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BANDY DIRECTORY
OPTHI
MASONIC TEMPLE
A
Masonic Meetings
Visiters Always Weloome.
MAMHALL LODGE NO. 108 A. F.
A. communication Friday
March St at T:S0 p. m.. first degree.
A. rruor. W. M. Jo hp W. Well*,
secretary.
SIQNKT CHAPTER. No. 38 R. A.
M. Monday April 21 Business session.
Geerge Gregory H. P.. ohn Wells.
Secretary.
tTATED AMEMBLY. Kmc So!o
rm CauneH No. 20. R. A S. M.. Hon
day. April 11, ltl»- Business meet
ing. Ira A. Davenport, I. 1. John
\V. Wells, recorder.
Statad Conelawa St. Aldemar Com
ma ndery Na. 30. K. T. Raster service
Methodist cnurch. April 20. T. E. Fred
erick, commander John W. ells, re
corder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 67 O. E.
•.—Special meeting Saturday April 12.
School of Instruction at 2 p. tn.. dinner
tt «:30 and Initiation at 8 o'clock. Mrs.
Archer Walton secretary: Mrs. J. K.
Sehultx, W.
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FIRST FLOOR.
MARSHALLTOWN CLUB
C. H. KEMLER. Secretary.
SECOND FLOOR.
DR. R. E. BURKE
Dentist
Suite 21S Phone 445
DR. C. 0. CALLISON
Booms 207-208
PHONE $43
House White 528
HULL INSURANCE AGENCY
O. R. NORRIS
GENERAL INSURANCE
M4 Maaonle Phone 55
THIRD FLOOR.
Li DRS.
FRENCH AND COBB
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Specialists
DR. R. R. HANSEN
Rooms 314-315
Office Hours: 11 to 12 2 to 6
and 7 to 9 p. m.
Office Phono 101. House Phone 72
Physicians and Surgeons
Rooms 0t to 30S. Phone 15 for the
following physicians and surgeons:
BR. M. U. CHESIRE
DK. KELSON MERRILL
DR. H. H. NICHOLS
1R. GEORGE M. JOHNSON
DR. R. S. GROSSMAN
L. F. Kellogg, R. J. Andrews
Dentists
Room* SIS to J17 Phor.e
PuMMm*
1 4
FOURTH FLOOR.
DR. LIE RLE
DR. WOLFE
Specialists Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat
GLASSES FITTED
H. F. ECHTERNACHT
Dentist
8uit«. 418 Telephone 407
DR. WM. F. HAMILTON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
4yd-8 Masonic Temple
Cwaaim I
A ffanfiAn a rinnnv*nl
4*vw«iv4v*« uviiui di
urgery and X-Ray Work
1%. Hooma 414-415 Masonic Temple
Offioe Hours: 2 to 4 p. m.
DR. RALPH E. KEYSER
S. H. GIMRB
Phone107S
N. G. RINDEN
Phone 1576
GIMRE & RINDEN
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ESTATE AND INSURANCE
Telephone 145
P1 41S MARSHALLTOWN,
Maaonic Temple IOWA
m^SSSSSS
C. R. EDMISTER
ATTORNEY
12 East Main Street, Marshalltown
Phone 4S7
R. E. TABER
MAX M. MILLS
DENTISTS
Over 10 Eaat Main Street
Phono 1774
sis
0. H. ALLBEE
—ATTORNEY AT LAW
'fllMltl Practice and Probate Matters.
'•7rT'"' Office) with J. M. Holt
OVER 1« WEST MAIN STREET
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ta tha ata for rapuMltatloa all jJJi
patchw credit*! to It or not othar»l«a eraaltaa
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All right! of r»publlo»»lon of i»c1al dl»
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6BBTRU0T IIVNOtl NIT I MM II.
A propoaed Illinois law provides pub
lic application for marriage licenses
must bo made thirty days before tb«
license may be Issued.
