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The Sea Coast Echo CHAS. G. MOREAU, PUB., BAY ST. LOUIS. MISSISSIPPI A college education is getting to be mighty expensive—for alumni. Still this is just the weather you were wishing for last February. That wind blown summer resort ad vertising begins to look very catchy. The summer girl was never more fascinating than she is this season. An umpire never reverses a dec!- | sicn, although bsked to do so every 1 day. A Sacramento minister defended Sun day baseball, and they say he struck right out. Worse than not being able to swim those days is not being able to go swimming. In addition to the wireless telegraph Chicago will now have permanently noiseless peddlers. When a man boasts about his old age it is generally found that he has noth ing else to boast about. Chicago has twice as many tele phones as Londoil. Hut then it has twice as much to say. A Pittsburg scientist says there Is a microbe in every kiss. Pittsburg ought to know that by this time. Anew counterfeit S2O bill Is In cir culation. Watch for It when the con ductor hands you your change. Visit any store where they sell straw hats and view the impressive ceremony of putting the lid on. Redman Wanamaker Is Insured for $4,500,000, but it Is not stated wheth er bo is an aviator or a canoeist. Warmer winters are promised. It is consoling to know that they cannot be wanner than the summers. No first class summer resort, as you may have observed, ever has any flies or mosquitoes for publication. When you discover two souls with but a single thought the thought con cerns the coolest place within reach. A good many of our householders labor under the impression that ice is measured by the carat, like diamonds. England has just launched her first war airship. It is called the Mayfly. Probably the implied doubt is justifi able. One who will sit out on the bleach ers when the temperature Is playing around 100 must really want to see the ball game. Fo‘o is a great game, and might be even more thrilling and spectacular if the [layers would ride motorcycles in stead of horses. Willie Berri’s Brooklyn playmates can never brag successfully about hav ing had the measles, for Willie stepped in the president’s soup. A New York physician says that one can escape typhoid fever by chewing tobacco. The remedy, however, is w r orse than the disease. Several hundred marriages in Chica go have been declared void, thereby saving a good many people the ex pense of a trip to Reno. A young woman in Brooklyn wants to marry the stepson of her father-in law’s first wife. All of which is our notion of considerable mixup. “You’ll not notice the heat If you don’t talk about It,” says Doctor Wiley. The trouble is that other peo ple insist on talking about it, A Boston court has been called on to decide whether baseball playing is labor. It seems to be when the Detroit team Is playing on the other side. Edison says that the end of the trol ley car is In sight But the boldest in ventor has not yet tackled the prob lem of the strap-hangerleas car. A Chicago woman has had a lawyer arrested, alleging that he called her an “old cat.” Call a woman a cat. If you must, but never call her an old cat A Chicago woman says that divorces are more common now because her sex have raised the standard of man hood. Any old kind of a husband will no longer do, she says. How does It happen, then, that so many men get married? A Swedish astronomer gives the earth more than 10.000 years longer to live. Which looks bad for our de scendants in about the three hun dredth generation. A New Y’ork grocer was pardoned for speeding to save ■ his wife’s SSC, hat from the rain, so the grocer’s cua torr.er whose entire family’s $25 worth of clothes jte endangered will not bs arested If they .run.. A Syracuse Ihdy hah celebrated hei eighty-first birthday by skipping -tht rope 21 times. .. We ..are glad to bt abie to report that she does not boasi that she has used tobacco and stronj liquor ail her life. <im? mm SmuAir r i* m* : > ' : * *gf- I’ \ > 4 4,4 "t| fp '*' % 'rs jfe' - 'im £■/ CAP/rA/i A/ta rrm/?OR iam^ EVERY year the great resorts of Europe are visited by thousands of tourists who apparently have no knowledge of the great na tional parks which have been created by congress for the benefit cf the people and In which there are aatural features and views that can aot be surpassed. If the traveler seeks Alpine glaciers tie has only to go to the Glacier Na tional Park, w'here there