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Northern Corn Meal Jeered Al,

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Sr; II may bs
Of Interest to your readers to know that my black
cook from Richmond, Va. who was able 10 make
twenty 20l ~pslatable dishes from corn meal as soon
a, had secured u supply Of Southern nnr ground
corn meal, told me that the corn meal We USE =, the
North was only Of 10 feed hogs
ACovsTAST READER.
~FIELDHoME, ". Y, Aprl1,
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II Is.

ToTHE EDITOR oP THE SUN-Sr. Is no, Lun
Gose Of Wana Walla, Wash, one Of The few I'm
mortal names that were not born 70 die''
VALLA wAILA, April .. IL DuSPHv.
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Nominated nv the President.

W~AsHrNGToN. April The rrcailnn' to-day
sent ID" following nominations 10 The Senate:
John Is. Robinson, 10 Ne tnitad STATE, Mar, hal 4
the Eastern District oi Penn s@ylvPuIt
Henry Bulge, TO bs ~postmRS'rf ut Ntmi. Fla
Ne"ip" for Good Corn Brrnd Wanted.
To THE EDITOR or THE SIS So WIN ~
ask New jersey n he or she will give the r,clrs t@
the good corn bread ACOtNTRN WvAAa.
ALBANY. April q,
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CHARLES ]. CLAYTON.
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books and intercourse with educated
men. Ele was an omniVOrous reader; no
printed matter left his hands without be.
irg carefully read and digested. He was
endowed with a tenacious memory, but
to The last he was a poor speller and
bada grammarian. He invariably wrote
whole sentences constructed in such
fashion as to be hOpelessiY invoked and
Unparsable. Rev. Jonathan Boucher,
once Washington's friend but later enc
of his bitterest enemies, said that
George, like most people thereabCutS at
that time, had no other education than
reading. writing and accounts, which he
was taught by a convict servant whom
his father bought for d schoOfmaster."
In existing documents and letters IN
Washington'S handwriting arc such
words as sensable,'' morterfy.' I'm
augerate'' "satersfy," Diplomacy and
reverence"
The means IF education at that time
were very limited, especially in the
South and his home teaching. together
with that acquired from the hedge
schoolmas ters" did not exceed the limits
of the three RS" Later on he was
drilled in mathematics, bookkeeping and
surveying. but he never was cOnversant
with moro than the ordinary branches of
English. His photography, like his
mothers, was at first extremely defec-
tive, but by persistent practice anS con-
slant labor he finally acquired the clear
and fluent style of his later years.
With such an inimical environment of
ignorant negroes and profligate whites it
is surprising that such sturdy, sane
and we'll balanced character as George
Washiugton's should have beer evolved
at all Many another boy. with similar
surroundings. though equally the object
of a mothers solicitude. has gone astray.
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THE BEGINNING

rms society was organized FIVE years
ago and now has branches in many of
the states and in foreign lands There 10
none too much sunshine in our daily
hVes. The object of this society is 10
establish community and Individual fac
tories to make sunshine and happiness
1t IS remarkable how easily such fac
tory can be carried on. The expense is
very light, the hours required are long,
but the queer part of it is that the work
does not need to interfere with other
Work-ln fact, it is better done when
the workman is engaged in doing some
thing else at the same time And best
of all, the beams can be hewn out Of
all sorts of material A smile makes a
very good beam, a kind word makes a
still better one Laughter, music, flowers
books, magazines, old toys, even such
unsubstantial things as little sacrifices
thoughtful considerat ton, extra steps may
be transformed into the very brightest
Of sunshine. If there was such a factory
In every house In our land, what a land of
sunshine it would be-
The motto of the Internationa Sunshine
society is Good Cheer" The song is
Scatter Sunshine" The colors are "Yel-
low and White" The flower is "Corcop-
sis The international headquarters are
B Fifth avenue, New York city All re-
quests for the constitution and by-lows
history of the association, rules for form
ing branches, and for joining cire,es will
be promptly attended TO by addressing
Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden, president
general.
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"Geueral w asIlington Is
KnoWn,fo us, and President
Washington, but George
Washington Is an
Unknown Man."
ARTICLE NO. 3.
John Bach McMaster.

