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poured them into the great kettles on the
hearth and over the brick firebox: and
they went again for more sap. It was
something like work. for all the trees
had to be visited. and some OF the sap
was to be carried quite distance. Some
places. Simon told him. they hauled the
sap in a tub. on great sleds, but the
ground was too rolling here to permit Of
1t. But the boys talked of hunting and
trapping and didn't mind the work at
all. When all the trees had been gath
cred from they ate some mince pies and
crullers. which Charley thought very good,
because the extra exertion had made him
hungry. Mr.. Moulton dipped some sap
from one OF the kettles and poured 1t
over a slice Of bread. and Charley was
surprised to find that this was very sweet
He understood now how strip was made
by boiling the sap down.
After luncheon the sap was to be gath
ereu again; and then the boys took axes.
and between them got ready a great pile
of wood.
Once again that day the sap was gath
cred and poured into tubs for future ref
erence; and then the boys. thoroughly
tired. piled down on the pallets laid on
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Z 1OU would scarcely believe that once
" I was one of the finest horses
d that ever pranced along the road
way. 1 am only a stick now, and yet I
was once beautiful horse. with flowing
name and tail, and sporting a bride.
which had silver bangles that glittered
in the sun. No doubt it seems strange
to you that plain old stick could be
thus transformed. but there can be no
question of the truth Of it.
And before I was a horse I was a
hickory bush. growing by the roadside;
and before 1 was a sprout 1 was hick-
DRY nut that had fallen from a large
tree with overhanging branches. Oh, I
have had an eventful life, even II I am
young and dead now.
1 remember as I stood by the road
side, spreading out my leaves and
branches and watching wagons that rat
tied by in the road near me, causing the
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''Of course, 1 should like to go. Please.
mamma. can't go?" asked Charley.
81 don't like to have you miss school,
Il will give Charley half of the sugar
made from tho sap he brings in said
Mr.. Moulton. 1T will do the boy good
to rough it a little
Mrs. Moulton reflected. She remem-
b@-ed how once, as a girl, she. had Wis
tied a camp and how she enjoyed it, de-
spite the cold. After awhile she said:
II have a great mind to let him CO.
"Hurrah!" shouted Charley, considering
the matter fully settled. where's my
cap and overcoat and mittens?"
Mr.. Moulton laughed. and the mother
set to work getting ready the things he
was to take. In the meantime she was
giving him Instructions and advice, not
half of which he could remember. and
telling the uncle to take good care Of him
At last they were off-Charley and his
cousins. Jacob and Simon. They had
great times that night, sitting before the
big fireplace. popping and parching corn
and cracking walnuts. For supper they
had mush and milk, a great crock of milk
resting on the table to supply the several
bowls: and they told Indian stories after
supper. The next day they fed the
horses. and tumbled in the hay in the
large NOW. and hunted hens nests. 1t
was different from the way Charley
usually spent Sunday, at Sunday school
and the Junior League. During the day
they packed kettles and pans and bedding
and various other things in the great
wagon. ready for the start to the sugar
camp the next morning. and the entire
household retired very soon after dark.
1t was early Charley couldn't sleep,
and as he lay in the attic. where the raft
ers were hung with strings of pumpkins,
sage and pennyroyal and other medicinal
herbs the aunt had prepared against a
day of need. he imagined all sorts OF un-
Canny shapes moving amid the shadowy
outlines. and was so frightened he could
hardly sleep at all
But II they went 70 bed early they got
up even earlier. 1t didn't seem to Char
ley like 1t could be much past midnight.
He could scarcely open his eyes at all.
But when he got downstairs he found the
feeding already done and breakfast al
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The Dying Of a Stick Horse

