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plans for the building of a Republic.

Ellen Farquhar brought a good story
which cleverly cheated us all by making
us believe a trusted Bank official
had stolen a satchel of valuables,
when he was in reality sneaking
off with a private assortment of
muskets and such. Hallie J. Lea's
contribution advanced the theory that
a man could actually lose his life
by perpetually thinking of the things he
feared and dreaded. Her second
article was on the antiquity of some
familiar grains: wheat was cultivated
in all latitudes as far back in
the past as there are records of anything,
and Indian corn was known in
India and China hundreds of years
before "Columbus sailed the ocean blue,
in 1492." Alice Tyson gave such an
interesting description of the St. Louis
Exposition, present and future that
many expressed a desire to behold its
marvels. During the summer months of
1904 the buildings are to be cooled by a
gigantic system of pipes. Virginia Steer,
from "The Saturday Evening Post" read
"What's The Use"? This was said to
be a very practical world and it inclines
to do better for a bad man who
persists than for a good one who gives
up. Careful planning and energy
accomplished wonders politically, and the
case of Senator Gorman's return to favor
cited though the writer did not think him
a bad man. Sarah H. Stone had a few
paragraphs from Harriet Beecher Stowe
stating that our best friends see and love,
not always our real selves, but the angel
that is in us. Pattie R. Stabler read
most graphic letters from our friend