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HANCICAP IN EDUCATION
CAN
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Perhaps there is no more pathetic
situation in life than that of the man
or woman of adult years who,
through sudden rise of fortune, or
through marriage, finds a neglected
education a barrier to happiness.
An attractive exterior and a kind
heart often blind a man to a woman's
deficiencies in education until she is
placed in daily contrast to his more
cultured relatives and associates.
Then his pride and the sensitive feel
ings of the wife are constantly wound
ed.
A man of wealth (both of purse
and heart) recently asked me how
he could overcome his lack of educa
tion. improve his language and en
large his fund of information without
the humiliation of placing himself
under teachers.
He had acauired fortune and influ
ence In the business world, and had
become the husband of a cultivated
young woman. He was conscious of
being at a disadvantage when in the
presence of her relatives and friends.
To this man and to every man
and woman similarly situated I
would offer this advice:
Write a Page or Chapter of Emerson's
Essays Every Pay
Procure the works of Washington
Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thack
eray and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Begin
perhaps with Emerson.
Obtain a blankbook and make a
rule of writing a page, or a chapter,
from Emerson's essays each day. Xo
matter how unprepared your mind
may be for this work, keep at it until
interest is awakened. Copy the words
with precision and exactness. Consult
a dictionary when any word which
is not familiar is encountered. Try to
master the meaning of every phrase;
but even if it escapes you "copy the
words and pass on to things you do
understand.
However dull this task may seem,
you are surely and certainly forming
the habit of correct phrasing. Added
to this you are familiarizing yourself
with good literature and with the
thoughts of great minds.
Do not try to do too much at first.
Work slowly and patiently. BUT
"WORK EVERY DAY A LITTLE.
Never copy more than one essay in
a day, and be satisfied if you only copy
one printed page. You will be surpris
ed to find how much you will accomp
lish in a few months by this per
sistent practice.
When you begin upon the novels
do not attempt to write down the en
tire book. Read all the chapters care
fully, but copy only those pages which
seem most attractive to you, or such
thoughts as appeal to you.
After you have advanced enough to
feel your improvement, take up
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Shakespeare, Milton and Goethe, and
follow the same methods.
After one year of persistent work
for even an hour daily, along these
lines, your efforts will satisfy you that
you are on the right road to mental
culture.
Your mind will be as trans
formed as a garret which careful
hands have changed into a boudoir,
by removing rubbish and replacing it
with wisely selected furniture.
To read the leading magazines
keeps one in touch with current
events and with the new discov
eries and inventions of the day. Se
lect perhaps two monthly magazines
and make a rule to read them through
each month. Avoid slipshod habits of
reading. Never undertake to speak of
an article you have read unless you
are able to give a clear idea of it.
earn the great gift of being silent un
til you are sure of having something
of Interest to say.
Practice the art of drawing other
people out and leading them to talk.
Listen well and meditate upon what
you hear. If you are listening 1 to the
educated and cultured you will he
able to learn something of the man
ner of expression, even if you obtain
no real information.
Educated and cultured people do
i not always impart information.
Not infrequently they are mere
: parrots, repeating what they have
heard or read instead of what they
have thought and learned by ex
perience.
Avoid the Errors and Emulate the Ac
eomplisluucnts of Other People
Do not imagine education nieans
! infallibility of judgment or keen sense
iof justice. But it usually does mean
| correct expression.
Notice the errors made by others
l in speech and in manners only 10
avoid them. Notice their accomplish*
ments to emulate them.
Try to learn something new
! every day. Carry a little notebook and
; if you hear a word which is not fa
j miliar keep it in mind until you can ,
jot it down. Tf you read the word do!
| the same and before you sleep, find its!
! meaning. The next morning think it I
; over until it is added to your vocab-1
I ulary.
If you have leisure an-d means, look
up some school of correspondence and
take a course of study. Almost every
city has a school of this kind and they
are excellent substitutes for colleges.
Rhetoric, mathematics, literature are
all things which can be taught by
correspondence.
