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and character permit. an educational and even a civic center. The Newark library is particularly fortunate in that it's building is larger than the nctivi- ties of the library proper will need to use in all its parts for 40 or 90 years to come.
 During the past 10 years, in rooms not used for the storagey reading or lending of books, there have been held thousands of meetings attended by hundreds of thousands of persons, for education, public welfare, self-im- provement and the promotion of enter prises beneficial to the city. In these same rooms and halls have been held scores of exhibitions. The use of this library as an educational and civic center, led almost inevitably to the formation of a museum association which for the present houses its prop crty and gives it's exhibits in the library building.
 The public library of city is a gigantic encyclopaedia. not of ancient wisdom only, but of the wisdom also of yesterday and of the morning of this very day. In books, journals, proceed
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

self. Bring forth some of the deeper levels of your energy. Make yourself what you aspire to become.
 This is not new thought. This is con- mon sense. It has been known for ages and has been practiced by the greatest men and women.
 Whether used consciously or uncon- sciously, it has ever been the secret of success of those who have led the worlds s thought.
 Get acquainted with yourself
 This does not mean being interpretive on the one hand or selfish on the other Both of thesc are weaknesses. It means to live and work with your whole be- ing-body, soul and spirit
 You cannot be somebody else, for imag- ination is also d weakness but you can be the best and highest statement of your self.
 All the universe is pledged to help you if you live in harmony with it's laws All your own inherent powers are pledged to help you if you live in harmony with the laws of your own being.
 There are three talismanic words that may help you find the way They were used by Paul-"Faith." "hope" and love"
 Faith is a mighty engine in the re- construction of our own interior lives. Hope is the magnet that draws us on- ward. Love is the inspiration that makes us render service.
 We work for that which we love. Per haps it is our family. If so it is a joy to serve it. Perhaps it is our country our calling. Maybe it is art, or fame, or wealth. If we love enough there is intense pleasure in working for the ob- ject. With a few high souls the actuat- ing motive is love of humanity or Of God. They find their heaven in serving these. They do great work because they call out their souls, their whole power
 Bring forth the best and greatest that is in you.
 This is a story from life or, as the children would say, really truly story"
 Years ago, when Miss Marion l.. Covert of Pnnphl1 eensie. N. Y.. WAS a child of
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sion, without cruelty, without robbery!
 Could modern Japan vie with modern England as a righteous overlorde
 Recent events seem to give a melancholy answer to these questions. The seizure and imprisonment of prominent Korean converts to Christianity, charged with conspiracy against the vieeroy; the praeti cal certainty that the prisoners were brutally tortured and that confessions so wrung from them were used in the courts against them; the evident injustice of excluding from judgment the mission aries who were also implicated by the indictment of their converts; the fact that among the missionaries named some were certainly at home on furlough dur ing the period of the alleged conspiracy; the method of procedure in the court, where the men were tried in language they did not understand and their inter- preter was a creature of the court, all point in one direction
 Japan is essentially mimetic, the su- preme imitator, the impressionable reeip- tent of imported ideas. Usually she im- proves upon what she imports; now she is initiating the imperial extension policy, the colonizing movements of European na- tions. She was first compelled to do this
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TAPAN is on trial before the live
 enlightened conscience of civilized o peoples. It is not long since all the world was applauding the splendid hero ism of her armies and her sailors, the amazing skill of her commanders, the admirable efficiency and precision of her preparation for a Homeric struggle for existence, as against the Muscovite. Be- yond these, still more splendid seemed the elf-forgetting nobility with which the government of the Mikado honored Russian bravery and rendered homage to the Russian dead.
 A new level of chivalry was exhibitcd new era of international magnamity appeared, an epoch of restraint and of courtesy, in that terrific war which gave to Japan her place among the great pow CTS of the earth.
 A little earlier the war with China gave Formosa to Japanese colonization. That with Russia secured for her the control of Corea, and of southern Man churia. For the most part the world sympathized with the imperial acquisi- tiveness. It was recognized that Corea was incapable of a native administration strong enough to resist the tremendous
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THE MAN WITH THE LARAT-By Richard Spllane

empires and then there is the ocean on which you said one has to travel for seven days without ever seeing land. Is this not true2
 ''Yes. responded Pupin.
 "Ahr exclaimed his hearers. How can you send telegram over water? You cannot put telegraph poles In the water."
 No" said Pupin, I've do not do it that way We put q wire on the bottom of the sea and we send our message through that wire"
 The peasants eyes grew wide.
 "O-h-h;" they said, but the sea has no bottom"
 That is an old superstition" Pupin replied "The sea has bottom, but it is very deep"
 The peasants scratched their heads. They did not believe. They could not believe the word of man against what was known to their forefathers for ages. But still they were inquistive
 You say" they pursued, "a cable gram comes by cable underneath the ocean Who made that invention of the cable?'
