Mr. MacQueen, who is to lecture at the Chautauqua here, has many strange stories and quaint yarns that he picked up while travelling around the globe.  While in the highlands of Scotland he met a canny old “Scot” who asked him, “Have you ever heard of Andrew Carnegie in America?” “Yes, indeed,” replied the traveller.  “Weel,” said the Scot, pointing to a little stream near-by, “in that wee burn Andrew and I caught our first trout together.  Andrew was a barefooted, bareheaded, ragged wee callen, no muckle guid at onything.  But he gaed off to America, and they say he’s doin’ real weel.”

While in the Philippines Mr. MacQueen was marching with some of the colored troops who have recently been dismissed by the President.  A big coloured soldier walking beside Mr. MacQueen had his white officer’s rations and ammunition and can-kit, carrying them in the hot tropical sun.  The big fellow turned to the traveller and said:  “Say, there, comrade, this yere White Man’s Burden ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.”

In the Boer war Mr. MacQueen, war correspondent and lecturer, tells of an Irish Brigade man from Chicago on Sani river.  The correspondent was along with the Irish-Americans and saw them take a hill from a force of Yorkshire men very superior in numbers.  Mr. MacQueen also saw a green flag of Ireland in the British lines.  Turning to his Irish friend, he remarked:  “Isn’t it a shame to see Irishmen fighting for the Queen, and Irishmen fighting for the Boers at the same time?” “Sorra the bit,” replied his companion, “it wouldn’t be a proper fight if there wasn’t Irishmen on both sides.”

Here’s hoping that during Mr. MacQueen’s long vacation from sermons, lectures, and tedious conventionalities in the outdoors of the darkest and deepest Africa, the wild beasts, including the man-eating tiger, may prove the correctness of Mrs. Seton Thompson’s good words for them and only approach him to have their photos taken or amiably allow themselves to be shot.  The cannibals will decide he is too thin and wiry for a really tempting meal.

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Doctor Edwin C. Bolles has been for fifteen years on the Faculty of Tufts College, Massachusetts, and still continues active service at the age of seventy-eight.

His history courses are among the popular ones in the curriculum, and his five minutes’ daily talks in Chapel have won the admiration of the entire College.

He was for forty-five years in active pastoral service in the Universalist ministry; was Professor of Microscopy for three years at St. Lawrence University.  Doctor Bolles was one of the pioneers in the lecture field and both prominent and popular in this line, and the first in the use of illustrations by the stereopticon in travel lectures.

The perfection of the use of microscopic projection which has done so much for the popularization of science was one of his exploits.