But he was sane of mind and strong Of
body, from the first the popular leader
Of his boyiSh companions, who appre-
ciated his integrity, honor, veracity-
characteristics sustained to Che end of
his days.
Though not highly intelFectuaI like his
great compatriots,, Franklin and Jeffer-
son, Washington loved books ana sent
many an Cr6ler 70 England Cor the then
of a thinker than reader and drew
direct from nature more than from books
at second handl@] He rose at 4 o'clock in
the morning thraugheut-the year, spend
ing the tine before breakfast (Which
was at in summer, and at in winterJ
in mis- library. After a frugal repast he
mounted his horse and rode over his
plantation until near time fer dinner,
which was at g. and for which he dressed
He always retired at 9. summer and win
ter, and whether his house contained
only himself, wife and servants or was
filed with guests.
He was no orator He could not like
his great colleague, Patrick Henry, nave
the hearts of mer py appealing to their
passions. II is related that, shortly
after his marriage. when the speaker of
the house of hurgesscs publicly thanked
him for his splendid services on the
frontier he was SO confused when he rose
to reply that he col,ld hardly speak a
ing, until the speaker said: sit down
Col. Washington. Your modesty equals
your valor and that surpasses the power
of any language l possess.
Washington had but little facility Of
expression as speaker or writer unless
when swung to the top by bigness of oc-
casion His farewell address ranks
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The MIN H0USEMhID. ! !! sps d New

laundry work. sweeping, washing dish
es, dining room work, to preserving and
canning fruit | like that last better
than anything else in the world. l can
do up the daintiest fruit jars in the
world, and make fancy cakes and luneh-
con dishes, too.
"My hours are o'clock in the morning
to o'clock at night, but 1 get more
work done in that time than three hired
girls can do. l get S. a week salary be-
sides my board, and when working by
the day, $1.25. 1 haven't any fault to
find with the business. 1t is just what
I want. No, l do not pretend to know
anything about the domestic problems
L have not run against it myself, but
[ have read good deal about IT.
Fuller, the housemaid, is an inteIIi-
gent looking young man and a good
hired girl, his employers say. He wears
neat white duck uniform while q
work. with white cap and apron He
has been crowded with offers Of en-
ployment. At his home in Binghamton
his success has stirred up the young men
of MS acquaintance. and three Of them
have entered the Ogdenburg cooking
school to prepare for a similar career.
Perhaps he is pioneer in solving the
servant girl question in most practical
way.
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Il | THE EzDW Y FORUM

'he unmasking of the spy among her
enemies, or that of the roasting of the
old miser by the Chouans TO compel him
to reveal his treasures. The description
Of a mass said by a priest in rags, in
the midst of the forest. before a granite
altar, while the insurgents, kneeling
near their guns, beat their breasts and
repeat the responses, is singularly grand
and imposing. The author made a pro-
found study OF the scenery of Bretagne,
and the manners of its people, before he
wrote his romance; and MS pictures of
both scenery and people lave the stamp
Of reality and truth.
Houore de Balzac, the greatest of f f,nch
novel SITS, born in Tours, May Is, 1883;
died in Paris Aug Is, 1850. He was
the author of thirty or more volumes.
ADAM BEDE.
This novel was published IN 1879 The
story was at once pronounced by the
critics to be not more remarkable for its
grace, its unaffected Saxon STYLE and
its charm Of naturaipess, than for its
PERCEPTION of those universal springs of
action that control society, and for that
patient development of character and
destiny that inferior novelists slight or
ignore. The chief scene is the Poyser
farm in the MidIands, a delightful place
of shining kitchens, understanding dairy
houses, ccal green porches, wide barns.
and spreading woods. Here Mrs Poyser
kind-hearted woman, with an incorrigi-
oily sharp tongue, has taken her hus-
bands niece, Hester SorreI-an ambit-
ious, vain, empty-headed little beauty
to bring her up. Adam Bede, the village
carpenter an admirable young fellow, is
her slave.
skeleton of the plot would convey
no impression Of the strength and charm
OF the story. 1t seems to have been, in
the authors mind, a recognition of the
heroism of commonplace natures in COM
monplace surroundings, of the nobility of
noble character wherever found But
Adam Bede, intelligent, excellent, salts
factory though he is, is quite subordfn-
ated IN interest to the figure of poor
Hetty, made tragic through suffering and
injustice. Her beauty, her vanity, her
very Stiffness endear her Dinah Morris.
the woman preacher, is a study from life,
serene and lovely. Mr.. Irvine the easy
going parson, is a typical English clergy
man OF the early nineteenth century
Bastle Massey, the schoolmaster, is one
Of those humble folk, full of character
fables, absurdities, and homely wisdom
Eliot draws with loving touches; while
Mrs. Poyser, with her epigrammatic
shrewdness, her untiring energy, her fine
pride of responsibility, her acerbity of
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A sUNsI4INY WOMAN.

