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state of Washington is the safest in
this respect, her loss being but .o011
per cent.
In 1910 more than 1900 persons were
affected by lightning, and of these one
third were killed. The bureau of stand
ards maintains that large number of
these people are hurt in homes or build
ings, which had not been properly
equipped with lightning rods.
The United States is not SO progress
sive as Europe in its use of lightning
rods. However. this country has made
more advancement in adopting rods
recently The White House, the Capt.
toll, the Washington Monument. light
houses and smokestacks on govern
ment buildings were the first to receive
careful protection from lightning.
There are two systems used in pro-
lection against lightning, the point
system and the contour system. The
m ajority of experts consider the point
system superior to the contour. The
former provides building with light
ming rods, each one of which has an
a erial terminal with points that receive
the discharge of lightning The con-
tour system, which is popular in Hun
gary, consists of iron bands or wire
that outline the roof of a building and
form a network.
The Washington Monument has ex-
cited a great deal of interest through
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ally instances have been recorded
where a picture of whole tree was
tattooed on the body by lightning. AS
rule il is some kind of plant growth
that is reproduced.
There is more less fantastic tale
of two men who found refuge from an
| unexpected storm in old shack made
Of reeds. They were watching the
storm from the doorway and wonder
ing how soon they would be able to
J continue on their way when lightning
struck the place. throwing both men to
the ground. One had boot and trou
sers badly torn. On making an exam
nation the physician in charge found
on the body a fair reproduction of a
pine tree. a poplar and also the stem
of the mans watch. The body had act
ed sensitive plate. his injuries
amounted to little. and except for the
curious impress Of trees aud watch
stem. in few hours lie would not have
known that the lightning had struck
him.
There is another instance on record OF
a couple of men who were travelling in
the Fosges mountains They rushed
for trees to escape the pelting, driving
rain. A stroke of lightning knocked
them senseless. and IT was thought on
first examination that they were dead.
The best attention and care We're given
them, and they survived. but on the
back of each. extending to the thighs.
was the imprint of leaves of a lime
tree.
The bureau Of standards has been in
terested in gathering data on fires
caused by lightning, amount of prop
erty loss. number. of people affected by
lightning stroke and the best means of
protection.
1t was found that in large cities the
proportion of fires caused by lightning
was low compared to fires due to other
causes. In rural districts the proper
tion is somewhat higher. In the state
of Illinois. during the year 1912 there
were 5,197 fires, only 297 of which were
due to lightning. These figures do not
include the city of Chicago. Chicago,
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Observation-Disclosures Ma
TIONAL PARK, Descriptive. Geo.
logical. Historical. Compiled by
Jack E. Haynes. B. A. Thirtieth
annual edition. revised and enlarged
St. Paul: Published by the author
OUTING HANDBOoks-sMALL BOAT
BUILDING. BY H. w. Patterson.
New York: Outing Publishing Com
pany.
NAVIGATION. BY Lieut.. Command
err F. w. Sterling. L. S. N. retired
New York: Outing Publishing Com
pany.
MERRY MONOLOGUES; a Laugh for
Every Day I'm the Year. BY Mary
Moncure Parker, author of the play.
shadows" etc. Chicago: T. S.
Denison Company.
THE GERMAN SPIRIT. BY Kuno
Francke. professor of the history of
German culture at Harvard Uni
versity. New York: Henry Holt &
PuNIsHMENT: 4 Play in Four Acts.
BY Louise Rurleigh and Edward
Hale Bierstadt. With introduction
by Thomas Mott Osborne. New York 4:
Henry Holt e. Co.
4 CAPITALISTS VIEW OF SOCIALISM.
BY the author of From Boyhood to
Manhood" With an introduction
by Benjamin Paul Blood. New York ::
Parke, Austin & Lipscomb, Inc.
DESTINY. By Charles Neville Buck,
author of The Call of the Cumber-
lands" etc. Illustrations by r. F.
SchabelitZ. New York: W. J. Watt
& Co.
LIVING FROM Eggs AND POUL-
TRY. BY Herbert w Brown. IL
Illustrated. New York: Orange Judd
Company.
THE LANCE OF kANANA: 4 story Of
Arabia. BY Harry w. French t"Abd
Ell Ardavan'D. With illustrations by
Garrett. Boston: Lothrop. Lee *
Shepard Company.
