  foot  races 
and  jumped  the  rope  and  played  skip  we  had  a  nice 
brexfuss.  After  brexfuss  Mr.  Marshall  said,  "  We 
must  have  two  boats  to-day,"  so  he  went  and  got  an 
other  boat  and  he  took  Grandma  and  Mrs.  Marshall  in 
his  boat  and  he  let  Frank  take  Mabel  and  Luke  and 
me  in  his  boat.  'Nen  we  run  a  race,  my,  but  it  wu2 
fun.  You  see  when  you  run  a  race  in  a  boat  the  mar 
who  does  the  driving  has  great  long  paddles  that  hang 
over  the  side  of  the  boat  and  one  end  sticks  in  the 
water,  and  he  sits  with  his  back  to  the  front  of  the 
(continued  on  page  984.) 


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983 


'JL 


My  professor  talks  about  "Middle  English."  What 
does  he  mean? 

,  The  growth  of  the  English  language  is  usually  divid- 
d  into  three  periods :  Old  English  or  Anglo-Saxon 
period,  from  449  to  1100,  in  which  wrote  Caedmon, 
the  Father  of  English  Song,  Bede,  the  Venerable, 
md  Alfred  the  Great ;  Middle  English,  from  1 100  to 
1500,  with  Wycliffe,  called  the  "  Morning  Star  of 
the  Reformation,"  Mandeville,  called  the  first  English 
prose  writer,  Caxton  who  printed  the  first  book  in 
English,  William  Langley,  author  of  a  powerful  al- 
egorical  poem  entitled,  "  Piers  Plowman,"  John 
Sower  and  Geoffrey  Chaucer,  as  leading  writers ;  and 
Modern  English,  from  1500  to  the  present.  In  the 
jalaxy  of  those  writers  Shakespeare,  Milton,  Dryden, 
\ddison,  Johnson,  Burns,  Coleridge,  Scott,  Macaulay 
tnd  Tennyson  are  stars  of  the  first  magnitude. 

* 
tVho  was  Cardinal  Wolsey? 

Thomas  Wolsey,  a  butcher's  son,  who  arose  through 
/arious  church  positions  till  he  became  Archbishop 
)f  York  under  Henry  VIII.  His  adroitness,  his  ca- 
3acity,  and  his  statesmanship  made  him  a  favorite 
A'ith  the  King,  who  finally  made  him  Lord  Chan- 
:ellor.  In  the  church  he  rose  to  the  dignity  of  a  Car- 
linal,  and  openly  aspired  to  be  Pope.  Finally  he  fell 
nto  disgrace  with  Henry  through  his  failure  to  ob- 
ain  the  church's  sanction  of  the  King's  divorce  from 
Jueen  Catherine.  He  was  deprived  of  his  dignities 
ind  died  while  under  arrest  on  a  charge  of  high  trea- 
;on. 

* 

State  a  brief  account  of  the  battle  of  Waterloo. 

A  battle  fought  on  June  14,  1815,  at  the  end  of  the 
rampaign  of  a  hundred  days,  between  the  French 
tnder  Napoleon  and  the  British  under  Wellington, 
vith  Dutch,  Belgian,  and  Prussian  allies,  the  latter 
inder  Blucher.  The  battle  was  fought  at  Waterloo 
n  Belgium  and  resulted  in  a  victory  for  the  allies.  Na- 
wleon  was  banished  and  Louis  XVIII.  was  restored 
o  the  French  throne. 

State  the  results  of  the  Spanish-American  war. 
Established  a  protectorate  of  the  United  States  over 

uba;  gave  to  the  United  States  Porto  Rico,  Guam, 
itul  the  Philippine  Islands,  with  the  payment  to  Spain 
if  $20,000,000;  established  the  United  States  as  a 
actor  in  the  political  and  commercial  affairs  of  the 
Drient. 


Who  was  Bishop  Potter  and  to  what  church  did  he  be- 
long? 

Bishop  Potter  belongs  to  the  Episcopalian  church, 
and  is  the  minister  who  thinks  it  is  impossible  to  get 
rid  of  the  saloon  element  and  hopes  to  get  rid  of  the 
evils  arising  from  it  by  converting  the  saloon  into 
a  drinking  parlor  and  furnishing  it  with  nice  car- 
pets, sofas  and  mirrors,  and  keeping  open  doors,  al- 
lowing no  loud  talking  or  fighting  or  anything  of 
that  sort.  By  preaching  this  kind  of  doctrine  he  has 
lost  the  sympathies  of  all  good  thinking  people. 
* 

Why  was  Magna  Charter  so  named? 

This  is  the  name  given  to  the  charter  wrung 
from  King  John  by  his  rebellious  barons  in  A.  D. 
1215.  "It  is  beyond  comparison  the  most  important 
event  in  the  English  history."  Its  essential  feature 
is  that  it  protected  the  personal  liberty  and  property 
of  all  freemen  by  giving  security  from  arbitrary  im- 
prisonment and  arbitrary  spoliation,  by  insistence  on 
due  process  of  law.  The  barons  bound  themselves  to 
grant  .the  same  rights  to  their  dependents  that  they 
themselves  received  from  the  king. 

* 
Give  jurisdiction  of  Supreme  Court  and  Circuit  Court  of 
Appeals. 

Jurisdiction  of  supreme  court:  I.  Original  in  all 
cases  affecting  ambassadors,  other  public  ministers, 
and  consuls,  and  those  in  which  a  state  may  be  a  party. 
2.  Appellate  in  a  great  number  of  other  cases  heard 
on  appeal  from  lower  courts.  Jurisdiction  of  circuit 
court  of  appeals :  This  court  was  organized  in  1891 
to  relieve  the  supreme  court  of  part  of  its  work.  Cases 
may  be  appealed  to  it  from  the  United  States  dis- 
trict and  circuit  courts.     Xo  State  may  appeal  to  it. 

* 
State  the  cause  of  King  William's  war. 
James  II.  was  driven  out  of  England  by  a  revolu- 
tion, and  William  and  Mary  seated  on  the  English 
throne.  Louis  XIV.  of  France  took  up  the  cause  of 
James,  a  European  war  followed,  and  the  colonists 
of  both  countries  were  dragged  into  it.  On  this  con- 
tinent it  was  the  beginning  of  a  struggle  to  deter- 
mine whether  France  or 'England  should  rule  North 
America. 

*   ■ 
How  is  the  wasting  and  weir  ,>f  the  body  made  up? 
I'll.'  bod\    appropriates  t"  itself  the  food  which   we 
eat  and  drink,  and  thus  renews  parts  worn  away. 


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* 


(Concluded  from  Page  982.) 
boat  and  he  pulls  with  all  his  might  and  that  pushes 
the  boat  through  the  water.  Mabel  sat  in  the  front  end 
of  our  boat  and  Luke  and  I  sat  in  the  back  end  of  the 
boat  and  Luke  took  hold  of  the  handle  of  the  boat 
that  made  it  go  straight.  We  could  see  Mr.  Marshall 
working  so  hard  and  Mrs.  Marshall  wuz  guiding  the 
boat  for  him  while  Grandma  wuz  waving  at  us  girls. 
Every  once  in  a  while  one  of  Frank's  paddles  would 
slip  out  of  the  water  and  just  splash  the  water  all  over 
us.  Mr.  Marshall  wuz  getting  a  little  bit  ahead  of  us. 
(to  be  continued.) 


THE    ADDICKS    CHARITY. 


*   *   * 
ESKIMO    LAWS. 


No  man  shall,  after  sunset,  do  any  work  requiring 
the  use  of  tools.  The  women  may  sew,  make  gar- 
ments or  sew  boots — thus  the  hours  of  each  day  after 
sunset  form  the  Eskimo's  Sabbath. 

No  person  shall  eat  walrus  and  deer  meat  on  the 
same  day. 

The  carcases  of  all  large  animals  slain  during  the 
winter  season  shall  be  equally  divided  among  all  mem- 
bers of  the  community. 

All  kinds  of  rare  game  are  common  property  during 
all  seasons. 

Any  person  finding  driftwood  secures  ownership  by 
placing  stones  upon  it. 

Any  other  kind  of  goods  found  remains  the  prop- 
erty of  the  original  owner. 

When  a  seal  is  harpooned  and  gets  off  with  the 
harpoon,  the  first  harpooner  loses  all  claim  to  it  when 
the  float  becomes  detached. 

If  two  hunters  strike  a  bird  at  the  same  time  it 
shall  be  equally  divided  between  them. 

Whoever  is  first  to  see  a  bear  has  first  ownership, 
no  matter  who  slays  it. 

After  slaying  a  bear,  the  man  who  kills  it  shall  hang 
up  his  hunting  implements,  together  with  the  bladder 
of  the  beast,  in  some  high,  conspicuous  place  for  at 
least  three  days. 

The  borrower  of  tools  shall  not  be  bound  to  give 
compensation  for  damages. 

No  person  shall  sew  while  any  member  of  the  fam- 
ily is  ill. 

If  any  man,  from  any  cause  whatsoever,  slay  his 
neighbor,  the  wife  and  family  of  the  deceased  shall  be- 
come the  family  of  the  slayer  and  shall  be  taken  care 
of  by  him  as  if  they  were  his  own. 


Thomas  W.  Lawson,  continuing  in  Everybody's 
Magazine  for  October  his  "  Story  of  Amalgamated,' 
tells  the  following  anecdote:  "  Once  upon  a  time  Ad 
dicks,  entering  Delmonico's  for  dinner,  stumbled  on 
a  couple  of  newsboys  at  the  entrance.  One,  broken 
hearted,  was  being'consoled  by  the  other.  Addicks. 
observing  the  deep  sobs,  asked :  '  What's  the  mattei 
with  you,  bub  ? '  The  consoler  explained  that  hi 
chum  had  lost  $2,  his  day's  earnings  and  capital,  anc 
'  His  mudder — his  fadder's  dead — an'  de  baby'll  gil 
trun  outter  de  tenement.'  Addicks,  without  more  ado 
slipped  the  suffering  young  news  merchant  a  bill  whicl 
his  friends  supposed  was  $2  to  replace  the  lost  funds 
until,  as  they  were  taking  off  their  coats  in  the  hall 
the  little  fellow  pushed  his  way  in  with :  '  Say,  boss 
did  yer  mean  ter  guv  me  de  twenty  ?  '  Addicks  nodde< 
a  good-natured  assent,  and  his  friends  registered  silent 
ly  a  white  mark  to  his  score,  and  felt  that,  after  all 
somewhere  beneath  the  surface  he  was  more  of  thi 
right  sort  than  they  had  given  him  credit  for  being 
After  dinner,  as  they  left,  the  newsboy  again  afl 
proached.  '  'Scuse  me,  boss,  but  me  chum  'd  like  te 
t'ank  yer  too.  I'm  agoin'  ter  give  him  a  V  outter  it 
Addicks  looked  at  the  boy  in  his  mildly  cold  way  ani 
said,  '  Let  me.  have  that  bill.  I  will  change  it  for  yott 
The  boy  gave  it  up,  and  Addicks,  after  methodical! 
placing  it  in  his  purse,  handed  him  back  a  $2  bill  with 
'That's  what  you  lost,  isn't  it?  And  you'  (to  th 
second  little  fellow)  '  you  didn't  lose  anything,  dj 
you?     Well,  both  of  you  run  along  now! ' ' 


4»    *   * 
NUMBER    OF    LANGUAGES. 


. 


J.  Collier,  writing  on  the  subject,  says  that  o 
five  thousand  distinct  languages  are  spoken  by  mai 
kind. 

The  number  of  separate  dialects  is  enormous.  Thei 
are  more  than  60  vocabularies  in  Brazil,  and  in  Me: 
ico  the  Nahua  language  has  broken  up  into  seven  hill 
dred  dialects.  There  are  hundreds  in  Borneo. 
Australia  there  is  no  classifying  the  complexities,  at 
generally  the  number  of  dialects  is  in  inverse  pri 
portion  to  the  intellectual  culture  of  the  populatio 
Assume  that  only  fifty  dialects  on  an  average  belor 
to  every  language,  and  we  have  the  colossal  tota' 
750,000  linguistic  varieties. 


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The  basisoi  my  business  is  absolute  and 
unvarying  integrity. 

SAMUEL  S.  THORPE, 
Founder  of  the  Brethren  Colony,  Brethren,  Mich. 


Moderate  wealth  is  possible  to  every  man — tilling  the  soil  is 
the  surest  way  to  complete  independence — better  than  life 
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will  profit  by  investigating. 


Rich    Farming 
Lands. 


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Lands. 


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A  few  clippings  from  letters  of 
persons  cured: 

"  I  have  tried  them  and  know." 
— Eld.  Chas.  M.  Tearout. 

"  The  box  of  Brawntawns  I 
think  did  me  $5  worth  of  good." — 
Mrs.  J.  Calvin  Stotler. 

"  My  stomach  will  digest  any 
food  as  I  am  a.l  right." — H.  R. 
Mawry. 

"  My  daughter  has  improved 
wonderfully." — Mrs.  R.  M.  Gross. 

"  Everything  I  ate  distressed  me 
so  much  that  I  dreaded  to  eat  any- 
thing. Now  I  can  eat  anything  I 
want  and  feel  no  distress." — Mrs. 
Sallie  Cockeville. 

"  I  can  recommend  them  to  any 
one  suffering  with  indigestion  and 
weak  stomach." — Rev.  A.  J.  Smith. 

A  number  have  accepted  our 
offer,  30  days'  treatment,  Brawn- 
tawns, (50c)  for  25c.  To  give  you 
a  chance  to  know  we  extend  the 
time  to  Oct.  20.     Write  at  once.       i 

I  Victor  Remedies  Co., « 

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opportunity  to  explain  the  new  features 
of  this  washer.    Address 

WM.  S.  MILLER,  Myersdale,  Pa. 

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Department,  as  all  our 
other  departments, 
QUALITY  is  the  ce- 
ment that  binds  the  in- 
terests of  Equity  people. 
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We  cure  you  of  chewing  and  smoking 
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Indiana.    We  answer  all  letters. 

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GOSPEL  SONGS  and  HYMNS 

No.  i. 

Has  a  wonderful  sale,  and  the  book 
still  LIVES.  We  are  receiving  or- 
ders daily  for  this  book  and  have 
sold  more  than  40,000  copies  since  it 
has  been  published.  There  is  only 
one  reason  for  this.  It  is  simply  be- 
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THE    SONGS    AND    HYMNS    IT 
CONTAINS    STILL    LIVE. 

This  book  is  used  by  thousands  in 
the  Sunday  school,  young  people's 
meeting  and  general  song  service.  It 
contains  208  pages  and  sells  at  30 
cents  each,  or  four  for  $1.  Send 
your  orders  to 

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Manchester  College.., 

WANTS  300  students  whose  parents  are 
seeking  an  institution  that  offers  the 
following: — 

I.  A  clean,  moral  atmosphere,  with  a 
delightful    social    life. 

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Work  done  here  admits  students 
to  the  best  universities.  Nine 
universities  have  figured  in  the 
training  of  our  teachers. 
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course  for  teachers,  with  the  de- 
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IV.  A    course    preparatory   to    College 
with   a   diploma. 
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year. 
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second  edition  was  published. 
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calls  for  this  Cook  Book.  For  this 
reason  we  have  decided  to  dispose 
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Century  Scalding  Pot 

Indispensable  for  butchers,  huck- 
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remains  hot,  Very  little  fuel  needed. 
Easily  operated.  Profitable  invest- 
ment.     :       :      :      Write  for  prices. 

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ia   the    Chicago,    Milwaukee   &    St. 
Paul    Railway. 

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and  many  other  points  in  Califor- 
nia. 

S3  to  Portland.  Tacoma,  Seattle  and 
many  other  points  in  Oregon  and 
Washington. 

J8.30  to  Butte,  Helena  and  many 
other  points  in  Montana. 

!8.30  to  Salt  Lake  City,  Ogden  and 
a  number  of  other  points  in  Utah 
Idaho    and    Colorado. 

10.50  to  Spokane  and  other  East- 
ern Washington  points. 

Tickits  on  sale  every  day  until  Oc- 
hcr  IS.  Further  information  about 
lies,  routes  and  train  service  gladly 
irnishcd  by  the  ticket  agent,  or  by 
riting  to 

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IGO.  Tickets  are  second  class — 
ilonisl — and  will  be  on  sale  October 
to  18. 

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ifoniiaiion,    or    address 

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en'l.  Pass.  Agent,  Chicago. 


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Wonderful  Bargains  in  Stoves  for  this  Season 

AM  Illustrated,  Described  and  Plainly   Priced  in   Our  Large  Catalfg. 


CENTS 


Air  Tight,   Lined   Body,   Sheet   Steel   Heaters   for  98   Cents. 

On  page   354   in  our  Large  Catalogue  you  will  find  our  wonderful   valut 
n   Airtight   Stoves  from   98   cents   to   $4.10. 

REMEMBER  **  you  want  a  &ood,  reliable  stove,  guaranteed  in  eve: 
way,  a  stove  that  will  surpass  your  exnect;it<oi  s,  a  be 
ter  stove  than  is  ordinarily  furnished  by  Agents  and  Retailers  for  doub 
our  price,  don't  place  your  order  until  you  have  looked  through  the  Stoi 
Department  of  our  Catalogue.  No  matter  what  kind  of  a  stove  you  wan 
we  can  furnish  it,  and  you  will  find  OUR  PRICE  A  BIG  SURPRISE  wh* 
you  have  seen  the  stove  we  will  send  you. 

We  have  facilities  for  furnishing  our  customers  a  strictly  high  grade,  u; 
to-date,  guaranteed  line  of  stoves  that  are  not  Furp:isscci  by  any  oth- 
Company  and  equaled  by  very  few.  We  have  the  advantage  of  havii 
this  department  of  our  business  under  the  personal  supervision  of  an 
perienced  stove  man,  and  the  patterns  from  which  our  stoves  are  mai 
are  acknowledged  by  experts  to  be  the  very  best  in  principle  and  far 
perior  in  many  ways  to  the  patterns  and  designs  of  some  of  the  olde 
stove  manufacturers  of  the  Country,  who  charge  double  and  frequent 
three  times  the  amount  we  ask  you  for  a  good,  first-class,  high-grade,  u 
to-date,    guaranteed    stove. 

DON'T     FORGET      No    matter    what    inducements    you    may    x 

ceive  elsewhere  we  have  back  of  us  QUA! 

|  ITY   AND   PRICE,    which    is   by   far    the    BEST    INDUCEMENT    OIJ 

[  CUSTOMERS    ASK    and    IS  A  SURE    GUARANTEE    OF    SATISFA 

TION.      Besides,  we  take  back  at  our  own  expense  and  refund  moti' 

in  full  on  any  goods  not  perfectly  satisfactory  to  the  customer. 

The  Best  Time  to  Buy  Tour  Stove  is  Kiglit  Now.  The  reas; 
is  this:  Later  in  the  Season  the  RUSH  WILL  BE  ON  and  shi 
ments  can  be  made  more  promptly  now 
than  thirty  days  hence.  For  this  reason 
we  urge  our  customers  who  can  conveni- 
ently arrange  to  do  so  to  send  their  orcfers 
in  now,  even  though  it  may  be  in  advance 
of  the  time  when  you  will  need  the  stove, 
however  when  you  have  occasion  to  use 
the  stove,  by  ordering  now,  you  will  have 
It  at  hand  and  there  will  be  no  inconvenience  by  delay.  We  are  prepared  for  your 
order  now  and  have  facilities  for  taking  care  of  our  customers  and  we  in  this  way 
make  every  order  placed  with  us  a  profitable,  pleasing,  and  satisfactory  transac- 
tion   to   the   customer. 


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ONE  OF  OUR  BIG  VALUES  IN  OAK  HEATING  STOVES 

Burns  Hard  or  Soft  Coal  or  Wood. 
Complete  for  $3.90. 

This  will  give  you  an  idea  of  what  we  are  offering  in  Oak  Heating  Stoves  and 
we  have  equally  as  wonderful  values  to  offer  in  Base  Burners,  Cook  Stoves,  Steel 
Ranges,  in  fact  we  have  bar  a!ns  for  our  customers  throughout  our  entire  Stove  De- 
partment. From  the  lowest  priced  stove-pipe  to  the  highest  grade  steel  range,  we 
can    supply    your   needs    in    the    Stove   line. 

Send  Your  Request  Now  for  the  Catalogue — It's  Free. 

If  you  do  not  have  our  large  No.  2  General  Merchandise  Catalogue,  don't  delay 
writing  for  it.  A  postal  card  will  bring  "it.  The  best  guarantee  we  have  to  offer 
those  who  have  not  yet  traded  with  us  is  our  large  list  of  satisfied  customers.  If 
you  are  not  acquainted  with  us,  although  we  feel  sure  there  are  very  few  readers  of 
the  Inglenook  who  do  not  know  of  the  EQUITY  MFG.  &  SUPPLY  CO.,  write  us,  get 
acquainted,  it  will  cost  you  nothing,  even  though  you  do  not  send  us  an  order,  but 
wo  are  sure  that  if  you  will  let  us  serve  you,  even  though  you  send  us  but  a  small 
trial  order,  you  will  be  so  well  satisfied  that  we  can  look  forward  to  your  becoming 
one  of  our  regular  customers. 

Awaiting   the   pleasure    of   serving   you   and    your    Friends,    we    are, 

Faithfully, 


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BRETHREN  OAK  GROVE  CHURCH 

Still  continues  to  attract  the  attention  of  homeseekers. 
|    The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  immense  growth  of 
I'ry  variety  of  crop    which  is  again  in  evidence  establishes  the^fact  that  here  is  the 
t  ce  where  the  industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN  PEOPLE  DO  EASTERN  FARMING. 

You  don't  have  to  spend  years  learning  a  new  business. 

ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

lildes  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
t  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  it. 

SPECIAL     LOW    RATES    TO     CALIFORNIA. 

I  From   August   35th    to   Sept.    10th    the   railroads   will   sell   Round   Trip   excursion 
fltets  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

Prom    Chicago $60   00 

""'rom   Mississippi   River 47   60 

rom   Missouri   River 46-00 

Final  return  limit,  Oct.  23. 

SEPTEMBER    15th    TO    OCTOBER    15th    COLONIST    ONE-WAT    TICKETS 
TO  ANT  CALIFORNIA   POINT. 

I  From    Chicago $33   00 

;  From  Mississippi  River 30  00 

,  From   Missouri   River 2S  00 

J  By  this  arrangement  you  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 
If  It  suits1  you,  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate, 
and  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre,  Including  perpetual  water  right.     Terms,  one- 
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Positively  the  highest  grade  steel  range.  It  has  high  shelf,  warming  closet,  deep  reservoir,  he; 
rich  nickel  trimmings  and  mountings,  asbestos  lining,  malleable  iron  frames,  steel  plates  and  an  oven  tf 
is  to  all  intents  and  purposes,  hermetically  sealed.  It  will  stay  that  way  for  years,  and  will  bake  mc 
quickly  more  perfectly  and  with  less  fuel  than  other  ranges.  No  special  "  firing  up,"  no  wasteful  pill 
on  of  fuel  with  our  Amherst  range.  You  cannot  make  a  more  serious  mistake  than  to  buy  an  in  fen 
steel  range  which  seems  to  be  cheap,  but  for  which  you  will  have  to  pay  three  or  four  times,  when  repai 

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POEM. 

UNITED.— By  Hattie  Preston  Rider. 

CONTRIBUTIONS. 

SEED-THOUGHTS   FUR    THE    HEART'S    GARDEN.— By 

Josephine  Hanna. 
CARBORUNDUM.— By  Charity   Vincent. 
TRANSMISSION  OF  TH<  lUGHT  AM<  iNG  THE  MUTES.— 

By  Mrs.  J.  J.  Cross. 
FOUNDING  A  HOME.— By  .Maud  Hawkins. 
-THE  PENITENTIAL  TEAR."— B5  Grace  Longam 
OUR  DAILY  LIFE.— Bj  Edith  M.  Young. 

EDITORIALS. 

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Number  42.  Volume  VI 


30,000  ACRES 


IRRIGATED 


Government  Land 

In   Nevada 

NOW    OPEN  FOR 

HOMESTEAD 


UNDER  THE   NEW 

IRRIGATION   LAW 

The  United  States  Govern- 
ment Constructs  the  Canals, 
Reservoirs  and  Lateral  Ditch- 
es to  the  Land,  and  Maintains 
them  for  10  Year*  at  a  cost  of 

ONLY  $2.58  AN  ACRE 

FEB    TEAS. 

This  Includes  Water.      After   10  Years   Water 
and  Canals  Belong  to  Homesteader. 


Land    Close   to    Railroad    and    Good 
Markets  Can  be  Secured  By 

ACTUAL  SETTLERS 
ONLY. 


Mr.  L.  H.  Taylor,  the  United  States 
Engineer  in  charge  of  work,  says: 
"  It  is  likely  that  most  of  those  set- 
tlers who  desire,  can  find  employment 
tor  themselves  and  teams  on  the  ca- 
nals during  at  least  a  part  of  their 
spare  time  for  the  next  two  or  three 
years." 


For  Information  Write  to 

GEO.  L.  McDONAUGH, 

COLONIZATION    AGENT 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 

Omaha,  Neb. 


THE      fNGLENOOK. 
ARE   YOU    GOING   TO 

CALIFORNIA,  WASHINGTON, 
OREGON,  IDAHO 

Or  Any  Other  Point  ?    Take  the 

Union  Pacific  Railroad 


Daily  Tourist  Car  Line 

BETWEEN 

Chicago,    Missouri    River,    Colorado, 

Idaho,  Oregon,  Washington  and 

California  Points. 


Stop  Off  at  Reno,  Nevada, 

And  Investigate  the  Irrigated  Govern- 
ment Land.  Call  on  Mr.  L.  H.  Taylor 
U.  S.  Engineer,  for  information. 


ONE-WAY    COLONIST'S    RATES. 

To  Pacific  Coast  Every  Day,  Sept.  15 
to  Oct.  15. 

From   Chicago $33  00 

From  St.  Louis 30  00 

From  Missouri   River 25  00 

Proportionate  rates  from  all  points 
East. 


The  Union  Pacific  Railroad 

— Is  Known  As — 

"The  Overland  Ronte" 

And  is  the  only  direct  line  from 
Chicago  and  the  Missouri  River  to 
all  principal  points  West.  Business 
men  and  others  can  save  many 
hours  via  this  line.  Call  on  or  ad- 
dress a  postal  card  to  your  nearest 
ticket  agent,  or  Geo.  L.  McDon- 
augh,  Colonization  Agent,  Omaha. 
Nebr. 

E    L.    LOMAX,    G.    P.    &    T.    A., 
Omaha,  Nebraska. 


45  Bushels  Wheal 
to  the  Acre 


South  Platte  Valley 


"  Democrat": 

W.  L.  Henderson,  who  owns^the"]  farm 
at  the  end  of  the  wagon  bridge  across 
South  Platte  River,  opposite  Sterling, 
Colo.,  realized  over  $3,500  from  wheat 
raised  on  93  acres.  It  went  45  bushels 
to  the  acre  and  weighed  62  pounds  to 
the  bushel. 


The  following  parties  have  bought 
land  near  Snyder,  Colo.: 

Louis  E.  Keltner,  Hygiene,  Colo.; 
W.  W.  Keltner,  North  Dakota;  A.  W. 
Brayton,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  Daniel 
Grabill,  Lemasters,  Pa.;  J.  L.  Kuns, 
McPherson,  Kans.;  D.  L.  Miller,  Mt. 
Morris,  III.;  Daniel  Neikirk,  Lemas- 
ters, Pa.;  Galen  B.  Royer,  Elgin,  111.; 
E.  Slifer,  Mt.  Morris,  111.;  I.  B.  Trout, 
Lanark,  111.;  R.  E.  Arnold,  Elgin,  111. 


Geo.  L.  Studebaker,  of  Muncie,  In- 
diana, says:  "Sterling  is  a  growing 
town  with  a  good  country  surround- 
ing.    The   members   are   active." 


Homeseekers' 

Excursions 

To  Snyder,  Colo., 

With  privilege  of    stopping    off    at 
Sterling,  Colo., 

One  Fare  Plus  $2.00  for  the  Round  Trip 

First  and  Third  Tuesday  of 
Each  Month  via 

Uuion  Pacific  Railroad 


THI 


INGLENOOK. 


WcPHERSON  COLLEGE 


A  College  of  which 
Kansas  is    Proud. 


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HEBE    ARE    A    FEW    OF     THE    GOOD     THINGS    WE    HAVE    TO     OFFER: 

l  Normal  College  that  prepares  teachers  for  all  grades  of  certificates. 

i  Complete  College  course  that  compares  with  anything  in  the  west. 

The  Colleg-e  and  Normal  Courses  lead  to  State  certificates  without  examinations. 
iv'ii:    3xcellent  Building's  and  Equipments. 

ixpenses  are  as  low  as  is  possible  with  first-class  service. 

>ur  last  Year's  Students  will  take  out  of  the  Public  Funds  of  McPherson  county 
alone  over  $10,000  this  year.      This  shows  talent  and  home  appreciation. 

>ur  graduates  occupy  enviable  positions  in  the  business,  educational  and  religious 
world. 

The  Moral  and  Religious  Influences  are  unsurpassed.  No  saloons  in  the  city.  The 
teachers  come  in  close  personal  contact  with  the  students. 

fTe  have  a  Superior  Faculty. 

Vo  put  more  stress  on  our  Bible  School  than  any  other  college  we  know  of. 
M?  phe  President  of  the  college,  Edward  Frantz,  is  dean  of  the  Bible  school  and  is 
recognized  as  having  no  superior  in  his  line  of  work.  He  has  been  instructor 
in  his  line  of  work  in  McPherson  college  for  the  past  nine  years,  and  is  devoting 
his  entire  time  to  the  Bible.  You  can  do  no  better  than  to  take  a  course  here. 
Remember  tuition  In  Bible  Department  is  free.  Come,  study  the  Bible,  pre- 
pare yourself  for  mission  work,  Sunday-school  teacher,  preacher  and  make  your- 
self useful. 

t-here's  no  Risk  in  taking  our  course  in  writing  or  business.  If  you  are  not  satisfied 
with  the  instruction  you  get  from  Prof.  Fahnestock,  you  pay  no  tuition.  This 
should  appeal  to  those  wishing  a  Business  course  or  a  Penmanship  course. 

?rof.  Fahnestock  is  a  little  more  skillful  in  execution  than  the  average  John  or 
Bill,  that  helps  some  of  his  pupils.  He  has  taught  Bookkeeping  and  Penman- 
ship for  thirty  years — that  helps  others.  "Writing  is  one  of  his  specialties. 
If  you  want  all  he  knows  about  it,  come  to  McPherson.  If  you  want  to  be 
entertained,  go  to  Sell's  circus.  Some  people  say  Fahnestock  is  the  best.  All 
say  he  is  conscientious.  If  you  believe  this,  he  can  help  you. 
F:i  t  you  have  but  Little  Means,  write  and  mention  the  Nook.  We  have  an  interesting 
proposition  for  you  if  you  want  a  Business  Course  or  a  course  in  Penmanship. 

We  have  a  S50  Course  for  $5  for  the  first  twelve  readers  of  the  Nook  that  write  us. 
Postmark  on  envelope  will   determine  who  is  first.    Students  may  enter  any  time. 

McPHERSON    COLLEGE.    McPherson,  Kans. 


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CALIFORNIA 

Through  first-class  and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  points  In  California 


and  Oregon  every  day  in  the  year. 


5  PERSONALLY  CONDUCTED  EXCURSIONS 


EVERY    WEEK. 


LOWEST  RATES, 

SHORTEST  TIME   ON   THE    ROAD, 

FINEST   SCENERY,  VARIABLE    ROUTES. 

You  can  leave  home  any  day  In  the  week  and  travel  In  tourist  cars 
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GOSPEL  SONGS  and  HYMNS 

No.  1. 


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ders daily  for  this  book  and  have 
sold  more  than  40,000  copies  since  it 
has  been  published.  There  is  only 
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cause 

THE    SONGS    AND    HYMNS    IT 
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This  book  is  used  by  thousands  in 
the  Sunday  school,  young  people's 
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cents  each,  or  four  for  $t.  Send 
your  orders  to 

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and  connecting  lines. 

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calls  for  this  Cook  Book.  For  this 
reason  we  have  decided  to  dispose 
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Round=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only  in  May 
and  October,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


SETTLERS'    RATES 


Daily  from  September  15  to  October  15,  1904,  the  same  cheap  one-way  second-class  settlers'  rates 
will  be  in  effect  from  the  East  to  points  on  our  line  as  have  heretofore  been  made  in  the  Spring  and 
Fall  months,  as  follows: 

To  Butte,  Anaconda,  Pocatello, 

Ogden,  Salt  Lake,  and  interme-  To  Huntington  and  main 

diate  points.  line  intermediates. 

Chicago, $30.00  $30.50 

Bloomington, 28.80  29.30 

Peoria, 28.00  28.50 

St.   Louis 26.00  27.50 

Kansas  City,  Leavenworth,  Atchison  and  St.  Joseph,....    20.00  22.50 

Council  Bluffs  and  Omaha 20.00  22.50 

Sioux  City 22.90  25.40 

St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis 22.90  25.40 

Proportionate    rates    will    be   made    from   other   stations    in    Illinois,    Iowa,  etc. 


Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail 

— ■  ■  ■ — 

-£  T~V    A    I— I  f\     's  tne   best-watered   arid    State  in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 

^  ll/ill  Iv/     winds,    destructive    storms    and  cyclones   are   unknown,   and   with   its    matchless    cli- 

!^  mate   it   makes    life   bright   and   worth  living. 

.^  We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer  to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 

■^  change    for   the    general    improvement    in   your   condition  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 

r^  account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  both  requirements.     There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 

r^  and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  country  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 

^S  swer  and  many  conditions   to  investigate. 

^  Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger   work   teach   us   that   a   few   dollars   spent   in    railroad 

!^  fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves  thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

'£  Cheap    homeseekers'   rates    are   made    to   all    principal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 

•^  for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting  a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


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5     Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance.      Fine      | 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


— — —  S 

Arrived  in  Payette  Valley  Feb.  23,  1003.  Settled  on  an  80-acre  tract,  covered  with  sage  brush. 
Cleared  40  acres.  May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.  Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.  June  12  sowed  10  acres 
to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.  Yielded  55  to  acre.  Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 
or   March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 
oats. 

Potatoes    yielded    500    bushels    to    the    acre    and  many  of  them  weighed  3   to  5  pounds   each,  four  of       * 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)   E.  L.  Dotson. 


S 


.■«  D.   E.   BURLEY, 

:■«      S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio.  G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R., 

iS      J.   E.  HOOPER,  Agent,   Oakland,  Kansas.  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah.  i 

'^  Mention  the  INGLENOOK  wtien  wntin..  *0tl3 

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I  NSLtNOOK 


October  18.  1904. 


No.  42. 


UNITED. 


BY    HATTIE    PRESTON    RIDER. 

Who  dares  to  say  love's  ties  are  ever  broken? 

Love  is  ineffable,  complete,  and  whole, 
It  knows  no  bounds,  no  keen  lines  of  division; 

He  owns  it  all,  who  hath  it  in  his  soul. 

No  man  knows  real  loss,  who  submits  his  treasure 

Into  the  keeping  of  his  Father's  hand 
Until  the  nightfall,  and  its  dear  home-coming; 

— Death's  sting  is  that  we  do  not  understand. 

The  smallest  atom  in  God's  world  of  nature 
Keeps  its  identity,  through  change  and  chance. 

And  seeks  the  place  his  loving  will  decrees  it, 
Unhampered  and  unharmed  by  circumstance; 

The  law  that  holds  the  atoms  in  relation, 
And  draws  unerringly  to  each  its  own. 
Brooks  naught  of  accident  or  loss  or  error; 
I   — "fis  God's  own  law,  and  stands  supreme,  alone. 

Then  safer  far  he  guards  our  dearest  treasures, 
.    On  earth,  up  yonder  in   his  house  above. 
Or,  it  may  be,  still  walking  close  beside  us, 
— What  sweeter  heav'n  than  serving  those  we  love? 

And  sometime  we  shall  see  that  clear  and  truly. 
Which  here  we  saw  in  vision  fair  and  dim: 

No  death  in  love,  no  real  separation; 
Apart,  together,  we  are  one  in  him. 

418  Algona  Ave.,   Elgin.  III. 

♦  •$•  •$• 
SEED-THOUGHTS    FOR    THE    HEART'S    GARDEN. 


BY   JOSEPHINE   HAXNA. 

Charity  multiplies  its  own  happiness  by  the  happi- 
ness of  others. 

* 

//'  you  run  hard  enough,  things  will  be  likely  to  get 
out  of  your  way. 

* 

//  purpose  would  drive  on  a  bee-line,  it  would  not 

have  so  far  to  go. 

* 

There  is  a  good  bit  of  timber  gotten  out  and  wasted, 
on  plans  that  are  changed  every  fortnight  or  two. 


The  poor  are  good  judges  of  God's  fig  trees. 

* 
The  worth  of  a  friend  is  measured  by  his  steps. 

* 
The  quality  that  can  create  a  demand,  can  furnish 
its  own  opportunity. 

* 

If  your  thoughts  run  down  hill,  get  off  the  precipice 

on  to  the  safe  ground. 

* 

//  is  easy  to  down  another,  when  you  have  the  floor, 
— but  it  is  not  honorable. 

* 

Cultivate  the  best  traits  which  you  possess,  and  do 
not  stop  short  of  a  full  crop. 


It  is  not  your  undertaking  the  thing  so  far  ahead, — 
it's  your  overtaking  it  that  counts. 
* 
By  many  means  success  may  be  cheap,  while  by  any 
means,  it  may  not  be  worth  the  price. 
* 
Integrity  is  good  capital  without  riches,  but  riches, 
without  integrity,  is  poor  capital  for  any  man. 

Defeat  may  challenge  your  strength,  but  only  when 
you  falter,  can  it  prove  your  weakness. 
* 
They  shut  out  more  than  they  shut  in,  who  build 
walls  of  selfishness  about  themselves. 
* 
Do   not  frame  the  picture  of    enterprise,  in    your 
mind,  iu  ils  Sinn/ay  suit:  it  is  misleading. 
* 
Speaking   of  turning  oul   well,  a   man   is  bound  to 
turn  out  just  ll'hat's  in  him.  and  he  should  be  careful 
what  he  carries. 

* 
The  first  half  of  the  way  lo  success  is  a  well-beaten 
path,  but  you  eon  count  the  hacks  on  Hie  last  half,  ami 
the  shoe  of  perseverance  tits  them  all. 
Flora,  Ind. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  18,   1904. 


CARBORUNDUM. 


BY    CHARITY  VINCENT. 

Of  the  scientific  wonders  of  the  age  there  seem  to 
be  two  that  rival  in  attention  to-day.  They  are  radium 
and  carborundum.  Carborundum  is  not  as  new  a 
material  as  radium,  but  it  has  fourteen  years  of  mag- 
ical history  thrown  around  it  which  gives  it  a  halo 
of  authentic  glory.  It  has  many  peculiar  character- 
istics which  make  it  worthy  of  all  the  attention  it  at- 
tracts. Its  manufacture  is  one  of  the  most  remarka- 
ble achievements  of  man.  It  is  a  crystal — almost 
equal  to  the  diamond  in  hardness — made  by  such  com- 


Monongahela,  Pa.,  while  experimenting  with  intern 
electric  heat,  succeeded  in  getting  crude  carborundui 
crystals-  from  sand  and  carbon  acted  upon  by  electr; 
heat  of  great  temperature.  He  perfected  his  dii 
covery,  and  the  next  spring  the  Franklin  Institute  c 
Philadelphia,  gave  him  the  John  Scott  medal  an 
prize,  and  forthwith  carborundum  became  a  distini 
and  important  factor  in  the  scientific  world.  M; 
Acheson  at  once  turned  his  discovery  to  practical  usi 
At  the  first  the  price  of  carborundum  was  from  fou 
hundred  to  six  hundred  dollars  a  pound  and  the  d| 
mand  was  far  greater  than  the  supply.  In  1895  th 
manufacturing  plant  was  moved  to  Niagara  Falls, 
Y.,  and  now,  with  the  great  power  of  the  Niagar 


CARBORUNDUM    FURNACE  READY   TO   BURN. 


mon  materials  as  salt,  sand,  coke  and  saw-dust  being 
ingeniously  operated  upon  by  intense  heat.  Indeed, 
carborundum  is  a  man-made  mineral  which  is  unlike 
anything  ever  found  in  the  great  pockets  of  Mother 
Earth.  And  as  to  its  value — well;  the  manner  in  which 
the  world  is  already  using  it  seems  to  speak  more 
plainly  than  words  that  it  is  just  what  we  needed  long 
ago. 

At  first  there  were  only  a  few  grains  of  car- 
borundum which  were  .  used  in  polishing  diamonds 
and  other  precious  stones.  To-day  millions  of  pounds 
of  carborundum  are  used  and  that  in  almost  every 
branch  of  manufacture !  It  is  the  one  abrasive  ma- 
terial most  universally  used  in  enlightened  countries. 

In  the  fall  of   1890,  Mr.  Edward  G.   Acheson,  of 


Falls '  at  their  command,  the  Carborundum  Compan 
are  making  the  industry  thrive.  This  year's  produc 
will  be  eight  million  pounds  of  carborundum,  and  th 
present  price  is  about  ten  cents  per  pound. 

The  process  of  making  carborundum  is  most  interest 
ing.  It  is  burned  in  brick  furnaces,  which  are  re§ 
tangular.  The  ends  and  floor  are  all  that  is  permanef, 
of  them.  The  intense  heat  that  is  used  is  very  de 
structive  and  makes  it  necessary  to  partially  rebuil 
the  furnaces  after  each  fire.  The  ends  are  very  solic 
ly  built,  being  about  two  feet  thick.  In  them  are  fitte 
the  carbon  rods  which  are  to  conduct  the  electricit 
to  the  furnace — for  it  is  only  by  the  great  heat  mad 
possible  by  electricity  that  carborundum  can  be  mad< 
The  inside  dimensions  of  the  furnace  are  usually  a 


-Hows — length  sixteen  feet,  width  five  feet  and  depth 
re  feet. 

After  the  side  walls  have  been  rebuilt  to  about  four 
et  in  height,  a  mixture  of  sand,  salt,  finely  crushed 


mi  ioi 
(lit  J 


%u 


THE   INGLENOOK.— October  18,  1904. 


987 


The  furnace  ready,  the  electric  current  is  turned  on 
and  is  skillfully  regulated.  A  thousand  horse-power 
energy  is  continuously  converted  into  heat  and  ap- 
plied to  the  furnace.     The  temperature  goes  up,  up. 


CARBORUNDUM    FURNACE   BURNING. 


oke  and  sawdust  is  put  in.  In  this  a  trench  is  made 
nd  filled  with  grains  of  coke  of  a  certain  size.  This 
art  of  the  work  is  carefully  done  by  hand  and  when 
nished  there  is  a  core  of  coke  twenty-one  inches  in' 
iameter  and  about  sixteen  feet  long.  The  walls  are 
ow  finished  and  more  of  the  mixture  is  heaped  on, 
sually  to  a  height  of  about  eight  feet. 


up  to  7,500  degrees  Fahrenheit.  Even  the  strongest 
imagination  grows  dizzy  trying  to  contemplate  this 
intense  heat.  After  a  few  hours  of  this  kind  of  heat 
the  sides  and  top  of  the  furnace  are  covered  with 
blue  flames ;  later,  the  lop  may  take  on  the  appearance 
of  a  minute  volcano.  Small  craters  sometimes  quick- 
ly open  and  white  hot  cinders  are  thrown  several  feet 


CARBORUNDUM   FURNACE   AFTER    BURNING. 


_ 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  18,  1904. 


in  the  air.  The  escaping  gases  burn  in  flames  and  it 
is  a  hot  furnace  indeed.  Yet,  with  all  this  heat,  the 
difference  in  temperature  is  scarcely  noticed  a  rod 
away  from  the  furnace. 

After  thirty-six  hours  of  this  kind  of  burning,  the 


As  taken  from  the  electric  furnace,  crude  carbo 
undurn  is  in  large  masses  of  crystals.  Owing  to  tj 
oxidation  of  the  gases  the  surface  of  the  carborundu 
crystal  is  of  various  colors  and  shades.  Black,  bh 
and    green    predominate,    but    placed    in    the    ligl 


FIFTEEN   FURNACES  IN   OPERATION. 


current  is  turned  off  and  the  mass  is  allowed  to  cool. 
The  sides  of  the  furnace  are  then  taken  down  and  the 
carborundum  removed.  What  was  the  mixture,  is 
now  about  seven  thousand  pounds  of  beautiful  carbor- 
undum crystals.  There  is  also  an  inner  and  outer 
crust  of  amorphous  carborundum  and  other  interest- 
ing substances. 


carborundum  crystals  scintillate  every  color  of  th 
spectrum.  Their  beauty  rivals  that  of  any  of  th 
precious  gems  found  in  the  earth.  Color,  how 
ever,  has  no  effect  upon  its  hardness.  As  state 
before,  the  diamond  is  the  only  substance  known  tha 
equals  it  in  hardness,  although  it  is  more  brittle  tha: 
the  diamond.     It  cuts  emery  and  corundum  with  eas 


THE    I XGLEXOOK.— October  18,  1904. 


989 


PEARL  GRINDING. 


nd  even  scratches  the  diamond.  The  chemical  com- 
osition  is  thirty  parts  carbon  to  seventy  parts  silicon, 
ts  weight  is  one  and  one-fifth  times  the  weight  of 
and.  Water,-  oils  and  acids  have  no  effect  upon  it, 
ot  even  hydrofluoric  acid.  It  cannot  be  melted  in 
lie  highest  known  degree  of  heat. 
The  real  value  of  carborundum  is  its  practical  use. 


The  crystals  are  crushed  and  this  grain  carborundum 
is  made  into  wheels,  discs,  and  other  forms  as  may 
be  best  suited  for  its  use  as  an  abrasive  in  the  various 
industries.  This  is  done  by  mixing  it  in  certain  pro- 
portions with  kaolin  and  feldspar.  It  is  then  molded 
in  the  desired  shape,  pressed  in  a  hydraulic  press, 
placed  in  a  kiln,  and  fired.     Each  of  these  carborun- 


CARHOKl   NWM    in  mi   <    I  s. 


990 


THE    INGLEN00K.— October  18,  1904. 


dum  articles  are  carefully  tested  before  leaving  tbe 
factory.  In  fact,  the  Carborundum  Company  are  so 
particular  to  maintain  their  good  reputation  for  flaw- 
less goods  that  it  is  said  their  testers  are  required  to 
affirm  before  a  notary  public  each  day  that  they  have 
examined  each  article,  referring  to  them  by  number, 
and  found  them  faultless. 


-A   SECTION    OF    THE    KILN    ROOM. 

Over  one  hundred  thousand  different  shapes,  or 
articles,  are  made  by  the  Company.  They  range  from 
the  large  carborundum  wheels,  or  grind-stones,  to 
minute  dental  instruments.  Carborundum  is  wideb- 
and variously  used  and  it  seems  to  give  equal  satis- 


FIFTEEN    HUNDRED  TON    HYDRAULIC   PRESS. 

faction  wherever  it  is  tried,  whether  it  be  on  stones, 
manganese  steel,  wood,  leather,  pearl,  rubber  or  cork. 
Jewelers,  opticians  and  similar  workmen  find  it  of 
great  importance  to  them  in  their  work.  Wherever 
great    care    is    to    be    exercised    carborundum    is    the 


abrasive  selected  because  its  work  can  be  easily 
erned.     An  expert  can  govern  his  work  to  one  te 
thousandth  of  an  inch  while  using  carborundum, 
well  as  being  accurate  it  is  also  rapid.     Using  ca 
borundum  about  fifteen  and  a  half  hours'  work  c; 
be  done  in  five  and  a  half  hours.     It  means  rapid  woi 
when  a  cast  iron  cylinder  nine  inches  in  length  at 
four  and  five-eighths  inches  in  diameter  is  reduced  on 
eighth  of  an  inch  in  two  and  one-half  minutes.     It 
eight  cubic  inches  of  cast  iron  ground  up.     That 
what  has  been  done  by  the  carborundum  wheel. 

Carborundum  is  as  cheap  as  any  known  abrasiv 
Its  first  cost  is  more  than  that  of  emery,  but  it  hi 
proven  itself  cheaper  by  doing  better  and  more  wo; 
Owing  to  its  cheapness  and  general  usefulness  it 
crept  into  almost  all  lines  of  industry  in  its  short  lifi 
time.     Rice  is  automatically  hulled  by  means  of  ca 
borundum    cylinders,    barley    is   pearled,    and   whes 
corn,  and  other  grains  are  prepared  for  food  by  it. 
helps  in  making  the  finely  finished  paper  that  is  use 
for  books,  in  beveling  mirrors,  making  pearl  buttor 
and    other    articles    and    even    in    making   the    lady 
"  suede "    glove.      Carborundum    is    a    welcome    di 
covery  and  the  wonders  it  has  worked  in  its  shoi 
history  are  indeed  out  of  the  ordinary. 

Walkerton,  Indiana. 

*  *  * 
SWEDEN    INDIGNANT. 


"  Under  the  influence  of  evil  counselors,  of  whor 
the  late  Minister  Plehve  was  one,  the  Czar  issued 
manifesto  on  Feb.  15,  1889,  suspending  the  Finnis! 
constitution,  which  was  a  direct  violation  of  the  guar 
anty  given  by  Alexander  I.  in  1809,  viz.,  '  that  Fin 
land's  liberties  and  its  religion  should  be  guarded  am 
respected  forever,  and  that  the  people  should  for  al 
time  have  the  right  to  live  under  their  own  constitu 
tion  of  1792.'  But  this  has  been  violated  by  his  sue 
cessor,  Nicholas  II.  During  the  latter  part  of  i88< 
the  diet  was  reduced  to  practical  impotence ;  obligator 
service  or  conscription  for  the  Russian  imperial  arm; 
was  set  on  foot ;  later  the  order  establishing  the  Russiai 
language  was  issued  and  the  cruel  and  brutal  policj 
of  Russification  began  in  earnest.  The  Finns  in  Fin 
land  numbered  in  1900,  when  the  language  decree  wai 
issued,  about  2,700,000  people,  or  100,000  more  thai 
are  in  Indiana,  in  a  territory  about  as  large  as  Mom 
tana.  Of  these  2,700,000  people,  only  8,000  coulc 
speak  the  Russian  language,  but  they  were  all  com 
demned  to  lose  their  own  tongue ;  to  use  Russian  ir 
their  official  papers  and  to  kill  their  literature.  Fin- 
land established  and  maintained  good  schools,  acade^ 
mies  and  universities ;  their  artificers  in  many  crafts 
and  trades  had  achieved  a  name  for  their  great  skill; 
they  were  a  highly  intelligent  and  moral  people,  and 
illiteracy  was  practically  unknown,  the  percentage  of 
illiterates   being  probably   the   smallest   in   the   whole 


THE   INGLENOOK.— October  iS,  1904. 


991 


oriel.  Whatever  may  have  been  the  cause  for  the- 
ruel  acts  on  the  part  of  Russia,  the  effects  are  plain. 
5r  300,000  or  more  Finns  have  left  the  fatherland 
1  the  past  two  years,  of  whom  the  United  States  has 
;ceivcd  perhaps  200,000." 

All  classes  are  indignant  at  the  project  of  the  Rus- 
an  government,  under  the  guise  of  a  company  for 
lising  wrecks  and  rescuing  disabled  vessels,  to  master 
le  intricacies  of  the  Stockholm  archipelago.  A  com- 
anv,  formed  to  operate  on  the  Finnish  and  Swedish 
aasts  has  petitioned  the  government  not  only  for  the 
rivilege  of  traversing  the  Swedish  littoral,  but  for 
berty  to  work  among  the  maze  of  islands,  under-wa- 
>r  rocks  and  shoals,  stretching  fan-like  from  Stock- 
olm  to  the  open  Baltic  and  constituting  the  capital's 
reatest  bulwark  against  external  attack.  There  is  on- 
f  one  generally  known  passage  through  the  archipela- 
'0  and  all  ships  are  navigated  by  pilots  of  the  Swedish 
overnment.  Many  other  safe  channels  are  known  on- 
/  to  the  Swedish  navy.  Should  the  Russian  vessels 
e  permitted  to  take  soundings  of  all  possible  approach- 
s  to  Stockholm  the  city  would  be  practically  defense- 
:ss.  The  minister  of  the  navy  advises  the  government 
3  deny  the  Russian  company's  petition.  The  public 
pproves  the  advice  and  demands  that  intimation  be 
•iven  the  St.  Petersburg  government  that  Sweden  is 
live  to  the  true  character  of  the  scheme. — Marion  S. 
lorlius,  in  Elgin  Courier. 

♦  *  * 
THE    SCHEME    OF    COLOR. 


flesh.  White,  indeed,  is  one  of  the  colors  that  is  be- 
coming to  almost  all  women,  especially  with  ribbons 
or  flowers  of  the  colors  that  suit  them  best.  And  next 
to  white  a  fair  and  rosy  woman  seldom  looks  so  well 
in  anything  as  a  pale  pink ;  she  may  be  almost  plain, 
and  a  white  dress  and  pink  ribbons  will  make  her  seem 
lovely.  Pink,  the  delicate  pink  with  yellow  cast  in  it 
is  peculiarly  suitable  to  the  red-haired  woman  who 
has  a  clear  complexion ;  yet  such  a  woman  should  avoid 
scarlet  and  crimson  as  she  would  fire ;  pale  blue  suits 
her,  but  she  will  look  delicate  and  a  little  pinched  in  it; 
in  pale  green  she  will  be  as  fresh  as  Galatea — other 
things  being  equal ;  in  dark  green,  as  blooming  as  a 
wood  nymph ;  and  there  are  tints  of  terra-cotta  and 
brown  bronze  that  will  shade  up  to  her  hair  and  mingle 
with  it  as  if  she  were  a  picture.  But  all  women  should 
bear  in  mind  that  the  brightest  and  most  striking  col- 
ors, like  yellow  and  scarlet,  are  seldom  to  be  used  in  a 
mass  except  for  very  striking  effects,  and  as  a  luxury, 
and  in  the  ornamental  rather  than  in  the  body  of  a  toi- 
lette. If  they  are  of  the  blown  and  blowzy  sort,  the 
high  colors  will  only  make  their  defect  more  noticeable  ; 
and  if  they  are  of  the  washed-out  and  gray-skinned 
type,  then  the  contrast  is  disagreeable.  The  former 
variety  can  tone  themselves  down,  as  we  have  said; 
the  latter  would  better  accept  their  fate,  and  they  will 
find  themselves  in  the  dull  blue  and  soft  rose  colors 
much  pleasanter  objects  to  the  eye  than  anything  ab- 
rupt, or  even  in  the  grays  and  browns  that  make  them 
seem  all  of  a  piece  and  as  if  they  were  fading  out  of 
sight. 

But,  again,  the  woman  who  has  no  avoirdupois  at 
all,  whose  contours  best  represent  the  shortest  distance 
between  two  points,  should  put  far  away  from  her 
black,  and  all  the  deeper  shades,  but  especially  black, 
as  its  own  poverty  is  reflected  on  every  surface  it  ap- 
proaches. She  is  already  thin,  and  then  black  makes 
her  seem  like  a  mere  exclamation  point,  and  unless 
she  is  of  rather  extraordinary  beauty,  makes  her  look 
much  older  than  she  is,  and  now  as  gray  as  eld,  and 
now  as  yellow  as  a  lemon  :  it  needs  a  very  fine  color 
in  black  not  to  look  sallow.  The  woman  in  middle  life 
who  wears  her  widow's  weeds,  deliberately  places  her- 
self as  an  old  woman,  as  she  will  discover  by  the  chance 
remarks  of  the  man  in  the  cars  who  gets  up  to  give 
tin  old  woman  a  seat,  or  of  the  mother  who  reproves 
her  liny  for  running  against  tin  old  lady.  There  is, 
in  fact,  as  much  art  in  the  choosing  of  colors  for  dress 
as  in  any  other  scheme  of  decoration :  properly  ob- 
served, it  must  not  only  increase  the  charm  of  good 
looks,  but  it  can  make  something  like  beauty  where 
under  other  circumstances  beauty  does  not  exist. — 
Harper's  Bazar. 

*  *  * 

When  a  man  is  no  longer  anxious  to  do  better  than 
well  he  is  done  for. — B.  R.  Hay  don. 


992 


THE    INGLEN'OOK.— October  18,  1904. 


TRANSMISSION   OF   THOUGHT   AMONG   THE 
MUTES. 


BY    MRS.   J.    J.    CROSS. 

Many  who  read  this  may  never  have  had  the  pleas- 
ure of  meeting  with  mutes,  therefore  they  may  wonder 
how  persons  unable  to  hear  and  speak  are  able  to  con- 
vey their  ideas  to  one  another.  But  to  one  having-  a 
slight  experience  with  sign  language  or  the  manual  al- 
phabet it  is  very  simple  indeed. 

Language  in  its  orthographic  form,  as  we  are  ac- 
customed to  using  it  in  writing  and  reading,  is  ad- 
dressed to  the  sight  only,  and  any  one  who  can  learn  to 
read  this  form  of  language  written  on  a  page  is  able 
to  learn  to  read  the  same  language  in  another  alphabet 
written  in  the  air,  by  the  use  of  the  fingers.  There  is  a 
sign  which  the  mutes  use  for  almost  every  word  in  the 
English  language  and  by  the  use  of  these  signs  and 
manual  alphabet  they  are  able  to  convey  and  receive 
ideas  very  readily  and  fully  understand  each  other  and 
their  friends. 

Writing  and  printing  is  easily  read  by  them,  which 
they  also  understand  equally  as  well  as  the  sign  lan- 
guage, but  the  written  or  long  form  of  language  is  en- 
tirely too  inconvenient  for  conversation  purposes,  hence 
this  sign  language  is  introduced  for  the  purpose  of 
speech  and  it  is  wonderful  how  soon  the  acquisition 
of  this  speech  may  be  obtained. 

It  is  nothing  uncommon  to  see  an  interpreter  for  the 
mutes  stand  by  a  public  speaker  and  interpret  every 
.word  he  says,  though  he  talks  as  fast  as  he  can,  and 
the  mutes  will  understand  every  word  he  says,  just 
as  well  as  those  who  can  hear  and  speak.  And, 
too,  we  have  every  reason  to  believe  that  in  many 
instances  they  know  more  about  the  sermon  or 
lecture  or  some  one's  conversation  than  people  who 
can  hear,  because  their  eyes  have  to  make  up  for  the 
loss  of  the  ear  and  tongue,  which  makes  them 
very  acute,  and  they  notice  every  little  motion  of  the 
lips.  To  this  we  never  pay  much  attention,  but  to 
them  it  means  very  much.  By  this  means  they  are  able 
to  get  the  trend  of  the  conversation  and  keep  it  after 
they  once  know  what  you  are  talking  about,  by  the 
simple  motion  of  the  lips.  Especially  is  this  true  when 
they  become  acquainted  with  one. 

When  mutes  are  conversing  with  each  other  the 
speed  of  conversation  is  gained  bv  the  omission  of  use- 
less words  which  we  use  in  print  and  ordinary  con- 
versation. For  example :  the  mute  sees  a  fire  in  the 
city  at  a  certain  number  and  street :  instead  of  saying, 
"  I  saw  a  large  fire  down  town  last  night  at  num- 
ber   and  street, etc.,"  the  mute  would  sav  on 

his   fingers,    "Fire!    number   .    street   ,   last 

night."     Thus  the  omission  of  several  words  shorten 
the  form  vet  convey  the  same  idea ;  and  in  the  same 


manner  the  minister  who  is  a  mute  can  preach  to  hi 
audience  a  longer  sermon  in  the  same  length  of  tin* 
I  sometimes  think  they  are  able  to  think  even  moi 
rapidly  because  they  become  accustomed  to  thinking  i 
the  short  form,  as  they  read  and  write,  and  it  is  won 
derful  to  note  how  rapidly  one  of  these  mutes  who  i 
well  educated,  reads  a  page  of  printed  matter ;  an 
the  probable  solution  is  that  he  glances  for  seecB 
thoughts  and  root  words  that  lead  to  the  discussio 
of  the  subject  rather  than  read  every  line  and  wor 
like  the  casual  reader  does. 
Michigan  City,  hid.,  R.  F.  D.  No.  3. 

•$»      «$*      H$ 

THE   MAN    WHO    MADE    HELL    PAY. 


The  attention  of  the  world  just  now  for  many  rej 
sons  is  being  directed  toward  Leopold,  the  king  c 
Belgium.  In  the  first  place,  to  those  who  are  acquaim 
ed  with  the  affairs  of  the  kingdom,  it  is  no  new  thin 
to  speak  of  his  subjects  as  the  "  impossible  "  peopli 
One  of  the  principal  editors  of  the  city  of  Brussel: 
the  capital  of  Belgium,  also  one  of  the  prominent  he 
tel-keepers  of  the  place,  informed  the  Nookman  whe 
he  was  there  that  at  the  very  least  ninety  per  cent  c 
the  populace  were  illiterate,  and  that  a  large  majorit 
of  the  policemen,  even,  could  neither  read  nor  write 

These  facts  are  attracting  attention  among  the  edv. 
cators  of  the  world.     The  better  classes    of    peopl 
speak  French,  while  the  poorer  classes  invariably  speaffl 
Flemish,  which  language  is  not  printed  nor  wnttei  | 
and  consequently  has  become  very  corrupt. 

Where  ignorance  reigns  in  the  highest  supremac 
there  can  be  no  question  but  that  the  morals  and  vii 
tues  of  such  a  country  are  in  imminent  danger.  On 
informants  told  us  that  the  great  majority  of  men,  es 
pecially  in  the  cities,  live  upon  the  prostitution  of  thei 
daughters  and  that  a  virtuous  woman  is  something  a. 
most  impossible  to  find. 

The  state  church  of  the  kingdom,  in  consequenc 
of  the  two  above  named  facts,  lack  of  education  an 
lack  of  morals,  has  almost,  if  not  altogether,  lost  he 
spirituality.  It  is  to-day  nothing  more  than  a  forma 
mechanical  rendezvous  in  which  rotten  and  corruf 
government  officials  hide,  together  with  bishops  an 
prelates  of  the  supposed  church  of  God,  who  comm 
depredations  and  crimes  that  would  make  a  sin-scarre 
world  were  these  crimes  laid  open  to  view. 

Only  an  occasional  glimpse  of  the  iniquity  and  sin  c 
this  country  has  been  seen  except  by  the  travele: 
since  the  days  of  Napoleon  until  in  recent  years.  Kin 
Leopold  has  now  become  such  a  financial  factor  i 
the  world  that  the  world  is  becoming  acquainted  wit 
him  along  that  line  and  of  course  in  turn  they  deman 
to  know  more  of  his  social  life ;  when  the  facts  are  be 
gun  to  be  known  in  some  small  degree,  what  he  is  dc 
ing  at  home,  or  rather  not  doing,  it  awakens  an  interei 


THE    INGLEXOOK.— October  18,  1904. 


993 


bn  the  public  mind  to  know  what  might  be  going  on 
«n  the  heart  of  the  Congo  country  in  darkest  Africa, 
"  vhere  the  king  has  millions  invested  and  where  he  is 
i  .bsolute  monarch,  and  sways  the  scepter  over  a  pande- 
•'■  nonium  of  native  slaves  with  a  bloody  hand. 

A  splendid  picture  of  some  of  his  dastardly  crimes 
1  s  hinted  at  by  W.  T.  Stead  in  a  character  sketch,  in 
*-?eview  of  Reviews  for  June,  1903.  Following  is  a 
^.election  from  Mr.  Stead's  article : 

His  Majesty,  King  Leopold  of  Belgium,  has  a  hob- 
)y  for  collecting  rare  plants  and  flowers  from  all  parts 
>f  the  world.     His  glass-houses  in  the  palace  of  Laeck- 
n  are  famous  throughout  Europe.     In  connection  with 
hese  glass-houses  may  be  mentioned  a  curious   fact 
yhich  illustrates  one  side  of  his  character  not  usually 
n  evidence  before  the  public.     In  the  very  heart  of  the 
,'ast  acreage  that  is  covered  with  conservatories,  orchid 
"'lind  palm    houses    of  all  shapes,  stands  a  church,  the 
"like  of  which  is  to  be  found  nowhere  else.     It  is  circu- 
lar in  form,  surrounded  by  a  dome  of  glass,  supported 
13y  twenty  granite  columns,  in  the  intervals  of  which 
1!'j>tand  statues  of  the  twelve  apostles.     The  plain  stone 
liltar    stands    among    a    mass    of    palms  and  flowers. 
(Hbove  the  altar  hangs  a  large  cross  which  is  fitted  up 
"'with  electric  lights.     The  whole  church  at  the  evening 
1  service  can  be  brilliantly  lighted  up.     The  gallery  for 
"the    orchestra    is   lavishly    decorated     with   growing 
P' flowers.     Here  the  king  goes  to  mass  with  the  royal 
'"household,  whose  devotions  are  not  disturbed,  although 
Occasionally  enlivened,  by  the  singing  of  the  numerous 
(birds  which  flit  to  and  fro  above  the  worshipers.     The 
"'king  sits  in  front  before  the  whole  congregation.     Ser- 
"rnons  he  does  not  tolerate,  but  he  attends  mass  like  a 
^good  Catholic. 

The  picture  of  Leopold  kneeling  before  the  altar  em- 
ibosomed  in  tropical  foliage,  while  the  birds  join  their 
music  to  that  of  the  choir,  lingers  in  the  memory,  if 
jonly  because  of  the  sharp  contrast  it  offers  to  the  jom- 
Ipanion  picture  of  Leopold  as  sovereign  of  the  Congo. 
Similar  contrasts  are   familiar  enough   in   the  blood- 
stained history  of  the  conquistadors  when  men  of  the 
stamp  of  Cortes  and   Pizarro  rivaled  the    fervor    of 
their  piety  by  the  ruthlessness  of  their  rapacity.     For 
1  unless  an  almost  unbroken  procession  of  credible  wit- 
nesses have  conspired  to  lie.     King  Leopold  is  in  his 
"imperial  capacity  one  of  the  most  sinister  and  terrible 
of  all  the    figures    to  be  met  with  even  in  connection 
with  llie  blood-stained  annals  of  the  Dark  Continent. 
There  are  some  who  believe  King  Leopold  marked 
the  heart  of  the  Dark  Continent  for  his  prey  when  he 
received  the  reports  of  the  West   African  explorers, 
i:  who  spoke  of  the  riches  of  the  territory  drained  by  the 
1,1  Congo.        The    instinct   of  the  vulture,  they  say,  was 
If! aroused  within  him;  and  he  deliberately  set  about  the 
enterprise  which  has  resulted  in  his  netting  enormous 
ancial  gains.     For  my  part,   I  shrink  from  credit- 


"  fina 
\ 


ing  him  with  the  foresight  of  the  hypocrisy  which  such 
a  supposition  implies.  It  is  more  reasonable  to  believe 
that  he  went  into  the  Congo  adventure  from  a  desire 
to  assert  himself  in  a  wider  field  than  the  narrow  limits 
of  his  little  kingdom.  It  is  not  impossible  that  he  may 
have  been  prompted  thereto  by  the  natural  feelings  of 
benevolence  which  are  never  entirely  extinct  in  the  hu- 
man heart.  Whatever  the  motives  which  led  him 
first  to  embark  upon  his  Congo  adventure,  even  if 
they  were  of  the  highest,  they  exposed  him  to  temp- 
tations which  he  has  been  unable  to  resist.  Yielding 
to  them,  at  first  perhaps  unconscious  as  to  where  a 
false  step  would  lead  him,  he  has  plunged  onward  on 
a  path  which  led  him  ever  downward  until,  at  the  pres- 
ent moment,  he  stands  responsible  for  having  estab- 
lished in  the  name  of  civilization  a  veritable  Empire  of 
Hell  in  the  heart  of  Africa.  But  he  has"  made  Hell 
pay ;  and  a  rapid  survey  of  the  methods  by  which  he 
has  achieved  this  result  brings  into  relief  the  enor- 
mous advantages  which  a  crown  gives  to  a  money  king. 
It  is  well  for  financiers,  pure  and  simple,  that  royalty 
so  seldom  enters  into  competition  with  them  in  their 
business.  Altogether  the  king  is  said  to  have  invested 
a  sum  of  not  more  than  $6,500,000  in  founding  and 
exploiting  his  African  Empire.  The  Empire  as  a 
political  organization  has  not  yet  produced  a  surplus. 
But  the  deficit  is  a  mere  bagatelle  compared  with  the 
enormous  profits  which  the  King  is  said  to  draw  from 
his  African  domains. 

From  a  financial  point  of  view  the  success  of  King 
Leopold  is  without  precedent ;  but  the  King  is  not  con- 
tent. His  profits  at  present  arise  exclusively  from  the 
loot  of  the  ivory  of  a  continent,  and  the  exaction  by 
merciless  atrocity  of  the  india-rubber  which  is  required 
to  furnish  the  cycle  and  motor  trade  with  tires.  But 
quite  recently,  inspired,  it  is  said,  by  a  conversation 
with  an  American  citizen  of  Irish  birth.  Mr.  Walsh, 
of  Colorado,  he  has  conceived  the  idea  that  the  high- 
lands of  the  Congo  may  be  as  rich  in  gold  as  the 
mountains  of  the  western  slope  of  the  American  con- 
tinent. The  Americanization  of  the  Congo  might 
yet  be  a  means  of  delivering  it  from  the  marauding 
scourge  of  the  cannibals  whom  King  Leopold  arms 
and  employs  as  tax  collectors  of  his  Empire." 

.;.  .;.  * 

I  am  promised  infinite  power  to  work  and  when- 
ever I  have  trusted  it  fairly  and  squarely  I  have  found 
that  the  promise  was  true. — E.  E.  Hale. 

*  *  * 
Consecration  is  not  something  done  once  for  all : 
it  is  a  maintained  habit  of  the  soul. — Moitod. 


Men  have  died  from  time  to  time  and  worms  have 
eaten  them,  but  not  for  love. — Shakespeare. 


994 


THE    IXGLEXOOK.— October  iS,  1904. 


FOUNDING    A    HOME. 


BY    ilAUDE    HAWKINS. 

The  first  thing  to  consider  in  founding  a  home,  is 
the  location.  Let  the  supposition  be  that  it  is  a  farm 
home.  It  should  be  in  a  healthful  location,  not  low, 
marshy  and  swampy,  which  would  be  apt  to  harbor 
malaria  and  other  disease  germs.  It  should  be  near 
the  place  of  business  if  the  owner  has  any  other  than 
that  of  farming,  also  convenient  to  church  and  school. 
But  not  too  near  the  latter.  It  should  be  at  least  one- 
fourth  of  a  mile  from  school,  and  no  great  distance 
from  market. 

It  should  be  located  in  a  desirable  community,  com- 
posed of  good,  honest,  respectable  people.  Although 
this  comes  nearly  last  on  the  list,  it  should  not  be  the 
last  to  consider,  for  if  we  are  to  live  here,  and  our 
children  are  to  be  reared  here,  they,  of  necessity,  will 
.  choose  their  companions  and  associates  from  among 
their  neighbors,  and  it  is  very  desirable  that  those  with 
whom  our  children  spend  their  tender  years,  should  be 
of  the  best  type  to  be  found.  Older  people  are  also  sus- 
ceptible to  their  surroundings,  possibly  to  a  less  degree 
than  the  more  plastic  young. 

The  next  to  consider  would  be  the  fertility  of  the 
soil.  A  farm  should  not  be  chosen  away  back  on 
rocky  hills,  covered  with  stumps  and  stones,  however 
cheap  it  might  be  :  for  you  seldom  or  never  see  a  farmer 
prosper  on  such  a  farm. 

A  small  fertile  farm  is  always  more  profitable  than 
a  large  barren  one.  An  ideal  farm  should  be  situated 
on  a  flat  tract,  or  a  part  of  it  at  least  should  be  flat.  I 
would  not  object  to  a  few  acres  of  timbered  upland 
in  connection  with  the  level  land. 

All  these  things  favorable,  the  buildings,  and  espe- 
cially the  house,  should  be  our  next  consideration.  It 
should  be  comfortable  and  conveniently  large,  but  not 
too  large.  It  should  contain  few  rooms  that  are  not 
constantly  in  use  by  some  members  of  the  family.  If 
there  is  a  house  already  on  the  place  that  is  not  con- 
venient and  comfortable,  and  cannot  be  made  so,  it 
should  be  torn  down  or  used  for  a  shop  or  shed  and  a 
new  one  built. 

Of  course  if  one  has  the  ready  capital  all  this  can  be 
easily  done,  but  if  the  farm  has  yet  to  be  paid  for,  it 
would  be  a  matter  to  consider.  But  I  believe  I  would 
venture  to  go  into  debt  a  little  deeper  and  build  a  one 
thousand  dollar  house  to  begin  with  rather  than  to  wait 
and  undergo  the  trials,  inconveniences,  and  extra  steps 
that  a  poorly-planned  house  will  cause. 

For  with  a  well-located  and  productive  farm  (other 
circumstances  permitting)  there  is  no  danger  that  it 
can  not  be  paid  for,  if  judgment  and  care  be  exercised. 

A  good  supply  of  hot  and  cold  soft  water,  and  if  a 
spring  can  be  found  on  the  hill,  also  of  good  spring 


water  throughout  the  house,  garret  and  cellar  included 
is  necessary.  A  few  good,  useful  kitchen  utensil: 
should  be  procured,  but  care  must  be  taken  not  to  buj 
each  and  every  thing  that  is  for  sale  unless  they  art 
known  to  be  what  they  are  recommended  to  be. 

A  kitchen  crowded  with  appliances  that  are  seldorr 
or  never  used  is  a  nuisance.  A  good,  plain,  substan 
tial  stove,  devoid  of  all  carvings  and  nickel  platings 
to  be  polished,  is  the  first  essential  in  a  kitchen.  The: 
only  such  things  as  are  absolutely  needed  should  be 
bought.  But  these  should  be  the  best  of  their  kind: 
and  not  some  flimsy  imitation. 

A  good,  reliable  washer  should  be  added  as  soon  as 
means  will  allow,  but  I  would  never  go  into  debt  for 
any  small  article,  not  for  one  day.  The  one  big  farm 
debt  should  be  the  only  one  to  battle  with,  for  little 
debts  have  a  disagreeable  habit  of  always  coming  due 
just  at  the  wrong  time.  It  is  much  better  not  to  en 
joy  these  comforts  till  we  can  truly  say  that  they  are 
paid  for. 

The  dining  room  and  sleeping  rooms  should  be  cori 
sidered  under  the  same  plan,  leaving  the  halls  and  par 
lors  till  we  can  afford  luxuries.  After  the  real  neces- 
saries are  procured,  nothing  should  be  bought  until  the 
yearly  farm  payments  are  made.  This  payment  should 
be  stipulated  as  small  in  the  contract  as  the  seller  will 
allow,  but  with  the  privilege  of  making  it  larger  when 
convenient,  and  one  should  endeavor  to  make  it  much 
larger  each  time  in  order  to  have  some  payments  ahead 
in  case  of  failure  of  crops,  sickness  or  other  poor  luck. 

The  kitchen  of  a  household  does  much  toward  mak 
ing  a  home  comfortable.  A  housekeeper  should  be 
acquainted  with  the  nutritive  value  of  all  the  foods  that 
she  sets  before  her  family,  and  be  able  to  discriminate 
between  those  viands  which  are  the  most  easily  di- 
gested, and  those  which  do  not  aid  digestion.  She 
should  know  how  to  cook  foods  to  render  them  both 
palatable  and  digestible,  and  when  to  cook  them,  that 
the  family  may  derive  the  most  benefit  and  not  be  in- 
jured by  them. 

A  badly-cooked  or  untimely  meal  is  apt  to  cause  ill 
feeling  and  irritability.  A  large  percentage  of  the 
family  jars  may  be  traced  back  to  the  thoughtless  cook- 
ing. If  a  kitchen  is  well  planned  and  furnished,  it  will 
take  much  less  time  to  do  the  same  amount  of  work 
than  in  one  built  without  any  regard  to  saving  steps 
whatever,  and  the  housekeeper  will  have  more  time 
to  study  these  points  on  cooking. 

If  she  has  a  poor  stove,  insufficient  water  supply,  and 
an  inconvenient  kitchen  generally,  it  is  very  probable 
that  the  steak  will  be  under  or  over  done  or  the  bread 
will  be  poorly  baked.  If  everything  is  unhandy 
she  will  become  worn  out,  and  lose  her  buoyance  of 
spirit,  and  instead  of  cheerfulness,  will  be  sour,  bitter 
feelings,   cross  temperament  and   discontent. 

Otherwise  if  the  kitchen   drudgery  from    morning 

i 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  18,  1904. 


995 


till  night  becomes  a  few  hours  of  delightful  employ- 
«  merit,  she  will  have  time  to  do  more  for  the  other  parts 
of  the  house,  to  rest,  to  improve  her  mind  or  for  social 
pleasures.  She  might  also  save  enough  in  leisure  time, 
to  pay  for  the  extra  expense  of  a  convenient  kitchen 
by  caring  for  other  things  such  as  poultry,  bees,  flow- 
ers, the  garden,  or  in  doing  the  sewing  for  the  family, 
qr  even  in  looking  after  the  odds  and  ends  of  the  house- 
hold machinery,  that  heretofore  must  go  to  waste  for 
lack  of  time. 

I  would  never  buy  anything  on  the  installment  plan. 
It  will  cost  more  in  the  end  than  it  would  for  the  ready 
money.  It  is  better  to  wait  for  luxuries  till  the  cash 
is  in  hand  to  pay  for  them,  and  one  should  be  sure  then 
that  the  money  is  not  needed  for  some  actual  neces- 
saries. 

The  merchant  will  not  sell  on  time  unless  he  has 
what  the  interest  will  amount  to  and  sometimes  some- 
thing more  for  the  risk  which  he  takes,  and  one  may  as 
well  save  that  extra  amount  by  exercising  a  little 
patience  till  the  money  can  be  procured,  then  there  will 
be  more  to  expend,  and  the  goods  will  be  of  a  better 
quality. 

It  does  not  take  long  to  furnish  a  room,  if  a  piece  at 
a  time  is  bought  and  paid  for  with  cash.  The  novelty 
of  having  the  new  article  barely  ceases  before  one  is 
able  to  buy  the  next.  And  it  will  be  surprising  in  how 
short  a  time,  by  careful  management  and  forethought, 
there  will  be  a  well-furnished  room. 

Suppose  after  all  debts  are  paid  it  is  a  parlor  to  be 
furnished.  The  first  thing  to  get  is  the  hangings  for 
the  walls.  That  paid,  the  next  is  the  floor  coverings. 
Then  the  shades  and  draperies,  and  after  the  third 
period  of  saving  one  can  go  to  the  parlor  with  pleasure 
and  stand  to  see  the  beautiful  draperies,  papering  and 
fepet,  but  you  must  forego  the  pleasure  of  sitting,  or 
entertaining  your  guests,  except  occasionally  a  close 
friend  who  is  invited  in  to  see  the  new  furnishings. 
But  after  the  fourth  saving  one  has  the  pleasure  of  sit- 
ting on  a  new  parlor  suit  and  entertaining  friends 
there  if  desired.  Oh  how  much  better,  how  much  more 
satisfaction  than  to  buy  all  at  once  on  the  installment 
plan,  with  the  worry  and  vexation  that  will  follow  for 
many  months  or  even  years. 

It  is  wisest  when  furnishing  a  home  to  buy  the  very 
best  of  the  kind,  for  when  an  attempt  is  made  to  save 
by  taking  an  article  a  dollar  cheaper,  one  gets  an  in- 
ferior article  that  will  wear  out  sooner,  and  it  will  cost 
Jliore  to  get  the  cheap  article  twice  than  a  good  one 
once.  Besides  the  best  always  looks  well  as  long  as 
it  lasts,  while  a  cheaper  one  soon  fades  and  looks 
shabby,  and  if  it  cannot  be  discarded  altogether  for  a 
better,  its  shabbiness  must  be  endured  as  long  as  it  will 
answer  the  purpose  for  which  it  was  intended. 

If   something   good  is  bought  you  have  it.       If  the 


cheaper  kind  is  taken  you  have  it  to-day  and  to-morrow 
you  have  it  not. 

The  sleeping  rooms  are  where  one-third  or  more  of 
our  lives  is  spent,  hence  they  should  be  an  important 
matter  for  our  consideration.  The  parlor  is  only  used 
occasionally  and  if  not  so  comfortable,  can  be  endured 
easier  than  the  sleeping  rooms  where  we  go  and  re- 
main so  long  for  the  sole  purpose  of  getting  rest,  there- 
fore they  should  be  pleasantly  situated  and  comfort- 
ably furnished,  and  last  but  not  least  well  ventilated, 
for  if  persons  are  constantly  subjected  to  a  poorly-ven- 
tilated room,  they  will  at  first  become  inactive,  drowsy, 
have  a  dull  headache,  and  a  general  loss  of  vitality. 
If  continued  they  will  become  pale,  puny,  and  weak, 
and  an  easy  prey  to  all  diseases  and  bad  habits.  Air 
that  has  been  once  breathed  (exhaled  air)  contains  a 
small  amount  of  oxygen,  which  is  necessary  to  life,  and 
a  great  amount  of  carbonic  acid  gas,  watery  vapor,  and 
animal  substance.  Hence  a  room  in  which  a  number 
of  people  are  breathing  the  air  over  and  over,  will  soon 
become  foul.  Decaying  animal  and  vegetable  matters 
are  also  poisonous  to  air.  Fires  and  lamps  will  soon 
burn  the  oxygen  from  a  room  if  no  fresh  air  is  admit- 
ted. 

No  direct  sickness  may  result  from  living  in  this 
atmosphere.  There  will  simply  be  a  lowering  of  vi- 
tality, and  perhaps  occasionally  a  headache,  palpi- 
tation, labored  breathing  and  a  feeling  of  not  being 
fully  refreshed.  For  a  day  or  a  week  this  would  not 
be  of  importance,  but  air  with  only  two  parts  of  car- 
bonic acid  gas  in  one  thousand  will  in  time  if  constant- 
ly breathed  cause  ill  health  and  perhaps  consumption. 
The  ventilation  of  a  home  should  receive  much  thought. 

I  do  not  think  it  right,  beneficial,  profitable  or  proper 
to  deprive  one's  self  of  all  social  pleasures  in  order 
to  save  the  extra  expense  it  might  entail.  As  a  gen- 
eral thing  our  friends,  if  they  are  really  true  friends, 
and  worthy  of  our  thoughts  as  such,  do  not  visit  us 
in  order  to  enjoy  what  we  may  offer  them  in  the  line 
of  a  treat,  a  tea  or  a  dinner,  but  to  see  us  and  enjoy  our 
society.  Light  refreshments  for  a  small  company  will 
not  incur  very  much  expense,  and,  if  it  is  daintily 
served,  will  be  bett»r  appreciated  under  the  circum- 
stances than  an  elaborate  dinner,  which  evcrv  one 
knows  has  cost  an  extra  amount  of  planning  and 
worry  and  which  was  ill  afforded  and  will  not  he  re- 
peated again  very  soon. 

The  company  should  not  be  so  large  that  it  will 
require  extra  help  or  waiters.  One  can  entertain  of- 
tener,  changing  the  guests  of  course,  so  that  none  of  the 
friends  will  be  excluded  from  all  the  receptions.  Or 
if  friends  are  invited  to  spend  a  few  days  or  a  week  in 
the  home,  there  need  be  110  stately  dinners.  Good, 
wholesome  food  will  be  more  appreciated  than  a  con- 
stant feast,  with  you  constantly  in  the  kitchen,  and 
your    guests    in   the  parlor,  endeavoring  to  entertain 


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themselves.  The  supposition  is  that  they  came  to 
have  a  pleasant  time  in  your  home  and  to  enjoy  the 
company  of  you  and  your  family,  not  to  feast  for  a 
time. 

Lastly  it  is  wise  to  look  one's  income  squarely  in  the 
face  and  do  no  buying  which  will  be  a  source  of  regret 
later.  A  home  may  be  made  very  cozy  and  comfort- 
able without  extravagance,  while  no  amount  of  beauti- 
ful furnishings  will  make  a  home  comfortable  where 
its  owners  are  harassed  with  debt.  Use  should  come 
before  display,  health  before  fashion,  and  adapta- 
bility to  present  and  future  circumstances  must  be  con- 
sidered in  buying. 

♦  *  * 
"THE    PENITENTIAL    TEAR." 


BY    GRACE   LONGANECKER. 

Tears  are  caused  either  by  sorrow  or  joy.  They 
are  when  genuine  the  expression  of  the  soul.  What 
soul  has  not  experienced  that  sorrow  or  gladness 
which  caused  tears  to  flow?  Shame  on  you  who 
shed  tears?     No,  for  "Jesus  wept." 

It  seems  to  me  all  tears  are  sacred  in  a  sense, 
but  more  particularly  the  penitential  tear.  Have 
you  ever  shed  the  penitential  tear?  You  know 
its  blessedness.  Have  you  ever  been  the  means  of 
causing  one  other  penitent  to  shed  a  tear?  You  re- 
member the  happy  experience.  Do  some  wicked 
deed  which  causes  tears  to  be  shed  for  your  sin- 
fulness and  you  will  feel'  each  tear,  as  it  were,  to 
lead  you  one  step  downward,  away  from  God. 

Do  some  Christian  duty  which  will  reach  a  sin- 
ner, and  cause  the  tears  of  penitence  to  flow,  you 
will  consider  each  tear  a  step  to  heaven.  As  Roe 
"beautifully  says,  "  If  penitent  tears  could  be  crys- 
tallized they  would  be  the  only  gems  of  earth  that 
angels  would  covet,  and  perhaps  God's  coworkers 
nere  will  find  those  that  they  caused  to  flow  on 
earth  set  as  gems  in  their  '  crown  of  glory  that 
fadeth  not  away.'  "  If  you  "  convert  a  sinner  from 
the  error  of  his  way  you  shall  save  a  soul  from 
death  and  hide  a  multitude  of  sins,"  besides  feel- 
ing that  each  penitential  tear  that  you  caused  to 
flow  may  add  a  jewel  to  your  crown  of  glory. 
"What  a  glorious  crown  awaits  the  dutiful  Chris- 
tian!    Beautiful1 

Hartville,  Ohio. 

THE  APPETITE. 


We  may  reasonably  suppose  that  the  normal  appe- 
tite of  both  man  and  beast  demands  the  kind  of  food 
in  quantity  and  at  the  proper  time  and  under  circum- 
stances the  most  promotive  of  health  and  welfare.  We 
may  infer  that  this  would  be  true,  so  far  as  man  is 
•concerned,   aside   from   the   inevitable   results   of   dis- 


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obedience  to  organic  laws  and  a  tendency  in  the  wrong  ■*■. 
direction,  leading  toward  misery,  degradation  and  di. 
ease.  We  may  as  naturally  infer  that  those  brut 
that  have  never  been  connected  with  erring  human! 
beings,  are  now  as  true  to  the  design  of  their  creation 
as  they  ever  were — perfect  in  their  organization  and 
general  habits.  We  may  also  conclude  that  this  ap- 
petite is  a  fair  representative  of  the  stomach's  digestive 
power,  that  the  two  are  so  intimately  connected  with 
each  other  that  they  should  not  be  considered  separate 
ly,  and  that  the  appetite  will  never  be  good  and  natural 
when  digestion  is  wanting  or  particularly  faulty 
Since  this  appetite  is  intended  as  our  guide  in  matters 
of  diet  and  food-taking — if  in  its  normal  condition, 
if  in  harmony  with  its  stomach-companion — it  is  use-  :;. 
less  folly,  and  worse  than  folly,  to  attempt  to  force  it 
to  accept  food,  to  thrust  such  into  the  stomach  when  5r 
it  is  taken  with  disgust.  If  this  is  true,  it  is  worse 
than  folly  to  take  drugs  to  produce  an  artificial  appetite 
when  there  is  not  a  corresponding  stomach  ability  to 
dispose  of  such  food,  which  must  remain  undigested, 
an  irritant  in  this  abused  organ,  fermenting  and  putre- 
fying, eventually  corrupting  the  whole  system.  While 
the  appetite  of  the  patient  ox,  ordinarily  is  just  as  it 
should  be  to  promote  his  highest  welfare,  this  is  not 
true  of  degenerate  man,  with  his  artificialities,  his  un- 
natural habits,  and  his  gross  inconsistencies.  If  we 
may  rely  upon  history,  the  glutton  of  the  past — if  not 
of  the  present — has  been  known  to  eat  ten  times  the 
amount  of  food  actually  needed,  perhaps  compelling 
his  stomach  to  rest  for  days,  as  a  penalty  for  his  gross 
animality.  Others  have  eaten  carrion  and  many  oth- 
er articles  which  must  be  discarded  by  all  intelligent 
and  thoughtful  people.  Many  have  made  eating  the 
great  and  supposed  important  object  of  human  lifej 
emphatically  "  living  to  eat."  Still  others  have  comf 
pletely  revolutionized  the  natural  appetite  by  the  usfi 
of  one  of  the  most  disgusting  articles  ever  known,  away 
from  which  the  brute  creation,  with  two  or  three  ex- 
ceptions, turns  in  disgust,  not  willing  to  degrade  them- 
selves by  a  single  indulgence.  I  refer  to  tobacco, 
which  may  be  naturally  enjoyed  by  a  worm  very  low: 
in  the  scale  of  brute  being,  for  which  he  cannot  bf 
blamed,  since  it  is  his  nature  to  feed  upon  this  filthy, 
weed.  It  is  supposable  that  the  odor  and  taste  of  this, 
disgusting  thing  never  was  tolerated  when  it  was  first] 
encountered,  for  the  very  best  of  reasons,  that  it  is  un- 
natural to  man,  that  there  is  nothing  connected  with  it 
to  commend  it  to  our  taste,  until  a  radical  change  is  efi 
f  ected  in  our  entire  being.  Yet  so  great  is  the  depravi- 
ty of  far  too  many  that  it  is  the  choicest  of  morsels.  In 
my  opinion,  there  is  no  habit  more  degrading  and  de- 
moralizing than  the  use  of  this  filthy  weed,  the  use  of 
intoxicants  not  excepted,  since  the  more  marked  effects 
of  these  is  during  fits  of  drunkenness,  while  the  cor- 
rupting and  degrading  effects  of  the  use  of  tobacco 


are  constant  and  deplorable.  We  may  infer  that,  aside 
from  these  two  unfortunate  habits,  mankind  might  en- 
joy a  comparative  heaven  on  earth. 

*&  ♦  * 

THE    ENGLISH    SPARROW. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  18,  1904. 


997 


After  many  years  of  resigned  suffering  the  inhabit- 
ants of  the  suburbs  of  all  large  American  cities  begin 
to  see  the  utter  folly  of  the  introduction  into  this  coun- 
ry  of  the  English  sparrow,  or,  technically,  passer 
iomesticus.  They  were  brought  here  about  fifty  years 
igo  to  destroy  the  many  injurious  insects  that  infest 
:he  fruit  orchards,  as  well  as  ornamental  trees  in  pub- 
ic parks,  but  it  seems  that  the  birds  have  become  a 
luisance,  and  it  is  now  clearly  seen  that  American 
jirds  would  do  as  much  good  in  this  respect  as  the 
iparrows,  were  it  not  that  the  latter  have  practically 
aken  possession  of  the  cities,  have  run  the  domestic 
from  its  usual  haunts,  and  in  many  cases  have  entirely 
jbliterated  several  species  of  the  beautifully  plumed 
song  birds. 

The  sparrow  was  first  introduced  into  this  country 
n  the  fall  of  1850  by  Nicholas  Pike  and  other  directors 
}f  the  Brooklyn  Institute,  but  the  first  consignment  of 
ight  did  not  thrive.'  Others  were  brought  over  two 
ifears  later  by  the  Commissioners  of  Central  Park, 
New  York,  in  the  hope  that  they  would  destroy  the 
mmerous  seventeen-year-old  locusts,  which  were  then 
destroying  the  foliage  on  the  park  trees.  This  last 
ot  thrived.  Some  of  the  birds  were  brought  to  Balti- 
nore  in  the  seventies,  with  the  aid  of  a  $300  appropria- 
:ion  by  the  City  Council,  for  the  purpose  of  ridding  the 
:ity  and  suburbs  of  caterpillars.  Cozy  little  boxes 
were  made  for  the  birds  high  up  in  the  branches  of  the 
rees  in  our  parks,  and  then  these  little  birds,  puffed 
.ip  by  the  attention  and  protection  given  them,  began 
l  general  warfare  upon  all  birdkind.  The  disappear- 
ince  of  the  thousands  of  wild  pigeons  that  used  to 
nigrate  biennially  through  the  forests  of  the  country 
las  been  attributed  to  the  English  sparrow,  and  the 
scarcity  in  cities  of  the  robin,  pewit  and  bluebird, 
Mich  are  noted  for  their  beautiful  early  morning 
songs,  is  said  to  be  due  to  the  presence  of  the  sparrow. 

The  one  hope  that  is  held  out  is  the  fact  that  spar- 
'ows  love  noise,  dirt  and  company,  and  they  seem  to 
De  leaving  the  solitude  of  the  country  to  some  extent 
for  the  clamor  of  the  city.  The  absence  of  sparrows 
from  the  woods  and  suburbs  is  said  by  some  to  be  due 
:o  the  efforts  of  the  everyday  crow,  which  is  one  of 
the  few  birds  that  have  the  grit  to  attack  a  number  of 
the  birds  at  one  time. 

*  *  * 
ONE   LIFE   FOR    MANY. 


There  was  only  one  door  to  the  room,  and  that  stood 
wide  open,  the  village  blacksmith,  a  good,  brave-heart- 
ed man,  seated  near  it.  Suddenly,  to  the  amazement 
and  consternation  of  everybody,  a  huge  dog,  with 
bloodshot  eyes,  appeared  in  the  doorway,  and  the  inn- 
keeper cried  out :  "  Back  !  back !  The  dog  is  mad !  " 
There  was  no  way  to  escape  but  by  the  door,  and  no 
one  could  hope  to  pass  the  frenzied  creature  without 
a  fatal  bite. 

"  Stand  back,  friends,"  cried  the  brave  smith,  "  till 
I  seize  him ;  then  hurry  out.  Better  for  one  of  us  to 
perish  than  for  all !  " 

Catching  the  huge  creature  by  the  throat,  he  at- 
tempted to  throw  him  down,  but  was  dreadfully  bitten 
in  the  arms  and  legs.  Unmindful  of  the  excruciating 
pain,  and  of  the  horrible  death  which  must  follow,  the 
noble,  generous  man  held  fast  to  the  snapping,  howling 
brute  until  all  his  friends  had  escaped.  Then,  dashing 
the  half-strangled  dog  against  the  wall,  he  quitted  the 
room  and  locked  the  door. 

As  the  weeping  crowd  stood  around  him,  he  said: 
"Don't  weep  for  me;  I've  only  done  my  duty.  When 
I  am  dead,  think  of  me  with  love !  "  And  so  he  died, 
gloriously,  for  his  friends. 

Was  it  not  much  more  glorious  when  the  Good 
Shepherd  laid  down  his  life  for  his  enemies? 

"  God  commendeth  his  love  to  us  in  that  while  we 
were  yet  sinners  Christ  died  for  us." 

*  *  * 
THE    BELL    OF    JUSTICE. 


At  a  little  German  village  a  crowd  of  people  were 
assembled  one  afternoon  in  the  large  room  of  the  inn. 


It  is  a  beautiful  story  that  in  one  of  the  old  cities 
of  Italy  the  king  caused  a  bell  to  be  hung  in  a  tower 
in  one  of  the  public  squares,  and  called  it  the  "  Bell 
of  Justice,"  and  commanded  that  anyone  who  had  been 
wronged  should  go  and  ring  the  bell,  and  so  call  the 
magistrate  of  the  city,  and  ask  and  receive  justice. 
When  in  the  course  of  time  the  lower  end  of  the  bell 
rope  rotted  away,  a  wild  vine  was  tied  to  it  to  lengthen 
it;  and  one  day  an  old  and  starving  horse,  that  had 
been  abandoned  by  its  owner  and  turned  out  to  die, 
wandered  into  the  tower,  and  trying  to  eat  the  vine, 
rang  the  bell.  And  the  magistrate  of  the  city,  com- 
ing to  see  who  had  rung  the  bell,  found  this  old  and 
starving  horse,  and  he  caused  the  owner  of  the  horse, 
in  whose  service  he  had  toiled  and  been  worn  out,  to 
1  e  summoned  before  him,  and  decreed  that  as  his  poor 
horse  had  rung  the  bell  of  justice,  he  should  have  jus- 
tice, and  that  during  the  remainder  of  the  burse's  life 
his  owner  should  provide  him  with  proper  food. 

This  talc  shows  practical  sympathy  for  poor,  dumb 
creatures  that  cannot  speak  for  themselves,  and  some 
day  it  may  help  us  also  to  plead  with  sunn.'  person  who 
is  wanting  to  cast  off.  unprovided  for.  some  old  servant 
who  had  helped  him  to  make  his  monej . 


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Frequently  when  women  are  baking  pies  they  have 
a  little  dough  left  over. 

* 

You  have  also  noticed  that  something  similar  hap- 
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are  left. 

* 

In  almost  every  field  of  corn  a  farmer  has  some  point 
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So  it  is  with  us ;  there  are  several  little  things  we 
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interesting    things    in    that    far    away    land  that 
Nookers  would  like  to  hear  about. 
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Eld.  A.  W.  Vaniman,  of  Malmo,  Sweden,  editor  01 
the  "  Evangelii  Budbarare,"  will  contribute  occasional 
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ifemetrius  Chirighotis  who  is  taking  a  two  years'  When   through   with   the   different  classes  of  birds 

lege  course  in    the    United  States,  finishing  in  the      we  expect  to  take  up  the  study  of  animals, 
ing.  will  return  to  his  home  in  Smyrna,  Asia  Minor, 
it  which  time  we  will  receive  from  him  several  articles 

m    Oriental    subjects,    which  are    always  interesting  Have    you    any    valuable  books  around  the   house 

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4,  The  Brethren  Publishing  House  is  prepared  to  do 

Eld.  S.  N.  McCann,  who  is  a  missionary  in  the  Raj-  '  °' 

)ipla  state,  India  will  have  some  very  interesting  things 

0  say  to  our  family  through  the  columns  of  the  Ingle-         ^  ho  of  our  Nookers  are  going  to  write  us  Thanks- 
si  iok,  about  the  customs  of  the  people  of  his  country,      »lvln&  articles, 
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tention. 
We    are    now    printing    a  farm  paper  called  "  The  4, 

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igriculture. 

*  What  are  you  going  to  tell  our  Xookers  to  do  during 
We  are  going  to  offer  it  as  a  present  to  all  new  sub-      tllc  !°ng  winter  evenings  this  winter? 

icribers  who  will  send  us  a  dollar  for  the  Inglenook  a 

Irom  now  till  Jan.  1,  1906. 

Be  careful  about  your  copy.     Some  of  our  corre- 
spondents forget  and  write  on  both  sides  of  the  paper. 
The  contract  will  not  allow  this  to  old  subscribers. 

* 
n   .  1  u         1       11  Whenever  this  is  done  everv  word  of  it  ha«  to  be 

But  we  want  to  make  vou  a  present  as  well,  and  will  .  ■  tu  uc 

lo  it  this  wav.  C°P  ll  g0es  t0  the  Printers- 

*  * 
Send  us  one  dollar  and  we  will  forward  your  Ingle-          ge  sure  anc|  wr;te  tile  SUDject  first 

MOOK  one  year  from  the  date  it  already  bears.     Xo  dif- 
ference when  that  is. 

*  Then   write  your  own   name   immediately   under  it. 
Send    us    twenty-five  cents  extra  and  we  will  send 

urn  the  "  Farmers  Voice  "  from  now  till  Jan.  I,  1906. 
* 
So  you  see  a  dollar  and  a  quarter  buys  two  papers 
"]•  .1  year  and  three  months. 

* 

,,.  ,    ,  .  t,  ,  -,    ,     c      ,     t„     your  post  office  at  the  bottom. 

We  are  glad  to  see  the  women  contribute  treely  to      •  ' 

lie  home  department.  * 

* 

The  boys  and  girls  are  sending  us  some  interesting 
nrilrri.d  for  the  Q.  &  A.  department. 

4,  Of  course  typewritten   matter  is  preferred,  but  all 


Then   write  your  essay  in   full,  round,   well-chosen 
sentences.     Don't  forget  to  paragraph  occasionally. 

* 

When  you  have  finished  the  essay,  write  the  name  of 


L'nless  it  is  impossible,  write  w  i 1 1 1  pen  ami  ink. 
* 


And  there  are  our  Nature  Study  clubs;  have  you      ,l"  not  llavc  this- 
reorganized? 

*  Address  all  business  communications    to    Brethren 

Do  you  like  our  systematized  study  of  birds?  Publishing  House,  Elgin,  111. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  18,  1904. 


CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


The  white  residents  of  Harrodsburg,  Ky.,  have 
taken  the  race  problem  into  their  own  hands  and  have 
deported  eighty  negroes  from  the  town.  The  blacks 
will  not  be  allowed  to  remain  in  Harrodsburg.  The 
incident  is  evidence  within  itself  that  those  who  are 
black  externally  were  put  out,  and  those  who  were 
black  internally  were  left  in.  For  the  welfare  of  the 
town,  in  all  probability,  it  would  have  been  better  to 
have  kept  the  black  in  color  and  discarded  the  black 
at  heart. 

*5*  *J»  * 

Ernest  Roberts,  of  Mt.  Joy.  Pa.,  a  fourteen-year- 
old  boy  accidentally  slipped  into  a  well,  which  was 
seventy-two  feet  deep.  In  the  bottom  of  the  well  was 
some  rubbish  which  prevented  him  from  falling  the 
last  ten  feet.  He  fell  sixty-two  feet,  struck  this  rub- 
bish, was  rescued  by  a  rope,  was  neither  killed  nor 
seriously  injured.  Lighted  lanterns,  which  were  low- 
ered, were  immediately  extinguished,  which  indicated 
gas,  and  how  the  little  fellow  survived  this  is  more 
than  remarkable. 

An  awful  disaster  occurred  on  the  Southern  Rail- 
way near  New  Market,  Tenn.,  on  September  24.  The 
accident  which  was  due  to  misreading  of  orders,  re- 
sulted in  the  death  of  fifty-eight  people  and  the  in- 
jury of  one  hundred  sixty-two. 

«£       4f»        * 

Carrie  Nation  has  just  been  fined  one  hundred  and 
fifty  dollars  and  sentenced  to  six  months  in  prison  at 
Wichita,  Kans. 

<*  ♦  ♦ 

A  whale,  which  was  supposed  to  have  weighed 
about  forty  tons,  committed  suicide  by  making  an  at- 
tack on  a  Danish  schooner  which  he  completely 
wrecked.     No  lives  were  lost. 

*  *  * 

Lady  Curzon  is  reported  convalescent. 
•$•  *  * 

Henry  Walsh,  a  carpenter  in  New  York,  while 
repairing  the  elevated  railroad  system,  losing  his  bal- 
ance, accidentally  touched  the  third  rail.  There  was 
a  puff  of  smoke,  a  flash,  and  all  was  over. 

*  *  * 

When  the  Czar  of  Russia  was  Czarevitch  he  made 
a  trip  to  Japan  and  was  assaulted  by  a  fanatic  in  Otsu, 
Japan,  and  was  very  kindly  rescued  by  the  assistance 
of  two  jinrikisha  men.  And  as  a  reward  they  have 
received  a  pension  from  Russia  ever  since.  In  consid- 
eration of  the  disturbance  prevailing  between  Russia 
and  Japan  a  compensation  was  not  expected  this  year, 
but  to  their  surprise  the  Czar  awarded  them  as  usual. 


The  fur  seal  trade  is  gradually  decreasing.  It  ii 
reported  that  the  Canadian  sealers  are  turning  to  oth  ; 
er  industries,  because  there  are  so  few  seals  in  th<  - 
Behring  Sea  as  to  make  the  industry  unprofitable 
The  total  catch  in  1902  was  16,143  skins,  and  las 
year,  with  twenty-four  vessels  out,  the  returns  wen 
only  14,701. 


:■; 


Statistics,  at  an  educational  meeting  in  Philadel 
phia,  show  that  thirty-three  thousand  eight  hundrec 
children  of  a  school  age  are  not  in  school,  in  spite  o 
the  compulsory  law. 

♦  ♦  *> 

Reports  received  from  the  northwestern  part  of  th 
province  of  Shantung  say  that  the  Shotuan  "  Boxers 
are  openly  distributing  prospectuses,  couched  in  tht 
same  language  as  those  circulated  before  the  uprising 
of  1900.  These  prospectuses  order  precisely  similai 
observances  and  fix  Oct.  17,  next,  as  the  date  for  thi 
extermination  of  all  foreigners. 

*  *   * 

With  the  intention  of  ruining  the  hull  of  the  bat 
tleship  Connecticut,  which  will  be  launched  at  the  Nev 
York  navy  yards  Thursday,  some  person  or  person; 
placed  an  obstruction  on  the  ways.  When  it  wa, 
placed  there,  or  by  whom,  it  is  not  known,  for  it  wa. 
not  discovered  until  divers  were  sent  down  to  make  ai 
investigation.  This  investigation  was  made  as  a  mat 
ter  of  precaution  and  the  naval  officers  then  learnei 
that  an  obstruction  had  been  placed  on  the  ways  tha 
would  have  destroyed  the  work  for  months. 

♦  *  ♦ 
The  Supreme  court  of  Wisconsin  has  rendered  M 

decision,  holding  that  under  Wisconsin  laws  the  bene 
volent  and  protective  order  of  Elks  of  America  is  no 
a  benevolent  organization  and  therefore  any  propert; 
it  holds  is  not  exempt  from  taxation,  under  the  statu 
tory  provisions  exempting  benevolent  associations. 

*  *   * 

Milt  G.  Barlow,  the  original  Old  Black  Joe,  0 
the  minstrel  stage,  for  many  years  widely  known  a 
"  Uncle  Tom,"  and  later  with  the  Texas  Steer  Com 
pany,  is  dead  at  a  private  hospital  in  New  York  ChV 
from  cancer,  aged  sixty-five  years. 

*•*  * 

An  English  paper  makes  the  following  statement  ii 
regard  to  the  recent  railroad  accidents  in  the  Unitei 
States :  "  They  are  far  too  common  in  America,  es 
pecially  of  late.  The  fact  that  it  is  a  large  countr; 
with  plenty  of  room  for  them  to  happen  is  not  suf 
ficent  to  explain  them.  The  fundamental  cause  i 
probably  due  to  hasty  and  imperfect  construction  0 
the  lines,  the  make-shift  arrangements  for  saving  tim 
and  the  general  rush  of  strenuous,  national  life." 


THE    INGLEXOOK.— October  18,  1904. 


In 


Kuropatkin  is  advancing  rapidly  toward  Port 
Arthur  from  Mukden.  Stoessel  says  he  cannot  hold 
the  fort  longer  than  Dec.  1  without  aid.  St.  Peters- 
burg seems  jubilant  over  present  prospects  of  victory. 
A  great  battle  has  been  recently  fought  at  Yentai 
Mines. 

*  *  * 

Edward  Hartman,  of  Peoria,  111.,  is  violently  in- 
sane, as  the  result  of  shooting  his  friend,  accidentally, 
while  examining  his  revolver.  The  accident  occurred 
Sept.  25,  since  which  time  he  has  constantly  remained 
with  his  friend. 

The  gold  production  in  Alaska  for  the  last  year  is 
as  follows :  "  There  are  a  few  shipments  of  treasures 
yet  to  come.  On  the  whole  it  has  been  a  good  season 
for  gold  diggers.  The  gold  production  for  the  entire 
northern  district  for  the  present  year  is  estimated  as 
follows:  Klondike,  $11,000,000;  Nome,  $10,000,000; 
Tanana,  $3,000,000 ;  all  other  districts,  $6,000,000, 
making  a  total  of  $26,000,000." 
$  <$»   4> 

Postmaster-General  Payne  is  dead. 

*  ♦  * 
With   gorgeously-robed   priests  and  a   choir  of  a 

thousand  voices  the  Russian  people  gathered  in  a 
square  at  Moscow  on  Sept.  28,  and  prayed  for  victory 
for  the  Russian  army. 


*   * 


The  attorneys  for  Will  J.  Davis  and  other  officials 
of  the  Iroquois  theatre  have  asked  for  a  change  of 
venue  to  some  other  county.  They  declare  that  their 
clients  could  not  secure  a  fair  trial  in  Cook  county, 
because  of  the  prejudice  against  them. 
•5*  ♦  ♦ 

A  rather  novel  bequest  was  that  made  by  James 
Callaman  in  his  will.  Mr.  Callaman  directs  that  twenty 
thousand  dollars  be  set  aside  to  establish  a  home  for 
drunkards'  wives  in  the  State  of  Iowa. 

»!*    •£*    * 

The  Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce  received  a  cable- 
gram from  the  associated  chambers  of  commerce  of 
Great  Britain  to  the  effect  that  the  organization  had 
just  passed  a  unanimous  resolution  in  favor  of  a  stand- 
ing treaty  of  arbitration  with  the  United  States. 
♦  ♦  4* 
Secretary  Taft,   under  authority  of    the    act    of 
Congress  of  April  last,  recently  served  notices  on  the 
city  of  Chicago  and  the  street  railway  companies  own- 
ing or  controlling  the  tunnels  under  the  Chicago  river, 
to  alter  all  the  tunnels  so  there  shall  be  a  depth  of 
water  of  at  least  twenty-two  feet  over  them.     April 
1     15,  1906,  is  fixed  as  the  date  when  the  lowering  shall 
be  completed. 


Pope  Pius  is  said  to  contemplate  the  creation  of  an- 
other American  cardinal  and  the  name  of  Archbishop 
Farley,  of  New  York,  is  persistently  mentioned  in  that 
connection.  The  Pope  jokingly  said  to  Cardinal  Sa- 
tolli  the  other  day,  "  If  the  socialists  should  win  here 
we  will  all  emigrate  to  America." 

$   <£  £ 

Reports'  from  Augusta,  Ga.,  say  that  on  account  of 
the  scarcity  of  labor,  cotton  pickers  will  work  by  moon- 
light from  sundown  to  midnight,  for  which  the}-  will 
be  given  extra  pay. 

Mount  Vesuvius,  which  has  been  in  eruption  the 
past  two  weeks,  is  quieting  down  and  the  authorities 
have  relaxed  the  restrictions  on  the  people. 

Count  Sergius  Tolstoy,  the  brother  of  Count  Leo, 
is  dead.  He  was  the  very  antithesis  of  Count  Leo, 
residing  on  his  estate  in  lordly  style  and  living  the  life 
of  a  veritable  self-indulgent  epicure,  while  his  brother, 
clad  in  homespun,  leads  the  life  of  an  ascetic. 

Brigadier  General  Frederick  D.  Grant  relin- 
quished command  of  the  department  of  the  lakes  at 
Chicago  and  left  for  New  York  to  assume  command 
of  the  department  of  the  east.  General  Grant  will  be 
succeeded  in  Chicago  by  Brigadier  General  Frederick 
Funston,  at  present  in  charge  of  the  department  of  the 
Columbia,  with  headquarters  at  Vancouver  barracks, 
Washington. 

*  *  * 

The  police  at  Gomel,  Russia,  have  discovered  an- 
other secret  printing  press,  from  which  revolutionary 
proclamations  have  been  issued.  Four  arrests  were 
made. 

*  *   * 

A  big  fire  in  the  business  section  of  Winnipeg, 
Manitoba,  destroyed  nearly  a  million  dollars'  worth 
of  property. 

4»    4»    4» 

The  Erie  Railroad  Campany  has  called  for  esti- 
mates for  the  completion  of  a  private  telephone  system 
from  Cleveland  to  New  York. 

*  *  4* 

A  DISPATCH  from  Athens,  Greece,  says,  "  Hardly  a 
day  passes  without  the  assassination  of  Greeks  b}  Bul- 
garians." 

*  *  * 

A  dispatch  from  Berlin  -:ivs,  "  President  Roose- 
velt's announcement  Saturday  of  his  intention  to  call 
a  second  peace  conference  of  the  nations  of  the  world 
whose  work  should  be  supplemental  to  that  of  The 
Hague  arbitration  conference  attracts  much  attention 
here." 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  iS.  1904. 


!•+•*•*+* 


The  Inglenook  Nature  Study  Club 


This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various   Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized 
\  *    over  this  country.     Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.     Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time, 
taking   the    work    up    with   the    current    issue.     Back    numbers  cannot  be  furnished.     Any  school  desiring  to  or- 
ganize a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  III. 


1*  ******* *i*v **■  "!•  'I'  •p  V  *********  **  *•*  *•*  *»**•*  v**i*  -*  *-*  * 


PLUMAGE    OF    BIRDS.— (Continued.) 


The  structure  of  a  simple  featber  is  in  itself  a 
wonder, — its  unique  form,  its  soft  and  delicate  texture, 
its  perfect  adaptation  to  the  use  for  which  it  was  de- 


signed,— the  amazing  difference  which  exists  between 
those  of  different  birds,  from  the  stout  bill  of  the  Buz- 
zard's wing  to  the  shining  spangle  from  the  Humming 
Bird's    throat,    the    plain  but  exquisite  shadings  and 


markings  of  the  one  contrasted  with  the  gaudy  and 
glittering  hues  of  the  other,  display  the  infinite  wisdom 
and  the  matchless  skill  of  him  who  is 

"Wondrous  alike  in  all   he  tries!" 
The    male    bird  is  mostly  clothed  in  more  brilliant 
plumage  than  his  mate,  and  the  young  bird  of  both 


Pigeon 


generally  assumes  the  garb  of  the  female  until  the  fol- 
lowing spring.  Thus  it  appears  that  color  not  only 
serves  the  purpose  of  beauty,  but  also  of  protection, 
for  while  the  gay  adornment  attracts  the  attention  and 
makes    him    a  more  certain  mark  for  the  sportsman, 


the  female  to  whom  is  committed  the  young  is  secured 
from  danger  by  her  unobstructive  dress. 

The  Partridge  and  Woodcock,  which  mostly  live  up- 
on the  ground,  are  secreted  from  the  searching  eye  of 
the  Hawk  and  the  Kite  by  their  gray-speckled  plumage, 
which  resembles  the  ground  on  which  thev  move.  ■  The 


tawny  feathers  of  the  Whip-poor-will  also  affords  it 
a  means  of  protection,  even  from  man,  as  it  is  extremly 
difficult  to  distinguish  it  from  the  log  upon  which  it 
may  be  crouching,  almost  within  our  reach.  The 
Ptarmigan,  which  inhabits  very  cold  northern  climates, 
in  summer  has  its  plumage  marked  with  stripes  of 
black  or  brown,   which   colors  more  nearly   approach 


to  those  of  the  rocks  and  barren  heaths  upon  which  it 
lives ;  but,  did  these  hues  remain  during  the  winter, 
when  the  snow  covers  every  object  with  a  mantle  of 
white,  the  place  of  its  concealment  would  be  readily 
discovered,  and  it  would  fall  an  easy  prey  to  the 
Snowy  Owl  or  the  Gyr  Falcon.  What,  then,  is  the  pro- 
vision of  nature  to  guard  against  this. danger?  As  the- 
cold  season  advances,  the  feathers,  bv  some  unknown 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  18,  1904. 


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process,  gradually  become  white,  and  the  bird  burrows 
fearlessly  in  the  snow,  in  search  of  berries  and  leaves, 
comparatively  secure  from  the  eye  of  its  enemy. 

Another  object  besides  safety  is  gained  from  the  con- 
cealment afforded  by  the  peculiar  colors  and  markings 
of  the  plumage ;  the  support  of  the  bird  being  some- 
times dependent  upon  it.  Thus  the  Crane  and  the 
Heron,  and  many  other  water  birds,  which  depend  up- 
on their  dexterity  as  fishers  for  their  supply  of  food, 
are  clothed  with  feathers  partly  of  white  and  partly  of 
a  bluish  slate  color,  and  the  fish  as  they  glide  beneath 
the  water  recognize  but  little  difference  between  the 
plumage  of  their  foe  and  the  blue  heaven  above  them 
studded  with  clouds,  and  passing  on  fearlessly,  they 
fall  an  easy  prey  to  his  voracious  appetite,  while,  did 
the  bird  present  a  darker  image  against  the  sky,  it 
would  produce  alarm,  and  the  fish  would  hurry  off  to 
the  protection  of  some  overhanging  bank,  or  dive  into 
the  depths  below. 

*  4*  * 

THE    SAVAGE   SWORDFISH. 


That  swordfishes  are  a  menace  to  life  has  been 
demonstrated  on  many  occasions.  A  fisherman  on  the 
coast  of  Maine  was  astonished  to  see  the  sword  of  a 
swordfish  crash  up  through  his  dory.  A  similar  at- 
tack occurred  on  the  Long  Island  coast,  the  sword, 
according  to  Prof.  .G.  Brown  Goode,  barely  missing 
the  man,  who,  with  great  presence  of  mind,  seized  the 
sword,  broke  it  off,  and  plugged  the  hole  with  his  coat. 
The  extraordinary  force  of  these  blows  can  hardly  be 
realized  or  credited.  Sir  Joseph  Banks  cites  an  in- 
stance where  the  entire  sword  was  driven  through  the 
hull  of  a  ship ;  competent  judges  testified  that  it  would 
take  ten  blows  of  a  hammer  weighing  thirty  pounds 
to  produce  a  like  result.  The  British  ship  Dread- 
naught  was  injured  so  badly  by  a  swordfish  that  she 
was  obliged  to  make  port  and  go  on  the  ways.  The 
smack  Wyoming,  from  Gloucester,  was  similarly  in- 
jured, and  the  crew  had  great  difficulty  in  keeping  her 
afloat.  The  smack  Morning  Star,  of  Mystic,  had  a 
remarkable  experience  with  a  large  swordfish  off  Hat- 
^eras.  She  was  struck  so  violently  that  she  began  to 
eak  badly  and  had  to  make  Charlestown.  The  sword 
lad  pierced  the  planking,  timber  and  ceiling.  The 
(flanking  was  two.  inches  thick,  the  timber  five,  the 
:eiling  was  one  and  one-half  inches  of  white  oak. 
Even  more  remarkable  was  the  force  expended  upon 
he  whaler  Fortune,  of  Plymouth,  by  one  of  these 
ishes.  Tine  weapon  had  been  driven  through  the  cop- 
ier sheathing,  an  inch  board  of  under  sheathing,  a 
hree-inch  plank  of  hard  wood,  then  through  twelve 
nches  of  solid  white  oak  timber,  and  then  through  two 
ind  a  half  inches  of  oak  ceiling,  finally  penetrating  an 
)il  cask.  Such  a  weapon  can  only  be  compared  to  a 
projectile  and   doubtless  many  vessels  or  boats  have 


been   destroyed   in  this  manner,   as   was    the    United 

States    Fish   Commission   sloop   Red    Hot,   by    being 

pierced  by  this  swordsman  of  the  sea. 

*  ♦  ♦ 

HOW  ANIMALS   BATHE. 


Polar  bears  enjoy  a  bath  for  the  sake  of  cleanliness 
as  well  as  for  swimming  and  as  a  hunting  ground. 
At  a  certain  zoological  garden  when  the  old  polar 
bear's  bath  was  being  filled  with  fresh  water  it  would 
stand  with  its  mouth  open,  letting  the  water  run 
through  its  jaws,  and  when  the  bath  was  full  would 
play  all  kinds  of  tricks,  reveling  in  the  water.  One 
of  its  antics  was  to  float  on  its  back  in  the  water  and 
then  catch  hold  of  its  heels  with  its  forepaws  and  roll 
over  in  a  ball.  It  would  also  turn  over  backward  on 
the  edge  and  fall  in  with  a  resounding  splash. 

Monkeys  never  wash  or  bathe,  though  they  have,  as 
a  rule,  every  chance  to  do  so.  Possibly  experience 
has  taught  them  to  be  afraid  of  crocodiles,  which  are 
pretty  generally  distributed  on  monkey-haunted  rivers. 
It  is  said  that  a  number  of  Indian  monkeys  watched 
a  party  of  Europeans  in  a  boat,  who  washed  their 
hands  and  brushed  their  teeth.  Next  day  the  monkeys 
were  seen  to  come  to  the  riverside  and  go  through  the 
form  of  washing  their  hands  and  of  brushing  their 
teeth  with  bits  of  stick. 

The  tiger  will  sit  with  only  its  head  out  of  the  water 
on  a  blazing  hot  day  in  an  Indian  jungle.  Sir  Samuel 
Baker,  after  "  beating  "  for  a  tiger  for  the  greater  part 
of  the  day,  found  and  shot  one  in  this  position,  thor- 
oughly enjoying  itself.  They  will  also  nearly  immerse 
themselves  when  they  come  down  to  drink  at  night 
and  leave  a  long  dripping  trail  on  the  sand  behind 
them  when  they  emerge. 

Among  the  few  other  "  washing  animals  "  is  the 
raccoon.  It  is  not  only  devoted  to  bathing  and  sun- 
ning itself,  but  has  an  odd  habit  of  taking  its  food 
on  the  water  and  giving  it  a  thorough  washing  before 
eating  it.  It  will  dabble  anything  which  it  takes  a 
fancy  to  in  the  water.  One  which  had  a  family  at  a 
zoological  garden  washed  its  unlucky  kittens  so  often 
that  they  died. 

«i»    «$»    •{» 

Whenever  a  plant  is  wounded  a  positive  electric 
current  is  established  between  the  wounded  part  and 
the  intact  parts. 

*  *  * 

Reptiles  seek  the  light,  but  independent!}  of  heat. 
In  winter  they  often  leave  comfortable  and  warm  re- 
treats to  seek  the  sunlight. 

*  *   * 
Nearly  all   reptiles  are  deaf. 

*  *   * 
Ants  like  ice. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— October  18,  1904. 


HOME    DEPARTMENT 


TRYING    TO    PLEASE    EVERYBODY. 


"  I  wish  you  would  turn  me  the  other  way," 

The  weather-vane  said  to   the   wind   one   day; 

"I    am    turned    to    the    north,    and    the    people    complain 

That  the  wind  is  cold,  that  it  brings  no  rain." 

"Very  well,"  said  the  wind,  "to  the  south  you  shall  go; 

From  the  opposite  corner  my  breezes  shall  blow; 

The  cold  of  the  north  shall  give  place  to  the  balm 

That  comes  from  the  region  of  cane  and  of  palm." 

"What  say  they?"  was  heard  as  the  wind  returned, 

"  They  say  they  are  melted  and  boiled  and  burned, 

For  the  sun  is  so  hot  and  the  air  is  so  dry 

They  can  scarcely  lift  to  my  height  their  eye," 

"  Then  I'll  give  them  a  change— I  will  blow  from  the  east, 

And  see  if  their  comfort  is  thereby  increased; 

A  breeze  from  that  quarter  so  piercing  I'll  sweep 

That  they  cannot  complain  of  languor  or  sleep." 

"Well,   what   do   they  say?"   said  the   wind  once   more. 

"Oh,  dear,  it  is  worse  than  it  was  before; 

For  they  all  have  colds  and  they  frown  at  me, 

As  if  I  the  cause  of  the  wind  could  be!  " 

"  For  a  final  resort  the  west  we'll  try." 

The  wind  muttered,  mounting  again  on  high; 

"  But  I  warn  you,  my  dear,  that  it  will  not  be  strange 

If  nothing  encouraging  follows  the  change." 

"What  now?"  said  the  wind,  appearing  again 

And  noting  the  face  of  the  dubious  vane. 

"  Why,  they  think  all  our  plans  are  entirely  wrong, 

For  the  sea  is  too  high  and  the  wind  is  too  strong." 

"  Well,  then,"  said  the  wind,  coming  'round  with  a  gust, 

"This  matter  I  don't  see  that  we  can  adjust; 

Just  turn  where  I  tell  you  and  we  shall  please  more 

Than,  with  all  of  our  trying,  we  suited  before." 

•!•    *   * 
GERANIUMS    IN    WINTER. 


All  things  considered,  the  geranium  is  our  best 
plant  for  winter  flowering.  It  blooms  freely  and  con- 
stantly, in  most  instances,  and  adapts  itself  to  the  con- 
ditions prevailing  in  the  ordinary  living-room  more 
readily  than  almost  any  other  plant  I  have  knowl- 
edge of.  And  it  requires  very  little  care.  Its  ability 
to  take  care  of  itself  is  one  of  the  strong  arguments  in 
its  favor,  especially  with  the  amateur  who  is  distrust- 
ful of  his  skill  in  the  management  of  plants  that  insist 
on  having  their  peculiarities  humored.  It  has  little  to 
boast  of  in  the  way  of  attractive  foliage, — though  a 
plant  well  set  with  vigorous,  healthy  foliage  is  not  far 
from  being  handsome, — but  it  has  a  right  to 
pride  itself  on  the  beauty  of  its  flowers.  Some 
of   the   scarlet   varieties    are   so    exceedingly   brilliant 


that  they  actually  seem  to  impart  a  feeling  of 
warmth  to  the  observer.  The  little  child  who  declared 
that  auntie's  geraniums  were  "  on  fire  "  was  conscious 
of  this  suggestion  of  heat  in  the  intensity  of  color  which 
characterizes  some  of  the  most  richly  colored  sorts 
Others  are  extremely  delicate  in  color  and  tint.  Some 
are  pure  white.  All  the  recently  introduced  varieties 
have  large,  wide-petaled  flowers,  borne  in  trusses  of 
good  size,  on  long  stalks.  A  well-developed  plant, 
symmetrical  in  shape  and  properly  furnished  with  foli 
age  to  serve  as  a  background  against  which  to  display 
its  blossoms  effectively,  is  a  magnificent  sight  when  in 
full  bloom,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  some  persons 
sneer  at  the  geranium  as  being  "  common." 

All  beauty  is  common  in  a  sense,  and  I  would  as 
soon  object  to  the  sky  and  the  sunshine  because  the 
beauty  of  them  is  for  the  enjoyment  of  everybody, 
therefore  "  common,"  as  to  seek  to  disparage  a  flower 
because  it  was  one  that  everybody  could  grow  and  en 
joy.  Anyone  can  understand  the  culture  of  the  ge- 
ranium with  a  reasonable  certainty  of  success  who  can 
give  it  a  good  soil  to  grow  in,  water  enough  to  keep  it 
always  moist  at  the  roots,  a  sunny  location,  and  free- 
dom from  frost.  Insects  seldom  attack  it.  It  has  a 
healthy  constitution  that  gives  it  immunity  from  the 
diseases  so  common  to  most  other  plants,  and  it  will 
reward  you  for  the  care  it  receives  at  your  hands  by 
making  your  window  bright  with  bloom  as  few  other 
plants  can.  Therefore  you  make  no  mistake  in  select 
ing  it  for  your  window-garden.  But  be  sure  to  get 
plants  that  have  not  been  allowed  to  bloom  during  the 
summer.  Such  plants  have  exhausted  themselves, 
and,  nine  times  out  of  ten,  they  will  insist  on  taking  a 
rest  during  the  winter  months.  The  ideal  geranium 
for  winter  use  is  the  plant  which  has  been  kept  stead- 
ily growing  during  the  summer,  but  has  had  every  bud 
removed  as  soon  as  seen.  Such  a  plant  will  bloom  pro- 
fusely from  January  to  June. — Eben  E.  Rcxford,  in 
October  Lip  pine  ott'  s. 

♦  *  4> 

OUR    DAILY    LIFE. 


BY    EDITH    M.    YOUNG. 

Life  is  what  we  make  it,  be  it  good  or  bad.  We 
mould  our  lives  as  the  potter  moulds  the  clay  in  his 
hands.  Sometimes  they  do  not  have  a  perfect  mould, 
and  so  it  is  with  our  lives;  we  are  not  perfect.  If  we 
were,  what  a  glorious  place  this  world  would  be. 
There  would  be  no  harsh  words  spoken ;  no  sad  and 
broken  hearts.     How  many  times  we  speak  in  tones 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  i8,  1904. 


1005 


that  are  as  piercing  as  a  knife,  that  cut  to  the  heart. 
"  A  soft  answer  turneth  away  wrath !  but  grievous 
words  stir  up  anger." 

Can  we  not  be  more  kind  and  g-entle  in  our  ways, 
and  speak  in  tones  soft  and  tender  ?  How  many  times 
a  kind  and  pleasant  smile  will  cheer  a  lonely  heart. 
Life  is  too  short  not  to  be  kind  to  all.  Kind  words 
are  needed  every  day.  It  is  our  daily  life  that  is  going 
to  determine  our  destiny.  It  is  the  little  things  in 
this  life,  not  the  great,  noble  acts  we  do.  So  let  us 
ask  God  to  help  us  to  be  more  kind  and  loving  in  our 
ways,  and  to  cultivate  a  cheerful  heart  for  others. 

"There    are    lonely    hearts    to    cherish, 
While  the  days  are  going  by; 
There    are    weary    souls    who    perish, 
While  the  days  are  going  by. 

If  a  smile  we  can  renew, 

As  our  journey  we  pursue, — 
O,  the  good  we  all  may  do, 

While   the    days   are    going   by. 

"  There's  no  time  for  idle  scorning, 
While  the  days  are  going  by; 
Let  your  face  be  like  the  morning, 
While  the  days  are  going  by. 

O,  the  world  is  full  of  sighs, 

Full  of  sad  and  weeping  eyes, 
Help  your  fallen  brother  rise, 

While  the  days  are  going  by. 

"All  the  loving  links  that  bind  us, 
While  the  days  are  going  by, 
One  by  one  we_  leave  behind  us, 
While  the  days  are  going  by. 

But  the  seeds  of  good  we  sow, 

Both  in  shade  and  shine  will  grow, 

And  will  keep  our  hearts  aglow,      , 
While  the  days  are  going  by." 

*  ♦  * 

RESPONSIBILITY    OF    MOTHERS. 


To  be  the  mother  of  rosy,  rollicking  children,  what 
lappier  fate  can  one  desire  ?  And  yet,  there  are  those 
who  "  outherod  "  Herod  in  their  determination  to  evade 
;he  responsibility  of  child-rearing.  "  How  I  envy  you 
four  children !  "  said  a  kind  Christian  woman  to  me, 
'  but,  oh,  I  never  could  assume  such  a  responsibility." 
Responsibility!  Fiddlesticks!  What  a  flimsy  cov- 
ring  to  selfishness  in  most  cases.  There  is  plenty  of 
'esponsibility,  but  the  thought  is  made  too  great  a 
surden,  too  great  a  bug-bear.  When  a  mother  has 
lone  all  she  can  by  example,  precepts  and  prayer,  may 
ihe  not  leave  the  result  to  an  Allwise  Father,  who 
cnoweth  and  doeth  all  things  well  ? 

Aged  mothers  will  tell  you  that  no  time  did  they 

njoy  life  more  than  when  their  children  were  about 

:heir  knee.     We  who  are  enjoying  that  period,  with 

ill  the  labor  it  entails,  are  inclined  to  be  skeptical. 

May  they  not  be  right?     Best  they  are  in  many  re- 


spects ;  best  for  influence ;  best  for  opportunities ;  best 
for  planting  of  good  seed  for  the  reaping  by  and  by. 
Ah !  we  mothers  have  not  far  to  look  for  our  mission. 
The  work  is  here ;  then  let  us  enter  into  it  with  heart- 
felt earnestness,  but  with  none  of  the  feeling  of  I-can't- 
shoulder-the-responsibility. 

For  the  first  ten  years  of  a  child's  life  mamma  is 
everything  to  it,  and  in  those  years  must  most  of  the 
so-called  training  be  done.  For  this  I  do  not  feel  my- 
self capable  of  giving  any  rules.  My  own  shortcom- 
ings are  manifold,  but  there  is  one  thing  I  would  like 
to  say ;  send  the  children  to  bed  happy.  This  may  seem 
a  small  thing  in  itself,  but  its  results  for  good  are  in- 
finite. 

At  this  hour  the  noisy  play  is  hushed  and  they  are 
ready  to  talk  over  the  doings  of  the  day  reflectively ; 
tender  thoughts  creep  in  unbidden,  and  the  plastic 
mind  retains  easily  any  impression.  See  to  it  then 
that  no  attendants  fill  their  little  heads  with  ghost 
stories  or  other  like  recitals.  If  possible  attend  them 
yourself,  and  if  there  are  little  ones,  lie  down  beside 
them  and  with  their  clinging  arms  about  your  neck, 
tell  them  tender,  loving  stories,  until  their  eyes  doze 
in  sleep ;  you  will  feel  well  repaid  and  can  go 
about  your  work  with  a  lighter  heart. 

There  are  mothers  and  mothers ;  loving,  sympathet- 
ic, spiritual  mothers,  and  others  who  are  mere  physical 
mothers,  and  outside  the  ranks  are  those  who  dare 
not  come  in  because  of  the  responsibility. — Home  Conv- 
paiiion. 

*  *  * 

A    MOUTH    WASH. 


Nothing  is -more  uncomfortable  or  even  dangerous 
for  an  invalid  than  a  neglected  mouth.  If  the  vitiated 
secretions  are  allowed  to  remain  there  is  great  danger 
of  disease  germs  finding  lodgment  in  the  mouth  and 
from  thence  being'  absorbed  in  the  stomach.  A  good 
mouth  wash  is  eight  or  ten  drops  tincture  of  myrrh 
in  a  glass  of  water.  With  this  the  mouth  should  be 
rinsed  thoroughly  two  or  three  times  a  day.  Another 
excellent  wash  is  listerine.  It  is  less  expensive  buying 
it  in  the  seven-ounce  bottle.  A  half  teaspoonful  or 
more  <>f  listerine  in  a  wineglass  of  water  is  a  refresh- 
ing mouth  wash  and  a  good  tooth  wash.  If  the  mouth 
is  very  dry  a  good  wash  is  one  tablespoonful  of  gly- 
cerin and  one  teaspoonful  of  lemon  juice  to  a  glass 
of  water,  as  the  glycerin  does  not  evaporate  and  con- 
sequently stays  on  tongue  and  in  mouth  longer  than 
clear  water. 

*fr    ♦    4» 

A  noble  nature  can  alone  attract  the  noble  and  alone 
knows  how  to  retain  them. — Goethe. 
*  *  * 

Difficulties  are  things  that  show  what  men  are. — 
Epictetus. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— October  18,  1904. 


•I  [OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE    |l|)n- 


BONNIE    WAYNE. 


Old  Bux  started  with  us  in  the  boat  race  but  we 
went  so  fast  that  he  couldn't  hardly  keep  up  and  when 
he  found  out  we  wuz  going  clear  across  the  lake  he 
turned  around  and  went  back  to  the  shore,  and  went 
around  the  lake,  and  when  we  had  finished  the  race 
and  came  out  on  the  other  shore  there  wuz  old  Bux 
standing  there  on  the  shore,  grinning  and  wagging  his 
tail,  just  like  he  did  that  first  night  that  I  came  down 
to  Mr.  Marshall's. 

Our  boat  beat  Mr.  Marshall's  and  we  had  the  most- 
est  fun  waving  at  each  other  and  for  a  long  time  I 
thought  Mr.  Marshall  wuz  going  to  come  out  ahead, 
but  he  said  his  boat  wuz  so  heavy  that  it  sank  down 
into  the  water  deeper  than  ours,  and  he  could  not  go 
so  fast,  but  Frank  said  that  it  wuz  because  he  wuz 
the  best  oarsman. 

After  we  had  tied  the  boats  to  some  little  trees  along 
the  shore  we  spent  some  time  in  picking  up  shells  and 
they  were  the  prettiest  shells  that  I  ever  saw.  Grand- 
ma said  we  would  take  them  home  with  us  and  I  might 
have  them  to  put  in  my  playhouse.  .  Mabel  said  she 
wanted  some  of  them  and  Luke  he  acted  naughty,  he 
said  that  girls  always  wanted  such  funny  things  as 
that,  and  he  didn't  see  anything  pretty  about  them. 
He  was  coaxing  at  Mr.  Marshall  and  Frank  all  the 
time  to  go  swimming  ;  finally  Mrs.  Marshall  said,  "  Mr. 
Marshall,  I  wish  you  would  take  those  children  down 
to  the  bath  house  and  get  them  some  bathing  suits 
and  let  them  have  all  the  swimming  they  want."  So 
we  all  went  down  to  the  bath  house,  except  Grandma 
and  Mrs.  Marshall,  and  there  wuz  a  man  down  there 
that  gave  us  bathing  suits  to  put  on  that  were  striped 
like  those  men  had  on  up  at  Michigan  City,  where  my 
Pa  took  me  one  time  to  see  the  penitentiary. 

When  we  came  out  of  the  bath  house  Frank  jumped 
right  off  into  the  deep  water  and  began  to  swim.  My, 
how  the  water  splashed !  That  scared  me.  I  wanted 
to  go  back  and  give  the  clothes  to  that  man  again,  but 
Luke  said  I  wuz  a  coward  and  Mr.  Marshall  told  me 
that  he  would  take  care  of  me.  So  he  took  me  by  one 
hand  and  Mabel  by  the  other  and  we  waded  out  into 
the  water,  up  to  my  chin.  My,  but  the  water  wuz 
nice  and  warm,  and  it  wuz  the  funniest  thing  when  I 
got  in  where  it  wuz  deep  the  water  would  lift  me  up  a 
little  and  I  couldn't  hardly  keep  my  feet  on  the  ground. 
Mr.  Marshall  told  Mabel  to  watch  me  and  he  ran  out 
on  the  bank  and  got  a  big  smooth  board  and  he  laid 
me  on  that  board  and  told  me  to  paddle,  and  that  the 


board  wouldn't  sink  at  all  and  I  could  just  ride  it 
round  and  round  and  when  I  would  paddle  with  my 
hands  and  kick  with  my  feet  the  board  would  move  in 
the  water  and  I  could  swim  just  like  Mr.  Marshall 
and  Mabel. 

While  we  were  having  so  much  fun,  laughing  and 
talking  and  swimming,  Luke  and  Frank  had  fixed  up 
a  spring  board  so  they  could  get  away  back  on  the 
shore  and  run  just  as  hard  as  they  could  upon  the 
springboard  and  it  would  throw  them  away  up  in  the 
air  and  they  would  dive  down  into  the  water  and  you 
couldn't  see  them  for  the  longest  time.  Luke  he  tried 
to  do  like  Frank  and  one  time  when  he  went  to  jump 
off  the  springboard  his  foot  slipped  and  he  fell  down 
into  the  water,  on  his  side,  and  Mr.  Marshall  said  it 
knocked  the  wind  out  of  him.  Frank  had  to  get  him 
out  and  he  had  to  rest  awhile  before  he  could  play 
any  more. 

We  tried  our  best  to  get  Grandma  to  go  swimming 
too,  but  she  said  she  wuz  too  old,  but  she  used  to  gc 
swimming  when  she  wuz  a  girl  and  that  she  would  now 
sit  on  the  bank  and  watch  the  rest  of  us.  But  she 
didn't  sit  there  all  the  time ;  she  and  Mrs.  Marshall 
got  into  one  of  the  boats  and  picked  the  mostest  water- 
lilies  and  they  made  a  very  nice  bouquet  to  take  home- 
to  Mrs.  Bradley.  We  got  tired  of  swimming  and  wenl 
back  to  the  bath  house  and  took  off  our  bathing  suits 
and  put  our  own  clothes  on  again,  and  hurried  baclt 
to  dinner.  Mr.  Marshall  said,  "  Now,  you'll  have  tc 
get  dinner  quickly,  because  we  must  get  home  this 
evening."  When  we  started  back  across  the  lake  Ma- 
bel coaxed  old  Bux  to  get  in  the  boat  with  her  anc 
she  put  her  arms  around  his  neck  and  made  him  sil 
down  by  her,  but  every  time  the  boat  would  tip  ovei 
a  little  he  would  act  like  he  wuz  going  to  jump  out 
and  Mr.  Marshall  saw  it  from  the  other  boat  and  h« 
hollered  and  told  Mabel  to  let  him  jump  out,  because 
if  we  got  out  in  the  middle  of  the  lake  and  he  would 
jump  out  it  would  be  so  far  that  he  couldn't  swim  tc 
the  shore  and  then  he  would  drown. 

We  were  all  very  hungry  and  ate  a  good,  big  dinnei 
and  soon  were  on  our  way  home.  The  ponies  trottec 
faster  going  home  than  they  did  coming  up ;  I  guesi 
they  didn't  have  as  much  fun  up  there  as  we  did  anc 
they  were  in  a  hurry  to  get  home  to  the  barn  wher< 
they  could  get  lots  of  oats  and  corn.  We  didn't  hardlj 
get  started  home  till  Mrs.  Marshall  said,  "  It's  getting 
cool  now,  children,  you'd  better  wrap  up,"  and  wher 
she  saw  Luke  putting  on  his  overcoat  it  made  her  thini 
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THE   INGLENOOK.— October  18,  1904. 


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III 


Can  you  give  us  a  synopsis  of  the  career  of  George  B. 
IcClellan? 

General  Geo.  B.  McClellan,  a  noted  American  gen- 
eral, was  born  at  Philadelphia,  educated  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  and  at  West  Point,  where  he 
graduated  in  1846.  His  first  service  was  seen  in  the 
Mexican  War  soon  after  his  graduation.  When  the 
Mexican  War  closed  he  became  instructor  in  the  mili- 
tary academy.  For  many  years  he  was  engineer  for 
the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  and  a  railroad  president. 
At  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War  he  was  appointed 
major-general  with  a  command  in  West  Virginia.  In 
August  after  the  Bull  Run  catastrophe  he  became  com- 
mander of  the  army  of  the  Potomac,  and  in  November 
}f  the  same  year  he  became  general-in-chief  of  the 
Union  forces.  His  services  in  organizing  the  army 
were  invaluable.  He  commanded  through  the  Penin- 
sular campaign.  In  1864  he  resigned  from  the  army 
o  become  the  democratic  candidate  for  president. 
'  Little  Mac  "  was  unusually  popular  with  the  soldiers 
'"Ixf  the  Army  of  the  Potomac. 


Illustrate  the  difference  between  inductive  and  deduc- 
ive  reasoning. 

Inductive  is  a  process  of  thought  from  particular 
tacts  and  truths  to  general  ones.  If  I  observe  that 
leat  will  expand  iron,  tin,  zinc,  etc.,  I  may  infer,  since 
hese  are  representatives  of  the  class  of  metals,  that 
leat  will  expand  all  metals.  This  process  of  reasoning 
s  based  upon  the  principle  that  what  is  true  of  the  in- 
lividuals  is  true  of  the  class.  Deduction  is  the  op- 
posite process.  It  must  prove  that  heat  expands  cer- 
ain  metals  more  than  others  and  establish  the  fact 
iy  experiment  and  rigid  formulas.  We  may  learn 
>y  induction  in  multiplying  the  extremes  of  a  propor- 
ion  and  then  the  means,  that  the  product  of  the  ex- 
remes  equals  the  product  of  the  means ;  but  to  demon- 
strate or  prove  that  these  products  must  be  so,  requires 
he  deductive  process  of  reasoning. 


How    is   the   President    elected? 

Each  State  chooses  in  such  a  manner  as  the  legis- 

ature  may  direct,  a  number  of  electors  equal  to  the 
it  lumber  of  members  of  congress  to  which  that  State 

s  entitled.     These  electors,  acting  with  others  from 

til  other  States,  elect  the  president.     If  no  one   re- 
1'  |:eives  a  majority  of  the  electoral  vote,  the  president 

s  chosen  by  the  members  of  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives.    In   such   case   the  house   votes   by   States   and 

selects  one  from  the  three  highest  on  the  electoral  list. 


Please  tell   how  to  can   corn  for  winter   use. 

The  following  method  is  in  use  in  many  large  can- 
ning establishments  :  After  removing  the  corn  from  the 
cob  fill  into  clean  cans  so  as  to  leave  no  air  spaces. 
These  are  placed  into  a  large  oven  or  airtight  vessel 
and  subjected  to  hot  steam  under  pressure  from  four 
to  eight  hours.  Instead  of  a  steam  oven  a  large  ves- 
sel of  boiling  water  may  be  used  and  the  cans  im- 
mersed in  it,  but  this  is  not  as  effective  as  the  steam. 
The  next  thing  is  to  solder  on  the  cap  of  the  cans  with 
a  small  hole  tapped  in  the  center.  After  the  steam 
and  air  stop  escaping  from  this  vent  it  is  quickly  sol- 
dered shut,  and  this  must  be  done  before  the  air  begins 

to  enter. 

* 

Do  people  try  to  reach  the  south  pole  as  frequently  as 
the  north  pole? 

We  never  hear  of  attempts  of  reaching  the  south 
pole.  Why  it  is  we  do  not  know.  It  is  equally  dis- 
tant from  the  equator.  It  is  thought  by  some  that  it 
is  because  there  is  not  as  much  land  in  the  vicinity  of 
the  south  pole  as  the  north  pole.  This  is  supposed 
not  to  be  true  of  recent  years,  and  others  suggest  the 
reason  that  since  the  quantity  of  land  is  not  so  great 
that  the  quantity  of  ice  is  greater  and  the  temperature 
is  much  lower.  Whether  any  or  all  of  these  theories 
are  true  we  cannot  say. 

* 

Give  the  origin  of  the  English  language. 

The  forefathers  of  the  people  from  whom  our  lan- 
guage gets  its  name  came  to  England  from  the  north- 
ern shores  of  Germany  about  1,500  years  ago.  The 
English-speaking  people  of  England  were  conquered 
in  the  eleventh  century  by  the  Normans  who  spoke 
French,  and  by  a  mixture  of  the  two  their  speech  also 
became  somewhat  mixed,  so  that  part  of  our  English 
comes  from  Germany  and  another  part  from  France, 
to  say  nothing  of  the  words  we  have  obtained  from 
the  Indians  and  immigrants  from  all  parts  of  the  world, 
together  with  the  creation  of  new  words  continually. 

In  what  States  and  Territories  is  no  marriage  license 
required  to  get  married? 

Alaska,   New   Mexico,   New  York,  South   Carolina. 
and  also  New  Jersey,  except  that   in  the  latter  State 
nonresidents  require  a  license. 
* 

Please  give  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  the  United 
States  government  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30.  1903. 

$560,396,674  (receipts),  506,099,007  (expendi- 
tures). 


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THE    INGLENOOK— October  18,  1904. 


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(concluded  from  page  1006.) 
about  that  window  glass  that  old  Nigger  broke  when 
he  jumped  through  the  window,  and  she  began  to 
worry  because  she  wuz  afraid  some  burglar  might  have 
broken  into  the  house  while  we  were  gone.  'Nen  Mr. 
Marshall  said,  "  Why  mother,  you  haven't  worried 
about  that  all  the  time  you  were  up  here ;  didn't  you 
think  about  it?"  'Nen  grandma_  said,  "I  tell  you 
these  vacations  are  the  best  things  in  the  world  to  get 
worry  and  trouble  off  of  our  minds."  And  I  think 
so  too. 

(to  be  continued.) 

4*   4*    *fr 
TRUE   CHRISTIANS. 


Here,  in  twenty  particulars,  is  William  Seeker's 
description  of  the  characteristics  of  sanctified  men  and 
women : 

1.  Sanctified  Christians  do  much  good  and  make  but 
little  noise. 

2.  They  bring  up  the  bottom  of  their  life  to  the  top 
of  their  light. 

3.  They  prefer  the  duty  they  owe  to  God  to  the  dan- 
ger they  fear  from  man. 

4.  They  seek  the  public  good  of  others  above  the 
private  good  of  themselves. 

5.  They  have  the  most  beautiful  conversations 
among  the  blackest  persons. 

6.  They  choose  the  worst  sorrow  rather  than  com- 
mit the  least  sin. 

7.  They  become  as  fathers  to  all  in  charity  and  as 
servants  to  all  in  humility. 

8.  They  mourn  most  before  God  for  their  lusts, 
which  appear  least  before  men. 

9.  They  keep  their  hearts  lowest  when  God  raises 
their  estates  highest. 

10.  They  seek  to  be  better  inwardly  in  the  substance 
than  outwardly  in  appearance. 

11.  They  are  grieved  more  at  the  distress  of  the 
church  than  affected  at  their  own  happiness. 

12.  They  render  the  greatest  good  for  the  greatest 
evil. 

13.  They  take  those  reproofs  best  which  they  need 
most. 

14.  They  take  up  duty  in  point  of  performance  and 
lay  it  down  in  point  of  independence. 

15.  They  take  up  their  contentment  in  God's  ap- 
pointment. 


16.  They  are  more  in  love  with  the  employment  o 
holiness  than  with  the  enjoyment  of  happiness. 

17.  They  are  more  employed  in  searching  their  owr 
hearts  than  in  censuring  other  men's  states. 

18.  They  set  out  for  God  at  the  beginning  and  hold 
out  with  him  to  the  end. 

19.  They  take  all  the  shame  of  their  sins  to  them- 
selves and  give  all  the  glory  of  their  services  to  Christ 

20.  They  value  a  heavenly  reversion  above  an  earth- 
ly possession. — William  Seeker. 

*  *  * 

SIXTEEN   REASONS   FOR  ATTENDING   CHURCH 


selected  by  pearletta  onkst. 

1.  Come,  for  it  is  your  duty.     Heb.  10:  25. 

2.  Come,  lest  you  hinder  the  Gospel.     Matt.  12:  30 

3.  Come,  for  it  adds  to  your  growth.     2  Peter  3  :  18 

4.  Come,  for  you  should  glorify  God's  name.     1  Cor 
10:  31. 

5.  Come,  for  salvation.     1  Cor.  1:  21. 

6.  Come,  because  of  the  love  of  Christ.     2  Cor.  5 

14- 

7.  Come,   for  the  sake  of  him   who  died  for  you 
Rom.  5 :  8,  9. 

8.  Come,  for  the  sake  of  those  now  in  heaven. 
Tim.  1 :  5. 

9.  Come,  to  make  your  faith  a  success.     James  2 

17- 

10.  Come,  for  the  sake  of  your  friends  and  neigh 

bors.     Matt.  5:  16. 

11.  Come,  for  the  sake  of  your  children.     Eph.  6:  4 

12.  Come,   to   aid   the   coming  of   God's   kingdom 
Matt.  6:  10. 

13.  Come,  to  meet  with  Jesus.     Matt.  6:  10. 

14.  Come,  for  a  foretaste  of  heaven.     Heb.  12:  22 
24. 

15.  Come,  for  your  reward  with  the  saints.     Rev 
21. 

16.  And  come   for   the   receiving    of    a    kingdorr 
Heb.  12:  28. 

Union  City,  hid. 

4*  ♦  * 

Look  full  into  thy  spirit's  self, 

The  world  of  mystery  scan  ! 
What  if  thy  way  to  faith  in  God 

Should  lie  through  faith  in  man  ! — Bright. 


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The  basisof  my  business  is  absolute  and 
unvarying  integrity. 

SAMUEL  S.  THORPE, 
Founder  of  the  Brethren  Colony,  Brethren,  Mich. 


Moderate  wealth  is  possible  to  every  man— tilling  "the  soil  is 
the  surest  way  to  complete  independence — better  than  life 
insurance  or  money  in  the  bank;  the  thrifty  bona-fide  settler 
will  profit  by  investigating. 


Rich    Farming 
Lands. 


Rich   Fruit 
Lands. 


In   Wexford    and   Missaukee    counties,   Michigan;  one- 
half  to  6  miles  from  the  thriving  city  of  Cadillac,  population 
8,000;  on  the  main  line  of  Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  (Pennsyl-   ? 
vania  Sysiem)  and  Ann  Arbor  (Wabash   System)  railways. 


$5.00  to  $15.00  per  Acre 

An  Opportunity  that  Justifies  Prompt  Action. 


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Send  me  all 
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information 
pertaining  to   the 
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as  advertised  in 
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The  Remedy  With  a  Record 


DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER  is  the  only 
remedy  which  began  selling  in  the  Eighteenth  Century, 
sold  all  through  the  Nineteenth,  and  is  selling  in  the 
Twentieth  Century. 

It  is  prepared  to-day  as  it  was  over  one  hundred 
years  ago,  from  pure,  selected,  medicinal  herbs,  roots 
and  barks,  after  the  original  formula  of  Dr.  Peter 
Fahrney,  the  wise  old  German-Swiss  physician,  who 
began  practice  among  the  people  in  the  Blue  Ridge 
Mountain  district  of  Pennsylvania  in  1780. 

This  famous,  time-tried  specific  does  just  what  its 
name  indicates,  vitalizes  the  life  fluid,  carrying  health 
wherever  the  blood  goes. 

It  searches  out  and  utterly  destroys  every  particle 
of  the  impurities  and  poisons  which  spread  disease 
throughout  the  system. 

It  has  cured  hundreds  of  cases  regarded  as  hopeless 
by  physicians,  where  ordinary  treatments  failed. 

Xo  sick  one,  no  matter  how  desperate  or  long  con- 
tinued his  disease  may  be.  should  despair  of  a  cure. 

Let  the  sufferer  take  hope  from  the  Scriptural  say- 
ing, "  The  blood  is  the  life."  and  remember  that  good, 
pure  blood — which  means  health,  strength  and  vitality 
— is  easily  within  his  reach  by  the  use  of  Nature's 
remedy,  DR.  PETER'S  VITALIZER. 

"MAMA'S   MEDICINE." 

Muscatine,   Iowa,  July  1st,   1904. 
Dr.    P.    Fahrney,   Chicago.   111. 

Dear  Sir: — As  you  know,  I  have  been  your  agent  for 
several  years.  I  can  report  the  cure  of  our  oldest  son  by 
the  use  of  the  Blood  Vitalizer.  He  suffered  very  much 
with  Catarrh  of  the  head  so  that  he  was  obliged  to  breathe 
through  his  mouth.  I  wanted  him  to  use  the  Blood  Vi- 
talizer but  you  know  how  young  people  are;  when  they  get 
up  to  18  or  20  they  are  apt  to  think  they  know  more  than 
their  elders.  Advice  is  almost  useless  until  they  reach  the 
age  of  reflection.  Nothing  will  do  but  to  run  up  a  large 
doctor  bill.  For  eight  months  he  went  to  the  doctor 
daily.  He  used  douches  and  inhalers  but  nothing  helped. 
Finally  he  gave  up  and  used  "  mama's  medicine,"  as  he 
calls  the  Blood  Vitalizer  and  now  he  is  well  and  has  a 
good  clear  complexion.  Yours  truly, 

Mrs.  Louisa  Hein. 

CURED    A    RUNNING    SORE. 

Fort  Wayne,  Ind.,  May  6th,  1904. 
Dr.  P.  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Sir: — I  feel  in  duty  bound  to  write  you  a  few 
w-ords  of  gratitude.  We  have  a  little  girl  of  seven  years, 
who,  when  we  came  from   Germany,   two  years  ago,   had 


I 


a  running  sore  under  her  ear.  We  tried  different  kinds  ( 
medicine  but  nothing  helped  until  we  gave  her  the  Bloo 
Vitalizer   which   cured    it    completely. 

I  desire  to  also  say  that  this  winter  when  no  house  w: 
free  from  sickness,  we  all  escaped  and  it  was  due  i 
nothing  but  your  Blood  Vitalizer.    . 

Respectfully  yours, 
634   Runion   Ave.  H.   Leschner. 

NO    NEED    FOR    DOCTOR. 

Las  Animas,   Colo.,  Dec.   18th,   190"l 
Dr.   P.   Fahrney,   Chicago,   111. 

Dear  Sir:— We  have  now  had  your  Blood  Vitalizi 
and  other  remedies  in  our  home  for  about  14  years  and? 
cannot  tell  in  words  how  thankful  we  are  for  them.  Du 
ing  all  these  years  we  have  never  found  it  necessary  to  ca 
a   physician. 

Some  years  ago  I  suffered  from  a  severe  attack  < 
rheumatism.  I  took  the  Blood  Vitalizer  and  rubbed  m; 
self  with  the  Oleum  liniment  and  the  very  next  day 
was  able  to  go  to  work  again. 

Our  minister,  who  knew  of  my  condition  and  who  m 
me  on  the  street  exclaimed,  "  Is  it  you,  I  see,  or  yot 
ghost?  " 

Your  medicines  are  beyond  all  doubt,  the  best  in  e: 
istence.  Yours  very  truly, 

N.   Segerstrom. 

ALMOST    CRAZY    WITH    HEADACHE. 

Paxton,  Nebr.,  July  9,  190 
Dr.   P.   Fahrney,    Chicago,    111. 

Dear  Sir: — I  want  to  tell  you  what  your  Blood  Vita 
izer  has  done  for  me.  For  over  two  years  I  was  sij 
continually  so  that  I  was  hardly  able  to  perform  the  ligh 
est  household  duties.  I  had  such  headaches  and  dizs 
spells  that  I  thought  I  would  become  crazy.  I  doctor! 
a  good  deal  but  nothing  brought  relief  until  I  commence 
using  the  Blood  Vitalizer. 

I  used  four  bottles  and  feel  as  well  as  any  one  can  e 
pect  at  my  time  of  life.  Yours  truly, 

Mrs.  A.  A.  Beikat. 


Ruinous  bills  for  medical  services  may  be  avoidi 
by  counteracting  the  first  symptoms  of  sickness  wi' 
DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER.  Thousam 
of  dollars  would  be  saved  annually  by  invalids  if,  i: 
stead  of  calling  a  physician  for  every  ordinary  a 
ment  they  were  all  wise  enough  to  put  their  trust 
DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER.  Over  a  ce 
tury's  constant  use  has  demonstrated  its  merits  as 
health-giving  remedy.  Unlike  other  preparations  it 
not  sold  in  drugstores,  but  is  supplied  to  the  peof.  I 
direct  by  local  agents  appointed  in  every  communil  I 
For  further  particulars  address 


1 


DR.    PETER    FAHRNEY, 


112=114  S.  Hoyne  Avenue, 


CHICAGO,  ILI 


: 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


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j  atl  sizes  and  kinds.  Men's  size  Elgins  as 
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leap.  Catalogue  free.  Also  samples  and  3 
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tiast  Central  Kanaas  is  the  best  part 
|lthe    State    for    general    farming     and 

■  lng  stock.  "Well  watered,  Marion 
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our  price,  don't  place  your  order  until  you  have  looked  through  the  Stov 
Department  of  our  Catalogue.  No  matter  what  kind  of  a  stove  you  wan' 
we  can  furnish  it,  and  you  will  find  OUR  PRICE  A  BIG  SURPRISE  whe 
you  have  seen  the  stove  we  will  send  you. 

We  have  facilities  for  furnishing  our  customers  a  strictly  high  grade,  uj 
to-date,  guaranteed  line  of  stoves  that  are  not  surpassi  -I  by  any  othe 
Company  and  equaled  by  very  few.  We  have  the  advantage  of  havin 
this  department  of  our  business  under  the  .personal  supervision  of  an  ex 
perienced  stove  man,  and  the  patterns  from  which  our  stoves  are  mad 
are  acknowledged  by  experts  to  be  the  very  best  in  principle  and  far  si 
perior  in  many  ways  to  the  patterns  and  designs  of  some  of  the  oldes 
stove  manufacturers  of  the  Country,  who  charge  double  and  frequentl 
three  times  the  amount  we  ask  you  for  a  good,  first-class,  high-grade,  ur, 
to-date,   guaranteed   stove. 

DON'T  FORGET  ^°  matter  what  inducements  you  may  rt 
ceive  elsewhere  we  have  back  of  us  QUAI 
ITY  AND  PRICE,  which  is  by  far  the  BEST  INDUCEMENT  OU] 
CUSTOMERS  ASK  and  IS  A  SURE  GUARANTEE  OF  SATISFAC 
TION.  Besides,  we  take  back  at  our  own  expense  and  refund  mone 
in   full  on  any  goods  not  perfectly  satisfactory  to  the  customer. 

The  Best  Time  to  Buy  Your  Stove  i3  Bijfht  Now.  The  reaso 
is  this:  Later  in  the  Season  the  RUSH  WILL  BE  ON  and  shij 
ments  can  be  made  more  promptly  now 
than  thirty  days  hence.  For  this  reason 
we  urge  our  customers  who  can  conveni- 
ently arrange  to  do  so  to  send  their  orders 
in  now,  even  though  it  may  be  in  advance 
of  the  time  when  you  will  need  the  stove, 
however  when  you  have  occasion  to  use 
the  stove,  by  ordering  now,  you  will  have 
It  at  hand  and  there  will  be  no  inconvenience  by  delay.  We  are  prepared  for  your 
order  now  and  have  facilities  for  taking  care  of  our  customers  and  we  in  this  way 
make  every  order  placed  with  us  a  profitable,  pleasing,  and  satisfactory  transac- 
tion  to    the   customer. 


ONE  OF  OUR  BIG  VALUES  IN  OAK  HEATING  STOVES 

Burns  Hard  or  Soft  Coal  or  Wood. 
Complete  for  $3.90. 

This  will  give  you  an  idea  of  what  we  are  offering  in  Oak  Heating  Stoves  and 
we  have  equally  as  wonderful  values  to  offer  in  Base  Burners,  Cook  Stoves,  Steel 
Ranges,  in  fact  we  have  bargains  for  our  customers  throughout  our  entire  Stove  De- 
partment. From  the  lowest  priced  stove-pipe  to  the  highest  grade  steel  range,  we 
can   supply    your   needs   in    the   Stove   line. 

Send  Your  Request  Now  for  the  Catalogue — It's  Free. 

If  you  do  not  have  our  large  No.  2  General  Merchandise  Catalogue,  don't  delay 
writing  for  it.  A  postal  card  will  -  bring  it.  The  best  guarantee  we  have  to  offer 
those  who  have  not  yet  traded  with  us  is  our  large  list  of  satisfied  customers.  If 
you  are  not  acquainted  with  us,  although  we  feel  sure  there  are  very  few  readers  of 
the  Inglenook  who  do  not  know  of  the  EQUITY  MFG.  &  SUPPLY  CO.,  write  us,  get 
acquainted,  it  will  cost  you  nothing,  even  though  you  do  not  send -us  an  order,  but 
we  are  sure  that  if  you  will  let  us  serve  you,  even  though  you  send  us  but  a  small 
trial  order,  you  will  be  so  well  satisfied  that  we  can  look  forward  to  your  becoming 
one  of  our  regular  customers. 

Awaiting   the    pleasure    of    serving    you    and    your    Friends,    we    are, 

Faithfully, 


Equity  Mfg.  and  Supply  Company, 

•53=I59  So.  Jefferson  Street,  Chicago,  III. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


THE    COLONY 


...ON. 


,AGUNA  DE  TACHE  GRANT 

...IN    THE... 

SAN  JOAQUIN  VALLEY,  CALIFORNIA. 


BRETHREN  OAK  GROVE  CHURCH 

Still  continues  to  attract  the  attention  of  homeseekers. 

The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  Immense  growth  of 
■ry  variety  of  crop  which  is  again  in  evidence  establishes  the  fact  that  here  Is  the 
ce  where  the  Industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN  PEOPLE  DO  EASTERN  FARMING. 

Tou  aon't  have  to  spend  years  learning  a  new  business. 

ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

Ides  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  It. 

SPECIAL    LOW    RATES    TO    CALIFORNIA. 

From  August  15th  to  Sept.  10th  the  railroads  will  sell  Round  Trip  excursion 
cett  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

From   Chicago $50  00 

From  Mississippi  River 47  50 

From    Missouri    River 46  00 

Final  return  limit,  Oct.  23. 

CSO   SEPTEMBER    15th    TO    OCTOBER    15th    COLONIST    ONE-WAY    TICKETS 
TO  ANY  CALIFORNIA  POINT. 

From    Chicago $33  00 

From   Mississippi   River 30  00 

From   Missouri   River 26  00 

By  this  arrangement  you  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 
fl.     If  It  suits  you,  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate. 

Land  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre,  Including  perpetual  water  right.  Terms,  one- 
rth  caah;  balance  In  eight  annual  payments. 

From  twenty  to  forty  acres  wiH  support  the  average  family  In  comfort. 

If  Interested  send  your  name  and  address  and  receive  printed  matter  and  our 
U  newspaper  free  for  two  months.     Write  to 

IRES  &  SAUNDERS,    ■    Laton,  California. 


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YOUR   IDLE  MONEY 

carefully  and  properly  invested  will 
earn  7  to  20  per  cent  per  annum 
for  you,  regularly  and  safely.  For 
eight  years  we  have  been  dealing  in 
high-grade  interest-bearing  invest- 
ment securities,  and  if  j*6u  have  any 
idle  funds  on  hand,  large  or  small, 
we  will  tell  you  how  and  where  you 
may  invest  it  honestly  and  profit- 
ably, and  we  use  the  greatest  possi- 
ble care  to  make  every  dollar  Invest- 
ed absolutely  secure.  Write  to  us 
for    full    particulars.     Address: 

NEWCOMER  AND  FRICE, 
30eow  Mt.  Morris,  ILL 


IF  you  can  spare  the  time  this 
fall  or  winter  there  is  no  reason 
why  you  should  not  enjoy  the 
charm  of  California's  balmy  air 
and  invigorating  sunshine,  the 
delicious  fruits  and  lovely  flowers, 
the  big  trees,  the  old  missions  and 
the  glorious  Pacific.    Think  it  over_. 

Can  you  afford  to  miss  the  California  trip' 
Mn?»'   Ui&ny  qu**liim»  alwut 
tho  trip  and  about   California   as 
yon  like — they    will   I*  answered 
correctly,  i>r»mi>tly,court60u3ly. 

J.  FRANCIS.  C«n'l  Paaa'rAgt. 
PS4  Chicago. 


Job   Printing 


The  Kind  that  Brings  Re- 
sults, the  Kind  you  needn't 
be  ashamed  of,  the  Kind 
that  is  Cheapest  in  the  End 
because  Just  as  You  Want 
it, — Furnished  by 


BRETHREN     PUBLISHING    HOUSE, 
Elgin.    Illinois. 


Buys  this  Handsome 
NickeHrimmed 


Amherst  Range 


Exactly  J 
Illuslrati 


Without 
Reservoir 


Positively  the   highest   grade   steel   range.      It  has  high  shelf,  warming  closet,  deep  reservoir,  he 
rich  nickel  trimmings  and  mountings,  asbestos  lining,  malleable  iron  frames,  steel  plates  and  an  oven  I 
is  to   all   intents  and   purposes,  hermetically  sealed.     It  will  stay  that  way  for  years,  and  will  bake  i 
quickly,  more  perfectly  and  with  less  fuel  than  other  ranges.      No  special  "firing  up,"  no  wasteful  pill 
on  of  fuel  with  our   Amherst  range.     You  cannot  make  a  more  serious  mistake  than  to  buy  an  infei 
steel  range,  which  seems  to  be  cheap,  but  for  which  you  will  have  to   pay  three  or  four  times,  when  repa 

and    wasted    fuel   are    consider! 
Buy    our    Amherst,    for    the 
cost  is  the  only  cost  of  this  rad 


B»^|L — ^_^      Write  for  our  Free  Catalogue,  I 


and  you  will  get  a  book  contair 
a   fine    illustration  of  the  mercl 
dise   we   sell,  full  descriptions 
astonishingly  low  prices.    This  hi 
will  tell  you  how  we  refund  freif 
and    express   charges,   explain 
binding  guarantee,  and  name 
bottom  prices. 

Don't    Fail    to    Send    a  Posl 
For  Our  Free  Catalogue. 


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CONTRIBUTIONS. 

SEED-THOUGHTS    FOR  THE    HEART'S    GARDEN 

Josephine    Hanna. 
YOSEMITE    VALLEY.— By   Rilla   Arnold. 
THE  LADY  OF  SHUNEM.— By  Elizabeth  D.  Rosenberger 
CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE.— A   REPLY.— By   A.   W.    Stewart 
AN  HISTORIC  SPOT.— By  H.  W.  Strickler. 
AMERICAN    PREHISTORICS.— By   Thomas   Figley. 
LIVING  MEANS   WORKING.— By   Lulu  C.   Mohler. 
THE  MODEL  KITCHEN.— By  Charles  Martin. 


EDITORIALS. 

BUSINESS  IS  BUSIXI   SS 
TO    OUR   AGENTS. 


A   TWi  (-GALLON   HAT. 


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ELGIN,    ILLINOIS 


BRETHREN    PUBLISHING    HOUSE 


ber  25,1904 


$  1 .00  per  Year 


Number  43,  Volume  VI 


$30.00  Per  Acre  Profit 


Raising  SUGAR  BEETS  in 


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Eld.  L.  E.  Keltner,    who  owns  80    acres  of    land  near    Snyder 
Colo.,  and  also  runs  a  grocery  store  at  Hygiene,  Colo.,  says: 

I  rented  23  acres  of  land  near  Hygiene,  pa_ying  $10.00  per  acre  cash 
rent,  then  hired  all  the  work  done  necessary  to  plant  the  entire  23  acres 
in  SUGAR  BEETS,  including  the  harvesting  of  the  beets  and  loading 
them  on  the  cars  to  go  to  the  factory,  which  cost  me  S35.00  per  acre 
more,  making  total  outlay  of  $45.00  per  acre. 

The  yield  was  an  average  of  a  little  over  15  tons  to  the  acre,  for 
which  the  Sugar  Factory  paid  me  S5.00  per  ton  after  they  were 
loaded  on  the  cars.  Can  any  eastern  farmer  tell  me  of  any  crop  raised 
in  the  east  that  pays  like  this? 


23  acres  sugar  beets   yield  345  tons — sold  at  S5.00, 
Paid  out  for  rent  of  land  and  labor  on  23  acres, 

Net  profit  on  23  acres, 


SI,  725.00 
1,035,00 

S690.00 


" 


READER--You  can  buy  equally  as  good  land  for  growing  sugar 
beets,  or  any  other  crop,  in  the  South  Platte  Valley  at  from  $25.0Ci 
to  $30.00  per  acre.  Avail  yourself  of  the  cheap  rates  to  Sterling,1 
Colo.,  in  effect  the  first  and  third  Tuesdays  of  each  month,  to  go  and! 
see  for  yourself.     Write  for  FREE  PRINTED  MATTER. 


GEO.   L.    McDONAUGH, 

Colonization  Agent   Union  Pacific  Railroad, 
OMAHA,  NEBRASKA. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


IcPHERSON  COLLEGE 


A  College  of  which 
Kansas  is    Proud. 


HEBE    ABE    A    PEW    OP    THE    GOOD     THINGS    WE    HAVE    TO     OFFER: 
JJTormal  College  that  prepares  teachers  for  all  grades  of  certificates. 
Complete  College  course  that  compares  with  anything  in  the  west. 
5e  College  and  Normal  Courses  lead  to  State  certificates  without  examinations. 

cellent  Building's  and  Equipments. 
Ipenses  are  as  low  as  is  possible  with  first-class  service. 

Cr  Last  Year's  Students  will   take  out  of  the  Public  Funds  of  McPherson   county 
I    alone  over  $10,000  this  year.     This  shows  talent  and  home  appreciation. 
Cr  graduates  occupy  enviable  positions   in   the  business,  educational  and   religious 

world. 
le  Moral  and  Beligious  Influences  are  unsurpassed.     No  saloons  in  the  city.     The 
I;   teachers  come  In  close  personal  contact  with  the  students. 
-ill  have  a  Superior  Faculty. 

V  put  more  stress  on  our  Bible  School  than  any  other  college  we  know  of. 
9e  President  of   the   college,    Edward    Frantz,    is   dean   of   the   Bible   school   and   Is 
f    recognized  as  having  no  superior  in  his  line  of  work.     He  has  been   instructor 
!     In  his  line  of  work  in  McPherson  college  for  the  past  nine  years,  and  is  devoting 
I    his  entire  time  to  the  Bible.     You  can  do  no  better  than  to  take  a  course  here. 
Remember   tuition    ir.   Bible   Department    is   free.     Come,    study   the   Bible,   pre- 
pare yourself  for  mission  work.  Sunday-school  teacher,  preacher  and  make  your- 
self useful. 
ore's  no  Bisk  in  taking  our  course  in  writing  or  business.     If  you  are  not  satisfied 
W    with  the  instruction   you  get  from  Prof.  Fahnestock,  you  pay  no  tuition.     This 

should  appeal  to  those  wishing  a  Business  course  or  a  Penmanship  course. 
Jof.  Fahnestock  is  a  little  more  skillful  in  execution  than  the  average  John  or 
Bill,  that  helps  some  of  his  pupils.  He  has  taught  Bookkeeping  and  Penman- 
ship for  thirty  years — that  helps  others.  Writing  is  one  of  his  specialties. 
!  If  you  want  all  he  knows  about  it,  come  to  McPherson.  If  you  want  to  be 
I  entertained,  go  to  Sell's  circus.  Some  people  say  Fahnestock  is  the  best.  All 
(  say  he  is  conscientious.  If  you  believe  this,  he  can  help  you. 
lyou  have  but  Little  Means,  write  and  mention  the  Nook.     We  have  an  interesting 

proposition  for  you  if  you  want  a  Business  Course  or  a  course  in  Penmanship. 
[J     Winter  terra  begins  Nov.  8.     We  expect  a  large  increase  then.     Students  may  enter  any  time. 

f  McPHERSON    COLLEGE.    McPherson,  Kans. 


Manchester   College 


■■iNTS  300  students  whose  parents  are 
•  •king  an  institution  that  offers  the 
i  lowing: — 


A  clean,  moral  atmosphere,  with  a 
delightful    social    life. 
A  high  standard  of  scholarship. — 
Work    done    here    admits    students 
to     the     best     universities.       Nine 
universities    have    figured    in    the 
training   of   our    teachers. 
Normal     English,     a     professional 
course   for   teachers,    with    the   de- 
gree Bachelor  of  English. 
A    course    preparatory    to    College, 
with   a   diploma. 

Course  in  Arts. — Degree  Bachelor 
of  Arts. 

Bible  Department.  —  ( 1 )  English 
course  of  two  years,  with  a  d,i- 
ploma,  (2)  Greek  and  Hebrew 
course  of  three  years  with 
degree  Bachelor  of  Sacred  Liter- 
ature. 

Department  of  Music. — (1)  Spe- 
cial courses  in  Piano,  Voice,  Or- 
gan, Harmony,  History,  etc,  (2) 
Vocal  Teachers'  Course  of  two 
years,  with  diploma,  (3)  Instru- 
mental Teachers'  Course  of  two 
years,    with   diploma,    (4)    Collegl- 


I. 
II. 

n. 

tv. 

V. 
VI. 


ate  Courses  in  Piano.  Voice,  etc., 
(5)  Chorus  classes  throughout  the 
year, 
vm.  Business  Department. —  (1)  Book- 
keeping course  of  20  weeks,  (2) 
Commercial  Course  of  one  year, 
with  diploma,  (3)  Commercial 
Teachers'  Course  of  two  years, 
with  the  degree  Bachelor  of  Ac- 
counts, (4)  Course  in  Shorthand 
and  Typewriting,  which  trains  the 
student  for  Important  positions. 
IX.  Department  of  Oratory.  —  (1) 
Course  Introductory  to  Public 
Speaking,  (2)  Course  In  debate 
and  Oratorical  Composition,  (3) 
Advanced  Course  in  Public  Speak- 
ing and  Oratory. 

Work  to  pay  expense  of  a  number  of 
students. 

We  do  not  have  any  forty-dollar 
courses  for  $5.  Please  do  not  write  for 
such    Inducements. 

EXPENSES  are  very  moderate,  and  stu- 
dents   are    glad    for    such    opportunities. 

PirBt  Winter  Term  opens  Nov.  8. 

Your  correspondence   is  solicited. 

Writo  for  Catalogue  and  particulars. 

Address   the   President, 


43t2 


Xnri  h    Manchester,    Ind. 


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THE 

REEDLEY 
TRACT 


The  Gem  of  the  San 
Joaquin  Valley 


Embraces  the  Mount  Campbell, 
Columbia,  Carmelita,  Springfield, 
Producers,  Level  Oi  chard,  Kings 
River  and  other  Colonies  These 
are  among  the  best  lands  in  the 
State  for  all  kinds  of  fruit  and 
alfalfa.  Good  soil,  low  prices, 
abundant  water,  healthful  climate, 
perfect  natural  drainage. 

Special  inducements  made  to 
Brethren.  Colony  now  forming. 
Write  for  booklet,  and  full  informa- 
tion.    Address, 

O.   D.    LYON, 

Reedley,  Fresno  Co.,  California. 


43-13 


Mention  the  INGLENOOK  when  writing. 


SPECIAL 


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TO    THE 

SOUTHEAST 


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On  November  15th,  1904,  Round- 
trip  Excursion  Tickets  at  less  than 
half  rate,  g<»od  t>>  return  within  21 
days,  will  be  sold  t»»  points  in  Ala- 
bama, Florida,  Georgia,  Kentucky, 
Louisiana,  Mississippi,  North  Caro- 
lina, South  Carolina,  Tennessee  and 
Virginia. 

For  full  information  as  to  rates, 
tickets,  limits,  etc.,  call  on  Agent 
"  Big  Four  Route,"  or  address  the 
undersigned. 

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Gen'l    Pass.   &   Ticket    Agt  . 
Cincinnati,   ( )hio. 


Century  Scalding  Pot 

Indispensable  for  butchers,  huck- 
sters, and  farmers'  clubs.  Water 
remains  hot.  Very  little  fuel  needed. 
Easily  operated.  Profitable  invest- 
ment.     :       :      :      Write  for  prices. 

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-S  ]i  I\  A  I_ I/^V  >s  the  best-watered  arid  State  in  America.  Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 
^  lL/i\l  IV/  winds,  destructive  storms  and  cyclones  are  unknown,  and  with  its  matchless  cli- 
mate it  makes  life  bright  and  worth  living. 
We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer  to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 
change  for  the  general  improvement  in  your  condition  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  both  requirements.  There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 
and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  country  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 
swer and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger   work   teach   us   that   a   few   dollars   spent   in    railroad 
fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new   country  saves   thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

Cheap    homeseekers'    rates    are    made    to   all    principal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 
for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting  a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


Ronnd=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday  of  May, 
August,  September  and  October,  1904.  To  points  north  of  Pocatello  tickets  will  be  sold  only  in  May 
and  October,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


SETTLERS'    RATES 


Daily  from  September  15  to  October  IS,  1904,  the  same  cheap  one-way  second-class  settlers'  rates 
will  be  in  effect  from  the  East  to  points  on  our  line  as  have  heretofore  been  made  in  the  Spring  and 
Fall  months,  as  follows: 

To  Butte,  Anaconda,  Pocatello, 

Ogden,  Salt  Lake,  and  interme-  To  Huntington  and  main 

diate  points.  line  intermediates. 

Chicago, $30.00  $30.50 

Bloomington, 28.80  29.30 

Peoria, 28.00  28.50 

St.   Louis 26.00  27.50 

Kansas   City,   Leavenworth,  Atchison  and  St.  Joseph, 20.00  22.50 

Council  Bluffs  and  Omaha 20.00  22.50 

Sioux  City, 22.90  25.40 

St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis 22.90  25.40 

Proportionate   rates   will   be   made  from   other   stations   in   Illinois,   Iowa,  etc. 


r$     Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance.      Fine 


Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


~ f 

Arrived    in    Payette    Valley    Feb.    23,    1903.     Settled   on   an   80-acre   tract,   covered   with   sage   brush.  i 

Cleared  40  acres.     May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.     Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.    June  12  sowed  10  acres  j 

to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.     Yielded  55  to  acre.     Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February  ■ 
or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer  4 
oats. 

Potatoes   yielded   500   bushels   to    the   acre   and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)  E.  L.  Dotson. 

i 

D.   E.   BURLEY,  j 

<S       S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio.                                                                  G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R.,  j 

■£      J.  E.  HOOPER,  Agent,   Oakland,  Kansas.                                                                           Salt  Lake  City,  Utah.  ) 

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Vol.  VI. 


October  25,  1904. 


No.  43. 


AUTUMN    RHYMES. 


BY  J.  S.   MOHLER. 

The  summer  days  are  ending, 
With  Autumn  smoothly  blending. 
The  evening  sun  shines  mellow, 
The  skies  seem  softly  yellow, 
And  fringed  with  leaden  haze — 
The  smoke  of  Autumn  days. 
The  forests  scarlet-green 
With  many  a  shade  between. 
The  harvests   all  are  gathered, 
Our  Father's  gracious  treasure— 
The  meadows  brown  sear, 
That  mark  the.  passing  year. 
The  laden   corn  bends   down, 
Its   coat  is   turning  brown. 
The   apple's   glossy  red 
From  trees — their  tribute  shed — 
And  gardens  yield  their  store, 
Enough  for  all,  and  more — 
'  The  nuts  from  trees  are  dropping, 
For  children  pleasant   cropping. 
The    squirrels    aloft    are    barking; 
Their  mates  intensely  heark'ning. 
The  song  of  insects  low, 
As  nights  more  chilly  grow. 
The  birds  consort  together, 
In  doubt  about  the  weather, 
And  soar  away  in  bands 
To  far-off  sunny  lands. 
The   winds   have  waked  to   life 
And  storm,  as  if  in  strife 
About  the  way  to  go 
Blowing  fast,  blowing  slow. 
The  summer  flowers  are  dead 
And  in  their  lowly  bed 
They   lie,   and   soundly   sleep, 
While  clouds  will  o'er  them  sweep, 
Till  other  summer  days 
From  sleep  their  life  will   raise. 

Moral. 

Life's  summer  too  is  sending, 
With   Autumn   years,   is  blending. 
Our  seeding  time  soon  o'er, 
We'll  reap  on  yonder  shore. 
Eternal  life  we'd  grow, 
Lord,  help  us  seed  to  sow, 
Before  the  summer's  past 
Perchance    'twill    be    the    last! 
Mound  City,  Mo. 


SEED-THOUGHTS    FOR   THE    HEART'S   GARDEN. 


BY    JOSEPHINE    HANNA. 

Economy  is  not  handled  by  the  bolt. 

Conceit  will  not  hold  the  head  level. 

* 
The  unpopular  truth  is  loyalty's  proof. 

* 
Patience  is  pretty  slow,  but  there  is  no  need  of  sweep- 
ing after  her. 

* 

Mistakes  are  not  as  bad  as  otherwise,  if  practice 
improves  on  them  to  hit  stakes. 
* 
There  is  a  difference  between  you  taking  amuse- 
ment and  amusement  taking  you. 
* 
If  you  are  above  your  position,  it  ought  to  make  a 
pretty  good  foundation  on  which  to  build. 
* 
Crying  is  hardest  when  you  can't  help  it;  but  once 
the  sun  is  out  it  is  easier  for  it  to  shine. 
* 
Our  great  duty  in  life  is  not  to  see  zuhat  lies  dimly 
in  the  distance,  but  to  do  what  lies  clearly  at  hand. 
* 
Success  is  beautiful  as  the  result  of  virtues  contrib- 
uting to  it,  but  is  ghastly  as  the  remains  of  virtues  sac- 
rificed for  it. 

* 

Beautiful  sentiments  arc  to  beautiful  deeds,  what 

the  image  of  clay  was  to  the  man  .  I  Jam:  "  faith  without 

ivorks  is  dead 

* 

Boys  have  been  ruined  because  they  had  to  stay  at 
home  and  turn  the  grindstone,  when  they  should  have 
been  allowed  to  go  fishing. 
* 

Honestly  now,  did  you  ever  hear  a  prima  donna 
sing  a  song  that  sounded  as  well  as  the  first  song  your 
little  one  learned  at  school? 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  25,  1904. 


THE    YOSEMITE    VALLEY. 


BY    RILLA   ARNOLD. 


Hidden  among  the  high  Sierras  of  California  is 
a  little  valley  that  has  become  famous  the  world  over 
for  its  beautiful  scenery.  Less  than  a  century  ago  no 
white  man's  eyes  had  ever  looked  upon  its  marvelous 


VERNAL    FALLS. 
(Sunset  Magazine.) 

beauty,  and  only  the  ears  of  the  Indian  had  heard 
the  roar  of  its  mighty  waterfalls — the  highest  in  the 
world. 

The  Indians  called  it  "  Yosemite,"  which  means 
Large  Grizzly  Bear.  After  the  white  men  had  set- 
tled on  the  plains  below,  the  Indians  made  raids  upon 
the  ranches,  driving  off  cattle  and  horses,  and  boasted 
that  they  knew  of  a  place  in  the  mountains  where  they 
could  be  taken  so  the  white  men  could  not  find 
them.  In  1851  an  expedition  was  organized  to  pursue 
them,  and  the  result  was  the  discovery  of  this  won- 
derful valley  or  chasm.  It  is  only  seven  miles  long 
and  half  a  mile  wide.  The  floor  of  the  valley  is  level 
with  an  elevation  of  four  thousand  feet,  while  the 
mountains  surrounding  it  are  from  eight  thousand  to 
ten  thousand  feet  above  sea  level.  Scientists  differ  as 
to  the  cause  of  the  formation  of  the  valley,  some  think 
it  was  due  to  glacial  actions,  while  others  think  it  was 
wrought  by  the  force  of  upheaval. 


■■• 


In  the  summer  the  floor  of  the  valley  is  covered 
with  meadow  grasses  and  flowers.  These  give  it  a 
feminine-like  beauty  which  is  in  pleasing  contrast  with  . 
the  grandeur  of  its  stupendous  mountains  and  water- 
falls. It  is  this  variety  of  scenery  which  gives  the 
Yosemite  its  peculiar  charm.  It  is  worth  a  journey 
of  many  miles  to  see  any  one  of  its  many  wonders. 
Here  are  -the  highest  waterfalls  in  the  world.  The 
Yosemite  Falls  are  two  thousand  seven  hundred  feet 
high,  and  the  Bridal  Veil  nine  hundred  feet,  the  latter 
is  a  beautiful  cloud  of  white  spray  and  looks  very  much 
like  a  bride's  veil.  Seen  at  sunset  it  is  one  large  rain 
bow. 

Flowing  through  the  center  of  the  valley  is  a  little 
quiet  stream,  the  Merced  river.  Two  mountains  stand 
like  sentinels  at  the  entrance  of  the  valley.  The  one 
on  the  right  is  called  the  Sentinel,  and  on  the  left  is 
El  Capitan,  like  a  huge,  crouching  lion.  There  are 
four  hundred  acres  of  bare,  solid  rock  on  the  surface 
of  this  mountain. 

As  you  follow  the  river  towards  its  source,  to  the 
right  are  the  Cathedral  rocks  and  the  "  Bridal  Veil," 


GLACIER   POINT.      OVERHANGING   ROCK. 
(Sunset  Magazine  J 

and  to  the  left  the  "  Three  Brothers,"  three  mountains 
of  the  same  shape  leaning  on  each  other,  next  on  the 
left  are  the  Yosemite  Falls  and  near  is  the  little  vil- 
lage of  Yosemite,  with  its  modern  hotel,  church,  a  few 
houses  and  stores.  One  instinctively  feels  that  this 
is  no  place  for  a  town  and  civilization ;  it  is  the  natural 
home  for  those  children  of  nature — the  Indians.  It 
is  a  place  where  one  can  feel  the  heart  throbs  of  na-, 
ture.  Holy  ground,  as  it  were,  where  God  speaks  to 
his  children,  and  they  must  be  very  deaf,  indeed,  spir- 
itually, not  to  hear. 

Leaving  the  village  you  next  see  to  the  right  in  the 
distance  "  Glacier  Point,"  a  ledge  of  rock  extending 
from  the  mountain.     It  is  three  thousand  three  hun 


THE    I NGLENOOK.— October  25,  1904. 


eel  feet  above  the  floor  and  is  the  most  noted  place 
the  valley.     From  here  can  be  seen  some  of  the 

ghest  mountains  of  the  Sierras  and  an  entire  view 
the   Valley.     Going  farther  down  the  valley  you 

ime  to  the  "  Dome,"  and  on  the  opposite  side  the 

Half  Dome."  Under  the  shadow  of  these  moun- 
;  is  "  Mirror  Lake,"  a  small  lake,  but  a  verv  large 


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YOSEMITE  VALLEY ARTISTS    POINT. 

(Sunset  Magazine.) 

urror.  The  reflection  of  mountains,  trees,  clouds, 
tc,  makes  a  truly  beautiful  picture.  Farther  on  are 
ie  "  Vernal  "  and  "  Nevada  "  Falls.  The  latter  usu- 
My  equals  all  the  other  falls  combined  in  volume  and 

six  hundred  feet  high. 

To  see  the  Yosemite  one  must  take  a  stage  ride  of 
early  one  hundred  and  fifty  miles.  The  road  is  very 
lountainous  and  goes  through  some  of  the  grandest 
orests  in  the  world.  Each  stage  coach  is  drawn  by 
our  horses  and  the  horses  are  changed  every  eight 


EL    CAPITAN — CROUCHING    LION. 
(Sunset  Magazine.) 

nilcs.  The  scenery  along  the  road  gets  wilder  and 
grander,  until  the  culmination  point  is  reached.  This 
is  at  "  Inspiration  Point  " — below  is  the  valley  in  all 
its  glory,  "  El  Capitan,"  "  Three  Brothers,"  "  The 
Sentinel,"  "  Bridal  Veil,"  "  Dome  "  and  "  Half  Dome  " 
— a  few  more  bends  in  the  road  and  "  Artist's  Point 


is  reached.     The  view  from  here  is  nearly  the  same 
and  it  is  from  here  that  most  of  the  pictures  of  the 
Valley  are  taken. 
Milford,  hid. 

*   *   * 

NORWAY. 


Norwegian  statesmen,  while  they  are  willing  to  ad- 
mit that  the  emigration  problem  has  assumed  alarm- 
ing proportions,  are  now  taking  comfort  from  the  fact 
that  the  emigration  during  the  past  year  has  decreased 
by  about  5,000.  Still,  the  outlook  is  not  the  most  fa- 
vorable and  steamship  companies  continue  to  prosper. 
A  correspondent  to  The  Morgenbladct  adds :  "  The 
year  is  not  over  yet  and  it  is  quite  likely  that  the  last 
half  will  show  that  more  than  5,000  persons  will  emi- 
grate, thus  making  the  total  emigration  of  this  year 
just  as  large,  if  not  larger  than  that  of  last  year.  Last 
year  32,248  emigrated  from  Norway.  During  the 
first  six  months  of  the  present  year  15,567  persons 
emigrated.  The  chief  cause  for  the  continual  emi- 
gration lies  in  the  fact  that  the  agricultural  interests  in 
Norway  have  been  comparatively  neglected.  The 
small  farmer  has  a  hard  time  of  it  in  Norway  and  the 
little  pittance  he  is  able  to  secure  for  himself  and  his 
large  family  is  not  actually  enough  to  satisfy  his  needs. 
Then  again,  the  returning  sons  and  daughters  have  be- 
come prosperous.  When  they  return  to  the  home- 
land they  are  anxious  to  tell  their  brothers  and  sisters, 
their  relatives  and  friends  of  opportunities  in  Amer- 
ica ;  they  offer  them  a  helping  hand  and  hence  one  of 
the  causes  for  the  young  Norwegian  looking  for  new 
fields  in  the  land  of  the  far  west.  This  rule  also  holds 
good  in  every  respect  to  Sweden  also.  No  countries 
in  the  world,  with  the  possible  exception  of  Germany, 
has  such  close  ties  with  America  as  the  Scandinavian 
countries.  "  Travel  where  you  will,"  says  a  Swedish 
writer  in  one  of  the  Stockholm  dailies,  "  whether  this 
be  in  Norway  or  Sweden  and  you  will  find  few  homes 
in  the  rural  districts  where  there  is  not  a  son,  a  daugh- 
ter or  a  relative,  who  has  emigrated  to  America. 
Furthermore  the  Scandinavian  has  a  weakness  for  ev- 
erything American  and  although  economists  and  states- 
men are  doing  all  in  their  power  to  appeal  in  behalf  of 
home  industries,  the  little  cottage  on  the  hillside  or  in 
the  valley  becomes  more  narrow."  During  the  last 
ten  years  or  more  there  has  been  a  noticeable  change  for 
the  better  for  the  farmers.  The  introduction  of  Amer- 
ican machinery  has  lessened  his  labors  and  men  of 
affairs  look  for  brighter  days.  Still  Scandinavia  has 
given  her  sinew  and  backbone  to  America,  and  Canada 
is  fast  receiving  her  share.  The  emigration  problem 
has  therefore  become  an  issue  in  Norway  to  which  the 
strained  attention  of  statesmen  will  be  earnestly  given 
in  the  future. — Elgin  Courier. 


THE   INGLENOOK.— October  25,  1904. 


THE    LADY    OF   SHUNEM. 


BY    ELIZABETH    D.    ROSENBERGER. 

Mary  Kendall  was  gathering  up  the  dinner  dishes 
slowly,  as  if  they  were  heavy  implements  of  warfare : 
they  were  greasy  and  the  water  was  almost  cold,  but 
she  hated  to  make  the  fire  again.  It  was  no  conso- 
lation to  know  that  if  she  had  proceeded  to  wash  them 
right  after  dinner  the  water  would  have  been  hot. 
"My,  how  I  hate  all  this!"  she  exclaimed. 

Just  then  Frank,  who  knew  as  elder  brothers  always 
do  know  all  his  sister's  mistakes  and  shortcomings 
struck  an  attitude  with  his  hand  on  his  heart  and  told 
her  to  "  listen  to  this  tragikel  pome,"  then  in  drawling 
tones  he  recited, 

"  There  are  different  ways  of  doing  things 
A   casual   glance   discloses, 
Some  girls  turn  up  their  sleeves  at  work 
And  some  turn   up  their  noses." 

But  .Mary  was  too  sullen  to  smile,  and  Frank  saw 
that  his  well-meant  efforts  to  cheer  her  up  did  no  good, 
he  ended  by  saying,  "  Poor  little  Sis :  she  wants  to 
soar  beyond  this  kitchen  into  a  region  where  greasy- 
dish-water  is  unknown,  where  brooms  and  washtubs 
are  never  found,  where— where  people  sit  and  sing  and 
play  from  day  to  day—  Now,  there's  another  rhyme, 
it  just  keeps  breaking  out  on  me  someway." 

Mary  was  unmoved  by  her  brother's  teasing,  and 
the  less  said  about  those  dishes,  the  better.  They  were 
done  at  last ;  she  swept  the  kitchen,  put  on  a  sunbon- 
net,  and  went  back  into  the  meadow.  She  crossed  a 
bridge  and  followed  a  slightly  worn  footpath  up  to 
the  bend  of  the  river.  She  used  to  play  here  when 
she  was  a  little  girl,  now  she  was  seventeen  and  one 
of  life's  problems  had  come  to  her.  She  wanted  to  be 
alone  to  think  it  over.  She  had  been  away  to  a  Con- 
servatory of  Music  for  the  last  two  years,  she  had 
worked  hard  and  her  teachers  had  encouraged  her. 
But  this  summer  on  the  farm  she  saw  that  her  mother's 
health  was  failing,  her  father  was  worrying  about  the 
crops,  and  if  she  would  do  her  duty — 

"What  a  nice  shady  place!  "  said  Margaret  Burns 
just  then,  as  she  slowly  made  her  way  over  a  short 
foot-log.  "Do  you  often  come  here?" 
■  "  Not  any  more.  I  used  to  when  I  made  play- 
houses," answered  Mary,  almost  solemnly.  She  had 
not  seen  Margaret  until  she  spoke  and  she  was  not 
sure  but  that  she  intended  having  a  good  cry  all  to 
herself;  she  would  rather  have  talked  to  Margaret 
some  other  time  anyway.  Soon  they  were  silent.  The 
long  years  spent  in  teaching  had  given  Margaret  an 
intuitive  sympathy ;  she  saw  that  her  friend  was  brood- 
ing over  some  trouble.  So  she  wisely  waited  until 
Mary  told  her  the  story  of  her  present  disappointment. 
She  believed  she  had  talent,  music  was  easy  for  her, 


she  had  hoped  to  make  that  her  life-work,  now  i 
seemed  impossible  to  go  on,  "  and  I'm  afraid  I'll  los< 
all  I've  worked  for,"  she  said. 

Margaret  Burns  seemed  interested  in  watching  th< 
clouds  which  like  a  city  of  snow  with  spires  and  dome 
were  massed  against  the  sky.  But  at  last  she  slowlj 
answered,  as  if  in  doubt,  "■  You  will  give  up  your  ca- 
reer, give  up  your  ambitions  and  be  a  nobodv  a 
home  ?  " 

Mary  had  a  guilty  consciousness  that  this  was  jus 
what  she  was  thinking.  She  said,  "  It  may  be  wrong 
I  wish  I  could  feel  as  if  I  were  not  making  a  sacrifice 
but  you  do  not  know  how  I  loved  my  work  at  school.' 

Another  silence.  Margaret  knew  that  Mary's  faj 
ther  could  not  possibly  raise  the  money  to  send  hei 
another  year.  At  last  she  said,  "And  you  have  al 
ways  felt  that  girls  like  Rose  Ferris  who  stay  at  norm 
and  enjoy  it  are  frivolous  and  of  little  use  in  the 
world."  Mary  laughed  a  little  and  then  said,  "  Hon 
estly  now,  I  never  thought  that  I  expressed  that  die 
I?" 

Margaret  shook  her  head  smiling,  and  said,  "  Did 
you  ever  think  much  about  the  Lady  of  Shunem  ?  " 

"  Why  no,"  Mary  answered,  "  I  haven't  read  Eng 
lish  history  lately,  who  was  she?  " 

"  The  Bible  says—  "  "  Oh !  "  exclaimed  Mary  in  a 
disappointed  tone.  "  Yes,"  went  on  Margaret  without 
noticing  the  interruption,  "  the  Bible  says  she  was  a 
great  woman,  though  she  did  not  have  a  career  or  a 
profession.  She  entertained  the  prophet  Elisha  in  her 
own  home,  and  when  he  gratefully  offered  to  do  some 
favor  for  her  in  return,  such  as  giving  her  social  promi- 
nence by  introducing  her  to  the  king's  household,  she 
simply  answered,  '  I  dwell  among  my  own  people.' ' 

"  She  lost  the  opportunity  of  a  lifetime  then,"  said 
Mary  flippantly.  "  Imagine  anyone  in  these  days  los- 
ing such  a  chance  of  getting  in  the  swim,  right  in  the 
big  aquarium,  I  mean." 

Very  earnestly,  Margaret  said,  "  She  was  a  home 
woman  who  enjoyed  having  her  friends  and  her  fami- 
ly around  her,  a  woman  of  culture  and  refinement.  I 
wish  I  could  make  you  see  how  great  she  really  was, 
and  appreciate  what  such  women  are  doing  for  this 
world.     They  are  the  very  salt  of  the  earth." 

Mary  was  only  half  listening  by  this  time,  someway 
she  was  not  in  the  mood  to  appreciate  Margaret  just 
now.  And  Margaret  felt  this,  but  she  made  one  last 
attempt.  "  Mary,  let  me  tell  you  about  one  girl  who 
was  going  to  have  a  career  no  matter  how  much  it 
cost  her  home  people.  My  friends  told  me  that  I  had 
talent,  some  said  that  the  pictures  I  daubed  showed  the 
marks  of  genius —  " 

Mary  looked  at  her  friend  in  wonder.  "  You  surely 
are  not  sorry  that  you  are  a  successful  artist?"  she 
said. 

"  I  was  so  sure  that  I  could  be  another  Rosa  Bon- 


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;eur,"  continued  Margaret,  "that  I  said,  Come  what 
rill,  I'll  go  to  Paris  and  study  art.  It  was  hard  to 
lanage  because  we  had  but  little  money,  and  it  is  not 
leasant  to  dwell  on  that  part  of  it.     I  worked  hard 

e  3  Paris,  I  was  at  a  disadvantage  often  because  I  lacked 
leans,  homesick  and  lonely ;  then  came  mother's  letter 
lling  of  father's  illness  and  how  he  missed  me,  heavy- 
learted,  I  worked  on.  At  last  she  wrote  that  my  fa- 
her  was  dead.  Then  all  at  once  it  came  to  me  that 
was  mistaken,  my  ambitious  dream  had  cost  too 
nuch.  I  came  back  home  to  live  with  my  mother 
nd  to  try  to  atone  for  the  suffering  and  loneliness 
f  those  years."  And  as  she  finished  speaking,  she 
vent  back  over  the  path  she  had  come,  leaving  Mary 

t  00  much  surprised  to  say  one  word,  but  she  could  not 
orget  the  remorse  and  pain  in  Margaret's  voice  as  she 

t  idded,  "  But  I  can  never  make  it  up  to  father!"     And 

,11 1  was  with  different  thoughts  altogether  that  she 
vatched  the  shadows  falling  on  the  river.     Before  she 

ii  vent  home  that  evening  she  had  settled  some  things 
n  her  own  mind.  Some  day  she  would  study  music 
igain,  but  for  this  year  she  would  stay  at  home  and 
to  her  work  well,  and  live  for  the  happiness  of  'the 
lome  and  family. 

That  evening  Mary  was  kind  and  helpful  to  every- 
>ody.     When  the  tea-table  was  cleared  of  dishes,  and 

il  he  kitchen  work  thoroughly  done,  she  and  Frank  went 
nto  the  little  parlor.  They  played  some  duets  toge- 
her  and  then  to  the  piano  accompaniment  they  sang 
'  The  Toiler."     And  Mary   sang  as   if  she   felt  that 

« :he  words  contained  a  prophecy  for  her : 

"  The  sunbeams  play  across  my  way, 
The  wind  blows  soft  and  sweet, 
The  sky  is  smiling  down  to-day, 
And  I,  with  dancing  feet, 
Speed  onward  to  the  duties  that  still  claim  my  faithful  care 
ind  to  the  pleasures  that  arise  from  faithful  service  there — 
And   in   my  heart  I'll  bear  along 
A  little  of  the  west  wind's  song 
For  those  I  love  to  share." 

"  My  tasks  are  done — a  golden  glow 
Spreads  out  across  the  sky, 
And  still  the  sweet  wind  whispers  low, 
Still  sings  the  song  that  I 
Have  with  a  haunting  gladness  hummed  through   all   the 
blissful  day, 

1]  And  all  the  world  seems  happy  as  I   hurry  on  my  way 
To  smiling  lips  and  loving  arms — 
My  path  is  through  a  land  of  charms 
Where  pleasing  fancies  play." 

*  *  * 
DENMARK. 


Prince  Edward  Albert,  born  1894,  and  son  of  Prince 
George,  the  English  crownprince;  Prince  Frederick, 
born  1899,  son  of  Prince  Christian  and  the  Czarevitch, 
a  recent  arrival,  son  of  Emperor  Nicholas  of  Russia. 
It  is  not  to  be  wondered  at  that  king  Christian  feels 
proud  of  his  position,  and  he  can  indeed  be  called  the 
"  royal  grandfather  "  of  Europe.  The  Danish  royal 
family  is  the  most  interesting  family  in  the  world 
so  far  as  lineage  is  concerned.  King  Christian  claims 
a  relationship  to  nearly  every  ruler  of  Europe.  One 
of  his  sons  is  King  George  of  Greece,  and  his  daughter 
is  Queen  Alexandria  of  England. 

At  the  recent  international  hydrographical  confer- 
ence recently  held  at  Copenhagen,  the  Scottish  dele- 
gate, Mr.  Robertson,  described  some  interesting  dis- 
coveries he  had  made  concerning  the  gulf  stream.  It 
has  heretofore  been  popularly  believed  that  the  section 
of  the  gulf  stream  which  reaches  the  Faroe  islands 
goes  direct  to  Norway.  Mr.  Robertson  showed  that 
the  section  travels  first  to  the  Shetland  islands  and 
then  to  Norway.  He  also  pointed  out  that  the  south- 
ern gulf  stream  sends  a  section  to  the  North  sea,  which 
runs  along  the  coast  of  Scotland  and  the  north  of  Eng- 
land, touches  Jutland  and  then  travels  north. 

In  the  Scandinavian  Marathon  running  faces,  which 
were  held  a  few  days  ago  in  Helsingor,  Emanuel  Fast, 
of  Stockholm,  carried  away  the  first  prize.  H.  Jensen, 
of  Copenhagen,  won  second  prize. 

The  dedication  of  the  Odense  canal  was  conducted 
by  King  Christian.     Over   15,000  people  were  in  at- 
tendance.    Nearly  every  section  of  Denmark  was  rep- 
resented.— Marion  S.  Norelius,  in  Elgin  Courier. 
*!-  ♦  ♦ 
TO    ADOPT    METRIC    SYSTEM. 


After  the  birth  of  the  Czarevitch,  successor  to  the 
throne  of  Russia  after  Emperor  Nicholas,  King  Chris- 
tian IX  of  Denmark  becomes  the  great-grandfather  to 
four  coming  monarchs,  viz. :  Prince  Gregorius,  born 
1890,  son  of  the  Grecian  crownprince    Konstantinus ; 


The  House  of  Lords  of  the  English  Parliament  re- 
cently passed  unanimously  a  bill  providing  for  the  com- 
pulsory use  of  the  metric  system  of  measures.  The 
law  is  to  become  effective  April  5,  1906,  or  later,  if 
it  be  so  determined.  Prof.  W.  Le  Conte  Stevens  takes 
the  period  of  duration  of  a  machine  as  10  years,  and 
holds  that  this  gives  a  space  of  time  which  could  be 
asssigned  for  the  change  of  system.  When  an  Eng- 
lish system  screw-cutting  machine,  for  instance,  had 
worked  for  10  years  and  was  in  fit  condition  to  be  dis- 
carded, it  could  be  replaced  by  one  cutting  metric 
threads.  As  compromises  he  proposes  the  following 
rather  ingenious  measures:  The  yard  is  to  be  length- 
ened to  the  length  of  a  meter.  The  meter  is  to  be  di- 
vided into  four  parts,  each  of  which  will  be  the  new 
foot.  The  foot  is  to  be  divided  into  10  inches.  For 
the  pound  the  half  kilogram,  for  the  quart  the  kilo- 
gram or  liter  of  water,  and  for  the  ton  the  1,000  kilo- 
gram metric  ton  is  to  he  used.  The  difference  of 
these  measures  from  the  English  system  measures  is 
exceedingly   small,   except    for   the  yard   and   foot. 


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THE  '  INGLENOOK.— October  25,  igc4. 


CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE. 


The  following  letter  was  sent  to  the  editor  for  publi- 
cation by  Mr.  Stewart,  of  Chicago,  who  is  a  member  of 
the  publication  committee  of  Christian  Scientists  for  the 
State  of  Illinois,  feeling  that  injustice  had  been  done  to 
Christian  Science,  by  Brother  Murray's  article.  We  print 
the  letter  in  full  so  that  the  readers  of  the  Inglenook 
may  see  both  sides  of  the  question.  Every  question  has 
two  sides  and  every  subject  should  be  able,  within  it- 
self, to  stand  sufficient  investigation  so  as  to  bring  it 
intelligently  before  the  public. — Ed. 

Chicago,  September  30,  1904. 
Editor  of  the  Inglenook  : 

Dear  Sir:— Christian  Science  is  fairly  before  the 
world  as  a  Christian  religion.  It  has  proved  its  ef- 
ficacy and  has  established  a  record  for  good  works 
through  the  healing  of  sickness  and  sin.  Every  day 
it  is  becoming  better  understood,  and  the  stock  ob- 
jections to  it  and  arguments  against  it  are  fast  dis- 
appearing, and  it  is  a  matter  of  surprise  and  regret 
that  at  this  late  day  any  one  would  contribute  an  ar- 
ticle on  Christian  Science  abounding  in  misquotations 
and  misrepresentations  such  as  are  to  be  found  in  the 
article  by  Claude  H.  Murray  in  the  Inglenook  of 
September  27th. 

Mr.  Murray  fails  to  make  correct  quotations  from 
Mrs.  Eddy's  writings,  except  in  the  last  paragraph, 
and  he  has  compiled  a  lot  of  hackneyed  sayings  of  peo- 
ple who  are  avowedly  opposed  to  Christian  Science, 
statements  which  were  made  ignorantly  or  with  ma- 
licious intent  and  which  have  been  shown  in  public 
print  almost  times  without  number  to  be  utterly  false. 
I  therefore  will  not  attempt  to  refute  the  nine  accu- 
sations directed  at  Christian  Science,  but  will  endeavor 
to  state  briefly  a  few  of  the  fundamental  principles  of 
Christian  Science. 

First  let  me  say  that  Christian  Science  is  preemi- 
nently a  religion  of  love.  A  true  Christian  Scientist 
assails  no  one,  but  returns  good  for  evil.  Christian 
Science  teaches  the  omnipotence  and  omnipresence  of 
God.  It  teaches  the  divinity  of  Christ,  and  it  proves 
its  teachings  by  healing  the  sick  and  destroying  sin 
through  the  understanding  of  the  law  of  right  as  laid 
down  by  the  Master  in  the  sermon  on  the  Mount. 

Christian  Science  is  imperative  in  the  demand  to 
think  right  as  well  as  to  act  right,. and  that  right  think- 
ing includes  an  acknowledgment  of  God  as  supreme 
with  no  opposing  force,  no  power  apart  from  God, 
and  no  life  but  the  life  which  reflects  God.  The  tenets 
of  the  Christian  Science  denomination,  to  which  all 
Christian  Scientists  subscribe  and  which  are  herewith 
appended,  should  convince  your  readers  that  Christian 
Science  is  not  what  our  accuser  claims  it  is,  but 
that,  on  the  contrary,  it  is  based  on  the  Decalogue  and 
the  Sermon  on  the  Mount : 

1.  As   adherents   of   Truth,    we   take   the    inspired 


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Word  of  the  Bible  as  our  sufficient  guide  to  eternj 
Life. 

2.  We  acknowledge  and  adore  one  supreme  and  ii  * 
finite  God ; — we  acknowledge  one  Christ — His  So  1 
Christ  Jesus;  the  Holy  Ghost  or  divine  Comforter 
and  man  as  His  image  and  likeness. 

3.  We  acknowledge  God's  forgiveness  of  sin  in  fS 
destruction  of  sin,  and  the  spiritual  understanding  th; 
evil  is  unreal,  hence  not  eternal.  But  the  belief  in  sj 
is  punished,  so  long  as  it  lasts. 

4.  We  acknowledge  Jesus'  atonement  as  the  evidenc 
of  divine,  efficacious  Love,  unfolding  man's  unity  wit 
God  through  Christ  Jesus  the  Wayshower. 

5.  We  acknowledge  that  man  is  saved  throu; 
Christ,  through  Truth,  Life  and  Love  as  demonstrat 
by  the  Galilean  Prophet  in  the  healing  of  the  sick  ari 
the  overcoming  of  sin  and  death.  Also,  that  the  cru 
cifixion  of  Testis  and  his  resurrection  served  to  elevat  ' 
faith  and  understanding  to  perceive  eternal  Life — th  \ 
allness  of  Spirit  and  the  nothingness  of  matter. 

6.  We  solemnly  promise  to  strive,  watch,  and  pra: 
for  that  Mind  to  be  in  us  which  was  also  in  Chris 
Jesus ;  to  love  one  another ;  and  to  be  meek,  merciful 
just,  and  pure. — Mary  Baker  G.  Eddy. 

Respectfully, 

A.  V.  Stewart. 
*   •!•   * 

THE   BANKS   OF   NEWFOUNDLAND. 


These  world-famous  formations  lie  something  ovei 
one  hundred  miles  southward  from  Newfoundland 
and  comprise  a  wonderful  system  of  elevations  frori 
the  ocean  bottom.  Altogether,  they  occupy  a  spaej 
about  six  hundred  miles  long  and  something  ove| 
two  hundred  miles  wide.  The  largest  of  them,  thi 
Grand  Bank,  extends  two  hundred  miles  east  ami 
west,  and  about  one  hundred  miles  north  and  soutn 
These  plateaus  are  anything  but  banks,  in  the  sensi 
that  landsmen  understand  the  term,  being  simply  hills 
that  rise  from  the  floor  of  the  sea.  As  compared  wis 
the  general  plain,  they  are  very  lofty;  but  they  nevfj 
extend  above  the  water.  There  is  no  spot  covered  bj 
less  than  seventy  feet,  and  the  bank  depth  usuallj 
ranges  from  one  to  two  hundred  feet. 

The  shoals  produce  an  immense  quantity  of  subma- 
rine vegetation,  that  may  have  some  part  in  attracting 
the  vast  armies  of  cod  and  -other  desirable  fish  thai 
make  this  region  their  residence.  The  sea-plants  8) 
question  are  of  great  variety,  and  closely  resembk 
many  land  productions,  sea  cucumbers  and  squashes 
being  common  enough,  but  of  no  value  except  as  thej 
indicate  the  presence  of  fish.  The  growth  most  sought 
after  for  this  purpose  is  the  ocean  strawberry,  and  is 
often  brought  up  from  a  depth  of  two  hundred  fathoms, 
When  first  exposed  to  the  air  this  plant  closely  resem- 
bles a  bunch  of  large  and  nearly  ripe  strawberries.     A 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— October  25,  1904. 


Isher  captain,  who  is  certain  he  has  reached  a  po- 
rtion under  which  these  ruddy  clusters  grow  in  abun- 
dance, immediatly  prepares  to  set  his  trawls,  an  oper- 
ation which  is  usually  executed  in  the  following  man- 
ner. 

The  vessel  being  anchored,  with  sufficient  cable  out 
to  give  plenty  of  swinging  room,  the  first  thing  is  to 
put  the  main  trawl  in  place.  This  cord  is  made  of  the 
strongest  material,  and  rather  larger  than  an  ordinary 
clothes-line.  The  usual  length  is  from  one  to  two 
tniles,  and  each  end  is  fastened  to  a  huge  cask  securely 
anchored.  The  cask  serves  as  a  buoy,  and  is  painted 
in  bright  colors,  so  as  to  be  seen  from  a  long  distance. 
Along  the  trawl,  fishing  lines  are  strung  at  the  rate  of 
about  a  thousand  to  one  mile.  When  this  affair  is  once 
in  place,  it  must  be  visited  every  morning  to  secure  the 
fish  and  conceal  the  hooks  with  fresh  bait.  The  du- 
ties of  trawl  tending  require  a  vast  amount  of 
severe  labor,  and  have  to  be  performed  with  unvarying 
regularity,  regardless  of  storm  or  cold.  Indeed 
nothing  short  of  an  actual  hurricane  will  prevent  the 
fearless  cod-hunter  from  attending  to  his  line.  Most 
schooners  have  a  boat  for  each  trawl,  and  sometimes 
when  the  finny  game  is  especially  abundant,  the  hooks 
at  the  further  end  are  never  readied  until  the  vessel 
has  obtained  a  full  fare.  But  such  fish  as  the  men  do 
not  find  time  to  look  after  are  always  taken  care  of  by 
the  sharks  and  dolphins.  While  part  of  the  crew  are 
thus  constantly  employed  in  the  boats,  the  remainder 
are  kept  fully  as  busy  at  the  work  which  must  be  done 
On  board,  dressing,  salting,  and  packing  away.  And 
thus  the  hard  labor  goes  on  until  if  no  mishap  occurs, 
the  full  fare  is  taken,  and  the  hardy  fellows  sing, 
"  Homeward  bound." 

Thousands  of  vessels  visit  the  banks  every  year, 
not  only  from  New  England  and  the  Canadian  mar- 
itime provinces,  but  also  from  Great  Britain,  France, 
Holland,  and  other  European  countries.  A  large  pro- 
portion of  those  engaged  in  business  from  each  voyage 
returned  to  their  homes  blessed  with  robust  health, 
and  full  cargoes  of  the  always  salable  commodity.  But 
every  year  the  forms  of  many  fishing  schooners  are 
watched  for  in  vain.  The  storms  that  frequently 
sweep  across  the  banks  endanger  the  strongest  barks, 
and  all  through  the  summer  big  ice-bergs  are  floating 
about.  Being  as  colorless  as  the  mist  they  may  re- 
main unseen  until  one  of  them  crashes  into  the  vessel 
and  causes  her  to  go  down  with  all  on  board,  and  many 
of  the  bankers  that  reach  home  in  safety  have  to  bring 
the  mournful  news  that  one  of  their  boat  crews,  while 
at  work  upon  the  trawl  was  overtaken  by  a  sudden  fug 
and  never  seen  again.  As  a  guard  against  this  all  too 
common  accident,  most  of  the  schooners  are  supplied 
with  the  present  fog-horn  which  is  constantly  kept 
blowing  in  thick  weather.  With  the  wind,  the  fright- 
ful screech  produced  by  this  instrument  can  be  heard 


several  miles.  But  when  the  trawl  men  get  lost  in 
the  mist,  while  the  gale  sweeps  toward  the  vessel,  the 
latter  may  be  less  than  a  half  of  a  mile  distant,  and  the 
loudest  horn  blast  fail  to  reach  their  ears. 

Altogether,  bank  fishing  is  a  peculiarly  dangerous, 
and  also  peculiarly  profitable  occupation.  It  provides 
a  living  for  a  million  of  people,  and  annually  causes 
the  death  of  scores,  and  in  some  seasons  of  hundreds, 
of  the  bravest  and  best  of  the  American  sailors.  This 
constantly  lengthening  list  of  disasters  does  not 
seem  to  affect  the  courage  or  hope  of  the  stalwart 
young  men  living  along  the  coasts.  Many  fresh  com- 
panions go  forth  every  spring;  some  to  return  with 
goodly  profit  for  their  summer's  labor,  and  some  to  go 
down  in  the  cruel  storms,  their  bodies  increasing  the 
already  uncounted  number  reposing  in  the  great 
palace  of  the  dead,  beneath  the  never-resting  billows. 

*J,     H&     & 

THE    LOCOMOTIVE    IN    THE    FAR    EAST. 


Japan,  which,  fifty  years  ago,  did  not  own  even  a 
jinrikisha,  now  has  4,237  miles  of  well-managed  rail- 
road, while  India  is  gridironed  by  25,373  miles  of  steel 
rails,  which  carry  195,000,000  passengers  annually. 
Railroads  are  paralleling  the  Siamese  Menam  as  well 
as  the  Kile  and  the  Congo,  and  one  can  ride  on  them 
from  Bangkok  northward  to  Korat  and  westward  to 
Petchaburec.  In  Korea,  the  line  from  Chemulpo  to 
Seoul  is  connected  with  lines  under  construction  both 
southward  and  northward,  so  that  within  a  few  weeks 
the  Japanese  can  transport  men  and  munitions  of  war 
by  rail  from  Fusan  all  the  way  to  Wiju.  As  the  former 
is  but  ten  hours  by  sea  from  Japan,  and  as  the  latter 
is  to  be  a  junction  with  the  Siberian  Railway,  a  land 
journey  in  a  sleeping  car  will  soon  be  practicable  from 
Loudon  and  Paris  to  the  capitals  of  China  and  Korea, 
and,  save  for  the  ferry  across  the  Korean  Strait,  to 
any  part  of  the  Mikado's  empire.  We  can  already  ride 
on  a  train  along  the  banks  of  the  Burmese  Irawadi 
t£>  Bhamo  and  Mandalay.  The  locomotive  runs  nois- 
ily from  Jaffa  to  Jerusalem,  and  from  Beirut  to  Da- 
mascus, the  oldest  city  in  the  world.  A  projected 
line  will  run  from  there  to  the  Mohammedan  Mecca. 
Most  unique  of  all  is  the  Anatolian  Railway,  which  is 
to  run  through  the  heart  of  Asia  Minor,  traversing 
the  Karamanian  plateau,  the  Taurus  Mountains,  and 
the  Cilician  valleys  to  Haran,  where  Abraham  tarried, 
and  Ninevah,  where  Jonah  preached,  and  Babylon, 
where  Nebuchadnezzar  made  an  image  of  gold,  and 
Bagdad,  where  Harun-al-Rashid  ruled,  to  Koweit,  on 
the  Persian  Gulf. — From  "  The  (  Ipened  World,"  by 
Arthur  Judson  Brown,  in  the  .hiniiccin  Monthly  Re- 
view of  Reviews  for  October. 
*  *  * 
A  m  \x  should  hear  a  little  music,  read  a  little  poetry, 
and  see  a  line  picture  every  day  of  his  life. — Goethe. 


ioi6 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  25,  1904. 


AN    HISTORICAL    SPOT.— No.    2. 


BY  H.   W.   STRICKLER. 

Situated  in  Fayette  county  is  a  wonderful  natural 
curiosity,  which  appears  from  the  description  of  many 
who  have  visited  it,  to  be  scarcely  inferior  to  the 
celebrated  Mammoth  Cave  of  Kentucky.  Its  location 
is  about  nine  miles  in  a  southeasterly  direction  from 
Uniontown,  Pa. 

A  number  of  descriptions  of  the  cave  have  been 
given  by  persons  who  have  visited  it  from  time  to 
time,  but  the  most  of  these  accounts  bear  the  appear- 
ance of  too  much  embellishment.  The  description 
which  we  give  below  was  written  by  John  A.  Paxton, 
who  visited  the  cave  in  1816,  and  published  an  account 
of  it  immediately  afterward  in  the  American  Telegraph, 
of  Brownsville. 

Mr.  Paxton,  of  Philadelphia,  having  heard  of  the 
great  cave,  determined  to  explore  it.  His  party  con- 
sisted of  Mr.  Paxton,  William  Gregg,  John  Owens, 
Tohn  M.  Johnson,  John  Galager  and  Ephraim  Doug- 
lass. These,  having  provided  themselves  with  re- 
freshments, candles,  tinder  box,  brimstone  matches, 
lanterns,  compass,  chalk  and  line  for  measuring,  set 
out  on  Wednesday,  Sept.  n,  i8r6,  and  proceeded  in 
a  southeasterly  direction  to  Laurel  Hill,  and  ascended 
the  mountain  toward  the  cave. 

They  left  their  horses  at  the  farm  house  of  Mr. 
Delaney  (for  whom  the  cave  has  been  named)  and 
requested  him  in  case  they  should  fail  to  return  from 
the  exploration  the  following  day  to  have  the  people 
of  the  vicinity  aroused  to  search  for  them ;  as  they  had 
heard  the  story  of  two  young  men,  Crain  and  Merri- 
field,  who  had  been  lost  in  the  cave  for  nearly  two 
-  days,  at  the  end  of  which  time  they  were  found  locked 
in  each  other's  arms  and  despairingly  awaiting  death. 
Mr.  Paxton  gives  the  story  as  follows: 

Laurel  Hill  Cave,  which  I  have  taken  the  liberty 
to  name,  is  situated  in  Fayette  county,  Pennsylvania, 
George's  township,  on  the  top  of  Laurel  Hill  Moun- 
tain, nine  miles  southeast  of  Uniontown,  and  three 
miles  east  of  the  Delaney  farm  house.  At  four  o'clock 
P.  M.  we  commenced  our  operations.  We  first  de- 
scended into  a  small  pit,  on  the  side  of  which  we  found 
an  opening  about  three  by  four  feet,  which  we  entered 
and  immediately  found  ourselves  in  a  passage  way 
twenty  feet  wide  and  descended  at  fifty  degrees  about 
fortv  feet  in  a  northwesterly  course  where  we  found 
less  declivity  and  smoother  floors. 

Here  we  left  our  coats  and  things  which  we  had 
no  immediate  use  for  and  proceeded  on  for  a  short 
distance  where  we  found  that  the  passage  forked  into 
two  more  difficult  avenues,  both  leading  by  a  con- 
siderable descent  into  the  first  room.  This  room  is 
about   twenty-four   feet  in   diameter,   with   a   roof   of 


rock  about  twenty  feet  high.     A  large  descending  pas 
sage  leads  from  this  room  in  the  same  course,  witl 
a  very  high  roof,  and  is  about  twelve  feet  wide  fo 
some  distance,  when  it  becomes  more  contracted  an< 
leads  into  the  second  room,  which  is  fifty  feet  by  oa 
hundred,  with  a  floor  of  rocks  which  evidently  havj 
fallen  from  the  roof  a  short  distance  above.     At  thJ 
end  of  the  passage  is  a  running  spring  of  excellen 
water.     In  this  room  the  person  who  had  the  tindeJ 
box  unfortunately  let  it  fall  among  the  rocks,  whicH 
opened  it,  and  by  this  accident  we  lost  nearly  all  01 
our  tinder.     A  very  narrow,  uneven  and  descending 
passage  leads  from  the  second  room  in  a  northeasterbj 
direction  to  the  narrows, — a  passage  two  and  a  hal , 
feet  high  and  about  fifty  feet  broad,  leading  horizon 
tally  between  rocks,  with  a  small  descent,  for  about  oni    .: 
hundred  and  fifty  feet  to  a  perpendicular  descent  oveM 
rocks.     Through  this  small  passage  we  had,  in  manw 
places,   to   drag  ourselves   lengthwise  along,   and   thA: 
buttons  of  my  coat  were  torn  off  by  the  rocks  aboveB 
This  passage  evidently  was  formed  by  the  foundatiorl 
of  the  nether  rocks  being  washed  by  the  veins  of  wa-Hc 
ter,  which  caused  it  to  separate  from  the  upper  rock: 
and  formed  the   route  to  the  perpendicular   descent 
which  we  found  to  be  twenty  feet.     I  descended  by  1 
rope  but  my  companions  found  their  way  down  b) 
clinging  to  the  rocks. 

