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HUDSON 



sketches are much admired for their excellence 

 of form, but are not always accurate in con- 

 tent. Of his numerous essays, the most widely 

 read is A Message to Garcia, a stirring account 

 of a bold exploit connected with the Spanish- 

 American War and a few lessons drawn from 

 it. Several million copies of this essay have 

 been circulated. It is now included in a vol- 

 ume containing among other essays, The Cigar- 

 ettist, Get Out or Get in Line and Pasteboard 

 Proclivities. Hubbard was also a popular lec- 

 turer, one who talked just as he wrote. His 

 varied and interesting career came to an end 

 in May, 1915, when he lost his life through 

 the sinking of the steamship Lusitania. 



HUCKLEBERRY, huck"lberi, or WHOR- 

 TLEBERRY, hwur't'lberi, a shrub belonging 

 to the heath family, of which several species 

 are known. The common swamp huckleberry 

 bears slender, spreading stems, sometimes ten 

 feet or more in 

 height, white, 

 bell-shaped flow- 

 ers, and small 

 oval or wedge- 

 shaped leaves. 

 Sweet, juicy ber- 

 ries, blue-black in 

 color and con- 

 taining a few 

 small seeds, con- 

 stitute the fruit 

 of this species of 

 huckleberry. An- 

 other familiar 

 species, the low-bush huckleberry, grows to a 

 height of from one to three feet on low ' or 

 rocky ground. Huckleberries are found from 

 New England to the Rocky Mountains and in 

 all but the extreme Southern states. 



The Blueberry. Several species of blueber- 

 ries are popularly known as huckleberries in 

 many localities. The blueberry is common in 

 Great Britain, in Europe and throughout North 

 America. There are two main divisions, the 

 high-bush and the low-bush, the former vary- 

 ing in size from five to ten feet, and the latter, 

 from six inches to three feet. Different spe- 

 cies bear fruit of various colors black, blue, 

 white and red. 



The market blueberries of the United States 

 and Canada are the fruit of a shrub that grows 

 on dry, sandy hills from New Jersey north- 

 ward, and in the northern tier of counties in 

 Minnesota and the adjoining Canadian prov- 

 inces. Nearly all of the product used by the 



THE HUCKLEBERRY 

 A branch, showing how the 

 berries grow. 



people in the central part of the United States 

 is obtained from the Minnesota tracts. In 

 Maine there is a great field of 150,000 acres, 

 known as the "blueberry barrens," from which 

 about 720,000 cans of berries are obtained each 

 year. The berries are picked by hand, the 

 pickers receiving from a cent and a half to 

 three cents a quart. Occasionally a tract of 

 land is burned over so as to clear the ground 

 for new bushes, and the season before the 

 burning the berries are often gathered with a 

 berry rake. This implement is similar to a 

 deep dustpan with a bottom containing teeth 

 like those of a comb, and can only be used 

 when injury to the bushes does not have to be 

 considered. 



Uncooked blueberries are served as a dessert, 

 and this fruit is also used in making pies and 

 other pastry, and is made into preserves, jellies 

 and wine. In any form they are nutritious and 

 palatable. 



HUD'DERSFIELD, the chief center of Eng- 

 lish cloth and woolen manufacture, a city in 

 the north-central part of England, in West Rid- 

 ing, Yorkshire. It was the first English city 

 to adopt an eight-hour labor law and the first 

 to own and operate its street cars, gas, water 

 and electric plants. It is an old town, having 

 been entered in the Domesday Book (which 

 see), but did not become industrially impor- 

 tant until the eighteenth century, when woolen 

 manufacturing was introduced. The city is 

 situated on the Colne River, about sixteen 

 miles southwest of Leeds, and is connected 

 with other important commercial cities by rail 

 and water. It has broad, well-built streets and 

 fine buildings, the market and town hall being 

 notable among the latter. With beautiful 

 parks, an art gallery, public baths and libraries, 

 a modern sewerage and garbage-disposal system, 

 dwellings for married and single working men 

 and women, splendid churches and educational 

 institutions, among them a collegiate school 

 affiliated with London University, Huddersfield 

 is an attractive city. In 1911 it had a popula- 

 tion of 107,825. 



HUD 'SON, HENRY ( ? -1611), a British 

 explorer whose great work, entitling him to 

 lasting recognition, was accomplished under the 

 Dutch flag. He explored the Hudson River, 

 Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait, all of which 

 were named for him. In 1607 he sailed from 

 London on an unsuccessful voyage in a ship 

 manned by ten men and a boy to discover the 

 northeast passage, and cruised beyond the 

 eightieth degree of latitude. After two later 