WHEN I WAS BOY IN RUSSIA. BY
Vladimir de Bogory Mokrievitch.
illustrated from photographs. Bos-
ton: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Com
pany.
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STORY OF THE TOMATO A
ROMANCE OF DINING TABLE.

IN HE growth Of the tomato appe-
title In the United States and in
many of the other countries of
the world Is one of the roma noes or the
dining table. and the development of
the tomato raising. shipping and pack
ing industry In one of 1.-THE marvels Of
the works. day world Up to 1880 the
tomato was not used as food In the
United States. 1t was known as the
love apple" thought to be poisonous.
and was grown only as an ornamental
plant, but today IL is a vegetable of
universal popularity. and among the
leading commercial cT0ps. Although
few Americans found. about 1889. that
the tomato was not poisonous. and that
IL was paietable raw or cooked. il did
not rapidly como into popularity. 1t
WAS after the close Of the American
civil war that II began to come into the
esteem of many thousands Of Ameri-
cans and seemed to set out upon its
campaign of conquest. which would put
it. in one form or another. upon nearly
every dinner table in the land. both In
winter and summer.
The tomatoes Of the days Of ones
StSdt- were very BBnail.
about like a cherry. in fact. One Of the
old varieties WAS called the cherry or
currant tomato. the little red globes
growing in clusters and forming very
handsome plants for the yard or flower
garden. 1t was highly thought of as .
garden ornament. but the thought that
the red fruits might be good to eat and
that they could be developed into the
size Of large pears and apples was very
SLOW in coming into mems minds.
The tomato is of South American ORR
gin. and 10 described as "A weak
stemmed. trailing annual with Jagged
leaves. resembling the potato In its
general aspect" Botanists call the plant
Lycoperiscum esculantum. 1t 10 a
member of the Solanaceas or night
shade family, one OF the members of
which family is belladonna. or the dead
ly nightshade, European herb. long
known to the medical world a. q poi
sonous plant. but useful in pharmacy.
The white potato. Solanum seeulan-
tum. and many Of the pepper are
among the Solanaesas or members Of
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This is not a war book in any sense Of
the word. 1t is, on the contrary. a
scholarly and well balanced study Of
an important period in the formation
Of a state.
WITH AMERICANS OF PAST AND
PRESENT DAYS. BY j. ]. Jusse-
rand, ambassador of France to the
United States. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
In. its timeliness well as in its
substance this is book to make Amer
leans renew themselves in justifiable
pride NJ. Jusserand here offers group
of studies in friendship. in the friend
ship between France and the United
States. And to be counted among the
friends of France is today a SURPRISING
honor for both individuals and states.
For the first of these studies the writer
goes back to that earlier time when SO
many of the youth of France, afame
with love of liberty. set out, crusad-
er-1ike. to offer service to the colonists
in their struggle for independence. NJ.
Jusserand makes Rochambeau the CEN
ter of this group. drawing upon unpub-
lished documents for material that
throws new light upon the general at
titude of France, as well as upon the
group Immediately surrounding Ro-
chambeau and cooperating with him
in the interests of the colonists An
Otner STUDY gives an Interesting az
count of Washington's final personal
surrender to our generous allies and
of his long and loving friendship with
Rochambeau. Lafayette and many an
other soldier of France. There is here,
too. an appreciation of Abraham Lin
coin and a record of the sympathy of
France in the supreme crisis which
Lincoln turned to the preservation of
the country and its sequence of free
dom for the negro. Again. there is the
story of Maj. L'Enfant and our debt to
him for one of the beautiful cities of
the world. Other circumstances and
occasions. all remindful, and happily
remindfui. of the single theme of
amity between the two republics, serve
to amplify and emphasize this central
fact. One reading here will be glad to
be reminded, just now. of our debt of
friendship to very grand and glori-
Gus country.
LET Us GO AFIELD. BY Emerson
Hough. author of out of Doors"
etc. New York: d. Appleton 6 Co.