There is not the slightest necessity
for any human being to-day remain
ing ignorant. Indolence, lack of am
bition and lack of application are the
i causes of ignorance, not clrcum-
I stances.
j Whoever will, may acquire educa
tion and culture.
TfceGo dso/
, Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Co.
(Continued.)
j One by one she sent them through
the secret panel Into the room beyond,
and when the last had passed from the
j chamber where we stood In wide eyed
| amazement she turned and smiled at
| us and then passed through herself,
leaving us alone.
CHAPTER VI.
Thuvia.
EOR a momeut neither of us
spoke. Then said:
"I hoard the fighting beyond
the partition through which
you passed, but I did not fear for you,
1 John Carter, until I heard the report
of a revolver shot. I knew that there
lived no man upon all Barsoom who
could face you with naked steel and
live, but the shot stripped the last ves
; tlge of hope from me, since you I knew
to be without firearms. Tell me of it."
I did as he bade, and then together
we sought the secret ]V.nel through
which I had just entered the apart
ment—the one at the opposite end of
the room from that through which the
girl had led her savage companions.
To our disappointment the panel
eluded our every effort to negotiate its
secret lock. We felt that once beyond
it we might look with some little hope
for success for a passage to the out
side world.
The fact that the prisoners within
were securely chained led us to believe
that surely there must be an avenue of
escape from the terrible creatures
which inhabited this unspeakable place.
Again and again we turned from one
door to another, from the baffling gold
en panel at one end of the chamber to
its mate at the other, equally baffling.
When we had about given up all hope
one of the panels turned silently to
ward us, and the young woman who
had led away the banths stood once
more beside us.
"Who are you," she asked, "and
what is your mission that you have the
temerity to attempt to escape from the
valley Dor and the death you hare
chosen?"
"X have chosen no death, maiden," I
replied. "I am not of Barsoom, nor
have I taken yej the voluntary pilgrim
age upon the river Iss. My friend here
is jeddak of all the Tharks, and, though
he has not yet expressed a desire to
return to the living world, I am taking
him with me from the living lie that
hath lured him to this frightful place.
"I am of another world. I am John
Carter, prince of the house of Tardos
Mors, jeddak of Helium. Terchance
some faint rumor of me may have
leaked within the confines of your
hellish abode."
She smiled.
"Yes." she replied; "naught that
passes in the world we have left is un
known here. I have heard of you,
many years ago. The thems have oft
times wondered whither you have flown
since you had neither taken the pil
grimage nor could be found upon the
lace of Barsoom."
"Tell me," I said, "and who are you
aiwl why a prisoner, yet with power
over the ferocious beasts of the place
that denotes familiarity and authority
far beyond that which might be ex
pected of a prisoner or a slave?"
"Slave I am," she answered, "for fif
teen years a slave in this terrible
place, and now that they have tired of
me and become fearful of the power
which my knowledge of their ways has
given me 1 am but recently condemned
to die the death."
i She shuddered.
"What death?" I asked.
"The holy thorns eat human flesh,"
she answered me, "but only that which
Ms died beneath the sucking Hps of a
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Thousands Have Discovered Dr.
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Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets—the sub
stitute for calomel-~are a mild but sure
laxative, and their effect on the liver is
almost instantaneous. They are the re
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calomel. His efforts to banish it brought
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These pleasant little tablets do the
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They take hold of the trouble and
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Most headaches, "dullness" arid that
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Olive Tablets when you feel "loggy" and
"heavy." Note how they "clear" clouded
brain and how they "perk up" the spir
its. 10c and 25c a box. All druggists.
I Looked tc See Her Torn to Pieces.
plant man—flesh from which the defil
ing Mood of life lias been drawn. And
to this cruel end I have been con
demned. It was to be within a few
hours had your advent not caused an
Interruption of their plans."
"Was it then holy tberns who felt
the weight of John Carter's hand?" 1
asked.
"Oh, no: those whom you laid low
are lesser therns, but of the same cruel
and hateful race. The holy therns
abide upon the outer slopes of these
grim hills, facing the broad world,
from which they harvest their victims
and their spoils.
