Part 2. MAGAZINE SECTION. Che entre Democrat. BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1006. Farm Notes, Choice Fiction, Current Topics —————————t a Bill HOUSE. MISS JANE ADDAMS THE PATRON SAINT OF 4 MOST REMARK- ABLE INSTITUTION. Mall Caine Has Said that it is the Most Complete Social Settiement in the World—-Founder a Wonderful Woman. The name of Jane Addams is known to-day from one end of this vast coun- try to another, and included in that space are thousands of men, women and children who regard her almost in the Light of a patron saint. Miss Addams is the founder and present chief moving spirit of Hull House, Chicago, the greatest social set- tlement ever known in this country. Hull House is not really one house but a series of buildings which have grown up around one big dwelling which years ago was given over to Miss Addams for the eccommodation of the city's working people. The set. tiement includes a museum, theatre, a gestaurant and various other buildings which are for the sole use of people to whom life's joys are overbalanced by gares and sorrows. 4 Hall Came, the famous author, hs said that Hull House is the most com- | THE “ PATRON SAINT Jete social settlement in the world ad if this be so it is a fitting monu- fant Lo the generous heart, sterling ster and unbounded sympathy of {s founder, Miss Jane Addams. ‘Miss Addams is now forty-five years jd. She was born in .edarville, IIL (fter graduating at a well known col- sge she followed the example of her ther young women friends and lived life of ease and pleasure. She spent gr time mostly in reading and travel nd gradually the thought came to her hat she was absolutely without a pur ose in life. She saw the poor around er, got to know their cares and wor fes and cast about for a means by rhich she could do them some good. the decided to become a physician and ook a year's course in a Philadelphia ollege. At the end of that time she | ms compelled to rest and so went broad to study social eonditions. The | esult of her observations was her re urn to America and the immediate es ablishment of a social settlement in Thicago. Hull House is situated right in the jeart of Chicago's poor, In Halstead treet. It came to Miss Addams drough Miss Helen Culver, a niece of As builder and the man for whom the settlement is now named. It had been built by its owner years ago for his pwn home and in the belief that the sity would grow that way, It did grow that way and became one of the most songested sections of Chicago but was peopled by all nations and of a class of humanity unused to the fine usages of life, unused to social restrictions and wholly without the pale of refined society. When Miss Culver learned that Miss Addams intended founding 8 social settlement she gave her Hull House. From the spacious mansion which was once to have been a rich man’s home the settlement has extend ed Into a block of buildings and here | { Hin eal] is the genuinely happy home of Chi eaAgo's poor One of the adjuncts of the settlethent #8 the Jane Club, an organization of self supporting young women who are making an effort to live up to the ideal offered them In the personality of thelr benefactor. The club ls directly un der the supervision of Miss Addams and every employe of the house, and in fact every one of the settlement, Is responeible personally to her, Br ta the Miss Addams belleves in the rusts them and looks to them disposition of thelr duties. and r lives and in this way she has Joma nearer their hearts, nearer thelr confidences and nearer making them see the big side of life rather than the one to which their eyes might other wise often turn. She is always to be found by the lowliest ready to listen to an appeal for help, ready to give each and every one her strength and support and as ready to see and help a stranger as the oldest habitue of the settlement. Jane Addams occupies a peculiar po gition in the public eye. She has no religious creed or, if she has, she does not thrust it on her people. All sorts of doctrines are preached in Hull House but Miss Addams permits this through the fact that her generosity of spirit is big enough to allow every one his own opinion, She is regarded with the highest esteem by officials of the city and is frequently asked to ad- dregs large meetings, When she does this she is listened to with strict at tention. Miss Addams is a brilllant example of a woman who, having all in life has not permitted herself to be satis fied with her lot while others have suf- fered, She has devoted time, money and all the energy in her big self to the uplifting of the lowly, to the spirit. ual welfare of the poor when that ould be done through kindness alone and to the bodily comfort and enjoy- ment of th ecople by giving them very md hin her power to for OF HULL ROUSE. get, when it is possible, that they are poor, uneducated and socially lacking according to the standards of the world. —— Napoleon. “Napoleon going about lke a raging loo eecking whom be might devour.” 