We  now  found  ourselves  in  a  very  uneven,  rock) 
passage,  which  ascended  at  twenty  degrees  for  twc 
hundred  and  thirty-four  feet.  But  as  we  could  noi 
find  an  outlet  from  this,  after  the  most  diligent  search 
we  returned  and  ascended  the  perpendicular  precipice 
and  to  the  right  of  it  discovered  a  passage  which  hac 
a  great  descent.  The  way  was  so  rocky  and  contract- 
ed for  about  eighty  feet  that  it  was  with  the  greatesl 
difficulty  that  we  made  our  way  through  it;  this  led 
to  a  second  perpendicular  descent  of  thirty  feet  ovei 
rocks  which  made  it  difficult  for  us  to  get  down. 

We  now  found  ourselves  in  a  long,  uneven  hall,  ovei 
which  was  a  very  high  roof  about  twenty  feet  wide. 
It  had  a  sandy  floor  with  a  stream  of  water  running 
through  it,  sufficiently  rapid  and  large  enough  to  tuni 
a  grist  mill.  On  the  sides  of  this  stream  were  som^ 
very  large  rocks  which  had  fallen  from  the  roof.  This 
avenue  is  about  six  hundred  feet  in  length,  with  a 
considerable  descent  to  where  the  water  loses  itself 
through  a  small  aperture  in  the  rocks. 

Upon  returning  from  the  bottom  of  the  avenue  we 
found  a  horizontal  passage  and  at  right  angles  from 
the  side  of  the  avenue,  the  entrance  of  which  is  ele- 
vated about  eight  feet  above  the  floor,  this  being 
more  pleasant  passage  than  the  former  ones.  The 
roof,  sides  and  floor  were  quite  smooth,  and  we  could 
walk  upright.  It  is  one  hundred  and  twenty  feet  long, 
and  leads  into  the  last  and  largest  avenue,  or  hall, 
which  is  about  thirty  feet  wide  and  about  eighty  feet 


THE    IXGLEXOOK.— October  25,  1904. 


:'  h.  and  twelve  hundred  feet  in  length,  with  a  stream, 
ill  ficient  to  turn  a  grist  mill,  running  its  full  length. 
■0  om  the  source  of  this  stream,  where  there  is  much 
"*  ,ite  spar,  formed  into  fat  cakes  and  cones,  being 
■<ised  by  the  constant  dripping  of  the  water,  the  ave- 
»  e  has  a  descent  of  about  thirty  degrees  to  where  the 
Ji  earn  escapes  through  a  small  aperture  in  the  rocks. 
:» Before  we  reached  the  aperture  the  avenue  became 
la  contracted  that  Mr.  Gregg  and  myself  had  to  creep 
<i  our  hands  and  knees  through  the  water  for  about 

0  y  feet.  Here  in  the  sand  we  found  the  name  of 
i|  >ain  "  written,  which  we  considered  a  mortifying 
'\  .covery,  as  we  thought  we  were  the  first  persons 
al  10  had  penetrated  so  far  in  this  direction.  We  wrote 
j«  r  names  in  the  sand  and  then  joined  the  rest  of 
4 :  party. 

t  In  our  search  through  this  great  avenue  we  had  to 

1  mb  over  or  creep  under  a  thousand  craggy  rocks  that 
ll r  scattered  on  the  floor.  I  have  every  reason  to  be- 
ll ve  that  no  person,  except  us,  ever  visited  the  source 
J  the  stream  and  head  of  the  avenue,  as  we  found 
1  signs  of  hunmati  invention  within  many  hundred 
k  !t  of  this  spot.  These  were  very  common  in  every 
il  ter  part  of  the  cave,  as  the  sides   of  every  other 

ice  which  we  visited  were  covered  with  names  and 
V  irks  made  with  coal.  If  any  person  would  have 
netrated  this  far,  he  certainly  would  have  left  some 
(  <en  of  his  perseverance.  We  now  found  ourselves  at 
(i  i  end  of  our  expedition,  and  as  we  had  plenty  of 
I  ndles  left  and  had  taken  the  precaution  to  mark 
I  th  chalk  an  arrow  on  the  rocks  at  every  turn,  we 
i  ;re  confident  of  being  able  to  retrace  our  steps  to 
,  e  entrance. 

I  On  our  return  we  measured,  with  line,  the  extreme 
stance  of  our  explorations  and  found  it  to  be  three 
ousand  six  hundred  feet,  but  we  must  have  traveled 
wards  of  two  miles.  Our  return  was  found  to  be 
uch  more  tiresome  as  it  was  an  ascending  route  near- 
the  whole  distance.  We  arrived  at  the  mouth  in 
iVty  at  ten  o'clock  at  night,  after  having  traveled 
cessantly  for  six  hours.  We  were  about  sixteen 
mdred  feet  perpendicularly  below  the  entrance,  and 
•aril  the  water  running  beneath  the  rocks  in  every 
irt  of  the  cave.  We  found  the  temperature  agree- 
ile,  but  owing  to  our  great  exertion  we  were  kept  in  a 
'ofuse  perspiration  during  the  entire  travel.  In  dif- 
n  111  parts  we  saw  a  few  bats,  and  a  gentleman  from 
niontown  informed  me  that  the  roof  of  the  first  two 
iOms  was  covered  with  scores  of  bats,  hanging  in 
rge  bunches  in  a  torpid  state  and  clinging  to  each 
her. 

This  cave  is  composed  of  soft  sandstone  nicks  and 
is  every  appearance  of  having  been   formed  by  the 

ins  of  water  washing  them  and  their  foun- 
ili"ns  away,  which  allowed  their  weight  to  separate 
lem  from  the  standing  rocks  above. 


There  is  not  the  slightest  doubt  in  my  mind  but 
this  cave  is  considerably  enlarged  by  the  friction  of 
the  water  each  year,  for  all  the  rocks  on  the  floor  of 
the  different  apartments  would  exactly  fit  the  parts 
of  the  ceiling  above  them.  The  rocks  that  now  form 
this  cave  will  certainly  fall  by  degrees  as  their  founda- 
tions are  washed  away,  therefore  it  is  impossible  to 
form  any  definite  idea  as  to  the  size  to  which  it  may  ar- 
rive. The  knowledge  that  the  rocks  above  are  sub- 
ject to  fall  is  calculated  to  create  the  most  inexpress- 
ible horror  in  the  minds  of  persons  who  visit  this  sub- 
terranean wonder.  The  arches  of  all  the  avenues  are 
formed  by  rocks,  meeting  in  the  middle  of  the  roofs, 
with  a  crack  extending  in  each  the  whole  length. 
(to  be  continued.) 

Loraine,  III. 

4»   *$*   ♦ 

THE   WORLD'S    OLDEST    INHABITANTS. 


A  tortoise  from  the  Seychelles  Islands,  believed 
to  be  at  least  250  years  old,  is  probably  the  oldest  liv- 
ing creature  on  the  face  of  the  earth.  A  writer  in 
The  Scientific  American  says:  "Several  years  ago, 
when  the  son-in-law  of  Hagenbeck,  the  animal  train- 
er, was  looking  for  interesting  specimens,  he  learned 
of  the  existence  on  an  island  of  Seychelles,  off  the 
coast  of  Madagascar,  of  a  giant  tortoise,  that  was 
celebrated  among  the  natives  not  merely  for  its  size — 
it  weighs  970  pounds — but  for  the  fact  that  there  was 
documentary  evidence  that  it  had  been  living  on  the 
earth  for  over  150  years,  and  probable  evidence  that  it 
was  from  too  to  150  years  older  than  that.  After  care- 
ful investigation,  he  was  satisfied  of  the  truth  of  the 
statement,  and  set  about  to  secure  the  loan  of  this 
animal,  which,  by  the  way.  is  held  in  the  highest  es- 
teem and  respect  on  the  island,  for  exhibition  at  the 
St.  Louis  Fair.  Not  until  the  strongest  assurances 
were  made  that  the  venerable  curiosity  would  be  re- 
turned to  the  Seychelles  did  the  native  population  con- 
sent tr  r  pari  with  him.  When  the  tortoise  reached  this 
country,  it  was  found  that  a  tiny  palm  tree  was  grow- 
ing on  its  back.  The  tortoise  loves  the  mud.  and  it 
is  evident  that  soil  was  washed  into  a  deep  scar  on 
his  back,  and  that  the  seeds  of  the  palm,  mixed  with  the 
earth,  took  root  and  the  tin)  growth  had  thrived  in  its 
portable  field.  The  fact  that  [50  years  ago  the  Sey- 
chelles natives  began  to  lake  particular  pride  in  this 
tortoise  because  of  its  age  makes  it  certain  thai  il 
must  have  been  at  least  100  years  of  age  at  that  time. 
This  is  borne  out  by  the  condition  of  the  shell,  which 
is  a  guide  to  determining  the  age." 
*  *  * 
Neither  a  borrower,  nor  a  lender  be: 
For  loan  oft  loses  both  itself  and  friend: 
And    borrowing    dulls    the    edge    of    husbandry. 

—Sltakespearc 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  25,  1904. 


AMERICAN    PREHISTORICS. 


BY    THOMAS    FIGLEY. 

A  traveler  gives  a  description  of  the  wonderful 
discovery  of  the  relics  of  an  unknown  race  in  northern 
Alaska,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Kuwalilo  river  on  the 
shore  of  Kotzebue  Sound.  He  said  that  an  avalanche 
had  torn  away  much  of  the  earth  on  the  side  of  a  moun- 
tain, and  had  exposed  the  ruins  of  an  anpent  city. 
There  were  ruins  of  houses  and  beautiful  stone  mason- 
ry, broken  pottery,  pots,  copper  spades,  vases,  cups, 
jugs,  plates,  pipes,  and  numerous  articles  of  doubtful 
use.  Also  mixed  sizes  of  arrow-heads,  spears  of  odd 
design,  scrapers,  hatchets  and  drills.  One  square  room 
which  had  no  windows  had  some  of  the  finest  speci- 
mens of  pottery  ever  seen.  They  were  beautifully 
decorated  and  finished  in  what  is  a  lost  art  to  modern 
potters.  It  did  not  require  much  thought  to  see  an 
undeniable  connection  between  these  prehistoric  evi- 
dences and  those  in  Mexico  and  Central  America,  and 
even  some  places  in  the  United  States. 

I  have  read  that  in  eastern  Oregon  on  the  desert 
near  Silver  Lake,  the  site  of  an  ancient  city  has  been 
discovered.  One  side  of  the  square  had  been  traced 
for  500  yards.  The  top  was  just  above  the  surface 
and  was  about  four  feet  wide,  and  made  of  cement 
similar  to  the  walls  of  those  in  Arizona  and  Mexico. 

In  San  Luis  Obispo  county,  southern  California,  a 
great  rock  rises  one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  above  the 
plains  of  Carissa,  and  in  the  distance  looks  rugged 
and  forbidding.  On  near  approach  it  is  seen  to  have 
on  its  eastern  side  an  opening  twenty-five  feet  broad, 
which  leads  into  an  inner  temple  or  court  with  level 
floors  two  hundred  and  twenty-five  feet  long  and  one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  feet  broad  at  its  widest  part. 
The  ceiling  is  sixty  to  one  hundred  feet  high.  This 
great  natural  cathedral  is  a  wonder  to  geologists,  but 
is  more  wonderful  to  archaeologists.  It  was  evidently 
used  by  prehistoric  men  as  a  temple  of  worship  or  a 
government  capitol.  On  the  walls  are  paintings  in 
red,  white  and  black,  doubtless  having  a  meaning  for 
such  colors.  There  are  figures  representing  fields, 
forts,  spears,  suns,  men  and  animals.  The  colors  are 
apparently  as  bright  as  when  first  laid  on.  When  or 
by  whom  the  walls  were  decorated  no  one  knows.  The 
Indian  tribes  have  no  tradition  concerning  the  work, 
and  regard  it  with  superstitious  reverence.  For  a  long 
time  the  place  was  frequented  by  wild  horses,  but  now 
the  temple  affords  shelter  for  shepherds  and  their 
flocks. 

In  Arizona  and  New  Mexico  are  the  cliff  dwellers, 
a  strange  people  who  climb  up  to  their  homes  in  the 
rocks  as  their  ancestors  did  hundreds  and  perhaps 
thousands  of  years  ago,  by  means  of  ladders  made  of 
hair  or  skins,  or  winding  paths  cut  on  the  sides  of  the 


mountains.  There  are  ruins  and  ruins  of  unknc 
cities  of  the  past,  in  New  Mexico.  It  is  claimed  1 
in  southern  Utah  there  are  the  remains  of  wha 
supposed  to  be  the  capital  city  of  some  ancient  pet 
of  the  unknown  past.  There  are  large  mounds  tr 
also.  These  peoples  were  most  likely  of  the  same  I 
as  those  who  from  somewhere  settled  in  Mexico,  C 
tral  and  South  America. 

There  are  many  ruins  of  cities  in  Mexico,  in  sc 
of  which  are  great  palaces  of  hewn  stone,  300  to 
feet  in  diameter.  They  contain  sculptured  ornams 
of  many  kinds.  Skulls  have  been  found  that  in  tl 
cranial  character  were  equal  to  or  superior  to  the 
erage  modern  race.  Skulls  have  been  found  t 
showed  that  the  art  of  trepanning  or  trephining 
known  and  practiced  in  a  crude  way.  The  Azl 
and  Toltecs  belonged  to  this  race  of  people 
were  evidently  sun-worshipers,  and  sacrificed  hun 
lives  as  well  as  animals  in  their  "  devotions."  Tl 
remains  show  that  they  were  certainly  a  remark; 
people,  civilized  and  yet  not  civilized. 

The  climate  and  the  nature  of  the  people  make  tra 
in  Yucatan  very  unpleasant.  I  have  read  that  in  Yu 
tan  the  ruins  of  67  prehistoric  cities  have  been  fou 
These  ruins,  together  with  the  sculptured  work 
other  remains,  make  it  appear  reasonable  to  supp 
that  these  peoples  were  in  some  way  connected  w 
or  related  to  the  ancient  peoples  of  Egypt  and  perh 
India.  Authorities  on  Pre-Historics  say  that  rema 
have  been  found  beneath  tablets  of  lava  erupted 
the  Pliocene  epoch.  Man  lived  then,  built  moun 
wrought  implements,  and  left  behind  records,  most 
which  cannot  be  read.  The  opinion  is  held  by  so 
of  these  authorities  that  the  time  will  come  when  p 
haps  by  the  aid  of  ancient  learning  of  the  East, 
records  can  be  read.  The  researches  of  M.  and  Mi 
L.  Plougeon,  of  France,  into  the  prehistoric  rema 
in  Yucatan  and  Central  America,  seem  to  point  t< 
kinship  with  those  of  Egypt  and  the  East. 

In  the  Mississippi  Valley  and  further  eastward  a 
southward  are  evidences  of  prehistoric  peoples, 
probably  not  of  such  advanced  condition  in  some  w; 
as  those  of  the  west.  There  are  more  remains 
mound-building,  probably  because  there  were  no  n 
terials  convenient  enough  for  architecture.  It 
claimed  that  the  copper  mines  of  northern  MichS 
bear  evidence  of  the  most  ancient  workmanship,  wl 
here  and  there,  there  are  remains  which  tend  to  sh 
that  possibly  the  mound-builders  were  related  to 
same  races  as  those  who  built  the  temples  and  cit 
of  the  far  west  and  south.  A  great  serpent-shaj 
mound  is  located  in  Adams  county,  Ohio, — an  immei 
piece  of  earthwork  built  by  some  long-forgotten  r; 
of  Americans.  This  mound  is  a  gracefully  windi 
figure  with  distending  jaws,  as  though  about  to  sw 
low  some  object  represented  by  an    enormous    eg 


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[taped  mound.  There  are  probably  10,000  mounds  of 
ifferent  sizes  and  shapes  in  Ohio.  According  to  ac- 
junts,  derived  from  the  contents  of  many  of  these 
lounds  that  have  been  opened,  the  people,  whoever 
ley  were,  who  built  these  mounds,  enjoyed  a  form 
f  civilization.  The  mounds  give  evidence  of  having 
een  constructed  for  military  purposes,  either  offensive 
r  defensive,  or  both.  It  is  likely  these  people  were 
lli-worshipers. 

It  is  claimed  that  evidences  have  been  found  showing 
lat  America  was  once  inhabited  by  a  race  of  giants, 
nd  it  is  also  claimed  that  in  eastern  Tennessee  has 
een  found  a  burying  place  where  the  remains  of  a 
ace  of  dwarfs  or  pigmies  were  buried.  And  also 
hat  there  was  a  battle  or  series  of  battles  there  where 
'housands  probably  of  these  dwarfs  were  slain  and 
erhaps  the  whole  race  annihilated  by  the  larger-sized 
eople  who  came  from  no  one  can  tell  where.  It  can- 
ot  be  proven  that  the  Indians  built  all  these  mounds, 
hough  they  may  have  built  some  of  them,  and  may 
ave  merely  utilized  them  for  burying  places  for  their 
:ead.  And  it  may  be  that  some  of  the  Indians  were 
lescendants  of  the  mound-builders.  The  whole  ques- 
ion  is  one  that  will  likely  never  be  settled  satisfactori- 
y  to  the  student  of  antiquities,  the  Indians  them- 
elves  having  been  very  poor  materials  for  producing 
vidence  of  any  great  skill  in  architecture  of  any  sort. 
)f  one  thing  we  may  be  assured,  it  is  not  necessary 
or  the  lover  of  the  unique  or  curious  to  go  far  away 
rom  America  to  study  antiquities  of  any  kind — he 
vill  be  sure  to  find, enough  to  last  him  a  life-time  right 
it  home. 

Bryan,  Ohio. 

*S?    *2*    *5* 
FACTS    ABOUT    THE    MOON. 


A  few  months  ago  an  important  address  was  given 
n  London  by  Sir  Robert  Ball,  the  Astronomer  Royal 
)f  Ireland,  about  the  moon  in  its  course.  He  made 
Shown  the  must  recent  conclusions  of  astronomers  as 
o  the  moon's  composition,  its  climate  and  condition, 
mil   the   probability  of  it  being  inhabited. 

As  our  nearest  neighbor  in  the  Solar  System,  the 
Hi'iin  must  always  be  an  object  of  peculiar  interest 
mil  "i  ardent  investigation  to  the  dwellers  upon  the 
(Srth.  So  much  nearer  is  it  than  any  of  the  planets 
|a1  we  can  learn  more  about  it  and  observe  its  physical 
features  more  minutely. 

We  know  that  the  moon's  diameter  is  only  one-fourth 
of  that  of  our  globe;  that  it  is  only  two  hundred  and 
forty  thousand  miles  distant  from  us;  that  if  the  moon 
Should  disappear  from  its  orbit  as  our  satellite,  a  most 
important  physical  change  on  the  earth,  the  cessation 
of  tides,  would  take  place;  and  that  in  bulk  the  moon 
is  eighty  times  lighter  than  the  earth. 

We  can   discern,   through   powerful   telescopes,   the 


general  formation  of  that  half  of  the  moon's  surface 
which  is  turned  toward  us.  We  are  told  that  there  are 
visible  two  craters  of  volcanoes  sixty  miles  wide ; 
another,  ten  thousand  feet  deep ;  that  one  mighty  peak 
rises  to  a  height  of  twenty  four  thousand  feet ;  and 
that  a  vast  basin  is  visible,  seventeen  thousand  feet  deep 
and  over  fifty  miles  wide. 

It  has  long  been  a  warmly-debated  question  among 
astronomers,  whether  it  is  possible  that  the  moon 
could  support  vegetation  and  animal  and  human  life. 
But  a  general  agreement  has  been  reached  by  them 
that  the  moon  is  much  older  than  the  earth  ;  that  it 
is  as  dead  as  a  door  nail ;  that  it  has  neither  atmos- 
phere, air,  nor  water;  that,  in  short,  it  is  nothing  else 
but  a  ball  of  extinct  volcanic  matter,  lighted  only  by 
the  rays  of  a  distant  sun. 

No  fires  ever  issue  from  the  great  volcanoes  which 
are  apparently  on  its  surface ;  the  huge,  hollowed-out 
craters  emit  no  smoke.  A  vast  and  eternal  silence 
reigns  through  all  the  dreary,  treeless,  lifeless  expanse. 

The  moon  indeed  is  apparently  abandoned  to  death, 
nourishing  no  inhabitants,  producing  nothing  resem- 
bling trees,  flowers,  or  beautiful  things  of  any  kind, 
useless,  in  short,  except  as  a  mass  of  extinct  volcanic 
rubbish,  which  drags  the  sea  into  tides  and  reflects 
the  sunbeams  in  moonlight,  but  whirls,  like  a  corpse 
in  cerements  of  silver  cloth  and  black  velvet,  aronud 
and  around  the  earth. 

The  astronomers  have  carefully  constructed  a  ge- 
ography of  the  moon  and  have  mapped  out  its  region, 
and  given  names  to  its  various  features.  For  instance, 
they  have  called  some  of  the  mountains  of  the  moon 
"  Copernicus,"  "  Poisidonious,"  "  Clavious,"  after 
earthly  philosophers;  others  they  have  christened  by 
the  names  of  the  famous  peaks  of  the  earth ;  and  the 
dreary  valleys,  and  waterless  bays  and  lakes  have  re- 
ceived fanciful,  but  inapposite  names,  such  as  the 
"  Bay  of  Clouds,"  the  "  Lake  of  Nectar,"  and  the 
"  Golf  of  Rainbows." 

It  is  doubtful,  according  to  Sir  Robert  Ball,  if  any 
increases  of  the  magnifying  powers  of  the  telescopes 
will  add  any  further  definite  knowledge  to  that  which 
Iris  already  been  acquired  about  the  moon.  He  be- 
lieves that,  when  the  moon  is  brought  by  great  lenses 
within  fifty  miles  instead  of,  as  now,  two  hundred  and 
fifty  thousand  miles  of  the  earth,  as  it  will  probably  be. 
in  the  near  future,  the  result  of  this  improved  nbser- 
vation  will  be  mainly  valuable  as  confirming  the  con- 
clusion already  arrived  at. 

♦  ♦  ♦ 

WHEUE  Christ  brings  his  cross  he  brings  his  pres- 
ence, and  where  he  is  nunc  are  desolate,  and  there  is 
no  room  for  despair. — Mrs.  Browning. 

*  *   * 

I  111:1  E  maj  Keep  a  seen!.  11'  two  of  them  are  dead. — 
Benjamin  Franklin. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  25,  1904. 


LIVING  MEANS   WORKING. 


BY   LULU    C.    MOHLER. 

He  who  is  well  born,  having  good  health,  a  good 
character,  and  the  good  training  that  parents  give,  is 
handicapped  by  nothing  in  this  life.  By  saying  the 
training  of  good  parents  I  mean  both,  not  the  mother 
alone,  who  has  a  child  under  her  influence  perhaps 
more  than  the  father,  and  we  all  know  a  child  likes 
what  the  mother  likes  (solemn  reason  she  should  like 
the  best  of  things),  but  if  the  father  be  not  a  good  man 
the  training  of  the  good  mother  will  fall  short  in  some- 
thing. 

Most  every  one  is  trying  to  make  what  is  a  success 
in  its  worldly  meaning,  and  so  many  young  people  are 
trying  to  do  it  by  an  easier  way  than  their  parents.  I 
have  heard  some  say,  "  I  don't  intend  to  do  hard  work. 
I  see  no  use  in  slaving  as  my  parents  did.  I  can't  see 
what  it  amounted  to,  they  gained  no  more  than  some 
men  of  this  time  who  don't  work  at  all  in  the  sense 
the}-  did."  Well,  if  you  intend  to  live  your  life  and 
gain  your  ambitions  and  know  how  to  do  it,  without 
work  and  hard  work  at  that,  I  haven't  a  doubt  that 
you  could  become  richer  than  Croesus  by  putting  a 
price  on  your  secret  and  selling  it. 

I  believe  a  genius  is  a  genius,  simply  because  he  has 
early  learned  that  to  do  great  things  takes  work.  Some 
people  go  through  life  in  a  very  easy  way  and  you  can 
tell  it  very  quick  by  themselves  and  their  surroundings. 

The  true  Christian  makes  no  cry  about  the  work  to 
be  done,  the  difficulties  to  move  out  of  the  way.  He 
values  it  for  the  blessing  it  is  to  mankind  and  knows 
that  the  path  that  leads  us  through  them  are  the  foot- 
prints of  Jesus  who  is  waiting  in  the  Mansions  of 
Rest  and  is  saying  "  Come  unto  Me,  all  ye  that  labor 
and  are  heavy  laden  and  I  will  give  you  rest." 

People  tell  us  over  and  over  that  "  Man  born  of 
woman  is  of  few  days  and  full  of  trouble."  Well  it  is 
true,  but  they  expect  us  to  look  at  it  as  they  do  and  see 
visions  of  dark  despair  and  sorrow.  That  we  will  real- 
ize before  our  journey  is  done ;  but  don't  you  look  at 
any  such  picture.  We,  you  and  I,  are  going  to  try  and 
remember  that  our  Savior  made  his  troubles  of  some 
use  to  him,  and  that  by  them  we  are  better  able  to  un- 
derstand those  around  us  and  realize  better  how  to 
help  them.  Troubles  are  noe  agonizing  unless  we  let 
them  become   so. 

Suppose  we  lose  all  our  worldly  possessions. 
"  What  profiteth  it  a  man  if  he  gain  the  whole  world 
and  lose  his  own  soul  ?"  Let  the  house  burn  down, 
we  are  all  alive,  if  some  die  what  do  they  lose?"  If 
the  children  do  not  do  as  you  would  like,  it  calls  for 
more  work  on  your  part  to  do  what  is  right  and  for 
you  to  trust  in  God  and  have  patience  to  wait. 

Do  you  know,  we  might  never  have  heard  of  Helen 


• 


Keller  if  she  had  not  had  the  misfortune  to  lose  h 
sight  and  hearing,  and  you  who  know  what  she  h 
done  so  far  stop  to  exclaim,  "  Wonderful !  I  nev 
could  have  done  it."     Well  she  did,  by  hard  work. 

Now  let  us  see  what  a  girl  can  find  to  do.  Ma; 
girls  don't  work  and  some  don't  know  how,  and  it  isi 
always  their  fault.  Then,  too,  she  knows  that  in  t 
heart  of  hearts  of  every  man  is  the  image  of  a  worn 
so  altogether  lovely  that  if  the  earth  contained  su> 
a  being  in  human  form  she  would  not  be  of  hum; 
mind  but  that  of  an  angel's.  When  some  man  is  co 
vinced  she  is  so  divine,  it  is  easy  to  see  she  will  have 
be  doing  something  so  that  he  won't  discover  the  m 
take  he  made.  Heaven  pit)'  them  when  they  havej 
home  of  their  own  if  she  does  not  see  it  will  take  yea 
of  toil  and  as  Ruskin  told  us,  "  that  the  worn; 
must  be  incorruptibly  good,  instinctively,  infallib 
wise,  not  for  self-development,  but  for  self-renunc 
ation,"for  what  woman  can  candidly  look  at  it  in  ai 
other  way  because  one  thing  it  means,  she  don't  l| 
for  herself,  it  is  a  giving  up  of  her  life  to  others  ar 
if  she  don't  do  just  that,  she  is  selfishness  personifie 

Mothers  don't  last  always,  but  some  think  while  si 
does,  that  what  they  don't  want  to  do  she  can.  Whc 
Mother  goes  away  to  stay,  these  girls  leave  so  much  ui 
done  because  "  I  don't  intend  to  work  like  mother  d: 
as  she  was  foolish  to  work  so  hard."  When  you  hai 
no  one  to  rely  on  but  yourself  and  have  others  depen> 
ent  on  you. 

Can  you  work,  can  you  wait,  do  you  know  how  to  pra 
Can  you   suffer  and  not  cry  aloud? 
Can  you  watch  out  the  hours  by  the  sad  beds  of  pain? 

Can  you  bear  and  forbear  and  forgive? 
Can  you   cheerfully  hope  e'en  when   hoping  in  vain, 
And  when  hope  is  dead  and  to  die  you  would  fain? 

Whenever  you  see  a  girl  who  isn't  willing  to  pel 
suade  herself  that  living  and  becoming  a  glorious  we} 
developed  woman  means  hard  work  you  just  say  1 
yourself,  "  What  a  sad  failure  and  in  the  day  of  so 
emn  judgment  what  a  pitiful  being,  for  she  shirked  he 
duty  because  she  was  idle,  thereby  being  the  cause  c 
making  life  a  failure  for  others."  Honestly,  dot( 
living  mean  working? 

Leeton,  Mo. 

♦  *  ♦ 

WORLD-CONGRESS    OF    SCIENCE    AT 
ST.    LOUIS. 


In  the  sectional  meetings,  the  visiting  scholars  fror 
abroad  will  take  a  large  part.  About  one  hundre 
and  twenty-five  of  the  leading  scholars  of  Englanc 
France,  Germany,  Holland,  Scandinavia,  Austria,  It 
aly,  and  Japan  have  accepted  invitations  to  come  to  S; 
Louis,  as  the  guests  of  the  exposition,  in  order  to  tak 
part  in  the  congress.  The  great  university  center 
of  the  old  world  will  all  be  well  represented.     Oxfor 


THE   INGLENOOK.— October  25,  1904. 


sends  Morfill,  MacDonnell,  and  Turner ;  Cambridge 
sends  Sorley,  Bury,  Haddon,  Ward,  and  Allbutt ;  Dub- 
lin sends  Mahaffy ;  Edinburgh  sends  Nicholson  and 
Sir  John  Murray;  Paris  sends  Picard,  Darboux,  Poin- 
care,  Cordier,  Rambaud,  Levi,  Meyer,  Boyer,  Brun- 
etiere,  Enlart,  Michel,  Moissan,  Reville,  Giard,  De- 
lage,  Manouvrier,  Pierre  Janet,  Tarde,  Richelot,  Levy, 
and  Baron  d'Estournelles  de  Constant.  From  Berlin 
come  Pfleiderer,  Dessoir,  Kohler,  Delitzsch,  Harnack, 
van  t'Hoff,  Hertwig,  Waldeycr,  Seler,  von  den  Stein- 
en,  Orth,  Liebreich,  and  Ziehen;  from  Leipsic,  Ost- 
wald,  Lamprecht,  Brugmann,  Sievers,  Zirkel,  March- 
Bid,  Wach,  and  Binding;  from  Copenhagen,  Jesper- 
sen,  Hoffding,  and  Westergaard ;  from  Amsterdam, 
de  Vries ;  from  Budapest,  Vambery  and  Goldziher ; 
from  Tokio,  Kozumi  and  Kitasato ;  and  many  more 
almost  equally  well  known  and  distinguished. 

It  is  entirely  probable  that  never  before  has  so 
large  and  so  representative  a  body  of  scholars  been 
brought  together ;  it  is  quite  certain  that  never  before 
has  such  a  body  of  scholars  assembled  for  so  specific 
and  so  lofty  a  purpose. 

The  responsibility  for  this  congress  was  intrusted 
to  an  administration  board  of  seven  men,  one  of  whom 
—Frederick  W.  Holls,  of  New  York — died  shortly 
after  the  work  began.  The  administrative  board  early 
designated  an  organizing  committee  of  three  to  man- 
age the  details  of  the  work,  and  to  visit  Europe  in  or- 
der to  familiarize  foreign  scholars  with  the  plan  and 
scope  of  the  undertaking.  This  organizing  committee 
has  been  diligently  at  work  for  nearly  two  years  past. 
Its  members  are  Prof.  Simon  Newcomb,  of  Washing- 
ton, who  is  to  preside  over  the  congress,  and  Prof. 
Hugo  Miinsterberg,  of  Harvard  University,  and  Prof. 
Albion  W.  Small,  of  the  University  of  Chicago,  who 
are  to  be  the  vice-presidents. 

It  is  fair  to  presume  that  the  eyes  of  the  world  of 
science  and  letters  will  be  upon  St.  Louis  during  the 
third  week  of  September,  and  that  the  addresses  then 
delivered  there  will  be  the  subject  of  close  study  and 
discussion  for  some  time  to  come.  The  sessions  will 
be  open,  and  it  is  certain  that  very  many  American 
teachers  and  scholars  will  avail  themeslves  of  this  un- 
exampled opportunity  to  hear  and  to  meet  the  leaders 
of  the  world's  learning. — From  "  Educational  Worth 
of  the  St.  Louis  Exposition,"  by  Nicholas  Murray 
Butler,  in  the  American  Monthly  Review  of  Reviews 
for  September. 

PORT    ARTHUR,    AS    JAPAN    VIEWS    IT. 


To  be  the  commander  of  Nippon's  forces  at  Port 
Arthur  is  the  greatest  honor  to  which  the  dreams  of 
a  soldier  of  the  Emperor  can  aspire.  The  fortress  is 
full  of  sentimental  interest  to  all  the  Nippon  race. 

Port  Arthur  stands  at  the  extremity  of  the  Liao- 


Tung  Peninsula ;  like  the  point  of  a  dagger,  it  thrusts 
itself  out  to  sea  and  divides  the  Yellow  Sea  from  the 
Gulf  of  Pe-chi-li.  Across  the  mouth  of  this  gulf  to 
the  south  and  facing  it  is  the  harbor  of  Wei-Hai-Wei. 
Not  so  rugged  as  Gibraltar,  to  which  it  has  been  lik- 
ened over  and  over  again,  the  hills  which  hem  in  the 
harbor  of  Port  Arthur  are  quite  as  commanding  as 
the  fortress  on  the  Mediterranean.  The  strategic 
possibilities  of  Port  Arthur  are  quite  enough  to  make 
a  military  tactician  dream  like  a  poet ;  long  ago,  even 
the  Chinese  saw  it,  and,  with  the  assistance  of  Ger- 
man military  engineers,  they  fortified  the  place  heav- 
ily. The  fortress  commands  the  waterway  to  Tientsin, 
Taku,  and,  naturally,  to  Peking.  The  master  of  Port 
Arthur,  provided  always  his  strength  be  equal  to  his 
geographical  opportunities,  can  throttle  the  neck,  so 
to  speak,  of  which  Peking  is  the  head  and  brain. — 
From  "  General  Nogi,  the  Japanese  Hero  of  Port  Ar- 
thur," by  Charles  Johnston,  in  the  American  Monthly 
Review  of  Reviezvs  for  October. 
►>  *  -> 
THE    SULTAN'S    TREASURE. 


The  wonders  of  the  Arabian  Nights  live  again  in 
the  three  large  halls  which  compose  the  great  treasury 
of  the  Sultan  of  Turkey.  Priceless  jewels  gleam  on 
every  side,  rare,  costly  and  curious  coins  from  all  lands 
and  furniture  studded  with  precious  stones.  It  is  very 
rarely  that  any  but  royal  eyes  are  permitted  to  look 
upon  this  magnificence. 

At  the  entrance  of  the  first  hall  stands  a  throne 
which  was  captured  from  the  Persians ;  it  is  nearly 
covered  with  pearls  and  precious  stones.  An  enor- 
mous emerald  adorns  the  center  of  another  jewel- 
studded  throne.  A  dressing  table  studded  all  over 
with  pearls  is  among  the  pieces  of  furniture.  In  this 
room  is  also  a  marvelous  collection  of  gold  and  silver 
cups,  plates  and  dishes,  jeweled  daggers  and  knives, 
suits  of  armor  cases  containing  hundreds  of  necklaces, 
brooches  and  rings.  In  the  midst  of  all  this  splendor, 
ancient  and  modern,  are  very  up-to-date  dressing  bags, 
cameras,  telescopes  and  even  a  case  of  razors,  all  with 
fine  silver  mountings,  but  seeming  rather  out  of  place 
among-  such  regal  surroundings. 

Gold  and  silver  ornaments  and  bric-a-brac  are  some 
of  the  contents  of  the  second  hall,  including  a  collection 
of  quaint  little  tons  made  of  precious  metals  and  stones. 
The  third  hall  contains  cases  of  coins  carefully  ar- 
ranged. 

*  +  * 

Don't  give  the  boys  and  girls  more  than  a  very 
common  school  education.  It  will  make  them  feel 
above  their  business. 

•$•  4*  ♦ 

CONDUCT  is  the  mouth-piece  of  character. — Pliillips 
Brooks. 


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BUSINESS    IS    BUSINESS. 


No  sane  man,  especially  a  business  man.  would 
attempt  to  deny  that  business  is  governed  by  laws 
which  are  just  as  inexorable  as  the  law  of  gravity  or 
the  refraction  of  light. 

To  introduce  sentiment  or  romance  into  business, 
ignoring  the  economic  laws  that  govern  trade,  and  pay- 
ing no  attention  to  supply  and  demand,  would  be  but 
to  fail.  No  man  can  hope  to  do  such  things  and  suc- 
ceed. There  can  be  no  question  about  one's  fidelity  to 
debit  or  credit  if  he  would  succeed ;  for  it  is  an  es- 
tablished fact  that  absolute  fidelity  and  adherence  to 
this  principle  is  necessary  in  order  to  know  the  busi- 
ness, and  not  to  know  the  business  means  failure. 

The  man  who  is  at  the  head  of  the  business,  that 
is  a  successful  business,  is  a  man  who  has  wound  his 
way  to  the  top  through  a  successful  performance  of  all 
the  duties  assigned  him  while  in  the  different  depart- 
ments as  he  was  promoted  from  one  to  the  other.  All 
elements  in  a  business  which  do  not  pay  should  be  elim- 
inated. Business  in  which  the  service  of  machinery  is 
employed  demands  that  the  wheels  be  kept  in  motion 
in  order  to  make  the  business  pay.  Idle  machinery 
is  a  dead  expense.  A  man  cannot  afford  to  let  ma- 
chinery rust  out,  yet  he  can  well  afford  to  wear  it  out, 
if  it  be  carefully  done.  In  the  same  relation  a  man 
is  not  justified  in  keeping  a  larger  clerical  force  than 
can  be  utilized  to  the  benefit  of  the  business,  and  yet 
every  clerk'  should  be  employed  which  will  add  care, 
system,  expedition  and  hustle  to  the  business.  There 
is  nothing  in  the  world  so  valuable  to  business  as  svs- 


tem,  and  yet  a  business  may  be  systematized  to  death 
If  the  system  is  not  curtailed  to  brevity,  each  ordei 
that  the  firm  receives  causes  a  heavier  expense  in  the 
receiving,  filing,  receipting,  recording,  etc.,  than  the 
manager,  at  first,  recognizes. 

Again,  the  time  has  come  in  the  mercantile  sphere 
when  promptness  is  indispensable.  The  business  firrr. 
to-day,  which  does  not  reply  immediately  to  their  corJ 
respondence,  does  not  receive  the  proper  amount  of  res 
spect  and  credit  from  their  constituency.  Although 
the  system  of  a  business  may  require  it  to  take  the 
form  of  rigidity,  yet  there  is  no  business  on  earth  that 
can  afford  to  be  perpetrated  in  any  other  than  a  friend 
ly  attitude,  a  sympathetic  spirit  and  a  continual  respecj 
for  the  rights,  privileges  and  necessities  of  other  peo; 
pie.  There  is  no  sense  or  reason  in  any  employer 
forgetting  the  rights,  respects  and  welfare  of  his  em 
ployes. 

There  can  be  no  gain,  temporary  or  permanent, 
monetary-  or  otherwise,  derived  by  harshness,  indif- 
ference or  overbearing  methods  toward  employes 
Such  an  attitude  makes  no  money,  develops  no  man's 
business  and  gives  no  assistance  to  a  financial  enter 
prise.  It  is  an  inherent  weakness  in  any  business 
where  the  best  of  feeling  does  not  exist  between  a| 
parties  concerned,  and  more  especially  between  the 
employer  and  employe. 

The  growth  and  development  of  no  business  is 
really  healthy  and  strong  until  it  is  a  demonstratei 
fact  that  every  person  connected  with  it  is  made 
feel  that  he  is  justly  remunerated  and  justly  treati 
and  has  an  interest  in  the  rise  and  progress  of  the  bu 
ness.  Sometimes  it  is  possible  for  employes  to  ha 
financial  interest  in  the  business ;  in  other  cases  th; 
is  impossible.  In  such  cases  this  interest  should  bej 
provided  for  in  another  way.  Nothing  short  of  thig 
gives  real  strength  to  any  business.  The  proverb, 
"  In  union  there  is  strength,"  applies  here  as  well 
as  anywhere  else. 

Another  feature  which  business  men  cannot  afford  to 
overlook  is  entertainment.  Busy  people  are  not  sup' 
posed  to  be  bothered.  In  business  houses  time  is 
counted  by  minutes  and  seconds,  which  is  absolutely 
right,  and  yet  what  business  is  there,,  which  is  desir- 
ous of  the  public  becoming  acquainted  with  it,  that 
can  afford  to  spend  money  in  advertising  on  printed 
pages  and  at  the  same  time  not  allow  visitors  to  pass 
through  the  institution?  When  the  public  comes  in 
contact  with  a  man  who  has  visited  a  great  factory 
it  becomes  a  great  deal  better  acquainted  with  the 
functions  of  that  business,  in  its  relation  to  the  world] 
than  it  would  have  been  had  it  seen  placards,  posters 
and  reading  notices  by  the  thousands,  almost  timej 
without  number.  In  this  manner  many  a  business 
has  made  many  a  friend.  On  the  other  hand,  discre- 
tion must  be  used  in  this  relation  as  well  as  all  others. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  25,  1904. 


1023 


Anything  can  be  overdone,  and  yet  there  is  no  reason 
in  the  world  why  any  honorable  business  cannot  be 
conducted  according  to  the  most  severe  business  man- 
agement, and  yet  with  a  spirit  of  kindness  and  philan- 
thropy pervading  the  whole  institution. 
fy  &  <$» 
A    TWO-GALLON    HAT. 


In  our  wonderful  age  of  civilization  and  progress, 
when  titles  and  degrees  have  become  so  conspicuous 
and  lengthy  as  almost  to  require  a  caudal  appendage 
to  the  alphabet,  it  is  no  uncommon  thing  to  see  a  two- 
gallon  hat  on  a  one-quart  head.  In  other  words,  the 
term  education  is  a  very  comprehensive  word  which  has 
been  very  indiscriminately  applied.  An  idea  is  preva- 
lent that  when  one  has  slipped  off  the  country  school- 
house  plank,  at  thirteen,  and  pushed  on  to  glory, 
through  high  school  at  seventeen,  provided  he  is  not 
side-tracked  by  a  short  circuit,  called  the  Academic 
Course,  which  would  land  him  safely  home  at  fifteen 
and  render  him  eligible  to  four  years  of  square  hats  and 
striped  trousers,  latest  fads  in  college  yell,  rounded 
up  with  a  proficient  vocabulary  of  the  latest  slang, 
he  is  ready  to  land  on  the  commencement  platform 
in  a  profusion  of  bouquets,  covered  with  a  sheepskin. 

All  this  is  the  phantom  that  is  mirrored  upon  the 
mind  of  the  aspirant  for  an  education.  This  is  just 
as  far  from  right  as  it  would  be  to  lasso  a  buffalo  on 
the  prairies  of  the  West  and  brand  him  "  civilization." 
Just  as  sure  as  the  buffalo  is  named  civilization,  and 
in  himself  is  the  very  mark  of  uncivilization,  so  is  the 
young  man  who  is  said  to  have  an  education,  totally 
void  of  the  fundamental  principles  that  go  to  make 
tip  an  education.  It  requires  a  desperate  effort  on  his 
pant  to  make  the  world  believe  that  he  has  an  edu- 
cation. He  may  be  able  to  mix  up  a  few  letters  of 
the  Greek  alphabet  in  an  unintelligible  manner  to  the 
admiration  of  a  few  of  those  who  admire  vanity,  but 
when  he  meets  the  insurmountable  difficulty  of  hitch- 
ing a  horse,  hoeing  a  row  of  potatoes  or  milking  a  cow, 
„he  at  once  betrays  his  ignorance  of  all  the  basic  prin- 
ciples of  usefulness. 

Education  is  usefulness.  The  prima  donna  may  be 
compelled  to  go  to  school  to  her  maid  in  the  kitchen 
in  order  to  learn  how  to  make  a  loaf  of  bread,  which 
is  a  very  essential  factor  in  life.  The  professor  of 
Greek  and  Latin  would  be  glad  to  "  swap  "  his  knowl- 
edge of  some  of  the  translations  of  Horace  for  just 
enough  brains  to  mend  a  puncture  in  his  auto  tire.  It 
becomes  quite  humiliating  to  a  man  of  a  two-gallon  hat 
to  have  to  remove  his  hat  in  honor  to  a  man  of  infe- 
riority in  such  cases,  and  thereby  expose  the  fact  that 
he  has  been  pretending  himself  to  be  what  he  is  not. 

One  should  stop  long  enough  to  consider  how  es- 
sential to  our  happiness  and  safety  are  the  common- 
place and  so-called  menial  occupations  in  life.     There 


should  be  no  objections  to  the  maid  in  the  kitchen  hay- 
ing the  knowledge  to  enjoy  Browning,  Tennyson, 
Shakespeare,  Milton,  etc.,  but  not  to  the  exclusion 
of  her  domestic  duty.  It  surely  is  no  disadvantage 
to  the  farmer  td  know  Greek  and  Latin  and  to  be  able 
to  study  the  stars  with  ease,  and  to  be  able  to  classify 
every  flower  in  the  field,  but  he  should  not  know  these 
to  the  exclusion  of  his  knowledge  of  how  to  ring  hogs, 
kill  a  beef,  or  drive  a  self-binder. 

Wisdom  is  applied  knowledge.  Knowledge  is  a 
general  idea  of  things,  and  an  education,  if  it  be  a 
worthy  one,  must  fit  a  man  or  woman  for  the  largest 
service  to  themselves  and  others. 

Do  not  assume  the  position  that  education  is  a  detri- 
ment to  civilization  in  society,  church  or  state;  on  the 
contrary  it  is  one  of  the  grand  promotors  of  civiliza- 
tion ;  but  our  text  is  that  there  is  a  tendency  on  the 
part  of  parents  to-day  to  forget  to  teach  these  essen- 
tials at  home  as  the  foundation  principles  of  life,  upon 
which  to  build  an  education,  and  in  a  great  degree 
they  have  sacrificed  all  of  these  in  order  that  their 
son  or  daughter  may  be  the  first  to  reach  the  point 
where  they  can  say  they  have  graduated.  A  name 
amounts  to  nothing  unless  backed  by  character.  A 
diploma  or  title  is  worse  than  nothing  unless  it  is 
backed  by  good  common  sense,  good  breeding  and 
Christian  character,  which  has  been  polished  and  made 
useful  by  a  thorough  education. 
♦  •$•  * 
TO    OUR    AGENTS. 


Do  you  know  that  this  is  the  beginning  of  your  har- 
vest time  ?  This  is  the  only  time  in  the  year  when 
you  can  offer  your  subscribers  fifteen  months  for  the 
regular  subscription  price  per  annum,  and  besides  you 
will  notice  that  we  have  something  extra  in  the  way  of 
clubbing  offer.  A  large  per  cent  of  your  subscribers 
are  farmers,  and  you  will  please  call  their  attention 
to  the  fact  that  to  all  new  subscribers  we  propose  to 
send  them  more  than  a  year's  subscription  to  a  six- 
teen-page farm  paper,  free.  You  see  this  is  some- 
thing extraordinary  when  they  can  get  a  weekly  mag- 
azine for  fifteen  months  and  a  weekly  farm  paper. 
the  same  length  of  time,  for  $1.00.  If  you  can't  get 
a  large  number  of  subscriptions  now,  under  the  pres- 
ent inducements  and  plans,  you  are  not  a  successful 
agent.  Don't  fail  to  call  their  attention  to  the  fact 
that  we  are  to  have  a  great  many  illustrated  articles 
from  Europe,  Asia,  Africa  and  Australia  by  our  con- 
tributors who  are  traveling  in  the  Orient.  Begin 
work  now,  don't  wait  until  some  one  else  has  their 
subscriptions  or  until  they  have  subscribed  for  some 
other  paper. 

♦   «?»   •!• 

"Success  is  the  product  of  the  sum  of  our  years 
multiplied  by  our  good  actions." — Anon. 


1024 


THE    INGLE  NOOK.— October  25,  1904. 


CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


A     SAD     ACCIDENT. 


Last  Saturday  afternoon,  while  gathering  hickory- 
nuts,  D.  L.  Royer,  the  fifteen-year-old  son  of  Galen 
Rover,  who  has  long  been  identified  with  the  General 
Missionary  and  Tract  Committee,  was  accidentally  shot 
by  his  playmate  and  companion,  Emerson  Cobb,  the 
fifteen-year-old  son  of  your  editor. 

The  boys  had  been  shooting  at  mark  and  after 
having  spent  their  ammunition,  tied  the  gun  to  the 
sack  of  hickorynuts  and  started  for  home.  Several 
times  they  placed  match  heads  under  the  hammers 
of  the  gun  to  make  reports  till  finally  Cobb  attempted 
to  lift  the  gun  and  sack  and  scare  his  mate,  as  he 
thought,  by  snapping  the  brimstone.  Somehow  the 
spring  in  the'  magazine  forced  another  cartridge  into 
the  chamber  and,  of  course,  the  hammer  discharged 
it.  At  that  instance  Royer  was  immediately  in  front 
of  it,  nineteen  steps  away ;  the  ball  passed  through  the 
left  arm  and  well  into  the  left  lung,  near  the  heart. 
Cobb  carried  him  about  eighty  rods  to  the  road,  hailed 
an  automobile,  conveyed  him  to  the  hospital  and  called 
the  physicians  and  parents.  By  quick  and  skillful 
work  on  the  part  of  the  physicians  and  vigilant  care 
of  the  nurses,  he  is  still  alive  and  is  reported  conval- 
escent. This  adds  one  more  to  the  long  list  of  "  Did- 
n't-know-it-was-loaded "  accidents.  No  comment  is 
necessary.  Notices  like  this  and  advice  do  not  count. 
Only  experience  teaches. 

->  ♦  ♦ 

Prince  Fushimi,  first  cousin  of  the  Mikado,  of 
Japan,  is  expected  to  arrive  in  San  Francisco  on  the 
Pacific  mad  steamer  "  Manchuria,"  which  leaves  Ja- 
pan Oct.  22,  and  is  due  to  reach  San  Francisco  Nov. 
7.  His  object  in  visiting  America  is  to  have  an  in- 
terview with  President  Roosevelt,  the  purpose  of 
which  is  a  secret. 

♦  ♦  ♦ 

Last  week  the  flag  on  the  Statue  of  Liberty  was 
half-masted  out  of  respect  for  Frederick  Bartholdi, 
the  French  Sculptor  who  designed  the  Statue  of  Lib- 
erty which  was  presented  to  the  L'nited  States  by  the 
French  government.  Ambassador  Porter  sent  Ma- 
dame Bartholdi  a  letter  expressing  the  sympathy  of 
the  American  people  with  her,  in  the  loss  of  her  hus- 
band. 

*  <£   *> 

Miss  Helen  Miller  Gould,  who  is  greatly  inter- 
ested in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  along  the  Gould  lines, 
has  started  on  a  tour  of  inspection  of  the  west  and 
southwest.  Mr.  C.  J.  Hicks  and  wife,  and  W.  E. 
Lougee  and  wife  will  accompany  Miss  Gould  in  her 
private  car. 


Commander  Peary  is  having  a  ship  built  for  his 
final  effort  to  reach  the  North  Pole.  It  is  to  be  de- 
signed for  pressure  resistance  as  no  other  Arctic 
craft  ever  was,  and  is  to  be  one  hundred  and  eightv- 
one  feet  long,  thirty-four  feet  and  two-inches  wide, 
and  have  a  main  draught  of  sixteen  feet.  The  stem, 
keel  and  frame  will  be  of  the  best  white  oak  and  the 
beams  of  yellow  pine.  The  frames  will  be  reinforced 
with  diagonal  straps  of  steel.  Each  beam  will  be  sup- 
ported by  heavy  diagonal  braces  of  heavy  pine  and 
supported  by  steel  stanchions.  The  shape  of  the  hull 
is  such  as  to  tend  to  raise  the  vessel  out  of  the  water 
as  the  ice  pack  presses  below  water.  The  ship  will 
be  heated  by  steam,  and  will  be  lighted  by  both  elec- 
tricity and  oil.  The  motive  power  is  steam  and  sail, 
the  engine  driving  a  single  ten-foot  screw.  When 
complete  it  is  expected  to  cost  $120,00,  and  Com- 
mander Peary  intends  to  have  it  ready  to  start  north- 
ward in  June  or  July  next. 

Yale  College  reports  a  decrease  of  thirty-nine  in 
the  number  of  Freshmen  this  vear. 

*  *  * 

Surgeons  ought  to  be  willing  to  give  Dr.  Fischer, 
who  is  surgeon  of  the  Wabash  Railway  in  the  railway 
hospital  in  New  York,  the  belt.  He  recently  per- 
formed the  unusual  feat  of  operating  upon  himself. 
His  left  foot  had  caused  him  so  much  trouble  that  he 
was  starting  to  Washington  for  surgical  attention, 
when  a  Wabash  accident  detained  him.  Seeing  that 
delay  was  becoming  dangerous  the  plucky  surgeon 
cut  from  the  instep  to  the  toe,  scraped  the  bones  and 
tissues  for  nearly  a  half-hour,  removing  the  infection, 
finally  became  exhausted  and  fell  back.  He  is  on  a  fair' 
way  for  recovery. 

*  *  * 

PIotel  thieves  at  St.  Louis,  robbed  Mrs.  Albert 
Gaines  of  $3,000,000  worth  of  jewelry. 

During  a  heavy  fog  the  steamer  "  Roscowiz " 
struck  a  reef  off  Vancouver,  B.  C.  Four  passengers 
were  drowned. 

At  Howe,  Texas,  five  buildings  were  burned  in  a 
twenty  thousand  dollar  fire. 

*  *   * 

John  Moore,  aged  thirty-five,  a  balloonist  of 
Charleston,  W.  Va.,  fell  from  a  parachute  at  Frank- 
fort, Ky.,  and  was  fatally  injured. 


James  Wilson  and  his  nephew  from  Pennsylvania, 
while  traveling  in  Yellowstone   Park,  suddenly  camej 
upon    a   bear    which    attacked   them.      The   boy    wa. 
crushed  to  death  and  Wilson  wounded  so  that  he  died. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  25,  1904. 


1025 


The  coal  strike  in  Cincinnati  is  attended  by  some 

ilence.     Non-union  men  were  hurt  in  an  assault  and 

)me  arrests  have  been  made.     With  the  thermometer 

early  to  freezing,  the  poorer  classes  are  suffering  and 

le  coal  companies  are  unable  to  make  deliveries. 

*5*  <J»  *J» 

United  States  Treasurer  Roberts  has  received 
dvices  of  the  probable  arrival  at  San  Francisco  with- 
1  the  next  few  weeks  of  two  and  a  half  millions  of 
ollars  in  Australian  gold  sovereigns,  and  nearly  one 
lillion  dollars  in  Japanese  yen. 

*  ♦  * 

An  oil  lank  containing  thirty  thousand  barrels,  at 
inlay,  Ohio,  was  struck  by  lightning.  Of  course 
le  tank  exploded,  the  oil  spread'  over  the  surround- 
\g  country  and  it  looked  for  awhile  as  if  the  city  was 
oomed.  Loss,  two  hundred  thousand. 
■3*   ♦   4» 

Reports  from  Washington  say  that  the  United 
tates  has  twenty-six  wireless  telegraph  stations, 
Xing  its  coastline,  including  the  Isthmus  of  Panama. 

♦  *  * 

It  has  been  discovered  that  Bartonville,  111.,  where 
ic  asylum  for  the  incurably  insane  is  located,  is  the 
nly  incorporated  town  in  the  United  States  that  does 
ot  have  to  levy  municipal  tax.  The  population  of 
le  town  is  nearly  three  hundred,  and  it  collects  four 
lousand  dollars  annually  in  saloon  licenses.  Grant- 
lg  that  three  persons  comprise  a  family,  that  leaves 
ne  hundred  men,  one  man  to  each  family,  to  drink  suf- 
cient  liquor  that  the  license  of  it  amounts  to  four 
lousand  dollars.  They  say  "  it  is  an  ill  wind  that 
lows  nobody  good."  While  it  is  said  that  the  town 
;  to  be  drowned  with  this  overwhelming  flood  of  slop, 

is  a  satisfaction  to  know  that  the  insane  asylum  is 
snvenient.  The  only  wonder  is  that  there  are  not 
no  asylums. 

*$*  *$*  *J* 

The  Weather  Bureau  of  the  United  States  is  in 
ssion  at  Chicago.  The  object  is  to  plan  a  revision 
f  the  meteorological  charts,  forms  and  records  to  be 
sed  by  all  the  weather  stations  throughout  the  coun- 
ry. 

♦  ♦  * 

Mrs.  Anna  Hall  Greenevvalh.  the  only  woman 
irecastcr  employed  by  the  United  States  Government, 
-  dead  at  her  home  near  Hanover,  Pa  She  was  fifty- 
even  years  of  age. 

*  *   •:• 

At  Tokio,  Japan,  and  St.  Petersburg,  Russia,  some 
eople  have  come  to  about  the  same  conclusion  that 
hey  did  in  this  country  in  the  sixties.  It  is  to  be  re- 
nenibered  that  we  had  calls  for  ninety-day  vol  11 n- 
eers,  but  the  war  lasted  four  years.  So  they  are  be- 
diming to  figure  on  the  late  war  in  the  East. 


Notices  have  been  posted  on  the  shops  of  the  C.  & 
E.  Railroad  that  on  account  of  the  strike  conditions, 
shops  will  be  closed  until  further  notice. 

*  *  * 

The  seventy-fifth  annual  conference  of  the  Mor- 
mons was  in  session  last  week.  Representatives  were 
present  from  Canada,  Mexico,  Europe  and  Pacific  Is- 
lands. 

*  ♦   ♦ 

The  steamer  "  Mineola "  from  Siberia,  bound  for 
San  Francisco,  struck  a  reef  off  the  Tigil  bar  and  be- 
came a  total  wreck.  The  officers  and  crew  were  res- 
cued by  the  British  warship  "  A-lgerine." 

*  *   ♦ 

Ambassador  McCoriiick  has  left  St.  Petersburg 
for  the  United  States.  He  will  sail  from  Cherbourg 
on  the  "  Deutschland,"  Oct.  14. 

*  *   * 

Lady  Curzon's  condition,  during  the  past  week, 
has  been  one  to  cause  renewed  anxiety,  and  the  London 
doctors  have  remained  in  attendance.  Although  not 
yet  out  of  danger,  it  is  thought  that  if  no  further  com- 
plications arise  there  is  hope  of  her  ultimate  recovery. 

*  ♦  »$• 

Reports  from  Shang-Hai  say  that  the  interior  is  in 

a    state    of    serious    uneasiness    on    account    of    the 

action  of  secret  societies  who  are  said  to  be  procuring 

the  most  modern  fire  arms  and  munitions  of  war  for 

the  purpose  of  equipping  the  soldiers.     It  is  difficult 

to   ascertain   whether  these   preparations   are   for   the 

purpose   of   a   general   uprising  or   whether  they   are 

made  in  view  of  a  possible  danger  from  a  successful 

Japan. 

4.  .5.   * 

Mount   Pelee  is   again   causing  some   excitement 

by  emitting  enormous  quantities  of  steam  and  ashes 

and  rocks. 

.♦.  .♦.  ■$, 

A  burglar  at  Treynor,  Iowa,  walked  into  the  bank 
and  compelled  the  assistant  cashier.  Miss  Frances 
Flood,  to  give  up  seventeen  hundred  dollars. 

*  ♦  ♦ 

Helen  Keller,  the  blind  ami  deaf  girl,  who  has 
learned  to  speak,  delivered  an  address  to  a  large  audi- 
ence in  the  Hall  of  Congresses  at  the  World's  Fair 
grounds  Oct.   18. 

•fr  <t»  «$» 

There  is  but  little  hopes  that  Port  Arthur  will  hold 
nut  much  longer.  It  is  reported  that  the  Japanese 
shells  have  sunk  the  Russian  cruiser  "  Bayan  "  in 
the  harbor  of  Port  Arthur.  While  the  Russians  have 
been  repulsed  with  heavy  losses  at  times,  yet  recent 
reports  show  that  Kuropatkin,  with  an  army  of 
280,000  men  and  900  guns,  hail  crossed  the  Shakhe 
river. 


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The  Inglenook  Nature  Study  Club 


This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various  Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized 
over  this  country.  Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.  Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time, 
taking  the  work  up  with  the  current  issue.  Back  numbers  cannot  be  furnished.  Any  school  desiring  to  or- 
ganize a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  111. 


CLASS    AVES.— Order    Natatores. 


The  Natatores  are  a  large  order,  composed  of 
Ducks,  Divers,  Auks,  Gulls  and  Pellicans.  In  the 
study  of  Natatores,  we  are  again  reminded  of  the 
fact  that  God  carefully  watches  the  needs  and  wants 
of  every  one  of  his  creatures,  and  we  cannot  help  but 
notice  how  wonderfully  well  they  are  adapted  to  their 
manner  of  life.  While  they  are  called  swimmers,  and 
love  the  water  very  well,  yet  they  spend  a  great  deal 
of  their  life  on  land,  and  strange  as  it  may  seem  they 
are  among  the  most  artistic  in  flight. 

No  class  of  birds  come  nearer  human  intelligence 
than  is  portrayed  in  the  migration  of  the  water  fowl. 
Their  line  of  flight  is  singular;  one  generally  taking 
the  lead  and  the  rest  following  in  single  file,  either 
in  a  straight  line  or  in  the  form  of  the  letter  V. 
Adaptability. 

As  a  matter  of  course  they  are  subjected  to  great 
changes  of  temperature,  because  of  their  manner  of 
life,  first  being  in  the  water,  next  upon  the  land  and 
then  soaring  aloft  in  the  azure  of  the  canopy.  In  or- 
der to  protect  them  against  this  necessary  exposure,  na- 
ture has  covered  their  bodies .  with  a  thicker  and 
closer  plumage  than  other  birds  have,  which  is  lined 
with  a  coat  of  down  next  to  the  skin.  Besides  hav- 
ing a  superior  quantity  and  quality  of  feathers  they 
take  a  special  pride  in  keeping  them  well  oiled,  which 
renders  it  impossible  for  their  bodies  to  become  wet, 
except  in  the  most  extreme  cases. 

The  second  point  we  shall  notice  in  adaptability  is 
the  shape  of  their  bodies.  As  a  general  thing  you  will 
notice  that  this  order  of  birds  have  large  bodies,  short 
legs  and  webbed  feet.  Since  they  have  so  much  swim- 
ming to  do,  their  heavy  bodies  are  built  in  the  shape  of 
a  boat,  and  the  oil  spoken  of  above,  keeps  the  boat 
well  painted  and  their  webbed  feet  make  excellent 
oars  with  which  to  row  the  boat,  and  in  order  that 
they  may  be  used  as  oars  and  rudder  both,  they  are 
placed  far  back  on  the  body  so  as  to  propel  the  body 
more  effectively.  Of  course,  when  they  walk  upon  the 
ground  as  a  land  bird,  their  aquatic  features  render 
them  a  little  ungainly.  Their  short  legs  being  placed 
at  the  rear  of  their  body,  gives  them  that  peculiar  wad- 
dling gait  which  is  rather  homely. 

Again,  their  adaptability  is  shown  in  having  long 
necks  with  which  to  reach  their  food.     Wherein  the 


legs  are  short,  the  neck  grows  lengthy  to  replace  tf 
deficiency,  and,  too,  their  bills  are  broad,  flat  mand 
bles,  rounded  at  the  ends,  having  rough  edges  for 
border,  which  altogether  makes  a  very  good  scoc 
with  which  to  gobble  up  their  food,  and  also  to  serj 
as  a  strainer,  for  they  gather  much  of  their  food  i 
the  water  and  mud.  There  seems  to  be  an  arrangemei 
of  sentient  nerves  in  this  rough  border  of  the  mand 
ble,  which  allows  them  to  detect  particles  of  food  an 
keep  them  in  their  mouth,  while  the  mud  and  wat< 
are  allowed  to  run  out. 

Next  week  we  will  study  the  family  of  Ducks. 
*  <$»  $ 
A   DOG   WITH    A   GRUDGE. 


Eureka  is  a  small  dog,  very  much  devoted  to  hi 
master.  Occasionally  her  master  takes  an  early  trai 
for  New  York,  returning  at  night.  On  such  oc 
sions  "  Reke  "  sits  on  a  box  at  the  window 
watches  him  out  of  sight ;  and  when  the  whistle  blovi 
for  the  evening  train,  she  takes  her  place  again  I 
watch  for  his  return. 

One  evening  he  did  not  come ;  but  seeing  anothi 
gentleman  coming  up  from  the  station  in  the  dusk,  s\ 
mistook  him  for  her  master,  and,  whining  for  t\ 
door  to  be  opened,  she  ran  out,  wagging  her  tail  at] 
manifesting  her  joy  in  every  known  way  until  si 
had  nearly  reached  the  stranger. 

When  she  perceived  her  mistake,  she  turned  wi1 
an  expression  of  extreme  disgust  and  ran  back,  hes 
and  tail  lowered,  and  looking  as  sheepish  as  possibl 

When  we  laughed  at  her,  she  withdrew  to  a  corm 
and  lay  there  for  the  lest  of  the  evening. 

Since  then  she  never  allows  that  gentleman  to  pai 

without  barking  at  him :  and  once,  when  he  came 

the  house  on  business,  she  made  such  a  time  that  si 

had  to  be  put  out.     Evidently  she  thought  he  had  il 

suited  her. — Selected. 

$    $    <s> 

PLAYED   WITH   SNAKE. 


"  I  always  took  with  a  grain  of  salt  those  storii 
about  snakes  not  biting  children,"  said  a  man  who  Iie 
just  returned  from  a  vacation  in  Pike  county,  Pennsv 
vania,  "  but  I'll  believe  in  them  after  this.  Pike  coui 
ty  has  three  principal  products — rocks,  rattlesnaki 
and  whiskey.     The  rocks  stay  put,  and  you  have  1 


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jo  and  get  the  whiskey,  but  the  snakes  come  to  you. 
[  noticed  three  children  playing-  about  the  general 
Store  of  the  place  where  I  was  staying  this  summer, 
rhey  were  having  a  good  time,  and  were  screaming 
with  pleasure.  One  of  the  clerks  of  the  store  looked 
jut  of  the  side  door  to  see  what  pleased  them  so  much. 
He  saw,  and  dug' back  into  the  store,  reappearing  in 
m  instant  with  a  carriage  whip.  Then  he  ran  to  the 
Tee,  which  was  about  twenty-five  feet  away,  and  be- 
*an  to  thrash  the  ground  with  the  whip.  I  went  over 
:o  see  what  he  was  doing.  He  had  killed  a  snake 
with  nine  rattles.  That's  what  the  children  were  play- 
ng  with." 

*   *   * 

A    FAITHFUL    CAT. 


My  husband  had  a  devoted  cat  a  few  years  ago 
hat  used  to  meet  him  at  a  certain  lamppost  near  the 
louse  every  evening  on  his  return.  She  would  then 
:scort  him  home  with  many  manifestations  of  joy  and 
it  under  his  chair  while  he  dined,  waiting  to  receive 
ler  dinner  from  his  hand. 

One  winter  a  business  trip  took  him  away  from  the 
uty  for  several  weeks.  Nights  of  fruitless  watching 
it  the  lamppost,  her  trysting  place,  we  called  it,  were 
ollowed  by  listless  days,  when  she  would  eat  scarcely 
inything.  She  would  sit  under  his  empty  chair  at 
neal  times  and  sniff  dejectedly  at  the  most  appetizing 
norsels.  At  last  she  seemed  to  give  up  hope,  or  else 
■ier  weakness  prevented  her  from  walking  so  far,  and 
he  lamppost  knew  her  no  more.  Toward  the  end  of 
he  third  week  and  just  a  day  before  my  husband  re- 
timed she  died — of  grief  and  starvation. — Cat  Jonr- 
nil. 

*  <fc  ■& 
GREAT    AUK'S    EGG. 


The  great  auk's  egg  which  was  put  up  for  sale  in 
.mi, Inn  the  other  day  is  said  to  be  one  of  the  finest 
if  the  70  or  so  of  these  eggs  which  are  known  to  ex- 
st.  The  egg  was  discovered  at  the  London  residence 
if  Hon.  Emmelinc  Canning,  a  daughter  of  the  late 
.ord  Garvagh,  by  Mr.  J.  E.  Harting,  the  well-known 
'niillnilogist ;  and  it  is  an  interesting  fact  that  an- 
ither  famous  zoologist,  Prof.  Newton,  of  Cambridge, 
vas  instrumental  in  bringing  to. light  a  splendid  set  of 
o — mistakenly  labeled  "  Penguins'  eggs  " — in  the  Roy- 
il  College  of  Surgeons  some  30  or  more  years  ago. 

rom  the  modest  price  of  5s  in  1830  the  market  figure 
if  the  egg  of  the  great  auk  has  mounted  up  to  no  less 
han  300  guineas,  a  similar  amount  being  given  not 
nng  since  for  the  stuffed  specimen  of  this  long  extinct 
pecies. 

•$•   ♦   ♦ 

The  book  to  read  is  not  the  one  which  thinks  for 
•ou,  but  the  one  which  makes  you  think.  No  book  in 
he  world  equals  the  Bible  for  that. — Dr.  McCosk. 


AN    INTELLIGENT    CAT. 


A  New  Hampshire  physician  tells  the  following 
"  cat  story  "  for  which  he  vouches : 

"  Among  other  queer  tricks  Dick  will  take  off  my 
glasses  very  carefully  with  his  paw,  hold  them  with 
one  claw  and  survey  them  with  apparent  interest. 

"  The  first  time  he  did  it  was  one  night  when  he 
had  been  napping  while  I  was  reading.  He  is  a  great 
pet,  and  going  to  him  I  bent  over,  without  indicating 
by  any  motion  my  meaning,  and  said  gently : 

"  '  Dick,  if  you  want  to  go  to  bed,  take  off  my 
glasses.' 

"  He  immediately  reached  up  a  paw  and  took  them 
off  gently  as  though  it  were  an  old  habit.  Thinking 
this  a  '  happen  so  '  I  put  them  on  and  made  the  same 
request  in  different  words,  with  precisely  the  same 
result.  After  one  more  repetition  he  yawned  and  plain- 
ly intimated  that  was  enough." — Philadelphia  Times. 
&  *  * 
FISH    HAVE   A    SIXTH    SENSE. 


There  are  some  indications  that  fishes  possess  a 
sixth  sense,  the  organs  of  which  are  the  pores  of  the 
head  and  of  the  lateral  band.  This  band  is  a  row  of 
little  canals  connected  with  the  external  world  by  holes 
through  the  scales.  In  these  cavities,  under  which 
runs  a  large  nerve,  are  found  nerve  heads  or  termina- 
tions like  those  of  other  sense  organs.  The  use  of  this 
apparatus  is  unknown. 

♦  4»   * 

In  one  ton  of  corn  there  are  about  36  pounds  nitro- 
gen, 14  pounds  phosphoric  acid  and  8  pounds  of  pot- 
ash. In  a  ton  of  bran  there  are  53  pounds  nitrogen, 
58  pounds  phosphoric  acid  and  22  pounds  potash. 
The  bran  is  consequently  much  richer  than  corn  in 
those  elements,  and  it  will  pay  to  sell  corn  and  buy 
bran.  To  save  all  plant  foods  there  should  be  atten- 
tion given  to  the  preservation  of  the  liquid  manure. 
»;.   .;•  .5, 

Too  much  ground  food  is  not  beneficial  to  fowls. 
They  have  no  teeth,  the  work  of  preparing  the  food 
being  done  by  the  gizzard,  which  must  be  made  to 
do  duty  or  the  birds  will  not  thrive.  Ground  or  soft 
food  will  answer  for  an  occasional  mess,  but  the 
proper  foods  are  hard  grains,  which  the  fowls  prefer 
to  grind  for  themselves  through  the  agency  of  the  giz- 
zard. 

♦  ♦   *5» 

"  I  BELIEVE  that  there  are  certain  substances,  by 
which,  applied  to  the  human  body,  cither  externally 
or  internally,  or  both.  Nature  can  Ik-  assisted,  and  by 
such  assistance  accomplish  in  a  short  time  what  Na- 
ture otherwise,  unaided  would  do  slowly." — Jefferson. 
•J*  ♦  ♦ 

Cavalry  of  the  west  coast  of  Madagascar  ride  oxen. 


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HOME    DEPARTMENT 


'OH,    PUMPKIN    PIE!" 


Oh,  pumpkin  pie!     Athwart  thy  face 

An  hundred  fancies  may  I  trace! 

I   see  the  glint   of  summer  sun, 

And  twilight,  when  the  day  is  done; 

The  sober  peace  of  musing  cows 

Who  in  the  meadow  grasses  browse; 

The  radiant  glory  of  the  morn 

That  sweeps  across  the  nodding  corn, 

A  thousand  happy  fancies  start 

When  thou  art  nestling  near  my  heart! 

Oh,  pumpkin  pie!     I  hear  the  breeze 

That  whispered  in  the  maple  trees; 

I  see  the  swaying  fields  of  wheat, 

And  hear  the  bird  songs,  clear  and  sweet; 

And  low  across   the   land   at   night 

I   catch   the  ballad  of  delight — 

The  chant  of  cricket  sings  in  glee, 

And  summer  comes  again  to  me! 

Oh,  pumpkin  pie!     Thus  dost  thou  cast 

Thy  joyous  glamour  o'er  the  past! 

Oh,  pumpkin  pie!     Within   thy  breast 
These  gladsome  summer  fancies  rest. 
The  golden  sunshine  and  the   dew 
Have  paid  their  tribute  through  and  through; 
The  song  the  lark  thrilled  in  the  air 
Within  thy  form   is   echoed   there; 
And  all  these  things  of  joy  to  me 
Were    caught   and   firmly  held   by  thee. 
Oh,  pumpkin!     Thanks  for  all  thou  didst! 
I  welcome  thee  unto  my  midst! 
&   <3>   <$> 

THE    OIL    BATH. 


The  ancient  Greeks  owed  much  of  their  physical 
beauty,  suppleness  of  limb,  and  strength  of  constitution 
to  the  use  of  oil  as  a  lotion. 

Of  late  years  the  great  value  of  oil  rubbing  has  been 
recognized  by  the  medical  fraternity,  and  is  used  by 
them  in  treatment  of  many  diseases  with  the  most  sat- 
isfactory results.  By  its  use  infants,  if  delicate,  are 
strengthened  and  nourished ;  if  they  have  bowel  trou- 
ble, oil  rubbed  on  the  abdomen  assists  in  remedying  the 
disorder,  relieves  pain,  and  soothes  the  child. 

If  oil  is  rubbed  on  the  skin  of  persons  in  fever,  it 
prevents  the  surface  becoming  parched ;  also  strength- 
ens and  nourishes  the  patient  as  it  is  absorbed,  so  acts 
as  food. 

If  a  person  has  a  cold  in  the  head,  oil  rubbed  on  the 
nose  and  forehead  loosens  the  cold,  and  freer  breath- 
ing is   the  result.     If  the   cold   is  on  the  lungs,  •  oil 


rubbed  on  the  chest  soon  relieves  the  suffocating  fee 
ing,  and  the  cough  is  less  harsh. 

Oil  rubbed  on  the  sides,  back  and  chest,  is  one  of  tfc 
most  helpful  things  that  can  be  done  for  a  consumj 
tive.  It  loosens  the  cough,  and  helps  build  up  the  til 
sues.  Physicians  say  a  consumptive's  case  is  hopef 
as  long  as  he  retains  his  flesh.  This  the  oil  aids  i 
doing. 

Nothing  equals  in   its   efficacv  an  oil  bath    {or 
new-born   babe,   the  oil   being  well   rubbed  over  tf 
flesh,  then  rubbed  off  with  a  soft  cashmere  cloth. 

And,  finally,  the  woman  that  wishes  to  keep  h( 
complexion  fresh  and  skin  free  from  wrinkles  patien 
ly  rubs  oil  on  the  face.  Almond  oil  is  considered  tl 
best  for  the  face ;  cocoanut  or  olive  oil  for  all  othi 
purposes.  If  these  are  not  available,  lard  will  answe 
For  the  oil  rub,  take  a  small  portion  and  rub  it  tho: 
oughly  into  the   flesh. — Health. 

♦  ♦  ♦ 
THE    MODEL    KITCHEN. 


BY    CHARLES   MARTIN. 

The  first  exclamation  of  many  who  enter  Mr 
Pearlfarb's  kitchen  is :  "  O,  how  like  a  dining  car 
looks."  And  so  it  does.  The  perspective  view,  : 
well  as  the  interior  perfection  of  all  its  apartmenl 
including  economy  of  space  and  modern  convenience 
strikingly  corresponds  with  the  perfected  plan  of  tl 
master  car-builder,  who  invariably  consults  with  tl 
chefs  employed  in  dining  car  service. 

Mrs.  Pearlfarb's  kitchen  is  twelve  feet  wide 
twenty-six  feet  in  length,  and  occupies  the  central  ai 
principal  part  of  a  one-story  L  attached  to  the  re 
of  her  house.  In  one  end  of  this  car-shaped  L 
the  butler's  pantry — twelve  by  twelve  feet — throuj 
which  you  pass  in  going  from  the  kitchen  to  the  di 
ing  room.  In  the  other,  or  rear  end  is  a  vestibt 
— twelve  by  twelve  feet — divided  by  a  broad  passag 
way,  on  one  side  of  which  stands  the  refrigerate 
with  outside  drain,  also  large  closets  containing  ste 
ladders,  brooms,  mops  and  other  large  unsightly  1 
tides  for  which  there  is  no  place  in  the  kitchen,  wh 
on  the  other  side  is  the  general  store-room  for  kitch 
supplies. 

On  entering  the  kitchen  from  either  end  the  fii 
thing  that  strikes  you  as  resembling  a  modern  dinii 
car  is  the  ceiling  or  roof,  which  is  patterned  exactly  a 


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•  that  of  a  car,  even  to  the  two  rows  of  glass  transoms 
-  ventilators  which  extend  from  end  to  end  of  the 
wm.  These  are  operated  with  a  long-handled  tran- 
im-hook  same  as  that  used  in  a  railway  coach.  One 
in  hardly  overestimate  the  value  of  this  mode  of 
;nti!ation.  From  one  to  twenty  of  these  transoms 
in  be  opened  in  a  moment,  thus  providing  a  natural 
;cape  for  heat,  steam,  smell  of  cooking,  etc.,  to  pass 
nmediately  from  the  room.  The  transoms  directly 
/er  the  range  and  hot  water  tanks,  which  stand  in  the 
ning-room-end  of  the  kitchen,  are  invariably  kept 
jen.     There  are  twin  porcelain  sinks  and  a  marble 


linoleum  in  light  tile-pattern.  Those  who  have  never 
worked  in  a  long  narrow  kitchen  cannot  realize  the 
number  of  steps  saved  as  compared  with  the  work  in 
an  old-fashioned  square  room.  Then  too,  one  has  the 
advantage  cf  performing  their  work — especially  mak- 
ing pastry,  preparing  vegetables,  etc., — near  or  far 
from  the  range,  as  the  different  seasons  of  the  year 
suggest.  The  utility  and  convenience  of  the  long  ta- 
bles is  obvious,  as  one  may  work  in  any  part  of  the 
kitchen,  or  a  half  dozen  may  be  employed  at  the  same 
time. 

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ash-bowl  placed  near  the  range,  properly  fitted  with 
)t  and  cold  water  cocks,  and  a  sprinkler  for  rinsing 
shes. 

There  are  long  stationary,  enclosed  tables  on  each 
de,  running  the  entire  length  of  the  room.  These 
■e  covered  with  continuous  sheets  of  aluminum,  and 
iderneath  are  nicely-fitting  flour  and  meal  bins,  sugar 
lests,  and  an  almost  countless  number  of  doors  and 
'awers  of  various  shapes  and  sizes.  One  would 
ink  that  Mrs.  Pearlfarb  had  in  this  alone  the  most 
mvenient  place  possible  for  everything.  But  not  she. 
his  ingenious  "  queen  of  the  kitchen  "  believes,  with 
hers  that,  "  One  cannot  have  too  many  closets." 
bove  the  tables,  on  either  side  of  the  room,  is  a  row 
windows,  fashioned  and  operated  exactly  like  those 
a  dining  car,  but  in  place  of  every  alternate  window, 
a  wooden  panel,  upon  which  is  secured  a  "perfect 
mi  "  of  a  cupboard  or  cabinet ;  each  of  which  is  fit- 
d  for  a  specific  purpose.  For  instance  one  is  de- 
gned  to  contain  nothing  but  farinaceous  foods,  an- 
(her  dried  fruits,  another  spices  and  aromatic  herbs. 
he  kitchen  is  perfectly  lighted  by  two  bracket  lamps, 
ovided  with  huge  reflectors  rivaling  those  of  the 
tad-light  of  a  locomotive,  one  being  placed  at  each 
id  of  the  room.  All  of  the  wood  work  is  finished 
while   enamel.     The   floor  is   covered   with   heavy 


making  plans  for  the  kitchen  are  light  and  air.     These 
problems  Mrs.   Pearlfarb  has  solved  so  cleverly  that 
there  is  little  or  no  chance  for  improvement. 
Hampton,  Tain. 

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HOW    TO    MAKE    SAUERKRAUT. 


Take  about  a  gallon  of  cut  cabbage  and  put  enough 
salt  on  it  to  season  it  well,  mix  and  push  to  one  side, 
then  continue  to  cut  and  salt  until  you  have  the  de- 
sired amount,  mix  all  thoroughly  well  and  let  stand 
till  it  is  wilted  good.  Then  put  it  into  a  jar  to  the 
depth  of  several  inches,  take  a  smoothing  iron  and 
press  even  and  solid,  add  more  cabbage  and  continue 
this  way  until  the  cut  cabbage  is  all  in  ;  then  spread 
nice,  clean  cabbage  leaves  and  a  cloth  over  the  top, 
put  on  a  weight  and  treat  as  usual.  There  will  be 
plenty  of  juice  and  you  will  have  excellent  kraut. 

*   +   * 

A  CONVENIENT  way  to  make  buttonholes  in  male- 
rials  that  -ire  soft  and  frav  easily:  Mark  the  button- 
hole with  a  basting  thread  then  stitch  around  the  thread 
with  a  line  stitch,  leaving  a  space  between  the  stitch- 
ing I"  cut  the  buttonhole.  This  makes  a  firm  basis  to 
work  upon,  and  prevents  the  cloth  from  fraying. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— October  25,  1904. 


OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE 


BONNIE    WAYNE. 


Old  Bux  beat  us  home.  When  we  came  up  to  the 
front  gate  Mr.  Marshall  stopped  the  ponies  and  said, 
"  Home  again !  All  out  for  Marshallville."  Old  Bux 
fairly  danced  up  and  down  on  the  front  lawn  and  the 
colts  stuck  their  heads  out  of  the  stable  door  and 
nickered  to  our  ponies  and  they  answered  them,  and 
the  old  cows  were  standing  at  the  gate  of  the  lane  that 
goes  down  to  the  woods,  bawling  for  some  one  to 
come  and  let  them  in  to  get  a  drink  of  water  and  be 
milked.  The  pigs  were  all  standing  with  their  fore 
feet  in  the  trough  and  their  noses  through  the  crack 
of  the  fencev  squealing  as  loud  as  they  could.  The 
ducks  ran  around  the  house  in  a  great  long  string,  each 
one  hollowing,  "  quack,  quack."  It  seemed  that  every- 
thing wuz  glad  that  we  were  home  again.  And  we 
were  too. 

When  Grandma  got  out  of  the  wagon  she  said, 
"'  Law  sakes !  I'm  glad  that  we  are  home  again. 
There  is  no  place  like  home.  My !  but  I  am  stiff  from 
riding  so  far."  When  we  got  on  the  porch  there  wuz 
old  Nigger  and  old  Nancy  and  three  of  the  little  kit- 
tens and  they  would  just  run  up  to  me  and  bow  up 
their  backs  and  rub  against  my  dress  and  meow,  as 
if  they  hadn't  seen  us  for  a  week. 

It  didn't  take  Mr.  Marshall  long  to  give  us  all  or- 
ders what  to  do.  When  we  were  driving  in  the  lane 
he  says,  "  Now  Grandma,  you  try  and  get  some  supper 
for  us,  and  while  you  are  doing  that  Frank  and  Luke 
must  hitch  up  the  team  to  the  wagon  and  snap  some 
green  corn  for  the  hogs,  and  Mabel  and  Bonnie  must 
go  to  the  orchard  and  pick  up  the  apples  that  have  fal- 
len off  while  we  were  gone  and  lay  them  in  the  fruit 
house,  and  to-morrow  evening  we  will  have  an  apple- 
cutting.  And  mother,  you  make  the  rounds  to  the 
barn  and  henhouse  and  gather  up  all  the  eggs  and 
see  that  everything  is  all  right  and  I'll  get  the  horses 
and  cows  in  and  feed  them  and  you  may  come  and  help 
me  milk,  and  Mabel  and  Bonnie  can  feed  those  calves, 
and  tell  them  not  to  forget  to  give  that  little  mule 
some  oats." 

The  next  morning  Mr.  Marshall  and  Luke  picked 
out  all  of  the  greenest  apples  and  made  cider  of  them ; 
they  went  over  to  Mr.  Bradley's  and  borrowed  his 
cider  mill  and  Mr.  Marshall  would  pour  the  apples  in 
at  the  top  and  Frank  would  turn  it  just  as  fast  as 
he  could,  and  the  machine  would  chop  the  apples  up 
just  as  fine.  When  it  would  get  the  little  tub  full, 
that    wuz   under   the    grinding   machine,    they   put   a 


long  handle  to  the  machine  and  twisted  and  twisted 
and  the  cider  would  run  out  into  the  buckets  at  the 
other  end  of  the  machine.  Luke  and  I  thought  it  wuz 
awful  good  at  first.  Grandma  brought  a  tincup  out 
and  tasted  it  too  and  said  it  wuz  good  and  gave  some 
to  us  children  and  we  thought  it  wuz  just  smacking 
good,  but  after  awhile  it  got  so  it  wuzn't  so  good  and 
it  wuz.  sour  and  we  couldn't  hardly  drink  it  at  all 
Frank  said,  "  I'll  bet  you  yunguns  '11  be  sick,"  but  h< 
wuzn't  afraid  of  it  himself  because  he  kept  drinking 
of  it  all  the  time. 

When  we  drank  all  the  cider  we  could,  Luke  weri 
with  me  back  to  the  house  where  the  women  folk! 
wuz  cutting  apples,  and  they  had  the  funniest  littl( 
machine  to  peel  the  apples.  I  would  take  the  apples  anc 
stick  them  on  the  fork  of  the  machine  and  Luke  turne< 
the  handle  and  we  just  made  the  peelings  fly,  and  wi 
could  peel  them  faster  than  the  women  folks  couk 
fix  them.  They  tried  to  get  ahead  of  us,  but  we  got  th 
big  dishpan  full  ahead  of  them."  Mabel  would  tak 
them  out  of  the  dishpan  and  cut  each  apple  in  tw< 
twice  and  threw  some  into  Grandma's  pan  and  sonr 
into  her  Mamma's  pan.  'Nen  they  would  take  thi 
cores  out  of  them  and  put  the  pieces  in  little  racks 
'Xen  Mrs.  Marshall  would  take  the  racks  out  to  th 
dryhouse  and  put  them  up  on  shelves  and  build  ai 
awful  hot  fire  in  there  and  shut  all  the  windows  dowi 
tight.  My !  but  it  was  hot  in  there,  I  couldn't  stay  ii 
there  most  two  minutes.  We  gave  the  pigs  enough  o 
those  cores  to  make  them  sick,  but  they  just  squeale< 
for  more.  'Nen  Grandma  said,  "  No  sirree!  I'll  sIkn 
you  what  we'll  do  with  those  peelings."  'Nen  she  pu 
them  in  a  pan  and  cooked  them  all  up  and  made  seve 
glasses  of  the  nicest  jelly,  and  when  Mabel  came  i 
Grandma  held  up  one  of  those  glasses  and  said  to  hej 
"  Look  here,  deary,  won't  this  be  nice  for  you  to  pt 
on  vour  bread  to  take  to  school  this  winter? 

Mr.  Marshall  and  Frank  made  two  barrels  of  cide 
and  rolled  them  into  the  cellar  and  said,  "  Now  mothe 
we'll  have  some  vinegar  that  is  vinegar."  The  tw 
pails  full  that  they  had  left  over  they  put  into  a  sma 
keg  and  Mr.  Marshall  put  some  stuff  in  it.  I  hear 
him  tell  Frank  that  it  wuz  wintergreen  and  it  wou! 
keep  the  cider  from  getting  sour  and  we  could  ha* 
some  to  drink,  but  my,  I  don't  see  who  would  want  an 
of  it.  I  don't  like  it  very  well.  Just  then  Grandrr 
came  in  and  said,  "  Did  you  save  any  out  for  the  appl 
butter  ?  "  And  Mr.  Marshall  laughed  and  slapp« 
his  hand  on  his  knee  and  said,  "  I  plum  forgot  that ! 
(concluded  on  page  1032.) 


THE    INGLENOOK.— October  25,  1904. 


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5    HOME    EARLY    TO-NIGHT,    MY    DEAR    BOY. 


\  few  weeks  ago  somebody  wanted  to  know,  through 
Q.  &  A.  Department  where  the  song,  "  Be  Home  Early 
■night,  M)r  Dear  Boy,"  could  be  found,  and  now  we 
1  favored  with  the  song  itself.  It  was  sent  by  Lena 
Dbson,  Newberg,  Oregon.  We  publish  it  in  full  for  the 
nefit  of  the  inquirer.  The  arrangement  is  very  peculiar 
t  we  publish  it  as  we  receive  it. — Ed. 

I've  traveled  through  life, 
Seen  many  strange  things 

Mysterious  in  every  reform 
I've  been  at  the  plough 
I've  been  at  the  spade 

At  night  and  from  sunrise  in  morn. 
When  my  day's  work  was  done 
To  the  city  I'd  run 

I  was  always  for  pleasure  and  joy 
On  going  away  my  mother  would  say 

Be  home  early  to-night,  my  dear  boy. 

Chorus. 
Be  home  early  to-night,  my  dear  boy. 
Be  home  early  to-night,  my  dear  boy. 
Don't  spend  all  your  money  for  gamble  and  drink. 
There  are  other  things  you  can  enjoy. 

One   night   I   left   home 
Poor  mother  was  sick 

With  torture,  fever  and  pain 
She  said,  my  dear  boy  this  lesson  I'll  give 

I  may  never  give  it  again. — Cho. 

When  I  returned  home  from  a  night's  joy  and  fun 

I  found  my  poor  mother  was  dead 
'Twas  then  a  cold  chill  through  my  body  did  run 

As  I  thought  of  the  last  words  she  said. — Cho. 

Come  all  ye  young  men 
Take  a  word  of  advice 

To  a  father  and  mother  attend 
For  a  good  mother's  love  should  ne'er  be  forgot 
When  she's  gone  you've  lost  your  best  friend. 

—Cho. 
♦  *  * 

Where  is  Dismal  Swamp? 

Dismal  Swamp  is  a  morass  in  southern  Virginia, 
tending  into  North  Carolina.  Formerly  it  was  forty 
les  long  and  twenty  miles  wide,  but  its  area  has  been 
mewhat  reduced  by  drainage.  It  contains  dense 
rests  of  cypress,  juniper,  cedar  and  pine.  About  six 
uarc  miles  in  the  center  are  covered  by  Lake  Drum- 
mil.  One  canal  and  two  narrow-gauge  railroads 
iverse  the  swamp. 

* 

Please  recommend  a  biographical  dictionary  containing 
igraphies   of  the   early  Christian  fathers. 

We  know  of  no  special  biographical  dictionary  of 
it  sort,  but  it  seems  to  us  that  Fischer's  Church 
story  and  Schaff's  Church  History  would  possibly 
id  you  to  the  information  desired. 


Who  was  Oliver  Cromwell? 

The  head  of  the  party  of  Parliament  in  the  civil 
war  against  Charles  I.  He  prosecuted  a  successful 
war  against  Charles,  and  at  the  close  of  it  had  him 
brought  to  trial,  condemned  and  executed.  After  this 
Cromwell  was  forced  to  expel  the  members  of  Parlia- 
ment, and  a  council  of  state  made  him  Lord  Pro- 
tector, an  office  which  he  held  till  his  death  in  1678. 

* 

Will  you  please  tell  us  something  about  Bishop  Butler's 
life  and  work? 

He  was  an  English  prelate  and  theologian,  made 
bishop  of  Bristol  in  1738,  and  of  Durham  in  1750. 
His  most  noted  work  is  the  "  Analogy  of  Religion, 
Natural  and  Revealed,  to  the  Constitution  and  Course 
of  Nature  "  (1736).  He  was  born  at  Wantage,  Berk- 
shire, Eng.,  May  18,  1692 ;  died  at  Bath,  Eng.,  June 
16,  1752. 

* 

How   did   the   expression   "  O.   K."   originate? 

There  are  two  theories.  One  theory  is  that  it  was 
originally  used  by  Andrew  Jackson.  In  acknowledg- 
ing correct  statements  he  would  sign  them  O.  K.  as 
an  abbreviation  of  "  oil  keerect."  Another  theory  is 
that  an  old  Indian  chief,  who  was  called  "  Old  Ke- 
okuk," signed  his  initials  O.  K.  when  making  treaties. 
* 

What  early  history  do  we  have  of  the  manufacture  of 

salt? 

Salt  was  first  made  in  this  country  in  the  Virginia 
colony,  some  time  prior  to  1620.  In  1633  a  consider- 
able quantity  of  salt  was  shipped  from  there  to  Massa- 
chusetts where  it  was  used  in  the  fisheries.  At  present 
America  furnishes  one-fourth  of  the  world's  supply. 

What  effect  had  the  invention  of  the  cotton  gin  on  the 
United  States? 

It  made  the  United  States  rank  first  as  cotton  pio- 
dttcer,  added  immensely  to  its  wealth  and  was  an  in- 
direct cause  of  the  Civil  War. 


What  are  the  functions  of  the  human  skcl. 

First,  to  give  form  and  support  to  the  body  :  si 
a  protection  to  the  internal  organs,  and  third,  a  basis 
for  the  insertion  of  tendons  and  ligaments. 
* 

What  was  the  purpose  of  the  founding  of  Pennsylvania? 

It  was  founded  for  an  asylum  for  persecuted  English 
Quakers. 


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(Concluded  from  Page  1030). 
and  he  said,  "  Well,  you  can  draw  all  you  want  out 
of  that  first  barrel  in  the  cellar."  So  that  evening 
they  got  a  lot  of  cider  and  some  of  those  apples 
we  had  peeled  and  cored  and  quartered,  and  they 
stirred  and  stirred  and  stirred  until  I  got  sleepy  and 
laid  down  on  the  floor  and  the,,  next  thing  I  knew 
Grandma  wuz  carrying  me  into  the  bedroom. 
(To  be  Continued.) 

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NOT    TOO    OLD. 


I  am  48  years  old,  yet  I  am  not  too  old  to  read 
"  Bonnie  Wayne "  and  more  especially  when  I  feel 
overburdened  with  business  and  the  cares  of  this  life, 
for  it  forcibly  carries  my  mind  back  to  the  days  of 
my  innocent  childhood,  which  were  the  happiest  days 
of  my  life.  I  then  knew  nothing  of  the  care  or  re- 
sponsibiltiy  and  the  stern  realities  of  life. — John  F. 
Shoemaker,  Shideler,  Ind. 

MODERN    DEFINITIONS. 


Run  to  seed — Birds. 
Leads  in  fashion — F. 
Double  play — A  duet. 
All  take  turns — wheels. 
Always  have  fits — Keys. 
Always  a  tie — Marriage. 
Turn  by  use — Door  knobs. 
The  doctor's  rounds — Pills. 
A  great  falling  off — Niagara. 
A  "  put  up  job  " — Bricklaying. 
Has  the  shakes — The  dice  box. 
A  public  resort — The  post  office. 
Usually  under  cover — The  table. 
Crowded  to  the  wall — Bookcases. 
Something  of  interest — Dividends. 
Warlike  infants — Babies  in  arms. 
On  its  last  legs — The  rearing  horse. 
A  rather  weighty  subject — A  ton  of  coal. 
Short,  but  not  impecunious — The  days. 
Do  not  play  music — The  bans  of  matrimony. 
Make  assignments  in  prosperity — Hotel  room  clerks. 
-Mail  and  Express. 


OCTOBER. 


A  crimson  splendor, 

Instead  of  the  tender 
Green    of    the    dewy    morn, 

And,   oh,  the   sweetness — 

The   full   completeness! 
That    under   his    rule   is    born. 

Russet  and  yellow, 

In   apples   mellow, 
And  wheat  and  millet  and  corn, 

His  frost  so  hoary, 

Has  touched  with  glory 
Maple  and  oak  and  thorn. 

No   thrifty   sower 

But   only  a  mower, 
That  comes  when  the  day  is  done, 

With  warmth  abeaming, 

And  gold  agleaming, 
Like  sunset  after  the  sun. 


+    +    * 
CANADA. 


-Alice  Carey. 

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Canada's    forest    products    totalled    80,000,000 
I9°3- 

Canada  exported  in  1903,  $36,000,000  worth  of  fc 
est  products. 

Canada  has,  it  is  estimated,  a  million  square  milj 
of  standing  timber. 

Canada  has  the  largest  white  pine  areas  left  on  t 
continent. 

Ontario  has  set  apart  nearly  7,000,000  acres  as  fc 
est  reserve. 

Canada  has  100,000  men  employed  in  the  fishery  i 
dustry. 

Nova  Scotia  ranks  first  in  the  fishery  industry.    N< 
Brunswick  second  and  British  Columbia  third. 

Canada  ranks  seventh  in  the  list  of  maritime  natioi 

Canada  has  a  registered  tonnage  of  7,000  vessels. 

Canada  has  built  754  lighthouses,  stations  and  lig 
ships. 

Canada  has  1,633  steamboats  under  government  i 
spection. 

Canada  has  28  life-saving  stations. 

Canada's  volume  of  trade  reached  $467,064,685 
1903. 


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Tbe  basisol  my  business  is  absolute  and 
unvarying  integrity. 

SAMUEL  S.  THORPE, 
Founder  of  the  Brethren  Colony,  Brethren,  Mich. 


Moderate  wealth  is  possible  to  every  man — tilling  the  soil  is 
the  surest  way  to  complete  independence — better  than  life 
insurance  or  money  in  the  bank;  the  thrifty  bona-fide  settler 
will  profit  by  investigating. 


Rich   Farming 
Lands. 


Rich  Fruit 
Lands. 


In  Wexford    and   Missaukee    counties,   Michigan;  one- 
half  to  6  miles  from  the  thriving  city  of  Cadillac,  population   % 
8,000;  on  the  main  line  of  Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  (Pennsyl- 
vania System)  and  Ann  Arbor  (Wabash  System)  railways. 


$5.00  to  $15.00  per  Acre 

An  Opportunity  that  Justifies  Prompt  Action. 


Splendid  Schools  and  Fine  Churches.       Fine  Markets  all  the  Year  Round. 


For  illustrated  descriptive  booklet  and  map,  containing  detailed  information  with  letters  of 
farmers  from  other  States  now  living  in  and  -adjacent  to  THE  CADILLAC  TRACT,  fill  out  the 
coupon  below  and  mail  to  me. 


Send  me  all 
literature  and 
information 
pertaining  to   the 
Cadillac  Tract 
as  advertised  in 
the  Inglenook. 


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District  Agent   Michigan  Land  Association. 


IMPROVED  FARMS  FOR  SALE,  $2,000  TO  $20,000. 


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Dyspepsia!  * 

Cured  by 

Brawntawns 


A  few  clippings  from  letters  of 
persons  cured: 

"  I  have  tried  them  and  know." 
— Eld.  Chas.  M.  Tearout. 

"  The  box  of  Brawntawns  I 
think  did  me  $5  worth  of  good." — 
Mrs.  J.  Calvin  Stotler. 

"  My  stomach  will  digest  any 
food  as  I  am  all  right." — H.  R. 
Mawry. 

"  My  daughter  has  improved 
wonderfully." — Mrs.  R.  M.  Gross. 

"  Everything  I  ate  distressed  me 
so  much  that  I  dreaded  to  eat  any- 
thing. Now  I  can  eat  anything  I 
want  and  feel  no  distress." — Mrs. 
Sal-lie  Cockeville. 

"  I  can  recommend  them  to  any 
one  suffering  with  indigestion  and 
weak  stomach." — Rev.  A.  J.  Smith. 


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A  number  have  accepted  our 
offer,  30  days',  treatment,  Brawn, 
tawns,  (50c)  for  25c.  To  give  you 
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time  to  Oct.  20.     Write  at  once. 


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THE  HOME  GEM  S&SSg. 


Sending  your  address  gives  me  the 
opportunity  to  explain  the. new  features 
of  this  washer.     Address 

WM.  S.  MILLER,  Myersdale,  Pa. 

39113         Mention  ihe  IKRLENOOK  when  wr'tinn 


IN  THE   INGLENOOK. 

There  is  always  room  for  wide- 
awake advertisers,  who  can  appre- 
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our   journal.     Write    us. 


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In  our  Equity  Grocery- 
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other  departments, 
QUALITY  is  the  ce- 
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terests of  Equity  people. 
Send  your  next  order 
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GOSPEL  SONGS  and  HYMNS 

No.  1. 


Has  a  wonderful  sale,  and  the  book 
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THE    SONGS    AND    HYMNS    IT 
CONTAINS    STILL    LIVE. 

This  book  is  used  by  thousands  in 
the  Sunday  school,  young  people's 
meeting  and  general  song  service.  It 
contains  208  pages  and  sells  at  30 
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froe  with  each  outfit.  Everything  else  at  proportion- 
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Breeds  Cheviot  Sheep.  Wool  and  mut- 
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sale. 

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IF  you  can  spare  the  time  this 
fall  or  winter  there  is  no  reason 
why  you  should  not  enjoy  the 
charm  of  California's  balmy  air 
and  invigorating  sunshine,  the 
delicious  fruits  and  lovely  flowers, 
the  big  trees,  the  old  missions  and 

the  glorious   Pacific.     Think  it  over- 
Can  you  afford  to  miss  the  California  trip? 


Ask  ui  as  many  questions  about 
the  trip  and  about  California  as 
you  like—  thoy  will  bo  nnswerod 
correotly,  promptly, Courteously. 

J.  FRANCIS,  Con'l  Psit'rAgt. 
P34  Chicago. 


)R.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER 

'The    Remedy  with  a  Record" 


A  preparation  of  pure  medicinal  herbs,  barks  and  leaves,  that  for  over  100  years  has  been  curing 
e  ills  that  flesh  is  heir  to.  The  remedy  with  many  imitators,  but  no  equals  as  a  promoter  of  health.  It 
is  stood  every  test;  overcome  every  substitute;  met  and  conquered  disease  on  thousands  of  sick  beds, 
irries  health  through  the  blood  to  every  cell  of  every  tissue.  No  touch  of  impurity,  no  disease  germ 
n  exist  where  this  powerful  vitalizing  agent  reaches.     It  positively 

Relieves  and  Cures 


Blood  Poison 
Catarrh 
Constipation 
Bowel  Troubles 


Dyspepsia 
Kidney  Diseases 
La  Grippe 
Liver  Troubles 


Skin  Diseases 

Rheumatism 

Malaria 

Stomach  Troubles 


Tne  formula  for  this  old-time  remedy,  first  prepared  for  the  people  of  the  Blue  Ridge  mountain 
strict  of  Pennsylvania  by  Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  "  the  old  herb  doctor,"  in  17S0,  has  descended  through 
ree  generations.  It  is  prepared  to-day  in  the  same  manner  as  it  was  by  the  original  discoverer,  and  it 
performing  the  same  wonderful  cures  that  made  it  one  of  the  famous  remedies  of  a  century  ago. 


A    MAGICAL    REMEDY. 

Bruning,  Nebr..  Feb.  24th,  1904. 
P.  Fahrney,  Chicago,  III. 
Esteemed  Doctor: — I  must  write  a  few  lines  to  you  and 
1  you  what  a  good  doctor  your  Blood  Vitalizer  is. 
There  is  a  lady  here  in   Bruning,  65  years  old,  who  suf- 
red  terribly  with  rheumatism.     No  doctor  had  been  able 
help.     She  became  helpless  and  bedfast. 
Through   my   advice  site   commenced   to  use  the   Blood 
italizer.     After  taking  two  bottles  she  was  able  to  get  up 
d  she  is  now  entirely  well  and  able  to  do  her  housework. 
Blood  Vitalizer  is   looked  upon   as  a  "  magical   rera- 
y"  by  those  who  know  her.     She  talks  about  the  Blood 
talizer  and  praises  it  to  every  one  she  meets. 
Yours  very   respectfully, 

Adolph  H.  Rippe. 

CAN    WORK    AGAIN. 

Alleghany,   Pa.,  May  29th,  1904. 
I  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Sir: — I  was  confined  to  my  bed  by  a  very  sore  leg 
■  I  i""t.  I  used  many  different  medicines  but  they  did  no 
)0d.  Finally  I  was  advised  to  try  your  Blood  Vitalizer 
id  after  the  use  of  a  few  bottles  I  was  cured.  I  am  now 
>le  to  work  again.  I  can  recommend  your  Blood  Vi- 
lizer  in  every  one  as  a  good  medicine. 

Yours   truly, 

Chas.  Ebert. 


THREE  DOCTORS  BUT  NO  RELIEF. 

Laporte,  Ind..  Dec.   12th,  1903. 
Dr.  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Sir: — I  consider  it  a  duty  to  write  you  a  few  lines 
and  tell  you  what  the  Blood  Vitalizer  has  done  for  me. 
I  had  been  sick  for  over  two  years  and  had  been  under 
the  treatment  of  three  different  doctors  without  getting 
relief.  The  last  doctor  treated  me  for  two  months  and 
then  told   me  he  could  do  nothing  more  for  me. 

They  called  my  trouble  nervous  prostration.  In  April 
this  year  I  commenced  using  your  Blood  Vitalizer.  It 
helped  me  from  the  start.  I  used  in  all  eight  bottles  but 
now  I  am  as  well  as  I  can  possibly  be.  Several  people 
have  called  on  me  and  got  some  of  the  medicine. 
Yours  very  truly, 

Mrs.  Freda  Johnson. 

IT   ALWAYS    HELPS.. 

Madison.  Ind,  Sept.  12th,  1904. 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  III. 

Dear  Sir: — We  always  keep  your  Blood  Vitalizer  in  the 
h"ii^'  as  we  find  it  always  helps  in  case  of  sickness. 

A  few  years  ago  we  were  all  taken  down  at  once  with 
the  grip.  The  neighbors  sent  the  doctor  to  us.  He  came 
and  of  course  we  had  to  take  his  treatment,  but  it  did  us 
no  good.  Then  we  fell  back  on  the  Blood  Vitalizer  and 
u  el   nothing  else  and  we  were  all  soon   well   again. 

Respectfully, 

R.  R.  No.  2.  Peter  Giles. 


DR    PETER'S    BLOOD    VITALIZER  is   not  a  ready-made  drugstore  medicine.     Sold  only  through 

pecul  agents  or  direct  from  the  laboratory.       For  full  information,  address  the  proprietor: 

DR.   PETER    FAHRNEY, 


12=114  S.  Hoyne  Avenue, 


CHICAGO,  ILL 


Wonderful  Bargains  in  Stoves  for  this  Season 


All  Illustrated,   Described  and  Plainly  Priced  in   Our  Large  Catalog. 


CENTS 


Air  Tight,   Lined   Body,   Sheet    Steel   Heaters   for   98    Cents. 


:nts.     | 
value*  i^ij 


On  page   354  in  our  Large  Catalogue  you  will  find   our  wonderful 
in  Airtight  Stoves  from  98  cents  to  $4.10. 

REMEMBER  ^  you  want  a  good,  reliable  stove,  guaranteed  in  everj 
,  way,  a  stove  that  will  surpass  your  expectations,  a  bet- 
ter stove  than  is  ordinarily  furnished  by  Agents  and  Retailers  for  doublt 
our  price,  don't  place  your  order  until  you  have  looked  through  the  Stov< 
Department  of  our  Catalogue.  No  matter  what  kind  of  a  stove  you  want 
we  can  furnish  it,  and  you  will  find  OUR  PRICE  A  BIG  SURPRISE  wher 
you  have  seen  the  stove  we  will  send  you. 

We  have  facilities  for  furnishing  our  customers  a  strictly  high  grade,  up 
to-date,  guaranteed  line  of  stoves  that  are  not  surpassed  by  any  othei 
Company  and  equaled  by  very  few.  We  have  the  advantage  of  having 
this  department  of  our  business  under  the  personal  supervision  of  an  ex- 
perienced stove  man,  and  the  patterns  from  which  our  stoves  are  madt 
are  acknowledged  by  experts  to  be  the  very  best  in  principle  and  far  su 
perior  in  many  ways  to  the  patterns  and  designs  of  some  of  the  oldes 
stove  manufacturers  of  the  Country,  who  charge  double  and  frequentlj 
three  times  the  amount  we  ask  you  for  a  good,  first-class,  high-grade,  up 
to-date,   guaranteed   stove. 

DON'T  FORGET  ^*0  matter  what  inducements  you  may  re- 
ceive elsewhere  we  have  back  of  us  QUAL- 
ITY AND  PRICE,  which  is  by  far  the  BEST  INDUCEMENT  OUE 
CUSTOMERS  ASK  and  IS  A  SURE  GUARANTEE  OF  SATISFAC- 
TION. Besides,  we  take  back  at  our  own  expense  and  refund  monej 
in  full  on  any  goods  not  perfectly  satisfactory  to  the  customer. 

Tlie  Best  Time  to  Buy  Tour  Stove  is  Right  Now.  The  reasor 
is  this:  Later  in  the  Season  the  RUSH  WILL  BE  ON  and  ship- 
ments can  be  made  more  promptly  now 
than  thirty  days  hence.  For  this  reason 
we  urge  our  customers  who  can  conveni- 
ently arrange  to  do  so  to  send  their  orders 
in  now,  even  though  it  may  be  in  advance 
of  the  time  when  you  will  need  the  stove, 
however  when  you  have  occasion  to  use 
the   stove,   by   ordering   now,   you   will   have 


: 


it  at  hand  and  there  will  be  no  inconvenience  by  delay.  We  are  prepared  for  your 
order  now  and  have  facilities  for  taking  care  of  our  customers  and  we  in  this  way 
make  every  order  placed  with  us  a  profitable,  pleasing,  and  satisfactory  transac- 
tion   to    the    customer. 

ONE  OF  OUR  BIG  VALUES  IN  OAK  HEATING  STOVES 

Burns  Hard  or  Soft  Coal  or  Wood. 
Complete  for  $3.90. 

This  will  give  you  an  idea  of  what  we  are  offering  in  Oak  Heating  Stoves  and 
we  have  equally  as  wonderful  values  to  offer  in  Base  Burners,  Cook  Stoves.  Steel 
Ranges,  in  fact  we  have  bargains  for  our  customers  throughout  our  entire  Stove  De- 
partment. From  the  lowest  priced  stove-pipe  to  the  highest  grade  steel  range,  we 
can  supply  your  needs   in   the  Stove  line. 

Send  Your  Request  Now  for  the  Catalogue — It's  Free. 

If  you  do  not  have  our  large  No.  2  General  Merchandise  Catalogue,  don't  delay 
writing  for  it.  A  postal  card  will  bring  it.  The  best  guarantee  we  have  to  offer 
those  who  have  not  yet  traded  with  us  is  our  large  list  of  satisfied  customers.  If 
you  are  not  acquainted  with  us,  although  we  feel  sure  there  are  very  few  readers  of 
the  Inglenook  who  do  not  know  of  the  EQUITY  MFG.  &  SUPPLY  CO.,  write  us,  get 
acquainted,  it  will  cost  you  nothing,  even  though  you  do  not  send  us  an  order,  but 
wc  are  sure  that  if  you  will  let  us  serve  you,  even  though  you  send  us  but  a  small 
trial  order,  you  will  be  so  well  satisfied  that  we  can  look  forward  to  your  becoming 
one  of  our  regular   customers. 

Awaiting  the   pleasure   of  serving  you   a,nd   your   Friends,    we   are, 

Faithfully, 


Equity  Mfg.  and  Supply  Company, 


•53=159  So.  Jefferson  Street,  Chicago,  111. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


THE    COLONY 


...ON... 


,AGUNA  DE  TACHE  GRANT 

...IN    THE... 

SAN  JOAQUIN  VALLEY,  CALIFORNIA. 


BRETHREN  OAK  GROVE  CHURCH 


Still  continues  to  attract  the  attention  of  homeseekers. 

The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  immense  growth  of 
Ty  variety  of  crop  which  is  again  in  evidence  establishes  the  fact  that  here  is  the 
ce  where  the  industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN  PEOPLE  SO  EASTERN  FARMING. 

Tou  don't  have  to  spend  years  learning  a  new  business. 

ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

Ides  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  It. 

SPECIAL    LOW    RATES    TO    CALIFORNIA. 

Prom  August  15th  to  Sept.  10th  the  railroads  will  sell  Round  Trip  excursion 
«ts  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

Prom   Chicago $50  00 

Prom   Mississippi   River 47   50 

Prom    Missouri   River 45  00 

Final  return  limit.  Oct.  23. 

CSO   SEPTEMBER    15th    TO    OCTOBER    15th    COLONIST    ONE-WAT    TICKETS 
TO  ANT  CALIFORNIA  POINT. 

Prom    Chicago $33   00 

Prom  Mississippi   River 30  00 

Prom   Missouri   River 25  00 

By  this  arrangement  you  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 

:.     If  it  suits  you.  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate. 

Land  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre,  including  perpetual  water  right.  Terms,  one- 
rth  cash;  balance  In  eight  annual  payments. 

Prom  twenty  to  forty  acres  wili  support  the  average  family  in  comfort. 

If  interested  send  your  name  and  address  and  receive  printed  matter  and  our 
U  newspaper  free  for  two  months.     Write  to 

4RES  &  SAUNDERS,    -■  Laton,  California. 


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POEM. 

THE     FIELD     OF     HOPE.— By    Martini    Shepard    Lippincott. 

CONTRIBUTIONS. 

SEED-THOUGHTS  FOR  THE  HEART'S  GARDEN.— By 
Josephine  Hanna. 

THE   GRAND    CANYON    OF    ARIZONA.— By  Rilla  Arnold. 

AUTUMN.— By  Lavina  Brower. 

HOW  BEST 'INCULCATE  A  GREATER  LOVE  FOR 
THE  SUNDAY  SCHOOL  AND  GREATER  REVER- 
ENCE  FOR   THE   WORK?— By  Carrie  Miller. 

TRAPPE,  MONTGOMERY  COUNTY.  PA.— By  George  D. 
Zollers. 

EDITORIALS. 

THE  THIRD  EMANCIPATION. 

WHAT'S  YOUR  JUDGMENT  IN  THE   MATTER? 

ONE   OF    SEVEN   THOUSAND. 


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$30.00  Per  Acre  Profit 


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Eld.  L.  E.  Keltner,    who   owns   80    acres   of    land   near    Snyder,! 


Colo.,  and  also  runs  a  grocery  store  at  Hygiene,  Colo.,  says: 

I  rented  23  acres  of  land  near  Hygiene,  paying  $10.00  per  acre  cash 
rent,  then  hired  all  the  work  done  necessary  to  plant  the  entire  23  acres 
in  SUGAR  BEETS,  including  the  harvesting  of  the  beets  and  loading 
them  on  the  cars  to  go  to  the  factory,  which  cost  me  535.00  per  acre 
more,  making  total  outlay  of  $45.00  per  acre. 

The  yield  was  an  average  of  a  little  over  15  tons  to  the  acre,  for 
which  the  Sugar  Factory  paid  me  55.00  per  ton  after  they  were 
loaded  on  the  cars.  Can  any  eastern  farmer  tell  me  of  any  crop  raised 
in  the  east  that  pays  like  this? 


23  acres  sugar  beets   yield  345  tons — sold  at  55.00, 
Paid  out  for  rent  of  land  and  labor  on  23  acres, 

Net  profit  on  23  acres. 


51,725.00 
1,035,00 

5690.00 


READER--You  can  buy  equally  as  good  land  for  growing  sugai 
beets,  or  any  other  crop,  in  the  South  Platte  Valley  at  from  $25. OC 
to  $30.00  per  acre.      Avail    yourself  of  the   cheap    rates  to  Sterlin 
Colo.,  in  effect  the  first  and  third  Tuesdays  of  each  month,  to  go  a 
see  for  yourself.     Write  for  FREE  PRINTED  MATTER. 


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GEO.   L.    McDONAUGH, 

Colonization  Agent   Union  Pacific  Railroad, 


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OMAHA,  NEBRASKA. 


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|  I_f  S\Y2  C    AT  SPECIAL 
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Century  Scalding  Pot 

I  Indispensable  for  butchers,  huck- 
I  sters,  and  farmers*  clubs.  Water 
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I  ment.  Write  for  prices. 

EARD  &  LEHMAN,  Columbiana,  Ohio. 

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Job   Printing 

The  Kind  that  Brings  Re- 
sults, the  Kind  you  needn't 
be  ashamed  of,  the  Kind 
that  is  Cheapest  in  the  End 
because  Just  as  You  Want 
it, — Furnished  by 

JRETHREN     PUBLISHING    HOUSE, 
Elgin,   Illinois. 

HORSE  BLANKETS 

At  Lowest  Prices. 

Equity  IKIfg  and  Supply  Co., 

Chicago,   III. 

Wild    Rose    Sheep    Farm 

[     Breeds  Cheviot  Sheep.    Wool  and  mut- 
'  ton  of  best  quality.     Rams  and  ewes  for 
sale. 

HOWARD     H.     KEIM, 
'14U3  Box  1,  Ladog-a,  Lud. 


LIGHTING  THE  MEETINGHOUSE 

ill  the  country  with  acetylene.  It  is  cheap  and  convenient,  ABSOLUTELY 
SAFE,  will  not  add  to  insurance  rates,  and  the  light  is  beautiful,  brigkt,  clear, 
strong  enough  to  enable  the  old  brethren  to  read,  and  does  not  dazzle.  Let 
us  equip  your  church.     Send  dimensions  and  number  of  lights  now  in  use. 


ECONOMIC  LIGHTING  CO., 


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BUTTER  WANTED! 


Do  Yon  Want  to  Make  Money  Oat  of  your  Butter  ?     If  so,  we 
will  Place  You  in  a  Position  tbat  Will  Satisfy  Yoa. 


We  want  your  butter  direct  from  the  farm  as  we  have  a  large  city 
trade  and  can  use  several  thousand  pounds  each  week;  we  have  salesmen 
that  sell  butter  exclusively  to  the  trade  here  in  the  city  and  we  need  a  first 
class  high  grade  country  butter  to  meet  our  demands.  We  want  every 
lady  living  in  western  Missouri,  eastern  Kansas  and  southern  Nebraska  that 
makes  a  first  class  country  butter  to  write  us  and  we  will  place  you  in  a 
position  so  that  you  can  get  the  cash  out  of  your  butter  the  year  around  in- 
stead of  having  to  take  your  goods  to  your  grocer  and  take  it  out  in  trade. 
Pack  your  butter  at  your  home  and  take  it  to  your  nearest  express  of- 
fice and  ship  to  us  and  as  soon  as  we  receive  the  goods  we  will  mail  you  a 
check   for   it. 

Write  us  for  information  as  to  manner  of  packing,  price,  etc.,  and  we 
will    give    you    full   instructions. 

Carpenter  &  Shafer  Mfg.  Co., 


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The    Inglenook 
COOK  BOOK 


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So  great  was  the  demand  that  a 
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By  W.  B.  Stover. 


It  gives  a  splendid  description  of 
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Facts  Worth  Remembering 


What  makes  some  people  healthy  and  plump,  while 
others  are  thin  and  pa'e?  Why  can't  I  become  fleshy? 
I  eat  my  regular  meals.  Why  do  I  continue  pale,  thin 
and  feeble?  These  are  some  of  the  leading  questions 
of  the  day.  In  answer,  the  writer  would  say,  because 
you  do  not  digest  and  assimilate  your  food  properly. 
If  you  are  getting  thin,  you  are  sick,  although  you  may 
not  know  it. 

If  you  are  losing  weight  steadily,  there,  is  something 
wrong  about  you  that  needs  looking  after. 

If  you  feel  a  heaviness  after  meals,  a  drowsy  feel- 
ing, pains  in  the  stomach,  it  is  a  sign  that  you  are  in 
danger  of  being  sick,  that  you  are  sick,  that  your  di- 
gestion is  out  of  order. 

If  you  are  sick,  it  may  be  hard  for  you  to  get  well. 

Life  is  kept  up  by  healthy  digestion.  It  produces 
strength. 

Much  strength  is  exhausted  in  the  labor  of  pro- 
ducing strength. 

When  this  function  weakens,  the  body  must  suf- 
fer, and  many  ailments,  such  as  gout,  rheumatism, 
diabetes,  consumption,  bad  blood  and  others  are  the 
result. 

You  become  emaciated,  yet  do  not  suffer  from  a 
recognizable  disease. 

You  may  eat  heartily  and  still  feel  weak  and  touchy 
and  sensitive. 

,   You  have  nerves  and  you  are  upset  by  trifles ;  in 
fact,  you  are  too  full  of  nerves. 

The  least  cold  touches  you  and  life  becomes  a  bur- 
den to  you. 

Your  head  aches  and  your  back  pains  you,  your  sys- 
tem grows  feverish ;  you  have  a  feeling  of  nausea  and 
vomiting. 

A  sour  fluid  rises  into  your  throat,  you  feel  a  short- 
ness of  breath,  a  dizziness,  often  followed  by  chills. 
Your  digestive  organs  are  out  of  order,  and  nature  _ 
needs  help. 

We  must  assist  nature — that  is  one  of  the  noblest 
duties  of  the  human  intellect — assist  by  nature's  own 
remedies,  to  cleanse  the  stomach,  to  drive  out  the 
gases  and  regulate  the  gastric  juice. 

In  a  healthy  stomach  this  fluid  prepares  the  food 
so  that  it  nourishes  the  body  and  replenishes  the  blood. 
If  this  fluid  is  weak,  sickly  and  poisonous,  it  will  pass 
into  other  portions  of  the  body  and  will  be  the  cause 
of  many  disorders. 


The  stomach  cannot  perform  its  work,   and   son 
means  of  relief  has  to  be  devised.     But  be  careful 
the  selection  of  such  help. 

A  weak,  sluggish  stomach  does  not  demand  hero 
treatment,  but  a  soothing,  invigorating  remedy,  whii 
acts  at  the  same  time  as  a  tonic. 

DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER  is  just  su< 
a  remedy.  Althoug-h  mildly  laxative,,  it  does  ri 
weaken  but  invigorates  the  entire  system.  It  is  co 
sidered  the  most  reliable  blood  and  stomach  mefi 
cine  known  and  is  recommended  by  thousands 
thankful  patients* 

A    GRANDMOTHER    WRITES. 

Lancaster,   Mo.,   March   18,   1904. 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,   111.: 

Dear  Sir. — As  I  am  now  home  again,  I  will  order  sor 
of  the  Blood  Vitalizer,  and  at  the  same  time  tell  you  he 
much  good  the  medicine  has  done  us  all. 

Just  before  Christmas  I  had  to  go  down  to  Trenton 
see  my  daughter  who  was  very  sick.     When  I  got  the 
I  found  that  not  only  was  she  sick,  but  her  little  girl,  tc 

As  I  always  carry  some  of  the  Blood  Vitalizer  ai 
Oleum  with  me  when  I  go  away  from  home,  I  started 
doctor  them,  and,  thank  the  Lord,  soon  had  them  < 
their  feet  again  through  your  valuable  medicines.  V 
have  all  had  occasion  to  test  their  merits  and  consid 
them  indispensable  in  the  home. 

Yesterday  I  was  seventy  years  old,  but  through  the  i 
vigorating  power  of  your  Blood  Vitalizer,  I  am  well  ai 
able  to  work  quite  a  bit. 

fcYours  very  truly, 

Mrs.    Anna    Mollet 


FULL    OF    PRAISE. 

Kent,  111.,  September  9,  1904, 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111.: 

Dear  Sir, — Everybody  is  full  of  praise  for  the  Bloi 
Vitalizer.  Mr.  F.  Boedecker,  of  this  place,  found  B 
Blood  Vitalizer  to  be  the  only  medicine  that  brought  hi 
to  perfect  health.  He  had  consulted  many  doctors  at 
tried  many  medicines  in  vain.  He  says  he  owes  you  u 
bounded  thanks.  Mr.  Christian  Wager  says  the  san 
thing.  His  son  and  daughter  were  both  cured.  Our  s( 
Friedrich  had  an  open  and  running  sore  on  the  top  of  1 
head,  which  nothing  seemed  able  to  heal.  The  docto 
thought  it  was  of  a  cancerous  order.  We  gave  him  t; 
Blood  Vitalizer  after  nothing  else  had  helped,  and  in  tv 
months  it  was  completely  healed  up.  It  is  now  tv 
and  one-half  years  since  it  healed,  and  there  is  no  furth 
sign  of  it.  We  owe  you  many  thanks  for  what  yo 
medicine  has  done,  but  I  know  the  Lord  will  pay  yi 
better  than  we  can. 

Yours  truly, 

Lewis  J.   Mast. 

Unlike   other   ready-prepared   medicines,   DR.    P] 
TER'S   BLOOD  VITALIZER  is  not   to  be  had 
drug  stores.     It  can  be  obtained  direct  from  its  m; 
ufacturer  or  through  special  agents.     Address 


DR.   PETER   FAHRNEY, 

112=114  S.  Hoyne  Avenue,  =  CHICAGO,  ILL 


Wonderful  Bargains  in  Stoves  for  this  Season 

All  Illustrated,   Described  and  Plainly   Priced  in   Our  Large  Catalog. 


CENTS 


DON'T   FORGET 


Air  Tight,   Lined   Body,   Sheet   Steel    Heaters   for  98   Cents. 

On  page  354  in  our  Large  Catalogue  you  will  find  our  wonderful  values 
in  Airtight  Stoves  from  98  cents  to  $4.10. 

REMEMBER  *f  you  want  a  good,  reliable  stove,  guaranteed  in  every- 
way, a  stove  that  will  surpass  your  expectations,  a  bet- 
ter stove  than  is  ordinarily  furnished  by  Agents  and  Retailers  for  double 
our  price,  don't  place  your  order  until  you  have  looked  through  the  Stove 
Department  of  our  Catalogue.  No  matter  what  kind  of  a  stove  you  want, 
we  can  furnish  it.  and  you  will  find  OUR  PRICE  A  BIG  SURPRISE  when 
you  have  seen  the  steve  we  will  send  you. 

We  have  facilities  for  furnishing  our  customers  a  strictly  high  grade,  up- 
to-date,  guaranteed  line  of  stoves  that  are  not  surpassed  by  any  other 
Company  and  equaled  by  very  few.  We  have  the  advantage  of  having 
this  department  of  our  business  under  the  personal  supervision  of  an  ex- 
perienced stove  man,  and  the  patterns  from  which  our  stoves  are  made 
are  acknowledged  by  experts  to  be  the  very  best  in  principle  and  far  su- 
perior in  many  ways  to  the  patterns  and  designs  of  some  of  the  oldest 
stove  manufacturers  of  the  Country,  who  charge  double  and  frequently 
three  times  the  amount  we  ask  you  for  a  good,  first-class,  high-grade,  up- 
to-date,   guaranteed  stove. 

No  matter  what  inducements  you  may  re- 
ceive elsewhere  we  have  back  of  us  QUAL- 
ITY AND  PRICE,  which  is  by  far  the  BEST  INDUCEMENT  OUR 
CUSTOMERS  ASK  and  IS  A  SURE  GUARANTEE  OP  SATISFAC- 
TION. Besides,  we  take  back  at  our  own  expense  and  refund  money 
in  full  on  any  goods  not  perfectly  satisfactory  to  the  customer. 

The  Best  Time  to  Buy  Tour  Stove  is  Eight  Now.  The  reason 
is  this:  Later  in  the  Season  the  RUSH  WILL  BE  ON  and  ship- 
ments can  be  made  more  promptly  now 
than  thirty  days  hence.  For  this  reason 
we  urge  our  customers  who  can  conveni- 
ently arrange  to  do  so  to  send  their  orders 
in  now,  even  though  it  may  be  in  advance 
of  the  time  when  you  will  need  the  stove, 
however  when  you  have  occasion  to  use 
the   stove,   by   ordering   now,   you   will   have 

;  at  hand   and   there  will   be   no  inconvenience  by  delay.     We  are  prepared   for   your 

rder  now   and   have  facilities   for  taking  care  of  our  customers   and   we  in  this  way 

lake    every    order    placed    with    us    a    profitable,    pleasing,    and    satisfactory    transac- 

lon    to    the   customer. 

)NE  OF  OUR  BIG  VALUES  IN  OAK  HEATING  STOVES 

Burns  Hard  or  Soft  Coal  or  Wood. 
Complete  for  $3.90. 

This  will  give  you  an  idea  of  what  we  are  offering  in  Oak  Heating  Stoves  and 
\v&  have  equally  as  wonderful  values  to  offer  in  Base  Burners,  Cook  Stoves,  Steel 
jlanges,  in  fact  we  have  bargains  for  our  customers  throughout  our  entire  Stove  De- 
>artment.  From  the  lowest  priced  stove-pipe  to  the  highest  grade  steel  range,  we 
:an  supply   your  needs   in   the  Stove  line. 

Send  Your  Request  Now  for  the  Catalogue — It's  Free. 

If  you  do  not  have  our  large  No.  2  General  Merchandise  Catalogue,  don't  delay 
vrlting  for  It.  A  postal  card  will  bring  It.  The  best  guarantee  we  have  to  offer 
hose  who  have  not  yet  traded  with  us  is  our  large  list  of  satisfied  customers.  If 
/ou  are  not  acquainted  with  us,  although  we  feel  sure  there  are  very  few  readers  of 
he  Inglenook  who  do  not  know  of  the  EQUITY  MFG.  &  SUPPLY  CO.,  write  us,  get 
icqualnted,  it  will  cost  you  nothing,  even  though  you  do  not  send  us  an  order,  but 
wo  are  sure  that  if  you  will  let  us  serve  you,  even  chough  you  send  us  but  a  small 
.rial  order,  you  will  be  so  well  satisfied  that  we  can  look  forward  to  your  becoming 
>ne  of  our  regular  customers. 

Awaiting   the  pleasure  of  serving   you   ami    your   Friends,   we   are, 

Faithfully, 

Equity  Mfg.  and  Supply  Company, 


l53"l59  So.  Jefferson  Street,  Chicago,  III. 


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Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail 


;^  r\   A    I_ J/"\    's   tne   best-watered  arid   State  in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 

"5  IL/ill  J.V^    winds,    destructive    storms    and  cyclones   are  unknown,  and   with   its   matchless   cli- 

?5  mate  it  makes   life  bright  and  worth  living. 

-ft  We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer  to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 

u5  change   for   the   general   improvement   in   your   condition  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 

•^  account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  both  requirements.     There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 

!^  and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  country  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 

;^  swer  and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

|^  Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger  work  teach   us   that  a  few   dollars   spent   in   railroad 

•^  fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves  thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

\»T  Cheap   homeseekers'   rates   are   made   to   all   principal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 

^5  for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting  a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


Unlimited  supply  of  water  for  irrigation  and  for  power.  A  grand  opportunity  for  the  Home- 
seeker  who  locates  on  these  lands.  10  years  time,  given  for  payment  for  land  and  water  after  lands 
are   sold.     The    canals    and   water   belong   to    the   settler's   who  will  own  and   control  the  same. 


-«  D.   E.   BURLEY, 

5      S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio.  G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R., 

'£      J.  E.  HOOPER,  Agent,   Oakland,  Kansas.  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 


■ 

Round=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday 
of  November,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta-  5 
tions  on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip  S 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


100,000  Acres  Now  Open  for  Settlement  at 
Twin  Falls,  Idaho,   under  the  Carey   Act. 


ug  Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance.      Fine      | 

.=§  Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 

t$  — 5 

it  « 

^5  Arrived    in    Payette    Valley    Feb.    23,    1903.     Settled   on   an  80-acre   tract,   covered   with   sage   brush.      § 

•§  Cleared  40  acres.     May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.     Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.    June  12  sowed  10  acres 

us  to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.     Yielded  55  to  acre.     Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 

■j  or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

■j  Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 

IS!  oats. 

;^  Potatoes   yielded   500   bushels   to   the   acre   and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 

^  the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.                                                       (Signed)  E.  L.  Dotson. 


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Vol.  VI. 


November  1,  1904. 


No.  44. 


THE    FIELD    OF    HOPE. 


BY   MARTHA   SHEPARD  LIPPINCOTT. 

Ye  who  are  tired  and  sad  at  heart, 

When  life  seems  full  of  gloom  and  care 
Go  out  into  the  field  of  hope, 

And  send  to  God  an  earnest  prayer. 
In   what  a  blessed   field  is  hope, 

How  oft  it  leads  us  from  despair, 
Until  the  soul,  with  a  new  light, 

Can   seem   to   see   its    life   more   fair. 

And   we   can   see   that   God   is   love, 

And    feel   his   presence   ever  near, 
Until  through  hope,  we  seem  to  learn, 

To  cast  off  evil   care   and  fear. 
Sweet   hope,   the   angel   of  our   lives, 

Oh!   what  a  blessing  thou   hast   been, 
And  taught  us  when  our  hearts  seemed  crushed, 

The   way  to  let   life's  sunshine   in. 
Moorestown,   N.  J. 

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SEED-THOUGHTS    FOR   THE    HEART'S    GARDEN. 


BY    JOSEPHINE    HANNA. 


Work:  present  :  :  success:  future. 

* 
Necessity  goes  after  what  plenty  will  never  obtain. 

* 
Honesty  is  the  best  policy,  but  policy  is  pretty  poor 
honesty. 


\" A  word  to  the  wise  is  sufficient,"  and  to  the  fool 
it  is  an  overdose. 

* 

"  Well  begun  is  half  done "  aye,  and  ifs  the  half 
that's  the  oftener  done,  too. 
* 

Faults  are  queer  things:  the  further  they  are  away 
the  better  you  can  see  them. 

* 

Don't  blame  the  other  fellow  for  what  you  do:  he, 
nt  most,  can  only  take  your  measure  by  his  own.  He 
cannot  change  it. 


To-day  is  the  handle  of  success;  do  not  stake  oppor- 
tunity upon  to-morrow. 

* 

The  easy  chair  is  a  splendid  place  to  dream  of  wlmt 
you'll  never  get  done  in  it. 

* 
The  man  zvho  is  not  doing  his  best,  is  hanging  his 
business  card  out  backward. 

* 
You  can  break  your  word,  if  it  is  rotten  enough,  but 
you  cannot  break  your  obligation. 
* 
Some  men  set  care  over  their  possessions,  and  send 
happiness  off  after  what  they  haven't  got. 
* 
"  The  falling  drops  "  may  "  wear  a  stone, "  but  not 
in  time  to  cook  your  dinner  in  the  hollow  they  make. 
♦ 
It  is  tedious  waiting  for  fortune  to    bring    about 
success,  but  some  people  have  a  sight  of  patience. 
*> 
Some   hobbies  may   throw   their  riders,    but   most 
of  them  carry  a  man  farther  than  he'd  get  a-walking. 
* 
//  trade   talk   were  all  true,    poverty   would  either 
stumble  into  ivcalth,  or  become  a  rare  specimen  in  the 
world's  cabinet  of  curiosities. 

* 

Faith  is  a  matter  of  choice:  in  spite  of  all  the  pure 
air  of  heaven,  there  are  enough  frog-ponds  for  a  man 
to  drown  himself  in,  if  he  will  wade  in  far  enough. 
* 

Our  faults  are  not  mere  surface  specks  upon  our 
character,  but  are  resting  on  the  rock  bottom  of  it  for 
a  foundation,  and  thus  reveal  its  shallowness,  and 
ours. 

♦ 

//  is  nothing  but  ail  that  the  bird  soars  on,  but  it 
gets  pretty  high,  for  all  that;  and  the  soaring  an- 
ticipation that  will  not  let  one  down  hard,  no  matter 
how  his  castles  tumble,  is  rubber  worth  having,  and 
not  to  be  despised,  in  man's  make-up. 


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THE  INGLEXOOK.— November  i,  1904. 


THE    GRAND    CANYON    OF    ARIZONA. 


BY    RILLA    ARNOLD. 

The  United  States  is  justly  famous  for  its  grandeur 
of  scenery.  The  Niagara,  the  Yosemite,  the  Yellow- 
stone and  the  Rocky  Mountains  have  attracted  hun- 
dreds of  European  travelers.;  but  if  these  stupendous 
works  of  nature  were  not  here,  it  could  still  be  famous. 
There  would  be  the  Wonderland  of  the  Southwest — 
Arizona,  with  its  painted  desert,  its  petrified  forest, 
where  there  are  large  logs  of  the  most  beautiful  agate, 
and  greatest  wonder  of  all,  the  Grand  Canon  of  the 
Colorado  river.  This  is  not  a  canon,  in  the  common 
acceptance  of  the  term — it  is  not  a  mountain  gorge, 
but  a  mammoth  chasm  opening  up  from  perfectly  level 
ground.  You  come  upon  it  suddenly  after  riding  for 
miles  through  an  uninteresting  country.  It  is  largely 
due  to  this  fact,  that  the  scenery  has  such  an  effect 
on  people.  You  are  utterly  unprepared  for  the  burst 
of  splendor  of  color,  the  awful  silence  and  the  mar- 
velous architecture  of  the  Creator  that  suddenly  ap- 
pears at  your  very  feet.  The  person  who  would  not 
experience  a  feeling  of  awe  and  reverence  must  be  of  a 
very  stony  nature,  indeed  strong  men  have  been  known 
to  weep. 

It  is  impossible  to  say  which  is  the  most  wonderful — 
the  size,  the  coloring  of  the  rocks,  or  the  rock  forma- 
tion. In  size  it  is  the  largest  chasm  in  the  world, 
approximately  one  and  a  half  miles  deep,  thirteen 
miles  wide  and  two  hundred  miles  long.  The  coloring 
is  surely  the  most  beautiful,  the  most  exquisite  in  the 
world.  One  admirer,  trying  to  describe  it  has  said 
it  is  painted  like  a  flower;  but  no  flower  has  such  a 
combination  of  colors — dark  red,  yellow,  golden  brown, 
scarlet  and  the  most  delicate  tints  of  pink,  green,  lav- 
ender, gray,  tan  and  cream,  and  over  all  a  mystic  pur- 
ple haze.  The  rock  formation  is  also  very  wonder- 
ful. Down  in  the  great  chasm  are  mountains  over  a 
mile  high.  They  are  unlike  any  other  mountains  in 
the  world — cone-shaped  and  terraced.  As  you  stand 
on  the  rim  and  look  over  the  tops  of  these  mountains 
you  are  inclined  to  think  it  is  a  great,  ruined  city, 
for  each  mountain  is  made  of  large  pieces  of  rock 
laid  together  like  brick  work. 

If  you  go  down  into  the  canon  by  the  little  zig-zag 
trail,  it  does  not  seem  so  beautiful  or  wonderful  as 
when  seen  from  the  rim,  but  you  get  a  better  idea  of 
its  great  size.  It  has  been  said  that  if  Niagara  Falls 
and  Pike's  Peak  could  be  put  into  the  chasm  some 
night,  the}-  would  not  be  noticed  by  the  people  on  the 
rim  the  next  morning. 

This  canon  is  one  of  the  greatest  results  of  erosion ; 
caused  by  the  Colorado  river  flowing  for  vears  through 
the  peculiar  soil  of  this  region.  The  Grand  Canon  is 
reached  from  several  points  on  the  Santa  Fe.     There 


are  stage  routes  from  Flagstaff  and  Peach  Springs; 
but  the  easiest  and  shortest  route  is  from  the  little 
saw-mill  town  of  Williams.  A  spur  has  recently  been 
built  by  the  Santa  Fe  from  there  and  you  can  now 
reach  the  rim  of  the  canon  by  rail. 
Milford,  Ind. 

■:•   *   * 

THE  PROBLEM  SOLVED. 


It  is  now  generally  recognized  that  Booker  Wash' 
ington  has  discovered  and  adopted  the  true  means  for 
the  salvation  of  his  race  in  this  country — an  association 
of  manual  training  with  literary,  so  that  every  man 
or  woman  shall  know  something  that  has  a  market  val- 
ue. In  his  Institute  at  Tuskegee,  Alabama,,  he  has 
about  a  thousand  students — young  men  and  women — 
who  are  receiving  what  we  call  a  common-school 
education  and  at  the  same  time  are  taught  agriculture 
and  the  various  mechanic  arts.  House-huilding,  brick- 
making,  wagon-making,  blacksmithing,  shoe-making, 
carpentry,  dress-making,  basket-making,  laundry  work, 
and  nursing — these  are  a  few  of  the  trades  that  are 
taught  practically.  All  their  provisions  are  raised  by 
themselves  on  the  Institute  farm  ;  and  when  a  new 
building  is  needed,  the  students  plan  and  construct  it. 
Mr.  Washington  has  written  a  book  which  gives  a 
complete  description  of  the  work  performed  at  the 
Institution,  with  many  proofs  of  the  admirable  results. 
His  methods,  and  the  reasons  for  them,  are  all  set  forth 
specifically,  with  argument  and  illustration  where  these 
appear  necessary.  The  principle  on  which  all  his  work 
is  conducted  is  stated  by  himself  in  these  words  :  "  Mere 
hand  training,  without  thorough  moral,  religious  and 
mental  education,  counts  for  very  little.  The  hands, 
the  head,  and  the  heart  together,  as  the  essential  ele? 
ments  of  educational  need,  should  be  so  correlated  that 
one  may  be  made  to  help  others."  He  tells  an  inter- 
esting story  of  his  experience,  when  a  boy,  by  which 
he  realized  the  value  of  skillful  and  careful  hand- 
work, and  this  undoubtedly  was  largely  instrumental 
in  determining  his  career.  A  lady  who  had  a  pretty 
place  wished  to  hire  a  boy  to  live  there  and  keep  it  in 
order.  Every  boy  in  the  neighborhood  was  tried 
in  succession,  but  no  one  remained  more  than  a  wei 
all  declaring  that  she  was  "  hard  to  get  along  with, 
Booker's  turn  came  last,  and  his  mother  told  him  he 
must  go  and  do  his  best.  He  writes :  "  Mrs.  Ruffuer 
talked  to  me  in  the  kindest  way,  and  her  frank  and' 
positive  manner  was  tempered  with  a  rehearsal  of  the 
difficulties  encountered  with  the  boys  who  had  preced- 
ed me.  I  saw  that  it  would  be  my  fault  if  I  failed  to 
understand  my  duties  as  she  explained  them  in  de- 
tail. I  would  be  expected  to  keep  my  body  clean  and 
my  clothes  neat.  As  all.  things  could  be  done  best  by 
system,  she  expected  it  of  me,  and  the  exact  truth  at 
times,  regardless  of  consequences.     She  told  me  that  if 


THE  INGLENOOK.— November  I,  1904. 


!03S 


I  were  able  to  please  her  she  would  permit  me  to  at- 
tend school  at  night  during  the  winter.  My  first  task 
was  to  cut  the  grass  around  the  house,  and  then  give 
the  grounds  a  thorough  'cleaning  up.'  In  those  days 
there  were  no  lawn-mowers  and  I  had  to  go  down  on 
my  knees  and  cut  much  of  the  grass  with  a  little  hand- 
scythe.  I  soon  found  that  my  employer  not  only 
wished  the  grass  cut,  but  also  demanded  that  it  be 
trimmed  smooth  and  even.  I  am  not  ashamed  to  say 
that  I  did  not  succeed  in  giving  satisfaction  the  first 
or  even  the  second  or  third  time,  but  at  last  I  made  the 
turf  of  that  yard  look  as  smooth  and  velvety  as  if  it 
I  had  been  over  it  with  the  most  improved  pattern  of 
lawn-mower.  As  the  result  of  my  efforts  under  the 
strict  oversight  of  my  mistress,  we  could  take  pleas- 
ure in  looking  upon  a  yard  where  the  grass  was  green 
and  almost  perfect  in  its  smoothness,  where  the  flower- 
beds were  trimly  kept,  the  edges  of  the  walks  clean- 
cut,  and  where  there  was  nothing  to  mar  the  well- 
ordered  appearance.  When  I  saw  and  realized  that 
ftiis  was  a  creation  of  my  own  hands,  my  whole  na- 
ture began  to  change.  I  felt  a  self-respect,  an  en- 
Icouragement  and  a  satisfaction  that  I  had  never  be- 
jfore  enjoyed  or  thought  possible.  I  found  myself 
1  getting  the  idea  that  the  head  meant  everything,  and 
the  hands  little  in  working  endeavor." 

PANAMA. 


The  Republic  of  Panama  was  a  part  of  Columbia 
until  November  3,  1903,  when  it  declared  its  inde- 
pendence. It  has  an  area  of  thirty-one  thousand  five 
hundred  seventy-one  English  square  miles,  nearly  as 
large  as  the  State  of  Maine,  and  a  population  of  three 
hundred  thousand.  Its  chief  ports  are  the  capital, 
Panama,  population  about  eighty-five  thousand,  and 
Colon,  population  about  three  thousand.  These  ports 
are  visited  annually  by  more  than  one  thousand  ves- 
sels, which  land  over  one  million  tons  of  merchandise 
and  nearly  one  hundred  thousand  passengers,  chief- 
ly for  transfer  over  the  isthmus.  The  commerce  of 
Panama  amounts  to  three  million  dollars  per  annum. 

Panama  has  been  called  the  "  Gate  to  the  Pacific  " 
and  the  "  Key  to  the  Universe,"  and  a  waterway  across 
the  isthmus  has  been  the  dream  of  centuries. 

In  1879  a  French  company,  with  Ferdinand  De  Les- 
seps  as  President,  was  organized  to  construct  a  canal, 
and  began  work  in  1881.  After  it  had  spent  one  hun- 
dred sixty-five  million  dollars  on  the  isthmus  it  went 
bankrupt.  A  new  company  formed  in  1894  and  con- 
tinued the  work  on  a  small  scale.  The  work  done 
constitutes  two-fifths  of  the  canal  works. 

In  1902  the  United  States  decided  to  carry  out  the 
project.  In  February,  1903,  the  rights  of  the  new 
Panama  Canal  Company  were  secured,  and  November 
18,  1903,  a  canal  treaty  between  the  United  States  and 


Panama  was  signed  at  Washington.  It  has  been 
agreed  that  the  United  States  shall  obtain  a  zone  of 
five  miles  on  each  side  of  the  canal ;  Panama  will  re- 
ceive ten  million  dollars  and  an  annuity  of  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  beginning  1912. 

The  canal  to  be  built  by  the  United  States  is  a  high 
level  canal,  about  eighty-five  feet  above  the  tidewater. 
The  number  of  locks  will  be  five.  The  Atlantic  ter- 
minus is  at  Colon  and  the  Pacific  terminus  at  Panama 
Bay.  The  course  of  the  canal  is  from  northwest  to 
southeast,  the  Pacific  end  being  twenty-eight  miles 
west  of  the  Atlantic.  Panama  is  in  about  the  same 
longitude  as  Pittsburg.  The  total  length  from  shore 
to  shore  line  is  forty-three  miles.  The  time  of  transit 
will  be  ten  and  one-half  to  twelve  and  one-half  hours 
for  a  ship  of  mean  dimensions.  The  cost  to  complete 
the  canal  from  its  present  condition  is  estimated  to 
be  one  hundred  forty-four  million  dollars,  besides  the 
forty  millions  to  be  paid  to  the  French  company.  The 
time  required  will  be  about  eight  years.  The  cost  to 
maintain  the  canal  will  be  two  million  dollars  per  year. 
The  Panama  canal  will  shorten  the  ocean  distance  be- 
tween our  Eastern  and  Western  states  about  eight 
thousand  nautical  miles,  and  to  Western  ports  of 
South  America  about  four  thousand  miles. 

It  is  estimated  that  the  tonnage  of  the  canal  traf- 
fic will  be  seven  million  tons  per  annum. 

*  *  4> 
BLACK    DIAMONDS. 


The  black  diamond  is  an  important  article  of  com- 
merce, because  it  has  been  widely  applied  in  industry. 
The  home  of  the  black  diamond  is  in  Brazil,  the  richest 
beds  of  the  mineral  having  been  found  in  the  Province 
of  Bahia  and  on  the  banks  and  in  the  bed  of  the  San 
Jose  River.  The  stone,  which  is  perfectly  opaque,  is 
not  beautiful.  The  favor  which  this  mineral  enjoys 
is  of  very  recent  date,  for  20  years  ago  its  properties 
were  unknown,  and  the  trade  in  the  stone  was  prac- 
tically nothing.  The  constantly  increasing  perfection 
of  boring  instruments  brought  out  the  value  of  the 
black  diamond,  the  use  of  diamond-point  drills  now 
having  become  so  general  that  the  price  of  the  mineral 
diamond  has  become  of  prime  necessity  in  working 
tempered  metals,  sawing  of  marbles,  piercing  of  fun- 
nels and  galleries  and   in  mines. 

SILVER    QUARTERS. 


On  an  American  twenty-five  cent  piece  there  are 
13  stars,  13  letters  in  the  scroll  held  in  the  eagle's 
beak,  13  feathers  in  each  of  the  eagle's  wings,  13  tail 
feathers,  13  parallel  lines  in  the  shield,  13  horizontal 
bars,  13  arrow-heads  and  13  letters  in  the  words  "  quar- 
ter dollar." 


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THE  INGLENOOK.— November  1,  1904. 


AUTUMN. 


BY    LAVINA   BROWER. 

Who  is  it  that  does  not  love  to  study  the  seasons? 
They  are  the  work  of  God's  hands  which  come  to  us 
in  their  appointed  time,  portraying  God's  systematic 
way  of  doing  things,  and  tell  us  that  he  is  the  same 
superior  being  throughout  the  ages. 

The  joyous  springtime  comes  bringing  the  beauti- 
ful flowers  and  singing  birds,  while  the  bright  blue 
sky  smiles  down  upon  nature's  robes  of  living  green 
and  the  breezes  whisper,  God  is  good.  The  heart  of 
every  being  is  made  to  leap  for  joy.  Then  follows 
quickly  the  gocd  old  summer  time  of  which  we  love 
to  sing,  with  the  sun  shining  in  his  strength  and  the 
oft  refreshing  showers  which  is  the  motive  power 
in  bringing  to  us  the  rich  viands  of  earth  with  its 
golden  harvest.  The  beautiful  springtime  is  in  the 
past,  the  summer  now  gone,  and  autumn  with  all  its 
glory  is  now  here.  And  as  it  knocks  at  our  doors  we 
bid  it  welcome.     We  consider  first 

Its  Function  as  a  Season. 
What  is  its  employment  among  its  kindred  sea- 
sons? It  is  one  of  the  potent  factors  which  in  the  be- 
ginning is  closely  coupled  with  the  summer  as  an 
auxiliary  in  perfecting  the  partially  matured  of  earth's 
harvest.  It  is  deeply  employed  in  putting  on  the  fin- 
ishing touch.  How  often  do  we  hear  the  expression, 
"  If  the  fall  is  favorable  our  crops  will  be  all  right 
for  the  garner."  It  is  the  time  for  the  final  gathering, 
and  is  looked  forward  to  with  much  anxiety  by  the 
husbandman,  that  nothing  be  wasted  or  lost,  but  safe- 
ly housed  when  the  blasts  of  winter  doth  appear,  and 
the  soft  warm  winds  no  longer  blow,  but  the  chilling 
tempest  from  the  icy  northland  comes  to  penetrate  our 
very  being  and  the  gentle  rays  of  the  summer's  sun 
is  hid  from  view  by  the  darkened  clouds  that  over- 
shadow the  heavens.  The  firmament  acknowledges 
the  autumn  when  the  bright  blue  sky  enrobes  itself  in 
hazy  dress  from  time  to  time. 

Its  Duty  Toward  Nature. 
It  is  responsive  in  all  of  its  glory  Will  you  take 
a  little  ramble  with  me  that  we  may  see  the  picture 
more  vividly  of  the  beauties  of  the  golden  autumn? 
As  we  stroll  through  field  and  wood,  we  see  the  rip- 
ened corn  waving,  the  ears  bending  low,  or  the  shocks 
dotted  in  order,  while  the  ground  is  thickly  strewn 
with  the  yellow  and  striped  fruit  that  points  forward 
to  the  coming  Thanksgiving  day.  As  we  enter  the 
orchard  we  see  it  in  its  full  dress,  as  yet  with  branches 
bending  low  with  their  luscious  golden  fruit,  waiting 
for  busy  hands  to  relieve  them  of  their  burdens,  which 
the  bins  are  ready  to  receive  until  further  service  for 
the  evening  guest.     And  as  we  pass  the  bower  how 


eager  to  gather  the  great  clusters  of  the  fruit  of  the 
vine,  and  as  we  look  around  and  behold  the  riches 
of  earth  they  are  too  numerous  to  mention.  As  we 
pause  we  hear  nature  speak  to  the  trees  of  the  wood; 
"  Your  mission  is  ended  you  must  change  your  robes 
and  rest  awhile."  And  by  the  whitened  hand  of  hoary 
frost  do  we  see  their  foliage  of  living  green  changed 
to  various  hues  of  red  and  yellow,  and  the  great  brown 
earth  beneath  our  feet  soon  to  be  carpeted  with  the 
beautiful  leaves  as  they  fall  one  by  one.  Here  we 
have  the  busy  season.  Even  the  little  school  girls 
we  find  busy  as  they  go  to  and  fro  gathering  and 
selecting  their  choice  colors  from  the  fallen  leaves 
for  bouquets,  to  take  to  teacher  that  they  may  write 
a  lesson  thereon. 

We  would  take  a  stroll  a  little  farther  into  the  woo> 
as  in  childhood  days.  The  boys  and  girls  ever  de- 
light to  go  to  the  woods  in  fall  time  to  hunt  ani 
gather  the  fallen  nuts  from  the  tall  hickory,  walnui 
etc.,  searching  for  the  tree  that  bears  the  sweet  little 
chinkapin,  wondering  about  the  ripened  pawpaw,  and 
while  thus  busily  engaged,  hark!  the  crackling  of  ; 
twig  among  the  branches  and  we  catch  a  glimpse  o 
the  gay  squirrel  as  he  hops  from  branch  to  brand 
as  much  as  to  say,  "  Leave  some  of  those  for  me." 
And  as  we  return  by  another  way  we  find  a  little 
brook  of  clear,  pure  water  running  its  race  over  ti 
pebbles,  and  we  stop  to  admire.  Of  all  that  is  beau 
ful,  this  is  our  choice.  We  step  over — a  little  farth 
and  home  again.  We  have  lingered  long  viewin 
these  scenes,  and  we  feel  to  exclaim  with  the  Psalmist, 
"  The  earth  is  the  Lord's  and  the  fullness  thereof." 
What  shall  I  render  unto  the  Lord  for  all  his  bene- 
fits toward  me? 

Autumn   as    a   Type    of   the   End. 

The  riches  of  earth  with  all  of  its  grandeur  is  only 
a  figure  of  what  the  Lord  has  in  store  reserved  unto 
the  end  for  his  own,  and  the  life  work  of  each  individ- 
ual is  figurative  of  the  seasons.  The  springtime  of 
life  is  the  proper  time  for  the  heart  preparation  to 
the  sowing  of  good  seed  before  the  evil  days  come, 
As  the  summer  sun  or  the  sun  of  righteousness  hath 
arisen  with  the  sunshine  of  God's  love,  and  the  Holy 
Spirit  with  the  dews  of  heaven  to  hasten  the  growth 
and  development  unto  fruit  bearing,  so  it  is  possible 
for  every  believer  to  be  endowed  with  such  character- 
istics as  will  yield  only  the  rich  fruits  of  the  spirit, 
love,  joy,  peace,  etc.,  that  when  the  autumn  of  life 
shall  come  that  there  shall  have  been  no  time  in  life 
when  all  was  a  standstill  or  void  of  growth  unto  some 
good  deed,  as  lost  opportunities  cannot  be  regained. 
And  while  we  study  this  beautiful  season  with  its 
meaning,  the  lesson  comes  to  us  that  each  one  should 
have  his  heart  so  grounded  with  the  truth  and  thor- 
oughly cultivated,  that  each  branch  may  be  well  laden 


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with  faith  and  good  works;  and  when  the  wintry 
blasts  of  persecution,  or  the  hoar  frosts  of  affliction, 
shall  come,  and  as  the  trees  drop  their  foliage  and  the 
great  husbandman  shall  send  his  angel  reapers  to 
gather  in  the  sheaves,  may  each  one  as  a  shock  of 
corn  fully  ripe  be  ready  to  be  garnered  in. 
North  Manchester,  Ind. 

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MORE   ABOUT    GINSENG. 


Perhaps  all  the  Nookers  have  heard  of  the  ginseng 
plant.  A  hardy  perennial,  native  of  northern  Asia 
and  the  eastern  part  of  the  United  States,  it  is  very 
plentiful  in  the  now  interesting  country  of  Korea,  ana 
forms  a  part  of  the  trade  of  that  country.  It  is  found 
als©  in  parts  of  the  Chinese  and  Russian  Empires. 

Ginseng  is  marketed  in  China  where  the  people 
use  it  for  smoking.  They  regard  it  as  a  "  household 
divinity,"  a  remedy  for  all  ills,  and  the  majority  of 
them  never  allow  themselves  to  be  without  it,  at  least 
when  they  can  afford  to  buy  it.  It  is  quite  expensive 
to  them,  costing  as  much  as  fifteen  dollars  per  pound. 
It  is  said  that  twenty  million  dollars'  worth  of  gin- 
seng could  be  disposed  of  in  that  country  every  year 
if  it  were  possible  to  obtain  so  much. 

The  price  of  ginseng  in  this  country  ranges  from 
three  to  six  dollars  per  pound,  being  governed  in 
price,  of  course,  by  that  old  law  of  "  supply  and  de- 
mand." It  was  formerly  supposed  to  possess  medical 
properties,  but  this  belief  has  been  recently  exploded 
by  scientific  men. 

The  botanical  name  of  the  plant  is  Aralia  Quin- 
quefolia.  The  .uot,  when  full  grown,  is  about  the 
size  of  a  man's  thumb,  and  it  sometimes  reaches  a 
length  of  eight  or  nine  inches.  It  has  a  sweetish  taste, 
something  like  licorice,  with  just  a  tinge  of  bitterness. 
The  root  throws  up  in  early  spring  a  simple  stem 
about  a  foot  high.  The  tallest  stems  are  about  two 
feet.  It  bears  at  the  top  three  leaves,  each  with  four 
divisions,  and  a  small  cluster  of  inconspicuous,  green- 
ish-white flowers  in  the  fork  of  the  branches.  The 
blossom  is  succeeded  by  small  berry-like  fruits  which, 
when  the  seed  becomes  ripe,  are  of  a  red  color. 

There  are  two  seeds  in  each  developed  berry,  having 
very  hard  hulls,  and  resembling  the  red  pepper  seed, 
only  larger.  The  seeds  do  not  germinate  for  eighteen 
months.  Each  plant  bears  from  ten  to  fifty  or  more 
seeds,  and  they  are  worth  about  four  dollars  per  ounce. 
The  herb  dies  clown  about  September  or  October  as 
soon  as  the  seeds  have  matured. 

Ginseng  has  two  or  more  distinct  varieties.  The 
one  just  described  grows  wild  in  the  eastern  part  of 
our  country,  its  favorite  resort  being  on  the  northern 
•part  of  hills  or  mountains,  and  in  forests  where  there 
is  always  a  heavy  shade  and  a  rich  leaf  mold. 

The  age  of  the  plant  cannot  be  correctly  ascertained, 


as  some  suppose,  by  counting  the  number  of  branches, 
but  rather  by  counting  the  scars  where  the  old  stalks 
have  rotted  off  the  neck-like  part,  between  the  stem 
and  the  main  part  of  the  root.  One  was  found  once 
that  was  over  twenty-five  years  old,  but  it  was  cer- 
tainly a  "  whopper."  The  root  was  about  the  size  of 
a  hen's  egg.  It  was  transplanted  and  now  yields  about 
one  hundred  seeds  each  year. 

An  old  timer  in  the  business  says,  "  I  have  always 
been  fond  of  hunting  ginseng  in  the  woods  about  my 
home.  I  transplant  all  the  large  roots  and  also  the 
small  one-year-old  ones,  as  they  are  of  little  worth 
in  any  other  way. 

The  cultivation  of  ginseng  is  attracting  considerable 
attention  just  at  present,  and  for  the  benefit  of  those 
who  would  like  to  try  it  I  will  say  that  it  is  profitable. 
My  ginseng  garden  at  present  consists  of  several  pens 
covered  with  lattice  work  for  shade.  All  the  roots 
I  have  transplanted  from  the  forest,  taking  them  up 
always  in  the  fall.  The  plants  rarely  appear  to  be 
much  stunted  by  the  change,  but  come  up  in  the  spring 
almost  as  vigorous  as  ever,  bearing  seed  as  usual. 

The  plants  do  best  when  set  in  beds,  about  six  or 
eight  feet  in  size.  The  roots  set  about  four  inches 
apart  each  way,  thus  allowing  about  four  hundred 
plants  to  the  bed.  The  best  soil  for  them  is  leaf  mold, 
strengthened  by  a  little  well-rotted  manure  or  other 
fertilizer.  I  am  rapidly  adding  to  my  garden  and  ex- 
pect in  the  course  of  a  few  years  to  have  several  rods 
under  cultivation. 

To  me  ginseng  raising  is  a  very  pleasant  and  profit- 
able occupation. 

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AUSTRALIAN    MINE   3,900    FEET   DEEP. 


What  is  believed  to  be  the  deepest  gold  mine  in  the 
world  is  being  worked  at  Bendigo,  Australia.  The 
mine  in  question,  which  is  called  the  New  Chum  Rail- 
way Aline,  has  sunk  its  main  shaft  to  a  depth  of  3,- 
900  feet,  or  only  60  feet  short  of  three-quarters  of  a 
mile.  The  chief  problem  is  how  to  keep  the  tunnels 
and  general  workings  cool  enough  for  the  miners  to 
work  in  at  such  a  depth.  It  is  usually  about  108  de- 
grees, and,  to  enable  the  men  to  work  at  all.  a  spray 
of  cold  water  let  down  from  above  has  to  be  kept  con- 
tinually playing  on  the  bodies — naked  from  the  waist 
upward — of  the  miners.  Even  then  they  cannot  work 
hard,  or  they  would  faint  from  exhaustion. 

•I*    4>    *J# 

Experiments  prove  that  the  presence  of  intestinal 
bacteria  is  necessary  to  digestion. 
♦   ♦   * 

A  beautiful  behavior  is  better  than  a  beautiful 
form ;  it  gives  a  higher  joy  than  statutes  and  pictures ; 
it  is  the  first  of  the  fine  arts. — Emerson 


1038 


THE  INGLENOOK—  November  I,  1904. 


HOW    BEST    INCULCATE    A    GREATER    LOVE 
FOR   THE   SUNDAY    SCHOOL   AND    GREAT- 
ER  REVERENCE    FOR   THE   WORK. 


BY    CARRIE    MILLER. 

I  am  pleased  with  the  fact  that  we  as  a  church  be- 
lieve in  Sunday-school  work.  We  realize  too,  that  our 
progress  in  the  church  depends  largely  upon  our  in- 
terest in  the  work.  I  am  safe  in  saying  that  without 
Sunday-school  work  we  would  not  prosper,  and  fur- 
ther, that  even  with  it  we  are  not  reaching  our  great- 
est possibilities,  because  not  all  of  us  are  at  work.  If 
the  world  is  to  be  taken  for  Christ,  and  we  are  to  have 
any  great  part  in  it,  I  am  sure  there  must  be  an  awak- 
ening some  place,  and  as  the  Sunday-school  is  the 
church's  nursery,  why  not  work  and  pray  for  the  awak- 
ening to  begin  here  ?  We  sing,  "  More  and  better  work 
for  Jesus.     More  and  better,  year  by  year." 

If  each  one  of  us  should  make  himself  a  committee  to 
see  that  he  does  more  and  better  work  and  has  more 
love  and  ambition  along  Sunday-school  lines,  what 
an  immense  amount  of  good  we  could  do.  Oh !  the 
souls  that  would  be  brought  closer  to  God. 

I  said,  "  I  am  pleased  that  we  believe  in  Sunday- 
school  work."  Yes,  we  believe  in  it  but  how  much  are 
we  doing  to  increase  the  work  and  the  results  there- 
from. Belief  is  not  sufficient.  James  says,  "  Even  so 
faith  if  it  hath  not  works,  is  dead."  Yes,  it  requires 
work,  much  work,  consecration  and  sacrifice  to  have 
a  good  Sunday-school,  and  we  should  desire  to  have 
our  Sunday  school  as  good  as  the  best.  It  is  not  al- 
ways numbers  that  count.  Not  by  might,  nor  by  pow- 
er, but  by  my  spirit,  saith  the  Lord  God  of  hosts.  His 
spirit  is  the  spirit  of  love  for  all  things  that  are  right. 

How  can  we  best  inculcate  this  love  ?  Webster  says, 
"  Inculcate  is  to  teach  or  impress  by  frequent  repetitions 
or  admonitions  to  instill  influence,  implant."  I 
know  we  are  agreed  that  we  cannot  instill  into  the 
heart  of  another  that  which  we  have  not  yet  acquired 
ourselves. 

We  want  our  children  to  love  the  Bible  and  its  truths, 
and  to  be  eager  to  go  to  Sunday  school.  But  what  is 
the  use  for  us  to  repeatedly  tell  our  children  to  get  their 
lessons,  when  they  never  see  us  study  it  ourselves? 
What  is  the  good  in  our  admonishing  to  be  up  and 
ready  for  Sunday  school  when  we  make  no  effort  to 
get  there  ourselves?  Is  that  the  best  we  can  do  to 
inculcate  love  for  the  work?  Perhaps  this  is  better: 
Work  hard  all  the  week,  and  later  than  usual  on  Sat- 
urday evening  (because  we  can  sleep  late  in  the  morn- 
ing) and  then  leave  some  extra  choring  for  Sunday 
morning.  Now,  come,  let  us  be  honest  with  ourselves. 
Isn't  that  the  way  it  is  frequently  done?  Yes,  but  this 
too  is  a  sad  failure,  for  we  come  into  Sunday  school 
late,  tired  and  nervous,  and  worse  yet,  ignorant  of  the 


A 


lesson  and  is  it  any  wonder  we  do  not  love  and  enjoy 
the  work  ? 

Let  us  look  again  for  I  know  we  can  find  families 
who  love  the  work  and  show  it  from  Sunday  to  Sunday. 
We  see  this  family  spending  some  time  each  day  study- 
ing the  lesson  text  or  a  parallel  passage,  and  then  ask 
ing  God  to  give  them  more  wisdom  and  a  greater  love 
for  the  work. 

What  now,  they  are  quitting  work  earlier  than  us- 
ual. Yes,  this  is  Saturday  afternoon.  They  love  to- 
morrow's work  better  than  to-day's,  so  they  want  a  lit- 
tle time  to  do  everything  possible  to  lighten  Sunday  j> 
morning's  work,  and  have  time  to  review  their  lesson 
before  retiring  to  a  well-deserved  night's  rest.  In  the 
morning  they  have  a  nice  talk  at  the  breakfast  table,, 
asking  and  answering  questions  on  the  lesson  and  re- 
viewing the  preceding  ones.  That  family  will  get  to- 
Sunday  school  on  time  and  won't  they  enjoy  and  love- 
it  ?  Yes,  for  here  is  the  culmination  of  a  week's  prep- 
aration. Luke  12 :  34,  says,  "  For  where  your  treasure- 
is  there  will  your  heart  be  also."  Such  a  family  can 
never  realize  how  much  it  is  doing  to  inculcate  love  for 
the  work,  but  as  we  find  so  many  indifferent  homes,  we 
must  seek  for  other  agencies  to  awaken  them. 

We  look  upon  our  ministers  as  leaders,  and  indeed 
they  should  be  in  love  with  every  branch  of  religious 
work.  Shall  he  be  an  active  worker  in  the  Sunday 
school,  or  a  believer  only,  and  remain  in  his  study  until 
the  preaching  hour,  lest  he  get  his  mind  off  his  ser- 
mon? God  will  provide  for  him,  if  he  will  but  trust 
him.  If  our  ministers  love  Christ  and  his  church  as 
they  should  they  will  be  present  at  every  session  of 
the  Sunday  school,  if  possible,  and  be  filled  with  the- 
lesson  too.  Such  a  minister  will  do  much  to  help  in- 
still a  love  for  the  work.  I  know  a  minister  who  says 
he  thinks  he  will  never  be  old  enough  to  quit  going  to- 
Sunday  school  and  taking  an  active  part.  Is  not  that 
a  good  way  to  teach  a  love  for  the  work?  We  want 
our  older  members  to  love  the  work  too.  Yes  we  need 
them  and  our  school  cannot  do  its  best  work  without 
their  interest  and  cooperation. 

Can  our  children  help  but  love  and  reverence  the- 
work  if  we  set  the  proper  example,  and  they  know  the 
minister  and  the  older  members  as  well  as  the  younger 
ones  are  devoted  to  the  work  and  are  Sunday-school 
enthusiasts?  Then  when  we  make  one  feel  that  he  is- 
a  part  of  the  organization,  and  that  we  cannot  get 
along  without  his  help  I  believe  we  have  done  much 
toward  implanting  a  love  and  reverence  for  Sunday- 
school  work. 

We  need  men  and  women  at  the  helm  who  are- 
awake  and  afire  with  the  love  for  souls  and  praises 
to  God.  I  pity  the  Sunday  school  which  has  been  so- 
unfortunate  as  to  select  for  its  superintendent  a  man- 
who  has  no  realization  of  his  responsibilities  and  op- 
portunities.    Oh   superintendent,   won't  you   let   God 


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lead  you  to  love  the  work  for  it  is  his  work,  and  you 
are  the  instrument  in  his  hand  to  lead  those  in  your 
school  to  greater  usefulness? 

And  what  shall  I  say  to  us  as  teachers,  that  will 
help  us  to  do  more  to  impress  our  pupils  with  the 
thought  that  it  is  God's  work  and  he  wants  us  to 
love  it.  He  loved  us  so  much  that  he  sent  his  Son  to 
redeem  us,  and  we  cannot  help  but  love  the  work  and 
we  must  help  them  love  it  as  they  love  no  other  work. 

First,  we  must  seek  help  from  our  heavenly  Father. 
We  must  commune  often  with  him  who  giveth  liberal- 
ly to  those  who  ask  him.  We  must  plead  for  ourselves 
and  for  each  member  of  our  class.  The  following 
poem  beautifully  expresses  my  thoughts. 

"  My  precious  class  for  Jesus 
Who   did  so  much  for  me, 
Who  paid   the   price  that  justice  claimed 
In  hours  of  agony. 

'"Tis  little,  oh  my   Savior, 

That  my  weak  hand  can  give 
Oh,  let  me  win  these  thoughtless  ones — 
To  look  to  thee  and  live. 

"  My  whole  class  for  Jesus 
Oh  let  not  one  be  lost, 
When  Calvary  was  the  fearful  sum, 
Their  wondrous  ransom  cost. 

"  My  whole  dear  class  for  Jesus, 
Now    in    their   youthful    bloom; 
Ere  shadows  lie  across  their  path 
Dull  sickness  and  the  tomb. 

"  O,  teacher,  toil  for  Jesus, 

As   you    never   toiled   before, 
That  each  may  bear  a  precious  sheaf 
To  yonder  shining  shore." 

We  must  live  right.  No  use  for  a  selfish  man  to  try 
to  teach  unselfishness,  or  a  rude  man  to  teach  kind- 
ness, or  a  proud  man  humility.  Our  six  days  living 
teach  more  than  we  can  impress  in  one  hour  in  our 
class.  We  must  live  what  we  profess  and  try  to  teach. 
We  must  early  learn  the  lesson  of  sacrifice,  that  ours 
is  a  great  work  and  we  must  spare  no  means  to  make 
it  a  success. 

When  and  how  do  we  prepare  our  lessons?  Just 
when  it  suits  or  do  we  use  system  about  it,  and  work 
hard  at  it,  if  it  does  require  a  sacrifice  of  time,  some 
sleep  and  another  pleasure  or  two  that  we  had  hoped 
to  have?  The  Bereans  searched  the  Scriptures  daily. 
If  we  really  wish  to  implant  love  for  the  work,  can  we 
do  less?  Indeed  the  teacher  who  takes  up  his  Bible 
just  when  it  happens  or  when  it  requires  no  sacrifice, 
deserves  to  be  classed  among  those  who  are  more  of 
a  hindrance  than  a  help.  Love  for  the  work  cannot  be 
developed  by  such  a  selfish  people. 

By  this  you  see  we  need  more  Sunday-school  ac- 
tivity. Not  so-called  activity,  but  the  genuine  article. 
We  go  through  our  Sunday-school  year  with  too  little 
expense  of  time,  energy,  thought,  sacrifice  and  prayer. 


Our  efforts  are  too  cheap.  Some  do  nothing  but  be- 
lieve. Others  come  when  they  happen  to  feel  just 
right.  Either  of  these  classes  when  spoken  to  about 
their  indifferences,  go  a  long  ways  around  and  urge 
a  great  many  unfortunate  circumstances  for  excuses 
for.  their  absence,  when  in  reality  it  is  because  they 
are  too  lazy  to  make  the  extra  effort  which  it  requires 
to  get  the  children  ready  or  to  hitch  the  team. 

You  say  that  sounds  bad.  Yes,  but  it  is  true.  Were 
there  a  dollar,  yes  one-fourth  of  a  dollar  in  it  most  of 
us  would  forget  our  flimsy  excuses  and  be  out.  In 
other  words  laziness  takes  its  departure  early  Mon- 
day morning.  What  love  we  are  implanting  in  the 
minds  of  our  children !  How  quickly  they  discern  our 
motives.  Much  sooner  than  we  are  apt  to  think.  If 
we  must  be  lazy  about  some  work,  or  one  day,  let  us 
remove  it  as  far  as  possible  from  the  Lord's  Day,  and 
implore  God  as  we  have  never  done  before  to  give  us 
a  religious  zeal  which  will  make  itself  felt  in  the  Sun- 
day-school work. 

Oh,  there  is  need  for  more  earnest,  consecrated 
parents,  officers  and  teachers ;  then  and  not  until  then 
will  our  pupils  look  upon  the  work  with  proper  love 
and  more  reverence. 

Could  we  but  realize  how  thinking  people,  whether 
they  be  religious  or  not,  are  waking  up  to  the  fact  that 
education  and  culture  cannot  save  the  world,  we 
would  have  more  love  for  the  work.  From  the  north, 
south,  east  and  west  comes  the  cry,  "  Teach  our 
children  the  love  of  the  things  of  God !  " 

Our  father  is  calling  us  to  high  and  noble  things. 
We  have  our  hands  upon  the  lever  that  moves  the 
powers  of  righteousness.  We  stand  at  the  wheel  that 
steers  the  nations  into  the  haven  of  truth  and  peace. 
The  Sunday  school  calls  for  our  best  workers  and  their 
best  work.  Shall  it  have  them  ?  Then  and  not  until 
then  can  we  implant  the  proper  love  and  reverence  for 
this  great  and  noble  work  in  the  minds  of  our  pupils. 

Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa. 

*  *  * 

BLUE    LIGHT    ANESTHETIC. 


Two  professors  of  Geneva,  Switzerland,  have  dis- 
covered a  new  anaesthetic,  which  promises  to  revolu- 
tionize the  practice  of  dentistry.  In  reporting  this  to 
the  State  Department  Consul  Liefiekl,  at  Freiburg, 
Germany,  says  the  scientists  found  that  a  tooth  could 
be  extracted  painlessly  after  a  patient  had  been  sub- 
jected to  blue  light  for  three  minutes.  This  anaesthetic 
acts  without  causing  the  patient  to  lose  his  senses. 

*  *  * 

Naturalists  are  puzzled  because  none  of  the  24 
ducks  at  Brandywine  Park,  Del.,  will  go  into  the 
water.  They  merely  dip  their  bills  in  the  water  and 
then  huddle  together  along  the  shore. 


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THE  INGLENOOK.— November  i,  1904. 


'TRAPPE,"    MONTGOMERY    COUNTY,    PA. 


BY  GEO.   D.  ZOLLERS. 

Times  change  in  the  Keystone  State.  I  prefer  to 
write  of  matter  that  absorbs  my  mind.  Our  eastern 
tour  to  the  native  home-land  awakened  in  my  memory 
many  latent  thoughts.  To  retrospect,  in  aged  aspect 
to  the  juvenile  years,  is  impressive.  To  mark  the 
changes  which  time  in  its  never  ceasing  flight  has  oc- 
casioned,  is  truly  wonderful. 

In  my  boyhood  days,  physical  toil  was  the  motto  of 
all,  with  comparatively  little  machinery  to  lessen  the 
muscular  force  of  both  man  and  beast.  Since  then 
human  ingenuity  and  brain  power  have  achieved  mar- 
velous feats.  Where  the  old  white  covered  wagons 
used  to  roll  with  wondrous  loads  of  merchandise  over 
the  macadamized  thoroughfare  from  Pittsburg  to 
Philadelphia,  railroad  systems  and  trolley  lines  now 
effect  the  transportation. 

The  "  Trappe,"  a  borough  of  considerable  impor- 
tance, is  about  one  mile  in  extent,  and  within  its  limits 
are  many  attractive  scenes  that  bear  the  impress  of 
antiquity.  The  name  itself  is  a  derivative  name,  from 
the  German  word  "  Trappe  "  which  means  "  steps." 

These  ''steps"  accommodated  the  descent  of  the  trav- 
eler to  a  spring,  in  the  early  days  when  teaming  was  the 
order  of  the  day.  The  question  would  be  put  by  the 
teamsters  to  each  other  as  to  points  of  access  in  a  given 
time,  and  one  of  the  discriminating  locations  was  the 
"  steps,"  which  was  subsequently  remodeled  in  word 
phraseology  to  "  Trappe." 

Here  is  located  the  old  and  new  Lutheran  church 
buildings,  where  my  ancestors  worshiped  of  yore. 
The  antiquated  edifice  appears  in  quaint  form  and  ro- 
tund mode! ;  it  has  been  recently  newly  roofed  and  plas- 
tered on  the  exterior  to  prolong  its  preservation  as  a 
relic.  The  new  building  is  modern  in  architectur- 
al design. 

In  the  rear  of  the  two  diverse  structures  is  the  large 
and  beautiful  cemetery,  where  the  bones  of  my  cher- 
ished friends  and  relatives  are  hidden  in  the  dust. 
Thousands  of  marble  and  granite  tombstones  and  mon- 
uments grace  the  selected  grounds,  where  lie  in  death's 
deep  silence,  the  sleeping  multitudes.  In  reflecting 
mood  wife  and  I  linger  to  read  the  epitaphs,  and  ponder 
over  the  dreams  of  human  life,  and  the  vanished  glory 
of  the  forms  once  active  on  the  earthly  plane. 

I  applied  to  the  janitor  for  admission  into  the  old 
church  building,  who,  with  courtesy,  unlocked  the  old 
door  and  opened  the  way.  And  lo !  the  scenes  of  early 
life  again  confront  our  view.  Here  are  the  enclosed 
pens  of  olden-time  style,  where  the  friends  of  long  ago 
were  wont  to  sit.  Here  was  the  pew  where  father  and 
mother  and  children  were  once  enclosed  within  the  little 
door  that  used  to  attract  our  childish  interest.     The 


gallery  in  rotund  formation  encircles  the  upper 
portion  of  the  interior,  with  seats  elevated  one  above 
another,  with  all  space  appropriated  and  economical- 
ly arranged;  five  hundred  persons  can  be  seated  in  a 
circumscribed  place. 

Our  fathers  could  plan  and  build  too.  The  quaint 
old  pulpit  was  round  in  style  and  quite  elevated,  the 
preacher  having  to  ascend  by  steps,  and  from  the  cli- 
max bad  a  commanding  view  of  his  audience  below 
and  in  the  gallery.  This  portion  of  Pennsylvani; 
is  of  historic  worth.  The  city  of  "  Brotherly  Love  jj 
is  only  twenty-five  miles  southeast ;  Valley  Forge,  eight 

miles  and  Trenton,  N.  T.,  where  General  Washington 
'  1 

and  his  troops  crossed  the  Delaware  river,  about  thir- 
ty-five miles. 

The  topography  of  the  country,  graced  with  fertile   lf 
valleys,  and  crowned  with  sloping  hills  is  grand  and 
picturesque.     It  is  our  native  land,  and  we  are  explor-J 
ing  its  attractive  scenery  on  the  homestretch  of  life,, 
noting  the  changes  of  time's  fleeting  years,  and  the 
fact  that  we  are  transient  stayers  as  our  predecessors 
were,  and  soon,  like  they,  we  must  conform  to  the  law 
of  decomposition  in  the  "  city  of  the  dead." 

South   Bend,  Ind. 

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"On  every  voyage"  said  the  Captain  of  one  of  the 
army  transports  the  other  day,  a  debate  breaks 
out  among  the  officers  on  -deck  as  to  whether  an  ar- 
ticle which  drops  into  the  ocean  goes  way  down  to  the 
ocean  bed,  which  may  be  six  miles  below.  There  are 
always  present  advocates  of  the  theory  that  the  ocean 
keeps  increasing  in  density,  from  the  weight  of  the  i 
mass  of  the  water  above,  and  that  as  a  result  a  piece  of 
steel  will  fall  only  to  a  certain  distance,  when  its  own 
weight  is  offset  by  the  density  of  the  sea.  I  have  heard 
that  when  it  was  first  proposed  to  lay  a  marine  cable 
many  intelligent  persons  insisted  that  it  would  not  sink 
to  the  bottom,  but  would  remain  suspended  at  a  cer- 
tain depth.  If  water  were  compressible,  like  air,  this 
would  be  so,  and  we  would  have  ocean  layers  at  which 
articles  of  certain  specific  gravity  would  accumulate. 
But  of  course,  in  the  case  of  the  cable  the  pressure  in- 
creases with  the  depth  on  all  sides.  Practically  every- 
thing on  earth  is  more  compressible  than  water,  even 


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the  iron  wire,  yarn,  gutta-percha  and  copper  conductor 
forming  the  cable.  The  bulk  of  water  which  it  dis- 
places continues  to  have  nearly  the  same  specific  grav- 
ity as  at  the  surface.  Without  this  valuable  property 
of  water,  the  hydraulic  press  would  not  exist." 

Some  of  the  most  distinguished  naval  men  have 
made  this  blunder.  Captain  Maryat,  the  celebrated 
nautical  author,  wrote  in  one  of  his  novels :  "  What  a 
mine  of  wealth  there  must  lie  buried  in  the  sands ! 
What  riches  lie  entangled  among  its  rocks  or  remain 


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lispended  in  the  unfathomable  gulf  where  the  com- 
ressed  fluid  is  equal  in  gravity  to  that  which  it  encir- 
es !  "  It  is  obvious  that  if  water  yielded  under  pres- 
ide our  ocean  cables  would  float  at  but  a  few  hun- 
Ired  feet  below  the  surface,  and  it  would  be  an  ex- 
■emely  difficult  thing  to  devise  means  of  keeping  them 
1  place,  with  all  the  winds  and  currents  and  tides.  On 
le  other  hand,  if  air  did  not  yield  to  pressure,  scores  of 
le  most  useful  of  mechanical   devices  would  never 

ave  been  heard  of. 

<j*  <j»  nj» 

SYNONYMS. 


Fortunately,  the  English  language  is  peculiarly 
ich  in  synonyms.  They  make  possible  that  freedom 
rid  variety  by  which  the  diction  of  a  good  writer  or 
peaker  differs  from  the  procrustean  uniformity  of  a 
:gal  document.     Synonyms  enable  a  master  of  style 

choose,  in  every  instance,  the  one  word  which  is 
lost  perfectly  mirrored  in  his  thought.  To  write 
r  speak  to  the  best  purpose,  one  should  have  a  large 
ocabulary  from  which  to  select  the  particular  word 
nat  reflects  the  thought  in  mind.  Untrained  speakers 
r  writers  should  constantly  be  reminded  that  there 
re  synonyms  and  that  it  devolves  upon  them  to  select 
lie  right  word  and  to  put  it  in  the  right  place.  Words 
ommonly  known  as  synonyms  are  not  exactly  iden- 
ical  in  signification  and  use.  They  have,  it  is  true, 
ertain  common  ground  within  which  they  are  inter- 
hanged,  but  outside  of  that,  each  word  has  its  own 
pecial  province,  within  which  another  word  is  an 
ntruder.  Slightly  educated  person  are  guilty  of  de- 
ilorable  repetition.  Such  words  as  "  elegant,"  "  aw- 
ul,"  "  bully,"  "  splendid,"  "  horrid,"  express  almost 
ny  shade  of  meaning,  and  are  positive  evidence  of 

limited  vocabulary.  Some  persons  are  simply  un- 
:onscious  of  other  words  of  kindred  meaning.  We 
.hould  never  forget  the  fact  that,  poverty  of  language 
s  accompanied  by  poverty  of  thought. 

In  this  day  and  generation  when  so  many  are  eager 
0  write,  and  seem  confident  that  they  can  write,  and 
when  the  press  is  sending  forth  "  tons  of  literature," 
yhich  lacks  the  imprint  of  immortality,  it  is  important 
hat  we  should  study  synonyms,  but  we  should  never 
Rgel  that  synonyms  arc  not  identical.  It  is  our 
luty  to  discriminate  between  words  of  similar  mean- 
,ng  and  select  the  word  that  mirrors  accurately  the 
jicturc  in  the  mind. — American  Illustrator. 
•5*  ♦  •$* 
VAST    DISTANCES. 

To  determine  a  single  position  of  any  one  star  in- 
volves a  good  deal  of  computation,  and  if  we  reflect 
thai,  in  order  to  attack  the  problem  in  question  in  a 
satisfactory  way,  we  should  have  observations  of  a 
million  of  these  bodies  made  at  intervals  of  at  least  a 


considerable  fraction  of  a  century,  we  see  what  an 
enormous  task  the  astronomers  dealing  with  this  prob- 
lem have  before  them,  and  how  imperfect  must  be  any 
determination  of  the  distance  of  the  stars  based  on  our 
motion  through  space.  So  far  as  an  estimate  can  be 
made,  it  seems  to  agree  fairly  well  with  the  results 
obtained  by  the  other  methods.  Speaking  roughly, 
we  have  reason,  from  the  data  so  far  available,  to 
believe  that  the  stars  of  the  Milky  Way  are  situated 
at  a  distance  between  100,000,000  and  200,000,000 
times  the  distance  from  the  sun.  At  distances  less 
than  this  it  seems  likely  that  the  stars  are  distributed 
through  space  with  some  approach  to  uniformity. 
We  may  state  as  a  general  conclusion,  indicated  by 
several  methods  of  making  the  estimate,  that  nearly  all 
the  stars  which  we  can  see  with  our  telescopes  are  con- 
tained within  a  sphere  not  likely  to  be  much  more 
than  200,000,000  times  the  distance  of  the  sun. 

The  inquiring  reader  may  here  ask  another  question. 
Granting  that  all  the  stars  we  can  see  are  contained 
within  this  limit,  may  there  not  be  any  number  of  stars 
without  the  limit  which  are  invisible  only  because 
they  are  too  far  away  to  be  seen? 
*  *  * 
CURIOUS    REED    FISH. 


One  of  nature's  freaks,  in  the  shape  of  a  reed  fish, 
is  on  exhibition  in  a  Seattle  (Wash.)  curio  shop,  on 
the  water  front.  This  interesting  specimen  may  be 
best  described  as  half  animal  and  half  vegetable  life. 
It  is  six  feet  long.  The  reed  apparently  grows  out 
of  the  fish,  while  the  latter  carries  a  covering  over 
the  reed,  hence  the  dual  animal  and  vegetable  life. 
This  reed  fish  was  taken  on  Hood  Canal  by  a  tugboat 
man.  It  stands  erect  in  pools  of  salt  water.  Though 
long  and  lithe  and  to  every  appearance  a  vegetable 
production,  the  thing  has  a  head  and  eyes.  It  was 
caught  with  a  salmon  hook. 

♦  *5*  ♦ 

THE    HONEY    BEE'S    STING. 

A  French  naturalist  named  Phisalix  has  been  mak- 
ing some  minute  investigations  of  the  nature  of  the 
poison  of  the  honey  bee's  sting,  and  announces  that 
it  contains  three  separate  principles,  one  convulsive, 
one  stupefying  and  one  inflammatory.  To  the  fact 
that  two  of  these  ingredients  in  some  degree  neutral- 
ize each  other,  he  ascribes  the  great  rarity  of  deaths 
from  bee  stings,  and  it  is  possible  that  occasional 
deaths,  particularly  those  attended  by  convulsions,  may 
be  explained  by  some  exceptional  variation  in  the  toxic 
properties  of  the  injected  matter. 

*  +  * 

Si.i.i-'-lLLUMINATiNG  photographs,  which  may  be  ex- 
amined in  the  dark,  are  made  in  Germany. 


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THE  INGLENOOK.— November  I,  1904. 


MOON,    OUR    NEXT    DOOR    NEIGHBOR. 


The  hand  of  Nature  has  painted  many  beautiful 
scenes  on  earth.  Nature's  art  here  is  displayed  in  the 
snow-capped  mountain  peak,  the  stately  forest,  the 
rippling,  purling  brook,  the  placid  lake,  the  leaping 
cataract  and  the  surging,  foaming  sea;  but  her  fin- 
est work,  her  best  tinting,  her  most  delicate  shading 
and  her  lines  of  beauty  are  seen  in  the  sky.  The  dome 
of  heaven,  filled  with  glittering  gems,  twinkling  stars, 
burning  suns  and  effulgent  moons,  is  her  loftiest  and 
highest  art-creation.  Face  to  face  on  any  clear  and 
quiet  night  with  the  great  shifting  panorama  of  the 
sky,  its  varied  and  wondrous  beauty  stirs  the  divinity 
within  us  and  makes  the  Psalmist  of  old  say  again, 
"  The  heavens  declare  the  glory  of  God  and  the  fir- 
mament showeth  his  handiwork." 

Who  has  not  sought  for  the  key  to  the  problem  of 
life,  the  enigma  of  our  creation  in  the  stars?  As  we 
look  into  the  vault  of  heaven  a  thousand  problems 
demand  solution.  But  with  our  limited  intelligence 
and  rudely  constructed  instruments  we  cannot  hope 
to  fathom  the  mysterious  depths  of  the  universe. 
Astronomers  have  not  been  inactive  or  non-progress- 
ive, however.  They  can  do  more  than  an  ordinary 
mind  can  comprehend.  They  can  measure  the  dis- 
tance of  the  planets  and  fixed  stars,  compute  their 
weight  and  size,  reckon  the  length  of  their  days,  years, 
and  seasons;  they  can  trace  the  path  of  a  comet  to  a 
nicety,  and  map  with  accuracy  Mars  and  the  moon. 
Much  remains  to  be  done,  it  is  true,  but  I  believe 
the  keen  eye  of  the  astronomers  will  some  day  read 
intelligently  the  scroll  of  the  heavens,  prove  our  kinship 
to  the  inhabitants  of  other  spheres,  show  us  the  unity 
in  God's  great  plan  of  creation  and  reveal  to  us  the 
divine  harmony  of  the  universe. 

The  subject  of  my  theme,  our  next  door  neighbor, 
the  moon,  has  been  an  object  of  interest  and  admira- 
tion for  ages.  It  has  had  a  more  powerful  influence 
over  the  fortunes  of  men  and  destinies  of  nations  than 
many  of  us  are  willing  to  admit.  Like  all  the  other 
conspicuous  bodies  in  the  heavens,  it  has  been  made 
the  subject  of  ignorant  and  superstitious  inquiry. 

Anaxagoras  was  the  first  martyr  of  science.  He 
was  accused  of  impiety  at  Athens  for  teaching  that 
the  moon,  then  regarded,  with  the  other  heavenly 
bodies  as  divine,  is  of  the  same  nature  as  the  earth, 
traversed  by  hills  and  valleys,  and  probably  inhabited. 
This  master  at  whose  feet  sat  the  immortal  Socrates, 
was  defended  by  eloquent  Pericles,  but  to  no  pur- 
pose. The  Grecian  mind  was  not  broad  enough  to 
comprehend  this  truth,  and  he  was  condemned  to  die. 
When  asked  if  his  body  should  be  carried  back  to  his 
own  country,  he  answered :  "  No,  for  the  road  which 
leads  to  the  other  side  of  the  grave,  is  as  long  from  one 
place     as     another."      Twenty-four     centuries     have 


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elapsed  since  the  martyr  of  Anaxagoras,  yet  we  haw 
made  no  new  revelations  concerning  the  surface  0 
the  moon. 

To  show  you  what  an  influence  the  moon  had  ove 
the  minds  of  men  before  the  sunlight  of  science  ha 
its  real  dawn,  let  me  quote  from  some  of  the  ancier 
authorities  of  lunar  science : 

Cornelius  Agrippa,  a  famous  geomancer,  said :  Tti 
moon  governs  the  months,  half  formed,  illumines  th 
nights,  wandering  in  silence ;  rules  all  the  element 
to  whom  the  stars  respond,  at  whose  discretion  th 
thunders  sound  and  the  seeds  germinate;  mistress 
showers  and  wind  giver  of  riches,  nurse  of  me 
govenor  of  all  states,  good  and  unhappy." 

LaMartinieve :  In  its  first  quadrant  it  is  warm  an 
damp,  at  which  time  it  is  good  to  let  the  blood  of  sal 
guine  persons ;  in  its  second  it  is  warm  and  dry, 
which  time  it  is  good  to  bleed  choleric ;  in  its  third 
is  cold  and  moist,  and  phlegmatic  people  may  be  bled 
in  its  fourtli  it  is  cold  and  dry,  at  which  time  it  is  goo 
to  bleed  the  melancholic.  It  is  necessary  to  understan 
the  movement  of  this  planet  in  order  to  discover  th 
the  cause  of  sickness.  Children  born  at  the  fir: 
quarter  are  subject  to  sickness,  and  those  born  whe 
there  is  no  moon  are  of  little  mind,  or  idiots. 

According  to  Eteilla  the  moon  governs  comedian 
butchers,  lemonade  vendors,  publicans,  menagerie 
gamblers,    bankrupts    and    lunatics. 

Indeed,  as  late  as  1550  the  great  Kepler  found  a: 
trology  more  profitable  than  the  real  science  of  astror 
omy.  In  reading  his  letters  I  found  the  followin 
lines :  "  Where  would  real  astronomy  be  if  she  ha 
not  a  harum-scarum  daughter  such  as  astrology  ?  TI 
salary  of  the  philosopher  is  so  meager  that  the  mothe 
would  starve  unless  she  had  the  daughter  to  suppoi 
her." 

Again  in  1610  when  Galileo  revealed  by  his  telescof 
the  mountains  on  the  moon,  and  reiterated  the  trufi 
advanced  by  Anaxagoras  he  was  compelled  to  clos 
his  observatory  to  save  it  from  destruction. 

Scientific  lies,  highly  varnished  have  always  bee 
readily  gulped  down,,  but  real  truths  have  been  swa 
lowed  by  great  reluctance. 

Further,  the  moon  has  had  not  only  an  indirect  ii 
fluence  over  the  course  of  human  thought;  it  was  su] 
posed  both  by  the  Greeks  and  Romans,  to  have  ha 
a  direct  influence  on  the  mind.  The  Greeks,  learn? 
and  philosophical  as  they  were,  maintained  that  ii 
sanity  and  idiocy  were  caused  by  the  moon.  Th« 
imprisoned  their  lunatics  in  caves  to  protect  the] 
from  the  baleful  influence  of  the  moon.  The  Roman 
too,  believed  in  the  magic  power  of  the  moon,  and  ; 
words  are  the  only  safe  and  reliable  vehicles 
thought  or  proof  of  what  we  say,  let  us  seek  throug 
etymology  for  the  association  and  real  meaning  < 
a   few  words.     The  word  lunatic,  lunacy,  and   hut 


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are  all  children  of  luna,  the  Latin  for  moon.  Even 
our  English  words,  mooncalf,  mooner,  moony,  moon- 
struck, honeymoon,  all  convey  the  idea  of  mental 
weakness.  The  scholarly  Milton  in  "  Paradise  Lost," 
calls  "  Moping  melancholy  moon  struck  madness." 
Shakespeare,  who  has  made  no  mistake  in  the  tran- 
scripton  of  common  thought,  says  in  Othello : 

"It   is   the  very   error  of  the   moon; 

She  comes  nearer  earth  than  she  was  wont, 
And  makes  men  mad." 

My  friends,  the  Man  in  the  Moon  has  so  thoroughly 
hypnotized  the  people  of  this  planet  that  thousands 
to-day  believe  that  the  insane  are  affected  by  the  moon. 
That  seeds  to  germinate  and  thrive  must  be  planted 
during  certain  phases,  and  that  babies  must  be  weaned 
during  certain  signs.  They  boast  and  prate  about  our 
freedom  and  enlightenment,  but  the  bump  of  super- 
stition still  grows  on  the  human  head.  We  may,  as 
did  the  artist  in  Cromwell's  case,  conceal  the  wart, 
but  the  wart  is  still  there. 

Having  given  you  a   few  general   facts  respecting 

the  moon  at  a  distance,  let  us  approach  it  and  see  if 

distance  lends  enchantment  to  our  view.     I  care  not 

how   you    reach    it.     Construct   a   suspension  bridge 

across  the  great  ocean  of  space,  walking  at  the  rate  of 

four  miles  an  hour  and  you  get  there  in  seven  years ; 

good  trotting  horse  that  can  cover  two  hundred  and 

forty  miles  a  day  would  get  you  there  in  three  years ; 

in   express   train   going  sixty   miles  per  hour   would 

each  there  in  six  months ;  a  letter  placed  in  a  cannon 

sail  and  sent  with  a  velocity  of  thirteen  hundred  feet 

jer    second    would    reach    the    Man  in  the  Moon  in 

leven  days.      If  the  Man  in  the  Moon  stubbed  his  toe 

ind  fell  out,  he  would  land  here  in  three  days  and  one 

lour.     The  distance  is  two  hundred  and  forty  thou- 

and  miles,  or  about  ten  times  the  distance  around  the 

arth. 

Traverse  the  moon  from  one  side  of  its  illuminated 
lemisphere,  to  the  other  and  you  find  no  oasis,  no  fer- 
ile  garden  spot.  The  whole  region  is  a  barren  waste. 
The  atmosphere  is  so  rare  there  that  we  can  hear  no 
Bunds.  White  and  black  created  by  sunshine  and 
hadows  are  the  only  colors.  In  this  vast  solitude,  joy 
s  left  without  a  hope.  Rugged  mountains  twenty 
o  thirty  feet  high,  worn-out  craters,  huge  rocks 
nasscd  pile  upon  pile,  deep  caverns,  and  dried-up 
andscapes  are  our  only  companions.  In  this  realm, 
vhere  nature  has  seemingly  been  so  unkind,  can  we 
mt  more  thoroughly  appreciate  the  inspiration  in  the 
ines  of  Shelly : 

"  O,  Moon!  art  thou  pale  of  weariness 
Of   climbing   and   gazing   on    the    earth; 
Wandering  companionless 
Among  the  stars  that  have  a  different  birth, 
And  ever  changing  like  a  joyless  eye, 
Which   finds  no  object  worth   its  constancy?  " 


This  satellite  may  tiave  been  ages  ago  the  home  of 
some  prehistoric  race;  here  empires  have  risen,  fallen 
and  decayed ;  here  sculptors  and  artists  may  have 
carved  their  names  high  in  the  temple  of  fame,  but 
to-day  remains  no  evidence  of  what  they  achieved. 
Ambition  must  have  overleaped  itself  and  fell  on  to 
her  side.  If  this  satellite  was  once  peopled  by  living 
souls  of  high  aspirations  and  noble  purposes,  what 
a  graveyard  of  .fallen  hopes.  The  whole  scene,  view 
it  as  you  may,  cinder  without  life,  is  a  scene  of  rum, 
desolation  and  death.  No  sound  but  Gabriel's  trum- 
pet call  can  disturb  the  slumber  of  the  realm.  'Tis 
a  sepulcher  of  buried  thought  wafting  for  God's  final 
proclamation  to  be  reanimated. 

Now,  my  friends,  having  crossed  the  great  inter- 
mediate ocean  of  air,  are  we  repaid  for  our  hardships 
fulfilled?  Do  we  find  a  land  of  milk  and  honey?  Do 
we  find  here  the  people  that  Swendenborg  saw  in  his. 
visions  of  other  worlds — the  mites  three  feet  high,  talk- 
ing from  organs  in  their  stomachs  with  voices  of  thun- 
der? Do  we  see  here  the  fertile  plains  and  tranquil 
seas  pictured  so  beautifully  by  the  astronomers  of  old? 
Do  we  find  here  our  Paradise  Regained?  No!  the 
moon  is  a  great  empire  of  silence,  a  land  of  reveries 
and  dreams.  Here  all  things  seem  wrapped  in  eternal 
sleep.  Even  the  winds  are  at  rest,  the  echoes  asleep. 
Looking  aloft  we  see  the  sun  passing  among  the  stars,, 
but  our  azure  sky  is  not  there.  Space  is  a  black 
abyss.  The  stars  are  silent  sentinels  in  the  sky  at  all 
hours  of  the  night  and  day. 

But  this,  you  tell  me  is  all  poetry;  give  us  proof  of 
what  you  assert.  I  will.  The  moon  in  its  journey 
around  the  earth  frequently  passes  between  us  and 
certain  stars.  Now,  if  the  moon  had  an  atmosphere 
the  stars  would  be  displayed  by  refraction,  but  there 
is  no  displacement,  hence  we  conclude  that  there  is 
no  air  surrounding  the  moon.  Further,  we  note  in 
our  observations  the  total  absence  of  twilight  and  that 
the  perfectly  defined  lines  which  separate  day  and' 
night,  shake  hands.  As  to  the  inhabitants  of  the  moon 
I  cannot  conceive  their  existence.  Two  weeks  of 
sunshine  unchecked  by  any  atmosphere  would  heat 
the  surface  of  the  moon  to  boiling  point,  and  during 
the  two  weeks  of  night  the  temperature  probably  seeks 
a  point  two  hundred  degrees  below  zero.  Lord  Rosse, 
an  Irish  nobleman  and  owner  of  the  largest  private 
telescope  in  the  world,  estimated  that  the  change  of 
temperature  on  the  moon  is  more  than  five  hundred 
degress  Fahrenheit. 

I  know  it  is  contrary  to  analogy  and  repugnant  to 
all  the  ideas  of  divine  wisdom  to  think  that  this 
queenly  orb  of  night  should  have  been  formed  for  m  1 
better  purpose.  In  all  the  economy  of  nature  there  is 
no  waste  of  material  or  aimless  expenditure  of  cre- 
ative power;  in  every  blade  of  grass  we  find  a  million 
living   creatures,   sentient    things;    in    every    drop    of 


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water  a  world  teeming  with  inhabitants,  and  to  believe 
this  great  satellite  is  in  reality  nothing  more  than  a 
dreary  waste  of  gloomy  deserts  seems  incredible.  We 
have  this,  however,  to  console  us.  Professor  New- 
comb  of  John  Hopkins,  and  one  of  the  best  astron- 
omers of  the  nineteenth  century,  says ;  The  atmos- 
phere with  which  the  moon  is  covered  and  the  inhab- 
itants with  which  it  has  been  peopled  are  no  better  than 
the  products  of  a  poetic  imagination." 

The  common  people  are  not  the  only  ones  ignorant 
of  astronomy.  Our  learned  doctors  of  philosophy 
and  literary  men  of  high  grade  have  from  time  im- 
memorial trifled  with  the  facts  of  astronomy,  but  this 
carelessness  cannot  continue.  The  science  of  astron- 
omy is  growing  popular  and  people  are  beginning  to 
appreciate  the  good  effect  which  the  study  and  obser- 
vation of  the  heavens  have  upon  the  nature  and  mind 
of  man.  Beattie,  in  his  essay  on  Truth,  says  that  the 
mind  partakes  of  the  natural  scenery  by  which  it  is 
surrounded.  The  mountaineer  is  the  child  of  liberty, 
and  virtue  dwells  amidst  the  pure  air  of  the  lofty  hills. 
If  such  be  the  effect  of  natural  scenery  on  earth,  what 
must  be  the  sublime  conceptions  of  him  who  passes 
beyond  this  earthly  atmosphere,  ascends  the  beams  of 
the    evening. 

During  the  French  Revolution  an  enthusiastic  re- 
former said  to  a  religious  peasant :  "  We  propose 
to  erase  or  remove  every  vestige  of  religion,  even 
the  church  spires."  "  But,  "  said  the  peasant,  "  You 
can't  blot  out  the  stars."  Over  a  hundred  years  have 
elapsed  since  Deland  declared  that  he  had  surveyed 
all  the  heavens  and  found  no  evidence  of  a  God,  yet 
religion  and  science  are  warmer  friends  to-day  than 
ever  they  were. — American  Illustrator. 
•:•  *  * 
WHITE    ELEPHANT'S    CAPTURE. 


The  day  was,  in  Siam,  when  the  lucky  man  who 
discovered  a  white  elephant  was  raised  to  the  rank  of 
nobility,  and  in  case  of  capture  very  likely  was  given 
one  of  the  King's  gross  of  daughters  in  marriage.  In 
the  old  days  the  catching  of  such  an  elephant  was  a 
signal  for  a  general  holiday  making  and  feasting; 
nobles  were  sent  to  the  jungle  to  guard  it  and  ropes 
of  silk  were  considered  the  only  suitable  tether  for  an 
animal  entitled  to  such  deferential  treatment. 

When  My  Lord  the  Elephant  had  rested  at  the  end 
of  his  silken  tether  sufficiently  to  have  become  recon- 
ciled to  his  encompassed  condition  and  respectful  man 
he  was  taken  in  much  glory  to  Bangkok,  where,  after 
being  paraded  and  saluted,  he  was  lodged  in  a  specially 
prepared  palace;  he  was  sung  to  and  danced  before, 
given  exalted  titles,  shaded  by  golden  umbrellas  and 
decorated  with  trappings  of  great  value.  In  fact,  the 
white  elephant  was  once  made  a  great  deal  of,  but 
never  really  worshiped,  as  some  writers  have  declared. 


It  is  still  very  highly  prized  by  the  king  because  of  its 
rarity,  and,  though  capture  is  unusual  enough  to  cre- 
ate excitement,  yet  popular  rejoicing  and  honors  for 
the  catcher  do  not  nowadays  attend  the  event. 

But  the  white  elephants  continue  to  stand  unem- 
ployed in  the  royal  stables  at  Bangkok,  where  western 
ideas  are  becoming  evident  in  electric  lighting  and 
trolley  cars.  The  real  local  consequences  of  the  white 
elephant  rest  in  its  being  to  Siam  what  the  eagle  is 
to  America — the  national  emblem.  On  a  scarlet  back- 
ground it  forms  the  Siamese  imperial  flag,  and  gives 
name  to  one  of  the  highest  orders  of  merit  in  the  gift 
of  the  king. 

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A    DOG    DETECTIVE. 


If  Bruno,  of  Patterson,  N.  J.,  could  be  added  to 
the  Police  Department  of  New  York  City  its  efficiency 
would  certainly  be  augmented. 

Bruno  is  a  fine  looking,  bouncing  St.  Bernard  dog, 
owned  by  Dr.  Rheinhardt  Deutchen,  of  Prospect  and 
Van  Houten  streets.  The  doctor's  horse,  which  was 
stolen  on  July  3,  was  recovered  yesterday  through  the 
acumen  and  vigilance  of  Bruno.  The  dog  had  lament- 
ed the  loss  of  the  horse  more  than  any  member  of  the 
family,  for  the  two  had  lived  together  in  the  stable  on 
the  friendliest  terms. 

As  soon  as  the  theft  of  horse  and  harness  was  discov- 
ered Dr.  Deutchen  notified  the  police,  but  found  no 
clew  to  the  robbers  or  their  booty.  Finally  the  owner 
gave  up  all  hope  of  regaining  the  stolen  property  and 
almost  had  forgotten  it,  but  apparently  Bruno  re- 
membered. He  went  to.  market  yesterday  with  Dr. 
Deutchen's  young  son.  Bruno  loves  to  go  to  market, 
and  he  romped  along  blithely. 

Suddenly  he  stopped,  looked  attentively  at  a  horse 
a  little  way  down  the  street  and  then  rushed  after  it, 
harking  frantically.  He  ran  around  and  around  the 
horse,  jumping  up  to  lick  his  nose  and  showing  ev- 
ery sign  of  excitement. 

Bruno's  young  master  whistled  and  called  to  hjl 
dog,  but  Brunq  was  deaf  to  all  appeals  and  continued 
to  devote  himself  to  the  horse.  The  driver,  Marf 
Conni,  a  vegetable  peddler,  tried  to  drive  the  dog  away 

When  the  Deutchen  boy  found  he  could  not  coax 
Bruno  back  he  gazed  curiously  at  the  horse. 

"  Why  that  looks  like  the  one  father  lost,"  he  ex 
claimed,  and  then  ran  home  as  fast  as  he  could,  Brunc 
meanwhile  staying  with  the  horse  and  refusing  to  le 
it  move  when  the  peddler  tried  to  drive  on. 

Dr.  Deutchen  came  back  promptly  -with  his  son  ant 
identified  the  horse  as  his.  Getting  into  the  wagoi 
with  Conni  he  drove  to  the  police  station,  Bruno  lifting 
the  embargo  when  he  saw  his  master  holding  the  rein; 
and  trotting  along  with  complacent  delight. 

Later     Dr.     Deutchen     appeared     before     Recorde 


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Noonberg,  in  the  Police  Court,  and  preferred  charges 
of  theft  against  Conni.  The  peddler  denied  the  accu- 
sation and  said  he  had  bought  Ihe  horse  and  harness. 
In  default  of  $500  bail  he  was  sent  to  jail  to  await  the 
action  of  the  grand  jury. 

Dr.  Deutchen  took  his  horse  home,  Bruno  trotting 
along  and  resuming  his  quarters  with  his  old  comrade 
in  the  stable  to  the  evident  satisfaction  of  both. 
•>   *  * 
MAKING    LIMBURGER    CHEESE. 


no  press,  a  greater  weight  of  cured  cheese  is  produced 
from  milk  than  of  any  other  kind. — Hon.  John  Luch- 
sineer,  to  Minnesota  Dairyman's  Association. 


Limbukgf.r  is  a  cheese  of  wide  reputation, 
whose  light  (or  rather  flavor)  cannot  be  hid  under  a 
bushel.  For  that  reason  it  is  not  a  favorite  in  elegant 
households.  When  fully  ripe  even  a  small  piece  will 
perfume  a  whole  room.  It  is,  however,  a  favorite  with 
the  beer  restaurant,  and  the  hard-working  laborer  of 
foreign  extraction  prefers  it  for  its  rich  nutritive  qual- 
ity. 

Limburgcr  is  what  is  termed  a  soft  cheese,  made  with 
tin-  application  of  very  little  heat.  I  believe  that  it  is 
the  richest  cheese  made,  except  those  that  have  an 
addition  of  cream  to  the  whole  milk.  It  is  thickened 
and  worked  at  a  temperature  of  85  to  90  degrees.  It 
is  allowed  to  thicken  for  fully  one-half  hour,  then  care- 
fully cut  into  cubes  and  gently  stirred  until  the  rennet 
has  separated  the  whey,  and  the  curd  has  become  firm 
enough  to  be  dropped  on  a  board  without  breaking. 
The  whey,  which  should  be  quite  clear,  with  a  green- 
ish yellow  tinge,  is  then  taken  out,  leaving  just  enough 
to  partly  float  the  curd.  This  is  then  dipped  out  into 
wooden  moulds  of  the  proper  size  and  left  on  the  table 
to  drain  ;  no  pressure  whatever  is  applied,  the  curd  is  so 
soft  and  the  cheese  so  small  that  the  whey  readily  flows 
off.  They  are  4j4  to  5  inches  square  and  2J/2  inches 
high,  weighing  from  ij/  to  2.^/2  pounds  each.  Like  all 
sweet  curd  cheese,  the  salt  is  applied  on  the  outer  side 
after  it  is  made,  and  is  absorbed,  and  the  proper  cur- 
ing room  is  a  rather  moist  cellar.  While  curing  a 
slime  forms  on  the  outside,  and  this  is  rubbed 
daily  with  the  hands,  and  in  time  forms  the  rind  which 
emits  the  characteristic  odor,  which  to  some  people  is 
■so  offensive  while  to  others  it  is  agreeable.  When 
cured,  each  piece  is  first  wrapped  in  strong  paper,  then 
Covered  with  tinfoil,  and  for  shipment  packed  in  square 
boxes  holding  about  one  hundred  pounds  each.  It  is 
a  very  rich  cheese,  there  being  hardly  a  trace  of  butter 
fat  in  the  whey,  and  is  free  from  the  fault  of  producing 
constipation,  so  objectionable  in  most  all  cheese.  In- 
deed, it  is  regarded  by  many  as  a  specific  cure  for 
dyspepsia.  An  ordinary  cheese  vat  and  curd  cutter, 
and  the  requisite  moulds,  draining  tables  and  curing 
shelves  constitute  the  rather  inexpensive  outfit  of 
a,  Limburger  factory.  It  is  considered  one  of 
the  most  profitable  varieties  for  the  maker,  as,  owin^ 
to  the  nearly  cold  process  of  making,  and  there  being 


v   <r  v 
BOTH-HANDED. 


Most  people  are  not  right-handed  to  the  extent  gen- 
erally implied.  Pianists  and  to  a  great  extent  violin- 
ists give  as  difficult  work  to  the  left  hand  as  to  the 
right.  Most  cricketers  can  at  any  rate  stop  and  catch 
a  ball  pretty  much  as  well  with  one  hand  as  with  the 
other.  In  the  gymnasium,  even  in  fencing  and  sin- 
i,l 'Sticks,  either  hand  is  practiced.  In  boxing  the  left 
is  the  more  used,  though  this  may  be  due  to  the  co- 
1  inlinate  use  of  the  right  leg.  Generally  speaking,  when 
the  two  hands  are  used  simultaneously  the  right  has 
;i  '  excessive  mastery.  Right-handedness  is  a  matter 
of  degree  with  different  people,  Most  surgeons  are 
a  good  deal  better  with  the  left  hand  than  men  of  other 
professions,  and  a  great  many  of  them  bear  personal 
witness  to  the  benefits  they  owe  to  their  ambidex- 
terity. 

We  may  perhaps  at  once  grant  that  almost  every 
Mie  would  be  the  better  for  little  more  control  over  his 
left  arm  and  fingers.  Let  any  one  attempt  to  write 
a  sentence  with  his  left  hand  and  he  will  feel  some  sort 
of  shame  for  the  impotence  of  his  will  over  his  mem- 
bers. The  Japanese  approach  more  nearly  than  any 
"ther  nation  to  the  ideal  of  ambidexterity,  and  it  is 
a  fair  inference  that  they  owe  to  the  training  of  their 
left  hand  some  part  of  the  mechanical  and  perhaps  ar- 
tistic skill  for  which  they  are  becoming  famous.  The 
left  band  is  practiced  considerably  in  the  education  of 
our  sailors,  and  it  may  be  their  "  handiness  "  is  partly 
the  result  of  this  training.  On  the  whole  the  edu- 
cated classes  are  pitiably  helpless  in  the  common  de- 
mands of  manual  work. 

4$»    $     * 

SAWDUST    PAVEMENTS. 


Sawdust  is  lending  itself  to  more  and  more  uses, 
constantly.  Ship-builders  in  England.  France  and 
( rermany  are  now  using  what  is  called  "stone-wood." 
a  mixture  of  saw-dust  with  certain  minerals,  which, 
formed  int.)  slabs  under  hydraulic  pressure,  makes  a 
surface  which  is  safe  to  walk  upon  and  will  not  burn 
or  permit  one  to  slip. 

This  substance  can  be  worked  like  any  hard  wood 
and   is   being   extensively   used. 

*  +  * 
Good  music  is  a  shower-bath  for  the  spirit,  it  washes 
away  everything  impure.  It  tunes  us  to  the  highest 
pitch  of  which  we  are  capable,  and  while  listening  to 
il.  we  feel  both  what  we  are  and  what  we  might  lie. — 
Schopenhauer. 


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THE    THIRD    EMANCIPATION. 


More  than  a  century  and  a  quarter  ago  the  few  feeble 
colonial  settlements,  which  then  comprised  the  Amer- 
ican people,  felt  the  iron  chain  of  bondage  and  slav- 
ery so  strongly  that  they  determined  at  all  hazards 
to  sever  it.  The  injustice  of  the  mother  country  had 
driven  them  to  desperation.  The  character  and  person- 
ality of  their  monarch.  "  Taxation  without  repre- 
sentation," and  a  score  of  other  injustices  were  heaped 
upon  them,  until  all  the  patriotism  within  their  breasts 
united  itself  in  one  great  force  and  rebelled,  demand- 
ing freedom. 

There  being  no  head  to  the  government  which  was 
not  yet,  and  no  one  to  make  a  public  "  Emancipation 
Proclamation,"  of  necessity  the  private  citizen  had  to 
take  up  the  authority  that  rightfully  belonged  to  high- 
er power.  So  the  forefathers  of  our  country  met  in 
council  and  framed  and  signed  "  The  Declaration  of 
Independence."    This  was  the  first  Emancipation. 

After  years  had  rolled  by  there  came  a  time  when  an- 
other Emancipation  was  necessary.  After  slavery  had 
been  introduced  it  had  grown  to  such  an  extent  and 
had  assumed  such  proportions  and  comprised  such 
a  component  part  of  our  national  affairs  that  it  not 
only  became  the  subject  of  universal  controversy,  but 
was  causing  great  dissatisfaction,  not  only  in  a  sec- 
tional way,  but  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of 
the  land. 

On  the  first  day  of  January,  1863,  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, who  was  then  president  of  the  United  States,  de- 
manded through  the  Emancipation  Proclamation  that 


freedom  be  given  to  the  black  man  of  the  South.  This 
was  not  the  beginning  of  the  war,  nor  the  end  of  it. 
However,  this  was  the  second  Emancipation,  and,  as 
in  the  case  of  the  first  Emancipation,  it  was  not  all  of 
it  to  make  the  statements,  either  in  the  Emancipation 
Proclamation,  or  in  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 
These  statements,  assertions  and  demands  had  to  be 
backed  up  with  gallons  of  blood,  thousands  of  lives, 
and  millions  of  dollars.  It  cost  a  division  between 
the  North  and  South ;  it  cost  the  lives  of  thousands 
of  patriotic  citizens  in  both  the  North  and  the  South. 
The  black  man  in  the  South  was  not  in  a  position  to 
realize  his  slavery  and  the  pangs  of  it ;  he  was 
also  powerless  to  help  to  extricate  himself  from  its 
,  clutches. 

Since  these  conditions  were  true,  the  party  of  liberty 
was  compelled,  not  only  to  overcome  the  impotency  of 
the  negro,  but  to  overcome  the  power  of  the  Confed- 
eracy. 

The  annals  of  our  nation  will  forever  bear  the  rec- 
ords of  these  two  great  conflicts.  And  with  a  sense 
of  grief  and  sorrow  will  thoughtful  people  reflect  on 
the  cost  and  carnage  they  required.  Again,  with  a 
sense  of  pride  will  the  patriot  reflect  how  cheerfully 
the  sacrifice  was  made  that  the  victory  might  be  gained. 
But  a  greater  battle  awaits  us.  A  louder  proclamation 
must  be  made.  Where  are  the  people,  and  who  is  the 
man  that  is  to  make  it  ? 

Our  nation  to-day  is  bound  down  in  slavery  more 
severe,  in  stronger  bonds,  under  hands  more  cruel 
than  either  of  the  former  of  which  we  have  spoken. 
The  slavery  of  the  sixties  affected  the  negro  only  as  to 
bondage.  The  troubles  of  revolutionary  times  affected 
the  few  colonists,  but  the  slavery  of  intemperance,  of 
organized  labor  and  capital,  of  national  and  social 
pride,  the  general  religious  debility  and  a  score  of 
other  things  that  the  devil  is  advocating  and  instill- 
ing into  the  hearts  and  minds  of  the  people  to-day, 
affects  a  nation  of  eighty  millions  of  slaves.  No  one 
of  these  criminal  bonds  of  slavery  perhaps  binds  any 
one  of  the  residents  of  the  United  States,  but  these 
great  influences  are  almost  unlimited  in  extent,  or 
irretrievable  in  their  character,  and  are  most  powerful 
in  their  influence.  We  must  fight  or  die.  The  enemy 
is  before  us,  behind  us,  around  us  and  among  us. 
Every  village,  hamlet  and  middlesex  of  our  country 
is  infested  with  either  a  saloon  which  is  the  cesspool 
of  intemperance  or  a  secret  lodge,  which  is  a  breed- 
ing pond  for  anarchy,  or  a  highly  demonstrated  in- 
fluence that  is  being  wielded  by  madam  fashion.  In 
large  cities,  where  the  population  is  congested  above 
all  reason,  the  conditions  are  proportionately  worse. 
Sin  and  crime  run  riot. 

The  only  remedial  agency  is  the  honest,  patriotic, 
wide-awake  spirit  of  the  American  people.  Unless 
they  flock  to  the  rescue,  the  hope  of  our  country  is 


THE  INGLENOOK.— November  I,  1904. 


1047 


gone.  This  is  not  a  pessimistic  view  of  the  matter; 
these  are  facts  founded  upon  statistics  of  our  own 
nation  and  upon  the  fate  of  other  nations  which  have 
lived  and  died  before  us,  because  they  did  not  expel 
these  evils  from  their  midst.  Education  and  religion 
have  saved  many  a  nation.  Intemperance,  idolatry 
and  anarchy  have  ruined  as  many,  or  more.  When 
elouds  and  shadows  of  financial  depression,  or  some 
other  vital  influences,  hang  over  a  nation,  they  are 
inclined  to  take  some  thought  of  their  moral  and  re- 
ligious conditions.  But  when  a  nation  is  as  prosperous 
as  1  Mrs  has  been  for  the  last  forty  years,  they  begin 
to  lose  their  interest  in  morals,  religion  and  spirituality 
and  give  more  attention  to  politics  and  finance.  To 
the  thoughtful  man  the  result  is  evident.  The  same 
thing  is  true  that  was  once  true  with  the  other  two 
conflicts,  as  the  North  had  to  fight  the  South  while 
liberating  the  negro,  so  the  patriotic  few  will  be  com- 
pelled to  militate  against  the  uninterested  and  incrim- 
inated many  in  order  to  free  the  helpless  millions  who 
know  not  their  real  condition  and  the  awful  results  that 
consequently  must  follow.  What  this  nation  needs 
now  is  eighty  million  volunteers  to  unite  forces  and 
fight  our  common  enemy  to  the  bitter  end. 

*   *   * 
WHAT'S    YOUR   JUDGMENT    IN    THE    MATTER? 


