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Vol. XI.

January 5, 1909.

No. 1.

EDUCATION IN CHINA

C. F. APPLETON

THE educational system that existed in China at
the beginning of the twentieth century is one
of the oldest in the history of the world. The
present Chinese characters were invented about four
thousand years ago and the printing of books from
blocks of wooden type was in vogue many centuries
before Caxton produced his first printing press, and
this method is still in common use in spite of the in-
troduction of the most modern printing machinery
from the West.

The Chinese system of reading and writing is very
difficult to acquire and it requires a number of years
to become reasonably proficient in it. This is on
account of the large number of different characters
in use. Several English-Chinese dictionaries give a
list of six thousand characters, but good native dic-
tionaries define from forty to fifty thousand. When one
considers that the foundation for this vast number
is found in two hundred and fourteen radicals, the
magnitude of the task and the ingenuity of the in-
ventor may be more fully comprehended.

Confucius, the Shakespeare of Chinese literature,
was born 550 B. C. His classical writings and those
of his students have been the principal books used in
nearly all the native schools until the renovation of
the educational system of this great empire.

Before the Boxer troubles of 1900, a Chinese scholar
could hold the degree of A. B. or A. M. and know
practically nothing but reading and memorizing the
classics and being able to write a literary essay con-
sisting of the sayings of the ancient sages on any
given topic. Such subjects as mathematics, geog-
raphy, history, philosophy, and science were wholly
unknown in the school curriculum. Probably the
greatest incentive to education all these centuries has
been the requirement of the government that all can-
didates for official appointment must be literary grad-
uates.

Owing to several causes, this old system has passed
away and a modern course of study has been out-

lined and a new system is being established by the
government as rapidly as possible. Some events lead-
ing up to this far-reaching change in such an im-
portant institution in the Middle Kingdom are as
follows: 1. The China-Japan War of 1895 in which
the millions of this country were defeated by their
pigmy neighbors and " lost their face " before the
world. 2. The Boxer troubles and the ensuing siege
and capture of Peking — the Holy City — by the for-
eign powers in 1900, revealing to the Chinese their
weak points and the vanity of trusting in their false
gods which could not deliver in time of need. 3. The
Russo-Japanese War in which Japan, which had but
recently broken off the shackles of the past and was
pressing ahead for modern improvements, defeated a
dangerous enemy of China. 4. The visit of the five
commissioners sent out by the Chinese Government
to investigate conditions in such countries as America,
England, Germany, France, Japan, etc. All these
movements have had their effect in bringing about the
wonderful changes that are now taking place through-
out this great nation. The first step was taken by the
throne when it issued an edict abolishing the old plan
of examination by which the literati had gained their
honors for so many centuries. A new office was
created in the government viz., the ministry of educa-
tion. To this committee was entrusted the duty of
drafting a new method of education suitable for the
country such as would place her on a par in the
literary world with other civilized nations. The new
regime took the Japanese system for a model and
outlined four grades of schools as follows: The
primary school, the common school, the middle
school and the high school. Each grade has a
four years' course of study and a carefully prepared
curriculum including the subjects taught in any up-to-
date educational institution.

In theory and as a tentative scheme, as it must nec-
essarily be for a number of years, tlie new system has

THE IXGLENOOK.— January 5, 1909.

been carefully planned and one might think that it
should meet the need, but thus far it has failed to do
so. This is due to two causes especially, viz., the lack
of teachers and the lack of system in raising the need-
ed funds for the maintenance of such a mammoth un-
dertaking as contemplated in the plan. To provide
suitable teachers for the education of the children of
four hundred millions of people is not a task that can
be accomplished in a year or even in a generation. All
that was required of the school professor under the
old regime was a knowledge of the native character
with ability to write the same ; diligence in being at
his desk from daylight till dark to hear the students
recite, one by one, the ancient, unintelligible classics.
But now new duties confront him. Other subjects
must be taught of which he has no knowledge and in
a way perfectly unknown to him. To meet this need
the government has opened normal schools in many
of the larger centers for the training of these teachers
on more modern lines. Two courses of study, one
for one year and the other for three years, have been
prepared for these institutions, giving the students a
very elementary knowledge of the subjects, which
they are supposed to continue to study after leaving
the training school. Teachers from America, Japan
and other countries have been employed in these
normal colleges as also in some important places in
the high schools. The expense of foreign teachers
and the difficulty of teaching through an interpreter
have been serious objections to this method out of the
difficulty. Another plan of late years has been fol-
lowed quite extensively, of sending groups of picked
young men abroad for a few years of training. Two
years ago there were some ten thousand such students
in Tokio alone, but on account of the jxjlitical agita-
tions in Japan against the Chinese government, this
number has been greatly decreased and more stu-
dents are now being sent to the United States and
Europe. Especially has this been the case since the
American government has decided to remit the in-
demnity imposed on this country after the Boxer
troubles of 1900.

Another solution for this problem is being found in
the Christian mission schools which are the best
equipped of any educational institutions in China, al-
though the government still refuses to recognize them
or grant their graduates any degrees.

The second cause of failure in the new system is the
lack of funds, due largely to the corruption of the
officials and to the fact that the schools thus far are
too much dependent upon the gifts and benefactions
of the people for their maintenance.

A large number of Anglo-Chinese schools are scat-
tered throughout different sections of the country, but
the students from these centers of learning are usually
in search of a little English for business purposes,
as English-speaking natives are in great demand and

can command much larger salaries than their equals
in other vocations.

Such special scholars as law, medicine, forestry,
etc., are not unknown in China but are few and far
between at the present stage of development.

The textbooks of the present day are undergoing
great changes. The Commercial Press, one of the
largest printing firms in China, has issued a series of
Illustrated National Readers which are being distrib-
uted. The old classical works are being read in the
higher grades while their places in the lower classes
are being filled by these modern books which are
more simple and intelligible.

For such studies as mathematics, geography, science,
etc., translations from western authors are being put
on the market to meet the present need. Transla-
tions from Japanese works seem to have the pref-
erence. A new English-Chinese dictionary of one
hundred and twenty thousand words and phrases has
just been published by the above-mentioned company.

Truly China is in a tiansition period, politically,
socially and educationally. The old dragon is at last
rousing himself after a sleep of many centuries and
time alone will reveal the results of the changes which
are now taking place in the Celestial Empire.

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ALPHABET OF AMERICAN
AUTHORS

G. FEGLEY.
XXIII.— J. G. Whittier.

Joiix Greenle.af Whittier was the son of a
Quaker farmer, John Whittier, and was born Decem-
ber 17, 1807, at East Haverhill, Mass. His father did
not have much sympathy with his son's literary as-
pirations, but his mother, Abigail Hussey Whittier,
who was twentj'-one years younger than her husband,
fully made up and more for the deficiency of the
father. It was supposed that the brilliant black eyes
of Mrs. Whittier and her son were inherited from the
old colonial minister, Stephen Bachiler, who came to
America at the age of seventy, founded cities, dis-
puted with the preachers, and astonished everybody
by getting married for the third time at the age of
eighty-nine.

Whittier was frail physically and his health had
much to encounter in the " toughening process " of
a New England farm, being in marked contrast with
his ancestor, Thomas Whittier, who at sixty-eight
was able to do his full share in building the oak-
timbered house in 1688 in which five generations of
Whittiers were born and lived.

.At fourteen Whittier had read and was delighted
with Burns' poems, and bought a copy of Shakespeare
on his first trip to Boston. He borrowed and read
Scott's novels, with the greatest delight. Reading

THE INGLENOOK.— January 5, 1909.

Burns stimulated him into making rliymes of his own.
His sister Mary sent them to Wm. Lloyd Garrison's
Newburyport Free Press, unknown to him. and great
was his delight to read his " Exile's Departure " in the
issue of June 8, 1826.

Whittier had been working at farming and shoe-
making, and wrote rhymes in leisure moments, and
found them gladly accepted by Mr. Garrison, who
drove over to see the bashful country boy who wrote
such good verses. After considerable argument with
the father. Garrison succeeded in getting his consent
to the young man's going to Haverhill Academy, A.
W. Thayer, editor of the Haverhill Gacette, agreeing
to take him into his home. " He paid for one term
of six months by making slippers, and for another
by teaching school." In 1827-28 he published nearly
one hundred poems in the Haverhill Gazette alone,
under assumed names.

In 1829 Garrison got him the position of editor of
the American Manufacturer, a Boston protective tariiif
paper, whicli he edited seven months, when he was
called home by his father's sickness. For a time in
1830 he was editor of the Haverhill Gazette, later
going to Hartford, Conn., at request of George D.
Prentice, the editor of the Nezv England Review, and
acting as editor a year and a half, when he wrote the
" Life of Brainard " and " Legends of New England.''
The subjects of these legends he afterwards worked
over into his poems " Mogg Megone." " Bridal of
Pennacook," " Cassandra Southwick," and " Mary
Garvin."

Returning home, he was in 1835 elected to the
State legislature, and was reelected in 1836. He was
in 1836 appointed secretary of the Anti-Slavery
Society, and became editor of the Pennsylvania Free-
man at Philadelphia. In 1840 he came to Amesbury
and made it his home, and acted as correspondent of
the National Era. In 1844 he took charge of the
Lowell Standard, and in 1845-46 was the real editor
of the Amesbury Transcript. He was corresponding
editor of the Era from 1847 to 1850. When the
Atlantic Monthly was founded in 1857 he had a sure
mouthpiece for his productions. In 1858 he was made
overseer of Harvard College, and in 1860 the college
gave him the degree of A. M., and in 1866 that of
LL. D.

For many years Whittier lived in Amesbury with
his mother and sister, and after their death passed
much of his time with relatives at Danvers. He
never married, although he was one of the old-school
gentlemen in his attention to the opposite sex. He
was by birth a Friend or Quaker. Honors were heaped
upon him on his seventieth, eightieth and eighty-fourth
birthdays, and he was delighted to hear " that the
bells of St. Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba (celebrated
in his "Red River Voyageur"), were rung for him
at midnight of December 17, 18*^1." His verv last

poem was a birthday offering to Oliver Wendell
Holmes. He died after a brief illness at Hampton
Falls, N. H., September 7, 1892.

Whittier has been called " the Quaker poet," " the
Hebrew poet," " the Prophet bard," but the name
that fits him best of all is " the Poet of New England."
His " Snow-bound " is a faithful chronicle of his
youth on the farm. He lost all hopes of political
preferment, if indeed he ever cared for it, when he
espoused the Anti-Slavery cause, and his " Voices of
Freedom " are trumpet-blasts ; the most defiant one
is " Massachusetts to Virginia," and perhaps the bitter-
est is " The Christian Slave." " Leaves from Margaret
Smith's Journal " were poems, issued in 1836. " Songs
of Labor " was issued in 1851, " The Chapel of the
Hermits " and other poems, in 1853, " Home Ballads "
in 1859. Other poems of note are " The Tent on the
Beach " and " Among the Hills." A prose work,
" The Stranger in Lowell," was issued in 1845 ; " Old
Portraits and Modern Sketches" (biographical), was
issued in 1850, and in 1854 " Literary Recreations and
Miscellanies."

The most of his prose is in the various papers he
wrote for, and mucli has very likely lost its value,
being of a controversial or current events nature. He
was essentially a poet of nature ; he said he sat on
his doorstep and wrote of what he saw from there.
His poetry was full of fire and energy, grace and
tenderness, simplicity and majesty; he has surpassed
Spenser and Sidney ; he is the most thoroughly Amer-
ican of all our native poets.

Worthy of mention : Walt Whitman, prose-verse ;
Samuel Woodworth, poetry; N. P. Willis, prose and
poetry; Daniel Webster, orations; William Wirt, biog-
raphy ; R. G. White, Shakespeare ; Constance F.
Woolson, novels ; Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, stories ;
E. P. Whipple, criticism ; Gen. Lew Wallace, novels ;
C. D. Warner, essays ; John Witherspoon, religious
and political essays ; Francis Wayland, philosophy and
economy; D. A. Wells, science and philosophy; E. E.
White, education.

Bryan, Ohio.

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I THINK we want to urge most strenuously upon
young men the need, the absolute necessity, that in
the appointed and demanded work of their life they
should look for and should find the joy of their life.
To do your work because you must ; to do your work
as a slavery, and then, having got it done as speedily
and easily as possible, to look somewhere else for en-
joyment — that makes a ven,' dreary life. No man who
works so does the best work. No man who works
so lingers lovingly over his work and asks himself if
there is not something he can do to make it more
perfect. " My meat is to do the will of him that sent
me, and to finish his work," said Jesus.^ — Phillips
Brooks.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 5, 1909.

PERSEVERANCE A PREREQUISITE

TO SUCCESS

J. CIIFLORA

A GREAT many people have the idea that suc-
cess in any vocation in life depends largely, if
not altogether, on luck.

Indeed, this is a mistaken idea, and the sooner the
youth of our land are made to realize it the better
it will be for them for the fact is, fortune, success,
fame and position are never gained, except by bravely
persevering in any course until the plans are finally ac-
complished. Victory is only achieved by hard and
persistent toil. In short you must carry a thing
through if you want to be anybody or anything, no
matter if it does cost you the pleasures of society or
the thousand pearly gratifications of life.

Show me a young man or woman who is waiting for
luck to come his or her way and I will show you one
who has never and will never accomplish anything,
whose life is a failure ; but on the other hand show me
one who is patiently and persistently toiling onward, —
he is the one who will make a success of life. Read
the histories of the lives of successful men and you
will find this to be true in almost every instance.

Newton said that he owed all of his greatness to
persevering efforts; that whatever he had accom-
plished more than the ordinary he had accomplished
solely by the virtue of perseverance.

Yea, many others who have won well-nigh imperish-
able renown in the world of literature, science, or art,
owe all their greatness to persevering efforts. They
were once as weak and helpless as many of us, once as
destitute of wisdom and power as an infant. Once
the alphabet of the language which they wield with
such magic effect was unknown to them. They toiled
long to learn it, to get its sounds, and longer still
to obtain the secret of its highest charm and mightiest
pow^r, and even longer yet for those living, glorious
thoughts which they bade it bear to an astonished and
admiring world.

Their characters which are now given to the world
and will be to millions, yet unborn, as examples of
greatness and goodness, were made by that untiring
perseverance which marked their entire lives.

Gibbon consumed nineteen years in writing his
masterpiece. Gray spent eight years in writing his
" Elegy in a Country Churchyard."

Judson studied six years before he was enabled to
preach a sermon in the Burmese language and labored
seven years and four months in the mission field be-
fore the first convert was baptized.

Pythagoras spent thirty years in hard study, pre-
paring for a teacher of science.

Kepler, the author of the famous Kepler's laws in
astronomy, in his attempt to find the exact shape of
the orbits of the planets, worked for eight years, mak-
ing nineteen different calculations and testing each one
but failed each time. He did not give up but con-
tinued to labor towards his much-desired end and
finally succeeded in establishing his first and second
laws and by persevering for ten years longer he was
enabled to announce his third law.

Hans Egede spent ten years in unavailing endeavors
to gain access to a mission field and at length sur-
rendered his charge, as pastor, still uncertain whether
he would be able to secure cooperation or reach the
desired place. After earnestly persevering for three
years longer, despite the bitter opposition that he met,
he obtained the needed help and was appointed mis-
sionary to Greenland, his desired field.

Columbus met much opposition when he conceived
the idea of sailing around the world, but by his un-
daunted courage ^and perseverance, after laboring for
more than seven years, he succeeded in fitting up
ships and after a long voyage he reached his much-
desired haven, yea, even more than he expected in
the discovery of a new world.

These are only a few of the many examples of men
who have reached fame and success by perseverance.

Then does it not pay to persevere? Courage, when
combined with energy and perseverance, will overcome
difficulties apparently insurmountable. Perseverance,
working in the right direction and when steadily
practiced even by the most humble, will rarely fail
of its reward. It inspires in the mind of all fair-
minded people a friendly feeling. Who will not be-
friend the persevering, energetic youth? He who
perseveres in business amidst hardships and dis-
couragements will always find ready and generous
friends in times of need.

It was by perseverance that the great pyramids of
Eg}'pt, the Coliseum of Rome, and the great Chinese
wall were built.

Look at Nature. She has a thousand voices teach-
ing lessons of perseverance. The lofty mountains
are wearing down by slow degrees. The ocean is
gradually, but surely filling up by the deposits from
its thousand rivers and by the labor of a little in-
sect so small as to be almost invisible to the naked

THE INGLENOOK.— January 5, 1909.

eye. Every shower of rain tends gradually to bring
the hills and mountains down to the level of the
plains. Then Nature's lesson is, "perseverance."

How many of us when we think of the immense
amount of work lying between us and the object of
our desires are almost ready to give up in despair!
We should not forget when we view the work in a
mass that there is time enough, if only rightly im-
proved, to suffice for each effort. Then do not become
discouraged if results do not come so fast as you
had expected. You cannot learn everything in a
year or two years or even a lifetime, but if you will
keep plodding on, step by step, you will arrive at your
journey's end some day, however long it may be.
Neither can you obtain wealth in a day, but patiently
perform each task as it comes to you and if dark
days come do not become discouraged but ever press
onward, remembering that above the clouds the sun
still shines.

• Abraham Lincoln had for his motto, " Keep pegging
away," and by working in harmony with his motto
and continually " pegging away " he, in the face of
the most extreme poverty, acquired a good practical
education and lifted himself from the log cabin to the
White House.

Every one, then, regardless of his condition in life,
should set his aim high and resolve to do everything
in his power for its realization.
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COMMENT: CRITICAL AND OTHERWISE.

RICHARD BRAUNSTEIN.

What do you read? The other day I was read-
ing over some parts of Les Miserables, and I wondered
how such books as have their vogue today can get
their prodigious audiences. Little thin, squeaky, ivory
voices that they are, with their very clamor they drive
out the round and resonant passages of the masters.

But you tell me that you have read Miserables. If
you have, read it again. There are books that can
never be put into the past tense. We may read the
Bible, we may read the philosophers, we may read
Les Miserables, — but we can never read them out.
Whenever the fundamental principles of life have been
written into a book, that book is an eternal fount of
life-giving, health-giving principles. It can no more
be exhausted than can the living spring in the moun-
tain fastnesses. But like it, they are only for the
toilers — the climbers. The mediocrity of the lower
levels is good enough for those who are content
with the rivers — the sewers of God. The master-
pieces are few — but they are filled with fissures in
which the treasure waits for the seekers — there are
no vapid areas of spiritual stagnation through which
the soul must starve its way unfed and unsustained.

I do not say that masterpieces are not written to-
day, but when we throw the horde of things that sell
by the hundreds of thousands into comparison with

the books that have lasted through the years, it is a
cruel contrast. It is like sitting down to a puppet
show after enjoying the music of an old opera.

Now and then we get a touch of the real. The
old masters reveal a phase of real life — nay, they
reveal life. They do not set pen to paper unless they
have something to teach — something we ought to
know, and something by which we will profit. All
books teach — the question arises, what do they teach?

The old books — and a few moderns — move with a
touch of truth. But mostly the modern books are
" make-ups " — idle tales devised of the idle hours of
idle minds. They are without literary style. There
is no masterful word painting. The record of crime,
as printed in our daily papers is just as good reading.
Every day, tons upon tons of trash appear, not
worth the paper it is printed on. They are fireside
tales of the nursery, made for the infantile intellects
of grown-ups. They inspire no thoughts — they create
no impulse. They kill time and thereby destroy the
most precious thing we have.

A book to be a good book must do three things:
it must teach, entertain and stimulate pure thought.
Books — good books — mould our characters. They
are the foundation stones of our future knowledge.
Literature influences. The masses, as a rule, are
swayed by current literature, whether viewpoints
of individuals are disguised as a piece of fiction, or
openly introduced as an editorial utterance in a daily
newspaper

Why should we read merely to kill time ? Why not
make it threefold? Why not learn, be entertained,
and have our own thoughts quickened to action — to
healthy, stimulating, inspiring action? We can re-
place a great many losses, but hours of the past can-
not be regained. Let us fill them, therefore, with
profit. The certainty that opportunity is a fixed quan-
tity, which we can by no effort increase, should spur
us on to extract the uttermost from each hour we live.
And yet, we who are careful to drive sharp bargains
with our pennies, are very prodigal with our time.
In nothing are we more so than in respect of books.

You would not eat a bad orange at breakfast — those
who are wise would no sooner read a bad book.
Inane, inert, and lifeless literature is worse food for
the soul than flat, tasteless products for the body.
Cling to the verities. Leave the determination of
literary fungi to the critics, and feed only on the food
which the irrevocable verdict of time has found good.
Then, if you have time to waste on the desserts of
inconsequentiality.- — dip into the books with the pretty
covers, dip into the hash produced by scatter-brains.
If you have time to spare, to waste, dip into the rot
called literature. Men, women and children must read
good books. It is part of the work called " Promot-
ing Christian knowledge " and it hastens to make us
readv for the kingdom of God.

THE INGLENOOK.— Tanuary 5, 1909.

Around the World Without

a Cent

Henry M. Spickler

Chapter XXXIX.— From Naples.

" And God saw that it was good " — this world he
had made. And I am seeing that it is good, too.

I like to take just a map of travel in my hand and
look over it, picking out its land and water markings,
locating its cities full of wonderful people and interest-
ing buildings. Tlie spirit of travel is upon me. The
dry bread I munch by the wayside is a loaf of cake,
chocolated by unseen hands and frosted by an innocent
dairy maiden I saw in a country home. The la-
borers I see, in old and patched stuff, are so many
servants, working, with me, to make the great round
ball more beautiful. They smile back at me because
they divinely dis-
cern that I am one
with them, with the
.Creator. What are
all these seas for, if
not for swift-sailing
boats to carry to
fragrant isles big
loads of happy pas-
sengers ? Why all
these continents, so
poorly developed as
yet, but with their
splendors to attract
visitors and work-
ers, if God did not
mean that all of us,
as many as chose,
might sail over these
seas and live awhile,
here and there, and

thus catch the health tliat different climates give, or
receive the balance and poise and temper that change
of scene always has to give so freely to worried folks
too long in one place?

Ah, I know I'm right. This world is a good place.
I'd like to live here a million years. And I think I
will. My body is less than my mind. My mind is
less than my spirit. My spirit, it's big. It lives for-
ever. It goes everywhere. It is at once a long jour-
ney, a pleasant surprise, a wonderful city, a mountain
scene, a good meal, a choice fruit, a dear glance of
love, a tender caress of immortal affection. Mv bodv

is the poorest of all of my ownership, but see what
joy it is finding. To possess the glory of the world
is not my desire, but to be it. To rob others from
rights to property is not my care, but to enrich every-
body by bringing them into their own, all the earth
and other worlds if they can use them, is my wish.

Now I roll out over the soft blue waves of the
Bay of Naples in a little boat rowed by a strikingly
handsome Italian. How he looks at me! But I trust
him. He wants only his twenty centimes. My hand,
scooping at the water as he pulls me past other boats,
finds the sea warm and soft. The noise made by my
hand running through the water, sings to my listen-
ing ears and ex-
pectant mind and
throbbing heart a
sweet melody that
few but poets ever
hear. But more of
us are poets than the
editors recog-
nize. Our trouble is
in our inabihty tO'
tell it. The intoxi-
cating effect of gen-
uine pleasure in any
fomi seeks to rob-
us of the power tec
crystallize the joy
into symbols of lan-
guage or other ex-
pression so that oth-
ers may share with
us the exquisite
boon that has been allowed to come to us. To test
your poetical power, go with me, now, as I rock on
the Bay of Naples, looking back at the city, now
receding and fading, as old Vesuvius, growing
bigger and plainer, blows the whisks of yellow
smoke and red fire from the big pipe sticking
right out of the top of her bald head. This is the same
sea on which Paul sailed — in which he was ship-
wrecked. The country I am leaving is the one that
cut off his noble head. This is the sea of the Cartha-
ginians. Here they fought with the Romans, and
the Spaniards. On this sea sailed tlie triremes, wlien

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lives of men, chained to a life slavery, pulled on
oars too long and too heavy for their aching backs.
Here they saw their own ship afire, roasting, one by
one, the live bodies of their fellows, the lurid flames
coming at last to feel, with hellish fingers, for their
own bodies.

But I am in the boat and it is taking me out to my
beautiful steamer. Paul was here before me, and so
I am safe. Yonder are the rocks, standing hundreds
of feet from the water. There is magic caprice, with
grottoes of broken rainbows playing with blue skies
and crimson sunsets. But best of all — there's my
ship, for my ship has come in!

It is not a big liner. That is all right in its place.
It is just a small boat, with graceful bow and gentle
swell and moderate bulge, but big enough and higli
enough out of the wa-
ter, to be perfectly
safe. Big enough for
a thousand people,
but carrying only a
few passengers and
much freight-
age, products o f
southern shores to
Naples and products
of northern colds for
oriental folk.

The boatman takes
his money, looks up
at the officers on
deck, and rows back
to the wharf. I pre-
sent my ticket that
calls for a berth " on
deck " and meals. I
choose the whole ship
for my state room,
but drop my wheel
and bundles on the fore deck in front of the " bridge "
and find a chair for my use on a two weeks' cruise on
the Mediterranean.

Two weeks ! I'm tired hustling for mj'self in the
hot, dusty streets of Naples. Hotel Metropole was
first-class in every respect and the price is all right.
Sixty Americans besides myself testified to that. But
now I am on a traveling hotel for two weeks, and
my board is paid. My wheel can rest. So can I.
The strong cylinders must push out and draw back
the long, heavy arms that turn the shaft at the end
of which are the big, flapping screw blades. Money
will buy many things, but money cannot buy my pres-
ent and prospective hope. Two weeks on the Med-
iterranean! Why, I never thought of such a thing
except in a day dream, and then only after inheriting
some untold, unforeseen wealth. Two weeks on the

" In the park I caught a picture of the huge elephant leaf and
other strange foliage."

Mediterranean ! Two weeks of gentle seas, warm
zephyrs, green islands, tropical fruits, strange sights
and loving skies. Two weeks of just going, going,
and then going, with rest for my legs and sleep when
I want it and reading and writing and eating good
food, going to sleep on deck, floating on this blue
sea, awaking in the morning, still floating on the
Mediterranean, and then having a tasty, odorous
breakfast brought me from the cabin.

While I sleep tonight, I will be going around the
world, moving forward, farther and farther from home.
In Italy I slept out six diflferent nights in fields or parks,
I found no trouble with mosquitoes or malaria, and
I slept in the Campagna itself at night, once believed to
be certain death by such exposure to a foreigner. I feel
too good now to get sick from it. Feeling good is

the best antidote for
illness. I am sure
that if I never feel
worse than now I will
have to be translated
from this life. I will
not die.

The whistle has
sounded the present
departure of the
steamer. She chums
the water and begins
to swing about, as
the second mate leans
over the high railing
of the upper "bridge"
and signals for clear-
ance.

Sweet music floats
up to us from musi-
cians in a rowboat
pulling now from our
stem and making for
the ne.Kt incoming or outgoing passenger steamer. But
the sweetest music of life is hidden in the inner ear.
I hear that.

Behind me lies Europe, Before me — two weeks of
adventure in luxury, or danger, I know not.

" Thou art gone, the abyss hath swallowed up thy form;
Yet on my heart deeply the lesson thou hast wrought,
That shall not soon depart.
He who from zone to zone

Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight.
In the long way that I must tread alone.
Will lead my steps aright."

And so the next day we came into the classic Bay
of Palermo. This is the capital of the Island of
Sicily and its chief city. It is Sunday noon and I will
go on land two days. I am half afraid the sailors
are playing a joke on me and when I get on land the
boat will leave in the night. So I go to the head man.

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the captain, whose picture taken by me on the Letim-
bro will be shown soon. He assured me that hi;
vessel would be in port two days. It was just what I
wanted, for two days would give me ample time to get
around and explore things. A better boat I could
not have taken. I went directly to the big Hotel de
France and was given a fine room and cared for at
the table just as well as a favorite guest could have
been treated. Like a true democrat, I went and came
at my pleasure, careful to be around during the meal
hours when the large dining-room doors opened and
closed at the touch of a native servant in black dress
and white bosom and curled moustache.

I was ready to sail away at the end of the first day,
and that evening a message reached me at the hotel that
the boat would leave during the early night. So my
precautions had not been in vain. It pays to be care-
ful and to look out for your own interests when those
interests are purely unselfish. In the park near the
hotel I caught a picture of the huge elephant leaf
and other strange foliage growing about the foun-
tain that sprayed the water drops about in the bright-
est sunshine I have seen. On the streets, little donkeys,
laden with fruit and children and curious trappings
and bells, stumbled along over frisking dogs, barely
getting out of the way of a motley crowd of pedes-
trians whose color of skin ran all the way from a
negro black to a flaxen fairness, — their blood the mix-
ture of a dozen races.

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A LEGEND.

H. M. FOGELSONGER.

In a cottage by the roadside once lived a maiden
and her mother. They lived alone. The maiden's
father had gone to rest a few weeks before this legend
begins, and they buried him in a churchyard not far
from the cottage. It was in the summertime. Daily
the maiden gathered flowers and carried them to her
father's grave, marked by a fresh mound in the green
grass. When the maid gave her daily oflfering of
flowers she wept, wept bitterly, and the dead silence
of the place was broken by her stifled sobs.

One day when she was plucking the flowers in
the garden a cloud came over the sun. The maiden's
heart became heavier. " Just so a cloud has come
over my soul," she said to herself, " since father is
not here." She arranged her flowers and made her
way to the churchyard. The creaking of the iron
gate seemed to cut deeper into her soul for she wanted
to hear no noise, she was communing with herself.

The grave with its conventionally-shaped mound
met her eyes and she wept. The image of the sad
procession of a few weeks ago came into her con-
sciousness so vividly ; how the six neighbors and com-
panions of her father in his work solemnly bore the
lifeless body to its .earthly bed, how it was slowly

lowered into the ground and how the minister com-
forted them as they wept. He told them that the
father was not dead but that he was living in spirit,
that he was not taken from them entirely and that
God would be merciful to them. But the maiden and
her mother felt their loss too deeply to be comforted.

All those things came again into the maiden's
mind as she placed the flowers on the grave. The
words of the minister puzzled her. " How is it that
my dear father is with me? " she asked herself. " O
God show me," she prayed. A voice came into her
soul, " Go home and you will see."

The maiden returned to the cottage. When she
entered she saw her gray-haired mother seated in her
chair reading God's Word. Opposite her mother was
an empty chair in which her father used to sit. Sitting
in that chair he read often to the maiden and her
mother and told of things long ago. Many a time the '
little girl would climb upon his knee and ask for a
story. The father's face would brighten as he told
his daughter of times when her mother was young
like her and when the little girl grew to be a maid the
stories were longer and fuller in meaning. When the
noonday meal was prepared a third chair was by the
table unoccupied. There the father used to sit and
ask a blessing before each meal and while eating he
brought cheer to the table.

Gradually the maiden's soul opened and she under-
stood the answer to her prayer. Her father still
lived with them. He was not dead. The beautiful life
which he lived was not shut up in the grave. The
happy associations were not in oblivion. The beautiful
aspirations and hopes which he taught the maid were
with her yet. She understood, and her cup of joy
being full, she prayed, " O God I thank thee for thy
promises of immortal life and that my father is not
dead but liveth."

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HOME, SWEET HOME

The Life of Its Author.

John Howard Payne was born in Broad Street,
New York, on June 9, 1791 ; and a large portion of
his childhood was passed amidst the peaceful verdant
scenery of East Hampton, in that State, where his
father was principal of a small academy. When John
was five years old his father moved to Boston in a
similar scholastic capacity, and there remained eight
years, after which the subject of this memoir returned
to New York and entered the countinghouse of a
firm in which an elderly brother had been partner.
But he never took to the dull drudgery of a mercantile
life. Soon after this he entered Union College, but
only remained a year, after which, owing to the pecun-
iary difficulties of his father, he found himself un-
der the necessity of pushing his fortune in the world
alone and unaided.

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Payne now devoted his time to studying for the
stage, for which he displayed considerable aptitude,
and made his first public appearance at the Pajrk
Theatre, |slew York, as Young Norval in the tragedy
of " Douglas." This debut was a complete success.
From New York he went to Boston, where he again
appeared as Young Norval, and also as Romeo, Rolla,
and other characters. In cultured Boston he became
even more the rage than in the great emporium of
commerce. After a time he returned to New York,
thence he visited Baltimore, where he was enthusiastic-
ally received, proceeding to South Carolina and other
Southern States. He went to Washington in 1809,
and attracted great attention, one admiring critic de-
claring that " a more extraordinary mixture of soft-
ness and intelligence was never associated in a human
countenance ; and his face was an index of his heart —
he was a perfect Cupid in beauty." In January, 1813,
Payne sailed for England, and in Liverpool was wel-
comed by William Roscoe, who presented him to John
Kemble, Coleridge, Campbell, Southey, Byron, and
others, and got him an engagement at Drury Lane
Theatre in the character of Young Norval. Great ap-
plause greeted the youthful American actor, particu-
larly in the death scene at the end of the play. Payne
performed for a month in London, and then went the
round of several of the principal English cities, after
which he proceeded to Dublin, where, in conjunction
with the celebrated Miss O'Neill, he played in various
well-known dramas. He now visited Paris, where
he met and became intimate with his distinguished
countryman, Washington Irving, and formed a friend-
ship with Talma, the French tragedian. Once more
he turned to England, but on this occasion he was less
of a novelty, and did not retain his former success.

About this time he began his career as a dramatic
author, one of his first efforts along this line being
the tragedy of " Brutus," produced at Drury Lane
Theatre in 1818, the famous Edmund Lead taking the
principal part. The play was a success, being per-
formed to crowded houses for seventy-five nights.
Upwards of fifty plays of various descriptions were
written by Payne, and their pecuniary returns enabled
him to live comfortable during his nineteen years'
residence in Europe. But the production which has
achieved such a world-wide fame, and rendered its
author an honored name in many a household, was
his " Home, Sweet Home." This beautiful song was
composed in Paris one dull October day when Payne
was living in humble lodgings near the Palais Royal.
The depressing influences of his surroundings, some-
thing in the atmosphere which seemed to harmonize
with his own feelings, and his solitary lot in life,
were instrumental in drawing forth the simple pathos
and tender yearnings of the song. The song was
afterwards rewritten by its author, and introduced
into an opera called " Clari, the Maid cf Milan," a

play sold by him, in 1823, to Charles Kemble, of Cov-
ent Garden Theatre, for £250, the music being com-
posed by Sir Henry Bishop.

" Clari " had a great run, the chief part being taken
by Miss Marie Tree, whose singing of the simple song
caused a wonderful sensation, gifted as she was not
only with a beautiful and expressive face, but with a
fine voice which thrilled her hearers. More than 100,-
000 copies of the song as set to music were sold by
the publishers within a year of its publication; but
poor Payne reaped no pecuniary benefit from this
source, nor did his name even appear as the author.

For the next ten years he resided in America, and
traveled extensively both in the North and South.
In 1842 he was appointed American Consul at Tunis,
but was recalled in three years, returning to Wash-
ington in 1847. By the exertion of friends he was
reappointed to Tunis. In May, 1851, the author of
" Home, Sweet Home," bade farewell to his country
for the last time, and in a few weeks afterwards en-
tered upon the duties of his office at Tunis, with high
hopes of continuing his former career of usefulness.
But it had been otherwise decreed, for ere another
year had passed John Howard Payne had ceased from
his wanderings, while his country had to lament the
loss of one of her gifted sons. He died on April 9,
1852, and his body was laid in the Protestant cemetery
of St. George at Tunis, the grave being covered by
a white marble slab, with a simple epitaph. — The Mu-
sical Million.

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I BLAME THEE NOT.

RICHARD BRAUNSTEIN.

I blame thee not that thou didst prove

Unmindful of the promise given.
My soul would never stoop to love

That came not all uncalled, unbidden.
I could not count thy smiles, and know

They beamed but from thy eyes alone,
When from thy heart their liquid flow.

Dissolving, all thy soul hast shown.
'T is hard to bid thee say farewell.

Aye, life is death, from thee apart.
Yet better so, than hear love's knell

Struck at each throb of a wild heart.
I blame thee not; we may not bind

The wind, to do our wish, at will;
As well to fetter love and find

The bands soon rent with ready skill.
I long have felt, that not to me.

Belonged the magic, or the art
Whose charms, or subtle witchery.

Could spellbound hold thy changeful heart.
So fare thee well — and mayest thou be

Blest in thy love, thy all.
So forth, let not one thought of me.

Respond a sigh at memory's call.

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Steadiness of national character goes with firmness
of foothold on the soil. — David Starr Jordan.

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Nature Studies

GLACIERS AND MORAINES

JOHN II. XOWLAN.

When the temperature of a region is so low that
the snowfall is greater than the loss by melting dur-
ing the milder season, snow accumulates, sometimes,
to the depths of hundreds of feet. As it continues to
accumulate, it creeps toward the lower ground till
it reaches a lower level, or the sea. These accumula-
tions are called ice sheets or glaciers.

In the polar regions and on high mountains these
are to be found today.

The ice sheet of Greenland is estimated to be fifteen
hundred miles from north to south and from three
hundred to six hundred east and west. The interior
is thought to be nine thousand feet high.

In the Alps the glaciers are more like frozen rivers,
creeping down the mountain side at the rate -of from
one hundred to five hundred feet a year. The ice
obeys the laws of flowing water, the centre moving
faster than the sides and the top faster than the bottom.
This was proven by setting a row of stakes in line
across a glacier and noting tlieir change in position
with reference to each other and those on the banks.

Moving glaciers press heavily on their beds. The
enormous weight presses rock against rock, grinding
some to powder and scratching others. Those that
chance to be held by the ice and carried along, will
be worn flat as will also be the upper surface of those
remaining stationary in the bed. Large boulders
sometimes fall upon the ice and are carried far from
the parent ledge.

This rock waste is carried forward till the glacier
reaches a temperature sufficiently warm to melt the
ice and is then deposited. Continuing thus year after
year the margin of the glacier or ice sheet is marked
by a ridge of rock to which the term moraine is ap-
plied. Sometimes the moraine entirely covers the
end of the glacier to such an extent that even forests
are found on them. Such is the case of several in
Alaska.

Early in the history of the earth there were periods
when the glaciers were vastly more extended than
now. This is known as the glacial period. During
this period there must have been seasons of lower

temperature and greater precipitation than today.
The most extensive of these ice sheets were those
extending from eastern Canada across the Great Lakes
upon the northern part of the United States and from
the Scandinavian highlands across the Baltic Sea up-
on northern Germany. That from the St. Lawrence
region is known at the Laurentian glacier and was
nearly as large as the desert of Sahara.

The southern limit of the ice sheet is marked by
a row of hills, called " eskers," extending in an irregu-
lar line across the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Hollows or " kettles " are to be found among these
hills which on being drained have made fine farms.
The Indians often made their trails along the tops of
these ridges and settlers following have utilized them.
One of these ridges extends east and west from Van-
dalia, the former capital of Illinois. Along its crest
is a highway known locally as the " Ridge Road,"
where travelers may look down to the left or right
on herds often fifty feet or more below. This ridge
crosses Bond County in a broken line, valuable de-
posits of builders' and moulders' sand being found
near the center of the county.

The greater portion of the debris brought down
by the ice sheet was left in the preglacial valleys,
filling them and forming vast plains. This debris con-
sisted of an unsorted waste filled with boulders, and
is known by the Scotch word till. Much of the softer
rock has decomposed and forms a compact yellow
earth known as " hardpan." The till of New England
contains many boulders, so numerous in fact as to
prevent agriculture being carried on in some places.
South of the Great Lakes and from Ohio westward
the till is less stony.

The melting ice made temporary lakes as the ice
fheet retreated, the most extensive of which is named
Lake Agassiz. It comprised what is now the basin
of the Red River of Minnesota and reached northward
into Canada hundreds of miles. Its shore lines are
easily traced till they almost unite in the northeast
corner of South Dakota ; here the outlet, a mile or
more wide, leads southeast to the Mississippi. The
flow of the Great Lakes by the way of the St. Law-
rence was also obstructed and the water rose to higher
levels than today. Lake Ontario sought an outlet

THE INGLENOOK.— January 5, 1909.

by the way of the Hudson and Michigan by way of
the IlHnois. The first outlet is now marked by the
Minnesota river, the second" by the Mohawk and the
last by the Chicago drainage canal.

The shore lines of the Great Lakes are no longer
level, rising a few feet to the mile toward the east
which indicates that the land is rising. Should this
uplift raise the level of the lakes a few feet before
Niagara can cut back into Lake Erie, the drainage
of all but Ontario will be diverted to the Mississippi
via the Illinois.

The ice sheets have vanished — so have the Indians
almost disappeared
from the East.
The Indians are
considered impor-
tant in the study of
American history.
Even more im-
portant are the
vanished ice sheets
in the study of
American g e o g -
raphy.

Mulberry Grove,
Illinois.

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NATURE

STUDY.

" One advantage
of nature study is
that it tempts the
children into long
country walks,
away from the for-
m a 1 streets, the
dust, and the dirty
air of the city. The
air of the town is
constantly charged
with dust — and not
simply dust, but
particles carrying
all sorts of disease-
producing mi-
crobes. These are

taken into the nose and mouth with each breath, and
also carried down into the air-passages or into the
stomach when one swallows. The fact that anyone of
us is alive shows that the protective forces of the body
are usually sufficient to destroy these germs of disease ;
but to keep them thus effective we must do what we
can to aid nature. It needs no argument to prove
that exercise in the pure air of the country is one of
the best means for gaining health and strength, and
fnrtifyinsj the bodv against the attacks of disease."

THE BIRDS
From a leaflet printed by American
Taken from Ch

MUSQUASH IN WINTER QUARTERS.

All summer Musquash wandered up and down
the stream, enjoying river frolics by moonlight with
liis brothers and sisters. He sucked the eggs and
devoured the young of the water fowl, whose low-
built nests he found in the rushes ; gathered and
cracked mussels, and waxed fat on an abundance of
juicy frog meat. But now the liunter's moon, glitter-
ing on the frost that covers reed and swamp grass, tells
him it is time to stop playing and go to work if he
would be comfortable for the winter.

As soon as the sun has set, out troop the muskrats-

from their holes irk
the bank. They
hurry about gath-
ering dried sticks
and reeds for the
foundation of the
home. As these
are laid in place
the y are firmly
plastered with
mud, for our
friends are skillful
little masons.
What a wonderful
instinct is that
which tells them to
lay the sticks very
lightly at the top of
their house and
leave that part of
the dome without
plaster, so the foul
air may escape and
fresh air enter !
The floor of the
living room is just
above high water
mark. The front
door, as well as the
back and side ones,
open under water,
so that if danger
threatens the musk-
rat will have more
than one escape. When the house is finished they
bring in plenty, of dried grass and lily pads for bedding.
So long as the water surrounding Musquash's home
does not freeze to the bottom he leads a happy life.
His hind feet are webbed and he is an expert in all
water sports. There are gay tiines beneath the ice
in Musquash Town. To be sure, the fare is only
lily bulbs and fresh water clams, varied now and then
with a few half-frozen insects or a cluster or mussels.

I Concluded on Page 23.)

IN CHURCH.

Humane Association,
icago Tribune.

Albany, N. Y.

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THE NEW YEAR,

One volume of the book of time has just been com-
pleted and laid away and we are now, with anticipatory
thrills, fingering the first pages of the new volume that
has been given to us. We are awed by its fresh, clean
appearance, its marks of newness, and our feelings
are a strange mixture of delight and fear. Of delight,
because we are allowed to begin over again, as it were,
with the possibility of making a better record. Of
fear, because of the issues at stake and the remem-
brance of blunders and weaknesses recorded in the
volume just closed.

This illusion of a new beginning is, we believe, as
productive of good as any illusion can possibly be.
No factor, aside from some outside agent, is so
potent in putting new life and hope into the work as
the thought of a new trial. Every faculty of mind
and body is called into use in a new beginning, when
otherwise the worker would jog along in a spiritless
way and accomplish only a small part of what he is
capable of doing.

The new year of 1909, with its promise of a fresh
start, finds us, therefore, ready and eager for the fray.
Not in all the history of the world could we find a
time when one could fight as unhampered as now or
work- to better purpose than now. We need, first
of all, to be sure that we are on the right side, — the
side of right, — then we can throw ourselves unre-
servedly into the work. Though the cause we uphold
may not win a complete victory this year, at least we,
as individuals, will be victors, since we shall have had
many triumphs in the kingdom of our own soul. For
no man can truly fight in any good cause who does
not make decided advancement in his own life.

We wish all our readers a happy New Year. May
3'our plans be unselfish and with the aim to be of use
in the world and then you must be happy. In turn,
we crave the good wishes of all our readers. As many
of you know, this new beginning for the Inglexook

is more than an illusion ; it is a reality. New life
has come to the magazine. And in the strength of
the inspiration and encouragement that have come
from its many friends we trust that it may reach a
higher degree of e.xcellence than it has yet attained.
We are sure this possibility may be realized if our
friends will continue to lend their help as in the past.

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THE BIG FARM AND THE RICH FARMER.

In the face of Uncle Sam's crop reports one ought
not to take the cry of hard times too seriously. Real
downright hard times must have as their basis a short-
age of the products of the soil— a real famine look.
When, on the contrary, our Secretary of Agriculture
reports of farm products the biggest volume ever, it
ought to make some of us feel ashamed in view of
the long faces we have been wearing because of the
" hard times." If one could lay his finger on the
real cause of the present depression it would probably
be not far from extravagance in living and wild
speculation. Many of us live beyond our means and
most of us are extravagant in one way or another.

So it is that this year's crop report makes good
reading. William E. Curtis, writing on the subject
in the Chicago Record-Herald, says the report ought
to have been published before Thanksgiving in order
to furnish material for Thanksgiving sermons. But
the report will do us good now. Thankful hearts
are what we need to begin the year aright.

Continuing, the above mentioned writer says:
" Every year since Secretary Wilson commenced his
series of annual reports (nearly twelve years ago)
has seemed to surpass all previous records until the
farm products of 1908 have reached the value of
$7,778,000,000 — 'the most extraordinary amount in
the history of the world,' or, as the secretary calls
it, ' an unthinkable amount of real, tangible wealth as
it exists at the time it leaves the hand of the pro-
ducer.'

" It is not necessary for him to tell the housewives
of our cities that there has been a very large advance
in the price of farm products, because they are only
too familiar with that fact; but every woman who
goes to market will be interested in his statement
that the mean factory price of butter averaged 19.16
cents in 1899 and 27.16 cents in 1908; that the aver-
age farm price of eggs throughout the United States
was 11.15 cents in 1899 and 18.3 cents in 1908; that
the mean wholesale price of dressed poultry in New
York was 11.15 cents per pound in 1899 and 13.56
cents in 1908. The wholesale price of milk in Chicago
was 10.5 cents per gallon in 1899 and 15.16 cents in
1908, while in New York the wholesale price of milk
increased from 10.12 cents per gallon in 1899 to 16.62
cents per gallon in 1908. That partially explains
why the farmer is the most prosperous person in the
country.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 5, 1909.

" In comparison with the previous five years there
has been an increase in the volume of every crop
except oats,»flaxseed, potatoes, tobacco and hops, and
a higher value for every crop except cottonseed and
hops.

" The exports of domestic farm products in 1908
were valued at $1,017,000,000, while the imports
of the farm products of other countries were $540,-
000,000, leaving a balance of trade of $488,000,000
in favor of this country. ' The magnificent figures
of the farmers' contribution to the exports of this
country and to the favorable balance of trade,' said
Secretary Wilson joyfully, ' are maintained in spite
of this country's immense growth in population and
the extraordinary immigration of nonagricultural peo-
ples, and also in spite of the diminishing fraction of
the population that is engaged in agriculture. No anal-
ysis could more strongly indicate the progressive
efficiency of the farmers' labor and capital and the
telHng effects of the agricultural sciences.' "

Surely the farmer can begin the new year with
courage and with confidence in the soil which he
cultivates. Add to the agricultural report the fact
that the farmer's life is the most free and natural and
there is no visible reason why the farmer should not
be contented and happy.

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WITHDRAWAL OF WESTERN PHOSPHATE
LANDS.

Acting under instructions of President Roosevelt,
Dec. 10, the Secretary of the Interior withdrew from
entry, selection, and location all public lands in Wyo-
ming, Idaho, and Utah, believed to contain phosphate
rock, pending appropriate action by Congress. The
list of lands withdrawn was furnished by the U. S.
Geological Survey as a result of preliminary examina-
tion of the field. Further work will be undertaken by
the Survey as soon as practicable, looking toward a
careful classification of the lands in question and the
restoration to agricultural entry of such portions as
are found to contain no phosphate.

This action of the President has been taken largely
as the result of facts brought out at the recent meeting
of the National Conservation Commission in Wash-
ington. At this meeting it was shown that, at the
present rate of production, the known available supply
of high grade phosphate rock in the United States
will last only about fifty years. Although this west-
ern field embraces the largest area of known phos-
phate beds in the world, the absolute necessity of
utilizing these deposits for the benefit of the farms
of the United States was strongly emphasized.

Phosphoric acid is one of the three substances
which must exist in the soil if the soil is to be pro-
ductive. It has been shown, as the result of agri-
cultural experiment station work in Wisconsin, Ohio

and Illinois, that in fifty-four years soils of these
States, in the cropped area, have been depleted of one-
third of their original phosphoric acid. This is equiv-
alent to twenty pounds per acre annually. Assum-
ing it to be only half this amount, for the four hun-
dred million acres of cropped land in the United
States it would require 6,000,000 tons of phosphate
rock annually to offset this loss, without considering
the question of increasing the agricultural yield above
the present production.

In 1907 there were 2,265,000 tons of phosphate rock
produced in the United States, and of this amount 900,-
000 tons or about forty per cent was exported. The
phosphate rock of South Carolina is practically ex-
hausted ; the Florida deposits have reached their max-
imum production ; the output of the Tennessee de-
posits is on the increase, but this field alone would,
at the present rate of increase in consumption, last
only eleven years. There is some phosphate in Ar-
kansas but it is of low grade; therefore the large de-
posits of the public land States must be depended up-
on for the greater part of our phosphate in the future.
To insure the utilization of our own deposits in our
own country some means must be devised to prevent
its shipment to foreign lands. It would appear that
this can be done only by retaining in the Government
title to all public lands underlain with phosphate
rock, and leasing these lands under terms which will
prohibit exportation.

The Secretary of the Interior is charged by law
with the care, preservation, and disposition of the
public domain for the benefit of all the people of the
United States; and the rulings of the Supreme Court
are to the effect that he has full power to meet such
unexpected contingencies or emergencies as are
created by changed conditions, new discoveries, or un-
foreseen happenings. In such cases he fortunately has
the power to make temporary reservations or with-
drawals of the public domain, with a view to protect-
ing and preserving the same pending the submission
of information to Congress in order that it may enact
appropriate legislation to meet the conditions disclosed.
This power has been frequently exercised during the
past forty years, in the public interests.

In this particular instance, the question is so vital
to every citizen of the United States interested in the
present and future agricultural production of the
country that immediate action is necessary.

An executive order of withdrawal, general in its
nature, like this, is under the rulings effective from
the first moment of the day upon which it is made,
and thereafter during the existence of the reserva-
tion, no valid location can be made or claim initiated.
Valid claims initiated prior to a withdrawal and main-
tain by compliance in all respects with the law are not
defeated or impaired by such a reservation. — U. S.
Geological Stiri'ev.

THE INGLENOOK.— Tanuary 5, 1909.

The Home World

DESSERTS

LENNA F. COOPER

THAT the desire for dessert is almost universal
and a natural one is proven by the fact that the
menu always seems incomplete without it.
There seems to be a natural appetite calling for some-
thing especially tasteful and dainty with which to fin-
ish ofT the meal. A dessert is not necessarily unwhole-
some : indeed, it may serve a beneficial role in the
menu, providing it is made of wholesome things, and
given a proper place in the menu. It may be that this
appetizing dish serves as a natural stimulus to the flow
of the digestive fluids just the same way as the appe-
tizers such as fruits, hot soup, etc., at the beginning
of a meal.

The dessert should ordinarily be simple. Too fre-
quently, the desserts are rich and heavy, and an un-
necessary addition to the already overcrowded menu.
The desserts are usually rich in fats and sugars. Paw-
low, the noted Russian physiologist, has recently
shown that fats tend to inhibit the secretion of the
hydrochloric acid of the gastric juice. Since the
hydrochloric acid is necessary in stomach digestion,
it becomes apparent that rich desserts should never
follow a heavy meal, as the fat of the dessert tends
to delay the digestion of the meal. If we serve rich
desserts, the remainder of the meal should be cor-
respondingly light. Ordinarily, sufficient food has
already been consumed before the time for the dessert
has arrived. Thus it becomes simply a tax on the
digestive organs, because, as a rule, we eat more
than is needed.

Let us analyze the different inatcrials that usually
compose the dessert. Fats and sugars form an im-
portant part of the dessert. As has been stated, fats
always retard the flow of gastric juice, thus lessen-
ing the ability of the stomach to digest the rest of
the food. Hence, rich pastries, puddings, etc., ought
not to be served after a heavy meal.

The sugars, being pepto-genic, increase the flow
of the digestive fluids, but sugars taken in the con-

centrated solution are very irritating. A twenty-five
per cent solution of cane sugar placed in the stomach
by means of a tube has been known to produce gastri-
tis. Fortunately, we are unable to take itr.

" My lad, this is your first lesson in gambling." ,

" Gambling, sir? "

" You staked your penny and won six, did you
not?"

" Yes, I did."

" You did not earn them, and they were not given
to you. You won them just as gamblers win money.
You have taken the first step in the path. That man
has gone through it, and you can see the end. Now,
I advise you to go and give the six cents back and
ask him for your penny, and then stand square with
the world, an honest boy again."

He had hung his head, but raised it quickly, and
his bright, open look as he said, " I'll do it ! " will not
be forgotten. He ran back, and soon emerged from
the ring, looking happier than ever. That was an
honest bov. — Selected.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 5, 1909.

The

Hour

THE NEW YEAR.

MARY C. STONER.
Ah! bright the dawning of thy morn,
What on thy gentle wings is borne?
Thy sunbeams like the children play
With lightsome glee so blithe and gay.
And will your morn's be all so bright,
So full of cheery radiant light?
Thou'rt like a fair and winsome lass
So sweetly smiling while you pass.

We love thy dawn, thou fair young year,
With all thy cherished hopes or fear.
And welcome is thy beaming light
Born from the death of last year's night.
May naught of sin thy beauty mar.
But hearts grow purer hour by hour,
Until thy mysteries shall unfold
And crown thy sunset skies in gold.
North Manchester, Ind.

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THE WEEK OF PRAYER.

For about half a century the meetings for prayer
during the first full week of each year have had the
interest and attention of the evangelical churches of
the world. During the most of this time the special
subject, or burden of the prayer, has been for the
speedy conversion of the heathen world to faith in
Jesus Christ.

In main the original purpose of the meetings has
been maintained. A deep spiritual longing for the
conversion of the world has been manifested. Earnest
prayers have arisen to God, and the hearts of Chris-
tian people have warmed toward each other as they
have unitedly gathered around the throne of divine
grace, and asked God's blessing on the souls of men.
They have prayed for revival, and God has sent many
a gracious and glorious awakening in answer to their
petitions. They have asked for the success of the
Gospel in foreign lands, and during this last half
century we have witnessed the most marvelous growth
of the kingdom that has ever occurred since the time
of Christ and his apostles.

And why should we not pray, and pray unitedly,
for such ends? Is prayer a powef, and shall we
not employ it? Has God granted to us this power,
arid shall we not unite in earnest petition that the

world may be brought out of its sin and sorrow into
the blessed joy and comfort of salvation? Surely it
were cruel if we should not pray, since prayer is, ac-
cording to the assurances of Jesus Christ, a power
that we are to exert in behalf of others. Christian
love and sympathy should prompt and compel us to
pray, and to pray unitedly and to pray without fear or
faltering, that the blessed kingdom of God may come,
in peace and power, into the hearts and homes of our
fellow-men all over the world.

But while we have prayed, in this general and uni-
versal way, for the whole world, we have seen many
a blessed revival in our land which had its origin in
the blessing of God upon the humility and confession
and faith and prayer of his people. Commencing to
pray for God's conversion of the heathen world, God's
children have continued in prayer for a blessing upon
their friends and neighbors, their children and their
homes.

During this half century our evangelical churches
have been drawn nearer to one another than at any
time in church history, and the fraternity engendered
in the exercises of this week has been largely the
cause of the growing unity of believers. We have
been drawn nearer to one another as patriots as
we have prayed for God's purifying power in the life
of our nation. We have been made more efficient and
practical in our reformatory work as we have prayed
for God's power to restrain and destroy intemperance
and other evils.

So we look forward to the exercises of this first full
week of the new year, and seek to put away evil-
thinking and evil-speaking, and all unbelief and all bit-
terness, and to be ready to be used of God as he hears
and answers our prayers. We shall find it good to
draw near to God in prayer. We shall find it good to
draw near to one another as we pray. We shall find
anew, if we come in faith and assurance, that God is
able and ready to do exceeding abundantly above what
we can ask or think. — Herald and Presbyter.
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WHEREAS: RESOLVED.

I USED to admire the ability of my friends that had
the knack of writing resolutions in good shape. I

THE INGLENOOK.— January 5, 1909.

generally skipped the " whereas " portion myself, how-
ever, in reading these documents, being more eager
than logical. Nevertheless I have just expressed
some resolutions in this form, and I have done it to
make clear to myself the reason for my action. Thus :

Whereas my experience shows me that I am not
happy when I am murmuring, or complaining; and

Whereas I help to make other people unhappy by
unloading the burden of wrongs real or fancied, upon
them; and

Whereas complaining tends easily to become a habit,
and a bad one, and to breed still more complaints; and

Whereas murmuring and dissatisfaction, and the
repetition to others of my woes, rob me of spiritual
power, fixing my mind on mere human conditions,
instead of on God, who conquers them ; and

Whereas complaining makes it impossible for me to
obey the scriptural command, "Rejoice in the Lord
alway," because complaint and joy are opposites ; and

Whereas complaining is evidence of lack of trust in
God and acceptance of his will :

Be it therefore resolved :

Never to allow the mind to indulge in self-pity, to
brood upon the wrongs I may have suffered, or may
suffer ;

Never to repeat to any one, no matter how dear
they may be, any kind of complaint; but to cast such
memories out of the mind resolutely and forever ;

Never to seek sympathy that involves the darken-
ing of other lives by my murmuring;

Always to dwell in the sunshine of the divine love,
and know that he is taking care of all apparently
untoward conditions, for " all things work together
for good to them that love God " ;

Always to rejoice and help to make others happy!

There, now, what do you think of that? You say,
of course, " You can never do it, Mr. Ripple." I
know it. But the Power that inspired the desire can.
" It is God that worketh in you both to will and to do."

The world is too full of complaints and lugubrious
rehearsals of evils and wrongs. I cannot stop these
things in others; I can in myself, by divine grace. —
Christian Endeavor World.

..« .•* .,*
LIKE UNTO THE CHRIST.

Two men were sinking a shaft. It was rather a
dangerous business that they had to do — it was to
blast a piece of rock. Their custom was to cut the fuse
with a knife. One man then got into the bucket and
made a signal to be hauled up. When the bucket
again descended, the other man got into it, and —
with one hand on the signal rope and the other hold-
ing the fire — he touched the fuse, made the signal,
and was rapidly drawn up before the explosion took
place. It was a dangerous business. One day thev
left their knife up above, and rather than ascend to

procure it, they cut the fuse with a sharp stone. It
took fire. " The fuse is on fire. Both leaped into the
bucket, and made the signal ; but the windlass would
haul up but one man at a time ; only one could escape.
One man instantly leaped out, and said, " Up with ye ;
I'll be in heaven in a minute." With lightning speed
the bucket was drawn up and the man was saved.
The explosion took place. Men descended, expecting
to find the mangled body of the other miner; but the
charge had loosened a mass of rock, and it lay diag-
onally across him, arid with the exception of a few
bruises and a little scorching, the man was unhurt.
When asked why he urged the other man to escape,
he gave a reason that skeptics would laugh at. " Why
did you insist on this other man's ascending? " In his
broad dialect he said, " Because I knowed my soul
was safe, for I've gie it in the hands of him of whom
it is said that 'faithfulness is the girdle of his loins' ;
and I knowed that what I gied him he'd never gie up.
But t'other chap was an awful wicked lad, and I
wanted to gie him another chance." All the infidelity
in the world cannot produce such a single act of
heroism as that. — Selected.

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A SUDDEN ALARM.

One Sunday, not long ago, the audience had as-
sembled in one of the churches to hear preaching.
Suddenly the fire bells rang out.

In an instant the music stopped, and the congrega-
tion rose in a body and all rushed out into the street.
Every one thought, " It may be our house on fire."
So in one minute the house was empty.

It turned out to be a small blaze which had been
extinguished by the time the people got out of the
church. They returned, and soon got seated and
silent.

The minister then rose and prayed:

" O Lord, make this people as anxious to save their
souls as they are to save their bodies. May they make
as great haste to rescue themselves and their neighbors
from the fires to come as they now do to save their
children and their property from the fires of this
world." — The Mennonite.

i^nt ^^ t^f

Chicago's anti-cruelty society now keeps horses
with drivers stationed at the steep approaches to
bridges up which it is difficult for teams to haul the
heavy loads they easily pull on the level. The " Good
Samaritan Horses," as they are called, help get the
heavy loads, one after another, over the bridges.
Ji Ji ^

" It is easier to discuss the duties of others than to
do our own."

.< J* .«t

" MuLiSHNESS is often taken for manliness,— by the
mulish."

THE I NGLENOOK.— January 5, 1909.

Echoes from Everywhere

The department of agriculture and commerce of Japan
is being prevailed upon to grant a sparrow-destroying
subsidy, as in some parts of the country the English
sparrow is becoming a pest, having devoured the rice
crop.

The Western Electric Company of Chicago has for-
bidden its workmen from drinking beer on the company
grounds. Careful investigations demonstrated that a
large number of accidents occurred uniformly after lunch
and in almost every case the victim had taken beer with
his lunch.

The night of Dec. 23 was one of the busiest of the
year in the handling of outgoing mail from the post-
office in Chicago. About 260 tons of mail matter were
sent out by the night shift. Fully 1,000 men were em-
ployed in the distribution of outbound mail and 200 were
busy in the registry department.

The government of Panama has been spending large
sums this year in fighting the locusts, which have become
a serious menace to the agricultural interests of the
country. The method of exterminating the locusts most
generally adopted has been to dig a trench about SO feet
in length, 2 feet wide, and 1 foot deep, with perpendicular
sides, into which the locusts are driven by men beating
the grass and trees with switches. In this way millions
are collected and are destroyed with a solution of strong
lye soapsuds.

Claus Spreckels, the multimillionaire sugar magnate,
died of pneumonia Dec. 26. Mr. Spreckels was born in
Landstedt, Hanover, in 1823. He came to this country
in 1846. In 1856 he went to San Francisco and seven
years later established the Bay Sugar Refinery, procuring
the raw material from Hawaii. He invented new re-
fining processes and his business grew rapidly.

Statutes fixing the official status of Prince Chun, the
regent, were published recently in China. The prince is
given an annual salary of $105,000, and is made com-
mander-in-chief of both the land and sea forces of the
empire. The edict provides also that a palace be built
for him near the site of the late dowager's winter resi-
dence.

There has recently been completed at Great Falls,
Mont., a huge brick chimney for carrying away the fumes
of the smelting works, which will take rank as one of
the tallest structures in the world. It is 78^2 feet in
outside diameter at the base, and 53 feet 9 inches at the
top. It extends 506 feet above the ground and 528'/2 feet
above its lowest foundation course. Its total weight is
24,964 tons. The brickwork is 18 inches in thickness at
the top and 66 inches at the base. It is lined throughout
with a 4-inch wall of acid-proof brick.

Judging from the turn of affairs, it is believed that
Cipriano Castro, president of Venezuela, who recently
went to Germany for medical treatment, will be per-
manently relieved of his office as president of the re-
public. Acting President Gomez has taken full charge
of affairs and is doing all in his power to come to
an understanding with those nations which have re-
sented the high-handed actions of Castro.

The Secret Service of the United States after lengthy
negotiations with the clearing house and banking asso-
ciations throughout the country, has obtained almost
unanimous action regarding the marking of counterfeit
money handed to the receiving tellers. Nearly all these
institutions have adopted rules requiring the tellers here-
after to stamp " counterfeit " on all specimens of bad
money they receive. This will put it beyond the power
of the owners of the counterfeit money to pass it on
unsuspecting persons after they have failed to dispose of
the coin or notes at the bank.

According to reports reaching El Paso, Texas, Dec. 27,
a state of panic exists among residents of Hermosillo,
capital of the Mexican state of Sonora, over a strange
malady which has caused scores of deaths. Many people
are reported fleeing from the new plague. Messages here
do not state the nature of the disease but say that
stricken persons die within a few days after being at-
tacked. Doctors are unable to diagnose the malady and
seem helpless to treat it. Fears are entertained that
the plague will extend through the whole state of Sonora.

Mark Twain set the " thumb-print " craze going when
he published " Pudd'nhead Wilson," and the government
is still carrying on the craze. Secretary Garfield and the
interior department have officially indorsed the thumb print
as a signature concerning transactions of thie Osage Indians.
Indian Agent Millard, located in Oklahoma, has been
notified that hereafter the thumb print of each Indian
shall be affixed to his receipt for the payment of annuity
money, and will also be recognized by the department in
signing leases and other instruments in writing. Records
will be taken of the thumb prints of the various members
of the tribe, about 2,200 in all, and preserved for refer-
ence.

Dispatches from Rome Dec. 28 state that southern
Italy and the island of Sicily were that day visited by
a terrible earthquake. In many places a tidal wave
added to the disaster. Small towns are reported de-
stroyed and the city of Missina, in Sicily, with a pop-
ulation of 150,000, has suffered most, two-thirds of the
place being reported wrecked. This is according to
the earliest reports at which time it was impossible to
make estimates as to total loss of life and property.
However, the disaster is believed to be much greater than
that of 1905.

THE I NGLENOOK.— January 5, 1909.

The National Council for Jewish Women has a mem-
bership of 10,000 women banded together for work along
philanthropic, legislative and cooperative lines. Some of
its most effective work has been among the immigrants,
and it has done much for the protection and uplift par-
ticularly of young girls lately landed in this country.

Following close on the agreement between United States
and Great Britain providing for " penny postage " between
the two nations comes the announcement of a similar
compact with Germany. This understanding becomes
effective on January 1st. The aggregate saving in postage
to the millions of Germans in this country who have occa-
sion to correspond frequently with Germany will be enor-
mous, but better than this is the increase in inter-
communication which is sure to follow. " It is for lack
of knowledge that the people are destroyed; anything
which increases their understanding of each other makes
for mutual development and world-wide peace."

A new watch has been invented for the use of physi-
cians and nurses in counting the pulse. The watch
indicates, without mental calculation, the number of
beats of the pulse in a minute. It operates on the prin-
ciple of a stop-watch. By pressing the push-button a
large second hand is set in motion, and the counting of
the pulsations begins. At the 20th pulsation the motion
of the hand is stopped by another pressure of the push-
button. The dial accurately indicates the exact number
of pulsations per minute. A third pressure on the push-
button brings the hand back to the starting point. The
use of this instrument does away with the necessity of
observing the progress of the watch while taking the
pulse, and in addition insures an absolutely correct rec-
ord.

When Bessemer steel was first placed on the market
it was hailed as the great wear-resister, as indeed it was;
but now that the wear and tear of commerce and travel
have so increased, it is found that the Bessemer steel
does not so effectively resist. On the Boston elevated
railroad, for example, the rails on the curves have given
way at an astonishing rate. Within three months Besse-
mer steel rails were so worn that they had to be replaced.
Manganese rails have been tried and found to stand the
usage much better than the Bessemer steel. Within 44
days the Bessemer rails wore down .065 of a foot, whereas
the manganese steel was reduced only .046 of a foot in
more than 2,000 days. All sorts of steel, including nickel
steel, have been tried, but the manganese has shown better
wearing qualities than all the rest.

Experiments are now being carried out on German war-
ships with acetylene shells, which it is believed may take
the place of the electric searchlight used hitherto by war-
ships. These shell contain calcium-carbide, and the wa-
ter can reach it through a tube. The shells are fired by
a gun built especially for the purpose. On being fired
the shell goes under water, and then rises to the surface,
and the action of the water upon the calcium-carbide
produces the acetylene light. Each shell is said to have
3,000 candle power and will burn for three hours. The
great drawback of the ordinary searchlight is that, al-
though it affords some protection from the unobserved
approach of torpedo boats, it yet makes the warship using
it an excellent target. The new acetylene shell referred
to will have the great advantage of lighting up a given
space, while the vessel that fires it will be left in dark-
ness.

The French government has definitely adopted the
scheme of " letter telegrams " which has been under dis-
cussion in France for some time. The new system pro-
vides that letters may be telegraphed between any two
points in France at night at a cost of one-fifth of a cent
a word, and that they will be delivered the next morning.

Fifteen thousand postmasters of the fourth class were
placed under civil service by an executive order issued in
the first days of the month. Those states in which the
change is made lie north of the Ohio and east of the
Mississippi, but there is little doubt that this order will
be followed at no long time by another extending its
provisions to the other states. The traffic in fourth class
postoffices is thus abolished in a large part of the country,
and the postmasters become real servants of the public
instead of merely henchmen of the local congressman.
President Roosevelt has brightened the concluding days
of his administration by this act; it must have the com-
mendation of all with the exception of the few congress-
men whose patronage it demolishes.

Co-coanut oil, which was at first used only for making
soap, may now become an important factor in food. In
Madagascar, eastern Africa, Indo-China, and on the Congo
stations have been established where the best varieties
of the cocoa tree are brought together, from which places
much cocoanut oil is shipped. Unfortunately, however, by
the time it reaches its European destination it has de-
teriorated and become rancid, owing to the partial decay
of the fatty matter in it. In order to obviate this a French
scientist has formed the plan of sterilizing the product
by submitting the fruit of the tree, cut in two, to the
action of sulphur gas. The oil then obtained does not
become rancid and may be used in some forms of food.

According to a decree issued Dec. 23 by the Missouri
Supreme Court, the Standard Oil Company of Indiana,
the Republic Oil Company of Ohio and the Waters-Pierce
Oil Company of Missouri have been fined $50,000 apiece
and are to be driven out of the State. The decision,
which was unanimous on the part of the seven judges, is
so sweeping that Attorney General Hadley and Governor
Folk hail it as the end of illegal commercial combinations
in Missouri. Attorney General Hadley, who has prose-
cuted the Missouri case since its inception in March, 1905,
will become governor in less than a month and will then
be charged with the enforcement of the decree.

The battleship fleet of sixteen vessels under the com-
mand of Rear Admiral Sperry has turned homeward after
an absence from Hampton Roads of nearly a year. The
vessels are due at the southern entrance of the Suez
canal Jan. 5, and after leaving Port Said, at the nothern
entrance, where coal is to be taken on board, they will
divide into squadrons and make a series of calls at Medi-
terranean ports. In this manner the American ships
will show at Athens, Tripoli, Villefranche, Marseilles,
Genoa, Leghorn, Malta, Naples, and Algiers. According
to the present schedule, the entire fleet will assemble at
Gibraltar the first week of February, and on February 6
it will leave Gibraltar for Hampton Roads or New York.
The question of the final port in America has not yet
been decided. The vessels are due in Hampton Roads or
New York February 22. When the fleet reaches the
United States it will have traversed, since December 16.
1907, when it left Hampton Roads, a distance of 42.227
miles.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 5, 1900.

Among; the Magazines

FEW "UNEMPLOYED" WHO ARE WORTHY.

England is struggling hard with what is called the
problem of the " unemployed " — and in America, too, we
have been hearing the plaint that thousands of men are
out of work. Fortunately this country is not so hide-
bound as England is, and industry here is reviving so
rapidly that the number of idle hands is daily growing
less. But in England the evil of the " unemployed " is
both chronic and acute and it is difficult to see any rem-
edy for the situation.

Both in England and America, however, it is found
on investigation that as a rule the people who have
nothing to do are themselves to blame. Very commonly
the trouble is due to drink. The sober and industrious
and reliable men are being given the preference more
and more, and the loafers and triflers and tipplers are
being cut off. Wholesale efforts have been made to in-
duce the unemployed of England to go to Canada or
elsewhere and work out their destiny on the land, but
the plan does not suit the beneficiaries. One English-
maYi who had come to Canada last year has gone back
because, as he complained to the writer of this article,
it was "ten miles to the nearest saloon." And he is
typical of a large class. Most of the unemployed dote
on the fevered life of the big cities; they would rather
starve in a slum than live a wholesome, useful life in
the country, and anything in the nature of hard and
steadj' work is worse in their contemplation than death
itself.

The editor of Spare Moments has been making a first-
hand investigation of the subject in this countrj' and
he arrives at this same conclusion. Many of the unem-
ployed, he says, seemed " actually to tremble at the
thought" of working on a farm; they were LOOKING
for work, but not looking for WORK, as he puts it.
The Los Angeles Y. M. C. A. reports on the case of a
young man who had been begging his way and hadn't a
cent in his pocket, but when offered a job of janitor
work said he would not demean himself by doing such
drudgery. An advertisement in a Rochester paper call-
ing for men for outdoor work brought 98 applicants,
but not a single one was willing when offered work
on a farm to accept it. A Cleveland gentleman reports
a case where a man asked him for some money to get
him a meal; the beggar was referred to the local mission
but immediately spurned the suggestion; he would have
to cut wood before they would give him anything to
eat there, he said.

In every city there are many men out of work who
profess that they cannot find anything to do. Go into
their cases carefully and you will find that in practically all
there is some very good personal reason for their be-
ing idle. In many cases they have " struck " out of a good
job; in many more they prefer to be idle altogether
rather than work for what people can aflford to give
them, and in still others they find that by working a day
now and then they can get enough money to get drunk

on — and that is the height of their ambitions. Sometimes,
by some conspiracy of ill-fortune, a deserving man can
l.nd no work, but it is a rare case; the work of the world
has to go on, in bad times and good, and no man who
is not too proud or too lazy or too mean to give value
received need ever fear having nothing to do. — The Path-
finder, jt ^4 JC

PRACTICAL IMMIGRATION.

Why not put incoming people where they can work
out their destinies? There are railroads in the West
which maintain special departments for putting immi-
grants into the field. One of them has developed the
idea of putting villages of Swiss, of Bohemians, of Ger-
mans, and of Italians by themselves and making it possi-
ble for them to work at the trades they learned at home
and to preserve their best national customs.

There is not in America a State which does not need
these incomers. New England is just finding what value
there is in her worn-out fields through the prosperity that
Italians and Russians are finding in them. Missouri has
Brandsville's Swiss as a shining example of its soil's
value for vine culture and for dairy farming. But we all
need them. And it would not be difficult to distribute
them if we went about it wisely. Every Western railway
keeps a record of opportunities along its line: " Smith-
ville, general store needed, town of five thousand, large
farming country; " " Brownsville, town of five hundred,
opening for doctor and dentist." Such notices appear in
large numbers in their advertisements. A national de-
partment, with its agents as widespread as those of the
postal service, could keep a similar watch upon the nation.
Thus we should have a report like this: " Thompsonville,
hilly upland, large acreage for farming still available,
about ?15 an acre; many Bohemian farmers, and available
market for such and such products," with, of course, othei
details.

If there were on the other side of the water govern-
ment agents, like the consular service, to whom this in-
formation was supplied, an intending immigrant could
there determine under the authority of government just
where an opening lay for him. Were he farmer, carpen-
ter, printer, weaver, whatever he might be, he could de-
termine where there was probable employment for him.
If the gates of Ellis Island were then shut against those
who come haphazard, and opened to admit only those
who come with direct purpose, ticketed to some definite
location where friends or the federal authorities had
shown the need of them, the result would be achieved.
There would be no more dumping in New York. There
would be no more wiping out of skill, training, and the
virtues of an older people. We should be saved half the
work of " assimilation." And by the constant absorption
of the new, good qualities we should become in them
fabulously rich. We are talking now of conserving our
national resources, and here is a great resource awaiting
its proper conservation. — John L. Mathews, in the Janu-
ary Everybody's.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 5, 1909.

LEGISLATION TO PREVENT FOREST FIRES.

The frequency and seriousness of forest fires during
the past autumn prove that the present laws for the
protection of the forests are inadequate. We are of the
opinion that negligence or inexcusable carelessness is
responsible for the majority of the fires, not merely in
the Adirondack regions, but also in the fire-swept dis-
tricts of Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin. If this
carelessness be measured by the magnitude of the dis-
asters of which it is the original cause, it takes on surely
a strong flavor of criminality. For it is no excuse to
say that the hunter who fails to extinguish his camp-
fire, or the settler who leaves the edges of his clearing
burning through the night in proximity to inflammable
forest timber, does so without any thought of the loss of
life or property which may result from his carelessness;
for he is well aware of the fact that such smoldering fires
may, and do, start great conflagrations, and that in these
conflagrations, it frequently happens that not one but
many human lives are sacrificed. If such carelessness
in the presence of this knowledge be not criminal, a new
definition must be found for this last-named word.

Our attention has recently been drawn to the fact
that in Canada there is a strong movement on foot, urg-
ing the government to follow a more definite course
of action in the protection of the forests, and to make
the breach of the forest-protection laws punishable by
imprisonment without the option of any fine. The ob-
ject aimed at by the suggested legislation is, not merely
to increase the number and enlarge the powers of the
forest wardens, but also to compel every camper to
either extinguish his fire or keep it under guard; to
require every settler, railway contractor, or railway, in
clearing lands, to maintain a guard by night as well as
by day, so long as the stumps are burning, and to pre-
vent any stumps or underbrush being fired within a
rereasonable distance of the standing timber; and fi-
nally, to make the railways and factories whose tracks
or works are within the forest area responsible for the
protection of the forest to a given distance on each side
of the railway track or factory.

We commend this subject to the attention of the
legislatures in those States most nearly afifected. It is
certain that legislation bringing the careless starting
and neglect of fires within the range of the criminal
law would prove a most speedy and effective check up-
on the present annual destruction of life and property.
— Scientific American.

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WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS?

\ little while ago. The Delineator was asking the ques-
tion, "What is the matter with the public schools?"
There were a number of suggestions that developed from
that investigation. There are a number of things the
matter. Out of them all one defect in our educational
system stands out glaringly. It is most tersely told in
the last report of the United States Commissioner of Edu-
cation. It's a simple statement of the salaries that Ameri-
can cities pay their school-teachers.

And that, ladies and gentlemen of the school boards,
is what is the matter with our public schools. We pay
our unskilled street laborers something like a dollar or
a dollar and a quarter a day. We are paying our school-
teachers some less and some a little more. It is the
wages that a dull brain and a primitive mind are worth.
In return for such wages we are requiring a service that
should be entrusted only to a mind and heart enriched

with all that literature and art and science can contribute
to a perfect culture. It should be only such a personality
into whose training we give the future citizens of the
nation. Can we get personalities like that to serve us in
our public schools? Not any longer than they can help
it. Just so soon as their force of character and intelli-
gence and initiative enable them to reach a better-paying
position, one that will allow them to buy books and hear
music ?nd have the other good things of life that their
larger natures crave, they go after it.

Until we realize with a conviction that reaches our
pocketbooks that the school laborer is worthy of her hire,
we aren't going to kee.p the best school laborers in the
public employ. And there will continue to be something
the matter with the public schools.

WE AND THE WEATHER.

Wh.^t a great misfortune this is, the habit of con-
sidering the weather ! — of thinking that we must con-
sider tlie weather. It is largely due, is it not, to
clothes? No mention is made of rain in the Garden
of Eden ; but we must not, therefore, contend that rain
was disagreeable and omitted ; we must recollect that
Adam and Eve did not need to consider rain ; fur-
thermore, in blessed ignorance, they did not know
that it was anything to be considered.

To mind the rain no more than the May sunshine,
but to plunge into it and let the drops pelt as they will ;
to accept snow without a thought of discomfort, but,
rather, to enjoy the thronging presence of it ; to pur-
sue one's daily stint regardless of whether the sky
be dun or blue, — this is a state which we, especially
of the cities, long, long have lost.

We regain it, some of us, in the wilderness camp,
where we hunt, or fish, if the day be dark or if the
day be bright. And where we find that the dash of
the soft rain on one's face is not death, after all ;
that wetness and dryness are merely relative terms.

All the centuries of fussing and fuming with the
weather have not affected the weather one particle;
it still rains, and snows, and sleets, and blows, just
as dictated by circumstances. Therefore what's the
use ? Are your puny diatribes, or mine, of any greater
potency than those of others gone before? Evidently
not ; accordingly, try the plan of being friendly with
tlie weather — of agreeing with it instead of fighting
it — and, 'pon my word, presently it will be agreeing
with you. — Ed'ciin L. Sabin in November Ltppiii-
cott's.

MUSQUASH IN WINTER QUARTERS.

(Concluded from Page 11.)

Musquash knows when the January thaw comes he
can make up for this slender diet, so he waits con-
tentedly for the floods to wash from their beds the
benumbed turtles, meadow mice, and snakes. Then,
indeed, will he enjoy a bountiful feast, even if it is
midwinter. — Selected.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 5, 1909.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT POSTAGE
STAMPS.

An article published in the New York Tribune
recently gives the following statements, that will be of
more or less interest to all interested in stamp collect-
ing: i

Stamps were not in use before 1840. Before that
time the postmasters in the United States in large
towns and cities kept a private account with all well-
known persons, and at the end of each month ren-
dered a bill for postage.

Sir Rowland Hill, a member of the English Parlia-
ment, has the distinction of introducing the postage
stamp, date May 6, 1840. On that date the English
government adopted the penny post system. Brazil
followed England in 1843, after which came the
United States in 1847, Russia in 1848, Tuscany, Bel-
gium, and New South Wales in 1849, and other
countries soon after.

In our country before 1847, and as early as 1842,
certain owners of local delivery companies began to
sell stamps to their customers. The first of these was
the City Despatch Post in New York. After being in
the business for a few months, the proprietor sold the
entire system to the United States Government. Soon
afterward other cities adopted local stamps, as Balti-
more, New Haven, Providence, and Saint Louis.
The stamps of these cities were used before the
government service began. They command large
prices. The stamps of Millbury, Massachusetts, com-
mand a price of $500 and upwards. The Baltimore
stamp is listed at $300 to $400.

Many a bundle of letters which was carefully laid
away thirty or forty years ago has, on being brought
to light, brought to its owner a large sum of money.
Today the traffic in old postage stamps is an important
part of the world's industry, and the money invested
in collections represents millions of dollars. A single
stamp has brought as high as $7,500. King Edward
bought a one-penny 1847 Mauritius stamp, paying
that sum for it. Another of these stamps sold to the
German Postal Museum for $5,000. There are, so
far as known, only nine two-cent British Guiana
stamps issued in 1850. One recently sold for $1,710.
Two of the nine are in the British Museum, two in
a Paris collection, and two in the New York City
collection. The two in the New York City collection
were bought for about $5,000, the proceeds of the
sale of the two stamps being used for the erection
of a church in Guiana.

Among the private stamp collectors of the world
Americans stand out quite prominently. A Mr.
Duveen, of Manhattan, has a collection valued at
$400,000. A Mr. Sussdorf's collection is worth $200,-
000. Charles Gregory, a Brooklynite, is worth $100,-
000 in stamps.

The finest collection of stamps in the world is
owned by Count de Farrary, of Paris, and is valued
at a milUon dollars. The Topling collection, one of
the finest in the world, now in the British Museum,
is worth a million dollars. The Czar Nicholas of
Russia, the Queen of Italy, and the King of Spain are
all stamp students and collectors.
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" Unbelief says ' How can such and such things
be ? ' It is full of ' hows ' ; but faith has one great
answer to the ten thousand ' hows,' and that answer
is— God."

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" When you brand a vice as harmless you have
augmented its power to hurt."

Between Whiles

He Got the " O, K." Signal.

Railway men — conductors, engineers, and brakemen —
are so accustomed to communicate with each other by
means of gestures that the habit of looking for such dumb
signals becomes a kind of second nature, observes Har-
per's Weekly. In this connection a Western railway offi-
cial tells of an amusing incident in that part of his State
where it is so common for cattle to be run over that the
manager of one "jerk-water" line required his engineers
to report all such accidents, with full particulars as to
place, time, and circumstance.

One day a complaint was received at headquarters that
a valuable cow had been killed on a certain day and by a
certain engine. The case was referred to the proper de-
partment, but reference to the files showed that the
engineer had failed to report such an accident. Accord-
ingly he was sent for and asked why he had omitted to
report the matter.

" I didn't know I hurt the cow," he said.

"Then you remember hitting her?"

"Yes; and I slowed up as she rolled over on her back,
but she waved her feet for me to go ahead, and so I con-
cluded she was all right."

A traveler passing through the Broad Top Mountain
district in northern Bedford County, Pennsylvania, last
summer, came across a lad of sixteen cultivating a patch
of miserable potatoes. He remarked upon their unprom-
ising appearance and expressed pity for anyone that had
to dig a living out of such soil.

" I don't need no pity," said the boy resentfully.

The traveler hastened to soothe his wounded pride.
But in the offended tone of one who has been misjudged
the boy added: "I ain't as poor as you think. I'm only
workin' here. I don't own this place."

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The Last Straw. — Arthur — " They say, dear, that people
who live together get to look alike."

Kate — " Then you must consider my refusal as final."
— ^The Christian Register.

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large to write about. You will have to
come and see them.

The grreat AK7AXTA and PRUIT dis-
trict, situated 180 miles east of Los
Angeles, on the Southern Pacific R. R.
Send for Illustrated booklet.

Address. W. T. GlUeU, Eoltvllle, CaL

Our Bicentennial
Hymn

We are now prepared to fill orders for
the above-named hymn, printed in leaf-
let form on lieavy paper. The words of
this popular hymn were written by Eld.
Jas. A. Sell, and the music composed
by Bro. Geo. B. Holsinger.