8ir Conan Doyle considers Napo- leon as perhaps the most wonderful man who ever lived. He writes that what strikes him most * reibly is the lack of finality In his character. When one decides that he is a com plete villain, he reads of some noble trait, a~1 then loses his admiration in some act of incredible meanness But here was a you wan, of thirty years, with no social advan tages, very little odr~ation, his family poverty striken, entering =a rootn in company with Kings each and every one jealous of any atten. tions shown by Lim to any one of them. He must have had some private charm, for his intimate friends loved and worshipped him, and withal he was the most amazing and talented lar that ever lived, and one who told the truth only to himself. An originator of great schemes that seemed fantastic and impossible, his r-‘esty of detall brought success where another man would have falled. — i With Kingly Courage. In Bweden a remarkable story Is told of King Oscar's courage and re solution The narrative recounts that a soldier, a man of Immense stature, while Iving under sentence of death secured a # knife, and defled anyone to enter Mn hearing of the circumstances the King drove at ones to the prison, and daregarding the warning of the offel. als, entered the man's coll alone and unar~ A, locked the door behind him, and then reasoned + ith the conviet, It would have been a remarkable in. terview, even If the King had taken a pardon to the conviet. Put far from this, he actually explained to the con. demned man why he had decided to reject any appeal for merey: yet he so worked on the man's feelings that when, with a farewell handshake the King left him, ho was totally ned, and ready to mest his fate the next morning ke a soldier, ATTAINS T0 FAME. AN OBSCURE NEW YORK LAWYER RISES TO POWERFUL AND COMMANDING POSITION, Beginning With Gas Probings,Charies E. Hughes Develops into Dominat- ing Factor in Great Insurance ln- vestigations. In the history of the stage it has happened more than once that an act- or, not thought to be a star, but with sound qualities and training has ac cepted a part rejected by others, and by careful study and interpretation made it the most interesting portion of the play, and achieved distinction as the reward of his labors. And now, be’ore the country to-day, there is an instance going to show that fortune for such fidelity is not confined to the stage. Ay r or so ago the New York leg: islature ordered an inquiry into the methods of the gas companies of Greater New York, and the committes appointed for the work had some trou- ble in its search for a legal adviser and examiner of witnesses, The task, for some reason, did not appeal to the prominent members of the bar who we. approached, and the choice fin- ally fell on a man comparatively un- known. He had to be introduced to the public outside of legal circles. But he developed at once into a man of striking force, and performed his dut jes 80 well he earned the applause of the whole State. Probes Insurance. When the legislative inquiry into the New York insurance irregularities was ordered the committee decided upon legal counsel, and again difficulty was encou. tered in securing itt The man who had so satisfactorily served the gas committee was traveling in Eu rope, and at the moment could not be reached with an offer. The offer went begging for a few days, until at last a Brooklyn lawyer accepted. Upon his suggestion, however, the man abroad, who was really desired, was cabled on the subject and ~qgaged to assist in the work. After the work began this assistant virtually became the lead- ing counsel, and conducted the inves- tization, which was of national inter. est, in a way to merit and receive national applause, of the most conspicuous figures of to day. Man of the Hour. And so Mr. Charles E. Hughes is the subject of no little speculation. ‘The obscure New York lawyer of the other day is a powerful man of this day. He is mentioned for both political and business honors. He might have been He has become one | the Republican candidate for mayor in the recent municipal campaign, and had he been might likely have the city. He is now mentioned for his party's leadership in next year gubernatorial campaign. He is wise suggested for the president the Mutual Life Insurance Company And should he decline preferment both =f these lines, and decide to stick to his profession, he is assured of a vast increase over the practice than he enjoyed before All of which goes to show that it pays to do whatever you set out to do with all your heart and mind. - a — The American Spoke First. The American in the corner of the English first-class carriage insisted on lighting his cigar. The indignant Brit. isher in the other corner protested, but protested in vain. At the next sta tion he hailed the guard, with hostile intent; but the cool American was too quick for him, “Guard,” he drawled, “I think you'll find that this party here is traveling with a third<ciass ticket on him.” Investigation proved him to be right, and the indignant Britisher was triumphantly ejected. A spec tator of the little scene asked the American how he knew about that ticket, “Well” explained the imper turbable stranger, “the corner was sticking out of his pocket and I saw it was the same color as mine.” nent —— MAY BECOME A SENATOR. Speculation as to Future of Presi. dent Roosevelt After Term Expires. When Mr. Roosevelt retires from the office of President of the United States he will be but fifty-one years of age, and just entering upon his intellectual prime. Will he be content to go into retirement from politics? 