Experience as sportsman and
boundless enthusiasm for out-of-do
life are behind this book. The expert
ence has made Mr.. Hough into a kind
of American game encyclopedia, an au-
thority on places, and seasons. and per-
sona1 habit. and the varying degrees of
sport that lie in the pursuit of this or
that of the game resources of the coun-
try 1t has made him master, also. of
the exact and multitudinous detail of
this pursuit. To the sportsman he is,
along the lines with which he deals.
nothing short of a text book of re-
liable information. AS for his en-
thusiasm, that more than covers the
fisherman and the hunter. 1t extends
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the Solanum family 1t is a large fam
lily. and in works on botany one may
read that this order of plants embraces
no less than Ave tribes, seventy-two
genera and 1.T5O species. found in all
warm countries. particularly America
An immense amount Of experime tation
has been given to the tomato plant for the
purpose Of improving the bearing capacity
and size. shape. flavor and solidity Of the
fruit. The list OF the names Of varieties
would be very long one, even IL they
were collected, and the number Of COM
mercial varieties being cultivated today
would be surprising to any one who has
only the usual Information about the to-
mato 1t might be set down as q fact that
new varieties are brought to the attention
Of growers every season. An authority
on the culture Of tomatoes has said that
in sections where the rainfall is small
some tomato growers do not prune vines
They say that while pruning IL all right in
localities where there ia plenty Of mois-
ture. in more arid regions IL IL best not to
prune. Tomatoes should contain about
80 per cent Of water. and TO make proper
growth and development good rains or
good artificial watering every ten or
twelve days IL essential The cultivation
Of tomatoes should be. according to this
authority. about the same as that given
corn. beans or okra frequent light stir
ring OF the surface soil without disturbing
the roots
matoes have changed and improved
though the now methods call for more
work than did the old style OF raising
them. Expert and thrifty growers now
stake" the plants and tie them lightly
but strongly TO their supports. Some sue
cSsSful growers train them to grow on
trellises Of different patterns and height
and II II quite common to hnd tomato
plants climbing poles as tall as bean
poles and generally stouter. Under the
old plan no supports OF any kind were
used. no pruning Of surplus shoots was
done, and little or no attention was paid
to the plants after they began to run"
out and cover the ground. Much Of the
fruit under the dense shade Of the plant
under these conditions rotted. especially
during wet spell. That was the old way
of raising tomatoes and II may be OBJ
served In some tomato patches today. but
in the great trucking centers where to-
matoes are shipped to market by the train
load or raised for the canneries under
contract IT 20 much by the ton. care is
exercised In the selection Of the seed, the
varieties 70 be planted and In the treat
msnt Of the vtnes.
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Harvard University

Cambridge: Harvard University
Press. -..
NARROWED IN THE FOREST, the
story Of a Primitive Fight for Life.
BY A Hyatt Verrill. author of "Har-
per's Book for Young Naturalists."
etc. illustrated. New York: Har-
per & Bros.
POEMS OF WAR AND PEACE, Includ-
ing the Panama Ode, the Corridors
of Congress, etc. BY Robert Under
wood Johnson, author of "Saint-Gau-
dens: An Ode and Other Verse" In
dianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill Company.
AMERICAN NEUTRALITY; II. Cause
and Cure. BY James Mark Baldwin.
Ph D.. etc. New York: c. P Put
MANS Sons.
IMPRESSIONS AND EXPERIENCES
OF A FRENCH TROOPER. 1914
1915. BY Christian Mallet. New
York: f. p. Dutton & co.
GERMAN ATROCITIES; An Official In
vestigntion. BY J. H. Morgan. NJ. A.
New York: f. P. Dutton & Co.
THE DANGERS OF HALF-PREPAR-
EDNESS: Plea for Declaration
of American Policy. An address by
Norman Angel. author of The
Great Illusion" etc. New York: G.
p. Putnam's Sons.
PALMISTRY FOR ALL: Containing
New Information on the study OF
the Hand Never Before Published.
BY Cheiro. With preface to Amer
lean readers and with upward of
sixty illustrations. New York: G.
i. Putnams Sons.
Verse. Edited by Alfred Kreym-
borg. New York: Alfred A. knopf.
CHICAGO POEMS. BY Clark Sand
L Jo1t q, 4 -
THE CoNsCRIPr MOTHER. BY Rob-
ert Herrick, author of The Master
of the Inn New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
TRUE STORIES OF GREAT AMERI-
CANS-DANIEL BOONE. BY Lu-
cile CULVER. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
THAT'S WHY STORIES. BY Ruth o.
Dyer. Frontispiece by John Goss.
Decorations by Lester NJ. Chace.
