LADY BELINDA’S GARDEN.
The Puzzling Problem It Presented
Can You Help Her?
T.adv Belinda is an enthusiastic gar
dener. In the illustration she is de
picted in the act of worrying out a
pleasant little problem which I will re
Lady Belinda’s Garden.
late. One of her gardens is oblong
in shape, inclosed bv a high holly
hedge, and she is turning it into a ros
ary for the cultivation of some of her
choicest roses. She wants to devote
exactly half of the area of the garden
to the flowers, in one large bed, and
the other half to be a path going all
round it of equal breadth through
out. Such a garden is shown in the
diagram at the foot of the picture.
How is she to mark out the garden
under these simple conditions She
lias only a tape, the length of the
garden, to do it with, and. as the holly
hedge is so thick and dense, she must
make all her measurements inside.
Lady Belinda did not know the exact
dimensions of the garden, and. as it
was not necessary for her to know. I
also give no dimensions. It is quite
a simple task, no matter what the
size or proportions of the garden may
he. Yet how many lady gardeners
would know just how to proceed? The
rape may he quite plain—that is, it
need not be a tape measure.
The Solution.—All that Lady Be
linda need to do was this. She
should measure from A to B, fold her
tape in four and mark off the point E,
which i> thus one-quarter of the side.
Then in ihe same way. mark off ibe
point F, one-fourth of the side A I).
Now. if she makes E G equal to A F.
and G H equal to E F. then A H is the
AH EC.
I—'--e
8
F
required width for the path in order
that the bed shall be exactly half the
area of the garden. An exact numer
ical measurement ran only be oh
tained when the sum of the squares
of the two sides is a square number
Thus, if the garden measured 1- poles
l>y 5 poles (where the squares of 12
and 5, 144 and 25, sum to lt>9, the
square of 13), then 12 added to 5, less
33. would equal 4<4 of this. 1 pole,
would be the width of the path.
A TOY WINDMILL.
It Can Be Made with a Boy's Jack
knife.
Kvery boy who is the least hit
handy with his knife can make this
windmill, but follow ihese directions:
To make the mil! whittle from soft
bine two pieces an inch thick, an inch
and a half wide and 12 inches long,
first halve these pieces together on
their flat sides, so as to form a Greek
cross. Each arm will he tive ami a
quarter inches long and an inch and a
half wide (Fig. 1). Next, to make the
sails, take one of the pieces and cut
down one edge of the arm until you
Diagrams.
have a smooth, flat surface slanting
from the upper edge on the left-hand
side to the lower edge on the right
hand side. Turn the arm ovei and
rut off the opposite edge in the same
way until you have a flat, thin blade
not over an eighth of an inch thick
Treat the other three arms in the
same manner and be careful to havr
them all slant in the same direction
so that when the wind strikes against
them they will ail tend to turn the
wheel the same way. The finished
parts are shown in the pic'ure. so that
you will have no trouble in making
them correctly. Then put the cross
together ?nd bore a smal' hole exact
Iv in the center. Take a piece of half
inch board, six inches wide, 12 inches
long, for the platform to hold the mill
(See Fig. 2). At each end screw 1
small block firmly in position to sup
port the shaft.
When?
Black—Can you tell me the answet
to this, White: When is an apple
pie?
White—When is an apple pie what'
Black—No, not when is an apple
pie what,” when is an apple pie?
White—My dear chap, are you go
ing off your head?
Black—Not at all. An apple is pie
when it is covered in with crust anc
sugar and things and put in a dish.
(White's eyes assume a glassy stare
md he goes away waving his arms it
e.un>h agony.)
EATING BETWEEN MEALS.
*Twi\t breakfast and dinner.
And dinner and tea.
A boy may get hungry
As hungry as can be.
But if he’s impatient
And eats right away
ifis appetite's gone
For the rest of the day.
Whereas by just waiting.
This fact I assert.
His bread and potatoes
Will taste like* dessert.
—Alden Arthur Knipc. in St. Nicholas.
CLOTHES GROW ON TREES.
The Lazy Savages of Uganda Do Not
Have to Work for Food or Raiment.
