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p—* fl D any observing tourist might journey around the globe the various types of sea and river craft that he would see on such a trip are as dis tinctive as are the costumes of many of the countries he would travel through. Few Ameileans there are who are not famil iar with cur present styles of water craft, such as the common rowboat and sailing yachts, but there are many who. if toid that these boats set down on some foreign stream wouid excite con siderable curiosity, would be greatly surprised. However, if they wouid stop to consider that ■pose boats were evolved from the primitive cratts of our forefathers and that the various conditions in different lands would make these boars impracticable, the surprise would he some what tempered. First, let us consider the gondola of Italy, re nowned in song and story. The gondola has probably been drawn oftener than any other boat on record. Crank and black and dismal, with Tff£ NATIVE ^ mm or mj? r , is swung around, and what was (he stern be comes the bow. Proas are from 40 to 65 feet long and six or seven foot wide, and are said to attain a speed of 20 miles an hour. The junk is the distinctive type of Chinese marine architecture, a somewhat unprogressive science among the celestials. Even before the Christian era. John Chinaman voyaged from port to port in vessels of this build and rig. The sails are made of matting and are reefed in much the same way as a Venetian blind Is raised The junk is built along the lines of an oriental slipper with the curved keel for the soie and the drop aft for the heel. The com mon river boat or sampan is on the even more familiar model of the inverted Cat iron. The modern large junk is a good sea boat and will ride a severe typhoon in safety. On the streams of India may be seen a type of rowboat which somewhat resembles our American craft. It is. however, of clumsy con struction and the oars, which are lashed to THE ROEIHNT1C \GONDOLH\ |OF V£N/CE\ ♦ the bright steel beak on the lofty prow, this boat does r.ot appeal so successfully to the nau tical mind as it would seem to do to the artistic and i oetical one. But on the miles of canals In the city of Venice this craft is peculiarly adaptable. The gondola was formerly the only means of getting about the city, but it is now be irjg displaced in part by small launches. The ordinary gondola is :>0 feet long and four or five ^ feet wide, and is flat-bottomed so thar the draft is light. The bottom rises slightly above the water at the ends, while at the bow and stern slender ornamental stem and stern pieces reach to about the height of a man's breast. There is a covered shelter for passengers in the middle of the boat which is easily removable. In ac cordance with mediaeval regulation gondolas are painted black. The gondolier stands erect with his face toward the bow and propels the boat .with a forward stroke, making his way through the narrow and often crowded canals with amaz ing dexterity. Throughout the islands of the Pacific the ca noe is a common sight. Strictly speaking the canoe is a light boat designed to be propelled by a paddle held in the hands without any fixed support, although in some cases canot>s may he seen that have an auxiliary sail to be used under favorable conditions. The canoes most commonly seen in the waters of the Hawaiian islands are built from a single tree trunk hollowed out with an outrigger as seen in the illustration. Wonderful sailors, too, are the natives who in them often undertake long sea voyages, far out of the sight of land, and passing from one island to another. The canoes of Samoa are built of several pieces of wood of irregular shape fastened to gether and cemented with gum to prevent their leaking. The coasts of the mainland of Siam, Burrnah and China also swarm with canoes. Wrhile the catamaran is a type of water craft that may be seen in several countries, each type as a rule has its distinctive features. The cata maran is a favorite of the Chinese fisherman ano the larger streams of that oriental country ar» well populated with these boats. They are con structed of two narrow canoes fastened together and propelled from the stern with a long, narrow oar. In its original form the catamaran consisted of three logs, the middle one being the longest, lashed together. It was used by the natives of the Coromandel coast, particularly Madras, and also in the West indies and on the coast of South America. The Fiji islanders developed the catamaran idea in their war canoes, which consist of two parallel logs joined together with a platform on which a mast is placed. These boats are safe and also very swift. The flying proa of the Ladrone islanders