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Show the of secondary and higher instruction. Hundreds of collections, comprising thousands of volumes, are now in circulation. Tho chief eitort is to reach places, to supply the need where it is greatest. Wherever the people perfect the simple organization required, by out-oi-the-w- ay BEE 7 occurring in the case of a student who was asked to ascertain how many logs a spider has. lie went at once to a dusty shelf in an unused Look case to find the volume that, by its title, promised an answer, and in so doing drovo three spiders from their resting places, and yot he let them go and took the book instead. Books, if properly used, will strengthen; but if misused they may cripplo the power of individual effort and independent thought They are tools, and in skillful hands, are capable of groat work; yet they do not operate themselves. Reading is a means, not an end in itself. Your club may do much to increase the facilities for reading, to expand the sphere of the great book school and to shape the instruction by judicious selection. The good already accomplished through your efforts, inspires much confidence and high hope for the future. electing a secretary and a librarian, and pay the nominal fee of $1, books are sent as called for. The volumes are packed in traveling boxes, which serve as book cases at the station of deposit. A recent report on circulating libraries shows the great work being done by railroad companies. The Boston & Albany Railroad company has been operating such a system since 1H, and at present is distributing for the use of its employees 3U00 volumes per year. h rough the New York Central line 7U00 volumes a year are sent out; this is done by the railroad branch of the New York Y. M. C. A. But the greatest enterprise of the sort is the Baltimore & Ohio Employees Free Circulating Library. Since 1SS3 there have been drawn 300,000 Salt Lake is not on unmixed, sifted city. There are no quarters volumes; these are distributed over a system of 3000 miles of railroads. to be defined and wholly set apart, thank heaven, as poor quarters, It should be added that in St. Louis plans are made for the dis- nor either as rich quarters, but adobes and well-bui- lt and tribution of books to street-ca- r homes elbow one another in almost any quarter, so that every employees, and it is stated that an be will e established in every power-housagency and shed of the car pure, right, happy home among us la a college settlement, and U line. about as well placed upon one street as another. But we have the we cannot Surely, complain of lack of books. We may regard the poor, friendless sick, sunk helplessly under their burdens of as the carboniferous age of intellectual activity. present and poverty, and we do need some organized method of reaching them. The contents of books are measured in words; of some it may This we have in the Visiting Nurse Association. A little band of generous, devoted spirits have carried this plan justly be said that they consist of little else than words; and the words of our language are increasing at a prodigious rate. Webster in their hearts and hopes until this spring, when they have launched died rejoicing that he had given the people a dictionary of 200,000 it forth, a timid yet hopeful beginning. Are there no generous outwords; but later there came the Century with its 250,000, and then the going currents in Salt Lake to bear it seaward toward success? You, Standard with its 300,000. Most of the new words are technical ap- the well-to-d- o of our community, can leave it to fret and rock in are in current use among the specialists only. It may be the harbor, tied to an anchor, for it cant get vey far without you, but plication, and to note that the bible is written with the use of but 7000 this little craft looks very much like your nearest duty. Push it interesting words. bravely off! Give it a hearty Godspeed, and the blessing, after many You have heard of the great Oxford Dictionary, in the preparation days shall return to you. of which some of the ripest scholarship of Britain has been employed for now full forty years. I know' not of the latest issue, but less than If you would know what other localities are doing in the line of ten years ago the first volume appeared. It was a book of over 200 traveling libraries, read Dr. Talmages interesting article on Books. pages, presenting more than 31,000 words beginning with A and B alone. A thinker has asked when will the work be finished, and Any donations of money or of books for Utahs traveling library w hat will the suppement be like. may be sent to Miss McCornick, who, as chairman of the committee, Who can be broadly educated in matters of modern development will act as custodian of such contributions. under such conditions as these? Who can boast of being well read? But we misuse books when we seek to devour them merely to say or CHAPTER ON NATURAL HISTORY. l'eel that we have so done. It would be a boon indeed, to have a reWritten for The Bee by Dr. C. A. Whiting. liable and short list of the books that are to us of greatest worth. But Almost every one is familiar with the small green insects which such a list, if excellent for one.w'ould be, perhaps, but poorly adapted are so frequently found on house plants, as well as on wild plants and for another. the digested sap, and when it has once established itself at a given And again, we misuse our books w'hen w'e come to regard them hairy plants than on smooth ones. This is probably due to the fact that as the primal source of knowledge. Books follow the works of man; the hairs on the plant afford a partial protection to the aphides by but this we are apt to forget, and in this reading age we come to preventing a too rapid change of temperatura A careful examination prefer books to the things upon which they treat. We are so wedded of an aphid shows it to have a suctorial beak which is usually pushed to the books made by man that we have no time to read the greater into the pulpy part of a leaf near some vein. From the leaf it extracts volume of Nature. With our artificial lights turning night into day, trees. In the early spring they are more frequently found on rough, with our calendars and almanacs, our maps and compasses, we scarcely place it seldom changes its position. On the sides of the rear portion have occasion to glance at the mighty orbs of heaven, which once of the abdomen may be found tw'o small tubes, through which a thin were subjects of mans attentive study, for then they were known for sweet fluid is discharged. This fluid is greedity eaten by ants, but of course its secretion has no reference to their needs, and is solely for signs and for seasons, and for days and years. And in the study of the humbler objects of Nature, books may the benefit of the aphides. Just how it benefits them is not positively take the place of original observation, and too much bookishness may knowm, but a probable explanation is that the food of the aphides is dis- unfit the mind for the study of things. 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