 An American." answered Pupin.
 "Ah-hi" said the peasants gravely, those Americans-those Americans; they are clever. very clever
 "Yes,' said Pupin, they are very clever people,"
 More clever than anybody in this vil- lage?" asked the peasants.
 Yes" responded Pupin, ''very much more clever than anybody in this vil- lage."
 Then the smartest of all the peasants spoke up.
 Michael" he said. addressing pupin, "how in the name of sin do you make living there?"
 "Well." said Pupin. .I make my living there by learning many a lesson and particularly by knowing a trick or two and knowing it just little bit better than anybody else"
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ings of societies. 1t holds the raw ma terial of the bost eDtainable answers to all the questions that can arise in factories, stores and offices of all kinds whatsoever.
 Millions have been spent by great in rustrial establishments in experiments which would never have been made had the custom prevailed of turning first to such source of information as the public library soon will be, and learn ing thereby that the experiments had already been made and proven failures.
 Useful as public libraries now are they have scarcely begun to occupy the vast utilitarian field which awaits them. In the fields of mechanics, phsics. chemistry, manufacture. trans portation. commerce and many other topics, it is each day more difficult for the individual and even fos' the great incorporated industry, with all its experts, to keep so we'll informed of the worlds advance as to mako no costly errors. How great will be the saving when the public library brings close to those who daily need lit all that the world learns each day.
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name has been incorporated into the
 German language. The German word Pupinizierung' is in the German dic- tionary. It means that a certain prac-
 tical principle has received such inn
 mediate acceptance that it has become Ia necessary port iof electrical engin- eering. It has become incorporated into
 the common speech of the Germans. and it will remain a perpetual memorial to the genius of one of Americas most distinguished engineers.
 It is remarkable how some big men
 develop. Pupin came 10 America as a stowaway. He was born on farm in
 the smallest village of the smallest
 province in that land of many races, Hungary. He is 8 Serb. He comes of peasant stock His people for many generations have been Serbs of the old order. He landed in America without n dol lar. He wandered around the country searching for means to earn his bread.
 He worked on a farm in Delaware.
 When he had earned a little and ac-
 quired some knowledge of English he
 went back to New York. Then he got work in a factory.
 He had a great thirst for Knowledge. He was tall, strong and vigorous. While he worked in the factory in the day time, he was a student at night. He went to Cooper Union--that great free school in which so many earnest men have acquired an education.
 Pupin had a bent for mechaniccs. He was exact. He studied mathematics fiercely, thoroughly. He would not let go any problem until he Md solved il.
 After he had left the night school and went to his room, he studied until nature demanded rest. He lived very simply; he saved and saved every penny he could.
 He entered Columbia university in 1879. He had $500 and he considered himself rich. He was in the university
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himself has no need of seeming. There are plenty who know the real from the counterfeit. whether the counter feit be coin or people.
 If you are real gold have no fear that you will not be discovered. Only fear the acid test when the discovery is made.
 Be honest. simple and sincere Be yourself.
 Isaac Newton once said, in substance, that we with all our science had but picked up a few pebbles from the shore of the great ocean of Truth.
 If that is true of the outward world it is still moro true of the inward. We know more of the physical universe than we know of ourselves.
 By the law of balance the inner, sub jective world Is as great as the outer, objective world.
 Both are infinite
 Just now we seem to be on the edge of an enchanting new science, the knowledge of ourselves.e
 We know so little of this as yet that 1t does not pay to dogmatize.
 The proper attitude is to throw away all preconceived notions and to ap- proach this study with minds eager only for the truth.
 It has already been proved beyond question that both mind and body can be influenced by suggestion, whether the suggestion comes from ourselves or from another
 It has also been proved, not only by faith healing cults, but by scientists that many diseases can be cured by the same process.
 The theory is that the suggestion works on the subconscious mind. What the subconscous mind is nobody knows. 1t is simply name to describe a myste- rious power within us not yet understood an intelligence that sleeps not, that guides our bodily functions, that pre-? serves us in times of sudden peril, that seemingly senses things unknown to the
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into character, making the one com ponent of the other, and thus construct manhood, not alone for usefulness in the ordinary humdrum of life, but to invest the entire man with an atmos- phere conducive to making life radiant delightful, and useful-to teach one not alone to do, but to be-. This was the conception which Dr. Murfee had of q thorough education.