The trained nurse readjusted her cap
and retied her snowy apron. Yes, she
said, / see a great deal of misery, but
most of it comes from a habit of pa
tents have of thinking that they are
the only sick folks in the world. They
discuss every symptom and gloat over
every pain as if the disease was a new
one and they just discovered it.
The patient I have now is not of that
kind. She is old and deaf and bedrid-
den with an agOnizing disease. She
said to me one day:
Life is so good! 1 hope you well get
as much happiness out of it as 1 do
when you are as Old
Life good!" / said ''But you have
been sick for many years.
yes, but who ever had such a pleas
ant room to be sick in? [ can look out
at the sky and clouds and trees from
this window. I might have had only
smoky roofs outside"
But said, you can't hear without
this trumpet
But l can see! The clouds change
so; they are always company"
you have so much pain" 1 insisted.
that should think you wouldn't care
for the clouds and hills
why, l don't have half the pain
some people have! Some days there
will be nearly an hour that don't have
a tlnge, and I lie here and look at the
sun and the sl1y-pictures made by the
clouds, and the hills; and thank God.
Life is so good and beautiful"
The effect of those who come in con-
tact with such patience and genuine
| submission to the inevitable, cannot fail
| 10 be of lasting benefit. and make life
| better worth lving.-Forward.
Il JEST KEEP ALVIN ALONG"
Some folks they keep huntin' for sorrow;
Iney sigh If they're right or they re
wrong;
But this days as good as tomorrow,
so Jest keep alvin along.
I jest keep alvin along,
L lest keep a-singin' a song;
ThereS no use to sigh
| While the suns in the sky;
| So lest keep alvin along.
When the Lord made the world was
To give him directions? He knowed
wouldn't know how to begin it,
Beln' nothin' but dust by the road.
SO l jest keep alvin along,
! and l can't say the Lord was wrong;
| l never will sigh
! While he's runnin the sky;
| jest keep alvin along,
I'm thankful for the sun and for show
erS;
| The Lord makes the winters an May;
! An he'd hide all the graves with his
| If folks didn't weed EN- away!
So I jest keep alvin along,
! Still thankful for sunlight and song;
| know, when it's snowin.
| Gods roses are CROWN.
| So l jes keep alvin along.
Frank L. Stanton.
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Under DIFFICULTIES ] '; EN-; IL.
ARTICLE NO. /.
rom
LoWly
Life.

public house keeper; d AlemberI, a
founding, picked I'D one waters night
on the steps of church in Paris land
brought up by the wife of glazier, and
Newton and Laplace, the one the son of
small farmer, the other the son of d
poor peasant. Notwithstanding their
comparatively adverse circumstances in
early life, these distinguished men
achieved a solid and enduring reputation
by the exercise of their genius, which
all the wealth in the world could not have
purchased.
spinoza was poor and maintained him
self by polishing glasses while he pu1su-
ed his philosophical inVestiga atoms. Lin
naeus, the great botanist, prosecuted his
studies while making shoes. Both We're
OF use to the world and are known but
the kings under whom they lived can
not be recalled except by consulting
some geneologX Of rulers.
Lord Macauley was the son of mer-
chant. Keats was d druggist, and Sir
Humphrey DaVy a country apothecary's
apprentice. SBeaking of himself, Davy
once said: What I am l have made
myself; I say this without vanity and
In pure simplicity of heart" Richard
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CLAIRVOYANCE.

