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north shore of the lake christened by Mrs.
Sigourney The StOckbridge Bowl" within
the territorial limits Of StOckbridge. but
near the village of LenOX. He received his
mail and dated it from the latter place. In
all his biographies. LenoX. not Berkshire
Is spoken of as Hawthorne's home. he
says OF the house: This is certainly the
most wretched and inconvenient little howell
that ever put my head in
A New York paper says: "Adolph Lewisohn
has presented TO Columbia University a col
lection OF rare books and manuscripts.
Among them is a first edition of Plutarch's
Opera Moralia." printed in 1908. The copy
is a remarkably beautiful one. There is
also an edition of "Quintilianus." printed by
Aldus. in 1914. bound in the original stamped
leather binding. and with the signature
OF BOnifactiuS Amerbach, a son Of the Balse
printer. As Amerbach was an intimate
friend OF Erasmus, and the executor of his
will. and inherited a great part of the fine
library of Erasmus. it is regarded as quite
possible by the library authorities at the
university that the volume just presented
TO the institution once belonged TO the
famous Dutch scholar.
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HINTS FOR CONSERVATIVES.
Fresh Air and Good Food Are the
Chief Cures.
Youths Companion

Youths Companion.
The two greatest things that can be done
for a consumptive are to supply oxygen
and to subdue fever. Thoroughly accom-
plish these two measures, and many cases
of consumption are going to get well-in-
deed, all Of those that are incipient, and
some of those that are well on their way.
The tendency in these cases is to a loss of
breathing space-of lung capacity-thrOugh
disabled or destroyed air cells. If. however,
gested, the lung capacity will be main
tanned, and disease be either driven out or
held at bay indefinitely. In all these cases,
also, there is a constant temperature slight
~ above the normal. This is not often real
lZed by the patient or his friends, though the
thermometer steadily shows il.
In addition to supplying the oxygen, con-
troI TINS FEVER and the cure of your patient
Is well nigh assured. The requisite supply
OF oxygen is to be secured by inVigOrating
exercise, both of the general system and.
locally, OF the ungs. Occupations like for
estry, gardening, farming, seafaring, or
such. pastimes as swimming. rowing or gym
nastlcs, performed in the open air, are of
much value, securing, as they do, a much
larger ingestion of oxygen, and a resultant
Disk circulation of the blood with life-giv-
ing principles.
Living close to natures heart is often
equivalent TO OutllVlng Lib
eral n|ourishment, with food easy of diges-
ton, is the next thing to fortify the system
against this arch enemy. As far as climate
Is concerned, il is generally conceded that
one which admits of living in the open air
the maximum amount of time is best,
though this is not all, as high or moder-
ately high attitudes, away from lakes and
fogs, is also needful, while It Is said that
those places where there are mountains
running east and west, thus shielding one
from the colder winds, make a given region
much more desirable for the c~onsumptive.
Congenial temperature, lots of sunlight on
Il clear dry soil, pure water, and in the
midst of these things sufficient exercise,
make for the c~onsumptive a much better
outlook, both as to length of life and cure,
and serve effectively to place him where
little medicinal aid is needed.
Given these things, we generally find that
the fever element takes care OF itself-goes
away.
1t is very important that the digestion in
these cases should be as perfect as possible,
as IL is wholly through food assimilation
and the ingestion of oxygen that we COM
pat and restore the excessive tissue waste.
Care in diet will do much TO secure this
end, while If one has to resort to other
means probably there is nothing better than
some pepsinated compound, the best of
these probably being vegetable pepsiD.
known better as caroid, five grains or so of
this being used before meals. A valuable
adjunct to this for a tonic would be a thir-
tieth grain tablet or pill of strychnine sui
phate, taken after meals.
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PRECIOUS BOY PREACHER.

Cleveland Leader.