Just wnnt tin- fuiputf «f
the gossip* in early enough to spring
piospoctive bride and groom and their
pnrental
hojseholds are content and
juitlsfied it isn't very much of other
people's business whether or not two
young folks invoke the services of the
church or the justice court In the mat
ter matrimonial. Of course there's the
ancient adage that "more marries than
does well" but that's chance to be
taken and it is doubtful whether the
thirty days would make much differ
ence. If he or she or both of them
can fool the other to the pitch of mat
rimonial desperation he. she or both
can play the game for another calen
dar month and get away with it.
Marriage is not too easy. Marriage
should be easily attained bv law. Mar
riages are verj often illadvised it is
trie, but not particularly
marriage
WHHE BIB NARBINB'S StCftETARY BET IT*
Charles Witt, secretary to Governor
Harding in a quandary. Before the
committee yestftrdav it came out that
while the secretary's salary is 150 per
month he had. between September 3
and October 8 deposited 11.567 in a
Dee Moines bank. Part of thie sum he
accounts for as his salary. That, how
ever. left Jl.117 to be accounted for.
Then one Thorson. a political friend
of the governor and lately a etate
agent, comes forward to state that he
paid Witt different sums at different
times as publicity man for wrestling
matches promoted by Thorson which
helps out some but not enough. Thor
son. who drew J125 a month from the
state while he was in the sporting
game, says he paid Witt, for helping
him in the matches, five distinct sums.
The size of these payments may strike
the a vera e* reader as peculiar by com
parison. In April Witt, according to
Thorson. got SiO for his services in
June, SIT: again in June. $50. and in
July $1K. But on September 15. in
time for the llg deposits. Thorson says
he paid Witt 1250 and on October 6.
$600. So it would seem that Witt's ef
ficiency and value rode rapidly along
in September. Moreover. Mr. Thorson
paid these large sums in currency, not
by check. Still that does not relieve
Mr. Witt's embarrassment. There still
remain? a sum and difference of $600
that Mr. Witt can't remember for the
life of him where or how he got. It is
a most peculiar situation. A man
whose- income is $150 a month abso
lutely loses track of $600 utterly. It
is pitiable and Mr. Witt feels it deeply
as may be inferred from his expressed
wteh that the committee could help
him to account for it.
That is what the committee should
do. Witt la the governor's secretary.
Thoreon one of the governor's political
oedfellows and a state agent who drew
pay from the state "while he was
busily engaged in promoting wrestling
matches. Those date# of deposits,
Jatea of alleged conferences in Chi
cago, dates of those alleged big pay
ments of $250 and $500 "in currency"
by Thorson, and the date of the par
don itself run too close together to be
lam I seed without further investiga
tion or as mere concideneea, They
may have been coincidences or they
may be the string tftat would unravel
the whole mystery. Mr. Witt'a finan
cial amnesia regarding $600 on ^a
$1,S00 salary Is suspicious. Men rarely
forget a sum equal to one-third of
their annual stipend. It might be that
under proper treatment Mr. Witt couiu
remember. He seems to recall other
things freely.
Mr. Byers lo reported to have said
that the investigation Is over except
for a 'couple of hours of mopping up.
It will be a great mistake on bis part
if he neglects to follow up to the end
the trail Mr. Witt's forgetfulness has
laid before him. There has. It seems
to many people, been a tendency to
leave the main hunt end run off on
the Havner cross scent. This inves
tigation started to run down the why
and wherefore of the pardon Governor
Harding granted to Rathbun. It should
follow the trail to the end. And the
Witt testimony a&ems to lead directly
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TBiMSi
Dally, hjr mall, on* y«i la advene*
By tha month, by mall
Dally by earrWr by U« month
T»ts»-n.W««k Kditlan ver y«ar
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Entered at tha portolfto* at Mar»h«HW»n.
Iowa, as seesnd-ela— Btall maltar.
