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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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"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. Our eyes are holden that we
can not see things that stare us in the
face until the hour arrives when the
mind is ripened; then we behold them,
and the time when we saw them not
is like a dream.—Emerson.
Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine
wash goods when new. owe much of
their attractiveness to the way they
are laundered, this being done in a
manner to enhance their textile beau
ty. Home laundering would be equal
ly satisfactory if proper attention was
given to starching, the first essential
being good Starch, which has sufficient
strength to stiffen, without thickening
the goods. Try Defiance Starch and
you will be pleasantly surprised at the
improved appearance of your work.
Gleam of Hope.
Orville Ardup—Ah, here comes that
infernal bill collector!
Caller (producing folded document
with alacrity)—I am glad to hear you
say so, Mr. Ardup. I’ve been here nine
times without having been a collector,
you know.
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