Oregon City courier., August 30, 1912, Page 3, Image 3

OREGON CITY COURIER, .'FRIDAY AUGUST 30, 1912.
MATTERS IN THE
PUBLIC EYE.
AS A SOCIALIST SEES THE
POLITICAL MOVES.
Comments on the Problems now
Before the People.
'- . (John 'Stark.)
I am aware il will not add to
my personal popularity when I
say I regard the uresent adminis
tralion as a pack of traitors to the
American people. By what right
uoes secretary 01 Slate Knox
cnarter the cruizer Maryland to
attend the funeral of a dead rob
ber Jap? Is that what these fel
lows draw salaries for. to attend
lunerals?. There are a lot of
guys who got excited a short time
ago and wanted to go gunning
for the Japs. I'll bet they will
fail to ,send the Honorable (?)
Secretary to your funeral. hut
then you are such smart Amerl-
cans.
One must always look for the
joker in any reform pulled otr by
our capitalistic government. Did
ou note yhi.t short work it look
to get ilanford oil' the bench?
Well, 1 wondered at the job go
ing through so swiftly, until I
saw who succeeded him. It was
a poor corn busker, do you sup
pose? Y-e-s, Clinton W. Howard
he is attorney lor the Great Nor
thern railway company, the Stone
Webber traction interests and
other corporations, so the press
tells us. Do you think, bis asso
ciation with these corporations
will inlluence his ollicial acts?
Impossible, after he is labeled a
judge. He will be nilallible.
Oh, but I didn't explain the jok
er in an tins, seeing your serious
look, well it was this wayalan
ford was drunk so much he could
not be depended upon by the big
corporations, so a more vigorous
man was selected, and all the
racket was for the benefit of the
rubes who never get next.
1 would like to locate John
Chambers who worked on the
locks in '73-4. Have a letter from
his fellow worker, Jay Hand San
born, which would interest him, in
fact would interest anyone, as Jay
Kami is in his 80th year, but has a
happy, hopeful mind, devoted to
the interest of his fellow men "he
sees the triumph from afar, by
lauii ne Drings it nign.
An editorial in a recent issue of
the Oregonian should be read by
every man ana woman in tne
northwest. It gave a good out
line of the Rosenthal murder and
its causes.
Have just read the address of
Ueorge 11. Dunlap lie lore tne
newspaper conference on the
Public Owned Newspaper." How
many of you readers ever heard
of the public getting out a news
paper and deliver il to every
liouse in town free? Of course
you know "it never has been and
never will be. " It reminded me
of something of a like character.
How many of you are - getting a
daily paper free and printed by
your Uncle Samuel? Now how
many of you who read this know
that such an enterprise is being
((inducted by this government?
You are all well posted on poli
tics, so you think. You learned it
out of the colored supplement.
It seems a waste of effort to
write party platforms, for all I
can hear is Taft, Teddy or Wil
son. What political policies are
to advantage seem to have no
part in the discussion, only the
personal teinperment of the lead
ing candidates. That is nearly it,
in fact, for the platforms seem to
have the same general design to
promote the welfare of the capi
talists. But that is as it should
be. They finance the party, fur
nish the candidate, manage the
campaign and hold the offices.
The workers were not in evidence
in any of the three conventions.
If workers want to have a say
-they furnish the majority of the
votes anyway let them have a
workers' party, finance it, furnish
the candidates and take all the of
fices, and run the government in
their own interests. The workers
must finally pay all the taxes, do
all the useful work, and much of
the useless in fact if it is work
at all, the workers must do it.
Then why not boss the job?
If I was to tell what retards
progress toward economic free
dom most I would say vanity.
This is particularly true of farm
ers. Farmers generally flatter
themselves and are flattered by
their enemies into the idea they
are capitalists, while as a matter,
of fact, taken generally, it is on
ly a job you have bought when you
buy land. Others will say how
much your income shall be.
Many people think themselves in
dependent when they farm a
mortgaged plat of land with bor
rowed implements.