1f so, he will have to forego his present love of doing things. Much, however, depends on chance. If he shall be as popular when he retires as he is at present, or half as popular, he will remain the head of his party, and should he desire political preferment, he will get it After his retirement from the Presi dency, George Washington was given command of the army in our actual but not declared war with France. John Quincy Adams made more fame the fine terms he was in Congress the last eighteen years of his life than in all his previous political career. General Jackson retired from the Presidency in 1817, but he was the head of his party until his death, in Rue He dictated his successor, and his will was law to both Van Buren and Polk. Van Buren was a politiclan until he died. He elected Polk in 1R44 and defeated Cass in 188 General Grant was a candidate for President in 1880, and had his man. agers acted with a little more samacity he would have been swept | \ in | he will be nearly two years younger than Lincoln was at his first inaugural. He will undoubtedly write a deal of history. That he will again hold office is not quite so certain, but it is ex- ceedingly probable, The United States Senate would offer an attractive field, and that slow and dignified body would doubtless see some times, SHE HAD THE MORE NERVE. A Human Interest Incident of the Metropolis, | SCHOOL GARDEN WORK. AN IMPORTANT AND ATTRACTIVE FEATURE OF THE NEWER EDUCATIONAL METHODS. Five Years’ Course at School of Horticulture at Hartford, Conn.~ Teaches Gardening and Fruit Growing in All Its Branches. There i8 much growing sentiment in favor of school garden work in all Mrs. Charles Nommenson, wife of a jeweler, of 987 Fulton street, Brooklyn, | was sewing in the second floor sitting | room of their home the other afternoon, | when in walked a burglar with a pisto) in his hand. “l got in the wrong house by mis. take,” said he, as he doffed his hat with 8 bow. “1 wanted to see Mrs, Wilson. “Get out!” ordered Mrs. Nommen- son, producing a revolver of her own and covering the man with the rapidity of thought. “A man who gets in the wrong house by mistake doesn’t draw a revolver on a woman. You are a thief!” “l rang the bell and it was not an- swered. The door was open, so 1 came in ” “You are a thief!” cried the woman, rising and keeping her revolver on him “l will give you thre¢ minutes to gets out. If you are not gone then, I will shoot and kill you. One—two—" The burglar dodged out of the door eyes not leaving him for a second, that he might not get the drop om her. They man saw he had lost in the game of nerve, and he backed down the steps. At the front door he fumbled at the latch. He could not open the door. It seemed to present an opportunity to get the best of the woman. “You will have to let me out” said the burglar. “Not much,” said Mrs. Nommenson, “you want to get me at close quarters.” Then as she kept him covered with parts of the country. If agriculture is the backbone of the country, so ag- ricultural education is the stem and fibre of successful farming. Schoel garden work, as it applies to children who have never lived on a farm, is a start toward scientific agricultural education, and it is a branch of educa- tion of great importance in these times won so many boys and ris are drifting toward the and away from the old farms. The tendency of cities 415 J Wh & CLE ”~ “an HE RAISED THEM MIMSELF, her revolver, she told him how to un- latch the complicated lock. She kept him covered until the street door closed on him. Then she returned to her sew- ing. ——- SENATE'S ATTITUDE RESENTED. House Committee's Action on Light- house and Similar Bills, The House committee on Interstate and foreign commerce has decided to hurl defiance at the Senate in connec tion din all lighthouse measures and similar bills which must be passed on by the committee. It has been the practice of the House to frame these measures in such a way that a sum pot CN. e ~ y ¥ the drift is ecityward; but there are thousands of people who would lke to live on farms, and would, perhaps, if they knew something about the growing of plants, and there is no time like early youth to instil in the mind a love of nature and of growing things | 80 that considerable success has at- tended the school garden idea and the pature study idea as it is being ap- plied in a number of the older institu. tions and in some new special schools A striking example of this is the School of Horticulture at Hartford, Conn. In the year 1808 the Revarend Francis Goodwin, a philanthrople cit- r | y School Garden Scenes al Hartford hool of Horticulture ly { 4 specified but not to exceed a certain amount, is to be used for the particular improvement, The Senate Invariably has changed such bills so they appro priste a fixed amount. This system is regarded by the members of the House interstate and foreign commerce com. mittee as being conducive to reckless y 4 had a hoard of trustees incorporated under the name of Sein " of rt haf the Handicraft # idea was to estadl) school oe mae) training in te ferent In 1000 1. D, Hemenway, a grado. Agricul expenditure and the mesabers of the committee will refuse to accept such a bill hereafter and purpose forcing the Senate to Indorse measures which will the lowest possible cost and the sav. Ing of balances which may remain. This action of the House committees is In line with the general opposition which the House is offering to what Is declared to