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a few instances could be cited "
where' public utilities have tak-
en advantage of fair. if not in-
dulgent courts to get their val-
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more revenue just before they
sold out.
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night clubs have the taste of
dust in their mouths and the
successful ones have the pat-
ronage of the "people’of Im-
portance," who do not come un-
Thomas Hardy did not
have to rom the world
to find interesting peo-
ple with which to crowd
the pages of his great
books.
JOHN H. SORRELLS,-
Editor
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A sit Company has not only
-asked for a seven-cent fare, but
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to make it stick, for a while
at least.
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sues the doctor, who defends
trates it more graphically than
the current news. William '
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3, 1921, at the postoffice at Fort Worth, Tex-
as. City delivery, 10 cents a week. By mail
in Texas, 45 cents per month; $1.25 for three
months; 35 tor one year.
Street or by the private capital
'of some over-night millionaire
of the stock market. As usual
i the greatest successes ar put
on by the old line producers.
After that, tho the marines'
song ends there, there will un-
doubtedlybeafew casualties
among the innocent bystanders
to be taken care of by the heav-
enly undertakers.
In the last batch of bills re-
ceiyed from Capitol Hill, one
findk without bothering to
make a complete list, these pro-
visions for legislation:
To pay the British govern-
ment *1,000 as indemnity for
the death of Samuel Richardson,
a British subject "alleged" to
have been killed by U. S. ma-
rines at Consuelo, , Dominican
Republic,’Nov. L 1921,
To pay the Chinese govern-
ment *1,000 for the death of
Chang Lin, "alleged to have
been killed by an American sol-
der to guarantee it.
- Whether based on private or ■
municipal ownership, these plans
involve a great deal of buying
and selling. The idea of buying
and selling hinges on price. The
situation could be cleared up
very nicely, except for that one
item.
thru the snanls and ramifica-$
tions of innumerable oil deals
to find out what became of a
*3,000,000 profit so that it can
determine where Harry F. Sin-
clair got the $233,090 in Lib- .
erty bonds which he turned over
to former Secretary Fall; After
calling on all Italian mothers to
produce children, Premier Mus-
solini declares that every citi-
sen must become a'Soldier, and
after agreeing to step aside,
. Mr. McAdoo asserts that" the
Democratic party must not nom-
inate Smith.----—
Oy a nickel fare.
There are several transporta-
tion systems in the city, how-
ever, and no transfers, which
forms quite an important part
of the story.
Under the prenent set-up,
there is no hope for transfers
such as other cities enjoy, while
there is a constant threat of
one system or another demand-
ing an increase with the pos-
sibility that some court may
grant it.
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• financed either out of
S for the
Laban Miles started it by re-
turning from Oklahoma and
bringing along six little Indians
• to board 'under contract with
the government. Oneef them "
knew how to make bows. Tad.
scraptng acquaintance, learned
from him the art of quartering
a seasoned hickory pole, study-
ing the grain and tapering the '
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as much
in 1921.
Also *500 apiece, to the Neth-
erlands for two Dutch subjects
killed while the U. S. goveFn-
ment ship Canlbas was loading
at . Rotterdam in 1919, and
amounts ranging from *25 Mex.
for Mexico to 323,791.35 for
Great Britain to several foreign
nations in settlement of claims
of their subjects arising out of
. •„ To pay the ' British govern-
ment *1.000 for the death of
Ethelbert Myrie, killed by a U.
S. army truck in the Canl Zone
allas Ma
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the occupation
bluejackets of
1914. Austria,
There are plans and pro- that mystery,
grams for unification of all the - "
TT‘S complexity is the most
1 amazing feature of modern
life. .
The best that moat of ua can
do la learn how to pursue one
trade or occupation fairly well."
Outside of that we can hope for
little more than to play the
part of spectators while some
expert tells.ua what is going on.
The crux of the situation is
that we have to depend more
and more on specfallats. in pri-
mte and honest men In public.
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tables, pool tables or card ta-
bles. gather the famous names
of the footlights world to tell
stories out of school; many of
which aret- not intended for
feinine ears. 4
Here they may gather with-
out any wifely ■ intrusion and
with none of the jazz Influence
that is so likely to follow in
the wake of actors’ gathering
places; ..