"Labyrinthine passages connect these
caves with the luxurious palaces of
the holy therns, and through them
pass upon their many duties the lesser
therns and hordes of slaves and pris
oners and fierce beasts—the grim In
habitants of this sunless world.
"There are within this vast network
of winding passages and countless
chambers men, women and beasts,
who, born within Its dim and grew
some underworld, have never seen the
light of day—nor ever shall.
"They are kept to do the bidding of
the race of therns; to furnish at once
their sport and their sustenance.
"Now and again some hapless pil
grim, drifting out upon the silent sea
from the cold Iss. escapes the plant
men aivl the great white apes that
guard the temple of Issus and falls
Into thu remorseless clutches of th
therns. <•, as was my misfortune, il
coveted fty the holy thern who chances
to be upon watch In the balcony above
the river where It Issues from the
bowels of the mountains through the
cliffs of gold to empty Into the lost
sea of Korus.
"All who reach the valley Dor are,
by custom, the rightful prey of the
plant men and the apes, while their
arms and ornaments become the por
tion of the therns, but if one escapes
the terrible denizens of the valley for
even a few hours the therns may claim
such a one as their own. ,
"And again the holy thern on watch,
should he see a victim he covets, often
tramples upon the rlchts of the unrea
soning brutes of the valley and takes
his prize by foul means if he cannot
gain it by fair.
"It is said that occasionally some de
luded victim of Barsoomlan supersti
tion will so far escape the clutches of
the countless enemies that beset his
path from the moment thiU. he emerges
from the subterranean passage through
which the Iss flows for a thousand
miles before it enters the Valley Dor
as to reach the very walls of the tem
ple of Issus. But what fate awaits one
there not even the holy therns may
guess, for who has passed within those
glided walls never has returned to un
fo,d the mysteries they have held since
the beginning of time.
"The temple of Issus Is to the therns
what the valley Dor Is Imagined by the
peoples of the outer world to be to
them. It Is the ultimate haven of
peace, refuge and happiness to which
they pass after this life and wherein
nn eternity of eternities is spent amid
the delights of the flesh which appeal
most strongly to this race of mental
slants and moral pygmies."
"The temple of Issus Is, I take It. a
heaven within a neaven," I said. "Let
us hope that there it will be meted to
the therns as they have meted it here
unto others."
"Who knows?" the girl murmured.
"The therns, I judge from what you
have said, arc no less mortal than we.
and yet have I always heard them
spoken of with the utmost awe and
reverence by the people of Barsoom
as' One might speak of the gods them
selves."
(To Be Continued.)
FIRST COUSINS TO
SOARING POTATO
Other Foods Have the Same
Properties and Cost Con
sumer Much Less
Said Bridget to Pat,
"Faith! Do ye sense that?
The price of the spuds doesn't fall
Said Pat with a grin,
"Begorra, we win!
We won't eat the divils at all."
A few days ago when a bag ol' po- i
tatoes arrived from the store out of j
mere curiosity, I counted them—jtis; j
twelve. Twenty-ttve cents for a dozen j
potatoes—two and a fraction cents j
each! Everything else had taken!
wings, loaf bread was shrinking under \
one's very eyes and now even potatoes, j
the great daily staple, had swung into !
line on the uphill march. To the j
average housewife a dinner without |
I potatoes is like a pitcher without a!
j handle. Well, then, we must learn to j
i take a firm grip of the rim and tip j
i the handleless pitcher anyway!
First, it is wise to see just what are >
the food values found in the potato.
These are chiefly starch, a carbohy-
I drate, and liquid. Therefore any
| starchy vegetables cooked in plenty
iof water could be used as a substi
tute. Among these are rice, hominy,
I spaghetti, noodles and macaroni. The
1 next question is to tind palatable
| ways of preparing these dishes. Either
: one boiled until soft and served alone
i forms a flat tasting, unappetizing,
starchy mass. They are first cousins
| of our great American standby but it j
jis very evident that they lack the I
I potato's flavor and satisfying attrac-1
Itlon. Then the housewife looks,
I about her for combinations capable of j
suiting the palates of her family. A
few of these I have gathered from
; various sources and give below in the
I hope that they may be of some use.