 Swayed by this purpose. Dr. Murfee for a long period of years taught in several states but the bulk of his life work was done in Alabama. One never met him without finding him buoyant with enthusiasm concerning education. Nor did he expend his theories in mere phrasing, but reduced them to actual practice. His was the enthusiasm of patience. His passion was to make men, and to turn to practical account every advantage afforded in the drill of the class room to this end. He sought to excite assertion of salutary sort,
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four years. All the time he was there
 he worked. He was student by day and tutor by night. In vacation times
 he was a tutor, too. He was so good
 tutor that when his four years term
 expired he had saved s3,000. His uni-
 versity course cost him nothing for he
 won scholarship after scholarship.
 But he was not satisfied. After
 graduation he got aboard ship and went
 to En gland
 He entered Cambridge and studied
 there Then he went to Germany and
 studied in the greatest universities
 there. It was while in Berlin that he
 had the great honor bestowed upon him which he holds today. Columbia asked
 him to come back-to come back as a
 professor in the university he had en-
 tered as an immigrant boy. He is professor Of electro mechanics of Columbia today and he probably will
 remain in that position for the rest of
 his life.
 In the basement of the hall of phil osophy one great room is set apart for him. It is about one hundred feet deep and fifty feet wide. Two-thirds of this
 great room is his laboratory. The other portion is his office, and his office. is a beauty.
 In the laboratory he has developed many inventions of great value to the world. He has not confined himself to the telephone, but has gone into wire less as well. His advice for wireless tuning, which puts the different sta tions in perfect accord with each other, and his mutipleX system of radio te1egraphy were sold by him to the Marconi interests.
 Professor Pupin is one of the most intensely practical of American inven- tors. He has fair idea of the value of his creations. It is said that he got one million dollars cash for the
 Pupin coil. He gets s7,500 a year from the American Telephone and Telegraph company through the life of his patent
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impulse will not dissipate itself in its first big waves, but will carry further.
 On the long distance lines of the tele- phone companies at every eight miles on aerial circuits the Pupin coil is installed. The Pupin coil is a simple arrangement of wires wound around an iron core. The wires in the coil are heavily insulated. This coil of wires serves to spur on the electrical waves just as the weights on that lariat spurred on the waves created by shaking the rope.
 You may telephone today from New York to Chicago or New York to Dem yer. With a comparatively short time 1t is the confident expectation of the telephone people that you may teephona from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific It is all due to Pupins coils.
 But that is not all. The Pupin coil is not used on aerial lines alone. More of them are used perhaps underground than overground. They have made the electric telephone conduit what it is today They have made the land cable lines what they are today. If it were not for the Pupin coils. every large city would be a nightmare of aerial tele- phone lines.
 There is an underground telephone line from New York to Washington. It works perfectly. Soon there will be a similar line from Boston to Wash ington, and it is expected to work as well as the one from New York. The Pupin coil has made this possible.
 There is @ greater escape of elec- tricity when wires are underground than when strung overhead. Without the Pupin coil, it would not be possible to carry on telephone conversations through underground wires in cities for a distance of more than few miles. Everyone knows what is possible under ipresent conditions.
 Michael Idvorsky Pupin is world figure today through his inventions. He is so great a world figure Shat his
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his home and family and is received by his relatives and friends.
 It can be done.
 The writer knows similar case The man was lawyer. but became a drunk ard and was down and out. In his case Christian science was the rescue lark. For years he has not touched a drop. is again a successful lawyer and a man among men.
 It can be done.
 There are thousands of similar cases all over the land. Sometimes it has been one influence that worked the change, sometimes another. The means are not so important as the end. The fact is that these men, with the help of some outside agency, have reformed and saved themselves.
 It. can be done.
 How often have we heard men say that they could not overcome a particular habit, whether it was drinking, drugs or some other weakness that injured them mind and body.
 Bosh!
 Any man can quit anything on which he sets his will
 Man is not a slave, but a master.
 If he doesn't quit it is because he doesn't really want to quit Then some agency from outside must change the direction of his desire But if he &C., tually wishes to be rid of the old weak ness and to make his life better
 It can be done.
 personal word to you. whoever you are I want you to forget the whole world for a moment and just think of yourself
 Now. do not mistake this for an ap- peal to vanity. l want you to think of your very best self. | something within you perhaps as yet uncovered.
 Maybe you better tell us that but a small part of our energy is used, and psychologists assure us of the power Of constructive and healthful thoughts upon our lives
 Perhaps you only know the surface of this mysterious being you call your
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on this coil What he received from the Marconi people for his tuning de- vice is not known. What his other in- ventions brought him is a matter of speculation.
 Within twenty-fo four hours of filing one of his patents, the telephone people were searching for him everywhere they could think of One of the tele- phone officials got dn his trail, raced up to South Norwalk, Conn, then to Boston and then to Clark university at Worcester, Mass, and there found Pupin.