People in civilized kinds who read of
the difficulties experienced by traders
and explorers in Africa in the matter
of selling adequate labor for house
building and transport, says the Tech
nical World, are apt to marvel why
i fhese savages will not work. The
truth is. nature is too kind to them.
Their houses grow in the shape of
reeds and rushes; the ants provide
mortar out of the earth from their
i giant hills: a trap set in a moment
I for an antelope will provide meat for
: a week: while such fruits and vege
j tables as may be needed grow wild in
reckless profusion, foremost among
i them being the plantain.
As to their clothing, in Uganda, at
any rate, this grows upon trees. The
Piucking a Dress.
bark-cloth tree of East Central Africa
lias front time immemorial provided
these people with garments of soft,
flexible, natural cloth, sewn together
by the women. It is extremely light,
porous and durable, nearly white in
; color, and readily stripped from the
tree like cork.
! Vnfortunately, since the construc
tion of the Uganda railway—one of
the chain of lines that penetrate the
; African continent from Cape Town al
most to the pyramids—the women and
girls of I'ganda are beginning to ask
for white and colored cottons of civ
ilized make. For the people are fast
amassing wealth through the opening
up of the country.
The child king of I'ganda. Datidi
: Cltwa. however, still keeps the hark
j cloth for his regal robes, though it
is hard for the youngster to be digni
fied as he sits at itis lessons in a niis
! sionary school in Mengo. the Uganda
• capital.
CUB BEAR'S ADVENTURES.
And the Coming of the Animal with
the Long Ears.
The next morning early the little
Cub Hear got up and rubbed his eyes
with his paws, instead of washing
them as little boys do.
Just then he heard a noise as if
some animal were coming, and he ran
, to the mouth of the den and looked
out. and said: I se-» the qneerest
looking animal coming up the path. It
lias long cars and a great big mouth,
and a queer-looking tail, and looks
something like a horse, but still it
doesn't look just like a horse," and
just then the owl saw the animal and
said: "Who-o-o, who-o-o?" and the ani
mal answered: "Hee-haw. hee-haw,
lioe-haw." And the Circus Hear said:
"I know who that is. That is a mule.
| His name is Neddie. Just then
1 Neddie came to the mouth of the
| den. and I lie little C'ttb Bear said, very
i politely: ‘‘Come in. Mr. Neddie;” and
he came into the den. and the little
: Cub Hear said: "Mr. Neddie, we are
j going to try and build a house big
I enough for all the animals, so if they
j come to see us we will have a place
! for them to stay. Can you help us?”
I Then Mr. Neddie said: "I would be
i very glad to. because your brother
was very good to me when we were in
i the circus." and the little Cub Hear
i said: "What can you do?” And Xed
! die said: 1 haven't worked for a long
! while, but 1 can kick like everything.”
The little Ctih Bear said: "Well, here
is a soft place in the rock. Perhaps
if you will kick, it will fall down and
make more room.” And Neddie turned
around and kicked the rock, and it fell
| down: and he kicked, and he kicked,
j and more rocks fell down; and he
kicked, and he kicked, and more rocks
fell down; and he kept on kicking, and
more rocks fell down, and the bears
picked up the rocks and carried them
out, and when he got through there
was a nice large room, and the little
Cub Bear said: “We will call this Ned
dies room." That day the bears
worked hard trying to find enough to
eat for themselves and for all the
other animals that were coming to
see them, for the little Circus Bear
told his father and mother just what
kind of things the circus animals
! liked to eat.
Before he went to bed that night
j the little Cub Bear said to his father:
I “I am very glad that my brother was
; good to Mr. Neddie when he was in
the circus, because if he hadn’t been
maybe he would have kicked me in
j stead of the rocks."—Curtis D. Wilbur
in St. Nicholas.
Game of Hunt the Fox.
Partners are chosen and stand in
two lines, partners opposite. The
fox at the head starts and runs down
the line and back, pursued by his
partner, the hunter. He can pass
through the line, in and out, but the
hunter must follow him* When caught,
the couple take their places at the
foot of line
i
i BRITISH LIBERAL LEADER QUITS
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Ill Health and Too Much Work Forces
Distinguished Lieutenant of Glad
stone and Friend of Carnegie
Into Easier Post.
