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AT HEART THEY ARE REAL ARCADIANS AND LOVE CORNFIELD DECORATIONS. 



We are learning from the Sound Beach 

 Golf Club. We enjoy their presence as 

 next door neighbors. We hope that this 

 benefit may be reciprocal. We have re- 

 ceived good things from them. We ac- 

 knowledge that they are doing much in 

 the outdoor air of this Arcadian territory. 

 We acknowledge that they are representa- 

 tive of good principles. We should like 

 to have these golf players run over the 

 walls out of their fields and into our 

 fields occasionally, to examine some of the 

 fundamental missionary principles of The 

 Agassiz Association that may be applied 

 as well to golfing. 



Lightning Kills Fish in a Creek. 



BY FRANK B. HOPKINS, NORTH SALEM, 

 INDIANA. 



In a recent thunderstorm, a dead elm 

 about fifty or sixty feet high and over- 

 hanging a long pool in Eel River, here 

 only a rod or two rods wide, and about 

 a mile and three-quarters north of this 

 place, was struck by a tremendous bolt. 

 The current followed the tree to the 

 "elbow" where it turns to grow erect,- 

 and there left it for the river after con- 

 siderably shattering the trunk. The 

 pool is some rods in length and is a 

 favorite spot in which to fish for carp 

 and crappie, which, with black bass, 

 calico bass and white suckers, are plen- 

 tiful here. After the storm two fami- 

 lies that live nearest the pool went to 

 see the stream and, noticing the dead 



fish, began to gather them, as they 

 seemed but recently dead. Investiga- 

 tion showed the riven tree and the 

 point where the bolt had left it. The 

 fish were found on the bars and in 

 patches of saw grass and water willow 

 for a distance of more than half a mile. 

 One family gathered a bushel of them. 



"How to Make an Eugenical Family 

 Study" is the title of one of the latest 

 bulletins of the Record Office at Cold 

 Spring Harbor, Long Island, New 

 York. It should interest not only per- 

 sons concerned with family genealogy, 

 but also all who take the naturalist's 

 attitude toward problems of human 

 nature. 



Heed the Call. 



The out-of-doors is calling you 



Give heed unto its voice, 

 And ever after you will have 



Good reason to rejoice. 



For energy, vitality, 



Sound health are in its keep, 

 Abounding spirits through the day, 



At night refreshing sleep. 



If these were held for ransom high, 

 Far sought would be the gain, 



Yet they come knocking at your doors, 

 And often knock in vain. 



Let wisdom guide you through the year, 



To spurn would be a sin. 

 And when you cannot get outdoors 



Why, let the outdoors in! 



— Emma Pcirce. 