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn
that there Is at least one dreaded disease that science
has been able to cure In all l(s statres, and tliat Is
Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is the only pottltlve
euro now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional discuac, requires a constitu
tional treatment. HitU's Catarrh Cure Is taken In.
temalljr, acting directly upon tlie blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up tlie constitution snd assist
ing nature In doing lis work. The proprietors have
so much faith In Its curative powers that Uwy oflcr
One Hundred Diliira for any case that II falls to
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Tas Uhu's Fumily mis for constipation.
"I was cured of diarrhoea by
one dose of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,"
writes M. E. Gebhart, Oriole, Pa.
There is nothing better. For sale
by Huntley Bros.
Robert W. Herter, Lawrence
ville, Mo., who had been bothered
with kidney trouble for two years,
says: "I tried three different
kinds of kidney pills but with no
relief. My neighbor told me to use
Foley Kidney Pills. I took three
bottles of them, and got a per
manent cure. I recommend them
to everybody." For sale by Hunt
ley Bros.
GLAD TIDINGS.
Herman & Kayler, who had just
started up their threshing outfit,
met with quite a serious mishap
in the turning over of their sep
arator, when starting from Frank
Adams, breaking a number of
castings and causing a delay of
several days. In the meantime,
while the thresher was idle, the
neighbors began stacking their
grain in order to save it should it
rain again.
Hermans clover huller is at
work at Cordeli a and Marsh's. It
will reach E. K. Dart's place in
auoui one week.
lhe Bentlev Bros, beein ruck
ing their hops on Monday. Auu:
ust 27. Garnett and McKinlev
win negin on the same Hale. For
some reason pickers are not very
plentiful.
Albright and Mortmain becan
picking in their yards Monday.
August 19, and it will take them at
least ntteen more days to linish.
Charlie Birchett has finished
picking his yard already and he
reports a lair yieiu.
J. A. Hidings mushed threshing
Monday the 19th.
A clover huller is at John
Wooster's and will begin work the
lieorge Wooster has been cut
ting oats in field east of his res
idence. From appearances ho
will get a large yield. He has al
so some 14 or 15 acres ol clover
to thresh. ,
William McKinney and Garrett
stacked oats at S. Usher's Sunday.
Bert Lamb and others are al
ready camped near McKinney's
hop liouse, getting things ready
for a long siege of picking.
Hoy Hiddings has already
threshed out something like 400
bushels of clover seed and is not
yet done.
Skerviu's machine was thresh
ing grain on Sunday for Fred
Myers. Excuse for breaking the
Sabbath day "pressed for time"
Ida Judd sold her fine span of
young mares to a Mr. Rupe of
near Canby. Consideration $500.
BEAVER CREEK.
Beaver Creek is still all O. K.,
and everybody is just as busy as
can be. Threshing and bailing
are in full blast at this writing
and grain is turning out far bet
ter than farmers expected.Wheat
on an average goes 25 pushels to
the acre and oats 40 bushels.
Last week's fine weather made the
farmers smile, as grain is in fine
shape to thresh.
W. II. Parry has some fine oats,
averaging about 50 bushels to the
acre. Mr. Parry had a long smile
when the threshing was going on
on his farm.
M. J. Weidner has been on Ihej
sick 'list for the past week. Wei
hope to soon see him up and ar
ound again.
Billy Herman is hauling lum
ber these days for pastime.
Ouite a lew of our young loiks
are planning to go to the hop
yards soon for a little outing.
Billy Herman anu J? red unn-
landor have accepted positions in
one of the big hop yards up at In
dependence, and will leave as
soon as threshing is over.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Ksige ol
Washington, are visiting the Int
ers parents, Mr. and Mrs. j. J.
Sterner ol this place. They ex
pect to return the latter part of
this week.. There was a young
lady with them, and she likesliea-
ver Creek so well she is thinlung
of coming back there to live.
Bluhm Bros, are not ttrresning
as fast this year as last, as the
grain is tough and nara to
thresh.
O. Mink and F.Kameath started
last Friday with their steam hay
bailer. Anyone wishing to have
good work and quick work call on
O. Mink, Beaver Creek, Farmers
phone.
L. j. sterner nas stanoa to
hsul cord wood to Oregon City
for a few weeks to pass some ol
his leisure time.
