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"Outlived Friends" He Ends Life
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Dy THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, University of
Illinois.
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A group 'f fdiicnted men In New
Turk clly coiiKrexdiiien, enntor,
liewimnper reort-
ers, iiit.llc (.lllcliili
T"? of dlMlnctloii
i beld a pelllnKcon-
llin ti'nrit hi'lll?
'fti . i given out by a
W;.c-.fl ttcnion who
Ioiiim nieuins oimpr
nui li m wo were
familiar with nlxty
yenr tiito in tho
(IlKtrll't M'hooll of
(bp country. It
didn't takn Ions to
floor th whole lot, nnd they went
down like a row of untrained
d!er fm lni; tho tire of imii'hliie jrunn.
The klmi'lo truth U we flon't know
bow to iell. If 0 . tiiNIelleI word
rre'i Into our rorrinjioii'li'iiee, wo
blnnn the error upon our (teiiocra
duT. It Is ruther Interedtlng to nee what
common Mordu lh..rel the uliitewmeii
"iMilntili. mid "mortlne." and "trnn
(liillllty" nnd 'Initial." Word which
one Bhould rxpivt every Intelllnent
iHThdii to he uhle to nininiue were
too much fir thcin.
In my ou experience there ore a
dozen dimple word In common ue
vhli h more than half the blch acboul
graduate who coum to college ore
likely to Mumble on. "Swphotnorv"
nnd "labonitory" and "athlete" nnd
truly" and "rwelve" nnd "enJmr
raiinent" nnd "Judginent" nre quite
commonly too much f"r the young
it uden L "Accominodiite" nul "trnim
Xi'rred" nre more often mlispelled
than apelled correctly. Kven In rail
way atatlona I aoo 'Pullnian Accom-
WINS GOLF TOURNEY
Tommy S. Taller who won the three
day Invitation golf tourney at tho
Newport Country club at Newport by
defeating C rll .Tolley, former Ilrltlsh
i amateur champion, Ui the Until mutch.
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odatlona" dono In big gold letter.
It tecum now to be no dlngrnco not
to know bow to apelL
"(Hi, I can't ajtell," a Imnltby, Intelli
gent sopboinoro aayi to mo, and that
with til in neemi to end It. He ndmlta
tho fin t and fin li no obllutlon np
pnrently to atretigthen hi ortho
graphic weiikiicmip. I bnd a brief
nolo lint week from a hli;h achool
boy who rmmnged In a Kbort iage to
mlMpell eeven word. Pretty good, I
thought, coiiNlderh.g tlio opportunity
whlrh be bml.
In the old dnjs there were two or
three thing whlrh wo did learn In
nrhool quit k arithmetical culculatlon,
the grainmiitlciil construction of aen
tencea, und apelllng. Not to be able
to work all the problem! In lUy'a
Third Part Arithmetic waa a dlngrnco.
If one could not dliigrnm, analyze and
pnrne the word In any sentence
which came along he waa anntheina,
uud tiK-lllnK was the chief Indoor
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Shows Evolution of American Home
Concord, Ma-s An unusmil iiiuseuin
among Institutions housing the nation's
historic treasures has been established
In this picturesque community whose
name figure so prominently In the
chronicles of the eutly American
progress.
It Is a large red bib k building set
on an attractively landscnped plot di
agonally across the street from the old
homestead of the famed poet, Hulph
Wuhto Kmersoii. Gifts made lust year
In memory of Mr, and Mrs. Edwin
Shcpard Hnrrett of this town enabled
the Concord Antiquarian society to
create the novel repository.
Though offering to public, view for
tho first time a host of relics reculllng
revolutionary days, the museum was
nt erected primarily f,,r the exhibi
tion of such objects. It principal pur
pose Is to depict :he evolution of the
American home during the approxi
mately two centuries from 1050 to
IS lit.
The singular beauty of, the struc
ture, known as the ConcuM Antlquar
I ji hou-e, protxihly lies In tho fact
that It actually was built around the
rooms that It contains. Typical rooms
In Concord homesteads known to date
back to a ccCaln period were trans
ferred Intact to the new building and
Installed In their original mate.
Antiques, virtually ull of them gath
ered from Concord homes nud ninny
of tbei priceless, have been used In
furnishing tho house, being divided
among the rooms of tho periods which
they represent. A Seventeenth-century
chest In the oldest room would easily
bring f 15.000 to fJO.OOO If put on the
Rejuvenation Cause of
New Vork. Speaking Qf opvratloua,
have you beard what science did for,
or t, George Frederick WIlliimsT
For V0 years Williams bad been a
messenger. For 30 years lie bud eurncd
about $:S0 a week. Ha lived soberly,
staidly, brought up a son and (laugh
ter und spent all his evenings In the
bosom of bis finally.
