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The Washington herald., 1911-04-02
"The Skipper and the Skipped"

1t will be a surprise to many readers
of Holman Days novels to find that he
understands the seafaring type of mar
almost as well as the politicians of THE
Ranrodders'' or the lumbermen Of
King Spruce" In his new novel. ''The
Skipper and the skipped he rivals w
W. Jacobs.
The book is called the shore log OF
Capn Aaron Sproul in its subtitle, and
these are not sea adventures at all
The Harpers have just published '"The
Skipper and the Skipped" with a pair OF
brilliantly coIored parrots adjoining the
cover
There is an abundance OF good fun in
this veracious chronicle of the sayings
and doings Of Capt. Aaron Sproul. late
master of the Jefferson p. Benn. The
tale Is none too serious, but there is a
deal of human nature in II, and the stu
atoms show true humorous imagination.
. Capt Sproul, having retired from the
sea, succeeds to the post of toll keeper
on a bridge, formerly held by his uncle,
'One-arm Jerry" deceased. Col Gideon
Ward. the tyrant OF the neighborhood,
has never paid any tolls, nor any fines
for fast driving, and doesn't intend to
In front of him as he comes tearing
down the road in his wagon, he Icata-
puhs right through and goes ON his way,
roaring curses. The captain grimly re-
solves to stop him the next time. The
whole idea is one we might wish had
occurred to Mark Twain. but we find
nothing lacking IN Mr.. Days develop
ment of 1t The captain attains
subtler revenge than by breaking the
coioners neck with the pondercus grid
which he constructs to take the place
of the broken gate. The coloners meek,
downtrodden sister falls IN love with
the captain and be with her. He marries
her and forces himself into an equal
partnership with his brother-in-law, to
whom he appoints himself as kind of
keeper.
This Is the foundation for series of
dfverting happenings. in which many odd
and original people besides the captain
and Col Gid Ward take part Easily
first among them is the old seaman's
bosom friend. Hiram Lock. the cx-show-
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for they have that almost indefinable
quality termed atmosphere to. a de-
gree rarely found in English stories and
more generally the property Of French
and German fiction. They are however.
entirely original Their theme Is always
of love-eager, ardent joyous love-or of
the beauties, the happiness, the delights
Of life.
Montague Glass, the short story writer
and originator Of those very popular
ter, Is at work on a novel II think that
short story writer. as rule, won't
make a good novelist" he said recently,
unless he breaks away IN time from
writing short stories exclusively. That's
why I'm trying to change. I don't be-
1;eve that a man can go on writing short
stories all his life and get away with it.
Mr.. Glass has a liking for music, and
has composed and had published several
popular songs. He has also written
articles" He considers that the stage
bears the same relation to the writing
of fiction that dentistry does to medicine.
"A man should stick 20 his 'genre'-if
that Is the right word he comments.
The Potash and PerImut.er stories are
now being published by Doubleday. Page
& Co., and later In the year the same
house will bring out second volume of
these exceedingly popular stories.
In view Of the worldwide interest In
the Boy Scout movement, the announce
ment Of an authoritative book on the
subject should be enthusiastically re-
ceived by Young America Rupert Sar-
gent Holland has written a story fun Of
the flavor Of the woods and water. and
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Classes, and

7 with the situation IN other universities
| 1t does not harmonic with the Yale ideal
| Of what college life ought to be-
Custom at New Haven-which Is more
answering than the laws of the Modes
and Persians-demands that any new
scheme be ratified by the upper class
men. For the past three years there
have been a majority of men in favor.
but the wishes Of the minority have been
allowed to prevail. The three-quarte,
vote in favor was considered sufficient
this time, and the undergraduates are
enthusiastic over the new plan. -
The result Is that Yale will inaugurate
next fall a system absolutely unique In
the feid of American university life
There Is no other large college with a
similar organization. Most Of them are
committed to the fraternity system Of
dormitories, which combines a small num-
Der Of men from all four undergraduate
classes and makes a home for them in q
Greek letter lodge In Yale College-al-
though not IN the Scientific and Graduate
Schools-students have never been al
lowed to live in their fraternity houses.
Yale now goes one step further. for under
the new system the classes will be sharp
~ separated.
Arrangement of Quarters.