is another type of the catamaran made with two hulls ef unequal size. The larger hull, which car ries the rigging, is perfectly fiat on one side and rounded on the other. On this are placed bam boo poles projecting beyond the rounded side, and to their ends is fastened a boat-shaped log one-half or one-third the size of the larger hull. This prevents capsizing as effectually as the Fiji double canoe. Both ends of the proa are made alike, aud the boat is sailed with either end first; but the out-rigger is always to windward. Against a head of w-ind the proa is kept away till the stern approaches the wind, when the yard wooden uprights fastened to the sides of the boat, overlap each other. The natives, however, are expert in the handling of the craft. In southeastern India, near the Strait Set tlements. an odd sailing craft may be found. This vessel is rigged with four sails, the larger one set slightly to*the front of the center, while two others of still smaller design are set one at the prow and the other midway between the two. The smallest of the sails is rigged at the stern and is intended to aid in steering the craft. On the rivers of England and Ireland may be seen several types of the wherry, which is very popular in these waters. Oars are used to aid the single sail in the smaller boats of this type but the Portsmouth wherry, used in the open sea. has a mainsail and rejoices in a topmast and a topsail. The Turkish caique is a familiar object in the Sea of Marmora and among the islands of the Aegean. She is distinguished by her peculiar mainsail, which is a combination of a fore-and aft sail and a square sail. Pages of interesting reading might be written of the many peculiar boats which may be found the world over. While the essential principle of boat-building must necessarily be similar, vari ous nations and tribes have developed the idea along different lines until to-day the various styles and types of water craft can be numbered by the hundreds. WHY THE BOY WAS BAPTIZED At a little luncheon given on the day before his departure for Europe to Joseph Cowen, the English Zionist, the subject of apostasy came up and one man, to illustrate its prevalence, related that only a few days ago the first child jn the home of one of New York's wealthiest Jews had been baptized because "the parents hoped by that means to remove an obstacle in the way of the hoy's progress." This recalled to another man at the table a story told at 13asle by the late Dr. Theodor Herzl. At a dinner party, so went the story, given by Mr. Stooksen Bonds, a preco cious child asked the father: “Do all people turn into Jews when they grow old?” “No, my boy,” answered the father, who had renounced his faith and become a Christian bt^ore tile little fellow was born; "no, my boy, why do you ask?” “Well, father, we children are all Christians, you and mother are Christians, but grandfather, who just came from Russia, he’s an awful Jew ” ODDSOUTH AMERICAN ANIMALS Ferocious Big Frogs—Huge Rats and a Toothless Curiosity. Many curious animals haunt the marshy parts of South America north of the pampas. Frogs hig and fero cious (the ceratophyrs) given to ruak .• :ng vicious springs when closely ap proached: the capybara, a cavy "con tented with the bulk of a sheep;” the huge coypu rat and the swarthy pig like tapir are frequently seen. Along the forest margins troops of peccaries are often met with, occa sionally the jaguar, sometimes *he puma, likewise that toothless curiosity the great ant bear, long in claw, long nosed and remarkably long tongued. Very plentiful too are those “little knights in scaly armor.” the quaint, waddling armadilloes; long toed ja canas pace about upon the floating leaves. A familiar object is the great jabi ru. a stork with a preference for the desolate lagoons, where it may often he observed statueseue on one leg and wrapped in prospection.—Ex change. Cdhvenient Arrangement. Dorothy is five years old and longs supremely to join the gay democracy trooping by every morning to the pub lic school on the next block. Inci dentally, she keeps the family in formed of school affairs after they have been refashioned in her1 infant mind. The other day she hurried her mother to the window to observe a very elegant and severe-looking lady passing by. "That's the very headest lady at the school.” explained the would-be schol ar. importantly. "They send you to her when you're naughty, an' she opens the window an’ sticks you half out. 