the terms embodied in the Platt amendment to the army appropriation bill as conditions precedent to leaving the government and control of Cuba to its people, the condition with regard to the title to the Isle of Pines being excepted." The Chautauqua Assembly The following is the calendar for the Chautauqua Assembly season of 1901: Opening of season, July 3d. Opening of the summer schools, July 6th. Woman's Day, July 27th. C. L. S. C. Rallying Day, August 1st. Field Day, August 2d. Sunday School Day, August 3d. Missionary Institute, August 3d, 4th and 5th. Old First Night, August 6th. Denominational Day, August 7th. Children's Day, August 8th. Aquatic Day, August 9th. Grange Day, August 10th. C. L. S. C. Recognition Day, August 14th. Summer Schools close August 16th. National Army Day, August 17th. Season closes August 29th. Ships at Sea There is no work an artist-soul can do Columbus like a field of progress, and Has power to plant upon this "goodly land" The seed of Truth. What if he be not true? And if our country shall be wholly free, -Geo. H. Bicknell. The following problems are worth trying. If you have a good solution for any of them or desire to see one let us know about it. What is the area of a square field whose diagonal is 20 yards longer than one side? What will be the length of a rope required to be wound around in coils three feet apart from top to bottom of a tree four feet in circumference and sixty feet high? What is the form of the largest field that can be encircled with a given length of wire? If ten cows clip the grass off a field in four weeks and fifteen cows in two weeks, in what time will twelve cows? It is supposed that the fields are all the same size and that there is the same amount of grass at the start. Whether pluming the mountain, edging the lake, eye-lashing the stream, roofing the waterfall, sprinkling the meadow, burying the homestead, or darkening leagues of hill, plain and valley, trees have always "haunted me like a passion.” -Alfred B. Street. The Pipers of the Pools Pipers of the chilly pools, Through the cool and teeming damp Call till all the April children From your cold and fluting throats Pipe the mould to move again, Pipe the mating song of earth, Then a wonder shall appear, Miracle of time; Up through root and germ and sapwood, Life shall climb and climb. Then the hiding things shall hear you Then the rain shall kiss the bud And amid the shining grass Ephemera arise, And the wildflowers in the hollow Open starry eyes; And delight comes in to whisper"Soon, soon, soon, Earth shall be but one wild blossom Breathing to the moon." --Charles G. D. Roberts, in April "New" Lippincott. It is better to inspire the heart with a noble sentiment than to teach the mind a truth of science. -Edward Brooks. OUR BOOK TABLE The Clipping File Company of Cleve- ciples are made clear in outine sumland, Ohio, has prepared a device that maries at the close of each chapter. will prove a convenience and time It is the aim of this book to set forth the main facts of American history, particularly in the earlier periods, in such a way as to attract and interest young pupils. BIRDIES By Ida S. Elson. 104 pages. Price 30 cents. William G. Smith & Co., Minneapolis. Minn. In this volume the reader is treated to an agreeable amount of orinthology and bird-lore in the form of a story based on the experiences of two chil dren who spent the summer on their grandfather's farm. The volume is small and for small people yet it gives the most valuable facts concerning fifteen or more of the feathered tribe most common to this latitude. The book closes with a grand oratorio by all the birds under the musical little half fiction adds a charm to the directorship of Mr. Mocking-bird. This book which the "tots" will not fail to appreciate most highly. ANIMAL LIFE non L. Kellogg, Cloth. By President David Starr Jordan and Professor Ver- Realizing the fascination that the personalities of our national heroes have for the young, Professor Thomas This is a study of animals in their has chosen those men who best illus. natural surroundings and habits. trate the important periods in the Though scientific it is not too technimaking of our nation, and in a series cal for academic students. It is one of interesting biographical sketches phase of zoology but it is more than uses these men as centers around a simple zoological treatise. It goes which the history is written. Thus at the subject in much the same way the book has all the freshness and that a student of sociology would vitality, all the rapidity of action, and take up the study of a given communall the interest, of tales of patriotism ity. and courage and untiring endurance, and yet preserves accuracy of fact and due proportion of importance of The work is possessed of those elements which awaken a genuine interest on the part of the student and a events. grasp of the subject is rendered much While the narrative is continuous easier by means of the splendid illusand unencumbered with dates and trations of which there is a large references yet the fundamental pria- number. |