Price per hundred, postpaid, 25 cents.

Brethren Publishing House, Elgin, III.

^^c The Mayville
If Class Abroad

BV E. M. COBB

The Mayville High School
Class make a tour through
Europe and Palestine and write
letters home of the most inter-
esting character. It is just the
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find the book captivating and
very instructive.

The book is finely illustrated
and contains 288 pages. It is
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in white. You had better send
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Our Price 75 cents

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BRETHREN PUBLISHING

HOUSE,

El^in, niinois

NEFF'S CORNER

All houses rented and town overflow-
ing with people and many more em-
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came here. A hundred more houses
ought to be built now. Remember, a
property that costs you $350 rents for
$8 and one that costs you $450 rents
for $10. My little folder tells all about
them. Write for it.

And we very much need a sister mis-
sionary to work among these newly-
established homes, and we have a chance
to employ a sister of experience now,
but we lack means. We want to get
along without soliciting donations, so I
am soliciting subscriptions to the Wom-
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well-edited daily newspaper published
in St. Louis. I will have it sent to you
every day (except Sundays) for a wliole
year for only $1, and besides, I will put
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mission fund and pay for your sub-
scription out of my own pocket. Will
send you a sample copy first if you ask
for it. but I assure you vou will run
no risk in sending the dollar now.
Hope you will, for we ought to put the
sister to work at once. Address

JAMES M. NXPP,
Clovis, Hew Mexico.

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Our 1909

General Catalogue

contains a large assortment of
books, Bibles, cards, church and
Sunday-school requisites and
Christmas booklets. Have you
asked for one? If not, drop us
a line today. . All you need to
do is to say " Catalogue " and
sign your name, with proper ad-
dress. " We'll do the rest."

BBETaBElT FTTB. EOUSE,
El^n, Illinois.

BICENTENNIAL
SONG BOOK

Those who participated In the splen-
did song service at Des Moines will be
sure to want a copy of the Bicentennial
Soug Book. The book contains 80 pages
of the very best songs selected from
" The Brethren Hymnal " and " Song
Praises," besides the " Bicentennial
Song" which was written for the Con-
ference.

Your Sunday School

and Christian Workers' society should
have a supply of these books for use
during the year.

OUR LOW PRICE

We will furnish this book In Manila
cover at the following rates: Per dozen,
prepaid, $1.00; per hundred, F, O. B.
Elgin, $6.00.

BBBTSBBZr FXTBI^ISKIKQ H01TSE,
Bl^ln, ZUlnois.

What a Young Girl
Ought to Know

By Mrs. Mary Wood-Allen,
M. D.

A book of purity and truth
that we should like to place in
thousands of homes. The book
i.s highly commended by Lady
Henry Somerset, Mrs. Harriet
L. Coolridge, Margaret L. Sang-
ster and hundreds of others.
Bound in cloth.
Price, postpaid $1.00

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Blgln, Illinois.

APPLE BUTTER

ia pronounced by hundreds of
our customers, the best they
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C Don't forget to write.

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PASTOR'S POCKET
RECORD

Arranged by Rev. Sylvanus Stall, D.D.

This record affords space for the
recording of 63 church officers; 714
members, over 6,000 pastoral calls; 42
communion services; 126 baptisms, 84
marriages, 105 funerals, 273 sermons;
63 addresses; 168 new members, be-
sides ten other departments.

Ministers.

You will find this an excellent little
volume to carry with you at all times.

It contains nearly 200 blank pages
and is bound in black leather, size
iH X 5% inches. Very convenient to
carry in pocket.

Price prepaid only SO cents.

BBBTKRBIT FTTBIiISKIITa KOUSE,

ElSln. Illinola.

The ^Twentieth
Century M
Sunday School
Record System

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No superintendent can afford to be-
gin tlie new j'ear's work without the
assistance of our new system of rec-
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first used in one of our own Sunday
schools, has grown in favor until it
is now recommended by Sunday-
school workers of all denominations.
It has increased the enrollment and
secures the attendance of each schol-
ar enrolled. Encourages systematic
giving and discourages tardiness.
Brings the Bible to the school and
relieves the teacher of keeping class
records. New scholars are enrolled
and all records are kept and reported
by the secretary of the school. The
teacher is permitted to devote her
whole time to the teaching of the les-
son. Our new descriptive Record
System Catalogue gives full partic-
ulars.

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Elgin, Illinois

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Practical Exercises in Music Reading

By Geo. B. Holsinger.

The Late Geo. B. Holsinger, Author of
" Practical Exercises," " Brethren
Hymnal," etc., etc.

A first-class instruction book for use of both
teacher and pupils. Valuable as an aid to the indi-
vidual student, as well as

Day School, Singing School
Institute and Normal Classes

Besides numerous exercises in music reading, the
book contains a goodly number of first-class songs
and hymns. It contains 32 pages and is bound in
heavy paper covers. We can furnish both round
and shaped notes. Be sure and mention vsrhich no-
tation you desire. Shaped note edition sent if no-
tation is not named.

Price, prepaid, each, $0.15

Price, per dozen, prepaid 1.00

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If You Appreciate Good Reading

You will surely take advantage of one of our magazine club ofifers. The publications listed
below need no recommendation and the reduction in price should place these periodicals within
the reach of several thousand new subscribers.

CLUB OFFER No. 1.

Gospel Messenger, $1.50

Brethren Family Almanac, 10

Missionary Visitor, 50

Our Young People, 65

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Brethren Family Almanac 10

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Our Young People 65

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of the above club offers you need not mention each item, but say "Club Offer No. 1 " or " Club
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Let us order your magazines.

BRETHREN PUBLISHING HOUSE
Elgin, Illinois

A Sample of the Oat Fields in the Nanton District.

Harvest Time

The prosperous settlers in Sunny Southern Alberta have just finished harvesting a bounti-
ful crop. It is now THRESHING TIME and their yields are enormous.

Some fields are yielding as high as fifty bushels of wheat per acre. And oats are yielding
as high as one himdred and thirty bushels per acre. The crop on one acre brings enough money
to buy two acres! Could you want an3rthing better?

We have just secured, and are now oEEering for sale, 50,000 acres in the Nanton District
where already there is established a large and prosperous settlement of the Brethren.

Our prices are $9.00 per acre and up, on easy terms — ten years to pay for land when the
purchaser settles on the land. Excursions every week. Cheap rates and railroad fare refunded
to purchasers of 320 acres or more.

For particulars, address.

REDCLIFFE REALTY CO., ( R. R. Stoner, Pres. )

430 TEMPLE COURT

MINNEAPOLIS, - MINNESOTA

CHURCH EXTENSION BY

COLONIZATION

The Co-operative Colonization Company, incorporated under the laws of Indiana, proposes
to establish colonies, on their Co-operative plan, in the United States and other countries, in
suitable localities, under the most favorable conditions.

The aim is to establish self-supporting congregations of our people, virith good church
and school privileges from the beginning of a colony.

A committee appointed by the Directors of this company, made an extended tour of in-
vestigation through the West. After careful consideration of their report by the Directors, it
wras decided to locate their first colony in the San Joaquin Valley, California. This is one of
the world's famous valleys, noted for its mild, congenial climate, rich soil and variety of prod-
ucts.

In this valley are grown successfully wheat, rye, oats, barley, alfalfa and other grasses;
peaches, pears, prunes, apricots, nectarines, figs, olives, oranges, lemons, melons, canteloupes,
strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, loganberries and grapes. Vegetables are grown almost
every month in the year. English walnuts, almonds, pecans, peanuts and other nuts do well and
are profitable. Dairying, beekeeping and poultry raising are carried on successfully.
The new colony town, is on the main line of the Santa Fe Railroad, immediately on the tract
selected for our first colony. It is in central California, within a few hours run of San Fran-
cisco, Sacramento and Stockton, among the best markets in the State.

The colony tract is well located, almost level, with a deep, fertile soil, mostly a sandy loam,
well adapted to above-named crops. It is in the Modesto irrigation district, one of the best
systems in the State, with plenty of water, and the land owns the irrigation plant. Two large
ditches cross the colony tract, and the present owner will construct lateral ditches to each
forty acres — an important item. The drainage is excellent, no alkali or hardpan to interfere
with crops, no brush, stumps or stones to be removed, a good place for

IDEAL HOMES AND PROFITABLE INVESTMENTS

This tract is not large. It vsrill soon be taken up. Each one can select his tract. Home-
seekers and investors should investigate this proposition. A selection either in the town, or
colony will make an ideal home. Water for domestic use is obtained from wells about 50 feet
deep, and is of fine quality. A good public school house is in easy reach of the colony.

Several parties of colonists, from the East and Northwest, will reach the colony about Dec.
20. The town and colony lands are both platted and are ready for occupation and cultiva-
tion. Prospective colonists and California tourists are invited to join us. Write for rates and
particulars.

CO-OPERATIVE COLONIZATION COMPANY

NORTH MANCHESTER, INDIANA
OR S. F. SANGER, GENERAL ORGANIZER, SOUTH BEND, INDIANA

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Henry M. Spickler Tells About

MESSINA

Scene of the Recent Earthquake

Serving

The sweetest lives are those to duty wed,
Whose deeds, both great and small,

Are close-knit strands of unbroken thread,
Where love ennobles all.

The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells;

The book of life the shining record tells.

Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes

After its own life working. A child's kiss

Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad.

A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong,

Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense

Of service which thou renderest.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Brethren Publishing House, Elgin, Illinois

January 12, 1909 One Dollar Per Year

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California
Excursion

Thursday, Jan. 14, 1909

Will leave all points in Oklahoma for Butte Valley, California. An excursion
wiU leave Chicago the same day; leaving Omaha, Nebraska and Kansas City,
Missouri on Friday, January 15, 1909. All excursions will be consolidated at
Cheyenne, Wyoming Saturday morning, January 16. For rates, routes and other
information write to

E. M. Cobb,

Elgin, IIF.

Isaiah Wheeler,

Oklahoma City, Okla., or

Cerro Oordo, III.

George L. McDonaugh,

C«lonlzaUon Agent Un(*D Pacific R. R.

Omaha, Neb.

D. C. Campbell,

Colfax, Ind.

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Unusually healthful climate, rich soil, pure mountain water.

Timber, pine, cedar, fir — in quantity and quality.

Timothy — five tons to the acre have been raised.

Easy terms and moderate prices on this orchard land.

Vineyards, no doubt, will be planted by the scores.
Apple trees are being planted by the thousands.
Level as a floor, and rich as the Hawaiian Islands.
Lands worth $1,000 per acre are being sold at $45.00 now.

Elevation of the valley is 4,200 feet above sea level.

Yoii have, no doubt, decided to buy, but you should do it now.

California is the magic word of the age. You know why.

Alfalfa is perfectly at home in Butte Valley.

Lands are selling rapidly. 2,000 acres on last excursion.

Invariably purchasers recommend the Valley to their friends.

For farming, grazing, fruit-raising, the Valley is unexcelled.

Orchard lands, planted, are the best sort of life insurance.

Rents in the East are high ; why not own a home in Butte Valley,

Never buy elsewhere until you have investigated this proposition.

It will pay you to get in on the ground floor before it is too late.

After you have read this, write us that you will join our

Excursion, January 14, 1909

Leaving

Oklahoma, Jan. 14th. (Write Isaiah Wheeler, Oklahoma City, Okla.)
Chicago, C. & N. W. Train No. 3, 10: 45 P. M.
Omaha, Union Pacific Train No. 3, 4: 00 P. M. — January 15th.
Kansas City, Union Pacific Train No. 103, 10: 00 A. M.. Jan. I5th.

For further information, please address

GEO. L. McDONAUGH, OMAHA, NEBR.

ISAIAH WHEELER, CERRO GORDO, ILL.

D. C. CAMPBELL, COLFAX. IND.

E. M. COBB, ELGIN, ILL.

The California Butte Valley Land Co.

Macdoel, California

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Ten lessons on the Pupil by Mrs. Lamor-
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Ten lessons on the Teacher by Dr. Brum-
baugh.

Ten lessons on the School by Mr. Law-
rance.

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" How llie Bible came to us," l)y Dr. Price.
" Organizing and conducting a Teacher-Training

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The Gist of the Books.
Teaching Hints.

Test Questions at the end of each lesson.
Review test questions at the end of every
fifth or sixth lesson. The official text book
for Teacher-Training Classes of the Church
of the Brethren. 272 pages. Paper bound,
prepaid, 35 cents. Cloth bound, prepaid, 50
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BRETHREN PTJEIISKING HOtSE

Elg'in, Illinois

The Saloon Under the
Searchlig^ht

By Qeorge R. Stuart

"A bright, breezy, thought-compelling little
book with not a dull line in it. Full of sug-
gestion and inspiration for one who would have
a part in the fight against the saloon, a fight that
.grows in strength and popularity every day."

" Sledge hammer blows by Dr. Stuart on
thirteen or more aspects of the salonn question.
The arguments and illustrations are original,
often unique, and always right to the point."

" I find the book one among the best I ever
read on the subject. I can recommend it and
wish it were possible to place a copy in every
home in the land." — Eld. D. L. Miller.
• " I have just finished reading that splendid
little volume, ' The Saloon Under the Search-
light,' by Geo. R. Stuart. I find it interesting
and valuable. It commends itself to me because
of its simple, plain, practical and true statements.
1 would solicit for it a wide circulation, and a
careful perusal. It cannot fail but do good." —
P. J. Blough. Bound in cloth and paper, (i4
pages.

Price, paper 20 cents

Price, cloth, 35 cents

BRETHREN FTTBlaSHING HOUSE

Elgfin, lUinois

The Brethren

Family Almanac

for 1909

A FIRST class almanac for the home. The
twelve calendar pages contain the . date
of over 300 important historical events.
Every member of the church will be interested
in the biographical sketches of such men and
women as Elder R. H. Miller, Sister Sarah
Major. Elder John H. Umstad, John H. Filmore.
Elder Peter Nead and Elder Jacob Mack. An-
nouncements concerning the .'\nnual Conference
for 1909. and a History of the Brethreii Church
in Franklin County. Virginia, arc unusually inter-
esting. The Ministerial List occupies nearly 19
pages and gives the name and address of the
2,938 ministers of the Church of the Brethren
together with a list of the Gish Fund Books.
Several pages arc devoted to a list of the Home
and Foreign Mission Boards of the church with
name and address of the members of each board.
Sunday-school workers will be interested in the
list of State Sunday-school Secretaries. A cyclo-
pedia of useful information. Sixty-four pages.
Price, postpaid. 10 cents.

BRETHREN FUBI.ISKINa HOVSE

EliT^ii. Illinois

From the Ball Room
to Hell

Is there aii}- harm in dancing? There
can be Init one answer to this question.

facts are facts.
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New Mexico

Are you seeking health?

Beautiful scenery

We have it as sure as this pure, rare mountain

with its ever-shifting shades and tints to feast

air brings it.

the eye upon.

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Are you wanting wealth?

Fine weather? Good roads? Yes,
none finer.

We can furnish you the resources for it.

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Almost perpetual sunshine.

Do you desire happiness?

We have the conditions that bring it.

Just think! Nearly every winter day Old Sol
smiles out warm and bright. Contrast this with
the days and weeks of cloudy weather, rain,

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snow, sleet, slush and mud back East and North.
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A co-operative thrifty community

Thanksgiving Day finds us with a

of neighbors for you.

goodly harvest and thankful hearts

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for this our first year of prosperity.

Sickness has not been in our midst, death has

Excellent church privileges.

claimed none of us and prosperity is inevitable

for the future.

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A good school for your children

" Westward Ho " tells of our claims

now in session, conducted in a good house built

and resources.

with the latest ideas of lighting and equipage.

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not go to college, do not think, for a moment, that you \ I'LEASANT HOLl DAY TR I P

must be forever denied that culture which comes with
a knowledge of the classics. A college course is com-
posed of single hours of study and if you will jiropcrly
employ yourselves during your spare moments and
your long winter evenings, you can acquire a good
substitute for a college course. Many of our great-
est statesmen, ministers and business men never had
as much schooling as you can get in the average
district school, but they used their spare moments,
their odds and ends of time that many boys throw
away, for self-improvement. They were working
while others were dreaming.

It is the boy who strives to make a good impression,
not only when he is entertaining liis friends but in
ever}- work of life, whether it be his lot to serve as a
bank clerk ur to hoe out the weeds in his mother's
garden, that will succeed in his undertakings. Many
boys neglect the little deeds of life while they are con-
tinually looking forward, hoping to do some great
w^ork. The giant oaks of our forest have sprung
from a little acorn and the little raindrops, falling,
one by one, water the earth and cause it to send forth
its fields of golden grain.

The boy who thinks it isn't worth while to save the
nickels and dimes will never have any dollars to save,
and the boy who neglects the little deeds of today will
not be able for a greatei- work of tomorrow. Do
not become discouraged when others try to belittle
you because you are striving to form habits of econ-
omy. A boy with a large, healthy mind, who is try-
ing to make the best of his opportunities, to make his
life count for good, will see your good qualities nnich
sooner than your bad ones and it is only the narrow-
minded that liavc an eye for faults. When you find
the place in life that nature intended you for, stick
to it, whetlier it be farming, business or whatever it
may be.

Of course }ou will always meet with those who
have nothing but unkind words for you, but you will.
usually, find them to be men who have been a failure
themselves, hence you need not become discouraged
b\' their hopeless words. A prosperous man has no
time to discourage others.

Again, j'ou should exercise great care in selecting
}our companions, for if you wish to keep your life
pure, if \ou wish to retain that wliich is more to be
desired than great riches, " a good name," you nnist
associate with those whose lives are in harinonv with
your ideals. But above all things do not fail to put
your trust in him who sticketh closer than a brother,
who has promised to be with you in _\'our troubles and
who will ever w-atch over you and keep you. Until
you have done this; your life has not been truly suc-
cessful.

Ashland, Ohio.

C. L. ROWI..\ND.

0\ the day following Christmas day I boarded a
crowded train to leave the bustling, noisy city and
spend a few days in quiet on an old \"irginia ])lanta-
tion. The train seemed slow to start, but. after add-
ing an extra coach to relieve the congested condition
of those already in line behind the inni horse we
slowly moved from the crowded platform at the depot
on which were standing many friends of those depart-
ing.

Rice scattered on the steps and some of it remain-
ing on the conventional black of some of the young
men on board the train clearly showed that we were
riding with those who had celebrated Christnias Day
bv paying homage to Dame ]\Iatrimony at the hyme-
neal altar. They were now on their honeymoon. Just
across the aisle from one of these ha])py couples sat
a lady whose wrinkles and general peculiarities be-
trayed her to be a " lost gem," as she w^ould put it.
but usually known as an " old maid." Her look of
cynicism seemed to say : " Oh ! how foolish they are,
how silly they look at each other." when in reality
if vou noticed her as she turned her gaze to the beau-
tiful scenery of the landscape, you could have read in
her countenance and deep sigh : '" How I wish some
one had plucked me before I had withered to die
alone."

The sharp call of the conductor announced that my
destination was reaclu'd, so, leaving the happy cou])le
to the mercy of the remaining passengers. I turned my
eyes toward tlie bystanders at the little depot to single
out the friend who was to convey me across the moun-
tain to his home.

Soon we were mounied on steeds who well knew
jiow to reach the sunimit without unnecessary fatigue.
We were not long reaching the foot of the ascent
which led through gullies, now and then crossing
the niountain stream whose sparkling beauty and low
murmur added to the attractions of the scene. On
either side were snow-capped peaks with dwarfed"
]Mnes clinging to their sides. Overhanging rocks
echoed back the noise of hoofs as the- horses picked
their way nj) the stony incline. On reaching the
summit we ])aused to view the scenery which, had
either of us been a W'hittier or a Rryant, would have
insjiired us to write a masterpiece of poetry.

The scenery on the descent was no less beautiful
than what we had just viewed. I'ollowing the moun-
tain road we reached an old homestead which my
friend was proud to call his home and whither he
had resorted during his holiday vacation from school.

I was made to feel a warm welcome by all. as I
was led to the glowing hearth which is a thing of
the past in our modern homes. Though we were
n<it much chilled by the morning ride across the

THE INGLEXnOK.— January 12, 1909.

mountains, I very much enjoyed sitting by the open
hearth and chatting with my friend and the other
members of the family whom I had not seen for a
time.

As is usual in winter, outdoor entertainment is
rare, so most of the time was spent conversing over
past memories. While I sat thus engagefl, with plenty
■of delicious ajiples and a goodly basket of chestnuts
close by, VVhittier's Snow Bound came very forcefully
to m\' mind. I fancied myself transported to a happy
fireside in New England where the poem was written.
But the snow had to be imagined, for you will remem-
ber that this is an old Virginia homestead in the
southern part of the State where tliere is Ittle snow
■except on the mountains.

The hearth had peculiar attraction for me, hence
much of my time was spent there. I remembered
the Backlog- Studies as I viewed the log in the back
of the hearth. The thought came to me of how one
of oiu- ablest presidents when a boy read and studied
by the light of the hearth fire, and ciphered on the
back (if the wooden fire shovel. Then it occurred to
me: Why has \'irginia been called the "Mother of
IVesidents "?• I could give no other answer than be-
cause the simple, modest living found here was the
kind to raise up children healthy of body and mind.
'( )h ! that the American people would return to the
simj)le life of our forefathers ! We would have
stronger-minded men from the farm to the president's
•chair.

One evening during my stay the 3'oung people of
the home with myself visited a neighbor who, in
turn, made us welcome at his fireside which was as
■cheerful as the one we had just left. Learning that
I was a northerner spending the winter in the .South.

they talked of the differences between the North and
South, relative to the Civil War. War at its best is
cruel and the people of \^irginia surely were made to
feel the hardships of it. May there never another
such conflict make enemies of brothers as did this
one.

Though my stay on the plantation was but three
days, I enjoyed it to the fidl.

Roanoke, Va.

J* -< .t

THE NEXT STEP.

" We have just compiled lists in the following
dry counties in Ohio for mail order advertising,"
announces a disreputable liquor publication, and fol-
lows the announcement with the names of thirty-seven
counties and the advice to " order today for your
holiday circulars." We have no doubt that similar
lists are being compiled for use in Georgia and Okla-
homa and all the States which have done the best
within their power to free themselves from the liquor
traffic. It makes no difference that the citizens of
these States have signified,^by the most effective means
they possess, that they want no liquor within their
boundaries; the brewers and distillers have determined
that they shall have it anyway.

All this makes nxore clear the necessity for a law
which will prohibit the shipment of liquor out of
wet States into dry — such as was asked for in the
bill which was introduced by Congressman Little-
field at the last session of Congress and put to death
in some committee room. This is the thing which
those who have won their local fights can concentrate
upon now. It is the next great step in temperance
reform. — Home Herald.

A LYRIC

Eicii.\ED l!I^\l■.\.sTl•:I.^'.

fill, the poHywog fell in love with a whale,

And his heart was filled with burning;

With fiery words he unfolded his tale

Of fervor and pain and yearning,

Hut the whale never heard his passionate moan

h'or the pollywog had no megaphone!

Oh, the pollywog worshiped the floundering whale.

And his bosom was full of sighing,

And his body grew thin and his face grew pale

And he seemed quite likely of dying —

He saw at a glance that for him was no hope.

For the whale didn't have any microscope!

THE I NGLENOOK.— January 12, 1909.

Around the World Without

a Cent

Henry M. Spickler

Chapter XL. In Sicily.

Lying close to the once Dark Continent is Sicily,
famed in fact and fiction. It is August 16 and I am
leaving for Messina, for the boat, contrary to its
orders to me, is sailing twelve hours earlier than the
captain expected it would leave. It made me nervous
to think how I might have gone to some other hotel
or have been out in the hills, when the message came
for me to return to the boat. My wheel was on the
boat and it would have been almost as hard to have the
boat sail with the wheel and without me as for a
parent to thus lose his child, for without my wheel
,1 could do little in seeing sights.

From the boat my eyes lingered long upon the bold
mountains that rise back and to the side of Palermo.
The Lctiinbro had anchored three-quarters of a mile
out at sea but my Sicilian boatman arrived in good
time for me to study the outlines of these hills.

Between them and the sea runs a level road from
the city to the wharf. On this drive I saw the artistic
Sicilian cart, the possession of which makes the owner
feel like a rich American. On week days he hauls
his vegetables and fruits to market. On Sundays he
takes his own and his neighbor's family out for an
airing, stacked in the small box like cordwood piled
vertically.

Back of these pleasure-seekers rises Mount Pelle-
grino which so fascinated Goethe. Its form is sublime,
but you must see it under the play of Sicilian sunshine
and Sicilian atmosphere to marvel at its sublimity.
Massive and imposing, its steep slopes are bare, but
the hoary color of the rocks is a picture of art that
wins the hypnotic gaze of even the prosaic tourist.

For this bold blufif, lying so peacefully under its
dreamy mantle of Sicilian haze, the sailors of all the
nations around the Mediterranean steered their prows.
Here was the world's battleground, the battleground
of contending parties and creeds. Every atom of
Sicilian dust is enchanted. Here came the Phoenician
trader from Tyre ; the Carthaginians, who gave me so
much trouble in Latin, came here and made me burn
night oil to study out their reason for coming. Here
fought and died the Roman, the Vandal, the Goth,
the Saracen, the Norman, the Byzantine, the Greek.
Homer and Thucydides wrote of Sicily. Virgil and
Cicero speak of it. Pindar, Theocritus and Virgil
sing of her climate, the softest and mellowest in all

the world. Over this rocky island are strewn the
heroic myths of Ulysses and ^^ulcan. Everywhere the
weight of the mighty past oppresses the student of this
little land of nine thousand nine hundred and thirty-
five square miles, or less than one-third of Ireland,
but a little less than half as big as Switzerland, which
is one-fifth the size of Kansas. In this unbearably
bright sunshine, history was made by the French, the
Spaniard, the Italian, the Roman and the Carthagin-
ian.

As the boat steams away with me as the only deck
passenger, I muse upon the sights and scenes of Pal-
ermo's noisy streets. Remarkable for its mi.xture, the
faces of the people present a " circus " of physiogno-
mies as diflferent as those of different countries. Be-
hind a pure Greek face came the oval face admired
by Titian, with black, lustrous eyes and low forehead,
full cheeks and pug nose and little mouth. Next
came a Spaniard whom I recognized by the heel set
down with haughty self-esteem. All around these
were the negroes, or negro types, with black, curly
hair and thick lips and tawny skin. Moving among
these with swifter step, were the students from the
university, where eleven hundred study to fit them-
selves for more important duties in their little island
home.

From the pepper tree, growing with beautiful sym-
metry, along the streets, some of the students took
leaves for botanical study. In the gardens and along
the esplanades blazed the gorgeous Judas tree. Amid
all of the bright display of vegetation and humanity
arose the musical discord of jingling donkey bells,
clanging goat bells and cries of the hawkers of every-
thing imaginable, through the confusion of which
wandered well-dressed tourists and scions of the nobil-
ity, none of whom showed half so much independence
as the pert little " Arabs " who followed me from
street to street and shop to shop, for fun and for
pennies. I am now on the boat but I feel as if I have
left behind me the rest of the world. While in Pal-
ermo I was magnetized by the queerness of the sights
and sounds and I quite forgot my identity. This
little world, so insignificant in the eyes of Europe or
America, moved and lived just as if it was the " Whole
Thing."

But for one reason, Sicily might be a paradise in
every point of excellence. This she can never be

THE INGLENOOK.— January 12, 1909.

unless she awakes to the fact of one fundamental
cause of a country's greatness; and it will take tifty
or seventy-five years for her to redeem herself after
she once resolves upon the task. That same prohleni
of national economic value is pressing for solution
right now in the United States. Our president spoke
of it in his last message. I expect to refer to it again
in the following letter after seeing more of this same
country. I am sure that my readers will agree with
nie that it is one of the vital cjuestions that Americans
have to solve or give up their right to the honor of
being the most progressively progressive nation
around the earth.

All night we sailed and early the next morning we
passed through the narrow channel hetween Sicil\'

Oil Sunday He Takes His Own and His Neighbor's Family Out for an .firing.

and Italy, where Scylla and Charybdis are said by
mytholog\- to sit enthroned in the sand. Scylla is
now a modern town on the mainland of Italy, on our
left as we pass through the strait, and Charybdis must
be the ugly sand bank which thrusts its nose out into
the sea on our right, which is from the northeast
corner of triangular Sicily. I wonder now if the
Romans did ever really believe in this fable and if
sailors did lose their lives here while listening to their
singing. I heard the same song, or imagined I heard
it, as the little wavelets washed upon the bank, ran
over the pebbly lieach and back again into the sea.
T can easily see how superstitious sailors, losing their
ordinary skill in maneuvering their ships, and be-
lieving in fate anyway, could be dashed upon one or
the other of these treacherous points in this narrow
channel, at night or in a storm.

Just as the big round red globule of sun came up

and out of the sea between Scylla and Charybdis, our
boat dropped her heavy anchor in the quiet Bay of
Messina. This is the city that gave the name to that
fine variety of orange, the Messina. But it was mis-
named. It is raised at Catania, south of Messina,
which I reach in a day or two. It is shipped from
Messina, or was, in the early days of exports, and
so takes the name from its shipping point.

The vessel is to lie here till midnight and so I went
down the flying steps of the ship's side, hired a boat
and was rowed to land. With the biggest and best
buildings first, the city is built right along the edge of
the inward curving bay, and makes a fine appearance
from the sea.

Hotel Trinacria fronts on the bav where I took

luncheon and din-
ner, like any first-
class tourist, sav-
in'g the ship's cook
that much, a n d
glad for the change
of diet. From the
dining hall I could
look out on the
many ships lying
in the harbor, ships
for all ports of the
?ilediterranean. At
my table a family
of seven fro m
Brooklyn and a
man from Phila-
delphia took their
meals, and I felt
as though I was in
good company in a
strange part of the
world.
But Sicily is off the beaten path of tourists. The
jolly companies of English, German, and American
travelers who are seen everywhere during the season
in Switzerland or Italy, never get so far as the en-
chanted isle guarded by Charybdis and haunted by
Polyphemus. The cruise along the Levant, to the
far East, to Turkey and the Holy Land and Egypt, as
also Greece, is too far for the two-month summer
traveler.

.\t nine that night I returned to the seaside to go
aboard my ship. It was not far out in the bay — I
could have swum easily to the ship, but it would have
been dangerous to do so. I might have been run down
by a launch or become tangled in refuse dumped into
the sea. The little boats that clamored to bring me in
to the shore had all put in for the night. The Letiiiibro
had completed her unloading and finished taking on
her cargo. She was lying quietly there, but turned

THE IXGLENOOK.— lamiarv 12. 1909.

end for end by the tide that had come in during the
evening. I'p and down the dark wharf, in and out
of the shipping sheds, nearly stepping off into the
sea at times, I ran the entire length of the bay. calling
for a boatman. Xo one answered nie. 1 swung my-
self down from the planking and examined each l)uat
as it lay rocking, and as the ever-moving waves
lapped them, now on one side, now on the other, but
found them all securely chained and locked. What
would have happened to the boat if I could have
g.it one loosened, after it had taken me to the vessel,
I need not conjecture. It might have been lost on
the high sea, but it is not probable, for the tide here
has but little power to .steal away anything floating
upon it in the secluded bay. and I think I could have
fastened It to the floating freight boat by the side of
the vessel. The boatnran, knowing the cause, would
not regret its use under sucli circumstances.

Then I went back into the town, calling out for a
boatman, in English, in French, and in Italian, and
before long a man came running at the top of his
speed, saying, " Yes, I'll take you all out." He had
heard mv three different calls in three languages and
thinking it was a party of three cr more who wished to
l)e carried out to the boat that he knew was to sail at
midnight he was eager to get ■" us all " into his own
boat before other of his competitors came down. He
took me "all" out. but it was only one fare he re-
ceived when he had deposited " us " on the Lctiiiibro.
that not long after raised her anchor, whistled her
signal, and steamed away for the harbor of Catania
and grapes, down along the coast near Syracuse.

AU Rights Re.servecl.

•J* :* V*

AN APPROPRIATE NAME

J. C. FLOK.V.

A SHORT time ago 1 was walking along the street of
the little town in wliich I live, when I noticed a new
sign on the window of a ])uildiiig in which a restaurant
was formerly kept.

I had previousl)- learned that the man who owned
the building and had been running the restaurant ex-
pected to close his business and had rented the build-
ing to a saloon man. Hence I was not surprised to see
the sign changed. But tlie thing that especially at-
tracted my attention was the name that had been given
to this new salf)on. The name was this, " Hog Pen
P.ar."

After all, the name is very appropriate. When you
turn a hog out of the pen, one of the first things that
he will do is to wallow in some mire. So it is with
those that visit the saloon often. — the\- come out and
wallow in the mire.

In this respect, then, the saloon is like a hog pen.
but in most respects it is much worse, for the liog
that wallows in the mire can be washed clean as be-

fore, but not so with the poor victim of the saloon-
who is wallowing in the mire. You can't wash the
stain ivom his character, you can"l wash away the
anguish from the soul of his broken-hearted wife ;
you can't wash away the cries of his poor little help-
less children who are shivering with cold and perish-
ing with hunger; no, you cannot wash the misery an 1
wretchedness from the drunkard's home: nor the
shame and disgrace from the character of the man-
who sold him the drink; nor the responsibility from
those who voted to grant him the license to engage i i
destroying tlie characters of men, breaking the herrts
of women and blighting the lives of children.

( )h, when will the people of our boasted Christian
nation awake to the awfulness and blackness of this
traffic !

Some say it cannot he stopped. It can.be stopped
and will be stopped just as soon as the Christian peoiih
of tile world say, " It must be stopped."

" Then will virtue take tlie place of vice in evjry
human heart. Tlien will e\'ery aspiration be for siniie-
thing higher and nobler."

Claris, N. Mcx.

,4 .< ,<
MAKE-BELIEVE.

Let's dream, like the cliild in its playing:;

Let's make us a sky and a sea;
Let's change the' things 'round us by saj'ing

They're things that we wish them to be;
.And if there is sadness or sorrow,

Let's dream till we charm it away;
Let'.s learn from the children and borrow

.\ saying from cliildhood — " Let's play."

Let's play that the world's full of beauty;
Let's play there are roses in bloom;

Let's play there is pleasure in duty
And light where wc thought tliere was gloom;

Let's play that this heart with its sorrow-
Is bidden be joyous and glad;

I,et's play that we'll find on tomorrow
The joys that we never have had.

Let's play that regret with its ruing

Ls banished forever and aye;
Let's play there's delight but in doing;

Let's play there are flowers by the way.
However the pathway seem dreary,

Wherever the footsteps may lead;
Let's play there's a song for the weary

If only the heart will give heed.

Let's play we have done with repining;

Let's play that our longings are still;
Let's play that the sunlight is shining

To gild the green slope of the hill;
Let's play there are birds blithely flinging

Their songs of delight to the air;
Let's play that the world's full of singing.

Let's play there i-^ love everywhere.

..*« ^ Jt

-J. W. Foley.

"W'hii.i-: we are deliberating on the time when we
are to begin, the time for action is lost."

THE INGLEXOOK.— laimarv 12, l')G9.

MYTHS AND THEIR ORIGIN

" Thickk are stories." said Sir Philip Sidney. " which
can draw old men from the chimney corner and chil-
dren from their pla}." It is not the material things
hut the immaterial that move us most profoundly. It
is truth, heauty and goodness that can drag men out
of saloons, make them abandon gambling hells, com-
pel them to drop nefarious schemes. Then tell us a
1:)eautiful story, sing us an enchanting song, paint us
a lovely picture, show us a divine ideal and we will
follow you to the ends of the earth : such things can
lie claimed for the myths.

M\"ths are tlu- spontaneous and imaginative form in
which iumian intelligence and human emotions con-
ceive and represent themselves and things in general.

They are the i)sychical and physical mode in which
man projects himself into all the phenomena which lie
is able to apprehend and perceive. Myths are the
earliest form in which the mind of heathen people
recognized the universe and things divine.

In the relics of antiquity we have abundant proof
that the material things alone were not uppermost in
their minds. " God did not leave them without a wit-
ness at any time, but caused the invisible things to be
shown by those that do appear," and among the most
savage races there was always this feeling of the ".\11
leather " within their hearts, and this striving after
the " Divine " was shown through stories and the mys-
terious worship of nature. Some one has defined
myths as a far-awav voice calling after God.

The origin of myths in their essential elements con-
sists in the personification and animation of all natural
phenomena, as well as all dreams, illusions, and hallu-
cinations of the mind. Through this feeling of the
mysterious in everything primitive man took the things
of nature and made of them gods, making of all nature
living beings powerful enough to bring harvest or
famine, cahn or storm, sickness or deatli, trouble or
'disaster.

Myths are powerful in directing the emotions, and
in training in courage, real manliness, respect for the
loody, reverence for nature and a quick feeling for the
beauty and wonder of the now dimly understood mvs-
teries.

We must not. in teaching the myths, be didactic nor
overload them with interpretations, for the story is
naturally the chief interest to the child.

Teachers of young children know the value of myths
in the schoolrooms, for they always have a deep and
liidden truth wliich the children appropriate. The\-
give the teacher an opportunity to emphasize the vn--
tues. for as I'roebel says, " Emphasize the virtues and
the vices will tlee away."

Oftentimes a story told of an honest hov or girl
will bring forth the truth from your pupil.

Myth>^ Imve survived their primitive meanings and

are the cradle songs of literature. Many of the .-Vrvan
mxths are sun myths: they generally showed that
■■ Day " triumphed over " Night " and " Good." wliich
is Eight, over " Bad." which is Darkness. This we
find is the meaning of " Eittle Red Riding Hood." She
was the twilight folded in a scarlet cloak and sent
out by her mother Day into the woods : while there
she was met by the Wolf, which means Night. Slie
was eaten up by the wolf as day is swallowed up in
darkness. Some of our best educators think that mvths
should not be given children under ten Aears old. Their
ojiinion is that it trains the imagination too much,
makes the children dreamers and idealists and has the
tendency to make them untnithful. That mav lie so.
but none of us have enough imagination nor enough
ideals in our lives. Those people that have " done
things in life for the betterment of humanity are those
who have ' seen visions " and ' dreamed dreams." "

Myths may be divided into: 1. Pure myths, of which
Jack and Jill, " The I'gly Duckling," and Red Riding
Hood are good examples. 2. Historical myths, such
as The Iliad, The Odyssey, the Idylls of the King.
Vision of Sir Eaunfal. 3. Nature myths, such as
Clytie, How Daphne Became a Tree. The Discontented
Pine Tree.

Only those pieces of literature live that have made
a universal appeal to human nature, so that literature
not only helps to mold civilization but each individual.
As it is through literature that we receive our noblest
and best thoughts, it is to that we turn to gain our
best instruction for children. It is not enough to tell
them of their duty and love to be shown toward their
countr\-, their love for parents and each other, the right
ideas of truthfulness, kindness, and unselfishness, but
these beautiful truths can best be carried home through
the avenue of story and poem. This .scattering of
sublime thoughts of great-souled writers tends to make
the world less selfish, for thc\- help to make each one
more .sympathetic and lenient towards others and to
give one a broader inlEience and outlook into life as
it really is.

" Over and over again,
No matter which way I turn.
T always find in the Book of Life
Some lessons T have to learn:
T must take my turn at the mill;
T must grind out the yellow grain,
I must work at my task with a resolute will.
Over and over again."

— The Ohio Teacher.

DR. HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS ON THE
EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL.

.An important thing for anti-saloon people to re-
member is that there is no point of view from which
the drinking of intoxicating liquor as a beverage is
defensible. There is no ground that the defender of
the .saloon can hold for one moment in the face of

THE INGLICXOUK.— lanuarv 12, 1909.

the trull). If any saloon advocate has ever presented
an argument which seemed to you sound or reason-
able, it was because you did not know the truth. The
one great thing, therefore, is to know the truth, " and
the truth shall make you free " — free to assert with-
out hesitation that the beverage use of liquor is an
unmitigated evil, and free to answer every plea that
the saloon advocate can advance.

Let us illustrate this. In the August number of
McChire's Magazine, Professor Munsterberg, a mem-
ber of the faculty of Yale University, the very ablest
apologist that the liquor beverage users could find
anywhere, made a plea for moderate drinking. Even
he admitted that the American saloon was an accursed
thing and ought to be abolished; so that even the
greatest of all advocates of moderate drinking is an
anti-saloon man. But this scholarly writer, without
having taken the pains to inform himself on the
actual scientific facts, held that in limited quantities
intoxicating beverages produced a state of mind or
excited emotions which had given to the world some
of its choicest possessions in literature and art. He
endeavored to show that a people who abstained en-
tirely from the use of liquor as a beverage would
not be so productive of the things which make life
desirable as would a people who moderately indulge
in such beverages.

Much that he said was stale and commonplace, and
had been successfully contradicted over and over
again. But he said it in a new way — in a very charm-
ing and attractive way, and it was caught up by the
liquor people and by the average newspaper and
printed and circulated throughout the country, and
many a friend of the anti-saloon movement felt that
the cause had received a severe jolt. McClure's Maga-
zine was set down as an enemy and thousands of
bitter letters were sent to its editor by temperance
people.

But McClure's has redeemed itself. If it ever had
any idea of aligning itself with the liquor forces it has
seen a great light. But it probably was on the right
track from the start. By opening its pages for the
liquor people to make the very strongest presentation
of their case that could possibly be made, it paved the
way for the complete and overwhelming refutation
of the only claim seriously made for the moderate
use of into.\icating beverages by the greatest of its
champions.

In the October number of McClure's, two months
after the Munsterberg article appeared. Dr. Henry
Smith Williams, a man whose scholarship is of the
highest rank, in a masterly article sets forth a series
of scientific experiments bearing directly on the effect
on the human organism of so small a quantity as a
single glass of beer or wine a day. Anyone who care-
fully reads the doctor's description of his patient and
careful experiments and their results cannot get away

from his conclusions, which he sums up as follows.
He says :

" I am bound to believe, on the evidence, that if you
take alcohol habitually, in any quantity whatever, it
is to some extent a menace to 3'ou. I am bound to
believe, in the light of what science has revealed :

" 1. That you are tangibly threatening the physical
structures of your stomach, your liver, your kidneys^
your heart, your blood vessels, your nerves, your brain.

" 2. That you are unequivocally decreasing your
capacity for work in any field, be it ph\-sical, intellec-
tual, or artistic.

"3. That you are in some measure lowering the
grade of your mind, dulling your higher aesthetic
sense, and taking the finer edge off your morals.

■' 4. That you are distinctly le'ssening your chances
of maintaining health and attaining longevity.

" 5. That you may be entailing upon your descend-
ants yet unborn a bond of incalculable misery."

In the December number of McClure's, Dr. Wil-
liams treats of " Alcohol and the Community " with
the same careful regard for scientific accuracy. Step
l)y step he establishes the truth which he summar-
izes in conclusion. Referring, at the close, to the
statements he has drawn from ofificial and scientific
authorities in this country and in Europe, he says :

" They give secure warrant for the belief that at
least one-third of all the recognized pauperism in
the most highly civilized communities of Christen-
dom results from bodily and mental inefficiency due
to alcoholic indulgence.

" A similar correspondence of testimony shows, as
we have seen, that the same cause is responsible for
the mental overthrow of fully one-fourth of all the
unfortunates who are sent to asylums for the insane :
for the misfortunes of two-fifths of neglected or aban-
doned children ; and for the moral delinquencies of
at least half of the convicts in our prisons, and of not
less than" four-fifths of the inmates of our jails and
workhouses.

" We have previously seen how alcohol adds to the
death roll through alliance with all manner of physic-
al maladies. Did space permit, it might be shown
how largely the same common enemy is responsible
for suicides and sudden deaths by accident in many
lands, for the universal prevalence of unspeakable dis-
eases with all that they may imply, and for a large
proportion of such sases of marital infelicity as find
record in the divorce courts.

" But these, after all, are only minor details within
the larger scheme of human suffering already out-
lined. The insane, the criminals of various types,
and the recipients of charity make up the great mass
of abnormal members of the body-politic whose un-
fitness receives official recognition.

" Let it be particularly borne in mind that the con-
clusions just presented as to the causal relation of

THE INGLEXOOK.— January 12, 1909.

alcohol to the production of each of these abnormal
elements of society are as far removed as possible
from mere sentimental estimate or pessimistic guesses.
They are inductions based on careful surveys of evi-
dence. Dealing with matters of great complexity,
they are subjects to a good deal of latitude, for rea-
sons that I have given ; but they are sufficiently pre-
cise to serve the purpose of reasonably secure scien-
tific hypotheses. Considered as gages of the misery
caused by alcohol, our percentages are utterly inade-
quate, to be sure.

" There is a vast host of victims of alcohol that
cannot thus be classified, as a moment's consideration
will show.

" For every individual that dies prematurely of a
disease directly due to alcohol, there are scores of in-
dividuals that sufifer to a lesser degree from mala-
dies which are wholly or in part of the same origin,
but which are not directly fatal.

" For every patient that suffers complete mental
collapse as the result of alcoholism, tliere are scores
of patients that are victims of epilepsies, neurasthe-
nias, neuralgias, choreas and palsies of alcoholic origin.

" For every criminal that alcohol sends to prison,
there are scores of persons whose moral delinquen-
cies, induced or emphasized by alcohol, are not of
the indictable order, yet are a source of suffering to
their friends, and a detriment to humanity.

" For every incapable who, weakened by alcohol,
acknowledges defeat in the life battle and openly seeks
alms, there are scores of individuals that feel the
pressure of want in greater or less degree because
the money that might have supplied necessaries and
luxuries has gone for drink, yet that strive to hide
their indigence.

" But the members of all these vast companies of
sufferers lie without the field of the statistician. They
have no share in the estimates that have just been
presented.

" As we view this joyless pageant, the vast major-
ity of its members impelled by a power they loathe
yet must obey, a realizing sense comes to us of the
tyranny exercised over humanity, generation after
generation, by this arch enemy of progress."

Anyone who wants to satisfy himself that these
conclusions of Dr. Williams are based on sufficient
evidence — evidence that will stand any test that can
be suggested by the most intelligent friend that the
liquor traffic can produce — should procure the Oc-
tober and December numbers of McChtre's Magazine
and read the articles for himself. They are the most
powerful and telling blows that have been dealt to
the delusion that moderate drinking is harmless. — The
Illinois Issue. st * st

OSIER CULTURE.

The fact that a Chicago merchant recently adver-
tised in German trade papers for a million willow-

clothes-baskets, looks as if this country is neglecting
a profitable industry. Why shouldn't we Americans
grow enough willows for our own basket needs?
The climatic conditions here are as favorable as in
Germany, and many of us have places on our farms
where willows would thrive if planted.

Willow (or osier) cultivation is not difficult, and
profits are usually good. But up to the present time
very few Americans have taken hold of the matter in
earnest. The Germans handle the business well.
They have industrial schools where basket weaving
is taught. Man}- of these schools grow their own
willow rods, cut them, and peel and prepare them for
use. To the mutual advantage of both pupils and pro-
prietors, arrangements are made to allow pupils to
w-ork part of the time in the " holts," as the willow
fields are called, belonging to the schools, and in that
way earn enough to pay their tuition and board.

There are a number of willow-ware manufacturers
in the United States, but only about one-tenth of them
grow their own stock, although they assert that the
home-grown rods are equal to the imported.

Good holts pay a profit the first year, though the
profits of later years are much greater. The average
price of unpeeled rods last year was about one and a
quarter cents a pound, and of peeled rods about seven
cents. A well-managed willow holt should average
2,500 pounds of rods to the acre yearly, and the cost
of growing and harvesting the crop is comparatively
low.

Selection of soil : To make osier holts most prof-^
itable such soils should be selected as can not be
otherwise used to advantage. Very poor soil, how-
ever, should be avoided. The best soil is a fresh,
black sand, but even a heavy, compact loam, or rich
but sour meadow land, which produces the poorest
quality of grass, is acceptable. The situation ought
to be low, level and naturally moist. The osier will
prosper, however, in a somewhat dry soil, in which
the shoots will not only be smaller, but harder, tougher
and more compact and durable. The best situation,
when the object is free and rapid growth, is along
the banks of rivers and brooks. Drained marsh land
is often used.

The proper planting distance is about 9 x 21 inches
apart. Several varieties are grown. A holt, when
once established, is good for about fifteen years, and
should then be renewed.

Instructions for the growing of basket willows are
sent out by the Forest Service, United States De-
partment of Agriculture, Washington. D. C, upon re-
quest. The service is devoting special attention to
testing every known variety of basket willow in order
to find the best varieties for home growers. In the
early springtime cuttings from all approved basket
willows are sent gratis to applicants w-ho desire to
establish willow holts. — Farm Journal.

THE IXGLliXDDK.— Ji'.miarv

')Cy.

Nature Studies

GLOBIGERINA OOZE

N. .1. Mir.r.iju.

About Globigerina ooze is wdwii a hit of serinis
«3isctission. Huxley and lamest 1 liickel started the
train of philosciphical thought. ! [uxley, especiall\'.
argued that the stickiness of the ooze, a deep sea
mud, was due to Hving masses of protopkism, which
was in the past, and would be in the future, the origin
of life upon earth. He called it bathybius and be-
lieved it " a vast sheet of living matter enveloping
-the whole earth beneath the seas." He, as well as
some small and large philosophers, was certain it
was the bridge between the inorganic and organic
world. Upon it was the hope of those believing in
abiogenesis rather than biogenesis, in spontaneous gen-
.eration rather than in the dictum. "All life from life."
D. F. Strauss (1872), a powerful thinker, made
tathybius the basis of his negation of the supernat-
ural, a work entitled, "The Old Faith and the New."
His entire anti-christian philosophy rested upon
Huxley's Bathybius Hackelii. About that time and
after the English ship, " Challenger," made deep-
sea dredgings of the ocean, carefully charting its
contour, life and deposits. The microscopic examina-
tion of the sea mud, or ooze, proved Huxley's Bathy-
t)ius Hackelii to be simply a " Complex mass of slime
with many foreign bodies and debris of living organ-
isms which have jiassed away. Numerous minute
living forms are. however, still found upon it." Since
-that tiine deep sea mud, Globigerina ooze, has been
well understood and Bathybius Hackelii has taken " its
place with other ghosts of not blessed memory in the
"history of hasty speculation."

Globigerina or Foraminiferal ooze is simply a deej)
sea deposit consisting largely of nearly or altogether
microscopic animals or their shells. The animals
principally belong to the group known as Foraminifera.
gelatinous forms having calcareous shells enclosing
the central protoplasm, the outer mass forming intri-
cate interlacing threads. The most common forms
■belong to the Globigerina? having chambered shells.
Other organic matter and pumice arc found, in the
.ooze though from 30 to 90 per cent Globigerin;e.

Jn the modern i>fean the I'oraminiferal life is verv

great — countless millions are un the surface nf the
sea in calm weather. Here as elsewhere death stalks
relentlessly. The dead forms gradually sink to the
ocean floor, where to the observer, if his vision were
perfect enough, they would seem like countless drops
in a gust of rain. In tRis way the ooze, the life and
death of minute animals, is slowl\- accumulating.
How long the ooze has been forming no one knows,
though the geologist uses ages for his measuring
rod. At the present rate of deposition thousands of
years would be recjuired to form deposits much less
than a foot thick.

The chalk cliffs and beds of Iowa, Kansas, Texas

Foraminifera ( diaggrammatic).

and Eurn|)c, in some places manv feet tliick. are simply
beds of former (dobigerina ooze. Grind to powder a
piece of chalk and view it under a microscope, there
will be seen shells of animals almost identical with
those forming the ooze on the bottom of the Gulf of
Mexico and the Atlantic. These tombs mutely prove
that the countries where they exist were once the
bottom of deep seas, great arms of the Atlantic on
both coasts. The seas must have been n:ore than
one thousand fathoms since the mechanical drifts in
more shallow depths are so overwhelmingly more
than the Globigerina ooze that the latter is lost si.ght
of. Thev were less than three thousand fathoms
since at a deiith of twent\-five hundred feet the car-

THE I.XGLEXOOK.— lamiarv 12. 1').').

bon-(Iioxi(le, increasing with sea depth, is sufficient in
quantity to dissolve the calcium carbonate shells. Its
attack npoji calcium carhnnate would not permit the
ooze to collect on ocean floors below that depth, just
as is obtained today.

It is an iiitcrestiut;- fact that the Globigerinae of the
chalk cliffs dift'er \'ery little from those forming the
slimy gray mud at the bottom of our modern ocean.
Though there are more than twice as many fossil
species than those living now the same type of struc-
ture persists. Since the sediments forming the chalk
cliffs were palpitant with life great portions of the
earth have been lifted out of the waters, mountains
have been built, river systems formed, valleys
drowned, streams beheaded, mountain passes cut
down great canyons worn out of the face of nature,
nations born and decayed yet the chambered and per-
forated shells of the Globigerinae of today have the
same variety of pattern, shape, symmetry and beauty
as those of the ancient seas. Thus they were as far'
back as can be traced in the geological history of
the earth and the time to come, though long it may
be. will ])erhaps witness little change in the form of
shell and the intricate interlacing threads of proto-
plasm.

i3^ 5^% ^s^

HUMOR IN ANIMALS.
E\"ERV young person who owns a dog or cat will
agree with a writer in the London Daily News who in-
sists that animals not only think and reason, but also
have a keen sense of humor. We knew a fine exponent
of this theory, a beautiful collie named " Jack." Dear
doggie, he died of a good old age, with the love of
all who l<new him. He would " play wolf " with every
indication of savagery and fierceness, with gleaming
teeth and snarling jaws, and eyes that glared like the
wild animal he was imitating. The rough tumbling he
alwa\s received and the attacks of his human comrades
in the game never deceived him for a moment. He
knew it was all fim and play, and threw himself into
the sport with all his heart. He thoroughly enjoved
the humor of the situation and rushed upon his antag-
oni':ts with a perfectly assumed savager\-, but he never
forgot to be gentle even in the most exciting moments.
Jack's sharp teeth and powerful jaws were ever kept
for defense against his enemies, and never used
to injure his friends, lie had a wonderful brain, and
often thought matters out in a way that was truly
astonishing. Eor many weeks, for instance, he trotted
out dail\' to receive the mail from the postman. This
was easil\- taught him, and he was proud of the honor
thrust upon him. It so happened that there was mail
I'very day for a long time, and he and the postman bt-
came " speaking acc|uaintances." But one morning
the postman passed by the house with no documents to
hand to Jack. He went out to meet him as usual, and
followed him a few steps in expectation. The postman

was absorbed, however, and paid no attention to the
dog. Jack stopped in concern, waited a moment in
deep thought, and then flew at the postman's heels, to
that individual's intense astonishment and concern.
The dog's master, fortunatel}', was a witness to tlie
scene, and, thoroughly understanding the situation,
came to the rescue by calling, " (jive him something ;
he wants the mail : he thinks vou are robbing- us."
Quickly the postman handed Jack a newspaper, and ho
in his turn, with the air of a conquering hero, carried
the paper to his master, entirely pacified and content,
and evidentl}' very proud of his success. Thereafte;-
the postman had something at hand to give to the dog
each time he passed by the house, and there was never
an}- further trouble, and in due time thev became good
friends.

I'^om the article previously mentioned come the fol-
lowing facts concerning a kitten and her love of fui>
and frolic :

" I was once the possessor of a beautiful little
Persian cat, with whom we used to play at times with
ball games. She entered into these with great gusto,
and sometimes when there was notliing stirring she
would appear carrying the ball in her mouth. Then
she would lay it at the feet of one of us who seemed
inclined for a game, and, looking up with an arch ex-
pression, she would stand ready to begin. The slap-
dash explanation of acts like these as " instinct ' is, of
course, ridiculous, though even in those cases where
it does apply it is at best but a cover for our ignorance
of deeper explanations.

" Xow, play itself involves a certain sense of humor,
but certain other manifestations were more precisf"..
Ki!t\- used to play on the balcony — this was in Paris —
and when she wanted to come in she would stand on
her hind legs and .scratch fiercely at the window with
an assumed look of excitement and alarm that re-
minded one of a caricature of Louis Wain's. When
she entered I would generally take her up on my shoul-
der to hear her purr.

'■ One sunny da\- as I was reading I heard the famil-
iar scratching, and, looking round, found her stand-
ing in her attitude of great anxiety. I went to the
window and opened it, and she made a step forward,
but when I tried to pick her up she turned around and
ran up the balcony, looking behind her shoulder and
with a laugh all over her face. She enjoyed that joke
immensely." — Srlcctcd.

" That the ruthless destruction of forests, the heed-
less neglect of waterwaxs. the reckless disposition of
the public lands and the wild waste of mineral re-
sources ought to be discontinued is admitted by every-
one who is net financially i-^terested in their d?struc-
tion, neglect and waste."

III'. INGLENOOK.— January 12. 1009.

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THE DIVORCE EVIL.

SOMETIMES a great evil, — for a long time clearly
recognized as such, — becomes so common that aft-
er awhile even the better class of people seem not only
to countenance it, but even to approve of it. We have
in mind now the divorce evil. When we think of its
history we recall the familiar words of Pope on the in-
sidiousness of vice :

" Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated, needs but to be seen
But seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace."

It is to be feared that when we express ourselves
on the subject that it is not always with the ring of
utter disapproval which should characterize our speech
as Christians and as those who have at heart the wel-
fare of our country. And when we are silent, — and
most of us are silent on the subject,- — our attitude is
taken to be that of tolerance at least or maybe even
of approval.

\ recent issue of the Home Herald publishes the
following from the pen of Mrs. William H. Taft, wife
of our President-elect :

" If it were in my power, divorce would be stopped
entirely. Of course, there are cases where separation
might be legally granted, but there should be no re-
marriage allowed. The laxity of our divorce law is a
menace to the very moral fiber of our nation. It is an
appalling evil, and it seems to be on the increase in-
stead of diminishing. I remember the time when one
read of persons one never knew who obtained divorces,
but now every one comes in contact with divorced peo-
ple — in every class of society — one's own personal
friends on every hand. It is countenanced by the so-
called highest social circles, and it is made light of,
and a woman, in many instances, is received with as
much favor after she is divorced as she was before.
Such conditions are shocking and are most demoraliz-
ing. Wherever and whenever I could do anything to
influence legislators to make more stringent divorce

laws, I would do it, and I believe that every womar
in America should feel the same way."

We honor the woman who thus bravely stands out
against a popular evil, and we trust that her example
may be the means of giving to some of us the moral
courage we need to stand by our convictions. The evil
is so widespread that if those who know it as such keep
silent, the world will sweep on in ignorance to the
shameful end it will bring.

:< ,<* ,1
GOOD ADVICE TO JEWS.

DR. EMIL G. HIRSCH, the eminent Jewish rabbi
of Chicago, gave his people some wholesome
advice during a service in the Sinai Temple not long
ago. His theme was the " adaptation of religion to
modern need^."

He made a general plea for all the Jews of the earth
to unite for international peace. " If all the Jews of
all the nations should work together for international
peace, how far away would it be ? " he asked. " There
is a great opportunity of modern times which the Jews
should grasp.

" Another is a settlement of the questions between
capital and labor. The Jew is the barometer of civil-
ization. Show me how a Jew is treated in any com-
munity and I will tell you the state of civilization of
that community. If it could be said there is no Jewish
house of commerce where provisions are not made for
the workers, in excess of the economic demands of
the day, our influence would be materially felt in set-
tling the controversy between labor and capital. Some
few Jews already take this advanced ground, let others
follow."

Before concluding his talk Dr. Hirsch made an
appeal to the loyalty of his hearers in behalf of the
new Sinai institutional synagogue which has been un-
der consideration for a year and plans for which
were to have been made public before this time. He
urged the building of the synagogue on the grounds"
that they owed it to the community and that they
could not do their share in meeting the needs of mod-
ern religion without it. Dr. Hirsch is growing old,
but he is alive to the demands that may be made upon
his people when he is gone and he is anxious that
they shall bear a noble part in the work of the world.
Ji ^* Jt
FOR THE EARTHQUAKE SUFFERERS.

J.\x. 4. by unanimous vote. Congress appropriated
$800,000 for the earthquake sufferers. President
Roosevelt by special message having asked that
amount. This is the largest amount ever given to
the stricken people of a foreign land by the United
States or any other government. In addition, the
battle ship fleet and any other necessarv ships of the
navy were placed at the disposal of the President in
carrying out the relief work authorized.

This $800,000 does not include the private contri-

THE I NGLENOOK.— January 12, 1909.

butions from all over tlu- country which swell the
fund to stupendous proportions. While all the money
given cannot make up for all the loss and sutifering,
it will do much in that direction and is our best means
of lending aid and expressing our sympathy.
■^* ,,«« .<
NOTES ON THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE.

I WAS in Palermo and a longer time in Catania and
Messina. In Messina, the hotel at which I stopped
has now been totally wrecked, killing all the American
and other tourists — so I read. The U. S. consul,
upon whom I called, is also dead.

The people in these places were very good to me.
My heart is sad at their great loss. The single fu-
neral procession I saw there is now duplicated by
^0,000 processions of lone journeyings to the other
shore.

Beggar and aristocrat sleep alike — both under the
debris — victims of the world's greatest horror.

H. M. Spickler.

t3^ <!?• (i5*

WON'T STAY LICKED.

BONFORT'S, the big liquor magazine, in its Phila-
delphia section (December 10, page 141), dis-
cussing the Anti-Saloon League,' says :

" The constant and abundant optimism of the oppo-
nents of the liquor industry is the hardest thing to
defeat. It is certainly very discouraging to lick a man
who won't stay licked, but that is just the condition
we are up against in this State. There is really very
little chance of a local option measure passing the
Legislature this winter, but this does not win the fight
by any means, as the enthusiastic followers of this
chimera say they will come back at us stronger than
ever two years hence. And so they will, too, if their
ammunition (money) holds out."

Yes, that's the most discouraging thing about the
Anti-Saloon League — discouraging to its enemies — it
won't stay licked. It absolutely refuses to quit fight-
ing. And there will be plenty of ammunition to fight
this thing out to a finish. There's no hope for the
enemy in that direction.

The Anti-Saloon League is the united Church. The
Church, as Superintendent Baker says, sometimes loses
a battle, but never a war. This is war. — E.vclia)i<;c.

r^ t,5* t?*

THE SHADOW ON THE WALL

JOHN H. NOWI.AN.

The clock had struck the hour of nine.
When at the muse's mystic shrine,

Secluded and alone
I sat. The January rain
Fell coldly on the window-pane.

T saw my shadow thrown

Upon the wall, and smiled to see
How little it resembled me.
To my intense surprise.

Its outline grew more bold and clear — •
A human form was standing there
Before my very eyes.

Upon that form I vvond'ring gazed,
Perplexed, bewildered, and amazed.

But ne'er the silence broke.
I questioned if it were a sprite
From the Plutonian shores of night

When thus to me it spoke:

" Thou sordid son of greed and pelf,
I am thy other better self.

By thee too long suppressed.
No man for self alone can live,
For self no man his life can give,

Nature will never rest.

" Matter you never can destroy
Though changed, she will it still employ

In varied shapes and forms.
The mould'ring vine will feed its mate.
Or aid to other forms create.

.'Knd when the raging storms

" Shall whirl the chilling sleet and rain —
When sweeps the awful hurricane

And j'awns the deep abyss,
Though earth's foundation reel and shake,
The firm land quiver like a lake,

Nothing can go amiss.

" The crinoid with his fellows died
,'\nd sank beneath the restless tide.

Ere man this planet trod.
The ferns their fronded branches cast
Within the reeking foul morass,

For 'twas the will of God

" h'or mortals such as thou to store
In cavern deep, on ocean floor,

The energy of years —
Yea. untold ages, and unfurled
His boundless love to make this world

The choicest of the spheres.

" The coal that warms thy form tonight.
The oil that fills the room with light.

The stones beneath the walls,
That keep the elements from thee.
Prove that thy Father's love is free,

Heed thou his earnest calls.

"The past is gone, forever gone.
The future is thy hope alone.

So bow to his decree.
Go face the world for truth and right.
Live thou as he shall give thee light,

-A-nd he will care for thee."

The calm voice hushed. The form was still.
.And as I watched I felt a thrill

Of fear my being shake.
I reached the outstretched hand to clasp.
My book fell from my nerveless grasp,

And I was wide-awake.

You say 'twas but an idle dream.
Perhaps, but it will ever seem

Reality indeed.
But 'tis not vain, if, false or true.
It helps us to begin anew

A better life to lead.
Woburn, 111.

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Till-: 1\(;LI-:X()()K.— lamuirv 12. VLV.

^^^^

The Home World

TURNING CHILDREN INTO

DOLLARS

LAST summer some Americans traveling in Italy
stopping aghast at a sight that met them on the
outskirts of Palestrina. A child of about six
was plodding between a small quarry and an unfinished
house, with each trip bearing on her head a large
stone for the builders. These
.stones average<l at least twenty-
five pounds in weight, and the
child could not lift them alone.
One of the elders busy at the
same task would poise the bur-
den for her, and it would be
taken otf' at the other end. The
face under the stone was gravely
uncom])laining : already the back
showed a deep incurve. .-Ml the
spring — the elasticity of growth
— seemed crushed out of the lit-
tle figure. The Americans were
horrifi^^d. They put questions,
protested, and did what they
could to get the burden lifted.
Then they exclaimed to one another: "You don't
see such things in .\merica I " "Thank (!od, a child
can't be treated like that at home!"

Xot long ago a cliild of si.\ walked down .\venue D.
in Xew York City, carrying on her head a load of
sweatshop " ])ants " — they are not trousers, at that
price — weighing not less than twenty-five pounds. She
had to walk several blocks with it and climb four
flights of stairs, and when it was removed her work
was only just beginning, for the endless buttons — •
twelve to a pair — were to be sewed on by the brfiwn
claws that gripped the bundle. She passed many
.'\mericans on her way, buf no one noticed and no
one was horrified. Several times a week .she has
trudged over the same route under the same weight,
in this land where " a child can't be treated like that."
without arousing any public indignation.

Delivering Sweatshop

\Vork in N'AV

Vnrk.

The Xew York law declares that no child under
fourteen shall work for hire, and no child between
fourteen and si.xteen who cannot read and write sim-
ple sentences in the English language, and show that
he has attended school one hundred and thirty days
during the previous year: he must be of normal height
and development, and his day is limited to nine hours.
It is a just law — good for the present industrial con-
ditions, however the future may improve on it. In
the mills and factories it can be more or less rigorousi ,
enforced, but there is a vast field of child la-
bor at home that this law does not and can-
not touch.

To understand this, follow the si.\-years-old ])ants-
liearer and her mother — whose load is thrice as big —
up the four flights of their tenement, as I did, says
Juliet W'ilbor Tompkins in Success Mai;a::iiic. .\n
oiler to help the little girl with her pack was intro-
duction enough, and a few stray words of Italian
established friendship on the long journey up. They
are dark stairs, a skeleton of stone and iron, with
walls of lurid pink and gresn, smeared and blotched
and broken, and the stale air reeks
of indecent poverty. Half naked
babies crawl out into the hall to
peer through the banisters at us ;
a careworn little girl of about sev-
en is sitting on a step rocking a
shrieking child, her little shoulders
strained with its weight, but her
face maternally patient. " Hello,
teacher ! " calls a child of school
> ears — almost any woman visitor is
addressed as " teacher " in the ten-
ements. To the (|uestion, " Why aren't you at
school?" she replies with ?. vague murmur about a
sore finger, and a moment later she is vanishing with
cautious speed down the stairs. .At the same time a
grimy little boy pas.ses with a can that is obviously on

This Boy Longs for
Cha'ce to Go
to School.

THE I.\"(iLI-:.\( )l)K.— Uuniarv 1.

1<),<).

All Average Messenger

Boy Who Works in a

Hotbed of Iniquitj'.

its way to the saloon for beer — two Ijrokcn laws cxliil)-
ited ill the space of sixty seconds.

The door of the apartment we arc seekiui;" stantis
open to the odors of the hall, and the owners, bciiis'
Italians, smile shy welcome, settinsj out a chair, throne-
like, in the middle of the main room, even while their
hands are busy at the bundles; for thev go to work at
once, without so much as a preliminary stretch. .Mo-
ments must be very precious in this household. The
room is amazingly dirty. The light is dim. for the
only window opens '>n an air
shaft, if air it may be called
that comes from that foul
well. Adjoining is another
room, a dark hole entirely
filled with a bed — the inhabi-
tants must get in over the
foot. Lying on this. now. is
a two-years-old, asleep, and a
Ijoy of about eleven with a
flushed face and heavy e\es.
It looks suspiciously like
measles, and the little girl,
recognizing the word, nods
that that is probably the case ; her miniature shrug
adds that it cannot be helped — that life is all more or
less measles and pants, and we must take what comes.

.\s things are, there is no help. So long as the
law licenses the tenements for manufacture, and so
allow.s the mother to bring the work home, the ch.il-
dren will help her. Fift\ thousand inspectors coulu
not patrol the tenements sufiticiently to prevent this :
if it were tried, some small sentry would always sound
the note of warning, and the official, on his arrival,
would find only the mother working, while the little
children would be playing innocently upon the
floor.

Neither the mother nor little Giulia can speak En-
glish, so intercourse is limited until Maria comes home
from school — a middle-aged little girl who falls to
work with incredible swiftness, and who can " finish "
as neatly and quickly as her mother. My presence
is explained in a ripple of Italian, and from her I
learn the short and simple family annals. The father
is out of work — a faint shrug suggests that he i>
often out of work : the rent for the three rooms- — for
there is a still darker hole beyond occupied by two
hoarders — is nine dollars a month ; her mother usually
begins at five in the morning, little Ciulia sews seven
or eight hours a day, and she herself works from
school until bedtime, an hour that varies from nine
untit half past twelve — good preparation for profiting
by the day's lessons! The family income averages
between six and sev^en dollars a week. Pietro. now
on the bed, works, too, when he is not sick.

Maria herself is thirteen, and can go to th.e factorv
next year.— she sa.\s it eagerly. She is undeveloped.
heavy-eyed, nervously shrill at slight provocation, and
her back has the tragic, elderly look of wizened youth.
She has never had time to be a little girl. It is a dis-
couraged, joyless household, and the baby tugging at
her needle is as old as her mother. A little arithnietic
shows that, after providing for the rent, from fifts
to sixty-five cents a day remains for the living ex-
penses of five' people, irrespective of what the father
and Pietro ma\- occasionally contribute: and you will
remember having read somewhere that the "economic
efficiency " of five people camiot be maintained in Xew
York at a cost much less than two dollars a dav ; that
is. they cannot be nourished and housed for their
proper welfare at a smaller expenditure. Looking at
the tired faces and the undeveloped bodies of the chil-
<lren, \ ou wish you had not done that sum: and how
yi in wish that Pietro would remove his measlerl person
from the pants !

When this latter wish is finally suggested to Maria,
she confides to you that that is nothing— that, when
Mrs. Rosini on the floor below had smallpox, she went
on making flower and feather ornaments for the hair
just tlie same for a week, till she got so bad they
had to tell the doctor, when he took her away. I could
go down and ask her about it myself if I doubted it;
they were lovely ornaments — for ladies" hair.

Worse than arrested development, out of the nerv-
ous strain of too much work in childhood come dis-
orders, moral as well as physical. It has been said,
with authority, " Idleness in young years is not so
prolific of immoral and criminal leanings as is prema-
ture employment." Premature! This babv of four
smoothing violet petals is
already earning, perhaps,
fifty cents a week ; and
they tell of an infant of
eighteen months b e i n g
found assisting at passe-
m e n t e r i e - making b}-
splashing its little hands
in a bowl of glue and
beads, the mother fishing
out the latter as they be-
c a m e properly coated :
and there was published,
recently, the story of a
woman and six children
under eleven years of age
who lived in a basement
and for four dark and
filthy years kept body and
soul imperfectly connected by folding paper bags — •
from one hundred thousand, to one hundred and fifty

Going Home from tlie Fac-
iovy.

THE INGLE\OOK.— lanuarv 12, 1909.

thousand a week, and the i)rice going steadily down
from seven cents a thousand to four cents.

According to Dr. A. S. Daniel, who has been for
many years a worker among the East Side poor, the
remedy for these conditions must be drastic — forbid
the manufacturer to have nny part of his work done
in a tenement house, ^\'ith all this manufacturing
transferred to factories, which could be properly in-
spected, the child worker would necessarily be set
free ; school, da}' nursery, and public playground must
attend to his case when the mother is obliged to go.
And now comes the inevitable protest — the poor widow
who cannot live without her children's earnings ! She
exists, without a doubt, — we have just seen her in the
paper-bags family ; but do you realize what also exists,
a product of this child-labor system ? It is the parasitic
father.

Both of these homes visited, the miserable one on
the fourth floor and the more cheerful one on the
third, typify the evil done by child labor. Maria's

father was earning good i)ay and doing well by his
own until he fell ill, six years ago. To tide over, his
wife took in sweatshop work, and thereby Pietro,
senior, learned the fatal lesson that it is easy for
women and children to earn money, and that the
streets offer more attractions than the soap factory,
to a convivial spirit. At intervals he obtained jobs,
but his skill in losing them was yearly increasing. His
wife had given up remonstrating: it was more profit-
able to bend steadily over the work.

Mrs. Rosini's husband was made of better stuff and
worked faithfull}- in a paper-box factory ; but the evil
of child labor was hampering him in another way —
that of competition in his shop, for it is an economic
fact that the cheap labor of children reduces the wages
of men. The children of others were competing with
Rosini, and so his children had to work. That sunny
room, gay with artificial flowers, was as much part of
an injurious system as the dark and dirty hole on the
floor above.

THE LAST WORD

HATTIE FRKSION RIDER

MABEL needn't think, because she lived in
Martinsburg when she was a chit of a thing,
that she knows more than I do about the
folks that was born and raised there ! For that mat-
ter, I can give her pointers on some of her own rela-
tions, and not so very far back, either ! " The speak-
er's eyes flashed vindictively through angry tears.
" I was bound to have the last word ! "

Mrs. Morehouse ran her needle several stitches
along the hem she was basting. Her brows puckered
for an instant, but smoothed serenely before she lifted
her eyes to her visitor's face.

" Things past and gone do get set clearer in the
minds of us older ones, I think, myself," she answered,
pleasantly. " Children seem to be more interested
in up-to-date matters, nowadays. What was it you
and Mabel disagreed so about, Miranda ? "

The visitor bit her lips, a dull flush creeping into her
cheek.

" I was telling Bertram that old Deacon Potts'
first wife was a Mercer, and his second a Brown,"
she said. " That child caught me up in a minute,
declaring that Mis' Potts who was a Mercer was a
particular friend of her mother's, and she remembered
settin' close between 'em with the mourners at the
deacon's funeral. I wouldn't a-minded so much, if
Bertram had took any interest in it. But he only said :
'Oh! bother! Why can't you let it go? Who cares
who old Polts married, anyway!' But," — tossing

her head — " I wouldn't run oft' the track that way.
If I don't stand up for my rights, nobody will ! "

"Why was it that you wanted to decide?" Mrs.
Morehouse asked, bending to her hem to hide the
twinkle in her eyes. " Was there any particular
reason ? "

The visitor plucked uncomfortably at her apron.
She always squirmed, figuratively speaking, under her
friend's direct way of getting to the bottom of things ;
yet as invariably returned to her for sympathy.

" I don't just remember what we were talking about,
when the discussion started," she admitted. " But " —
doggedly — " I don't see what that has to do with it.
I guess I know. You're siding with Mabel, I s'pose,"
— grimly.

" I'm ' siding ' with 3-ou and Mabel both, for Love's
peaceful sake," Mrs. Morehouse laughed, good-na-
turedly. " You don't want me saying unkind things
about Bertram's wife, do you, Miranda?"

Half the cloud went oft' the other's forehead.

" I know Mabel is a good girl," she acknowl-
edged ; " but I do tell you, Sarah, it is awful ex-
asperating to be contradicted when you're positive
that you're right. You don't know how set Mabel
is in her way ! "

Mrs. ^lorehouse drew down the corners of her
mouth in a brave attempt at seriousness.

" Miranda," she said, " you might tell her the story
of the old woman and the scissors."

THE INGLENOOK.— January 12, 1909.

"What was that?" Miranda asked, curiously.
" Why," Mrs. ]\'Iorehouse answered, " there was
once an old man and his wife, both very firm in their
opinions, who disageed over the pruning of a certain
currant-bush. The man insisted that a knife was
the better implement to use, the woman, that a pair
of scissors did the work more satisfactorily. After a
heated quarrel, in which the arguments narrowed
down to simply shouting: 'Knife!' 'Scissors!' at
each other, the man in a rage threw his wife into
the cistern. As the water closed over her head,
smothering her cries, she stretched up her arm with
two fingers of the hand rigidly extended, still signal-
ing what she could no longer say : ' Scissors ! ' "
The visitor laughed, shamefacedly.
" Yes, but you see, Sarah, if she honestly knew she

was in the right "

The sewing slipped from Mrs. Morehouse's lap.
" That's just the point, Miranda," she interrupted,
suddenly dropping her light tone for one of eager-
ness. " There's only one ' right ' zvorth standing up
for, and that's the right. It sorts out our ' rights '
from our ' wrongs,' which is more than we generally
do, with our little, narrow, near-sighted way of look-
ing at things, and it always brings us up a-top of our
troubles. And, as I tell Ezra, after you've once
stated you opinion fairly, constant repeating weakens
it, because that sounds as if you had to keep on
arguing to make yourself believe it, after all."
Miranda rose, pulling her bonnet into place.
" I don't know but that's so," she said, doubtfully.
" I'll think about it, I believe. If Mabel wasn't so
positive, it would be a lot easier. And I'm just cer-
tain about the widow Potts being a Brown."

Half an hour later, soft footsteps pottered across
the kitchen floor, and the elder Mrs. Morehouse,
pink-face with her labor in the flower-garden, came
into the sitting-room. She carried a towel in one
hand, and a big bunch of roses in the other. Sarah
looked up. " Grandma," she asked, suddenly, " do
you remember what was Aunt Israel Potts' maiden
name ? "

" M — m — m — ," replied Grandma, reflectively.
" Mis' Israel Potts ? You mean his second, I s'pose.
.\ren't these Crimson Ramblers perfectly beautiful,
Sarah ? I counted thirty buds on one cluster. Deacon
Potts' second wife ! Well, now, it has slipped my
mind ! If you really want to know, though, it's
probably in your great-uncle's old family Bible up
stairs. Why?"

" Oh ! nothing," Sarah answered. She got the
old Bible, though, and looked up the record. The
first Mrs. Israel Potts, who died shortly after mar-
riage, was in truth a " Mercer," her mother's own
cousin, — a fact which had escaped the vaunted mem-
ory of Miranda Perkins. The second, surviving the
deacon, was named Mehitable Scra('hma Jones.

The Children's Corner

THE GIANTS OF EVERY DAY.

Looking up from the picture book he was eagerly
reading, Teddie exclaimed : " I'd like to be ' Jack the
Giant Killer' and frighten all the old giants away !. "

The other children laughed heartily at Teddie's
choice, and Bob remarked : " There never was sucli
a man, Ted. It's only a foolish story, you know..
There aren't any giants."

Teddie looked disappointed. This was taking a\yav
the charm from his book.

"There are giants, aren't tliere. Uncle John?" he
asked, throwing down his book and coming over to his
uncle's armchair.

"Giants, Teddie?" he repeated, gravely. "Yes,
my boy, there are a great many giants all around us,
and we have to learn to be good fighters if we do not
wish to be overcome by them."

Teddie beamed triumphantly, but the otlier children
opened their eyes in wonder, and Alice asked, " What
do you mean. Uncle John ? "

" My dear Alice," he answered, " there is one
dreadful giant, named Intemperance, that is harder to
conquer than any that the famous Jack ever van-
quished ; and there is another, called Selfishness, a
terrible monster, with nine heads ; and a third named
Cruelty ; and a fourth named Dishonesty. We might
mention ever so many more."

" Oh, that kind ! " said Bob. " I meant there were
no real giants."

" Well, these are fairly real giants, Bob. Did you
ever try hard to fight one ? "

" I don't believe I've tried as hard as I might,
sir," he confessed frankly. " I think my worst giant
is Selfishness," he added, slowly.

" And mine is Idleness," whispered j\lice.

" What is mine ? It must be Quick Temper," ad-
mitted Nellie, blushing over memories of recent de-
feats.

Little Ted looked perplexed. They were talking
in riddles.

"Has everybody got a giant?" he ventured.

The others laughed at this, but Uncle John an-
swered, kindly : " I'm afraid so, Ted. Anything
that keeps us from doing good is our giant that we
have to fight. Have you one, my little man ? "

The child's face flushed as he replied, after a mo-
ment's hesitation : " Yes, there are lots of them-.
There's my cross words to the nurse this morning,
and I disobeyed mama, and I broke papa's penknife
that he told me not to touch, and I, oh ! " — there Ted
stopped suddenly and hid his face on uncle's shoulder.

The children didn't laugh this time. — Little Chron-
icle. I

Til

!X(;i.EXOOI\.— Tamiarv 12. 1009.

Hour

THINGS THAT SPEAK

D. D. Tllo.MAS.

l.\ the cemetery at Eagle Creek stands a grave-
stone that marks the resting place of a fond father
and mother who died years ago. When approaching,
one notices that it leans, owing to a faulty foundatinn.
seemingly in an attitude of inquiry. The imagination
need not launch out very far to hear it speak some-
tiiing like these words: " W'hen are you coming this
way? When will you lie down here to rest? See limv
silently these sleep. You say it is a dark and un-
certain way. None return that go down its valley.

" It 7cas dark but it has been lighted. That you
must come is unchangeable, biit that it is dark as your
imaginations picture it, is not true since the day the
angel sat on the stone at the risen Master's grave."

Well, at a grave is a good place to begin to meditate.
From it arises hope, and at the giving up of life one
remembers with gladness that death is conquered. It
does not hold souls in prison any longer unless they
forfeit that life. " The strength of sin is the law," but
tlie victory is obtained through sometliing stronger
than the law.

Tn "As You Like It," (ine rea(i>.

'■.\nd thus our life, exempt from public liaiinls.
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running l)rooks.
Sermons in stones, and good in everything."

That our great English auth.or shf)u!d have ])Iaced the
most sacred fortn of intercommunication in " Nature's
teaching " " in stones " is not so strange when one
comes^^to consider.

There are found tlie staying (|ualities. It is firm,
nnyielding. immovable. It is imi)enetrable to an\-
thing ordinary, and aggressively teaches the judgment
of God. to which the Savior alludes, speaking of it
as " grinding them to powder,"

The abiding qualities are there, not to be dbliteratid
by time. Then, too, it is made to ap])car more sacred
by Christ being spoken of as the Rock which suj)plied
the Hebrews in the wilderness. The churcli is tin-
pillar and pedestal of the truth, that which makes us
free. Yes, " sermons in stones " is ju=t tlie wav
to put it.

In thcnt i> embedded the history of the past. .\ni-
mate and inanimate growths, held in death, declar-
ing as loudly as any articulate voice could tell. " So
shall ye likewise perish," But, with the Christ-rock
voice, not encysted and petrified through all the ages,
but revitalized and glorified through all eternity. To
liini who has not heard, its speech is as that of a little
stranger child, not understood. I'.ut when one learns
to liear, it is that same child voice in its parent's ear, —
plain and intelligible. X<it having talked one does
not understand. So it is in nature, one must converse
that he may understand.

.See the leaf expectantlv spread itself before lieaven,
teaching prayerful service and patient hope. .\nd the
flower opening its chalice to be fed and watered,
telling that life and fruitage come from God. God's
blessing to " the lily " beatiti fully " arrayed " and
perfectly adorned teaches one the power there is in
simplicity. The plant expands and lengthens itself,
showing a yearning toward the h'ather who strength-
ens and makes it storm-enduring. It teaches the
brotherhood of all nature. Xot simply living to enjoy
and propagate itself, but it has a broad, unifying con-
cern for all creatures. It yields life to all, as the
Christ did in a much higher sense. The dying that
others might live yes. the lu.scious fruit is beautified
by entrancing colors, as if inviting to partake, seem-
ing glad to die that it mi^ht become a part of us, a
basis of our life.

If one draw toward it in care, how it expands and
improves and enlarges its fruit. An inverted parallel
is taught by one authorized to speak, " Casting all vour
care upon him for he careth for you." If the fruit-
age does not enlarge, one is to blame. The " husband-
man " docs his part.

Tiiat nature speaks is not farfetched or imagi-
nary. The sacred writings abound with referencesto
it. The Father seems to have so ordained it. The
Master once declared that if the people cried not out
in praise to him, the " very stones " would. Job
speaks of the time when " the morning stars sang
together." and David says, "■ The heavens declare the
glory of God."

Tire blood of .\bel cried unto ( ind fmni the ground

THE IN(;LEN()(3K.

12. i')oy.

for vengeance. The blood that spcakcth better things
than that of Abel crieth not out for vengeance. It
was given an offering for sin. The sins of his en-
emies were reached b\' it and obliterated. The bloiKl
of Abel was spilled l)y force, he gave it unwillingly.
■ But the other was the offering of a willing mind. It
speaketh better things.

And so one miglit continue. Tiie days and the
nights, the ever-changing seasons, tlie dreams, waking
or sleeping, the rivers and the seas, the mountains and
the valleys, and the hills and the lakes are things
that speak. .\inl their voice sounds down through
the ages and echoes loudly where the great white
throne stands at the judgment day, the retributive
angel crying, "" I have spoken and ye have not heanl,
I have declared and yc have not rejoiced."

%^^ ^^^ '.^

THE BIBLE

First, the Bible is the Book of Righteousness. It is
the one book in the world for the tried and suffering
man who finds it infinitely difficult to maintain self-
respect and integrity amidst the manifold seductions of
our modern life. In the Bible he finds the inspiration
to renewed eff'ort after righteousness, examples, pre-
cepts, promises, prophecies, helping him in his strug-
gle, nerving him to conflict and assuring him of vic-
tory.