twiss and selling them as candy for
the leaves. which they called money.
They were greenbacks, just like sure
enough money. One day boy bent over
me with his knife and began cutting me
down. The knife was dull and hacked
me terribly. and you may be sure I suf-
fered. It Is not pleasant to be cut IN
two. slowly. and to live through 1t al.
But had no hands and so was power
less to defend myself.
The boy stripped off my limbs. and,
cutting off piece from my body with
which to make whistle, dropped the
rest of me in the road to die. Here I
was all cut to pieces. yet still living.
The leaves soon withered and felt them
no more. and In the course Of few
days the piece that had been skinned so
as to form q whistle dried up and ceased
to be painful: but the body OF me. In
the road. lived on and on In the dust
and nearly famished.
Before died, however; that is: before .:
passed by, and, straddling me. went
prancing down the road. He called me
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Newfoundland has no reptiles.
The Bible is printed in 500 languages
The Tibetan week has five days.
The gifts Of John D. Rockefeller to the
Chicago University now total over &0.-
OOO. 900.
Five hundred American Sunday papers
would make 5000 600 volumes of 500 pages
each.
The smallest coin in use Is coined by
the Portuguese government. 1t Is worth
s. 100 Of q cent.
Australia covers twenty-six times as
much area as the British Isles, but It's
population is less than that OF London.
A human being breatfes about twenty
times a minute.
At the present rate Of increase the
population of this country in 1919 Will
be 100, 600. 600.
Some authorities claim that a diet OF
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The Begonia Leaf.

nNE night when was all alone.
The time was late in fall
AS I sat reading. bark! l heard
A rushing in the hall.
At first ] thought that I would speak,
But then all courage ceased.
For that strange rustling in the hall
Had suddenly increased.
Those moments seemed to me as hours
AS l waited there for aid:
] could not even move or look,
] was so much afraid.
Then silence fell. / could have heard
The falling OF pin.
The front door opened suddenly
And 1 heard Tom come In.
We went together to the hall
And then searched for the thief.
But to our great disnlsy we found
Twas a begonia leaf.
-Winifred Scheenborn, aged IS
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gave him reputation. From his own boy
hood in the days of river traffic he pre-
pared the stories of TON Sawyer" and
''Huckleberry Finn and these appealed
to real boys everywhere.
To-day the fame of Mark Twain Is
worldwide. He has made more money
than any other American author. He is
reckoned as a humorist. But he Is more
than humorist. He is great because he
understood a quaint period of American
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-27
Sketch Of an American Hmorist

development and pictured it as it was.
That which passes for hun1or in him Is
merely an appreciation OF the quaintness
which has no counterpart in any other
nation or any other period Of history.
Others have strained after humor. but it
does not live Mark Twain merely caught
the humor of reality, and it will live. No
other man in America, perhaps no other
man In this age. had such opportunities
as he had to gather material first hand,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-27

ME seventy years
ago there was born
in a little Missouri
town a child who
grew to manhood
and made for him.
self a name that
was not his real
name. AS a boy he
was genuine. He
liked to play prac-
tical jokes. In his
birthplace they tell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-27

Charley sampled both. but neither
seemed to fulfill its promise. However,
buckets into the larger pals and hanging
the empty vessels back under the drip.
and Charley did likewise. Soon all the
pals were filled. and they carried them
back to the hut. where Mr.. Moulton
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At the Sugar Camp.

: RE going to the
sugar camp next
week. Want to go
along, Charley? ?" 1t
was Mr.. Moulton
speaking to his
n c p h ew, Charley
Moulton. one Sat
urday afternoon In
midwinter, as he
was preparing to
drive home after a
call at his brothers
house in town.
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lonesome and tiresome, to be lost and
useless, I confess l slept good deal,
merely to pass the time away. once
there was white coveret spread over
me, and at first 1t was cold and l
thought I was going TO die; but after
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lazy to follow that occupation, but all this
was training him for place he was des-
tined later to take in American literature
And this was not all the training that
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the floor Of the hut, and, drawing the
coverlets over their heads. passed into
the land OF dreams. Once during the
night Charley partially awakened. and
saw the fires burning brightly. while great
shadows fitted among the rafters and
over the log walls of the hut. His uncle
was stirring one of the pots. 1t took him
some time to really understand where he
was, everything was so strange; and then
he slept again.
In the morning Charley saw quite
number of molds of maple sugar on
shelf in the ROOM 1t was several days
before he understood how they were
made; then he saw his uncle pouring the
liquid. after 1t had boiled to certain
consistency, into the molds as they sat IN
the snow. In few moments the liquid
crystallized. and there were the moids OF
sugar.
Mr.. Moulton and the farm helper alter
mated in keeping the fires up at night. so
the sap might be utilized as it flowed
The first day the snow began to melt
and ere long had entirely disappeared
Then. as the weather became balmy.
Charley was thrilled with the forest
sounds-the bark Of the squirrel. the cry
Of the Jay and the call of the crow as he
circled in the blue far above. Occasion
ally they had to tap the trees in new
places to continue the flow OF the sap
1t was all a wonderful process to Charley.
Raking the dead leaves from the ground
he found tiny sprigs of green. the prom
Il
into the trees he saw buds on every spriS
and bees swarming about them. The bees
also were working at the sap OF the
trees.
"Why do the bees Gomez" asked Char
ley.
"Why, don't you know asked Simon,
with an air Of superior wisdom. They
make honey from the sap just as we make
sugar from it. :.
'.Why don't we make honey out Of 1T
l,o
This time Simon was puzzled. He pre-
tended to be- too absorbed to hear.
'well, why do the bees swarm In the
tops Of the trees? The sap isn't flowing
there, is it?''
This time Simon heard NO he an
swered ''but the trees are coming into
bloom there. They always begin to bloom
at the top and the end leaves first
don't know why. because, OF course the
blood can't come till the sap flows. and
so that it has to pass through the tree
trunk to reach the branches"
IT don't see any flowers objected
Charley.
mo, naples have no flower leaves. But
they are in bloom. all right. This means
that the sap will soon cease to now ana
the sugar season will be over.
Sure enough it was so. BY Saturday
noon the small drippings had been gath
cred and boiled down, and the spikes re-
moved from the trees. Then the utensils
were collected, the sugar and strip loaded
into the wagon. and the hut was aoan-
doned for another year. Charley would
have liked to stay another Sunday with
his cousin, but his aunt, knowing moth
er's heart thought he had better return
home.
And he did, bearing with him stores OF
sir1In and sugar, and still sweeter MEM
cries that will remain with him while HE
lasts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-27
Letter Enigma.

