Pile and Concrete Foundations; Steel Frame; CHALFONTE is an Up-to-date City Hotel, Located on THE LEEDS COMPANY Chalfonte is Always Open Write for Folder and Rates Reservations made now for the Summer When writing to advertisers, please mention THE HOMILETIC REVIEW. KULOSKAP AS A TRUST BUSTER. How Aklibimo, the Great Bullfrog, "Cornered" the Drinking Water. [From Sauce Piquante.] The beef trust, the oil trust, the coal trust, the gas trust, and all the rest are only copies of the old Indian water trust. it would seem. Among the many Indian legends and animal stories in Charles Godfrey Leland's and John Dyneley Prince's book "Kuloskap, the Master" (Funk & Wagnalls Company), is one which tells of an early American "corner" in a "necessity of life." A brief outline of the story is as follows: "Far away in the mountains an Indian village stood, its water supply obtained from a brook. After a time the brook ran dry as a dead bone in the ashes of a fire. Up in the hills was another village, whose chief, Aklibimo, the giant bullfrog, had built a huge dam in which he stored up all the water. Now the Indians in the lower village raged with thirst, which is indeed worse than waiting for dinner when we have no dinner to wait for. The Lord Kuloskap, ever merciful in heart, came down to the relief of these honest Indians. Journeying to the upper village he demanded a drink of water, at which Aklibimo, the Sagamore, bellowed: 'Begone and find thy water where thou canst.' Then the Master thrust] his spear into the beast's belly, and lo! there gushed forth a mighty stream of all the water which should have been in the brook. Kuloskap, rising high as any giant pine, crumpled the monster's back in his hand, and ever since then the bullfrog's back has borne the wrinkles of that awful squeeze. All this while the thirsty Indians had been wishing like boys at play: one to dive ever in the soft, smooth mud; another to dive in the deep cool, stream; a third to live at will on land or in the water; and the fourth to forever swim in the water. It chanced that all these things were said in the hour when, while it passes over the world, all wishes are granted. So it was with these Indians. The river came rushing down, and they all went headlong into the endless ocean to be swept into many lands; the first wisher becoming a leech, the second a frog, the third a crab, and the fourth a fish, forever and evermore." The Inception of a Great Story. Miss Lily Dougall, author of the new mystery story, "The Summit House Mystery," which is rapidly passing from one edition to another, tells some interesting facts concerning its conception. She says, "A story which contained some of the main incidents here depicted was once told me by a venerable lawyer in one of the American cities of the Atlantic seaboard. Afterwards I made a four months' stay in those regions of wonderful beauty described in this book, and, wanting a plot which would work in with those alternating moods of nature-the gloom, the awesomeness, the sylvan delight, and above all, the aspects of victorious calm-that distinguish mountain scenery from that of our everyday levels, the legal problem, which had taken strong hold upon my imagination, seemed to suggest a drama suited to the stage and scenery. The story, except its ending, was accordingly written. My final difficulty was that I could not find a solution to tally with my characters, and it was some years later that I woke up one morning among the Welsh mountains with the discovery of the last chapters clearly in my mind." 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Pile and Concrete Foundations; Steel Frame; Brick and Terra Cotta Walls; Concrete Floors; Tile Roof; Plaster and Asbestos Partitions CHALFONTE is an Up-to-date City Hotel, Located on THE LEEDS COMPANY Chalfonte is Always Open Write for Folder and Rates Reservations made now for the Summer When writing to advertisers, please mention THE HOMILETIC REVIEW. Plain Words on Old, Revised, and New Encyclopedias and Dictionaries (From an article in the "Los Angeles Times.") "The making of an encyclopedia is a tremendous undertaking. No work is subjected to more critical examination, and no work must of necessity offer the critic greater scope for unfavorable comment. Of our general encyclopedias we need make little mention at present. They are, to employ a term which is so often unjustly employed by publishers, monumental works indeed. The worst of them have their advantages, and the best have their disadvantages. But the general encyclopedia in this age of specializing and particularizing is not sufficient. The general encyclopedic work will answer for the seeker after superficial information, but the reader who would come into possession of minute and detailed information must look elsewhere. This need has given rise to encyclopedic works upon many branches of learning, religious, philosophical, scientific, historical, literary, and others. Now, a word as to a revised encyclopedia. As a rule we are seriously opposed to them. An encyclopedia must be timely. If its timeliness is passing and the publishers attempt to brush it up with an addition here and a correction there, the expense of such work and the temptation to perform but partly the task operate seriously against the work. There have been reference works and dictionaries upon the market for the past twenty, thirty, and forty years which had far better been destroyed long ago. The old plates of a perfectly useless work are bought up by new publishers, and a new edition of the work is brought forth. This is wrong from several standpoints, and yet it is a custom that will necessarily be hard to overcome. As in the case of the Webster Dictionary: The original publishers felt that the work was becoming too antiquated to be longer issued by them. The right thing to have done would have been to destroy the plates. Instead, they were sold to another publisher who used them for a season, and then the same process was again gone through. The fact is that to-day there are still being issued old dictionaries that represent the outlay of but a few dollars for plates, but which try to compete with modern works that are produced at very great expense. The publishers do not lose but the readers do. First, the limited sale of the more modern works necessitates the publisher to ask for them a very high price, therefore the reader who insists upon having the best works must pay extra. The publishers of the antiquated works can offer them at a very low price, and the deluded reader, thinking he is getting a bargain, is persuaded to buy." In connection with the above it is important to bear in mind that the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary is new from cover to cover and that the great new Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia just begun will be absolutely new and original throughout, and as it will be the work of the most eminent specialists in every department of information it will possess all the superior advantages found in special encyclopedias on particular subjects. CHAT IN LIBRARY AND BOOK SHOP Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe has decided to adopt the title "Psychic Treatment of Nervous Disorders" for his translation from the French of Dr. Dubois's work which was first announced under the title "Psychoneurosis and Its Moral Treatment." According to the "New Encyclopedia of Missions" the Bible, or portions of it, has been translated into upwards of 400 different languages. This immense number would seem almost incredible were it not supported by a complete list of the various tongues. (Continued on 2d page following.) New Day Line Pier at West 42d Street, Realizing the fact that the trend of business in New York City is steadily moving up town, the Day Line will discontinue landing at West 22d Street and from May 15, 1905, will land at the magnificent new Pier it has just completed at West 42d Street instead. This new Pier, the first of its kind along the water front which combines art and utility, is 800 feet long and 60 feet wide, and the novel structure that covers it is both original and handsome in design, with its decorations of growing vines, cOTering pergolas which lead to open porticos for waiting passengers to use in pleasant weather, is a distinct and pleasant advance in the Pier sheds lately built along the water front. This Pier will also be used by the steamer "Mary Powell" and the Sandy Hook boats of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, which will make the foot of West 42d Street one of the greatest passenger terminals in New York City. During the summer season the Day Line steamers and the Sandy Hook boats will make direct connection, thus affording a delightful and easy route between the mountains and the seashore resorts on the New Jersey coast, all tedious transfer through New York City being avoided. 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