are more glaciers In the same area than in Switzerland; if he desires to travel in comfort over finely built roads that rival those of France. Switzerland and Germany, the Yellowstone Park ex tends its invitation to him. If he is attracted to Europe by the mystery of the Black Forest, he can And more majestic and impressive forests on the slopes of the Sierra Ne vada, in the Yosemlte, Sequoia and General Grant porks. If his thoughts turn to the clear blue lakes of Swlt terland, he can find their counterparts in the Glacier and Crater lake national parks. Should he be anxious to risk his life in scaling snow-clad peaks, he has only to repair to Mount Ranier In Washington, whose steep slopes and Ice-covered top will furnish sport ex citing enough for the most daring of mountaineers. If he Is interested in the ruins of prehistoric people, the Casa Grande ruin in Arizona and the Mesa Verde National Park in Colora do will show him how the aboriginal Inhabitants of America lived hundreds of years before its discovery by Euro i peans. Yellowstone Is Best Known. The Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming is the oldest ; and the best known of all the parks and reservations. It was created by an act of congress in 1872, and ever since that time the government has been constructing roads and cutting trails, until now the park is In a high state of development and all parts of It are accessible to the traveler. In the park may be seen natural | phenomena the like of which is found nowhere else in the world. Here are guysers that throw jets of steam and i hot water into the air, great terraces formed from deposits of mineral mat ; ter in the water thrown up by the geysers, and the great falls of Yel i lowstone river which traverses a beau tiful multi-colored canyon that is sec -1 ond only to the Grand Canyon of the I Colorado. In this park may be seen the deer, the bear, the antelope and the bison i on their native range, because hunt ing Is prohibited and the bands of deer and antelope roam through the valleys and over the slopes as they did years before they w r ere practically exterminated in the greater part of the w'est. The Glacier National Park in north ern Montana on the Canadian border Is the newest of the parks controlled by the federal government. This park has an area of about 915,000 acres and has a maximum length of sixty miles. Yosemlte in Class by Itself. W’hen one speaks of California the Yosemlte Park naturally comes to mind. As long ago as 1864 an act of congress granted the Yosemite val ley and the Mariposa big tree grove to the State of California for public use and recreation. The legislature of California by the act approved March 3, 1905, re-ceded the jurisdic tion and ownership of this tract to the United States, and only since June 11, 1906, has the management of the Yosemlte National Park been under the control of the federal government. The entire park has an area of about 36 by 40 miles. The Yosemlte valley, which is the most frequently visited place is about 7 miles long and % mile wide. In the center of ttls valley is a level, parklike mead ow, through which runs the Merced river, while on either side the moun tains rise steep and precipitous to a height of 4,000 feet above the floor of te valley. Numerous streams drop from the edge of the cliff to the valley below. The first of these as the tourist en ters the valley is the Bridal Veil Falls. A stream fully thirty feet wide falls a distance of 600 feet, then rushes over a sloping pile of debris, and then drops perpendicularly 300 feet more. The great w r aterfall in this park, however, is the Yosemlte Falls. This is a stream thirty-five feet wide, and in the spring and early summer when the snow is melting upon the high Sierra its roar can be heard all over the valley, and the shock of the de scent rattles the windows a mile away. This fall is conceded by all critics to be one of the most wonderful and beautiful cascades in the wjprld. Its first fall is about 1,600 feet sheer drop, then come a series of cascades partly hidden in which the fall is over 600 feet, and finally a vertical drop of 400 feet. From the cliffy surrounding the val ley the scene is one of remarkable inspiration and beauty. At the foot o fthe traveler lies the valley floor — the green trees and meadows and the winding river giving the effect of a rich velvet carpet over which a line of silver has been drawn; here and there one gets glimpses of the foam ing white waters hurling