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from such Pagan philosophy, Ellen Stabler had
some short articles of merit and Lydia G. Thomas an
interesting sketch of Daniel Webster's first speech
a boyish defense of a captured wood chuck, his
brother Ezekiel being the opposing lawyer and their
father the judge, Daniel winning the case. Sarah
T. Miller gave from a reader by Frank G. Carpenter
a graphic account of a visit to the Great
Wall of China. Several expressed the wish that
their school days could have been enlivened by
such sweetmeats instead of the daily doses of the
stately prose of "The English Reader and "McGuffey".

Louisa T. Brooke's selection was an appeal for peace
and she distributed some literature sent out by the
Peace Asso. Caroline H. Miller read Alfred Austin's
new poem, and as rendered by her it appeared to
be pretty good rhyme with some reason. Sue L.
Thomas told of having seen and heard a bell buzzard
in the air a few weeks since and then read from
a Tennessee paper of a similar sight in that state
in the past week. She also read some resolutions
adopted by the Merchants and Manufacturers Asso.
of Balt. which embodied the idea "Peace if
with honor, War rather than dishonor" and Dollie
E. Vedder offered "Two Voices" companion poems
supposed to have been written by a soldier of the
blue and one of the gray. Ellen Farquhar's contribution
was also poetical. "No question is ever
settled until it is settled right" directly opposite
in theory to the one by the same poetess just read