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THE FULTON PATRIOT. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER IS. 1916 LFTTERS TO THE OLD HOME FOLKS Tribute to Professor Sl«e. For The Patriot: For over half a century-the cnib- ject of this sketch and the writer never broke into divergent pursuits. We prepared for college at the same school, entered at the same time, in the same class. We were room- mates daring aur entire course.: were members of the same fraternity and of our class quartette. After grad- uation we entered the faculty of Fal- ley seminary at the same time and afterward became closely associated in the same business, and remained so to the end. It is not strange, therefore, that our names became linked together in social and all the various college activities. Even to this day a survivor of Genesee col- ' lege days meets me with an expect- ant air as if he was disappointed not to see my college mate close by. This jburney_ side by side of a unique and unblemished friendship which no shadow ever crossed came to an end in 1901 and the names of Slee and Underbill are chiseled upon a granite foundation in Forest Lawn, Buffalo, where lie the ashes of my life-long friend and his wife, my sister, for- ever blessed. Professor Slee came to the semi- nary to fill the chair of Greek and German made vacant by the retire- ment of Charles S. Eggleston, a lin- guist of more than local repute, who was as familiar with the classic isl- ands in the Mediterranean as he was with the shores of his own Oswego 1 river. To follow such a teacher for a youth just\ out of college of no special qualifications for the depart- ment of which he was to be the head, ; was a formidable test of his scholar- , ship and of his ability to impress his scholars with bis fitness for the place. It was an ordeal ,for the new incum- 1 bent all the more trying because our colleges in those days made little of German, which with French was very inadequately taught. But his trained mind and studious habits Boon' won the respect and confidence of his pu- pils and made his classes in German poetry a coterie quite exclusive and apart from the ordinary gloom of the J 1 recitation room. His classes in ' Greek became a magnet for visiting committees who were appointed from time to time to inspect and re- port on the discipline and progress of the school. His class work brought him in con- tact with only a few of the students, but through his social activities and occasional talks in chapel and espe- cially through his engaging personal- ity, he became a general favorite among them. , When'later he became a man of affairs, well known throughout a large section of the state. Mr. Slee never allowed himself to become de- tached from the forces that made for the weal of his growing city. By his perfect poise, hut distinguished de- meanor, and by the persistent and persuasive statement of his opinions, lie was a leader of men whether in the quiet of his library, in consulta- tion with committees, or in the pub- lic discussions around the council bond. ' Soma^of Professor Sloe's friends . 4olt sincere regret when he turned ids back on ft professional career and went into commercial life. No doubt , (k the larger salary was a strong attrac- -^tlon, vat when he came to the part- ing- of ihn ways be saw beyond the money consideration an opportunity for a larger and more useful output cf his lit* than mi possible in the narrow by-ways of the schools as thoy were taught in the early sixties. : Tha typical teacher of seminary • grade was apt to be a person of very little red blond in Ms veins and made: ia the likeness of hit text books. To look ahead to a life shut in by the. t horuon of a school room meant ai gradual, but certain estrangement of mind and spirit from (he pursuit of objects that make life worth while.; There trans no manual and domestic ii course*. n» technical and industrial; school, in fact hardly anything but Mi*, juiettlos* fodder of nnticiunt*d' text book** with miftstiona and ui- carefully printed to prevent 10 cents 10 UR well-brewed afternoon tea, yout rich chocolate, your fragrant coffee, all taste the better when served with Social Tea Biscuit. Delicious biscuit, delicately flavored, always fresh and wonderfully good. Social Tea Biscuit enhance the enjoy- ment of all refreshment. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY the mind from breaking away into unexplored fields. There was very little in the scope of our teaching that pointed pupils to an apprehension of the problems that were sure to be met with in the future. I readily imagine that to keep on in a profession so paralyzing must have seemed to Pro ' pnralj >fessor Slee h t fr S barren and uncalled for. The slogan of the National Teachers' Convention held in New York city last summer— \Education can be linked up to life\ was not dreamed of. Speaking for myself, it seemed to me I had discovered a new world when, after years of teaching, I came in contact with men in factories and shops and mills who spoke a language that gripped a thought like the grip of their hand-shake. In a lumber camp I got from unschooled work- men knowledge that if ever given me death. This mental aloofness meant that we were under pressur* to carry ourselves in proper form and per- fectly erect, so as not to spill any of the gray matter that might lurk un- der our dome. Doctor Channing as a preacher felt the effect of this artificial relation most bitterly. His complaint was that the moment he entered any so- ciety everyone remembered that he was & clergyman and put off his nat- ural self and began to act & part; that he never could see his people ex- cept in disguise and that he was shut out from knowledge that was essen- tial to his work. * N By his seal in promoting reform in the schools of Elmira, by his untiring efforts to rid the city of political cor- ruption, as well as by his love of art and music which deepened and broadened with increasing years, Mr. Trflmte to Pomeroy L. Salmon. For The Patriot: _ In connection with much that is pleasing:, The Patriot, at times brings me facts that sadden, and your latest number, that of the 1st mat. was con- spicuous in this regard, for it tells me that, on Oct. 27th, P. L. Salmon was stricken with apoplexy while on an electric car in his home city, Sy- racuse. Intimate as Falley seminary days made nearly all of its pupils in the sixties, it had not been my fortune to see that ideal boy and exemplar\ yonng man in many years, till the glorious reunion of Principal John P. Griffin's boys and girls brought so many of them back to the old home town and building in the summer of 1888. Occasionally we had met, casually, in # llje streets of Syracuse, and I think I once accompanied him to his office, but between school and the present, our meetings have been few, yet his clear-cut face and the erect, alert figure that supported it, iave many times come to mind in the^ong. years since we sought knowledge at the fount supplied by Prof. Griffin and his able assistants, Boothby, Slee, Underbill and the others who combined to make an ideal teaching force. How vividly I recall the earnest look that ever characterized the face of \Pom\ Salmon, and it must be re- membered that he was a very unin- teresting youngster, who had not suf- ficiently distinctive traits as to merit a familiar shortening of his Christian name. The monosyllabic handle which all his friends were wont to affix to his family name, was pro- nounced as though a short \u\ sup- plied the place of the \o regularly employed. I think, had his full tao- tigrnnl name ever been used in ad- dressing the youthful Salmon, he would have been' greatly surprised, and whether his youthful appellation ever fell out of use I have never as- certained. His father, the late George Salmon, was one of the most stately and dignified members of the Pulton Presbyterian church and (/ to my youthful imagination, he just about measured up to what I thought George Washington must have been. by my own teachers in college, had j Slee's life was a demonstration that been droned out in such a way as to education can be linked up to life, have left no impression upon me. - .