CleNeianO Leader.
Putnam county. Ohio. has a boy %evangel-
list, Harry Harris. who is now expounding
the doctrines of the Bible through the
Southern States OF the Union. Harry is
nine years old, and has been preaching
about the country for two years or more.
He is of slender, slight physique and looks
like any other boy of his age, but he has a
wonderful mind. His memory is unfailing.
and his grasp of things once repeated to
him. or which he has read. is remarkable.
He has astonished audiences at Toledo,
Akron, Fremont. Findlay, Newark n Day
ton. o., indianapolis. Ind. Petosky, Mich,
and other places. Physicians and scientific
men lave examined him thoroughly, but
have been unable to account for the alb
normal development of his mental powers.
He was born in Putnam county, his father
being George Libby, who has been married
four times. There are fourteen children i'm
the Libby family, and when Harry was
born he appeared to be no better endowed
than any of the rest. though subsequent
events have proved the contrary. Eliza
Harris, a farmer, who lived near the Lib
bys, took him in charge, adopted him and
raised him from infancy.
The boy developed fair speech and pro-
nounciation at the age of three years and
he spoke on religious topics in Sunday
NilSO at a Vel III dS6s 81 nlS duODltu
father says. He went to school only six
months in his life, and then attended only
a few days at a time. He advanced so rap
idly that the physicians advised that he
be kept from school and study until he
was at least twelve years of age.
He devoured everything Of a literary
character. He studied the Bible, and when
asked any question relating to biblical his
tory will Immediately reply, quoting history
to prove his assertions. He soon reached
that stage where he scarcely ate, and the
doctors advised that he travel and be kept
travelling. He wanted TO preach, and his
foster father INDUCED him.
They have been travelling and preaching
since the fall of 1901, and il is said that, al
though all sorts of queries and all manner
of mental traps have been laid 10 snare
the young preacher into error, he has never
been caught. He knows the Bible by heart
and can tell the number of the chapter and
verse of any quotation I'm the Bible. He
prepares no sermon and selects no text I'M
I'll he is in the pulpit, and the audience may
do it for him If IL so desires. He weighed
only forty pounds when he began preach
ing, and weighs but sixty-nine now. al
though he has grown almost a foot in
height.
He still has many of his baby teeth. He
is slightly tOngue-tied and lisps In his
speech, but two surgical operations have
been performed on him and a cure is an
ticipated in time. When warmed up to his
subject in the pulpit the lisp is hardly no.
ticeable.
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Those far-renowned brides of ancient
song"

Those far-renowned brides of ancient
song"
initials of poems by Tennyson. with a quo
taton for eacn poem.)
E%@%* Mt"%"" is a young bachelor who says.
MY love for nature is as old as J." He Is
betrOthed to a maiden whose fathers Will
stands on Tea Bsss% which crosses by many
a field apd fallow" the estate OF L-"@---
Hes. that I'm the distance overlooks the
sandy tracts" Tonight ne is sitting at
T." Rf+"" T*''" scattered over with books
and papers. where the last tall son OF
Lot and Bellicent' has just left him. alone
in the house. He has fallen into a sort OF
revery. and rs Dee Dee" is all about those
fair shapes which have haunted the pages
"a pleasant hour has passed away" The first
TO cross the field Of his fancy is Ts' M'-''''
DS*s"*"* herself. of whom the dreamer muir
murs. she has grown so dear that 1 would
be the jewel that trembles at her ear"
After her fits i'm L*@$'-. Laughing all she
can" then the jealous. anxious face of Q-"~
Mss. saying. My sister is far fairer than
myself" After her comes the serene form
OF -. the stately dover of female
the board by tone and paper sat with two
tame leopards couch'd beside her throne"
Next he seemed TO hear the voice of t. M
Q*%s+ singing. you must wake and call
me early" the tones coming from a dreamy
distance like the voices OF T+% L~~%' Es'""",
falling asleep in a half dream" After her
came G***%. with her imperial nodded
form, and beauty such as never woman
WORE" talking TO Sc G@""-". whose good
blade carves the casques Of men" Next
was M"-%, when birds i'm the high Hall
garden were crying and calling to-" She
stood under T*s T''ss~* o.. C"May never
saw dismember thee. nor welded ak dis
~jointi'D and was conversing with Lee Cess
N"*+ DFV*'', who was in boundless health,
yet sickening of a vague disease He lis
tened 10 Tee Tee N@@%&+. and heard not
reviling tones. nor sold his hear. 20 idle
means" They were looking up into the
branches. and saving TO T" B-"'"-
perched there. Sing me something well"
ThaU Fhnn riGnuECn1 fha ma rFinuQ Of TsN
O" B's*%'@ C'not a lord in all the country
is so great a lord as hei"), was reused from
his revery by a loud clustering noise. He
exclaimed. 1T is my old friend T"* N""~s"|~
F*|*+$." and In he came. crying out, "Luvv,
what's luvv? Thou can luvv thy lass and
her mummy. toor' He had under his arm
a Christmas fowl. which. OF course. is T~s
G*~~-, and just then IL let fall a golden
egg, with cackle and c%latter.' He said It"
G%%~%"++' back at home. now growing
very old. sent il for a gift. saying, There is
but a trife left for you when j shall have
passed away" The two men then rose and
left Tss D**+ss-s H'a*% side by side, leaving
door and windows wide" DOROTHEA.
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ARE MISSIONARIES LUXURIOUS9
Misrepresented by the Travellers They
Entertain.

