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analyzed she convinced the men of the section
they should apply lime, for it was needed,
and teacher-stock went up 50% at once, when
a record-breaker was harvested the next year.

Elizabeth Willson gave astonishing statistics
of “Arizona, the Prohibition State.” A few years
ago gambling was prohibited, and now no
liquor can be brought in to the state. There
is a tremendous decrease in poverty and crime
and the jails will soon have to be remodeled
into lecture halls or free bath-houses possibly
for in many counties there are no convicts.

Isabel Fussell gave some acct of the
beautiful trip she and her husband had
taken up the Shenandoah Valley, to the
Natural Bridge, - the size and grandeur of
the latter was a revelation.

Albina O. Stabler brought a delightful
sketch of Robert Louis Stevenson, “a maker of tales”
as he was termed in the article. Born in
Scotland he was in a large sense, “the reporter
of Edinburg” for two generations. He sat at his
writing-desk, facing death for 20 yrs. Always
with a smile on his face. In search
of health he went to Italy, to the Adirondacks
to California and Samoa. From the latter
place he wrote to a friend in Europe, “Come
to see us, - all you have to do is to travel to
San Francisco and then take the second turn
to the left.” He boarded for some time with
an old couple in Saranac and a tablet to his
memory was recently unveiled by these devoted
friends.

Virginia Stabler told us of the artist Jos.
Pennell, whom she had met in Philadelphia
we understand. He seemed to be a genius of
peculiar disposition, as well as talent.

Sallie R. Janney had a description of
some very ingenious fog bells just installed on
Lake Michigan. By means of a hair attachment
that lengthens with dampness, a piece of metal
drops, and rings a bell.

Fanny Snowden gave an experience of
her artist daughter Elsie at Gloucester, Mass.