- .. But here in camp I learned some- thing of the rudiments of forestry at first hands, something of wild flowers and animals and.birds, and of every- thing growing in the woods. Grami rowing mar hi iad no terrors for those men and words like subject and predi- cate were outside their vocabulary. One end of a sentence was likely to swear at the other end. I revelled in such surroundings where logs in- stead of benches were the meeting places of those knights of the axe C. M. U. Buffalo. N. Y., Nov. 1916- 1861—1901—1915. In connection with the tribute to Prof. Slee in this week's Patriot, and the sketch of Prof. Underbill pub- lished in The Patriot last August, a former student of Falley seminary— Charles LeRett Rice—now rending in Brooklyn, sends us photos of both ProfA. Underhiil and Slee, taken in 1861—5-4 years ago— and we had and saw, and where the blue sky engravings made therefrom. We smiled upon the open-eyed, open-! give them, together with photo repro- niinded woodsmen. Our Professor i dnotions of the same persons; that of would be keen to note the handicap i Prof. Sire., taken before his death in to be overcome in holding to a pro- 1901, and that of Prof. Underbill fession that promised so little in the way of self-development and that was keeping him from taking a hand in the widespread social disturbance of the day. Another tiling. Fifty years »go a.nd long afterward there was & lack of wimt 1 shall call eomntdeiship be- tween teachers and pupils that made taken more recently. To the old students of Falley s.era- inary these reproductions will be a pleasing reminder of the old time school days and the professors who occupied places of trust and respon- sibility in shaping their education. Tfee» photos will recall the profes- sors as they appeared in 1861 as l an artificial barrier between them, as hc-w tifry looked in liter years. I have on my desk a catalogue of a j Both Profa. Underbill and Slee collage in which the names and the ] were very popular when Falley «em- honors of each professor are printed, insry was in its glory, not only The professor of maUumabe* and among the student body, but with astronomy has his full proDOrtion of j everybody in Fulton; and the friend- these honors, and &monjTtbem he is ships then'esubtished have been coo- given credit with the following: **In ! timied Ion,g ^*iter their departure athletics played on the football te&m :J from amongst us. Prof. Sle* passed of (giving the name of the univw-1 awwy in 1901, but when Prof. Uo- si«y) in 1908-9 and nercx lost nlderhill srtraded the Old Home woei game.\ { in Fulton last summer he received a It is fair to assume thst he knew j he»rty welcome «nd many of his for- his pupils inside and out. but «•» rnex pupiU, now liv-ipg m this city, knew little of the ne*d and bent of I demonstrated t.o their cst«-eroe4 in- cur pupitfc. True, we saw tiiem ey« tlTtictor that he btid not been for- to eye in recitation, but &s for seeing jrovtei* in the many years that had farther than that our eyes might &#) passed since their association* a? old ve*tl bv* been in the back of our j Falley hud been «ffverfd by his r*- heads. We were professored to j moral. SHE UKES'IT! A SK any housewife who has change! the family table drink from karmfo! cof- to helpful INSTANT POS- whether tie change a success. aniwer may well in- duce you to male the change yourself. Lew \aeivet i>eJlei tea- per, dearer ccanpleaoo, in- troved difie^ion and tteftdief ! wart after a trial, demon- strate conclusively that the l beat celf ee to POS- awae rooTC 'lor the Iieve that he was ever guilty of a mean or disagreeable act. That he did not enter the army when so many friends of his age were dropping school for war, I have always ascrib- ed to the fact that he was his father's youngest son, bis Benjamin, and in those days Mr. Salmon was much old- er than the fathers of the rank and file of those who were serving their country in uniform. More than once I have caught myself picturing the career of the young Salmon had he gone in with Lloyd Loomls, Murney Lewis, Will Sisson and the many others who threw in their services, and so many of them gave their lives for their country. Though it was not his lot to wear the blue of army life, he did render a good account of himself in the home life of many years and the sons who survive him have, in their father's business life, an example of applica- tion and devotion which, in connec- tion with similar lives, have made