Fried Rice
I Blend 2 cups of cold boiled rice
j with 1 tablespoonful lemon juice and
' mold into balls. Fry in deep fat until
i a golden brown and serve very hot.
Baked Rice Loaf
Boil rice in chicken stock. When j
1 done, drain and press into a mold, j
i When iirin, remove l'roni mold, brush j
! over with egg yolk, sprinkle with
j grated cheese and brown in the
\ oven. Serve with tomato sauce.
French Rice
Fry together a finely chopped j
! onion and seeded and chopped green
I pepper. Remove from lire, add a tea
spoon lemon juice and pour over hot
j rice.
Rakc<l Romin.v
I Soak, boil and drain 2 cups big
i hominy (samp). Add 1 can tomatoes.
! Mix together in baking dish. Dot over
top with cheese and cook until partly
; dry.
Croquettes of Hominy
j Add 2 tablespoons milk to 2 cups
cold boiled samp. Heat slowly. Re
move from fire and add salt, pepper,
celery salt, a dash of powdered clove
and the beaten yolk of one egg. When
cool, shape into croquettes, dip into
white of the egg, roll in crumbs and
fry in hot deep fat.
Spanish Spaghetti
Fill a baking dish with alternate
layers of boiled spaghetti and any left
over meat chopped tine. Season each
layer with chopped onion and chopped
red peppers. Pour over all the liquid
j from one can of tomatoes. Season
j with salt, paprika and celery salt.
! Sprinkle cheese over top and bake.
Swiss Spaghetti
Boil and drain the spaghetti and
mix thoroughly while hot with grated
Swiss cheese and a little melted but
ter. Season with salt, paprika and
celery salt. Set in the oven until the
cheese melts and blends thoroughly.
Serve very hot.
Fried Xoodles
Boil large noodles in salted water
until tender, drain and cool. Dip
each piece In batter and fry in hot
j fat. Serve with cream or tomato
I sauce.
Noodles and Tomatoes
! Mix thoroughly one can tomatoes
1 and one package boiled noodles. Sea
] son with salt, pepper and diced onion.
Put into baking dish, dot over with
[cheese and bake until firm.
Macaroni in Peppers or Cheese Shell
Scald sweet green peppers, remove
seeds and fill with boiled and broken
macaroni. Dot over tops with cheese
'and bake. Or if one has the shell
of a pineapple or edam cheese on
i hand rill with the macaroni, sprinkle
top with crumbs and bake.
When in the course of human events
I the hearts of the wholesale dealers
| soften toward mankind, we may be
I able to e.at potatoes again with an
easy mind (and purse). When that
glorious day arrives, we can blow
ourselves and serve them in new and
odd styles just for the joy of it!
Devilled Potatoes
Wash and bake six large potatoes
in their jackets. Remove a slice
from one end and carefully scoop out
i the white. Mix this to a soft foamy
consistency with milk and one well
beaten egg. Flavor highly with salt,
cayenne, mustard, onion juice and
celery salt. Stuff the skins with the
mixture, adding a piece of cheese in
place of the slice cut off. Stand up
right in a pan and put into oven until
the cheese is thoroughly melted.
Enslfsh Potatoes
Fry thin slices of cold boiled potato
until brown and on each slice place a
: piece of hard boiled egg. Pour over
the platter before serving a sauce
made of 1 cup water, 2 tablespoons
' browned flour, salt, peper, 2 tea
spoons vinegar and chopped, parsley
i to taste.
Potatoes and Bacon
Brown one cup cold chopped pota
i toes with one-half cup diced bacon.
, Beat separately the yolks and whites
of 3 eggs (the Powers grant they will
II be cheaper by then!). Stir eggs into
the potato mixture and season with
i salt, pepper and celery salt. Cook in
( frying pan slowly liek an omelet, fold
ing over If desired.