London.—John Motley, the distin
guished liberal leader, has been ele
vated to the peerage: he will, how
ever. retain the office of secretary for
India in the reorganized British parlia
ment. Motley's reason for accepting
a peerage is his declining health and I
a throat atfection that makes the
strain of the work in the house of
commons too great.
In leaving the house of commons
that homily loses one of its most noted
members. Many accomplishments in
and out of his official duties have un
doubtedly earned this title for the
English liberal leader, historian, the
ologian. orator, editor and student.
Morley has likewise been called the
Puritan of politfcs, a title which his
I passion for righteousness and his pub
lice austerity have conspired to win
him.
It is difficult to imagine Morlej ■
among the peers, for whose benefit he ,
invented the phrase: "Mind them or i
end them." When made secretary of ;
state of India his critics said he would j
make a weak executive. He proved j
otherwise. He made a vigorous speech |
in the house of commons, in whiclt lie j
announced his purpose to crush sedi j
tion in India with a strong hand. He ;
defended tlit* sharp treatment lie had
\ t/OUN MORL&T j
extended to Indian agitators and re
fused to offer an apology. ‘ British
rule in India will continue and ouglir
to continue and must continue."
said he.
John Morley was born at Blackburn.
England, December 24. ISt'.s. He was
graduated from Cheltenham and Lin
coln college. Oxford, and began life
as a barrister. In 1SG7. however, he
was called to the editorship of the
Fortnightly Review, a post which he
held until 1882. From 1880 until 1883
he was likewise editor of the famous
Fall .Mail Gazette, leaving his desk
there to go to parliament as the repre
sentative of Newcastle. He was Irish
secretary in 1SSG ami again from ISO
to 1895. In 1S9G he was returned to
parliament and since gradual]}
achieved for himself a reputation in
politics, letters and philosophical
thought.
Morley was Gladstone's favorite lieu
tenant when the "Grand Old Man'
died. He was one of the axious per
sonal friends who watched over the
great premier in his la-t ilin-vs. and
his "Life of Gladstone" is one of his
most notable literary labors.
Hall Caine and Andrew Ca negi- ore
among the close friends of tin liberal.
The laird of SJkibo is accounted one of
the particular intimates of M< .ley, in
a personal way. in the tendency of
their thoughts and aims and otherwise.
Recently Carnegie, well knowing his
friend’s studious inclination, presented
him with a library of 90.000 volumes,
one of the finest collections of books
in existence. In 1901 Carnegie also
influenced the noted Englishman to
come to America. In-Pittsburg Morley
was the guest of Carnegie and there
delivered his only American lecture.
In an interview in America Morley
said that he, as an English liberal, was
always intensely in Wrested in Amer
ica and her politics and that England
as a whole was fascinated by Presi
dent Roosevelt.
More titan once it has been said that
if John Morley had a vice h" might 1»
premier. As it is Morley is too full of
unrelenting rectitude, too barren of an
parent passion, to be an English popu
lar hero. For all that lie is a man of
emotions and feeling, but. above them
all. one of restraint. One never knows
Morley the ntan, but one can never es
cape Morley, the exterior, distant, re
served and unbending.
In politics Morley is a liberal In
every sense, but. lie holds the same
reserve of cautiou on his theories as
on his public behavior. In religion he
is an agnostic, but not one of tile as
sertive kind. Ht} has a quick,
keen and delightful sense of humor, is
one of the most charming of
companions and is a great fa
vorite among women. He is by na
ture nervous, is quick in temper and
rather impatient. He has no amuse
ments other than walking, and is fond
of music and books. His father wished
to make him a minister of the gospel,
but he fell under the teachings of John
! Stuart Mill, the philosopher, and
I thereafter the church was impossible.
His Accomplishment.
Sammy, a little boy from the slums
of New York, was invited with about
2D others to a charity dinner given at
the house of a lady in fashionable so
ciety. When the dinir'r was over the
lady asked the little ones io sing or re
cite in turn.
