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Why I wrote Searching for Truth"

I wrote "SEARCHING FOR TRUTH" for my own satisfaction rather than to please the general reading public. It does satisfy me and it evidently does not please some of the public. Thus I am doubly satisfied, for I would hardly care to be approved of by certain types of humanity. For I tell truth which they would conceal.

No adverse critic has as yet taken issue with any one direct statement, argument or assertion, which I have printed. They prefer to carp at the bulk and the style and the purpose.

As to size, they get a big book for a small price-why object?
As to style, philosophy never needed it.

As to purpose, I only wish to clear away immediate cant-is that so unworthy? But why make such a fuss about it?

Simply because public ignorance on vital questions exasperates the looker-on. Simply because indignation will be aroused by the sight of open fraud-mental as well as financial?

No wonder interested parties demur. Some of them make a profit out of prevailing conditions. Some of them fear to lose a profit. Perhaps that is why many publishers refused to consider this work on its merits, and why certain periodicals have refused to advertise it. Some publications have been delightfully inconsistent and have barred any sort of announcement in their pages. One would think the truth were immoral or at least unwise. Perhaps it is-but a few of us will take our chances.

No one should read "SEARCHING FOR TRUTH" who is not interested in the view of a business-man on questions of Theology, Morality, Progress -both individual and general. But we live in a business age and I am satisfied if I only reach the men who do things.

There is considerable use of the letter I in this announcement, but don't let that prejudice you against the book. There is not one single I in the 600 pages.

Yours truthfully,

The Author

"SEARCHING FOR TRUTH by a successful American business man, deals in a sensible, businesslike manner with religious and philosophical questions. Ask your bookseller. If he can not supply, it will be forwarded upon receipt of the price, $1.50.

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PETER ECKLER, Publisher, 35 FULTON ST., NEW YORK CITY

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WATER

While the use of water for general pur-
poses has been common for millions of
years, its use for domestic purposes in
country houses, except in a very limited
way, is a matter of recent growth. It is
within the memory of quite young people
when a country house with a bath-room
in it was unusual, and its owner was a
somewhat distinguished individual. Dur-
ing the past thirty years, however, con-
ditions have changed, and the country
house of even the most modern kind now
includes in its necessary furnishing a bath-
room and running water in the kitchen.
There have been many ways of supplying
this water, most of them crude and un-
satisfactory. Steam has been employed,
but this necessitates the employment of a
skilled engineer, thus putting it beyond
the reach of people of moderate means.
Windmills have been and are used,

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chiefly on the score of low first cost. Those unfortunates who have depended upon windmills for a water supply have at times had water and at other times have not. We began our experiments with the Hot Air pump about sixty years ago. The first engines were moderate successes, but by numerous and costly experiments the present Rider and Ericsson Hot Air Pumps were evolved, and for twenty years we have had no reason for making any changes excepting minor details. About 30,000 are in daily operation in every part of the world; chiefly, however, in the United States. The prices range from $108 to $518. For small places, where the water is taken from a shallow well and delivered to tank in the attic, the smallest pump we make is large enough. Where deep artesian wells are used, and the water forced up to a reservoir through a great length of pipe, the largest engines are necessary. Any servant or any twelve-year-old boy in a few minutes is a competent engineer. As the motive power is AIR their safety is absolute. Their simplicity and economy are marvelous. The following list, taken at random from our books, will go far to prove the merits of our pumps, as it is unlikely that the people named would buy a Rider or Ericsson if a better thing could be obtained:

J. Pierpont Morgan, New York.

Khedive of Egypt.

Whitelaw Reid, New York.

W. K. Vanderbilt, New York City.
George Vanderbilt, New York City.
Frederick W. Vanderbilt, New York City.
Chauncey M. Depew, New York City.
Charles Lanier, New York City.

King Edward VII.

Mayor Seth Low, New York.
Andrew Carnegie, New York.

H. O. Havemeyer, New York City.
H. M. Flagler, New York City.
Colgate Hoyt, New York City.
W. C. Whitney, New York City.
Bruce Price, New York City.

H. H. Westinghouse, of the Westinghouse Machine Works, Pittsburg.

Sultan of Turkey.

Ex-Senator D. B. Hill, Albany.

Secretary John Hay, Washington.
L. C. Tiffany, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.
Valentine Blatz, Milwaukee, Wis.
George B. Post, Bernardsville, N. J.

R. L. Agassiz, Hamilton, Mass.

Joseph Jefferson, Buzzard's Bay, Mass.

E. P. Allis, of Allis, Chalmers Co., Milwaukee.

John H. Converse, of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia.

A call at any of our stores or a letter to any of them will bring catalogue "O," descriptive of

the pumps.

In writing it would be well to mention depth of well, height to which water is to be pumped, and probable daily requirements. Fuel of all kinds, liquid and solid, can be used.

RIDER-ERICSSON ENGINE CO.,

35 Warren Street, New York.
239 Franklin Street, Boston.
692 Craig Street, Montreal, P. Q.

40 Dearborn Street, Chicago.
40 North 7th Street, Philadelphia.
Teniente-Rey 71, Havana, Cuba.

22 Pitt Street, Sydney, N. S. W.

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