Otto l.yman, our No. mail
carrier, has tho contract to paint
the parsonage of the German Con
gregational church.
11. H. sterner oi wiuamette
was in this berg last week and
finished painting his lamer s
house.
Mrs. A. Bluhm and, Mrs U.Mink
were in Canby one day last week
after a nice lot of peaches.They
say peaches are line but it is a
long road to go after them. ;
W; H. Parrv was out driving
his handsome colts of which he
feels very proud.
Pau Hothe ol Jennings i.oage
was in our town the other day on
bis wav to Hisrhland after the
county scraper to do some road
work at that place.
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There is no string to this offer.
We mean what we say nothing
more nor less if Hexall Beef,
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your general bodily health, and
satisfy you your money back.
Price, $1.00. Sold in this com
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la. THE "PROGRESSIVE" PARTY.
Is the individual, man or wom
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for back ache, rheumatism, weak
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CLACKAMAS COUNTY BOY IN
THE FLOWERY KINGDOM.
ILTH AND DEPRAVITY SIGHTS
Graphic Descriptions by Walter
l. uaiiey or Gladstone.
An impressive sight is the
mouth of the Yangsti Kiang. So
broad that from our ship in mid
stream we could barely see the
lops of trees on either shore; as
muddy and almost as swift as
the spring freshet of an Oregon
stream; and with enough float
ing debris on its surface to show
that it takes toll not only of soil
but of properly and lives as well,
the great flood- sweeps out to
color the oceon's light blue
brine and form what is in fact,
as well as name, the Yellow Sea.
A few miles up the Y'angsti we
turned to the left and steamed up
a large tributary, the Wlwang Po.
This stream being much narrow
er, we could look out over, (he
-el plains for our first glimpse
of China.The fields are larger
than in Japan and there are more
work animals, chiefly cariboo.
As we approached Shanghai we
passed lines of war vessels flying
the flags of various nations
whose interests in that troublous
laud need protection. On our
arrival opposite the city the ship
dropped anchor and I went ashore
in a queer little sauce pan. Its
stern was about half as high as
the boat was long and the pro
pelling force was a -wrinkled
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Chinese who skulled with short,
quick strokes of a long oar.
Shanghai is said to he at once
the most metropolitan and cos
mopolitan of Oriental cities. It
has ' fine paved streets, high,
modern ofTice buildings and
stores, and two splendid hotels.
I was suprised to find an Ameri
can department store fully equip
ped and quite up to date. Car
lines extend to all parts of the
city. I took a ride on the famous
Bubbling Well Road. Road is
their term for street and Bub
bling Well Road is the principal
street in the residence district.
Large, imposing homes of gray
brick looked from wide lawns
and grounds covered with a
luxuriance of palms and tropic
shrubbery Automobiles flashed
by in every direction aristocratic
gentlemen and fashionable
ladies drove along in victorias
with liveried drivers and footmen.
It is altogether the most beauti
ful residence district which I
have ever visited.
Shanghai is an international
settlement, of no nation and gov
erned by no nation. It is compos
ed of English, Americans, (ier
mans, Portugese and I don't
know how many other nationali
ties. The whole is governed by a
legislative council, to which each
nation elects its representat
ives. The arrangement seems to
be satisfactory in every way. The
French alone nave held aloof and
still govern their own concess
ion. On t lie next afternoon I was
one of a parly of four to visit
the old walled city.As we drew
near to the small black tunnel
which marked the end of a Chi-
OME SIGHTS
IN OLD G
nese street we wore beset with
native guides who offered to show
us a good time. At first we do
cided to manage the expediiion
for ourselves as we were accus
tomed to do but after one fellow
had followed us about a hundred
yardsand reduced the price of his
services to a reasonable figure
we engaged mm.
The first thing that impressed
me after entering the ancient
gale was the darkness and gloom
of the place. II was like entering
a huge cave. 1 he streets are
from seven to ten feet wide and in
many places the buildings are
high and are joined overhead.
completely shutting out the sun
light. With thousands of people
using these nine shadowy thor
oughfares the jam and crush is
nerve racking.
We had not progressed far into
this crowded line when our way
was completely blocked by an ex
cited, jabbering, jam of Chinese.