!'ir
may be are no! entirely evident to the
casual reader. Mabe it la Intended
to prevent elopements, to give time
and pause to the 'high contracting
purtlea." perhaps to afford all the rel
atives opporttinlty to mix into the
deal to the most remote old maid,
mints and distant cousins and to let
grown
any sweet morsel tl«\v have been hold- piratically denied.
ing beneath their tongue. All those *»eventv-flve per cent of all the men
possibilities II.- dormant within the
so
is readily
because!
vomplished. The
main trouble in the I". S. A. is that it
is too easy to get unmarried. Laws
restricting divorce
find strictly
gov­
erning sepir.itlon. denying rlghi to re
marry and punlshinii
desertion more
severely are much betUr calculated to
impress that the contract is a serious
matter than is delay in issuing mar
riage licenses.
jim*
tmu tlw ciwlttw «et ttMll
to follow.
It la not nolo* to W easy ta drop
the trull where Ilea now. It appears
the testimony that old man Rath
bun paid big money to hla attorney
f.ir a pardon that the governor's sec
retary not mnnsy that he can not teH
or will not tell whfi* and of whom
he not It tha attorney for Rathbun
*hort clrculta the current by claim
n« thrtl he Kept the Rathbun money
\hi-h Rathbun swears he paid to be
taken to the governor but thla spark
frcm Mr. Witt's bank deposits sug
tests that the line ahould *a followed
up expertly with a view lo discovering
whether we are following two sepa
rate and unconnected clrculta or
whether the wires from Rathbun's ex
penditure to Witt's receipt* are mere
ly grounded.
BIM00RA0Y AT IRINNUL.
If :in increase of a million dollars in
Its productive endowment fund in the
lust ten years and nearly another mil
lion more In bulldlnga and equipment
either borrowed on bond lasues or ac
quired by donation, has given the Im
pression that Crinnell college has
aristocratic the charge Is em
Htudetitn
bill. ing all or part of their way thru
at Urlnnell college are work-
There is oil fashioned t'nited ^hooi. (jrlnnell college was founded colonies and coaling station* around
States notion still exiiint that if the intellectual pioneers from New Kng-
U.nd. whose fundamental ideal was the
democracy of thrift and the Grinnell
spirit about the college today respects
rnd rewards the stlf made men of the
student body as evidenced by the hon
ors accorded its members.
Five out of seven members of the
junior annual board are working their
way thru college. Likewise four out
of five honor students, twenty out of
twenty-four on the football team, nine
out of twelve of the basketball team,
nix out of eight of the Y. M. C. A. cab
inet. six out of ten of the dramatic
clul. four (Wit of .»even of the student
council, five out of si* of the Jnter
collegaitc debators and twelve out of
i)ir."to«n of the glee club. In all an
average of 72 per cent of the leaders
honored by preferment in nine student
oiganizationa arc working their way
thru college.
Grinnell college is no commanded in
its \iew of lif^ that a young lady can
rttend a two million dollar college, live
in half million dollar rtormatory and
wait on tables or do housework about
town by the hour without losing social
caste.
Grinnell college claims that it has
only been building necessary equip
ment In its increase of endowment
from $312. per student in 1860 to $2,
149. per student In 190S and points to
other colleges among whom Grinnell
stands thirteenth In the amount of its
endowment per student unit. It stands
in a class with Oberlln at $2,534 and
Darmouth at $2,712. per student In
aching powor it also ranks alongside
these venerable Institutions of the east
with one instructor for 15.3 students,
while Darmojth has one to 15.5 stu
dents and Oberlin one to 1S.2 students.
However, neither its recently acquir
eo wealth of endowment nor the ex
treme democracy of its student life so
distinguishes Grinnell college as its
rank for thoroughness in scholarship.
The United States commissioner of
education ranks Grinnell college
among the 59 beat colleges in America,
out of nearly 1,000 colleges and uni
versities and places Grinnell among
the four beat west of the Allegheny
mountains.