Then Williams fell 111. He wus op
erated upon lust January. Then things
Smart Youth
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Dunvlllo, Vn. Frank W. Ia v!m, re
cluse, whoso twenty-eight day hunger
atrlke fulled nil a. means of suicide,'
won IiIm fight for death with a gun
In IiIm lonely shack near Mountain
lilll. Mo wu burled on a neighbor's
farm.
HI body was found by neighbors,
and tlio Kiin, with a cord nttnched
to tho trigger, lay nearby. He bnd
Shot himself In tllO cllfst,
ANMertliig lie bud outlived thong ho,
lovi, Unit lie bud no friends, that
bo wus too old to bo useful, tho fann
er started till hunger strike May 2,
determined to end hi llfo by stnrva
tloli. Twenty-eight days later, authorities
took lit in to a hospital and threatened
to commit blin to on Insiirie asylum,
I a v J abandoned bit starvation nt-
When a man bo-
gins to tihoot off bin
mouth at a soda!
function, hli wife
proceeds to look
daggers ut hi m. .So he'll soon Hop.
sport We drove miles on winter eve
nings to deiuonxtrate our ability In
apelllng contents. I was the pride of
the community once when I was fif
teen, fr I filtered a spelling mntch
fit the JUirrlll schnolhouim a doxen
miles from borne and spelled down
seven school teachers. It would not
be so much of a tank todny, I sunset,
nor so much of on honor.
It still gives me a shock to get a
letter from a man of standing nnd to
find In It misspelled words. It sug
genu cureleiiNiiest, Inaccuracy, Inex
cusable Ignorance. I bad always
thought well of C'urson. He Is a grad
uate of one of the Brent educational
Institutions of the country, end be
go- Into good society. I bad a letter
from hi in lust week In which In tbrco
dlstluct places bo speaks of the "alum
nne" of on organization to which be
belongs. Curson docsu't know bow to
spell.
. 1810, Wiilirn Ntwippr Union.
market according to antique connois
seurs. Possibly the outstanding feature of
the Anllquurlun bouse is the Liner-
HEADS DEVIL DOGS
, Portrult photograph of Prig. Gen. D.
II. Fuller, who has been appointed by
President Hoover as commandant of
the I'nlted States marine corps, suc
ceeding the late Gen. Wendell C. Ne
ville. His appointment was recom
mended by Secretary of the Navy
Adams,
begun to hnppcu to tho staid old mes
senger. Williams slopped out to And out
what It was all about. With him he
took tho ?2,200 pay roll of the Sterling
Watch company, for whom he bad
worked five years.
He went to Norfolk. A pretty blond
barber shop manicurist also felt the
urge. They went to Washington, D.
C, to Grcensborough, S. C, to Chicago.
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EXCUSE MESIZ,
BUT I AM
SO MOA KAV
SPANK ME
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tempt, (mid T' bad a "new outlook
on tilings" and was permitted to re
turn honn Ho bad been beard to
sny ho believed shooting himself would
be morally wrong and "messy," and
tho gun never bud been taken from
the house.
He bequeathed bis ton-acre tobacco
Youthful Stock
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The youngest stock farm owner In the West, Itichurd Melvln Milton,
eight, of Oakland, Calif., on one of bis eleven pure blood ponies, Carlo, son of
Monte Carlo, Erst prize Shetland puny at the Punama-Paclfic exposition In 1913.
son room. AH during the years that
this room was a part of the poet's
old homestead the public was bnrwl
from it. Now It has been transferred
Intact to the new museum, where visi
tor will bo permitted to Inspect It,
from a glassed-in vestibule. ;
Emerson's study Is exactly the sumo
ui It wus In those long-ago days when
be sat In the" curved-back rocking
chnlr at the round tuhle In the middle
of the floor nnd penned bis famous
verse and essays. The books on the
many shelves that cover the further
wall are ut as lie left them. His
favorite pictures decorate the walls
und here and there about the room
are little ornaments typical of the
early Eighteenth century. Emerson's
original portfolio lies on the center
table at which be worked.
Upstairs Is a tiny room dedicated
to the memory of Henry Thoreau, es
sayist, philosopher and naturalist Tlw
crude cot on which he slept during his
bnck-to-nnture experiment at Lake
Walden Is there. On one wall hang
tho deer sklus that the Indians gave
him. The room also contains many of
his other belongings. Including some
of the pnniphcrnullu that he used us
a surveyor.
Purely historical relics which have
been assembled at the museum Include
one of the two lanterns hung In the
belfry of Bofton'a Old North church
to warn Paul Itevere that the I'.rltlsh
wero coming by sea; part of one of
the original timbers of the old Con
cord bridge, and a mirror which was
broken by a bullet fired during the
buttla at the bridge.