be the encroachment of the Senate upon its rights, — Coloring Matter in Food. Since we have been brought face to face with the fact that most every article constituting our dally diet con tains some artificial coloring matter, there has been a demand for method by which we oan test such in order to determine whether or they contain artificial coloring. Department encourage the completion of work at | ate of the Massachusetts tural e— | | College, was secured as Director of the { Bchool of Horticulture, The buildings were soon erected, and the School ese | tablished as the first public Handicraft { Bchool of {apprentice work, and a course in hor { culture and botany to the boys from | the Hartford. Besides giving Watkinson Farm School, the fol. lowing season a course in school gar dening was established. This course | was opened to the boys and girls from | the city s¢ 00ls, The school garden work at the 8chool of Horticulture proved attrae tive and popular from the first, and after oné or two years of free work a tuition was charged for each person who took a garden. This tuition need not keep any one from having a gars den, as 100 hours of work for the Bchool pays any boy's tuition. The school garden work has bees eystematized, until now there is a five years’ course In school gardening foe boys and girlie, as well as one to trails public school teachers, and one conrss for adults which is largely taken by clergymen of the city. ¥ One of the reasons which has made this work so popular is because of the fact that the school shows resulta Every boy here, every person, for that matter f a garden gets a great deal more in value from his gardea than the price of the tuition The first vear the boys begin thelr garden work the 1st of May. They come ont for a lesson one day a week They come into the classroom, where each boy receives a notebook, marks his own attendance, keeps a weather report, and writes down from dicta tion. or coples from the blackboard, 2 dettlled lesson for that day With the seeds they are given, they thes pass with the instructor to the tool room, where each boy receives his tools, and with these he goes to his garden, where an instructor is always pre ent to explain the things which be learns in the classroom. In going to his garden he passes by the observe tien plots, which are studied The second year the boys begin Ia Mareh, taking up the mixige of the sofl, potting and repotting tfe tomato, pepper, and egg plants that they have in their gardens. The third year they begin in Febro- ary and take up root-grafting, cutting, pruning, spraying, digging and setting who hs | trees, spading and caring for grounds as well as the garden lessons, The fourth year boys begin In Jan uary and take up the making of hot. beds, management of hotheds, prun ing, spraying, soil analysis, plant foods, testing seeds, planting the gan { den, besides the garden lessons, and in the autumn thee have budd fruit culture, and asparagus culture The fifth year they take up system atic study of the soll, beginning ia January All gardens continue until after the 1st of October That the gardens pay is best shows from a record of the garden yields dun ing the past summer. A first year hoy got $068 worth, a third year boy $25.64, a fourth year boy $23.03. and one of the clergymen $17.21 worth of produce in the gardens The first year the gardens are x 30 ft. the second year 10 x 40 12, the third year 10 x 60 ft. the fourth year 10 x 80 ft. The clergymen have gardens 10 x 40 ft. Public. school teachers have gardens 10 x 30 and 18 Xx 40 1t the plan is to give them a practical training In the method of training school children in the Already several schools of Dh have established gardens in conned tion with the schools. and the School of Hortienlture is furnishing instroe tors of late: those that are giving in struction were trained at the School of Horticulture. But there is another thing that the school does. It keeps the children occupied during the sume mer months, keeping the hovs and girls off the city streets: because they come to Jove thelr gardens and come out to work in them. and to work out their tuition. This is not all, as soon as the planting is done In the gar dens the children take up the system. atic study of weeds, they become fa. millar with them and learn methods of destroying them. Also at the School there are about 500 observation plots containing many of our common | things, and the children learn to know them In all stags of development People are beginning to realize that | a boy from the School of Horticulture is better te work Ju their garden than the averagé man they can get, be cause the boys will not pull up exe pensive seedlings as the men so often | do. Frequent calls are made upon Mr Hemenway for a boy to take care of a garden or lawn, and many of the boys are able to spend most of thelr spare time during the summer in this line of work. If so, we line our burners, D0 YOU USE ACETYLENE ? A SAMPLE BURNER We believe we have the very best and the chea of Acetylene Burners, Our sample will show Bonter than we can explain here why it would pay you to use want to send you Write us today, mention kind of Generator used, enclose 8 cents in stamps to cover postage, and we will send you A SAMPLE BURNER, W. 0 CRANE COPIPANY, "sea s™ NEW YORK, N. Y.
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