A  max  once  had  a  beautiful  garden !  In  that  gar- 
den was  one  lone  peach  tree ;  the  tree  bore  only  seven 
peaches,  but  they  were  beautiful,  luscious  and  per- 
fect. A  neighbor  visited  the  garden,  who,  for  some 
reason,  was  very  much  in  need  of  peaches.  He  im- 
plored the  charity  of  the  proprietor  and  made  bold 
to  ask  for  some  peaches  which  were  essentially  nec- 
essary. After  due  meditation,  reflection  and  con- 
sideration the  owner  deliberately  plucked  six  of  the 
seven  precious  products  of  his  garden  and  cheerfully 
presented  them  to  his  friend,  who  gratefully  received 
them  and  went  his  way. 

The  man  gave  the  matter  no  more  thought  at  that 
particular  time,  but  at  the  midnight  hour  he  was 
awakened  by  a  noise  in  the  back  yard.  On  looking 
out  of  the  window,  assisted  by  the  light  of  the  moon, 
he  beheld  that  very  neighbor,  to  whom  he  had  gratu- 
iti'iislv  given  six-sevenths  of  his  crop,  stealthily  ap- 
proaching the  only  remaining  peach  on  the  tree,  and, 
with  a  heart  full  of  covetousness  and  the  hand  of  a 
thief,  he  maliciously  robbed  the  tree  of  its  last  prize. 
This  was  all  done  without  any  regard  to  the  wants, 
needs  or  wishes  of  his  neighbor,  or  respect  for  his 
neighborly  kindness. 

(  If  course  this  never  happened  to  any  of  the  Nook 
family,  but  suppose  it  had,  what  would  you  think  of 
the  character  and  conscience  of  a  man  who  would  do 
such  a  thing?  What,  in  spite  of  all  your  efforts, 
would   be  your   impulse   and   feeling  toward   such   a 


neighbor  ?  Would  you  question  his  gratitude  ?  Would 
you  question  his  respect  for  you?  Would  you  question 
his  integrity? 

Now  let  us  change  the  picture.  Suppose  God  had 
seven  beautiful  days  in  one  week,  and  man,  who  is  the 
climax  of  his  creation,  his  own  image  and  likeness, 
the  object  upon  whom  he  has  bestowed  all  his  love, 
would  come  to  him  and  plead  for  time  in  which  to 
perform  the  arduous  labors  that  are  incumbent  upon 
him  as  the  representative  of  God  in  the  earth.  Our 
heavenly  Father,  after  due  reflection,  willingly  and 
cheerfully  gives  him  six  days  out  of  the  seven  which 
the  week  contains.  He  reserves  one  for  his  own  in- 
dividual and  special  use.  Now,  honestly,  what  would 
you  think  of  a  man  who,  after  having  received  these 
six  days  as  a  glorious  gift,  and,  after  having  devoured 
them  and  used  every  moment  of  them  to  the  best  of 
his  ability,  for  his  own  individual  advantage  and  bene- 
fit, if  he  should,  after  all  this  is  done,  with  an  un- 
righteous hand,  by  premeditated  act,  actually  steal 
a  part  or  all  of  the  seventh  day  and  appropriate  it  to 
his  own  individual  use.  What  do  you  suppose  God 
would  think  of  him  ?  Would  you  forgive  a  man  who 
would  take  a  peach  from  your  garden  in  that  way? 
Can  you  ask  God  to  "  forgive  us  as  we  forgive  them 
who  trespass  against  us  ?  "  And  can  you  conscien- 
tiously continue  your  Sunday  excursions  or  your  dese- 
cration of  the  Sabbath,  in  any  form,  and  still  claim  the 
rights  of  a  citizen  in  his  kingdom?  Now,  honestly, 
CAN  you  ? 

*  ♦  4* 

ONE    TO    SEVEN    THOUSAND. 


Here  is  a  problem  in  proportion  for  you.  As  one  is 
to  seven  thousand,  so  is  our  interests  to  city  Sunday- 
school  work.  In  a  recent  issue  of  the  Inglenook  we 
gave  an  extended  account  of  the  Sunday-school  Ex- 
tension Work  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  some  of  the 
glorious  results  from  it.  No  doubt  you  read  the  ap- 
peal that  was  made  to  you  to  lend  a  hand  in  the  great 
work.  Out  of  the  seven  thousand  subscribers  of  the 
Inglenook  family  JUST  OXE  has  so  far  answered 
the  call.  We  wonder  why  this  is.  Did  you  not  read 
it  ?  Did  you  forget  it  ?  Did  it  not  appeal  to  you  as  be- 
ing worthy?  Or  have  you  all  you  can  do  without  it? 
Read  it  again! 

*  *  * 

Won't  you  please  just  take  a  moment  and  tell  your 
friends  that  a  new  serial  begins  next  week,  entitled. 
"  The  Geography  Class.  Your  young  friends  can- 
not afford  to  miss  the  first  chapter  of  this  story.  The 
subscription  list  to  the  INGLENOOK  could  be  doubled 
in  one  week  if  you  would  just  take  1  me  moment  and  ask 
your  neighbor  to  subscribe.  This  will  cost  you  noth- 
ing. It  will  not  take  much  of  your  time.  It  will  do  a 
great  deal  of  'j;n^,\.  It  will  help  your  neighbor  li 
will  help  you.     It  will  help  the  missionary  cause. 


1048 


THE  I NGLENOOK.— November  1,  1904. 


CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


A    LETTER    FROM    KANSAS. 


Abilene,  Kans.,  Oct.  31,  1904. 
Editor  Inglenook. 

Dear  Sir: — Crops  are  fine  in  this  county  and  have 
been  for  the  past  three  years.  Corn  making  from  40 
to  75  bushels  per  acre.  Wheat  15  to  40  bushels  of  good 
quality.  We  have  a  good  crop  of  potatoes.  The  hay 
crop  is  very  fine ;  prairie  making  as  much  as  2  J/2  tons 
per  acre,  while  alfalfa,  being  mowed  as  often  as  three 
or  four  times  a  season,  makes  from  1 J4  to  2j4  tons 
per  mowing.  The  fruit  crop  (fruits  of  all  kind)  is 
fine,  and  much  of  it  going  to  waste.  At  a  recent  pump- 
kin show  here  it  was  found  that  some  weighed  from  40 
to  993^2  pounds,  each ;  the  ones  weighing  99^-2  pounds 
were  sent  to  the  World's  Fair.  Everything  is  pros- 
pering in  Dickerson  and  adjoining  counties,  with 
plenty  of  fine  rains  to  make  things  grow. 

Respectfully, 

E.  J.  Beeghly. 

*  *  * 

A  blinding  blizzard  is  reported  as  prevailing 
throughout  northern  Michigan.  The  snow  is  about 
two  inches   deep,  with  a  lowering  temperature. 

*  *  * 

About  fifty  of  the  Hebrew  boys,  who  are  students 
of  the  Philadelphia  Hebrew  and  Talmudic  institute, 
and  who  are  from  fourteen  to  eighteen  years  of  age, 
have  unanimously  agreed  to  have  religious  services 
once  a  week,  to  be  conducted  solely  by  the  boys,  each 
in  his  turn  officiating  at  the  altar.  The  purpose  of 
these  services  is  to  win  the  Jewish  youth  back  to  the 
faith  of  their  fathers. 

*  *  * 

At  Reading,  Pa.,  William  McAllister  was  killed  in 
a  runaway  accident  recently.  The  horses  ran  down 
a  steep  hill  with  a  load  of  potatoes.  The  father  at- 
tempted to  apply  the  brake,  but  fell  under  the  wagon 
and  had  his  foot  crushed.  The  son  fell  off  of  the  wag- 
on and  somehow  was  trampled  by  the  horses  and 
instantly  killed. 

*  *  * 

Alderman  D.  H.  Redhead,  who  is  mayor  of  Peters- 
borough,  England,  says  he  is  the  rightful  owner  of 
Chicago.  He  says  that  in  1834  his  parents  went  west 
to  visit  an  uncle  who  owned  a  tract  of  land  in  Illinois 
upon  which  the  city  was  afterwards  built.  When 
they  reached  Lake  Michigan  their  uncle  was  dead. 
They  laid  claim  to  the  land  but  their  resources  were 
exhausted  by  litigation,  and  they  had  to  abandon  the 
fight.  It  would  be  bad  if  Mr.  Redhead  would  serve 
a  ten-day  notice  on  the  people  to  vacate  his  property. 
There  might  be  other  redheads  too. 


Francis  Lee  Donlavy,  sixteen-year-old,  while  oil-  * 
ing  some  machinery  at  a  mining  plant  was  caught  ir  n 
the  machinery.     The  rapid  motion  of  the  machinery  t 
twisted   his   clothing  and   finally   literally   wrung   his  igl 
neck. 

•:•  •>  •> 

Rev.  Wilbur  Coffman,  of  Dorrancetown,  Pa.,  was  f 
removed  from  the  pastorate  of  his  church  by  presiding  1)', 
elder  Murcockat  at  the  request  of  the  majority  of  the 
members  of  his  congregation.     The  church   was   six  :. 
thousand   dollars   in   debt  and  the   members   insisted  lse< 
on  raising  the  money  by  suppers,  fairs,  shows,  dances  jen 
etc.,  against  which  Rev.  Coffman  stubbornly  remon-  lj; 
strated.     He  contends  .that  such  trash  feeds  the  lowei  1t1.11 
nature  and  belongs  to  mammon.     He  says  they  are  ssi 
trading  stamp  adjuncts  to  the  church,  and  that  the   t: 
members  have  to  spend  three  dollars  to  net  one  to  the  t ; 
church,    hence    teaches    extravagance    and  results  ire 
spiritual  poverty.     "  The  love  of  money  is  the  root  o:  ;  P 
all  evil."     Would  to  God  that  more  men  had  a  back-  lr 
bone  like  Coffman. 

*  *  * 

Fire  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  destroyed  the  Martin  Fe<  tb 
male  college  at  that  place,  worth  forty  thousand  dol- 
lars.    Insurance  thirty  thousand. 

HI 

*  *    * 

A  treaty  of  peace  between  Chili  and  Bolivia  wai  n 
signed  Monday  at  Santiago. 

*  *  * 

Of  the  four  million  six  hundred  thousand  dollai 
loan  which  the  United  States  government  made  t( 
the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition,  all  has  been  re1 
turned  to  the  government  except  about  seven  hundree 
thousand  dollars,  which  will  soon  be  met.  We  ar 
at  the  point  now  where  we  are  safe  in  saying  that  fi 
nancially  the  Fair  has  been  a  success. 

•Jt    *$»    A 

Harry  Bowles,  of  Brookline,  Mass,  crazed  bj 
drink,  shot  his  wife,  also  policeman  MacMurray  win 
attempted  his  arrest. 

*  *  * 

Palmistry  will  not  stand  court  in  England.  At  ; 
late  session  several  professional  palmists  were  banned 
their  profession  being  counted  illegal. 

*  *  * 
In  the  way  of  railway  casualties,  1904  has  a  blacl 

list  of  three  hundred  and  fifty-four  dead  and  upward 
of  seven  hundred  wounded  thus  far.     What  the  nex 
two  months  will  bring  is  in  the  future. 
<$>    4.   $ 
The   vintage    in    Southern    Germany    and    Fran 
especially  in  the  Alsace-Loraine  district,  is  reported  t 
be  the  best  since  1874.     The  vineyards  are  black  wit 
grapes   and   there   is   a   great   scarcity   of   labor   am 
barrels. 


■•, 


THE  INGLENOOK.— November  i,  1904. 


1049 


According  to  Friday's  advices  from  Mukden,  Gen- 
al  Kuropatkin  and  Marshall  Oyame  had  agreed  to 
truce  for  forty-eight  hours  after  their  armies  had 
ught  continuously  for  ten  days  or  more,  both  sides 
ing  completely  exhausted.  The  particular  object 
the  truce  was  to  enable  the  wounded  to  be  cared 
>r  and  the  dead  buried.  On  Sunday  last  the  Russian 
my,  whose  movement  southward  had  been  turned 
to  a  disastrous  retreat  during  the  preceding  week 
c  fighting,  suddenly  turned  on  its  pursuers  and  re- 
vised the  Japanese  center  along  the  Shakhe  river, 
hen  came  the  desperate  assault  of  the  Russians  on 
le  Japanese  position  on  Lone  Tree  Hill,  which  was 
iptured  with  thirty-five  Jap&nese  guns.  Further 
ussian  advances  were  checked  by  the  Japanese  and 
1  fighting  was  greatly  impeded  by  rains  and  floods. 
he  casualties  on  both  sides  were  believed  to  exceed 
le  hundred  and  fifty  thousand.  All  hope  of  reliev- 
g  Port  Arthur  was  given  up,  although  the  Russian 
>rtress  continued  to  hold  out.  It  was  definitely 
mounced  that  the  Baltic  fleet  had  made  final  arrange- 
ents  for  going  to  the  East,  one  part  by  Suez  and  one 
irt  by  Cape  of  Good  Hope. 

♦  ♦  ♦ 

The  court  dockets  of  Naples,  Italy  show  upwards 
I  thirteen  thousand  cases  awaiting  trial.  In  almost 
zery  instance  these  cases  are  based  upon  the  negli- 

nce  of  the  magistrates.     Evidently  they  are  going  to 

ean  house. 

*  *  * 

One  of  the  ministers  at  Ayrshire,  near  Edinburgh, 
cptland,  has  complained  before  the  Ayr  Presbytery 
lat  his  elders  and  deacons  smoke  in  the  vestry  of 
is  church  after  services  have  begun.  The  Presby- 
ry  decided  that  the  elders  should  leave  their  pipes 

home,  to  which  decision  the  elders  unanimously  con- 
nted.  Now  if  the  women  at  home  will  just  make  an 
jpeal  to  the  Presbytery  perhaps  another  step  can  be 
ken  with  profit.  *   *  * 

The  President  of  the  republic  of  Venezuela  has 
id  built  to  his  order,  in  the  city  of  Caracas,  a  palace  of 
eel.  It  is  bomb  and  bullet  proof  and  is  roller  bear- 
g  which  adapts  it  to  resistance  against  earthquake 
locks.  He  probably  has  gotten  this  idea  from  the 
ika.lo  of  Japan.  *   *   * 

Tasmania  is  fortunate  in  its  new  Governor,  Sir 
erald  Strickland,  for  he  has  shown  that  he  is  admir- 
ily  suited  for  such  a  position.  Sir  Gerald  is  a  Mal- 
se  count,  as  well  as  an  English  gentleman.  He  comes 
om  one  of  the  oldest  of  English  Roman  Catholic 
milies,  and  he  very  early  joined  that  branch  of  the 
plomatic  service  which  concerns  itself  with  greater 
ritain.  His  first  apprenticeship  as  a  public  servant 
ok  place  in  Malta,  where  he  was  first  Assistant  Sec- 
tary and  then  chief  Secretary ;  and  as  chairman  of 


the  Malta  Cholera  Committee  he  did  yeoman  service 
for  both  the  Maltese  and  British.  Lady  Adeline 
Strickland  is  the  eldest  of  Lord  De  La  Warr's  sisters. 
She  is  a  keen  sportswoman,  and  made  herself  very 
much  liked  in  the  West  Indies,  where  her  husband 
lately  completed  his  term  of  two  years'  Governorship 
of  the  Leeward  Islands.  Sir  Gerald  and  Lady  Adeline 
have  a  beautiful  place  in  Westmoreland. 

In  the  will  of  Mrs.  Sarah  E.  Potter,  widow  of 
Warren  B.  Potter,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  the  public  be- 
quests aggregate  about  three  million  dollars,  all  of 
which  go  to  public  institutions  in  that  city  and  vi- 
cinity. 

*  *   * 

The  Chicago  Medical  Society,  has  begun  an  in- 
vestigation of  the  charges  against  eighteen  prominent 
physicians  because  of  paying  commissions  to  outside 
doctors  for  referring  cases.  These  gentlemen  were 
trapped  in  their  high  sin  and  crime  by  decoy  letters 
which  were  sent  to  all  the  leading  physicians  in  the 
city. 

*  *  4* 

A  three-masted  schooner,  Elwood  Burton,  wrecked 
recently  as  a  result  of  striking  a  sand  bar.  Four  per- 
sons were  drowned. 

*  *  * 

At  Ft.  Wintrop,  Mass.,  three  artillery  men  were 
instantly  killed  by  premature  explosion  of  a  powder 

charge-  *  *  * 

The  government  of  Holland  has  settled  the  diffi- 
culty over  the  acceptance  of  the  Carnegie  Peace  Fund 
by  deciding  to  build  the  Palace  of  Peace  on  a  plot 
between  The  Hague  and  Scheveningen.  Work  will  be- 
gin at  once. 

4>    ►:*    * 

Willie  Stevens,  near  Susquehanna,  Pa.,  under- 
took to  capture  a  deer  which  he  chanced  to  meet  in 
the  woods.  He  laid  in  ambush  until  it  came  near, 
when  he  struck  it  with  a  stone,  crippling  it.  The  deer 
turned  at  bay  and  a  battle  ensued,  but  through  the 
efficacy  of  a  rusty  old  pocket  knife  the  boy  came  out 
victorious.  .     _ 

During  a  recent  severe  storm  which  swept  over 
southern  Florida,  the  town  of  Miami  was  cut  ofFfrom 
all  communications  with  the  world  and  the  schooner 
Melrose  was  wrecked,  four  of  her  crew  being  drowned. 

*  *  * 

An  eastern  syndicate  together  with  home  capital 
has  planned  to  erect  a  ten  million  dollar  hotel  in  Chi- 
cago. It  is  said  they  contemplmte  outdoing  in  size 
and  magnificence  any  other  structure  of  the  kind  in 
the  world. 


io5o 


THE  INGLENOOK.— November  I,  1904. 


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CLASS   AVES.— ORDER   NATORES. 


Of  the  Duck  family  we  have  a  large  number  of 
species,  many  of  them  possessed  of  beautiful  plumage 
and  interesting  habits.  Quite  prominent  among  these 
is  the  Common  Mallard,  with  its  stately  head  of  rich 
golden  green,  and  back  and  breast  and  wings  of  varied 
shades  of  brown,  blue,  black  and  white.  From  this 
fine  bird  has  sprung  many  of  the  races  of  Domestic 
Ducks  which  are  now  dispersed  over  the  country.  But 
in  his  wild  state  he  bears  so  little  resemblance  to  his 
degenerate  progeny,  that  one  would  scarcely  recognize 
his  connection  with  it.  The  Mallard  is  found  in  most 
parts  of  the  country  during  the  winter  season,  except 
in  the  Eastern  States.  Audubon  says  "  they  generally 
arrive  in  the  country  and  other  parts  of  the  western 
country  (from  the  north),  from  the  middle  of  Sep- 
tember to  the  first  of  October,  or  as  soon  as  the 
acorns  and  beech-nuts  are  fully  ripe.  In  a  few  days 
they  are  to  be  found  in  all  the  ponds  that  are  covered 
with  seed-bearing  grasses.  Some  flocks,  which  ap- 
pear to  be  guided  by  an  experienced  leader,  come  di- 
rectly down  to  the  water  with  a  rustling  sound  of 
their  wings,  that  can  be  compared  only  to  the  noise 
produced  by  an  eagle  in  the  act  of  swooping  upon 
its  prey;  while  other  flocks,  as  if  they  felt  uneasy  re- 
specting the  safety  of  the  place,  sweep  around  and 
above  it  several  times  in  perfect  silence,  before  they 
alight.  In  either  case  the  birds  immediately  bathe 
themselves,  beat  their  bodies  with  their  wings,  dive 
by  short  plunges,  and  cut  so  many  capers  that  you 
might  imagine  them  to  be  mad.  They  wash  them- 
selves and  arrange  their  dress,  before  commencing 
their  meal;  and  in  this,  other  travelers  would  do  well 
to  imitate  them. 

"  Now,  toward  the  grassy  margins  they  advance  in 
straggling  parties.  See  how  they  leap  from  the  water 
to  bend  the  loaded  tops  of  the  tall  reeds.  Woe  be  to 
the  slug  or  snail  that  comes  in  their  way.  Some  are 
probing  the  mud  beneath,  and  waging  war  against  the 
leech,  frog,  or  lizard  that  is  within  reach  of  their  bills ; 
while  many  of  the  older  birds  run  into  the  woods,  to 
fill  their  crops  with  beech-nuts  and  acorns,  not  dis- 
daining to  swallow  also,  should  they  come  in  their 
way,  some  of  the  wood-mice  that,  frightened  by  the 
approach  of  the  foragers,  hie  toward  their  burrows. 
The  cackling  they  keep  up  would  almost  deafen  you, 


were  you  near  them,  but  it  is  suddenly  stopped  by  tl  e 
approach  of  some  unusual  enemy,  and  at  once  all  a; 
silent." 

During  the  autumn  months  our  inland  streams  ar 
lakes  mostly  bound  with  many  varieties  of  Ducks, 
forms   and  degrees  of  beauty  as  numerous  as  the 
species. 

We  have  already  become  a  little  acquainted  wi1 
the  Mallard,  both  as  the  occupant  of  our  private  due  t: 
ponds,  and  also  as  a  denizen  of  the  free  air;  let 
now  consider  the  Common  Summer  or  Wood  Due 
This  is  one  of  the  few  species  which  remain  with 
the  limits  of  the  States  throughout  the  year,  mu 
the  larger  portion  retiring  to  the  "  far  north ' 
breed.  The  Summer  Duck  is  certainly  one  of  the  mc 
elegant  of  its  tribe;  its  plumage  being  richly  gloss- 
with  green  and  gold,  purple  and  black,  in  some  plac 
mottled  with  white,  or  finely  barred  with  black  ai 
fawn.  The  head  presents  a  fine  appearance,  sr 
mounted  by  a  long  crest  of  green,  and  the  cheeks  bea 
tifully  marked  with  black  and  white.  It  appears 
be  widely  spread  over  the  whole  extent  of  the  count) 
from  Louisiana  to  Maine,  and  westward  some 
tance  up  the  Missouri  river.  Within  these  limits 
may  almost  be  said  to  be  a  constant  resident.  It  ge 
erally  builds  its  nest  in  a  hollow  tree,  frequently 
the  deserted  nest  of  a  large  Woodpecker,  giving  < 
preference  to  such  trees  as  are  near  the  water, 
which  overhang  pools  or  marshes.  The  number 
eggs  which  the  female  deposits  varies  much ;  Audub 
says  from  six  to  fifteen;  Wilson  speaks  of  a  nest  cc 
taining  thirteen. 

It  is  a  singular  fact,  according  to  the  first  nan 
author,  that  upon  the  female  having  completed  i 
number  of  eggs,  she  is  at  once  deserted  by  the  mi 
who,  joining  with  a  few  others,  roams  about  until 
young  are  able  to  fly,  when  the  old  and  young  ur 
in  one  flock,  and  remain  together  until  another  s 
son  comes  round. 

The  Green  and  the  Blue-winged  Teal  are  also  t 
handsome  Ducks,  but  are  only  known  to  us  as  transi 
visitors  in  the  spring  and  autumn  months,  the  c 
regions  of  the  fur  countries  being  their  usual  pi 
of  resort  during  the  summer. 

The  Canvass-back  is  the  famous  Duck  which  is  g 
erally  considered  by  epicures  as  the  finest  of  all 
Duck  family, — its  flesh  being  thought  to  possess  a 


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iliarly  agreeable  flavor,  which  no  other  fowl  can  claim, 
he.  most  common  winter  resort  of  these  celebrated 
ucks  is  the  Chesapeake  Bay  and  the  rivers  and, 
reams  belonging  to  it,  such  as  the  Susquehanna, 
otomac,  and  James  rivers.  Here  they  sometimes 
semble  in  flocks  of  such  great  numbers  as  to  cover 
e  surface  of  the  water  for  acres  in  extent,  and  when 
ey  rise  suddenly  the  noise  of  their  wings  resembles 
under.  The  abundance  of  their  favorite  food,  a  grass 
ce  plant  which  grows  to  the  height  of  a  .few  feet 
love  the  water,  the  roots  of  which  seem  to  form  their 
stenance,  is  evidently  the  great  attraction  for  these 
rds,  as  of  late  years  their  numbers  appear  to  have 
creased,  while  at  the  same  time  the  plant  has  be- 
ime  less  abundant.  These  Ducks  are  often  seen 
eding  in  company  with  several  other  species,  such 
the  Black-headed  Duck,  the  Widgeon  and  the  Red- 
aded  Duck.  They  all  appear  to  live  upon  the  same 
ant ;  the  Canvass-back  and  the  Black-head  diving 
obtain  the  roots,  while  the  Widgeon  and  the  Red- 
ad  prefer  the  leaves.  The  Canvass-back  has  also 
en  found  on  the  waters  of  the  Hudson,  and  upon 
me  of  the  western  rivers ;  but  its  chief  winter  haunts 
e  to  the  southward,  while  its  summer  life  is  passed 
r  away  to  the  north. 

The  Eider  Duck,  is  an  elegant  bird,  which  inhabits 
e  northern  portions  of  both  continents,  and  must, 
r  various  reasons,  be  looked  upon  with  great  in- 
rest  by  the  student  of  Nature;  and  the  value  of  its 
wn,  as  a  promoter  of  ease  and  comfort,  must  claim 
r  it  equal  celebrity  with  the  Canvass-back.  In  some 
:alities  their  nests  are  usually  built  upon  rocky 
ecipices  which  overhang  the  ocean,  and  are  lined 
th  the  soft  down  which  the  female  plucks  from  her 
east.  In  those  countries  where  this  down  is  col- 
led as  an  article  of  commerce,  in  order  to  increase 
e  quantity  produced  in  one  season,  the  nest  is  de- 
ived  of  its  eggs  as  well  as  the  down ;  the  female 
ain  plucks  her  bosom,  and  lays  a  fresh  complement 
eggs,  which  are  also  taken ;  a  third  time  she  makes 
effort  to  raise  a  brood,  when  the  male  sometimes 
sists  in  lining  the  nest  by  taking  the  down  from  his 
m  breast.  This  brood  they  are  allowed  to  raise, 
r,  if  their  hopes  of  progeny  are  entirely  destroyed, 
:y  will  abandon  the  place ;  whereas,  if  once  attached 
a  spot,  they  return  to  it  year  after  year  with  their 
ung. 

The  Eider  Duck  is  seldom  found  south  of  the  vi- 
lify of  New  York.  Further  north  and  to  the  east- 
ird  as  far  as  the  bay  of  Fundy,  it  becomes  more 
undant ;  and  to  Labrador  thousands  of  pairs,  it  is 
d,  annually  resort  to  breed  and  spend  the  short  sum- 
:r.  Respecting  their  habits  in  these  countries, 
idubon  says :  "  In  Labrador  the  Eider  Ducks  begin 
form  their  nests  about  the  last  week  of  May.  Some 
»ort  to  the  islands  scantily  furnished  with  grass,  near 


the  tufts  of  which  they  construct  their  nests ;  others 
form  them  beneath  the  spreading  boughs  of  the 
stunted  firs,  and  in  such  places,  five,  six,  or  even  eight, 
are  sometimes  found  beneath  a  single  bush.  Many 
are  placed  on  the  sheltered  shelvings  of  rocks  a  few 
feet  above  high-water  mark,  but  none  at  any  con- 
siderable elevation. 

The  nest,  which  is  sunk  as  much  as  possible  into  the 
ground,  is  formed  of  sea-weeds,  mosses,  and  dried 
twigs,  so  matted  and  interlaced  as  to  give  appearance 
of  neatness  to  the  central  cavity,  which  rarely  exceeds 
seven  inches  in  diameter.  In  the  beginning  of  June 
the  eggs  are  deposited,  the  male  attending  upon  the  fe- 
male the  whole  time.  The  eggs,  which  are  regularly 
placed  on  the  moss  and  weeds  of  the  nest,  without 
any  down,  are  generally  from  five  to  seven,  three  inches 
in  length,  two  inches  and  one-eighth  in  breadth,  being 
thus  much  longer  than  those  of  the  Domestic  Duck,, 
of  a  regular  oval  form,  smooth-shelled,  and  of  a  uni- 
form pale  olive-green.  When  the  full  complement 
of  eggs  has  been  laid  she  begins  to  pluck  some  down 
from  the  lower  parts  of  her  body;  this  operation  is 
daily  continued  for  some  time,  until  the  quills  of  the 
feathers,  as  far  forward  as  she  can  reach,  are  quite 
bare,  and  as  clean  as  a  wood  from  which  the  under- 
growth has  been  cleared  away.  This  down  she  places 
beneath  and  around  the  eggs.  When  she  leaves  the 
nest  to  go  in  search  for  food,  she  places  it  over  the 
eggs ;  and  in  this  manner,  it  may  be  presumed  to  keep 
up  their  warmth,  although  it  does  not  always  insure 
their  safety,  for  the  Black-headed  Gull  is  apt  to  re- 
move the  covering,  and  suck  or  otherwise  destroy 
the  eggs.  The  care  which  the  mother  takes  of  her 
young  for,  two  or  three  weeks,  cannot  be  exceeded. 
She  leads  them  gently  in  a  close  flock  in  shallow  wa- 
ters, where,  by  diving,  they  procure  food ;  and,  at 
times,  when  the  young  are  fatigued,  and  at  some  dis- 
tance from  the  shore,  she  sinks  her  body  in  the  water, 
and  receives  them  on  her  back,  where  they  remain 
several  minutes." 

The  Long-tailed  Duck  is  another  beautiful  species 
which  breeds  away  to  the  northward,  and  visits  us 
in  great  numbers  during  the  winter,  being  found  al- 
most everywhere  on  the  Atlantic  coast.  They  are 
noisy,  lively  species,  and  owing  to  their  reiterated 
cries,  they  have  been  called  "Noisy  Ducks;"  they 
have,  however,  other  names  applied  to  them,  such  as 
"  Old  Wives  "  and  "  Old  Squaws." 

With  the  Hooded  Merganser  we  must  close  our 
brief  notices  of  the  Ducks.  This  showy  and  elegant 
bird  is  more  an  inhabitant  of  our  western  and  south- 
ern waters  than  of  the  eastern  coast.  It  breeds  along 
the  Mississippi,  the  Ohio,  and  the  Great  Lakes,  as  well 
as  further  northward,  and  during  winter  it  is  said 
sometimes  to  retire  as  far  southward  as  Mexico.  The 
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HOME    DEPARTMENT 


OLD-FASHIONED    QUILTIN*    BEES. 


PURE   AIR. 


Them  good  ol'-fashioned  quiltin'  bees  they  used  to  have 

when  me 
An'  you  was  wearin'  fuzzy  lips — mustaches  yit  to  be — 
Was  jest  the  jolliest  affairs  that  ever  happened  since 
The    day    when    Adam    an'    his    mate    eat    that    forbidden 

quince. 
Fur  weeks  ol'  mother  an'  the  girls  was  busy  night  an'  day 
A  sewin'  patches  from  the  frocks  an'  things  they'd  throwed 

away, 
And  gittin'  'em  in  readiness  to  meet  the  great  event 
So  full  o'  ol'  folks'  talkiness  an'  young  folks'  merriment. 

All  day  around  the  quiltin'  frames  the  gals  an'  dames  'd  sit 
Upon  the  ol'  split-bottom  chairs  as  clus  as  they  could  git, 
A  argufyin'  p'ints  on  which  they  didn't  quite  agree, 
Their  needles   an'  their  tongues   a   workin'   sim-ul-ta-nus- 

lee. 
An'  actin'  through  the  impulse  o'  the  female  instinct,  they 
Would  do  a  little  gossipin'  in  a  Christian1  sort  o'  way- 
No  viptr-pizen  slander  talk  was  shot  from  tongue  to  ear 
To  blacken  character  o'  them  that  wasn't  there  to  hear. 

They'd  talk  o'  what  a  splendid  match  Almira  Jones   had 

made, 
Of  'Mandy  Johnson's  babe— jes'  come— an'  what  they  say 

it  weighed, 
Of  Simon  Snodgrass  goin'  with  Amelia  Pettijohn, 
An'  how  Ann  Prichard  an'  her  man  out  West  was  gettin' 

on. 
How  Mary  Smith,  that  buried  Sam  a  year  ago,  should  git 
Another  husban'  in  his  place,  her  bein'  youngish  yit, 
An'   how   Ann   Smart   was   suff-rin   from   a  misery  in   her 

chest, 
An'  talk  o'  other  num'rous  things  o'  public  interest. 

Then    after    dark   the   boys'd    come   from    miles    an'    miles 

around, 
The  sleighbells  on  the  winter  air  a  jinglin'  merry  sound, 
An'  soon  the  inspiration  from  the  fiddle  'd  be  felt 
An',  Moses  an'  his  whiskers!  how  the  oak  floor  they  would 

'welt! 
The  color  pictured  in  the  cheeks  o'  them  farm  gals  'd  hush 
The  boastin'  o'  the  chaps  that  write  about  the  rose's  blush, 
As   'round  an'   'round  an'  'round  the   room   they'd   dance 

with  merry  zest, 
'Bout  half  the  time  locked  in  the  arms  o'  them  they  loved 

the  best. 

Some   o'   the   rather   oldish   folks   who   read   these   humly 

rhymes, 
May  lay  the  paper  down  an'  sigh  an'  think  about  the  times 
When  they  were  young  an'  full  o'  sap  an'  reveled  in  the 

plays 
In  which  young  Cupid  tuk  a  part  in  them   ol'-fashioned 

days. 
An'  mebbe  while  a  thinkin'  o'  them  days  o'  golden  ties 
Some  good  ol'  man  may  gaze  into  some  good  ol'  mother's 

eyes, 
An'  thank  the  Lord  fur  givin'  him  the  wifely  prize  that  he 
Fust  sort  o'  tuk  a  likin'  to  back  at  a  quiltin'  bee. 

— James   Barton  Adams. 


Just  why  people  live  is  sometimes  a  question,  whe 
one  stops  to  consider  how  the}'  live,  under  what  coi 
ditions  and  with  what  carelessness  along  just  the  Hi 
of  greatest  importance.  In  these  days  when  hygien 
food  has  come  to  be  considered  of  such  paramount  ir 
portance,  and  the  matter  of  pure  food  and  pure  wal 
is  given  much  thought  and  consideration,  even  the 
pure  air,  which  in  reality  is  far  above  all  else  in  ir 
portance,  receives  little  or  no  attention. 

One  hesitates  to  take  into  his  system  food  whii 
bears  the  ban  of  unhygienic  conditions  or  is  poor 
made,  or  impure  in  any  way,  but  he  gives  no  thoug 
to  the  air  which  he  is  constantly  taking  into  his  lun 
and  which  nature  has  provided  for  the  rebuilding  ai 
renewal  of  the  whole  system.  Indeed,  nature  has  ma 
provision  whereby  the  air  in  the  lungs  may  be  chang 
from  16,000  to  20,000  times  a  day,  and  if  that  air 
.pure  the  result  under  nature's  laws  will  be  the  bi 
of  health  and  spirits. 

Every  human  being  is  much  like  a  machine,  whi 
must  constantly  be  oiled  to  remain  in  good  conditk 
The  lubricant  in  this  case  is  pure  air,  and  it  is  tr 
which  keeps  the  entire  machine  running  smoothly  a 
doing  its  work.  But  just  as  grit  clogs  and  blocks  ( 
mechanical  apparatus,  so  foul,  impure  air  slowly  I 
surely  clogs  the  human  mechanism  and  eventua 
breaks  up  the  delicate  machinery.  The  busy  man 
woman  may  forget  all  about  the  air  of  a  room,  but  1 
results  are,  nevertheless,  just  as  certain. 

It  is  said  that  three-fourths  of  all  sickness  can 
traced  to  foul  air,  because  that  amount  of  time  is 
indoors.     In  sleeping  rooms,  offices,  restaurants, 
schoolrooms,  churches,  halls,  etc.     From  thirty  to 
cubic  feet  of  pure  air  are  necessary  and  should  be  a 
able  for  every  person  confined  in  a  room,  office,  sc 
room,  workshop  or  wherever  one  may  be,  .in  order 
maintain  the  requisite  amount  of  pure  air  for  the  lun 
A  room  ten  feet  high,  fifteen  feet  wide  and  twe 
feet  long  contains  3,000  cubic  feet  of  air ;  one  per: 
will  vitiate  it  in  about  one  hour  and  two  or  more  p 
sons  in  a  correspondingly  shorter  time. 

Think  what  this  means  and  consider  what  the  c 
ditions  are  in  many  offices,  schoolrooms,  churches, 
Is  it  any  wonder,  then,  that  men  come  home  after 
day's  work  tired  and  worn  out?  Is  it  strange  t 
children  are  ready  to  take  every  disease  that  offe 
Do  you  wonder  that  women  who  are  so  much  indc 
lose  energy  and  enthusiasm? 


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DISHWASHING    AGAIN. 


BY    A    EUCKEYE    NOOKER. 

In  a  recent  issue  of  the  Inglenook  appeared  an 
tide  recommending  dishwashing  in  soapsuds.  In 
later  issue  another  Nooker  condemned  the  use  of 
apsuds  and  recommended  the  use  of  whey.  Bah ! 
'e  feed  whey  to  our  pigs.  The  idea  of  recommend- 
g  a  jar  of  whey  to  stand  continually  on  the  kitchen 
ble,  attracting  all  the  flies  in  the  neighborhood  is 
arly  as  repulsive  as  soapsuds.  She  also  recommend- 
soda,  since  soap  was  so  dirty,  unhealthful,  etc.  It 
true  that  soda  is  white,  but  do  you  know  that  soda 
made  from  ashes  and  who  knows  how  many  persons 
ay  have  expectorated  in  these  ashes  before  they  were 
ade  into  soda.  Not  only  that  but  the  expectoration 
ay  have  contained  nicotine  from  tobacco  spit  or 
bercle  bacillus  from  consumptives  or  other  infectious 
seases. 

Besides  have  you  thought  of  the  pasteboard  carton 
which  the  soda  is  boxed  ?  The  paper  itself  is  not 
clean.  Were  you  ever  in  a  paper  mill?  Your 
istrils  will  detect  the  filth  of  a  paper  mill  many  rods 
iray.  No,  I  prefer  the  good  old-fashioned  home- 
ade  soap ;  and  suggest  that  when  the  dishrags  are 
oroughly  washed  out,  after  being  used,  they  will  not 

slippery." 

And  if  dishwashing  is  left  to  the  children,  as  sug- 
sted  there  ought  to  be  no  question  about  thorough 
ishing  and  rinsing,  for  children  are  likely  to  do 
ings  as  they  are  taught.  Give  me  plenty  of  hot  rain- 
iter,  homemade  soft  soap,  and  good  hot  rinse-water 
d  I  will  guarantee  dishes  that  are  not  only  cleanly, 
it  free  from  odor. 
Lima,  Ohio. 

HURRIED    EATING. 


Of  the  careless  practices  of  childhood  one  of  the 
avest  is  that  of  hurried  eating.  The  evils  following 
the  train  are  so  obvious  that  mention  may  appear  un- 
lled  for.  Yet  there  are  mothers,  former  pupils  of 
gher  schools,  who  fail  to  note  the  precipitate  manner 
which  their  little  folk  swallow  their  food ;  or,  see- 
g,  allow  their  children  to  eat  a  hasty  breakfast,  morn- 
g  after  morning  during  the  school  year,  with  only 
nervous  word  of  remonstrance,  ineffectual  and,  there- 
re,  worse  than  useless.  Experience  alone  can  bring 
'me  to  a  child  the  nature  of  the  results  directly  trace- 
■le  to  the  improper  mastication  of  food.  As  in  many 
her  directions  experience  is  a  dear  teacher  and  comes 
3  late.  There  are  easy  ways,  however,  of  compassing 
e  desired  end.  One  is  to  be  found  in  the  character  of 
e  food  provided.  Many  breakfast  cereals,  especially 
ose  requiring  home  cooking,  wholesome  as  they  may 


be  when  properly  eaten,  admit  of  swallowing  almost 
without  mastication.  Crusty  bread  a  day,  or,  better, 
still,  two  or  three  days  old ;  dry  toast,  which  is  not  dry 
on  the  surface  and  gummy  within,  but  crisp  through- 
out; zwieback,  hot  or  cold — such  food  is  less  quickly 
disposed  of.  Best  of  all,  let  the  meals  be  served  in 
good  season,  and  a  never-failing  rule  requiring  the 
child  to  spend  a  stated  time  at  the  table,  whether  eat- 
ing or  not.  Such  a  custom  pursued  from  the  days  of 
early  childhood,  raises  no  question,  and  is  regarded  as 
no  hardship. 

The  high  school  pupil  too  often  goes  without  a 
lunch,  or,  if  a  girl,  selects  for  herself  what  is  not  con- 
ducive to  health.  On  her  return  she  supplements  it 
with  whatever  dainties  the  pantry  affords,  tidbits  from 
the  lighter  part  of  the  family  lunch.  And  the  mother  ? 
Whether  observant  or  not,  she  too  rarely  interposes 
a  guiding  hand.  Yet  she  wonders  that  the  child  is  not 
robust ;  that  she  gives  promise  of  a  slighter  physical 
development  than  that  of  her  parents ;  that  she  falls 
behind  others  in  her  studies.  Much  has  been  said  on 
these  subjects — for  the  most  part  by  teachers — and 
much  more  ought  to  be  said.  The  nervousness  of  the 
American  people  is  not  due  wholly  to  climate  and 
overwork.  The  practice  of  some  schools  in  providing 
warm  lunches  is  one  of  the  hopeful  steps  in  advance- 
ment. Even  irregularity  in  meals  has  much  to  ac- 
count for,  and  the  lunch  provided  by  the  school  gives 
the  pupil  the  needed  refreshment  at  the  proper  hour. 

*  *  * 
INK    STAIN. 


BY  MARY  I.   SENSEMAN. 

Some  drops  of  blue  ink  were  spattered  on  a  waist 
of  fine,  white  cotton  goods.  Several  hours  after- 
wards I  applied  lemon  juice  and  rubbed  the  goods 
with  my  hands  until  the  ink-spots  had  only  a  faint  ap- 
pearance. Then  I  rinsed  thoroughly  in  cold  water, 
and  dried  the  waist.    No  stain  remains. 

*  *  * 

Sassafras  bark,  powdered  or  broken  into  small  bits 
and  scattered  over  and  through  dried  fruit,  is  said  to 
be  "  good  for  worms."  The  eggs  are  generally  laid 
in  the  fruit  before  drying,  and  the  fruit  may  be  put 
into  shallow  pans  and  set  in  the  oven,  allowing  it  to 
get  well  heated,  several  times  during  the  season. 

*  *  * 

A  mouth  that  sometimes  appears  blue  and  livid 
around  the  lips  belongs  to  a  person  with  weak  heart. 
Especially  is  this  sign  marked  when  the  muscles 
around    the    lips    appear    to  Ik-  tightened  so  that  the 

mouth  looks  as  if  it  were  gathered  in  hard  creases  and 
fas!    closed. 


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THE  INGLENOOK.— November  I,  1904. 


HW 


OUR    LITTLE    PEOPLE    j 


LUKE   DAVIS. 


Dear  Mr.  Nookman: — 

I ,  thought  I  would  write  you  a  letter  and  tell  you 
that  you  needn't  expect  any  more  letters  from  Bonnie 
Wayne.  The  next  day  after  we  had  that  big  time 
making  cider  we  were  just  getting  ready  to  make 
apple-butter  and  a  buggy  drove  up  to  the  front  gate 
and  who  do  you  think  was  in  the  buggy?  It  was  that 
lady  that  brought  Bonnie  and  me  out  here,  and  she 
told  us  that  the  fresh  air  vacation  was  over  and  that 
we  had  to  go  back  to  the  city.  She  said  our  school  was 
going  to  begin  next  Monday  and  it  wouldn't  do  for 
us  to  miss  any  school.  You  ought  to  have  seen  Bonnie. 
She  ran  away  and  tried  to  hide  herself  because  she 
didn't  want  to  go  back  home,  but  Mr.Marshall  told 
her  that  she  had  been  out  here  a  long  time  and  had 
such  a  nice  vacation  that  she'd  have  to  go  back  now 
with  the  lady.  Then  she  pretty  near  cried  her  eyes  out. 
I  didn't  like  to  go  back  any  better  than  she  did,  but 
I  knew  that  I  had  to  do  it  and  so  I  made  the  best  of  it. 

Mr.  Marshall  promised  me  that  he  would  send  for 
us  again  next  summer  and  so  I  am  going  home  and 
work  hard  this  winter  and  try  to  get  a  roll  of  honor 
in  my  class,  and  then  when  vacation  time  comes  next 
year,  I'll  be  ready  to  come  back  to  the  farm. 

Bonnie  had  planned  on  having  a  big  time  hickory- 
nutting,  but  as  it  is  too  early  for  that,  we'll  have  to  let 
that  go.  Frank  wanted  me  to  stay  and  help  gather 
the  corn.  He  said  I  could  stay  in  the  wagon  and 
drive  the  mules  and  he  would  pick  the  pumpkins  and 
toss  them  up  to  Mr.  Marshall  and  he  would  catch  them 
and  put  them  into  the  wagon  bed.  My,  I  wish  va- 
cation would  last  all  the  year,  but  Grandma  said  the 
other  night  the  older  I  would  get,  the  shorter  my  vaca- 
tions would  be. 

When  we  went  to  pack  up  our  goods  to  go  home, 
Bonnie  got  things  a  little  mixed,  but  we  never  knew  it 
until  we  were  on  the  train  and  got  pretty  near  to  Chi- 
cago. That  lady  told  us  that  all  the  children  who 
had  lunches  had  better  eat  them  now,  because  we  were 
pretty  near  the  city.  Well,  Mable  had  fixed  us  an 
awful  good  lunch  and  put  it  in  my  valise  and,  of  course, 
when  the  woman  said  to  get  our  lunches  I  opened 
mine  and  don't  you  think  Bonnie  had  put  that  red- 
haired  rag  doll  of  hers,  which  she  called  Hattie,  in 
my  valise  instead  of  hers.  Well,  it  amused  me  and  it 
made  me  mad.  It  amused  me  because  it  was  fun 
and  I  wanted  the  people  to  see  it,  but  it  made  me 
spunk)'  because  they  all  laughed  at  me  and  thought  I 


Bai 


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was  such  a  baby  that  I  had  to  have  a  doll  to  play  wit 
Bonnie  grabbed  her  and  put  her  in  her  valise  and  tl 
boys  and  girls  all  took  a  big  laugh.  Then  we  setth 
down  and  finished  our  lunch.  About  that  time  the  ca 
pulled  into  a  great  big  house  and  a  man  called  ot 
"  Chicago,  Union  Station !  All  out."  This  lady  wl 
was  in  charge  of  us  hurried  along  with  the  crovi 
as  they  went  through  the  big  iron  gate  and  told  us  : 
to  follow.  We  all  followed  as  fast  as  we  could,  b 
I  had  my  overcoat,  valise  and  some  of  Bonnie's  thinj 
and  I  dropped  my  overcoat  and  Bonnie  stopped  to  pic 
it  up  for  me  and  there  were  so  many  people  there  th 
first  one  would  step  on  it  then  another  that  when  final 
we  got  hold  of  it  and  wanted  to  catch  up  with  the  rei 
two  men  pulled  a  great  big  cart  across  the  track  th 
was  piled  up  full  of  trunks,  ever  so  high.  We  had 
wait  till  he  got  out  of  the  road  and  then  we  couldr 
find  anyone.  I  asked  a  woman  if  she  saw  a  lady  wi 
a  whole  lot  of  little  children,  and  she  said,  "  They  we 
that  way,"  and  pointed  down  the  street.  We  start 
down  that  street  and  walked  and  walked  and  walke 
Bonnie  began  to  cry;  I  didn't.  I  knew  that  was  a  b< 
place  to  begin  to  cry. 

Pretty  soon  a  great  big  man,  with  blue  clothes  ai 
brass  buttons  on  them,  said  "  Where  are  you  goin 
young    man?"     I    told    him,   "That's  just  what  | 
don't  know."     And  he  said,  "  I  guess  you're  lost 
Chicago." 

He  asked  me  where  I  lived  and  when  I  told  hi 
he  said  "  Come  on  I'll  take  you  to  the  right  place 
Then  he  took  us  down  some  big  stone  steps  where  the 
was  lots  of  trains  and  he  picked  out  the  right  one  ai 
put  us  on  the  train.  Then  he  gave  us  a  big  red  app 
a  piece,  and  told  us  "  Good-bye."  When  we  got  hor 
I  had  to  take  Bonnie  to  her  house,  because  the  e 
citement  was  too  much  for  her  and  she  was  all  mix 
up.  When  we  got  to  her  house,  her  mamma  had  go: 
to  a'  club  and  she  had  to  take  a  big  cry.  While  I  thii 
about  it,  I  want  to  tell  you  a  joke  on  her.  She  hea 
a  little  kitten  meow  at  the  door  and  she  went  ai 
got  it  and  held  it  in  her  lap,  and  the  more  she  wou 
pat  it,  the  more  it  would  meow,  and  finally  she  sa 
to  it,  "  Don't  cry,  kitty ;  your  mamma  will  be  ba 
directly;   she's  just  gone  to  the  club." 

Well,  we  had  a  good  time  out  at  Mr.  Marshal 
I  don't  suppose  you  will  get  'any  more  letters.  Be 
nie's  folks  don't  take  the  Inglenook  and  the  or 
way  she  will  get  to  read  it  now  is  when  she  core 
over  here  or  else  when  I  take  her  my  Inglenook. 
(continued  on  page  1056.) 


THE  INGLEXOOK.— November  I,  1904. 


I055 


Please   explain   how  to  make   cider  vinegar. 

Take  about  ten  gallons  of  new  cider  and  let  it  fer- 

ent  fully,  which  will  probably  take  about  two  weeks 

warm  weather.  Then  add  about  eight  gallons  of 
w  cider  for  a  second  fermentation,  and  in  about  two 
:eks  add  a  little  quantity  to  produce  a  third  fer- 
mtation.  Stop  the  bunghole  of  the  barrel  with  an 
ipty  bottle,   with  the  neck  downward,  and  expose 

the  sun.  When  it  has  become  vinegar  set  in  a  cool 
ice.  While  making  there  should  be  a  moderate  de- 
ee  of  heat  and  free  access  of  external  air.  The 
ocess  is  hastened  by  adding  to  the  cider  a  quantity 

mother  of  vinegar,  a  whitish,  ropy  coagulum,  of 
ucilaginous  appearance,  formed  in  vinegar,  and 
lich  acts  as  a  ferment.  Cider  made  from  late  ap- 
:s  is  considered  the  best  for  making  vinegar. 

* 

Why  is  Portland  cement  so  called,  and  how  is  it  made? 

Portland  cement  is  so  called  from  its  resemblance 
Portland  stone  when  used  as  a  stucco  upon  walls, 
is  composed  of  from  sixty-five  to  eighty  per  cent  of 
nestone  and  twenty  to  thirty-five  per  cent  of  clay 
d  iron  oxide,  which  are  thoroughly  mixed  with  wa- 
■  in  a  mill,  then  dried  slowly  on  hot  plates,  and  aft- 
wards  calcined  in  a  kiln  and  reduced  to  a  fine  pow- 
r.  The  cohesive  power  of  the  cement  is  increased 
keeping  it  in  a  dry  place  for  some  months  before 
ing  used.  It  hardens  quickly  when  stirred  up  with 
iter.  Its  cohesive  strength  is  diminished  by  the  ad- 
ixture  of  sand.  When  used  as  a  stucco  it  can  be 
ixed  with  three  or  four  parts  of  sand  to  one  of  ce- 
ent,  but  the  settling  then  takes  longer  than  if  pure 
ment  is  used. 

* 

I-  the  order  of  Modern  Woodmen  an  oath-bound  secret 
biety?  Can  a  person  hold  a  policy  for  life  insurance  in 
at  society  and  not  be  a  member  of  the  same? 

\cs.  It  is  possible  to  hold  an  insurance  policy  with- 
it  being  an  oath-bound  member. 


Please   give  formula  for  making  cement  pavements. 

Procure  sharp,  light  colored  sand  and  mash  it  free 
from  all  particles  of  soft  earth  or  soil ;  also,  some  stone 
chips,  gravel  and  large  stones.  Excavate  the  sidewalk 
about  eighteen  inches  deep  and  fill  in  the  large  stones 
to  within  six  inches  of  the  surface;  prepare  a  con- 
crete made  of  the  cement  one.  part,  stone  chips  and 
gravel  about  six  parts,  and  lay  it  upon  the  stone  foun- 
dation within  two  inches  of  the  surface ;  then  prepare 
a  concrete  of  the  cement  one  part  and  fine  sand  two 
parts,  and  lay  it  up  to  the  surface.  Finish  by  laying 
off  into  regular  blocks. 

* 

In  how  many  States  of  the  Union  may  cousins  marry? 

Marriage  between  first  cousins  is  forbidden  in  the 
following  States  and  territories:  Alaska,  Arizona, 
Arkansas,  Illinois,  Indiana,  Indian  Territory,  Kansas, 
Missouri,  Nevada,  New  Hampshire,  North  Dakota, 
Ohio,  Oklahoma,  Oregon,  Pennsylvania,  South  Da- 
kota, Washington  and  Wyoming. 

* 

Would  it  pay  to  take  a  full  course  in  photography,  and 
if  so  where  is   the   best  place   to   go? 

If  you  expect  to  make  it  a  life  business,  learn  all 
you  can  about  it,  and  then  learn  every  day  of  your 
life  by  experience.     If  you  w:,l  not  follow  it  do  not 
waste  your  time.     Plenty  of  good  schools. 
* 

Who  are  the  ambassadors  to  the  following  countries 
sent  from  the  United  States:  To  England,  Germany, 
France,   Russia,  Japan? 

To  Great  Britian.  Joseph  II.  Choate ;  Germany, 
Charlemagne  Tower ;  France,  Horace  Porter ;  Russia, 
Robert  S.  McCormick ;  Japan,  Lloyd  C.  Griscom. 

* 

When  a  lady  meets  a  gentleman  in  whose  place  is  it  to 
speak  first? 

According  to  the  best  rules  of  etiquette  the  lady 
should  speak  first,  everything  else  being  equal. 


What  are  the  best  varieties  of  potatoes  for  small  gar- 
ns? 

That  depends  entirely  upon  your  locality.  Better 
k  some  successful  gardener  in  your  immediate  lo- 
lity. 

* 

What  is  the  negro  population  of  Chicago,  Baltimore, 
'ashington,  D.   C,   Philadelphia  and   Cincinnati? 

Chicago,  30,150;  Baltimore,  79.258;  Washington, 
1,702;  Philadelphia,  62,613;  Cincinnati,  14,482. 


Are  torpedoes  fired  in  the  air  like  cannon  balls  or  in  the 
water? 

Most  of  them  are  fired  under  water. 


How  was  the  pow-wow  remedy  originated? 

1 1  dates  back  to  the  red  men  of  the  forest. 

* 
When  and  where  was  president  Roosevelt  born? 

New  York,  Oct.  27,  1858. 


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NATURE  STUDY. 


(concluded  from  page  1051.) 
plumage  of  this  bird  is  indeed  beautiful.  The  thick, 
flat,  tufted  crest  which  covers  the  whole  head,  and 
much  resembles  a  hood,  gives  it  a  sprightly  and  ani- 
mated appearance.  This  crest,  together-  with  the  whole 
head,  neck,  breast,  and  upper  part  of  the  back,  are 
singularly  marked  with  black  and  pure  white,  which  is 
well  contrasted  with  the  rich  brown  of  the  sides  and 
flanks.  The  female  is  a  much  plainer  bird,  but  not 
without  some  claims  to  beauty. 

Like  the  Common  Wood  Duck,  the  Merganser 
seems  to  prefer  placing  its  nest  in  some  hollow  tree, 
to  building,  as  most  other  species  do,  upon  the  ground. 
The  eggs  are  deposited  on  a  bed  of  dried  weeds, 
feathers,  and  some  down  from  the  breast  of  the  bird. 
When  the  young  are  hatched,  they  are  conveyed  to 
the  water  by  the  parent,  who  gently  takes  them  in  her 
bill,  and  removes  them  one  by  one  to  their  favorite 
element.  Here  she  leads  them  among  the  tall  grass 
and  weeds,  and  teaches  them  to  procure  the  snails  and 
insects  that  come  within  reach. 
4»  4»  4> 
LUKE    DAVIS. 


(CONCLUDED  FROM  PAGE  IO54.) 

hope  they'll  subscribe  for  it  another  year,  because  two 

of  my  young  friends  are  going  over  to  Europe  on  a  tour 

with  their  teacher,  and  they've  promised  the  Nookman 

that  they  will  write  letters  to  him.     I  wouldn't  miss 

them  for  anything.     Good-bye,  Luke  Davis. 

(the  end.) 
4>    .>    41 

DEFINITIONS. 


Anger — The  reaction  of  others'  faults  upon  our- 
selves. 

Coat — A  scabbard  .that  offers  no  guarantee  for  the 
blade   it   sheathes. 

Congress — Men  assembled  to  prevent  each  other 
from  accomplishing  anything. 

Conversation — The  idle  man's  business  and  the 
business  man's  recreation. 

Education — The  knowledge  of  how  to  make  a  fool 
of   every   faculty. 

Evolution — Tadpole   theology. 

Gratitude — A  lively  sense  of  favors  expected. 


Humbug — The  tribute  that  clever  men  pay  to  tho 
that  are  not  clever. 

Ink — -The  black  sea  upon  which  thought  rides 
anchor. 

Love — The  lens  that  magnifies  the  good. 

Manners — Shadows  of  virtue. 

Miser — One  who  makes  bricks  that  his  heirs  ms 
build    houses. 

Money — To  the  wise  a  convenience,  to  the  fool 
necessity. 

Music — The   master-key   that   turns   the   wards 
the  hearts. 

Photography — The   art   that    enables    commonplai 
mediocrity  to  look  like  genius. 

Poetry — Thought  in  blossom. 

Revenge — The  only  debt  which  it  is  wrong  to  pa; 

Silence — The  ornament  of  the  ignorant. 

Soldier — A  target  set  up  by  one  nation  for  anothc 
nation  to  shoot  at. 

Success — A   veneering  that  can  hide  all   basenes 
*  *  * 
WHAT    IS    A    BABY? 


A  London  paper  offered  a  prize  for  the  best  del 
nition  of  a  baby.  The  last  one  of  the  following  toe 
the   prize. 

"  The  bachelor's  horror,  the  mother's  treasure,  ar 
the  despotic  tyrant  of  the  most  republican  household 

"  The  morning  caller,  noonday  crawler  and  midnig' 
bawler." 

"  The  only  precious  possession  that  never  excit 
envy." 

"  The  latest  edition  of  humanity,  of  which  eve: 
couple  think  they  possess  the  finest  copy." 

"  A  native  of  all  countries,  who  speaks  the  languaj 
of  none." 

"  A  few  inches  of  coo  and  wiggle,  writhe  and  screai 
filled  with  suction  and  testing  apparatus  for  milk,  ai 
automatic  alarm  to  regulate  supply." 

"  A  thing  we  are  expected  to  kiss  and  look  as 
we   enjoyed   it." 

"A  little  stranger  with  a  free  pass  to  the  hear' 
best   affections." 

*  *  * 

Small  convenient  packages  that  the  buyer  can  ta! 
home  with  him  and  not  have  to  return  them  will  he 
materially  in  selling  choice  fruits,  and  will  nearly  ; 
ways  prove  a  good  investment. 


B 


The  basisof  my  business  is  absolute  and 
unvarying  integrity. 

SAMUEL  S.  THORPE, 
Founder  of  the  Brethren  Colony,  Brethren,  Mich. 


Moderate  wealth  is  possible  to  every  man — tilling  the  soil  is 
the  surest  way  to  complete  independence — better  than  life 
insurance  Or  money  in  the  bank;  the  thrifty  bona-fide  settler 
will  profit  by  investigating. 


Rich   Farming 
Lands. 


Rich  Fruit 
Lands. 


In  Wexford  and  Missaukee  counties,  Michigan;  one- 
half  to  6  miles  from  the  thriving  city  of  Cadillac,  population 
8,000;  on  the  main  line  of  Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  (Pennsyl- 
vania System)  and  Ann  Arbor  (Wabash  System)  railways. 


$5.00  to  $15.00  per  Acre 

An  Opportunity  that  Justifies  Prompt  Action. 


Splendid  Schools  and  Fine  Churches.       Fine  Markets  all  the  Year  Round. 


For  illustrated  descriptive  booklet  and  map,  containing  detailed  information  with  letters' of 
farmers  from  other  States  now  living  in  and  adjacent  to  THE  CADILLAC  TRACT,  fill  out  the 
coupon  below  and  mail  to  me. 


Send  me  all 
literature  and 
information 
pertaining  to   the 
Cadillac  Tract 
as  advertised  in 
the  Inglenook. 


S.  S.  THORPE,  Webber  Building,  Cadillac,  Mich. 

District  Agent   Michigan  Land  Association. 


IMPROVED  FARMS  FOR  SALE,  $2,000  TO  $20,000. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


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Weak  Stomach 
Indigestion 
Dyspepsia 


To  any  sufferer  of  the  above  named 
diseases  will  be  sent  a  30  days  Treat- 
ment of  BRAWNTAWNS  (50  cents) 
on  the  following  conditions:  Use  ac- 
cording to  directions,  one  tablet  aft- 
er each  meal  and  one  before  retiring 
for  30  days,  and  if  you  can  truthfully 
say  you  have  not  received  any  benefit 
and  do  not  feel  any  better  from  the 
use  of  BRAWNTAWNS,  your  mon- 
ey will  be  cheerfully  refunded. 

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fall  or  winter  there  is  no  reason 
why  you  should  not  enjoy  the 
charm  of  California's  balmy  air 
and  invigorating  sunshine,  the 
delicious  fruits  and  lovely  flowers, 
the  big  trees,  the  old  missions  and 
the  glorious  Pacific.    Think  it  over_ 

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HEEE     ABE    A    FEW    OF     THE    GOOD     THINGS     WE     HAVE     TO     OFFER.: 

L  Normal  College  that  prepares  teachers  for  all  grades  of  certificates. 

l  Complete  College  course  that  compares  with  anything  in  the  west. 

Phe  College  and  Normal  Courses  lead  to  State  certificates  without  examinations. 

Excellent   Buildings   and   Equipments.. 

expenses  are  as  low  as  is  possible  with  first-class  service. 

>ar  Last  Tear's  Students  will  take  out  of  the  Public  Funds  of  McPherson  county- 
alone  over  $10,000  this  year.     This  shows  talent  and  home  appreciation. 

>ur  graduates  occupy  enviable  positions  in  the  business,  educational  and  religious 
world. 

The  Moral  and  Beligious  Influences  are  unsurpassed.  No  saloons  In  the  city.  The 
teachers  come  in  close  personal  contact  with  the  students. 

ye  bave  a  Superior  Faculty. 

KTe  put  more  stress  on  our  Bible  School  than  any  other  college  we  know  of. 

Phe  President  of  the  college,  Edward  Frantz,  is  dean  of  the  Bible  school  and  Is 
recognized  as  having  no  superior  in  his  line  of  work.  He  has  been  instructor 
In  his  line  of  work  in  McPherson  college  for  the  past  nine  years,  and  is  devoting 
his  entire  time  to  the  Bible.  You  can  do  no  better  than  to  take  a  course  here. 
Remember  tuition  in  Bible  Department  is  free.  Come,  study  the  Bible,  pre- 
pare yourself  for  mission  work.  Sunday-school  teacher,  preacher  and  make  your- 
self useful. 

There's  no  Bisk  in  taking  our  course  In  writing  or  business.  If  you  are  not  satisfied 
with  the  instruction  you  get  from  Prof.  Fahnestock,  you  pay  no  tuition.  This 
should  appeal  to  those  wishing  a  Business  course  or  a  Penmanship  course. 

»rof.  Fahnestock  is  a  little  more  skillful  in  execution  than  the  average  John  or 
Bill,  that  helps  some  of  his  pupils.  He  has  taught  Bookkeeping  and  Penman- 
ship for  thirty  years — that  helps  others.  Writing  is  one  of  his  specialties. 
If  you  want  all  he  knows  about  it,  come  to  McPherson.  If  you  want  to  be 
entertained,  go  to  Sell's  circus.  Some  people  say  Fahnestock  is  the  best.  All 
say  he  is  conscientious.     If  you  believe  this,  he  can  help  you. 

t  you  have  hut  Little  Means,  write  and  mention  the  Nook.     We  have  an  interesting 

proposition  for  you  If  you  want  a  Business  Course  or  a  course  in  Penmanship. 

Winter  term  begins  Nov.  8.     We  expect  a  large  increase  then.     Students  may  enter  any  time. 


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high-grade  interest-bearing  invest- 
ment securities,  and  if  you  have  any 
idle  funds  on  hand,  large  or  small, 
we  will  tell  you  how  and  where  you 
may  invest  it  honestly  and  profit- 
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ed absolutely  secure.  "Write  to  us 
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VANTS  300  students  whose  parents  are 
peklng  an  Institution  that  offers  the 
ollowing: — 

I.  A  clean,  moral  atmosphere,  with  a 

delightful  social  life. 
a.  A  high,  standard  of  scholarship. — 
Work  done  here  admits  students 
to  the  best  universities.  Nine 
universities  have  figured  in  the 
training   of   our    teachers. 

m.  Normal  English,  a  professional 
course  for  teachers,  with  the  de- 
gree Bachelor  of  English. 

IV.  A    course    preparatory    to    College. 
with    a  diploma. 
V.  Course  in  Arts. — Degree  Bachelor 
of  Arts. 

VI.  Bible  Department. —  (1)  English 
course  of  two  years,  with  a  di- 
ploma, (2)  Greek  and  Hebrew 
course  of  three  years  with 
degree  Bachelor  of  Sacred  Liter- 
ature. 
VII.  Department  of  Music. —  (1)  Spe- 
cial courses  in  Piano,  Voice,  Or- 
gan, Harmony,  History,  etc,  ( 2 ) 
Vocal  Teachers'  Course  of  two 
years,  with  diploma,  (3)  Instru- 
mental Teachers'  Course  of  two 
years,   with   diploma,    (4)    Collegi- 


ate Courses  in  Piano.  Voice,  etc.. 
(6)  Chorus  classes  throughout  the 
year. 
VIH.  Business  Department. —  (1)  Book- 
keeping course  of  20  weeks,  (2) 
Commercial  Course  of  one  year, 
with  diploma,  (3)  Commercial 
Teachers'  Course  of  two  years, 
with  the  degree  Bachelor  of  Ac- 
counts, (4)  Course  in  Shorthand 
and  Typewriting,  which  trains  the 
student  for  important  positions. 
IX.  Department  of  Oratory.  —  (1) 
Course  Introductory  to  Public 
Speaking,  ( 2 )  Course  in  debate 
and  Oratorical  Composition,  (3) 
Advanced  Course  in  Public  Speak- 
ing and  Oratory. 

Work  to  pay  expense  of  a  number  of 
students. 

We  do  not  have  any  forty-dollar 
courses  for  $5.  Please  do  not  write  for 
such    Inducements. 

EXPENSES  are  very  moderate,  and  stu- 
dents   are    glad    for    such    opportunities. 

First  Winter  Term  opens  Nov.  8. 

Tour  correspondence  is  solicited. 

Write  for  Catalogue  and  particulars. 

Address    the    President, 


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PAID    j^-     For  «uitnr.  Mandolin,  Violin 
Banjo,  'Cello  and  DoableBam, 

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the  greatest  values  ever  offered 
and  steel  cook  stoves,  Ranges 
stoves  see  our  free  catalogue. 

Our  binding:  guarantee  back 
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Our  practical  and  successfu 
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bles  us  to  furnish  the  money  savini 
in  our  ''Equity"  catalogue.  The 
the  name  "Equity"  plays  an  imp 
the  filling:  of  all  orders  sent  lis, 

Our  business  success  lies  in  t 
the  very    beginning  we  set  up 
four  guide    posts:    Promptness 
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patronage  of    everyone,  whether 
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...ON... 


iGUNA  DE  TACHE  GRANT 

...IN    THE... 

SAN  JOAQUIN  VALLEY,  CALIFORNIA. 


BRETHREN  OAK  GROVE  CHURCH 

Still  continues  to  attract  the  attention  of  horneseekers. 

The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  immense  growth  of 
ery  variety  of  crop  which  is  again  in  evidence  establishes  the  fact  that  here  la  the 
ice  where  the  industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN   PEOPLE   DO  EASTERN  PABMnfO. 
Tou  don't  have  to  spend  years  learning  a  new  business. 

ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

•Ides  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
■  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  it. 

SPECIAL     LOW    SATES    TO     CALIFORNIA. 

From  August  16th  to  Sept.  10th  the  railroads  will  sell  Bound  Trip  excursion 
[fits  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

From   Chicago $60  00 

From  Mississippi  River <7  60 

From   Missouri   River, 46  00 

Final  return  limit,  Oct.  23. 

iSO   SEPTEMBER   15th  TO   OCTOBER   16th   COLONIST   ONE-WAT  TICKETS 
TO  ANT  CALIFORNIA  POINT. 

From    Chicago 133  00 

From  Mississippi  River , SO  00 

From   Missouri   River,    1 26  00 

By  this  arrangement  you  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 
id.     If  It  suits  you,  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rat©. 

Land  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre,  including  perpetual  water  right.  Terms,  one- 
Jrth  cash;  balance  in  eight  annual  payments. 

From  twenty  to  forty  acres  wili  support  the  average  family  in  comfort 

If  Interested  send  your  name  and  address  and  receive  printed  matter  and  our 
«1  newspaper  free  for  two  months.     Write  to 

ARES  &  SAUNDERS,    -    Laton,  California. 

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THE 

REEDLEY 
TRACT 

The  Gem  of  the  San 
Joaquin  Valley 


Embraces  the  Mount  Campbell, 
Columbia,  Carmelita,  Springfield, 
Producers,  Level  Orchard,  Kings 
River  and  other  Colonies.  These 
are  among  the  best  lands  in  the 
State  for  all  kinds  of  fruit  and 
alfalfa.  Good  soil,  low  prices, 
abundant  water,  healthful  climate, 
perfect  natural  drainage. 

Special  inducements  made  to 
Brethren.  Colony  now  forming. 
Write  for  booklet,  and  full  informa- 
tion.   Address, 

O.  D.   LYON, 

Reedley,  Fresno  Co.,  California. 

43.-13  Mention  the  lUflLENOOK  when  writing. 

SPECIAL 

Low  Rate  Excursions 

TO    THE 

SOUTHEAST 

VIA 

Big  Four  Route 

On  November  15th,  1904,  Round- 
trip  Excursion  Tickets  at  less  than 
half  rate,  good  to  return  within  21 
days,  will  be  sold  to  points  in  Ala- 
bama, Florida,  Georgia,  Kentucky, 
Louisiana,  Mississippi,  North  Caro- 
lina, South  Carolina,  Tennessee  and 
Virginia. 

For   full   information    as    to    rates. 
tickets,    limits,   etc.,    call    on     Agenl 
"  Big   Four   Route,"    or    address    tin 
igned. 

WARREN     J.     LYNCH, 
Gcn'l   Pass.  Si  Tickel 

Cincinnati,   Ohio 


Bonnet  Goods,  Chenille,  Straw  Cloth,  Trimmings  and  Suppli 

A  large  assortment  of  styles  and  colors.     These  goods  are  manufactured  especially  for  our  trade. 

We  carry  a  large  stock  including  Rice  Net,  Wire,  Chiffon,  Mousseline  de  Soie,  Silk  Braid,  Ribbons,  S 
etc.     We  are  also  headquarters  for  Cap  Goods. 

All  Bonnet  Materials  are  12  inches  wide.  Requires  1  yard  for  one  bonnet,  or  ">4  inches  for  two  regular  size  at 
yards  for  two  large  ones.     Special — Bolts  of  6  yards  or  more,  D  cents  less  per  yard. 


Chenille— No.  3410*£. 

Light  gray Per  yard  * 

Dark  tan 


Straw  Cloth— No.  °5363. 

White  and  gilt Per  yard  §  .60 

Tan  and  gilt "  .65 

Tan  with  white  and  gilt.  .        "  .60 

Pink    "         "         »       "  .  .        "  .60 

Blue "  .60 

Brown'-         "         "      "  .  .        "  .55 


Straw  Cloth— No.  35346. 
Black  and  white Per  yard  $  .40 


Chenille— No.  3163. 
Black Per  yard  S  :65 


Dark  Navy  Ulue. 


.70 


We  make  bonnets  complete  to  order 
of  any  of  the  styles  of  straw  cloth  or 
chenille  we  represent.  We  use  good 
materials  for  linings  and  trimmings  and 
guarantee  satisfaction.  Any  change  in 
design  represented  will  be  made  upon 
request.     For  prices  see  next  page. 


Straw  Cloth— 35361. 
Black Per  yard  8  .5b 


W 


Chenille- 
Dark  brown 

Black 


No.  3231. 
Per  yard 


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Straw  Cloth— No.  35363. 

Black Pur  yard 

Black  and  gilt 

Black,  white  and  gilt .....      *'     j 


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Straw  Clolh — No.   35369 

Black lJer  yard  | 

Black  and  white " 


If  you  cannot  select  from  Catalogue,  send  for  our  Booklet  showing  Samples.    Above  styles  are  very  fiifl 
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A  WEEKLY  MAGAZINE 


PARTIAL  TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


POEM. 

HELPERS.— By  Mary  C.  Stoner. 

CONTRIBUTIONS. 

SEED-THOUGHTS    FOR    THE    HEART'S    GARDEN.— By 

Josephine  Hanna. 
THE  POSTMAN'S  RING.— By  Elizabeth  D.  Rosenberger. 
CLOUDS.— By  Adah  Baker. 

SUNDAY  SCHOOL  REVERENCE.— By  Cora  Haughtelin. 
STICK  TO  THE  FARM.— By  J.  E.  Miller. 
TECHNICAL  KNOWLEDGE.— By  J.  G.  Figley. 
THE  HOUSE  FLY.— By  Maud  Hawkins. 
USES  OF  THE  WATER  BOTTLE— By  Dr.  S.  B.  Miller. 
A    FATHER'S    LEGACY    TO    HIS    SONS.— By   William  J. 

Brendlinger. 

EDITORIALS. 

THE  DEMOCRATIC  PROBLEM. 

POWDER   AND   PRUDENCE. 

FADS.  AN  APPEAL. 


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Number  45,  Volume  VI 


S30.00  Per  Acre  Profit 


Raising  SUGAR  BEETS  in 


SOUTH  PLATTE  TALLET 


Eld.  L.  E.  Keltner,    who  owns  80    acres  of    land  near    Snyder 
Colo.,  and  also  runs  a  grocery  store  at  Hygiene,  Colo.,  says: 

I  rented  23  acres  of  land  near  Hygiene,  paying  $10.00  per  acre  cash 
rent,  then  hired  all  the  work  done  necessary  to  plant  the  entire  23  acres 
in  SUGAR  BEETS,  including  the  harvesting  of  the  beets  and  loading 
them  on  the  cars  to  go  to  the  factory,  which  cost  me  S35.00  per  acre 
more,  making  total  outlay  of  $45.00  per  acre. 

The  yield  was  an  average  of  a  little  over  15  tons  to  the  acre,  for 
which  the  Sugar  Factory  paid  me  §5.00  per  ton  after  they  were 
loaded  on  the  cars.  Can  any  eastern  farmer  tell  me  of  any  crop  raised 
in  the  east  that  pays  like  this? 


23  acres  sugar  beets   yield  345  tons — sold  at  S5.00, 
Paid  out  for  rent  of  land  and  labor  on  23  acres, 

Net  profit  on  23  acres, 


$1,725.00 
1,035,00 

$690.00 


READER--You  can  buy  equally  as  good  land  for  growing  suga 
beets,  or  any  other  crop,  in  the  South  Platte  Valley  at  from  $25.01 
to  $30.00  per  acre.  Avail  yourself  of  the  cheap  rates  to  Sterling 
Colo.,  in  effect  the  first  and  third  Tuesdays  of  each  month,  to  go  an 
see  for  yourself.     Write  for  FREE  PRINTED  MATTER. 

GEO.   L.    McDONAUGH,  1 

Colonization  Agent  Union  Pacific  Railroad, 
OMAHA,  NEBRASKA. 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


WONDERFUL  BARGAINS  IN  STOVES 


FOR    THIS 
SEASON. 


ALL  ILLUSTRATED,  DESCRIBED  AND  PLAINLY  PRICED  IN  OUR  LARGE  CATAL06UE. 

On  page  354  in  our  Large  Catalogue  you  will  find  our  wonderful  values  in  Air- 
tight   Stoves    from    98    cents    to    $4.10. 

REMEMBER  if  you  want  a  good,  reliable  stove,  guaranteed  in  every  way,  a  stove 
that  will  surpass  your  expectations,  a  better  stove  than  is  ordinarily  furnished  by 
Agents  and  Retailers  for  double  our  price,  don't  place  your  order  until  you  have  looked 
through  the  Stove  Department  of  our  Catalogue.  No  matter  what  kind  of  a  stove 
you  want,  we  can  furnish  it,  and  you  will  find  OUR  PRICE  A  BIG  SURPRISE  when 
you    have    seen    the    stove    we    will    send    you. 

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change  for  the  general  improvement  in  your  condition  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  both  requirements.  There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 
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swer and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

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fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves  thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

Cheap  homeseekers'  rates  are  made  to  all  principal  Idaho  points.  Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 
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tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.oo,  with  limit  of  is  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


100,000  Acres  Now  Open  for  Settlement  at 
Twin  Falls,  Idaho,   under  the  Carey    Act. 

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f«B      Cleared  40  acres.     May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.     Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.     June  12  sowed  10  acres 
^5      to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.     Yielded  55  to  acre.     Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 
■^      or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 
■  g  Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 

oats. 

Potatoes    yielded   500   bushels    to   the   acre   and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 

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■S  D.  E.   BURLEY, 

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5      J.  E.  HOOPER,  Agent,   Oakland,  Kansas.  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 


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Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance.      Fine      5 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


Arrived    in    Payette    Valley    Feb.    23,    1903.     Settled   on   an   80-acre   tract,   covered   with   sage   brush.       £ 


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Vol.  VI. 


November  8,  1904. 


No.  45. 


HELPERS. 


BY    MARY    C.    STONER. 

Lovely  flowers  to  cheer  the  fainting 
Bloom  along  life's  great  highway, 

Their  sweet  mission  simply  waiting, 
Just  to  bless  a  pilgrim's  way. 

Sweetest  music  for  the  weary 
From  our  Father's  home  above 

Makes  the  rough  way,  once  so  dreary, 
Now  a  paradise  of  love. 

Angel  spirits  near  our  pathway 
Watch  the  feet  that  go  astray, 

Gently  help  us  on  our  journey 
Back  to  duty's  narrow  way. 

Precious  words  of  sacred  promise, 
Greatest  balm  for  aching  hearts, 

When  the  joys  of  earth  have  left  us 
And  all  faith  and  hope  departs. 

Noble  lives  to  lift  us  upward 
Lend  to  us  a  helping  hand, 
Lift  our  burdens,  help  us  onward 
Till  we  reach  the  heav'nly  land. 
Ladoga,  Ind. 

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SEED-THOUGHTS    FOR   THE    HEART'S    GARDEN. 


BY    JOSEPHINE    HANNA. 

As  we  laugh,  so  we  live. 

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Never  be  impatient  with  the  children. 

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tice he  does  not  believe. 

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— if  you  haven't  educated. 
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Excellence   may   defy  competition,  but  it  despises 
not  a  foothold  for  all  that. 
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willing  to  say  good-by  to  sin. 
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get  it  who  do  not  know  you  so  well? 
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true  when  a  young  man  enters  upon  a  career  of  vice. 
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cess, do  not  zvait  for  encouragement;  it  is  often  tardy. 

What  you've  got  in  your  blood  is  likely  to  break 
out  in  some  way,  and  if  you  have  blue  blood  in  your 
veins,  the  nobility  will  prove  itself. 
* 

Life  is  a  train  of  moods  like  a  string  of  beads,  and 
as  zi'c  pass  t/iroitgh  them  we  prove  to  be  many-colored 
lenses  which  paint  the  world  their  own  hue,  and  each 
shows  only  what  lies  in  its  focus. 


It  is  necessary  to  enlarge  our  spiritual  lung  capaci- 
ty, our  open  niindcdncss.  our  large  hcartcditcss,  if  we 
are  to  receive  amply  of  the  divine  wisdom ;  and  to  de- 
velop our  spiritual  muscle,  our  courage,  our  fortitude, 
our  plain  pluck,  if  zee  arc  to  become  heroes  in  soul. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— November  8,  1904. 


THE    POSTMAN'S    RING. 


BY    ELIZABETH    D.    ROSENBERGER. 

Emmeline  was  getting  ready  to  clean  house.  She 
pulled  all  the  drawers  out  of  the  chiffonier  and  then 
she  put  all  the  things  from  one  drawer  into  the  other 
excepting  a  few  discarded  articles  which  were  laid 
aside.  She  proceeded  very  satisfactorily  and  with 
considerable  dispatch  until  she  came  to  the  lower 
drawer  which  was  filled  with  letters.  Then  there 
was  an  ominous  silence — Emmeline  sitting  on  the 
floor  was  reading  old  letters  and  throwing  them  on 
the  rising  pyramid  made  up  of  bits  of  dress-goods, 
ribbons,  boxes,  cards  and  many  other  articles  too 
numerous  to  mention,  as  the  sale  bills  have  it. 

Housecleaning  must  wait  until  the  letters  were 
looked  over  and  she  lost  all  consciousness  of  the 
flight  of  time  while  reading  again  the  adventures  of 
her  friend  Jane  who  was  teaching  a  little  school  with- 
in sight  of  the  Andes  mountains.  Her  experiences 
interested  Emmeline  and  she  felt  again  the-  desire  to 
go  to  South  America  and  do  great  things,  like  Jane. 
Anything  might  come  to  pass  in  a  far-away  place  like 
Bogota,  nothing  ever  happens  here.  There  was  her 
mother's  voice  now,  urging  her  to  come  down  and 
prepare  dinner.  She  arose  with  a  little  sigh  giving 
one  last  look  at  her  letters  and  a  rapid  glance  at 
the  disorderly .  room.  Then  she  hurried  downstairs 
straight  to  the  kitchen.  "  I  am  afraid  dinner  will 
be  late,"  she  said,  penitently,  "  I  did  spend  so  much 
time  with  those  old  letters !  " 

And  so  do  we  all  of  us.  We  write  and  send,  re- 
ceive and  read  them,  all  in  bewildering,  endless  pro- 
fusion. A  maiden  aunt  was  counseling  Lucy  about 
her  love  affair  with  a  young  man  who  did  not  meet 
the  approval  of  her  family.  "  But  what  do  you  know 
about  it,  auntie  ?  "  asked  Lucy,  feeling  that  every  hand 
was  against  her,  and  no  one  understood.  Her  aunt 
answered  in  tones  of  icy  reserve,  "  I  could  show  let- 
ters." And  so  could  you,  and  so  could  I.  Would  the 
writers  of  them  like  to  have  them  kept?  Ah,  well, 
the  time  to  worry  about  a  letter  is  before  it  is  mailed. 
What  letters  we  do  write;  as  school  children,  as 
young  men  and  maidens,  we  can  hardly  believe  when 
confronted  with  one  of  them,  that  those  callow  senti- 
ments were  penned  by  ourselves. 

Every  morning  a  whole  world  asks,  "  a  letter  for 
me  ?  "  No  matter  if  we  do  not  have  many  friends, 
yet  so  long  as  letters  are  written  and  mail  carriers 
walk  the  earth,  we  are  looking  for  a  letter  from  some 
one.  There's  the  postman's  ring  now !  Were  you 
watching  for  him  as  he  came  down  the  street  stopping 
at  almost  every  house?  You  have  felt  the  expectant 
thrill  of  wonderful  possibilities  lurking  in  the  bunch 
of  mail  the  carrier  holds  in  his  hand  as  he  comes  to 
our   door.      There  may   be  a  letter   bearing  the  best 


news  for  us — we  can  never  tell.     If  we  fail  to  get 
it  to-day  it  may  come  to-morrow. 

When  we  have  written  a  letter  we  carry  it  to  the 
box,  it  disappears  from  view  to  turn  up  in  a  few 
weeks,  after  tossing  on  waves,  climbing  mountains, 
and  threading  tunnels,  at  its  distant  destination.  It 
may  be  in  a  remote  hamlet  of  India,  Russia  or  Afri- 
ca. Or  again  it  may  be  in  some  country  post  office 
where  people  gather  together  when  the  mail  comes 
in,  and  look  anxiously  for  letters  from  the  absent 
ones. 

The  box  in  which!  you  dropped  your  letter  has  the 
inscription  on  it,  "  Pull  down."  Wait  a  moment. 
Do  any  of  these  letters  you  hold  in  your  hand  obey 
that  injunction?  Have. you  written  bitter  complaints 
and  biting  sarcastic  comments  to  one  who  is  doing 
his  level  best  in  his  day?  Did  you  threaten  to  harm 
some  one  whose  heart  is  already  breaking  because  of 
trouble  such  as  you  know  nothing  about?  Once  you 
did  write  coldly  and  discouragingly  to  one  who  had 
his  hand  on  the  next  rung  of  the  ladder,  and  at  that 
critical  moment  he  dropped  back,  with  a  muttered, 
"  What's  the  use,  nobody  believes  in  me."  Do  you] 
remember  that  other  time  when  after  brooding  over 
your  wrongs,  you  dipped  your  pen  in  venom  and) 
wrote  all  the  bitter  hateful  things  you  knew,  and  then 
how  remorsefully  you  wished  you  hadn't  done  it  ? 
-  The  other  box  has  "  Lift  up  "  on  the  lid.  Think 
of  that  when  you  write  to  your  friends.  The  course 
of  life  is  not  downward  like  a  river  but  upward  like 
a  mist.  Write  a  message  of  courage,  of  hope,  andj 
gladness.  "  As  cold  water  to  a  thirsty  soul,  so  is  good 
news  from  a  far  country."  Then  live  over  again  the 
joys  departed,  the  loves  of  long  ago.  Write  to  them 
a  prophecy  of  better  days  and  happier  times,  ancj 
your  kind  wishes  will  warm  their  hearts,  and  make 
them  feel  that  old  friends  are  best. 

"  Soul  messages  may  not  be  strayed  or  lost 
Out   of   God's    mail   no    letter   is    lost." 


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Covington,  Ohio. 


*  *  * 
NOTHING    TO     DO. 


Probably  no  sentence  was  ever  passed  upon  a  human 
being  so  ruinous  to  morals,  so  provocative  of  disease 
and  mental  degeneration  as  to  have  nothing  to  do. 

There  are  people  of  course,  who  must  work  too  hard 
and  too  many  hours  every  day.  These  people  are  to 
be  pitied,  but  their  lot  is  a  far  easier  one  than  the  lot  of 
those  people  who  have  nothing  to  do. 

It  is  not  natural  to  have  no  vocation  or  to  be  obliged 
to  put  forth  no  energy  to  procure  the  necessary  fooit 
and  raiment.  Such  a  state  of  life  is  unnatural.  The 
fiat  went  forth  many  centuries  ago,  "  Six  days  shaft" 
thou  labor  and  do  thy  work."  There  is  no  other  way 
to  live  a  satisfactory  life. 


J 


THE   INGLENOOK.— November  8,  1904. 


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Every  one  that  has  arrived  at  mature  age  should 
have  something  to  do  every  day.  Not  so  much  and 
so  hard  as  to  become  a  burden  to  life,  but  enough  to 
require  the  putting  forth  of  muscular  and  mental  en- 
ergy. 

It  has  been  said :  "  If  any  would  not  work,  neither 
should  he  eat."  But  the  truth  is  that  he  who  will  not 
work  will  soon  find  himself  unable  to  eat. 

There  are  a  great  many  lazy  men  and  women  in 
the  world  who  avoid  work  in  every  possible  way,  and 
are  known  as  shiftless,  good-for-nothing  people. 
These  people  continue  to  have  a  good  appetite  in  spite 
of  it  all.  But  a  little  closer  examination  of  their  lives 
will  discover  that  they  probably  work  harder  to  get 
rid  of  work  than  if  they  were  really  at  some  prof- 
itable business. 

Take,  for  instance,  the  life  of  the  tramp.  He  is  a 
man  who  does  no  work,  and  yet  the  fact  is  he  is  one  of 
the  hardest  working  men  to  be  found.  He  is  exposed 
to  the  elements  night  and  day,  with  insufficient  clothing 
and  covering.  His  long,  dreary  tramp,  his  scanty 
food,  his  jolting  rides  in  freight  cars  or  dirt  carts, 
do  really  give  him  a  great  deal  of  hard  work,  although 
it  earns  him  no  money.  He  is  engaged  in  no  useful  oc- 
cupation, yet  it  requires  of  him  endurance,  fatigue, 
abstinence,  exposure,  and  frequently  continued  fasts. 
All  this  furnishes  him  the  exercise  and  self-reliance 
necessary  for  his  bodily  needs. 

But  there  is  a  class  of  people  who  need  not  work 
because  they  are  provided  for.  They  are  possessed 
of  sufficient  property  to  raise  them  above  any  financial 
necessity.  These  people  often  have  nothing  to  do. 
Of  all  the  miserable  wretches  on  the  face  of  the  earth 
they  are  the  most  miserable.  They  rise  wearily  in  the 
morning  with  no  incentive  before  them.  They  lan- 
guidly dress  and  eat  their  breakfast,  lacking  the  stim- 
ulus of  motive,  entirely  destitute  of  helpful  necessity. 
They  drag  themselves  through  the  day  aimlessly. 
They  have  no  ambition  to  prod  them,  no  compulsion 
to  urge  them  forward.  They  very  quickly  become 
blase,  having  run  the  gauntlet  of  sensuous  enjoyment. 
The  world  becomes  to  them  a  dreary  level,  with  no 
hilltops  of  hope,  no  picturesque  valleys  of  adventure. 
Everywhere  they  look  the  same  lack  of  necessity  to 
exercise  meets  them. 

Creatures  of  sensuous  existence.  Nobody  depend- 
ing upon  their  toil  or  ingenuity.  Parasites  upon  the 
toil  of  others.     Simply  waiting  to  die. 

No  criminal  crouching  in  his  lonely  cell  rests  under 
a  more  disheartening  sentence.  No  slave  cringing  un- 
der his  master's  lash  has  before  him  such  a  pitiless 
existence  as  that  poor  human  being  who  has  happened 
to  inherit  or  become  possessed  of  a  sufficient  amount 
of  money  to  raise  him  above  the  necessity  of  work. 

Unless  he  has  force  of  character  enough  to  turn 
away  from  his  wealth  and  seek  employment  for  the 


love  of  it,  his  money  becomes  his  winding  sheet,  his 
palace  but  an  expensive  tomb,  his  life  a  premature 
death. 

The  only  natural  life  is  a  life  with  something  to  do 
every  day.  Some  task  to  accomplish,  some  work  to 
perform,  some  enterprise  that  demands  skill,  sa- 
gacity or  endurance,  some  reason  for  existence,  some 
occasion  for  putting  forth  the  powers  of  mind  or  body. 

Those  who  have  something  to  do  are  the  people 
who  live.  The  one  thing  they  need  most  is  to  realize 
that  their  life  of  toil  is  the  highest  life.  Many  toilers 
imagine  that  they  would  be  happy  if  they  could  only 
be  released  from  the  daily  grind,  the  weekly  tread- 
mill. They  look  upon  those  who  loll  about  as  for- 
tunate.    They  envy  them  their  ease  and  indolence. 

This  is  a  terrible  mistake  for  any  worker  to  make. 
He  ought  to  congratulate  himself  every  day  that  he  has 
a  part  in  human  activity.  He  ought  to  be  made  to 
understand  that  his  happiness,  his  health,  his  growth, 
depends  upon  this  necessary  activity  which  he  must 
put  forth  to  earn  a  living  or  to  provide  for  those  de- 
pending upon  him. 

The  sense  of  the  dignity  of  toil  is  the  only  thing  the 
toiler  lacks  in  this  world  to  make  him  as  nearly  su- 
premely happy  as  it  is  possible  for  a  mortal  to  be. 

Let  every  toiler  congratulate  himself  that  he  has 
been  spared  from  receiving  the  life  sentence  of  nothing 
to  do.  Something  to  do  brings  vigorous  life  and 
rhythmical  pulse-beats.  Something  to  do  stimulates 
the  brain,  feeds  the  nerve  centers,  furnishes  refreshing 
sleep,  brings  health,  appetite  and  digestion.  Nothing 
to  do  reduces  life  to  a  mere  existence,  befogged  with 
ennui,  beset  by  vices,  burdened  with  a  tedium  from 
which  there  is  no  respite. — Medical  Talk. 

♦    4*    •$» 
PRACTICAL   USE   FOR   RADIUM. 


A  good  many  "  fairy  "  stories  regarding  the  possi- 
bilities of  radium  rays  are  still  being  circulated,  but 
it  seems  to  have  been  clearly  established  that  radium 
rays  may  prove" of  great  commercial  value  to  jewelers, 
since  by  this  means  diamonds  which  are  of  an  indif- 
ferent and  defective  color  may  be  appreciably  increased 
in  their  commercial  value  by  treatment  under  the  rays. 
It  is  further  asserted  that  prolonged  action  of  the  ra- 
dium also  increases  the  intensity  of  the  pale-colored 
gems.  However,  as  the  quantity  of  the  "  improved  " 
diamonds  increases  the  price  is  bound  to  be  correspond- 
ingly lowered.  Of  the  various  theories  advanced  to 
account  for  the  evolution  of  heat  and  other  strange 
forms  of  radiation  from  radium  and  allied  elements, 
the  most  satisfactory  seems  to  be  that  some  of  the 
atoms  in  those  substances  are  disintegrating,  and  in 
doing  so  liberate  stored  energy. 
+ 

Music  is  to  the  mind  as  is  air  to  the  bod  v. — Plato. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— November  8,  1904. 


CLOUDS. 


BY    ADAH    BAKER. 

There  are  four  kinds  of  clouds — cirrus,  stratus, 
cumulus  and  nimbus.  The  cirrus  are  the  white, 
feathery  clouds  seen  in  fair  weather  dotted  here  and 
there  over  the  blue  sky.  They  are  the  farthest  dis- 
tant from  the  earth  and  are  constantly  changing  their 
form. 

The  stratus  are  the  horizontal  layers  of  clouds,  gen- 
erally of  uniform  thickness.  They  often  appear  in  the 
mornings  of  fine  days  hanging  near  the  horizon,  but 
disappear  as  the  heat  of  day  increases. 

The  cumulus  are  the  dome-shaped  clouds.  They 
seem  to  be  the  cloud  proper.  They  can  often  be  ob- 
served growing  larger  and  larger,  and  thus  more  near- 
ly approach  the  nimbus,  the  real  rain  cloud,  the  one 
that  may  be  threatening  a  storm. 

Clouds  subserve  several  distinct  purposes.  They 
are  a  protection  from  the  sun's  burning  rays.  What 
toiler  under  the  direct  rays  of  the  sun  has  not  realized 
this  when  a  cloud  most  welcomely  appeared  over- 
head, causing  him  to  pause  in  his  day's  occupation 
long  enough  to  drink  deep  of  the  real  refreshing 
coolness  round  about? 

Clouds  disseminate  moisture.  This  might  be  con- 
sidered their  primary  purpose.  A  cloudless  region 
is  a  desert  region — a  region  that  is  productive  of  noth- 
ing. The  elements  of  fertility  may  be  in  the  soil  but 
without  moisture,  a  direct  product  of  the  clouds,  noth- 
ing can  grow. 

Clouds  equalize'  the  temperature  at  the  earth's  sur- 
face. They  keep  back  much  of  the  sun's  heat  during 
the  day.  At  night  they  radiate  back  to  the  earth  the 
heat  that  is  constantly  leaving  it. 

A  fourth  purpose  of  clouds — and  all  will  most  surely 
consider  this  a  purpose — is  to  beautify  the  earth  by 
breaking  the  monotony  of  clear  skies.  What  human 
being,  even  though  he  be  feebly  able  to  enjoy  the 
beautiful,  can  fail  to  appreciate  the  everchanging 
scenes,  painted  by  the  divine  hand  of  God,  which  are 
continually  being  thrown  on  the  canopy  above  us? 
The  artist  can  scarcely  complete  a  splendid  moon- 
light scene  without  adding  here  and  there  a  few  stray 
clouds.  We  have  all  stood  and  gazed  upward  when 
the  whole  sky,  from  zenith  to  horizon,  was  flecked  and 
dotted  o'er  with  white  shimmering,  fleecy  clouds.  And 
what  wonderful  pictures  they  contained ;  downy 
feathers  scattered  broadcast,  everywhere  and  over 
everything:  white-winged  fairy  vessels  sailing  on  an 
imaginary  blue  sea.  I  dare  say  many  of  us  have  im- 
agined we  were  the  occupants,  sailing  away  off  in  the 
blue,  hazy  distance  to  fairyland.  But  in  what  bold 
contrast  to  this  scene,  stand  out  the  magnificent  gor- 
geous sunsets  which  we  have  at  times  witnessed.    How 


can  the  sun  so  have  been  reflected  in  the  clouds  as  to 
appear  in  all  the  varying  shades  of  red,  gold  and 
azure?  In  admiration  we  can  but  stand  and  gaze  at 
the  lavishness  which  the  divine  Artist  has  again  dis- 
played in  making  such  splendid  use  of  his  never-end- 
ing supply  of  colors. 

You  have  possibly  already  noted  that  the  cirrus 
are  farthest  distant  from  the  earth,  that  they  do  not 
often  develop  into  the  raincloud  and  that  they  are 
beautifiers  of  the  earth.  Have  we  not  all,  in  our  more 
idle  moments,  lifted  ourselves  away  off  from  every- 
day duties  into  the  most  rapturous  scenes  of  de- 
light— scenes  which  we  know  can  never  be  materially 
witnessed?  Even  the  least  qualified  has  at  times  pic- 
tured himself  to  be  some  dazzling  hero.  The  lover 
of  music  has  surely  fancied  that  he  was  in  possession 
of  the  perfect  voice  that  held  thousands  spellbound 
at  his  command.  Which  one  of  you  in  studying 
the  calm  serene  life  of  the  martyr,  has  not  in  your 
imagination  been  led  heroically  to  the  stake,  there 
breathing  your  last  in  witnessing  for  the  right?  Who 
has  not  gone  down  with  the  Hebrew  children  into  the 
fiery  furnace,  there  to  be  enveloped  with  the  soul-puri- 
fying flames  ?  These  are  the  far-off  ethereal  cloudlets 
of  imagination,  that  make  our  reflective  moments  those 
of  real  joy.  And  yet  who  dares  say  that  there  is  not 
the  barest  possibility  that  they  may  develop  into  some- 
thing real? 

I  have  stated  that  the  stratus  are  those  of  uniform 
shape,  often  appearing  in  the  morning  and  disappear- 
ing as  the  heat  of  day  increases.  These  are  the  rou- 
tine of  tasks  that  are  daily  confronting  us.  People 
who  have  not  yet  learned  to  control  themselves  will 
'often  lie  awake  worrying  over  them.  But  when  the 
task  is  once  begun  the  troubles  do  just  as  this  sort 
of  cloud  does — disappear.  It  is  harder  work  to  worry, 
than  to  do  the  task  itself. 

We  have  seen  a  cloud  of  trouble  rise  in  our  peace- 
ful atmosphere.  We  scan  the  horizon  to  watch  its 
growth  or  to  see  it  disappear.  Methinks  it  is  growing 
larger.  Trouble  upon  trouble  is  accumulating  on  every 
side.  A  great  storm  of  life  is  approaching.  What 
yesterday  seemed  a  calm  atmosphere  is  to-day  dark- 
ened with  clouds  of  deepest  gloom  and  trouble.  The 
lightnings  of  keenest  anguish  and  pain  are  forking  and 
flashing  round  about  us,  followed  by  the  tumultuous 
rumbling  and  roaring  of  the  thunders  of  sorrow,  of 
agony,  and  of  despair.  It  seems  that  all  the  destroy- 
ing elements  are  closing  in  on  us,  from  every  side 
O  God,  wilt  thou  deliver  us  or  shall  we  perish?  And 
here,  dear  reader,  let  us  once  more  study  the  picture, 
Who  knows  beforehand  the  result  of  the  storm  ?  May- 
be the  angel  of  Death  has  visited  the  sick  chamber 
and  carried  away  the  darling  chubby  form  that  was 
a  mother's  brightest  hope.  Or  it  might  have  resulted 
in  any  one  of  a  hundred  other  different  things  for 


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which  some  people  feel  like  cursing  God.  It  is  said 
that  every  cloud  has  a  silver  lining,  and  of  all  pitiable 
creatures,  the  most  pitiable  must  be  he  that,  when  the 
storms  of  life  overtake  him,  is  not  able  to  look  through 
by  an  eye  of  faith  and  behold  the  blessed  sunlight 
beyond. 

Clouds  are  helpful  to  us  in  many  ways.  It  is  only 
when  we  are  under  the  cloud  that  we  can  receive  the 
refreshing  showers  that  aid  us  so  much  in  our  men- 
tal and  spiritual  growth.  Paul  and  Silas  sang  their 
sweetest  songs  when  the  clouds  of  imprisonment  hung 
over  them.  You  can  sing  your  sweetest  songs  when 
the  clouds  of  disappointment  are  rolling  overhead. 

I  have  said  that  clouds  equalize  temperature.  It  does 
seem  that  the  well-balanced  man  is  the  one  that  has 
passed  through  many  a  cloud  and  tempest.  How 
thankful  we  should  be  for  the  clouds,  which  are  only 
a  blessing  in  disguise.  We  need  to  taste  the  dark 
side  of  life  to  be  able  to  appreciate  the  sunny  side. 
So  few  of  us  realize  this.  We  prefer  remaining  in 
our  comfortable,  cozy  nests,  to  stepping  outside  where 
the  showers  of  experience  might  tend  to  develop  our 
own  dwarfed  selves.  How  monotonous  and  one-sided 
must  be  the  life  of  him  whose  skies  are  always  cloud- 
less. He  can  add  nothing  to  the  world's  mental  stature 
because  he  has  nothing  to  give. 

In  conclusion  it  might  be  added  that  there  is  some- 
thing significant  in  clouds  as  the  name  is  used  in 
Bible  literature.  Among  the  many  expressions,  our 
minds  love  to  dwell  on  that  one  saying,  "  A  cloud 
received  him  out  of  their  sight."  And  who  dares 
dispute,  dear  reader,  that  you  or  I  if  we  be  spiritually 
minded  may  some  day  meet  him  in  the  clouds  of  the 
sky? 

Palestine,  Ohio. 

$  .$.  .*. 

A    GIRL    WHO    WORKS. 


I  HAVE  had  to  work  very  hard  ever  since  I  was  a 
very  little  girl,  helping  my  mother  in  the  house' and 
Kbrking  in  the  fields  and  greenhouses,  raising  garden 
truck  for  the  market.  In  a  few  weeks  I  shall  be 
through  school  and  will  then  take  a  position  in  an 
office  where  I  can  learn  how  to  do  work  that  a  girl 
an  (In  as  well  as  a  man  can  do  it,  so  that  I  can  earn 
nore  money  and  do  more  to  help  rav  mother  and  make 
t  easier  for  her.  Some  day  I  hope  to  be  able  to  earn 
■noiigh  to  keep  both  of  us,  so  she  will  not  have  to 
.vork  when  she  gets  old. 

Why  should  I  be  ashamed  of  working,  and  be 
ooked  down  upon  by  girls  and  women  who  do  not 
■vork?  Are  they  any  better  than  my  mother  and  I 
ust  because  they  let  their  fathers,  brothers,  husbands, 
ons  or  other  relatives  support  them  and  are  able  to 
ceep  their  hands  pretty,  soft  and  white?  Are  they 
letter  than  my  mother  and  I  just  because  they  spend 


what  men  earn  while  we  earn  for  ourselves  what  we 
spend  ? 

Why  is  it  more  respectable  for  girls  to  keep  a  poor 
old  father  working  from  morning  to  night,  year  after 
year,  with  no  chance  to  get  any  money  saved  up,  just 
so  they  can  keep  white  hands  and  wear  nice  clothes 
and  try  to  catch  men  with  money  for  husbands,  than 
it  is  to  help  the  parents  earn  the  living  and  give  them 
a  chance  to  save  some  money  and  get  a  home  of  their 
own? 

I  know  it  must  be  nice  to  have  a  papa  to  help  earn 
the  living  and  have  time  to  go  to  parties  and  theaters 
and  take  vacations  and  be  able  to  wear  nice  clothes 
and  I  sometimes  wish  I  did  not  have  to  work  all  the 
time  and  wish  that  I  could  earn  money  enough  to  be 
able  to  wear  nice  clothes  and  go  to  places  of  amuse- 
ment, but  I  could  not  enjoy  the  nice  clothes  or  the 
amusements  if  someone  else  paid  for  them,  for  that  is 
what  my  brother  calls  "  sponging "  and  he  says  he 
despises  a  boy  that  "  sponges." 

Why  is  it  that  boys  despise  the  boy  who  lets  others 
provide  for  him  and  does  not  earn  what  he  wants  for 
himself,  while  girls  look  down  on  the  girl  who  earns 
her  own  money  and  buys  what  she  wants  for  herself 
and  consider  it  much  more  respectable  to  let  relatives 
provide  for  them  or  even  accept  assistance  from  beaus  ? 
If  everybody  would  work  couldn't  we  all  have  better 
homes  and  nicer  clothes,  without  anyone  having  to 
work  all  the  time  with  no  chance  to  have  any  pleasure  ? 
— I'alborg  Larsen. 

Merely  formal  religion  without  spiritual  vitality  no- 
where in  all  Christendom  has  such  undisputed  posses- 
sion as  in  sunny  Spain.  Here  there  is  one  priest  to  ev- 
ery 400  people,  and  if  we  include  the  50,933  monks  and 
nuns,  which  is  a  very  low  estimate,  we  find  that  there 
is  one  to  every  200,  while  there  is  only  one  teacher  for 
every  460  of  the  population  and  a  schoolhouse  for  ' 
every  2,200.  Empty  churches  are  a  very  bad  sign, 
particularly  if  they  are  large  and  splendid  and  cost 
a  lot  of  money  to  maintain.  Throughout  Spain  there 
are  loo  many  priests  and  too  few  worshipers.  In  To- 
ledo a  traveler  counted  fifty-eight  priests  and  attend- 
ants engaged  in  the  service  and  only  four  worshipers. 
At  the  same  moment  in  a  chapel  of  the  same  cathe- 
dral eleven  priests  were  chanting  another  form  of 
service  with  only  two  worshipers,  and  they  appeared 
to  be  tourists.  At  Cordova  nineteen  priests  were  pres- 
ent and  two  old  women  knelt  near  by  the  choir.  Is  it 
strange  that  the  common  pcuple  of  Spain,  groaning 
under  the  burden  of  taxation  which  is  necessary  to 
support  the  state  religion  are  almost  in  revolution 
against  the  church  and  against  the  government  which 

supports  it  ? 

4.  .5.  $ 

MUSIC  is  the  mosaic  of  the  air. — Mawell. 


1062 


THE    INGLENOOK.— November  8,  1904. 


SUNDAY   SCHOOL   REVERENCE. 


BY  CORA   HAUGHTELIN. 

The  Sunday  school  is  essentially  the  doorway  to 
the  church.  For  under  effective  Sunday-school  work 
and  training,  the  Sunday-school  scholar  of  to-day  will 
become  the  church  member  of  the  future.  Proper 
religious  training  will  create  a  desire  for  the  good 
which  will  culminate  in  the  Sunday-school  scholar 
becoming  an  active  church  member  and  worker. 

The  church  should  not  only  tolerate  the  Sunday 
school,  but  should,  in  every  possible  way,  encourage 
it  and  guide  its  work.  The  purpose  of  the  Sunday 
school  is  to  make  Christians  of  those  who  are  not 
Christians  and  to  make  better  Christians  of  those  who 
are  Christians.  This  is  also  the  work  of  the  church. 
So  they  should  both  unite  heartily  in  this  great  work. 

The  largest  schools  are  not  always  the  most  suc- 
cessful, but  those  which  impart  the  truths  of  God's 
Word  to  the  scholar  in  such  a  way  that  he  accepts 
them  and  becomes  a  worker  in  the  Master's  cause, 
these  are  the  truly  successful  ones.  We  will  talk  a 
little  about  what  it  takes  to  make  an  interesting  Sun- 
day school.  If  we  can  get  the  people  interested  in 
the  work,  we  have  solved  the  problem  of  creating  a 
love  for  Sunday  school  in  their  hearts. 

First  of  all,  to  have  an  interesting  Sunday  school, 
it  should  be  well  organized,  having  a  competent  su- 
perintendent and  teachers,  apt  to  govern  and  have  a 
knowledge  of  the  Word  of  God.  The  superintendent 
should  be  a  live,  energetic  person,  filled  with  the  Holy 
Spirit.  He  should  be  able  to  teach  both  in  doctrine 
and  by  example.  The  superintendent  should  be  on 
time  and  open  the  Sunday  school  promptly,  even  if 
there  are  only  a  few  to  begin  with.  This  may  induce 
others  to  be  on  time.  He  should  avoid  making  too 
many  speeches.  His  success  depends  as  much  on 
knowing  when  to  keep  quiet  as  knowing  when  to 
speak.  One  of  the  hardest  deaths  for  a  Sunday  school 
is  to  be  talked  to  death.  In  every  Sunday  school  there 
is  hidden  talent,  and  it  should  be  recognized  by  the 
superintendent  and  allowed  to  develop. 

Teachers  should  be  chosen  who  realize  the  impor- 
tance of  the  work  and  the  responsibility  of  not  only 
bringing  souls  to  Christ,  but  of  building  up  souls  in 
Christ.  A  teacher  can  do  much  to  arouse  an  interest 
in  his  scholars  by  his  own  earnestness  in  the  work. 
He  cannot  impart  that  which  he  himself  does  not 
have.  The  teacher  who  loves  the  work  can  best  in- 
terest his  scholars.  The  more  Christian  love  we  can 
infuse  into  the  Sunday  school,  among  all  its  members, 
the  more  interesting  it  will  become  to  all  who  attend 
and  will  have  a  drawing  influence  over  others.  The 
teacher  should  make  friends  of  his  scholars,  both  the 
good  and  the  unruly,  and  thus,  by  gaining  their  love, 
he  will  also  gain  the  scholar. 


One  very  important  factor  in  arousing  and  holding 
the  interest  of  the  Sunday  school  is  to  have  well  pre- 
pared lessons.  The  importance  of  previous  prepara- 
tion on  the  part  of  the  pupil  should  also  be  forcibly 
impressed.  In  order  that  the  teacher  may  interest 
the  scholar  he  must  use  judgment  in  presenting  the 
lesson  and  making  the  spiritual  application.  Every 
scholar  of  the  Sunday  school  should  be  made  to  feel 
that  he  is  a  part  of  the  Sunday  school.  He  should  be 
encouraged  to  ask  questions  as  well  as  to  answer  them. 
There  must  be  a  cooperation  in  the  Sunday  school  if 
it  would  be  interesting. 

The  song  service  can  be  made  the  means  of  creating 
a  love  for  the  Sunday  school,  in  the  younger  pupils. 
Allow  them  to  occasionally  select  songs.  The  timd 
could  be  well  spent  by  the  teacher  in  explaining  the 
meaning  of  the  words  in  the  songs,  to  the  smaller 
scholars,  and  then  they  could  sing  them  with  "  the 
understanding." 

Another  way  to  develop  greater  enthusiasm  for  the 
love  of  the  Sunday-school  work  is  to  attend  the  dis- 
trict Sunday-school  meetings.  As  long  as  these  meet- 
ings are  conducted  as  they  should  be,  they  cannot 
help  but  be  helpful  in  advancing  the  Sunday-school 
cause,  for  they  will  show  us  in  what  we  are  lacking, 
and  whatever  advances  the  Sunday-school  cause  de-: 
serves  the  support  of  every  Christian.  Coming  to- 
gether and  trying  to  find  better  ways  of  carrying  on 
the  work  will  be  one  of  the  means  of  awakening  us 
to  our  duty. 

Sociability  is  also  an  important  factor  in  the  Sun 
day-school  work.     We  all  love  to  go  where  we  fe« 
that  we  are  welcome ;  where  we  feel  we  are  wante 
and  will  be  missed  if  not  there.    The  officers  and  teach- 
ers should  especially  try  to  win  the  love  of  the  chil- 
dren.    Particular  attention  should  be  given  the  poor 
and  backward  children  of  the  school.     Very  often  a 
little  child  will  lead  his  parents  to  become   Sunday- 
school  attendants  when  all  other  means  would  fail. 

Regular  attendance  is  another  important  factor 
keeping  up  the  interest  of  the  Sunday  school.  O 
day's  absence  will  lessen  the  interest  in  the  worts 
How  to  create  so  great  a  love  for  Sunday-school  work 
as  to  secure  regular  attendance  is  a  problem  which  we 
have  not  yet  solved.  So  long  as  we  have  Sunday  ex- 
cursions, pleasure  resorts  open  on  Sunday,  big  din- 
ners, and  all  these  things  to  be  continued  with,  Wl 
will  have  trouble  along  this  line.  Satan  never  tire.' 
of  throwing  hindrances  in  the  way  of  any  good  cause 

Indifferent  Christians  do  not  need  Sunday-schoo 
picnics,  Christmas  trees  and  worldly  amusements  t< 
draw  them  to  Sunday  school,  but  they  do  need  Jesus 
Jesus  says,  "  And  I,  if  I  be  lifted  up  from  the  eartl 
will  draw  all  men  unto  me."  He  also  says,  "  Withou 
me  ye  can  do  nothing."  We  need  more  of  Jesus  ii 
our  work.     It  takes  consecrated  Christians  workinj 


THE    I NGLENOOK.— November  8,  1904 


1063 


together  with  God  to  remove  the  hindrances  to  Sun- 
day-school work  and  create  a  love  for  it. 

Parents  should  teach  the  Bible  in  the  home  and  thus 
instill  in  the  child's  heart  a  love  for  Sunday  school. 
It  is  a  great  incentive  to  children  to  study  the  Bible 
when  they  find  their  parents  are  interested  in  the 
Word  of  God.  It  is  sad,  but  true,  that  many  children 
never  see  their  parents  read  the  Bible,  much  less  are 
^hey  helped  to  study  it  by  them.  A  true  Christian 
mother  in  sympathy  with  the  Sunday-school  work  can 
do  more  to  create  a  love  for  Sunday  school  in  the 
child  than  any  one  thing.  Then  we  must  pray  more 
for  the  Sunday  school,  and  try  and  make  it  attractive 
and  interesting  to  the  children  so  they  will  love  to  be 
there  and  learn  of  Jesus. 

If  I  see  that  I  am  lacking  in  anything  I  should 
pray  for  myself.  If  the  teacher  is  lacking  pray  for 
him.  If  better  attendance  is  needed,  pray  for  it.  If 
better  prepared  lessons  and  more  laborers  are  needed, 
pray  for  them.  God  has  said,  "  Ask  and  ye  shall  re- 
ceive." Then  why  not  ask,  but  with  our  praying 
we  must  do  faithfully  our  part.  We  must,  in  a  sense, 
answer  our  own  prayers,  by  making  the  answer  possi- 
ble on  our  part.  The  burden  of  every  Sunday-school 
worker  should  be  for  the  upbuilding  of  the  school. 
Until  we  do  pray  for  the  Sunday  school,  we  need  not 
expect  our  efforts  to  bring  success. 

So  let  us  all  watch  and  pray,  be  faithful  and  do  our 
work  thoroughly,  so  there  will  be  a  mighty  host  of 
workers  to  go  forth  to  conquer  for  Christ  and  the 
church. 

Panora,  Iowa. 

*  *  * 
A    LITTLE    WOMAN    OF    THE    PEOPLE. 


She  was  a  sweet-faced,  gray-haired  little  woman 
of  rather  more  than  seventy,  with  some  foreign  tinge 
in  her  words  of  inquiry  which  attracted  the  young 
woman  in  the  next  seat. 

'  Not  stop  at  Shelby  ?  Too  bad !  I  must  have  taken 
the  wrong  train.  Not  that  I  am  lost,  though,"  she 
laughed.  "  I  have  never  been  lost  yet."  "  Yet!"  ech- 
oed the  girl.  "  Perhaps  you  have  traveled  far?"  "  I 
have  just  come  from  Ireland,"  was  her  smiling  reply. 
"  When  I  am  really  old  I  think  I  shall  go  back  there." 

Further  conversation  revealed  the  fact  that  the  little 
lady  had  traveled  all  over  Europe,  Asia,  Africa,  and 
America.  She  did  not  go  as  most  travelers  think  nec- 
essary, with  guides  and  friends.  She  could  not  afford 
that.  Everywhere  she  had  lived  with  the  common 
people.  When  they  slept  on  (he  ground,  she  slept 
on  the  ground.  She  washed  her  clothes  with  them  in 
the  streams  and  cooked  with  them  over  desert  fires. 
For  a  year  and  a  half  at  a  time  she  had  not  seen  her 
trunk.     She  learned  the  language  wherever  she  went. 

"May  I  give  you  a  little  picture?"  She  asked,  as 
Ihe  young  woman    reluctantly  prepared   to   leave   the 


train.  "  I  painted  this  twin  flower  as  I  found  it,  far 
up  in  the  Arctic  Circle  of  Norway.  Linnaeus  se- 
lected it  to  bear  his  name,  and  the  Norse  love  it  as  the 
New  Engenders  love  the  arbutus.  It  is  the  harbinger 
of  spring.  May  it  bring  you  good  luck,  dear!  Good- 
bye." 

Some  months  afterward,  in  a  university  town,  the  <nrl 
learned  the  history  of  her  chance  acquaintance.  The 
lady  had  been  a  factory  girl  in  a  New  England  town. 
One  day  some  painted  screens  were  brought  in,  and  she 
laughed  at  their  art.  The  overseer  of  the  room  said 
there  were  two  hundred  still  unpainted ;  she  might  try 
her  hand  at  them.  With  no  further  experience  than  a 
box  of  childhood  paints  had  given  her,  she  did  some 
flower  panels  which  secured  her  instant  promotion. 

To  this  New  England  factory  girl  a  painted  flower 
was  the  entering  wedge  of  a  new  life.  Through  coun- 
try after  country,  she  passed,  seeking  the  native 
flowers.  So  accurately  did  she  paint  them  that  bot- 
anists used  them  for  analysis  and  classification.  Their 
sale  enabled  her  to  continue  her  studies  and  travels. 
Kings  and  Queens  received  her  and  heard  her  story. 
Everywhere  she  tried  to  bring  a  touch  of  sweetness 
and  light  to  the  lives  she  transiently  touched.  In  the 
waste  places  of  the  earth  she  dropped  accidently  seeds 
of  courage  and  strength.  Her  story  is  quite  true,  and 
some  readers  may,  like  the  present  narrator,  meet  the 
sweet-faced,  gray-haired  little  lady  as  she  travels 
through  the  world. — Youth's  Companion. 
*  *  * 
THE    VEIL    ON    ENGLISH    WOMEN. 


Although  English  women  have  adopted  the  draped 
veil  for  their  hats,  not  all  of  them  take  to  it  kindly 
or  gracefully.  At  first  they  regarded  it  as  an  Amer- 
ican eccentricity,  this  streaming  affair,  this  veil  that 
veils  nothing.  They  put  it  in  the  category  with  side- 
bags,  which  every  American  woman  tourist  who  landed 
at  Southampton  or  Liverpool  wore,  veils  and  sidebags 
being  looked  upon  by  the  English  as  articles  that  must 
be  necessitated  by  some  of  the  exigencies  of  a  sea  voy- 
age. Then  some  adventurous  spirit  bought  a  veil  and 
draped  it  around  her  hat,  and  soon  English  women  of 
all  classes  had  succumbed.  In  some  cases  the  veils 
assume  so  aggressive  a  manner  that  it  lias  been  said 
they  appear  to  wear  the  women,  after  the  manner  of 
the  tail  that  wagged  the  dog.  The  incidental  ornamen- 
tation has  become  the  all-important  factor,  and  the 
wearer  only  an  accident  in  the  general  scheme  of 
things.  That  is  often  the  way  lure.  too.  One  has 
to  look  for  the  little  woman  concealed  somewhere  un- 
der the  big  hat  and  overpowering  veil. 
$  <l>  4. 

Trouble  and  perplexity  drive  us  to  prayer,  and 
prayer  driveth  away  trouble  and  perplexity. — Melanc- 
thon. 


1064 


THE    I NGLENOOK.— November  8,  1904. 


STICK    TO    THE    FARM. 


THE    VALUE    OF    EDUCATION. 


BY   J.    E.    MILLER. 

It  is  a  very  general  impression  with  the  boy  on 
the  farm  that  his  is  a  hard  lot.  He  sees  nothing  but 
drudgery  in  his  work.  As  he  sees  it  he  is  the  slave 
to  all  others.  His  hours  are  many  and  long,  his  work 
is  hard  and  monotonous,  his  trials  are  many  and  se- 
vere, his  pleasures — well  they  are  so  few  and  far  be- 
tween that  he  fails  to  see  them.  All  other  occupa- 
tions are  preferable  to  his.  But  the  same  thoughts 
that  come  to  him  with  reference  to  the  farm  and  farm 
life  come  to  others  with  reference  to  their  surround- 
ings. 

There  is  hard  work  on  the  farm,  no  doubt.  I've 
been  through  the  mill.  If  getting  up  early,  and  work- 
ing late,  if  wading  mud  knee  deep,  if  cold  hands  and 
frozen  ears  mean  farm  experience  then  I  have  had  it. 
But  do  you  know  that  other  things  also  have  their 
early  and  late  hours.  It  may  seem  easier  to  carry  an 
intellectual  load  than  a  material  one  but  it  isn't.  You 
may  think  the  man  at  the  desk  has  nothing  to  do  but 
exchange  with  him  for  an  hour  and  see.  The  work 
of  the  teacher  may  seem  to  be  free  from  all  annoy- 
ance but  the  stubborn  animal  is  easier  handled  than  a 
stubborn  child. 

The  pay  on  the  farm  may  seem  small.  Sometimes 
it  even  is.  But  then  the  expenses  are  not  what  they 
are  in  town.  At  the  end  of  the  year  the  question  is 
not  how  much  money  has  passed  through  your  hands 
but  how  much  has  honestly  and  honorably  remained 
in  them.  On  the  farm  most  things  are  free  while  in 
town  most  things  cost,  and  in  the  city  everything 
costs  and  much  more  too  than  you  first  thought.  On 
the  farm  you  couldn't  sell  fresh  air,  in  the  city 
you  couldn't  buy  it  at  any  price. 

The  farm  builds  character,  the  city  destroys  it.  The 
farm  makes  man  strong,  the  city  uses  up  his  strength. 
The  farm  brings  one  into  contact  with  nature,  the  city 
is  a  stranger  to  her.  The  farm  keeps  the  boy  busy, 
the  city  trains  him  in  idleness.  The  farm  trains  the 
child's  ingenuity  because  he  must  make  things,  the 
city  offers  no  field  in  that  direction  because  he  buys 
everything  ready  made. 

Before  you  decide  to  leave  the  old  farm  look  care- 
fully into  the  new  place  you  are  about  to  enter.  A 
thing  is  not  necessarily  gold  because  it  glitters.  You 
know  every  foot  of  the  old  place  and  it  is  possible  that 
you  remember  the  rough  and  stony  fields  just  now. 
At  a  distance  these  all  fade  from  view.  The  new  oc- 
cupation you  long  to  enter  has  its  rough  places  too. 
They'll  be  ready  to  meet  you  at  the  first  opportunity. 

Mount  Morris.  III. 


Education,  what  is  it  ?  "  It  is  the  preparation  for 
complete  living."  It  is  the  harmonious  development 
of  all  the  powers  of  mind  in  their  true  relation  to  the 
Moral  Governor.  Anything  less  than  trying  to  per- 
fect our  being  in  accordance  with  the  Divine  will  is 
not  true  education. 

Perfection,  then,  should  be  the  watch-word  for  each 
individual,  the  ambition  of  each  youth,  the  ideal  of 
each  man,  and  the  longing  of  the  aged.  He  who  im- 
presses the  image,  Perfection,  op  the  molecules  of  the 
atmosphere,  and  perceives  it  each  morning  with  that 
inward  eye,  has  begun  to  realize  the  value  of  an  educa- 
tion. Any  institution  of  learning  that  has  an  ideal  less, 
than  that  of  perfection,  does  not  merit  recognition. 
Parents  should  scorn  the  idea  of  sending  their  children 
to  a  school  where  the  motto,  "  perfection  for  com- 
plete living,"  is  not  known.  Students  should  shun 
an  educational  institution  which  says,  by  her  actions 
or  otherwise  that  her  ideal  is  less  than  the  harmo- 
nious development  of  all  the  powers  of  the  soul  in  their 
true  relations  to  the  Divine  mind. 

Again,  an  institution  should  have  such  a  conception 
of  education,  that  it  would  hold  within  its  student- 
body,  no  one  who  will  not  strive  to  attain  perfection. 
We  have  reached  an  era  in  civilization,  wherein  thg 
idler  must  either  accept  the  spirit  of  progress  and  move 
on,  or  be  pushed  aside.  Hence  perfection  stands  out 
as  the  great  object  of  an  education. 

The  value  of  an  education  is  measured  by  the  pre- 
paration of  the  individual,  the  power  of  concentration, 
the  ability  to  reason,  and  the  strength  of  mind,  both 
intellectual  and  moral. 

Preparation  holds  such  a  prominent  place  in  thj{ 
educational  sphere,  that  it  is  necessary  to  show  its 
value.  Time !  Time !  calls  the  German.  Hurry 
Hurry!  urges  the  American  people.  To  graduate 
in  the  high  school  at  sixteen,  to  complete  your  cci 
lege  course  at  twenty,  to  finish  your  professional  course 
at  twenty-four  is  the  cry  of  to-day.  Young  man,  if 
you  have  ten  years  in  which  to  do  a  certain  worj| 
spend  seven  of  those  years  in  preparation  and  do  tm 
work  in  three.  The  mind  of  man  was  not  made  tc 
grasp  in  a  single  day,  what  was  intended  for  years  ol 
hard  toil.  Development  is  only  acquired  after  lon{ 
continuous  work.  So  needful  is  preparation  that  thi 
Bible  holds  it  prominent  throughout  its  pages.  Surel; 
preparation  demands  a  place  among  the  great  force 
of  education. 

Education  is  again  valued  by  the  effect  it  has  01 
the  individual.  Should  a  person  after  years  of  stud) 
retain  his  old  ideas  and  customs,  we  would  say  hi 
time  was  wasted  while  in  the  pursuance  of  knowledg< 
But  such  is  not  the  case.  The  individual's  mind  be 
comes  developed,  his  old  fancied  ideas  are  cast  awaj 


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and  he  steps  out  into  a  new  world.  The  flowers  that 
were  once  admired  for  their  color  only,  are  now  ob- 
jects for  'profound  study.  Zoological  specimens  that 
once  were  distasteful  are  now  objects  of  interest. 
Stars  that  appeared  as  small  lights  in  the  heavens, 
now  appear  in  the  celestial  sphere  as  great  suns,  around 
which  may  be  revolving  planetary  systems.  The  per- 
son who  was  at  one  time  ignorant  of  the  wealth  which 
surrounded  him,  now  appears  cultured  and  refined. 
He  beholds  within  nature  truths  that  are  shaping  his 
;haracter  for  eternity.  Again,  history  reveals  to  him 
:he  knowledge  of  the  human  race.  Through  it  alone 
s  man  made  acquainted  with  life  in  all  its  forms.  It 
shows  the  origin  of  mankind,  his  successes  and  fail- 
ires  and  from  them  he  is  able  to  choose  a  course  that 
jvill  be  for  the  perfection  of  his  being.  Hence,  the 
ralue  of  an  education  to  the  individual  is  of  paramount 
mportance. 

When  the  noted  apostle  was  giving  instruction  for 
he  promulgation  of  Christianity,  he  gave  the  explicit 
:ommand  "  to  study,"  for  he  saw  the  need  of  educated 
eaders.  Is  it  not  a  fact  that  man  cannot  give  what 
te  does  not  possess  ?  Can  he  give  money  when  he  has 
lone?  Is  he  able  to  teach  in  the  public  schools  when 
le  knows  not  the  subjects  to  be  taught?  If  then  he 
s  not  able  to  give  what  he  does  not  possess  in  the  fi- 
nancial world,  or  the  educational  field,  how  can  he 
dve  religious  instructions  unless  he  has  first  acquired 
he  necessary  knowledge?  Ah!  education  is  of  the 
itmost  value  to  the  church.  Too  long  has  the  church 
reen  shrouded  in  ignorance.  Too  long  has  she  been 
indifferent  to  the  needs  of  an  educated  ministry.  Too 
png  has  she  been  neglecting  a  supported  ministry, 
n  which  her  ministers  were  not  able  to  prepare  for 
lie  great  calling,  and  devote  all  their  energies  to  the 
ne  great  end.  Ignorance  cannot  break  the  band  of 
jnorance. 

Education  is  the  prerequisite  necessary  to  banish 
morance.  Not  until  the  church  awakens  to  the  true 
red  of  her  membership,  endows  her  colleges,  obtains 
he  very  best  faculties  possible  for  the  schools,  will 
lie  be  able  to  accomplish  her  great  mission,  the  mis- 
ion  of  Christianizing  the  world. 

The  value  of  an  education  to  the  state  is  of  no  less 
iteortance  than  to  the  individual.  The  United  Slates 
'-day  ranks  first  in  the  civilized  world  because  she  has 
dopted  Christianity  as  her  true  standard  of  education. 
Ve  need  only  to  look  at  Russia  and  Spain,  where  edu- 
ition  is  denied  to  the  people  and  see  the  demoralizing 
ffect  upon  them.  Wickedness,  iniquity,  crime  and 
iwlessness  are  the  products  of  their  ignorance.  Will 
"I  then  a  nation  advance  in  civilization  in  proportion 
)  the  enlightenment  of  her  citizens?  We  need  only 
1  Sei  what  education  has  done  for  the  negro,  to  know 
s  rial  value  to  the  state.  Honker  'I'.  Washington, 
leaking  of  the  effect   of  education   upon   the  negro, 


declared  that  not  a  single  graduate  of  the  Hampton 
Institute  or  of  the  Tuskegee  Institute,  can  be  found  to- 
day in  any  jail  or  penitentiary.  Moreover,  the  records 
of  the  south  show  that  ninety  per  cent  of  the  colored 
race  in  prisons  are  without  the  knowledge  of  trades, 
and  sixty-one  per  cent  are  illiterate.  Education  that 
stands  for  the  development  of  the  mind  of  man  in  its 
true  relation  to  the  moral  governor,  will  banish  ig- 
norance, poverty  and  crime,  crowning  humanity  with. 
the  climax  of  perfection  and  enjoyment. 
Well  does  the  poet  sav: 

"What  constitutes  a  state? 

Not  high-raised  battlements  of  labored  mound 

Thick  walls  or  moated  gate, 
Not  cities  proud  with  spires  and  turrets  crowned; 

Not  bays  and  broad-armed  ports, 
Where  laughing  at  the  storm,  rich  navies  ride; 

Not  starred  and  spangled  courts, 
Where   low-browed  baseness  wafts  perfume  to  pride,. 

No:  men,  high  minded  men." 

The  greatest  estimate  that  can  be  placed  upon  edu- 
cation is  that  of  developing  a  pure,  noble  character.. 
Character,  the  grandest  thing  in  the  world,  is  not  the 
product  of  ignorance,  but  of  long-life  effort,  following- 
the  one  ideal  man.  "  It  is  the  absolute  surrender,, 
consecration  and  devotion  of  self  to  all  that  is  better 
and  truer  and  purer.  By  a  consuming  zeal  for  all 
that  is  noble  and  excellent  our  love  of  self  becomes 
softened  and  clarified.  By  constant  contemplation  of 
excellence,  we  clear  our  self-hood  of  all  dross  and 
impurities."  It  forms  a  character  which  will  let  go. 
all  it  cannot  carry  into  eternal  life,  and  it  will  develop, 
the  individual  into  the  likeness  of  the  Moral  Governor. 
— O.  A.  Harris,  Manchester  College  Standard. 
*  *  * 
A   WONDERFUL    POWDER. 


There  is  working  in  the  University  of  Toki".  in 
Japan,  a  quiet  little  man  who.  if  he  is  almost  ignored 
outside  his  own  country,  is  fully  recognized  in  Japan 
itself  as  a  national  benefactor.  This  man  is  Professor 
Shimose,  inventor  of  the  new  Shimose  powder,  the 
most  powerful  explosive  known.  The  secret  of  its 
composition  is  rigidly  guarded.  Though  there  is  no, 
secrecy  as  to  its  terrific  power,  no  foreigner  knew  any- 
thing about  it  before  the  present  war  began.  This, 
powder  forms  the  bursting  charge  of  the  Japanese 
army  and  navy  shell.  The  armor-piercing  shell  is. 
rent  into  thousands  of  small  fragments,  which  are- 
hurled  through  the  air  with  such  force  that  they  tear 
through  the  sides  of  an  iron  ship.  A  shell  bursting 
with  a  charge  of  guncotton  is  broken  into  very  few 
pieces,  but  the  Shimose  explosive  scatters  thi 
jectile  into  3,000  or  more  fragments,  which  are  driv- 
en in  every  direction  with  equal  force,  the  result  be- 
ing, as  one  expert  says,  that  "  nothing  in  the  vicinity 
can  li\  e." 


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THE    I NGLENOOK.— November  8,  1904 


GRANDMA'S    BEAR    STORY. 


"  When  I  was  a  young  girl"  said  grandmother 
Billow,  "  I  lived  in  what  was  then  called  '  The  Wilds 
of  Michigan,'  away  up  on  the  Detroit  river.  Our 
household  consisted  of  my  father,  mother,  grandmoth- 
er and  a  large  family  of  little  ones,  of  which  I  was  the 

eldest. 

"  We  had  lived  here  but  a  short  time,  but  had  al- 
ready a  nice,  snug  log-house,  built  on  the  side  of  a  hill 
which  overlooked  the  river,  and  it  made  a  beautiful 
place  for  a  home. 

"  Father  had  placed  the  stable— or,  rather,  the  hay 
and  brush  covered  shed  which  sheltered  our  one  ox 
team  and  a  cow— at  some  distance  from  the  house, 
and  in  a  cozy  pen  by  its  side  were  kept  the  nine  little 
pigs,  while  their  mother— a  large,  black  sow— was  al- 
lowed to  be  outside  a  part  of  the  time,  so  she  could 
feed  upon  the  bountiful  supply  of  acorns  which  the 
trees  showered  around  us. 

"  One  of  the  greatest  drawbacks  to  the  comfort  of  . 
those  early  times  was  the  long  distance  to  the  nearest 
post  or  town,  where  the  pioneers  must  go  to  get  their 
annual  supply  of  groceries  and  other  necessaries  which 
their  own  farms  could  not  produce. 

"  The  town  nearest  us  was  forty  miles  away,  and  it 
took  two  long  days  of  tedious  travel  to  accomplish  the 
journey,  which  was  usually  undertaken  in  the  fall  of 

the  year. 

"  I  distinctly  remember  the  long  weeks  of  prepara- 
tion which  preceded  these  expeditions,  and  of  the  early 
start  in  the  bright  Indian-summer  mornings. 

"  It  was  in  the  autumn  of  1820  that  the  first  trip 
was  made  and  that  day  father  and  mother,  almost  be- 
fore daybreak,  set  out  upon  the  dreaded,  but  neverthe- 
less unavoidable,  expedition.  Dreaded  because  there 
was  no  one  to  leave  at  home  to  watch  over  their  dear 
little  children  except  the  good  old  grandma. 

"  But  she  was  a  brave  soul,  sprightly  for  her  years, 
and  had  all  her  life  lived  upon  the  frontiers.  Besides,, 
we  had  never  been  molested  since  our  residence  here  by 
either  Indians  or  wild  beasts;  so,  with  wistful  but 
cheerful  hearts,  our  '  good-bys  '  were  said  and  the  ox- 
team  cart  and  its  load  were  gone. 

"  To  the  inmates  of  the  home  in  the  woods  the  long 
day  passed  much  as  usual  with  its  rounds  of  duties 
and  childish  sports. 

"  As  twilight  came  on,  there  remained  but  one  more 
task  to  be  done— that  of  milking  the  cow. 

"  Our  careful  grandmother  first  made  the  little  ones 
in  the  house  comfortable;  then  placing  the  milk  pail 
on  her  arm,  and  only  taking  me  with  her,  closed  the 
door  and  started  for  the  shed. 

"  We  had  nearly  reached  the  spot  when,  noticing 
something  like  an  animal  browsing  around  among  the 
undergrowth  a  short  distance  from  us,  I  asked : 

"  '  Grandma,  what  is  that?  ' 


"'  She  had  been  watching  it,  too,  and  replied : 
"  '  Oh,  it's  the  old  sow,  I  guess ! ' 
"  But  I  thought  I  heard  a  slight  tremor  in  her  voice 
as  she  answered  me. 

"  We  moved  on  to  where  the  cow  stood,  and  grand- 
mother commenced  the  milking;  but  I  noticed  agaui 
that  she  kept  watch  of  the  figure  which  was  snuffing! 
among  the  brush. 

"  She  had  finished  and  risen  to  her  feet,  when  the! 
dark  object  came  nearer.     I  thought  it  did  not  move| 
about  as  slowly  nor  act  just  as  the  pig  would,  so  I  said 
again, 

"  '  Why,  grandma,  what  is  that  ? ' 
"  Grandmother  was  very  pale,  as  she  grasped  my 
hand  and  said : 

"  '  Hush,  child!  You  must  not  say  anything,  but  | 
know  what  it  is.     It's  a  bear ! ' 

"  '  Oh,  let's  run— quick ! '  I  gasped. 

"  '  No,  no !  '  said  grandma,  in  a  low  tone,  holding 

me  back.     '  We  must  just  walk  quietly  to  the  house 

as  though  we  had  not  seen  it,  for  if  it  thinks  we  art 

running  from  it,  it  will  then  surely  come  after  us.' 

"  So,  firmly  and  slowly,  we  moved  toward  the  housq 
and  all  the  time  the  bear  kept  poking  about  among  tl 
bushes. 

"  It  was  now  quite  dark,  but  we  could  sometime! 
see  and  sometimes  hear  him,  first  on  one  side,  then  01 
the  other,  now  behind,  then  in  front. 

"  When  we  were  a  little  more  than  half  way  to  thil 
house,  we  heard  him  behind  us.     Then  grandmothe 
said,  '  Now  let's  run ! ' 

"  It  seemed  as  though  we  flew  rather  than  ran  anii 
just  as  grandmother  had  said,  the  bear,  crushing  thl 
twigs  and  sticks  in  his  path,  came  tearing  after  us. 

"  As  we  neared  the  half-closed  gateway,  grandmoth 
er,  with  cool  presence  of  mind,  called  loudly  to  th 
children  inside: 

"  '  Open  the  door! ' 
"  She  knew  that  the  large  fireplace,  in  which  th, 
fire  was  brightly  blazing,  was  directly  opposite  t| 
gate,  and  she  reasoned  that  its  brilliancy  would  pro| 
ably  dazzle  our  pursuer,  who  was  now  close  upon  1 
and  so  possibly  cause  him  to  miss  his  path,  and  dar 
blindly  against  instead  of  through  the  gateway. 

"  She  was  correct.  The  startled  children  had  hastil 
obeyed,  and  as  the  glare  of  the  firelight  burst  upon  I 
we  heard  the  crash,  as  the  bear  came  full  against  tlj 
rails.  The  time  it  took  for  him  to  recover  and  leap  ft 
fence  was  just  sufficient  for  us  to  reach  the  door  an 
rush  pantingly  into  the  room. 

"  We  had  barely  time  to  push  the  former  to  its  plat 
before  his  bulky  form  plunged  against  the  now  s 
curely  fastened  and  solid  oaken  door. 

"  Oh,  the  terror  of  that  long  night,  and  the  tearfi 
frightened  little  faces  which  surrounded  our  bra' 
grandma,  I  shall  never  forget!     But  she  assured 


THE    INGLENOOK.— November  8,  1904. 


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again  and  again,  that  we  were  all  safe — the  bear 
couldn't  get  us — so  at  last,  when  we  could  hear  no 
more  of  him,  the  little,  exhausted  figures  weary  with 
weeping,  finally  slept. 

'  At  last  the  morning  dawned,  and  with  the  first 
light  grandmother  was  peering  from  window  and  door 
for  signs  of  our  enemy,  but  he  was  not  to  be  seen. 

'  I  was  the  only  one  of  the  children  who  had  yet 
waked  up,  and  leaving  all  in  my  care,  grandmother 
resolutely  took  the  gun  from  its  place  and  started  for 
the  barn. 

"  How  anxiously  I  awaited  her  return !  Finally  she 
ame,  with  the  news  that  five  of  the  little  pigs  were 
jone,  while  their  mother  bore  signs  of  a  tough  tussle ; 
out,  excepting  these  traces  of  the  bear's  doings  and  his 
racks  in  the  forest,  she  could  see  nothing  of  him. 

"  She  then  stated  that  it  was  her  intention,  as  soon 
is  we  had  our  breakfast  and  the  work  could  be  finished, 
:o  go  herself  to  our  nearest  neighbor's  and  get  some 
me  to  track  our  foe  and  shoot  him. 

So  we  hurridly  set  about  our  morning  tasks  and  it 
vas  not  long  before  all  was  in  readiness  for  the  morn- 
ng  meal.  This  dispatched,  everything,  both  at  the 
louse  and  stable,  was  quickly  put  to  rights.  Then 
jrandma,  making  sure  that  all  was  arranged  for  our 
:omfort  that  she  could  do,  and  charging  us  to  be  good 
hildren  and  keep  inside  the  house,  bade  us  good-by, 
nd  taking  the  gun  courageously  started  on  a  three- 
nile  walk  through  the  lonely  forests. 

How  the  long  forenoon  ever  wore  away  I  do  not  re- 
nember,  but  I  can  distinctly  recall  the  feeling  of  anx- 
iety there  was  in  my  heart  each  time  I  thought  of  our 
irave  grandma,  and  of  the  misgivings  I  had  for  her 
afety  while  she  was  alone  so  far  off  in  the  woods. 

We  had  been  watching  the  sunbeams  as  they 
loved  along  the  floor,  and  had  just  hailed  with  glee  the 
road  flood  of  light  which  at  last  came  squarely  in 
t  our  south  window,  when  suddenly  voices  outside 
ttracled  our  attention. 
"  Peering  cautiously  forth,  we  saw  approaching  the 
ouse  our  grandma,  with  a  trusty  neighbor. 

Never  were  prisoners  of  war  more  glad  of  freedom 
Km  was  that  little  family  of  pent-up  children  again 
>  rush  out  of  doors  and  never  before  was  our  beloved 
rainlmother  so  overwhelmed  with  demonstrations  of 
ffection. 

"  Eagerly  we  helped  to  point  out  the  tracks  of  the 
ear  in  (he  signs  of  freshly  broken  twigs  and  newly 
arted  underbrush  about  the  clearing. 
"Then  the  kind  neighbor  left  us  following  the  most 
robable  trail  of  the  bear's  retreat. 
"  The  afternoon  passed  more  quickly,  and  with  the 
usk  came  the  impatiently  awaited  sounds  of  the 
agon  which  bore  our  parents. 

"It  took  a  chorus  of  excited  little  voices  to  tell  them 
1  about  the  terrible  adventure.     But  at  last,  pale  with 


emotion,  they  succeeded  in  eliciting  from  grandma  the 
connected  story. 

"  They  praised  and  kissed  and  hugged  us  all  around 
again,  and  then  put  us  to  bed  with  hearts  full  of 
thankfulness  for  our  preservation. 

"  Early  the  next  morning  our  neighbor  came  to  say 
that  he  had  not  succeeded  in  finding  the  bear.  He  had 
followed  the  trail  all  the  afternoon  but  had  to  give  it 
up  when  night  came  oh,  as  he  could  see  no  longer. 

"A  consultation  was  held,  and  soon  afterwards  father 
and  the  neighbor,  well  provided  with  lunch,  started  off 
to  track  the  bear  together. 

"  All  the  day  long  they  were  gone,  but  when  night 
came  there  were  some  loud  rejoicings,  for  on  their  re- 
turn they  bore  on  their  shoulders  the  identical  bearskin 
and  a  goodly  portion  of  bear's  meat. 

"  They  had  had  a  tedious  tramp,  and  it  took  them 
nearly  the  whole  day  before  they  came  upon  the  object 
of  their  search. 

"  But  at  last,  when  the  shadows  were  beginning  to 
thicken  in  the  deep  woods,  they  espied  the  bear  at  the. 
same  instant.  He  was  crouching  at  the  foot  of  a 
large  hollow  oak,  and  seemed  to  be  unconscious  of  any 
pursuers. 

"  Creeping  softly  within  range,  they  fired  together, 
and  both  bullets  taking  effect  they  had  little  difficulty 
in  dispatching  him. 

"  For  weeks  it  was  with  infinite  satisfaction  that  we. 
children  regarded  the  bear's  skin  as  it  hung  on  the. 
fence  to  dry.  And  I  well  remember,  in  the  winter 
evenings  of  many  years  following,  how  we  played  on- 
its  shaggy  coat  as  it  lay  stretched  before  the  fire  for 
our  hearthrug." — Viola  Augir,  in  Golden  Days. 

♦  •!•   ♦ 
MEXICAN    TELEPHONING. 


It  may  not  be  funny  to  a  person  who  has  lived  there, 
a  long  time,  but  it  is  amusing  to  a  tourist  to  see  peo- 
ple in  Mexico  use  a  telephone.  A  man  goes  to  the  tele- 
phone and  rings  up  central  and  tells  the  operator  the. 
number  he  wants.  Then  he  hangs  the  receiver  up  and' 
goes  out  on  the  street  to  watch  a  dog  fight  or  anything 
else  interesting  that  may  be  happening.  In  the  course 
of  time  the  owner  of  the  telephone  called  responds, 
first  ringing  the  bell.  The  first  man  then  saunters- 
back  to  the  instrument,  and,  after  ringing  the  hell- 
again,  takes  down  the  receiver  and  says  hello,  and 
the  conversation  is  on.  Every  time  one  of  them  missi :s 
a  word  he  grinds  the  coffee-mill  attachment  which 
rings  the  bell.  When  they  arc  done  talking  they  ring 
some  more.  The  whole  affair  is  very  much  like  a  bell- 
ringing  stunt  on  the  vaudeville  stage. 


A  man's  accusations  of  himself  are  always  bejjpved 
his  praises  never. — Montaigne, 


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THE   INGLENOOK, 
TECHNICAL    KNOWLEDGE. 


-November  8,  1904. 

THE    HOUSE   BEAUTIFUL. 


BY   J.   G.    FIGLEY. 

The  man  or  woman  who  is  the  most  successful 
in  this  world,  is  the  one  who  possesses  a  good  technic- 
al knowledge  of  the  profession  or  business  engaged 
in  One  man  who  thinks  he  is  a  farmer  may  fairly 
starve  to  death  on  a  40-acre  farm,  and  declare  the 
land  to  be  "  too  poor  to  raise  a  disturbance  on,"  let 
alone  raise  weeds.  Another  man  may  eventually  take 
the  same  farm  and  by  his  "technical  knowledge  '  of 
rotation  of  crops,  drainage,  proper  farming,  etc.,  make 
a  good  living.  A  man  who  after  a  few  trials  cannot 
draw  a  straight  line,  or  even  "  worm  "  perfectly  for 
a  rail  fence,  cannot  expect  to  be  elected  county  sur- 
veyor, or  do  such  work  intelligently. 

The  school-teachers  in  these  days  must  hustle  to  get 
a  certificate  by  being  able  to  untangle  all  the  new  and 
revised  professional  "  kinks  "  tied  for  them  by  doughty 
scholars  of  ripe  age  and  wisdom.  The  doctor  is 
called  a  "  back-number  "  who  does  not  read  up  on, 
even  if  he  does  not  practice,  hypnotism,  anl  all  the 
other  forms  of  suggestion,  mental  or  applied,  and  ob- 
serve the  constantly  improving  methods  of  his  pro- 
fession in  alleviating  pain  and  disease,  and  performing 
startling  and  successful  surgical  operations.  It  is 
technical  knowledge.  So  it  is  this  that  enables  the 
newspaper  man  to  be  able  to  put  a  bright,  clean,  reada- 
ble paper  or  magazine  before  the  public,  and  hold  its 
patronage,  and  keep  his  circulation  increasing.  I 
mean  of  course  the  circulation  of  his  journal. 

So  it  is  in  all  professions  and  vocations,  no  matter 
what.  It  is  the  technical  knowledge  of  how  to  make 
money  that  makes  the  millionaire,  and  the  all-pervad- 
ing lack  of  it,  that  makes  the  —what?  In  the  man- 
ufacturing line  a  technical  knowledge  of  what  may 
be  done  with  the  raw  material  employed,  renders  the 
business  successful.  .  For  instance,  a  pound  of  cotton 
costing,  say  13  cents,  is  made  into  muslin  that  sells 
for  8o&  cents,  or  chintz  that  will  sell  for  $4.00.  So  in 
a  mechanical  way,  as  aptly  shown  by  Dr.  George 
Woods,  of  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  it  is  technical  knowledge 
that  enables  a  man  to  take  seventy-five  cents'  worth 
of  common  iron  ore  and  develop  it  into  $5.00  worth 
of  bar-iron,  or  into  $10.00  worth  of  horse-shoes,  or 
into  $180  worth  of  table-knives,  or  into  $6,800  worth 
of  fine  needles,  or  into  $29,480  worth  of  shirt  but- 
tons, or  into  $200,000  worth  of  watch  springs,  or  into 
$400,000  worth  of  hairsprings,  or  into  $2,500,000 
worth  of  pallet  arbors.  Verily,  a  technical  knowledge 
of  anything  is  something  worth  getting.. 
Bryan,  Ohio. 


"  Your  body  is  the  temple  of  the  Holy  Ghost."     1  Cor. 
6:  19. 

Once  upon  a  time  there  was  a  boy  who  had  a  rich 
and  kind  friend,  who  built  for  him  a  beautiful  house. 
It  was  a  very  wonderful  house,  with  many  curious 
inventions  to  make  it  comfortable.  It  was  heated  by 
little  pipes,  hidden  in  the  walls  everywhere,  and  no 
matter  what  the  weather  was  outside  it  was  always 
the  same  temperature  in  the  house.  And  this  was 
self-regulating,  so  that  the  owner  had  no  thought  about 
it  at  all.  Summer  and  winter  the  warmth  was  always 
just  the  same.  Then  there  was  a  telephone  reaching 
to  every  room,  so  that  the  owner  could  sit  in  his  li- 
brary and  reach  all  parts  of  the  house  instantly.  One 
of  the  strangest  things  about  it  was  that  this  house 
repaired  itself.  If  the  shingle  or  one  of  the  clap- 
boards came  off  or  any  other  part  was  weakened,  a 
new  part  came  at  once  to  take  its  place,  and  so  cunning- 
ly did  it  fasten  itself  on  that  you  could  not  see  where 
the  place  had  been  mended. 

All  the  house  was  wonderful,  but  there  was  one  roonj 
that  was  most  marvelous  of  all.  This  was  at  the  top 
of  the  house,  under  the  dome,  a  large  room,  with 
stained  glass  windows  and  walls  covered  with  most 
beautiful  paintings.  And  these  paintings  were  con- 
stantly changing,  so  that  you  could  sit  there  hour  after 
hour  and  see  these  glorious  pictures  come  and  go 
one  after  another.  And  if  you  wished  to  see  one  of 
them  again  all  you  had  to  do  was  to  let  your  thought 
be  known  and  there  it  was  again  before  you. 

When  all  was  ready,  the  boy  moved  in,  and  for  a 
time  was  very  proud  and  happy.  But  by  and  by  he 
grew  careless  about  the  care  of  his  house,  and  some- 
times he  invited  in  friends  who  were  even  more  reck- 
less. And,  one  night  as  they  were  feasting  and  carous- 
ing, they  went  up  into  the  great  room  under  the  dome: 
and  in  their  tipsy  revels  some  of  the  paintings  were 
torn,  and  the  windows  were  broken  and  the  walls 
streaked  with  stains  of  dirt  from  their  soiled  fingers 
so  that  the  great  room  was  left  in  sad  disorder  anc 
confusion.  How  do  you  think  the  man  who  built  th( 
house  for  the  boy  felt,  when  he  saw  it  abused  in  tha' 
fashion  ? 

I  am  sure  that  you  have  read  my  little  parable  be 
fore  this.  The  house  is  the  body  which  our  wise  an< 
kind  heavenly  Father  has  given  you.  The'heatinj 
apparatus  is  the  blood,  carried  in  the  little  pipes  0 
the  veins  and  arteries  all  over  the  body.  No  matte 
l-.ow  hot  or  cold  it  is  outside,  the  blood  is  always  th 
same  temperature,  and  you  never  think  about  regu 
hting  it.  And  you  could  not  if  you  tried.  The  nerve 
are  the  telephone  system,  carrying  the  messages  fror 
all  parts  of  the  body  to  the  brain  and  the  spinal  con 
and  back  again.     And  this  body  is  always  repairini 


THE    I NGLENOOK.— November  8,  1904. 


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itself,  growing-  new  skin  to  take  the  place  of  that  you 
lost  when  you  fell  down  yesterday,  and  even  making 
a  new  bone  when  a  leg  or  arm  is  broken,  fastening 
the  parts  together  as  strongly  as  before. 

And  the  room  under  the  dome,  that  is  the  brain, 
with  its  windows  of  thought  and  the  beautiful  pict- 
ures of  the  imagination  coming  and  going.  Memory 
is  the  power  that  brings  up  again  the  lovely  pictures 
that  have  delighted  us.  And  when  you  grow  careless 
and  welcome  sinful  thoughts,  then  every  vile  and  evil 
imagination  leaves  a  stain  behind  it.  What  a  shame 
that  the  room  that  God  made  so  beautiful  should  have 
great  black  stains  on  its  walls,  and  its  windows  broken 
and  dirty,  and  be  full  of  disorder  and  confusion. 

How  do  you  think  God  feels  when  he  sees  this  house 
beautiful  abused?  Every  impure  thought,  every  self- 
ish choice,  every  hateful  word  and  angry  feeling 
leaves  its  mark  upon  the  walls.  And  we  should  be 
in  a  pretty  bad  case  if  God  left  us  alone  with  this  house 
beautiful,  should  we  not?  But  the  blessed  thing  is 
that  he  doesn't.  He  comes  to  the  door  of  the  house, 
and  asks  to  be  let  in.  We  confess  with  shame  and 
sorrow  that  we  have  not  taken  good  care  of  this  house. 
What  does  he  do  then  ?  Go  away  and  leave  us  in  dis- 
gust ?     Ah  !  no,  indeed. 

He  offers  to  cleanse  the  house  and  replace  the  broken 
windows  and  to  keep  out  the  dangerous  friends  that 
get  us  into  trouble  by  coming  in  to  dwell  with  us  him- 
self. And  they  are  afraid  of  him,  and  won't  trouble 
us,  if  he  stays.  And  he  brings  with  him  provisions 
for  a  continual  feast,  and  wisdom  and  joy  to  make  the 
house  beautiful  a  center  of  light  and  happiness.  Then 
the  house  becomes  filled  with  song,  and  all  who  see 
it  wonder  at  the  light  that  shines  forth  from  the  win- 
dows and  at  the  sweet  music  that  they  hear  as  they 
pass. 

Now  what  are  you  going  to  do  with  your  beautiful 
house?  You  cannot  keep  it  yourself;  you  do  not  wish 
to  entertain  guests  that  will  spoil  it.  Open  your 
heart  to  him  who  made  you,  that  he  may  come  in  and 
fill  your  life  with  peace  and  beauty  and. joy. — Rev. 
li.  M.  Noyes. 

♦  ♦  * 

NEW    SYSTEM    OF    TELEGRAPHY. 


tact  on  the  disk;  this  impulse  is  taken  by  the  revolv- 
ing contact  and  sent  over  the  line  to  the  revolving  con- 
tact of  the  receiving  disk  and  then  to  the  con- 
tact of  the  disk  and  to  the  key  of  the  receiving  type- 
writing machine,  which  prints  a  letter.  There  are 
special  devices  for  the  synchronism ;  for  strengthening 
the  arriving  impulse;  for  neutralizing  the  line  after 
each  impulse ;  for  arranging  the  position  of  the  two 
disks  so  that  the  contacts  of  the  same  letter  are  con- 
nected when  an  impulse  is  sent  over  the  line ;  for  keep- 
ing closed  the  keyboard  of  each  sending  typewriting 
machine  when  the  others  are  working ;  for  starting  and 
stopping  the  revolving  contacts,  etc.  The  electrical 
impulse  can  be  an  electrical  oscillation,  and  for  this 
the  Giara  system,  it  is  claimed,  can  be  used  in  wire- 
less telegraphy,  sending  many  hundred  words  per 
minute  instead -of  22  now  sent. 
*  *  * 
THE    CHINESE    CALENDAR. 


Patent  has  just  been  allowed  to  Mr.  Giara,  an 
Italian  civil  engineer  and  electrician  new  residing  in 
Boston,  for  a  new  system  of  telegraphy.  This  system 
consists  of  two  identical  disks,  one  for  each  station; 
mi  those  disks  there  are  distributed  a  number  of  elec- 
tric contacts  connected  with  the  keys  of  a  number  of 
type  writing  machines;  each  disk  has  a  revolving  con- 
tact which  connects  the  contacts  of  the  disk  successive- 
ly to  the  line,  the  revolving  contacts  at  the  two  stations 
moving  in  perfect  synchronism.  When  a  key  is  pressed 
an  electrical  impulse  is  sent  to  the  corresponding  con- 


As  our  week  is  not  used  except  among  Christian 
converts,  the  Chinese  are  accustomed  to  count  by  the 
days  of  the  moon.  Certain  days  are  considered  spe- 
cially sacred ;  such  as  the  first  and  fifteenth  of  each 
month  and  the  dates  on  which  the  numbers  are  dou- 
bled— as  the  third  of  the  third  month,  or  the  seventh 
the  seventh  month.  Particular  attention  is  given,  in 
the  calendars  for  general  use,  to  the  lucky  and  unlucky 
days — Sometimes  even  to  the  neglect  of  astronomical 
information  and  predictions.  Some  editions  combine 
rather  poetical  matter  with  its  practical  and  supersti- 
tious notes,  giving  the  date  when  the  rainbow  will 
first  be  seen,  the  time  for  the  opening  of  certain  flow- 
ers and  the  migrations  and  songs  of  birds.  The  of- 
ficial calendars  are  issued  annually,  after  they  have 
received  the  emperor's  approval ;  and,  although  filled 
with  superstition  and  inaccurate  in  many  particulars, 
they  are  most  interesting  and  attractive,  and  present 
a  good  example  of  the  lore  and  science  of  the  Chinese 
people. 

♦  *  * 

FELL  THROUGH   THE   EARTH. 


It  is  reported  through  scientific  journals  that  Lake 
Shirwa,  southeast  of  Lake  Nyassa,  in  Central  Africa, 
has  entirely  disappeared.  Desiccation  has  been  going 
on  for  many  years,  but  the  last  stages  in  the  process 
were  very  rapid.  This  lake  used  to  be  shown  on  the 
maps  as  an  oval-shaped  body  of  water  thirty  miles 
long  and  ten  to  fifteen  miles  wide.  It  now  consists 
of  a  few  small  ponds.  Livingstone  discovered  the 
lake  in  1859.  Lake  Ngami,  also  discovered  by  Liv- 
ingstone, has  since  disappeared.  These  changes, 
scientists  conclude,  seem  to  be  a  manifestation  of  a 
gradual  desiccation  which  is  going  on  in  Central  Af- 
rica, and  it  is  important  that  they  should  be  more  care- 
fully studied  before  any  definite  conclusions  are  drawn. 


IO/O 


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The  more  we  visit  our  large  cities,  the  more  we  are 
confronted  with  the  problem  of  congested  population 
and  the  evils  resulting  from  it.  And,  too,  there  is  the 
apparent  irresistible  temptation  to  dishonesty  in  the 
conduct  of  the  municipal  government.  We  are  of  the 
opinion  that  the  legislature  of  our  country  should  take 
this  matter  into  consideration,  and  pass  a  law  making 
it  criminal  to  allow  the  population  of  a  city  to  increase 
beyond  a  number  that  can  be  easily  controlled.  It  would 
be  hard  to  say  what  should  be  the  standard  of  calcula- 
tion, but  yet  some  basis  ought  to  be  arranged  by  sta- 
tistics or  otherwise,  by  which  we  may  know  when  a 
•  municipality  has  reached  the  danger  line.  Of  course, 
rural  life  is  ideal,  and  America  is  practically  the  only 
country  enjoying  it  to  the  measure  she  does. 

This  does  not  eliminate  the  fact  that  business  cen- 
ters are  essential,  and  yet  it  bears  testimony  that  con- 
gested population  hinders  and  greatly  retards  the  ma- 
nipulation of  business  affairs.  Even  the  problem  of 
caring  for  the  traveling  public,  in  some  of  our  large 
cities,  is  more  than  scientific  men  have  been  able  to 
accomplish.  For  example,  in  the  city  of  London  the 
street  cars  of  all  sorts,  with  their  double  deck,  aided 
by  omnibuses  and  cabriolets,  are  not  adequate  to  the 
demand.  So  a  subterranean  railway  system  has  been 
established,  supplemented  by  a  two-penny  tube  ninety 
feet  below  the  surface  of  the  earth,  and  yet  the  crowds 
and  throngs  of  people  are  so  great  in  the  principal 
streets  of  the  city  as  greatly  to  retard  the  pulse  of 


commerce.  And  the  casual  observer  will  readily  see 
what  would  slightly  affect  English  traffic  would  much 
more  heavily  depress  American  trade,  because  of  the 
violent  and  maddened  rush  with  which  the  American 
goes  at  his  business. 

The  ideal  city  must  be  a  city  where  people  diligently 
mind  their  own  business  and  the  business  of  the  pub- 
lic, and  do  both  with  a  decent  regard  to  the  judgments 
and  rights  of  other  men.  But  the  crowded  condition 
soon  teaches  men  to  crowd  like  animals  for  right-of- 
way,  and  the  intense  pressure  of  business  annihilates 
sociability,  which  is  an  essential  factor  in  real  life. 
It  is  not  ideal  to  have  one  man  as  boss  in  everything, 
and  where  all  men  are  brought  to  the  measure  of  one 
man's  mind  or  to  the  heel  of  one  man's  will.  There 
is  no  reason  why  the  people  of  the  city  should  not 
be  just  as  loyal,  true,  brave  and  generous  as  the  peo- 
ple in  a  rural  community. 

It  certainly  was  never  intended  by  the  Maker  of 
men  to  put  man,  who  is  the  terrestrial  being  and  a 
pedestrian,  half  way  between  earth  and  heaven  in  a 
sky-scraper  for  a  domicile,  with  no  front  yard  for 
a  morning-glory,  sweet-pea  or  a  blade  of  green  grass, 
with  no  back  yard,  and  no  place  for  a  clothes  line,  nor 
a  rod  of  nature's  green  carpet  upon  which  the  children 
can  scamper  and  frolic.  An  ideal  city  would  not  be 
a  place  where  fresh  air  is  delivered  in  pint  cups,  if 
ever  delivered  at  all,  where  the  rich  can  take  vacations 
to  get  it,  and  the  poor  never  have  it.  In  the  modern 
municipality,  it  is  not  brains  or  breeding  that  give 
credit  or  standing  to  man,  but  it  is  a  glance  at  "  Brad- 
street  "  and  "  Dunn." 

The  ideal  city  would  have  comfortable  homes  and 
honorable  toil  where  religion  is  respected  and  where 
an  honest  effort  is  made  by  the  reformer  to  rid  the 
great,  throbbing  heart  of  populace  of  the  coagulation 
of  sin  and  crime.  May  God  hasten  the  day  when 
something  definite  can  be  done  along  these  lines.  The 
people  who  live  in  the  country  are  not  awake  to  the 
needs  of  it,  because  they  cannot  feel  the  pressure. 
.  The  people  in  the  smaller  towns,  surrounded  with  their 
ideal  conditions,  have  rather  a  dignified  view  of  city 
life  than  one  of  intensified  horror,  which  they  experi- 
ence after  having  come  in  touch  with  the  thing  as  it 
is.  The  people  of  the  overcrowded  districts  of  the 
cities  are  powerless  to  deliver  themselves  from  the 
clenched  fist  that  now  holds  them  firmly  within  its 
grasp.     This  is  one  of  the  greatest  problems  of  the 

day. 

♦  ♦  •$» 

FADS. 

Every  now  and  then  this  country  of  ours  is  swept 
over  by  a  new  fad.  Sometimes  the  influence  exerted 
by  it  is  far-reaching,  other  times,  fortunately  not. 
Like  a  deluge  or  a  conflagration,  it  happens  sometimes 


THE    INGLENOOK.— November  8,  1904. 


that  the  peculiar  way  of  supporting  a  cane,  the  color 
of  a  shoestring,  the  angle  of  the  pose  of  the  lady's 
hat,  or  some  such  foolishness  sweeps  over  this  wide 
land  of  ours,  from  ocean  to  ocean  and  from  the  lakes 
to  the  gulf. 

No  doubt  you  have  noticed  that  a  college  yell,  born 
in  the  morning  in  the  Orient  and  caught  up  by  the 
gentle  zephyrs  is  wafted  toward  the  setting  sun,  the 
echo  of  which  is  reverberated  by  the  Rockies  ere  night- 
fall. A  new  flavor  of  chewing  gum,  a  new  name  for 
a  cigar,  in  twenty-four  hours  is  "  all  the  go."  The 
pattern  of  a  new  sleeve  makes  many  a  manteaumaker 
say,  "  They're  wearing  them  so-and-so  now." 

Parallel  with  such  nuisances  as  above  mentioned  we 
are  continually  confronted  with  such  things  as  "  no 
breakfast,"  "  no  dinner,"  "  no  supper,"  "  cold  water," 
"  hot  water  "  fads,  all  of  which  are  good  in  their 
proper  proportions,  none  of  which  will  do  for  the 
whole  thing;  all  of  which  are  blessings  if  used  and 
nuisances  when  abused.  But  among  the  latest  of  these 
one  has  arisen  from  the  discovery  that  some  kinds  of 
diseases  are  due  to  the  existence  of  disease  germs,  and 
now  the  scientist  has  made  it  a  penalty  to  kiss,  be- 
cause of  the  transmission  of  these  murderous  villains, 
called  disease  germs.  And  now  the  kiss,  which  has 
been  a  token  of  a  mother's  love,  a  mask  to  the  hypo- 
crite, supreme  bliss  for  the  lover,  an  emblem  of  un- 
feigned love  given  by  the  Son  of  God,  must,  because 
of  this  fad,  be  cast  into  oblivion. 

Paramount  to  anything  in  recent  years  comes  the 
action  of  a  certain  municipal  government  board  which 
has  in  its  findings  substantiated  the  fact  that  coughing, 
sneezing  and  speaking  in  public  are  criminal  acts. 
Their  demonstrations  have  proven  that  in  these  exer- 
cises fine  droplets  of  mucuous  are  sprayed  from  the 
mouth  into  the  air,  which,  by  currents  of  air,  are  waft- 
ed from  one  person  to  another,  alighting  in  the  air 
passages  of  the  mouth  and  lungs,  thus  endangering 
life.  So  it  is  only  a  question  of  time  until  the  public, 
through  this  fad,  will  endeaver  to  stop  religious  serv- 
ices because  of  the  danger  to  health. 

However,  two  things  are  in  favor  of  religion. 
First,  not  many  people  attend  church  and  therefore 
not  many  will  be  killed  by  this  means;  and,  second,  if 
religious  services  are  stopped,  theatergoing  and  base- 
ball will  have  to  be  stopped  too,  in  which  case  the  fad 
will  be  very  short  lived. 

It  is  a  pity  that  since  we  are  at  it  the  theory  can- 
not be  carried  farther  and  teach  a  more  wholesome 
doctrine,  that  we  should  legislate  against  thinking  bad 
thoughts,  for  fear  they  will  cast  off  disease  germs  and 
cause  other  people  to  think  bad  thoughts.  It  is  far 
more  detrimental  than  the  new  fad  that  has  been  lately 
hatched  out.  Of  all  the  detestable  bacteria,  germs  or 
bugs,  the  worst  one  we  have  to  encounter  is  the  hum- 
bug. 


POWDER    AND    PRUDENCE. 


An  old  darkey  visited  a  powder  mill  and  was  con- 
ducted through  the  entire  works  by  a  man  who  had 
been  there  forty  years.  At  every  turn  they  made  the 
old  colored  gentleman  was  confronted  with  a  sign  in 
large  conspicuous  letters:  BEWARE.  DANGER- 
OUS. BE  CAREFUL.  Finally  he  became  con- 
scious of  the  fact  that  powder  was  explosive.  The 
guide  even  showed  him  that  nails  were  not  allowed  in 
the  shoes  of  the  employees  for  fear  that  they  would 
strike  sparks  on  the  stone  floors.  He  also  told  him 
that  though  their  rules  were  very  strict,  occasionally 
a  new  man  on  the  job  not  knowing  anything  about  the 
danger  nor  the  value  of  strict  rules  would  violate  them, 
but  would  never  live  to  learn  a  lesson  bv  his  disobedi- 
ence. He  said  they  could  not  understand  that  rules 
were  to  help  and  not  to  hinder. 

When  the  old  darkey  came  out  of  the  powder  mill 
he  said,  "  The  powder  mill  reminds  me  of  life.  There 
are  lots  of  dangers  and  temptations  around  a  man,  but 
God  has  put  up  signboards,  saying  they  are  dangerous 
and  bidding  us  BEWARE."  The  old  darkey's  phi-, 
losophy  was  good.  It  is  true  that  sometimes  we  think 
rules  are  a  little  strict  and  we  cannot  realize  that  they 
are  meant  to  help  and  not  to  hinder  us.  We  try  to 
get  around  these  rules,  break  them  down  or  leave  them 
out,  to  keep  from  observing  them,  and  then  comes  the 
explosion  and  everything  is  over.  Sometimes  financial 
rules  are  broken  and  a  crisis  follows.  Physical  rules 
are  broken,  and  health  is  lost  forever.  A  spiritual  rule 
is  broken  and  our  righteousness  is  taken  from  us.  A 
social  rule  is  broken  and  the  character  is  lost  forever. 

Powder  is  powder,  and  rules  are  rules,  but  when  re- 
minded of  this  fact  some  young  people  think  these 
rules  are  old  people's  fads  and  have  no  faith  in  them, 
hence  the  verv  common  results.' 


«**  *  * 
AN    APPEAL. 


The  old  adage  that  "  In  union  there  is  strength  " 
can  be  demonstrated  in  almost  every  department  in 
life.  We  want  ten  thousand  subscribers  to  the  Ingle- 
nook  at  the  beginning  of  the  year.  We  have  raised 
it  twelve  hundred  quite  recently,  just  by  our  friends 
speaking  a  good  word  for  the  magazine.  Now  a  great 
many  of  our  Nookers  are  attending  schools  of  different 
sorts ;  if  you  have  a  few  spare  moments  in  which  you 
can  canvass  for  the  magazine  write  the  editor  a  letter 
and  tell  him  so  and  he  will  make  it  an  object  for  you 
to  do  so.  If  just  half  of  the  subscribers  to  the  Ixgle- 
NOOK  will  get  one  subscriber  each,  the  ten  thousand 
mark  will  be  reached  and  passed.  There  are  some  new 
serials  about  to  appear  of  which  you  will  not  want  to 
miss  a  single  chapter.     Who  will  be  the  first  to  write? 


10/2 


THE    INGLENOOK.— November  8,  1904 


CURRENT    HAPPENINGS 


It  is  reported  that  a  "  Cunard  "  steamer  from  Fi- 
ume,  a  Hungarian  seaport,  with  2,000  immigrants  on 
board,  has  sunk  off  the  Spanish  coast.  A  fierce  storm 
was  raging  and  the  steamer  has  not  been  heard  of 
since,  hence  it  is  supposed  to  have  been  sunken. 

*  *  * 

President  Roosevelt  has  instructed  Secretary  of 
War,  Taft,  to  make  an  early  visit  to  Panama  to  see 
if  he  could  make  an  adjustment  of  the  difficulties 
which  are  constantly  arising  between  t  he  United 
States  and  Panama. 

*  *  * 

William  Rockefeller,  the  Standard  Oil  million- 
aire, has  committed  murder  on  the  town  of  Brandon. 
Pa.  At  one  time  the  town  had  twelve  hundred  and 
fifty  inhabitants,  but  time  after  time  oppression  has 
been  brought  to  bear  upon  the  inhabitants  by  the  great 
money  king  until  the  population  had  dwindled  to 
sixty.  The  last  stroke  at  annihilation  was  made  re- 
cently when  he  asked  the  postal  authorities  to  take 
away  their  post-office  and  remove  it  to  the  center  of 
a  tract  of  land  which  belongs  to  him,  containing  fifty- 
two  thousand  acres,  known  as  the  Bay  Pond  estate. 
Of  course  the  postal  authorities  were  compelled  to 
yield  to  a  man  like  uncle  Billy,  whether  the  people  of 
the  republic  are  served  or  not. 

♦  ♦  ♦ 

A  slight  earthquake  was  noticed  in  the  city  of  St. 
Louis,  Oct.  21.  The  disturbance  was  recorded  on 
the  seismograph  in  the  weather  bureau  exhibit  of  the 
Philippine  government  at  the  World's  Fair. 

♦  *$*  ♦ 

The  American  marines,  who  have  been  at  the  Isth- 
mus of  Panama  for  the  past  year,  have  been  ordered 
to  remain  there  pending  a  settlement  of  the  difficulties 
that  have  arisen. 

•5*  *j*  ♦ 

Recently  southern  Florida  was  visited  with  a  gale 

of  wind  attaining  to  a  velocity  of  seventy-five  miles 

per  hour.     It  is  reported  that  much  damage  was  done 

to  ships  and  several  lives  were  lost  along  the  coast. 

»;.   <$>  <j» 

Miss  Miriam  Grant,  the  granddaughter  of  the  late 
President  U.  S.  Grant,  was  married  to  Lieutenant 
Ulysses  S.  Macey,  of  the  warship  Franklin,  Oct.   17. 

The  largest  proportion  of  salt  produced  in  India 
is  sea  salt  made  on  the  coast  in  Sind,  Bombay,  Madras, 
Burma,  and  Aden.  The  quantity  so  made  on  the 
Indian  coasts  in  1903  represented  more  than  two-thirds 
of  the  whole  production,  which  averages  about  a  mil- 
lion tons  annuallv. 


Some  months  ago  Dr.  Labori,  of  America,  sailed 
to  Persia  as  a  missionary.  Unfortunately  he  was 
captured  and  killed  by  fanatical  Persians.  The  shah 
of  Persia  has  telegraphed  the  crown  prince  of  Tabriz 
to  arrest  immediately  the  murderers.  The  American 
vice  consul  at  Teheran,  Persia,  John  Tyler,  has  cabled 
the  above  action  to  the  state  department. 
<*   *   •$» 

A  counterfeiting  gang,  composed  of  five  men, 
was  arrested  at  New  York,  by  the  United  States  Se- 
cret Service  agents,  for  making  counterfeit  Austrian 
notes. 

*  *   * 

President  Ezcarra,  of  Paraguay,  to  rid  himself 
of  the  trouble  between  the  government  and  the  revo- 
lutionists, has  resigned  his  position  and  General  Es- 
cobar has  been  appointed  acting  president.  The  mem- 
bers of  the  diplomatic  corps  are  still  trying  to  effect 
a  pacific  settlement. 

*  *k  •$* 

In  the  children's  home  at  Shelbyville,  111.,  two  little 
children  were  burned  to  death  while  in  their  bed. 
There  were  twenty-nine  other  little  ones  in  the  home, 
but  fortunately  these  escaped. 

*  •:•   * 

As  a  result  of  the  disclosures  made  in  the  report 
of  the  national  commission  which  investigated  the 
General  Slocum  disaster,  President  Roosevelt  removed 
from  office  Robert  S.  Rodie.  He  was  supervising  in- 
spector of  the  steamboat  inspection  service  of  the 
sixth  district  of  New  York. 

The  town  of  Gordon,  Ala.,  on  the  Atlantic  Coast 
railroad,  has  been  almost  totally  destroyed  by  fire. 

Recently  the  United  States  government  received, 
as  a  present  by  the  emperor  of  Germany,  the  immense 
bronze  statue  of  Frederick  the  Great.  It  arrived  in 
Washington  Oct.  17.  The  covering,  which  is  of 
heavy  canvas,  will  not  be  removed  until  the  statue  is!5 
unveiled  on  Nov.  19. 

*!«     ->    •> 

J.  E.  Bennett,  of  Portland,  Oregon,  has  been 
awarded  the' contract  for  the  construction  of  the  gov- 
ernment building  for  the  Lewis  and  Clark  centennial 
exposition  of  that  city.     Amount  $225,582. 

*  ♦   * 

In  May,  1902,  President  Roosevelt  appointed  the 
national  Martinique  and  West  Indies  relief  committee 
to  collect  and  disburse  funds  for  the  relief  of  sufferers 
by  the  Mount  Pelee  disaster.  The  committee  has  now 
made  its  final  report  to  the  president,  and  has  asked 
to  be  discharged.  The  total  amount  raised  by  the 
committee  was  $157,792, 


' 


THE    INGLENOOK.— November  8,  1904. 


1073 


The  farmers  in  the  Grande  Valley,  Colorado,  are 
unusually  interested  in  the  cultivation  of  the  sugar 
beet.  Four  thousand  acres  are  under  cultivation  this 
year,  which  means  a  production  of  about  three  thou- 
sand five  hundred  tons  of  sugar.  The  sum  of  about 
$250,000  will  be  paid  the  farmers  for  their  sugar 
beets  alone  this  fall. 

*  *  * 

f  It  is  practically  certain,  says  the  Pioneer,  that  the 
mail  train  from  Bombay  to  the  Punjab  will,  be  ac- 
celerated by  between  two  and  three  hours  within  the 
next  few  months,  the  speed  being  increased  and  halts 
at  refreshment  stations  being  dispensed  with,  owing 
to  the  employment  of  refreshment  cars.  The  general 
employment  of  bogey  carriages  also  will  conduce  to 
the  comfort  of  passengers,  this  class  of  vehicle  being 
destined  to  replace  the  older  kind  of  carriage  on  all 
the  principal  lines  in  India. 

*  *  * 
Notice  in  this  issue  begins  the  new  serial  of  the 

Geography  Class."  This  story  will  be  of  more  than 
ordinary  interest  to  you  and  you  cannot  afford  to  miss 
a  single  chapter.  If  you  read  the  first  chapter  you 
will  want  to  read  the  second ;  if  you  miss  the  first  chap- 
ter you  will  not  be  interested  in  knowing  anything 
about  the  second.  After  you  have  read  the  first  chap- 
ter hand  the  Inglenook  to  one  of  your  friends  who 
is  not  a  subscriber  and  tell  him  to  read  that  first  chap- 
ter. 

«$»   «$•   .;* 

The  government  of  Ecuador  has  passed  a  law, 
placing  the  ministry  and  their  property  under  the 
control  of  the  government.  They  also  forbid  the  en- 
trance of  other  religious  communities  from  other  coun- 
tries. 

*  ♦    * 

The  first  one  of  the  forty  electric  locomotives  or- 
dered by  the  New  York  Central  Railroad  for  its 
third-rail  system  was  delivered  Tuesday  by  the  Sche- 
Rctady  plant  of  the  American  Locomotive  Company. 
This  locomotive  is  for  experimental  purposes,  and  will 
be  tested  0:1  a  four-mile  stretch  west  of  Schenectady. 

*  *  * 

A  pier  of  the  Bush  Terminal  Company,  at  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  was  destroyed  by  fire  last  week.  Loss 
sustained,  one  life  and  one  millinn  dollars. 

Samuel  Newiiouse,  of  Denver,  Colo.,  announced 
thai  lie  had  uncovered  eighty-five  million  dollars' 
worth  of  ore  in  Utah.  He  expects  to  develop  the 
property  on  a  profit  sharing  basis.  Each  miner  re- 
ceiver a  share  of  the  dividend,  wages,  and  a  house 
and  lot  two  hundred  by  six  hundred  feet.  Prizes  are 
to  he  awarded  to  those  who  take  the  best  care  of  their 
law  ns  and  "aniens. 


The  Lackawanna  System  is  going  to  spend  three 
hundred  thousand  dollars  on  a  tunnel  under  the  Hud- 
son river.  The  tunnel  is  to  be  five  miles  long  and 
will  provide  an  outlet  for  Lackawanna  traffic  on  Man- 
hattan Island. 

*  ♦  «$* 

Professor  Wilson,  of  the  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture, who  has  been  in  Texas  for  a  year  studying  the 
boll  weevil,  says  the  pest  has  come  to  stay,  and  will 
spread  until  it  covers  every  part  of  the  cotton  district. 
During  the  past  year  it  has  gone  one  hundred  miles 
into  Louisiana. 

«$»   4»   «{> 

Emperor  William  has  elevated  James  Simon,  a 
Jewish  millionaire,  to  the  Prussian  House  of  Lords, 
he  being  the  first  Jewish  member  of  that  body.  Simon 
recently  gave  three  hundred  thousand  dollars  to  the 
Art  Museum  at  Berlin.  Perhaps  vou  can  read  be- 
tween the  lines. 

*  *   * 

Thomas  S.  Baldwin,  of  San  Francisco,  made  the 
first  really  successful  flight  of  his  airship  at  the 
World's  Fair  last  week.  While  up  in  the  air,  at  a 
considerable  height,  a  motor  chain  broke,  but  he  suc- 
ceeded in  landing  the  ship  very  nicely  at  Valley 
Junction,  111.  He  will  make  another  trial  as  soon  as 
possible. 

*  ♦  ♦ 

A    MODERN    FEAT. 


From  the  Cunard  steamer  "  Campania,"  daring  its 
voyage  to  New  York,  a  wireless  message  went  to 
London  a  few  days  ago,  says  the  New  York  Christian 
Herald.  A  lady  on  board  discovered  that  she  had 
lost  a  number  of  valuable  rings,  a  watch  and  other 
articles  of  jewelry.  She  had  remembered  that  she 
had  them  while  staying  at  a  hotel  in  London  and 
could  not  remember  of  having  seen  them  afterwords. 
They  had  been  put.  lor  convenience  in  carrying,  in 
a  smail  leather  bag.  The  owner  was  greatly  distressed 
by  the  loss  and  told  the  captain  of  the  vessel  about  it. 
A  wireless  telegram  was  at  once  dispatched  to  the 
hotel.  On  the  following  day  the  captain  was  able 
to  tell  the  lady  that  her  jewels  were  safe.  The  hotel 
proprietor  reported  that  the  has;  hail  been  found 
among  a  pile  of  empl\  boxes,  into  which  it  had  ap- 
parently fallen  while  the  Americans  were  packing. 
The  inquiry  and  reply  which  relieved  the  owner's 
anxiety  had  been  cast  into  space,  and  had  found  the 
persons  who  alone  were  concerned  in  the  matter. 
Such  an  incident  would  have  been  incredible  a  few 
years  ago.  but  now  it  is  understood  and  believed.  The 
time  is  coming  when  prayer  and  its  answer,  at  which 
many  now  scoff,  will  be  found  to  be  a  profound  veri- 
ty. "  I  am  as  one  mocked  of  his  neighbor,  who  call- 
eth  upon  God  and  he  answereth  him  "  (Job  C2:  41. 


1074 


THE   INGLENOOK.— -November  8,  1904- 


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The  Inglenook  Nature  Study  Club 


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lif 

In 

sight  of  their  native  land.     With  many  bows  and  ges- 
ticulations  the   pairing  proceeds,   until,   at  the  righl    I 
time,  they  fly  off  to  one  of  the  many  desert  isles  that 
line  the  shore,  and  build  their  nests  beneath  a  project- 
ing shelf,  or  in  a  wide  cleft  of  the  rock.     Their  nestsj 
are  formed  of  moss  and  sea-weeds,  carefully  arranged, 
being  two  feet  in  diameter,  five  or  six  inches  in  height, 
and  lined  with  feathers  and  dry  grass.    Not  more  than 
three  eggs  are  ever  laid  in  one  nest,  which,  like  those 
of  most  other  Gulls,  afford  good  eating.     When  the 
young  are  five  or  six  weeks  old,  they  take  to  the  water, 
uttering  the  same  sounds  as  the  old  birds.    Even  at  that 
early  period  they  show  great  greediness  in  eating.    M 
a  dead  duck  or  even  one  of  their  own  species  is  thrown 
to  them,  they  tear  it  to  pieces,  drink  the  blood,  and 
swallow  the  flesh  in  large  morsels,  each  one  trying  to 
rob  the  other  of  his  share.    They  will  attempt  to  take 
down  codlings  ten  inches  in  length,  and,  though  the 
shape  of  the  fish  may  be  distinctly  traced  along  the 
neck,  and  the  birds  are  evidently  suffering  from  the 
pressure  on  the  windpipe,  they  will  not  disgorge  their 
prey.     They  will  attack  flocks  of  young  Ducks  while 
swimming  beside  their  mother,  when  the  latter  takes 
wing,  and  the .  frightened  brood  dive.     If  among  the 
bushes,  they  are  safe ;  but  if  no  shelter  is  near,  they  are 
likely  to  be  caught  by  their  voracious  enemy.     The 
Eider  Duck  is  the  only  one  that  offers  resistance  to  savfe 
her  young ;  but  when  sitting  on  eggs  in  any  open  sit- 
uation, the  Gull  will  drive  her  off  and  suck  them  before 
her  eyes.     He  will  sometimes  seize  flounders  on  the 
edge  of  the  shallows,  but  not  being  able  to  swallow 
them  whole,  flies  to  some  rock,  and  beats  the  fish  m 
til  it  can  be  torn  to  pieces.    The  stomach  of  this  bi: 
appears  to  be  capable  of  reducing  feathers,  bones,  anl 
other  hard  substances,  with  ease. 

The  whole  length  is  nearly  thirty  inches,  and  a  fu 
grown  specimen  will  weigh  three  pounds.     The  fis' 
ermen  and  settlers  of   Newfoundland  and   Labrador 
kill  large  numbers  of  the  young  ones  when  nearly  al 
to  fly,  and,  after  skinning  them,  salt  them  down  fc 

food. 

*  *  * 

SWORDFISH    KILLS    WHALES. 


This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various  Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized 
over  this  country.  Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.  Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time, 
taking  the  work  up  with  the  current  issue.  Back  numbers  cannot  be  furnished.  Any  school  desiring  to  or- 
ganize a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  111. 

•,E.MmI"HmI,****^ 


CLASS    AVES.— ORDER    NATATORES. 


Family,— Gulls. 

Of  the  family  of  Gulls,  so  well  known  and  so  widely 
diffused,  we  notice  first  the  species  bearing  the  name 
of  Bonaparte,  in  allusion  to  the  well-known  naturalist. 
This  bird  is  found  at  times  in  great  numbers  along 
our  sea-board,  from  the  Bay  of  Fundy,  and  even  high- 
er latitudes,  to  the  coast  of  Florida.  It  has  also  been  ob- 
served sweeping  over  the  Ohio  river,  in  search  of  small 
fishes  or  floating  garbage.  When  examined  after 
death  the  stomachs  are  found  to  contain  shrimp,  young 
fishes,  fatty  substances,  and  sometimes  coleopterous  in- 
sects. In  spring,  when  the  shad  enter  the  bays  and 
rivers  to  deposit  their  spawn,  this  Gull  begins  to  show 
itself,  as  if  for  the  purpose  of  preying  upon  the  shoals, 
which,  however,  is  not  the  case.  It  is  described  as 
being  very  gentle  in  some  localities,  scarcely  heeding 
the  presence  of  man. 

The  Great  Black-backed  Gull,  the  largest  of  the 
tribe,  delights  in  sailing  over  the  rugged  crags  of 
Labrador.  He  moves  in  wide  circles,  with  loud,  harsh 
cries,  far  above  the  multitudes  of  smaller  birds  below, 
who  instinctively  dread  the  approach  of  this  tyrant, 
or  prepare  to  defend  their  young  broods  from  its  pow- 
erful beak.  The  fish  sink  deeper  as  he  approaches, 
while  the  other  Gulls  fly  as  fast  as  possible  from  their 
enemy.  At  length  he  spies,  perhaps,  the  carcass  of 
a  whale,  and,  with  fierce  cries,  darts  down  upon  the 
putrid  mass.  Tearing,  tugging  and  swallowing  piece 
after  piece,  until  surfeited,  when  he  lies  down  ex- 
hausted; but,  owing  to  the  great  digestive  power  of 
his  stomach,  in  a  short  time  he  is  again  on  the  wing  to 
some  well-known  isle,  where  thousands  of  young  birds 
or  eggs  are  to  be  found.  There,  without  remorse  at 
the  screams  of  the  parents,  he  begins,  leisurely  to  break 
open  and  devour  until  he  has  again  satisfied  his  craving 
appetite.  But  though  so  tyrannical,  he  is  yet  a  cow- 
ard, and  sneaks  off  at  the  approach  of  the  Skua,  a 
much  smaller  but  bold  sea-bird,  which  is  always  ready 
to  attack  the  relentless  robber. 

Upon  the  western  shores  of  Labrador,  for  an  ex- 
tent of  three  hundred  miles,  this  king  of  Gulls  is  found 
in  great  numbers  in  the  breeding  season.  Toward  the 
commencement  of  summer  they  arrive  one  by  one, 
the  older  ones  first,  greeting  with  loud  cries  the  first 


Captain  Swf.nson,  of  the  power  launch  Leone, 
ports  a  desperate  battle  between  a  swordfish  and  twc 


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hales  which  occurred  off  San  Nicholas  Island,  and 
resulted  in  the  death  of  both  whales,  the  bodies  being 
later  washed  ashore  by  the  tides  and  secured  by  Swen- 
son. 

When  first  seen  by  Swenson  the  battle  was  at  its 
height,  and  the  monsters  of  the  deep  were  lashing  the 
waves  into  fury  in  their  desperate  conflict,  the  huge 
bodies  of  the  whales  rising  many  feet  out  of  the  water 
in  their  attempt  to  inflict  damage  to  their  enemy.  The 
swordfish,  which  was  an  exceptionally  large  specimen, 
had  the  fight  all  its  own  way,  and  succeeded  in  kill- 
ing both  its  adversaries. 

The  larger  of  the  whales  is  about  70  feet  in  length 
and  20  feet  in  diamenter,  while  the  smaller  is  55  feet 
in  length  and  15  feet  in  diameter.  The  sword  of  the 
swordfish  had  entirely  penetrated  the  body  of  the  larger 
whale,  and  there  were  numerous  jabs  in  the  bodies  of 
both.  The  bodies  were  washed  upon  the  beach,  and 
Captain  Swenson  made  an  ineffectual  attempt  to  pull 
the  small  specimen  off  the  beach  and  tow  it  to  San 
Pedro,  but  the  weight  was  too  much  for  his  engines. 
He  thereupon  covered  the  bodies  with  sand  and  will 
make  an  attempt  to  bring  them  over,  using  a  larger 
boat. 

*  *  * 

THE    HOUSE    FLY. 


BY    MAUD    HAWKINS. 

There  is  no  insect  that  is  more  familiar  to  us,  or 
more  familiar  with  us  than  the  common  house-fly,  and 
yet  few  people  know  much  about  its  life.  Let  us  look 
at  the  fly  closeiy  and  observe  its  structure.  It  has  a 
peculiar  mouth  which  is  called  a  proboscis.  In  in- 
sects the  proboscis  is  a  modified  mouth,  usually  a 
horny  tube.  The  fly  bends  it  up  and  tucks  it  away  un- 
der the  head  when  not  in  use.  When  it  wishes  to 
taste  some  sweet  substance,  it  straightens  this  tongue- 
like proboscis,  and  the  ends  spread  out  into  two  flat 
leaves,  with  which  it  laps  up  its  nourishment.  It  is 
this  that  troubles  us  so  effectually  on  a  warm  sum- 
mer day,  when  we  wish  to  read  or  take  a  snooze  in  the 
shade. 

The  eyes  of  the  fly  are  also  very  remarkable.  They 
do  not  move  about  as  ours  do.  And  we  discover  by 
observing  closely,  that  the  eyes  are  made  up  of  a  great 
number  of  small  eyes.  They  are  so  very  small  that 
they  can  be  detected  only  by  the  aid  of  a  very  strong 
magnifying  glass.  It  has  been  estimated  that  each 
eye  is  composed  of  four  thousand  small  eyes. 

It  has  only  two  wings.  Nearly  all  other  insects  have 
four.  This  is  true  of  the  butterfly,  the  beetle,  the 
dragon  fly  and  the  bumblebee.  The  house-fly  is  very 
common  about  the  barn  in  August  and  September. 
They  lay  their  eggs  in  decaying  matter,  and  they  hatch 
in  a  very  short  time,  about  one  day  is  required.  It  is 
then  a  small  white  maggot  or  larva.     In  about  seven 


days  it  ceases  to  eat,  becomes  stiff  and  lies  still  an- 
other seven  days.  This  is  known  as  the  third  stage  of 
the  fly's  development  and  is  called  the  pupa. 

Finally  it  breaks  its  thin  shell  and  comes  out  a  full 
grown  fly,  just  as  we  always  see  it.  This  is  called  the 
imago  or  fourth  state.  Most  of  the  flies  die  in  winter ; 
a  few,  however,  remain  if  they  can  find  a  warm  place 
to  hide  away  until  spring. 

The  house-fly  can  never  bite,  but  there  is  another 
fly  that  is  seen  frequently  in  the  house  which  does  bite. 
It  looks  very  much  like  the  house-fly.  It  is  called 
the  stable  fly,  but  it  is  not  the  horse-fly.  There  is  also 
another  fly  in  our  houses  in  small  numbers  and  thought 
by  many  to  be  the  house-fly,  but  is  not.  It  can  be 
recognized  in  the  fall  when  a  fungous  disease  at- 
tacks it,  causing  it  to  die  with  the  abdomen  much  swol- 
len and  white.  There  is  till  another  fly  much  smaller 
than  the  house-fly  which  is  thought  to  be  a  young  fly. 
But  this  is  not  the  case  as  flies  are  full  grown  when 
hatched.  Therefore  the  small  fly  is  a  different  in- 
sect and  may  be  called  the  small  house-fly.  There  are 
so  many  kinds  of  flies  and  they  resemble  each  other 
so  closely  that  it  is  very  hard  to  identify  some  of  them. 
We  can  mention  among  the  great  number  the  blow- 
fly, bot-fly  and  horse-fly.  It  is  estimated  that  there 
are  about  ten  thousand  different  kinds  of  flies  in 
America. 

Towanda,  Pa. 

*  *  # 

MAGNETIC    WATER. 


A  reputable  scientific  publication  is  sponsor  for  the 
statement  that  there  exist  in  at  least  three  places  in 
the  state  of  Indiana  springs  or  wells  whose  water  pos- 
sesses marked  magnetism  and  is  able  to  impart  it  to 
steel  objects  dipped  therein.  This  property  has  been 
reported  of  other  springs  in  various  parts  of  the  world, 
but  such  tales  have  been  received  by  scientific  men 
with  caution.  In  this  case  the  magnetism  seems  to 
arise  from  the  fact  that  considerable  quantities  of  car- 
bonate of  iron  are  dissolved  in  the  water.  When  it 
stands  for  some  time  this  decomposes  into  carbonic 
acid  gas,  which  escapes,  and  magnetic  iron  oxide,  which 
falls  to  the  bottom  of  the  containing  vessel  as  a  powder. 
When  the  decomposition  has  ceased  the  water  is  no 
longer  magnetic.  These  springs  are  said  to  cause  per- 
ceptible deviation  of  a  compass  needle,  and  a  knife 
blade  immersed  for  five  minutes  in  one  of  the  springs 
is  magnetized  sufficiently  to  sustain  needles  on  its  point, 
retaining  this  property  for  thirty  hours.  The  water 
corrodes  locomotive  boilers,  but,  when  allowed  to 
stand  till  the  carbonate  has  all  decomposed,  can  be 
used  with  impunity. 

*   +    + 

Thf  swiftest  sailing  ship  in  the  world  is  the  Amer- 
ican full-rigged  steel  ship  Erskine  M.  Phelps. 


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HOME    DEPARTMENT 


USES    OF    THE    WATER    BOTTLE. 


BY   DR.    S.    B.    MILLER. 

Secure  a  good  grade  of  combination  fountain  syr- 
inge and  water-bottle.  Always  drain  the  bottle  after 
using.  The  cleansing  properties  of  the  fountain  s>r- 
inge  are  known  to  most  women ;  but  a  caution  is 
needed,  as  the  frequent,  oft-repeated  warm  douche 
is  destructive  of  tone  to  healthy  tissue,  and  in  itself 
produces  weakness. 

For  rectal  douche  the  patient  should  rest  upon  the 
chest  and  knees,  on  the  floor,  thus  permitting  gravity 
to  aid  in  the  reception  of  from  one  to  three  quarts  of 
warm  water,  or  in  severe  cases  of  constipation  warm 
soap-suds.  After  defecation  use  a  small  quantity  of 
cold  water  to  produce  reaction  to  the  circulation  of  the 
bowels. 

Rectal  injections  of  real  cold  water  are  beneficial 
in  all  kinds  of  fevers.  The  cold  tends  to  lower  the 
body  temperature,  and  the  water  is  rapidly  absorbed 
by  the  feverish  bowels  and  is  of  great  benefit  to  them. 

Rectal  injections  are  beneficial  in  both  constipation 
and  diarrhea,  as  well  as  in  catarrh  of  the  bowels. 

In  using  the  water-bottle  never  fill  it  more  than 
half  full  then  press  the  bottle,  until  the  water  appears 
in  the  opening  then  insert  the  stopper.  This  makes 
it  soft,  flabby,  thus  adapting  itself  to  various  parts 
of  the  body. 

Filled  with  hot  water  it  is  an  admirable  footwarmer 
for  a  long  ride  on  a  cold  day ;  or  for  cold  feet  at  night ; 
to  relieve  pain  in  various  parts  of  the  body,  as  ex- 
perience will  teach. 

Filled  with  cold  water  it  is  a  specific  as  pain  re- 
liever in  inflammation  of  the  bowels,  appendicitis, 
vomiting,  tonsilitis  and  all  throat  troubles,  headaches, 
or  to  lower  temperature  of  the  body  by  applying  to 
the  head  or  neck  in  all  kinds  of  fevers.  Some  peo- 
ple have  an  aversion  and  fear  of  the  cold  pack,  but 
both  are  unfounded.  With  the  principle  in  mind  that 
the  cold  checks  the  inflammation  or  fever,  an)'  thought- 
ful person  will  find  frequent  and  various  uses  for  the 
cold  water-bottle. 

We  sometimes  secure  results  in  changing  from  hot 
to  cold,  and  then  to  hot  again,  or  vice  versa,  that  we 
cannot  get  in  the  use  of  either  alone. 

To  the  thoughtful;  intelligent  person  to-day  there 
are  many  avenues  of  aid  to  the  suffering  within  their 
reach  that  are  safe  and  sure,  and  due  consideration  is 


demanded  for  all  measures  of  relief  within  our  every 
reach. 

I  consider  no  home  properly  furnished  without  the 
fountain  syringe  and  water-bottle.     Have  no  fears  in 
applying  cold  to  any  part  of  the  body  showing  local 
inflammation  or  fever. 
Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa. 

♦  4>  * 
THE    HOT   WATER   BOTTLE. 


For  an  ache  or  pain  in  any  part  of  the  body  there 
is  perhaps  no  remedy  that  will  bring  so  quick  and  ef- 
ficient relief  as  the  hot-water  bottle,  and  at  the  same 
time  be  perfectly  harmless,  leaving  no  bad  after  ef- 
fects. Any  one  who  has  ever  used  the  hot-water  bot- 
tle and  experienced  its  soothing  and  quieting  effect  will' 
be  loath  to  be  without  one. 

In  many  homes,  however,  the  hot-water  bottle  is 
unknown.  We  have  found  many  people  who  have; 
no  idea  what  we  mean  when  we  say  hot-water  bot- 
tle. This  is  especially  true  in  small  towns  and  coun- 
try places.  The  druggist  does  not  keep  the  bottles 
for  sale  and  they  have  never  even  seen  one. 

In  these  homes  too  often  harmful  drugs  are  resorted 
to  for  every  ache  and  every  pain.  The  laudanum 
bottle  and  the  paregoric  bottle  are  never  allowed  to  go 
empty.  They  are  kept  ever  filled  and  ready  for  use. 
True,  paregoric  will  quiet  the  colicky  baby  and  lauda- 
num will  relieve  the  pains  of  neuralgia  or  the  twinges 
of  rheumatism.  But  they  do  more  than  this.  They 
constipate  the  bowels,  and  clog  the  system,  and  they 
ofttimes  fasten  on  the  patient  a  habit  not  easily  gotten 
rid  of. 

A  hot-water  bottle  is  what  every  family  should 
have.  It  is  so  simple  and  easy  to  use.  Just  fill  with 
hot  water  and  screw  in  the  top,  and  you  have  a  hot 
bag  that  will  retain  the  heat  a  long  time.  If  the  baby 
has  earache,  nestle  its  head  on  a  hot-water  bottle, 
covered  with  some  soft  fabrics.  For  the  jumping 
toothache  or  for  neuralgia,  try  the  hot-water  bottle,, 
If  the  growing  boy  or  girl  cries  at  night  with  the  leg 
ache,  place  a  hot-water  bottle  on  the  aching  limb  and 
they  will  soon  fall  asleep.  For  pleurisy,  backache, 
rheumatism,  cramps,  or  any  acute  pain,  the  hot-watei 
bottle  will  be  found  a  quick  and  efficient  remedy. 

The  old-fashioned  way  of  applying  heat  was  to  use 
a  hot  brick  or  shovel,  or  flat-iron  or  a  bag  of  hot  sail 
or  hops,  all  of  which  are  good,  far  better  than  drugs 
but  not  quite  so  easily  heated  or  so  convenient  to  applj 
as  the  hot-water  bottle.     A  brick  or  an  iron  is  toe 


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leavy  to  lay  on  the  body  and  the  best  that  can  be  done 
to  lay  them  as  close  to  the  seat  of  pain  as  possible. 
5ut  the  hot-water  bottle  can  be  placed  directly  over  the 
area  of  the  pain  on  any  part  of  the  body. 

Another  good  quality  of  the  hot-water  bottle  is  the 
short  time  required  to  get  it  ready.  It  takes  but  a 
few  minutes  to  heat  a  quart  of  water.  In  homes  not 
provided  with  gas  or  oil  stoves,  it  will  not  be  necessary 
to  kindle  a  fire  in  the  grate  or  cook  stove,  as  it  would 
be  to  heat  a  brick  or  an  iron,  but  the  water  can  be 
heated  over  an  oil  lamp  or  a  small  alcohol  stove. 

When  the  people  learn  the  value  of  heat  as  a  cure 
for  pain,  the  soothing,  quieting  effect  of  hot  water, 
[they  will  not  be  anxious  about  keeping  the  laudanum 
bottle  and  the  paregoric  bottle  filled,  but  their  care 
will  be  to  see  that  the  hot-water  bottle  is  in  good  con- 
dition and  the  alcohol  or  oil  stove  ready  to  light  with 
a  touch,  and  then,  if  needed,  they  have  ready  at  hand 
a  remedy  more  potent  and  harmless  than  their  drug- 
filled  bottles,  a  remedy  that  relieves  the  pain  and  pro- 
duces a  natural  cure,  leaving  the  patient  with  no  bad 
after  effects  to  be  overcome  by  further  dosing. 

For  internal  pains,  as  dysmenorrhea,  intercostal 
neuralgia,  pleurisy,  and  so  on,  the  dry  form  of  heat 
is  best,  as  dry  heat  is  more  penetrating  than  moist 
;  heat.  The  hot  water  is  especially  good  in  such  cases. 
1  For  a  superficial  pain  or  ache  a  moist  heat  can  be  ob- 
tained by  placing  a  wet  flannel  around  the  hot- water 
bottle.    This  makes  a  splendid  form  of  moist  heat. 

The  hot-water  bottle  can  also  be  made  a  cold- 
jwater  bottle.  Where  cold  applications  are  desired, 
[ithe  bottle  can  be  filled  with  ice-water  or  chipped  ice. 
iFor  a  throbbing  headache  or  tired  eyes,  or  any  inflam- 
I  mation  or  congestion,  the  ice  application  will  be  found 
[very  grateful.  Placing  the  ice  bag  on  the  back  of  the 
[neck  will  in  some  cases  relieve  a  tired  brain,  drive 
I  away  insomnia,  and  secure  for  the  patient  a  good 
night's  sleep. 

The  hot-water  bottle   is  not  an   expensive  article. 

[Very  good  ones,  holding  two  quarts,  can  be  obtained 

for  fifty  cents.     Of  course,  the  larger  they  are  the 

nori'  they  cost.     With  proper  care  they  will  last  a 

I  long  time,  much  longer  than  a  fifty  cent  bottle  of  med- 
One.     It  is  perhaps  better  economy,  however,  to  pay 

I I  little  more  and  get  a  better  one,  as  it  will  last  so 
nuch    longer,    and    prove   more    satisfactory    than   a 

l:heaper  one. — Medical  Talk. 
*  *  * 
HANDKERCHIEF   SPREADS    GERMS. 


exposition  of  the  subject,  he  finds  that  Dr.  Calmette, 
Director  of  the  Pasteur  Institute  at  Lille,  has  taken  up 
the  subject  and  made  a  number  of  suggestions  bear- 
ing upon  it.  He  has  also  made  an  invention,  consisting 
of  a  metal  case  about  the  size  of  a  cigarette  box, 
which  ladies  can  wear  as  a  pendant  and  gentlemen  car- 
ry in  their  pockets.  The  box  is  divided  in  the  middle 
by  a  partition,  on  the  left  hand  side  of  which  handker- 
chiefs made  of  Japanese  silk  paper  or  some  cheap  cot- 
ton stuff  may  be  placed.  These  are  only  to  be  used 
once,  and  can  then  be  put  in  the  right  hand  compart- 
ment and  afterward  burned  up,  settling  the  case  of  any 
microbe  concealed  in  them  beyond  review  or  appeal. 
♦  4*  4» 
DECAYED    TEETH. 


I  Looking  around  for  some  article  of  frequent  per- 
1  ional  use,  which  the  bacteriologists  have  not  singled 
put  for  disinfection  and  given  a  bad  name  to,  a  German 
J  nedical  editor  finds  the  handkerchief,  and  is  sure  that 
11  its  present  careless  mode  of  use  it  is  a  great  danger 
lo  society.     Searching  for  some  authoritative  literary 


Just  what  effect  upon  the  stomach  is  produced  by 
the  constant  swallowing  of  bacteria  and  puss  from  dis- 
eased teeth,  mingled  with  decomposing  particles  of 
food,  we  are  unable  to  determine,  but  it  is  reasonable 
to  suppose  that  gastric  disturbances  are  greatly  ag- 
gravated, if  not  induced,  by  so  doing.  In  every  com- 
munity there  are  those  who  are  enthusiasts  on  the  sub- 
ject of  pure  air  and  wholesome  food,  but  whose  mouths 
are  in  such  a  neglected  condition  that  the  air  which 
passes  through  them  is  almost  as  polluted  as  that  of 
a  crowded  tenement,  and  even'  mouthful  of  food  swal- 
lowed carried  with  it  into  the  stomach  millions  of 
bacteria.  The  almost  entire  futility  of  sterilizing  arti- 
cles of  diet  for  patients  in  whose  mouths  abscesses 
exist,  or  whose  teeth  are  covered  with  tartar  mixed 
with  mucus  and  food  in  a  state  of  decomposition,  need 
hardly  be  mentioned. 

*  *  + 

To  prevent  your  pickles  from  getting  soft,  it  is  rec- 
ommended to  use  boiled  brine.  Make  a  brine  strong 
enough  to  bear  up  a  fresh  egg,  bring  to  a  boil,  skim, 
and  let  boil  five  minutes ;  let  it  get  cold  and  put  into  it 
your  pickles  as  you  gather  them,  and  be  sure  to  keep 
them  weighted  down  under  the  brine. 

*  *  * 

Salt  is  the  remedy  for  snails  in  your  flower  beds. 
Drill  salt  along  the  rows,  not  touching  the  plants,  and 
around  isolated  plants.  Pruning  and  cutting  off  the 
seed-pods  will  keep  petunias  blooming  abundantly  un- 
til quite  late  in  the  season. 

*  *  + 

Do  not  paint  your  flower-pots.  A  plant  will  grow 
much  better  in  a  perfectly  clean  pot  than  in  a  dirty  one. 
as  the  clean  one  is  porous  and  allows  the  air  to  circulate 
about  the  roots. 

*  *  + 

To  remove  stains  made  by  perspiration,  if  the  ma- 
terial is  washable,  apply  a  strung  solution  of  soda  and 
water,  rinsing  in  clear  water. 


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THE   GEOGRAPHY   CLASS.— Chapter.  1. 


Miss  Gertrude,  as  she  was  commonly  called,  was 
a  favorite  of  everybody  in  Mayville.  Her  full  name 
was  Miss  Gertrude  Merritt.  She  was  born  in  Penn- 
sylvania, but  had  moved  west  several  years  ago.  She 
was  past  forty.  In  1884,  she  graduated  with  the  honors 
of  her  class.  Throughout  her  entire  school  life  she 
compelled  her  classmates  to  have  for  her  the  highest 
regards.  The  next  year  she  began  her  work  in  the 
schoolroom.  Her  first  eight-month  term  was  at 
Athens.  The  next  year  she  taught  at  the  old  Burn's 
schoolhouse,  and  the  last  three  years  in  the  district 
schools  she  spent  at  Springfield.  This  was  now  1899, 
at  which  time  she  was  selected  as  principal  of  the  May- 
ville high  schools,  by  Dr.  Burgess  who  was  trustee 
at  that  time.  He  had  learned  from  her  former 
employers,  as  well  as  from  the  reputation  that  had 
followed  her  from  the  patrons  of  the  schools,  that  she 
was  quite  proficient  so  far  as  a  thorough  preparation 
for  teaching  was  concerned,  and  that  she  had  an  un- 
stained character  and  a  lovely  disposition.  It  cannot 
be  said  that  she  was  handsome,  but  somehow  there, 
was  a  good  look  in  her  countenance  which  was  just 
as  permanent  as  her  modest  brown  eyes. 

As  I  said  she  was  a  favorite  with  everybody.  Count- 
ing from  1889  toi  the  present  year,  it  shows  that  she 
had  finished  her  fifteenth  year  in  the  high  schools  of 
Mayville.  Besides  doing  the  regular  work  of  an  in- 
structor during  these  years  she  had  assisted  the  city 
officials  in  the-  erection  of  a  new  school  building  by 
suggesting  some  things  in  the  way  of  convenience  that 
afterwards  proved  that  she  was  a  woman  of  no  ordin- 
ary ability.  And  then  she  personally  superintended 
the  selection  of  all  the  apparatus  in  the  way  of  maps, 
charts,  globes,  skeletons,  manikins,  etc.  Particularly 
did  she  keep  a  jealous  eye  on  the  library.  Every- 
one, even  to  the  mayor  and  Rev.  Dawson,  spoke  very 
frequently  of  the  healthful  and  steady  growth  and  con- 
tinued improvement  that  was  going  on  at  the  building. 
The  people  of  Mayville  were  appreciative,  and,  of 
course,  this  was  reciprocal.  When  Miss  Merritt  saw 
that  her  efforts  were  appreciated,  of  course  she  strove 
the  harder  to  make  a  success  of  everything. 

One  of  the  frequent  visitors  to  the  institution  was 
James  Maynor,  Jr.  He  took  special  delight  in  the 
manner  in  which  Miss  Gertrude  was  able  to  give  prac- 
tical ideas  to  her  classes.  He  was  wealthy.  He  owned 
thousands  of  acres  of  rice  and  cotton  fields  in  the 
South.     Besides  paying  his  regular  municipal  tax  it 


was  no  uncommon  thing  for  him  to  donate  a  favoriti 
volume,  or  procure  the  services  of  some  noted  lecturer. 
And  one  of  the  rare  treats  to  which  the  school  was  sub 
ject,  was  a  stereopticon  entertainment  which  Mr.  May 
•nor  himself  would  give.  He  had  traveled  extensively 
in  the  Orient,  and,  being  a  "  kodak  fiend,"  had  succeed-; 
ed  in  making  a  splendid  collection  of  views  which  cov- 
ered a  comprehensive  study  of  the  education,  religion 
and  occupation  of  the  different  peoples  of  the  earth. 

When  notices  were  posted  in  Mayville  that  Profes- 
sor Maynor  was  going  to  give  a  lecture,  the  Auditori- 
um room  on  the  first  floor  of  the  building  was  crowd- 
ed to  the  utmost.  He  kept  this  up  for  three  years  or 
more.  There  was  always  small  admission  fee  charged 
at  the  door,  which  Mr.  Maynor  said  was  to  be  divided 
as  follows :  Half  of  the  proceeds  was  to  be  turned 
over  to  the  school  board  to  be  invested  in  library  and 
apparatus ;  the  other  half  he  reserved  the'  right  to 
control. 

One  evening  at  the  close  of  a  very  successful  series 
of  lectures,  before  the  audience  was  dismissed,  Iff 
stepped  to  the  front  of  the  platform  and  spoke  as  fo| 
lows :  "  Ladies  and  gentlemen,  patrons  of  the  May- 
ville school,  I  am  happy  to  say  to  you  to-night  that 
I  have  in  my  possession,  as  half  of  the  proceeds  from 
my  lectures,  together  with  donations  made  me  bj 
friends  of  the  school  to  whom  I  have  explained  raj 
intentions,  just  five  thousand  dollars.  Over  thre< 
years  ago  I  started  out  to  get  two  thousand  dollars 
but  I  have  been  happily  disappointed  in  this,  and  now 
I  hold  before  you  in  my  hands  a  certificate  of  deposi' 
from  the  Mayville  bank  for  the  amount  before  men 
tioned. 

Many  times  during  the  last  three  years  have 
been  -asked  what  I  was  going  to  do  with  this  money 
I  have  never  told  anyone,  not  even  my  wife,  bu 
everyone  seemed  to  have  confidence  that  the  mone; 
would  be  appropriated  in  the  right  direction.  Now 
before  I  spend  a  cent  of  it,  I  come  to  you  for  advia 
I  want  to  ask  that  as  many  of  you  as  favor  my  proposi 
tion  to  rise  to  your  feet.  I  propose  that  we  give  on 
thousand  dollars  of  this  money  to  Miss  Gertrude  Mel 
ritt,  with  the  understanding  that  she  is  to  spend  he 
summer  vacation  abroad.  (The  entire  congregatio 
arises  as  one  man  and  deafens  the  speaker  with  af 
plause.)  Wait  a  moment  please!  I  had  not  finishe 
my  proposition — And  that  the  other  four  thousan 
dollars  be  given  to  the  four  pupils  who  get  the  higt 

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Nor  long  since  in  this  department  we  endeavored  to 
[answer  the  question,  "  What  is  the  longest  word  in 
the  English  language  ?  "  by  this  word :  Superuncon- 
jtradistinguishableness.  Here  comes  further  light  on 
(the  subject  from  a  good  Nooker  who  not  only  gives 
;us  long  words,  but  the  meaning  of  them  as  well.  Su- 
peruncontradistinguishability, — the  expressive  quality 
jf  being  not  able  to  be  contradistinguished.  Honori- 
i.acabilitutinitatibus, — the  state  of  being  honorable. — 
(Shakespeare.  Memomitransantification, — powers  of 
he  memory  to  go  beyond  this  stage  of  action. 
* 
I  Do  you  consider  psychology  a  useful  study? 
\  Yes,  psychology  is  a  very  useful  and  practical  study 
hind  no  one  can  complete  his  education  without  some 
Knowledge  of  it.  For  an  ordinary  survey  of  the 
[I'dence  you  might  procure  the  work  of  Sully,  McCosh 
|;>r  John  Dewey.  Then  there  is  Haven's  Mental  and 
(Moral  Science.  Of  course  the  best  works  on  psychol- 
ogy have  never  been  translated  into  the  English. 
Kmong  the  best  of  these  works  is  Prof.  Wundt's,  of 
t  ^eipsic,  Germany,  and  Prof.  Kant,  of  Germany,  has 
whole  system  of  text-books  on  this  subject. 

* 
I  have  a  very  valuable  pet  cat,  but  she  has  an  extremely 
ad  habit  which  probably  will  cost  her  her  life,  unless  I 
an    find    a    remedy    for    her.     She    eats    young    chickens. 
Vhat  would  you  recommend? 

Take  a  twenty-five  pound  flour  sack,  put  a  strong 
wine  string  in  the  open  end,  with  a  darning  needle, 
s  a  draw  string.  Now  catch  your  cat  and  put  her 
1  the  sack,  all  except  her  head,  pull  the  draw  string 
ufficicntly  tight  that  she  cannot  slip  out  nor  in,  and 
et  not  tight  enough  to  choke  her,  then  lay  her  down 
mong  the  little  chicks.    The  old  hen  will  do  the  rest. 


Where  did  we  get  the  name  "Wild  goose  plum"? 
The  tradition  is  as  follows :  About  twenty  years 
a  man  in  Pawtucket  shot  a  wild  goose  and  a  plum- 
one  was  found  in  the  throat  of  the  bird  when  it  was 
ressed.  The  stone  was  planted  and  sprang  up  into  a 
indsome,  sturdy  plum  tree.  The  tree  bore  an  early 
■op  of  plums  of  deep,  rich  red.  Not  knowing  the 
ght  name  for  them,  the  family  called  them  the  wild 
ciosc  plum,  which  name  has  clung  to  them  ever  since. 
* 

Prom  whom  did  the  United  States  obtain  the  territory 
here  the  city  of  Washington  now  stands? 

It  was  ceded  to  the  United  States  by  Maryland  and 
irginia. 


Can  any  man  born  in  the  United  States  of  foreign  par- 
ents accept  the  candidacy  for  president,  or  must  he  be  in 
the  second  or  third  generation  to  run  for  the  office? 

The  constitution  of  the  United  States  provides  that 
no  person  except  a  natural  born  citizen,  or  a  citizen 
of  the  United  States  at  the  time  of  the  adoption  of  the 
constitution  shall  be  eligible  to  the  office  of  president. 
Notice  the  fourteenth  amendment  of  the  constitution, 
and  it  will  be  seen  that  any  person  born  in  the  United 
States  is  a  citizen  thereof  and  can  run  for  president. 

* 

Is  the  Inglinook  a  good  Sunday-school  paper? 

Since  some  radical  changes  have  been  made  in  the 
tone  of  the  paper,  and  since  some  of  the  Christian 
Workers'  work  is  to  be  admitted,  we  can  see  no  good 
reason  why  it  should  not  be  a  splendid  Sunday-school 
paper.  The  best  way  is  to  send  for  some  sample  copies 
and  see  what  your  Sunday  school  thinks  of  it.  Several 
Sunday  schools  are  using  them  lately,  is  the  best  ad- 
vice we  can  give. 

* 

Which  is  the  higher  military  office,  general  or  lieuten- 
ant general,  and  how  many  generals  have  we  had  since 
Washington? 

General  is  higher  than  Lieutenant,  of  course,  and 
the  only  men  in  the  United  States  who  have  had  the 
rank  of  General  are  Washington,  Grant,  Sherman 
and  Phil  Sheridan. 

* 

Is  a  divorced  woman  a  widow? 

No.  No  law,  no  man,  and  no  set  of  men  can  put 
asunder  what  God  has  joined  together,  and  forty  di- 
vorces will  not  break  the  marriage  contract.  It  is  true 
that  the  law  grants  a  divorce,  but  the  higher  law  recog- 
nizes nothing  but  the  bond  of  love  as  the  tie  that  unites 
in  marriage. 

♦ 

What  is  the  bridge  craze? 

It  is  a  new  game  of  cards  which  belongs  to  the 
whist  family,  in  which  the  dealer  or  his  partner  makes 
the  trump.  It  is  a  new  game,  very  exciting  and  very 
detrimental  in  its  character,  because  it  solicits  gam- 
bling by  its  very  nature. 

+ 

Where  can  I  obtain  a  monthly  or  quarterly  list  of  pat- 
ents granted? 

Of  the   commissioner   of   patents,   of   Washington, 

D.  C. 

* 

Which  State  has  the  most  miles  of  railroad? 

Pennsylvania. 


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(continued  from  page  1078.) 
est  grades  on  to-morrow's  examination,  and,  that  with 
the  consent  of  their  parents  and  Miss  Gertrude,  they 
be  allowed  to  accompany  her  abroad.  This  will  be  a 
thousand  dollars  each  for  the  five,  which  will  be  am- 
ple for  the  trip.  Now  let's  vote  again.  How  many 
are  in  favor  of  my  proposition  ?  "  (  Unanimously 
carried.) 

(to  be  continued.) 

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THE   CRITIC. 


A  little  seed  lay  in  the  ground, 

And  soon  began  to  sprout; 
"  Now  which  of  all  the   flowers  around," 

It  mused,  "shall   I  come  out? 

"The  lily's  face  is  fair  and  proud, 

But  just   a  trifle   cold; 
The  rose,  I   think,  is  rather  loud, 

And  then  its  fashion  old. 

"  The  violet  is  very  well, 

But  not  a  flower  I'd  choose: 
Nor  yet  the   Canterbury  bell — 

I  never  cared  for  blues. 

"  Petunias    are    by   far   too    bright, 

And  vulgar  flowers,  besides; 
The   primrose    only   blooms   at   night, 

And  peonies  spread  too  wide." 

And  so  it  criticized  each  flower, 

This   supercilious   seed, 
Until  it  woke  one  summer  hour, 

And  found  itself  a  weed. 

*  *  4» 
A  FATHER'S  LEGACY  TO  HIS  SONS. 


BY    WILLIAM   J.   BRENDLINGER. 

Your  every  act,  my  sons,  should  proceed  from  suf- 
ficient reason.  It  is  seldom  wise  to  do  a  thing  merely 
because  another  has  done  it.  Perhaps  different  cir- 
cumstances were  involved. 

Tendencies  should  be  thoroughly  discerned  in  their 
earliest  stages,  and  their  possible  growth  reckoned  with, 
thwarting  the  bad  and  fostering  the  good. 

Conversation  is  an  opportunity  to  strengthen  char- 
acter by  an  interchange  of  thought,  and  should  not  be 
wasted  on  trivial  subjects  wherein  there  is  no  profit. 

Always  govern  your  relations  with  others  that  if 
any  bitterness  arise,  your  conscience  will  be  clear  and 
the  apology  will  be  due  from  the  other  person. 


Courtesy  is  an  obligation,  a  necessity,  an  indicator, 
an     introduction,   a    recommendation,   a    passport,   al 
lesson,  an  influence,  an  opportunity,  an  investment,  al 
peacemaker    and    a    pleasure.     "Be    courteous."     il 
Peter  3:  8. 

Good  intentions,  supported  by  good  deeds,  and  per-I 
severance  have  raised  plowboys  to  presidents,  and  have! 
not  lost  their  power  to  make  you  what  you  ought  to  be.I 

"  Remember  now  thy  Creator  in  the  days  of  thy 
youth,  while  the  evil  days  come  not,  nor  the  years  draw 
nigh,  when  thou  shalt  say,  I  have  no  pleasure  in  them.' 
Eccl.  12:  1. 

"  Fear  God,  and  keep  his  commandments,  for  this  is 
the  whole  duty  of  man."  Eccl.  12:  13. 

Robinson,  Pa. 

4*  *}»  ♦ 

PALM    PRINTS. 


The  modern  use  of  palm  prints  as  a  means  of  iden- 
tification has  emphasized  the  possible  importance  o: 
the  further  study  of  the  markings  on  the  palms  o 
the  hands  and  the  soles  of  the  feet.  It  has  been  sug- 
gested that  possibly  certain  arrangements  of  these  line 
may  be  racial  characteristics.  Wilder  has  entered  thii 
almost  unexplored  field  and  made  a  study  of  the  pain 
and  sole  prints  of  the  negroes,  whites,  Chinese  an< 
the  Maya  Indians.  The  study  of  the  Mayas  of  Cen 
tral  Yucatan  was  especially  interesting,  because  the] 
are  an  almost  unmixed  race.  It  is  true  that  there  i 
more  or  less  Spanish  blood  in  some  of  them,  yet  conjj 
pared  with  most  people  they  are  of  very  pure  blood. 