J he source ol tne trouble was
easy to discover. In the centre of
the group, silting in a ricksha,
was an elderly, relined looking
gentleman wearing a long queue.
lie had just Keen halted by a un
iformed countryman, apparently
a soldier of the Republic of China.
The Chinese around them were
pointing to the queue and ex
claiming loudly. After a few
words the soldier produced a
short pair of rusty scissors
grasped the offending badge of
the Manchus in his left hand and
began the process of severation.
hither the soldier had dulled his
instrument by a good run of
business or the long braid had
grown tough wnn age lor he
whacked and haggled for a con
siderable time while the poor ow
ner screwed up his wrinkled
mouth and rolled his slant eyes
as though he were parting an ear
instead of a queue. When the rav
en locks were completely shorn
they were politely tendered to
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their former wearer, who shoved
them in his pocket and pushed
on.
Our guide look us first to the
Mandarin Gardens, falsely so
called. The place no more resem
bles a garden than it does a for
est and there is not a tree in
sight. The only feature of it
worth noting is the hideous line
of dragons and other figures on
the walls. For the rest it is a bare
inclosure. I wondered why the
guide had been so foolish as to
take us out to such a place until
we were leaving, then I learned
that we must pay five cents each
lo get out.
We all declined to consider any
of the other attractions which the
guide offered but we wandered
through a large josshouse where
the manager burned incense in
our honor before the big idol and
then presented us with a bill for
the candles.
We watched a second follower
of the Manchus being violently
deprived of the hair of his head
and one member of our parly
created a furor of excitement, by
opening his camera and trying to
get a snap shot of the operation.
The crowd acted as though he had
leveled a shot gun instead of a
lens for they left the shearing
and came toward us en masse.
The offending camera was slip
ped under a coat and we pushed
on up the murkey passage.
The wretchedness, the degrad
ation, .the poverty, sulTering, and
human woe of those dim, be
nighted tunnels can never be
comprehended by one who has
never visited a Ctiinese city. In lis
fullness it is indescribable. Most
of the people are clothed in rags
and tatters. Beggars are as num
erous, almost, as the flies. Here
a half naked, raw, diseased, de
formed specimen grovels in the
fifth at your feet uttering heart
rending groans. A few feet far
ther a very old man, blind and
emaciated lies as though dead, yet
nouiing up ids little cup lor con
tributions. Next a . group of boys,
wearing only a ureaoh cloth and
so poor that they resemble skel
etons, kneel in your path and
stretch their bony hands toward
you. ir you should pass them
they run by you and again block
your way till pennies are forth
coming. Then all at once you are
confronted by a woman half gone
iroiii leprosy, wiin sores over ny
faco and a lower lip like an old
tomato, who comes toward von
and tries to clutch your garment.
Right in the next minute von
will, if you aiv constituted at all
like i am, do more fast dodsmie
and running than you ever did in
a game of black man duriner
school recess.
Nor is all the misery expressed
by the beggars. In the whole at
titude and appearance of the
people there is , nn abandoned
wretchedness, a hopless indiffer
ence to suffering. I think I have
a stomach as strong as the aver
age person but I must confess
that more than once in the few
hours I spent in that ancient
swarm of humanity I saw sights
which forced me to face the op-
posite wall and hurry on. They
camo to nioxin drean.s for days
after.
I felt a great deal o relief
when we again passed through
the high gray wall j:id stood
under the open sky. Behind was
the sea of tile roofs, the hum
and din which seenn J lo extend
to the limits of the ! id; while in
front were tho bean'
the foreign settlenn
a tiny drop from th
;'ti! villas of
'viiig like
intain of
That Never
Fall Down
Hoosier Drills
Positive Forced Feed
Bloom Manure
Spreaders
Double Steel Reach
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The Plow a Man Can Pull
Dick's Feed Cutters
A big line, and good
Drew Litter Carriers
A genuine labor saver
HARROWS
Disc, spring, spike-tooth
Water Systems
The Mitchell Wagon
Monarch of the Road
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W.J.
WILSON
&
CO.
Oregon City
Ore.
Western . civilization on the
stagnant pool of Oriental life.