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
THE DETERMINED ANGLER AND
THE BROOK TROUT; An Anthology
icaI Volume of Trout Fishing. Trout
Histories. Trout Lore. Trout Resorts
and Trout Tackle. By Charles
ers." etc. Second edition, greatly
enlarged and illustrated. New York:
6. p. Putnams Sons.
THE VENUS OF MILO; An ArchcoIoG-
teal study of the Goddess of Wom-
anhood. BY Paul Carus. Illustrat
ed. Chicago: Open Court Publish
ing Company.
HISTORY OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE;
From the First authentic Annals to
the Present Time. With an intro
duction by William r. Shepherd,
Phi. n. Volumes Y and VI Edited
by Edward S. Ellis. A. NJ, and Au-
Eustus r. Keller. illustrated. New
York: The International Historical
Society.
THE HERITAGE OF TYRE. By Will
liam Brown Me!oney. New York:
The Macmillan Company.
HAYNES GUIDE, THE COMPLETE
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to the lover Of the open. to the one who
prefers to tramp about with no hostile
intent against anything along the way.
with no other wish than to get touch
wood and stream. However. this book
Is not for this kind of reader. 1t is
intended for the sportsman. and to him
it will be an unalloyed delight and
easily to resist. Mr.. Hough writes de-
lightfully. with a fresh and snappy out
of doors turn to what he says. He can
give one the least detail of the special
art that lies in most kinds of fishing.
Fishing is his speciality. But he does
have a good many informing and in
teresting things to say besides about
hunting the bear and the deer and the
shooting of game. He plats out the
great game fields of the world and has
a few forceful words to say about the
wastefulness of our attitude toward
these. Good pictures-well made and
well chosen pictures-go along to re-
inforce certain points in the text. The
whole is a stirring story of the open. a
fresh and energiZing story for the low
ers of sport.
BLACK SHEEP: Adventures in West
Africa. BY Jean Kenyon Mackenzie.
Illustrated. Boston: Houghton Milf
fin Company.
These adventures came to an Ameri-
among the black sheep of inland
Africa. Nearly ten years of the girls
life went into these experiences and
out of them, from letters back home.
this book is gathered. missionary books
of earlier years lacked color and in
terest for the general reader. however
absorbing they may have been to mem
bers of missionary societies. In those
days there appeared to be but a single
way to God. and that was by the path
of prayer. Now there are many roads.
Folks. Christian as well as heather. are
learning to find their souls and to save
them. too. by work and love and kind
ness, by praying with their hands in an
outreach of helpfulness, by praying
with their feet in a swift running
giving light and color and life to the
otherwise discriminating mission chron-
icles. This altogether charming series
of letters from Africa, this adventure in
that far-away region. is of the very best
of these new stories of the later ways
of missionary work. These letters brim
with industry. with accounts of schools
where many everyday things are taught
and where the African men. women and
children come into a natural relation
ship of trust in the great new God to
Whom in the simplest manner they pass
up their thanks for even the most
homely of their benefits. There are
hours of happy association with these
native people set down here. And there
are rarely poetic moments. besides. out
in the night under an enthralling Afri
can moon. or lone periods of the day
close to the secrets of this vast and
mysterious continent. Records of long
journeys are here-"gone forty-six days
and travelled four hundred and perhaps
forty understanding by night, walk
ing through the forest or open path by
day. going from one strange point to
another. in this quest of the black
sheep. This is beautiful story of
great adventure.
ton by Irwin S. Cobb. illustrated.
New York: Barse {; Hopkins.
want to go on living forever. since
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Brent. c. II. A Master Builder. E-sasssb.
CHADWICK, E. A. In the Footsteps of the
Brontes. 1914. E-B77ssc. ,.
Chalmers. stephen. The Beloved Phy'eisn-
E-T7s3c.
Cook. Sir Edward Deiane of The Times E
Exercises at the Presentation by Citizens II
Washington to the Association Of Oldest inhab-
itants of a Portrait Of Its President, Theodore
Fitch. a. II. Junipero Sierra 1914. E-sessf.
Kahn. Alexander. Life Of General Jonre. T.
r. Is9ssr' Martin Conversations WIN .a,'''
Oidroyd. o. H. The Poets Lincoln. E-Lssoip.
Polk. W. II. I.eonida. Polk. ~. E-P.sasp.
Richards. J. +. Abraham Lincoln. EIIsr,.
shepherd. II. r.. The Representative Authors
of Maryland 1911. E-ssh4sr.