America what she is in development and progress. I am sure that the old friends and they are many, will unite with me in this appreciation. Alfred S. Roe. Worcester, Mass., Nov. 4, 1916. WORLD-WIDE EVANGELISM. A great convention for world- wide evangelism is to be held in the First M. E. church, Nov. 19th to 21st, under the auspices of the Department of Foreign Evangelism of the Board of Foreign Missions. Delegates will be present from all the Methodist churches of the Ontar- io district, comprising about 50 churches. The convention will commence on Nov. 19th, Sunday evening, with a stirring addjeas. Monday, Nov. 20, the convention proper will be in sea. sion and continue_ through Tuesday, with high class illustrated lectures Monday and Tuesday evenings. Some of the foreign speakers who will be present and give special lec- tures are: Bishop John C. Robin- son, D. D., mijoioaary bishop for southern Asia; Frank Mason North, D. D., wereiary Board of Foreign Missions; James M. Taylor, D. U., secretary of Deportment of Foreign Evangelism; George Heber Jones, D. D-, editorial secretary Board of For- eign MifflioBj; David D. Forsyth, D D., secretary Board of Home Mis- sions, K&d others of not*. Preparatory to th* convention proper, tfcera mil b* group conven- tion* ristisz she various churches of the Ottario dintrirt, which will be | presided oier by speakers of world- i wide pspt^ssioa m the missionary ! movemea\ ataoy of whom are re- ; turned jriistoaaries- Some of the :, jpeaitrs to tfae \rariooj groups will be 1 Err. Ernes! B. CaJdwelJ, t>. D., of • Ciia»; E*r. Daruf O. Einaberger of iirdia; Ber. J. D. Pointer of Africa, •, and csfce-rs. 7&s*e speakers will later i| spjr*eajr IT. Che cocveation proper. A t*«iacr»&o.!i fe* of 50c will be ciang'«4 So tffi* convention proper, •' wai-ck TH-Q estr-Je the holder of the ; ticiEt* to iii saKjion-s of the conven- ie hi^b class Ulus- , the evening*. To O5i* wbo drj tor. care W-register an siiiaian ?e* vil} t« charged to the Muaff hctarw. Bev. H. D. Holmes Szxr«t Stre*'. church, U the official Salnon. The statements in The Patriot xs to the bu-ffineiss activities of my old friend falij bort oat the promii^es of his boyhood. That he Aould h.»Tt provrd a dotiftt) ion throughout oil lather's life, rouJd in EU irny mrprist those who kntve him. for 1 do not b icr \his worisj.wide conven K 1 ;^ vi ft-v^jgie^Em -urtTe formed at a :' d'rr.-aj beiki r«c*stiy at the Citizens I, c£u.b. to wferh five Ea^nnen and the ftacn trea the S^>t* Street and fr'inr. M. EL. ciurcfeeiB were present. , At ^iiis dinner ;c* following commit- s«te! were apaoins*d: Publicity, Chxrfw H. S*j;e, W. H. Klein and J . J. MorriU; «ss«1aiEm«u, F. E. G^xftfioE., f-^.»:fTTpap. and power to ap- p«sm: fets be. v p-eTj; official rtgistnir, E*T. H. D. Belac* E»v. P. B. Wri«ii, p. p., i-A tie Mu»on Hotu* Q! St-vr Yori^ pj^!ideTd_ HEALTHIEST ONE IN No Sign Ot Drop«y And Kidney Troohto 3taeeT«Iim»\FKUlT.A.'nVES\. HATTIC WUmtH Port Robinson, Ont., July 8th, 1B15. \We have used \Frult-a-tlves\ in our house for over three years and ham always found them a good medicine. Our Mile girl, HtUit, was troubled wUt. Kidtuy Distast. The Doctor said sh» was threatened with Dropsy. Herllmb* and body were all swollen sad wo began to think sho could not lire. Finally, w» decided to try \Fruit-a-tlvos\. Sir began to show improvement after we luut given her a/em tablets. In a short time, the swelling had all gono down and her nesh began to look more natural. Now Bhe is the healthiest one in theftmUy and has no signs of the old ailment. Wo can not say too much for \Frait-«- tivos\ and would never be without them\. , WILLIAM WAKREf. 50c. a box, 6 for J2.50, trial siic, 25c At all dealers or sent postp«id on. receiptofpjtee by Fruit-a-Ura limited, Ogdeusburg, New York. 1 ne /'max Hole! Syracuses New Hotel YooTl find in this qntiet hotel, ddtightftaily taxy, umKgtit rooms, with «n dtcoratio , period fnr- and tiled bmih nJtare rooms. You'll find sleeping in a traffic less reakteatti! ne»ghLorhoo<i more ta your liking lha.r; bcrng^ blasted into slumber by trolieys and trucks Aa<i your room rcnt.il wosi't make you icti Irkc a CHANGES AS THE YEARS ROLL BY a » J mum*, ru- #••. * Si 'V. a, R fc^w