Next morning we went out lo
the barracks to have a look at
the Republican soldiers the
hope and the reliance of the new
government. We traveled for a
couple of miles through the sub
urbs seeing some new phases of
Chinese customs. First we pass
ed a grave yard where large
mounds were neaped up to mark
the resting place of tho dead.
Then we passed a largo draining
ditch on which were tho many
small boats the size of fishing
boats on the Willamette. On each
of these skiffs, protected by a few
mats lived a family. In this part
of the city children run about in
the streets .in their birthday
clothes and gape at a foreigner as
though he were a (Irani. At the
parade grounds we learned that
we were too late for drill but we
saw a good many troops. They
were a fairly robust set of fel
lows, being Letter fed and cared
for than (lie common mass, but
they have only half learned the
lesson of personal cleanliness.
In the afternoon we heaved up
anchor and dropped down with
the tide and, by bedtime we could
look back and see the blinking
light houses which mark tho
mouth of the Yellow River.
We were pointed south for
Hong Kong, there to reship for
Manila. Hong Kong is too much
of an English city to deserve an
attempt at description from my
faltering pen anil the next offense
will be against rriy temporary
abode, the Philippine Islands.
FallGoolsl
LOOKING BACK
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS
AND COMPARING THAT TIME
WITH THE PRESENT.
A WEEK IN THE OLD HOMES,
R. A.
Eas'on Goes Back to the Old
School Days Home.
Portland. Aug. 25. 1912.
Editor Courier:
More than 34 vears aeo
I taught school in the John Kruse
district. 1 was told by one of the
directors of tho Canemah dis
trict that the John Kruse School
wanted a teacher. That fall day of
il, wnen I struck out to eet that
school, will always be a never
forgotten part of mv life. After
being ferried across the Willam
ette at Oregon City, I entered a
tunnel, the bottom of which was
mud, the sides and roof brush,
and branches of large trees, from
which came drip, drip, drip.
There were not many clearings
in fact the first that 1 remember
was Capt. Hayes'. He. gave me a
kind greeting as I enquired the
way. I stayed at Mr. Sharp's, one
ol tne directors, over night and
told mo I could have' the school
if Barstow and John Kruse were
satisfied. 1 stopped at Mr. Bar-
stow's and made known my bus
iness ana lie tola me to see John
Kruse and if he hired mo alright,
Mr. hruse una the boys were at
the barn. 1 slated my business
and showed my certificate.
The picture of the boys as they
stood about their father and made
comments on my standing; some
studies were not nattering, but
where the standing waranted,
they gave merit, is a real picture
to inc. Those boys were big,
strapping fellows, except Homer,
and he was only sewn years old.
I boarded around and made my
home at John Kruse's. That win
ter was one of undimmed pleas
ure. Tho hoys and girls, big and
little, were among the best that
a teacher ever had and for mo il
was a winter of unadulterated
fun. In every homo where I board.
ed it was home and I enjoyed
their openhanded hospitality
with keen relish. In tho John
Kruse home where I was one of
his hoys, with his sons, in doing
chores, laying up fence Saturdays
or going for the mail to Boon's
Ferry.
In all the weeks I was there I
never had a note out of tuno. Not
long since last April I went back
to see the old boys and girls and
I took the trolley at Oregon City,
lo the end of tho car line. I then
walked over the same road (part
of the way on a new road) but the
old road is new lo mo as the tun
nel is gone. Farms, cultivated
farms on either hand, Inquir
ing the way I learned that Zack
F.llison, one of my boys, lives at
Stafford, not Stafford then,. I
called to ask him if be know mo.
As I saw his family around the
supper table il seemed to mo il
was a most langiulo proof ol tho
lapse ol years.
In the morning as he pointod
out the, different places I was
simply lust. Possibly I might have
recognized the Hayes place, the
house itjw empty. The location of
tlie , Sharp place was laminar,
while the school-house had a
larger appearance and there was
a belfry and a porch too. I did not
have to think of a resting place
when I got to Loren Kruse's for
I received a hearty greeting lrom
him, his wife, and family. Surely
the old Hamilton place had not
been transformed. Loren pointed
out to me tho old land marks, or
where tho old landmarks were,
and I commenced to feel that I
had been there before.