The Players’ Club, one of the
oldest and most dignified, opens
its doors, to "the ladies” hut
one night a year. The Lambs,
MONGRESSMAN DYER of Mis-
U sourl has another, joint res-
olution providing that a three-
fourths vote of a Jury may ren-
der a verdict. He would also
have one or two alternate jurors
for all protracted trlal, to be
herded with the rest of the ju~
ors at all times and ready to
dash in as substitutes in case
any of the jurors become ill,
die or both.
majority abqut West .Branch;
• and to strike a playmate was
the great, almost unforgiveable
sin. Also, the Hoover boys
helped their burdened mother
about the house not only in.
the manly chores of chopping
and carrying wood, but in
sweeping and washing dishes:
"And Bertie was always very
willing,” says one of his aunts.
MEMBER OF THE AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS
SENATOR FRAZIER of North
• Dakota, apparently persuad-
ed by the International Long-
fellow Society, that- the New
England poet should -be more
highly honored than, any other
American except Lincoln, has a ,,
bill to provide coinage of up to
10,000,000 large one-cent pieces
bearing a likeness of Longfel-
low to be issued only on the re-
quest of the International Long-
fellow Society. .
QENArOR NORRIS of ebras- .
D ka has a joint resolution
providing for a reunion of sur-
viving veterans of the CivilMar
on both sides, in Washington
this year at government ex-
pense.
simply. He wrote about simple
■ people. This is why both his life
and his books are great.
If all obscure persons to
whom his written wordshave
given great joy. could testity for
him. still that would not be half
i the story of his mngniricent eI-
j istence.. This fs but a poor tri-
i bute from ona who has lore
Forgetting their religion, the
boys pursued in every direction,
hurling sticks and stones.
Gradunt
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fed a class
Es. Campbe
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* SAYS
Except for simple af-
fairs like a plain holdup,
murder or a divorce case,
it is growing harder
and harder to under-
stand everyday events.
fortune of two million and com- 1
mits suicide at 35. E. Omar |
Carrington, who was given up ’
as a dying man 4 0 years ago, I
celebrates his 92nd birthday; a
Chicago girl loses both legs In-
stead of having them straight-
under the willows down by the
railroad bridge—"albeit mod-
ern mothers probably compel
their youngsters to take a bath
to get rid of clean and healthy
-mud,when they come home. The
■hole still needs to be deepened
however. It is hard to keep
from pounding the mud with
your hands and feet when you
shove- off for the 30 feet of a
cross-channel swim." . . . The
cracker boxes, triggered with a
figure 4, set in the woods to
catch rabbits . . . Fishing for
■ sunfish, suckers and catfish in
the creek with a willow pole,
"a line of butcher string, a cork
salvaged from a rubbish heap,
an angleworm and a one-cent
hook . . . sliding down
Cook’s Hill on a home-made
sled and th wing out your chil-
blains with ice water . . . The
one drinking man in the vil-
lage who happened to be also
the one Democrat and there-
fore. according to conventional
boyish ethics, fair game for
baiting . . . Collecting old iron
and selling it to this same Dem-
ocrat for the money to cele-
brate Fourth of July with fire-
crackers . . . Of all rough
boyhood experiences and expe -
riments with life, the little
ATAR ago the expression
H "big butter and egg man"
swept the country. When in-
troduced. as a title to a play,
It referred to a prosperous,
well-fed business man whose ’
money was used to back the-
atrical productions. It came to
refer to any of the fat pursed
gentry who go about Broad way
-making expansive spending ges-
tures. They were pictured as
t the chumps who were easy
marks for the ay girlles of
Broadway.
Just now the "butter and
egg" man has vanished from. the.
map. Most of this season’s pro-
Cuctions,on Broadway have been
by RODNEY DUTCHEE
NBA SERVICE WRITER
WASHINGTON, Feb. a.-4
"If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven’s scenes
They will find the streets ar
guarded
By United States Marines.”
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children w
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WXCEPT for these simple af-
’ ' Da fairs, like a,"plaln holdup,-
murder, or divorce case, It is
growing harder and harder to
understand everyday events.
One- reason why the public
goes in so strongly for sport,
crime and comic strips is that
it can tell what becomes of the'
eharakters.