'n' 'en she shuts it down on you while she spanks what hangs inside.” —Lippincott's. Italy a little before Hannibal's time, was able to send into the field nearly 1.000.000. men. Lfi PROF EOEXCBMa Sine? the rlay on which Miriam sang her song of triumph over the destruc ' tiou of the hosts of the Egyptians, and thus gave expression to the first hyntn of which we have any record, myriads i of sacred songs have been penned hy ; devout men and women—songs that are sung wherever people meet to i worship and praise the King of Glory. But while hymns and psalms of praise stretch far back across the cen turies, one department of it is "of com ' paratively recent origin. Gospel song is a modern institution, and America is its birthplace and its home. No one. I suppose, would venture to assert that American hymnology con : tains anything to be compared with the masterpieces of English collec tions, and yet, when we come to the field of Gospel songs, the American writers have it all practically to them selves. The explanation of this may lie in the fact that while those in England have been fed and nurtured on stately and majestic hymns, Amer icans have been trained in the use of Gospel songs and have thus become more accustomed to them. Whatever the cause, however, the fact remains that Americans have taught England most of the Gospel songs with which she is familiar. Ira D. Sankey was little else than a singer, but he composed cne or two | pieces that were deservedly popular, and will always be indissolubly asso ciated with his name. Among his earliest efforts at composition was his air to "Yet there is room," the words of which were written by Rev. Dr. Horatius Bonar. They were written, too, at Sankey's request. He had been singing Tennyson's great poem: "Late, late, so late, and dark the night and chill,” at the mission meetings in England; but the owners of the copyright would not permit him to use it in his collection of hymns. There upon he asked Dr. Bonar to write words that would cover the same ground, and "Yet there is roofe" was the result. Other melodies have been put to the same words by other com ; posers, but Sankey's air holds its own place in the affections of the ma jority. One of the most popular composers was James McGranahan. the success or of that sweet singer, P. P. Bliss— who, with his wife, was killed in a railway accident—as the colleague of | Maj. Whittle. McGranahan was a pro lific writer, and his work is of a very high standard. "Are you coming home to-night?" the words of which were written by a young lady in Scot land, possesses a strength of appeal which sinners find hard to resist, and has been used with striking blessing in every part of the world. Among his other successful compositions may j be mentioned "Christ receiveth sinful men," "There shall be showers of ! blessings,” "Th.v God reigneth," "Come!” “Banner of the cross,” and “I’ll stand by till the morning.” The words of this last hymn were written by Bliss. But while these writers have been mentioned, the purpose of this article is more with the men who are hard at work to-day, and who have the ear of the whole English-speaking world. Among these I mention, first of all, George C. Stebbins, who has been a steady and a consistent writer for DOCTORS HARD TO MANAGE No Professional Nurse Cares for Phy sician as Patient. “I suppose it is treason to my su perior officer to say so. but doctors are certainly not easy patients to man age,” remarked the trained nurse. ”At least, this has always been my experi [ cnee, and most nurses, you will find, agree with me in the matter. I have recently been nursing a physician through typhoid, and my experience with him was typical of the cases of the profession in general. "Doctors know altogether too much for their own peace of mind, you see. Bach new symptom is recognized, and if it is an unfavorable one, why, the patient’s weakened condition usually leads him to lay great stress upon it. I Then, since he has always been in a ' position to issue orders to the nurse, he cannot easily bring himself to take orders from her, and he is disposed to criticise and take exception to treat ment which the ordinary patient re ceives as a matter of course. “But perhaps the most troublesome thing of all is the mania which the doc tor has for taking his temperature. If he has a moderately high fever, and is allowed to use the thermometer as often as he wishes, he can fret and worry over the result enough to send his temperature up materially. More than once, rather than exasperate a physician patient by a refusal to let him have the thermometer, and rather, at the same time, than let him know just how high his fever was, 1 have dropped the instrument just as I was in the act of handing it to him. Of course., I apologized for my careless ness at such times, and the regret really does not have to be all assumed, for I am at the expense of buying my self a new thermometer. “At one time I had an inaccurate in strument. which never registered high enough, and I used to call it my doc tor's thermometer. By a little dexter ity, I could substitute this for the one I actually used myself, and the encour agingly low temperature it would show would greatly please the patient.’’ many years. When the output of some others is considered, Mr. Stebbins can not be regarded as prolific, but all his work is of high merit, and his stand ard is perhaps higher than that of any of his contemporaries. Ever in his mind is the aim to direct the thoughts of the people more to the message of the music than to the music itself. Unique among the hvmn-writers of the present day is Dr. D. B. Towner, the head of the musical department of the far-famed Moody liible Institute in Chicago. He is unique in this re spect, that he is doing a work to which there is no parallel either in this country or England. He is a singer, a teacher, and a composer. Every day of the year men pass through his hands as they prepare for their life work—the singing of the Gospel with the fixed aim of winning souls. He trains them to take their place in church and mission work as accomplished leaders of praise, and, besides that, he gives instruction in composing, showing how to write hymns on a scientific basis. Some of his former pupils are to-day among the best writers* of Gospel music. Dr. Towner is undoubtedly the greatest teacher of Gospel music in the world, and as a teacher of teachers he is ac complishing a work the vastness of which cannot be overestimated. The author of the world-famed “Glory Song," Mr. Charles H. Gabriel, is one of America's most prolific writers. He has not to look around for words; he is a poet as well as a musician, and thus between the words and their musical setting there is a sympathy that adds materially to their charm. Mr. Gabriel has a Won derful faculty for picture-drawing. His rich imagination enables him to make every line vivid and real. He grasps a phrase that gets the attention of the people, and this he works out into a chorus. His melodies are easy to carry in the head. I have heard many a musician speak in disparaging terms of the ‘ Glory Song,” but yet there is something in that wonderful hymn that defies analysis. Another writer whose methods close ly resemble those of Mr. Gabriel—the two men. in fact, are like brothers— is Prof. E. O. Excell. He, too, is a singer, and he can write both words and music. He has written and edit ed many Sunday school books, and has published many anthems for church choirs. Xo man knows better than Mr. Exceii what to give to the pub lic. He studies their w’ants and pro vides them with what they like to have. Equally alert is he in getting ideas for his hymns. A phrase in a sermon or a remark in a conversation sometimes forms a peg on which to hang a sacred song. There are numerous other writers in America who are producing excel lent work, but of these mention can not here be made. Peter B. Bilhorn, however, deserves to be noticed. He is the composer of “Blessed Jesus, keep me white," ”1 will sing the won drous story.'’ “Holy Spirit, come in.” and “The best friend to have is Tesus,” all of which have met with kindly appreciation. It’s when a man gets on top that he can write his name at the bottom of a check. WAIT TILL HE SEES THE BILL. I ~ !■ ■» "My husband has promised to allow me to choose what I want for my birthday.” “Oh, then there'll be no surprise this year.” "Won't there! I'll bet you there is, only he'ii get it instead of me.” Laundry w-ork at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually neces sary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric la hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wear ing quality of the goods. This trou ble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its great er strength than other makes. Millionaire Whiners. Senator La Kollette at a recent din ner in Washington said of the mil lionaiies who complain about the harm that they and their affairs have suffered from attacks: “These whiners, with only them selves to blame, remind me of a bad little Primrose boy. “He ran howling to his mother: “'Oh, rna, Johnny has hurt me!" “ ‘And how did bad Johnny hurt mother’s little darling?’ “ Why, I was a-goin’ to punch him in the face, and he ducked his head and I hit my knuckles against the wall.’ ” Preparation for Knowledge. No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning, however near tc his eyes is the subject. A chemist may tell his most precious secrets to a carpenter, and he shall be never the w'ser—the secrets he would not utter to a chemist for an estate. God screens us evermore from premature ideas. 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