Charles Cuthbert Hall, in the World To-
Day.
Superficial travellers, overwilling TO ac-
cept the hospitality of missionary house
holds, have not been ashamed to censure as
extravagant the manner Of living main
tanned in those houses. Apart from the in
decency of those censures, uttered by some
who have not scrupled TO tax to the utter
most the resources Of their entertainers,
their gravity as malicious misrepresenta-
tons cannot be overstated. There is moth
ing to c~riticise, as well as nothing to con-
ceal in the manner of life of our leading
missionaries. The splendid devotion TO
duty, the abundance and willingness of
their labors, their statesman-like grasp upon
the problems with which they are dealing,
at once humble and inspire men of open
and honest minds who are permitted as
guests TO tarry beneath their roofs. And
as for the scale of living which they main
tain, and which, be il remembered, is main
tanned upon an income wholly out of proper
ton to the magnitude of the interests that
they represent, it is TO be said that they ok
hibit a sense of prOrriety, an appreciation
of the fitness of things, for which they de-
their home life is one of the elements of
their Christian influence. Their manner of
do and with the relations that they sustain
to the community at large. Ii is 10 be hoped
that the coarse and shallow criticisms
which from time to time have gained circu-
lation in America touching the ease and lux
ury of missionary households henceforth
may be discredited. After having been per-
mitted to sOjourn in the homes of scores
of missionaries I'm all parts of India, i'm
Ceylon and I'm Japan. ii is an nOnOr to testify
that there has been observed only that
which illustrates good sense, the conse-
Grated use Of opportunity, and wise and
helpful establishment to the providential
environment.
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Literary Notes.

The author of Little Lord Fauntleroy" is
writing another story for children. 1t is to
be called 1.-The Inner Room
jeremiah Curtin, the ell-know trans
lator of Henryk Sienkiewicz's works, has
been visiting that Polish author at his
home, in Warsaw.
A copy of the first edition of Keats's EN-
dymion'' was sold in London the other day
for $500. A first edition of Whites "Sel-
borne brought S5S.
1t is reported that Mr.. Israel Zangwill,
the novelist and dramatist, is thinking of
shaking the dust of London off his feet
and taking up his abode in Jerusalem per-
manently.
Rudyard Kipling has gone for his usual
winter visit to South Africa, where he still
has the home provided for him by Cecil
Rhodes. He is reported to be much devoted
to automobiling..
Winston Churchill writes to the Manches-
ter Union that in going to the New Hamp-
shire Legislature last year he made a heavy
Sacrifce. MY Look has been delayed near
ly a year" he saws, land / have been work.
ing night and day since the adjournment
to finish it,"
Not long ago d caller complimented Her
bert Spencer by telling him that he had
done more than any other man TO popu-
larize philosophy. g" think it probable"
the sage answered, that II you should ask
ninety-nine out Of a hundred people wheth-
er they would daily take a spoonful of cod
liver oil or read a chapter of my Principles
of Psychology" they would prefer the cod
liver OIL"
The late novelist, Henry Seton Merriman,
is described as a man of most reserved
nature. He go disliked publicity that his
nearest friends knew nothing about the
authorship of his early books. and when
the secret was discovered and he found
ing London. Among his tastes was one
for golf, and he iked travelling. He had few
friends among writers.
Conan Doyle does not care to have the
''sir'' put before his name on the title
pages of his books, and he especially for
bids it in the case of works published in
this country. When he was arranging with
an American firm for the issue of a late
book he expressly stipulated that the ham
die TO his name should not be used in any
way. On being asked for a reason. he re-
piled: when the American people like me
as / am Why should l thrust a title in their
democratic faces?' The publisher agreed
reluctantly.
A monument is to be erected to Nathaniel
Hawthorne on the site of the Little Red
House in the Berkshires, where he wrote
THE House of the Seven Gables and
'Tanglewood Tales" The house was
burned down in June, 1900. Il stood on the
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About Renan.

