John Burroughs at His Happiest.
This photograph shows John Bur- looking tho river, named it "Riverby,"
roughs, naturalist, af play with lil* e^tabllshc-A- a beautiful vineyard in
two grandchildren; The naturalist W,M?:"' a3J'? Bald. ? <lm lound '.'more.
. . ," . . . . . A pleasure than in tho closets of green
has been ill at his homo at West backfJ>.. and ,ivod cvep afler t?0 "fo
Park, New York, and some of lila he loved-a life of cmotk'nal inter
friends have feared for him. course with nature and of literary
Few figures more picturesque than Production whenever the spirit moved
*K~. . * w ? ?. i ? . him, which was often,
that of John Burroughs have loomed , ,
i. n. 'ii.li ii.i., At times, however, he felt t.ic cali
in the American world of letters. of tho wild>>. to whlch Ulo absolute
Born among the wooded hills, he j solitude of thc forest is the only
loathed always the crowded haunt.-; of answer. Therefore he built a couple
men. He would have been a nnsoner of miles back from the rivfr and th
". .... . ., , , tho woods, a log cabin whic.i he
Se?^/iim ,11 ????f S christened "Slnbsidcs;" and to this
n"HnS. hin C 1 , ? be has resorted for a dreamlu period
wh^'th 1UT -i m i.r tn whenever be felt that even . uralcivil
when In the woods, "I come here to . " ____ ?_?_"I_? .. ...?
_t? T?? ?? . t_ ? Izatlon was pressing a bit.
find myself. Its so easy to get lost * ? , ,
In the world." In his calling years. -Mr- Burroughs books, in addiUon
with his long, snow-white beard and to thosfc already noted, included "Win
spare figure, he is a vivid reminder ter Sunshine" (187r.)? "Hirds and
of the school ot poets, scholars and -Roots" (1S77); "Locusts and Wild
philosophers who wore his early con- Honey" (1879); "Preparion
temporaries and friends and who In- U881); "Fresh Fields' (ISSI);
cludei such giants as Emerson, "Signs and Seasons" (188b); "Indoor
Holmes. Bryant, Longfellow. Whittier Studhs" (1S8?; "Riverby" (1891:
and Whitman. Tue keynote of his "WMtman: A Study' (1896) "Th.
character may be found In a remark Light of Day" (11)00) "Squirrels and
at the celebration of bis birthday an- o?^r fur-Bearers'i (1900); "Literary
niversnry In 1012 Values.*1 (1904); "Fur and Near"
"At seventy-five I find myself in (Ug)S "Ways of Nature" (1905);
good heart and health, with my in- Bird a,nd Bough^ a volume ot
terest in life unabated. And I have poems (1 OOO); "Camping and Tramp
more work to my credit in the last ,nS, ^Rh tooncye^ (1907) ; . Leaf
year than in dny one year of my lifo. and ,Tc,ndrl1 (1;,os,): -v\? breadth
Lifo cannot stay the same as you of Lift'- ? speculative work (1915.)
grow old, of course; but I like tho Yale confer? eil upon him ir? 1910
afternoon sunlight. It lb different, 1 the honorary degree of Lift. D. and
know, from tho morning sunlight Colgate University i-ide him a Doc
fresh upon the grass and hillsides tor of Humane Letters in 1911.
but lt ls pleasant with Its lengthes john Burroughs, as a naturalist bas
lng shadows." never approached lils studies with t ie
He was born st Roxbury, N. Y., In set determination of an herbalist. He
the western Catskills, on April :'., 1837, hon written of tho Bccrcts or nature
tho son of Chauncey A. and Amy B.' only whon he felt the inspiration
Burroughs; and there he passed his ?nd helms written breezily and wRh
boyhood in the ways common to most a charm not to be gainsaid. The
country .leds. Thcro was nothing of essence of his philosophy ia bright
literary precocity in him. Indeed, it and optimistic,
ls related that when ho was rourteen He loves the world.
yearB of age h8 paid Jay Gould-also . Among his closest friends in later
a native of Roxbury and bis class- years have been Colonel Theodore
mate-sixty cents for a brief literary Roosevelt, .whose companion tne was
composition which he handed to thc in nature studies In the fur west and
teacher a shls own. A decade later, tho lato John Muir, naturalis1, OZ
however, found him a prolific pro- the west, with whom he. toured the
ducur or prose and verse. great canyons and wit i whom ho
As a young man ho taught school collaborated In a "Study of Our'
for about eight years. His earliest National 'Parks." V
published writing was an essay en- Tho formula for health adorned by
titled "Expression," which appeared Vnia gentle preacher of thc simple
In tho Atlantic Monthly, unsigned. Ufo and dean ot American nature
when the was taonty-tljro? yoar^ ot writers may be summarized as
age. That many mistook it at the follows: .
timo for the work of 'Emerson gives "I abstalr rigidly from all stlrnu
a clear indication of bis literary style intlng boversges. ! never rrc tobacco
at that?period. In any form. I go to bed at nine and
Mr. Burroughs married in 18R7, at riso at tlvo or six. I work in the
the ago of twenty, Prsula North, morning ivnd rest in thc afternoon.