Second, the Bible is the Book of Faith, speaking to
us of the reality of things unseen but eternal, planting
within us the desire to hold on to the Invisible, nurtur-
ing that desire, assuring us of the eternal triumph of
goodness, telling us that goodness is alone immortal,
bidding us, in spite of " reason " and in the face of
" facts " cleave to goodness as the one strong thing
here beloW', and, in trumpet tones that stir the spirit
that is within us to a faith divine, proclaiming that
wealth and honor, prospects, ambition and conquest,
and the world itself, are well lost if by reason of the
sacrifice we have saved our soul alive.

Third, the Bible is the Book of Christ. The dom-
inant note of all theology and criticism today is its de-
mand for Christ. " Back to Jesus " is the watchword
upon every lip. Renan saw that the reform of Chris-
tianity consisted in suppressing the graces which our
pagan ancestors have added to it, to return to Jesus as
he was. And all our theology today which has in it the
promise of immortality takes up the cry, " Back to
Jesus as he was!" It is the Christ of Galilee and
Capernaum, the Christ of Olivet and Bethan\, tlie
Christ who had not where to lay his- head, who loved
to call himself the Son of Man. who now fills the
thought of his Church : and the Book wdiich is the
Book of Christ is as immortal as himself. — Charles P.
Akcd. D. D. ^ „ ^

" Second thoughts may be best, but tlicy are often
too l-'te to be of anv use."

GRATITUDE.

Show us a man who responds to the Lord with tlit*
same readiness with which some people say, " Thank
you," when a small favor is bestowed upon thetnv an t
I will sliow you a man who not only greatly enjoys hi.'-;
Cliristian life, but who is whole-hearted in the service.
A heart filled with gratitude is a heart filled with good-
w ill. sympathy, love, sunshine and cheerfulness. .V
heart filled with gratitude means a soul filled with a
desire to do everything possible to repay and advaiicC
tlie interests of the object of gratitude. We teach our
children politeness, and at least a show of gratitude
toward those who show them a kindness. But how'
many of us teach our children to be grateful toward
him who gives us all we have? How manv of our
children have learned jjrayers which in substance mean
something like this?' "Lord, we thank thee for the
air we breathe, for our daily food and clothing, for
houses and homes and friends and health and freedom
to worship thee as thou in thy Book hast commanded
us." How many of us often pray such prayers our-
selves? How many of us act as if such prayers act--
ually came from the heart? There is no need of
becoming alarmed for the fate of any one whose heart
is filled to overflowing with gratitude and praise
toward an all-wise and ever-loving heavenly Father
for unmerited blessings bestowed. — Gospel Herald,

j« j« ji <:

UNKNOWN ANGELS.

She \valk.s unnoticed in tlie street; ■

The casual eye

Sees nothing in her fair or sweet; '

The world goes by ?
Unconscious that an angel's feet

Are passing nigh. '

She little has of beanty's weahh;

Truth will allow-
Only her priceless yonth and health.

Her broad, white brow;
Yet grows she on the heart by stealth,

I scarce know how.

She docs a thousand kindly things

That no one knows;
A loving w-oman's heart she brings

To human woes;
And to licr face the sunliglu clings

Where'er she gees.

And so she walks her (|uiet ways,-

With that content
That only comes to sinless days

And innocent:
A life devoid of fame or praise.
Yet nobly spent.

—Pall Mall Gazette.
:< ■* >:

Tun: art of saying approjjriate words in a kindly
way is one that never goes out of fashion, never ceases
to please, and is within the reach of the humblest.—
/-. ir. Fabei: '

THE IXGLliXoOK.— lamiarv 12. 1909.

Echoes from Everywhere

Michigan's new constitution, lately ratified by the vot-
ers, grants women who pay taxes the right to vote upon
questions involving the expenditure of public money.

More than $25,000,000 has been paid out of the relief
funds of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company — $15,050,-
644 to members disabled by illness or accident and
$10,276,227 to the families of members who have died.

Work is to begin soon on New York City's first mon-
orail to be built between Bartow Station, on the Xew
Haven line, and City Island, between which points a
horsecar line has been in operation several years. Three
months hence may see the line in operation. The sys-
tem to be used is called the American.

At her last election, twenty-eight additional towns
were added to New Hampshire's " no-license " column,
while only ten which had been without saloons voted to
let them in. It is confidently claimed that after May
1, 1909, there will be but twenty-five license towns in
the State.

The Illinois Hotel Commercial Association has planned
to try to have the legislature place a limit on the dam-
ages which maj' be collected by hotel patrons for lost
or stolen articles. It also was agreed that buildings shall
be equipped with either iron or rope fire escapes, as de-
manded by the Illinois Commercial Men's Association
and the Travelers' Protective Association.

Dr. Wiley, chief chemist of the Agricultural Depart-
ment, after a week's work with his famous poison squad,
has reached the conclusion that formaldehyde as a pre-
servative of food is injurious to health. Formaldehyde is
most commonly used as a preservative of milk. While
it prevents the souring of milk it does not retard the
growth of disease germs, and herein lies the danger as
consumers have no warning of the presence of the germs.

Secretary Straus of the department of commerce and
labor reports that the total net addition to the popu-
lation of the United States by alien immigration between
Sept. 30, 1907, and Oct. 1, 1908, was only 6,298, and even
this number, he says, should be reduced by deducting
the number of naturalized Americans who took up resi-
dence abroad. The actual number of aliens who arrived
within the period mentioned was 724,112, and the num-
ber departing during the same time was 717,814. Sec-
retary Straus says that all official figures as to the emi-
gration of aliens prior to Sept. 30, 1907, were the esti-
mates of the steamship companies. Last year official
figures were kept as to the departure of aliens. The
secretary estimated that figures on immigration, which
have been accepted heretofore, have been at least 48
per cent too high.

Illinois is upholding the new cocaine law, and in so
doing has dealt a solar plexus blow at the patent med-
icines in this State containing the drug. A case which
has been decided was that of two Chicago druggists who
had been fined $500 after being convicted of having sold
a catarrh powder which contained cocaine. The drug-
gists held that a clerk in the store had sold the med-
icine, but the Supreme Court of the State held the
owners responsible, as the law provides that cocaine
shall not be sold in any form except on a physician's
prescription.

Foreign ministers at Pekin fear that peace is endan-
gered by the recent dismissal of Yuan Shi Kai, grand
councilor and commander in chief of the forces, and
the appointment of Na Tung as grand councilor. The
representatives of Great Britain, the United States and
Germany view the regent's action as tantamount to an
affront to the powers on account of Yuan Shi Kai's po-
sition abroad, he being recognized as the medium of
fair and equitable treatment toward the nations. Japan
concurs in the opinion that the dismissal is certain to
result in international injury.

Russia has a dirigible, and negotiations are being car-
ried on with the Wright Brothers for the purchase of
some of their aeroplanes. The price proposed is $100,-
000, with royalties built on machines built in Russia.
The government requires a three-hour flight, but Wil-
bur Wright thinks a one-hour flight a sufficient dem-
onstration provided he can carry fuel enough to remain
aloft three hours. The Russian War Department has
recently granted $25,000 for the construction of a flying
machine invented by H. Tatarinofif, who claims to have
an apparatus that operates on neither the balloon nor
the aeroplane principle. A small cigar-shaped model
weighing about 30 pounds is said to have made success-
ful tests recently.

George Washington Hough, one of the foremost as-
tronomers of the world, professor of astronomy at North-
western University and director of the Dearborn Ob-
servatorj', died at his home in Chicago, Jan. 1. No as-
tronomer of these times was better known than Pro-
fessor Hough. In fact, he was considered by scientists
one of the most learned of his time on astronomical
subjects. The crowning feature of his life of study
and invention was his contribution to science concerning
the planet Jupiter, the most complete that any astron-
omer ever has given. Professor Hough also discovered
and measured more double stars than any astronomer
living or extant. Besides, his astronomical inventions
have been many and valuable. Altogether, his life has
been one of contribution to astronomy, meteorology and
physics.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 12, 1909.

London, Jan. 1. — -Postmasters throughout the United
Kingdom have begun the payment of old-age pensions,
under the act of the last session of parliament, to per-
sons over 70 years of age. Seven hundred thousand ap-
plications for pensions have been received, of which 200,-
000 were <iisallowed, chiefly because the applicants have
been in receipt of poor relief. It is estimated that the
old-age pensions will cost the country $35,000,000 annu-
ally. The highest pension is S shillings weekly, which
will be paid to applicants having an income below $105
a year. If their income exceeds $105 but is less than
$153, small amounts will be paid.

One of the greatest engineering feats ever attempted
in the construction of oil pipe lines is involved in the
work that has been started by a Mexican petroleum com-
pany for the purpose of connecting Mexico City with the
oil wells in the low coast country near Tampico. This
line will have to climb the mountains to an altitude of
10,000 feet within a distance of not more than fifty miles.
After reaching this great height it will be laid up and
down the mountains for another 100 miles before it
reaches the great central plateau. It will then drop to the
valley of Mexico, which is a little less than 8,000 feet
above the sea level. The object of building such a line
is to supply Mexico City with fuel oil. Coal and other
fuel are very expensive there, and it is claimed that the
demand for fuel oil fully justifies the great expense of
such a line.

The official total membership of the high schools of
Chicago on the last day of October last year was 14,960,
of the primary schools, 86,372, of the grammar schools,
149,891, or a total membership of 251,223. Compared with
the same day of 1907 the gain for the high schools is
1,430, for the primary schools, 2,441, for the grammar
schools. 9,783, for all three branches an increase of 13,554.
To these figures must be added 11,000 pupils who are
attending the normal school, the school for the deaf and
the other auxiliaries, bringing the total membership on
the last day of last October up to 247,263. The total gain
over 1907 is about 14,000. The number of pupils on
half sessions was kept down to 7,243 in October, which
is the smallest number for October in years. In fact,
there has been a steady decrease in the number of chil-
dren who could not be aflforded full school privileges.
The total school accommodations during October for
the high and graded schools were 268,311 seats.

In response to the Italian Red Cross suggestion that a
vessel might be loaded with provisions and sent to the
scene of the earthquake disaster, thus giving quick relief
to the destitute, the American National Red Cross cabled
$150,000 with the suggestion that it could be used by the
Italian Red Cross Society for the purpose of fitting out
a ship with provisions and medical supplies. This amount
is in addition to the $100,000 and the $70,000 previously
sent by the American Red Cross. By sending the money
instead of undertaking to provide for the shipment of
supplies the American Red Cross officials adopted what
they regard as the best method of meeting the emer-
gencies that face the Italian Red Cross. They believe
that the Italian society would be able to make these ar-
rangements more promptly than could be done by any-
one else. This is in line with the policy of the American
society from the beginning of its relief work in behalf of
the earthquake sufferers.

The board of trade, which has had an expert working
for some time past on the copper output of Arizona for
1908, announces that the total output for the year will
not fall below 274,000,000 pounds of finished copper. This
makes Arizona again the world's leader in copper pro-
duction. Horace J. Stevens places Michigan's output
at 220,000,000 pounds and Montana's output is estimated
at 244,000,000 pounds.

The forging of scimitar blades in Japan was once a
flourishing industry, and the workers formed a close
and powerful corporation. But the industry has de-
clined for years, and now only two makers are left.
No young Japanese has come forward to offer himself
as an apprentice, and the question was referred to the
mikado with a view of perpetuating the industry. The
mikado has come to the rescue, and has founded two
scholarships of $500 to induce two lads to offer them-
selves for initiation into the art and mystery of making
scimitar blades.

Chicago's population which serves as a new basis of
estimate for 1909 for the health' department, is 2,224,490,
as against 2,166,055 for the year which has just closed,
and this new population total will be used in figuring
the death rate. The increase is in accordance with the
United States census bureau's percentages for mid-year
populations. Figures which are now in show that there
was a total of 30,395 deaths in the city during the year,
which would give a rate of 14.03 for every 1,000 of pop-
ulation — the fourth lowest figure ever recorded for the
city. The department will wait until all of the deaths
which occurred during December are reported and then
figure its percentage from that basis. It is expected
that the total will be increased by 200 when all returns
are in.

Plans looking to the publication of a book to contain
the national songs of all nations with words, translations
and music and to secure the publication by the United
States bureau of education of a pamphlet giving com-
parative rates of tuition and. cost of living at the leading
American universities for distribution in foreign lands
were adopted at the second annual convention of the As-
sociation of Cosmopolitan Clubs at Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan.
1. The association has chapters at seventeen univer-
sities with a membership of 1,500 students. It is also
planned to state the special advantages at each univer-
sity. The countries represented at the convention here
are the United States, Germany, Greece, the Philippines,
Spain, Mexico, Japan, Brazil, Russia, Hungary, England
and Jamaica.

Ten thousand employes of the packing firm of Morris
& Co. in Chicago and other cities where the company
has interests began Jan. 1 to reap the benefits of a
pension system established by the company. The com-
pany has decided to establish a cooperative sharing
scheme for employes. The plan went into effect
Jan. 1. The pension disbursements to be allowed by the
company will aggregate about $100,000 a year. Among
the employes who will share in the mutual investment
scheme are those who will contribute 3 per cent of their
salaries until the fund reaches $500,000. Employes who
have completed twenty years of service with the com-
pany are to be the chief beneficiaries.

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Among the Magazines

EXPENSIVE EDUCATION.

Some interesting lessons arc deduciblc from the San
Francisco disaster. Of the great buildings, which sur-
\ived in some form or other, there were thirty with fire-
proofing of steel structure, one with metallic trim, one
with wire-glass windows, and ncme- with all these safe-
guards. Had there been such a one it might well have
come through undamaged, save for a little blistering.
The splendid Call Building, with concrete floors and hol-
low-tile protection for its steel, stood undamaged so
far as its integral structure is concerned. And, by the
way, that much maligned type, the skyscraper, proved
its worth both at San Francisco and Baltimore. In the
western city, small and inflammable buildings standing
to the leeward of the tall piles were protected by a
sort of vacuum, and were seriously damaged only in the
stories above the fourth. At Baltimore the spread of
destruction in several cases was limited by these great
barriers, from behind which the firemen fought as best
thty could with their puny water-sprinkling devices and
the "more desperate remedy of dynamite. It is hardly
too much to say that a block of reasonably protected
skyscrapers would, in any city, prove an absolute and
impregnable barrier to the progress of the fiercest con-
flagration.

Again, Baltimore proved beyond question the value of
adequate casings for the structural steel. Without this
the steel buckles, and lapses into dismal spirals. With-
in tlie fire zone, at Baltimore, half a dozen building so
protected stood, and continued to stand. Nothing else
did. The Continental Trust Building was " swept by a
blast like that of a chemical furnace." As the windows
were insufficiently protected, the flames entered and
seized upon everything burnable. From the melted chan-
deliers and typewriters, fused to masses of formless metal,
it is estimated that the heat reached an altitude of 2,000
degrees, and not improbably 3,000 degrees. Yet the
fireproof floor arches and column coverings remained
intact. The expert afterward employed to inspect cer-
tified that the steel structure was " intact and as good
as the day it was put up," and that every floor In the
building was plumb to the fraction of a decimal. In all
the genuinely fireproof modern buildings there was but
one mishap to structure. One steel column, insufficiently
protected, in the Calvert Building, buckled; the other two
hundred and fifty-five columns were unaffected. Yet
tlie edifices of this type cost but ten per cent more than
other buildings in which the iron and steel, being with-
out protection, were bent and warped out of all possi-
bility of further usefulness.

Fireproof buildings, then, are a reality, not an imprac-
ticable ideal. Yes, more; they are, in a general, sense,
economical!}' feasible and attainable. And if fireproof
buildings, then genuine " fireproof districts," and eventu-
ally fireproof cities. — Samuel Hopkins Adams, in the
January Everybody's.

FOR YOUR COUNTRY— PLANT TREES.

There is a great movement under way throughout the
United States today. It is the marshaling of public sen-
timent for the preservation of the forests. We used
to think that the great American forests were inexhaust-
ible, .^nd they were, for the generation in which our
grandfathers lived. People of that daj- had all the wood
they wanted to burn. But since their time we have
been doing so many things with wood, besides using it
for fuel, that forests of trees have fallen before the wood-
man's ax where one tree fell before. There are a dozen
commercial purposes for wood which have developed
today. It is used in the making of pails and dishes, .^nd
absolutely acres of trees are fed each day into the printing-
presses that turn out the great newspapers.

We are now using as much wood in a single year as
grows in three, and there is only twenty years' supply
of virgin growth in sight.

It is this situation that calls for the application of the
science of forestry. The national Government through
tlie Department of Agriculture at Washington, as well
as eleven States eacli employing a trained forester, is
actively engaged in it. The United States Government
has, for the last ten years, been busy acquiring forest
lands until now it holds 165,000,000 acres, which it is
carefully guarding and cultivating. Nurseries have been
established for the propagation of stock for free distri-
bution, and the newest feature is the creation of a patrol
of one hundred men to guard against forest fires along
the Adirondack railroads.

These are some of the Government measures to meet
a national crisis. But there is more for public-spirited
citizens to do. Everybody who has waste land ought
to be planting it to trees. It is such a simple thing to
gather seed from the trees on your own place and drop
them into the ground! But you who do this will also
serve your country as truly as those who answer its
bugle-call to battle. — The Delineator.
^* ■.< ^*
PULLING THE LOAN-SHARK'S TEETH.

The salary-loan business in the United States as ma-
nipulated by the so-called " loan-sliarks " of the large
cities seems at last doomed to regulation. The strong
drag-net of publicity, which the newspapers and mag-
azines are weaving for this particular purpose, will, it
is promised, slowly but surely inclose the activities of
this ferocious feeder on the poor man's weekly income.
Dr. Clarence W. Wassam, who has recently published
an extensive study of the salary-loan business in New
York City, states that as many as thirty different loan
concerns of this character are known to exist and flour-
ish in this city. It is estimated that at least 30,000 em-
ployees on the average are in debt to these concerns
on assignment of wages. The rate of interest charged
by these usurers is estimated by L. E. Theiss, in The In-
dependent, as ranging from 50 to 400 per cent per an-

THE INGLENOOK.— January 12, 1909.

num. Many cases of suffering and imposition are citeil
by the writers as typical of tlie merciless plunder of
the salary-loan shark. These examples Mr. Theiss
vouches for as being ordinary occurrences. We read:

".Pitiful is the case of a telegrapher, the father of
twelve children. With an income of only $18 a week,
it was necessary, whenever there came a demand for
unusual e.xpenditure, for him to resort to the loan-sharks.
He could save nothing from his salary to repay these
loans. So he borrowed from Peter to pay Paul. But
every new loan put him more hopelessly in debt. His
furniture was mortgaged, his salary assigned, and a de-
fault in payment meant loss of both his chattels and his
employment. Obviously it was necessary for him to do
extra work. As his financial burdens increased, so did
his hours of labor. For months now he has been work-
ing nearly eighteen hours a day. Yet his family profits
little by his ■ e.\tra efforts. .Almost half of his earn-
ings goes to the loan-sharks — as interest. The prin-
cipal of his indebtedness he can by no human proba-
bility ever repay. He is sold for life.

" Among the papers in the District Attorney's office
are the records of two policemen. The first one paid
$7 interest every two months on a $100 loan. At the end
of five years the usurers pushed him so hard for the prin-
cipal — wishing to put their money out at a higher rate
of interest — that he sought relief through the public pros-
ecutor. The second policeman paid $12 interest a month
for three years on a similar loan. Then lie died. He
had paid $432 interest, but still owed the $100. Imme-
diately the usurer came to seize the widow's furniture;
and her few possessions were saved to her only through
payment by friends of her husband's of the usurer's
demands. ...

" Recently a woman came into a New York police
court hysterical with fear. Her furniture was about to
be seized. For six months she had toiled early and late
to save it. Worn out at last, she had defaulted in the
payment of her interest, and now her furniture was to go
— because she owed the paltry sum of $25, although
she had paid back $48 in interest."

The remedy for the loan-shark business is believed to
be first of all publicity for its dealings, and secondly,
an adequate and honest competition to underbid it. Mr.
Theiss continues:

" Already many movements are on foot to accomplish
this end. In New York we have the Provident Loan
Society, started with a gift of $100,000. It lends money
at the rate of 1 per cent a month, and cuts that rate
in half for prompt repayment. Last year it made 286,-
000 loans. The Hebrew Free Loan Association is a
similar organization. It lends money to any Hebrew
who can get good indorsement. Then there arc tlie
St. Bartholomew's Loan Bureau of New York, the Col-
lateral Loan Company and the Workingman's Loan As-
sociation of Boston, and similar organizations in other
cities. Their object is not only to help the poor over
slippery places, but also teaches tliem thrift and econ-
omy.

" Better yet, as showing an active interest in one's
employees, is the sj'stem of lending money that a Xew
\''ork department-store has instituted. Small sums are
advanced to employees without interest, the money ad-
vanced being deducted from the borrowers' paj' envel-
opes in ten weekly deductions. Slight as is this assist-
ance it is just the help that is needed — and it is assist-

ance without price. Many employers now help their
employees in this w-ay.

" Best of all is the movement toward self-help in the
form of mutual loan associations that is spreading ev-
erywhere among the poor."

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WEALTH IN BARRELS.

When a person speaks of "barrels of money" it con-
veys to the mind an impression of great wealth. How-
many, hearing or using this common phrase, however,
ever gave a thought to the money represented by empty
bartels? If you never have you may be interested in
some figures compiled by -the United States Forest Serv-
ice.

The forest service statisticians show that the farmer
with his potatoes and apples, the miller with his flour
and meal, the hardware man with his nails, the cement
manufacturer and the many other users of barrels other
tlian those intended to hold liquids, consumed forest
products last year having a value of $15,800,253. In pur-
suance of its work of educating the country to the need
for conservation of resources the forest service from
time to time gives striking and, it might be said, sen-
sational illustrations of the wealth of timber that annu-
ally goes into some form of commodity. Even the in-
significant little match consumes forest growths to an
almost unbelievable extent.

In this matter of barrels alone the output of the coop-
erage mills last year showed an increase of $1,569,688,
or 11 per cent over the value of the product for the
previous year. Twenty-one species of wood contributed
to the production last year, but nearly two-thirds of the
output was manufactured from red gum, pine, elm and
beach.

It is pointed out by the forest experts that an inter-
esting movement in the barrel industry .'s the substi-
tution of less expensive woods for those which for many
years were drawn upon most heavily for stave material.
The same trend from expensive to inexpensive woods is
shown in the case of many articles of common use. and
the process of substitution, based on economic condi-
tions and systematic study of forestry affairs by man-
ufacturers as well as by technical experts, is -destined
to play a large part in the conservation movement. — •
Cliicago Record-Herald.

-,?• t,5* ^5*

WHY SHOULD THE STATE CONTROL WATER-
POWER DEVELOPMENT?

The first and greatest reason for State action is tliat
only in this manner can a full, comprehensive, co-ordi-
nated, and therefore truly economic development of our
hydraulic resources be secured. No one company or
individual would be able, as a rule, to undertake the
complete development of any given stream throughout
the region of its effective flow. The undertaking would
be too vast to be feasible, even if a market for all the
power could be assured. It would involve a wide ex-
ercise of the power of eminent domain, which would
have to be delegated to the company for the purpose.
Furthermore, co-operation among mill owners and other
interests for such a purpose is peculiarly diflicult to
arrange. The State, on the other hand, retaining the
control of the whole strei^f^l^^SSm develop such por-
tions of its power as might be salable from time to time,
yet always with the ultimate plan for a complete de-
velopment in mind.

.\nother reason for State supervision, perhaps more

I. Xi.l.ENOOK.— January 12. 1%".)

local to New York, though potentially of wide applica-
tion, is directly concerned with one of the most em-
phatic protests that has been made in this State against
the building of power reservoirs, — namely, what may
be called the esthetic objection. It is only too true that
much bad reservoir practice has furnished good cause
for the widespread notion that power reservoirs destroy
the beauties of the natural river and result in scenes
of destruction and desolation. Experience and the best
engineering authority have conclusively shown, Iiow-
ever, that proper reservoir building is only a matter of
adequate expenditure under proper plans and careful
supervision. It is not consistent with experience to
hope that private companies, bent on immediate gain,
will ever go to the extra, and to their minds unessen-
tial, expense of properly clearing reservoir beds of
standing trees and underbrush before turning in the
water. Only when the State does this work as a part
of its general program, and with constant realization
that this is a highly important aspect of any construc-
tion worthy of the State, can attractive rather than re-
pulsive reservoirs be generally secured.

The State's great financial strength provides a third
reason why the public authority may advantageously
construct the controlling works for power development.
The State can borrow the money needed for such ex-
pensive structures as storage reservoirs at a lower rate
of interest than any corporation. A part of this saving
may well be spent by the State in securing the adequate
treatment and proper supervision necessary to insure
attractive and healthful artificial lakes, which may be
depended on to increase the property value of the whole
surrounding region as a health and pleasure resort.
The State can aflford to take the long view and wait
twenty or thirty or fifty years for the return on its
money, whereas such delay in profitable result is pro-
hibitive to the plans of the prospective manufacturers.
— From " State Control of Water-Power," by Curtis E.
Lakeman, in the American Review of Reviews lor
January.

Between Whiles

A Statesman Defined.

Shortly after Mr. Gladstone's death, says the Chris-
tion Register, a local politician delivered an address up-
on the life of the statesman before a school. When
he had finished, he said, " Now, can any of you tell me
what a statesman is?" A little hand went up, and a
little girl replied, " A statesman is a man who makes
speeches." " Hardly that," answered the politician, who
loved to tell this story. " For instance, I sometimes
make speeches, and yet I am not a statesman." The
little hand again went up. " I know," and the answer came
triumphantly, " a statesman is a man who makes good
speeches!" . jt ^ ^t

Couldn't Make^tnerson Worry

Ralph Waldo Emerson was so much of a philosopher

that he tried never to allow himself to be disturbed by

the fear of events which he had no control over. Some

people called him a fatalist, but rather he had an abid-

ing faith in ultimate good and in the eternal nature of
the soul. The story is told of him that one day a fiissy
young fellow came running into his study to ask him
what he was going to do in view of the fact that some
scientist had predicted that the world was soon to come
to an end by colliding with a comet. " I'm not going
to bother about things like that," said the imperturb-
able scholar, " I can get along very well without the
world."

t?* t?* «^*

Ellen (the nurse, to little girl of six, who is supposed
to have an afternoon sleep every day) — Nancy, you are
a naughty little girl not to have gone to sleep this aft-
ernoon!

Nancy (reproachfully) — Ellen! Ellen! Don't you re-
member the three times you looked over the screen, and
I was fast asleep?

t5* (5* (^*

The little girl was up very early in the morning for the
first time. "Oh, mama!" she exclaimed, returning from
the window, " the sun's comin' out all right, but the
angels have forgotten to turn off the moon."

t5* t5* •..?•

WINTER WISDOM.

Yas, de rain soun' col' en gloomsome,

Beatin' on de cabin wall.
En de hail it stomp de shingles.

En de sleet it boun' tub fall;
Yit I somehow laks de racket

Of ol' Wintah's rattlin' shot, -
When de hick'ry logs is burnin'

En de skillet's sizzlin' hot.

Whut's de use, I wants tub ax you,

Fussin' 'cause de snowflakes come?
Hustle up en stir de fiah —

Mek de blazes dance en hum.
S'pose you got no ham er cheek'n —

Fry de good ol' bacon-meat;
Go en tap de 'lasses barrel —

Sorgum mighty fine en sweet.

'Taters roastin' in de ashes;

Beans a bilin' kinda slow;
Caroliny, fat en happy,

Stirrin' up de dodgcr-dougli.
Watch de coflfee-pot a-steamin' —

Ain't it got de riches' smell?
Eat yo' dinner when it raidy.

Den set down en smoke a spell.

Little chaps a-singin' 'roun' you;

Bingo sleepin' on de mat,
Now I wants tuh ax you, podner,

Whut you got tuh grumble at?
Me. I wouldn' was'e no worry

'Cause my jeans is gittin' ol' —
Little tykes en Caroliny

Mo' tuh me den piles o' gol'.

Let de rain en sleet come zippin';

I don't care a picayune;
Reach me down de bano, honey,

Tell I rattles out a chune.
Dough ol' Wintah shout en holler.

He jes' bluffin' 'cause he know
Soon he gotto go a-hikin',

Totin' off his ice en snow.

— Harriet Whitney Durbin.

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Results Are What Count

Results of Some Crops Raised in Idaho, 1908

-nsI-D OF BEETS.

A. C. Coonard, .. 6 18%

Wm. Hansen, . .

. 6

Nampa District.

Geo. Duval 170 14

Melcher & Boor,

. 37

Tons

Rogers' Farm. . . 20 24

A. E. Wood, . . .

. 18

ITame Acres per A.

Gough & Merrill,. 10 18

P. A. Gregar, .

. 6

Mark Austin, ... 35 IS

A. V. Linder, ... 25 16

R. F. Slone, . . .

. 5

Company Farm, .90 16

David Belts, ... 14 15

Thos. Weir, . . .

. 14

Allen Bissett, . . 2 18

Payette District,

Wm. Melcher, .

. 21

Tolef Olsen 4 ITVz

C. M. Williams, . 5 19

S. N'iswander, .

. 26

C. G. Nofzlger, .5 19

W. F. Ashinhurst, 314 18

John Ward, . . .

. 10

Geo. Duval, .... 6 26

E. E. Hunter, ... 27 16

W. B, Ross, . . .

. 5

ITampa District.

Gough & Merrill, Oats

100

The results of grain crop following the

Joe Dickens, Wheat

beet crop.

Sugar Company, Barley

Kind of Bushels

Geo. Duval, Barley

Crrain per A. A.

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Vol. XI.

January 19, 1909.

No. 3.

AN UNCHALLENGED LIFE
INSURANCE

J. F. STUDEBAKER, M. D.

To many persons blood is a mixture of uncertain
proportions. On the other hand scientists know that
it consists of definite quantities of fluid (plasma),
small uniform bodies, iron, various chemical salts,
and principles which protect the body against disease
and accidents, as hemorrhages from cuts or wounds,
— the latter through clotting of the blood.

The quantity of blood in animals is equal to one-
twelfth to one-fourteenth of the body weight. In a
man of average size there would be about twelve
pounds of blood or nearly six quarts.

The fluid part is of a light straw color. The round
bodies are called corpuscles. Of these there are two
groups: (1) red or erythrocytes and (2) white
blood cells or leucocytes. Of the former there are
in the normal state of health 5,000,000 to every cubic
millimetre of blood in the male human subject and
4,500,000 in the female. To these the blood owes its
red color, the coloring agent being called hemoglobin

1. Rough outline of a cubic millimetre.

which contains an appreciable amount of iron. Of
the white blood cells there are from 7,000 to 7,500
to every cubic millimetre of blood. See figure for size
of a cubic millimetre. (Fig. 1)

The red blood cells or corpuscles (Fig. 2-a) are
biconcave discs, i. e., they are concave or saucer-shape
on each side. This makes them appear under the
microscope transparent in the center and opaque on
the edge (Fig. 2-a). Their diameter is 1-3200 of an
inch. 1-32 of an inch is equal to the diameter of a
heavy dot(.). Now can you imagine small bodies one
hundred times smaller than this to leave your heart,
pass through the body and return within twenty-
five seconds? These cells have a tendency to arrange
themselves in rows like dollars called rouleaux (Fig.
2-c). If these were one inch in diameter instead of
1-3200 of an inch and placed edge to edge in a single

column, those of a man weighing one hundred and
fifty ^pounds would belt the globe, which is 25,000
miles in circumference, more than ten times. Can
you conceive of such myriads of minute bodies, each

m^-^

2. (a) The red corpuscles on the flat, (b) Same seen on
edge magnified 1,000 times, (c) Red corpuscles in rouleaux,
magnified 500 times.

one having a distinct work to do and being in con-
stant progress without disorder somewhere? Truly
man is wonderfully made.

The duties of the white corpuscles (Fig. 3) make
them of unusual interest. Although of less number
than the red cells in the proportion of 1 to every 666
of the latter, yet they have a greater service, being
the "national guard" of the body. They are spher-
ical bodies with a diameter of 1-2500 inch and un-
like the red corpuscles contain one to five central
bodies called nuclei. Their average number of 7,500
per cubic millimetre is not always constant but varies
according to the time of day, food taken, habits and
disease present. They are more abundant after a
bath, after meals and in such diseases as pneumonia
and erysipelas and less numerous during fasting and
in such diseases as typhoid fever and malaria.

They have been heroes since the time the first
heart began to beat. Their courage is undaunted
while they march in battalions against the invaders of

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3. All of above are white blood cells or leucocytes, repre-
senting different varieties. (a) The soldiers, with two or
more central or nuclear bodies. (b), (c) and (d) Other
forms, (c) being the most active in tuberculosis, (e) The
most active leucocyte in scarlet fever.

the body — diseases of varied forms. Elach one is
a general in the campaign against the foe. They
build walls about the intruder in manv cases and when

T[IE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

reinforcements or the vitality and resistance of the
body are sufficient, a death blow is dealt to the enemy
by cutting oflf supplies. This is well illustrated by
the furuncle or so-called boil. Pus-producing germs
are the offenders. They invade the soft and superfi-
cial tissue. This has occurred only a short time
until nature has detailed a regiment of soldiers to
the field of hostilities. She is active to keep the ad-
vancing and growing army of microbes from excessive
plundering and from getting too far inland to en-
danger her central resources and supplies.

She has the same methods of warfare as of prim-
itive times. No Catling guns are rushed forward.
No revolving turrets are mounted with twelve and
thirteen-inch cannon. The refinements of modern
militarism do not enter into her tactics for her dis-
cipline is better than the best in the world. She
calls no international peace congresses in which to
sit and listen to diplomats of diversified opinions while
at home the navy yards are building more formidable
gunboats.

Her soldiers never retrench but die in the struggle
to be followed by others. While they are in the en-
counter with bacteria, which happen to be pus germs
in the case of an ordinary boil with their site of en-
gagement in the tissues, the minute cells of these
tissues called round cells are sufficiently irritated and
stimulated so that they rapidly multiply and form an

4. (a) Dead soldiers, (b) The bacteria (staphlococci) pro-
ducing a boll, (c) and (d) Dead soldiers wiio suffered the
brunt of the flght more than (a).

outer and additional barrier to the column of white
blood cells surrounding the would-be conquerors.
This outer barrier is the well-defined border of a
boil. The center finally softens (dies) because food
supplies have been cut ofif by the maneuvers of the
soldiers and the great number of round cells, the
blood channels being occluded.

The dead soldier's uniform is usually badly torn,
even into shreds, and his body full of wounds.
(Fig. 4). If anyone should have a Carnegie medal,
these soldiers (white blood cells) surely deserve it,
for they are daily exposing themselves to hazards to
protect us from all danger. It is through them that
millions of lives have been saved. If it were not for
them no one would reach old age. They are so
vigilant that foreign foes are usually kept -from getting
a camping ground and this makes up our immunity
against disease, the ability to resist such maladies as
tuberculosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and others.

If the pus bacteria of a boil were not walled off,
there would be widespread infection in the body with

the formation of many abscesses in vital organs
and large joints of the body. Chills, sweats, rapid
wasting, exhaustion and death would often follow.
When nature is unable to wall off an appendicitis
the issue is sometimes fatal. These vast armies of
soldiers are replenished by a rapid multiplication of
the white corpuscles as soon as there is a call to the
front for concentration of forces.

Your most valuable asset is your standing army of
white blood cells. It is worth more to you than the
possession of a banking institution or the ownership
of great tracts of rich black loam. It means your
health. It is the best life insurance you can have and
the policy cannot be challenged.

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DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA.

T. H. FERNALD.

On the 19th day of January, in the year 1848, a
man by the name of John W. Marshall was building
a mill in the Sacramento Valley to supply pine lumber
for the ranches and settlements far and near. On
this particular day, Mr. Marshall picked up from the
bed rock of the mill race a small piece of yellow
malleable metal, weighing about seventeen grains,
heavier than silver, and in every way resembling gold.
He showed it to the others who worked at the mill,
and the result of the discussion which followed, was
that the gold theory was rejected by all but Mr.
Marshall, who, not being satisfied, afterward tested
it with nitric acid and found it to be actual gold.
He also later found pieces like it in all the surround-
ing gulches wherever he dug for it.

The news of the discovery soon spread and in April
reports of the finding of gold were published, and
prospectors went to work at once. This mill soon
became the center of attraction,' and was afterwards
named Coloma or Colluma, from a tribe of Indians
who lived in the neighborhood. The prospectors from
there scattered in all directions, and by June the dis-
coveries had extended to all the forks of the river,
and the news had gone almost to the ends of the earth.

Then followed the great " California Gold Craze
of '49." Emigration began from all parts of America
and even from Europe and Asia. In eighteen months
one hundred thousand had gone from the United
States alone to this El Dorado, where a fortune was
to be picked up in a few days. Thousands made their
way across the country amid hardships, which strewed
the route with skeletons, and thousands more by ves-
sels. (See Inglenook of October 13, page 962.)

The Bay of San Francisco was soon surrounded
by a city of shanties and booths. All ordinary em-
ployments were laid aside. Ships were deserted by
their crews, who ran to the mines, sometimes headed
by their officers. Soon streets were laid out, and
from this Babel, as if by magic, rose a beautiful

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

city. For a time lawlessness reigned supreme. But,
driven by the necessity of events, the most respectable
citizens took the law into their own hands, organ-
ized vigilance committees, and administered a rude,
but prompt justice which soon brought order.
Belfast, Maine.

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CHRISTMAS TREE CUSTOM UPHELD.

The country's forests again have been called up-
on to supply about four million Christmas trees, and
again many persons have asked themselves and have
queried the United States Forest Service, " Is the cus-
tom a menace to the movement for forest preser-
vation? "

In the million of happy homes over the country
where the younger generation has made the Christmas
tree the center of play since early Friday morning,
there are many mothers and fathers who have given
the question more or less thought. From Sunday
schools and other organizations also, which hold an
annual celebration around a gayly-trimmed evergreen
for the benefit of the little ones, has come the question
whether it is consistent to urge conservation of for-
est resources and then to cut millions of young trees
every year to afford a little joy in the passing holiday
season.

" Yes, it is consistent and proper that the custom
should be maintained," has been the answer of United
States Forester Gifford Pinchot in every case. " Trees
are for use, and there is no other use to which they
could be put which would contribute so much to the
joy of man as their use by the children on this one
great holiday of the year.

" The number of trees cut for this use each year
is utterly insignificant when compared to the con-
sumption for other purposes for which timber is
demanded. Not more than four million Christmas
trees are used each year, one in every fourth family.
If planted four feet apart they could be grown on less
than 1,500 acres. This clearing of an area equal to
a good-sized farm each Christmas should not be a sub-
ject of much worry, when it ij remembered that for
lumber alone it is necessary to take tinilier from an
area of more than 100,000 acres every day of the
year.

" It is true that there has been serious damage to
forest growth in the cutting of Christmas trees in
various sections of the country, particularly in the
Adirondacks and parts of New England, but in these
very sections the damage through the cutting of
young evergreens for use at Christmas is infinitesimal
when compared with the loss of forest resources
through fires and careless methods of lumbering. The

proper remedy is not to stop using trees but to adopt
wiser methods of use.

" It is generally realized that a certain proportion
of land must always be used for forest growth, just as
for other crops. Christmas trees are one form of
this crop. There is no more reason for an outcry
against using land to grow Christmas trees than to
grow flowers."

The Forest Service upholds the Christmas tree
custom, but recognizes, ■ at the same time, that the in-
discriminate cutting of evergreens to supply the holi-
day trade has produced a bad effect upon many
stands of merchantable kinds of trees in different
sections of the country. Waste and destruction us-
ually result when woodlands are not under a proper
systeni of forest management. Foresters say that it
is not by denying ourselves the wholesome pleasure
of having a bit of nature in the home at Christmas
that the problem of conserving the forest will be
solved, but by learning how to use the forests wisely
and properly. The ravages through forest fires must
be checked, the many avenues of waste of timber in its
travel from the woods to the mill and thence to the
market must be closed, and almost numberless im-
portant problems demand attention before the Christ-
mas tree.

Germany is conceded to have the highest developed
system of forest management of any country, yet its
per capita use of Christmas trees is greatest. The
cutting of small trees for Christmas is not there con-
sidered in the least as a menace to the forest, but,
on the contrary, as a means of improving the forest by
thinning and as a source of revenue. It is therefore
constantly encouraged.

There is little doubt that the time will come when
the Christmas tree business will become a recognized
industry in this country, and that as much attention
will be given to it as will be given to the growing
of crops of timber for other uses. This time may not
be far off, for it is already understood that only through
the practice of forestry, which means both the con-
servation of the timber which remains and carefully
planned systems of reforestation, will it be possible to
supply the country with its forty billion feet of lum-
ber needed each year, as well as the few million little
trees used at Christmas time. — United States Forest
Service.

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" America is the land of opportunity," said the patri-
otic citizen. " Think of the men who have attained great-
ness from humble beginnings."

" Yes," answered the European, who had been read-
ing investigation reports; "but think also of the men
who have attained humility from great beginnings." —
Washington Star.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

Around the World Without

a Cent

Henry M. Spickler

Chapter XLI.

As usual, I slept up on deck, where I made a bed of
canvas from the ship's stores. The sea was a glassy
calm and the night run had been sweet and joyous to
my first senses on awaking.

The Lctimbro was slowing up and daylight had
lighted up the blue sea. As at Messina, so here, the
great, round orb of day came right up from out of
Neptune, just like the Romans and Greeks saw him
rise in their day. The crimson warmth of color about
the sun as it rises here in the Mediterranean Sea is
much more marked than is the rising of the sun on
the Atlantic. The atmosphere is oriental and there is
more color. But the air is soft and balmy and the
shores are filled with fruit-bearing trees and gorgeous
flowers that mature in perfect development.

The Letimbro ran right up to a huge stone wall or
breakwater built out to sea and it was the easiest thing
to step oflf and walk into the city. The captain told me
he would lie here until noon on the following day. My !
how glad I was. For it is so much better to take one's
blessings by degrees. It is better to eat three good
meals in one day than to eat all three at once, which
is a physical impossibility. I was hungry for more sea,
and I was just as glad to walk around on the land. So
here I had another two days in a fair spot that would
have many new sights for me, and I could enjoy the
ecstasy of knowing that my boat was at my service,
and that after I had seen everything in Catania, and
fed fat on her peculiar foods, I was to go aboard my
old friend and greet her jolly crew again for a longer
sail to the island of Crete. Say what you will, no
Yankee ever found things more to his advantage, no
tourist ever took a plunge swim into the world's Edens
with as much fun as I was having on my tour "Around
the World Without a Cent."

As to my money, I had wisely laid up enough for my
passage and had much to spare for an emergency.
Now and then I sold a photograph or received a small
sum for an elocutionary stunt. I was a traveling bank
with manna-like capital, that while not boasting of any
surplus stock could " make money " whenever a
" draw " on the bank was necessary.

I found that Catania was about halfway between
Messina at the north and Syracuse at the south, — by
looking at my map. I wonder how many are referring
to the maps they may have in the house, in their old

geographies or in the atlas, or in the artistic and
attractive advertising that is sent out by steamship and
tourist agencies when they read in their evening papers
about the trouble in Hayti or the work our country
is doing at Manila. It would be wise to nail all such
maps on the wall where they could be seen as easily as
the flowers in the wall paper or the cracks of the plas-
tering. Every glance at these would familiarize us
with the whole earth, which is small enough to com-
pass quite easily from nicely-colored maps. I beg now
that the good reader who has been favoring me with
his companionship on my long journey will at once
dig out the maps, old or new, at whatever cost to in-
difiference, and follow me from place to place, using a
red pencil to work out the exact route I take as de-
scribed in the letters. This method will increase your
interest many fold and the value you get by this special
care will be equal, in some weeks, to the whole price
paid for the subscription. Ever after this, when read-
ing of occurrences in the distant lands, you will know
right where they are located and know something of
their nature, people, products, climate, and many other
things. And God wants you to know this more than
any man does. " Go ye into all the world," he said.
Go with the mind, go with the information, go with the
imagination, go with true sympathy, go with the mis-
sion money, go with the ship, yourself, if possible.
That's what he meant. Take your civilization with
you, take your good manners with you, take your pu-
rity with you, take your happiness with you, take your
medicines and your surgical instruments, take your
business energy and ability, your inventions for labor-
saving and for developing natural riches of all the
lands around his footstool.

Now, I am going. I feel that God has sent me, even
mc, and I think he wants to show gloomy Christians
that a man can be happy in most any place and in
adverse conditions, that this earth is to be the home of
the great millennium, but that long before it is adapted
to such an ideal condition, it will have to be plowed
and cultivated by the plows and harrows of toilsome
energy turned loose to help others.

With your map now on the clock shelf or in the
library, you must follow me on my boat across the
Mediterranean, and acting just as if you are thus hon-
estly following, I will take you along and up through
narrow and dangerous passages.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

If you try to go alone or without the map, be \ou
voung and gay or old and handsome, you are Hable to
be left on some rocky isle of the sea where vultures
with beaks of iron, shriek shrill above you.

I am at Catania, between Messina and Syracuse, in
Sicily, just about to go out into the streets to see what
I can see. Mount Etna is back of the city, her slopes
reaching almost to the city itself. I am registered at
Hotel Bretagne, Bretagne meaning Britain or En-
gland. The room assigned me is on the first floor above
a large square room with glass doors opening out into
a fancv veranda where I may rock and look down at
the queer sights below, for the streets are full of chil-
dren running in all directions, and donkeys and horses
and cows ridden or driven about by hucksters. Fine
carriages drawn by sleek blacks and bays with gold and

I took the picture of this donkey and then bought a cent's worth of flgs
from the baskets that swung on the sides of the animal."

silver harness glide through the medley crowds, the
drivers on the high seats calling in Italian to the mis-
chievous urchins to clear the way for them.

I must go down and mingle in these crowds. Hawk-
ers of transparent, seedless grapes half ran, half
walked, with the big pans or baskets of fruit balanced
on the head. Little donkeys so lean they staggered,
brayed along, bearing big loads of ripe figs. I stopped
several of them and bought six or a dozen of the
juciest figs, and I can tell now by the looks of a fig
whether it is a good one. Tlie men shouted for buyers
like madmen, their little, round, black eyes darting here
and there in the hope of finding a purchaser.

For one cent I can buy as much fruit, plums, prunes,
pears, peaches, oranges, figs or grapes, as I care to
eat at one time.

Wagons rattled about at every comer filled with

pears and peaches. The peaches were all pink-cheeked,
and in packing needed no deceptive pink cloth to sell
them. For one cent I bought six fine, deliciously sweet
pears that would cost in Elgin or Chicago fifty cents.
But pears as good as these couldn't be bought in the
United States at any price. You must come to Sicily
if you want pears at their best. Sicilian air and Sicilian
sunshine can't be imported.

Crowds of fun-making youngsters gathered around
me when I began to barter for fruit or curios. They
followed me up, curious to see the man who had started
around the world without a cent. At one spot they
were grouped so symmetrically I snapped them, as they
unconsciously formed a human frame or background
around one little, angel-faced baby boy still in his loose
wrapper. He looked like a model of the child Jesus,
for an Italian, and I couldn't help
squeezing him a little and smiling into
his intelligent, quizzing eyes.

On going out from the hotel I no-
ticed a face in the crowd on the other
corner, looking at me. It was a strik-
ing face, the face of a man sleuth,
long, lean, with big, long nose and pro-
truding cheek bones, deep set eyes and
wide forehead. The skin was so white
it was of a yellow cast. When my
eyes were turned to this face a second
time, it shrank from my piercing eye,
as if its motive was of evil intention.
He at once changed his position, start-
ed as if to hurry away, then stopped
suddenly, turned around and took ex-
actly the same attitude as before, look-
ing through and over the hundreds of
moving people, at me. It was not a
spy's furtive face, nor the studied neg-
ligence of a detective, yet it was a
face that I knew would follow me
wherever I went. I had ample time
to study the public buildings and see the parks
of which the city boasted one back from the
wharf some miles. I had gone into one of the shops
and was coming out of the side door, feeling sure
that I had escaped my white-faced friend. No, I
had not. There he w'as, peering around the corner
like a ghost, with more animation than before, but
still with undecided mien as before. I appeared not
to notice the face, and walked leisurely away, going
down a side street that ran by the sea. When I got
out of his view I ran for several blocks, hoping to
escape him, for by this time my mind was excited
about him. Along the sea ran for about a block a
succession of boat or freight houses. Still out of
sight of any one pursuing, I ran until I was too wami
to run farther, changed my course and sought a small,
shady park aside from the business portion of the city

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

that I could see by the trees appearing over the houses.
Street cars were running, electric I think, for I was too
excited to notice and too dim is my memory of what
I saw as I now write.

I reached the little park in due time, had taken a
seat on a long rattan bench and was rejoicing that the
queer man had been left behind.

There was a slight rustle in the lower foliage of a
small but exuberant fig tree just in front of me. My
flesh " crept " over me as I watched to see whether it
was one of the pet dogs running about that belonged

to some picnic parties not far away. Soon I saw the
clothing of a man. Then the face, a whjte face, the
face of this same man, with long, black hair, the same
face I had seen at my hotel door, came out of the
leaves, and focused its big black, but deep set eyes
on me.

I sprang from my seat and rushed from the grove,
making my way as best I could towards the fine park
that lay back in the direction of Mt. Etna.

AU Rights Reserved.

BORN IN EIGHTEEN HUNDRED

NINE

JOHN W. WAYLAND

At the beginning of this new year, 1909, we are
reminded that it marks the centenary of many famous
men. The tercentenary of the great poet, John Mil-
ton, celebrated on the 9th of December, serves as a
fitting prelude to that series of celebrations that ex-
tend throughout the succeeding twelve months.

The year 1809 is probably without a parallel in the
history of the world in the number of famous men and
women that were born in it ; and now as we pause
in this great centennial year it may be worth while
to put down in a sort of catalogue the names of the
more prominent of those who may be justly remem-
bered, if not celebrated.

The list of literary figures is the most conspicuous
and remarkable, and may first have our attention.

Famous Authors Born in 1809.

John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895 .—A Scottish
philologist. Born in Glasgow; educated at Aberdeen,
Edinburgh, Gottingen, and Berlin. Translated
Goethe's Faust, the dramas of ^schylus, and Homer's
Iliad. Was a professor in the universities of Aber-
deen and Edinburgh; was an educational reformer;
and wrote numerous original works on language and
literature.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861).— Accord-
ing to some authorities Mrs. Browning was born in
1806. Her birthplace was near the city of Durham,
England. At the age of eleven she composed an
epic poem, "The Battle of Marathon." an echo of
Pope's Iliad. Her marriage with the poet Robert
Browning took place in 1846. After 1849 their home
was in Florence, Italy, where she died. By many
persons Mrs. Browning is regarded as the greatest
woman poet of England.

Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke (1809-1898).— An

English Shakespearean scholar and author. She was
a pupil and an associate of Mary Lamb. Among her
half-dozen or more books, her great work is her con-
cordance to Shakespeare.

Edward Fitzgerald ( 1809-1883).— An English poet
of Irish ancestry, bom in Suffolk County. He was
educated at Trinity College, Cambridge ; and was an
intimate friend of Spedding, Thackeray, Tennyson,
and other distinguished men. His most famous works
are translations from the Persian.

Giuseppe Giusti (1809-1850).— One of the most
celebrated of the modern poets and satirists of Italy.
Was educated at Pistoja, Lucca, and Pisa. After
trying the law and serving at Florence as Minister
of Justice, he entered the field of literature. His
writings exercised a positive and telling influence in
the struggle of his country for unity and freedom.

Nikolai Vassilyevitch Gogol (1809-1852).— One of
the greatest of Russian writers. He was born in the
Government of Poltava, of Cossack ancestry. From
1830 to 1832 he was a clerk in the Department of
Appanages at St. Petersburg, and within the interval
published a volume of home-life sketches. His works,
which include Mirgorod, Arabesques, the comedy Rc-
visor, and Dead Souls, deal in a masterful way with
the social, political, and economic problems of Rus-
sia.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) of Massachu-
setts, the author of " The Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table," " Elsie A^enner," " Old Ironsides," and " The
Chambered Nautilus," is too well known to need in-
troduction.

Joseph Holt Ingraham (1809-1860).— An Amer-
ican novelist, borne in Maine, a graduate of Bowdoirt
College, and a teacher and preacher in Mississippi
during the latter period of his life. He is probably

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

the author of more published works than any other
American writer. His most famous books are " The
Prince of the House of David," " The Pillar of Fire,"
and " The Throne of David."

Alexander WilHam Kinglake (1809-1891).— An
English historian, bora at Taunton, Somersetshire.
He was a friend and college mate of Thackeray and
Tennyson. His chief work is a history of the Crimean
War, in eight volumes. From 1857 to 1868 he was a
member of Parliament, representing Bridgewater.

Robert Shelton Mackenzie (1809-1880).— An Irish-
American journalist and writer of miscellaneous
pieces.

Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron Houghton ( 1809-
1885). — An English poet and politician, born in Lon-
don. At Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a mem-
ber of the famous " Apostles' Club," which included
at the same time Tennyson and Arthur Henry Hal-
lam. In Parliament he labored for public education,
religious equality, copyright laws, and the establish-
ment of reformatories for juvenile offenders. He
traveled in the East, in Canada, and in the United
States.

Frederik Paludan-Muller (1809-1876).— A Danish
poet, educated for the law at Copenhagen. He wrote
dramas and romances, and was skilled in both verse
and prose; but his most important work is Adam
Homo, a novel in verse.

Albert Pike (1809-1891).— An American author,
editor, lawyer and soldier, born in Boston, but for
the most part a resident of the South. He served in
the Mexican War, and rose to the rank of brigadier-
general in the Southern Confederacy. He wrote prose
and poetry, his " Hymns to the Gods " being the
best known of his work in the latter form.

Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849.— An American poet,
editor, literary critic, and writer of short stories ; one
of the leading figures in American literature. He was
a student at the University of Virginia in 1826, dur-
ing the second session of that institution, where he
won honors in his classes, and whence he was not
expelled, as some have supposed. At this time his
home was with the Allan family in Richmond, Vir-
ginia, though Boston was his birthplace. " The
Raven " is his most famous poem, though " Israfel "
and others are probably better. Among his stories,
"The Gold Bug" and "The Fall of the House of
Usher " are familiar. He died in Baltimore.

Juliusz Slowacki (1809-1849).— An eminent Polish
author, born at Kremenez. He wrote poems, dramas,
etc. ; and because of the morbid and misanthropic
nature of his work he has been called the " Satan of
Literature:"

Alfred (Lord) Tennyson (1809-1892), born at
Somersby, in Lincolnshire, August 6, 1809, died at
Aldworth, in Surrey, on the 6th of October, 1892.
He is one of the greatest and most popular of English

poets. His In Memoriam, by many regarded as his
greatest poem, was written on the death of Arthur
Henry Hallam. " Enoch Arden " and many of his
shorter pieces are old familiar friends to every gen-
eral reader.

A Famous Scientist.
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882).— Generally
regarded as the greatest English naturalist of the
nineteenth century. His name is linked with the
modern theory of evolution, which has been much
misunderstood and often misapplied. A wonderful
and far-reaching system, it has been reduced by some
to an absurdity, in the effort to apply it to everything,
or to explain everything by it. Darwin was born
at Shrewsbury, on the 12th of February, 1809; his
death occurred on the 19th of April, 1882.

Four Famous Statesmen.

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898).— England's
" Grand Old Man," perhaps the greatest statesman of
modern times, was born in Liverpool and educated
at Eton and Oxford. If he had not won distinction
in Parliament, and as Prime Minister of the realm, he
would still have had a title to fame by reason of his
versatile scholarship and his prolific authorship. He
stood for morality and liberality in life and in govern-
ment. His bills in Parliament worked far-reaching
and beneficial reforms.

Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891).— An American po-
litical leader, and Vice-President of the United States
from 1861 to 1865. He was a native of Maine; was
a member of the State legislature, member of Con-
gress, U. S. Senator, Governor of Maine, and Minis-
ter to Spain.

Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (1809-1887).— A
native of Essex County, Virginia, and a contempo-
rary of Edgar Allan Poe at the University of Virginia.
Having served in the State legislature, he was elected
to Congress, and became Speaker of the House at
the age of thirty. He was later Senator of the United
States and of the Confederate States, and served
awhile under the latter government as Secretary of
State.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865).— The sixteenth
President of the United States; and the most famous
public man of his generation. He was born in Hardin
County, Kentucky, on Darwin's birthday, February 12,
1809, and died in Washington City, April 15, 1865.
He was the first " martyr President."

Two Fjimous Musicians.

Frederic Frangois Chopin (1809-1849). — A native
of Poland, born on the anniversary of Washington's
birthday, the son of a French father and a Polish
mother. He is regarded by many persons as the
greatest modern master of pianoforte composition.

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847).— A
great German pianist and composer, born at Hamburg,

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

February 3. His compositions include overtures, sym-
phonies, and oratorios. Among the last are Saint Paul
and Elijah.

There are doubtless other noted personages whose
centenaries fall within tliis year ; but this is not in-
tended to be exhaustive. Enough names have been
given, however, to prove that 1809 was a remarkable
birtli-year. and to suggest an interesting study to
students of history and literature.

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ALPHABET OF AMERICAN AUTHORS.

G. FEGLEV.
XXIV. E. D. Yeomans.

Edw.\ed Dorr Yeom.\ns was the son of Rev. John
W. Yeomans, and was born in 1829 at North Adams,
Mass., where his father was pastor of the Presbyte-
rian church. He was educated mostly by his father,
who was from 1841 to 1844 President of La Fayette
College at Easton, Pa., where lie graduated before
he was fifteen years old.

He studied for the ministry, and preaclied from
1854 to 1858 in the Warrior Run church, Pa. : from
1858 to 1863 in the Fourtli church at Trenton, N. J.:
from 1863 to 1867 in St. Peter's churcli at Buffalo.
N. Y. ; and in Orange, N. J., from 1867 to his death
in 1868.

He was an accomplished scholar and of more than
ordinary proficiency in Latin, Hebrew, Greek and
German, and was especially skillful in translations;
his translations from the German having all the " ear- ,
marks " of the original. He translated Schaff's
" History of the Apostolic Church," Schaff's " His-
tory of the Christian Church," Schaff's " Lectures on
America," and at his death was working on Lange's
bulky " Commentary of St. John." Princeton College
gave him the honorary degrees of A. M. and D. D.

Worthy of mention: J. W. Yeomans, religious;
Edward Young, poetry.

Bryan, Ohio.

ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN.

Remember, son, that the world is older than you
are, by_ several years ; that for thousands of years it
has been so full of smarter and better young men than
yourself that their feet stuck out of the dormer win-
dows ; that when they died the old globe went whirling
on, and not one man in ten million went to the funeral,
or even heard of the death.

Be as smart as you can, of course. Know as much
as you can, without blowing ident does not get around to look
up every good cause and give it a helping hand,
there will, in many cases, be those who will look them
up for him and call his attention to them. In fact,
it is no doubt through this method that he has come
to give attention to so many things that have hereto-
fore not been looked upon as belonging to the Presi-
dent's duties. However, his attitude first opened the
way and made it easy for the advocates of a worthy
cause to approach him.

One of the latest of these worthy causes to be
brought to the attention of the President is that of
the various charity associations interested in the wel-
fare of dependent children. The President has taken
hold of the subject with his characteristic energy and
has sent a letter to about one hundred prominent
men, inviting them to a conference in Washington to
formulate a plan for his consideration, with a view
to recommend congressional legislation.

Here is the President's letter:

" I am confident that you will be impressed with
the very great importance of the subject touched in
this letter and the desirability that there should be the
fullest discussion of the propositions, a memorandum
of which I inclose. Surely nothing ought to interest
our people more than the care of the children who are
destitute and neglected but not delinquent. Person-
ally. I very earnestly believe that the best way in
which to care for dependent children is in tlie family
home. In Massachusetts many orphan asylums have
been discontinued, and thousands of the children who
formerly have gone to the orphan asylums are now
kept in private homes, either on board with payment
from public or private treasuries or in adopted
homes provided by the generosity of foster parents.
Many religious bodies have within the past ten years
organized effective child-placing agencies. I am ac-
cordingly inviting a number of men and women to a

conference to be held in Washington Jan. 25 and 26.
The conference will open by my receiving the mem-
bers at the White House Jan. 25 at 2 :30 P. M. Can
you attend ? Will you please communicate with
James E. West, 1343 Clifton street. N. W., Washing-
ton, D. C?"

Of equal interest to our readers, we are sure, will
be the letter of the charity workers which stirred the
President to action. The letter ran as follows:

" The State has dealt generously with her trouble-
some children; but what is she doing for those who
make no trouble, but are simply unfortunate?

" Destitute children certainly deserve as much con-
sideration and help as those who, by reason of some
alleged delinquency, enforce the attention of the State
and become objects of its care; but only a few States
have defined responsibility for this class of children.
Their care and protection is left in many localities
to the fidelity of voluntary agencies without requir-
ing proper standards of method or efficiency and with-
out definite responsibility to the State or the commu-
nity. According to a special bulletin of the United
.States census there were in orphan asylums and kin-
dred institutions on Dec. 31, 1904, not less than 99,901
children. In addition to these there were probably
some 50,000 dependent children in family homes,
under supervision.

" In many States, however, little or no child-sav-
ing work is done, and in many States the organiza-
tions are greatly handicapped by the lack of apprecia-
tion and of adequate financial support.

" It is of the highest importance to the welfare of
this vast number of future citizens that all child-sav-
ing work shall be conducted on a high plane of effi-
ciency ; that in the placing of children in families the
utmost care shall be taken to exclude all undesirable
applicants, that every precaution shall be taken in the
subsequent supervision of the cliildren to prevent
neglect, overwork, insufficient education or inadequate
moral and religious training, and that institutions
shall be so carried on as to secure the best physical,
mental, moral and religious training of each individual
child, and to fit it for active and creditable citizen-
ship."

Judge Lindsey, of the Denver, Colo., Juvenile
Court; Jacob Riis, of New York City, Booker T.
Washington, of Tuskegee Institute, and United States
Commissioner of Education Brown are among those
invited to the conference.

It will be clear to all noble-hearted, thinking people
that the President is right when he says " The best way
to care for dependent children is in tlie family home."
But the granting of this statement as the truth does
not insure the solution of tlie problem. There is still
murli left for this conference to do. And after the
conference and Congress have done all in their power
there will still be something left for those to do who

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

have established the family home with all its blessed
influences.

May much good come from the noble work so well
begun, and may all who should be concerned in the
work discharge their duty as willingly and as well as
those who have begun it.

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WITH OUR READERS.

I.\ our efforts to secure writers for our magazine
for this year we consider ourselves especially for-
tunate. Not only have we a list of names that prom-
ises much interesting and valuable reading matter,
but the willingness with which these writers have
agreed to do the work is bound to give an added
value to their articles in particular and to the whole
magazine in general. These writers belong to our
family and they therefore write from a broader mo-
tive than that of the average magazine writer.

In the home department during the year there will
be at least one medical talk each month. In the past
a good many of us have had a wrong idea of the
physician's work. His chief aim is not to make peo-
ple well, but to keep them well, and in these medical
talks we believe the people will see that this is true.
Dr. J. F. Studebaker, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, will write
on the following subjects: "Where Do You Live?"
" When the Shadows Are Long," " My Nerves," and
" American Dyspepsia." Dr. O. G. Brubaker, of Mt.
Morris, 111., will discuss The Great White Plague or
Tuberculosis (two articles). Rebellion of Cells and
Tissues in the Body or Cancer, and The Use and
Abuse of Patent Medicines. Dr. O. H. Yereman, as-
sociate editor of The Clinic (Eye. Ear, Nose and
Throat), and occupying a chair of clinical teaching
in the University Medical College of Kansas City.
Mo., will write on the diseases and care of the eye-
sight, hearing and voice. Other topics, coming with-
in the range of this department will be discussed by
writers who are well known among us.

In the miscellaneous department there will be a
wide range of subjects treated. Special articles have
been promised along the line of biography and his-
tor\-. John W. Wayland. professor of history in
the L'niversity of \^irginia, will, at an early date,
furnish us with a write-up of Poe, specializing his
life at that university. Then there will be three or
four articles on prison life, a series on various phases
of seacoast life and conditions, and now and then a
story and an article from foreign lands, besides those
that will apjiear every week in the series, " Around
the World Without a Cent." " .A.mong the Sierras "
and " The Big Trees " will give us an idea of some of
the things that nature has done for California.

Three able writers will furnish articles regularly
for the nature department. We hope to make arrange-
ments with others. Every reader who is a lover of

nature is urged to send us accounts of the unusual
or remarkable occurrences that have come under his
observation in the plant, animal, or insect world.

A number of ministers of the Church of the Breth-
ren .have promised to write for the Quiet Hour de-
partment and a contributed article will appear in those
pages every week.

Dear reader, is this not a foretaste of a veritable
■ feast of good things ? In giving a hint of what this
year's Inglenook is to contain, the editor has not
indulged in any dreams. We have the word of the
contributor for every article mentioned. And
this is not all. We are sure that some of the things
that are yet in the dream state will become realities,
for some of our arrangements are not completed
yet, owing to the late date at which we began them.
But we are persuaded that the above outline will
appeal strongly to our readers, — so strongly, we hope,
that they will convince others that they should have
a share in the good things.

THE PARCELS POST.

At present we seem to be about as far from realiz-
ing the benefit of a parcels post as at any time
since the subject has been before the people. It was
once said in Congress that there are six great reasons
why the parcels post should not be established by the
government, namely the Adams Express Company, the
.American, Pacific, Southern, United States, and Wells-
Fargo. Evidently the reasons are powerful ones —
insurmountable, it would seem, from the fact that the
will of the people has not been able to remove them.
Just what this power consists in only these giant com-
panies and perhaps a few law-makers know.

Last year the express companies registered total
receipts of $128,117,176. Every postmaster-general,
from the time of John Wanamaker, has tried to get
Congress to accept the unanswerable argument in
favor of the parcels post. The foreign service, which
is now an established fact, is giving perfect satisfac-
tion. " There can be no possible defense of a policy
under which a package can be sent from Philadelphia
to London cheaper than from Philadelphia to New
York."

It is clear that the people of the Ignited States have
not yet taken hold of this subject by the right handle.
We need a man with the conviction and the persever-
ance of a Charles E. Hughes to see that our welfare-
is considered and our wishes carried out.
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" Only melted gold is minted ; only moistened clay
is molded; only softened wax receives the die; only
broken and contrite hearts can take and keep the im-
press of heaven. If that is thy condition, wait beneath
th° pressure of the Holy Spirit. He shall leave the
image of Jesus upon thee."

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

The Home World

FOODS FOR THE SICK

LENNA F. COOPER

That the diet of an invalid is oftentimes of more
importance than medicine or treatment, is recognized
by all physicians and nurses. Many a typhoid patient
has lost his life not because of the neglect of the physi-
cian or the nurse, but through the carelessness of the
cook.

A family in which t)"phoid fever was running once
came under the writer's notice. Two stalwart young
men were literally killed by their mother, one having
been given fresh apples and the other cornmeal gruel
from which the cornmeal had not been strained. As
the result both young men were dead in three or
four hours after having partaken of these viands.
This illustrates the importance of careful prepara-
tion of foods for the sick.

Sickness usually resolves itself into one of two
forms, acute or chronic. Acute illnesses are of com-
paratively short duration, and are characterized by a
I ise of temperature usually known as fever. This con-
dition is brought about by poisons in the body of which
nature is trying to rid itself by burning them up, thus
producing the increased bodily temperature. At such
a time the digestive organs, as well as the other fiuic-
tions of the body are somewhat disturbed, hence it is
apparent that the digestive organs should not be given
any more work to do than absolutely necessary ; also
that the food should be given in very small quantities
since it is from our food that heat is derived.

The one thing needful is water in copious amounts.
Water acts as a solvent and therefore helps to dissolve
and to wash away some of the poisons that have
accumulated in the body. Hence water and beverages
should be given freely, indeed, only liquid foods should
be given. The liquid foods are in a fine state of division,
and thus are more easily digested. Fruit juices, pref-
erably unsweetened, are one of the best things to
give a person suffering from high temperature, since
almost the only food principle found in the fruit
juices is sugar, and that in a form all ready for as-

similation, hence the fruit juices require no diges-
tion and are especially appetizing, which is a very im-
portant feature in the invalid's diet.

It is now a well-known fact that the appetite calls
forth the digestive fluids which are necessary for the
digestion of foods. Foods taken into the stomach
when there is no desire for food remains in the stom-
ach a much longer time than when there is an appetite
for the article. The appetite may be appealed to
through the three senses of sight, smell, and
taste, hence it is important that all foods served to an
invalid should be especially attractive in appearance,
toothsome to the taste, and, if possible, give oS a
pleasant aroma. For this reason all hot food should
be served very hot, since soups, broths, etc., give off
an aroma when hot, thus appealing to the appetite
through the sense of smell.

Food should never be served in large amounts to
sick people. Small quantities may be served much
more daintily, and in this way they appeal to the ap-
petite through the sense of sight. No pains should
be spared to make the tray and the foods of the sick
one dainty. The best linen and china the house af-
fords are none too good for the invalid.

Aside from being palatable and appetizing, the
foods must be thoroughly cooked. It is especially im-
portant that all starchy foods should be well cooked.
Gruels should be made from cereals which have been
cooked several hours if made from the whole grain,
rice being an exception. Rice cooks much more
quickly than most cereals. All gruels should be
strained before serving, allowing no coarse particles
to be served. Thirty minutes is usually sufficient for
cooking rice for gruel. What is still better than gruels
made from cereals, as ordinarily cooked, is a gruel
made from the so-called dextrinized cereals which
have been thoroughly cooked in the manufacturing
process, such as " Toasted Corn Flakes " and other
cooked flake products on the market; since the cook-

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

ing of the starch is a step in the digestion of the
article, it is important that the cooking should be
very thorough. There are five steps in the digestion
of the starch, and it is possible to accomplish three of
these by cooking, providing the cooking is done at a
very high temperature. This is accomplished in the
baking of starchy foods which have lost most of their
moisture. Bread may be dextrinized by placing slices
of stale bread in a moderate oven, first drying it out
by slow cooking and then increasing the temperature
until the bread becomes a golden yellow througliout.
Toast thus prepared is more easily digested than fresh
toast which is only slightly toasted on the outside.

While it is very important that only appetizing
foods should be given the patient, it is also important
that their food should not contain substances whicli
would only add fuel to the fire. Many are in the
habit of feeding the invalid meat, broth, beef tea, etc.
While these may be somewhat of an appetizer to some
people, they also contain waste products of the animal
organism from which the broth was made which are
indentical with those which the body is trying to burn
up. Hence if these things are given at all, they should
only be given occasionally as a mere appetizer, but
should not be counted upon as a food. They contain
practically no food value. Very delicious broths may
be made from the various vegetables and legumes.

When the patient begins to convalesce the diet
should be as carefully guarded as during the acute
illness. There is more danger from over eating dur-
ing this period than during the previous stage. The
body is in a greatly reduced state due to the self-
consummation during the fever. The loss of bodily
tissue must be supplied through the foods, but it must
also be supplied in very small quantities for the organs
of digestion and assimilation are in a very weakened
condition. Hence the body can only take care of
very small quantities at a titne. Such patients are
usually fed every three hours — not oftener than two
and a half hours. Eggnogs, soft-cooked eggs,
thoroughly-toasted bread, boiled rice, and other simi-
lar foods may be added to the dietary of the convales-
cent as the case may indicate.

The chronic illnesses are usually ■ designated as
some special disease; such as, diabetes, Bright's dis-
ease, tuberculosis, etc. The attending physician
should carefully outline the diet for such cases.
Orange Juice.

Extract the juice of an orange the same way as
that of a lemon, preferably using the lemon drill.
Strain before serving.

Rice Water.

3 tbsp. rice. 1 qt, boiling water.

'/2 tsp. salt.

Wash the grain by holding under a hot water faucet
for a moment or so, then rinse in several cold waters,
boil thirty minutes and then strain.

Barley water may be made in the same way ex-
cept that two tbsp. of barley are used and the cook-
ing must be much longer.

Corn Flake Gruel.

1 cup toasted corn flakes. 2 cups water.

14 tsp. salt.
Heat the water to boiling, add the salt and corn
flakes to the'water. Cook until smooth and strain.
Corn Meal Gruel.

2 tbsp. corn meal. 14 cup boiling water.

Yi cup cold water. y^ tsp. salt.

Moisten the corn meal and salt with the cold water
and add to the boiling water, stirring meanwhile.
Cook until well thickened over the flame, stirring to
keep it perfectly smooth, then set in a double boiler
and cook for 4 hours. Strain before serving.

Baked Potato Soup.

1 medium-sized baked potato. Yz cup hot water.

^4 cup cream. J4 tsp. salt.

Put the baked potato through the colander and add
the hot water slowly. Next add the cream and salt,
and heat. Serve. This soup may be made without
cream by substituting water and adding l-J/^ tsp. but-
ter, also a little celery salt for seasoning.

Bran Broth.

1 cup white beans. 1 qt. cold water.

Put the beans to cook in the cold water and let
simmer until but one cup of the liquid remains. Drain
this from the beans, season with salt, celery salt, and
butter, or if desired with cream.

Foamy Eggnog.

1 egg. 2 tsp. sugar.

1 tbsp. lemon juice. 2 tbsp. cream.

Beat the tgg yolk until light, add Yz of the sugar
and lemon juice, also the cream. Beat the t^^ white
until stiff and add the remaining half of the sugar.
Fold the white into the egg yolk mixture leaving a
small portion for the top.

Soft Cooked or Jellied Egg.
1 egg. 1'/^ pts. boiling water.

Have a porcelain pitcher hot, place the ^g% therein,
and pour over it the boiling water. Cover and let
stand on the back of range 5 to 10 minutes. Serve
in a hot tgg cup.

MAKING RUGS IN WINTER.

One woman last winter made the beautiful rugs
that adorned her porch in the summer. They were all
made of woolen goods cut from old dresses and since
the goods was all light, with delicate shades mingled
throughout the material, the rugs were unusually at-
tractive. Burlap was tightly stretched in a wooden
frame and the material, which was cut in convenient
strips, was drawn through the burlap with an iron
crochet hook made by the blacksmith. In having the
needle made for this purpose, explain to the black-
smith that it should be sliort and half-covered with a

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

wooden handle. This is more convenient than the ordi-
nary all-iron hook. To get the general scheme of a
rug, one can put the burlap upon the floor and mark
off tlie 'design with colored spermaceti crayons (ten
cents a box). This gives the outline and one can pro-
vide a pretty border for each rug. Woolen rugs are
prettiest, especially when clipped. Very light material
can be used, however. One will be delighted with an
all-brown rug, witli a slightly mottled border of dark
red. These are colors often found among old gar-
ments and a rug of the two colors can be
made almost as beautiful as some of the pur-
chased ones. There are rugs made entirely of
fringed burlap. The burlap is first dyed and
cut into convenient strips, usually about four inches
wide. Each side is fringed and the strip is sewn
through the center to a second piece of burlap, thus
furnishing the rug foundation. The next strip is
placed close to it. If dyed a deep green it makes a
mossy-looking rug which is very ornamental. Despite
the fringe effect over the entire surface, such rugs are
durable and can be beaten and cleaned the same as
any rug. — The Woman's National Daily.

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THE BATTLEFIELD.
.\ mother's heart is a battlefield,

A mother's heart is a nest
Where love leans down with snowy shield

And lips that sing to rest.
A mother's heart is the plain where meet

Through all her days of life
The legions of the childhood feet.

The glittering ghosts of strife.

A mother's heart is a field of war

Where none may know, may see,
The wounds that bleed, the guns that roar.

The anguished hours that be.
A mother's heart is battle's home,

But, oh, so few have knelt
With her where shadows fill the gloam,

Have felt what she has felt!

A mother's heart is warfare's realm.

In it, unseen of time.
Rage the grim wars that overwhelm

But for her faith sublime.
A mother's heart is where she hides

So much she never tells.
So much that in her soul abides

And conquering lovehood quells.

A mother's heart — oh, sacred place,

Oh, templed fane, how fair
To kneel beside its shrine of grace.

To kneel and worship there.
A mother's heart is calm retreat.

Is rest and love and song.
And round it, oh, how tender-sweet

The shades of memory throng!

A mother's heart has seen so much,
Has felt and borne and known

The rugged blow, the tender touch.
Within its wandering zone;

Has borne so much for those that lean

Upon its help and trust.
Has done so much to keep them clean.

To lift them from the dust!

-A. mother's heart is a battlefield

Where sacred strife has been.
Where spear on spear and shield on shield

Hath raged the battle's din!
O holy shrine, inviolate spot.

Where love and memory come
When all the rest of life's forgot.
When all the rest is dumb!

— Baltimore Sun.
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HOW HE TABULATED HER RELIGION.
A NOTED evangelist was holding a series of meet-
ings with the Grand Avenue church, and one even-
ing when the topic had been the new birth, I\Irs.
Fessenden said to her husband as they walked briskly
down the lighted street in the bracing air of the
frosty night : " I wish you had decided for Christ to-
night, dear ; I thought you would, the speaker made
it so plain and so many responded to the invitation."
" Would my rising to my feet there have made any
difference with me in any way ? "

" It would have put you and your influence decid'ed-
ly on the side of right."

" But is not my influence already on the right side ? "
he interrupted. " What do I do that you do not do?
You are a professing Christian and I am not."

" You remember the illustration that he gave," she
interrupted now. " The moralist and the Christian
are on the same street, but one is headed toward the
kingdom of God and the Other in an opposite direc-
tion."

" Yes, but I am not able to see why you and I are
not headed the same way. I will try to state the
matter more clearly to you later. Here we are now
at home."

Presently, as they sait before the library grate with
a bit of hot supper on the round table between them,
he recurred to the matter as she poured the chocolate
and laughed a little as she began reading the some-
what lengthy statement that he submitted for her in-
spection.

" How fearfully business-like it looks," she said.
" I do not use tobacco in any way. You do not.
" I do not use profane language. Neither do you.
" I am a teetotaler. So are you.
" I go to the theater. You go to the theater.
" I play cards. You play cards.
" I attend church irregularly. You do the same.
" I pay something for religious purposes. So do
you.

" I dance. You dance.

" I associate with unbelievers. You do the same.
" I read trashy novels. You read trashv novels.
" I do not attend devotional meetings. You do
not.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

" I do not read the Bible. Do you read the Bible?

" I do not pray. Do you pray?

" Now what does your church membership add
to your manner of living? Why are our ways dif-
ferent ? "

The young woman began reading the list with a
laugh, but ended in tears.

" O my dear ! " he cried. " I had no intention of
paining you ! I am sorry."

■' I am not sorry. I thank you. You make me see
how far wrong I have gone in my endeavor to show
you that religion need not make one stupid and
poky. It is not strange that you hesitate to take your
stand as a Christian, when you see how inconsistent
I am to my profession of having been born to new-
ness of life."

Again their lives flowed onward side by side. She
was not less bright, sweet or companionable, but when
the card clubs and the dancing clubs organized she
did not join. She did join the mission workers'
band, and was faithful in attendance. She no longer
went to the theater, and every time she declined
her husband put the expense for both, saved, into her
mission box. She no longer read her Bible in secret.
She took up work in the Sunday school. Her time
was not more taken than before, but she was different-
ly employed.

Soon the gay, thoughtless people with whom she
had associated were no longer in sympathy. " What
has become of Mrs. Fessenden?" was asked, and
the reply came scornfully, " Oh, she's running her
church now! Can't imagine what has come over her.
She has always been a church member, but slie was
real decent about it. Did everything the rest of us
did, and she didn't preach. She is really a bright,
sweet woman, but now she has always some church
engagement to attend to when we need her to make
up our parties, and she does not hesitate to say, ' I
have too long been regardless of the admonition, " Seek
first the kingdom of God." ' "

"And her husband?"

" Oh, he is loyal to her ! He is a real lover. He
goes wherever she goes ; but the poor man must be
having a dull time of it."

Mr. Fessenden meantime did not consider himself
an object for commiseration. If his wife's new de-
parture was an experiment he found it an interesting
one. He found his new environment more refined,
more intellectual, more congenial than the old. for
earnestness took the place of frivolity, and he found
himself awakening to a knowledge of a spiritual life.

When at length he made his decision he said : " I
have at last through the influence of my wife found
that the true meaning and purpose of life is to follow
Christ and to do the work in the world that he left
for his followers." And the happy wife often says :

" How near I came to making a fatal mistake. I
tell my experiences that it may be a warning and
a lesson for others. Do not sink to the level of the
world. Bring the world up to a knowledge of Christ."
— Oklahoma Baptist Journal.

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FUNGUS PINCUSHIONS.

JOHN S. FERNALD.

The crescent-shaped fungi that grow around the
base of the elm trees near the roots, have for some
time been used ornamentally as groundwork for
landscape and other paintings. They may also be
used in a practical way as pincushions. When
thoroughly dry they are excellent for this purpose,
being soft enough to stick pin or needles into easily,
yet firm enough to hold them securely. The fungus
does not break away with use, but the holes close up
after the pins are withdrawn. Needles do not rust
in a fungus cushion, nor can they work inside and
become lost as in the common kind. Hung on a wall
by a bright-colored ribbon, these cushions are both
useful and ornamental.

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FILLERS FOR THE LUNCH BASKET.

It is hard to keep up a constant supply of cookies
for the children's lunch boxes and yet have a variety.
The following are good and perhaps new to many of
our cooky makers :

Chocolate Wafers. — Grate a cup of chocolate and
set the cup into hot, not boiling, water to melt. Mi.x
together one cup of brown sugar, one cup of white
sugar (granulated or powdered) and one cup of butter.
When creamy, add one beaten egg and then the melted
chocolate, stirring briskly. Finally add two cups of
flour and one teaspoon of vanilla, mix- lightly, roll
thin and bake in a quick oven.

Fntit Cookies. — Seed and chop finely one cup of
raisins. Flour these and set them aside. Beat to-
gether one and one-half cups of brown sugar and
one cup of shortening, butter and lard mixed. When
creamy, add one beaten egg, four tablespoons of sweet
milk, one teaspoon of baking soda and enough flour
to make a stifY batter. Add here your floured raisins
with nutmeg (grated), cinnamon and ground cloves
to taste. Add enough more flour to make a stiff
dough, roll rather thin and bake in a quick oven.

Lciuon Cookies. — Cream thoroughly half a pound
of butter and half a pound of granulated sugar. Add
two eggs beaten light, three-fourths of a pound of
flour, the grated rind of one small lemon and the
juice of two. Roll out thin and cut into disks or
circles, sprinkle thickly with coarse powdered sugar,
and bake in a quick oven. These should be pale-
yellow, not brown. — Selected.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

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THE BIBLE CLASS IN HEAVEN

IR.\ P. DEAN.

I took my blessed Bible, for I love to sit and read
And hunt the sacred Scriptures, which every day I need.
I opened to a passage, which I couldn't understand,
So I sought and prayed for guidance from my heavenly

Father's hand.
I sat and deeply studied; I read it o'er and o'er,
Till it seemed that I was standing at heaven's very door.
Again I prayed to Father that the help I need be given,
And the answer came that instant, from the Bible Class

in Heaven.

I know my blessed Father has somewhere in his Book
Recorded some sweet promise, for which he knew I'd

look.
Then when my heart is heavy with the dust of daily care,
. I open up my Bible and find the blessing there.
And when I sit and ponder and study o'er it all.
The blessings seem reserved for me, I get them when

I call.
And when my life grows darkened and my soul seems

thunder-riven
There comes another promise from the Bible Class in

Heaven.

The Devil often tempts me; he's my soul's eternal foe;
But my blessed Savior holds me and he'll never let me go.
One time I disbelieved the things I couldn't understand.
But now I get my knowledge from the Wondrous Glory

Land.
And so I am so happy that all day long I sing,
And when I read the Blessed Book I never doubt a thing.
I've learned to keep my little heart unmixed with worldly

leaven.
And I get my daily lessons from the Bible Class in

Heaven.

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WHAT IS CHRIST TO ME?

RICHARD BRAUNSTEIN.

Not long ago we joined in the celebration of the
birth of Jesus, and verj' properly it was an occasion
of great rejoicing. We were reminded of the fact
that, among other names, he was recognized under
the title of Immanuel, God with us. There are few
who realize the significance of these few and simple
words.

Let us repeat in our own hearts a sentence like
this: " He who died for me and thus bore the judg-

ment and punishment of my sins was truly the Master
of Life — God." His existence did not commence at
Bethlehem. In the most simple and beautiful
language he declared that he was with the Father
from the foundation of the world. Though he took
upon himself a lowly form, he was worthy to receive
the worsliip of the angels (Luke 2 : 13, 14 ; Heb. 1:6).
Yet he was also truly Man, and this point of my ar-
gument I am about to prove. He, like us, grew up
from infancy to manhood, passing through every
pang and bitter experience, but without sin. Weigh
this carefully; for such facts as are here presented do
not take hold of us, unless we give them thought.

We can then comprehend how this meets our need.
If he were God alone you might hesitate to trust
him. It was man who had sinned, therefore it was
by man the punishment of sin must be borne. For
this reason God became man in order to save us. It
is a beautiful story. Stranger than fiction, but it is
the " terrible truth," that bears witness of its terrible
meaning and strength and purpose of existence; its
moral and awful dread with which we must hold it.
Truly, " Truth is stranger than fiction." The dream
of Jacob and his ladder which he beheld therein is
another example of the wonders of God. Jesus is the
antitype of that wondrous ladder- — the foot of it rests
on earth, comes down to your level, and the top of it
reaches into heaven. God and man are connected in
Jesus. He is the Daysman whom Job desired, and
who can lay his hand upon God and man (Job 9: 35).

