Tarry at home travels . He was what is 34 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS now called a physicist of remarkable had studied with Dr. Robert Hare, who is stillremembered among the fathers of science inAmerica, the inventor of the oxyhydrogen blow-pipe. Channing had early taken up the businessof harnessing electricity. He is the author ofthe fire alarm, now in use in all our cities. A wizard of such dreaded fame,That when, in Salamancas cave,Him listed his magic wand to wav3, The bells would ring in Notre Dame. Indeed, in many lines his early experiments inelectricity led the way for those who
Tarry at home travels . He was what is 34 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS now called a physicist of remarkable had studied with Dr. Robert Hare, who is stillremembered among the fathers of science inAmerica, the inventor of the oxyhydrogen blow-pipe. Channing had early taken up the businessof harnessing electricity. He is the author ofthe fire alarm, now in use in all our cities. A wizard of such dreaded fame,That when, in Salamancas cave,Him listed his magic wand to wav3, The bells would ring in Notre Dame. Indeed, in many lines his early experiments inelectricity led the way for those who have givento us the electrical inventions of to-day. I countit as a great misfortune for him that as a littleboy he was taken to Europe to school. ButFellenberg was a great apostle of education then;his school at Hofwyl, now forgotten, was theMecca of educators. For those were the dayswhen even sensible people really thought thatpeople could be instructed into the kingdomof heaven, or practically that if you knew your. S o 35 THE STATE OF MAINE 37 multiplication table well enough, all else wouldfollow. Poor little Will Channing, in those early ex-periences at Hofwyl, lost in childhood the joy anddelight, so necessary to the children of God, ofeasy intercourse with his fellow-men. Therewas always a certain aloofness about him whichmade him unhappy. It is not nice to be on theoutside margin of any circle of mankind. Hereis, for better, for worse, my explanation of thereason why his name does not stand higher thanit does among the men of his generation. I think he and I were the first persons who hadascended Mount Katahdin with scientific tastesand for any scientific purpose. My dear friendProfessor Asa Gray had told me that it was de-sirable to have specimens of the Alpine vegeta-tion there, that it might be compared with thatof Mount Washington. I was able to send liimmore than twenty varieties on my return. We consulted with Dr. Jackson, who had beenour old chief in New Hampsh
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