Business, science and politics
have grown too complicated to
be taken in single doses. It was
four years ago that the Amer-
can people discovered that they
had an oil scandal on their •
hands and they have not learn-
ed the simple facts about it yet.
case away from him before he
"had mutilated it too much. Apt
prehensively, they carried it
home, and explained that they
had not hunted the rabbit; it
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«C TEW ART defies oil probers,” the headlines say.
O Stewart is Robert W., chairman of the board of the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The oil probers are
the members of the Senate committee which is seeking
to learn what became of that $3,000,000 profit of the
Continental Trading Company, The committee already
has upcoyered the fact that some $230,000 of this profit
was turned over to Secretary-Albert B. Fall by Harry F.
Sinclair—part of the corruption and fraud, as the U. S.
Supreme Court expresses it—that marked Sinclair’s grab-
bing of the government's naval oil reserves. What 'was
done with the remainder of the $ 3,000,000? The com-
mittee’s requests for this information is a natural and a
proper one. ■
But Stewart says he won’t tell.
“I never got a dollar out of the deal personally,” he
told the committee. “I never gave any of the bonds
to any political party, any government official or any
official of any municipality. .Further than that I must
decline to answer.”
- The Senate committee appears to be at the very crux
of the mystery surrounding the most amazing instance
of official corruption in American history. The man
now facing the committee apparently is able to remove
____It is vitally important to the American
government-and the American people that he should be
compelled to do so. Big, smooth, polished millionaire
(hat he is, this Stewart is just one American citizen
! with one American’s citizen’s rights and no more. For
: three years he dodged the processes of the courts to
I avoid testifying in the Teapot Dome-civil case. Now,
having ceased dodging, tie assumes the role of cool
defiance.
The Senate- has the power to send him to jail, for.
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OU can ride 30 miles for a
nickel in New York pro-
entertaining the tired business ________
man or uplifting the tireless es- where they are.
thete. Here, about their dinner
TN THE summer when Bertie
1 came eight years old,
George Hoover was permitted to"
. go with neighbors to the cir-‘
cus at Iowa City, ten or fifteen
miles away.
Anyone knows what happen-
ed next. They began to play
circus. On the Benajah Hoov-
er place was an old site of a
threshing machine.- The horse
QPEAKING before the Iowa
• Society of Washington in
1327, Herbert Hoover himself
touched on these delights of
DETERMINATION to retain
. L the nickel fare has led to
all sorts of complications.
sweet little boy," plump with
rosy cheeks, who learned read-
ily and never made any trou-
ble, but who seemed more in-
terested in getting out-of-doors
to play than in books and
studies.
As for more general memo-
ries—sliding down Cook's Hill ,
in snow-time, ranging the
spring fields in vain pursuit of
baby rabbits, gathering wild
strawberries in summer, thew
sonorous roll of "the English
Bible at family prayers, the
meetings on First Day where
he sat -beside bis father watch-
The dog caught and killed a
rabbit. The bpys took the car- |
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ing over a partition the Qua-- ing. Quakers Were still In vast
turnstiles to open for' seven
(Cents, instead of a nickel, and
is making preparations to bring
suit in the federal court.
So far as surface appearances
go, this looks like a simple bid
for more revenue, but there may
be a whole lot more to the
story. ■ ' .
easy spenders,
is wondering
The',"sucker"
with rabbits.
Once of a Sunday afternoon
when meeting, Sunday school .
and dinner . were over, Uncle
Benajah permitted the boys to
take a Sabbath day walk. "But
deave your bows at home," he
commended, "No hunting, mind
you!"
Soberly they started out, fol-
lowed by that yellow dog which
himself by threatening to sue
the surgeons who amputated
them; a Senate committee wades
dians, running wild
coyotes.' F-
AU that summer,
Whimsical World
rpHiS is a queer, whimsical
I world, and nothing Blus-
ters of the American Revolution, Mrs. Brosseau was
speaking bfore the Women's Patriotic Council of Na-
tional defense, now in session in Washington, with rep-
resentatives of 34 patriotic societies present.
We are without knowledge as to just when Adam
lived, but we wonder if Mrs. Brosseau’s assertion about
human nature can be accepted without question?