Concerning the incarnation of Jesus, let us remem-
ber three important things, namely :

First : It does not alone save us. The incarnation,
without the death and the resurrection, would leave
us still dead in sin. The New Testament never
speaks of men saved because God became man, but
always because he who was God and man died for
our sins and rose again (John 12 : 24 ; 1 Cor. 15:3,4).
The body that was prepared for him was in order to
his one perfect oflFering (Heb. 10: 5, 10), by which
judgment passed upon sin.

Secondly: Remember that Jesus is a manifestation
of God. He reveals God not onlv in a few but in all

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

pliases of his life. Not only when he performed
wondrous miracles, but also when he suffered ; he
sighed and wept and groaned and the pangs of his
crucifixion poured forth the bloody sweat. Jesus
reveals not only God's power, but his tenderness,
his sympathy, liis love. How different God is from
what we have imagined ! Satan slandered God at
first by representing him as hard (Gen. 3: 3) and
he still is laboring in a, let us hope, vain endeavor, to
make us think unkindly of him, as is in evidence when
we realize the iniquities of the world. To be ac-
quainted with God truly, study the life of Jesus, — •
engage in prayer and read your Bible, for through the
first you speak to God, through the latter God speaks
to you. God also speaks to us in human tones and ex-
presses himself in human feelings and emotions in
his Son. Does not such a revelation deepen our
adoration of him, and quicken our affection for him?
Worship and love him who is " God manifest in the
flesh."

Thirdly: Remember also that Jesus is still a man.
Though he is on the throne, he retains his manhood.
It is an important fact to observe that a man is now
in heaven as our High Priest. When he hears of
your temptations, he knows what they mean, for he
" was in all points tempted like as we are yet without
sin." (Heb. 5: 15). You can never be in circum-
stances of difficulty which he cannot understand.
Make full use of him. Count as confidently upon his
sympathy as a child counts upon the sympathy of
its maternal relation.

Remember that in him human tenderness is com-
bined with divine power.

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OBEDIENCE THE SECRET OF HIGHER
KNOWLEDGE.

The apostle John says, " Hereby we do know that
we know him, if we keep his commandments. He
that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so
to walk even as he walked " ( 1 John 2: 3, 6). There
is no real knowledge of God, no communion with him,
without a straightforward, unconditional obedience to
his will. Jolm is here condemning that Gnostic teach-
ing which made godliness to consist in mere intellec-
tual enlightenment, culture and refinement. This false
idea has prevailed through the entire Christian age.
Separated from the true holiness of a regenerated
life, John says, no enlightenment counts with God.
In his teaching the apostle insists, no less than Aris-
totle, that in morals, knowledge without practice is
absolutely worthless. Mere knowledge will not do;
nor will knowledge touched by sentiment do. It is
possible to know and admire, and in a sort of way
love, and yet act as if we had not known. But John
gives no encouragement to devotion without the Christ
life. " If we say that we have fellowship with him,
and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth "

(1 John 1:6). There is only one way of proving
to ourselves and otliers that we know God, and that
is by loving obedience to his will.

Nothing can be more important to the understand-
ing of the truth as contained in the Word of God
than to practice it. " If any man will do his will,
he shall know of the doctrine" (John 7: 17). Obe-
dience to the will of God is the great origin of true
knowledge. Doing the will of God is the one condi-
tion of light. Disobedience not only brings darkness,
but is darkness. We must practice what we preach,
otherwise our vision must be dimmed, and, if the
blind lead the blind (and every one is a leader to
some one), only the ditch is before both. To be
doers of the will of God as well as learners is the
great secret of teaching God's truth to others. Then
it is that we " shall be like a tree planted by the
rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his
season ; his leaf also shall not wither ; and whatso-
ever he doeth shall prosper."

The higher the products of unregenerate man's
mind are exalted, and the more they are held in
veneration, the more effectually do they serve to op-
pose the knowledge of God. Therefore, the most im-
portant phase of our Christian warfare is spoken of as
" casting down imaginations, and every high thing
that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ" (2 Cor. 10: 5). — Christian
Monitor.

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THE DIVINE PARTNER.

The late John McDonald, the merchant prince of
Toronto, gave large sums of money to the Lord's
cause. On one occasion a firm in England with which
he had large dealings sent experts to Toronto to ex-
amine his books to see how he stood financially. On
opening those books they saw his business accounts
on one side and the Lord's accounts on the other, and
they closed the books without further examination,
feeling satisfied that a man who would deal honestly
with his Creator would deal honestly with his fellow-
man. One year Mr. McDonald saw a decrease in his
business and said to one of his friends, possibly the
reason was because he was not giving enough to
God's cause. He said: "I will give an extra ten
thousand dollars this year." This was the red letter
year in his business history ! — Exchange.

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The cross is the great center of God's moral uni-
verse ! To this center God ever pointed, and the eye
of faith ever looked forward, until the Savior came.
And now we must ever turn to that cross as the
center of all our blessing, and the basis of all our wor-
ship, both on earth and in heaven — in time and
throughout all eternity. — D. L. Moody.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

Echoes from Everywhere

The Government is in need of more American teachers
in the Philippines and is asking the colleges and uni-
versities to send them.

In Chicago, where an uphill fight to uncover primary
election frauds is being waged, there is no name of a
brewer, distiller or saloonkeeper found on the list of
those trying to protect the sacredness of the ballot.

The Chicago board of education will soon begin on
a new special mental and physical training institution
to be built upon a 240-acre tract in Riverside. It is in-
tended- to segregate children weak in body and mind.
Gymnasium features will be the most prominent.

According to the Topeka " Capital " of October 2, the
deposits of the State banks of Prohibition Kansas, after
ten months of an unusual panic year, were eighty-three
million dollars greater than ever before in the State's
history and increasing at the rate of one hundred thousand
dollars per day.

Chicago public school officials are rejoicing over the
blow aimed at fraternities by State Senator Herman
H. Breidt. The bill introduced by him at Springfield,
which makes it unlawful for a public school pupil to
join a secret organization, they say serves to strengthen
their position against secret organizations.

Mrs. Russell Sage, of New York, has given $25,000
toward the establishment of a college for colored youths
in Kentucky, to be a branch of Berea College. This
brings the fund up to $450,000 from outside sources,
leaving $50,000 to be raised in Kentucky. The college
will be modeled after the Tuskegee Institute.

A recent edict by the late emperor of China, in which
Christians and non-Christians are placed on nearly the
same footing, indicates a great change in the attitude
of the Chinese government towards Christianity. Par-
tiality on the part of officials in carrying out the laws is
to be put down, and representatives from all Western
nations are to be justly treated.

High school students in Iowa must decide between
their " frats " and their studies if a bill proposed by the
State educational commission is passed by the legisla-
ture. The commission plans to deal a death blow to
all high school secret organizations by closing the schools
to students who belong to secret societies. "Rushing"
for frats will be an even more serious offense than be-
longing to them under the proposed law. The bill pro-
vides that any person who enters any high school build-
ing or grounds for the purpose of soliciting members
for any secret society connected with the school shall
be guilty of misdemeanor.

Estimates of the total loss of life from the recent

earthquake in Italy place the number at 164,850. This

estimation is necessarily incomplete in view of the wide

region affected and the severity of the disaster. It does
not include the deaths in hospitals. Four of the United

States battle ships arrived at Naples Jan. 10 and will
aid in the rescue and relief work.

The wanton slaughter of- robins has aroused South
Carolina to such an extent that the State is to have a
new game law. A few years ago a modernized game
law was passed in Missouri, but the pot hunters and
illicit dealers raised such a roar that the game warden
was deprived, by a new law, of the power to do anything.
— Globe-Democrat.

A long step toward bringing the United States and
Germany into closer relations was taken Jan. 1, when
the two-cent postage rate between the United States
and Germany became operative. The new rate of two
cents an ounce applies to correspondence sent direct
by sea, between the two countries, and not to that which
is sent through an intermediary.

The expulsion of the Jews from Finland continues
to go forward, the decrees of expulsion being directed
against the poorer class of Hebrews. Scores of fam-
ilies in the last few weeks have been compelled to aban-
don their homes and flee from the country amid the
arctic cold. Only a few days' preparations are allowed.
No reason for the anti-Jewish crusade has been assigned
except a blind hostility to Jews as such.

Abyssinia, upon the boundary of which Swedish mis-
sionaries have been camped for many years, has at last
opened the door of entrance to Protestant mission work.
The present king, who has read the printed Gospels
distributed by the missionaries and declared them " good,"
is in favor of his people reading them, too. He has
also issued an order that all children above seven years
old shall go to school, promising to pay the salaries
of any competent teachers the missionaries supply.

The principle of the spinning top has long been talked
of as an effective means of preventing ships from roll-
ing, the idea being to place in the vessel's hold a great,
rapidly revolving flywheel, the tendency of which to
keep its equilibrum would prevent the waves from pitch-
ing the ship. Recently a gyroscope of this description
was fitted in a German vessel, and was tried on one of
its regular ocean trips. While the steamer was rolling
Id'/i degrees on each side through a total angle of 33
degrees, the gyroscope was placed in operation, and the
total angle of roll was decreased at once to 3 degrees.
As the apparatus is driven by electricity, it requires lit-
tle attention.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

The first aeroplane port, which will be for airships
what Cherbourg and Liverpool are for ocean liners, was
opened at Juvisy-sur-Orge, not far from Paris, on Jan.
10. This landing place, which has been constructed by
the Society for the Encouragement of Aerial Navigation
only with the greatest difficulty, is about one mile square.
It was necessary to clear the place of all trees and rocks
before building the special tribunes for the judges. Guil-
laume Tronchet, the government architect, has been en-
gaged to make the transformation. He has arranged
the port in the form of a circle, and there is plenty of
room for aviators to fly about without danger of being
unable to alight. Already owners of aeroplanes are trans-
porting their machines to the port.

It is reported that there will be an immediate new
trial of the case against the Standard Oil Company of
Indiana, in which the United States Supreme Court ef-
fectually knocked out the record-breaking $29,240,000 fine
imposed by Judge Landis. The case will be redocketed
before Judge Landis, but probably will be turned over,
according to a custom among federal judges, to some
other judge within the same district. Judge A. B. An-
derson, of Indianapolis, has been asked to hear the case,
but has not yet replied to the request. While District
Attorney Sims maintains that there still is opportunity
of conviction and the assessment of a fine as high as
$10,000,000, under the ruling of the Circuit Court of Ap-
peals, other federal officials and attorneys take a differ-
ent view and declare that the only remedy is the en-
actment of a new law by Congress, under which the
questions at issue can be definitely settled.

Yuan Shi Kai, the recently deposed Chinese states-
man, it will be recalled, rendered very great services to
every Christian nation during the Boxer uprising when,
by secret means, he brought about communication be-
tween foreign governments and their representatives
who were besieged in the compound at Pekin. It was
information that came from him which encouraged the
European powers to join themselves with America and
make that remarkable march of allied powers upon the
Chinese capital which resulted in the liberation of the
foreign legations. This man has been called the strong-
est man in China and he had far more influence than
the famous Li Hung Chang. Thoroughly practical in
all that he did, he adopted as his motto " China is ca-
pable of accomplishing just as much as Japan," and he
worked his countrymen up to such a point of national
patriotism that today his influence is doing much to ef-
face the Middle Age superstition and rebuild the empire.
Yuan Shi Kai organised a Chinese army which excited
the wonder of the military men of the world who knew
the conditions under which he worked; he obliterated
all caste objections to military service, so that today
sons of the nobility take a pride in wearing the army
uniform. Under his regime modern textbooks have taken
the place in the schools of the ancient classics; he brought
about the abolition of torture, turned Pekin from one of
the filthiest places in the world into a well-paved, cleanly
metropolis. Altogether he is the most progressive man in
the empire, and the Manchus have acted hastily in trump-
ing up an excuse for dismissing him.

An amendment to the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill increasing the salary of the President
to $100,000 and the salaries of the Vice President and
speaker of the House of Representatives to $20,000 was
reported favorably to the Senate by Mr. Clark of Wyom-
ing from the committee on the judiciary. The amend-
ment was then referred to the committee on appropria-
tions.

The board of education of St. Louis, Missouri, has de-
cided to pay the car fares of children who live more
than one mile from a public school. It is estimated that
the cost of such transportation will amount to from
$2,300 to $3,000 per year, but will result in a consider-
able saving through the discontinuance of small schools
by consolidation with larger and better graded schools.
Three buildings have been closed already at a gross
saving of over $3,000 annually. The fares of the children
so transferred will amount to $1,700, furnishing a net
saving of $1,300.

The Knights of Zion, now recognized as an independent
western federation in the Zionist movement, closed a
two days' convention in Chicago last week. The con-
vention determined to send four delegates to the inter-
national congress of Zionists to be held in Hamburg next
August, the delegates to be chosen later. Resolutions
were adopted, in view of the programme of the Zionist
movement, to encourage the acquirement of land in Pal-
estine by Jews, urging the organization of groups who
will seek to purchase Palestine property. Several asso-
ciations of this kind already have been formed, one in
Des Moines, Iowa, which is already negotiating for the
purchase of 600 acres in the Holy Land.

Andrew Carnegie, in an interview given to the Inter-
national Trade Bulletin, declares the time is coming when
the greater part of the raw materials now forming the
bulk of the exports of this country will instead be used
here and their place in export trade be taken by man-
ufactured articles. He adds that American manufacturers
have been so busy supplying domestic needs that they
have not been able to give the proper attention to export
trade. That they can reach the markets of the world
and compete in them with all other great industrial and
commercial nations is his firm conviction, and he ad-
vises them to look seriously in the direction of foreign
business.

In his biennial report to the 'governor of Kansas, At-
torney General Fred S. Jackson recommends three im-
portant changes in the laws governing trusts in that
State. One change provides a penalty be fixed for each
day a concern continues to do business in the State
after it is proved to be a trust. A second provision is
that the corporations with headquarters in other States,
but doing business in Kansas, must produce their officers
on demand of the attorney general. The third is that
the courts be given authority to determine whether a
corporation has a monopoly on a certain line of prod-
ucts, and when it is so determined a public utilities com-
mission be empowered to fix prices for the output in that
State.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

Among the Magazines

THE POSTAL DEFICIT.

Although Postmaster-General Meyer's report for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, records the heaviest
deficit in the history of the Postoffice Department, the
press show a tendency to dwell upon the department's
increased efficiency rather than upon the growing gap
between its income and its expenditure. Last year the
deficit was $7,000,000. This year it is $16,873,222.
" Eventually," says the Baltimore American, " there is
reason to hope that the postal business may be brought
to a self-sustaining basis." In spite of the deficit the
Boston Herald finds the showing of the department en-
couraging. The Chicago Daily Socialist, surmising that
the deficit " will form a text on which to preach sermons
on the ' failure of Socialism,' " devotes space to an in-
teresting discussion of the situation. No modern gov-
ernment, it says, looks upon the postoffice as a source
of revenue, or a purely business affair. In Great Britain
the postal deficit is usually in the neighborhood of $75,-
000,000. To quote further:

" The postoffice, like most other governmental de-
partments today, is conducted with other than business
objects. No one expects a profit from the Army or
Navy, or from the agricultural or census departments, yet
who shall say that the service performed by the post-
office is less essential than that performed by the de-
partments mentioned?

" The more this deficit is examined, however, the more
it seems to be due, not to governmental mismanage-
ment, but to interference for profit by private interests.

" The railroads all look upon the postoffice as a fat
cow to be milked, and it has many times been pointed
out that the railroads are paid the full cost of every mail-
car used each year in its service, and that if the Gov-
ernment were given the same sort of a contract as the
express companies enjoy, the entire 'deficit' would dis-
appear. . . .

" The existence of the express companies debars the
postoffice from that portion of the carrying trade which
is found most profitable in other countries— the parcels
post. It is today much cheaper to send a package from
Germany to San Francisco than from Chicago to Evan-
ston, because this country has a treaty with Germany
which compels it to perform services for the citizens
of Berlin which express companies will not permit it to
perform for residents beneath the Stars and Stripes. . . .

" In short, wherever private industry touches the post-
office you will find a leak from which there flows a golden
stream into private coffers. Close up those leaks and
the 'deficit' will change into a surplus that would make
possible a far greater extension of the services of the
postal department." — Literary Digest.

f^t ^^ ^^^

REVISING THE TARIFF.

Every woman who has bought a new stovelid in the
last twelve years, every farmer who has bought a plow,
every boy who has bought a pocket-knife, has made an

unnecessary and forced contribution, by order of Con-
gress, to the Steel Trust, and likewise to every other
industrial trust in the United States, for I use steel only
by way of illustration and because some of its best men
agree with me.

The total wage cost to the Steel Corporation for min-
ing, transportation, and conversion into rolling-mill pro-
ducts is 25 per cent of the selling price; the tariff is from
17 to 65 and 80 per cent of total costs. We may in a large
measure attribute the foundation of a locomotive trust
to the Dingley law, which gave locomotive builders 45
per cent tarifif, although locomotives are shipped abroad
freely and none can be imported. There are few builders,
and they could not be expected to continue as inde-
pendent and competing manufacturers with the invita-
tion of Congress to combine and add what they wished
of 45 per cent duty to their selling prices. Likewise the
Linseed Oil Trust, formerly competitive, with only 3
per cent total wages in cost of refining and a 50 per cent
tariff. The importations being practically prohibited,
they graciously accepted the invitation of Congress and
added 30 to 50 per cent to their selling prices.

Glucose, made of corn, and of course more cheaply
here than elsewhere, bears a tariff of SS per cent, the
total wage 7 per cent, domestic production to the value
of $24,566,932, and the ability to do without protection
manifested by exportations to the extent of $3,000,000
per year.

It is clear beyond question that every big trust gets
about one-fourth of its selling price by grace of Con-
gress at the expense of the consumer, and that Congress
must change its ways, or independent endeavor must en-
tirely cease in the more important forms of production,
as it is rapidly ceasing.

This does not mean that protection shall be withdrawn
from trusts, for they and their workmen are as much
entitled to protection as are others. It does mean, how-
ever, that one law, the Sherman act, shall not declare
trusts and combinations in restraint of trade criminal,
and another law, being the tariff, offer an extreme in-
ducement for the formation of trusts in violation of the
other law. When Congress stands upon its dignity in
this matter and insists that it will do what its own mem-
bers elect, it is time that the people speak with a voice
that can be heard not only in Washington but perchance
around the world. The question is largely whether Con-
gress shall hear the voice of the people or shall listen
to the insistent, and heretofore compelling, voice of great
private interests. What has been every one's business
has been no one's business. We must have a commission
to control the tariff, or we must do away with protec-
tion, an impossible alternative. Tariff-making in its
formative steps must be taken out of the realm of poli-
tics, away from selfish interests and secret influence, and
placed in the hands of men selected for the work, high-
minded, semi-judicial, non-partisan, acting with that judg-
ment and integrity for which our courts are distinguished.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

and, what is very important, with ample time to do the
work well. — From " The Tariff, Its Revisers, and the
Trusts," by Herbert E. Miles, in the American Review of
Reviews for January. ^ ^ ^

EFFECT OF ELECTRICITY ON THE BLOOD.

Some light is thrown on the cause of death by light-
ning strokes and by contact with electrical circuits of
high voltage by the result of experiments showing the
peculiar changes in the blood which are produced by
electric discharges.

Freshly drawn, uncongealed blood is so opaque that
writing cannot be read through a thin film of it inclosed
between two plates of glass. If a series of discharges
from a Leyden jar is passed through the film of blood
by means of tinfoil electrodes, the blood gradually be-
comes so transparent that the writing beneath it can
be read with ease. What is the e.xplanation of this
change?

Blood consists of a nearly colorless liquid, the blood
plasma or serum, mixed with solid bodies of organized
structure, of which the most important are the red cor-
puscles which contain the red coloring matter of the
blood. This pigment, haemoglobin, is the principal agent
of the so-called internal respiration of the body, which
it effects by carrying oxygen from the lungs to the various
organs and tissues. Under the action of electric dis-
charges the hcemoglobin becomes detached from the blood
corpuscles and passes into the serum, which it colors
pale red, while the corpuscle, assuming the same pale tint,
becomes invisible and transparent. The process is grad-
ual and a certain number of discharges is required for
its completion.

Before the blood corpuscle parts with its pigment it
undergoes a series of characteristic changes of form.
The normal human blood corpuscle is a disk with a thick-
ened rim. The first discharge causes division of
the rim into lobes so that the corpuscle presents a stel-
late appearance. Under the influence of the second and
succeeding sparks the corpuscle expands, becomes glob-
ular and assumes successively the mulberry form with
blunt prominences, and the thorn-apple form with sharp
spines. Finally it becomes a smooth sphere, and with
this change the loss of pigment and opacity begins.

I have discovered that the number of sparks required
to produce these changes depends on the relative direc-
tions of the electric current and the axis of the corpuscle,
and is smallest when they are parallel, probably because
the corpuscle in that position offers minimum resistance
to the current.

By a modification of the process I produced the bell
form which was not present in the preparation be-
fore the discharges. This form is occasionally found
in blood and Weidenreich agid others have recently ex-
pressed the opinion that it is the normal form of the
blood corpuscle and that the common disk-shaped cor-
puscles have already undergone modification due to cool-
ing on removal from the body. From this point of view
it appears very remarkable that electric discharges, which
ultimately destroy the corpuscles completely, should be-
gin by restoring them to their original form.

All these experiments led to the same final result, trans-
parency of the blood caused by the diffusion of the pig-
ment of the corpuscles through the surrounding plasma.
That blood undergoes similar changes inside the human
body is proved by the peculiar markings found on the
bodies of persons killed by lightning. These branching
and tree-like figures are due to discororation of the skin

by pigment released from the blood corpuscles by the
electric discharge. — Translated for the Scientific Amer-
ican from Umschau. ^ ^ Jt

THE HIGHWAY OF THE AIR.

The average person regards air much as he regards
water — as much lighter, of course, but like it otherwise.
Calm air is precisely to him as calm water in a pool. If
there is wind, he pictures the air as a flowing river. And
just so long as all men looked at it so, just so long the
birds kept their monopoly. For the only state in which
water approaches the condition of air is when water forms
a maelstrom. Even then, water in its mildest turbulence
falls far short of the unstable, incessant agitation of the
atmosphere. Air is never still. It is filled with warm
waves ascending, cold waves, descending, and through it
race cross shoots and diagonal shoots, with corkscrew
whirlwinds wandering hither and yon, as they list. The
warm air off a cornfield creates one kind of a disturbance;
off ploughed land it creates another. A layer of cold air
may hold 4own a layer of warmer air. Consider what
may happen when the warm air breaks through its en-
velope as a millpond bursts its dam. A flowing stream
churned to and fro and round and round and up and down
would give a feeble idea of the air's inconstancy.

Now a bird, circling with fi.xed wings, floats on a ris-
ing column of air. It maintains its altitude as to the earth,
but it is constantly coasting down through the air's as-
cending volume. Once the bird loses the air column, it
has to flap its wings, and it flaps till it finds another col-
umn, when it goes on wheeling again with fixed wings.
Moreover, when it flies, the wind comes toward it in
waves, rising and falling like the billows of the sea. It
meets them, and then it does precisely what a boat does:
goes over them, or goes through them. The Wrights
learned this, and when they'd learned, they were about
as near to flying as you and I would be to writing Chinese
philosophy when we'd just learned the English alphabet.
Furthermore, there were no teachers, living or dead,
that could help them more than a few steps along the way.

The Wriglit machine must have gleaned something
of its simplicity from its two creators. Orville Wright
is a modest and unassuming person, as I am told his
brother Wilbur is, as well. You would think him a plain
business man, in his modest business clothes. Outside,
two thousand onlookers gaped curiously, and he acted
precisely as if he'd like to run around the corner of the
shed and hide. And when the time came to fly —

" Haul her out," said he, casually, with a wave of his
hand, as you and I might ask some one to bring out our
bicycles. My Philadelphia friend raised his eyebrows.
"Doesn't put on much lugs, does he?" he commented.
" Now over in France "

To be sure. They order this thing better in France.

" I saw it done over there," said Quaker City. " Some
one blew a bugle, and a man in leather suit, racing gog-
gles, leather skullcap, puttees, and rubber gloves came out
and was photographed. Then he got into a kind of ma-
chine shop with wings and had his picture taken again.
Afterward he made a short address to the crowd, looked
up at the sky, shook hands all around, and then they let
her go."

"What happened?" I asked, hanging on his words.

" Nothing. The machine did a hop, skip, and a jump
across the field, and then stood on its head. The last
I saw, they were taking it to the scrap heap, and the avi-
ator was holding a reception in the grand stand." — Max-
imilian Foster, in the January Everybody's.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 19, 1909.

PLODDING.

" Genius is two per cent inspiration and ninety-eight
per cent perspiration." This is the statement of an
authority no less than Thomas A. Edison.

Native ability, training, environment, influence and
unexpected opportunities may have much to do with
the success attained in life; yet the necessity of earnest,
persistent, careful work always remains. For
" Little by little all longing souls
Struggle up nearer the shining goals."

It is not difficult to deceive ourselves into thinking
that men who liave achieved great distinction have
reached a state of freedom from the need of incessant
effort. But the height which great men have
"reached and kept" have been attained'and held by
" toiling upward while those who railed at fortune
were enjoying ease and slumber.

The author of a short story in the British IVcckly
entitled " Blackwater's Mother," writes of two young
men in college. The one who was the brighter stu-
dent, with the more attractive personality, and with,
apparently, advantages greatly in his favor when com-
pared with his companion, decided to leave college.
This caused his parents much sorrow ; which was the
more acute because of other unwise actions by him at
the same time. It became the duty of the student who
had tried to hold his friend, and failed, to state the
outcome to the authorities of the college. We here
quote the words of the writer:

" Thank you my boy, for all you have done for
your unfortunate friend," said the principal warmly.
" I am sorry to see you look so dejected. At least,
j'ou will never occasion those belonging to you any
anxiety in that direction. It has been a great pleasure
to me, and also to my wife, to watch your life here,
Dunstan, and you will never know what an inspiration
it may have been to many."

"My life, sir! Why, I haven't done anything."
cried Dunstan in surprise, " only plodded on."

The principal smiled.

" Only plodded on," he repeated. " Nobody will
ever know what the world and what the kingdom
of Christ owes to those who have only plodded on.
God bless you, my boy, and make you a blessing. I
am sure you will be one wherever you go."

Such was the tribute paid to the plodder. Scarcely
Jiecessary is it to say that Dunstan's life was the use-
ful, helpful one which the principal believed it would
be.

Many voices unite in saying, " Blessed is the plod-
der." — Epworth Herald.

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An Indian philosopher, being asked what were,
according to his opinion, the two most beautiful
things in the universe, answered : " The starry
heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty
in our hearts." — Bossiiet.

OLD-TIME HALF CENTS.

The treasurer of the United States on May 6, 1903,
redeemed two half-cent pieces. This is the first time
in the history of the countn*- that any such coins have
been presented for redemption. It is more than a ceii-
tury since the first half-cent piece was coined, and it is
hardly fifty years since the government discontinued
minting them.

Possibly not one person in a thousand now living in
the United States ever saw a half-cent piece.

The last annual report of the Director of the Mint,
page 82, shows that 7,896,222 of these coins, represent-
ing $39,481.11, were issued. For almost half a cen-
tury each annual report of the Treasury Department
has included them among the " outstanding " obliga-
tions of the government.

The half-cent piece was the coin of the smallest
denomination ever made by this country. It enjoys the
distinction also of being the first coin issued, and also
the first whose denomination was discontinued. The
United States Mint was established in 1792, and cop-
per half cents and cents were issued in 1793. Half
the total number of half cents issued were coined pre-
vious to 1810, after which year their coinage, with few
exceptions, was limited. None were coined for circu-
lation from 1812 to 1824, nor from 1836 to 1848.
Finally in 1857 their coinage, with that of the big cop-
per cent, was discontinued. On account of their lim-
ited issue in the last years of their coinage they prac-
tically had disappeared from the channels of trade.

The needs of adopting the half cent as the lowest
value-computing factor for a coin existed in the early
days of the republic. Colonial half cents and British
farthings of the same commercial value were then in
circulation, and man)' articles were priced and sold in
half cents. With the progress of the nation value
arose, and the needs for a half cent disappeared, and
their use following the first decade of the century was
almost entirely confined to multiples.

While all other discontinued types and denomina-
tions of United States coin have found oblivion, the
half cent is the only one of which the Treasury reports
do not record some portion of the issue redeemed.
This singular and unexplained fact has been one of
frequent comment and inqfliry from Mint and Treas-
ury officials.

Large quantities of the half cents are to be found
in the stocks of coin dealers. The most common dates
are sold at a good premium, and the extremely rare
ones are worth their weight in gold.

Ferran Zarbe, of Saint Louis, was the man who sent
the twt) half-cent pieces to Washington for redemption.
He now prizes highly the little voucher calling for
" one cent," which was sent to him with that amount of
current coin in exchange for the two half-cent pieces
he had forwarded. — Gateway Magazine.

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school workers of all denominations.
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giving and discourages tardiness.
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NEFFS CORNER

Thinking the Inglenook was to die soon, I had lost interest in it and so have
not been saying much of late, but now I hope to be telling you all sorts of inter-
esting things for some time to come. Fact is, I have a good many good things
to tell. Everything is lively at Clevis now. All liouses rented and town over-
flowing with people, and more and more coming. Many 'Nook readers have made
investments here and are pleased. You see a property that rents for $8.00 per
month costs you but $350, and one that rents for $10 costs you but $450, and
tenants are falling over each other to get them even at these rental prices. Our
investment association paid dividends of 21 per cent July 1 and 13 per cent Jan. 1,
over and above all taxes and other expenses, or an average for the year of 17 per
cent. My little folder. "New Mexico Investments," tells all about these matters,
and its free for the asking.

F. H. Bradley, of Surrey, N. D., a man of much travel and experience, says
our country offers the finest opportunities of any he lias ever seen. He has bought
a half section of land here and will locate. W. W. Horning, of Frederick, S. Dak.,
after looking over our town remari^ed that in my announcements and correspond-
ence I had not told the half. He aims to arrange to build a number of houses
here.

Others are moving in and our church is prospering (revival services now in
progress), but we lack means for our church work and to this end am soliciting
subscriptions to the Woman's National Daily, a clean, reliable, well-edited daily
newspaper published in St. Louis. I will have it sent to you every day (except
Sundays) for a whole year for only $1. and besides, I will put one liundred cents
of the dollar into our mission fund and pay for your subscription out of my own
pocket. Will send you a sample ropy first if you ask for it, but I assure you you
will run no risk in sending the dollar now. Address

JAMES M. NEFF, Clovis, New Mexico

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Olsen, . . .

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Geo, Duval 170 14

Rogers' Farm, . , 20 24

Gough & Merrill,. 10 18

A. V. LInder, ... 25 16

David Betts, ... 14 15

Payette District.

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W. F. Ashinhurst, S^i 18

E. E. Hunter, ... 27 16

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A. E. Wood, .
P. A. Gregar.
R. F. Slone, .
Thos. Weir, .
Wm. Melcher,
S. Niswander,
John Ward, .
W. B. Ross, .

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Joe Dickens, Wheat

Sugar Company, Barley

Geo. Duval. Barley

John Holtom, Wheat

Albert Mickel'>, Oats

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Vol. XI.

January 26, 1909.

No. 4.

THE SUPERFLUOUS BOY

ELIZABETH M. ROYER

Chapter I.

'■ Francis, Francis, Francis Homer Peasley, get
right up this minute if you want a mouthful of break-
fast. I have called you five times already. Do you
hear, Francis? Get out of there right away, or I
will come up and then you will move. Are you com-
ing?" Mrs. Peasley shrieked up the stairs to her
nine-year-old son.

A noise between a yawn and a groan, muffled by
the bedclothes, came sleepily and faintly down to
her.

" Let me hear you put your feet on the floor. Now,
jump up and run around so I know you are up. Are
you up, Francis? Get right out. Don't you dare
go back to sleep."

" Fm coming," floated drowsily down, but Francis
only buried his nose more deeply in his pillow and
nestled more comfortably under the soft, warm
blankets.

" I can get him out. Just give me that glass of
water," cried Sarah, who, having almost finished her
first year in high school, was equal to the most critic-
al need, even to that of arousing Francis, when,
evidently, he was determined to sleep, at least, until
noon, for with a bound, she was up the stairs. Three
steps brought her to his bed where she held the glass
brimming full of clear, icy water high above his
head, waiting a moment in order to give him one last
chance to escape retribution. Closely following in her
wake, came ten-year old Tam, eager for an oppor-
tunity to crow over her brother, and standing in the
doorway, with her black, mischievous eyes shining
and sparkling full of suppressed merriment, she sung,
beginning softly under her breath but steadily increas-
ing the volume,

" Don't worry, keep smiling.
O Fanny, don't worry, keep smiling.
Don't worry, keep smiling."

" Get up, you lazy boy, or I will throw this water on

you. Hurry now. One, two, thr-ee, are you going
to come? All right, then, here goes." The water be-
gan to drop on Francis' head. Like a turtle in time
cf danger, he drew it under cover. With a pull and
a jerk Sarah had the bedclothes on the floor, expos-
i \g unprotected Francis to her merciless torture.
Splash came the water on his head and he began to
scream lustily.

" Don't worry, keep smiling.
Don't worry, keep smiling,",

sung out tormenting Tam from the door.

" Now are you going to get up, you lazy bones ? "
demanded Sarah, as she splashed the last water on
Francis' neck. " You won't get any breakfast if you
don't move faster."

" I won't get up. You can't make me. I won't get
up until Tam stops singing that stufif."

" You will, too, young man." Sarah grasped his
arm firmly, endeavoring to pull him out forcibly, but
Francis was nine and beginning already to learn foot-
ball. Swiftly out came his foot, finding a point
of contact just below her belt. It took her breath but.
staggering backwards, she hastily recovered, and went
toward him with a look that meant war.

" Say, Sarah, don't worry, keep smiling. You are
doing fine. Don't worry, keep smiling." Tam dived
back in time to save her head from a pillow that came
sailing at her. The stair door opened with a bang.

"What does all this noise mean up there?" came
in the stern tones of Mr. Peasley.

" We are trying to get Francis out of bed," an-
swered Tam in saintly accents, then in a triumphant
whisper to I-"rancis, she said, " Now, Mr. Fanny, you
better hustle, papa is coming."

" Francis, get up at once. Sarah and Tam, come
down to breakfast."

Sarah and Tam went down. Francis with one
bound landed on the flcor and began to dive into

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his clothes. Before the door had entirely closed upon
the girls,, he heard coming up the stairway, gently,
softly, hardly audible for justice was near,

" Don't worry, .keep smiling,"

in the tantalizing tones of Tam.

When Francis came into the dining room where
the rest of the family were finishing their breakfast,
he fell into his seat by his mother, defiantly scowling
across the table at Tam. Solemnly, Tam stared back,
not moving a muscle, trying to decide by what act
she could torment him to the greatest degree, and yet
save herself. Drawing her attention by kicking her
twin sister, Marie, under the table, she whispered
something to her. They both suddenly exploded into
a series of snorts and giggles, then just as suddenly
regained countenance, long and solemn, and stared
steadily back at Francis. It had the desired eflfect,
for he slid farther down into his chair scowling
blacker and more threateningly with every passing
moment. This called Sarah's attention to the fact that
Francis was up.

" Mama," exclaimed she, " look at Francis. He
hasn't washed yet. If you would only make him do
without 'breakfast once he would quit coming down
late. We have to get up and I can't see why he can't."

" Now, Sarah, I guess I can run things here yet
a while," returned Mrs. Peasley w.ith dignity. " I
have been doing it for something like seventeen
years."

" Mama, look at Francis' hands. It makes me
sick," and Marie buried her nose in her napkin.

To poor Francis, the round soberness thinly veil-
ing the teasing, glittering exultation of Tam's eyes
that unwaveringly regarded him, now from over the
top of her glass of milk, now from above her plate as
she continued her breakfast, combined with the added
insult of Marie, laid the last straw on the load that
broke the camel's back, for with an explosion of
tears, mingled with disgust, anger, and self-righteous
indignation, he blurted out,

" O-o-oh, I won't eat with those girls. They never
have to wash. I won't eat if they are going to eat
too. Make them quit laughing." He stumbled up
from the table as he spoke and flung himself out in-
to the kitchen where he fell sprawling into a chair.
— Silently Mr. Peasley had been sitting at the head
of the table during this commotion, but now he took
matters into his own hands. " Francis," he command-
ed sternly, " go and wash at once. Then come and
eat your breakfast. Girls, attend to your own break-
fast and let Francis alone."

" Papa, we weren't doing a thing," whined Tam in
injured tones, " we were laughing at a secret. Can't
even laugh when he's around."

" Quit your laughing at anything, then. Try and

keep quiet a few minutes. You make more fuss than
a whole boarding-school of girls."

In three gulps Tam finished her breakfast, and
hurriedly excusing herself, she left the dining room.
* In a few moments she cried out, " Say, Francis never
wasTied his face at all. He just rubbed his dry hands
over it like I used to. Make him wash. I will never
eat with him if you don't."

Francis was the baby of the family and Mrs. Peas-
ley had kept him the baby as long as possible. Now
she came to his rescue.

'"Tam, go and make your beds and don't let me
hear another word from you until school time. Here,
Francis, let me wash you. Gracious, boy, how can
you get so dirty over night? Didn't I tell you to wash
before you went to bed? "

" Pooh, mama, you don't suppose he washed clean,
do }'ou ? Anyway Scrub slept with him last night,"
came Tam's last killing shot before she ran upstairs.

" Did you leave that dirty dog sleep with you last
night," demanded Mrs. Peasley in horror.

" I-I couldn't help i-it," whimpered Francis, " h-he
whined to g-get into b-bed with me, and I had to
1-let him. Ouch, you're getting soap in my eyes."

" Well, I will get more in if you don't stop this
nonsense. Did't I tell j'ou not to leave that dog
sleep with you ? On my clean sheet, too ! For this
you can have only one dish of breakfast food and
then you will have to carry in kindling until school
time."

" O mama, we are going to play football this
morning, and I am captain. Can't I go just this
once? They can't play without me," he begged.

" Yes, they can. They had better get a captain
that isn't a baby. No, crying won't do you one bit
of good. Hurry now and eat and get that kindling
in. Be sure to come in and get washed before school
time. Do you hear? " .

Disconsolately Francis sat down, still angry, to
his solitary dish of breakfast food. He finished it
silently, tearfully, and departed to carry in the kin-
dling, which was, to his mind, the most severe means of
punishment that loving parents could inflict upon
obedient children. With a hopeless, plodding dili-
gence, he stumbled back and forth, back and forth,
with armful after armful of splinter-clothed sticks, to
and from the pile in the back yard and the neat rows
in the basement. Scrub, his stub-tailed yellow dog,
of many breeds, his chief joy next to football, his
sympathetic friend and trusted confidant in every
trouble, emotion, and joy of his short life, blessed with
sweet sisters and loving parents, Scrub, his oivn dog,
unshared by any treacherous partner, came bounding
swiftly, like some toy run by uncertain machinery,
from around the corner of the house from wallowing
in the mud of the street and threw himself joyfully
at Francis' face.

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" Dear old Scrubbie," he cried, as he and the dog
tumbled together in affectionate embrace over the tips
of the new grass just peeping above the brown and
withered skeletons of last year that had kept them
alive through the cold winter. " Dear old Scrubbie,
you can go where you want to, and I have to stay
here with this old kindling and all because of those
girls. Girls are awful things, Scrub. I don't believe
they want me around. I believe they would have been
glad if I hadn't been born. Mebbe mama and papa
would too. They say that when I stay at grandma's
there never is any trouble, so I nuist cause all the
trouble then. Scrub, I wish I hadn't been born. I
got to stay here and carry in this old kindling and
those girls can do just as they please and I didn't
have enough breakfast, either. If -they hadn't been
so mean, I would never got cross this morning and
then I could have been playing with the boys. I think
it's mean, so I do, Scrub."

Big tears came and rolled over the brim of his
eyes, making little white rivers down his grimy cheeks.
Scrub affectionately and sympathetically licked them
away.

For some time, perched on the back fence liad been
a grinning urchin eagerly taking in the scene before
him. He was not one of Francis' friends but belonged
to " the bunch " who were opposed to Francis' being
captain of the football team. In silent enjoyment he
had been watching Francis and listening to him re-
peating his troubles to Scrub, and now, too full to
longer hold in, lie bubbled forth, •

" Oh, yes, dear old Scrubbie has a cry-baby for a
master. You bet, I knew you was a baby and I told
the fellows so, and they are going to appoint me cap-
tain of the team, and you can't play any more. We
won't have no babies on our team. Don't you wish
you wasn't a baby? Don't you wish vou wasn't a
baby?"

Francis had arisen when he began to speak and
stood listening with the tears still upon his face.
Shamed at being caught crying to a dog drove his
anger to a white heat, made him speechless with rage
before his tormenting enemy who knew how to aim
his poisoned arrows so they would hit the tenderest
spots. When Tom Green paused for breath, Francis
retorted with defiance shooting from his eyes,

" I tell you, Tom Green, I don't care what you do
with your old team. I wouldn't be in it if you were
anyway, and I can get up one that can beat yours un-
til there won't be enough left to see, if I want to. If
you don't believe it just come in here and I will
prove it to you." He waited for Tom to accept his
challenge. " Yes. I knew you was afraid. I knew
you wouldn't fight me. You know verv well I can
knock you out and I will, too, if you come near."

" Huh," bantered Tom from his safe distance at
the fence. " I wouldn't fight with a baby, a cry-baby,

that cries for its mama and girl-sisters. Suppose I
would dirty my hands fighting with a little baby? I
would be afraid I would hurt it."

"You would, would you? Well, let's see," and
Francis started for Tom. But Tom dropped safely
behind the fence, derisively shouting as he ran across
the field,

" See the captain of the imaginary foot-ball team.
Don't I wish I was on that team ? Well, I guess not."

Down on the ground beside Scrub dropped Francis,
sobbing into his willing neck.

" Scrub, nobody loves me. I haven't a single friend.
Even the fellows are down on me. I wish I was dead.
' Tain't no fun living this way. I never have a minute's
peace but what some of those girls or somebody is
bothering me. They don't want me here. The fel-
lows are going after that Tom Green. I wish we
could get out of this, and then everyone would be
satisfied."

(To Be Continued.)

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THOUGHTS ON THE OLD YEAR.

J. C. FLORA.

The deeds done during the year 1908 are no'w a
part of history. The opportunities which it brought to
each of us are past, and those which were unimproved
are forever lost. The unkind and harsh words spoken
are gone and can never be recalled. However much
we may wisli to recall them we cannot, but they
will go on accomplishing their harmful work and
all we can do is to counteract their influence by kind
words in the future. The mistakes made during the
year cannot be undone now ; alas, they are done and
we cannot change the record of the past. Our deeds,
whatever they may be, good or bad, are written in the
great book of time and its lids are forever sealed.
We cannot erase one line from its pages.

Then the question for you and me to consider is,
"Is my record what it should be?" If not let us
strive to make the record for 1909 a better one. Let
us not stop and worry over the past, but let's deter-
mine to improve every opix)rtunity for doing good
during the year that is before us.

. While there has been much good done in the past
there is much yet to be done. There is much distress
among humanity to be relieved. There are many
who are suffering for kind words. There are many
who are in need of food and clothing. There are
yet many places of vice that ought to be destroyed.
There are many unhappy homes that could be made
happy. There are many of our fellow beings wlio are
in the depths of ignorance and superstition and do not
know of the God whom we worship. Truly, there is
yet much to be done. Then, forgetting the things that
are beliind, let us press forward.

Ouinter, Kaiis.

THE IXGLEXOOK.— January 26, 1909.

Around the World Without

a Cent

Henry M. Spickler

Chapter XLII.
It was a long distance to the big park which I found
worthy of my efforts to reach. Great rounding hills
or mounds were laid out in symmetrical designs with
plants, both new and old to my botanical eye. Flow-
ers, filling big spaces with their rich colors, bloomed
without stint under the kind sky that bowed its arch
a little lower to kiss them softly as they reddened or
purpled or blued each day more deeply, as the hot sun.

"The hearse was covered with massive wreaths of flowers.'

tempered by the mountain breeze, nursed them rapidly
from small to larger size. I will give no names. A
girl could do that, but this boy, never. I saw a big
bed of light blue blossoms on stems or bushes about
six inches high. It was one great mass of faded blue,
the odor from the flowers as rare as the variety. My !
how I breathed in that fragrance, there all alone at
that bluish bed of unknown flowers. Large-leafed
shrubs and strange palm trees, more shrub than tree,
grew as if by accident in just the right place to add
beauty and fitness to the park.

On a higher hill I could see the towering Etna, one

of the few remaining volcanoes of the earth. From
its summit, or near it, came smoke and fire. During
the night, coming into Palermo and again when leav-
ing it, the fire from the summit of Etna could be seen.
I had time to make the ascent, but my experience with
\'esuvius. under so dangerous and toilsome conditions,
had taken away any further desire to get closer to a
crater. On my asking some Italians about the volcano,
I understood them to say that the fire I had seen had

come from some kind of
furnace built in the higher
slopes of the mountain.
This did not dissuade me,
however, from my opinion
that the fire I saw was that
which old Etna was vomit-
ing up from its thickly-
swollen neck.

Overlooking the city and
bay, the big park afforded
me a choice spot for medi-
tation. There were few
visitors in the part where
I chose to rest, so I lay
back in the swelling arms
of the easy bench and threw
my arms loosely over the
ends, my head resting
against a thick-twigged tree
as against a pillow. Prob-
ably I dozed. How long
I did not know, but the
movements of some one be-
hind me and the tree awoke
me with a start. I knew
And I knew that some

was not right

instinctively a

one else was the cause of my wrong feeling.

" The face ! " I said, hysterically. " It's the face."
But how that freak followed me here and found me
I cannot tell. All the way over I looked back and
across to see if he followed from the small grove.
There was almost no one else on the streets I used in
coming here, for I was in the residence portion of the
town, and these dwellers stay in usually through the
heat of the day. This is the latter part of August.

I was afraid to look around. I was afraid to get up.
So I closed my eyes again and tried to make myself

THE INGLENOOK.— January 26, 19JJ.

believe I had heard nothing. Then the tree itself bj-
gan to quiver. Or was it my body that was shaking-.
No, it was the tree, which now began to shake with
decided movement. With positive assurance I now
knew that the strange face with the weird expression
of sinister motive was behind that tree and was riglit
now, bending his body and craning his neck so as to
catch sight of me.

At once I arose, turned around and looked straight
for the " face." Imagine the intensity of my pleased
surprise to see standing there, with little arm raise 1
about to throw a big red rose at me, a pretty lit !e
girl with a silk parasol that lay gracefully on her le.t
shoulder in the other hand.

But I was not mistaken, I knew the face was b-ck
there, too. So I started down the little circling pebble
path, -and came up to the little one.
Behind the tree, on the other side,
now, stood the self-same man with
long lank face and coarse features
and yellowish white skin, his black
eyes rolling about beneath that ]iecu-
liarly wide brow, his hat too small
for so big a head, propped on one
side by tangled masses of black hair.

I was too nervous to enjoy patting
the soft, chubby hands of the dear
child whom I would like to meet
some day when her cultured mother
is about ready to give her away.

I left the park without speaking
to the man and wondered why I
had done so.

At twelve, noon, the boat was to
sail on the following day. Perhaps
by that time I would have a better
chance to meet the " face " face to
face.

The next morning a funeral pro-
cession passed the hotel on its way
to the cemetery. It was the most attractive and yet
sensible I have seen in the distant lands. The black
horses, drawing the hearse that resembled one of our
own, were decorated with gay harness and the hearse
was covered with massive wreaths of flowers, chiefly
roses. Behind the hearse walked the friends or mem-
bers of the order or church to which the deceased be-
longed.

I promised to tell the cause of the one trouble that
Sicily suffers and keeps her from being an Eden. It
is in Italian, — diboscamento, which means, deforesting,
or wanton destruction of the forests and trees on a
large scale. This is the great fault to be found with
Sicily. .She has allowed her timber to be cut down
without having trees planted in its stead. It is one
great bleak, bare landscape one sees at the points at
which I touched. I have read that the interior is as

bad. With soil adapted to the growing of trees, with
an eternal climate where the tree never halts its growth
for six or seven months, as with us, with rainfall that
would water them often if they were growing, the
island could have been one splendid park that would
attract thousands of tourists, leave money with her
people and make for them a much more delightful life.
The trees all taken away, the rain, too, passes by Sicily.
For there are no condensers and rain producers like
trees. These, retaining moisture, invite the summer
showers.

But Sicily cared only for- the present wealth. She
allowed her few capitalists to rob her of her greatest
natural asset. Now all the people — the masses espe-
cially — must suffer for an age or for ages, the wanton
"Teed of a few. The rich man of Sicih' can build a

I stopped two boys with big baskets of the juiciest and most
delicious of ripe flgs."

palace and transplant trees and keep running the foun-
tains to water his artificial grounds.

But he who holds the clouds in his hands would
give the poorest owner of a parcel of land a fountain
every week from the clouds above. Breaking his laws
in haste to get riches, our own Ainerica, just like
Sicily, is threatened with absolute deforesting. Not
only are the half-grown trees cut down, but the billions
and billions of feet of slab timber refused by the
trust, lie and rot or furnish fuel for the great forest
fires that each autumn destroy whole counties and drive
hundreds of families into the cold or take the lives of
helpless people.

Like the tobacco in the South, which is burned in
order to increase the price, lumber kings care not how
little they leave standing to grow up after them for
the enrichment of other investors or for the comfort

THE INGLENOOK.— January 26, 1909.

of. the humble people who need it, if only they them-
selves may filch from the land the cream of her output
and retire with wealth untold. To burn some of the
tobacco is good. To burn all of it, would be better.
But to burn the green lumber, and to wantonly give
it away to these unrighteous grafters and then be com-
pelled to buy it back again at a fabulous price to re-
place the homes they are the cause of burning, is too
much like turning the command of our Savior, " Be
wise as serpents and hannless as doves," about, and
have it read, " Be wise as doves and as harmless as
serpents."

Diboscamento is the crime of the Sicilian. Dibos-
camento, — deforesting, is the present crime, or one of
them, of the United States. Diboscamento! No rain-
fall. Diboscamento! No crops. Diboscamento! No
lakes or brooks or ponds, no flowers, no fruit. Cold
winters and hot summers. Poor people and rich lords.
A great big country and nothing in it.

There should be planted along every roadway, on
both sides of roads running north and south, and on
the south side of those running east and west, fruit
and ornamental trees. I would suggest that every
other tree be a fruit tree, apple, plum or cherry. Fruit
is essential to the highest health. It should be as
plentiful as grain. The average family only tastes fruit
as a delicacy. The best-ruled homes have it on the
■table in some form for every meal, breakfast, dinner
and supper. The juices of fruit, either green or
canned, kill the disease microbe of most diseases. The
greatest amount of sickness and the biggest number of
fatalities are in the late spring months, the months
when little or no green fruit and but little canned fruit
is used by many people.

I hope that some Lincoln will arise to give freedom,
not to blacks, but to trees, and to cause to be planted
along our public roads all kinds of ornamental and
fruit-bearing trees. The fruit could be eaten by pass-
ers-by and gathered for shipment to the city. Against
the argument that it would not pay to ship fruit if it
were so plentiful and if its growth were costing the
grower so little, I have estimated that contrary to this
supposition of no good market, there would be so much
more general demand and constant use for fruit as to
keep the price, while low, at such a figure as to make
shipments more profitable than today with high prices.
Men would make a business of gathering, storing, pre-
serving and shipping this public-road fruit. Special
cars would haul it to market, special tradesmen would
handle it. They would handle great quantities of it,
so great that a profit of one cent a bushel would mean
a good living for them. As it is now, the dealer must
realize ten to fifty cents a bushel or one to five cents a
quart box.

The ornamental trees could be of elm, oak, chest-
nut, walnut, hickory nut, hard and soft maple, catalpa,

poplar and others, so that thousands of acres of the
richest land of the country might be bearing a crop of
rain makers for the farmer's crops, and at the same
time, producing riches in fruits, nuts and shade, as
well as adding untold beauty to the landscape, and
offering genial shade in summer for tired horses and
warm drivers, and in winter breaking the wind and
modifying the cold. The little care they would take
after setting out is not sufficient to be offered as an
argument against the scheme. The government her-
self should undertake to have this done.

The boat was to leave at noon. I took my lunch a
little early and while eating at the hotel I glanced out
toward the back yard. There was the same white-
yellowish face. "Who is that?" I asked the waiter
as I left the dining hall.

" Oh ! " said he, laughing, " that fellow is a half-
witted beggar that ' spots ' tourists for some money.
He follows them everywhere and is quite harmless."
And he laughed.

I was glad to know he was only a half-witted beggar,
for I neither believe in spooks nor am influenced, one
way or another, by queer coincidences or antics of
strangers.

Hurrying towards the boat I stopped two boys with
big baskets of the juiciest and most delicious of ripe
figs that had just been pulled from the trees that grew
out of the lava slopes of proud Mt. Etna.

The price was low and I bought a big sackful for
a few cents so as to have them while sailing. All I
had to do was to carry them on to the boat as I walked
out on the giant wall of stone and up the broad gang-
plank, where I deposited them by my wheel and bag-
gage on deck.

Ten minutes later our boat, the dear old Lctimbro,
was doing her best knots toward Crete. I laughed
many times at the " face " and felt so sorry for his
awful existence.

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SONNET TO JANUARY.

MARTHA SHEPARD LIPPINCOTT.

Cold January! bleak month of the year!
The month which two-faced Janus claimed his own.
To backward look o'er passing year, just flown,
And forward gaze into the one now here.
For thee, unknown, new year, we hope and fear,
We know not yet for what thy course is sown.
Not whether good or evil fruit, be grown.
And in thy winds, we know not what we hear,
Yet, hear and feel thy piercing, north winds blow.
The children all are filled with wild delight,
When thy lips kiss and turn the rain to snow.
And they arise to find earth dressed in white.
To don thy bridal robe the wind did blow
The fleecy snowflakes down to earth all night.
Moorestown, N. J.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 26, 1909.

PASSING OF A UNIQUE CRAFT

JOHN S. FERNALD

In no line of human industry is the march of mod-
ern progress more noticeable than in the business of
those who " go down to the sea in ships." Within
the memory of the present generation many models,
rigs, methods and appliances of the seafaring life
have passed into oblivion, and many others are rapid-
ly passing. While the general change from sail to
steam as a motive power is read and known of all
men, there are many specific changes that are not
generally known, but which possess more than or-
dinary interest.

The sailing: vessel, while beins: crowded out of

Pinky Maine.

many lines by steam-propelled craft, is still largely in
•evidence, and will continue to be so for many years
to come. She can no more be wholly superseded by
her powerful rival than the horse can be exterminated
by the trolley car and -the automobile. The sail-
ing vessel and the horse have uses for which they
will be in demand as long as man shall have domin-
ion over the earth. But in the construction and han-
dling of vessels improvement is the order of the day ;
or rather improvement along some lines, but at the
■expense of some good, reliable, old-fashioned quali-
ties.

Prominent among the types of vessels once numer-
ous on the Atlantic Ocean, but now rapidly approach-
ing extinction, is the little fishing vessel known as

the pinky. On account of her peculiar build the
pinky was always in a class by herself, and now
as her numbers become few she attracts attention
even among seafaring men wherever she appears.
The pinky, instead of having a stern square or nearly
so is even sharper aft than forward. She has no
" transoms," the timbers on which the square or
curved stern of others vessels is built, but the out-
board planking is fastened directly to the sternpost
from keel to deck. This makes the stern pointed,
and the appearance is accentuated by the rail, which
is extended aft and turned sharply upward beyond
the sternpost, leaving a double tri-
angular opening through which
the rudder head comes above the
deck. This permits of the rudder
being hung wholly outside the
hull, and does away with much
calking needed where the rudder
passes through the hull. The
apex of the extended rail, or
" pink," as it is called, is finished
with a rest in which the main
boom rests when the sail is furled.
The bows are full and the stern
pointed, the widest part of the ves-
sel being abreast the foremast,
which stands somewhat nearer the
bow than in ordinary schooners.
The pinky is narrower and deeper
in proportion to her length than
ordinary vessels, as will be seen by
a comparison of the principal di-
mensions in feet and tenths, of
two Maine vessels, each a fair
type of her class:

Vessel.

Pinky Maine, '. 46.4

Schooner Mary Eliza, 46.0

Length. Breadth. Depth.
13.6 6.6

17.5 4.6

These dimensions are from the U. S. Government's
iist of merchant vessels, and the measurements are
taken inside the hold. The Maine, with a registered
depth of 6.6 feet, " draws " 9 feet of water, requir-
ing the same depth of channel in which to float as the
2,000-ton passenger steamers plying along the New
England coast.

But in her day and generation the pinky was deserv-
edly popular with fishermen, being staunch and serv-
iceable, and a great carrier in proportion to her
tomiage. What she lacked in speed she made up in
seagoing qualities, and often made quicker trips

THE INGLENOOK.— January 26, 1909.

than her more pretentious rivals on "account of her
ability to face \\eathcr conditions that others dare
not.

MINNESOTA'S SOLUTION OF CONGESTION

IN CITIES.
For a large city, St. Paul, Minn., is singularly free
from congested districts of poor people. With the ex-
ception of the requirements for the satisfaction of that
never-ending string of cases of temporary poverty,
there is no large need in this city for the comprehensive
organization found necessary in other cities. Tlie
secret of this beneficent state of affairs is found, prob-
ably, in the prosperous condition of the farming
regions and the cooperation in a financial and social
way of the people of the small towns. Thus, without
knowing it, Minnesota has solved the problem of
dependence in large cities and has attained that for
which New York has been seeking in a blind way
for half a century.

At the twenty-fifth anniversary of the foundin;T
of the Charity Organization Society of New York,
the best organized charitable institution in the country,
Mrs. Florence Kelly, a veteran in settlement and char-
ity work, ruthlessly broke away from the verbal con-
diments in which other speakers indulged, and told
the society that it had been spending its energy at-
tempting to stem the tide with a broom. She declared
that there is relatively more poverty, more depend-
ence, and more crowding in New York now than a
quarter of a century ago. The congested districts
are not only larger but more densely populated. She
said that the effort of the society should be directed
primarily at the country', and while the city relief should
be continued, the attention of the workers should be de-
voted to making life in the country more enjoyable
in order that those now there should remain and
others be attracted away from the city.

Expanding this idea in the New York Independent,
N. O. Nelson of St. Louis suggests that charity
workers take up their residence in the country and
help organize social activities to make life so attract-
ive as to overcome the appeal of the cash wages
in the city. This has been accomplished in large part
in Minnesota by the natural incentive of the residents
of the farming districts. The development of the
dairying industry and the erection of cooperative
creameries has been a large factor in this sociological
movement. The dairying business has raised farmers
from the rank of mortgagors to that of bank deposi-
tors. Diversity of employment has been introduced
by the creameries and has had not a little to do with
compelling an inhibition of the tendency to seek vague
fortunes in a different environment. .Another force
for good in holding young people to the farm, where,
in general, their greatest happiness lies, is the union
of school districts, and the formation of a social and

intellectual center about the village school, Lewiston,
Winona County, has progressed fartlier in this line
than any other town. Four school districts were
amalgamated and the pupils are transported from
their homes to the school, where a larger building
and better instruction are possible. The development
of a library, musical and intellectual entertainments
follow in time, and there is something besides the mo-
notonous drudgery of farm work for the young peo-
ple.

Minnesota people are thus teaching themselves
what Mr. Nelson would have the trained workers
of the Charity Organization Society teach the people
of the Eastern States. The enlarged financial advan-
tages derived from- improved methods of agriculture,
with the concomitant of better means of communi-
cation and the development of that stimulus of the
mind which springs from mutual pleasures, promise
to prove sufficient to keep the young people of Min-
nesota at their homes on farms and in villages, un-
til the city calls directly for their services. — St. Paul
Pioneer Press.

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JAPAN'S GREAT SEA WEALTH.

Owi.\G to its geographical position, the direction of
the ocean currents in its vicinity, and the numerous
and well-protected harbors along the various coasts
of Japan, it is not surprising that a large number of
the population, almost 10 per cent, say 5.000,000, are
actively engaged in or depending on the ocean for a
livelihood, and that the value of the fish and other
aquatic animals and marine products annually taken
from the sea amounts to over $50,000,000.

E. J. King, United States consular agent at Hako-
date, writes that after the introduction of steam ves-
sels and the consequent improvements in communi-
cation and a constantly growing demand from abroad
for Japanese fishery products, it was but natural that
the industry should rapidly increase : in fact, the value
of the fishery products during the past ten years has
nearly doubled. The government realizes the impor-
tance of the industry and is doing everything possible
to improve the condition of the people engaged there-
in.

The bulk of the industry, however, is carried on in
native-built boats, and the muuber of these is enor-
mous. According to the latest statistics available,
those for 1906, there were actively employed during
that year 295,004 boats under eighteen feet in length,
106,803 boats from eighteen to thirty feet in length,
.ind 24,622 boats over thirty feet in length. During
the same year there were employed seventv-four
steamers, ten of which were newly constructed, and
359 foreign style sailing vessels, of which eighty-three
\' ere newly constructed.

The statistics give the number of vessels lost.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 26, 1909.

wrecked and missing during the year at 949, and the
number of hves lost at 1,230. These latter figures
may cause surprise, but to anyone living in Japan and
knowing the frail nature of many of the fishing boats,
and also taking into consideration the number of peo-
ple engaged in the industry, together, with the fre-
quent reports of where fleets have been' overtaken by
sudden storms, it is astonishing tliat the loss of life
should be as small as given in the government sta-
tistics. — Nezv York Post.

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CURIOSITIES IN SHOES.

There is no article of dress in which more strik-
ing changes have been made in various ages than
the covering of the feet. For a long time boots and
shoes seemed to be the special field in which the
whims of fashion manifested themselves. Coverings
for feet must have been among the earliest articles of
dress.

The primitive form of foot covering was the san-
dal, which was simply a flat sole under the foot and
secured to it by a thong. These were made of a
great variety of materials. The Egyptians used palm
leaves and leather, while the Hebrews preferred linen
or even wood. Some didn't make any objection to
brass and iron, and a few who could afford it took
gold and employed it in making sandals.

Like the sandal, the shoe grew out of physical con-
ditions, the fundamental purpose of it being pro-
tection for the whole foot. Among the early Greeks
and Romans shoes were not common, but the wearing
of them once established an endless variety arose —
law and fashion dictating special styles and finish for
the several social ranks and classes.

A single hide, slit and looped into a purse-like pouch
by a thong run through it, seems to have been the
primitive form of the shoe in Great Britain.

Boots and shoes became common in Europe be-
tween the ninth and sixteenth centuries, and the fan-
tastic forms which they assumed and the laws in re-
straint of them, show the prominent place they had
come to occupy in the wardrobe and fashions of the
day.

Among the shoes that were worn in the past an
interesting specimen is the knightly footgear. This
helped men fight when fighting was uppermost in the
men's minds. It reached its most frightful form in
the middle half of the fourteenth century, and the
long horn on the shoes served men as spurs served
fighting cocks. They were given a keen point, and
if it came into contact with the body of an antagonist
it had the same effect as a spear.

These battlepieces did as much to frighten away
the enemy as they did to destroy him and, since in war
as in peace prevention is better than cure, the shoe
of the fourteenth century played an important part in
history and warfare.

The shoes worn by the original inhabitants of
the British Isles are said to have been made of raw
cowhide, having _the- hair turned outward and coming
up as high as the ankles.

The Germans wore a shoe made like that of the
Saxons, open over the instep to the toe, and both
these people as well as the French ornamented their
shoes with studs.

From these old styles, long since neglected, in many
instances long since forgotten, have modern shoe-
makers drawn their, models.

With us, of the civilized world, shoes have taken
on a mighty progress in the way of making them, but
in their shapes, for the shapes ever touch on some
original style, and the original style was introduced in
the days when ancient history was being made.

In many parts of the world no progress has been
made. Today men and women are wearing shoes as
the ancients wore them, and doing no more to become
progressive in the art.

In India the lower classes are wearing probably the
oddest shoe in the world, being a flat block with a
large knob, which slips between the first and second
toes. They are so skilled in wearing these that they
are able to keep them on and walk or run with great
speed.

Although the poorer classes in Japan and China
still wear the sandal and clog, among the wealthier
and aristocratic people of the two countries shoes are
preferred. These are being imported mostly from
the United States.

In many parts of France wooden shoes are still
worn. In France may be seen many outdoor shoe
factories. These Breton peasants work all day in the
forests on heavy wooden sabots, the men doing the
heavier part of the work while the finishing touches
are placed on by the women.

There are many relics to tell the history of the
shoe and boot. Many men and women have collec-
tions, some of them worth fortunes, showing what
kind of footwear our ancestors were supplied with.
And all through these specimens is evident the one
fact that the people of modern times have done little,
if anything to speak of. in the way of introducing
new fads in the shoe market.

The clogs that the Indians wear today were worn
centuries ago. The Chinese and Japanese have worn
sandals for hundreds of years ; ladies wore what are
now known as French heel slippers, a few centuries
back; gentleman of the old world wore pumps in
1800, and long before Mary, Queen of Scots, wore a
slipper that corresponds exactly to the house slipper
worn by women today, and sold in any shoe house
today ; the sandals worn by children are patterned
exactly after those worn by Greek and Roman
and Gaul away back when they were shedding blood
and making history at a terrific rate. — Exchange.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 26, 1909.

Nature Studies

THE WORLD OF NATURE.

JOHN H. XOWLAX.

Do the Bible and Science Agree?

How often do we hear the infidel base his argument
against the verity of the Bible on the apparent discord
between it and the revealed truths of science.

Like their great teacher, Tom Paine, they want to
find a reason for all things and when they cannot rea-
son it out discard it as untrue.

To all such say, " If you are an earnest seeker after
truth, read the book of nature." God's laws never
change, and nature is only the visible operation of
those laws.

A fact is incontrovertible. It does not admit of
argument. Our knowledge does not change the rela-
tion of the fact to us, only our relation to it. For illus-
tration, it is a fact that fire will burn even though the
child is not aware of the truth.

The relation of the fire has not been changed, but
the child learns to avoid the fire because of the change
of his relation to it.

However much we may believe or disbelieve a fact,
our opinion does not change the truth.

Galileo was compelled to brand as heresy his belief
that the world revolves around the sun. At the same
moment the cardinals were demanding his recantation
they were whirling through space in obedience to na-
ture's laws.

" And Nature, the old nurse, took
The child upon her knee.
And said ' Here is a story book
Thy Father hath written for thee.' "

The book of nature points to, but does not go back
to, the beginning. Just as the human race had a
history before the invention of .writing, so also nature
was at work before any records in her book were made.

When inan attempts to track nature to her lair he is
met by the question, " Where wast thou when I laid
the foundation of the earth? " (Job. 38 : 4.) " Know-
est thou it, because thou wast then born? or because
the number of thy days is great? " (Job. 38: 21.)

As God said to the sea in the aeons long past, thus
says he today to man, " Hitherto shalt thou come but
no further." (Job 38: 11.)

But back in the dim ages of the past there was a

man, not a philosopher, not a poet, not a dreamer, but
a meek shepherd who had a power of vision beyond the
ken of common mortals that he was able to look into
the future and tell what is to be ; and to read the story
of the past and tell what has been.

" In the beginning God created heaven and earth."
In the description following this statement he relates
facts that men have recently proven from the great
book of nature.

The claim is often made that the Bible is untrue be-
cause the time assigned to the creation is too small.
Let us see. First, the Bible is not intended to be a
textbook on science, and the account of the creation
is only introductory history.

" In the beginning the earth was without form and
void." This condition coincides with the azoic period
during which geology teaches the earth to have been
destitute of organic life.

During this period light appeared. What light ? We
do not know, but it certainly was not the sun for it
was not created till later. What furnished the light of
those sunless days?

The old philosophers sought an answer to the ques-
tion of the origin of the earth. Aristotle said it was
eternal ; Plato said it had a mother ; Moses simply says
it was the production of one God and that he did it in
six days.

What does this mean? The word in the original
which was translated " day " means a distinct period
of time, but not necessarily what we call a day.

God is unchangeable and so are his laws. The very
laws that are in operation in the natural world today
have been in force from the beginning. Today they
are changing the earth ; then they were forming it.
Slowly, yea, exceeding slowly, these forces have been
and are yet at work.

Water has been one of the chief agents of nature.
Bare, grim, and uninviting the first rocks rose above
the primeval sea to be slowly ground down and spread
over- the ocean's bed. Settling in layers it entombed all
life that chanced to be borne to it and preserved it not
only for us but perhaps many ages hence.

That huge monster picture in the Inglenook some
time ago was taken from the stratum formed by the
age in which he lived.

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Along with him were buried other forms both ani-
mal and vegetable and from their preserved forms we
may learn the story of his time.

And what a tale he tells! He tells of animals so
monstrous that our largest living species are small and
insignificant in comparison. He tells of continents and
seas, of rivers and lakes, of plants and animals as they
appeared upon that ancient earth.

Here may be read the history of life as it was in
the ages long gone. If we read it not, the fault is
in the reader and not in the record.

Today nature is at work just the same as in the
past, and the forms she is now interring may be
exhumed in some future age to convince some doubter
of that day. '

We need not tax credulity. We need not think of
a Creator who fashioned a work and then abandoned
it forever. Let us judge what was done in the past
by what is being done today.

Moses merely gives us an account of the laying of
the cornerstone of this mighty geological structure,
and of some of the succeeding stories. Today we are
erecting the top story on which, perhaps, other ages
will build, adding not to the glory of the creator, but
to the glory of his work.

When you read this do not say, " That cannot be,
for my Bible says the world was created in six days
of twenty-four hours each." " Let God be true, though
every man a liar."

Friend, the trouble is not in the record. " Thou
hast not read thy Bible aright."

Mulberry Grove, III.

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PETTING A HORSE.

" Not many people know how to pet a horse, from
the horse's standpoint, at any rate," said a trainer.
" Every nice-looking horse comes in for a good deal
of petting. Hitch a fine horse close to the curb and
you'll find that half the men, women and children who
go by will stop for a minute, say ' Nice horsy,' and
give him an afifectionate pat or two.

" The trouble is they don't pat him in the right
place. If you want to make a horse think he is going
straight to heaven hitched to a New York cab or
delivery wagon, rub over his eyes. Next to that form
of endearment a horse likes to be rubbed right up
between the ears. In petting horses most people slight
those nerve centers. They stroke the horse's nose.
While a well behaved horse will accept the nasal caress
complacently, he would much prefer that nice, soothing
touch applied to the eyelids. Once in a while a person
comes along who really does know how to pet a horse.
Nine times out of ten that man was brought up in the
country among horses and learned when a boy their
peculiar ways." — New York Globe.

HIRAM POWERS, THE GREAT AMERICAN
SCULPTOR.

" I HAD [at Florence] one memorable conversation
with the distinguished American sculptor, Hiram
Powers, in which he expressed his firm conviction that
the great need of our country zvas more education of
the heart.

" 'Educate the hearts of the people,' said he.
" 'Giz'c in your schools rezvards to the good boys, not
to the smart ones.

God gives the intellect-^the boy should not be re-
zvarded for that.

" "The great danger of our country is from its smart
men. Educate the heart. Educate the heart. Let us
have good men.'

" These were the words of that old man eloquent,
with an eye like an eagle's and a face full of sunshine."
— Our Dumb Animals.

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BIRDS AND THEIR FOOD.

Chipping and song .sparrow: Injurious insects
in summer ; seeds of noxious weeds in spring and fall.

Rose-crested grosbeak: Colorado potato beetle and
other injurious insects.

House wren: Beetles, grasshoppers, bugs, cater-
pillars and spiders form its entire food.

Chickadee: Minute insects (bark lice) and insect
eggs.

Robin : Beetles, grasshoppers, caterpillars, and wild
fruit.

Bluebird : About twenty-five per cent grasshoppers,,
with many caterpillars and spiders. — Exchange.

"About 2,500 acres have been planted to forest crops
in the six New England States this year by private
citi::c)is. This has been done on abandoned farms,^
which still comprise 10 per cent of the total area of
Massachusetts, while even little Rhode Island has 228
abandoned farms. One owner in Massachusetts, who
started a white pine plantation of 65 acres this year>
expects to plant 50 acres annually for the next ten
years. White pine is, of course, the species most gen-
erally planted, but other species which are being used
more and more are Norway spruce, for timber and
pulpwood ; chestnut, for telegraph poles, posts, ties,,
and lumber; red oak, for piles and ties; black locust,
for fence posts; and sugar maple for a variety of
products."

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If I had my way I would build at least one warship-
less a year and with the five million dollars saved I
would establish one thousand schools of agriculture. — ■
James J. Hill.

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THE GREAT LEVELER.

With all our endeavors, through government ac-
tion and society's efforts, to bring people on a common
level, recognizing no distinction but that of good-
ness, we have accomplished little. Evidently we have
not gone about the task in the right way, — have not
used the right means or argument, — for it has been
proven again and again that people can be brought
together on the same plane. As proof that cannot be
controverted we point to the scenes that are now being
enacted in Southern Italy in the relief work for the
earthquake victims.

From the first the King and Queen of Italy have
taken an active part in the rescue work. " The
Queen attended to hundreds of wounded on one of the
battle ships and assisted one of the royal doctors in
performing a number of operations. Her majesty
was assisted in her labors by women and girls of the
people who had escaped." Many women of the aris-
tocracy, following the Queen's example, have become
nurses. Fifteen hundred wounded from Messina and
Reggio, upon their arrival in Rome, were taken to
the hospital belonging to the Vatican. The Pope, in
Tiis desire to bring consolation to these sufferers, en-
tered the hospital which stands on Italian ground, be-
yond the area which, under the law, is considered
papal territory.

And so the great leveler, distress, has gone on,
"breaking down walls before which governments have
stood powerless. The cry of suffering has found its
way into hearts that were adamant to the appeals of
reason. Lily-handed aristocrat and horny-handed
toiler work side by side to relieve the distress of
their brother, and the flimsy, unreasonable distinctions
of class are reckoned at their true value, which is
^ero, while the lives of all are broadened and deep-
ened as they grasp, with some degree of understand-
ing, the idea of the universal brotherhood of man.

But cannot these noble heights be gained except
at this awful cost? We do not know. We know that
their attainment is of the greatest importance to us,
and we know that anything of great worth is secured
only at great cost. The kingdom of God must be
established. And if the principles of this kingdom
do not find their way into the hearts and lives of the
people as quickly as they should through the peace-
able and quiet agents set to work by the Son, then it
may be necessary to let the forces of nature help.

And, too, our puny minds cannot reckon the real
effect of a disaster such as the recent earthquake.
Perhaps the good will largely predominate. Per-
haps it will have no appreciable influence one way
or another. We know that to the compassionate One
who looks out upon this little sphere from the throne
of eternity it can hardly be a matter of the greatest
importance if our little houses crumble down and our
existence here is cut short by a few moments of time.
Perhaps the most important thing to him in the dis-
aster, and surely the most important to us, is how we
are taking it to heart, to what extent it has awakened
the fraternal feeling and how far it will go toward
helping us to " watch " !

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~ SOLVING THE INDUSTRIAL PROBLEM.

Long years ago, before the time of inventions ami
modern improvements, the capitalist was the laborer
and the laborer the capitalist. But with the coming of
inventions and close competition a new order arose.
The laborer was not always able to own his tools and
material and so the man with money supplied them
and bought the laborer's time. And so came about
our present system, — the source of the discontent and
complaints in the working world today.

While there are very few laborers that would want
to go back to the " good old times," they are clearly
justified in believing that there is a better way than
the present one. The better way, however, must be
just and fair to both sides — a point the labor organ-
izations, following the capitalists' example, have been
slow to concede. But the way is sure to be found,
since it is being sought so earnestly by many fair-
minded men of both classes.

Reason, backed by a few successful experiments,
argues that the profit-sharing idea must enter largely
into the plan that is to bring peace between labor
and capitalist and prosperity to both alike. Andrew
Carnegie, the great capitalist, believes that the labor
problem is to be solved in this way. He writes on
the subject in the January number of World's Work.
and what he says is of such unusual and general in-
terest that we quote several paragraphs from the
article.

" In the future labor is to rise still higher. The
joint stock form opens the door to the participation
of labor as shareholder in every branch of business.

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In this, the writer believes, lies the final and endur-
ing solution of the labor question. Nothing can stand
against the direct management of owners. We are
only pioneers whose duty is to start the movement,
leaving to our successors its full and free develop-
ment as human society advances.

"Just as the mechanical world has changed and im-
proved, so the world of labor has advanced from the
slavery of the laborer to the day of his absolute in-
dependence and now to this day, when he begins to
take his proper place as the capitalist-partner of his
employer. We may look forward with hope to the
day when it shall be the rule for the workman to be
partner with capital, the man of afifairs giving his
business experience, the workingman in the mill his
mechanical skill, to the company, both owners of the
shares and so far equally interested in the success of
their joint efforts, each indispensable, so that without
their cooperation success would be impossible.

" The huge combination, and even the moderate cor-
poration, has no chance in competition with the part-
nership which embraces the principal officials and has
adopted the system of payment by bonus or reward
throughout its work. The latter may be relied upon,
as a rule, to earn handsome dividends in times of de-
pression, during which the former, conducted upon
the old plan, will incur actual loss and perhaps land
in financial embarrassment."

In proof of this statement he points to the Filene
stores of Boston which, he says, " has gone farthest
of all in the direction of making its employes share-
holders. The establishment employs seven to nine
hundred men, the capital stock is held only by em-
ployes, and is returned to the corporation at its value
should the employe leave the service. Every share
of stock belongs to some one working in the stores.
The most important advance, is that all questions are
submitted to arbitration, not only complaints or dis-
putes, but wages, scope of work and tenure of employ-
ment. More than four hundred cases of arbitration
have arisen, and the result is that both managers and
employes have been satisfied that this is the true plan.
When an employe is discharged he has the right to
appeal to an arbitration board composed of fellow
employes of different grades."

Concluding, Mr. Carnegie says : " Whether the
communist's ideal is to be finally reached upon earth,
after man is so changed that self-interest, which is
now the mainspring of human action, will give place
to heavenly neighbor interest, cannot be known. The
future has not been revealed. He who says yes, and
he who says no, are equally foolhardly. Neither
knows, therefore neither should presume to consider,
much less to legislate in their day, for a future they
can know nothing of. The writer, however, believes
one point to be clear — namely, that the ne.xt step to-
ward improved labor conditions is through the stage

of shareholding in the industrial world, the work-
man becoming joint owner in the profits of the labor.
Payment to slaves and serfs by providing shelter
and food and clothing for them, then by orders on the
stores for articles up to payment by cash to independ-
ent workmen today, each a great step forward, have
all been tried, and now the coming day dawns when
payment is to be made wholly or in part by profit-
sharing, the workman having the status of the share-
owning official and a voice in management as joint
owner. He will be guaranteed a mininnun wage,
when finally paid by profits entirely, to keep his mind
easy and free for his work, the proper support of
himself and his family being thus insured."

There will no doubt be many difficulties to over-
come and many blunders made in trying to find the
best plan by which this principle may be carried out,
but we believe that it points to a fair settlement of the
question. However there can be no satisfactory solu-
tion of this or any other problem in the social or busi-
ness world until men have a greater experimental
knowledge of the golden rule than they appear to have
now. Justice in full measure will bring us no real
enjoyment until we know that it is accorded to our
fellowman in the same degree.

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JUST FOR A LITTLE WHILE.

I'd like to be a boy again,

Just for a day or two.
I'd like to roam through the old home ways,

Just as I used to do.
Over the hills and far away.

Wandering mile on mile,
'Neath a sky as blue as it use to be —

Just for a little while.

I'd like to mingle with chums of old,

Just for a day or two.
. Whistling the hours of day away,

Just as I used to do.
Over the fields and through the lane,

Down to the old, worn stile.
Hearing the " Whip-poor-Will's " shrill cry,

Just for a little while.

I'd like to fish in the clear, cold creek.

Just for a day or two.
Watching the cork as it sinks from sight,

Just as I used to do.
Over the bridge and through the woods.

Marching in single file.
Searching with chums for big nut trees,

Just for a little while.

I'd like to rest 'neath the old home roof.

Just for a day or two.
Dreaming dreams of the days to come.

Just as I used to do.
Over the ashes of yesterdays,

Sitting I dream and smile;
Wishing that time would take me back.

Just for a little while.

— ^The Commoner.

THE INGLENOOK.— Jaiuiary 26, 1909.

The Home World

THE BOY PROBLEM

CLARA NORTH RULEY

Every mother who has brought children into the
world is confronted with two problems that will
take a lifetime to solve. The " boy " problem and
the " girl " problem. They cannot be evaded. We
are responsible for their existence and therefore the
world looks to us for their solution.

The boy if taken rightly is a most amenable being.
He reasons instinctively. It is a part of his faculties,
this reasoning power, and in that power we mothers
have a strong ally. Besides that, if he is at all the
right sort of a boy he possesses chivalry. In its crud-
est form no doubt and not always in evidence, but
it is there nevertheless, and can be found and de-
veloped if looked for.

From their earliest years boys should be taught
to be thoughtful of their mothers and sisters. It
is indeed an unfortunate boy who has no sister. He
should wait on them in ways that only boys know and
should protect them because they belong to the weaker
sex. The boy who sees the woodbox is always
full, who dusts the rugs, moves the furniture on
sweeping days and does all this with a cheerful will-
ingness has already spelled the word " success." For
such boys are in demand the world over. They are
the ones in after life who always can find a " job."

Teach a boy to be " square." The golden rule
invariably appeals to his sense of justice. " Do unto
others as you would have them do unto you," makes
for them a condition of things in which no one loses
out. A boy I once knew had shirked his work in
the garden and his mother wished him to do it over.
The youngster dominated for the moment by an evil
spirit, objected to what, down in his heart, he knew
to be just, but the mother conquered him after this
manner : " My boy, last week when I made your shirt
waist I made the sleeves wrong. I did my best, but
I didn't know how boys had their cuffs made nowa-
days and they did not suit you. So I changed them.
It took the better part of an afternoon but I counted

it a little thing to do for you. It was my duty to
please you in the matter of shirt sleeves as it is your
duty to please me in the matter of hoeing the garden."
After a moment's struggle the boy's face cleared
and he made for the garden with such industry that
when night came there was not a weed in evidence
worth speaking of.

Mothers should never demand impossibilities but
then they should insist on the fulfillment of what they
do demand. That makes one's word good at all
times. Not long since I heard a loving mother tell
her small son, who was a degree too insistent about
a matter, and so had gotten on his mother's nerves,
that she would throw him down the stairs if he didn't
keep still. He knew she would not keep her word and
she knew it perhaps better than he did. As his demands
kept up, she finally told him that when he awakened
in the morning he wouldn't have any mama, she was
going away and never come back. He replied care-
lessly, " Oh, you'll come back all right." It is perhaps
unneccessary to add that he got what he wanted,
which was not at all good for him.

.^s we care for our sons in their infancy, we look
into the dim future and we always see them as good
men. But, alas, some mothers' sons fail to come up to
the standard. Witness our crowded jails and alms-
houses. Something brought those poor unfortunates
to such a state, and sorrowful indeed is the mother
who must admit in her heart that her selfish, injudi-
cious afl^ection has been the means of making a failure
for the one for whom she most coveted success.

When a boy begins to earn anything he should be
made to have certain responsibilities in the spending
of it. If he is earning a regular amount each week
of any reasonable size he should pay board. Not
so much, perhaps, for what the money will actually
buy but so he will know that it takes something to
live. That boy makes the poorest sort of a husband
who has boarded at home and has never realized that

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food costs money. It is his type who develops into the
carping, fault-finding man who can't understand
" how it takes so much for two to live when I always
was able to have plenty of spending money before I
married." Of course he did because his jxior old
father fed him and his mother washed and mended for
him. so he was utterly without responsibility.

Nearly all boys have a period of deep religious feel-
ing in their early youth and after that in a majority
of cases comes a reaction. It is then our son needs
all the reason, all the chivalry his early years of train-
ing have given him if he becomes a man in the truest
sense of the word, for it is there his greatest danger
lies. He is getting out from under our care as he
must of neccessity some day. In other words, he is
learning to stand alone in this big universe and we
cannot help him except as we have prepared him in
earHer years. Then latei' religion comes to mean
much to him, a veritable wall to protect him from
the assaults of the enemy.

There comes a time all mothers dread. The time
when our boys are attracted by the opposite sex.
Well it is for them, then, if they have lived lives of
reason and sanity, for their future as well as others',
may be made or marred by their course. The golden
rule, changed to fit the case, is perhaps the best guide
at this crucial time, " Treat all girls as you would
have the other fellows treat your sister." This is
truly an infallible test, and the boy who conscien-
tiously follows this rule has become a man indeed.

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YOUR MOTHER.

The average boy is devoted to his mother, but at
the same time careless with respect to her wish. He
does not realize just how much she means to him be-
cause she is always on hand to help in every duty and
difficulty. Now and then he wakes up to see just
how much she means to him. Sometimes this awaken-
ing is too late — when she is gone out of his presence
into the night of death. How much she meant to him
is well brought out in the following poem, copied from
the Toronto Globe. It is called "Left Alone":

It's the lonesomest house you ever saw,
This big gray house where I stay —

I don't call it livin', at all, at all.
Since my mother went away.

Four long weeks ago, an' it seems a year;

" Gone home," so the preacher said —
An' I ache in my breast with wantin' her,

.^n' my eyes are always red.

I stay out of doors till I'm almost froze,

'Cause every corner an' room
Seems empty enough to frighten a boy,

An' filled to the doors with gloom.

I hate them to call me in to my meals;

Sometimes I think I can't bear
To swallow a mouthful of anythin'

And her not sitting up there

A-pourin' the tea, an' passin' the things,

An' laughin' to see me take
Two big lumps of sugar instead of one,

An' more than my share of cake.

There's no one to go to when things go wrong;

She was always safe and sure.
Why, not a trouble could tackle a boy

That she couldn't up an' cure.

