EDITORIAL AND GENERAL. 



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Year, April [st, is almost here. Be 

 ready so as to lose nothing. 



THESE WILL BE OTHEE 4RCADIAS. 



Next month the unique Arcadia, the 



means and everybod} is urged and will 

 be aided to make practical application 

 of that meaning. We hold nothing 

 exclusive; we disseminate in "com- 

 monplace nature with uncommon in- 



Xalnre Institution as described in the terest." We shall be happy only when 



January number of The Guide TO \.\- we are scattering abroad and broad- 



ture, will be the headquarters of The cast. 



Agassiz Association and of its allied To the central Arcadia send your 



IX CAMP NEAR SUMMIT, PLACER COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, 

 idea of Arcadia." — E. B. Beecher, Auburn, California. 



"This is my 



interests. This will be the "home of- 

 fice," the center of thought, and we 

 hope the inspiration, or whatever you 

 see fit to call it, of hundreds of other 

 Arcadias, branch-Arcadias, Sub-Arca- 

 dias, all sorts of Arcadias, and the Mec- 

 ca toward which their friends will jour- 

 ney for aid. 



This central Arcadia will lead; the 

 others will follow, disseminate, co-op- 

 erate by a variety of methods in a 

 variety of places. 



We hope and intend that an impor- 

 tant work of this central Arcadia shall 

 be to tell of the others, to assist in 

 their formation, to answer questions, 

 to be parent, friend, to many other and 

 similar Arcadias. Several friends have 

 called attention to the fact that "the 

 name Arcadia is good but trite." 



The name is trite and commonplace. 

 but exoressive. Therefore it is ex- 

 actly right. Everybody knows what it 



notion of an idea 

 an Arcadian year. 

 yours and ours : for 



I Arcadia. This is. 



All hail Arcadia— 

 ours shall be yours I 



hoy large 



were still 



of hunting" 



HIT SOMETHING. 



When I was a young 

 flocks of passenger pigeons 

 in existence. I was fond 

 them and as a result many a pigeon 

 pie decorated the dinner table to my 

 pride and great gustatory satisfaction. 

 Every time I started out on such a 

 trip, my invalid 



limiting 



grandfather 



told me the same story, an experience 

 of his boyhood, at which he always 

 laughed heartily, as I was expected to 

 do, although I felt at the time that 

 the story had been so often reoeated 

 that all its original humor had van- 

 ished. P)itt in later life I realized that 

 it was not all a joke. From the lesson 

 it conveyed T have since reaped much 

 benefit. 