1 ANNA HAMILTON WOOD.
|
Kittatinny Camp Fire
Girls Royally Entertained
Mechanicsburg, Pa., Feb. 16.—Miss
Mary Koller delightfully entertained
* the Kittatinny Camp Fire Girls, of
which she is a member, last evening
at her home in East Main street, with
a valentine masquerade party. The
i rooms were gay in heart decorations
and favors of valentines were given
' the guests at the conclusion of sup
per. In attendance were: Misses
1 Miriam Zufall, Rachel Shelly, Marjorle
[ Baum, Florence Orris, Elizabeth
Hurst, Miriam Orris, Elizabeth Craw
ford, Etta Miller, Ruth Miller and
Mary Koller. Special guests were:
Miss Margaret Blackburn, Miss Elsie
Lenker. Miss Francis Koller and Mrs.
William Koller.
Copyright, 1913, by Doubloday, Pago A Co.
(Continued.)
"Johnny," said I in a strangled little
voice, "I've rot to Rive back MeGlynn's
change. Mr.i *. to go with me?"
We tiptoed around the corner of the
building and fell into each other's
arms with shrieks of joy.
"Oh,'' crieil Johnny at lasi, wiping
the tears from his eyes. "n!!ey's no
trouble!"
After we had to some extent relieved
our feelings we changed my gold slug
Into dust—l purchased a buckskin bag
—and went to find McGlynn. Our way
to his quarters led past the postofllce,
where a long cue of men still waited
patiently and quietly In line. We stood
for a few jioments watching the de
meanor of those who had received their j
mail or who had been told there was j
nothing for them. Some of the latter j
were pathetic and looked fairly dazed j
with grief and disappointment.
We found Yank and Talbot still at
the edge of the hotel veranda.
"Look here, Tal," said Johnny at
once, "how aie you going to finish all
this business you've scared up and get
off to the mines within n reasonable
time? We ought to start pretty soon."
"Mines?'* echoed Talbot. "I'm not
going to the mines: I wouldn't leave
all this for a million mines. No; Yank
and I have been talking it over. You
boys will have to attend to the mining
end of this business. I'll pay Frank's
share and take a quarter of the profits,
and Frank can pay in j in addition
half his profits. In return for the work
I don't do I'll put aside $220 and use
It in my business here, and all of us
will share in the profits I make from
that amount. How does that strike
you?"
"I don't like to lose you out of this,"
said Johnny disappointedly.
"Nor I." said I.
"And I hate to lose the adventure,
boys," agreed Talbot earnestly. "But,
honestly, I can't leave this place now
even if I want to, and I certainly don't
want to."
I turned in that night with the feel
ing that I had passed a very interest
ing day.
CHAPTER XI.
Off For Sutter'o Fort.
TWO days later Yank, Johnny
and I embarked aboard a small
bluff bowed sailboat, waved our
farewells to Talbot, standing
on the shore, and laid our course to
cross the blue bay behind an island
called Alcatraz. Our boatman was a
short, swarthy man with curly hair
and gold rings in his ears. He han
dled his boat weil, but spoke not at
all. After a dozen attempts to get
something more than monosyllables
out of him we gave it up and settled
ourselves to the solid enjoyment of a
new adventure.
The breeze was strong and drove
even our rather clumsy craft at con
siderable speed. The blue waters of
the bay flashed In the sun and riffled
under the squalls. Spray dashed away
from our bows. A chill racer in from
the open Pacific, diluting the sunlight.
After a journey of several days we
came into u wide bottom land country
I with oaks. The distant blue hills had
grown and had become slate gray. At
noon we discerned ahead of us a low
bluff, and a fork In the river, and
among the oak trees the gleam of
tents, and before them a tracery of
masts where the boats and small ships
lay moored to the trees. This was the
embarcadero of Sutter's Fort beyond,
or the new city of Sacramento, which
ever you pleased. Here our boat jour
ney ended, and we set out to cover
the three or four miles to Sutter's
Fort.
