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HOUSE & GARDEN 
XV*'; 
The Terra Cotta TILE ROOF 
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CHICAGO, ILL. 
“The Light 
That Failed”— 
is a good story, but when the 
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■—when suddenly the electric 
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A Quick, Sure Method that 
Restores service instantly 
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Do you know what a Fuse Plug 
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A Fuse Plug is an electric safety 
valve that “blows” when the cur¬ 
rent overloads the wires in your 
house. 
The old fashioned kind is a 
single plug. When it blows, some 
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for an electrician to come and 
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America’s Early Garden Benefactors 
(Continued from page 56) 
of the white settlements. The seeds 
were packed in leathern sacks, because 
bags of burlap would soon be torn to 
shreds in the thickets. Sometimes, 
for lack of horse or boat, he carried 
them on foot over a part of the old 
Indian trail that led from Fort 
Duquesne to Detroit, by way of Fort 
Sandusky, over what was called “the 
second route through the wilderness 
of Ohio,” which would require him 
to travel 156 miles in a northwesterly 
direction from Fort Duquesne, to 
reach the Black Fork of Mohican. 
Notwithstanding his rude dress and 
wandering life, Chapman was always 
treated with respect and eagerly wel¬ 
comed. It would certainly appear 
that he was not an ignorant man, but 
a reader and thinker of more than 
ordinary mentality. At a Fourth of 
July celebration, held at Norwalk, 
Ohio, in 1816, he was the orator of 
the day. He never married, had no 
home, dwelt here and there among 
the pioneers in winter, planted always 
his seeds in summer. The Indians 
regarded him as a great medicine man 
and were always kind to him. Dur¬ 
ing the War of 1812, when frontier 
settlers were butchered by the savage 
allies of Great Britain, Chapman was 
unmolested. When news of Hull's 
surrender brought sudden terror to 
frontiersmen, Chapman traveled day 
and night with warnings and saved 
the lives of many pioneers. 
Besides his seeds, Chapman is said 
always to have carried with him a 
few copies of the Bible and of Swed¬ 
enborg’s books, from which he would 
read to all who would listen. All 
records seem to agree that he had 
strange eloquence at times and was a 
man of genius. His kindness to chil¬ 
dren and to animals is also empha¬ 
sized. Often he would buy wornout 
old horses that were being abused and 
pay for their keep. His trees he sold 
for any prices the settlers could af¬ 
ford to pay—sometimes for food or 
clothing, sometimes for notes which 
he never troubled to collect. 
As age crept on and civilization 
pushed ahead more rapidly, Chapman 
found keeping in advance of it diffi¬ 
cult. In 1838, about thirty-seven years 
after his first appearance at Licking 
Creek, he visited all his old friends 
there and bade them good-bye. His 
planting for the next nine years was 
on the western border of Ohio and 
Indiana. By this time it is estimated 
that his trees were bearing fruit over 
a territory of 100,000 square miles. 
And then we read, “At the close of 
a warm day, after traveling twenty 
miles, he entered the home of a citi¬ 
zen in St. Joseph’s township, Allen 
County, Indiana, ate some bread and 
milk on the doorstep, read aloud the 
Beatitudes, slept on the floor and died 
in the night.” 
In a public park of Mansfield a 
granite monument to Chapman’s 
memory was unveiled November 8, 
1900. On another monument, erected 
to commemorate a historical event in 
Ashland County and unveiled Sep¬ 
tember 15, 1882, Chapman’s name is 
also inscribed. Although he waited 
long for recognition from his country, 
he did not wait in vain. 
But the secret of his strange, 
heroic, lonely life remains unsolved 
at last. What power drove this 
scarred old hero through forty years 
in the forest, ever working intelli¬ 
gently and faithfully at his self-im¬ 
posed task, no one will ever know. 
Dog of All the Russias 
(Continued from page 24) 
saddle of his hunting pony onto the 
prostrate wolf. Formerly a deftly 
wielded knife assisted in avoiding any 
further trouble for the dogs; but of 
late years it has become better form 
to take the wolf alive. A short 
stick with a thong at each end being 
held in front of the wolf, he seizes 
it, and the hunter, with instant dex¬ 
terity, ties the thong behind the 
brute’s neck. Reynard and the hare 
are captured in the same man¬ 
ner by the dogs, but in that case a 
toss in the air is usually sufficient.” 
For Western Hunting 
In the Western States and Canada 
Borzoi have coursed jack rabbits, 
coyotes and wolves. The little coy¬ 
ote, swift of foot and in a corner 
desperately vicious, is no mean ad¬ 
versary, while the big grey timber 
wolf can be brought to bay only by 
hounds of great stamina and brav¬ 
ery with speed to boot. 
The sight hound family is scat¬ 
tered all over Europe, Asia and 
Northern Africa, and it is not sur¬ 
prising, remembering their antiquity, 
that the origin of the Borzoi should 
be unknown. Writers outside of 
Russia have liked to account for him 
by the simple expedient of crossing 
the European and the Asiatic sight 
hounds. It is a charmingly simple 
hypothesis, but Mr. Artem Balderoff, 
a capital Russian authority, believes 
all the sight hounds were developed 
locally, the demand for speed evolv¬ 
ing the same general type out of dif¬ 
ferent local materials. He considers 
the Borzoi a development of the old 
long-coated, smooth-faced Russian 
beardog. Other Russian authorities 
agree in claiming a purely Russian 
origin for this national coursing dog. 
The first Borzoi at the English 
shows was from Germany, a dog 
hound bred by Prince William of 
Prussia, exhibited at Islington by the 
Duchess of Manchester in 1863. 
Shortly afterward the Czar present¬ 
ed King Edward, then Prince of 
Wales, with two hounds, Molodetz 
and Owdalzka. Lord Cowley also 
received some stock from the Im¬ 
perial Kennels and these passed 
eventually into the ownership of 
Lady Charles Innes-Ker. The Duch¬ 
ess of Newcastle’s Kennels were 
early prominent, and Colonel the 
Honorable Charles Wellesley was the 
importer of Krilutt, winner of a sil¬ 
ver medal at Moscow in 1888 and 
the best dog seen in England up to 
that time. The breed received an 
additional fillip when Queen Alexan¬ 
dra singled it out as her favorite 
and made frequent entries from the 
Sandringham kennels. 
The Borzoi in America 
Mr. William Wade, of Houlton, 
Pa., is said to have introduced the 
first Borzoi into America, an Eng¬ 
lish bred bitch, Elsie, which he pur¬ 
chased from Mr. Freeman-Lloyd. 
Early in 1890 Mr. Paul H. Hacke, 
of Pittsburgh, brought over several 
couples of hounds from Russia, and 
a little later Mr. W. H. Huntington 
imported from leading English 
breeders. The first American to visit 
Russia hunting for Borzoi was Mr. 
Steadman Hanks, of Boston, and he 
shared show honors at the early ex¬ 
hibitions with Mr. E. L. Kraus, of 
Slatington, Pa., whose hounds were 
of German extraction. The pioneer 
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