Therese soeur. Thoughts of the Servant Of
wallace. u. u. The Life OF Henry Laurcns.
E-fS11w
washhurn. {. C. Theodore Roosevelt. E.
Washington. II. T. Rocker T. washinrtons
Own Story of His Life and Work. E-w:sea.
zimmern. Helen. Italian Leaders Of Today.
E-9Zsii.
Historical Studies.
Rcnezet. l.. y. The story of the Map Of
Europe. Fso RIBS
Greasy. Sir E. $. Turkey. rsa-css2t.
msn Empire. F2ats's.
joyce. +. A. Mexican Archaeology. 1914.
FFa5-Jsa
kero'iias. 6. Elefthrrios vcnizeics. His Life
and Work. fsia-kias
Paterson. W. y. German Culture. fE41 -F2isr.
Payne. T.. ]. Colonies of the World. Fo1 P2as.
Rose. J. II. The development Of tho European
Nations 1s1o-1al4 5th cd. fso-R12da.
say"c. A. II. Ancient Empires of the East.
roe -Saga.
stobart. j. Z. The Glory That Was Greece.
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Adam. G. NJ Spain and Portugal. Fac Adiss.
Cabot, J H. ed ITALY ~, Including n,,. MeriTale's
Cott"rin. II. u. Medieval Italy During q
Thousand Yenrs lso5-lsI3l. Fs5 -cso7m.
Pitt ". %. Itai. and the rnholy Alliance.
Germany and France.
Batinol. Louis The Century of the Renais-
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Evolution Of Prussia. Fi7PrM3s1.
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each Of them in his own rhymstering
sphere knows the wondrous trick of
finding always the right word for the
right place. These two, between them.
Of philosophy, salt it with the savors
of wisdom and human understanding
and richen it with the music of their
art. One of them is James Whitcomb
Riley. The other is Walt Mason-and
both of them are the poets of the plain
people. In this vein of serious appre-
citation Irwin Cobb closes an other
wise characteristically playful intro
auction to new volume Of Walt
choice collection of Walt Mason rhymes
wherein shrewd kindness. common
sense philosophy and happy humor
keep the world turned bright side out
day by day for innumerable readers.
This is budget of good cheer, good
sense, good grit. And all of 1t is so
true, so simply and unaffectedly true,
that it is infinitely touching. even when
it appears to be only playing Along
with the Bible, and Epictetus, and Mar
Gus Aurelius. and Benjamin Franklin.
and only few others, Walt Mason
measures up roundly to the daily-need
standard.
CHRONICLES OF THE WHITE NOUN
TAINS. BY Frederick w. Kilbourne.
illustrated. Boston: Houghton Milf
fin Company.
The White mountain region has al
ready been pretty fully treated by de-
scriptions of its scenery, by eulogies
of its landscape. by the retelling of it's
legends, by collecting and reprinting
it's poetry. by booklets or it's various
parts. and by any numberof guide books
for the use of travellers. But not lately,
at least, has there appeared a history
of the White mountains So in order
To, O of a
ature this subject, Mr.. kilbourne
offers this compact and comprehensive
chronicle of notable events connected
with the region. Beginning with the
Indian legends and early explorers, the
book passes swiftly to the first settlers,
those on the one hand who gathered i'll
hamlets and, on the other. those who
made their homes in solitary and re-
mote places There are here interest
ing anecdotes connected with the for
cign visitors, with the poets and paint
ers and scientific explorers who came
to the mountains. There are descrip-
tons of early trails and the work of
the first pathbuilderS. The coming of
the railroads. the building of hotels,
the change from an aloof and inacces-
sible spot to one of easy approach and
popular favor are given here in full
and connected story of development.
Mr.. kilbourne sketches in some of the
notable White mountain characters and
tells the story of some of the casual
Ties tnat nave mere be1dilen touTlSt ana
explorer. He traces the growth of the
lumber industry, defining and describ-
ing the measures designed to preserve
and perpetuate the forests rounda about.
The book. as whole. gives the human
touch, the personal contact, without
which nature, even at its grandest,
fails to elicit any great degree of in
terest.
FATHER BERNARD's PARISH. BY
Florence Olmstead, author of "A
clustered Romance" New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons.
Father Bernard's parish is little
section clipped neatly out from one of
the swarming quarters of New York
city. Here, much as if in solitary
community of their own, Irish. Ger