themselves to the valley below; on both sides of the valley rise the great walls of rock, sculptured by the elements Into various fantastic shapes and figures. Trees Twenty Centuries Old. In the Yosemlte the Sequoia and the General Grant National parks are found the groves of big trees the like of which are seen nowhere else in the world. These trees grow to a height of 340 feet and have a circumference of over 100 feet at the base, the bark sometimes exceeding 40 Inches in thickness. The rings in the trunks of these trees show that many of them are over 2,000 years old. Cathedrals and castles have been built and fallen Into |i.a jam * Falls of the Yellowstone. decay, empires have come and gone but these grizzly giants of the western slopes still raise their hoary heads and spread their grateful shade as they did in the days of the Caesars. The largest glacial system in the world radiating from any single peah is situated on Mount Ranier in west ern Washington. The Mount Raniei National Park Includes the mass ol this great mountain and all the ap proaches to it. The Crater National Park in Oregon has within its borders a lake that Is unique among the natural wonders of the world. This lake, intc which no streams flow and which has no visible outlet, lies in what is left to the caldera of a great mountain that rose to an elevation of over 14.- 000 feet above the sea. ft is almost forty years since con gress laid the beginning of the grea national park system by passing th act creating the Yellowstone Nationa Park, approved March 1, 1872. Othei parks have been created since, until at present the area embraced in these pleasure grounds of the peopl* amounts to over 4,000,000 acres. The policy of establishing national parks has resulted in preserving froir private exploitation and gain great areas which are characterized by mag niflcent scenery and which are usee as vacation resorts by thousands oi people. Stop Thief! Sam Wallach was telling a story oi himself and Frank Mclntyre at a littl* gathering of theatrical people a fev nights ago. “I w ? as manager for Robert Edeson,' he said. “Frank was In the company We struck Riverside, Cal., and in tin hotel was a big vase full of fine or anges. When Frank and I got readj to retire we decided w© wanted somi of those oranges. Frank stood in from of the vase and I swiped two oranges Then we started for the elevator. A that juncture the hotel clerk called t) us: “‘Going to bed?’ he asked pleasant iy. “ ‘Yes,’ I replied nervously. “ ‘Well, take some oranges up wit! you,’ said the clerk. ‘That’s wha they’re there for.’ “So,” concluded Wallach, "Fran! went back and got a few.” —New Yorl Telegraph. . Character Marks. Mrs. Quizzley— What kind are tin new people next door? Mrs. Dart —A grand piano, lovely parlor suite, a handsome dining set two dogs and a panot. JOINS mCOLONY Educator's Wife Goes to Folio* Strange God. Purdue University Head Divorced Aft er Indian Philosophy Is Said to Have Taken Wife to South Sea islands. Lafayette, infl. —It is the high priv ilege of all to follow Individual taste in the onatter of religious belief, but sometimes the result is deplorable in the extreme. Not all can think alike as regards the here and the hereaft er, on this all-important matter of man and his final destiny, but in spite of this diversity of opinion all good men and women will deeply sympathize with a family where the wife and mother has deliberately left her home to follow after a strange god. Such a regrettable instance has just been brought to light through the granting of a divorce to President Wintbrop E. Stone, of Purdue university, who is given the custody of a minor child, Henry Stone, on the ground of aban donment. The course of this tragedy which has brought deep sorrow to the Stone family is told in a pathetic story dating back three years, when a class in “Yoga philosophy’’ was organized In Lafayette. Many women and mn In college joined the class, which be came a fad in social circles. It was taught that a complete fulfillment of “Yoga philosophy” Involved the sep aration from family, friends and kind red, Airs. Stone became a devout fol lower of this faith and left home. When last heard from In an authentic way she was In Germany, but has been reported since that she has left that country for Kabakon, a South Sea Is land, to join a colony of followers of the new belief. In the Island where Mrs. Stone Is supposed to be its mem bers are called sun worshipers. This colony ie one of the