Men no longer kill their neighbors and carry off their
wives. Cannabalism is no longer practiced. Slavery
exists in but a few places.
Prisoners of war are no longer put to slaughter. Pris-
oners are not broken on the rack. Witches are no
longer burned to death. Armies of most nations no
longer slaughter civilian: populations, saving only for
themselves the female children.
Piracy is no longer tolerated. Duelling is regarded as
foolish. Feeble-minded ..persons are cared for, rather
U. S. Biological Survey says
that the fur cateh in thia
country has decreased about
40 per cent sines 1924. Sur-
vey is kicking hard because
trappers take animals out of
season, altho the survey itself
is laying poison all over the
western country and killing
tens of thousands of fur ani-
mals every year.
„ at Lelchuan in 1923.
To pay the Chinese govern-
ment $500 for a man's injuries
received from an assault, by a
U. S. marine in 1923.
To pay the Dominican Re-
public *2,000 for the death of
Juan Soriano, killed by a Ma-
rine Corps airplane landing at
Guerra, San Domingo, in 1923.
To pay the British govern-
ment *2,000 for the death of
Edwin Tucker, killed by a U. «.
army ambulance at Colon, Pan-
ama, in 192 4.
else—T conjecture—arises his
love of hills and forests and
the out-of-doors, Now. when
he wants to get away from the
world, he goes camping or
fishing if it is only for a day;
and the scent ■ of a wood fire
burning against the evening
dew raises him to a pleasantly
reminiscent humor. On these
expeditions, he insists on doing
the rough camp-cooking; and
westerners have ’noticed with
amusement that he builds a
fire in the neat and economical
fashion of an Indian.
BI GILBERT SWAN
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—None
I’of the famous theatrical
clubs of New York allow actors
to bring1 their wives, sweet-
hearts of women friends. ■
-These are all sanctuaries for
the tired actor when he is not
MURDE
I LEAVE
TIE only wrote of things close
ends; and of feathering arrows. j Tlabouthim’ Helovedmen
When he flaunted his new’ac- and pitied them. The enigma*
complishment; all the other ! of their souls hauntedhis imas-
boys went wild over it. For a Inatlon. Thus his Jude and his
year, they shaped bits of steel Tess will lve lon K after, the.
on the grindstone to make ; noisy crowd of sophisticated II-
points’, combed chicken yard* ' erary characters have been for-
and-raided glue pots for the gotten of men.
raw material of arrows. j Thomas Hardx-was a simple.
Rabbits were tho big game direct and honest man.. He lived
concede there exists no change for improving it and
making it a better place for 'our children and our chil-
dren's children with less of misery and more of happiness.
Mrs. Brosseau and her associates at the patriotic
council are there to advocate more adequate national de-
fense. We hope that they, do not subscribe to the view
that it is useless to seek the eradication of war on the
theory that man is naturally a belligerant and war-like
animal, bent on slaying his fellow-men, and that it is
increased from antetetto seven :
" cents depends on whether the
former is confiscatory which, in
turn, depends on-what Its prop-
erty is worth.
In other words, before the ■
court can say whether a seven- :
cent fare is necessary, it must
fix a valuation..
It is quite possible that that
is whiat the Interborough Rapid
# Transit Company is really try-
ing to get before the"Idea of
trading and consolidating the
various systems goes too far.
Further than that, it is quite
possible that the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company is mak-
’ ing this demand in order to get I
the public any price.
A high valuation fixed, in
court, with the city in a. mood
to buy, would certainly be ~S~
very excellent set-up, but not
than trirtured. ‘ ’
For our own part, we believe human nature does
change, and that it changes for the better,, altho we are
willing to admit changes are not' always perceptible and
that at best they require all too long a time. ' j
It would be a sorry world indeed if we were willing to
many and Spain are the other
recipients.
Altho payment is rather late,
we still don’t admit liability, as
it Is provided that all payments
shall be made "as a matter of
grace and without reference to
the question of liability there-
for." Even in doing the de-
cent thing, we often have to be
self-righteous s’ out it.
