Excerpt from The Midland, Vol. 5: A Magazine of the Middle West; January-February, 1919 During 1919 a system of sustaining subscriptions was adopted by the editors, for the purpose of mak ing available additional funds for the development of the magazine. Each sustaining subscriber pays twenty-five dollars or more each year for three years to the general fund. The following were the sus taining subscribers during 1919, with the exception Of several who prefer to remain anonymous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.