I'm too big to be kissed, I used to say,
But somehow I don't feel right,

Crawlin' into bed as still as a mouse-
Nobody sayin' good night,

An' tuckin' the clothes up under my chin,

An' pushin' my hair back so—
Things a boy makes fun of before his chums,

But things that he likes, you know.

I can't make it out for the life of me

Why she should have to go,
An' her boy left here in this gray old house,

A-needin' an' wantin' her so.

There are lots of women, it seem to me.
That wouldn't be missed so much

Women whose boys are about grown up,
An' old maid aunties an' such.

I tell you, the very lonesomest thing

In this great big world today
Is a boy of ten whose heart is broke

'Cause his mother is gone away.

— The Mennonite.

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AN INHERITANCE.

" I JUST can't help it," said Alice, impatiently. " I
get my high temper straight from grandfather, and
my blues from mother's side of the house. When
a thing's born in you in that way, what are you '^o-
ingtodo?" "^

" Well." said Mrs. Wharton, thoughtfully, " I should
say that you could do one of two things'. The first
IS to carry out your inherited tendencies, one by one,
to their logical conclusions—to be just as angrv and
just as cross and depressed as you feel like being, be-
cause your grandfather and your mother's side of the
iiouse have had those faults before you."

" Oh, I don't exactly mean that ! " cried Alice,
rather startled.

" Still, that is really what you might logically do;
especially if, as you said, you couldn't help doing it!
The other way. though, I must confess, always seems
to me the more reasonable one for a sane and respon-
sible human being. That is, having a.scertained your
ancestral traits— the good as welt as the bad— to go
to work to shape out of them the character that you
want. Of course, there will be some places rather
hard to work into shape, but, knowing your material,
after all, gives you a great advantage."

" Grandfather's temper an advantage ! " cried Alice.
" I never looked at it in that light, Mrs. Wharton."

" Your grandfather was a man of strong will and
great energy. I have always heard," said Mrs.

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Wharton. " Those quahties often go with a high
temper. Suppose you fix your mind upon shaping
a strong character out of your inherited temper. It
will take thought and time^ and prayer, but it can be
done, as dozens of people will tell you who have ac-
complished it. Take your Cousin Will — with the
same ancestral temper."

" Oh, but I never saw Cousin Will angry in my
life." said Alice. " When he doesn't like a thing, he
just shuts his lips together and keeps quiet. I've
often noticed it."

" Yet your Cousin Will told me once," said Mrs.
Wharton, " that when he was a boy his temper was
most ungovernable. ' But,' he said, ' I knew I had
it. and that it was an inheritance, and I determined to
watch it. " Forewarned is forearmed," you know,
and I found it so. When I felt myself getting angry
I went off somewhere alone and fought it out — and
every time told. And when I got it once under con-
trol I was surprised to find how much power I had
gained. I have often been thankful to my grand-
father since for the moral gunpowder, so to speak,
that he left to me — now that it doesn't explode any
more, but drills holes in the rock for me instead.' You
can appreciate that, Alice, for you know how many.
rocks of hindrance your cousin has met and over-
come."

" It's a new idea," said Alice, slowly ; " but I think
it's a good one. Thank you Mrs. Wharton. I'll let
the first way go and try the second, from this day for-
ward." — Selected.

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DIPHTHERIA AND ITS TREATMENT.

One of the numerous readers of Health wishes
some one to write on the drugless method of treat-
ing that much-dreaded and fatal scourge diphtheria,
and as I have had a large experience in the past fifty
years, I will give a few facts, the result of my large
experience in treating this as well as other diseases.
I have treated hundreds of cases and have never lost
a patient, nor have I ever used any form of drug, not
even as a gargle. My method consisted of different
kinds of baths, as the case indicated, to reduce the
fever and promote purification, with cold water ap-
pliances to the throat — hot to the extremities and ice
held in the mouth as far back as possible, if the pa-
tient was capable of so doing. I always insisted on
no food being taken as long as there was any febrile
condition, as I did in all forms of disease — and that
the internal bath be given thoroughly.. The air al-
ways to be kept sweet and fresh. I have by these
simple rational methods rescued many from the jaws
of death after their attending physicians had pro-
nounced them incurable, and have never had any
diseased sequel follow as is often the case with drug
treatment.

Feeding to keep up their strength is the fatal mis-

take made' by most medical practitioners, "and it only
adds fuel to the flame.

I have known a number of deaths caused directly by
serum treatment, as I have many by drugs without it.
It is a simple and easily cured disease where natural
rational methods are eniployed, and I do not consider
it contagious, as claimed.

Of course any one is more liable to have any disease
if much with it if the health is not good, but one of
the greatest causes of contracting any disease is fear,
which makes one negative, hence acted upon instead
of being able to resist any foreign enemy. The result
of the drug method of treatment has made diphtheria
one of the most dreaded of diseases. The medical
fraternity with this as with most of its theories has
put the cart before the horse, claiming bacteria to be
the cause of, whes, in fact, it is the result of the
disease the same as all filth when moist and warm
will develop vegetable and animal life. All the sick-
ness and suffering in the world is the result of igno-
rance. Knozvledgc and ivisdom are the saviors. — Juliet
H. Severance, M. D.

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" The best way to keep a good balance on our-
selves is to decide about how other Christians ought
to live, and then meekly and humbly live up to the
standard ourselves."

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TO THE HOUSEKEEPER.

To keep windows free from frost rub the glass
with a sponge dipped in alcohol.

A little flour sprinkled in the pan when eggs are
frying will prevent the sputtering hot fat that is so
disagreeable.

Mud stains may be removed from tan leather shoes
by rubbing them with slices of raw potato. When
dry polish in usual way.

Finger marks on paint can be easily removed by
rubbing with a clean white cloth dipped in kerosene.
The wood should afterward be wiped with a dry cloth.

Match marks on the kitchen walls, which have been
caused by carelessly striking matches on them will
disappear if rubbed first with the cut surface of a
lemon, then with a clean cloth dipped in whiting.

j»

To prevent eyeglasses from steaming in cold
weather rub the glasses thoroughly on both sides
with a little vaseline or cold cream, then rub with
tissue paper or cloth to clear the glasses. Glasses
treated this way will not cloud or steam in the coldest
weather for twenty-four hours. This treatment of
the glasses should be made once a day for outdoor
use. — Collected.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 26, 1909.

"NEW" POTATOES AT CHRISTMAS.

The acme of quality in potatoes, from the English
point of view, is represented by the little round tubers,
about an inch in diameter, which are sent in early
spring from the Jersey and Guernsey Islands. An En-
glisli gardening periodical tells of an ingenious scheme
by which anyone can have quite as good potatoes at
Christmastime. !' [ -

First of all dig a hole three feet in depth, and
procure some biscuit tins about nine inches long and
four inches wide, having close-fitting lids. Tubers
should be selected for storing. Snowdrop is a suit-
able variety.

As each root of potato is dug pick up the tubers and
put them in a basket, which should be immediately
covered with haulm or something to prevent the tubers
from drying. When sufficient have been dug, take
them to a shed and pack tliem quickly into the biscuit
tins. No soil or any material is put with them. The
tins should then be buried in the hole for them, and a
stick put in the ground to denote their whereabouts.

It is best to select medium-sized tubers, just such
tubers as are generally described as " new " potatoes.
Remember that it is necessary to dig and store the
tubers away in the tins before the skins are set. or
they won't keep well, nor afterward scrape like
" new " potatoes. A little green or dried mint should
be boiled with the tubers. — The Garden Magazine.

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" People who depend on hot-air furnaces to heat
their houses often find it difficult to get sufficient heat
when the wind is in a certain direction, no matter
how much coal they burn. The reason is that the
supply of cold air to the furnace is not adequate. A
scheme is now being introducted whereby an electric
fan is placed in the cold-air duct, so that when re-
quired an extra quantity of air can be forced through
the furnace. By wiring the fan so that the current can
be turned on and off at will from the living rooms,
the forced draft is within ready control. There is no
patent on this idea, and any one who has the in-
genuity can try it."

The Children's Corner

AT SCHOOL AND AT HOME.

My teacher doesn't think I read

So very special well.
She's always saying, " What was that

Last word?" and makes me spell
And then pronounce it after her,

As slow as slow can be,
" You'd better take a little care " — ■

That's what she says to me —
" Or else I'm really 'fraid you'll find,

Some one o' these bright days,
You're way behind the Primer Class,"

That's what my teacher says.

But when I'm at my grandpa's house.

He hands me out a book,
And lets me choose a place to read;

And then he'll sit and look
At me, and listen, just as pleased!-

I know it from his face,
And- when I read a great, long word,

He'll say, " Why, little Grace,
You'll have to teach our deestrict school

Some one of these bright days!
Mother, you come and hear this child."
-That's what my grandpa says.

— Universalist Leader.

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"JUST BREAD."

" Just bread and butter and honey and milk for
supper," said Doris. " Guess we're most to the starv-
ing place."

" I am sorry," mother began, but grandfather in-
terrupted : " I have seen the time when that plate
of bread would have looked better to me than all the
turkey in the world."

" Funny eyes you had," laughed Doris. " I'll al-
ways take the turkey, please."

" Yes," said grandfather, " a big dish of nice slices
of turkey breast wouldn't have tempted me from one
little piece of that bread one time. It was when this
country was all new," grandfather went on, for Doris
was listening for the story. " It was very different
from now. We bought the land at a dollar an acre.
Now it is worth more than a hundred times as much,
but we worked hard and had none of the conveniences
that are thought to be necessities now.

" The corn and wheat were ground at water mills
run by the streams through the country. Well, one
unusually cold winter all the streams froze, and for
weeks no flour or meal could be ground. The nearest
market was a hundred miles away, and could be
reached only in wagons, and as nobody wanted to
risk the trip in such weather, we did without bread
for six long weeks. My ! but the first hoecake tasted
good after that. I never have felt like saying ' just
bread ' since. And what do you suppose we ate
instead of bread? Why, turkey breast. There were
plenty of wild turkeys, which are really the best kind.
Mother put slices of the breast on a plate as she would
bread, and we ate them with gravy, or molasses, or
anything we had. It was good at first, and we chil:-
dren who had come from the East where turkey was
not so plentiful thought we were living like .kings.
But soon we began to get fearfully tired of it. In
fact, if you try to eat any one thing every day for
six weeks you get tired, but when you stop to think,
you always want bread. Just imagine not having-
even a cracker or a batter cake for six weeks, and
see how good this bread and butter will taste."

" It's good without imagining such bad luck." Doris
said, " and I'll not say ' just bread ' again, either," —
Exchange.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 26, 190).

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I WILL GIVE YOU REST.
PAUL MOIILER.

The Lord had done his best to reach the masses
of the people with his teaching. They had come
for the physical healing, and had marveled at his
wonderful works ; but they had not repented. They
were satisfied with themselves, and he could not stir
them. We can understand their attitude by our own.
There is not one of us who responds today as fully
as he should to the Master's word. How seldom we
turn to the Lord for anything until we need it sorely,
and see no hope of getting it elsewhere. It was to
the needy ones that the Lord turned at last ; and what
a responsive chord he struck. Rest for the weary !
What other need is so universal ?

There is not a man on the face of the earth who
does not have some burden, if it be nothing but the
great burden of making the time pass away pleas-
antly. The most of us are spending our energies in a
weary round of daily tasks that have to be done over
and over and over again till our hearts are weary
with the drudgery of it all.

How it takes the heart out of a man to know that
the work he is doing will not stay done; that the
next day, and the next month and the next year will
bring again the same endless succession of dull, hard
tasks with no apparent profit.

But the Lord says, " I will give you rest." What
more could we ask? Rest from so many of the petty
tyrannies that we have laid upon ourselves ; the many
extra steps we take because we think we have to ;
rest from the great burden of providing so many
unnecessaries that the world has taught us to love;
rest from so many things that the customs of the
'neighborhood have demanded ; rest from the fancied
necessity of living up to the limit of our resources
of money and strength ; rest from a thousand things
that seem to control our lives and keep us from those
things that we really desire.

Jesus offers to free us from these things; and how
wonderfully he fulfils his promise. If a man comes to
Christ, he is free from the necessity of doing any-
thing but the will of the Father; and there is no

drudgery in that. It is a life of loving service ; and
love knows no weariness. Even the hardest tasks
become easy when they are done in love ; and under
Christ's, all our deeds are born of love. " Owe no
man anything but to love one another."

It is a great rest to be free from responsibility. I'd
rather do two hours of work than bear one hour's
responsibility for the success of any great undertak-
ing.

Without Christ, each of us bears his own responsi-
bility. He must plan his life and depend upon him-
self to make his life a success. Who can foresee the
' future event ; who then can plan for the future ? One
man's strength is but little against a thousand; who
then can "bring to pass the things he has planned?
How then can a man have any rest when he knows
that he must both plan and bring to pass the suc-
cesses of his life? Oh, the hours and days of anxiety,
and care, worry and striving which tax our endur-
ance to the utmost ! What a rest and relief to be freed
from such a burden ! Christ alone can make us
free, for he alone can plan our lives and bring us to
perfection.

And has he not borne the burden for us? Has he
not planned our lives, and is he not with us daily to
guide us? His Gospel is nothing if it is not a plan
of life; his Spirit is nothing if not a guide, and the
very power by which we live the life. The man who
gives his whole life over to the Lord that it may be
used in the Lord's own way for the Lord's own pur-
poses, can rest assured that he will not fail to accept
it and use it. He may want me to work very hard :
to farm or dig ditches or build houses or teach school
or practice medicine, or to do any other of the hard
things in life; or he may want me to do the still
harder work of preaching the Gospel, caring for some
church, teaching Bible classes, or face to face personal
work in soul-saving. No matter what the work is,
or how hard it is, I do not need to bear the burden of
it. It is my privilege each day to give myself for
that day, with all that I have and all that I am into
his hands, that he may direct and use me for the day,
as seemeth best to him. Then the responsibility for

THE INGLENOOK.— January 26, 1909.

that day's successes rests with him and not with me.
That takes all the worry away ; it is worry, not work,
that wearies us. Neither should we worry about the
future, for he, himself, has said : " Be not anxious for
the morrow, for the morrow will be anxious of it-
self. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof."
What a rest to be free from anxious care and gloomy
forebodings ; what a rest to have our tasks set for us
and to know that we are to succeed. Bless the Lord
for his goodness and his tender mercies to the child-
ren of men. Praise the Lord, O my soul !
Chicago, III.

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WHOSOEVER WILL.

RICHARD SEIDEL.
Born unto Christ's pure kingdom

Through rending of the veil
Of darkness and tradition.

Pure light and life prevail.
And he who will may enter,

'Twas our meek Savior's word.
Thus leaving man the power

Of choice to serve the Lord.

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THE POWER OF A TEMPERATE LIFE.

It is one of God's kind laws that obedience in a
lower sphere always brings rewards in a higher sphere
as well. To obey God in the body finds recompense in
the body, to be sure, but also in the soul. No one can
be temperate without getting a clearer eye for it, a
finer skin, stronger muscles, and a steadier pulse.

But then, too, it is impossible to be temperate and
not see more of God, enjoy finer impulses, a quicker
energy, a steadier will. God always pays at com-
pound interest, a splendid return for a trifling service.

But is temperance a trifle, an easy matter, a slight
task? Does it not rather imply great self-control,
strenuous self-denial? One would think so to hear
some men talk, but they are the intemperate men. To
one that has never used tobacco it is no hardship not
to use it ; he loathes it. A man who has never used
alcoholic liquors can pass the door of a thousand
saloons with not the least desire to enter the vile
dens. Daniel and his friends ate their simple fare
with a greater relish than the other youths had for
their richer viands, and so they grew fairer to the eye.
No truly temperate man feels it a self-denial to be
temperate ; it is his choice and his pleasure.

But suppose that, as is the case with all of us
some time at some points, we have already begun
to be intemperate. How can we make our way into
the power of a temperate life?

First, want to. No one can be cured of drunken-
ness — of any kind — until he really wants to be cured.

His body may be pumped full of gold-cure and
other nostrums, but he will remain a drunkard at
heart until he takes the will-cure, and ceases to look
longingly after his sin and see how close he can get
to it without falling into it again.

Second, keep away from temptation. If your sin
came through the dance, do not even look at a dance
again. If from gambling, do not touch a pack of
cards even when no stake is played for. If from
strong drink, do not even read the papers that adver-
tise liquors.

Third, cram your life with healthy interests. Hard
work is one of the best specifics against intemperance,
a veritable gold-cure.

Fourth, and finally, though first of all in importance,,
do not trust in your o.wn strength. Appetite is a
fearful thing. God who made it, is the only one that
can master it, as any one can prove. No drunkard
has fallen farther into beastliness than many of those
who have " stretched lame hands of faith " out of
their pits, and have met the answering hands of God.
There is no depth of sensuality, or passion, of folly
and despair that his mercy cannot sound. No drunk-
ard can enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but the King-
dom of Heaven can enter any drunkard, if he will. —
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COURAGE.

Because I hold it sinful to despond.
And will not let the bitterness of life

Blind me with bitter tears, but look beyond
Its tumult and its strife;

Because I lift my head above the mist,

Where the sun shines and the broad breezes blow.
By every ray and every raindrop kissed

That God's love doth bestow;
Think you I find no bitterness at all?

No burden to be borne, like Christian's pack?
Think you there are no ready tears to fall

Because I keep them back?
Why should I hug life's ills with cold reserve.

To curse myself and all who love me? Nay!
.A thousand times more good than I deserve

God gives me every day.
And in each one of the rebellious tears

Kept bravely back, he makes a rainbow shine;
Grateful I take his slightest gift — no fears.

Nor any doubts are mine.
Dark skies must clear, and when the clouds are past.

One golden day redeems a year;
Patient I listen, sure that sweet, at last.

Will sound his voice of cheer.
Then vex me not with chiding. Let me be;

I must be glad and grateful to the end;
I grudge you not your cold and darkness — me

The powers of light befriend.

— Celia Thaxter.

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FAMILY DEVOTIONS.

" All the duties of religion," says Dr. Dwight,
" are eminently solemn and venerable in the eyes of
children. But none will so strongly prove the sin-
cerity of the parents; none so powerfully awaken
the reverence of the child; none so happily recom-
mend the instruction he receives, as family devotions,
particularly those in which petitions for the children
occupy a distinguished place."

THE INQLENOOK.— January 26, 1909.

Echoes from Everywhere

Twelve thousand new suits have been filed in the fed-
eral court at Muskogee, Okla., against that many defend-
ants to recover Indian lands in the Choctaw, Chickasaw,
and Creek nations. Many of the defendants are prom-
inent. Fraud is charged as the basis of each suit.

Twenty per cent of all the insane in the United States,
or 30,000, owe their condition to alcohol. Their direct
cost to the nation for support is $18,000,000 annually, and,
on the low estimate that the productive worth of each
person is $400 a year, there is the additional loss of
$12,000,000 more.

Figures made public at the Department of Commerce
and Labor relating to Japanese immigration indicate
that during the twelve months ended Nov. 1 last the total
number of Japanese admitted was 6,017 and the total
number which left was 5,832, an increase in the Japanese
population of 185.

Miss Rose Fritz, the American champion typewriter,
who accepted the challenge to write 100 words in a
minute, came through the ordeal triumphantly in the
test arranged a few days ago, accomplishing the remark-
able record of writing 262 words in 2 minutes and 26
seconds, or at the rate of 107.6 words a minute.

Over a hundred farmers living along the Illirfois-Miss-
issippi Canal in Whiteside and Bureau counties have
made demands for $375,000 from the government, claim-
ing that seepage from the canal has damaged their lands
to that extent. If the money is not forthcoming they
say they will file suit in the United States Court of Claims.

The Great Western Railway, England, is famous for
its express trains. During the season of American travel,
there are three e.Kpresses which run daily from London
'to Exeter, -a distance of 173 J^ miles, without a stop, in
three hours, at an average speed of just 58 miles an hour,
A fourth express makes the same run at an average speed
of 565^^ miles an hour. It is not unusual for the total load
back of the tender and expresses to reach 400 tons.

One hundred and fifty persons died of pneumonia in
Chicago during the week ending Jan. 16 — the largest
number recorded for a similar period since May of last
year. The result was that the total mortality was boosted
to 726, as against 581 for the preceding week, and the
death rate went to 17.05 per thousand, which is an in-
crease of nearly 4 per cent. Impure air, the health de-
partment declares in its weekly bulletin, is responsible
for this condition. " Evidently," it says, " there are many
who are violating the simplest rules of health. Alto-
gether too many are unmindful of the most important
factor in health — pure air."

In the fourth news item on page 68 in Inglenook of
Jan. 19 a mistake is made in giving the deposits in the
State banks of Kansas. Sept. 1, 1908, the total deposits
were more than, $83,000,000. This sum is greater than
was ever before reached by the total deposits, but not
"eighty-three million dollars greater " as stated in that
item. The remainder of the item, telling of the gain per
day is correct.

The Newark (N. J.) Board of Trade has offered three
prizes of $25, $15, and $10 for the three best essays on
international arbitration by pupils of the High School.
The president of the Board, Peter Campbell, ex-Presi-
dent George W. Tompkins, and Richard C. Jenkinson,
a former presiding officer, have furnished the money for
these prizes. The contest will close the last of April
next, and the prizes will be awarded on the 18th of May.

A total of 33,000 shares of stock has been allotted by
the United States Steel Corporation to its employes this
year under its profit-sharing plan, according to announce-
ment lately made. This is the first year that the
privilege of buying the common has been extended to the
employes. They may take 15,000 shares of this at SO
and 18,000 of the preferred at 110. Applications already
received, it is stated, make it probable that the entire al-
lotment will be oversubscribed.

Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, who died at St. Peters-
burg Jan. 14, was given a funeral with full military honors.
The body was interred in the Alexander-Nevski Monas-
tery, where rest many of the famous soldiers, authors
and musicians of the empire. The obituary notices at-
tribute the blame for the loss of the battle of the Sea of
Japan to the ships and not to the commander, and they
praise the admiral's conduct during his trial by court-
martial in that he desired to assume entire responsibility
for the catastrophe.

With a view to increasing the safety and efficiency
of work in its mines, the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. has
instituted an experimental night school at one of its an-
thracite mines in Pennsylvania. Should the experiment
give the results expected, the idea will be extended
throughout the company's coal-mining system. The school
is unlike any other ever attempted in this country, and
is for the men who actually do the work, for the fore-
man, the miner, the laborer, the driver, the door boy,
and every other toiler helping in the production of an-
thracite. It is believed that one of the best results of
the new school will be a decrease in the accident roll,
while it is confidently expected that a smaller percentage
of waste in the mining operations will also be noticed.
The future foremen, superintendents and other officials
will be taken from among those who attend the mining
school. .::::.■;..: :: c:r;t ",..--;it "::.•

THE INGLENOOK.— January 26, 19Qft.

93;

Banks and other big houses of Chicago have been ad-
vised by local postoffice officials to affix the regular
foreign postage, 2 cents for the first ounce and 3 cents
for each additional ounce, to insure- quick delivery of
mail to Germany. Under the new tariff arrangement the
mail carried to Germany at the domestic rate must be
carried by steamers plying between New York and Ger-
man ports. This causes delays at times of several days.
Mail on which the old rate of 5 cents is paid takes the
quickest route, often going by French and English mail

boats.

Jan. 9 the liquor forces began an attack on the con-
stitutionality of the Alabama State prohibitory law in
the United States Court by seeking to have Judge Thom-
as G. Jones issue an injunction estopping all enforcement
of the act pending a decision of the validity of its passage.
The case is brouglit by the Cook Brewing Company of
Evansville, Ind., which alleges that it has spent $100,-
000 in building up a business in the State which is now
taken away by the law. The State is taking the position
that in the exercise of police duties it has a right to con-
trol traffic and that it is a State question purely.

" Opium causes half a million suicides a year," the
Rev. A. S. Greeg of the International Reform Bureau
declared recently with reference to the opium conference
called by President Roosevelt, which begins its session
at Shanghai Feb. 1. The statement is based on letters
and reports from Dr. E. W. Thwing, special secretary
of the reform bureau, who has been sent to China to at-
tend the opium conference. Dr. Thwing states that he
has obtained statistics from the provinces of Kueichau,
Yunnan, Sz Chaun, and Anhwei, with a total population
of 580,000, in which he says the proportion of the popu-
lation using opium is from 20 to 80 per cent and the
amount of money spent for the drug is $200,000,000 a
year.

Peanuts, or ground nuts, as they are locally called, form
one of the largest crops over a large part of the north-
ern provinces of China, and are one of the articles of
native export entering rather heavily intoboth the China
coast and foreign trade. Shipment is made in sacks, the
nuts usually being in their native state, except when
shelled, the trade in these hulled nuts predominating in
some ports. Another large item, dependent directly on
the peanut crop, is the export of ground-nut oil. Cus-
toms statistics unite ground-nut oil with tea and wood
oils, the latter two naturally playing no part in the trade
of the northern ports. In value the oil business is much
more important than the nut trade, the total exports
in 1907 being valued at no less than $3,340,000.

Drink and poverty are given as the chief causes of
crime in the annual report of the Central Howard Asso-
ciation, just issued. The association helps persons after
their release from prison. According to the statistics
given by the men themselves 321 persons ascribed their
downfall to intoxicants. Two hundred and nineteen said
that they were led to commit crime because they were
poor and out of work. The association aided 1,275 men
in 1908. Of these 983 were new cases. Seventy prison-
ers were paroled to the association by the prison author-
ities. Of these it is reported that 80 per cent are now
good citizens. Twenty per cent were either sent back
to prison or escaped. The association reports that be-
sides these aided directly letters were sent and personal
advice given to 50,000 others in various parts of the coun-
try.

John Bull is our best foreign customer. We are by
no means his most aggressive provider, however. During
the past ten years Great Britain's increase in imports has
been 20 per cent per capita. But our own. sales. to John
Bull in that time have slightly decreased per capita.
An English statistician puts it thus: Every person in the
United Kingdom consumed $54.08 worth of imported com-"
modifies in 1897, of which $11.35 worth came from the
United States. But in 1906 each Briton — man, woman,
and child — consumed $62.74 worth of imports, of which
only $11.92 came from the United States. In other words,
while John Bull's scale of living has risen nearly ten
dollars in ten years on imported articles, we have suc-
ceeded in selling him an increase of only fifty-seven cents'
worth.

To be a citizen of France is ordinarily to have a bank
account. Nearly 2,000,000 persons in the republic have
$2,000 each, and 4,000,000 have $1,000 each. The total
wealth of France is divided among the inhabitants in a
manner more nearly equal than is the wealth of any
other nation. French thrift, with its wholesome eflects,
is fostered by the French institutions for saving. When
the government postal banks were established in France
in 1881, the private savings banks in that country had
been in a flourishing condition for many years. Their
existence and success did not deter the French govern-
ment from adopting the postal savings bank system.
Its beneficial effect on the habits of the people has brought
new depositors to the private savings banks and new in-
vestors seeking safe investments into the money market.

The demand for cigarettes in China today is only ex-
ceeded by that for kerosene. Nor is this habit confined
alone to the male portion of the population; the females
of all classes and ages, from 10 years up, indulge as freely
and openly in cigarettes as do their brothers. The in-
troduction of this habit among the Chinese dates back
but a few years, and its universal spread throughout the
empire has been astonishingly rapid. The manufacturers
say that their production is up to the standard and en-
tirely free from opium. The small cost of cigarettes,
which can be bought from one to a thousand at as low
as one-fourth of an American cent each, may have some-
thing to do with their universal use. The spread of this
insidious habit is so alarming that the authorities at Can-
ton have just issued a decree forbidding students to
smoke.

Perhaps there is in the course of construction no other
enterprise, excepting the Panama canal, which will mean
more to the commerce of the United States than the rail-
road from the Florida mainland to Key West. The work
on this road is now nearing completion, but 32 miles of
construction remaining to be done, and it is expected
that within the present year cars will be running over
the tracks above the water into Key West. If these ex-
pectations are realized, then it will be possible for pas-
sengers to take a Pullman car in New York and stay until
they reach Havana, for after reaching Key West the
cars will be loaded upon huge barges and towed right
on to the Cuban capital, 90 miles away. The great ad-
vantage of such a road will be in the facility which it
will give to freight transportation between Cuba and the
United States, for when it is in operation the Cuban can
load his fruits, sugar, and other products on cars in
various parts of the island, and they need not be un-
loaded until they reach their destination in various parts
of this country.

THE INGLENOOK.— January 26, 1909.

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MR. TAFT'S NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.

" If I am elected," Mr. Taft has said, " I propose to
devote all the ability that is in me to the constructive
work of suggesting to Congress the means by which
the Roosevelt policies shall be clinched." And in that
work he adds, " My conscience shall be my final political
counselor."

I will conserve the interests of invested capital for the
welfare of the country and of the workingman.

Men who, to get rich, violate the law, moral or
statutory, must be restrained. The statutory law should
be amended where necessary so as to comprise the moral
law.

I shall not interfere with legal combinations of capital
that are beneficial and properly controlled; but I shall
interfere with those made merely to control markets, fix
prices, restrict output, kill competition.

I am against limiting the proportion of their output cor-
porations may own, and fixing prices by government.

I shall take no steps to destroy great organizations that
have a large wage fund when prosperous, and that add
greatly to the prosperity of the country; but I shall do
my utmost to keep them within the law.

I am interested in legislation against the railroads, that
it shall be just and only properly restrictive. The whole
country depends upon the prosperity of the railroads.

The principle of competition between naturally com-
peting lines must not be violated. And I should approve
an amendment to the law permitting useful traffic agree-
ments when approved by the interstate commerce com-
mission.

It will be one of my most pleasant duties to construct
legislation that shall give labor a square deal and not
more than a square deal.

I shall uphold the right of labor to organize for the
purpose of making itself properly a power in the commu-
nity, to maintain its level in the struggle of life, and for
dealing with capital.

I sliall oppose labor when, exercising its right to strike,
it injures the property of its employer, and when it at-
tempts by " secondary boycott " to compel a third and
unwilling person to join the controversy.

Non-union labor shall be secured absolutely the same
rights as union labor.

I shaJJ endeavor to bring capital and labor into closer
relations of confidence and interdependence, and shall
seek peace between capital and labor by their mutual
recognition of their respective unions and acceptance of
the principle of mediation and arbitration. — From the
January Circle Magazine.

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THE MORAL OF HARD TIMES.

The morbid congestion of population in our great cities
and industrial districts is now bearing fruits which are
pitiful and at the same time logical. The story is as
old as the history of civilization. In times of prosperity

people grow extravagant, thinking the good times will
last forever. Wages are boosted and boosted, the cost
of production is increased and increased, until there comes
a time when the consumer balks and refuses to buy. Then
consumption shrinks, factories close down, and thousands
are thrown out of work or have to take reduced wages.

This is the condition now. Every one is suffering from
the slump more or less, but the brunt of punishment- falls
on those who have not been forehanded, those who have
cast to the winds the teachings of the ages. We hear
of men all over the country who were receiving big pay
during the prosperity period but who are now penniless,
with their families in dire want. Remedies are proposed
and tried, but they cannot reach the root of the trouble,
for they are too superficial, and they come too late.
When hundreds of thousands of unemployed and beg-
gared people are massed together the task of relieving
them becomes overwhelming.

Good advice does not take the place of a loaf of bread,
but nevertheless the lesson of hard times is so old a one
that it is hard to excuse those who refuse to learn it.
In good times we must prepare for bad. The wise man
does not build his house on the sands, where the storms
that are sure to come will wreck it. The grasshopper
that despises the ant for working so diligently during the
season of plenty must paj' the penalty. The prodigal after
spending his substance in riotous living would indeed fain
have " filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat,"
yet " no man gave unto him," and he had to realize how
he had sinned against the laws of life before he could
be relieved.

Throughout the reign of prosperity this paper uniformly
counseled economy and saving thrift; we gave warning
that the hard times would come, and urged those who did
not want to suffer to lay up something for the rainy day.
At that time we were denounced by some of the big news-
papers for "knocking"; prosperity this time had come to
stay, we were told. We claim no superior intelligence
for being able to see through a millstone with a hole in
it, to predict a sequence of natural events as well estab-
lished as the rising and setting of the sun. But the fact
remains that this paper foresaw the present conditions
long before the crash.

As a people we must get closer to the land, avoid con-
gesting in the cities, learn to acquire the habit of saving,
curb our extravagance — and withal bow to the eternal
laws of our being. Poverty and misery can never be
wholly eradicated, but they can be vastly reduced by a
proper reverence for the teachings of the past. — The
Pathfinder.

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"POLICY" AND POSTAL BANKS.

The Senate has taken up the postal saving banks bill,
and several amendments — some of a rather important
character — have been proposed. To honest efforts to
render the bill less objectionable to the bankers opposing

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it, or to prevent misuse of its provisions, there will be
no disposition to take exception. But unfortunately cor-
respondents have been intimating pretty plainly that some
of the " discussion " is merely obstructive, that the ruling
clique has no intention of permitting the bill to pass or
even to reach a final vote.

Some senators, including Mr. Aldrich, contend that the
question of postal banks cannot " scientifically " be set-
tled save as part of the larger question of currency and
banking reform. Others pretend that the idea has not
received sufficient attention anyway, and that legislation
at this time would be rash and dangerous. Still others
affect to believe that there is little popular demand for
such a measure. Finally, the open secret, referred to by
Mr. Wellman in his letter on the President's message
urging desirable amendments to the commerce act. that
" Roosevelt policies " are to be coldly ignored between
now and March 4, and even modest, constructive and
necessary changes postponed out of spite and bitterness
of a personal nature, is likewise to be taken into account
in estimating the chances of the postal banks bill.

There is not a single good reason for " chloroforming "
the bill. It has been very carefully considered, and the
report of the Seriate committee on it was emphatically
favorable. There is no real connection between it and
the problems under consideration by the currency com-
mission — problems affecting circulation, bonds as a basis
for it, elasticity, the future of the greenbacks, etc. The
strength of the popular demand for additional and safe
facilities for savings may be inferred from the indorse-
ment of the idea of postal banks by the Republican plat-
form and the positive promises of the speeches of Repub-
lican orators, from Taft down, during the late campaign.

Even with Congress in its present mood and temper
the fact that Mr. Roosevelt has recommended postal banks
surely ought not to be a fatal argument against sensible
and proper action, against keeping faith with the people.
It is too late to raise objections to the scheme itself;
details can be attended to at this session. — Chicago Rec-
ord-Herald.

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NATIONALISM AND SECTIONALISM.

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No one can have traveled much over the country with-
out noticing a marked contrast between the Northern
and the Southern States in their attitude toward sec-
tionalism. There is vastly less expression of sectional
feeling in the North than in the South. The Southern
journals and the Southern people have much to say about
the South and its special interests and feelings. In the
Northern States such a sentiment about the North as
distinct from the South is almost never to be observed.
We do not talk about the South, we do not think about
it as a section having separate interests from the North,
unless in a political campaign we wish that there were
great doubtful States in the Solid South, as there are
in the North. Ohio and Indiana and Minnesota elect
Democratic governors; that is almost unthinkable in
Georgia or Texas, which have the intense Southern feel-
ing, with a bit of rankling jealousy or even hostility
toward the North. No similar feeling exists in the North.

The reason for the difference — or the apology — is easy
to tell. It all hangs on the Civil War. We have not
yet quite got over the friction of that conflict. The South
was fighting for a section and a sectional institution.
The North was not fighting at all for its section or for
any of its institutions, but for national unity; fighting
to preserve the whole country as one nation, and not

for a portion of the country to be set off by itself. It
followed, necessarily, that in the South sectionalism
should be the dominant thought, and that its influence
would remain largely dominant after the close of the
war. It followed with equal necessity that in the rest
of the country the spirit of nationalism should rule. It
follows that the Northern States do not think of them-
selves as separated in any sense from those States which
fought against union, but have now heartily accepted its
blessings.

Patriotism fights sectionalism. We need to develop
more and more the love of the entire country, and to
minimize any loyalty to a section which can possibly
take the place of patriotism. This does not mean that
one should not have a special love for his native town
or his native State. That is regarded as one of the parts
that make up the total country. There is in it no rivalry
of loyalty or affection. But it is an error and wrong if
schoolbooks on history or geography set section against
section or are guilty of perpetuating the memory of the
hostilities of the days of the elder generation. We can-
not complain that the soldiers, the few that remain, de-
light to meet in annual reunions or in local posts and
recall and maintain the old fellowships; that is beautiful.
But let it be left to them. There is no good and much
evil in the maintenance of Sons or Daughters of the
Union Veterans — if there are any such, we do not know
of any — or of Sons . or Daughters of the Confederacy.
All that we want forgotten, or left to the historians and
the genealogists. We will not cease to be proud of our
pedigrees, of the bravery of our ancestors, but we will
not teach our children to retain and cultivate the sec-
tionalisms of their grandparents. What do they know
about the war? What have they known of slavery? Let
the dead bury their dead, and do we follow the country's
banner. — The Independent.

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SCANT SLEEP FOR GROWING CHILDREN.

" Stealing candy from a babj' " is popularly cited
as typically the meanest, as well as the easiest, of
crimes. It is hardly more despicable, it would
seem, than robbing children of the sleep that they
need to make them normal, healthy men and women. The
baby may get more candy; but sleep once regularly lost
for any length of time can not be made up. Says The
Hospital (London, November 21), discussing some recent
revelations in its own city:

" Difficult and obscure as are many of the problems con-
nected with that suspension of consciousness, complete
or nearly complete, which we call sleep, there are certain
points of personal experience on which most people are
agreed. One is that the quantity of daily sleep necessary
lessens with advancing age; another is that the brain re-
quires longer rest to recover full vigor than does the mere
physical mechanism of the body. Both these points have
a strong bearing on the hygiene of the school child, some
very important facts concerning whose sleep time were
revealed to the Child-Study Society last week by Miss
.A.lice Ravenhill. She finds, by returns as to the hours of
sleep obtained by over six thousand children in public
elementary schools, that on an average they miss some
three hours a day of the sleep suitable and necessary for
their ages. Such a state of things is bad enough, but the
lecturer further pointed out that even the quality of that
which is obtained is very often defective. Overcrowding,
with its usual accessory, bad ventilation, is one of the
factors which is in special need of remedy; another is

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noise, though it is proliable that most town-bred children
are too accustomed to this to allow it to affect their sleep.
Defective home discipline is also blamed for part of the
evil, probably quite correctly. Premature employment,
both before and after school-hours, is another all too
common form of parental selfishness, which is having an
important effect in the deterioration of the race. Only a
few weeks ago some shocking cases of this were exposed
in one of the western suburbs of London; children were
compelled to start milk-distributing at 5:30 A. M., and
even to go on duty again after the completion of their
day's school-work." — Literary Digest.

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WORLD'S APPLE KING.

The statement that one man owns over 1,600 acres
devoted to apple trees sounds amazing ; that more
than 500,000 bushels of apples were sold by him from
trees of his own planting for an aggregate above
$205,000 is likewise amazing ; these figures convey but
a slight idea of the operations of Judge Fred Well-
house of Topeka, Kans., known to those familiar with
horticultural matters as " the Apple King."

When, in the late '70s, he was planting 437 acres
to apple trees in Leavenworth County, Kans.. many of
his tieighbors looked upon him as well-nigh demented.
Over 400 acres in orchard! It was astonishing! It
was destined to be a flat failure ! So said the croakers,
but Wellhouse, undaunted and undiscouraged, worked
on unmindful of the bantering and rallying, and the
outcome justified his faith in Kansas and himself and
forever silenced those who doubted.

Perhaps in no way can be conveyed a clearer con-
ception of the immensity of these apple-growing oper-
ations than by citing the figures from the records.
In all, the maker of this record has grown and sold
twenty-six crops, amounting to considerably more
than a half million bushels. The crop of 1890, ap-
proximately 80,000 bushels, was the largest, and it
sold for more than $50,000. This was perhaps the
most valuable crop of apples ever grown by any one
man in the middle West, and the total paid for it ag-
gregated more than the earnings of the average
citizen during his entire lifetime. The combined yield
of the two largest crops, those of 1890 and 1891, was
142,868 bushels. The smallest yield was 488 bushels
in 1899.

All these apples, if packed in barrels and loaded on
the ordinary railroad freight car, averaging 20,000
pounds to the load, would fill about 1,250 cars, or
make more than sixty-two trainloads of twenty cars
to the train.

In picking, the men averaged forty bushels each
per day — and packers and pickers were paid for 20,-
833 days' work, at the rate of $1.50 per day of ten
hours. The pickers worked in gangs of from ten to
fifteen men.

For harvesting, $31,250 wrs prid to pickers and
packers: $6,425 for hauling from the fields to the
packing-house, and $11,565 for hauling to the rail-

road and loading on cars. The barrels cost $17,100
and about $1,500 was spent for miscellaneous items,
such as boxes, extra hoops, etc. The total outlay
for gathering the crops and placing them on the
market was $67,480. You see, capital is required for
a job like this one.

The gross sales amounted to $205,903 ; this less the
$67,840 expenses, leaves a net return of $138,063.
But this amount doesn't represent all the profit ; it
doesn't include the value of the corn, which was
grown between the tree rows from the time of setting
out the orchards until they began to bear. The corn
was grown by tenants, and the landlord received
one-third of it for rent. Of the 161,000 bushels of
corn grown he received 53,600 bushels, which sold
for an average of 30 cents per bushel, netting about
$14,750, and paying all expenses of planting and
growing the orchards to the time of their bearing.
xAdded to that from the apples, this income from the
com brings the total net profit up to $152,812. And
then, too, its planter still owns this largest orchard
and has every reason to hope for many more bumper
crops. — Interurban Life.

Between Whiles

" I just love cake," said Johnnie feelingly. " It's aw-
ful nice."

" You should not say ' love ' cake," corrected his
mother. " You should say ' like.' And do not say ' aw-
ful ' — say 'very.' And say 'good' instead of 'nice.' Now
see if you can repeat the sentence correctly."

" I like cake," repeated Johnnie. " It's very good."

" That's better."

" I know, ma," complained Johnnie, " but it sounds
just as if I was talkin' 'bout bread." — Everybody's Mag-
azine.

WANT AND EXCHANGE

To accommodate some of our readers and bring them in
closer touch with each other, we have opened this "want
and exchange " column.

Rates, twenty-five cent^ per insertion, not exceeding four
line=!. including name and address. Five cents per line for
additional lines. However, no "want" may exceed six lines
altogether.

FOR SALE — Furnished home; 7-room house, stable,
etc.; 100 feet front; cement walk; fruit and shade trees;
one-half block from Campus, McPherson College. J. W.
Webster, McPherson, Kans.

WANTED — For Wisconsin farm, a married man, 28 to
40 years old, as manager of dairy and stock farm. Must
be a good manager and careful feeder of hogs, cattle and
horses; also a good tiller of the soil and coine well recom-
mended. K good place is offered to the right man. Ad-
dress INGLENOOK.

Map of the Southern Pacific Lines in Mexico.

Other principal Mexican railways are shown by the lighter, cross-hatched lines.

THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES

IN MEXICO

" Railroad Age Gazette."

The construction by the Southern Pacific Company of
a main trunk line and various branches on the west coast
of Mexico under concessions granted by the Mexican Gov-
ernment is one of the most important railway developments
in America today. Six hundred miles of these lines are
already completed and in operation; 170 additional miles
will be finished and ready for operation by January, 1909,
and the entire network of lines will be pushed to com-
pletion as rapidly as the best, most approved and most
economic methods of building will permit. The enter-
prise is a gigantic one involving the expenditure of many
millions of dollars. Perhaps the best evidence of its
importance is the fact that the work has progressed
continuously throughout the financial depression.

Besides opening up a new territory rich in natural re-
sources, the completion of the main trunk line will es-
tablish a direct and continuous route connecting the City
of Mex'co, Guadalajara and other points in Mexico
with Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and the ports

of Puget Sound. This will make possible a continuous
train service of about 3,500 miles, the longest north- and-
south line in America, and the longest in the world, until
the Cape-to-Cairo line is built (if it ever is!) by the Brit-
ish Government. In order to understand clearly the sig-
nificance of the various lines embraced in the enterprise
the main line will be considered first, and then the
branches separately.

Main Trunk Line.

This line enters the Republic of Mexico at Nogales,
the twin American-Mexican city on each side of the in-
ternational boundary between Arizona and the State of
Sonora. From this point the line of the Sonora Rail-
way extends through Magdalena and Hermosillo to the
port of Guaymas, on the Gulf of California, a distance of
263 miles. This line, which has been in operation for many
years, is now owned and controlled by the the Southern
Pacific Company, and over its tracks the through trains
will be run. The Government has recently granted a

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concession for the reconstruction of this entire line and
the Southern Pacific has already concluded arrangements
for raising the track, putting in new ties, reballasting,
replacing the old bridges witli new ones, and substi-
tuting heavy rails for those now used, so that the road-
bed of this part of the line will be raised to the high
standard of construction which prevails on the new part
south of Guaynias. By the terms of the concession this
reconstruction must be completed within two years from
the date of the concession.

From Guaymas south to Guadalajara the entire line,
860 miles in length, will be one of original construction.

Natives Clearing the Right of Way.

Leaving Guaymas, the road has a general southeasterly
course passing through Corral, the point of crossing the
Yaqui river, and Navojoa, the crossing of the Mayo river,
entering the State of Sinaloa about half way between
Navojoa and San Bias, at which latter place the Fuerte
river and the tracks of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
are crossed; thence to Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa,
crossing the beautiful Culiacan valley and river just be-
fore entering the city. From Culiacan the line proceeds
to Mazatlan, situated on the Pacific Ocean at the mouth
of the Gulf of California. This is the chief seaport city
of the west coast of Mexico, and the only one which will
have both a north and south rail outlet when the line is
completed. Here the route gradually leaves the coast,
passing through the territory and city of Tepic, thence
to Guadalajara, the capital of the State of Jalisco and
the second city of the Republic. The line between Guay-
mas and Culiacan, a distance of 340 miles, has been com-
pleted and is in operation; since the first of August a
through daily passenger and Pullman service has been
maintained bet%veen Culiacan and Tucson, Ariz., a dis-
tance of 750 miles.

The length of the line between Culiacan and Mazatlan
is about 150 miles. The construction of this section
is being pushed rapidly with large forces from each end
and the section will be completed and placed in operation
early in January, 1909, when a through daily passenger
and Pullman service will be inaugurated from Tucson to
Mazatlan, a distance of 900 miles. From Mazatlan to
Guadalajara the length of the line will be about 360 miles.
The construction of this section is now in progress from
Mazatlan south and also from Guadalajara north and the
work at each end is being pushed with all the despatch
consistent with economic construction. By the terms of
the concession the entire line must be completed by
November, 6, 1912.

Branch Lines.

The concession to the Southern Pacific authorizes the
construction of zs many branches on either side of the
trunk line from Navojoa to Guadalajara (each branch not
to exceed 150 kilometers in length) as may be desired.
The branches desired may be designated at any time prior
to the sixth day of November, 1915. No concession for
the construction of parallel lines within a zone of 30 kilo-
meters on each side of the line can be granted to any
other company prior to November 6, 1920.

This road will penetrate the heart of the region char-
acterized by Baron Humboldt as " the mineral store-
house of the world." Heretofore the development of this
section has been retardeil. on account of the lack of trans-
portation facilities and the presence therein of bands of
Yaqui Indians. The new railway will furnish the needed
transportation facilities; and experience teaches that In-
dians are never a menace after the coming of the railway.
This' branch is destined to become one of the largest
carriers of ore metal and mining machinery and supplies
on the continent. It is completed to a point 20 miles
north oir- Cumuripa, and 51 miles north of the junction
with the main line at Corral. Construction is being pushed
with a large force north of this point. Under the con-
cession this line must be completed to the international
boundary by May 11. 1924. Its length from Corral
to the boundary is 388 miles. From Tonichi a short
branch of 4',^ miles will be built to the coal fields of Bar-
ranca.

Traffic Features.

Mention has been made of the mineral resources of
the territory traversed by these lines. A large tonnage of
ocean freight will be handled from Guaymas, the port

Tracklaying Gang at Work.

furthest north on the mainland of the Gulf of California,
and from Mazatlan, which is at the confluence of the gulf
with the Pacific Ocean. The latter, by reason of its geo-
graphic position, is the most convenient port on the
west coast of America for the immense cargoes carried
by the " trade wind " vessels plying between America
and India, China, the Philippines and the Hawaiian Is-
lands. All of this ocean freiglu is now carried 2,000 miles
north to San Francisco. Upon the completion of the line
to Mazatlan this will become the port of discharge and
their cargoes will be carried by the railroad to Guadal-

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ajara, Mexico City and other points in Mexico, and by
the fast freight north to the United States and Canada.
The traffic from Mazatlan to Guadalajara and the City of
Mexico is sure to be very large because this route affords
the best approach to these two great cities from any point
on the Pacific.

It goes without saying that the through freight and pas-

Robert's Tracklaying Machine at Work.

senger traffic upon a direct line connnecting two such
cities as Guadalajara and Mexico City with Los Angeles,
San Francisco and the Pacific coast of the United States
will be heavy. Mexico City, like the tomb of Moham-
med to the Mussulman, is the Mecca of all Mexicans, and
the map shows an immense territory in Sonora and North-
ern Sinaloa, whose inhabitants can now reach the capital
only by the circuitous route to Benson, Ariz., thence to
El Paso, and from there over the Mexican Central to
the City of Mexico. All this traffic will be diverted to
the new line and its volume will be multiplied many times
with the shortening of the distance and the increased fa-
cilities which will be afforded. The freight traffic which
the country will furnish will be large in volume and will
consist of live stock of all kinds, and a great variety of
agricultural products, fruits, vegetables and timber.
Among the agricultural products may be enumerated corn,
beans, garbanzos (peas), sugar (crude and refined), al-
falfa, sorghum cane (used as a forage for live stock), and
agave, from which a fiber that is the highest-priced in
the market is extracted. The fruits are of the finest qual-
ity and consist of the orange, banana, lemon, mango,
chirimoya (known as vegetable ice cream), cocoanut, date
aguate, papaya (an appetizing breakfast fruit similar to
the cantaloupe and from which is extracted the purest
form of pepsin known), zepete, plum, strawberry, black-

berry, melon, and in the mountainous sections the apple,
peach and pear. The fruits which have been the source
of such wealth to California are indigenous to the
soil of the west coast of Mexico and are ready for mar-
ket months in advance of the California product. The
oranges grown in Sonora are the sweetest and have the
most delicious flavor of any grown in America, with the
possible exception of those of the Salt river in Arizona.
The State of Sinaloa presents exceptional opportunities
to the truck-gardener for raising winter fruits and vege-
tables. These can be produced there for the markets of
the United States at a season when they connot be sup-
plied from any other section. Most fruits and vegetables
may be grown there every month of the year.

The forests along the coast contain fine specimens
of mahogany, ebony, maple, rosewood, lignum vitae, mora,
willow and many other varieties of beautiful and valu-
able trees. In the hills and mountains are found the syc-
amore, cypress, spruce, pine, madrofia, elm, walnut, cedar
and oak, all similar to these species found in the United
States, and in addition about 175 varieties of trees never
seen in the forests north of this section.

The lands along the coast are for the most part cov-
ered with a dense growth of trees and underbrush and
some grass, though the latter is not abundant. It is
claimed that the forage from this underbrush will sup-
port more live stock to the same area than the famous
bunch grass of the Northwest region. In the foot hills
of the Sierra Madre range are magnificent grazing lands
where conditions for stock breeding are ideal and the

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climate unsurpassed.

All the lines built or under construction will compose
a system of 1,785 miles.

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Results Are What Count

Results of Some Crops Raised in Idaho, 1908

TIEI^D OP

BEETS. 1

Nampa District.

Tons

Name

Acres

per A.

Mark

Austin, . .

Sfi

Company Farm,

Allen

Bissett, .

Tolef

Olsen. . . .

17H

C. G.

Nofziger,

Geo.

Duval, . . .

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Rogers' Farm, . . 20 24

Gough & Merrill,. 10 18

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Vol. XI.

February 2, 1909.

No. 5.

KAI FENG FU, CHINA

C. F. APPLETON

THE city of Kai Feng Fu is situated about one
thousand miles northwest of Shanghai and
about four hundred miles south of Peking, and
six miles south of the Yellow River. It is the capital
and principal city of the Province of Honari. Al-
though the Yellow River is one of the principal water-
ways of China, it is comparatively useless for naviga-
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shoals.

Kai Feng Fu is reached from Shanghai, the leading
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China. From Hankow the balance of the journey may
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Peking — about seven hundred miles — now has daily
trains in operation and is a great help in tlie develop-
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Chinese government, as it is still in the hands of for-
eign capitalists.

The city of Kai Feng Fu is enclosed by a wall about
forty feet high, thirty feet wide at the top and sixty
feet wide at the base. A layer of extra large well-
burnt brick, laid in lime, forms the outside, but the in-
side is earth with a coat of cement on the top, thus
keeping a roadway on top of the wall in good condition
and preserving the wall from decay. The outer brick
work rises some eight feet above this cement wall and
every few feet has alternate loopholes and rectangu-
lar indentations. The city has five gates which are
carefully closed every night at dusk. On the wall
above the gateways large two-story buildings or towers
are built for protection and for the artistic effect. The
main wall is said to be fourteen miles long and en-
closes an area of twelve square miles, two-thirds or
more being covered by the brick buildings, streets, etc.
The streets, which are wider than those of most Chi-

nese cities, will compare favorably with the narrow
streets of some American cities.

Instead of the street car, however, the traveler need
walk but few steps before he will find a rickshaw
ready to carry him much faster than he can walk. The
rickshaw, which was introduced into this city about
two years ago, much resembles a small covered buggy
except that it is drawn by a man. The fare is usually
about two cents a mile. If the passenger is nervous
or afraid of an upset, the far-famed wheelbarrow or
the native cart is still at his disposal. The latter is
a two-wheeled springless vehicle with a cloth cover
over a wooden frame. There is usually a small win-
dow on each side. It is drawn by a horse, a donkey,
or a mule. It is not an uncommon sight to see a horse,
a donkey, a mule and a bullock all hitched up to-
gether to an uncovered country cart. For special occa-
sions, such as marriages and funerals, the sedan chair
is used. It is also proper for officials to use these
chairs when traveling in the city. This is a covered
frame work, about three feet square and five feet high,
to which two long poles are fastened for being carried
on the shoulders of two, four, six or more men, ac-
cording to the rank of the person and the significance
of the occasion. The chair is usually decorated with
cloth or silk of various colors and other ornaments.
The chairs of officials are preceded by a bodyguard of
soldiers. In case of marriage, in conducting the bride
from her father's to her husband's home, the chairs
occupied by the bride and groom are usually preceded
by a company of boys or men, some wearing gay, odd-
shaped hats and carrying signs, flags, musical instru-
ments, etc. Many other strange sights meet the eye
of the foreigner who has spent any length of time
in a heathen city.

Some of the most notable places of this provincial
capital are the following that are worthy of mention :

The " Long Ting," or old palace, formerly occupied
by the Emperor wlien this city was the capital of the

TIIK INGLENOOK.— February 2, 1900.

Middle Kingdom. The buildings are now being used
as a Buddhist temple. Travelers may still see the
massive stone on which the Emperor's throne was for-
merly located. It is a solid rock cube of about six
feet on each edge and has dragon figures carved on
four sides. In many places it is now as smooth as
glass on account of having been rubbed by the hands
of so many sight-seers for several centuries.

During the reign of " Kong Uh " in tlie fourteentli
century, his majesty built a magnificent pagoda in the
northern part of this city which still stands as a memo-
rial of his reign, and is one of the wonders of the
city. It is built of brick, the outside being of colored
pressed material which has resisted the storms of many
ages and is now in excellent condition. The pagoda
has thirteen stories ; is about two hundred feet high ;
is octagonal in shape with a diameter of perhaps fifty
feet. By winding stairs on the inside the traveler
may ascend to the pinnacle of this guardian angel of
the city and secure a
good view of the sur-
rounding country. At
the top of each flight
of steps is an idol, the
one at the summit be-
ing of iron and bear-
ing the name of the
Emperor at whose ex-
pense the pagoda was
built. In a separate
building in front of
the tower is a large
brass image of Bud-
dha about twenty feet
in height and five feet
in diameter.

Another interesting
sight is a stone monument in one of the Buddhist tem-
ples, or court connected therewith, which commem-
orates the three great floods which have swept over the
city, carrying death and destruction in their track. The
city is scarcely more than six miles from the Yellow
River which in times of unusually heavy rains over-
flows its banks and covers the whole valley which is
a low-lying, sandy territory. It was after one of these
floods that the imperial family left the city and sought
a safer place of residence. The population is not more
than half of what it formerly was in trnies of greatest
prosperity.

Another interesting monument is a stone tablet erect-
ed by the Jews many centuries ago. It is the last
trace of their old synagogue which once was in a very
flourishing condition. The site is now a dumping
ground for rubbish and filth of the vicinity, but is
.still made certain by this memorial stone. Chinese
characters are engraved on it and the writing gives
some idea of their doctrines and of the establishment

The North Gate of Kai FenK Fii a

the Dark, Semi-Circular Opening

Gate Leads Up on the W

of their religion in the heart of this vast empire. Eight
families of Jews still remain to remind the world of
the certainty of the fulfilment of the prophecies of
God's Word relating to his ancient people, predicting
their dispersion among the nations.

The Mohammedan temples in the city are also
worthy of mention. Of these the principal one is locat-
ed near the east gate where a large per cent of the
people are followers of the false prophet. They claim
that three thousand families come under the sway of
this one temple. They have a very strong hold upon
the people and seem to be adding to their numbers in
this section of the country.

The city was opened to foreign residents after the
Boxer troubles of the memorable year of 1900 in which
so many martyrs loved not their lives unto the death but
sealed their testimony with their blood. At present
there are three Protestant missions working in the
citv : also a Roman Catholic and a Greek Catholic

mission. Some from
the multitudes have
accepted the Christian
faith and the gospel
influence, bring-
ing light to those who
sit in heathen dark-
ness.

The race of man-
kind would perish did
they cease to aid each
other. From the time
that the mother binds
the child's head till
the moment that some
kind assistant wipes
the death damp from
the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual
help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask
it from their fellow mortals ; no one who holds the
power of granting can refuse without guilt. — Sir
Walter Scott.

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STEAM OCEAN TRAVEL.

T. n. FERNALD.

In steam ocean travel there has been as great ad-
vancement as in other industries. To prove this
statement, let me mention two ocean steamers which
show great advancement along this line.

The London Times (England) of May 18, 1819,
contained the following item in regard to an expected
event, which actually occurred :

" Great Experiment. — A new steam vessel of 300
tons has been built at New York, for the express pur-
pose of carrying passengers across the Atlantic. She
is to come direct to Liverpool."

nd Tower. Entrance Is Through
in the Front. The SmaU, Side
all. Closed Every Night.

THE INGLENOOK.— February 2, 1909.

This steamer, named the Savannah, was the first
to cross the Atlantic. She was built at New York by
Francis Ficket, and her engines built by Stephen Vail,
and she was launched August 22, 1818. She carried
only seventy-five tons of coal and twenty-five cords of
wood.

Under the command of Capt. Moses Rogers, of
New London, Conn., the Saz'annah sailed from the
port of Savannah, Ga., May 25, 1819, bound for St.
Petersburg, via Liverpool, reaching the latter port on
June 20, having used steam 18 days out of the twenty-
si.x. She was also bark-rigged, and used sails most
of the time.

We will next refer to the Etrnria, of the Cunard
line, which made the fastest time of any ocean steamer
up to her time (1885). She was 520 feet long, 57
feet beam, and 41 feet deep to upper deck — 49 feet
to promenade deck — of 8,000 tons, and 14,500 horse-
power, built of steel throughout, and was " not classed
in any of the books, as her construction exceeded by
far the requirements of any of the book surveyors."

She was divided into ten water-tight compartments ;
most of the bulklieads were carried to the upper deck.
She had three steel masts, bark-rigged, and could
spread a very large area of canvas when required.
The Etniria carried 3,000 tons of coal, and burned,
on an average, 320 tons every twenty-four hours.

She left Oueenstown, Sunday, August 16, 1885,
arriving in New York, Saturday, August 22, at 3 :35
P. M., making tlie passage in six days, five hours, and
forty-four minutes. The first day's run, counting
from 2:26 P. M. Sunday, to the following noon, was
424 knots, followed by 464, 450, 465, 464, 464, and
70 knots from noon to 3 : 35 P. M. the last day.

The distance the Etruria traveled — 2,801 knots, or
3,250 statute miles — shows that she maintained the
unusual speed of twenty-one and one-half miles per
hour continuous steaming the entire voyage. The
best single day's run was made on the second west-
Avard voyage when she steamed 481 nautical — SS7
statute — miles, at a speed of more than 25 miles per
hour.

The cost of running these great ocean liners is
something enormous. We are told that " many on the
Atlantic Ocean cost from $600,000 to $800,000 per
voyage, while some of the Pacific mail steamships
have an expense of from $800,000 to $1,200,000 per
voyage." This expense, of course, includes, provi-
sions, fuel, help, etc.

Belfast, Me.

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A DISAPPOINTMENT FOR THE DEVIL.

IR.\ P. DE.'iN.

If there is any part of Harrisburg that has had
a hard fight with " Demon Alcohol," it is the east
end, " Allison Hill." Nearly every year there is a
hot fight over the saloon question.

But the best part of it all is, the devil will have to
put up a better fight than he did a few years ago or
he will never win out. Allison Hill has over five
thousand homes, a population of over twenty thou-
sand and not one saloon. Some years ago the devil
took advantage of the small number of people on
Allison Hill and succeeded in placing two saloons just
at the foot of the hill at Tenth and Market Streets,
but he has never got up the hill yet.

About two years ago a representative of the devil
put in his application for a license for a saloon to be
located in the heart of the Allison Hill district near
Reservoir Park in a beautiful residential district near
one of the finest parks in Pennsylvania. He argued
that in order to make the park more up-to-date there
sould be a hotel near it, and since the farmers attend-
ing the Hill market were obliged to find their accom-
modations at restaurants and livery stables, a hotel was
absolutely necessary. A hotel was necessary to ac-
commodate visitors who desired to stay near the park
and many other reasons he put forth.

Now Allison Hill had fifteen churches and they
were awake too ; they had committees at work with
remonstrances, who succeeded in getting the farmers
to sign them, stating they were willing to abide by the
present order of inconveniences rather than patronize
a hotel or see one on the Hill. One Sunday after-
noon a great mass meeting was held in one of the big
churches. The building wasj crowded, everything
went against the saloon. The saloon representative
had over four hundred on his petition for a license
and on the following day the license would be granted.
Over 2,100 names were filed a,gainst the saloon, but
the judge need pay no attention to that if he chose to
grant the license.

When the meeting was about closing an old gentle-
man got up and said, " This saloon fi,ght has become
an annual occurrence and it is time for the church peo-
ple of this section of the city to rise against it as final
and let the devil know that he cannot put his shop on
the Hill under any circumstances. I would therefore
suggest that all who have signed that remonstrance
and any one else who opposes. the saloon, who can,
assemble at this church tomorrow morning at eight
o'clock and march in a body to the courthouse and
personally protest against the granting of the license
for this saloon."

The entire audience was in favor of it and plans
were at once made to carry out the suggestion. When
Monday morning came the applicant for the license
got the news of the forming of an army to march
against him and before the army had a chance to
start for the courthouse, the devil's representative
hurried to the courthouse and withdrew his applica-
tion. The news of his withdrawing his application
and the action and victory of the church was heralded

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AROUND THE WORLD WITHOUT

A CENT

HENRY M. SPICKLER

Chapter XLIII.

A BLACK hearse, drawn by black horses and fol-
lowed by a long line of mourners, or by a few, is one
of the most universal sights common to us all, yet it
is the one that always causes us to look twice and
think thrice.

Some one in Catania had lost a dear friend. Some
one was sadder for the loss. Though I am voyaging
around the world I, too, must pay the price of living —
death. It is the one common fate of us all. Sicily is
fading from view as the sea comes between us and I
will not forget
the passing of the
solemn cortege
with brilliant gar-
lands flying heav-
ily to hide the
marks of death.
I am full of hap-
py, expectant life.
Back there in Ca-
tania, where ripen
sweet oranges
and hang burst-
ing figs of seedy
sugar, a fafnily is
in sorrow. The
good father,
brave for life's
battles and eager
to care for his
children, the true
husband, closely
twined in human
aflfection to the

maker of his home, has gone into the silent world of
spirits. I must take back my statement that Sicily
might be an Eden if her forests had been spared.
That is not her worst enemy, for she still has sin and
death, the first, last and worst enemies of the race.
Though the dead man rode in a hearse covered with
flowers, and appeared thus to be riding to his corona-
tion and not to endless night, he was still the victim
of the dread plague that shall smite the strongest of
us down.

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The more I sea of the sailors- the better I like them.

They are more religious and sincere in their work
than sailors often are on the northern routes. The
days pass all too swiftly, for my eyes never tire of
the blue Mediterranean. The delight of sailing on a
small ship where the sea is usually calm is also a point
in my favor. I feel more at home here. I can get
over the boat more quickly. It is closer to the water.
It rocks more gently. There is less tremor in the ma-
chinery. The few passengers aboard make the ones
who are here more interesting to the crew and officers.
They are more solicitous for our welfare, and we can

have what we
like, when we
like it, and in
as great quan-
tity.

In fact, my
passage does not
include food, as
I think I stated,
but I am getting
it just the same.
I am paying
about a dollar a
day for the ride,
and while the
company could
not guarantee
my meals in the
dining - room, I
did have a hint
that the sailors
would not let me
starve.

These sailors
usually take their meals up on deck, eating from one
big dish. When they gather about the foredeck thus,
they whistle for me, and I go up and join them. The
boy who brings up the food gives me a dishful also,
counting me as one of the crczv. And I am. For
don't I pull at the ropes and work the machine and
get the loading devices out of fix? But I talk to them
and sing for them and walk on my hands and do va-
rious things to amuse them. These sailors live well
on board. They are served plenty of the best fruit,
with all the macaroni they like and well-cooked beef.
The dessert is always a bottle of wine of better quality,

' For don't I pull at the ropes and work the machine and get the loading devices

out of fix?"

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the\- tell me, than that usuall)' given at meals. So I
am living with these sailors and am learning their life.
Their kindness to me is so great I wonder sometimes
why they are so thoughtful. But I like them, and am
not afraid of them, even if they are made up, of Ital-
ians, Greeks and Turks. Only one of them speaks En-
glish, for he was in America for some time and now
has returned to his native land. But his heart longed
for America and he was always speaking in praise of
her wonderful institutions. " Yes, sir," he would say
to his sailor fellows, " I've been in that man's country."
Then he would. draw in a full breath and say, " That's
tiie nlace to be — Chicago. My, ain't that town great? "

Every sailor not on duty (and usually at evening
most of our crew not working at the furnaces or en-
gines) was free to sit on deck and engage in the va-
rious games usual to sailing. As the sea was perfectly
smooth and the wind a calm, the least order from any
part of the boat could
be heard distinctly ;
the sailors had much
more leisure than
could be granted them
on a big liner. Then,
too, they had their
"shifts" on and
■' shifts " off, when a
set of them could
sleep or read, and a
set went about their
duties.

With all of this
ideal leisure to my-
self, I was not idle,
t was busy reading
from the Bible, a good
book on travel or oth-
er subjects, and the
magazines carried by

every ship. Especially was I studying what maps of
the Mediterranean and the world I could find, looking
intently at that spot over which I knew I was sailing,
for long moments.

When this picture appeared in a former letter I was
wrong in saying that the dark fellow with cap on, near
the center, had been to America. It was the bare-
headed, coatless one leaning against him. You will
see that he has caught part of the Yankee expression
of face, for there is more power, more independence
and more hope in his face than in the faces of those
around him. The sailor at the extreme right is a fine
fellow, a gentleman, but he is still a son of the Levant.
No Yankee would thus hold his cap and manifest the
easy surrender of bearing which this sailor shows.
The little boy with pretty, round face and full cheeks,
wearing a broad sailor hat and holding a slender pole,
is the crew's mascot. He was our angel and the idol

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di.shful

of all. This uneducated boy had the most wonderful
voice of any child I ever heard. He sang from the
great masters like a student. Operatic selections re-
quiring trained vocalists of mature development he
handled with greatest ease. I believe his voice was a
real virtuoso. Long through the moonlight evenings
he sang for us on deck. No matter who had been sing-
ing, or what story was being told, or game played,
everything stopped the second his voice rang clear in
song. He had that catching something that only oc-
casional singers have, a charm that cast a soothing
spell of romance over your whole being.

The sailors are now gathered on the " poop," just
" fore " of the foremast near the " hatch " hole, under
the big loading derrick.

M. night there was a dance on board with good mu-
sic from Italian instruments. The men danced alone,
or with men, but never with women. The sailors were

captivated with this
form of recreation
and the y swung
around the curving
deck and embraced
each other .vith the
ardor and with as
nuch fondness as do
men .dancing with
women. It was the
music of motion and
the poetry of motion
that brought their
tired bodies relief in
the daily dance.
When it was all over
they returned to their
important posts of
duty, as one man,
filled with glad cheer
and glad they were
serving as sailors on a Mediterranean vessel. There
was almost no roughness. There was no fighting, no
drunkenness and no stabbing. I would not call them
" dagoes," and it always pains me to hear these coun-
trymen of ours spoken of in that way. " Dago " is the
" nigger " of the colored race, and good-hearted,
thoughtful people never say " nigger." " Nigger "
pushes down. " Colored man " helps him up. " Ital-
ian." pronounced with musical tone due the vowels
used, and in syllables, — I-tal-i-an, — sounds well, is .well.
No one aboard speaks English but myself. The
.•\merican sailor uses a few words as also does the cap-
tain, in necessity.

. While the captain and mate were " looking out '.' on
the bridge I went up and with his permission took
their picture. There was no foolishness in this man
as in most sea captains. He was a noble man, attentive
to his duties and paying strict attention to business.

od for the sailors brings me a
also."

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His daughter and the daughter of the mate, both from
college in Geneva, are aboard with their fathers on a
health excursion. 1 tried to talk to them, but the}'
knew only a little French and much less English. They
were both eating nearly all the time. I don't see any
sickness about them, and they seem full of spirits. \\'e
are passing some beautiful little islands that rise out of
the sea high into the blue above them. These isles
are vestiges of volcanoes that once spouted fire, mud
and lava. On the ship's chart these little islets are
marked and named. But you never see them in your
geography. A captain must know a thousand times
more than any geography teaches. It is amazing to
see how his skill at navigation enables him to shun
these rocky dangers and pass, now on one side, now
on the other of them, or between them, or on one side
only, as he desires.
For the sea is known
pretty well, and the
location of every
projecting rock or
island in the well-
traveled waters is
known exactly.

When the fog
comes down or
cloudy storms beat
the sea into fury,
the captain steers by
distance already
come and by the last
known points. Some
of this is guesswork
and then the vessel
sometimes strikes a
rock or runs
aground, with loss
to the ship and
sometimes to all on
board. If but the

faintest glimpse of the sun can be seen, or if its exact
location in the heavens is known, the captain can tell
just where his boat is on the sea. We have just passed
between two islands that did not seem to be more than
a half mile apart. In the darkness I can't see how he
could just miss, and not hit, one or the other of these
islands. I see no lighthouses.

We are running into Crete. Acts 27 tells of Paul's
shipwreck here, how the sailors ran close to the shore
of Crete for fear of the high seas and storm, and were
driven to a small island, called Cauda, and were
washed up in the sands. I suppose I saw this island,
but I am not sure which one was Canda.

The Captain and Mate.

PROVERBS AND QUOTATIONS.
When you have done a really good thing, do not
stop to talk about it, but do another.

Doing the little things has caused many a man to
get big.

Sometimes a minute of thinking is better than a
hustle. Who so cuts a straight path to his own living
by the help of God, in the sun and rain and sprouting
grain, is a universal working man. He solves that pro-
blem of life, not for one but for all men of sound
body. .

Take things easy if you want to have a hard time.
Even the man who is truthful in the daytime may
lie awake at night.

Cool judgment doesn't come from a hot head.
Be accurate in all you undertake, remembering that

slipshod feet will
surely produce
blistered heels.

Always buy ther-
mometers in cold
weather, while
they are down.

A just man can
run up his own
business without
running his neigh-
bor's business
down.

He who broods
over troubles is
sure to hatch
many new ones.

" With malice

toward none, with

charity for all, with

firmness in the

right." This im-

mortal quotation

was made by

Abraham Lincoln in his second inaugural address.

This is a very befitting motto for every Christian as a

guidance for the new year and henceforth.

" God bless my mother ! All I am or hope to be
I owe to her," is another quotation of this noble son.

There is an eye that never sleeps,

Beneath the wing of night;
There is an ear that never shuts.

When sink the beams of light;
There is an arm that never tires,

When human strength gives way;
There is a love that never fails

When earthly loves decay.

Heaven is above all ! There sits a Judge that no
king can corrupt !

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THE SUPERFLUOUS BOY

ELIZABETH M. ROYER

Chapter II.

From the distance the summoning schoolbell came
toning forth. Francis got up and started out of tlie
back gate across lots to school. He did not go far
before fate met him in the shape of Tarn.

" Francis Homer Peasley," she exclaimed in horror,
" don't you know better than to go to school looking
like that? Just look at the dirt on your face. You
haven't any tie, and your waist is something awful.

And your shoestrings ! " She paused for lack

of adequate words to express herself, — " And your
shoestrings are something monstrous. You have not
tied them up at all. They are just around your ankle.
Do you suppose I am going to have a brother in
school looking like that? Come right back home and
get cleaned up."

" We will be late," weakly interposed Francis. A
guilty conscience needs no accuser, and he felt doubly
guilty at the truthful onslaught from Tarn. He fol-
lowed her back, meekly submitting to her scoldings
and pulls at his clothing all the way. It was fate ;
what was the use of doing otherwise, since he couldn't
be happy anyway?

" Mama." exclaimed Tam, " just look at this boy.
Did you ever see a'nything like it ? He was on his way
to school, too. Do vou think we are going to have our
reputation spoiled by our brother looking like this ?
I don't see why he couldn't have been a girl anyway.
Just look at him now. What do you suppose the
teacher would say if she saw him? "

Francis stood in guilty silence, defenceless.

" For pity's sake, child, you don't mean to say you
were going to school looking like this? Haven't you
any respect for your parents and sisters? What do
you think the teacher would think of us if we let you
go like that? Didn't I tell you to come in and get
washed ? Answer me. Didn't I ? "

" I forgot," was the faltering reply.

" Forgot, well, you won't forget again in a hurry.
Go on to school, Tam, I will see to Francis. Here,
hurry up and get clean. Tonight when you come
home you are to go straight to bed and not have any
supper for this. Do you understand?"

Francis nodded in tearful silence.

" Well, go on now. Likely you will be late. Tell
the teacher the truth. Don't say I kept you. It's
your own fault."

As she had been scolding, jNIrs. Peasley had also
been vigorously applying soap and water to his stained
face and begrimed hands. She hurriedly sent him
awav to school, after she had hustled him into clean

clothes, with the command " to be a nice good boy
and a credit to his parents and dear sisters."

That evening, as Francis returned home, the
pleasures of the young spring never, it seemed to him,
had appealed to his senses so strongly. To pass a
group of boys shooting away at marbles on a damp
mound of bare earth, to go around others spinning
tops on the hard walks, to feel his sling-shot pressing
against him in his hip pocket uncomfortably, yet hav-
ing no thought of the discomfort, as he saw the first
robins flitting about the trees, and to have to go
straight home without once stopping at the football
ground made his lagging footsteps lag more slowly
and his heavy heart weigh more heavily as he climbed
the stairs to his room and sat down on a chair by the
window which overlooked the kindling pile. ' His head
dropped on the window-sill as he stared out, unsee-
ingly, through tears that rolled, one by one, unheeded,
down his cheeks. After a while he dozed off to sleep.

He was awakened by Scrub, barking coaxingly
under the window. As he raised it and looked down,
he could see by the light of the stars that had pierced
the blue darkness the indistinct form of his pet, mak-
ing little dashes from the window to the gate that led
into the meadow. There smoke was curling up and
lines of fire pictured forth grotesque figures flashing to
and fro. Could it be that the sun had dried the spongy
ground enough during the day that they could have
prairie fires? He heard the faint, distant shout of
the boys. There at the head of the " gang " was his
place. He must fill that place. The voices of the
family floated murmuringly up from the parlor.
The stair-door had been left open so that they could
easily detect any sound he might make, for once he
had emptied the bureau drawers on a like occasion.
On going into the hall and listening he heard Tam
and Marie laughingly telling some girl friend of his
enforced imprisonment. And the girl was Annette,
his " lady of love and beauty." After hearing this, she
would turn up her independent, little stub nose at him
and give her smiles to Tom Green, who also greatly de-
sired to find favor in her eyes by laying his conquered
heart at her feet. The only way for him, now that
this last vanquishing blow had come, was to gain all
possible fun from the prairie fire before his disgrace
would become public.

Stealthily he crept across his room and slid over the
window-sill on the roof of the kitchen. Then with
careful steps, he climbed down the trellis of the grape.
arbor that had been been built against the kitchen.

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Scrub came bouncing up, and together they slipped
through the back gate and ran away to the fire.

When the last grass had been burnt, when they all
had been_ thoroughly perfumed with the smoke, sweet
to their nostrils but repulsive to the more fastidious,
when the last borrowed broom had been blackened
to the handle, and when the last boy had gone home,
Francis sat down on a stone to think. Troubles had
been forgotten during the excitement of seeing who
could come nearest without hann; girls and sisters
were far from his thoughts when he was gallantly pro-
tecting the fence from the crackling, devouring
flames; a supperless stomach had little sympathy in
the intoxicating pleasure of starting new trails of fire ;
but now he must face life in earnest. Times come
to all when none can decide for them, when only they,
themselves, are capable of seeing clearly both sides
of the questions that, when settled, lead to the crises
of life. So it was with Francis as he sat considering
the easiest way out. The stolen pleasure had given
him encouragement, had driven from his mind much
of the melancholy that had made him hopeless so few
hours before.

If he went back, they would smell the smoke on
his clothes in the morning, at least Tarn would, and
punish him. Now he had no desire for punishment,
and he sat with his chin buried in his singed hand,
looking carefully at all sides of his trouble in his
efforts to plan a way out. If, in some way, he could
arouse sympathy for himself, they would forget his
sins and he would stand the petted and indulged
favorite. Once when he had almost died with the
measles, he remembered that even Tam had set aside
her much-loved dolls to entertain him. He didn't see
how he could get the measles or any other disease
over night, and to break a leg or arm was out of the
question. But, here was an idea. Why not go to his
grandmother who had many times befriended him,
and, he knew, secretly sympathized with him and
staunchly stood up for him before the family? Should
he not appear at breakfast in the morning, they would
probably think he had been kidnaped. That was
the thing to do, go to his grandmother and throw
himself on her mercy. Without more ado, he called
Scrub to heel and started a mile or more across the
Jown to where his spry, jolly grandmother lived alone.

(To Be Continued.)

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BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY.

Play is work that you don't have to do.

Never hire a traveling man whose waistcoat is
more insistent than his personality.

Don't rise so high in your calling that you see only
one side of your fellows.

It's true that a marble statue has no faults, — but
then it has no friends, either.

There are plenty of doors labeled " Pull," but the
majority, after all, bear the legend " Push."

There are self-made men in this world who ought
to be suffering from remorse. — Lippincotl's.

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IT TAKES COURAGE.

To live according to your convictions.
Not to bend the knee to popular prejudice.
To say " No," squarely when those around you say
" Yes."

To be what you are, and not pretend to be what you
are not.

To refuse to knuckle and bend tlie knee to the
wealthy, even though poor.

To remain in honest poverty while others grow rich
by questionable methods.

To speak the truth when, by a little prevarication,
you can get some good advantage.

To live honestly within your means, and not dishon-
estly upon the means of others.

To stand firmly erect while others are bowing and
fawning for ; raise and power.

To reiust to do a thing which you think is wrong,
becau-e it is customary and done in trade.

Wl: .1 mortified and embarrassed by humiliating dis-
aster, to seek in the wreck or ruin the elements of
future conquest.

To face slander and lies, and to carry yourself with
cheerfulness, grace and dignity for years before the
lie can be corrected.

To do your duty in silence, obscurity, and poverty,
while others about you prosper through neglecting or
violating sacred obligations.

To be talked about, and yet remain silent when a
word would justify you in the eyes of others, but which
you cannot speak without injury to another.

To throw up a position with a good salary when it
is the only business you know, and you have a family
depending upon you, because it does not have your un-
qualified approval. — Success Magazine.

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THERE WILL BE NO CHANCES THIS YEAR
FOR—

The idler.

The leaner.

The coward.

The wobbler.

The smatterer.

The indifferent.

The educated fool.

The impractical theorist.

Those who watch the clock.

The slipshod and the careless.

The young man who lacks backbone.

The person who is afraid of obstacles.

The boy who shirks at school.— rExchange.

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105

CHINA BATTLING TO BE FREE.

We of the United States, who are making some
slight progress in our fight against the liquor traffic,
need not suppose that we have a monopoly on virtue
or that no other nation is waging a battle for right-
eousness. China is fighting also, a much harder battle
against a more terrible foe. On the outcome of her
contest depends the freedom of one hundred million
people who are now held in bondage to the opium
traffic. It is easy to start a reform in China, far easier
than here, for it is necessary only to convince the
rulers of its righteousness to have it ordered at once.

The measures which the government has adopted
are systematic. In the first place, all dens have been
ordered closed. They are not all closed, for a pro-
hibition is usually ineffective except as backed up by
public opinion. And public sentiment is no easier to
mold in China than anywhere else. A missionary,
the Rev. Charles L. Storrs, Jr., describes a ceremony
to which the missionaries of Shao-wu were invited,
to celebrate the opening of an opium refuge. They
were there by special invitation and were requested to
bear some part in the ceremony. They wasted an liour
and a half waiting for " his placid slowness," the
prefect, to arrive, but when it came to a part of the
program in which they were most interested, the
local dignitaries would stand only ten minutes of it.
"We saw some official fidgeting while we sang a
Christian patriotic hymn," he writes, "although we
had been invited to do this very thing; and, then,
after a few remarks by the foreigner, while our cul-
tured teacher was making some very good and ap-
propriate points, the whole group up and waddled out
without so much as a courtesy." As a matter of fact,
the whole performance was undoubtedly ordered by
some of the officials higher up and the little local
dignitaries, anxious to have something to report, asked
the missionaries and all the foreigners to join in the
dedication exercises. But the hearts of the natives
were not in the reform and it will proceed but slowly
there and in many other places.

In addition to this order closing the opium dens,
China has commanded the poppy farmers to reduce
their crop 10 per cent per year. It is from poppies
that the drug is made and China means to do all in
her power to blot out its manufacture as well as its
sale. Agricultural experts are being sent to those
farmers whose land has been used for the growth of
poppies in the past to show them what other crops
can be profitably raised, so that no one will be de-
prived of his living by the reform, if the govern-
ment can prevent. And with the agriculturists go
also missionaries, showing lantern slides and holding
mass-meetings with the purpose of educating the peo-
ple and explaining the baneful influences of the drug.
Surely it would seem as though this were enough to

make it clear that the government is in earnest. What'
more can China do?

She can do this much more: she can absolutely
forbid the use of the drug by any of the multitude of
government officers. And she has done it. When
the edict went forth closing the dens, every govern-
ment employe was allowed six months to free himself
from the habit. Those who were known to be still
addicted to the drug at the close of that period were
immediately discharged. There was no fake about
this reform. Those affected by the edict came from
every rank of life, up to and including some of the
very highest officials in the kingdom. These can
never again enter the government employ. Their
names are prominently posted in company with those
of all men who are known to use the drug. China
has no jobs for them.

It must not be supposed from the single instance of
failure quoted above that the people of China are not
tremendously in earnest for the reform and for the
introduction of Western learning and light. To the
shame of the Anglo-Saxon, it must be said that China
would have taken up the struggle long ago, had she
not been thwarted rather than helped by England in
her efforts. Three-fourths of the world's poppy crop
are raised in India, where it is a government monopoly.
For the sake of the twenty millions' revenue which
its production has brought her in the past, England
has refused to stop the manufacture of opium, car-
ried on though it is in her own mills. Since the days
of the slave trade history has not presented a sadder
spectacle than this of a Christian government drug-
ging a race. It was with the purpose of putting an
end to this nefarious business that the international
congress met in Shanghai in the early days of the
present year. Secretary Root deserves the largest
credit for organizing that convention and the United
States took the lead in advocating the good measures
which were proposed there. It was a tardy assem-
bling on the part of the nations, but it came better late
than never. It served, at least, to assure China that
she has the support of her sister people in the mighty
struggle for freedom which she is waging. — Home
Herald. ji jl jl

A DISAPPOINTMENT FOR THE DEVIL.

(Continued from Page 99.)

all over the city. " Upon this rock I will build my
church ; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it." Matt. 16: 18. This is the way the church should
do business. Resist the devil, and he will flee from
you. Jas. 4: 7. There is not a saloon on Allison Hill
yet and not another attempt has been made to put
one there since. Is it because Christianity is better
on the Hill than in other parts of Harrisburg? No;
but^the Christians are braver. How about saloons
around your place? Do you need them? He that is
not for me is against me.

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THE INGLENOOK.— February 2, 1909.

Nature Studies

Xl^v

NATURE IN WINTER.
MRS. M. E. S. CHARLES.

" When the bride of the Canticles sleeps her ' heart
waketh ' and she listens, through her dreams, for the
voice of the beloved, and for his knock upon the door."

Somewhat akin to her light slumber is the winter
sleep of nature — the woods and fields, as they wait for
the sun to return from the South. In their silence
there seems a feeling of expectancy, as if the trees
listened and the earth waited for spring. Nature is
not torpid. It is only asleep and its slumber is but
a light one.

In the woods under the shelter of many, boughs,
the snow lies deep even when winds and sunshine
have well-nigh laid the pastures bare.