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You may know the ' two
classes of warbling birds by
their legs. Those of the tree
warblers are black or dark
brown. The ground warbler*
have beautiful ' light-colored
legs, is if they wore silk
stockings. The later's ‘plu-
mage is not as fine as the}
former’s but their music is
better.
rpHEN there was the furore c'
1 over archery, which Infect-
ed not only the Hoover boy*
but all jugenile soclety in West
Branch. ‘Unconsciously Uncle
201 West Rio Grande Avenue
Good Building Material k
A ND speaking of putting on
A shows, the process of creat-
ing a star changes little from
season to season. There are
certain reeognized celebrities
who but for temperamental
reasons, do not need rtheir
names in the bright lights? And
getting an unknown name into
■the electric bulbs for a short
■print of stardom is only a mat-
ter of mone:
The process is simple. Just
glance along Broadway until
you find a play that can be
picked up for some trifling sum.
Perhaps you can get a "revival"
for a few thousand dollar*. For
a few thousand more you can
put it on. Then get on the
phone and tell the "girl friend"
you have a play for her. Cast
her in the lead, put her name
in the bright lights—and there
you are. It, by accident, aha
rHOUGHTFUL Jim Watson.
A Senator from Indiana. in-
troducing a bill to regulate am-
ateur boxing and ban profes-
sional boxing in the District of
Columbia, aimed it not onlyiat
"Whosoever shall voluntarily en-
gage in a pugilistic encounter-
between man and man," but al-
so at he who engages in a "Aht
• between a man and a -buflpora, _
any other animal.” . ‘ ’ ""
just happened; and anyhow,,
the dog did it. Without any
cros-examination. Uncle Bent-
Jah accepted their teetimonv.
"Keep it for one of your bar-
becue*—but not on this day.”
he said. And probably the cor-
ners of hl* • mouth were
twitching.
PEREAVEMENT put a sudden
b end to hl* little bovhond
as it had his babyhood. , In
February. 1584. his mother
came back from' one of her ex-
cursions 'to- the neighboring,
meeting with a hard "cold on
the lungs.” It grew worse; it
turned into a swift, unconquer- .
able case of pneumonia. She .
had bone many burdens, "and
the Lord had mercy and gave
her rest." said her friends of
tiie meeting. But she had done
most of her work as a mother.
To Theodore and Herbert, now
twelve and nine yars old, she
had'given strong, -healthy well .
nourished bodies. And by gift'
of Inheritance or by the uncon-
sciously absorbed training of
infancy, she had refused them
with her own unswerving in-
tegrity., her spiritual quallty.
The idealism of Herbert Hoover
reflects her; as his love of hu-
-man contacts, his shy hut tin
failing sense of humor and his
interest in mechanics ■ reflect
his father. .
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The race is not to the
A swift, nor the battle to the strong.—Eccl. 9:11.
* * * .. ;
Victory, with advantage, is rather robbed than pur-
chased.—Sir P. Sidney.
Jail for This Citizen
LIS father* death set' a
Al period to his early child-
hood. Besides a modest life,
insurance and the new house,
Jesse Hpover left small estate.
Huldah Hoover, true to the
traditions of her family and
■ her sect, desired that the boys
should go to college; and the
next ’ four years were a
struggle to. hold the nest egg
Intact for that purpose, while
'keeping their little bodies nour-
ished and warm.
Being a last and artistic
seamstress, she began, by tak-
ing in sewing. But from the
day of her hsband’s death, *
she was less and less a crea-
ture of this world. In meet-
ing, the spirit moved her more
often and more beautifully.
Her sermons became famous
among the Quaker colonies of
Iowa. They invijed her from
afar to quarterly or first day •
meetings; to py her for the
time lost from sewing, they
made contributions of money
and supplies. •
Another sect-would hav or-
dained her a full-fledged
preacher. So it went for four
years, while Herbert Hoover
grew from the chubbiness of
his babyhood to the spindling-
leanness of his boyhood.
Benajah Hoover had a farm
nearby. He was Jess Hoo
ver's uncle, but of about the
same age. As I have told al-
ready, his wife Ellen attended
Huldah Hoover when Herbert f
was born. Ellen was a Meth-’
odist, and after thelF marri-
age she weaned Benajah over
. her own faith.