Topics of the Times
world!
outside of Germany should stand by
Trance. Her courage and determina
tion saved it.
Two Cedar county men treated as
slackers by the L'nlted War Workers of
that oountj are suing for $100,000
damages. What do you predict the
Jury will give them?
Granted that old man Rathbun is a
tough old bird that~ doesn't make his
money legal piey to tvery thimble
rigger who comes along, at least
doesn't arguo immunity for th«
thimblerlgger.
9
Governor Harding should get a new
aecretary. A man who can't remember
$600 in these 1-i. C. of L. days is liable
to forget.anything.
Germany se^mn to have lost pretty
nearly everything but her gall.
Of course the Philippines desire
"immediate independence." But the
question is what will they do with it
II they get It?
If the president has tho grip he pro
bably doesn't care at present whether
or not the Wilson school of statesman
ship keeps or takes a holiday.
About the only way an official
scandal can reict upon the good name
of a state is thru white cashing by au
investigating committee.
The man who owns his own home or
Ib
owning at It usually votes with cau
tion on matters involving taxes.
Our little army in Russia is light
ing with its back to tiie wall while
statesmen who never smelled powder
orate and argue In Paris.
IOWA OPINION AND NOTE8.
"The first oUp most men take in
arranging the garden work Is to make
their wives believe pulling weeds is
good for their complexion," remarks
the Sioux City Journal.
The Des Moines Register believes
that "Premier elemenceau's assurances
to ttie Germans that tho treaty will be
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TIMBS-REPUBUCANriUKSHAIJCTOWN. IOWA, APRIL 1«U
England the Great War Loser
(Kanto* Letter of C. W. Barron,
or
ail tha allies Bngfcand la the
greatest sufferer by the war yet the
world does not know It. IDcon*nlc*lly.
ahe baa bean ahot to pieces and she
d«M not yet know It.
Ninety-three per cent of the people
of Russia never hud anything, and all
the sufferei* of Ruaala by the war
may number less than the people who
have yet to suffer In England. The
stlnga of pride, tha hurt to the mind,
the loss of place, position and power,
may bring palna aa sharp a* those of
physical suffering.
Holshevlklam la dying tn Ruaaia of
exhaustion and Ruaala has a great new
da still ahead In the dawning. When
ahe emerges, all the Inventlona of the
world for production, for communica
tion, and for transportation will be at
her service for fruition from the work
of 1 SO.OOft.OOO people on the greatest
undeveloped soil In the world.
France can live 70 per cent upon
her soil and 30 per cent by her posi
tion In art and world entertainment.
8he has suffered a great ectir in
Picardy, but will bound over it and
possess potash. Iron an coal in
provinces on the Rhine beyond her
pre-war dreams.
France is self-oontalnant.
(ireat Britain is an island with
exotic industries, dependent upon im
port* for raw material, with balancing
exports of coal and manufactured
goods and butlreaaed by shipping.
the world
Economically, financially and Indus
trially she has been sunk. As soon as
she finds It out. the question will be
how long It will take her. with her
noblest sons returned from the w»rs,
ti ralae anew her industrial banners
and again ride the seas in farflung
lines, returning world wealth to her
island shores.
When I arrived In England this year
on my third war trip. I looked flrst for
the foundations and guaranties of
peace. Parchments and prtachlngs are
of no avail a* compared with prac
tices. and practices are forced by con
ditions—condition# of food, conditions
of shelter, and both are allied to cli
mate and transportation.
Civilization is largely a matter of
climate and the close students of the
march of civilisation will tell you that
England has been developed not from
her soil, but from her atmosphere, per
mitting, and :n part forcing, all-the
year-round out-of-door w*ork and ex
ercise.
It Is just the climate for what the
Englishman 'is, the steady, plodding
worker, without excitement, nolae.
fuss, or nervous exhaustion, just the
"pull and get there" in climate and
man. In many senses man becomes
the atmr»phere
in which he dwells.
