From photograph by Brady. Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States, was born in Virginia in 1784. He served in the War of 1812, and in the Black Hawk War of 1832. In the second war against the Seminoles in Florida, he was made Commander of the United States army. At the beginning of the trouble with Mexico, Taylor was made major-general, and was ordered to the disputed territory in Texas. His series of victories in the Mexican War made him a popular hero. Until his election to the Presidency he had never held a civil office. He died at Washington, July, 9, 1850.
The natural region within the Alaskan territory is a broad upland through which the Yukon River flows to the Bering Sea. This river rises in Canadian territory. It is over 2,000 miles long, and about 1,500 miles of its course is in Alaska. The chief highway of travel in the interior of Alaska is the Yukon River. During the summer large steamers like those on the Mississippi River come from St. Michael upstream as far as Dawson. Some go up the Tanana to a point near Fairbanks. When winter comes the river freezes over; but it continues to be the highway of travel, for during that season dog sleds are used and with the help of the dogs there is a regular winter delivery of United States mail through this vast land.
Much time and zeal are expended in the embroideries employed in the making of their costumes. The laundering of the airy bits of finery would place many a laundress at a disadvantage.
To the women of Brittany, the annual ceremony is the one event of the year; the dress to be worn as it occupies the toughest of the young for months beforehand, and large sums are often expended on it; whilst to the old it is a time sacred to memories of the past, when the spirits of those that are gone seem to be present once more, and the days of their own girlhoods are recalled.
Partly through the influence of the Folk High Schools young farm men and women have started their careers with interest in landscaping, in improved homes, in near and attractive surroundings. Through cooperation, hard intelligent work, and conservation business judgment they have been able to overcome some great obstacles. They have revolutionized Danish agriculture.
One of the most abused birds in this state is the Owl. Here you see the Killicott Screech Owl, the common screech owl of Oregon. It is about the size of a half-grown chicken. It is the one we often hear hooting at night, either in the country or about town where there is a big clump of trees. It lives largely upon mice and small rodents, of which it consumes an enormous quantity. Nests are built in hollow trees with no other lining than the soft, decayed wood, and in these they lay their four round whitish eggs. The male usually his in some crevice nearby or sits outside the nest while the mother is incubating the eggs. So great is the appetite of the fledglings that the mother and father have to spend the greater part of the night gathering and storing up enough food to feed the babies the next day. The Screech Owl seldom does any harm, but few of the larger owls are very harmful in their habits, as they never neglect a chicken yard whenever there is any chance for them to pillage.
There are 200 species of the genus Viola, which is one of the fifteen of the genera of the violets. Eighty-five of these species are found in North America.
Typical Central Oregon forest scene. The forests here are remarkably free from underbrush. There are many acres of these pine forests containing billions of feet of excellent lumber.
(Ranunculaceae) A family of 35 genera of 11,000 species of the Ranunculaceae is distributed throughout the world, but are not very abundant in the tropics. This family includes many familiar forms such as buttercup, larkspur, anemone, columbine, clematis, marsh marigold, peony, etc. The Ranunculus is a genus of about 275 species of perennial herbs of the family, Ranunculaceae. Some of them are common in pastures, gardens and in moist places, while some are wholly aquatic.
(Achillea Millefolium) The virtues of yarrow are said to have been discovered by Achilles. The common yarrow or nulfoil is very cosmopolitan, occuring throughout the northern hemisphere. Both leaves and flowers are used in medicine as a powerful stimulant and tonic. It was used commonly in Highlands of Scotland for healing wounds. Its expressed juice is a popular spring medicine in Germany.
There are now few medicine men left on the Reservation and when the need of one is urgent he is brought from Yakima. They charge the Indians unmercifully for their services, but their position is a bit precarious, too, for should the patient fail to recover it is not strange for some relative to decide the medicine man killed him or her and seek his life in return.
This ocean steamship is carrying a cargo of 6,012,000 board feet of lumber — probably the largest single shipment of lumber ever carried by any vessel. The ship is shown here leaving Portland harbor.
On the small farms, however, much of the work is done without machinery and with all members of the family lending a helping hand. As is true of intensive farming most everywhere there is conservation of everything save human labor.
"Wordsworth lived in this house from 1813 to his death in 1850. The house is but little changed since the poet lived there. The terrace at the top of the step was a favorite spot of Wordsworth, particularly in the later years of his life. At this home the poet produced some of his most characteristic poetry - short pieces such as 'The Clouds' and 'The Mountain Echo.' From here he made many excursions to find the 'secluded temples of beauty', as he called them, following the ravines of Rydal Head and climbing the great, bleak crags - 'fit home for wild red deer."
Park Row passes to the right of the Federal Building, housing the district and circuit courts and the old post office. Opposite the Federal Building on Broadway is the Woolworth Building. It is 55 stories high, or 792 feet and occupies a plot of ground 152 by 197 feet. The land cost $4,500,000 and the building about $8,000,000 and was built by Mr. Woolworth of Woolworth store fame. There is a splendid view from the observation tower.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Competent men not only shear the sheep but class and bale and fleeces. The wool is then taken to the railroad for transporting to the wool store."