Downfall
"That operation did It all. It
changed my attitude townrd life. I
wanted to get out and raise h 1. Itut
It didn't lust. The mud feeling begun
to wear off." Thnt Is the explanation
offered by Williams.
Williams returned, got forgiveness
from bis wife, went to Petrolt ami
surrendered. In general sessions court,.
Judgo I'onncllan sentenced him to
from one to two years In prison.
V THERE FftST. .
9 H&LL SPAJ4K MS
form and bis fund to Hazel Beny,
young Krundduiighter of Mrs. Joseph
ine Miller, on whoae furiu ho was burled.
Commercial fishermen took approxi
mately 15,000,010 pounds of prawn
from Georgia waters last yeur.
Farm Owner
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Ruins of Doric Temple
Unearthed in Himera
Palermo, Ituly. The remains of a
fine Doric temple have been brought
to light at Himera, near Termini
Imerese. Archeologists declare tho
temple was built by Greeks or by Greek
colonists shortly after the year 4ri0
It. C, after the victory cf the Siclllana
against the Carthaginians. In Ita orig
inal form the Himera temple probably
was a fine txamplo of Doric architec
ture, for even Its ruins are noble and
Inspiring. The temple bad a brief life,
being destroyed. It Is thought, by tho
Curthnglnlans only 70 years after tta
completion.
It Is supported on a rectangular
basement about seven feet high, on
which the columns rest. About half of
the columns remain, the others having
been razed by the Carthaginians.
FOR THE MATRON .
C.I s
An early fall ensemble In chiffon
crepe, coin-dotted In white on navy
blue, for the mature figure. Drawn-
work detail elaborates tke white
vestce. J
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By Charles Suhfbe
JpCAUSE POPWLL $OOU
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SOME MAKE A THOUSAND
A motorist, calling on an Aberdo
nlnn friend who bad bought his first
car, was surprised to find him empty
ing the contents of an oil can Into bhj
petrol tank.
What on earth arc you dolngr tha
visitor asked.
Why," replied the other, "d'yo ken
this cor will run only SO miles on a
gallon of petrol, while shell do about
700 on a gallon of oil T' Evening Post
(Wellington, N, Z.).
EEST FOR THE ARMY
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"The irmy should take only mar
rled men."
"Wbyr
"Because they're trained to tak
ordera, of course,"
Beneficent lafluanc
Basball Into dsbata Is Itot
To (ring a peaceful charm.
It meeta lbs need for argument
And doca no real barm.
Girl Hiker. Advico
He was a sllck-halred sheik and h
was superbly conscious or an oia
manifold physical attractions aa ha
drew-bis car op beside a solitary girl
hiker on a lonely road.
How about a ride, glrller ha
smirked.
"Are you iolng east?" she asked.
"Yes," he replied, preening himself.
"Look out for the ocean."Selecte4
Lofty AaausoptioBs
"What are you going to do with
your boy Josh 7"
"I'm going to make an aviator of
nlm," answered Farmer CorntosseL
'Can be qualify V
"I think so. He has been so busy
thlnkln' he's far and away above tha
rest of us. I'm goin' to see to It iia
gets a chance to make good."
Bleteinfi of Poverty
Kind Lady My poor man.
how
con-
did you ever come to such a
dltiou?
Weary Kill Ma'am, I'm a victim ol
ovei education. When I was a kid I
read so much about the blessln's ol
poverty that I Jes natchally couldn't
work, The Pathfinder.
DOUGH CAME EASY
3 XT
"Why do all these big bakers get
rich?" 4
"Making dough, comes easy to them
InoWtabU PunUhmaut
We saw the bold detectives thrive
On clues that forth were hurried;
And ir tha miscreant la alive.
We know they're got him worried,
Ho Reckoned Wrong
Clerk 1 am reckoning on getting a
rise this summer.
Employer You hnve reckoned
wrongly, and a bookkeeper who reck
ons wrongly Is no use to me you
are sacked.
Health Hint
Old Hen Let me give you a pleca
of good advice.
Young lleii-Whnt Is It?
Old Hen An egg a day keeps tha
ax away. Capper's Weekly.
No Confidence in Signs
Customer-1 huve spoilt my
suit
with your fresh paint.
Provision Denier Rut didn't
yorj
see the notice: "Fresh paint"
Customer Yes, but I didn't take
much notice. You hne a notice,
"Fresh eggs," but they are not fresh.
Lunch Countera Everywhere
Blinks Wheie'll we eut today?
Jinks Oh, we cun drop Into any
place along hero, except the hardware,
stores.