Next year the seniors will have Con-
necticut, Vanderbilt, and WEIGH halls,
located at one corner OF the campus, in
closely united group. Next to them
will be found the sophomores, who will
inhabft Fanam, Lawrence, and WEIGH
Halls. while the juniors will congresate
in Fayerweather, White. and Berkeley.
Each class has its own sphere, and the
system Is a guarantee that every man
will know every one else in his class.
An interesting sidelight on the situation
Is that after a lapse Of q century Con-
necticut Hall will come into its own
again as the center Of Yale life. The
oldest building in the university, its cor
ner stone was laid in 1750. the funds be-
ing raised by a public lottery. 1t was the
show place OF Connecticut for many
years after its erection and Is still in
good condition. The senior class is the
center of Life at the university, and the
old hall is located in the exact center of
the territory which win be sacred to the
graduating class next year. Vanderbilt
Han Is on one side Of It, and WEIGH Is on
the other. Dean Jones moved the execu-
tive offices of the college into Connecti-
cut at the opening of the present college
year, SO that the heart Of both under
graduate and Faculty control will once
again rest in the old building. which LEO
years ago contained all there was to
Yale
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enough, has been an effective manifesto
| ticn of their own insane and morbid dis
! positions Just why anybody should be
frightened at a dead practical Joker Is
not to be reasoned out: it should be the
occasion for rejoicing.
The crying of Boob" is an fnfantile
form of practical joke in favor with
some humorists Of childlike minds. 1t
may result most seriously to a neurotic
victim. A dozen other mciassified fools
madnesses contribute to the total OF
every years lists Of fatalities. But the
fool goes on unpublished.
This same fool. however. has his apollo
gists, il not champions. There are those
who declare that all jokes, in one light
or another, are practical Jokes. 1t is
only when they end seriously that they
cease to be jokes and are apt to be re-
garded as quasi-criminal.
Discomfort Essential to Joke.
Read the ordinary joke. whether it be
truth or fiction, and observe whether
it be potentially practical OF not. What
is the joke that you laugh at most
heartily? The one IN which some person
other than yourself gets worsted to the
greatest degree of discomfort short Of
permanent injury. Ask yourself why #
is that when you see a man fall hard In
a slippery street, you laugh, regardless
Of his hurts. while IL a dray horse falls
ever SO lightly in harness your sympathy
is awake in a moment. Man Hikes to see
his fellow-man disgruntled to a certain
degree. II. the counterfeit ghost Of the
practical Joker causes the victim to ron
down two flights of stairs with only Or
binary cuts and bruises, and thereafter to
run a mile breathless to the nearest hab-
itation. 1t Is a joke to tell for a life time;
If the victim dies Of heart failure at the
first shock, the practical joker may re-
form for life.
Morbid State Produces Pains.
Taking the pun as the father Of all wit
and of all humor, J. Hughlings Jackson,
NJ. D., 2. R. s., has written to the LON
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sincerely or with a prer heart and soul
If his mind delighted in rosy inanities
it was a perfectly honest limitation He
thought the nymphs and Cupids worth
while, and toiled upon them indefati.
gably-put into them the same chaste
and child-like nobility that made his PR
waite life wonder-well-nigh q miracle
in this cynical, freverent age Of ours.
The world Of ''The Unknown Lady IS
in atmosphere and character, tho world
Of Bouguereau.
During the writing Of Robert Hichens'
new novel. THE Dweller on the Thresh-
ole" the name under which this strange
and powerful story Of the occult should
appear was much discussed. Know
Thyseff." Troubled Waters" and Deep
Waters" were all suggested and consid-
cred. and finally rejected for the authors
very positive choice, The DweIler on the
Threshold" referring to the subconscious
mind, or soul.
In view of the fact that the air has for
some time been thick with war rumors.
not q little additional interest has been
aroused IN Mr.. Norman Angeles brilliant
exposition Of the faIlacy that war can
ever be Of advantage, even to the con-
quering nation Mr.. Angeles sane analy-
sis Of the question of the hour. presented
in The Great Illusion" recently pub
iished by the Putnams, has been heartily
commended by the statesmen OF Europe.