The condition of clairvOyance or trance
has been observed among many people
and nations from the earliest times. How
near or remote it has been from the
prophetic power or from the epidemic
frenzy of religious or fanatical excite
ment, from mental ectasy or epilepsy
cannot be argued in brief space. Theo-
ries, opinions and judgments upon the
causes, conditions and results of clair
FOyance are almost IS various as the
number who have studied its phenomena
Clairvoyance presents many gradatio2$
from OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to deathlik1
sleep While in this state impressions
and happenings at a distance are gath
cred and related by the person when
consciousness has returned. AS practlc"d
today no general credence is given to 1t,
as usually the mediums a.e antequated
men or women on back streets Of the
cities who pretend to see visions, dis
cover lost goods and otherwise play th7
spiritual detective for a small fee. Ia
its higher phase it had the form OF the
vision Of st. John, the trance OF Mo-
manned, the epidemic catalepsy of the
religious revival. or the illumination Of
Swedenborg or Andrew Jackson Davis.
DREAMING.
In complete sleep there is probably an
entire absence Of a consciousness OF eN-
IGfldi ln-lSS usually tlGIe IL IL ". ettAiA
amount of mental activity, of which we
have remembrance. when impressions
are vivid. and this state is known as
dreaming In dreams men have solved
difficult intellectual problems which
seemed impossible of solution in waking
hours. As a rule dreams lack In cohe-
renee, and strange and striking vision
follow each other without apparent rea-
son or connection. Dreams have been
influenced by external causes, as by hea:
and cold. One of the most remarkably
phenomena of dreams is the rapidity with
which long trains of thought pass
through the mind A dream seemingly
covering hours of experiment is accom-
plished in a few seconds. Dreams have
in all ages and among all people been
believed in as Indications of the future.
As to the actual condolences that some
times happen between dreams and events
it is only surprising, considering the
countless fancies that are passing
through our minds when asleep, that
the condolences are not more numer-
Gus than they are. Except among the
ignorant and SUperstitious ''as idle as a
dream is a truthful proverb. Nothing
can be more arbitrary and absurd than
the pretended rules OF Interpretation, for
example. that to dream of gold is good
luck Dream books are plentiful but
their interpretations are as trifling as
to claim that the moon is made Of
green cheese.
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MORE TRUTHFUL.

Are we then, also. growing more
truthful? And will, by and by, the nab
it of lying become obsolete? 1t is be-
lieved we lie far less than the gener-
atoms before; and that hereafter the
world will despise prevarications as the
vuIgarest of all crimes. There is less
and less social lying, less political lying
and less religious lying. StatesmeS no
longer have an art of outreaching each
other by tricks. although in the past
diplomacy has been mere schemes OF
trickery and deception. Bismarck SAID
that the shrewdest statesman is the
one who dares to tell the truth. The
almost certain publicity and exposure OF
a lie. owing to the universally of the
representatives Of the modern press,
make lying less advantageous in these
days.
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BEATTY OF TRUTH.

It is now worth our while TO study
the beauty of truth. 1t is to begin to
know the universe as it is, and not to
know it as it, is not 1t is the light
side rather than the dark side. And
what an unfinishable task is ahead of
us When we think Of the possible mis-
takes that hang on one mistake, it seems
unindurable that there shall be a sin
gle falsehood in our makeup. But far
more painful is it to have been the
cause of the crookedness of vision or
character of our children. How mex
pressihy noble will that day be when
the human race shall have escaped all
perversity, all blasting to the untrue, and
shall instinctivey love the right.
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A CHANCE FOR MEN.

A CHANCE FOR MEN.
The following advertisement appeared
recently in a daily paper of Syracuse,
N. Y.
HOUSEWORK-Yo man who is an
expert at homework in all its branches,
desires work by day or week. Address,
E. Fuller, Ill Cedar st.
Yes" he said, to the questions ask
ed by the applicants for his services.
81 am a regular hired girl. l have been
thoroughly trained for all kinds of house
work My home is in Binghamton and
[ took my first instruction in domestic
service from my mother at home. I al
ways helped her when [ was a boy and
a few years ago when l began to look
for man occupation ! found everything
full except this business. The greatest
demand in any field of labor was for
domestic servants, and I determined to
take up homework as a business.
# went to Ogdenburg and entered a
cooking school, where I learned every
department Of homework. Now [ have
been graduated and am ready to begin.
l chose Syracuse as a starting place
because there is said to be a great scar
city Of help here.
General Homework is my line, and
do everything from cooking, washing,
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JIaU and His LIES ). ". WI bo=. i.
THIRD ARTICLE ON MAN AND HIS PEcUL1ARITIEs

to break up and set entirely rid of. 1t is
astonishing how easily nature other
wise not bad VIII prevar;cate. When
there is not the least need of it. or pos
gib,e advantage to be gained, the invol-
unjary and spontaneous work Of the
tongue is to dodge the truth. 1 know
people who seem to he an!iable, kindly
ard highly intelligent, who have supreme
difficulty in carrying on a conversation
on any topic without preVarication. This
may be an Inheritance with them; 1t may
date far back through two or three or
four generations. 1t is quite as likely a
highly foolish ha bit of the persons own
culture. One of these women began by
trying to appear more learned than she
really was. DO school teachers not som e.
times get to be liars by fearing to say
81 do not krOw?"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-11
AN INHERITANCE.