Over the snow go the tracks of the little shy crea-
tures, showing how much active, hungry life is abroad
although danger faces every foot of the way.

Here are seen the delicate tracks made by the birds'
light feet. Here, perhaps, is the track of a fox much
like that of a dog, but with sweep of brush among
the tracks. Scattered fan-shaped prints show which
way the rabbit wandered for his food. The little
shrew and field mice, creeping over the surface, leave
their dainty marks which look like a double row of
stitching on a piece of white linen. The little pairs
of footprints show which way the squirrels ran.

If one does not care to go abroad to find all these
things, much may be done by studying the trees near
the home, and if all the peculiar characteristics of one
or two species are mastered, a tramp of some distance
to find one diflferent will not seem so great a task.
When you contrast the light, delicate twigs of the
beech with the sturdy ones of the hickory, the long,
pointed buds of the former, with the short, sharp
pointed ones of the latter which are covered with two
outer dark brown scales beautifully colored inside,
nothing but lack of time will keep those who love
trees from further pursuing the study of them, not
stopping with their winter characteristics.

January is a good time to study the roots of plants.
When a seed germinates it sends forth a sprout,
placed perpendicularly. This is the stem which will
produce leaves, flowers and fruit. This stem also pro-
duces roots for the purpose of supporting the plant.

also furnishing moisture and food. All the surface
of the root absorbs moisture, and this moisture holds
in solution mineral foods, which are converted into
vegetable substances by the plant. Every plant is a
wonderful laboratory.

At the tip of each root is a hardened scale-pro-
tected point to enable it to work its way into the
ground, just as the toes of moles do, and like those
of digging animals are protected by nails. The root-
lip has also a sucker for drawing up moisture. This
is the chief mouth of the root. Although the pores of
the entire root surface absorb freely, the ends of the
rootlets are the chief feeders.

When we walk abroad in January and see the earth
frozen, or covered with snow, we need not fancy all is
still and dead under ground. There are millions of
mouths below the surface taking their rest and feed-
ing but little ; there are other millions of plant store-
houses, full of food for the coming summer. In this
cold month the plant world does not refuse to unveil
to us some of the romance, and some of the mystery
and economy of its life.

Pull up from some unfrozen plat of ground a few
living roots of grass or weeds and hold them against
the light, after giving them a slight shake. Tiny par-
ticles of earth are now seen about the lower part of
the roots, not adhering to the epidennis, but held,
perhaps, a line away. Examine closely with a micro-
scope and you will find each atom of earth is held by
a minute hair.

These hairs are of great importance in the economy
of the root. They adhere so very closely to the soil
that they absorb from it the slightest trace of mois-
ture. In times of great drought these very fine hairs
enable the plant to gather moisture enough to sur-
vive, and when the drooping plant is watered the
hairs most speedily gather up and distribute the
precious drops.

Hairs are not found merely on roots. They occur
on every part of the plant. Wandering a little farther
afield in search of vegetable hairs, we may find a tall,
rough, dead rod, set with seed vessels at the top — the
dried stalk of a mullein. At its base we find a rosette
of greenish gray, thick leaves; some dry and dead,
after a summer's growth ; some young and still sue-

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107

culent, having unfolded late in the season. All these
leaves are covered so thickly with hairs that they re-
semble leaves cut out of coarse flannel or felt.

Exactly why a plant of so little value and attrac-
tiveness as the mullein should be so carefully defend-
ed, we cannot understand. Many seeds are hair-clad,
fur-wrapped, thus protecting them from the wet and
cold. So, whether vegetable hairs grow beneath or
above the ground they have a mission to fulfill, and
it takes centuries for the finite mind to understand
some of the minor problems.
Spiceland, Iiid. .^ ^f ■.*

SINGING AND SPEAKING STONES.
Man's love of the marvelous and mysterious has
been gratified by the discovery, at various places and
epochs, of stones and sand from which issued sounds,
apparently of supernatural origin. The phenomena
e.xhibit so great a variety that the vocal stones may
be separated into a number of distinct classes.

One of the most remarkable of these groups is ex-
emplified by a sand bank about 60 feet high, on the
southwest coast of the island of Hawaii. According
to W. R. Trink a tone like that of a melodeon is pro-
(hiced by moving the hand in a circle through the
loose sand. If the observer kneels, with both hands
in the sand, and slides down the bank the sound be-
comes louder and louder until it resembles distant
thunder and alarms horses tethered nearby. The
loudest sound was produced when a native lay prone
on the sand and another native dragged him by
the heels down the bank, carrying a large quantity
of sand down with liim.

Dr. James Blake discovered by examining with a
microscope thin sections of the grains of sand, which
are of volcanic origin, that each grain was perforated
by a narrow canal which, as a rule, was closed at one
end. These peculiarly formed grains of sand appear
to act as resonators, the air inclosed in them being
set into vibration by the mutual friction of th* grains.
When the sand is damp the sound is not produced, be-
cause the friction is diminished and many of the tubu-
lar cavities are filled with water.

The singing sands of Mt. Sinai probably admit of
a similar explanation. Wellsted describes the sand
as yielding beneath the feet of a Bedouin climbing
up the slope, not flowing down in a continuous stream,
but breaking away in large masses. At first the sound
resembled the faint tones of an TEolian harp stirred by
a gentle breeze, but as the motion became more rapid
the sound was like that produced by a wet finger
rubbed on the brim of a wine glass, and when the sand
arrived at the foot of the mountain it made a noise
like thunder, which shook the rock on which the
traveler sat and so terrified the camels that it was
difficult to hold them. This description is so similar to
that of the singing sands of Hawaii that the
presence of hollow grains of sand would account

for the phenomenon of Sinai as well as for the other.
But Schubert writes: "The Djebel Nakus or Bell
Mountain, 400 feet high, is composed of sandstone
bowlders loosely thrown together and covered with
loose sand. When disturbed by the foot this sand
falls into the interstices between the rocks, producing
a sound that resembles a distant chime of bells and
terminates in a roar." From this it appears that the
falling of the sand between the bowlders is at least
a contributory cause of the sound, and it may account
for the whole phenomenon.

Sounds of a very dift'erent character and origin are
emitted by certain cliff^s in the Harz Mountains and
in the Pyrenees. Two precipitous cliffs in the Harz.
near Schierke, are called " The Snorers," from the
peculiar sounds which the southwest wind draws from
them. The faces of these cliffs are marked by deep
gullies, which roughly resemble organ pipes open
in front, and occasionally the front is practically
closed by a stratum of air held motionless between
the cliff and the trees which graze it, while the wind
blows freely through the gullies, or organ pipes, be-
hind. Similar phenomena, due probably to a similar
cause, are observed on Mt. Maladetta, in the Pyrenees,
where at sunrise certain cliffs emit plaintive sounds,
which resemble those of a harp, and are known locally
as " the matins of the damned."

Singing stones of a third category are found in
various parts of the world. Fraas, journeying from
the Red Sea to the Nile, saw a round, thin fragment
an inch in diarneter, resembling a shell, split off, with
a peculiaf sound, from a flint which lay baking in the
hot sun at his feet. This observation is very remark-
able and perhaps unique, for flints split gradually as
a rule, but the violent and noisy rupture of the last
bond under the influence of the sun's rays and in the
presence of an observer does not seem impossible.
Broken flint are common in the desert. Many persons
have heard the noise caused by similar fractures of
hard rock and have seen the fragments roll down
mountain slopes. Behm writes of the basalt columns
of the Bamangwato hills, in South Africa : " In the
evening, after a hot day. it was not unusual to hear
the basalt crack and fall with a peculiar ringing sound,
from which the natives inferred that the rock con-
tained much iron." Here we undoubtedly find the
most frequent cause of the singing of stones and the
explanation of many of the observed cases. The
phenomena are most conspicuous in hard rocks, which
ring under the hammer, and especially in basalt and
granite. They have been observed mostly in Egypt.
Jollois, DevilHers, and the younger Champollion often
heard ringing, cracking sounds issuing from the huge
granite blocks of the great temple at Karnak. Similar
sounds have been heard in the temple at Phils and
in the granite quarries at Assuan. — Scientific Amer^
ican Supplement.

108

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THOSE RESOLUTIONS.

What of those New Year's resolutions, are they
forgotten, or broken and discarded? We trust not.
There was a sense of their need or they would not
have been adopted, and until that need is satisfied the
resolutions should be kept in force.

Passing over a resolution through forgetfulness or
breaking it through weakness does not hopelessly
" spoil the game " and compel one to wait for another
New Year to get on the right track again. If there is
first a determinate will, a forgetful memory can be
wonderfully refreshed and a broken resolution can be
patched up so as to do duty for a whole year..

One thing we need to do is to keep bright in our
imagination the vision of what these resolutions will
do for us. This will often help us over the hard
places. Again, we make a mistake when we think we
can make resolutions on New Year's day and they
will stay " made " for the whole year. While we need
to see to their enforcement for only one day at a time,
we need to renew them or remake them for that day
in order that we may be sure they are strong enough
to carry us over that period.

Living by the day is the surest way of keeping up
our courage and making growth in tlie desired di-
rection. .< ,t .^j

THE CHURCHES AND CHARITY WORK.

JRecently a report was submitted to the Carpen-
ters' District Council of Chicago as the result of a
special investigation into the causes and extent of
poverty in the city. The report makes some serious
charges against the churches of today, to the effect
that they are not fulfilHng their mission as charitable
organizations.

The Scriptures make it plain that one of the chief
duties of the church is to care for' the poor and those
who need a helping hand; A glance at the conditions
of today when organizations outside of -the •church

carry on most of the charitable work done will show
whether there is any ground for the charge. The re-
port says in part :

" Churches are neglecting the industrial masses.
The clergy are in society, politics and reform, while
organized charity is compelled to do the work the
churches are neglecting. Charity organizations are
assuming to themselves work that the law provides
should be done by the proper public officials, and are
paying in salaries and office expenses as much as
thirty-five cents on every dollar collected to feed and
clothe the poor.

" If the public would do its full duty there would be
no need for a great many so-called charitable organiza-
tions. Improving bad social, sanitary and civic con-
ditions and trying to build up character is very praise-
worthy, but the first should not be done with the
money which has been given for the purpose of feed-
ing and clothing the poor and the second should be
done by our schools and churches. The industrial
masses have not left the churches. The churches have
neglected them."

These statements should be studied and the condi-
tions looked into. We cannot blame the outside
organizations for taking up the work that belongs to
the churches. Evidently the work was not being done
or they would not have entered the field. Neither can
we shift the responsibility by urging that the chari-
table organizations are especially equipped for the
work. The churches can afford any equipment that
will fit them to discharge their duty. The work itself
will develop skill and experience. " Ye have the poor
with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do
them good."

(^w ^* ^*

TEMPERANCE AS A LIVE ISSUE.

As yet there has been no reaction in the temper-
ance movement and we trust there will be none until
its principles are so thoroughly established in the life
of the community and the state that there can be no
going back. While we have gained many victories
we cannot afford to rest on the strength of these
while greater obstacles remain to be overcome.

A strong indication of the permanence of the temper-
ance movement is seen in the way it is forcing the
question upon the attention of every one. People are
compelled to consider the question and consequently
to take a stand. And as in all questions where right
is so largely involved, the more thought given to
the subject the greater will be the gains for the
right.

A man in pitblic office ought to stand by his con-
victions the same as in private' life, bi.it many of them
owe their position so largely to special interests that
they dare not be themselves. When, therefore, a man
is- brave enough to take his political life- in his hands
and do and say what he believes to-be right, we give

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109

him great praise. And the number who thus declare
themselves and repudiate all claims but those of the
people as a whole is growing all the time. In this
way the temperance cause has made wide gains.

To prove that the temperance movement is a live
issue and to show how public men are compelled to
line up on the question, we give extracts from the
recent messages of two State governors. The first is
from the message of Governor J. Frank Hanly to
the legislature of Indiana :

" I am aware there are some who have already
celebrated the county option law's repeal, but I beg-
to remind all those who contemplate its repeal that it
is the livest wire in the political machinery of this
commonwealtli and is charged witli enough electricity
to electrocute the party that repeals it."

With this strong declaration with its challenging
note, the Governor closed his appeal in behalf of tem-
perance. Some of his statements leading up to the
above were as follows :

" Alcohol must be held responsible for about four-
fifths of the anti-social propensities that make neces-
sary the huge paraphernalia of police systems, crim-
inal courts, jails, prisons and reformatories.

" The general relation between alcohol and pauper-
ism is everywhere recognized.

" The same cause is responsible for the mental
overthrow of fully one-fourth of all the unfortunates
who are sent to the asylums for the insane; for the
misfortune of two-fifths of the abandoned children,
and for the moral delinquency of at least one-half of
the convicts in our prisons, and not less than four-
fifths of the inmates of our jails and almshouses."

In marked contrast to this we have the action of
the Governor of Tennessee. Early in January a sen-
sation was created in legislative circles by the intro-
duction of a resolution in the house asking an investi-
gation of the " whiskey lobby " and alleged attempts
to defeat temperance measures. Following this on
the same day came two prohibition bills, " one signed
by fifty-seven and the other by fifty-five members,"
which would insure their passage through the .lower
house and a sufficient number of votes to pass
either one over the Governor's veto should he decide
to disapprove of them. But the Senate and House had
both received word from the Governor asking that
no action be taken on temperance till he could pre-
pare and send them a special message on the subject.
Three days later the legislative bodies were in
possession of the special message. In substance it
was as follows :

State-wide prohibition is wrong as a governmental
])olicy. and docs not acco'mplish the result hoped for.
(In that dress you would hardly recognize the wornr
out statement, " Prohibition doesn't prohibit." " One
Would think it would be bentatTi the clighifv" of' a

governor to take notice of such a harmless thing.)
The use or nonuse of liquor should be left to the in-
dividual. (The wife and children are to take the big-
gest share of the results and say nothing.) States
cannot prevent the manufacture of liquor in other
States and the shipment from other States. (One of
Speaker Cannon's lessons well learned.) Until the
United States forbids the manufacture and sale of
liquor it is not possible to have a prohibition law.

It is to be doubted whether such a message, coming
from a man who has bound himself to guard the wel-
fare of the people, can do any great damage to the
temperance cause. It is said that hindrances may be
made stepping-stones to success, and it is our opin-
ion that this opposition of the Governor of Tennessee
will work out as a long stride toward that goal for the
temperance workers.

(^* ^^ (i?*

REST.

Let us rest ourselves a bit.
Worry? — wave your hand to it —
Kiss your finger tips and smile
It farewell a little while.
Weary of the weary way
We have come from yesterday.
Let us fret us not, instead.
Of the weary way ahead.
Let us pause and catch our breath
On the hither side of death.
While we see the tender shoots
Of the grasses — not the roots.
While we yet look down — not up —
To seek out the buttercup
And the daisy, where they wave
O'er the green home of the grave.
Let us launch us smoothly on
Listless billows of the lawn.
And drift out across the main
Of our childish, dreams again.
Voyage ofif, beneath the trees,
O'er the field's enchanted seas,
Where the lilies are our sails
And our seagulls, nightingales.
Where no wilder storms shall beat
Than the wind that waves the wheat.
And no tempests burst above
The old laughs we used to love.
Lose all troubles — gain release,
Languor and e.xceeding peace.
Cruising idly o'er the vast
CalrA mid-ocean . of .the past. .
Let us rest ourselves a bit.
Worry? — wave your hand to it-
Kiss your' finger tips and smile
It farewell a little while.

— James Whitcomb Riley.

^v ^^ <*5*

" 'Tis a very bad habit to get to thinking with the.
mouth and, likewise, 'a' perversiori of nature's plans.'
The' mouth has other and better uses and, . besides,
such thitiking IS apfto be rather' clotrdy and illogical."

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THE I NGLENOOK.— February 2, 1909.

The Home World

WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

J. F. STUDEBAKER, M. D.

It shall not be the object of this talk to hold up one
State above another, to say that Iowa or Illinois, with
their great fields of corn, is superior to Colorado or
Washington with their productive, irrigated lands ;
or to assert that one country excels another, that the
United States, with its varied and enchanting scenery,
growing commerce, and matchless liberties, triumphs
over Siberia with its cold, bleak, barren plains im-
prisoned in ghastly lonesomeness, or Germany with its
frowning bluffs and castled Rhine, or Switzerland
with its defiant snow-capped mountains overshadow-
ing its quiet homes in the valleys, or Italy with its
dreamy slopes and plains basking in the sun.

My question is not directed to what commonwealth
you belong, but where do you live in your own town,
on your own eighty, quarter section, or section, in
your own township, in your own county, in your own
State ? I live on the crossroads near a beautiful, spark-
ling spring on a southern slope to break the northern
winds in winter and beneath dense shade trees to
break the southern sun in summer. A home site of
this kind is most usually chosen when a country
is first settled for the convenience of protection
against the boisterous side of nature and for the cer-
tainty of a water supply.

For example, take Kansas. The pioneers of this
State selected locations for their homes in the most
rolling and rough country, or among wooded hills
along the streams of the eastern portion, counting the
gracefully undulating upland as worthless except for
light grazing. Their poorly-built huts were put up
under overhanging timber. The plains were not pro-
ductive on account of the lack of moisture but in
late years the rain belt has extended west and what
was once a dry and quite desirable place among the
trees near a brook is now really an unfit place to live
because of the great amount of dampness.

This matter of selecting a sheltered site close by
water without digging for it has led in many instances

to the founding of a home on the unhealthiest spot on
the farm. If a spring or stream is not within a stone's
throw, a well of water is easily obtained at a few
feet in depth in the hollow or lowland. The site is
unsanitary for obvious reasons. The water teams
with bacteria on account of surface drainage into
the well. This is particularly true where the rainfall
is abundant or after the thawing of heavy snows, the
latter being a great factor in making Chicago's water
occasionally impure which is pumped into the mains
from a distance of four miles out in Lake Michigan.
Bacteria certainly do not contribute anything good to
drinking water. If those representing some of the
serious diseases are present like typhoid, they menace
the entire household. A deep well on the upland,
securely banked with ground, with drainage away from
it on all sides, is a valuable resource to a home any-
where.

There is no known reason whatever for having the
house and well at the bottom of a hill and the barn
and other outbuildings on its summit. We all would
shrink from the application of water from a well so
situated to our bodies, — much less than to take it in-
ternally, providing we are aware of its impurity.

While speaking of water, I wish to state that there
is a delusion about cistern water. It may pass
through the best of filters but it is not wholesome even
then, particularly after standing a few days unless
kept ice cold. Only the grosser obnoxious elements
are kept back. All the germs floating in the air, as
tubercular germs and others finding lodgment upon
a roof, find their way through filters and you are
sure to digest countless numbers of bacteria (if they
don't digest you) before the cistern becomes dry to-
wards the end of a rainless season. Any question-
able water may be freed of microbic life by boiling it
fifteen or twenty minutes. Water regains its taste by
exposing it to the air two or three hours. A cistern

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under the house is almost equal to a cellar full of
water.

The foliage of trees in some yards is so compact
that the ground is continually moist and so shut off
from light that no spear of grass is seen and weeds
become sick and fail to mature. Then, too, the
proper circulation of air about and through the build-
ings is obstructed. Probably the worst practice is
the planting of trees on the south side of the dwelling
house to intercept the rays of the sun. The boarded
walks rot, the well-curb decays, the house feels cool
from the dampness of its saturated timbers, the cellar
draws moisture, and for the " housewife " the day is
shorn of the awakening of a brilliant dawn, of the
splendor of a noonday and the golden tints of a set-
ting sun. Those handsome cottonwood trees make
what should be the most beautiful the most dark, dis-
mal and isolated place on the premises.

In town or in the city the same condition is found
. in the crowded districts where houses are either built
against each other or too close for a decent alley.
Diseases of the air passages and rheumatism are fond
visitors to such places just as animals and insects who
prefer darkness and dampness resort to such a ren-
dezvous. The farmer would not think of planting
his corn under a clump of trees. The human body
in such confined quarters will not do any better.
Many diseases thrive best in the absence of dryness,
light and fresh air. This is particularly true of tuber-
culosis which still may be considered the white plague.
All large trees near the house should be cut down. It
is important that all underbrush and low-hanging limbs
of the orchards should be removed to insure the pas-
sage of rarefied air about the buildings. A complete
circuit of air (doors wide open) through the living
rooms should be established twice daily. Then fungi,
as molds, will perish.

The living near ponds and swamps is to be con-
demned especially in malarial (ague) and in southern
districts, since malarial and yellow fever owe their
dissemination largely to that small tormenting agent,
the mosquito, which spends its time about watering
places of its own peculiar choice.

We refuse to live with dogs, cats, chickens, swine
(Ireland), flies, mosquitoes, and most bacteria after
learning their habits. Not all can be fenced out ; but
all can be kept out of the home. In a large measure,
this thought is superfluous to Nook readers,.particular-
ly in regard to our visible visitors. The writer knows
a family of father, mother and nine children only
a few miles from his town (considered civilized), re-
siding in a small house but none too small for them
and their domestic fowl, the latter roosting on the
roostable part of the beds of their superiors. They
are all happy, practically of common stock. The only
difference is that the one claims the right to kill and
eat the other.

This illustration, though crude, shows how one, if
not familiar with a few principles of sanitation, can
overlook the intimate association with folks who
should live outside of the house occupied by human
folks. Myriads of disease-producing bacteria are per-
mitted to live in our midst ; yes, with us behind bolted
doors because of a lack of knowledge in regard to
their development, multiplication and habits.

No matter whether the home is on the farm or in
the city, everything should be favorable for unob-
structed sunlight, invigorating fresh air, moderate
dryness, pure water and the proper inhibition of germ
growth.

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THE CAUSE OF THE INSUBORDINATION.

I WONDER how many mothers and fathers realize
that it is their part to cooperate with the school teach-
er? Some reason that schooling, of course, is neces-
sary for boys and girls, and, moreover, it is a relief —
to the mother particularly — to get the children out of
the way for the greater part of the day. For this they
feel indebted to the county for building schoolhouses
and paying teachers and making it compulsory by law
that all children between six and fourteen shall attend.
At the same time they seem to assume or allow their
children to assume that the teacher is the natural en-
emy of the child, and such are not sparing in their
admonitions to their oft'spring to stand up for their
rights. And it is this very coaching that is responsible
for most of the insurrection that is all too common
in all, but the more so in city schools.

One wee girl, of six, with a most angelic expression,
disobeyed her teacher, saying she didn't have to mind
— •" Because you didn't horned me and haven't any
right to boss me. Only my mother has." Back of
that reasoning the mother's teaching was plainly vis-
ible. Another attractive looking little girl — she was
a midget of eight — once informed me, " I've got it
over all the teachers on the top floor. They are all
afraid of me, they are. I never let a teacher think
she's it." Which of course, was not true, but it
showed the attitude in which the child had been trained
to stand in regard to those who should have had her
respect.

If this was the bearing of the small fry of the gentler
sex, what would I hear from the boys, I wondered, and
I was not very long in learning. In a certain room
where years ago I had commenced my school career,
the naughtiest boy in the grade, we thought, was one
who would rush up and kiss the teacher right in school
hours; when he was very, very horrid he would take
a turn at kissing the little girls, which led to much
mortification and many tears on their part. Today, in
that same room, I discovered that the youngster who
is " baddest " is the one who throws books at the
teacher whenever she corrects him and he has even
said he'd " smash he good " if she tried any of her

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hand-spatting on him. And his " father'd back him
up " if she made any " spiel " to the board. And he
was less than seven!

Not long after that my investigations led me down
to the quarters of the school board, and while awaiting
my turn to speak to the superintendent, I heard a
father, who led by the hand a dull-eyed, thick-lipped
boy, asking for the transfer of his son to another
school. " His teacher over there at Number Ten has
got it in for him, and I won't stand for that," was his
excuse. The transfer was refused, for it was written
all too plainly on the father's and the boy's faces that
insubordination in that family was called " standing up
for your rights," and the boy would not have gotten
along with any teacher except one who had the traits
commonly attributed to jailers. The next person in
line was a mother who also asked for a transfer, and
in spite of the fact that her manners were gentle and
her boy a fine, manly-looking little fellow, the look of
weariness that had settled on the superintendent's face
did not leave it as he asked the reason for the request.
It was hastily dispelled, however, by the answer, " Be-
cause my boy's teacher was transferred to the new
school at the beginning of the year — the teacher he
has had for two terms. He is very devoted to her and
I feel that I owe her a large debt for her solicitude for
my son's progress in his studies and the fine influence
she has had on him in many other ways. Not that he
does not like his present teacher, but he really grieves
deeply for the loss of the other." That transfer was
readily granted, and the superintendent, I am sure,
breathed a prayer for the coming of the time when
all mothers would be just to the teacher and give her
her dues. — Investigatrix, in Exchange.

GIFTS TO OUR CHILDREN.

The conventional season for giving gifts to our
children has come and gone again. We have hung
the tree and filled the stockings ; we have joined with
keen delight in the joy of giving and receiving. And
though the candy is soon eaten and the toys are soon
broken or outgrown, we would not forego the whole-
some pleasure of the Christmas time. But we will
not allow the feverish delights of this passing oc-
casion to blind our eyes to the more abiding and
real gifts which it is our pleasure and duty to give to
our children. Can all the toys of Christmas compare
in value with the gifts of a healthy body? Can all
the gustatory joys of candy and sweetmeats outweigh
the permanent satisfaction of a sound stomach and a
robust digestion?

Our first great gift to our children, then, should be
a strong and healthy body, with eye to see and
ear to hear, with red blood and responsive nerves,
with muscles quick and supple in work and play, tir-
ing in a wholesome, natural fashion and rebounding
with rest and sleep. Great souls have existed and

struggled and triumphed in frail bodies, but it is not
the rule. Physical health underlies and supports mind,
strength and soul power. Therefore, blessed is the
child whose parents have hung his tree of life with
the great gift of a strong and healthy body.

It is ours also in no small measure to give to our
children a wholesome view of life. Neither health
nor wealth nor the place and power they bring can
match this priceless gift of a wholesome mind. For
right emotions, right feelings, right attitudes, right
ideals -within mean the right sort of a world outside.
In order to see straight, to think straight, to act
straight, we must be straight. It is a blessing to have
the gift of the natural eye, but it is incomparably bet-
ter to have the gift of right mental vision, of the
wholesome point of view. For we see with all that
we are and with all that we aspire to be. The mind
reaches its spiritual hands out through the physical
eye and lays hold of the things of beauty or the things
of ugliness as it chooses ; it reaches its vibrant hands
out through the ear and catches the harmonies and the
discords of life, of the things of good or bad report as
it wills. If our child is to see and hear " tongues in
trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones,
and good in everything " it will be because he has the
gift of tongues and books and sermons and good in
his mind's eye. Therefore, blessed, twice blessed is
that child of man whose future is hung with that
bow of promise, a sound body and a wholesome mind.
To name a good home, a good church, a good school
as gifts within our power to confer upon our children
may be speaking too large, yet within certain limita-
tions these are precisely the things which we may
give or deny to our children. Rugs on the floor and
tap-stries on the wall are not essential to a good
home. Massive piles of stone and mortar do not con-
stitute the goodness of a church. The spirit of a
good school lies quite apart from styles of architec-
ture and swollen financial budgets.

A fairly decent father and mother make a good
home ; the devotion and sweet reasonableness of pastor
or priest do most to create the atmosphere of a good
church ; and a good teacher is the very heart and life
of a good school. Is it, then, speaking too large to
say that the essentials of a good home, a good church,
a good school lie within our power to give or to deny
to our children? The gifts of toys, of clothing and
food, of houses and lands, of social standing, or a
great name ^re not to be compared with these. Well
may our sons and daughters rise up to bless our mem-
ories if they shall find that with all our givings we
gave them the gifts that are worth while ; a healthy
body, a wholesome mind, a good home, a good church,
and a good school. — F. G. Blair, Illinois State Supt.
of Schools. ^ jt ^

" He gets the kingly character who works for the
kingdom."

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SELECTED HELPS.

To boil spots of mildew in water made very tart
with cream of tartar and lay while damp in the sun
will entirely remove the sprinkling of dark spots.

Sprinkle on the spot of iron rust some powdered
alum and arrange the spot exactly over the spout of
a boiling tea kettle. Wash the alum out of the cloth
at once, ei^.^ the alum will eat a hole in the fabric.

Wind a soft stout string around the neck of the
bottle twice, and while someone holds it draw the
string back and forth at great speed. This friction
heats and expands the neck, so that the stopper is
easily removed.

A satisfactory substitute for a brass rod is a piece
>,^ narrow band elastic drawn through and securely
sewed at each end and catching in a loop of narrow
tape. The length of the elastic should be about two
inches less than the width of the window and the
loops caught over a hook, nail or screw at each side
of the casement. This will keep the top edge of the
curtain in a straight line.

To make good home-made syrup: To one cupful
of sugar, granulated or brown, but preferably the lat-
ter, take a half cupful of cold water. Put into a glass
jar a day or so before the syrup is needed for use,
and stir it occasionally with a spoon. If the cover is
tight, it may be shaken instead. A little vanilla may be
added if it is liked for a change. This is much less
work than the old cooking process, tastes just as well,
and does not " go back to sugar."

The Children's Corner

GLADYS BROOKS' PARTIES.

You have heard about parties without " fuss and
feathers," have you not? Well, I want to tell you
about a dear little girl who gave parties without any
" fuss," but with a good many " feathers." It came
about in this way: Gladys Brooks noticed the little
sparrows hopping about on the cold snow crust and on
the frozen ground, vainly seeking for a bit of grain.

" Mama," she said, " I think the birdies are hungry.
See them hunting and hunting for something to eat,
and all they can find is snow. Poor little creatures !
What can I feed them, mama?"

" Ask Dinah for a piece of stale bread," was the
answer, and " you can crumb it up for the sparrows."

That was Gladys' first party. She put on her coat
and went outside where several English sparrows
seemed to be searching vainly for a meal. When she
crumbed some bread and scattered it on the snow
crust they flew away as though fearful that an enemy
was at hand. Gladys went inside to " watch and wait."
Presently the birds reappeared, one, two, three, four,

five, six of them. Gladys laughed aloud to see how
happy her " guests " were, hopping around and pick-
ing up the crumbs from the unexpected feast. Soon
more company came — three native sparrows. They
found plenty to eat. The following day was cold and
blustering, but Gladys gave another party. To this
one there were still more guests, mostly English and
native sparrows, but there came also a beautiful bird
in a blue jacket, which Mrs. Brooks told Gladys wa&
a bluebird. The bluebird apparently enjoyed the"
party as much as the sparrows did. For refrcsliments-
the guests had in addition to the bread crumbs a big
piece of stale cake broken into bits.

The next day it stormed so hard that there wRf p'5
party; there were no birds to be seen. Gladys laid lier
mother that she was afraid the birds would starve, but
Mrs. Brooks said:

" No, my dear, they will not starve ; they had plentv
to eat yesterday." The storm lasted t.o days, and
during that time not a bird was to be seen. Ti.c third
day dawned clear and bright, but very cold. Thci.:
was a glistening coat of Ice on tl-.c inc.. Zh.p hire;
came early to the party ; in fact they were on hap '. be-
fore the feast \\c..> -prc.-rl and as "hungry as hunt.-r?."
Gladys said, laughingly. They rzn aoui.t over ^-i-'
shining snow crust expectantly, pick-;^ he:L a:),: tht-.e-
as if to find a crumb.

" I guess they will not be afraid of me anv more/'
said Gladys. "I guess they k:-.ow I will give tiieni
something to eat."

Gladys looked like a •' rer! bird " herself, at least sa
her mother said, .is she .r.. out in the yard in her Red
Riding-hood cloak and her bj.^ket of good things in
her hands. Gladys was rigwt. The birds weie not
afraid of her. To be sure, they scattered about when
she begar. .o i;-stribute the refreshments, but they did
not go away.

Th?s was an unusual feast " after the storm," for
when Gladys told Dinah that the birds must be quite
hungry after their lomr frst, the cook had answered,
" You might give them all those green tops of the
celery— birds just love celery." And s^, in addition
to the usual crumbs of bread, crackers and cake, there
were tiny bits of green at the pai ty. How the bird*
enjoyed it!

There were some new guests at the party that day.
Beside the English and native si)arrows and two blue-
birds, there came a jay and several little snow birds,
and lastly, a cardinal bird with its warm glow.

Just one thing more I want to tell you about Gladys.
Brooks. She did not get tired of giving these parties.
All winter long there was not a hungry bird in the
vicinity of her home. Not until the snow and ice had'
gone and the green things had begun to grow did she
give up her parties for the birdies.— Om/tan In-
telligencer.

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TWO WAYS.

AG.N'ES NEFF.

Two ways there are, and these two ways

Lie very far apart;
The one gleams bright with heavenly light;

The other way is dark. ,

One way there is that leadeth up,

'T is narrow and 'tis straight;

It leads its pilgrims safely on.

To heaven's pearly gate.

The other way is broad, 't is wide,
We know its end full well;

A serpent's coiled beneath the path,
It leadeth down to liell.

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THE WAVES OF GALILEE.
D. D. THOMAS.

Beneath the level of the Great Sea, on the tm-
certain waters of Galilee, some of the very important
and far-reaching acts of the Master occurred. It
is somewhat cause for wonder why he should have,
come down here, away from the Holy City, to per-
form some of his greatest miracles. Seemingly it
teaches us that in a great city is not a good place to
do mission work in a short time. For he had only
a short time to stay.

These days when our young people are rushing to
the city, we might well pause and note the wisdom of
Jesus; for the grace and truth of the Master
changed the history of the world by being implanted
in the simple hearts of the fishermen of Galilee. And
though the transformation of their lives was mi-
raculous yet it can not be denied that Jesus made the
best choice of vessels for his use. The temptations
of the city strengthen prejudice and weaken every
moral virtue. Tenacity of principle and constancy of
purpose are lost, and lives are wafted hither and
thither by every wind that blows. Confessions cannot
be regarded as lasting. Constant support must be
given that they may stand, or taken from the begin-
ning of life with the children that they may be forti-
fied against these surroundings.

So Jesus went down to Galilee. It can be seen that
he helps only when we need him, and feel that we

need. He could sleep in the stern of the little boat
placidly until the}' could no longer manage the boat.
Yet he was not deaf to their cry when it came. One
of those quick storms had swept down upon the little
craft. To know his power is to cry unto him in
distress, and they knew his power. The swell of the
waves was lifting the boat, and almost dashing it to
destruction. It was grand enough to awaken the
faculty for the appreciation of the sublime, but there
was death in it. " Lord, save us or we perish," cried
they. And he arose and spoke the word. The storm
lifted, the hollow of the waves was filled. The crests
subsided. The swells ceased to strike the shore, the
pebbles to roll with the swish of the waves, " and
there was a great calm."

Who could not draw from this a precious lesson ;
one that comes very near?

It is evening. There was much anxiety all day.
The little one breathed out her life moment by mo-
ment. The watchers grew weary. The hand of help
was stayed. The tear of distress rolled down the
cheek and dropped on the form of the little sufiferer.
Rushing to the secret chamber, falling upon weary
knees, pouring forth the cry, " Lord, save or I perish,"
— ah, how near the breakers are! It is a struggle
for life. All night long you hear the ceaseless tick of
the clock, the hours marked by the stroke. Will it
never come?

The morning breaks. The sun pours forth his
glorious light. A knock at the door. A messenger
comes. " She sleeps." There is a great calm.

There is a sort of spirit of afiiliation between ani-
mate and inanimate things even, that sometimes seems
wonderful. The waters of Galilee are sweet, clear
and cool. The surrounding hills are bare and bleak.
So he the pure-hearted, pure-lifed among a genera-
tion of impure men, sought the purest natural location
to breathe forth his lessons of life.

The waters were clear. His life seemed only to the
cloudy-minded not so. Prejudice like mud makes
every good thing obscure. But to the fishermen it
was evident he was none other than "the Son. of the
living God." How much of a pleasure it must have

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been to the Immaculate One to walk on the waves
upon which the curse of God rested not. For God
cursed the ground, not the water. It is that which
cleanses the filth away. So the miracle of walking
upon the water showed the same affinity of the pure
for the pure. Though darkened and storm-tossed,
the Master sought it in this hour of vigil.

The disciples on the tumultuous waves saw and
feared it was not he. Their terror became so great
that they cried out. But from the gloom he called to
them in the same words of power as he used in speak-
ing to the sea," Fear not, it is I. Be not afraid." And
as to the waters so to their hearts there came a great
calm. Such as was not given to man since " the Spirit
of God moved upon the face of the great deep."

Lafayette, Ohio.

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TELLING TESTIMONY.

An unknown writer tells this story. On one oc--
casion, R. Ingersoll was announced to deliver a lecture
in the city of Pittsburg on the subject, " The foun-
dations of the Christian faith." There happened to
be living in the city of Pittsburg, at that time, a
lawyer who had been a schoolmate and friend of R.
Ingersoll. When he had graduated he had started in
his life's profession with bright promises, and had
married a lovely girl. Two children had come into
their home, and then there fastened upon him that
awful habit of drink, which was dragging him down
to the very lowest depths of hell. It broke up his
home ; it sent his children into the street ; took the
roses from the cheeks of his wife; took from him
his good name, character and friends. It left him
one night lying in an alley in New York City, poor,
friendless, hungry, sick and alone.

There came to this man a slum worker. He was
taken to a house where he was washed, put to bed,
and, in the morning, he was fed. This slum worker
pleaded with him that he would change his mode of
living. The young man lifted his hand to heaven, and
said, " By the help of Almighty God, I will make
one more effort ; this time it is heaven or hell, life or
death for me. For God's sake, for my own sake,
I will change." He never drank another drop ; he
brought his children in, and he painted the roses
again on the cheeks of his wife, and then went down
again to the city of Pittsburg, where he was practic-
ing his profession. When he read in the newspapers
that R. Ingersoll was to speak, he wrote him a little
note, something like this:

"My Dear Old Friend: — I see that tonight you are
to deliver a lecture against Christianity and the Bible.
Perhaps you know some of my history since we part-
ed ; perhaps you know that I disgraced my home and
family ; perhaps you know I lost my character, and
all that a man can hold dear in this world almost.
You may know that I went down and down until I

was a poor, despised outcast, and when I thought
there was none to help and none to save, there came
one in the name of Jesus, who told me of his power
to help; of his loving kindness and his tender sym-
pathy, and thiough the story of the cross of Christ
I turned to him. I brought my wife back to my home,
and gathered my children together again, and we
are happy now, and I am doing what good I can.

" And now, old friend, will you stand tonight be-
fore the people of Pittsburg and tell them what you
have to say against the religion that will come dov/rt
to the very lowest depths of hell, and find me, and
help me up, and make my. life happy, and clothe my
children, and give me back my home and friends — will
you tell them what you have to say against a religion
like that?"

R. Ingersoll read the letter before his audience, and
said : " Ladies and gentlemen, I have nothing to say
against a religion that will do this for a man. I am
here to talk about a religion that is being preached
by the preachers." — Exchange.

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REVELATION OR UNDERSTANDING?

A VERY necessary distinction is drawn by a well-
known teacher between " progressive revelation " and
" progressive understanding " — a distinction which,
generally, is not so carefully made as it should be.
Nearly all the odd religious fancies which obtain
currency amongst our modern Athenians, ever agog
fo*r " some new thing," shelter themselves under the
much abused term " progressive revelation." On the
other side, those who adhere to the one revelation
given " once for all to the saints " are accused of de-
liberately closing their eyes to " new light." It is
well, then, that we should distinguish between God's
revelation and our understanding of it. His revela-
tion has been given finally in Christ ; we shall never
have another ; for the sufficient reason that no other
is necessary.

In the time of darkness men's invention of light Is
progressive, but when the sun is up the last word on
light has been said ; it is then a question of blinds.
We may admit the light partially or completely, but
our admission of it is not " revelation " on the sun's
part. What is needed is the drawing back of the
curtains of the soul to admit all the light that is shin-
ing in the Divine Word. But this is a different thing'
from making lights of our own and calling them pro-
gressive sunlight. — London Christian.

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Solomon, the prince of peace, alone could build
the temple. If we would be soul-winners and build
up the church, which is God's temple, let us note
this ; not by discussion nor by argument, but by lift-
ing up Christ shall we draw men unto him. — /. Hud-
soti Taylor.

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Echoes from Everywhere

Coal ashes are being washed in spaces in Pennsylvania
mines from which the coal has been removed. As th*"
water recedes they form a solid mass, strong enough
to hold up the earth and prevent cave-ins.

A volcano near the city of C-'.ima;, Mexico, ■£ in e'Ujj-
tion and is throwing out a great quantity of a=hes and
stones. There is no lava flowing and the people are not
alarmed. Within the past few da.v; 'hei-e have been a
number of slight earthquake shockb.

The house recently passed a bil' . ' • he frank-
ing privilege to Frances F. Clevelar. .. ." • • the late
President Grover Cleveland. This is a • junc;:. lat has
been extended to the widows of all the P.'- - •!"• Some-
times there has been objection to the passage ol such
bills, but since it has become a custom no c'---. > is
raised.

Bessbrook, a town in the north of Ireland, the oldest
place in Ireland connected with the flax spinning anu
weaving trade, having about four thousand persons em-
ployed, has no public house (saloon), no police force,
no poorhouse, no paupers and no pawnshop. The pccp'.e
of Bessbrook have condemned the sale of strong drink
by a vote of six to one.

The Maryland court of appeals has just held the black-
list illegal. An employer who discharged a man be-
cause he was a labor agitator and then used his influence
with other concerns to prevent the man's getting em-
ployment was held to be exceeding his rights. Both
workers and employers have the right to organize, said
the couft, but if either maliciously went out of their way
to injure the other side they became liable for damages.

In Missouri there are sixty-one counties that have voted
dry as a whole. There are three others that have not
voted dry, but have defeated petitions for license and
have no saloons, making a total of sixty-four counties
without the dramshop. Besides these there are sixteen
counties that have voted dry outside of the cities, but
each- of these sixteen has one or more cities where the
s:aloon is licensed.

Mrs. Robert Douglass, of Pocahontas, 111., has filed
five suits against saloonkeepers for damages aggregating
$11,000. Mrs. Douglass alleges in her suit that her hus-
band, who formerly earned $100 a month, has become an
habitual drunkard through the instrumentality of saloons
and that she has been deprived of his company. The
owners of the property on which the saloons are located
are made parties to the suit. Her attorney promises to
sp.ring something new in law, and the outcome of the
litigation will be watched with interest by temperance
advocates. - ' '

The enactment into law of the anti-racetrack gambling
bill for California now seems assured. With its passage
bv the lower house by a vote cf 67 to 10, > is thougnt
ain the senate will take similar action. The sup-
porters of the bill claim 24 votes in the senate, when
21 is enough to win. Gov. Gillette will sign the bill.

Federal Judge Anderson has set February 23 as the
date for the beginning of the retrial of the $29,000,000
Standard Oil case in Chicago. The goven ment attorney
demanded an immediate trial and the Standard counsel
wanted delay until May. The court declared the case
would have to begin before March or ihe parties to it
must get another judge. He then set February 23 as the
date.

Unless the Legislature increases the borrowing capac-
ity of New York City, subway construction and other
public nprovement work will have to be halted for at
least two years, according to a statement made by Mayor
McClellan before he egislative committee which is in-
^estigating the i:i.-.i-:pality's finances. The mayor de-
clared that he fei: ound by the report of William M.
Ivins to the governor that the present margin of borrow-
ing capacity is only "^.OOO.COO. He believed private capi-
t?l could not be interestea extensive subway building
at the present time.

Another step in the fight of ti:e Feder^. ^ >- v
to recover possession of the land included in the i:;;
grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Comp.T
was taken Jan. 23 when B. D. Townsend, special assi--
ant to the Attorney General, filed in the Federal C<>l-:
in Portland .thirty-five suits in equity against the Ortj;. :;
and California Railroad, the Southern Pacific Companv
and over one hunlred other defendants. Th^se suits are
supplementary to those previously filed against the Har-
riman companies. The suits involve more than $15,000,-
000 and also more than 353,288 acres of land. Al] of the
land is located in Oregon.

During the past j'ear nine additional national forests
wer*» crt?ted and ten rediced in area. There are now 165
natioii.-.' orests, embracing 167,976,886 acres. There were
surve>.' 5,801.934 acres. There were entered in 1908,
19,090.256.78 acres of public land, a decrease of 1.907.-
209.80 acres over the preceding year. There were em-
braced in entries completed during the year 8,068,044.85
acres which hid been reported in original entries n:ade
in pre\H6us ye'ars' sfnd are not included in the above state-
ment. Entries of -all classes made last year numbered
205.459, a decrease of 2 per cent over the preceding year.
The aggregate expenditures and estimated liabilities of
the ^public land service were $2,381,359.79, leaving a net
balance of $10,334,349.67 in the treasury.

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117

Pennsylvania will be the possessor soon of the largest
stationary engine in the world. It is now being erected
at the Carnegie Steel Company's plant at Sharon.. With-
out foundation plates or flywheel, the engine weighs 550
tons. Two of the castings weighed 118 tons ea'ch, and
to transport them, special flat cars had to be built. The
engine's capacity is 25,000 horsepower, yet only one man
will be required to operate it. As the engine will be used
for operating the rolling machines it will be subject to great
strain. At the end of each run it will have to be reversed
quickly and the load will vary from nothing to its max-
imum power.

Governor Magoon has recommended that the United
States remove the Maine from Havana harbor, declaring
that the Spanish element in Cuba bfelieves America neg-
lects to remove the wreck for fear such action would show
that the ship was sunk by an interior explosion and not
by a mine. The sunken battleship is a serious menace
to the shipping of the harbor, as it occupies a portion
of the best anchorage. The obstruction has increased an-
nually during the past ten years by causing a shoal. The
moderate tides prevailing in the harbor are hardly suf-
ficient to prevent a gradual filling up, and this shoal
seriously interferes with the action of the tides, and there-
fore the entire harbor is rapidly filling.

Six lives were lost and two persons were injured when
the Florida of the Lloyds-Italiano Line cut her way
through the sides of the Republic, the White Star Med-
iterranean liner, in the fog-bound waters oi the Atlantic
ofl Nantucket early on the morning of Jan. 23. Despite
valiant efforts on the part of half a dozen other vessels
to save her, the Republic sank at half-past 8 o'clock on
the night of Jan 24 off No Man's Land, near Martha's
Vineyard. The passengers of the Republic, who dis-
played great self-control and presence of mind, were first
transferred to the Florida where they remained till the
Baltic, summoned by the wireless telegraph on the Re-
public, came to the rescue, and the passengers of both
the wrecked ships, over sixteen hundred in all, were tak-
en on board and carried to New York.

A system of old-age pensions, the beneficiaries of wliich
are to be employes who have served for twenty consecu-
tive years and who by reason of old age or physical
infirmities have become incapacitated, has been estab-
lished by the board of directors of Butler Brothers. This
concern, with 10,000 employes, is said to be the first mer-
cantile house to adopt the pension system as an induce-
ment to the rendering of faithful and efficient service.
The pension system adopted will not constitute a tax
upon the workers in the company's employ in New York,
Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Baltimore, Dallas, Omaha,
San Francisco and Seattle, as it will be maintained wholly
at the expense of the stockholders. Its benefits will flow
equally to the men and women who have complied with
the conditions specified. The annual payment to each
pensioner of the company will be " 1 per cent for each
year of active service on the average annual salary dur-
ing the five years preceding retirement," providing only that
no annual pension shall exceed $1,000. If the pension
should fall below $300 a year the board of directors may
at its discretion increase the sum to that amount. It is
to be paid monthly as long as the recipients are deemed
worthy of such bounty, but may be discontinued if they
are found to be assigning it in advance. The age of re-
tirement is fixed at 60 years.

Ninety-three of Kentucky's 119 counties are now to-
tally " dry," twenty-one are partly " dry," four are wholly
" wet," and the case of one county which recently voted
as a unit on prohibition is to be settled by legal process
in court.

Persons venturing on the unusual forms of amusement
devices at Coney Island do so at their own risk and can-
not expect to recover damages for injuries sustained un-
der general conditions, according to a ruling of the Ap-
pellate division of the Supreme Court. The decision was
handed down on an appeal from a jury verdict in a lower
court awarding Mrs. Phoebe Lumden $3,000 for injuries
received when thrown from a car plunging down an in-
cline on the scenic route. Justice Ingraham says: "The
accident was the result of one of the dangers that the
plaintiff had been warned against and the existence of
which was the attraction which induced her to take the
ride."

Japan is singing the praises of President Roosevelt
again as a result of his protest against the proposed anti-
Japanese legislation in California. Just as the President's
interference two years ago prevented the exclusion of Jap-
anese school children from the public schools, so his action
this time, leading Japanese believe, will put an end to
the threatened trouble. Roosevelt's declaration to Gov.
Gillette that Japan has fully complied with the terms
of the immigration agreement with America and that any
adverse legislation under the circumstances would be a
national dishonor is particularly pleasing to the Japan-
ese. They believe that if the question of the alleged "Jap-
anese peril " can be avoided during the present session
of the California Legislature it will never arise again.

The danger of caverns under the Gatun dam is not the
only thing in the canal zone to cause trouble, as Wash-
ington is again finding out. There is a high degree of feeling
existing between business men of Panama and the gov-
ernment commissaries. The merchants charge that vast
quantities of all sorts of luxuries and other goods are
imported into the canal zone on which no duty is paid,
and that these articles are sold, not only to American
employes, but to any one who asks for them. Conse-
quently the merchants are unable to compete, as they have
to pay a heavy duty on these things. They declare in a
set of resolutions forwarded to the executive department
at Washington that a system exists whose purpose is
to stifle the isthmian trade in behalf of the commissaries;
that the Panama railroad is rebating to the ccmmissaries
against the merchants; that the finest kinds of silks, ar-
ticles of luxury not needed, such as French perfumeries,
German soaps, pictures, and artists' materials, are sup-
plied in competition with the merchants. The Americans
admit on the face of the complaint that the Panama mer-
chants have a right to complain, but they add that this
right should not be allowed to apply, as the merchants
look upon the Americans as legitimate prey. Before the
commissaries were established, they allege, the Pana-
mans charged anything they thought they could get for
their goods, the price sometimes being 500 per cent high-
er than in the United States. The matter will be decided
by the government at Washington, to which two sets of
resolutions, drawn up by the Panama merchants on the
one side and the unions and other organizations of gov-
ernment employes on the other, have been forwarded.
The employes claim there is nothing to prevent the mer-
chants from resorting to high prices again if the govern-
ment checks the commissaries.

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THE INGLENOOK.— February 2, 1909.

Among the Magazines

ADULT PROBATION IN ILLINOIS.

Entirely apart from Judge Cleland's experiments in
adult probation in certain classes of cases the subject
of giving first offenders a chance to reform without the
brand and disgrace of a term in jail has been a live one
for some years in this and other States. There are adult
probation systems in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New
York, and the judgment of the competent is that they
have worked well and benefited not only the individuals
affected but the community as a whole.

Where there is no express statute for probation in the
case of adult offenders the judges have the authority,
by suspending sentence during good behavior, to institute
limited probation on their own account. This power
ought not to be abused, for if public sentiment is ripe
for a real system of probation the thing to do is to pass
a well-considered act and establish the requisite machin-
ery for the guidance and firm control of the probationers.

Here in Illinois adult probation should be considered
in connection with the parole law and the indeterminate
sentence. Sound administration is essential in both cases,
and if we should despair of securing it in the one di-
rection the opponents of adult probation would use that
despair as an argument against further experimentation
with crime, though, fortunately, even among those who
hold that the indeterminate sentence has failed here there
are supporters of probation for those who give actual
promise of complete reclamation.

In thousands of cases, it is notorious, men convicted
of first and minor offenses are " ended," not mended.
by imprisonment. Most of these can be saved to society
by supervision, encouragement to return to the path
of thrift and honesty, and the deterrent or coercive in-
fluence of a suspended sentence. And to say that an
offender can be saved is to say that it is a duty to save
him — a duty to ourselves, to him and to his family or
kin. — Chicago Record-Herald.

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PRESIDENT ANGELL.
Four score years old and the wheels of life are not yet
weary. President Angell is celebrating the eightieth an-
niversary of his birth by attending the meeting of tlie
Association of American Universities at Ithaca. It is
a characteristic way with him. During a long life of
varied experiences he has set an example of sturdy in-
dustry for thousands. What he has accomplished all
the world knows.

He had abundant opportunity to show his strength
while he was serving as editor of the Providence Journal
during the exciting years of the Civil War. But it was
an auspicious event in the history of American educa-
tion when he turned his attention to college adminis-
tration. If he had remained at the head of the University
of Vermont he would have made a place for himself
among the honored presidents of New England colleges.

In a smaller circle of influence his power would have been
commanding.

The central West congratulates itself and him as well
because he heard the call that came from Michigan. The
story of President Angell and that of the University of
Michigan for nearly forty years are one. No one hearing
his name and title ever needs to ask of what he is presi-
dent. No one hearing the name of the University of
Michigan ever asks its president's name. What " Michi-
gan " has done in educational lines for the central West
and for the United States is difficult of estimate. If noth-
ing else were considered except the astonishing devel-
opment of the State university idea in the United States
since the president of "Vermont" became the president
of "Michigan" in 1871, that would be sufficient to write
large the word " success " upon the record of an honored
career.

The people of the United States are obligated to Pres-
ident Angell for distinguished services to it in the field
of diplomacy. The army of educators throughout the
country pays its tribute to the Nestor. The thousands
who are proud to call themselves sons of "Michigan"
rejoice in one who "by reason of strength" has reached
his fourscore years. That he may return late to the skies
is the birthday wish of a host of friends and admirers. —
Chicago Tribune.

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DON'T- YOU NEED A CHILD?

Is it possible to work successfully " for the child that
needs a home and the home that needs a child " ? In
other words, can a great number of unfortunate boys and
girls be saved from public institutions by the system of
finding havens for them in places that are " homes " in
the best acceptation of the word? A year of practical
experimentation has proved that remarkable results can
be accomplished by a child-rescue campaign conducted
on the principle that universal mother-love can be awak-
ened to a sense of responsibility for the neglected chil-
dren of the world.

Not only have many childless women adopted boys
and girls, but many careless and temporarily helpless
mothers have been aroused to a sense of their highest
duty. The secondary influence of this work — this stir-
ring-up of latent maternal solicitude — may be produc-
tive of the most widespread reforms, which will reduce
institutional work to the minimum. A letter from Cali-
fornia, published in the February Delineator, tells its
own story. The writer says:

" It is through your child-rescue articles that I have
my three children out of the Home in which I had been
forced to place them for a year. . Your first article touched
me to the depths, and each succeeding one. They told
me what I knew to be the truth — it's far, far better for
the little ones to be in a private home. I could not see
my way to have them and also to work for them, but
your precious articles strengthened me and finally, last

THE INGLENOOK.— February 2, 1909.

119

March, I took my two children out and home and worked
for them, sewing, etc.; and last July my youngest one
also came back to me. I am now in charge of a day
nursery that has just been started, so you see I am work-
ing for my little ones and at the same time with them.

" It is you, dear friend, that has really done that for
me, and also, maybe, for many others. Your influence
is, indeed, widespreading and is a power for good."

This letter opens a vista of possibilities to the philan-
thropic mind. When women of all classes come into a
knowledge of what motherhood means, as the highest
privilege of life, there will be little need of institutions
and child-rescue campaigns, but until the better under-
standing comes there is rhuch to be done. Let all who
can help in bringing together the home and child.

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THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE AND THE NAVY.

In his recent and last annual message to Congress the
President has devoted much less space to arguing the
necessity of increase of the navy than in any of his pre-
vious messages. He has confined himself to simply
recommending, in a single sentence, the increase pro-
posed by the Navy Department, which is in substance
the four-battleship program of last year. But he gives
considerable space to urging the reorganization of the
whole naval management, in order to increase its effi-
ciency, and makes it perfectly clear that his views on the
subject of the navy have not in the least changed.

Only in July last he was reiterating at Newport, in
the most emphatic language, before the most notable
conference of United States naval officers ever called
together, his well-known views on the subject. These
he declared that he uttered, not to the naval officers, but
to " the great bulk of his fellow countrymen," whose
opinions on the navy he wished to guide. He is unalter-
ably opposed to " a purely defensive navy," " a mere
coast defense navy." He demands one that can " hit
hard," that can " hammer the opponent until he quits
fighting," that shall be " footloose to search out and de-
stroy the enemy's fleet." He is opposed to our coun-
try's assuming an "attitude of meekness" toward other
countries; we must be "aggressive" because we have
great responsibilities and a great role to play. The Mon-
roe doctrine is an " empty boast " unless backed by an
efficient navy. But even if we are to stay at home, mind
our own business, and maintain the " right to administer
our internal aflfairs as we think best," we must have " a
strong fighting navy." He still keeps alive his suspi-
cion that other nations are cormorants, only waiting a
favorable moment to pounce upon us. He thinks our
country, because of immigration, has more points of
friction with other governments than any other nation,
and hence we must have an " efficient fighting navy," a
navy that can "hit." "A first-class fighting navy is the
most effective guarantee of peace that this country can
have."

Those, therefore, who may think that, because he de-
votes so little space in his last message to recommend-
ing the four-battleship program, the President will cease
working for it, in season and out of season, are very
much mistaken. He may be expected at any time to
send a special message to Congress on the subject, as
he did last year. Up to the time when the final vote on
the navy bill is taken. Congressmen will be invited to the
White House and lectured on the absolute necessity, for
the safety of the country, of adding four huge Dread-
naughts and the necessary number of little monsters to
the navy.

Those who believe, therefore, that both the safety and
the honor of the country depend chiefly upon other and
higher agencies and means than suspicion and fear, and
the slugging and hitting and hammering of brute force,
must bestir themselves. Let remonstrances against further
increase of the navy be sent to Congress from all the
cities and communities of the nation, signed by clergy-
men, by business men, by educators, by members of labor
organizations, by women's societies, by everybody who
believes that the time has gone by for the continuance of
the enormously costly competitive armaments which
still burden and disgrace our civilization. Send them,
with a brief note, direct to your Congressman, who will
be glad to know what his constituents are thinking on this
most urgent question of the hour. — The Advocate of
Peace.

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THE PROHIBITION FLOOD.

The political protection of the saloon, says Harris
Dickson in the* January Circle Magazine, gradually
aroused public sentiment and arrayed against the saloon
thousands of men who had no prejudice against the mod-
erate use of liquor. Patriotic citizens regarded the whole
system as the greatest stumbling block in the path of
honest government. No matter what plan might be
proposed for the reform and advancement of the city,
the allied liquor and criminal elements stood beside the
machine politicians, musket in hand, to defend the old sys-
tem. Liberal-minded men came to believe that the sa-
loon, as a social and political institution, must be wiped
from the face of the earth before anything whatsoever
could be accomplished. After the saloon is destroyed
it will be easy to uproot the weaker evils which have
found shelter behind it. Thousands of gentlemen say
they had rather see the liquor business in the hands of
a few confessed outlaws, dodging from bush to bush
and hiding in the alleys, than to see it controlled by
political tyrants who boss the town. They cannot un-
derstand why the liquor business should go hand in hand
with every form of vice and crime. The hardware trade
and the grocery stores do not find it necessary to enter
into such partnerships. The drygoods trade does not
continually fight the law. If this antagonism to law
and decency be necessary for the success of the liquor
business, then there must be some inherent wrong in the
trade itself, and that trade should be stopped.

Such reasons as these have drawn into prohibition ranks
thousands of reluctant recruits; originally they did not
want to be prohibitionists, but are none the less enlisted
for the war and mean to figlit it out to the last ditch.

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ENGLISH BAN ON SUNDAY THEATERS.

King Edward has issued an edict forbidding public
entertainments in a theater or music-hall on Sundays,
Christmas Day, or Good Friday, " unless under very ex-
ceptional circumstances." The King of England thus
perpetuates a mediaeval privilege still adhering to the
crown and exercised through the office of the Lord Cham-
berlain — a post that has been more or less under fire in
recent years. The writer for the New York Tribune,
who signs herself "Marquise de Fontenoy," gives these
reasons for the King's action:

" King Edward has been led to issue this edict with re-
gard to Sunday performances by the growth and de-
terioration of these Sabbath entertainments. As in this
country, they commenced with concerts of sacred music.
Then followed cinematograph displays of biblical sub-

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1909.

jects. The latter, as well as the sacred music, have long
given way to much more frivolous and more worldly
features; and whereas twenty or thirty years ago all the-
aters and music-halls throughout Great Britain were shut
on Sundays, today they are nearly all open and doing a
rushing business, the houses being often rented on Sun-
days for so-called private entertainments of a class which
would not pass muster with the mass of the general pub-
lic on a weekdav.

" Prompted, it is said, by Queen Alexandra, who is
a very religious woman indeed, and urged by the leading
ecclesiastics, not only of the Church of England but of
other denominations, the King has now turned to good
account the survival of the mediaeval despotism which
excited so much criticism at the time when it was invoked
by subordinate officials of the Lord Chamberlain's depart-
ment to prevent the performance of Gilbert and Sulli-
van's comic opera, ' The Mikado,' during the state visit
to England of several members of the Japanese imperial
family a couple of years ago. The step taken by the King
is meeting with the warm approval of the vast mass of
the population in England, where it is construed as
furnishing another striking illustration of the intimacy
of his constant touch with public sentiment. The latter,
as in all English-speaking countries, is ever in favor of
a respect for Sunday, and so keenly alive is the King
to this that, although passionately devoted to racing, he
has never in his life been present at the Paris Grand
Prix, which is always run on a Sunday, and which is the
greatest of races on the Continent of Europe, being
equivalent to the English Derby." — Literary Digest.

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THE WINTER CARE OF HENS.

In comparison with records one often reads in farm
journals, my hens are very ordinary winter layers;
but in comparison with those of all my neighbors
who have provided the modern conveniences for their
layers, my hens are truly remarkable.

I converted an old cow shed, 11 x 13 ft., with
leaking roof, into shelter for the hens by covering
the roof with tarred paper, and lining the inside with
building paper. There were three small windows,
two on the south side and one on the west side, out
of which most of the panes of glass were broken.
Over the casings I stretched heavy unbleached cloth.
I put in a wooden floor eight inches above the ground
as the drainage was poor. A place on the floor, 4x4
ft., was kept covered with sifted coal ashes, replaced
monthly. Another space was filled with excelsior and
straw for scratching. The roosts are all two and
one-half feet from the floor to prevent err wding in
the highest roost.

About November 1 seventeen White Leglorn hens
and one rooster, and seven Plymouth liuck hens
were put in this enclosure and not allowed any out-
door freedom. The three-year-old hens, nine in all,
and the May pullets, did not begin to lay until about
the middle of December. They steadily increased the
number of eggs until by February they averaged
fifteen eggs a day, and this record was not lessened
by the cold weather so unusual for the vicinity of

Philadelphia. Other people's flocks averaged five and
eight eggs from fifty to seventy-five fowls.

January 1 I put the seven Plymouth Rocks in a
shed, 9x7, with a window of cloth, 2 x l->4 ft.,
dividing the floor into a dust bath and a scratching
pen. These seven hens have averaged five eggs a day
all through January.

These twenty-five fowls did not have the variety
of food recommended in poultry guidebooks, but
only such as every housewife can provide, namely,
wheat and cracked corn (heated during the coldest
days) thrown into the straw morning and night,
all the scraps from the table, a little clover hay, a
pan of skimmed milk, and occasionally apples, pota-
toes, or onions chopped fine and fed at noon. A
box of charcoal, groundbone, and oyster shell was
kept before the fowls, fresh straw or excelsior was
put in the scratching pen once a month, the roosting
part was cleaned every three or four days, and the
roosts brushed with coal oil once a month. — H. 0.
Duerr, in The Garden Magazine.

Between Whiles

Limited Understanding. — " It does seem strange," re-
marked the party who seemed to be thinking aloud.

" What seems strange? " queried the innocent bystander.

"That after getting a man in hot water a woman can't
understand why he should boil over," explained the noisy
thinker. — Chicago News.

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"What is this peculiar key on your typewriter? I
never saw it on any before."

"Hist! My own invention. Whenever you can't spell
a word, you press this key and it makes a blur." — Bos-
ton Transcript.

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A Tale of Two Cities. — " Say," queried the would-be
humorist, " where is that place. Atoms, that so many
people are blown to? "

" It's just the other side of Effigy, the place in which
so many people are hanged," answered the solemn per-
son. — Chicago News.

WANT AND EXCHANGE

To at'oommodate some of ovir readers and bring them in
closer toijch witti eacli other, we liave opened this " want
and exchange " column.

Rates, twenty-flve cents per insertion, not exceeding four
lines, including name and address. Five cents per line for
additional lines. However, no "want" may exceed six lines
altogether.

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etc.; 100 feet front; cement walk; fruit and shade trees;
onc-lialf block from Campus, McPherson College. J. W.
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Vol. XI.

February 9, 1909.

No. 6.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

When the compiler of the dictionary of Congress
was preparing the work for publication in 1858, he
sent Mr. Lincoln the usual request for a sketch of his
life to which he received in June of that year the fol-
lowing reply :

Born Februar}- 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kc-ntnck}-.

Education defective.

Profession, a lawyer.

Have been a captain of volunteers in Black Hawk War.

Postmaster in a
very small office.

Four times a mem-
ber of the Illinois
I-egislature, and was
a member of the
lower house of Con-
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Yours, etc.,
A Lincoln.

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ment indeed which
had in it very little-
intimation of the'
real greatness o i
its author who was
so soon to be called
to guide a great
nation through the
darkest period of
its history.

Was his cilnca-
tion defective?
Measured' by the ■ .

conventional standards of society, it certainly was. He
attended school onl}- about four months in all, accord-
ing to his own statement.

If, however, education is to be measured by ability
to think profoundly upon the greatest problems of
both personal and national life : to state clearly and
forcefully the results of such thinking in language
whose beauty and simplicity still charm two continents ;
to feel so deeply the wrongs of an enslaved race that

Linuoln'.s First Home in Illinois.

life becomes one constant struggle for their freedom :
to perform such deeds of exalted patriotism as will
inspire the loyal people of a divided country to fight
on through four years of civil war to a victory which
forever settled the question of national supremacy; to
live a personal life so clean and pure and wholesome
that all admire and none criticise — if these achieve-
ments be the test of education, rather than the stand-
ards set up by society and schools, then Abraham

Lincoln was the
most thoroughly
educated man
America has pro-
duced.

In this connec-
tion it is interest-
ing to note the
following state-
ments of Lincoln
as foimd in a
speech on* " The
Improvement of
-Sangamon Riv-
er," delivered in
1832 when he was
a candidate for
the State Legisla-
ture of Illinois :

"' Upon the sub-
ject of education,
not presuming to
dictate any plan
or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it
rs the most important subject which we as a people
can be engaged in. That ever\- man may receive at
least a moderate education, and thereby be enabled to
read the histories of his own and other countries, by
wliich he may duly appreciate the value of our free
institutions, appears to be an object of vital impor-
tance, even on this account alone, to say nothing of
tile advantages and satisfaction to be derived from all

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being able to read the Scriptures, and other works both
of a religious and moral nature, for themselves.

" For my part, 1 desire to see the time when edu-
cation — and by its means, morality, sobriety, enter-
prise and industry — shall become much more general
than at present, and should be gratified to have it in
my power to contribute something to the advance-
ment of any measure which might' have a tendency
to accelerate that happy period."

By profession Lincoln was a lawyer. The methods
of study pursued by him in preparation for his chosen
profession would not be recognized by the courts as
at present constituted. Associate Justice David Davis
of the Supreme Court, in his fine eulogy of " Lincoln
as a Lawyer," delivered in 1865, says:

"In all the
elements that
constitute t h e
great lawyer, he
had few equals.
.... He seized
the strong
points of a
cause, and pre-
s e n t e d them
with clearness
and great com-
pactness. H i s
mind was logic-
.al and direct,
and he did not
indulge in ex-
traneous discus-
sion The

framework o f
his mental and
moral being was
honesty, and a

wrong cause was poorly defended by him He

read law books but little, except when the case in hand
made it necessary; yet he was usually self-reliant,
depending on his own resources, and rarely consulting
his brother lawyers, either on the management of his

case or on the legal questions involved He was

not fond of litigation, and would compromise a law-
suit w'henever practicable."

Lincoln's own high ideals of what the character of
a lawyer should be are expressed in the following,
taken from " Notes for a Law Lecture," delivered in
1850:

" There, is a vague popular belief that lawyers are
necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we
consider to what e.xtent confidence and honors are
reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people,
it appears improbable that their impression of dis-
honesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impres-
sion is common, almost universal. Let no young

Lincoln's Home in Springfield.

man choosing the law for a calling for a moment
yield to the popular belief — resolve to be honest at
all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot
be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without be-
ing a lawyer. Choose some other occupation, rather
than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance,
consent to be a knave."

Lincoln's election as captain of volunteers in the
Black Hawk War is referred to by him as being a
great surprise and as giving him more satisfaction
than any success which came to him in life.

His short experience in this was referred to in his
speech on " Militarj' Heroes," delivered in the United
States House of Representatives July 17 , 1848, in which
speech he defended the \Miig candidate for President,

General Taylor,

and ridiculed
General Cass,
the Democratic
candidate.

The following
paragraph from
this speech fur-
nishes a fine ex-
ample of Lin-
coln's humor :

" By the way,
M r . Speaker,
did you know I
am a military
hero? Yes. sir;
in the days of
the Black Hawk
War I fought,
bled, and came
away. Speaking
of General
Cass' career re-
minds me of my own. I was not at Stillman's defeat,
but I was as near it as Cass was to Hull's surrender ;
and, like him, I saw the place verj' soon afterward.
It is quite certain -I did not break my sword, for I
had none to break; but I bent a musket pretty badly
on one occasion. If Cass broke his sword, the idea is
he broke it in desperation ; I bent the musket by acci-
dent. If General Cass went in advance of me in pick-
ing huckleberries, I guess I surpassed him in charges
upon the wild onions. If he saw any live, fighting
Indians, it was more than I did ; but I had a good
many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes, and al-
though I never fainted froin the loss of blood. 1 can
truly say that I was often very hungry."

The following amusing incident is related as an
illustration both of Lincoln's ignorance of military
matters and also of his ready wit :

When his troops, formed by platoons, confronted
a gate, Captain Lincoln ordered :

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" This company is dismissed for two minutes when
it will fall in on the other side of this fence." (He
cliaracterized this as " an endwise " movement.)

To serve as " postmaster at a very small ofiice," as
Lincoln stated it in the outHne of his biography on
w^hich the comments of this article are based, would
mean little to an ordinary man, but to Lincoln this
service furnished another opportunity for the educa-
tion for which his soul hungered. The newspapers he
handled in the office provided him with reading mat-
ter, and from this source he kept himself fully informed
on topics' of both local and national importance. He
was appointed to tliis office, located at New Salem, by
Andrew Jackson and served from May 7, 1833 to May
30. 1836. Those were stirring times in our national
life, and to Lincoln's mind the study of the newspaper
reports of the speeches of Calhoun and Webster, on
the burning issue of nullification, must have meant
much in his preparation for the responsibilities which
were to come to him when, as President of the United
States, he should lead the nation through its four years'
conflict brought on by those who taught that both the
law and the constitution could be nullified at their
pleasure.

That must have been an interesting Legislature which
met in \'andalia, the old capital of Illinois, December 5.
1836. Stephen A. Douglas and .'\braham Lincoln were
both tliere and both served as members of the peniten-
tiary committee. Lincoln was one of the nine mem-
bers from Sangamon County — two senators and seven
members of the House — the delegation being known as
the " Long Nine " on account of their rize.

Lincoln's great " hit " at this session was the suc-
cess won by his delegation, under his leadership, in
securing the removal of the capital to Springfield. With
only nine votes in the beginning, and with the " field "
against him. Lincoln so adroitly managed his cam-
paign that the bill locating the capital at Springfield
was finally carried, and as a result, Lincoln was given
the credit of a great triumph — in one sense a victory
over his great future rival, Douglas, whose home town
of Jacksonville was one of the leading competitors.
On the question of internal improvements — tlie buikl-
ing of canals — these two men, who were to wage such
a political warfare later, were in perfect accord.

On March 6, 1837, the session closed and the " Long
Nine " started home. All save Lincoln had horses to
ride. He walked, or rode " Shank's mare," as he de-
scribed it. It is not difficult to picture in one's imag-
ination this delegation as it moved homeward with
Lincoln on foot carefully picking his way by the road-
side and walking so fast that he kept up with the
procession. It is related upon good authority that Lin-
coln was so thinly clad that he actually shivered, and
said, " Boys, I'm cold." The reply from liis mounted
companions was : " No wonder, tliere's so much of
you on the ground."

The following word picture from the pen of Robert
L. Wilson, one of the " Long Nine," written shortly
after the adjournment of the session just referred to,
is full of interest :

" Lincoln was a natural debater ; he was always
ready and always got right down to the merits of his
case without any nonsense or circumlocution. He was
quite as much at home in the Legislature as at New
Salem ; he had a quaint and peculiar way, all his own,
of treating a subject, and he frequently startled us by
his modes — but he was always right. He seemed to
be a born politician. We followed his lead : he hewed
the way for us to follow, and we gladly did so. He
could grasp and concentrate the matters under discus-
sion, and his clear statement of an intricate or obscure
subject w-as better than an ordinary argument. It may
almost be said that he did our thinking for us, but he
had no arrogance, nothing of the dictatorial ; it seemed
the right thing to do as he did. He excited no envy
or jealousy. He was felt to be so much greater than
the rest of us that we were glad to abridge our intel-
lectual labors by letting him do the general thinking
for the crowd. He inspired absolute respect, although
he was utterly careless and negligent. We would ride
while he would walk, but we recognized him as a
master of us in logic ; he was povertj' itself when I
knew him, but still perfectly independent. He seemed
to glide along in life without any friction or effort."

While a member of Congress, Lincoln lost no oppor-
tunit}' to express his sentiments on the slavery ques-
tion, voting, as he afterwards often said forty or fifty
times for the W^ilmot Proviso in various forms during
his single term. He closed one of his carefully pre-
pared speeches with these words : " Under no circum-
stances would I consent to the further extension of
slavery in the United States, or to the further increase
of slave representation in the House of Representa-
tives."

For several years after the expiration of his term in
Congress, Lincoln devoted all his time and attention
to the practice of law. In fact he himself states that
" in 1854 his profession had almost superseded the
thought of politics in his mind, when the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise aroused him as he had never
been before."

Then followed the great debates with Douglas which
made him a national character and paved the way for
his nomination for the Presidency to which office he
was elected and in which he became, under God, the
savior of the republic. The joy which came to the loyal
citizens of the nation with his triumphant reelection
and the deep sorrow which still lingers with us because
of the awful tragedy of his assassination in the hour
of victory which brought to him relief from the terrible
strain of four years of war, can never be forgotten by
those who lived through them. — Prof. O. T. Corson,
Editor Ohio Educational Monthly.

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AROUND THE WORLD WITHOUT

A CENT

HENRY M. SPICKLER

Chapter XLIV.

The anchor has splashed through the cahn surface
of the little bay and run on down a dozen fathoms to
the shallow bottom. Crete lies a mile on the right.
The captain says he will lie here for four or five
hours and then steam for Athens. For Athens, mind
you! Not Milwaukee or Baltimore, but Athens! I
am so ecstatic about it I would like to have every-
body here so as to enjoy with me my glorious ex-
pectations.

It's midday and we have just finished our luncheon.
I could go ashore but am too eager to go on, and the
boat may leave before I get back.

The island is of high mountains, apparently of bleak
and weathered limestone. Orchards and vineyards
fill the valleys but there is no pretty eflfect. The deep
blue sea kisses its rough edges and cools the heat of
a tropical sun that quivers in violent pulsations over
ever\- .foot of ground. I wonder if Paul saw the
color of the sea here, for in a storm the waves are
leaden and sombre. From my notes made right on the
spot I write : " The sea is wonderfully blue and looks
like a magic sea. The dreary island, brown and gray,
is not a fit setting for beauty. A painter, by coloring
the hills with his imagination, could make the com-
bination artistic."

Xow the boats are coming. They should have been
here. Yankees would have been out and ready to
climb up the ship's sides before even the stairway had
been let down. There are three boats and they are
racing. Each wants to get to us first. What lusty
pulls at long, heavy oars. The long boat, with the
baggy-trousered Turk, wins. How quickly he runs
up the ladder, followed by the others. Behind him
comes a Greek w'ith heavy, dark face. Then come the
boys with baskets of long-bunched, purple grapes.
Passengers and sailors at once begin to lay in a supply
of fruit. The boy motions me to taste them. I do.
Umph ! 1 should say I do want some of them. He
weighs out a penny's worth and so pleases me by the
quantity as also with the quality, I motion to him to
put on more, while I get twice the amount of money.
I give him four cents, or two Italian pennies. Others
are hurriedly buying the fruit and carrying it to their
staterooms. Some of the venders have figs and I
hurry to get a lot of them, too, for sea travelers are

alwa3s wild for fresh fruit, and when they land after
a voyage that is usually what they first seek.

I bought si.vtccn big, bursting fat, ]iur])le and green
figs for two cents, making six cents for enough fruit
to keep me for two whole days. But poor Paul and
his companions nearly starved here. Xo one came
to their boat with fruit that flooded the mouth with
saliva as in our case. But I suppose he was happier
in his famished, toiling shipwreck than any of us
who enjoyed the calm sea at her best. In getting
back my change from the two-lire piece, which is
forty cents or two francs. I asked for some Greek
coins in five and ten lipta pieces, — about five and ten
cents — so that when I reached Athens in the morn-
ing I could hire a Grecian to take me ashore and
pay him with his own coin. Athens is the greatest
of all Grecian cities, and I do want to walk along her
streets and see the Acropolis.

From Athens we will sail directly to Asia Minor,
landing at Smyrna after a cruise among scores of
little islands I find dotting my map. From there I
will get down to the Holy Land. Just how I will go
I do not know, whether overland through the cities
visited by Paul, or by sea. But I am not tr(_)ubled
about it. The eye that guided Abraham will guide
me. Crete is settling into the sea behind us, her bleak
hills still visible, showing how the fertility of her once
strong soil has been taken from her by the murder of
the forests, that probably, like Sicily, once grew lux-
uriantly over her now bleached form.

The sea, during the afternoon, rolled somewhat and
at evening the breeze was still strong and cool. At
Genoa the Lctinibro had taken on a big cargo of flour
ground from wheat shipped from Russia. This was
left at Crete. The boat, thus lightened, rolled more
severely, but I had no intimation of seasickness.

Paul's captain was compeled to throw his cargo,
perhaps of wheat, overboard at Crete that he might
get away alive. My captain threw it overboard, — into
a " lighter " — in order that he might gain money by
the transaction. The other captain lost his boat, we
are saving ours. But the world will always tell about
Paul's captain and his little ship of sail, while the
description of my visit to Crete will perish with the
hand that writes it. He who but follows the wake of

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another vessel on life's sea may ride in a palace of
comfort and brush the ruby wine from ruddy lips of
sensual indulgence, but he will leave no lasting germ
of good to sprout and grow and increase with the
cycles of time.

In a paper I just read that back in Messina, Sicily,
a professor in the university there, after a long, ex-
haustive study and experimenting with the cancer
microbe, had discovered the cause of the cancer and
a treatment for it. The world will look towards
Messina, made famous by the sweet oranges shipped
from her harbor, for the sweeter message of cure for
the hitherto incurable cancer.

The name of the professor is Francisco San Felice.
Were I suffering from the cancer I should enclose
a small sum of money in a postoffice order for his
trouble, and write him a letter, asking him to tell
nie how I could be benefited or cured. But as this is
only a newspaper report, there may be no truth what-
ever in the item. But some one zi'ill unlock the right
medicine chest of God's remedies, some day, for the
cure of cancer. Any disease that gh'es a doctor so
long a time, and the patient so much strength and
opportunity, to get at its cure as cancer, is bound to
be throttled sooner or later. The half has not yet
been told of the curative properties of the earth, for
every disease, but that of sin, has its remedy right
here. It is for us to find it. When it is found, we
will know it. Quacks will not advertise it in half
column or whole page lies. Patent medicines will
not contain it at the drugstores. Your home doctor,
who ought to be paid for keeping you well rather
than for keeping you sick, will get it for you. The cure
will be found, just as the sure cure for diphtheria
has been found. When the cry for help goes up to
the highest heaven of distress the voice of the sufferer
will be heard, and in God's wonderful way, of hav-
ing us work out our own salvation, some doctor in a
■country town or student of research in the city hospital
and laboratory, will find the simple remedy or mi.x
the required combinations in such a way that our
lieroic sufferers will be healed, for once and for all,
of the ugliest cancer, as easily as though it were a
fever sore or a boil.

I do not want to be fanatical or to appear as not
having good sense, but I believe that we, the readers
of this paper, have it within our power, by prayer,
whether we believe in it as much as we ought to or
not, to bring about, instantly, or to cause to start, at
once, principles and truths relating to the best condi-
tions of health, that will go on and on with ever-in-
creasing ability to combat the problems offered by
this arch foe. not only of those who have cancer, but
of the millions more who tremble lest they also may
find it developing upon their body, until the cure,
positively certain, will have been found. This will
not come about, bv " dreaming " it in dav-dreams.

though dreams at night, coming into the mind, or
rather evolving or coming from the mind that has
been entirely taken up with the subject all the day.
are often the keys .unlocking the way before us. It
-ci'ill come about when we all get right down to the
hardest kind of prayerful toil and put forth such
life-giving energies from a live-giving body, laughing
in the splendor of overabundance of strength as to
create life because there is life,— the life that is
original, the life that finds bits of clay and leaves a
new metal, the life that sees the kingdom of heaven
in a dirty child or a radiantly-transformed society in
a Burbank prune.

Listen, people, I believe I have it. / haz'c it. The
reason things don't happen is because we have been
" resting on our oars." The church has been '■ rest-
ing on its oars." Paul has come and gone. His cap-
tain threw the wheat overboard in order to save the
bread itself that was in chains in that boat. IVc have
been tumbling the chains overboard and then throw-
ing out life preservers and professional swimmers to
rescue whatever or whoever might be fettered by
those chains. Hidden under the tobacco smoke of
selfish indulgence and dreaming the irrational dreams
of the opium eater of stupid indift'erence, those world
workers who should be leaders of the new impulse to
discovery, have squatted, Indian style, on the breaking
ship of civilization, counting the sacks of wheat in the
hold for their present sustenance, regardless of sow-
ing broadcast the seed that will enrich all others and
leave them with more than at first. Once enough
people think and work and pray together for some one
thing, the thing will be born.

The child thus brought into the world will be father
to a thousand similar blessings.

LINCOLN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

I WAS born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County.
Kentucky. My parents were both born in \^irginia,
of undistinguished families— second families, perhaps
I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth vear,
was of the family of the name of Hanks, some of
whom now reside in Adams and others in Macon
County, Illinois. My paternal grandfather, Abraham
Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham County, Vir-
ginia, to Kentucky, about 1781 or 1782, where a year
or two later he was killed by the Indians, not in battle,
but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in
the forest. His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to
\'irginia from Berks County. Penn.sylvania. An ef-
fort to identify them with the New England family
of the same name ended in nothing more definite than
a similarity of Christian names in both families, such
as Enoch. Levi, Mordecai, Solomon, and the like.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six
years of age, and he grew up literally without education.

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He removed from Kentucky, to wliat is now Spencer
County. Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our
new Iiome about the time the State came into the
Union. It was a wild region, wiih many bears and
other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew
up. There were some schools, so-called, but no qual-
ification was ever required of a teacher beyond " read-
in', writin', and cipherin' " to the rule of three. If
a straggler, supposed to understand Latin, happened
to sojourn in the neighborhood he was looked upon
as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite
ambition for education. Of course when I came of
age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could
read, write and cipher to the rule of three, but that
was all. I have not been to school since. The little
advance I now have upon this store of education, I
picked up from time to time under the pressure of
necessity.

I was raised to farm work, which I continued till
I was twenty-one. At twenty-one I came to Illinois,
Macon County. Then I got to New Salem, at that
time in Sangamon, now in Menard County, where I
remained a year as a sort of clerk in a store. Then
came the Black Hawk War; and I was elected a cap-
tain of volunteers, a success which gave me more

pleasure than any I have had since. 1 went through
the campaign, was elected, ran for the legislature
the same year (1832), and was beaten — the only
time I have ever been beaten by the people. The
next and three succeeding biennial elections 1 was
elected to the Legislature. I was not a candidate after-
ward. During this legislative period I had studied
law, and removed to Springfield to practice it. In
1846 I was once elected to the lower house of Con-
gress. Was not a candidate for reelection. From
1849 to 1854, both inclusive, practiced law more as-
siduously than ever before. Always a Whig in p"-
litics ; and generally on the Whig electoral tickets,
making active canvasses. I was losing interest in
politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
aroused me again. What I have done since that is
pretty well known.

If any personal description of me is thought desir-
able, it may be said I am, in height, six feet four
inches, nearly ; lean in flesh, weighing on an average
of one hundred and eighty pounds ; dark complex-
ion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes. No other
marks or brands recollected. Yours truly,

A. Lincoln.
— Interstate Schoolman.

THE LINCOLNS AT LINVILLE

JOHN WALTER WAYLAND

Most persons are familiar, at least in a general
way, with the leading facts in the life of Abraham
Lincoln, sixteenth President of the LTnited States,
the centenary of whose birth will be celebrated on
the 12th day of this month (February). However,
most persons think of him as a product altogether of
the West ; and but little is known of the family be-
fore they went to Kentucky, just at the close of the
Revolution. It has occurred to me, therefore, that
something about the history of the Lincolns in \\r-
ginia might be welcome to the readers of the Ingle-
nook, the more so because such facts are generally
unknown.

It was my privilege a few years ago to have a most
delightful conference with a representative of the
family in Virginia, Mrs. Elizabeth Lincoln Penny-
backer, who has since died at the advanced age of
78. She had spent all of her long life in close as-
sociation with the scenes and traditions of her an-
cestors, and related to me many facts of interest con-
cerning the family history. What I shall have to say
will be in substance what she told me.