As he walks and works, so he looks,
and so Is he. The Englishman Is bal
anced by his climate. He Is not out
classed in mental and physical tr
ance by any nation on earth and to
day
that balance in climate, in mental,
physical and circumambient atmos
phere will be hi« ultimate redemption
and salvation from the ills that now
threaten him on every hand and seem
to rise from both earth and ocean.
Every foreign foot that has landed
on England this winter has connected
with shivers and shakea. Never In
twentv-flve years has England known
such piercing cold, such ice TtfUj «now
and
frost
—25 degrees of fr«st they
call it. which means, in American
vernacular. 7 above zero-and never
was coal so carefully rationed. iou
must get a physician's certificate for
a Are in your hotel room and you must
keep your own internal combuation by
carrying your own pocket sugar box.
American travellers borrowed, beg
ged and bribed for hotwater bottles.
Lord Timothy Dexter's bed-wanning
pans Ahlch founded his fortune would
have been barred out by the c*l ad
ministrator who ration# out to every
household its heat units and allows a
little free choice and election in the
dlvlaion aa betwixt electricity, gaa and
coal.
The only comfortable people .n Eng
land thia winter were those who com
manded p«at bogs or woodpiles—no
btazing
log*. Juat six-inch billets of
hard wood, carefully piecing out your
fire.
But cattle throve in the open on dry
grass, hay and straw. Pedigreed
breeding bulls and registered co-ws on
Lloyd' George says England will test in milk production were allowed
stand by" K.wice. The whole
two pounds of grain a day
ment order. The cattle grew warm
coats of fur and no native animal—
man or brute—complained.
It was just war conditions in con
tinuance. deficient and necessarily
controlled transportation and neces
sary rationing of food, fuel and shel
ter with regulation of all prices,
whether butter or beer, rates or rents.
The outsider shivered. He also
shook, for the whole frosted inland
vibrated and shook under the one
word "transport."
Transportation is the very founda
tion of all material civilization. The
path and expansion of Roman law.
order end organization are marked by
the Roman highways.
When London waa vibrating between
snow and rain, slush, sleet and ice.
black fog and black clouds, and sun
shine was rockbound only from dates
of week* before, the underground and
tubes
closed down In heartless strike.
How the working people got home, or
came Vack to work next morning, no
•v»(5v sccrr.rJ to rmty y\m-
ready by Eastar may be a diplomatic
way of informing them that It will be
a hard-boiled egg"
"After reams of editorials," says the
Davenport Times, 'telling why It is
had policy to let the Japanese settle In
Lower California Mexico rises to re
mark that she has not sold, leased or
given away any land to the Japs. So
there Is really nothing to get excited
over,'^ the newspaper adds.
The Burlington Hawkeye observes
that "the two houses of Corfgress are
apt at times to grow Incensed at the
president, and to a greater extent at
the president's bouse. There Is the
main ghevan^e of the official states
men. that this unofficial statesman
has everything to say, and they are
not even consulted."
"The Allen fAmily will And difficulty
In establishing itself en masse on any
one Job." thinks the Cedar Rapids Ga
zette. "now that it has decided to re
sign the state secretary's office."
The Carroll Herald advises Its read
ers to "Bet in .line and say you like the
new time schedule It la the law of
the land, and other lands are adopting
It. England turned its clock* ahead
the same tlma we did and li marching
to the new time."
k#k
•t*
SJIWr Wall atrMt JtturMl
plaint wag in t)T« gentle murmur: "I*
this quit* flair?"
Tha transport lorrtaa of the govern
ment soon got in their work and took
the oya and •ifia In and out of town
In alandlna-up bunches of fifty as ihey
had moved the workers In France.
Then the tubra reopened. The strik
ers aald It waa a misunderstanding,
but "waa It right for the government
to Interfere In any way with the ef
fectiveness
at
their strike?"