MARCHING  THROUGH  MUKDEN. 


If  a  man  listening  to  a  Japanese  band  during  a  bij 
celebration  were  asked  what  he  considered  to  be  th 
national  air  of  Japan,  five  to  one  he  would  say 
"  Marching  Through  Georgia."  You  hear  it  everj 
where.  Every  band  gives  it  a  front  seat  in  its  repel 
toire,  and  no  high  class,  bona  fide  demonstration  i 
complete  without  it.  In  a  few  years,  I  suppose,  the 
will  be  playing  "  Marching  Through  Mukden 
"  Marching  Through  Fengwangcheng,"  but  it  will  t 
the  same  old  tune  with  different  words. 
*  ♦  4> 

Don't  give  the  boys  any  interest  in  the  products 
the  farm.     Save  everything  to  give  them  when 
die  and  when  they  don't  need  it. 


t,  •;« .;«-»>  >>•>•>  ->*I— I*  '!■"!•  -I*  *>+>  *I*  +>  *>  -I**I"I-  *I*  *>*>  *J**! 


"*I**1*  *I  ***+  *!**«' 


Moderate  wealth  is  possible  to  every  man — tilling  the  soil  is 
the  surest  way  to  complete  independence — better  than  life 
insurance  or  money  in  the  bank;  the  thrifty  bona-fide  settler 
will  profit  by  investigating. 


Rich   Farming 
Lands. 


The  basisol  my  business  is  absolute  and 
unvarying  integrity. 

SAMUEL  S.  THORPE, 
Founder  of  the  Brethren  Colony.  Brethren,  Mich. 


Rich  Fruit 
Lands. 


In  Wexford  and  Missaukee  counties,  Michigan;  one- 
half  to  6  miles  from  the  thriving  city  of  Cadillac,  population 
8,000;  on  the  main  line  of  Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  (Pennsyl- 
vania System)  and  Ann  Arbor  (Wabash  System)  railways. 


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An  Opportunity  that  Justifies  Prompt  Action. 


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coupon  below  and  mail  to  me. 


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A    HAPPY   THOUGHT 


Some  time  ago,  a  rather  obscure,  but  nevertheless 
learned  physician,  placed  the  medical  profession  of 
two  hemispheres  under  obligations  to  him,  for  a  simple 
idea  which  he  advanced  in  a  paper  read  before  the 
Maryland  Medical  Society.  His  paper  went  the 
rounds  of  the  medical  press,  including  the  Medical 
Review  of  Reviezvs,  and  once  more  it  was  said :  "  Why 
wasn't  that  thought  of  sooner  ?  " 

The  idea  advanced  was  that  physicians  should  con- 
cern themselves  less  about  heart  murmurs  and  more 
about  strengthening  the  heart.  He  claimed  very  cor- 
rectly that  the  same  rich,  red  blood  that  strengthens 
and  develops  the  other  muscles  of  the  body,  will  also 
strengthen  the  muscles  or  walls  of  the  heart.  In  the 
Scriptures  we  read  that  "  the  blood  is  the  life  thereof." 
Yes,  anything  that  goes  tn  enrich  the  blood  will  aid 
the  action  of  the  heart. 

Some  41  years  ago,  a  young  man  with  a  pale,  sal- 
ow  and  worried  face,  called  upon  the  writer  and 
.aid  that  he  was  afraid  he  had  not  many  months  to 
ive. 

"  Why,  what's  the  trouble,  John?  "  the  writer  asked. 

"  The  trouble  ?  That  is  what  I  want  your  opinion 
n,  doctor.  The  other  physicians  can  give  me  no 
idpe." 

"  But,  if  so  many  have  already  passed  on  your  case, 
nd  have  all  agreed,  they  must  have  told  you  the  na- 
ure  of  your  trouble." 

'  Why,  it's  the  heart,  my  heart,  they  all  tell  me 
ny  heart  has  about  given  out." 

Such  news  must  have  had  anything  but  a  cheerful 
fleet  on  the  young  man.  To  console  him  and  allay 
is  nervousness,  the  writer  told  him  that  people  have 
een  known,  with  good  care,  to  live  many  years  with 

faulty  heart. 

This  thought  cheered  him  somewhat.  He  was  giv- 
n  the  old  blood  purge,  DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VI- 

ALIZER.  It  strengthened  his  heart  as  well  as  oth- 
r  vital  organs  and  at  last  accounts  he  was  still  living, 
ale  and  hearty. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  others  who  are  worrying  about 
eart  trouble,  or  who  are  in  need  of  a  blood  cleanser 
nd  constitution  builder  will  experience  in  DR. 
'ETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER  equally  great  bene- 


TROUBLES    DISAPPEARED. 

Tulare,    S.    D.,   Dec.    1st,    1903. 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney.  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Sir: — Enclosed  please  find  names  and  addresses 
of  some  friends  who  will  be  interested  in  your  Blood  Vi- 
talizer. 

Your  remedy  has  done  me  much  good  already.  My 
trouble  in  breathing  caused,  I  believe,  by  a  weak  heart 
and  my  rheumatism  have  disappeared,  for  which  I  feel 
deeply  thankful.  Respectfully  yours, 

O.   Beyerdorff. 

BELIEVES    IN    IT. 

Wideners,  Ark.,  Aug.  12th,  1904 
Dr.   Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Sir. — I  should  have  written  you  long  ago.  We 
cannot  get  along  without  your  Blood  Vitalizer.  When 
I  commenced  using  it,  I  was  so  run  down  that  I  only 
weighed  one  hundred  pounds.  I  have  already  gained 
nineteen  pounds  since  using  it.  I  would  not  think  of 
being  without  it.  Your  argument  that  herb  treatment 
is  the  only  rational  treatment  of  our  physical  ills  and 
that  it  is  referred  to  in  early  Bible  times  is  true  and  I 
believe  every  word  of  it.  Yours  very  truly. 

Laura   Peterson. 


MUST    PRAISE    IT. 

Chicago,    111.,    July    12th.    1904. 
Dr.  P.  Fahrney,  Chicago,   111. 

Dear  Sir.: — The  first  shipment  of  your  Blood  Vitalizer 
is  all  gone,  so  please  send  me  another  lot  of  your  splen- 
did medicine.  I  cannot  help  but  praise  the  Blood  Vital- 
izer as  it  has  cured  me  of  an  ailment  (neuralgia)  of  eleven 
years  standing,  after  the  doctors  had  tried  in  vain.  I 
can  recommend  it  wherever  I  am  and  I  am  not  stingy  in 
my  praise  of  it.  '  I  have  given  some  to  sufferers  gratis. 
Please   send   the   medicine    at    once.  Yours    truly, 

C.   F.   Pick. 

RECOMMENDS    THE    BLOOD    VITALIZER. 

Brazito.  Mo.,  Feb.   16th. 
Dr.    P.    Fahrney,   Chicago,    111. 

Dear  Sir: — I  have  already  had  good  reports  about  the 
Blood  Vitalizer.  A  neighbor  lady  had  been  suffering 
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ing palpitation  of  the  heart.  I  let  her  have  a  bottle  of  the 
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and    that    it    is    a    splendid    medicine. 

I  can  recommend  the  Blood  Vitalizer  personally.  I 
have  gained  eleven  pounds  in  two  weeks  since  taking  it. 
'[  was  terribly  run  down  and  emaciated. 

Yours  truly, 

Jacob    Bernhard. 


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GOSPEL  SONGS  and  HYMNS 

No.  i. 

Has  a  wonderful  sale,  and  the  bonk 
still  LIVES.  We  are  receiving  or- 
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cause 

THE    SONGS    AND    HYMNS    IT 
CONTAINS    STILL    LIVE. 

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contains  208  pages  and  sells  at  30 
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Bible  Biographies 

FOR  THE  YOUNQ. 


Following  is  a  list  of  the  books 
now    ready: 

1.  Joseph  the  Ruler. 

2.  Samuel   the  Judge. 

3.  David  the   King. 
4    Daniel    the   Fearless. 

5.  Moses  the  Leader. 

6.  Jesus  the  Savior.     Vol.   1. 

7.  Jesus  the  Savior.     Vol.  2. 

8.  Ruth  the   Truehearted. 

9.  Esther  the   Queen. 
10.  John  the   Baptist. 

These  books  contain  beautiful  sto- 
ries of  the  Bible  characters  named,  in 
such  clear  and  forcible,  yet  simple 
language,  that  all  become  intensely 
interested  in  them. 

Note  what  a  number  of  the  children 
think  of  them  after  a  careful  reading: 

"I  have  read  Joseph  the  Ruler  and  think  it  is  a  beautiful  Bible  story  and  a 
lesson  to  all  to  be  good  and  kind." — Jennie  W.  Graves,  Pennsylvania, 

"Dear  Mr.  Royer: — I  read  your  book  of  John  the  Baptist  and  I  think  it  is  a 
very  good  book.  I  hope  that  the  other  boys  and  girls  who  read  it  will  like  it  as 
well  as  I  do." — Walter  Mahan,  Klgin.  111. 

"I  wish  to  add  my  testimonial  of  praise  for  the  many  good  books  that  are 
being  written  by  Galen  B.  Royer  for  the  little  folks.  I  delight  in  going  to  Sun- 
day School  and  in  hearing  these  simple  and  beautiful  stories  read  each  Sunday 
by  my  teacher.  I  like  to  hear  them  because  they  are  made  so  plain  that  I  can 
understand  them.  I  hope  Mr.  Royer  will  continue  writing  until  all  the  great  and 
wonderful  stories  of  the  Bible  are  made  simple  and  childlike." — Chas.  A.  Shoemaker, 
Pennsylvania. 

*  I  am  just  eight  years  old,  but  I  know  a  good  book  for  children  when  I  see 
one  and  get  a  chance  to  read  it.  These  Bible  Biographies  are  just  the  thing 
for  us  boys  and  girls.  I  have  25  books  in  my  own  library  but  I  like  to  read  Bible 
Biographies  best  because  they  are  written  so  that  I  can  understand  them  and  are 
so  good.  They  tell  me  a  great  many  things  I  did  not  know  and  they  help  me 
to  understand  the  Bible  better.  I  always  feel  better  when  I  read  them.  They 
make  you  good.  Somelmw  they  make  you  feel  that  you  want  to  he  just  like  those 
brave  people  you  read  about.  I  think  all  boys  and  girls  should  read  these  books 
and  especially  the  had  ones  and  then  try  to  be  good  and  serve  God  always  as  they 
did.  Then  people  will  write  about  them  when  they  die  and  God  will  shield  them 
from  all  harm  and  danger  while  they  live.  I  am  going  to  get  all  these  books  if  I 
can.  I  can't  tell  which  one  I  like  best  for  they  are  all  so  good.  Please  get  some 
more  ready  for  us;  we  are  anxious   to  read  them. — Wm,  Lint,  Myersdale.   Pa. 

I  cannot  find  words  to  tell  you  how  much  I  prize  my  little  hook,  I  can't  get 
done  reading  In  It.  I  love  it  because  It  tells  me  such  good  things  about  that 
noblo  boy,  Joseph,  and  how  God  stood  by  him  at  all  times.  Then  that  makes  me 
love  God  more  and  causes  me  to  love  and  hunt  around  in  the  Bible  for  more  such 
good  stories'  and  I  find  it  is  just  full  of  them.  I  love  that  man.  ton.  who  thinks 
enough  of  us  little  boys  and  girls  to  bother  writing  us  such  lovely  stories. — F]va 
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Vol.  VI.  November  15,   1904.  No.  46. 

TH'   PEACE   O'   GOD.  Ye  can  read  old  Nature's  history  tliet's  writ  in  rocks  an' 

stones, 

Ye   can    see   her   throbbin'   vitals   an'    her   mighty    rack   o' 

The  man  that  loses  faith  in  God,  ye'll  find  out  every  time,  bones, 

Ha^  found  a  faith  in  his  own  self  that's  mighty  nigh  sub-       But  the  soul  o'  her — the  livin'  God,  a  little  child  may  know 

lime.  No  lens  er  rule  o'  cipherin'  can  ever  hope  t'  show. 

He   knows   as   much   as   all   the   saints,   and   calls   religion 

flighty,  There's  a  part  o'  God's  creation  very  handy  t'  yer  view. 

An'   in   his   narrow    world   assumes   the   place   o'    God   Al-       All  the  truth  o'  life  is  in  it  an'  remember,  Bill,  it's  you. 

mighty.  _\u-  afler  aj]  yer  science,  ye  must  look  up  in  yer  mind. 

t,    ,    ■      ,,  ,  .  ,"  ,  ~    j    ..  ,  .    ..  i  ,     c  ■  An'  learn  its  own  astronomv  the  star  o'  peace  t'  find. 

But  cion  t  expect  too  much  o   God,  it  wouldn  t  be  quite  fair.  J  v 

If  for  everything  ye  wanted  ye  could  only  swap  a  prayer;  — Eben  Holden,  in  American  Illustrator. 

I'd   pray   fer  yours  an'  you   fer  mine  and    Deacon    Henry  *    .$.    ^» 

Hosptir, 


He  wouldn't  hev  a  thing  t'  do  but  lay  abed  an'  prosper. 


MOTTO. 


If  all  things  come  so  easy.  Bill,  they'd  hev  but  little  worth,  hi    the  blackest  soil  grow  the   richest  flowers,  and 

An'  some  one  with  a  gift  of  prayer  'ud  mebbe  own  the      the  loftiest  and  tallest  trees  erozv  heavenward  anions 
earth.  '  *  & 

It's  I  lie  toil  ye  give  t'  git  a  thing— the  sweat  an'  blood  and         1e  roc'ts- 

trouble  * 

We  reckon  by — an'  every  lear'll  make  its  value  double.  ,,  .     .      x     ,  ,  . 

However   imperfect   we   may   be,    howei'cr    secure. 

There's   money   o'   the   soul,   my   boy,   ye'll    find   in   after      from  the  common  ground  of  our  humanity,  sympathy 

ye"s'  should  spring  for  all. 
Its   pennies    are   the   sweat    drops    an'   its    dollars   are    the  ^ 

tears; 
An'  love  is  the  redeemin'  gold  that  measures  what  they're  The  boy  who  stops  growing  when  he  gets  to   be  a 

worth,  .  ,  ..j,  ,,,,.- 

.    ,       „,  ,    .     ,  ,         .  man   is  a  bear   (bare)    man  at  most,   but  lacking  tur 

An    veil   git   as   much    in    heaven    as   ye  ve   given    out   on 

earth.  to  hide  his  ignorance. 

* 

Fer  the  record  o'  yer  doin' — I  believe  the  soul  is  planned 

With  an  automatic  register  t'  tell  just  how  ye  stand,  Some  reformers  make  their  speeches  from  the  liouse- 

An'  it  won't  take  any  cipherin'  t'  show  that  fearful  day,  top  and  live  on  the  ground  floor;  but   that  is  no  ex- 

If  ye've  multiplied  yer  talents  well,  cr  thrown  'em  all  away.  nlsc  jor  men   burrowing  into  the  cellar. 

When  yer  feet  are  on  the  summit,  an'  the   wide  horizon  -fr 

clears, 
An'  ye  look  back  on  yer  pathway  windin'  thro'  the  vale 


1  he  moralist  who  is  trying  to  lift  himself  to  heaven 
tears;  by  his  boot-straps,  is  running  a  race  with  the  hypo- 

i  ye  see  how  much  ye've  trespassed,  an'  how  fer  ye've       crite    zeho    is 
gone  astray, 
Ye'll  know  the  way  of  Providence  ain't  apt  t'  be  your  way.       a"Sc'  s  Wings. 

God  knows  as  much  as  can  be  known,  but  I  don't  think  it's 

true, 
He  knows  of  all  the  dangers  in  the  path  o'  me  an'  you.  I  he  blue  is  the  sign  of  the  brave  and  true. 

If  I  shet  my  eyes  an'  hurl  a  stone  that  kills  the  king  o'  The  white  with  all  evil  awl  wrong  shall  cote 

Slain. 

The  chances  are  that  God'll  be  as  much  surprised  as  I  am.  And  ""'  Slhrr  sh,rs  ",v  ""'  starS  °>  hoPe- 


When  ye  see  how  much  ye've  trespassed,  an'  how  fer  ye've       ,.,./,,.    wh0    js    frying    lo    smugele    himself    ill    beneath 
gone  astray,  ,         .  " 

,•  of  Providence  ain't  apt  t'  be  your  way.       mSel  s  «*>»£$. 

* 

The  red  is  for  love  that  will  dare  and  do. 


* 


If  ye  pray  with  faith  bclievin',  why,  ye'll  certainly  receive, 

But  that  God  does  what's  impossible  is  more  than   I'll  be-  //"''V  '"''  "  ■<"'"<  "'"".v  Stumpsuckers  in  the  world. 

licve.  outside  of  stables,  and  you  know  them  by  their  feed- 
It  it  grieves  him  when  a  sparrow  falls,  it's   sure  as  any-  j«g  „„  wind:  be  there  tame,  frolic  or  any  device  under 

thing,  ,                                  , 

He'd    hev   turned    the    arrow    if   he    could,    thai    broke    the  //"'  SU"   t0  SPmd  tlu'"'  """'   uPon>   ""'.v  SPend   :<  as  '/ 


sparrow  s  wing. 


they  could  add  it  on  as  easily,  at  the 


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THE    I NGLENOOK.— November  15,  1904. 


JOHN    CALVIN    AND    MICHAEL    SERVETUS. 


BY  D.    L.    MILLER. 

Ten  days  recently  spent  in  Geneva  gave  us  ample 
opportunity  to  study  some  of  the  phases  of  the  reforma- 
tion as  they  came  in  touch  with  the  history  of  the 
most  beautiful  city  of  Switzerland.  For  Geneva  was 
the  very  cradle  of  the  French  Reformation  and  its 
great  leader  lived  and  died  here.  A  simple  stone  in 
a  quiet  nook  with  the  letters  "  J.  C."  engraved  upon 
it,  is  the  only  monument  marking  the  last  resting 
place  of  John  Calvin  who  made  the  Swiss  city  famous 
in  the  annals  of  church  historv.     Here  was  enacted 


JOHN    CALVIN'S    MONUMENT. — Photographed    by 

W.   R   Miller. 

(All    Rights    Reserved.) 


a  theological  tragedy  which  left  a  dark  stain  on  Prot- 
estantism and  especially  on  the  name  of  Calvin  :  the 
burning  at  the  stake  of  Michael  Servetus  for  heresy. 

In  passing  judgment  upon  this  unfortunate  occur- 
rence one  must  make  due  allowance  for  the  time  in 
which  it  occurred.  With  but  here  and  there  a  solitary 
exception  it  wa's  held  all  over  Europe,  at  that  time,  to 
be  the  inalienable  right  of  the  church  to  burn  here- 
tics. This  Roman  Catholic  teaching  clung  to  the  Re- 
formers and  while  the  practice  soon  fell  into  disuse  yet 
numbers  of  this  unfortunate  class  were  put  to  death. 
The  conscience  of  otherwise  pious  and  godly  men  was 
not  disturbed  when  a  heretic  was  burned. 

John  Calvin  and  Michael  Servetus,  two  names  in- 
dissolubly  joined  together  in  the  history  of  the  Refor- 
mation were  born  the  very  same  year,  1509.  The  lat- 
ter at  Villaneva,  a  city  of  Aragon.  The  one  was  to 
become  a  mighty  power  in   the   Reformation   and   to 


plant  into  the  system  of  the  Christian  religion  the  doc- 
trine of  Calvinism  known  all  over  the  world ;  the  other 
to  die  at  the  stake  the  victim  to  the  unrelenting  hate,  so 
common  four  hundred  years  ago,  against  heretical 
teaching. 

Servetus,  like  Luther,  visited  Rome  and  his  soul 
was  stirred-  to  its  depths  at  what  he  saw  in  the  capi- 
tal city  of  the  church  of  which  he  was  a  member.  At 
this  time  he  writes :  ''  I  saw  there  with  my  own  eyes 
the  Pope  carried  on  the  heads  of  princes  of  the  land 
and  worshiped  in  the  public  squares  by  a  whole  peo- 
ple on  their  knees:  so  much  so  that  those  who  could 
kiss  his  feet,  or  even  his  shoes  thought  themselves 
blessed  above  all  others.  O  beast,  the  most  murderous 
of  all  beasts !  O  harlot,  the  most  shameless  of  all 
harlots !  Surely  this  was  the  beautiful  harlot  de- 
scribed in  the  book  of  Isaiah."  (Isaiah  Chap.  47. 
See  Henry,  Vol.  3,  p.  107. ) 

The  iniquities  of  Rome  drove  the  hot  headed  young 
Spaniard  almost  into  unbelief.  He  came  to  Switzer- 
land and  was  thrown  in  contact  with  the  reformers. 
Zwingli,  the  great  reformer  of  German  Switzerland, 
wrote  of  him  in  this  strain :  "  I  have  got  a  rash, 
hot  headed  Spaniard  here,  Michael  Servetus,  who  is- 
always  raising  the  most  difficult  questions  and  bother- 
ing me  horribly." 

Servetus  gave  special  attention  to  the  book  of  Reve- 
lation at  this  time.  In  it  he  saw  the  signs  of  the  time 
in  which  he  lived,  and  the  approaching  fall  of  Anti- 
christ. He  wrote :  "  The  dragon  which  tries  to  de- 
vour the  woman  and  her  child  is  the  Pope,  the  woman 
is  the  church;  her  child  whom  God  takes  away  and 
saves  is  the  Christian  faith.  (Rev.  12.)  For  1560- 
idavs,  that  is  years,  the  church  has  been  under  the  yoke 
of  Antichrist,  but  now  the  struggle  with  the  dragon 
is  about  to  commence.  Michael  and  his  angels  will 
triumph ;  we  shall  discover  the  divine  revelation  from 
the  very  earliest  ages,  the  great  mystery  of  faith  which 
is  beyond  all  dispute :  we  shall  see  the  face  of  God 
which  has  never  yet  been  seen.  We  shall  see  the  glory 
of  his  image  in  ourselves."  Henry,  Vol.  3,  pp.  125-128, 
His  words  show  his  mystical  trend  of  mind  and  if  he 
had  fallen  under  gentler  influences  might  have  escaped 
the  errors  into  which  he  fell  later  in  life. 

So  far  as  the  doctrine  of  Servetus  can  be  under- 
stood, from  his  mystical  and  involved  language,  he- 
seems  to  have  made  the  corner  stone  of  his  system  the 
belief  in  one  absolute  indivisible  God  and  of  course 
this  led  him  to  deny  the  Trinity.  He  declared  he  was 
neither  Catholic  nor  Protestant  but  the  restorer  of  the 
true  Christian  religion. 

In  our  day  he  would  have  been  regarded  as  a  hot 
headed  religious  enthusiast  and  would  hardly  have 
been  regarded  seriously  by  thinkers.  The  extrava- 
gance of  his  claims,  the  mysticism  of  his  system,  the 


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attempted  grandiose  in  his  style  of  writing,  and  the 
lack  of  continuity  in  thought  would  have  rendered 
him  harmless,  but  in  the  strenuous  days  of  the  Refor- 
mation, when  heresy  was  punished  by  death,  his  writ- 
ings were  held  as  the  rankest  kind  of  blasphemy. 

He  studied  medicine  and  became  eminent  in  his 
practice.  He  described  very  minutely  the  circulation  of 
the  blood,  and  had  he  been  content  with  that  profes- 
sion he  might  have  attained  great  renown,  but  his 
love  for  disputation  and  his  desire  to  enter  the  field 
of  theology  led  him  to  publish  works  on  the  questions 
of  the  day  and  because  of  his  views  he  was  looked 
upon  as  an  enemy  to  the  Roman  Church.  He  left  Paris 
and  under  an  assumed  name  took  up  his  residence 
:at  Vienna  near  Lyons.  Here  he  continued  the  practice 
of  medicine  and  began  his  writing  which  finally  led  to 
his  death.  During  his  stay  at  Vienna  he  entered  into 
a  lengthy  correspondence,  privately  under  his  real 
name  with  Calvin  giving  him  in  full  his  views  and 
tried  to  show  the  eminent  reformer  wherein  his  doc- 
trines were  wrong.  He  also  sent  to  his  antagonist  the 
first  pages  of  his  new  book,  "  The  Restoration  of 
Christianity."  Calvin  wrote  strongly  in  reply  con- 
demning Servetus  as  a  heretic  and  in  turn  sent  him 
a  copy  of  his  own  work  as  an  end  to  the  controversy. 
The  hot  headed  Spaniard  read  the  book  carefully  and 
in  his  own  hand  writing  wrote  copious  marginal  notes 
in  the  book,  pointing  out  the  errors  of  the  Reformer, 
ridiculing  them  most  severely  and  returned  the  work 
to  the  author.  Calvin  was  furious  and  declared  he 
would  have  nothing  more  to  do  with  Servetus  and  that 
if  he  ever  came  to  Geneva  he  would  see  that  he  did  not 
go  away  alive,  a  threat  which  he  fully  carried  out  aft- 
erwards. 

In  the  meantime  Servetus  published  his  book  anony- 
mously at  Vienna.  It  created  great  indignation  among 
both  the  Roman  Catholic  and  Protestant  clergy.  He 
was  suspected  of  its  authorship,  arrested  and  brought 
to  trial,  but  the  court  failed  sufficient  evidence  to  con- 
vict him.  Some  of  his  enemies  knowing  of  his  cor- 
respondence with  Calvin  induced  him  to  send  the  pri- 
vate correspondence  to  Vienna.  The  evidence  was 
complete  and  Servetus  was  condemned  by  the  Catholic 
court  to  be  burne  1  to  death  as  a  heretic.  The  enemies 
of  Calvin  characterize  the  violation  of  a  private  cor-  • 
respondence  to  convict  Servetus  before  a  Roman  tri- 
bunal in  a  country  over  which  he  had  no  jurisdiction 
as  an  act  of  unpardonable  perfidy.  He  had  already 
written  to  Viret  that  Servetus  ought  to  be  put  to 
death,  saying:  "  If  he  comes  to  Geneva,  I  will  see  to 
it,  so  far  as  my  influence  goes,  that  he  does  not  leave 
the  town  alive." 

But  the  young  Spaniard  was  not  to  be  put  to  the 
stake  by  the  Catholics.  He  escaped  from  jail  and  with 
unaccountable   folly  came  to   Geneva,   where  he   was 


directly  under  the  power  of  his  great  enemy.  He  was 
arrested,  thrown  into  jail,  tried,  condemned  and  burned 
at  the  stake  as  a  heretic. 

The  proof  that  Calvin  was  the  chief  actor  in  the  trag- 
edy is  conclusive  and  there  is  no  doubt  that  his  word 
at  any  time  during  the  trial  might  have  saved  the 
misguided  man  from  the  terrible  death  he  died.  It 
is  true  that  after  the  sentence  had  been  pronounced  he 
asked  to  have  it  mitigated  so  that  Servetus  might  die 
without  torture,  but  it  was  too  late. 

The  trial  lasted  two  months  and  thirteen  days.  At 
first  Servetus  showed  no  lack  of  either  moderation  or 
skill,  although  both  attack  and  defense  were  sharp 
and  keen.  He  assailed  Calvin  as  his  personal  and  hate- 
ful enemy,  but  was  careful  not  to  fall  into  violent 
abuse.  He  assented  to  the  truth  of  the  doctrines  set 
forth  in  his  own  works,  but  was  most  anxious  to  show 
that  they  were  not  contrary  to  the  Christian  religion, 
and  that  his  aim  was  to  restore  Christianity,  not  to 
abolish  it.  Later  in  the  trial  he  gave  his  passion  full 
play.  Turning  to  Calvin  he  said  :  "  Miserable  wretch ! 
You  do  not  know  what  you  are  saying!  You  con- 
demn things  you  do  not  understand.  You  have  told 
lies !  You  have  told  lies !  You  have  told  lies,  you 
ignorant  slanderer ! !  You  cry  out  like  a  blind  man  in 
the  desert  because  of  the  spirit  of  vengeance  that  con- 
sumes your  heart."  Even  Calvin  quailed  before  the 
fiery  outburst  of  passion  and  invective.  He  after- 
wards declared  that  he  felt  as  if  he  were  on  trial  him- 
self. But  Servetus  soon  discovered  that  all  his  efforts 
were  in  vain  and  that  he  was  a  doomed  man.  After 
the  trial  he  lay  in  prison  some  months  before  the  sen- 
tence was  declared. 

During  the  trial  Calvin  never  concealed  his  feelings 
as  to  what  the  sentence  ought  to  be.  While  the  trial 
was  in  progress  he  attacked  Servetus  from  his  pulpit, 
denouncing  him  as  a  vile  heretic  who  ought  to  suf- 
fer death.  He  also  wrote  to  his  friend  Farrel,  "  I  hope 
that  he  will  be  condemned  to  death ;  but  I  trust  there 
may  be  some  mitigation  of  the  frightful  torture  of 
the  penalty."  He  also  wrote :  "  I  do  not  deny  that 
he  was  imprisoned  at  my  instance.  I  do  not  conceal 
the  fact  that  by  my  wish  Servetus  was  appre- 
hended in  this  city,  that  he  might  be  compelled  to  give 
an  account  of  his  misdeeds.  And  since  malevolent  and 
evil  disposed  persons  gabble  all  kinds  of  evil  things 
against  me,  I  frankly  confess  that  as,  in  accordance 
with  the  laws  and  customs  of  this  city,  no  one  can  be 
imprisoned  unless  there  is  a  prosecutor,  or  some  pre- 
vious knowledge  of  his  crimes,  therefore  to  bring  such 
a  man  to  reason,  I  arranged  so  as  to  secure  a  prosecu- 
tor." Again  on  the  day  before  the  execution  he 
wrote  to  Farrel :  "  The  wretch  has  been  condemned 
to  death  by  the  council  without  a  division.  To-mor- 
row he  will  be  led  to  the  stake.     We  made  every  ef- 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— November  15,  1904. 


fort  to  change  the  manner  of  his  death,  but  in  vain.'" 
Some  years  after  the  death  of  Servetus  he  wrote  to  a 
friend  concerning  another  heretic  and  said :  "  You 
ought  to  exterminate  such  monsters  as  I  exterminated 
Michael  Servetus,  the  Spaniard."'" 

The  churches  in  Basle,  Zurich  and  Berne  were  asked 
for  advice  in  writing  before  sentence  was  pronounced, 
but  Calvin  had  preceded  the  writing  with  letters  to 
powerful   friends  in  those  cities  and  the  advice  was 


GRAVE   OF   MICHAEL   SERVETUS.— Photographed    by 

W.   R.   Miller. 

(All    Rights    Reserved.) 


in  line  with  his  wishes.  At  last  the  end  came.  On 
the  26th  day  of  October,  1553,  the  unhappy  man  was 
taken  before  the  court  to  hear  the  following  sentence 
pronounced  against  him : 

"  Having  God  and  the  Holy  Ghost  before  our  eyes, 
speaking  in  the  name  of  the  Father,  the  Son,  and  the 
Holy  Ghost,  we  deliver  this  definite  sentence :  you, 
Michael  Servetus.  shall  be  bound,  and  led  to  the  place 
called  Champel,  and  there  chained  to  a  pillar,  shall 
be  burned  alive  together  with  your  books  and  your 
writings  until  your  body  is  reduced  to  ashes  and  thus 
shall  you  end  your  days;  as  an  example  to  others  who 
may  be  tempted  to  commit  your  crime." 

Died   Oct.  27th.   1553, 
at   the   stake   al 

Champel. 
Michael   Servetti ; 


'History   of    Geneva. 

2M.   Guizot   in   St.   Louis   and   Calvin. 


of   Villaneva,    Aragon. 

Erected  Sept.  29th.  1903. 

(The  Obverse   side.) 

The  next  day  he  was  led  to  the  stake  and  at  first 
was  overcome  with  terror  at  the  thought  of  the  tor- 
ture in  store  for  him.  But  Guizot  says  the  dignity 
of  the  philosopher,  and  the  conviction  that  he  was 
right  prevailed  and  overcame  the  weakness  of  the  man 
and  Servetus  died  heroically  and  calmly  at  the  stake, 
the  very  thought  of  which  at  first  had  filled  him  with 
terror. 

How  little  these  stern  men  of  the  reformation  un- 
derstood the  true  spirit  of  Christ  or  the  love  and  for- 
bearance that  breathes  all  through  his  blessed  Evan- 
gel. To  them  heresy  was  a  crime  to  be  punished  only 
by  torture  and  death.  How  little  they  understood 
that  death  cannot  destroy  the  truth  and  that  error  is 


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doomed  to  die  of  itself.     They  had  thrown  off  the  yoke 
of  Romanism  but  sought  at  once  to  bind  the  same  han 
voke  on  all  who  sought  liberty  of  conscience.     Even 
our  own  brethren   felt  the  severity  of  the  iron   hand 
of  persecution  and  were  compelled  to  flee  to  the  wil- 


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derness  of  the  New  World  to  enjoy  the  liberty  denied 
them  in  the  Fatherland. 

The  burning  of  Servetus  might  well  be  relegated  to 
the  unhappy  mistakes  of  the  century  in  which  it  oc- 
curred, but  last  year  here  in  Geneva,  350  years  after 
his  death,  the  sons  of  the  Calvinistic  faith  erected  a 
granite  slab  in  expiation  of  the  crime  of  the  fathers. 
The  photographs  will  give  our  readers  an  idea  of  the 
'  appearance  of  the  stone.  They  were  taken  under  dif- 
ficulties and  yet  the  inscription  may  be  plainly  read. 
The  following  is  a  free  translation  of  what  is  inscribed 
on  the  granite,  by  Elder  G.  J:  Fercken  : 

Sons 

Respectful  and   Grateful 

of  Calvin, 

Our   Great    Reformer, 

but  condemning  the   Error 

which  was  of  his  century, 

and  firmly  attached 

to   the   Liberty  of   Conscience, 

according  to  the  true  principles 

of  the  reformation  and  the  Gospel, 

We   have   erected 

This  Expiatory  Monument 

Sept.  29th,  1903. 

If  Calvin  and  Servetus  could  return  to  Geneva  to- 
day, the  stern  old  Reformer  would  be  dumbfounded 
at  the  conditions  obtaining  in  the  church  he  founded, 
and  Servetus  burned  at  the  stake  would  turn  prose- 
cutor against  the  worldlyism  and  materialism  mani- 
fest in  high  places  in  the  church.  I  am  told  that  many 
of  the  professors  in  the  University,  and  numbers  of 
the  clergy  have  accepted  the  higher  destructive  crit- 
icism even  denying  the  Divinity  of  Christ.  Calvin 
would  be  compelled  to  light  the  fire  at  the  fagots  on 
every  hill  top,  and  there  are  hundreds  of  them  about 
the  Swiss  city,  if  he  were  to  undertake  to  eradicate, 
even  a  worse  form  of  heresy,  than  that  for  which  Ser- 
vetus died  at  the  stake. 

*  •>  * 

HOW    ST.    MARK    BECAME    PATRON    SAINT 
OF   VENICE. 


Rustico  of  Torcello,  Buono  of  Malamocco  and 
Stauracio,  merchants  who  had  gone  to  Alexandria 
on  a  Venetian  ship,  had  a  great  desire  to  carry  the  body 
of  St.  Mark  back  to  Venice.  Accordingly,  they  won 
over  the  guardian  of  his  sepulchre,  took  the  body,  and 
put  it  in  a  basket,  which  they  covered  with  cabbages 
and  pork,  and  then  hurried  to  their  ship.  "  And  be- 
cause they  doubted  the  pagans,"  says  the  chronicler 
Da  Canale,  "  they  laid  the  holy  body  between  two 
quarters  of  pork  and  fastened  it  up  on  the  ship's  mast : 
and  this  they  did  because  the  pagans  would  not  touch 
pork." 

They   sailed   homeward,   and   after   escaping    ship- 


wreck through  the  miraculous  intervention  of  the 
Saint,  they  reached  Venice  on  the  last  day  of  January, 
827,  and  Mark  soon  became  the  patron  of  the  Repub- 
lic. The  myth-making  instinct  of  the  time  invented  a 
prophecy  to  show  that  he  had  been  predestined  to  watch 
over  the  Venetians.  A  vineyard  near  the  later  church 
of  St.  Francis  was  pointed  out  as  the  very  spot  on 
which  the  Saint,  overtaken  by  storm  on  his  voyage 
from  Aquileia,  had  landed,  and  had  met  Christ,  who 
said  to  him,  "  Peace  to  thee,  Mark,  my  Evangelist." 
Venice  adopted  that  phrase  as  her  motto,  and  believed 
that  the  incident  had  taken  place. 

Mark  was  no  slothful  saint,  content  to  receive  the 
adoration  of  his  flock  while  he  lolled  invisible  in  ce- 
lestial ease.  He  was  a  doer,  a  helper,  a  benefactor, 
unceasingly  showering  his  favors  on  his  chosen  flock. 
Through  him  the  Venetians  prospered  in  their  State 
and  commerce :  he  was  their  great  ally,  insuring  vic- 
tory" in  war.  He  not  only  allowed  them  to  deduce 
his  devotion  to  them  through  these  general  results, 
but  he  often  vouchsafed  them  special  proof  of  his 
more  than  paternal  care.  After  his  body  had  been 
brought  from  Alexandria  it  was  put  in  the  church. 
"  not  where  everyone  knew,"  says  the  chronicler,  "  but 
very  privately  in  a  certain  place.  Then  it  happened 
that  they  who  knew  the  place  where  it  was  died  with- 
out making  it  known  to  others.  Whereat  the  Vene- 
tians grieved  sorely,  and  they-  prayed  the  Patriarch 
and  Bishops  that  they  should  take  means  to  discover 
where  the  body  of  Monsignor  St.  Mark  was  resting. 
Then  Monsignor  the  Patriarch  caused  everyone  to  fast 
three  days  on  bread  and  water,  and  thereafter  they 
formed  a  procession,  and  whilst  the  Patriarch  was 
chanting  Mass  a  stone  dropped  out  of  the  column 
where  Monsignor  St.  Mark  was  reposing.  Then  the 
Venetians  saw  the  precious  body  of  the  Evangelist." — 
William    Koscoe    Thayer,    in    November  Lippincotfs 

Magazine. 

*  *  * 

OIL    OF    TURPENTINE. 


Oil  of  turpentine  makes  a  good  dressing  for  old 
sores  that  have  developed  a  tendency  to  gangrene. 

The  pure  oil  of  turpentine  should  be  applied  by  sat- 
urating a  clean  cloth  and  spreading  it  on  the  sore. 
If  the  sore  is  very  large,  a  little  of  the  oil  of  turpentine 
can  be  administered  internally,  say  half  a  teaspoonful 
three  or  four  times  a  day,  proportionally  less  for  chil- 
dren, 

4.    $   *}* 

Is  it  any  weakness,  pray,  to  be  wrought  upon  by 
exquisite  music,  to  feel  its  wondrous  harmonics  search- 
ing the  subtlest  windings  of  your  soul,  the  delicate 
fibers  of  life  where  no  memory  can  penetrate,  as  it 
binds  together  your  whole  being,  past  and  present,  in 
one  unspeakable  yibration? — Adam  Bede. 


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"ORIENTAL    RELIGIOUS    MANIAS." 


BY  DEMETRIUS   CHIRIGHOTIS. 

The  Persians,  in  their  country,  as  well  as  in  large 
localities  of  Asia  Minor,  celebrate  a  peculiar  feast. 
All  Mohammedans  observe  two  feasts  each  year,  the 
one  is  known  as  "  Ramazan  Bairam  "  (Fasting  Feast), 
the  other  "  Courban  Bairam  "  (Sacrifice  Feast). 

In  times  past  when  Mohammedans  were  overrunning 
and  committing  outrages  in  Asia,  the  Persians,  after 
long  fighting,  were  partly  subdued.  Some  years  after, 
Hasan  and  Husein,  sons  of  AH  the  Calif  or  Moham- 
med's successor,  waged  war  against  the  non-converted 
Persians,  who,  by  night,  stole  in  the  oppressor's  camp 
and  killed  these  two  sons.  The  murder  caused  a  great 
fear  to  the  rest  of  the  Persians,  for  the  Mohammedans 
would  put  them  to  death  by  sword  and  fire,  and  in 
order  to  escape  such  a  terrible  death  they  confessed  that 
the  murder  was  reluctantly  committed,  proclaiming 
that  all  Persians  would  become  Mohammedans  and 
commemorate  the  deed  as  an  evidence  of  true  repent- 
ance by  lamentation  and  self  torture.  Ever  since  they 
do  this  once  a  year.     The  process  begins  as  follows : 

Some  ten  days  after  Courban  Bairam  all  Persians 
stop  their  affairs  and  gather  together  in  one  place  to 
pray  till  evening,  after  which  they  are  placed  in  two 
long  rows  and  sally  forth.  In  the  front  ranks  are 
the  musicians,  then  well  dressed  horses  led  by  men 
carrying  drawn,  uplifted  swords.  On  the  saddle  is  a 
form  representing  a  person,  standing  erect,  loaded  with 
feathers  and  various  clothing  of  silk,  next  to  it  is  a 
boy  mounted  on  a  horse,  holding  two  doves,  followed 
by  men  bearing  long  poles  with  silver  hands  at  the  top, 
with  banners  and  penons  of  all  kinds  of  symbols  and 
emblems.  Then  we  see  the  Imams  (priests)  with  the 
aged  people,  each  one  holding  a  lantern  in  the  left 
hand,  and  with  the  right  hand  they  smite  their  pur- 
posely-left-bare chest  once  in  every  second.  In  the 
middle  of  these  two  rows  there  is  a  long  line  of  men 
with  torches.  On  each  side  of  them  follows  an  in- 
furiated crowd,  dressed  in  long,  loose,  white  shirts, 
having  their  heads  uncovered  and  shaved.  Each  one 
of  the  crowd  is  provided  with  a  long  saber,  dagger, 
sword  or  chain,  with  which  they  strike  and  beat  their 
heads  and  backs,  causing  the  blood  to  flow  down  over 
their  face  and  body.  The  longer  they  continue  at 
this  the  more  they  get  excited,  striking  themselves  the 
harder  all  the  while,  shouting  clamorously,  Hasan ! 
Husein  (hay  vah)  (awe  alas).  The  sight  is  so  ter- 
rible that  the  eye  of  the  spectator  cannot  endure  it, 
though  his  heart  anxiously  longs  to  see  the  end  of 
such  an  irreligiously  religious  mania. 

The  blood  flowing  from  the  cuts  and  wounds  of 
the  jarring  mass  often  causes  a  serious  illness,  and, 
in  many  cases,  immediate  death.  Such  victims  are 
looked  upon  as  saints  and  martyrs. 


Once  I  accompanied  D.  L.  Miller  and  others  to  such 
a  Persian  feast.  I  do  not  know  what  impressions  it 
made  upon  their  minds,  but  no  doubt  it  was  indelible, 
so  great  an  impression  of  this  fixed  chasm  between 
Western  and  Eastern  continents.  Yet  it  is  cheering 
to  know  that  this  widely  extended  chasm  is  daily  grow- 
ing narrower  and  every  barrier  is  giving  way  gradu- 
ally so  that  the  East  and  West  are  as  two  strong  men 
standing  face  to  face,  though  they  come  from  the 
ends  of  the  earth. 

During  the  above  festival,  myriads  of  people  of 
either  sex  and  various  denominations  are  drawn  either 
by  curiosity  or  anxiety  to  see.  And  the  most  remark- 
able thing  about  it  is  that  none  of  these  spectators  dare 
to  utter  a  word  or  whisper  at  the  time  being,  before 
such  cruelty,  although  they  would  not  keep  so. quiet  in 
their  own  places  of  devotion. 

On  September,  1898,  our  missionaries  on  their  ex- 
tended itinerant  route  in  Asia  touched  part  of  Smyr- 
na.    It  was  in  the  days  of  the  above  narrated  account. 

On  the  occasion  of  our  missionaries'  visit  we  pre- 
pared for  an  exceptional  sermon.  The  preacher  was 
Eld.  D.  L.  Miller,  with  the  text,  "  The  Widow's  Mite," 
but  also  something  was  mentioned  on  the  Persian 
feast.  Our  hall  was  crowded  and  some  of  the  con- 
gregation spoke  Greek,  others  Turkish,  so  that  I  had 
to  interpret  the  sermon.  The  preaching  was  with 
such  boldness  and  so  encouraging  that  every  one  deep- 
ly appreciated  it  and  thanked  us  on  leaving  the  meet- 
ing ground. 

Outside  the  Persian  procession  was  going  on,  and 
had  they  known  our  preaching  or  had  they  the 
slightest  idea  of  our  teaching,  our  doom  would  have 
been  sealed  for  they  would  have  blown  up  our  house  in 
their  fury.  Dear  reader,  do  you  see  any  courage  in 
the  above  narrated  fact?  If  so,  then  be  courageous 
yourself  and  preach  the  Word  of  God  openly  with 
boldness,  not  only  in  the  pulpit  but  also  in  foreign 
lands  of  the  remotest  recesses,  regardless  of  religious 
manias.  There  the  missionary's  self-sacrifice  is  most 
wanted.  I  am  glad  to  say  that  formerly  the  missionar- 
ies dared  not  utter  even  a  single  word  of  the  Gospel  to 
a  Mohammedan.  Now  the  barriers  are  giving  way 
and-  many  are  thirsty  to  know  what  is  in  the  Gospel. 
Among  my  students  there  are  many  young  people 
who,  notwithstanding  the  persecution  from  their  gov- 
ernment, seem  to  be  anxious  to  know  something  of 
the  precious  truths  of  the  Gospel.  Knowing  there- 
fore that  position  and  influence  are  due  to  actual 
work,  let  us  settle,  in  every  foreign  field,  a  home  mis- 
sionary with  a  few  native  helpers. 

Let  us  first  and  above  all  look  for  our  fields  and 
then  the  trace  of  the  Christian  path  may  be  more  easy 
for  us  and  the  succeeding  people  of  the  generations  to 
come.  Let  us  hope  that  all  thinking  men,  day  by 
day,  lose  confidence  in  the  Roman  Catholic  priesthood 


THE   INGLENOOK.— November  15,  1904. 


1087 


and  the  Mohammedan  fanaticism  and  as  the  power 
of  Rome  and  Constantinople  becomes  weaker  there 
will  be  less  and  less  opposition  to  the  heralds  of  a 
pure  Gospel  and  an  open  Bible.  Let  us  feel  our  unity 
because  out  of  the  deepened  impression  of  our  unity 
grow  generous  assurances  and  expectations.  The  time 
is  drawing  nearer  and  nearer  when  we  can  be  united 
by  the  ties  of  a  common  Christian  church.  Let  us 
work  to  that  end. 

■i»  4*  *fr 

THE    ELECTRIC    ENGINE. 


known,  by  a  direct  current  with  a  trolley  voltage  of 
about  600  volts. 

It  is  claimed  that  the  new  motor,  which  can  use 
direct  or  alternating  currents  of  widely  varying  volt- 
age, has  cleared  the  way  for  the  adoption  of  electric 
power  for  light  or  heivy  trains,  freight  or  passenger, 
on  lines  of  any  length. 

DIVE    FOR    FOOD. 


Although  it  has  been  one  of  the  greatest  factors 
in  the  development  of  this  country,  the  steam  locomo- 
tive is  doomed.  That  panting,  puffing,  screeching 
monster,  belching  clouds  of  smoke  and  showering  cin- 
ders, must  give  way  to  the  electric  motor,  without 
noise  or  dirt,  for  transportation  of  both  freight  and 
passenger  trains. 

Years  ago  it  was  demonstrated  that  for  passenger 
traffic  on  short  lines  in  densely  populated  districts 
electricity  was  in  every  way  superior  to  steam  as  mo- 
tive power. 

While  reluctantly  admitting  that  fact,  managers  of 
steam  railways  declared  that  for  long  distance  passen- 
ger trains  and  freight  trains  electric  power  would  be 
inadequate,  excessive  in  cost  and  therefore  impractica- 
ble. It  was  claimed  that  until  electricity  could  be 
generated  without  the  use  of  steam  it  would  be  more 
economical  and  efficient  to  use  steam  direct  in  engines. 
Actual  tests  made  recently  have  demonstrated  that 
the  cost  of  transportation  is  greater  by  the  steam  en- 
gine than  by  the  electric  engine.  A  steam  train  of 
five  cars  and  a  standard  engine  weighs  330  tons,  and 
will  accommodate  168  passengers.  It  uses  at  full 
speed  1,400  horse  power.  The  electric  motor  and 
four  trailer  cars  weigh  260  tons,  seat  180  passengers, 
and  use  1,000  horse  power.  The  electric  train  weighs 
less,  uses  less  horse  power,  carries  more  passengers 
and  goes  faster. 

Some  half  dozen  railways  in  this  country  have  fol- 
lowed the  lead  of  the  New  York  Central  and  arranged 
to  use  electric  power  on  portions  of  their  lines  now 
being  operated  at  a  loss  with  steam  power.  Practical 
tests  made  on  the  Lackawanna  and  Wyom- 
ing Valley  Roads,  owned  by  the  Westinghouse  Com- 
pany, showing  an  economy  of  30  per  cent,  as  com- 
pared with  the  steam  system. 

Steam  railway  managers  everywhere  are  exceeding- 
ly interested  in  results  being  secured  on  the  Ballston 
extension  of  the  Schenectady  Railway,  where  cars  are 
run  with  alternating  current  equipment  just  perfected. 
The  motors  used  can  be  run  either  from  a  2,000  volt 
alternating  current,  stepped  down  in  the  car  to  400 
volts,  or  from  a  600  volt  direct  current.  The  electric 
railway  motors  in  general  use  are  operated,  as  is  well 


While  on  a  cattle  station  in  Western  Australia 
Henry  Taunton  had  an  opportunity  of  seeing  a  re- 
markable instance  of  the  way  in  which  animals  can 
adapt  themselves  to  their  surroundings. 

"  On  the  upper  reaches  of  the  river  there  was  a 
large  pool  just  fordable  at  most  times,  but  in  the  dry 
season  very  low,"  he  says.  "  Among  the  horses  mak- 
ing their  run  in  the  vicinity  of  this  pool  an  old  mare 
and  a  number  of  foals  and  yeanlings  used  to  come 
down  every  day  in  the  long,  dry  summer,  when  the 
herbage  was  scant  and  -scorched  into  dryness.  They 
waded  mto  the  pool  until  the  water  nearly  reached 
their  heads,  and  stood  there  for  hours,  diving  to  the 
bottom  for  a  mouthful  of  succulent  weeds,  which  they 
chewed  at  leisure  with  their  dripping  heads  raised 
above  the  water. 

"  The  first  time  I  witnessed  this  strange  sight  was 
during  a  dry  season,  when  I  was  riding  with  the  over- 
seer in  search  of  some  strayed  stock.  As  we  ap- 
proached the  pool  my  compatiion  bade  me  be  quiet 
if  I  desired  to  see  something  well  worth  looking  at. 
As  we  rode  quietly  up  to  the  pool  I  saw  a  group  of 
horses  standing  in  the  water  and  disappearing  from 
time  to  time  as  they  ducked  their  heads  below  the 
surface.  My  wonder  was  soon  at  an  end,  when  I  saw 
one  of  the  heads  suddenly  come  out  with  a  mouthful 
of  dripping  weeds.  No  sooner  was  this  mouthful  dis- 
posed of  than  the  head  disappeared  in  search  of  an- 
other. 

"  The  overseer  told  me  that  during  a  long  drought 
some  five  or  six  years  previous,  when  hardly  a  vestige 
of  feed  was  left  on  the  run,  and  bush  fires  had  laid 
bare  the  sand  plains,  the  old  mare  had  discovered  that 
there  was  plenty  of  luscious  feed  at  the  bottom  of 
the  pools  which  could  be  procured  by  diving  for  it; 
and,  having  once  put  her  discovery  into  practice,  she 
continued  to  do  out  of  preference  what  she  had  been 
driven  to  do  by  necessity." 

♦  +   + 

The  most  eloquent  thing  on  earth  is  a  spotless 
Christian  character. — Ram's  Horn. 

*  *  * 

One  who  is  willing  to  forgive  and  not  forget  has 
both  a  bad  heart  and  a  narrow  mind. — United  Presby- 
terian. 


io88 


THE    INGLENOOK.— November  15,  1904. 


THE    INFLUENCE    OF    A    MODEL    SUNDAY 
SCHOOL. 


BY    MARY    C.     STOKER. 

It  was  a  time  of  sadness ;  a  weary  heart  was  filled 
with  bitter  disappointment ;  the  dove  of  peace  had 
flown ;  the  sun,  the  light  of  the  moon  and  the  stars 
were  darkened ;  the  burden  was  -too  great  to  be  borne 
alone  when  from  a  loving  hand  there  came  a  gift  of 
fresh  cut  flowers : 

" 'Twas  only  a  smile  and  a  bunch  of  flowers, 

But  they  came  in  a  sunny  way, 
Like  balm  to   the   wound  in   a   homesick  heart, 

At   the   close   of   a   weary   day. 
'Twas   only  the   clasp   of  a   friendly  hand, 

And  the  glance  of  a  kindly  light, 
Tliey  banished   the   thought   of  a    sorrowful    day, 

And  they  brightened  a  pain  spent  day." 

The  uplifted  faces  of  those  flowers  told  that  their 
lives  had  been  taken  just  to  bless  a  pilgrim's  way ; 
that  they,  so  full  of  beauty,  still  yielded  fragrance 
even  though  they  were  sacrificed ;  that  quiet,  sweet, 
unseen  influence  filled  the  aching  heart  with  hope ; 
the  spirit  took  wings  of  faith  and  the  weary  one  ex- 
claimed :  "  I  will  lift  up  mine  eyes  unto  the  hills  whence 
cometh  my  help  !  " 

Influence  is  a  gradual,  hidden,  but  efficacious,  power ; 
it  controls,  it  leads  and  directs ;  and  is  one  of  the  most 
lasting  and  effectual  forces  that  moulds  the  life  and 
conduct  of  mankind ;  it  will  either  give  joy,  peace  and 
blessing,  or  if  exerted  by  an  evil  cause  it  will  bring 
sorrow,  woe  and  death ;  but  we  are  glad  that  we  have 
the  bright  side  of  the  question — the  influence  of  a 
model  Sunday  school,  a  force  that  can  only  be  up- 
lifting and  blessed. 

A  model  Sunday  school  is  one  that  is  awake  to  the 
growing  needs  of  the  church  ;  a  Sunday  school  that 
has  a  working  home  department,  a  live  teachers'  meet- 
ing, a  Sunday  school  lhat  has  for  its  workers  a  band  of 
consecrated  men  and  women  whose  hearts  are  afire 
and  throb  in  unison  for  the  glorious  work  of  saving 
souls  and  whose  lives  accord  with  the  truths  they 
teach. 

When  we  think  of  the  thousands  of  children  who 
throng  our  Sunday  schools  ever}-  week  we  are  made 
to  wonder  what  is  the  influence  upon  their  lives? 
Does  it  pay  to  exert  so  much  energy,  to  take  so  much 
time  to  train  these  little  beings?  Is  it  worth  while? 
We  answer,  Yes,  it  is  worth  all  the  energy,  all  the 
time  and  money  that  we  give  to  it.  It  does  pay.  The 
hope  of  the  church  lies  more  in  formation  than  in 
reformation.  The  influence  of  the  Christian  mother 
in  the  home,  and  of  the  Sunday  school  in  the  church, 
are  two  of  the  greatest  formative  powers  we  have, 
and  to  these  we  look  for  the  strength  of  our  future 
church.     It  is  easier  to  bring  ten  little  lambs  into  the 


kingdom  than  to  convert  one  straying  sheep  steeped  in 
vice  and  sin.  The  influence  of  a  model  Sunday  school 
upon  these  little  children  is  wonderful;  it  teaches 
them  to  remember  God's  holy  day,  it  plants  within 
their  young  hearts  a  strong  and  abiding  love  for  Je- 
sus; it  keeps  the  words  of  love  and  promise  in  their 
minds  until  they  come  in  the  unity  of  the  faith,  and 
of  the  knowledge  of  the  Son  of  God  unto  perfect  men, 
unto  the  measure  of  the  stature  of  the  fullness  of 
Christ,  a  band  of  Christian  warriors  clad  in  gospel 
armor,  marching  on  to  victory. 

The  influence  of  a  model  Sunday  school  is  not  only 
a  power  of  formation,  but  also  of  reformation. 
Through  these  children  the  influence  of  the  Sunday 
school  reaches  many  homes  darkened  by  sin ;  homes 
that  know  nothing  of  the  Sun's  blessed  rays  of  light ; 
homes  that  might  never  have  been  reached,  were  it 
not  for  the  love  the  parents  have  for  the  little  ones, 
whose  lives  are  being  formed  by  the  Sunday  school ; 
and  here  begins  the  work  of  reformation;  they  are 
drawn  unconsciously  toward  the  Sunday  school  by 
some  warning  verse  on  a  pretty  card,  or  by  the  songs 
sung  by  those  childish  lips ;  and  when  first  they  are 
induced  to  attend  the  Sunday  school  it  has  a  drawing 
effect,  and  Sunday  after  Sunday  that  magnet  of  in- 
fluence brings  them  to  their  post.  The  work  of  grace 
begins  its  silent,  powerful  ministries.  There  is  a 
lingering  desire  to  be  more  in  the  presence  of  that 
devout  band  of  workers  whose  lives  are  "  living  epis- 
tles known  and  read  of  all  men ;  "  the  plowshares  of 
conviction  make  deep  the  furrows  of  the  stony  hearts, 
the  high  places  are  made  low,  the  haughty  spirits  are 
humbled,  the  cries  of  penitent  souls  are  heard  in  the 
presence  of  the  Most  High ;  saints  rejoice,  angels'  songs 
are  filled  with  gladness,  the  doors  of  the  Church  Mili- 
tant are  opened  and  redeemed  souls  have  a  passport  in- 
to the  Church  Triumphant,  all  through  the  reforming, 
quickening  power  of  influence. 

The  influence  of  a  model  Sunday  school  through 
the  guidance  of  the  Holy  Spirit  makes  Christians  of 
men  and  women,  Christians  that  have  in  their 
homes  a  family  altar,  Christians  that  invite  the  Father, 
Son  and  Holy  Spirit  into  their  homes,  Christians  that 
hold  sweet  communion  from  day  to  day  and  in  the 
strength  of  that  communion  are  "  out  of  weakness 
made  strong,  wax  valiant  in  fight,  turn  to  flight  the 
armies  of  the  alien." 

The  influence  of  that  Sunday  school  makes  Chris- 
tians that  have  broad  souls,  large  hearts,  and  open 
pocketbooks.  This  Sunday  school  not  only  has  for 
its  workers  men  who  will  hazard  their  lives  for  the 
Gospel's  sake,  but  it  begets  them ;  this  influence  creates 
a  desire  in  the  heart  for  a  deeper,  closer  communi 
with  God,  it  not  only  creates  the  desire  but  it  fa 
it  into  a  living  flame ;  it  makes  men  and  women  who 
will   give  their  time,  their  talent,   their  money,  their 


::: 

aiis 


THE    I XGLENOOK.— November  15.   1904. 


1089 


lives,  their  all,  to  the  glorious  work  of  saving  souls. 
They  are  not  only  willing  to  stay  at  home  and  give 
freely  for  those  who  are  already  on  the  field,  but  also 
to  carry  the  glad  tidings  to  every  land,  to  suffer  per- 
secution among  false  brethren,  to  be  humbled  that 
they  may  be  glorified  in  Christ ;  it  fills  the  Church 
Militant  with  wholly  consecrated  workers,  who,  after 
labor  are.  taken  to  the  Church  Triumphant,  and  are 
those  who  have  come  out  of  great  tribulation  and  have 
washed  their  robes  and  made  them  white  in  the  blood 
of  the  Lamb.  Beloved,  can  we  not  make  the  influence 
of  our  Sunday  school  mighty  through  God  to  the  pull- 
ing down  of  the  stronghold  of  Satan?  Can  we  not 
make  it  as  a  river,  that  broadens,  and  widens,  and 
deepens  as  it  floweth  onward  in  its  course,  meeting 
no  obstacle  it  can  not  overleap  ?  We  can.  We  can 
do  all  things  through  Christ  who  strengthened  us. 

Ladoga,  Ind. 

t$>    4»    .j. 

THE    JAPANESE    FARMER. 


About  one-half  of  the  entire  population  of  Japan 
is  engaged  in  cultivating  the  soil,  and  all  this  work  is 
done  by  hand.  The  implements  use.d  are  of  the  most 
primitive  kind.  The  plows  are  made  of  rough  wood 
to  which  an  iron  point  is  attached  and  are  said  to  be 
the  facsimile  of  those  used  in  the  days  of  Pharaoh. 
They  are  frequently  drawn  by  a  bullock,  and  both  im- 
plement and  beast  are  guided  by  a  man  or  woman  who 
walks  patiently  all  day  long  through  the  slush  and  mire 
of  the  rice  fields. 

In  cultivating,  a  hoe  is  used,  the  blade  of  which  is 
set  at  an  angle  of  nearly  forty-five  degrees,  and  is  al- 
most as  long  as  the  rough  wooden  handle. 

Japan  produces  crops  of  fine  wheat,  especially  in 
the  southern  part  of  the  country,  and  the  method  of 
heading  it  is  the  most  primitive  of  all.  An  implement 
very  much  like  a  currycomb  in  appearance  is  used  for 
this  purpose.  It  is  made  sometimes  of  iron  and  some- 
times of  wood,  and  as  it  is  drawn  upward  through  the 
straw  the  heads  are  snapped  off.  Compare  this  with 
the  American  machine  which  cuts  a  swath  twelve  feet 
wide,  removes  the  heads  and  elevates  the  wheat  into 
a  wagon  of  special  construction. 

Yet  with  these  primitive  tools  it  is  astonishing  to 
find  the  magnificent  harvest  that  the  Japanese  fanner 
reaps.  The  rice  crop  occupies  one-half  of  the  land 
under  cultivation,  and  it  is  said  that  the  Japanese  fann- 
er produces  better  rice  and  a  greater  quantity  per  acre 
than  any  farmer  in  the  world.  As  it  is  the  staple  ar- 
ticle of  diet  there  is  a  tremendous  home  consumption, 
and  the  foreign  trade  is  rapidly  increasing. 

Such  an  influence  has  the  rice  crop  upon  the  com- 
merce of  Japan  that  sometimes  business  operations  are 
almost  suspended  when  it  is  feared  it  may  fail  owing 
to  unpropitious  weather.  The  failure  would  be  a  na- 
tional calamity,   for  it  would  mean  financial  disaster 


for  a  great  many  persons  and  some  of  the  largest  com- 
mercial enterprises  would  be  compelled  to  close  their 
doors. 

The  secret  of  the  success  of  Japanese  farming  is 
certainly  not  attributed  to  the  implements  employed, 
but  there  are  two  other  great  factors  in  the  cultivation 
of  the  soil  and  they  are  fertilization  and  irrigation, 
and  in  these  the  farmer  of  Japan  is  certainly  an  adept. 

<  Inly  one-twelfth  of  the  area  of  the  empire  can  be 
used  for  agricultural  purposes  and  by  centuries  of 
systematic  irrigation  and  fertilization  it  has  been 
brought  to  the  highest  state  of  cultivation. 

The  sides  of  the  hills  and  mountains  are  terraced 
as  are  also  the  rice  fields.  The  rain  water  in  many 
places  is  conserved  on  the  top  of  the  mountains ;  the 
rivers  are  all  utilized,  canals  are  cut  and  hence  the 
svstem  of  irrigation  is  made  complete. 

Cesspool  manure  is  used  for  fertilizing.  It  is  for- 
warded by  rail,  boat  and  every  mode  of  conveyance  to 
the  country.  On  each  farm  is  a  large  pit  into  which  it 
is  dumped  and  left  until  required.  When  cultivation 
of  the  soil  begins,  it  is  carefully  placed  in  the  ground 
and  the  farmer  then  irrigates  the  soil  at  will  from  the 
bountiful  supply  of  water  at  hand. 

This  method  of  cultivation  has  been  carried  on  for 
generations,  and  it  is  this,  together  with  the  patient 
toil,  that  makes  it  possible  for  the  farmer  to  produce 
such  wonderful  results. 

*  *    * 
RAILWAY    TELEGRAPHONES. 

The  Gould  lines  of  railroad  in  Colorado  are  being 
equipped  with  telegraphones,  which  enable  a  conversa- 
tion to  be  carried  on  over  a  telegraph  wire  without  in- 
terfering with  the  sending  of  a  telegraph  message  over 
the  same  wire  at  the  same  time.  Instruments  are 
placed  in  cabooses  and  coaches  so  that  in  case  of  wrecks 
communication  can  be  established  with  headquarters 
immediately  by  throw  ing  a  hook  over  a  wire  and 
grounding  the  other  end  of  the  wire  to  the  rail  or  car 

wheel. 

$  4.  $ 

2,000    PICTURES    A    SECOND. 

An  Italian  named  Luciano  Butti  lias  perfected  a 
photographic  apparatus  capable  of  registering  the  in- 
credible number  of  2,000  photographic  impressions  per 
second.  The  most  minute  and  least  rapid  and  casual 
movements  of  birds  and  insects  on  the  wing,  which 
have  hitherto  defied  science,  can,  it  is  claimed,  be 
registered  with  accuracy,  thus  opening  a  new  world  of 
natural  observation  to  ornithologists.  The  films  used 
cost  $10.00  per  second  for  the  2,000  impressions. 

*  *  * 

REMEMBEK  that  trouble  runs  to  meet  those  who 
go  out  to  borrow  it. — Chicago  Standard. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— November  15,  1904. 


THE  NATIONAL  NEGRO   BUSINESS  LEAGUE. 


BY    EOSCOE    CONKL1NG    BRUCE. 

"  There  is  no  force  on  earth,"  said  the  president 
■of  the  National  Negro  Business  League  in  reply  to  a 
■cynic's  challenge  at  the  first  session  in  Boston  in  1900, 
""  there  is  no  force  on  earth  that  can  keep  back  a  peo- 
ple who  are  day  by  day  getting  education,  good  sense, 
property  and  Christian  character.  In  our  efforts  to 
rise,  we  may  for  a  while  find  obstacles  cast  in  our  way, 
we  may  be  inconvenienced,  but  we  can  never  be  de- 
feated." And  upon  this  sentiment  the  League  was 
built ;  at  the  fifth  annual  session  lately  held  in  Indian- 
apolis, it  was  abundantly  clear  that  the  foundation  re- 
mains unshaken.  If  there  is  one  duty  more  than  an- 
other that  rests  upon  negro  leadership,  it  is  that  of 
keeping  the  temperamental  optimism  of  the  negro  un- 
shattered.  That  optimism  is  childishly  careless,  but 
at  the  bottom  it  is  a  highly  important  and  significant 
quality.  This  seems  to  me  the  preeminent  service 
of  the  National  Negro  Business  League.  The 
optimism  that  animates  this  group  of  men 
is  disciplined  by  experience  and  reflection  and 
the  hand  to  hand  encounter  of  debate  to  alert- 
ness and  forethought  and  activity  and  initiative; 
it  is  the  grave,  determined  optimism  of  the  man  who 
has  once  and  for  all  cast  aside  childish  things,  and  in 
whom  fatuous  faith  in  good  luck  has  been  matured  into 
patience,  reliance  upon  quiet  labor,  and  assiduous  sav- 
ing. By  r^cuing  from  obscurity  and  extending  the 
hand  of  congratulation  to  black  men  like  Groves,  the 
Potato  King,  who  in  some  nook  or  cranny,  in  city  or 
country,  north  or  south,  have  won  merely  the  quieter 
rewards  of  foresight  and  self-sacrificing  thrift  and 
patient  endeavor,  the  League  at  once  gratifies  the  suc- 
cessful and  arouses  the  dormant  to  emulation. 

Closely  akin  to  this  is  the  service  rendered  by  the 
League  in  enforcing  the  importance  of  self-reliance. 
In  evidence,  I  would  adduce  the  fact  that  the  only  not- 
able difference  in  the  quality  of  the  prevailing  senti- 
ment of  the  successful  sessions  is  that  there  is  less  and 
less  disposition — in  these  meetings  never  more  than 
mildly  assertive — to  refer  problems  to  the  philanthropic 
section  of  the  whites  or  to  the  national  government  for 
solution,  and  more  and  more  of  the  feeling — unob- 
strusively  dominant  rather  than  noisily  conspicuous — 
that  the  negro  is  in  many  fundamental  concerns  abun- 
dantly able  to  put  his  own  house  in  order. 

However,  I  should  say  without  hesitation  that  these 
men  are  profoundly  convinced  of  the  indispensableness 
of  the  suffrage  to  the  industrial  advance  of  the  negro 
and  to  the  progressive  well-being  of  the  South.  They 
do  not,  it  is  true,  clamor  for  the  suffrage ;  they  are 
not  the  men  to  clamor,  but  the  men  to  work.  Men  of 
substance,  of  notably  good  repute  in  their  communities, 


they  themselves  ordinarily  vote  when  election  day 
comes  round — just  like  anybody  else.  They  believe 
that  the  white  South  is  already  finding  that  any  dis- 
crimination in  the  matter  of  the  suffrage,  that  is  based 
upon  race  and  color  or  upon  anything  but  intelligence 
and  thrift  and  probity,  is  a  seriously  injurious  boom- 
erang to  the  whites  themselves  because  it  relegates 
political  discussion  and  activity  to  a  handful  of  not 
necessarily  public  spirited  and  far-seeing  men.  These 
ideas  I  gathered  from  personal  chats  with  the  dele- 
gates, for  never  a  word  of  politics  did  I  hear  in  the 
official  discussions.  But  I  am  straying  from  my  nar- 
row path. 

Not  only  does  the  Business  League  serve  by  dis- 
tributing laurel  and  thereby  persuading  the  laggards 
in  the  race  to  a  swifter  pace,  but  it  serves  as  a  sort  of 
clearing  house  for  new  ideas.  The  insight  and  ex- 
perience of  the  best  men  are  placed  at  the  disposal  of 
all.  For  example,  Philip  A.  Payton,  Jr.,  the  vice- 
president  and  general  manager  of  the  recently  organ- 
ized and  gratuitously  advertised  Afro-American  Real- 
ty Company  of  New  York  City,  made  the  clearest,  the 
most  convincing,  the  most  persuasive  presentation  of 
the  theory,  that  animates  and  justifies  that  company, 
with  especial  reference  to  the  applicability  of  the  same 
ideas  and  methods  to  improving  the  condition  of  the 
negro  tenancy  of  other  urban  centers  north  and  south. 
I  am  informed  that  several  well-to-do  and  influential 
delegates  were  determined  by  Mr.  Payton's  words  to 
attempt  in  their  own  city  a  similar  movement, — a  move- 
ment to  make  available  good  houses  in  good  neigh- 
borhoods at  reasonable  rents  for  the  better  class  of 
black  tenants. 

The  League  serves  as  a  stimulus  to  organized  en- 
deavor in  enterprises  requiring  large  capital.  Per- 
haps, the  handiest  of  many  illustrations  of  this  state- 
ment is  the  influence  it  has  had  upon  the  development 
of  banking  institutions.  As  the  time  of  the  first  session 
of  the  League,  there  were  only  two  reputable  commer- 
cial banks  and  one  savings  institution  among  negroes ; 
but  the  League  has  directly  and  indubitably  been  a 
means  of  organizing  the  following  banking  concerns: 
The  bank  of  Mound  Bayou,  Mississippi,  whose 
cashier  is  a  vice  president  of  the  League,  the  Lincoln 
Savings  banks  of  Vicksburg,  Mississippi,  the  Nash- 
ville Savings  bank,  whose  cashier  is  a  member  of  the 
executive  committee  of  the  League,  the  Mechanics 
Savings  bank  of  Richmond,  Virginia,  the  American 
Trust  company,  of  Jackson,  Mississippi,  and  a  large, 
prosperous  bank  at  Pine  Bluff,  Arkansas.  The  series 
of  co-operations  between  negro  business  men  that  the 
founding  of  these  particular  institutions  involved, 
would  not  have  occurred  had  there  been  no  League. 

And  finally  the  National  Negro  Business  League 
has  exhibited  to  the  man  who  reads  the  newspaper 
the  significant  fact  that  the  negro  people  are  to-day 


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1091 


represented  in  honorable  grades  of  a  bewildering  vari- 
ety of  occupation  and  businesses. 

And  it  were  worth  a  passing  thought  that  the  men 
of  the  League  applauded  the  potato  king  to  the  echo 
when  he  gravely  said,  "  I  am  making  the  potato  the 
base  for  higher  things !  " 

Tuskegce,  Ala. 

<$>   *    * 

A    GIRL    MARINER. 


A  youthful  mariner  is  Miss  Lillian  McGowan, 
daughter  of  Captain  Thomas  McGowan,  owner  of  the 
Marengo.  Captain  McGowan  is  aboard  the  vessel  on 
all  its  trips,  but  he  has  turned  the  navigation  over  to 
Lillian  for  almost  two  years.  During  that  time  she 
has  had  practically  absolute  control  over  the  boat  and 
its  crew,  while  her  father  devotes  his  time  to  soliciting 
business  for  the  little  craft. 

The  Marengo  is  a  "  free  lance  "  on  the  lakes.  In 
sailors'  parlance  she  is  a  "  tramp,"  registered  from 
Detroit,  but  running  in  and  out  of  the  ports  along  the 
lakes.  This  week  she  has  been  tied  up  at  the  docks 
of  the  Youghiogheny  and  Ohio  Coal  Company,  below 
the  Center  street  bridge,  taking  on  a  cargo  of  coal 
for  the  Georgian  Bay  country.  She  was  towed  out  of 
the  river  yesterday  afternoon  and  started  on  her  way 
up  the  lake. 

On  the  deck  as  the  boat  went  down  the  river  was 
Captain  Lillian,  directing  the  passage  out  into  the 
lake.  With  her  long  hair  falling  to  her  waist,  the 
braids  tied  with  black  ribbons,  she  gave  orders  to  the 
men  before  the  mast.  There  is  no  thought  on  the 
little  craft  but  to  obey  when  the  little  Captain  speaks. 
All  the  crew  are  her  willing  slaves,  and  belaying  pins 
and  kindred  weapons  have  no  place  in  her  domain. 

Yesterday  afternoon  she  was  directing  a  sailor  to 
make  fast  a  line  to  the  dock  against  which  her  boat 
was  lying.  His  method  of  executing  her  orders  did 
not  quite  meet  with  her  approbation,  and  she  under- 
took to  illustrate  to  the  old  tar  how  the  work  should 
be  done.  She  picked  up  the  rope  in  her  hands  and 
in  a  trice  she  had  secured  the  line  as  fast  as  any  Jackie 
could  have  done.  Her  hands  were  covered  with  grime 
and  her  skirts  were  bedraggled,  but  she  had  her  satis- 
faction in  seeing  the  discomfiture  of  the  sailor  who 
had  first  essayed  the  task. 

"  Oh,  it  is  pretty  hard  work  being  a  master,"  she 
said,  "  but  I  don't  mind  it  at  all.  I  love  the  water  and 
papa  and  I  have  fine  times  when  we  are  out  on  the 
lakes.  Am  I  ever  afraid?  Why  should  I  be  afraid? 
I  have  been  sailing  with  papa  for  four  years,  ever 
since  I  was  eleven  years  old,  and  if  I  ever  was  afraid 
I  have  long  ago  ceased  to  remember  it.  I  guess  I 
do  pretty  much  run  the  Marengo,  but  then  there  is 
little  running  to  do  except  when  we  strike  a  storm. 
It  is  a  good  little  boat,  not  as  large  as  some,  and  it 


has  never  failed  to  weather  all  the  storms  that  have 
caught  us. 

"  I  have  been  out  in  pretty  bad  weather,  of  course, 
but  I  haven't  had  any  experience  like  you  read  about 
ifi  story  books.  I  have  never  been  shipwrecked,  and 
I  have  never  been  adrift  without  something  to  eat 
as  the  old  sailors  have.  The  men  on  the  boat  are 
just  as  good  as  they  can  be.  I  like  them  and  we  get 
along  perfectly  well.  You  see,  I  have  been  all  up 
and  down  the  lakes,  and  I  have  come  to  know  all  the 
bad  and  dangerous  places,  so  it  is  not  a  hard  matter 
to  navigate  our  boat." 

Captain  McGowan  came  forward  and  heard  the  last 
remark.  "  I  tell  you,"  he  said,  with  emphasis,  "  that 
little  girl  is  the  best  sailor  on  the  lakes.  I  would 
rather  trust  the  Marengo  to  her  than  I  would  to  half 
the  masters  holding  government  licenses.  I  haven't 
time  to  attend  to  the  navigation  of  the  boat,  so  I  have 
just  turned  that  part  of  it  over  to  Lilly.  And  you  can 
bet  she  has  never  got  us  in  trouble,  either." — Cincin- 
nati Enquirer. 

♦  ♦  * 

SEEDED    RAISINS. 


It  is  said  that  60  per  cent  of  the  grapes  grown  in 
California  are  turned  into  raisins.  This  industry  is 
now  more  than  a  dozen  years  old,  and  it  now  employs 
1,500  persons.  The  raisins  are  dried  and  partially 
stemmed  on  the  orchards  where  they  are  grown  and 
then  shipped  to  the  factories  where  they  are  seeded. 
This  operation  is  done  entirely  by  mechanical  means. 

At  the  seeding  plants  the  raisins  are  dumped  from 
these  rough  boxes,  and  are  then  "  processed,"  to  use 
a  technical  term,  preparatory  to  seeding.  First  the 
raisins  are  subjected  to  a  dry  temperature  of  140  de- 
grees Fahrenheit,  after  which  they  are  chilled;  and 
after  being  subjected  to  the  latter  process  they  become 
as  hard  and  dry  as  a  bean.  Then  they  are  in  shape 
to  go  through  the  final  process  of  stemming,  which 
takes  off  the  short  stem  remaining  on  the  raisin  when 
it  comes  from  the  packing  house.  The  raisins  are 
then  put  through  a  rubbing  machine,  which  has  the 
effect  to  remove  the  short  stem  mentioned. 

Then  the  raisin  is  subjected  to  a  moist  heat  of  130 
degrees  Fahrenheit,  which  has  the  effect  of  making 
them  soft  and  pliable.  Then  it  is  sent  to  the  seeding 
machine,  where  it  passes  between  a  pair  of  pure  rub- 
ber rolls,  and  is  then  impaled  upon  a  row  of  small 
saws,  which  press  the  seed  out  through  the  surface  of 
the  raisin.  The  saw  roll,  with  the  raisin  thus  im- 
paled, revolves  and  passes  over  a  flicking  device,  which 
whisks  off  the  seed,  leaving  the  raisin  still  impaled 
on  the  saw  roll.  The  saw  roll,  still  revolving,  passes 
around  until  the  seeded  raisin  strikes  a  series  of  fin- 
gers,  which  frees  the  raisin  from  the  roll.  The  raisins 
then  pass  through  a  system  of  chutes,  and  are  packed 
by  girls  in  one-pound  cartons. 


1092 


THE    INGLENOOK.— November  15,  1904. 


MAKING  PORCELAIN. 


BY  A.   W.  VANIMAN. 

As  one  sits  down  to  his  meal  and  eats  of  the  well* 
prepared  food,  it  may  occur  to  the  mind  to  inquire  how 
this  beautifully  painted  ware  is  made.  The  writer  has 
many  times  in  life  asked  himself  the  question,  What 
is  this  ware  made  of?  how  is  it  formed?  and  a  dozen 
other  questions  that  naturally  present  themselves  un- 
der the  consideration  of  the  subject. 

Not  long  ago,  in  passing  through  Berlin,  Germany, 
we  stopped  a  few  days  and  as  the  guide  book  referred 
to  the  Royal  Porcelain  Factory,  we  decided  to  pay  it  a 
visit.  The  factory  was  founded  in  1761  and  was 
bought  for  the  state  two  years  later  by  Frederick  the 
Great.     It  employs  five  hundred  workmen. 

An  attendant  accompanies  the  visitor  and  explains 
each  step  of  the  process.  We  first  enter  the  grinding 
room,  where  the  raw  material  is  ground  to  a  fine  pow- 
der. The  material  consists  of  "  kaolin,"  a  sort  of  fine, 
white  clay,  and  feldspar.  As  the  kaolin  contains  more 
or  less  of  sand  and  gravel,  this  is  washed  out  until 
there  is  no  grit  in  the  mass.  This  mass  is  then 
pumped  into  a  large  case  where  it  settles  and  under 
a  pressure  of  six  atmospheres  the  water  is  pressed 
out  of  it. 

Next  we  enter  the  forming  room,  where  the  round 
dishes  are  formed  on  an  ordinary  potter's  wheel,  al- 
though it  is  driven  by  machinery  instead  of  by  the 
foot.  After  they  are  formed  by  hand  on  the  wheel, 
they  are  set  aside  to  dry  a  while,  after  which  they  are 
laid  on  a  form  or  mould,  to  give  them  exact  and  per- 
manent form  on  the  inside,  and  by  which  decorative 
impressions  may  be  formed  on  the  inside,  while  the 
outside  is  formed  by  a  very  simple  implement,  which 
is  held  on  it  as  the  vessel  revolves  on  the  wheel.  These 
are  now  allowed  to  dry  again  on  this  form.  The}'  are 
then  loosened  by  blowing  under  the  edge  of  the  dish. 
Figure  and  statue  work  is  molded  in  parts  and  then 
set  together,  and  smoothed  up  by  hand. 

Some  ware  is  open  work,  such  as  cake  plates,  etc. 
After  the  permanent  form  is  given  to  the  dish,  the 
openings  are  cut  out  with  a  small  knife.  The  next 
process  is  burning.  Gas  is  used  for  the  heating.  The 
porcelain  is  placed  in  a  round  capsule  of  fire  clay, 
which  is  flat  on  the  top  and  bottom.  The  capsule  is 
composed  of  an  upper  and  lower  half.  The  capsules 
are  piled  up  in  the  oven  which  is  thus  filled  and  closed, 
after  which  a  heat  of  1,500°  to  i,8oo°  F.  is  applied  for 
six  to  seven  hours. 

Next  they  are  glazed  by  dipping  into  a  solution  of 
marble  and  magnesia.  After  drying  awhile  they 
are  again  put  in  the  oven  and  a  temperature  of  3,600° 
to  4,000°  F.  is  applied  for  sixteen  to  twenty-four  hours. 
If  it  is  to  be  painted  it  is  sent  to  thf  painting  room 


where  the  painting  is  all  done  by  hand.  In  factories 
where  a  cheaper  class  of  work  is  done  it  is  stamped  or 
printed  on.  The  paints  are  mixed  with  turpentine  in- 
stead of  oil.  Gilding,  in  the  painting  room,  has  a  dull 
brown  look;  after  burning  it  is  burnished. 

After  the  painting  it  is  again  burned  at  a  temper- 
ature of  1,500  to  1,800  degrees.  This  factory  makes 
nothing  but  the  fine,  expensive  class  of  china  ware. 
We  had  thought  to  buy  a  souvenir,  but  the  prices  were 
so  high  that  it  did  not  seem  advisable  for  us  to  make 
the  investment.  But  upon  the  whole  the  visit  to  the 
factory  was  to  us  highly  interesting  and  instructive, 
and  again  proved  the  saying  that  "  Most  things  are 
simple  when  one  knows  how." 

Malm'6,  Sweden. 

•£    4.    $ 

MUSICAL  NOTES. 


SELECTED    BY    MARGUERITE    BIXLER. 

Music  is  the  first,  the  simplest,  the  most  effective  of 
all   instruments  of  moral  instruction. — Rnskin. 


The  most  beautiful  music  is  the  most  religious,  and 
the  most  religious  is  the  most  beautiful. — Van  Cleve. 


Music  do  I  hear  ?     Ha !  Ha.     Keep  time.     How  sour 
sweet  music  is  when  time  is  broken  and  no  proportion    I 

* 


kept. — Shakespeare. 


If  all  the  good  that  has  ever  been  done  by  music  were 
subtracted  from  the  world,  I  believe  that  three-fourths 
of  its  religion  would  be  gone. — Talmage. 


We  need  more  gospel  singers — singers  who  feel 
themselves  divinely  called  to  sing  out  the  message  of 
gospel  salvation  to  a  dying  world. — T.  T.  Myers. 

To  those  who  are  interested  in  sacred  song  service, 
I  would  suggest  that  you  occasionally  devote  some  time 
to  "  quotations  "  on  music.  It  will  prove  helpful  in 
many  ways. 

* 

Next  to  theology  I  give  the  place  and  highest  honor 
to  music,  for  thereby  all  anger  is  forgotten.  The  devil 
is  driven  away,  unchastity,  pride  and  other  blasphe- 
mies are  expelled. — Luther. 


Voices  of  melting  tenderness,  that  blend  with  pure 
and  gentle  musings,  till  the  soul,  commingling  with  the 
melody,  is  borne,  rapt  and  dissolved  in  ecstacy,  to 
heaven. — Perc'^al. 


:o 

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THE    I NGLENOOK.— November  15,  1904. 


1093 


A    STORY    FOR    BOYS. 


F  had  been  appointed  to  teach  a  school,  which  was 
so  far  from  my  home,  that,  when  I  arrived  in  the  vil- 
lage in  which  it  was  situated,  I  found  myself  in  every 
sense,  "  the  new  teacher." 

The  children  were  eager  to  see  me;  and  those  that 
were  first  favored  with  an  opportunity  to  relate  some 
of  their  former  school  experiences,  and  to  give  me  a 
knowledge  of  the  characters  of  some  of  their  fellow- 
pupils,  were  glad  to  accept  so  good  a  chance  to  get 
acquainted  with  me. 

,  The  first  few  days  glided  by  very  smoothly,  but  there 
was  evidently  trouble  ahead.  All  told  the  same  story 
about  Willie,  who,  for  some  reason,  had  not  entered 
School  at  the  beginning  of  the  term.  And  his  reputa- 
tion, certainly,  was  not  of  a  kind  to  make  me  look 
forward  to  his  entrance  with  very  much  pleasure. 

Both  his  work  and  play  seemed  to  have  been  to  an- 
noy his  teacher,  and  to  keep  the  school  in  a  state  of 
disquietude. 

He  had  lost  his  mother  when  he  was  a  very  little 
boy,  and  his  father  had  married  again;  and,  accord- 
ing to  public  rumor,  his  home  was  no  less  a  scene 
of  disorder  than  the  school  had  been.  You  may  well 
imagine,  therefore,  that  when  a  "  new  scholar  "  made 
his  appearance  one  morning,  and  I  found  that  Willie 
Was  really  one  of  my  pupils,  I  felt  a  little  troubled  at 
the  work  that  lay  before  me.  I  secretly  determined, 
however,  that  no  word  or  act  of  mine  should  make 
him  feel  that  there  was  a  difference  between  him 
and  the  other  boys.  For  a  short  time  everything 
worked  well ;  but  one  morning  Willie  was  absent. 
And  after  the  first  morning  exercises  were  over,  and 
we  were  deep  in  the  perplexities  of  arithmetic  and 
grammar,  I  casually  looked  out  of  a  window  and  saw 
him  hanging  over  the  fence  back  of  the  schoolhouse, 
trying,  evidently,  to  attract  our  attention,  and  make 
himself  more  interesting'  than  the  multiplication  ta- 
bles or  the  synopsis  of  the  verb  study.  But  when  I 
started  toward  the  window,  he  ran  quickly  off;  every 
now  and  then  looking  back  to  see  if  I  were  not  in 
pursuit.  He  appeared  to  be  trying  to  introduce  a 
game  of  "  Catcher."  But  I  did  not  consider  it  best 
Br  me  to  join  him  in  it;  so  I  quietly  told  the  boys 
and  girls  that  our  interests  were  inside  not  outside 
the  schoolroom,  and  we  went  on  with  our  work.  I 
kept  watching  him,  however,  and  as  he  grew  more 
bold,  I  grew  more  determined.  And  as  he  ventured 
more  and  more  closely  toward  the  door,  I  gradually 
walked  in  that  direction  too.  And  in  a  moment,  quite 
unlooked  for  by  him,  I  suddenly  opened  the  door  and 
caught  him.  Poor  Willie !  How  ■  unhappy  he 
looked!  I  commanded  him  to  take  his  seat  and  to  re- 
main with  me  after  school.  He  obeyed — how  willing- 
ly, perhaps  you  boys  can   tell   better  than   I.     After 


the  other  children  had  gone  home,  I  had  a  talk  with 
him,  and  he  promised  me  that  he  would  try  to  be  a 
better  boy  in  the  future.  How  many  of  vou  have 
promised  your  teachers  that? 

For  a  short  time  after  that,  he  attended  school  regu- 
larly and  behaved  well.  But  one  morning  he  was 
again  absent,  and  that  time  I  did  not  have  to  wait  for 
an  explanation.  There  is  an  adage  that  says.  "  Bad 
news  travels  fast."  And  that  time  it  did.  Very  soon 
I  learned  that  Willie  had  been  beaten  by  his  father, 
and  had  run  away  from  home.  I  have  never  seen 
him  since  that  time.  But  one  day  some  time  after, 
as  I  was  looking  over  the  contents  of  a  county  news- 
paper, my  eye  was  arrested  by  the  name  of  Willie, — 
my  own  pupil,  who  had  been  lodged  in  the  county 
jail,  for  having  committed  an  offence  worse  than  dis- 
obedience at  school.  That  was  the  way  his  life  of 
public  disgrace  began. 

I  want  you,  boys,  to  take  warning  from  his  sad  ex- 
perience, and  avoid  whatever  is  wrong ;  for,  although 
the  fault  may,  in  a  measure,  lie  at  the  door  of  some 
one  else,  you  alone  will  be  responsible  for  it.  if  you 
yield  to  their  evil  influences.  Beware  then,  boys,  of 
starting  in  the  wrong  road!  If  you  have  started,  turn 
back  at  once,  and  start  again  in  the  "  straight  and 
narrow  path." 

364,848,474    TELEGRAMS    IN     1903. 


It  is  just  sixty  years  ago  since  the  first  telegraphic 
message  was  sent  by  the  Morse  system  from  Baltimore  ' 
to  Washington,  and  the  first  message  by  the  Atlantic 
submarine  cable  was  dispatched  six  years  afterward — 
that  is  to  say,  in  June,  1850.  Since  then  the  use  of 
the  telegraph  has  developed  at  a  marvelous  rate,  un- 
til at  the  present  time  a  million  messages  are  sent 
over  the  world's  lines  every  twenty-four  hours.  Ac- 
cording to  some  returns  recently  issued,  the  number 
of  telegrams  dispatched  in  all  countries  in  1903 
reached  the  enormous  total  of  364,848,474.  As  a  user 
of  the  telegraph  Great  Britain  heads  the  list  with  92,- 
471,000  dispatches,  the  United  States  is  second  with 
91,391,000  dispatches,  and  France  comes  third  with 
48,114,151.  Germany,  Russia,  Austria,  Belgium  and,/ 
Italy  follow  in  the  order  named. 


<•   4*   * 

The  best  herd  of  cattle  at  the  World's  Fair  show 
is  owned  by  George  McFaden,  a  millionaire  farmer 
of  Rosemont,  Pa.  He  received  a  prize  of  a  thousand 
dollars  on  a  herd  of  sixteen  head  of  Ayrshire*. 

*  *  * 


inner 
.isand    / 


Ouk  character  is  but  the  stamp  on  our  souls  of  the 
free  choice  of  good  and  evil  we  have  made  through 
life. — Geikie. 


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WORRY. 


In  the  schoolbooks  of  our  childhood  days,  we  re- 
member of  having  seen  this  couplet,  "  Never  fret  about 
anything  you  can  help,  because  you  ought  to  get  to 
work  and  help  it ;  never  fret  about  anything  you  can- 
not help,  because  it  will  not  do  any  good."  What  a 
wonderful  help  this  has  been  to  us  all  through  life. 
And  to  make  the  sermon  that  it  carries  with  it  more 
illustrative,  we  are  constantly  in  possession  of  current 
illustrations.  Almost  every  day  we  see  men  and  wo- 
men who  are  hustling  and  bustling  around  like  a  hen 
whose  brood  has  been  disturbed,  prating  and  clucking, 
amounting  to  but  very  little  in  the  way  of  results. 

Have  you  noticed  the  housewife  in  particular?  Oc- 
casionally you  find  one  who  is  continually  fussing 
when  someone  happens  to  be  late  to  a  meal,  and  there 
is  a  hurrying  and  fluttering  in  and  out,  jumping  up 
and  down ;  excusing  herself,  and  with  a  scowl  on  her 
forehead  she  rushes  off  to  see  if  the  biscuits  are  burn- 
ing. There  is  a  continual  disturbance,  and  almost 
without  exception  there  is  something  to  be  done  at  the 
very  last  minute. 

Just  the  other  day  I  heard  a  remark  about  a  gentle- 
man (made  by  a  very  particular  friend  of  his)  which 
is  as  follows :  "  He  is  a  good  man ;  a  fine  neighbor ; 
a  splendid  husband;  a  thorough  Christian,  but  he  has 
one  detestable  fault, — he  is  never  on  time.  He  is 
always  in  a  hurry  and  never  satisfied  with  his  accom- 
plishments, because  of  his  bustling  nature." 

Again  there  are  people  who  move  slowly,  deliber- 
ately, cautiously,  and  make  every  lick  count.     They 


know  where  everything  is,  just  how  to  find  it,  and  don't 
make  a  practice  of  waiting  till  they  want  it  to  know 
where  it  is.  How  very  common  it  is  to  see  one  go 
to  the  bureau  drawer  and  turn  everything  upside  down 
to  find  a  single  garment  or  article.  Many  a  student 
pulls  half  of  the  books  out  of  the  case  to  get  the  one 
he  wants,  and  leaves  the  majority  of  them  upside  down 
when  he  replaces  them,  if  he  happens  to  replace  them 
at  all. 

The  class  of  men  very  closely  related  to  the  afore- 
mentioned class  are  they  who  depend  upon  their  wives 
to  keep  account  of  everything  about  the  house ;  everg 
garment,  every  package  of  garden  seeds,  the  valuable 
papers  about  the  home,  the  hammer,  the  shovel,  and 
every  little  thing  which  they  consider  the  wives'  dutj| 
to  look  after. 

One  of  the  chief  causes  of  worry,  when  a  certain 
unlooked-for  event  takes  place,  is  mind  expansion ;  the 
inability  to  see  the  thing  exactly  as  it  is  and  no  more, 
We  are  almost  forced  to  think  about  the  causes  of 
the  accident  and  speculate  on  the  theory  of  it  as  well  as. 
the  future  outcome  and  results,  and  discuss  them  at 
length  and  get  our  mind  all  expanded  and  worked  up 
to  such  a  tension  that  it  is  almost  ready  to  become 
unbalanced,  when  we  are  forced  by  the  nature  of  the 
circumstance  to  act.  When  the  action  finally  comes 
it  is  a  nervous  one  and  oftentimes  injudicious  because 
of  the  condition  of  one's  mind.  The  better  thing  to  do 
would  be  to  work  on  the  conditions  and  not  theory; 
be  able  to  see  the  thing  as  it  is  without  any  reflection 
upon  the  past  or  prospect  of  the  future.  Everybody 
is  more  or  less  aware  of  the  result  of  labor  upon  the 
human  organism.  We  know  that  hard  work  is  hard 
on  the  physical  make-up  of  a  man,  but  very  few  people 


counters  with  the  enemy,  worry. 

Worry  has  made  more  gray  hairs  than  work,  and 
the  broken  hearts  that  lie  at  the  door  of  worry  would 
outnumber  those  of  hard  labor,  ten  to  one.  Worrj 
is  largely  a  habit.  Of  course  there  are  many  peopk 
in  the  world  whose  physical  make-up  has  been  shattered 
by  hereditary  influences  and  local  conditions  that  ar< 
sometimes  hard  to  explain,  but,  speaking  in  genera 
terms,  we  repeat  that  worry  is  largely  a  habit ;  and,  too 
it  is  one  in  which  it  is  very  easy  to  fall.  It  is  life 
dreaming,  the  more  we  tell  our  dreams  the  more  w< 
are  likely  to  dream,  and  the  more  we  tell  our  troubles 
the  more  we  magnify  them  and  the  more  we  have  t( 
magnify. 

Pessimism  also  aids  in  the  process  of  worry.  Th 
more  power  we  have  to  look  on  the  dark  side  of  things 
the  broader  the  shadow  becomes.  Worry  is  one  0 
those  things  fhat  are  very  hard  to  meet  and  overcome 
for  the  following  reason :  it  is  so  very  general  and  s< 
many  people  indulge,  that  it  is  not  generally  recog 
nized  as  a  sin.     If  people  could  be  taught  to  knov 


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hat  il  will  sap  the  life  out  of  them  the  same  as  intem- 
perance and  other  vices,  they  would  learn  to  dread  it 

ind  soon  annihilate  it. 

<$>  $»  $ 

COSMOPOLITAN. 


It  is  said  by  exchanges  that  a  certain  Miss  Emma 
jallagher,  of  Evanston,  Ind.,  by  a  gasoline  explosion, 
vas  burned  from  the  neck  to  the  waist  in  a  fearful 
nanner  some  eight  years  ago.  Since  that  time  she 
las  tried  many  a  plan  to  regrow  the  skin  upon  her 
lody,  which  was  entirely  burned  off.  She  resorted  to 
lie  use  of  oilcloth  to  protect  her  and  make  it  possible 
or  her  to  live  while  she  was  trying  to  regrow  her 
kin. 

Miss   Gallagher   says   that   when   she   was   first   in- 
truded by  the  doctors  to  buy  skin  from  other  people 
nd  have  it  grafted  upon  her  body,  she  advertised  in 
le  papers  extensively  for  it,  and  in  return  for  her  ad- 
ertisment  she  received  manifold  and  elaborate  prom- 
ts, but  when  the  time  came  for  a  piece  of  skin  three 
iches  wide  and  nine  inches  long  to  be  taken  from  their 
odies  for  her  sake,  many  of  them  faltered.     However, 
lany  of  them  were  true  to  their  promise  and  delivered 
le    goods.     Miss    Gallagher's    body    at  the  present 
me  is  practically  covered,  except  her  left  arm.     Of 
lUrse,  the  doctors  got  quite  a  good  deal  of  skin  from 
mputations,  but  unless  the  amputation  would  be  ne- 
2ssitated  by  accident  the  skin  would  not  be  fit  for 
rafting   purposes,   because   it   would  not  be  healthy. 
he  skin  which  she  has  bought  has  cost  on  the  average 
f  one  thousand  dollars  per  square  foot. 
One  of  the  queerest  things  about  the  whole  affair 
that  almost  every  nation  of  the  earth  is  represented 
1  the  skin  that  covers  the  body  of  Miss  Gallagher, 
lthough  she  herself  is  American,  her  skin  is  cosmo- 
llitan.     Even  the  dark  man  of  the  south  is  rcpre- 
nteil,   whose  skin,   the  doctors  say,  will  turn   white 
hen  grafted  on  a  white  person.     Miss  Gallagher  is 
Ming  sewing  machines  at  the  present  time  in  order 
secure  enough  money  to  complete  her  task. 
phis  incident  not  only  furnishes  an  example  of  the 

lers  of  science  of  our  age,  but  it  represents  as 

ell  the  results  of  a  determined  purpose.  We  would 
Dt  forget  the  broad,  deep  charity  that  is  manifested 
.'  those  who  have  actually  sacrificed  a  part  of  them- 
Ivcs  for  the  benefit  of  their  fellowman.  Also  what 
ime  people  will  do  for  money.  In  it  we  can  see  the 
fficulty  of  man  attempting  what  is  so  very  easy  for 
od  to  do.  God  has  no  trouble  in  clothing  each  of  us 
ith  a  beautiful  covering  of  nature,  and  yet  when  by 
sobedience  to  nature's  law  it  is  lost,  how  wonderfully 
fficult  it  becomes  to  regain  our  loss. 
It  compels  one  to  think  of  the  loss  of  character, 
lppose  that  instead  of  her  skin  Miss  Gallagher  had 
st  her  character.     How  impossible  it  would  have  been 


for  her  friends  to  contribute  to  her  needs.  While  she 
may  possibly  live  and  thrive  with  a  cosmopolitan 
skin  it  would  never  do  for  her  character  to  be  of  that 
kind.  Her  friends  may  get  along  very  well  and  soon 
forget  the  loss  they  have  sustained  in  the  assistance  of 
their  friend,  yet  had  it  been  character  that  she  lost  who 
would  have  been  able  to  donate  from  their  scanty  sup- 
ply and  not  suffer  death  morally  as  a  result?  Yet  in 
the  event  of  all  this  how  much  more  highly  do  we 
prize  the  giving  of  our  bodies  than  we  do  the  genuine 
man — man  of  character,  man  of  destiny.  Horace 
Greeley  said,  "  Fame  is  a  vapor,  popularity  an  accident, 
riches  take  wings,  those  who  cheer  to-day  will  curse 
to-morrow,  only  one  thing  endures — character." 
♦  ♦  «!• 
CHILLY. 


Have  you  ever  noticed,  in  your  experience,  a  class 
of  people  who  make  you  feel  chilly  when  you  are  in 
their  presence?  They  not  only  say  chilly  things  in 
a  chilly  way,  but  have  a  sort  of  congealing  influence 
in  their  very  presence.  They  have  mistaken  piety  for 
longfacedness.  Do  you  know  that  these  cold  natured 
people  are  infringing  on  the  rights  of  the  dead? 
Dead  people  have  a  right  to  be  cold  and  clammy,  and 
often  cold  people  have  to  be  frozen,  but  as  long  as  we 
are  alive  we  do  not  have  a  right  to  be  cold.  Our 
privilege  and  duty  is  to  be  warm.  If  we  cannot  be 
warm  in  nature,  sociability  and  Christian  influence, 
let  us  be  warm  in  our  hearts  at  least. 
*  *  * 
A    GOOD    HOME    IN    BERLIN. 


It  may  so  happen  that  some  of  our  readers  may 
visit  the  capital  city  of  Germany,  and  this  is  written 
for  them.  In  the  central  park  of  the  city  of  two  mil- 
lion people  not  far  away  from  the  palace  of  the  emperor 
and  the  principal  Galleries  and  Museums,  we  were 
fortunate  enough  to  find  the  Hospiz  Centrum  Berlins, 
Holsgarten  Strasse  9-10  an  dcr  Kur  Strasse.  It  is 
really  a  pleasant,  homelike  hotel,  presided  over  by  Mr. 
Becker,  a  most  courteous  and  genial  host.  The  prices 
are  very  moderate,  very  much  cheaper  than  like  ac- 
commodations and  comforts  in  America.  This  notice 
is  not  inserted  either  for  pay,  or  for  favors  received, 
but  as  a  good  word  for  a  good,  homelike,  comfortable 

lodging  place  in  Berlin. 

*   *   * 

In  IngLenoOK  number  38  issued  Sept.  10,  is  to  be 
found  the  poem  entitled,  "The  Boot-black's  Lament." 
An  editorial  note  at  the  top  explains  why  the  author's 
name  is  not  there.  Since  that  we  have  succeeded  in 
finding  the  name  of  the  author.  It  is  our  dear  Bro. 
S.  Z.  Sharp,  of  Fruila,  Colo.  The  majority  of  our 
readers  will  now  read  the  poem  again  with  renewed 
interest. — Ed. 


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THE   INGLENOOK.— November  15,  1904. 


Current      HappGnings 


Statistical  knowledge  of  the  railway  business  in- 
dicates eleven  and  one-fourth  billion  dollars'  worth  of 
construction  and  equipment.  Stocks  and  bonds  thir- 
teen million ;  gross  earnings  nearly  two  billions,  and 
net  earnings  of  five  hundred  millions.  During  the  past 
year  one  and  one-fourth  billion  tons  of  freight  were 
carried,  while  seven  hundred  million  passengers 
crossed  the  threshold  of  the  coaches. 
*>  *  •$• 

The  commission  of  education  reports  that  during 
the  fiscal  year  nearly  seventeen  million  pupils  have  at- 
tended public  schools,  at  a  cost  of  two  hundred  and 
fifty-one  million  dollars,  or  a  little  over  three  dollars 
per  capita. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Eva  Booth,  daughter  of  General  Booth,  who, 
for  eight  years,  has  been  in  command  of  the  salvation 
army  in  Canada,  has  been  promoted  to  the  command 
of  the  United  States,  whose  headquarters  are  at  New 
York. 

•I*    ♦    •!* 

It  is  reported  that  the  Erie  railroad  has  purchased 
the  Pere  Marquette  and  the  C,  H.  &  D.  System  for 
seventy-five  million  dollars. 

.♦.  4.  3. 

Postmaster  Van  Cott,  of  New  York  City,  died 
suddenly  of  heart  failure.  Recently  Mr.  Van  Cott 
lost  the  savings  of  his  entire  lifetime.  A  few  days 
ago  his  son  Richard  was  arrested,  charged  with  col- 
onizing voters.  The  strenuous  life  that  is  demanded 
in  a  post  office  like  New  York  aids  in  overcoming  the 
natural  powers  of  a  man.  These  three  things,  togeth- 
er with  his  age,  are  supposed  to  have  played  an  im- 
portant part  in  his  fatal  illness. 

*  *  * 

The  State  of  Nevada  has  filed  a  claim  against  the 
United  States  for  nearly  a  half  a  million,  which  she 
claims  to  have  loaned  the  government  during  the  Civil 
War. 

At  Nanticoke,  eight  miles  south  of  Wilkesbarre, 
Pa.,  a  horrible  accident  occurred.  When  some  miners 
were  entering  the  elevator  to  be  lowered  in  the  shaft, 
the  cable  broke  when  a  few  feet  below  the  surface 
and  eighteen  men  were  shot  down  with  frightful  ve- 
locity, only  to  be  crushed  at  the  bottom  of  the  shaft, 
several  hundred  feet  below.  The  only  way  to  rescue 
the  survivors,  if  there  were  any,  was  to  construct  a 
temporary  elevator,  but  it  was  found  that  there  was 
six  feet  of  water  at  the  bottom  of  the  shaft  and  the 
men  who  were  not  killed  bv  the  fall  were  drowned. 


Pope  Pius  X  is  suffering  from  a  severe  attack  < 
heart  failure. 

*  ♦  *«• 

John  W.  Frazier,  the  city  official  of  Philadelphi 
sent  President  Roosevelt  a  silver-mounted  rabbit  foo: 
Pretty  high  circles  for  a  barbarian  superstition. 

About  fifty  fishing  trawlers  in  the  North  Sea  wfl 
hard  at  work  fishing  off  Spurn  Head  one  night  la: 
week.  They  were  signaling  to  each  other  to  infon 
their  comrades  as  to  the  whereabouts  of  the  schoe[ 
of  fish.  The  shots  were  seen  by  some  Russian  gui 
boats.  Presuming  that  trouble  was  on  hand,  they  su 
rounded  the  ill-fated  trawlers  and  with  their  rapi 
firing  guns  poured  a  shower  of  lead  upon  the  helplei 
fisherman.  Several  of  the  fishing  party  were  kills 
and  wounded.  It  keeps  the  Czar  busy  these  days  te 
ing  the  world  how  sorry  he  is  for  the  way  his  peop 
are  acting. 

*  *  * 

Andrew  Carnegie  has  been  awarded  the  Bessem 
gold  medal  by  the  International  Iron  and  Steel  coi 
cern  in  session  at  New  York.  Mr.  Carnegie  is  tl 
first  American  that  has  ever  been  president  of  the  0 
ganization,  the  former  ones  having  been  Englishme 
He  has  received  the  highest  honors  that  can  be 
stowed  by  the  institution. 

4>  4»  4» 

Judge  Cooper,  from  Texas,  who  has  served  as 
sociate  Justice  of  the  Supreme  court  of  the  Philippi 
for  three  years  has  resigned  on  account  of  his 
His  resignation  has  been  accepted  by  the  President. 
<!*  4»  4» 

Ex-Governor   Nash,   of   Ohio,   dropped    dead 
heart  failure  at  his  home  in  Columbus. 

«$t     <£     «£> 

It  was  reported  that  the  Union  Pacific  railroad  h 
secured  an  option  on.  the  Chicago  Great  Westei 
President  Harriman  denies  the  statement. 

*  4f  * 

The  pier  at  Forty-second  street,  Brooklyn,  fi 
nished  fuel  for  a  half  million  dollar  fire  last  week. 


Another  alcove  in  the  great  church  of  St.  Pete 
at  Rome,  has  been  filled  by  the  colorsal  statue  of 

John  de  la  Salle. 

*  *  * 

The  Czar  has  finally  recalled  Genera.  Alexieff  fril 
the  stage  of  action,  and  has  given  the  command  I 
the  naval  and  land  forces  to  General  Kouropatkin. 


THE    1NGLENOOK.— November  15,  1904. 


1097 


Belgium  and  Cuba  have  finally  reached  a  treatv 
of  extradition. 

$  <|» .  4f 

While  a  policeman  was  trying  to  arrest  a  negro  by 
the  name  of  Blount  he  was  seriously  injured  by  a 
lighted  lamp  which  was  hurled  at  him  by  the  des- 
perado. He  was  taken  from  the  officers  and  lynched. 
The  negro  population  of  Berkeley.  Ya.,  are  very  much 
wrought  up  over  the  affair. 

•>   *   * 

On  October  22,  the  British  steamer  "  Haverford  " 
left  Philadelphia  for  Liverpool,  and  ran  ashore  on 
Burbo  bank  Nov.  2,  while  entering  the  Mersey.  The 
accident  occurred  during  a  fog  when  the  steamer  was 
trying  to  avoid  some  fishing  boats.  She  sustained  no 
great  damage. 

*  ♦  *3» 

One  of  the  prominent  men  in  one  of  our  neighbor- 
ing towns,  Mr.  Will  Mall,  of  Aurora,  111.,  while  visit- 
ing his  old  home  in  Germany,  was  drafted  and  forced 
into  the  German  army  despite  the  fact  that  he  gave 
abundant  evidence  of  his  American  citizenship.  Of 
course  an  appeal  will  be  made  to  Washington. 

At  Neal,  Kans.,  a  broken  rail  on  the  Missouri  Pa- 
cific caused  a  wreck,  resulting  in  twenty-six  injuries, 
of  which  eight  are  very  serious. 

*  *  * 

While  Jesse  Evans,  of  Coralea,  Okla,  was  absent 

from  home  with  his  wife,  their  three  small  children 

were  burned  to  death   in  a  fire  which  destroyed  the 

house. 

4»   <{»  <$» 

At  Winston-Salem,  S.  C.,  seventeen  persons  are 
known  to  have  been  drowned  by  the  breaking  of  the 
water  reservoir  above  the  city.  It  was  the  second 
.■dition  of  the  Johnstown  horror,  only  not  so  volumi- 
nous. Houses  were  crushed  like  egg  shells,  trees 
snapped  off  like  icicles,  and  no  chance  for  escape  with 
life.  People  were  crushed  between  the  walls  of  their 
'homes,  and  those  who  escaped  this  manner  of  death 
were  unable  to  fight  the  surging,  roaring  waters, 
rims  far  seventeen  bodies  have  been  found. 

*  *  + 
Another  remarkable  virtuoso  in  the  way  of  a  mu- 
ni  prodigy  has  been   discovered   in   the  person  of 

Misha  Elman.  He  lives  in  Germany,  but  is  of  Rus- 
sian birth,  is  the  son  of  a  poor  Jew.  The  best  Berlin 
Critics  pronounce  him  to  be  one  of  the  wonders  of  the 
ige. 

•h    ♦    + 

Chiton  mills  at  Lowell.  Massachusetts,  which  have 
>een  idle  several  months,  have  resumed  operation. 


BEHIND   THE  TRENCH. 


Some  of  the  Japanese  soldiers,  who  are  besieging 
Port  Arthur,  have  ignored  the  wishes  of  General  Sto- 
essel,  who  is  the  commander  of  the  Russian  military 
forces,  and  they  have  offered  terms  of  surrender  to  the 
Russian  soldiers.  In  the  meantime  ceaseless  activity 
of  picks  and  spades  continues.  The  Japanese  are 
gradually  advancing  their  trenches,  which  means  to 
the  Russians  only  a  matter  of  time.  One  of  the  Rus- 
sian soldiers,  captured  by  the  Japs,  quite  recently, 
said  that  the  troops  which  composed  the  garrison  were 
.-ending  up  piteous  cries  for  warm  clothing,  better 
food,  more  fuel.  They  seem  to  be  very  much  dispirit- 
ed. They  evidently  see  the  fruitlessness  of  the 
struggle  and  the  hopelessness  of  relief  or  escape. 
Their  medical  hospital  supplies  are  entirely  inadequate ; 
even  the  majority  of  the  Russian  officials  admit  that  a 
Japanese  victory  is  ultimately  inevitable.  In  order  to 
put  an  end  to  the  frightful  carnage  and  loss  of  life, 
upon  gaining  knowledge  of  their  real  condition  inside 
of  the  fort,  General  Nogi,  with  the  advice  and  consent 
of  his  staff,  drafted  a  letter  under  the  light  of  a  bi- 
cycle lantern,  transcribed  it  in  Russian  and  circulated 
it  among  the  Russian  soldiers.  The  letter  told  them  of 
Kuropatkin's  retreat,  his  inability  to  make  any  im- 
pression on  the  army,  and  his  hopelessness  of  reliev- 
ing the  fort,  the  sin  of  manslaughter,  and  the  assur- 
ance of  good  treatment  in  case  of  surrender. 

*   *  ♦ 
BLACK    LIST    FOR    ELECTION    DAY. 


A  collision  on  the  C.  &  E.  railroad  near  Clinton, 
Ind.,   resulted   in    the   death   of  one,   and   twenty-five 
injuries,  four  of  which  will  prove  fatal. 
* 
One  killed  and  seven  injured  is  the  result  of  a  trolly 
car  collision  at  Cincinnati. 

* 

At   Leavenworth,   Kans.,   a   boiler  exploded   killing 
one,  injuring  one  fatally,  injuring  four  seriously  and 
burning  the  entire  furniture  factory. 
* 
The  collapse  of  a  scaffold  at  Charleston,  S.  C..  re- 
sulted in  one  death  and  three  injured. 
* 
Three  workmen  were  killed  by  the  breaking  of  a 
rope  in  repairing  a  bridge  at  Steubenville,  Ohio. 
* 
The  Silverqueen  Hotel,  in  the  oil  field,  known  as 
the  "  Sour  Lake  "  oil  field,  was  destroyed  by  fin   and 
four  people  burned  to  death. 
* 
One  dead  and  two  hurt  in  a  boiler  explosion  at  To- 
ledo, Ohio. 


ioq.8 


THE    INGLENOOK.— November  15,  1904. 


*»»M'**»*»******»****'I"M^ 


The  Inglenook  Nature  Study  Club 


T  This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various  Nature  Study  Oubs  that  may  be  organized  \  \ 

*    over  this  country.     Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.     Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time,  <» 

§*    taking  the   work   up   with   the   current   issue.     Back   numbers  cannot  be  furnished.     Any  school  desiring  to  or-  " 
ganize  a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  111. 

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CLASS    AVES— ORDER    NATATORES. 


Of  the  Swan  family  we  have  two  species,  the  Ameri- 
can Swan  and  the  Trumpeter  Swan.  The  latter  ap- 
pears to  be  exclusively  a  western  species,  being  most 
abundant  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Mississippi,  Missouri 
and  other  western  rivers,  during  winter,  and  breeding 
from  California  northward  to  the  fur  countries.  The 
American  Swan  is  found  in  the  winter  along  the  At- 
lantic coasts,  sometimes  in  considerable  numbers,  par- 
ticularly in  Chesapeake  Bay,  but  appears  to  be  scarce 
south  of  this,  its  principal  haunts  being  to  the  north- 
ward. During  the  summer  months  the  shores  of  the 
Polar  Sea  afford  it  a  safe  retreat,  where  it  may  rear 
its  young  in  comparative  safety. 

The  flight  of  these  birds  is  powerful  and  rapid,  and ' 
is  often  prolonged  to  a  wonderful  extent.  During 
their  migrations  they  soar  to  a  great  height,  over- 
topping the  mountains,  and  seldom  pause  during  the 
journey  between  our  latitude  and  the  place  of  their 
summer  abode,  except  when  their  progress  is  impeded 
by  a  storm,  above  the  regions  of  which  they  mostly 
travel.  They  always  advance  in  small  flocks  in  the 
shape  of  a  V,  the  leader  being  at  the  point,  similar  to 
geese  and  ducks.  When  they  arrive  at  the  place  of 
their  destination,  which  is  generally  at  night,  they 
occupy  themselves  at  once  in  making  amends  for  their 
long  abstinence  from  food,  and  join  in  a  wild  chorus 
of  congratulations  which"  almost  make  the  shores  ring. 
While  feeding  or  during  the  operation  of  dressing  and 
arranging  their  plumage,  they  are  apt  to  be  very  noisy, 
their  notes  varying  much  from  high  to  low,  according 
to  circumstances.  But  so  vigilant  are  they,  that  upon 
the  least  note  of  alarm  from  the  sentinel  all  is  immedi- 
ately quiet,  and  they  move  noiselessly  away  from  the 
scene  of  danger.  The  Cascaroba  of  South  America 
and  the  Black  Swan  of  Australia  are  not  to  be  forgot- 
ten in  the  study  of  this  interesting  family. 

*  *  * 

ALCOHOL    AND    FOOD. 


Dr.  Winfield  S.  Hall,  Dean  of  the  University 
Medical  School,  Chicago,  uses  the  deadly  parallel  with 
telling  effect  in  comparing  the  facts  about  alcohol  and 
food : 


The  Truth  About  Alcohol. 

1.  A  certain  quantity  will 
produce  a  certain  effect  at 
first,  but  it  requires  more 
and  more  to  produce  the 
same  effect  when  the  drug 
is    used    habitually. 

2.  When  used  habitually 
it  is  "likely  to  induce  an  un- 
controllable desire  for  more 
in  ever  increasing  amounts. 

3.  After  its  habitual  use, 
a  sudden  total  abstinence  is 
likely  to  cause  a  serious  de- 
rangement of  the  central 
nervous  system. 

4.  Alcohol  is  oxidized 
rapidly  in   the   body. 

5.  Alcohol,  not  being  use- 
ful, is  not  stored  in  the 
body.     • 

6.  Alcohol  is  a  product  of 
decomposition  of  food  in 
the  presence  of  a  scarcity 
of  oxygen. 

7.  Alcohol  is  an  excre- 
tion, and  in  common  with 
all  excretions,  is  poisonous. 
It  may  be  beneficial  to  cer- 
tain phases  of  disease,  but 
is  never  beneficial  to  the 
healthy   body. 

8.  All  medical  men  advise 
healthy  persons  to  avoid  al- 
cohol   altogether. 

9.  All  connoisseurs  advise 
people  to  avoid  taking  alco- 
hol into  the  empty  stomach. 

10.  The  young,  develop- 
ing individual  is  always  ad- 
vised to  abstain  from  alco- 
hol. 

11.  The  use  of  alcohol,  in 
common  with  narcotics  in 
general,  is  followed  by  a  re- 
action. 

12.  The  use  of  alcohol  is 
followed  by  a  decrease  in 
the  activity  of  the  muscle 
cells  and  the  brain  cells. 


The  Truth  About  Food. 

1.  A  certain  quantity  will 
produce  a  certain  effect  at 
first,  and  the  same  quantity 
will  always  produce  the 
same  effect  in  the  healthy 
body. 

2.  The  habitual  use  of  a 
food  never  induces  an  un- 
controllable desire  for  it  in 
ever  increasing  amounts. 

3.  After  its  habitual  use  a 
sudden  total  abstinence  nev- 
er causes  any  derangement 
of  the  central  nervous  sys- 
tem. 

4.  All  foods  are  oxidized 
slowly  in  the  body. 

5.  All  foods,  being  use- 
ful, are  stored  in  the  body. 

6.  All  foods  are  products 
of  constructive  activity  oi 
protoplasm  in  the  presenc* 
of  abundant  oxygen. 

7.  All  foods  are  formec 
by  nature  for  nourishmen! 
and  are  by  nature  whole 
some  and  always  beneficia 
to  the  healthy  body, 
though  they  may  injure  th 
body  in  certain  phases  o 
disease. 

8.  No  medical  men  advis 
healthy  persons  to  avoii 
food. 

9.  People   are  universal 
advised   to    take    food   int 
the  empty  stomach.    ' 

10.  The  young,  develop 
ing  individual  is  always  ac 
vised  to  partake  bountifull 
of  food. 

11.  The   use    of   foods 
followed   by   no    reaction. 


12.  The  use  of  food  is  fo 
lowed  by  an  increase  in  tl 
activity  of  the  muscle  an 
brain  cells. 


THE   INGLENOOK.— November  15,  1904. 


1099 


A    QUEER   BEAR. 


A  bear,  with  a  dog's  head,  is  a  rarity  in  the  animal 
ingdom,  but  there  is  such  a  bear  in  Philadelphia. 

The  bear-dog  is  owned  by  Mrs.  George  Miller,  wife 
a  wealthy  retired  brewer,  who  lives  at  East  Penn 
id  Baynton  streets. 

The  bear,  which  has  been  given  the  name  of  Jumbo, 
as  formerly  owned  by  a  farmer  in  Lock  Haven, 
a.,  who  four  weeks  ago  brought  him  to  the  Quaker 
ity  and  sold  him  to  Mr.  Miller. 

The  animal  has  all  the  characteristics  of  a  bear, 
.e  walks,  looks  and  growls  like  a  bear.  He  will  not 
isociate  with  dogs,  but  will  chew  them  up  if  he  gets 

chance. 

Ordinarily  dog  food  will  not  appease  his  hunger, 
>r  will  water  quench  his  thirst.  He  is  fond  of  boiled 
:ef  after  it  has  been  allowed  to  stand  on  ice  for  sev- 
■al  hours,  and  this  is  his  principal  diet. 

At  the  next  dog  show  Mrs.  Miller  says  she  will 
fer  her  new  possession,  and  believes  he  will  capture 
e  prize.  Jumbo  is  eleven  months  old  and  is  about 
ree  feet  in  height. 

*   *   * 

WEED    CRAZES    ANIMALS. 


The  expert  chemists  of  the  arid  belt  have  under- 
ken  to  determine  the  exact  composition  of  the  loco 
:ed. 

this  plant  contains  a  poison  which  acts  on  the 
ain  of  an  animal  and  causes  a  form  of  insanity,  so 
e  coming  investigation  is  to  determine  first  the  com- 
sition  of  this  poison,  to  classify  it,  and  then  to  find 
way  to  render  it  harmless.  There  are  several  species 
plants  in  the  semi-desert  country  which  all  act  in 
:  same  way  to  stock,  and  are  all  called  "  loco," 
Dugh  the  original  loco  plant  is  a  weed  which  takes 
name  from  the  Spanish. 

One  peculiarity  of  this  is  that  it  has  no  effect  on 
:ep,  though  why  this  is  so  is  not  known  at  present. 
)  doubt  some  interesting  facts  will  be  brought  to 
lit  by  the  coming  investigation. 

♦   ♦   «fr 
OSTRICHES    FOR    RACE    TRACK. 


An  ostrich  has  recently  been  harnessed  to  a  trotting 

■  and  has  already  done  a  mile  in  a  trifle  over  two 

tltttes.     This  particular  bird  was  not  especially  well 

id  or  in  full  training,  so  that  what  it  will  do  under 

:se  conditions  may  be  conjectured.     The  head  and 

»:k  are  left  perfectly  free  from  harness,  the  guiding 

Ijns  being  from  the  shoulders.     It   is  impossible  to 

til  at  what  speed  an  ostrich  will  travel,  the  birds  are 

s  erratic  in  their  movements.     One  day  they  will  go 

«s  the  wind,  the  next  day  only  half  the  rate  of  speed 

f.l  be  attained.     In  California  there  is  alreadv  talk 


of  training  ostriches   for  the  race  track  and  several 
pairs  of  them  have  been  used  in  carriages.     The  weight 
of  the  load  behind  them  seems  to  make  very  little  dif- 
ference to  the  birds  when  they  are  in  a  mind  to  go. 
*  *  * 
DOG    POINTS    TERRAPIN. 


Hillie  Donelson,  of  Lower  Alloway  Creek,  near 
Salem,  N.  J.,  has  a  bird  dog  which  he  values  at  high 
figures,  because  it  "  points  "  terrapin.  Donelson  is 
something  of  a  trapper,  and  on  one  of  his  trips  recently 
he  ran  across  a  terrapin  of  good  size.  He  gave  the 
turtle  a  wash  and  let  his  dog  sniff  it  for  a  minute. 
Later  on  the  intelligent  beast  "  stood  "  at  a  hole  in 
the  ground,  as  if  to  say  to  his  master :  "  Better  look 
here ;  there's  something  doing." 

Donelson  was  for  ignoring  the  dog,  but  thought 
better  of  it.  Upon  examining  the  hole  he  pulled  out 
a  fine,  large  terrapin.  A  few  hours  later  in  the  day 
the  animal  repeated  the  performance,  With  gratifying 
results,  and  his  master  considers  him  the  only  turtle 
hunter  in  the  State. 

*  *  * 

CROCODILES    TAMED. 


Paris  has  been  much  thrilled  by  the  adventure  of 
the  crocodile  tamer,  M.  Vernelet.  The  taming  of 
reptiles  is  one  of  the  most  ancient  of  arts,  and  doubt- 
less Cleopatra  herself,  "the  serpent  of  the  Nile," 
watched  crocodiles  and  lizards  succumbing  to  the 
spells  of  the  Egyptian  snake  charmer.  The  remark- 
able looking  man  who  has  provided  Paris  with  a  new 
sensation  early  discovered  his  power  over  the  brute 
creation,  and  he  chose  reptiles  as  his  special  pets  be- 
cause the  field  was  still  comparatively  open.  One 
difficulty  found  by  all  animal  specialists  is  that  of  keep- 
ing their  valuable  dumb  friends  in  health,  but,  for- 
tunately for  M.  Vernelet,  crocodiles  are  tough  crea- 
tures and  are  not  oversensitive,  indeed,  they  seem  to 
bear  complacently  the  gaze  of  an  admiring  public. 
*  *  * 
DOG    TRAVELS    SEVENTY    MILES. 


A  remakkable  instance  of  a  dog's  love  of  home  is 
reported  from  Cromlegh,  Dunblane.  Perthshire.  A 
collie  dog  was  given  to  Mr.  Hunter,  of  Herriotshall. 
Berwickshire,  by  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  Gilholm,  of 
Cromlegh,  and  was  sent  by  train  to  the  borderland. 
The  animal  worked  among  the  sheep  for  two  days 
and  then  suddenly  disappeared.  It  afterwards  turned 
up  at  its  old  home,  having  done  the  seventy-mile  jour- 
ney in  forty  hours. 

*   *   + 

As  long  pulls  in  a  muddy  road  often  hurts  the  wind 
of  a  horse,  when  they  begin  to  breathe  heavily  it  is 
time  to  give  them  rest. 


i 


THE    INGLENOOK.— November  15,  1904. 


HOME    DEPARTMENT 


DOMESTIC    MURMURS. 


BY    WALTON    F.    STOVER. 

[All  Rights  Reserved.] 
I    cannot    refrain   from   thinking 

Of  the  old  days  on  the  farm, 
And   imagine   that   my    childhood 

Has  regained  its  long  lost  charm 
When    I    hear    the    twilight    rabble 

Of   the    animals    around 
The  house  and  barn  and  pasture 

On   my  old   stamping-ground. 

I   have   often   heard   that   blossoms 

From  the   orchard  far  away 
Will   repeatedly  awaken 

Thoughts  sublime   in  reverie — 
Thoughts   that  harbor   recollections 

Of  a  joy  that   knew   no  bounds. 
Until    one    can    almost    hear    those 

Ever   cherished   barnyard   sounds. 

When   the   gentle   breeze  is   sighing 

And  the  sun  is  almost  sunk, 
From  the  frog-pond  comes  a  welcome 

Of — "  Ker-runk,   ker-runk,    ker-runk"; 
While  the  bull-dog  does  imagine 

That  he  hears   some  distant   row 
And  gives   challenge   to   the   victor 

With    a — "  bow-wow,    bow-wow-wow." 

From  the  pasture  come  the  cattle 

Driven   by  old   farmer   Drue, 
And    they    know    what   brings    the    fodder, 

For  they — "  Moo-o,  moo-o,  moo-o"; 
When   they  reach   the  bars   the   leader 

Gets   them   all   into   a   row, 
But  the  maltese  on  the  fence-top 

Greets  them  with  a — "  Meow,  meow." 

Then,    the    milkmaid,   after    stopping 

To  make  sure  the  chicken-coop, 
Runs   away   the   other   lost   ones 

While    they    cry — "  Kut-kut,    kut-dat-kut  "; 
And    she    talks    to    good    old    Brindle 

Like   the   mother  hen — "  Caw-aw  " — 
Saying    in    a    careless    manner: 

"  Brindle,  so-o,  so-o,  so-o." 

In  the  barn  is  lonesome  Daisy 
-  Feasting  on  some  clover-hay, 
Wondering  if  her  companions 

Will   return — "  Neigh-a-a,   neigh-a-a." 
And  behind  the  barn  the  porkers 

Fill  the  air  with  earnest   plea 
For  a  bit  of  corn  and  pumpkins — 

"  Boo-hoo,    squee-ee,   hoo-hoo,    squee-ee." 

Though   the   sky   is    filled   with   beauty 

As  I  gaze  from  star  to  star, 
There  are  signs  of  stormy   weather 

In — "  Er-er.    er-er,    er-er-r"; 


And  a  stranger  in  the  forest 

Asked  this  monarch   if  he  knew 

Who  it  was  controlled  the  weather 
For  the  world — "Hoo-hoo,  hoo-hoo?" 

Last  to  leave  the  verdant  pasture 

Is  the  fleecy  flock,  hurra! 
Coming  where  nocturnal  prowlers 

Are   unsafe — "  Baa-ah,   baa-ah  " — 
Look!  the  general  is  tilting 

Towards   the   children's   swing,   but   ah! 
He   has   caught   himself   within   it 

Ha!   ha!   ha!   ha!   ha!   ha!   ha! 

RAG    CARPET. 


BY  J.    W.   VETTER. 

(Part   One.) 

Insignificant  as  the  words  "  rag  carpet  "  may 
to  many,  a  floor  covered  with  one  is  surely  far  mcl 
comfortable  than  the  bare  floor  and  to  the   model 
Housekeeper   carpets    are   an    indispensable   article 
furnishing. 

Especially  in   rural   districts   do   we   find   that 
carpets  are  used  and  are  admirably  adapted  for  the  pi 
pose. 

Some  people  say  they  cannot  afford  a  carpet,  a 
to  many  of  limited  means,  a  Brufsels  or  even  ingr: 
carpet  is  not  to  be  thought  of. 

A  carpet  need  not  be  homely  and  unsightly  becai 
it  is  made  from  rags,  but  if  well  made  is  both  pre 
and  serviceable. 

The  making  of  a  rag  carpet  is  no  inconsiderable  t; 
for  the  busy  housewife,  but  this  may  be  rendered  1 
formidable  by  a  little  forethought.  Each  week  wl 
the  ironing  is  being  done  discard  all  such  garments 
are  unfit  for  any  further  wear,  remove  the  butt 
and  cut  or  tear  the  rags  ready  for  sewing  and  pi 
each  color  in  a  bundle  to  itself,  especially  if  you  int 
to  make  your  carpet  striped. 

The  rags  should  be  evenly  cut  or  torn,  three-foui 
of  an  inch  wide;  that  is  about  right  for  calicoes,  gi 
hams,  etc,  heavier  goods  should  be  cut  narrower, 
not  cut  through  patches  and  seams  as  these  ir 
bunches  and  goods  that  ravel  easily  should  alii 
be  cut  and  not  torn.  Do  not  tear  rags  back  and  fi 
nearly  out  and  leave  so,  but  tear  out  and  sew  so  tl 
will  be  no  short  ends.  Do  not  use  glazed  goods 
cloth,  suspenders,  wool  or  felt  hats,  rubber  or 
boots,  gunny  sacks,  horseblankets  or  quilted  art: 
in  your  carpet  rags. 

Prepare  the  rags  according  to  the  above  rules 


THE    INGLENOOK.— November  15,   1904. 


len  if  you  don't  get  a  good  carpet  give  it  to  the  weav- 
•;  not  the  carpet,  but  the  blame. 

In  my  experience  as  a  rag  carpet  weaver  for  twelve 
ars  I  have  found  that  it  requires  a  wonderful  amount 

patience,  but  my  rule  has  always  been  "  Everything 
>es."     So  in  they  go,  shoe  strings  sewed  to  pieces 

ropes,  heavy  woolen  goods  to  strips  of  cheese  cloth, 
licoes  and  ginghams  torn  two  or  three  inches  wide, 
e  corners  not  trimmed  and  sticking  up  in  the  car- 
:t  when  woven  like  bristles  on  a  razor  back  hog  and 
gs  as  a  whole  being  so  old  and  musty  and  rotten  that 
ey  hardly  bear  their  own  weight,  much  less  the  strain 
hile  weaving,  then  it  is  that  I  sometimes  wish  I  had 
:en  born  rich  and  wouldn't  need  to  work.  And  then 
e  good  lady  will  say,  "  I  thought  I  had  nice  rags 
id  I  told  you  I  wanted  you  to  make  me  a  nice  car- 
it,"  and  to  the  neighbors,  "  I  took  my  rags  to  so  and 

and  had  my  carpet  made  and  they  are  just  ruined 
d  I'll  never,  never  go  there  again !    So  I  won't ! !  " 
Delphi,  Indiana. 

(To  be  Continued.) 
*  *  # 

SOMETHING   ABOUT   BATHING.    . 


Even  so  good  a  tiling  as  a  bath  sometimes  does  more 
rm  than  good.  A  person  should  use  common  sense 
out  bathing,  as  well  as  everything  else.  The  fol- 
ding sensible  words  about  bathing,  lately  published 

the  Liberator,  seem  so  practical  and  to  the  point 
at  we  give  them  : 

Exercise  before  bathing,  so  that  one  feels  comforta- 
f  warm. 
Allow   at   least   three   hours   to  elapse   after  a   full 

al  before  taking  a  full  bath. 

Every  form  of  warm  bath,  whether  general  or  local, 

OUld  be  followed  by  cold  water  application  of  equal 

tent — but  only  for  a  moment  of  time  in  the  case  of 

neral  baths. 

The  weekly  warm  bath  of  those  who  take  a  cold 

th  daily  should  not  last  more  than  10  minutes. 

Chilliness  after  a  bath   indicates   that   it  has   done 

rm  rather  than  good.     Find  out  the  cause,  and  do 

t  repeat  it. 

Train  yourself  gradually  to  the  use  of  the  cold  bath, 

ginning  with  tepid  water,  and  decreasing  the  tem- 

rature  by  degrees  from  day  to  day. 

After  partly  drying  with  the  towel,  vigorously  rub- 

ig  with  the  hands  until  quite  dry  will  usually  pre- 

nt  chilliness. 

*  +  * 
BURNS. 


ing  him  for  life,  as  supposed.  "  Nothing  in  the  housS 
to  use,"  was  the  first  thought ;  then  an  item  read  in 
a  paper  a  few  days  before  came  to  mind.  Thank  good- 
ness, that  remedy  was  at  hand!  We  quickly  broke  an 
egg  and  applied  the  white  of  it  several  times  to  the 
burn,  and  soon  he  was  playing  as  if  nothing  had  hap- 
pened. We  used  the  egg  occasionally  for  several  days. 
The  burn  soon  healed,  leaving  not  the  least  sign  of  a 
scar.  This  has  been  used  by  us  ever  since,  and  we 
never  tire  of  recommending  it  to  others.  Linseed  oil 
is  the  next  best  remedy  that  we  know  of,  and  one 
should  never  be  without  a  bottle  of  it  in  the  house  J 
where  there  are  children. 


BRUSH    YOUR    HAIR. 


The  hair  should  be  brushed  regularly  to  keep  it 
from  falling  out  and  to  keep  the  scalp  in  good  condi- 
tion. The  hair  itself  is  easily  cleansed  with  a  good  toi- 
let water,  but  the  scalp  is  too  often  neglected.  A 
man  generally  has  a  pair  of  brushes,  or  at  least  one 
good  one,  but  the  women's  brushes  are  apt  to  be  very 
beautiful,  but  soft  and  of  little  use.  It  is  all  very  well 
to  have  a  fancy  brush  on  the  dressing  table,  but  in 
a  drawer  out  of  sight  keep  a  plain  one  for  general 
utility,  with  good  stiff  bristles.  A  fine  hair  brush  real- 
ly should  never  be  put  in  water,  as  it  loosens 
the  bristles.  When  traveling  the  hair  gets 
very  dusty  and  soon  soils  the  brushes,  which 
should  be  well  looked  after.  Dip  the  bristles  in  alco- 
hol, ammonia  or  bathing  whiskey,  shake  dry  and  leave 
in  the  open  air.  Water  sometimes  cleans  shell  or  rub- 
ber combs,  but  is  is  just  as  apt  to  spoil  them.  It  is 
better  to  use  an  old  brush  to  clean  the  teeth  or  to 
pass  a  ribbon  or  piece  of  twine  between  them.  Flu 
best  for  this  purpose,  however,  is  a  piece  of  blotting 
paper.  After  this  treatment  polish  the  comb  with  a 
piece  of  flannel  or  chamois  skin. 
*  *  * 
RECIPES. 


ie  u  hite  1  ii  an 
■  pain,  and  pre-\ 


Nothing  is  better  for  burns  than  th 
g.    It  excludes  all  air,  thus  casing  the 
tits  inflammaton.      Several   years   since  a   child   fell    1 
his   forehead  against  a  very  hot  stove.     The  skin  j 
tck  to  the  stove,  leaving  a  large,  raw  place,  disfigur- 


HV  O.    A.    M  GREW  . 

Cake  Pie. 
Line  a  pie  pan  with  a  thin  laser  of  dough:  place 
a  little  crushed  fruit  or  any  kind  of  fruit  juice  on  the 
bottom  and  all  over  this  drop  bits  of  pretty  stiff  cake 
dough  not  too  rich.     Good  for  lunch. 

Vegetable  Oysters. 

I'm  PARE  salsify  in  the  usual  »a\  and  add  a  pie©  oi 
codfish  the  size  of  a  hand.  This  gives  it  the  real 
oyster  flavor  and  it  is  not  objectionable  to  those  who 
dislike  codfish. 

Dillon,  Mont. 


THE   INGLENOOK.— November  15,  1904. 


Jttfe! 


..««  ■-  OUR  0  YOUNG    PEOPLE 


$#■•■ 


THE   GEOGRAPHY   CLASS.— CHAPTER   II. 


A  wave  like  this  had  not  struck  the  quiet  little  vil- 
lage of  Mayville  in  the  last  twenty  years.  No  wilder 
excitement  could  have  been  started  had  the  cry  of 
"  Fire !  "  been  heard  or  had  a  cyclone  torn  the  roof 
from  the  house.  The  great  audience  arose  and  seated 
themselves  again  at  the  command  of  the  speaker  as 
the  mind  and  action  of  one  man.  Everyone  was  sim- 
ply delighted  to  think  that  Miss  Merritt  was  going  to 
have  a  real  vacation.  Many  of  them  said  that  night 
that  they  had  got  the  full  worth  of  their  money  they 
paid  for  the  lectures  during  the  lecture  course ;  but 
now  they  were  getting  more  than  twice  the  value  of 
their  money  with  no  extra  cost.  No  one  in  Mayville 
envied  her  the  trip.  Not  a  single  one  but  what  would 
have  made  more  or  less  sacrifice  that  she  might  go. 

As  for  Miss  Gertrude  herself  she  was  completely 
overcome.  It  was  a  tribute  of  respect  almost  too 
large  to  comprehend  at  first  thought.  Mr.  Maynor 
was  equal  to  the  occasion.  In  order  to  keep  them 
from  calling  on  Miss  Gertrude  for  a  speech  for  a  few 
moments  Mr.  Maynor  continued  by  saying,  "  If  there 
is  anyone  present  whose  children  are  members  of  the 
graduating  class,  who  would  object  to  allowing  their 
chums  or  daughters  to  accompany  Miss  Gertrude  on 
this  trip,  make  it  known  now,  by  rising  to  your  feet." 
The  great  audience  remained  motionless ;  finally  old 
Grandpap  Stevens  arose,  set  his  cane  down  on  the 
floor  rather  heavily,  threw  his  old-fashioned  square 
spectacles  up  over  his  bald  head,  stroked  his  long, 
white  beard  and  said,  "  Mistur  President,"  (and 
then  slowly  turning  around,  facing  the  audience,  con- 
tinued) "and  feller  citizens;  when  me  and  Mirandy 
were  young  folks  and  we  had  to  vote  on  suthin  or  oth- 
er, and  all  the  people  kept  still  like  these  people  are 
doin',  our  cheerman  would  say,  '  I  reckon  silence  gives 
consent,'  and  so  I  cakilate,  Mistur  President,  that  this 
here  meetin's  no  objection  to  the  motion,  and 
furder  I  want  to  say,  bein's  I'm  on  my  feet,  that  none 
of  us  folks  here  in  Mayville  is  afraid  to  trust  our  yung- 
uns  with  Miss  Merritt.  And  I  don't  think  that  you 
need  to  feel  oneezy  about  that."  No  sooner  had 
grandpap  taken  his  seat  than  here  and  there  through 
the  audience  the  gentle  clap  of  the  hand  could  be  heard 
which  finally  culminated  in  deafening  applause.  And 
even  above  the  din  could  be  heard  the  name  of  the 
hero  of  the  evening — yes,  the  hero  of  the  last  fifteen 
years  of  the  history  of  Mayville.  Miss  Gertrude 
blushed,  turned  pale,  smiled,  looked  serious,  and  final- 


ly arose  and  started  towards  the  center  of  the  stage. 

Under  the  dazzling  light  of  the  electric  chandelier 
which  was  just  far  enough  in  front  of  her  that  everj 
feature  of  her  kindly  face  was  in  full  view,  she  paused 
smiled  and  carefully  scanned  the  eager  audience  an( 
said :  "  Every  Napoleon  must  have  his  Waterloo,  evl 
ery  Burgoyne  his  Washington,  and  every  Paul  hi:| 
Nero.  While  I  appreciate  to  the  fullest  extent  of  m;  I 
ability  the  kindness  that  is  conferred  upon  me  hen  I 
this  night,  in  a  sense  I  feel  unworthy  of  the  honow 
thus  bestowed ;  and  yet  as  I  note  the  proceedings  ol 
Mr.  Maynor  and  the  unanimous  vote  of  this  meeting* 
together  with  the  universal  applause  of  all  my  scholl 
ars,  I  feel  as  if  a  campaign  of  fifteen  years'  hard  fight 
ing  had  now  come  to  a  successful  close,  and  I  wa 
called  upon  at  this  moment  to  receive  the  sword  of  tfo 
enemy.  Not  fifteen  years  of  fight,  because  there  ha 
not  been  any  unfriendly  relation  existing  between  u 
as  scholars,  patrons  or  teachers,  but  fighting  in  th 
sense  that  educational  work  is  a  continual  struggl 
against  opposition.  In  the  beginning  we  had  an  oli 
schoolhouse,  no  library,  no  apparatus,  bad  roads,  am 
short  funds.  To-day  Mayville  commands  the  respec 
of  surrounding  villages,  not  only  in  the  imposinj 
structure  known  as  the  Mayville  High  School,  am 
the  library  and  furniture  with  which  it  is  so  thoi 
oughly  furnished,  but  in  the  standing  of  her  pupils  i: 
the  way  of  credit  with  the  officers  of  Randolph  town 
ship.  I  have  never  christened  a  steamship,  been  th 
hero  of  a  tragedy,  or  unveiled  a  monument;  but  no\ 
I  have  the  honor  to  stand  at  the  farther  end  of  a  ten 
of  fifteen  years  of  ceaseless  toil,  and  in  the  face  of  th 
entire  population  of  this  village  I  am  crowned  quee 
of  the  occasion.  I  assure  you  no  favors  could  b 
shown  me  greater  than  this  token  of  respect.  I  ap 
preciate  it  with  a^ull  heart.  And  I  assure  you  t 
on  to-morrow's  examination  the  contestants  will  re 
ceive  the  same  impartial  justice  that  they  ever  hav 
during  my  jurisdiction.  The  only  thing  I  regret  ii 
that  our  funds  for  the  occasion  are  not  sufficient  ths 
every  scholar  and  theii  honest,  hard-working  mod 
and  fathers  cannot  attend  us  on  this  journey.  Co 
I  have  my  way  we  would  build  a  high  board  fe: 
around  Mayville  and  lock  the  gate  until  we  retu 
But  of  course  the  decision  is  that  four  of  your 
dren  must  accompany  me.  I  welcome  them  glad 
I  care  not  who  they  may  be,  we  shall  have  a  splendi 
trip.  It  may  be  that  they  will  all  be  of  one  famil; 
or  possibly  no  two  from  the  same  family.  Return  I 
this  hall  one  week  from  to-riight  and  hear  the  repor 


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^vJTfi©  Q#  &  &  department*  [^ 


I     Give  the  origin,  games  and  customs  of  Halloween. 

The  origin  of  Halloween  is  lost  in  antiquity.  It  is 
supposed  to  have  been  a  heathen  festival  in  honor  of 
(the  dead,  whose  spirits  were  believed  to  walk  abroad 
'lit  that  time,  which  was  set  on  the  evening  of  Oct.  31. 
jrhere  are  many  Halloween  customs  and  superstitions 
Hnich  have  come  down  from  the  misty  past.  First, 
Ithere  is  the  oracle  of  the  nuts.  A  number  of  nuts  are 
named  for  lovers  and  placed  upon  hot  coals.  It  was 
believed  that  if  a  nut  jumps  the  lover  will  prove  un- 
faithful. If  a  nut  blazes  and  burns  it  was  considered 
1  sign  that  he  loves  the  girl  who  named  the  nut.  If 
30th  nuts  named  for  a  girl  and  her  lover  burn  together, 
fehey  will  be  married.  This  superstition  gives  rise  to 
the  custom  of  cracking  nuts  on  Halloween.  Another 
old  game  is  for  a  young  woman  to  be  blindfolded  and 
»rope  her  way  to  the  cabbage  patch  and  pull  the  first 
plant   she   stumbled   against.     The   quantity   of   earth 

I  Ringing  to  the  root  indicated  the  amount  of  her  dowry  ; 
ihe  shape  and  size  of  the  cabbage,  the  appearance  and 

tieight  of  her  future  husband.  After  the  game  the  girl 
Ljvould  take  home  the  stalk  and  lay  it  behind  the  outer 
Koor  and  the  first  person  to  enter  the  next  morning 
[jvas  to  be  the  future  husband.  Another  old  method 
[  )f  divining  the  future  is  for  a  young  lady  to  eat  an 
lapple  while  standing  before  a  mirror,  combing  her 
[tair  at  night,  and  her  husband  will  be  the  man  that 

ooks  over  her  shoulder  into  the  glass.  It  was  a  uni- 
.  'ersal  belief  that  goblins  lurked  everywhere,  that  worn- 
la  dressed  in  white  and  glided  about,  that  strange 
Ligures  reveled  among  old  ruins  or  danced  in  the  moon- 
light on  Halloween.     As  far  back  as  can  be  traced, 

uiys  celebrated  the  occasion  with  boisterous  games 
i.ind  lots  of  nuts  and  apples  to  eat.  Older  folks  cele- 
brated with  family  gatherings,  story  telling,  songs  and 
'  easting. 

* 

II  A  few  weeks  ago  a  Nooker  from  Virginia  asked 
[i)f  a  paper  devoted  especially  to  the  interests  of  farm 
•  aborers.  Now  a  Nooker  from  Illinois  says  that  there 
lis  a  paper  called  "  Up-To-Date  Farming,"  edited  by 
llhe  American   Society  of  Equity,   Indianapolis,   Ind., 

nd  that  it  is  devoted  entirely  to  farm  laborers. 
* 
I    What   would    be    the    result   of   clipping   the    blossoms 
rom  potatoes?     Would  it   increase  the  yield? 

No.     On   the  other  hand   it  is  apt  to  check  their 
^owth. 

* 
What  was  the  population  of  the  United  States  in  1854? 
|!   23,192,000. 


From  what  part  of  the  world  do  Angora  cats  come? 

The  Angora  cat  came  originally  from  Angora,  a 
town  of  Asiatic  Turkey.  It  has  a  rather  small  head 
and  rather  large  tufted  ears,  long,  silky  hair  that  hangs 
in  tufts  and  clusters  shortening  toward  the  end  of  the 
tail.  The  colors  are  varied,  but  the  black  and  dark 
slate-colored  ones,  with  orange  eyes,  or  blues  and 
whites  with  light  eyes,  are  most  valuable. 

* 

Could  you  give  me  the  name  of  some  person  who  writes 
name  cards? 

There  are  many.  You  might  try  G.  E.  Weaver.  Mt. 
Morris,  111.;  C.  V.  Taylor,  Elgin,  111.;  O.  D.  Foster. 
North  Manchester,  Ind.,  and  many  others. 

Does  the  Canal  Zone  in  Panama  belong  to  the  United 
States? 

No.     The  republic  of  Panama  has  granted  to  the 
United   States  in  perpetuity  the  use,  occupation  and 
control  of  the  canal  Zone. 
* 

What  is  the  proper  way  to  address  a  letter  to  King 
Edward? 

Begin  it  "  Sir,"  and  conclude  it,  "  I  have  the  honor 
to   be,    Sir,   your    Majesty's   most   obedient    servant." 
Address  it,  "  His  Majesty,  the  King." 
* 

What   is  the  population  and  area  of  Ohio? 

The  last  census  gives  the  population  of  Ohio  4,157,- 
545,  and  the  area,  land  40,760  plus  water  300.  makes 
the  total  41,060  square  miles. 
* 

Name  five  European  nations,  and  one  explorer  from 
each  nation,  that  made  early  explorations  in  America. 

England,  the  Cabots;  Spain,  Ferdinando  DeSoto; 
Portugal,  Magellan;  France,  Cartier ;  Holland,  Henry 
Hudson. 

* 

Is  it  true  that  you  can  take  a  trip  to  the  World's  Fa»r  by 
presenting  an  1892  silver  dollar? 
We  doubt  it. 

* 

Name   the   first    three   commercial   cities    of   the    United 
States. 
New  York,  Chicago  and  Philadelphia. 


How  may  I  learn  the  value  of  old  coins? 
Ask  S.  D.  Kieger,  30  Jackson  Place,  Indianapolis, 
Ind. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— November  15,  1904. 


,  j  1 


•  •*■  **•  »*-  •*-  -/**T**?**t**t**t**I**t"*  »I»*J**t*  *I'  *t*  **** 


JUST    FOR    FUN. 


A   well-known    Indiana    man. 

One    dark   night   last    week. 
Went    to    the    cellar    with    a    match 

In  search   of  a   gas  leak. 
(He  found  it.) 

John    Welch    by   curiosity 

(Dispatches   state)    was   goaded; 

He    squinted    in    his    old    shotgun 
To    see   if   it   was   loaded. 
(It   was.) 

A   man    in    Macon    stopped   to    watch 

A  patent   cigar  clipper; 
He   wondered   if  his   finger  was 

Not   quicker  than  the  nipper. 
(It    wasn't.) 

A  Maine  man  read  that   human   eyes 

Of   hypnotism    were    full; 
He   went   to    see    if   it    would    work 
Upon   an   angry  bull. 
(It  wouldn't.) 

— San    Francisco    Bulletin. 
4*  4»  4» 
HIS    MIND    CHANGES. 


Little  five-year-old  Tommy  Winston  had  been  wor- 
rying his  father  about  purchasing  a  pony.  The  little 
fellow  felt  that  he  needed  some  kind  of  a  playmate. 
Tommy's  father  assured  him  that  it  was  impossible 
for  him  to  buy  a  pony.  It  would  cost  too  much,  and, 
besides,  he  would  have  to  build  a  stable. 

"  And  you'd  have  to  buy  hay  too,  wouldn't  you  ?  " 
chimed  in  Tommy. 

There  was  a  lull  in  the  conversation.  By-and-by, 
thinking  to  appease  the  troublesome  youngster,  Mr. 
Winston  said, — 

"  Some  day  the  Lord  will  send  you  'a  little  brother, 
Tommy,  and  then  you  will  have  all  the  playmate  that 
you  will  want." 

"  \\  ell,"  said  Tommy,  "  I  wish  the  Lord  would  hur- 
ry up,  'cause  I'd  rather  have  a  brother  than  a  pony 
anyhow,  I  think." 

Some  months  later  Tommy's  papa  told  him  that  his 
little  brother  had  come  from  heaven.  Tommy  was  de- 
lighted. When  they  allowed  him  to  go  in  to  see  the 
new  arrival  little  Tommy  was  laughing  and  chuckling 
in  high  glee.  He  wanted  to  kiss  the  baby ;  he  wanted 
to  hold  him  in  his  arms;  and  actually  desired  to 
take  him  out  for  a  stroll.  When  he  found  that  he 
could  not  do  any  of  these  things,  then  he  asked  a  thou- 


sand questions.  "  Did  the  Lord  have  many  little  ba- 
bies in  heaven?  "  "  Was  all  the  little  babies  angels 1 
"  Did  all  the  Lord's  little  babies  have  no  teeth  ?  "  anc 
so  on. 

Five  or  six  days  after  the  coming  of  the  little  broth 
er  Tommy's  pleasure  began  to  moderate  somewhat 
The  nurse  had  told  him  that  he  must  stay  out  of  th 
room  if  he  couldn't  keep  quiet.  Not  an  hour  passa 
during  the  day  but  that  she  would  open  the  door  ad 
halloo,  "  Sh — sh !  Don't  make  so  much  noise :  vou^ 
wake  up  the  baby." 

It  was  not  long  before  Tommy  decided  that  the  littl 
brother  was  more  of  a  curse  than  a  blessing.  H 
thought  he  would  take  his  troubles  to  his  father.  On 
evening  he  went  into  the  library  and  climbed  upoi 
his  father's  knee. 

"  Papa,"  he  said,  "  I  tell  you  I  don't  want  my  littl 
baby   brother,   after  all.     I   think   I'd   rather   have 
pony !  " 

Before  his  father  could  recover  from  his  astonish 
ment  Tommy  went  on, — 

"  Why  don't  you  take  little  baby  brother  and  mv;i 
him  for  a  pony?  " 

"  I  couldn't  do  that,  my  son,"  said  Mr.  Winston. 

Tommy  thought  awhile,  and  then  said, — 

"  Well,  maybe  nobody  would  give  you  a  pony  fc 
him,  but  don't  you  think  somebody  would  let  you  hav 
at  least  a  goat  if  you  was  to  let  'em  have  little  brofl 
er?" — Silas  X.  Floyd,  in  November  Lippincott's 
♦  *  ♦ 
MENTAL   LABOR. 


I 

! 


After  long  experience  and  practice  Sir  Benjam 
Ward  Richardson  found  that  64  degrees  Fahr.  is  rl 
best  temperature  in  which  to  conduct  mental  labor 
the  temperature  falls  below  this  the  mind  becoffl 
drowsy  and  inactive,  and  if  it  rises  much  above  the 
is  a  relaxed  state  of  the  body  and  mind  which  sot 
leads  to  fatigue  and  exhaustion.  It  is  important  th 
the  temperature  be  the  same  in  all  parts  of  the  rj 
and  that  it  be  steadily  maintained. 
*  4>  * 

The  common  transactions  of  life  are  the  rac 
sacred  channels  for  the  spread  of  heavenly  leaven. 
George  Macdonald. 

Only    what    we   have   wrought  into  our  char; 
during  life  can  we  take  away  with  us. — Humboli 


00 


uood    Land   Cheap 


Let  us  sell  you  farming  land  where  the  soil  is  pro- 
ductive and  the  crops  dependable  ;  where  we  have  no 
drouths  or  failures;  where  grasshoppers  are  not;  where 
we  have  few  storms  and  no  destructive  winds;  where 
products  are  greatly  diversified;  where  the  markets  are 
as  good  as  they  are  easily  reached;  where  the  climate 
is  uniform  and  salubrious;  where  you  will  be  cordially 
welcomed  and  helped  along.  We  state  without  fear  of 
contradiction  that  we  have  the  best  land  at  the  least 
money,  pissessing  more  advantages  and  fewer  draw- 
backs, than  can  be  found  in  this  country  to-day.  A  few 
years'  time  is  all  that  is  necessary  to  prove  that  we  are 
in  one  of  the  most  productive  areas  for  fruit,  root  crops 
and  live  stock.  The  possibilities  are  here,  largely  un- 
developed as  yet;  all  that  we  want  is  the  people.  Those 
we  are  getting  are  the  right  kind,  your  own  kind,  and 
the  country  will  soon  be  dotted  with  green  fields  and 
cosy  homes.  Don't  get  the  idea  that  you  are  going  to  a 
wilderness;  not  at  all;  on  the  contrary,  we  have  sold 
lands  in  our  BRETHREN  COLONY  to  over  120  fam- 
ilies, nearly  half  of  whom  are  already  on  the  ground, 
In  the  vicinity  of  BRETHREN,  MICHIGAN,  we  have 
fiousands  of  acres  of  productive  soil,  splendidly  adapted  for  fruit,  root  and  vegetable 
<  rops  and  live  stock,  at  prices  from  S7  per  acre  upwards,  on  easy  terms.  Our  lands  are 
)ld  to  actual  settlers. 


The  basis  of  my  business  is  absolute  and 
unvarying  integrity. 

SAMUEL  S.  THORPE, 
Founder  of  the  Brethren  Colony,  Brethren,  Mich. 


thers    coming    next   spring. 


BRO.  JOHN  A.  MILLER,  BRETHREN,  MICH., 

.  Resident  Agent  in  charge  of  the  work  at  our  brethren  Colony.  It  will  only  cost  you  a 
ostal  card  to  drop  him  a  line  for  our  illustrated  booklet,  entitled  "  The  Brethren  Colony 
1  the  Fruit  Belt  of  Michigan."  This  will  give  you  an  accurate  idea  of  the  lands  and  all 
editions  surrounding  them  The  booklet  contains  letters  giving  the  opinion  of  many 
rethren  in  regard  to  our  lands  and  work.      Ever)-  statement  can  be  borne  out  by  facts. 

Reduced  rates  will  be  furnished  homeseekers  desiring  to  look  our  country  over  and 
>rery  opportunity  will  be  accorded  them  to  conduct  their  investigations  satisfactorily 
y  Bro.  Miller  on  their  arrival  at   Brethren,  Michigan. 

For  booklet,    information   as   to  rates  and  all  details  address: 


SAMUEL  S.   THORPE, 
Cadillac,   Mich., 

DISTRICT  AOENT 

Micliigan 


Land 


BRO.  JOHN    A.   MILLER, 
Brethren,  Mich., 

RESIDENT   AGENT 

Association. 


Wonderful 
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the  greatest  values  ever  offered  in  < 
and  steel  cook  stoves,  Ranges  aud 
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operation,  which  means  working  togel 
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in  our  "Equity"  catalogue.  The  sign 
the  name  "Equity"  plays  an  importai 
the  tilling  of  ail  orders  sent  us. 

Our  business  success  lies  in  the  f: 
the  very  beginning  we  set  up  the 
four  guide  posts:  Promptness,  T1 
ness,  Efficiency  and  Honesty.  We 
patronage  of  everyone,  whether  shari 
not. 

When  placing  your  next  order  rem 
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his  Just  dues. 


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THE      INGLENOOK. 


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FOR     THIS 
SEASON. 


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On  page  354  in  our  Large  Catalogue  you  will  find  our  wonderful  values  in  Air- 
tight   Stoves    from    98    cents    to    $4.10. 

REMEMBEE  if  you  want  a  good,  reliable  stove,  guaranteed  In  every  way,  a  stove 
that  will  surpass  your  expectations,  a  better  stove  than  is  ordinarily  furnished  by 
Agents  and  Retailers  for  double  our  price,  don't  place  your  order  until  you  have  looked 
through  the  Stove  Department  of  our  Catalogue.  No  matter  what  kind  of  a  stove 
you  want,  we  can  furnish  it,  and  you  will  find  OUR  PRICE  A  BIG  SURPRISE  when 
you    have   seen    the   stove   we   will   send   you. 

DON'T  FORGET,  no  matter  what  Inducements  you  may  receive  elsewhere  we  have 
back  of  us  QUALITY  AND  PRICE,  which  is  by  far  the  BEST  INDUCEMENT  OUR 
CUSTOMERS  ASK  and  IS  A  SURE  GUARANTEE  OF  SATISFACTION.  Besides,  we 
take  back  at  our  own  expense  and  refund  money  in  full  on  any  goods  not  perfectly  sat- 
isfactory   to   the   customer. 

Oak  Heater,  Burns  Hard  or  Soft  Coal  or  Wood. 
Complete  for  $3.90. 

This  will  give  >ou  an  idea  of  what  we  are  offering  in  Oak  Heating  Stoves  and 
we  have  equally  as  wonderful  values  to  offer  in  Base  Burners,  Cook  Stoves,  Steel 
Ranges,  in  fact  we  have  bargains  for  our  customers  throughout  our  entire  Stove  De- 
partment. From  the  lowest  priced  stove-pipe  to  the  highest  grade  steel  range,  we 
can  supply  your   needs   in   the  Stove  line. 

Send  Your  Request  Now  for  the  Catalogue — It's  Free. 

If  you  do  not  have  our  large  No.  2  General  Merchandise  Catalogue,  don't  delay 
writing  for  it.  A  postal  card  will  bring  it.  The  best  guarantee  we  have  to  offer 
those  who  have  not  yet  traded  with  us  is  our  large  list  of  satisfied  customers.  If 
you  are  not  acquainted  with  us,  although  we  feel  sure  there  are  very  few  readers  of 
the  Inglenook  who  do  not  know  of  the  EQUITY  MFG.  &  SUPPLY  CO..  write  us,  get 
acquainted,  it  will  cost  you  nothing,  even  though  you  do  not  send  us  but  a  small 
trial  order,  you  will  be  so  well  satisfied  that  we  can  look  forward  to  your  becoming 
one  of  our   regular   customers. 

Awaiting  the  pleasure  of  serving  you  and   your  Friends,   we  are, 

Faithfully, 


Equity  Mfg.  and  Supply  Company, 

^'•SP  So.  Jefferson  Street,  Chicago,  111. 


UTTER  WANTED! 


Do  You  Want  to  Make  Money  Oat  of  yur  Butter?      If  so,  we 
will  Place  You   n  a  Position  that  Will  Satisfy  You. 


We  want  your  butter  direct  from  tlie  form  as  we  have  a  large  city 
rade  and  can  use  several  thousand  pounds  each  week;  we  have  salesmen 
lat  sell  butter  exclusively  to  the  trade  here  in  the  city  and  we  need  a  first 
lass  high  grade  country  butter  to  meet  our  demands.  We  want  every 
idy  living  in  western  Missouri,  eastern  Kansas  and  southern  Nebraska  that 
lakes  a  first  class  country  butter  to  wrile  us  and  we  will  place  you  in  a 
osition  so  that  you  can  get  the  cash  out  of  your  butter  the  year  around  in- 
tead  of  having  to  take  your  goods  to  your  grocer  and  take  it  out  in  trade, 
ack  your  butter  at  your  home  and  take  it  to  your  nearest  express  of- 
ce  and  ship  to  us  and  as  soon  as  we  receive  the  goods  we  will  mail  you  a 
heck    for   it. 


Write   us   for   information    as    to  manner  of  packing,  price,  et 
'ill  give   you    full    instructions. 

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and   we 


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Sending  your  address  gives  me  the 
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WM.  S.  MILLER,  Myersdale,  Pa. 

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Breeds  Cheviot  Sheep.  Wool  and  mut- 
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FOR    THE    SICK 


Let  Every  Sufferer  Who  Has  Failed   to  Find  Relief 
from  Ordinary  Remedies,  Listen  to  This! 


YOU      WANT      TO      GET      WELL,      DON'T      YOU  ?       And    the    one   -wh 
shows   you    the    way    will   prove     a    friend    indeed.       You    have    tried    man 
remedies    faithfully     without    permanent    relief;    and    it   is   not    strange    thj 
you    begin    to    wonder,    in    despair,    if    there   is    after   all   any    means   of   restoring    1 
you    that    most    priceless    of    all    possessions,     good   health.      But,    stop    a    momen 
Just   take   this    view   of   your   case.     Say   to    yourself: 

"Sickness  is  not  a  natural  condition.  God  never  intended  me  to  be  a  poc 
disease-ridden  creature,  without  relief  or  hope  of  happiness  in  life.  There  mu: 
be  some  way  back  to  health,  for  surely  Nature  provides  a  remedy  for  every  i 
if   we   could    but   find    it." 

There  is  a  way,  which  Nature,  herself,  has  provided !  There  is  a  remec 
that  may  cure  you — a  very  old,  time-tried  remedy — which  has  been  known 
Dr.  Peter's  Blood  Vitalizer  for  over  100  years.  It  is  Nature's  own  medicin 
because  it  is  made  from  natural  materials;  the  herbs,  barks  and  leaves  gathen 
by  skilled  hands  from  the  fields  and  woods.  It  was  first  made  by  Dr.  Pet 
Fahrney,  the  "old  herb  doctor,"  in  1780,  and  this  remarkable  preparation— ju 
as  he  originally  prepared  it  for  the  people  of  the  Blue  Ridge  Mountain  district  of  Pen 
sylvania — has   been    handed   down  through   three  generations  to  the  present  proprietc 

Thousands    have    been     cured    by     it,     many     of    them    suffering   from    the   ve| 
trouble    which    you    find  such  a  heavy    burden.     Now,    don't   you    think  that  a  remei| 
that    has     relieved    so     much     suffering     and     done     so    much     good    in    the    world, 
entitled   to    your    confidence?      And    don't    you    think    it    would   be   wise— the   on 
safe   thing — to    give   it   a   trial? 

Dr.    Peter's   Blood   Vitalizer   is   not   a    ready-made,    drug    store    medicine.     It 
sold   only    through    agents   or   direct   from   the    laboratory.      If   no   agent   is   at   ha 
write    to 

DR.    PETER    FAHRNEY, 

112=114  S.  Hoyne  Avenue,  =  CHICAGO,  IL 


THE      INGLENOOK. 


THE    COLONY 


...ON... 


UGUNA  DE  TACBE  GRANT 

...IN    THE... 

SAN  JOAQUIN  VALLEY,  CALIFORNIA. 


BRETHREN  OAK  GROVE  CHURCH 

Still   continues  to  attract  the  attention  of  homeseekers. 

The  uniform  success  of  those  who  have  settled  here  and  the  Immense  growtli  -»f 
irery  variety  of  crop  which  is  again  in  evidence  establishes  the  fact  that  here  is  tho 
lace  where  the  Industrious  man  of  small  means  can  make  a  California  home. 

EASTERN   PEOPLE   DO  EASTERN    FARMING- 
You  don't  have  to  spend  years  learning  a  new  business. 

ALFALFA,  CATTLE,  CORN,  HOGS, 

wldes  the  California  fruits,  are  the  products  which  enable  the  farmer  to  pay  for 
le  land  and  make  a  good  living  while  doing  it. 

SPECIAL    LOW    RATES    TO    CALIFORNIA. 

From  August  15th  to  Sept.  10th  the  railroads  will  sell  Round  Trip  excursion 
ckets  to  San  Francisco  (with  stop-overs). 

From    Chicago J60  00 

From   Mississippi  River 47   50 

From    Missouri    River 45   00 

Final  return  limit.  Oct.   23. 

11SO    SEPTEMBER    15th    TO    OCTOBER    15th    COLONIST    ONE-WAT    TICKETS 
TO  ANY  CALIFORNIA  POINT. 

From   Chicago $33  00 

From  Mississippi   River 30  00 

From   Missouri    River 25  00 

■  By  this  arrangement  you  can  come  to  Laton  on  the  excursion  rate  and  see  our 
nd.     If  it  suits  you,  go  back  and  bring  your  family  out  on  the  colonist  rate. 

Land  sells  for  $30  to  $60  per  acre,  Including  perpetual  water  right.  Terms,  one- 
urth  cash;  balance  in  eight  annual  payments. 

From  twenty  to  forty  acres  wili  support  the  average  family  In  comfort 
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Embraces  the  Mount  Campbell, 
Columbia,  Carmelita,  Springfield, 
Producers,  Level  Orchard,  Kings 
River  and  other  Colonies.  These 
are  among  the  best  lands  in  the 
State  for  all  kinds  of  fruit  and 
alfalfa.  Good  soil,  low  prices, 
abundant  water,  healthful  climate, 
perfect  natural  drainage. 

Special  inducements  made  to 
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Bonnet  Goods,  Chenille,  Straw  Cloth,  Trimmings  and  Supplie 

A  large  assortment  of  styles  and  colors.     These  goods  are  manufactured  especially  for  our  trade. 
We  carry  a  large  stock  including  Rice  Net,  Wire,  Chiffon,  Mousseline   de  Soie,    Silk   Braid,  Ribbons,  Sill 
etc.     We  are  also  headquarters  for  Cap  Goods. 

All  Bonnet  Materials  are  12  inches  wide.     Requires  1  yard  for  one  bonnet,  or  54   inches  for  two  regular  size  an] 
yards  for  two  large  ones.     Special — Bolts  of  6  yards  or  more,  5  cents  less  per  yard. 


Chenille— No.  3410^. 

Light  gray Per  yard  & 

Dark  tan " 


,70 


ll 


Chenille— No.  3163. 

Black Per  yard  $  .65 

Dark  Navy  Blue '" 


10 


Straw  Cloth— No.  °5303. 
White  and  gilt Per  yard  *  .60 


Tan  and  gilt . 

Tan  with  white  and  gill . 

Pink     •■         "  "       "  . 

Blue     ■•         "  "      '•  . 

Brown"         ,l  "      " 


.65 
.00 
.60 

.60 
.55 


Straw  Cloth— No.  35346. 
Black  and  white Per  yard  8  .40 


We  make  bonnets  complete  to  order 
of  any  of  the  styles  of  straw  cloth  or 
chenille  we  represent.  We  use  good 
materials  for  linings  and  trimmings  and 
guarantee  satisfaction.  Any  change  in 
design  represented  will  be  made  upon 
request.     For  prices  see  next  page. 


Straw  Cloth— 35361. 
Black Per  yard  S  .50 


Dark  brown  . 
Black 


Chenille— No.  3231. 

Per  yard  $ 


Straw  Cloth— No.  35368! 

Black Per  yard 

Black  and  gilt "     ] 

Black,  white  and  gilt " 


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"  My  watch  doesn't  keep  time,"  is  a  common  complaint 
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dust  That  is  the  cause  of  the  whole  trouble.  After  the 
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human  body  with  its  intricate  mechanism  to  that  won- 
derful creation  of  human  skill-the  watch.  It  will  per- 
form its  functions  regularly,  only  when  all  its  parts  are 
in  perfect  working  order.  The  main  spring,  the  heart, 
must  beat  regularly;  the  cog  wheels,  the  kidneys,  must 
not  be  clogged  up  with  waste  and  refuse  matter  which 
the  body  seeks  to  throw  off.  In  fact,  all  of  its  parts  must 
work  in  natural  harmony,  then  the  watch,  the  human 
body,  will  also  keep  time  and  tick  merrily  the  tune  ot 
health. 

There  are  many  ailments  of  the  human  body  which,  like 
the  speck  of  dust  in  the  watch,  are  looked  upon  as  mere 
trifles  but  which  exert  a  far-reaching  effect  on  the  human 
system      Take    for    instance    such    a    common    ailment    as 
constipation.     Very  few  people,  who  are  troubled  with  it, 
give   it  any  serious  thought   and  yet  it   is  frequently  the 
'   foundation  of  many  serious  ailments.     Most  people  allow 
the  trouble  to  run  on  until  they  are  absolutely  obliged  to 
seek  a  remedy.     They  will  take  these  so-called  "  cathar- 
tics"   which    are    advertised    at    every    corner,    and   learn, 
only  too  late,  that  these  harsh,  and  forceful  physics,  are 
tut   augmenting  the   difficulty,   if  not   creating   a   distinct 
disorder  of  the  intestines.     People  should  remember  that 
there  are  any  number  of  crude  and  violent  drugs  on  the 
market  that  can  be  had  at  a  few  cents  a  pound,   which, 
when  taken,  will  evacuate  the  bowels,  but  no  conscientious 
phvsician    will    recommend    their    use,    as    they    are,    even 
when  administered  in  small  doses,  too  severe  and  drastic. 
They   are   apt   to    cause   injury   by   irritating   the    mucous 
membrane  of  the  stomach  and  intestines. 

Many  people  are  troubled  with  constipation,  even  young 
children  suffer  from  it,  but  it  is  more  prevalent  with  peo- 
ple in  advanced  years,  when  the  digestive  secretions  are 
less  abundant.  What  is  needed  in  such  cases  is  a  mild, 
yet  invigorating  remedy,  which  will  tone  and  stimulate 
the  digestive  organs  to  natural  activity  in  producing  the 
necessarv  secretions.  You  would  not  think  of  taking 
your  watch  to  a  blacksmith  when  it  is  out  of  repair,  why 
not,  therefore,  use  care  in  selecting  a  remedy,  when  you 
are  sick  and  ailing? 

Dr.  Peter's  Blood  Vitalizer  exerts  a  marked  beneficial 
influence  on  the  digestive  organs.  It  is  not  a  physic,  but 
a  gentle,  soothing  laxative  and  invigorator. 


WORKED    LIKE    A    WONDER. 

So.  Allentown,  Pa.,  May  2,  1904. 
Dear  Dr.  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Sir-— Your  letter  of  April  4  advising  us  where  we 
could  get  the  Blood  Vitalizer  in  this  city  was  received 
and  the  very  same  evening  I  went  and  got  some  My 
mother,  now  in  her  78th  year  was  very  weak  and  had 
no  appetite.  She  had  the  grip  last  winter  and  it  left  her 
in  bad  shape.  She  has  always  had  faith  m  your  Blood 
Vitalizer  and  felt  that  if  she  could  get  it,  it  would  do 
her  good  Now  she  has  taken  it  for  about  four  weeks 
and  T  want  to  briefly  tell  you  the  truth. 

The  medicine  has  worked  like  a  wonder.  She  has  a 
grand  appetite  and  even  gets  hungry  while  before  we  had 
fo  urge  her  to  eat.  She  used  to  have  hear  burn  with 
belchings  and  much  distress,  a  heavily  furred  tongue  and 
moun  often  filled  with  a  watery  slime.  All  these  things 
have  disappeared  and  she  has  daily  gained  m  strength 
Praise  God'  The  Blood  Vitalizer  certainly  does  all  that 
is  claimed  for  it.  We  feel  that  we  owe  you  many  thanks 
for  being  able  to  prepare  a  medicine  that  brings  such  re- 
lief and  help  to  humanity. 

Yours   sincerely, 

649  Greenleaf  St.  Margaretta  A.  Meierhoff. 

WANTS    TO    TELL    HER    CASE. 

Hasbrouck  Heights,  N.  J.,  Jan.  3,  1903. 
Dr    Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear   Sir:-I   often  feel  that   I   should  like   to   go   from 
house    to    house    wherever    German    is    spoken     and    tell 
about    you'    medicine,    the    Blood    Vitalizer    and    what    it 
did    for   mc.     Many   a   person   would   have   money   m   the 
bank  if  they   would   have   used   your   medicine   ins  ead  oi 
the  doctors      I  know   I   would  have  been  ahead  $1,000.00 
If  I  had  done  so  sooner.     That  is  what  I  paid  the  doctors. 
I  had  been  sick  a  long  time.     I  would  have  cramps ,.m 
the    region    of    the    heart   with    fainting    spells    every   few 
days      My  condition  was  terrible.     My  stomach  was  ten- 
der and  swollen  and  bloated.    The  doctors  declared  I  had 
an  interna,  tumor.     At  the  request  of  my  husband.  I  sub- 
mitted to  an  examination  at  the  hospital.     The  professor 
a™d  two  assistants  told  me  I  would  have  to  be  operated 
on    immediately.     It    was    my    only    hope      I    would    n£ 
consent  to  this  and  went  home,  when  a  lady    "end  who 
had  used  your  medicine  told  me  about  your  Blood  Vitai- 
zer       "used  bottle  after  bottle,  but  at  the  end  of  three 
months  I  was  well  and  my  stomach  was. again  of  noriwrf 
=  ize      All    this    without    an    operation.     When    people   asK 
me  what  cured  me  I  always  tell  them,  the  Blood  V.tahzer. 
Yours  very  truly, 

Mrs.   Katie  Roth. 

Dr  Peter's  Blood  Vitalizer  is  not  a  shelfworn  drugstore 
medicine.  It  is  supplied,  fresh  and  pure,  to  sick  people 
everywhere. 

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I  will  not  burden  you  with  a  long  string 
of  statements  and  explanations.  I  prove 
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free.  You  are  to  be  the  judge  and  say 
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The  real  thing  in  your  hand  that  cures 
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I  will  mail  any  reader  of  the  Inglenook  who  will  name  their  ailment,  one  of  my  Spray  Medicators  and 
Ifour  drams  LIQUID  SPRAY  suited  to  their  disease  on  FIVE  days  trial  Free.  If  it  gives  satisfaction,  send  me 
$2.00  (which  is  two-fifths  price);  if  not  satisfactory,  return  it  at  the  expired  time  which  will  only  cost  you 
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lieves   and    permanently    cures    these    diseases. 

Order  from  the   Following  Directions: 

Liquid  Spray  No.  2  is  a  positive  cure  For  Catarrh  of  the  nose  and  throat.  Head  Colds.  La  Grippe  and  Tonsi- 
litis. 

Liquid  Spray  No.  4  a  valuable  anti-spasmodic  treatment  and  relief  of  the  attacks  of  asthma  and  other  spas- 
modic affections. 

Liquid  Spray  No.  5  is  a  heating  antiseptic  treatment  for  all  irritable  and  persistent  coughs  and  tuberculosis 
(consumption)    of  the  throat   and   lungs,   should   be    used   regularly   and   persistently. 

Liquid  Spray  No.  6  is  an  antiseptic,  cleansing,  alterative  remedy,  especially  prepared  for  Catarrhal  affec- 
tions  of  the   middle   ear,   resulting   in   deafness   and   of   particular   value    in    dry   catarrh. 

Liquid  Spray  No.  7  is  a  soothing,  alterative,  antiseptic  treatment  especially  prepared  for  chronic  Catarrh  of  the 
nose  and  throat;  relieves  bronchitis  quickly. 

REMEMBER — I   mail  the  Spray  Medicator   with  medicine  complete  to  any  reader  of  the  Inglenook  on  the  special 
offer  made  above.     No  belter  treatment    lias   ever  been   offered  the  American  people.     Agents  wanted. 
Address: 

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Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail 


^5       ipv    A    l_I/~\     >s   the    best-watered   arid    State  in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot  ^ 

^       I  I  3  f\  I    I  \  /    winds,    destructive    storms    and  cyclones   are   unknown,  and   with   its   matchless   cli-  * 

mate   it  makes   life  bright  and  worth  living.  ^i 

We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer  to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a  i 

change   for   the  general   improvement   in   your   condition  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on  j 

account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  both  requirements.     There  is,  however,  only  one  wise  j 

and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  country  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an-  ^. 

swer  and  many  conditions  to  investigate.  ■    •  ^; 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger  work  teach  us   that   a   few   dollars   spent   in   railroad  ^; 

fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves  thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow.  ff- 

Cheap   homeseekers'   rates   are   made   to   all   principal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see  S- 

for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting  a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing.  J 


Ronnd=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 


100,000  Acres  Now  Open  for  Settlement  at 
Twin  Falls,  Idaho,   under  the  Carey    Act. 

Unlimited  supply  of  water  for  irrigation  and  for  power.  A  grand  opportunity  for  the  Home- 
seeker  who  locates  on  these  lands.  10  years  time  given  for  payment  for  land  and  water  after  lands 
are   sold.     The   canals   and   water   belong   to   the   settlers  who  will  own  and  control  the  same. 


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Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday 
of  November,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom-  ff- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta-  £: 
tions  on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance.      Fine      g 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


Arrived  in  Payette  Valley  Feb.  23,  1903.  Settled  on  an  80-acre  tract,  covered  with  sage  brush. 
Cleared  40  acres.  May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.  Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.  June  12  sowed  10  acres  g 
to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.  Yielded  55  to  acre.  Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February  g 
or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 
oats. 

Potatoes   yielded   500   bushels    to   the   acre   and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)  E.  L.  Dotson.  "-• 

D.   E.   BURLEY, 
S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio.  G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R., 

J.  E.  HOOPER,  Agent,   Oakland,  Kansas.  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

Mention  tbe  INGLENOOK  when  writln,.  40U3 


*lN5bEK0OK 


Vol.  VI. 


November  22,  1904. 


No.  47. 


THANKSGIVING    HYMN. 


BY   AGNES    NEFF. 

Accept  our  humble  thanks,  O  Lord, 
For  the  blessings  of  to-day; 

For  gifts   that  thou   so  bountifully 
Hath  strewn  along  our  way. 

For  health  and  strength,  for  love  and  life. 

For  friends,   companions,   dear; 
For   all   the   pleasures  we   enjoy 

Upon  thy  footstool  here. 

And,  too,  we  thank  thee  for  the  grief 
That  caused  us  first  to  kneel; 

Low  at  thy  cross;  O  blessed  Christ 
Our  nothingness   to  feel. 

But  all  thy  blessing  to  perceive 

Is   far  beyond  our  reach; 
And   thanks   that  we   would   offer   thee 

Beyond   the  power  of  speech. 
Milford,   Ind. 

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SNAPSHOTS. 


BY    MARY   I.   SENSEMAN. 

Faith  is  spiritual  -will-power. 
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There  is  no  limit  to  possibility. 

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Nobody  ever  floated  up-stream. 

V    V    *F 

A  crank  is  useful  to  turn  things. 

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Life  is  a  chemical  compound  of  little  things. 

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An  empty  cask  can  be  tumbled  about  by  a  touch. 

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Prejudice  and  sound  judgment  never  dwell  together. 

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A  strong  man's  strength  is  in  his  knoiving  his  own 
i  weak  points. 


If  preaching  were  practice,  earth  would  be  heaven. 

*  *  * 
'  To  live  successfully,  you  must  be  able  to  fail  grace- 
fully. 

"Pay  him  back  in  his  own  coin"  is  not  stated  in 
the  Bible. 

Temper  is  a  medicine  or  a  poison,  according  as  it  is 
administered. 

*  *  * 

To  be  nourished  by  the  food  we  receive,  it  must  be- 
come a  part  of  us. 

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No  room  can  be  so  well  tidied,  no  booh  so  well  writ- 
ten, as  to  excuse  a  kindness  undone. 

*  *  * 

If  long-facedness  were  God's  plan  of  religion,  he 
surely  would  not  have  created  birds  and  flowers. 

*  *  * 

To  surely  destroy  a  weed,  we  must  pull  it  out  by 
the  roots;  and  ive  have  to  stoop  to  do  that. 

*  *  & 

We  should  not  have  so  much  anxiety  if  God  -would 
not  do  things  in  such  a  haphazard  manner! 

*  *  * 

Of  course  you  can  not  raise  apples  on  a  wild  cherry 
tree,  but  you  can  use  prayer  as  grafting  wax. 

It  is  cheap  gratitude  to  thank  God  for  oxygen, 
kneeling  in  a  house  recking  with  carbonic  acid  gas  and 
disease  germs. 

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Popular  opinion  is  a  guideposi  with  fifty  arms, 
pointing  in  as  many  direction  and  each  stati)ig  "  — ■ 
miles  to  Success."  Are  you  likely  to  reach  your  desti- 
nation? 

*  *   * 

Of  course,  we  are  not  Pharisees,  to  thank  God  that 
we  are  not  as  other  men.  ;elw  are  but  sinners;  for  it 
is  wholly  different)  ?)  to  repeat  the  latest  scandal  we 
have  heard  about  our  neighbor. 


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THE  1NGLENOOK.— November  22,  1904. 


THE    THANKSGIVING    TURKEY. 


BY   ALICE    RICHER. 

"  Some  hae  meat  but  carina  eat, 
Some  wad  eat  that  want  it: 
But  we  hae  meat,  and  we  can  eat, 
And  sae  the  Lord  be  thankit." 


-Burns. 


Thanksgiving  day  is  a  religious  festival  peculiar 
to  the  United  States. 

The  Plymouth  Colony  celebrated  the  first  Thanks- 
giving day  after  the  harvest   in    1621.     Four   young 


Since  that  first  Thanksgiving  day  to  the  present  one, 
the  turkey  has  played  its  part  well. 

The  custom  has  become  so  fixed  that  without  the 
turkey  Thanksgiving  day  isn't  Thanksgiving  day  at 
all  for  many  people.  So  the  president  of  the  United 
States  each  year  in  his  Thanksgiving  proclamation 
signs  the  death  warrants  of  all  the  largest  and  fattest 
turkeys  the  barnyards  can  afford. 

In  the  early  days  of  New'  England  Thanksgivings, 
no  housewife  considered  soup  or  fish  necessary  with 
which  to  begin  the  Thanksgiving  feast.  In  fact  it 
was  a  "  turkey  dinner "  pure  and  simple  with  the 
big  gobbler  for  the  king  of  the  feast.     He  in  all  his 


THEY   HAVE  BEEN  FEEDING   ME  PRETTY  WELL  FOR  THE    LAST  COUPLE  WEEKS. 


men  were  sent  out  to  hunt  for  game,  to  make  provision 
for  the  feast  and  brought  in  a  wild  turkey. 

Thus  from  a  matter  of  chance  rather  than  of  choice 
the  first  Thanksgiving  feast  consisted  of  turkey. 

For  years  the  festival  was  almost  exclusivelv  a  New 
England  institution,  celebrated  by  religious  services 
in  the  churches,  the  sermon  being,  often,  a  political 
address,  and  by  the  gathering  together  at  the  old 
home  of  the  scattered  members  of  the  family. 

The  day  gradually  became  a  custom  until  the  time 
of  the  civil  war  proclamations  were  made  for  public 
Thanksgiving,  and  since  that  time  by  the  president  of 
the  United  States. 


glory  was  the  principal  object  in  sight,  but  even  his 
radiancy  was  obscured  by  the  splendors  around  him. 
For  as  the  old  custom,  all  the  vegetables  were  put  on 
the  table  at  once — and  there  were  many  of  them. 
Sweet  potatoes,  mashed  potatoes,  stewed  onions,  tur- 
nip, squash,  parsnip  and  with  them,  cranberry  sauce, 
apple  sauce,  celery,  pickles — sour  and  sweet,  crabap- 
ple  jelly  and  currant  jelly,  and  the  pies!  It  must 
not  be  forgotten  that  pie  is  the  national  dish  in  New 
England.  There  were  pies  and  tarts  of  various  kinds, 
nuts,  raisins,  fruits  and  coffee. 

The  modern   version  of  the   "  turkey   dinner  "   has 
been   transformed   into   a   menu   dinner.     A   well-bal- 


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anced  Thanksgiving  dinner,  under  present  conditions, 
will  start  with  oysters,  and  pave  the  way  for  turkev 
with  a  light  soup  and  boiled  fish,  preserving  the  prop- 
er temperament  of  the  stomach  by  a  sherbet.  Mashed 
potatoes,  mashed  turnips  with  boiled  onions,  are  the 
three  imperative  vegetables. 

Of  course,  Boston  brown  bread  will  be  served  and 
if  good  cider  can  be  had,  there  are  those  who  for 
memory's  sake  may  think  this  the  finishing  touch. 

O  the  Thanksgiving  Turkey !  how  it  brings  to- 
gether father,  mother  and  children,  grandmother, 
grandfather  and  grandchildren,  uncles  and  aunts  and 
cousins,  and  there  is  a  general  rejoicing,  as  only  such 
occasions  can  bring ;  not  alone  because  it  is  Thanks- 
giving day  but  because  it  is  Thanksgiving  turkey! 

A  noble  and  Christlike  use  of  turkey  is  to  carry 
into  effect  the  thought  given  in  the  Holy  Grail. 

"  He  who  feeds  the  hungry,  feeds  three,  himself, 
his  hungry  neighbor  and  Me." 

If  we  could  have  a  glimpse  into  the  basements  of 
the  Missionary  Homes  of  our  cities  we  would  see  row 
after  row  of  good  sized  baskets,  each  containing  a 
nice  turkey  accompanied  with  every  article  of  food  to 
make  a  complete  Thanksgiving  dinner.  These  are 
carried  to  the  poor  and  destitute  of  the  slums  on 
Thanksgiving  morning  by  a  number  of  young  ladies, 
who  know  how  to  give  good  hints  as  to  preparing  the 
food,  and  who  can  sing  some  sweet  song  and  read 
one  of  the  priceless  promises  from  God's  Word,  such 
as  "  I  will  never  leave  thee  nor  forsake  thee."  Then 
receive  their  grateful  thanks  and  witness  tears  of  joy. 

But  we  need  not  all  go  to  the  Mission  Homes  to  do 
charity  work  along  this  line.  Possibly  there  is  a 
family  on  our  street  or  in  our  neighborhood  who 
would  enjoy  a  real  Thanksgiving,  but  lack  the  means 
that  it  commands  to  provide  the  longed-for  turkey 
and  other  necessary  articles  which  go  to  make  up  such 
a  dinner. 

Cannot  you  share  your  turkev  with  them?  If  you 
Sdo  you  will  enjoy  it  much  better  yourself.  True 
happiness  comes  not  from  selfish  pleasures,  but  by 
making  some  one  else  happy. 

Imagine  yourself  with  your  family  seated  around 
the  festal  board,  you  think  you  are  really  enjoying 
yourself,  while  within  your  reach  there  are  some  who 
cannot  enjoy  tin-  rich  blessings  as  they  are  showered 
upon  you. 

Again  imagine  that  on  Thanksgiving  daj  you  have 
arranged  to  satisfy  the  appetites  and  gladden  the  hearts 
of  a  destitute  family  across  the  way,  who  seldom  if 
ever,  have  realized  the  joy  and  sal  is  fact  inn  thai  comes 
from  the  realization  of  the  fact  that  they  have  actually 
tasted  Thanksgiving  Turkey.  Which  instance  would 
you  most  enjoy  ? 

With  all  the  enjoyment  that  the  Thanksgiving  tur- 


key brings,  with  all  the  benefits  derived  from  it.  we 
must  admit  there  is  another  side  on  which  to  look. 

If  the  turkey  himself  could  speak  he  would  doubt- 
less tell  you  of  some  of  the  abuses  of  the  Thanks- 
giving turkey. 

We  once  had  a  very  thoughtful  turkey,  which  was 
selected  from  all  the  rest  to  be  prepared  especially, 
for  the  Thanksgiving  feast.  He  doubtless  wondered 
at  first,  why  he  fared  so  sumptuously  above  the  others 
about  him,  why  he  should  be  thus  favored  above  that 
of  his  fellows.  He  at  last  solved  the  mystery  and  after 
pondering  the  subject  well  in  his  turkey  mind,  he  de- 
cided to  escape  if  possible,  the  fatal  blow  of  the 
hatchet,  which  must  come  sooner  or  later. 

Would  you  believe  it,  the  day  previous  to  Thanks- 
giving that  identical  turkey  committed  suicide,  by 
hanging  himself! 

It  appeared  as  if  he  had  attempted  to  fly  over  the 
fence  and  dropped,  catching  his  head  between  the 
pailings. 

Here  is  the  mind  of  another  which  undoubtedly  can 
voice  the  sentiment  of  many. 

"What  dost  thou  think  of  drumsticks?" 

I   asked  the  barnyard  fowl. 
He   grinned  a   turkey   grin   and   then, 

He  answered  me  this  word: 
"  They're  good  to  eat,  they're  good  to  beat, 

But  sure  as  I  am  living, 
They're  best  to  run  away  with. 

The  week  before  Thanksgiving." 

But  this  abuse  of  the  turkey  we  cannot  remedy  if 
we  would  have  "  turkey  dinner  "  so  we  will  leave  this 
phase  of  the  subject  with  the  turkey  tribe  and  they 
n  ay  comment  on  it  at  leisure. 

Another  abuse  is  this : 

When  Thanksgiving  day  comes  everybody  wants 
turkey  and  must  have  it  at  all  hazards.  It  is  high- 
priced  meat  and  many  who  can  ill  afford  it  will  have 
it  just  the  same,  because  it's  turkey,  when  chicken 
would  taste  just  as  well  if  we  just  thought  so,  and  it 
would  be  far  less  expensive,  but  there  are  many  child- 
ren who  are  sorely  disappointed  if  they  fail  to  get  a 
taste  of  turkey  on  Thanksgiving  day  as  they  are 
when  Santa  Clans   forgets  them  on  Christmas  eve, 

A  very  common  abuse  of  Thanksgiving  is  that  of 
overeating. 

liniiiiiU'ss  many  of  i.s  have  experienced  the  same  as 
little  Ethel  who  had  sent  back  her  plate  for  turkey 
two  or  three  times  and  had  been  helped  bountifully  to 
all  the  gOO  1  things. 

Finally  she  was  observed  looking  rather  discon- 
solately at  the  unfinished  part  of  her  dinner. 

"  What's  the  matter,  Ethel?  "  asked  her  uncle,  "  you 
look  mournful." 

She    wondered    win    everybod}     laughed    when    she 


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THE  INGLENOOK.— November  22,  1904. 


answered,  "  Yes  that's  what's  the  matter.     I'm  mor'n 
full." 

When  we  can  appreciate  God's  blessings  enough 
that  we  are  willing  to  share  them  with  others  who  are 
less  favored,  we  can  then  truly  enjoy  them  ourselves. 

Happiness  does  not  consist  in  large  possessions  but 
in  the  enjoyment  of  what  we  have.  To  enjoy  it  one 
must  appreciate  it:  Gratitude  to  God  and  unselfish 
use  of  our  blessings  shows  our  appreciation. 

If  in  American  home-life  there  is  much  of  this  true 
grace  of  gratitude — "  grace  "  before  meat  and  after, 
devout  utterances  from  individual  hearts  for  God's 
loving-kindness,  daily  uplift  of  souls  in  thanks  for 
the  good  and  perfect  gifts  of  the  Perfectly  Good — 
then  is  America,  the  Nation,  prepared  to  make  her 
National  Thanksgiving  day  the  shining  crown  of  her 
year  of  grace.  The  National  feast-day  will  be  a  glad 
one;  for  sunshine  and  smiles  accompany  thankful 
words  and  thoughts  as  the  perfume  lives  in  the  roses. 
It  will  be  a  day  of  national  expansion,  of  broader, 
better  outlook,  of  deeper  faith,  and  higher  vision. 
Is  not  God's  will  for  men  and  nations  the  perfection 
of  that  holy  trio,  the  good,  the  true,  and  the  beauti- 
ful? 

Therefore  O  man,  therefore  O  Nation,  in  every- 
thing give  thanks ;  for  this  is  the  will  of  God  in  Christ 
Jesus  concerning  you ! 

North  Manchester,  hid. 

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JACK. 


BY    MAUD    HAWKINS. 

"  Is  Mr.  Brown  in  ?  "  asked  a  trim  little  lady  of  the 
maid  of  all  work,  who  answered  the  knock  at  the  door 
of  farmer  Brown's  residence,  one  warm  afternoon  in 
July.  "  He  is  in  the  field,  ma'am.  If  you  will  wait 
till  noon  he  will  be  in,  or  perhaps  I  can  tell  him  your 
errand,  if  you  do  not  care  to  wait."  "  I  wish  to  see 
Mr.  Brown  on  especial  business,  and  will  wait,"  was 
the  reply.  The  maid  gave  an  indignant  toss  of  her 
head,  which  plainly  said,  "  A  big  thing  to  be  wanting 
to  see  Mr.  Brown  on  special  business.  It  must  be 
something  very  important  that  she  can't  leave  it  with 
as  honest  a  person  as  meself,"  she  muttered  as  she  left 
the  parlor.  However  Mabel  Smith  took  no  notice  of 
the  meaning  look  or  mutterings,  but  quietly  seated  her- 
self to  wait  the  required  half  hour.  A  little  chip  of 
a  girl  is  in  the  parlor  wishing  to  see  Mr.  Brown  on 
business  was  the  message  given  to  Mr.  Brown  as  he 
washed  himself  at  the  great  wooden  trough  at  the  back 
of  the  farmhouse  kitchen.  "  I  wonder  who  it  can  be 
who  wishes  to  see  me?  Can't  be  any  schoolma'am 
thinks  she  can  manage  this  school.  Well  I'll  convince 
her  that  she  can't,  in  a  hurry,    if    that    is    the    case. 


When  I  describe  Jack  Summers,  that  will  be  suffi- 
cient." 

After  combing  his  hair  over  the  bald  spot  on  the 
top  of  his  head,  he  braced  himself  that  he  might  look 
as  important  as  possible,  in  order  to  awe  the  little 
school-teacher  out  of  making  an  application,  for  to 
tell  the  truth,  he  was  a  kind-hearted  man,  and  was 
sorry  to  cause  anyone  to  be  disappointed.  "  How  do 
you  do,  madam,"  said  he  on  entering  the  room.  "  I 
am  informed  that  you  wish  to  see  me."  "  Yes,  I  came 
to  apply  for  the  school  here,  being  informed  that  you 
were  director."  .  "  Oh  miss,  you  never  could  manage 
this  school.  Why,  we  have  some  of  the  worst  young 
lads  here  that  you  will  find  in  the  whole  country.  It 
needs  some  one  with  more  muscle  than  you  can  com- 
mand to  thrash  those  boys."  "  I  am  not  asking  for 
a  chance  to  thrash  but  to  teach  them,"  answered  Ma- 
bel with  a  smile.  "  Well  you  can  never  teach  them 
without  first  thrashing  them  to  let  them  understand 
that  you  are  the  boss,  and  if  you  can't  do  that  you 
may  as  well  not  try  the  other,  I  can  assure  you.  Spare 
the  rod  and  you  will  spoil  the  child,  are  my  senti- 
ments. Last  winter  we  had  a  man  teacher  who 
weighed  two  hundred  pounds,  and  they  all  got  to- 
gether and  put  him  out  of  the  schoolhouse."  Mabel 
began  to  feel  discouraged,  and  was  on  the  point  of 
giving  up,  when  she  thought  of  her  good  home  that 
had  been  recently  broken  up,  and  the  actual  necessity 
for  her  to  do  something  to  provide  the  necessaries  of 
life,  and  this  was  her  only  chance  and  if  she  should 
fail —  But  she  must  not  fail.  "  Oh  please  sir,  let  me 
try  for  just  one  month,"  cried  she  with  tears  in  her 
eyes,  "  and  if  you  are  not  satisfied  by  that  time  I  will 
resign."  "  Very  well,  I  do  not  mind  letting  you  try 
just  to  teach  you  a  lesson.  But  mind,  if  you  are 
obliged  to  leave  before  the  month  is  passed,  you  get 
no  pay.  That  is  one  of  our  rules  and  I  think  there 
will  be  no  danger  of  your  staying  more  than  a  couple 
of  days.  We  have  one  Jack  Summers  who  has  baf- 
fled all  the  teachers  yet.  You  will  have  to  keep  an 
eye  on  him  that  he  does  not  shove  you  out  the  first 
day.  He  is  the  ringleader.  If  he  could  be  induced 
to  stay  at  home,  I  think  the  others  could  be  managed." 

"  Possibly  the  boy  has  not  always  been  treated  re-  ' 
spectfully,  or  had  a  fair  show.  You  can  catch  more 
flies  with  sugar  than  vinegar."  "  Well  you  will  find 
it  takes  vinegar  in  this  case,  sugar  won't  do,  miss. 
The  third  teacher  we  had  last  winter  whipped  Jack  so 
hard  the  first  day  he  came  here  that  he  was  obliged 
to  keep  his  bed  nearly  a  week,  but  it  did  no  good :  he 
was  worse  than  ever  when  he  came  back.  He  simply 
would  not  give  in."  "  I  do  not  blame  him  in  that 
case.  He  would  not  amount  to  very  much  if  he  did, 
in  my  opinion."  "  A  pretty  poor  sign,  miss.  I  am 
afraid  vou  will  change  your  mind  before  you  have 


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taught  your  month.  But  mind  you  do  not  call  on  me 
for  help  as  I  can  do  nothing  but  turn  him  out  of  school, 
and  that  has  been  done  so. many  times  that  it  has  no 
effect  on  him."  "  I  think  I  will  adopt  altogether  dif- 
ferent methods.  The  boy  must  have  some  good  quali- 
ties." "  Well,  you  may  have  a  chance  to  bring  them 
out  if  you  like." 

"  Well  I  will  take  the  school  under  these  con- 
ditions, provided  that  you  do  not  tell  the  boy 
that  I  have  any  knowledge  of  his  previous  conduct." 
"  Very  well,  but  you  will  find  that  it  is  the  greatest 
mistake  that  you  ever  made."  "  And  please  do  not 
tell  the  boys  that  you  have  hired  a  lady  teacher.  I 
wish  to  surprise  them,"  said  she.  "  No,  I  think  I  will 
not,  for  I  am  sure  they  will  think  I  have  lost  my  senses 
when  they  do  hear  it.  But  you  just  take  care  that  you 
are  not  surprised  more  than  they,  for  I  think  they 
will  take  it  as  an  insult  that  I  should  presume  that  a 
little  girl  like  you  could  handle  them."  "  I  am  no 
longer  a  little  girl.  I  will  soon  be  twenty,"  said  Ma- 
bel. "  Well,  I  wouldn't  have  thought  it."  "  Good  aft- 
ernoon, Mr.  Brown,"  and  the  caller  was  gone. 

"  Well  I  never  saw  a  little  body  with  so  much  self- 
conceit.  She  will  be  a  wiser  but  a  sadder  girl  when 
she  gets  through  with  Jack  Summers,  I  can  tell  you." 
I  wonder  if  he  ever  thought  of  his  prophecy  in  after 
years.  Surely  a  part  of  it  was  not  fulfilled.  A  week 
later  half  a  dozen  boys  were  gathered  in  the  village 
green,  after  their  day's  work  was  done,  talking  over 
the  news  of  the  day.  "  Say,"  said  Jim  Sawyer,  "  did 
you  hear  that  school  is  to  begin  next  Monday  ?  "  "  No, 
who  is  to  try  us  this  time  ?  "  asked  several  at  the  same 
time.  "  I  don't  know,"  said  Jim,  "  I  suppose  old 
Brown  will  get  a  giant  next  time."  "  Well,  it  won't 
take  us  long  to  eject  him,"  said  Jack  Summers.  "  Say, 
boys,  wasn't  it  fun  to  see  that  fellow  from  Maysville 
take  his  sneak  last  year?"  After  a  good  deal  more 
boasting,  the  boys  agreed  that  it  would  never  do  to 
spoil  their  reputation  by  allowing  him  to  remain  over 
night  in  the  place.  Therefore  they  laid  their  plans. 
Jack  was  to  remain  behind  until  the  other  boys  were 
well  established  in  school,  and  then  come'  in  and  sur- 
prise him  when  he  was  least  expecting  any  disturb- 
ance. When  Monday  morning  arrived  there  was  an 
eager  little  group  of  children  collected  on  the  school- 
yard, anxious  to  behold  their  future  antagonist.  Soon, 
however,  they  were  rewarded  by  seeing  a  carriage 
drawn  by  a  sprightly  team  of  blacks  dash  up  the  road. 
All  eyes  were  strained  to  their  utmost.  "  Say,  bovs, 
there  are  two,"  murmured  Jim.  "  Can't  be  he's  bring- 
ing some  help.  Oh  well,  we  can  handle  a  half  dozen 
like  him,"  said  Sam.  "Hain't  he  a  little  chap, 
though,"  chuckled  Tom  Jones,  who  was  not  noted  for 
his  bravery  in  combat.  "Well  gee!  it's  a  girl!" 
"  Oh,  she's  only  bringing  him  up  here !  "  "  Say,  hain't 
he  a  sleek  one  though?  "     "  Young  man,  you  will  not 


be  so  fine  when  you  get  through  with  us."  "  Better 
keep  the  gal  and  the  rig  to  carry  you  back,  for  I  don't 
think  you  will  be  able  to  walk."  "  Gee !  We  ought 
to  flog  him  while  she  is  here  just  to  let  her  see  her 
fine  beau  whipped  out."  "  If  Jack  were  onlv  here 
we  would,  you  bet,"  said  Tom.  These  and  similar 
sneers  were  uttered  as  the  carriage  came  near  the. 
school  building. 

"  Good  morning  all,"  said  the  lady,  "  I  am  glad  to 
see  you."  "  Good  morning,"  said  a  few  of  the  least 
timid  little  girls.  But  the  boys  were  busily  studying 
their  supposed  victim.  "  He  doesn't  say  a  word," 
whispered  a  boy.  "  I  wonder  if  she's  his  sister." 
"  More  like  his  sweetheart,"  said  another.  Why  what 
did  this  mean  ?  "  He's  helping  her  out  too.  Maybe 
she's  taking  your  advice  and  going  to  wait  and  carry 
his  broken  bones  back  to  town."  To  their  surprise  the 
little  lady  entered  the  schoolroom  and  their  hero 
jumped  on  the  seat  and  drove  briskly  away,  calling 
out.  Good-bye,  Mabel.  Don't  let  any  of  those  big 
boys  capture  your  heart  this  winter."  The  boys  were 
nonplussed.  Never  had  the  like  happened  at  Browns- 
ville before.  "  I  wish  Jack  were  here.  Wonder 
where  he  is?"  "  Oh,  he  is  not  coming  till  'he'  gets 
nicely  commenced.  Ha,  ha,  won't  he  be  surprised 
though  ?  "  "  Do  you  think  he  will  throw  her  out  if 
she  gives  him  any  sass  ?  "  "I  bet  she'll  be  scart  when 
she  sees  him,"  were  comments  heard  on  the  school 
grounds,  as  the  children  huddled  together  to  discuss 
the  weighty  subject.  Miss  Smith  began  her  school 
in  a  kind  and  friendly  manner  and  none  tried  to  mo- 
lest her.  All  waited  eagerly  for  Jack's  appearance. 
About  the  middle  of  the  forenoon  a  heavy  stamping 
in  the  hall  was  heard  and  the  door  suddenly  opened 
and  closed  with  a  bang,  and  in  stalked  a  tall  red-head- 
ed, freckled  boy  of  about  nineteen  winters. 
(to  be  continued.) 
*  +  * 
PETROLEUM    AS    A    BEVERAGE. 


The  Medical  Society  of  Paris  has  expressed  the 
opinion  that  it  is  necessary  to  adopt  some  measures 
against  the  alarming  spread  of  petroleum  drinking. 
At  first  it  was  thought  that  this  habit  had  sprung  up 
from  the  increased  taxation  on  alcohol  imposed  by  the 
French  government,  but  an  investigation  showed  that 
this  was  not  the  case :  the  habit  had  been  prevalent 
some  time  previously  in  certain  districts  and  had 
spread  with  great  rapidity.  The  victim  of  the  pe- 
troleum habit  does  not  become  brutal,  only  morose. 
Opinions  differ  among  physicians  as  regards  the 
effects  of  petroleum  drinking  on  the  human  system, 
but  all  agree  on  its  harmfulness. 
*  *  * 

If   the    world   says   that   you   are   wise  and   good, 
ask  yourself  if  it  be  true. — L'Estrange. 


THE  INGLENOOK.-^Noveinber  22,  1904. 


IT    DIDN'T   WORK. 


Grandma  was  eighty-three  the  other  day.  She  is 
the  same  dear  old  grandma  she  was  ever  since  I  was 
born.  Lottie  and  I  just  think  there  was  never  anyone 
like  our  Grandma.  She  always  has  a  jolly  word  for 
us  girls  and  we  always  go  to  her  for  advice  and  with 
our  troubles  as  well.  We  conceived  an  idea  one  time 
that  it  would  be  nice  to  have  a  surprise  on  Grandma 
and  finally  the  day  came. 

We  had  planned  everything  so  beautifully  but  some^. 
how  nothing  worked  out  just  right  and  we  came  near 
giving  it  up  several  times,  but  the  day  before  Christ- 
mas they  sent  us  word  that  Aunt  Sarah  was  sick  and 
that  Ma  and  Grandma  should  come  at  once.  Now 
anyone  with  ordinary  judgment  knows  that  we  were 
not  glad  that  Aunt  Sarah  was  sick — that  was  not  it — 
we  were  glad  that  we  could  have  the  house  to  our- 
selves a  little  while. 

Now  Lottie  is  a  wonderful  girl  for  planning,  more 
so  than  I  am  myself.  Ever  since  she  spent  a  week 
with  the  Bruner  girls  she  has  done  nothing  particular- 
ly but  work  at  fancy  work — that  is  when  she  is  off  reg- 
ular duty ;  I  would  not  have  you  think  that  Ma  allows 
any  of  that  when  the  regular  work  is  to  be  done.  So 
she  has  made  a  lot  of  fancy  things  that  she  said  would 
come  handy  sometime.  "  I  tell  you,  Judy,"  she  said, 
"  nobody  ever  amounts  to  anything  unless  they  try 
to  keep  up  with  the  fashions  and  styles  in  the  house 
and  out  of  the  house."  As  she  said  this  she  put  a  lit- 
tle powder  upon  the  three  freckles  she  always  had 
on  her  nose.  I  told  her  that  they  looked  pasty  enough 
but  she  said  it  was  a  big  improvement,  and  then  she 
twisted  her  hair  up  into  the  tightest  little  knot  right 
up  on  top  and  let  the  rest  fly  around  in  a  circle  and 
look  frizzly.  It  reminded  me  of  the  way  Uncle  Dick 
always  fixes  the  horses'  tails  to  keep  them  out  of  the 
mud.  Then  she  would  draw  her  fingers  through  it 
as  careful  as  if  she  was  afraid  she  would  pull  one  hair 
out  and  bleed  to  death.  Then  she  has  a  little  false 
curl  that  she  pins  right  in  the  middle  and  she  is  for- 
ever losing  that  curl.  One  morning  I  found  it  in  the 
wood-box  and  Pa  found  it  one  morning  out  on  the 
front  walk,  and  he  hung  it  on  the  front  door  knob 
and  I  declare,  it  looked  like  a  piece  of  black  crape. 
Now  Lottie's  hair  is  as  black  as  mine  is  red. 

Lottie  talked  all  the  time  about  improving  Grand- 
ma and  I  told  her  then  that  there  was  some  things  in 
this  world  that  you  could  improve  and  then  there  was 
some  things  that  couldn't  be  improved  upon  and  one 
of  them  was  Grandma.  Nothing  could  be  more  lovely 
than  her  silver  hair  and  her  smooth,  white  face,  with 
such  a  patient  look  around  her  dear  sweet  mouth. 

Grandma  Turner  is  all  right  except  her  name, 
through  and  through.  Her  name  is  Judith  same  as 
mine  and  I  don't  like  it  for  that  verv  reason.     I  wish 


everybody  didn't  call  me  "  Punch  and  Judy  " ;  and 
when  I  have  the  least  little  bit  of  a  fuss  at  school  with 
the  girls  the  boys  will  cry  out,  "  Punch  'em,  Judy !  " 

Grandma  says  that  is  one  of  the  troubles  that  I  will 
outgrow,  but  I  tell  her  I  think  our  troubles  grow  up 
with  us.  I  don't  hardly  like  to  say  it,  but  it's  a  fact, 
Grandma  is  dreadfully  old-fashioned.  She  can't  help 
that,  of  course,  for  she  was  raised  up  in  good  old- 
fashioned  times.  I  told  Lottie  lots  of  times  that  we 
couldn't  make  Grandma  stylish  if  we  tried  a  hundred 
times.-  She  is  as  broad  as  she  is  long  and  think  of 
her  wearing  draperies.  How  would  it  look  when  she 
has  no  more  waist  than  she  has? 

But  Lottie  let  on  as  though  she  knew  nothing  and 
she  said,  "  Judy  Turner,  when  you  get  to  be  fifteen 
years  old  I  hope  you  will  know  more  than  you  do  now ; 
you  ought  to  see  Gertie's  Grandma ;  she  has  false 
teeth  and  the  loveliest  brown  waves  and  her  skirts  are 
beautifully  draped  and  her  room  is  a  picture,  filled 
with  elegant  furniture  and  loads  of  fancy  work.  The 
very  first  chance  I  get  I  am  going  to  fix  up  Grand- 
ma's room  in  the  latest  style." 

Lottie  always  has  her  own  way  and  you  might  as 
well  try  to  tie  one  end  of  the  clothes  line  to  a  star 
as  to  stop  her  when  she  takes  a  notion  to  do  something. 

So  the  very  morning  that  the  folks  went  over  to 
Aunt  Sarah's  we  began  operations  on  Grandma's  room 
in  earnest.  First  we  took  down  the  old  green  and  gold 
damask  curtains  that  had  hung  in  Grandma's  parlor 
years  and  years  before  she  came  to  live  with  us.  Lot- 
tie had  worked  in  corn  husking  for  Mr.  Himelick's 
folks  and  earned  three  dollars  and  she  went  down  town 
and  bought  some  cream  scrim  curtains.  When  we 
draped  them  back  with  blue  satin  ribbons  they  simply 
looked  elegant,  that's  all.  Then  we  took  the  old  wood- 
en rocking-chair,  covered  with  green  beige,  up  into 
the  attic,  and  over  in  the  corner  by  the  plants  we  placed 
a  nice  little  rattan  chair  covered  with  a  tidy  of  drawn 
work. 

Lottie  said,  "  We  can't  change  the  bed  or  the  car- 
pet, but  the  old  bureau  is  just  horrid.  We  must  do 
something  with  that."  So  it  was  hustled  off  to  the 
attic,  and  Lottie  was  sufficiently  in  earnest  that  she 
put  in  its  place  her  own  dear  little  oak  dressing-case. 
When  we  came  to  the  bureau  we  got  into  it  right,  I  tell 
you.  First  we  emptied  all  the  drawers  carefully  out 
upon  the  floor.  Somehow  I  felt  so  queer  and  un- 
comfortable in  handling  Grandma's  things  over  so,  but 
when  we  got  to  the  bottom  drawer  we  just  had  to  stop. 

What  do  you  suppose  was  in  it  ?  All  of  little  Rob- 
bie's clothes.  The  little  plaid  dress  that  he  wore  the 
day  before  he  died,  and  the  little  red  shoes  with  holes  in 
the  toes.  Robbie  was  always  my  baby,  you  know, 
and  with  those  mementos  before  me,  I  could  just  see 
how  he  laughed  and  showed  his  two  pearly  teeth,  when 
I  pinched  the  wee  white  piggies  that  would  always 


THE  INGLENOOK. — November  22,  1904. 


come  out  at  the  toe  of  his  shoes.  Honest,  it  was 
dreadful  to  disturb  those  things,  but  we  did  it  all  the 
same,  and  Zelpha,  that's  the  hired  girl,  came  in  from 
the  kitchen  and  helped  us  take  the  old  bureau  up  to 
the  attic. 

Then  we  took  the  blue  counterpane  from  the  bed, 
and  hunted  up  mother's  best  white  spread  and  fleecy 
lace  shams,  and  after  we  bad  covered  the  hair-cloth 
sofa  with  bright  cretonne,  the  room  looked  so  lovely 
that  we  felt  paid  for  all  our  hard  work.  "  Now  then, 
if  I  can  possibly  get  time  before  Grandma  comes  home 
I  will  make  her  bombazine  dress  over,"  said  Lottie. 

But  she  didn't  get  time,  for  Grandma  came  home 
that  very  night,  leaving  mother  to  stay  longer.  You 
may  believe  we  followed  her  closely  when  she  crossed 
the  hall  and  opened  the  door  of  her  room.  She  looked 
surprised  enough  for  a  minute  and  then  there  came 
a  queer  pucker  to  her  mouth  that  I  didn't  like  to  see. 
I  saw  the  same  look  on  her  face  that  I  did  the  night 
little  Robbie  died,  when  she  put  her  hands  over  his 
eyes,  closing  them  gently,  and  then  crossed  his  soft 
white  hands.     Queer  I  thought  of  that,  wasn't  it? 

But  when  she  kissed  us  good-night,  and  said  in  her 
quiet  way,  "  You  girls  are  good  to  me  and  are  such 
a  comfort  to  me,"  I  felt  more  contented,  and  Lottie 

>and  I  went  to  the  parlor  and  Lottie  played  on  the  piano 
some  of  Grandma's  favorite  pieces,  "  The  Old-Fash- 
ioned  Home,"  and  "  The  Campbells  are  Coming." 
She  always  likes  the  soft  low  sounds  of  the  bagpipes 
coming  over  the  mountains. 

The  next  day  was  New  Year's  day  and  we  had  a 
nice  quiet  day  at  home.  Zelpha  had  cooked  the  big- 
gest, fattest  turkey  that  she  could  find  in  the  barn- 
yard. We  always  have  turkey  for  New  Year's.  Fact 
is,  all  the  Turners  do.  In  the  afternoon  I  felt  lazy  and 
tired  and  went  upstairs  to  read.  At  the  end  of  the 
•  hall  a  door  opens  into  the  attic  over  the  kitchen.  It 
stood  ajar;  and  when  I  got  to  the  head  of  the  stairs 
I  heard  the  queerest  noise  like  someone  sighing.  I  was 
frightened,  but  I  went  on,  making  no  noise,  for  I 
wanted  to.  see  what  it  was  before  it  saw  me,  so  I  could 
have  time  to  run. 

But  when  I  peeped  through  the  door  I  saw  only 
Grandma  sitting  in  the  old  wooden  rocking-chair  close 
by  the  window.  Near  by  was  the  old  bureau,  and  over 
it  hung  the  damask  curtain  and  the  blue  spread.  The. 
sun  shone  through  the  bare  branches  of  the  maple 
trees  and  rested  in  golden  waves  on  her  silver  hair. 
I  thought  she  was  dead,  she  was  so  still  and  white, 
but  in  a  minute  she  sighed  and  the  tears  began  to  roll 
down  her  dear  wrinkled  cheeks. 

Then  T  understood  it  all.  She  was  not  dead,  but  she 
was  dying  of  grief  and  homesickness  for  the  old,  shab- 
by things  that  we  had  stolen  from  her.  Tt  was  dread- 
ful to  think  how  we  had  hurt  her  feelings  and  I  rushed 
up  to  her  and  kissed  her  forty  times  and  then  we  both 


cried  like  babies.  "  You  meant  well.  Dearie,"  Grand- 
ma said,  "but  I  love  the  old  things.  Grandpa  died 
in  this  old  chair  one  day  in  June,  out  on  the  porch, 
and  when  I  shut  my  eyes  and  rock  back  and  forth  in 
the  twilight,  I  can  feel  his  soft  kisses  on  my  cheek. 
But  I  musn't  be  silly;  if  you  want  the  new  things  in 
my  room,  I  must  get  used  to  them  and  we  won't  worry 
any  more  about  it." 

When  we  went  down  stairs,  Grandma  said  that  her 
head  ached  and  she  felt  that  she  ought  to  rest  and  I 
knew  I  had  to  worry  about  it.  I  went  out  to  the  barn, 
and  climbed  up  to  my  nest  in  the  hay  mow  and  cried 
and  cried.  After  a  while,  it  occurred  to  me  that  Lot- 
tie was  most  to  blame  and  when  I  looked  out  of  a  crack 
in  the  barn  and  saw  her  through  the  upstairs  window, 
in  her  room  fussing  over  some  fancy  work,  I  motioned 
for  her  to  come  out.  When  she  came  out  I  told  her 
all  about  it,  and  then  I  said,  "  You  know,  Lottie,  that 
you  are  to  blame  for  it  all,  for  you  planned  everything, 
and  it  was  mean  to  steal  Grandma's  things  off  in  that 
sly  way." 

You  know  Lottie  won't  never  own  that  she  has  done 
wrong  and  so  she  said,  provokingly:  "What  if  we 
have  made  a  mess  of  it,  you  needn't  go  off  in  such 
a  tantrum,  Punchy."  What  do  you  suppose  I  did? 
I  am  almost  ashamed  to  say  it  but  I  jumped  up  and 
scratched  her  and  left  three  long,  red  marks  down 
one  cheek,  and  I  just  mowed  a  swath  right  through 
her  freckles.  My,  how  Lottie's  black  eyes  snapped! 
She  took  me  by  the  shoulders  and  shook  me  until  my 
teeth  chattered,  and  said,  "  You  march  right  straight  in- 
to the  house  and  go  to  bed."  When  Lottie  looks  like 
that  I  know  I've  got  mv  mind.  After  I  had  gone  to  bed 
I  thought  everything  over.  What  if  Grandma  should 
die  of  grief?  Old  folks  do  die  very  easily  sometimes. 
The  whole  world  seemed  full  of  bitterness  and  woe, 
with  dear  old  grandmas  forever  getting  old  and  dy- 
ing, and  cross  little  girls  quarreling.  This  certainly 
was  a  good  start  for  New  Year's  day.  Well,  mother 
came  home  that  night  and  in  her  own  blessed  way 
smoothed  everything  out  in  a  very  short  time.  I  heard 
her  come  upstairs  and  Lottie  came  to  and  they  kissed 
me,  and  Lottie  cried  and  then  I  knew  that  she  was 
sorry  too. 

The  next  day  Grandma  went  to  Tudson's.  Lottie 
and  f  nearly  broke  our  necks  to  get  everything  back 
just  the  way  they  were  the  day  before.  When  she 
came  home  that  night  and  saw  her  room,  her  eyes 
shone  like  two  stars.  And  now  don't  you  think  Lot- 
tie says.  "  Grandma's  things  are  stylish  after  all.  for 
they  are  old  enough  to  be  relics." 
*  *  * 

\  kksuu  tk.\.  disapproving  of  reciprocity  with 
Canada,  was  adopted  by  the  Vermont  house  of  rep- 
resentatives without  opposition. 


THE  INGLENOOK.— November  22,  1904. 


STORY    OF   THE    PILGRIMS    IN    ENGLAND. 


BY    MABELLE    MURRAY. 

It  was  in  1590.  In  the  old  Manor  House  at 
Scrooby  lived  one  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  postmasters. 
He  lived  a  quiet,  peaceful  life,  and  was  a  thinking 
man  and  believed  that  neither  Bishop,  Pope,  King  nor 
Queen  should  control  men  in  religious  matters.  His 
name  was  William  Brewster.  He  wanted  a  purer 
worship,  objected  to  finery  in  the  way  of  garments 
for  the  Bishops,  hated  mummery,  believed  that  men 
should  not  waste  their  time  in  drinking,  dancing  and 
idleness.  For  this  reason  his  followers  were  named 
Puritans.  The  Queen  and  the  Bishops  said  that  ev- 
eryone must  attend  the  established  church  on  Sunday, 
or  suffer  imprisonment. 

It  was  these  things  that  made  William  Brewster  and 
his  followers  sad.  Brewster  invited  his  friends  to  the 
old  Manor  House  on  Sunday.  They  claimed  that  any 
body  of  Christian  believers  could  form  a  church  and 
choose  their  minister  without  aid  from  Pope  or  Bish- 
op. 

It  was  not  long  until  these  churches  multiplied  and 
Parliament  passed  a  law  imprisoning,  for  three  months, 
all  who  did  not  conform  to  the  Queen's  church.  Many 
of  the  new  churches  were  broken  up  by  this  law ;  many 
of  the  members  were  banished  and  many  sought  safe- 
ty in  Holland.  But  the  postmaster  at  Scrooby  was 
so  far  away  that  he  was  not  molested  and  the  meetings 
went  on. 

In  1603,  "  Queen  Bess  "  died,  and  King  James  came 
to  the  throne,  making  the  following  declaration :  "  I 
will  have  one  doctrine,  one  religion,  and  all  must  con- 
form. I  will  banish  or  hang  all  that  do  not."  This 
was  sad  news  to  Brewster  and  his  friends ;  they  valued 
life,  they  loved  their  country,  but  principle  was  worth 
more  than  country.  What  was  to  be  done?  They 
thought  of  the  new  world,  but  they  could  not  go  with- 
out a  license,  and  this  they  thought  the  King  would 
not  grant.  Then  they  decided  to  sell  their  lands  and 
go  to  Holland  where  men  could  think  for  themselves, 
but  the  King  would  not  even  permit  this.  Then  they 
resolved  to  go  secretly'.  They  sold  their  lands,  packed 
their  goods,  and  made  their  way  to  the  coast.  There 
they  boarded  a  ship  for  Amsterdam,  but  the  captain 
told  the  constable  and  they  were  marched  off  to  the 
magistrate,  who  put  them  in  prison.  There  they  re- 
mained for  many  weeks,  but  at  last  were  set  free. 