All went well until it came to Sam
my's turn, when he made no sign of
starting until the lady said: “Come,
Sammy, let me hear you sing."
After a moment's pause the young
guest answered, “I can't sing, lady."
“What!" said the lady. “Yon cannot
sing? i hen what can you do?"
“Well," said Sammy, “I ain't used
ter Dingin', hut I'll tight any of the
Other kids in the room!"
j THE UNITED f
/ c3TATES \
f TREASURY
^ BUILDING: «
Uncle San: is the modern Croesus,
fi>r his accumulation of sold is out
stripping that of any other nation of
tile world. And not only is he Croe
sus modernized, hut he. is like unto
•Midas whose touch transmitted every
thing to gold. And strange as it may
seem he cannot get rid of the gold
which is pouring into his coffers. The
people of the nation refuse to take it.
saying: "Keep the heavy, yellow
metal. (Jive us in exchange your
note, stating that it is worth the
amount of gold coin which we have
deposited with you." Being an ac
commodating old gentleman. Uncle
Sam gracefully complies with their
request.
With this resit!1: There is on de
posit in the United Stales treasury,
sub-treasuries, mints and assay offices
more gold than ever before in the his
tory of the country. It represents the
most valuable stock of the yellow
metal that the world has ever seen or
perhaps dream* *1 of. It reaches the
tremendous total el $l.n:iti.:;73.47l. If
the coins wer • laid upon eaeli other
they would make a shiny monument
Hu miles in height. It their tints
were placed so as to touch each other
they would cross and recross the
United States five times. They weigh
almost t.oon.htm pounds. Every ounce
of "lie metal has been the cause of
hardship, most of it death. Every
ounce of it has produced joy. some
times mad intoxication. It lias • in
spired greed, lust, envy and murder.
It has created romance. To-day it is
the symbol of prosperity of the wealth
iest nation the world lias ever seen.
It takes the breath away, that
thought ol $ 1 .(MW.wO.VUw in gold.
Think what coulil ho done with it!
The national debt of the I'nited States
could he wiped our, if the gold could
he used for any such purpose, and
there would remain a comfortable
balance, it would provide 100 battle
ships of the Dreadnaught type, fully
equipped for service.. It would sup
port the navy for ten years, the army
for a similar period. The I'nited
States could refrain from drawing a
cent of revenue for one year, and yet
the gold In its vaults and in the in
stitutions it controls would he suffi
cient to meet its tremendous expendi
tures.
Of course, all this gold does not be
long to the government. Gold certifi
cates. are in circulation against coin
valued at $790,011,869. That is to say,
every person who lias one of these
certificates is entitled to step up to
the counter of 1'ncle Sam's paying of
fice and say: “Give me the equivalent
of this in gold." The demand would
have to he complied with instantly.
Then $150,000,000 constitutes what is
known as the gold reserve. It is
maintained by law for the redemption
of greenbacks. To the credit of the
government also is nn additional $45,
.195,190. for which gold certificates
have been issued. Finally, there is
coin valued at $34,arid, 112 lying in the
cash boxes of the I'nited States treas
nry and sub-treasuries ready to be paid
out whenever a call is made.
The people, however, do not want
gold. On the Pacific slope it is still
the fashion to use the yellow metal,
but in the effete west, as in the more
effete east, it is not wanted. It is
heavy, bulky, and inconvenient. It ex
poses the holder to robbery and per
haps death. Therefore, as soon as a
miner obtains a pound of gold or any
one else gets hold of the metal his
first act is to take it to an assay office
to determine its purity and then to
turn it into one of the government
MAN NEVER WITHOUT BOSS
In Youth the Parent and in After
Years the Wife.
“A man never can get to a point
where he can do as he pleases." ob
served the sad-eyed married man on
the rear platform. "I remember when
I was a kid at school what a time I
used to have with my parents when
the first days of spring blew along. 1
always wanted to leave oft my over
coat when I started to school. 1 didn't
like the idea of hustling off to school
at all on one of the opening days of
spring—days about like this one. but
1 would mention the overcoat matter
just as a sort of concession. My
parents never would stand for it.