This heresy did not for a
moment Interrupt a cordial
friendship, between the two
familles; until Jesse's death,
they always dined together on
Sundays. At Benajah’s. Tad,
Bert and May lived while Hu}-
dah Hoover was awy on her
missions of religion; and Her-
, bert Hoover's galest memories
of boyhood have their focus in
that Iowa farm. He occupied
still the position of the littlest
boy tagging along; but Tad
and George, Benajah'* son,
seem to have tolerated him for
his good humor, his willingnesn
to enter on any adventure and
his enterprise.
really can act, you may have a
gold mine in your hands. If,
as most often happens, she can't
act; you are no wors off than
a hundred others that have
tried it.
And you'd be surprised to
know how often this actually
happens
RBERT HOOVER himself,
I1 in that same speech before
the Iowa Society, told th boy-
ish tragedy of the prey which
escaped. Rabbits- fresh from
a figure-4 trap were wiggly
rabbits, and in the lore of boys
of my time it is better to bring
them home alive. My brother,
being older, had surreptously
behind the blacksmith' shop
read in The Youth’s Compan-
ion full directions of rendering
live rabbit* secure. . . . Soon
after lie acquired thia higher
learning, he proceeded to in-
struct me to stand still in the
cold snow and to hold up the
rabbit by its hind feet while
with his not over-sharp knife
he proposed to puncture two
holes between the sinews and
back knee-joint*, through which
hole* he proposed to tie a string
and thus arrive at complete se-
curity . . . The resistance of
the rabbit was too much for
mo. I was not only blamed for
Ite escape all the way home
at his
CHAPTER II.
THE BOY
COME modern psychologlats
• maintain that men of excep-
tional capacity are usually pre-
cocipua as children, and that
their conscious memories begin
early.
There are on record genius-
es who remember events in the
first year of life. --
. Herbert Hoover is an excep-
. tion. With him, the curtain
rose rather late. His mind
carries no definite picture of
hl* father, who died when he
was 6 years old. His first
teacher remembers him as "a
under the heading of "soft
spenders." For this reason, the
midnight resort* of the "big
street" are not raring so well.
The "butter and egg man," if
• he has not completely disap-
peared. has at least changed
complexion so that it is difficult
to .recognize him.
ker bonnet that concealed his
mother’s face and trying to
keep from wriggling during
long pauses between the mo-
tion* of -the spirit.
In the summer after his
father’s death came an experi-
ence which left, one. feels, an
imprint on hl* tastes and
character. His Uncle Laban
had gone to Oklahoma—then
of course Indian Territory —
as government gent at Paw- .
huska, capital of the Osage*.
Aunt Agnes, Laban’s wife,
came to West Branch and took
Herbert home with her for a
visit. By Osage policy, which
the government heartily ap-
proved. --this nation within a
nation put up effective bar-
riers against invasion of our
•race.
Except for Uncle Laban'*
brood of three, he found no
other white children in that
most picturesque of the South-
western frontier towns. But
there were hordes of little In-
• . • - . w Bi
vided you stay on the same syst
tern. No one is prouder of
this than the average New York-
er. No one sets so much store .
WIHITTIER, in "Snow Bound"
W has sung the life of a
Massachusetts Quaker family a
hundred years ago. In Iowa 50
years ago the customers were
nearly the.sama. Whittier cat-
alogues the books—the Bible. .
Quaker sermon* and homilies. '
tracts, “Paradise Lost.” "The
War of the Jews" and.
One harmless novel, mostly
bid
From younger eyes; a book
forbid.
In Huldah Hoovsr'a house-
hold was not even a single nov-
el. If one excepts fictional
-tracts "wherein;" says Hoover,
"the hero overcomes the De- -
mon Rum." Benajah Hoover
had carried over from Quaker-
dom some strong sectarian
prejudices. He too forbade
books of romance save those
with Total Abstinence as hero
and Rum as villain. But in-
consistently he permitted “The
Youth’s Companion," which he
considered uplifting literature
for the young. . Huldah. Hoover
disagreed with him.
However, the Hoover boys
used to read its thrilling nar-
ratives and anecdotes during
their visits to Benajah; and Tad
began tb carry away old copies
and to hide them in a secret
nook between the sheathing of
the house and uhe attle wall.