 Before that night closed deal had been consummated with Pupin for pur- chase of his invention
 Columbia considers him one of it's great est men and America ranks him among the foremost of it's scientists. But it is hard for people of that little town in the smallest province of his country, Banat, Hungary, to realize what Pupin Is today.
 He went over there recently to visit, and while he was there an important 2a- blegram was forwarded to the wee village fl om the nearest city in which there was a telegraph wire. The peasants heard with wonderment the tale that went the rounds-that the Pupin boy had received message from far away. They could not believe it.
 That evening Ee met lot of the peas ants in the village road. Some of them he had gone to school with. They crowd ed round him end wanted to know if 1t was true that 6ay cablegram had come to him from that mysterious land far away called America.
 "Yes," said Pupin, 'it is true
 When was it sent?' they asked
 '1t was sent this morning" Pupin re- piled
 This morning. they exclaimed. And 1t is already here?' .'Yes. Smiled Pupin. Thepeasants shook their heads
 Do not tell IFS that" said they. Be tSy een here anl America there are three
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A N intensely earnest man went out "A into the grounds of Columbia ! university with d lariat in his hand. Several friends were with him. He attached one end of the lariat to the wall of one of the university buildings, and then. when he had walked 25 or 30 feet away from the wall, he shook the other end of the rope vigorously.
 He and his companions watched the effect with the greatest interest. The impulse given to the rope by the earnest mans shaking made the lariat wisgle. There was a most decided weave motion to that part of the rope near the man $ hand But beyond that first big weave the motion was comparatively slight
 He shook the lariat again and again. Each time the result was the same-a heavy wave near the hand that gave the impulse; very little motion at the end near the wall.
 As best they could some of the men measured the size of the waves. Then, at the direction of the earnest man, one of the group attached a leaden weight to the lariat midway between the man and the wall. The rope was shaken again. This time the first wave was not so sharp and the waves beyond the first one more nearly approximated the 0lZe or the ITSt. put lHt iillpuiSo uld hOt reach the wall end of the lariat
 After a lot of trials with the one weight. two more weights were attached 10 the lariat, one midway between the center and the wall, the other between the center and the mans hand. Again and again the larat was shaken. The first wave was lighter or smaller in size, and the succeeding waves carried further than before.
 Wajphfg f. tached to the rope at regular distances and the earnest man shook the lariat again. With all these weights the wave motion extended from his hand to the end of the rope at the wall.
 The earnest man ceased his trials then. He sighed a great sigh of relief. He had demonstrated a theory that had been born in his brain. Incidentally he had discovered something of immense value to the world.
 You would not suppose such simple thing as the waving of rope would be of momentous consequence. But that earnest man who went out on the grounds of Columbia university and made those experiments took out & patent on his idea on January 19 1900, and his patent has made him rich. The earnest man was Michael 1dvorsky Pupin
 The principle he discovered through the agitation of that rope has made iohS distance telephoning possible.
 Before Pupin gave his invention to the world it was possible under the very best conditions to telephone from New York to Chicago But long distance telephone was not d commercial success. His in- Fvention increased the transmission range of the telephone two and quarter times II has resulted in a tremendous economy Ii has saved countless millions Of dollars fin copper and other equipment
 It is all very simple. But then. all great things are simple. What Pupir has done to the telephone has been simply what he did to that lariat. He has loaded k or weighted it % that the electrical
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How shall We make Newark q more efficient city?'
 Several departments of the city gov ernment at the library's suggestion have contributed to the exhibit and sent material to illustrate their own work and to show how closely their sev- eral activities are allied to the plan of making more efficient city. All this well Illustrates the relations which many public libraries bear to the cities by which they are maintained.
 If q public library may extend it's activities beyond the field of book pur- chase. book storing and book distribu- ton, then it becomes at once an insti- tuition particularly well fitted to CO., operate with any CT all of the de- partments of it's city.
 In the last 10 years the modern American free public library has proved, not in one city only but in q score. and not in one town only but in hundreds. Ia much more unique institution than even those responsible for it's develop ment anticipated. Time and again 1t has happened that q community, stirred
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(The much discussed movement for the wider use of the school plant has its analogue in that for getting the maximum of service out of citys public library In this field or en- reavor John Cotton Dana of the New ark public library enters a claim for his city as a pioneer in liberality and extent)
 Exclusive service the Survey press bureau.)
 A CITY plan exhibition now oocu-
 A pies several large rooms in the x A free public library building of Newark. N. J. The rooms were made ready, the articles classified and hung and about POO labels printed on 8 hand press by assistants in the library. This exhibition contains no pictures or draw ing of civic centers. plazas. parks. wa-er fronts or other beauty spots for New ark or any other city. The city plan commission, which supplied most of the material, confined itself to the study of such homely facts as may help them to reach wise answers to the question.