We must bear in mind that lying can
be inherited. Children from birth fol-
low so exactly the habit of a Mother to
indirecness and prevarication, that one
can not doubt the habit goes in the
blood. 1t becomes as instructive to de-
ceive as ii does for ii wasp to make
paper. The mother INDUCES habit OF
covering her tracks; she is not open,
frank, and direct. She desires and aims
to conceal at least, if not to lnislead
The child does not need to learn this
habit OF her; he gets it by being a part
of her 1t is a part not only Of her body,
but of her mind, and her habits. The
same fact applies to the father
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l.
This superstition or belief was once
common among the Scotch Hignlanders.
Certain persons, called seers or wizards.
were supposed to possess supernatural
gift whereby they foresaw future events
and perceived distant objects as if thew
were present:
LAS the sun
Ere 1t is risen, sometimes paints its image
n the atmosphere, so often do the spirits
VI great events stride OH before the event
Ana IN today already walks tomorrow. >
This Is the lofty and poetica view as
Illustrated in classic fable and early his
tory whereas the facts Of investigs tion
GO not reveal much eXactness and order
! IN the revelations which were commonly
made to poor, illiterate men, predisoosed
by the very nature Of the cOuntrv-wiI1
rough and weary-and from their half
Idle, solitary life, TO melancholy and sr1-
persttlon. His visions were of the most
ordinary sort, funeral procession or a
wedding ceremony, and they were rep
resented as coming suddenly when the
seer was wandering over the hills. 1t
seems t1ifing that special miracles were
wrought to announce the marriage or
death of a highland peasant, or the ar
rival OF friend from, another neishbor-
heod Ignorance IS q strong ally of su-
Fersution, as solitude is of gloomy ego
ism and melancholy Many narratives
h!Ied with stories OF these Highland Wis
ions have been printed, the most notable
perhaps being DR.. Johnsons Journey tn
the IIebrides.'
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LITTLE EXCUSE.

There is less excuse than there former
ly may have been for deviation in worcs
or facts. Modern science has taught US
all the value Of exactnesss. We have
learned to weigh things, why not words?
If you combine two atoms of hydrogen
and one CT oxygen you get common air,
but one more atom of oxygen and you
get something very different. The ex>
actness and precision with which the
chemist must work, and the biologist. IN
their laboratories, has had it's influence
on our ways Of thinking. Those who
write history no longer put down such
facts as they think ought to nave oc-
currred, but labor tirelessly to find the
facts that did exist. 1t would be impos-
sibIe now to foist on the world the story
of RomUlus sucked by she wolf, and
hardly that of Washington and MS
Ratchet
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-11
RISING TO sUCCEss

The instances Of obstacles surmounted'
and of triumph a hieved under difhcul les,
are so numerous as almost to justify the
proverb that with will one can do any
thing" Take, for instance, the remarka-
BILE fact that from the BARRIERS shop came
Jeremy Taylor, the most practical of d.
vines; Sir Richard Arkwright, the in
ventor of the spinning jenny and founder
of the cotton manufacture; Lord Tenter-
den, one of Englands most distinguished
lord chief justices, and Turner, the great
est among landscape painters.
Cardinal Wolsey, De Foe, Akenside and
Kirk White were the sons of butchers
Bewick, the father of wood engraving,
was a coal miner. Michael Faraday, the
son of a blacksmith, was in early life APP
prentced to a bookbinder. and worked at
that trade until he reached his twenty
second year. Cook. the navigator, was
the son OF day laborer. Ben Jonson
worked with trowel in his hand and
a book in his pocket. Sir William Black
stone was the posthumous son of a shop
keeper. Copernicus was the son of a Pol
ish baker; Kepler, the son of a German