Six  months  later  Brewster  tried  again.  He  bar- 
gained with  a  Dutch  captain  to  take  himself  and 
friends.  One  by  one  they  made  their  way  to  the  ap- 
pointed place  to  board  the  ship.  They  spent  the  night 
without  shelter ;  in  the  morning  the  boat  appeared  and 
the  men  began  to  load  their  goods.  While  at  work 
on  board  the  ship  a  troop  of  armed  men  rushed  down 


upon  them  and  seized  the  women  who  were  on  land. 
The  captain  was  frightened  and  sailed  away.  It  was 
a  sad  hour ;  husbands  and  wives  separated  and  families 
were  broken  up,  not  knowing  whether  they  would  ever 
be  permitted  to  meet  again. 

The  ship  was  caught  in  a  storm  and  carried  far  out 
of  her  course,  but  after  being  driven  about  fourteen 
days,  reached  Holland,  and  the  men  disembarked.  But 
what  of  the  women?  The  officers  dared  not  imprison 
them  for  going  with  their  husbands  and  fathers,  but 
after  many  days  they  were  set  at  liberty  and  allowed 
to  go  to  Holland. 

Parsons,  Kansas. 

(to  be  continued.) 

*  *  * 
SCHOOL    LIFE    OF    KOREAN    CHILDREN. 

As  soon  as  the  boys  are  old  enough  to  learn  they 
are  sent  to  school.  In  every  village  there  are  schools 
for  boys.  These  schools  are  not  supported  by  the 
government,  but  by  the  pupils.  An  ordinary  school- 
room is  about  eight  feet  long  and  six  feet  wide.  In- 
stead of  large  glass  windows  there  are  small  paper 
windows.  There  is  no  furniture  whatever  in  the  room, 
and  the  boys  and  teacher  sit  tailor  fashion  on  the  floor. 

When  studying  the  boys  swing  their  bodies  back- 
ward and  forward  and  shout  their  lessons  at  the  top 
of  their  voices.  If  a  boy  should  lower  his  voice  the 
teacher,  thinking  he  was  not  studying  diligently,  would 
tap  him,  not  very  gently,  with  the  stick  which  is  his 
constant  companion.  The  common  mode  of  punish- 
ment is  to  switch  the  boy  across  the  calf  of  the  legs. 
There  is  one  advantage  at  least  in  having  the  pupils 
shout  their  lessons.  The  teacher  can  go  out  and  gos- 
sip with  the  neighbors  and  yet  know  that  his  boys  are 
studying  their  lessons.  History  and  classics  are  the 
only  branches  taught,  as  mathematics,  geography, 
physiology,  etc.,  are  not  known  to  the  Koreans.  The 
school  hours  are  from  sunrise  to  sunset,  with  inter- 
missions for  breakfast  and  dinner. 

Korean  schools  do  not  close  during  the'  summer, 
but  continue  through  the  year,  with  but  two  weeks' 
vacation  during  the  New  Year  time.  It  is  the  am- 
bition of  every  father  to  make  a  scholar  of  his  son. 
The  girls  of  Korea  receive  no  school  instruction.  It 
is  only  necessary  that  they  know  how  to  cook  and 
sew  well.  There  is  not  a  school  for  girls  in  Korea 
outside  of  those  established  by  the  different  missions. 

*  •$•  * 

Don't  pay  your  debts  until  you  get  ready,  and  then 
don't.  Give  the  constable  and  sheriff  a  chance  to  make 
something  in  the  way  of  fees. 

*  *  * 

If  we  are  in  doubt,  "  keep  on  the  safe  side  of 
certainty." — Outlook. 


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THE  INGLENOOK.— November  22,  1904. 


INFLUENTIAL    ESSENTIALS    IN    A    SUNDAY 
SCHOOL. 


BY    ELLA    ROYEE. 

The  purpose  of  the  Sunday  school  is  to  teach  the 
Word'  of  God,  that  souls  may  be  won  for  him. 
Through  the  means  thus  afforded  hundreds  of  young 
people  have  begun  the  spiritual  life  which  makes  them 
a  power  for  good  in  the  world  to-day. 

Because  of  the  far  reaching  results,  we  at  once  con- 
clude that  a  Sunday  school  should  be  conducted  in  a 
manner  which  is  best  suited  to  fulfill  its  mission  and 
also  to  be  in  accordance  with  the  Divine  plan.  There 
must  be  men  and  women  engaged  in  it,  who  love  the 
work,  and  who  not  only  appreciate  the  opportunities 
it  offers  them  for  Christian  service,  but  who  also  real- 
ize the  responsibilities  their  position  in  the  school  car- 
ries with  it. 

The  social  intercourse  often  is  the  means  of  attract- 
ing attendance  and  attention.  We  find  in  nearly  ev- 
ery instance  the  schools  accomplish  the  most  good 
whose  officers  exchange  friendly  greetings  with  the 
scholars.  All  over  the  world  there  are  young  people 
who  long  for  sympathy  and  friendship.  To  such  the 
friendship  and  kindly  greetings  accompanied  with  the 
teaching  of  the  Sunday-school  lesson,  have  a  moulding 
influence  in  their  lives. 

No  two  officers,  we  think,  have  more  to  do  in  bring- 
ing this  desirable  result  about  than  the  superintendent 
and  the  teacher.  Upon  them  rests  the  greater  respon- 
sibility of  the  school,  and  more  is  expected  of  them. 
We  therefore  feel  that  this  service  is  vitally  essential 
in  Sunday-school  work  in  order  that  young  people 
may  be  converted  to  God. 

To  the  superintendent  the  student  rightfully  looks 
for  aid  and  sympathy.  He  expects  a  kindly  recogni- 
tion at  all  times  and  at  all  places.  It  is  a  mistaken 
idea  that  the  Sunday  school  is  in  session  but  one  day 
of  the  week.  Its  work  goes  on  the  entire  seven.  That 
he  may  not  hinder  the  work  then,  the  superintendent 
should  be  a  wide-awake,  energetic  leader,  who  pos- 
sesses the  executive  ability  to  conduct  his  school  in  a 
pleasant  and  instructive  manner,  who  has  its  interests 
at  heart  every  day  of  the  week.  In  our  country 
schools  it  has  not  been  practiced,  yet  we  feel  sure 
that  it  would  aid  in  the  work,  if  the  superintendent 
would  devote  some  time  in  calling  upon  his  scholars 
in  their  homes ;  in  that  way  he  may  impress  upon  them 
the  interest  he  has  for  them,  and  his  concern  for  their 
soul's  welfare. 

But,  in  our  country  schools  the  teacher  perhaps 
wields  the  greater  influence  of  the  two,  for  the  reason 
that  he  comes  in  closer  touch  with  the  student  than 
does  the  superintendent.  His  personality  impresses  it- 
self more   forcibly   upon   them,   being  under  his   im- 


mediate care.  Granting  this  to  be  true,  we  consider  a 
teacher's  mental  and  spiritual  qualifications  essentially 
necessary  in  leading  young  people  to  Christ.  Know- 
ing this  we  want  as  briefly  as  possible  to  notice  some 
of  the  qualifications  he  should  possess.  First,  he  must 
be  a  thoroughly  converted  Christian,  and  one  who. 
loves  the  work.  We  say  he  must  be  a  Christian :  yesj 
he  must  be  more.  He  must  be  one  in  belief ;  one  in  ex- 
perience and  one  in  example.  To  point  a  soul  to  God, 
one  must  first  feel  the  consciousness  of  sins  forgiven 
in  his  own  heart;  must  enjoy  the  peace  and  comfort 
of  a  soul  reclaimed  from  sin,  before  he  can  impart  the 
knowledge  to  others. 

Actual  experience  concerning  the  work  of  God'sj 
spirit  in  the  heart  adds  force  and.  power  to  the  taught 
Word.  Experience  strengthens  belief,  and  belief  mani- 
fests itself  in  worthy  deeds,  which  are  examples  of  a 
godly  life.  Such  teachers  at  once  win  the  confidence 
and  respect  of  those  whom  they  instruct,  and  througfl 
this  esteem  the  scholars  may  be  led  to  see  Christ 
through  the  teacher. 

Again  with  an  aim  so  high  and  a  work  so  grand 
as  that  of  a   Sunday-school   teacher,   is   it   too   much 
when  we  say  that  he  needs  a  preparation  for  his  work- 
as  much  as  does  the  instructor  in  the  week  day  school  ? 
He  deals  with  the  same  intellects,  addresses  himself 
to  the  same  powerful  energies  of  the  soul   (the  con- 
science, the  affections  and  the  will),  and  why. should 
he  not  make  equally  the  same  amount  of  preparation? 
We   think   it   essentially  necessary    that    our    secular 
teachers  be  properly  taught  and  trained  who  mould 
the  intellect  for  this  life,  why  should  we  deny  the  same 
privilege  to  one  who  trains  souls  for  eternity?     In  all 
teaching  it  requires  tact  to  know  how  best  approach 
a  scholar.     His  disposition,  his  surroundings,  his  likes 
and  dislikes  must  be  carefully  studied.     The    cause 
which  keep  him  away  from  God  should  be  known  anc 
understood.     His  home  surroundings,  companions  and 
in   fact,   everything   pertaining   to   his   soul's   welfare 
shouid  be  a  matter  of  careful  study  by  the  thoughtfu 
teacher.     Unless  one  possesses  the  natural  ability  ill 
this  direction,  it  is  almost  necessary  to  spend  some  timiH 
in  careful  preparation 

The  teacher's  aim  should  be  to  convince  his  pupil 
of  sin.  He  should  impress  the  thought  that  unles 
they  repent  they  will  be  forever  lost.  While  we  di 
not  believe  in  teaching  too  much  of  future  punishment 
we  still  feel  that  it  should  not.  be  entirely  neglectec 
If  a  house  were  burning,  and  a  person  were  lyinj 
asleep  in  it,  we  would  think  that  person  inexcusabl 
who  would  pass  by  without  warning  the  individual  0 
his  danger.  Why  then  should  a  lost  one  who  is  in 
much  greater  danger  be  any  the  less  warned  ?  In  otr. 
er  words,  lead  them  to  see  their  lost  and  dangerou 
position,  and  having  done  so  point  them  to  the  Savic 


THE  INGLENQOK. — November  22,  1904. 


who  rescues  them  from  it  all,  if  they  will  but  love  and 
obey  him.  After  having  them  realize  the  great  sacri- 
fice made  that  they  might  escape,  they  will  enter  the 
church  not  through  a  spirit  of  fear,  but  through  love 
for  what  has  been  done  for  them. 

In  conclusion,  allow  us  to  say  that  if  a  teacher  thor- 
oughly understands  himself,  his  pupils  and  his  work, 
if  he  be  an  individual  who  prays  as  well  as  teaches, 
if  he  studies  his  Bible  and  his  pupils,  he  will  undoubt- 
edly be  the  center  of  influence  in  the  Sunday  school 
and  lead  many  souls  to  God.  Led  by  such  a  person, 
and  taught  by  his  godly  life  and  example,  the  young 
people  who  come  to  God  through  his  instrumentality 
will  certainly  yield  a  mighty  influence  for  good  in  the 
world,  and  be  an  ornament  to  the  profession  they  have 
accepted. 

Dallas  Center,  Iowa. 

*  *$*  ♦ 
THE    CONGO    FREE    STATE    AGAIN. 


The  Rev.  Dr.  Thomas  S.  Barbour  favors  the 
Herald  with  another  communication  in  respect  of  the 
constitution  of  the  Congo  Free  State,  and  our  nation- 
al obligations  anent  the  mission  to  the  country  of  an 
agent  of  a  British  Congo  reform  association  to  induce 
the  United  States  government  to  lead  off  in  an  effort 
of  the  powers  that  have  recognized  the  state  to  secure 
better  conditions  than  now  prevail  in  that  part  of 
Africa.  Before  his  communication,  which  we  will- 
ingly publish,  was  received,  we  had  undertaken  to  re- 
fresh our  memory  of  the  circumstances  of  the  con- 
nection of  the  United  States  with  the  Congo  business, 
and  we  shall  here  state  the  facts  as  we  understand 
them,  comprising  some  points  that  Dr.  Barbour  has 
not  set  forth. 

Primarily,  this  Congo  venture  was  a  commercial 
enterprise.  Mr.  Stanley,  the  African  explorer,  was 
much  interested  in  it,  and  he  interested  the  King  of 
Belgium.  The  Portuguese,  the  Dutch  and  the  French 
had  trading  stations  at  various  places  along  the  coast, 
and  had  carried  on  a  profitable  commerce.  But  ac- 
cording to  Stanley,  there  were  greater  opportunities 
for  trade,  especially  in  palm  oil.  ivory  and  india  rub- 
ber,  in   the   valley  of   the   upper   Congo.     It   was   for 

■the  development  of  this  trade  that  the  International 
Association  of  the  Congo  was  formed.  This  associ- 
ation did  not  prosper.  An  agent  of  the  United  States. 
Mr.  Tisdell,  who  visited  the  region  officially  and  as- 
cended the  middle  Congo,  made  an  unfavorable  report. 
Apparently,   the   association    was   not    strong   enough, 

Had  had  not  sufficient  authority,  to  accomplish  its  ends. 

Under  these  cirucmstances,   the   Berlin   conference. 

in  which  most  of  the  European  states  and  the  United 

States,    which   also   had   recognized   the   International 

iAssociation,  took  part.  By  this  conference  a  long  and 
important  "  Act  "  in  six  chapters  was  adopted.     The 


initial  purposes  of  the  conference  were  to  intro- 
duce freedom  of  commerce  in  the  basin  and  mouths 
of  the  Congo ;  to  extend  to  the  Congo  and  the  Niger 
certain  principles  of  freedom  of  navigation  such  as 
the  previous  Vienna  congress  had  adopted  as  to  "  inter- 
national rivers,"  and  to  decide  on  the  formalities  to  be 
observed  in  taking  possession  of  new  territory  on  the 
African  coast.  The  action  taken  made  King  Leopold, 
who  had  long  been  especially  interested  in  the  under- 
taking and  had  advanced  large  sums  of  money  to 
the  association,  "  sovereign  and  sole  administrator " 
of  the  Congo  country,  the  bounds  of  which  were  in 
the  act  defined.  He  has  held  that  office  ever  since, 
and  he  changed  the  name  of  this  newly  established 
and  sanctioned  common  trading  ground  of  the  nations 
to  the  Independent  State  of  the  Congo,  or,  as  it  is 
commonly  called,  the  Congo  Free  State. 

The  efforts  made  by  the  International  Association 
of  the  Congo  to  establish  commercial  routes  into  the 
interior  of  the  country  were  promptly  availed  of  by 
sundry  missionary  societies  for  the  location  of  mission- 
ary stations,  and  in  their  work  the  Baptists  of  Eng- 
land and  America  have  taken  a  leading  part.  The 
missionaries  have  been  instrumental  in  revealing  the 
horrible  inhumanities  toward  the  natives  that  have 
characterized  King  Leopold's  avaricious  rule.  They 
complain  also  of  injustice  and  wrongs  suffered  bv 
themselves. 

•  The  question  of  importance  with  regard  to  the  com- 
ing to  this  country  of  an  agent  of  the  English  pro- 
testors against  the  character  of  King  Leopold's  rule 
is  the  degree  of  responsibility  which  the  United  States 
has  assumed  in  respect  of  that  country  by  its  partici- 
pation in  the  congress  held  in  Berlin  in  1884-85  for 
the  establishment  of  what  is  known  as  the  Free  State 
of  the  Congo.  In  this  conference  John  A.  Kasson 
was  one  of  the  American  representatives  and  took  an 
active  part.  President  Arthur,  in  his  last  annual  mes- 
sage to  Congress,  December  1,  1884,  said: 

"  Pursuant  to  the  advice  of  the  Senate  at  the  last 
session,  I  recognized  the  flag  of  the  International 
Association  of  the  Congo  as  that  of  a  friendly  govern- 
ment, avoiding,  in  so  doing,  an  pre-judgment  of  con- 
flicting territorial  claims  in  that  region.  Subsequently, 
in  execution  of  the  expressed  wish  of  the  congress, 
I  appointed  a  commercial  agent  fur  the  Congo  Basin. 
The  importance  of  the  rich  prospective  trade  of  the 
Congo  valley  lias  led  to  the  general  conviction  that  it 
should  be  open  to  all  cations  on  equal  terms.  At  an 
international  conference  for  the  consideration  of  this 
subject,  called  by  the  German  Emperor  and  now  in 
sessil  ,n  at  Berlin,  delegates  are  in  attendance  on  he- 
half  of  the  United  States.  Of  the  results  of  this  con- 
ference you  will  be  duly  advised." 

In   the  first   annual   message  of   President   Cleveland 


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THE  INGLENOOK.— November  22,  1904. 


sent  to  Congress  December  8,   1885,  referring  to  this 
Berlin  conference,  he  said : 

"  A  conference  of  delegates  of  the  principal  com- 
mercial nations  was  held  at  Berlin  last  winter  to  dis- 
cuss methods  whereby  the  Congo  Basin  might  be  kept 
open  to  the  world's  trade.  Delegates  attended  on 
behalf  of  the  United  States,  on  the  understanding 
(mark  this)  that  their  part  should  be  merely  deliber- 
ative, without  imparting  to  the  results  any  binding 
character  so  far  as  the  United  States  was  concerned. 
This  reserve  was  due  to  the  indisposition  of  this 
government  to  share  in  any  disposal  by  an  international 
congress  of  jurisdictional  questions  in  remote  foreign 
territories.  The  results  of  the  conference  \va°.  em- 
bodied in  a  formal  act  of  the  nature  of  an  international 
convention,  which  laid  down  certain  obligations,  pur- 
porting to  be  binding  on  the  signatories,  subject  to 
ratification  within  one  year.  Notwithstanding  the  res- 
ervations under  which  the  delegates  of  the  United 
States  attended,  their  signatures  were  attached  to  the 
general  act  in  the  same  manner  as  those  of  the 
plenipotentiaries  of  other  powers,  thus  making  the 
United  States  appear,  without  reserve  or  qualification, 
as  signatories  to  a  joint  international  engagement 
imposing  on  the  signers  the  conservation  of  the  terri- 
torial integrity  of  distant  regions  where  we  have  no 
established  interests  or  control. 

"  This  government  does  not,  however,  regard  its  res- 
ervation of  liberty  of  action  in  the  premises  as  at  all 
impaired,  and,  holding  that  an  engagement  to  share 
in  the  obligation  of  enforcing  neutrality  in  the  remote 
valley  of  the  Congo  would  be  an  alliance  whose  re- 
sponsibilities we  would  not  be  in  a  position  to  assume, 
I  abstain  from  asking  the  sanction  of  the  Senate  to 
that   general   act." 

Was  it  sanctioned  by  the  Senate  within  the  year? 
Let  Dr.  Barbour  say.  If  not,  this  country  is  under  no 
obligation  of  a  binding  character  to  do  anything  what- 
ever to  enforce  the  terms  and  agreements  of  the  Berlin 
conference.  This  nation  is  not  a  joint  and  responsible 
partner  with  the  European  powers  to  guarantee  the 
commercial  neutrality  or  the  policy  and  order  of  the 
Free  State  of  the  Congo.  Whatever  inferences  might 
be  made  from  the  Rev.  Dr.  Barbour's  fragmentary 
quotations  of  documents  as  to  the  responsibility  of  the 
United  States  in  this  matter,  the  Congo  State  should 
be  allowed  to  excercise  their  just  rights  in  respect  to 
trade  "  as  well  as  upon  the  ground  of  an  "  humane  in- 
terest in  the  well-being  of  mankind." 

But  however  our  responsibility  in  reference  to 
conditions  in  the  Congo  may  finally  be  defined,  ought 
we  not,  in  the  name  of  fair  play  and  of  international 
courtesy,  to  accord  a  hearing  to  the  considerations 
advanced  by  those  who  come  to  ask  our  assistance 
in  "  putting  a  stop  to  the  inhumanity  "  which  you  so 


justly  characterize  as  horrible  and  monstrous,  rather 
than  to  repel  as  an  intruder  an  ambassador  from  a 
friendly  people  who  comes  to  us  upon  a  mission  of 
mercy  and  international  advancement? 

Reply 
To  the  Editor  of  the  Herald : — 

Your  courteous  comments  upon  my  note  of  the  20th 
inst.,  regarding  your  editorial  on  "  Our  Concern  in 
the  Congo,"  apparently  invite  and  require  naturally 
the  adding  of  a  supplement  to  my  communication. 
I  make  this  more  than  willingly,  because  I  recognize 
that  your  editorials  have  dealt  with  the  one  debatable 
question  connected  with  the  shocking  situation  in  the 
Congo,  that  of  our  government's  responsibility  and] 
right  in  the  case,  and  because  of  my  fear  that  a  hasty 
inference  from  the  fact  of  our  failure  to  ratify  formally 
the  action  of  the  Berlin  conference  may  tend  pi'actically 
to  promote  the  perpetuation  of  these  cruel  conditions. 

I  would  gladly  indicate  at  length  by  citations  froirj 
official  records  considerations  which  appear  to  me  to 
demonstrate  conclusively  the  responsibility  and  power 
of  our  government  in  this  case.  But,  lest  I  overtax 
your  columns,  I  write  only  one  or  two  points  re4 
lating  to  the  issue.  To  my  thought,  your  words  o£ 
this  morning  fail  to  indicate  adequately  the  closeness 
of  the  relation  between  our  action  in  recognition  of  the 
International  Association  of  the  Congo  and  the  action 
taken  by  the  conference  at  Berlin.  The  recognition 
given  by  our  government  and  by  the  Berlin  conference 
was  given  to  one  and  the  same  body.  The  records  of 
the  conference  show  that  the  early  name  of  this  body, 
"  The  International  Association  of  the  Congo,"  was  re- 
tained throughout  the  deliberations  at  Berlin.  The 
title,  "  The  Independent  State  of  the  Congo,"  was  as- 
sumed by  the  King  six  months  later.  The  motives 
urged  by  the  Congo  Association,  and  the  purpose 
avowed  by  it,  were  precisely  the  same  in  its  appeal 
to  our  government  and  its  representations  at  Berlin 

Moreover,  our  government  was  represented  by  two 
delegates  in  the  conference  at  Berlin.  The  records 
show  that  no  other  members  were  more  prominent, 
or  influenced  the  deliberations  more  strongly,  than 
these  two  men,  Mr.  Kasson  and  Mr.  Sanford. 

Permit  me  to  call  your  attention  to  the  words  of 
Mr.  Cleveland  in  the  message  to  the  Senate  in  which 
he  announces  the  results  of  the  Berlin  conference : 

"This  action  taken  by  this  government  last  year  in 
being  the  first  to  recognize  the  flag  of  the  International 
Association  has  been  followed  by  formal  recognition 
of  the  new  nationality  which  succeeds  to  its  sovereign 
power."  ("  Messages  and  papers  of  the  President,'1 
Vol.  8,  p.  329.) 

It  is  true  that  it  was  not  designed  that  these  dele- 1 
gates  should  have  unrestricted  powers,  but  Mr.  Cleve- 
land continues : 


THE  INGLENO'OK.— November  22 


1904. 


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"  Notwithstanding  the  reservation  under  which  the 
delegates  of  the  United  States  attended,  their  sig- 
natures were  attached  to  the  general  act  in  the  same 
manner  as  those  of  the  plenipotentiaries  of  other  gov- 
ernments, thus  making  the  United  States  appear  with- 
out reservation  or  qualification  as  signatories  of  the 
joint  national  engagement." 

The  President  gives  as  a  reason  for  abstaining  from 
"seeking  the  sanction  of  the  Senate  to  that  general 
act,"  not  a  repudiation  of  the  action  in  which  so  promi- 
nent a  part  was  borne  by  our  representatives,  but  the 
desire  to  avoid  "  the  obligation  of  enforcing  neutrality 
in  the  remote  valley  of  the  Congo." 

I  submit  to  you  that,  in  view  of  this  identification 
of  our  government  with  the  creation  of  the  Congo  state, 
we  can  scarcely  be  accused  of  passing  the  bounds  of 
propriety  if  lending  our  influence  for  the  promotion 
of  an  inquiry  into  the  results  following  our  action. 
It  is  significant  that  just  now  representatives  of  King 
Leopold  are  referring  to  the  original  action  of  our 
government  as  a  ground  for  denying  to  the  powers 
represented  in  the  Berlin  conference  jurisdiction  in  the 
affairs  of  the  Congo  State,  the  claim  preferred  being 
that,  before  the  time  of  the  meeting  of  the  Berlin  con- 
ference, the  state  receivd  American  recognition  as  an 
independent  and  self-governing  power. 

The  fact  is  clear  that  our  government,  as  well  as 
the  conference,  was  misled  by  the  fair  pretentions 
of  King  Leopold,  and  we,  as  well  as  other  nations, 
have  just  ground  for  indignant  protest  in  view  of  his 
gross  violation  of  his  pledge  to  administer  the  state  in 
the  interests  of  "  the  moral  and  material  regeneration 
of  its  people  "  and  for  the  promotion  of  unrestricted 
commerce  for  all  nations. 

It  should  be  recognized,  I  think,  that  this  case  is  not 
simply  one  of  humanitarian  appeal,  like  that  of  suf- 
ferers in  Armenia  and  Russia.  If,  unwittingly,  we 
have  lent  our  powerful  influence  for  the  creation  of 
a  government  by  which  an  innocent,  helpless  people 
are  subjected  to  atrocious  wrongs,  and  if  our  action 
was  induced  by  misleading  and  fraudulent  repre- 
sentations, both  our  responsibility  and  our  right  to 
employ  legitimate  methods  for  the  correction  of  these 
evils  would  seem  unquestionable. 

As  I  have  already  indicated  certain  other  con- 
siderations apparently  render  action  by  our  govern- 
ment at  this  time  both  justifiable  and  vitally  important 
for  the  conserving  of  the  rights  of  our  people.  I  shall 
welcome,  and  I  believe  many  others  of  your  readers  will 
welcome,  such  expression  of  judgment  regarding  these 
points  as  you  may  be  moved  to  make  after  further 
examination  of  official  records.  I  think  yoii  will  find 
them  worthy  of  recognition.  The  fact  that  our  gov- 
ernment participated  in  and  formally  indorsed  the 
action  of  the  conference  in  Brussels  is  particularly  im- 


portant in  view  of  the  consideration  that  it  was  by  this 
conference  that  power  was  given  to  the  Congo  ruler 
to  raise  and  maintain  the  army  of  30,000  savages  by 
whose  agency  the  terrible  inhumanities  are  inflicted 
upon  the  people.  The  violation  of  the  treaty  between 
our  own  government  and  the  Congo  State  bears  closely 
upon  the  issue  now  before  us,  as  this  treaty,  which 
guaranteed  to  us  unrestricted  rights  of  trade,  definitely 
provides  for  the  arbitrament  o'f  complaints  arising  on 
the  part  of  either  party  to  the  contract. 

You  will  note  that  I  referred  to  the  gentleman  who 
comes  from  England  as  a  representative  of  the  Congo 

Reform  Association— to  whose  visit  you  referred as 

"  an  ambassador  "  not  of  the  British  government,  but 
of  the  British  people.  The  British  government  has, 
indeed,  taken  the  initiative  in  action  looking  toward 
an  impartial  investigation  of  conditions  in  the  Congo 
State,  and  the  request  now  to  be  preferred  to  our 
government  is  for  such  action  as  may  consistently  be 
taken  in  furtherance  of  such  an  investigation.  The  list 
of  names  found  in  the  constituency  of  the  Congo  Re- 
form Association  indicates  both  its  widely  represen- 
tative character  and  the  high-minded,  disinterested 
motives  controlling  its  work.  I  think  it  is  not  un- 
fitting to  regard  this  gentleman,  who  comes  with  a  pe- 
tition to  the  President,  as  an  envoy  from  a  sister 
people  whose  hearts  are  profoundly  stirred  bv  the 
wrongs  of  helpless  sufferers  and  the  ruthless  violation 
of  the  rights  of  nations.  I  would  still  bespeak  for  him 
an  open-minded  hearing. — Thomas  S.  Barbour,  in 
Boston  Herald. 

*  *  * 

SWISS    TUNNELS. 


With  the  approaching  completion  of  the  Simplon 
Tunnel  another  great  Swiss  engineering  feat  will  have 
been  accomplished.  Perhaps  no  other  country  in  the 
world  has  shown  more  enterprise  and  determination 
in  the  construction  of  means  of  communication  than 
Switzerland.  In  spite  of  almost  unsurmountable  ob- 
stacles the  little  republic  has  connected  itself  with  the 
chief  lines  of  Europe.  By  means  of  the  great  St. 
Gothard  Tunnel  the  main  lines  of  Italy  are  brought 
into  communication  with  those  of  Switzerland,  and 
a  like  result  is  brought  about  by  the  Mom  Cents, 
which  connects  them  with  the  French  lines.  The 
celebrated  "overland"  train-  from  Calais  to  Brindisi 
go  via  the  St.  Gothard  Tunnel,  which  is  <>',  miles  in 
length.  Then  the  lines  up  the  mountains  and  over  the 
passes  worked  on  the  cog-wheel  system  are  all  tri- 
umphs of  man's  ingenuity  over  a  nature  sometimes 
less  impregnable  than  one  has  thought. 
*   *   * 

Trouble  is  a  good  deal  like  exercise,  it  help-  to 
make  a  man  strong.— Vohm?  Men's  Era. 


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THANKSGIVING. 


It  is  to  be  supposed  that  there  is  not  a  single  Nooker 
in  our  family  but  what  has  been  taught  from  his  child- 
hood to  say  "  thank  you  "  ior  the  presents  received 
from  his  friends.  Though  we  sometimes  forget  it. 
it  is  generally  understood  that  we  are  grateful  to  those 
who  give  them.  But  our  negligence  along  this  line 
has  almost  brought  us  to  the  door  of  indifference,  and 
indifference  finally  leads  us  to  carelesness,  and  it  fol- 
lows then  that  a  great  deal  of  the  demonstrations 
which  we  make  on  the  receipt  of  gifts  are  formal. 

There  are  exceptions  to  all  rules.  Still  water  runs 
deep.  Sometimes  in  the  silent  recesses  of  the  heart 
real  gratitude  buds  and  blossoms.  "  Full  many  a 
flower  is  born  to  blush  unseen,  and  waste  its  sweetness 
on  the  desert  air."  One  of  the  highest  marks  of  cul- 
ture is  appreciation  and  the  proper  demonstration  of 
it.  While  it  is  true  that  a  gift  should  be  given  with 
no  thought  of  ever  receiving  anything  in  return,  yet 
true  gratitude  is  nothing  more  than  an  inward  feel- 
ing which  means  that  the  receiver  appreciates  the 
gift  for  all  it  is  worth.  A  gift  is  prized  by  three  stand- 
points. 

1.  Its  intrinsic  value. 

2.  The  hand  that  gave  it. 

3.  The  motive  that  prompted  the  gift. 

No  matter  what  the  size  of  the  gift  may  be,  it  has 
its  intrinsic  value.  It  has  so  much  real  worth  as 
measured  by  the  unit  of  value.  It  has  so  much  worth 
as  estimated  bv  the  donor.     It  has  so  much  worth  as 


, 


; 


estimated  by  the  receiver.  An  orange  or  a  bag  of 
peanuts,  a  doll  baby  or  a  hobby  horse,  is  of  equal  val- 
ue to  ponies,  chariots  or  costly  things,  provided  that  the 
poor  child  receives  the  things  of  minor  value,  and  the] 
wealthy  man's  child  is  the  recipient  of  those  things  | 
which  are  more  expensive.  Our  environments  have  a 
great  deal  to  do  with  the  effect  that  gifts  have  upon 
us. 

Again,  a  gift  becomes  more  valuable  as  we  take  in- 
to consideration  the  character  and  disposition  of  the 
person  who  gave  it  and  what  relation  he  sustains  to 
us.  If  we  are  convinced  that  the  donor  is  a  personal 
friend  of  ours,  the  gift  is  more  highly  appreciated  than 
if  it  be  from  a  stranger  or  new  acquaintance.  It  is 
possible  that  this  point  may  overrule  the  first,  e.  g.i 
A  certain  grandmother  presented  her  grandson  with  an 
old.  old  Bible.  Its  intrinsic  value  was  not  so  much, 
but  knowing  as  he  does  that  the  Bible  was  grand- 
mother's, and  even  grandmother's  grandfather's,  and 
that  it  is  a  sacred  relic  so  far  as  his  church  is  con-a 
cerned,  the  value  which  is  placed  upon  it  by  him  is  many 
times  its  real  worth. 

In  the  third  place,  if  the  motive  behind  the  gift  is 
a  good  one  and  you  are  satisfied  that  it  is  from  sheer 
love,  it  makes  your  very  being  fill  with  joy  to  stretch 
an  open  hand  for  the  gift.  But  when  you  feel  sus- 
picious that  an  enemy  has  sent  this  gift  under  disguise, 
being  ignorant  of  its  contents,  you  cannot  have  the  same 
confidence  and  the  swellings  of  joy  do  not  arise  in! 
your  heart  until  the  whole  matter  has  been  disclosed, 
and  you  are  fully  assured  that  the  motive  which  promp- 
ted the  gift  is  love.  So  all  three  of  these  elements 
enter  into  the  value  of  the  gift. 

Now,  for  what  shall  we  be  thankful  on  this  great 
Thanksgiving  day.  Count  your  blessings.  What  is 
the  intrinsic  value  of  all  your  blessings  this  year, — 
your  health,  your  life,  your  freedom,  your  friends, 
your  home? 

Whose  hand  has  lavishly  bestowed  all  these?  The 
hand  of  our  heavenly  Father — who  is  the  God  and 
Father  of  all.  What  has  been  the  motive  that  promp- 
ted all  these  gifts,— Love,  LOVE,  nothing  but  LOVlf 
Then  how  shall  be  say  "thank  you"?  What  have 
you  decided  upon?  Have  you  decided  to  tell  your 
thanks  in  a  very  demonstrative  way  so  that  your  friends 
and  neighbors  and  your  God  may  know  that  you  ar^ 
thankful  indeed?  Share  your  turkey  with  the  needy 
*  *  * 
THE    ANXIOUS    SEAT. 


Were  it  possible  to  board  an  airship  and  be  convevec 
the    proper    distance    above    terra  firma  and  be  wel 
equipped  with  telescopes  and  field  glasses,  and  weF<    t 
all  the  earth  a  plane  instead  of  a  sphere  so  that  th< 
United  States  could  be  seen  at  one  glance  from  oui 


THE  INGLENOOK.— November  22,  1904. 


1119 


exalted  position,  what  a  panorama  would  meet  our 
eyes  on  the  evening  of  November  8!  when,  in  every 
city,  village  and  hamlet  in  our  blessed  Republic,  could 
be  seen  crowds  and  crowds  of  men  jamming,  rush- 
ing and  pushing  to  get  one  inch  nearer  the  bulletin 
board.  In  other  places  we  might  behold  great  sheets 
stretched  across  the  streets  upon  which  election  re- 
turns were  being  thrown  by  stereopticons  for  thous- 
ands to  read.  In  another  place  some  man  with  a  deep, 
-bass  voice  would  be  calling  out  to  the  anxious  multi- 
tude the  number  of  ballots  cast  in  a  certain  State  in 
the  Union.  Cheers,  first  of  one  pr.rty  and  then  of  an- 
other, would  fill  the  air  with  a  tumult  to  a  degree  al- 
most deafening.  Emotions  rise  and  fall  in  the  hearts 
■of  the  anxious  public. 

To  the  looker-on,  should  he  be  a  disinterested  party, 
it  would  appear  that  the  fate  of  the  nation  depended 
upon  the  decision  of  the  moment.  According  to  the 
anxious  words  and  wishes  of  the  frenzied  populace, 
he  would  be  compelled  to  conclude  that  if  one  of  the 
parties  were  victorious  it  would  mean  life,  prosperity 
and  happiness ;  should  the  other  win,  it  would  mean 
desperation,  torment  and  wreck.  And  in  another  mo- 
ment, before  he  had  time  to  readjust  the  glass,  his 
opinion  would  be  whirled  about  as  if  on  a  pivot,  and 
the  other  half  of  the  anxious  motley  crowd  would 
reverse  the  decision  and  say  the  contrary.  And  so  it 
goes.  The  entire  public,  with  the  exception  of  a  few 
who  are  afraid,  and  a  few  who  are  ignorant,  and  a  few 
who  are  too  lazy  to  take  any  interest  in  the  welfare 
of  themselves  or  anybody  else,  is  wrought  up  to  this 
degree  of  excitement  and  enthusiam  by  the  momentous 
problems  that  stare  the  public  in  the  face. 

While  the  people  should  refrain  from  foolish  things, 
and  while  they  should  refrain  from  vanity,  noise,  tu- 
mult, riot,  unfriendly  criticism,  desperation  and  false- 
hood, and  all  these  base  elements  that  go  tn  make  up 
anarchy  and  crime,  yet  there  should  be  the  proper 
amount  of  patriotism,  enthusiasm  and  earnestness  to 
manifest  true  patriotism  in  any  and  all  republics. 

But  one  question  bound  to  arise  in  the  heart  of  the 
man  in  the  balloon  would  be  difficult  for  him  to  an- 
swer. Why  should  these  people  be  so  enthusiastic 
about  their  political  faith  and  about  the  success  of 
their  particular  party,  and  be  so  indolent,  disinterested 
and  negligent  about  the  moral  status  of  the  neighbor- 
hood and  vicinity  in  which  they  reside  ;  about  the  ed- 
ucational system  of  their  State,  or  about  the  healthy 
religious  sentiment  that  prevades  the  immediate  lo- 
cality ? 

Why  is  it  that  men  will  willfully  overlook  their 
higher  interests  and  often  be  completely  overwhelmed 
with  the  excitement  and  influences  that  are  decidedly 
lower?  What  influence  is  it  that  fastens  itself  upon  the 
minds  and  hearts  of  men  that  will  cause  them  volun- 


tarily to  choose  this  lower  stratum,  and  why  will  men 
be  satisfied  with  both  the  cesspool  and  mudhole  of  this 
very  ordinary  arena  of  life,  when  their  possibilities  are 
much  higher,  nobler  and  grander? 

♦  ♦  * 
BUGS. 


In  these  days  of  'atomies,  'ologies,  'isms  and  'atics  a 
great  deal  is  heard  about  bacteria,  disease  germs,  para- 
sites, etc.  Science  turns  itself  loose  on  the  fabric  of 
theory  until  it  is  almost  threadbare,  and  to  the  weaker 
minds  of  the  public  are  shown  horrors  to  such  a  degree 
that  the  physician  is  pained  to  know  what  he  is  meeting 
in  the  mind  of  the  patient,  rather  than  to  meet  his 
physical  ailments.  The  casual  observer  is  made  to 
wonder  about  all  these  bugs  that  are  being  dreaded  so, 
which  are  the  most  harmful  and  which  ones  should  be 
watched  with  the  greatest  care.  And  after  we  have 
aiade  careful  investigations  of  these  murderous  villians 
we  are  compelled  to  decide  that  the  most  dangerous 
bug  of  the  whole  lot  is  the  humbug. 

Because  the  bacteria  that  causes  consumption  is 
found  only  in  its  particular  field ;  the  bacteria  of  fe- 
vers and  the  bacteria  of  septicemia  are  not  dreaded 
outside  of  their  localities,  but  the  humbug,  the  mis- 
erable wretch,  is  found  in  every  avenue  of  life,  among 
every  race  of  people,  and  in  all  ages  and  nations.  He 
hums  his  deceptive  tune  to  the  condolence  of  the  most 
insatiable  ear.  He  lulls  to  sleep  the  patience  of  the 
inquisitive  populace,  and,  when  he  has  given  his  anaes- 
thetic that  lulls  to  sleep  our  senses,  we  lie  quietly  by 
while  he  operates  upon  our  vitals,  and  then  we  awake 
to  be  apprised  of  the  fact  that  we  have  been  hum- 
bugged. 

Yes,  we  are  humbugged  in  politics,  society  and  re- 
ligion. May  some  ingenious  invention  come  along 
some  of  these  days  with  an  antitoxine  for  an  extermin- 
ation of  the  humbug. 

**•  .j.  * 

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this. 


Honor  will  not  trip  ,;  neighbor  in  order  to  outstrip 
him  in  a  race. 


THE  INGLENOOK.— November  22,  1904. 


Current      Happening'G 


At  Cleveland,  Ohio,  three  men  have  been  arrested 
by  the  United  States  Secret  Service,  charged  with  mak- 
ing and  circulating  counterfeit  Hungarian  money, 
which  is  used  there  by  Hungarian  laborers  in  exchange 
for  American  money.  It  seems  that  the  matter  was 
detected  and  brought  to  knowledge  of  the  officials 
through  the  Hungarian  Government. 

*  *  * 

Baron  Von  Sternburg  and  Secretary  Hay  have  be- 
gun negotiations  in  an  earnest  manner  to  endeavor  to 
establish  an  arbitration  treaty  between  Germany  and 
the  United  States  at  the  suggestion  of  President  Roose- 
velt. 

*  *  * 

At  the  University  of  California,  President  Wheeler 
under  direction  of  the  War  Department  dismissed  a 
large  number  of  pupils,  who  rebelled  against  the  order 
of  the  school  to  march  into  the  class  room. 

*  4>  * 

An  inventor  by  the  name  of  Pickering  has  discover- 
ed a  new  process  by  which  bread  can  be  successfully 
made,  exclusive  of  the  extended  period  generally  allow- 
ed for  dough  to  rise.  He  has  succeeded  in  baking 
bread  from  the  raw  material  in  two  hours  and  thirty- 
five  minutes. 

*  *  * 

The  Chinese  Government  has  asked  England  for  a 
meeting  place  where  a  Commission  representing  both 
countries  might  re-consider  the  Anglo-Thibetan  treaty 
which  was  signed  at  Lassa  last  September. 

*  *  * 

The  English  Government  is  just  a  little  worried 
about  the  continual  rush  of  Irish  emigrants  to  America. 
Over  twenty,  thousand  from  Ireland  alone  have  left 
during  this  year.  It  is  estimated  at  the  present  that 
they  are  embarking  at  the  rate  of  two  thousand  a  week. 
Too  bad  she  had  not  awakened  to  her  best  interests 
some  years  ago  and  not  overwhelmed  them  with  the 
burden  of  a  Standing  army  of  50,000  and  the  imposi- 
tion of  an  enormous  tax  and  a  restriction  which  made 
it  impossible  for  them  to  own  their  own  homes.  Under 
present  conditions  the  only  way  the  Irish  can  exist  is 
by  their  sons  and  daughters  in  America  sending  money 
home  to  their  parents. 

The  manufacture  of  starch  from  potatoes  is  receiv- 
ing quite  a  boom  at  the  hands  of  a  group  of  capitalists 
at  Barcelona,  Spain.  Up  to  the  present  time  potatoes 
have  not  been  grown  extensively  in  that  country,  but 
experiments  have  proven  that  the  Spanish  soil  produces 
excellent  tubers. 


Prof.  Charles  Richardson  of  Dartmouth  College 
has  expressed  his  opinion  that  the  petrified  body  of  a 
woman  which  was  recently  found  at  Washington, 
Vermont,  is  one  of  a  race  which  inhabited  America 
prior  to  the  time  of  the  Indians.  The  body  is  five  feet 
ten  inches  and  bears  every  evidence  of  having  been 
murdered. 

*  *  * 

A  new  idea  has  been  carried  into  effect  by  Rev.  G. 
A.  Morrill  of  Minneapolis,  Minnesota  for  the  purpose 
of  securing  a  better  attendance  at  his  services.  He  has 
planned  a  large  church  building  composed  of  three 
apartments.  First,  the  church  proper,  second,  a  theater 
and  third,  a  saloon.  The  combination,  to  good  think- 
ing people,  seems  about  as  feasible  as  raising  wild 
cats,  rattle-snakes  and  babies  all  in  the  same  cradle.  It 
may  be  helpful  to  the  patronage  of  the  saloon  and  the- 
ater, but  at  the  same  time  be  a  little  hard  on  the  spirit- 
uality of  the  church  membership. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Helen  Gould  becoming  disgusted  with  some 
of  the  immoral  and  otherwise  objectionable  features  of 
the  entertainments  or.  the  Pike  at  the  World's  Fair, 
asked  the  managers  that  they  be  either  improved  or 
discontinued.  We  are  glad  that  Miss  Gould  has  set 
her  little  golden  slipper  upon  such  social  outrages  as 
were  there. 

The  people  in  some  parts  of  Kansas  are  becoming 
somewhat  alarmed  at  the  immense  quantities  of  large 
alfalfa  grasshoppers  which  have  visited  their  section 
during  the  autumn  and  have  deposited  countless  mil- 
lions of  eggs  which  insure  a  grashopper  famine  the 
coming  season,  with  the  possible  exception  that  the 
winter  may  be  sufficiently  severe  to  destroy  the  eggs 
of  the  insects. 

*  *  * 

Elizabeth  T.  Greennough  of  New  York  has  sued 
the  Standard  Oil  Company  for  fifty  million  dollar  dam- 
age. Her  claim  rests  upon  the  fact  that  her  husband 
(deceased)  who  was  an  inventor  had  discovered  the 
secret  process  for  treating  petroleum  in  such  a  way  as 
to  make  it  non-explosive.  The  great  Syndicate  had 
not  stolen  the  patent  of  course.  They  had  just  quietly 
borrowed  it,  supposing  that  Mrs.  Greennough  knew 
nothing  of  it. 

*  *   * 

Another  battle-ship,  the  cruiser  New  Jersey,  was 
recently  launched  from  the  shipyards  at  Quincy,  Mass. 
There  was  nothing  inconsistent  about  suing  for  peace 
on  one  hand  and  building  war  ships  on  the  other. 


' 


THE  I NGLENOOK.— November  22,  1904. 


1121 


The  International  Committee  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
•eports  over  eighteen  hundred  associations  with  a 
nembership  of  over  three  hundred  and  fifty  thousand, 
dore  than  two  million  dollars  have  been  expended  this 
'ear  on  buildings  in  this  country  alone. 
<3»  <|»  4» 

Portuguese  priest,  Father  Himalya,  who  is  pro- 
essor  of  physics  has  invented  a  sun  motor   or  as  he  calls 

a  pyrheliophoro,  which  is  on  exhibition  at  the 
Vorld's  Fair.  He  claims  to  have  discovered  that  the 
eat  of  the  sun  is  more  than  double  that  of  the  electric 
fc.  By  the  use  of  his.  great  mirror-reflector  he  has 
een  able  to  reduce  asbestos  to  a  charred  state,  has 
lelted  iron  and  manganese.  He  also  states  that  the 
rigin  of  the  heat  of  the  sun  is;  without  doubt  elec- 
•ical. 

*  *  * 

Rev.  R.  J.  Campbell  of  London,  says  that  paganism 
making  its  inroads  into  England  as  well  as  into 
merica.  That  the  laboring  man  there  is  continually 
implaining  for  better  wages  and  shorter  hours,  and 
lat  with  every  single  increase  of  wages  and  decrease 
f  time,  statistics  show  a  slight  increase  in  the  liquor 
;11,  as  well  as  an  increase  of  desecration  of  the  Sabbath, 
unday,  the  most  boisterous  day  in  the  week  is  when  the 
ch  man  gives  his  drinking  parties  and  the  poor  man 
;ts  drunk  with  his  pals. 

•$.  «t>  $ 

The  City  of  Rio  Janerio,  the  vessel  which  sank  off 
an  Francisco  in  1901,  carried  down  with  her  one 
indred  and  twenty  passengers.  The  United  States 
upreme  Court  has  decided  that  the  Pacific  Mail  Com- 
iny  must  stand  the  damages. 

*  *  * 

Pope  Pius  X.  is  said  to  be  suffering  from  a  severe 
tack  of  rheumatism. 

*  *  * 

Telegrams  from  Naples.  Italy,  say  that  Mt.  Vesuv- 
s  is  again  in  eruption  and  that  the  top  of  the  ash 
itt  has  fallen  in  with  a  tremendous  explosion  and 
Kids  of  ashes  cover  the  country  for  a  radius  of  twen- 
miles. 

V    V    *t* 

Tin:  name  of  Admiral  Dewey  has  been  suggested  as 
member  of  the  Commission  to  assist  in  the  settlement 
me  I  roubles  between  England  and  Russia. 
4»   *fr   <• 

An  old  lady  aged  seventy-five  in  this  City  ended  her 
e  with  a  rope  in  the  basement  of  her  residence  the 
lier  evening,  for  the  reason  that,  though  she  and  her 
isband  had  made  a  fortune  several  times,  had  each 
ne  lost  it.  The  last  shock  was  too  much  for  her 
lich  caused  her  to  commit  the  act  recorded  above. 


Let  us  see  how  man)-  of  the  Inglenook  family 
will  be  strictly  obedient  and  loyal  this  year  to  the  proc- 
lamation of  the  President  setting  aside  the  day  of  No- 
vember 24th  as  a  day  of  thanksgiving  at  home  and 
abroad. 

*  *  * 

On  Saturday  evening,  seventeen  cars  of  fruit  and 
meat  were  dumped  into  a  heap  by  an  ill-fated  freight 
train  on  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  and  St.  Paul  Railway 
just  outside  of  Elgin  City  limits.  Bushels  and  bushels 
of  California  fruit  were  carried  away  by  the  crowd  of 
people  which  quickly  gathered.  Several  wheelbarrow 
loads  of  fine  hams  and  shoulders  were  carted  away. 
A  great  many  people  who  are  far  above  taking  money 
out  of  a  man's  pocket  are  not  too  good  to  steal  from  a 
company  when  they  think  the  company  knows  nothing 
about  it.     Even  some  Christians  forget  that  God  can 

see  when  it  is  dark. 

<t>  *  .;. 

The  Most  Rev.  Henry  Elder,  Archbishop  of  Cin- 
cinnati, died  repeating  the  "  Salve  Regina,"  at  the  age 
of  eighty-six. 

*  *   * 

Secretary  Hay  and  Ambassador  Jusserand  to-day 
signed  a  treaty  for  the  settlement  by  arbitration  of  all 
possible  disputes  between  United  States  and  France. 

A  writer  in  The  World's  Work  says:  Although 
the  population  of  Russia  is  nearly  three  and  one-half 
times  as  great  as  the  population  of  Japan,  and  its  area 
nearly  six  times  as  great,  the  Japanese  have  a  million 
more  pupils  in  their  schools  than  the  Russians.  They 
publish  more  periodicals  and  books.  Although  Rus- 
sia has  nearly  nine  times  as  many  miles  of  railroad, 
the  Japanese  roads  carry  more  passengers,  though  less 
freight.  They  send  half  as  many  letters  by  post  as  the 
Russians  send.  With  only  about  one-fourth  as  many 
miles  of  telegraph  wires,  they  send  nearly  as  many  mes- 
sages. The  trade  per  capita  is  greater  than  the  Rus- 
sians both  in  exports  and  imports,  although  the  total 
trade  of  the  Russians,  of  course,  is  very  much  greater. 
The  apparent  financial  and  military  strength  of  the 
Russians  is  incomparably  greater.  Yet  so  cheaply 
does  the  Japanese  soldier  live  that  Japan  may  do  more 
with  little  money  than  Russia  with  more." 

*  *  * 

Harrisburg,  Pa.,  boasts  of  a  new  railway  station. 
It  is  said  to  be  one  of  the  finest  in  the  country. 

♦  •!•  4* 

Statistics  show  that  Alpine  disasters  are  greater 
by  eleven  this  year  than  last.  One  hundred  and  fifty- 
nine  persons  have  met  their  death  in  climbing  the  Alps. 
The  enormity  of  the  death  rate  is  increased  principally 
by  insufficient  precaution,  poor  guides,  bad  ropes  and 
sensational  fads. 


THE  INGLENOOK.— November  22,  1904. 


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The  Inglenook  Nature  Study  Club 


This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various  Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized 
over  this  country.  Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.  Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time, 
taking  the  work  up  with  the  current  issue.  Back  numbers  cannot  be  furnished.  Any  school  desiring  to  or- 
ganize a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  111. 


CLASS    AVES.— ORDER    NATATORES. 


Family,   Gulls. 

The  Stormy  Petrel  is  one  of  the  smallest  of  the 
web-footed  family,  and  is  by  most  naturalists  classed 
with  the  Gull  family.  The  Petrels  are  distributed  over 
every  part  of  the  Ocean.  On  our  Oriental  tour  we 
often  heard  the  captain  speak  of  the  Petrel  as  Mother 
Carey's  Chicken,  and  is  more  or  less  associated  in  his 
mind  with  the  idea  of  a  storm.  To  the  sailor  the 
approach  of  the  Petrel  is  a  token  of  a  violent  storm. 
It  is  able  to  rest  at  perfect  ease  on  the  most  turbulent 
waters,  and  will  course  about  over  the  waves  in  the 
most  sportive  manner.  We  noticed  them  many  times 
during  our  voyages,  accompanying  the  ship  even  to 
mid-ocean.  They  fly  backwards  and  forwards,  now 
ahead  and  now  astern  with  the  greatest  grace  and  rapid- 
ity. -Shey  have  the  faculty  of  standing  and 
swimming  on  the  face  of  the  water.  We  saw  them 
many  times  stand  upon  the  water  with  their  faces  to- 
ward the  wind,  and  really  tread  the  water  like  an  ex- 
pert swimmer,  while  they  ate  the  refuse  that  was  thrown 
overboard  from  the  ship. 

When  the  sea  is  smooth  they  walk  on  the  surface 
of  the  water  with  the  greatest  ease,  by  gentle  action  of 
the  wind.  Its  wings  are  almost  constantly  in  motion. 
Its  color  is  rather  dusky,  showing  only  one  white  spot 
immediately  in  front  of  its  tail,  on  its  back. 

One  of  the  peculiar  qualities  of  the  Petrel  is  that  they 
are  continually  on  the  wing,  unless  it  be  when  they 
sleep,  when  they  float  upon  the  bosom  of  the  raging 
billows,  with  their  little  heads  gently  tucked  under 
their  wings,  or,  as  in  the  above  case,  where  they  are 
feeding.  In  esse  the  storm  is  so  severe  that  they 
cannot  fly  against  it  they  retreat  for  shelter  to  the 
stern  of  the  nearest  vessel  and  remain  there  until  the 
fury  of  the  storm  has  been  spent.  Very  little  of  the 
migratory  habits  is  known,  however,  it  is  supposed 
they  do  not  go  farther  east  than  the  Azores  nor  farther 
south  than  the  Caribbean  Sea.  One  of  the  principal 
breeding  places  for  the  Stormy  Petrel  is  the  low, 
sandy,  grassy  banks  off  Novia  Scotia,  called  "  Mud 
Island."  They  possess  one  habit  rarely  known  among 
birds.  They  actually  burrow  two  or  three  feet  deep 
under  the  sand,  carefully  line  the  burrow  with  grass 


and  lay  one  egg.     In  about  two  months  the  youi 

follow  the  parents  to  the  sea,  and  it  is  almost  impossil 

to  distinguish  them  from  their  parents. 

It  was  our  utrong  desire  while  on  the  Bay  of  Biscs 

in  1902,  to  capture  one  of  these  birds  from  the  f 

castlehead  of  our  vessel.     But  Captain  Evans  remc 

strated  very  earnestly,  saying  that  if  we  did  so  this  si 

would    never    reach    Liverpool.     Sailors    have    gro\ 

very  superstitious. 

*  *  * 

TOOK   THE   SILK   WORMS. 


Man  is  never  quite  content  with  Nature's  pi 
He  always  wants  a  bigger  or  a  smaller  variety  of  a 
mal  or  plant  than  the  average  produced  by  Da 
Nature  after  centuries  of  development.  The  lat 
breeding  freak  is  a  double-cocoon  race  of  silk  won 
which  have  been  bred  in  Japan.  The  cocoons 
almost  all  double,  very  large  and  variable  in  sha 
They  usually  inclose  more  than  two  chrysalids,  ; 
sometimes  as  many  as  eight.  Not  content  with  1 
the  patient  Japanese  silk  worm  culturist  has  ( 
covered  that  by  feeding  the  silk  worms  with  the  lea 
cf  the  cudrania  triloba  he  can  hasten  the  developm 
of  the  larval  stages.  That  is  to  say,  when  fed  on  1 
food  instead  of  the  ordinary  mulberry  leaf  the 
worms  pass  through  only  four,  instead  of  five,  lai 
stages.  Despite  this,  the  quality  and  quantity  of 
ments  reeled  from  cocoons  are  good. 

The  Japanese  have  a  race  of  silk  worms  to  wt 
thev  apply  a  name  the  equivalent  of  "  the  begg; 
This  is  really  a  descriptive  title,  as  these  worms  i 
greedily  upon  withered  or  otherwise  spoiled  lea 
which  one  of  the  self-respecting  race  of  silk  wa 
wouldn't  touch.  Yet  their  larvre  remain  as  vigoi 
as  those  of  the  more  fastidious  races. 
♦>  ♦  ♦ 
A    WISE   DOG. 


While  it  cannot  be  claimed  for  hunting  dogs 
they  have  a  very  extensive  vocabulary,  they  un 
stand  enough  words  to  go  about  their  work  intellig 
ly  and  at  times  with  precision  that  is  little  less 
marvelous.  Pet  dogs — poodles,  fox  terriers  and 
mals'  of  this  kind — have  a  more  extensive  vocabti 

An  illustration  of  this  is  found  in  a  fox  terriei 


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onging  to  the  manager  of  a  well-known  theater,  a  ter- 

er  of  royal  lineage,  having  come  from  the  royal  ken- 
els  of  Budapest. 

Few  words  in  common  use  around  the  house  are  be- 
ond  the  understanding  of  this  intelligent  animal.  It 
aiows  the  name  of  every  article  of  furniture  and 
lothing  in  the  house. 

A  test  was  made  for  the  purpose  of  determining  the 
ccuracy  of  the  terrier's  understanding  of  words :  "  I 
tent  you  to  walk  on  your  hind  feet  to  the  front  room 
nd  bite  Mr.  B.  on  the  ear,"  said  a  member  of  the 
ousehold  to  the  pet.  Forthwith  the  terrier  was  off, 
nd  before  Mr.  B.  knew  anything  about  the  plan  the 
et  dog  was  playfully  pulling  at  his  ear. 

Here  was  a  rather  intricate  command.  It  was  not 
mply  a  command  to  go ;  it  said  how  to  go,  where  to  go 
nd  what  to  do  and  to  whom.  But  the  terrier  under- 
tood  perfectly. 

Now,  here  is  a  dog  having  an  extraordinary  vocabu- 
ry,  understanding,  no  doubt,  no  fewer  than  250  words, 
'his  one  case  will  show  that  the  pet  dog  has  a  wider 
nderstanding  of  words  than  dogs  belonging  to  any 
idler  class,  and  there  is  a  reason  for  it,  of  course, 
hey  are  talked  to  constantly,  and  naturally  learn  to 
ssociate  certain  sounds  with  certain  objects. 
*  *  * 
A    BRAVE    PARROT. 


Gkace  Corwin,  12  years  old,  with  her  little  brother 
Millie,  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  wandered  up  into  lonely 
epulveda  Canyon  a  few  days  ago.  An  old  pet  parrot, 
nnoticed,  hopped  and  fluttered  after  them.  The 
lildren  fell  asleep  under  the  trees. 

Grace  was  awakened  by  a  tramp  who  had  crept  up 
1  the  sleeping  children,  when  suddenly  piercing 
■reams  of  "  Help!"  "  Murder!"  "  Help!"  were  heard, 
here  was  a  flutter  of  wings,  a  rush,  and  before  the 
artled  tramp  could  recover  from  his  surprise  Folly 
id  fastened  her  crooked  claws  into  the  collar  of  his 
>at  and  was  striking  at  his  face  with  her  beak. 

Little  Grace,  telling  of  the  occurrence,  said  :  "I  guess 

was  too  scared  to  cry,  and  I  couldn't  make  myself 
ly  anything.  Willie  was  scared,  too,  and  lie  cried. 
hen  Polly  screamed.  The  man  jumped  up  and  looked 
•mind.  Then  Polly  lighted  right  down  on  his  face 
nl  flawed  him.  She  got  one  claw  in  his  whiskers, 
id  she  picked  him  so  that  the  blood  ran  down  his 
ice. 

There  was  an  awful  great  place  on  his  face  that 
oily  hurt  when  he  got  her  off.     My!  how  he  ran!" 

UNCLE    SAM'S    BEARS. 


in  the  reserve  than  at  any  previous  time.  During  a 
three  weeks'  tour  the  Purviance-Foreman  Geyser 
party  reports  having  seen  50  of  the  animals. 

The  bears  have  become  so  plentiful  as  to  almost 
interfere  with  the  pleasure  of  camping  parties.  No 
provisions  are  safe  from  the  ravages  of  the  animals, 
which  visit  camps  at  night,  ransacking  everything 
in  reach. 

The  creatures  are  protected  by  the  Government  and 
have  lost  all  fear  of  man  and  emerge  from  the  forests 
like  droves  of  pigs. 

A  tourist  named  James  Reynolds  endeavored  to 
drive  one  of  the  bears  away  with  a  club.  He  was 
cuffed  by  the  animal  and  severely  injured. 

A  new  Geyser  has  broken  through  the  formation  in 
the  Upper  Geyser  basin.  A  column  of  scalding  water 
is  spouting  a  distance  of  50  feet  into  the  air  every 
40  minutes. 

RED   SEA   PEARLS. 


Camping   parties   just   returned    from    the   Yellow- 
one  National  Park  report  bears  to  he  more  numerous 


Many  valuable  jewels  are  fished  out  of  the  Red 
Sea.  The  pearl  fisheries  in  that  body  of  water  are  very 
little  known,  but  according  to  United  States  Consul 
Masterson,  who  writes  from  Aden,  Arabia,  thev  are 
important. 

"  The  name  Lohia  applies  to  a  small  group  of 
islands  at  the  lower  end  of  the  Red  Sea,  and  pearl 
fishing  has  been  carried  on  there  for  a  number  of 
years.  The  divers  are  all  Arabs,  but  the  men  who 
finance  the  industry  are  generally  natives  of  India, 
and  for  this  reason  it  is  hard  to  get  the  correct  out- 
put in  numbers  of  pearls  or  their  value  for  any  par- 
ticular year,  as  a  great  number  of  the  pearls  found 
at  Lohia  go  direct  to  Bombay  and  are  not  reported 
here  at  all. 

"  There  are  several  merchants  who  handle  these 
pearls.  Each  pearl  or  collection  of  pearls  is  sold  ac- 
cording to  the  particular  perfection  of  the  pearl  or 
collection,  and  there  can  he  no  price  given  for  pearls 
indiscriminately. 

"  Several  years  ago  there  was  a  trade  with  the 
United  States  in  mother-of-pearl  shells  from  these 
pearl  fisheries,  but  the  entire  output  now  goes  to 
Europe. 

I  Vails  are  the  most  popular  of  all  the  precious 
stones  among  the  inhabitants  of  India  and  Arabia, 
and  it  is  very  seldom  that  a  native  woman  of  any 
social  position  is  seen  without  pearl  ornaments  of  some 
kind,  either  in  rings  for  the  nose,  ears  or  fingers,  and 
some  even  wear  pearl  rings  on  the  toes.  There  are 
also  extensive  pearl  fisheries  in  the  Persian  Gulf,  the 
entire  output  going  to  Bombay." 
*  *  * 

Observe  thyself  as  thy  greatest  enemy— so  shalt 
thou  bee.  .me  Hi)  greatest  friend. — Quarels. 


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THE  INGLENOOK.— November  22,  1904. 


HOME    DEPARTMENT 


THANKSGIVING. 

for  all   that    God   in   mercy   sends, 

For  health  and   children,   home   and   friends; 

For  comfort  in   the  time  of  need, 

For  every  kindly  word  and   deed, 

For  happy  thoughts  and  holy  talk, 

For  guidance   in   our   daily   walk: 
For  everything  give  thanks! 

For  beauty  in   this  world  of  ours, 
For   verdant    grass    and    lovely   flowers; 
For  song  of  birds,  for  hum  of  bees, 
For  the  refreshing  summer  breeze; 
For  hill  and  plain,  for  streams  and  wood, 
For  the  great  ocean's  mighty  flood, 
In  everything  give  thanks. 

For  the  sweet  sleep  which  comes  with  night, 
For  the  returning  morning's  light; 
For  the  bright  sun  that  shines  on  high, 
For  the  stars  glittering  in  the  sky; 
For  these,  and  everything  we  see, 
O  Lord!  our  hearts  we  lift  to  thee; 
For    everything   give   thanks! 


RAG    CARPET— THE    PROCESS    OF    MAKING. 


BY    J.    W.    VETTER. 

The  practical  carpet  weaver  must  be  equipped  with 
a  modern,  up-to-date,  automatic  fly  shuttle  loom,  a 
good  warping  reel,  a  spool  rack,  a  machine  to  prepare 
the  rags  for  weaving,  and  a  slate  and  pencil.  A  swift 
and  spooler  were  a  necessity  also  when  all  warp  came 
in  skeins  but  since  the  manufacturers  of  warps  have 
machines  which  prepare  it  already  spooled,  these  are 
not  needed  and  the  work  of  the  weaver  is  greatly  less- 
ened. 

The  first  step  is  to  find  how  many  threads  of  warp 
are  needed  to  a  yard  width  of  carpet ;  this  is  done  by 
using  a  certain  number  of  reed,  the  reed  being  that 
through  which  the  threads  are  threaded  and  that  beats 
the  rag  into  the  warp  or  woof,  and  is  made  of  thin 
pieces  of  steel  four  inches  long  and  one-eighth  or  one- 
fourth  inch  wide  placed  side  by  side,  leaving  spaces  or 
dents,  and  fastened  with  thin  strips  of  wood  wrapped 
with  strong  waxed  cord. 

The  reeds  most  commonly  used  by  carpet  weavers 
are  those  whose  spaces  or  dents  number  ten,  eleven, 
or  thirteen  to  the  inch,  most  generally  known  as  450, 
500  and  600. 

Now  your  slate  and  pencil  and  your  knowledge  of 
mathematics  come  into  good  play  to  determine  how 


many  threads  are  needed  should  the  carpet  be  a  yar 
wide,  over  a  yard,  or  under  a  yard,  or  should  yo' 
have  to  put  in  a  girthen  or  double  sley  stripe  or  shoul 
the  carpet  be  double  sley  all  over.  Double  sley  mean 
two  threads  of  warp  in  a  dent  of  the  reed  and  singl 
sley  means  but  one  thread  in  a  dent. 

We  are  now  ready  to  begin  warping  or  making  th 
web. 

The  warp  reel  is  divided  into  eighteen  or  twent 
spaces  and  by  dividing  the  number  of  threads  it  tale 
to  make  the  width  of  carpet  by  the  number  of  spac< 
on  the  reel  gives  you  the  number  of  spools  neede 
to  run  each  space  of  bout. 

You  now  place. the  spools  in  the  spool  rack,  dra 
each  thread  through  a  hole  in  a  guide  and  when  2 
are  drawn  in  tie  the  whole  together.  You  must  no 
find  out  how  long  you  want  your  carpet,  if  twenp 
yards,  then  fasten  your  tied  ends  on  a  hook  on  re 
and  turn  on  ten  rounds  as  the  size  of  the  reel  is  tv 
yards,  cut  off  threads  and  tie  and  fasten.  Contini 
this  until  all  spaces  on  reel  are  full. 

The  web  now  is  ready  for  the  loom  and  each  0: 
of  the  tied  ends  is  now  fastened  on  a  hook  on  an  apr> 
on  a  large  roller  known  as  the  "  warp  beam."  Nc 
one  person  holds  the  reel  while  another  turns  t 
warp  beam,  turning  the  web  on  like  thread  on  a  spo 
Good  warping  and  beaming  is  the  secret  to  good  r 
carpet  as  far  as  the  weaver  is  concerned. 

And  now  comes  the  most  tedious  part  of  the  proce 
that  of  threading  the  loom.  In  threading  also  the  p; 
tern  is  mostly  made.  Each  thread  must  have  a  pi; 
and  every  place  must  have  a  thread  or  perhaps  t 
threads,  and  should  any  one  thread  be  out  of  its  pn 
er  place  a  mistake  will  appear  in  the  pattern  in 
woven  carpet. 

The  threads  are  drawn  through  the  "  heddles  "  a 
reed.  The  heddles  are  wires  so  twisted  as  to  have 
eye  in  the  center  and  fastened  into  frames  which  w< 
up  and  down  thereby  crossing  the  threads  of  the  I 
whenever  a  rag  is  being  beaten  in. 

We  seldom  have  less  than  five  hundred  threads  ; 
up  to  one  thousand  and  each  thread  must  have 
own  heddle  eye  and  its  own  dent  in  the  reed ;  e 
one  of  them  being  handled  and  drawn  in  separat( 
on  thread  being  on  heddle  on  front  of  frame  and 
next  thread  in  heddle  in  back  frame  and  so  on  c! 
across  the  width  of  carpet.  Then  should  you 
to  make  some  of  the  fancy  twill  patterns  you 
have  from  four  to  six  heddle  frames  with  six  he 
to  thread  instead  of  only  two. 


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Having  finished  drawing  in.  the  warp  is  tied  and 
stened  to  hooks  and  actual  weaving  begins. 
The  rags  are  now  prepared,  and  put  into 
shuttle  which,  in  operating  the  loom,  flies  automat- 
ally  through  the  web  laying  in  a  rag  which  is  beaten 
)  with  the  reed.  The  actual  process  of  weaving 
nsists  of  weaving  the  "  lay  "  in  which  the  reed  is 
stened  back  and  forth,  thereby  crossing  the  threads 
id  beating  the  rag  in  the  web  when  the  lay  comes 
rward  and  throwing  the  shuttle  through  the  web 
hen  the  lay  goes  back. 

By  automatic  loom  we  mean  one  that  the  whole  ma- 
ine  is  operated  by  two  movements  of  the  operator ; 
e  warp  or  web  is  brought  from  the  beam  by  the  beat- 
g,  threads  crossed,  shuttle  thrown  and  the  finished 
rpet  rolled  on  a  roller  all  in  one  process.  The  car- 
•t  is  then  taken  oft  and  measured  on  the  floor  to  be 
re  of  the  number  of  yards  and  again  rolled  up  ready 
r  the  good  lady  to  claim  her  own,  pay  for  it  and  take 
away.  Such  is  the  making  of  rag  carpets  as  done 
practical  weavers.  Should  I  have  described  the 
ay  our  mothers  and  grandmothers  made  carpets 
ars  ago  my  article  would  have  read  entirely  dif- 
rent. 
Pyrmont,  hid. 

■!•    *    * 

OLD-FASHIONED   WOOD-CHOPPING. 

BY   EFFIE    WIGGS. 

Ian  we  fancy  anything  more  cheerful  than  the  sight 
a  fireplace  filled  up  with  blazing  logs,  around 
hich  our  forefathers  and  their  children  gathered  on 
Id  winter  evenings?  It  is  indeed  a  picture  of  con- 
ntment.  But  did  we  ever  stop  to  think  how  much 
ork  those  roaring  fires  meant?  Matches  were  un- 
lown  in  those  days  and  if  the  fire  went  out  it  was 
)  small  task  to  rekindle  ;  often  being  compelled  to 
>rrow  fire  of  a  neighbor.  Therefore  it  was  necessary 
have  an  ample  supply  of  wood  to  keep  the  fire  burn- 
g.  Instead  of  hiring  the  wood  cut,  they  had  what 
as  known  as  a  wood  chopping.  Late  in  autumn  when 
c  work  of  the  summer  was  over  was  the  time  they 
Birred.  The  people  were  all  invited  to  lend  a  help- 
g  hand,  and  seemingly  the  entire  population  would 
urn  out." — "  tall,  stalwart  boys  and  maidens  fair  and 
icy  whose  locks  were  hoar."  The  only  vehicle  they 
id  was  a  two-horse  wagon  :  some  came  on  horse- 
ick  hut  tin-  wagon  was  most  common  for  they  nearly 
ways  took  the  entire  family.  The  women  usually 
.lilted,  while  the  men  chopped  wood. 
A  bountiful  dinner  was  served,  and  a  look  into  the 
■tchen  would  remind  you  that  it  contained  a  large 
replace.  The  hearth  projected  a  few  feet  into  the 
torn  and  was  made  of  crude  stone  upon  which  most  of 
le  cooking  was  done.     The  utensils'  for  cooking  con- 


sisted of  pots  and  skillets  of  various  sizes,  the  former 
being  suspended  from  a  crane  that  was  fastened  on 
one  side  of  the  chimney.  Imagine  a  table  long  enough 
for  the  comfortable  seating  of  a  score  or  more  at  one 
time,  and  of  ample  width.  It  was  a  real  feast  poured 
from  the  very  horn  of  plenty  with  none  of  those  up- 
todate  courses — far  from  it. 

"The  tart  and  ruddy  cranberry  affords  its  juices  rare; 
Plum  pudding's  spicy  odor  pervades  the  very  air; 
Apple  pie  and  pumpkin  stand  in  splendid  long  array, 
But   alas!   they   disappear   in   the    old    conventional    way." 

After  dinner  they  resumed  their  work  and  the 
sturdy  stroke  of  the  ax  was  heard  until  the  eventime, 
and  as  a  result  they  had  enough  wood  to  last  all 
through  the  cold  winter. 

These  people  possessed  the  mainsprings  of  success 
in  life,  i.  e.,  sociability  and  industry.  Our  grandparents 
even  now  can  recall  some  of  those  happy  old  wood- 
choppings  with  pleasure,  and  sighs  of  regret  ihat  they 
have  passed  out  of  existence  are  heard.  How  often 
have  we  heard  them  say,  "  What  a  change  those  years 
have  wrought  I" 

Among  the  many  change*,  is  there  any  one  more 
prominent  than  the  lack  of  social  relationship?  Oh 
that  we  were  more  like  our  ancestors,  ever  ready  to 
lend  a  helping  hand  to  those  around  us.  We  need 
not  go  very  far  away  to  find  those  who  possibly  are 
yearning  for  love  and  sympathy.  To  be  kind  and 
sociable,  is  it  not  oil  in  the  hands  of  the  good  Sa- 
maritans who  tread  our  modern  roads?  It  binds  up 
many  wounds  of  class  distinction  and  false  pride,  and 
makes  the  wheels  of  our  everyday  life  run  more 
smoothly.  The  smiling  face,  the  sympathy  in  trouble. 
the  comfort  in  sorrow, — all  these  give  daily,  and  we 
shall  in  no  wise  lose  our  reward. 

Pyrmont,  hid.,  Oct.  18. 

4.  .;.  4. 

MOLASSES    CAKE. 


BY    MAUD    HAWKINS. 

Two  eggs,  one  cup  of  sugar,  one  cup  of  molasses. 
one  cup  of  lard  or  butter,  one  cup  of  sour  milk,  one 
teaspoonful  each  of  soda,  ginger  and  cinnamon  to 
suit  the  taste. 

Ton-anda,  Pa. 

*   *   + 

MOLASSES    COOKIES. 


BY    MALT)    MAW  KINS. 


One  cup  of  molasses,  one  cup  of  sugar,  one  cup  of 
butter  or  lard,  one  teaspoonful  of  soda  and  one  tea- 
spoonful  of  ginger. 

Towanda,  Pa. 


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OUR    YOUNG    PEOPLE 


THE    GEOGRAPHY    CLASS. 


Chapter  III. 

It  was  a  week  of  great  suspense.  The  next  morn- 
ing after  Mr.  Raynor  had  given  his  last  lecture  every 
member  of  the  graduating  class  was  in  the 
examination  room  long  before  Miss  Gertrude 
had  placed  the  questions  on  the  board.  It  seemed  that 
every  nerve  was  set  on  fire,  and  every  eye  possessed 
a  peculiar  twinkle,  and  just  at  the  moment  when  the 
books  were  called,  a  messenger  at  the  door  handed  a  let- 
ter to  Miss  Gertrude.  It  was  a  very  fat  letter.  A  slight 
ripple  of  confusion  passed  over  the  room.  Raymond 
Tracy  raised  his  index  finger  and  shook  his  head  know- 
ingly at  Ester  Morris,  who  sat  opposite  him.  Verne 
Williams '  gave  expression  to  his  feelings  bv  saying, 
*'  There  arc-  the  questions,  girls.  It  was  a  moment 
of  more  than  ordinary  importance  to  the  Mavville  class. 
Graduation  depended  upon  the  answers  that  would  be 
appended  to  those  questions.  More  than  that,  the  credit 
of  four  years'  hard  work  was  to  be  measured  by  the 
papers  resulting  from  this  examination.  And  last  but 
not  least,  the  four  highest  grades  were  to  be  awarded 
the  magnificent  prize  of  which  Mr.  Raynor  spoke,  "The 
European  Tour." 

To  do  justice  to  the  class  it  is  only  proper  to  men- 
tion right  here  that  there  was  not  the  slightest  tincture 
of  jealousy  or  envy  in  the  whole  Mavville  fraternity. 
Those  were  things  that  Miss  Gertrude  had  never  al- 
lowed in  the  last  fifteen  years,  and  these  pupils  had 
grown  up  under  that  influence  ever  since  they  were 
little  boys  and  girls.  One  of  the  proudest  moments 
in  the  life  of  Miss  Merritt  was  just  before  the  ex- 
amination questions  were  opened,  while  she  stood  hold- 
ing the  envelope  between  her  thumb  and  finger,  tight- 
ly sealed,  speaking  as  follows :  "  My  dear  children, 
while  I  am  confident  that  no  one  of  vou  has  ever  ac- 
cused me  of  partiality,  nor  have  I  ever  felt  that 
such  a  feeling  existed,  yet  I  take  the  precaution  of 
saying  to  you  that  whoever  may  be  the  successful 
ones  in  this  contest  shall  have  my  heartfelt  svmpathy 
and  no  more  than  those  who  get  a  grade  a  trifle  lower. 
I  have  no  preferences  whatever ;  I  shall  be  glad  to  ac- 
company any  four  upon  whom  fortune  shall  smile." 

As  she  said  this  she  opened  the  envelope,  and  in 
breathless  silence  began  to  write  the  questions,  one 
after   the   other,   upon   the   blackboard.     All  the   day 


long  the  honest,   loyal   workers   strove   for  the  prizi 
Not  a  word  was  passed  between  them.     Not  a  sing! 
one  solicited  assistance.     At  noontime  the  forenooi 
work  was  sealed  and  passed  in.     Just  as  the  bell 
to  ring  for  dinner,   Oscar  Stewart  arose  and  aski 
Miss  Gertrude  for  the  privilege  of  saying  one  wof! 
When  permission  was  granted  he  said,  "  My  dear  fi 
low  contestants,  in  order  that  there  may  be  no  cha 
for  discrepancy,  partiality  or  ill-feeling  of  any  sort 
get  between  any  two  of  us,  I  move  you  that  we,  w. 
unanimous   consent,   decide   that   not   one   word   sh; 
bo  said  during  the  noon  hour  m  reference  to  our  forS 
noon's  work."     The  motion  was  supported  by   Elsfi 
Mills,  and  unanimously  carried. 

After  luncheon  a  few  brisk  games  were  enjoyed  anc 
they  resumed  their  work.  A  few  days  passed.  Man} 
anxious  hours  filled  the  days  of  waiting  for  the  peoph 
of  Mavville,  yet  no  one  thought  of  asking  Miss  Ger- 
trude a  single  word  in  reference  to  the  examination 
It  would  have  been  as  impossible  to  have  obtainec 
secrets  from  her  as  from  the  tomb  of  our  country': 
Father,  at  Mt.  Vernon. 

The  long-looked-for  Friday  night  came ;  the  audi- 
torium was  not  only  crowded  with  Mayville  people 
but  the  people  of  the  surrounding  vicinity  were  then 
to  hear  the  final  report.  And  after  some  instrumenta 
music  by  Mr.  Clemens,  and  a  solo  by  Miss  Warner 
Mr.  James  Maynor  addressed  the  audience  as  follows 
"  Ladies  and  gentlemen,  perhaps  there  never  was  A 
time  in  the  history  of  our  little  village  when  thi| 
hearts  of  the  people  were  as  near  one  as  they  are  to 
night,  and  I  have  every  reason  to  believe  that  who 
ever  the  four  lucky  ones  may  be  they  may  feel  as 
sured  that  they  have  the  best  wishes  of  their  class 
mates  and  every  resident  of  Mayville. 

Before  the  names  of  the  successful  contestants  ar 
read  in  your  .hearing  I  want  to  make  this  announce 
ment :  I  have  just  returned  from  New  York  City  am 
have  completed  arrangements  with  the  White  Sta 
Line  for  five  berths  on  their  best  steamship,  the  "  Celt 
ic,"  and  I  have  brought  a  picture  of  the  good  old  vesse 
home  with  me  that  you  may  see  the  ocean  palace  up 
on  which  four  of  our  boys  or  girls,  as  the  case  may  bf 
will  live  for  several  days  while  crossing  the  grea 
waters."  As  he  said  this,  Mr.  Maynor  gave  an  elec 
trie  button  a  twist  on  his  stereopticon,  and  there  flashe* 
before  the  multitude  the  beautiful  picture  that  you  se 
on  another  page  of  this  issue.  The  applause  that  fol 
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*^MTfie  Q.  &  d.  Bepartmentrl^ 


I 


I 


Who  is  the  owner  of  the  Jefferson  Davis  plantation  in 
ississippi? 

Records  show  that  the  plantation  is  now  owned  by  a 
r.  Isaiah  F.  Montgomery,  a  negro.  He  was  a  bright 
juth,  and  Joseph  Davis,  the  brother  of  Jefferson 
avis,  owned  him.  His  good  qualities  attracted  the 
'es  of  Mr.  Davis  and  he  had  him  educated,  after- 
ards  becoming  a  famous  pet  on  the  plantation.  He 
as  always  respectful  and  obedient  as  a  bondsman, 
id  faithful  to  the  persons  and  interests  of  the  Davis 
mily,  during  and  after  the  war.  He  purchased  the 
antation  and  has  the  esteem  of  all  Mississippians, 
id  is  now  worth  about  $300,000.  He  is  a  type  of 
any  good  old-time  negroes,  and  all  the  white  people 
ho  know  him  wish  him  well.  It  is  said  that  after 
le  war  he  tried  to  educate  one  of  his  sons,  and  even 
•nt  him  to  Europe  to  study  medicine  and  become  a 
jctor,  but  the  project  failed.  Isaiah  Montgomery  is 
ispected  in  Mississippi,  and  deserves  to  be.  He  is  a 
ire  character,  and  the  coming  generation  of  his  race 
ight  learn  valuable  lessons  from  his  virtues,  his  pa- 
;nce,  and  good  sense. 

* 

Is  the  Fourth  of  July  a  national  holiday  or  are  there 
ly  national  holidays?     If  not,  please  tell   why. 

There  is  no  national  legal  holiday,  in  the  sense  of 
holiday  established  by  Congress  for  the  entire  United 
tates.  The  Fourth  of  July  is  a  legal  holiday  in  all 
le  States  by  acts  of  the  legislatures  of  the  States 
id  in  the  territories  and  District  of  Columbia  by  act 
E  Congress.  It  is  a  national  holiday  in  the  sense 
:  being  of  a  national  character,  as  it  celebrates  the  birth 
i  national  independence  and  is  observed  throughout 
le  nation. 

* 

Please  name  all   the   republics  in   the   world. 

Argentine  Republic,  Bolivia,  Brazil,  Chili,  Colombia, 
osta  Rica,  Cuba,  Dominican  Republic,  Ecuador, 
ranee,  Guatemala,  Hayti,  Honduras,  Liberia,  Mexico, 

icaragua,  Panama,  Paraguay,  Peru,  Salvador,  Swaz- 
iland, United  States  of  America,  Uruguay,  Vene- 
.lela.  Besides  these  there  are  i>  few  very  small  in- 
:pendent  states. 

* 

Name  the  rulers  of  Russia.  Japan.  China.  Servia  and 
Ipain. 

Russia,  Nicholas  II..  Czar  or  Emperor;  Japan, 
tutsuhito,  Mikado;  China,  Kuang  Hsu.  Emperor: 
ervia,  Peter  (Karageorgevitch),  King:  Spain.  Al- 
honso  XIII.,  King. 


Give  a  description  of  the  method  used  in  making  tin 
plate. 

Pure  tin  is  almost  as  white  as  silver,  softer  than  gold, 
but  harder  than  lead.  It  can  be  hammered  into  thin 
plates  and  drawn  out  into  wire.  The  tin  of  trade  is 
as  a  rule  not  pure,  but  has  in  it  a  little  iron,  lead,  or 
arsenic.  The  principal  tin  ore,  called  tin  stone,  is 
made  up  of  tin  and  oxygen.  This  is  heated  in  fur- 
naces with  charcoal,  the  carbon  of  which  unites  with 
the  oxygen,  forming  carbonic  acid  gas.  which  passes 
off  into  the  air,  while  the  molter  tin  is  drawn  off  tnd 
cooled  in  iron  molds.  This  is  called  block  tin.  Tin- 
ware consists,  of  iron  coated  with  tin.  The  iron  is 
rolled  out  into  thin  sheets,  thoroughly  cleaned  with 
weak  acid  and  then  dipped  into  melted  tin  and  left 
in  it  for  an  hour  or  more  until  the  tin  has  united  with 
the  iron,  forming  a  thin  coating  over  the  entire  surface. 
In  the  case  of  saucepans  and  other  hollow  vessels,  the 
melted  tin  is  poured  into  them  and  they  are  turned 
round  repeatedly  until  coated  all  over. 
* 

\\  bat  is  the  length  and  computed  weight  of  the  largest 
whale  on  record? 

We  have  no  record  of  this  in  the  office.  Last  week 
a  Danish  schooner  was  smashed  to  pieces  by  a  whale 
supposing  to  weigh  forty  tons.  In  July.  1902.  the  .car- 
cass of  a  whale,  was  drifted  ashore,  south  of  Csesarea, 
and  was  measured  by  the  dragoman  of  the  German 
Consul.  He  said  it  was  two  hundred  and  eighty-six 
feet  long.  Captain  Evans,  of  the  Prince  line,  saw  one 
in  November,  1902,  that  was  nearly  four  hundred  feet 
long. 

* 

Name  the  different  provinces  of  the  United  States  and 
give   the    principal    officers    of   each. 

The  insuiar  possessions  of  the  United  States  are 
the  Philippines,  Porto  Rico,  Guam,  Tutuila,  Wake  Is- 
lands and  Hawaii.  Luke  E.  Wright  is  governor  of 
the  Philippines;  W.  H.  Hunt  is  governor  of  Port.. 
Rico,  and  George  R.  Carter  is  governor  of  Hawaii. 
* 

Please  give  the  address  of  a  firstclass  correspondence 

college,  which  includes  the  academic  courses. 

International  Correspondence  School,  at  Scranton, 
Pa. 

* 

What  is  the  address  of  Fannie  J.  Crosby,  the  blind 
singer,  and  what  is  her  right  name'' 

Mrs.  Frances  Jane  Van  Alstyne,  better  known  as 
Fannie  Crosby,  the  blind  writer  of  popular  hymns, 
lives  at  252(1  Xorth  Ave..  Bridgeport,  Conn. 


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THE  INGLENOOK.— November  22,  1904. 
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lowed  was  almost  deafening.     It  was  some  time  be- 
fore silence   could   be  had   sufficient   that   Miss   Ger- 
trude's  voice   could    be    heard.     But    presently    she 
stepped  to  the  front  of  the  stage  with  a  paper  in  her 
hand  and  waved  the  audience  to  silence.     Then  with 
her  heart  in  her  mouth  and  tears  in  her  eyes,  she  said, 
"  The  successful  candidates  are  Agnes  Clarke,  Roscoe 
Clarke,  Oscar  Stewart  and  Marie  Stewart." 
(to  be  continued.) 
**•**•*** 
A    FORTUNE    IN    A    PILLOW    CASE. 


How   Mrs.   Leonard    Saved   Thousands    of    Dollars 
from    Moulded    Notes. 

The  money-counters  in  the  U.  S.  Treasury  were 
startled  one  day  by  the  appearance  of  a  remarkable- 
looking  "  fat  man  "  who  entered  the  department  and 
told  a  strange  tale.  He  said  that  he  was  an  Ohio 
farmer  and  did  not  believe  in  banks,  and  so  had  buried 
his  money  in  the  ground  for  safekeeping.  He  had 
dug  it  up,  and  was  hcrrified  to  find  that  it  was  slcwly 
turning  to  dust,  as  notes  will  when  long  buried. 
Panic-stricken,  he  gathered  the  disintegrated  money 
into  an  old  pillowcase-  bound  it  around  his  waist 
beneath  his  clothes  and  started  for  Washington.  He 
traveled  part  of  the  way  on  horseback,  part  of  the 
way  on  an  Ohio  River  steamboat,  and  part  of  the  way 
by  train.  During  the  journey  he  never  once  took  off 
the  pillowcase.  He  even  slept  with  it  on.  The  of- 
ficials of  the  Treasury  Department  found  it  difficult 
to  make  him  part  with  it.  He  did  not  want  to  go  with 
a  clerk  to  a  hotel  for  fear  the  clerk  might  rob  him, 
but  as  it  was  manifestly  impossible  for  him  to  disrobe 
in  the  office  he  had  finally  to  submit.  They  got  the 
money  at  last,  and  the  condition  of  it  was  so  bad  that 
Mrs.  Leonard  had  to  be  called  to  decipher  it.  So 
great  was  her  skill  that  the  farmer  lost  only  a  few 
hundred  dollars  out  of  $19,000. — Theodore  Waters,  in 
Everybody's  Magazine  for  November. 

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THE    BROWN    GUN. 


structing  this  particular  six-inch  experimental  piece  I 
in  charge  of  Colonel  John  M.  Ingalls,  retired  U.  S.  A 
an  artillerist  of  high  standing  and  reputation.     Despit<| 
the  incredulity  of  contemporary  gun-builders,  Colone: 
Ingalls  and  the  officers  with  him  assert  that  this  six- 
inch  gun  will  throw  thirty  miles  a  projectile  weighing] 
100  pounds  which  will  pierce  a  six-inch  steel  targetl 
A  ten-inch  gun  of  this  construction,  with  a  powderl 
chamber  of  14,259  cubic  inches  and  using  360  pound:! 
of  smokeless  powder,   would   hurl  a  600-pound  prol 
jectile  a  distance  of  fifty-nine  miles.     Increasing  thi 
ratio,  a  sixteen-inch  gun  would  have  an  extreme  rangi 
of  more  than  one  hundred  miles,  and  equipped  witll 
such  coast-defence  rifles,  England  and  France  codS 
shell  each  other  across  the  Channel. — Nezv  Fighting 
Machines,  Everybody's  Magazine  for  November. 

*****♦**• 

A   CHAMBER   OF   HORRORS. 


A  Fighting  Machine  with  a  Range  of  a   Hundred 
Miles. 

The  inventor  of  the  new  American  gun  is  a  man 
named  J.  Hamilton  Brown,  though  the  work  of  con- 


Entombed  in  a  grim  castle  on  the  outskirts  of  Lis 
bon  are  some  of  the  most  miserable  men  on  eartlj 
These  are  the  inmates  of  Portugal's  prison  of  silencf 
In  this  building  everything  that  human  ingenuity  ca:l 
suggest  to  render  the  lives  of  its  prisoners  a  horribk 
maddening  torture  is  done.  The  corridors,  piled  tie 
on  tier  five  stories  high,  extend  from  a  common  cente 
like  the  spokes  of  a  huge  wheel.  The  cells  are  nal 
row — tomb-like — and  within  each  stands  a  coffit 
The  prison  garb  is  a  shroud.  The  attendants  cree 
about  in  felt  slippers.  No  one  is  allowed  to  utter 
word.  The  silence  is  that  of  the  grave.  Once  a  da 
the  cell  doors  are  unlocked  and  the  half  thousan 
wretches  march  out,  clothed  in  shrouds  and  with  faa 
covered  by  masks,  for  it  is  a  part  of  this  hideot 
punishment  that  none  may  look  upon  the  countenance 
of  his  fellow-prisoners.  Few  of  them  endure  th: 
torture  for  more  than  10  years. 

During  a  recent  annual  flag  rush  at  Tuft's  Colleg 
Boston,  a  number  of  sophomores  and  freshmen  wei 
injured.  The  freshmen,  however,  were  victorious,  bl 
their  class  leader,  George  A.  Burnham,  was  carrie 
from  the  place  in  a  serious  condition. 


Six   frame  buildings  of   Pottstown, 
stroyed  by  fire.     Loss  eleven  thousand. 


111.,   were   d 


Good    Land    Cheap 


Let  us  sell  you  farming  land  where  the  soil  is  pro- 
ductive and  the  crops  dependable  ;  where  we  have  no 
drouths  or  failures;  where  grasshoppers  are  not;  where 
we  have  few  storms  and  no  destructive  winds;  where 
products  are  greatly  diversified;  where  the  markets  are 
as  good  as  the}'  are  easily  reached;  where  the  climate 
is  uniform  and  salubrious;  where  you  will  be  cordially 
welcomed  and  helped  along.  We  state  without  fear  of 
contradiction  that  we  have  the  best  land  at  the  least 
money,  possessing  more  advantages  and  fewer  draw- 
backs, than  can  be  found  in  this  country  to-day.  A  few 
years'  time  is  all  that  is  necessary  to  prove  that  we  are 
in  one  of  the  most  productive  areas  for  fruit,  root  crops 
and  live  stock.  The  possibilities  are  here,  largely  un- 
developed as  yet;  all  that  we  want  is  the  people.  Those 
we  are  getting  are  the  right  kind,  your  own  kind,  and 
the  country  will  soon  be  dotted  with  green  fields  and 
cosy  homes.  Don't  get  the  idea  that  you  are  going  to  a 
wilderness;  not  at  all;  on  the  contrary,  we  have  sold 
lands  in  our  BRETHREN  COLONY  to  over  120  fam- 
ilies, nearly  half  of  whom  are  already  on  the  ground, 
>tbers  coming  next  spring.  In  the  vicinity  of  BRETHREN,  MICHIGAN,  we  have 
housands  of  acres  of  productive  soil,  splendidly  adapted  for  fruit,  root  and  vegetable 
rops  and  live  stock,  at  prices  from  $7  per  acre  upwards,  on  easy  terms.  Our  lands  are 
old  to  actual  settlers. 

BRO.  JOHN  A.  MILLER,  BRETHREN,  MICH., 

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onditions  surrounding  them.  The  booklet  contains  letters  giving  the  opinion  of  many 
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Reduced  rates  will  be  furnished  honieseekers  desiring  to  look  our  country  over  and 
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find  the  goods  exactly  as  represented.  The  set 
weighs  about  7  pounds  and  will  be  shipped  by 
express  on  receipt  of  $3.50  from  readers  of  the 
Inglenook. 


1847  Rogers  Bros. 

Every  one  knows  wiat  the  1847  Rogers  Bros, 
silverware  is.  It  is  the  genuine  and  there  is  none 
better  II  you  want  to  make  a  present  that  will 
be  highly  appreciated  by  any  housewife,  order 
these  goods.  Prices  ol  knives  and  forks  quoted 
on  application. 

Tipped  or  Shell  Pattern. 


A  1 

XII. 

Triple 
Plate. 

Tea  Spoons,  perdoz. 
Dessert  Spoons    ., 
Table  Spoons        ,. 

$2.20 
3.86 
4.40 

$2.60 
4.39 
6.16 

$3.24 
6.16 
6.20 

Alarm  Clock  that 
Does  Alarm. 

The  accompanying  cut  is  a  small 
illustration   of  oar  Parlor    Alarm 
Clock.     This    beautiful    clock  is 
made     with     cast  iron    case,    gun 
metal  finish,  and  has  scroll  orna- 
mentation,    as     shown     in     the 
illustration.     The    alarm    bell    is 
skillfully  concealed  in  the  base  of 
the  clock,  and  has  an  extremely  long    and  loud 
ring,   making   it  a  sure  awakener.     Will   run 
thirty  hours  without  winding.    If  you  forget  to 
wind  it  at  night  it  will  be   running  the  next 
morning.    It    is    dust-prooi     and     practically 
indestructible.     It  is  fully  worth    five  ordinary 
alarms,  being  the  most  durable  and  substantial 
ever    offered.     Five  and  a  hall    inches    high, 
weighs  three  and  a  half  pounds,  and  will   be 
shipped  by  expiess  upon  receipt  of  $1 .00. 

A  Guaranteed  American  Movement  "71 0 
WATCH  for  only  *   ■"** 

A  stemwind  damaskeened  plate,  American 
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gains ever  offered.  You  will  be  highly  p'easrd 
witb  watch.  It  is  not  always  advisable  to  carry 
an  expensive  watch  when  you  can  carry  a  waich 
costing  almost  nothing.  An  excellent  oppor- 
tunity for  boys.  Remember  only  71c.  If  sent 
by  mail  6c  extra. 

The   DELIGHT  Carpet  Sweeper. 

With  regular  bearings  and  nickei-plaied  trim- 
mings If  you  are  looking  for  a  Sweeper  that 
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we  recommend  this  particular  machine.  It  has 
a  ve-y  fine  finish  and  will  be  a  delight.  Our  large 
catalog  showing  different  kinds  and  prices  u  ill 
be  sent  on  request.  The  Delight  in  either 
mahogany. antiqueoak,  or  plain  oak  finish,  only 
$1.75. 


Bed    Spread. 


Full  size  Crochet  Bedspread,  77  by  90  inches. 
hemm-'d  edge.  A  neat  variety  of  patterns,  full 
weight.  "*,%.  lb<*.  Regular  S  2x0  spread.  Our 
special  price  $1 .30 


Broadcloth  for  Ladies9  Suits 


In  all  the  leading  solid  colors.  Black 
and  wine  colors,  light,  medium  and 
dark  ol  Gray,  Blue,  and  Brown  and 
Olive,  medium  or  dark  green.  Other 
colors  can  be  furnished  if  desired. 
The  cloth  is  50  inches  wide,  and 
weighs  o  ozs.  to  the  yard.  This  is 
A  1  broadcloth  and  a  decided  bargain 
at  the  price.  Usually  sells  from  Si. 10 
to  J1.25  per  yard.  Our  special  price 
to  the  Inglenook  readers,  for  holidays 
only,  85c  per  yard. 


A  line  Umbrella  is 
always  a  suitable 
present  for  either 

Lady  or  Gentleman. 


Women's  Taffeta 
Umbrella,  $1.69 

K  5.  Women's  black  Union  silk  taffeta 
Umbrella;  fine  par  ridge  mounted  handle, 
with  German  silver  trimming;  silk  case 
and  tassel;  steel  rod  and  paragon  frame; 
size  26  inches $1.69 


Extra  Quality  Women's 
Taffeta,  $1.98 

K.6,  With  beautiful  pearl  hook  handle,  gold  or 
silver  cap  and  band,  size  26  inches.    Price $1.98 

?/len's  Union  Taffeta  Silk 
Umbrella,  $1.98 

K14.  Men's  black  Union  silk  taffeta  Umbrella, 
with  French  horn  handle,  with  silver  trimming; 
silk  case  and  tassels  and  paragon  frame;  7  fibs=  size 

26  inches $1.98 

Size  28  inches •  2-2d 


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bargain  at  the  price  asked.  It  is 
just  the  kind  of  a  chair  you  like  to 
sit  in  after  ah  ard  day's  work.  The 
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were  offered  a  better  bargain  in  a 
chair  by  anyone.  By  bming  them 
in  quantities  we  are  enabled  to  sell 
these  chairs  to  you  at  the  exceed- 
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THE    RIDDLE   OF    LIFE 


A  noted  author  has  said  that  life  "  is  a  riddle  and  the 
key  to  the  riddle  is  another  riddle.''  This  applies  with 
equal  force  to  life  in  all  its  phases,  including  our 
physical  existence.  It  is  indeed,  a  mystery.  Much  has 
been  written  in  a  scientific  way  as  to  what  life  consists 
of.  but  very  little  is  known  beyond  the  fact  that  the 
blood  is  the  life.  Even  in  ancient  times,  it  was  writ- 
ten "  and  the  blood  is  the  life  thereof."  Accepting  this 
fact  as  our  foundation,  we  find  the  blood  to  be  the  most 
important  part  of  our  physical  being  and  it  emphasizes 
the  necessity  of  keeping  our  lifestream  pure  and  vig- 
orous. To  ignore  this  fact  is  but  to  invite  physical 
pain  and  suffering. 

A  weak  or  impure  condition  of  the  blood  shows 
itself  in  a  thousand  different  ways.  We  meet  people 
every  day  who  appear  pale,  and  in  a  certain  sense, 
bloodless.  They  have  blood  enough,  but  it  is  thin  and 
vitiated,  lacking  in  power  and  warmth ;  others  again 
are  florid,  showing  an  abundance  of  vital  fluid,  but 
pimples  and  skin  eruptions  betoken  its  impure  con- 
dition ;  others  again  by  the  peculiar  color  of  the  whites 
of  the  eyes  and  yellow  skin,  show  that  the  blood  is 
charged  with  bile  owing  to  an  inactive  liver;  while  here 
and  there  we  find  a  rheumatic,  tortured  by  the  presence 
of  uric  acid  in  the  blood  as  a  result  of  weak  kidneys, 
and  so  on  in  many  different  ways. 

All  these  conditions  are  bad.  What  is  needed  is 
a  good  reliable  remedy  that  will  cleanse  thgcfolood  of  its 
impurities,  revitalize  and  enrich  it  and  quicken  its 
■circulation.  There  are  thousands  of  so-called  blood 
medicines  to  be  had.  A  few  are  good,  some  are  bad 
and  the  rest  indifferent.  Any  medicine  that  moves  the 
bowels,  however  drastic  its  composition,  is  advertised 
nowadays  as  a  blood  purifier. 

The  purpose  of  this  article  is  to  call  attention  to  a 
remedy  which  is  without  peer  as  a  blood-purifier  and 
health-giver  and  which  has  the  record  of  a  century's 
constant  use  behind  it.  It  is  known  as  DR.  PETER'S 
BLOOD  VITALIZER  and  thousands  upon  thousands 
have  testified  to  its  remarkable  power.  It  not  only 
cleanses  the  vital  fluid  but  makes  rich,  red  blood  and 
sound,  solid,  healthy  flesh.  When  you  commence  to 
use  it,  you  will  not  remain  long  in  doubt  as-  to  its  effect. 
The  very  first  bottle  will  demonstrate  its  merits. 

FEELS    ALL   RIGHT    AGAIN. 

Cincinnati,  Ohio.  Sept.  19,  1904. 
Dear  Doctor  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

I  wish  to  write  to  you  and  tell  you  how  I  am  feeling 
since  taking  the  Blood  Vitalizer.  For  years  I  had  not 
been  feeling  well  and  would  have  spells  of  rheumatism. 
Then  my  feet,  legs  and  body  would  swell  so  that  I  could 
not  attend  to  my  work.  In  my  work  I  have  to  run 
around  a  good  deal  and  climb  stairs,  etc.,  and,  owing  to 
my  weakness  it  was  very  hard  on  me. 


One  day  a  copy  of  the  "  Surprise  "  came  into  my  hands 
and  as  the  doctors  told  me  they  could  do  no  more  for 
me,  I  sent  for  some  of  your  Blood  Vitalizer.  I  soon  felt 
better  after  using  it  and  can  now  say  I  am  entirely  well. 
My  feet  and  limbs,  which  always  used  to  be  so  cold,  are 
now  warm  and  strong — in  fact,  I  feel  it  all  over.  I  work 
every  day  and  feel  all  right.  I  hope  to  bring  the  knowl- 
edge of  your  Blood  Vitalizer  to  many  sufferers. 

Very  gratefully  yours, 


1565  Central  Ave. 


John  C.  Maisel. 


BELIEVES    IN    IT. 

Wedener,  Ark.,  Aug.  12,  1904. 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Sir: — I  should  have  written  you  long  ago.  We 
cannot  get  along  without  your  Blood  Vitalizer.  When  I 
commenced  using  it  I  was  so  run  down  that  I  only 
weighed  one  hundred  pounds.  I  have  already  gained  nine- 
teen pounds  since  using  it.  I  would  not  think  of  being 
without  it.  Your  argument  that  herb  treatment  is  the 
only  rational  treatment  for  our  physical  ills  and  that  it 
is  referred  to  in  early  Bible  times  is  true  and  I  believe 
every  word  of  it. 

Yours  very  truly, 

Laura  Peterson. 

A    MOTHER    IN    SWITZERLAND    WRITES. 

Wald,  Switzerland,  March  9,  1904. 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Doctor: — I  desire  to  take  the  time  to  tell  you  that 
your  Blood  Vitalizer  has  accomplished  some  wonderful 
things  for  myself  and  daughter.  Through  long-continued 
illness  my  nerves  seemed  to  be  totally  ruined.  I  was 
hardly  able  to  sleep  and  so  run  down  physically  that  I 
had  given  up  hopes  of  getting  well.  Last  fall,  however, 
I  decided  to  try  your  Blood  Vitalizer  and  obtained  some 
at  the  agency  here.  To  my  surprise  I  commenced  to 
pick  up  at  once,  my  sleep  returned  and  I  got  stronger 
day  by  day. 

I  also  commenced  to  give  it  to  my  daughter  (aged  10), 
whose  blood  seemed  to  be  weak  and  vitiated  and  whose 
eye-lids  were  always  raw  and  inflamed.  She  also  had  a 
disagreeable  discharge  from  the  nose.  All  of  these  trou- 
bles have  disappeared,  for  which  we  are  deeply  thankful. 
Sincerely  yours, 

Mrs.  W.  E.  Rebsamen. 

MUST    PRAISE    IT. 

Chicago.  III..  July  12,  1904. 
Dr.  P.  Fahrney,  Chicago.  111. 

Dear  Sir: — The  first  shipment  of  Blood  Vitalizer  is  alt; 
gone,  so  please  send  me  another  lot  of  your  splendid 
medicine.  I  cannot  help  but  praise  the  Blood  Vitalizer 
as  it  has  cured  me  of  an  ailment  (neuralgia)  of  eleven 
years  standing,  after  the  doctors  had  tried  in  vain.  I  can 
recommend  it  wherever  I  am  and  I  am  not  stingy  in  my 
praise  of  it.     I  have  given  some  to  sufferers  gratis. 

Please  send  the  medicine  at  once. 

Yours  truly, 

453  Lyndale  Ave.  Ch.  F.  Pick. 

DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER  is  known  as 
a  plain  household  remedy.  It  comes  in  a  plain  bottle 
in  a  plain  wrapper,  but  it  brings  results  and  therein  lies 
the  secret  of  its  success  and  ever-increasing  popu- 
larity. It  is  distinctly  different  from  all  other  medi- 
cines. It  may  have  its  imitations  but  it  has  no  substi- 
tute. DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER  is  not  a 
drugstore  medicine,  but  is  sold  to  the  people  direct, 
through  special  agents  appointed  in  every  community. 
For  further  particulars  address : 


DR.  PETER  FAHRNEY,  112-114  s.  Hoyne  Ave.,  Chicago,  III. 


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I      Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail      I 


I  IDAHO 


is  the  best-watered  arid  State  in  America.  Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 
winds,  destructive  storms  and  cyclones  are  unknown,  and  with  its  matchless  cli- 
mate it  makes  life  bright  and  worth  living. 
We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer  to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 
change  for  the  general  improvement  in  your  condition  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  both  requirements.  There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 
and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  country  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 
swer and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger  work  teach   us   that   a   few   dollars   spent  in   railroad 
fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves  thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

Cheap   homeseekers'   rates   are   made   to  all   principal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 
for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting  a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


Ronnd=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 

Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday 
of  November,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta- 
tions on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point.     " 


100,000  Acres  Now  Open  for  Settlement  at 
Twin  Falls,  Idaho,   under  the  Carey   Act. 

___  Unlimited  supply  of  water  for  irrigation  and  for  power.  A  grand  opportunity  for  the  Home- 
seeker  who  locates  on  these  lands.  10  years  time  given  for  payment  for  land  and  water  after  lands 
are   sold.     The   canals   and   water   belong  to   the  settlers  who  will  own  and  control  the  same. 


Arrived  in  Payette  Valley  Feb.  23,  1903.  Settled  on  an  80-acre  tract,  covered  with  sage  brush. 
Cleared  40  acres.  Way  25  sowed  to  acres  to  wheat.  Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.  June  12  sowed  ro  acres 
to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.  Yielded  55  to  acre.  Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 
or  March   the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger.  1 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 
oats. 

Potatoes  yielded  500  bushels  to  the  acre  and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)  E.  L.  Dotson. 

D.   E.   BURLEY, 
S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio.  G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R., 

J.  E.  HOOPER,  Agent,  Oakland,  Kansas.  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

Mention  the  INGLENOOK  when  .-.-films  *0tl3 


>. 


Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance.      Fine      S. 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley.  t 


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Vol.  VI. 


November  29,  1904. 


No,  48. 


THE    END    O'    THE    STRING. 


BY    A    RURAL    RHYMER. 


Did  you  ever  run  up  to  a  hard  place,  to  find 
You  had  got  to  the  end  o'  your  string,  sir? 
That   the  thing  which   had   worked   out   so   well,   in   your 
mind, 
'  Up,  for  all,  at  a  huge  stump  would  bring,  sir. 
And  assert,  with  your  spirits  commencin'  to  wilt, 

You  were  "  silly  to  ever  begin  it," 
While  the  bottom  just  dropped  from  your  bucket,  and  spilt 
All  your  milk,  and  the  cream  that  was  in  it? 

_  Did  you,  sir — and  find  out  that  you  couldn't  fall  back 

To  the  place  wdtere  you  started  from,  either. 
Without  bumpin'  your  sore,  and  revealin'  a  lack 

In  your  plan,  or  your  purpose,  when  neither 
Would  be  safe  from  your  critics;  and  traced  to  the  flue, — 

Would,  as  if  the  best  judgment  denyin', 
Seem  to  prove  to  the  world,  such  a  lackin'  in  you, 

As   would   hardly  be   self-satisfyin'? 

Did  you  never  run  up  such  a  stump? — well,  it's  there 

That  life's  failures  have  lodged,  and  are  lodgin', 
And  I'll  show  you  the  place  in  good  lime,  for  it's  fair 

You  should  know   it  in   time  to  be  dodgin', — 
If  your  aim  is  all  right.     (If  'tis  not,  then,  my  man, 

1'rove  your  honor,  by  risin'  above  it, 
And    above    ev'ry    theory,    purpose,    or    plan, 

That  is  wrong,  without  tryin'  to  shove  it.) 

Bui   if  ever,  with  zeal  high  as  safe,  and  aim  right, 

You  run  hard  against  somethin',  and  stun,  sir, 
All  ambition  you  have,  until  faith's   wav'rin'  sight 

Becomes  short,  and  the  tears  will  not  run,  sir, 
For  the  heart  sinkin'  dry,  as  it  were,  and  you  feel 

To  give  up;  while  the  sunlight,  for  slackness, 
Won't  light  things  like  it  did  and,  right  through  it,  there'll 
steal 

Shadows  deep  as  the  midnight's  own  blackness. 

Here's  my  hand;  and  1  just  want  to  tell  you,  before, 

Failh  that  reaches  through  such,  to  good  goal,  sir, 
Is  the  faith  that  must  tell,  and  is  faith  to  the  core, 

Safe  to  tie  to,  lu  bring  men  out  whole,  sir; 
Faith   that's   in   u.s   to  do  and   to  dare,  and   to   face 

Good  or  bad, —  faith  that,  true,  does  not  fetter 
I  0  lost  objects,  but  spurs  to  the  end  o'  the  race 

Unto  otiicrs  worth  while,  if  not   better. 

Yes,   if  ever  you   come   to  a  place,   where,  it   seems 

That   the  end  o'  the   string,  though  a   long  one, 
You  have  reached,  and  the  hobby  ol  brightest  daydreams 

Brings  you  up  at  a  stump,  and  a  strong  one, 
Cut  the  suing, — if  you  must, — and  go  loose,  but  go  on, — 

Strive  to  reach   what  will  pay  good  as  cash,  sir, 
For    the    tune   you    have    squandered,    the    distance   you've 
gone, 

And  the  hobby  that's  goin'  to  smash,  >ir. 


SNAPSHOTS. 


BY   MARY   I.   SENSEMAN. 


Discretion  is  not  hesitation. 
<$>  *  <S> 
We  never  need  to  apologise  for  things  of  whose 
right  we  feel  sure  before  we  do  them. 

*  *  * 

Hate  sin,  but  hate  not  the  sinner;  for  evil  is  the 
creation  of  Satan,  but  men  are  the  handiwork  of  God. 

*  *  * 

//  your  arrow  in  its  flight  makes  the  bell  of  praise 
resound,  let  it  do  so:  but  don't  let  that  bell  be  vour 
target. 

*  *  * 

If  you  ivould  learn  what  a  man  is  made  of,  have 
him  spend  an  indefinite  time  at  work  for  which  he  has 
no  liking. 

Theory  is  like  an  artist's  painting;  practice  is  like 
u  photograph, — much  less  beautiful,  because  contain- 
ing all'  details. 

*  *  * 

Study  the  child  you  arc  governing.  Some  metals 
become  pliable  by  being  hammered,  others  are  made 
hard  and  rigid,  and  some  are  broken. 

*  *  * 

li'ater  must  How  underground  for  a  long  time,  filter- 
ing through  the  sands,  trickling  along  the  rocks,  tedi- 
ously and  in  darkness,  in  order  to  be  able  to  after- 
wards deposit  gold. 

•>  •:•  •;• 

//  is  sweet  to  be  with  Jesus.  I  suppose  that  is  why 
we  are  never  found  in  disreputable  places.  But  let's 
go,  taking  Jesus  with  us.  The  effect  on  the  wayward 
ones  there  will  be  like  the  effect  flowing  xvater  lias  on 
slimy  stones. 

*  +  * 

If  you  arc  striving  to  gel  merely  a  good  reputation. 
don't  trouble  yourself  longer  about  it ;  for  you  will 
i:  anyway,  carved  in  rock. — after  you  are  dead.     Just 
look  well  to  your  character,  and  then  you  will  deserve 
your  epitaph. 

Covington,  Ohio,  R.  R.  3. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— November  29,  1904. 


JACK.— Part  2. 


BY    MAUD   HAWKINS. 

Miss  Smith  knew  instinctively  that  this  was  the 
dreaded  Jack.  All  was  quiet  and  expectant.  With 
hat  on  back  of  his  head,  heavy  boots  on  his  feet,  and 
without  looking  up  he  noisily  shuffled  across  the  room, 
selected  a  seat  to  suit  him,  after  much  gusto  and  in- 
decision, threw  some  books  on  the  desk  with  a  bang 
and  expecting  to  hear  a  reproof  looked  up  with  an 
expression  of  defiance  on  his  countenance ;  but  it  soon 
changed  to  one  of  mingled  wrath,  shame  and  amaze- 
ment when  he  saw  standing  before  him  a  meek,  smil- 
ing face,  looking  as  though  she  was  very  much  pleased 
to  see  him.  A  giggle  ran  around  the  room,  and  the 
boy  nearest  him  whispered,  "  Why  don't  you  throw 
'  him  '  out  Jack?  "  "  Don't  you  think  you  can  master 
him  ?  "  To  which  Jack  replied  with  a  scowl  and  a 
growl  of  "  Mind  your  biz,  can't  you  ?  "  Down  came 
the  teacher  to  his  desk  with  a  smile  and  talked  in  a 
pleasant  manner,  as  she  gave  him  his  lessons  for  the 
day,  for  all  the  world  as  though  she  expected  him  to 
learn  them.  He  answered  her  only  in  monosyllables, 
in  a  sullen  manner.  After  the  lessons  were  heard  she 
dismissed  the  school  for  recess,  but  before  Jack  had 
time  to  leave  his  seat  she  tripped  down  to  his  desk, 
and  actually  sat  down  beside  him,  saying  at  the  same 
time,  "  I  am  glad  you  are  coming  to  school.  I  think 
it  is  so  much  pleasanter  to  have  large  boys  in  school. 
One  does  not  get  discouraged  so  soon  when  there  are 
those  in  school  large  enough  to  sympathize  with  one 
and  to  become  interested  in."  This  was  altogether  a 
different  turn  things  had  taken ;  not  what  he  had  ever 
expected.  Here  was  some  one  glad  to  have  him  in 
school,  and  was  going  to  be  interested  in  him,  and  ex- 
pected sympathy  from  him. 

"Do  you  live  some  distance  from  here?"  was  the 
next  question.  "  Yes,"  was  the  short  answer.  "  I 
thought  so,  as  you  were  a  little  late.  Well,  as  a  gen- 
eral thing  those  who  go  the  farthest  to  school  are  the 
most  studious.  Have  you  any  brothers  or  sisters  ?  " 
'  Yes'm."  Here  she  had  struck  a  weak  chord  in  Jack's 
stubborn  nature,  for  he  was  very  fond  of  his  only  sis- 
ter, Stella,  and  he  soon  found  courage  to  tell  her  of 
his  sister.  "  You  must  bring  her  down  next  Satur- 
day. I  would  enjoy  having  a  lady  friend  out  here, 
and  am  desirous  of  getting  acquainted  with  her." 
Although  he  knew  his  sister  to  be  as  good  as  gold,  he 
bad  never  before  heard  the  title,  lady  applied  to  her, 
and  it  pleased  him.  "  Oh  how  fast  the  time  flies;" 
said  she  consulting  her  watch.  "  It  is  already  time  to 
call  the  children  in."  "  By  the  way,  I  forgot  to  ask 
your  name."  Jack  blushingly  told  her,  for  the  thought 
flashed  across  his  mind,  that  she  possibly  may  have 
heard    of    him,    and  things  would  change   when   she 


heard  who  he  was.  "  Say,  boys,  the  teacher  is  sitting 
with  Jack  already."  "  They  are  getting  quite  well  ac- 
quainted in  there,"  was  uttered  just  outside  the 
door,  as  a  frizzly  head  peeped  in.  Miss  Smith  al- 
ways after  addressed  Jack  as  Mr.  Summers,  for  she 
knew  that  a  sure  way  to  gain  the  affection  of  a  large 
boy  is  to  treat  him  as  a  grown  up  gentleman.  Al- 
though it  caused  a  good  many  to  laugh  whenever  she 
pronounced  the  Mr.  Summers  so  respectfully  she 
appeared  not  to  know  it  was  she  who  caused  the  merri- 
ment, and  they  soon  forgot  to  giggle  when  she  ad- 
dressed Jack  and  some  followed  suit  and  gave  Jack 
his  rightful  title.  The  school  ran  along  smoothly 
nearly  a  month  and  Mr.  Brown  said  to  the  school- 
board,  "  It  looks  as  if  we  would  have  to  pay  her  for 
the  first  month  any  way."  Finally  the  boys  began  to 
think  that  "  she  had  intruded  upon  their  right  long 
enough  "  as  they  expressed  it  and  decided  they  might 
as  well  send  her  away  now  as  later.  The  young  bra- 
vadoes could  stand  the  quiet  felicity  of  the  school  no 
longer,  and  contrived  to  get  offended  at  some  of  Miss 
Smith's  methods  of  teaching.  They  held  a  convention 
in  the  wood-shed  and  the  unanimous  decision  was 
that  she  must  go.  But  what  to  do  was  the  next 
question.  After  suggesting  several  plans,  it  was 
agreed  upon  that  they  would  remove  a  heap  of  stones, 
that  had  always  afforded  a  convenient  hiding  place 
for  truants,  to  the  stoop  in  front  of  the  door,  and  com- 
pletely obstruct  the  way  and  prevent  the  door  from 
being  unlocked.  The  next  morning  all  were  a  little 
early  to  school  to  see  her  chagrin  when  she  arrived. 
But  the  surprise  was  for  them,  for  there  were  the- 
stones  in  the  accustomed  place  and  Miss  Smith  stand- 
ing in  the  door  as  cheerful  as  ever.  "  Who  could  have 
moved  it  back  ?  "  was  the  general  inquiry.  "  Certainly 
she  never  did."  But  Jack  said  never  a  word.  Well 
something  else  must  be  tried.  This  time  it  was  de- 
cided to  seize  her  and  push  her  out  of  the  room  as  soon 
as  school  opened  the  next  day.  It  was  all  planned' 
and  all  were  eager  to  see  the  "  fun."  Of  course  Jack 
would  help  all  were  so  sure  of  that  that  no  one  had' 
thought  to  ask  him  if  he  was  going  to  act,  as  he  was* 
always  the  first  to  respond  to  any  proposal  of  mischief.. 
However  as  he  had  not  seemed  to  enter  into  their  plans- 
with  such  a  hearty  good  will  as  on  previous  occasions 
some  one  ventured  to  inquire  what  part  he  was  going 
to  take  in  the  affair?  "  I  am  not  going  to  take  any, 
and  I  will  tell  you  the  first  one  who  lays  hands  on  her-, 
will  get  that,"  said  Jack  exhibiting  at  the  same  time 
a  big  freckled  fist.  That  settled  it  with  the  lads,  for 
Jack  was  a  monarch  among  the  smaller  boys  and  what, 
he  said  was  considered  law.  However  a  few 
could  not  refrain  from  sneering,  that  he  must  be  in  lovff 
for  they  had  never  seen  Jack  so  soft  before.  "  Sayl 
Jack,  it  will  do  you  no  good  to  try  and  shine  around 


THE    INGLENOOK.— November  29.  igo4- 


1131 


her."  "  She  has  too  fine  airs  to  take  up  with  a  bunch 
of  freckles  and  red  hair."  Jack  stood  all  their  taunts 
with  good  nature,  but  was  sure  to  be  on  hand  early  the 
next  day  to  see  that  his  threats  were  not  in  vain.  All 
gave  up  the  attempt  to  further  molest  Miss  Smith 
and  the  term  was  finished  with  complete  success.  The 
school  disbanded,  and  Miss  Smith  after  a  hand  shake 
and  good-bye  to  each  pupil  disappeared  to  all,  save 
one  who  was  determined  that  she  should  not  slip  away 
from  him  without  a  struggle. — Every  one  said  Tack- 
was  a  changed  boy.  "  I  don't  see  what  has  come  over 
Jack,"  said  Mrs.  Summers.  "  He  seems  so  studious. 
Only  yesterday  he  told  me  he  meant  to  go  to  college 
next  winter  if  he  could  earn  enough  this  summer  to  pay 
his  tuition."  "  Oh  well,"  sighed  his  father,  "  another 
of  his  whims.  He  thinks  the  school  here  too  small 
to  bully  any  more  and  wants  a  bigger  field  to  play  his 
pranks  in.  I  am  afraid  he  will  get  into  trouble 
up  there.  Therefore  I  will  prevent  him  going  if  I 
can.  'Twill  be  better.  There  is  no  use  spending 
time  and  money  for  nothing."  At  this  his  sister  who 
•was  ever  ready  to  plead  for  her  brother  came  to  his 
rescue  and  begged  her  father  to  try  him  just  once 
more  as  she  thought  that  Jack  was  really  trying  to 
reform,  and  that  she  would  do  without  the  new  cloak 
that  had  been  promised,  if  he  only  would  give  the 
money  to  pay  some  of  Jack's  expenses  at  college.  Who 
Taiows  but  Jack  may  have  let  her  into  the  secrets  of 
his  thoughts,  or  perhaps  her  womanly  instinct  led  her 
to  know  that  there  was  something  more  than  self 
back  of  all  Jack's  moody  dreamings.  However  she 
won  the  case  and  Jack  went  to  college.  Years  flew  by 
and  Miss  Smith  still  taught  school  as  no  charming 
princ3  had  come  to  claim  her  heart.  One  sunny  even- 
ing after  kissing  good-night  the  many  little  dirty 
faces  upturned  to  her,  she  was  preparing  to  leave  the 
school-room  when  a  large  shadow  fell  across  the  well 
Swept  school-nii  mi  floor.  Looking  up  quickly  she  was 
Startled  to  sec  a  large  handsome  finely  dressed  man 
standing  in  the  doorway  with  hat  in  his  hand.  She 
immediately  thought  of  her  own  shabby  dress.  Who 
could  he  be?  Surely  he  is  no  patron  of  the  school, 
coming  to  censure  her;  for  there  were  none  so  refined 
5n  the  place.  It  must  be  the  new  doctor  who  moved 
in  the  place  last  week  that  all  were  so  interested  in. 
For  she  had  heard  the  village  girls  wondering  if  he 
were  married,  saying  that  they  mean!  to  make  them- 
selves agreeable  to  him  if  he  was  not.  and  that  it  would 
be  a  pity  if  he  was  for  he  was  so  stylish  and  handsome. 
"  I  have  the  pleasure  of  addressing  Miss  Smith  I  be- 
lieve," she  heard  some  one  saying  in  a  clear  pleasant 
tone  which  aroused  her  from  her  momentary  forgct- 
fulness,  and  she  found  voice  to  answer  in  the  affirm- 
ative. When  he,  without  waiting  for  further  introduc- 
tion, strode  across  the  room  extending  his  hand  said. 


"  Please  accept  thanks  from  one  who  owes  you  for 
what  lie  is  or  ever  expects  to  be."  "  Why  I  don't  un- 
derstand you  sir ;"  stammered  Miss  Smith  in  amaze- 
ment. "  Please  be  seated  and  I  will  explain.  Years 
ago  there  lived  in  the  country  a  wild  youth,  who  cared 
for  nothing  but  mischief  and  meanness,  till  a  certain  lit- 
tle school-teacher  came  into  the  neighborhood  and 
taught  him  a  lesson  he  has  never  forgotten.  Do  you 
remember  Jack  Summers?  "  "  Can  it  be  possible!  I 
am  so  glad  to  see  you."  "  That  is  jusi  what  you  said 
ten  years  ago  when  I  came  to  school  the  first  day  with 
the  intention  of  throwing  you  out."  They  then  had 
a  long  talk  each  telling  what  the  world  had  done  for 
them  in  the  intervening  years  that  had  expired.  And 
indeed  they  had  many  such  long  talks  after,  in  which 
Jack  never  tired  of  telling  how  she  had  won  him  over 
on  the  side  of  right  by  her  quiet  and  gentle  example. 
And  on  one  occasion  he  told  her  of  his  great  love  for 
her  as  being  the  incentive  which  caused  him  to  strive 
to  become  a  better  man,  in  hopes  that  some  day  she 
might  think  him  worthy  of  her  love.  And  I  think 
she  did,  for  in  a  few  weeks  there  was  a  quiet  wedding 
in  the  little  village  church,  and  the  handsome  and  dis- 
tinguished doctor  took  the  little  teacher  to  his  home. 

"  Who  would  have  thought  that  she  knew  him  all  the 
time,  when  we  were  telling  her  about  him  ?  "  said  one 
of  the  girls  after  the  wedding. 

"  Well !  well !  Did  I  ever  hear  the  like  !  How  things 
will  turn  out,"  said  farmer  Brown,  as  he  threw  down 
the  morning  paper.  "  Wife  come  here.  Who  do 
you  suppose  is  married  ?  Jack  Summers  to  that  little 
chip  of  a  school-ma'am  who  mastered  him  ten  years 
ago.  When  I  first  saw  her  I  never  thought 
that  she  could  manage  him  in  one  term  of  school,  to 
say  nothing  of  marrying  him.  Well.  well,  so  goes 
the  world.  I  think  she  must  possess  some  supernatural 
enchantment  or  T  would  never  have  given  her  the 
school  in  the  first  place."  Jack  and  his  little  wife  lived 
happily  together,  and  years  after  their  children  never 
tired  of  hearing  "papa"  tell  how  he  carried  stones 
half  of  one  night  and  how  he  managed  to  break  up 
mamma's  school-teaching. 

1  owanda.  Pa. 

♦  ♦  ♦ 
A    LAND    OF    MARVELS. 


To  no  country  in  the  world  has  nature  been  so  prodi- 
gal of  scenic  gifts  as  to  the  Island  of  New  Zealand. 
It  has  the  largest  glacier  and  tin  largest  geyser,  in 
addition  to  marvelous  boiling  mineral  springs  that 
have  few  rivals.  The  whole  place  teems  with  in- 
terest— history  and  mythological  traditions  of  the 
tribal  heroes.  Every  hill  and  glade,  even  the  trees 
and  flowers,  have  mystic  association  with  demigods, 
ell's  or  demons,  for  the  folklore  of  the  Maoris  is  the 
richest  in  the  world. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— November  29.  1904. 


CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE    DEFENDED. 


BY   A.    V.    STEWART. 

Th«  animus  underlying  the  malevolous1  misrepre- 
sentation of  Christian  Science  in  the  article  entitled. 
"  Forty  Reasons  Why  I  am  not  a  Christian  Scien- 
tist," by  Frederick  Erdman,  published  in  the  Ram's 
Horn  some  months  ago  and  in  the  Inglenook  of  Oc- 
tober nth,  must  be  apparent  to  your  readers.  Surelv 
no  one  will  be  misled  by  such  an  article,  filled,  as  it 
is,  with  malice  and  vituperation. 

Christian  Science  takes  a  high  position  spiritually, 
and  the  demand  it  makes  for  purity  of  thought  and 
action  not  infrequently  incites  just  such"  slander  as 
appears  in  the  article  above  mentioned.  However, 
let  it  be  understood  that  Christian  Scientists  do  not 
retaliate  nor  even  resent,  and  their  daily  prayer  is, 
"  Father,  forgive  them,  for  they  know  not  what  they 
do." 

The  forty  reasons  our  calumniator  gives  for  not  ac- 
cepting Christian  Science  include  much  that  is  false 
and  much  that  is  silly.  Many  of  the  reasons  are  di- 
rected at  a  very  erroneous  concept,  and  it  is  another 
case  of  first  setting  up  a  straw  man  before  proceeding 
to  vilify  and  puil  down.  For  that  reason  I  will  not 
attempt  to  answer  the  erroneous  statements  of  our 
critic,  but  will  endeavor  to  give  briefly  an  idea  of  the 
demands  for  righteousness  which  Christian  Science 
makes  upon  its  adherents. 

Christian  Science  recognizes  the  teachings  of  Tesus 
as  replete  with  wisdom,  with  exhortation,  with  com- 
mand, and  that  to  obey  his  commands  and  follow  him 
means  infinitely  more  than  a  mere  assent  to  his  laws 
declared  from  the  mount.  Jesus  demanded  purity  in 
thought,  word,  and  deed;  so  does  Christian  Science. 
Jesus  proved  that  fear,  sin,  and  sickness  are  overcome 
through  spiritual  understanding;  so  does  Christian 
Science.  An  apostle  of  Jesus  said,  "  Be  ye  doers  of 
the  word,  and  not  hearers  only ;"  so  does  the  Christian 
Science.  In  fact,  no  command  of  the  Master,  no  law 
of  righteousness  goes  unheeded  by  the  Christian  Sci- 
entist who  is  striving  to  live  the  precepts  of  Christian 
Science. 

Christian  Science  is  in  full  accord  with  the  Scrip- 
ture which  declares  God  to  be  omnipotent  and  om- 
nipresent, and  it  adheres  to  that  declaration  in  refus- 
ing to  acknowledge  sin  or  sickness  as  power  or  as  any 
part  of  God's  kingdom.  Christian  Science  empha- 
sizes Paul's  declaration,  "  Be  ye  transformed  by  the 
renewing  of  the  mind."  It  shows,  however,  that  such 
transformation  can  never  take  place  as  long  as  mortals 
believe  that  sin,  sickness,  and  death  are  part  of  God's 
plan  for  the  redemption  of  mankind.  It  will  there- 
fore be  seen  that  Christian  Science  is  a  religion  full 


of  good  works,  that  it  accepts  all  of  the  Gospel  of 
Christ,  and  the  command  to  heal  the  sick  is  just  as 
imperative  to  Christian  Scientists  as  the  command  to 
preach  the  Gospel.  It  is  almost  inconceivable  that  in 
this  age  a  religion  embracing  everything  that  is  good 
and  denouncing  everything  that  is  evil  should  be  made 
a  target  for  such  an  apparently  intentional  misrepre- 
sentatipn  as  appears  in  Mr.  Erdman's  article  unless  it 
is  history  repeating  itself, — the  Christ  idea  persecuted 
and  maligned  by  the  rabbis.  The  following  quotation 
from  the  Albany,  (N.  Y. )  Press-Knickerbocker  cor- 
rectly illustrates  the  change  which  is  taking  place  in 
public  opinion  as  Christian  Science  is  becoming  better 
understood : 

"  Perhaps  the  public  may  have  noted  that  the  oppo- 
sition to  Christian  Science,  which  was  very  much  in 
evidence  a  few  years  ago,  is  dying  out.  Worldly  as 
a  majority  of  our  people  may  be,  they  have  been 
quick  to  recognize  the  goodness  which  is  in  the  new 
cult. 

There  is  nothing  in  Christian  Science  which  would 
suggest  imposition.  Faith  is  the  foundation  of  the  be- 
lief which  has  Mrs.  Eddy  as  its  chief  exponent.  Those 
who  accept  this  good  woman's  teachings  live  pure  and 
upright  lives.  As  pious  as  the  Pilgrim  Fathers,  the 
Christian  Scientists  are  more  liberal  than  those  pio- 
neers of  religion  in  the  New  World. 

Since  the  immortal  Declaration  of  Independence  was 
given  to  freemen,  our  people  have  held  that  all  men  are 
"  endowed  by  their  Creator  with  certain  unalienable 
rights,"  among  which  are  "  life,  liberty,  and  the  pur- 
suit of  happiness."  As  men  and  women  are  happy 
in  their  religion,  any  belief  which  contributes  toward 
the  happiness  of  the  world  must  at  least  receive  the 
considerate  attention  of  the  American  public." 

Chicago,  III. 

4>  <t>  4. 

CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE    AGAIN. 


BY   CLAUDE   H.   MURRAY. 

It  is  a  matter  of  regret  to  me  that  it  has  become 
necessary  to  again  take  up  the"  Christian  Science  " 
question.  But  since  my  motives  in  doing  so  before,! 
have  been  assailed,  and  a  rebuttal  attempted  by  charg- 
ing malicious  misrepresentation,  and  mis-quotation.  I 
can  hardly  keep  silence  without  its  being  construed 
as  an  admission  that  those  accusations  are  not  without 
foundation,  and  that  I  have  found  my  position  un- 
tenable. To  those  who  might  be  led  to  think  thus, 
I  wish  to  say  that  a  further  study  of  Christian  Science 
has  only  confirmed  my  previously  stated  views.  It 
occurs  to  me  that  this  species  of  religious  teaching  he- 
longs  properly  in  the  class  referred  to  by  Paul  in  I. 
Tim.  6:  20,  21,  where  he  admonishes  Timothy  to  avoid 


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vain  and  profane  babblings,  and  oppositions  of  sci- 
ence falsely  so  called ;  which  some  professing  have 
erred  concerning  the  faith." 

The  Christian  Scientist  teaching  of  God  is  as  fol- 
lows: (I  quote  from  Mrs.  Eddy's  works,  principally 
"Science  and  Health" — imprint  of  1893).  "God: 
the  great  I-am,  all-knowing,  all-seeing,  all-acting,  all- 
loving,  all-wise  and  eternal  Principle,  Mind.  Soul. 
Spirit,  Love.  Truth,  Life,  Substance,  Intelligence" 
(p.  566).  .  .  .  Now,  one  might  leave  that  definition 
pass  unchallenged,  for  it  can  be  interpreted  by  each 
reader  to  suit  himself.  But  from  other  assertions 
found  in  "  Science  and  Health,"  it  becomes  quite  evi- 
dent that  the  Christian  Science  idea  of  God  makes  him 
a  very  different  Being  from  the  God  of  the  Bible.  For 
instance,  Mrs.  Eddy  says,  (p.  313)  "God  is  not  in- 
fluenced by  man."  This  is  in  direct  opposition  to  the 
teaching  of  the  Bible.  Note:  (1  John  5:  141  "And 
this  is  the  confidence  that  we  have  in  him,  that  if  we 
ask  anything  according  to  his  will,  he  heareth  us." 
(Matt.  21:  22)  "And  all  things,  whatsoever  ye  shall 
ask  in  prayer  believing,  ye  shall  receive."  1  Matt.  7:71 
"Ask  and  it  shall  be  given  you."  (Matt.  18:  19J  "  If 
two  of  you  shall  agree  on  earth  as  touching  anything 
that  ye  shall  ask,  it  shall  be  done  for  them  of  my  Fa- 
ther which  is  in  heaven."  Again,  (p.  1521  "  The  the- 
ory of  three  persons  in  one  God  (that  is,  a  personal 
Trinity,  or  Tri-unity)  suggest  heathen  gods  rather 
than  the  one  ever-present  I  AM."  In  the  Book  we 
read,  (1  John  5:7)  "  For  there  are  three  that  bear 
reo  ird  in  heaven,  the  Father,  the  Word,  and  the  Holy 
Ghost:  and  these  three  are  one."  (Matt.  28:  191 
"  Baptizing  them  in  the  name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the 
Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost."  Indeed,  it  seems  to 
me  as  I  compared  the  Bible  with  Mrs.  Eddy's  writings, 
(which  are  the  standard  for  Christian  Scientists), 
that  it  would  be  inconceivable  for  the  God  of  Christ- 
ian Science  ever  to  have  "  so  loved  the  world  that  he 
he  gave  his  only  begotten  Son,  that  whosoever  believ- 
eth  in  him  should  not  perish,  but  have  everlasting 
life."  Rather  has  it  seemed  to  me  that,  if  what 
Christian  Science  claims,  be  true,  that  the  death  and 
resurrection  of  our  Savior  was  worse  than  useless; 
for  if,  as  they  would  leach,  there  is  no  reality  of  evil 
and  sin  in  the  world,  why  should  it  have  been  neces- 
sary for  Christ  to  "  bear  our  iniquities,"  and  die,  that 
we  through  him  might  be  redeemed?  Christian  Sci- 
ence would  have  us  accept  an  impersonal,  unfeeling, 
far-away  Principle,  in  place  of  the  infinite,  personal 
Father  who  watches  over  and  cares  for  his  creatures 
so  faithfully  and  with  such  earnest  solicitude  that  not 
even  a  sparrow  falls  unnoticed  to  the  ground. 

Again,  Christian  Science  would  have  us  believe 
that  there  is  no  evil  or  sin.  I  quote  again  from 
"Science  and  Health"   (p.  464):    "Evil    is    but    de- 


lusion and  error  has  no  real  basis.  It  is  a  false  be- 
lief." (p.  206)  "All  that  Mind  is,  or  hath  made, 
is  good,  and  He  made  all ;  hence  there  is  no  evil." 
(p.  207)  "  Sin  exists  only  so  long  as  the  material  il- 
lusion remains."  Again  is  this  directly  opposed  to  the 
Bible  ;  (Eccl.  7  ;  20)  "  For  there  is  not  a  just  man  upon 
earth,  that  doeth  good,  and  sinneth  not."  ( 1  John 
1  :  8,  10 )  "  If  we  say  we  have  no  sin,  we  deceive  our- 
selves, and  the  truth  is  not  in  us.  ...  If  we  sav  we  have 
not  sinned,  we  make  him  a  liar,  and  his  word  is  not 
in   us."     (1   John   5:   16,   17)    "There  is  a  sin    unto 

death \11  unrighteousness  is  sin."     But  why 

should  I  quote  further?  Christian  Scientists  reason 
from  a  false  basis ;  they  say  that  since  the  .God-princi- 
ple (or  God)  made  all,  and  fills  all,  consequently  there 
is  no  room  left  for  sin ;  and  God  not  being  the  author 
or  creator  of  sin,  there  being  no  other  power,  hence 
sin  could  not  have  been  created  by  a  sinless  Creator. 
They  seem  to  forget  or  else  purposely  ignore  that 
the  Evil  One,  Satan,  fell  from  his  first  estate,  and  with 
him  felt  a  fourth  part  of  the  heavenly  host :  and  that 
these  fallen  ones  are  the  authors  of  all  the  evil  in  this 
present  world  (see  I  John  3:  8  and  St.  John  8:  241. 
We  agree  that  God  did  not  create  sin.  But  the  Bible 
teaches  that  through  disobedience  to  God's  commands, 
sin  came  into  the  world,  being  introduced  through 
Satan  in  the  form  of  a  serpent ;  God  permits  Satan 
to  deceive  (see  Job  I.)  and  allows  evil  to  continue, 
though  his  so  doing  is  not  understood  by  man.  And 
further,  the  Bible  teaches  that  the  good  and  the  evil 
will  always  exist  together  until  the  Judgment.  Proof 
of  this  is  found  in  the  parable  of  the  wheat  and  the 
tares.  And  while  I  should  like  to  realize  the  absence 
of  al!  evil  and  sin  from  our  earth,  and  that  "  all  is 
good,"  yet  while  the  saloon  keeps  up  its  deadly  work. 
while  the  gambling  den,  the  brothel,  the  dance  hall, 
the  fashionable  card  party,  and  other  real  evils,  con- 
tinue to  drag  men  down  :  while  the  red  hand  of  War 
continues  to  destroy  its  thousands  of  our  fellow-men  : 
with  these  going  on  about  me,  I  cannot  fold  my  hands, 
close  my  eyes  to  the  terrible  scene,  and  by  thinking, 
transport  myself  to  the  Christian  Science  Utopia. 
where  all  is  good  and  evil  is  unknown. 

But  there  is  yet  another  phase  of  the  Christian  Sci- 
ence teaching;  and  much  of  this  class  of  assertions 
is  manifestly  absurd  and  nonsensical;  it  is  the 
assumption  that  matter  does  not  exist,  (p.  452)  "  All 
is  Mind:  there  is  no  matter."  (p.  7)  "  Matter  is  noth- 
ing, all  beings  Spirit,  God."  (p.  2)  "  The  opposite  of 
Truth — called  error,  sin,  sickness,  disease,  death — is 
the  false  testimony  of  false  material  sense."  (p.  14) 
"  Health  is  not  a  condition  of  the  matter."  (p.  19) 
"  The  seasons  will  come  and  go,  with  changes  of  time 
and  tide,  cold  and  heat,  latitude  and  longitude.  The 
agriculturist  will  find  these  changes  cannot  affect  his 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— November  29,  1904. 


crops  in  seed  time  or  harvest."  (p.  21.)  "  It  (Chris- 
tian Science)  teaches  that  matter  is  the  falsity,  not  the 
fact  of  existence;  that  nerves,  brain,  stomach,  lungs, 
have — as  matter — no  intelligence,  life  or  sensation." 
(p.  46.)  "  You  say  a  boil  is  painful ;  but  that  is  impos- 
sible, for  matter  without  mind  is  not  painful.  The  boil 
simply  manifests  your  belief  in  pain,  through  inflamma- 
tion and  swelling;  and  you  call  this  belief  a  boil."  (p. 
116)  ''Coughs, colds, and  contagion  are  engendered  sole- 
ly by  mortal  belief."  (p.  118)  "  Food  neither  strength- 
ens nor  weakens  the  body."  (p.  387.)  "  Food  does  not 
affect  the  existence  of  man."  (p.  387)  "  If  food  pre- 
serves life,  it  cannot  destroy  it."  I  could  quote,  fur- 
ther, but  this  is  sufficient.  All  these  assumptions  rest 
upon  a  false  basis — that  the  mortal  hath  already  "  put 
on  immortality;"  Mrs.  Eddy  is  simply  trying  to  ig- 
nore the  first  stage  of  existence,  and  again  she  is  in 
conflict  with  the  Bible.  She  has  assumed  that  the 
material  world,  the  mortal  body,  and  the  mortal  mind 
have  no  part  or  bearing  on  our  existence,  not  even  in 
this  world.  The  Bible  plainly  teaches  that  matter 
not  only  exists,  but  that  it  has  a  place  to  fill  in  God's 
plan,  and  must  not  be  ignored  and  cast  aside  as  be- 
ing nothing.  Genesis  first  chapter  gives  a  very  com- 
plete and  vivid  account  of  the  creation  of  the  heaven 
and  the  earth  and  all  classes  of  material  objects  that 
exist  upon  the  earth.  This  material  world  was  cer- 
tainly a  reality  to  Paul,  for  he  says  (1  Cor.  4:  11), 
"  Even  unto  this  present  hour  we  both  hunger,  and 
thirst,  and  are  naked,  and  are  buffeted,  and  have  no 
certain  dwelling  place ;  and  labour,  working  with  our 
own  hands."  And  our  material  bodies  certainly  have 
a  very  important  mission  here,  for  they  are  recep- 
tacles for  the  indwelling  of  the  Holy  Spirit ;  ( I  Cor. 
3  :  16,  17 )  ''  Know  ye  not  that  ye  are  the  temple  of  God, 
and  that  the  Spirit  of  God  dwelleth  in  you?  If  any 
man  defile  the  temple  of  God.  him  shall  God  destroy ; 
for  the  temple  of  God  is  holy,  which  temple  ye  are." 
( 1  Cor.  6:  19)  "  Know  ye  not  that  your  body  is  the 
temple  of  the  Holy  Ghost  which  is  in  you  ?  "  By  a 
study  of  1  Cor.  6th  and  12th  chapters,  we  may  learn 
what  part  matter  has  in  the  Bible  plan.  Hence,  it 
behooves  us  to  "  glorify  God  in  our  bodies,  and  in  our 
spirits,  which  are  God's;"  (The  literal  quotation  is, 
"  glorify  God  in  your  body  and  in  your  spirit,  which 
are  his.")  This  last  shows  plainly  that  both  body  and 
spirit  are  God's  and  both  are  of  use  to  him.  I  think  it 
is  generally  admitted  and  accepted  that  this  present 
body  is  changed  (as  noted  in  1  Cor.  15)  "at  the  last 
trump,"  and  that  then  the  spiritual  (or  Mind,  as  Mrs. 
Eddy  chooses  to  call  it)  takes  full  possession  of  man, 
and  matter  ceases  to  exist.  And  until  then,  matter  and 
material  objects  have  a  place  in  all  really  scientific 
Christian  Science.  The  Bible  teaches  this  ( 1  Cor. 
15 :  44  to  46)  "  It  is  sown  a  natural  body :  it  is  raised  a 


spiritual  body  .  .  .  Howbeit  that  was  not  first 
which  is  spiritual,  but  that  which  is  natural ;  and  after 
ward  that  which  is  spiritual."  Vs.  52-53,  "  corrupt- 
ible must  put  on  incorruption,"  etc.  And  Isaiah  45 : 
18 :  "  For  thus  saith  the  Lord  that  created  the  heavens ; 
God  himself  that  formed  the  earth  and  made  it ;  he 
hath  established  it,  he  created  it  not  in  vain,  he  formed 
it  to  be  inhabited ;  I  am  the  Lord  and  there  is  none 
else."  Furthermore,  Mrs.  Eddy  herself  continually 
uses  material  objects  to  illustrate  her  points. 

To  the  claim  made  in  the  opening  sentence  of  the 
reply,  I  wish  to  quote  more  fully  than  previously  from 
what  the  gifted  Hindoo  Christian,  Punditi  Ramabai, 
has  said.  (Mrs.  Eddy  says  in  her  book  that  when  she 
had  discovered  Christian  Science,  all  her  former  knowlrf 
edge  vanished  away,  so  it  is  evident  that  the  word  of 
a  scholarly,  gifted  Hindoo  Christian  woman  would 
carry  greater  weight  than  that  of  a  woman  who  for-; 
got  everything  she  knew  when  Christian  Science  took 
possession  of  her  mind ;  which  is  sufficient  explanation 
why  I  quote  as  I  do.)  "  On  my  arrival  in  America  I 
was  told  a  new  philosophy  was  being  taught  in  the 
United  States  and  that  it  had  won  many  disciples.  The 
philosophy  was  called  Christian  Science,  and  when  I 
asked  what  its  teachings  was  I  recognized  it  as  being 
the  same  philosophy  that  has  been  taught  among  my 
people  for  four  thousand  years.  It  has  wrecked  mil- 
lions of  lives  and  caused  immeasurable  suffering  and 
sorrow  in  my  land,  for  it  is  based  on  selfishness  and 
knows  no  sympathy  or  compassion.  It  means  just 
this,  the  philosophy  of  nothingness.  You  are  to  view 
the  whole  universe  as  nothing  but  falsehood.  You  are 
to  think  it  does  not  exist.  You  do  not  exist.  I  do  not 
exist.  The  birds  and  beasts  you  see  do  not  exist; 
When  you  realize  that  you  have  no  personality  what- 
ever, then  you  will  have  attained  the  highest  perfection 
of  what  is  called  '  Yoga,'  and  that  gives  you  liberation, 
and  you  are  liberated  from  your  body,  and  become  like 
him  without  any  personality.  .  .  .  What  has  this  phi 
losophy  done  for  the  people  of  India?  A  tree  is  judged 
by  its  fruits.  Americans  are  a  people  of  some  sym 
pathy.  Everything  is  real.  You  feel  that  when  other 
people  are  starving  you  ought  to  give  them  something 
to  eat.  But  in  India  they  feel  no  sympathy  for  others. 
In  our  late  famine  our  philosophers  had  no  feeling  for 
the  sufferers ;  they  did  not  help  the  needy.  Why 
should  they  help  when  they  claimed  the  suffering  was 
not  real,  neither  were  the  dying  children  real?  The 
first  result  of  this  philosophy  is  the  basest  cruelty,  for 
sufferers  no  compassion,  but  supreme  egoism."  I  have 
quoted  at  length  because  Christian  Science  claims  to 
be  a'  Christian  religion. 

I  hope  those  who  read  this  will  also  turn  to  my 
former  article  in  the  Inglenook  of  September  27,  and 
reread   the   nine   accusations   enumerated   there,   as    ( 


THE    [NGLENOOK.— November  29.  1904. 


«3S 


intend  strengthening  those  in  this  article,  first  by 
quoting  from  Mrs.  Eddy's  writings,  and  second,  by  a 
comparison  of  her  teachings  with  those  of  the  Bible. 
This  done,  I  shall  leave  my  readers  determine  for  them- 
selves whether  the  charge  of  misrepresentation  is  well- 
founded  or  not. 

My  first  objection  was  that  Christian  Science  is  a 
great  book-selling  scheme.  Now  Mrs.  Eddy  says : 
(p.  441)  "A  Christian  Scientist  requires  my  work  on 
•Science  and  Health  for  his  text-book,  and  so  do  all 
his  students  and  patients.  Why?  1st:  because  it  is 
the  voice  of  Truth  to  this  age,  and  contains  the  whole 
of  Christian  Science,  or  the  Science  of  healing  through 
Mind  2nd,  because  it  was  the  first  published  book 
containing  a  statement  of  Christian  Science,  gave  the 
first  rules  for  demonstrating  this  Science,  and  regis- 
tered this  revealed  truth,  uncontaminated  with  human 
hypotheses.  Other  works,  which  have  borrowed  from 
this  without  giving  it  credit,  have  adulterated  the 
Science.  3rd,  because  this  work  has  done  more  for 
teacher  and  student,  for  healer  and  patient,  than  has 
been  accomplished  by  other  works."  And  in  March. 
1897,  the  following  note  was  sent  out  to  the  faithful: 
"  Christian  Scientists  in  the  United  States  and  Canada 
are  hereby  enjoined  not  to  teach  a  student  Christian 
Science  for  one  year,  commencing  on  March  14.  1897. 
'  Miscellaneous  Writings  '  (her  last  book,  just  pub- 
lished) is  calculated  to  prepare  the  minds  of  all  true 
thinkers  to  understand  the  Christian  Science  text-book 
more  accurately  than  a  student  can.  The  Bible,  Science 
and  Health,  and  my  other  published  works,  are  the 
only  proper  instructors  for  this  hour.  //  shall  be  the 
duty  of  all  Christian  Scientists  to  circulate  and  sell 
as  many  of  these  books  as  they  can.  If' a  member  of 
the  First  of  Christ,  Scientist,  shall  fail  to  obey  this  in- 
junction, it  will  render  him  liable  to  lose  his  member- 
ship in  this  church.  "  Mary  Baker  Eddy. 

It  seems  to  me  that  the  preceding  italicized  portion 
is  as  conclusive  proof  of  the  truth  of  my  first  objection 
as  could  be  desired  by  an  unbiased  mind. 

I  have  not  yet  touched  on  some  phases  that  could  be 
brought  forward  as  objectionable  features  in  this  so- 
called  Christian  (?)  Science,  but  my  article  is  already 
too  long.  There  are  a  few  commendable  features  inter- 
mingled in  its  teachings,  some  that  other  church  organ- 
izations might  do  well  to  adopt.  My  regret  is  that 
there  are  not  more,  but  is  seems  almost  a  clear  case  of 
what  Shakespeare  writes  of  as  "  vaulting  ambition, 
which  o'er  leaps  itself  and  falls  on  the  other  side."  And 
so  I  leave  the  subject  convinced  that  as  a  system  of 
worship,  or  as  a  system  of  healing.  Christian  Science 
falls  far  short  of  the  precept  and  example  of  our  Sa- 
vior.   My  readers  may  draw  their  own  conclusions. 

Elgin,  III. 


FARMING    IN    FOREIGN    LANDS. 


The  New  Zealand  group  consists  principally  of 
what  is  generally  known  as  the  North  and  Middle 
Islands  and  Stewart  Island,  and  the  Chatham,  Mac- 
quarie,  and  Kermadec  Isles.  The  three  principal  is- 
lands have  a  length  from  north  to  south  of  about  one 
thousand  one  hundred  miles,  extending  from  340  15' 
to  470  30'  South  Latitude,  lying  between  66°  30'  and 
780  30'  East  Longitude.  The  greatest  width  of  the 
Middle  Island  is  about  150  miles,  and  that  of  the  North 
Island  300  miles. 

The  climate  is  much  diversified.  In  the  Southern 
Island,  snow  is  frequently  seen  in  winter,  rarely  re- 
maining on  the  ground  more  than  twenty-four  hours 
— and  frosts  scarcely  ever  last  the  day  through.  In 
the  North  Island,  especially  in  the  northern  parts,  the 
hardy  farmer  used  to  the  rigors  of  a  Canadian  winter 
would  think  he  had  got  into  the  region  of  perpetual 
spring.  The  S<?uth  Island  seems  more  fitted  for  grain- 
growing  than  the  North  Island.  All  English  fruits 
grow  to  perfection,  but,  except  in  very  favored,  shel- 
tered localities,  peaches  do  not  thrive  in  the  open.  But 
in  the  North  Island,  midway  between  Wellington,  the 
capital  of  the  colony,  and  Wanganui,  the  peach  and 
its  sub-varieties  yield  luxuriantly.  Lemons,  oranges, 
and  limes  are,  in  a  few  sheltered  places,  grown  in  the 
open  in  the  vicinity  of  Wanganui,  while  in  the  North- 
ern province  (Auckland  I  oranges,  lemons,  and  most 
of  the  semi-tropical  fruits  thrive  well.  The  happy 
medium  of  climate  is,  hi  iwever,  found  between  New 
Plymouth  and  Foxton  (connected  by  railway),  a  dis- 
tance of  about  two  hundred  miles. 

Of  primary  importance  to  the  farmer  is  the  security 
of  his  tenure.  In  no  part  of  the  world  are  land  laws 
more  simple  than  in  Xew  Zealand — the  Crown  con- 
veying an  absolutely  irrefragable  title  to  the  purchaser 
under  a  system  known  as  "  Torren's."  If  a  person 
sells  his  land,  he  executes  a  conveyance.  This,  with  the 
original  certificate,  is  sent  to  the  land-office.  The 
original  certificate,  with  the  conveyance,  is  there  filed, 
anfi  a  new  certificate  is  issued  to  the  purchaser.  This 
system  is  doing  away  with  the  complicated  and  large 
number  of  deeds  that  accumulate  when  land  changes 
hands  often  under  the  old  English  system  of  con- 
veyancing. This  applies  not  only  to  the  Wanganui 
district,  but  all  over  New  Zealand. 

The  inhabitants  in  the  vicinity  we  are  describing 
are  united  in  believing  they  occupy  one  of  the  most 
fertile  districts  in  the  Southern  hemisphere.  The  soil 
consists  for  the  most  part  of  a  rich,  dark  loam  from 
seven  inches  to  a  foot  in  depth,  resting  on  a  porous, 
marly  clay.  Wheat,  oats,  and  all  the  cereals  yield 
luxuriantly  ;  but  the  country  is  more  used  for  graz- 
ing than  anything  else.  The  winters  being  very  mild. 
stock  do  not  require  to  lie  housed. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— November  29,  1904. 


STORY    OF    THE    PILGRIMS    IN    HOLLAND. 
Part   II. 


REMINISCENCE    OF    FANNY    CROSBY. 


BY  MaBELLE  MURRAY. 

When  these  poor  people  reached  Holland,  they 
were  in  a  sad  plight.  Their  property  was  gone ;  they 
could  not  speak  a  word  of  Dutch,  yet  they  did  not 
despair.  Brewster  learned  to  set  type;  Bradford  be- 
came a  weaver;  one  learned  to  lay  brick,  one  became 
a  carpenter,  and  so  they  kept  the  wolfe  from  the  door. 
On  Sunday,  they  gathered  to  hear  John  Robinson 
preach,  and  after  church  all  ate  dinner  together. 
They  called  themselves  "  Pilgrims  in  Holland." 

As  the  years  went  by,  they  were  troubled  about 
their  children.  There  were  no  English  schools  and 
they  were  too  poor  to  establish  one  of  their  own.  They 
resolved  to  find  a  home  beyond  the  sea,  where  they 
could  teach  their  children  to  love  and  reverence  the 
principles  so  dear  to  them.  They  sent  two  of  their 
number  back  to  London  to  enlist  some  merchants  in 
forming  a  colony  in  the  New  World.  The  merchants 
obtain  permission  from  the  king,  but  he  said  the  col- 
onists must  conform  to  the  Church  of  England.  Will 
they  do  this?  Having  left  England  for  the  sake  of 
principle,  will  they  now  surrender  ?     Not  they. 

Two  more  years  passed  with  the  exiles  in  Holland. 
They  had,  by  hard  work,  succeeded  in  some-what  bet- 
tering their  condition,  but  still  desired  a  home  in  that 
far-off  land.  One  day  a  London  merchant  came  and 
told  them  the  Earls  and  Lords  had  formed  a  new  com- 
pany for  speculation.  These  nobles  had  persuaded 
King  James  to  give  them  all  the  land  which  Captain 
John  Smith  called  New  England.  They  called  them- 
selves the  Plymouth  Company.  They  desired  to  send 
out  a  company  and  Brewster  and  two  others  go  to 
London  to  make  terms.  Of  course  Brewster  insisted 
that  his  people  shall  not  be  molested  in  their  religion. 
The  company  was  powerful  enough  to  secure  this 
promise  from  King  James.  An  agreement  was  made 
and  a  company  formed.  The  shares  in  the  company 
were  $50  each.  Every  colonist  over  sixteen  years  of 
age  was  equal  to  one  share.  Every  one  who  furnislied 
an  outfit  worth  $50  had  an  additional  share.  These 
Pilgrims  agreed  to  work  for  seven  years,  during  which 
time  all  their  labor  went  to  one  common  fund  and 
their  support  was  taken  from  the  same.  These  were 
the  conditions  the  Plymouth  Companv  made;  thev  put 
their  dollars  against  life,  labor  and  health.  The 
Pilgrims  endured  hardships,  encountered  dangers,  suf- 
fered privations,  and  for  seven  long  years  could  not 
claim  a  penny  of  their  earnings.  The  terms  were  hard 
but  the  Pilgrims  accepted.  Surely  men  who  do  as 
these  men  have  done,  will  come  out  victorious.  "  God 
generally  helps  those  who  help  themselves." 

Parsons,  Kansas. 


Fanny  Crosby,  known  the  world  over  as  "  the 
blind  poetess,"  was  born  at  Southeast,  Putnam  Co., 
N.  Y.,  on  March  24,  1820.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  John  and  Mercy  Crosby,  whom  the  people  up  that 
way  remember  even  yet.  Fanny  was  a  delicate  child, 
and  when  at  six  years  of  age  she  was  stricken  with 
scarlet  fever,  and  temporary  loss  of  sight,  it  was  feared  : 
that  the  trouble  wouid  become  permanent,  and  it  did 
when  she  was  nine  years  old.  Her  sweet,  sunny  dis- 
position had  carried  her  through  while  there  was  hope, 
and  when  that  was  destroyed  she  turned  to  the  bless- 
ings that  still  remained,  and  insisted  on  seeing  only 
the  happiest  side  of  life. 

In  1835  she  entered  the  institute  for  the  blind  in 
New  York  City,  where  she  received  a  thorough  edu- 
cation, her  facile  mind  lending  itself  readily  to  any 
branch  of  study  she  chose  to  follow.  Twelve  years 
later  she  took  her  place  there  as  teacher,  her  classes 
being  those  in  Greek,  Roman  and  American  history, 
grammar  and  rhetoric.  In  1858  she  resigned,  much 
to  their  regret,  but  as  she  left  them  "  to  accept  a  posi- 
tion as  private  tutor  to  one  pupil,"  as  she  laughingly 
expressed  it,  there  was  nothing  to  be  said  against  it. 
Her  married  life  with  Francis  James  Van  Alstyne,  was, 
it  is  said,  a  very  happy  one. 

When  she  was  quite  young  she  offered  her  poems 
to  different  publishers,  and  they  were  eagerly  accepted. 
Wm.  H.  Bradbury  was  one  of  her  publishers,  and  sel- 
dom, if  ever,  refused  anything  she  offered  him.  For 
him  alone  she  wrote  2,500  hymns.  When  Biglow  & 
Main  succeeded  to  Mr.  Bradbury's  business  they  took 
Fanny  with  it,  and  have  constituted  themselves  her 
guardians,  watching  over  her  interests  in  every  way. 

On  the  24th  of  March,  1904,  an  interesting  celebra-  I 
tion  of  the  eighty-fourth  anniversary  of  her  birth  was 
held  in  the  offices  of  the  Biglow  &  Main  Co.  It  was 
a  quiet  affair,  and  the  little  company  gathered  there 
consisted  of  the  entire  office  force  of  the  company,  in- 
cluding the  venerable  H.  P.  Main,  treasurer,  andt.  A. 
Saunders,  the  secretary.  B.  C.  Unseld,  well  known 
among  hymn  writers,  was  also  present. 

Altogether,  Fanny  Crosby  has  written  4,000  hymns, 
more  or  less,  probably  more.  Her  favorite  hymn,  and 
the  most  popular  one  seems  to  be,  "  Safe  in  the  Arms 
of  Jesus,"  and  another  almost  as  much  so  is,  "  Pass  me 
not,  O  gentle  Savior,"  while  still  another,  "  Jesus,  keep 
me  near  the  cross,"  is  sung  in  every  prayer-meeting 
in  the  land,  and  in  many  hearts  it  is  associated  with 
tender  memories.  "  Rescue  the  Perishing  "  was  issued 
in  1869,  and  everybody  knows  how  dear  that  has  be- 
come to  those  interested  in  the  work.  "  There's  a 
cry  from  Macedonia,  Come  and  help  us,"  rings  out 
like  a  clarion  call  of  distress  and  pleading. 

In  the   Sunday-school  hymn  books  of  forty  years 


THE    INGLENOOK.— November  29,  1904. 


"37 


igi  1  we  often  see  her  name.  Later  she  signed  it  Van 
Alstvne,  and  sometimes  just  a  star.  "  in  token."  she 
feid,  "  that  I  am  one  of  the  stars  that  shine  for  him — 
a  lesser  light,  to  be  sure,  but  perhaps  my  feeble  ray 
may  penetrate  and  comfort  some,  troubled  heart." 

She  did  not  confine  herself  to  sacred  music.  Many 
of  those  who  have  sung  and  played  "  Rosalie,  the 
Prairie  Flower,"  "  Hazel  Del!,"  "  Flow  gently,  sweet 
Afton,"  "  There's  music  in  the  air,"  and  others  of  those 
old  favorites  of  the  long  ago,  never  thought  of  associ- 
ating Fanny  Crosby's  name  with  them,  although  she 
was  the  author  of  them  and  many  more.  Besides 
her  songs  and  hymns  she  has  published  three  volumes 
of  hymns,  her  latest,  "  Bells  at  Evening,"  containing 
a  sketch  of  her  life  by  Rev.  Robert  Lowry. 

She  is  fund  of  traveling,  and  some  years  ago  she 
Bent  south  with  Ira  D.  Sankey  and  his  family.  She 
has  often  attended  the  meetings  at  Northfield,  Mass., 
both  before  and  since  D.  L.  Moody's  death.  She  is 
sensitive  to  a  touch,  and  recognizes  her  friends  and 
acquaintances  as  easily  by  the  hand  clasp  as  by  their 
voices.  She  seems  to  get  an  excellent  idea  of  one's 
personality  by  passing  her  hand  lightly  over  their  faces 
and  down  over  their  shoulders.  She  even  told  me 
jflhe  color  of  my  hair  (a  light  golden  brown)  and  the 
style  of  features.  She  has  a  splendid  memory,  is  broad 
minded,  and  not  a  bit  egotistical,  although  she  must 
know  that  her  success  in  everything  she  undertakes 
is  something'  phenomenal  under  the  circumstances. 
—  Young  People's  Paper. 

4»   $   <$» 
A    FILLER    OF    CHINKS. 


"  Lucy,"  said  her  mother,  is  a  filler  of  chinks." 
The  visiting  friend  looked  up  inquiringly.  "  By 
chinks,"  the  mother  explained,  "  I  mean  the  little  gaps 
and  rifts  and  rents  that  nobody  else  notices,  that  never 
are  observed  when  all  goes  well,  that  somebody  suffers 
from  if  they  are  overlooked,  and  that  make  up  a  sum 
total  of  very  humble  service.  Mildred  is  clever  and 
Margaret  is  musical.  Lucy  has  no  extraordinary 
talent  that  I  know  of,  but  she  is  the  comfort  of  our 
lives.  " 

The  friend  thought  it  worth  while  to  watch  the  quiet 
little  Lucy,  a  girl  so  modest  and  unobtrusive  that  she 
was  often  rather  overlooked.  She  found  that  Lucy 
was  always  doing  what  '  others  left  undone.  The 
weather  was  very  hot.  the  family  was  large,  and 
people  were  coming  and  going  constantly.  <  )ne  sultry 
afternoon  when  everybody  was  looking  for  a  cool  pla*e, 
;md  (me  was  in  (he  hammock  with  a  book,  and  another 
in  the  shadiest  corner  of  tin-  veranda  with  a  pretense 
of  knitting  in  her  hands.  Lucy  had  disappeared.  She 
came  in  sight  after  awhile,  with  a  glass  pitcher  of 
lemonade,  and  a  tinkle  of  ice  that  was  pleasant  to  hear. 


and  when  somebody  asked  where  she  had  been,  she  an- 
swered, "  I've  been  giving  Betty  a  lift  with  the  towels 
and  napkins.  There  were  dozens  to  iron,  and  the  poor 
girl  looks  tired  out.  The  heat  in  the  kitchen  reminded 
me  that  lemonade  would  be  nice,  so  I  made  it  for  Betty, 
and  then  thought  of  you,  out  here,  feeling  the  heat." 

"  Yon  didn't  feel  it  yourself,  I  suppose?-"  said  her 
Aunt   Laura. 

No  I've  been  too  busy.  Aunt,  and  1  reallv  do  not 
mind  the  heat  so  very  much.  " 

"  1  irandmother  grows  harder  to  live  with  every  day." 
complained  one  of  the  young  people.  "  Nothing  suits 
her,  and  she's  so  restless  and  uneasy,  and  so  irritable. 
I  hope  when  I  am  old,  if  I  live  to  be  eighty  as  she  is. 
that  I'll  be  a  reasonable  being.  Most  old  people  are  so 
queer  and  crabbed." 

\To  wonder  that  grandmother  was  restless.  She 
had  led  an  active  life  and  been  a  personage,  one  whose 
advice  had  been  asked  and  taken,  one  who  had  man- 
aged her  own  household,  and  had  gone  when  she  pleas- 
ed and  when  she  desired,  without  dictation  from  any 
one.  Now  she  was  an  inmate  of  her  son's  house;  her 
world  was  hounded  by  the  four  walls  of  her  room. 
There  were  servants  in  the  kitchen  and  new  wav>  of 
doing  almost  everything,  ways  that  seemed  to  her  ex- 
travagant and  wasteful.  Among  the  people  who  were 
her  son's  friends  she  felt  herself  lonely  and  out  of  her 
sphere.  She  was  discontented  and  cross,  and  knew  her- 
self both,  with  a  pang  of  conscience  that  smote  her 
heart. 

"  I  cannot  imagine  what  more  I  could  do  for  John's 
mother  than  I  do,"  declared  John's  wife.  "  She  has  a 
large,  sunny  room,  her  own  furniture  and  nothing  to 
do  but  fold  her  hands." 

Little  Lucy  slipped  silently  away,  not  once,  but  often, 
in  the  morning',  in  the  afternoon,  and  after  a  while  in 
the  twilight,  to  sit  with  her  grandmother. 

Both  were  very  simple-hearted  and  plain,  caring  for 
externals  only  as  they  tended  to  convenience  and  com- 
fort. Both  were  fond  of  outdoor  life.  Grandmother 
could  not  have  a  garden  in  the  city,  but  Lucy  managed 
to  fill  her  window  boxes  with  geraniums  and  other 
vivid-coloured  plants.  Lucy  bought  a  canary  and 
hung  its  cage  in  the  old  lady's  window,  and  whenever 
grandmother  wanted  to  call  on  an  old  friend,  the  young 
girl  managed  to  have  an  errand  in  the  same  part  of 
town,  so  that  she  wanted  to  have  company  as  she  went 
on  it. 

The  days  passed  more  easily  for  the  lonely,  elderly 
woman  after  Lucy,  the  filler  of  chinks,  took  her  in  her 
gentle  care. 

So  it  was  everywhere.  Lucy  was  not  a  genius  nor 
brilliant,  nor  very  beautiful,  but  she  was  well  beloved. 
for  she  was  a  filler  of  chinks. — Margaret  Songster, 
in   the  New   York  Christian   Herald. 


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THE    I NGLENOOK.— November  29,   1904. 


THE    HUMAN    BODY. 


BY   J.    GRANT   FIGLEY. 

We  are  told  very  candidly  by  the  inspired  Psalmist 
(  Psa.  139  :  14)  that  we  are  "  fearfully  and  wonderfully 
made."  No  truer  aphorism  as  it  may  be  termed,  was 
ever  more  graphically  expressed.  To  take  this  body 
of  ours  and  examine  it  by  the  aid  of  hundreds  of  years 
of  careful  scientific  study  is  surely  enough  to  stagger 
one  who  carelessly  thinks  evolution  as  commonly  ac- 
cepted, governs  the  physical  man,  and  must  convince 
such  an  one  of  the  existence  of  a  Supreme  Being,  as 
the  Shaper,  Moulder  and  Builder  of  all  things. 

Physiologists  differ,  somehow,  as  to  the  number  of 
bones  in  the  human  body.  Their  figures  range  from 
two  hundred  to  two  hundred  and  eight,  not  counting 
the  teeth,  which  are  classed  with  the  hair,  nails  and 
skin.  They  do  not  know  exactly  what  the  spleen  is 
for,  though  it  is  guessed  to  be  a  sort  of  blood-strainer. 
In  ancient  days  medical  gentlemen  had  some  queer 
opinions  regarding  the  body,  and  it  was  about  A.  D. 
1620  that  Dr.  Harvey  definitely  settled  the  vexed 
question  as  to  whether  the  blood  circulated  through 
the  body  in  tubes  or  some  other  way,  if  at  all,  and  was 
made  much  fun  of  on  account  of  his  ideas.  About 
ten  years  ago,  Dr.  D.  Calkins,  of  Toledo,  O.,  announced 
that  he  had  discovered  the  circulation  of  the  nerves 
through  the  nerve  channels,  and  that  the  nerve-fluid 
was  silvery-white  in  appearance  and  that  a  deficient 
circulation  of  which  caused  all  nervous  ailments  and 
afflictions. 

About  seven-eighths  of  our  blood  which  is  about 
one-thirteenth  of  the  weight  of  our  bodies,  three-fourths 
of  the  weight  of  our  five  hundred  and  twenty-seven 
muscles  consisting  of  two  hundred  and  sixty-one 
pairs  and  five  single  ones,  and  more  than  half  of  the 
weight  of  our  fourteen  pounds  of  bones  of  which  there 
is  not  a  single  straight  one  in  the  body,  is  pure  water. 

The  "  Tripod  of  life  "  consists  of  the  heart,  lungs 
and  brain.  The  heart  is  a  stationary  engine  with  eight 
openings,  and  is  only  about  three  inches  in  diameter 
and  five  inches  long,  which  with  its  connecting  net- 
work of  veins  and  arteries  ramifying  to  all  parts  of 
the  body,  make  the  most  perfect  system  of  hydraulics 
known.  The  lungs  are  the  working  bellows  and  the 
most  perfect  kind  of  sanitary  ventilation.  The  brain 
is  the  great  condenser  and  thought  regulator  of  all. 
It  contains  about  600,000,000  cells,  and  each  cell  con- 
tains several  thousand  visible  molecules,  and  each  mole- 
cule contains  millions  of  atoms.  The  brain  is  divided 
into  two  halves  or  hemispheres,  lengthwise,  called 
lobes.  The  left  half  is  usually  a  trifle  larger  than 
the  right.  Each  half  governs  the  other  side  of  the 
body.     The  male  brain  generally  weighs  three  pounds 


one  and  one-half  ounces,  and  the  female  brain  two 
pounds  and  twelve  ounces.  There  are  forty-four  pairs 
of  nerves  that  start  from  the  base  of  the  brain  and  its, 
"  deputy,"  the  spinal  cord,  and  may  be  called  a  tele-J 
graph  system  for  the  body,  being  the  "  main  lines," 
which  with  all  their  connections  make  about  10,000,000 
in  number.  There  are  millions  of  nerve-cells  or 
"  stations,"  some  of  them  being  only  one-five-thou 
sandth  of  an  inch  in  diameter. 

The  blood,  or  liquor  sanguinis,  is  a  colorless,  trans 
parent  fluid  containing  minute  bodies  called  cor 
puscles,  of  which  there  are  about  twenty-six  and  one 
half  million  millions,  which  placed  side  by  side  would 
reach  130,910  miles.  Every  teaspoonful  of  human 
blood  contains  fifteen  billion  red  corpuscles,  and  thirtv 
million  white  ones.  The  red  ones  are  bi-concave  discs 
about  one-thirty-two-hundredth  of  an  inch  in  diameter. 
The  fluid  is  water  containing  albumen,  lime,  mag' 
nesia,  chlorides  of  sodium  and  potassium,  and  phos- 
phates of  soda,  particularly.  The  red  color  is  caused 
by  oxygen  acting  on  certain  small  particles  called 
haemogoblin  that  floats  in  the  blood.  If  the  heart 
beats  on  an  average  of  sixty-nine  times  per  minute 
the  blood  would  flow  two  hundred  and  seven  vards 
per  minute,  seven  miles  an  hour,  one  hundred  and 
sixty-eight  miles  a  day,  and  sixty-one  thousand  three 
hundred  and  twenty  miles  a  year.  About  five  thou- 
sand gallons  of  blood  pass  through  the  lungs  everj 
day,  and  in  seventy  years,  the  allotted  life  of  man,  127. 
837»500  gallons,  or  enough  to  fill  a  reservoir  a  mile 
long,  two  hundred  and  fifteen  feet  wide,  and  fifteen 
feet  deep.  Every  day  the  heart  lifts  an  equal  of -one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  tons. 

The  temperature  of  the  body  averages  ninty-eight 
degrees,  no  matter  in  what  part  of  the  world  a  person 
may  be.  Of  course  the  skin  has  something  to  do  with 
this,  as  it  consists  of  millions  of  tiny  scales,  so  small 
that  one  grain  of  sand  will  cover  one  hundred  of  them, 
yet  each  of  them  covers  three  hundred  to  five  hundred 
pores.  There  are  on  an  average  two  thousand  eight 
hundred  pores  to  the  square  inch  of  skin  surface,  and 
about  7,000,000  on  the  human  body,  and  joined  to- 
gether would  make  a  tile-ditch  or  drainage-tube  twenty 
eight  miles  long.  The  sweat  or  perspiration  averages 
from  two  to  three  pounds  per  day,  averaging  about 
eleven  grains  of  water  evaporated  per  day,  to  from 
four  to  seven  grains  of  water  sent  from  the  lungs. 

Every  time  we  breathe  we  use  one  hundred  muscle? 
in,the  operation.  An  adult  breathes  from  sixteen  tc 
twenty  times  per  minute,  or  about  twenty  thousand 
times  a  dav,  being  about  ten  thousand  quarts  of  ah 
used.  In  one  year  one  hundred  thousand  cubic  feet  oi 
air  have  been  breathed  into  the  lungs,  and  breathed 
out  by  nearly  nine  million  separate  and  complicated 
actions  in  breathing-,  and  rerates  more  than  three  thou 


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sand  five  hundred  tons  of  blood.  The  surface  of  the 
kings,  if  spread  out  flat,  would  cover  two  thousand 
six  hundred  and  forty-two  square  feet,  and  are  com- 
posed of  175,000,000  cells,  which  would  fill  a  space 
thirty  times  greater  than  the  human  body,  if  put  side 
by  side. 

The  eye  has  seven  hundred  and  twenty-nine  dif- 
ferent expressions,  with  as  many  shades  of  meaning, 
and  is  subject  to  forty-eight  diseases.  "  The  eye  is  a 
perfect  photographer's  camera.  The  retina  is  the  dry 
plate  upon  which  are  focused  all  objects  by  means  of 
the  crystalline  lens;  the  cavity  behind  this  lens  is  the 
camera.  The  iris  and  pupil  are  the  diaphragm.  The 
eye-lid  is  the  drop-shutter.  The  draping  of  the  optical 
dark-room  is  the  only  black  membrane  in  the  entire 
body.  This  miniature  camera  is  self-focusing,  self- 
loading  and  self-developing,  and  takes  millions  of 
pictures  every  day,  in  colors,  and  enlarged  to  life  size." 

The  average  growth  of  the  finger  nail  is  one-thirty- 
second  of  an  inch  per  week,  and  grows  faster  in  sum- 
mer than  in  winter.  The  thickness  of  the  human 
hair  varies  from  one-two-hundred-and-fiftieth  to  one- 
six-hundredth  of  an  inch,  and  a  well-covered  head  of 
hair  averages  ninety  thousand  to  one  hundred  thousand 
hairs.  Red  hair  is  the  coarsest  and  blonde  the  finest. 
A  woman  has  thirty  miles  of  hair  if  it  averages  a 
yard  in  length. 

A  man's  vocal  cords  in  rest  are  about  seventy-seven- 
one-hundredths  of  an  inch  long,  and  in  use  are  about 
ninety-three-one-hundredths  of  an  inch  long.  A 
woman's  vocal  cords  vary  from  fifty-one  one-hun- 
dredths  to  sixty-three-one-hundredths  of  an  inch  long. 
There  are  nine  perfect  tones  in  the  human  voice,  and 
fourteen  direct  muscles  give  16,382  different  sounds, 
and  thirty  indirect  muscles  make  173,741.823  differ- 
ent sounds. 

Reducing  the  body  to  its  chemical  elements,  there 
would  be,  approximately,  ninety  pounds  of  oxygen, 
fifteen  pounds  of  hydrogen,  four  pounds  of  nitrogen, 
one  pound  and  eight  ounces  of  chlorine,  three  ounces 
of  fluorine,  fifteen  to  twenty-five  pounds  of  carbon, 
one  and  one-half  pounds  of  phosphorus,  three  or  four 
ounces  of  sulphur,  two  ounces  of  sodium,  two  ounces 
of  potassium,  two  pounds  of  calcium,  about  an  ounce 
of  iron  (at  least  enough  to  make  five  carpet-tacks),  and 
minute  vials  of  silica  and  magnesium.  There  would 
be  about  a  bowlful  of  sugar  in  the  body;  salt  enough 
I  to  season  the  dinner  of  a  moderate  sized  party ;  fat 
enough  to  make  from  four  to  eight  pounds  of  candles ; 
gas  enough  to  fill  a  balloon  that  would  lift  the  person. 
Mix  all  these  together  and  we  have  a  dark,  muddy  fluid. 
And  none  but  a  God  could  and  can  take  these  elements 
and  produce  that  wonderful  complexity  called  the  hu- 
man body,  which  is  "  an  epitome  in  Nature  of  all  me- 
chanics, all  hydraulics,  all  architecture,  all  machinery 


of  every  kind.  There  are  more  than  three  hundred 
and  ten  mechanical  movements  known  to  mechanics, 
to-day,  and  all  of  them  are  but  modifications  of  those 
found  in  the  human  body.  Here  are  found  all  the  bars, 
levers,  joints,  pulleys,  pumps,  pipes,  wheels  and  axles, 
ball  and  socket  movements,  beams,  girders,  trusses, 
buffers,  arches,  columns,  cables  and  supports  known 
to  science.  At  every  point  man's  best  mechanical  work 
can  be  shown  to  be  but  adaptations  of  the  processes  of 
the  human  body,  a  revelation  of  first  principles  used 
in  Nature." 
Bryan,  Ohio. 

♦  *  * 

A    GLASS    OF   WATER. 


Dkink  a  glass  of  water  when  you  get  out  of  bed 
in  the  morning.  Never  mind  the  size  of  the  glass. 
Let  the  water  be  cold  if  you  will.  Some  people  pre- 
scribe hot  water,  but  that  isn't  necessary.  You  may 
have  washed  your  face  already  and  relished  the  ex- 
perience. You  may  have  taken  a  cold  plunge  into  the 
tub  and  delighted  in  the  shock  and  its  reaction. 
The  brisk  use  of  the  toothbrush  has  left  your  mouth 
clean  and  the  breath  sweet.  But  you  are  dirty  still. 
Drink  a  glass  of  cold  water  and  enjoy  the  sensation 
of  being  clean  inside.  All  that  is  luxurious  in  the  cold 
bath  cleansing  the  outside  is  artificial.  That  which 
should  prompt  the  glass  of  water  after  sleeping  is 
natural.  As  a  test,  tell  the  nine-year-old  protestant 
against  his  morning  scrub  of  cold  water  that  he  may 
escape  it  by  drinking  half  a  pint  of  the  fluid.  He  will 
jump  at  the  opportunity. 

Sleep  has  drawn  upon  the  water  in  the  blood,  and 
the  instinct  of  the  animal  under  natural  conditions 
is  to  replenish  the  circulatory  system  and  distend  the 
blood  vessels  anew.  The  food  in  the  stomach  which 
had  so  much  to  do  toward  inducing  sleep  has  disap- 
peared, leaving  a  mucous  substance  in  the  alimentary 
canal.  Yet  man  would  wash  his  face  and  leave  these 
half  clogged  canals  do  the  duties  of  another  day. 

Drink  a  glass  of  cold  water  in  the  name  of  clean- 
liness. It  becomes  one  of  the  shortest  and  easiest  of 
toilet  duties.  It  is  swallowed  in  a  second,  and  in  five 
minutes  it  has  passed  from  the  stomach,  taking  with 
it  the  clogging  secretions  of  the  alimentary  tracts.  It 
has  left  behind  the  stimulus  that  goes  with  cold  water, 
and  by  filling  the  arterial  system  to  the  normal  it  puts 
a  spur  to  the  circulation  that  has  grown  sluggish  in 
the  night.  It  is  one  of  the  greatest  awakeners  and  one 
of  nature's  own  stimulants. 

Drink  a  glass  of  water  before  breakfast,  another 
before  luncheon  and  another  before  dinner.  Water 
is  the  best,  cheapest  and  pleasantesl  medicine. — Chi- 
cago   Tribune. 


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THE    1NGLEN00K.— November  29,   1904. 


HIS    FIRST    KISS. 

The  crowd  was  gone.  The  streets  were  nearly  de- 
serted and  silent,  save  for  the  rushing  noise  of  the 
downpouring  rain  and  the  clattering  rumble  of  the 
carts  which  passed  over  London  Bridge  almost  without 
intermission  the  whole  night.  My  great-coat  was  sop- 
ping, and  even  my  boots  were  saturated.  Finally  1 
sought  shelter  in  a  narrow  staircase  leading  from 
King  William  street.  Billingsgate  and  Lower  Thames 
street  below.  My  work  was  evidently  alone  that  night 
i  thought. 

But  first  I  went  down  the  steps.  Two  or  three  poor 
half-clad  creatures  below  were  huddled  together  for 
shelter  in  one  corner.  But  they  were  "  grown-ups," 
and  my  quest  was  for  waif  children  only.  In  the  oppo- 
site corner,  however,  there  seemed  to  be  just  a  little 
heap  of  rags.  I  turned  on  full  the  light  of  my  lantern. 
and  put  down  my  hand  to  raise  the  bundle,  ft  moved 
— it  arose!  It  was  not  a  bundle  but  a  boy — a  little 
chap,  a  wee  hunchback — with  pale,  worn,  thin  face  and 
sopping,  ragged  raiment !  Rubbing  his  eyes  in  which 
my  light  gleamed,  he  took  me  for  his  natural  foe,  the 
"  Bobby  "  ;  so,  in  a  moment,  he  ducked  under  my  hand, 
and.  darting  out  into  the  street,  was  soon  making  his 
way  amid  the  downpour.  I  quickly  overtook  him — 
in  a  a  difficult  thing  to  do,  for  one  could  not  but  see  he 
was  too  feeble  of  step  to  go  fast. 

Then  I  did  my  best  to  reassure  him.  1  was  no  police- 
man ;  he  need  not  fear ;  indeed,  I  wanted  to  help  poor 
boys  like  him.  "  Come  back  to  the  shelter  of  the  stair 
and  talk."  He  slowly  and  wearily  returned — a  hope- 
less, dejected,  little  automaton.  With  a  start  I  drew 
back :  the  little  dirty  hand  was  burning  hot !  Fever 
if  ever  I  had  known  it !  A  more  careful  examination 
revealed  that  the  poor  waif  w  as  suffering  from  pneu- 
monia, the  result,  no  doubt,  of  cold  and  wet,  home- 
lessness  and  starvation.  Before  I  had  finished  my  ex- 
amination, 

HE    HAD    UTTERLY    COLLAPSED. 

I  gently  laid  him  on  one  of  the  stairs  under  shelter, 
and  bade  him  rest  there  quietly  until  I  returned.  A 
night  cab  was  slowly  wending  its  way  home.  At  first 
unwilling  to  come  with  me,  the  driver  quickly  changed 
his  tone  and  volunteered  his  help  when  I  told  him  who 
1  was  and  why  I  needed  him.  "  Pore  little  feller!"  he 
said,  with  genuine  sympathy  in  his  rough,  weather 
beaten  face,  as  he  helped  me  to  gather  up  the  child 
from  the  steps  where  I  had  left  him.  We  placed  him 
tenderly  and  kindly  in  the  cab,  having  first  arranged 
the  cushions,  so  as  to  let  him  lie  at  length.  Then  I  too 
got  in,  and  away  we  drove  to  Stepney  Causeway,  that 
little  narrow  lane  leading  out  of  the  Commercial  Road, 
filled  with  dingy  houses,  and  having  no  feature  which 
distinguished  it  from  the  mean  streets  all  around,  save 


the  presence  of  the  two  great  buildings,  one  on  either 
side  of  the  street,  facing  each  other,  which  had  proved 
harbours  of  refuge  to  hundreds  (not  then,  as  now,  to 
thousands)  of  little  tempest-tossed  and  weather  beaten 
barques. 

It  was  about  two  A.  M.  when  we  drew  up  at  the 
door  of  her  Majesty's  Hospital.  The  night  nurse  waa 
soon  there  helping  to  lift  the  little  patient  out,  and 
then,  the  cab  dismissed,  we  had  our  work  before  us 
to  cut  away  with  scissors  the  fcetid  sodden  rags  which 
invested  the  warm  body  of  our  little  waif,  and  make 
him  fit  for  bed.  Was  there  a  cot  vacant?  Oh,  yes.  in 
the  Gordon  ward,  fitly  named  after  the  hero  who  lovedj 
his  "  kings  "  in  Greenwich,  and  who,  when  administer- 
ing the  vast  Soudan,  had  always  an  eye  for  the  brown- 
faced,  bright-eyed  boys  of  Arab  extraction.  Edward, 
or  "  Little  Ted" — for  that  was  the  name  we  called 
him  by — was  indeed  very  dangerously  ill. 

At  first  I  thought  he  could  not  live  through  the 
night ;  then  gradually  hope  dawned,  and  although  fill 
liny  had 

\    SEVERE    STRUGGLE    FOR    LIFE 

the  vital  spark,  though  it  flickered,  did  not.  as  1  feared] 
at  once  go  out.  He  lingered  on,  got  better  of  his 
pneumonia,  and  I  began  to  hope  he  would  perhaps  live.. 
And  so  he  did — long  enough  to  make  us  all  love  him. 
I  delighted  to  go  ovei  to  the  Hospital  when  I  could 
spare  time  to  sit  by  his  side  for  a  few  moments  while 
his  worn  little  hand  was  stretched  out  and  placed  inj 
mine.  We  did  not  say  much,  for  it  hurt  "  Little  Ted  " 
to  speak  loudly,  as  he  had  to  do,  on  account  of  my 
deafness.  But  our  friendship  was  very  real,  and  1 
could  tell  by  a  look  at  his  face  whether  little  Ted  was] 
happy  or  had  something  he  wanted  me  to  know,  or' 
was  restless,  longing,  as  he  sometimes  said  he  was,  to. 
be  up  and  out  and  at  work.  Bless  his  poor  heart !  "  At 
work"  meant  selling  matches.  To  be  "  up  and  out," 
meant  to  be  in  the  streets  once  more ;  but  little  Ted] 
was  never  to  go  out  again. 

We  all  loved  him  dearly.  There  was  one,  however, 
whose  affection  was  greater  than  mine,  and  that 
the  nurse  who  had  special  charge  of  him.  "  Nu: 
Jones,"  we  call  her :  a  softhanded,  warmhearted,  loving 
woman,  who  never  felt  more  in  her  element  than  when 
with  gentle  words  she  was  comforting  some  poor  child 
who  had  drifted  under  her  care  into  the  hospital.  I 
often  came  in  and  found  her  sitting  down  by  Little 
Ted's  bed  crooning  to  him  some  familiar  tune,  while 
he,  with  eyes  half  closed,  stroked  her  hand  lying  on 
the  counterpane.  Nurse  Jones  found  from  the  night 
nurse  that  Little  Ted  did  not  sleep  very  well ;  that, 
especially  towards  morning,  he  became  restless,  and 
would  toss  from  side  to  side;  and,  although  her  hour 
for  duty  in  the  ward  was  not  until  seven,  she  often 
came  down  an  hour  beforehand  to  comfort  him. 


ver, 
was  I 
arse 


THE    I NGLENOOK.— November  29,  1904. 


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\ml  how  he  watched  for  her!  how  the  great  dark 
eyes  that  were  now  getting  so  sunken  kept  a  wistful 
watch  on  the  door  opposite  his  bed,  where  the  welcome 
face  of  nurse  might  first  be  seen !  At  the  sight  of  her 
a  look  of  love  and  gladness,  and  satisfaction  and 
complacency,  and  content,  and  all  the  pleasurable 
feelings,  fluttered  like  glimpses  of  sunlight 

ACROSS   HIS   WORN    FEATURES. 

<  )ne  morning  Little  Ted  looked  particularly  ill  and 
weak.  She  had  heard  of  his  spending  a  bad  night,  and 
coming  over,  she  caught  the  wistful  look  in  the  eyes  of 
1  In-  little  waif  who  had  never  known  home  life  or  a 
mother's  love,  and  irresistibly  overcome  she  stooped 
Down  and  tenderh  kissed  the  child.  Instantly  the 
treat  eyes  of  the  poor  hoy  looked  at  her  with  a  wonder 
greater  than  he  had  ever  shown.  "  Nurse,  "  piped  his 
little  squeaky  voice:  "  Nurse  zvhy  did  you  kiss  me?" 
Before  the  answer  could  be  given,  he  himself  repeated: 
I  It  was  nice  ;  but  why  did  you,  nurse?  "  And  the  good 
woman,  who  had  been  trying  to  keep  the  tears  back, 
simply  stooped  down  and  whispered  to  him:  "  Dear 
Little  Ted,  you  are  all  alone ;  you  have  no  mother ;  you 
Slave  no  one  to  visit  you  and  to  love  you.  But  I  love 
\ou,  that  is  why — "  and  she  kissed  him  again.  The 
Enid's  worn  face  became  irradiated  with  a  light  of 
love,  to  which  il  had  hitherto  been  a  stranger!  But 
presently  the  boy.  looking  at  his  nurse,  heaved  a  deep 
sigh.     "  But — but  "   (there  was  a  but) 

"nobody  never  kissed  me  afore," 
explained  the  little  chap ;  and  then  his  eyes  were  closed 
again  and  his  hands  clapped  firmly  the  kind  hand  of  his 
new-found  friend. 

Not  much  in  the  incident,  "  some  oik-  will  say  who 
reads  these  simple  lines.  But  very  much  to  us  who  live 
and  labour  amongst  the  waifs  and  strays  of  the  streets! 
How  these  few  words  of  the  dying  street  boy  told  out 
the  tragedy  of  a  young  life  which  had  never  known 
love,  but  which  had  an  infinite  capacity  for  the  knowl- 
edge it  was  ignorant  of !  Little  Ted  slumbered  on 
peacefully,  still  holding  his  nurse's  hand;  and  only  a 
few  days  after  that  he  closed  his  eyes  wearily  for  ever. 
Yet  il  was  something  to  have  soothed  his  pain  and 
smoothed  his  pillow  even  for  a  while,  and  to  have  whis- 
per^! in  his  ears  during  the  last  few  weeks  of  his  bar- 
ren life-,  of  the  great  love  of  the  Heavenly  Father,  a 
low  that  earth  cannot  defile,  that  is  unending,  and  that 
awakens  human  love  as  nothing  rise  ran.—  /'/-.  TllOS.  J. 
Hirnmdo,  8r  /,*    ">  Slrf>iir\  Causality.  I. onion.  I-.. 

ELECTRICITY    DISPERSES    FOG. 


clearing  the  air  of  a  dense  fog  lying  within  a  radius  of 
150  to  250  yards  by  the  aerial  wires  used  to  project 
the  electrical  energy  into  the  surrounding  atmosphere. 
An  insulated  wire  was  led  from  the  laboratory  of  the 
university,  Birmingham,  England,  to  a  flagstaff  on 
the  roof.  The  wire  terminated  in  a  number  of  fine 
points  and  as  widely  separated  as  possible.  The  base 
of  the  wire  was  connected  with  the  positive  pole  of  a 
high-tension  electrical  machine.  The  opposite  or  com- 
plementary pole  was  laid  to  the  earth.  The  desired 
object  was  to  keep  the  wire  constantly  charged  with 
positive  electricity.  When  the  dense  fog  had  en- 
veloped the  building  with  a  cloak  so  thick  that  the 
eye  could  scarcely  penetrate  it  for  more  than  a  foot 
or  two  the  professor  and  his  associates  mounted  the 
roof  while  an  assistant  was  left  in  charge  of  the  high- 
tension  generator. 

When  the  signal  was  given  and  the  machine  had 
attained  its  maximum  working  velocity  the  electrical 
energv  was  literally  poured  from  the  elevated  points 
into  the  surrounding  fog.  The  result  was  gratifying, 
for  the  fog  cleared  away  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of 
the  points,  having  a  space  absolutely  clear.  To  put 
into  effective  operation  this  scheme  of  defogging  the 
atmosphere  Sir  Oliver  proposed  that  stations  be 
erected  on  either  side  of  the  River  Mersey,  where  as 
a  result  of  much  fog  there  are  many  collision-. 

Such  an  apparatus,  it  is  said,  could  be  installed 
along  the  North  and  East  Rivers  in  New  York  City, 
and  it  would  require  but  little  energy  to  clear  the 
Chicago  River  of  fog,  besides  other  places  innumerable. 
Vessels  could  use  the  apparatus  with  telling  effect, 
•f  ♦  ♦ 
WORST    OF    ALL    JAILS. 


Sir  Oliver  Lodge,  the  eminent  English  physicist, 
has  just  concluded  a  remarkable  series  of  experiments, 
demonstrating  that  smoke,  fumes  and  fogs  may  be 
dissipated   by   electrification.     Sir   Oliver  succeeded  in 


m  Raisuli  objects  to  the  Governor  of  Tangier  fling- 
ing his  friends  into  the  filthy  jail  in  that  town.  If 
you  were  to  see  the  pest  hole  you'd  agree  with  him. 
It  is  a  jail  without  a  door.  A  wall  of  stone  covered 
with  stucco  surrounds  an  area  of  40  by  50  feet.  A 
shed  is  built  along  the  inside  of  the  wall,  but  the  center 
of  the  inclosure  has  no  roof.  An  opening  in  the  wall 
two  feet  square  affords  the  only  means  of  ingress  or 
egress.  In  front  of  this  a  burly  Moor  stands  at  all 
hours.  In  his  hand  is  a  long  sword.  Prisoners  can 
onlj  crawl  out  one  at  a  time.  His  ability  to  chop  a 
man  to  pieces  as  his  head  appears  does  not  admit  of 
doubt.  A  ball  and  chain  is  attached  to  the  leg  of  each 
prisoner.  Into  this  place  murderers,  political  sus- 
pects, thieves  and  men  charged  with  civil  offenses 
indiscriminately  are  thrust.  Food  pushed  through 
the  hole  in  the  wall  twice  a  da\  goes  to  the  strongest. 
A  terrific  scramble  ensues  at  feeding  time,  in  which 
hoys  and  aged  men  fare  badly.  There  is  not  a 
keeper  within  the  wall. 


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IN    THE    DUST. 


There  are  not  many  people  who  have  not  had  the 
delightful  experience  of  riding  along  behind  a  car- 
riage or  an  automobile,  in  the  dust.  You  can  re- 
member yet  -how  your  eyes  were  filled  with  grit  and 
your  clothes  were  perfectly  white  with  dust,  and  you 
had  to  swallow  fast  to  keep  from  choking,  and  how 
you  tried  this  way  and  that  to  go  around  the  man  in 
front  of  you,  and  how  disappointed  you  were  at  not 
being  able  to  accomplish  your  intentions.  For  awhile 
you  settle  down  and  decide  that  it  is  impossible,  and 
then  a  sudden  desperation  seizes  you  to  try  it  again. 
After  you  have  made  several  vigorous  attempts  you 
remember  that  you  had  tried  it  before  and  that  it  was 
almost  impossible  to  go  around. 

The  above  furnishes  not  only  a  picture  that  is  often 
seen,  but  it  is  a  fair  representation  of  everyday  life. 
Almost  every  day  you  see  men,  who,  young  or  old, 
rich  or  poor,  are  misguided,  overcome  with  discourage- 
ment or  lack  in  natural  ability.  They  work  hard 
enough,  they  put  in  a  sufficient  number  of  hours,  they 
aim  to  do  right,  but  somehow  they  are  compelled  to 
drive  along  in  the  dust.  This  class  of  men  are  sure 
to  be  dissatisfied  when  they  see  the  gentlemen  in  front 
of  them  driving  along,  perfectly  at  ease,  just  out  of 
the  dust.  It  must  be  admitted  that  some  men  are 
superior  to  others  in  mental  equipments  at  birth,  which 
is  an  advantage  that  cannot  be  overcome  even  bv  hard 
work  on  the  part  of  an  inferior. 

When  the  man  in  front  of  you  is  your  equal,  or 
about  so,  so  far  as  mental  capacity  is  concerned  you 
mav  rest  assured  that  he  is  ahead  of  vou  because  he 


has  worked  harder.  There  is  a  disposition  on  the 
part  of  most  people  to  allow  themselves  to  believe 
that  the  major  part  of  the  difficulty  rests  either  in  the 
lack  of  natural  ability,  through  heredity,  or  that  the 
loss  is  due  to  ill-fortune  rather  than  to  admit  that  it  is 
in  any  degree  due  to  the  lack  of  energy,  push  and  in 
dustry. 

Then  there  is  another  weighty  argument"  against  ui 
It  is  the  measuring  of  our  work  by  the  standard  of 
another  man.     No  man   can  be  blamed  for  knowing 
that  his  work  is  good,  if  his  work  is  good.     Nobod) 
feels  like  blaming  him ;  but  when  a  man's  work  is  bad 
and  he  thinks  it  is  good,  the  people  will  blame  him  foi 
it.     The   philosophy  of  Paul,   who  was  a  very  deef 
thinker,   said,       "  They  who  measure  themselves  b§ 
themselves,  and  compare  themselves  among  themselve: 
are  not  wise."      While  self-conceit  is  a  good  thing  to  ; 
certain     degree,    and    a    very    dangerous    thing    it 
excess,   yet  a   man   ought   to  have   quite   a   consider 
able    degree    of    self-dissatisfaction.       As     long    a: 
one   is   satisfied   with   his   work  he   doesn't   improve 
He  must    be    aggravated    to    a    deeper    consecration 
either   by    the    rivalry   of   his    competitor    or    the  el 
evation  of  a  lofty  ideal.     A  man  of  ideals  can  scarce 
ly  be  self-satisfied.     But  when,  for  some  reason,  a  mai 
allows  himself  to  settle  down  in  the  rut  of  self-satis 
faction  he  not  only  fails  to  improve,  but  he  deterio 
rates  and  begins  to  find  fault  with  other  people  becaus 
their  work  is  not  like  his.     He  has  set  up  his  work  a 
ideal  and  expects  everybody    else    to  come    to    thai 
Wherein  they  fall  short  of  his  work,  they  are  wrong 
according  to  his  judgment.     So  whenever  you  hea 
a   man   whine   and   growl   and   criticise   and   "  yeow 
yeow,"  set  it  down  that  he  is  pretty  well  satisfied  wit 
his  own  work,  and  this  is  one  of  the  best  indication 
that  he  has  lost  all  the  higher  ideals  above  his  owt 

One  more  enemy  which  is  an  unavoidable  dange 
to  a  man  of  achievements  is  success ;  that  is,  a  Httl 
success — a  small  success.  As  a  rule,  when  a  man  a( 
complishes  one  of  these  small  successes,  he  is  promotet 
which  causes  him  promptly  to  give  up  the  mild  strugg! 
that  has  put  him  where  he  is,  and  very  soon  he  settle 
down  into  a  hopeless  rut,  supposing  that  the  momei 
turn  which  he  has  gained  will  carry  him  on  to  victor 
In  view  of  the  foregoing  arguments  you  better  wal 
up,  young  man,  and  see  where  you  are. 

♦  ♦  ♦ 
RAISING   A   CITY. 


In  traveling  around  and  in  keeping  in  touch  wit 
current  news,  we  notice  that  several  of  our 
prosperous  cities  have  recently  deemed  it  advisable  I 
raise  the  city,  and  accordingly  very  earnest  effor 
have  been  put  forth  to  raise  these  cities.  The  obje 
in   raising  them   is   to  offer  better  drainage  system 


THE    1 NGLENOOK.— November  29,  1904. 


"43 


and  if  it  be  a  seaport  town  a  better  seawall  can  be  ef- 
fected than  when  the  town  is  so  low. 

The  raising  of  a  city  protects  it  from  outside  in- 
fluences, as  we  have  said  concerning  the  sea,  also  from 
liability  to  floods  and  diseases,  because  the  lower  the 
city  the  more  liable  it  is  to  insufficient  drainage,  pre- 
vailing winds,  etc.  A  city  subjected  to  such  evil  in- 
fluences, is  always  at  more  or  less  disadvantage  as 
to  physical  conditions,  and  it  follows  that  the  individ- 
ual, city  or  nation  whose  physical  conditions  are  at  a 
disadvantage,  are  generally  preyed  upon  by  enemies 
of  spiritual  and  moral  progress. 

The  city  is  fortunate  whose  officers  are  interested 
in  their  city  to  the  extent  that  they  look  after  its  con- 
ditions as  above  described.  And  while  we  have  been 
noticing  some  of  our  largest  and  best  cities  under- 
going the  material  changes  about  which  we  have 
spoken,  it  has  made  us  wonder  who  is  looking  after 
the  elevation  of  the  city  morally  and  spiritually.  And 
as  we  see  the  carts  and  drays  back  up  to  the  cess- 
pools, and  sink  holes  and  public  dumps  and  unload  the 
filth,  debris  and  trash  that  have  been  gathered  here 
and  there  from  the  slums  and  streets  of  the  cities  and 
fill  up  these  low  places  and  make  them  fit  locations 
for  beautiful  residences  and  business  houses,  it  makes 
us  feel  as  though  the  very  hell-holes  and  cesspools  of 
vices  and  sin  might  be  wiped  out,  annihilated  and 
covered  up  by  some  force  or  power  for  good  and 
make  the  place  inviting  for  a  foothold  for  something 
better. 

When  we  see  scarcely  a  single  block  in  our  large 
cities  without  a  saloon,  and  when  we  see  the  attractions 
on  the  corners  for  loafers  and  parasites,  the  righteous 
indignation  almost  says,  "  Turn  the  powers  of  the 
nation  upon  our  cities  and  renovate  them  as  the  good 
housewife  does  the  domicile."  Would  to  God  that 
we  could  have  house-cleaning  time  in  our  nation,  and 
not  only  rid  the  cities  of  the  saloon  and  houses  of  in- 
famy and  crime,  but  the  billiard  parlor,  secret  hall. 
dance,  theater  and  such  other  agencies  as  the  devil 
has  employed  to  steal  away  the  hearts  and  minds  of 
men. 

Tt  is  abundantly  evident  to  the  thinking  mind  that 
the  cities  need  raising  from  the  standpoint  of  physical 
health  and  happiness,  but  it  has  not  occurred  to  the 
majority  of  men  that  our  condition,  morally  and 
spiritually,  is  so  extremely  dangerous  ;  and  no  victim 
is  in  such  great  danger  as  be  who  knows  not  bis  real 
condition,  and  the  man  who  is  overcome  with  the  rav- 
ages of  disease  is  the  man  who  continually  claims  that 
nothing  is  wrong  with  him. 

And  so  it  is  with  many  of  our  cities ;  the  people  revel 
and  delight  in  their  sinful  lives,  little  heeding  the 
dangers  into  which  they  have  fallen  and  bv  which 
thcv   are   surrounded. 


LET'S    ADOPT    IT    NOW. 

In  the  code  of  laws  passed  by  the  towns  of  Winds  1 . 
Hartford  and  Wethersfield  in  the  vears  1738-39  may  be 
found  the  following  on  tobacco  chewing : 

"  Forasmuch  as  it  is  observed  that  many  abuses 
are  crept  in  and  commited  by  the  frequent  taking  of 
tobacko,  it  is  ordered  by  the  authority  of  this  Court 
that  no  person  under  the  age  of  twenty-one  vears  nor 
any  other  that  hath  not  already  accustomed  himselfe 
to  the  use  thereof  shall  take  any  tobacko  until  he  hath 
bought  a  certificate  under  the  hands  of  someone  who 
are  approved  for  knowledge  and  skill  in  physicks  that 
it  is  useful  for  him  and  also  that  he  hath  received  a 
lycense  from  the  Courts  for  the  same. 

"  And  for  the  regulating  of  those  who  either  by 
there  former  taking  it  have,  to  there  apprehensions, 
made  it  necessary  to  them  or  upon  due  advice  are 
persuaded  to  the  use  thereof,  it  is  ordered  that  no  man 
within  the  colonye  after  the  publication  hereof  shall 
take  any  tobacko  publiquely  in  the  streets,  highways 
or  any  barnyards  or  upon  training  days,  in  any  open 
places,  under  the  penalty  of  six  pence  for  each  off  n« 
against  this  order  in  any  of  the  particulars  thereof, 
to  be  paid  without  gainsaying,  upon  conviction  bv  the 
testimony  of  one  witness — that  is.  without  just  ex- 
ception— before  any  one  Magistrate. 

"  And  the  Constables  in  the  several  towns  are  re- 
quired to  make  presentment  to  each  particular  Court 
of  such  as  they  do  understand  and  can  convict  to  be 
transgressors  of  this  order." 
<*  •£  *S* 
TO    ALL    IN    THE    FAMILY. 


Ax  important  question  now  comes  to  us  and  we  want 
to  refer  it  to  the  members  of  the  Nook  family,  for  the 
whole  family  ought  to  be  consulted  in  such  im- 
portant matters  as  this. 

At  the  beginning  of  next  year,  by  order  of  the  Gen- 
eral Missionary  and  Tract  Committee,  we  expecl 
begin  to  publish  the  Reading  Circle  and  Christian 
Workers'  Topics  in  the  Inglenook  which  have  here- 
tofore been  published  in  the  Missionary  I  isitor,  ami 
the  question  is.  where  shall  we  put  them:  We  have 
twelve  pages  of  General  Magazine:  two  pages  Edi- 
torial; two  pages  of  Current    Happenings:   two  pages 

Nature  Study;  two  pages  Home  Department;  one 
page  for  the  Young  People;  one  page  for  Q.  &  A.,  and 

one  for  the  Miscellaneous.  Now  where  shall  we  make 
a  place  for  them?  Which  would  you  rather  give  up? 
Which  do  you  read  the  least? 

When  you  see  this  please  consider  it  a  personal 
question  for  advice,  ami  you  will  confer  a  special 
favor  upon  the  editor  if  you  will  write  your  answer 
on  a  postal  card  and  adress  it  to  the  editor. 

Who  has  sufficient  interest  to  do  this? 


THE    INGLENOOK— November  29,  1904 


Current      Happenings 


A     NEW     ERA. 


A  new  era  has  been  marked  in  the  history  of  trans- 
portation in  America.  A  practical  test  of  the  new  high 
speed  electric  locomotives  has  been  made  by  the  New 
York  Central  Railway  near  Schnectady,  N.  Y.  The 
average  of  twenty-five  miles  an  hour  was  easily  made 
which  outstrips  the  steam  competitor.  It  may  be  inter- 
esting to  know  that  this  test  was  made  very  near  the 
exact  spot  where  Mr.  Clinton  made  his  initial  trip  in 
August  183 1,  which  was  the  first  steam  railroad  oper- 
ated in  the  State  of  New  York.  The  N.  Y.  C.  railway 
purposes  to  use  these  electric  locomotives  in  handling 
passenger  traffic  within  a  radius  of  twenty-five  miles 
of  the  Grand  Central  station.  The  total  weight  of  the 
engine  is  eighty-five  tons  and  is  said  to  have  2200-horse 
power,  equipped  with  a  new  type  of  gearless  bipolar . 
motors.  This  railroad  company  purposes  to  buy  150 
of  these  engines  to  begin  with  and  increase  their  ca- 
pacity as  the  demands  call  tor  it. 

*  *  ♦ 

Several  physicians  have  published  statements  that 
the  amount  of  oxygen  in  the  air  in  the  New  York  sub- 
way is  considerably  below  normal.  An  official  in- 
vestigation is  to  be  made. 

*  *  * 

The  total  appropriation  for  the  new  agricultural 
department   building  at   Washington   is  $1,500,000. 

*  *  * 

President  Roosevelt's  book.  "  The  Strenuous  Life" 
has  been  translated  into  Italian  and  is  having  a  large 
sale  in  Rome. 

*  *  ♦ 

A  Norfolk  and  Western  freight  train  ran  into  a  de- 
failing  switch  near  Radford.  Virginia.  November  fi. 
killing  the  fireman  and  engineer  who  were  buried  un- 
der tl»e  overturned   engine. 

.>    .;.    + 

I!uren  R.  Sherman,  former  governor  of  Iowa,  is 
dead  in  his  home  in  Vinton.  Iowa. 

*  *  * 

Two  persons  lost  their  lives  and  several  were  badly 
injured  in  a  fire  near  Paris,  France,  which  destroyed 
a  large  paint  factory. 

*$*  ♦  •$• 

The  American  government  has  addressed  a  note  to 
the  Turkish  authorities  demanding  redress  for  the 
attack  near  Adelpho  by  Turkish  brigands  upon  a  car- 
avan belonging  to  the  American  house  of  McAndrews 
and  Forbes  of  Smyrna.  Six  of  the  camels  in  the 
caravan  were  killed  and  the  companv's  goods  stolen. 


Great  Britain.  Mexico  and  Denmark  have  iii.ii- 
cated  their  willingness  to  participate  in  another  pea,.v 
conference,  thus  making  the  three  nations  which  arc 
enrolled  in  favor  of  President  Roosevelt's  proposal. 

♦  ♦  # 

Emrekor  Francis  Joseph  was  among  those  who 
sent  telegrams  of  congratulations  to  President  Roose- 
velt. 

♦  ♦  ♦ 

A  fine  auditorium  known  as  the  Huntington  Hall, 
at  Lowell,  Mass.,  was  burned  on  Nov.  6.  The 
estimated  loss  is  $75,000. 

*>    ->   •■> 

The  famous  Erickson  expedition  has  returned 
after  an  absence  of  two  and  a  half  years  spent  in  ex- 
ploring Greenland. 

•x*  •>  -i* 

President  Roosevelt  has  announced  his  intention 
to  visit  the  World's  Fair  at  St.  Louis  and  has  set  Nov- 
ember 26,  as  the  date  for  his  visit  there. 

Major  Fitzgerald,  retired  of  the  United  States 
army,  who  was  formerly  associated  with  the  quarter- 
master's department,  was  found  dead  at  his  home  in 
San  Francisco,  Cal.     He  was  72  vears  of  age. 

*  v   * 

An  entire  brick  block  at  Oil  City,  Pa.,  was  destroyed 
by  fire  November  7.     The  loss  is  estimated  as  $275,000. 

$     «$»     4f» 

King  Menelek  of  Abyssinia  has  sent  President 
Roosevelt  a  small  menagerie,  consisting  of  two  lion- 
esses, two  monkeys,  two  ostriches  and  a  zebra.  One 
of  the  lionesses  died  on  the  voyage. 

General  James  J.   Fini.ey,   one  of  the  few   sur-i 
viving   brigadier   generals   of   the    Confederate   army, 
died  at  Lake  City,   Fla.,   November  6.     General   Fin—' 
ley   was   92   years  of   age.     He   resigned   the   district 
judgeship  of  Florida  to  enter  the  Confederate  army. 
In  the  southern  service  he  rose  from  the  rank  of  pri-J 
vate  tc  that  of  brigadier  general.     He  was  a  member;? 
of  Congress  and  held   many   positions   of  honor   and' 
trust  in  that  State. 

*  *  * 

The  trial  of  trains  in  the  new  subway  in  New  York- 
City  has  demonstrated  that  143rd  street  can  be  reached1 
by  this  route  in  fifteen  minutes.  South  Marlboro,, 
equidistant,  will  some  day  enjov  these  facilities  and" 
the  dav  is  not  remote,  for  the  excavators  are  steadily 
forcing  the  tunnel  under  the  East  River,  the  most 
difficult  nnrt  of  the  work. 


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1 145 


Resolutions  setting  forth  that  special  message  from 
God  has  been  received  concerning  the  com- 
ing of  Christ  in  the  very  near  future  were  adopted  at 
Trenton,  N.  J.,  Nov.  19  at  the  conference  of  the  Sev- 
enth Day  Adventists  held  at  Nixon's  Hall.  No  date 
is  set  for  the  end  of  the  world. 

*  *  * 

Fokbpaugh  &  Sells  Brothers'  circus  pay  wagon 
was  robbed  of  $30,000  Nov.  19,  at  Tarboro,  N.  C.  The 
circus  is  to  be  sold,  by  agreement  of  all  partners  and 
the  robbery  marked  the  closing  of  its  career.  Several 
arrests  have  been  made  but  no  trace  of  the  money 
has  been  found.  After  playing  in  ( jreenville  the  circus 
arrived  in  Tarboro.  Nov.  20  over  the  Atlantic  Coast 
Line.  The  pay  wagon  had  been  broken  into  and  robbed 
during  transit.  The  treasurer  was  compelled  tc 
telegraph  to  New  York  for  money  with  which  to  square 
final  accounts  and  get  the  show  into  winter  quarters. 

*  *  ♦ 
The  conditions  at  the  seat  of  war  according  to  Lieu- 
tenant Shupkoff  who  has  just  arrived  at  Berlin  from 
Port  Arthur,  arc  that  the  Russians  have  laid  out  three 
lines  of  defense  which  the  Japanese  must  capture  be- 
fore they  can  reach  the  city  of  Mukden,  after  which 
the  Russians  can  retire  to  the  coast  forts  which  are  the 
strongest  of  all.  The  garrison  which  comprises  more 
than  fnrty  thousand  men  is  in  good  spirits.  The  Lieu- 
tenant believes  that  the  fortress  can  hold  out  at  least 
.intil  the  first  of  January.  The  Japs  recently  lost  five 
itindred  men  in  an  attack  and  they  are  evidently  very 
nuch  disheartened.  It  is  claimed  that  it  is  very  easy 
:o  see  they  lack  decision  which  they  formerly  possessed. 

*  *  * 

The  President  of  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio  Rail- 
oad  has  announced  that  his  company  will  build  a  two 
nillion-dollar  office  building  at  the  corner  of  Baltimore 
md  Charles  streets,  in  Baltimore  two  blocks  west  of 
he  old  Central  building  which  was  destroyed  by  fire 
>n  Feb.  7. 

*  *  * 
The   Pennsylvania   Railroad   Company   has  secured 
large  tract  of  land  on  the  water  front  just  north  of 

ts  present  terminal  at  the  foot  of  Sixty-fifth  street, 
Brooklyn.  When  completed  the  Pennsylvania  plans 
vill  do  for  the  raanti factoring  portion  of  Brooklyn 
vhat  the  subway  is  doing  for  the  residential  sections — 
stablish  a  new  level  of  prosperity  and  increased  land 
alues. 

A  m<;  amusement  park,  similar  to  Dreamland  and 
-una  Park  at  Coney  Island,  is  being  planned  for  the 
lorthern  end  o'f  Manhattan,  as  an  all  the  year  round 
esnrt.     It  is  said  the  land  has  already  been  secured  at 

cost    1  if  $5,000,000. 


Spurred  on  by  the  lesson  of  the  Baltimore  fire,  the 
city  of  New  York  is  beginning  the  installation  through 
the  business  sections  of  a  set  of  pipes  to  supply  water 
for  fire  use  only.  These  mains  are  to  be  supplied  from 
the  bay  by  powerful  pumps.  The  system  to  cover  the 
shopping  and  business  section  of  Brooklyn  is  to  be 
first  installed,  after  which  lower  Manhattan  will  be 
taken  up. 

*   *    * 

It  is  reported  that  the  Penns\ Kama  Railroad,  which 
bought  for  its  New  York  terminal  the  four  blocks 
from  Seventh  to  Ninth  avenues,  between  Thirty-first 
and  Thirty-third  streets,  is  trying  to  secure  the  entire 
block  to  the  eastward  running  through  Sixth  avenue 
and  Broadway.  The  Seventh  avenue  frontage  and 
several  lots  on  Thirty-third  street  have  already  been 
bought. 

tf>  «{»  fj» 

A  gift  of  $36,000  from  an  unknown  friend  for  the 
building  of  a  maternity  home  has  inspired  a  Thanks- 
giving week  celebration  at  the  Presbyterian  Hospital, 
beginning  to-day  and  concluding  Sunday. 

The  maternity  house  is  to  be  a  four  story  structure, 
providing  accommodations  for  about  eighteen  patients. 
It  is  in  course  of  construction  opposite  the  main  build- 
ings on  the  south  side  of  Powelton  avenue. 

In  proportion  to  its  capacity  the  new  department 
will  be  the  most  expensive.  In  many  respects  it  will 
be  distinct  from  the  general  hospital,  having  its  own 
staff  of  nurses.  Already  the  hospital  expenditures  are 
$20,000  in  excess  of  the  income. 

All  contributions  of  clothing,  delicacies  and  other 
useful  articles  will  be  received  at  the  hospital,  Thirty- 
ninth  street  and  Powelton  avenue,  and  money  should 
be  sent  to  Frank  K.  Hippie,  treasurer.  Real  Estate 
Trust  Building. 

*  *  * 

As  a  result  of  an  election  bet  John  Foley  of  (  Ima- 
ha  must  travel  alone  in  his  automobile  without  food  or 
drink  from  his  home  to  Casper.  Wyoming,  a  distance 
of  1000  miles.  As  is  quite  well  known  this  road  is 
exceedingly  rough  and  the  journey  will  be  more  or  less 
hazardous  outside  of  the  natural  suffering  which  must 
result  from  hunger  and  thirst  and  the  possibilities  of 
being  delayed  by  accidents.  IIou  strange  it  is  that  for 
no  reason  and  without  any  cause  men  will  allow  them- 
selves to  be  bamboozled  into  such  risks  and  sacrifices 
as  this  and  when  it  comes  to  the  matter  of  social,  moral 
and  religious  interests  where  backbone,  nerve  and 
genuine  tenacity  arc  needed,  these  are  the  very  first 
men  to  quail  under  the  slightest  pressure. 

+   +   + 

Six  men  wire  arrested  at  Cincinnati  for  murder  and 
dynamite  plot  in  molder's  strike. 


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The  Inglenook  Nature  Study  Club 


I 


This  Department  of  the  Inglenook  is  the  organ  of  the  various  Nature  Study  Clubs  that  may  be  organized 
4>  over  this  country.  Each  issue  of  the  magazine  will  be  complete  in  itself.  Clubs  may  be  organized  at  any  time, 
T  taking  the  work  up  with  the  current  issue.  Back  numbers  cannot  be  furnished.  Any  school  desiring  to  or- 
%    ganize  a  club  can  ascertain  the  methods  of  procedure  by  addressing  the  Editor  of  the  Inglenook,  Elgin,  111. 


*v*  V  *!•  V  •**  ***  ***  "4 


CLASS    AVES.— ORDER    NATATORES. 


Individual. — Albatross. 

Of  all  strange  creatures  seen  by  travelers  not  the 
least  interesting  is  the  wandering  albatross.  This 
great,  feathered  wanderer,  sometimes  measuring  17 
feet  from  tip  to  tip  of  his  wings,  will  follow  a  ship 
for  days  at  a  time.  Some  travelers  and  sailors  de- 
clare that  they  have  seen  a  particular  bird  fly  for 
weeks  at  a  time  without  ever  being  seen  to  alight  upon 
the  waves. 

It  not  merely  follows  the  ship,  but  wheels  in  great 
circles  around  it  and  above  it,  high  in  the  air,  as  if 
to  show  that  it  is  not  tired.  Sometimes  the  bird  will 
be  seen  to  hang  in  the  air  with  its  wings  apparently 
motionless  and  the  saiiors  say  that  then  it  is  asleep. 

Not  only  in  pleasant  weather  will  the  albatross  follow 
a  ship  for  days  and  weeks,  but  through  the  most 
terrific  storms  it  will  continue  its  untiring  flight.  In 
fact,  to  find  an  albatioss  otherwise  than  on  the  wing 
is  like  finding  a  weasel  asleep. 

Once  a  year  the  female  albatross  flies  away  a  few 
thousand  miles  to  the  great  lonely  island  of  Tristan 
d'Acunha,  which  lifts  its  desolate  head  far  in  the 
South  Atlantic,  or  to  some  equally  remote  place,  and 
there  lays  cne  egg  in  the  hollow  of  a  rock. 

The  albatross  has  always  been  a  bird  of  mystery, 
and  in  ancient  times  the  people  believed  that  these 
unwearying  sea  birds  were  the  companions  of  the 
Greek  warrior  Diomedes,  and  were  said  to  have  been 
changed  into  birds  at  the  death  of  their  chief. 

When  America  was  discovered  and  ships  began  to 
sail  abroad  to  the  Pacific  ocean  to  double  the  Cape 
of  Good  Hope  and  to  explore  the  "  seven  seas " 
generally,  the  old  belief  about  the  albatross  had  been 
forgotten  by  the  sailors  and  explorers,  but  in  their  long 
and  lonesome  voyages 'over  waters  which  were  cut 
by  no  keel  but  their  own  and  upon  whose  vast  expanse 
they  saw  no  other  sail  but  theirs,  the  presence  of  the 
albatross  following  the  ship  day  after  day  became  a 
great  source  of  comfort  and  companionship.  So  it 
came  to  be  a  belief  that  ill-luck  would  follow  any  one 
who  killed  one  of  these  birds ;  and  that  belief  is  com- 
mon among  the  seafaring  men  to  this  day.  Cole- 
ridge's famous  "  Rhyme  of  the  Ancient  Mariner  "  is 
based  upon  this  belief. 