Still the earth crackod under the
threatened strike of the rallwaymen
for Increased wages and the demand
of the ooal miner* for another raise in
pay and shorter hours.
Then the grent army of "transport"
men. stevedores, docktnen. freight han
dle!*, etc.—in organised union made
their demands. An alliance of the
tliree unions threatened io takf MR
trol and tie up the Island at will and
for wages and conditions such as they
might elect.
Into parliament now goes a huge,
new bill, called the transport bill, pro
posing a cabinet position and auto
cratic government therefrom over all
the transport of the kingdom.
Lloyd George vibrate* between the
peace conference and London, and
holding Europe, If not the world. In
hLs left hand, he extends the right to
his fellow workmen In Welsh. Scotch
and English mines and bids them
te calm, present their grievances and
they shall have justice, whatever It Is
and whatever It may cost and whoever
pays It. The hearing will be ahort and
decision prompt between March 21
and 31.
When, a few days later in Paris, he
stood before me and smiled I waa
astounded. There was not a wrinkle
or a care line in his face. In a few
hours he laid his demand before the
peace conference and conscription In
Germany was doomed. Short of sta
ture he looked to me—he is only a few
inches over Napoleon'* five feet four
—yet. with one hand, he pushes back
the threatening Internal forces that
would disrupt England, and with the
other he takes the military sceptre
from German* that may aggregate ip
the new geographical lines about 80.
OOO.fK'O people.
How he does it and keeps that smile
and full vigor of body and mind. God
onlv knows.
PT1LL on TNG.
[Cedar Rapids Gazette.]
Tou know that many of our games
we play, we learned from the little
people of the Great Forest. That fa
mous gsme—the "Tug-of-War," we
learned from the wild folk.
They often played this came on
Mirror Pond. Out EMck Otter and his
brother, Blll^ Otter, played It one day
under water, and It waa one of the
best jokes on Dick and Billy Otter of
the whole season.
Mother Oiler called to Dick one
morning, when she was washing the
breakfast dishes: "Dick ptter. want
you and Billy to go at once and get
some roots of the delicious yellow pond
lilies for our dinner today."
"Why. Mother. dear«.we can't today
for we've Invited Bobby Skunk to comt
and coaat with us down the big new
totoggan slide!" said Dick.
"Well, I'm sorry to disappoint little
Bobby Skunk, for he is one of your
nicest playmates. But ill tell him to
wait till you return." answered Mother
Otter.
So Dick and Billy, who always mind
ed their mother Instantly, and cheer
fully, dived Into Mirror Pond to swim
for thplr secret place to find the yellow
pond Illy roots.
But a strange thing happened.
Mother Beaver had asked Tom and
Jerry Beaver to go at once and get
yellow pond Illy roots, too! And Tom
and Jerry Beaver had dived- off their
dock Just as the Otter boys dived ofT
their dock, but none of them saw each
other start, and none knew 'what the
other* were dolne.
Germane who sympathized with the
fatherland.
"I know Just how It (Prussian
hatred)) goes from personal exper
ience." he writes. "I find It working
here right along. In fact the prencher
came Into my office and told me they
would flx me."
The correspondent la postmaster of
his town. It would seem that, with th^
administration •behind him. he should
be able to start something that would
silence the "preacher" and others who
threaten him. All told, six town.* cave
Tha Gnzette is in receipt of a letter reported business i«mpaigns begun by
from a prominent resident of a town .Germans against genuine
east of this city, on the Northwes* rn
railroad. The writer aaked for twelve
copies of Mondsv's Gaxette, from
wh.ch he wiahod to clip the editorial
concerning Prussian campaigns of hate
against men whose patriotism when Women are employed as grain
the country was at war had offended I shorelers by the government service.
fy Wall Mason
MA. OP.