1 had to wear niv overcoat until it
seemed to me the weather was just
as warm as on the average Fourth of
July.
"I used to think how nice it would
be to wear just what I wanted to
when 1 grew up. But that just shows
how easily a nian gets fooled. A man
never grows up enough to be Ids owa
wan
boss. To-day I had it all arranged to
shed my flannels to middleweights and
mebby switch to a lighter overcoat,
too, because anything heavy is pretty
sticky these days. Hut do you sup
pose 1 got away with it? Xot much!
My wife say's the -e'II be no change on
the clothes proposition for me—that is
as far as the weight of them's con
cerned. for two months yet.
“And 1 used to think that when I
grew tip 1 would leave all that
boss thing behind.”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Basis of Good Society.
“Society,” like everything else which
is collectively human, is just what its
units allow it to be, and this is as true
inside the church as anywhere else.
The need of the daf is no new one—
it is for men and women whose exam
ple will make them lights and beacons
in our politics, out- churches, our edu
cational establishments, our "society.”
and in all our human re.atlons.—Phil
adelphia Public Ledger.
mints for coinage. When this is done
the owner receives the gold certifi
i cates. Certificates are not issued
against bullion. Read a gold note, if
toil are fortunate enough to have one
in your possession, and you will find
its value is that of the "gold coin" in
the treasury of the I’aited States.
Five hundred double eagles, valued at
$10,000. which I picked up the other
i da> in tilt; treasury department.,
weigh 3S pounds. Four thousand. $10.
: 000 gold certificates, representing
I S40.uo0.0o0, which i also held, weigh
exactly 11 *« pounds. To transport
i that amount of gold coin a mile would
test a regiment if it had to be carried
by hand. The advantage of paper is
! evident.
It is estimated that the total stock
of Fnited States gold coin is $1.0:18.
ooo.ooo. Thus, there i- something
like $500,000,000 which is not in gov
: eminent depositaries. Where is it?
A large quantitv is in National banks,
not less t han $125,000.o0e. Probably
$100,000,000 more lies in the vaults
of other than National banks. In the
vaults of th- Russian treasury at St.
Petersburg I saw piles of canvas bags
containing something like $18,000,000
in Fnited States double eagles. The
holdings of Fnited States gold coin
in the treasury of the Dominion of
Canada as a reserve for dominion
treasury notes amount to more than
$:!0,000.000. Other nations think so
highly of American gold coin that they
have quietly gathered a stock of it
ana put it wnere, in a ptncn. it win ao
the most good. There is a small
quantity of gold used in the arts. It is
difficult to place all the gold the
American people have, in spite of a
careful search made by the director
of the mint. Tiie director is satisfied
that the United States has more of the
yellow metal than any other nation.
Germany is second with $1,030,200,000.
which is $000,000,000 less than we
have. France is third with $826,400.
: 000. Russia fourth with $639,400,000;
United Kingdom fifth. $486,700,000.
and Austria-Hungary sixth, $306,400,
000. France, which lias less than half
j the population of the United States,
{ has the largest per capita proportion
| of gold. $23.57. The United States
! has $18.66. Germany, $17. The
| United Kingdom. $11.03. Russia. $6.55,
’ and Austria. $6.20.
| -_*
Greatest Need of the Airship.
According to A. Mallock, before
heavier-than-air flying machines can
become popular, some method of, au
tomatically balancing them—-that is,
keeping them on an even keel—must
be devised, in the few practical ma
chines now built the balancing has to
bo done by the operator, and, while
tlie ability to do this could probably
he gained by most persons, if they
had opportunity for practice when
young, the great difficulty with such
schooling must always he that an ac
cident usually puts an end to the les
sons by putting an end to the scholar.
Mr. Maliock suggests that an auto
matic balancer might be devised by
the use of pendulums, one with a
very long and the other a very short
period.
Trained Nurses at Sea.
One of tlie great transatlantic
steamship lines has added trained
nurses to the medical personnel of its
vessels. This opens a sea career for
the trained nurse. Undoubtedly other
lines will do the same and the nurse
will become as indispensable an ad
junct. to the first class passenger ves
sel as the ship's doctor.—New York
State .Journal of Medicine.