The author. says what he thinks, and,
what Is more, he thinks picturesquely
and In violent conflict with received opin-
ion. His argument does not depend On
platitudes about the beauty Of peace. It
depends on self-lnterest- When the
growing solidity Of financial interests and
the financial interdependence Of the cap
itals Of the world Is fully realized, war
win be viewed % an Institution radically
at conflict with the modern economic sys-
tenn. and this Mr.. Angel points out IN
his terse. logical way.
On March Is Messrs. Little, Brown 4
Co. puhliahed q book Of short stories BY
Edna Worthisy Underwood. entitled "A
Book Of Dear Dead Women" for which
they claim remarkable merit. So unlike
the usual American short story are they
that probably nine out OF ten readers VIII
sax, why. these must he-1xansAattouRs
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Oddly enough, nobody has ever been
lynched for practical joking Only a
few times, comparatively, has the prac-
teal joker been hailed to the bar of jus
tee. There are no plain records of con.
victions on such counts. But in this age
of nervousness, some of the methods of
the practical joker have become so set
and hackneyed that legislation might
criminal code
A dangling skeleton, operated by wires
from the hidden position Of a medical
student at Philadelphia, the other day,
threw a sister of the Joker into con-
WILSON'S and left her lie despaired of
by physicians. But it was tremendously
funny while it lasted.
"Un1oaded" Gun Most Deadly.
With the practical joker, whose efforts
work lasting harm to the innocent, the
''unloaded' gun is the chief means to
his hand. In a few deserved instances
the joker impersonates a robber or bur-
glar with a revolver and himself dies at
the hands of the startled one. Society,
however. stin goes on burying these
perverted humorists with all the benefit
Of clergy and in consecrated ground
Rocking the Boat.
The man who rocks the boat never
does SO unless it is loaded The world
has put aside hundreds Of acres eff bury
ing grounds to his tens OF thousands of
victims Considering the average short
ness OF the boating season, the boat
rocker is the deadliest of the practical
jokers- He has made widows and Or
phans in every cline in civilization.
The ghost worker has done his full
share in the filing of madhouses and
sanatoriums. Women are his victims
for the most part and at susceptible
ages they have been wrecked in mind,
past hope of cure. Impersonating death
by these practical jokers, strangely
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NO MORE SWELL DORMITORIES.
FOR RICH STUDENTS AT YALE
Od Eli Viii House All Undergrads Together by Classes and
H.. Do Away NTH Snobbery of Wealth.

During the past month certain -devel.
| opments have come to a head at Yale
which make It certain that for the firsi
time in twenty years the undergraduate
body will shortly be organised on lines
that distinguished the days when 'Old
Brick Row. was the center Of academic
life.
After. years Of effort on the part OF
alumni, members of the faculty, and the
portion of the undergraduate body which
had the best interests Of the university
at heart, the proposition to have the
classes room together as units has been
quietly passed. So. beginning with next
September, there will be distinct centers
for each of the four classes, and in the
near future the last Of the private dormi-
tories will be abolished. and the whole of
Yale College will be domiciled in build
ings owned and operated by the univer-
sity authorities.
The proposition has been carried 50
quietly that its significance has not been
fully realized. The only official announce
ment made was that at meeting Of the
Junior class held early in the week the
plan of having all the members OF the
body room in WEIGH, Connecticut, and
Vanderbilt Halls had been carried by a
three-quarters vote. This means. how
ever. that instead of being scattered over
the campus IN five or six different build
ings. and more or less divided In sets.
the seniors will be united, and that the
proverbial Yale democracy and class
unity will have chance to develop in
a way which has not~existed for years.
Private Dorm, Doomed.
With the beginning of the next college
year all the other academic classes viii
also have distinct centers.
This sound the death kneil Of the pri-
vate dormitory tendency. which at one
time threatened to establish a division
between the poorer and the richer men,
bers OF the classes. similar to the Gold
Coast" at Harvard.
The luxurious private apartment house
district, where the more wealthy OF the
men at Cambridge live, seemed destined
to be duplicated at Yale. 1t has its origin
in the lack of proper dormitory accom-
modatioIrs, which some years ago led
members of the scphcm class at New
Haven to take up their quarters in two
large apartment houses called The
Hutchinson'S." All modern conveuiences,
including elevators. telephones. and other
inventions dear to the heart of the mod
ern man were there to be found. and soon
the majority of each sophomore class
fiocked there.