This was in his school teaching d?ys. I keep outdoors and get plenty of
Seeking-to better his fortunes, the exercise, mainly by w?lking. I ?try
wont to Washington in 1864, having to koop in sympathy with all that Is
accepted a clerkship In tho treasury best lu life. Simplicity, calm and
department. Here ho remained until composure are m yams. I have no
1873, and his literary worn during his use for city, 'hngh Hts.''with late
leisure hours f*v Uncle Sam's service hours and late dinners."
Included "Notes on Wait Whitman For forty years, while ho and his
as Poet an! Person" (18117) sad wife lived at BJverby, he bas followed
"Wkko, Robin" (1871. Tho latter was (lils formula, and he ha?, kept in
his first book as a naturalist and it touch with chlkl-llfe through bis frc
breathed the life of the woods and quent walks to thc ionic- of his mar
of the birds. ried daughter, a milo or two distant
He served as a national bank ex- from his own.
.milner from 1873 to issi; but thc A charming r?cognition ort Bur
duties of this omeo were not onerous, rough's attitude toward life '?as ex
and since 1874 he had made his home pressed In tho following lines in the
at West Park, on the Hudson-not Atlantic of April, 1812, from -tho pen
'ar from'his native Delaware county, of Jean Dwight Franklin, and peb
At West Park, in 1874. he parch -sed llshed under the caption; "John Har
a few acres, erected ? dwelling over- roughs, born Aorll 8. 1837-."
EXPERT ADVISER ON DRESS
, Woman Hat Achieved Success in Oc
cupation That la Something of
a Novelty.
I heard lately of a plan adopted hy
one young woman thut has worked out
weil with her, and might be of use to
.apeone else, says a writer in tho
Pittsburgh Dispatch. She lives at
homo, but must help the family excheq
uer, and this is how ehe does it:
Her ono talent lay in her good taste
in dress. She had an instinctive feel
ing for what WBB becoming, not only
for herself but her friends, and was
often called in to consult over a pro
spective new gown. So that is what
she determined to do professionally.
Sho let her friends know that for a
certain sum sho would give advice on
costumes, helping to arrange a wholo
wardrobe, and from friends she soon
branched out to regular clients.
She goes to thc house of her em
ployer and looks over everything tho
lady has. She gives definite instruc
tions as to what each dress or sull or
waiat requires to bring it up to par.
She advises as to the most becoming
styles and colors, and lists what new
garmontB arc necessary. Of course she
regulates tho expenditure according to
tho purses of her various clients.
She has made a Buccess. Many wom
en do not know what to wear, what
suitB them best, what to put together
Sho tells them. Sho also saves them
a good ('eal by her cleverness in adapt
ing what looks hopeless. She can also
tell where you should go for mate
rials; sho han addresses of tailors,
dressmakers and Bowing women, and
knows they can do what they promise.
Sho is thoroughly up in her chosen
Job, in fact. She also makCB a point
of attending carefully to the details
of a costume, making sure that each
item will harmonize. Tho work Is ex
tremely Interesting, and it paya both
her and her clients.
EXPLAINING THE WILD MAN
Curious Individual Learns All About
Him, Including Reason for His
Wildness.
"The won-der-ful cu-rl-OB-l-tee which
you see before you, luy-decB and gen
tle-men," announced tho sideshow lec
turer, in tones admirably adapted for
talking down from a great altitude to
the subnormal understandings of the
roaBBes, at the same time waving au
indicatory hand toward the hyperpes
shniBtic looking personage in the steel
barred cage, "is the Wild man of the
Everglades, captured at the cost of
seven lives and eleven thousand dol
lars In gold! Thu-ree times a day
this savage' moh-uler leap's Upon gur
re at hunks of r-r-r-raw and r-r-r-reeking
flesh and devours them with terrible
ferocity and bloodcurdling yells!"
"What caused the CUBS to go wild
and live on raw meat?" asked a sharp
nosed ruraliat, Interestedly.
"He lived on his brothor-ln-law for
five years and lt made him wild when
his long suffering relative would no
longer support him. He eats his roe?'?
raw because he is too lazy to cook
them himself."-Kansas City Star.
Changing Diet of the, Chinese.
Americans who have been Influ
enced by the Orient to the extent of
taking their tea clear, without milk
or sugar, will be astonished to learn
that the Occident is now bent on
teaching the Chinese to use milk with
their decoction of tea leaves-and con
densed milk at that. ?
An enterprising condensed milk
company ls pushing the campaign and
expects to be successful. This con
cern has already introduced con
densed milk ice cream to the Chinese,
and they Hie lt so well that many
of the restaurants keep lt always on
band.
Practically no fresh milk la to be
had in China, although the natives
seem familiar enough with the virtues
of both the fresh and the condensed
article.
Perhaps after all of the Orientals
have taken their tea clear bocauso
there was no milk to put in lt and
not because they thought the addition
of milk ruined the beverage.
New Uses for Old Rope.