queerest In the world. It was founded several years ago by August Englehardt and numbers fewer than 100 persons. They live almost entirely on cocoanuts. The clothing they wear is said to be of the variety and quality affected by the mffm natives of the South Sea islands who have not come in contact with the civilizing influences of the mission aries. Owing to the trouble with his wife Air. Stone recently sent his resigna tion to the trustees of Purdue, but they unanimously declined to accept it. He has been a capable head of the university since 1900. It was no emotional, impulsive ac tion that took Airs. Stone from her family. Her course was deliberate, and she followed it after long reflec tion and. apparently, after having counted the full cost. Aiost singular is the story of Mrs. Stone's fall under the spell of the mys terious Yoga cult. For years she had been reading theosophy and kindred subjects, and was mildly interested in them. It was along about this time that Dr. George Aloulton organized in Lafayette a class in the Yoga philoso phy. Many women and some men, in West Lafayette, tha college tow r n, joined the class, and it became a great fad with certain highly educated peo ple. Aloulton taught that the Yoga phil osophy was the religion of the Indian Yogi, or Soothsayers. One of the leading features of this doctrine was that of the “withdrawal,” or separation from kindred and friends. It was this feature that at last fastened itself upon Mrs. Stone as subsequent events showed. Aleetings of Dr. Moulton’s class were held in several homes. Books on the subject were put In the bands of Airs. Stone and other members of the class, and their interest grew. Radical and revolutionary as were the books of the cult. Dr. Aloulton seemed to go still beyond them, and evolve a Yoga philosophy of his own. But the members of the class were warned not to make public any of the private and secret instructions oS how to send telepathic messages, how to hypnotize, how to use the key of Kar ma Yoga, and how to heal the sick. One of the injunctions in this respect was “Do not become a laughing stock for your friends by telling them what you can do or how you do it.” Bee on Nose Wrecks Auto. Hartford, Conn. —George Seele of Brookline, Mass., has a bad gash in the thigh and numerous other cuts and scratches because he incautiously tried to sw r at a bee on his nose, w r hile he was driving his automobile at a rapid gait along Saybrook road. He took his hands from the steering wheel involuntarily when the bee alighted on him and in a twinkling found him self underneath the car. The car was only slightly damaged. Kill Many Flies. San Antonio, Tex. —One and a quar ter million dead flies in one heap, be ing a pile three feet high and five feet wide, represents the slaughter wrought by small boys as the result of a fly-killing contest which closed here today. Robert Basse carried off first prize yf $lO with an official record of 454,- ’2u dead flies. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Famous Woman Who Wrote "Unoie Tom’s Cabin" Was Born One Hundred Years Ago. Litchfield, Conn. —The one hun dredth anniversary of the birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe, one of the fa mous children of Dr. Lyman Beecher and author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” was celebrated at her birthplace here. While the author of many books, Harriet Beecher Stowe is remember ed chiefly by her great work, “Uncle Tom's Cabin.’’ She was forty years of age when the story began to run as a serial In the National Era, an Abolition paper published in Wash ington. It was translated into every language of Europe, had a sale of over MWff/rr c>recHEß roHe a/iP HfRHOMJr 500,000 copies in the first two years after its publication, a fourth of which were in England, and it is still called for in many of the public libraries of the country. Asa “best seller” it far surpassed all the work of recent days and has been exceeded in circulation by the Bible only. At one time more than a dozen theatrical companies were traveling through the country presenting this drama. HANOVER'S FIRST BUILDING Old Presbyterian Church Which Was the Earliest College Structure Is to Be Remodeled. Hanover, Ind. —The old Presbyterian i church at Hanover, which was the first building of Hanover college, will be remodeled. The building was erect ed in what was then South Hanover, jin 1828. Hanover college had had Its Inception in a little log cabin two years