Rooms were at a premium, however.
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der had a pair of pistols. The coach had
not gone more than four blocks through
the main street of Mexico City when it
was surrounded by bandits. Within a
minute the pavement was strewn with
dead and dying robbers-as the supposed
women leaped forth and opened fire Il
that could happen in the capital itself, in
the midst of a veteran French army,
what must have been the conditions on
the roads and the remote villages before
Diaz swept brigandage out of his coun-
try in one sudden. short campaign"
Although Engfish-born, no drop of
genuine English blood flows in the veins
of Sophie Fisher, whose gay comedy
novel. 1.-THE Imprudence of Prue," has
just been issued by the Bobbs-Merrill
Company. Her father was Austrian
first cousin of Carl Maria Won Weber.
the great musician-her mother of
French-refugee descent. And she lives
in America
Possibly this mixture Of races accounts
in part for the vivid Imagination that
shows itself in her novel. and indeed
that made itself evident very early in
her life, for, while still very small, she
was always in trouble for the wild yarns
she related as fact-which they really
appeared to her-though NOBODY else re-
garded them in such favorable light.
At that time twhen she was between
ten and twelve) she first seriously thought
Of entering the world Of letters, and even
wrote out some of her stories ION both
sides of paper torn from exercise booksl
which she sent to various story papers
without stamps for return postage Tho
contemptuous silence in which her con-
tributions were entombed In various
waste baskets almost put an end to her
literary career.
When. however. she reached the are
Of twenty. she made more successful as
saults upon the magazines, many Of her
short stories finding ready acceptance.
After she was married and came to
America she wrote . novel In coIlabora-
ten with Rose Etynge, the weli-known
actress. published by the John Lowell
Co.. under the title Tt Happened This
Way The book, after . brief though
not unprosperous career. was buried In
the debris of the Lowell failure.
The Imprudence Of Prue." her second
venture In long fiction. gives every prom
ise Of long and wide popularitx
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and It came to pass that in order to &c,
accommodations there at the right time
students in the preparatory school would
engage rooms before they passed theiI
entrance examinations for college, and
thoseNwho failed to get rooms made UP q
colony In the houses near by.
There was only one trouble5the rents
were highland as result most OF the
members OF class, possessed Of but 9
little OF the worlds goods. had to take
rooms on the campus. where they were
cheap. Two pretty distinct bodies were
created by this means, much to the dis
may OF the older Yale alumni.
Generated Snobbishness.
Statistics were compiled to show that
the students In THE Hutch" az the
apartment house was quickly dubbed.
secured three and four times as many
OF the fraternities elections as did the
men rooming on the campus. It was also
said that sets were made up In this way
which displayed cliquish tendencies
throughout the whole four years Of col
Iege
The strong feeling among the alumni
finally resulted In the gathering Of funds
to remodel the old dormitories, so that
IN point Of comfort they would stand
the test Of competition to some extent
at least with apartment house life. Then
money was received to erect flrst-class
dormitory.
Henry p. Wright. for thirty years dean
Of Yale College, was a strong worker to
secure the return of the sophomore class
to the campus. and when the new facil-
tiles were obtained, his successor. Fred
erick S. Jones, took up the cudgels. He
put the proposition squarely before the
college. with the result that for the first
time In twenty years the entire sopho-
more class this year Is located in college
buildings-and the Hutchinsons have been
made into family apartment houses.
The vote of the junior class, the result
of which has just bees announced to do
away with cliQues in senior year. is a
decisive step to restore the simplicity and
unity IN Yale like which prevailed half
century ago.
Rooming of Glasses.
The matter of classes rooming together
was not considered so important in those
days The undergraduate body was small
er and n man could not help knowing
every student who was graduated with
him. For the past fifteen years, however.
the statictics show that the average man
las graduated without knowing thirty
five Of his classmates, and while this Is
an exceptionally small number compared
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and mother generally save for several
years for this important event The re-
ceptlon expenses are also betrayed by
the brides family. This generally costs
from 500 to $500. There is always a
party when the engagement is announced
This means an outlay of from S10e to
500.
inexpensive Parties.
