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A Charming Love Story 
DULCIBEL 
By HENRY PETERSON 
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for the fictitious love tale and for the his¬ 
torical information it contains .”—Chicago 
Reco rd- Hera Id. 
i2mo, cloth, 400 pages. Illustrations 
in color. $1.50 postpaid. 
Some Hymns and 
Hymn Writers 
Representing All who Profess and Call Themselves 
Christians 
By WILLIAM BUDD BODINE, D.D. 
Short studies in the Hymnal of the Episcopal Church. 
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A Trip to the Orient 
The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise 
By ROBERT URIE JACOB 
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The Philippines 
Under Spanish and American Rules 
By C. H. FORBES-LINDSAY 
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Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt top, slip cloth 
covers in cloth box. 566 pages with 26 
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The Samaritans 
The Earliest Jewish Sect, their History, Theology 
and Literature 
By JAMES ALAN MONTGOMERY, Ph.D. 
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Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt top, 372 pages and 29 illustra¬ 
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Good Form for Women 
By MRS. CHARLES HARCOURT 
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The Best New Reading for Boys and Girls 
Paddle Your Own Canoe The North Pole Series 
Series 
By EDWARD S. ELLIS 
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The Forest Messengers The Mountain Star 
Queen of the Clouds 
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By Professor EDWIN J. HOUSTON 
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Polar regions. . . . Some New York boys accom¬ 
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and had marvelous experiences. They went part of 
the way by balloon or air-ship until they found the 
quest. ’ —Philadelphia Inquirer. 
Three Tolumes 
The Search for the North Pole 
The Discovery of the North Pole 
Cast Away at the North Pole 
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FRUIT QARDENINQ. By Thomas Bridgman. Liberally illustrated. i2mo. Cloth, 50c. 
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MY TEN ROD FARM, OR HOW I BECAME A FLORIST. By Charles Barnard. i2mo. 
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THE STRAWBERRY QARDEN: HOW IT WAS PLANTED. WHAT IT COST. By 
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It is well known that bluing can be 
prevented by drying the lumber in kilns 
as soon as it leaves the saw. This is 
expensive, however, and unless great 
care is taken, considerable depreciation 
in its value will occur. There are also 
patented processes by which the timber 
is immersed in certain alkaline solutions. 
The work could be simplified, if the 
lumber were piled in open forms, so that 
quick seasoning would take place; for 
the spores of the bluing fungus can only 
germinate in the presence of considerable 
moisture. But to pile lumber in this 
manner requires more space than if 
closed piles can be used. Hence the 
problem which the Forest Service has 
set itself to solve is by no means a simple 
one, and its results will he awaited with 
great interest by manufacturers of lum¬ 
ber all over the country. 
WOLSEY’S GOLD KNOCKER 
TAMES PAYNE says that at Ott- 
ford, in Kent, there was formerly 
a palace of the archbishops of Canter¬ 
bury, in which Wolsey is said to have 
held his court. “It was but a small 
place and is now a farmhouse, pic¬ 
turesque enough, but exhibiting no 
special signs of prosperity. The other 
day, however, this little incident hap¬ 
pened; The farmer sent for a carpenter 
to do some odd jobs about the house, and 
among other things to mend the knocker. 
The man took it off and said, after a 
close examination of it: ‘Do you know 
what this knocker is made of.?’ ‘Why, 
brass, I suppose.’ ‘No; it is pure gold.’ 
And it was. Think of the years that 
that rich prize has hung at the mercy of 
every tramp !”—Boston Transcript. 
FOREST FIRES SET BY FRICTION 
A CANADIAN engineer has evolved 
^ a new theory to account for forest 
fires. While with a Government survey¬ 
ing party recently in a part of the far 
Northwest, where these conflagrations 
are frequent and destructive, he hap¬ 
pened to catch a tree in the very act of 
setting fire to itself and its companions. 
It was this way; The tree had been 
partly uprooted by a severe wind-storm, 
and leaned over against the trees nearest 
to it, some of which happened to be 
dead. Fierce gusts blew dow n from the 
neighboring mountains and caused the 
branches of the inclined tree to rub with 
considerable force against those upon 
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