! BABY OVERBOARD
THE ROMANCE OF A THRILLING
OCEAN RESCUE.
Youngster Didn’t Mind the Experi
ence, But the Mother—Well,
She Was Glad When It
Was Over.
■’Ship-wrecked four times I've bin.”
said the teller of the story, and the
last was about the most excitin of
Y;ii all. Want to ’ear about it? Right
oh I
“My ship was the Glenoairn. capen
of her Niehotls by name. "K d is wiie
and hubby aboard, kid only 10 months
old. We was wrecked off Cape Horn
in July; struck the rocks in as ’eavy
a gale as ever I’ve knowed; fog. and
snow, and ev’rv luxury, as one might
say. Two men drownded in gettin' off
the lifeboat. Tried twice, we did, and
the second time was successful.
“Mrs. Xicholls and the kid were got
in. but the sea was that rough and
tempestuous we couldn't land no
wheres, and back we come to the
wreck aftin, and a awful night we
spent. I‘can tel! yer. thinking as ’ow
she'd break up any minute.
“Next day we’d another try: the
boiit. was launched light enough, and
the missis was lowered into Vr. Then
the capen with the kid in 'is arms
went to the sit of the wreck, and we
watched bre.it<tie.-'> like to see what
'e would do holdiu’ he boat w ith our
oats as bes we could with them great
waves toss.if us about like a shuttle
cock.
Weil, the cnp’en shouted somethin'
to the male, who stood in the boat
with 'is arms stretched out. and when
the cap'en hollered again ’e just
chucked that Idessed kid acrost the
bit of 'caving water, and the mate ’e j
got it all light, and lab! it in the bot
tom of the boat whilst the cap'en j
came aboard some'ow ’isself.
“That kid didn't care a mite! it;
just crawled about amongst our legs. ,
as jolly as a sandboy, till its ma got ;
’old of it. She was in a pretty tailin'.
I can teil yer. when she saw Vr off
spring urled inter spaee.
“Well, we got ashore this journey,
or I shouldn't he 'ere a-tellin' you of
this yarn, and the Injuns met c.s brim-!
min’ over with the milk of uman ;
kindness: rigged up a shelter for us.
and there we stopped for a bloomin’I
week.
“That kid was dressed up in skins,
and its mammy carried ii pick-a-back,
for all the world like them squaws.
Then we’d a pretty rough journey
’cross country to a missionary's house,
where we'd a good rest, and bime-by
we come to Rio Grande, a little matter
cf 60 mile or so.
“But it 'ml take too long to tell yon
of the country we passed through, or
of our adventures, for we'd a stiffish
time afore we got to civilization. Hut.
that babliy! Well, there! It juv
made my 'eart jiini)) into my mouth
when l seed 'itn thrown overboard!
And it was the cutest little cuss you
ever saw. rigged out iu liietu outland
ish skins.
“Ain't it wtinnerfnl what the. ual!
critters will live through" " lie . 'id
we sail from? Puntaa \r« . s. if Mar
'elps you much, and our be was tf
Crita. and jolly glad u • a as to s* ■»
them there old' Ftovey . Ids agin. Ye.
•When the Cap'en Hollered Agin '£
Just Chucked That Blessed Kid
Acrost the Bit of 'Eaving Water."
I've bin four times wrecked, and p’raps
VII be four times more. Who knows"
Tile kid's mother she took to a!
our 'ardships very kind, and steppe!
out tike a good tin whenever the;-.
was any marchin’ ter be done. We a,l
a good bit of it altogether, and a goo !
many shocks one way and another,
but she came through ’em all smilin'
"The only thing as upset >r was
w'en the cap'en threw the kid!”
HANDS ACROSS SEA
MAYOR OF BOSTON, ENGLAND.
APPEALS TO BOSTON. AMERICA.
Wants Help in Repairing St. Botolph's
Church, Where John Cotton
Preached—Boston Has
Helped Before.