Sutter's Fort was situated at the
edge of the live oak'park. We found it
to resemble a real fort, with high
walls, bastions and a single gate at
each end through which one entered
to a large inclosed square, perhaps a
hundred and fifty yards long by fifty
wide. The walls were not pierced for
guns, and the defense seemed to de
pend entirely on the Jutting bastions.
The walls were double and about
twenty-five feet apart. Thus by roof
ing over this space and dividing it
with partitions Sutter had made up
his barracks, blacksmith shop, bakery,
and the like. Later in our investiga
tions we even ran across a woolen fac
tory, a distillery, a Millard room and
a bowling alley! At the southern end
of this long space stood a two story
house. Directly opposite the two story
house and at other end of the in
closure was an auobe corral.
The place was crowded with people.
A hundred or BO miners rushed here
and there on apparently very impor
tant business or loafed contentedly
against the posts or the sun warmth of
adobe walls. In this latter occupation
they were aided and abetted by a
number of the native Californlans.
Perhaps a hundred Indians were lead
ing horses, carrying burdens or en
gaged in some other heavy toll. They
were the first we had seen, and we ex
amined them with considerable curi
osity. A good many of them were
nearly naked, but some had on por-
tions of battered civilized apparel.
Very few could make up a full suit ofi
clothes, but contented themselves with
either a coat, or a shirt, or a pair oC
pantaloous, or even with only a hat,
as the case might be. They were very
iwarthy, squat, villainous looking sav
ages, wlili bis heads, low foreheads,
coarse hair anil beady little eyes.
We stopped for some time near the
rentry box at the entrance, accustom
ing ourselves to the whirl and move
ment. Then we set out to find Mc-
Clellan. He was almost immediately
pointed out to us. a short, square, busi
nesslike man, with n hard gray face,
dealing competently with the pressure.
A. score of men surrounded liiiu, eaclt
eager for his attention. While we hov
ered, awaiting our chance, two nieii
walked In through the gate. They
were uccorded the compliment of al
most a complete silence on the part of
those who caught sight of them.
The first was a Californian about
thirty-five or forty years of age, a man
of lofty, stern bearing, swarthy skfu,
glossy side whiskers and bright super
cilious eyes. He wore a light blue
short jacket trimmed with scarlet and
with silver buttons, a striped silk sash,
breeches of crimson velvet, met below
by long embroidered deerskin boots.
A black kerchief was bound crosswlso
on Ills head, entirely concealing the
hair, and a flat crowned, wide, gray
hat heavily ornamented with silver
completed this gorgeous costume. He
moved with the assured air of the aris
tocrat. The splendor of his apparel,
the beauty of his face and figure and
the grace of his movements attracted
the first glance from all eyes. Then
immediately he was passed over in fa
vor of his companion.
The latter was a shorter, heavier
man, of more mature years. In fact,
his side whiskers were beginning to
turn gray. His costume was plain, •.
but exquisitely neat, and a strange \
blend of the civil and the military.
The Jacket, for example, had been cut
in the trim military fashion, but was
worn open to exhibit the snowy cas
cade of the linen beneath. But no
body paid much attention to the man's
| dress. The dignity and assured calm
of his face and eye at once Impressed
one with conviction of unusual quality.
Johnny sta.red for a, moment, his
brows knit; then, with an exclamation,
he sprang forward.
"Captain Sutter!" he cried.
Sutter turned slowly to look Johnny
squarely in the face, his attitude one
of cold but cowrteous inquiry. John
ny was approaching hat in hand. I
confess he astonished me. We had
known him intimately for some mouths
and always as the harum-scarum, im
pulsive, hail fellow, bubbling, irrespon
sible. Now a new Johnny stepped for
ward, quiet, highbred, courteous, self
contained. Before lie had spoken a
word Captain Sutter's aloof expression
had relaxed.
"I* beg your pardon for addressing
you so abruptly," Johnny was saying.
"The surprise of the moment must ex
cuse me. Ten years ago. sir, I had the
pleasure of meeting you at the time
you visited my father in Virginia."
(To Be Continued.)
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