John Lincoln, the first of the name to settle in Vir-
ginia, came from Pennsylvania some time prior to the

Revolution and located on the fertile lands border-
ing Linville Creek, now in Rockingham County, then
a part of Augusta. It may be of interest to note in
passing that " Linville " seems to be a modified form
from " Lenvill," or " Lenivell," a family name. In
1746 William Lenivell purchased 1,500 acres of land
near the head of the stream, and about the same time
the name Lenivell appears to have been first applied to
the beautiful rivulet that collects the water from the
surrounding springs. John Lincoln's tract, or at least
part of it, was purchased from a grant of 7,009 acres
made by the Virginia colonial council in 1739 to
Hite, Duff, McKay, and Green. Hite (Jost Hite)
was perhaps the most prominent leader in the settle-
ment of the Shenandoah Valley.

John Lincoln gave a considerable body of land to
each of his five sons, Abraham. John, Jacob, Thomas,
and Isaac; but in time all of them except Jacob left
.Virginia, going for the most part to Kentucky. John
finally got to Tennessee. Abraham, who went to
Kentucky about 1782, was the father of Thomas,
Mordecai, and Josiah ; and Thomas was father of
Abraham, the President.

A strong reason why the Lincoln boys went to

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Kentucky is doubtless to be found in the fact that
they were intimate friends of Daniel Boone. About
the year 1751, when the youthful Boone, with his
parents, was moving from Berks County, Pennsylva-
nia to Carolina, he is said to have spent a year or
more on Linville Creek, some six miles north of the
present town of Harrisonburg. Now, from this lo-
cation he must have been a near neighbor to the
Lincolns ; and I am of the opinion that the Boones
were probably the guests of the Lincolns during this
sojourn. At any rate, the association of Boone with
the Lincoln homestead on Linville Creek gives the
place a double interest.

According to the statement of President Lincoln
himself, made in a letter written in December, 1859,
toth his parents were born in Virginia. His father
(Thomas) must have been about four years old at
the time his grandfather (Abraham) moved to Ken-
tucky ; and since he moved from the Linville Creek
ueighborhood we are able to establish a close associa-
tion between the President's immediate ancestors and
the old Virginia homestead.

Jacob Lincoln, the President's grear uncle, who re-
mained in Virginia, attained distinction in the Revo-
lutionary army, rising to the office of lieutenant or
captain. He was called Captain Lincoln by Mrs.
Pennybacker. Shortly before going to the war he
had married a young lady, Miss Robeson, much against
the will of her father, who accordingly avowed his in-
tention of disowning her. The patriotism of young
Lincoln and his wife was more abundant than their
wealth : in fact, they appear to have been very poor
as yet ; so after the husband's departure from home the
wife and mother had a hard struggle to keep the
wolf from the door. Taking her young child she
went out into the field, where with her own hands
she cut the grain that was to furnish them bread.
.\t last her father, either from pity or moved by
a sense of shame, sent her a yoimg negro girl, to be
ber servant. With the slave giri's assistance she man-
aged to get along until her husband returned at the
close of the long struggle.

But in time Captain Lincoln and his wife succeed-
ed in mending their fortunes. About the year 1800
they erected a good, large brick house, which is still
standing in good repair. Captain Lincoln was succeed-
ed as owner by his son .Abraham, who added a substan-
tial east wing to the structure, which is at present the
comfortable home of Mr. Samuel M. Bowman,
a worthy member of the Church of the Brethren.
The house stands half way up the long slope on the
east side of Linville Creek, at a distance of a couple
bundred vards from the stream. Several miles beyond
the latter, toward the west, the fir^t ranges of the .\lle-
ghany Mountains are in plain sight. On the slope
above the house, two or three hundred vards to the
cast, is the old family graveyard, surrounded by its

high iron fence, in which Captain Jacob Lincoln (1751-
1822), his son Abraham (1799-1852), and other rela-
tives are buried. Mrs. Pennypacker was a daughter
of Abraham, just mentioned, her maiden name being
Lincoln. In certain parts of Rockingham County
the family name is frequently met with at the present
day.

It may be interesting in this connection to observe
that the Pennybacker family is also one of distinction
in the valley of Virginia, as well as elsewhere. Eliza-
beth Lincoln's husband, Colonel John D. Pennybacker,
was some time member of the Virginia State Senate;
and his father, Isaac S. Pennypacker, was United
States Senator from Virginia from 1845 to 1847, hav-
ing previously been a member of the House of Repre-
sentative. Ex-Governor S. W. Pennypacker of Penn-
sylvania is a near relative.

Abraham Lincoln, the President's grandfather, was
killed by Indians a year or two after he settled in
Kentucky, and a tragedy also marked the old home-
stead on Linville Creek. Captain Jacob's son, Abra-
ham, by accident cut his brother John so severelv with
a scythe, while the two were mowing together, that
the injured man bled to death.

The young trees for the large orchard which Jacob
Lincoln planted soon after 1800 were brought from
Pennsylvania. Some of these trees were still to be
seen only a few years ago. About the same time
that he planted his orchard. Captain Lincoln engaged
a German artisan named Schultz to make him a book-
case, corner cupboard, desk and other articles of furni-
ture for his house. The mahogany for these articles
was hauled by wagon from either New York or
Pennsylvania, Mrs. Pennybacker was not certain
which. The writer had the privilege of examining the
identical cupboard and desk, which are remarkably
welt preserved, and which are really marvels of work-
manship. They bid fair to last another hundred years.

■t ^t ..?«
THE SUPERFLUOUS BOY.

•' ELIZ.VCETH M. ROYER.

Chapter III.

" Well, if here isn't Francis ! Why, child, how
comes you are out so late? I w^as almost ready to go
to bed. Come right in and rest a bit and have some
of my fresh cookies before- you go back. How are all
the folks? I haven't seen any of you for quite a little
spell. One of our neighbors has been sick and I
have been looking after her now and then." While
she had been talking. Grandma Peaslev had Francis
seated in the most comfortable rocking-chair with a
plate of cookies at his elbow and another of apples.
In blissful content, he munched away, ' sure of her
sympathy in the tale he had to tell.

" Well, now, you poor dear ! " grandma would ex-
claim.

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■' Well, well, those girls certainly do make things
lively. I guess I had better take you."

" .\nd, grandma," he concluded, " I just decided
I wouldn't go back there and stand all of their fuss-
ing in the morning. It's more than I can take. I
thought I would come over here and maybe when they
found it out in the morning they would be sorry
and treat me better. I tell you, grandma, I have
been having some pretty hard times. I can't be
captain of the football team any more just because
of that, and I bet Annette has gone back on me."
Xo one knew of her but grandma. No one else
could understand. " I just reached the limit,
and I thought I would give them a good scare once,
and mebbe they would appreciate me better." The
cookies and grandma's cheerful face made it possible
for him to talk of his troubles without tears. Some-
how, since he was here they did not seem so large.

" Well, well, that's just right. Always come to
your grandmother w'hen in trouble. She will never
desert you. You can depend on her. I like boys and
I like to have them around. Now don't be afraid of
eating those cookies. They won't hurt you and there
are plenty more in the crock. Now, you say they
don't know that you left at all ? "

" Yes, I climbed out the back window and ran
through the back gate and got out just as easy. They
never thought of a thing. I bet they will be good and
sorry in the morning. Mebbe they will get out the
police and put my name in the paper. Now, wouldn't
that be fun?"

" Yes, of course, that would be lots of excitement.
I don't suppose they will worry much, do you ? "

" They don't worry much when I am there and I
guess it won't hurt them now. I bet that Miss Tam
will be glad enough to see me coming back tomorrow
and she won't tease me any more. When she sings,
' Don't worry, keep smiling,' I feel like I would have
to-to knock a hole right through something, it makes
me so mad." His burdens were lightening with every
word. To find someone to sympathize certainly did
lots to help lift the trouble.

" Xo, I guess they won't worry too much," said
grandma half to herself. " Once when your father
was young, he ran off and I felt pretty bad. I got
a good many of my gray hairs that night. I stayed
up all night and hunted and hunted but couldn't
find a trace of him anywhere. In the morning we
found him asleep in the haymow. His father had
whipped him and he had gone out there, but that
didn't keep me from worrying. But vou said your
folks didn't think very much of you so, of course,
they won't worry."

" No, I don't think they will," answered Francis,
thoughtfully, " but if you think there is any danger
of mama feeling awful bad, maybe you had better
telephone over. I guess they wouldn't come clear

over here tonight, and in the morning perhaps they
will be feeling better."

" Well, W'ell, now that's a kind, considerate boy.
That's the way I like to hear boys talk. We will see.
I think you had better be getting ready for bed if you
have had enough to eat. Let me think a minute.
I believe I have a chicken leg left from supper. Do
you think you could eat that yet ? " Grandma looked
a little doubtfully at the empty cooky plate.

" I guess I could, grandma. You see I haven't
had very much to eat today and I got pretty hungry.
I did manage to get a few extra things and hide them
at noon so I wouldn't quite starve, but they didn't go
very far."

" You come right along out in the kitchen and I
will get that for you," answered grandma, heartily.
" Say, grandma, maybe I ought to wash up a little
bit before I go to bed, I got kind of dirty out play-
ing." Francis looked doubtfully at his grimy hands.
" Now, don't you wash unless you feel like it. I
know how boys hate to wash, and I don't want them
to do anything they hate to do. I don't suppose I
will mind washing a couple extra sheets and pillow
slips. My rheumatism doesn't often strike me on
wash-days."

" I think I better. I wouldn't want to make you so
much work. I don't believe I would mind washing
here if I knew Tam wasn't looking."

" All right, sonny. Right here is the basin and here
is the water, and over there hangs a towel. Just go
right along and w'ash all you want," directed grandma,
as she bustled about getting the necessary things
ready.

" Your water feels better than ours," commented
Francis, as he displayed a shining face and clean
hands for grandma's inspection. " If you see any
dirt around the corners you take that rag and wash
it off, please. I can't always get to all the corners."

" Now, that's a pretty fine job for a boy your size.
I don't believe Tam herself could do that well. Let
me get my specs a minute." Grandma looked him
carefully over. " Here's a little speck mebbe I ought
to doctor some. Now, you are as clean as a new
pin. I will be proud to have such a fine boy sleeping
in my bed."

" I tell you, if they would give a fellow at home a
little encouragement like that I wouldn't mind wash-
ing so much," confided Francis.

" Francis, do you suppose you could go down those
steps and bring u]) that plate that sets at the bottom
on the floor, the one with a cover on it? I will hold
the lamp for \i)u."

" Sure I can. I used to be afraid in the dark, but
I ain't any more."

He started down, but grandma's steps were treach-
erous affairs and had to be understood. The lamp

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129

gave little light and when he was half way down, he
stumbled and. fell to the bottom.

" O Francis," cried grandma in alarm, as she hur-
ried to help him, " are you hurt? "

" Boo-oo-oo, it hurts awful. My ankle. I can't
stand it."

With infinite labor, grandma succeeded in getting
him upstairs to the lounge in the sitting-room, and
found that he had given his ankle a severe wrench.
She bathed it tenderly and tried to soothe him, while
he manfully fought back the tears that insisted on
coming. All thought of telephoning was forgotten,
and neither did she think of it after Francis had fallen
into a troubled sleep, as she sat patiently beside him
listening to his restless mutterings. The ring of the
telephone startled her. She arose at once to answer it.
Mrs. Peasley's peevish voice came complainingly over
the wires telling that Francis had gone and they
couldn't imagine what had become of him. They
had looked all over the neighborhood and had gotten
everyone out of bed, and had even called up the police.
They couldn't find any trace of him at all. There had
been gypsies in town and they were afraid he had
been kidnaped. They were dreadfully worried. The
girls were all crying and she was almost distracted.
What in the world were they going to do?

" Well," replied grandma, " I guess you won't have
much of anything to do. Francis is over here. You
sent him upstairs without any supper and for an un-
just reason and he thought he would come over to
see me."

" Yes, I know." Mrs. Peasley answered in relieved
tones. " I am so glad you have him. Girls, Francis
is at grandma's. Stop crying. Yes, I know, mother,
I was too stern. I admit that now. I have been sorry
for it ever since. Well, you send him home in the
morning. Tell him he won't get punished."

" I don't know as I shall send him home in the
morning," replied grandma with little sympathy for
them. " He fell down the cellar stairs and hurt his
ankle. I guess he will be over here for a couple of
weeks yet."

■■ O mother, is it serious ? " distractedly inquired
Mrs. Peasley. " I will be right over. The poor child ! "

" Now, don't fret yourself, Maud. I have done
all that can be done for the child."

" I haven't time to talk a minute. I will be right
there as soon as I can get my things on."

The receiver was hung up with a clash. Grand-
mother went back to her post. Francis had awak-
ened and listened to the conversation. Grandma told
him what he could not hear.

" They do love me a whole lot, I guess, don't they,
grandma? I am sorr>' if they worried about me. I
would hate to have them feel as bad as I did this

" Tut, tut," enjoined grandma with tears in her
eyes, " lie down and go to sleep.''

" I want to wait until mama comes."

" No, no, you must get some sleep. Does your
ankle still hurt? "

" Not so bad as it did, but it's pretty bad still."

Francis, at grandma's " command closed his eyes,
but he did not sleep, for as soon as his mother's step-
was heard on the porch, accompanied by others, they
were wide open, searching the doorway for a glimpse
of his family.

" O Francis," cried his mother on her knees with
her arms about him. " I am so sorry. You poor child T
How your ankle must hurt ! "

" The pa-i-n don't bother mu-much i-if you .st-t-ilf
lo-love me."

" Love you, you darling child, of course, I love vou.
My! How worried I was when I thought you were
kidnaped."

" Yes, we do love you, Francis," avowed Sarah,,
" 3'ou can sleep all day if you want to."

" I don't care how dirty your hands get," conceded
Marie.

" I am going to try awful hard to get up early and'
keep clean after this," he answered in broken,,
smothered sobs from his mother's neck.

" You dear boy," chorused all of them.

" Ye$," announced Tam, " I saw that Tom Green
tonight, and mebbe you think I didn't give it to him.
The boys don't like him and they want you back for-
captain as soon as you can get there. Fred said so
tonight when we were hunting for you." Then in a
wliisper she added. " Annette is awful sorry you were-
lost. She don't like that Tom Green one bit. Don't
you worry about her. I tell you. Fm not going to-
tease you any more either."

" You are all so good," murmured Francis, as he
fell asleep with a smile on his face.

The End.

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A POOR boy, who by dint of hard work had succeed-
ed in getting an education, decided to try for a vacancy
in a Chicago bank. While he was in the office the
bank president touched a button and the bank's de-
tective stepped in. He looked at the boy and then
went away. The president said, " Come back in a
week." At that time the president said, "There
are forty-six applicants for this place. All have been
watched for a week. Only two boys passed the char-
acter test, which touched particularly the points of
extravagance, vice, where evenings were spent, and
the Sabbath day. .\11 this is strictly business and not
at all an inquisition into private character. This
bank must take account of these things for its own
sake. Of the two you have the best qualifications,,
and the place is yours." — Home Herald.

130

THE INGLENOOK.— February 9, 1909.

Nature Studies

THE HUNTER WHO WAS CURED.

Without any nature-faking or any mawkishness,
Dr. Henry Smith Williams describes the drama of a
wounded bird.

" The bird at which the boy had fired thrust down
its legs and wabbled as if about to fall; then re-
covered itself and flew on, its legs dangling. A
chance shot had apparently broken its back, paralyz-
ing the legs, but leaving it still strength enough to
fly a certain distance. Trained hunter as he was, the
boy watched the wounded bird, and marked the ex-
act spot where it finally dropped just at the edge
of a cornfield half a mile away.

" ' I think I'll go after it.' said the youth.
■ " ' Nonsense.' said Luther : ' it's a half mile away
and you have all yon want without it.'

" ' But the bird is wounded. I hate to have it lie
out there and suffer."

" ' Oh, it's probably dead ; or if it isn't some skunk
or weasel will kill it tonight. Come along."

" It was nearly sunset, and the youth was tired
after the long tramp of the day. It would be a long
trip over to the cornfield for weary legs — and then
perhaps to find the bird dead. Already it was supper
time at home, and he had a hunter's appetite. So he
allowed himself to be overpersuaded, and the two
tramped homeward.

" But the grouse that had fallen over in the corn-
field was not dead. Nor, as it chanced, was its
wound of a kind to produce speedy death. The in-
jury did, however, render the bird utterly helpless.
Once it dropped to the earth, it could not rise again.
Nor could it move about on the ground, for its legs
were paralyzed completely. It lay on the bare earth,
sheltered by the cornstalks from the eyes of hawks,
and where there was not much danger that a maraud-
ing beast would find it. But there was no food at
hand. It was doubtful even whether the bird would
be able to sip a few drops of dew from a cornstalk
to quench the thirst that its wound must develop.

" Quite obviously fate had marked the grouse for
a lingering death of torture. Its wound, already pain-
ful, must become more so with the lapse of time.
Insects would come in phalanxes to pester it. Htuiger
and thirst would add their modicum of agonv. The

greatest mercy it could hope for would be the com-
ing of some skunk or weasel, as the hunter had sug-
gested, to put it out of misery. But no such messen-
ger of speedy death chanced to come that way."

Dr. Williams describes the church service the fol-
lowing Sunday morning, and the awakening of the
boy's mind to a fear that the wounded grouse might
not have died all these days, and he goes on :

" The youth's soul was undergoing development in
that half hour. He was making one of those short
cuts from point of view to point of view. He was
passing — little as he realized it — from the barbarian-
hunter stage to a plane of broader sympathies.

" All through the lesson he sat brooding the same
thoughts, and as he left the church the idea of the
wounded bird had taken full possession of his mind.
Instead of goin^ home, he set out for the field where
he had shot the grouse. He believed he might find
the bird even yet. At least he would try.

" A good memory and a keen eye enabled him to
go about the point of the field from which the grouse
had flushed ; and over by a peculiar fence post — where
the wounded bird had gone down. He went directly
to it, and scarcely entered the cornfield when his dog
came to a point. There ahead on the ground lay the
bird, stretched at full length. It made no effort to
escape as he came up. It was too near death to fear
him or anything, its eyes half closed, its bill agape,
as it feebly gasped for breath.

" In an instant the youth was on his knees beside
the bird, a great lump in his throat, his eyes straining
as if they would start from their sockets. The mean-
ing of it all came to him with the force .of a blow.
Mechanically, he brushed away the insects that
gathered about the wound in the bird's back. He
stroked the soiled plumage tenderly. He found him-
self calculating the hours that the grouse had lain
there suffering. It had happened Wednesday and this
was Sunday — 24. 48, 72, about 90 hours ; yes. fully
90. What a cruel stretch of torture! The youth re-
called an occasion when he had had a toothache for
two hours that had seemed interminable : and the
meaning of that 90 hours of pain came home to him
yet more vividly. In an agony of remorse he knelt
there, thinking, thinking. He closed his eves, and

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131

when he opened them a few moments later the grouse
had ceased to breathe.

" The youth rose suddenly and walked to the verge
of the cornfield. He selected a spot in a fence corner,
and began to dig a hole. The ground was hard, and
he had nothing but his knife and a piece of a stick to
aid him ; but he persevered the more stubbornly as his
fingers become sore from digging. When the grave
was deep enough, the youth went after the body of
the grouse and took it up very tenderly, as if so much
sufl^ering had given it sacredness. He laid the poor
thing carefully in the ground, smoothing its every
feather. Then he resolutely scooped in the dirt till
the grave was filled and carefully smoothed over.

" It was a thoughtful youth who walked slowly
homeward across the fields that autumn day. He
was asking himself what right he had to inflict such
sufi'ering as that. What manner of friend to the
birds was he that could wish only to kill them? What
pleasure could he get in future in shooting always
with the possibility of reenacting the tragedy of the
cornfield ?

" Long before he reached home, the youth had
made up his mind. He knew that he should never
shoot his gun again. He had entered a new phase of
life. The desire to kill was no longer strong in him.
The instinct of the hunter had left him forever." —
Our Youth's Friend.

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DENIZENS OF THE TREES AND EARTH
IN WINTER.

A FEW days ago a small mob of English sparrows
was seen chasing a frightened bird from one building
to another. The fleeing bird proved to be a brown
thrasher.

The poor thing while migrating at night had prob-
ably become dazed by the city's lights, and had dropped
down into the streets to await daylight. Then, chased
by the sparrows, it had become too frightened to rise
over the tops of the buildings, and was fluttering
against the sides of houses, alighting on a bay window
or catching on an opened blind, where it would remain,
panting for breath, until its tormentors compelled it to.
move on.

During the bird migrations it is not uncommon to
find shy and often rare denizens of the forests flying
about the crowded city streets or searching for food
in the treeless courts of business districts.

With most birds and mammals fall is a season of
preparation for the coming winter. Most of the mam-
mals and birds that do not migrate to a wanner climate
where food abounds must either hibernate or lay in a
stock of provisions.

Now they may be found building their winter houses
and carrying in stores. In fact, every animal seems
to be hurrying and bustling, lest nature catch it un-

awares and kill it with cold or starvatitm before its
work is done.

The robins have long since left the villages and
taken to the fields, the brush lots, and the margins of
the groves and woods. All through the day flock after
flock passes southward, and scattered bunches flying
high hurry to their roosting places in the groves and
dense forests as evening approaches.

The casual observer sees little bird lite just now, but
if he knew where to look he would find the woodlands,
and meadows well populated with feathered people.
The reason he is misled is that, save for the call notes
and once in a while the soft, subdued song of a robin
or a song sparrow, the birds are silent now.

It is strange how birds of dififerent species seek one
another's society at this season of the year. In the
thick willows along the streams and lakes purple
grackles, red wing blackbirds, ntsty grackles, and
cowbirds silently feed together.

But the mammals are even more active than the
birds in preparing for the winter. Most of the birds
migrate, and but few mammals do.

The woodchuck or ground hog made hay before the
farmer cut his crop. He has spent his entire time
from late in August, even during moonlight nights,
eating the clover heads and stealing the farmer's vege-
tables.

The result is that he has filled his contract with
nature, an3 has clothed himself in a layer of thick
fat that will not only keep him wann, but will nour-
ish him while he sleeps. During the Indian summer
days, after the crops are harvested, leaving exposed the
entrance to his burrow, he will crawl to the mouth
and, seated on the mound of earth, take a farewell
look at the world before retiring for the winter.

Along the streams and in the marshes the muskrat
is busy building his winter house. He piles clots of
dirt, sticks, weeds, and other rubbish, gathered along
the water's margin and the bottoms of the streams or
lakes.

Swiftly and silently he swims along, carrying the
nesting materials in his mouth. In the rushes in
shallow water he deposits his load and returns for
more. In a month's time he will have made a mound
house several feet high.

In the center of this mound there is a room, wet and
small, to be sure, but large enough and high enough
above the water to house his family comfortably. From
here he will make excursions after food, and, no
doubt, in time of stornis he will go hungr}', but some-
how he usually manages to survive until spring.

The gray squirrels have left their summer nests of
dried leaves and taken quarters in the hollow tree
trunks. They, like the red squirrels, chipmunks, and
many other smaller rodents, are busy laying in their
winter's harvest of nuts, grain, and seeds. — Selected.

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A GREAT MAN REMEMBERED.

In many parts of our country the public schools
for some years have observed Lincoln's birthday, Feb.
12, with appropriate exercises. This year, which
marks a full century since the birth of the great man,
the observance of the event in the schools is to be more
widespread. E.xtra efforts are being made to place
high in the estimation of the pupils the man who lent
himself so fully to the cause which he believed to be
right. In addition, through an act of Congress, giv-
ing him the autliority, the President has issued a
proclamation " setting apart Feb. 12, 1909, as a special
holiday in recognition of the centennial anniversary
of tlie birth of Abraham Lincoln."

Many of us are firm in the belief that for every
great occasion there is some one who has fitted him-
self to meet it, and we have no better example of
this than that of our first martyred President. The
lesson we can draw from his life is this : Make the
best of our opportunities and devote the results to the
welfare of our fellow-men. This may not bring us be-
fore the world, as it did Abraham Lincohi, but it will
make us trul\' good and great. Whether we are ever
known outside our own neighborhood is a matter of
little importance. Whetlier we have " made good "
in the humble as well as in the high place is a matter
of deep concern to the very angels in heaven.

v5* (.?• «(?•

"EASY" DIVORCE LAW CONDEMNED.

Not long ago we quoted the words of Mrs. W.
H. Taft on the evils of the .modern divorce laws. Now
we give our readers the opinion of a county judge on
the same subject. It was during the process of dis-
solving the union of a certain couple recently that
Judge John Gibbons of Cook County, 111., took oc-
casion to speak of the sanctity of the marriage re-
lation. Here is what he says :

"Although I grant hundreds of divorces annually

in obedience to the statute of this State, I neverthe-
less believe that divorces should not be allowed, ex-
cept possibly for one cause, and this, I think, should
be the policy of the State, whether viewed from the
standpoint of divine or human law. When Adam and
Eve entered into the bonds of holy matrimony before
God himself, it was proclaimed in the morning of the
world : ' Therefore shall a man leave father and
mother and shall cleave to his wife ; and they shall
be two in one flesh.' And Christ, speaking on the
same subject, declared, ' Have you not read that he
who made man from the beginning made them male
and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave
father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and the
two shall be one flesh ? What, therefore, God hath
joined together, let not man put asunder.' Whereupon
the Pharisees said to him, ' Did not Moses command
to give her a bill of divorce, and put her away?'
And Christ answered, ' Moses from the hardness of
your heart suffered you to put away your wives ; but
from the beginning it was not so,' which means that
under the old law but one cause for divorce was rec-
ognized, and I believe that to this fact largely may
be attributed the stability of the Jewish home and
integrity of the Jewish family.

" By reason of the many causes for divorce under
the laws of this State, marriage is reduced to the level
of commercialism, and the consequences are more
baneful to society than Mormonism. Whenever a
man prefers another woman to his wife he usually
finds a way to compel her to take refuge in the
divorce courts, and it not infrequently happens that the
husband retains and pays for the lawyers on both sides
of the case, and in this manner there is little difficulty
in securing the divorce. This is why there arc ap-
parently so many more women than men seeking di-
vorces."

Judge Gibbons further says it is his belief that " an
enlightened public sentiment will gradually correct
this defect in the social system." Considering that
divorces are becoming more and more common and
that people are seemingly growing more and more
indifferent to the evil, it is hard to see when that
turn will be made. Would that all those who recog-
nize the evil might agitate the question so that a re-
form would set in before the condition of society be-
came so corrupt that the country would be forced to
take drastic measures for self-preservation. When
anything opposed to the eternal principles of right
runs its full course, destruction is the end; and all
right-thinking people must confess that the divorce
evil has gone far on its way.
.t J* ..*«
BLOW TO PARTY SPOILS SYSTEM.

Tun; saying that has been put in practice by both
the big parties since the time of Andrew Jackson,
" To the victor belong the spoils," will likely have to

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133

be changed, if not in word, at least in meaning.
Henceforth, if we retain the present wording, we will
understand the " victor " to be the one, of whatever
party, who has proven himself most competent to
discharge the duties of an office in the gift of the
party in power. President Roosevelt has adhered to
this idea in some degree throughout his administra-
tion. But the most decided stand taken on the sub-
ject is that of Governor Hughes of New York.

During his first term the Governor made it pretty
plainly felt by " the organization " that he had no debts
to discharge with fat-salaried or influential positions.
This term he is emphasizing the fact even more
plainly than before. William E. Curtis, writing for
the Chicago Record-Herald tells about it thus :

" Acting upon the principles he has declared so
frequently and plainly, Governor Hughes took par-
ticular pains in his inaugural address to proclaim his
independence of the Republican State Committee and
the leaders of that party, and emphasized his attitude
immediately on the first day of his second term, by
placing under the civil service laws about two thou-
sand appointments as county superintendents, county
engineers, surveyors and other officials authorized by
the new highway law. He announced that all of
them, without regard to political connections, will be
appointed from lists of eligibles, to be prepared by
the State civil service commission after examinations
to test the qualifications of candidates for the actual
construction and maintenance of roads.

" The Governor's action withdraws from patron-
age of the Republican machine about one hundred
positions paying salaries of $2 500 and upward, whose
incumbents will have the employment of large num-
bers of men in carrying out the expenditure of $50.-
000,000, in the construction of new roads. This fund
has been raised by the issue of bonds voted by the
people, and is to be expended pro rata among fifty-two
different counties of the State, an average of nearly a
million dollars to the county, which as you may
judge, placed a tremendous political influence in the
hands of the president of the commission.

" The loss of the control of this patronage is the
hardest blow that has been struck at the Republican
party for many years, particularly as its majority in
the Legislature included a provision making all these
officials exempt from the competitive system of ap-
])ointmcnt imder the regular civil service regulations.
The action of the Governor does not violate this pro-
vision, because it does not require competitive exami-
nations, but it does require a severe test to prove the
qualifications of candidates who present themselves."

When we come to think what a fruitful source pf
•corruption this spoils system is we wonder why it was
not thrown out long before this. Perha])s it was be-
cause a man bound himself to it by the mere act of
entering the p:ilitical field. .And mnv that that field

has been made to assume a more decent appearance
of late years, the bands have been weakened. How-
ever that may be, much honor is due Governor Hughes
for the action he has taken. The country will benefit
by it all around. The duties of these offices will be
more fully discharged because the worker will be
more competent and because he knows the quality
of the work done is of chief importance. Then,
too, the earnest worker everywhere will be encouraged,
knowing that faithfulness and competency -are the
strongest " pull " a man can have.

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APRAHAM LINCOLN.

Oh, slow to smite and swift to sp.ire,
Gentle and merciful and just!

Who, in the fear of God, didst bear
The sword of power — a nation's trust.

In sorrow by thy bier we stand.

Amid the awe that hushes all.
And speak the anguish of a land

That shook with horror at thj- fall.

Thy task is done — the bond are free;

We bear thee to an honored grave,
Whose noblest monument shall be

The broken fetters of the slave.

Pure was thy life; its bloody close

Hath placed thee with the sons of light,

Among the noble host of those

Who perished in the cause of right.

— Bryant.

He knew to bide his time.
And can his fame abide,
Still patient in 'his simple faith sublime,
Till the wise years decide.
Great captains with their guns and drums.
Disturb our judgment for the hour.
But, at last, silence comes;
These all are gone, and standing like a tower,
Our children shall behold his fame.
The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man.
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame.
New birth of our new soil, the first American.
— James Russell Lowell.

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THE CENOTAPH.

(On the final burial of Lincohi at Springfield, .-Vpril 14, 1887.)
.\nd so they buried Lincolr,. Strange and vain!
Has any creature thought of Lincoln hid
. In any vault, 'neath any coffin lid,

In all the years since that wild spring of pain?

'T is false — he never in the grave hath lain.

You could not bury him although you slid

Upon his clay the Cheops pyramid,

Or heaped it with the Rocky Mountain chain.

They slew themselves; they but set Lincoln free.

In all tiie earth his great heart beats as strong,

Shall beat while pulses throb to chivalry

.\nd burn with hate of tyranny and wrong.

Whoever will may find him, anywhere

Save in the tomb. Not there. — he is not there!

— James Thompson McKay.

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The Home World

THE GOOD OLD DAYS

ELIZABETH D. ROSENBERGER

" Girls had no time to idle away when I was
young," said Aunt Zebudah, musingly.

" Then I am glad I am a girl now, instead of long
ago," said Nora who was busy with the week's mend-
ing.

" Of course our spinning and knitting took up so
much time that we had but few leisure moments. And
then each girl was an accomplished housekeeper be-
sides, so how could there be any parties or good
times ? " asked Aunt Zebudah.

- " I am sure I don't know," answered Nora. " It
seems as if I have all I can do, and if you had more
work than this, why, I am sorry for you, that is all."

" I wish you could see the linen spun and woven by
my own grandmother," continued Aunt Zebudah.
" Her loom gathered up the threads of the finest wool
or cotton and made the most beautiful fabrics. Her
linen spun and woven would in these days be worth
its weight in gold."

" And I suppose she grew round-shouldered work-
ing at it," said Nora, who had but little veneration
for the past. It was good to be alive now and en-
joy life to the full, but if Aunt Zebudah liked to talk
of bygone days Nora was willing to listen, so she said,
" Tell me something about those days. Were you ever
at a quilting party?"

" Yes, indeed," answered her aunt. " We girls
would quilt an entire afternoon and then eat supper,
and later in the evening the boys of the neighborhood
would come in. Then we had games and afterwards
it was as the old song has it.

" ' An' 't was from old Aunt Dinah's quilting party,
I was seeing Nellie home.'

and we girls lived over again in dreams the pleas-
ures of the evening."

" I am afraid our set "would require some time to
get used to a program for a party like that," answered
Nora.

" Our work was harder because we had no con-

veniences," went on Aunt Zebudah, reminiscently.
" We always had to carry our water from the spring.
Sometimes the spring was a long distance from the
house, and the bucket of water grew heavy before we
reached the kitchen door. And then look at the old
way of beating up eggs for cake. It used to be a
knife or a spoon, a pan or a shallow dish and the eggs.
I know I have watched my mother beating up eggs
until I thought her arm would drop by its own weight.
Beat, beat, beat with regular and equal strokes, until
the dish seemed filled with the lightest and most deli-
cate foam."

" Yes, and then some one put two cogwheels to-
gether with a little machinery and how a child can
beat up in a few minutes all the eggs needed for
the biggest bridal cake you ever saw," said Nora.

" Lucinda used to bake the most beautiful bride's
cake and it was a pity she never needed any for her-
self; she was the old maid of the village.. She was
tall and angular. Her black hair never changed its
color. Like a guidepost to the passing generation she
held her place. She jived alone in a house exquisitelv
kept. Oh, yes, Dutch John wanted to marry her but
she regularly refused him," and Aunt Zebudah smiled
at the thought of Lucinda marrying anybody.

■■ And the men too had many things that were hard
to manage. There was the refractory stovepipe with
which they wrestled periodically. No invention has
yet lightened that difficulty. In one instance, how-
ever, inventive genius has been kind to our fathers
in the manner of putting up bedsteads. This genera-
tion may not have any recollection of the acrobatic
achievements accomplished by an agile man in prop-
erly putting in order a bedstead that had cord to
sustain the bed instead of slats or wire. It was an
effort from the start, in which the best judgment and
the greatest activity were necessary to get the bed-
stead fixed, so that it would stand, ready for the cord
or rope. If you had successfully coaxed the end of

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one side into one post, it would certainly fall out while
you were at work on the other corner, and even if you
had got round to the final corner, an unlucky move
would pull the whole thing ai)art, and drop it, sides,
foot and head, in a heap <Mi'the floor. Even with the
posts all firmly set and the sides screwed in, the end
was by no means yet. Stringing the cord or rope
through the holes in the sides and then crossing them
from the head to the foot, the real anntsement and
interest began in tightening the cords. You could
only do it by getting on with your feet, grasping the
row of cord with both hands and pushing and pulling
until the tension was complete. The man who thought
of the little catches or iron slots that drop into the
holes in the posts and hold the sides there without
bolt or wrench was a benefactor of the race."

But Aunt Zebudah was speaking again : " 1 wish
you could have gone sleighing with us in those days,
Nora. The snow rose over the rail fences and the
bells rang everywhere. The young people managed
to get sleds of some kind and I can hear them
laugh as the snow crunched under our feet and the
sleighbells kept time and tune to our happy thoughts.
You have no such sleighing parties now."

And she was right, for we seldom have enough
snow in these days. We never see the winter prairie,
bound by the edges of the world, a whole circle of
eternity cold and awful, lonely and mighty. The
roads across the country were like white marble
canals.

But we find that in the old days people livetl with-
out window glasses or matches, kerosene or illumi-
nating gas. And we in turn, probably, are not living
as comfortably as our children and grandchildren will
live. We are living in the best age, that the world
so far as we know, ever saw. Whatever mooning or
regretting there may be over the past is simply non-
sense and also false. The mistaken sentiment, " Oh,
those good old times," was frowned down upon by
King Solomon. He says, " What is the cause that
the former days were better than these ? for thou
dost not inquire wisely concerning this.''
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KEEP THE ATMOSPHERE PLEASANT.

The daughter of a busy housemother, who one
day expressed the fear that her mother was working
too hard, received an answer that told in a few words
one of the secrets of happy and successful work.

" I don't mind working, and working pretty hard.
dear," her mother said, " as long as the atmospliere is
pleasant."

" As long as the atmosphere is pleasant ! " .Any-
body who has worked under disagreeable or trying
conditions realizes how much those words mean. To
the busy mother who carries on her shoulders the
burdens of the home it means everything if the mem-
bers of the family circle are contented, happy, and

harmonious ; her work, hard enough at best, is doubly
so if there is grumbling, faultfinding, or ill nature
to contend with. The teacher in the schoolroom
looks with keen interest at the class which has come
from the room below ; for she knows that the person-
ality of those boys and girls will determine in a large
measure whether her year's work will be a source of
pleasure or unhappiness to her. One unrulv, mis-
chievous, disobedient boy, one lazy, impertinent girl
may easily rob her of all enjoyment of her work, and
leave her at the end of the year with nerves com-
pletely unstrung.

No one person can make up entirely the atmosphere
in which another person lives and works, but each
of us can do more than we realize to make the atmos-
phere pleasant or unpleasant for another. The mem-
ber of the home circle who is pleasant and even tem-
pered, easily satisfied, quick to praise when things go
well and equally ready to give others an opportuni-
ty, does much to keep the home atmosphere pleasant
and to make the work of the housemother as easy
as possible. In the schoolroom the boy or girl who
is pleasant and friendly, but who respects the rules
of the school and realizes that study should come
before play, is the one who helps to lighten the teach-
er's burden and the one whom she thinks of with
pleasure.

Wherever we may happen to be placed, whatever
we may be doing, it is worth while to remember that
we are helping to make the atmosphere in which
others are living and working. It is not our fault
if others in the same circle make that atmosphere ir-
ritating and disagreeable ; it remains for us to offset
their influence as far as we can by our own cheerful-
ness, courtesy, and unselfishness. We are to blame if,
through our lack of these qualities, we make the at-
mosphere unpleasant for those about us, and so make
it harder for them to go through the round of their
daily duties. — Friend for Boys and Girls.

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A PARENT'S PLEA.

My little boy is eight years old,

He goes to school each day;
He doesn't mind the tasks they set —

They seem to him but play.
He heads his class at raffia work.

And also takes the lead
At making dinky paper boats —

But I wish tli.Tt lie conld read.

They teach him physiology,

.'\nd, oh, it chills our hearts
To hear our prattling innocent

Mi.x up his inward parts.
He also learns astronomy

And names the stars by night —
Of course, he's very up-to-date.

But I wish that he could write.

They teacb him things botanical,
They teacli him how to draw;

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He babbles of mythology

And gravitntion's law;
The discoveries of science

With him are quite a fad,
They tell me he's a clever boy,

But I wish that he could add.

— Peter McArthur.

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AMERICA'S NEED.

■■ \Vii.\T America needs more than railway exten-
sion and western irrigation and a low tariff and a
bigger wheat crop and a merchant marine and a new
navy is a revival of piety, the kind mother and father
nsed to have — piety that counted it good business to
stop for daily family prayers before breakfast, right
in the middle of harvest; that quit fieldwork a half
hour early Thursday night, so as to get the chores
done and go to prayer meeting ; that borrowed rnoney
to pay the preacher's salary, and prayed fervently in
secret for the salvation of the rich man who looked
with scorn on such unbusiness-like behavior. That's
what we need now to clean this country of the graft,
and of greed, petty and big; of worship of fine houses
and big lands and high office and grand social func-
tions.

" What is this thing we are worshiping but a vain
repetition of what decayed nations fell down and
worshiped before their light went out? Read the
history of Rome in decay and you will find luxury
there that could lay a big dollar over our little dough-
nut that looks so large to us. Great wealth never
made a nation substantial or honorable. There is
nothing on earth that looks good that is so dangerous
for a man or nation to handle as quick, easy, big
money. If you resist its deadly influence the chances
are that it will get your son. It takes greater and finer
heroism to dare to be poor in America than capture
a battery in Manchuria." — IVall Street Journal.

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APPRECIATE YOUR MOTHER.

"Oh. I never do housework!" we heard a young
girl say, in a crowded car. " Mother doesn't expect
me to. I keep my hands nice for my practicing.
Mother's used to work; she doesn't mind. I never
do the dishes.''

Xever he\y> the weary mother who toils early and
late fo keep her precious daughter in school? Never
lift one finger to lighten the heavy burden of her
who has never spared herself for your comfort, from
the time you were a tiny, helpless infant in her arms?

.And this from a well-dressed and well-appearing
girl, otherwise! Ah, well, there can't be many such,
we think, whose eyes are thus so blinded that they
cannot see the marks of time and toil on the one whose
individual place could never be filled, should she be
called away.

The remark was not intented for our ears, but,
catching it as we passed, we thought of the many,

many girls who would be glad if only tliey had a
mother to help. And so we say, Appreciate your
mothers, girls, while you have them. For when you
are older and wiser, you will realize tliat there is no-
body in the world like mother. — Selected.
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FASTENING WARDROBE HOOKS.
JOIIX S. FERX.VLD.

Many houses are deficient- in closet room, and it is
the exception rather than the rule to find one properly
supplied with wardrobe hooks. The putting up of
hooks by the usual method, by screws, is troublesome,
and in many houses but few can be used in any given
space on account of the unequal distances between the
studding. Nails are unsightly, and wear the clothing
badly. A good plan is to take long strips of thin
board about three inches wide, and set the hooks as
you want thein. Then cut the strips to fit the space
where you want to use them, and fasten them up se-
curely with good screws. By this plan two screws will
hold up a dozen hooks, more or less, and save a good
many holes in the wall when a change is made.

Belfast, Me.

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HOME-MADE SCRAPPLE.

Get a good piece of pork with enough fat to it to
make the scrapple rich. Cook it imtil the meat falls
apart. Drain the meat from the liquid, and when it
is quite cold chop it with meat chopper or run it
through the food chopper. Boil the liquor again, and
dilute it with water if there is not enough liquid to
make the mush. When it boils, add sifted yellow meal
and make a thin mush. Stir constantly to prevent it
from burning. Wlien it is done, it should not be too
stiff and the meat must be put in and thoroughly
mixed with the mush. Take it out and put it into
shallow pans. When cold it can be cut and fried
the same as mush.

Chicken scrapple is made with the white of chicken
or all of the meat and is thickened with white meal. It
is very delicious, though not so rich as the pork
scrapple. — Exchange.

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Sheets, pillowcases, towels, tablecloths — all folded
linens — should be laid upon the shelves with the
open and hemmed ends toward the wall, the round
folds outward. The effect is neater to the eye, and
articles are more easily taken out.

The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels,
by the laws of the land in which he lives — by the laws
of civilized nations — he is the right and exclusive
owner of the land which he tills, is, by the constitution
of our nature, under a wholesome influence, not easily
imbibed from any other source. — Edzvard Everett.

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The Children's Corner

ALL I HAVE.

If I had a lot of money,

I will tell you what I'd do;
I would pay it out for teachers

For the heathen; wouldn't you?

But I have only a little —
Just a nickel, new and bright,

And a dozen copper pennies —
Isn't that a sorry plight?

But I'm thinking of a story

Mama read to us one day —
How a crowd of hungry people

Followed Jesus in the way,

And a little boy among them
Had some tiny loaves of bread

He had brought to eat when hungry,
And two fishes, some one said;

And he gave them all to Jesus, ,

And the Savior multiplied
Them until they fed the people.

And much food was left beside.

Maybe if I give my pennies

And my nickel for his sake,
Out of them a lot of dollars

For the heathen he might make.

But supposing that he shouldn't — -

I will give them, anyway.
They will surely help a little;

Maybe I'll do more some day.

— Author Unknown.

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MOTHER'S HERO.

" I'd like to have been Alexander the Great," said
Charlie, dropping his book .with a sigh. " Just think
of the wonderful things he did ! Wouldn't it be splen-
did to conquer the whole world ? "

" I know who I'd rather be," said Josie, looking
up from her book. " Joan of Arc ! She was splendid
if she didn't conquer the whole world. I think it's a
mean shame they treated her as they did while she was
alive, and now make a great fuss over her."

It was a stormy afternoon, so all three children
were reading by the fire to pass away the time till
Charlie started the subject of heroes. Mother was
patching Joseph's trousers and listening to the con-
versation as it wa.xed warmer and warmer, and the
young people grew red in the face as they defended
their favorites.

" They weren't either of them half as great as King
Alfred," said Joseph, emphatically. " He was a good
man, too, and your Alexander wasn't. Our teacher
said he drank, and did lots of other wicked things, but
Alfred was great and good, too. And vour Joan of
Arc "

"What about her?" demanded Josie. "I guess
she was greater than "

" Children, children ! " said a gentle voice.

" You decide for us, mama," said Charlie. " Which
one of us is right ? "

" That is a matter of opinion," said mother, wisely,
" Different people have different ideas about those
things. I will tell you about my favorite hero, and
then you can see what you think of my choice. I will
not say a word against the ones you have chosen, so
you must try to like mine."

" We will ! We will! " cried the children, draw-
ing their chairs nearer mother as she took a new patch.

" I can guess who," said Josie, with a knowing
look, " It's George Washington ! "

" I'll guess Abraham Lincoln! " put in Joseph.

" I think it's King Arthur of the Round Table,"
said Charlie, remembering the stories mother had
read to them so often.

" All missed," said mother, patching away. " This
man I'm going to tell you about had to stop going to
school when he was only twelve years old to work for
his mother and little sister. He studied hard in the
evenings, and when he was sixteen he went back to
school and graduated, doing his work night and morn-
ing at the store where he clerked. An uncle of his
father's wanted to send him to college when he saw
how well the boy had done, but would do nothing
for the family, so he gave up the plan, and went to
work again for them. You may be sure it was hard to
do this, but no one ever heard him complain.

" His sister was married when she grew up, but
soon died, leaving three little ones for her brother
and mother to care for; so my hero had to work
harder than ever. He brought up the children as well
as he could, and took care of his old mother when she
grew childish and fretful — for no one would help
him when they found out how peevish the poor old
lady was. He might have put her in a hospital, where
she would have been well taken care of, but he be-
gan to be better off when he was middle-aged, for
he took care of her himself till she died. He is free
now to do as he pleases, but living as he did all those
years kept him from making friends like other peo-
ple. His work at home and away from home filled
his life completely till a few months ago, but no one
could have done that work more cheerfully than John
Aiken. Now you know who my hero is."

" John Aiken ! I am so disappointed ! " said Josie.
" It sounded as if he were some great man while you
were telling the story."

" Well, I don't know that he isn't a great man,"
said Charlie, stoutly. " Our heroes had lots of praise
and honor, but mother's is unkmown. I think hers is
best, after all. Some of us boys say ' Crooked John."
when we see him, but I never will again."— Selected.

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Hour

WHAT IS THY LIFE?

S. S. BLOUGH.

The problems of life are many. Life and how to
spend it becomes the greatest. It is one that concerns
each of us. How shall I spend my life? This is a
question on which we should not — yea, must not — go
wrong, for do not the issues of eternity hang upon
the workings of Hfe? We need not go wrong for
have we not the Good Book to direct us? Have we
not in it the teaching of our blessed Lord? Is not his
blessed example set therein? If we only look, listen
and obey, the problems of life will all be solved aright.
We need not go in the dark. The life of the blessed
Jesus becomes our light and enables us, also, to live
and do acceptably.

But, seriously now, will you meditate with me? Is
my life all that I want it to be, all that it ought to
be, all that my Savior wants it to be? Does it turn a
bright or a dark side toward those who follow me?
Have my words been as " apples of gold in pictures
of silver "? Are the deeds of my life golden? Am I
doing as near as I know how as Jesus would were
he in my place?

Already several weeks of the new year have passed
and we surely realize that time is fleeting. God has
given us tliese precious days, each moment of which
should somehow count for him_. How do we spend
them? As arc the moments so are the hours, as the
hours so the days, as the days so your life. What
shall be your life?

There are all too many who do not realize the value
of time. In every land there have always been those
who stand " idle in the market place." Somehow, they
fail to grasp the tremendous influence of idleness on
the issues and results of their lives. It is a bad thing
for a man to be idle and be alone. " Satan finds work
for idle hands to do." " An idle brain is the devil's
workshop." If our life is to be satisfactory, we must
have employment for these preciousf moments. It is
the moment, the hour, the day, when one is pursuing
no fixed purpose that he is most likcl\- to fall into
temptation. His will is more or less relaxed, his at-
tention is not fixed, and almost unconsciously he seeks

amusement of some sort. Then come the idle words,
wasted energy^ and the talent misdirected. There
is a mistaken notion or practice, at least, that when a
man loses his regular employment, that wherein he
earns his living, that he must necessarily be idle. This
is a great mistake, and has prevented many a man from
making the most of himself. Instead of this, such
times should prove actual blessings. If we take them
as opportunities to look about us and survey our pos-
sibilities and capabilities for better work, they may
indeed be a means of stepping to a higher plane of
usefulness. And why should it not be so? "There
is always work, and tools to work withal for those
who will." There is always room for those who do
their duty. Life is always worth while for those who
are anxious to make it worth while. There is very
seldom any excuse for idleness pure and simple.
Many have become eminent and successful by the
wise employment of leisure. Go thou and do likewise.
If the work of such moments will not bring im-
mediate financial results, it will at least make your
life richer by doing some good to your fellows. What
is thy life? Shall those who follow after you on
life's stage of action call you blessed for the example
which you leave? Shall the hearts of those around
you warm at thought of your good deeds? In eter-
nity shall you meet the treasure laid up in time? The
question is worth pondering. It deserves your deep-
est meditation and wisest action. What is thy life?

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"THERE STOOD A MAN OF MACEDONIA."

Through midnight gloom from Macedon

The cry of myriads as of one,

The voiceful silence of despair,

Is eloquent in awful prayer.

The soul's exceeding bitter cry.

" Come o'er and help us, or we die."

How mournfully it echoes on,
For half the earth is Macedon;
These brethren to their brethren call,
And by the Love which loved them all,
And by the whole world's Life they cry,
"O ye that live, behold we die!"

By other sounds the world is won
Than that which wails from Macedon;

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The road of gain is round it rolled,
Or men unto themselves are sold,
And cannot list the alien cry,
"Oh, hear and help us, lest we die!"

Yet with that cry from Macedon
The very car of Christ rolls on;
" I come: who would abide my day
In yonder wilds prepare my way
My voice is crying in their cry;
Help ye the dying, lest ye die."

Jesus, for men of man the Son,
Yea, thine the cry from Macedon;
Oh, by the kingdom and the power
And glory of thine advent hour,
Wake heart and will to hear their cry;
Help us to help them, lest we die.

— S. J. Stone.

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GOD'S PROMISES.

God's promises are all lamps to light up dark
places ; and I know of no brighter one than this :
" As thy days so shall thy strength be."

But maybe you are already in the long, dark pas-
sageway. Or possibly the valley through which your
steps are leading is a very dark and shadowed one.
Then gladl>' I bid you look up and catch some of
the light which God sheds down from this blessed
assurance.

" When the sun withdraws its light,
Lo! the stars of God are there;
Present host, unseen till night —
Matchless, countless, silent, fair."

If we never had nights, we could never see the
stars. And so if you and I never had any trouble,
we could never enjoy such a promise as this of which
we have written. We do not love nights, but we do
love the stars. We do not love sorrow and trouble,
but we do bless God for sustaining grace. We do
not love weakness, but we rejoice in such promises of
God as will uphold us when weakness comes. — G. B.
F. Hallock.

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GROVER CLEVELAND AND THE BIBLE.

The following is reportel to be one of the late Ex-
President Cleveland's last written messages. It is
worthy to be cherished with other choicest sentiments
of great statesmen about the Bible, which General
Grant once said is " the sheet-anchor of our liberty " :

" I very much hope that in sending out this Book
you will do something to invite more attention among
the masses of our people to the study of the New
Testament and the Bible as a whole. It seems to me
that in these days there is an unhappy falling off in
our appreciation of the importance of this study. I
do not believe as a people that we can afford to allow
our interest in and veneration for the Bible to abate.
I look upon it as the source from which those
who study it in spirit and truth will derive strengtli
of character, a realization of the duty of citizenship.

and a true apprehension of the power and wisdom and
mercy of God." — Bible Record.

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A FRIVOLOUS CHURCH-GOER.

We asked a friend who had recently moved to
another city, whom he went to hear on Sunday. '" Oh,
almost anybody," he replied with candor. " The fact
is that I never attend the same church twice in suc-
cession. I have been to hear every orthodox divine
and every heterodox lecturer in the city. I have run
the gamut from old-fashioned Calvinism to new-fash-
ioned ethical culture. And I am not through the list
yet."

The man who said that would not stay a week in a
boarding-house where he could not liave his particular
breakfast food every morning with his coffee. But
when it came to feeding his soul he would change
the " menu " every day and the " chef " once a week.

" We learn our creeds," said Mrs. Browning, " as
we do our alphabets, by iteration." It you wish ta
believe a thing listen to its repetition often enough
and it will stick. The experienced angler knows that
if he can put his bait before the nose of a trout often
enough the trout must leave the pool or take the
bait. There is no fad so absurd but that the philoso-
pher himself will snap it up if he persists in playing
with it. Go and hear what you really wish to become,
for you will become what you hear in the end. — The
Interior.

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THE MACHINE WITHOUT THREAD.

" I LIKE to sew when there is no thread in the ma-
chine, it runs so easy," said a little girl just now.

A good many people, I think, are pretty fond of
running their machines without thread.

When I hear a boy talking very largely of the
grand things he would do, if he only could, and if
things and circumstances were only different, and then
neglecting every daily duty, and avoiding work and
lessons, I think he is running his machine without any
thread.

When I see a girl very sweet and pleasant abroad,
ready to do anything for a stranger, and cross and
disagreeable in her home, she, too, is running her
machine without any thread.

Ah ! this sewing without a thread is very easy in-
deed, and the life machine will make a great buzzing,
but labor, time, and force will in the end be far worse
than lost. — E.rchange.

.jJ jt S

There are some people who object to letting their
left hand know what their right hand does because
their right hand does so little that they are ashamed
to let it be known how little it does. — R. .AT. IFcin'er.

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A MAN to be conscious of divine leading must make-
spiritual things his chief business. — Dr. McBryde.

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Echoes from Everywhere

It has been estimated that the cost of the U. S. battle-
ship fleet cruise around the world will be $27,500,000.

In an election Jan. 23, La Rue Co., Ky., Abraham Lin-
coln's native county, voted "dry" by a majority of 1,085,
the vote being over 4 to 1 against license.

West Virginia prohibitionists are inaking a splendid
fight at the State capitol for the passage of a prohibi-
tion amendment bill. Governor Dawson in his message
advocates the submission of an amendment, at the same
time urging the Legislature to pass a local option law.

The public schools of Bloomington, 111., operate a sav-
ings bank, and the children have deposited about $2,000
this year. It was found that they had money to draw
out for buying Christmas presents. That is a useful les-
son in the direction of independence.

A bill has been introduced in the Missouri Legislature
which limits the number of foreign-born employes to 10
per cent of the total number employed. The bill is di-
rected against the lead mine operators of St. Francois
County, who employ 2,000 foreigners in preference to
Americans.

In accordance with the instructions from Senor Alcan-
tara, Venezuela's minister of the interior, the attorney
general will bring suit in the high federal court against
Cipriano .Castro, the former president of Venezuela, on
the charge of having instigated the assassination of Pres-
ident Jose Vicente Gomez.

The printing presses are working overtime these days
grinding out the Lincoln postage stamps, commemo-
rative of the one hundredth anniversary of the great eman-
cipator's birth. Like the recent Washington and Franklin
stamps, a profile of Lincoln, taken from the standing fig-
ure by St. Gaudens, was chosen for the new stamps.

In accordance with the suggestion of President Roose-
velt and Gov. Gillett, of California, Speaker Stanton in-
troduced a bill into the Assembly appropriating $10,000 to
gather data regarding the number and occupation of Jap-
anese in California. .A. similar measure will be presented
in the Senate, and it is believed the Governor will sign
it when passed.

Instead of shipping three carloads of silver dollars in-
to Texas to pay the big fine ordered by the State court
and affirmed by the United States Supreme Court, the
Waters Pierce Oil Company will send a motion for a re-
hearing. Preparation of the motion has already begun
and it is expected it will be ready to submit to the court
February 15, Final action will probably be taken by
March 1.

At the close of a farmers' institute at Huntington, Ind.,
the seed corn raised by the boy members of the Hunting-
ton Corn Club was sold at auction. The corn brought
$6 a bushel.

Representative James Burke of Pennsylvania has in-
troduced a bill requiring all ocean-going vessels which
carry as many as fifty passengers to be equipped with
wireless telegraphic instruments and carry an operator.

Feb. 1, at the beginning of the second semester in the
public schools, an addition of 1,500 pupils to the attendance
roll of the various high schools throughout the city of
Chicago was reported to officials of the board of education.
This is an increase of 50 per cent over the record of last
year and is regarded as the best showing made by any
public school system in the country.

In Pennsylvania a test is being made as to the legal
rights of a board of education to pay the fares of pupils
to and from the high school. We do not know the law
in Pennsylvania, but wherever in other States a test has
been made the board of education has won its case. Chelt-
enham is the township in which the test is being made.
There are twenty-seven pupils who are transferred from
two to three miles.

Besides fitting its pupils for employment and training
them for useful lives, the Hebrew Technical School for
Girls of New York Citj' has shown for the year an in-
come exceeding expenses of nearly $4,000. There are
354 girls in daily attendance at the institution, at Second
Avenue and Sixteenth Street. It is estimated that as a re-
sult of the work of the school's employment bureau 971
former pupils are earning a total of $560,274 a year.

President Gomez of Cuba has sent a message to Con-
gress in which he says that not much advance in legis-
lation was made under the recent government of inter-
vention, although it is- true that organic laws were promul-
gated which merit approval. He specially recommends
revision of the penal code and the law of criminal pro-
cedure, and advises Congress to exercise the utmost care
in incurring financial obligations, in view of the small
sum now left in the national treasurv.

Register of the United States Treasury W. T. Vernon,
the noted Kansas negro, is making some speeches in
Oklahoma on the race question. In order to avoid the
humiliation of the Jim Crow car law in Oklahoma the
negroes there have chartered a special car for Mr. Vernon,
which he will use in all his travels in the new State. He
will take the car at Caldwell, Kans., and keep it until he
reaches the Kansas line again. He will speak at El Reno,
Oklahoma City, Guthrie and Muskogee.

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141

A professor in the University of Chicago states that
John D. Rockefeller will devote $50,000,000 to the pro-
motion of education in Oriental nations. He says Mr.
Rockefeller will await the reports of Prof. Ernest Burton
and Prof. Thomas C. Chamberlain, who have been com-
missioned to investigate conditions in the Orient. Prof.
Burton is now in India, and Prof. Chamberlain will start
for China ne.xt month.

The December graduating class of the University of
Michigan shows present tendencies in higher institutions
of learning. There were as many men as women, 17 of
• each. This is the fourth time in six years that this has
occurred. The membership of the senior college is
219 men and 201 women. The enrollment in the medical
school has risen from 44 last year to 53 this year. The
law enrollment was 47 last year, this year 40.

Senator Dolliver, as chairman of the Senate committee
on education and labor, is preparing a plan to aid coun-
try districts to give effective instruction in agriculture.
It is Senator Dolliver's purpose in some way to connect
the country school with the State College of .Agriculture.
Th'e national government will contribute a large part of
the money to make the plan effective. The most feas-
ible plan seems to be to encourage the States to under-
take the establishment and control of these elementary
agricultural schools.

Feb. 1, without amendment the Senate passed the House
bill making Feb. 12, 1909, the one hundredth anniversary
of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, a legal holiday and rec-
ommending its celebration throughout the United States,
for which purpose the President was authorized to issue
a special proclamation. The bill also declares that as a
part of the national memorial to Lincoln there may be
built a highway from Washington City to the battlefield
of Gettysburg, Pa., to be known as " the Lincoln Waj-."'
An appropriation of $50,000 is made for a survey of plans
and estimates for such highway.

There are now 75,000 of the aboriginal population in
Australia. Of this number there are about 20,000 in the
colony of Queensland. Queensland has an elaborate sys-
tem for looking after the welfare of the blacks by means
of "protectors" stationed all over the colony to see
that the natives are fed and clothed and shielded from
interference of white people. Many of the natives are
over si.\ feet in height. Like most savages they are po-
lygamists, but they are not cannibals. The natives under
civilization have developed habits of economy and saving.
They have made good progress in both reading and writ-
ing, but missionary reports state that teaching them arith-
metic is hopeless.

Over seven million dollars was spent by New Jersey
last year on her dependents and criminals, says Collier's
Weekly. In the last thirty-three years the population of
the State has increased only 12 per cent, but its insanity
has increased over 300 per cent and its crime almost as
much. There now exists in the State a commission to
investigate dependency and criminality, and one to inves-
tigate the excise question. At the head of the Crimes
Commission was placed Michael T. Barrett, son-in-law
of Peter Hauch, a brewer who owns outright or in part,
seventy of the seventy-one saloons in Harrison, New
Jersey, and who last year paid the license fee for forty-
eight of the seventy-one. On the Excise Commission is
John Howe, manager of the Feigenspan's Brewery real
estate business.

The first steps in a gigantic colonizing scheme were
completed with the sale of the " Long S " ranch, embrac-
ing 300,000 acres near Big Springs, to the W. P. Soash
Land Company of Waterloo, la., for $3,000,000. This
ranch was formerly the property of C. C. Slaughter of
Dallas, Tex. It is located in three counties and has graz-
ing room for 40,000 cattle, which Slaughter will sell at
once. The land is to be cut into quarter sections and sold
to settlers from the North and East. The sale is said
to be the biggest land deal ever made in Texas.

In the big desert of Chili there is a considerable amount
of brackish water, but no water that either human be-
ings or stock can drink. Science, however, says Popu-
lar Mechanics, has come to the aid of this rainless sec-
tion of the country in the form of an ingenious desert
waterworks consisting of a series of frames containing
20,000 square feet of glass. The panes of glass are ar-
ranged in the shape of a V, and under each pane is
a shallow pan containing brackish water. The heat of
the sun evaporates the water, which condenses upon the
sloping glass, and, made pure by this operation, it runs
down into little channels at the bottom of the V, and is
carried away into the main canal. Nearly 1,000 gallons
of fresh water are collected daily by-this means.

After they had lain in the ruins of the American consu-
late at Messina 18 days the bodies of Consul Arthur
Cheney and his wife were recovered by the sailors of the
American battleship Illinois. It was evident that they
had been killed instantly, while they slept, as they were
found side by side in what had been their bedroom. The
bodies, prepared for burial, and the caskets, draped in
.American flags, were sent to America on the supply ship
Culgoa. It is believed that Mr. and Mrs. Cheney were
the only native Americans killed in the Italian earthquake.
It is now estimated that 5,000 of the quake survivors
have died since the fatal disturbance, and that the total
deaths resulting therefrom is 250.000. Duke Litta has of-
fered to colonize 5,000 of the survivors in Florida, south
of Tampa.

That the subject of land frauds has not yet been ex-
hausted is shown by a report made by Secretary Garfield
of the Interior Department to the appropriation commit-
tees of the House and the Senate. He declares in this
communication that discoveries of more wholesale and
astounding frauds have been made, and that approxi-
mately $110,000,000 worth of lands in States principally
west of the Mississippi liave been fraudulently acquired
within the past two years by individuals and corpora-
tions. Secretary Garfield asks for an additional appro-
priation of $500,000, which, if granted, will give his de-
partment,, with that already asked for, $1,000,000, with
which to endeavor to regain lands, prevent depredations,
etc. He considers that there is a reasonable hope of
recovering much of the alleged fraudulently acquired land
if the appropriation is promptlj- made, and points out
that while $1,000,000 seems a large appropriation, it is
not one per cent of the commercial value of the land which
the government may hope to recover.

This, the first school year since Kansas City, Kans.,
closed out her saloons, finds six hundred boys and girls
betwen the ages of twelve and eighteen able to attend
school for the first time. In former years these children
were unable to attend because — through the frequent
drunkenness of their fathers — they were compelled to
assist in supporting their respective families.

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Till' IXCI.I'.XOOK.— I'cbi-uarv '), 1<)0 '.

Among the Magazines

LINCOLN'S MENTAL SUPERIORITY.

Tlicre are three charges intimated, rather than directly
made, against Lincohi"s mental superiority. These are
his ignorance of financial matters, his poor judgment of
men. and his failure at the very first to unite all the Union
armies under one field commander. The "first charge is
true. Lincoln, when a member of the famous " Long
Nine " in the Illinois Legislature, voted for wildcat finan-
cial schemes as cheerfully as any fiat money champion
of more recent days. But if unsound views on the money
question are proofs of mental inferiority, half the country
at any time in the last thirty years would be ready to con-
sign the other half to the imbecile asylum. There is just
one clue that will guide a man through the wilderness
of financial quarrels, and that is the historical clue. Mon-
ey is merely a highly specialized and standardized form of
weight. All ancient coins were named after earlier weiglits
— shekel, drachma, mina; and we can faintly imagine
something of the debasement that currency has under-
gone when we recall that five dollars' worth of gold in
England, and twenty cents' worth of silver in Italy, bear
the name of a "pound." But I really do not know liow
Lincoln could have found this clue in the half-faced camp
where he spent his early days; and later, he was too busy
with immediate duties to spare time for researches in
the history of finance.

And I hold the charge of not knowing men to be flatly
untrue. AVith very rare exceptions, Lincoln found the
best men available with little delay. He was obliged t"
pick most of his political associates from his own party
ranks. And the Republican party was then a new party,
long on principle and short on practice, as every new party
must be. Lincoln found the best that offered; and if his
political advisers made mistakes, at least they helped
their chief put through a gigantic and heartbreaking work.
To the charge that Lincoln did not immediately unearth
some dazzling military genius to rid the land of its woes,
I would answer that there was no such genius to discover.
We had a number of men who proved themselves good
generals; but we had none who stood out so clearly from
the common run as to warrant either haste or irregular-
ity in raising him to the chief command. We had in our
ranks no second Washington, no Clive, no Moltke, no
Napoleon. The generals who finally finished the war
were simply sound, capable workmen; who walked
round their task, sized it up, and then with uiillinching
tenacity put it through. Tht>mas was indeed passed by,
and he was the second, if not the first of the Union gen-
erals. But Thomas was a Virginian,- whose loyalty was
under natural, though most unjust, suspicion — and one
must add that when he had a chance to supersede Buell,
Thomas declined with a chivalry that showed no basis in
common sense. Grant was found early and supported
heartily. It took no common courage in Lincoln to turn
a deaf ear to the clamor of the generals of the antecham-
ber, and give the silent, iron soldier a chance to work out
things in his own stern way. Lastly, it would have been

the height of folly to give the supreme command to a*
general of unknown value, or perhaps known incapacity.
When Lincoln found the right man to e.xercise that com-
mand, it was conferred without delay and without reser-
vations. — Geo. L. Knapp. in February Lippincott's.

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MARQUIS KATSURA'S MESSAGE TO THE
PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.

[Our readers will all remember the remarkable articles
which we published last spring by Dr. De Forest, in refu-
tation of the miserable slanders and misrepresentations
made in this country by certain newspapers, and espe-
cially by Congressman Hobson, against the Japanese gov-
ernment and people in respect of their attitude toward
this country. Since his recent return to Japan, ivliere he
had already spent thirty-three years, Dr. De Forest has
been granted an interview with the Prime Minister, Mar-
quis Katsura, of which he sends to Secretary Trueblood
the following account. The Marquis' statements fully
corroborate all that Dr. De Forest had said and written
about the friendly feeling of Japan toward our country,
and ought to close for all time the few remaining mouths
that still persist in reiterating the falsehoods and mis-
representations. — Ed. Advocate of Peace.]

" In talking of peace I am well aware that my sign-
board is bad; for I am a soldier. I've been in the thick
fights and have killed a number of men. I have wit-
nessed the horrors of war, and it makes me wretched —
this bitter, cruel, mad war between human beings. From
the bottom of my heart I became a man of peace, long-
ing for nothing so much, and working for nothing so hard,
as for peace. You know our history, and you know how
in feudal times, when circumstances forced men to kill
one another, our victorious warriors were often so heart-
stricken with the blood they had shed that they shaved
their heads, became Buddhist priests and entered mon-
asteries, never again to draw the sword. And often the
victors gave posthumous honors to the brave dead against
whom they had fought. It runs in us to hate war, just
as your great generals Grant and Sherman did. In spite
of our signboard, we long for nothing so much as for
peace.

" Now that your nation and ours have been at peace
for over half a century, you having been our teacher and
sympathetic friend during all this time, we want above all
things to deepen and make perpetual the peace between
us. I have never had a doubt of the sincere friendship of
the United States. Of course, there are worthless, un-
principled fellows in every country, but I'm speaking of
the vast majority of your people.

" Here also in our land both government and people
are absolutely one in their friendship for the United States
and belief in your friendship for 'us. We of the Far East
are responsible for peace in this part of the world, and
I will guarantee that my government and people, in the

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years to come as in the past, will not onlj keep this
great historic peace, but will do all that is possible to
deepen and enrich this friendship of half a century. Our
glad welcome to your fleet and to the Commissioners of
Commerce from the Pacific Coast is but the natural ex-
pression on the part of our government and people that
no misunderstandings shall weaken the glorious friend-
ship between our two nations. You may make this known
as widely as you like^that the government and people
of Japan are one in their friendship for the government
and people of your republic. We have adopted and put
into successful practice all those precious liberties for
whichtyour people stand, and we desire to strengthen this
traditional friendship beyond the possibility of its ever
being broken."

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STOP MARGIN GAMBLING.

" If you prevent, or even restrict, the selling short of
stocks, you will manifestly, and in equal degree, restrain
gambling on the long side of the market,'" says Fred-
erick S. Dickson, in " The Poison of the Street," in Ev-
erybody's Magazine for February.

" Let the law then compel him who would sell short
to describe in writing and with particularity the thing that
he would sell. If it is stock, let him give the number of
the certificates, and state in whose names they are reg-
. istered, and let him also aver that he is the rightful owner
of the stock which he offers for sale. Punish him if he
states that which is false, and punish also the broker who
accepts an order that does not comply with these con-
ditions. The same course can also be pursued in sales
of wheat, corn, oats, cotton, pork, and the like com-
modities, and he who would sell them should be able to state
where the thing sold is stored, and what markings there
may be on barrel, bale, bin, or car-lot. What hardship
would this work on the man who simply wishes to sell
for future delivery that which he owns? And why should
the law be tender to him who strives to sell what he does
not own, to the injury of the real owner?

" Most of the legislation that has been proposed for
the regulation of stock-gambling evils contains only gen-
eral prohibitions against margin trading. Buying more
stock than one has the money to pay for is no more an
evil than buying real estate subject to mortgage, or bor-
rowing money for the extension of a manufacturing plant
or the development of a railroad. If a man, therefore,
wishes to buy stock or commodities of any kind and pay
but a portion of the cost, the law should not interfere
with him. The evil of stock speculation, as now indulged
in, grows out of the fact that the gambler is able to bor-
row more than the real loan value of the stock, the ex-
cess being furnished by the broker out of his capital as
an encouragement to gambling. The control of the loan
end of the collateral remains wholly in the broker, who
uses both as if he were the sole party in interest. Let
the law then, while jn general prohibiting margin trading
also in particular prohibit the broker from lending any
additional sum beyond the bank loan, and insist that the
broker shall inform his customer of the number and de-
scription of the certificates which he has bought, the
amount of the loan, and the name of the bank where
the loan is placed. Make it clear also that the ownership
of the stock is wholly in the customer, and that it will
be grand larceny for the broker to use this collateral for
his own advantage. Such provisions as these would make
the prohibition against margin trading instantly effectual,
and nothing short of this would."

RUM ON THE RUN.

The liquor interests — from the doggery to the trust —
have fought the prohibition movement at every step. They
used every art known to practical politics. They tried
the campaign of brass band and skyrocket, the gum shoe
and still hunt, the hard drive and the soft pedal — and got
whipped. In the beginning they fought the placing of
any tax whatsoever upon liquor. They fought every prop-
osition to increase the license; they fought the Sunday-
closing laws; they fought in California for their inalien-
able right to sell whiskey to minors and to known drunk-
ards. They fought the Five Mile laws; fought county
local option; they fought State-wide prohibition. They
are now fighting, tooth and toenail, against the law pro-
posed in Congress that the Federal Government shall
no longer issue internal revenue licenses in communities
where the sale of liquor is prohibited by local law. They
are now fighting to maintain Uncle Sam's partnership
with the blind tiger, wherein the majesty of the United '
States is held up as a shield to the dive keeper and a
protection to the outlaw. At practically every step they
have been beaten.

Thoroughly aroused at last to the danger that threat-
ens their trade, the brewers and wholesalers are begin-
ning to announce a general house cleaning. They say —
in articulo mortis — that they want to put the dive out of
business and keep their trade respectable. Laudable, but
late. Years ago all good people would have welcomed
the brewers' aid in stifling the dive. Now they will at-
tend to the job themselves, asking permission neither of
the dive keeper nor the brewer. And they will do it in
their own good way and time. — Harris Dickson, in the
January Circle Magazine.

DIVORCE IS A HOME PRODUCT.

Increase of divorce in the United States cannot be at-
tributed to the influence of aliens. It must be recognized
as one of the developments of national life for which
the native-born American must accept responsibility, if
statistics are to be believed. In the February Delineator,
Charles A. EUwood, professor of sociology. University of
Missouri, says:

Divorce is not an evil which the foreign-born and the
negro have brought to us, for it especially characterizes the
native white, that is, the preeminently American element
in the population. It is about twice as high among the native
whites as among the foreign-born. This leads one to
suspect that divorce has something to do with the in-
dividualism of the American people, the tendency among
us for each one to do as he pleases, to be a law unto him-
self. This is borne out by the fact that in those sections
of the country in which individualism is most highly de-
veloped, the divorce rate is highest, namely, in New
England and the Western States. It is borne out also by
the fact that divorce is mote than four times as common
among Protestants as among Catholics. The Protest-
ant element in the population is the element in which
individualism is more highly developed; besides, the Ro-
man Catholic Church refuses to sanction absolute divorce
upon any ground.

Finally, two-thirds of all divorces are granted upon tlie
demand of the wife. This suggests that the standards
of morality of the male element of the population are not
what they should be, and that husbands too often give
ground for divorce by immoral conduct. Higher stand-
ards of morality are necessary as civilization advances,
and conduct which the wife overlooked in the husband

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a half-centurj' ago, or bore in silence, now becomes a
ground for divorce.

This last statement suggests another cause for increas-
ing divorce in this country, and that is the emancipation
of woman. Woman has now almost equal rights with
man, and has achieved her economic, intellectual and mor-
al as well as legal independence of man. This has been
a good thing in itself, but many women have used their
freedom to emphasize their rights rather than their duties.
and consequently have rendered the family life less stable.
In so far as the movement for " woman's rights " has
been simply an e.^pression of growing individualism or
selfishness on the part of our women, it has tended, like
all individualism, to destroy the home.
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STORY OF THE CRANBERRY.

The liistor)' of the cranberry can be told on a bit
of parchment no larger that the fruit itself; but to
judge its interest by its length would be like rank-
ing the berry's importance by its weight. The cran-
berry, to begin with the day of its christening, was
sd named because its sponsors fancied that its bud
resembled a crane; and, in truth, just before the bud
expands into the perfect flower with stem, caly.x, and
petals, it resembles the neck, head, and bill of that
ungainly bird. Hence it was originally dubbed " crane-
berry," popularized into cranberry.

Like all families of importance in the agricultural
race, the cranberry has an imposing genealogv' ; its
European forbears belonged to the clan of the \'ac-
ciniuni oxycoccus; how long the American branch, or
the macrocarpon, has been established here nobody
knows, but it began to attract attention about one
hundred years ago. Its acquaintance was first culti-
vated in the Cape Cod region of Massachusetts — New
England has ever been ready to pay respect to an-
cestry.

It gradually worked its way out of obscurity un.til
today the cranberry occupies a place of no mean in-
dustrial importance in the community; yearly it adds
to the wealth of our nation all the way from $3,000.-
000 to $4,000,000. The family is exceedingly prolific.
1,300,000 bushels being produced in the United States,
leaving Europe far behind in quantity as well as in
quality.

About sixty per cent of the family arc born and
reared in Massachusetts — far the greater part in the
districts of Cape Cod, Plymouth, and Barnstable.
New Jersey, which devotes more of its territory to
the cranberry than any other State in the Union save
Massachusetts, rolls up twenty-four per cent, and
takes second place. Some years ago forest fires de-
stroyed the marshes and dried up the streams of Wis-
consin — a calamity which reduced the production of
the Wisconsin berry to eleven per cent, and forced that
State to assume third place; but Wisconsin is gradu-
ally recovering, and is striving for a position at the
head. The rest of the cranberries hail from Connecti-
cut, Illinois. Indiana. Iowa. Kansas, Maine. Michisran.

Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York,
North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington,
and West \irginia. — Pearson's Magacinc.

Between Whiles

The old landlord of a small country hotel was sitting
listlessly before the fire in the office when the door
opened and a loud-voiced young fellow exclaimed:

"Halloa, granddad! Get your frame in circulation.
Don't sit around here like an old woman! I want accom-
modation for man and beast."

"Where's the man?" asked the old landlord in a flash.

Cj'nic — Pity all these verse writers cannot be strangled
like Anacreon.

Klinic — How was he strangled?

Cynic — A grape stone choked him.

Klinic — Ah! A grape stone. Well, that's in the reg-
ular order of things. These poets mostly run to seed
sooner or later, you know. — Chicago Record-Herald.

Exchange Editor — " Let me see — Mark Twain had a
degree of some kind conferred on him, didn't he?"

Literary Editor-^" Yes; since he incorporated himself
I believe he has taken the degree of Ltd." — Chicago
Tribune.

" Yes," said the prospective purchaser, " I alwaj's select
an automobile by its motors." " But don't you pay any
attention to its finish?" asked the salesman, who had
been showing the unholstering and brass trimmings. " Oh,
no! All my automobiles generally finish up in a tree or
in a haj'stack."

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The Practical Kind. — He (savagely) — " So another
judge has decided the same old thing — a wife's right to
search her husband's pocket."

She (suavely) — " Don't saj- ' same old thing.' I am
sure that is a matter in which there is seeking after
a great deal of change." — Baltimore American

WANT AND EXCHANGE

To accommodate some of our readers and bring them in
closer touch with each other, we have opened this "want
and exchange " column.

Rates, twenty-five cents per insertion, not exceeding four
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Vol. XI.

February 16, 1909.

No. 7.

EDGAR ALLAN POE AT COLLEGE

JOHN WALTER WAYLAND

Of all the distinguished personages born in the
year 1809, it is probable that none have been more
the subject of discussion and controversy than Edgar
Allan Poe. Though not bom in prehistoric times like
old Homer, the Greek poet, yet like Homer his place
of birth is still in dispute. Boston claims him ; Balti-
more claims him ; and I have recently read that there
is a house in Norfolk, \'irginia, that is pointed out
as the place where he was born. It is pretty certain
that he was born in either Boston or Baltimore. His
ancestors seem to have lived in the latter city ; and it
was in the same city that death finally overtook the
erratic genius at the age of forty.

But his birthplace is only one of the many points
in dispute about Poe. Most of the controversy has
been waged about his life, his character, and his
works. Many persons have always recognized Poe as
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est figure in American literature ; others have placed
him much lower down in the scale. Some have
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West Point Military Academy for awhile afterward ;
but his college life, properly so-called, may be limited
to the ten months he spent in 1826 at the University
of Virginia, the institution that had opened its doors
first to students only the year before, under the patron-
age of Thomas Jefiferson.

Poe matriculated in Eebruary and remained till
the following December, the session then running
straight througli the summer. He first roomed on
what is called the Lawn, with another young man
from Richmond ; but they soon quarreled — had a
fist fight, it is said — and after that Poe took a room
on West Range. It may help our imagination to say
that there are at the University of Virginia, now as
then, four principal rows of dormitories, running from
northeast to southwest, parallel with one another, and
about sixty yards apart. The inner pair face each
other ; and the grass-covered, tree-bordered space be-
tween is called the Lawn ; the outside rows face, one
east, the other west, and are called respectively East
Range and West Range.

Poe's room on West Range was No. 13. It was
only a few doors from the hall of the feflferson
Literary Society, of which he was a member, and per-
haps secretary. The Rotunda, the present library
building, was finished while he was at college; but
before the Rotunda was finished the library and read-
ing room were in a building on the west side of the
Lawn, for a long while afterwards called the " Old
Library." It was in the old library, with its quaint,
white-arched entrance, that Poe did most of his gen-
eral reading, or from which he got most of the gen-
eral books that he read. The old building has been
connected with other famous men. The board of
visitors used to meet in a room on the first floor ; and
at one time, about the time Poe was a student, three
ex-Presidents, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, were

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on the board together. The old luimite-book shows
their names, written one after the other, on the sariie
page. On one of the window-panes of the old build-
ing it is said that Elisha Kent Kane, then a student.
afterward the famous arctic explorer, cut his name
with a diamond. I have several times looked for the
name, but liave not found it; though I have not yet
examined all the windows.

In choosing his books from the library.' Poe appears
to have been especially fond of poetry and history.
He and another student read a number of the English
,poets together — that is, at the same time ; and they
formed the habit of copying favorite passages for
each other. Poe likely wrote some poems while a

Poe at this time wrote a very beautiful hand. He
took great pride in this accomplishment ; and would
sometime see how many words he could write legibly
upon a given slip of paper. lie was also skilful at
drawing, and (»rnamenteil the walls and ceilings of
his room with crayon and charcoal sketches, some of
which were very artistic. We wish ikiw that they
were not covered over so thick willi plaster and white-
wash.

The young stutlent was a dreamy, poetic, and per-
haps eccentric sort of fullow. He appears to have
taken many long strolls over the surrounding country,
in the course of which he likely visited sometimes,
just as students now do, th.e home of Jefferson, Moiiti-

A Biidseye View of the fniversity at Present. Arrow (1) Shows Poe's Room; .\rrow (2)
1 .• I « ( Arrow (3) the Ragged Mountains.

the Old Library;

Student at the university : fc -r he published a collec-
tion only a year or two later. It is certain that he
wrote stories ; and he would frequently read what he
had written to a group of other fellows as they sat
around his fireplace.

As a student, he seems to have been among the
best, ranking almost, perhaps, with Gessner Harrison
and Henry Tutwiler, two young fellows from Rock-
ingham County, both of whom became distinguished :
the former on the university faculty ; the latter as a
great educational leader in the State of Georgia. It is
a matter of record that Poe won distinction in Latin
and I'Yench. One of his contemporaries testified long
afterwards that he vvas tolerably regular in attendance
upon his classes. It is said that he was also coniimend-
ed publicly by his professor for a verse translation
from the Italian. He was a " star '" in athletics. He
was the best young boxer in Richmond ; could swim
for miles ; was a fast runner : was a fine swordsman ;
and could jump some twenty-odd feet.

cello, perched upon a little mountain two or three utiles
east of the university, .\fter July. 1826. the grave of
Mr. Jefferson was where it still is, half-way up the
western sloge of iMonticello ; and we may imagine
Poe stopping to read the inscription, the words of
which Mr. Jefferson had himself dictated before his
death. The whole western side of the little mountain
is still covered with timber; and this, with the road
winding up through it, past Jefferson's grave to the
brick mansion and terraced gardens on the summit,
must have been an attractive walk for Poe, We know
that he frequently took long rambles among the Rag-
ged Mountains, a cluster of wooded hills four or five
miles southwest of the university. One of the tales
that he afterwards wrote is called the " Tale of the
Ragged Mcjuntains."

Poe gambled at the university, drank a good deal,
no doubt, and got into debt by gambling some two
thousand dollars. It was irritation at his bad debts
that ajjpears to have been the reason why his foster

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father, Mr. Allan, did not allow him to return to
college. He was not expelled. Neither was he sus-
pended or disciplined by the university authorities.
Hence his conduct must have been pretty good ; for
the boys were closely looked after, as the records
show. Several times Poe was summoned as a witness
in the trials of others ; but he himself never suffered
from faculty displeasure. I have examined the old
record book, where Poe's name, with others, is en-
rolled. When a student was suspended or expelled
the fact was entered after his name. Poe's record is
clear. ?vIc-,reover, the faculty minutes are very full;

owns, and by the amount of water to which he is
entitled. Water in the desert is so scarce that the
ownership of it is niost jealously guarded. In " A
Search for the Masked Tawareks "' the author says
that in buying a palm grove it is always necessary to
stipulate for so many sa'as per day or week. A
" sa'a," literally, " an hour," is the amount of water
that will flow in an hour through an opening the
width of a man's fist in the side of a " segia." The
main " segias," or channels, as a rule, follow the roads
of the oasis, forming a short ditch at the side. A
regular time-table is kept, showing the hours at which

Part of West Range. "13" Marks the Location of Poe's Room;

Show.'; the Jefferson Literary Society Hall.

and no entry has been found against him.

Over the door of Poe's old room is now a bronze
tablet bearing this inscription:

^ EDGAR ALLAN POE

MDCCCXXVI

DOML'S PARVA MAGNI POETAE

Tlie last line is a modification of the inscription at

the birthplace of Erasmus in the city of Rotterdam.

During the celebration last month, from the 16th to

the owners of the different plantations are entitled
to draw water by a very curious little water-clock,
consisting of a metal cup, made usually of brass or
copper, with a small hole pierced in the bottom. At
the commencement of each hour this is placetl in a
basin of water. The water gradually runs through the
hole until, at the expiration of the hour, the cup sinks
to the bottom of the basin. It is then taken out,
emptied, and set again to measure oft' tlie next " sa'a,"

the 23d, of the centenary of Poe, the room was open ^^^^ ^^ j,^^ ^^^^^^^ .^ continued throughout the twenty

to visitors as a Poe museum. It is in charge of the
Raven Society, an honor society organized among the
students and teachers in 1904. and named after Poe's
most famous poem. One of the curios in the room is
a huge stuffed raven, a gift made to the society a
year or two ago. ^ ^ ,^

THE SAHARA WATER-CLOCK.

