The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-10

and I heard the Sewing circle was
meeting, and I thought l would come
around and say how good is the work
you are doing. The heather needs
shirts more than anything in the world.
The world is spheriod, flattened at the
poles, composed of land and water; the
/ land divided into five great continents.
all of which is told about in Jarby's
Encyclopedia of knowledge and Com
pendulum of Literature, Science and
Art, treating of every topic from A to
/ 2, ten thousand references in all Oh,
/ the bliss that fills the heart of the
faithful missionary when the box comes
from his far-off native land. bringing
blue calico shirts to clothe the naked,
Yes. ladies' of the Sewing circle, no
sooner had l landed in Africa than d
native heather chased me into a palm
tree. which L recognized as soon as
climbed it, having read in this priceless
volume all about il under Trees, Native
and Foreign-Deciduous and Evergreen
Fruit trees, including Apple, Orange,
! Peach, Plum, Pear and all others
Bushes and Shrubs-How to Graft
How TO Prune, ct cetery. And there be-
low me. waiting till I should fall was
a wild black heather ready to Kill and
eat me. It was the narrowest escape
from death 1 ever had"
My lands:" exclaimed the younger
Miss Flisgis, and how did you es-
cape2"
by staying in the tree" said Eiiph'
Hewitt, coughing gently behind his
hand. Yes, ladies. If had not had this
volume in my hand as / have now l
should not now be here. / should have
become part Of that heather negro in
the wilds of Africa. l stayed in that
tree five weeks"
.s(rOoduHSSt'' crfad Mrs Hortbu fhe
minister's wife. Didn't you starve?"
Il didn't come so near it as the
heather that was waiting to eat me
did, said Eliph' Hewitt. with a copy
OF Jarby's Encyclopedia and Compen-
dunn OF Literature, Science and Art
handy no one need starve. sat in the
tree awhile, and when see the heather
wasn't going away 1 got tired and
turned to page 405 to see what ii said
about the pam tree. There read how
TO strip the bark from the tender shoots,
leaving a palatable and juicy core that
Is excellent food. / ate a hearty meal
and looked at the book again, and it
told how to draw the sap from the
trunk. making sweet and quenehing
drink. 1t got hot and the book told
how to make tent of woven pam leaf
strips and how to make pam leaf fans
TO watt away the heat. I done it. Then
turned to page s64 and read some OF
the Five Hundred Ennobling Thoughts
from the Worlds Greatest Authors
which cheered me UP. and opened the
book to page 76s. Texts, Biblical-H!nts
for Sermons-The Art of Pulpit Flo
auence-Pulpit Orators-Golfen Words
from the Great Preachers-Compr!sin
Selections from Sturgeon, Robertson.
Talmage, Beecher Brooks. Wesley ct
cetery. and / read page OF choice Sc
lections to the heathen- 1t done him |
some good. but not much. He was too
hungry to see the beauty OF them words |
Of gold"
II don't see how you managed to sleep
in that tree" said the younger Miss !
Fliggis. what was there 10 sleep on?''
The hammock ! made, as told how
on page 500, sweaving-How TO
Weave Carpets-Linen-Sil k-Cotton |
Wool: How to Spin Yarn Out /
Of Fibre. et cetery: Knit !
ting - Netting = Tatting = The Home |
Lace Maker. ct cetery. All About /
Cloth and How to Make It. There /
amt a thing from morn to eve. that /
this book don't contain. A subject for (
every moment from the cradle to the (
grave, with lives Of all great men, from I