I went to school next morning
and while I saw the children in
front of mo il, seemed as if the
seats held other hoys and girls.
In two of the boys I saw distinct
features of boys who had sat on
those seals thirty-five years ago.
At the old John Kruse placo I
knew that I was homo again,
when I received ,he greetings of
Homer and his wife, who was the
curly headed four year old of the
Wagoner children, It look me a
little while to get the landmarks
placed. A little way from tho old
liouse, tho kitchen part, with tho
big room aloft where wo boys
slept was torn down, and tho long
table was in thai kitchen. You
who have sat at that table will re
member it. There was a bench on
one side next tho wall and part of
Children Cry
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us boys sat on that bench. At that
table there was alway splonty of
room for one more and you had
to take no thought in. regard to
whether there was enough to go
around twice, if you were real
hungry for mother Kruse meas
ured with a liberal eye. I asked
for the bench it is not. The part
with the sitting room where wo
gathered in frtmt of the fire place
and read, argued, debated, ate
and apples still stands. From the
cellar underneath I had another
apple.
I started to say that a little way
from the old home Homer's new
home stands. It is a beautiful
house but the old house with
Father and Mother and tho bovs
and Annie there, is my John Kru
se place.
As I went to the barn I remem
bered tho place where Frank's
blacksmith shop stood, the horse
stable, part of the old barn had
been torn down, a big new barn
stands near. To me it is just a
barn. After an evening of music
and relating of experiences I slept
in tho new house next to tho old.
It had been a great day for mo at ,
Homer's. Their older boy reminds
me of Fritz, the little Homer is
just like his father 35 years ago.
I went with Rora up the river
to her mother's, to meet Mrs.
Wagoner again. She again did my
soul good. The years have touch
ed her lightly and her good cheer
is a fountain of youth to those
who meet her. And there was Kate
who was one of my little girls,
and Charlie's wife and their chil
dren. Whon Charlie camo in we
had a great laugh for he remem
bered some of the school incid
ents. I stayed all night at his
homo enjoying it to the full, I
drove with Loren Kruse to Will
sonville, known to mo as Boon's
Ferry. Wilson's cabin of a store
in the brush seems almost a
dream as one sees the present
day place.
I was glad I had tho opportun
ity of meeting Thos. Turner, as
ho is the only father in tho dist
rict whom I knew. I stayed at
Loren's over Sunday and it did me
good to put the days in with him.
Ho and I were bed-fellows that
winter. I had called at Mrs.
Sharp's and tho boys, and tho
same day I called on Fred and
George lillison, but the last of
my visit was with them. There
are at home now, of those who
went to school to me, are Frank,
Walter, and Lucinda. Ed's home '
was near by and in the afternoon
I spent with him, he showed me
all over tho place and it is won
derful to mo that such a place
could have been under the brush,
but it shows tho things that are
accomplished when all pull to
gether. That afternoon in his
homo and meeting his wife and
children gave my life a bigger out
look.
1 stayed all night at Mother
Sharp's and I had a delightful
time the afternoon I was there
but to sit in front of tlie fire
place in the eveining with Mrs.
Sharp and tho boys and all tho
members of tho family was a
pleasure that I will never forget.
As I talked with Mother Sharp
and she told me of her lifo's ex
perience, , I knew that my lifo
would have been richer and big
ger if I had only known how to
inino down into people's souls
and experiences thirty five years
ago. I wished that I had acquired
tlo habit of mining experiences
early.
' The boys and Lucinda,, who
was sick, remembered school in
cidents that I had forgotten and
over some we had a merry time.
In tho morning I was out with
the boys at their various jobs,
and after dinner 15d drove mo to
tako tho car. As we left tho hill
I looked out over that beautiful
country as seen from the Sharp
place and I knew that I was going
away from one of tho beautiful
spots of the earth. I had a great
week and it had been a great
thing for mo to moot somo of the
old boys and girls again.
My life is bigger for I have
seen things accomplished; richer
for fellowship and comradeship,
and blessed , for I came in touch
again with those two Mothers of
Israel in the John Kruse district.
R. A. Easton.
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