The recent request of the mayor of
old Boston, in Kngland. that citizens of
I the new Boston, in America, should
St. Botolph's Church, Boston, England.
aid in repairing tiie organ and e\
terior of St. Botolph's, the l>eaut!ful
cathedral-like edifice which makes his
town renowned all over England,
strikes one as rather odd until one
hears what Boston gladly did In this
respect more than 50 years ago.
The story is told briefly in a sound
ing Latin inscription -written by Hon.
William Everett and engraved upon a
memorial plate in the southwest
chapel of St. Botolph's. now called
Cotton chapel, in honor of him who
was once minister of the church. Put
into English it reads:
“In periietual remembrance of John
Cotton, who during the reigns of
James and Charles was, for many
years, a grave, skillful and laborious
vicar of this church. Afterward, on
account of the miserable commotion
amongst sacred affairs in his own
country, he sought a new settlement
in a new world, and remained even to
the end of his life a pastor and teach
er of the greatest reputation and of
the greatest authority in the first
church of Boston in New England,
which city received this venerable
name in honor of Cotton. Two hun
dred and twenty-five years having
passed away since his migration, his
descendants and the American citi
zens of Boston were invited to this
pious work by their English brethren
in order that the name of an illtts
tiious man. the love and honor of both
worlds, not any longer be banished
from tins noble temple In which he
diligently, learnedly and sacredly on
pounded the divine oracles for so many
years: and thej have willingly and
gratuitously caused ibis shrine to be
erected, in the year of our recovered
salvation. 1855."
Those who subscribed to the chapel
5.1 years ago have, almost all of them,
descendants bearing the same names
who are to-day living in and alio-tl
Boston. These people it is, no douce,
who will gladly respond to the re
quest of the English mayor. For the
contributors then were, in the ma
jority of cases, either descendants of
John Cotton, or husbands of wives s
descended.
The good feeling between the two
Bostons, which was cemented by
these generous gifts toward the Cot
ton chapel, seems to date from the
reopening of the church, two years
earlier, for which occasion several
Boston tC. S. A. t gentlemen \vt e in
vitcd to England, at least four of
whom were able to he present.
In Boston's public library may b
found a curious little sh^-i which
gives an account of the exer
cises. In print so poor and so small
as to nearly ruin the eyes are th -re
recorded speeches of the day One
of these, made by Col. T. B.
Lawrence of Boston, expressed re
gret that "the domestic institu
tions of the states of the south '
were being warmly debated in
the- English drawing rooms of tha
time. "Mr. Somerby, Mr. Clark-and
Mr. Phillips" were others front Bos
ton present on that occasion.
Perhaps the most distinguished
American that ever visited St. Ho
tolph's was Hawthorne, who ran down
to Lincolnshire during one of his trip .
abroad out of pare desire to see the
ph’.ce. lie printed in the Atlantic
Monthly of January. 1862, ;h<- rest;!*
of his pilgrimage.
lu the right-hand aisle of the church
there is an ancient chapel. " this pi
grim then goes on to say. "which in
the time of our visit was in pro< ss of
restoration and was to be dedicated to
Cotton, whom these English peopl
consider as the founder of our .liner
lean Boston."
Until lately it has been thought on
both sides of the water that our Bos
ton owes its name to the fact that
John Cotton came here from a city so
called in England. Carlyle is prob
ably chiefly responsible for this mis
conception, for, in his book on from
well, he said the thing so strikingly
that one'can scarcely fail to lake it
is truth.
Sign of Trouble.
"I'm afraid I'm going to lose our
tired girl."
"What makes you think so."
"I heard her telephoning to her
>eau and she said she expected to
spend the summer at Newport 1 wish
o goodness those hotel men would
ure their diningroom girls else
vhere."—Detroit Free T’ress
Absence of Mind,
Browning So your engagement
vitli (he rich widow is broken oh. eh"
iVliat was the trouble'.'
(Ireenittg -Oh. one of m> famous
tad breaks, as usual. In an uttguard
>d moment 1 asked her if l was the
inly man site eve loved t'hieac t
tall? News
Very Likely.
t’hnreh- Von kn.tw out in Fttlslmtg
he dust' and soot settle down on .'very.
hing.
tlotham I suppose the baseball fields
mist look like blank diamonds, then?
Yonkers Statesman