The long war made us sick and faint, we had no heart to hump mwi
so, alas, we did not paint the cowshed and the pump: we read long tales of
bones and woe, and let our chores to thunder go, and now our houses look as
tho they should be at the dump. We had no Heart to trim the trees, or
bear d«id cats away, when mighty legions, o'er the seas, engaged in bloody
fray and while those legions thundered on, the tin cans gathered on the
lawn with broken dish and demijohn, and heaps of leave* and hay. While
still upon the kaisers brow the tyrants crown was seen, we hud no heart
to groom the cow, or plant the pinto bean we had no heart to decorate the
lawn swing and the garden gate: we merely stood and railed at fate, and
cussed the submarine. Now in a castle queer and quaint the mildewed
kaiaer aits: and we should buy some rich red paint, and throw some clean
up fits: for kalsomlne of gaudy hue, to make the shack look good as new,
for clover seed and blue grass, too. we ought to blow six bit*. We've talked
of war a weary while, of admirals and kings: now let's put oi» our peace time
smile, and think of other things: let's tlx the roof before there's rain, replace
the broken window pane a lot of duties in Its train this smiling season brings.
When a Feller Needs a Friend
wi
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Americans.
How many more will have to make
similar reports before something is
done to give these Huns a tastte of
Americanism?
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BECAUSE
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[Ventures of
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DICK OTTIR HAS A TUQ-OF-WAR
The "Beavers also had a secret place
to find these delicious roots. But the
Otters got their place first, and it waa
way down in a very deep hole at the
bottom of Mirror Pond. They swam
to the spot and then took a deep breath
of air and dived to the bottom, and
began to dig up a long and big root..
Yon know that a pofhd Illy root Is
often very big and long, like a strong
rope for a ship. Dick and Billy Otter
dug up one end of such a root, at the
bottom of the pond, and began to pull
with all their might. It was miry at
the bottom of the pond and soon It
waa so muddy that they could hardly
see before their noses.
But they found that tney couldn't
pull the long root up to save their
lives.
"What can be the reason?" said Dick
to Billy. "We have never before had
such a strange experience with a pond
Illy root. Usually we can pull them
up nicely."
"I can't guess what's the matter,**
replied Billy, "and just think of Bofrby
Skunk waiting for us, to play with us
on the toboggan slide! He won't like
waiting so long, and he may be mad
and go home!"
"And what will mother say—to lave
us take so long In getting the root?"
aaked Dick. "She expected us to bring
It right home!"
So these two brothers tugged and
worried and wondered why they were
so slow In getting the root up. Now.
what do you suppose held the root?
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THIS IS THE BIRTHDAY OF
Elihu Yale,
IS ITiYOL'RS?
APRIL S. 1448.
Elihu Yale was not the founder of
Tale College, in spite of the beliefs
of many peopte. But he did make th-s
proposition of a college poaplble thru
a gift of money and books.
He was born lr New England, pos
sibly in Boston, and went to India
when he was 22, intent on making a
fortune. He succeeded. He found em
ployment with the great Bast India
Company, came to be governor of the
British settlement In India, married a
native woman of rank, and with his
fortune, left for England when he was
10, lo enjoy the rest of his life.
As he had no son to Inherit his
wealth, and as he remained truly
American In feeling, ho sent to Con
necticut tt a relative to come and
live with him as his principal heir.'
Dummer. one of the most active work
ers for the proposed college in New
Kngland. wrote asking for gifts and
Yale sent back t»ooks. Cotton Mather
then wrote, requesting money, and
cleverly suggesting that the new col
lege might be called "Yale College."
which, he stated, wodld be better than
the names of sons or daughters. Yale
liked the idea and sent over a portrait
of George I. and Rut Indian goods to
sell, the amount of which exceeded his
expectations—S3.0Q0 being realised for
the new college.
His tomb hears this quaint Inscrip
tion
"Born in America In Europe bred.
In Africa traveled, in Asia'wed."
Italian scientists have perfected
highly nutritious bread that is made
from partly sprouted grain.
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