Finally, from some worldling of
a boy he borrowed a copy of
Robinson Crusoe.
He and George Hoover, to
whom this strong meat was
equally forbidden, used to read
it lying on the floor in an up-
per bedroom of Huldah Hoov-
er’s house. They' took turns,
each squabbling when he felt
that the other had read too
long. Bertie got his Defoe sec-
ondhand. Being the youngest
and the fag, he oat on the
stairs as lookout. Instructed to
whistle a tune if anyone p-
proached. . Little boy fashion,
now and then he would forget
his job, creep into the room
and ask in an excited whisper.
4"What are they doing now?"
Then the member of the guilty
pair who had lost the. book for
the moment would rise and
.drag him back to his post. So,
continuing on their worldly
cgurse. Tad and George read
Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales.
Thereafter, they acted out
"these romances. Bertie played
the super parts. When Tad
commanded the Colonia army,
Bertie was that army; he was
also the white maiden hound
to the stake, while George as
the Indian Chief tortured her
and Tad as the Deerslayer came
to the rescue.
"Bert" enjoyed fascinating
friendship with Indian boys. He
watched the little braves snare
rabbits and ground squirrels:
he fished beside them with a
bent pin; be made his own
childish attempts to draw the
hickory bow; he stood in a
state of exalted - admiration-
while they cooked their prey
on the lid of a tin can.
This halcyon of genuine boy-
scouting left marks on his
%---------------------
By MUS. WALTER FERGUSON,
W h one Or ine Wurst uliz-
’ ’ sards that ever swept over
kngind clasped vorset in an
icy grip, the soul or Thoma*
Hardy Joined the eternal ana
that name which ha* long been
a household word where books
are loved became immortal.
For 87 year* this great writer
and still greater man dwelt in
one small corner of one small
island. Seldom did he leave the
soil that nurtured him. A no-
ble Englishman imbued with all
the fine traditions of his na-
tion, who knew no other need
save that of beauty and truth,
who worshipped simplicity, and
permanence, Thoma* Hardy, the
last of the, Yietorians. made for
himself an everlasting place in
literaturte.
a circle; It made a perfect
ring. Benajah Hoover had a
white mare, docile and at lei-
sure through extreme old age.
They braided her mane, and
made her a circus horse. Bert,
standing in the center of the
ring, acted as “Post”—he
guided her by the halter about
the periphery of the ring. Tad,
as ringmaster, cracked a whip
behind her. And George, who
enjoyed great prstige because
he had actually seen the circus,
was the rider. He contrived,
after much experimentfng, to
stand up barefoot on the old
mare’s rump; but as1 soon as
Tad urged her Into a stiff gal-
lop, he fell off. When he had
bruised himself sufficiently, he
changed places with Tad, who
had no better luck. ,
Perceiving .that circus riders
are born not made, they de-
cided to transform the show
into a menagerie. The big yel-
low hound dog who was their
faithful attendant impersonated
a NumidianLon; an especially
flece and battered tomcat, shut
in an empty apple crate, the
Bengal Tiger; ground squirrels
and chipmunks, industriously
trapped, the panthers and leop-
ards; a bull calf the telephant.
.The audierce—which paid of
course with pins—had just be-
gun to assemble when the lion
broke his leash, knocked over
the apple crate and joined bat-
tle with the Bengal Tiger. In
the-struggle to separat them,
the boys overturned the other
cages, and the panthers, the
leopard* and even the elephant
escaped to the jungle.
INHOS who say that men-----
I must roam the world in or-
der to learn mortals should not
overlook this writer oh Broad-
way or the Strand, or to stroll
down the magniticent Champs
Elysees, so that he could learn
to portray mankind and its emo-
tion*.
Hardy’* men and women,
those delightful simple hearted ‘ 1
elusive persons who walk se-
dately through the page* of his
books, are the men and women
of Dorset. Home folk* whom
he knew and loved.
By the mighty power of his
pen, he has made Immortal the
simple lives of the-- people in
that Section of Britain. By bi
devotion to beauty he ha* pre-
served for us forever some of
the wild lovelines* -of those
landscapes, some of the tang of
the wind over the moor*, some
of the heartaches that thote
long dead Dorset folk suffered
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