Previous to the betrothal and bridal
days a Jewish girl Is not of much ex-
pense to her parents. There are little
parties on birthdays and other festive.
occasions, but these do not cost more
than IS or so. IL the girl is sent to the
high schools. there is a graduation party,
and this usually costs IS.
AS for clothes-weI, IL any of these
girls were given 5000 for an outfit they
would not know what to do with il. That
Is the amount allowed Eugenia Laden
burg. One mother, who has a sixteen
year-old daughter going to high school
and must maintain a husband and three
other children on SIS a week, said re-
Gently:
My daughters clothes cost me $sss.-
and there is not a better dressed girl in
the neighborhood. Some people think
am extravagant. But / am not I
watch the papers for the sales and buy
her winter clothes cheap in February. ,and
then she can wear them the next year-
The same way with the summer cloths
I usually get them in July and August
In that way my girls have a change in
the summer, and then their clothes look
fresh and bright the next year again
They haven't worn the dresses long
enough to tire of them, you see, and they
welcome them again the next year"
High School Girfs Bill.
The bill for the high school girl last
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Now the other expenses are figured in
this manner: The girl goes to school
every day. but she generally rides there
and walks home. There are about forty
school weeks and, allowing a quarter
for each week, that would mean SO. An
average of . cents a week for spending
money, which is rather high, would bring
the years total to s13. The girl had one
party; that was on her birthday, and the
cost was SIS.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-09-01
Horticulture

or cover them few inches with dirt.
This last treatment-the burning of
the leaves-may not be necessary in
preventing the attacks of the black
spot oanker but it is always beneficial
in fighting the apple scab.
If spraying for this canker is resort
ed to in summer weak solution of
the Bordeaux mixture should be used.
Prof. Lawrence, of the State College
at Pullman, some years ago issued a
valuable bulletin on the black spot
canker. 1t may be out OF print, but
if it is not, I would recommend to
anyone who has to fight this disease
to get it. 1t is the best work l have
ever seen on this pest.
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applied to the external membrane OF
the eye." AS Doun the word IS de-
fined 'sthe outer dense hbrous coat
of the eye, forming the white OF the
eyeball; in medicine, substance that
hardens parts to which it is applied
From these definitions, it seems to
me that it would be an appropriate
use of the word in applying it to this
hardening of the canes and fruit of
the raspberry.
A. L. Crippen, of Chehalis county,
WASH, writes under date of August
6: "Will you please advise me, through
The Ranch, regarding the planting OF
pear orchard near Centralla! what
are the best varieties for shipping
and keeping qualities and would sell
we'll on the market?'
So far as l know the varieties that
succeed we'll anywhere in one locality
west of the Cascades, will do equally
we'll in all other sections west of the
Cascade range. Ii there is any diff
ference in this part of the state, the
men who raise pears in Lewis county
can tell you better than l. l would
recommend that friend Crippen con-
suit such men. The pear, in my
Judgment, that stands above all others
as a market variety is the Bartlett.
[ do not say it is the best pear in
quality, but it bears very young,
bears heavily every year, unelss
damaged by frost-and that is rare
with us-it ships we'll and sells we'll.
AS a money maker L have never yet
found a pear to equal the Bartlett.
Some other pears sell higher but they
bear so few pears compared with the
Bartlett. that they do not pay any
thing like so we'll. Next to the
Bartlett, l would name the Clapp's
Favorite. 1t is little earlier than
the Bartlett, is healthy tree, bears
we'll, but does not sell quite as high
as the Bartlett. The Flemish Beauty
is vigorous tree and bears enor-
mously, but its quality is so low that
it does not sell nearly so we'll as the
two varieties named before it. The
Idaho is a vigorous tree, inclined to
grow too high, is great bearer and
is much better pear in quality than
to Flemish Beauty, but is 80 large
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RASPBERRY DISEASE.

DR.. Tho mas W. Musgrove, Sultan,
WASH. under date of July %, writes:
have enjoyed reading your articles
on horticulture in The Ranch for a
year or two and want to ask a ques-
tion or two anent the peculiar dis
ease that has for four years affected
my raspberries. bought some plants
of the Antwerp and Cuthbert varieties
in the fall of 1905 and they have done
we'll every year since they began to
bear. The canes are tall and large,