Old rope,. Tko old tin cans and
other things generally considered as
waste, has ita special market and uses,
and in every seaport the collecting
and classifying of old rope ls an Im
portant business. Rope that ia cov
ered with heavy graphite or tar ls
even more valuable today for making
oakum than lightly corred material,
while hemp rope with the original
heavy coating of tar worn off by
weathering ls often used for bag pa
per. A small percentage of untarred
hemp rope, used in ita prime for hoist
ing and other purposes, is being con
verted Into clgaret paper in Europe.
Scraps and waste from old tarred
rope, and auto old oakum removed
.from Beam* of ships, ara now used for
making boards.
Bamboo Blooms Slowly.
Certain ap?eles of bamboos flower'
'. only once In about fifty-five years, and
? strangely enough, aU .the trees in a
locality flower about the same tima
?Those in Burma began flowering last
year, and now they are all in blossom.
The last time this species flowered
waa in 18S9-C0. They will now die
and those that spring from the seeds
born of thia flowering will take their
planea and wills not flower until about
1970. They may flower sporadically
At otb*? tunes, but the seed does not
mature, for the bamboo cannot ferti
Usa Itself.
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Examples of Lapsed Policies Paid in Full Under the Mutual Benefit's Peculiarly Attractive
Non-Forfeiture System.
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tho policy term. Til? excess ls applied to Mic purrbuse of Furo Kudo?mont Insurance, pnyahlo only If tho Insured survives.
Them* cases aro Indicated by Ibo letters *T. K." in tho last column of tho table.
April 8th, 1915.
Mr. .his. Leslie. Special Agent, The Mutual Benefit
Life Insurance Co., Meatlville, Pa.
My Dear Sir: Have for acknowledgement your
letter of April Uh anil wish to say that it alfords me
pleasure to speak highly of the methods which you
and your company have recently employed in "set
tling a forgotten policy on my father's life.
The policy in question must have been lost a
great many years ago, in fact none of our family
could recall the time it was taken, out, my mother
having seen it hut once.
In searching out the beneficiary of this policy up
on your-own initiative you seem'to have been per
forming with zeal the ideal functions of a true life
insurance company.
My mother had thought years ago that nothing
would ever be done with the matter and I may sav
to you that thc recent receipt by her of your com
pany's check in the sum of S794.17 was a very
gratifying experience. .
My mother directs me lo express in terms of deep
est gratitude to yourself and your company her
thanks not/only for your action in seeking her as the
beneficiary of the policy in question, but also the
rapidity with which linal negotiations were com
pleter1.
I am
Very trulv,
H. R. Greenlee.
Hiawatha, Kans., April 15, 1915.
Thc Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co. Newark, N. J.
Gentlemen: I hereby acknowledge receipt,
through VV. R. Gould, of Hiawatha, Kansas, your
check for S100.00 payable to myself and brother
and sister, the same being in full settlement for
policy No. 24,573 issued to my father in the year
1864 for SI,ooo.00, and on which only one pay
ment was ever made.
I wish to express to you my appreciation for
rame. It is a new experience to. me and a surprise
that an insurance company would hunt up any one
to pay them, as you have done in this case. I al
ways supposed that if I had a claim that I would
have to hunt up the insurance, company and employ
an attorney.
The fact of your paying on a policy the existence
of which none of my father's heirs knew anything,
taken out in 1864 and only one payment made
thereon, makes me feel that I want to tell you that
your company is worthy of the immense business
you are doing.
Yours very trulv,
J. C Kelsy.
Mutual Bene fit Life Insurance Co.
M. M. MA TTISON, Geheral Agent
C. W. WEBB. District Agent
J. J. Trowbridge, Special Agent C. E. Triable, Special Agent
Bleckley Building, Anderson, S. C.
Nona Leahy
of gt. Louis
Loalse Behn*
of Philadelphia.
Rose Pltoneff
.f Boston.
Her? ls Che proof In thia good, old
'summer time of what swimming will.
Uo for women. Let the stoat lady bc~
"ware, despite the fact that lt ts the
finest exercise in the world. She
ought, perhaps, to value ber health
more than her figure, and therefore
swim as much as she caa. But if sho
thinks ber figure ls of supremo Im
portance Hhe may as well understand
that she can not take off weight In
the water.
Nona Leahy waB a little slip of a
girl when she begun to swim. See
ber no win this photograph. 3he Is
a powerful young women, and sho Is
yet very young. A few moro years of
lt and she will have a figure like the
third lady of tho picture.
Miss Debus has admitted she gained
ten pounds In Ult. She shows In this
photograph, as 140. and she doesn't
know bow much higher she will go.
Tho most convincing proof of the
affinity of fat and water-water
taken extcrnully aa well aB Internally
-ls in the case of Miss Bose Pltonoff.
Six years ago when she startled thc
public by her fcatB In Boston har
bor sho was a Blip of a girl. She wa*
strong, of course, but she wighted
only lao pounds. Tho other day she
tipped the scales at 780. Sho bad
gained sixty pounds in six years and
H1?C ia still under twenty-five years
of ago.
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OPEN NOSTRILS! END
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