before. The first real college classes in the state were held in the building that is to be remodeled. A seminary was also started in the building in 1837. This was removed to Chicago later and is ! now the largest seminary of its kind i in the west —the McCormick seminary. • A tornado took the top story off the I building in 1837 and the college was i moved to anew structure about a | mile east, overlooking the Ohio river, ! and the building was made into a | church. Every commencement exer i cise since 1830 has been held in this j church, and a large number who have r~ —■— I -s' 1 First Building at Hanover. become prominent in affairs have gone i out of the building as college grad | nates. It is believed here that the first | diploma given to any woman from an I educational institution of any kind i was given here In this building to I Margaret Minter of Nantucket. R. I. More than fifty people who have been members ol this church have gone in to the foreign mission field, and ten college presidents were onoe members | oi the congregation. SSOO,CCC Picture Is Genuine. Berlin. —Dr. Whelm Bode, director ;of the royal ! < earns, strongly de | j famous pain . v “The Mill, against • the attack c f Pro essor von Seidlitz of I Dresden. I" an reticle appearing in j an art pub’ rtion Von Seidlitz main | tains that the rmture probably was | the work of r rrb■ andt’s pupil, Gelder. Dr P.cde ’■ o studied the picture closely v. hi e it was being cleansed here, says that it is a Rembrandt be yond doubt, and, moreover, that the style is not that of Gelder. “The Mill” was recently purchased from Lord Lansdowne by Peter A. R. Widener of Philadelphia, who paid something in excess of $500,000. Autobus Is New Child Fad. New York—The autobus has dis placed t&e merry-go-round as the pop ular entertainer of children on the New York East Side. The autobus gives a ride around the block for 2 cents, or three rides for 5 cents. It is tremendously popular, the children fighting to pay their pennies for a ride in a real automobile. Sun Hatches Hen’s Eggs. Lowell, Mass.—Giltert Wright of Chelmsford, a suburb of Lowell, re ports that ten of a setting of egg which the hen abandoned hatchet without the hen’s assistance. Th leat had been so intense that it drov he hen off the nest. The atmospher .ook the place of the hen after that OTGEffiD. SRDQJ2S No Answer to This. Thomas A. Edison was explaining to a reporter the part played by M. Branly, the new French academician. In the discovery of wireless teleg raphy. The poor reporter, a little bewil dered by all the talk about Hertalan waves, transmitters, volts, ohms and •o forth, ventured on a question that made Mr. Edison smile. “That question,” he said, "reminds me of the city father who rose and said: “ ‘Mr. Chairman. I'd like to know, for my constituents’ benefit, whether this here proposed hydraulic pump is to be run by steam or electricity.*" In Tjme of Need. "Now. would any one present like the prayers of the congregation?*’ “I would be glad to have them.’* "Are you about to start on a hazard ous journey?” "Not exactly, but 1 have Just remem bered that I forgot to mail a letter my wife gave me. and I know she has found it In my other clothes before now.” Suspicious. Bank President —What’s the mat ter? Bank Vice-President —I was Just thinking. I sat next to our cashier In church yesterday and I don’t quite like the way he sings "Will they miss me when I’m gone?”—Puck. Deduction. "It is no wonder the police fall to get knowledge of flgbts.’L —fck "Why so?” “Well, a mill Is a cent/isn’t It?" “Tea, but what of that?” “Doesn't It take ten mills to make one scent?” * Johnny Did It. Indignant Master —What on earth have you been doing to my rug? Housemaid —I didn’t do It. It was Johnny. He’s been running the lawn mower all over it. —London Sketch. Doing Uncle Sam. Husband —My dear, do your duty to your country. Wife —If I can, dear, but those cue toms Inspectors are so sharp. CURTAIN LECTURES. Mrs. Blnks —My husband says you were with him last night. What did your wife say when you came home so late? Mr. Winks—l really don’t know. 1 . can just remember that I woko up three tidies, and she was still talking j ~ A Strenuous Trip. I Vacation time be hies away. His heart beats gladly In his breast; But when he’s had his holiday He totters home In search of rest. Appropriate Contribution. “And after that eloquent appeal of the missionary to arrest the heathen on the downward path, all you put in the box was a cent.” "Well, I thought If they wanted to arrest the heathen, the best thing to send In that direction was a ‘copper.’ ” Notable Exception to the Rule. Knlcker—lt is said that you can keep a donkey from braying by at taching a weight to Its tall. Bocker —Nonsense! The Democratic 1 donkey has had Bryan tied to It for 12 years and brays as loud as ever.— Judge’s Library. What Did She Mean? *Tm quite a near neighbor of yours now,” said Mr. Bore; “I’m living Just across the bay.” "Indeed,” replied Miss Smart, “I hope you’ll drop In some day.”—The Housekeeper. Snobs and Others. "It Is something to rub elbows with the nobility In London during corona tion week.” “Of course it Is something, but whether something worth while or not, depends altogether on your point of view.” Not Boycotted. Labellor —Have you seen the walk ing delegate’s bride? Carder —Yes. Labellor—ls she pretty? Carder —No! Even he’d have to ad mit she’s In the unfair list. —Puck. A Neighborly Scheme. “Tommy, you ought to play funny tricks like the Katzenjammer kids.” “I can't think of nuthln’ funny, Mr. Nexdore.” “You might break up your father’s graphophone with an axe.” Justifiable Apprehension. ”1 proposed last night, and today 1 have seen the girl’s father ” “A painful ordeal.” "Yes; 1 feel morally certain that he is going to borrow at least fifty dol lars.” His Lost Stroke. “How was your game today, old man?” “Well, I started out pretty well. Had mly GS strokes for the first nine, but j blew up at the tenth hole and oulda't find my stroke again.” i Willing to Tell It. The check which the comely young German woman handed In at the win dow of a Walnut street savings fund bank the other day was made payable to Oretchen H. Schmidt, and she had Indorsed It simply Gretchen Schmidt. The man at the receiving teller's win dow called her back Just as she wa turning away to rectify the mistake. “You don't deposit this quite this way,” he explained "See. you have forgotten the H.” The young woman looked at her check and blushed a rosy red, "Ach, so 1 haf.” she murmured, and wrote hurriedly: “Age 33.” NOT A REASON. ‘‘But why do you want to marry her?" “Because I’m In love with her." “My dear fellow, that’s an exouMi not a reason.” Can’t Get Away. When day# are hot And nights are. too. The poor man’s lot Is one of rue. n Smoke. “I notice that you have given up th fight for a cleaner city. You used to be one of the leaders In the opposi tion to the smoko nuisance." “Yes. I’ve come to the conclusion that smoke cannot be abolished. It’s useless to keep harping on the ques tion.” “By the way. what business are you in now 7” “Oh, I’ve quit working for a salary. An uncle of mine left me a valuable interest in one of our biggest machine shops.” A Student of Nature. The teacher had been reading to the class about the great forests of America. “And now. boys. ’ she announced, “which one of you can tell me the pine that has the longest and sharp est needles?’ Up went a hand In the front row.. “Well, Tommy?” “The porcupine.”—Tit-Bits. Unworthy of Sympathy. “I see that somebody has paid $50,- 000 for a Bible.” “Yes. Some people don’t seem to have any appreciation of money. If the fellow had paid $50,000 for a race horse or lost It buying things on mar gins, there might bo some reason for sympathizing with him.” Quest of Tranquility. “Sometimes,” said Plodding Pete. “I'm tempted to map out a route that’ll take me to them there ar’tlc regions.” “The climate's no good." ventured Meandering Mike. “No; but your nerves get a rest None o’ them Eskimos is lookin’ fur farm hands.” Natural Consequence. “I hear the department store made a good profit on the brooms they ad vertised as bargains.” “Yes, they made quite a sweeping reduction, so the women came down with the dust” NO ODD3. "How are you?” “Oh, I'm about even with the world.” “How’s that?" “I figure that I owe as many people as I don't owe ” Hi# Appreciation. The work horse who blue ribbon got Almost forrot his dinner And all who near him carr soon knew He was a “whinny” wtnn> • * He Agreed. She —I consider, John, that sheep are the stupidest creatures living. He (absent-mindedly)—Yes, my lamb! —Sketch. Following it Up. “Confound it. Jones. I wlsu you werr not so liberal to vour wue" “What do >ou mean sir?” “Only this; my wile holds vou up tor an example—” “Well?” “Then she holds me up. too” A Leading Question. “Mr. Wombat!” “What is it. Tommy?” “When you wers a little boy and fel lers called on your sister did they ever *lv you a nickel to go out and play?”