Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-04
S[1ONS ANIMAL IALKS
Author.Lecturer Entertains and
Instructs Two Marshalltown
Audiences.
illustrated Talks That Please
and Educate Both Old
and Young.
Professor Raymond's Second
Lecture on Municipal House.
keeping in Europe.

form who could draw two large audi
ences In one day in city the size OF
Marshalltown on the most disagreeable
day of the winter. That is what Ernest
Thompson Seton must be credited with
doing, and had the weather been at all
favorable he would have packed the
Methodist church Monday evening.
This was Mr.. Setons first visit in
this city, but his stories of animal life
with their lessons both amusing and
pathetic. had preceded him and many
there We're whofelt a personal acquaint-
ance with him. Mr.. Seton says his
stories, which are told SO interest
ingly in the conversation of the ami
mails he writes about, are true to the
life of the animals, and the words he
credits to the tongues are the English
of their actions interpreted after life
time spent among them and In the
study of their characteristics of habit,
temperament, affections and means of
self preservation.
4:15, Mr.. Seton spoke to an audience
composed largely of school children. of
number sufficient to fill the main
auditorium of the Methodist church.
His lecture, which was illustrated with
stereopticon views made from his own
sketches and photographs, pertained to
his experiences and observations in
Yellow stone park. The views and the
stories. with the limitations of the calls
and cries of the animals and birds,
were given In way that the children
could understand and appreciate them
and without doubt the children
appreciated more fully and will re-
member longer than the older ones the
lessons to be drawn from anecdote and
illustration.
The evening audience, while large
considering the cold and stormy night,
was attended by few who reside more
than six blocks from the church. Mr..
Seton, who spent much of his life in
pursuing his studies in cold climates
and among the SHOWS and billiards of
the north, expressed surprise that SO
many ventured out in the storm to hear
him. His evening lecture was from his
best known work. Wild Animals /
Have Known" illustrated with
sketches and photographs made by
himself He told of the elks, rabbits,
owls, skunks, foxes, moose and the
birds and fowls: of the animals and
birds that prey on other and weaker
animals. of the stories that could be
read by studying the tracks as plainly
as If the scenes We're actually wit
messed by human beings His imita-
lions of the songs of the birds and the
calls of the animals were not the least
part of the lecture, and his
story of the migration of the birds
from the far north to the gulf when
winter approaches and back again in
the spring, of how they follow the same
paths in the air, under the leadership
of the older birds who were once led
in the same way. was thrilling. He
concluded with an apt illustration of
the cruelty OF those who kill in the
name of sport
Mr. Seton is lecturing under the aus
pices of Major Pond and was secured
for Marshalltown by Mr.. Ponds west
ern manager, Mr.. l. G. Speers.
PROF. RAYMOND'S LECTURE.
Professor Jerome Hall Raymond. who
is delivering the second series OF lee
lures under the university extension
course, and is discussing the subject of
Some Lessons In Municipal House
keeping From Four European Capt.
tails gave his second lecture Monday
Il fair sized audience. 1t had been ar
to have this lecture begin at
o'clock. in order to enable ticket hold
ers to hear Ernest Thompson Seton.
but Mr.. Raymond's train was delayed
by the storm and he did not begin I'M
I'll 1880. AT the close of the first half
Of the lecture, however. those who de-
sired were PERMITTED to leave. Mr.. Ray
subject Monday evening was
st. Petersburg: Autocracy and Mini
ism" and 1T was profusely illus-
trated with views taken in st. Peters
burg Moscow and other places in the
cars domains. He showed that the
Russian system of government Is bad
and has tendency to crush individ-
uality and progress where they exist.
Finland and Poland were used as illus
trations TO show how their national in
stitute that of the Russian.
Jerome Hall Raymond. who is asso-
siate professor of sociology Of the Uni
versity of Chicago. was born in Gin
ton, Iowa, March 10, 1869. His mother
moved to Chicago when he was small
BOY. Following his earliest employment
IS newsboy he became clerk In the
offices of the Pullman Palace Car Com
oany, and then private secretary to the
president of the company. After spend
ng two years travelling in Europe and |
Asia he entered Northwestern Univer-
,ity and graduated with the degree of |
4. B. In 1892, and the following year was |
granted the degree of A. NJ Entering
he University of Chicago he took up
graduate work in the department of So
.iology and received the degree of Ph.D. |
II 1895. Meantime he held the chair of |
history and political science in Law
enee University at Appleton, Wis. In
S94-5 DIR. Raymond was university ex-
ension lecturer in sociology and secre-
airy of the class study department of
he extension division of the University |
II Chicago In 1895 DR.. Raymond was
lected professor of sociology and sec
etary of the university extension de-
,artment of the University of Wiscon
in This position he held until his cleo
ion to the presidency of West Virginia
In 1897.
Turnout Dr. Raymond's career as an
ducator he hash been deeply interested
n social and economic questions. and