Though  the  superstition  about  the  killing  of  an 
albatross  bringing  bad  luck  is  only  a  foolish  one,  iti 
has  served  a  useful  purpose  for  many  years  in  prevent- 
ing the  slaughter  of  these  beautiful  and  gallant  birds — 
the  sailor's  friends  and  the  landsman's  wonder. 

Up  in  dreary  Kamchatka,  that  outlying  part  of  Si-' 
beria  which  cuts  into  the  North  Pacific,  the  natives, 
never  having  heard  of  the  superstition  about  the  alba- 
tross, catch  him  and  eat  him,  but  his  flesh  makes  such' 
poor  food  that,  after  all,  the  legend  may  be  said  to 
hold  good,  for  he  is  indeed  in  bad  luck  who  has  to  make 
a  meal  of  it. — Washington  Post. 

*  4>  •$• 
A   DOG   THAT   ENJOYS    CHURCH   SERVICES. 


I 


1!Y   ADA    KIUCHER. 

There  was  a  family  moved  into  a  certain  vicinit 
from  another  State  a  few  years  ago  and  located  near 
the  church. 

Although  they  were  not  church  members  they  never 
missed  a  service  and  they  were  always  accompanied 
by  their  dog.  They  allowed  him  to  go  with  them  one 
Sunday  and  he  took  such  a  liking  for  church  services 
that  no  matter  how  much  they  tried  to  keep  him  at 
home  he  always  managed  to  get  to  church  even  if  he 
would  have  to  steal  around  through  the  field  to  get 
there. 

During  services  he  would  lie  down  under  a  bench 
or  just  outside  the  door  and  keep  so  quiet  one  would 
think  he  was  dead  if  it  were  not  for  the  regular  ri$j 
ing  and  falling  of  his  side.  In  short  he  was  such  a 
well  behaved  dog  that  people  insisted  that  he  be  al 
lowed  to  come  to  church  without  any  interference 
thereafter. 

So  every  Sunday  morning  found  these  new  neigh- 
bors and  their  dog  in  their  accustomed  places,  ,sc 
regularly  that  I  .doubt  not  that  some  of  the  member.' 
began  to  feel  ashamed  for  their  lack  of  consistency 

Soon  some  of  the  family  began  to  absent  them 
selves  from  services  but  it  was  never  the  humble: 
member  of  the  family.  After  awhile  this  family  be 
gan  to  get  tired  of  church  services  and  began  to  cas 
about  them  for  some  excuse  to  stay  at  home.  Final! 
some  one  thoughtlessly  said  something  which  gave  then 
the  desired  excuse  and  Sunday  morning  found  then 


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no  more  in  the  house  of  the  Lord  but  not  so  with  the 
dog.  He  was  not  so  easily  offended  neither  did  he 
think  it  just  right  to  spend  his  Sundays  lounging 
around  at  home  as  did  his  masters  or  rabbit  bunting 
as  the  neighboring  dogs  did.  In  loyalty  to  his  master 
he  stayed  away  a  few  Sundays  but  I  suppose  his  con- 
science would  not  allow  him  to  be  loyal  to  his  masters 
any  longer  at  any  rate  one  Sunday  morning  every 
one  was  surprised  to  see  him  at  church  again,  unat- 
tended, but  as  quiet  and  well  behaved  as  ever. 

After  services  he  irotted  along  ahead  of  the  pro- 
cession and  stopped  at  his  master's  gate.  It  seemed 
as  if  he  had  a  smile  for  each  one  that  passed.  It 
seemed  also  as  if  he  wished  to  make  apologies  for  his 
few  Sundays  of  absence  and  for  the  continued  absence 
of  his  masters. 

After  being  absent  all  summer  from  services  the 
faithful  dog's  masters  came  out  to  services  again 
occasionally. 

Who    can    tell  the  wonderful  influence  of  a  good 
example  even  if  it  is  only  a  dog  that  sets  it? 
;    Harrisonznlle,  Mo. 

ARMY   DOGS. 


The  Russian  Government  is  in  communication  with 
Major  Hautonville  Richardson,  a  retired  officer  of  the 
British  army,  on  the  subject  of  his  supplying  a  canine 
ambulance  corps  for  the  far  East. 

Major  Richardson  considers  that  the  best  dogs  for 
ordinary  work  in  the  field  are  the  black  or  sable  collies. 
Intelligence,  not  breed,  however,  is  the  chief  consider- 
ation. The  Russians  have  adopted  the  Caucasian  dog ; 
France  favors  the  "  smugglers'  dogs,"  well  known  on 
|ier  frontiers ;  Austria  employs  Dalmatians ;  Turkey 
finds  Asiatic  sheep  dogs  most  suitable,  and  Germany 
generally  selects  collies. 

The  trained  dog  can  be  employed  in  a  number  of 
ways.  He  may  act  as  a  scout,  as  an  outpost  to  the 
outposts ;  in  an  actual  engagement  his  services  are  read- 
ily available  for  the  transport  of  reserve  ammunition 
to  the  firing  line.  In  a  siege  or  investment  he  may  be 
used  as  a  sentry,  and  in  this  capacity  would  prove  in- 
valuable in  guarding  against  surprise. 

But  it  is  in  ambulance  work  that  the  dog  may  pro- 
miIc  the  greatest  service  to  man,  and  it  is  to  this 
special  and  important  phase  that  Major  Richardson 
has  devoted  many  years,  training  bis  dogs  to  perform 
their  life-saving  work  with  almost  human  skill  and 
intelligence. 

The  beginning  of  training  for  field  service  is  to  take 
the  dog  at  night  to  some  quiet  spot  and  have  an  as- 
sistant creep  up  slowly  toward  dog  and  master. 
The  .log  scents  the  approach  and  gives  warning  by 
'.'row ling — barking  being  almost  checked  by  the  trainer. 


since  in  war  time  it  would  betray  the  dog's  presence 
to  the  enemy. 

In  ambulance  work,  the  dog,  finding  a  wounded  man, 
lies  down  beside  him,  and  the  man,  if  not  too  seriously 
injured,  helps  himself  to  the  brandy  carried  by  the  dog 
in  a  flask  upon  its  back. 

The  dog  also  carries  bandages,  a  waterproof  sheet, 
a  pencil  and  a  piece  of  paper.  The  wounded  man 
scribbles  a  hasty  note  to  inform  his  comrades  in  what 
part  of  the  field  to  find  him  ;  then,  intimating  to  the  dog 
by  a  wave  of  his  hand  that  it  is  to  return,  the  dog 
dashes  off  again  to  the  ambulance  headquarters. 

Help  is  dispatched  at  once,  the  ambulance  party  be- 
ing led  to  the  spot  by  the  dog  itself.  The  wounded 
man  has  in  the  meantime  been  enabled  roughly  to 
bandage  his  wounds,  and,  perhaps,  by  stopping  a 
dangerous  flow  of  blood,  to  save  his  life. 

*  *i*  * 
ELEPHANTS    IN    CEYLON. 


In  the  new  Ceylon  Handbook  and  Directory  an 
interesting  record  is  that  of  the  export  of  elephants 
from  the  island  during  the  past  forty-one  years.  In 
1903  there  were  only  eight  of  these  pachyderms  sent 
out  of  the  country,  one  to  British  India  and  seven  to 
Germany. 

The  price  paid  for  these  animals  was  seven  thousand 
five  hundre-  rupees,  giving  a  modest  average  of 
eight  hundred  and  twenty-five  rupees  each.  A  royalty 
of  rupees  two  hundred  per  head  was  imposed  in  1873, 
and  the  number  of  elephants  exported,  which  had  fallen 
low  before  then,  dwindled  in  the  next  few  years  to 
three  and  even  to  one.  In  1882  the  royalty  was  re- 
duced to  Rs.  one  hundred,  in  the  hope  that  business 
might  revive  and  encouragement  be  given  to  supplying 
the  new  demand  for  Ceylon  elephants  in  the  conti- 
nental menageries.  The  Rajahs'  courts  in  India  had 
previously  formed  the  chief  market  for  them.  The 
total  number  sold  in  the  time  treated  of  was  two 
thousand  two  hundred  and  twenty-five,  or  an  average 
of  fifty-six  per  annum. 

Mr.  Alfred  Clark,  an  expert,  estimates  that  there 
are  now  only  two  thousand  elephants  in  Ceylon.  The 
royalty  in  1891  was  again  raised  to  Rs.  two  hundred. 

Whether  the  effect  of  this  will  be  to  permit  the  ani- 
mals to  increase  in  undue  proportion  to  their  available 
haunts  or  that  sportsman  shooting  elephants  will 
counter-balance  the  decrease  in  the  export  remains  t" 
be  seen. 

+   *   * 

The  thing  that  truly  helps  you 
If  you're  down  on  your  lurk. 

/.?  to  give  some  honest  praise 
To  the  nuni  with  tin-  pluck. 


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HOME    DEPARTMENT 


MICROBES    AND    DISEASE. 


DR.  S.  B.   MILLER. 

Microbes,  bacteria,  germs,  etc.,  everywhere,  every 
day,  we  see  or  hear  something  of  these  tiny  forms  of 
life.  Some  things  are  know  of  them  and  their  action, 
a  far  greater  amount  is  theory,  and  a  still  greater  part 
is  unknown. 

Every  medical  journal  is  full  of  micro-organisms, 
their  scientific  names,  methods  of  producing  and  re- 
producing new  varieties,  a  great  harangue  of  bosh  to 
scare  and  terrify  the  uneducated,  and  throw  a  halo  of 
glory  around  some  specialist  or  speculator.  Unfortu- 
nate animals  and  many  human  beings  are  deliberately 
experimented  upon  in  vain  endeavors  to  develop  some 
new  idea,  or  some  new  feature  of  terrorization  for 
humanity. 

One  is  almost  led  to  believe  that  God  made  a  blun- 
der in  his  scheme  of  life,  and  it  remains  for  some 
"  specialist "  in  his  den,  with  a  microscope  and  an 
atmosphere  of  cigarette  smoke  and  liquor  fumes  to 
put  God  right  in  the  matter. 

Germs  perform  a  great  part  in  the  economy  of  hu- 
man life.  To  destroy  all  of  them  or  both  good  and  bad 
indiscriminately  would  be  contrary  to  Divine  plan. 
and  bichloride  of  mercury  or  formaldehyde,  is  "  no 
respecter  of  germs."  and  will  certainly  destroy  both 
good  and  bad. 

In  fact  it  is  not  yet  fully  and  unequivocally  decided 
that  there  are  any  bad  germs.  One  thing  certain  the 
proportion  of  so-called  good  and  bad  germs  is  many 
fold  greater  of  good  than  the  bad  ones, — all  admit  that. 

It  is  an  openly  debated  question  whether  germs  cause 
disease.  There  must  be  a  nidus  or  home  for  their 
multiplication  in  the  body  before  they  can  produce 
effects. 

.  There  is  a  first  cause  in  the  depletion  of  the  nerve 
and  blood  supply  to  a  part  before  "  disease  germs  " 
can  operate,  hence  they  are  not  a  first  cause,  but  rather 
secondary  or  effects.  It  is  barely  possible  too  that 
even  then  they  act  as  scavengers  in  removing  diseased 
tissue,  and  are  really  aiding  nature.  You  poultice  a 
boil  to  draw  it  to  a  head,  open  it  to  let  the  pus  out, — 
and  then  it  gets  well.  Your  poultice,  and  heat  has  not 
only  developed  germs  but  supplied  them.  All  pus  is 
full  of  germs.  Their  presence  proves  to'  be  the  cause 
as  effectually  as  do  vultures  on  a  carcass  prove  the 
cause  of  the  animal's  death! 


If  germs  caused  disease  the  human  race  would  be 
wiped  out  in  a  few  months,  for  we  breathe  millions  of 
all  classes  of  them  every  windy  day  we  walk  the  streets 
of  a  city. 

Let  us  be  reasonable,  sensible,  hygienic,  careful 
cleanly.  Use  an  abundance  of  fresh  air  and  heaven's 
panacea — the  sunlight.  Eat  more  moderately,  worry 
less,  sleep  better,  exercise  regularly,  "  throw  physic  to 
the  dogs,"  and  don't  worry  about  germs. — and  Nature 
will  do  the  rest. 

Barring  accidents  and  injuries,  the  human  system 
needs  no  medicine  or  doctoring.  There  can  be  no  dis- 
ease where  there  is  a  pure  blood  and  nerve  supply 
So  that  the  first  cause  in  all  disease,  excepting  wounds 
and  injuries,  comes  from  an  interference  within  th§ 
body,  of  the  nerve  or  blood  supply  to  a  part. 

The  human  system  is  a  self-regulating,  self-recon- 
structing mechanism,  and  like  all  delicate  machines 
can  be  gotten  out  of  order, — and  oiling  won't  remove 
all  difficulties  in  machinery.  If  your  system  is  not  ufl 
to  the  standard  of  life  and  the  above  common  sense 
suggestions  carefully  followed  do  not  afford  relief, 
consult  an  osteopathic  physician  who  makes  a  specialty 
of  the  study  of  the  body,  the  human  machine,  and  give 
him  a  chance  to  aid  nature  by  removing  pressure  upl 
on  nerves  or  obstruction  to  blood  supply,  and  cease  to 
deplete  your  system  with  drugs,  thereby  furnishing 
the  weakened  vitality  so  desirable  as  a  home  for  "  dis- 
ease-producing germs." 

Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa. 

*  ♦  * 

THE    FRESH   AIR    FUND. 


The  story  of  the  Fresh  Air  Fund,  as  told  by  Mr. 
Jacob  Riis  in  his  "  Children  of  the  Poor,"  shows  how 
the  kindly  thought  of  one  person  may  set  in  motion 
a  train  of  circumstances  whose  results  shall  grow  to 
proportions  vastly  beyond  any  imaginations  of  the 
one  who  humbly  and  simply  sought  to  do  a  kindness 
to  some  of  "these  my  •brethren,  even  these  least.' 

A  young  pastor  in  a  small  Pennsylvania  village,  as 
he  walked  through  the  fields  and  saw  the  flowers  and 
berries  blooming  and  ripening  only  to  go  to  waste, 
thought  of  the  hosts  of  little  children  whom  he  had 
seen  in  the  hot  streets  of  the  great  city — children 
whose  dwelling-places  were  unfit  to  be  called  home 
children  starved  in  body  and  soul ;  children  whe 
knew  nothing  of  green  fields,  blooming  flowers,  sing- 
ing birds,  and  cool  forests.  Why  should  there  be  sc 
much  to  spare  here  and  so  great  need  there!     Hon 


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1 149 


Ruld  he  bring  together  the  need  and  the  abundance? 

I  le  preached  to  his  people  one  Sunday  morning 
lorn  the  text,  "Inasmuch  as  ye  have  done  it  unto 
inn-  of  the  least  of  these  my  brethren,  ye  have  done 
it  unto  me."  lie  put  into  his  sermon  the  pathos  of 
[his  own  heart-longing  for  these  suffering  little  ones, 
and  the  people  heard  with  glowing  hearts  and  glis- 
tening eyes.  They  were  plain  village  people  and 
Country  folk,  but  their  hearts  were  full  of  love  and 
sympathy.  Through  the  hours  of  the  afternoon  they 
talked  of  what  could  be  done,  and  the  next  day  the 
pastor  started  for  New  York.  He  sought  out  nine  of 
the  poorest  boys  and  girls  to  be  found  in  the  slums 
pf  the  city,  and  these  he  took  back  with  him.  A 
glad  welcome  awaited  them,  and  they  were  taken 
into  the  homes  and  hearts  of  the  village  and  farm 
people.  For  two  weeks  they  reveled  in  the  joys  of 
country  life  and  learned  how  beautiful  was  the  world 
which  God  had  made.  Then  they  returned  to  the 
city,  brown-faced,  strong,  happy  children,  and  an- 
other little  company  was  taken  to  the  country  homes. 
These  were  returned  and  others  taken,  until  sixty  lit- 
tle waifs  had  shared  in  the  delights  of  these  outings. 
But  the  joy  was  not  all  on  their  side.  The  good  peo- 
ple had  tasted  the  pleasure  of  doing  for  these  little 
ones  "  in  his  name."  and  the  next  summer,  and  the 
next,  and  all  these  many  summers  they  have  enter- 
tained parties  of  these  destitute  and  desolate  little 
urchins. 

The  kindly  impulses  thus  started  soon  produced  a 
wave  of  interest  which  has  spread  throughout  the 
country,  and  even  to  foreign  lands.  The  second  year 
the  work  was  taken  up  by  The  Evening  Post,  a  New 
York  newspaper.  For  four  years  it  sent  out  its  ap- 
peals and  raised  money  to  send  the  children  to  such 
places  as  were  willing  to  receive  them.  It  was  then 
■opted  by  another  paper,  The  Tribune,  and  what  is 
known  as  the  Tribune  Fresh  Air  Fund  has  grown 
year  by  year  until  more  than  a  hundred  thousand 
children  have  found  not  only  joy  and  happiness,  but 
in  many  instances  life  and  health  in  these  holiday 
visits.  The  Pennsylvania  pastor.  Rev.  William  Par- 
sons, was  put  in  charge  of  the  work,  and  through 
The  Tribune  each  year  he  preached  again  and  again 
t In-  thought  of  that  first  sermon — the  statement  of 
the  need  and  the  abundance — and  loving  hearts  and 
hands  supply  the  funds  needed  to  carry  on  the  work. 

Other  cities  have  followed  the  example  of  New 
York,  and  now  from  all  the  large  cities  and  many 
smaller  ones,  numbers  of  children  are  sou  for  a  two 
weeks'  visit  in  the  country,  and  others  are  given  out- 
ings in  the  parks,  trolley  rides,  boat  rides,  and  scores 
of  other  holiday  pleasures.  In  Lincoln  and  Jackson 
Parks,  Chicago,  are  sanitariums  where  man)  sick 
rabies  are  cared  for.  Only  Hod  can  measure  the  re- 
sults of  these  influences,  which  started  in  so  humble 
a  way. — Junior  Raf>tisl  I  'nion. 


FOOLISH    PHYSICAL    CULTURE. 


We  noted  not  long  since  the  daily  routine  of  a  liter- 
ary man  who  writes  a  great  deal  on  physical  education. 
He  believes  in  physical  culture  and  goes  into  it  with 
greater  strenuosity  than  the  most  energetic  business 
man  carries  to  his  work. 

According  to  his  own  account  the  following  is  his 
daily  routine  during  the  summer  months :  On  all 
mornings  that  the  weather  will  permit  wheeling  he 
rises  at  five  o'clock,  drinks  one  or  two  glasses  of  cold 
water  and  takes  his  regular  morning  exercises.  Then 
he  starts  off  on  his  bicycle  for  a  twenty  mile  rid.  in 
eighty  minutes. 

When  he  gets  back  he  cleans  his  wheel  and  after- 
wards drinks  a  cup  of  clear  coffee.  Fats  nothing 
whatever.  After  drinking  the  coffee  he  takes  some 
very  vigorous  exercises  for  the  upper  portion  of  his 
body  and  then  another  cold  water  bath.  He  now  set- 
tles down  to  his  literary  work,  writing  and  reading. 
Noontime  comes  but  he  takes  no  luncheon  or  dinner, 
just  simply  a  cup  of  cold  water,  and  continues  his 
literary  work  until  five  o'clock  when  he  eats  a  good 
square  meal. 

This  is  physical  culture  to  the  limit,  and  does  not 
meet  our  approval  at  all.  This  man  says  he  is  in  prime 
condition.  He  may  be  now  but  he  is  laying  the  sure 
foundation  lor  a  nervous  wreck.  Nothing  but  a  cup 
of  coffee  to  nourish  the  brain  in  its  work  all  day  long. 
Not  a  morsel  of  food  in  the  stomach  from  five 
o'clock  in  the  evening  until  five  the  next  evening. 
This  may  do  for  a  while,  but  the  brain  will  soon  fag 
and  the  body  break  under  such  a  strenuous  physical 
life. 

It  is  the  food  we  eat  that  supplies  our  force,  physi- 
cal and  mental.  Cutting  down  our  daily  ration  t<>  on< 
hearty  meal  in  twenty-four  hours  is  not  a  wise  thing 
to  do,  especially  when  taking  vigorous  exercise  and 
doing  hard  work  mentally.  The  stomach  can  much 
easier  dispose  of  two  or  three  moderate  meals  a  da\ 
than  it  can  if  the  same  amount  is  taken  all  at  one  time. 
It  is  not  a  good  idea  to  try  to  cram  enough  food  into 
the  stomach  to  do  for  twenty- four  hours.  This  will 
overtax  the  digestive  organs  and  clog  the  body,  for 
a  time  at  least.  The  brain  will  not  be  best  nourished 
in  this  manner,  and  the  final  result  of  such  a  regimen 
will  lit-  physical  and  mental  collapsi 

Just  a  common  sense,  rational  lite,  not  going  to  c\- 
tremes  in  any  way.  is  the  best  way  to  live.  We  be- 
lieve in  physical  culture  hut  we  believe  in  using  com- 
mon sense  along  with  it.  Outdoor  exercise,  nourish- 
in:;'  food,  and  pure  water  are  all  good  things,  but  even 
good  things  can  be  made  to  d  •  harm  if  they  are  not 
mixed  with  a  little  common  sense. — E  P.,  in  Medical 
. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— November  29,   1904. 


OUR    YOUNG     PEOPLE 


THE   GEOGRAPHY   CLASS.— Chap.   IV. 


The  silence  was  painful.  It  really  seemed  as  if  no 
"one  was  breathing.  James  Maynor  who  was  sitting  on 
the'  front  seat,  arose  and  said  in  measured  tones, 
"  Why  should  this  scene  take  the  attitude  of  a  fu- 
neral? Is  there  a  single  person  in  this  audience  who 
does  not  wish  them  good  luck,  God's  speed,  and  a 
pleasant  journey?"  From  the  farthest  corner  of  the 
room  came  the  sound  of  a  gentle  clapping  of  hands 
which  was  instantly  caught  up  by  the  audience  and 
prolonged  until  Miss  Gertrude  again  beckoned,  for 
order.  The  applause  was  signalled  by  Raymond  Tracy. 
Raymond  had  only  been  left  out  of  the  number  by 
one  per  cent  on  his  examination,  and  it  was  nice  that 
his  manly  heart  manifested  itself  so  proudly  in  that  he 
was  the  first  to  lead  in  the  congratulating  applause. 

Mr.  Maynor  then  assured  the  audience  and  the  party 
that  as  soon  as  they  would  notify  him  of  the  date  of 
their  departure,  he  would  have  their  transportation 
ready  for  them,  at  the  railway  station.  And  that  he 
would  forward  instructions  to  the  steamship  company 
and  reserve  on  the  Celtic  a  three-berth  cabin  for  Miss 
Gertrude,  Agnes  and  Marie,  and  a  two-berth  cabin 
for  Oscar  and  Roscoe.  He  also  made  the  announce- 
ment to  the  audience  that  the  school  board  had  informed 
him  that  the  services  of  Miss  Merritt  had  been  secured 
for  another  year.  Then  turning  to  the  pupils  of  May- 
ville  school  (before  he  could  say  another  word  he  was 
compelled  to  wait  for  silence  for  the  children  fairly 
screamed  with  delight  while  the  beaming  features 
of  the  parents  gave  a  hearty  assent)  he  said:  "  Chil- 
dren, you  may  rest  assured  of  having  a  very  interest- 
ing school  next  year  because  of  the  treasures  of  in- 
formation that  will  be  gathered  up  for  you."  Then 
turning  to  the  audience  Mr.  Maynor  continued.  "If 
any  one  has  any  suggestions,  questions  or  requests  let 
them  be  known  now."  No  sooner  had  he  said  this 
than  Mr.  Maxwell  who  is  editor  of  the  Mayville 
Times  suggested  that  this  party  write  back  to  his  paper 
so  that  the  people  of  Mayville  might  know  of 
their  wanderings.  This  seemed  to  meet  the  approval 
of  many,  but  Elsie  Mills  asked  for  a  word  and  said, 
"  Since  the  pupils  of  the  Mayville  school  have  nearly 
all  been  taking  the  Inglenook  for  the  last  four  years, 
I  think  it  would  be  right  and  proper  that  our  repre- 
sentatives write  their  articles  for  the  Inglenook,  since 
the  letters  would  reach  so  many  more  young  people, 
and  then  if  Mr.  Maxwell  wants  their  travels  he  can 


arrange  for  them  with  the  editor  of  the  Inglenook. 
And  I  think  that  Roscoe  and  Oscar,  ought  to  take  Mr. 
Maynor's  kodak  along  with  which  to  illustrate  their 
letters." 

Instead  of  Mr.  Maxwell  objecting  to  this  he  very 
readily  consented.  Then  Mr.  Maynor  asked  the  party 
whether  they  were  ready  to  comply  with  this  request. 
For  a  moment  they  waited  upon  each  other,  when 
Roscoe  Clarke  whispered  something  to  Oscar  Stewart 
and  instantly  arose  and  said,  "  Oscar  and  I  have  de- 
cided that  we  will  make  a  study  of  the  illustrations 
and  furnish  what  we  can  of  them  and  help  the  girls  to 
gather  data  for  their  articles,  provided  they  will  pre-  _ 
pare  them  and  send  them  to  the  Inglenook,  and  Mr.J 
Maxwell  must  look  to  the  Inglenook  for  his  material." 
Upon  this  Marie  said,  "  As  you  all  well  know  this  will 
be  our  first  experience  in  traveling  and  travelers  have 
often  told  me  that  it  was  almost  impossible  to  do  your 
writing  with  any  degree  of  satisfaction  while  you  werej 
traveling,  but  we  will  do  the  best  we  can." 

The  assembly  was  dismissed ;  the  term  of  school  was 
at  an  end ;  the  janitor  took  charge  of  the  building 
and  prepared  for  the  next  term  of  school.  Miss  Mer- 
ritt spent  a  few  days  in  blocking  out  her  future  work 
of  the  school,  and  then  confined  herself  to  preparation 
for  the  tour.  In  the  meantime  Oscar  and  Marie  spent 
many  an  evening  with  Agnes  and  Roscoe  talking  over 
the  proposed  journey.  One  evening  the)'  had  asked 
Mr.  Maynor  to  meet  with  them  and  I  shall  never  for-5 
get  one  thing  he  told  them  that  night,  he  said,  "  My 
young  friends,  the  'cream  of  traveling'  is  to  talk  about 
it  before  you  go,  and  to  tell  about  it  when  you  get  back, 
if  you  live  to  get  back."  But  finally  they  decided 
on  the  proper  amount  of  paraphernalia,  and  set  the  time 
to  go  two  weeks  from  Thursday.  The  last  Sunday 
before  they  left  they  were  all  invited  with  their  par| 
ents  and  the  other  members  of  the  graduating  class 
and  their  parents  to  the  Maynor  mansion  for  a  re- 
ception. The  large  parlors  and  reception  rooms  of 
the  finest  home  in  Mayville  were  taxed  to  their  ut- 
most capacity.  The  dinner  was  no  ordinary  affair. 
It  was  such  an  occasion  as  only  Jim  Maynor  could 
suggest  or  was  able  to  pay  for. 

After  all  the  tables  were  served  and  seats  had  been 
resumed  Mr.  Clemens  and  Miss  Warner,  who  had  been 
invited  especially  that  they  might  render  music  for  the 
occasion,  entertained  the  company,  as  they  only  cai 
then  the  tourists  were  called  upon  for  toasts.     In  tu 
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What  gave  rise  to  the  present  names  of  our  State :s? 

The  following-  is  a  correct  answer  to  your  question. 
for  which  we  are  indebted  to  the  Editor  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati Enquirer: 

The  names  of  the  Atlantic  States  are  mostly  of 
•  European  origin,  the  others  mostly  of  Indian  origin. 

Alabama  is  Indian  for  "  Here  we  rest."  It  was  so 
named  by  the  Creeks. 

Arkansas  is  from  the  French  arc  (a  bow)  and 
Indian,  Kansas  (smoky  waters),  meaning;  "A  bow 
of  smoky  waters." 

California  means  "  hot  furnace  "  in  Spanish.  It  was 
(named  by  Cortez  in   1535. 

Colorado  is  Spanish  for  red  and  was  so  named  on 
account  of  the  reddish  tint  of  its  waters. 

Connecticut  is  Indian  for  "  long  river." 

Delaware  was  so  named  in  honor  of  Thos.  West 
Lord  De  la  War. 

North  and  South  Dakota  are  from  the  Indian  word 
dakota  meaning  "  allies." 

Florida  was  so  named  by  Ponee  de  Leon  because 
[of  the  abundance  of  flowers  and  also  because  he  dis- 
Icovered  it  on  Easter  ( Pasena  Florida,  "  Feast  of 
(Flowers.)" 

Georgia  was  named  after  George  II.,  of  England. 

Idaho,  is  Indian  for  "  Gem  of  the  Mountains." 
I     Illinois  is  Indian  for  "  manly  "  or  "  A  Tribe  of  Men." 

Indiana  was   so  named  on   account  of  the   Indians 
(living  there. 
I     Iowa  means  "  The  Sleepy  Ones." 

Kansas — "  Smoky  Waters." 

Kentucky  means  "  Dark  and  Bloody  Ground." 
■     Louisiana  was  so  called  after  Louis  XIV.,  of  France. 

Maine  was  at  first  called  "  Mayneland  "  to  distin- 
guish it  from  the  settlements  on  the  coast  islands. 

Maryland  was  named  in  honor  of  Queen  Henrietta 
iMaria  by  Charles  T..  of  England  in  his  patenl  to  Lord 
Baltimore. 

Massachusetts  got  its  name  from  the  .Massachusetts 
Indians.     The  word  means  "Blue  Hills." 

Michigan  is  Indian   for  "The  Lake  Country." 

Minnesota  •  is  from  the  Indian  for  "Sky  Tinted 
Water,"  referring  to  the  Minnesota  River. 

Mississippi — Indian  for  "  Father  of  Waters." 
I-  Missouri — Indian  for  "Muddy  Water." 

Montana — "  Mountainous." 

Nebraska — Indian  for  "  Water  Valley  "  or  "  Shallow 
liRiver." 

'    Nevada — Spanish  for  "  White  as  Snow,"  or  "  Snow- 
dad." 


New  Hampshire  was  named  by  George  Mason,  who 
came  from  Hampshire  County  England. 

New  Jersey  was  named  by  Sir  George  Carteret, 
who  had  been  a  Governor  of  the  Island  of  Jersey  in  the 
British  Channel. 

New  York — Named  in  honor  of  the  Duke  of  York, 
brother  of  Charles   II. 

North  and  South  Carolina,  named  in  honor  of 
Charles  II.    (Carolus). 

Ohio,  from  Indian  "  O-hee-yuh,"  meaning  "  beauti- 
ful river."  The  French  spelled  it  O-y-o,  which  the 
English  changed  to  Ohio. 

Oregon,  from  Spanish  "  Oregano,"  a  wild  marjoram 
which  abounds  there.  Some  authorities  say  the  name 
is  from  Indian  words,  meaning  "  River  of  the  West." 

Pennsylvania,  "  Penn's  Woods,"  from  Admiral  Penn. 
father  of  the  Quaker  settler,  William  Penn,  and  the 
Latin  word  "  sylvania  "  (woods).  It  was  named  by 
Charles  II.  in  his  grant  to  William  Penn.  who  wanted 
to  call  it  New  Wales. 

Rhode  Island — Some  say  it  was  named  after  a  set- 
tler in  Newport  called  Rhodes,  which  was  called  "  the 
Isle  of  Rhodes,  or  Rhode  Island."  Other  authorities 
say  it  is  a  corruption  of  the  Dutch  Roade  Islandt 
(red  island),  given  by  the  Dutch  traders  who  found 
many  cranberries  growing  on  the  shore. 

Tennessee — Indian   for   "  River  of  the    Rig  Bend." 

Texas — Some  say  it  is  from  Indian  words  mean- 
ing "  North  Country."  or  from  Spanish  words,  mean- 
ing "  friends." 

Utah,  from  Indian  tribe  of  that  name. 

Vermont,  from  French  "  Vert  Mont,"  meaning 
"  ( rreen  Mountain." 

Virginia  and  West  Virginia,  named  by  Raleigh  in 
honor  of  Elizabeth,  the  Virgin  Queen  of  England. 

Wisconsin — Indian  for  "  A  Wild  Rushing  River  "  or 
"  flowing'  westward."  Authorities  differ  as  to  which 
words  formed  the  name. 

Washington — Named   in    honor   of   first    President 

Wyoming — Indian  for  "  Groat  Plains." 

What  is  the  difference  between  a  fractured  bone  and 
>   broken  bone? 

Wry  little,  however,  a  broken  bone  is  generally 
conceded  to  be  one  whin  the  parts  ^i  the  bone  are  en- 
tirely separated,  while  a  fractured  bone  is  generally  so 
called  from  the  fact  that  the  bone  has  begun  to  break 
but  is  not  entirely  separated,  fractures  may  be  longi- 
tudinal, transverse  or  oblique.  Physicians  gem  rally 
prefer  to  "  set  "  a  Fractured  bone  to  a  broken  hone. 


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each  expressed  their  gratitude  to  the  management, 
their  appreciation  of  the  services  of  Miss  Merritt,  the 
kindness  of  their  parents  in  allowing  them  to  go,  and 
especially  the  hearty  support  they  were  receiving  from 
the  remaining  members  of  their  class,  in  a  very  im- 
partial, wholehearted  manner. 

After  Miss  Gertrude  and  Mr.  Maynor  had  each  given 
a   very   nice   address   which   were   much   appreciated 
by  all,  the  Rev.  Dawson  said  that  he  thought  these 
.  young  people  ought  not  to  go  abroad  without  the  bless- 
ing of  God.     Then  he  opened  his  Bible  and  turned  to 
that  beautiful  one  hundred  seventh   Psalm  and  read 
from   the  twenty-third   to   the   thirty-first  verse,   and 
lead  (hem  toward  heaven  in  a  most  fevernt  prayer. 
(To  be  continued.) 
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NINETEEN    COMMANDMENTS. 


Sir  James  Sawyer,  when  lecturing  a  short  time  since 
in  England  said  that  the  secret  of  longevity  was  "  the 
paying  attention  to  small  details  "  and  he  gave  forth 
eighteen  commandments  to  read  and  perform  if  you 
wish  to  live  a  hundred  years  or  more.  Here  is  the 
lesson  which  would-be  centenarians  should  take  care  to 
follow : 

1.  Eight  hours  sleep. 

2.  Sleep  on  your  right  side. 
Keep  your  bedroom  window  open  all  night. 
Have  a  mat  to  your  bedroom  door. 
Do  not  have  your  bedstead  against  the  wall. 
No  cold  tub  in  the  morning,  but  a  bath  at  the 

temperature  of  the  body. 

7.  Exercise  well  before  breakfast. 

8.  Eat  but  little  meat  and  see  that  it  is  well-cooked. 

9.  Adults  should  drink  no  milk. 

10.  Eat  plenty  of  fat,  to  feed  the  cells  which  des- 
troy disease  germs. 

11.  Avoid  intoxicants,  which  destroy  those  cells. 

12.  Daily  exercise  in  the  open  air. 

13.  Allow   no  pet  animals  in  your  living  rooms. 
They  are  apt  to  carry  about  disease  germs. 

14.  Live  in  the  country  if  you  can. 

15.  Watch   the   three   D's — drinking   water,    damp 
and  drains. 

16.  Have  change  of  occupation. 

17.  Take  frequent  and  short  holidays. 

18.  Limit  your  ambition. 

19.  Keep  your  temper. — Ex. 


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Who  knows  which  way  did  Montauk  Point? 

How  much  did  Sandy  Hook? 
How  did  the  first  Long  Island  Sound? 

And  who  did  Point  Out-look? 
When  did  the  Schuylkill  any  one? 

Of  what  was  .Del-aware? 
How  many  points  did  Winnipeg — 

How  much  had  she  to  spare? 

When  were  the  Scilly  Isles  insane? 

And  who  was  Merri-mac? 
What  made  the  Guadalquivir  so? 

How  much  did  Fond  du  Lac? 
And  what,  oh,  what,  did  Behring  Sea? 

What  made  the  Dead  Sea  die? 
Who  caused  poor  old  Magellan's  Strait? 

Who  was  it  knocked  Shanghai? 

What  kind  of  man  did  Syracuse? 

How  much  did  Buffalo? 
What  navigator  made  Cape  Clear? 

And  where  does  old  Glasgow? 
Who  sold  the  egg  that   Adelaide? 

What  golfer  wore  Cohoes? 
What  victories  first  gave  Ben-gal? 

Has  Marblehead  a  nose? 

And  say,  to  whom  did  Kennebec? 

And  who  did  Amsterdam? 
Just  how  much  cash   was  Leavenworth? 

Has  Joli-et  some  lamb,? 
Did  Cedar  Keys  unlock  a  door? 

How  heavy  did  Galway? 
How  often  did  the  Chilkoot  Pass? 

What  legs  has  Table  Bay? 

Who  guaranteed  Nantucket  Sound? 

Who  slept  in  Penobscot? 
How  many  hides  did  Yucatan? 

What  fire  has  Colon  got? 
Did  Turkey  ever  run  to  Greece? 

Is  Brazil  every  day? 
Who  did  a  game  of  Tennessee? 

And  who  Rhode  Island,  pray? 

John  S.  Grey,  in  Clay  City  Democrat. 
a  a  <• 


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ally in  war  with  their  enemies  abroad  so  that  they 
would  not  hatch  treason  at  home.  There  is  a  benef- 
icent purpose  in  work.  "  Idleness  is  the  sepulchre 
of  any  man."  Work  adds  to  happiness,  strengthens 
the  entire  person,  and  multiplies  one's  usefulness. 
Work  is  not  a  penalty  for  sin,  but  was  given  at  the 
beginning  of  human  life  as  a  blessing.  "  Work  is 
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and  live  stock.  The  possibilities  are  here,  largely  un- 
developed as  yet;  all  that  we  want  is  the  people.  Those 
we  are  getting  are  the  right  kind,  your  own  kind,  and 
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SAMUEL  S.  THORPE, 
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pense, reference,  patients  cured  in  every 
State  and  Territory,  ministers  &  bankers 

Address,  Drs.  Binebsrt  k  Co..  Lock  Boi  20,  Kokomo,  Ini 


THE  HOME  GEM  XKIK. 


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opportunity  to  explain  the  new  features 
of  this  washer.    Address 

WM.  S.  MILLER,  Myersdale,  Pa. 

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mention   the   Inglenook. 


ALBAUGH 


BROS.,     DOVER    &    CO.,    341=343  Franklin  Street 

Chicago,  111; 


Tb.e     3VXo.ll     Order    House. 


Tn  (ittr  VrtanAc  ^e  come-to  y°u  aga»n  wlt^  a  number  of  special  bargains  for  the  Holiday  Trade 
10  UUl  rriCntlS  knowing  that  what  we  represent  here  will  give  you  excellent  satisfaction,  and 
— — ^^— — — ^—     will  be  all  that  your  money  can  buy  anywhere.     Our  new  Catalog,  showing  a 

very  large  line  of  goods,  is  now  being  sent  out  by  the  thousands  and  one  will  be  sent  to  you  for  the  asking. 


Complete   Set   of   Table     00   Kfl 
Silverware   for  tJJUiJU 

27-piece  Leota  set-6  knives,  6  forks,  6  table- 
spoons, 6  teaspoons,  i  butter  knife,  i  sugar  shell, 
i  pickle  fork,  of  the  William  A.  Rogers  brand, 
guaranteed  finest  coin  silver  plate,  in  a  fine 
satin-lined,  brocaded  velvet  case,  exactly  as 
shown  in  the  small  illustration.  This  offer  is 
genuine,  and  we  guarantee  satisfaction  abso 
lutely,  and  will  return  your  money  if  you  do  not 
find  the  goods  exactly  as  represented.  The  set 
weighs  about  7  pounds  and  will  be  shipped  by 
express  on  receipt  of  S3. 50  from  readers  of  the 
Inglenook. 


1847  Rogers  Bros. 

Every  one  knows  what  the  1847  Rogers  Bros, 
silverware  is.  It  is  the  genuine  and  there  is  none 
better.  II  you  want  to  make  a  present  that  will 
be  highly  appreciated  by  any  housewife,  order 
these  goods.  Prices  of  knives  and  forks  quoted 
on  application. 

Tipped  or  Shell  Pattern. 


Triple 

A  1 

xn. 

Plate. 

Tea  Spoons,  perdoz. 

$2.20 

$2.60 

$3.24 

Dessert  Spoons    ,, 

3.85 

4.39 

6.15 

Table  Spoons        ,, 

4.40 

5.15 

6.20 

Alarm  Clock  that 
Does  Alarm. 

The  accompanying  cut  is  a  small 
illustration   of   our   Parlor    Alarm 
Clock.     This    beautiful    clock  is 
made     with     cast  iron    case,    gun 
metal  finish,  and  has  scroll  orna- 
mentation,    as     shown     io     the 
illustration.     The    alarm    bell    is 
skillfully  concealed  in  the  base  of 
the  clock,  and  has  an  extremely  long    and  loud 
ring,  making  it  a  sure  awakener.     Will   run 
thirty  hours  without  winding.     If  you  forget  to 
wind  it  at  night  it  will  be  running  the  next 
morning.    It    is    dust-prool     and     practically 
indestructible.    It  is  fully  worth   five  ordinary 
alarms,  being  the  most  durable  and  substantial 
ever   offered.     Five  and  a  half    inches    high, 
weighs  three  and  a  half  pounds,  and  will   be 
shipped  by  express  upon  receipt  of  $1 .00. 


Bed   Spread. 


71c 


A  Guaranteed  American  Movement 
WATCH  for  only 

A  stem  wind  damaskeened  plate,  American 
movement,  nickel-plated  case,  new  thin  model, 
snap  bezel  and  back.  One  of  the  greatest  bar- 
gains ever  offered.  You  will  be  highly  pleased 
with  watch.  It  is  not  always  advisable  to  carry 
an  expensive  watch  when  you  can  carry  a  watch 
costing  almost  nothing.  An  excellent  oppor- 
tunity frr  boys.  Remember  only  71c.  If  sent 
by  mail  6c  extra. 

The  DELIGHT  Carpet  Sweeper. 

With  regular  bearings  and  nickel-plated  trim- 
mings. If  you  are  looking  for  a  Sweeper  that 
will  give  you  good  service  without  much  outlay, 
we  recommend  this  particular  machine.  It  has 
a  very  fine  finish  and  w  ill  be  a  delight.  Our  large 
catalog  showing  different  kinds  and  prices  w 
be  sent  on  request.  '1  he  Delight  in  either 
mahogany,  antique  oak,  or  plain  oak  finish,  onlv 
$1.75. 


Full  size  Crochet  Bedspread,  77  by  go  inches, 
hemmed  edge.  A  neat  variety  of  patterns,  full 
weight.  V/2  lbs.  Regular  S  2.co  spread.  Our 
special  price  $1 .30 


Broadcloth  for  Ladies3  Suits 


In  all  the  leading  solid  colors.  Black 
and  wine  colors,  light,  medium  and 
dark  of  Gray,  Blue,  and  Brown  and 
Olive,  medium  or  dark  green.  Other 
colors  can  be  furnished  if  desired. 
The  cloth  is  50  inches  wide,  and 
weighs  9  ozs,  to  the  yard.  This  is 
A  1  broadcloth  and  a  decided  bargain 
at  the  price.  Usually  sells  from  Si. 10 
to  $1.25  per  yard.  Our  special  price 
to  the  Inglenook  readers,  for  holidays 
only,  85c  per  yard. 


A  fine  Umbrella  is 
always  a  suitable 
present  for  either 

Lady  or  Gentleman. 


Women's  Taffeta 
Umbrella,  $1.69 

K  5.  Women's  black  Union  silk  taffeta 
Umbrella:  fine  partridge  mounted  handle, 
with  German  silver  trimming;  silk  case 
and  tassel;  steel  rod  and  paragon  frame; 
size  26  inches $1 .69 


Extra  Quality  Women's 
Taffeta,  $1.98 

K.6,  With  beautiful  pearl  hook  handle,  gold  or 
silver  cap  and  band,  size  26  inches.    Price $1.98 

Men's  Union  Taffeta  Silk 
Umbrella,  $1.98 

K14.  Men's  black  Union  silk  taffeta  Umbrella, 
with  French  horn  handle,  with  silver  trimming; 
silk  case  and  tassels  and  paragon  frame;  7  ribs:  size 

26  inches $1.98 

Size  28  inches 2.25 


A  Bargain. 

This  Rocking  Chair  is  a  decidei 
bargain  at  the  price  asked.  It  is 
just  the  kind  of  a  chair  you  like  to 
sit  in  afterahardday's  work.  The 
chair  is  strongh  built  and  made 
out  of  good  material.  You  never 
were  offered  a  better  bargain  in  a 
chair  by  anyone.  By  buving  them 
in  quantities  we  are  enabled  to  sell 
these  chairs  to  you  at  the  exceed- 
ingly low  price  of  $2.90 


ALBAUGH  BROS.,  DOVER  &  CO., 

The     3VEa.il     Order 


Coiis©. 


34,_343    Franklin    Street 
Chicago,  III. 


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POEM. 

SOVEREIGNS  OF  LIGHT.— By  Josephine  Hanna. 

CONTRIBUTIONS. 

SNAP  SHOTS.— By  Mary  I.  Senseman. 

IN  THE  WORLD'S  CONCOURSE.— By  Charity  Vincent. 

STORY   OF   THE    PILGRIMS.— By    MaBelle   Murray. 

AN  HISTORIC  SPOT.— Chapter  V.— By  Eld.  H.  W.  Strickler. 

PEARLS.— By  Olive  Miller. 

AUTUMN   IN  THE  WOODS.— By  Foster  Cline. 

CHILD  MARRIAGE  IN  INDIA.— By  W.  B.  Stover. 

THE  OLD  WOMAN.— By  S.  N.  McCann. 

EDITORIALS. 

SALOON  WINDOWS.  ABSORBING    POISON. 

A   GOOD   SAMARITAN    WANTED. 
CHARACTER  BUILDING. 


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Buy  your   ticket   over 

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GEO.  L.  McDOXAUGH,  Colonization  Agent,  Omaha,  Neb. 


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Mention  the  ISGLETJOOK  when  writing. 


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LIGHTING  THE  MEETINGHOUSE 

in  the  country  with  acetylene.  It  is  cheap  and  convenient,  ABSOLUTELY 
SAFE,  will  not  add  to  insurance  rates,  and  the  light  is  beautiful,  bright,  clear, 
strong  enough  to  enable  the  old  brethren  to  read,  and  does  not  dazzle.  Let 
us  equip  your  church.     Send  dimensions  and  number  of  lights  now  in  use. 


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one.    I  soil  nil  Hilda  of 


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United  States.     The  reason  la  simple. 

Our  Goods  are  Sellable.     Our  Variety  la 
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CANADIAN     HOLIDAY    EXCUR- 
SIONS VIA  THE  WABASH. 

December  15,  16,  17  and  18,  the 
Wabash  Railroad  will  sell  holiday  ex- 
cursion tickets  from  Chicago  to  Ca- 
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Beef  on  the  hoof  means  money  in 
the  pocket.  The  live  stock  route  is 
a  sure  road  to  wealth.  The  small 
ranchman  who  raises  hi?  winter  ford 
always  succeeds. 

The  four  largest  shipping  points  for 
range  cattle  are  in  the  Panhandle 
of  Texas.  Secure  a  homestead  now 
while  land  values  are  low  and  be 
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Write  f«>r  particulars. 

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Around   Your  Finger 

And  You  Won't  Forget  Again! 


You  remember  now  that  you  forgot  to  send  a  Thanksgiving  present  to  your 
friends.  But  CHRISTMAS  is  coming  and  you  have  another  opportunity  and 
what's  more,  we  will  go  partners  with  you  and  furnish  a  part  of  the  capital.  Come  on 
now.  You  furnish  75  cents  and  we  will  furnish  25  cents  and  we  will  send  a  present  to 
anyone  you  say,  and  it  will  not  only  go'  once  but   once  a    week  for  a  yearB 

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to  any  address.  Of  course  this  is  not  to  be  construed  so  one  can  donate  the  magazine  to 
one  of  his  own  family  who  live  under  the  same  roof. 

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"would  surely  be  very  appropriate  and  more  than  that  it  would  be  very  much  appre- 
ciated. We  will  send  each  party  a  postal  notifying  them  of  the  gift  and  of  the  giver. 
Make  out  your  list  on  the  blank  attached  and  send  to  us  at  once  and  we  will  see  that  the 
Christmas  number  is  sent  and  fifty-two  numbers  next  year. 

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THE    RIDDLE   OF    LIFE 


A  noted  author  has  said  that  life  "  is  a  riddle  and  the 
key  to  the  riddle  is  another  riddle."  This  applies  with 
equal  force  to  life  in  all  its  phases,  including  our 
physical  existence.  It  is  indeed,  a  mystery.  Much  has 
been  written  in  a  scientific  way  as  to  what  life  consists 
of,  but  very  little  is  known  -beyond  the  fact  that  the 
blood  is  the  life.  Even  in  ancient  times,  it  was  writ- 
ten "  and  the  blood  is  the  life  thereof."  Accepting  this 
fact  as  our  foundation,  we  find  the  blood  to  be  the  most 
important  part  of  our  physical  being  and  it  emphasizes 
the  necessity  of  keeping  our  lifestream  pure  and  vig- 
orous. To  ignore  this  fact  is  but  to  invite  physical 
pain  and  suffering. 

A  weak  or  impure  condition  of  the  blood  shows 
itself  in  a  thousand  different  ways.  We  meet  people 
every  day  who  appear  pale,  and  in  a  certain  sense, 
bloodless.  They  have  blood  enough,  but  it  is  thin  and 
vitiated,  lacking  in  power  and  warmth  ;  others  again 
are  florid,  showing  an  abundance  of  vital  fluid,  but 
pimples  and  skin  eruptions  betoken  its  impure  con- 
dition; others  again  by  the  peculiar  color  of  the  whites 
of  the  eyes  and  yellow  skin,  show  that  the  blood  is 
charged  with  bile  owing  to  an  inactive  liver ;  while  here 
and  there  we  find  a  rheumatic,  tortured  by  the  presence 
of  uric  acid  in  the  blood  as  a  result  of  weak  kidneys, 
and  so  on  in  many  different  ways. 

All  these  conditions  are  bad.  What  is  needed  is 
a  good  reliable  remedy  that  will  cleanse  the  blood  of  its 
impurities,  revitalize  and  enrich  it  and  quicken  its 
circulation.  There  are  thousands  of  so-called  blood 
medicines  to  be  had.  A  few  are  good,  some  are  bad 
and  the  rest  indifferent.  Any  medicine,  that  moves  the 
bowels,  however  drastic  its  composition,  is  advertised 
nowadays  as  a  blood  purifier. 

The  purpose  of  this  article  is  to  call  attention  to  a 
remedy  which  is  without  peer  as  a  blood-purifier  and 
health-give'.-  and  which  has  the  record  of  a  century's 
constant  use  behind  it.  It  is  known  as  DR.  PETER'S 
BLOOD  VITALIZER  and  thousands  upon  thousands 
have  testified  to  its  remarkable  power.  It  not  only 
cleanses  the  vital  fluid  but  makes  rich,  red  blood  and 
sound,  solid,  healthy  flesh.  When  you  commence  to 
use  it,  you  will  not  remain  long  in  doubt  as  to  its  effect. 
The  very  first  bottle  will  demonstrate  its  merits. 

FEELS    ALL   RIGHT    AGAIN. 

Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Sept.  19,  1904. 
Dear  Doctor  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

I  wish  to  write  to  you  and  tell  you  how  I -am  feeling 
since  taking  the  Blood  Vitalizer.  For  years  I  had  not 
heen  feeling  well  and  would  have  spells  of  rheumatism. 
Then  my  feet,  legs  and  body  would  swell  so  that  I  could 
not  attend  to  my  work.  In  my  work  I  have  to  run 
around  a  good  deal  and  climb  stairs,  etc.,  and,  owing  to 
my  weakness  it  was  very  hard  on  me. 


One  day  a  copy  of  the  "  Surprise  "  came  into  my  hands 
and  as  the  doctors  told  me  they  could  do  no  more  for 
me,  I  sent  for  some  of  your  Blood  Vitalizer.  I  soon  felt 
better  after  using  it  and  can  now  say  I  am  entirely  well. 
My  feet  and  limbs,  which  always  used  to  be  so  cold,  are 
now  warm  and  strong — in  fact,  I  feel  it  all  Over.  I  work 
every  day  and  feel  all  right.  I  hope  to  bring  the  knowl- 
edge of  your  Blood  Vitalizer  to  many  sufferers. 

Very  gratefully  yours, 

1565  Central  Ave.  John  C.  Maisel. 

BELIEVES    IN    IT. 

Wedener.  Ark..  Aug.  12,  1904. 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Sir: — I  should  have  written  you  long  ago.  We 
cannot  get  along  without  your  Blood  Vitalizer.  When  I 
commenced  using  it  I  was  so  run  down  that  I  only 
weighed  one  hundred  pounds.  I  have  already  gained  nine- 
teen pounds  since  using  it.  I  would  not  think  of  being 
without  it.  Your  argument  that  herb  treatment  is  the 
only  rational  treatment  for  our  physical  ills  and  that  it 
is  referred  to  in  early  Bible  times  is  true  and  I  believe 
every  word  of  it. 

Yours  very  truly, 

Laura  Peterson. 

A    MOTHER    IN    SWITZERLAND    WRITES. 

Wald,  Switzerland,  March  9,  1904. 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  III. 

Dear  Doctor: — I  desire  to  take  the  time  to  tell  you  that 
your  Blood  Vitalizer  has  accomplished  some  wonderful 
things  for  myself  and  daughter.  Through  long-continued 
illness  my  nerves  seemed  to  be  totally  ruined.  I  was 
hardly  able  to  sleep  and  so  run  down  physically  that  I 
had  given  up  hopes  of  getting  well.  Last  fall,  however, 
I  decided  to  try  your  Blood  Vitalizer  and  obtained  some 
at  the  agency  here.  To  my  surprise  I  commenced  to 
pick  up  at  once,  my  sleep  returned  and  I  got  stronger 
day  by  day. 

I  also  commenced  to  give  it  to  my  daughter  (aged  10), 
whose  blood  seemed  to  be  weak  and  vitiated  and  whose 
eye-lids  were  always  raw  and  inflamed.  She  also  had  a 
disagreeable  discharge  from  the  nose.  All  of  these  trou- 
bles have  disappeared,  for  which  we  are  deeply  thankful. 
Sincerely  yours, 

Mrs.  W.  E.  Rebsamen. 

MUST    PRAISE   IT. 

Chicago,  111.,  July  12.  1904. 
Dr.  P.  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Sir: — The  first  shipment  of  Blood  Vitalizer  is  all 
gone,  so  please  send  me  another  lot  of  your  splendid 
medicine.  I  cannot  help  but  praise  the  Blood  Vitalizer 
as  it  has  cured  me  of  an  ailment  (neuralgia)  of  eleven 
years  standing,  after  the  doctors  had  tried  in  vain.  I  can 
recommend  it  wherever  I  am  and  I  am  not  stingy  in  my 
praise  of  it.     I  have  given  some  to  sufferers  gratis. 

Please  send  the  medicine  at  once. 

Yours  truly, 

453  Lyndale  Ave.  Ch.  F.  Pick. 

DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER  is  known  as 
a  plain  household  remedy.  It  conies  in  a  plain  bottle 
in  a  plain  wrapper,  but  it  brings  results  and  therein  lies 
the  secret  of  its  success  and  ever-increasing  popu- 
larity. It  is  distinctly  different  from  all  other  medi- 
cines. It  may  have  its  imitations  but  it  has  no  substi- 
tute. DR.  PETER'S  BLOOD  VITALIZER  is  not  a 
drugstore  medicine,  but  is  sold  to  the  p  ople  direct. 
through  special  agents  appointed  in  every  community. 
For  further  particulars  address : 


DR.  PETER  FAHRNEY,  112-114  S.  Hoyne  Ave.,  Chicago,  III. 


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Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail 


irv  i  H^""^  's  'ke  best-watered  arid  State  in  America.  Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 
IUjLm.1  l\J  winds,  destructive  storms  and  cyclones  are  unknown,  and  with  its  matchless  cli- 
mate  it  makes   life  bright  and  worth  living. 

We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer  to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 
change  for  the  general  improvement  in  your  condition  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 
account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  both  requirements.  There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 
and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  country  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 
swer and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger  work  teach  us  that  a  few  dollars  spent  in  railroad 
fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves  thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

Cheap  homeseekers'  rates  are  made  to  all  principal  Idaho  points.  Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 
for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting  a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


Ronnd=Trip  Homeseekers'  Excursion  Tickets 


100,000  Acres  Now  Open  for  Settlement  at 

%        Twin  Falls,  Idaho,  under  the  Carey   Act. 

•^ 

^5  ___  Unlimited  supply  of  water  for  irrigation  and  for  power.  A  grand  opportunity  for  the  Home- 
^  seeker  who  locates  on  these  lands.  10  years  time  given  for  payment  for  land  and  water  after  lands 
. 3»       are   sold.     The   canals   and   water  belong  to   the  settlers  who  will  own  and  control  the  same. 


Arrived  in  Payette  Valley  Feb.  23,  1903.  Settled  on  an  80-acre  tract,  covered  with  sage  brush. 
Cleared  40  acres.  May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.  Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.  June  12  sowed  10  acres 
to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.  Yielded  55  to  acre.  Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 
or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger.  I  1       I 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 
oats. 

Potatoes  yielded  500  bushels  to  the  acre  and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 
the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)  E.  L.  Dotson. 

D.   E.   BURLEY, 
S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio.  G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R., 

J.  E.  HOOPER,  Agent,   Oakland,  Kansas.  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

Mention  the  INGLENOOK  when  writing.  40U3 


£ 


Will  be  sold  to  points  in  Idaho  as  follows:  West  of  Pocatello  on  first  and  third  Tuesday 
of  November,  1904.  The  rate  will  apply  from  Missouri  river  points,  and  from  St.  Paul,  Chicago,  Bloom- 
ington,  Peoria  and  St.  Louis.  Tickets  to  Idaho  points  will  also  be  sold  by  the  Union  Pacific,  from  sta-  %*. 
tions  on  their  lines  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Rate  will  be  one  regular  first-class  fare  for  the  round  trip 
plus  $2.00,  with  limit  of  15  days  going.  Return  passage  may  commence  any  day  within  the  final  limit  of 
21  days  from  date  of  sale  of  tickets.  Tickets  for  return  will  be  good  for  continuous  passage  to  starting 
point. 


S     Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance.      Fine      > 
j§  Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


*IN5LEN00K 


Vol.   VI. 


December  6.   1904 


No    49. 


SOVEREIGNS   OF   LIGHT. 


BY  JOSEPHINE  HANNA. 

I'm  so  glad  that  dawn  is  certain, 
Fold  by  fold,  to  lift  night's  curtain, — 

Glad  that  clouds  must  shift  aside. 
Oh,  my  soul  rejoices,  knowing, 
That  the  winds  the  clouds  are  blowing, 
While  the  heavens'  fixed  law  of  order 
Brings  the  sun  within  my  border, 

Giving  heart  the  dawn  to  bide. 

War,  though   clouds   have   not   in   fun,   made, 
God  to  rule  the  day,  the  sun  made, 

Ah!  to  rule  it;  likewise  night, 
Moon  and  stars,  alight  and  glowing, 
Lifting  high  their  gold  lamps,  showing 
There  is  naught  to  be  afraid  of — 
That  the  universe  is  made  of 

God's  thoughts,  set  in  heaven's  light. 

Aye — o'er  these,  with  joy  atune,  is 
Clime  where  neither  sun  nor  moon  is, 

Where  God's  glory  lighteth  all, 
Whence  may  every  heart,  repining, 
Glean  of  faith  and  hope,  divining 
Day's  sure  dawn,  till  end  of  days  is, 
And  eternity  to  praises, 

And  eternal  light,  doth  call. 
Flora,  Ind. 

$      <f»      4$ 

SNAPSHOTS. 


BY   MARY  I.   SENSEMAN. 

We  eat,  breathe  and  sleep  and  worship  God,  why, 
how  foolishly  we  do  wise  things! 

* 

We  pray  for  greatness  (for  supremacy  over  our 
felloivmen)  and  zve  are  not  strong  enough  to  assist 
right  and  love  to  destroy  ambition.  - 

Man  or  womanhood  is  not  in  physique  alone,  nor 
yet  in  learning,  nor  even  in  saintliness;  but  it  consists 
in  (equal  portions  of)  a  wholesome  body,  the  education 
mhich  teaches  the  individual  to  think  and  to  remember, 
and  Christianity. 


Here  is  an  advantage :  a  handful  of  hoe  or  dishcloth 
leaves  room  for  the  brain  to  exercise;  but  a  handful  of 
pen  does  not  admit  of  much  swinging  of  limbs. 
* 
If  you  pay  a  thousand  dollars,  are  you  willing  to 
accept  a  pebble  instead  of  a  diamond?    If  you  pay  a 
sorrow  that  is  in  your  life,  are  you  willing  to  accept 
selfishness,  despondency,  and  unwholesomeness  instead 
of    the   peace   and    helpfulness,    wisdom  and  culture 
which  God  offers  for  the  price  you  have  paid? 
*  ♦  * 
IN    THE    WORLD'S    CONCOURSE. 


BY  CHARITY  VINCENT. 

For  the  last  four  years  there  has  been  no  more 
familiar  sight  in  Pleasant  Lake  community,  Michigan, 
than  "  Old  Wiggs  taking  the  girls  to  school."  Old 
Wiggs  was  Farmer  Cole's  patient,  old  black  horse  that 
was  no  longer  able  to  do  his  share  of  the  farm  work, 
hence  had  been  assigned  to  do  whatever  errands  hap- 
pened to  be  required  of  him.  When  Elizabeth,  the 
eldest  daughter  of  the  family,  had  finally  gotten  the  con- 
sent of  her  parents  to  go  with  two  of  her  schoolmates 
to  take  a  course  in  the  village  high  school,  it  was  de- 
cided that  if  she  would  assume  the  care  of  Wiggs  they 
could  have  him  to  drive  to  school.  To  the  girls  this 
meant  very  much.  Elizabeth  had  a  nature  that  seemed 
out  of  harmony  with  the  general  likes  and  dislikes  of 
her  home.  She  loved  the  farm  and  took  as  great 
an  interest  in  the  work  there  as  her  parents  could  de- 
sire, but  she  had  a  longing  for  study  of  both  Nature 
and  books  that  was  beyond  their  apprehension.  And 
to  make  matters  worse  for  the  girl  their  love  for  rural 
simplicity  was  so  intense  that  they  looked  upon  a 
literary  education  as  a  sure  road  to  a  complex  life — 
one  in  which  they  could  see  little  of  enjoyment  and 
much  of  danger  and  worry.  Elizabeth  discerned  no 
more  in  this  privilege  to  go  to  school  than  an  op- 
portunity to  feed  her  hungry  intellect.  This 
enough  for  her.  However  the  real  facts  in  the  c 
were  that  her  free  intercourse  with  Nature  had  given 
her  enough  of  a  taste  of  a  fuller  life  that  she  deter- 
mined to  work  and  win. 

And  she  had  two  good  comrades  to  help  her.     The 


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THE  INGLENOOK  — December  6,  1904. 


one  was  Dora  Boyer,  whose  father  rented  the  farm 
adjoining  the  Cole  property,  and  the  other  was  Wini- 
fred Michael,  an  orphan  girl  living  with  her  uncle. 
Neither  of  these  girls  could  have  attended  the  school 
had  not  Elizabeth  favored  them  by  stopping  each  morn- 
ing to  take  them  with  her.  This  three-mile  ride  to  and 
from  school  each  day  was  all  that  was  needed  to  bind 
these  girls  together  for  all  work  and  play.  Their  de- 
votion to  each  other  was  open  and  sincere  and  it  was 
well  understood  they  belonged  to  each  other.  To  have 
a  success  of  any  good  time  it  was  thought  necessary 
to  have  the  Trinitas,  as  they  were  called,  there.  Trini- 
tas  was  a  good  name  for  them  for  it  took  the  three 
to  make  the  wholesome  character  they  represented. 
So  marked  was  their  individual  incompleteness  and 
combined  completeness  that  their  teachers  nicknamed 
them  Knower,  Doer  and  Sayer,  or  Cause,  Operation 
and  Effect.  Dora  was  Knower,  or  cause.  Sugges- 
tions came  from  her.  Winifred  furnished  the  plans 
to  carry  them  out,  but  it  took  Elizabeth  to  bring  them 
to  a  successful  termination.  Taking  them  altogether 
they  were  three  sensible  school  girls  equally  as  popular 
with  the  old  as  with  the  young. 

Although  they  kept  their  plans  to  themselves  it  was 
generally  known  that  they  were  working  in  vacations 
for  money  with  which  to  attend  college  once  they  fin- 
ished high  school.  In  this  Elizabeth  was  on  an  equal 
with  the  other  two,  for,  although  her  father  had  the 
means  his  willingness  was  lacking  and  without  any 
insistence  she  cheerfully  took  the  opportunity  they  gave 
her  of  helping  herself. 

One  of  the  finest  lakes  in  Southern  Michigan  lay  near 
them  with  a  fine  landing  near  Dora's  home.  Hour 
after  hour  they  spent  on  the  lake  fishing.  By  Wiggs' 
help  they  fairly  kept  the  neighborhood  and  village  sup- 
plied with  fish.  Another  harvest  they  never  failed  to 
reap  was  the  huckleberries  in  the  marsh  near-by. 
Success  smiled  most  graciously  on  their  plans  and  it 
was  generally  supposed  September  would  find  them 
hard  at  work  in  college.  But  they  had  another  plan, 
a  most  preposterous  one  it  seemed  to  the  home  folks. 
It  was  to  postpone  college  until  next  year  and  go  to  St. 
Louis  Exposition  to  study.  For  them  to  go  alone  was 
"  entirely  out  of  the  question,"  was  the  general  decision 
they  received.  But  when  the  Trinitas  set  about  to  do 
what  they  considered  right  they  usually  found  a  way. 
They  maintained  that  the  educational  advantages  of 
the  Exposition  were  equivalent  to  those  of  any  college 
and  at  the  same  time  more  practical.  They  brought, 
the  matter  into  question  and  with  such  good  reasoning 
that  they  were  to  go  the  first  of  July.  All  sorts  of 
promises  were  exacted,  and,  to  show  their  good  pur- 
poses, they  wrote  out  a  long  list  of  Dont's  and  Do's 
and  promised  to  report  each  daw 

They  were  picking  cherries.    "  Just  think  of  it.  girls," 


said  Winifred,  "  next  Wednesday  we'll  be  walking  on 
the  precious  pavement  of  the  World's  Fair." 

"  Or  on  air.  I'll  be  so  glad  to  get  there  that  I'll  not 
know  how  to  walk  on  terra  firma."  Saying  this  Dora 
stamped  her  foot  gleefully  on  her  ladder ;  the  ladder 
fell  and  Dora  with  it. 

The  next  Wednesday  Dora  was  limp  upon  her  bed. 
Winifred  and  Elizabeth  were  alone  with  her.  Never 
before  had  the  Trinitas  received  such  a  disappointment 
as  this.  The  doctor  just  that  morning  most  emphatic- 
ally said: 

'  Mrs.  Boyer,  it  is  imperative  that  this  young  lady  re- 
main in  bed  for  a  month  or  more.  In  her  fall  her  hip 
was  badly  sprained  and  it  needs  absolute  rest."  And 
to  Dora  he  said,  "  Cheer  up,  Blue  Eyes ;  there  can  be 
no  World's  Fair  or  college  for  you  this  year,  but  you 
light  that  little  candle  called  Patience  and  find  some- 
thing else  to  do.  Misfortunes  boldly  faced,  may  be- 
come our  best  stepping-stones  to  power  and  triumph." 

But  the  three  girls  were  appalled  by  the  sudden  and 
awful  interference  of  Providence.  Winifred  in  mute 
sympathy  lay  her  head  on  Dora's  pillow.  Her  brown 
eyes  never  looked  so  sad  and  weary  before.  She 
nervously  smoothed  Dora's  auburn  hair  and  wondered ; 
"What  can  it  mean?"  Elizabeth  sat  on  a  footstool 
her  head  propped  on  her  hands,  gazing  out  of  the 
window  at  vacancy.     At  last  Dora  broke  the  silence. 

"  I  know,"  she  said  with  such  enthusiasm  that  the 
girls  knew  she  had  an  inspiration  for  them  and  at  once 
straightened  up  for  attention.  "  You  two  girls  go  to 
the  Fair.     You  can  write  to  me  — " 

"  And  leave  you  here  in  bed  ?  " 

"Unselfish,  do  you  want  us  to  be  selfish?" 

"  I  assure  vou  I  am  selfish  enough  to  plan  for  two 
or  more  letters  a  day.  Going  by  proxy  is  better  than 
not  at  ali.     It's  our  only  way,  girls." 

"  But  they  won't  let  us  go  without  you." 

"  Maybe  they  will,"  but  as  she  said  so,  her  hopes 
fell,  for  she  well  remembered  how  hard  Elizabeth 
and  Winifred  were  opposed  before. 

But  they  did  go.  A  subdued  cheerfulness  governed 
the  Trinitas.  With  a  purpose  all  went  better.  On 
Tuesday  thev  left  amid  a  shower  of  advice  tempered 
by  Dora's  cheerful  encouragement.  Elizabeth's  fa- 
ther took  them  to  the  station.  He  watched  the  train 
out  of  sight  and  then  turned  homeward  with  a  strange 
feeling  about  him.  He  wouldn't  think  it  was  worry. 
Xo.  for  his  confidence  in  Elizabeth's  ways  were  grow- 
ing. 

When  he  passed  Winifred's  home  her  aunt  stopped 
him. 

"  The  girls  forgot  the  address  of  their  boarding 
place.     What  will  they  do  ?  " 

"  Maybe  they'll  remember  it,"  he  suggested. 

"  Xo.     Winnie  told  me  not  to  let  her  forget  it,  that 


THE  INGLENOOK.— December  6.  1904. 


they  could  not  find  the  place  without.  She  put  the 
card  in  the  screendoor  so  as  not  to  miss  it,  and  then 
went  and  left  it." 

"  It's  too  late  now.  Can't  even  telegraph  until  we 
hear  from  them." 

Of  course  there  were  anxious  thoughts  about  the 
girls.  These  two  eighteen-year-old  country  girls 
alone  and  not  even  knowing  where  to  go  to !  Neither 
had  traveled  before  except  on  short  summer  excur- 
sions, and  then  not  alone. 

What  happened  is  best  read  in  their  letters.  Xot 
all  of  the  letters  will  be  given,  but  only  those  parts 
which  interest. 

(to  be  continued.) 

•5*  ♦  ♦ 

THE    BOUNDARY    LINE. 


The  work  of  marking  the  boundry  line  between 
Alaska  and  Canada  at  the  points  that  were  disputed 
for  so  many  years,  is  being  proceeded  with  by  parties 
of  surveyors  representing  this  country  and  Canada. 
The  marking  follows  the  award  of  the  recent  Alaska 
Commission  that  met  in  London,  and  the  accuracy  of 
the  work  is  to  be  testified  to  by  Dr.  C.  H.  Tittman, 
Chief  of  the  Coast  and  Geodetic  Survey  for  the 
United  States,  and  W.  P.  King,  Chief  Astronomer  of 
the  Interior  Department  of  Canada,  for  that  country. 
Dr.  Tittman  left  last  week  to  enter  upon  his  duties. 
He  will  meet  Mr.  King  in  Alaska,  and  together  the 
two  Commissioners  of  their  respective  countries  will 
proceed  to  discharge  their  responsible  duties. 

The  surveying  and  marking  parties  were  put  to  work 
a  month  ago,  as  noted  at  the  time  by  The  National 
Tribune.  They  began  on  the  Lynn  Canal  and  in  the 
Stikine  River  country,  these  being  the  most  import- 
ant parts  of  the  country  and  in  the  regions  where 
the  greatest  number  of  disputes  have  arisen.  Many 
valuable  mining  interests  are  also  centered  in  that 
region.  As  soon  as  possible  monuments  will  also  be 
erected  along  the  141st  meridian.  This  is  the  north- 
ern section  of  the  boundary  line,  while  the  Lynn  Canal 
ami  the  Stikine  River  are  on  the  southern  boundry. 
From  the  Arctic  Ocean  to  Mt.  St.  Elias  the  distance 
is  t,200  miles.  This  can  not  be  marked  throughout 
in  (me  season  because  of  the  short  season,  and  it  may 
take  several  years  to  complete  the  work,  which  is  be- 
ing paid  for  by  both  countries  out  of  a  special  fund. 
The  State  Department  has  a  special  appropriation  of 
$100,000  to  pay  for  the  work  of  the  Americans. 

The  purpose  of  the  Boundary  Commissioners  is  to 
mark  the  Boundry  by  the  important  streams  anil  mi 
the  accessible  mountain  tops  first.  By  the  streams  and 
in  the  valleys  the  boundary  is  being  marked  by 
obelisks  of  brown  aluminum  five  or  six  feet  high,  one 


side  containing  the  words  "  United  States  "  and  the 
other  '"  Canada."  On  the  mountain  ranges  the  obelisks 
will  be  smaller,  but  just  as  distinct,  as  nothing  is  to  be 
left  to  chance  in  clearly  setting  forth  the  boundary 
line.  The  mountain  monuments  will  be  coned  shaped 
and  will  be  sunk  in  beds  of  rock  so  as  to  be  perma- 
nent. 

Dr.  Tittman  does  not  know  how  long  he  will  be  in 
Alaska  or  how  long  the  marking  will  take.  It  will  be 
pushed  as  rapidly  as  possible.' consistent  with  perma- 
nent and  satisfactory  work. 

*>   ♦  * 

A    DELICATE    INSTRUMENT. 


There  is  one  American  meteorological  station  of 
which  people  seldom  hear,  which  beats  all  others  for 
height.  Though  it  is  an  American  institution  it  is 
not  in  the  United  States,  and  though  it  is  in  constant 
operation  night  and  day  there  is  no  observer  there, 
the  place  being  so  high  up  that  no  living  being  can 
stay  there. 

It  is  a  mile  higher  up  than  the  famous  observatory 
of  Pike's  Peak  and  three  Mount  YVashingtons,  piled 
one  on  top  of  the  other,  would  lack  nearly  1 .000  feet  of 
reaching  the  base  of  the  building. 

This  weather  observatory  is  operated  by  Harvard 
University,  and  is  built  near  the  top  of  the  volcano 
El  Misti,  which  rises  20,320  feet  above  the  sea,  back 
of  the  town  of  Arequipa,  in  Peru.  It  is  perched  on 
the  edge  of  a  huge  crater,  from  which  at  intervals 
great  clouds  of  sulphurous  vapor  roll  about  the  station 
or  shoot  for  a  thousand  feet  into  the  air. 

All  sorts  of  delicate  scientific  instruments  for  re- 
cording the  temperature,  the  force  and  direction  of 
the  wind,  the  condition  of  the  atmosphere  and  other 
things  which  meteorologists  desire  to  know,  are  col- 
lected in  this  dreary,  desolate  place,  and  here  they  work 
without  a  human  being  coming  near  them  except  once 
in  three  months,  when  an  observer  makes  a  perilous 
trip  up  from  the  observatory  situated  lower  down,  to 
take  the  records  and  wind  up  the  clock  which  keeps 
the  instrument  going. 

Some  of  the  scientists  in  the  Arequipa  observatory, 
which  is  also  run  by  Harvard,  and  is  itself  7,550  feet 
above  the  level  of  the  sea.  cannot  make  the  trip  at  all, 
and  some  of  those  who  do  make  it  have  to  give  up  the 
job  after  a  while  because  the  "  soroche,"  it  mountain 
sickness,  overcomes  them.  But  month  after  month, 
and  year  after  year,  the  click,  click  of  the  instruments 
goes  on  in  the  deserted  observatory,  while  the  sulphur- 
ous clouds  roll  about  it.  the  \  wis  and 
threatens  destruction  and  far  below  the  earth,  where 
men  live,  spreads  out  like  a  map  with  the  "  wrinkled 
sea  "  crawling  to  the  coast. 


"56 


THE  INGLENOOK.— December  6,  1904. 


STORY    OF    THE    PILGRIMS    ON    THE    OCEAN. 
Part  III. 


BY  MABELLE  MURRAY. 

At  last  all  was  ready.  Those  brave  men  who  had 
fled  from  old  England  to  Holland,  and  who  had  en- 
deared themselves  to  the  people  by  their  honest,  indus- 
trious ways,  were  once  more  to  embark  for  a  new  world 
where  religious  liberty  awaited  them.  They  knew  but 
little  of  this  far-off  land,  yet  they  were  eager  to  make  it 
their  home,  for  there  they  could  worship  God.  The 
principles  for  which  they  had  so  long  contended 
should  triumph.  'Tis  ever  so.  Truth,  justice  and 
liberty  must  ever  succeed.  The  giver  of  all  good  has 
so  decreed  and  others  shall  find  it  so  as  did  these  low- 
ly pilgrims. 

On  July  21,  two  ships  lay  at  anchor — the  Mayflower 
and  the  Speedwell.  Before  starting  they  met  once 
more,  spent  the  morning  in  fasting  and  prayer  lis- 
tened to  a  solemn  sermon,  partook  of  a  frugal  meal  and 
sang  once  more.  The  night  was  spent  in  conversation, 
and  when  morning  came  they  crowded  on  board.  A 
last  prayer  from  the  pastor  they  loved  so  well,  and  then, 
with  aching  hearts  and  tear-stained  cheeks,  they  bade 
a  last  farewell.  The  anchor  was  raised,  the  wind 
filled  the  sails  and,  with  a  parting  salute,  they  set  sail. 

When  under  way,  they  chose  a  governor  for  each 
ship.  These  governors  were  not  appointed  by  the 
king,  but  were  elected  by  the  votes  of  the  Pilgrims. 

This  was  a  new  order  of  things.  John  Carver,  the 
governor  of  the  Mayflower  was  elected  by  the  people. 
They  were  hardly  under  way  ere  the  Speedwell  sprang 
a  leak  and  they  went  into  Dartmouth  for  repairs. 

Two  weeks  passed  and  again  they  started.  Again 
the  Speedwell  was  disabled,  declared  unfit  for  the 
voyage,  and  they  sailed  into  Plymouth  Harbor.  Some 
had  lost  courage,  but  those  who  would  go  were  crowded 
into  the  Mayflower,  and  on  Sept.  16,  the  vessel 
started  on  her  long  journey,  freighted  with  one  hun- 
dred and  two  souls — aye  with  more,  with  the  destiny 
of  a  nation,  for  from  this  ship  was  to  be  sown  the  seed 
from  which  should  spring  justice,  liberty,  and  prog- 
ress. They  knew  not  what  was  before  them,  but  they 
put  their  trust  in  God,  knowing  that  "  He  doeth  all 
things  well,"  and  pressed  onward. 

Raging  storms  disputed  their  passage,  fierce  winds 
tossed  the  frail  ship  about  and  the  angry  waves  threat- 
ened to  engulf  them.  The  main  beam  was  torn  away 
and  the  ship  was  in  danger  of  going  to  pieces.  But 
one  of  the  Pilgrims  brought  out  a  great  iron  screw, 
forced  the  beam  in  place,  and  then  they  were  safe. 
He  thanked  God,  feeling  that  the  hand  of  Providence 
was  at  the  helm. 

One  of  their  number  fell  overboard  and  was  lost; 
for  days  his  agonizing  cries  rang  in  their  ears.     A 


child  was  born  aboard  ship  and  they  named  him 
"  Oceanus."  So  for  two  months  and  three  days  they 
pressed  on,  when  on  Dec.  19,  the  glad  cry  of  "  Land! 
Land!"  thrilled  the  hearts  of  those  on  board.  With 
eager  eyes  they  gazed  upon  the  long  stretch  of  sandy 
beach,  with  forests  on  the  hills  beyond.  They  sailed 
south  along  the  shore  to  find  a  landing  place,  and 
on  Dec.  21,  they  found  themselves  in  the  calm  waters 
of  Cape  Cod  Bay. 

The  Pilgrims  were  a  law-abiding  men,  and  in  the 
cabin  of  the  ship  they  signed  a  solemn  agreement  as- 
follows :  "  In  the  name  of  God,  Amen.  We,  whose 
names  are  underwritten,  by  these  presents,  solemnly 
and  mutally,  in  the  presence  of  God  and  one  another,, 
covenant  and  combine  ourselves  together  into  a  civil 
body  politic,  for  our  better  ordering  and  preservation,, 
and  furthermore,  of  the  ends  aforesaid  and  by  virtue 
hereof  to  enact,  constitute  and  form  such  just  and  equal 
laws  and  ordinances,  from  time  to  time  as  shall  be 
thought  convenient  for  the  general  good  of  the  colony ,. 
unto  which  we  promise  all  due  submission  and  obedi- 
ence." 

Now  that  the  Pilgrims  had  a  government,  with 
a  written  constitution,  they  proceeded  to  organize  an 
army.  There  were  only  sixteen  in  this  army,  but  brave 
Miles  Standish,  who  had  fought  against  the  Span- 
iards was  chosen  captain.  The  army  went  ashore 
and  marched  into  the  forest,  and  at  night  they  returned 
to  the  ship.  Early  on  Monday  morning  they  were  all 
astir.  The  men  carried  kettles  ashore  and  the  women 
great  bundles  of  clothes,  for  it  was  washing  day. 
While  the  women  did  the  washing  Captain  Standish 
and  his  army  kept  guard. 

While  the  army  was  out  marching  on  Wednesday 
they  came  upon  a  party  of  Indians,  who  fled  swiftly. 
They  found  a  quantity  of  corn  and  carried  away  all 
they  could,  promising  to  pay  the  owners  if  they  could 
find  them. 

On  Dec.  18,  the  men  embarked  in  the  large  boat, 
which  the  carpenters  had  fitted  up,  and  started  out  to 
find  a  better  landing  place.  They  sailed  across  the 
Bay  and  at  night  landed.  The  next  day  half  of  the 
party  marched  through  the  woods,  and  while  eating 
their  breakfast  they  noticed  arrows  falling  all  around 
them,  and  they  heard  strange  yells.  The  army 
grasped  their  guns  and  fired  at  the  foe.  An  Indian 
fell,  wounded,  but  his  comrades  picked  him  up  and 
carried  him  away.  The  army  followed  them  some 
distance,  and  then  returned.  They  picked  up  the 
arrows,  thinking  their  friends  in  England  would  like 
to  see  these  curious  weapons. 

They  embarked  for  home  and  a  storm  arose,  the 
rudder  was  broken,  the  mast  torn  away,  and  death 
threatened  them.  A  tide  carried  them  into  a  cave 
where  they  could  not  land.     They  took  up  their  oars 


THE  INGLEXOOK.— December  6,  1904. 


"57 


and  when  night  came  they  found  themselves  in  smooth 
water  where  they  could  land.  They  were  chilled, 
drenched,  weak  and  weary  when  morning  came,  and 
they  decided  to  rest  there  through  the  day  and  pre- 
pare for  the  Sabbath. 

On  Monday  they  pulled  to  the  main  land,   where 
they  found  fresh  water  and  corn  fields.     They  climbed 
a  hill,  looked  the  ground  over  and  decided  to  make 
their    home    there.     They    returned    to  the  ship,  an- 
nounced   their    decision,    and    the  Mayflower  sailed 
across  the  Bay  to  establish  a  new  state.     They  took 
a  vote  to  decide  where  they  should  build  and  the  ma- 
jority  decided.     And   that   which   men   have   fought 
and  died  for  was  an  accomplished  fact,  the  right  of 
the  people  to  rule,  self-government. 
(To  be  continued.) 
*  *  * 
CAN    SEE    MOLECULE. 

The  microscope  has  been  improved  recently  by  a 
simple  invention  to  such  an  extent  that  it  seems  prob- 
able particles  the  size  of  the  theoretical  molecule  may 
be  rendered  visible.  The  addition  to  the  microscope 
that  accomplishes  this  wonderful  visual  achievement 
is  based  on  a  simple  and  well-known  principle.  Every 
one  has  observed  that  a  beam  of  sunlight  in  a  darkened 
room  renders  visible  the  motes  in  the  air  that  are  too 
small  to  be  perceived  under  ordinary  conditions.  Two 
European  savants,  Sidentopf  and  Zsigmondy,  worked 
out  a  microscope  attachment  which  could  collect  light 
into  a  concentrated  beam  and  then  throw  it  in  a  hori- 
zontal direction  across  the  field  of  vision  and  at  right 
angles  to  the  line  of  vision  through  the  microscope. 
The  resulting  transformation  in  the  field  is  in- 
credible. Astronomers  are  fond  of  telling  of  the 
millions  of  stars  visible  through  their  powerful  in- 
struments which  are  not  visible  to  the  naked  eye, 
and  still  countless  other  millions  that  are  too  faint 
to  affect  the  retina  of  the  eye,  but  which  are  strong 
enough  to  leave  a  lasting  impression  on  the  sensitive 
photographic  plate.  The  illumination  of  the  focal 
field  of  the  microscope  by  a  horizontal  beam  of  con- 
centrated light  gives  the  observer  much  the  same  im- 
pression as  the  astronomer  receives  when  looking 
.through  his  most  powerful  instrument. 

Millions  of  particles  beyond  the  range  of  the  micro- 
scope, as  it  has  been  known  in  the  past,  flash  into  view, 
with  an  intense  brilliancy.  The  increased  range  of 
vision  opens  a  marvelous  field  of  possibility.  It  has 
already  given  birth  to  a  new  science  known  as  "  ul- 
tramicroscopy,"  indicating  the  hitherto  unknown 
world  of  infinitesimal  minutiae.  It  means  that  a  new 
agent  of  research  has  been  placed  in  the  hands  of  the 
chemist  and  bacteriologist.  The  ultramicroscope  is  so 
powerful  that  chemical  changes  invisible  to  the  eye. 


or  the  microscope,  are  rendered  apparent,  and  the 
actions  of  putrefactive  bacteria  may  be  studied  with 
comparative  ease.  Large  complex  molecules,  such  as 
occur  with  proteids,  potato  starch,  etc.,  are  rendered 
visible. 

The  early  experiments  with  this  new  microscope 
indicated  that  it  was  adapted  to  use  only  with  liquids, 
and  studies  of  glycogen,  proteids,  etc.,  of  great  ex- 
actitude were  reported.  Recently  it  has  been  found 
that  the  focal  illumination  is  particularly  adapted  to  the 
study  of  living  organisms  such  as  bacteria.  It  is 
claimed  that  micro-organisms  one-fourth  of  a  micro- 
millimeter  in  size  can  be  readily  distinguished  in  form 
without  tedious  preliminary  incubation,  staining  or 
other  processes. — Cincinnati  Enquirer. 
*  *  * 
MODERN    JASPER. 


Ever  quick  to  appreciate  the  advances  being  made 
in  the  subjugation  of  the  forces  and  materials  placed 
by  Providence  within  reach  of  the  capacities  with  which 
man  has  been  endowed,  we  are  apt  to  concern  our- 
selves but  little  with  what  still  remains  unaccomplished. 
Thus  each  new  advance  reported  may  foster  on  the  one 
hand  the  pride  of  accomplishment,  and  on  the  other 
hand  indifference  to  the  unrealized.  The  latest  suc- 
cess will  interest  lovers  of  the  beautiful  in  archi- 
tecture. Though  one  of  the  most  beautiful  of  natural 
stones,  and  fairly  abundant  in  Scotland  and  North 
Wales  and  plentiful  in  the  Lake  Superior  district, 
jasper  has  hardly  ever  been  employed  in  building. 
The  writer  of  Science  Notes  in.  the  London  Daily 
Telegraph  remarks  that  the  jasper  of  modern  times 
is  not  that  translucent  substance  referred  to  in  a  vener- 
able Book  as  "  a  stone  most  precious,  even  like  a  jasper 
stone,  clear  as  crystal."  The  modern  jasper  is  an 
opaque  silicon  or  quartz,  and  it  has  not  been  used  in 
decorative  or  constructional  building  work  on  account 
of  its  extreme  hardness,  which  is  ten  times  that  of 
granite.  This  difficulty,  it  would  seem,  has  now  been 
overcome.  The  account  goes  on  to  say  that  the 
Builder  reports  that  a  machine  has  been  devised  by  a 
French  inventor.  M.  Jaspart.  which  gets  over  the  ob- 
stacles of  dressing  and  moulding  the  stone,  and  that 
further  development  of  the  process  "  will  render 
generally  available  a  new  building  stone  combining 
more  beautiful  colouring  than  marble,  and  possessing 
greater  strength  and  better  weathering  qualities  than 
granite." 

*   *   * 

It  is  said  one  can  lighten  the  hair  by  taking  equal 
parts  of  rhubarb  stalks  and  honey  and  steeping  in 
three  parts  of  white  wine.  Let  it  stand  for  twenty- 
four  hours,  strain  and  use  as  a  lotion,  wetting  the 
entire  hair,  massaging  and  leaving  to  dry  in. 


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THE  INGLENOOK.— December  6,  1904. 


AN   HISTORIC   SPOT.— Chap.  V. 


THE    INDIAN    OCCUPATION. 


BY    ELD.    H.    W.    STRICKLER. 


There  is  nothing  found  either  in  history  or  tradition 
to  show  that  the  section  of  country  which  now  forms 
the  county  of  Fayette,  Pennsylvania,  was  ever  the 
permanent  home  of  any  considerable  number  of  the 
aboriginal  people  whom  we  know  as  Indians,  the  suc- 
cessors of  the  mysterious  mound  builders. 

When  the  first  white  traders  came  into  this  region 
they  found  it  partially  occupied  by  roving  Indian  bands, 
who  had  a  few  temporary  villages,  or  more  properly 
camps.  But  their  principal  permanent  settlements  were 
within  a  few  miles  of  the  confluence  of  the  Allegheny 
and  the  Monongahela  rivers,  both  above  and  below  that 
point. 

These  were  composed  of  the  Delaware  and  Shaw- 
nee tribes  and  some  civilized  bands  of  Iroquois,  or 
Mingoes  as  they  were  commonly  called,  who  repre- 
sented the  powerful  six  nations  of  New  York.  These 
last  named  were  the  real  owners  of  the  land  on  the  Up- 
per Ohio,  to  the  Allegheny  and  the  Monongahela  rivers, 
and  it  was  only  by  their  permission  that  the  Dela- 
wares  and  Shawnees  were  allowed  to  occupy  the  hunt- 
ing grounds  extending  from  the  head  of  the  Ohio 
eastward  to  the  Alleghenies. 

Weisberger,  the  Moravian,  says, — "  The  facts  that 
the  six  nations  were  the  acknowledged  owners  of  this 
region  of  country,  and  that  the  Shawnees  were  only  by 
permission,  seems  clear."  At  the  treaty  held  with  the 
Indians  at  Fort  Pitt,  in  May,  1786,  a  Shawnee  chief 
complained  bitterly  to  the  English,  of  their  encroach- 
ments and  said,  "  we  desired  you  to  destroy  your  forts. 
We  also  desired  that  you  do  not  go  down  the  river." 
The  next  day  in  the  Council  of  Gugasutha,  a  chief  of 
the  Six  Nations  arose  with  a  copy  of  the  treaty  of 
1764,  in  his  hand,  and  said,  "  By  this  treaty  you  had  a 
right  to  build  forts  and  trading  houses  where  you 
pleased,  and  to  travel  the  road  of  peace  from  the  sun- 
rise to  the  sunset.  At  that  treaty  the  Delawares  and 
Shawnees  were  with  me  and  they  knew  all  this  well, 
and  they  should  never  have  spoken  to  you  as  they  did 
yesterday." 

In  the  year  of  1768  the  Pennsylvania  commissioners, 
Allen  and  Phippen,  proposed  to  the  Indians  to  send 
a  deputation  of  chiefs  with  the  white  messengers 
Fraser  and  Thompson  to  warn  off  the  white  settlers 
who  had  located  without  authority  on  the  Mononga- 
hela river  and  Redstone  creek,  in  what  is  now  Fayette 
county.  The  white  Mingo  and  three  other  chiefs  were 
selected  to  go  on  that  mission,  but  no  notice  was  taken 
of  the  Delaware   or    Shawnee   chiefs   in   the   matter 


which  shows  clearly  that  these  two  tribes  were  not  re- 
garded as  owners  of  the  land. 

And  it  is  said  by  George  Crohan  in  his  account  of  a 
treaty  held  with  the  Six  Nations,  at  Logstown  on  the  j 
Ohio,  below  Pittsburg,  in  1751,  that  a  "  Dunkard " 
from  Virginia  came  to  town  and  requested  permission 
to  settle  on  the  Youghiogheny  river.  He  was  told  that 
he  must  apply  to  the  Onondaga  council,  and  be  rec- 
ommended by  the  Governor  of  Pennsylvania. 

Another  fact  that  shows  the  Six  Nations  to  have  been 
the  recognized  owners  of  this  region  is  that  when  the 
■surveyors  were  about  to  extend  the  Mason  and  Dixon    1 
line,  westward  in  1767,  the  proprietors  asked  not  of  the    j 
Delawares  and   Shawnees,   but   of   the   Iriquois,    (Six     . 
Nations)     permission     to     do    so.     Permission    was    j 
granted  by  the  chiefs  who  also  sent  several  of  their    j 
warriors   to  accompany   the   surveying  party.     Their    i 
presence    afforded    the    white    men    the    desired   pro- 
tection and  the  Delawares  and  Shawnees  dared  not  of- 
fer any  molestation,  but  after  the  Iroquois  escort  left, 
as  they  did  at  a  point  on  the  Maryland  line,  the  other 
Indians  became,  in  the  absence  of  their  master,  so  de- 
fiant and  threatening  that  the  surveyors  were   com- 
pelled   to    abandon    the    running   of  the  line  west  of 
Dunkard  creek.     So  it  was  not  from  the  Delawares 
and   Shawnees   but   from   the   Six   Nations   that   the    j 
Penns  purchased  this  territory  by  the  treaty  of  Fort 
Stanwix  in   1768. 

There  were  but  few  Indian  settlements  east  of  the 
Monongahela.  Judge  Veech,  in  his  "  Monongahela  of 
Old,"  makes  mention  of  those  whom  he  knew  as  ex- 
isting within  the  limits  of  Fayette  county  as  follows : 
There  was  one  on  the  farm  of  James  Evans,  near  the 
southern  corner  of  Redstone,  close  to  a  fine  limestone  j 
spring,  near  which  spring  were  many  Indian  graves. 

Another  was  near  where  Abraham  Brown  lived, 
about  four  miles  west  of  Uniontown.  Also  one  on  the 
land  of  John  M.  Austin,  formerly  Samuel  Stevens,  j 
near  the  lock.  The  only  one  we  know  of  north  of  the 
Youghiogheny  was  on  the  Strickler  land  east  of  the 
Broad  Ford. 

This  graveyard  was  on  the  farm  on  which  I  was 
born  and  raised,  and  this  description  of  it  will  very 
nearly  describe  all  of  the  others  which  I  have  seen. 
It  is  situated  on  a  beautiful  table  or  bench-like  location, 
near  the  top  of  Stony  Ridge  and  the  top  of  the  hill 
on  the  road  leading  from  Broad  Ford  to  Jimtown 
and  in  the  southeast  corner  of  the  crossroads  known 
as  Hickory  Square.  This  table  land  was  literally 
covered  with  "  Flag  "  or  freestones.  In  the  preparation 
of  the  grave  the  stones  were  removed  from  sufficient 
space  to  form  the  base  or  vault  of  the  grave,  which 
would  lower  the  spot  perhaps  one  foot.  Then  the  body 
being  placed  in  proper  position,  the  stones  near  by  were 
placed  around  and  over  the  body  until  quite  a  mound. 


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perhaps  three  or  four  feet  high  and  ten  feet  long  by 
five  feet  wide,  leaving  a  clear  path  all  the  way  around. 
The  next  grave  was  a  sufficient  distance  from  the 
first  that  when  completed,  the  space  between  was  free 
from  stones.  The  next  in  like  manner,  and  so  on 
until  perhaps  ten  or  twelve  graves  lay  side  by  side  in 
a  straight  row,  and  there  were  twelve  or  fifteen  rows. 

It  was  through  this  graveyard  that  our  school-path 
led  from  my  home  to  the  "  Ridge,  or  Galleys  "  school- 
house,  where  I  spent  my  school  days.  There  were  some 
large  hickory,  walnut  and  chestnut  trees  standing  in 
this  yard  from  which  I  gathered  many  baskets  of  nuts, 
and  would  often  sit  down  on  one  of  these  graves  and 
hull  the  nuts.  Although  we  were  taught  that  this 
was  sacred  ground,  yet  we  would  sometimes  strain 
our  conscience  and  pull  down  one  of  these  mounds, 
which  were  invariably  concave  in  the  top,  and  rob  them 
of  human  bones,  sometimes  finding  a  tomahawk,  a  clay 
pipe,  a  bone  spoon,  a  knife,  a  ring,  all  of  which  we  con- 
sidered as  relics. 

This  graveyard  was  on  the  land  taken  up  by  Jacob 
Stuart,  of  Scotland,  about  1753,  and  later  owned  by  my 
great-grandfather,  Jacob  Strickler.  In  December,  1791 
he  received  a  government  title  for  three  hundred  and 
ninety-four  and  one-half  acres. 

Many  of  the  Indian  graves  were  destroyed.  The 
stones  were  taken  out  and  used  for  building  stone 
walls.  In  January,  1890,  I  visited  the  old  home  and 
found  many  changes,  on  the  graveyard  stands  a  very 
beautiful  dwelling,  and  a  very  fine  and  thrifty  vineyard, 
but  not  a  single  mark  remained  to  show  the  resting 
place  of  the  bones  of  the  red  men,  who  once  held  the 
place  so  sacred  and  dear  to  them. 

Loraine,  III. 

(To  be  continued.) 

•$>  <$>  .;. 

AUTOMOBILES    IN    NEW    USES. 


Tests  have  proved  that  the  best  average  speed  is  three 
to  four  miles  an  hour.  The  water  is  thrown  in  sheets, 
twenty-three  feet  on  each  side,  or  a  total  spray  of 
forty-six  feet  wide.  With  this  stream  and  at  the  best 
average  speed  the  car  will  sprinkle  six-tenths  of  a  mile 
(1,700  square  yards)  in  fifteen  minutes.  The  tank 
may  be  removed  from  the  truck  and  the  automobile 
used  as  an  ordinary  traction  wagon.  It  is  fully  strong 
enough  for  such  purposes.  It  is  also  used  as  a  street 
sweeper.  The  advantages  of  this  machine  are  that  it 
can  water  and  sweep  side  streets  that  a  trolly-car 
sprinkler  cannot  reach,  and  that  it  can  do  its  work 
more  rapidly  than  a  sprinkler  drawn  by  horses. 

A  trolly-car  company  in  Washington,  D.  C,  has  es- 
tablished an  automatic  repair  wagon,  which  serves  as 
a  traveling  repair  shop.  Its  scope  of  action  is  greater 
than  that  of  the  ordinary  wagon,  for  it  is  used  to  haul 
derailed  cars  back  to  the  track  and  even  to  draw  dis- 
abled cars  back  to  the  barns.  It  weighs  three  tons, 
can  be  charged  at  the  company's  own  power  station, 
and  is  cheaply  maintained.  A  lumber  company  in 
Michigan  used  an  automobile  machine  as  a  snow  plow 
and  as  a  traction  engine  during  the  lumbering  season. 
The  machine  plows  out  roads  and  hauls  lumber. 

But  the  most  startling  of  new  automobiles  is  the 
coast-defense  carriage  just  exhibited  in  London — a 
sort  of  monitor  on  wheels.  A  round  steel  turret  is 
mounted  on  an  automobile  framework  and  this  moving 
miniature  fort  is  supplied  with  three  pieces  of  small 
artillery.  The  body  of  the  machine  is  bullet-proof. 
As  it  can  carry  fuel  for  500  miles,  it  is  heavy  enough 
to  do  considerable  damage  to  a  ship  off  shore.  The 
possibilities  of  automobiles  seem  limitless. 

*  *  ♦ 
JAPS    IN    HAWAII. 


The   Sprinkling   Car  in   Paris — A    Repair   Car   in 
Washington. 

The  use  of  the  automobile  is  rapidly  widening,  says 
the  World's  Work.  In  New  York  and  other  large 
cities  automobile  omnibuses  and  trucks  arc  already 
common.  And  here  and  there,  at  home  and  abroad, 
motor  cars  have  been  found  to  work  successfully  at 
quite  new  tasks. 

In  Paris  a  specially  designed  automobile-wagon 
frame  has  been  made,  on  which  a  1,250-gallon  water 
tank  is  mounted,  and  the  machine  is  used  to  sprinkle 
the  streets.  The  supply  of  water  is  automatically  made 
proportionate  to  the  speed  at  which  the  machine  trav- 
els along  the  road.  By  this  device,  if  the  road  needs 
much  water,  all  '"hat  is  necessary  to  increase  the  sup- 
ply of  water  is  to  increase  the  speed  of  the  machine. 


Of  the  total  population  of  the  Hawaiian  Islands, 
as  given  by  the  census  of  1900,  the  Japanese  numbered 
sixty-one  thousand  one  hundred  and  eleven  ;  the  Chi- 
nese, twenty-five  thousand  seven  hundred  and  sixtv- 
seven;  the  natives  and  those  in  part  native,  fifty-four 
thousand  one  hundred  and  forty-one.  The  strictly 
white  population  aggregated  but  twelve  thousand  sev- 
en hundred  and  forty-nine.  The  percentage  of  Tap- 
anese  has  increased.  While  they  arc  to  be  found  en- 
gaged in  banking,  in  mercantile  pursuits  and  in  the 
professions,  most  of  them  are  tillers  of  the  soil,  produc- 
ing fully  two-thirds  of  the  sugar  and  other  crops  on 
which  the  territory  depends  for  its  principal  revenue. 
Nearly  all  the  immigrants  coming  to  these  islands 
are  from  the  remote  provinces  of  the  Japanese  empire. 
They  are  of  the  simplest  and  most  rustic  of  the  people 
of  Nippon.  Tlie  new  and  surging  life  of  the  Japanese 
renaissance  ha^  scarcely  touched  them. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— November  29,  1904. 


PEARLS. 


BY  OLIVE  MILLER. 

It  is  generally  known  that  pearls  are  found  in  shell- 
fish at  the  bottom  of  the  sea  and  that  the  fish  fasten 
themselves  to  the  rocks. 

I  am  sure  that  after  one  has  found  out  how  pearls 
are  obtained  he  will  never  see  one  of  those  pretty,  pre- 
cious little  gems  without  thinking  how  some  man  has 
risked  his  life  to  secure  it. 

It  is  in  the  straits  between  Ceylon  and  Cape  Comorin 
that  pearl  fisheries  were  first  carried  on,  and  they  still 
yield  some  of  the  largest  and  finest  pearls  found  to-day. 
But  these  straits  are  very  dangerous  from  rocks  and 
whirlpools.  Panama  in  South  America,  St.  Margar- 
ita in  the  West  Indies  and  some  islands  in  the  Persian 
Gulf  are  also  famous  for  their  pearl  fisheries.  The 
pearls  of  the  Bahrein  Islands  are  said  to  be  finer  even 
than  those  of  Ceylon. 

The  divers  who  hunt  the  pearls  must  begin  to  prac- 
tice when  very  young.  They  must  learn  to  be  ex- 
pert divers  as  well  as  to  remain  for  some  time  under 
water  without  breathing.  Some  writers  say  that  the 
longest  period  they  can  remain  under  water  is  sixty 
to  eighty  seconds,  others  say  that  the  time  limit  is 
eight  minutes.     It  undoubtedly  differs  among  different 

peoples. 

The  pearl  harvest  in  Ceylon  begins  in  early  spring 
and  lasts  three  months.  Several  weeks  before  the  time 
the  divers  have  been  busy  dieting  and  rubbing  them- 
selves with  oil.  Then  when  the  day  has  arrived,  they 
rush  to  the  sea-coast  at  sunrise  and  push  rapidly  out 
to  the  oyster  banks  which  are  about  fifteen  miles  from 
the  shore.  Then  the  diver  throws  off  his  clothing, 
places  a  sponge  under  his  arm  and  fastens  a  plant 
that  will  not  absorb  moisture  over  his  mouth;  then 
placing  a  rope  about  his  waist  (one  end  of  which  is 
fastened  to  the  boat),  and  a  thirty-pound  lead  to  his 
feet,  he  takes  a  knife  and  a  net  in  his  hand  and  lets  him- 
self down  into  the  sea.  He  must  work  very  fast  in 
the  few  seconds  allotted  him,  and  when  he  is  ready 
to  ascend  he  jerks  the  rope  and  his  comrades  in  the 
boat  above  quickly  draw  him  up. 

The  oysters  are  then  laid  upon  the  sand,  exposed 
to  sun  and  rain,  until  the  shells  can  be  easily  op- 
ened, when  the  pearls  are  cleaned  and  prepared  for  sale. 
A  dozen  or  more  pearls  are  often  found  in  a  single  shell. 
The  process  of  hunting  and  cleaning  the  pearls  is  ex- 
ceedingly tedious,  because  of  their  being  so  small. 
Pearls  bring  an  enormous  price  and  the  shells  are  sold 
for  mother-of-pearl.  The  value  of  pearls  of 
course,  varies  with  their  size  and  quality.  Some  are 
as  large  as  a  pea,  some  are  very  small  and  are  called 
seed  pearls. 

At  a  famous  dinner  given  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  time, 


Sir  Thomas  Gresham  powdered  and  drank  in  a  glass 
of  wine  to  the  health  of  the  queen,  a  pearl  worth 
seventy-five  thousand  dollars.  This  he  did  to  astonish 
a  Spanish  ambassador  who  was  present  to  make  good 
his  wager  that  he  could  furnish  the  costlier  drink.  A 
very  foolish  act,  wasn't  it? 

Pearl  fishery  was  long  ago  a  very  popular  enter- 
prise and  was  made  a  great  festive  occasion.  People 
from  far  and  near  gathered  to  take  part  in  the  festiv- 
ities and  their  many  different  costumes  made  a  strange 
and  interesting  sight. 

The  lives  of  pearl-divers  are  generally  short.  Some 
live  as  long  as  ten  years,  some  not  so  long.  Accidents 
often  occur  to  these  poor  men.  Some  are  swallowed  by 
the  inhabitants  of  the  deep  and  occasionally  one  is 
killed  at  the  bottom  of  the  sea  because  he  happened  to 
pick  up  a  shell  which  his  companion  wanted. 

In  the  last  century  diving  has  been  made  easier  by 
the  invention  of  the  diving-bell.  This  little  house  is 
covered  with  lead  and  is  filled  with  air  to  keep  the 
water  from  rushing  into  it.  You  may  have  some  idea 
of  the  working  of  this  machine  by  plunging  the  mouth 
of  a  glass  tumbler  into  a  tub  of  water.  The  water 
will  rise  only  to  a  certain  height  in  the  tumbler.  By 
means  of  the  diving  bell  men  go  to  the  bottom  of  the 
deepest  seas  and  remain  for  some  time.  There  are 
pipes  by  which  they  gel  air  from  above  the  water,  and 
a  glass  window  in  the  top  of  their  house  lets  in  the 
light,  so  that  in  good  weather  they  can  even  read  at  the 
bottom  of  the  sea.  A  mask  has  also  been  invented 
which  the  diver  puts  on  and  by  which  he  is  enabled 
to  go  some  distance  from  his  bell.  Air  pipes  connect 
him  with  the  bell  and  guide  him  back,  else  he  would  be 
lost  forever.  When  he  is  ready  to  ascend  he  gives  the 
signal  by  pulling  on  the  ropes  which  are  fastened  to 
the  bell  and  are  held  by  his  comrades  above. 

Several  centuries  ago  people  had  vessels  constructed 
on  the  plan  of  the  diving  bell,  but  not  nearly  so  safe. 
They  were  in  the  form  of  a  large  vessel  turned  upside 
down  and  provided  with  seats.  During  the  reign  of 
Charles  V.  such  a  vessel  made  a  descent  into  the  ocean 
with  a  lighted  candle  and  returned  without  losing  the 
light.  Some  time  after  this  several  ships  were  de- 
stroyed and  a  poor  man  by  the  name  of  Phipps  offered 
to  recover  the  wealth  in  them.  The  king  fitted  him  out 
with  an  inverted  boat  and  everything  necessary  for 
a  successful  search.  He  tried  hard  to  find  the  ships, 
but  failed ;  again  he  tried  but  in  vain ;  but  nothing 
daunted  he  made  a  third  attempt  and  recovered  treas- 
ures to  the  value  of  three  hundred  thousand  pounds  or 
almost  a  million  and  a  half  dollars.  The  king  allowed 
him  one-sixteenth  of  the  money  and  thus  for  his 
patience  and  perseverance  he  became  a  rich  man  with 
the  title  of  chevalier. 
No.  Manchester,  hid. 


THE  INGLENOOK.— December  6,  1904. 


1 161 


HIS    FIRST    SERMON. 


The  Rev.  Samuel  Russell  tells  a  story  about  his 
first  sermon.  He  was  a  minister's  son,  but  a  lawless 
and  troublesome  lad,  and  impossible  of  restraint  by 
his  aged  father,  who  suffered  much  from  his  wayward- 
ness. 

Young  Russel,  however,  was  not  wicked  in  a  crim- 
inal or  strictly  unlawful  way.  He  never  did  anything 
the  statutes  would  touch,  except  becoming  intoxicated 
now  and  then — and  in  such  cases  he  was  taken  excel- 
lent care  of  by  the  landlord  of  the  Wilson  House, 
who  always  gave  him  a  good  bed  in  which  to  sleep  off 
his  drunkenness.  But  the  fact  that  he  was  mostly  law- 
abiding  in  deeds  while  reckless  with  his  tongue,  made 
him  all  the  more  dangerous  an  example  to  the  other 
young  men  of  the  place. 

One  New  Year's  eve  a  lot  of  loafers  and  drinkers 
were  assembled  in  the  bar-room  of  the  Wilson  House. 
Liquor  was  flowing  fast  and  furiously,  and  everbody 
was  feeling  boisterous.  Russel  had  drunk  consider- 
able, but  was  not  yet  under  the  influence  of  the  stuff ; 
it  always  took  a  great  deal  to  intoxicate  him. 

During  a  pause  in  the  conversation  Joe  Allen  came 
in.  He  was  a  hardened  toper,  with  a  terrible  hatred 
for  all  kinds  of  religious  things. 

"  They're  having  a  watch-meeting  over  in  the. 
church,"  he  said,  as  he  stamped  the  snow  from  his 
boots  and  took  a  drink  meanwhile,  "  and  I  don't  see 
why  we  can't  have  one  here.  We  can  all  do  something 
to  give  the  meeting  a  lift.  Brother  Eldridge  will 
please  lead  in  prayer." 

Eldridge  was  a  glib-tongued  fellow — a  barber,  who 
had  just  come  into  town ;  and  he  immediately  dropped 
on  one  knee  and  gave  a  mock  invocation. 

"  We  will  now  sing  a  hymn,"  said  Allen,  in  a  voice 
which  so  exactly  imitated  a  certain  affected  young 
preacher  in  the  town  that  it  brought  roars  of  laughter 
from  the  crowd.  And  he  "  lined"  one  of  the  hymns 
of  the  day,  with  profane  variations,  the  others  joining 
in  uproariously. 

"  Brother  Samuel  Russell  will  now  preach  the  ser- 
mon," announced  Joe,  "  and  we  trust  it  will  be  for  the 
spiritual  good  of  us  all." 

It  was  a  terrible  disagreeable  suggestion  to  young 
Russell  and  he  tried  in  every  way  to  evade  it.  He  even 
attempted  to  rush  to  the  door,  but  they  caught  him  and 
stood  him  up  at  one  end  of  the  room  behind  a  (able. 
"  Preach  now,  or  '  treat '  all  around !"  they  shouted ; 
and  as  he  had  not  the  money  with  him  to  do  the  latter. 
he  reluctantly  consented  to  "say  a  few  words,"  hut 
complaining,  however,  that  he  had  no  text. 

"  Try,  '  The  spirit  is  willing  but  the  flesh  is  weak.'  " 
shouted  Joe. 


So  the  young  man  commenced  in  a  mumbling  way. 
telling  them  that  the  spirit  seemed  very  strong  that 
night  and  they  would  find  that  the  flesh  would,  as 
a  result,  gradually  grow  weaker ;  that  they  were  all 
on  the  broad  road  to  death,  and  now,  as  a  new  year  was 
about  to  begin,  they  had  better  mark  a  new  era  in  their 
lives. 

"  Why,  I  believe  the  fool's  in  earnest,"  said  Joe,  in 
his  usual  sneering  tone. 

If  the  minister's  wayward  son  was  not  already  in 
earnest,  something  in  Joe's  words  and  tone  went  far 
toward  making  him  so,  and  he  began  to  say  things 
which  had  been  really  in  his  heart  for  many 
years,  but  which  had  been  covered  by  his  wicked,  care- 
less life.  Things  he  had  heard  his  old  father  say, 
fragments  of  prayers  remembered  as  having  been  ut- 
tered by  his  dead  mother,  passages  that  he  had  learned 
from  the  Bible  while  a  little  boy  at  Sunday-school — 
all  came  to  him  now  with  new  force  and  meaning — 
faster  than  he  could  speak  them. 

The  crowd  looked  at  first  resentful,  then  surprised, 
then  interested.  Even  the  most  drunken  of  them 
seemed  suddenly  sobered,  and  all  soon  began  to  listen 
in  intense  silence. 

As  Russell  went  on,  strange  to  say,  he  began  to  no- 
tice the  effect  his  own  words  were  having  upon  him. 
He  felt  that  they  were  true.  Then  he  commenced  to  ask 
himself.  "  If  they  are  true,  why  do  you  not  get  down 
on  your  knees  and  pray  to  a  merciful  and  offended  God 
for  forgiveness  ?  "  And  that  was  what  he  finally  did, 
right  in  the  midst  of  the  sermon.  Of  the  company 
that  were  present  two  were  converted  to  Christ  be- 
fore they  left  the  room,  and  went  away  sober  and  se- 
rious, and  Joe  Allen,  although  he  did  not  join  a  church 
or  make  a  public  profession,  was  never  heard  to  say 
anything  more  against  religion. 

"  As  I  turned  the  corner  on  my  way  home,"  concludes 
the  hero  of  this  strange  but  true  story,  "  I  overtook 
my  aged  father,  who  was  feebly  making  his  way  honu 
from  the  watch-meeting,  and  I  have  never  experienced 
any  happiness  on  this  earth  equal  to  that  which  I  felt 
when  I  took  his  arm  and  told  him  that  his  prayers  had 
been  answered,  and  1  had  found  Christ.  lie  spent  the 
rest  of  the  night  on  his  knees  thanking  God. 

"  That  was  my  first  sermon.  I  have  preached  many 
since,  with  varying  success  ;  I  have  never  climbed  the 
ladder  of  distinction  and  fame,  but  I  feel  that  I  have 
done  as  well  as  I  could  the  will  of  him  who  that  New 
Year's  eve  snatched  me  like  a  brand  from  the  burning, 
and  made  me  his  own   forever." 

*   *   * 

1  5IC  is  an  art  thai  1  ">  d  lias  given  us.  in  which  the 
voice  of  all  nations  may  write  their  prayers  in  one 
harmonii   •-  p  thm — Hokcv. 


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THE  INGLENOOK.— December  6,  1904. 


AUTUMN    IN    THE    WOODS. 


BY  FOSTER  CLINE. 

If,  as  has  been  said,  "  The  soul  is  but  a  trailing  cloud 
of  glory  that  has  had  elsewhere  its  setting,"  so  are 
memories  of  past  youthful  days  the  golden  spots  of 
life.  When  we  think  of  the  "  woods  "  our  mind  is 
carried  back  to  the  summer  time  of  youth  with  its  gold- 
en spots  and  the  remembrance  of  such  come  as  pleas- 
ant dreams.  The  old  Virginia  hills  and  dales  is  a  dear 
recollection  of  past  experiences.  But  of  all  reminis- 
cences of  those  departed  youthful  days,  the  woods 
hold  the  strongest  place. 

In  the  springtime  the  woods  begin  to  teem  with 
a  new  life.  It  seems  to  be  their  time  of  birth.  The 
barren  trees  seem  to  come  out  in  a  new  and  gaudy  gar- 
ment. It  seems  as  if  every  bush  and  tree  is  awakening 
from  that  long  dreary  winter  sleep.  Here  and  there 
some  little  plant  is  pushing  its  way  to  the  top  of  its 
heavy  coat  of  leaves  for  recognition.  The  frisky 
squirrel  is  jumping  from  branch  to  branch  trying  to 
woo  its  summer  mate. 

The  song  birds  seem  to  vie  with  each  other  in  their 
musical  strains.  The  spring  is  the  poetical  time  of  the 
woods.  Soon  the  modest,  quiet  beauty  of  the  verdure 
passes  into  a  lasting  reality,  spring  has  given  its  youth 
and  strength  to  summer.  The  great  industrial  season 
of  the  year  has  approached.  The  dormancy  of  winter 
has  completely  surrendered  to  the  vital  and  energetic 
old  "  King  Sol."  All  life  is  in  its  prime  and  vigor, 
each  species  seems  to  vie  with  the  other.  All  inactivity 
has  given  place  for  vigor  and  life.  The  poetical  has 
made  room  for  the  realistic.  The  radial  energy  is 
being  converted  into  a  busy  breathing  organism  which 
in  turn  is  changing  its  acquired  energy  into  the  beauti- 
ful, useful  and  active. 

And  as  spring  has  surrendered  to  summer  so  has 
summer  bowed  to  autumn.  The  active  life  and  energy 
have  fulfilled  their  mission.  The  most  delightful  sea- 
son, the  crown  of  the  year,  the  harvest  time  has  ap- 
proached. 

The  gaudy  green  is  changing  to  sagelike  brown. 
All  nature  seems  to  have  turned  her  creative  energy 
to  that  of  preservation.  No  longer  is  the  squirrel 
spending  his  time  in  idle  playfulness,  but  is  provid- 
ing for  himself  and  happy  little  family,  for  the  winter. 
No  longer  the  birds  of  gay  plumage  chirp  and  sing, 
their  work  is  over,  they  have  reared  their  young  in  the 
now  empty  nests.  The  young  have  left  and  they  them- 
selves are  only  waiting  for  a  stronger  impulse  to  invite 
them  to  a  more  congenial  clime  and  then  they  too  shall 
fly  away.  The  insect  life  is  making  pilgrimages  to 
near-by  plants  and  storing  up  food  for  the  long  winter. 
The  cricket  chirps  in  glee  from  his  hiding  place  under 


the  rock  or  log.  The  playful  rabbit  gambols  under  the 
thick  bushes  to  the  horror  of  the  industrious  quail 
and  her  happy  little  family.  The  sly  fox  at  the  dawn 
of  the  cool  crisp  morning  may  be  seen  jumping  through 
the  old  rail  fence  at  the  edge  of  the  woods  and  making 
his  way  to  a  near-by  farmyard.  The  opossum  and  coon 
have  found  their  homes  in  some  lifeless  tree  and  are 
storing  it  with  the  forest  products  for  the  long  winter. 
The  impulsive  beaver  is  neatly  fitting  his  new  home 
at  the  near-by  stream.  The  children  in  going  to  school 
delight  in  picking  the  beautiful  leaves  which  are  mak- 
ing a  golden  mat  for  the  winding  road.  And  coming 
home  their  huge  dinner  baskets  are  filled  with  chest- 
nuts, walnuts,  chinkapins,  or  perhaps  with  the  pal- 
atable juniper  leaves.  Their  rosy  cheeks  and  finger 
tips  are  evidence  of  the  cool,  crisp,  invigorating  air, 
and  their  laughter  rings  with  loud  echo  against  the  hill- 
sides. They  linger  along  the  streams  which  too,  are 
almost  submerged  in  the  leaves.  Here  and  there  the 
road  is  arched  over  by  the  thick  growth  on  either  side 
and  here  also  the  mistletoe  is  clinging  to  some  droop- 
ing branch.  The  huge  trees,  fathers  of  the  forest, 
seem  reluctant  to  part  with  their  heavy  suit  of  leaves, 
which  after  lisping  to  themselves  sink  one  by  one  into 
their  lower  bed.  The  small  bushes  and  vines  seem  to 
look  bashful  on  being  robbed  of  their  leaves  but  soon 
bow  in  submission. 

The  old  black  crow,  as  he  soars  above,  seems  to  give 
the  fading  trees  a  weird  "  caw  "  of  condolence.  The 
sun  seems  to  be  shrinking  away  in  the  south  as  if  de- 
feated in  its  purpose  to  keep  continual'  life.  And  at 
length  when  trees, have  surrendered  their  golden  gar- 
ments, when  the  leaves  lisp  no  more  but  have  sunken  to 
their  long  rest,  when  squirrels  have  filled  their  homes, 
when  sight  and  song  of  birds  have  gone,  when  the 
silent  little  brook  has  become  dormant,  then  Autumn 
meekly  bows  and  gives  up  to  the  last  long  rest,  Winter. 

McPherson,  Kans. 

.*.  $  *> 

TRAINING  AT    CARLISLE. 


Manual  training  at  the  famous  Carlisle  Indian 
school  has  reached  a  point  which  would  render  it 
interesting  even  were  the  pupils  of  the  white  race,  and, 
which  is  particularly  significant  when  it  is  taken 
into  consideration  that  this  wonderful  working  with 
hands  is  Uncle  Sam's  latest  scheme  for  making  good 
Indians,  says  the  Philadelphia  Inquirer.  The  read- 
ing public  has  heard  much  during  the  past  few  years 
of  the  progress  made  by  the  Carlisle  Indian  students 
in  athletics,  as  evidenced  by  the  prowess  of  the  young 
men  in  football  and  baseball  and  the  young  women 
in  basket  ball  and  other  out-door  diversions,  but  it 
has  had  scanty  opportunity  to  appreciate  the  great 
strides  which  have  been  made  in  that  practical  edu- 


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cation  which  enables  the  Indian  to  take  his  place  beside 
the  pale-face  in  money  making. 

As  a  foundation  every  Indian  pupil  upon  entering 
the  Carlisle  school  is,  first  of  all,  taught  to  speak 
English,  and  is  then  given  a  primary  education  in  the 
essential  branches.  The  main  object  of  the  schooling, 
however,  is  to  give  each  pupil  knowledge  of  some  com- 
mon and  practical  industry  so  that  he  or  she  will  al- 
ways have  some  means  of  support  among  civilized 
people. 

How  wide  is  the  scope  of  this  manual  training  at 
the  famous  Indian  school  may  be  appreciated  from 
the  fact  that  the  boys  are  taught  among  other  me- 
chanical arts  the  pursuits  of  printing,  blacksmithing, 
shoemaking,  harness-making,  tailoring,  wagon-making, 
carpentering,  painting  and  tinning  as  well  as  farm- 
ing and  the  care  of  stock.  The  girls  are  taught  cook- 
ing, sewing,  laundry  and  housework,  nursing,  drawing, 
painting  and  other  branches  of  fine  arts. 

The  manual  training  system  at  Carlisle  is  conducted 
on  the  plan  of  half  a  day's  practical  work  and  half  a 
day's  study  for  each  pupil  daily.  All  the  shops  and 
farms  are,  however,  organized  with  two  sets  of  pupil- 
workers  alternating  each  half  day,  so  that  no  time  is 
lost.  The  keynote  of  this  whole  system  of  industrial 
training  for  the  native  Americans  is  self-help  and 
everything  possible  is  done  to  make  the  pupils  self- 
reliant  and  independent.  Incidentally  this  manual 
training  work  is,  in  many  instances,  made  to  yield 
a  double  benefit  to  the  school.  Take,  for  instance, 
the  case  of  printing  office,  which  has  always  been  re- 
garded as  one  of  the  most  valuable  departments  of 
the  school.  Here  the  transformed  "  children  of  na- 
ture "  publish  two  papers,  a  weekly  and  a  monthly, 
and  also  do  an  immense  amount  of  job  printing  for 
the  school  which  would  cost  thousands  of  dollars 
per  year  were  it  necessary  to  have  the  work  performed 
outside. 

The  school  department  consists  of  nine  grades.  The 
graduation  limit  for  the  school  is  fixed  at  the  end  of  the 
grammar  school  grade,  because  this  grade  may  be 
easily  reached  by  the  average  pupil  at  the  end  of  two 
terms  of  five  years  each.  Les*:  the  reader  consider 
this  rather  a  lengthy  interval  for  the  amount  of  regu- 
lar schooling  required,  it  should  be  borne  in  mind  that 
the  young  Indians  spend  only  half  of  their  time  in  the 
schoolroom,  the  other  half  being  devoted  to  manual 
training  and  at  the  end  of  the  course  most  of  the  gradu- 
ates have  not  only  acquired  a  fair  English  education, 
but  have  also  acquired  sufficient  skill  in  handicraft 
to  enable  them  to  earn  their  own  living. 

Many  of  the  young  men  who  have  taken  the  course 
in  manual  training  at  Carlisle  are  now  earning  good 
wages  at  the  respective  trades  for  which  they  fitted 
themselves.     A  case  in  point  is  that  of  a  young  Indian 


who  learned  blacksmithing  and  who  is  now  employed 
at  this  work  by  a  prominent  railroad  at  a  salary  of 
ninety  dollars  a  month.  In  some  cases  the  manual 
training  at  Carlisle  only  serves  as  a  stepping-stone  to 
something  higher.  An  illustration  of  the  opportuni- 
ties open  to  these  young  men  is  afforded  by  the  career 
of  Dr.  Carlos  Montezuma,  the  resident  phvsician  of 
the  Carlisle  school,  who  is  a  full-blooded  Apache  and 
has  worked  his  way  to  his  present  responsible  position 
by  his  own  efforts. 

The  attainments  of  the  Indian  girls  at  Carlisle  are 
in  many  respects  more  remarkable  than  those  of  the 
representatives  of  the  sterner  sex.  Dozens  of  the 
graduates  are  now  teaching  school  in  various  parts  of 
the  west,  many  have  taken  courses  at  the  Boston  Con- 
servatory of  Music  and  in  Philadelphia  and  other 
eastern  cities  Indian  girls  who  have  qualified  as  trained 
nurses  are  receiving  one  hundred  dollars  a  month 
and  upward. 

The  value  of  the  manual  training  given  at  Carlisle 
is  subjected  to  a  practical  test  by  the  means  of  what  is 
known  as  the  "  outing  system,"  a  unique  and  very 
valuable  plan  which  is  carried  out  in  connection  with 
this  institution.  This  plan  is  nothing  more  than  a  spe- 
cial form  of  the  practice  now  almost  universal  among 
college  students  of  moderate  means  elsewhere, 
of  seeking  employment  during  the  summer  or  vacation 
months.  There  is,  however,  this  difference,  that, 
whereas  the  regular  college  student  must  of  course 
seek  out  for  himself  a  position  of  this  kind,  the  school 
authorities  at  Carlisle  take  upon  themselves  the  re- 
sponsibility for  finding  suitable  places  for  the  pupils 
among  the  well-to-do  farmers  and  others.  The  ag- 
gregate earnings  of  these  summer  workers  amount 
to  more  than  twenty  thousand  dollars  each  season. 

JAPS    HAVE    NO    ALPHABET. 


The  Japanese,  like  the  Chinese,  have  no  alphabet 
in  the  ordinary  sense,  every  word  in  their  written 
language  being  represented  by  a  separate  character. 
In  telegraphing  in  these  languages,  therefore,  about 
10,000  words  are  selected,  and  figures  ranging  from 
1  up  to  9,999  are  allotted  to  each  word.  Each  word  of 
a  message  to  be  transmitted  by  telegraph  in  these 
languages  is  then  first  given  its  proper  number  by  the 
telegraph  clerk,  by  means  of  a  dictionary  which  has 
been  prepared  under  the  authority  of  the  Government. 
These  numbers  are  then  transmitted  by  the  Morse 
alphabet,  and,  when  received,  the  message  is  trans- 
lat<.il  back  in  the  Chinese  or  Japanese  characters  hv 
reference  to  dictionary. 

+  *  + 
\i  1    ..in's  life  is  music  if  one  touches  the  notes 
rightly  and  in  time. — John  Ruskin. 


1104 


THE  INGLEXOOK.— December  6,  1904. 


CHILD     MARRIAGE    IN     INDIA. 


(The  following  selections  are  clippings  made  from  sev- 
eral essays  on  the  above  subject  written  by  Gujerati  boys 
in  a  Mission  High  School  in  India,  who  are  studying 
English.  These  were  selected  from  their  essays  by  Bro. 
W.  B.  Stover,  who  is  a  missionary  at  that  place.  We 
give  you  their  own  words  and  by  this  you  may  get  their 
own  ideas  on  the  subject  and'  see  how  their  little  minds 
and  hearts  are  being  educated  against  this  evil  which 
predominates  in  that  country,  and  also  you  will  be  able 
to  discover  the  wonderful  effort  it  requires  for  those  boys 
and  girls  to  master  a  vocabulary  in  English.  No  one  can 
afford  to  miss  reading  these  extracts. — ED.) 

"  Child  marriage  is  the  union  of  a  little  boy  with  a 
little  girl.  This  custom  prevails  in  the  whole  of  Gu- 
jerat.  But  the  result  of  these  unions  are  very  bad." 
"  There  are  many  disadvantages  in  it.  Suppose  a  boy 
of  eight  or  ten  years  marries  a  girl  of  four  or  five  years. 
After  ten  years  that  girl  comes  to  her  husband's  home 
and  lives  there.  In  that  age  that  boy  who  is  going  to 
school  ashames,  and  does  not  go  to  school  attend  it." 

"  The  word  marriage  ought  to  be  looked  into  very 
carefully.  When  a  child  aged  two  or  three  years 
is  married  with  a  girl  so  old  none  of  the  two  knows  the 
qualities  of  each." 

"  As  Indians  are  weak  they  do  not  offer  resistance 
by  bravery,  but  by  telling  what  is  untrue  and  so  this 
way  they  become  the  great  liars." 

"  It  is  a  sign  of  bad  omen  if  we  meet  a  widow  on  the 
road,  among  the  Indians.  Thus  that  poor  little  girl 
lias  to  encounter  many  hardships,  and  her  gentle  heart 
is  hardened." 

"  But  some  ignorant  Hindoo  parents  marry  them  in 
their  infancy.  Their  children  become  worse,  and  by 
and  by  they  die  soon." 

"  How  lean  and  feeble  the  children  of  Hindoos  are 
when  they  come  at  the  age  of  fifteen  or  sixteen. 
AVhile  among  Europeans  a  child  of  five  or  six  years 
will  appear  just  like  a  brave  man." 

"  By  early  marriages  girls  suffer  more  than  the  boys. 
Because  if  the  girl  die  the  boy  marries  again,  but  if  the 
"boy  die  the  girl  is  not  allowed  to  remarry." 

"The  child  marriage  was  done  from  fear  of'Ma- 
liomedans,  who  took  away  Hindoo  young  beauties 
and  polluted  them  and  also  married  them." 

"  There  are  many  disadvantages  in  child  marriage. 
Marriage  is  the  union  of  woman  and  man.  Marriage 
is  a  serious  subject,  and  it  should  be  done  patiently." 

"  Such  matches  are  turned  out  to  be  lucifer  matches 
that  ignite  at  the  merest  rub." 

"  There  was  a  man  who  has  one  boy  eight  or  nine 
years  old  to  be  married  to  a  girl  12  or  13  years  old  who 
paid  for  her  four  or  five  hundred  rupees  and  died  after 
a  few  days.  By  this  that  man  became  poor  and  cannot 
marry  his  boy  again." 

"  When  the  little  wife  comes  to  the  house  of  her  hus- 


band the  husband  gives  up  his  study  and  falls  in  love 
with  her.  This  is  the  greatest  disadvantage  which 
he  can  get." 

"  The  generation  is  growing  weaker  and  weaker  for 
this  very  reason.  Hindoos  are  backward  in  the  study 
also  for  the  very  reason  because  they  are  forced  to 
earn  something  for  the  maintenance  of  their  families 
consisting  of  their  wives  and  children.  Also  he  shall 
be  ashamed  to  go  to  school  because  he  shall  have  his 
son  to  go  to  school."    ' 

"  The  child  of  male  becomes  the  father  of  one  or  two 
children.  Now  these  children  prevent  him  from  pre- 
paring his  lesson  in  many  ways.  They  very  often  go 
to  him  and  prevent  him  or  sometimes  his  wife  rails  at 
him  or  irritates  him.  Now  when  a  man  is  angry  he 
is  not  inclined  to  do  any  work.  But  the  greatest  dis- 
advantage is  that  the  young  married  couple  pays  the 
least  attention  to  religion." 

"  These  are  the  results  of  child  marriage.  In  con- 
clusion child  marriage  is  very  bad.  To  marry. a  child 
in  its  infancy  is  as  sinful  as  to  kill  it." 

4>  <$»  $ 
HOW    PLANTS    GROW. 


Like  all  living  things,  plants  grow  by  the  assim- 
ilation of  food.  Plant  food,  therefore,  is  the  raw  ma- 
terial from  which  the  growth  of  new  substances  is 
produced.  The  only  difference  between  animals  and 
plants,  in  this  respect,  lies  in  the  fact  that  animal  or- 
gans are  able  to  take  food  in  the  form  of  organic  mat- 
ter, which  has  existed  in  animals  or  plants.  Plants, 
on  the  other  hand,  are  able  to  use  only  materials  in 
mineral  form.  Of  the  many  substances  entering  into 
the  composition  of  agricultural  plants,  all,  except  car- 
bonic acid  and  water,  come  directly  from  the  soil, 
through  the  roots.  One  other  ingredient  of  all  plants, 
namely  nitrogen,  really  comes  from  the  air,  but  it  en- 
ters the  plant  through  the  soil  to  which  it  is  carried  by 
the  rain.  Plants  are  composed  of  both  organic  and 
inorganic  materials.  Each  exerts  indispensable  in- 
fluence on  the  action  of  the  other.  The  soil  material, 
or  mineral  matter,  is  the  means  of  changing  air  ma- 
terials into  organic  compounds.  These  compose  much 
the  larger  part  of  all  vegetation.  In  similar  manner 
atmospheric  plant  materials  are  indispensable  to  the 
changing  of  soil  substances  into  these  important  organ- 
ic materials.  Each  is  essential  to  the  action  of  the 
other,  and  is,  therefore,  necessary  to  plant  growth. 
There  is  an  important  difference  between  plant-food 
and  mere  material  fed  to  plants.  This  difference  is 
as  definite  with  plants  as  it  is  with  animals.  The  an- 
imal feeder  never  forgets  that  only  a  part  of  the  sub- 
stance fed  to  his  animals  is  actually  utilized  or  enters 
the  body  as  a  part  of  the  new  growth  made.     Of  the 


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1165 


total  material  fed  to  animals  it  is  known  that  only  a 
part  is  digestible,  and  has  actual  food  value. 

The  feeder  has  visible  evidence  that  a  considerable 
part  of  the  material  consumed  by  his  stock  is  actually 
excreted,  proving  that  only  a  portion  has  been  used. 
The  plant  possesses  equally  limited  power  of  actual 
assimilation,  though  it  excretes  no  unused  material. 
From  the  entire  material  supplied  to  the  plant  as  a 
source  of  food,  it  is  able  to  take  up  and  use  but  a  com- 
paratively small  part.  In  other  words,  of  the  entire 
soil  and  air  material  from  which  the  plant  draws  its 
food,  or  from  the  material  supplied  as  fertilizer,  only 
a  comparatively  small  part  is  really  consumed.  Only 
this  small  part  ever  actually  becomes  a  part  of  the 
plant  itself.  Only  the  part  capable  of  being  used  is 
really  plant  food.  Too  many  farmers  act  on  the  sup- 
position that  manure,  phosphate,  potash  salts,  ash- 
es, nitrates  of  soda  and  other  forms  of  fertilizer,  are 
plant  food ;  and  that  the  mass  of  material,  thus  placed 
at  the  disposal  of  the  crop,  is  a  guide  to  the  real  fer- 
tilizing, or  food  value  of  the  article.  Of  each  of  these 
materials,  only  a  comparatively  small  part  is  ever  real- 
ly used  by  the  crop.  Phosphate  supplies  only  phos- 
phoric acid.  In  like  manner  potash  salt  supplies  ac- 
tual potash  ;  nitrate  of  soda  supplies  nitrogen ;  the  real 
plant  food  in  each  case  is  only  a  part,  or  ingredient,  of 
the  material  supplied  The  remainder  of  these  sub- 
stances is  simply  present  as  a  necessary  medium,  or 
conveyor,  to  make  the  real  plant  food  economical,  con- 
•  venient  for  handling,  or  in  some  way  make  the  sub- 
stance required  by  the  plant  more  practically  available. 
Plant  growth  takes  place  by  the  actual  formation  of 
new  material. 

This  new  material  is  made  from  the  plant  food  of 
the  soil  and  atmosphere,  within  the  plant  itself.  The 
real  plant  food  actually  becomes  a  part  of  the  plant 
itself.  The  other  constituents  of  the  soil,  air,  and  fer- 
tilizing materials  are  simply  rejected  by  the  plant. 
These  are  as  distinctly  not  available  for  the  plant 
growth  as  is  the  case  with  animals  in  respect  to  the 
material  excreted  by  them.  The  new  material  or 
growth  of  plants  consists  of  two  different  classes  of 
substances,  organic  and  inorganic;  that  is,  animal  or 
vegetable  material  and  mineral  matter.  No  organic 
matter  as  such  is  real  plant  food  :  it  is  simply  a  source 
of  plant  food.  Manure,  blood  and  cottonseed  meal, 
all  organic  materials,  must  become  decomposed  and 
changed  into  mineral  matter.  Wood  in  like  manner  is 
first  reduced  to  ashes  before  actual  plant  food,  always 
in  the  form  of  mineral  matter,  is  prepared.  The  plant 
takes  up  only  inorganic  or  mineral  matter.  Its  own 
life  work,  or  function,  is  to  convert  this  mineral  into 
organic  forms.  Phosphoric  acid,  potash  and  nitrogen 
enter  the  plant  in  solution  through  the  roots.  Car- 
bonic ncid  enters  through  the  leaves.     Tn  the  leaves  a 


combining  takes  place,  sunlight  being  the  active  agent. 
By  this  action  new  compounds,  containing  both  organ- 
ic and  mineral  material,  are  formed.  The  new  materi- 
al thus  produced  becomes  a  part  of  the  plant,  is  added 
to  the  plant  and  thus  the  plant  grows.  The  sap,  or 
juice,  of  the  plant  is  a  moving  current  containing  the 
materials  for  this  new  growth,  in  solution,  which  it 
conveys  and  deposits.  Thus  the  material  for  contin- 
ued growth  is  supplied. 

*  *  * 

IN    MANCHURIA. 


Developing  from  a  rear-guard  action,  after  the 
first  check,  the  Russian  advance  was  made  possible 
by  the  arrival  on  the  field  of  several  divisions  which 
had  been  held  in  reserve  north  of  Mukden  for  the 
purpose  of  preventing  the  cutting  of  the  railroad  by 
the  Japanese.  The  terrible  state  of  the  roads,  caused 
by  heavy  rains,  and  the  exhausted  condition  of  the 
combatants,  forced  a  cessation  of  hostilities,  and  on 
October  20.  the  situation  was  quiet,  with  reports  of 
flunking  movements  by  Generals  Oku  and  Kuroki  to 
the  north  of  Mukden.  Whether  or  not  General  Kuro- 
patkin  had  received  orders  from  St.  Petersburg  to 
advance,  or  whether  his  forward  movement  was  really 
?  desperate  endeavor  to  cover  his  retreat  beyond 
Mukden,  the  battle  of  Shakhe,  or  Shaho,  may  be  re- 
garded as  a  victory,  although  not  a  decisive  one,  for 
the  Japanese,  who  were  too  exhausted  to  follow  up 
their  success.  The  ability  of  the  Russians  as  fighters 
to  stand  against  the  Japanese  has  never  been  disputed, 
but  it  is  evident  that  General  Kuropatkin  has  been 
outgeneraled.  The  net  result  of  the  fighting  up  to 
October  20  seemed  to  have  been — (1)  the  Japanese 
possession  of  the  field;  (2)  much  heavier  Russian 
losses  in  men  and  munitions  than  those  sustained  by 
Oyama  ;  (3)  the  capture  by  the  Japanese  of  many  guns 
and  much  other  spoils ;  (4)  the  positive  and  almost 
disastrous  check  of  a  somewhat  theatrical  Russian 
advance,  and,  despite  the  elation  over  partial  successes, 
the  deepening  of  the  discouragement  and  depression 
in  St.  Petersburg.  An  early  Russian  advance  is  an- 
nounced from  the  capital,  just  as  soon  as  the  condition 
of  the  roads  permits. — From  "The  Progress  of  the 
World,"  in  the  American  Monthly  Review  of  R, 
for  November.  +  *  4. 

NEW    KIND    OF    A    COMPASS. 


Mr.  Hkit,  a  French  inventor,  has  recently  patented 
a  compass  which  automatically  registers  minute  by 
minute.  The  compass  card  is  fixed  on  a  steel  pivot, 
which  rests  on  a  fixed  agate,  instead  of  having  at  its 
center  an  agate  resting  on  a  fixed  steel  point.  The  fixed 
agate  is  immersed  in  a  drop  of  mercury,  which  serves 
as  a  conductor  for  the  electric  current  that  cause*  the 
movements    of   registering. 


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It  so  happened  that  on  election  day  your  Editor 
was  called  to  Chicago  on  business.  The  law  com- 
pels saloons  to  be  closed  on  that  day,  and  in  most  in- 
stances they  adhered  to  the  rule,  at  least  as  near  as 
the  casual  observer  could  detect ;  but  the  peculiar 
method  of  advertising  to  which  these  men  had  resorted 
on  that  particular  day  was  a  source  of  interest. 

No  doubt  by  experience  these  men  knew  something 
of  the  longing  glances  that  would  be  cast  by  their 
customers  at  their  places  of  business  and  how  eager 
;hey  would  be  to  gain  admittance  if  possible,  and  so 
they  placed  in  the  front  windows  the  most  interesting 
and  tempting  displays,  and  in  almost  very  instance 
you  could  see  crowds  of  men  and  boys  standing  around 
these  places  looking  at  something  in  the  windows. 
The  door  was  locked  and  the  blinds  were  down,  yet 
the  mind  of  the  public  was  constantly  drawn  to  these 
places  so  they  would  not  forget  them  on  the  morrow. 

In  one  window  we  noticed  a  large  monkey  which 
was  playing  all  kinds  of  pranks  for  the  benefit  of 
his  audience.  After  thinking  about  the  nature  of  the 
place  and  how  this  native  of  the  forest  was  imprisoned 
there  and  the  purpose  that  was  behind  it  all,  we  felt 
like  taking  a  brush  and  painting  these  letters  right 
over  the  monkey,  D-O-N-'T. 

In  another  window  we  saw  a  large  swan.  The 
swan,  of  course,  unlike  the  monkey,  was  not  alive ; 
but  some  taxidermist  had  done  his  work  so  well  that 
all  the  grace  and  beauty  of  the  original  was  there,  and 
it  senned  so  out  of  place  to  have  the  very  emblem  of 


grace  and  beauty  representing  a  hell-hole  like  the  one 
in  whose  window  she  was  resting.  But  as  the  swan 
is  one  of  the  typical  swimming  birds,  there  was  a  sort 
of  fitness  about  it,  after  all,  and  it  meant  to  the 
thoughtful  man  that  this  was  a  place  where  he  could 
take  a  swim  on  short  notice,  and  few  there  are  who 
cross  the  threshold  of  these  miserable  cesspools  of  sin 
who  escape  without  their  head  swimming  to  such  an 
extent  that  they  need  assistance  to  keep  within  the 
limits  of  the  pavement. 

We  had  not  gone  far  until  we  saw  another  saloon 
window  decorated  with  a  fine  large  Mallard  duck. 
The  duck  of  course  was  not  able  to  quack.  That  is  the 
only  thing  that  it  lacked  of  being  real  lifelike. 

Xo  difference  how  much  a  duck  looks  like  a  duck, 
it  needs  the  quack  to  make  it  a  real  duck.  But  as  you 
cannot  think  of  a  duck  without  thinking  of  a  puddle 
for  it  to  swim  in,  this  duck  was  virtually  saying  to 
those  who  looked  in  at  the  window,  "  Come  and  get 
into  the  puddle  too." 

Behind  the  plate  glass  of  another  saloon  we  saw  a 
real  live  snake,  a  large  snake  and  a  poisonous  one. 
This  meant  that  that  was  the  place  where  you  could 
get  snakes  in  your  boots  on  short  notice,  and  many  a 
poor  fellow  has  gone  from  that  den  seeing  serpents 
and  vipers. 

But  one  of  the  most  striking  of  all  these  exhibitions 
was  a  wild  boar  which  had  been  mounted  in  a  real  life- 
like position.  As  he  was  above  the  ordinary  size  of 
his  fellows,  we  decided  it  was  a  splendid  advertisement, 
and  we  read  it  that  this  saloon  was  a  large  wild  boar. 
It  is  large,  because  of  its  wonderful  patronage ;  it  was 
wild,  because  it  is  foreign  to  all  true  laws  of  civiliza- 
tion, sociology  and  religion.  It  is  a  bore  from  the 
fact  that  all  sober-minded,  spiritual  and  even  moral- 
minded  people  have  to  be  continually  bored  by  this 
universal   nuisance. 

In  quite  a  number  of  windows  we  saw  aquariums 
filled  with  fishes.  This  too  spoke  in .  loudest  terms 
to  the  passer-by,  saying  that  this  is  the  place  for  suck- 
ers and  suckers  only  bite  with  silver  hooks. 

In  two  different  places  we  saw  windows  decorated 
with  rats  and  mice,  and  as  these  rodents  are  the  most 
brilliant  types  of  the  gnawing  family,  we  were  im- 
pressed with  the  thought  that  the  habits  that  were  cul- 
tivated in  these  dens  of  vice  were  gnawing  away  at  the 
finance,  morals  and  real  vitals  of  those  who  spent  their 
time  and  their  hard  earned  wages  there. 

But  the  most  desecrated  of  all,  was  a  beautiful,  pure. 
snow-white  lily,  placed  in  the  front  window  of  one  of 
these  palaces  on  one  of  the  principal  avenues  of  the 
city.  When  once  one  knows  what  is  behind  the  screen 
and  how  stained  with  blood  and  with  the  lives  of  his 
customers  the  proprietor  must  be :  when  one  knows  the 


THE  INGLENOOK. — December  6,  1904. 


shame,  disgrace  and  crime  that  is  continually  being  per- 
petrated by  this  active  agency  of  the  devil,  one's  right- 
eous indignation  is  compelled  to  rise  when  one  is  com- 
pelled to  look  upon  one  of  God's  beautiful  flowers, 
which  is  the  emblem  of  purity,  standing  there  with  its 
vase  upturned  to  heaven  giving  oft"  the  delightful  fra- 
grance with  which  nature  has  endowed  it,  only  to  he 
smothered  by  the  fumes  of  the  slop  of  hell.  And  yet 
no  more  fitting  emblem  could  there  be  of  the  precious, 
pure  souls  of  men  that  have  been  dragged  to  ruin.  Lo 
poverty,  to  disgrace,  to  hell  by  these  awful  centers 
which  we  willfully,  willingly  and  carelessly  allow  to 
remain   in  our  midst. 

*  ♦  ♦ 
ABSORBING    POISON. 


It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  many  of  the  poisons 
in  chemicals,  which  enter  into  the  composition  of 
drugs,  are  capable  either  of  being  absorbed  into  the 
human  system  through  the  hand  or  affecting  it  by 
inhalation.  So  well  is  this  danger  recognized  that 
in  all  the  large  drug  and  chemical  houses,  men,  who 
are  required  to  work  among  such  drugs,  are  obliged 
to  take  extra  precaution  to  guard  themselves  against 
danger. 

In  some  factories  and  pharmacies  where  opiates 
and  alkaloids  are  manufactured,  men  are  compelled  to 
wear  insufflators  to  prevent  inhalation.  And  men  who 
handle  preparations  of  mercury  are  generally  compelled 
to  cover  their  hands  to  prevent  absorption. 

Since  contact  with  poison  is  so  much  to  be  feared 
and  dreaded  because  of  the  damage  done  to  the  body, 
why  is  it  that  men  cannot  and  will  not  equally  guard 
against  poisoning  from  a  moral  and  spiritual  stand- 
point ?  When  the  very  atmosphere  which  we  breathe 
morally  is  contaminated  with  profanity  and  vulgarity 
and  corrupt  communication,  why  is  it  that  men  will 
not  fight  for  the  removal  of  said  impurities?  Why 
is  it  that  when  the  very  things  which  we  handle  iday 
by  day,  such  as  the  municipal  and  governmental  af- 
fairs which  ought  to  be  absolutely  pure,  clean  and 
straight,  but  which  are  full  of  corruption,  rotten  pus, 
and  very  poisonous  disease  germs,  are  dreaded  and 
shunned  by  the  public  in  general  ?  Instead  of  men  run- 
ning from  them  and  taking  all  manner  of  precaution 
against  them,  they  scorn  at  the  idea  of  danger  or  even 
the  suggestion  of  it  and  become  very  much  irritated 
when  one  mentions  the  fact  that  there  is  danger  of 
loss  of  life., 

It  would  be  the  least  of  a  man's  thoughts  to  expect 
to  eat  poison  along  with  his  food  and  live  physically, 
yet  he  will  insist  on  trying  to  live  morally,  religious- 
ly and  yet  dabble  in  every  vat  of  poison  to  be  found  in 
the  factory  of  political  distortion  and  municipal  cor- 
ruption.    It  is  passing  strange  that  a  man  who  would 


not  take  money  out  of  your  pocket  for  anytr.iig  in 
the  world,  and  who  would  not  miss  religious  services 
on  Sunday,  would  allow  himself,  on  week  days,  to 
give  light  weights,  short  measures,  steal  a  ride  on  a 
railway  train,  or  wire-work  a  friend  out  of  a  position. 
Men  are  able  to  recognize  arsenic,  mercury  and 
strychnine,  but  unfortunately  the  public  has  not  been 
educated  to  recognize  these  enemies  of  morality  and 
s  cial  influence. 

Let  the  reformers  of  cur  day  and  time  spare  no 
means,  time  or  talent  i:i  calling  attentii  n  to  these 
poisonous  influences  which  are  so  dr  in   th  ir 

character  to  the  vital;  of  our  nati>   1. 

*   *   * 
A    GOOD    SAMARITAN    WANTED. 


Some  letters  of  late  have  been  coming  to  the  Editor 
of  the  Ixglenook  from  Pest  Houses  and  Poor  Houses 
asking  that  the  Inglenook  might  be  sent  to  them  to 
read  because  they  enjoy  it  so  much,  and  yet  they  do 
not  have  a  cent  of  money  with  which  to  buy  anything. 

Enough  said  about  that. 

Xow  where  is  the  good  Samaritan  who  has  been 
blessed  all  the  year  around  with  peace  and  plenty, 
with  homes  and  friends  and  with  health  and  happiness 
who  wants  to  manifest  his  thanks  to  our  heavenly  Fa- 
ther by  remembering  one  of  these  little  ones  in  his 
name?  Who  will  send  us  seventy-five  cents  that  we 
may  send  the  Inclenook  to  one  of  these  who  are  so 
anxious  and  yet  helpless  to  purchase  it  of  their  own  ac- 
cord ?  While  the  price  of  the  Inglenook  is  $1.00  we 
feel  like  helping  you  to  make  this  present,  and  therefore 
we  agree  to  furnish  such  for  seventy-five  cents  from 
now  to  January  1.  1906. 

*  *  * 
CHARACTER    BUILDING. 


Horace  (  iREELEY  said  :  "  Fame  vanishes  like  a  vapor, 
riches  take  wings,  one  thing  endures. — character." 
Character  is  fashioned  largely  by  what  is  seen  and 
heard.  The  lives  of  good  and  great  men  and  women 
are  helpful  in  constructing  character.  Bible  charac- 
ters are  often  referred  to  in  a  casual  way.  but  seldom 
do  w<  find  them  in  a  pure,  chaste,  simple  form  til  for 
young  people  whose  characters  have  not  yet  been 
wholly  formed;  but  Bible  Biographies  by  Galen  B. 
Rover,  have  beautifully  covered  a  peculiar  field  in 
this  respect.  The  lives  of  Moses,  Joseph.  Samuel. 
David.  Daniel,  Ruth.  Esther,  Jesus,  John  the  Baptist 
and  others  are  beautifully  woven  into  a  Bible  story  in 
a  way  thai  is  so  interesting  that  not  only  young 
people  will  read  them  from  lid  to  lid.  but  older  ones 
see  these  characters  clothed  with  new  beautv. —  En. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— November  29,  1904 


CiTLrrerxt 


a<  ?g>  p>  e  m.  I  m.  g:  s 


A  fund  of  $600,000  has  been  raised  for  the  erection 
of  the  national  monument  to  the  late  President  McKin- 
ley.  Plans  are  now  being  considered  for  the  design  of 
the  monument. 

Cardinal  Mocenni,  minister  of  the  palace  under 
Pope  Leo  XIII,  died  of  heart  failure  at  the  Vatican 
November  14. 

♦  *  ♦ 

Orders  have  been  issued  at  the  navy  department 
detaching  Rear  Admiral  Jewell  from  command  of  the 
European  station,  November  19.  He  applied  for  re- 
tirement from  this  office  in  which  he  had  served  forty 
years.     The  request  was  granted. 

4>    *|*    4» 

Major  Leonard  Hay,  brother  of  Secretary  of  State 
Hay  died  at  the  old  Hay  homestead  in  Warsaw.  111., 
November  12.  Major  Hay  was  a  retired  United 
States  army  officer  and  was  in  the  seventieth  .year  of 

his  age. 

♦  *  * 

There  are  good  prospects  for  a  university  at  Pitts- 
burg, Pa.  '  About  fifty  wealthy  residents  of  this  city- 
have  agreed  to  give  from  $40,000  to  $100,000  each, 
in  addition  to  what  Andrew  Carnegie  may  give,  toward 
the  upbuilding  of  a  great  university  on  a  fifty-acre 
tract  near  the  site  of  the  new  Carnegie  Technical 
School.  To  this  point  the  'Western  University  of 
Pennsylvania  is  to  be  moved  from  the  suburbs  of  Alle- 
ghany to  form  the  nucleus  of  an  institution,  which  is 
to  rival  the  University  of  Chicago  or  the  University  of 

Pennsylvania. 

*>  ♦  ♦ 

Prince  Fushimi,  a  member  of  the  Japanese  royal 
household,  who  has  come  to  pay  a  visit  to  the  United 
States,  called  upon  President  Roosevelt.  .  He  also  vis- 
ited the  World's  Fair,  and  while  stopping  at  the  Buck- 
ingham Club,  St  Louis,  he  was  robbed  of  rings  and 
jewelry  to  the  value  of  $5,000.  The  best  detectives 
were  put  on  the  case,  but  were  unable  to  solve  the  mys- 
tery. The  Prince  will  return  to  his  home  December 
28.' 

♦  *  ♦ 

Not  long  since  President  Roosevelt  received  some 
gifts  from  King  Menelik  of  Abyssinia,  in  the  form  of 
baboons,  a  zebra,  ostriches,  a  Nubian  lioness  and  other 
animals.  The  President  has  decided  to  turn  them  over 
to  the  National  Zoological  Garden  at  Washington. 

Fourteen  miners  in  the  Carbonad  mines  near  Mor- 
risy,  B.  C,  were  killed  by  an  explosion  of  gas. 


Secretary  of  the  Navy,  Paul  Morton,  was  taken  ,il 
at  a  late  meeting  of  the  naval  architects  and  engineers 
at  Delmonico's,   New  York.     It   is  reported   that   he 
is  not  dangerously  sick. 

*  *   * 

The  hulk  of  the  ill-fated  excursion  steamer  General 
Slocum,  which  was  burned  last  summer,  with  the  loss 
of  more  than  1,000  lives,  was  sold  at  auction  last  week 
for  $1,800. 

*  •$>  ♦ 

James  Francis  Rowley,  whose  son  died  from 
injuries  received  in  a  game  of  football  on  Nov- 
ember 5,  appeals  to  the  State  Legislature  to  en- 
force a  law  forbidding  the  playing  of  football 
in  the  State  of  Illinois.  Indiana.  Michigan,  and 
Wisconsin.  The  parents  of  sons  who  have  been  killed 
in  such  games  are  asked  to  cooperate  with  Mr.  Rowley 
through  the  enactment  of  a  similar  law  in  each  of  the 
same  states  at  the  same  time.  The  State  Senator, 
William  Matheys,  of  Bedford,  Ind.,  whose  son  was  fa- 
tally injured,  will  introduce  a  similar  bill  in  the  Indiana 
Legislature.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  such  a  bill  may  be 
passed  in  every  state  and  that  the  State  Legislature 
may  see  that  the  law  is  literally  carried  out. 

*  ♦  *> 

Two  trains  collided  at  Azusa,  near  Granger.  Wyo.. 
November  12.  owing  to  the  misreading  of  orders  by 
the  train  crew  of  a  freight  train.  The  train  with  which 
the  freight  train  collided  was  a  fast  mail  train.  Four- 
teen people  are  known  to  have  lost  their  lives  and  it  is 
thought  that  there  are  still  some  bodies  under  the 
wreckage. 

*  *  * 

Miners  are  now  on  a  strike  in  the  Kanawha  coal 
fields  in  West  Virginia  and  about  seventy-five  mines 
are  tied  up.  A  meeting  was  held  at  Charleston  to  de- 
cide how  thev  should  meet  the  situation.  The  operators 
are  employing  non-union  men  to  fill  the  places  of  those 
who  have  made  the  strike. 

*  *  * 

Andrew    Carnegie's    generosity    is    reaching    the 
colored  race.     The  city  of  Atlanta,  Ga.,  has  been  of- 
fered $10,000  for  a  separate  library  for  the  negroes. 
In  all  probabilities  the  offer  will  be  accepted. 
-:-  ♦  •:• 

Last  week,  while  out  riding,  Miss  Anna  Buddick 
of  Stockton,  Cal.,  was  killed  in  an  automobile  accident. 
The  young  lady's  dress  caught  in  the  chain  of  the  auto 
and  she  was  thrown  off  and  dragged  a  considerable 
distance  along  the  pavement. 


THE  INGLENOOK. — December  6,  1904. 


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Four  and  one-half  million  dollars  in  gold  have  been 
engaged  by  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce  and  the 
National  City  bank  of  New  York  for  shipment  to  Cuba. 

*  *  * 

On  Nov.  14  it  was  reported  that  seven  cases  of 
smallpox  were  discovered  among  the  students  of  the 
University  of  Michigan.  It  is  said  that  one  of  the  pa- 
tients is  dangerously  ill.  '  All  the  students  are  being 
vaccinated. 

*  4*    * 

Harvard  College  is  an  institution  in  which  many 
millionaires'  sons  are  educated,  and  recently  the  soph- 
omore class  chose  for  its  president,  W.  H.  Keeling, 
of  Sioux  City,  Iowa.  He  is  working  his  way  through 
college  by  serving  as  a  waiter  at  Randall  Hall,  a  col- 
lege dining  hall  managed  by  the  students.  Keeling  is 
not  prominent  socially  or  in  athletics,  but  he  is  admired 
for  his    strength  of  character. 

4»  •$•  ♦ 

The  American  ambassador,  Nellamy  Storer,  vis- 
ited the  foreign  office  quite  recently  and  interviewed 
Count  Goluchowski,  on  an  arbitration  treaty  with  the 
United  States.  The  Count  replied  that  his  govern- 
ment would  gladly  discuss  a  proposition  of  that  nature, 
and  also  stated  that  Austria-Hungary  was  now  ne- 
gotiating similar  treaties  with  other  powers. 

*  *  * 

The  comptroller  of  the  currency  of  the  United 
States  has  issued  a  call  asking  for  the  condition  of 
national  banks  at  the  close  of  business,  Thursday,  Nov. 
10. 

The  charter  for  the  Chicago  Subway  Company  was 
secured  last  week  at  Trenton,  N.  J.  The  new  company 
will  absorb  the  Illinois  Tunnel  Company,  and  its  main 
object  is  said  to  be  to  afford  a  freight  terminal  for  the 
great  railroads  centering  at  Chicago.  The  railroads 
interested  in  this  project  are :  The  New  York  Central, 
Chicago  and  North-western,  St.  Paul,  Pennsylvania, 
Union  Pacific,  Northern  Pacific,  Chicago  and  Alton. 
Baltimore  and  Ohio,  Erie  and  Illinois  Central.  The 
company  has  a  capital  stock  of  $50,000,000,  ami  is 
composed  of  some  of  the  largest  railroad  financiers 
of  the  country. 

*  *fr  + 

Tin;  multimillionaire  "Joe"  Leiter,  who  is  king  of 
the  stockade  coal  mining  town  of  Zeigler,  has  Deen  in- 
dicted on  charges  for  which  the  statutory  penalty  is 
sentence  to  the  state  penitentiary  without  the  alter- 
native of  a  fine.  The  indictment  also  runs  against 
Henry  R.  Piatt  of  Chicago,  who  is  Mr.  Leiter's  gener- 
al counsel,  and  it  was  returned  by  the  grand  jury  at 
Pickneyville,  November  12.  The  proceedings  were 
found  to  be  somewhat  smuggled,  when  the  case  came 
before  the  Circuit  Judge  Charles  T.  Moore,  on  a  mo- 


tion to  permit  delay  in  service  of  the  capiases.  The 
indictment  counts  charge,  first,  that  Messrs  Leiter  and 
Piatt  having  no  permit  from  Governor  Yates,  did  will- 
fully, feloniously  and  unlawfully  guard  with  weapons 
miners  that  were  being  brought  through  Perry  County 
on  their  way  to  the  Zeigler  coal  mines.  Second,  that 
armed  guards  were  hired  to  perform  this  escort  duty ; 
and,  third,  that  the  defendants  did  assist  and  abet  this 
bringing  in  of  strike-breakers  under  armed  guards. 

*  *  * 

The  noted  Kentucky  lawyer  and  congressman, 
Colonel  W.  C.  P.  Breckenridge,  has  been  stricken  with 
paralysis  at  his  home.  He  is  in  a  critical  condition 
and  his  entire  family  have  been  summoned. 

#  *   ♦ 

The  jail  at  Tiptonville,  Tenn.,  was  recently  destroyed 
by  fire,  in  which  eight  convicts  made  their  escape.  It 
is  alleged  that  the  fire  was  started  by  friends  of  the 
prisoners  for  the  purpose  of  enabling  the  inmates  to 
escape. 

•>  *  * 

Ireland  is  being  threatened  by  a  famine  which  is 
brewing  throughout  a  large  part  of  Connemara.  The 
principal  winter  staple  of  the  people  is  potatoes,  and 
here  this  crop  has  been  destroyed  by  continuous  rains. 
Hundreds  of  starving,  workless  and  desperate  men 
are  gathered  in  large  gangs  in  the  streets  of  London, 
nothing  to  do  and  nothing  to  eat.  Winter  is  on  and  the 
sight  brings  about  fearful  consideration. 

♦  *   * 

It  is  now  reported  that  the  Japanese  after  six  days' 
fighting  have  captured  and  hold  Two  Hundred  and 
Three  Meter  Hill.  The  Japanese  began  a  further  heavy 
bombardment  of  Port  Arthur,  though  they  sacrifice 
enormous  numbers  of  men.  yet  they  seem  to  be  gaining 
ground. 

•:•   •?.   4. 

Mr.  Ford  Ross,  a  well  respected  member  of  the  Y. 
M.  C.  A.  of  this  city,  met  death  very  unexpectedly, 
November  29.  The  gates  of  the  North-western  rail- 
road track  were  lowered  because  of  the  approaching 
passenger  train,  and  Mr.  Ford  passed  through  under 
the  gate  and  attempted  to  cross  the  track  just  ahead  of 
the  train.  He  slipped  and  fell,  the  train  cutting  off 
both  lower  limbs  and  one  arm.  The  young  man  lived 
but  a  few  minutes  after  the  accident.  It  is  strange,  the 
more  accidents  that  happen,  the  more  careless  people 
become.  Take  warning,  both  old  and  young. 
«{»    4»    .;. 

Three  Chinese  have  been  tracked  from  San  Francis- 
co to  South  Bend  by  government  secret  service  men. 
They  have  been  arrested  and  taken  to  Chicago.  It  is 
claimed  that  the  Chinese  were  recently  smuggled  into 
tin  United  States,  and  when  the  chase  became  hot  they 
were  shipped  to  South  Bend  in  trunks,  hoping  to  throw 
the  detectives  off  the  trail. 


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CLASS    AVES— ORDER    NATATORES. 


The  Flamingo. 

There  has  been  a  great  deal  of  discussion  among 
naturalists  for  years  as  to  whether  this  bird  belongs 
to  the  Natatores  or  Grallatores.  The  casual  observer 
upon  first  seeing  the  Flamingo,  because  of  its  ex- 
ceedingly long  legs 
and  long  neck,  would 
at  •  once  pronounce 
him  one  of  the 
Waders  or  Gralla- 
tores, but  on  closer 
inspection  the  student 
finds  his  webbed  feet, 
which,  of  course, 
classes  him  with  the 
Natatores.  And  be- 
cause he  is  thought 
by  some  to  belong  to 
one  family  and  by 
some  to  the  other,  we 
have  left  him  until 
the  last  of  the  swim- 
mers, and  begin  our 
next  lesson  with  the 
Waders.  A  habit  of 
this  bird  which  would 
rather  indicate  that 
he  belongs  to  the 
Waders,  is  that  when 
he  eats  he  stretches 
his  long  neck  toward 
the  ground,  which,  of 
necessity,  must  be  as 

long  as  his  legs  in  order  to  reach  the  ground,  and 
turns  his  upper  mandible  up-side-down  in  order  to 
scoop  in  the  food  he  wishes  to  take. 

His  mandibles  are  rather  spoon-fashioned,  and  are 
so  arranged  that  he  can  screen  or  sift  the  articles  of 
food  from  the  water,  mud  or  sand  which  covers  it. 
These  birds  inhabit  the  South  Islands  and  are  ex- 
tremely hard  to  see  because  of  their  shyness.  They 
are  as  tall  as  the  ordinary  man,  and  are  exceedingly 
well  built  for  their  great  height.    To  add  to  the  beauty 


FLAMINGO   ON    HER    NEST. 


of  this  bird,  his  feathers  are  colored  a  brilliant  scarlet, 
with  the  exception  of  the  tips  of  a  few  of  the  quill 
feathers  on  his  back,  which  are  a  jet  black. 

They  have  a  peculiar  manner  of  march.  After  a 
long  flight  a  flock  of  these  birds  settle  on  the  shore, 
line  up  something  like  Indians  and  march  at  the  com- 
mand of  their  leader.  One  of  the  naturalists  says 
that  on  one  occasion  he  lay  in  ambush  for  three  hours 

for  the  opportunity 
of  seeing  nearly  1,200 
of  these  birds  line  up 
and  march  along  the 
shore,  but  despite  all 
the  precaution  he 
could  command  and 
with  the  best  fire- 
arms he  could  only 
secure  the  carcass  of 
one  of  them. 

When  in  search  of 
food  they  frequently 
circle  round  and 
round  something  like 
our  common  Turkey- 
Buzzard  does  over 
land,  and  on  the 
above-mentioned  oc- 
casion after  they  had 
made  the  second 
round,  one  of  their 
number  spied  their 
enemy  lying  in  am- 
bush and  gave  a  sig- 
nal to  the  company 
which  meant  instant 
withdrawal  of  every 
bird  from  the  island.  They  reconnoitered,  formed  an- 
other line  of  flight  and  returned  by  another  way  little 
suspecting  that  the  enemy  had  moved  his  quarters 
to  the  opposite  end  of  the  island,  which,  of  course, 
resulted  as  above  recorded. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  things  to  the  student 
of  natural  history  concerning  the  Flamingo  is  their 
method  of  building  nests.  Their  legs  are  so  long 
that  it  is  impossible  for  them  to  draw  them  up  under 
their  bodv  like  other  birds  do  while  upon  the  nest,  but 


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nature  through  instinct  gives  them  a  plan  of  architec- 
ture which  answers  the  purpose.  They  use  their  big 
spoon  mandibles  for  hod  and  trowel  and  plaster  up 
a  cone  of  mud  sufficiently  high  that  when  the  nest  is 
built  upon  the  top  of  this  hillock  of  mud,  the  female 
bird  sitting  upon  the  nest,  allows  her  long  legs  to  dan- 
gle down  either  side  of  the  nest,  as  shown  in  the  illus- 
tration. 


her.  She  is  however  relished  as  a  delicacy  by  the 
Teether,  a  kind  of  grouse.  Some  natives  say  that 
she  lays  an  egg  in  her  house,  comes  out  and  seals  it  up 
and  builds  again,  others  say  that  she  lavs  an  egg,  seals 
her  house  and  dies.  The  egg  hatches  and  the  new 
old  woman  comes  out  and  builds  for  herself  a  new 
home.  I  have  seen  her  move  about  in  her  house,  but 
I  have  never  seen  her  building  it.     I  sometimes  think 


THE    OLD    WOMAN. 


BY   S.    N.    MCANN. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  worms  that  I  have  seen 
is  called  by  the  natives  the  "  Old  Woman."  This  lit- 
tle worm  looks  much  like  a  grub  worm  so  common  at 
home,  except  it  is  dark  in  color.  I  have  rarely  seen 
it  anywhere  except  on  the  Bauble  thorn  tree.  It  is 
about  three-fourth  inches  long  and  three-sixteenth 
inches  in  diameter.  It  has  three  pair  of  legs  near  the 
head  and  four  pair  of  spots  on  the  body  that  seem  like 
legs  made  for  holding  fast  by  suction.  At  the  tail 
end  it  carries  a  kind  of  spinning  and  weaving  machine 
by  means  of  which  it  spins  and  weaves  the  strongest 
kind  of  web  or  cocoon  just  big  enough  to  fit  its  body. 
It  cuts  the  thorns  from  the  Bauble  and  weaves  around 
this  cocoon  a  cone  house  of  thorns.  These  are  neatly 
placed,  points  all  coming  toward  the  apex.  The  little 
cone  is  made  fast  to  a  Bauble  limb  or  twig  with  a  few 
strong  threads,  large  end  up.  The  thorns  are  so 
placed  that  any  rain  falling  on  the  butt  end  will  at 
once  run  out.  In  this  little  cone  house  the  old  woman 
lives,  she  moves  about  at  will  always  taking  her  house 
with  her.  The  cocoon  is  open  at  the  large  end  of  the 
cone  but  she  has  such  a  dexterous  way  of  catching  it 
with  her  six  feet  and  closing  it  up  so  nicely  that  one 
would  never  suspect  a  door  there.  Little  ants  some- 
times cut  a  hole  into  the  cocoon  at  the  large  end  and 
then  they  feast  on  the  "  Old  Woman's  "  body,  leaving 
an  empty  house.  Sometimes  the  old  woman  is  too 
lazy,  or  her  teeth  get  dull  or  something  else,  I  don't 
know  what,  to  cut  and  to  build  with  Bauble  thorns. 
She  then  takes  the  branches  of  a  cotton  stalk  or  some 
other  soft  stalk  and  builds  a  cone  of  that,  sometimes 
she  builds  partly  of  thorns  and  partly  of  something 
else.  She  always  glues  the  end  of  each  thorn  with 
a  kind  of  wax  where  it  is  cut  off.  When  she  uses 
other  material  she  glues  both  ends  and  sometimes  the 
whole  ^iece.  She  generally  uses  from  eighteen  t>> 
twenty-five  thorns  in  building  her  house.  When  she 
travels  she  comes  aboui  two-thirds  out  of  the  cone 
and  then  draws  the  cone  up  straight  over  her  body, 
stretches  out  again  and  brings  it  up,  thus  making  very 
good  progress.  The  old  woman  is  like  most  old  wom- 
en should  be.  a  harmless  old  creature.  She  is  said  to 
be  verv  poisonous  if  by  accident  cattle  happen  to  eat 


772 c    &/e?    .Wo7na.  7Z 

that  a  winged  insect  builds  the  house  and  lays  the  egg 
and  the  old  woman  is  the  product.  Then  she  in  turn 
gets  wings  and  flies  away,  but  the  natives  say  not.  I 
hope  to  know  more  of  this  interesting  moth  after  while. 
.  Inklesvar,  India. 

•8"   +   <• 
ISLAND    OF    BLACK    CATS. 


One  of  the  queerest  corners  of  the  earth  is  Chat- 
ham  Island,  oft'  the  coast  .if  Ecuador. 

Captain  Reinman,  who  recently  visited  it  to  in- 
quire iut"  the  proper  grounding  of  a  deep  sea  cable, 
says  it  alxwnds  in  cats  of  which  is  black. 

These  animals  live  in  the  crevices  of  the  lava  foundation 
near  the  coast,  and  subsist  by  catching  fish  and  crabs 
instead  of  rats  and  mice. 


THE  INGLENOOK—  December  6,  1904. 


HOME    DEPARTMENT 


'THERE,    NEVER    MIND." 


Years  have  passed,  but  still  I  hear  them, 

Mother's  words,   "There,  never  mind." 
Time  serves  only  to  endear  them 

To  me  as  it  flies.     I  find 
Mother's  gone,  but  still  I   often 

Find  myself,  when  trouble's  nigh, 
Half  expecting  her  to  soften 

It  as  in  the  days  gone  by. 

Years,  but  still  I  see  her  rocking, 

Holding  me  upon  her  breast, 
Both  her  arms  about  me  locking, 

Setting  all  my  fears  at  rest. 
Years,  but  still  I  hear  her  telling 

Me  in  voice  so  low  and  kind, 
While  my  tears  are  swiftly  welling, 

Soothing   like,    "There,    never    mind." 

All  my  boyish  troubles  vanished 

When  she  spoke  those  words  to  me, 
All  my  tears  were  quickly  banished, 

Soon  I  slumbered  peacefully. 
Oft  I  wish  when  woes  beset  me, 

And  grim  worries  now  I  find, 
That  old  Father  Time  would  let  me 

Hear  her  say,  "There,  never  mind." 
«l»  4*  * 

WOMEN    WHO    WORK. 


A  statistician  has  gone  to  the  trouble  to  ascertain 
that  55  per  cent  of  all  the  divorced  women,  32  per  cent 
of  the  widowed  and  31  per  cent  of  the  single  women 
are  engaged  in  gainful  pursuits.  Only  about  6  per 
cent  of  the  married  women  are  similarly  situated. 
While  the  great  body  of  married  women  are  at  home 
attending  to  the  domestic  duties  which  are  naturally 
set  down  for  them,  there  is  some  hope  still  that  the  old 
order  of  things  is  not  going  to  be  completely  over- 
thrown. The  world  will  not  be  without  homes.  The 
figures  indicate  that  94  per  cent  of  the  married  men 
are  supporting  their  wives,  though  the  women  are,  of 
course,  doing  their  full  share  in  maintaining  domestic 
establishments  which  are  bulwarks  of  morals  and  good 
order,  and  which  keep  the  race  from  dying  out. 

On  surface  analysis  it  may  seem  wonderful  that  94 
per  cent  of  the  married  men  find  enough  to  do  to  sup- 
port families,  when  so  many  women  are  in  men's 
occupations,  but  the  earth  is  big  and  the  ordinary  at- 
tempt at  comprehending  the  things  to  be  done  and  the 
number  of  people  to  do  them  is  puny  indeed.  In  the 
long  run  there  appears  to  be  room  for  everybody — the 
home  woman,  the  "  new  "  woman,  the  mannish  woman, 
the  bachelor  woman,  etc.,  likewise  for  the  womanish 


man  and  the  men  who  depend  on  the  labor  and  shrewd- 
ness of  their  wives  to  keep  them  going.  The  mix- 
tures of  the  sexes  in  the  active  business  affairs  of  to- 
day would  have  scared  writers  on  political  economy 
25  years  ago.  It  seems  plain  enough,  for  example, 
that  when  a  man  on  a  salary  gets  work  for  his  daugh- 
ter in  the  same  occupation  at  perhaps  smaller  com- 
pensation than  he  receives,  he  is  sapping  the  foundation 
of  his  own  employment  and  prosperity;  that,  in  the 
long  run,  he  will  be  simply  dividing  up  his  salary 
among  the  members  of  his  own  family  and  driving 
other  men  out  of  employment. 

The  results  of  widespread  changes  of  this  sort  look, 
apparently,  to  an  entire  revolutionizing  of  society. 
But  people  are  not  stopping  to  study  the  text-books. 
They  are  going  ahead  with  the  fashions  of  the  time, 
leaving  the  pessimists  and  those  who  have  nothing  to 
do  but  study  to  read  up  on  political  economy.  A 
great  many  wise  books  have  been  impracticable  in 
relation  to  business  affairs.  If  society  is  going  wrong 
in  putting  the  gentler  sex  in  the  lines  of  employment 
that  were  formerly  exclusively  for  men,  the  mistake 
will  manifest  itself  some  day  in  a  serious  way.  Money 
panics  result  from  overwrought  ambition  to  get  rich 
quick,  and  then  follows  the  travail  of  liquidation.  And 
so  it  is  with  other  affairs. 


THE 


*   * 
WOMAN 


INVENTOR. 


The  woman  inventor  is  broadening  her  field  of 
labor.  Under  the  custody  of  Mr.  Sullivan,  of  the 
Patent  Office,  are  books  compiled  by  the  government 
for  the  inventions  of  women  dating  back  to  1790. 
Their  line  of  thought  and  sphere  of  knowledge  can 
easily  be  traced  from  that  year  to  the  present  ex- 
pansive views  of  the  new  woman. 

The  colonial  dame  confined  her  improvements  and 
discoveries  to  her  wardrobe  and  kitchen.  There  were 
also  jumpers  and  soothing  sirups  for  the  baby  and 
dainty  perfumes  and  recipes.  She  would  have  shrunk 
in  alarm  from  the  descendants  who  have  constructed 
electrical  apparatus,  railway  appliances  and  farming 
implements. 

For  so  the  woman  of  the  last  few  years  has  done. 
Of  course,  the  additions  to  her  domestic  comforts  have 
not  been  abandoned.  The  list  of  culinary  utensils  and 
wearing  apparel  are  decidedly  the  longest  in  the  latest 
book  issued,  but  a  study  of  the  headlines  of  the  many 
columns  shows  a  diversity  of  subjects  and  a  not  stinted 
list  of  inventors  under  each. 


THE  INGLENOOK.— December  6,  1904. 


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A  group  of  clerks  in  the  Patent  Office  discussed  the 
woman  inventor  at  the  luncheon  hour  a  few  days  ago. 

"  A  woman  is  generally  a  prolific  inventor,"  re- 
marked a  little  man.  "  Now,  I  know  a  woman  from 
Pennsylvania  whose  first  invention  was  an  arrange- 
ment in  which  the  store  clerks  could  carry  their  scis- 
sors and  pencils.  From  that  she  proceeded  to  invent 
flower  stands  and  improvements  on  pots  and  kettles 
and  medicines  and  a  legion  of  other  things." 

"  Is  it  difficult  to  deal  with  that  species  of  woman  ?  " 
asked  an  outsider. 

"  No — that  is,  not  generally,"  he  added  as  he  looked 
up  and  caught  the  eye  of  an  elderly  woman  whose  desk 
was  stationed  near  his. 

"  But  there  was  one  woman,"  he  confessed,  "  one 
lone,  unprotected  woman,  who  had  this  whole  room  " 
— his  hand  swept  the  long,  hall-like  apartment — "  in 
an  uproar  for  three  days.  Then  she  was  asked  to 
not  come  in  any  more.  You  see,  she  didn't  understand 
her  own  patent  and  told  me  she  thought  I  was  a  fool 
because  I  couldn't  explain  it  to  her.  But  she  was  an 
exception  to  rather  than  an  example  of  the  general  run 
of  them.  Just  look  in  those  books  and  see  for  yourself 
the  works  of  the  woman  inventors." 

The  indexer  of  the  Patent  Office  was  asked  if  there 
were  many  inventions  by  women  registered  in  the  last 
year.  She  ran  her  eye  and  forefinger  down  several 
pages  of  the  lists  and  paused  under  the  name  of  the 
first  woman.  "  Here  is  one,"  she  said,  and  after  fol- 
lowing many  more  columns  found  another. 

When  a  man  invents  something  nine  times  out  of 
ten  he  wants  it  understood  that  he  is  putting  his  car 
fender  or  his  machine  before  the  world  to  save  labor 
or  protect  human  lives.  The  inventions  of  woman  add 
a  touch  of  comfort  to  the  engine,  the  home  or  what- 
ever else  she  turns  her  attention  to,  and  compare  in  in- 
genuity if  not  in  number  with  the  700,000  inventions 

by  the  sterner  sex. 

•:•  $  * 

LEFT   SHOE. 


"  Did  you  ever  notice  that  people  are  right-footed?" 
asked  the  proprietor  of  a  shoestore.  "  Watch  my 
clerks  and  you  will  see  that  invariably  customers  will 
put  out  their  right  foot  when  going  to  be  fitted.  Now 
watch  that  corpulent  woman  going  to  sit  down 
over  there."  The  woman  with  great  weight  of  body, 
took  a  seat,  lifted  her  curtain  of  black  veiling,  and  as 
the  clerk  approached  her  she  poked  her  right  foot 
from  beneath  an  expanse  of  skirt. 

"  It's  always  the  case  and  I  don't  believe  I  ever 
knew  it  to  fail.  The  shoe  manufacturers  evidently 
are  wise  to  this  fact,  as  in  the  cartons  the  right  shoe 
is  always  packed  on  top.  Once  I  had  a  lot  of  shoes 
come  to  me  with  the  left  shoe  on  top,  and  it  caused  me 
so  much  annoyance  that  I  wrote  to  the  manufacturer, 


calling  his  attention  to  the  matter  so  that  it  would 
not  happen  again.  The  majority  of  people  are  right- 
handed,  yet  a  left-handed  person  has  the  right  foot 
habit.  The  right  hand  is  larger  than  the  left,  as  it 
is  used  more,  and  consequently  develops  the  muscles 
to  a  greater  extent.  On  the  other  hand,  the  left  foot 
is  larger  than  the  right  in  most  persons.  The  differ- 
ence is  so  slight  that  we  seldom  have  trouble  in  fitting 
shoes,  however.  It  is  the  left  shoe  that  wears  out 
before  the  right,  and  probably  for  this  reason." 

*  *  * 
STARTING    ROSE    SLIPS. 


BY  ADA   KIRCHER. 

So  many  have  asked  me  how  I  start  rose  slips  that 
I  give  it  here  hoping  it  will  be  of  use  to  others. 

During  November  take  the  slips  of  hard  wood 
and  pull  downward  off  the  main  stalk.  This  leaves 
a  good  place  on  the  cutting  for  the  root  to  start  from. 
Then  plant  in  good  soil  about  three  feet  apart.  Turn 
glass  jars  over  the  slips  and  bank  the  soil  around  them 
until  only  a  little  of  the  jar  projects  to  leave  in  the 
light.  After  the  soil  has  settled,  bank  again,  a  little 
higher  so  that  only  the  bottom  of  the  jar  is  visible. 

In  the  spring  the  plants  will  be  very  delicate.  Great 
care  must  be  taken  in  removing  the  jars  also  in  hard- 
ening the  plants. 

Harrisonville,  Mo. 

*  *  * 

ROQUEFORT  CHEESE. 


About  the  famous  Roquefort  cheese  the  following 
;nd  is  told :  "  A  shepherd  lad,  having  more 
luncheon  than  he  could  eat,  laid  a  large  portion  of  his 
bread  and  cheese  upon  a  natural  shelf  in  one  of  the 
caverns  near  by.  He  forgot  all  about  it  until  several 
months  later,  when  he  found  the  cheese,  which  in- 
stead of  being  dried  up  or  rotten,  was  rich,  moist, 
creamy  and  streaked  with  greenish-blue  veins.  He 
shared  his  piece  of  cheese  with  others,  and  the  villagers 
were  quick  to  recognize  the  improved  texture  and 
quality.  Henceforth  all  their  cheeses  were  taken  to 
these  caves  to  ripen.  The  caves  are  now  owned  by 
a  company  which  employs  six  hundred  women  to 
tend  the  cheese." — Ex. 

*   *   * 

Perspiring  hands  are  a  source  of  great  annoyance. 
Tincture  of  belladonna  applied  to  the  palms  will  lessen 
the  perspiration.  This  is  poisonous,  so  it  cannot  be 
frcelj  used.  Eau  de  cologne  with  5  per  cent  of  dilute 
acetic  acid  is  quite  harmless.  A  convenient  way  of 
•ising  this  liquid  is  to  cany  a  wide-necked  scent  bottle 
containing  a  small  sponge  which  lias  been  soaked  with 
the  preparation. 


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OUR    YOUNG     PEOPLE 


THE    GEOGRAPHY    CLASS.— Chapter  V. 


It  was  a  day  long  to  be  remembered ;  it  was  a  bright 
spot  in  the  lives  of  the  Mayville  people,  whether  our 
party  of  boys  and  girls  return  to  complete  their  life's 
history  in  the  little  village  of  Mayville  or,  whether 
they  shall  be  so  unfortunate  as  to  find  a  watery  grave 
at  the  bottom  of  the  hungry  old  sea.  It  was  a  bright 
spot  for  them  socially,  for  the  day  seemed  to  bind  them 
all  together  in  families.  It  was  a  bright  spot  for  them 
religiously,  for  Dr.  Dawson  seems  to  have  gotten  a 
hold  on  their  lives  in  a  way  which  he  had  never  been 
able  to  do  before. 

These  two  weeks  sped  away  as  if  on  wings.  The 
days  seemed  so  short  and  the  nights  passed  away  as 
if  the  clock  was  making  no  record  of  them.  What 
with  planning  for  traveling  suits,  traveling  cases, 
stationery,  diary  books,  and  what  with  correspond- 
ence with  Secretary  Hay  for  American  passports  and 
the  minor  details  that  are  necessary  to  ocean  travel, 
besides  the  numerous  calls  to  which  they  had  to  re- 
spond, they  were  kept  busier  than  they  ever  had  been 
in  their  lives  before.  Marie  told  Agnes  more  than 
once  that  she  never  knew  she  had  so  many  friends 
until  they  were  getting  ready  to  leave.  Oscar  and 
Roscoe  had  promised  many  of  their  chums  to  write 
to  them  from  certain  points  along  the  journey.  "Never 
mind,  old  boy,"  said  Marie,  to  her  brother  Oscar, 
"  You'll  find  you  need  all  the  time  you  have  without 
writing  to  all  the  boys  in  Mayville  and  you  will  never 
get  half  of  your  promises  fulfilled." 

Many  a  time  during  the  last  week  as  Agnes  was 
milking  old  Blossom  she  slapped  her  on  the  neck  and 
said,  "  I  wonder  who  will  milk  you  Blossom  while  I 
am  gone,  and  in  spite  of  all  the  fun  that  Roscoe  had  in 
calling  his  sister  a  baby  about  such  things,  he  would 
occasionally  find  himself  in  the  big  box  stall  with  the 
curry  comb  and  brush  smoothing  the  glossy  hair  of 
Daisy,  his  five-year-old  mare,  and  if  he  wasn't  too  proud 
to  own  it,  he  would  have  to  admit  that  a  lump  would 
raise  in  his  throat  as  he  thought  of  how  long  it  would 
be  before  he  would  see  her  again  and  who  all  would 
drive  her  before  he  returned. 

When  the  final  day  came  and  all  things  were  ready 
and  they  were  walking  to  the  depot,  little  Susie, 
Marie's  ten-year-old  sister  who  refused  to  be  com- 
forted, said  in  her  childish  way,  "  Marie  I  am  so  glad 
you  are  starting  home."     "  How  is  that.  Susie,"  said 


Marie,  "  I  don't  understand  you."  "  Why,"  she  said, 
"  don't  you  see  you  have  just  so  far  to  go  and  now 
since  you  have  started  that  much  of  the  journey  is 
over  and  I  will  be  so  glad  when  you  get  back."  "  I'll 
bet  on  Susie  "  said  Oscar,  "  she's  always  looking  on  the 
bright  side  of  things." 

At  the  depot  the  platform  was  lined  from  one  end 
to  the  other  with  school  children,  with  business  men, 
fathers  and  mothers  among  whom  were  Rev.  Dawson 
and  wife.  Cne  of  the  most  prominent  characters 
among  them  was  James  Maynor,  and  he  was  not 
satisfied  with  going  to  Mayville  with  them,  but  he  got 
on  the  train  and  even  went  with  them  as  far  as  Pitts- 
burg. After  receiving  their  promise  to  write  to  him 
occasionally,  he  returned  home  and  they  sped  on  their 
way  to  the  metropolis  of  America. 

"  Well  come  on  now,"  said  Roscoe  "  and  don't  break 
your  necks  gazing  at  these  sky  scrapers,  we'll  have  time 
to-morrow  to  see  them,"  as  they  were  walking  up  the 
street  to  the  hotel,  the  girls  thought  it  would  be  no  harm 
to  just  turn  around  and  look  at  things  the  same  way 
they  had  been  doing  in  Mayville.  To  the  above 
criticism  Marie  replied.  "  I  want  to  apprise  you  boys 
in  the  very  beginning  that  I  am  starting  on  this 
journey  to  see  things  and  the  only  way  I  can  do  that 
is  to  use  my  eyes."  At  the  hotel  that  evening,  Miss 
Merritt  laid  out  the  plans  for  the -next  day.  She  said, 
"  In  the  afternoon  we  will  go  down  to  the  wharf  and 
see  if  the  Celtic  is  in."  "  Oh  she's  in  Miss  Merritt," 
said  the  boys  almost  in  one  voice,  "  you  know  Mr. 
Maynor  said  she  was  due  a  week  ago."  ."  Yes,  I  know, 
but  there  is  nothing  like  being  sure  of  it  besides  I  am 
getting  anxious  to  get  a  glimpse  of  our  home  for  the 
coming  week." 

At  the  S.  S.  Agency  the  next  morning  they  gained 
permission  to  go  on  board  the  Steamer  and  look  at 
their  state  rooms.  "  There  she  is  "  said  Agnes,  point- 
ing her  finger  in  the  direction  of  East  River. 
"Where?"  said  Miss  Gertrude,  "I  don't  see  her." 
"  Why  don't  you  see  the  big  word  "  Celtic  "  on  the 
side  of  that  ship,"  said  Agnes.  "  It  looks  exactly  as 
it  did  the  other  evening  when  Mr.  Maynor  .showed  us 
the  picture  on  the  wall."  "Yes,  but  that  certainly 
is  some  building,  it  is  so  large,"  answered  Miss  Mer- 
ritt. "  Humph  "  said  Roscoe,  "  that's  because  we  are 
so  close  to  it.  Do  you  remember  that  Mr.  Maynor 
said  she  was  seven  hundred  feet  long?  Just  wait 
( Continued  on  page  1 1 76. ) 


'.'.',  :L7.\(  »  u<. — December  6,  1904. 


I 


^#J  Tfie  Q*  &  &♦  department*  J 


^c 


What  is  the  address  of  the  Youth's  Companion? 
Boston,  Mass. 

* 
Is  there  still  a  penitentiary  at  Jeffersonville,  Ind.? 
The  prison  is  still  there  but  is  called  a  reformatory. 

■■> 

When  was  Jesse  James,  the  desperado,  killed,  and 
where? 

April  3,  1882,  by  the  Ford  brothers  at  St.  Joseph, 
Mo. 

* 

When  was  the  Eads  Bridge  built  at  St.  Louis,  and  how 
long  did  it  take  to  build  it? 

It  was  begun  in  1867  and  was  completed  in  1874, 
at  a  cost  of  ten  million  dollars. 
* 

How  many  mints  are  there  in  the  United  States,  and 
where? 

The  mints  are  located  at  Carson   City,   New   Or- 
leans, Philadelphia,  San  Francisco  and  Denver. 
* 

What  .is  the  best  method  for  preventing  grub  worms 
damaging  peach  trees? 

Air-slacked  lime  and  wood  ashes  sprinkled  on  the 
ground  around  the  trees. 

* 

Can   I  go  by  boat  from   Cincinnati   to   New   Orleans? 

Boats  run  from  Cincinnati  to  Memphis  only,  but  you 
can  take  another  boat  from  that  place  to  New  Orleans. 
No  boats  can  run  now  until  the  river  rises. 
* 

Please  give  the  names  of  the  absolute,  also  the  limited 
monarchies  of  the  world. 

Absolute  Monarchies,  Abyssinia,  Afghanistan, 
China,  Korea,  Morocco,  Persia,  Russia,  Siam  and 
Turkey. 

Limited    Monarchies,    Austria-Hungary,     Belgium. 
British    Empire,    Denmark,    Germany,    Greece,    Italy, 
Japan,    Montenegro,    Netherlands,    Portugal.    Rou- 
mania,  Servia,  Sweden,  Norway  and  Spain. 
* 

When  was  Black  Friday  and  what  caused  it? 

Black  Friday  in  England  was  May  11.  [866,  when 
the  commercial  panic  in  London  reached  its  climax 
through  the  stoppage  of  Overend,  Gunny  &  Co. 
( Limited  1  on  May  10.  hi  the  United  States  the  term 
Black  Friday  was  applied  to  Friday,  September  -'4. 
[869,  when  a  group  of  speculators  in  New  York  ad- 
vanced the  price  of  gold  suddenly  to  iiij-'..,  causing 
a  panic. 


What  is  the  Talmud? 

The  Talmud  is  the  body  of  traditionary  laws,  pre- 
cepts and  interpretations  contained  in  two  volumi- 
nous sets  of  books  called  the  Mishnah,  and  the  Gemara. 
The  Mishnah  is  the  text  on  which  the  Gemara  is 
based.  The  Gemara  contains  debates  and  discussions 
of  ancient  rabbis  on  the  interpretation  of  laws  and 
precepts  contained  in  the  Mishnah.  Some  call  the 
Gemara  the  Talmud.  There  are  two  Talmuds — 
Palestinian  and  Babylonian.  Kitto  in  the  Cyclopedia 
of  Bib.  Lit.  II.  819,  says:  The  Talmud.  .  .  the  work 
which  embraces  the  civil  and  canonical  laws  of  the 
Jewish  people.  It  contains  those  rules  and  insti- 
tutions by  which,  in  addition  to  the  Old  Testament. 
the  conduct  of  that  nation  is  regulated.  Whatever  is 
obligatory  on  them,  besides  the  law,  is  recorded  in  this 
work.  Here  doubts  are  resolved,  duties  explained, 
cases  of  conscience  cleared  up  and  the  most  minute 
circumstances  relative  to  the  conduct  of  life  discussed 
with  wonderful  particularity. 

* 

Would  you  advocate  teaching  agriculture  in  the  public 
schools  and  why? 
Yes,  for  the  following  reasons : 

1.  To  instill  a  love  and  respect  for  land  and  the  oc- 
cupation of  agriculture. 

2.  To  instill  respect  for  industry  in  general. 

3.  To  cultivate  an  active  and  creative  instinct. 

4.  To  give  practice  and  experience  in  success  and 
failure. 

5.  To  connect  the  school  with  real  life. 

6.  To  stimulate  and  train  the  powers  of  observation. 

7.  To  make  an  avenue  of  communication  between  the 
teacher  and  the  pupil. 

8.  As  a  means  to  expose  the  teacher's  ignorance. 

9.  To  train  the  independent  methods  of  acquiring 
information. 

* 

Is  it  true  that  St.  Louis  is  independent   from   Missouri? 

St.  Lmiis  votes  in  Missouri  on  all  general  elections. 
St.  Louis  pays  Missouri  a  State  tax,  but  so  far  as  its 
municipal  government  is  concerned,  it  is  entirely 
independent. 

* 

How  can  I  get   rid  of  gnats  in  my  cellar? 

Burn  some  tobacco  on  hoi  coals.     The  fumes 
bacco    smoke    will    commit    wonderful    depredati 
among  the  insects.     It  will  even  kill  men  if  used  I 
enough. 


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•«:—:-<-"X"t'  ■{■  *  ■>  ■!•  i'  fr»K^"fr^»">'H^"M~M''fr1H^M"M*'H"M*  ■i«S"K- 


I  '  misc: 


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TTTT' 


(Continued  from  page  H74-J 
here  a  minute  I  am  going  to  step  this  off  and  see  if 
she  really  is  that  long.  Two  hundred  and  thirty- 
three  "  he  said,  as  he  stepped  his  foot  down  the  last 
ime  on  the  wharf.  "  Three  times  two  hundred  nd 
thirty-three  is  six  hundred  and  ninety-nine.  That  set- 
tles it."  They  sat  there  for  two  hours  and  watched  the 
men  load  the  vessel.  The}'  shoveled  five  thousand  tons 
of  coal  in  the  bunkers ;  they  put  four  hundred  and  twen- 
ty-five tons  of  fresh  water  in  the  tank  in  the  hold  of  the 
vessel.  They  watched  them  cart  thirty  tons  of  ice 
to  the  great  refrigerator;  twenty-five  tons  of  potatoes 
and  twenty  tons  of  other  vegetables  were  safely 
stowed  away.  By  asking  one  of  the  stewards  Oscar 
found  out  that  they  had  loaded  seventeen  hundred 
gallons  of  milk  and  two  thousand  dozen  of  eggs,  be- 
sides canned  fruits,  dried  meats,  crackers,  flour  and 
immense  quantities  of  other  things.  Five  carloads  of 
barrelled  beef,  three  carloads  of  sash  and  doors,  five 
carloads  of  cigarettes,  three  carloads  of  whiskey,  five 
barges  of  cotton,  and  three  barges  of  railroad  iron 
were  some  of  the  things  they  watched  the  men  load. 

They  went  back  to  the  hotel  that  night  with  a  better 
idea  of  a  steamship  than  they  had  ever  had  in  their 
lives  before. 

"  What  is  the  exact  time  of  our  sailing?"  asked 
Miss  Merritt,  "  High  noon  to-morrow  "  said  Oscar. 
"  The  rest  of  you  can  sail  when  you  please "  said 
Agnes,  "  I  don't  think  I  will  get  on  that  thing  at  all." 
"  Ah  now,  Aggie  "  said  Roscoe,  "  come,  are  you  to  be 
the  first  to  see  the  Celtic  and  the  first  to  forsake  her?" 
(To  be  continued.) 

*  4>  * 
THE   SALOON    AND    DRINK. 


What  They  Think  of  it. 

A  curse. — Queen   Victoria. 

A  scandal  and  shame. — Win.  E.  Gladstone. 

Traps  for  workingmen. — Earl  Caimes. 

Devilish  and  destructive. — Lord  Rondolph  Church- 
hill 
Stupefies  and  besots. — Bismarck. 

The  mother  of  sins. — Southcy. 

The  devil  in  solution. — Sir  Wilford  Lawson. 

Liquid  fire  and  distilled  damnation. — Robert  Hall. 

The  mother  of  want  and  the  nurse  of  crime. — Lord 
Broughman. 


A  prison  in  politics  as  well  as  in  society. — Sir  W. 
Harcourt. 

The  nation  is  being  throttled  by  the  traffic. — Lord 
Roseberry. 

A  huge  nuisance  and  misery. — London  Times. 

Yet  "  this  curse,"  so  "  devilish  and  destructive,"  that 
"  stupefies  and  besots,"  "  the  mother  of  sins,"  "  of 
want,  and  the  nurse  of  crimes,"  "  the  devil  in  solution," 
"  the  nation's  scandal  and  shame,"  and  "  the  trap  for 
workingmen,"  the  English  nation  legalizes,  protects, 
and  cherishes  at  a  cost  of  well-nigh  seven  hundred 
million  dollars,  and  the  American  nation  does  the  same 
with  the  huge  curse  at  a  cost  of  one  billion  dollars. — 
Selected. 

♦  ♦  ♦ 
PECULIARITIES   OF  THE   ENGLISH   LANGUAGE. 


When  the   English   tongue  we  speak, 
Why  is  break  not  rhymed  with  freak? 
Will  you  tell  me  why  it's  true 
We  say  sew,  but  likewise  few; 
And  the  maker  of  a  verse 
Cannot  cap  his  horse  with  worse? 
Beard  sounds  not  the  same  as  heard; 
Cord  is  different  from  word. 
Cow  is  cow,  but  low  is  low; 
Shoe  is  never  rhymed  with  foe. 
Think  of  hose  and  dose  and  lose, 
And  of  goose — and  yet  of  choose. 
Think  of  comb  and  tomb  and  bomb, 
Doll  and  roll  and  home  and  some. 
And  since  pay  is  rhymed  with  say, 
Why  not  paid  with  said,  I  pray? 
We  have  blood  and  food  and  good; 
Mould  is  not  pronounced  like  could. 
Wherefore  done,  but  gone  and  lone? 
Is  there  any  reason  known? 
And,  in  short,  it  seems  to  me 
Sounds   and   letters    disagree. 


*  *  * 
LINCOLN'S    PHILOSOPHY. 


— Selected. 


The  homely  philosophy  of  Abraham  Lincoln  grows 
yearly  more  refreshing;  it  is  the  righteousness,  simple 
and  beautiful,  after  which  men  and  women  thirst  in 
these  swiftly  changing  hours. 

"  Gold  is  good,  in  its  place ;  but  living,  brave  patri- 
otic men  are  better  than  gold." 

"  God  must  love  common  people,  he  has  made  so 
many  of  .them." 

"  The  strongest  bond  of  human  sympathy,  outside 
of  the  family  relation,  should  be  one  uniting  all  work- 
ing people,  of  all  nations,  and  tongues,  and  kindreds." 


Good    Land    Cheap 


Let  us  sell  you  farming  land  where  the  soil  is  pro- 
ductive and  the  crops  dependable  ;  where  we  have  no 
drouths  or  failures;  where  grasshoppers  are  not;  where 
we  have  few  storms  and  no  destructive  winds;  where 
products  are  greatly  diversified;  where  the  markets  are 
as  good  as  they  are  easily  reached;  where  the  climate 
is  uniform  and  salubrious;  where  you  will  be  cordially 
welcomed  and  helped  along.  We  state  without  fear  of 
contradiction  that  we  have  the  best  land  at  the  least 
money,  possessing  more  advantages  and  fewer  draw- 
backs, than  can  be  found  in  this  country  to-day.  A  few 
years'  time  is  all  that  is  necessary  to  prove  that  we  are 
in  one  of  the  most  productive  areas  for  fruit,  root  crops 
and  live  stock.  The  possibilities  are  here,  largely  un- 
developed as  yet;  all  that  we  want  is  the  people.  Those 
we  are  getting  are  the  right  kind,  your  own  kind,  and 
the  country  will  soon  be  dotted  with  green  fields  and 
cosy  homes.  Don't  get  the  idea  that  you  are  going  to  a 
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THE      INQLENOOK. 


A    Wonderful    Cure 

Without   Even    Seeing   the    Patient 

AFTER    DOCTORS     HAD    FAILED 


West    Liberty,  T.ogan  Co.,  Ohio,  Oct.  14 — . 
Dr.  J.  L.  Miller,  Smithville,  Ohio. 

Kind  Friend: — I  feel  it  my  duty  to  write  you  this  morning  and  tell  you  of 
the  wonderful  benefits  I  have  received  from  the  glasses  I  got  of  you  some 
time  ago;  and  I  think  I  had  better  commence  at  the  beginning  and  tell  the 
story. 

I  had  been  a  constant  sufferer  for  almost  seventeen  years  with  headache; 
sometimes  a  dull  ache,  and  other  times  nervous  and  sick  headache;  sometimes 
I  felt  as  though  there  was  a  band  around  my  head;  at  other  times  the  back  of 
my  head  and  neck  would  ache  so  terribly  and  get  so  cold  that  I  really  felt 
as  if  I  could  stand  it  no  longer.  At  such  times  I  felt  as  if  I  was  looking 
through  a  heavy  mist  and  at  last,  after  a  severe  spell  of  sickness,  my  sight 
was  so  poor  I  could  hardly  see  at  all;  my  eyes  watered  a  great  deal  and  there 
were  dark  spots  before  my  eyes,  and  moving  objects  before  me.  Finally  there 
were  two  objects  instead  of  one,  and  my  eyes  would  ache  and  burn  and  feel 
as  though  there  were  splinters  in  them. 

So  I  thought  I  would  see  an  optician,  and  see  if  he  could  help  me;  but 
he  told  me  plainly  he  could  not  help  me;  so  I  went  to  two  specialists,  with 
the  same  result,  the  only  hope  being  in  an  operation,  and  that  being  small 
hope,  as  the  case  was  a  very  deep-seated  one,  and  that  my  chances  for  seeing 
at  all  were  very  small.  I  was  thoroughly  discouraged,  as  I  have  five  children 
to  care  for,  and  I  was  also  a  sufferer  from  nervousness,  liver,  kidney,  stomach 
and  spinal  trouble,  and  then  to  think  of  being  blind  was  almost  too  much. 

One  day  I  saw  an  advertisement  in  a  paper  that  sent  a  ray  of  hope  through 
me.  It  was  Dr.  J.  L.  Miller's  advertisement  and  acting  immediately  upon  the 
sudden  impulse,  I  wrote  to  you  and  stated  my  case  and  receiving  an  encour- 
aging reply,  in  which  you  told  me  that  you  could  furnish  glasses  that  would 
benefit  me.  I  sent  for  them  (but  I  must  confess  I  had  very  little  hope  of  them 
doing  me  any  good).  I  just  wish  to  state  that  when  they  came  I  had  a  test 
ready  for  them,  as  I  had  a  bad  headache  and  had  a  call  to  go  eight  miles  that 
afternoon  in  a  carriage  in  the  mission  work,  and  being  in  the  sun  and  reading 
by  electric  lights  at  night,  but  my  headache  vanished  shortly  after  putting 
them  on  and  now,  after  three  months,  I  can  truthfully  say  that  I  had  only  a 
slight  touch  of  headache  a  few  times,  and  the  dark  spots  have  disappeared, 
so  I  can  read  some  and  am  beginning  to  do  my  sewing  again.  The  double 
objects  are  gone,  and  I  have  no  fear  of  blindness.  I  would  not  part  with  my 
glasses  at  any  price,  if  I  could  not  get  another  pair  just  like  them. 

In  conclusion  I  just  want  to  recommend  Dr.  J.  L.  Miller  to  one  and  all 
for  fair  treatment  and  honesty,  for  he  has  proven  himself  to  be  an  honest 
man  to  me,  although  I  have  never  seen  him;  so  don't  hesitate  to  write  to  him- 
if  your  eyesight  is  failing,  for  he  will  help  you. 

Very  respectfully, 

Mrs.  Anna  D.  Reames. 

For  other  testimonials,  question  sheet,  terms,  etc.,  write 

DR.  J.   L.   MILLER,   Smithville,   Ohio. 


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sent  on  trial. 


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There  is  Satisfaction 

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Smucker's  pure  home-made  apple  butter  is  the- 
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The  Gem  of  the  San 
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Embraces  the  Mount  Campbell- 
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Producers,  Level  Orchard,  Kings- 
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Special  inducements  made  to 
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It  is  a  source  of  no  little  wonder,  how  a  plain  house- 
hold remedy  like  Dr.  Peter's  Blood  Vitalizer  has  be- 
come known  and  in  demand  in  so  many  foreign  lands, 
when  it  is  remembered  that  it  has  never  been  advertised 
outside  of  its  home  country  and  even  there  in  a  very 
limited  way. 

There  is  hardly  a  civilized  country  in  the  world  to- 
day where  the  Blood  Vitalizer  is  not  to  be  obtained.  It 
is  a  remedy  that  finds  appreciation  among  people  of 
all  climes.  Letters  of  gratitude  and  good  will  greet 
the  proprietor  from  all  parts  of  the  earth. 

Among  the  letters  published  below  is  one  from 
Jerusalem.  Mr.  B.  Fata,  the  writer,  has  long  held  an 
agency  for  Dr.  Peter's  Blood  Vitalizer  in  the  Holy 
Land.  He  has,  however,  never  mentioned  in  his  cor- 
respondence how  he  first  learned  of  the  medicine  or 
how  he  happened  to  accept  an  agency.  Can  it  be 
that  some  good  missionary  on  his  travels  imparted  the 
information  or  left  a  bottle  of  the  Blood  Vitalizer 
with  the  children  of  the  desert? 

But  a  short  time  ago,  a  shipment,  lacking  but  a  few 
pounds  of  weighing  two  tons,  was  made  to  Barnardo, 
Argentine  Republic.  Mr.  Henrique  Knecht,  the  local 
agent  for  the  remedy  at  that  place,  reports  a  steadily 
increasing  demand  and  so  on  the  world  over. 

Dr.  Peter's  Blood  Vitalizer  is  not  sold  in  drugstores, 
but  by  special  agents  appointed  in  every  community. 
In  Chicago,  the  place  of  its  manufacture,  over  fourteen 
hundred  agents  supply  the  local  demand.  Thou- 
sands upon  thousands  who  were  sick  and  in  distress 
'have  found  it  a  help  in  time  of  need.  There  are  other 
thousands  equally  needy,  who  have  not  yet  tried  it. 
.Are  you  one  of  these? 

FROM    THE    HOLY    LAND. 

Jerusalem,    Aug.   9,    1903 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111.,  America. 

Dear  Sir: — In  my  last  shipment  of  Blood  Vitalizer  sev- 
eral bottles  were  broken.  This  is  the  first  time  such  a 
breakage  has  occurred.  I  am  inclined  to  believe  that 
if  the  medicine  were  not  packed  in  such  large  cases  there 
would  be  less  chance  of  breakage  occurring.  So  many 
dozen  in  a  case  makes  the  packages  too  bulky.  If  packed 
in  boxes  of  about  200  kilo,  I  think  it  would  be  safer,  and 
they  could  be  more  readily  handled. 

A  few  days  ago  I  went  to  Beirut,  where  there  was  a 
demand  for  the  Blood  Vitalizer.  The  people  there  are 
delighted  with  the  medicine  and  asked  me  to  establish  a 
sub-agency,  which  I  did.  I  left  a  stock  of  the  medicine 
there  so  they  can  get  it  conveniently.  I  must  earnestly 
request  you  to  send  me  more  reading  matter  in  the  He- 
brew language,  as  there  are  60,000  Jews  here  who  will 
eventually  use  the  Blood  Vitalizer.  It  is  unnecessary  for 
me  to  tell  you  that  the  Blood  Vitalizer  is  getting  well 
known  here.  My  orders  for  medicine  show  what  a  de- 
mand there  is  and  how  they  appreciate  the  medicine. 
The  Blood  Vitalizer  is  getting  to  be  a  household  medicine 
in   Jerusalem.     In  sending   reading  matter    send   some   in 


French  also,  as  there  are  quite  a  number  of  people  who 
are  familiar  with  that  language. 

Yours  very  sincerely, 

B.   Fata. 

THE    LAND    OF    THE    MIDNIGHT    SUN. 

Stenkjar,  Norway,  January  21. 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111.,  U.  S.  A. 

You  will  no  doubt  recall  that  I  sent  for  a  box  of  your 
Blood  Vitalizer  some  time  ago.  My  wife  had  been  suffer- 
ing for  many  years  with  what  the  doctors  called  chronic 
intestinal  catarrh  and  impoverished  blood.  The  physicians 
also  declared  that  her  nervous  system  was  completely 
ruined.  She  had  pains  all  over.  As  a  result  of  her  con- 
dition her  memory  seemed  to  fail  her  completely  at 
times. 

She  had  not  taken  more  than  two  bottles  of  your  reme- 
dy when  she  experienced  relief  and  an  improvement  in  her 
condition  was  noticeable.  After  having  taken  nine  bot- 
tles she  was  able  to  be  up  and  attend  to  her  household 
duties.  She  had  been  under  the  care  of  many  physicians, 
but  all  to  no  purpose.  We  cannot  be  otherwise  than 
thankful  to  God  for  the  grand  results  it  has  brought 
about.  We  shall  never  be  without  it  in  our  home  as 
long  as   we  can   obtain   it. 

Your  grateful  and  obedient  servant, 

Nikolai  Johansen. 

FROM    THE    FLOWERY    KINGDOM. 

Hankow,  China,  Sept.  14. 
Dr.  P.  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Sir: — The  box  of  Vitalizer  which  the  Rev.  P. 
Matson  ordered  at  my  request  and  which  you  shipped  me, 
arrived  in  good  order  last  fall.  I  should  have  written  you 
much  sooner,  but  trust  you  will  pardon  my  delay.  We 
had  become  familiar  with  the  merits  of  the  Vitalizer 
before  we  went  to  China,  and  for  that  reason  we  sent 
after  it.  The  box  we  received  last  fall,  and  which  I  refer 
to,  is  now  all  used  up,  and  my  wife,  who  has  used  the 
greater  part  of  it, .praises  it  very  highly,  and  she  requests 
that  another  supply  be  sent  us. 

With  best  wishes  for  the  continued  success  of  yourself 
and  medicine,  I  remain 

Yours  very  truly, 

Rev.  Daniel  Nelson. 

Address  care  of  The  Amer.  Nor.  China  Mission. 

A    CHILEAN    DOCTOR    WRITES. 

Conception,  Chile,  Aug.  15,  1903, 
Dr.  Peter  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111.,  U.  S.  A. 

Dear  Sir: — Having  had  the  satisfaction  of  trying  your 
Blood  Vitalizer  it  gives  me  pleasure  to  state  that  the 
reported  excellence  of  your  remedy  has  been  fully  main- 
tained by  my  personal  experience. 
'  My  father,  who  had  been  a  sufferer  for  years  with 
hypochondriac  dyspepsia,  accompanied  by  spells  of  severe 
indigestion,  together  with  other  troublesome  symptoms, 
has  experienced  a  great  change  after  using  six  small  bot- 
tles of  the  medicine,  and  this  is  all  the  more  remarkable, 
when  the  many  different  remedies  previously  taken  and 
the  severe  dietary  regimen  hitherto  practiced,  which 
availed  nothing,  are  taken  into  consideration. 
I  remain,  with  congratulations, 

Very  truly  yours, 

Rene  Condon  Ortiz, 
Physician  and  Surgeon. 

Prepared  at  Chicago,  111.,  and  no  other  place ;  by 
the  sole  proprietor  and  owner,  Dr.  Peter  Fahrney. 


DR.  PETER  FAHRNEY,  112-114  s.  Hoyne  Ave.,  Chicago,  III. 


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f$  or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

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fj  oats.  «- 

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No.  50. 


LIGHTENED    LABOR. 


J'.V    MARTHA  SHEPARD   LIPP1NCOTT. 

'Tis  hard  life's  duties  to  perform, 

When  we  are  tired  and  wish  to  dream; 
But  love  will  lighten  labor  so, 

And  make  it  sweetest  pleasure  seem. 
It  keeps  our  thoughts  above  the  toil, 

On  comforts  which  our  work  will  add, 
And  sends  such  thoughts  of  sweet  delight, 

When  we,  without  them,  might  be  sad. 

And  think  our  lot  was  pretty  hard, 

And  worry  with  the  constant  care; 
But  oh!  how  love  will  lighten  toil, 

And  all  the  heavy  burdens  share, 
Till  work  seems  joy,  to  make  all  nice 

For  dear  ones,  that  we  love  so  well: 
How  well  we  feel  repaid  for  it, 

When  they  their  approbation  tell. 
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♦  _♦   ♦ 

THE    WORLD    AROUND    US. 


BY   UNCLE  LEWIS. 

Diplomacy  is  a  political  lie. 

Greatness  means  position, — so  says  the  world. 

* 
To  be  of  the  world,  worldly,  is  to  lose  individuality. 

* 
The  world  condemns  those  faults  in  others  which  re- 
flect its  own. 

* 

The  zvorld  has  little  use  for  the  man  who  knoivs  "  it 
can't  be  done." 

* 
Everybody  does  me  a  service,  gives  me  something 
to  imitate  or  avoid. 

* 

The  ivorld  is  well  called  a  stage — fancy  before  the 
.curtain,  truth  behind  it. 

* 

What  a  man  does  for  the  world  depends,  first,  on 
how  well  he  does  for  himself. 


Those  who  try  hardest  to  please  the  ivorld,  generally 
succeed  in  pleasing  the  devil. 

* 
Policy  and  diplomacy  have  covered  the  earth  with 
a  mantle  of  blood. 

* 

When  you  find  a  festering  sore  in  the  body  politic, 
[■rick  it. 

* 

The  zvorld  owes  no  man  a  living  until  he  has  put  the 
world  under  obligation. 

* 

The  world  is  not  to  be  conquered  by  humbug,  though 
it  will  stand  a  huge  dose  of  it. 
* 
One-half    the   world    is    "  preying    on "  instead  of 
"  praying  for  "  the  other  half. 
* 
Meet   cunning  with    cunning,   force  zvith   force,   is 
the  world's  philosophy  and  practice. 
* 
The  world  is  as  one  sees  it,  and  is  dressed  in  gay 
or  somber  colors,  according  to  the  mental  vision. 

* 

The  idea  that  most  people  have  of  right  or  wrong 
action  is  what  other  people  think  or  say  about  it. 
* 
Truth,   simplicity   and   innocence  are   three  jcivels 
which  men  barter  away  for  worldly  success  and  honor. 
* 
There  is  a  good  deal  of  philosophy  in  taking  things 
as  they  come, — that  is  if  they  do  not  belong  to  some 
one  else. 

* 

The  man  who  actually  "fills  "  a  public  position  of 
trust  lias  to  shrink  himself  to  it.     The  ordinary  office- 
holder, however,  has  plenty  of  elbow-room. 
* 

'Tis  amusing  to  hear  our  great  scientists  tell  hoiu  the 
world  was  made  and  how  man  was  made,  when  there 
isn't  one  among  them  who  can  make  a  pig-ivced. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— December  13,  1904. 


THE    GREAT   WHITE    PERIL    OF   THE   SEA. 


BY  D.    L.    MILLER. 

Note.  This  study  of  icebergs  was  suggested  to  the  writ- 
er by  articles  which  appeared  in  current  numbers  of 
McClure's  and  Leslie's  magazines.  Credit  is  hereby  given 
to  these  journals  for  data  and  matter  in  the  preparation  of 
this  article. — D.  L.  M. 

Those  who  go  down  to  the  sea  in  great  ships  have 
three  imminent  dangers  to  encounter  which,  if  elimi- 
nated from  the  navigation  of  the  Atlantic  would  make 
an  ocean  voyage  many  times  safer  than  a  journey  by 
rail  from  Chicago  to  San  Francisco.  These  are  fogs 
and  collisions,  storms  and  rock-bound  coasts  with  half 
sunken  reefs  and  the  glittering  awesome  iceberg,  but 
the  greatest  of  these  is  the  floating  island  of  ice,  the 
great,  white,  crystal  peril  of  the  sea. 

Dense  fog  and  consequent  collisions  occur  often 
enough  to  startle  the  world  with  the  resulting  loss  of 
life  as  instanced  when,  on  the  4th  of  July  1898,  the 
French  Steamer,  "  La  Bourgogne  "  collided  with  a  Brit- 
ish boat,  sixty  miles  south  of  Cape  Sable  and  carried 
with  her  down  to  the  great  cemetery  of  the  sea  585 
souls,  among  the  number  Dr.  E.  L.  Walter  of  Ann  Ar- 
bor, Mich.,  a  very  warm  personal  friend  of  our  Associ- 
ate Office  Editor,  or  as  when  the  North  German  Lloyd 
Steamer,  the  "  Elbe,"  was  sunk  in  collision  in  the  North 
Sea  Jan.  29th  1895  and  350  lives  were  lost. 

On  our  recent  voyage  across  the  Atlantic  we  had  an 
illustration  of  the  dangers  of  fog.  Several  hours 
before  reaching  our  harbor  a  dense  fog  came  down  up- 
on the  sea  and  the  careful  captain  of  the  "  Deutsch- 
land  "  slowed  the  vessel  so  that  those  on  board  could 
scarcely  observe  any  motion.  The  fog  was  so  dense 
that  one  could  not  see  the  length  of  the  ship.  Occasion- 
ally the  fog  lifted  slightly  and  revealed  the  close  prox- 
imity of  other  great  steamers  dangerously  near  enough 
to  give  one's  nerves  a  shiver. 

What  is  true  of  the  dangers  of  fog  and  collision  is 
also  true  of  storm  and  rock-bound  coast.  Fresh  in 
the  memory  of  all  our  readers  is  the  recent  loss  of  the 
Danish  ship  "  Norge,"  bound  from  Copenhagen  to 
New  York.  She  was  driven  from  her  course  by  a 
heavy  gale  of  wind  and  cast  on  the  dangerous  Rock- 
hall  reef  in  the  North  Sea,  and  750  emigrants,  who 
had  started  with  high  hopes  to  find  new  homes  in  the 
land  of  promise  beyond  the  sea  found  instead  watery 
graves.  More  remote,  April  2nd,  1873,  was  the  loss 
of  the  White  Star  line  steamer  sailing  from  Liverpool 
to  New  York.  She  encountered  a  terrific  storm,  and 
having  an  insufficient  supply  of  coal  was  driven  on  the 
pitiless  rocks  at  Mar's  Head  near  Halifax  and  five  hun- 
dred and  forty-six  persons  perished. 

But  neither  fog  and  collision  nor  storm  and  rock- 
bound  coast  are  so  dangerous  to  navigation,  or  so  dread- 
ed by  ship  captain,  as  are  the  floating  ice  islands  which 


invade  the  waters  of  the  North  Atlantic  and  so  often 
bring  swift  destruction  to  ship  and  voyager.  Hundreds 
of  good,  staunch  ships,  as  strong  as  human  ingenuity 
and  skilled  hands  could  fashion  them  of  firmest  oak 
and  strongest  steel,  carrying  thousands  of  human  be- 
ings full  of  life  and  hope  for  the  future,  have  suddenly 
and  mysteriously  disappeared  from  the  bosom  of  the 
deep  and  their  fate  is  shrouded  in  the  sealed  book  of 
the  future.  Could  the  immense  iceberg  floating  by 
"  mast  high  and  as  green  as  emerald  "  to  lose  itself  in 
the  warm  embrace  of  the  heated  waters  of  the  Gulf 
Stream  whisper  its  dread  secrets  what  a  tale  of  horror 
and  quick  death  it  might  unfold,  but  silent  as  the  grave 
it  goes  to  its  tomb  murmuring  no  story  of  shipwreck 
and  death. 

Often,  on  some  bright,  clear  day,  and  there  are  many 
of  these  on  the  Atlantic  in  the  summer  months,  the 
passengers  hurry  to  the  ship's  rail  to  have  a  look  at  one 
of  these  ice  islands  as  it  floats  by  in  its  lonely  grandeur. 
To  the  delighted  voyagers  it  is  a  spectacle  once  seen 
never  to  be  forgotten,  and  many  are  the  exclamations 
of  surprise  and  pleasure  at  the  brilliancy  of  the  display. 
How  little  they  dream  that  on  some  dark  foggy  night 
the  glittering  mass,  glorious  in  the  sunlight  and  re- 
splendent in  its  crystal  whiteness  came  dangerously 
near  colliding  with  their  ship.  It  was  only  the  faithful 
night  watchman,  whose  eyes  are  never  for  an  instant 
turned  away  from  the  course  of  the  ship  while  on  duty, 
that  saved  the  great  ship  from  a  disaster. 

Up  to  the  present  time  no  means  have  been  devised. 
or  contrivance  invented  to  detect  the  approach  of  these 
silent  foes  of  ocean  traffic.  Taking  the  temperature  of 
the  water  has  been  resorted  to  but  with  indifferent  suc- 
cess. It  often  occurs  that  the  first  warning  the  ship's 
master  has  of  the  proximity  of  the  berg  is  as  its  ghostly 
form  looms  up  in  his  pathway  and  the  next  moment  the 
shock  of  collision  comes.  A  steamer  racing  through 
the  water  at  the  rate  of  twenty  miles  an  hour  crashes 
into  one  of  these  half  hidden  terrors  of  the  sea,  andbe 
she  as  staunch  and  strong  as  human  hands  can  make  her 
she  is  crushed  like  an  eggshell  and  goes  to  the  bottom 
like  a  plummet.  Many  a  good  ship  has  left  port  with 
her  human  freight  never  to  be  heard  of  again.  The  se- 
cret of  her  destruction  could  be  unfolded  were  the  ice- 
berg to  tell  its  story. 

