Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — The Bay View Heading Circle. [ARTICLE]

The Bay View Heading Circle.

Ever since the well-known Chautauqua Circle was started there has been an insistent demand for a short, well-planned and low-priced course of reading (or the thousands for whom the above circle course is too expensive, and requires too much time. The Bay View Reading Circle has been organized to meet the demand. Many or the 'leading educators and| ministers of the country are among its promoters, and Mr. J. M. Hall, of Flint, Mich., is the Superintendent. To him application should be made for information. The circle has a four years’ course of reading, and has the advantage of specializing subjects. The first year is the GeVttian year, beginning with November. There is so much aimleq* and haphazard reading, that the well-planned and attractive Bay View course ought to meet with Instant favor. George W. Wubts. for twentyflve years secretary or charge d’affaires of the United States legations at Rome, Madrid and St. Petersburg, has returned to this country. In St. Petersburg he lal often to assume the duties of ambassador during the last ten years. It was he that Poultney Bigelow attacked in a magazine article for not getting his passports quickly enough to suit him. Mr. Wurts has an entirely different story of the affair from that related by Mr. Bigelow, apd, having left the diplomatic service, he is likely to publish it. Mr. Bigelow, It will be Semembered, is the individual who rent to school with the present Emperor of Germany, and who on the strength of that experience has been going around with his nose In the air ever since. The seaman who laatieil Far rag tit to the rigging of the Ba;tford at Mobile, a man who had served in the navy for over thirty years and been medaled by Congress for bravery, ha* committed suicide because disgraced by ignominious punishment for a trivial offense by a youthful officer. And still naval bureaucrats affect to wonder why it is difficult to secure American seamen to man the fighting machines of our new navy! The origin of “night-caps” .jyqijably dates back to the days of knight* hoed.—Yonkers Gazette. ,