The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-07-28
BACK YARD A MISSION.

BACK YARD A MISSION,
What . Pastor Achieved with Flow.
ers I'm His City Home.
II run little flower mission fsr NV
SELF" DR.. ]. Sumner Stone 81 thu
Church OF the Savior, admitted 10 tn,
New York County Woman's Christian
Temperance Union at its spring con-
yention in Trinity Methodist Episcopal
church, after he had listened u is re-
port of flower mission work, says III.
New York Tribune. Its m ny back
yard" he FASTENED to add, and l BE-
lieve I'm pr0uder of 1t than my vii,
Is OF her parlor.'
II mortify and tame my savage ns
ture." he went on, working in my back
yard-it's just a common back yard
such as everybody has and you could
cover 1t with an old -fashiohed bed qullt
The sun peeks around the corners Of
the tall brick buildings ana Sort o.
splashes the place with sunshine. Eve
utilized every grain and inch 81 dirt
In 1t.
1.-TWO weeks ago." continued Dr.
Stone. II told my youngsters 10 bring
all the old tin cans, flower pots, etc.
they could collect and l gave them
plants to put in them and told them l
would give them 10 cents foR every
bunch Of flowers they raised Then last
Sunday I gave out gladiolus bulbs, af
ter warning them not to mistake them
for onions and slice them up With the
cucumbers.
There's a little narrow strip u land
beside our church. The other day |
called the Catholic, Jewish and Prot,
festant boys Of the neighborhOod togeth-
er and asked their cooperation IN start
ing a garden there. | said thought
we could raise some geraniums and
things IL they would help me- Fhey
were jubilant at the prospect only
the Italians could be kept from coming
over and purloining (they called 1t
swiping) them.
Everything that brIghtens this drear
old world and brings happiness to souls
OF sorrow is worth while. Not all the
sanctifying grace Is expended around
church affairs. The best OF 1t Is spent
by us in our simple little ministries
Motor-Trucks Drive Ont Horses
America, slightly behind European
countries In the art OF aatomoolis
manufacture, was year or 30 ia'e III
the introduction of the motor Way"
into city freight hauling" writes Ia
vid Beecroft in Technical World Maya
zine, "but what Columbia lost m 'ih'e
she is now striving to make UP III eoA
tinuous energy; and IL American push
and brains can win, then the TINE 10
not far distant when the streets OF oul
great cities will soon be in the han''
of the commercial mOtOr-Wagon.
ALREADY the conquest is assured III
the streets OF New York, the hte-'on
electric and gasoline truck tfahspo,S
the tons of coal sold by many OIL
big dealers: grain merchants use .n'
lordly electric for hauling from Tue ue
Dot to the warehouse; wholesa hers nave
Installed both gasoline and elesfrKS ~.
conveying goods from the warehouse
to the retail headquarters; eontraep,'
use both for hauling building ma'el.
ais; electric light companies use .hels
the Edison Company alone requ'llns
fifty In its employ; for brewerfes 'n..
are specially suitable because OF ~.
advertising value connected with tnem
and the myriad other Gotham coneeln'
are getting interested. Coming Nee''
Philadelphia has them by the seoi.'
Pittsburg, with its hills, is rapidly IN
PRODUCING them; Washington has ies,
and Chicago, with its poorly paw
streets, has a score or more OF them !.
operation. In the West, Denver anu
Kansas City are following the eaampls
set by the East; Omaha has It's ni''
one; Salt Lake City has eoup's'
Minneapolis has three; and dosen :.
more are In use In the various eoa''
cities Of California.