Owing  to  the  many  serious  losses  to  shipping  from 
icebergs  the  principal  lines  of  New  York  abandoned  the 
most  direct  route  across  the  Atlantic  for  a  more  south- 
ern course  thus  avoiding  to  some  extent  the  danger 
from  icebergs.  But  this  did  not  end  the  risk  and  the 
White  Peril  of  the  sea  is  still  the  dread  of  all  mar- 
iners. McGrath  gives  these  incidents  of  narrow  es- 
cape from  destruction.  In  September,  1890  the  "  City 
of  Rome,"  from  Glasgow  to  New  York  with  1600 
human   beings   aboard,   500  being,  saloon   passengers, 


THE    INGLENOOK.— December  13,   1904. 


1 179 


struck  a  berg  at  midday,  in  the  steamer  track.  While 
running  half  speed  through  a  fog  with  a  double  watch 
set,  and  the  passengers  at  lunch,  the  crash  came.  Men 
and  meals  were  shot  into  a  heap  below  the  stairway, 
whence  a  frightened  crew  rushed  to  the  deck.  Fortu- 
nately discipline  was  good,  the  rush  was  stemmed,  and 
the  panic  ceased.     The  berg,  known  as  a  "  growler," 


GREAT    EASTERN. — McClure's. 

was  cut  in  two  by  the  ship,  whose  bows  were  stove  be- 
low water.  Her  bulkheads  kept  tight,  however,  and 
she  reached  port  safely. 

The  most  remarkable  case  on  record  of  an  iceberg 
collision  is  that  of  the  Guion  liner  "  Arizona  "  in  1879. 
She  was  then  the  greyhound  of  the  Atlantic  and  the 
largest  ship  afloat  (5750  tons)  except  the  "  Great  East- 
ern." Leaving  New  York  in  November  for  Liverpool, 
with  509  souls  aboard,  she  was  coursing  across  the 
banks,  with  fair  weather,  but  dark,  when,  near  mid- 
night, about  250  miles  of  St.  John's  she  rammed  a  mon- 


ster ice-island  at  full  speed — 18  knots.  Terrific  was 
the  impact  and  indescribable  the  alarm.  The  passen- 
gers, flung  from  their  berths,  made  for  the  deck  as  they 
stood,  though  some  were  so  injured  as  to  be  helpless, 
and  the  calls  of  these  forward,  added  to  the  shrieks  of 
the  frenzied  mob  of  half-clad  men  and  women  who 
charged  for  the  boats,  made  up  a  pandemonium.  Wild 
cries  arose  that  the  ship  was  sinking,  for  she  had 
settled  by  the  head,  and  with  piteous  appeals  and  de- 
spairing exclamations  the  passengers  urged  the  boats 
over  that  they  might  escape  the  death  they  thought 
inevitable.  But  the  crew  were  well  in  hand,  the  officers 
maintained  order,  and,  a  hurried  examination  being 
made,  the  forward  bulkheads  were  seen  to  be  safe.  The 
welcome  word  was  passed  along  that  the  ship,  though 
sorely  stricken,  would  still  float  until  she  could  make  a 
harDor.  The  vast  white  terror  had  lain  across  her 
course,  stretching  so  far  each  way  that,  when  descried, 
it  was  too  late  to  alter  the  helm.  Its  giant  shape 
filled  the  foreground,  towering  high  above  the  masts, 
grim  and  gaunt  and  ghastly,  immovable  as  the  adaman- 
tine buttress  of  a  frowning  seaboard,  while  the  liner 
lurched  and  staggered  like  a  wounded  thing  in  agony 
as  her  engines  slowly  drew  her  back  from  the  rampart 
against  which  she  had  flung  herself. 

She  was  headed  for  St.  John's  at  a  slow  speed,  so 
as  not  to  strain  her  bulkhead  too  much,  and  arrived 
there  thirty-six  hours  later.  That  little  port — the 
crippled  ships'  hospital — has  seen  many  a  strange  sight 
come  in  from  the  sea,  but  never  a  more  astounding 
spectacle  than  that  which  she  presented  that  Sunday 
afternoon  she  entered  there. 

Her  deck  and  forepart  were  cumbered  with  great 
fragments  of  ice,  weighing  over  two  hundred  tons  in 
all,  shattered  from  the  berg  when  she,  struck,  be- 
ing so  wedged  into  the  fractures  and  gaps  as  to  make 
it  unwise  to  start  them  until  she  was  docked.  The 
whole  population  of  St.  John's  lined  the  water  front  to 
witness  her  arrival.  Her  escape  was  truly  marvelous, 
and  the  annals  of  marine  adventure  may  be  searched 
in  vain  for  its  equal.  From  top-rail  her  bows  were 
driven  in,  the  gaping  wound  fully  twenty  feet  wide, 
and  the  massive  plates  and  ribs  crumpled  up  like  so 
many  pieces  of  cardboard.  All  the  iron  work  was 
twisted  into  fantastic  forms,  the  oak  planking  was 
smashed  into  splinters,  the  beams  and  stanchions  which 
backed  the  bow  were  shattered  and  torn,  and  her  stem 
piece  had  been  wrenched  off  when  she  had  bitten  the 
berg.  As  her  dead  weight,  including  engines  and  car- 
go, must  have  been  fully  10,000  tons,  and  as  this  pro- 
pelled through  the  water  at  an  iS  knol  clip  must  have 
produced  an  enormous  momentum,  the  wonder  is  that 
she  was  not  crushed,  and  sent  lo  the  bottom  of  the  sea. 

The  most  marvelous   story   is   that   of   the   Si 
"Portia."   which   embodies  an   incident   more   fanciful 


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than  the  most  vivid  imagination  ever  conceived.  She 
plied  between  New  York  and  Newfoundland,  her  cap- 
tain being  Francis  Ash,  an  experienced  navigator  of 
St.  John's  who  had  been  an  ice  pilot  of  Schley's  squad- 
ron when  it  rescued  the  survivors  of  the  Greely  Arctic 
expedition  in  1884.  In  June  1893,  while  off  the  coast 
of  Newfoundland  with  many  tourists  aboard,  she  sight- 
ed on  a  clear  day  a  gleaming  northern  monarch,  the 
magnificent  proportions  of  which  excited  the  admira- 
tion of  the  passengers,  who  had  never  seen  the  like  be- 
fore. Captain  Ash  estimated  its  length  at  800  feet  and 
its  height  at  200.  With  its  fantastic  pinnacles  and  crys- 
tal sides  giving  back  a  flood  of  rainbow  tints,  it  is  not 
surprising  that  the  delighted  on-lookers  begged  the  cap- 


wave  created  by  the  cleavage  swept  over  the  fragments 
holding  the  "  Portia  "  and  launched  her  back  into  her 
native  element,  with  bottom  scarred  and  bruised  but 
otherwise  uninjured. 

Though  the  story  seems  incredible,  yet  it  is  undeni- 
ably true.  As  the  "  Portia "  approached  the  berg- 
she  ran  on  a  submerged  portion  of  it.  This  disturbed 
the  equilibrium  of  the  main  body,  and  the  ice  below  the 
surface  being  honeycombed,  or  "  rotten,"  from  the 
effects  of  the  salt  water  and  the  summer  sun,  the  shock 
caused  it  to  turn  over,  and  in  doing  so  it  split  apart 
and  she  was  caught  on  one  portion.  The  escape  seems 
still  more  miraculous  when  one  realizes  that,  had  she 
not  kept  a  fairly  even  keel,  she  must  surely  have  sunk 


PORTIA'S  RIDE. — McClure's. 


tain  to  go  near  so  that  they  might  snap  shot  or  sketch 
this  ocean  colossus  at  close  range.  Suddenly,  as  the 
ship  slowly  advanced,  a  gunshot  from  the  berg,  a  jar 
was  felt,  the  ship  grated  heavily,  a  low  rumbling  sound 
was  heard,  the  berg  quivered  and  split  asunder,  and, 
to  the  horror  of  all  on  board,  it  was  realized  that  she  was 
"  a-ground  "  on  part  of  the  icy  isle.  As  this  mighty 
fragment  sought  a  new  equilibrium  in  the  ocean,  its 
submerged  base,  being  tossed  upward,  caught  the 
"  Portia  "  as  in  a  cradle,  or  dock,  and  lifted  her  clear 
out  of  the  water. 

For  a  moment  or  two  the  situation  on  board  the  ship 
was  critical  beyond  compare.  She  lay,  nearly  upright, 
.  in  a  shelving  section  of  the  berg,  and  if  this  completed 
its  somersault  she  and  her  personnel  might  meet  in- 
stant destruction.  The  horror  of  it  blanched  every 
cheek  and  stilled  every  tongue.  Fortunately  the 
weight  of  the  hull  and  the  cargo  checked  the  upending 
motion  and  sent  the  mass  settling  back  again.     A  huge 


as  she  swept  back  into  the  sea.  As  it  was,,  she  had  all 
she  could  do  to  battle  with  the  mighty  billows  that 
threatened  to  engulf  her,  and  she  was  headed  away 
from  this  scene  of  peril  with  all  hearts  rejoicing  that 
they  had  been  mercifully  spared  an  experience  that  no' 
others  had  been  brought  face  to  face  with. 

But  not  all  of  the  steamers,  freighted  with  human 
life,  which  try  conclusions  with  icebergs  have  escaped 
destruction  as  luckily  as  did  the  "  City  of  Rome,"  the 
"  Arizona,"  and  the  "  Portia."  Many  a  good  ship' 
has  sailed  away  from  port,  with  fair  weather  and 
a  smooth  sea,  laden  with  passengers  homeward  bound, 
or  seeking  new  homes  beyond  the  great  waters  only 
to  vanish  from  human  ken.  No  tidings  ever  reaches 
friends  at  home  of  those  who  go  down  to  a  "  sunless 
sea."  Among  this  class  may  be  named  the  **  City  of 
Glasgow  "  which,  in  1854  left  Liverpool  for  Philadel- 
phia with  480  souls  on  board  and  was  never  again 
heard  of.     The  same  fate  befell  the  "  Pacific  "  sailing 


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from  Liverpool  in  February  1856,  carrying  185  per- 
sons, and  the  "  City  of  Boston  "  from  that  port  for 
Liverpool  in  May  1870  with  191  passengers.  To  these 
are  to  be  added  scores  and  even  hundreds  of  ships 
that  have  thus  disappeared  silently  and  mysteriously 
never  to  be  heard  of  again,  and  it  is  the  general  opinion 
of  seamen  that  they  were  destroyed  by  icebergs. 

Nature's  great  laboratory,  where  these  floating  mass- 
es of  ice  are  fashioned  is  found  on  the  Western  coast 
of  Greenland  where  the  waters  of  Baffin's  Bay  wash 
the  silent  shores  of  a  frozen  continent.  Except  a  nar- 
row strip,  a  league  or  two  in  width,  inhabited  by  a  few 
thousand  hardy  Esquimaux  the  entire  country  is  cov- 


a  constant  menace  to  navigation  and  occasion  great  loss 
of  life. 

"  Calving,"  the  sailors  call  the  birth  of  these  icy  mon- 
sters of  the  North  and  woe  betide  the  luckless  mariners 
whose  course  carries  them  too  close  to  the  face  of  the 
glacier  when  the  crash  comes.  Great  waves  are 
formed  which  overwhelm  ships  ten  miles  away,  and 
many  an  Esquimaux,  in  frail  skin  kyak  has  met  his 
doom  by  venturing  too  near  the  "  calving  place  "  of 
the  glaciers.  In  1871  the  whaler  "  Active  "  was  over- 
turned by  one  of  these  huge  waves  and  all  on  board 
save  two  souls  perished.  A  similar  fate  befell  a  Dan- 
ish store  ship  in  1880  and  other  disasters  caused  by 


REFUGE  PROM  CALCEDONIA.— Leslie's. 


ered  with  an  immense  cap  of  ice  and  snow  hundreds 
of  feet  in  thickness.  For  thousands  of  years  the  snow 
has  been  falling  on  this  great  waste  of  whiteness,  and 
the  intense  cold  of  the  long,  dark  arctic  winters  when 
the  mercury  falls  to  80  degrees  below  zero,  following 
the  'warm  sunshine  of  a  single  summer  day,  some 
months  in  length  when  the  snow  is  softened,  the  whole 
mass  is  finally  converted,  layer  after  layer,  into  a  solid 
mass  of  ice  more  than  a  thousand  feet  in  thickness. 
The  immense  pressure  of  the  ponderous  mass  forces  the 
ice  down  the  valleys  to  the  sea  in  the  form  of  greal 
glaciers  at  the  rate  of  from  twenty  to  forty  feet  a  day. 
The  great  crystal  front  of  whiteness  is  forced  out  into 
the  sea  until  finally  from  the  action  of  the  water  and 
its  own  immense  weight,  with  a  thunderous  crash  com- 
pared with  which  the  cannonading  of  the  heaviest  ar- 
tillery of  modern  times  is  as  the  patter  of  the  soft  rain 
on  the  roof,  icebergs  as  large  as  the  Stale  of  Rhode  Is- 
land are  thrown  into  the  sea  to  find  their  way.  slowly 
but  surely,  southward  to  the  Atlantic  where  they  prove 


these  giant  waves  have  taught  the  careful  ship  captain 
to  give  the  place  a  wide  berth. 

"  People  unfamiliar  with  icebergs  or  their  lore  may 
doubt  that  the  sea-monsters  are  as  large  or  destructive 
as  this  narrative  indicates ;  but  no  one  who  has  ev- 
er traversed  the  northern  seas,  or  seen  a  crip- 
pled steamer  making  into  port  with  gaping  bows 
telling  of  her  combat,  will  question  for  a  mo- 
ment the  most  improbable  story  of  battle  with 
these  rovers.  The  really  amazing  feature  of  the  bergs 
is  that  they  show  so  little  of  their  bulk,  one-eighth, 
above  water.  Hence,  even  when  a  colossal  one  is  seen, 
the  mind  fails  to  graap  the  significance  of  what  it  rep- 
resents— the  vast  bulk  concealed  below-  the  ocean  level. 
It  is  only  when  a  berg  overturns  that  an  idea  of  its  im- 
mensity is  obtained.  This  occurrence  usually  results 
from  one  berg  fouling  with  another,  the  nicely  adjusted 
balance  being  disturbed  and  the  colossus  floundering 
forward  and  throwing  off  fragments  with  noises  like 
the  discharges  of  a  park  of  artillery,  the  movement  in 


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communicating  itself  in  turn  to  bergs  in  the  vicinity, 
until  they  are  turning  turtle  like  a  school  of  whales  at 
play.  Such  a  scene  is  not  uncommon  along  the  Lab- 
rador coast  in  summer,  where  hundreds  of  bergs  are 
to  be  sighted  every  day;  and  the  mail  boat  gives  them 
a  wide  berth  as  she  makes  her  risky  runs  up  and  down 
the  rugged  seaboard.  An  American  college  professor, 
two  years  ago,  counted  176  bergs  in  one  day  from  a 
hill  top  at  Cape  Charles." 

The  bergs  have  well  been  called  floating  ice  islands. 
Some  of  them  are  immense  in  size.  One  of  these 
crystal  monarchs  of  the  sea  was  sighted  in  April  1892 
off  Newfoundland  by  the  steamer  "  Miranda."  It 
proved  to  be  nine  miles  long,  about  two  wide  and  over 
two  hundred  feet  in  height.  The  ship  was  nearly  an 
hour  in  passing  it.  Showing  but  one-eighth  of  its 
thickness  above  the  water  it  must  have  been  sixteen 
hundred  feet  from  top  to  bottom.  After  floating  about 
for  some  time,  a  constant  menace  to  shipping,  it  strand- 
ed on  the  Grand  Banks  where  it  broke  up  forming  a 
large  number  of  dangerous  bergs.  The  highest  ice- 
berg observed  on  the  North  Atlantic  measured  836 
feet  from  the  water  line  to  summit.  It  was  calculated 
that  it  contained  more  than  sixteen  million  tons  of  ice, 
a  sufficient  amount,  if  it  could  have  been  stored  in 
Chicago  and  New  York,  to  have  put  the  ice  trust  out 
of  business  for  some  years. 

Sometimes  these  large  icebergs  carry  with  them  the 
crews  and  passengers  of  wrecked  ships  as  was  in- 
stanced in  the  case  of  the  "  Caledonia  "  which  crashed 
into  one  of  them  in  May  1875  and  went  to  the  bottom 
of  the  sea  an  hour  later.  The  sides  of  the  monster 
where  the  collision  took  place  were  fortunately  sloping 
and  the  entire  fishing  -  crew,  numbering  eighty-two 
men,  women  and  children  effected  a  landing  on  the 
ice,  carrying  with  them  all  the  provisions  possible. 
Here  they  remained  without  shelter  for  three  days  and 
nights  and  were  then  happily  rescued  by  the  steamer 
"  Ainsley  "  bound  for  Labrador. 

As  already  intimated  no  effectual  means  has  yet  been 
discovered  to  give  warning  of  the  silent  approach  of 
an  iceberg.  The  inventor  who  will  produce  a  sure 
method  of  signalling  the  coming  of  the  white  peril 
will  win  for  himself  fortune  and  fame  and  the  blessing 
of  all  who  cross  the  North  Atlantic  ocean.  Until  then 
the  iceberg  will  remain  as  it  has  been  for  centuries 
past  the  Great  White  Peril  of  the  sea. 
♦  ♦  ♦ 
IN  THE  WORLD'S  CONCOURSE.— 2. 


BY  CHARITY  VINCENT. 


Extract  from  Winifred's  letter  to  Dora. 
We  missed   that   address   long  before  we   reached 
Chicago,  and  you  may  know  we  were  frightened  girls. 


We  both  agreed,  however,  that  we  were  fine  specimens 
to  battle  alone  in  St.  Louis  if  a  thing  of  that  kind  upset 
us.  So  we  made  new  plans,  but  all  the  time  we  were 
afraid  we  would  lose  our  handbags,  our  umbrellas, 
or  our  senses,  or  something.  There  seemed  to  be  a 
sudden  growth  in  our  responsibility,  and  we  felt  it 
keenly. 

When  nearing  St.  Louis  we  knew  something  must 
be  done.  We  thought  only  of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  but 
was  there  a  home  there  and  could  we  find  it?  We 
asked  the  conductor.  He  not  only  gave  us  the  ad- 
dress of  this  place  but  gave  us  explicit  directions  to 
find  it.  Do  you  remember  how  your  father  insisted 
on  us  taking  the  Wabash  road  because  he  had  heard 
about  their  special  interest  in  passengers?  Well,  we 
thought  about  it  often  and  believe  it  true.  We  followed 
the  conductor's  directions  and  found  this  beehive  of 
a  place  within  an  hour  or  two.  Both  tired.  Elizabeth 
is  already  asleep  and  I  soon  will  be. 

The  matron  is  a  pleasant-faced  old  lady.  But  she, 
like  everybody  else  we  have  met,  don't  put  much  confi- 
dence in  strangers.  They  never  give  one  credit  for  be- 
ing anybody  until  they  prove  it.  Maybe  it  is  neces- 
sary to  act  so  but  I  feel  mean  when  people  doubt  my 
word.  Two  more  girls  are  in  our  room.  Who  they 
are  I  don't  know.  Some  rooms  have  six  and  as  many 
more  as  can  be  crowded  in.  It  is  half-way  pleasant 
and  cheap — six  dollars  per  week  for  room  and  break- 
fasts. But  we  can't  stay  here.  We  have  no  place  to 
study  alone. 

From   Winifred's  letter, .  of  Sunday. 

"  We  have  been  here  four  days  and  are  only  get- 
ting   started  to    work.      We  have  written  every  day. 
We  try  to  tell  everything,  but,  of  course,  can  not.     It 
goes  even  worse  than  we  expected  to  do  without  you. 
We  would  be  willing  to  give  up  even  now  but,  you  see, 
it's  .our  only  chance  for  this  year.     Thursday  we  spent 
at  the  Fair.     We  saw  so  much  that  in  the  evening  we 
remembered  almost  nothing  but  our  aching  eyes  and 
feet.     We  didn't  like  our  room  and  didn't  know  where, 
to  go.     Friday  we  took  a  suburban  car  and  went  into' 
the  country.     We  didn't  know  where  to  stop  but  when' 
we  came  to  this  little  place,  Clayton,  Mo.,  we  decided-; 
to  get  off.     We  asked  where  the  minister  lived  and* 
proceeded    to    our  business.     We  thought   we  could ' 
surely  trust  a  minister  in  his  own  home.     Our  business' 
was  to  find  a  room  and  we  found  this  cozy  little  nest. 
We  pay  three  dollars  a  week  for  the  room  and  then  can 
do  as  we  please.     Clayton  is  the  County  seat  of  St. 
Louis  County,  but  it  is  only  a  small  village.     St.  Louis 
city  does  not  belong  to  the  county.     It  has  a  govern- 
ment of  its  own.     They  say  it  is  one  of  a  very  few  cities 
in  this  country  that  have  that  privilege. 

Yesterday  was  moving  day  but  it  didn't  take  lbngjj 
for  that.     We  had  almost  the  whole  day  left  for  the 


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Exposition.  We  bought  a  little  oil  stove,  a  tin-cup, 
a  pan,  and  a  knife  and  fork  and  spoon.  We  want  to 
live  cheap  and  that  is  all  we  absolutely  need.  We  use 
the  flat  side  of  the  suit  case  for  a  table  and  sit  on  the 
floor.  Here  we  expect  to  cook  our  breakfast  and  sup- 
per and  have  a  lunch  at  the  Grounds. 

We  have  not  gotten  much  out  of  the  Fair  yet  but 
we  have  turned  over  a  new  leaf.  We  will  rest  and 
study  before  going.  And  "  our "  minister  said  we 
could  use  his  library  and  we  have  also  the  public  li- 
brary to  draw  from.  That  gives  us  a  good  chance  for 
history,  etc.  Call  for  the  broom  and  give  three  cheers 
for  the  Trinitas,  and,  poor  little  Dodo,  we  will  give 
you  every  mite  we  can.  Sorry  your  pillow  is  hot  and 
hard.  How  angelic  you  will  be  after  bearing  that 
little  patience  candle  for  months !  Everything  would 
be  all  right  if  you  had  not  fallen  from  the  ladder.  Cold 
water  for  fever — well,  our  enthusiasm  got  it. 

We  found  a  veritable  City  of  knowledge,  and  it  is 
done  up  in  an  artistic  way  too.  What  Nature  didn't 
do  man  did,  and  really  they  have  it  fixed  up  wonder- 
fully for  us.  Of  the  two  square  miles  included  in  the 
whole  grounds  that  toward  the  main  entrance  de- 
cends  into  a  natural  basin — just  as  if  Mother  Earth 
had  spread  out  her  apron  and  made  a  cozy  lap  for  the 
chief  attractions.  And  in  this  lap  of  nature  laid  a  most 
picturesque  fan.  Looking  from  the  main  entrance 
gate  to  the  Festival  Hall  you  can  see  this  arrangement 
best.  You  are  then  at  the  edge  of  the  fan.  The  ribs 
of  the  fan  are  of  water  and  land.  Festival  Hall,  with 
its  gilded  dome,  rises  to  a  height  of  nearly  three 
hundred  feet,  and  from  its  base  starts  a  waterfall  which 
ripples  and  dashes  in  gauzy  splendor  into  the  lagoon 
below.  The  statuary  along  this  cascade  tells  the  cold 
marble  story  of  the  progress  of  liberty  and  civilization 
in  the  Louisiana  Territory.  Starting  from  either  side 
of  Festival  Hall  the  Terrace  of  States  form  an  arc, 
binding  the  ribs  of  the  fan  together.  At  one  end  of 
the  Terrace  of  States  starts  the  Cascade  of  the  Pacific 
and  at  the  other  that  of  the  Atlantic.  Pacific  is  rep- 
resented by  a  graceful  girl  floating  in  space,  an  alba- 
tross accompanying  her.  The  spirit  of  the  Atlantic 
is  given  by  the  figure  of  a  youth  trying  to  control  the 
stormy  waters.  At  his  feet  is  a  restless  eagle.  These 
are  the  largest  artificial  waterfalls  known  in  history. 
Between  these  are  two  fancy  lawns.  They  look  as 
though  they  might  have  been  done  with  silk  and  needle 
but  they  are  only  grass  and  colored  foliage.  This  is  just 
the  rib  part  of  the  fan.  Great  massive  buildings, 
broad  plazas,  flower  gardens,  waterways,  lagmins.  etc., 
make  up  the  rest  of  the  fan.  On  this  Fan  of  Honor, 
as  we  call  it,  are  nearly  all  the  main  buildings  of  the 
Exposition. 

Bess  and  I  sat  for  nearly  two  hours  yesterday  rest- 
ing and  looking  at  this  fan.     We  were  by  the  fountain 


just  outside  of  the  Varied  Industries  Building.  We 
just  "  ached  "  to  know  more  about  things,  especially 
the  fountain.  One  of  the  Jefferson  Guards  was  stand- 
ing near,  but  we  were  both  too  "  woodsy  "  to  ask  for 
a  long  time.  Then  brave  Elizabeth  ventured,  "  Will 
you,  please,  tell  us  the  meaning  of  that  fountain,  sir?" 
That  opened  the  way.  He  had  stood  in  the  July  sun 
so  long  it  seemed  like  relief  to  talk  to  someone.  He 
told  about  the  fountain.  Said  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  placed 
it  there.  It  is  about  the  only  place  where  good  water 
is  free  on  the  grounds.  Water  usually  is  sold  at  a 
cent  a  glass.  The  design — a  woman  representing 
purity  and  temperance,  carrying  a  child  on  the  path- 
way of  right,  which  is  strewn  with  lillies — was  made 
by  a  Missouri  girl,  Miss  Elsie  Ward,  and  she  received 
three  thousand  dollars  for  the  work.  I  expect  Bess 
is  writing  you  now  that  she  wants  to  make  designs. 
That's  what  she  talks  about. 

This  Jefferson  boy  seemed  glad  to  talk  so  I  asked- 
"  What's  this  marble  (  ?)  made  of? 

He  laughed  but  he  answered  my  question  all  right. 

The  right  name  is  staff,  and  it  is  made  of  Plaster 
of  Paris  in  which  jute  fiber  is  mixed.  It  is  placed  in 
moulds  while  soft  and  hardens  quickly. 

And  he  told  us  about  the  other  building  materials. 
Just  think  of  it,  Dora,  it  took  over  nine  hundred  car 
loads  of  material  to  make  just  one  building — the 
Manufacturers  Building.  I  could  scarcely  believe  it 
but  he  said  the  contractor  himself  gave  the  figures. 
But  it  is  big.  You  can  walk  for  miles  in  it.  Hun- 
dreds of  men  worked  at  it  at  one  time,  and  this  is  only 
for  this  year.  Only  a  few  buildings  will  be  left  on  the 
ground  after  December  has  come.  The  Administration 
buildings,  the  largest  Art  Building  and  a  few  others 
will  be  used  by  the  Washington  University. 

We  made  a  good  acquaintance  with  our  Jefferson 
Guard.  He  gave  us  his  card  and  showed  greal 
interest  in  our  getting  to  "  see  "  everything.  He  even 
told  about  the  clothes  he  wore.  They  all  wear  uniforms 
of  Khaki.  I  wrote  that  word  down  or  I  never  would 
have  remembered  it.  It  is  a  dust  colored  cloth.  The 
same,  he  said,  that  the  British  soldiers  wore  in  Africa 
and  our  soldiers  in  the  Philippines.  Besides  this  suit 
they  have  lovely  blue  overcoats  faced  with  red.  lie 
looks  stately  in  his  uniform.  There  isn't  a  young  man 
around  Pleasant  Lake  that  looks  anything  like  him. 
so  just  imagine  a  fine  gentleman  for  that  is  what  he  is. 
(To  be  continued "I 
4*  4*  4. 

INVESTIGATION  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior 
showed  that  in  1902  there  were  in  existence  in  the 
United  States  about  i.ioo  Vmerican  bison  or  buffalo. 
Canada  deported  600  wild  buffalo  and  had  69  in  cap- 

tivitv. 


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STORY    OF   THE   PILGRIMS   AT   PLYMOUTH. 
PART  IV. 


BY   MABELLE  MURRAY. 

December  21,  1620  was  a  cheerless  day  on  the  coast 
where  the  pilgrims  made  their  landing.  Cold  winds 
blew;  snow-capped  hills,  ice-blocked  shores,  dense 
forests,  and  savage  foes  were  before  them.  Homes, 
friends  and  kindred  were  behind  them.  Yet  there  was 
no  thought  of  turning  back.  Their  trust  was  in  aw 
God  who  had  protected  them  in  time  of  exile  and  di- 
rected them  across  the  deep.  They  pictured  a  future 
where  they  would  be  free  to  worship  God,  but  little 
knew  then  what  should  come  of  their  venture.  Even 
we,  who  read  their  story  almost  three  centuries  later, 
have  not  seen  the  beginning  of  the  end. 

First  of  all,  they  had.  to  have  shelter,  so  while  Cap- 
tain Standish  and  a  few  soldiers,  explored  the  sur- 
rounding country,  the  rest  set  about  building  a  common 
house  where  their  goods  would  be  safe.  Then  they 
felled  trees  and  built  houses  of  logs,  covering  them  with 
thatch.  Meanwhile  Captain  Standish  and  his  men 
found  wigwams  and  corn,  but  no  Indians  and  they  al- 
most hoped  to  see  none  until  spring  came. 

On  New  Year's  day,  1621,  occurred  the  first  death. 
Degory  Priest  was  the  man,  and  the  pilgrims  laid  him 
to  rest  with  great  sorrow.  Death  seems  near  when  one 
is  taken  from  so  small  a  number.  On  January  29th, 
Rose  Standish,  wife  of  the  captain,  worn  with  hardship 
aed  weakened  with  exposure,  was  called  to  her  last 
home.  With  aching  hearts  and  swimming  eyes  they 
laid  her  on  top  of  the  hill.  Their  Journal  records 
this  solemn  entry,  "  On  January  29th,  dies  Rose,  wife 
of  Captain  Standish."  But  death  did  not  stop  here. 
When  spring  came  with  its  birds  and  flowers,  and 
cheerful  sun,  forty-six  of  one  hundred  and  one  lay 
beneath  the  hill,  with  leveled  mounds,  that  the  Indians 
might  not  know  how  few  were  left.  Though  their 
hearts  were  torn,  they  toiled  bravely  on.  William 
Brewster  preached  to  them.  He  was  their  religious 
teacher,  using  the  gifts  God  had  given  him.  No 
Bishop  had  licensed  him  to  preach.  He  had  no  au- 
thority over  his  people  save  such  as  came  from  their 
respect  and  love.  The  members  decided  all  questions 
by  vote.  Old  England  had  never  seen  such  a  chm  jh 
before.     Here  all  men  were  equal. 

At  last  came  the  day  when  the  Mayflower  sailed 
for  England,  rending  the  last  tie  that  bound  them  to 
the  motherland.  They  watched  her  as  she  faded  in 
the  distance,  and  now  realized  that  they  were  indeed  in 
a  strange  land.  All  winter  the  Mayflower  had  ridden 
at  anchor  in  the  bay,  and  every  morning  had  seemed  to 
say,  "Despair  not,  I'll  carry  you  back  to  old  home." 


But  now  that  hope  was  gone.     The  die  was  cast ;  they 
must  remain,  they  could  not  get  away. 

Then  came  a  sad  blow,  Governor  Carver,  wise,  pru- 
dent, courageous,  and  righteous,  dies.  He  was  laid 
away  without  pomp  or  mockery,  as  were  the  rulers  of 
the  Old  World,  but  with  simple  ceremony  and  sincere 
grief. 

Though  the  Governor  be  dead,  should  the  state  die? 
The  people  are  the  state.  So  long  as  there  was  one 
man  left  the  state  would  live.  The  people  elected 
William  Bradford  Governor.  No  throng  witnessed 
his  advent  to  power;  he  assumed  his  duties  without 
ceremony.  Again  the  Old  World  wondered.  A  ruler 
from  the  people,  elected  by  the  people.  This  was  a 
hard  blow  for  kings  and  emperors ;  but  from  it  would 
come  a  revolution  in  government,  for  all  men  to  be 
equal. 

There  were  only  fifty  souls  in  this  little  state,  yet 
they  assembled  and  made  their  own  laws.  Even  John 
Billington  found  this  state  had  power  to  enforce  its 
laws,  for  he  spoke  disrespectfully  of  the  new  Governor 
and  the  people  said,  "  Tie  him  neck  and  heels  and  feed 
him  on  bread  and  water  until  he  asks  pardon."  It  was 
done  and  John  Billington  learned  that  which  we  all 
should  heed,  the  law  must  be  obeyed. 

But  what  of  the  Indians?  We  must  go  back.  On 
March  16th  an  Indian  marched  boldly  into  camp  and 
astonished  them  by  saying,  "  Welcome,  Englishmen." 
His  name  was  Samoset.  He  had  mingled  with  the 
English  fishers  on  the  coast  of  Maine  and  had  learned 
a  little  English.  The  Pilgrims  treated  him  kindly,  for 
they  wanted  to  be  at  peace  with  their  dusky  neigh- 
bors. He  went  away,  but  returned  with  an  Indian 
named  Squanto,  who  -was  one  of  the  twenty  seized 
by  a  sailor  named  Hunt  and  carried  to  Spain  some 
years  before.  Squanto  had  been  in  London  and  could 
speak  English.  He  told  them  that  their  big  Chief 
Massasoit  was  close  at  hand,  and  while  they  were  talk- 
ing, the  Chief  with  sixty  Indians  came  in  sight  on  top 
of  the  hill. 

Squanto  went  to  meet  them  and  returned  saying, 
Massasoit  wanted  to  treat  them.  Mr.  Edward  Wins- 
low  was  sent  to  meet  them  and  said  that  the  Governor 
would  see  them.  Then  the  chief  left  Winslow  with  his 
followers,  and  with  twenty  Indians  entered  the  colony,, 
but  to  avoid  suspicion  they  left  their  bows  and  arrows 
behind  them.  Captain  Standish  and  six  soldiers  went 
to  meet  them,  conducted  them  to  a  house  and  seated 
them  on  a  green  rug  and  several  cushions.  The 
Governor  entered  attended  with  a  drum,  trumpet  and 
soldiers.  They  kissed  each  others  hands ;  all  sat  down 
and  after  some  refreshments  consummated  an  agree- 
ment of  friendship.  This  agreement  was  never  broken. 
One  morning  Massasoit  and  ninety  Indians  arrived. 
They  went  into  the  woods  and  killed  deer ;  the  Pilgrims. 


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gave  bread  and  corn  and  for  three  days  they  feasted 
and  thanked  God  for  his  mercies.     This  was  the  first 
*  Thanksgiving  in  the   New  World. 

Soon  after  a  sail  was  seen  and  the  ship,  Fortune, 
anchored  in  the  bay.  She  had  come  from  the  London 
Merchants  with  some  of  the  Pilgrims  from  Holland 
and  some  men  who  had  come  as  mere  adventurers. 
The  ship  had  come  for  furs,  which  the  pilgrims  had 
secured  by  trapping  and  bartering  with  the  Indians. 
When  Christmas  came,  the  Pilgrims  continued  at  work 
for  they  associated  this  day  with  the  church  which  had 
persecuted  them.  The  adventurers  who  had  come  re- 
fused to  work  that  day,  saying,  "It  is  against  our 
conscience.''  "  Very  well,"  said  the  Governor,  "  if 
it  is  against  your  conscience,  I  will  excuse  you." 
When  the  Pilgrims  returned  from  their  work  at  noon 
they  found  these  engaged  at  play.  The  Governor  said, 
"  If  it  is  against  your  conscience  to  work  to-day,  it  is 
against  my  conscience  to  allow  you  to  play  while  others 
work.''  So  these  men  learned  that  these  simple 
people  whom  they  despised  formed  a  state  and  that  the 
state  must  be  obeyed.  From  the  will  of  the  people 
there  was  no  appeal.  We  are  not  through  learning  that 
lesson  yet,  though  the  beginning  is  old. 

In  their  houses,  these  people  hung  such  rules  as 
these:  "Profane  no  divine  ordinance;"  "Touch  no 
state  matters;"  "Pick  no  quarrels;"  "Encourage  no 
vice ;"  "  Maintain  no  ill  opinions ;"  "  Lay  no  wagers ;" 
etc.  Shall  we  wonder  that  such  people  laid  well  the 
foundation  of  a  nation  wherein  liberty,  justice  and 
equality  are  the  watchwords?  We  owe  more  for  the 
solid  substantial  institutions  of  our  country  to  the  early 
workers  than  any  one  else. 
Parsons,  Kans. 

(The  End) 

*  *  * 

STARS'    VELOCITY. 


by  the  spectrograph.  Practical  independence  of  phys- 
ical measures  is  thus  secured.  The  method  is  short  and 
direct  and  requires  only  the  same  instruments  that  are 
employed  in  other  methods. 

In  order  to  illustrate  the  performances  of  this  method 
Prof.  Curtiss  has  applied  it  to  the  particularly  difficult 
case  of  a  faint  variable  star.  This  star  more  than 
doubles  its  brightness  in  three  days,  then  returns  in  the 
next  four  and  one-half  days  to  its  original  brilliancy, 
after  which  it  gradually  rises  again,  thus  returning  to 
its  greatest  brightness  every  seven  and  a  half  days. 
Prof.  Curtiss  has  made  33  determinations  of  the 
velocity  of  this  star,  which  have  shown  in  reality  there 
are  two  bodies  revolving  about  one  another  in  a  closed 
system,  a  period  of  revolution  corresponding  to  that 
of  the  light  variations.  A  diagram  showing  the  form 
of  the  orbit  accompanies  the  bulletin. 

Further,  the  astronomer  considers  it  probable  that 
the  brighter  body  is  five  times  heavier  than  the  other; 
that  their  size  is  about  the  same  as  that  of  the  sun  and 
that  their  distance  apart  is  about  6,000,000  miles.  In 
such  system  the  tidal  force  acting  on  the  larger  body 
would  be  about  50,000  times  as  intense  as  the  tidal 
force  on  the  earth  due  to  the  moon  and  would  vary  as 
the  bodies  move  around  in  their  orbits.  These  varying 
tidal  forces  acting  on  the  masses  of  molten  matter  on 
the  star's  surface  probably  give  rise  to  the  variation 
in  the  star's  light. 

Results  of  measures  on  three  other  pointer  stars  are 
also  given.  Two  of  these  arc  discovered  to  be  double. 
Thus  already  by  the  use  of  the  new  method  the  three 
faintest  binaries  yet  discovered  with  the  spectrograph 
have  been  detected  and  studied  and  the  orbit  of  one  of 
them  has  been  derived. —  Cincinnati  Enquirer. 

+   +   * 

WHAT    SALT    WILL    DO. 


Will  Be  Accurately  Measured  By  the  New  Spectrograph. 

Prof.  Ralph  H.  Curtiss,  astronomer  at  the  Lick 
Observatory,  is  the  author  of  a  bulletin  issued  at  the 
University  of  California  containing  the  description  of 
a  proposed  new  method  for  determining  the  velocities 
of  the  heavenly  bodies  toward  or  away  from  the  earth 
by  means  of  the  spectrograph.  Tn  the  results  obtained 
through  the  employment  of  the  methods  heretofore 
known  discrepancies  have  arisen,  largely  from  recog- 
nized sources  of  errors  in  the  methods  used.  In  the 
attempt  to  eliminate  mistakes  the  new  method  has 
been  devised. 

With  the  new  method  the  determination  of  velocities 
is  confined  to  the  spectrograph  itself.  The  essential 
advantage  of  the  method  rests  in  the  fact  that  velocity 
determinations  are  secured  by  comparing  the  light  of 
the  stars  with  that  of  the  sun  as  such  light  is  analyzed 


Besides  being  such  an  essential  part  of  culinary  art 
salt  has  many  other  uses,  perhaps  not  generally  known. 

Salt  cleanses  the  palate  and  furred  tongue,  and  a 
gargle  of  salt  and  water  is  often  efficacious. 

A  pinch  ol  salt  on  the  tongue,  followed  10  minutes 
after  by  a  drink  of  cold  water,  often  cures  a  sick  head- 
ache. 

Salt  hardens  the  gums,  makes  the  teeth  white  and 
sweetens  the  breath. 

Salt  added  to  the  water  in  which  cut  flowers  stand 
keeps  them  fresh. 

Salt  used  dry  in  the  same  manner  as  snuff  will  do 
much  to  relieve  colds,  hay  fever,  etc. 

Salt  in  warm  water,  if  used  for  bathing  tired  eyes, 
will  be  found  very  refreshing. 

Salt  and  water  will  stop  hemorrhage  from  tooth- 
pulling. 


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AN    HISTORIC    SPOT. 


BY  ELD.  H.  W.  STRICKLEK. 

There  was  also  an  Indian  village  on  the  Mononga- 
hela  at  the  mouth  of  the  Catts  Run,  and  it  is  said  that 
at  one  time  this  village  was  the  home  of  the  Chief 
Cornstalk  who  commanded  the  Indian  forces  at  the 
battle  of  Point  Pleasant,  Virginia,  in  1774. 

On  the  Monongahela  at  the  mouth  of  Dunlaps 
Creek,  where  the  town  of  Brownsville  now  stands  was 
the  residence  of  old  Nemacolin,  who  it  appears  was  a 
chief  who  had  a  few  warriors  under  him  before  the 
Whites  found  him  here.  It  was  this  Indian  who 
guided  Col.  Thomas  Cresap  across  the  Alleghanies  in 
the  first  journey  which  he  made  to  the  West  from 
Oldtown,  Maryland,  for  the  Ohio  Company  in  1749. 

The  route  they  then  pursued  was  known  as  Nema- 
colin's  path.  It  is  believed  that  later  in  his  life  this 
Indian  moved  to  what  was  known  as  the  island  Blen- 
nerhasset,  on  the  Ohio  below  Parkersburg,  W.  Va. 
In  Richard  Butler's  journal  of  a  trip  down  that  river 
in  1785,  with  Col.  James  Monroe,  afterward  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  to  treat  with  the  Miami 
Indians,  he  mentions  their  passing  in  the  river  between 
the  mouths  of  the  little  Kanawha  and  Hooking,  an 
island  called  Nemacolin's  island,  which  was  said  to  be 
the  later  residence  of  the  old  chief  of  that  name. 

An  old  Indian  named  Bald  Eagle  who  had  been  a 
noted  warrior  (but  not  a  chief)  among  the  Delaware 
tribes,  had  his  home  somewhere  on  the  upper  Mononga- 
hela near  the  mouth  of  the  Catts  Run.  He  was  a  very 
harmless  and  peaceable  man,  and  friendly  to  the  set- 
tlers, yet  he  was  killed  without  cause  about  1765,  and 
the  cold  blooded  murder  was  charged  to  the  white 
men. 

Speaking  of  the  circumstances  of  his  death  Mr. 
Veech  says  "  Bald  Eagle  was  on  intimate  terms  with 
the  early  settlers,  with  whom  he  visited,  fished  and 
hunted." 

Somewhere  about  the  mouth  of  the  Cheat  River  he 
was  killed,  but  by  whom  or  on  what  pretense  is  un- 
known. His  dead  body  placed  upright  in  his  canoe 
with  a  piece  of  corn  bread  in  his  clinched  teeth,  was 
set  adrift  in  the  river.  The  canoe  came  ashore  at 
Providence  Bottom  where  the  familiar  old  Indian  was 
at  once  recognized  by  the  wife  of  William  Yard  Prov- 
idence who  wondered  that  he  did  not  leave  his  canoe. 

On  close  observation  she  found  that  he  was  dead. 
She  had  him  decently  buried  on  the  Fayette  shore 
near  the  early  residence  of  Robert  McClean,  at  what 
was  known  as  McClean's  Ford.  This  murder  was 
regarded  by  both  Whites  and  Indians  as  a  great  out- 
rage and  the  latter  made  it  a  prominent  item  in  their 
list  of  grievances. 


A  number  of  Indian  paths  or  trails  traversed  this 
country  in  various  directions.  The  principal  one  was  I 
the  great  war  path  over  which  the  Senecas  and  other  • 
tribes  of  the  Six  Nations  traveled  from  their  homes 
in  the  state  of  New  York  on  their  forages  against  the 
Cherokees  and  other  southern  tribes  in  the  Carolinas, 
Georgia,  and  Tennessee.  This  was  known  as  the 
Cherokee  or  Catawba  Trail.  Passing  Genesee  County 
of  western  New  York  down  the  valley  of  the  Alleghany, 
it  left  the  river  and  traversing  Westmoreland  County 
entered  the  territory  of  Fayette  County  near  its  north- 
eastern extremity  crossing  Jacob's  Creek  at  the  mouth 
of  Bush  Run.  From  there  its  route  was  southwesterly, 
passing  near  the  village  of  Pennsville,  on  the 
Youghiogheny  River,  which  it  crossed  just  below  the 
mouth  of  Possum  Run ;  thence  up  that  small  stream 
for  some  distance  and  then  on  by  way  of  Mount  Brad- 
dock  to  Redstone  Creek  at  the  point  where  Union- 
town  now  stands.  From  there  it  passed  southwesterly 
through  the  present  townships  of  South  Union,  George 
and  Spring  Hill,  crossing  Cheat  River  at  the  mouth 
of  Grassy  Run,  and  out  of  the  county  into  Virginia. 
From  this  main  trail  a  little  south  of  George's  Creek 
in  Fayette  County,  there  branched  a  tributary  path 
known  as  the  Warrior  Branch :  thence  across  the  Cheat 
and  Monongahela  rivers  and  up  the  valley  of  Dunkard 
Creek  into  Virginia.  It  was  at  this  trail  near  the 
second  crossing  of  Dunkard  Creek  that  the  surveyors 
who  were  running  the  extension  of  the  Mason  and 
Dixon  line,  in  October  1767,  were  compelled  to  stop 
their  work  on  account  of  the  threats  of  the  Delaware 
and  Shawnee  warriors  and  their  positive  refusal  to 
allow  the  party  to  proceed  further  west,  and  it  was  not 
until  fifteen  years  later  that  the  line  was  extended 
beyond  this  trail. 

An  Indian  path  much  used  by  the  natives  ran  from 
the  forks  of  the  Ohio  to  the  Potomac  River  at  the  mouth 
of  Mill's  Creek  (where  CCumberland,  Maryland,  now 
stands).  This  was  known  as  Nemacolin's  Trail, 
traveled  by  Indians  perhaps  ages  before  the  birth  of 
the  old  Delaware  whose  name  it  bore.  This  trail  start- 
ing from  the  head  of  the  Ohio  joins  the  Cherokee 
trail,  in  Westmoreland  county.  The  two  trails  were 
nearly  parallel  as  far  south  as  Mount  Braddock  at  which 
point  Nemacolin's  trail  left  the  other  and  took  a  south- 
easterly course  by  the  way  of  the  Great  Meadow,  in 
the  present  township  of  Wharton.  The  great  crossing 
of  the  Youghiogheny  near  the  southeast  corner  of  Fay- 
ette County;  thence  across  Somerset  County  into 
Maryland.  There  were  numerous  other  trails  travers- 
ing Fayette  County,  but  none  so  important  or  so  much 
traveled  as  the  above  mentioned. 

These  were  thoroughfares  of  the  Indians  over  which 
they  journeyed  on  their  business,  chase  of  war,  just 
as  the  white  people  travel  over  their  graded  roads. 


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Judge  Veech  says  that  erroneous  impressions  ob- 
tain among  many  of  the  present  day,  "  that  the  Indians 
in  traveling  the  interminable  forests  which  once  cov- 
ered our  towns  and  fields,  roamed  at  random  like  a 
modern  afternoon  hunter,  by  no  fixed  paths  or  were 
guided  only  by  the  sun  and  stars  or  by  the 
courses  of  the  streams  and  mountains."  And  true  it 
is  that  these  untutored  sons  of  the  woods  were  astrono- 
mers and  geographers  and  relied  much  upon  these  un- 
erring guides  of  nature.  Even  in  the  most  starless 
nights  they  could  determine  their  course  by  feeling 
the  bark  on  the  oak  trees  which  is  always  smooth  on 
the  south  side  and  rough  on  the  north. 

These  trails  are  now  almost  wholly  effaced  and  for- 
gotten. Hundreds  travel  along  or  plow  across  them 
unconscious  that  they  are  in  the  footsteps  of  the  Red 
men. 

The  Indian  history  of  Fayette  County  is  very  meagre. 
During  the  military  operation  of  the  years  1754  and 
1755  when  the  opposing  forces  of  England  and  France 
marched  to  and  fro  over  the  hills  and  through  the 
vales  of  this  country,  they  were  accompanied  on  both 
sides  by  Indian  allies,  who  did  their  share  of  the  work 
of  slaughter  as  is  shown  in  the  history  of  this  cam- 
paign. After  the  French  and  their  allies  had  expelled 
the  English  power  from  the  region  west  of  the  Alle- 
ghanies  in  1799,  nearly  all  the  Indians  of  the  Alle- 
ghany and  Monongahela  sided  with  the  victorious 
French. 

No  depredations  were  committed  within  the  bounds 
of  Fayette  County  save  the  murder  of  two  unknown 
men  on  Burnt  Cabin  Run.  This  story  is  related  by 
James  Mendonhall,  an  old  soldier  and  settler  at  Men- 
donhall's  dam.  About  three  miles  and  a  half  west  of 
Uniontown  on  the  south  side  of  the  state  road  which 
leads  from  the  poor  house  through  New  Salem,  with- 
in five  or  six  rods  of  the  road  on  the  land  once  owned 
by  Joshua  Woodward  in  1869,  are  the  remains  of  an 
old  cabin  and  in  it  the  remains  of  an  old  chimney. 
Two  or  three  rods  southwest  is  a  small  spring  drain- 
ing into  the  Burnt  Cabin  Fork  of  Dunlap's  or  Xema- 
colin's  Creek,  and  still  four  or  five  rods  south  is  the 
old  trail  called  Dunlap's  road. 

The  time  of  this  story  is  about  1767.  These  two 
men  came  over  the  mountains  by  this  path  to  hunt, 
and  put  up  a  small  cabin.  While  asleep  in  their  cabin 
some  Indians  shot  them  and  then  set  fire  to  the  cabin. 

Some  prisoners  were  taken  south  of  George's  Creek. 
The  inhabitants  of  the  territory  which  is  now  Fayette 
County  were  entirely  exempt  from  the  savage  bar- 
barities of  the  tribes  during  the  thirty  years  of  Indian 
warfare  which  preceded  General  Anthony  Wayne's 
decisive  victory  on  the  Maumee  in  August.  1704. 

Lorainc,  Ills. 

(To  be  continued ) 


A    STORY    OF    MICHAEL    ANGELO. 


Many  centuries  ago  a  number  of  workmen  might 
have  been  seen  dragging  a  great  marble  block  into  the 
city  of  Florence.  It  was  long  and  very  heavy,  and  it 
had  come  from  the  famous  marble  quarries  of  Carrara. 
It  was  meant  to  be  made  into  a  statue  of  a  great  proph- 
et ;  but  when  Donatello,  the  great  Italian  sculptor,  saw 
it,  he  refused  to  accept  it,  as  it  contained  some  flaws. 
So  there  it  lay  in  the  square  of  the  cathedral  in  Flor- 
ence, a  useless  block,  despised  and  rejected,  for  no 
sculptor  of  the  day  thought  he  could  make  anything 
out  of  it. 

One  day  the  great  artist  Michael  Angelo  was  passing 
in  and  out  among  the  rubbish,  when  his  eye  caught 
sight  of  the  block.  There  at  once  came  into  his  mind 
a  vision  of  beauty,  and  he  thought  of  how  he  could 
use  the  block. 

He  would  make  a  statue  of  it. 

On  the  eleventh  day  of  September  1590,  early  in  the 
morning,  Michael  Angelo  might  have  been  seen  work- 
ing for  the  first  time  on  the  stone ;  and  there,  day  after 
day,  week  after  week,  he  chiselled  patiently  away. 
He  took  a  long  time,  and  he  allowed  no  other  hand 
to  touch  it.  Months  passed,  and  still  the  work  was 
unfinished ;  not  that  he  was  idle,  for  he  worked  so  hard 
at  times  that  he  either  never  slept  at  night,  or  he  slept 
with  his  working  clothes  on.  And  one  day  he  said  to 
a  friend  who  thought  that  he  was  only  spending  days 
and  weeks  of  his  time  upon  what  seemed  to  be  trifles, 
"  It  is  these  trifles  that  make  perfection." 

Two  more  years  passed  away,  and  at  last  the  statue 
was  finished.  On  the  twenty-fifth  dav  of  January 
1594  some  of  the  first  artists  of  the  day  assembled  to- 
gether to  see  what  Michael  Angelo  had  made  of  the 
despised  and  rejected  block. 

And  then  the  marvellous  work  was  unveiled.  They 
all  admired  it  very  much.  It  was  a  masterpiece,  and 
as  a  masterpiece  it  deserved  no  common  place.  It 
must  not  be  hidden.  It  must  stand  in  the  public  square, 
a  tribute  to  the  glorj  and  fame  of  their  renowned  city. 
So  it  was  decided  to  remove  it  there. 

It  weighed  eighteen  thousand  pounds,  and  great 
was  the  care  and  skill  with  which  it  was  rem 
They  slowly  swung  it  in  ropes  suspended  from  four- 
teen oiled  beams,  and  drawn  by  pulleys  worked  by 
forty  men  :  it  was  brought  through  the  door  in  the  wall 
which  had  been  broken  open  to  allow  its  exit  from  the 
workshop  of  tnc  great  master  into  the  open  air.  For 
three  days  and  three  nights  it  was  watched  by  chosen 
guards  as  if  it  were  a  sacred  thing,  and  on  the 
eighteenth  dav  of  May,  at  dawn,  it  arrived  in  the 
great  square  of  the  city  of  Florence. 

There  for  centuries  it  stood,  though  tliev  have  since 
placed  it  within  walls.  And  to-day,  if  von  will  eo  to  the 
Academy  of  Arts,  in  the  round  hall  at  the  end  nf  ii-e 


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.long  entrance  corridor,  you  will  see  the  very  statue 
.that  was  once  a  worthless  block,  the  far-famed  "David" 
.of  Michael  Angelo.  It  represents  the  shepherd  king, 
.the    sweet    singer    of    Israel,    in    the  strength  of  his 

youth.     The    eyes    are    full    of  light,  the  right  arm 
;poised  so  as  to  hold  the  sling — a  masterpiece  of  art. 
But  it  is  more  than  that.     It  is  a  lesson  to  us  all! 

It  tells  what  God  can  make  of  a  useless  boy  or  girl 
The    worst    boy  in  the  class  may  become  the  best 

man  in  the  town  by-and-by;  the  worst  girl  in  the 
school  may  become  the  best  woman  in  it.     The  life 

which    people    call  hopeless  and  cast  away  in  scorn 

may  through  the  hand  of  the  Master  become  a  thing 
•  of  beauty  and  joy  for  ever. 

*  «&  <s» 

THE  SUNDAY   SCHOOL. 


BY   C.  MAY  MANNERS. 

The  Sunday  school  is  an  agency  of  the  church  by 
vwhich  the  Word  of  God  is  taught;  its  source  of  au- 
thority is  God's  church;  its  subject  matter  of  study 
is  the  Bible ;  its  form  of  teaching  includes  a  free  use  of 
.questions  and  answers ;  its  membership  includes  chil- 
dren, middle-age  and  old  age.  Here  the  Word  of  God 
.is  taught  in  a  systematic  way.  The  Bible  School  in 
its  essential  characteristics  was  a  prominent  feature 
in  the  economy  of  the  Jewish  Church  and  that  it  was  a 
factor  of  the  Christian  Church  in  the  declared  plans 
•of  the  Divine  Founder  of  that  church  is  true  according 
to  sacred  and  secular  history. 

We  should  read  the  great  commission  in  this  light, 
""  Go  ye  therefore  and  make  scholars  of  all  nations 
baptizing  them  in  the  name  of  the  Father,  Son  and 
Holy  Ghost;  teaching  them  to  observe  all  things  what 
rsoever  I  have  commanded  youi  and  lo  I  am  with  you 
alway  even  unto  the  end  of  the  world."  We  have 
reasons  to  believe  that  God  our  divine  Father  meant 
for  his  followers  to  organize  Sunday  schools  every- 
where as  the  very  basis  of  the  church,  under  fully 
•equipped  teachers,  where  the  Word  of  God  may  be  1 
taught  prayerfully  and  carefully. 

With  such  an  organized  Sunday  school  what  would 
the  results  be?  And  how  may  the  teachers  be 
fully  equipped  ?     By  a  full  knowledge  of  God's  Word. 

They  must  be  God-fearing  men  and  women  with 
■souls  and  bodies  dedicated  to  the  work.  They  should 
magnify  their  office.  O  that  we  as  teachers  and  of- 
ficers might  fully  realize  the  positions  we  occupy ! 

O  that  we  might  be  more  consecrated  to  the  work! 

It  is  very  essential  that  the  teachers  and  superin- 
tendent have  a  thorough  understanding  of  the  lesson 
"before  going  to  the  Sunday  school. 

We  believe  the  day  has  passed,  when  a  Sunday- 
'school  teacher  can  smilingly  go  before  her  class  and 


say,  "  Well,  you  will  have  to  excuse  me  for  I  have  had 
no  time  to  prepare  my  lesson."  My  brother,  my  sister, 
do  you  not  know  that  you  are  responsible  for  the  lives 
of  your  Sunday-school  pupils?  If  you  have  not  stud- 
ied God's  Word;  if  you  have  not  prayed  many  times 
during  the  week  to  him  who  has  said,  "  Ask  and  ye 
shall  receive,"  for  wisdom,  for  zeal,  for  grace  and 
knowledge  of  the  truth  that  you  may  be  enabled  to  im- 
part many  practical  lessons  to  your  class,  how  can  you 
meet  the  earnest  faces  of  your  boys  and  girls?  Re- 
member they  are  immortal  souls  given  to  you  to  feed. 
How  will  you  feed  them?  What  kind  of  a  shepherd 
will  you  make?  Will  you  leave  them  out  on  the  cold 
mountain  side  to  die  alone?  God  forbid.  Let  us  go 
out  into  the  highways  and  hedges  and  bring  the  little 
ones  to  him,  who  has  said,  "  Suffer  little  children  to 
come  unto  me  and  forbid  them  not  for  of  such  is  the 
kingdom  of  God."  "  Soon  ah  soon  will  the  white- 
robed  garments  of  innocence  be  soiled."  Let  us 
gather  them  to  him  ere  they  are  tainted  with  sin. 

The  children  are  an  important  factor  of  the  Sunday 
school  and  should  be  looked  upon  in  that  light  for  in 
them  lies  the  hope  of  state  and  church.  Let  us  teach 
them  the  great  hidden  truths  of  the  Holy  Word  while 
their  minds  are  young  and  tender,  that  they  may  be- 
come pillars  in  the  church ;  become  missionaries  ready 
to  sacrifice,  father,  mother,  houses,  lands  and  go  into 
all  nations  and  make  scholars  of  benighted  sons  and 
daughters  of  men.     Let  their  joyful  song  ever  ring, 

"  Look  up,  lost  ones,  we  will  come, 
And  we'll  bring  the  Gospel  Light, 
Shining  ever  clear  and  bright." 

Does  the  Sunday  school  have  an  influence  upon  those 
who  are  in  the  strength  and  vigor  of  youth?  We 
answer,  Yes.  Look  at  our  boys  and  girls  who  attend 
S.  S.  and  then  look  at  those  who  know  not  the  value 
of  a  good  Sunday  school.  The  church  is  waiting  for 
young  men  and  women  to  fill  important  place's. 
We  should  begin  with  our  youths  and  give  them  a 
thorough  Bible  knowledge.  This  can  be  obtained 
through  the  Sunday  school  and  through  our  Bible 
Schools.  Thank  God  for  our  local  Bible  School.  If  we 
cannot  go  to  college  we  can  obtain  a  Bible  knowledge 
at  our  door  if  we  only  do  our  duty.  God  help  us  to 
see  our  duty  and  the  need  of  more  Bible  study  for 
the  youth,  that  when  the  church  imposes  a  duty 
upon  our  young  members  they  may  be  more  fully 
equipped,  having  on  the  whole  armor  of  Jesus  ready  to 
march  bravely  out  upon  the  battle-field  and  be  the 
means  of  bringing  lost  ones  to  Christ. 

Dr.  E.  M.  Kirk,  the  great  Sunday-school  evangelist 
thanked  God  that  the  dark  days  of  his  childhood  were 
"  passed,  passed  forever  "  when  there  were  no  organ- 
ized Sunday  schools. 

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SILVER    COINS. 


Are    Transformed    to    Knives,    Forks    and    Spoons    When 
Worn   Out. 

Do  you  know  that  when  you  are  eating  your  dessert 
or  sipping  your  chocolate  or  coffee  with  a  silver  spoon 
you  may  be  using  what  was  once  a  nice,  shining  silver 
dollar  or  half  dollar  or  quarter? 

Why  would  people  turn  silver  dollars  worth  100 
cents  each  into  knives  and  spoons?  you  ask,  and  the 
answer  to  that  question  is  what  is  interesting. 

Hundreds  of  silver  dollars  and  pieces  of  less  value, 
and  even  gold  pieces,  are  taken  away  from  the  local 
banks  each  year  to  be  sold,  many  of  them  to  silver- 
smiths, who  change  them  into  silverware.  A  piece  of 
money  after  it  becomes  worn  smooth  is  only  worth  its 
intrinsic  value.  When  a  silver  dollar  wears  down 
so  that  you  can't  see  the  eagle  it  is  valuable  only  for 
the  bullion  it  contains,  and  the  value  of  the  bullion  in 
a  silver  dollar  varies  from  40  to  50  cents. 

It  is  when  the  smooth  pieces  of  money  are  presented 
at  the  paying  teller's  window  at  the  bank  that  he  ex- 
amines them  critically  and  pitches  them  into  a  box 
kept  for  that  purpose.  If  a  piece  of  money  is  mutilated 
in  any  other  way,  if  it  has  been  in  the  fire  or  plugged, 
or  has  been  struck  by  a  bullet,  it  goes  to  this  box  like- 
wise. 

Such  pieces  of  money  accumulate  rapidly  and  all  the 
large  banks  are  visited  twice  each  year  by  a  man  who 
makes  a  business  of  buying  mutilated  coins.  William 
C.  Thompson,  of  Chicago,  is  the  most  extensive  coin 
collector  among  local  banks.  When  the  coin  buyer 
comes  he  and  the  chief  clerk  of  the  bank  have  a  busy 
time.  They  pile  all  the  silver  and  gold  out  before  them 
and  go  through  it  piece  by  piece,  deciding  between 
them  what  each  piece  is  worth.  Then  when  all  the 
coins  have  been  examined  the  silver  man  jingles  them 
into  large  bags  and  carries  them  away  to  be  fashioned 
into  silverware.  The  gold  he  sometimes  disposes  of 
to  the  Government. 

An  amount  of  money  that  at  its  face  value  would 
he  worth  $200  the  coin  buyer  pays  $80  for.  Each 
dollar  brings  from  40  to  50  cents,  depending  some- 
what on  the  price  of  silver  bullion.  Twenty-five  cent 
pieces  he  gets  for  10  cents  usually.  Sometimes  the 
coin  collector  has  a  streak  of  good  luck.  He  gets  some 
coins  that  can  yet  be  passed  at  their  face  value. 

"  The  coin  man  doesn't  get  very  much  gold  though," 
■explained  a  clerk  in  one  of  the  local  banking  houses. 
■"  Gold  coins  are  of  greater  denomination  you  know. 
Any  gold  coin  is  worth  a  good  deal.  People  take  care 
■of  things  that  are  very  valuable  and  likewise  their 
gold  coins.  They  don't  put  gold  coins  up  to  shoot  at, 
neither  do  they  cast  them  into  the  fire.  And  they  are 
careful  not  to  let  them  get  worn,  too.     Consequently 


gold  coins  rarely  become  so  worn  that  they  are  sold  at 
less  than  their  intrinsic  value." 

When  the  coin  collector  gets  all  his  silver  dollars 
and  half  dollars  and  plugged  quarters,  and,  once  in  a 
great  while  a  few  gold  pieces,  he  ships  them  to  the 
great  silverware  manufacturers  and  if  you  have  de- 
posited a  much-worn  dollar  in  the  bank  it  is  not  un- 
reasonable to  think  that  in  a  few  months  you  may  be 
using  it  to  sip  your  coffee  or  to  cut  your  meat. — Cincin- 
nati Enquirer. 

BUMBLEBEES    ARE    USEFUL. 


The  bumblebee  is  one  of  the  most  variable  little 
farm  assistants  known  to  the  agriculturist.  He  is 
necessary  in  the  pollenizing  of  blossoms  in  the  orchards 
and  meadows.  He  destroys  but  little  fruit  and  seldom 
attacks  the  cherry  or  apple  until  it  is  too  ripe  for  market 
or  family  use.  His  mission  on  earth  is  that  of  peace 
and  prosperity.  In  Germany  his  life  is  protected  by 
legislative  enactment.  Here  he  is  chased  about  by  the 
farmer  boys  and  killed  on  sight.  His  services  as  a 
farm  and  orchard  assistant  are  not  appreciated. 

Red  clover  blossoms  do  not  form  seed  until  the  pol- 
len is  thoroughly  mixed.  For  this  reason,  it  is  argued 
in  many  sections  of  the  country,  the  first  crop  of  clover 
is  a  failure  as  a  seed  producer.  The  bumblebee  does 
not  come  from  his  winter  resting  place  in  time  to 
work  on  the  clover  blossoms,  and  hence  the  pollen  is 
not  handled  as  it  should  be  to  form  seeds.  In  the 
early  days  of  agriculture  this  was  merely  a  theory. 
Now  it  is  published  as  a  fact  and  not  denied  by  any 
one  at  all  familiar  with  the  nature  of  plant  life. 

Some  interesting  experiments  have  been  conducted 
at  agricultural  colleges  to  demonstrate  the  value  of 
the  bumblebee  in  growing  red  clover  seed.  Last  year 
at  the  Iowa  Station  patches  of  clover  heads  were 
covered  with  mosquito  netting  and  similar-sized  areas 
left  uncovered.  The  experimental  plants  were  six 
feet  square.  Covered  patches  for  the  first  crop  gave 
no  seed,  while  those  uncovered  returned  10  per  cent 
of  an  ordinary  crop.  For  the  second  crop  the  covered 
plants  seeding  were  onlv  2,  while  those  uncovered 
numbered  612  that  produced  seed. 

Plants  near  the  nests  of  bumblebees  always  produce 
the  best  crops  of  seed.  In  a  space  of  six  square  feet 
over  2,000  heads  of  red  clover  formed  excellent  seed. 
The  bumblebees  had  built  nests  in  the  clusters  of  clover 
roots.  Those  who  are  inclined  to  kill  every  bee  that 
comes  about  should  study  the  nature  of  bees  and  plant 
life.  The  bees  are  perfectly  harmless.  They  never  try 
to  wage  a  warfare  on  any  person  except  in  defense  of 
their  homes  or  lives.  Let  them  alone  and  they  will 
make  the  farmer  and  orchardist  rich  and  thereby  help 
in  building  up  the  country. 


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KILL    THE    CRIPPLES. 


Not  long  since  your  editor  changed  cars  in  an  Iow;i 
town  after  a  delay  of  several  minutes.  During  the 
wait  at  the  station  an  unfortunate  cripple  passed. 
With  great  difficulty  he  made  his  way  through  the 
crowd,  and,  as  a  cripple  generally  does,  he  attracted 
the  attention  of  the  majority  of  strangers.  People 
who  were  better  acquainted  with  him  of  course  paid 
no  attention.  We  remarked  to  a  gentlemen  near  by 
that  it  was  a  pity  that  all  the  people  could  not  be 
straight  and  stout  and  strong.  "  Yes,"  said  he : 
'*  do  you  know  that  I  believe  that  every  cripple  thai 
is  born  into  the  world  ought  to  be  killed  as  soon  as 
he  sees  the  light  of  day."  This  remark  shows  to  whal 
extent  the  heart  of  man  may  be  dwarfed  and  blighted 
by  the  work  of  the  devil.  Evidently  the  love  of  God 
and  the  love  of  fellow-men  had  entirely  flown  from  this 
man's  heart,  if  it  ever  had  a  place  there.  The  ver\ 
idea  of  taking  the  life  of  a  human  simply  because  it 
was  not  perfect  would  show  the  absence  of  the  above 
named  virtue.  The  remark  occasioned  a  reply  that 
if  this  doctrine  were  faithfully  carried  out,  those  who 
were  crippled  in  the  limbs  would  not  be  the  only  vic- 
tims, but  those  who  were  mentally  deranged  would 
fall  victims  to  this  edict  as  well,  and  that  a  remark  like 
the  one  referred  to  is  the  best  evidence  in  the  world 
of  an  unhealthy  condition   of  the  mind. 

Again  it  appears  that  if  this  were  carried  into  effect, 
very  few  people  would  reach  the  age  of  maturity,  be- 
cause it  is  astonishing  to  know  how  few  there  are  who 
are  able  to  pass  a  critical  examination  as  to  physical 
defects.  Perfect  men  and  women,  physically  speaking, 
are,  perhaps,  as  scarce,  yet  perhaps  no  fewer  than 
are  those  who  are  perfect  mentally,  morallv  and 
spiritually.  Again  we  would  encounter  a  difficulty 
similar  to  the  one  referred  to  by  the  Son  of  God  when 
he  was  here  in  the  world  in  asking  the  man  that  was 
without  sin  to  cast  a  stone  at  the  woman  who  had 


sinned.    We  might  find  trouble  in  finding  perfect  men 
to  rid  the  earth  of  the  imperfect  ones. 

Viewing  the  subject  from  still  another  angle,  it  is. 
a  surprise  to  know  to  what  extent  this  is  carried  into 
effect  along  certain  lines.  To  illustrate ;  how  often  we 
see  a  movement  on  foot  for  the  financiers  and  capital- 
ists of  the  country  to  swallow  up  the  people  who  have 
been  unfortunate  in  financial  circles.  These  people 
are  cripples  from  a  financial  standpoint  because  they 
either  have  not  had  the  financial  ability  in  the  first  place 
or  else  have  been  hindered  in  some  way  from  becoming 
a  success. 

In  social  circles  there  is  a  tendency  for  .the  aristocrat 
to  cover  up,  smother,  drown,  ignore  or  annihilate  his 
brother  of  a  lower  caste  or  class.  The  very  doctrine 
that  was  proposed  by  the  gentleman  at  the  depot  has 
led  to  the  caste  system  which  is  prevalent  in  other 
countries  and  is  fast  becoming  noticeable  in  our  own 
beloved   nation. 

The  same  thing  is  to  be  found  in  the  family  of  edu- 
cators. Due  respect  is  not  shown  unless  a  man's  name 
is  protected  at  both  ends  with  all  sorts  of  titles  and 
degrees,  which  in  many  instances  are  not  understood 
by  the  owner.  Many  an  honest,  energetic,  nature- 
loving,  child-loving,  pedagogue  is  cast  into  the  ter- 
ritory of  oblivion  by  his  weaker  brethren  who  were  so 
unfortunate  as  to  have  money  enough  to  buy  a  degree 
and  not  work  for  it.  The  same  thing  is  true  in  the 
'  medical  profession.  Many  a  life  has  been  laid  on  the 
altar  of  sacrifice  to  the  god  of  M.  D.'s  because  cripples 
were  wielding  the  scalpel. 

In  the  ministry  the  cold  shoulder  is  turned  upon  the 
man  who  makes  his  grammatical  and  rhetorical  errors, 
no  matter  if  his  soul  bubbles  over  with  the  fullness  of 
the  Holy  Ghost.  He  is  supposed  to  be  a  theological 
cripple,  and  a  strong  effort  is' made  to  suppress  his 
efforts.  So,  after  all,  in  almost  every  avenue  of  life 
we  find  some  men  who  think  just  as  the  man  in 
the  depot  did,  only  this  appealed  •  to  us  in  a  spe- 
cial way  because  it  referred  to  a  physical  condition, 
which  is  more  readily  appreciated  by  us.  But 
let  it  be  remembered  that  any  element  which  has 
a  tendency  to  lead  us  in  the  direction  of  oppress- 
ing the  weak  or  the  unfortunate  is  exactly  the 
opposite  to  good  citizenship,  manhood  and  Christian 
principle.  But  let  us  rather  support  the  weak,  cheer 
the  faint,  lift  the  fallen,  scatter  sunshine  and  make  the 
world  better  for  our  having  lived  in  it. 
*  *  4 
THE    BOUNDARY    LINE. 


It  is  generally  known  that  a  definite  boundary  line 
is  being  established  between  the  United  States  and 
Canada  on  water  and  on  land.  Of  course  many  years 
h?ve  flown  by  without  this  line  being  definitely  fixed 


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all  the  way  along  the  border,  but  several  things  which 
have  grown  up  have  made  these  demands  upon  the 
governments.  County  and  township  lines  have 
heretofore  been  more  or  less  indefinite  because  the  in- 
habitants were  sparsely  scattered  over  the  territory  of 
every  state  along  the  line.  But  now,  since  immigra- 
tion has  moved  northward  and  westward  and  the  land 
is  being  rapidly  occupied  on  both  sides  of  the  di- 
vision line,  it  becomes  necessary  for  each  government 
to  demand  that  there  be  an  exact  place  where  one  ends 
and  the  other  begins.  It  becomes  more  convenient 
in  the  case  of  the  escape  of  criminals  to  know  just 
whose  territory  they  are  on  when  they  are  arrested 
or  when  an  attempt  at  an  arrest  is  made.  In  the  rural 
mail  route  system  it  is  better  to  know  just  how  far 
the  United  States  mail  is  to  be  carried  and  the  Canada 
mail  on  the  other  side.  In  respect  to  the  Interstate 
Commerce  law  it  is  decidedly  better. 

When  it  comes  to  the  inspection  of  goods  on  railways 
and  trolley  lines  by  the  Revenue  Department,  it  makes 
a  definite  place  for  the  officers  of  one  country  to  begin 
and  the  other  to  leave  off.  This  way  there  is  no  dan- 
ger of  encroachment  upon  the  other's  territory,  which 
might  be  done  willfully  or  unwittingly  when  not  pro- 
vided with  the  line. 

If  it  be  necessary  and  advantageous  for  different 
states  and  nations  to  be  so  carefully  protected  and  de- 
fended by  these  boundary  lines,  would  it  not  be  desir- 
able for  individuals,  societies  and  organizations  to  be 
equally  well  bounded?  Just  as  surely  as  four  walls 
are  necessary  to  the  construction  of  a  house,  so  we 
believe  it  to  be  necessary  to  have  some  definite  boun- 
dry  line  to  one's  life.  His  character  ought  to  be 
bounded  on  one  side  by  aim  and  purpose ;  on  another 
side  by  discretion  and  judgment;  on  another  by  will 
power  and  energy,  and  on  the  last  by  perseverance  and 
industry.  With  these  boundry  lines  well  drawn,  one 
is  sure  not  to  break  over  onto  another's  territory,  and 
another  will  not  trespass  upon  his  domain.  The  fact 
that  a  great  many  people  have  made  wrecks  of  their 
lives  by  falling  into  temptation  is  evidence  that  they 
had  no  boundary  line  on  that  side  of  their  character 
and  did  not  know  how  far  to  go. 

The  fact  that  some  have  wrecked  financially  shows 
that  the  fence  was  down  between  them  and  panic. 
And  so  it  goes  through  life.  Very  few  people  are  able 
to  turn  their  property  out  to  the  commons  and  run  no 
risks. 

In  all  probability  wisdom  would  dictate  that  our  po- 
litical parties  should  have  their  boundary  lines  more 
definitely  marked;  that  their  constituency  may  know 
exactly  how  far  they  can  go  without  stepping  off  of  the 
platform  of  that  particular  party.  So  long  as  no 
boundary  line  exists,  mugwumps,  nonpartisans,  neu- 
trals, floaters,  may  be  on  or  off  the  platform. 


Churches  would  do  well  to  draw  the  lines  of  their 
church  policy  sufficiently  close  that  when  one  of  their 
number  is  interrogated  as  to  whether  he  belongs  to 
them  or  not,  it  will  not  be  necessary  for  him  to  remain 
long  in  doubt.  It  is  a  lamentable  fact  that  church 
lines  have  become  so  indistinct  in  many  instances  that 
membership  means  but  very  little. 

For  the  same  reasons  we  can  increase  the  par  value 
of  our  society  by  allowing  the  world  to  know  that  our 
society  is  protected  by  the  lines  of  virtue,  morality, 
patriotism  and  such  other  lines  as  will  sufficiently  pro- 
tect those  within.  And  when  the  individual  insists 
that  the  lines  of  individual  character  be  drawn  suf- 
ficiently close  and  clear,  that  will  materially  aid  in 
fixing  the  lines  of  social  circle,  the  church  and  the 
state. 

*  *  * 

AMPUTATION    SEASON. 


In  driving  through  the  country  recently  we  noticed 
here  and  there  in  the  barnyard  the  smoke  of  the  steam 
thresher,  and  being  in  a  country  where  wheat  is  not 
raised,  and  rather  late  in  the  season  any  way  for  that, 
one  of  the  party  suggested  that  it  was  the  corn  husk- 
ing season,  which  was  true,  and  all  over  this  wide  land 
of  ours  are  hundreds  and  even  thousands  of  these  corn 
buskers  and  shredders  doing  their  fall  work ;  but  it  is 
very  difficult  to  be  near  one  any  length  of  time  without 
seeing  one  or  more  men  with  one  or  more  fingers 
minus,  and  upon  inquiry  as  to  the  cause  of  the  loss 
of  the  phalanges,  the  answer  invariably  is,  "  Lost  it 
in  a  corn  husker."  And  so  as  we  see  these  machines 
pulling  out  for  fall  work,  we  are  almost  compelled  to 
say  that  amputation  season  has  come.  We  often 
think  with  compassion  of  the  poor  men  who  work 
so  hard  for  their  daily  bread  for  themselves  and 
their  families,  being  compelled  to  run  this  kind 
of  a  risk  and  make  this  kind  of  a  sacrifice  for 
the  little  remuneration  that  comes  from  it.  In 
meditating  on  it  we  wonder  why  fortune  might 
not  smile  upon  us  so  that  when  amputation  sea- 
son comes,  instead  of  depriving  us  of  these  useful  mem- 
bers, it  might  take  from  us  some  of  the  unnecessary 
things  that  are  clinging  to  us ;  that  while  we  are  husk- 
ing corn  or  doing  some  kind  of  work  our  ugly  tem- 
pers could  get  tangled  up  in  the  belts,  run  through  the 
machine  and  be  ground  to  powder,  or  some  of  our 
miserable  habits  he  run  over  with  the  drive  wheel  and 
buried  beneath  the  mud  of  the  field,  or  some  of  the 
evil  propensities  that  seem  to  he  paramount  in  our 
make-up  could  be  crammed  into  the  fire  box  an 
signed  to  the  flames.  How  much  better  it  would  be 
for  the  family,  the  state  and  the  church!  How  much 
better  it  would  be  for  die  individual!  Such  a  loss 
would  he  a  gain. 


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(        Sec: 


Current      Ha,p^>ei2_i:n_g,s 


Secretary  Hay  received  a  cordial'  note  from  the 
\  German   government,    accepting   in    principle,    Presi- 
dent  Roosevelt's    suggestion    for   another   conference 

*  The  Hague. 
\^  *  *  * 

Queen  Liliuokalani  and  her  party  arrived  at  San 

Francisco,  November  21.     The  former  queen  hopes  to 

secure  an  appropriation  from  congress  to  reimburse 

her  for  the  loss  of  the  crown  lands. 

*  *  * 
A  passenger  train  and  an  extra  freight  train  col- 
lided near  Swifton,  Ark.,  killing  one  person  and  nine- 
teen others  very  badly  injured.  The  accident  was 
caused  by  the  density  of  smoke  from  a  forest  fire,  which 
made  it  impossible  to  see  twenty  feet  ahead. 

*  *  * 
Students  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  and 

the  University  of  Virginia  will  debate  the  question, 
"  Resolved,  that  the  fifteenth  Amendment  of  the  Con- 
stitution be  repealed."  It  may  be  a  surprise  to  know 
the  Virginians  take  the  negative  as  a  matter  of  choice. 

*  *  * 
The    Nicaraguan    and    Costa    Rican  governments 

have  decided  to  submit  their  boundary  dispute  to  the 
king  of  Spain  for  arbitration. 

*  ♦  * 
Florence  Nightingale,  the  heroine  of  the  Crimean 

War,  is  living  in  London  in  her  quiet  old  house  in  Park  , 
Lane.     Although  an  old  lady,  she  is  unusually  active,  ; 


The  French  steamship  Provincia,  which  arrived  at 
Norfolk,  Va.,  Nov.  20,  was  attacked  by  a  swarm  of 
mosquitoes  which  settled  upon  the  Provincia's  deck 
while  the  ship  was  en  route  here.  The  members 
of  the  crew  were  lacerated  in  a  terrible  manner  and 
had  to  fight  the  insects  for  hours  with  smoke  and 
improvised  fans. 

•fr  4>  * 

Frank  Furlong,  eighteen  years  old,  who  is  a 
cigarette  fiend  confessed  the  murder  of  his  aunt  in 
New  York  and  acknowledges  dissipation  from  his  hab- 
it. 

*  *  * 

One  day  last  week  Prince  Fushimi  of  Japan,  spent 
a  day  at  Harvard  University.  He  was  well  pleased 
with  the  day's  visit. 

*  *  * 

One  hundred  and  fifty  passengers  were  injured  and 

and  eighty  of  them  seriously  in  a  wreck,  two  miles 

from  Holden,  Mo. 

4>  *   .;. 

The  Japanese  army  has  sent  an  order  to  London 
for  125,000  fish-hooks,  which  are  to  be  used  as  a  means 
by  which  to  obtain  food.  As  they  cannot  reach  Man- 
churia before  next  April,  it  is  evident  that  the  Japs 
are  preparing  for  a  lengthy  campaign. 

♦  <?>  *$> 
(  On  November  24,  the  immigration  station  at  Ellis 
Island  was  crowded  to  overflowing.  The  rush  of 
immigration  has  been  so  great ;  and  the  officers  of  in- 
spending  much  of  her  time  in  reading.  She  has  a  I  coming  ships,  one  of  which  had  1,700  immigrants  in  ' 
beautiful  home,  filled  with  the  choicest  flowers  from  1  the  steerage  list,  were  informed  that  they  could  not 
her  admiring  friends.     She  feels  that  the  people  of    \and  their  passengers.     There  was  no  room  for  them. 


England  have  not  forgotten  an  old  woman  who  tried 
to  do  her  duty  as  she  saw  it.  She  receives  hundreds 
of  letters  daily,  this  being  almost  more  than  her  eyes 
will  bear  the  reading  of.  Miss  Nightingale  is  very 
much  interested  in  the  war  of  the  East,  and  manifests 
a  desire  t(5  meet  Mme.  Stoessel,  the  wife  of  the  hero 
of  Port  Arthur. 

*  *  * 

Some  workmen  in  Kimberley,  S.  Africa,  while  work- 
ing on  the  streets,  found  five  thousand  dollars  worth 
of  diamond  dust. 

*  *  * 

The  cruiser  Prairie  was  quarantined  at  Port  Royal, 
S.  C,  with  seven  hundred  men  on  board,  because  Wal- 
ter Clarke  has  the  smallpox. 

*  *  * 

Thirteen  boys  lost  their  lives  and  two  hundred 
and  ninety-six  were  injured  in  playing  football  during 
the  season  which  closed  Thanksgiving  dav. 


*  *  ♦ 

The  business  district  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  suffered 
a  loss  of  $700,000  by  fire  November  20. 

*  *  * 

The  Greek  steamer  Elpis,  long  overdue,  is  now  re- 
garded as  lost.  It  is  believed  she  sunk  in  a  recent 
gale  in  the  Black  Sea,  and  that  her  entire  crew, 
seventy-seven  persons  in  all,  were  lost. 

*  *  * 

Secretary  Taft  sailed  for  Panama  November  22, 
to  make  a  tour  of  inspection. 

*  *  * 

Amherst  College,  Mass.,  has  received  a  donation 
of  thirty  thousand  dollars  for  a  natatorium  and  gym- 
nasium. 

*  *  * 

Iowa  farmers  are  distracted  over  the  prospects  of 
losing  their  hogs  from  an  epidemic  of  tuberculosis. 


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f  A  man  by  the  name  of  Jenkins  jumped  into  the 
nvcr  at  Pitman,  N.  J.,  when  the  water  was  freezing, 
in  payment  of  an  election  bet.  The  spectators  ap- 
plauded. Had  the  same  thing  been  some  church  rite 
the  wise  lookers-on  would  have  modestly  condemned 
such  barbarous  cruelty.  It  makes  a  difference  in- 
deed. 

*  *  * 

Joseph  Kirwin,  of  Detroit,  Mich.,  was  found  guilty 
of  piracy  on  the  high  seas,  and  was  sentenced  to  life 
imprisonment  in  the  Detroit  house  of  correction. 

*  *  * 
Reports  from  Washington,  D.  C,  say  that  the  Civil 

War  pensioners  are  dying  at  the  rate  of  one  hundred-^ 
and  fifty  per  day. 

Miss  Hurstad,  of  Sioux  county,  Iowa,  wears  the 
belt  of  the  state  for  corn  husking,  having  husked 
ninety-one  bushels  as  an  ordinary  day's  work. 

*  *  * 
News  from  Dresden  says  that  earth  from  the  Mt. 

of  Olives,  Bethlehem,  Galilee  and  Jerusalem  will  be 
offered  for  sale  to  devout  Christians  in  Europe  on 
Christmas.  This  is  another  outrageous  scandal.  It 
seems  that  other  people  besides  Americans  like  to 
be  humbugged,  but  the  people  over  there,  will  sell  any- 
thing you  want  to  buy.  They  have  sold  enough  tim- 
ber, said  to  be  the  real  pieces  of  the  Cross  of  Calvary, 
to  make  ties  enough  for  an  ordinary  railway. 

*  ♦   * 
Two  men  lost  their  lives  in  the  explosion  of  a  cot- 
ton gin  at  Walters,  Mass.     Several  other  people  were 
badly  injured  by  flying  debris. 

*  *  *  \ 

Secretary  Hay  and  Baron  Sternburg,  the  German  \ 
ambassador,   signed   the   American-German   treaty  of    j 
arbitration,    November  22,   at   the   State   Department  / 
in    Washington.     It    is    exactly    like  the  American/ 
French  treaty.  ' 


A  treaty  of  arbitration  between  the  United  States 
and  Portugal  was  signed  November  23. 

*  <•  4> 
Gloucester,  N.  J.,  is  suffering  from  an  epidemic 
of  diphtheria.  The  city  council  thinks  the  fault  lies 
with  the  doctors  not  reporting  cases.  Accordingly, 
the  authorities,  in  a  special  meeting,  have  taken  action 
against  the  transgressing  physicians. 

Mrs.  Cassie  L.  Chadwick  is  charged  with  conspir- 
acy to  defraud  the  Citizens'  National  bank  of  Oberlin, 
Ohio,  by  getting  $12,500  out  on  a  check  of  her  own, 
dated  Aug.  24,  1903.  She  was  arrested  by  United 
States  Marshal  Henkel  at  New  York. 


A  new  Children's  Hospital  is  to  be  built  in  Chicago, 
and  the  nucleus  of  the  new  institution  will  be  the 
"  Maurice  Porter  Memorial  Hospital  for  Children," 
which  will  cost  $300,000.  A  new  society  was  incor- 
porated last  year  "  to  promote  the  extension  of  facil- 
ities for  the  care  of  the  ill  and  crippled  children,"  and 
the  present  hospital,  which  was  founded  in  1882  by 
Mrs.  Julia  F.  Porter,  as  a  memorial  to  her  husband, 
was  reorganized  under  a  general  name.  Mrs.  Porter 
will  give  $75,000  toward  the  new  Institution.  It  is  to 
have  a  main  building  in  the  center  and  annexes  for  the 
different  classes  of  patients.  There  will  be  large  ver- 
andas, enclosed  with  glass,  where  the  convalescent 
children  may  play,  and  outdoor  playing  ground,  and 
also  a  training  school  for  the  instruction  of  the  nurses 
who  will  make  a  specialty  of  caring  for  children. 

*  *  * 
The  Czar  of  Russia,  at  a  special  conference  of  the 

supreme  naval  council,  signed  a  decree  ordering  the 
speedy  completion  of  battleships  Paul  I.  and  Slava, 
adding  to  them  five  older  battleships,  five  cruisers, 
forty  torpedo  boats,  providing  a  new  fleet  to  sail  to  the 
far  east  within  two  months.  This  is  the  third  squad- 
ron. 

*  *   * 

The  railroad  locomotive  will  be  a  thing  of  the  past 
within  two  or  three  generations,  if  the  experiments 
with  electricity  upon  railroads  prove  successful.  Some 
years  ago  some  expert  railway  men  and  some  electrical 
engineers  carefully  considered  the  question  of  using 
electrical  power  on  railways,  and  decided  that  for  the 
time  no  change  could  be  made.  Since  then  we  have 
new  inventions,  discoveries  and  engineering  processes, 
and  the  application  of  electricity  to  a  limited  extent  on 
the  present  steam  roads.  This  is  practically  an  ac- 
complished fact.  The  entire  Long  Island  railway  is 
to  adopt  electrical  power,  and  the  New  York  Central 
will  use  it  to  some  extent,  and  the  Pennsylvania  will 
also  use  it  on  its  new  tunnel  lines  into  New  York. 
Thus  we  see  the  rapid  approach  of  the  exclusive  use 
of  electricity. 

*   *   * 

Alfred  James,  president  of  the  Northwestern  Na- 
tional Insurance  Company,  and  one  of  the  best  known 
insurance  men,  died  recently  at  his  home  in  Milwaukee. 
Wis.  He  was  officially  connected  with  this  insurance 
company  since  1875.  Mr.  James  was  prominently 
known  throughout  the  western  states,  through  his 
persistent  warfare  upon  all  other  insurance  companies. 
He  belonged  to  no  insurance  association. 
+  *  + 

Lewis  Jodbins  of  Williamsport,  Pa.,  who  became 
suddenly  insane  from  the  effects  of  disease,  attacked 
three  physicians  in  their  office,  trying  to  take  their 
lives.     However,  he  was  arrested  and  confined. 


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Individual — Heron. 

In  our  last  issue  you  will  remember  we  made  our 
way  from  the  Natatores  to  the  Grallatores  by  way  of 
the  Flamingo.  The  Grallatores  which  are  common- 
ly called  Waders,  are  called  Grallatores  in  a  scientific 
way  because  the  word  itself  really  means  stilt  walk- 
ers. They  are  named  this  because  the  principal  char- 
acteristic that  distinguishes  them  from  other  classes 
of  birds  is  their  long  legs.  Another  characteristic 
perhaps  not  quite  so  prominent  is  their  S-bent  neck. 
Many  of  them  can  scarcely  be  said  to  be  aquatic  in  their 
habits.  Those  which  are  more  decidedly  aquatic  have 
feet  that  are  webbed  or  partially  webbed.  This  webb- 
ing of  the  feet  is  the  peculiarity  which  allows  one  to 
discriminate  between  them  and  the  Cursores.  It  is  also 
a  fact  that  in  the  first  named  class  we  find  much  stout- 
er, stronger  legs  than  in  the  Wader  family.  The  most 
of  the.  Waders  get  their  food  in  the  water,  and  their 
food  consists  of  fish,  mollusks,  aquatic  worms  and  in- 
sects. This  order  of  birds  have  larger  and  stronger 
wings  than  the  runners,  and  are  particularly  well  fitted 
for  rapid  flight. 

Their  bodies  are  very  long  and  slender.  As  nature 
has  cut  their  tails  very  short,  they  are  compelled  to 
use  as  a  rudder,  their  long  legs,  which  in  their  flight 
stretch  out  behind  to  guide  them  on  their  aerial  journey. 
Perhaps  no  order  or  class  of  birds  is  more  widely 
distributed  over  the  earth  than  are  the  Waders.  The 
two  may  be  classed  with  the  birds  which  have  strong 
migratory  habits,  and  naturalists  study  with  pleasure 
their  periodical  movements  according  to  the  varia- 
tion of  climate  and  the  habits  which  are  peculiar  to 
themselves.  The  more  distinct  families  of  this  order 
are  the  herons,  cranes,  plovers,  snipes,  and  rails. 
The  Heron  is  the  type  of  the  Grallatores. 
As  a  type  of  this  order  it  is  needless  to  say  that  they 
are  found  on  the  margins  of  lakes,  rivers  and  marshes 
and  feed  upon  fishes,  reptiles  and  sometimes  mam- 
malia. They  have  usually  long,  stout,  sharp-pointed 
beaks,  really  belonging  to  the  Conirostres,  with  which 
they  capture  fish,  for  which  they  watch  so  patiently. 
It  is  interesting  to  the  student  of  nature  to  sit  in  his 
boat  or  to  quietly  lie  hidden  in  the  marsh  and  watch 
these  expert  fishers  as  they  stand  on  one  leg  with  the 


other  one  full  drawn  up  to  the  body  and  the  long  slen- 
der bill  pointing  down  to  the  water  apparently  asleep, 
having  remained  so  perfectly  quiet  that  the  fishes  have 
been  unable  to  locate  the  presence,  of  anything,  which 
they  suspect  as  being  a  foe,  become  careless  and  come 
just  a  little  too  near  Mr.  Heron.  Quick  as  a  flash 
his  long  bill  darts  into  the  water  and  Mr.  Fish  is  a 
captive. 

Quite  contrary  to  the  habits  of  the  other  wading 
birds  the  Heron  builds  his  nest  high  up  in  the  treesJ 
feeding  its  young  with  fish  for  five  or  six  weeks  be- 
fore they  are  able  to  leave  the  nest.  It  is  said  to  be 
true  that  formerly  nobles  used  to  wear  the  long  feath- 


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Herons  with  which  our  readers  are  most  likely  to  be! 
familiar  is  the  Night  Heron. 

A  full  plumaged  male  Night  Heron  is  unquestion- 
ably   a   beautiful   bird.     Standing  about  two   feet   in; 
height,  its  head  crowned  with  a  loose  flowing  crest,  *' 
of  elongated  feathers  of  a  shining  green  of  the  deepest  ": 
shade,  from  the  center  of  which  project  three  slender 
feathers,  pure  white  and  about  eight  inches  in  length,  " 
each  having  its  edges  so  rolled  up  as  to  form  a  perfect 
tube.     The  upper  part  of  the  back  and  the  scapulars  °> 
are  of  a  deep  blackish  green,  the  wings  grey,  with  ^ 
a  shade  of  lilac.     The  throat  is   pure  white,   which  s 
gradually  shades  into  a  light  cream  color  upon  the1 

breast  and  whole  lower  parts. 

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Colonel  Marsh  Murdoch  is  backing  down  from  Jk 
his  declaration  that  prairie  dogs,  owls  and  rattlesnakes' 
live  in  the  same  holes.  "  Forty-four  years  ago  last  j 
June,"  he  says,  "  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Great  Bend 
of  the  Arkansas  River,  in  a  town  of  innumerable  dogs, 
asquat  and  scampering  everywhere,  we  picked  up  a 
small  owl  perched  on  a  dog  mound,  his  eyes  blinking  in 
the  sunlight.  At  the  foot  of  the  mound,  within  a 
few  feet  of  the  owl,  lay  coiled  up  a  small  prairie  rat- 
tler, which  we  killed.  We  did  not  say  that  we  wefffl 
friendly.  We  only  sat  down  on  the  wise  professor 
who  declares  that  owls  and  snakes  were  not  of  such 
habitat." 

The  college  professor  alluded  to  is  of  the  faculty 
of  the  State  Agricultural   College.     He  said  several 


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lings  in  his  article  which  are  not  substantiated  by  com- 
lon  observation.  For  instance,  he  said  that  the  com- 
lon  impression  that  the  prairie  dog  had  a  systerh  of 
nderground  galleries  was  a  mistake — that  each  hole 
prmed  a  house  unconnected  with  any  of  the  rest, 
lere  the  professor  is  in  error,  as  is  well  known  to 
verybody  who  has  waged  war  on  the  prairie  dog  in 
|Vestern  Kansas.  One  of  the  favorite  ways  of  ex- 
erminating  this  pest  was  to  pump  sulphur  fumes  into 
he  holes.  It  was  often  observed  that  when  the  smoke 
ras  forced  down  into  one  hole  it  came  to  the  surface 
hrough  other  holes,  proving  beyond  all  doubt  that 
lere  were  underground  communications. 

It  has  been  the  popular  impression  that  the  prairie 
ogs  had  a  community  well,  meaning  that  at  least  one 
ole  went  down  to  the  water.  The  professor  at  Man- 
attan  declares  that  this  is  not  true,  and  in  proof  offers 
he  statement  that  the  dogs  do  not  drink  water,  at 

ast  other  than  that  which  they  get  from  the  grass 
men  feeding.  All  holes  are  shallow,  he  said,  not  go- 
lg  more  than  a  few  feet  below  the  surface  of  the 
oil.  Still  it  is  of  record  that  when  the  Kansas  Pa- 
ific  dug  a  weli  at  Buffalo  station  the  workmen  found 

prairie  dog  hole  161  feet  below  the  surface,  stopping 
nly  when  it  reached  the  water  strata. 

There  is  no  burrowing  animal  which  works  with 
lore  intelligence  than  the  prairie  dog.  He  never 
ommits  the  error  of  making  his  mound  in  a  place 
rhich  may  be  submerged  by  water.     In  a  Western 

ansas  town  a  small  boy  caught  a  young  dog  and  fixed 

home  for  it  in  the  cellar  of  his  father's  house.  The 
og  went  to  work  almost  at  once  to  dig  a  tunnel  to  the 
pen  air.  It  went  down  under  the  stone  wall  of  the  cel- 
ir  and  up  to  the  surface  at  a  point  about  100  feet  from 
le  house.  But  it  found  that  its  point  of  exit  was  in 
le  middle  of  a  well-traveled  road.     It  went  back  and 

ug  another  gallery  in  an  oblique  direction  from  the 

rst,  emerging  in  a  plot  of  grass.  The  earth  carried 
ack  into  the  cellar  in  this  digging  would  more  than 
11  a  wagon  box.  For  several  years  the  dog  lived  on 
le  premises,  making  the  cellar  its  base  of  operations, 

ut  going  to  open  air  at  will  through  its  gallery. 
Cincinnati  Enquirer. 

BIRDS     REWARD     FARMER. 


these  little  creatures  fairly  live  in  his  garden.  The 
robins  come  first  in  the  spring,  and  later  the  ground 
sparrows  or  song  sparrows  come  in  flocks  and  build 
their  nests  and  rear  their  young  near  by.  The  old 
birds  come  first,  and  just  as  soon  as  the  young  are 
grown  they  bring  them  along  with  them.  The  only 
thing  Mr.  Smith  does  to  enlist  the  help  of  these  helpers 
is  to  place  regularly  crumbs  of  crackers  on  the  ground 
for  them.  The  broken  crackers  he  secures  in  the  stores 
for  a  trifle,  and  a  pound  lasts  several  days,  and  many 
dollars  are  saved  from  destruction  by  the  pests  that 
hinder  cabbage  growers  so  generally. 

The  plants  themselves  form  a  perfect  shelter  for  the 
birds.  Beneath  the  broad  leaves  of  the  plants  the  birds 
can  hide  in  perfect  safety  from  hawks  and  other  en- 
emies of  similar  nature,  and  the  same  shelter  also  gives 
protection  from  the  cold  and  rains  that  might  other- 
wise kill  the  young  birds.  With  all  of  these  birds 
swarming  over  the  gardens  the  insects  that  would  de- 
stroy the  vegetables  have  a  hard  time  and  fail  to  do 
much  harm.  The  birds  may  often  be  seen  perched 
on  a  broad  leaf  watching  intently  for  a  worm,  the 
presence  of  which  they  have  detected,  and  then  with  a 
sudden  dive  capture  the  luckless  trespasser.  So 
thoroughly  is  the  work  done  that  a  careful  examination 
fails  to  show  traces  of  the  ravages  of  the  troublesome 
insects,  and  not  a  particle  of  poison  of  any  kind  was 
used.  The  birds  kept  the  plants  clean  without  assist- 
ance. 

♦  *  * 
ELEPHANTS   LIKE   TOBACCO. 


In  a  section  where  an  acre  of  cabbages  will  support 
family,  the  experience  of  E.  M.  Smith,  who  has 
aised  one  of  the  finest  lots  ever  grown  in  Machias, 
laine,  is  a  valuable  hint  to  farmers.  His  plants  are 
ree  from  worms  and  he  has  made  the  business  profit- 
ble.  The  birds,  whom  he  has  pressed  into  service, 
ave  done  a  good  share  of  his  work  fur  him. 
He  begins  each  spring  to  feed  the  birds,  and  the  re- 
jlt  is  that  all  through  the  summer  large  numbers  of 


Tin  Buckley,  who  knows  elephants  as  a  mother 
knows  her  own  children,  said  last  night  that  the  story 
of  the  elephant  cherishing  revenge  for  the  tailor  who 
had  given  him  a  piece  of  tobacco  and  years  afterward 
soaking  him  with  muddy  water  is  all  a  fake. 

"  Elephants."  he  says.  "  will  not  take  tabacco  or  any- 
thing else  if  they  do  not  want  it,  even  if  they  have  had 
it  in  their  mouths,  and  what  is  more,  I  have  known 
elephants  to  be  really  fond  of  tobacco  and  to  eat  it  with 
pleasure. 

"  I  have  had  elephants  that  would  steal  a  plug  of 
tobacco  out  of  a  man's  pocket  and  swallow  the  whole 
thing.  They  do  not  like  the  tobacco,  but  they  do  like 
the  licorice. 

"  Men  and  hoys  will  frequently  give  them  tobacco 
and  other  thing?  which  they  do  not  like,  under  the  pre- 
tense of  feeding  them  peanuts,  hut  the  elephant  is  wise, 
and  he  will  simply  toss  such  things  to  one  side,  with- 
out a  thought  of  filling  his  trunk  with  muddy  water 
ami  wetting  the  person  who  gave  him  the  stuff." 
*   *   + 

When  the  apple  trees  are  sprayed  for  the  codlin 
moth,  the  work  should  be  done  as  soon  as  the  fruit  is 
set  well. 


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HOME    DEPARTMENT 


THE   NEW   SCIENCE   OF   BREAD-MAKING. 


The  following  article  is  copied  from  the  October  num- 
ber of  Medical  Talk  for  the  Home. 

It  is  an  encouraging  sign  that  the  preparation  of 
food  is  taking  such  a  prominent  place  in  public  in- 
terest and  engaging  the  attention  of  scientific  men. 
The  time  was  when  bread-making  was  entirely  rel- 
egated to  the  housewife.  If  she  made  sodden  bread 
the  family  had  to  stand  it.  If  she  happened  to  have 
the  knack,  or  the  good  luck,  to  make  good  bread,  all 
right. 

After  a  while  bread-making  became  more  and  more 
a  business.  It  was  left  for  bakers  to  conduct  in  their 
own  way.  The  baker  makes  his  bread  to  sell.  He 
gets  the  kind  of  flour  he  pleases.  Makes  the  bread 
in  his  own  way.  Puts  it  upon  the  market  as  cheaply 
as  he  can.  People  eat  it.  No  questions  are  asked. 
Unlike  making  the  boots  or  bonnets,  mowing  machines 
or  musical  instruments,  bread-making  is  a  sort  of 
catch-as-catch-can  business  which  anybody  may  take 
up  without  any  special  preparation. 

It  is  certainly  encouraging  when  the  art  of  convert- 
ing wheat  into  toothsome  and  nourishing  food  products 
has  fallen  into  the  hands  of  scientific  men  who  are  de- 
termined to  make  it  an  economical  and  exact  science. 

Shredded  Wheat  Biscuit  has  become  a  part  of  the 
food  of  the  American  people.  It  has  found  a  unique 
place  in  our  bill  of  fare.  It  makes  no  difference  what 
it  may  be  called,  biscuit  or  bread  it  is  palatable,  easily 
digested,  and  contains  the  life-giving  properties  of 
the  whole  wheat. 

It  is  made  without  the  use  of  yeast  or  baking  powder. 
It  is  crisp,  dainty,  and  satisfying.  We  are  glad  to 
note  that  a  technical  journal  of  such  world-wide  stand- 
ing as  the  Scientific  American  finds  it  profitable  to 
give  such  prominent  space  to  the  interests  of  a  food 
product.  The  proprietors  of  Shredded  Wheat  Biscuit 
are  great  advertisers.  They  are  undoubtedly  looking 
at  the  matter  from  a  commercial  standpoint.  They 
have  a  good  thing  and  they  know  it,  and  are  pushing  it 
to  the  front,  and  great  prosperity  is  attending  their 
effort. 

For  all  this  we  not  only  congratulate  them  but  are 
glad  to  do  so.  Not  simply  because  they  are  making 
money  out  of  it,  but  because  it  is  incidentally  bringing 
before  the  public  an  important  question. 

The  old-fashioned,  lazy  baker  has  got  to  get  a  hus- 
tle on  himself  and  make  better  bread  or  get  out  of  the 
way.     The  bread  question  is  moving  forward.     The 


Shredded  Wheat  Biscuit  people  in  advertising  them- 
selves are  unintentionally  advertising  more  than  their 
own  business.  They  are  daily  calling  the  attention 
of  the  masses  of  the  people  to  their  superior  prepa- 
ration of  wheat  as  a  food.  This  will  undoubtedly  bring 
them  many  customers,  but  it  will  also  set  people  think- 
ing about  the  matter. 

People  will  become  dissatisfied  with  soggy,  soun 
bread.  They  will  begin  to  think  they  ought  to  have 
better  results  from  the  precious  wheat  kernel  than  an 
unpalatable  bread  which  is  so  common. 

Other  manufacturers  will  try  to  imitate  Shredded 
Wheat  Biscuit.  This  will  stimulate  invention  until 
competition  will  fully  exploit  the  whole  subject,  and 
everybody  will  have  better  bread  as  a  result. 

Unlike  the  average  bake-shop,  the  place  where 
Shredded  Wheat  Biscuit  is  made  is  spotlessly  clean. 
It  is  a  model  of  exquisite  propriety.  This,  too,  wil| 
have  a  beneficial  effect  upon  bread-making.  The  old 
ways  of  dinginess  and  dirt,  of  carelessness  and  waste, 
are  about  to  pass  away.  Bread  will  not  only  be  made 
crisp  and  brimful  of  nourishment  but  every  detail  of 
its  preparation  will  have  in  some  degree  approximated 
the  tidiness  which  now  attends  the  manufacture  of 
Shredded  Wheat  Biscuit. 

Everyone  can  feel  sure  in  eating  Shredded  Wheat 
Biscuit  that  he  is  eating  a  clean  article.  The  anal- 
ysis of  this  biscuit  also  shows  that  it  contains  a  greater 
per  cent  of  nutritive  material  than  cheese,  steak  or 
eggs. 

All  this  is  very  good.  Not  only  good  to  eat,  but 
good  to  talk  about.  No  one  who  wishes  prosperity 
to  the  world  can  help  feeling  good  about  it.  If  the  eat- 
ing of  good  beef  has  made  the  sturdy  Briton  what  he 
is,  let  us  hope  that  the  eating  of  good  bread  will  pro- 
duce an  American  manhood  which  shall  be  more  than 
a  match  for  the  Briton. 

4*    4»    4» 


METHODS   OF  AMUSING  BABIES. 


When  my  six-months'-old  girl  begins  to  fret,  and 
I  have  no  time  to  stop  my  work  and  take  her  up,  I  roll 
her  cab  up  to  the  table,  take  the  bird  cage  from  its 
hook,  and  set  it  upon  the  table  before  the  little  miss. 
This  always  proves  a  pleasure  to  bird  and  baby  and 
gives  me  often  an  hour  or  more  to  work  or  rest. 
When  she  begins  to  tire  of  birdie's  company,  I  set  the 
clock  (mine  is  a  small  one)  upon  the  table  beside  the 
bird,  and  by  the  time  baby  has  worn  off  the  novelty  of 
this,  I  am  ready  to  take  her  up. 


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When  my  two-year-old  boy  begins  to  hang  to  my 
r'dress,  and  want  something,  he  hardly  knows  what,  I 
say,  "  Let  us  play  school  or  soldiers."  So  I  get  the 
clothes-pins — they  are  the  old  fashioned  wooden 
;ones; —  and  a  basket  or  box,  such  as  we  get  fruit  in 
at  the  grocery.  One  of  the  clothes-pins  has  a  cap  on, 
made  from  a  piece  of  red  calico  tied  around  the  neck 
with  a  white  tie;  this  one  is  the  captain,  or  teacher 
'and  upon  rare  occasions  it  is  the  mamma.  The  other 
pins  are  pupils  or  mamma's  "  ittle  boys  and  dirls." 
He  will  stick  the  pins  along  the  side  of  the  basket  or 
box,  and  finds  much  pleasure  in  the  arrangement  and 
rearrangement  of  things  to  suit  his  changing  fancy. 

When  this  gets  a  little  old,  I  take  a  fancy  basket  from 
the  mantle,  and  as  I  place  it  upon  a  chair  you  see  that  it 
is  filled  with  pieces  of  plain  colored  calico  of  every  col- 
tOr  I  could  find,  cut  into  squares,  oblongs  and  angles  of 
all  degrees.  These  he  will  lay  or  spread  upon  the  floor, 
and  has  already  learned  the  colors  at  sight,  and  noted 
the  difference  in  shape. 

In  papa's  shop  there  is  an  old  crackerbox,  and  in  it 
papa  is  putting  all  bits  of  perfect  squares,  cubes  and 
angles,  anything  which  little  hands  can  pile  up  into  a 
tiny  building;  pieces  of  molding  are  also  put  into  this 
box.  By  and  by  the  pieces  will  be  painted  all  colors, 
except  poisonous  green,  which  I  never  allow  children 
to  handle,  and  upon  some  happy  day,  when  baby  can 
sit  upon  the  carpet,  two  little  ones  will  be  made  glad 
by  another  present. 

I  may  be  infringing  upon  the  kindergarten  system, 
but  if  so,  these  ideas  are  my  own  ;  and  all  can  see  that 
they  are  instructive  as  well  as  amusing.  The  little 
ones  are  taught  to  put  the  things  away  when  tired  of 
them,  and  thus  habits  of  order  are  learned  as   well. 

♦  ♦♦ 

QUEER   SUPERSTITIONS. 


A  writer  who  has  lived  in  a  remote  English  village 
says  :  "  The  exorcising  or  laying  of  spirits  is  supposed 
to  belong  to  the  old  monkish  days  and  to  be  now  en- 
tirely obsolete,  and  yet  a  few  years  ago  this  old  belief 
was  still  firmly  held  by  the  villagers.  The  rector's  wife 
was  visiting  a  woman  who  had  recently  lost  her  hus- 
band. After  some  hesitation  she  told  the  lady  that  she 
wished  to  see  the  rector,  for  she  had  something  very 
particular  to  say  to  him.  Of  course,  on  hearing  this, 
he  lost  no  time  in  visiting  his  parishioner.  She  rose 
from  her  chair  with  much  alacrity  and  proceeded  to 
drag  an  empty  box  from  a  cupboard.  '  What  I  wants 
you  to  do  sir  is  this :  Willum's  spirit  is  a  haunting 
me  day  and  night  and  wunna  let  me  be.  So,  if  you'll 
be  so  kind  as  to  pray  him  into  this  box  and  then  take 
it  away  and  throw  it  into  the  pool,  he'll  lay  quiet  and 
not   trouble   me  no   more.'     I   laughed   at   this   story 


when  I  heard  it,  but  the  next  day  I  was  visiting  an  old 
couple  and  was  astonished  to  find  that  they  took  the 
matter  seriously,  said  that  the  rector  '  might  ha '  done 
as  much  as  that  for  a  poor  woman.'  " 

This  same  writer  describes  a  procession  of  four  or 
five  women,  each  carrying  a  baby,  which  entered  the 
village  churchyard  one  wild,  wet  morning  in  March. 
"  We  concluded,"  says  the  writer,  "  that  they  were 
taking  the  children  to  be  christened,  but  on  watch- 
ing them  we  perceived  that  they  did  not  enter  the 
church,  but  walked  round  and  round  it.  An  inquiry 
into  the  meaning  of  this  singular  conduct  elicited  the 
information  that  to  walk  nine  times  around  the  church 
on  three  successive  Fridays  was  a  sure  cure  for  whoop- 
ing cough.  As  the  result  of  the  first  Friday's  pil- 
grimage was  that  two  babies  died,  that  cure  was  given 
up  and  the  mothers  resorted  to  another  sovereign 
remedy,  passing  the  child  nine  times  around  a  donkey, 
over  the  back  and  under  the  belly,  without  touching 
the  ground." 

♦   *   * 

WHERE    BAD    EGGS    GO. 


A  poultry  farm,  whether  ducks,  geese,  chickens  or 
turkeys  be  the  speciality,  accumulates  a  iarge 
surplus  of  malodorous  eggs  that  refuse  to  develop  in- 
to fowl.  The  average  person  would  suppose  that  if 
there  is  anything  on  earth  that  is  utterly  worthless  it 
is  a  rotten  egg.  Millions  of  stale  eggs  are  used  every 
year  in  preparing  leather  dressing  for  gloves  and  book- 
binding— an  industry  that  is  largely  carried  on  in  the 
foreign  tenement  houses  of  New  York  and  other  large 
cities.  They  are  also  used  in  manufacturing  disin- 
fectants and  in  the  preparation  of  shoe  blacking,  and 
even  the  shells  are  made  into  fertilizers.  The  eggs 
that  have  not  yet  lost  their  virtue  also  have  other  uses 
besides  the  more  common  ones  for  culinary  purposes. 
It  is  estimated  that  fully  55,000,000  dozen  are  used 
by  wine  clarifiers,  dye  manufacturers  and  in  the  prepa- 
ration of  photographers'  dry  plates. 

*  *  * 

It  is  remarkable  how  many  good  people  there  are 
who  enjoy  their  religion  as  painfully  as  a  cucumber. 
They  have  never  dreamed  that  anything  else  is 
either  possible  or  proper  to  a  mourner  in  Zion.  I 
would  hesitate  to  say  that  man  has  no  religion  who 
has  no  sweetness.  A  bitter  orange  is  an  orange  still. 
But  who  would  hold  on  to  a  bitter  orange  when  a 
sweeter  is  at  hand? 

*  *  * 

It  is  claimed  that  cut  hay  or  even  straw  wet  and 
sprinkled  with  meal  is  better  feed  for  horses  than  the 
whole  grain  or  hay.  In  this  shape  the  nutriment  in 
this  food  is  easily  eaten  and  easily  digested. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— December  13,  1904. 

OUR    YOUNG    PEOPLE     " 


THE    GEOGRAPHY    CLASS.— Chapter  VI. 


It  was  a  long  lonesome  night  for  Agnes.  The  fact 
is  if  she  had  been  in  Mayville  some  one  else  might 
have  taken  her  place  without  the  least  remonstrance 
on  her  part.  The  evening  was  spent  in  walking  about 
the  City  in  which  they  were  all  very  much  interested. 
They  retired  early.  The  boys  were  exceedingly  eager 
to  get  on  board  the  Celtic,  and  as  soon  as  the  gray 
streak  of  dawn  appeared  the  next  morning  the  entire 
party  was  found  shuffling  around  to  see  that  nothing 
was  left  behind,  Miss  Merrittt  questioning  each  one 
to  see  that  their  paraphernalia  was  enclosed.  They 
went  aboard  early.  As  soon  as  they  reached  the  sec- 
ond cabin  the  steward  greeted  them  with  a  smile  and 
asked  them  for  the  number  of  their  state-rooms  and 
kindly  conducted  them  to  the  proper  places.  Not  long 
after  they  were  located  the  third  class  passengers  were 
allowed  to  come  aboard  and  when  once  they  were  all 
aboard  and  the  mail  was  being  taken  on,  the  lunch 
gong  rang. 

The  five  hundred  second  cabin  passengers  were  then 
seated  promiscuously  at  the  clean,  neat,  well  arranged 
tables  in  the  great  dining  hall.  While  they  were  eating 
the  great  ship  began  to  move. 

One  by  one  the  people  began  to  leave  the  table  and 
hasten  to  the  deck  and  sure  enough  about  fifteen  little 
tugs  had  hooked  on  to  the  monster  vesssel  and  she 
was  slowly  making  her  way  down  East  River.  Simply 
thousands  of  people  lined  the  shore ;  and  hats,  handker- 
chiefs and  even  coats  were  frantically  waved  as  a  last 
good-bye,  and  you  can  just  say  what  you  please  about 
being  brave,  when  one  stands  on  the  deck  and  leans 
over  the  taftrail  and  watches  his  own — his  native  land 
fade  away,  somehow  emotions  fill  his  breast  and  tears 
come  unbidden  to  his  eyes. 

A  little  while  passed  and  they  were  rounding  Staten 
Island  and  there  the  proud  Goddess  of  Liberty  stood 
holding  out  her  hands  in  blessing  over  our  good  old 
ship  as  she  passed  slowly  on.  The  tide  being  out  they 
were  compelled  to  anchor  until  about  sun  down.  Dur- 
ing this  time  Oscar  suggested  to  Marie  that  while  the 
ship  was  still,  she  better  write  a  letter  back  home  be- 
cause the  sea  might  get  rough  after  a  while  and  she 
couldn't  do  it  so  well,  so  they  all  four  seated  themselves 
around  one  of  the  nice  tables  in  the  second  cabin  li- 
brary and  one  after  another  would  dictate  to  Marie 
while  she  wrote  the  following  letter: 

movii. 


Mr.  George  Maxwell, 

Editor  Mayville  Times, 
Dear  Sir: 

Before  Mr.  Maynor  left  us  at  Pittsburg  he  made  us 
promise  to  write  a  letter  for  your  paper  as  soon  as  wa 
were  out  at  sea,  and  I  heard  one  of  the  stewards  say  w? 
would  have  a  chance  to  send  mail  back  to  the  shore  at  6 
o'clock  to-night,  so  here  goes  our  first  letter  to  you.  In 
the  first  place  I  want  to  say  to  you  that  New  York  is 
considerably  larger  than  Mayville..  It  is  a  city  whose  in- 
habitants are  numbered  by  millions,  and  whose  people 
live  in  homes  from  mansions  to  the  very  darkest  slum 
pits  in  the  tenement  districts.  They  get  their  exercise 
and  recreation  in  the  parks,  from  Grand  Central  Park, 
which  is  the  largest  and  contains  seven  hundred  acres, 
to  all  the  other  parks,  even  to  the  little  three-cornered 
plot  at  the  junction  of  avenues.  They  get  their  drinks  in 
the  saloons  from  the  Great  Crystal  Bazaar  to  the  Italian 
joint  in  the  cellar.  They  worship  in  churches  from  the 
Great  Cathedral  whose  pinnacles  pierce  the  sky  to  the 
little  mission  rooms  in  the  suburbs.  The  sporting  peo- 
ple spend  their  time  in  places  especially  adapted  to  meet 
their  wants,  from  Coney  Island  to  the  opium  den.  Th^ 
people  are  carried  from  one  end  of  the  city  to  the  other, 
which  is  several  miles,  in  the  way  we  count  distance,  in 
all  sorts  of  vehicles,  such  as  regular  railway  trains,  suburb- 
an trains,  third  rail  system,  trolley  lines,  horse  cars,  omni- 
buses, cabs,  automobiles,  cabriolets,  carriages,  etc.,  saying 
nothing  of  the  thousands  who  are  compelled  to  walk. 
And  I  tell  you  we  were  glad  to  leave  the  great  metropolis 
of  America  and  get  on  board  the  good  steamer  Celtic, — 
all  but  Agnes  and  she  finally  admitted  that  it  was  a  relief 
even  to  her  to  get  out  of  the  noise,  confusion  and  filth 
which  are  to  be  found  in  cities  where  the  population  is 
so  congested. 

We  were  favorably  impressed  with  the  pleasant  features 
of  Captain  Lindsday.  There  are  three  hundred  and  seventy 
seamen  who  care  for  the  vessel  in  which  we  are  to  cross 
the  Atlantic.  It  was  a  sight  to  watch  them  load  the  peo- 
ple, as  the  gang  planks  were  simply  crowded  all  forenoon. 
As  we  look  over  the  list  of  passengers  (because  they  have 
a  printing  press  in  the  hold  of  the  ship  and  our  names 
are  already  catalogued),  we  see  that  there  are  three  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  first  cabin  passengers,  five  hundred 
and  forty-eight  second  cabin  passengers,  and  something 
like  twenty-three  hundred  third  cabin  passengers,  so  you 
can  see  that  our  family  numbers  about  three  thousand 
souls;  Miss  Gertrude  was  just  figuring  that  all  the  people 
of  Mayville  and  Greenwood  could  get  aboard  this  vessel 
with  all  their  household  furniture,  their  horses  and  bug- 
gies, and  what  cattle  they  have  and  plenty  of  room  to 
spare  for  freight,  baggage,  etc.,  in  the  lower  stories  of 
the  vessel.  It  is  something  wonderful  to  see  the  amount 
of  stuff  they  get  into  these  great  Leviathans  of  the  sea. 

Just  as   I  was  writing  this  letter  one  of  the  stewards 
walked  up   and   down   the  .aisles   between   the   cabins  and 
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THE    I NGLENOOK.— December  13,   1904. 


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r 


What  is  thermit? 

Thermit  is  a  heating  and  welding  compound  in  the 
form  of  a  powder,  the  use  of  which  is  demonstrated 
in  the  Mining  Gulch  at  the  World's  Fair.  After  a 
pinch  of  a  special  ignition  powder  has  been  placed  upon 
it  and  lighted  by  a  Bengal  or  storm  match,  a  powerful 
chemical  reaction  takes  place  within  the  space  of  half 
a  minute  by  which  the  temperature  of  the  whole  mass, 
no  matter  how  large  the  quantity  used,  is  raised  to 
five  thousand  four  hundred  degrees  Fahrenheit,  and 
a  pure  liquid  steel  is  given  off,  the  rest  of  the  compound 
rising  to  the  surface  in  the  form  of  aluminum  slag  or 
I  corundum,"  in  the  proportion  of  three  parts  to  one. 
The  molten  steel,  amounting  by  weight,  to  one-half  the 
thermit  powder,  will  melt  at  once  the  surface  of  any 
metal  to  which  it  is  applied,  although  the  latter  is  en- 
tirely cold  and  unite  with  it  into  one  solid  mass. 

In  this  way  all  sorts  of  repairing  of  machinery  and 
other  metal  work  can  now  be  done  readily  by  hand 
which  has  hitherto  required  the  removal  of  the  broken 
portion  and  its  shipment  to  the  foundry.  An  incalcu- 
lable amount  of  time  and  trouble  and  money  are  saved 
by  the  device  which  permits  all  repairing  to  be  done  on 
the  spot  almost  instantaneously.  It  has  already  been 
extensively  applied  to  such  purposes  as  the  closing  of 
cracks  in  metallic  plates  or  surfaces  of  any  kind,  the 
welding  of  trolley  rails,  of  steel  or  wrought  iron  pipes 
and  of  broken  roll  bosses. 

In  the  future  naval  wars  it  will  be  invaluable  for 
promptly  annealing  the  spots  in  armor  plate  that  have 
been  injured  by  the  enemy's  shots.  It  is  applicable  to 
girders,  bars,  angles,  shafts,  turn  posts,  locomotive 
frames  and  any  possible  section  of  rolled  or  wrought 
iron  or  steel ;  and  it  may  even  be  used  for  welding  cast 
iron  and  making  castings. 
* 

What  is  a  hectograph?     How  are  they  made? 

It  is  a  copying  pad,  and  is  very  useful  in  making  a 
limited  number  of  copies  of  a'writing  or  drawing.  You 
can  buy  one  in  a  stationery  store,  or  you  can  make  one 
as  follows :  Place  an  ounce  of  gelatine  in  a  tin  pan  and 
cover  with  cold  water.  Let  it  soak  over  night,  so 
that  all  the  gelatine  is  swelled.  Then  dissolve  two 
ounces  of  common  salt  in  one  pint  of  water.  Over 
this  salt-water  bath  heat  six  or  seven  ounces  of  pure 
glycerin  to  two  hundred  degrees  F.  Pour  off  of  the 
gelatine  all  water  left  unabsorbed,  and  put  the  gelatine 
in  with  the  hot  glycerin.  Heat  this  mixture  for  an 
hour,  stirring  occasionally.  Add  twenty  drops  of  oil 
Sjf  cloves,   which    will   prevent   decomposition.     Then 


pour  the  composition  into  a  shallow  tin  cake  pan,  filling 
it.  Place  level  and  let  it  cool  for  five  hours.  This 
gelatine  mass  constitutes  the  hectograph  or  copying 
pad.  Before  using,  pass  a  wet  sponge  over  it,  and 
wait  until  the  face  is  nearly  dry.  Then  take  your 
first  copy.  Use  hectograph  ink  in  making  the  writing 
or  drawing  to  be  copied.  Wlien  the  writing  is  dry, 
place  it  face  downward  on  the  pad  and  rub  gently  on 
the  back,  so  as  to  have  it  all  impressed.  About  a  min- 
ute is  long  enough  to  leave  the  original  on  the  pad. 
Remove  it  carefully  by  raising  it  slowly  from  one  cor- 
ner. Then  place  blank  papers  on  the  pad,  one  at  a 
time,  and  you  can  get  the  desired  copies. 
* 

Is  it  true  that  there  is  a  reservoir  in  India  larger  than 
the  Assouan  reservoir  in  Egypt? 

Yes.  A  large  dam  built  across  the  Tungabhadra 
river  in  the  western  part  of  the  Madras  Presidency, 
forms  a  reservoir  six  times  as  large  as  the  one  in  Egypt, 
for  it  is  nearly  a  mile  long,  about  one  hundred  and 
fifty  feet  high,  and  will  contain  about  two  hundred 
billion  cubic  feet  of  water  and  covers  an  area  of  one 
hundred  and  fifty  square  miles. 
* 

Who  wrote  "Listen  to  the  Mocking  Bird"? 

Septimus  Winner,  of  Philadelphia,  about  fifty  years 
ago.  Mr.  Winner  still  lives  and  has  celebrated  his 
seventy-second  birthday. 

+ 

How  many  Indians  are  there  in  the  United  States? 

Two  hundred  and  seventy  thousand  five  hundred 
and  forty-four  according  to  the  reports  of  the  Indian 
agents  in  1900. 

* 

How  many  bridges  cross  the  Ohio  at  Cincinnati? 

Five,  viz :  Covington  suspension,  Newport,  Central 
Highway,  Chesapeake  and  Ohio,  and  Cincinnati  South- 
ern. 

* 

Is  a  man  born  on  shipboard  or  in  a  foreign  country, 
of  American  parents  who  are  abroad  on  a  visit,  eligible 
to  be  President? 

Yes. 

* 

How  old  must  a  person  be  to  be  eligible  to  the  Presi- 
dency of  the  United  States? 

Thirty-five  years  of  age. 
* 

\\  hen  did  Pope  Leo  XIII  die? 
July  20,  1903. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— December  13,  1904. 


THE    GEOGRAPHY    CLASS.— Chapter   VI. 


(Continued  from  Page  1198.) 
sounded  a  brass  gong  which  was  to  notify  us  that  dinner 
was  ready.  We  filed  out  to  the  dining  room  at  the  com- 
mand of  Miss  Gertrude  and  the  steward  kindly  assigned 
us  our  numbers  in  succession  along  the  table.  Oscar  and 
I  were  on  one  side  of  Miss  Gertrude  and  Roscoe  and 
Agnes  on  the  other,  then  a  young  gentleman  in  uniform 
handed  each  of  us  a  card  like  this: 

White   Star   Line. 

R.  M.  S.  Celtic. 

2nd  Saloon. 

DINNER. 

Fried  Whiting 

Haricot    Mutton 

Stewed  Tripe   &   Onions 

Mashed   Potatoes 

Salad  Pickles 

Stewed   Prunes   &   Rice 

Sandwich    Pastry 

Toast  Brown  &  White  Bread 

Marmalade  Jam 

Tea  Coffee 

This  was  our  second  meal  and  Miss  Gertrude  prophesied 
that  it  would  be  the  largest  one,  and  of  course  we  can't 
tell  about  that  yet.  As  the  sun  went  down  we  weighed 
anchor  after  having  delivered  our  mail  to  the  little  mail 
steamer  going  back  to  New  York  and  the  great  engines, 
of  the  vessel  began  to  move.  It  seems  as  if  the  great 
building  is  alive,  for  the  thud,  thud,  thud  beats  just  as 
regularly  as  the  pulse  of  our  body. 

Well  this  table  is   shaking  too  much  for  me  to  write, 
so  good-bye, 

The   Mayville   Party, 

Per  Marie. 
(To  be  Continued.) 

4»   4?    «|» 

DOORS  THAT  ARE  CLOSED  AGAINST  CIGAR- 
ETTE   USERS. 


Athletic  clubs. 

A  business  college. 

Union   Pacific  Railroad. 

Omaha   schools. 

Swift  and  Company,  Packing  House,  Chicago. 

6.  Marshall  Field,  dry  goods,  Chicago. 

7.  Life  insurance  companies    (some.) 

8.  Lehigh  Valley  Railroad. 

9.  United  States  army  positions. 
10.  United  States  naval  schools. 


11.  Carson,   Pirie  and  Scott,   Chicago. 

12.  Chicago,  Rock  Island  and  Pacific  Railroad. 

13.  Central  Railroad,  Georgia. 

14.  Three  high  schools,  and  more. 

15.  Ayer's  Sarsaparilla  Co.,  Lowell. 

16.  Wanamaker's,   Philadelphia. 

17.  Morgan  and  Wright  Tire  Co.,  Chicago. 

18.  Western  Union  Telegraph  Company    (in  mes- 
sage sevice.) 

19.  Burlington  Railroad. 

20.  United    States    Weather     Bureau     (Willis    M. 
Moore,  Chief.) 

21.  Heath  and  Milligan. 

22.  Montgomery  Ward  and  Company. 

23.  Academy  of  Northwestern  University,  Chicago. 

24.  Telephone  Company   (Cumberland.) 

25.  New   York,   New    Haven   and   Hartford   Rail- 
road. 

'  26.  Pittsburg  and  Western  Railroad. 
27.  West  Superior  (Wisconsin)  Railroad. — The  Pa- 
triotic Advocate. 

$    .j.    4» 

NINE    DON'TS    FOR    HORSEMEN. 


Don't  yell  at  your  horses ;  it  will  make  you  red  in 
the  face. 

Don't  hit  your  horse  with  the  bridle  when  you  turn 
him  loose  in  the  field. 

Don't  let  your  colt  run  unhoused  all  winter  to  an 
old  straw  stack  to  toughen  him. 

Don't  place  your  main  reliance  on  dogs  and  stones 
when  driving  your  horse  to  or  from  pasture. 

Don't  forget  when  dealing  with  them  that  a  little 
temper  is  a  good  thing — so  good  that  you  should  never 
lose  it. 

Don't  forget  when  breeding  that  the  law  of  repro- 
duction, as  laid  down  in  the  first  chapter  of  Genesis, 
has  not  yet  been  abrogated. 

Don't  pasture  your  colts,  if  you  can  help  it,  in  ajj 
field  where  the  fence  is  just  about  high  enough  to  teach 
them  to  jump  nicely. 

Don't  hitch  him  at  first  to  a  load  which  the  other 
horses  cannot  pull  when  he  holds  back  or  which  makes 
them  hold  back  when  he  pulls. 

Don't  neglect  to  occasionally  take  an  ear  of  corn 
along  when  going  through  the  pasture,  whether  you 
wish  to  catch  a  horse  or  not. — Chicago  Horseman. 


Good    Land    Cheap 


Let  us  sell  you  farming  land  where  the  soil  is  pro- 
ductive and  the  crops  dependable  ;  where  we  have  no 
drouths  or  failures;  where  grasshoppers  are  not;  where 
we  have  few  storms  and  no  destructive  winds;  where 
products  are  greatly  diversified;  where  the  markets  are 
as  good  as  they  are  easily  reached;  where  the  climate 
is  uniform  and  salubrious;  where  you  will  be  cordially 
welcomed  and  helped  along.  We  state  without  fear  of 
contradiction  that  we  have  the  best  land  at  the  least 
money,  possessing  more  advantages  and  fewer  draw- 
backs, than  can  be  found  in  this  country  to-day.  A  few 
years'  time  is  all  that  is  necessary  to  prove  that  we  are 
in  one  of  the  most  productive  areas  for  fruit,  root  crops 
and  live  stock.  The  possibilities  are  here,  largely  un- 
developed as  yet;  all  that  we  want  is  the  people.  Those 
we  are  getting  are  the  right  kind,  your  own  kind,  and 
the  country  will  soon  be  dotted  with  green  fields  and 
cosy  homes.  Don't  get  the  idea  that  you  are  going  to  a 
wilderness;  not  at  all;  on  the  contrary,  we  have  sold 
lands  in  our  BRETHREN  COLONY  to  over  120  fam- 
ilies, nearly  half  of  whom  are  already  on  the  ground, 
others  coming  next  spring.  In  the  vicinity  of  BRETHREN,  MICHIGAN,  we  have 
thousands  of  acres  of  productive  soil,  splendidly  adapted  for  fruit,  root  and  vegetable 
crops  and  live  stock,  at  prices  from  $7  per  acre  upwards,  on  easy  terms.  Our  lands  are 
sold  to  actual  settlers. 


The  basisof  my  business  is  absolute  and 
unvarying  integrity. 

SAMUEL  S.  THORPE, 
Founder  of  the  Brethren  Colony,  Brethren,  Mich. 


BRO.  JOHN  A.  MILLER,  BRETHREN,  MICH., 

is  Resident  Agent  in  charge  of  the  work  at  our  Brethren  Colony.  It  will  only  cost  you  a 
postal  card  to  drop  him  a  line  for  our  illustrated  booklet,  entitled  "  The  Brethren  Colony 
in  the  Fruit  Belt  of  Michigan."  This  will  give  you  an  accurate  idea  of  the  lands  and  all 
conditions  surrounding  them.  The  booklet  contains  letters  giving  the  opinion  of  many 
Brethren  in  regard  to  our  lands  and  work.      Every  statement  can  be  borne  out  by  facts. 

Reduced  rates  will  be  furnished  homeseekers  desiring  to  look  our  country  over  and 
every  opportunity  will  be  accorded  them  to  conduct  their  investigations  satisfactorily 
by  Bro.  Miller  on  their  arrival  at  Brethren,  Michigan. 

For  booklet,   information  as  to  rates  and  all  details  address: 


SAMUEL  S.   THORPE, 
Cadillac,   Mich., 

DISTRICT  AOENT 

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gains ever  offered.  You  will  be  highly  pleased 
with  watch.  It  is  not  always  advisable  to  carry 
an  expensive  watch  when  you  can  carry  a  watch 
costing  almost  nothing.  An  excellent  oppor- 
tunity for  boys.  Remember  only  71c.  If  sent 
by  mail  6c  extra. 

The   DELIGHT  Carpet  Sweeper. 

With  regular  bearings  and  nickel-plated  trim- 
mings. If  you  are  looking  for  a  Sweeper  that 
willgive  you  good  service  withoutmuch  outlay, 
we  recommend  this  particular  machine.  It  has 
a  very  fine  finish  and  will  be  a  delight.  Our  large 
cafalog  showing  different  kinds  and  prices  will 
be  sent  on  request.  The  Delight  in  either 
mahogany,  antique  oak,  or  plain  oak  finish,  only 
$1.75. 


Bed   Spread. 

Full  size  Crochet  Bedspread,  77  by  go  inches, 
hemmed  edge,  A  neat  variety  of  patterns,  full 
weight,  7,%  lbs.  Regular  S  2.00  spread.  Our 
special  price  $1.30 


Broadcloth  for  Ladies9  Suits 


In  all  the  leading  solid  colors.  Black 
and  wine  colors,  light,  medium  and 
dark  ol  Gray.  Blu,e,  and  Brown  and 
Olive,  medium  or  dark  green.  Other 
colors  can  be  furnished  if  desired. 
The  cloth  is  50  inches  wide,  and 
weighs  0  ozs.  to  the  yard.  This  is 
A  1  broadcloth  and  a  decided  bargain 
at  the  price.  Usually  sells  from  S1.10 
to  Si. 25  per  yard.  Our  special  price 
to  the  Inglenook  readers,  for  holidays 
only,  85c  per  yard. 


A  line  Umbrella  is 
always  a  suitable 
present  for  either 

Lady  or  Gentleman. 


Women's  Taffeta 
Umbrella,  $1.69 

K  5.  Women's  black  Union  silk  taffeta 
Umbrella;  fine  partridge  mounted  handle, 
with  German  silver  trimming;  silk  case 
and  tassel;  steel  rod  and  paragon  frame; 
size  26  inches $1.69 


Extra  Quality  Women's 
Taffeta,  $1.98 

K6,  With  beautiful  pearl  hook  handle,  gold  or 
silver  cap  and  band,  size  26  inches.    Price $1.98 

Men's  Union  Taffeta  Silk 
Umbrella,  $1.98 

K14.  Men's  black  Union  silk  taffeta  Umbrella, 
with  French  horn  handle,  with  silver  trimming; 
silk  case  andfcssels  and  paragon  frame;  7  ribs;  size 

26  inches $1.98 

Size28inches 2.26 


A  Bargain. 

This  Rocking  Chair  is  a  decided 
bargain  at  the  price  asked.  It  is 
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sit  in  after  a  hard  day's  work.  The 
chair  is  stronglv  built  and  made 
out  of  good  material.  You  never 
were  offered  a  better  bargain  in  a] 
chair  by  anyone.  By  b Living  them 
in  quantities  we  are  enabled  to  sell 
these  chairs  to  you  at  the  exceed- 
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diseases  and  other  ailments.  It  causes  trouble  for  both 
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Even'  movement  of  our  body  wears  out  some  flesh 
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blood. 

The  blood  builds  up  the  vital  organs,  strengthens 
and  regulates  them  and  enables  them  to  perform  their 
functions  regularly,  according  to  the  laws  of  nature. 
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the  body  and  removes  it  through  the  pores  of  the 
skin  and  other  channels.  If  the  blood  is  thick  and 
sluggish,  it  will  fail  to  perform  this  work ;  the  channels 
become  clogged  up  and  disease  follows. 

When  you  are  confronted  with  these  conditions 
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sist nature  to  remove  these  evils. 

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is  really  perfect,  because  it  is  aperient,  tonic,  laxative, 
stimulating,  sudorific,  and  alterative  at  the  same  time, 
is  DR.    PETER'S    BLOOD    VITALIZER. 

SAYS    IT'S    A    BLESSING. 

Beresford,  S.  D.,  Oct.  19,  1903. 
Dr.  P.  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

Dear  Sir: — Please  fill  the  enclosed  order  for  Blood 
Vitalizer  as  soon  as  possible  as  we  .are  all  out  at  the  house. 
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It  has  been  a  blessing  to  me. 

Yours  truly, 

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CURING  THE  LITTLE  ONES. 

Hoffman,  Minn.,  April  16,  1904. 
Dr.  P.  Fahrney,  Chicago,  111. 

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Vitalizer  he   has  become  so  big  and  strong  that  it   is  a 

pleasure  to  look  at  him. 

Yours  truly, 

P.  R.  Peterson. 

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from  the  blood,  nature  does  the  rest — health  follows. 
Although  in  constant  use  for  over  one  hundred  years 
it  has  never  been  extensively  advertised.  It  is  not 
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dle it.  If  there  are  none  in  your  neighborhood  write 
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Irrigated  Crops  Never  Fail 


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^  T\  A  H/~^    's   t'le  best-watered   arid   State  in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 

f^  M.iJl\.l  l\Jr    winds,    destructive    storms    and  cyclones   are   unknown,  and   with   its   matchless   cli- 

jS  mate  it   makes   life  bright  and  worth  living. 

^  We  have  great  faith  in  what  Idaho  has  to  offer  to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 

■  j,  change  for  the  general  improvement  in  your  condition  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 
!^  account  of  health,  we  believe  that  Idaho  will  meet  both  requirements.  There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 
;^  and  sensible  thing  to  do;  that  is,  go  and  see  the  country  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 
■5  swer  and  many  conditions  to  investigate. 

^  Our  years  of  experience  and  travel  in  passenger  work  teach  us   that   a   few  dollars   spent  in   railroad 

[^  fares  to  investigate  thoroughly  a  new  country  saves  thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

<S  Cheap   homeseekers'   rates   are   made   to  all   principal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 

■  j  for  yourself.     Selecting  a  new  home  is  like  selecting  a  wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


100,000  Acres  Now  Open  for  Settlement  at 
Twin  Falls,  Idaho,   under  the  Carey   Act. 


Unlimited  supply  of  water  for  irrigation  and  for  power.  A  grand  opportunity  for  the  Home-  ^ 
seeker  who  locates  on  these  lands.  10  years  time  given  for  payment  for  land  and  water  after  lands  ^ 
are   sold.    The   canals   and  water  belong  to   the  settlers  who  will  own  and  control  the  same.  Sf 


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'■£     Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance.      Fine      5 
\  Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley.  § 


»- 


■»»  Arrived    in    Payette    Valley    Feb.    23,    1903.     Settled   on   an   80-acre   tract,   covered  with   sage   brush. 

?5  Cleared  40  acres.     May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.     Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.    June  12  sowed  10  acres 

^  to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.     Yielded  55  to  acre.     Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February 

■^  or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger. 

rj  Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer 

;&  oats. 

'*£  Potatoes   yielded   500   bushels   to   the   acre   and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of 

vS  the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.  (Signed)  E.  L.  Dotson. 

5  D.   E.   BURLEY, 

5  S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio.  G.  P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R., 

^  J-  E-  HOOPER,  Agent,  Oakland,  Kansas.  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

•  ^  Mention  the  IH0LEN00K  when  writing.  40tI3 


-tolNSL-ENSOK 


Vol.  VI. 


December  20,  1904. 


No.  51. 


AN    HOLY    DAY. 


BY  JOSEPHINE  HANNA. 

Christmas,  I  know  thou  hast  good  cheer, 
That  natural,  to  thee,  the  mirth, 

Which  round  thy  festal  board  draws  near, 
To  celebrate  the  birth 

Of  One,  the  source  of  happiness, — 

Relief  of  sorrow,  and  distress. 

But,  since  within  thine  arms  was  placed 
That  infant   Savior,  is  it  meet, 

To  desecrate  the  arms  thus  graced, 
And  make  thy  lap  the  seat, 

For  child  of  frivol'ty  to  rest, 

At  home,  upon  thy  sacred  breast? 

Christmas,  while  yet  the  angels  sing, 
Too  oft  their  voices  drown,  for  this 

The  din  of  revelry  we  bring 
To  celebrate,  amiss, 

An  holy  day;  oh  Christmas,  lift 

Our  hearts  to  heaven's  Christmas  Gift! 

Of  selfishness,  and  greed  of  gold, 

Loose  thou  the  death  grip,  bid  us  give 

The  Bread  of  Life,  to  ne'er  withold 
That  whereby  men  must  live, 

Lest  failing  to  supply  their  need 
We  die  with  them  we  will  not  feed. 

Flora,  Indiana. 

♦  4>  * 

SNAPSHOTS. 


A  long  face  is  no  sign  of  a  meek  spirit. 

A  song  in  the  heart  is  worth  two  in  tlie  choir. 

* 

Send  the  Inglenook  as  a  Christmas  present  to  some 
one. 

* 

"It  is  better  to  be  thankful  than  famous." — Pres. 
Roosevelt. 

* 

"  From  a  child  thou  hast  known  the  Holy  Scrip- 
tures."— 2  Tim.  j:  15. 


The  true  Christian  gives  until  it  hurts  and  then  keeps 
on  giving  until  it  quits  hurting. 
* 

The  true  Christian  does  not  serve  God  to  be  sailed, 
but  out  of  gratitude  because  he  is  saved. 

When  will  you  be  saved,  if  you  do  not  decide  to-day, 
to  take  Jesus  Christ  for  our  personal  Savior? 
* 
You  can  no  more  have  civilization  without  Christ 
than  you  can  have  a  literature  without  an  alphabet. 
* 
If  you  don't  know  which  ivay  to  turn,  turn  the  way 
you  believe  lesus  would  do  under  the  same  circum- 
stances. 

* 

All  nature,  with  one  voice,  with  one  glory,  is  set  to 
teach  you  reverence  for  the  life  communicated  to  you 
from  the  Father  of  spirits. — John  Ruskin. 
* 
Theology  trying  to  state  and  define  the  character 
of  God  is  like  a  child  trying  to  chase  a  rainbow.  What 
the  world  needs  is  not  human  theory,  but  human 
practice. 

* 

"  Watch  that  not  to-morrozv  but  to-day  you  live 
Strength  for  this  day's  burdens  Christ  will  surely  give; 
I 'ray  that  in  his  power  duties  may  be  done, 
As  in  his  dear  presence  and  in  his  alone." 
* 
"  The  dearest  idol  I  have  known, 

II  Inilc'cr  that  idol  be; 
Help  me  to  tear  it  from  thy  throne. 
And  worship  only  thee." 
* 

It  is  a  good  habit  to  be  seeking  something  to  praise. 
.  Ill  hare  faults,  but  all  have  virtues  also,  and  if  we 
shozv  appreciation  of  tlie  virtues  there  will  be  less 
abandonment  to  faults.  Besides  it  is  zvorth  more  to 
a  person  to  try  to  be  good  because  of  love  of  being 
good  than  to  be  good  simply  to  avoid  criticism. — C.F. 
Yoder. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— December  20,  1904. 


CHRISTMAS    EVE. 


BY  GEORGE   HALDON. 

It  was  the  second  day  before  Christmas.  "  To- 
morrow evening  will  be  Christmas  eve,  and  I  would 
give  a  hundred  dollars  almost  if  I  could  be  at  Pa's. 
I  know  Aunt  Ruth's,  Uncle  Ben's,  Aunt  Phebe's  and 
all  the  children  will  be  there.  They  always  are.  The 
whole  Pearson  tribe  from  start  to  finish  always  comes 
to  Pa's  on  Christmas.  I  can  just  see  mother  to- 
morrow evening  placing  a  great  row  of  pies  in  the 
pantry,  and  some  nice  cakes  and  just  imagine  how  the 
cellar  looks  with  great  rolls  of  yellow  butter  and  bin 
after  bin  of  apples  and  potatoes,  and  then  just  before 
bedtime,  every  last  one  of  the  children  but  me  will 
be  there " — Dolly  Pearson  could  not  say  another 
word.  Her  heart  swelled  up  and  a  hot  tear  dropped 
in  the  dish  pan,  then  another  and  another.  Frank 
and  Dolly  had  been  married  three  years.  Frank's 
health  had  given  away  and  they  had  moved  West  for 
his  benefit.  They  had  lived  on  the  frontier  now  for 
one  year.  The  expected  blessing  had  come.  Frank's 
health  was  improving  rapidly.  The  pale  thin  frame 
which  was  known  as  Frank  Pearson  was  now  taking 
on  some  flesh  and  color  which  plainly  told  that  the 
climate  was  just  what  he  needed. 

But  Oh !  it  was  so  lonesome  for  Dolly.  She  loved 
Frank  with  every  drop  of  her  blood,  but  it  was  with  a 
keen  sense  of  true  homesickness  that  Dolly  was  giv- 
ing words  to  her  thoughts  while  she  was  doing  the 
breakfast  dishes.  Frank  noticed  the  tremor  in  her 
voice  and  without  turning  around  said,  in  a  careful 
tone,  "  We  can  haVe  a  good  time  here  too,  Dolly.  Why 
not  invite  our  neighbors  in  for  to-morrow  and  have  a 
real  Christmas  dinner  like  they  always  do  down 
home  ?"  "  It  wouldn't  be  home  and  besides  I  don't 
know  anybody  here,  nobody  comes  to  see  me  and  I 
go  to  see  nobody.  If  we  were  to  gather  a  lot  of 
strangers  here  to-morrow  for  dinner,  it  wouldn't  be  a 
good  old  family  reunion  like  we  have  at  home;  and 
you  know  how  Pa  always  talked  to  us  so  nice  while  we 
were  at  the  table  about  how  God  blesses  us  every  year 
and  how  thankful  we  ought  to  be  that  another  Christ- 
mas has  come  which  marks  the  great  day  when  God 
gave  such  a  wonderful  gift  to  the  world,  but  all  of 
that  would  be  lacking  here.  What  have  we  got  to  be 
thankful  for  here?  Just  a  big  broad  prairie  with  a 
big  broad  sky  over  it  and  nothing  else."  "  Why,  Dolly, 
we — have — each  other,"  said  Frank  slowly.  Dolly 
rather  indignantly  threw  the  dish  rag  on  the  corner 
of  the  table  and  left  the  room. 

Poor  Frank  with  a  heavy  heart  turned  slowly 
around,  went  out  the  door  and  made  his  way  to  the 
barn.  Frank  had  never  seen  a  darker  hour  since  they 
had  moved  to  Millrock.     Could  it  be  that  Dolly  was 


losing  her  love  for  him?  It  was  not  that:  Frank 
keenly  felt  that  it  was  true  homesickness  that  was 
gnawing  at  the  vitals  of  his  little  wife.  With  a  great 
effort  he  harnessed  the  horses  and  started  for  town. 
Twice  or  three  times  he  glanced  back  to  see  if  he  could 
see  Dolly  anywhere.  She  was  not  to  be  seen.  Dolly 
had  gone  into  the  other  room  and  as  she  entered  the 
door  and  saw  some  papers  on  the  floor  she  said,  "  Yes, 
here  are  Frank's  papers  and  trash  all  over  the  room 
left  for  me  to  clean  up,  and  this  writing  desk  is  in  a 
pretty  shape  to  receive  company.  Talk  about  having 
a  reception  here  to-morrow.  It  looks  like  it  now." 
Dolly's  tears  had  ceased  to  flow  and  the  crimson  on 
her  cheeks  showed  the  presence  of  a  little  anger.  But 
she  hastily  adjusted  things  on  the  writing  desk  and 
gathered  up  a  whole  armful  of  papers  she  had  sorted 
out  and  started  for  the  garret.  At  the  top  of  the 
stairs  there  was  a  long  hall  leading  to  the  different 
rooms  of  the  second  story  and  at  the  end  of  this  hall 
was  a  room  which  Dolly  and  Frank  used  as  a  bed 
room.  The  attic  led  off  from  this  room.  The  door 
was  shut.  She  threw  the  papers  down  on  the  floor 
to  rest  a  minute  and  to  open  the  door.  Somehow  she 
happened  to  glance  out  of  the  window  across  the 
fields  and  in  the  distance  she  could  see  the  millions 
and  millions  of  little  pearls  on  the  tips  of  the  branches 
of  the  trees  through  which  the  sun  was  casting  his 
myriads  of  rainbow  colors  and  every  little  blade  of 
grass  which  had  given  up  its  life  some  weeks  ago  was 
now  doing  the  next  best  thing  to  beautify  the  earth, 
holding  up  one  little  crystal  drop  which  mirrored  back 
to  the  sky  the  radiance  which  was  thrown  from  above 
by  those  crystals  upon  the-  trees.  It  was  a  beautiful 
sight.  Just  beyond  the  brow  of  the  hill,  at  the  turn  of 
the  road  Frank  was  turning  north  toward  town. 
She  knew  it  was  Frank.  Between  the  beauties  of 
nature  and  the  remembrances  of  the  conversation  a 
few  moments  ago  in  the  kitchen,  Dolly  hardly  knew 
whether  she  was  able  to  control  herself  or  not.  Draw- 
ing a  long  breath  she  said,  "  I'll  raise  this  window 
and  air  out  this  room  and  then  I  will  put  those  pesky 
old  papers  away,  then  go  about  my  work."  She 
grabbed  up  the  armful  of  papers  and  went  back  into 
the  long  dark  attic  to  place  them  at  the  rear  end  of 
the  room  in  a  box.  Bang  went  something.  It  was 
dark  as  Egypt.  Dolly  was  a  prisoner.  The  draft 
from  the  window  blew  the  door  shut  and  locked  it  and 
as  the  latch  was  on  the  outside  of  the  door,  Dolly 
could  not  make  her  exit.  She  pushed  at  the  door, 
pounded  it  until  her  fists  really  ached  and  then  she 
called  at  the  top  of  her  voice  hoping  that  some 
one  might  hear  her,  but  who  was  there  to  hear  ?  Frank 
had  gone.  She  knew  he  was  gone.  She  saw  him 
going*  down  the  road.  There  was  nobody  else  about 
the     house.     Listen,    the    clock    was    striking    nine. 


THE    INGLENOOK—  December  20,  1904. 


1203 


Frank  would  not  be  back  until  three,  at  least  he  never 
was.  At  that  she  tried  again  to  make  her  escape, 
but  her  efforts  were  just  as  fruitless  as  before.  She 
went  back  and  sat  down  on  the  box  and  cried  and 
indeed  she  wept  bitterly.  "  What  am  I  to  do  in  here 
all  day?  If  I  could  only  read,  if  I  only  had  some  of  • 
my  work  here  that  I  might  busy  myself,  but  here  I  am 
shut  up  in  this  old  dungeon  for  six  long  hours  and 
maybe  more." 

There  was  one  place  next  to  the  door  where  Dolly 
could  stand  upright  without  bumping  her  head  in. 
order  to  straighten  herself  and  she  happened  to  put  her 
hand  against  something  hanging  on  the  wall.  What 
was  it?  It  was  Frank's  old  overcoat  that  he  had 
outgrown  since  he  was  getting  fleshy.  Dolly  threw  it 
down  on  the  floor  and  lying  upon  one-half  of  it  used 
the  other  half  as  a  cover. 

•'  There  is  something  Oriental  about  this,"  she  said 
to  herself  as  she  huddled  up  to  keep  warm,  "  and  it 
gives  one  time  to  reflect  how  some  of  the  people  used 
to  feel  when  they  were  shut  up  in  dungeons.     But  to 
think    of  one  being  shut  up  in  their  own  house  and 
locked  in  and  compelled  to  stay  there  for  hours  when 
they  have  done  nothing  wrong.     But  maybe  I  have 
done  something  wrong,"  soliloquized  Dolly.    "  Maybe 
this  punishment  is  sent  upon  me  for  the  way  I  treated 
Frank  this  morning.     Poor  fellow  has  to  go  all  the 
way    to    town    through  the  cold  by  himself,  and  the 
worst  of  it  is,  he  has  to  think  of  the  way  I  spoke  to 
him  when  I  said  we  had  nothing  to  be  thankful  for 
out  here,  and  he  said  we  had  each  other.     I   didn't 
think  about  it  then  so  much,  but  suppose  we  didn't 
have  each  other,  what  would  I  do  away  out  here  with- 
out Frank?     We  have  made  lots  of  money  this  year 
and    Frank    has    been    well    respected    by  the  men  in 
township  and  county  affairs,  and  his  health  has  greatly 
improved,  and  after  all  we  have  had  a  real  prosperous 
year.     I  can't  see  why  I  felt  so  peevish  this  morning." 
just    then    Dolly    heard    steps    on  the  kitchen  porch. 
Could  it  be  Frank  was  back  already?     It  had  only 
struck  two  a  little  while  ago.     Someone  rapped  twice. 
Dolly   endeavored   to  answer,   but  evidently   whoever 
it    was    could    not  hear  her,  for  steps  indicated  that 
they  had  left  the  porch,  and  the  sound  of  the  moving 
wagon   indicated   that   they   had   gone   away.     Again 
Dolly  resumed  her  reflections.     She  was  counting  the 
hours  which  wore  away  slowly,  but  since  she  had  had 
time  to  reflect  and  had  fully  repented  she  now  began 
to  make  some  calculations   for  the  reception  on   the 
morrow.     She  decided  that  she  would  invite  several 
of    Frank's    friends    at    church  and  have  them  come 
home  with  them  for  dinner  and  she  would  make  the 
day    especially    pleasant    for    him.     When    she   had 
drifted  to  the  extreme  end  of  this  reverie  again  foot- 
steps were  heard  and  the  peculiar  tread  and  stamp  of 


the  foot  on  the  porch  told  to  Dolly  in  unmistakable 
terms  that  it  was  Frank.     She  called  at  the  top  of  her 
voice  but  she  again  realized  that  she  could  not  make 
herself    heard,    yet    all    the  time  she  could  hear  her 
name   for    Frank   was    searching    diligently    in   even- 
nook  and  corner  of  the  house  and  calling  to  her  as 
loud  as  he  could.     Frank  said  to  himself,  "  I  wonder 
where  in  the  world  Dolly  has  gone.     She  evidently  has 
been  away  all  day.     This  one  room  is  straight,  but 
not  even  the  breakfast  dishes  are  washed.     I  wonder 
if  this  day  has  been  as  miserable  for  her  as  it  has  been 
for  me.     I  will  light  the  lamp  and  go  up  stairs  and 
see  if  I  can  find  her  up  there."     When  Dolly  heard 
him  start  up  stairs  her  heart  fairly  jumped  out  of  her 
mouth.     Her  hopes  began  to  brighten.     She  felt  sure 
that  she  would  be  relieved   from  her   imprisonment. 
When  Frank  arrived  at  the  head  of  the  stairway  he 
shouted  at  the  top  of  his  voice  which  trembled  with 
a    mixture    of    fright  and   disappointment  and   said. 
•'  Oh  Dolly !  "    Dolly  for  the  first  time  could  make  her- 
self heard  as  she  said,  "  I  am  in  the  closet,  Frank, 
locked     in,    come    and    let    me    out."     Dolly's    voice 
sounded  like  it  was  miles  away  and  yet  he  knew  very 
well  that  it  was  her  voice  and  hastening  to  the  attic 
door,  opened   it.     Out  bounced  Dolly  and  throwing 
her   arms  about  his  neck  nearly  knocking  the  lamp 
out  of  his  hand,  said,  "  Frank,  please  forgive  me.     I 
have  certainly  been  sufficiently  punished  for  the  way 
I  treated  you  this  morning  and  yet  I  know  I  rightfully 
deserved  it.     I  have  been  in  that  miserable  dungeon 
this  livelong  day.     I  even  saw  you  leave  the  road  and  ■ 
turn  north  to  go  to  town  and  I  tried  every  conceivable 
way  I  could  think  of  to  get  out  and  I  have  shouted  my- 
self hoarse  and  finally  became  resigned  to  my  fate. 
About  two  o'clock  I   heard   somebody  knock  at  the 
door  but  I  couldn't  make  them  hear  a  word."     "  That 
was  Jake  Delany,"  said  Frank,  "  I  met  him  up  here  by 
Wilson's  and  told  him   to  stop  and   tell   you   that   I 
u.mldn't  be  home  till  late  and  here  it  is  dark  and  you 
have  been  in  prison  all  day.     I  am  sorry  I  staid  so 
long,  Dollv."    "  Don't  mention  it,  Frank.    I  have  only 
received    what    I  deserved  and  I  will  go  to  work  in 
earnest  now  and  get  ready  for  our  Christmas  dinner 
to-morrow.     You  do  up  your  evening  work.   Frank, 
and  kill  a  turkey  for  me  and  we  will  dress  him  after 
supper.    You  see  we  will  go  to  church  in  the  morning 
and  we  will  invite  those  two  Johnson  boys  home  with 
us    for    dinner    since    they    have    been   your   special 
friends  and  by  having  dinner  a  little  late  I'll  just  fix 
them  up  a  nice  little  reception  and  if  possible  we  will 
get  the  Simpsons  to  come  home  with  us  too  and  we 
will  have  a  real  Christmas  time  like  we  do  down  at 
Pa's. 

1   have  changed  my  mind,  Frank,  we  have  a  great 
many  things  to  be  thankful  for.     I  was  thinking  while 


1204 


THE    INGLENOOK.— December  20,  1904. 


I  was  shut  up  to-day  how  much  better  your  health  is, 
how  much  money  we  have  made  this  year,  how  much 
we  have  gained  in  a  social  way  and  so  I  thought  I 
would  make  to-morrow  seem  as  much  like  home  as 
possible." 

Frank  told  her  how  he  had  studied  over  matters 
all  day  and  how  he  had  decided  to  move  back  to  the 
old  place,  that  he  could  easily  sacrifice  his  health  to 
have  her  satisfied  and  not  be  homesick.  And  besides 
he  said,  "  As  you  said  we  don't  have  much  out  here 
to  be  thankful  for  I  guess."  As  he  said  this,  a  hot 
tear  fell  from  his  manly  cheek  on  Dolly's  hand  which 
he  held  in  his,  'and  she  looking  up  pleadingly  said 
"  Why,  Frank,  we  have each  other." 

*  *  * 
THE    STAR    OF    BETHLEHEM. 


BY  SUSIE   M.    HOUT. 

Over  nineteen  hundred  years  ago  the  world  was 
wrapped  in  spiritual  darkness.  It  appeared  as  though 
the  last  ray  of  light  had  flickered  and  gone  out.  Man, 
the  crowning  work  of  all  God's  creation,  was  the  most 
miserable;  he  had  advanced  so  far  intellectually,  that 
faith  in  the  old  mythological  religions,  and  legends  of 
the  Greeks  and  Romans  had.  almost  become  extinct. 
This  loss  of  faith  caused  infidelity  and  superstition  to 
prevail.  "  Man  had  no  hope  and  was  without  God  in 
the  world." 

There  was  a  longing  and  craving  for  something 
higher  and  nobler.  Greek  philosophy  tried  to  fill  this 
void,  but  it  only  made  man  more  dissatisfied  with  his 
condition.  The  Roman  law  was  only  leading  up  to  that 
higher  Law.  There  was  a  desire  for  a  regenerative 
force  that  would  enter,  with  life-giving  power,  into 
the  hearts  of  men  and  reform  ancient  society. 

It  was  at  this,  the  darkest  period  in  the  world's 
history,  that  the  "Star  of  Bethlehem  shone  forth  in 
all  its  brilliancy,  and  was  symbolical  of  that  greater 
light  that  has  ever  since  been  light  to  the  lives 
of  men. 

If  we  would  fully  appreciate  what  the  "  Star  of 
Bethlehem "  really  was  to  the  world,  we  must  con- 
sider the  world's  condition  when  it  appeared.  It  was 
the  promised  token,  telling  that  the  Christ  was  born, 
before  whose  penetrating  light  the  former  darkness 
would  be  dispelled  as  mist  before  the  noonday  sun. 
If  the  "  Star  of  Bethlehem  "  had  not  shed  its  rays 
over  those  Judean  hills,  we,  at  this  time,  would  be 
groping  in  darkness  as  the  people  were  who  were  liv- 
ing at  the  time  of  its  advent.  And  we  would  not  be 
looking  forward  with  hearts  filled  with  joy,  to  the  fast 
coming  Christmas  time. 

The  "  Star  of  Bethlehem "  ushered  in  an  era  in 
the  world's  history  that  brought  peace  to  the  hearts  of 


men,  and  filled  the  void  that  Greek  philosophy  and 
Roman  law  could  not  fill.  Is  it  any  wonder  that  the 
heavenly  host  sang  together  and  praised  God  for  his 
great  gift  to  man?  When  the  wise  men  in  the  East 
saw  this  additional  star  in  the  constellations  of  the 
heavens,  they  knew  that  the  promised  King  was  born, 
and  were  willing  to  follow  its  unerring  guidance  to- 
the  world's  Redeemer,  even  though  it  led  them  by 
unexpected  paths.  Many  times  man's  plans  are  in 
direct  contrast  to  God's  plans. 

The  wise  men  thought  this  brightly  beaming  star 
would  lead  them  to  the  Royal  city,  where  men  had 
looked  for  an  anchor  in  the  dark  and  troubled  sea. 
They  hoped  that  in  this  city  of  mysterious  tradition  and 
religion,  in  a  palace  gleaming  with  purple  and  gold, 
they  would  find  the  promised  King.  But  ah !  they  who- 
were  accustomed  to  royal  living,  knew  nothing  of  the 
royal  birth.  They  were  so  used  to  the  glitter  of  pur- 
ple and  gold,  and  so  much  occupied  with  the  selfish 
pleasures  of  this  life  that  they  had  not  looked  out  be- 
yond the  palace  walls  into  the  blue  canopy  of  heaven, 
to  the  glorious  beaming  star  that  God  had  placed  there 
as  a  beckoning  light  to  the  infant  Savior. 

The  wise  men  found  they  must  still  follow  the  one 
guiding  light,  for  behold  those  who  should  have  been 
watching  were  otherwise  engaged.  And  they  found 
the  King  of  Glory  not  vested  in  robes  of  royalty  of 
this  world,  but  in  the  depths  of  poverty.  While  they 
were  disappointed  in  not  finding  their  King  in  the  way 
and  manner  they  expected,  still  they  were  just  as  zeal- 
ous in  their  worship  to  him  as  though  they  had  found' 
him  in  the  palace  of  Jerusalem,  surrounded  with  every 
comfort  of  life. 

It  was  the  custom  in  those  days  to  bring  gifts  and 
present  them  to  their  superiors  when  visiting  them. 
Although  tradition  tells  us  that  each  of  these  wise  men 
was  a  king,  still  we  see  them  presenting  their  gifts 
of  gold,  frankincense  and  myrrh, — tokens  of  his  roy- 
alty, divinity  and  suffering,  and  they  were  gifts  from 
the  hearts  of  the  givers  that  could  be  used  for  the  im- 
mediate comfort  of  the  infant  Messiah. 

These  were  the  first  gifts  bestowed  at  Christmas 
time.  And  through  the  ages  that  have  intervened, 
men  have  continued  this  ancient  custonrand  expressed 
their  love  for  each  other  by  the  giving  of  gifts.  But 
let  us  remember  that  the  gift  without  the  giver  is  bare, 
— "  He  gives  but  worthless  gold  who  gives  from  sense 
of  duty." 

While  the  wise  men  were  giving  their  best  oblations 
to  the  infant  King,  they  but  dimly  comprehended  what 
God  was  doing  for  them  and  the  future  generations. 
May  we  be  more  and  more  impressed  with  this  thought 
as  we  hail  this  glorious  Christmastide.  Amidst  the 
giving  of  gifts,  let  us  not  forget  the  greatest 
of   gifts,    and   what    it    meant    for    God    to  give  his 


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only  Son,  a  ransom  for  us.  Then  let  us  give  ourselves 
a  living  gift  to  Christ  this  happy  Christmas  time.  If 
we  have  done  this  let  us  reconsecrate  our  lives  to  his 
service.  And,  as  the  "  Star  of  Bethlehem  "  guided 
the  Wise  men  of  the  East,  through  many  valleys  and 
across  many  waters,  with  unerring  certainty  to  the 
manger, — the  cradle  of  the  infant  Redeemer,  so  will 
Christ  lead  us  through  all  the  changing  scenes  of  this 
life.  And  when  life's  fitful  fever  is  over,  and  we  are 
carried  through  the  very  gates  of  heaven,  into  the  pal- 
ace of  God,  we  will  find  that  the  joy  which  Christmas 
time  brought  to  us  was  only  a  faint  symbol  of  the  joy 
we  will  have  there  eternally. 
Sharpsburg,  Md. 

♦  4*  4* 

JESUS. 


BY  ROSE  RINEHART. 

Moses  addressing  his  people  said :  "  The  Lord  thy 
God  will  raise  up  unto  thee  a  prophet  from  the  midst  of 
thee,  of  thy  brethren  like  unto  me ;  unto  him  shall  ye 
hearken." 

December,  B.  C.  4,  in  fulfillment  of  the  above  proph- 
ecy, there  was  born  in  the  little  insignificant  village  of 
Bethlehem  a  Savior  which  is  Christ  the  Lord.  He  was 
called  Jesus ;  "  He  grew  and  waxed  strong,  and  was 
filled  with  wisdom  and  the  grace  of  God  was  upon 
him." 

At  the  age  of  twelve,  while  attending  the  yearly 
Passover  feast,  at  Jerusalem  with  his  parents,  he  was 
found  in  the  temple  conversing  with  the  doctors  to 
the  astonishment  of  all  who  heard  him.  Jesus  evi- 
dently learned  many  things  of  these  wise  men  in 
counsel  with  them.  This  incident  ought  to  afford  en- 
couragement to  the  primary  Sunday-school  teacher, 
since  the  results  of  their  early  training  counted  for  so 
much  later  on. 

Whence  came  the  knowledge  to  which  Paul  refers 
in  the  life  of  young  Timothy?  From  the  successful 
training  of  his  mother  and  grandmother. 

Jesus  spent  many  years  of  careful  and  earnest  prep- 
aration for  his  future  work.  A  like  opportunity  is 
afforded  the  young  people  of  to-day,  and  it  is  equally 
important  that  we  do  so.  To  do  as  Jesus  did,  we  must 
put  forth  our  greatest  effort  to  develop  the  talent  he 
has  given  us. 

Early  in  life  Jesus  made  application  for  baptism 
at  the  hands  of  John.  Celestial  credential  was  afford- 
ed him  by  the  visible  demonstration  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 
After  baptism  he  was  led  into  the  wilderness  where 
forty  days  were  spent  in  fasting  and  prayer.  One  of 
the  greatest  battles  which  the  world's  history  records 
was  fought  here  between  the  Savior  of  souls  and  the 
adversary  of  souls.     The  same  sort  of  ammunition  was 


used  in  this  battle  that  the  devil  always  uses  in  his 
conflicts.  He  used  it  in  the  garden  of  Eden  and  he 
has  been  dipping  from  the  same  canister  ever  since. 
"  The  lust  of  the  flesh,  the  lust  of  the  eye  and  the  pride 
of  life,"  are  the  means  he  uses  with  which  to  tear  down 
the  bulwarks  of  faith.  In  each  instance  the  Savior 
repelled  the  attack  by  using  the  ammunition  from  heav- 
en's arsenal,  the  Word  of  God.  How  it  behooves  us  to 
be  well  equipped  with  the  same  sort ! 

Angels  administered  to  him  after  his  victory ;  the 
same  thing  may  be  experienced  by  us,  if  we  will  per- 
sist in  being  victors. 

Jesus  lived,  preached  and  taught  among  all  class- 
es and  kinds  of  people ;  day  and  night,  early  and  late, 
over  mountains  and  valleys  until  the  end  of  his  life. 
He  was  derided,  scorned,  punished,  mocked,  crucified. 
His  disciples  who  would  be  true  disciples,  must  keep 
the  colors  flying,  glorying  in  his  name  and  Cross. 
Many  people  who  find  fault  with  Judas  for  selling 
Jesus  for  thirty  pieces  of  silver,  have  made  the  very 
same  bargain  for  a  much  more  insignificant  price. 

In  the  dark  hour  of  Gethsemane's  trial  angels  min- 
istered unto  him  as  they  did  in  the  wilderness.  If  we 
would  see  angels  let  us  agonize  for  him, 
even  with  our  life-blood.  The  faith  of  our 
Redeemer  was  not  shocked  or  shaken  at  the  be- 
trayal of  a  hypocrite,  but  so  unflinchingly  obeyed 
the  will  of  God.  Beware,  Christian,  that  the  unfaith- 
fulness of  some  does  not  cause  your  faith  to  falter! 
Let  the  Cross  prove  to  us  that  Jesus  came  into  the 
world  to  save,  and  salvation  is  the  mission  of  those 
who  are  saved.  The  Cross  is  Christianity  in  one  word, 
and  the  narrow  way  which  leads  to  the  throne  takes 
us  by  way  of  Calvary. 

There  is  something  beautiful  in  the  burial  of  our 
Lord  by  two  ardent  admirers.  If  his  lifeless  body  was 
worthy  of  such  lender  care,  with  how  much  more  rev- 
erence should  we  handle  his  living  Word  ?  1  low  sweet 
the  forty  days  on  earth  after  his  resurrection,  how 
much  sweeter  the  indwelling  of  his  Spirit;  how  grand 
the  chariot  of  clouds,  which  conveyed  him  to  the  ce- 
lestial Paradise  above;  how  much  grander  will  he  the 
same  chariot  when  it  returns  to  bring  him  to  earth 
again,  having  been  decorated  by  the  angels  in  heaven  ? 

With  this  sketch  of  such  a  glorious  character  be- 
fore us,  shall  we  not  spend  our  Christmastide  in  med- 
itation upon  what  Jesus  has  done  for  us,  ami  what  he 
has  in  store  for  the  faithful.  Let  the  closing  days  of 
this  year  be  full  of  gratitude  and  praise  for  the  great 
Christmas  gift  that  God  has  given  to  the  world. 

Boston,  Ind. 

*  +  * 

He  who  has  always  been  successful  in  his  ambitions 
has  yet  to  learn  whether  or  not  he  has  sufficient  breadth 
of  character  to  lose  noblv. — //.   C.   Morse. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— December  20,  1904. 


IN    THE    WORLD'S    CONCOURSE.— 3. 


BY  CHARITY  VINCENT. 

Once  settled  in  their  little  room  in  Clayton  the 
girls  were  not  long  in  getting  to  work.  "  We  are  not 
like  other  visitors,"  they  wrote  once  to  Dora.  "  Most 
people  look,  admire,  and  pass  on.  We  look  for  our- 
selves and  then  look  for  you.  And  when  our  "  see- 
ing "  is  done  we  go  home  and  mix  it  up  with  history, 
science,  or  what-not,  and  boil  it  down  for  you."  And 
the  letters  coming  from  the  girls  at  the  rate  of  one 
and  two  a  day  were  to  Dora  the  very  life  of  her  sum- 
mer. Her  bed  was  never  without  her  letters  and 
books,  and  seldom  did  visitors  go  from  her  room 
without  a  lasting  impression  of  her  cheerful  disposi- 
tion. It  was  not  usual  for  Dora  to  take  things  so 
patiently  and  many  expressed  their  surprise. 

"O  I  just  must,  so  I  do,  that's  all,"  she  once  an- 
swered her  teacher  when  she  spoke  about  it. 

"  No,  that  is  not  all,  Miss  Knower,  something  has 
happened  to  change  you,  but  you  needn't  tell.  It 
pleases  me  just  as  much." 

Dora  gave  the  lady  a  quick,  questioning  glance  and 
then  sobered  down  to  profound  thoughtfulness. 
Should  she  tell  ? 

Miss  Johnson,  you  understand  such  things,  and 
don't  discourage.  Here  it  is."  And  with  this  she 
opened  a  book,  took  out  a  little  slip  of  paper  and  gave 
it  to  her  teacher.  "  It's  almost  like  letting  you  into 
the  Holy  of  Holies  of  my  heart,"  she  said.  "  You 
can't  know  how  hard  it  was  to  give  up.  Then  I 
found  that.  If  my  body  is  a  prisoner  my  soul  shall 
not  be." 

Miss  Johnson  very  well  understood  when  she  read 
the  clipping: 

"Self  is  the  only  prison  that  can  ever  bind  the  soul; 
Love  is  the  only  angel  who  can  bid  the  gates  unroll." 

She  grasped  the  girl's  hand  and  fervently  exclaimed, 
"  What  a  blessing  to  you !  And  yet,  you  are  a  greater 
blessing  to  others."  > 

No  one  but  her  mother,  Winifred  and  Elizabeth 
knew  about  her  hard  struggle.  She  put  self  back  with 
an  effort  but  successfully.  Even,'  day  she  sent  the 
girls  a  letter  having  as  much  of  life  and  enjoyment 
as  though  she  were  with  them.  Constantly  she  urged 
that  they  should  stay  "  as  long  as  the  money  would 
last." 

One  evening  in  the  early  part  of  September  they 
tried  to  balance  their  accounts.  They  were  seated  at 
their  little  table  (more  truly  a  store-box).  Their  sup- 
per of  dried  fish,  baked  beans,  fruit,  etc.,  had  been  badlv 
demolished  and  little  remained.  The  girls  were  in  ex- 
cellent spirits.  After  an  animated  time  of  "  counting 
up  "  they  wrote  the  following  letter  to  Dora ;  that  is. 


Elizabeth  did  the  writing  and  Winifred  washed  the 
dishes  and  told  her  what  to  write:  . 

September  — ,    1904. 
Our  Own  Dear  Dora: 

Let  there  be  silence  and  soberness  now  for  the  two 
great  financiers  of  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  are 
about  to  give  their  report!  We  have  now  been  here  two 
months,  and  with  all  our  spending,  and  pinching,  and  sav- 
ing there  is  enough  left  in  the  treasury  for  another  two 
months.  Three  cheers  for  that  much!  (Winnie  is  waving 
the  dishrag.     You  get — take  the  pillow.) 

The  next  item  is,  we  have  had  profitable  returns  from 
all  we  have  spent.  And  here  a  vote  of  thanks  is  due 
to  our  kind  minister  who  has  been  both  teacher  and  father 
to  us  two  lone  girls.  How  could  we  have  done  without 
him  and  his  dear  little  wife!  He  is  the  one  who  sug- 
gested our  studying  by  countries.  We  have  studied  our 
own  country,  Japan  and  Germany  quite  thoroughly  and 
have  begun  on  England,  China,  Austria.  Yes,  and  Russia 
is  finished  so  far  as  exhibits  are  concerned,  for  there  is 
little  here  outside  of  the  Pike.  Whenever  we  run  across 
a  great  barn-like  space  we  understand  it  is  the  place  Rus- 
sia intended  to  be  but  is  not.  These  are  marked  with  a 
banner  bearing  in  large  letters — RUSSIA. 

Don't  you  think  our  account  balances  well?  We  gave 
of  our  fish  and  berry  money  and  received  a  pretty  good 
idea  of  the  kind  of  a  world  we  have  to  live  in,  looking 
at  it  through  the  glasses  of  the  L.  P.  E.  Winifred  says 
it  is  a  world  of  war,  war,  war.  Poor,  peace-loving  Wini- 
fred! she  shudders  whenever  she  hears  a  gun.  We  hear 
the  guns  of  the  Boer  War  every  afternoon  and  she  seems 
never  to  get  used  to  it.  She  expected  so  much  from  the 
Government  Building  and  has  never  fully  recovered  from 
her  disappointment  in  seeing  so  much  "  war,"  as  she  calls 
it,  there.  Uncle  Sam  is  all  right,  but  I,  too,  wish  he 
had  put  on  his  best  colors  there.  Each  country  seems  to 
have  a  fad,  so  to  speak,  in  their  displays.  England  spends 
nearly  all  her  efforts  in  glorying  in  her  past.  Germany 
has  health  and  education  on  a  throne.  Little,  wide-awake 
Japan  seems  to  have  the  most  evenly  balanced  display. 

Later. — Something  happened.  We  had  to  stop  writing 
to  entertain  visitors.  And  you  can't  guess  who  came  to 
see  us  girls  who  know  almost  no  one  here.  Do  you  re- 
member the  Jefferson  Guard  we  met  soon  after  coming 
here?  Well,  an  aunt  of  his  from  Ohio  came  to  visit 
them.  He  happened  to  tell  her  about  us  and  mentioned 
our  names.  She  wanted  to  see  Winifred,  so  they  came  to 
the  minister  here  in  Clayton,  he  is  an  old  friend  of  theirs, 
and  he  directed  them  here. 

"  And  this  is  little  Winifred  Michael,"  was  the  first 
thing  she  said,  and  she  kissed  her  as  though  she  was  her 
own  daughter.  She  asked  Winifred  all  sorts  of  questions 
about  her  people.  You  know  Winnie's  mother  died  in  the 
West  when  she  was  a  baby  and  she  was  brought  to  her 
father's  brother's.  Her  father  then  went  back  West  again 
and  soon  afterward  died.  Her  father's  people  didn't  love 
her  mother  the  very  best  so  they  never  hunted  their 
people.  They  never  knew  where  the  baby — our  big  Wini- 
fred— had  gone  to. 

She  is  a  lovely  lady.  It  is  pathetic  to  see  her  cry  over 
Winnie.  She  says  Winnie  looks  like  her  mother  did  just 
before  she  married  and  went  West.  Winifred  is  writing 
you  all  about  it.  We  are  invited  to  take  dinner  with 
them  to-morrow  evening,  that  is,  at  her  husband's  broth- 
er's home  in  St.  Louis.  We  are  going  to  take  a  day  off 
to-morrow  to  celebrate. 

(To  be  Continued.) 


THE    INGLEXOOK.— December  20,  1904. 


1207 


A    CRUISE    ON    THE   MEDITERRANEAN. 


BY  D.  L.  MILLER. 

Chapter  1. 

Before  leaving  home  we  had  planned,  with  much 
care,  our  tour  to  Port  Said,  Egypt,  from  whence  we 
are  to  sail,  Deo  volente,  Xovember  the  24th  for 
Bombay,  India.  We  were  to  land  at  Hamburg,  visit 
some  portions  of  Xorthern  Europe  and  then  journey 
southward  through  Germany,  via  Berlin,  Frankfurt 
and  some  of  the  cities  of  the  Rhine  to  Geneva,  Switz- 
erland, and  on  to  Marseilles,  the  French  port  of  the 
Mediterranean,  where  we  intended  to  take  a  steamer 
for  Jaffa,  Palestine,  September  the  29th.  Our  plans 
held  together  until  the  time  came  for  sailing  away  from 
France.  A  great  strike  was  in  progress  among  sail- 
ors and  dock  laborers  which  paralyzed  all  the  shipping 
interest,  and  for  nearly  two  months  the  great  harbor 
was  crowded  with  ships  burdened  with  stores  from  all 
parts  of  the  world  and  no  hand  could  be  found  will- 
ing to  assist  in  unlading  them.  Other  ships  were  ready 
to  sail  but  not  a  ton  of  coal,  or  a  package  of  merchan- 
dise could  be  placed  on  board.  The  strike  was  on 
and  all  interests  were  compelled  to  await  the  issue  of 
the  conflict. 

Under  these  conditions  our  party  considered  them- 
selves fortunate  in  securing  passage  on  the  English 
Steam  Yacht  Argonaut,  bound  for  the  Black  Sea  on 
a  cruise,  as  far  as  Constantinople.  In  making  these 
arrangements  we  had  the  timely  assistance  of  our  old 
friend  and  former  Dragoman  in  Palestine,  -Mr.  D.  N. 
Tadros  who  rendered  us  every  assistance  possible  and 
did  all  in  his  power  to  make  the  journey  an  enjoyable 
one. 

Marseilles  is  the  principal  port  of  the  Mediterranean 
and  its  lines  of  steamers  reach  nearly  every  part  of 
the  globe.  It  may  well  be  imagined  that  a  strike 
against  the  shipping  interest  of  the  place  would  be  a 
serious  matter.  When  we  arrived  in  the  city  we  found 
soldiers  encamped  along  the  wharves  and  docks,  for 
the  power  of  the  civil  government  had  been  invoked 
to  preserve  the  peace.  Groups  of  sullen  looking  men 
were  to  be  seen  on  every  side  discussing  the  strike, 
but  there  was  no  disturbance.  The  strong  arm  of 
the  law  restrained  them  from  violence.  Without 
entering  into  a  discussion  of  the  merits  of  the  irre- 
pressible conflict  between  capital  and  labor  in  all  parts 
of  the  civilized  world  it  may  be  said  there  is  but  one 
remedy  for  the  wrongs  complained  of.  This  remedy 
is  to  be  found  in  the  Golden  rule.  When  both  capital 
and  labor  have  learned  the  spirit  of  this  rule  and  put  it 
into  practice  the  conflict  will  cease,  and  not  until  then 
will  the  world  be  free  from  the  great  strike  evil. 

On  board  the  Argonaut  we  met  a  number  of  very 


pleasant  English  people  and  we  enjoyed  very  much 
the  voyage  to  Constantinople.  Captain  Roach  has 
been  on  the  sea  some  forty  years  and  is  one  among 
the  best  of  sailors  and  withal  an  agreeable  companion. 
A  few  years  ago  he  determined  to  give  up  a  seafaring 
life  and  bought  himself  a  home  in  California,  where 
he  and  his  wife  intended  to  spend  their  days  in  re- 
tirement. But  the  love  of  the  sea  was  too  strong  for 
him  and  a  month  or  two  ashore  and  he  went  back 
again  to  the  command  of  a  ship.  His  good  wife  now 
accompanies  him  on  all  his  voyages  and  they  seem  to 
be  perfectly  content  with  their  ocean  life. 

Could  we  have  had  the  ordering  of  the  weather 
for  our  two  weeks'  cruise  on  the  Great  Sea  we  could 
not  have  had  it  more  to  our  liking.  For  some  six 
hours  as  we  rounded  the  southern  cape  of  Europe  we 
had  a  taste  of  a  rough  sea  but  this  is  always  to  be  ex- 


PORT  OF  MARSEILLES,  FRANCE. 

pected  in  this  quarter  of  the  globe  and  we  took  it  with 
its  results,  seasickness  to  many  of  the  passengers,  as 
a  matter  of  course.  Clear  skies,  smooth  seas  and 
gentle  breezes  were  the  rule  for  the  entire  voyage. 
The  day  after  leaving  Marseilles  ■  we  passed  through 
the  straits  of  Bonafacio  and  Corsica,  the  birthplace 
of  the  great  Napoleon,  to  the  north  and  Sardinia,  with 
which  Garibaldi  the  Italian  patriot  was  intimately 
associated,  two  names  indelibly  stamped  on  the  pages 
of  history,  to  the  south.  From  here  our  course  lay 
directly  for  Xaples  and  the  second  day  out  we  cast 
anchor  in  the  beautiful  harbor  lying  at  the  foot  cf 
the  cloud-capped  summit  of  Vesuvius.  Just  before 
our  arrival  the  great  volcano  had  been  in  a  state  of 
violent  eruption  but  hod  quieted  down  and  was  resting 
from  its  violent  breathings. 

Naples  is  a  beautiful  city  to  look  upon  but  full  of 
filth  and  foul  odors.  The  streets  are  crowded  with  a 
sweltering  mass  of  humanity  and  while  it  is  interesting 
to  walk  about  the  city  and  come  in  contact  with  its 
teeming  life  one's  olfactory  nerves  are  offended  at  al- 


I208 


THE    INGLENOOK.— December  20,  1904. 


most  every  turn  and  our  notions  of  cleanliness  are 
are  entirely  set  at  naught  by  the  filth  in  most  of  the 
streets  near  the  wharves.  The  venders  of  fruit,  and 
their  name  is  legion,  offering  the  fruit  of  the  vine,  for 
this  is  the  season  of  grapes,  ripe  figs,  pomegranates, 
apples,  pears  and  peaches,  are  vociferous  in  pro- 
claiming the  good  quality  of  their  offerings.  The 
seller  of  stale  fish  plies  his  vocation  carrying  bad 
odors   wherever  he  goes,   the   street   restaurant  man 


The  tinkling  of  bells  warns  the  pedestrian  of  the 
approach  of  a  traveling  dairy.     A  herd  of  goats  or 


A  FISH  PEDDLER  OF  NAPLES. 

with  his  entire  outfit  for  cooking  savory  dishes  of 
macaroni  and  spaghetti  with  roasted  chestnuts 
boiled  potatoes,  onions  and  garlic,  adds  his  mite  to  the 
noise  and  smells  of  the  street.  The  fortune  teller  is 
extracting  copper  coins  from  a  lot  of  emigrants  who 
are  to  sail  in  the'  evening  for  America.  They  seem 
content  with  what  is  told  them  as  to  the  fortune  that 
awaits  them  in  the  land  of  promise  beyond  the  sea. 
Coppers  roll  in  and  the  fortune  teller  is  doing  a  brisk 
business.  Along  the  streets  are  hung  on  long  poles 
the  fresh  made  macaroni  to  dry,  and  the  dust  and 
flies,  pigs  and  chickens,  and  dirty  boys  and  girls  all 
make  a  setting  to  be  seen  only  in  Naples. 


a  couple  cows  are  driven  about  the  city  by  the  dairy- 
man and  the  milk  is  drawn  directly  from  the  udder 
into  the  vessel  of  the  purchaser.  No  chance  for  water 
in  the  milk  here,  you  say.  But  do  not  deceive  yourself. 
The  cunning  seller  of  lacteal  fluid  has  a  rubber  bag 
concealed  under  his  loose  clothing  with  a  convenient 
tube  coming  down  the  sleeve  and  a  movement  of  the 
arm  supplies  the  pressure  and  there  you  are,  water  and 
milk  conveniently  furnished. 

A  thousand  emigrants  for  the  United  States  gath- 
ered from  the  lower  classes  of  Italy  are  to  sail  to- 
night for  new  homes  in  America,  and  what  a  motley 
crowd  it  is.  These  are  to  be  followed  by  other  thou- 
sands and  tens  of  thousands  and  what  is  to  be  the  re- 
sult of  the  influx  of  these  vast  numbers  who  are  now 
invading  our  shores?  No  wonder  the  government  is 
taking  anxious  thought  as  to  the  solution  of  this  great 
problem.  When  the  Irish  emigration  was  at  its 
height  we  welcomed  the  hardy  sons  of  Erin  for  they 
came  to  us  to  become  of  us.  Their  sons  and  daughters 
became  our  best  citizens.  The  same  is  true  of  the' 
German  and  Scandinavian  emigrants.  But  the  Latin 
race  is  a  different  proposition.  Their  language,  mode 
of  living,  lines  of  thought  are  entirely  different  from 
ours.  They  are  an  alien  race.  They  do  not  readily 
assimilate  with  us,  and  while  there  are  hundreds  and 
thousands  of  good  people  among  them  yet  the  truth 
remains  that  we  get  some  of  the  very  worst  elements 
of  the  race.  The  Mafia  society,  whose  members  are 
trained  assassins,  has  been  transplanted  from  Italy  to 
our  shores,  and  the  brigandage  of  Sicily  has  also  found 
its  way  to  the  United  States.  We  have  commission- 
ers of  emigration  at  New  York  to  watch  our  interests 
but  it  were  much  better  if  we  had  experts  stationed 
at  Naples  and  Genoa  whose  business  it  should  be  to 
know  something  of  the  history  of  every  emigrant 
starting  for  our  shores. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— December  20,  1904. 


1209 


The  excavations  at  Pompeii  are  going  on  at  a  slow 
and  measured  pace  as  they  have  been  going  on  for 
forty  or  more  years.  Each  year  brings  to  view  ob- 
jects of  special  interest  and  the  Museum  at  Naples 
is  to-day  one  of  the  most  interesting,  so  far  as  it  con- 
cerns the  mode  of  living  at  the  time  of  Christ  among 
the  Romans,  in  the  world.  While  the  excavations  are 
going  on  at  the  base  of  the  mountain,  Vesuvius  thun- 
ders forth  its  disapproval  at  the  undoing  of  the  work 
it  did  in  the  first  century.  And  some  day  it  will  again 
vomit  forth  fire  and  ashes  and  melted  lava  and  the 
labor  of  years  will  be  obliterated  and  the  populous 
cities  at  the  base  of  the  mountain  will  be  wiped  out  of 
existence.     For  what  has  been  may  be  again. 

From  Naples  to  Capri  and  thence  through  the 
straits  of  Messina  lighted  by  the  ever-recurring 
eruptions  of  Stromboli,  God's  own  lighthouse,  we  take 
a  straight  course  for  Katacolo  from  whence  easy  access 
is  had  to  Olympia  where  the  celebrated  Olympian 
games  were  held  for  more  than  1,100  years.  Frequent 
reference  is  made  by  St.  Paul  in  his  Epistles,  to  these 
games.  Because  of  this,  the  place  is  of  interest  to 
Bible     students.     The     passing    centuries   have   dealt 


GENERAL    VIEW    OF    OLYMPUS. 

hardly  with  Olympus,  and  what  was  wanting  in  the 
way  of  destructive  forces  was  furnished  by  the  con- 
vulsions of  nature.  Earthquake  after  earthquake 
overthrew  the  Temple  of  Jupiter  and  left  the  place  a 
leveled  mass  of  ruins. 

Here  was  found  a  remarkable  piece  of  sculpture 
by  the  famous  artist  Praxiteles.  Tt  is  the  image  of 
Hermes  with  a  child  on  his  arm.  The  work  is  con- 
sidered, by  those  who  claim  to  know,  as  one  of  the 
masterpieces  of  the  world's  best  art.  Some  attempt 
has  been  made  at  excavating  the  ruins  but  little  has 
been  accomplished.  At  the  stadium,  where  the  races 
were  run  and  the  test  of  strength  took  place,  tin- 
starting  point  has  been  laid  bare.  The  runners  placed 
their  feet  close  together  on  a  line  marked  by  white 
marble  and  leaning  forward  touched  the  earth  with  the 
points  of  the  fingers.  In  this  position  they  stood 
when  the  signal  was  given  for  the  start.  The  winner 
was  crowned  with  a  wreath  of  laurel,  or  olive  leaves 


OLYMPIA,    HERMES  OF   PRAXITELES. 

and  gave  his  name  to  the  following  Olympiad  which 

occurred  every  four  years.     The  games  for  years  were 

kept    clean    from    betting    and    gambling.     Even  the 

morals   of   the   contestants   were   taken    into   account. 

It  was  a  simple  test  of  strength,  skill  and  endurance. 

In  every  respect  the  contest  was  beyond  all  suspicion 

of    trailing    or    swindling.     The    Apostle   could   use 

these  to  illustrate  the  Christian  race  with  all  propriety. 

From    Olympia    we   sailed    for    Constantinople    but 

that  is  the  story  for  another  letter. 

*   ♦   *J» 

SHORTHAND    2.000   YEARS    AGO. 


It  is  no  doubt  a  surprise  to  most  to  learn  that 
shorthand  was  known  and  practiced  2,000  years  ago. 
Manilius.  a  contemporary  of  Caesar  and  Cicero,  Virgil 
and  Horace,  asserts  that  some  system  of  reporting 
very  similar  to  our  shorthand  was  in  vogue  in  his 
days.  Writing  these  words  Under  the  influence  of 
Virgo  and  Mercury,  he  says  they  are — 

In  shorthand  skilled,  where  little  marks  comprise 
Whole  words,  a  s<  ntence  in  a  single  letter  lies. 
And  while  the  willing  hand  its  aid  affords. 
Prevents  the  tongue  to  fix  the  falling  words. 

It  is  certainly  a  novel  conception  thai  Cicero's  grand 
orations  were  committed  to  paper  with  as  much  skill 
as  our  modern  stenographers  boast. 

<•  •!•  * 
OFTEN  our  trials  act  as  a  thorn  hedge  to  keep  us  in 
the  good  pasture;  but  our  prosperity  is  a  gap  through 
which  we  go  astray. — C.   II.  Spurgeon. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— December  20,  1904. 


AN    UNINFLAMMABLE    CRYSTALLINE    CHRIST- 
MAS   TREE. 


BY    ZOON    DYCK. 

While  holly,  pine  or  cedar  will  produce  a  more 
pleasing  effect,  still,  any  tree  with  twigs  and  branches — 
with  leaves  or  without — can  be  easily  and  cheaply 
transformed  into  a  beautiful  glittering  exotic  from 
fairyland  in  a  simple  way. 

Saw  off  the  lower  end  squarely  and  stand  the  tree 
on  the  floor,  using  three  wire-guys  attached  to  door 
or  window  casings  to  hold  the  tree  firmly  in  an  upright 
position ;  then  build  a  small  rockery  of  stones  around 
the  base  of  the  tree.  Festoon  strings  of  popcorn  or 
paper  chains,  put  little  bunches  of  cotton  in  the  crotches 
to  imitate  new-fallen  snow,  and  add  any  home-made 
ornaments  desired.  Then  spray  the  whole  thing — at 
least  three  times — with  a  strong  solution  of  alum- 
■water ;  allowing  the  tree,  rockery  and  every  thing  to 
hecome  perfectly  dry  between  each  application. 

When  this  is  properly  done  the  tree  and  rockery  will 
riave  the  brilliancy  of  cut-glass,  while  the  threaded 
popcorn  and  home-made  ornaments  will  sparkle  like 
diamonds  and  gems.  Even  once  spraying  an  ever- 
green tree  will,  when  dry,  produce  the  charming  effect 
of  ice-crystals  and  snow,  and,  what  is  of  greater 
importance,  the  tree  becomes  absolutely  fire-proof. 

Before  setting  up  the  Christmas  tree,  I  always  spread 
3.  large  canvass  over  the  carpet — to  catch  the  drops 
which  fall  from  the  spraying — and  this  becomes 
crystallized  into  a  snow  carpet. 

I  also  lightly  crystallize  all  the  Christmas  greens 
and  flowers  with  the  alum-water  spray.  Our  home 
is  a  veritable  crystal  palace  at  the  waning  of  the  year ; 
and  hundreds  remark:  "How  beautiful — how  truly 
beautiful  it  is." 

To  prepare  the  crystal  solution,  you  simply  dissolve 
-all  the  alum  you  can  in  warm  water. 
Mount  Clinton,  Virginia. 

*  *  * 
THE    UPLIFTING    OF    PETER    MOGLEY. 


Peter  sat  in  his  cell  trying  to  think.  Thoughts 
•came  slowly  to  Peter.  He  did  not  like  them.  It  had 
become  second  nature  to  him  to  let  others  do  the  think- 
ing. Prior  to  his  three  days'  incarceration  in  the 
solitary  on  a  very  low  diet  he  had  been  rather  given  to 
mental  calculations  with  a  view  to  making  trouble 
for  the  jail  officials. 

But  these  processes  had  brought  him  woe  and  a 
dismal  experience,  and  he  wisely  decided  to  exist  and 
•obey  without  further  brain  work. 

However,  that  was  long  before  and  well-nigh  for- 
gotten. Since  then  he  had  eaten,  slept,  and  made  heels 
in  the  shoe-shop,  and  now  was  rather  appalled  at  the 
prospect  of  speedy  release. 


Therefore  he  sat  upon  his  cot  and  gave  way  to  un- 
pleasant rumination. 

An  old  young  man  was  Peter,  and  of  stolid  counte- 
nance. His  form  was  stalwart,  and  it  is  perhaps  un- 
necessary to  state  that  he  wore  his  hair  short  and  his 
clothes  of  one  pattern. 

"  Time's  'bout  up,"  he  reflected.  "  What  now?  Git 
out — git  full — swipe  somethin' — git  back.  Good  place, 
an'  winter  comin'  on.     Can't  do  better." 

This  moral  ambitious  perspective  was  evidently 
satisfactory.  His  heavy  mouth  wrinkled  into  the 
semblance  of  a  grin.  Light  sentences  were  his  one 
hope  in  life.  Outside  that  he  did  not  go.  He  had  no 
taste  for  great  crimes  and  penitentiaries.  A  kindly 
House  of  Correction  was  not  a  bad  sort  of  home,  and 
he  was  willing  to  work. 

Beyond  a  disposition  to  ascertain  the  temper  of  his 
keepers  before  settling  down,  he  was  considered  a  good 
prisoner,  and  had  a  grim  sense  of  humor,  as  the  fol- 
lowing episode  shows. 

The  visiting  clergyman  (there  was  no  regular  chap- 
lain) had  called  and  laboured  with  him.  He  might  as 
well  have  talked  to  a  mummy.  Upon  his  disappointed 
departure  Peter  shouted  after  him :  "  Hi !  parson, 
you've  forgot  your  watch,"  and  held  it  out  through  the 
bars.  So  he  had,  but  did  not  recollect  taking  it  off 
the  chain.  He  did  not  visit  Peter  again.  For  this 
pleasantry  that  worthy  passed  twelve  hours  in  a  dark 
cell,  where,  as  the  warden  suggested,  he  might  guess 
the  time  of  day.  One  hour  of  this  punishment  was 
spent  in  grinning  at  the  rememberance  of  his  visitor's 
facial  expression ;  the  rest,  in  sleep  on  the  hard  floor. 
Upon  the  whole  he  decided  it  did  not  pay. 

From  time  to  time  rumors  reached  his  ear  (how 
they  get  around  is  a  mystery)  of  a  man  who  called 
upon  those  about  to  be  liberated,  and  this  person  held 
for  him  a  faint  curiosity.  Wo.uld  he  come  to  see  him — 
Peter  Mogley?  There  was  something  out  of  the  ordi- 
nary about  this  man ;  the  recipients  of  his  attentions 
did  not  come  back.  When  discharged,  they  marched 
away  with  their  heads  up,  a  highly  foolish  position 
in  Peter's  mind  as  giving  opportunities  for  recognition. 
Yes,  he  half  hoped  this  person  might  descend  upon  him 
ere  his  departure,  Very  probably  he  was  a  "  softy  " 
who  could  be  worked  in  some  way,  and  for  that  reason 
the  boys  liked  him. 

It  .was  a  Sunday  afternoon,  and  Mr.  Mogley  reposed 
upon  his  bed.     Steps  came  ringing  down  the  corridor. 

"  Here's. your  man,"  came  a  keeper's  voice.  "  Harm- 
less, but  no  good." 

The  door  clanged  open.  Peter  sat  up,  blinking. 
A  stranger  stepped  in.     The  door  closed. 

"  One  hour,  sir,"  said  the  guard.  "  I'll  be  near. 
If  you're  ready  before  that,  speak." 


THE    INGLENOOK.— December  20,  1904. 


The  prisoner  regarded  his  campanion  stonily,  half- 
insolently.  He  was  a  thickset;  well-dressed  indi- 
vidual with  a  big  moustache. 

"  Tain't  the  'softy,'  "  thought  Peter.  "  Who's  he,  I 
wonder  ?  " 

The  visitor  sat  on  the  bed,  stuck  his  hands  in  his 
pockets  without  offering  to  grasp  Mogley's  expectant 
paw,  and  searched  him  with  a  keen  gray  eye. 

"  Well,"  he  began,  "  had  enough  of  it,  my  bov?  Go- 
ing out  next  week,  I  hear.     What's  your  plan  ?  " 

"  None  o'  yours,"  responded  Peter  surlily.  "  Who 
asked  to  see  you  ?  " 

The  man  laughed.  "  My  name  is  Sheffield,"  he  said. 
"  Yours  is  Mogley,  I  believe.  Well,  Mogley,  I  don't 
wait  for  invitations  when  I  want  a  man." 

Peter  jumped.  "  There's  nothin'  hangin'  over  me," 
he  made  haste  to  say.     "  You  can't  take  me." 

"  Nothing,  eh?  I've  looked  up  your  record.  That's 
hanging  over  you.  The  whip  of  the  law  is  hanging 
aver  you.  You  don't  mean  to  be  honest  when  you 
leave.  That's  hanging  over  you.  The  great  hand  of 
Almighty  God  is  hanging  over  you."  His  voice  was 
intensely  earnest. 

"  Some  kind  of  parson,  after  all.  I  took  ye  for  a 
detective,"  grunted  Peter. 

"  No,  neither,"  said  the  man  quietly.  "  I'm  an  ex- 
convict."  He  put  out  his  hand,  and  the  other  took 
it  wonderingly,  noticing  the  little  finger  was  gone. 

Sheffield  pushed  apart  his  thick  gray  hair,  and  dis- 
closed a  deep  scar.  "  Got  that  in  Sing  Sing,  trying  to 
escape,"  he  observed.  "  Look  here !  "  withdrawing 
his  hand  from  Mogley's,  and  rolling  up  his  sleeve. 
The  brawny  arm  showed  a  ragged  old  cicatrix.  "  Au- 
burn," he  added  sententiously.  "  I  was  a  ten-year  man 
there — burglary  and  attempt  at  murder.  Why,  my  lad, 
as  I  say,  I've  looked  you  up.  You're  a  lamb  beside 
what  I  was.  To-day  I'm  a  well-fixed,  respectable  citi- 
zen. I've  come  to  make  you  one.  That's  why  I'm 
here." 

Mogley  was  staring  at  him  in  a  sort  of  fascination, 
the  attraction  of  the  big  boy  for  the  little  one.  lie 
felt  suddenly  small  and  weak — lie — Peter  Mogley. 
Then  he  recovered  himself.  "  No  use,"  he  replied, 
doggedly.     "I'm  nn  good." 

"No  good!  Don't  say  that,  man!  You've  health 
and  hands.  A  heart,  too.  All  you  need  is  a  chance 
and  the  wish  to  be  decent.  I'll  see  you  get  that  chance, 
but  you  must  do  the  rest.  Think  of  what  I  was  with 
the  chains  on — and  then  tell  me  you're  no  good. 
That's  nonsense." 

"How  did  you  do  it?"  The  prisoner's  eyes  were 
shining  with  eagerness. 

"A  good,  strong  man,  God's  help,  and  hard  work 
— that's  how.  My  boy,  T  was  utterly  hopeless,  per- 
fectly desperate,  a  hardened  criminal  brute  when  the 


doctor  came  fifteen  years  ago.  I  cursed  him.  He 
came  again.  Still  I  cursed  him.  Still  he  kept  com- 
ing. He  hammered  right  at  one  thing — that  I'd  got  to 
be  a  wan— it  was  in  me.  Says  he,  '  Jim,  before  I  die, 
you'll  come  to  me  and  say,  "  Doctor,  I've  done  it." 
There's  hope  and  everything  for  you,'  says  he.  '  Try 
for  both  our  sakes,  try !  "  Sheffield's  deep  voice  broke. 
"  And  the  next  I  heard,  he  was  dying — doctor  dving. 
I'll  never  forget  that  night.  It  came  over  me  then 
what  he'd  done.  And  the  pneumonia  got  him  coming 
over  in  the  storm  to  see  me." 

The  man  stopped,  lost  in  his  recollection,  clinching 
his  hands.  "  No  matter,"  he  went  on  presently.  "  I 
can't  tell  this — but  my  time  was  up,  and  I  got  to  him — 
and — and,  weak  as  he  was,  he  saw  me.  Savs  I. 
'  Doctor,  I've  done  it!'  and  bawled  like  a  babv,  right 
on  my  knees  by  his  bed,  his  thin  hand  patting  my 
cropped  head  and  him  whispering,  '  I  knew  you  would, 
Jim.     I  knew  it  was  in  you.' 

"  And  it's  in  all  of  us!"  He  rose,  and  put  his  fist 
on  Peter's  shoulder,  almost  making  him  wince.  "  I 
had  nearly  forgotten  you,  lad.  Take  this  card.  The 
minute  you  get  out,  come  right  to  me.  For  ten  years 
now  I've  been  setting  the  boys  on  their  feet,  and  I 
tell  you  this :  Out  of  hundreds  I've  helped,  only  a 
few  have  gone  back.  You  won't  be  one  of  that  crowd, 
will  you,  boy?" 

Mogley's  stolid  face  was  working  strangely,  "  No ! 
so  help  me,  God !  "  he  said  huskily. 

"  I  never  felt  like  tryin'  afore." 

"And  you'll  surely  come?" 

"  Sure!  There  can't  nothing  keep  me  from  it.  Mr. 
Sheffield,  you — you " 

■■Well?" 

"  That  is,  you  don't  never  get  down  and  say  a 
prayer  like " 

"  I — I  ain't  much  of  a  hand  at  that.  You  do  it 
alone.  Perhaps  when  you're  up  at  the  house  I  can  say 
something.  Not  here — the  keeper's  coming.  Good- 
by!" 

"  Good-by,  friend.  Say,  one  word  more — did — did 
your  doctor  get  well?" 

"  Yes,  the  Lord  be  thanked,  he  did.  'Twas  a  hard 
pull,  hut  he  fetched  it.     Keeper!  I'm  ready." 

"  All  right,  sir." 

^.gain  the  clang  of  an  iron  door  aricl  steps  ringing 
along  the  corridor. 

In  the  neat  general  repair-shop  at  Bellfield  sits  an 
industrious  man.  who  whistles  at  his  work.  Over  the 
door  swings  a  great  sign,  "  Peter  Mogley.  All  Kinds 
11!'  Repairing."  Hi  Stops  his  tunc-  to  speak  t"  an  as- 
sistant.  "Billy,  bring  me  Mr.  Sheffield's  umbrella. 
That's  got  to  be  done  firsl  of  all.  Then  I'm  going 
home  to  trot  that  bab\  of  mine  while  his  mother's 
getting  supper.     You  can  luck  up." — C.  /;.  ]\'orld. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— December  20,  1904. 


SEVEN    SCHOOL    VIRTUES. 


Seven  virtues  in  the  school  room, 
Regularity  and  neatness, 
Punctuality  and  silence, 
Industry  and  accuracy, 
But  the  highest  is  obedience. 

Regularity, — school  virtue; 
This  involves  persistent  effort, 
Time  and  place  for  other  duties, 
Overcoming  all  diversions, 
Meeting  all  with  prompt  decision. 
Necessary  is  this  virtue 
To  success  in  school  and  after, — 
Students  that  are  often  absent 
Must  be  unsuccessful  students, 
Unsuccessful  in  their  studies 
Unsuccessful  in  their  life  work; 
Since  they  lack  the  proper  training 
That  will  help  them  in  their  labors — 
Social,  civil  or  industrial. 
Business  men  will  not  employ  them 
Since  they  cannot  be  relied  on. 

Punctuality, — school  virtue, — 
This  involves  much  self  denial, 
Sacrifice  of  ease  and  pleasure 
To  the  duties  of  the  school  room. 
This  is  excellent  will  training, 
Overcoming  all  temptations, 
Meeting  all  requirements  promptly  — 
Promptly  to  the  call  of  duty. 
This  is  splendid  preparation 
For  the  duties  of  your  life  work. 
Never  absent,  never  tardy. 
Confidence  is  thus  inspired 
And  success  is  sure  to  follow. 

Neatness  is  a  personal  virtue, 

Neat  and  orderly  in  manner, 

Neat  in  work  and  neat  in  clothing. 

This  includes  a  firm  resistance 

To  a  low  and  base  desire 

To  deface  or  mark  a  building 

By  unseemly  cuts  and  scribblings. 

Self  respect,  respect  for  others, 

Purity  of  life  are  absent 

When  a  person  thus  defaces 

That  which  ministers  to  beauty. 

Self  respect  is  also  wanting 

When  the  hands  and  face  are  dirty, 

When  the  clothing  is  untidy 

From  a  want  of  care  and  effort. 

Moral  reformation  follows 

From-the  use  of  soap  and  water. 

Neatness,  therefore,  is  will  training, 

Even  may  be  moral  training, 

When  it  springs  from  worthy  motives. 

Accuracy  is  a  virtue 
Very  useful  in  the  school  room 
Accurate  in  word  and  action, 
Shunning  all  exaggeration, 
This  requires  close  attention, 
To  the  thing — whate'er  it  be — 
Thus  it  too  becomes  will  training, 
Both  the  learning  of  what  is  true 


And  its  accurate  expression. 
This  would  be  a  good  school  motto: 
"Lack  of  truth,- -no  other  virtue." 
Teachers  should  implant  in  pupils 
Both  by  precept  and  example 
Love  for  truth  that's  almost  sacred, 
Manly  hatred  for  deception 
In  its  many  forms  and  guises. 
Truth  and  accuracy,  therefore, 
Are  the  cardinal  school  virtues. 

Silence  is   the   next   school   virtue. 
Silence  is  a  personal  virtue. 
Regulation  of  one's  conduct 
In  temptations  and  in  trials 
To  the  welfare  of  another. 
Curbing  of  the  social  instinct 
In  the  presence  of  our  schoolmates, 
Curbing  of  a  natural  impulse 
To  communicate  with  others. 
Fruitful  thinking  is  more  easy 
When  distractions  are  not  present. 
Thoughtful  study  and  reflection 
Are  promoted  when  there's  silence. 
Self  control,  involved  in  silence, 
Is  the  soil  where  virtues  flourish. 
Silence  has  high  moral  value 
When  it  curbs  impetuous  temper. 
Silence  has  its  highest  value 
When  it  comes  from  obligation, 
From  a  kind  consideration 
To  the  welfare  of  another, 
Then  it's  truly  altruistic, 
Then  it  springs  from  proper  motives, 
Then  it's  needed  preparation 
For  your  duties, — social, — civil. 

Industry — or  application 

Trains  the  will  in  a  direction 

Just  the  opposite  to  silence. 

It  is  putting  forth  of  effort; 

Energy  is  checked  by  silence. 

Industry  involves  denial 

Of  mere  play  or  other  pleasures; 

Sacrifice  of  ease  and  comfort 

To  an  end  that  may  seem  distant. 

Industry,  then,  is   or  should  be 

Conscientious  application 

From  a  sense  of  right  and  duty. 

Schools  are  oft  unjustly  censured: — 

"  Idleness  is  made  a  habit." 

This  would  seem  a  proper  answer — 

Every  good  school  is  a  work  shop, 

Industry  and  application 

Are  the  tools  in  this  work  shop. 

Faithful  daily  preparation — 

Tasks  assigned  and  work  accomplished- 

These  require  constant   effort, 

These  involve  a  self  denial 

Equal  to  industrial  training. 

Industry  becomes  the  basis 

Of  success  in  future  efforts. 

Labor  may  be  truly  noble, 

If  it  springs  from  sense  of  honor, 

If  it  comes  from  sense  of  duty. 

Obedience  is  a  noble  virtue 

When  it's  prompt,  implicit,  cheerful. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— December  20,  1904. 


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When  a  habit — automatic — 

It  has  not  so  great  a  value. 

Yet  it's  none  the  less  essential; 

It's  the  basis  of  all  order, 

Of  all  freedom,  social,  civil. 

Obedience  without  love  is  serfdom; 

With  love,  it  is  proper  freedom. 

Duty  is  naught  but  obedience 

To  the  voice  of  .God  in  conscience. 

Love  to  God  is  higher  freedom 

And  should  be  the  source  of  conduct. 

Thus  we  reach  the  highest  motive, 

Highest  thought  in  moral  training. 

Train  the  will  to  proper  action, 

Action  from  a  free  obedience 

To  the  sense  of  right  and  duty. 
Selected  by  J.  K.  Light,  Prin.  Model  School  and  Teacher 
of  Methods,   Central  State   Normal   School,   Lock  Haven, 
Pa. 

(White's  School  Management,  pages  110-130.) 

*  *  * 
A    YOUNG    HERO. 


The  following  is  an  extract  from  a  letter  of  an  of- 
ficer of  the  Light  Division:  "  Sebastopol,  Sept.  18, 
1865. — By  the  way  I  must  give  you  the  history,  in  a 
few  words  of  a  few  hours  in  the  life  of  a  hero,  and, 
depend  upon  it,  of  a  future  great  man,  if  he  lives  He 
is  in  the  next  regiment  to  us,  and  I  have  the  details 
from  a  wounded  sergeant  of  ours  who  lay  next  him 
during  the  day  and  night  of  the  8th.  I  allude  to  young 
Dunham  Massey,  of  the  19th — I  believe  the  youngest 
officer  of  the  army.  He  is  now  known  as  "Redan 
Massy,"  for  there  are  three  of  the  same  name  in  the 
regiment.  This  noble  boy,  in  the  absence  of  his  cous- 
in, led  the  Grenadier  Company,  and  was  about  the 
first  man  of  the  corps  to  jump  into  the  ditch  of  the 
Redan,  waving  his  sword,  and  calling  on  his  men, 
who  nobly  stood  by  him,  till,  left  for  nearly  two  hours 
without  support,  and  seized  by  a  fear  of  being  blown 
up,  they  retired.  Young  Massy,  borne  along,  endeav- 
ored to  disengage  himself  from  the  crowd,  and  stood 
with  head  erect,  and  with  a  calm,  proud,  disdainful 
eye.  Hundreds  of  shot  were  aimed  at  him,  and  at 
last,  when  leading  and  climbing  the  ditch,  he  was 
struck  and  his  thigh  broken.  Being  the  last,  he  \\:i^ 
of  course  left  there.  Now,  listen  to  this.  The  wound- 
ed around  were  groaning,  and  some  even  loudly  crying 
out.     A  voice  called  out,  faintly  at  first,  loudly  at  last. 

"'Are  you  Queen  Victoria's  soldiers?' 

"  Some  voices  answered, 

'"I  am!     I  am!' 

"  '  Then,'  said  the  gallant  boy.  '  let  us  not  shame 
ourselves ;  let  us  show  those  Russians  that  we  can  bear 
pain,  as  well  as  fight  like  men.' 

"  There  was  a  silence  as  of  death,  and  more  than 
once  he  had  it  renewed  by  similar  appeals.  The  un- 
quailing  spirit  of  the  beardless  boy  ruled  all  around 
him.     As  evening  came  on.  the  Russians  crept  out  of 


the  redoubt  and  plundered  some  of  the  wounded,  at  the 

same  time  showing  kindness,  and  in  some  cases  giv-" 

ing   water. 

When  the  works  of  the  Redan  were  blown  up  in  die 

night  by  the  retreating  Russians,  the  poor  boy  had  his 

right  leg  fearfully  crushed  by  a  falling  stone.     He  was 

found    in    the    morning  by   some   Highlanders,   and 

brought    to    his    regiment  almost  dead   from  loss  of 

blood." 

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SHOOTING    BIG    GAME. 


The  disturbing  element  in  hunting  elephant  or 
seladang  or  rhino  has  been  always,  to  me  at  least,  the 
feeling  of  uncertainty  as  to  whether  or  not  I  could 
stop  the  animal  if  I  wounded  it,  and  it  charged  me, 
as  it  did  on  the  average  of  once  in  three  times. 

Based  on  my  experience,  therefore,  I  should  place 
the  elephant  first  and  the  rhino  third  after  the  selad- 
ang, which  is  fully  as  formidable  as  the  Cape  buffalo, 
and  is  miscalled  the  bison  all  over  India.  Each  of 
these  animals  is  dangerous  on  different  and  individual 
grounds ;  the  elephant,  though  less  likely  to  charge 
than  any  of  the  others,  is  terrifying  because  of  his 
enormous  strength,  which  stops  at  no  obstacle,  and  the 
extreme  difficulty  of  reaching  a  vital  spot,  especially 
if,  with  trunk  tightly  coiled,  he  is  coming  your  way. 

I  know  of  no  sensation  more  awesome  than  stand- 
ing ankle  deep  in  clinging  mud  in  dense  cover,  with  the 
jungle  crashing  around  you  as  though  the  entire  forest 
was  toppling,  as  the  elephant  you  have  wounded  comes 
smashing  his  way  in  your  direction. 

The  seladang  is  dangerous,  partly  because  of  the 
thick  jungle  he  seeks  when  wounded,  but  more  espe- 
cially because  of  his  tremendous  vitality  and  his  usual, 
though  not  invariable,  habit  of  awaiting  the  hunter  on 
his  tracks  and  charging  suddenly,  swiftly  and  viciously. 
It  requires  close  and  hard  shooting  to  bring  down  one 
<>f  the  six-foot  specimens  of  Oriental  cattle. 

The  danger  of  the  tiger  and  of  the  lion  is  in  their 
lightning  activity  and  ferocious  strength;  but  you  have 
the  shoulder,  in  addition  In  the  head  shot,  if  broadside; 
.  >r  if  coming  on,  the  chest,  all  sure  to  stop  if  well 
placed.  The  reason  the  rhino  is  so  formidable  is  be- 
cause its  vulnerable  spots  are  so  hard  to  reach.  Its 
brain  is  as  small  in  proportion  as  that  of  the  elephant, 
and  may  be  reached  through  the  eye  if  head  on.  or 
about  three  inches  below  and  just  in  front  of  or  just 
behind  the  base  of  the  ear,  according  to  your  position 
for  a  shot. 

+  *  ♦ 

Half  the  sorrows  of  women  would  be  averted  if 
they  could  repress  the  speech  they  knew  to  be  useless 
— nay,  the  speech  they  have  resolved  not  to  utter. — 
George  F.liot. 


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You  see  in  the  richer  houses 
The  light  of  the  glowing  grate, 

The  children  round  the  Christmas  tree, 
And  the  hour  growing  late. 

While  down  in  the  tenant  houses 
All  is  cold  and  dark  and  still, 

Widows  and  orphans  are  weeping 
They  see  the  light  on  the  hill. 

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Of  the  orphan  child  next  door; 

For  his  heart  is  cold  and  stony, 
With  fortune  and  goodly  store. 

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On  the  heart  and  not  the  place; 

Methinks  he'll  sentence  the  rich  man 
As  he  did  in  Lazarus'   case. 

"Pure,  undefiled  religion" 
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VIEWS    FROM    MT.    OLIVET. 


Since  it  is  impossible  for  the  Nook  family  to  visit 
the  cradle  of  our  Lord  as  a  family,  shall  we  not  on  this 
blessed  Christmas  week  take  passage  on  the  old  ship 
of  Imagination  and  sail  across  the  ocean  of  time  and 
the  sea  of  history  and  anchor  on  the  summit  of  the 
mount  of  the  ascension?  And  not  being  satisfied  with 
simply  reaching  the  top  of  the  mountain,  we  ascend 
the  minaret  of  a  Mohammedan  Mosque  which  is  lo- 
cated there.  Having  reached  the  very  pinnacle,  we 
are  veritably  between  earth  and  heaven,  almost  at  the 


exact  spot  when  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  was  on  as- 
cension day  when  he  wore  his  robe  of  clouds  and  while 
he  was  leaving  the  earth  to  go  home  to  glory.  It  is 
here  where  two  men  stood  in  white  apparel  and  said, 
"  Ye  men  of  Galilee,  why  stand  ye  here  gazing  up  in- 
to heaven  ?  This  same  Jesus  which  is  taken  up  from 
you  into  heaven,  shall  so  come  in  like  manner  as  ye 
have  seen  him  go  into  heaven." 

As  we  have  the  consciousness  of  being  at  the  ex- 
act spot  where  the  Lord  stood,  it  magnifies  and  in- 
tensifies the  scenes  before  us.  Looking  southward  we 
can  easily  behold  the  church  spires  in  the 

City  of  Bethlehem 
some  six  miles  distant.  Bethlehem  is  the  birth- 
place of  our  Lord.  It  is  also  the  birthplace  of  David. 
Near  by  is  the  field  of  Boaz  wherein  the  romantic 
history  of  Ruth  has  played  its  part  in  the  great  plan 
of  redemption,  since  it  was  through  this  great-grand- 
mother of  David  that  our  Jesus  was  able  to  shed  Gen- 
tile blood  on  the  cross.  The  old  stone  cavern  which 
ordinarily  was  the  stable  for  donkeys  and  which,  on 
the  day  on  which  the  Savior  of  the  world  was  born, 
was  an  inn  for  the  poor  who  were  naturally  crowded 
out  of  the  better  lodging  places,  by  the  people  who  were 
brought  to  the  city  of  David  by  the  decree  of  Augus- 
tus Caesar,  is  still  to  be  seen.  To-day  the  ploce  is  kept 
sacred  as  the  spot  of  the  nativity  by  a  large  church 
building  belonging  to  the  Greeks,  Roman  Catholics, 
Coptics  and  Assyrians.  It  would  be  no  difficult  mat- 
ter for  our  party  to  behold  one  of  these  Oriental  gentle- 
men dressed  in  his  native  costume  leading  the  little 
donkey  bearing  his  wife  who  sits  astride  the  little 
beast  of  burden,  carrying  in  front  of  her,  her  infant 
child.  Such  a  picture  as  this  reminds  one  of  the  flight 
into  Egypt  and  we  instantly  live  over  again  the  early 
life  of  Jesus.  While  standing  at  this  elevated  place 
and  turning  our  faces  toward  the  rising  of  the  sun 
we  can  easily  and  distinctly  see  the  little 

Village  of  Bethany 
where  the  master  dwelt  with  Mary,  Martha  and  Laz- 
arus in  their  humble  home,  where  he  rested  many  a 
time  from  his  weary  journeys  over  Judean  hills  and 
through  the  lonesome  wilderness.  Unto  this  day  re- 
mains the  floor  and  just  a  small  remnant  of  the  side 
walls  of  that  home  where  those  four  spent  many  happy 
days.  This  is  the  home  which  Jesus  made  happy  by 
calling  back  to  life  the  brother  of  these  two  dear  wo- 
men after  he  had  been  dead  four  days. 

Elevating  the  range  of  vision  just  a  trifle,  but  main- 
taining the  same  general  direction,  we  can  easily  behold 

The   Sacred   Jordan 
as  a  silver  thread  in  a  ribbon,  of  green  as  it  winds  its 
way  by  many  a  crook  down  to  the  great  salt  sea.    This 
is  where  our  Savior  was  baptized  by  his  forerunner 


THE    INGLENOOK.— December  20,  1904. 