Saturday Review.
Years ago in Paris Renan, discussing the
mortality Of his own works. said, in con-
versation with a young friend. that he
thought none Of the written books of the
nineteenth century would survive. Does
Remains dictum affect the work of Mr.. Her
bert Spencer? one heard of his death with
the sensation OF loss which the disappear
ance of any big man leaves and should
leave; but one heard Of il without commiser-
alton. He deliberately set himself TO a
great work which he saw finished some
years ago. and he received the general con-
gr tulation Of the representatives of in
tellect the world over. ne certainly saw life
steadily and attempted, In his Synthetic
Philosophy. to describe il whole. OF course,
ne failed; but he did the thing he meant.
which is not a common accomplishment
even with great men; and the tumult of the
nineteenth century which Renan said pre-
vented lasting work touched him, at least
in the stability of his purpose, as little as
the tumult OF sieges his predecessors Archi-
medes and Hcgel.
The philosopher had an infirmity COM
mon to great minds and little. He was
bored him. and he carried this selhshness TO
such a pitch that he bought a pair of ear
shoppers and applied them regularly. When
conversation in which he had taken part
went on too long for his patience, or when
some unmerciful talker held forth. he
would take cut of his pocket his ear stop
pers and hastily put them in place, not re-
moving them TIL he believed all danger 10
be past.
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In the Literary World
Something About Books h Men Who Write Books n Other Matters
Concerning tn Literary Profession

often and diversely, and yet be a gentle
man.; in fact that very question of how
thorough a gentleman he is sometimes de-
ponds upon the dexterity and iuency of his
lies.
A few faults he should not commit. He
must not steal, for example, and he must
wear clean linen. He must not falsify UNI
necessarily, only upon those occasions
which particularly demand it. If he can
possibly help it he must not be a coward.
In this country he should not marry for
money, though in Europe that is not only
condoned, but locke upon as quite per
misSible, if not commercially clever. The
gentleman in Europe cannot dig and to
beg he is ashamed" so the rich wife IS the
only respectable way out of the difficulties
that he is very often in.
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BOILING LAKE.

New York Sun.

New York Sum.
Mr.. Sterns-Fadelle, of Dominica. has Just
published a little book giving some inter-
esting recently obtained about
a curious natural phenomenon in Domin-
lea. one of the Lesser Antilles.
Ihls Island Is only 291 square miles in
area. 1t was colonized by the Spaniards
in the seventeenth century and peopled
later by French emigrants. who controlled
the island uninterruptedly until the
eighteenth century, and its resources have
since been exploited by English and French
and yet its natural curiosity in the north
ern part of the island had never been seen
or heard OF until twenty-eight years ago.
This can be explained only by the fact
that the neighborhood of the boiling lake
OF Dominica is difficult of access. The
lake was discovered by an Englishman. DIR.
Nichols. who organized an expedition TO
explore the unknown part Of the island.
one day his little party was clambering
up. a mountain. They suddenly came upon
evidences or sulphur, and a moment later
stood looking down into a crater which was
filled with boiling water.
Sitting vapOrs rose from the agitated
surface. rumblings of thunder came from
the subterranean regions, and near the CEN
ter OF the little lake, where the water was
most violently disturbed, the furious boil
ing lifted the surface ten or twelve feet
above the general level. The lake was con-
stantly fed by several small brooks that
poured from the heights above the crater.
Mr.. SternS-Fadelle says that the lake is
still boiling. 1t has been found to be at an
altitude of 2.490 meters above sea level. In
form it is elliptical.
When IL is filed with water Ii is about
200 feet long and less than 100 feet wide.
It's depth is unknown. An attempt to touch
bottom was made thirty feet from the
waters edge. where. at a depth of 1876 feet,
no bottom was. reported.
The water is not always in movement.
At certain times the surface is calm and
g~listens brilliantly under the rays of the
sun.
At other times il is violently agitated and
boils away, exactly like a big teakettle.
But, instead of the singing that accompa-
MES the ebUllitions in the kettle, the boil
ing fluid in this cauldron is accompanied by
the gruffest and most unpleasant detona-
tions. Little waves roll up on the narrow
shelf or sandy beach, which is covered with
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The Defects of Genius.