A man's wealth in the Sahara is calculated almost
entirely by the number of camels or palm trees he

four hours. This instrument is usually kept in the
village mosque. In order to prevent all interference
with it, a watchman is set over it, who notifies the
expiration of each hour from the minaret of the
mosque. At the end of the " sa'a " the opening in the
side of the " segia " through which the water flows is
closed with clay, and the water is cut oft' and allowed
to flow down the main channel to the next plantation.
—Selected.

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lb. l')09.

AROUND THE WORLD WITHOUT

A CENT

HENRY M. SPICKLER

Chapter XLV.

'■ Gu.ECA I '" ( Lirikc-a ) cried out the American Italian
to me at the prow as he ran np out of the ship's
kitchen with a sea bun jitst hot from the bake oven.
" That is Greece," and he pointed his heavy hand
across and a little to " port " of the Lctiiiibro.

Rapidly the little country of Demosthenes and
Socrates rose higher and hig-her out of the sea until
the mountains, farther
away from the shore
line, stood out clear
and keen in the
clearest of rare at-
mospheres.

I felt in my pocket
for my little five and
ten lepta pieces of
money, packed my
nickel rubbish against
the foremast on the
upper deck where I
had been living and
sleeping, and know-
ing my bike would be
safe in the care of the
ship where it had
been riding, in the
freight hold, I began
to look about for the
first chance to get to
shore. The Lctimbro
would lie here for a
half day.

A half d a y i n
Greece ! That's all I was to have, but I was possessed
with almost uncontrollable joy. Many of my school-
mates who had studied Greek with me in three great
colleges — I'm always glad to have everybody know
that I went to college — no one would know it if I
didn't tell them myself — would never get here at all.
And while I would be happier if they all could come
and see this land about which we fought so long and
hard in history and epic translations of the great
masterpieces of men long dead, still I have that pleas-
urable sensation of victory which humbles as it ele-
vates, and I rush down to the center and port or left
side of the boat and climb into a rowboat to sit be-

yrae

cs9

'^iatcV ^heXcVra,W^_a<i she. Pulls

hind a Grecian boy and he rowed into the harbor of
Piraeus, with Atliens only si.x miles away, down along
the shore, to my right, plainly visible from the deck
of the steamer.

Before the boat touched the edge I was out and in
Greece. My, I felt funny. When I trudged along
over the briglit. washed pebbles. I saw Demosthenes
with his mouth full of them. But no longer did he

seem so great. I was
right there, in his
own land, breathing
the same air, looking
upon the same noble
hills, hearing the
same people talk and
being barked at by
the same dogs. Si.x
hours in Greece!

Up from the land-
ing I ran, inquiring
of everybody I met,
and not stopping for
an answer, the direc-
tion to the railway
station, for a train
was due right now, I
had learned, for
Athens ! It seemed
irreverent to hurry so,
for Yankees rush in
where Europeans fear
to tread. If I missed
this train I could
hardly get to Athens.
The gate-keeper saw me coming and although the
train was moving he sold me a ticket, pushed me
aboard — and — whew ! I was going to ride on a Gre-
cian railroad train to .\thens, where Plato and Homer
had to walk. The coaches were queer, different, but
not so much unlike those of Europe. I'ut I couldn't
tell whether I climbed out of the entl. the side, or the
top. I was so wild with the joy of what I was doing
and of what I was going to see.

The depot at Athens was in a rude ])art of town,
where there were few buildings and these small and
common.

I asked the first man I met where the Areopagus

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and Acropolis were. Accustomed to so many tourists,
he knew what I wanted by the way I looked, for he
spoke only Greek, and he pointed to a path right at
my feet and said, motioning, " Up there is the Acrop-
olis."

I hit the path on a hard run, wishing I had six days
instead of six hours in Greece. In less than a minute
I was climbing up, and then was on, the great world-
famed Acropolis. There, standing before me, in every
■conceivable state of preservation and destruction, or
lying about over the enchanted ground, were temples

sculpturing of the elaborate friezes, I ran to another
part of the big, rounding hill.

There lay the Letimbro out at sea, seven miles
away. Here I was, alone, but in a vast crowd of im-
aginations. Far down on the other side of the
elongated hill was the big stadium where the Mara-
thon races or the Athenian races were held. There,
also, were the old theatres in circular form, and I sat
in several of the marble seats, still well preserved, the
names of the Greeks who occupied them still visible
in the slabs of marble. In the liacchus theatre the

' Thero lay at my foot mndorn Atlioiis. once the greatest city of tlie world.'

and images, jilatfornis and cavities, a city of marble
through which a western cyclone might have passed
and left it no more tragic and pathetic in appearance.

Believe me, the mind, under joyful and most profit-
able stimuli, can act with the rapidity of the electric
flash. I was tired of being cramped for space on the
Ijoat. Here I had a vast field of miracles in history
to explore, free of charge, in the bright sunlight, with
a pair of legs under me that after their enforced bi-
cycle-pumping rest in Italy, were pawing for some-
thing to do.

With all my speed I sprinted from temple to tem])le,
theatre to cistern, pausing long enough to catch my
Ijreath, look about, far and near, and then, with every-
Ihing seen I cared to see, even to the most minute

arrangement of the tiers of seats was almcist as good
as when Greek players incited the seat holders to tears
or laughter. Still farther away were to be seen the
ruins, in columns, of a very large temple. These were
more weathered and showed far more loosening at the
joints than did the other columns seen elsewhere,
" These," I said, " must be much older, for the Greeks
would hardly use an inferior marble or be satisfied
with less than the very best of workmanship."

But thanks to some little study ft architecture before
I came here, my eye found the cause. These ruins were
not Grecian. In Greece, in Athens herself, thev had
been built by another race. The Romans had con-
quered the Greeks and their victory was commemo-
rated by this great tem|)lc to Jupiter or some other

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fake god. The Romans built well, but never so well
as did the Greeks. Even these ruins, built long after
the others standing about me, were far less preserved
than the works of the Greeks. The same sun had
shone upon them, the same storms had chilled and
shaken and worn these great blocks. The same vol-
canic disturbances had shaken them. There was one
thing only that made a difference ! Honest workman-
ship. The Greek was a deliberate, thinking, honest,
reliable master workman. The Greek did his best on
what lie had and grew the greatest intellect in the
world. The Roman cared for quantity rather than
quality, and both races have built better than are an\-
races building today. But they built not on the real
•• Rock."

By the sun I knew it was nearly noon, but return-
ing through the hollow, separating the Roman an-
tiquities from the inore important ones on the hill, I
walked through the great theatre of Dionysius, at the
foot of the Acropolis, where the seating capacity
would hold three thousand spectators. Here, ages
ago, three thousand Grecian playgoers sat and heard
the plays of Sophocles and Euripides. The marble
chairs were still perfect, inany of them without a
flaw\ Think of my racing through these rows of
marble chairs when the rich and cultured leaders of
Athenian society sat breathless in the spell of a drama.
\\ here are those people now ? Why do they no longer
come to hear the Greek tragedian, in measured poinp
of sentence, and artful display of brawn, wrapped in
the rich folds of a gentleman's soft garments? Why
all this lavish quarrying of marble? Why this ex-
(juisite touch of grace at the head of every column
that required the study of a lifetime to master? Why
this hill covered with matchless beauty in deathless
stone, preserved today so that all of it could be easily
replaced, if not to be used by the children of the
Greeks who fashioned it and came here to enjoy it?
\\'hy is this hill all waste, the greatest, the most mag-
nificent ruins of all ruins, with possibly a rival in the
Roman Forum at Rome?

One word answers it forever and conclusively :
Paul.

When Paul dared to stand up here and open his
mouth the idols all shut up theirs.

O Paul ! I see you amid all of this classic beauty,
standing where others, coming, became so enamored
of the power of beauty about them that they lost their
ow-n personality and " followed the crowd," to wor-
ship stones. Others came here to " spout " their elo-
quence where the chief man spoke, just to go back
and crow over their backyard fence to their neighbor
about it. You forgot honor and self and home, even
your ow-n noble countrymen, and did that which the
high-minded Athenians laughed at. Your own coun-
trymen were ashamed of you, you with the intellect
as good as their best, you with training in university

subjects beyond the reach of these Greek pedants, you
became a fool here that the whole world might know,
not of atoms and diatoms, molecules or mollycoddles,
but of one Man, and his Gospel.

That's why the Acropolis today is a total mass of
antique ruins. That's why there's no one around to-
day to keep me from putting into my pockets, if they
were big enough, priceless souvenirs of marble em-
bellishment.

I wished to eat a meal in Greece and so was going
liack towards the city when I saw on my left, just in
the act of ascending Mars' Hill, two young ladies,
whose bright dresses of various shades of color made
a great contrast to the white inarble citizens of the
hill that neither moved nor spoke but lay where the
volcanic shocks had thrown them, senseless and flat
upon their backs.

On reaching the girls I recognized them as the

daughters of the captain and mate of the Letimbro.

I did not go, at once, to luncheon, — even in Athens !

[From .\thens I\Ir. Spickler sailed for Turkey but
on arriving at the city of Constantinople he was put
under arrest by the Turks, and later led before the
magistrate to speak for himself. His United States
passport was taken from him and a fine imposed.
This Mr. Spickler refused to pay and demanded his
passport, appealing to the United States Consul.]

v5* ft5* c?*
UNKNOWNS.

M.\RV E. C.VXODE.

Chemic.\l laboratories of schools and colleges have,
as parts of their equipments, packages bearing the
labels, " Unknowns."

Each package contains a mixture of different ele-
ments thus prepared for the purpose of putting to
the test the analyzing ability of the student who is
supposed to have learned their different qualities and
to be able to prove by experimentation which elements
enter into the make-up of this particular package.

From the seveiit\-two, more or less, different known
elements, then, what an endless number of these " un-
knowns " might be compiled ! Yet the expert chem-
ist would be able to catalogue every component part
and the word " unknown " could no longer be prop-
erly applied.

But the signilicance of the name makes one think
how much more appropriately it might be applied to
each individual of the human family. The composite
character of any one person is sufficient to baffle the
skill of the most learned analyzer of human nature.

Physiologists may think they know well their func-
tions and the organs that make up the huinan body.
Fortune-tellers may claim the ability of telling past
and foretelling future events of our lives. Mind

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151

readers mav deceive themselves and others into be-
lieving that mental operations are like an open book
before them. Theosophists, spiritualists, Christian
Scientists and all the other kinds of " ists " may claim
the ability of making clear, by all their puzzling va-
garies, all of those strange mental experiences that
transcend present human knowledge, while the gos-
pel minister may think himself capable of advising us
as to our spiritual needs.

If each of these could do perfectly the part he
thinks himself able to do, what a full register would a
complete analysis of one individual show ! But let
all these use their utmost abilities and register what
they may have succeeded in learning about any one
man and he might still retain as his appropriate label,
" unknown."

Through chemical skill the composition and amount
of any mixture of elements may be determined. But
no degree of experimentation, examination or trick-
ery is able to discern or prove the quantities and quali-
ties of good and evil, love and hate, interest and in-
difference, joy and sorrow, energy and inactivity,
strength and weakness, Christianity and idolatry, civili-
zation and barbarism and a greater host of undis-
covered characteristics which constitute this queer,
unknown and indeterminable mixture called a human
being.

Mount Morris, Illinois.

^* e5* &?•

FIGURES OF SPEECH.

JOIIX H. XOWLAX.

" A FIGURE of speech is a mode of expression in
which a word or thing is used in an artificial manner,
in order to a more forcible presentation of thought, or
the illustration and embellishment of that to which
it is applied." — David N. Lord.

In studing composition, the books of all ages are
ransacked to find examples of the various figures, too
often ignoring the fact that one old Book, more com-
mon than any other, abounds in an almost unlimited
supply of illustrations.

Comparison or simile is where one thing is affirmed
to be like another and is expressed by as, like, so or
some similar term. There must be a point of resem-
blance which is to be made more conspicuous.

The coming of Christ is to be rapid and conspicuous.
(Matt. 24; 27) The change from condemnation to
forgiveness is to be so great that an extreme change
of color is used to describe it. (Isa. 1: 18.) Man is
of short duration (Job 14: 2), the wicked may gain
power (Psa. 37: 35), yet the righteous in due time
shall flourish (Psa. 90: 12).

The more effective of the similes are those that
not only afifinn the likeness, but indicate in what man-
ner it exists.

Isaiah 55: 10, 11 compares the cft'ect of God's word
to that of snow and rain on the earth.

A metaphor differs by stating that the object is
that which it resembles. Joseph is a fruitful bough
(Gen. 49: 22), wisdom is a tree of life (Prov. 3: 18)
and the disciples were fishers (Matt. 4: 19).

To illustrate the two figures the protecting power of
God is compared to a shield. A metaphor is found in
Gen. 15: 1, while Psa. 5: 12 is a simile.

Mctonomy means a change of names, where the
land is used for the people (Isa. 10: 5), the container
for the thing contained (Isa. 2:6), the sign for the
thing signified, cause for effect, etc.

Synecdoche is the use o.f a part for the whole or
one of its kind (Isa. 5: 3), or of the whole where it
signifies only a part. Compare Gen. 2: 4, Isa. 5: 3,
and Isa. 10: 10-14.

Hyperbole exhibits things in greater or less dimen-
sions, more or less in numbers, or better or worse than
they really are. This figure is rarely found in the
Bible, being found in the poetical portions. (Job 40;
2^: Isa. 2; 7, 8; 2 Sam. 1 : 2?,, and Psa. 119: 36.)

Irony is an expression meaning the opposite of what
the words convey. Read Elijah to the priests of
Baal, 1 Kings 18: 27.

.4postrophc is a direct address to the absent as if
present, or to inanimate objects as if they possessed
life. Thus Death is addressed in 1 Cor. 15: 55, Jeru-
salem, used by metonomy for her people, in Matt. 23 :
Z7, 38, Jerusalem in Isa. 5: 1-7, while in Isa. 14: 8-20
the trees are represented as speaking.

Personification attributes life or animation to in-
animate objects or abstract ideas. Moses summoned
heaven and earth to listen ( Deut. 2,2: 1-43) and Isaiah
in chap. 1 : 1 and chap. 44 : 2i. Jeremiah calls upon
the heavens (chap. 2; 12, 13) and the earth (chap. 22:
29, 30).

An allegory is a continued metaphor or a story with
a deeper meaning. Read Isa. 5: 1-7; Psa. 80. and
Ezek. 31:3-17.

These are only a very few of the illustrations that
may be drawn from the Scriptures, and I hope will
lead to a more extensive research than I have indi-
cated.

Teachers, try this plan in your rhetoric class, and
I feel that you will find it satisfactory.

Mulberry Grove, III.

^V ^V C|7^

A SPOT HISTORIC IN BUCKEYEDOM.

A iiE.\UTiFUL Xoveniber day it is. ( )iic of those
rare last days of the autumn time whose minutes
pass too lightly, for you want to keep them by vou.
One of those days when you are watching the sun and
calculate mentally how much of it you have yet to en-
joy. You know that you cannot have many more
such glorious days, and you'want every bit of this one.

This is the 20th of Xoveniber, in the year of our
Lord 1908. The records tell ns that it was just such

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a day as this, a luinclred years ago. that a little band
of Moravians — white and red — moved slowly from
vonder site where stood the mission house to this
spot and reverently interred the body of their teacher
in the virgin soil of the Tuscarawas valley.

I like that word " teacher." It is Anglo-Sa.xon.
It has in it the strength of the English oak. It is
cosmopolitan. It means the minister, the educator,
the leader. So they laid to rest their teacher. Over the
open grave of David Zeisberger his " brown brethren,"
as he loved to call them, chanted the Moravian litany
in the hope of the Resurrection. Many of his " brown
brethren " had gone on before and had received Chris-
tian burial. The remaining followers digged his grave
that he might rest beside those whom he loved, for
whom he lived, for whom he labored and for whom
he sacrificed.

Xow a century has gone by. The broad valley of
the Tuscaraw-as, dotted with homes, churches and
schools, lay basking in the sunshine. In the small
iron enclosure a little company waited until a party of
children from a neighboring school could be present.
In each child's hand was a sprig of evergreen. These
were laid on the grave. Then with bared heads the
men and w(.)mcn joined in reading the Easter morn-
ing litany of the Moravian church. The minister
who conducted the ceremonies was a great-grandson
of John Heckewelder, a fellow laborer of Zeisberger.
It was a beautiful service.

Cut why stand by this simple slab in a country
graveyard ?

David Zeisberger
Born .\pril 11, 1721, in Moravia.
Departed this life November 17, 1808.
Aged 87 years. 7 months. 6 days.
This faithful servant of the Lord labored
among the American Indians as mission-
ary during the last sixty years of his life.
It is the story of a hero. Near him is the tomb of
his coworker. Edwards. .\11 around are the graves
of the forest children whom he taught. Yonder is the
site of the mission house which he built and to which
he retired in his later years. A farmhouse now stands
there. Some of the rock foundation is still in use
under the modern structure.

Two miles up the river is Schoenbrunn, where
Zeisberger and Heckewelder began a settlement in
1772. Here was built a church and school. A little
plot of ground now owned by the Moravian Society
reminds us of this pioneer movement of civilization.
It was the beginning of a series of Moravian communi-
ties on the Upper Tuscarawas — Gnadenhutten. Licht-
nau. New Schoenbrunn and Salem. Here within a
few years were gathered by the devoted Moravian
missionaries hundreds of- converted Indians. They
were prepared for the future world by preparing them
to live well in this one. Agriculture and stock rais-

ing and the manual trades were taught. Rum was
not to be brought into the community. They were
not to go to war.

To get an Indian to agree to all this in such a short
time is certainly a compliment to his teacher. A hunt-
ing, roving, rum-drinking, bloodthirsty aborigine to
be transformed into a law-abiding citizen of a com-
munity is enough to cause one to doubt the doctrine
of total depravity.

Dr. Winship, of Boston, expresses the idea in. de-
scribing two small boys whose behavior was at op-
posite poles. He said there was no difference between
the boys; they had different mothers only.

Schoenbrunn was the first '" dry " territory in Ohio.
.\t Schoenbrunn was written the first civil code in
Ohio. At Schoenbrunn was built the first church in
Ohio. At Schoenbrunn was the first school in Ohio.
At Schoenbrunn was prepared a spelling book for
use in teaching the Indians. Two years at Schoen-
brunn, and on Easter morning, 1774, Zeisberger led
the people in the praying of the beautiful Easter
litany of the Moravian church, which he had trans-
lated into the Delaware Indian language.

Who said that there were no good Indians but
dead ones? We are told that we graduate them at
Carlisle, and the graduates hang their diplomas in a
tepee, lay aside their civilized garb and go back to the
blanket. Is it a difference of teachers only?

The Zeisberger education was no veneer. It did
not rub off. The Zeisberger Indian did not go back
to the blanket and bear's grease. Neither did he culti-
vate some of the civilized (?) habits of his white
neighbors. He was trying to throw off savagery.
Experience had told him that firewater didn't tend
that way. It has taken 6,000 years to evolve a civil-
ized man out of a savage, but it only takes six minutes,
with plenty of " booze," to turn it the other way.

Yes, David Zeisberger, you were a teacher, and it
is because of your work as teacher that I linger a
little at your grave today and stand by the waters of
Schoenbrunn.

\\'hen the last page of the world's history is writ
and the .scroll is about to be made up and placed in
the archives of the eternities, there will be no pages
more replete with heroism, sacrifice and service than
those upon which are engrossed the achievements of
the teacher, and none of these will be brighter than
the one devoted to David Zeisberger. the first Ohio
teacher.— C. L. Martzolif, in The Ohio Teacher.

•at jit ^

Jr.sT to lead the child along in a pleasant search
for truth, with no sophisms and no heroics, to touch
the cup to his lips that he may long for a full draught.
to guide his feet to the step whence he may catch a
wider view of life,— all this is the very acme of good
teaching and the one who can do it in sincerity and
simplicity is a power in this world. — Exchange.

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THE WORKERS

The craftsman stood behind his bench and smiled,
Although his muscles ached and on his brow
The sweat-beads stood. He raised his eyes and spoke:
"This is my work; I have fashioned in it,

Well as I could, all my thought and my plan;

Perfect it is not, and yet not unfit;

Beauty it holds and true service to man.

Mine in the making, and mine as it stands,

Thought of my spirit and work of my hands."

The farmer looked across the billowed fields
Where waiting harvests shimmered in the breeze;
His sun-browned face was joyous as he said:

" This is my work; through the cold and the heat.
Sunshine and rain, I have labored and wrought;
Orchards and meadows and wide fields of wheat
Owe all their wealth to my care and my thought.
Mine was the toil, mine the harvest that stands.
Thought of my spirit and work of my hands."

The teacher watched with loving eyes the throng
Of jostling, happy children in the street.
And said, with tender voice and face serene:

"These are my work; all my thought and my care,
Study and labor and stern self-control.
Gladly I give that their lives may be fair,
Clearer each mind and more noble each soul.
Partly my own is each life as it stands,
Thought of my spirit and work of my hands."

The poet scanned his verses, and his face
Was all aglow with light reflected from
His dream; hushed was his voice, but full of joy:
" This is my work, which with painstaking love
I have endeavored to make true and sure;
Bright was my dream as the heavens above,
So I have striven to have it endure.
This is my gift to all men of all lands.
Thought of my spirit and work of my hands."

Then as they viewed their work there came to each
The sense of failures past and of the strength
The future claimed; and humbly each one said:
" This is my work; it was given to me.

Though it is greater than my strength can do;

Yet from the task I ask not to be free;

For, if I labor with purposes true,

Ever will infinite love help me stand.

Leading my spirit and guiding my hand."

— E. E. Miller, in The Circle.

154

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Nature Studies

ANIMAL ELECTRICITY AND NERVE FORCE.
S. Z. SH..\RP.

Ix the days of Franklin, it was a question whether
electricity and the lightning from the clouds were
one and the same thing. It was known that in many
respects they were similar. The experiment of Frank-
lin with his kite proved they were identical. The
question now arises whether electricty and nerve force
are also identical. It is certain they have their points
of similarity. Both are best conducted on thin wires
or fibres. The nerve force generated in the brain
and sent out to all parts of the body over thin
nerves, acts very much like the electricity generated
in some central office in a city and distributed in all
directions over the telephone wires. As the electric
current is strengthened by relay batteries, so the
nerve force is augmented by the ganglia through
which it passes.

Another similarity between these two forces is the
rapidity with which they move. No other two forces
in nature move so rapidly. They outstrip both light
and sound. Observe a rope-walker balancing him-
self with a pole. To keep his equilibrium and at the
same time move forward every nuiscle of his limbs
must be kept in tension by the nerves and every ten-
dency to fall on either side is counterbalanced. " quick
as thought." by an opposite movement as directed by
nerve force from the brain, as readily as a train dis-
patcher from headquarters directs the train and
prevents collisions.

A familiar example of the rapidity of nerve force
is that of the skillful piano player. In this case, not
only the rapid movement of the several fingers, but the
rapidity of movement of each separate muscle in each
finger must be taken into account.

The above may suffice to draw attention to the simi-
larity between the nerve force in living animals and
tlie electricity found in inanimate bodies. We now
turn to cases in which we know a certain kind of
nerve force in living animals is known to be electricity
itself, pure and simple. There are four species of
fish in which this force may be observed. They are
fl) the electric eel, _^ytniiotus electrictis: (2) the tor-
pedo, torpcdiiiidae. (3) a species of catfish, matophcr-
urus; (4) tclraodon. The electric eels inhabit the

rivers and ponds of northern South .America. They
attain the length of five or si.x feet. The natives
capture these eels by driving a herd of horses into
ponds inhabited by them. The eels in self-defense
discharge their electricity into the bodies of the horses,
which are stunned, terribly frightened, and many
are killed by the shock as the eels crawl under
their bodies. The electric powers of the fish becom-
ing exhausted upon the horses, the former are har-
pooned and thrown out on shore. The electric ap-
paratus, which makes this fish so celeljrated, occupies
a large part of the lower portion of the body and
consists of four parts, two on each side. This ap-
paratus consists of 240 membranous cells filled with a
glutinous matter and connected with 200 pairs of
ventral spinal nerves, connected with the brain. Here
the nerve force and the electricity pass over the same
nerve fibers, and both controlled and directed from
the brain and the question is, are thev one and the
same thing?

The torpedo is distributed through many waters
but finds a genial habitat in the Mediterranean Sea.
It attains a width of 2>4 feet and from 4 to 5 feet
in length and a weight of fifty pounds. Its electrical
powers seem to be used both for defense and for the
capture of its prey. The electric apparatus of this
fish is similar to a galvanic pile. As many as twelve
hundred prisms. fn)m one to two inches in length,
have been counted. These extend from the skin on
the back vertically downward and contain from 250,-
000 to 300,000 plates forming cells. The ganglia
from which the nerves arise are larger than the brain
itself, indicating the great nervous power supplied to
the battery. The other two electric fishes mentioned
are insignificant compared with the two described.

The identity of common electricity and that obtained
from fishes was ascertained by Dr. Faraday, who
showed that electric sparks can be obtained from
the latter, heat evolved, and chemical compounds de-
composed. He also showed the energy of a
shock from an electric eel to be equal to that of fifteen
Leyden jars of 3,500 square inches of surface, hence
it is not surprising that a number of such shocks
should stun a horse.

It is generally admitted that in this age we are

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155

yet in our infancy so far as our knowledge of elec-
tricity is concerned. All we know about it is bow it
acts or some things it does. No one can tell wbat it
is. We have discovered the similarity between its
movements and that of nerve force, that they readily
pass over the same media and are sometimes gen-
erated in the same body, hence, we are led to
ask, " What is the relation between electricity and
nerve force? Are they identical?"

Jt .■* ..*8
A FISH WHICH IS A MIMIC.

Two species of fish belonging to Cuvier's family of
perches, named the lesser weever, otterpike, or sting-
fish, are not uncommon on the English coast. Both
have a detached portion of the dorsal fin consisting
of six or seven rays which, the Lancet points out,
when trodden upon or handled, can cause a painful
wound, which takes a long time to heal. Dr. A. T.
Masterman points out that the intense black color of
the membrane of that portion of the fin must act as a
danger signal, especially as it is in marked contrast
with the rest of the skin and of the sand, in which
the animal half buries and conceals itself, ready to dart
out on the small crustaceans which form its prey.

Now. the right pectoral or upper fin of the sole has,
especially in the young sole, a large, deep, black patch
the possession of which, the doctor suggests, consti-
tutes a well marked example of mimicry. The smaller
fry of soles, like the weevers, inhabit sandy bays and
shallows, and also partially bury themselves in the
sand. Dr. Masterman has found that, unlike the
turbot and plaice, which when disturbed make active
efforts to swim or escape, the sole lies quiescent even
to the point of simulating death, but at the same time
erects sharply and spreads its upper pectoral fin, which
thus form.s a motionless black flag held upwards in a
menacing attitude. — Selected.

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UNDERSTOOD OUR LANGUAGE.

Some time ago we had a collie by the name of
Rex. My driving mare we called Nettie, and if Rex
ever heard me speak the mare's ^name or say I should
hitch up and take a drive, no matter in what language
I voiced my intention, he was on the alert and at the
door, whining to be allowed to go. as he was ver\'
fond of ihe mare. The time came when a removal of
the family to this town forbade keeping the dog. I
found a willing purchaser and good home for him
where he is today ; and the day I announced the fact
at the breakfast table I told my wife not to allow
Rex to go out. as I would come up and get him in
time to ship him on the noon train.

The dog could never be coaxed or driven into the
cellar, for some unknown reason, but when I came for
him and searched the house from top to bottom, call-
ing him constantlv for some time, he was at last dis-

covered in the farthermost corner of the cellar behind
some barrels.

His story has a happy sequel, for he is now the con-
tented guardian of an old lady who has no children,
and values the dog beyond price. — Our Dumb Ani-
mals.

M :* •.<

THE SEA BEAVER.

The sea beaver's bright black eyes are full of in-
telligence. It is by nature affectionate, and both
parents are devoted to their little ones. Its love of
home is strong and abiding, and year after year it
returns to the same region-, even though the spot may
often have been the scene of massacre for its com-
panions. Like its marine cousin, the land otter is'
full of play and will often lie on its back in the water
and toss a piece of seaweed from paw to paw as a
boy tosses a ball.

When the weather is fair the mother otter's favorite
pastime is to float about on her back in the calm,
blue water, holding her baby with her forepaws, while
she paddles leisurely with her flippers, sometimes
crooning a plaintive strain. If any danger threatens
she clasps it to her breast and presents her back to
the foe. When the reflection of the sun's rays on
the water dazzles her she looks almost human as
she lifts her paw and holds it above her eves to shield
them from the glare.

The sea otter's curiosity is large, and its " scenting "
powers are the keenest. It varies its fish diet with
mussels, clams, crabs, sea urchins, and occasionally a
tender bit of kelp. Of urchins it is particularly fond.
It takes one in each forepaw, strikes them together,
and sucks their contents when the shells break. Its
favorite dwelling place is among the kelp beds about
the rocky islets that fringe our northwestern coast. —
Selected.

^^ .« .*t
CURIOUS FLORIDA HERB.

Almost everybody knows there are such things
as insectivorous or carnivorous plants, but it is doubt-
ful if many know we have such a plant growing right
in south Florida.

This is an annual herb, says the Punta Gorda
Herald, and the entire plant, including the flower, is
of a deep rich red color. It rarely reaches a height
of more than three inches, and is never so broad.
The leaves are spatulate when undisturbed, and pre-
sent many small fibrilte and secrete at their tips a
tenacious fluid which is capable of holding the small
insect, such as ants and the like, upon which it feeds.
When any of these get lodged in the fluid and dis-
turb these fibrillae the leaves slowdv acquire a deep
cup shape and sometimes curl completely up over
the victim. When they have absorbed the insect they
slowly recover their original shape, leaving only the
skeleton of the insect remainine.

156

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In some of the President's acts many people have
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are placed alongside the many in which he has stood out
as the people's friend and protector it is clearlv seen
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which Roosevelt possesses as executive comes to him
simply and solely because lie has been the true and
direct representative of the will of our democracy.
And the same eye can sec beyond a dciulit that the
weakness and the rage of Congress at this time are
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inhere in it and that it objects to having its degen-
eracy pointed out and brought home to it."

Abraham Lincoln's well-known .statement abnul fuol-
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people some time to f^nd out that tliey arc being fooled.

but afterward there will be little time lost. Informa-
tion on governmental affairs will help the people to see
whether their representatives are guarding their in-
terests or whether they are guarding the interests of
certain individuals and businesses, and such informa-
tion is easy to obtain these days.

fl^^ ^^ v^*

A MODERN JAILER.

The subject of our criminals has come in lately for
a good deal of consideration by our reformers. It is
pretty generally conceded that the State ought to do
more than simply punish its criminals, or the punish-
ment should be of such a nature, or so administered,
that the man is made better. In the present order of
things we know that, as a rule, this is not the case.
Imprisonment generally confirms a man in his down-
ward tendencies.

Most of the ideas of reform in this line are yet in
the theoretical stage and few have the courage to test
them. Of course some of the ideas are so absurd
that they should never be taken seriously. But now
and then there is a man directly connected with prison
work who is possessed with the idea of making men of
his prisoners and he avails himself of this opportunity
to put his theory in practice. It is no doubt through
the efforts of such men — prison keepers who themselves
are deeply interested in the future welfare of their men
— that a change in the treatment of prisoners is to
come.

Such a man is John L. Whitman, jailer of the
Bridewell in Chicago. About two years ago we called
the attention of our readers to his work. \\'c now
give them additional knowledge of his theories and
of how they are working out. We are indebted to the
Home Herald for our information. The writer of
the article reports an interview which he had with Mr.
Whitman. We give only a part of it The jailer be-
gan by answering the interviewer's question as to
what he thought about running a jail.

" ' Fundamentally,' he began, and his eyes glistened
with the joy of a man who is telling his favorite story,
' fundamentally, a jail ought to be a whole lot like a
hospital. Ours is. W'e have each individual case
diagnosed, and our • subsequent treatment is given
in accordance with that diagnosis. It is my task, of
course, and that of my assistants, to judge of the
moral character and needs of the men, but iTefore you
can do much for a man morally you have got to get
him physically well, and that takes doctors.

You know." he smiled, ' the general scheme in an
institution of this kind is to have one doctor who
works, when he works at all, telling men that there
is nothing the matter with them when they are report-
ed sick. That used to be the situation here, but it
is no longer. \\''e have a house physician, as we al-
ways have had, but he spends all his time at the
'i'ork now : he is fired with an ambition which makes

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157

him a power. Then there are three internes and a
medical nurse and a surgical nurse, an eye, ear and
nose specialist who is here two days a week, and
three surgeons who come one day a week to operate.
Every one of them is a professor in one of the big
medical colleges ; there they are,' and he pushed over
a paper on which were the names of three different
mien whose reputations are more than State-wide.
' Every man that comes here is given a bath and a
medical examination and a clean suit of clothes in
that order. And, do you know, the examinations
show fifty per cent of the men in need of physical
treatment and nine out of ten of the boys? That ex-
plains something about the reason for crime.

" ' What they get here is a whole lot different from
what their ideas of a jail have led them to expect.
It's curious to see their attitude towards it, curious —
and pathetic, too. After their natural distrust
wears off and they catch the idea that we are here
not merely to guard them, but to help them, too, the
improvement begins right away.

" ' Here's an illustration : Thanksgiving Day we
had an exercise in the chapel — something to make tlie
day a little dift'erent from the rest. And when I got
up to open the program, the men cheered so that for
five minutes I actually couldn't begin. That shows a
little something about their attitirde towards us ; don't
you think so ? '

" I did think so, and I said so. And I asked him
to give me a list of all the other jails in which the
prisoners have ever been known to cheer their jailers
for five minutes.

• " ' Well, it wouldn't be a long list,' he said, ' and
that's the pity of it. The accepted prison philosophy
is so different from ours. I have been familiar with
it ev»r since I stumbled into this work sixteen years
ago, and there has been mighty little change in the
general idea in that time. Prisons are for the punish-
ment of the criminal; that is the accepted notion.
When society has apprehended liini and shut him up,
it has done its duty, and has no further concern with
him. The idea of reformation is jeered at. We arc
experiencing the depressing effect of the habitual
philosophy every day ; every reform which we have
ever attempted has been with all the opposition which
the old-liners could luring against it. " Whitman,
you're foolish." they say: "go back and keep your
jail doors locked tight and increase the revenues of
the institution, and you'll be doing all that's expect-
ed of you. And forget these wild ideas."' That's
the sort of talk I've heard so long that I am calloused
to it. But my ideas are not wild. In the first place
they make money, for they put spirit into the inmates
at their work, and in the scond place they make
men.'

Mr. Whitman then gfave two illustrations of the

reformation of men to prove the soundness of his
theories.

" ' But,' said the interviewer, ' there is one thing I
don't understand. You speak of these men as coming
to you and talking with you. How can they? How
can a prisoner come and talk to his jailer?'

" ' That's another of my wild theories,' said Mr.
Whitman, and at this he smiled a very pleasant smile.
' Every Sunday morning at the services I announce
that any of the men who wish to see me personally
may remain after the services. Then I talk with
each one alone. Sometimes one has a grievance that
I can adjust, but in nine cases out of ten they stay to
tell me that they want to brace up and to get my ad-
vice and help. Do you know, last Sunday ninety-
eight staid to talk with me? It took all day long to
get through the list, but I did it ; it pays.'

" We went out through the iron doors and into the
shops. There was an air of contented industry in
the building. Men in blue coats, not striped, and with
all their hair, nodded pleasantly to the jailer as we
passed among them ; the guards were noticeably few,
and, though watchful, had nothing of that air of cun-
ning which is common to their ilk. In one building
the men were making shoes ; in another women were
making the clothes the inmates wear. ( )thers were
printing, some quarrying in the great hole behind the
prison, and in one little building, set off by itself, a
dozen husky fellows were busily engaged in baking
great loaves of sweet-smelling bread.

" ' I suppose you noticed there was no guard in
there?' Mr. ^^'hil^lan remarked as we left the bak-
ery. I had noticed it and wondered at it. ' The
guard came to me this morning to tell me that his
little son was sick at the hospital. He broke down as
he talked, and I said : " Go and stay with your son
today." So he went, and these are his men.'

" The noon whistle blew as we walked about, and
up from the quarries and the factories they came,
trooping along, with the air of men who have done a
satisfactory work and can eat their meal in hope.
There was no lock-step. As they passed through the
gates two of their number counted them in striflent
tones and tlie guards on the wall below noted the
figures. But except for that they went as any other
group of laborers from their toil.

" There is opposition to John T.. ^^^litman. of
course, and there will continue to he until, people
learn the lesson he is teaching — that society is best
protected bv an institution which turns out men, not
punished merely, but reformed."
.t .^t -t
NOTICE.

Be sure to read "A Business -Deal," by Hattie
Preston Rider, on the next page. Call the attention
of the boys and girls to it : it may help them to make
the right start in the business world.

158

THE INGLENOOK.— February 16, 1909.

The Home World

A BUSINESS DEAL

HATTIE PRESTON RIDER

UxcLE Fraxk puslied open the door and came into
the sitting-room, breezy and glowing. " It's gloi iously
cold!" he announced; "Halloo!" — suddenly catch-
ing sight of his nephew lounging in the big easy-chair.
" Home on a working-day, Harry? Xot sick. I hope."

The young man looked embarrassed. " Fve left
the shop." he answered, half-sullenly.

Uncle Frank drew a chair toward him and sat
down. " Xot for good. I hope," he said, regretfully.
" Crane & Barrett's is an excellent place. They're the
best business men I know. \\'hat was the matter,
Harr>'?"

" I had to work over time," his nephew answered,
defiantly, but the deepening color in his face told that
he was ashamed of the excuse. " I was dead tired ;
besides, there was a good show in town, and I wanted
to see it. I asked the foreman for my evening off,
and he wouldn't give it, so I took it, anyway. When
I went back next morning, he told me I could have
all my evenings and days too. He was so crabbed I
was glad to leave. I wouldn't take a job there now,
even if they ofTered it to me. You'd have been tired
of it yourself. Uncle Frank. Twelve hours a day. for
three straight weeks ! "

" During the holiday rush," Uncle Frank supple-
mented. He raised his eyebrows with a quizzical
smile. " Thirty years ago, when George Crane started
in his little one-story shop on Ashe street, he used to
put in sixteen hours of solid work a day for six
.months at a time, and keep his own books besides.
How much do you suppose that furniture plant is
worth today, Harry?"

Harry did not answer. Crane & P.arrett were
the heaviest ta.xpayers in the city.

" Being rich is no excuse for overworking tlieir
help," he said at last, doggedly.

" It is a waste of tirne to criticise, the other fellow.
I find." Uncle Frank remarked, kindly. " Don't
think, either, that I'm criticising you. If you had

just returned from -an automobile trip to San Fran-
cisco, and I were starting on the same jaunt, I should
take it very thankfully indeed if you advised me as to
the best route. Besides, a boy that stronglv resembles
you gave me pointers on lobbing in that tennis tour-
nament last summer, that won me my match. Don't
you think I'd be doing the ungrateful thing, if I kept
silent while I saw you making the mistake of your
life?" ' ' .

The hard lines on Harry's face softened.

" I know you mean well. Uncle Frank." he acknowl-
edged, in a subdued voice, " hut you weren't in my
place."

" .A.h ! But I have been, lad, exactly ; and what's
more, I made the identical mistake you're making.
I was years righting myself, after it. I tell you,
Harry, a fellow starting out at eighteen is really a
merchant setting up in business; just that. Only, he's
selling his labor instead of coats or potatoes or ribbons.
Now. first of all, you have a tiptop common-.school
education, penmanship very fair, fingers not all
thumbs, thanks to that course in manual training.
.\lso, we must admit, since we are taking actual in-
ventory, you are honest, intelligent, and well-man-
nered. Tliere, lad, that's the stock-in-trade with which
your Heavenly Father has set you up. A pretty
fair outfit, I should sav.

" Now, what are the methods of a successful dealer
in staples? Faithfulness and industry, of course; but
next after those, and just as essential, is another:
lie iiiiisi hold cz'cry citci\i^y to create a live market for
his xvares, and at any cost make good. That's the
point, Harry. Do you see it? A fellow must get up
so desirable a reputation for the labor he has to sell,
that it will command the very highest price in the
market. The man that wishes to buy another's labor,
whether it be of the head or hand, is willing to pay
a first-class price for a first-class article, exactly as
if it were a piano or a peck of apples. You mustn't

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do anything to spoil your labor market, to get your
wares branded as slow sellers, for the man or boy
that puts up a poor article quickly comes to be known
among the employers who constitute that market.
And faithfulness and willingness are the very first
qualities a purchaser looks for."'

" Well, I guess I've done just the thing I oughtn't.
then," Harry said, ruefully, as his uncle paused. " I
didn't realize it, though. I thought a fellow had to
show his independence, in order to make other people
respect him. I was simply Iw)ncsick for work before
I'd been out twenty-four hours ; but I don't suppose
Crane & Barrett would take me back now. if I worked
for nothing. That's the way it always goes, seeing
your mistake when it is too late."

" It is never too late to do one's best to straighten
out matters," Uncle Frank responded. (|uickly. He
was silent a moment, and then added, earnestly:

" Just now it's your stint, lad. before you try to
sell any more of your goods, to put yourself right with
a customer you used rather unfairly. If I were you.
I'd go back to that foreman and make an honest
manly apology. It is of far greater consequence than
your finding employment again."

The slow red crept into Harry's face once more.
His uncle could hardly have set him a more uncongen-
ial task. But he answered at last :

" I'll think of it. Uncle Frank."

A week later, swinging sturdily u]3 the avenue.
Uncle Frank nearly ran against a slender, bright-
faced boy walking briskly in the opposite direction.

" Oho ! " a familiar voice called, laughingly. " What
do you mean. Uncle Frank, b\- trying a head-on colli-
sion with one of the busiest business men of vour own
city?"

Uncle Frank stared ; then a broad smile broke over
his face.

" Lad ! You don't mean it ! " he exclaimed, grip-
ping the boy's hand heartily.

" Yes, I do," Harry nodded " Selling my goods to
Crane & Barrett again, and at a better margin than
before. It was the straightening up of that old deal
did it. too, uncle." He laughed once more, but there
was a suspiciously uneven note in his voice.

" Praise the Lord ! " Uncle Frank said. He looked
after the boy proudly, as the latter hurried away. " I
wish we had about a million more such business men
growing up around us." he added to himself. It did
not occur to him to mention the desirability of an
equal number of such confidential advisers for them.
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THE TRAGEDY OF THE CHILDLESS HOME.

The coming of the Christ sanctified child life and
placed a crown of beauty and glory on the head of
every little boy and girl. Only that home is a happy
one where there is the patter of little feet and the

ring of childish laughter. God gives to a man and a
woman his best gifts when he gives them children.
Every child that comes into our lives is a proof of
his love. I have nothing but pity for the childless
woman. ^lany of them can blame themselves alone.
They do not want children ; they are the women who
want a good time. The story of their lives is one of
sadness. It's a long, tireless round of whist parties
and dances, while home and husband are neglected.
It's the theater night after night and the late return
which finds them weary and without interest in life.
Such women do not know the meaning of a woman's
best nature. They know not why it is that God has
given them a pair of hands. It is in order that they
may have an opportunity of helping God to guide the
little feet into the paths of righteousness. They have
never known the cooing of a little child, the voice of
an angel's song.

What will become of these childless women in future
days.^ The day will come when the husband is dead
and they are left in lonely widowhood. I saw
a beautiful picture in a well-known hotel the
other day. .\n old lady sat by the window con-
tentedly knitting, when suddenly a young man of
perhaps thirty years rushed up and threw his arms
around her neck and said. " Mother." It was her
son, grown up now and married, but always her
" boy." Her husband has been dead for many years,
but she finds in their son a new life and a new in-
spiration. Because he lives, the closing days of life
have been made bright and happy for her.

Much of the disgrace culminating in the great num-
ber of divorces is due to the decay of home ties, be-
cause in so many homes there are no children. There is
no perfect union unless it be blessed by a birth. The
security of the home lies in the coming into it of little
ones who will bind husband and wife closer together
and raise up new and powerful interests beside which
their dififerences sink into insignificance. — William
Spur^eon. D. D., in Home Herald.

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READING FOR THE HOME.

O.VE of the most vital matters in the home life of
every family is the question as to what reading shall
be provided for the entertainment and instruction of
the different members of the family circle.

The importance of having good reading matter in
every home cannot be emphasized too strongly. It is
as essential to provide material for the culture of the
mind and soul as to furnish food for the body, and to
select the right kind of mental and spiritual nourish-
ment demands perhaps greater care and attention than
to supply suitable provision for the needs of the body.

What we read influences us for time and for eter-
nity. Our ideals in life are framed largely according
to that which we read. Through books which bring
to us the very " life blood of master minds " we re-

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ceive incentive for livins. wliicli lifts us to the highest
planes of thought and action.

The moral character of the literature which enters
our homes is a matter of transcendent importance.
While good reading ennobles, bad reading degrades
and destroys the spiritual life of young and old alike.
The human soul cannot feed upon that which is evil
in literature and expect that the result will be any-
thing but bad.

The periodical press constitutes a very large por-
tion of the reading matter that enters the great major-
itv of homes at the present time. In selecting a paper
for the familv circle it is therefore desirable to secure
the best that can be obtained, for the repeated visits
of a periodical contribute one of the most potent
moulding influences at w^ork in the home.

Whatever other publications may be taken, every
familv should have a strong Christian periodical
whose regular visits may minister to the highest spirit-
ual needs of all the members of the household.— £.r-

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THE BEST HOUR.

■■ Get down on the floor here, daddy,

Get down on the floor and play,"
And that is the song my baby

Sings to me at close of day.
" Get down on the floor and tumble.

Get down with me, daddy, do;
Get down on the floor now, daddy,

Me 'ants to sit down on you."

Then overboard goes the paper,

,\nd down on the floor goes dad;
And onto him clambers baby,

And baby is more than glad;
And daddy's a horse and wagon.

Or daddy's a ship at sea.
And rolls with a little baby

.\s happy as she can be.

And, oh, but that ship is careful;

The waves may foam and curl.
But never the ship goes plunging

Too much for the baby girl,
.\nd never the horse gets fractious.

Or plunges or jumps aside
So much as to mar the pleasure

Of the wee little girl astride.

Oh, good is the hour of gloaming,

When labor is put aside
.And daddy becomes a horsey

A wee little girl may ride;
Or daddy becomes a phmging

Big ship on the stormy seas.
And is guided and captained onward

By a baby with dimpled knees.

— Houston Post.

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" Strive and do all you can to make the winter
evenings ever memorable on account of the solid com-
fort enjoyed by your family. It will be time well
spent. Turn the home into a love factory."

DISCIPLINE.

In nine cases out of ten a man's life will not be a
success if he does not bear burdens in his childhood.
If the fondness or the vanity of the father or mother
has kept him from hard work; if another always
helped him out at the end of his row; if, instead of
taking his turn at pitching off he stowed away all the
time — in short, if what was light fell to him, and
what was heavy about the work to someone else ; if
he has been permitted to shirk until shirking has be-
come a habit, unless a miracle has been wrought, his
life will be a failure, and the blame will not be half
so much his as that of his weak and foolish parents.

On the other hand, if a boy has been brought up
to do his part, never allowed to shirk responsibility.
or to dodge work, whether or not it made his head
ache, or soiled his hands, until bearing burdens has
become a matter of pride, the heavy end of the wood
his choice, parents, as they bid him good-bye, may dis-
miss their fear. The elements of success are his, and
at some time and in some way the world will recognize
his capacity. — Christum Advocate.

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DIOXYGEN FOR THE MOUTH.

The merits of dioxygen as a mouth wash are not
as well realized as they should be. It is easy to get
and not expensive. A stoppered glass bottle of it
should be on every washstand.

After eating, if one hasn't time to brush the teeth,
the mouth should be rinsed out with diluted dioxygen.
It is a strong antiseptic, keeps the teeth from decay-
ing and protects the top of the mouth and gums from
soreness or from creating and emanating a disagree-
able odor.

The toothbrush should always be dipped in a little
of it and brushed over the teeth and gums at morning
and night, even after tooth-paste is used. The latter
merely cleans the teeth. It does not disinfect the
mouth. People do not pay enough attention to the
inside of their mouths, even though they may be
scrupulous about their teeth.- — Selected.

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WHEN COLD, BREATHE DEEPLY.

A SIMPLE way to get warm after exposure to cold
is to take a long breath with the mouth firmly shut.
Repeat this several times until you begin to feel the
heat returning. It requires a very short time to do
this. The long breath, according to the Family Doc-
tor, quickens the pulse and thus causes the blood to
circulate faster. The blood flows into all parts of
the veins and arteries and gives out a great deal of
heat. It is stated that this method of deep breathing
prevents colds and a great many other ailments if
begun in time. — Culled.

" The lazy man has little trouble with the letter of
the -Sabbath law."

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TOMATOES FROM THE GARDEN IN JUNE.

By growing tomatoes on stakes and watering in
a rather novel way I obtained a crop of unusually
large tomatoes on June 21st, many of the fruits weigh-
ing over a pound.

I did not possess a hotbed, but prepared a seedbed
in the sunniest spot in the garden. Three feet of the
old soil was removed and replaced by two feet of
manure, on top of which one foot of good potting
soil was firmly packed. Early in February I planted
seed of Chalk's Early Jewel, fitted over the top of
the seedbed an old glass window sash, banked ma-
nure around the sides, and covered the glass with
straw mats.

As soon as the tiny plants appeared I gave them
light, using the mats at night only. During warm,
sunny days I raised the glass to admit air. so that
the plants would harden.

On May 6th I set in permanent places in the garden
110 thrifty plants, most of which were budded. They
were planted two and one-half feet apart each way
and trained to stakes, and I thereby secured from the
same ground about three times as many tomatoes,
which were larger, better, and much earHer than those
produced by the usual methods.

Between each row of plants a piece of pipe was
set on end (a leaky tin can would do as well) and
filled with water twice a day during dry weather.
The plants more than paid for this little trouble by
rapid and sturdy growth. — The Garden Magazine.

The Children's Corner

LISTEN, BOYS!

1. Tre.\t your mother as politely as if she were
a strange lady.

2. Be as kind and helpful to your sister as to other
boys' sisters.

3. Don't grumble or refuse to do some errand
which must be done, and which otherwise takes the
time of some one who has more to do.

4. Have your mother and your sister for your best
friends.

5. Find some amusement for the evening that all
the family can join in, large and small.

6. Be a gentleman at home.

7. Cultivate a cheerful temper.

8. If you do anything wrong, take your mother
into your confidence.

9. Never lie about anything you have done.

10. Never boast of your own achievements. If you
have done a noble deed it will speak for itself. — Select-
ed.

A FORGIVENESS ACCOUNT.

John and his sister Gladys were out at the front
of the house. Gladys was making a bead necklace
for her doll. The bears were on a little work-table
beside her. John was playing at trains. His traiit
was an old box-cart, his new wagon was a coach foi'
the passengers, and Gladys' doll-carriage for the;
" first-class " passengers. He was the engine and was
steaming and whistling loudly.

" Don't come here, John." said Gladys, as he came
near the table.

" Puff, puff," went this snorting human engine.

" Take care ! " cried Gladys again, as he came near-
er to the table, " you'll spill my beads." Away John
went, and soon forgot his sister's warning. The
train came round tlie corner, and before he knew,
the table was upset, and the beads scattered in all
directions.

" O John ! " creid Gladys, with angry face, " what
did I tell you?"

" I'm awfully sorry," said John, as he helped to pick
up the beads. John was always sorry, but it did not
make him careful. Gladys did not answer for a mo-
ment, but then she said, " Never mind, Jolm, I'll for-
give you." She had remembered the lesson she
heard the previous Sunday about Jesus' telling
Peter how he had to forgive his brother seventy
times seven. Gladys was a passionate child, but had
resolved to obey Jesus. She had been saying to her--
self — although John did not know — " I will forgive*
him four hundred and ninety times, but after that — ""
She sliut her lips tight. " I'll keep a forgiveness ac-
count," she thought, " so as to know when it's seventy
times seven." Before she went to bed she wrote at
the top of a clean page in her last year's copy-book :
"List of the Times I Forgive John."

-\nd under this :
" Monday — For spilling my beads."

Then she rememibered that that very day she had
upset a block tower John built to show father when
he came horiie, and John had not been the least cross
with her. " I suppose I ought to count that on the
other side," she said. She then wrote on the opposite
page:

" The Times John Forgives Me.

" Monday — For knocking down his tower."

That made them even.

And so day after day went on.

One day she had a longer list, and another day
John had it — often they were even : and Gladys was
beginning to feel very humble, and said to herself:
" I guess if I forgive all I can without keeping any
list, it will take me all my life to make four hundred
and ninety times. Perhaps, after all. that was what
Jesus meant. I will try. Dear Lord, help me to for-
give always, as I wish to be forgiven," — Friend for
Bovs and Girls.

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The

Hour

THE TRAGICAL ELEMENT IN A HOLY IDEAL.

U I L' 1 1 AKH IlKA I' X STKI X .
Ye men of Galilee, why st.ind ye gazing up into heaven?
(See Acts 1: 11.)

Our text forces itself withoiu any preliminaries,
rig-lit to the heart of the despondent disciples. The
two heavenly visitors only translated what they saw
written on the faces of the gazers into the clouds, by
the pointed question. "Why are you looking up?"
And the same question would have been asked in the
first person, if they had given voice to the countless
thoughts trooping their minds, and each, in return,
pleading for expression.

It was a moment of intense retrospection. They
had in mind the cherished hope of sitting on his
right and on his left, and the intensity of their am-
bitions and designs had precipitated a dissimulation.
Now all was settled. He was gone. How tame and
prosy fishing- after hearing such startling truths as
were daily brought to light by the Master! Could
they continue the work, feeding the multitude and
bending low under the weight of an ever-increasing
burden as they must experience?

It was a moment of introspection because they
were unqualified for carrying out the work of Christ.
They were incapacitated for any other engagement.
.\ vision disables a man for following any other line
of work. All the other faculties must be emptied
into the faculty that lifts a man nearest his ideal. The
step from the Master's side to the fishing net no soul
will take without a pang of anguish. The pride of
man balks, decending the hill of success.

Christ had led them from the crowrl to the Mount
of Olives. The winding footpath was lined with stag-
gering vines and half dead olive trees. Here and
there a slender palm stood in sombre loneliness as
a crestfallen sentinel guarding a forsaken cause and
not far bcliind them the brook Kedron. bathed the
feet of the Moimt of Corruption where Solomon had
built his temple for his strange women, .\fter the
great commission had rolled with rhythmical ca-
dence, from his lips, the Rook significantly adds :
" As he blessed them, a cloud received him out of their
sight," causing the question of the angels.

When the thought of a man's responsibility comes
upon him, he undergoes a process of self-abasemerat :
the weight of the burden bends the soul. They had
leaned on him through all difficulties — now they
must test their own strength. They mnst conquer or
die. When the sea becomes enraged no gentle Master
walks the waves in peace, quelling _ the storm. The
training they had received from him had broken all
their idols, and standing guard over the shattered frag-
ments of their erstwhile hopes and fancies, they inly
groaned for something substantial Tlieir inability
to execute the plan burned their, hearts — to them it
was impMDssible. The feeling of one's responsi])ility
is an earnest of his ultimate success. Long nights
of vigil, toil, visions that disturb contentment, are
necessary for the qualifications of life. Some of us
already have felt the depth of that call crushing our
souls, and bathing our pillows with tears. The teacher,
responsible for the success of a number of souls, feels
the same burden. In the same proportion as one
realizes the responsibility of i Christian character, to
that degree is the tragical aspect of his ideal real-
ized.

God's cause is a delicate one. Beware how the
ark is touched ! That David on whose hands is the
blood of his fellow-man, though his music mav rival
that of Orpheus, his countenance that of Apollo,
yet he will never build for Jehovah, God, a temple.
The very inherent value of the cause crushed those
men, and like Menelaus, when at his feet he saw his
sword broken to pieces, and his ashen spear mis-
spent in vacant air, they threw to the wild skies their-
trembling hands and prayed. The Saul who refuses
to wait for the command of God. but sacrifices with
his bloody hands, after having died a thousand worse
than deaths, will find death at last while the swift-
winged arrows of the enemy riddle his burning breast.
Could we grind that into our teachers and preachers —
that inherent purity is essential to imparting truth to
others! The sins of the pulpits and the giddiness of
the teachers are api)alling. The lack of reverence in
the house of God is a disgrace. The impurities of its
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Christianity. The teacher, or preacher, who refuses
to offer a remedy for a sick soul is a criminal.

The question of money must not be discounted, as
it is an important factor in the propagation of Chris-
tianit\-. There are some problems which nothing but
money can solve. The eleven disciples saw the on-
coming disaster of their efforts because means were
lacking. The messenger of God is held at a discount
when clothed in jeans. A man is not at himself in
debt. He longs for the freedom of the one who owes
no one. Those friendless and penniless men had to
propagate a truth that only piled on their defenseless
heads increasing poverty. The young man of strait-
ened circumstances who catches the vision of life's
work begins to complain at once of his lack of money.
Often he turns his longing eyes to the dying sun,
sinking behind the rolling plains, in the sea of fire,
and -pictures each radiant shaft of light shot across
the western boundaries of the crimson skies, bars of
gold all his own to defray schooling expenses. Poor
men ! What they must have felt. Clothed in rags,
footsore, and heartless, a world to conquer and the
extent of their qualifications determined by the vacant
stare into the hastening clouds.

The man who fishes for the soul must keep the
brain busy while he casts about with the gospel net.
Wouldst thou fish men, then bait thy hook with brains.
Illiteracy is the bane of progress. Those disciples
knew that through their own strength they could not
command the attention of the strongest minds. John
could love, but must want for another to unfold the
doctrine of love. Eleven men will witness, one Paul
will unravel the philosophical intricacies. Peter, full
of impulsiveness, mistakes and tears, has already
cursed like a demon and wept like a woman, still he
dares to turn his tearful eyes to the leaden skies,
seeking the way of truth. Do you long for an edu-
cation, so that you can command the respect of men ?
It is bought with blood. Would you walk through
snow with pieces of carpet tied about your feet, like
Thurlow Weed, to borrow a book? Would you tie
tighter and tighter a girdle about your body to ap-
pease hunger, like Samuel Deen ? Can you eat saw-
" dust without butter to become the lawyer Chilty?
The road to knowledge is one that tears the brow with
thorns and exhausts the heart with disappointment.
There was nothing about them that appealed to
society, neither the color of their blood nor the attrac-
tiveness of their vocation. Tliey would not be heard
by that class of society which would be influential
when won. Their energy must be expended on the
outskirts of society, catching now and then a decredit,
worth nothing after having been caught. There is
nothing more discourageing than realizing the worth-
lessness of the material one has to work on. The
wonder is that the disciples attempted it at all.

He who discovers a new truth must be a martvr

to that truth. Society demands an experiment on
the inventor. 'Twas then as it is now, and the dis-
ciples knew it. ^Mankind would refuse them as it had
their Master. To be fought by the object of one's .
love is the greatest source of pain ! The redeemer
of society will be an outcast by society. The driz-
zling rain percolating through the bosoms of the lashed
and chastening clouds caused the treader of eastern
thoroughfares to draw more tightly about him his
Roman tunic, and entering a dingy alley a middle-aged
man is seen resting on his left knee and with his right
elbow on his riglit knee he sews on a pile of damp,
mildewed and fetid canvas.

" Why is it, C) fated man, selected from the walks
of man, to feel tlie chastening rod of an apparently
listless God, that thou dost seek companionship in the
brains of Pliny or comfort in the scholarship of Taci-
tus? Is it explained by a mystic dream or an idle
fancy, the secret of thy enfolding thyself in such a
glory garment of loneliness ? " From his task the
philosopher and apostle lifts his massive brow and
with tremulous lips replies : " Love seeketh not her
own." Every truth man introduces, society says to
the inventor, " We will experiment your truth on
yourself." Dig on young man ! You will win the
respect of men only as you bleed for them. The vision
came to the disciples only as the result of a course of
training. Aspiring youth, remain passive — thoughts
are swarming about you that will make you great.

The secret of their success lay in the universal con-
solation, " I am with you alway, even unto the con-
summation of the eternities." There can be no success
without the abiding presence of Jesus.

The method of Jesus is the method of preeminence.
There can be no full fruition of one's life unless that
Hfe suffers death. Oh, that we may die for the love
of God ; then each respective soul will rise a star !

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THE WORLD'S GREAT ONES.

The man who drives on, regardless of others, gets
things done ; the man who weighs and considers, who
consults others and avoids antagonisms, gets himself
loved. Which course shall we choose? In a measure
the choice is made for us by temperament. We are
such as we were born — men of action or men of delib-
eration. Yet it is possible judiciously to combine the
two opposing tempers. A man may be like a flint in his
devotion to principle and a perfect tornado of energy
in bringing things to pass and yet be gentle, .sympathet-
ic and considerate in his dealing with people. It is
the men who by nature or by grace succeed in weld-
ing into one these contrary elements who are the
world's great ones. — Xasln'ille Christian Adiocatc.

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God has two dwellings — one in heaven, and the other
in a meek and thankful heart. — Isaac Walton.

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Echoes from Everywhere

In West Virginia, there is, in the " dry " counties, but
one convict for every 4,022 of population. In striking
contrast MacDowell County, which is " wet," shows an
average of one convict for every 190 of population.

The Sultan of Turkey has decided to build, at his own
expense, a new parliament house which will amply ac-
commodate the two branches of the legislature. This is
taken as a sure sign that the con.stitution will not be
revoked.

Secretary Wilson is about to take steps to investigate
the uses to which cocaine, caffeine and certain chloral
hydrates are put, with a view to putting a stop to their
use in any way that will tend to fasten the drug habit
upon their consumers.

Kansas has gone into partnership with the harvester
trust. The International Harvester Company is to pay
a fine of $60,000 and to submit to State control of the
business in Kansas. The company is prohibited from
making exclusive contracts of any kind.

Many of the admirers of ex-President Eliot, of Har-
vard, feel that the country will be the gainer through
his retirement from the university which he has so long
headed. As head of the National Civil Service Reform
League, the value and range of his services cannot be
estimated.

United States District Attorney Sims has filed suit
against the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad for
violation of the law prohibiting the working of train dis-
patchers over nine hours a daj'. Seven violations are
charged. Fines aggregating $3,500 may l)c imposed. This
is the first case to be brought by the government under
the new law.

The taking of testimony in the trial of the action
brought against the American Sugar Refining Company
by the government, alleging fraud in the weighing of
shipments during the past six years, was begun Feb, 5
before Judge Holtin the United States District Court in
New York City. The amount of "custom.s duties in ar-
rears sought to be recovered is $2,124,121.

Five thousand Chinese corpses, bound for their final
resting places in the Flowery Kingdom, left Brooklyn
Feb. 10 on the steamer Shimosa. The bodies of the dead
celestials were disinterred from burying grounds all over
the United States and placed in sealed caskets which in
turn were enclosed in pine boxes, each labeled with the
name and history of its silent occupant and stored be-
tween decks on the ship. When the Shimosa reaches
China the bodies will be sent to the localities from which
the dead Chinamen came.

Plans have been perfected for the merger of all the
l)ig cement plants in the country. The aggregate cap-
ital will be $200,000,000. Lawyers say the plan is proof
against the Sherman anti-trust law.

The flood situation in many parts of Germany contin-
ues to grow worse, the melting snow causing the already
swollen streams to leave their banks. Large loss of life
is reported. The Eltz, the Rhine and the Oder are still
rising and the lower sections of Frankfort-on-the-Main
are flooded. The dykes are threatened and police boats
have been stationed along the streams to rescue the peo-
ple.

The question of cross-ties is becoming a serious one
with railroads in the United States, and just recently
one of the big companies sent its timber manager over
into the Orient to study and report upon conditions there,
.\mong other things that the manager learned was that
the Japanese began to take care of their forests about
300 years ago, and as a result Japan is now selling cross-
ties in the United States and ]\Iexico, despite the fact
that there is a duty of 20 per cent on each tie.

A few changes have been made in the cabinet of the
present administration during the past few months, and
the following are the President's advisers at present: Sec-
retary of state, Robt. Bacon; secretary of treasury, Geo.
B. Cortelyou; secretary of war, Luke E. Wright: attor-
ney general, Chas. J. Bonaparte; postmaster general, Geo.
von L. Meyer; secretary of navy, Truman H. Newberry;
secretary of interior, Jas. R. Garfield; secretary of agri-
culture, Jas. Wilson; secretary of commence and labor,
Oscar S. Straus.

Savings banks derive no small profit from the unclaimed
deposits left with them. About $1,000,000 of such un-
claimed savings has accumulated in the last thirty years
in the Massachusetts banks, and according to a decision
of the courts the State is to get this money— though, of
course, it has no right whatever to it. The banks ar-
gued that they had the first right to the graft, but the
judge thought it belonged to the State, on the same prin-
ciple presumably that gives all " treasure trove " to the
king in monarchial countries.

A publishing house is planning to bring out the long-
awaited complete edition of the works of Count Leo Tol-
stoi, an undertaking that up to the present time has been
impossible in Russia because of the censorship and the
difficulties in the matter of paying royalties. Under the
present arrangement royalties to the amount of $250,000
will be paid in annual installments of $25,000. It is de-
clared that with the approval of Premier Stolypin the cen-
sored works of the Count will be included in this edition,
which will number about twenty-five volumes.

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165

Thirty manufacturers of wallpaper, representing the
largest wallpaper mills in the country, in session recently
in New York City organized the Wallpaper Manufactur-
ers' Association of the United States, to take the place
of the Continental Wallpaper Company, which was volun-
tary liquidated several years ago. The purpose of the
new organization is announced as to bring the manufac-
turers into closer business and social relations with es-
pecial interest in legislative and tariff matters.

The government of tlic ^Mikado believes in giving a
criminal a chance after he has served his time in prison,
so the Japanese penal code has been amended so as to
provide that punishment shall be full expiation, and the
term of confinement wipes out the convict's offense. On
account of his crime no one may ostracise him, and he
must not be refused employment because he has been a
convict, nor is he to be discharged except for other causes.
Furthermore, no one is permitted to make reference to the
convict's crime or to insult him or his family.

The beginning of the movement by Chicago and east-
ern men to wrest supremacy in the steel business from
Pittsburg became known recently when it was announced
that the Inter-Ocean Steel Company, a $2,500,000 con-
cern, within six weeks will begin the construction of a
mammoth new steel plant at Chicago Heights, a suburb.
The new plant, it is announced, will begin business with
a full equipment, aiming to rival the largest steel plants
in the country. The company proposes to make a spe-
cialty of tires for locomotive and railway coach wheels.

The borrowing power of Persia has been completely
nullified by the action of the rebel headquarters at Tabriz
and Ispahan in notifying the diplomatic corps at Teheran
that the constitutionalists will not recognize any loan
made to the Shah until the Persian parliament approves
the rebellion. The ultimate success of the revolutionists
is deemed so certain that it is improbable that any pow-
er would lend Persia money in accordance with the terms
of the revolutionists. Any other loan would undoubtedly
be repudiated by the revolutionists in the event of their
success.

Liberia, the little republic on the west coast of Africa,
doesn't seem to get along, and in order to facilitate gov-
ernmental matters in that State the President has asked
Congress to appropriate $20,000 and give him power to
appoint a commission of three " to examine into the sit-
uation, confer with the officers of the Liberian govern-
ment, and with the representatives of other governments
actually present in Monrovia, and report recommenda-
tions as to the specific action on the part of the United
States most apt to render effective relief to the republic
of Liberia under the present critical circumstances." The
proposed commission would have for its object the study
at first hand of affairs in the republic, so as to be able
to recommend to the United States what action it should
take. It will be recalled that last summer three Liberian
commissioners visited the United States and asked
assistance. France and Great Britain control territory
contiguous to Liberia, but they favor the United States
as a succoring agent, inasmuch as the negro republic
was founded by the United States in 1822 and has ever
since been more or less under our protection. There are
now perhaps 50,000 civilized blacks in Liberia, but they
are unable to cope with the million or "two of uncivil-
ized people in the 43,000 square miles of Liberian ter-
ritory.

It is well understood among prominent ofiicials in
Washington that Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou
has accepted the presidency of the Consolidated Gas
Company in New York. Mr. Cortelyou has declined
either to affirm or deny the statement, but there does
not seem to be any doubt as to its truth. It is under-
stood that the Secretary will leave Washington about
March 4 for a rest of a month and possibly longer, and
that upon the termination of his vacation he will go to
New York and assume charge of the gas company.

The United States Government has refused to accept
whiskey warehouse receipts as payment on internal rev-
enue assessments from distilleries. The Chicago Trib-
une in a Washington special dispatch February 2, de-
clares that the whiskey men are in distress over the rap-
id progress of prohibition which is handicapped by the
startling fact that " some 225,000,000 gallons of distilled
whiskey are stored away in bonded warehouses whicii
they had expected to pour down thirsty throats during
the last year."

The Methodist and Baptist ministers of southern Cal-
ifornia, at a meeting in Los Angeles adopted resolutions
protesting against the anti-Japanese legislation now pend-
ing at Sacramento. The position of President Roosevelt,
Governor Gillett and Speaker Stanton is endorsed, and
it is " hoped that the entire matter will be voted down."
The resolutions adopted by the Baptists say the exclu-
sion of the Japanese from the public schools of Cali-
fornia is an unjust discrimination " against this worthy
class of people sojourning among us," and urgently re-
quest the legislature to " set us right before Japan and
the world on this great question."

A series of conferences have been held by House lead-
ers to determine on some method of getting the House
to agree to legislate to regulate the shipment of liquor
from State to State. Representative Watson, of Indiana,
is leading the fig'ht for the proposed legislation. The
program finally agreed upon probably will be to tack
the liquor legislation onto the bill for the codification of
the penal laws of the United States, which has a privileged
characer on the House calendar. As the bill for this pur-
pose has already passed the Senate, it is believed that
both houses can be brought to an agreement to enact
legislation more quickly than by voting on a separate bill.
This course also would avoid the disagreeable action of
ignoring the failure of the committee on the judiciary
to report the bill.

Augustus A. Busch, who recently purchased the old
home of Ulysses S. Grant on the Gravois road, St. Louis
County, and known throughout the country as the " Grant
Farm," has converted it into a model game preserve. He
has purchased the old home of the General, the famous
log cabin, which, after being knocked down and carried
around the country for exhibition, has been returned to
its former site and occupies a position on the farm over-
looking the road. The place will be thrown open to the
public as a museum. It is the intention of Mr. Busch
to collect as many Grant relics as possible and restore
them to the cabin. The cabin itself is intact and just as
General Grant left it, except that a few logs have been
cut out of an inside partition. The old " spring house "
has been preserved in its entirety. A fence of musket
barrels which saw service during the Civil War surrounds
the cabin. A veteran who served under Grant is care-
taker.

166

THE INCLI'.XOOK.— IVhmarv 16, 1909.

Among the Magazines

WAGES FOR PRISONERS' FAMILIES.

Why the wives and husbands of loafers and drunkards
sentenced to terms in correctional institutions should suf-
fer for the sins of their " lords and masters " is a ques-
tion that has often been discussed at penological and re-
form conferences. Occasionally it is suggested that
when the State sentences a man to hard labor or to
labor of any profitable kind part of his supposed earn-
ings should be paid to those dependent on him for support.

In the District of Columbia, under a new statute against
family desertion and non-support, the payment of "wages"
to families of prisoners has been very successfully tried.
The amount is fixed by the statute at SO cents a day, and
the prisoners are supposed to earn it and more by tak-
ing care of Rock Creek Park and rendering other serv-
ice to the district.

It is the testimony of the judge who has been admin-
isteriii.g the law that the provision in question has worked
admirably as a preventive of unmerited misery, a form
of discipline and a deterrent of vice and shiftlessness. Of-
fenders are punished promptly, whereas under the or-
dinary plan courts are greatly tempted to take chances
and give prisoners opportunities which they neglect or
abuse. Moreover, any man with a little horse sense, when
he realizes that he could earn three times as much for his
family and home in free industry as is paid to his de-
pendents by the community which keeps him a prisoner.
makes an effort to mend his ways, arid imder the law the
court has the power to release him when satisfied that
he would " stay reformed " and go to work in peace and
decency.

These facts were brought to the attention of a house
committee which was about to strike out an item appro-
priating a .small sum for the wages fund of prisoners'
families. The committee had taken the view that the law
was enabling dead beats to shirk their duties and saddle
the cost of family maintenance on the community. .\s
a matter of fact, where wages are not ])aid the public and
private relief agencies bear the burden of pauperism and
dependence created by imprisonment for nonsupport, ha-
bitual drunkenness and other offenses, and tliere is no
economy in the plan. And under proper administration
prisoners can easily be made to earn the wages paid to
their families, plus the cost of their own board, shelter
and other necessaries or conveniences. — The Record-Her-
ald.

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WOMEN WORK FOR CLEAN CITIES.

Has progress deprived women of all their old-time em-
ployments and are they forced to engage in public af-
fairs, too long neglected by men? These questions are
suggested by an article in the February Delineator, in
which Ida Husted Harper tells why "Woman's Broom
in Municipal Housekeeping" has become necessary.

One after another the old-time employments of the
household have been taken from home to factory until

now women are separated into two great divisions of
an army — one that follows the work and marches forth
each day to find in some public hive of industry the oc-
cupations once carried on in the seclusion of private life,
and the other that remains at home stripped of all those
domestic tasks that used to keep their foremothers busy
from daybreak till long after nightfall, says Mrs. Har-
per. Churn, loom, spinningwheel, even the sewing-ma-
chine was snatched away, until at last they were left with
only the broom of all their former implements of labor.
And finally, one day, witli a great clatter of victory, up
to the door came the automatic compressed-air sweeper
and sent the woman and her broom riding through space
like Mother Goose in the story-books.

When the woman came down to earth again she was
still clutching the broom, and, finding her house all swept
and garnished from cellar to attic with the products of
the factories, she began to wonder if the men, in taking
for themselves all this labor belonging by right to women,
might not have neglected their o%vn legitimate work,
so she looked about her aind on every hand saw the evi-
dences of such neglect. The condition of the streets was
a menace to health; impure milk was killing off the babies
by the thousands, while impure water and food threaten-
ed destruction to the rest of the race; the idle children
swarmed the highways and byways because there was no
room for them in the schools; from afar off came the
cry of the little ones sacrificed in the labor market; on
every side the agencies of evil had set their doors wide
open to lure the innocent.

What are the women doing in the way of municipal
housekeping? In Massachusetts they had nine bills be-
fore the last Legislature; in Pennsylvania about the same
number, and at least half a dozen in most of the other
States — for child labor, juvenile courts, better conditions
for women wage-earners, temperance legislation, vaca-
tion schools, pure food, school savings-banks, civil serv-
ice reform, better pay for teachers, girls' industrial
schools, women factory inspectors, children's playgrounds,
women police matrons, anti-e.xpectoration in public places
— all for the betterment of the community, not one for
" graft," — not a " job " of any kind, — all clean, wholesome,
much-needed laws.

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PATRONAGE AND BARGAINING.

The doctrine wdiich in his inaugural address Governor
Hughes defines as to the double constitutional duty of
the Governor of New York we have had occasion more
than once to defend as applied to the President of the
United States. Governor Hughes says:

" The executive power is vested in the Governor, but
he is also an important part of the lawmaking power of
the State. This is through his power of veto. . . . The
Governor is also to recommend to the Legislature such
' matters as he shall judge expedient.' It is not his con-
stitutional function to attempt by use of patronage or

THE INGLENOOK.— February 16, 1909.

167

by bargaining witli respect to bills to secure the passage
of measures he approves. It is his prerogative to rec-
ommend and to state the reasons for his recommendation;
and, in common with all representative officers, it is his
privilege to justify his position to the people to whom he
is accountable. The more closely he confines himself
to his province and discharges his responsibility within
the limits assigned to him the less confusion will there
be in the working of our system and the more potent
will be the sway of intelligent public opinion over those
charged in their various offices with the duties of rep-
resentation."

The purpose of, the Governor is to insist that it is no
part of his duty to try to secure legislation by patron-
age and bargaining; and to explain why, instead of em-
ploying these political methods, which have been in almost
uniform use, he has appealed directly to the people. This
appeal to the people at large, he says, it is his privilege
to make, " in common with all representative officers."
Equally, as we have had occasion to say, the President
of the United States combines legislative and executive
functions. He has the right of veto, and he has the right
to make recommendations to Congress. Beyond that,
lie has all the right which any citizen has, and even more,
from his high office, to urge .by speech or letter any pol-
icy which he regards it as important that Congress should
accept. He is not to be blamed for anything except as
relates to the validity and courtesy of his arguments.

Governor Hughes was severelj' criticised by the pro-
fessional politicians because he went direct to the peo-
ple, and in speech after speech attacked the gamblers and
their defenders in the Legislature. They thought that
was dictation — was outside the rules of the political game.
It would have been all right, they thought, if he had made
bargains and used patronage for his purpose. They might
have made something out of that sort of compromise.
He did the unheard of thing of offering rewards to no
friends and punishing no foes. He told the Legislature
what he thought it ought to doi, and when it refused he
denounced them to the people. He kept to the front
nothing but the bare ethical question, the question the
politicians wished to keep hidden; and the people heard '
him gladly and followed him. He has set an example
of a high theory of gubernatorial responsibility and
right which we trust will not be forgotten. The theory is.
No bargaining, but appeal to the people if the Legis-
lature fails of its duty. — The Independent,
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THE COMING OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
IN CHINA.

But more spectacular than education, railroads, or
opium edicts is the talk of a constitution. The impatient
West is already asking what it comes to. As if all Oriental
smoke must come from fire! In 1905 a commission was
sent abroad and reported in favor of a constitution for
China. In 1907 came a shower of edicts abolishing the
distinction between Manchu and Chinaman, inveighing
against bound feet, urging the toleration of missionaries
and native Christians, appointing a constitutional com-
mission to draft a plan, ordering self-government coun-
cils in Pekin and elsewhere, and directing ot'ficials to have
constitutional principles explained to the people by com-
petent instructors. In August, 1908, came the announce-
ment of a full constitutional government and a parlia-
ment after nine years. Now no one can tell just what
this means, but contemporary events may throw some
light upon it. At the end of 1907 representatives of the
gentry of Kiangsu and Chekiang were ordered to Pekin

to discuss their differences with the government over the
matter of a railroad concession in their provinces, and
they took good care to point out that their presence in
Pekin on an imperial summons was the beginning of
provincial representation and possibly the first step to-
ward a parliament. It was evident that Pekin did not
feel able to ignore the wishes of the provinces in the mat-
ter. The self-government societies ordered in 1907 have
been established in a number of the larger cities, partic-
ularly in connection with chambers of commerce, and
they enjoy a considerable degree of freedom of discussion
when exercising a reasonable amount of restraint. Con-
sisting of the gentry, well-to-do merchants, and minor
officials, they have been active in securing the representa-
tion of the local rate-payer in municipal affairs. In the
native city of Shanghai nearly half the original area has
been taken from the jurisdiction of the magistrate and
put into the hands of the self-government organization.
When, as in this case, it is done with the full support of
the official whose power it so vitally diminishes, it is a
striking evidence of public spirit. Surely this is a new
China. — From " The China That Is," by David Lambuth,
in tlie American Review of Reviews for February.

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THE WAY WE SAY IT.

Opinions are a good deal like old shoes: a coat of polish
makes considerable difference in them. It matters little
what we say, but it matters much how we say it. If the
mode of expression is crude and rough, we are apt to
reject the sentiment on account of its clothes, even
though oftentimes the sentiment is a true one. If, on
the other hand, the mode of expression is highly polished,
we are in danger of accepting the sentiment on account
of its rhetoric, even though it be false. That is to say,
in each case we are prone to overlook the substance in
the contemplation of the form. It was for this probably
that some ancient once said that language was invented
to conceal thought.

A remarkable case in point is furnished by two pas-
sages in an essay of Emerson's, who was a master of the
English language, and whom a large proportion of our
people hold dear. They are:

" In this national crisis [he was speaking at the time of
the Civil War] it isn't argument that we want, but that
rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle, be-
lieving that nature is its ally, and will create the instru-
ments it requires, and more than make good any petty
and injurious profit it may disturb.

" I wish I saw in the people that inspiration which, if
Government would not obey the same, would leave the
Government behind and create on the moment the means
and executors it needed."

These two paragraphs contain a world of meaning.
For less radical and incendiary utterances, men have been
denounced, shot, and deported as anarchists and enemies
to society. They breathe the very spirit of anarchy. What
advice could be plainer from the lips of the most ra"bid
and dyspeptic of anarchists? In the first paragraph he
advises the sacrifice of certain special interests (vested
property in slaves) for the sake of the general welfare.
In the second paragraph he advises the people " to create
on the moment the means and executors " necessary for
such sacrifice. Such advice recognizes neither constitu-
tion, convention, nor statute. And he meant it in just
that way. He was urging President Lincoln to set the
slaves free, although there was no constitution, conven-
tion, or statute to support him in such action. Soon after,
however. President Lincoln acted on that advice, and a

168

THE INGLENOOK.— February ir., Vm.

lialf-century still finds the act generally approved.

Many an agitator would, no doubt, have called Emerson
a trimmer for the choiceness of his language. But he was
not a trimmer. He had opinions which have stood the
test of time, and they are all the better for having been
elegantly expressed. Truth is truth, wherever uttered and
however distorted, whether it is raved through the bars of
a maniac's cell, punctuated by curses in a barroom, or
expressed in faultless diction by a man of letters. Men
who prefer the first two to the third do not need argu-
ment; they need a club.— Ellis O. Jones, in February Lip-
pincott's.

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HAPPY GERMANY.

Whatever makes the poorest people healthy is good in
German eyes because it insures a strong nation that here-
after is to carry the power and influence of Germany
around the world. Whatever impairs the physical con-
stitutions of the masses of people is intolerable in Ger-
man eyes because it threatens the national vigor and
interferes with Germany's destiny.

Hereafter men may think it strange that of all the na-
tions on earth the German nation was the only nation
of these times to recognize adequately and officially the
obvious facts of the great changes wrought for the sons
of men by the introduction of steam and machinery. For
one thing (and most important), the Germans saw that it
drew huge populations into the manufacturing cities,
■where they speedily became overcrowded and undervi-
talized, and it bent them for long hours over such un-
wholesome employments as would in time destroy the
race if there were not some compensation in hours of rest
and relaxation amid wholesome surroundings.

Hence, goaded on, no doubt, by the growth of German
Socialism, the German Government began to take most ex-
cellent care of the working populations, to provide exact
and minute regulations concerning the conditions of la-
bor, careful factory inspection, compulsory insurance, old-
age and invalidity pensions, ironclad laws about compen-
sation for injuries; for to the directing German minds
that one man shall make a billion dollars seems less im-
portant than that sixty million people shall be healthy
and happy.

Berlin's wonderful homes for workingmen are in a way
a product of this general idea and directly the product
of the nation's insurance system, which is operated by
the government and not by stock gamblers, and for the
sake of the common good, not for the sake of private
fortunes. The houses are built by the workingmen them-
selves, but the government encourages them to build such
houses, then enables them to build such houses, and then
sees that such houses arc built rightly. — Charles Edward
Russell, in February Everybody's.
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NATIONAL LIFE AND DRINK.

Apologists for the liquor traffic are fotul of sa_\i!i.s;
that the drinking nations of the world have been the
."Strong and progressive nations. In a recent maga-
zine article the writer said :

" Now, as ever, it is the drinking people that lead
the progress of humanity. The Jews drank and gave
us monotheism. The Greeks drank and gave us art
and literature. The Romans drank and gave us law.
The Teutons drank and gave us liberty. Britain has
drunk, not always wisely, and established commerce.

What have the teetotal races done for the betterment
of the world? "

Statements like that often go unchallenged just be-
cause nobody happens to take the trouble to look the
matter up or to give the subject a few moments'
serious thought.

But in this case somebody has taken the trouble,
and here is the answer given :

" The Jews drank, of course, but where are the
Jews now ? They are scattered over the earth with-
out any national home.

" Greeks drank, of course, but where are the Greeks
now ? The Greek civilization is a rnatter of history
and their descendants are now peddling peanuts to
abstainers on the street corners of American cities.

" The Romans drank, of course, but where is the
Roman empire today? It is a matter of ancient his-
tory, and the descendants of these drinking Romans
are now prowling around American cities with
monkeys and hand organs, living off the pennies
tossed them by abstaining Americans.

" The Teutons drank, of course, but what ' liberty '
did we get from the Teutons? The Teutons for
years have been running away from the tyranny and
oppression of the Teutonic government to find liberty
under the prohibition laws of America.

" The Britons drank, of course. But it requires
300,000 of these drinking British-trained troops to
subdue 25,000 abstaining Dutch farmers.

" Greece and Rome both died drunk. '

" Wise men are now writing articles on the decay
of France, another drinking nation.

" Russia has the delirium tretiiens. and will soon
die or reform. Japan, a temperance nation, with the
oldest dynasty on earth, chased the vodka-soaked
Russians all over Eastern Asia." — 77/c Illinois Issue.

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A colored woman was brought before a West Virginia
magistrate charged with inhuman treatment of her child.
Evidence was clear that she had severely beaten the
youngster, who was in court to exhibit his marks and
bruises. Before imposing sentence the magistrate asked
the woman if she had anything to say.

"Kin Ah ask yo' honah a question?"

His honor nodded.

" Well, then, yo' honah, Fd like to ask yo' whether yo'
was ever the parent of a pufFeckly wuthless culled chile?"
— Everybody's Magazine.

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