John,  and  where  he  received  the  celestial  credential  of 
his  sonship,  when  God  said,  "  This  is  my  beloved  Son 
in  whom  I  am  well  pleased."  Jordan  has  been  the 
boundary  of  Canaan,  the  type  of  death  and  the  emblem 
of  the  entrance  into  heaven  from  time  immemorial. 
After  meditating  over  the  passage  of  the  children  of 
Israel,  the  fall  of  Jericho,  the  destruction  of  Sodom 
and  many  other  interesting  things  that  happened  here, 
we  turn  our  faces  about  and  look  to  the  northward, 
and  at  a  distance  of  about  one  hundred  miles,  we  can 
behold  on  a  bright,  clear  day  the  snow-capped  Hermon 
which  is 

The  Mount  of  Transfiguration 
piercing  the  azure  of  the  canopy.  It  was  here  that 
our  Master  during  his  ministry  called  the  favored  three 
to  the  very  gate  of  heaven  and  led  them  under  the 
overwhelming  influence  of  the  Holy  Spirit  and  told 
them  the  secret  of  the  divine  plan  of  redemption. 
Again  the  celestial  credentials  were  stamped  immutably 
upon  the  Son  of  God  by  the  light  from  heaven,  and 
again  were  they  encouraged  to  go  on  their  way  evan- 
gelizing the  world  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jesus. 

At  the  very  foot  of  the  mountain  upon  which  we  are 
standing  on  the  western  slope,  is  the  beautiful  little 
historic  spot, 

The  Garden  of  Gethsemane. 

Of  all  things  in  the  tragedy  of  the  passion  week,  the 
one  which  solicits  the  most  sympathy  and  love  and  per- 
haps irritates  our  indignation  to  the  greatest  height, 
is  the  one  where  Judas  leads  the  gang  of  desperadoes 
with  lanterns,  swords  and  clubs  and  cruelly  arrests 
our  adorable  Redeemer  while  in  the  very  act  of  prayer, 
who  receiving  the  kiss  of  the  traitor,  the  insults  of  the 
mob,  the  desertion  by  his  disciples,  the  mock  worship 
of  his  enemies,  and  the  trial  before  a  criminal,  answered 
never  a  word.  In  this  beautiful  little  garden  may  be 
seen  unto  this  day  six  large  olive  trees,  one  of  which 
is  more  than  twelve  feet  in  diameter  and  is  said  to  have 
been  standing  there  in  the  time  of  our  Lord,  which 
is  not  altogether  improbable.  Kneeling  under  one  of 
these  trees  where  Jesus  knelt  in  prayer  until  his  sweat 
became  as  great  drops  of  blood,  through  agony  for 
humanity,  and  reading  the  account  of  the  same  from 
the  Book  of  God  is  a  privilege  which  ranks  among  the 
greatest  blessings  of  this  world. 

Just  across  the  valley  of  the  Kedron  from  the  Gar- 
den of  Gethsemane,  is  the  platform  of 

Solomon's  Temple, 

Zerubbabel's  temple,  and  Herod's  temple.  It  is  also  the 
place,  where  Abraham  offered  Isaac,  because  the  Bible 
says  it  took  place  on  top  of  Mt.  Moriah.  Ever  since 
this  trial  of  Abraham's  faith,  and  even  from  the  time 
of  Melchizcdek,  the  holy  top  of  this  mountain  has  been 
made  and  kept  sacred  by  the  presence  of  God.     Even 


unto  this  day  the  Jews,  Mohammedans  and  Christians 
of  the  world  all  agree  that  this  is  the  spot  where  all 
of  these  above-mentioned  events  have  taken  place.  To- 
day it  is  the  second  place  in  the  world  to  the  Moham- 
medan. Of  course  Mecca,  the  birthplace  of  Moham- 
med, is  the  first,  and  the  beautiful  mosque  of  Omar  is 
the  second.  It  is  a  magnificent  octagonal  structure, 
the  cost  of  which  is  counted  by  millions.  The  moun- 
tain itself  would  be  hardly  large  enough  to  contain 
the  books  that  would  hold  the  traditions  of  the  Moham- 
medans who  have  the  place  under  control  and  who 
even  threaten  the  lives  of  Christians  who  visit  the 
place  unprotected. 

Before  descending  from  this  sacred  place  let  us  once 
more  look  across  the  Holy  City  and  see  the 

Mount  of  Calvary, 
where  the  rugged  tree  was  planted  by  the  Roman  sol- 
diers to  which  was  nailed  the  "  Lamb  of  God  which 
taketh  away  the  sin  of  the  world."  There  are  many 
mountains  in  the  world  from  which  have  been  taken 
some  of  the  most  valuable  timber  which  earth  affords, 
and  from  other  mountains  have  been  taken  precious 
metals,  even  the  purest  of  gold,  but  from  the  Mount 
of  Calvary  comes  the  blood  of  Christ  which  purchases 
the  redemption  of  the  human  family  which  was  en- 
slaved in  the  bondage  of  sin.  Some  mountain  tops 
boast  of  famous  battles ;  some  of  being  the  foundation 
of  magnificent  cities ;  some  of  being  the  home  of  some 
noted  patriot,  monarch  or  seer,  and  one  mountain 
even  is  able  to  boast  of  being  the  Mount  of  Transfig- 
uration ;  but  alone  to  Calvary  belongs  the  right  to  be 
called  the  Mount  of  the  Crucifixion.  At  the  foot  of 
this  mount  lies  a  little  garden  in  which  is  to  be  found 

Joseph's  Tomb, 
in  which  never  man  was  laid  until  our  Savior  was  de- 
posited there  by  loving  hands,  only  to  be  brought  forth 
on  the  third  day  by  the  same  power  that  gave  him 
as  a  ransom  for  our  sins.  Let  us  spend  our  Christmas 
day  in  thankfulness  to  God  for  the  wonderful  gift  he 
has  bestowed  upon  us  in  the  person  of  his  son  1 : 
And  let  us  demonstrate  our  gratitude  in  a  way  which 
would  be  pleasing  in  his  sight  by  bestowing  some  sim- 
ple gift  upon  one  of  his  little  ones  in  a  way  in  which 
the  name  of  Jesus  may  be  magnified. 

•  ♦  ♦ 

In  [902,  as  our  party  left  Bethlehem,  returning  to 
Jerusalem,  we  met  a  Mohammedan  and  his  wife  with 
their  little  child.  He  was  walking,  leading  the  donkey 
upon  which  was  his  wife  sitting  astride,  allowing  the 
infant  to  ride  in  the  same  manner.  She  had  her  face 
veiled  like  the  women  of  the  Bible  undoubtedly  had. 
The  scene  impressed  us  so  much  that  we  stopped  our 
carriage  and  took  the  photograph  that  you  see  on  the 
front   cover  page. 


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Current      Happenings 


Professor  Maunder  of  the  Greenwich  observa- 
tory observes  that  the  sun  affects  the  mariner's  com- 
pass, and  also  that  the  magnetic  storms  recur  at  fixed 
intervals,  estimated  at  about  twenty-seven  days.  He 
calculates  that  this  is  the  length  of  time  required  for 
light  to  reach  the  earth. 

Four  tram  men  were  instantly  killed  and  another 
fatally  injured  in  a  wreck  caused  by  a  passenger 
train  crashing  into  a  construction  train  near  Columbus, 

Ind. 

*  *  * 

The  Roman  Catholic  church  at  Shamokin,  Pa.,  is 

suffering  from  a  bitter  church  war  which  has  resulted 

in  the  division  of  the  congregation.    The  trouble  arose 

from  the  excommunication  of  some  Polish  members. 

4>  *  * 

In  a  recent  battle  between  Italians  and  Slavs  at 
Trinidad,  Colo.,  John  Rembish  was  killed  and  robbed 
of  $920.  The  trouble  is  said  to  have  been  caused  by 
the  strike  of  the  coal  miners. 

*  *  * 

The  British  navy,  in  her  new  scheme  of  naval  dis- 
tribution, compliments  the  United  States  with  using 
only  three  vessels  on  the  North  American  coast,  one 
on  the  Atlantic  and  two  on  the  Pacific,  all  of  which 
have  Canadian  headquarters. 
4*  *  * 

The  State  of  Montana  is  having  trouble  with  the 
International  Harvester  Company  on  account  that 
the  company  violates  the  anti-trust  laws  of  the  State. 
General  Donovan  began  proceedings  in  the  state  su- 
preme court  last  week. 

*  *  ♦ 

President  David  R.  Francis  of  the  Louisiana  Pur- 
chase Exposition  is  planning  to  make  a  tour  around 
the  world,  to  return  the  visits  of  the  foreign  dignita- 
ries and  to  personally  express  thanks  for  the  part  taken 
by  other  governments.  It  might  be  well  to  incidentally 
infer  that  a  few  bills  should  be  paid  first. 

*  *  * 

The  Episcopal  clergy,  in  a  recent  convention  at  Bos- 
ton, discountenanced  the  great  divorce  evil  of  America 
by  asking  its  ministers  to  refuse  to  marry  divorced  per- 
sons. Let  all  religious  denominations  take  this  ac- 
tion and  when  this  is  done  let  a  united  petition  be  sent 
to  Congress,  asking  that  no  government  official,  local 
or  general,  be  allowed  to  perform  the  marriage  cere- 
mony for  persons  who  have  already  broken  one  mar- 
riage vow. 


The  Department  of  Agriculture  reports  that  the 
effort  to  destroy  the  boll  weevil  in  the  cotton  fields 
with  paris  green  is  a  failure. 

<$>  «j.  <$. 

William  R.  Wilcox  of  New  York  City,  is  New 
York's  new  postmaster. 

*  «t>  * 

Ten  American  fishing  vessels  have  been  cap- 
tured by  the  Canadian  protective  cruiser  Curlew 
and  fined  for  illegal  fishing  in  Canadian  waters. 

*  *  * 

The  Faculty  of  the  University  of  Chicago  has  grant- 
ed the  request  presented  by  the  students  to  discontinue 
the  use  of  the  Doxology  or  any  other  chant  of  reli- 
gious character  in  the  morning  chapel  services.  It 
is  presumed  that  since  the  last  vestige  of  anything  that 
would  suggest  religious  sentiment  has  been  eliminated, 
the  honorable  student  body  may  pursue  their  courses 
without  feeling  hampered. 

*  *  * 

The  Russian  government  has  a  scheme  under  way 
to  open  up  free  lands  in  Siberia  for  settlement.  The 
plan  is  very  much  like  the  American  homestead  sys- 
tem. 

*  *  * 

Five  lives  reported  lost  and  $8,000,000  worth  of 
property  destroyed  by  fire  at  Minneapolis. 

T*     V     V 

The  Lawrence  University  at  Appleton,  Wis.,  re- 
fused claim  to  a  gift  of  $100,000  made  to  the  uni- 
versity by  the  will  of  Willis  W.  Cooper,  of  Appleton, 
who  was  killed  in  the  Iriquois  fire.  The  action  is 
ascribed  to  the  fact  that  Mr.  Cooper  lost  his  life  while 
in  attendance  at  a  place  of  amusement,  contrary  to 
the  rules  of  the  Methodist  church.  The  attorneys  for 
the  university  have  notified  the  attorney  for  the  estate 
that  the  university  will  waive  all  rights,  and  instead  of 
receiving  $100,000  will  take  but  $100  which  is  the 
amount  due  on  a  note  given  the  university  by  Mr. 
Cooper. 

*  *  * 

Colonel  R.  Francisco  Chaves,  one  of  the  best 
known  politicians  in  New  Mexico,  was  assas- 
sinated while  dining  at  the  home  of  a  friend.  The 
assassin  is  presumed  to  be  some  political  enemy  of 
the  Colonels,  and  shot  at  him  through  the  window, 
killing  him  instantly.  The  Colonel  was  a  soldier  un- 
der the  famous  Kit  Carson  in  the  Indian  wars  of  i86t. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  he  held  three  important  po- 
sitions. 


THE   INGLENOOK.— December  20,  1904. 


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Reports  from  Berlin  indicate  that  a  plan  is  under 
way  to  increase  the  German  army  by  ten  thousand. 

*  *  * 

The  order  of  the  United  States  government,  lifting 
duty  charges  from  all  imports  for  the  Lewis-Clarke 
Exposition  has  gone  into  effect.  All  exhibitors  from 
foreign  countries  may  now  send  their  wares  to  Port- 
land without  paying  custom  duties. 
4»  *  * 

John  R.  Mott  and  E.  T.  Thombalson,  two  renowned 
thinkers  of  America,  are  not  slack  in  saying  to  the 
world  that  the  missionary  effort  of  Christendom  in 
the  near  future  depends  on  a  stronger  ministry  at 
home.  And  from  a  wide  range  of  inquiry  he  finds 
that  the  strongest  men  in  all  the  churches  are  avoid- 
ing the  ministry  from  a  lack  of  support  from  the  laity 
and  small  rewards  for  their  long  years  of  preparation. 
They  claim  that  missionaries  will  not  be  forthcoming 
unless  the  churches  at  home  are  thoroughly  indoctri- 
nated with  the  needs  of  the  foreign  field,  and  it  takes 
strong  men  to  do  this. 

The  famous  Fairweather  case,  brought  by  the 
heirs,  Mrs.  Fairweather  (widow)  and  her  two  neices, 
to  recover  $2,500,000  which  was  bequeathed  to  differ- 
ent colleges,  was  decided  by  the  supreme  court  of  the 
United  States  in  favor  of  the  colleges. 

*  *  ♦ 

A  mad  dog  at  Chester,  Pa.,  is  causing  considerable 
excitement. 

*  *  * 

Five  inches  of  snow  reported  in  Philadelphia. 

4»  *  4> 
The  Port  Arthur  fleet  is  becoming  badly  battered. 

«{»   4»   <{• 
A  manual  training  department  has  just  been  added 
to  the  public  schools  of  Omaha,  largely  due  to  the 
efforts  of  the  women's  clubs  of  that  city. 
4»    ♦    ♦ 
It  is  the  intention  of  President  Roosevelt  to  appoint 
Stonewall  Jackson  Christian,  a  grandson  of  General 
Stonewall  Jackson,  the  confederate  chieftain,  as  a  ca- 
det to  the  West  Point  Military  Academy.     The  young 
man  is  a  student  at  the  Georgia  Military  Academy. 

*  *  * 

A  young  man  by  the  name  of  Calvin  Farmer  of 
Sac  City,  Iowa,  is  dead  as  the  result  of  being  badly 
injured  in  a  football  game  in  which  he  played  on 
Thanksgiving  day.  Had  the  list  of  dead  and  injured 
met,  counted  their  blessings,  and  thanked  the  good 
Father  in  heaven  for  every  one  of  them,  perhaps  they 
would  have  avoided  the  suffering  of  injuries  to  the 
body  and  their  souls  as  well. 


At  a  recent  meeting  in  Chicago  the  "  White  Cross 
Aid  Society,"  was  organized,  whose  object  will  be  the 
same  as  that  of  the  Red  Cross  Society,  namely,  "  to  fur- 
nish organized  bodies  of  trained  persons  for  relief 
work  in  case  of  national,  municipal  or  private  disaster." 
The  White  Cross  Aid  Society  is  to  be  purely  a  national 
organization. 

*  *  * 

Herr  Johann  Most,  the  New  York  anarchist,  was 
evicted  from  St.  Louis  November  29.  He  was  to  be 
spokesman  at  two  meetings  of  the  anarchists,  but  the 
police  disturbed  the  meetings  and  the  man  was  arrest- 
ed. 

A  score  of  boys  and  young  men  were  hurt  by  the 
giving  away  of  a  gallery  railing  in  the  State  Fensibles' 
armory  at  Philadelphia,  during  the  progress  of  a  bas- 
ket ball  game.  The  injured  were  removed  to  a  hos- 
pital near  by,  but  none  are  supposed  to  be  fatal.  . 

*  ♦  ♦ 

A  whiskey  still,  unknown  to  the  internal  revenue 
officials,  blew  up  in  a  tenement  house  in  New  York. 
The  explosion  frightened  the  tenants  and  wrecked  the 
building.    No  lives  are  reported  lost. 

*  *  * 

Pope  Pius  X.  is  to  enter  into  conciliation  agreement 
with  the  king  of  Italy.  This  event  has  been  announced 
from  time  to  time  ever  since  his  accession  to  the  papacy, 
but  has  never  yet  materialized.  However,  the  prob- 
ability of  immediate  action  is  apparent. 
.>  4.  4. 

Mrs.  Mary  B.  Smith  Fox  of  the  University  Hos- 
pital remembered  the  Presbyterian  institutions  with 
$100,000  in  her  will. 

*  *  + 

The  Japs  lost  twelve  thousand  men  at  Rihlung 
Mountain. 

+  *  * 

A  few  days  ago  three  young  people  of  Chicago 
were  visiting  points  of  interest  in  Colorado ;  they  got 
lost  on  Pike's  Peak  and  were  nearly  frozen  to  death. 
A  campfire  was  built  and  in  their  endeavor  to  keep 
warm  a  celluloid  comb  became  heated  and  exploded, 
badly  burning  one  of  the  ladies.  Her  hair  and  cloth- 
ing took  fire  and  she  suffered  intensely. 

*  +  + 

Nookers,  where  will  our  gifts  be  most  needed? 
Reports  from  Mexico  say  that  most  fearful  conditions 
exist  there.  Deaths  to  the  number  of  twenty  to  forty 
occur  every  day  from  starvation  and  malaria.  The 
outlook  is  very  discouraging  to  the  poor  and  needy ; 
a  long  winter  is  staring  them  in  the  face  and  no  funds 
from  which  to  draw. 


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HOME    DEPARTMENT 


THE    CHILDREN'S    PRAYER. 


SELECTED  BY   MAUD  R.   HAWKINS. 

'Twas  the  eve  before  Christmas;  "Good  night"  had  been 

said, 
And  Annie  and  Willie  had  crept  into  bed; 
There  were  tears  on  their  pillows  and  tears  in  their  eyes, 
And  each  little  bosom  was  heaving  with  sighs 
For  to-night  their  stern  father's  command  had  been  given 
That  they  should  retire  precisely  at  seven 
Instead  of  at  eight  for  they  troubled  him  more 
With  questions  unheard  of  than  ever  before; 
He  had  told  them  he  thought  this  delusion  a  sin, 
No  such  being  as  "  Santa  Claus  "  ever  had  been 
And  he  hoped  after  this  he  should  never  more  hear 
How   he   scrambled   down   chimneys   with   presents    each 

year. 
And  this  is  the  reason  that  two  little  heads 
So  restlessly  tossed  on  their  soft,  downy  beds. 
Eight,  nine  and  the  clock  on  the  steeple  tolled  ten 
Not  a  word  had  been  spoken  by  either  till  then 
When  Willie's  sad  face  from  the  blanket  did  peep 
And  whispered,  "Dear  Anna,  is  you  fast  asleep?" 
"  Why  no,  brother  Willie,"  a  sweet  voice  replies. 
"  I've  tried  it  in  vain,  but  I  can't  shut  my  eyes, 
For  somehow  it  makes  me  so  sorry  because 
Dear  papa  has  said  there  is  no  Santa  Claus. 
Now  we  know  that  there  is  and  it  can't  be  denied 
For  he  came  every  year  before  dear  mamma  died; 
But  then  I've  been  thinking  she  used  to  pray, 
And  God  would  hear  everything  mamma  would  say 
And  perhaps  she  asked  him  to  send  Santa  Claus  here 
With  the  sack  full  of  presents  he  brought  every  year." 
"  Well,  why  tan't  we  pray  dest  as  mamma  did  then 
And  ask  Dod  to  send  him  with  presents  aden?  " 
"  I've  been  thinking  50  too,"  and  without  a  word  more 
Four  little  bare  feet  bounded  out  on  the  floor 
And  four  little  knees  the  soft  carpet  pressed 
And  two  tiny  hands   were   clasped  close  to   each  breast. 
"  Now  Willie,  you  know   we  must  firmly  believe 
That  the  presents  we  ask  for  we're  sure  to  receive. 
You  must  wait  just  as  still  till  I  say  the  '  Amen,' 
And  by  that  you  will  know  that  your  turn  has  come. 
Dear  Jesus  look  down  on  my  brother  and  me 
And  grant  us  the  favor  we  are  asking  of  thee. 
I  want  a  wax  dollie,  a  tea  set  and  ring 
And  an  ebony  workbox  that  shuts  with  a  spring. 
Bless  papa,  dear  Jesus,  and  cause  him  to  see 
That  Santa  Claus  loves  us  far  better  than  he. 
Don't  let  him  get  fretful  and  angry  again 
At  dear  brother  Willie  and  Anna,  Amen." 
"  Please,  Desus  'et  Santa  Taus  'turn  down  to-night 
And  bing  us  some  pesents  before  it  is  light; 
I  want  he  should  div  me  a  nice  'ittle  sed 
With  bright  shinin'  'unners  and  all  painted  'ed; 
A  box  full  of  tandy,  a  book  and  a  toy, 
Amen,  and  den  Desus  I'll  be  a  dood  boy." 


Their   prayers    being   ended    they   raised    up    their    heads, 
And    with    hearts    light    and    cheerful    again    sought    their 

beds. 
They  were  soon  lost  in  slumber,  both  peaceful  and'deep 
And  with  fairies  in  Dreamland  were  roaming  in  sleep. 
Eight,   nine,  and  the   little   French   clock  had  struck  ten 
Ere  the  father  had  thought  of  his  children  again. 
He  seems  now  to  hear  Annie's  suppressed  sighs 
And  to  see  the  big  tears  stand  in  Willie's  blue  eyes. 
"  I  was  harsh  with  my  darlings,"  he  mentally  said, 
"  And  should  not  have  sent  them  so  early  to  bed 
But  then  I  was  troubled,  my  feelings  found  vent; 
For  bank  stock  to-day  has  gone  down  ten  per  cent 
But    of   course   they've   forgotten    their  troubles    ere    this, 
And  that  denied  them  they  thrice  asked  for  a  kiss; 
But  then,  to  make  sure  I'll  steal  up  to  their  door, 
For  I  never  spoke  harsh  to  my  darlings  before." 
So  saying,  he  softly  ascended  the  stairs 
And  arrived  at  the  door  to  hear  both  of  their  prayers. 
His  Annie's  "Bless  papa"  draws  forth  the  big  tears, 
And  Willie's  grave  promise  falls  sweet  on  his  ears. 
"  Strange,  strange  I'd  forgotten,"  said  he  with  a  sigh, 
"  How  I  longed  when  a  child  to  have  Christmas  draw  nigh, 
I'll  atone  for  my  harsh  words,"  he  inwardly  said, 
"  By  answering  their  prayers  ere  I  sleep  in  my  bed." 
Then  he  turned  to  the  stairs  and  softly  went  down, 
Threw  off  velvet  slippers  and  silk  dressing  gown, 
Donned  hat,  coat  and  boots  and  went  out  in  the  street, 
A  millionaire  facing  the  cold,  driving  sleet, 
Nor  stopped  he  until  he  had  bought  everything 
From  the  box  full  of  candy  to  the  tiny  gold  ring. 
Indeed  he  kept  adding  so  much  to  his  store 
That   the  various  presents   outnumbered   a   score. 
Then  homeward  he  turned  with  his  holiday  load, 
And  with  Aunt  Mary's  help  in  the  nursery  'twas  stowed; 
Miss  dolly  was  seated  beneath  a  pine  tree,  t 

By  the  side  of  a  table  spread  out  for  her  tea 
A  work  box  well  filled  in  a  center  was  laid 
And  on  it  the  ring  for  which  Annie  had  prayed. 
A  soldier  in  uniform  stood  by  a  sled 
"  With  bright  shining  runners  and  painted  all  red," 
There  were  ball,  dogs  and  horses,  books  pleasant  to  see, 
And  birds  of  all  colors  were  perched  in  the  tree 
While  Santa  Claus  laughing  stood  up  in  the  top, 
As  if  getting  ready  more  presents  to  drop, 
And  as  the  fond  father  the  pictures  surveyed 
He  thought  for  his  trouble  he  had  amply  been  paid 
And  he  said  to  himself  as  he  brushed  off  a  tear, 
"  I  am  happier  to-night  than  I've  been  for  a  year, 
Hereafter  I'll  make  it  a  rule,  I  believe, 
To  have  Santa-  Claus  visit  us  each  Christmas  eve." 
So  thinking  he  gently  extinguished  the  light 
And  tripped  down  the  stairs  to  retire  for  the  night. 
As  soon  as  the  beams  of  the  bright  morning  sun 
Put  the  darkness  to  flight  and  the  stars  one  by  one 
Four  little  blue  eyes  out  of  sleep  opened  wide 
And  at  the  same  moment  the  presents  espied. 
Then  out  of  their  beds  they  sprang  with  a  bound 
And  the  very  gifts  prayed  for  were  all  of  them  found. 


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Arid  they  laughed  and  they  cried  in,  their  innocent  glee 
And  shouted  for  "  Papa  "  to  come  quick  and  see 
What  presents  old  Santa  Claus  brought  in  the  night 
(Just  the  things  that  they  wanted)  and  left  before  light. 
"  And  now,"  added  Annie,  in  a  voice  sweet  and  low 
''  You'll  believe  there's  a  Santa  Claus,  papa,  I  know." 
While  dear  little  Willie  climbed  upon  his  knee, 
Determined  no  secret  between  them  should  be, 
And  told  in  soft  whispers  how  Annie  had  said 
That  their  dear  blessed  mother,  so  long  ago  dead. 
Used  to  kneel  down  and  pray  by  the  side  of  her  chair 
And  God  up  in  heaven  had  answered  her  prayer. 
"  Then  we  dot  up  and  prayed  just  as  dood  as  we   could 
And  he  answered  our  prayers,  now  wasn't  he  dood?  " 
"  I  should  think  that  he  was  if  he  brought  you  all  this 
Well,  well,  let  him  think  so,  the  dear  little  elf, 
'Twould  be  cruel  to  tell  him  I  did  it  myself." 
Blind  father,  who  caused  your  stern  heart  to  relent 
And  the  hasty  words  spoken  so  soon  to  repent? 
'Twas  the  Being  who  bade  you  steal  softly  upstairs 
And  made  you  his  agent  to  answer  their  prayers. 

—Mrs.    S.    P.    Snow, 
■fr  *$»  * 

WHAT  FLORENCE  LEARNED  WASHING  DISHES. 


"  I've  scrubbed  and  scrubbed,  and  I  can't  get  this 
off."  Florence  did  not  enjoy  "  doing  dishes,"  and  there 
were  so  many  this  morning  that  her  patience  had  near- 
ly given  out. 

"  Try  a  little  longer,"  I  replied.  "  There  must  be 
quite  an  attraction  between  the  pan  and  the  dough." 

"  Is  this  cohesion,  mamma  ?  she  asked  eagerly. 

"What  is  cohesion?"  I  returned.  "I  think  you 
learned  the  meaning." 

"  It's  what  makes  two  things  that  are  just  alike  stay 
together." 

"  Think  a  moment,  Florence,  and  see  if  you  can  not 
tell  me  a  little  more  about  cohesion." 

"  Why,  mamma,  you  said  that  a  piece  of  iron,  and 
every  thing  else,  was  made  of  lots  of  little  tiny  parti- 
cles, and  cohesion  kept  them  all  together,  so  as  to  make 
one  piece  of  the  iron." 

"  Then  is  this  cohesion,  dear?  "  I  asked. 

"  Why,  the  particles  of  dough  and  tin  are  not  just 
alike,  and  you  said  that  the  attraction  was  not  cohesion 
if  they  were  not.  But  I  should  like  to  know  what  you 
do  call  this  attraction,"  was  Florence's  perplexed  re- 
ply. 

"  This  attraction  is  called  adhesion,"  I  explained. 

"  Well  I  wish  there  were  no  such  thing  as  adhesion. 
I've  not  got  this  dough  off  yet." 

"  I  don't  know  what  we  would  do  without  it,"  was 
my  answer  to  this  impatient  retort.  "  Do  you  not  ever 
want  two  bodies  of  different  kinds  to  adhere  to  each 
other,  or  stick  together,  as  you  say?" 

"  Yes :  I  put  some  butter  on  the  tins  a  minute  ago, 
and  I  should  not  have  wanted  it  to  come  off,"  Flor- 
ence answered. 


"  And  I've  been  writing,"  I  said,  "  and  if  there  had 
been  no  adhesion  between  my  pencil  and  the  paper, 
what  I've  written  could  not  have  been  read." 

Then  Florence  thought  of  her  scrap-book,  and  said 
that  adhesion  helped  her  in  making  that. 

By  this  time  the  dishes  were  done,  and  I  told  her 
that  I  would  make  some  blacking  adhere  to  the  stove, 
and  she  might  go  and  play.  But  before  she  went  she 
told  me  that  adhesion  is  the  attraction  that  exists  be- 
tween the  particles  of  bodies  of  different  kinds. — The 
Pansy. 

4»   4»    ♦ 

POTATO  FLOUR. 


While  Irish  potatoes  may  be  eaten  more  exten- 
sively than  any  other  American  vegetable,  it  may  not  be 
generally  known  that  they  are  capable  of  reduction  to 
an  excellent  flour.  In  Austria,  according  to  a  govern- 
ment report,  the  manufacture  of  this  flour  is  an  im- 
portant industry.  Corn  starch  is  largely  unknown  in 
Austria,  potato  flour  being  substituted. 

It  is  stated  to  be  cheaper  than  wheat  flour  and  makes 
a  beautiful  light  cake.  The  potatoes  are  machined  in 
such  a  manner  that  the  starch  is  separated  from  the 
cells  that  contain  it.  Water  is  used  freely,  carrying 
away  the  starch  into  settling  vessels.  It  is  then  re- 
fined, cleansed  and  dried.  The  residue  is  fed  to  stock 
and  also  used  in  distilleries,  breweries  and  sugar  fac- 
tories. Potato  flour  is  largely  used  by  the  Israelites 
in  this  and  other  countries  during  the  Feast  of  the 
Passover,  for  as  wheat  flour  is  a  strictly  forbidden 
article  during  that  festival,  potato  flour  is  a  welcome 
assistant  to  the  housewife,  who.  in  her  preparation  of 
"  Pasch  "  dainties,  finds  it  capable  of  transformation 
into  delicious  cake. — Xortli   Western  Agriculturist. 

*  +   •> 

COFFEE   CROP. 


When  the  volcanic  eruptions  in  Guatemala  last 
year  covered  the  coffee  fincas  it  was  believed  that  the 
industry  was  ruined  and  that  Guatemala  had  received 
a  blow  from  which  recovery  would  be  slow.  Many 
planters  abandoned  their  ash  covered  plantations  and 
believed  themselves  ruined.  But  the  activity  of  the 
volcanoes  was  followed  by  heavy  and  long-continued 
rains,  which  washed  away  a  great  deal  of  the  ashes 
and  incorporated  more  of  them  with  the  soil.  The  rain 
also  seemed  to  bleach  the  ashes  and  extract  from  it  a 
liquid  fertilizer  which  proved  of  great  benefit  to  the 
coffee  trees.  The  result  is  a  crop  nearly  as  large 
again  as  last  year's.  Hereafter,  when  the  volcanoes  of 
Guatemala  erupt  and  spout  ashes  the  only  unfortunate 
!>hn!i-rs  will  be  those  whose  fincas  are  outside 
of  the  showers. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— December  20,  1904. 


i;  Reading  Circle  and  Christian  Workers'  Topics 


By     ELIZABETH      D.      SOSENBEBUEB 

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WHAT    OF    THE    YEAR? 
January  1.  Neh.  4:  6. 

I.  How  Israel  Worked  to  Build  the  Wall. 

Against  Great  Odds,  Neh.  4:  1 

By  Persistence Neh.  4:  17 

With  Faith  in  God, Neh.  4:  9 

II.  To   Every  Man  is  Given  His  Work. 

1.  To  Every  Man,  Mark  13:  34 

2.  To  Love  God Matt.  22;  37 

3.  To  Keep  His  Commandments,  Eccl.  12:  13 

4.  To  Love  His  Neighbor,  Rom.  13:  9 

5.  To  Be  Full  of  Good  Works, Acts  9:  36 

III.  Forgetting  Past. 

1.  Reaching  Ahead Philpp.  3:  13 

2.  I  Press     .    .     .     the  Mark Philpp.  3:  14 

3.  I   Watch   Self 1   Cor.  9:  27 

IV.  Personal  Prospects. 

1.  Why  Ought  I  Work  for  Christ? 1  John  4:  19 

2.  What  Ought  I  Do  for  His  People? 2  Cor.  S:  20 

3.  What  for  Others?  . . .' John  3:  17;  Rom.  10:  14 

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PROGRAM    FOR   READING   CIRCLE  AND   CHRIS- 
TIAN  WORKERS'   MEETING. 
For  January  1,  1905. 

Topic. — New  Year. 

Text. — Watch  ye,  stand  fast  in  the  faith,  quit  you 
like  men,  be  strong.     1   Corinthians  16:   13. 

Texts  for  the  New  Year. — Deuteronomy  31:  7, 
8;  Proverbs  15:  13;  Psalm  37:  7;  Philippians  4:11; 
Proverbs  16:  8;  Joshua  24:  14 ;  Malachi  4:2;  Psalm 
34 :  7 ;  Proverbs  1:7;  Luke  11:  13 ;  John  5:17;  Reve- 
lations 3:  5;  Romans  8:  35;  Galatians  21:  20;  He- 
brews 6:  19;  John  20:  27;  John  14:  1 ;  1  John  5:  14; 
2  Timothy  2:1;  James  1 :  12 ;  1  John  1:7. 

"  Old  lamps  for  new/ — Old  lamps  for  new!  "  was 
the  cry  of  the  old  curio  dealer  in  Bagdad,  and  people 
brought  out  their  old  lamps  and  received  new  ones 
in  exchange.  The  old  year  is  dying  fast  and  we  will 
have  the  new  year  in  its  place.  Shall  it  be  happier 
and  better  than  the  old  ?  Each  one  of  us  must  decide 
that  for  himself ;  we  exchange  our  old  experiences 
for  new  ones,  our  old  hopes  and  aspirations  for  new 
ones,  because  time  means  change.  It  is  a  pity  to  drag 
old  grudges  and  injuries  from  the  musty  past  into  the 
brightness  of  this  new  year.  If  after  a  bitter  quarrel 
you  never  spoke  a  word  to  your  brother  all  through 
this  year,  do  not  bring  that  hatred  into  the  new  year ; 
begin  now  to  think  more  kindly  of  him.  Our  best  gift 
is  this  year  ahead  of  us. 


Yesterday  some  things  went  wrong.  We  would  live 
the  old  year  differently  if  we  could  live  it  over,  so  we 
think, — but  we  cannot.  But  a  new,  clear  year  is  before 
us,  let  us  pray  earnestly  that  we  may  find  strength  to 
keep  this  year  as  unspotted  as  when  it  came  from  the 
Father  of  Lights.  There  will  be  temptation  in  this 
new  year,  but  we  can  overcome,  because  our  God  is 
able  to  deliver  us,  and  keep  us. 

New  Resolves. —  With  the  New  Year,  many  of  us 
make  new  resolutions.  We  see  the  mistakes  we  made 
in  the  past  year  and  we  resolve  that  the  new  year  shall 
see  no  more  of  them ;  then  very  likely  before  the  second 
day  of  January  has  passed,  we  will  be  tested.  Why 
couldn't  Jesus  have  been  allowed  to  go  back  to  Naza- 
reth after  his  baptism,  and  enjoy  the  blessed  experi- 
ence for  a  little  while,  at  least  ?  If  he  could  have  stood 
up  in  the  synagogue  and  related  the  events  of  the 
Heavenly  Dove,  and  the  voice  that  blessed  him,  it  would 
surely  have  impressed  the  people.  But  we  cannot  keep 
the  Holy  Spirit  in  such  an  easy  selfish  way  as  that. 
Christ  was  led  into  the  Wilderness  to  be  tempted  of 
the  devil.  So  after  our  prayers  and  resolves,  be  sure 
there  will  come  a  testing.  It  may  be  to  take  up  the 
work  of  some  discouraged  member,  it  may  be  to 
champion  some  unpopular  movement,  it  may  be  to 
make  some  new  self-denial  from  which  we  shrink, 
whatever  it  proves  to  be,  remember  that  as  thy  day 
thy  strength  shall  ~be.  Only  make  the  coming  year 
more  glorious  than  the  last. 

"The  soul  that  on  Jesus  hath  leaned  for  repose 
I  will  not,  I  will  not  desert  to  its  foes; 
That  soul,  though  all  hell  should  endeavor  to  shake 
I'll  never,  no  never,  no  never  forsake." 

Close  to  Jesus. —  Christmas  Evans,  the  great 
Welsh  preacher,  in  one  of  his  sermons,  pictured  Satan 
going  about  working  harm.  He  saw  a  young  man 
and  determined  to  overthrow  him;  but  as  he  4rew 
near  he  overheard  him  singing  "  Guide  me,  O  thou 
great  Jehovah,"  and  he  had  to  retreat.  Then  he  re- 
solved to  ruin  a  beautiful  maiden,  but  she  too  was 
singing,  "  Other  refuge  have  I  none,"  and  again  he 
was  foiled.  He  approaches  a  poor,  old  woman,  and 
hears  her  softly  repeating,  "  The  mountains  shall  de- 
part, and  the  hills  be  removed  but  my  kindness  shall 
not  depart  from  thee."  He  knows  he  has  no  chance 
there,  so  he  goes  to  the  bedside  of  an  old  man  who  has 
had  many  misfortunes  and  is  now  dying  alone.  He 
will  say  to  him  curse  God  and  die.     But  he  hears  him 


THE   INGLENOOK.— December  20,  1904. 


saying  "  Though  I  walk  through  the  valley  of  the 
shadow  of  death  I  will  fear  no  evil,  for  thou  art  with 
me;  then  enraged,  the  tempter  returns  to  his  own  place. 
A  Friend. — You  want  Jesus  to  be  your  friend  in 
the  untried  days  of  this  year.  His  love  will  make 
you  happy  and  bring  you  peace.  He  is  the  expectant 
Guest  knocking  at  the  door  of  your  heart.  Let  him 
in. 

"The  young  Year  stood  at  the  door  of  Time! 

Half   frightened    was    he    at   the    bells    that    tolled, 
And  the  chill  snow  falling  thick  and  fine, 
And  the  wind  so  strangely  cold. 

"Then  sudden,  the  bells  rang  a  jubilant  peal; 
With  musical  clamor  the  news  was  sent 
That  a  Guest  had  entered  the  open  door! 
And  the  young  Year  listened  and  smiled  content; 

The  snow  cloud  passed,  and  the  wind  grew  calm 
And  the  organ  chanted  a  jubilant  psalm, 
And  the  bells  chimed  on  in  a  peal  sublime, 
To  welcome  the  Guest  at  the  door  of  Time!" 

— Emma  A.  Lente. 

Whatsoever. — Whatsoever  your  hand  finds  to  do 
in  this  coming  year;  do  it  well,  do  it  unto  the  Lord, 
he  will  not  likely  let  you  choose  your  work,  but  trust 
him  anyway.  Boys  and  girls  are  very  apt  to  dream  of 
great  things  they  want  to  do  in  some  far  distant  land ; 
but  do  not  lose  sight  of  the  work  lying  nearest.  For 
most  of  you,  your  own  home,  is  the  most  sacred  place 
of  service  that  God  has  selected ;  it  may  be  humble, 
but  Christ  will  enrich  and  glorify  it. 

New  Year  Resolves. 

1.  We  will  ask  for  the  gift  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  Ro- 
mans 15:  13;  Psalm  51 :  11 ;  Mark  13:  11 ;  Luke  11 :  13. 

2.  We  will  fear  the  Lord  and  bless  his  name.  Psalm 
135:  20;  Psalm  147:  11;  Psalm  128:  1;  Psalm  115: 
11  ;  Psalm  59:  19. 

3.  We  will  pray  for  a  stronger  faith.  Ephesians  2 : 
8;  1  Thess.  5:8;  Hebrews  10:  35;  1  Timothy  1:  19; 
Luke  17:  3. 

4.  We  will  do  what  we  can  for  others.  Romans  13 : 
10;  Romans  15:  2;  Matt.  7:  2;  Zechariah  8:  16,  17; 
Jeremiah  22:  13;  Hebrews  13:  3. 

5.  We  will  faithfully  serve.  1  Corinthians  4 :  2 ; 
Matthew  24 :  45-47 ;  Luke  16 :  10 ;  Proverbs  28 :  20. 

*  *  * 

EMPLOYMENT  BUREAU  FOR  CIRCLE  MEMBERS 
AND   CHRISTIAN   WORKERS. 


With  this  New  Year  we  want  to  begin  more  sys- 
tematic work.  We  know  there  are  some  workers, 
who  are  out  of  work, -they  have  nothing  on  hand  and 
do  not  know  where  to  begin.  If  you  write  to  us,  this 
bureau  will  help  you  to  some  service.  For  instance : 
You  would  like  to  start  a  Christian  Workers  meeting, 
but  you  don't  know  how.     Write  to  us  and  you  will 


receive  full  instructions.  Or,  your  meetings,  may  be 
growing  more  dull  and  uninteresting  and  you  don't 
know  what  to  do  about  it,  this  Employment  Bureau, 
which  is  also  a  Bureau  of  Information,  will  help  you  to 
overcome  your  difficulties.  Perhaps  your  meetings 
have  fallen  into  a  rut  which  is  a  straight  route  to  no 
meetings  at  all,  we  will  do  our  best  to  give  you  sug- 
gestions that  will  bring  new  life  and  enthusiasm  to 
your  meetings  and  your  members. 

Your  church  may  have  no  interest  whatever  in  mis- 
sions and  mission  work,  this  bureau  will  assist  you 
to  start  a  Missionary  Reading  Circle.  The  members 
will  read  books  on  missions,  books  that  will  excite  their 
interest,  books  that  will  hold  the  attention  of  their 
children.  And  this  reading  will  make  them  see  their 
duty  to  those  who  have  never  learned  the  old  story  of 
Jesus  and  his  love.  You  may  have  a  Circle  in  your 
church,  but  it  has  never  accomplished  much,  write  to 
us,  and  we  will  try  to  bring  about  a  change.  Let  us 
look  ahead.  The  old  year's  record  is  nearly  made  up. 
We  need  spend  little  time  mourning  it ;  only  let  us 
learn  its  lesson.  Let  us  compare  experiences  here, 
and  learn  from  each  other.  Bring  your  best  plans  and 
suggestions  to  this  Bureau,  that  others  may  profit  by 
them. 

How  many  Missionary  Reading  Circles,  and  Chris- 
tian Workers'  meetings  can  we  organize  during  this- 
new  year?  That  will  depend  largely  upon  the  faith- 
fulness of  our  members.  The  success  of  these  meet- 
ings, under  God,  depends  upon  the  regular  meeting 
and  conference  of  a  few  faithful  and  wise  workers 
in  each  church.  Plans  and  methods  will  be  discussed 
in  this  column. 

Now,  dear  co-workers,  if  your  meetings  are  no  better 
than  they  were  a  year  ago,  if  your  numbers  are  no 
larger,  if  no  souls  have  been  converted,  if  little  or  no 
money  has  been  given,  why  not  leave  all  this  lethargy 
behind  with  the  old  year  ?  Why  grieve  the  Holy  Spir- 
it with  our  coldness  and  carelessness?  We  can  do 
more  and  better  work  for  Jesus.  Write  to  us  about 
your  work,  and  we  will  answer  your  questions  in  this 
column.  Address,  Our  Missionary  Reading  Cir- 
cle,. Covington,  Ohio. 

*  *  * 

Each  man  must  seek  and  find  truth  for  himself  and 
in  his  own  way,  and  only  that  truth  which  he  finds  and 
makes  his  own  has  any  value  to  him  or  affects  his 
character.  Mere  assent  or  unwilling  consent  to  what 
others  believe  to  be  the  truth  is  utterly  valueless  to 
him. — William  D.  Little. 

*  *  * 

He  that  can  apprehend  and  consider  Vice,  with  all 
her  habits  and  seeming  pleasures,  and  yet  abstain,  and 
yet  distinguish,  and  yet  prefer  that  which  is  truly  bet- 
ter, he  is  the  true  wayfaring  Christian.— Milton. 


THE    INGLENOOK—  December  20,  1904. 


OUR    YOUNG    PEOPLE 


HH* 


J  ■IIIH- 


THE    GEOGRAPHY    CLASS.— Chapter  VII. 


Queenstowri,  Ireland. 
Dear  Mr.  Maxwell: 

In  all  probability  we  will  not  get  to  mail  this  letter 
until  we  reach  Ireland,  but  Roscoe  thought  we  ought  to 
write  a  little  each  day  so  as  to  let  the  people  know  about 
our  voyage.  You  know  I  closed  the  other  letter  just  as 
we  had  weighed  anchor  when  the  tide  came  in,  but  we  did 
not  go  far  until  the  pulsations  ceased  again  and  the  great 
ship  halted,  and  of  course  everybody  rushed  to  the  taff- 
rail  to  see  what  was  the  matter.  We  saw  two  men  in  a 
little  boat  pull  up  to  the  side  of  the  old  Celtic,  and  another 
man  descend  from"  the  pilot  house  by  means  of  a  rope 
ladder  into  the  little  boat.  When  we  saw  this  Agnes  said, 
"  I'm  glad  I'm  not  the  only  homesick  one,  but  thank 
fortune,  I  am  not  so  bad  off  as  he  is  and  have  to  go 
back."  "  No,  that's  not  it,  Aggie,"  said  Roscoe,  "  that's 
the  river  pilot  going  back  to  New  York.  He  has  had 
charge  of  our  vessel  thus  far,  but  now  our  sea  captain 
takes  charge  of  the  vessel  entirely." 

Ere  long  we  passed  Sandy  Hook  and  the  shore  line 
soon  faded  away  in  the  distance.  Our  second  day  out  at 
sea  was  simply  lovely  and  we  found  out  what  Mr.  Maynor 
meant  when  he  used  to  talk  so  much  about  steamer  rugs. 
Steamer  rugs  are  great  big  shawls  woven  double  thick- 
ness, with  which  travelers  wrap  themselves  when  out  on 
the  deck  enjoying  the  sunshine,  and  I  tell  you  it  is  some- 
thing fine  to  lie  down  on  the  sunny  side  of  the  deck  upon 
the  smooth  polished  floor  and  be  "  rocked  to  sleep  in  the 
cradle  of  the  deep." 

the  third  morning  of  the  voyage  Oscar  showed  Agnes 
and  I  what  a  log  was.  The  ship's  log  is  a  chart  kept  by 
the  captain  and  his  mates  showing  every  movement  of 
the  vessel  as  to  latitude,  longitude,  speed,  etc.,  and  is 
recorded  three  or  four  times  a  day.  The  captain  has  a 
little  clock  about  the  size  of  one  of  our  alarm  clocks  that 
Miss  Merritt  has  there  in  the  schoolroom,  only  it  is  ar- 
ranged on  pivots  and  balances  so  that  no  difference  what 
the  motion  of  the  vessel  may  be  the  chronometer,  as  it  is 
called,  remains  perfectly  level  and  is  technically  accurate. 
We  learned  that  they  have  three  of  them  on  the  vessel, 
one  in  the  captain's  state  room,  one  in  the  wheel  house 
and  one  in  the  engine  room. 

Generally  at  9  o'clock,  A.  M.,  the  first  mate  of  the  vessel, 
by  the  use  of  the  sextant  looks  at  the  sun  and  determines 
the  latitude  and  longitude  of  the  vessel.  The  second 
mate  does  the  same  thing  at  the  same  time.  The  captain 
notes  the  exact  time  recorded  by  the  chronometer.  This 
avoids  any  error  of  the  man  and  any  discrepancy  in  case 
one  of  the.  instruments  should  be  out  of  order.  Just  a 
few  minutes  ago  they  were  going  through  this  perform- 
ance out  on  the  deck  and  Oscar  asked  one  of  the  men 
why  they  had  three  chronometers  and  he  was  told  that  if 
the  ship  had  only  one  the  officers  would  be  unable  to  tell 
whether  the  instrument  was  right  or  wrong,  because  they 
would  have  nothing  as  a  basis  of  comparison.  If  they 
had  two  instruments  and  they  registered  alike,  well  and 
good,   but   if  they   failed   to   give    the    same   result   which 


one  would  be  in  the  wrong  could  not  be  determined  by 
the  officers,  hence  it  becomes  necessary  to  have  three 
instruments,  in  which  case  two  of  them  will  register  alike 
and  generally  three.  Just  now  one  of  the  men  wrote  on 
the  chart  in  the  library,  Lat.  40°  16',  Long.  68°  06'. 

These  men  also  have  a  little  instrument  called  an  azi- 
muth mirror,  which  they  use  in  these  nautical  operations. 
In  case  they  want  to  get  their  bearings  when  the  sun 
and  moon  are  not  visible,  they  try  to  locate  a  star  and 
if  they  can  find  just  one  star  in  the  heavens  they  can,  by 
a  series  of  calculations,  determine  the  location  of  the 
vessel  within  a  few  rods. 

All  this  day  we  have  been  out  of  sight  of  land.  No 
vessels  in  sight,  no  birds,  nothing  but  the  great  bending 
canopy  and  the  deep  blue  sea.  It  is  remarkable,  on  being 
quarantined  ■  away  from  the  outside  world,  how  rapidly 
we  make  friends  with  our  fellow  travelers  on  board.  Sev- 
eral times  to-day  the  boys  have  been  playing  games  with 
other  gentlemen  on  board,  such  as  quoits,  and  similar 
games  which  could  be  easily  played  on  deck.  There  is  a 
gentleman  on  board  who  goes  by  the  name  of  Professor 
Irwin.  He,  with  Miss  Gertrude,  and  several  others,  have 
been  planning  to  give  an  entertainment  on  board,  and 
one  of  the  ship's  messengers  brought  a  copy  of  the  pro- 
gram from  the  press  room  below,  and  I  looked  over  Miss 
Merritt's  shoulder  and  copied  this  for  you: 
To-night  at  7:30. 
In  the  Second  Dining  Saloon. 

Address   of  welcome,    Prof.   C.    Irwin. 

Solo,  Come  Back  To  Me Marie  Stewart. 

Recitation,  The  Life  Boat,   Roscoe  Clark. 

Irish  Astronomy,   Signor  McArony. 

Solo,  Asleep   in  the   Deep,    Oscar   Stewart. 

Japan  and  the  Mikado, Mr.  Kawabe. 

Recitation,  Hiawatha Miss  Gertrude  Merritt. 

Hawaiian  National  Hymn Miss  M.  Windelle. 

Essay,  My  Own,  My  Native  Land, J.  E.  Harrop. 

Piano  Forte,  Solo  waltz,  Mrs.  C.  J.  Slott. 

National  Anthems. 

One  day  follows  another  with  our  new  acquaintances, 
our  life  on  the  rolling  deep,  and  these  occasional  enter- 
tainments, which  are  enjoyed  by  all.  We  tried  our  best  to 
get  Agnes  to  allow  Prof.  Irwin  to  put  her  name  on  the  pro- 
gram, but  she  insisted  on  not  trusting  her  feet  very  much 
to  hold  her  and  remained  in  a  sitting  posture  as  much 
as  possible.  Sunday  morning  came  and  it  was  a  bright, 
beautiful  day.  How  much  we  wished  for  Rev.  Dawson 
and  our  Mayville  Sunday  school,  but  at  the  breakfast  table, 
to  our  surprise,  announcement  was  made  -that  at  10:30 
we  would  have  divine  worship  in  the  library  and  as  we 
were  on  an  English  vessel  and  the  state  religion  of  Eng- 
land is  Episcopalian,  of  course  our  services  were  conducted 
by  the  Purser  of  the  ship.  There  were  also  Roman  Cath- 
olic services  on  board.  These  services  were  well  attended 
and  Oscar  was  just  saying  as  we  came  down  to  the  par- 
lor, "  Marie,  I  saw  people  in  church  to-day  from  Ireland, 
England,  Sweden,  Russia,  Italy,  India,  Japan  and  the 
United  States,  and  yet  nobody  drove  in  from  the  country. 
There  were  in  the  audience  Wesleyan  Methodists,  Epis- 
copalians, Catholics  and  German  Baptist  Brethren." 
There  I  must  stop  this  letter,  for  a  gentleman  just  came 
into  the  parlor  and  said  a  lady  was  dying  on  board. 

Marie. 
(To  be  Continued.) 


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What  is  the  address  of  Thomas  A.  Edison? 
West  Orange,  N.  J. 

* 
To  whom  must  one  apply  for  a  position  in  the  Union 
Depot  at  St.   Louis? 
To  the  depot  superintendent. 

* 

What  new  possessions   of  the  United   States  voted   for 
President  this  year? 
None. 

* 
What  Nooker  can  give  us  the  whereabouts  of  William 
E.    Vaughan,    who    about    eight    years    ago    resided    near 
Alford,  Wise  county,  Texas?     Please  answer  to  Inglenook 
office. 

* 

What  is  known  as  the  land  of  Utopia? 

In  the  village  of  Altenburg,  on  whose  borders  three 
countries  meet,  there  are  no  soldiers,  no  police,  no  tax- 
es, and  its  people  are  ruled  by  no  monarch.  The  in- 
habitants speak  a  jargon  of  French  and  German  and 
are  principally  agriculturists  and  miners. 

* 

What  is  Loadstone? 

Loadstone,  or  lodestone  is  a  variety  of  magnetite  or 
the  magnetic  oxide  of  iron,  which  possesses  polarity, 
and  has  the  power  of  attracting  fragments  of  iron. 
This  peculiar  kind  of  iron  is  found  mostly  in  Sweden, 
New  York  or  New  Jersey.  You  can  purchase  it 
in  almost  any  toy  or  variety  store  by  asking  for  a  mag- 
net. 

* 

In  what  part  of  the  world  are  alligators  most  numerous? 

Perhaps  Venezuela.  It  is  said  that  the  lakes  and 
rivers  of  Venezuela  abound  in  untold  numbers.  The 
enterprise  and  industry  of  the  alligator  trade  of  Vene- 
zuela only  awaits  the  coming  of  a  man  or  set  of  men 
who  will  develop  its  rich  resources.  The  skins  arc 
well  worth  securing  and  alligator  oil  brings  high  prices 
for  medicinal  purposes. 

+ 

From  whence  comes  the  two-headed  eagle  which  is  the 
emblem  of  Russia? 

It  has  ancient  origin  and  symbolism  and  can  be 
traced  to  primitive  Babylonia.  It  may  he  found  on 
some  of  the  Hittite  monuments  of  Cappadocia.  Tt 
was  adopted  by  some  of  the  Turkoman  Princes  and 
also  brought  to  Europe  by  the  crusaders  of  the  four- 
teenth century.  In  all  probability  the  German  Emper- 
ors got  it  from  the  crusaders  and  they  in  turn  passed 
it  on  to  Russia  and  Austria. 


Please  name  the  great  national  songs  of  the  principal 
countries  and  their  authors. 

The  great  national  songs  of  America  are :  "  Yankee 
Doodle,"  by  Dr.  Richard  Shackburg;  "Hail  Colum- 
bia," by  Joseph  Hopkinson  ;  "  The  Star  Spangled  Ban- 
ner," by  Frances  Scott  Key ;  "  My  Country  'Tis  of 
Thee,"  by  Samuel  F.  Smith ;  "  Columbia,  the  Gem  of 
the  Ocean,"  the  authorship  of  which  was  claimed  by 
both  Thomas  Becket  and  David  T.  Shaw ;  "  John 
Brown's  Body,"  author  unknown ;  "  The  Battle  Cry 
of  Freedom,"  by  George  F.  Root ;  "  The  Battle  Hymn 
of  the  Republic,"  by  Julia  Ward  Howe ;  "  Tramp, 
Tramp,  Tramp  the  Boys  Are  Marching,"  by  Geo.  F. 
Root;  "Rally  Round  the  Flag,"  by  Geo.  F.  Root; 
"  Marching  Through  Georgia,"  by  Henry  C.  Work ; 
"  Tenting  on  the  Old  Camp  Ground,"  by  Walter  Kitt- 
redge ;  "  When  Johnny  Comes  Marching  Home 
Again,"  Patrick  S.  Gillmore ;  "  Home,  Sweet  Home," 
by  John  Howard  Payne:  "Dixie."  by  Daniel  D.  Em- 
mett ;  "  Maryland,  My  Maryland,"  by  James  Rider 
Randall. 

Great  Britain's  national  anthem  is  "  God  Save  the 
Queen,"  of  which  Henry  Carey  (1685-1743).  is  be- 
lieved to  be  the  author,  but  it  is  also  claimed  to  have 
been  written  by  Dr.  John  Bull,  a  noted  musician,  or- 
ganist to  James  I.,  in  1607. 

"  The  Marseillaise  "  is  the  national  song  of  France. 
It  was  composed  by  Claude  Joseph  Rouget  de  Lisle  on 
April  24,  1792. 

The  chief  patriotic  song  of  Germany  is  "  Watch  on 
the  Rhine,"  by  Max  Schneckenburger,  in  1840.  An- 
other national  song  of  Germany  is  "  Hcil  Dir  im  Sieg- 
erkranz  " — "  Hail  to  thee  in  the  Conqueror's  Wreath," 
written  in  1790  by  Heinrich  Harries. 

The  Irish  national  song  is  "The  Wearing  of  the 
<  irecn."  anonymous. 

The  Austrian  national  hymn  is  "God  Preserve  <  lur 
1  iracious  Emperor,"  by  Baron  J.  C.  Von  Zedlitz  (1790- 
1862). 

The  Spanish  national  song  begins:  "How  Wretch- 
ed is  the  Anguish." 

The  national  hymn  of  Japan  is  "  May  Our  Lord  For- 
ever Reign." 

"God  the  All-Terrible."  by  General  Alexis  F.  von 
Looff  (1799-1870),  is  the  Russian  national  hymn. 

The  national  hymn  of  Italy  is  "  Daghlea  Avanti  tin 
Passo."  by  Paoletti,  meaning  "Move  a  Step  For- 
ward." 


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WEEKLY   REVIEW.  in  this  quarry  were  begun  in  1897,  and  since  then  the 

scientists  have    excavated    483    parts    of    dinosaurs. 

The  Society  for^the  Protection  of  Children  in  India  These  fossil  remains  were  packed  in  two  hundred  and 

has  issued  another  short  statement  of  what  has  been  seventy-five  boxes,  representing  a  gross  weight  of  one 

accomplished.     Up  to  date  the  .Society  has  dealt  with  hundred  thousand  pounds.     Prof.  Osborn  says  the  col- 

171  cases,  involving  222  children.     The  leaflet  before  iection   comprises   forty-four  giant  herbivorous   dino- 

us  outlines  the  particulars  of  eleven  cases.     One  was  saurSj  s;x  immense  carnivorous  dinosaurs,  and  fifteen 

of  a  little  girl  who  was  found  by  the  Society's  Inspector  skeletons  representing  various  types  of  dinosaurs.  Some 

lost   in  the   streets   during  the   Mohareim   festivities.  0f    the    specimens    are    sixty-eight    feet  long.     The 

By   the    help    of    the    police  she  was  restored  to  her  quan-y;  prof.  Osborn  estimates,has  not  yielded  a  quar- 

friends.     Case  No.   147  has  a  special  significance  as  ter  0f  its  foss;i  treasures,  and  a  large  corps  of  scientists 

suggestion  that   many   children  might  be   rescued   if  are  working  in  the  deposit,  and  the  search  will  not 

only  immediate  help  was  available :  "  The  Inspector,  be  abandoned  until  every  bone  in  this  prehistoric  cem- 

whilst  on  duty  in  the  city,  noticed  two  Mahommedans  etery  has  been  excavated. 

going  along  with  a  little  girl.    On  inquiry  he  found  that 

the  child  had  lost  herself.     The  men  refusing  to  give 

her  up  he  called  the  police  who  took  charge  of  her  and  THE  BIBLE  TEACHES. 

restored  her  to  her  relatives."     The  other  cases  were 

of  a  more  serious  character.     The  objects  of  the  So-  That'  a11  men  are  hy  nature  sinfuL 

ciety,  as  many  of  our  readers  will  remember,  are:—  That  God  hates  sin<  but  loves  the  sinnen 

(1).     To  prevent  the  public  and  private  wrongs  of  That  every  man  who  comes  into  the  world  has  HSht 

children  and  the  corruption  of  their  morals.     (2).  To  enouSh  to  lead  him  to  God'  lf  he  wlU  walk  in  lt 

take  action  for  the  enforcement  of  laws  for  their  pro-  That  Christ  did  not  come  to  condemn  the  sinner 

tection,  and,  when  desirable,  to  have  the  law  on  the  but  t0  save  him- 

matter  amended.     (3).  To  provide  and  maintain  an  That  there  is  no  sal™tion  for  anybody  who  is  not 

organization  for  the  above  objects.     (4).   To  do  all  wlllmS  to  st0P  sinning- 

other  such  lawful  things  as  are  incidental  or  conduc-  That   the   Sreatest   of   a11   sins   is   to   reJect   Jesus- 

ive  to  the  attainment  of  the  above  objects.  That  the  greatest  °f  sinners  may  be  saved,  if  he 

The  Secretary,  Rev.  A.  E.  Summers,  135  Dharam-  wil1  confess  his  sins  and  forsake  them- 

tala  St.,  Calcutta,  and  the  Committee  earnestly  appeal  That  salvation  is  not  for  a  sele<*  few,  but  that  who- 

to  all  interested  in  this  work  of  protection  for  the  funds  soever  wiU  m^  come- 

necessary  to  enable  them  to  increase  their  efforts  to  That    the    day    is    coming    when    everyone  will  be 

succor  the  homeless,  unprotected  and  oppressed  among  JudSed  for  the  deeds  done  in  the  body- 

the  children  of  our  Empire.  That  n0  one  can  see  the  kingdom  of  God  who  is 

not  born  of  the  spirit. 
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WANT    A    DINOSAUR? 

LONGEST    NAME. 

Prof.   Henry  Fairfield   Osborn,  curator  in  the  

American  Museum  of  Natural  History,  explains  why  A  directory  issued  in  Honolulu  contains  what  is  be- 

the  dinosaur  is  no  longer  a  luxury.     It  is  on  account  lieved  to  be  the  longest  name  appearing  in  any  such 

of  the  "  greatest  find  of  extinct  animals  ever  made,"  publication.     It  is  is  that  of  Miss  Annie  K.  Keohoan- 

the  discovery  of  the  fossil  remains  of  the  dinosaur  in  aakalinhueakaweloaikanaka,  which  means  substantially 

the  Bone  Cabin  quarry,  in  Central  Wyoming.     Prof.  "  Jack  and  the  beanstalk."    Pauline  Nabuchodonozow- 

Osborn  says  that  the  quarry  is  a  veritable  Noah's  Ark  iczowna,  a  resident  of  Milwaukee,  is  probably  cham- 

of  extinct  animals  of  the  dinosaur  period.     The  fos-  pion  of   America,  though  Salvatore  Schlianoditonnar- 

sil  remains  are  in  the  finest  state  of  preservation,  and  iello,  of  Providence,  R.  I.  and  Bernard  G.  Ahrenhoer- 

in  most  cases  are   "  finely  rounded,  complete  limbs,  sterbaeumer.,  of  St.  Louis,  may  be  regarded  as  entitled 

perfect  to  the  recurved  tips  of  the  toes."     Explorations  to  honorable  mention. 


Good    Land   Cheap 


Let  us  sell  you  farming  land  where  the  soil  is  pro- 
ductive and  the  crops  dependable  ;  where  we  have  no 
drouths  or  failures;  where  grasshoppers  are  not;  where 
we  have  few  storms  and  no  destructive  winds;  where 
products  are  greatly  diversified;  where  the  markets  are 
as  good  as  they  are  easily  reached;  where  the  climate 
is  uniform  and  salubrious;  where  you  will  be  cordially 
welcomed  and  helped  along.  We  state  without  fear  of 
contradiction  that  we  have  the  best  land  at  the  least 
money,  possessing  more  advantages  and  fewer  draw- 
backs, than  can  be  found  in  this  country  to-day.  A  few 
years'  time  is  all  that  is  necessary  to  prove  that  we  are 
in  one  of  the  most  productive  areas  for  fruit,  root  crops 
and  live  stock.  The  possibilities  are  here,  largely  un- 
developed as  yet;  all  that  we  want  is  the  people.  Those 
we  are  getting  are  the  right  kind,  your  own  kind,  and 
the  country  will  soon  be  dotted  with  green  fields  and 
cosy  homes.  Don't  get  the  idea  that  you  are  going  to  a 
wilderness;  not  at  all;  on  the  contrary,  we  have  sold 
lands  in  our  BRETHREN  COLONY  to  over  120  fam- 
ilies, nearly  half  of'  whom  are  already  on  the  ground, 
others  coming  next  spring.  In  the  vicinity  of  BRETHREN,  MICHIGAN,  we  have 
thousands  of  acres  of  productive  soil,  splendidly  adapted  for  fruit,  root  and  vegetable 
crops  and  live  stock,  at  prices  from  $7  per  acre  upwards,  on  easy  terms.  Our  lands  are 
sold  to  actual  settlers. 


The  basis  of  my  business  is  absolute  and 
unvarying  integrity. 

SAMUEL  S.  THORPE, 
Founder  of  the  Brethren  Colony,  Brethren,  Mich. 


BRO.  JOHN  A.  MILLER,  BRETHREN,  MICH., 

is  Resident  Agent  in  charge  of  the  work  at  our  Brethren  Colony.  It  will  only  cost  you  a 
postal  card  to  drop  him  a  line  for  our  illustrated  booklet,  entitled  "  The  Brethren  Colony 
in  the  Pruit  Belt  of  Michigan."  This  will  give  you  an  accurate  idea  of  the  lands  and  all 
conditions  surrounding  them.  The  booklet  contains  letters  giving  the  opinion  of  many 
Brethren  in  regard  to  our  lands  and  work.      Every  statement  can  be  borne  out  by  facts. 

Reduced  rates  will  be* furnished  homeseekers  desiring  to  look  our  country  over  and 
every  opportunity  will  be  accorded  them  to  conduct  their  investigations  satisfactorily 
by  Bro.  Miller  on  their  arrival  at   Brethren,  Michigan. 

For  booklet,   information  as  to  rates  and  all  details  address: 


SAMUEL  S.   THORPE, 
Cadillac,   Mich., 

DISTRICT  AOENT 

Miclilsaii 


or- 


Land 


BRO.  JOHN   A.   MILLER, 
Brethren,  Mich., 


RESIDENT   AQENT 

Association. 


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change   for   the   general    improvement    in    your   condi 
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in  America.     Brethren  are  moving  there  because  hot 
cyclones  are   unknown,   and   with   its   matchless   cli- 
worth  living. 

to  the  prospective  settler,  and  if  you  have  in  mind  a 
tion  in  life,  or  if  you  are  seeking  a  better  climate  on 
oth  requirements.  There  is,  however,  only  one  wise 
try  for  yourself,  as  there  are  many  questions  to  an- 

work  teach   us   that   a   few   dollars   spent  in   railroad 
thousands  of  dollars  in  years  to  follow. 

cipal  Idaho  points.     Take  advantage  of  them  and  see 
wife — you  want  to  do  your  own  choosing. 


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'^       are   sold.     Thr>   canals   and   water  belong  to  the  settlers  who  will  own  and  control  the  same.  8^ 


Alfalfa,  Fruits,  and  Vegetables,  Grow  in  Abundance. 
Grazing  Lands,  Fine  Wheat,  Oats  and  Barley. 


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Cleared  40  acres.     May  25  sowed  10  acres  to  wheat.     Yielded  30  bushels  to  acre.     June  12  sowed  10  acres  & 

to  oats,  in  the  dust,  not  watered  till  June  20.     Yielded  55  to  acre.     Had  this  grain  been  sown  in  February  ^ 

or  March  the  yield  would  have  been  much  larger.  ^. 

Alfalfa  was  sown  with  the  grain  and  in  October  we  cut  one-half  ton  to  the  acre  of  hay  and  volunteer  £. 

oats.  *; 

Potatoes    yielded   500  bushels    to   the   acre   and  many  of  them  weighed  3  to  5  pounds  each,  four  of  ^ 

the  best  hills  weighing  64  pounds.     Quality  prime.                                                       (Signed)  E.  L.  Dotson.  ^. 


S.  BOCK,  Agent,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

J.  E.  HOOPER,  Agent,  Oakland,  Kansas. 


D.   E.   BURLEY, 
P.  &  T.  A.,  O.  S.  L.  R.  R., 

Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 


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Vol.  VI. 


December  27,  1904. 


No  52. 


A   MORNING   THOUGHT. 


What  if,  some  morning,  when  the  stars  were  paling, 
And  the  dawn  whitened,  and  the  east  was  clear, 

Strange  peace  and  rest  fell  on  me  from  the  presence 
Of  a  benignant  Spirit  standing  near. 

And  I  should  tell  him,  as  he  stood  beside  me, 

"This  is  our  Earth— most  friendly  Earth,  and  fair; 

Daily  its  sea  and  shore  through  sun  and  shadow 
Faithful  it  turns,  robed  in  its  azure  air. 

"There  is  blest  living  there,  loving  and  serving. 

And  quest  of  truth,  and  serene  friendships  dear; 
But  stay  not,  Spirit!     Earth  has  one  destroyer— 

His  name  is  Death:  flee,  lest  he  find  thee  here!  " 
And  what  if,  then,  while  the  still  morning  brightened, 

And  freshened  in  the  elm  the  summer's  breath, 
Should  gravely  smile  on  me  the  gentle  angel. 

And  take  my  hand  and  say,  "  My  name  is  Death  "? 

— Selected. 
*  *  * 

SNAPSHOTS. 


Nezv  Year's  resolutions  are  in  order. 

* 

Even  a  milkman  draws  the  line  at  putting  water  in 

his  whiskey. 

* 

Resolutions  made  and   broken   are  harmful;  those 

kept  are  helpful. 

* 

No    man    was    ever    discontented    with  the  world 

who  did  his  duty  in  it. 

* 

If  women  are  ever  elected  to  Congress,  there  will  be- 
more  than  one  Speaker  in  the  House. 
* 
A  good  name  may  be  better  than  great  riches  but 
fe*M  men  are  in  a  position  to  choose  a  name. 
+ 
Because  a  New  Year's  vow  is  broken  does  not  say 
that  one  could  not  be  kept,  made  on  January  2. 
* 
Marriage  may  be  a  lottery,  but  it  is  one  of  the  games 
of  chance  that  clergymen  do  not  try  to  discharge. 


He  who  riseth  late  must  trot  all  day. 

//  is  easier  to  climb  when  you  look  up. 

* 
Ambition  makes  men  want  to  do  things  they  can't. 

* 
A  second-rate  man  can  make  a  first-rate  politician. 

* 

When  doctors  pay  visits  they  expect  the  visits  to  pay 

them. 

* 

Let  prayer  be  the  key  of  the  morning  and  the  bolt  of 

the  evening. 

* 

If    some    men    knew    themselves,    they    would    be 
ashamed  of  the  acquaintance. 
* 

Language  is  called  the  mother-tongue,  because  the 
father  seldom  gets  a  chance  to  use  it. 


Three  things  come  not  back  again:  the  sped  arrow, 

the  spoken  word  and  the  lost  opportunity. 

* 

Those  who  don't  believe  anything  they  ever  hear  are 

as  unhappy  as  those  who  believe  everything  they  hear. 

* 

■     There  was  once  a  man  who  admitted  that  there  ivcre 

others  as  smart  as  himself — but  he  died  before  the 

flood. 

* 

Resolve  to  see  more  good  and  less  evil  in  those  with 

whom  you  associate,  and  you  will  be  rewarded  for  your 

effort. 

* 

An  optimist  is  a  man  who  is  happy  when  he  is  miser- 
able; a  pessimist  is  a  man  who  is  miserable  when  he 

is  happy. 

* 

People  zeho  are  always  measuring  their  heads  for 
their  crowns  seldom  can  show  any  cross  scars  on  their 
shoulders. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— December  27,  1904. 


CRUISING    ON    THE    MEDITERRANEAN.— Part  II. 


BY  D.  L.  MILLER. 

We  sailed  away  from  Katakolo,  the  port  of  Olympia, 
in  the  afternoon  and  for  the  time  it  required  to  round 
the  Southern  Cape  of  Europe,  Matapan,  some  ten 
hours  we  had  a  very  practical  illustration  of  what  the 
sea  can  do  in  this  quarter  of  the  globe  when  it  stirs 
itself  aright.  The  Argonaut  gave  us  the  advantage 
of  a  double  motion,  a  pitch  and  a  roll  combined.  It 
is  a  strong  stomach  that  has  no  turning  and  one  by 
one  our  party  turned  in  declaring  that  the  food  they 
ate  did  not  agree  with  them  until  only  the  writer  was 
left  to  tell  the  story  and  he  confessed  to  a  peculiar 
sensation  at  the  supper  table.  The  ship  went  up  and 
down  and  the  food  down  and  up  and  the  ships  com- 
pany wished  for  the  morning.  The  night  passed  away 
and  with  it  the  rough  waves,  the  morning  came  with 
a  bright  sky  and  a  smooth  sea  and  all  were  as  merry 
and  happy  as  if  seasickness  were  a  thing  unknown  on 
the  boat. 

At  breakfast  in  the  morning  it  was  decided  that  it 
was  a  good  thing  to  have  an  experience  with  the 
dreaded  malady  for  after  it  is  all  over  it  gives  one  such 
an  appetite  for  the  meal.  But  it  is  a  most  unpleasant 
experience,  as  all  will  testify  who  have  had  a  turn  at 


THE  QUAY  AT  CONSTANTINOPLE. 

it.  It  is  always  made  a  matter  of  slight  importance 
when  it  is  over  but  when  the  sickness  is  on  it  is  any- 
thing else  than  unimportant  to  the  sufferers.  A  gentle- 
man and  his  wife  and  two  children  were  traveling 
together,  and  he  was  the  sufferer.  In  the  morning  as 
he  leaned  over  the  rail  of  the  ship  telling  his  sad  story 
to  the  sea  and  relieving  his  stomach  at  the  same  time, 
his  wife,  anxious  about  the  children  whom  she  had  left 
below  in  the  cabin,  came  to  him  and  said  "  Dear,  have 
the  children  come  up  yet?"  Yes!"  was  the  reply, 
"  if  I  have  swallowed  them  I  am  sure  they  have,  for 
everything  else  has  come  up." 

After   passing  the    southern   point   of   Europe   our 
course  lay  northeast,  and  leaving  the  city  of  Athens 


to  the  left  we  steered  direct  for  the  Hellespont.  Pass- 
ing through  the  waters  of  the  jEgean  sea"  and  enter- 
ing the  Dardanelles  in  the  early  morning  of  the  next 
day,  we  had  a  fine  cruise  through  these  historic  waters. 
To  our  right  stretched  out  the  plain  of  Troy,  remind- 
ing one  of  a  bit  of  Illinois  prairie  about  Mount  Morris, 
and  from  the  deck  of  the  ship  we  could  see  the  site 
where  stood,  long  before  the  birth  of  Christ,  the  old 
city  of  Priam.  Here  lived  the  beautiful  Helen  whose 
dark  eyes  and  witching  ways  set  great  armies  in  motion 
and  caused  blood  to  flow  like  water.     Here  Achilles 


IMPERIAL  PALACE,  CONSTANTINOPLE. 

chased  Hector  around  the  walls  of  Troy  and  Ajax 
did  his  best  fighting,  and  here  too  the  cunning  Greeks 
played  the  wooden  horse  game  on  the  unsuspecting 
Trojans  and  succeeded  in  capturing  their  otherwise 
impregnable  city. 

But  far  more  interesting  than  the  stories  of  love  and 
war  of  the  ancients  is  the  fact  that  yonder  on  the  coast 
stood  the  town  of  Troas  where  for  a  short  season 
dwelt  the  great  missionary  to  the  gentiles  with  his 
little  company  of  helpers.  It  was  while  resting  here 
that  "a  vision  appeared  to  Paul  in  the  night;  There 
stood  a  man  of  Macedonia,  and  prayed  him,  saying, 
Come  over  to  Macedonia  and  help  us.  And  after  he 
had  seen  the  vision,  immediately  we  endeavored  to 
go  into  Macedonia,  assuredly  gathering  that  the  Lord 
had  called  us  for  to  preach  the  gospel  unto  them. 
Therefore  loosing  from  Troas,  we  came  with  a  straight 
course  to  Samothracia,  and  the  next  day  to  Neapolis; 
And  from  thence  to  Philippi,  which  is  the  chief  city  of ' 
that  part  of  Macedonia,  and  a  colony :  and  we  were  in 
that  city  abiding  certain  days."     Acts  16:  9-12. 

In  the  foregoing  account  of  the  journeyings  of  the 
Apostle  Paul  and  his  fellow  associates  we  have  re- 
corded the  most  minute  details  of  his  missionary  tours 
and  these  stand  as  strong  and  remarkable  evidences  of 
the  truth  of  the  Word  of  God.  Now  after  the  pass- 
ing of  1850  years  one  may  travel  over  the  same  routes 
and  find  every  single  detail  correct.  The  places  fully 
described  in  the  Bible  can  be  immediately  and  directly 
identified  and  this  can  be  said  of  no  other  book  of 
ancient  times.     While  some  of  the  descriptions  are  cor- 


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rect  many  of  the  statements  made  concerning  localities 
are  so  indefinite  and  so  extravagant  that  they  are  in 
the  most  striking  contrast  with  the  simple,  truthful 
record  of  the  Book  of  God.  The  conditions  found  to- 
day in  the  countries  where  the  Book  was  written  agree 
so  exactly  with  the  record  that  it  affords  a  strong 
evidence  of  the  truthfulness  of  the  Bible. 

To  return  again  to  the  site  of  Troy,  very  important 
discoveries  were  made  here  by  Dr.  Schliemann.  It 
was  found  in  clearing  away  the  accumulated  rubbish 
of  the  centuries  to  the  depth  of  fifty  feet  or  more  that 
actually  three  cities  had  occupied  the  place,  built,  in- 
habited and  destroyed  at  three  different  periods  in  the 
world's  history  Before  Dr.  Schliemann  began  his  ex- 
cavations and  discovered  the  real  Troy  the  description 
given  by  Homer  was  doubted,  or  rather  regarded  as 
the  production  of  a  vivid  imagination,  but  the  poet  has 
been  fully  vindicated  by  the  excavator. 

The  first  city  was  built  on  the  rock  foundation  and 
from  symbols  found  on  the  pottery  it  appears  to  be  a 
settled  fact  that  the  builders  were  of  Aryan  extraction, 
the  race  of  people  who  settled  the  vast  plains  of  India 
after  the  flood,  and  to  whom  we  are  sending  the  Gos- 
pel of  Christ.  The  old  Aryan  city  was  destroyed 
and  its  ruins  covered  up  with  sand  and  soil  as  the  cen- 
turies passed,  and  it  was  on  these  ruins,  according  to 
Schliemann  that  ancient  Troy  was  built.  The  ruins  of 
the  second  citv  show  that  it  was  destroyed  bv  a  great 


1 11  m ;s  in-  1  11NSTANTINOPLE. 

conflagration,  something  like  the  fire  that  leveled  the 
city  of  Chicago  in  1871.  "The  walls  bear  marks  of 
having  been  exposed  to  intense  heat ;  melted  lead  and 
copper  are  found  in  the  ashes,  and  among  the  debris 
were  charred  human  bones,  skeletons  with  breast- 
plates, and  helmets,  and  most  wonderful  of  all.  '  the 
treasure  of  Priam,'  whose  intrinsic  value  is  very  great 
and  whose  archeological  value  is  even  greater.  They 
are  supposed  to  be  the  hoarded  valuables  of  the  king, 
and  to  have  escaped  destruction  at  the  time  the  palace 
was  destroyed.  They  consist  of  dishes  of  gold,  silver, 
and  electrum,  caldrons  and  other  utensils  of  copper, 
bracelets,  rings,  chains  and  ornaments  of  gold,  battle- 
axes,  swords,  spear-heads  and  other  weap<>n>  "i  1  "|>I"  '■  - 


and  many  various  articles  of  metal  which  were  fused 
together  by  the  great  heat  that  occurred  when  the  city 
was  destroyed."  * 

I  had  an  excellent  opportunity  to  examine  the  old 
treasures  of  Troy  in  the  Schliemann  museum  at  Athens 
where  they  were  securely  preserved  in  a  fine  marble 
fire-proof  building.  The  relics  are  invaluable,  not 
simply  because  they  are  made  of  the  precious  metals 
but  because  they  link  us  to  the  history  of  the  past  and 
reveal  to  us  how  the  people  lived  on  the  plain  of  Troy 
270  years  before  David  reigned  at  Hebron  and  Jerusa- 
lem. 

Above  the  ruins  of  Troy  and  the  older  Aryan  city 
another  town  was  built  and  it  seems  passing  strange 
that  the  builders  discovered  no  trace  of  the  former  cities 
or  of  the  priceless  treasures  over  which  they  set  the 


PORTERS    IN    CONSTANTINOPLE. 

foundations  of  their  houses.  They  built  ignorant  of 
the  gold  just  beneath  their  feet.  It  is  believed  that  the 
third  city  was  built  by  the  Greeks  and  that  Aga- 
memnon's soldiers  took  possession  of  it  and  made  it 
their  home.  Later  this  city  also  fell  into  ruins  and 
was  covered  by  the  accumulations  of  the  centuries, 
and  the  Turkish  farmer  and  shepherd  cut  his  barley, 
harvest  and  pastured  his  flocks  on  the  soil  that  covered 
the  romantic  spot  without  ever  dreaming  of  the  treas- 
ures that  lay  hidden  away  beneath  his  feet. 

At  the  present  time  an  intense  interest  is  being  taken 
in  excavating  the  buried  cities  of  the  Bible  and  vast 
sums  of  money  are  being  expended  in  this  direction. 
The  English  and  Americans  in  Egypt  and  Palestine, 
the  Germans  at  Baalbec.  the  Austrians  at  Ephesus, 
and  the  Americans  in  the  valley  of  the  Euphrates  and 
Tigris  are  all  at  work.  Many  of  the  most  recent  dis- 
coveries have  an  important  bearing  on  the  Bible  story 
giving  convincing  evidence  of  the  truth  of  the  Word, 
and  others  that  are  to  be  made  in  the  near  future  will 


'Curlis. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— December  27,  1904. 


also  further  confirm  the  claim  that  the  Bible  is  the 
Word  of  God  and  the  Book  of  all  books. 

Leaving  the  plain  of  Troy  with  its  most  interesting 
history,  and  catching  a  glimpse  of  Paul's  landing 
place  in  Europe  we  enter  the  Dardanelles  at  the  little 
town  of  that  name.  The  entrance  to  the  channel  is 
well  fortified  and  great  Krupp  guns  frown  upon  us 
from  the  fortifications  on -both  shores.  No  armored 
ship  ever  built  could  withstand  the  hail  of  shot  and  shell 
that  would  salute  it  if  it  tried  to  force  a  pa:sage.  The 
Argonaut,  being  peaceably  inclined,  cast  anchor  at  the 
mouth  of  the  channel  and  awaited  permission  for  the 
Sultan's  officials  to  enter.     This  granted  we  continued 


SELLERS  OF  HEARTS,   LIVERS  AND  LUNGS, 
CONSTANTINOPLE. 

our  voyage.  Just  inside  the  channel  we  pass  the  naval 
fleet  of  Turkey.  Formidable  in  appearance,  but  of 
little  use  in  time  of  war,  as  was  proven  when  the 
Greek  fleet  appeared  here  and  challenged  the  Turks  to 
come  out  into  the  open  sea  for  a  fight.  The  Sultan's 
fleet  started  but  the  boilers  leaked,  and  the  engines 
broke  down  and  the  entire  fleet  cast  anchor  under  the 
protection  of  the  land  batteries  and  there  they  have 
remained  unto  this  day  and  no  one  is  able  to  move 
them. 

Passing  by  the  Turkish  fleet  we  cruised  through  the 
channel  with  Asia  to  the  right  and  Europe  to  the  left 
and  near  enough  to  the  shores  at  times  that  a  stone 
might  have  been  thrown  by  a  strong  arm  into  one  conti- 
nent or  the  other.  We  entered  the  sea  of  Marmora  and 
in    the    evening    twilight   caught  our  first  glimpse  of 


Byzantium  of  the  ancients,  Stamboul  of  the  Turks 
and  Constantinople  of  the  Christian  world.  To  see 
the  city  in  the  morning  when  the  rising  sun  gilds  its. 
domes,  and  its  minarets  like  needles  of  silver  with 
golden  hues  is  to  see  Stamboul  at  its  best.  In  the 
early  morning  as  we  entered  the  waters  of  the  Golden 
Horn  a  light  shower  of  rain  fell.  The  sun  broke 
through  the  eastern  clouds  and  a  rainbow  of  the  most 
brilliant  hue  was  thrown  like  a  halo  of  glory  as  a 
crown  about  the  city.  .It  was  a  most  beautiful  and 
interesting  sight.  And  what  of  its  interpretation  ? 
Was  it  the  bow  of  promise  that  in  God's  own  good  time 
and  way  the  cross  shall  supplant  the  crescent  and  that 
all  the  bloodshed,  rapine,  cruel  persecution,  untold 
suffering,  and  tears  and  sorrow  shall  be  avenged? 
When  will  the  answer  come?  Aside  from  these  re- 
flections it  was  a  beautiful  sight  and  I  shall  never  for- 
get it.  Turning  to  a  ship  companion  by  my  side  I 
said,  "  Is  not  Constantinople  a  beautiful  city?  "  "  Yes! 
from  on  board  the  ship,"  was  the  quick  reply.  Later 
in  the  day  I  learned  the  full  significance  of  the  answer. 
I  walked  through  the  streets  of  the  city  with  its  in- 
tolerable stench  and  accumulated  filth,  with  its  hordes 
of  beggars  presenting  every  phase  of  deformity,  deg- 
radation and  want,  with  its  teeming  mass  of  turbaned 
Turks  and  filthy,  fanatical  dervishes,  its  countless  num- 
ber of  dirty,  mangy  dogs,  its  great  wealth  and  abject 
poverty  and  its  mad  fanaticism  which  but  ten  years 
ago  clubbed  thousands  of  innocent  men,  women 
and  children  to  death  on  these  very  streets  for  no  other  ' 
reason  than  that  they  were  Armenian  Christians,  and 
I  returned  to  the  Argonaut  glad  and  happy  to  get 
awav  from  it  all.  But  the  enchantment  of  the  first 
hours  of  the  day  was  gone,  the  bow  of  promise  had 
faded  from  the  clouds  and  the  beauty  of  the  morning 
had  departed  forever.  The  sad  stern  reality  had  taken 
its  place.  Altogether  it  was  a  most  forcible  illus- 
tration of  the  old  proverb  that  distance  lends  enchant- 
ment to  the  view. 

And  vet  nature  has  done  more  to  beautify  the  place 
than  for  any  other  city  in  the  world.  The  shores  of 
the  Golden  Horn  on  which  the  city  is  built  are  gentle 
sloping  hillsides  making  it  possible  to  secure  the  very 
best  drainage,  and  enhancing  the  beauty  of  the  site. 
The  climate  is  all  that  could  be  desired  and  all  the  con- 
ditions such  that  if  it  were  in  the  hands  of  one  of  the 
aggressive  nations  of  Europe  it  would  speedily  become 
one  of  the  most  beautiful  and  prosperous  capitals  of 
the  world.  As  it  is  its  interior  is  an  offense  to  the 
eye  and  a  stench  in  the  nostrils  of  all  foreigners  who 
visit  it. 

The  beggars  of  the  city  are  legion  and  are  most  per- 
sistent in  their  claims.  They  thrust  their  deformities 
under  your  eyes  and  press  their  wants  in  such  forcible 
manner  that  usually  the  coveted  coin  is  forthcoming. 


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And  the  dogs.  There  are  dogs  everywhere.  They 
make  the  night  hideous  by  their  howling  and  barking 
and  in  the  day  time  you  are  compelled  to  step  into  the 
street  to  avoid  them.  The  population  of  the  city  is 
placed  at  over  a  million  and  some  one  said  there  were 
seven  dogs  to  every  man,  woman  and  child.  But 
this  must  be  regarded,  as  an  exaggeration.  If  the  words 
of  Hazael  to  the  Prophet  Elisha  were  affirmatively 
answered  and  applied  to  the  population  of  the  city 
possibly  the  number  of  dogs  might  be  doubled. 

The  porters  carry  burdens  on  their  backs  that  seem 
incredible  to  those  not  accustomed  to  seeing  such 
sights.  Large  casks  of  wine  are  attached  with  ropes 
to  two  long  poles  and  four  men  stooping  down  and 
placing  the  ends  of  poles  on  their  shoulders,  lift  the 
burden  and  carry  it  to  its  destination.  In  this  way 
railway  iron,  heavy  timbers  and  various  kinds  of 
freight  are  moved  from  place  to  place. 

Venders  of  all  kinds  of  produce  are  to  be  found  on 
the  streets  the  oddest  of  all  the  man  who  carries  the 
vital  organs  of  recently  butchered  cattle,  sheep  and 
goats,  offering  them  for  sale  to  all  who  may  have  a 
desire  to  purchase.  It  is  a  ghastly  sight  and  takes 
away  one's  appetite  for  food  of  that  kind. 

But  I  am  writing  on  and  on  as  if  the  readers  of  the 
Nook  had  unlimited  patience.     Already  this  letter  has 
exceeded  its  proper  length  and  so  it  endeth. 
*  *  * 
THE    NEW    YEAR. 


BY   JOSEPHINE    HANNA. 

How  shall  we  greet  the  New  Year?  Hope  says, 
joyfully,  and  Hope  represents  a  large  class  of  people ; 
Grief  says,  tearfully,  and  Grief  represents  as  large  a 
one ;  while  both  classes  must  meet  it  at  the  threshold. 

But  while  we  are  to  "rejoice  with  them  that  do 
rejoice,  and  weep  with  them  that  weep,"  can  we  recog- 
nize either  joy  or  sorrow  as  more  than  contingencies  of 
life,  which  should,  in  no  wise,  blind  us  to  its  purpose? 
To  be  sure,  a  crown  of  joy  should  be  our  goal;  but  that 
goal  may  be  the  objective  point  of  a  very  rough  road, 
yet  we  should  not  falter  for  all  that ;  neither  should  we 
refuse  to  thankfully  receive,  and  joyfully  use,  the  bles- 
sings which  God  may  scatter  along  the  way,  while  over, 
and  above,  and  undiverted  by  them,  we  keep  our  eye 
upon  the  goal,  our  attention  upon  duty.  But  while 
confident  of  the  wisdom  of  this  course,  and,  to  all  in- 
tent, faithful  in  its  pursuance,  we  shall  hardly  realize 
the  value  of  time,  until  we  near  the  end  of  that  allotted 
to  us,  when  we  shall  in  all  probability,  think  of  it  only 
as  opportunity,  despising  the  frivolous  things  which, 
in  spite  of  our  good  intentions,  too  often  made  us  come 

short  of  them. 

But  we  may  not  know  when  we  near  the  end  of  our 


days :  often  do  we  see  the  old,  the  diseased,  and  the 
despairing,  live  on,  while  the  young,  the  strong,  and 
hopeful,  fall  before  them.  But  such  knowledge  would 
be  of  no  avail,  once  our  years  were  wasted,  unless  it 
would  be  to  warn  others  thereby,  to  work  while  it  is 
day,  and  the  afterthought  of  those  who  have  ever  used 
their  time  to  moderate  advantage,  might  well  serve  as 
a  forethought  to  those  who  follow  them,  for  there  are 
few  of  us,  but  can't  say  at  life's 

Post    Meridian. 

I  once  rejoiced  to  celebrate 
The  New  Year, — ere  my  sun 
Had  its  descent  begun: 
To    journey    toward    life's    prime    was    fun, 

But    ah!    of    late, 
Old  Time  is  stepping  on  my  toes, 

Whenever  he  draws  near, 

To  whisper  in  my  ear, 

I've  added,  to  your  life,  a  year, 
On  toward  its  close. 

Time  reckons  closely,  when  each  year 
Is  counted  up  to  us, 
Against  our  quota,  thus 
For  ev'ry  year  he   counts   as   plus, 

Is  in  arrear. 
Yet,  by  his  stint,  is  something  gained, 

If  thus  we  learn  to  use 

Each  day,  and  not  abuse 

Our  opportunities,  and  lose 
Wealth,   unsustained. 

More  heed  is  taken  to  his  word, 
Now,,  he  doth  emphasize 
It  so,  and  thus  apprise 
Me  of  unfinished  work  which  lies 

So  long  deferred. 
Yet,  though  I  hasten  to  complete 

The  work  undone,   I   know 

The  hours  that  I  bestow 

Thereon,  to  present  need  I  owe, — 
All  debts  to  meet. 

Oh  could  I  only  bring  the  view 
From  where  I  stand  to-day 
To  bear  upon  the  way 
Of  those  who,  journeying  hither,  play, 

Swift  suns  I  rue, — 
Time's  golden  shuttles, — might  produce 

Their  year's  equivalent, 
Aye  more,  as  they  are  spent, 
Tenfold  increase  the  talents  lent, 
Through  Wisdom's  use. 

It  is  not  that  our  minds  may  dwell  upon  the  gloomy 
side  of  life,  that  I  write  thus,  but  that  keeping  step  with 
time  and  journeying  with  the  sun.  little  shadow  may 
be  cast  upon  any  side  of  life.  For  both  young  and  old 
there  is  a  work  to  do;  and  where  age  is  lacking  in 
strength  it  excels  in  experience:  but.  somehow, 
ever  gazing  backward  at  what  might  have  been,  and 
youth  looking  forward  at  what  may  be.  while  both 
are  overlooking  the  opportunity  that  is. 


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But  ere  we  hasten  our  steps,  let  us  wisely  choose 
our  destination ;  for  it  is,  in  a  manner,  possible  for  us  to 
walk  both  fast,  and  straight,  in  the  wrong  direction; 
it  is  possible  for  us  to  build  character's  monument  of 
precious  stones, — true  virtues  of  character,  and  noble 
traits  of  humanity, — and  build  it  upon  the  sand.  Na- 
poleon conquered  the  world  to  topple  over  upon  self; 
we  may  do  more, — may  even  conquer  self,  and  fail  to 
turn  the  conquered  one  over  to  the  Captain  of  sal- 
vation. Would  we  build  sure?  "Other  foundation 
can  no  man  lay  than  that  is  laid,  which  is  Jesus  Christ." 
Shall  we  not  build  thereon  for  eternity?  Surely  all 
of  us  want  to  obtain  a  clear  title  to  an  eternal  home — 
to  obtain  it  now  while  we  may — to  obtain  it  now,  and, 
in  anticipation,  enjoy  heaven  upon  earth. 

But  having  secured  Hope's  sure  foundation,  let  us 
build  still  better,  for  Christ,  than  we  would  otherwise 
have  built ;  let  us  build  broad  and  high,  allowing  every 
talent  room ;  here  bring  the  gems  of  virtue,  here,  love 
to  cement  them,  turning  every  circumstance  to  advan- 
tage that  we  may,  in  our  noble  calling :  let  us  prove  that 
education  may  serve  as  a  golden  candlestick  for  the 
Christ-light ;  that  culture  and  humility  may  associate 
to  mutual  advantage,  in  stooping  to  uplift  the  fallen ; 
that  wealth  may  break  its  alabaster  box  of  ointment 
upon  the  body  of  Jesus,  until  the  fragrance  of  the  Lily 
of  the  Valley  fills  the  world.  Aye,  here  let  us  bring  the 
first  fruits,  here  the  unblemished  offerings  of  life.  Let 
reflect  the  Christ-light,  by  a  plain,  yet  polished,  char- 
acter, until  we  shine  transfigured  with  him.  The  dia- 
mond would  be  but  merest  stone,  if  it  would  not  reflect 
the  light;  neither  is  light  inherent  in  man;  but  "the 
Lord  God  is  a  sun  and  shield.  The  Lord  will  give 
grace  and  glory." 

But  if  we  would  reign  with  him,  we  must  be  willing 
to  suffer  with  him,  storm  and  flood,  persecution  and 
peril,  must  testify  whether  we  are  built  upon  the  Rock. 
But  life  is  worth  living,  and  death  worth  dying,  when 
"  to  live  is  Christ,  and  to  die  is  gain," — when  life  is  lov- 
ing and  blessing,  and  death  is  crowning  and  reaping. 
Dear  reader,  may  life  and  death  be  this  for  us.  May 
our  lives  be  hid  with  Christ  in  God.  And  instead  of 
wishing  you  a  happy  New  Year,  I  wish  you,  thus,  the 
source  of  all  happiness — an  availing  life. 

Flora,  Ind. 

THE    NEW    YEAR. 


we  shoulder  the  whole  year  at  once,  make  a  long  string 
of  resolutions  of  things  to  do  and  not  to  do ;  perhaps  to 
find  the  most  of  them  broken  at  the  end  of  the  first 
week,  give  it  all  up  as  impossible  and  fall  back  into 
the  old  way? 

Nay,  verily,  God  has  mercifully  broken  up  our  time 
into  days  and  hours,  that  we  be  not  overwhelmed  with 
joy  nor  overburdened  with  care  and  sorrow. 

Let  us  accept  it  in  this  way,  one  day  at  a  time,  and 

"  Every  day  as  a  new  beginning 
Each  new  morn  as  the  world  made  new." 

It  is  a  grand  rule  this  living  one  day  at  a  time. 

We  know  a  saintly  old  man  that  apparently  is  living 
above  the  petty  trials  and  temptations  that  assail  the 
rest  of  us.  Here  in  his  rule  of  life.  He  begins  the  day 
with  God,  at  night  he  takes  self  into  strict  account. 
"  Have  I  lived  as  I  should  this  day  ?  Have  I  done 
anything  I  ought  not?  Have  I  treated  my  family  as 
I  should  ?  Have  I  used  any  unbecoming  language  ?  " 
Thus,  each  day  becomes  a  stepping-stone  to  a  higher, 
more  nearly  perfect  life.  It  is  a  growth.  We  cannot 
jump  with  one  bound  into  perfection.  There  will  be 
mistakes  and  failures,  we  forget  to  be  patient,  the  un- 
kind word  leaps  forth,  but 

"  Every  day  is   a   fresh  beginning, 

Listen,  my  soul,  to  the  glad  refrain 
And   spite   of  old   sorrow   and   old   sinning, 
Take  heart  with  the  day  and  begin  again." 

Then  farewell  to  the  old  year,  we  will  not  carry  ils 
errors,  its  pain  and  heartaches  over  into  the  new. 

"  Yesterday  now  is  a  part  of  forever, 

Bound  up  in  a  sheaf,  which  God  holds  tight, 

With  glad  days  and  bad  days  and  sad  days,  which  never 
Shall  visit  us  more,  with  their  bloom  and  their  blight." 

Then  hail  to  the  glad  New  Year !  It  is  before  us. 
We  naturally  wonder  what  it  has  in  store  for  us  but 
God  alone  knows.  He  has  mercifully  veiled  the  future 
to  our  eyes.  To  some  it  will  bring  sorrow,  to  others 
joy  but  may  not  each  of  us  trustingly  place  his  hand 
in  the  hand  of  the  great  All  Father,  "  wisely  improve 
the  present  and  go  forth  to  meet  the  shadowy  future 
without  fear  and  with  a  manly  heart." 

Lenox,  Iowa. 

♦  ♦  '♦ 

WE  LAUNCH   TO   ANCHOR,  WHERE? 


BY   MAMIE  C.  SINK. 


BY  BERTHA  SHOEMAKER. 


A  new  yeas!  The  old  with  its  burden  of  joy  and 
sorrow  is  gone,  the  new  is  before  us,  untried,  fraught 
with  new  opportunities,  with  new  possibilites,  and 
withal  new  responsibilities.  Of  course,  we  all  desire 
to  reach  a  higher  plane  of  living.  We  all  desire  to 
improve  over  last  year.     How  shall  we  begin?     Shall 


'Tis  dawn !  The  morning  lark  warbling  his  first 
sweet  carol,  mounts  on  his  pinions  and  soars  joyously 
upward  telling  all  that  the  night  is  spent.  The  stars 
fade  slowly  away  as  they  reluctantly  leave  their  field 
of  blue  and  the  sun  resplendent  in  his  morning  glow 
sends  forth  his  beams,  causing  the  sparkling  dewdrops 


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to  nod  a  welcome  to  their  morning  friend.  The  dark 
lines  and  strange  shades  of  the  night  recede  and  make 
way  for  ones  of  light  and  beauty.  The  whole  world 
is  filled  with  splendor.  A  strange  spot  this.  Some 
mystic  realm  which  without  knowing  why  seemed  to 
cause  feeling  of  loneliness  despite  the  footprints  of 
the  ages  marked  out  on  the  well-beaten  path.  Glanc- 
ing backward  I  stood  motionless,  charmed  with  the 
vision  which  there  I  saw.  Those  leafy  glades  and  vine- 
clad  hills  seemed  to  tell  that  there  could  be  no  other 
place  so  beautiful,  save  Fairyland.  Little  children 
frolicked  there,  with  that  wild  delight  which  only 
childhood  knows.  Enraptured  I  feasted  my  eyes  on 
the  sight  and  would  have  gazed  alway,  had  not  the 
jostling  crowd,  pushing  roughly  by  on  either  side, 
caused  me  to  turn  my  face  and  pursue  my  dreary 
journey.  It  was  then  that  I  knew  my  happiest  days, 
those  of  my  childhood  had  fled,  never  more  to  return. 
Two  quickened  rivers  like  silver  girdles  unclasped, 
wound  through  the  lowland  from  where  phantom 
fair  lay  the  shadows  of  pine  against  the  color-washed 
line  of  sky,  sharpedged  and  black,  in  the  gigantic 
pointed  fronds.  The  rivers  rolled  broadly  to  the  sea, 
holding  between  them  a  green  valley  sweet  with  warm 
perfumes  of  leaf  and  flower,  which  gradually  grew 
less  verdant,  and  terminated  in  a  dreary  waste  of  sand. 
Could  this  be  that  strange  place  of  which  I  had  so  often 
heard  and  read  ?  Were  these  shores  then,  upon  which 
so  many  millions  were  wandering,  that  beach  upon 
which  all  mortals  are  destined  to  tread,  and  which  the 
poet  has  christened,  "The  Sands  of  Time"?  And 
were  those  azure  waves  beyond  "  The  Sea  of  Life  "  '. 
Ah !  it  must  be  so.  But  why,  I  asked  myself,  do  these 
people  loiter  aimlessly  about  with  no  purpose,  no  ob- 
ject save  that  of  dragging  out  a  wretched  existence? 

They  seemed  scarce  to  dare  to  turn  and  cast  one 
glance  out  over  those  vast  billows  that  lay  stretched 
before  them  as  some  formidable  and  unsurrnountable 
difficulty.  But  lo!  who  is  it  that  dares  to  shove  that 
small  craft  from  the  shore,  steering  fearlessly  out  into 
those  swirling  waters.  With  hands  upraised  to  my 
brow  I  see  a  little  band  of  others  following.  Ah ! 
where  is  the  leader  without  a  follower?  Wore  a  man 
so  brave  that  others  will  not  vie  to  outstrip  his  dar- 
ing  deeds?  The  seething  billows  dash  round  them, 
and  the  angry  waves  lash  the  little  barks  to  ami  fro 
as  though  furious  that  anything  so  frail  should  attempt 
to  curb  their  wild  spirits.  The  storm  clouds  gather 
in  the  west.  The  heavens  flicker  with  frequent  flashes 
and  the  winds  swonp  down  upheaving  the  whole  sea 
from  its  lowest  depths.  Now  and  then  I  catch  a 
glimpse  of  the  little  skiffs,  as  they  toss  about  on  the 
angry  sea. 

"All  in  a  moment,  sun  and  skies 
Are  Wotted  from  the  sailors'  eyes; 
Black  night  is  brooding  o'er  the  deep. 


Sharp  thunder  peals,   live   lightnings  leap; 
The  stoutest  warrior  holds   his  breath, 
And  holds  as  on  the  face  of  death." 

'Tis  eve !  No  more  can  those  black  clouds  obscure  the 
sun's  beauty.  Again  his  beams  shine  forth  with  as 
much  splendor  as  they  had  mounted  the  incline  but  a 
few  hours  before.  Instantly  I  gazed  over  the  waters 
that  I  might  know  what  may  have  become  of  those 
storm-tossed  mariners  who  were  willing  to  risk  their 
lives  that  they  might  reach  something  better,  and  that 
they  might  attain  something  higher.  Had  they  all 
perished  in  that  dreadful  storm?  No,  not  at  all.  Sev- 
eral crafts,  mere  specks  in  the  distance  are  gliding 
smoothly  over  the  now  quiet  sea.  Truly  the  fittest 
have  survived  those  who  were  willing  to  push  ahead 
through  the  most  dangerous  peril,  and  to  overcome 
the  hardest  of  difficulties.  This  however  was  not  ac- 
complished by  some  game  of  chance ;  neither  did  some 
unknown  fate  attend  them  .on  their  voyage.  The  vic- 
torious ones,  who  were  casting  their  anchor  on  the 
opposite  sunny  shore,  had  spent  weeks,  months  and 
years  in  preparation  so  that  when  their  skies  grew  dark, 
when  their  trials  confronted  them,  they  should  not 
be  overcome,  but  they  should  overcome. 

My  voting  friends,  the  morning  sun  is  now  gilding 
the  eastern  hills,  painting  all  nature  with  its  fanciful 
hand,  as  it  ushers  forth  the  day.     It  is  now  the  dawn, 
the  springtime  of  our  lives.     Where  there  is  youth, 
what  reason  for  sadness  and  sorrow?     Where  there  is 
life  and  health,  with  all  the  fair  bright  world  before 
us,  what  need  of  becoming  disconsolate?     Yet  ere  the 
sun   in  his   journey  shall  have  dipped  himself  in  the 
western   seas,  we  shall  have  our  trials  our  difficulties 
and  our  sorrows.     Life,  that  greatest  of  all  unsolved 
mysteries  confronts  us.     It  is  ours  to  do  with   what 
we  will.     Ours     is  the  power  to  make  or  lo  mar  the 
most  precious  of  God's  gifts.     How  few  people  there 
are  that  know  what  life  really  is,  that  get  a  me 
taste  of  a  true  and  noble  life.     How  many  there  are  that 
waste  the  time  given  them  in  a  mere  state  of  existence, 
thinking  not  that  they  were  given  the  privilege  to  live 
that  they  might  accomplish  some  grand  and  noble  mis- 
si  m.     Shall  we  be  numbered  with  this  throng  of  idl 
No!    for   what  purpose  have  you  invested  your  time 
and   talent   these  many  years?     Was  it  not  that  you 
might  acquire  that  knowledge,  that  you  might  reach 
that  goal  for  which  you  so  eagerly  yearned  and  craved? 
\\  i'  often  hear  people  say,  "If  I  only  had  a  decent 
chance   in  life,  how   successful    I    might    be!      How    1 
would  sail  over  life's  ocean  !  "     We  think  things  would 
lie  very  different  with  us  if  our  lot  were  not  so  bard: 

if  we  had  more  helps  and  fewer  hindrances.     But  head 
winds  always  prove  better  than  calms  and  are  0 
better  for  us  than  fair  winds.    What  wrecks  line  every 

shore,  of  young  men  and   women   who   have   had   the 


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best  chances !  The  trouble  with  them  was  that  they  did 
not  feel  the  need  of  alertness  and  grit  and  close  appli- 
cation, and  through  negligence  are  registered  among 
life's  failures.  How  often  adversity  has  proved  a  bet- 
ter developer  of  real  ability  than  prosperity.  Tides 
sometimes  go  the  way  you  want  to  go,  and  help  you 
along  but  not  always.  More  often  our  drifting  is  in 
the  opposite  direction  from  what  is  best  for  us. 

We  have  launched.  Let  us  steer  straight  ahead, 
overcoming  all  obstacles  in  order  that  we  may  reach 
that  harbor  where  our  fondest  hopes  and  most  cher- 
ished ambitions  are  stored,  and  there  cast  our  anchor. 

No.  Manchester,  Ind. 

•j.  «$»  $ 
IN    THE    WORLD'S    CONCOURSE.— 4. 


BY  CHARITY  VINCENT. 

Several  days  later  Dora  received  two  long  letters 
about  the  day  off.     Here  are  quotations  from  them, 
which  help  to  tell  of  the  girls'  experience. 
From  Elisabeth's  letter. 

"  We  visited  Robert  Burns'  home,  no,  I  mean  a  re- 
production of  his  home,  erected  by  a  Burns  Society 
in  America.  It  is  a  quaint,  old-fashioned  cottage — 
two  living  rooms  and  two  rooms  used  for  a  barn.  The 
most  of  the  furniture  is  the  real  thing  which  has  been 
brought  from  Scotland.  Cupboard,  dishes,  clock,  etc. 
Bonnie  Jean's  spinning  wheel  is  there,  and  even  her 
ragged  old  ironing  holder.  Her  milking  stool  stands 
in  the  stable.  On  one  wall  is  the  original  sign  of  the 
Tarn  O'  Shanter  Inn  and  on  the  another  a  fine  paint- 
ing of  Burns — sitting  with  pen  in  hand  as  though  he 
was  waiting  for  an  inspiration. 

"  But  the  best  to  me  was  the  chair  he  called  his 
own — a  roughly  made  wooden  one  worn  smooth  with 
use.  I  sat  on  it  a  long  time  and  asked  myself  the 
question,  '  What's  the  mighty  differ  '  between  Burns 
and  the  rest  of  us?  If  he  did  get  drunk  and  do  things 
we  now  abhor  there  was  something  good  in  his  sad 
life  that  thousands  miss.  And,  Dora,  all  I  can  think  it 
is,  is  his  simple  and  sincere  love  and  sympathy  born 
of  that  love.  In  all  his  checkered  life  he  seemed  to 
have  a  strong  sense  of  right  and  wrong.  Temptations 
took  him  to  the  very  mouth  of  ruin,  and  he  knew  it. 
He  sadly  mourned  what  he  called  the  greatest  mis- 
fortune of  his  life — the  lack  of  an  aim.  We  started 
out  for  a  light-hearted  day  but  I  just  must  keep  think- 
ing of  Burns — or  rather  of  us.  Have  you  ever  thought 
about  it?     Not  one  of  us  girls  have  an  aim. 

"  Here  is  a  bit  of  verse  I  copied  in  the  Burns'  cot- 
tage this  morning.  You  can  think  about  this  while 
taking  care  of  your  sprained  hip. 

( Tho'  losses  and  crosses 
Be  lessons  right  severe, 


There's  wit  there,  ye'll  git  there, 
Ye'll  find  na  other  where.'  " 

From  Winifred's  letter  of  the  same  day. 

"  This  forenoon  after  visiting  Burns'  cottage,  we  sep- 
arated, Elizabeth  and  the  lunch  going  to  wander  by 
themselves  and  I  all  alone.  We  were  to  meet  in  the 
Japanese  garden,  where  we  had  often  met  before,  for 
lunch.  Lunch  time  came.  I  waited  and  waited  but  no 
Bess  and  no  lunch  came.  And  she  had  all  the  money 
with  her  too.  I  was  getting  more  hungry  every  minute. 
Waiting  seemed  to  do  no  good  so  I  started  off,  but 
not  to  hunt  her  for  it  seemed  useless  to  try  in  such  a 
crowd.  She  had  been  solemn  all  morning  and  where 
she  had  gone  I  did  not  know. 

"  I  wandered  in  and  out  of  buildings  and  finally  into 
the  Art  Building.  I  didn't  care  for  the  pictures — I 
was  just  working  off  hunger.  I  had  been  in  the  build- 
ing quite  a  while  when  I  looked  in  an  adjoining  room 
and  there  I  saw  a  picture  that  startled  me.  There  was 
our  Bess  sitting,  and  gazing  at  a  painting.  She  didn't 
see  me,  or  anybody  else,  for  that  matter.  Her  whole 
soul  was  wrapped  in  thought.  She  was  the  best 
picture  in  the  whole  collection.  She  wore  her  light 
blue  organdy  dress.  You  know  that  becomes  her 
better  than  anything  else  she  has.  Four  chairs  were 
tied  together  and  she  was  sitting  on  one,  leaning  her 
head  on  her  hand  with  her  arm  propped  on  the  back 
of  the  chair.  Yes,  and  in  her  lap  was  the  lunch-box. 
I  always  knew  she  was  a  decided  blonde  but  I  never 
before  realized  that  she  was  as  beautiful  as  she  is. 
I  am  really  thinking  of  writing  a  poem  about  her  blue 
eyes  and  golden  hair.  I  walked  quietly  up  to  her  and 
startled  her  by  placing  my  hand  on  her  shoulder. 

"  'O  I  forgot!  '  she  cried. 

"  '  But  I  didn't,  I'm  hungry.  What  were  you  look- 
ing at  ? '  I  asked. 

'  'That  picture.  O  Winnie,  I  wish  I  was  an  artist!' 
And  when  she  said  this  she  looked  so  longingly  that 
I  hugged  her  right  on  the  spot. 

"  And  truly,  Dora,  I  believe  she  is  an  artist.  Only 
she  has  never  tried  her  wings.  I  know  she  has  an 
artist's  soul  and  I  hope  her  fingers  will  some  day  be 
under  its  command." 

Finding  Winifred's  aunt  opened  a  new  avenue  for 
the  girls  and  many  pleasant  days  they  spent  at  the 
St.  Louis  home.  In  November  they  returned  to  their 
homes  and  to  Dora.  There  was  general  rejoicing  in 
the  whole  community.  Dora  celebrated  their  coming 
by  walking  to  the  door  for  the  first  time.  By  Christ- 
mas she  was  able  to  walk  where  she  pleased.  That 
day  Elizabeth  hitched  up  old  Wiggs  and  the  Trinitas 
went  for  a  quiet  drive.  They  felt  the  changes  that  had 
come  to  them.  Each  had  grown  in  her  individual  way, 
and  they  talked  of  what  the  year  had  brought  to  them. 
Winifred  and  Elizabeth  thought  they  had  received  so 


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many  more  favors  than  Dora  had  that  they  expressed 
pity  for  her. 

"  No,  no,  girls,"  she  said  emphatically.  "  I  was 
just  in  another  school,  that's  all.  What  I  learned  is 
worth  more  to  me  than  going  to  the  Exposition  twice. 
I've  been  in  a  world  of  thought  and  have  learned  to 
enjoy  the  sweetness  and  serenity  of  the  retreat  I  have 
in  my  own  soul." 

(The  end). 

♦  ♦  + 

OUR    ALPHABET    OF    GREAT    MEN. 


BY    OLIVE    MILLER. 

A — Agassiz,   Louis  John   Rudolph. 

If  I  should  tell  the  boys  and  girls  who  read  this 
magazine  that  Louis  John  Rudolph  Agassiz  was  an 
ichthyologist,  I  wonder  how  many  would  know  what 
I  mean?  A  boy  once  being  asked,  explained  that  "  an 
ichthyologist  is  one  who  studies  ichthyology,"  and 
that  "  ichthyology  is — is  ichthyology,  of  course,"  and 
that  was  about  as  much  as  he  was  able  to  explain 
about  it.  But  if  we  will  look  in  our  dictionaries  we 
will  find  that  an  ichthyologist  is  one  who  understands 
all  about  fishes :  the  word  comes  from  a  Greek  root 
meaning  fish. 

I  have  always  been  much  interested  in  this  great 
naturalist  who  spent  all  his  life  studying  about  the 
finny  tribe,  and  who  learned  more  about  how  to  study 
the  Book  of  Nature  than  any  other  man  of  his  time. 

He  was  born  in  Switzerland  almost  a  hundred  years 
ago, — in  that  rugged,  mountainous  country  which 
covers  such  a  small  space  on  your  maps.  His  father 
was  a  minister,  and  a  good,  kind  father  he  was,  who 
believed  in  his  boy  and  encouraged  him  in  every  way 
possible.  We  do  not  know  so  much  about  his  boyhood, 
but  we  do  know  that  he  loved  to  go  to  school  and  thai 
he  improved  every  spare  moment  in  studying  Nature. 
He  picked  up  whatever  he  could  get  his  hands  on  and 
tried  by  every  means  possible  to  find  the  names  of 
these  objects.  He  hunted  in  the  neighboring  forests 
and  meadows  for  birds,  insects  ami  land  and  fresh- 
water shells.  His  room  became  a  little  menagerie. 
while  the  stone  basin  under  the  fountain  in  his  father's 
yard  was  his  reservoir  for  all  the  fishes  he  could  catch. 
It  was  one  of  his  chief  delights  to  raise  caterpillars 
from  which  he  reared  fine,  large  butterflies. 

When  after  awhile  he  was  allowed  to  visit  a  large 
library  and  read  the  books  on  fishes  which  he  found 
there,  he  was  surprised  to  learn  that  these  books  con- 
tained so  little  about  the  habits  of  fishes  and  their  ways 
of  living,  while  he  himself  knew  so  much  about  all 
these  things. 

When  he  became  a  young  man  his  father  sent  him 
to  the  best  universities  of  Germanv,  and  here  he  be- 


came known  for  his  brilliant  mind  and  his  willingness 
to  work.  He  was  always  a  favorite  with  his  teachers 
and  his  room  became  the  gathering-place  for  his 
fellow-students  who  affectionately  called  it  "  The  Little 
Academy." 

When  he  was  only  twenty-two  he  was  chosen  by 
some  learned  men  to  study  the  story  of  some  fishes 
brought  from  the  Amazon  River.  He  wrote  a  book 
called  "  The  Fishes  of  Brazil."  This  book  made  him 
widely  known,  and  soon  after  this  the  great  teacher 
Cuvier  gave  him  all  the  fishes  he  had  been  collecting 
for  fifteen  years,  that  he  might  write  a  book  on  "  Fossil 
Fishes."  And  what  are  fossil  fishes?  Why,  fishes 
turned  to  stone.  Agassiz  had  already  found  many 
of  these  in  the  rocks  of  his  own  country.  So  we  see 
Cuvier  must  have  loved  Agassiz  very  much. 

But  he  studied  not  only  fishes,  but  he  found  a  joy 
in  observing  everything  in  Nature.  One  of  his  chief 
delights  was  in  studying  the  glacier  movements  in 
the  mountains  of  Switzerland,  and  his  observations 
here  led  him  to  many  perilous  undertakings.  Once 
his  friends  lowered  him  into  a  deep  abyss,  bristling  with 
huge  stalactites  of  ice,  to  reach  the  heart  of  a  glacier 
moving  forty  feet  a  day.  While  he  was  examining  the 
beautiful  blue  bands  of  ice,  he  suddenly  touched  a  well 
of  water,  and  only  with  the  greatest  difficulty  did  he 
make  his  companions  understand  his  signal  for  res- 
cue. But  the  knowledge  that  he  gained  from  these 
observations  soon  brought  him  many  honors  Erom 
lovers  of  science,  among  these  being-  the  King  of 
Prussia. 

He  came  to  Vmerica  when  he  was  about  fort)  years 
old,  and  found  such  a  rich  field  for  study  that  he  de- 
cided to  stay  lure,  lie  became  professor  of  geology 
in  I  [arvard  and  here  he  inspired  his  pupils  as  only 
Agassiz  could,  lie  practically  used  no  books  except 
the  great  Book  of  Nature:  out  under  the  open  sky  he 
found  the  ideal  class-room,  and  along  the  seashore, 
on  Peniskese  island  in  Buzzard's  Bay,  or  some  other 
favored  spot  of  Nature,  he  led  his  pupils  to  see  for 
ihcinst'lves   the  wonderful   works  of  God. 

Just  as  he  was  in  the  midst  of  realizing  two  of  his 
ambitions,  the  establishing  of  a  great  museum  and  a 
school  of  geology,  he  died,  Dec.  14,  1S73  at  his  home 
in  Cambridge.  He  was  buried  at  Mt.  Auburn,  be- 
neath pine  trees  sent  from  Switzerland,  while  a 
boulder  from  the  glacier  of  the  Aar  marks  his  rest- 
ing place. 

North  Manchester,  Indiana. 

Ruskin  says:  "However  good  you  may  bi 
have  faults;  however  dull  you  maj    he  you  can  find 
out  what  some  of  them  arc  :  and  however  slight  they 
may  be.  you  had  better  make  some — not  too  painful, 
but  patient — effort  to  get  quit  of  them." 


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YOUNG    MEN    AND    THE    FARM. 


For  a  number  of  years  there  has  been  a  growing  dis- 
position on  the  part  of  young  men  to  leave  the  farm 
and  embark  in  some  mercantile  enterprise.  In  certain 
localities  the  emigration  has  assumed  such  proportions 
that  local  business  has  been  crippled  and  the  church 
weakened,  while  in  still  other  sections  stores  have  been 
closed  and  the  place  of  worship  abandoned.  Some  of 
the  young  men  who  have  discontinued  farming  and 
entered  commercial  life  have  made  a  success,  others 
have  degenerated  in  morals  and  failed  financially. 
Our  cities  contain  many  noble  men  and  women  who 
have  been  born  and  developed  on  the  farm.  It  is 
perfectly  obvious  that  a  decided  reaction  has  already 
taken  place,  and  that  more  young  men  than  usual  arc 
remaining  on  the  homestead;  while  many  are  return- 
ing to  rural  life.  It  is  also  a  fact  that  young  men 
are  now  considering  agriculture  as  one  of  the  most 
tempting  vocations.  This  is  most  gratifying  and  we 
hope  that  the  movement  will  continue  with  increasing 
momentum  until  the  depopulated  sections  of  our 
beautiful  country  will  be  teeming  with  business,  social 
and  religious  life.  There  are  reasons  why  young  men 
should  select  farming,  as  well  as  any  other  occupation. 

1.  Rural  life  is.  conducive  to  health,  and  es- 
pecially that  life  afforded  by  farming.  Many  young 
men  who  have  been  raised  on  the  farm  are  obliged  to 
return  on  account  of  physical  condition.  City  life  does 
not  agree  with  everyone.  The  farmer  lives  in  the 
open  air,  and  seldom  encounters  a  foul  odor.  He  has 
fresh  and  pure  water  from  the  well,  spring  or  brook. 
He  has  the  very  best  of  fruit  and  vegetables  in  season, 
while  the  cooking  and  eating  are  usually  in  accordance 
with  the  laws  of  health.  The  young  man  comes  to 
the  city  to  find  conditions  reversed.  His  position  may 
confine  him  to  a  small,  dark  and  ill-ventilated  office. 
He  drinks  water  which  comes  through  many  miles  of 
iron  pipe,  and  cannot,  therefore,  be  as  healthful  as  if 
taken  from  a  well  or  stream.  It  is  impossible  for  the 
city  to  obtain  vegetables  and  fruit,  as  well  as  milk, 
as  fresh  and  choice  as  the  one  who  raises  them.  Our 
city-  ladies  often  allude  to  the  difficulty  of  procuring 
the  very  things  that  the  farmer  usually  has  in  abun- 
dance. Do  not  gain  the  impression  that  there  are  no 
healthy  people  in  our  cities,  but  that  the  above  con- 
siderations are  verities. 

2.  It  cannot  be  denied  that  social  life  in  the  country 
is  just  as  desirable  as  city  sociability.  The  main  dif- 
ference is  in  the  form  it  assumes  and  the  extent  to 
which  it  is  conducted.  In  farming  communities  dinner 
parties  are  very  common.  One  family  will  invite 
relatives  and  friends  to  spend  the  day.  They  will  come 
in  the  morning,  have  a  sumptuous  repast  at  noon  and 
return  home  before  dark.     Another   day  the  process 


.will  be  repeated  at  another  home  and  so  on  until  most 
of  the  families  have  been  visited  during  the  winter. 
In  addition  to  the  above  nearly  every  farming  locality 
will  have  one  or  more  social  organizations  among  the 
young,  while  the  church  is  more  of  a  social  center 
than  in  the  town  or  city.  The  people  reach  the  place 
of  worship  some  time  before  service,  which  affords  an 
opportunity  to  shake  hands  and  wish  each  other  well. 
After  service  they  meet  again,  while  in  the  school  house 
they  assemble  for  Bible  study  and  prayer.  There  are 
very  few  city  churches  that  are  as  informal  and  soci- 
able as  the  rural  ones,  and  it  is  deplorable  to  be 
obliged  to  acknowledge  it.  The  sequel  is  that  the  life 
of  the  farmer  assumes  a  form  of  commingling  that  has 
not  been  improved  by  recent  inventions. 

3.  The  impression  obtains  that  rural  districts  are 
conducive  to  ignorance.  It  is  true  that  there  are 
agricultural  sections  in  which  a  very  low  grade  of  in- 
tellectuality is  to  be  found,  but  that  cannot  be  an  ob- 
jection to  farming,  since  the  same  is  equally  true  of 
many  towns,  and  even  cities.  Citv  life  is  not  always  the 
educational  force  that  is  claimed  for  it.  Business  men 
leave  early  in  the  morning  and  continue  active  until 
late  in  the  day,  and  return  home  too  much  exhausted 
to  do  more  than  read  the  daily  paper  or  some  light 
literature.  The  life  of  the  farmer  is  different.  There 
are  many  stormy  days  and  long  winter  evenings,  when 
all  outside  work  must  be  suspended.  The  fact  is  the 
methodical  man  not  only  works  about  seven  months 
and  cares  are  few  during  the  remaining  five.  If  the 
family  are  fond  of  reading  there  is  no  valid  reason 
why  many  books  and  periodicals  should  not  be  digested 
under  such  circumstances.  The  rural  free  delivery 
is  bringing  the*  very  best  literature  at  ths  door  of  the 
farmer  and  the  day  of  his  isolation  and  ignorance  has 
already  past.  The  home  and  traveling  library  have 
solved  an  important  problem  and  the  literary  organiza- 
tions among  the  young  have  solved  still  others. 

4.  Many  young  men  are  becoming  convinced  that 
farming  is  as  profitable  under  ordinary  circumstances 
as  any  other  vocation.  It  is  absurd  to  say  that  farming 
does  not  pay ;  that  one  cannot  make  a  living  on  a  farm. 
It  is  just  as  reasonable  to  say  that  law  and  medicine 
do  not  pay,  or  to  say  that  one  cannot  make  a  living 
in  a  store.  Success  in  any  business  depends  upon 
circumstances.  If  the  latter  are  favorable  success  will 
follow ;  if  unfavorable  failure  will  ensue.  But  tak- 
ing all  things  into  consideration,  the  average  young 
man  will  do  as  well  on  a  farm  as  anywhere.  Not  all 
the  boys  who  have  gone  to  town  have  come  home  with 
their  pockets  full  of  money.  Some  have  returned 
with  less  than  they  took  with  them.  If  one  has  a 
good  farm  without  too  much  debt,  is  interested  in  his 
work,  is  industrious,  economical,  ambitious  and  moral 
he  will  not  only  make  a  living,  but  save  something  for 


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his  children.  From  the  conversation  of  some,  one 
would  get  the  impression  that  there  is  no  money  in 
rural  communities.  While  willing  to  acknowledge 
that  it  may  be  true  to  a  certain  extent  in  some  places, 
it  is  by  no  means  universally  true.  Let  some  one 
express  a  wish  to  mortgage  his  farm  for  one-half  of 
its  value,  and  at  once  many  will  come  forward  to  take 
advantage  of  it.  The  wise  young  man  of  this  century 
will  not  leave  the  farm  unless  he  is  convinced  that  it  is 
the  course  for  him  to  follow,  and  that  the  conviction 
is  the  result  of  careful  deliberation. 

5.  More  young  men  should  turn  to  farming,  be- 
cause country  life  is  conducive  to  morality.  Many 
rural  districts  are  quite  free  from  the  very  evils  that 
are  wrecking  thousands  of  young  lives.  There  are 
scores  of  farming  sections  in  which  no  liquor  is  sold 
and  very  little  used.  Gambling,  which  is  becoming  a 
greater  evil  every  year,  is  unknown  in  some  hamlets. 
The  Sabbath  is  usually  observed  in  the  country  dis- 
tricts, while  the  greater  sins  are  practiced  by  few.  There 
are  fine  young  people  in  all  of  our  towns  and  cities, 
but  they  are  what  they  are  because  of  great  deter- 
mination and  resistance.  It  is  a  blessing  for  a  young 
man  to  grow  up  to  manhood  under  circumstances  that 
usually  obtain  in  a  good  farming  community.  Some 
of  our  cities  ought  to  be  ashamed  to  be  visited  by 
farmers.  Saloons  by  the  hundreds,  gambling  dens  by 
the  score,  profanity,  falling  like  hail  and  the  king  of 
vices  sending  agents  to  enlist  young  men.  We  cannot 
expect  to  be  free  from  temptations  so  long  as  we  are 
in  this  world,  but  it  is  a  cause  for  thanksgiving  that 
there  are  some  places  more  free  from  sin  than  others. 
No  one  should  decide  upon  his  future  occupation  with- 
out giving  the  moral  aspect  its  share  of  consideration. 

6.  The  country  church  furnishes  a  reason  for  en- 
gaging in  the  noblest  occupation.  The  dear  old  rural 
church  has  done  a  mighty  work  for  the  moral  and 
spiritual  life  of  the  nation.  The  building  is  often 
plain,  the  service  simple  and  the  congregation  with- 
out style.  But  one  comes  near  to  God  under  such 
circumstances.  The  very  simplicity  of  the  service 
is  a  means  of  grace,  while  it  is  very  rare  in  a  first  class 
farming  section  to  hear  a  weak  and  thin  sermon. 
Country  ministers  are  usually  filled  with  the  gospel 
and  the  enthusiasm  it  imparts.  We  believe  that  many 
young  men  have  left  the  old  church  without  realizing 
the  debt  they  owe  her. — Rev.  C.  L.  Palmer,  in  Christian 
Work  and  Evangelist. 

*  *  * 

WHY   THE   WORLD   WANTS    PEACE. 


prayer  for  peace  that  comes  swelling  from  all  over  the 
earth,  with  a  volume  which  fairly  gives  it  the  weight 
of  a  demand  or  command,  is  now  a  living,  vital  force 
in  the  affairs  of  all  civilized  nations.  In  Christen- 
dom to-day  there  is  no  more  significant  and  promising 
fact  than  this.  There  is  developing  with  giant  strides 
a  world-public  opinion,  and  it  is  a  world-opinion  which 
makes  for  peace.  More  and  more  the  masterful  peo- 
ples are  coming  to  look  upon  war  as  barbarism,  as  a 
relic  of  the  savage  age,  as  a  cruel  and  destructive  mon- 
strosity wholly  unworthy  to  survive  in  our  modern 
civilization. 

It  seems  an  anomaly  to  talk  of  universal  peace  while 
one  of  the  bloodiest  wars  of  modern  times  is  in  prog- 
ress. But  the  carnage  which  has  marked  this  great 
struggle  in  the  far  East  is  the  very  thing  that  has 
given  momentum  to  the  current  movement  to  stop 
wars.  Liao-Yang,  Shaho,  Port  Arthur,  have  shocked 
the  sensibilities  of  the  world.  They  have  roused  a 
public  sentiment  everywhere.  The  peace  movement 
is  no  longer  confided  to  the  dreamers  and  the  senti- 
mentalists, worthy  host  that  pioneered  that  way;  it  has 
spread  far  and  wide,  till  it  has  embraced  the  men  who 
do  the  world's  work, — the  men  of  commerce  and  fi- 
nance, the  men  who  have  their  hands  upon  the  throttles 
of  the  great  industrial  machine,  the  men  who  pay  the 
taxes  that  are  swallowed  up  in  war,  the  men  of  jour- 
nalism, of  the  pulpit,  of  the  periodical  press,  the  men 
of  leadership  in  action  and  in  thought.  It  has  found 
its  way  into  the  royal  palaces,  the  presidents'  houses, 
the  chancelleries,  the  foreign  offices,  the  state  depart- 
ments of  the  powers.  We  may  justly  say  that  its 
growth  and  its  promise  together  form  the  most  nota- 
ble world-event  of  the  year  that  is  now  drawing  to  a 
close.  It  would  be  unwise  to  delude  ourselves  with 
the  hope  that  war  is  impossible,  that  universal  peace 
has  spread  her  white  wings  over  all  the  earth,  that 
henceforth  the  civilized  world  is  to  be  free  of  con- 
flict and  carnage.  The  millenium  has  not  come.  But 
it  is  true  that  the  hazard  of  war  breaking  out  has  been 
sensibly  lessened,  and  that  the  horrors  which  ac- 
company it  arc  sure  to  be  vastly  minimized  if  and  when 
it  comes. — From  "  The  United  States  and  the  World's 
Peace  Movement,"  by  Walter  Wcllman.  in  the  Ameri- 
can Monthly  Review  of  Reviews  for  December. 

*  *  * 
FEW    FENCES    IN    JAPAN. 


In  the  midst  of  war,  the  world  is  turning  toward 
peace.  Now  the  Christmas  holidays  approach,  and 
"  peace  and  good-will  among  men  "  has  something 
more  than  sentiment  and  tradition  to  rest  upon.     The 


Only  the  very  rich  have  fences  around  their  farms 
in  Japan.  The  Japanese  do  not  like  to  spare  the  square 
feet  a  fence  would  take  up.  If  a  border  around  a 
field  is  necessary  it  is  made  of  mulberry  trees,  the 
leaves  of  which  are  good  for  silk  worms.  It  is  said 
that  190,000  acres,  that  would  otherwise  be  taken  up 
with    fences,  arc  thus  used. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— December  27,  1904. 


TOWARD   THE   COMING   DAY. 


BY    ETHA    A.    EVANS. 


Philosophers,  poets  and  even  masters  of  science 
are  fond  of  speculating  on  an  answer  to  the  query, 
"Whither  are  we  tending?" 

The  mere  question  of  physical  direction,  regardless 
of  the  tendencies  of  institutions  and  ideals,  lies  far 
beyond  the  comprehension  of  the  vast  majority  of  man- 
kind. 

A  traveler  walking  leisurely  westward  may  be 
sure  of  his  direction  and  speed,  but  he  is  on 
the  surface  of  a  planet  which  revolves  on  its 
axis  with  the  velocity  of  a  thousand  miles  an 
hour.  Moreover  in  its  orbit  about  the  sun,  the 
earth  plunges  onward  in  space  at  the  fearful  rate  of 
1 100  miles  per  minute,  while  with  other  members  of  the 
solar  system  it  moves  to  a  remote  point  in  the  constel- 
lation Hercules. 

How  utterly  hopeless  then  it  is  to  attempt  to  trace  the 
exact  path  of  a  body  moving  on  the  earth's  surface. 
The  very  conception  astounds  us  and  our  imagination 
becomes  helpless. 

Some  people  are  convinced  that  civilization  is  on  a 
downward  grade,  others  see  only  advancement  and 
promise  in  the  future. 

However  difficult  it  may  be  to  judge  present  ten- 
dencies with  any  exactness  or  authority,  there  is  an 
almost  universal  feeling  among  thoughtful  men  that 
a  definite  period  of  civilization  has  just  drawn  to  a 
close  and  we  have  entered  upon  a  new  era.  The  his- 
tory of  the  nineteenth  century  gives  evidence  of  this 
in  its  records  of  scientific,  of  material  advance  and  of 
political  development. 

The  material  advances  made  since  the  beginning 
of  the  last  century  are  more  numerous  and  more  won- 
derful than  the  combined  records  of  all  previous  his- 
tory. Will  anyone,  then,  dare  to  predict  what  another 
hundred  years  may  bring  forth? 

That  the  world  is  gradually  developing  in  its  moral 
principles  is  shown  by  the  spirit  of  philanthropic  en- 
deavor, the  vast  amount  of  money  given  for  charitable 
purposes,  and  the  institutions  provided  for  the  aged, 
the  infirm  and  the  homeless. 

History  tells  us  that  the  standards  for  judging  men 
and  morals  have  changed.  The  Spartan  judged  his 
children  according  to  physical  excellence.  If  they 
were  strong  they  were  brought  up  to  be  soldiers,  if 
weak  they  were  cast  out  in  a  glen  on  Mt.  Taygetus  to 
die  of  exposure  or  to  be  devoured  by  wild  beasts. 

The  Romans  thought  it  right  to  enslave  anyone 
but  a  Roman  citizen.  Now  it  is  considered  wrong  to 
enslave  any  human  being.  As  year  succeeds  year  and 
as  each  generation  comes  and  passes  away,  the  stand- 
ards of  comparison  will  undoubtedly  be  changed. 


The  most  novel  and  impressive  movement  of  the  last 
century  was  the  political  development  towards  de- 
mocracy. Steadily  it  fought  its  way  through  the  ten 
decades :  it  had  been  attempted  in  Greece  and  in  Rome 
and  later  in  the  Middle  Ages.  We  usually  go  no  fur- 
ther than  to  compare  its  blessings  with  what  we  know 
of  the  oppression  of  kingships  and  oligarchies,  but  let 
us  gain  a  clearer  knowledge  of  the  government  of 
which  we  are  a  part.  Here  we  find  evidence  of  the 
close  relations  of  democracy  to  education.  As  long 
as  the  government  lay  in  the  hands  of  a  few  the  need 
for  a  wide  diffusion  of  political  knowledge  was  not 
felt,  but  now  we  are  convinced  that  the  preservation  of 
liberty,  our  most  cherished  heritage  depends  upon  the 
intelligence  of  the  people. 

A  nation  is  judged  by  the  character  of  the  individ- 
uals composing  it.  Should  not  this  reason  of  it- 
self be  an  incentive  to  every  loyal  citizen  to  better  his 
own  condition  and  that  of  his   fatherland? 

America  will  never  become  a  happy,  enduring  and 
reliable  nation  until  a  larger  proportion  of  its  popula- 
tion becomes  willing  to  earn  every  dollar  they  receive 
by  patient,  unremitting  labor. 

The  first  influences  shed  about  a  youth,  are  those  of 
the  home.  When  he  enters  school  he  should  have  the 
determination  to  learn  his  lessons,  not  merely  for 
school  but  through  them  to  prepare  for  life. 

Much  of  the  failure  in  commercial  and  professional- 
life  is  due  to  lack  of  preparation.  Not  only  is  perse- 
verance necessary  but  patience  also,  for  he  who  would 
gain  success  must  learn  to  labor  and  to  wait. 

That  democracy  alone  will  be  triumphant,  which  has 
both  intelligence  and  national  character  is  an  assured 
fact.  Not  then  by  vain  boasting,  not  by  self-satisfied 
indifference  and  not  by  inefficient  preparation  but  by 
patriotism  by  the  spirit  of  brotherly  love  and  by  loy- 
alty to  our  educational  ideas  will  our  nation  become 
preeminent  among  the  powers  of  the  world.  Then  in- 
deed shall  we  look  with  joy,  with  hope,  nay  more  with 
confidence  toward  the  Coming  Day. 

Buford,  N.  Dak. 

♦  *$»  * 

TRADE    UNIONS. 


Trade  unions  are  a  band  of  men,  who  inflict  in- 
jury on  those  who  fail  to  accede  to  their  lawless  de- 
mands. It  is  therefore  the  duty  of  the  people  to  rid 
the  country  of  trade  unions. 

Trade  unionism  is  rarely  discussed ;  if  it  were,  trade 
unions  would  soon  cease  to  exist.  The  trade  unionists 
carefully  avoid  discussing  trade  unionism  in  their  pub- 
lications and  in  their  public  utterances. 

The  trade  unionists  assume  that  lawless  deeds  are 
right  if  done  by  themselves.  The  law  that  applies  to 
others  should  apply  to  them  also. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— December  27,  1904. 


1237 


There  was  a  man  in  New  York  City  named  Parks 
who  extorted  money  by  threatening  injury;  he  was 
sent  to  prison  for  the  crime.  Other  trade  unionists 
are  extorting'  millions  of  dollars  annually  by  the  same 
means  that  Park  used,  yet  these  are  let  go  at  large. 
Parks  took  the  money  as  an  individual,  these  others 
as  an  organization.  The  law  says  that  money  got  by 
injury  to  person  or  property,  inflicted,  threatened  or 
implied,  is  stolen,  and  whether  the  money  is  taken  by 
an  individual  or  by  men  banded  together  does  not 
change  the  crime. 

An  organization  to  be  lawful  must  be  com- 
posed of  a  voluntary  membership.  The  great  part  of 
the  men  in  unions  are  got  there  and  kept  there  by 
force. 

The  means  used  to  compel  men  to  join  the  unions 
and  to  keep  them  there,  are  unfair,  lists  and  enter- 
tainment committees,  labels  and  brass  knuckles,  cards 
and  lead  pipes,  fines  and  sand  bags,  assessments  and 
wrecking  crews,  shot  guns,  torch  and  dynamite. 

The  law  says  that  men  must  be  free  to  buy,  sell  and 
use  material  that  is  lawful  to  buy,  sell  or  use ;  it  also 
says  a  man  must  be  free  to  pursue  his  chosen  vocation. 
These  laws  are  so  just  and  so  essential  to  the  higher 
development  of  the  individual  and  to  the  true  growth 
of  a  nation  that  they  are  believed  in  by  all  right  mind- 
ed men.  For  this  reason  only  the  "low  minded  can  be 
got  into  the  unions  except  by  force. 

The  trade  unionists  demand  that  the  man  must  give 
them  money  to  pursue  his  vocation,  that  the  boy  must 
give  them  money  to  learn  a  trade,  that  a  man  must 
give  them  money  who  buys  material,  the  use  of  which 
they  have  forbidden,  that  a  man  must  discharge  a  boy 
who  is  learning  a  trade  under  conditions  different  from 
those  which  they  peimit.  For  all  this  they  have  no 
authority  in  law,  so  in  order  to  enforce  these  demands, 
they  injure  property,  strike  down  men,  or  both. 

There  never  came  before  a  people  a  plainer  propo- 
sition than  that  of  trade  unionism.  It  is  simply  the 
question  as  to  whether  the  laws  made  by  the  regular 
constituted  law  making  authorities  are  to  prevail. 

$  <l»  41 

AN   OLD   LOG   CABIN. 


BY  GEORGE  HALDAN. 

At  the  St.  Louis  Exposition,  the  great  state  of 
North  Dakota  has  brought  and  set  up  just  as  it  was 
at  home,  the  log  cabin  in  which  Theodore  Roosevelt 
lived  three  years  while  a  ranch  man.  The  wooden 
couch,  chairs,  and  rough  furniture  are  all  there  on  dis- 
play as  are  also  the  antlers  and  other  trophies  of  the 
liunt,  including  a  pair  of  boots,  a  pair  of  skin  breeches 
and  a  pair  of  brown  seventy-five  cent  overalls.     True 


to  the  '"  craze  "  infecting  a  name-writing  public  every 
available  inch  of  surface  has  been  covered  with  the 
name  of  some  admirer.  Here  or  there  a  rhyme  or 
verse  sets  gracefully  "disgracing  "  its  author. 

In  another  part  of  the  Agricultural  Building 
"  Teddy  "  on  horseback  has  been  entirely  reproduced 
in  butter.  Some  sculptor  or  butter  modeler  has 
actually  worked  out  the  features  of  horse  and  rider 
so  clearly  that  he  who  runs  may  recognize  the  Presi- 
dent. The  moustache,  glasses,  positive  expression, 
boots,  spur,  and  all  are  perfectly  done.  The 
equestrian  statue  weighs  500  pounds  and  is  preserved 
throughout  the  season,  of  course  by  use  of  the  large 
refrigerator,  with  glass  sides  so  all  may  be  plainly 
seen. 

•:•  *  * 

MODERN    TROLLEY    LINES. 


The  third-rail  electric  interurban  is  gradually  mak- 
ing its  way  to  the  front,  despite  the  well-established 
trolley.  For  subway  and  elevated  work  it  has  no 
longer  any  competition,  but  for  use  on  interurbans  it 
requires  for  successful  application  a  private  right  of 
way.  Railroad  men  have  come  to  realize  that  the 
interburban  must  maintain  a  speed  commensurate  with 
that  of  the  steam  road  if  they  wish  to  capture  the  traf- 
fic, cheaper  fares  not  being  a  sufficient  inducement  to 
the  traveling  public.  One  of  the  latest  installations 
of  this  class  is  that  of  the  Scioto  Valley  Traction 
Company,  of  Columbus,  Ohio.  This  encroachment  on 
the  trolley  in  what  is  generally  recognized  as  its  origin- 
al home  is  especially  significant.  The  track  consists  of 
standard  construction,  with  seventy-pound  T-rails  in 
thirty-three-foot  lengths,  laid  on  oak  or  chestnut  ties, 
6  by  8  inches,  spaced  two  feet  from  center  to  center, 
and  heavily  stone  ballasted.  In  fact,  the  roadbed  more 
resembles  that  of  a  steam  road  than  the  lighter  trolley. 
The  cars,  however,  are  very'  large,  being  60  feet  over 
bumpers,  which  is  much  longer  than  the  regulation 
interurban,  the  greater  length  being  adopted  because 
it  insures  easier  running  at  high  speeds.  Fares  are 
based  on  a  rate  of  2  cents  per  mile.  The  overhead  sys- 
tem is  used  in  the  city  limits  of  the  several  towns  trav- 
ersed. Train  dispatching  is  the  same  as  the  regu- 
lation steam  roads  practice,  with  the  exception  that 
the  telephone  is  used  instead  of  the  telegraph  to  trans- 
mit orders. 

*  *  * 

Alone  must  every  son  of  man  meet  his  trial  hour. 
Each  man's  temptations  are  made  of  a  host  of  peculiar- 
eternal  and  external,  which  no  other  mind  can 
measure.  You  are  tried  alone;  alone  you  pass  into 
the  desert;  alone  you  must  hear  and  conquer  in  the 
agony:  alone  you  must  be  sifted  by  the  world. — Rob- 
ertson. 


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What  has  been  your  record?  Where  have  you 
been  ?  What  have  you  done  ?  What  have  you  left  un- 
done ?  What  has  it  all  cost,  and  of  how  much  value 
have  you  been  to  the  world?  Have  you  kept  any  rec- 
ord ?  Whether  you  have  or  not,  a  record  has  been  kept, 
and  as  sure  as  it  has  been  kept,  that  sure  you  will  meet 
it  face  to  face,  sooner  or  later. 

Is  the  world  really  any  better  for  your  having  lived 
three  hundred  and  sixty-six  days  in  the  year  1904? 
Have  you  done  your  duty  cheerfully  or  not  ?  Has  any- 
one given  you  anything  to  do?  Have  you  furnished 
anybody  any  employment  that  was  useful  and  bene- 
ficial to  them?  Have  you  been  a  factor  of  society, 
a  pillar  in  the  church?  Have  you  moulded  sentiment, 
and  has  it  been  an  influence  for  good  or  for  evil  ?  Will 
anyone  point  to  you  and  say  that  you  have  been  the 
means  of  making  them  better,  or  will  the  culprit  face 
you  in  the  criminal  court  and  reveal  the  fact  that  you 
have  led  him  astray? 

How  many  acquaintances  have  you  made  during  the 
year  that  will  prove  an  auxiliary  to  your  future  work? 
To  what  extent  has  the  circle  of  your  influence  en- 
larged so  that  you  may  become  more  useful  in  1905? 
Have  you  been  building  in  a  way  that  1904  may  be 
a  sure  foundation  upon  which  to  build  your  structure 
of  1905? 

In  after  years,  when  quietly  seated  by  your  fireside, 
reading  from  the  leaves  of  an  old  diary  book,  will  it 
be  a  pleasure  to  you  to  recount  these  years'  work,  or 
will  it  be  a  black  cloud  on  the  horizon  ?  What  are 
your  plans  for  1905  ?  Have  you  mapped  out  a  certain 
line  of  work  that  will  lead  you  up  to  a  certain  end  to 
be  accomplished? 

What  kind  of  an  appearance  would  a  cornfield  have 
if  a  farmer  would  sow  his  seed  broadcast  instead  of 
in  straight  rows?  Your  life  will  look  the  same  with- 
out a  definite  aim.  Have  you  taken  special  precau- 
tions to  outline  a  policy  for  next  year  that  will  be  a 


blessing  to  humanity,  a  credit  to  yourself  and  family, 
and  an  inspiration  to  others  to  lead  a  higher  life? 
How  will  the  next  year  compare  with  the  last?  Will 
you  read  more  good  books;  will  you  have  purer  so- 
ciety ?  When  the  year  is  clone  will  you  be  able  to  make 
a  record  that  is  an  improvement  over  this  one? 

1905. 


Let  us  talk  over  our  work  for  the  coming  year. 
Not  long  since  we  wrote  a  family  letter  to  our  friends 
and  asked  for  advice  concerning  our  magazine  for  the 
coming  year. 

About  seven  thousand  people  were  in  position  to 
read  this  article  and  render  some  sort  of  advice  and 
counsel  concerning  the  matter.  Hardly  one  out  of 
a  hundred  has  replied  with  any  sort  of  advice,  but  we 
are  glad  to  say  that  a  number  of  our  most  interested 
and  devoted  supporters  have  cheerfully  given  their 
mite  towards  the  outlook  for  the  coming  year. 

In  making  a  place  for  the  two  new  pages  we  must 
insert,  some  have  advised  that  we  eliminate  the  mis- 
cellaneous and  0.  &  A.  pages ;  others  have  remonstrat- 
ed strongly  against  that ;  some  have  said,  cut  out  the 
Home  Department ;  some  the  Nature  Study ;  some  the 
Current  News,  and  some  have  said,  take  two  pages 
from  the  general  magazine  department;  one  has  said, 
omit  the  first  page  and  one  suggested  that  we  omit 
the  editorials. 

We  expected  a  diversity  of  opinion,  and  had  all  re- 
ports been  the  same  it  would  have  showed  that  there 
was  one  place  in  the  magazine  which  was  wonderfully 
weak,  but  the  different  departments  received  almost  an 
equal  number  of  balances.  If  there  is  any  difference 
at  all  it  seems  that  the  Nature  Study  pages  are  read 
by  fewer  people  than  any  of  the  other  pages.  This 
being  a  study  that  lies  very  close  to  the  heart  of  your 
editor,  and  while  he  has  made  and  is  willing  to  make 
quite  a  good  deal  of  sacrifice  to  make  it  what  it  should 
be,  yet  we  cheerfully  give  it  up  for  the  pleasure  of 
the  Inglenook  family.  And  unless  we  receive  an  av- 
alanche of  testimonials  against  this,  we  have  now  de- 
cided to  use  the  Nature  Study  pages  for  the  Home 
Department,  and  the  Home  Department  pages  for 
the  Christian  Workers'  and  Reading  Circle  topics. 
We  make  this  change  with  the  advice  and  consent 
of  a  number  of  our  thoughtful  contributors  and  sub- 
scribers, and  with  the  prayer  that  it  may  be  the  very 
best  thing  for  the  magazine  and  for  the  people  who 
read  it. 

Now,  one  thing  more  remains  to  be  done,  and  this  is 
beyond  the  reach  of  the  editor;  and  it  falls  upon  the 
laity  of  our  Family :  We  are  reciving  letters  almost  ev- 
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newals  and  new  subscribers  is  increasing  at  the 
rate  it  is.  And  as  the  holidays  draw  nigh 
we  expect  an  abundance  of  work  because  of  the 
continued  increase,  and  in  order  that  our  readers 
do  not  miss  any  numbers  at  the  expiration  of 
their  subscription,  it  would  be  advisable  for  you  to 
renew  early  that  not  a  single  chapter  of  the  serials  be 
missed.  If  you  have  read  the  Inglenook  during  the 
year  with  pleasure  and  profit,  it  is  not  only  your  duty 
and  privilege  to  present  the  matter  to  your  neighbors, 
but  it  is  a  glorious  opportunity  for  you  to  do  good  in 
more  ways  than  one;  and  we  hope  that  you  may  avail 
yourselves  of  this  opportunity.  This  is  one  of  the 
ways  in  which  you  can  be  a  benefactor  to  mankind 
and  help  to  make  the  year  1905  a  success. 

What  a  glorious  beginning  this  would  be  for  the 
new  year.  Just  before  you  write,  asking  us  to  renew 
your  paper  for  1905,  see  your  neighbor  and  ask  him 
to  send  a  dollar  along  for  his  subscription.  In  this 
way  the  list  will  be  doubled  with  which  to  begin  the 
year.  Feeling  assured  of  the  hearty  response,  we 
enter  upon  the  duties  of  the  New  Year  with  increased 

interest. 

*  *>  * 

MOTIVE    AND    METHOD. 


Did  you  ever  stop  to  think  that  life  is  made  up  of 
two  things,  viz,  what  you  are  going  to  do  and  how 
you  are  going  to  do  it.  In  other  words,  motive  and 
method.  Sometimes  these  things  are  decided  early 
in  life,  and  by  others  they  are  deferred  until  a  later 
pi  riod  ;  but  very  few  people  in  this  world  have  escaped 
either  one  or  both  of  them.  Some  people  apparently 
are  doing  nothing,  but  it  is  an  optical  delusion.  No- 
body can  exist  and  absolutely  do  nothing;  and  in  do- 
ing something  there  evidently  must  be  a  way  to  do  it. 
and  from  whatsoever  angle  you  care  to  view  it  the 
question  always  resolves  itself  back  to  the  same  fac- 
tors again,  motive  and  method.  And  when  you  have 
thought  of  life  as  it  touches  mankind  in  general  it 
is  easy  to  classify  men  under  four  heads: 

1. — Those  whose  motives  are  right  and  methods  are 
wrong. 

2. — Those  whose  methods  are  right  and  motives 
wrong. 

3. — Those  whose  motives  and  methods  .ire  both 
wrung. 

4. — Those  whose  motives  and  methods  are  both 
right. 

The  verv  fact  thai  we  have  different  political  parties, 
different  church  organizations  and  different  occu- 
pations, proves  conclusively  that  men  are  differently 
inclined  and  see  life  from  different  angles.  Dif- 
ferent ends  are  to  lie  achieved,  and  therefore  nun's 
motives  are  naturally  different. 

One  man's  motive  might  be  to  accomplish  things  in 


an  educational  way ;  another  man  in  a  religious  way, 
and  yet  another  in  a  political  way.  Each  of  these  pur- 
poses would  require  a  different  method  that  the  motive 
might  be  carried  to  its  fullest  usefulness.  In  this 
sense  motive  and  method  follow  each  other  largely, 
and  yet  the  fact  that  so  many  failures,  rather  than 
successes,  follow  undertakings  in  life,  is  evidence  that 
however  high  and  pure  a  man's  motive  may  be,  his 
method  of  obtaining  the  desired  results  may  be  so  poor 
as  to  reduce  his  motive  to  shame.  Many  a  man  has 
had  his  motives  impugned  simply  because  of  poor 
methods.  Some  men  have  not  learned  that  they  can- 
not do  everything.  They  have  failed  to  realize  that 
some  men  must  legislate  and  others  execute.  Legis- 
lative and  executive  ability  seldom  rest  in  the  same 
brain  in  any  considerable  degree. 

When  the  Puritans  first  came  to  this  country  their 
object  was  to  have  religious  liberty.  Their  motive 
was  all  right.  But  when  they  began  to  try  to  gain 
religious  liberty  at  the  point  of  the  sword,  their  method 
was  wrong.  A  man  may  have  had  poor  motives  in 
the  beginning,  and  aims  that  were  not  above  criti- 
cism and  desires  which  were  not  altogether  pure,  but 
by  his  peculiar  ability  along  constructive  lines  has 
made  his  methods  so  admirable  that  some  friend  has 
offered  his  criticism  in  such  a  palatable  way  that  it 
has  even  raised  the  motive  of  the  first  man  to  such  an 
extent  that  success  was  finally  his. 

John  Brown's  raid  had  for  its  motive  the  freeing 
of  the  slaves  :  and  while  no  one  can  question  his  motive, 
yet  his  method  of  doing  it  seems  to  be  very  question- 
able;  it  ended  in  defeat,  but  it  started  a  ball  rolling 
that  never  stopped  until  a  whole  race  of  slaves  were 
freed,  and  .a  nation  rejoices  in  the  result. 

There  are  other  cases  where  man's  motives  and 
methods  are  both  wrong.  Hundreds  of  these  are  to 
be  found  where  the  motives  were  low  and  the  base 
desires  of  mankind  have  led  their  methods  to  the  very 
1'  '■.-.  est  type,  and  unscrupulous  means  have  been  em- 
ployed to  1  1  cute  the  dictations  of  the  basest  mind. 
When  men's  motives  are  so  low  that  self-respect  and 
lect  of  others  are  left  out  of  the  question,  it  is  n<>t 
a  hard  thing  for  them  to  resort  to  any  sort  of  means 
to  carry  out  their  plans ;  and  while  they  may  appear  to 
be  gaining  fir  a. time,  nothing  can  be  surer  than  fail- 
ure as  the  result. 

But  the  brightest  aspect  which  can  be  pictured  is 
that  of  right  motives  and  right  methods  :  and  when  this 
is  true,  that  an  individual,  or  organization  or  even  a 
nation  has  a  pure  motive  to  begin  with  and 
is  along  right  methods,  yon  have  not  only  a  siiu- 
ful  finish,  but  a  hasty  one:  a  rightful  conclusion  will 
be  reached,  and  everybody  who  is  at  all  interested 
will  be  happy.  Let  us  endeavor  to  purifv  our  'un- 
lives and  perfect  our  methods. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— December  27,   1904. 


Ci^rient      E3:a,;pp>ezxlrxg,s 


Lee  Mooke,  an  engineer  on  the  Pennsylvania  rail- 
road, fell  from  the  cab  of  his  engine,  while  running  at 
the  rate  of  forty  miles  an  hour,  near  Lancaster,  Pa. 
He  was  seriously  injured  but  not  fatally.  The  fireman 
did  not  see  him  fall  and  ran  a  considerable  distance 

before  missing  him. 

4»  «$.   4. 

Rockefeller  Says  that  Tom  Lawson  reminds  him 
of  a  farmer,  when  he  was  a  boy,  who  complained  be- 
cause Rockefeller  would  not  buy  his  "  punky  "  wood. 

*  ♦  * 

Port  Arthur  is  a  stack  of  ruins.  Stoessel  has  de- 
liberately sacrificed  his  fleet.  The  Japs  have  lately- 
lost  twelve  thousand  men  and  the  Russians  two  thou- 
sand. 

*  *  * 

Various  portions  of  central  and  western  Pennsyl- 
vania are  suffering  from  a  long-continued  drought. 
It  has  not  rained  in  these  parts  for  so  long  a  period 
that  ordinary  relief  measures  are  now  inadequate. 
The  situation  is  becoming  alarming.  It  is  almost 
impossible  to  supply  the  railway  companies  with  water 
for  traffic  and  shop  needs.  In  some  places  the  water 
companies  have  driven  artesian  wells,  and  are  par- 
tially supplying  the  sufferers.  People  haul  water  in 
wagons  ten  miles  and  sell  it  for  fifty  cents  a  barrel ; 
others  melt  snow.  Prayers  are  being  offered  for  rain, 
in  the  different  churches. 

*  *   * 

John  H.  Wood,  president  and  cashier  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Matthews,  Ind.,  was  found  guilty  of 
violating  the  banking  laws   on   various   accounts,   in- 
cluding false  entries  and  misapplication  of  funds. 
+  ♦>  * 

William  T.  Harris,  United  States  Commissioner 
of  Education,  has  arranged  to  have  the  most  valuable 
features  at  the  World's  Fair  of  the  Palace  of  Educa- 
tion, set  up.  at  Asbury  Park,  in  July,  1905,  for  the 
benefit  of  the  National  Educational  Association  dur- 
ing its  next  annual  convention. 

*  *   * 

The  high  authorities  in  Washington  suggested 
joint  committees  of  both  Houses  of  Congress  to  study 
and  report  on  the  freight  rate  problem.  Hustle  up, 
boys,  we  need  some  revision  along  this  line. 

j$»    <*    4* 

At  Lahore,  Punjab,  district  of  British  India,  the  wife 
and  children  of  an  Episcopal  missionary,  Dr.  Benja- 
min, were  poisoned  by  a  native  Christian  schoolmaster 
who  had  recently  been  reprimanded  by  the  doctor. 


In  Philadelphia  a  home  for  Jewish,  friendless,  work- 
ing girls  has  been  dedicated. 

4»    «$»    <fr 

Severe  weather  on  the  Atlantic  last  week  is  re- 
ported. 

The  Rev.  Charles  Wagner,  French  author,  declared 
President  Roosevelt  the  greatest  statesman  in  the 
world. 

•J.    4.    «£ 

President  Harpfr,  of  Chicago,  recently  called  on 
John  D.  Rockefeller  at  New  York  which  resulted  in  a 
Christmas  gift  of  $3,000,000  to  the  University  of  Chi- 
cago. He  specified  that  the  money  should  be  used 
for  creating  a  school  of  engineering. 
♦♦♦  4.  *> 

It  is  reported  by  Captain  Risk,  of  the  Mallory  liner 
San  Jacinto,  who  arrived  at  New  York  last  week,  that 
he  observed  an  oil  geyser  bubbling  up  through  the 
waters  of  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  about  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  miles  southwest  of  the  Mississippi 
delta.  At  least  he  says  that  for  about  ten  minutes 
his  ship  plowed  through  a  sea  thick  with  crude  pe- 
troleum. The  Standard  Oil  Company  now  have  a 
new  proposition  besides  Thomas  W.  Lawson. 

*  ♦  * 

It  is  reported  by  the  newspapers  that  two  attempts 
have  been  made  of  late  at  the  life  of  Thomas  W.  Law- 
son,  because  of  his  exposition  of  the  great  frauds  of 
Standard  Oil.  Some  of  the  syndicates  are  inclined  to 
treat  the  matter  with  silent  contempt ;  some  want  to 
fight  it,  and  others  want  to  browbeat  it,  but  the 
chances  are  they  will  have  to  meet  it  fair  and  square. 

Charles  I.  had  his  Cromwell,  Rockefeller  his  Law- 
son,  and  Carnegie  his  Chadwick. 

While  Christmas  shoppers  were  in  the  height  of 
their  glory  in  Marshall  Fields'  great  store  in  Chicago, 
it  happened  that  the  lights  were  immediately  ex- 
tinguished. Many  of  the  shoppers  took  advantage  of 
the  darkness  and  helped  themselves  to  many  Christ- 
mas presents  and  succeeded  in  escaping  without 
arrest.  Others  went  frantic  with  excitement  for  fear 
they  would  be  robbed  or  lost.  Many  people  will  com- 
mit deeds  like  this  in  the  dark  who  would  not  think 
of  doing  so  in  the  light. 

*  *  * 

Twenty-four  Bulgarians  were  murdered  by  Greeks 
near  Sorovitch,  December  2. 


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1241 


An  automatic  letter  stamping  machine  is  on  trial  in 
New  Zealand,  which,  on  the  insertion  of  a  penny  in 
the  slot,  prints  a  frank  upon  the  envelope,  thus*  doing 
away  with  the  use  of  stamps  for  local  letter  postage. 
It  is  not  known  whether  this  will  prove  altogether 
satisfactory,  but  the  indications  are  that  it  will. 

♦  &  <$» 

The  house  in  which  Haydn,  the  great  music  com- 
poser died  at  Vienna,  is  not  to  be  pulled  down.  It 
has  been  bought  by  the  municipal  authorities  and  the 
Haydn  Museum  installed  in  the  three  rooms  once  oc- 
cupied by  the  composer. 

*  *   »> 
A  London  firm,  dealing  in  the  commodity  of  stamps, 

recently  bought  a  ton  from  the  Island  of  Cyprus.  For 
a  time  British  stamps  with  an  appropriate  surcharge 
were  in  use  there,  but  owing  to  change  in  the 
currency  from  pence  to  piastres  these  became  obsolete. 
A  London  firm  offered  $4,000  for  those  left  over'  there 
being  six  or  seven  million  stamps  in  the  lot,  and  they 
weighed  a  ton. 

*  *   * 

A  giant  mahogany  log  was  recently  received  in  New 
York  City.  It  measured  twenty-seven  feet  in  length 
and  seven  feet  six  inches  across  the  widest  part  of  the 
butt. 

•J*   *   * 

The  first  trackless  trolley  street  cars  have  been  put 
in  operation  in  Berlin  and  they  are  apparently  a  suc- 
cess. 

♦  ♦  * 

At  a  recent  sale  of  jewels  and  diamonds  of  the 
murdered  Queen  Draga's,  in  London  $6,100  was  real- 
ized from  the  sale  of  the  diamond  tiara  worn  at  her 
marriage  to  King  Alexander  of  Servia.  A  bracelet 
presented  to  her  by  the  Russian  emperor  on  the  same 
occasion  brought  $2,600.  Her  bridal  gown  brought 
$150,  while  her  state  costume  was  bought  for  $1,350. 


The  rule  established  by  Pope  Pius  X,  excluding 
women  from  Catholic  church  choirs,  has  been  accepted 
in  New  York  City.  In  the  Cathedral  a  choir  of  sixty 
male  voices  has  been  installed,  which,  added  in  the 
chancel  choir  of  sixty  boys,  makes  a  force  of  one  hun- 
.dred  and  twenty  singers. 

♦  <•  + 

William  Jennings  Bryan,  after  several  attempts, 
finally  succeeded  in  procuring  the  large  white  marble 
punch  bowl  that  once  belonged  to  Thomas  Jefferson. 
Good  thoughts  from  great  men  are  well  worth  keep- 
ing, but  the  mistakes  and  wrongs  of  a  great  man 
should  be  cast  away  as  readily  as  those  of  ordinary 
people. 


A  final  settlement  of  the  Alaskan  boundary  has 
been  reached.  A  small  section  of  this  boundary  had 
never  been  surveyed,  and  at  a  recent  meeting  of  the 
Alaskan  boundary  commissioners,  this  section  was 
not  determined  for  that  reason. 

*  ♦  ♦ 

William  Blakie,  the  well-known  lawyer  and  ad- 
vocate of  physical  culture  was  stricken  with  apo- 
plexy at  his  home  in  New  York.  He  was  the  author 
of  several  books  on  physical  culture  and  at  times  lec- 
tured on  the  same  subject,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
was  sixty-one  years  of  age. 

*  ♦  ♦ 

The  central  part  of  Russia  is  the  victim  of  a  famine. 
The  government  is  advancing  money  to  the  peasants 
with  which  to  purchase  food. 
4»  <$»  .> 

While  some  men  were  at  work  in  a  cage  or  ele- 
vator in  a  mine  at  Joliet,  III,  the  engineer  lost  con- 
trol of  the  machine  and  it  shot  to  the  top  of  the  tower, 
crushing  one  of  the  ten  occupants  to  death,  and  injur- 
ing the  other  nine.  The  men  believed  the  engineer 
to  be  careless  and  attempted  to  lynch  him,  but  were 
restrained  by  officers. 

•J*   •$»   •$» 
Sir  Alexander  Mackenzie  the  English  composer, 
is  to  make  another  tour  in  Canada.     He  will  produce 
his  "  Witch's  Daughter  "  and  a  new  "  Canadian  Rhap- 
sody "  for  orchestra,  founded  on  Canadian  airs. 

*  *   * 

The  Pontiac  Shoe  -Manufacturing  company's  factory 
at  Pontiac.  III.  was  burned  down  causing  a  loss  of 
$75,000.     The  employes.  300  in  all,  escaped  in  safety. 

*  *   * 

Sixteen  miners  lost  their  lives  in  an  explosion  which 
destroyed  a  coal  mine  at  Burnett,  Wash.  Twelve 
bodies  have  been  recovered. 

4»  ■>  <$> 

I  1  had  been  reported  that  Great  Britan  offered  Tur- 
key money  to  buy  Argentine  and  Chilean  warships  in 
return  for  concessions  which  would  permit  Great 
Britain  to  erect  a  second  Gibraltar  on  the  coast  .if 
Yemen.  The  officers  of  England  claim  thai  there  is 
no  foundation  for  such  rumors. 

*  +  * 

ARRANGEMENTS  are  being  made  to  connect  the 
United  States  and  Honolulu,  by  placing  a  wireless 
telegraph  station  on  one  of  the  Farralone  islands. 

*  *  * 

\  \iii. lion  dollar  medicine  company  has  been  in- 
corporated at  Camden,  V.  J. 


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HOME    DEPARTMENT 


WOMAN    PAYING    TELLER. 


A  woman  paying  teller  is  the  novelty  that  has  been 
introduced  in  a  Milwaukee  bank.  The  woman  is 
young,  pretty  and  expert.  In  her  new  position  she  is 
succeeding  wonderfully. 

"  This  woman,"  said  the  cashier  of  the  bank,  "  was 
hired  by  me  because  by  actual  test  she  has  proved  that 
she  could  count  money  faster  than  any  man  I  know. 
She  counted  $1,000  in  a  mixed  packet  of  silver  and 
notes  in  five  minutes.  It  took  our  best  man  teller  six 
minutes  to  count  a  similar  packet. 

"  In  the  Treasury  Department  at  Washington  wom- 
en do  all  the  money  counting.  They  were  introduced 
into  the  department  by  General  Spinner  in  a  season 
when  men  were  scarce.  It  did  not  take  them  long  to 
prove  that  their  slender  and  supple  fingers  could  count 
money  with  a  speed  that  no  man  ever  equaled  and 
eventually,  in  this  line  of  work,  they  ousted  the  men 
altogether. 

"  A  certain  sheet  of  paper — the  sheet  out  of  which 
bank  notes  are  made — is  counted  in  the  Treasury  De- 
partment by  women  52  times.  An  expert  can  count 
90,000  of  these  sheets  a  day. 

"  Our  woman  paying  teller  here  learned  to  count  in 
the  Treasury  Department  and  she  learned  well. 

Often,  for  a  joke,  she  has  a  counting  contest  with 
one  of  our  men.  In  not  one  of  these  contests  has  she 
yet  been  beaten." 

*  *  ♦ 

USEFUL    HINTS. 


In  the  case  of  a  wound  of  the  face  try  to  arrest 
the  bleeding  at  once  by  pressing  on  the  face  artery 
against  the  edge  of  the  lower  jawbone,  about  two 
inches  back  from  the  chin.  If  this  fails  put  your 
finger  on  the  bleeding  point  and  compress  it  till  the 
bleeding  can  be  otherwise  stopped. 

If  a  person  is  poisoned  by  phosphorus  (ends  of 
matches  and  rat  paste  contain  this  poison),  never  give 
oil  of  any  kind.  Empty  the  stomach  and  give  plenty 
of  magnesia  dissolved  in  water.  Half  a  teaspoonful 
of  turpentine  in  milk  may  be  given,  say  every  half 
hour,  until  four  doses  have  been  taken. 

Many  poisoning  accidents  occur  through  people  not 
keeping  poisons  under  lock  and  key.  Even  carbolic 
acid  should  be  kept  locked  up,  because  it  is  often  taken 
in  mistake  for  some  harmless  fluid.  Also,  it  would  be 
well  if  the  remedy  and  antidote  for  every  poison  were 
printed  on  the  label  of  the  bottle  containing  it. 


In  the  case  of  a  poisoned  wound  of  any  kind  let 
it  bleed  freely,  to  wash  out  the  poison,  and  suck  the 
wound.  You  may  do  this  without  fear  if  you  have  no 
cuts  or  abrasions  about  the  mouth,  for  such  poisons 
only  act  when  they  are  introduced  into  the  blood,  as 
through  a  wound.  Then  tie  a  bandage  fairly  tightly 
between  the  wounded  part  and  the  rest  of  the  body, 
to  prevent  the  spread  of  the  poison. 

Cauterizing  the  wound  is  important  to  destroy  the 
poison,  after  we  have  got  as  much  of  the  poison  out 
as  possible  by  sucking  and  washing  it.  Use  strong 
carbolic  acid  (carefully,  of  course),  while  in  case  of  a 
serpent  bite  or  mad-dog  bite  it  would  be  safest  to  burn 
the  wound  with  a  red-hot  wire. 

In  cases  of  bleeding,  remember  this  golden  rule : 
That  if  the  blood  is  light  red  color  and  comes  from 
a  wound  in  jets  you  must  act  at  once  by  compressing 
the  part  between  the  wound  and  the  heart  with  your 
fingers,  and  thereafter  apply  a  tourniquet  or  bandage 
in  the  same  situation,  and  as  near  the  wound  as  need 
be.  The  blood  is  coming  from  the  heart,  and  it  is 
an  artery  which  has  been  wounded,  therefore  you  must 
apply  pressure  between  the  wound  and  the  heart. 
Press  the  blood  vessel  against  the  nearest  bone,  or, 
if  you  are  in  doubt  what  to  do  press  on  the  wound 
itself  and  stop  the  bleeding  at  once.  A  very  short 
time  may  suffice  to  kill  us  when  an  artery  is  wounded. 

When  you  find  a  man  in  the  street  lying  senseless, 
with  a  flushed  and  reddened  face,  breathing  heavily 
with  a  snoring  sound,  and  with  one  arm  and  leg  ap- 
parently paralyzed  and  helpless,  you  are  face  to  face 
with  a  fit  of  apoplexy.  Something  has  occurred  with- 
in the  brain  producing  the  "  stroke,"  as  it  is  called, 
and  the  paralysis  of  one  side  (sometimes  both  sides 
are  paralyzed)  is  the  result  of  the  injury  to  the  op- 
posite side  of  the  brain.  Now  in  such  a  case  never 
give  stimulants — we  mean  whiskey  or  brandy,  or  any- 
thing of  that  kind.  If  you  do  you  will  kill  the  patient. 
Remove  him  very  gently  to  his  home,  put  him  to  bed 
in  a  darkened  room,  keep  his  head  high,  and  apply 
cold  cloths  to  his  head.  Avoid  all  noise  and  excite- 
ment, and  let  the  room  be  cool  and  well  ventilated. 
Send  for  a  doctor  at  once.  The  two  points  of  impor- 
tance in  an  apoplectic  fit  are  gentleness  in  removing 
the  patient  and  no  stimulants. 
*   *  * 

Find  God  everywhere  in  the  circling  eddy,  in  the 
rising  mist,  in  the  opening  flower  petal,  in  the  closing 
seed  pod,  in  singing  bird,  in  swimming  fish,  in  scud- 
ding cloud. — Augusta  T.  Webster. 


THE    INGLENOOK.— December  ?j,  1904. 


1243 


CONQUEST. 


A  tone   of  pride   or   petulance   repressed, 

A  selfish  inclination   firmly  fought, 

A  shadow  of  annoyance  set  at  naught, 

A  measure  of  disquietude  suppressed; 

A  peace  in  importunity  possessed, 

A    reconcilement    generously    sought, 

A   purpose   put  aside — a  banished   thought, 

A  word  of  self-explaining  unexpressed; 

Trifles,  they  seem,  these  petty  soul-restraints, 

Yet  he  who  proves  them  so  must  needs  possess 

A  constancy  and  courage  grand  and  bold, 

They  are  the  trifles  that  have  made  saints, 

Give  me  to  practice  them  in  humbleness, 

And  nobler  power  than  mine  doth  no  man  hold. 

— Selected. 
♦  *  * 

QUAINT    CUSTOMS. 


In  certain  districts  in  England  a  mixture  of  butter, 
sugar,  spices  and  rum,  called  "  rum  butter,"  is  made 
when  a  child  is  born.  A  special  bowl  of  the  delicacy 
is  hidden  in  some  out-of-the-way  place  in  the  house. 
Then  a  number  of  young  fellows  of  the  neighbor- 
hood search  for  it.  Sometimes  they  succeed  in  lo- 
cating it  and  at  ether  times  they  fail.  After  eating  the 
rum  butter,  a  collection  is  made  among  those  present, 
and  the  money  contributed  is  placed  in  the  bowl 
for  the  newborn  child,  and  returned  along  with  the 
bowl  to  the  house  where  it  was  procured. 

At  Kirkham  parish  church  in  England  the  greater 
portion  of  the  pew  rents,  instead  of  swelling  the  ex- 
chequer of  the  church,  go  into  the  pockets  of  private 
individuals  who  for  the  most  part  do  not  attend  the 
chbrch  or  even  reside  in  the  district.  The  peculiar 
situation  originated  in  1823,  when,  to  meet  the  ex- 
penses of  rebuilding  the  church,  about  40  pews  and 
a  few  organ  seats  were  put  up  for  auction  and  realized 
amounts  varying  from  $165  to  $900. 

Another  custom  yet  observed  in  the  district  is  that  of 
visiting  the  hives  of  bees  when  a  death  occurs  and 
of  whispering  the  news  to  the  bees  and  also  telling 
them  when  the  corpse  is  to  be  lifted  for  interment.  If 
this  is  not  done  it  is  urged  that  bad  luck  will  follow. 
•>  *5»  $ 
LEATHER    NOT    LASTING. 


The  man  who  was  the  originator  of  the  expression 
"  Nothing  like  leather  "  would  have  to  eat  his  words 
if  he  was  around  at  the  present  time,  for  just  now 
there  is  a  general  howl  from  the  people  who  make 
use  of  leather  extensively  because  of  the  manner  in 
which  they  are  imposed  upon  in  the  matter  of  leather 
adulteration.  Fine  bookbinding  is  now  recognized  as 
one  of  the  arts,  and  those  who  follow  the  pursuit  com- 
plain bitterly  of  the  quality  of  the  leather  which  is 
sold  for  the  purpose.     It  has  none  of  the  enduring 


qualities  with  which  it  is  supposed  to  be  endowed, 
and  when  put  into  the  binding  of  a  book  soon  shows 
the  effects  of  time's  ravages.  The  color  soon  changes 
and  a  marked  deterioration  is  noticeable  in  the  leather. 
It  has  been  stated  that  in  order  to  secure  a  desirable 
article  in  leather  it  is  necessary  to  resort  to  that  which 
is  tanned  by  the  semi-savage  tribes  of  the  world,  and 
as  the  supply  from  this  source  is  somewhat  scanty, 
the  price  asked  places  it  out  of  reach  of  the  artisan. 

The  hide  and  leather  trade  of  Australia  has  been 
threatened  by  this  adulteration  by  the  use  of  chloride 
of  barium,  which  simplifies  the  tanning  operation,  and 
at  the  same  time  adds  weight  to  the  skin.  There  are 
protests  from  two  different  sources  relative  to  this 
deception.  Countries  of  the  East  which  formerly 
accepted  the  Australian  hides  are  beginning  to  re- 
ject them  and  the  trade  is  feeling  the  effects  of  this 
seriously.  At  the  same  time  it  has  been  found  that  the 
dust  from  the  skins  has  a  poison  of  considerable  ac- 
tivity and  is  disastrous  to  those  who  are  compelled 
to  breathe  the  air  arising  from  them.  This  affects  the 
workmen  who  are  employed  in  the  tanneries  as  well  as 
those  who  have  occasion  to  handle  the  skins  after  the 
tanning  operation. 

It  is  sometimes  claimed  that  a  garden  becomes  too 
rich,  and  that  it  produce's  an  enormous  growth  of  vine, 
with  but  little  seeds  or  fruit.  The  difficulty  is  that 
the  garden  contains  an  excess  of  some  kind  of  plant 
foods.  Rotate  the  crops  or  make  the  garden  in  a  new 
location,  growing  corn,  potatoes  and  cabbage  succes- 
sively on  the  old  location,  when  it  may  be  used  as  a 
garden  plot  again.  It  is  doubtful,  however,  if  a  gar- 
den can  be  too  rich. 

V   **•    V 

Here  is  a  remedy  from  good  authority  for  removing 
that  ugly  dark  stain  that  disfigures  the  neck  of  the 
woman  who  has  been  wearing  high  collars.  Take 
fresh  strained  cucumber  juice,  boil  it  for  five  minutes, 
and  for  every  five  ounces  of  juice  add :  Pulverized 
borax,  175  grains;  acetate  of  soda.  90  grains,  tincture 
of  quillaja,  2j4  ounces ;  tincture  of  benzoin:  4  drams ; 
rosewater,  I  pint.  Mix  thoroughly  and  apply  two  or 
three  times  a  day  until  the  stain  is  removed. 

*  *   * 

A  cupful  of  ordinary  rock  salt  is  an  invaluable 
addition  to  the  bath.  It  is  especially  soothing  to  a  per- 
son with  jaded  nerves  and  will  often  insure  a  restful 
sleep  to  an  invalid  or  a  child.  The  salt  should  be  dis- 
solved and  thoroughly  mixed  with  the  water,  which 
in  a  measure  takes  the  place  of  sea  bathing. 

*  *  * 

The  most  expensive  lace  manufactured  to-day  is 
valued  at  $5,000  a  yard. 


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THE    INGLENOOK.— December  27,  1904. 


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i;  Reading  Circle  and  Christian  Workers'  Topics 


By      ELIZABETH       J>.       BOSENBEBGEB 

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A    GOOD     NAME. 
January  8.  Prov.  22:  1;  Eccl.  7:   1. 

I.  A  Name  Without  Character. 

1.  Haman Esther  3 :  1 

2.  Cain Gen.  4:  5;  1  John  3:  12 

3.  King  Agrippa,  Acts  26:  28 

4."  Felix,   Acts  24:  26 

5.  Ananias  and  Sapphira,  Acts  S:  3,  4 

II.  A  Name  Because  of  Character. 

1.  Daniel Dan.   1 :  8 

2.  Mordecai,    Esther   6:   34 

3.  Robert  Miller. 

4.  James  Quinter. 

III.  A  Name  Before  Riches. 

1.  Moses,  Heb.  11:  24,  25 

2.  Barnabas,   Acts  4:  36,  37 

3.  Missionaries  for  Christ. 

4.  Adoniram  Judson. 

5.  William  Carey. 

6.  Others. 

7.  Us. 

Topic. — A  Good  Name. 

Text. — A  good  name  is  rather  to  be  chosen  than  great 
riches,  and  loving  favour  rather  than  silver  and  gold. 
Proverbs  22:  1. 

References. 

Ecclesiastes  7:1.  Acts  4:  36,  37.  Ecclesiastes  11: 
9.  Psalms  15:  1-3.  Romans  13:  10.  Luke  10:  27. 
Matthew  7:  12.  Acts  26:  28.  Acts  5:  3,  4.  Daniel 
1 :  8.     Hebrews  11:  24,  25. 

Is  It  Worth  While? 

What  did  you  say,  my  friend?  Is  it  worth  while 
to  try  to  have  a  good  name?  I  am  not  sure  whether 
I  know  just  what  you  mean  by  that.  There  was  John 
Streeter  who  always  agreed  with  everything  you 
said,  and  with  everybody  he  met,  and  who  was 
always  flattering  you  until  you  couldn't  help  liking 
him  immensely ;  but  when  you  happened  to  tell  the 
other  boys  what  a  good  fellow  John  was,  you  noticed 
that  those  who  knew  him  longest,  did  not  respond  to 
your  enthusiastic  praise  and  as  time  passed  you  dis- 
covered that  John  was  giving  his  whole  endeavor  and 
most  of  his  time  to  the  task  of  becoming  popular; 
and  when  you  depended  on  him,  he  failed  you.  Now 
you  do  not  like  him  as  well  as  you  once  did.  Once 
in  speaking  of  Jesus,  they  said,  "  He  made  himself  of  no 
reputation."  That  means,  that  he  was  so  busy  going 
about  doing  good  and  teaching  the  people,  that  he  nev- 
er gave  a  thought  to  his  reputation,  he  let  that  take  care 
of  itself.  Manhood  is  above  all  riches  and  overtops 
all  titles.  Character  is  greater  than  any  career,  or 
great  name.     Are  not  the  characters  of  great  men  the 


dowry  of  our  nation  ?  To  Washington,  Jefferson  once 
wrote,  "  The  confidence  of  the  whole  nation  centers 
in  you."  Of  Abraham  Lincoln,  his  great  antagonist, 
Stephen  A.  Douglas  said  that  there  was  safety  in  the 
very  atmosphere  of  the  man. 

Back  It  Up. 

This  was  the  effect  that  the  name  of  the  builder  had 
upon  the  sale  of  a  house.  "  Gentlemen,"  said  the  auc- 
tioneer, "  I  am  offered  but  $5000  for  this  houses — 
a  house  built  by  Henry  McGovern ;  who  will  give  me 
$5500?" 

A  gentleman  nodded  in  the  affirmative. 

"  Fifty-five  hundred  I  have,  who  will  give  me 
$6000?" 

Another  gentleman  nodded. 

In  a  few  minutes  the  house  was  sold  for  $6700, 
$1700  more  than  it  would  have  brought  if  any  one 
else  had  built  it. 

"  Why  is  it?  "    I  asked. 

"  You  must  be  a  stranger  about  here,"  was  the 
answer.  "  McGovern  has  a  great  reputation  as  a 
builder,  and  justly  so.  If  he  builds  a  house  you  can 
be  sure  that  honest  work  has  been  put  into  it  from 
the  cellar  to  the  ridgepole."  Honest,  faithful  work! 
Character  must  stand  behind  and  back  up  everything, 
the  house,  the  poem,  the  picture  and  the  sermon.  No'ne 
of  them  is  worth  a  straw  without  it. 

"  True  worth  is  in  being,  not  seeming." 

Every   Day. 
"Ho!  for  the  battles  of  every  day, 
On  the  fields  of  up  and  doing; 
Ho!  for  the  courage  that  meets  the  fray, 
Ho!  for  the  captains  that  lead  the  way 
To  the  striving  and  pursuing. 

"  Well  for  the  soldier  that  takes  his  place 

As  a  sturdy  truth  defender, 
Meeting  the  enemy  face  to  face, 
Not  to  retreat  for  a  single  pace 

Till  the  foe  says,  '  I  surrender.'  " 

Get  a  Good  Name  and  Keep  It. 

Many  years  ago  in  a  little  log  schoolhouse,  a  boy 
at  the  foot  of  the  class  unexpectedly  spelled  a  word 
that  had  passed  down  the  entire  class. 

"  Go  up  head,"  said  the  master,  "  and  see  that  you 
stay  there,  you  can  if  you  work  hard  enough." 

And  though  the  brighter  scholars  in  the  class  knew 
every  word  in  the  succeeding  lessons,  it  was  of  no  avail. 
Dave,  who  was  a  poor  speller  before,  now  knew  every 


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word.     And  he  kept  his  place  at  the  head  of  the  class ; 
to-day  he  is  the  manager  of  a  big  lumber  company. 

More  Than  Rubies. 
A  good  name  is  a  precious  heirloom.  How  honored 
some  of  our  members  are  because  they  are  descend- 
ants of  Christopher  Saur,  or  James  Quinter.  Let  us 
strive  to  rise  to  higher  levels.  Good  habits  are  not 
made  on  birthdays  nor  Christian  character  at  the  New 
Year.  The  vision  may  dawn,  the  dream  may  waken, 
but  the  common  days,  the  wearisome  paths,  plain  old 
tools,  and  everyday  clothes  must  tell  the  real  story. 
What  we  are,  our  real  selves  are  being  wrought  out 
on  these  common  days.  If  we  can  stand  the  strain  of 
daily  life  we  are  making  for  ourselves  a  name  that  shall 
be  blessed.  Begin  now,  by  doing  your  best,  so  shall 
you  become  worthy  of  bearing  a  good  name. 

"  Good  name  in  man  or  woman,  dear,  my  lord, 
Is  the  immediate  jewel  of  their  souls. 
Who  steals  my  purse  steals  trash, 
'Tis  something,  nothing! 

But   he   who   filches   from   me   my   good   name 
Robs  me  of  that  which  not  enriches  him, 
But  leaves  me  poor  indeed." 

— Shakespeare. 

Topics  for  Discussion. 

1.  Name  some  of  the  qualities  which  entitle  a  man 
to  bear  a  good  name.     Titus  2:7;  Heb.  10 :  22-25. 

2.  Explain  why  a  good  name  is  worth  more  than 
money. 

3.  Is  it  best  rather  to  suffer  wrong,  than  to  do  some- 
thing dishonorable?     1  Peter  2:  21-23. 

4.  What  about  Abraham's  good  name?     Gen.   12: 

i-3- 

5.  What  did  God  say  about  Job  ?    Job  1 :  8. 

6.  Name  some  of  the  good  men  spoken  of  in  the 
Bible. 

7.  Mention  some  good  women  spoken  of  in  the  Bible. 

*  <S*  * 
THE   BUREAU    OF    EMPLOYMENT. 


Reports   from   our  Workers. 

Sister  Mary  Cook  of  Prairie  Depot,  Ohio,  says,  "  I 
will  never  regret  the  time  so  profitably  spent  in  reading 
the  books  outlined  in  the  course.  I  prize  the  certificate 
because  of  the  associations  connected  with  it.  Some 
of  our  dear  young  members  are  reading  the  old  books 
in  the  old  course,  can  they  get  credit  for  the  old  books, 
or  must  they  take  up  the  work  outlined  in  this  year 
in  order  to  get  a  certificate  ?  " 

We  are  very  glad  that  the  old  course  is  so  well  es- 
tablished. Yes,  you  get  credit  for  every  book  read, 
and  they  count  towards  your  certificate,  the  old  books 
just  the  same  as  those  in  the  new  course. 

Brother  J.  L.  Garrison  shows  the  right  spirit  when 
he  says  in  writing  from  Bridgcwater,  "  I  am  now  here 
at  school  and  if  I  see  an  opportunity  to  be  of  any  serv- 


ice to  the  Circle  here,  I  will  gladly  take  advantage  of 
it." 

Sister  Libbie  Hollopeter,  of  Pentz,  Pa.,  is  one  of  our 
secretaries  who  has  the  work  at  heart.  She  says, 
"  Our  church  is  in  the  village  of  Rockton,  our  member- 
ship is  small.  I  send  you  some  more  names,  my  moth- 
er aged  seventy-one  will  be  one  of  our  Circle  readers." 

Sister  Katie  S.  Grossnickle,  of  Boonsboro,  Md.,  says, 
"  We  started  a  Christian  Worker's  meeting  this  sum- 
mer, it  has  been  moving  along  nicely.  I  feel  sure  God 
will  be  pleased  with  our  services  wherever  it  is  if  it 
is  the  best  we  can  give." 

Sister  Carrie  M.  Wentz,  of  Hooversville,  Pa.,  sends 
lis  two  names  and  is  much  interested  in  the  outcome 
of  our  efforts. 

Sister  Nora  Brown  of  Navarre,  Kan-.,  says,  "  We 
have  quite  a  large  membership  in  our  congregation  at 
this  place,  but  there  are  only  a  few  Circle  members. 
I  send  you  my  own  name :  we  pray  for  more  zeal  and 
earnestness." 

Sister  Elsie  Brindle,  of  Chambersburg,  Pa.,  says, 
"  I  am  glad  to  send. you  one  new  name,  that  of  Nellie 
Morgan,  she  is  a  colored  sister  and  one  of  the  very  best 
noble-hearted  girls,  I  know.  She  has  a  great  desire  to 
be  of  use  to  her  own  people,  but  her  education  has 
been  neglected,  and  she  is  without  means  to  remedy 
this.  You  will  pardon  this  lengthy  explanation,  but 
she  has  always  seemed  to  me  worthy  of  our  attention." 

Brother  Charles  Beagle,  of  Somerset,  Pa.,  says. 
"  We  should  be  true  soldiers  of  the  cross.  Long  ago 
Christians  laid  down  their  lives  at  Jesus'  feet  and  be- 
came martyrs  for  his  cause.  Where  is  our  faith? 
Where  are  our  works  ?  " 

Brother  J.  L.  Garrison.  Elgin,  111.,  says,  "  Brethren 
Gravbill  Royer  and  Grant  Mahan  have  the  season's 
work  in  charge  at  this  place.  A  number  of  young 
poeple  have  come  in  our  midst,  and  we  intend  to  ask 
them  to  join  our  Circle.  We  have  the  talent  and  the 
time  to  accomplish  some  work  here." 

NEW    NAMES. 

2551  Wm.  J.  N.  McCann,  Covington,  N.  Dak. 

2552  Nannie  Lefollette,  Sycamore,  Ohio. 

2553  Frank  Beer,  Rockton,  Pa. 

2554  Brison  Huey,  Rockton,  Pa. 

2555  Caroline  Beer,  Rockton,  Pa. 

2556  Harry  B.  Yoder,  Lancaster,  Pa. 

2557  Loretta  Justice,  R.  R.  No.  2.  Spencer,  Ohio. 

2558  Jacob  Misscner,  Lancaster,  Pa. 

2559  Emanuel  George,  Lancaster,  Pa. 

2560  W.  C.  Denlinger,  R.  R.  No.  4,  Dayton,  Ohio. 
2561'  Alonzo  Fyock,  Hooversville.  Pa. 

2562  W.  W.  Carpenter,  Hooversville,  Pa. 

2563  Nora  Brown,  Navarre.  Kans. 

2564  Grace  Forney,  Lordsburg,  Cal. 

2565  Stella  Myers,  Lordsburg.  Cal. 

2566  Nellie  Morgan,  Kauffman,  Pa. 

2567  Jason  Hollopeter,  Pentz,  Pa. 

(To  be  Continued.) 


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YOUNG    PEOPLE     i 


THE    GEOGRAPHY    CLASS.— Chapter  VIII. 


Queenstown,  Ireland. 
Dear   Mr.   Maxwell, — 

Oscar  said  that  I  have  made  my  letters  too  long  and 
if  I  do  you  will  please  let  me  know.  Honestly  we  see 
so  many  things  that  are  all  new  and  strange  to  us  that 
I  can  hardly  stop  writing  when  I  get  commenced. 

I  believe  the  last  thing  I  told  you  in  the  other  letter 
was  that  an  announcement  was  made  on  board  of  the 
death  of  an  old  lady,  and  that  she  was  to  be  buried  the 
next  morning.  We  made  Miss  Merritt  promise  to  wake 
us  early  the  next  morning  so  that  we  could  see  a  burial 
at  sea.  She  arranged  it  by  pressing  a  button  which  called 
a  steward,  who  promised  Miss  Gertrude  that  he  would 
call  all  of  our  party  just  a  little  before  daylight  in  the 
morning.  Sure  enough  he  was  on  time.  We  dressed 
hastily  and  hurried  to  the  deck  aft.  We  were  surprised 
to  find  that  hundreds  of  people  were  of  the  same  notion 
as  we  were.  The  deck  was  crowded  from  the  hatch  to 
the  taffrail.  The  captain  and  the  first  and  second  officer 
stood  on  the  rear  bridge.  Presently  a  sailor  ordered  an 
aisle  to  be  opened  through  the  crowd  that  the  pall-bearers 
might  pass  through. 

Agnes,  who  was  standing  immediately  behind  me,  and 
who  was  fairly  trembling  with  a  mixture  of  anxiety  and 
fear,  whispered,  "  Here  they  come."  There  were  four 
sailors  dressed  in  uniform,  led  by  the  surgeon  and  purser, 
who  carried  the  corpse  on  a  rude  form  of  bier  made  of 
two  poles  and  a  piece  of  canvas.  The  remains  were  not 
enclosed  by  a  coffin,  but  were  carefully  wound  with  broad 
tape  made  of  some  sort  of  ducking  or  canvas  and  tied  and 
sewed  securely;  to  the  feet  were  tied  large  chunks  of 
lead  weighing  several  pounds.  A  temporary  platform  was 
affixed  to  the  rear  of  the  vessel;  the  body  was  placed  upon 
the  platform.  As  soon  as  this  was  done  the  ship's  doctor 
waved  his  hand  to  the  captain  who  was  standing  on  the 
bridge.  The  captain  immediately  turned  around  to  the 
telephone  which  led  to  the  engine  rooms  below.  Instant- 
ly the  monster  engines  which  propel  the  great  palace 
through  the  waters  of  the  deep  ceased  their  thud,  thud, 
thud  and  all  was  still  as  our  cemeteries  on  land. 

The  lady  who  had  died  was  a  Catholic,  therefore  a  Cath- 
olic priest  offered  a  short  prayer,  and  one  end  of  the 
platform  was  lowered  to  the  surface  of  the  water.  Quick- 
ly, but  quietly,  the  body  slipped  off  the  platform  and  went 
down,  down,  down,  to  accompany  the  other  secrets  of 
the  deep,  and  await  the  resurrection  of  the  just  and  the 
unjust.  "  Isn't  that  awful?  "  said  Agnes,  to  which  Roscoe 
replied,  "  What's  the  difference  whether  you  are  buried 
in  the  ground,  a  stone  vault,  a  steel  casket,  a  watery 
grave,  a  fiery  furnace,  or  whether  you  be  torn  to  pieces 
by  wild  animals?  The  results  are  the  same  with  God  and 
with  yourself." 

An  hour  or  two  after  breakfast,  while  we  were  on  deck 
watching  the  vessels  pass,  because  there  were  many  of 
them  that  morning,  some  one  shouted,  "Land  ahead!" 
Miss  Gertrude  hurried  to  the  state  rooms  and  brought 
the  telescope  with  which  we  could  plainly  see  in  the  dis- 


tance the  heath-covered  hills  of  the  Emerald  Isle.  There 
is  something  beautiful  about  looking  across  a  blue  sheet 
of  water  to  a  brown  coast  line,  covered  with  small,  white- 
washed houses  here  and  there  on  the  hillside.  Half  way 
between  us  and  the  mainland  is  a  lighthouse.  As  we 
passed  the  lighthouse  we  noticed  our  sailors  raising  a 
series  of  small  flags,  on  a  rope  leading  to  the  top  of  the 
mast.  Oscar,  as  usual,  was  asking  plenty  of  questions, 
and  he  found  out  by  asking  one  of  the  deck  hands  that 
these  flags  spelled  CELTIC.  This  was  done  so  that 
the  keeper  of  the  lighthouse  could  telegraph  to  the  of- 
ficers in  the  harbor  at  Queenstown  that  the  Celtic  was 
coming,  that  she  was  a  passenger  vessel,  a  mail  vessel, 
a  friend  and  not  an  enemy,  and  that  they  were  to  send  a 
lighter. 

The  tide  was  out  at  the  hour  of  our  arrival,  which 
prevented  the  Celtic  from  entering  the  harbor.  So  the 
lighter  met  us  outside  of  the  harbor  and  took  off  the 
Irish  mail  and  all  the  passengers  that  were  bound  for 
Ireland. 

They  strapped  the  lighter  to  the  Celtic,  threw  a  gang 
plank  across  and  we  marched  up  the  chute,  something 
like  Mr.  Thompson  loads  hogs  at  Mayville.  About  two 
hundred  and  fifty  of  us  changed  vessels,  and  when  the 
mail  was  exchanged  we  were  cut  loose  and  we  waved  a 
farewell  to  the  faithful  old  ship  which  had  been  our  home 
for  a  week  and  one  day.  A  few  moments  and  we  entered 
the  beautiful  harbor  at  Queenstown.  And  I  tell  you, 
Mr.  Maxwell,  you  can  read  all  the  descriptions  of  harbors 
you  want  to,  or  spill  your  eloquence  orally  or  through 
the  ink  bottle,  but  any  attempt  at  a  description  of  this 
harbor  would  be  a  disgrace  to  what  nature  has  done. 

The  harbor  lies  in  the  form  of  a  horseshoe,  with  Fort 
Carlisle  on  the  right  and  Fort  Camden  on  the  left.  In 
the  center  lies  Spike  Island.  All  three  of  these  are  raised 
high  above  their  surroundings  by  the  hand  of  nature. 
The  government  of  England  has  crowned  them  all  with 
the  best  fortifications  they  can  afford,  which,  of  course, 
are  as  good  as  the  world  affords.  I  heard  the  boys  say 
that  this  harbor  would  be  harder  to  take  than  Gibraltar. 
They  said  the  entire  British  navy  could  be  hidden  in  this 
harbor  and  the  enemy  would  be  ignorant  of  the  fact,  until 
it  was  too  late.  The  harbor  is  surrounded  by  the  pictur- 
esque city  of  Queenstown,  which  is  built  entirely  of  brick 
or  stone  houses  in  such  a  way  that  the  tops  of  the  houses 
on  First  street  are  just  even  with  Second  street,  and  the 
tops  of  the  houses  on  Second  street  even  with  Third 
street,  and  so  on,  rising  in  tiers,  one  above  the  other,  which 
renders  it  possible  to  see  almost  every  house  in  town 
before  you  land. 

The  funniest  thing  happened  just  as  we  landed.  When 
the  boat  pulled  up  to  the  wharf,  which  was  crowded  with 
anxious  people,  about  forty  or  fifty  sons  of  Erin  leaned 
over  the  taffrail  and  looked  anxiously  into  the  faces  of 
the  multitude,  endeavoring  to  find  some  signs  of  recog- 
nition. Occasionally  from  the  crowd  would  come  the 
shout,  "  Michael  O'Flarety,"  "  Patrick  Muldoon,"  "  John- 
nie McCarthy,"  etc.  A  hand  would  go  up  with  a  hat  'in 
it  as  a  shout  of  triumph  escaped  the  lips  of  the  happy 
one  who  had  found  his  friends.  As  we  walked  down  the 
gang  plank  poor  Agnes  drew  a  long  breath  and  said, 
"  Now  we  are  strangers  in  a  strange  land." 


P.  S. — We  have  a  good  joke  on  Roscoe. 
(To   be   Continued.) 


Marie  Stewart. 


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«^J  Tfts  Q*  <&  &♦  Uepcirtment*  MK* 


How  did  the  idea  of  a  poet-laureate  originate?  Please 
name  those  of  England  from  the  beginning. 

The  name  means  "  the  poet  of  the  laurel  wreath," 
and  arose  from  a  custom  of  the  early  Greeks  to  crown 
with  a  laurel  wreath  the  successful  poet  in  a  contest. 
This  custom  was  adopted  by  the  Romans  during  the 
Empire.  The  title  of  "  poet-laureate  "  originated  in 
Germany  in  the  twelfth  century,  when  Henry  V. 
crowned  his  historian  as  poet-laureate,  and  Frederick 
I.  the  monk  Gunther,  who  had  celebrated  his  deeds 
in  verse.  The  title  did  not  assume  importance,  how- 
ever, until  the  crowning  of  Petrarch  with  great  pomp 
in  Rome  (1341).  Later  the  privilege  of  conferring 
the  degree  of  Poeta-Laureatus  was  given  to  continen- 
tal and  English  universities. 

According  to  tradition  the  first  poet-laureate  of 
England  was  Geoffrey  Chaucer,  who  is  said  to  have 
been  crowned  by  Edward  III.  Henry  Scogan  is  men- 
tioned as  poet-laureate  of  Henry  VI.  John  Kay  was 
court  poet  under  Edward  IV.,  and  Andrew  Bernard 
under  Henry  VII.  and  VIII.  John  Skelton  received 
the  title  of  poet-laureate  from  Oxford  and  Cambridge. 
Spenser  was  called  the  poet-laureate  of  Queen  Eliza- 
beth. It  was  not  an  established  office,  however,  un- 
til 1619,  when  James  I.  granted  Ben  Johnson  an  an- 
nuity of  600  marks  for  life,  by  patent,  as  poet-laureate. 
In  1630  the  laureateship  was  made  a  patent  office  in 
the  gift  of  the  Lord  Chamberlain,  and  the  salary  was 
increased  to  one  hundred  pounds,  but  was  later  reduced 
to  twenty-seven  pounds.  The  office  is  now  the  honor- 
ary gift  of  the  king,  with  a  salary  of  one  hundred 
and  twenty-seven  pounds.  The  laureates  of  Eng- 
land are  as  follows:  Ben  Johnson,  1630-1637;  Wm. 
Davenant,  1637-1668;  John  Dryden.  1670-1688;  Thos. 
Shadwell,  1689-1692;  Nahum  Bate.  1693-1714;  Nicho- 
las Rowe,  1714-1718;  Lawrence  Eusden,  1716-1730; 
Colley  Cibber,  1730-1757;  Wm.  Whitenead  1758-83: 
Thomas  Wharton,  1785-90;  Henry  James  Pye,  1790- 
1813;    Robert    Southey,   1813-43:   Wm.   Wadsworth, 


1843-50;  Alfred  Tennyson,  1850-1896;  Alfred  Austin, 

1896-. 

4.  4>  .> 

Farmers  raise  stock;  but  is  it  proper  to  say  that  parents 
raise  children  or  that  a  person  was  raised  at  a  certain 
place? 

Yes,  any  and  all  of  these  are  proper,  according  to 
the  latest  lexicographers.  The  Century  dictionary  says 
that  "  raise  "  means  to  hoist  or  move  to  a  higher 
place.  Second,  to  make  upright  by  lifting,  as  a  mast 
or  pole.  Third,  to  elevate  in  position,  as  a  building 
or  embankment.  Fourth,  to  make  a  higher,  as  to 
grade,  rank,  value,  reputation,  temperature,  prices, 
tariff.  Fifth,  to  estimate  importance,  as  applaud, 
extol.  Sixth,  to  form  a  piled  up  mass,  as  a  mound 
or  monument;  or  as  an  island  raised  by  volcanic  ac- 
tion. Seventh,  to  lift  or  carry  away,  as  a  blockade. 
Eighth,  to  rise  in  sound,  lift  the  voice.  Ninth,  to  rise 
in  air  or  water,  as  a  kite  or  shipwreck.  Tenth,  to 
cause  to  rise  from  the  dead,  as  resurrection.  Elev- 
enth, to  cause  to  rise  to  the  visible  horizon,  as  to  bring 
to  view,  as  by  approach.  Twelfth,  to  cause  to  rise  by 
expansion,  as  to  puff  or  inflate.  Thirteenth,  to  rise 
into  being,  as  to  raise  a  riot.  Fourteenth,  to  promote 
to  growth  and  development,  as  to  raise  a  family,  crops, 
plants  or  stock.  This  fourteenth  quotation  is  taken 
from  Tennyson,  Shakespeare  and  H.'  B.  Stowe. 
There  are  many  more  shades  of  meaning  in  the  word. 
♦  *  * 

What  is  referred  to  as  "  Old  Ironsides  "? 

Old  Ironsides  is  the  theme  of  a  national  lyric  written 
by  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  when  the  navy  department 
thought  of  breaking  up  the  frigate  Constitution  whose 
exploits  were  stirring.  In  1803  Commodore  Preble 
did  good  service  with  it  against  the  Mediterranean  pi- 
rates. In  1812  Captain  Hull  destroyed  the  British 
Guerriere ;  and  after  Captain  Cambridge  took  the  Eng- 
lish frigate  Java,  this  vessel  was  called  the  "  Old  Iron- 
sides." 


Contents  of  the  Inglenook  from  July  5,    1904,  to  December  27,    1904. 


Poetry. 

Page 
Reaping:    And   Sowing. — Agnes   Nefr,  721 

Service. — Mary    C.    Stoner 715 

The        Old       Farm       Gate. — Minerva 

Boyce 764 

The  Evening  Hour. — Margaret  Haas.  769 
Bootblack's  Lament. — S.  Z.  Sharp...  7S9 
A        Summer        Evening. — Elizabeth 

Thomas 537 

United. — Hattle  Preston   Rider 985 


Page 
Autumn  Rhymes. — J.  S.  Mohler.  ..1009 
The    Field    Of    Hope. — M.  S.  Llppln- 

COtt 1033 

Helpers. — Mary    C.    Stoner 1057 

Domestic    Murmurs. — W.    F.  Stover. 

1100 

Thanksgiving. — Agnes     NefT 1106 

The   End    O"    The   String. — Josephine 

Hanna list 

Sovereigns      of      Light. —  Josephine 

Hanna 1153 


Pago 
Lightened    Labor.  —  Martha    Shepard 

Llpplncott 1177 

Christmas     Eve. — Emerson  Cobb,   ..l2i< 
An  Holy  Day. — Josephine  Hanna,   . .  1 2ni 

Editorial*. 

tory 638 

Geared   Too  Slow 639 

Smoot's    Case 639 

Tarfv   and    Epitaph? 644 

The  Country  Girl 644 


1248 


THE    INGLENOOK.— December  27,  1904. 


Page 

The    Blues 645 

Chirography 657 

Baalbec,     -659 

Deadheads 662 

Just   a   Minute,    663 

False  Faces 663 

Too  Thick,   That's  All 668 

Up  Against  a  Stump,    686 

Change   Cars,    687 

Got  A  Match?    '. 710 

Don't    Exaggerate,    710 

White  Lies,   710 

Too    Slow    For    Us,     711 

Neatness   in   Dress   at   Home,    716 

Praying  by  Machinery,    731 

Making  a   Mark,    734 

Little    Things,    735 

Tip 735 

Macaroni 754 

Swedish    Hotels 755 

Leaks 758 

Without  Money, 758 

What   Next?    759 

Threshing  Time 764 

Sunday   Sickness 765 

A  Boon  to  the  Irish, 776 

Stromboli,    , 782 

A  Potter,    782 

The    Wrong   Title 783 

The   Kitchen 788 

Glenwood 794 

A  Hint  to  the  Wise 806 

Hobby  Horses 807 

A  Different  Kind 807 

Keep  Off  the  Grass,   830 

Force    of    Gravity, 831 

Hard    Times 854 

Very   Difficult 855 

Don't,   Girls 855 

Irish  Castles,    866 

In  the  Rough,    878 

Doing  Your  Best 879 

Wasting    Nerve   Energy 879 

Under  a  Quarantine 902 

The    Phonograph,    902 

Out  of  Place,    903 

Branded,     926 

Backbiting,    926 

Do  It  Well 927 

The  Bright  Side,    927 

Character,    950 

The  Honest  Man 950 

Nothing  Doing,    951 

To  the  Officers  of  the  Army, 974 

Scattering  Sunshine 975 

Business    is    Business 1022 

A  Two-Gallon   Hat,    1023 

The    Third   Emancipation,    1046 

What's    Your   Judgment?    1047 

A   Democratic   Problem,    1070 

Fads 1070 

Powder   and   Prudence 1071 

Worry 1094 

Cosmopolitan,      1095 

Chilly 1095 

It  Didn't   Work,    1110 

Thanksgiving 1118 

The  Anxious  Seat 1118 

Bugs 1119 

In    the    Dust 1142 

Raising    a    City,    1142 

Let's   Adopt   it   Now,    1143 

Saloon    Windows,    1166 

Absorbing   Poison,    .  . . : 1167 

Kill  the  Cripples 1190 

The   Boundary    Line 1190 

Amputation    Season 1191 

Christmas     Eve,     1202 

Views    From   Mt.    Olivet,    1214 

Nineteen    Hundred    Four,    1238 

Nineteen    Hundred    Five,    1238 

Motive   And   Method,    1239 

Contributions. 

A  Worthy   Mark  of  Respect. — Galen 

B.  Royer 626 

They  Died  by  Violence. — J.  G.  Figley,  627 

Pike's  Peak. — Rilla  Arnold 627 

Marlborough. — C.    R.    Kellogg,    628 

A  California  Hospital. — M.    M.    Esh- 

elman,      629 

The  Meat  Packing  Industry. — W.   C. 

Frick 630 

The  City  of  Key  West. — W.  R.  Fry,  630 

Mason  and  Dixon  Line. — Nellie  Miller,  632 
Apostrophe   to   the     Grass. — Senator 

Ingalls 637 

Advantage  of  Saving. — W.  R.  Miller,  636 
Author   of   Dixie. — Adelaide     McKee 

Koons 637 

Snake    Charmed    by    Music. — N.    R. 

Baker 643 

Instinct. — J.   E.    Cobb 650 

He      Didn't      Understand. — Adelaide 

McKee  Koons 651 

Worms   and   Bugs. — J.   G.    Figley,    . .  654 


Page 

Bee  Hunting. — O.   H.   Hinkle,    655 

Joan  of  Arc. — Maggie  Goble 658 

Happiness         from         Within. — Ella 

Wheeler  Wilcox,    659 

Day    Dreams. — Lulu    Mohler 660 

The   Problem   of   the    Home. — C.    R. 

Kellogg,    676 

Lines   of   Work. — M.    M.    Eshelman,  678 
Slackwater      Navigation.  —  Harvey 

Saylor,    679 

Don't   Be    Tragical. — Anita   Metzger,  680 
Chinese        Characteristics.  —  Sadie 

Wine 681 

No  Posterity. — J.  G.  Figley 6S1 

Need   of   an   Education. — Olive   May,  681 
Choosing  a  Motto. — Margaret  Haas,  682 
Footpath     to     Peace. — Henry     Van- 
Dyke 683 

Some   Indian    Dishes.— Mary   Stover,  684 

Wigam. — Ada  Kircher 685 

The  Blue  Jay. — Bessie  Wedlocke,   ..  691 

The  Model  Kitchen. — Charles  Martin,  692 
Communing        with        Nature. — Ora 

Bowman,     701 

Inspection  of  Meats. — W.   C.   Frick,  702 

School   Graduates. — C.   M.   James,    .  .  704 

Peters'  Mountain. — H.  B.  Fleshman,  705 
Earth's    Strangest    People. — Richard 

Spamer,     706 

The   Powers    of   Women. — Cleveland 

Hollar,     707 

Grape    Culture    in      Kansas. — A.     L. 

Miller,     708 

German  and  the  College. — D.   C.   Re- 

ber 709 

Kritic   on    the   Trane. — Geo.    Haldan,  722 
Illinois  at  the  Fair. — E.   G.    Hutch- 

ings 725 

Drinking  Fountain  for  Birds. — D.  L. 

Miller 726 

Value  of  Music. — E.   A.   Evans 727 

On    To   Your   Job. — C.    M.    James,    .  .  728 

The  Black  Belt— R.  C.  Bruce 730 

Who  Sent  the  Dream? — M.  P.  Ellen- 

berger 732 

Service. — Lina    Stoner 733 

Temporary    Teeth. — E.    E.    Blicken- 

staff,    740 

Kritic    on    the    Trane. — Geo.    Haldan,  746 

Inspection  of  Meata. — C.W.Johnson,  746 

Learning  by  Doing. — R.  C.  Bruce,    .  .  748 

Choice  of  Companions. — Cora  Beard,  750 

A  Night's  Ride. — H.  M.  Barwick,   . . .  752 
True   Greatness. — E.    E.    Lichtenwal- 

ter,     752 

Celtic  Art. — M.  J.   Murphey 754 

The  Violin. — Marguerite  Bixler 756 

Western       North       Dakota. — E.       A. 

Evans,     757 

Kritic    on    the    Trane. — Geo.    Haldan,  770 
Meat  Inspection. — C.  W.  Johnson,    ...770 

The  N-Rays.— J.  G.  Figley,    772 

Mistakes  About  School. — D.  L.  Moh- 
ler,        772 

Monuments    and    Men. — O.    E.    Metz- 
ger  774 

Noted  Relics  in  Ohio. — Charity  Vin- 
cent,       775 

Success. — L.    S.   Andes 775 

Marseillaise. — Marguerite   Bixler,    . .  776 
The  Randolph  Farm. — B.   B.   Sweitz- 

er,     776 

Washington   on   Zion   Hill. — R.   C.   B.  778 
No  Corner  on  Kindness. — Geo.   Hal- 
dan,     : 800 

Seattle.— C.  H.  Maust,    800 

Red  Umbrella. — Booker   Washington,  802 

A  Brilliant  Sunset. — E.   A.   Evans,    .  804 

Musical    Notes. — Marguerite    Bixler,  805 
How   Some   People   Do. — Alice   Vani- 

man 812 

Education  and  Religion. — M.  A.  Wit- 
ter,       818 

Motherlove. — C.    S.    Carr 820 

Early  Christian  Hymns. — Olive  Mil- 
ler,        822 

Loyalty       to       the       Church. — Maud 

Hawkins 824 

A    Good    Resolution. — Martha    Lah- 

man,     826 

Baptist  Assembly. — Adelaide  Koons,  828 
Make  Home  Attractive. — Mrs.  M.  M. 

Bollinger 836 

Your  Lead  Pencil. — Geo.   Haldan,    .  .  842 

String  and  Bow. — Marguerite  Bixler,  843 
The  Making   of  a   Pair   of   Shoes. — 

D.     L.     Miller 844 

Cancer. — E.    E.    Rhinehart 846 

To-Morrow. — Lulu    Mohler,    848 

How  We  Think. — M.   I.   Senseman,    .  850 

Lignon. — A    W.    Vaniman,     852 

Canning    Fruit. — Etta   Eckerle,    860 

How  Some  People  Live. — Alice  Van- 
iman   868 

Americanisms. — C.    E.    Bates 872 

The    Country    Boy. — C.    E.    Stauffer,  872 


Page 
National   Songs. — Marguerite  Bixler,   874 

Be   Natural. — E.   A.    Evans 875 

Roanoke. — J.    J.    Miller 876 

Industrial      School. — Jennie      Steph- 
ens     876 

Kritic  on  the  Trane. — Geo.  Haldan,  890 
San  Luis  Rey. — G.  E.  Mitchell,  ....  893 
Life     Without     a     Purpose. — C.     S. 

Carr,      896 

Go  Away  to  School. — D.   O.   Cottrell,   898 

Washing  Dishes. — Nancy  Roop 908 

Kritic  on  the  Trane. — Geo.  Haldan,  914 
St.  Petersburg. — A.  W.  Vaniman,  ..  916 
Christian  Science. — C.  H.  Murray,..  918 
Guard    at    Norfolk. — E.    B.    Barkley,    920 

Purpose    in    Life. — Susie   Hout 922 

Enroute  to  Palestine. — W.  R.  Miller,  924 
Great  Sheep  Country. — H.  H.  Keim,  932 
To  The  Sluggard.— Adah  Baker,  ...  938 
The  Castaway. — Kathryn  Barkdoll,  940 
Bad    Littles. — Grace   Longanecker,    .    944 

Cuban    Houses. — E.   A.    Evans 946 

Luray   Cave. — Anna   Bowman 948 

Enjoyments.— Mrs.  M.  M.  Bollinger,  956 
Ocean   Post  Offices.— D.  L.  Miller,    .  .    962 

Tuberculosis.— C.   E.    Carney 965 

Autumn  Thoughts. — Rilla  Arnold,  ..972 
Apple  Cuttings. — Mamie  Viney,  . .  .  980 
Carborundum. — Charity    Vincent,     .  .    986 

Mutes. — Mrs.    J.   J.   Cross,    992 

Founding  a   Home. — Maud  Hawkins,    994 
The  Penitential   Tear. — Grace  Long- 
anecker     996 

Our  Daily  Life. — Edith  Young,    1004 

The  Yosemite  Valley. — Rilla  Arnold,1010 
The  Lady  Of  Shunem. — Elizabeth  D. 

Rosenberger 1012 

American         Prehistorics.  —  Thomas 

Figley,      1018 

Living  Means  Working. — Lulu  Moh- 
ler,       1020 

The  Model  Kitchen. — Chas.  Martin,  1028 
The   Grand    Canyon. — Rilla  Arnold,    1034 

Autumn. — Lavina  Brower,    1036 

Sunday  Schools. — Carrie  Miller,   ....1038 

Trappe. — Geo.  D.  Zollers,    1040 

The    Postman's    Ring. — Elizabeth    D. 

Rosenberger,        1058 

Clouds. — Adah)     Baker,    1060 

Sunday  School. — Cora  Haughtelin,  1062 
Stick  To  The  Farm. — J.  E.  Miller,  .  .1064 
Technical  Knowledge. — J.  G.  Figley,  106S 
The  House  Fly. — Maud  Hawkins,    ..1075 

Water    Bottle.— S.    B.Miller,    1076 

John  Calvin. — D.   L.  Miller,  1082 

Religious    Manias.— D.    Chirighotis,    1086 

Sunday    School. — Mary    Stoner 107S 

Negro       Business       League.  —  R.    C. 

Bruce,        1090 

Making  Porcelain. — A.  W.  Vaniman,  1092 
Musical       Notes. — Marguerite       Bix- 
ler,       1092 

Thanksgiving. — Alice  Richer,    1106" 

Sunday    School. — Ella   Royer,    1114 

Rag  Carpet. — J.   W.   Vetter.    ..1100,   1124 

Woodchopping. — Effie  Wiggs 1125 

jack. — Maud    Hawkins,    110S,    1130 

Christian  Science. — A,  V.  Stewart,  1132 
Christian  Science. — C.  H.  Murray,  1132 
The  Human  Body. — J.  G.  Figley,  ..1138 
A  Dog  At  Church. — Ada  Kircher,  ..1146 
Microbes  And  Disease. — S.  B.  Mil- 
ler  1148 

Snapshots. — Mary  I.  Senseman,   .  . .  .1105, 

1129,    1153 

World's      Concourse. — Charity      Vin- 
cent,      1153,    1182,    1206,    1231 

Pilgrims. — Mabelle  Murray,    ..1112,    1136 

1156,    1184 

Historic  Spot. — H.   W.   Strickler,    ..-..942 

1016,     1158,     1186 

Pearls. — Olive     Miller,     1160 

Autumn. — Foster     Cline,      1162 

Child-Marriage. — W.   B.   Stover,    1164 

The  Old  Woman. — S.  N.  McCann,..  1171 
Seed-Thoughts. — Josephine    Hanna, 

889,   937,   961,   985,    1009,   1033,   1057 

The  World  Around  Us. — Uncle  Lew- 
is  1177 

The   Great   White   Peril    of    the   Sea. 

D.  L.  Miller,    1178 

The    Sunday   School. — C.    May   Man- 
ners  1188 

The    Star    Of    Bethlehem. — Susie  M. 

Hout 1204 

Jesus. — Rose  Rinehart,    1205 

Cruising   on    the   Mediterranean. — D. 

L.   Miller,    1207,    1226 

Christmas  Tree. — Zoon   Dyck,    1210 

The     New  Year. — Josephine    Hanna, 

1229 

The  New  Year. — Mamie  C.  Sink,  ..1230 
We    Launch     To    Anchor,   Where? — 

Bertha     Shoemaker 1230 

Alphabet  Of  Great  Men. — Olive  Mil- 
ler,      1232 

Toward   The  Coming  Day. — Etna  A. 
Evans 1235 


Good    Land   Cheap 


Let  us  sell  you  farming  land  where  the  soil  is  pro- 
ductive and  the  crops  dependable  ;  where  we  have  no 
drouths  or  failures;  where  grasshoppers  are  not;  where 
we  have  few  storms  and  no  destructive  winds;  where 
products  are  greatly  diversified;  where  the  markets  are 
as  good  as  they  are  easily  reached;  where  the  climate 
is  uniform  and  salubrious;  where  you  will  be  cordially 
welcomed  and  helped  along.  We  state  without  fear  of 
contradiction  that  we  have  the  best  land  at  the  least 
money,  possessing  more  advantages  and  fewer  draw- 
backs, than  can  be  found  in  this  country  to-day.  A  few 
years'  time  is  all  th^t  is  necessary  to  prove  that  we  are 
in  one  of  the  most  productive  areas  for  fruit,  root  crops 
and  live  stock.  The  possibilities  are  here,  largely  un- 
developed as  yet;  all  that  we  want  is  the  people.  Those 
we  are  getting  are  the  right  kind,  your  own  kind,  and 
the  country  will  soon  be  dotted  with  green  fields  and 
cosy  homes.  Don't  get  the  idea  that  you  are  going  to  a 
wilderness;  not  at  all;  on  the  contrary,  we  have  sold 
lands  in  our  BRETHREN  COLONY  to  over  120  fam- 
ilies, nearly  half  of  whom  are  already  on  the  ground, 
In  the  vicinity  of  BRETHREN,  MICHIGAN,  we  have 
thousands  of  acres  of  productive  soil,  splendidly  adapted  for  fruit,  root  and  vegetable 
crops  and  live  stock,  at  prices  from  $7  per  acre  upwards,  on  easy  terms.  Our  lands  are 
sold  to  actual  settlers. 


The  basisol  my  business  is  absolute  and 
unvarying  integrity. 

SAMUEL  S.  THORPE, 
Founder  of  the  Brethren  Colony,  Brethren,  Mich. 


others    coming    next   spring. 


BRO.  JOHN  A.  MILLER,  BRETHREN,  MICH., 

is  Resident  Agent  in  charge  of  the  work  at  our  Brethren  Colony.  It  will  only  cost  you  a 
postal  card  to  drop  him  a  line  for  our  illustrated  booklet,  entitled  "  The  Brethren  Colony 
in  the  Pruit  Belt  of  Michigan."  This  will  give  you  an  accurate  idea  of  the  lands  and  all 
conditions  surrounding  them  The  booklet  contains  letters  giving  the  opinion  of  many 
Brethren  in  regard  to  our  lands  and  work.      Every  statement  can  be  borne  out  by  facts. 

Reduced  rates  will  be  furnished  homeseekers  desiring  to  look  our  country  over  and 
every  opportunity  will  be  accorded  them  to  conduct  their  investigations  satisfactorily 
by  Bro.  Miller  on  their  arrival  at  Brethren,  Michigan. 

For  booklet,   information  as  to  rates  and  all  details  address: 


SAMUEL  S.   THORPE, 
Cadillac,   Mich., 

DISTRICT  AOENT 

Micliisan 


or 


Laucl 


BRO.  JOHN   A.   MILLER, 
Brethren,  Mich., 

RESIDENT   AOENT 

Association. 


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