London Mail.
A famous French critic wrote a history
of English literature practically to prove
that imaginative genius spells insanity. He
had, of course, ready to his hand such
names and histories as those of Byron, Shell
ley, the bulk of the Elizabethian ~dramatists,
and the reckless WRISTS of the Restoration.
Great wits are thinks Taine) near to mad
ness. Phrased otherwise, and more pro-
saically, artistic careers are apt to be irreg-
ular. In this form the truth may be admit
ted, and admitted even without apology.
The sanity of genius may be claimed for
Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Browning, Ten
nyson and innumerable others. Sir Leslie
stephen observes that Wordsworth would
not have been so irreproachable a person II
the prosafc element had not mastered his
higher moods" And he seems to give sup
port to the pessimist by quoting the saying
that the lives of authors are the saddest
or all reading except the lives of criminals
in the Newgate Calendar But, on the
other hand, Sir Leslie considers authors on
the whole to be an enviable race and gives
them "a very decent character
This is so far satisfactory, since Sir Les
lie has had a full life in the literary world,
as his Impressions in the National Re
view" testify. He has known many eminent
literary men, and witnesses that they are
on the whole of good character. Tennyson,
who was certainly not possessed or the
|daemonic' force or Byron or SheIley,
nevertheless had his weaknesses. Sir Les
lie fled precipitately from a dinner in com
pany with a man highly distinguished In
official life and solid literature" because of
the atmosphere which enviroDed Tennyson.
This atmosphere was contributed (alasD
by the ladies, and Sir Leslie and his friend
resented being treated as pariahs outside
or the pale of social equality" Stay,
stay, DIR. Johnson is going TO speak, would
have been resented by Goldsmith"
In the same way r. l.. Stevenson used
A.. I--l Il IL - -.wl 49, rvna IN
ing that Henry James is going to speak"
which must have been embarrassing to a
singularly modest man of genius. One re-
calls with a certain satisfaction. en- re-
vanche, the tale of the distinguished liter
airy lady who lunched and walked with the
late Laureate. but experienced p erfect
silence until at a stage in the garden the
poet broke into speech with - those
rabbits"
Ruskin, Sir Leslie compares TO Swift In
point of oversensibility. To this company
for more than one reason we may with
fear and trembling add Carlyle's name. OF
Mr.. Herbert Spencer he writes what must
be Interesting at the present moment:
'Wha has always impressed me most forci-
bly, was the admirable simplicity and can
dour of the man. . y There is some
thing impressive in the sight of a man CIV
ing himself up so unreservedly to the guild
ance of what he takes TO be the voice of
pure reason, and so absolutely Indifferent
10 any other authority"
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S2..-INSERTIONs.

Example: Put nine I'm the past OF feed and
get a word nearing fastened. Answer: Fed,
fixed.
!. Put 5 I'm. perceived and get a number.
2. Put G IN rcsounded musically and get a
word meaning furious. 3. Put i in a word
meaning 10 breathe hard and get 20 color.
in a snare and set nearest in place. 6. Put
= in a place for swine and get a number.
7. Put 90 In TO avoid and get 10 shut out. ).
the Instrument by which a ship is steered.
9. Put 100 into entice and get money. 10.
Put 1000 in capable and get an easy sway
ing pace. II. Put 800 in a grain ground TO
a powder and get a piece OF metal stamped
with a device. NJ. r.
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A Small

Literary Bulletin.
The late Professor Mommsen, the author
of more than a hundred books, estimated
that he had committed to print more than
twenty-four thousand words-good. fat,
long. many-legged German words. Momm-
sen thought thai he had written too much.
He was inclined to be surprised at the
volume of his output. Yet he was only a
small producer by the side of some of our
industrious American speakers. Twenty
four million words is only a fair weeks
Jerome, of New York; and Mr.. Depew, of
New York, would lose his health If he pro-
duced less than a hundred million a
month,
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TO the we'll he stood right over the hole
and gave a strong sniff. then fell back
laughing.
"A-h-h-h-h-h-h, haw. haw, haw, haw!'
said he. My friends yo~u've-you've struck
a fortune here. Haw. haw, haw! You want
To capitalize this O-h-h-h, haw, haw, haw!
Ah-h-h. haw. hawi I'll form a stock COM
pany and take half the shares as promoter,
then-then Wen put il on the market.
A-h-h-h, haw, law, hawi All, ha. ha, ha,
Raw. haw, haw! This Is a well of laughing
paGfff