Woodrow Wilson was born at Staunton, Virginia, in 1856, but spent his boyhood in Georgia and the Carolinas. At seventeen he entered Davidson College, in North Carolina, and later entered Princeton University, where he graduated in 1879. After studying law at the University of Virginia, he began the practice at Augusta, Georgia, 1882. But soon Wilson was again at college--this time Johns Hopkins University. From the first he was a Democrat, and showed the power of leadership. As a teacher Wilson held professorships in Bryn Mawr, John Hopkins, Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, and Princeton. In 1902 he was chosen president of Princeton. He resigned this position in 1910 and was elected chiefly on his History of the American People, Congressional Government, and Divisions and Reunion. At the special session of Congress in April, 1913, President Wilson read his message in person to Congress. This was the first time since the days of John Adams that a President had made a formal address at the opening of Congress.
This scene shows the preparation of the wood for carving the various statues and implements of worship, which have made the village famous throughout the world. For nine years out of ten they are busy earning a livelihood. Most of the best players are wood carvers; the others are farmers or store keepers. After the crowds have dispersed, they go about their work as ordinary mortals. What a revelation it is of the latent capacity of the human race, when a single mountain village can furnish people competent to set forth such a representation of sacred scenes from among simple tinkers, tailors, ploughmen, bakers and the like! This is what may be accomplished by patient love, careful education and the stimulant and inspiration of a great idea.
A huge camel is likely to be found squatted on the ground laden with sticks of wood such as we would consign to a brush heap, the man in charge leaning upon his beast of burden awaiting a customer. The crooked and gnarled roots he has dug from the ground, or rather the women of his household have done the digging. Other sticks he has gathered were the broken limbs of trees. Fuel in Palestine is as scarce as in the days of Jesus. Only the rich can use charcoal; others burn such limbs, sticks and roots as this camel is laden with, but the greater number still use for fuel the grass which "today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven." Other ships of the desert might be seen here laden like these beasts with stones securely fastened by rope to the camel, the latter improving the siesta by partaking of some grass upon the ground.
The Samaritan woman wears the bloomers of the North under the loose long robe, or tobe, of the South, her costume emphasizing her geographical position. The graceful carriage of the Syrian woman is due to her custom of bearing heavy loads upon her head.
The woman is taught from girlhood to be modest, retiring and obedient as daughter and wife, and as a rule she is. She is almost certain to avoid spinsterhood, so well-planned is the marriage machinery in Japan. Courtship is unknown as we know it. The bringing about of marriages is regularly the work of a private go-between, who brings the young people together after the parents on both sides, with additional precautionary inquisitorial go-betweens, have agreed to a proposed match. Thus girls often select their husbands unknown to the bridegroom himself, for the selection is usually supposed to be and usually is the result of the go-between's astute observation, the initiative coming from one or the other of the parents, who says in effect, "Pray you, good friend, find a spouse for my daughter--or son" as the case may be. In this way even a young man or young woman has a small purse or a bodily defect some one equally short in cash or corporal perfection is found and the thing is done. The young people meet at a theater or feast; they chat gingerly with each other and final consent is given. No courtship and absolutely no kissing!
It is neat Pont-Aven, a lovely spot in a dense wood, where will be found a holy and venerated fountain, endowed by the priests and the peasants with most wonderful powers. Here at the Pardon of Saint Leger, babies of all shapes, sizes, and complexions are brought by the thousands and immersed in the waters. It is the only baby pardon in Brittany. On these holidays the dress as shown in the picture is worn.
Then the other wise man drew near, weary, but full of hope, bearing his ruby and his pearl to offer to the King. "For now at last," he said, "I shall surely find him, though it be alone, and later than my brethren. This is the place of which the Hebrew exile told me that the prophets had spoken, and here I shall behold the rising of the great light. But I must inquire about the visit of my brethren, and to what house the star directed them, and to whom they presented their tribute." The streets of the village seemed to be deserted, and Artaban wondered whether the men had all gone up to the hill-pastures to bring down their sheep. From the open door of a low stone cottage Artaban heard the sound of a woman's voice singing softly. He entered and found a young mother hushing her baby to rest. She told him of the strangers from the far East who had appeared in the village three days ago, and how they said that a star had guided them to the place where Joseph of Nazareth was lodging with his wife and her new-born child, and how they had paid reverence to the child and given him many rich gifts.
John IV: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Now Jacob's well was there, Jesus there fore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water; Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat. Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, asketh drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir thou hast nothing to draw with and the well is deep, from whence then hast thou that living water."
A close view of Wizard Island in the lake near the west shore. It is a perfect little volcano -- a crater within a crater. Although a few pines are growing upon it, the island's lava and ashes appear as if just cast from the internal furnace. The island rises several hundred feet above the lake-surface, and its crater is eighty feet deep. The island is a good view-point at noon, at evening, or when the blue cold crater glows and sparkles with the reflected fires of a million fiery worlds.
Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Mrs. Abraham Van Buren, daughter-in-law of Martin Van Buren; Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison, Mrs. William Henry Harrison; Julia Gardiner Tyler, Mrs. John Tyler; Sarah Childress Polk, Mrs. James K. Polk.
Abigail Powers Fillmore, Mrs. Millard Fillmore; Jane M. Pierce, Mrs. Franklin Pierce; Harriet Lane Johnson, Mrs. Henry Elliott Johnson; Mary Todd Lincoln, Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.