Ny FIRST is In simple. but not in fool;
My second is in pupil. but not in rule
My third is in bright. but not In sun:
Ny fourth Is in river, but not in run;
NV fifth Is I'm neat but not in tidy,
Ny sixth Is In good but not In Friday:
My whole spells time TO all children dear,
And they hail IL most gladly when II come
every wear
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CurtaiIinqS.

~ Triply curtail the horn of an animal snd
leave q small insect. t9 Doubly curtal TO bawl
and leave a hollow instrument that rings. CD
Douby eurtail horn used by hunters and leave
an insect.
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Irish Wit.

A gentleman, seeing Patrick digging in
the ground. stopped to inquire: What
are you digging out that hole for, Pat?"
Sure" replied Pat, with grin, I'm
diggin' out the dirt an LAWN the hole to
look after itself, soir."
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Puzzle Answers.
enigma-Be good

Letter enigma-Be good
Hidden poet-Dryden.
Beheadipgs-1l Braid. raid. t2> Service, vice.
81 March arch.
Curtaings-tD Sunday, sun. 90 Chapter,
chap. 30 Father fat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-27
Hidden Pet Puzzle.

BY taking the initial letter OF a syllable
word from each of the following sentences and
writing them together in the order In which they
come the name of little pet Will be spelled:
Strive 10 be good rather than to be rich.
TO 10 the ant for lessons in industry.
The world looks happy through q bright smile.
The fourth letter is the same as the third
The ire of foolish man cannot be condoned.
Always turn aside from evil.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-27
7 TITLE White and Blue

T TITLE White and Blue
l. And Little Rosy Red
Wandered on into
A posy bed.
There they stood and smiled,
Nodding left and right
At Wonder Eyes, the child
Red and Blue and White.
The Way He Cleared the Court.
An English gentleman relates this little
incident: I'm Cork 1 remember a super
a sick man. trying TO clear the court In
guards that isn't lawyers lave the court
at once, or by the powers III make ye.' "a"
In Great Britain there are nearly
9, ZOO. 600 trades unionists.
Through the gift of Sir Ernest Cassel
a Royal British Radium Institute is to
be established to investigate especially
the therapeutic action of radium. In
this connection it Is reported that a syn
dictate has been formed in connection
with the institute to extract radium from
the pitchblende deposits Of an old copper
mine recently reopened at st. Ives, Corn
wall. This is said to be the only. place
where radium can be produced outside Of
Austria.
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and. in the distance I saw a haze and
countless chimneys and spires and sky
scrapers, towering up like goods poxes
on the sidewalk.
NOW" said the boy, I'VE are almost
to the sea-" And could behold
stretch Of green. with birds careening
over the waves and sails and smoke in
the distance.
Then we raced with train, and &C
tually beat 1t; and at last, wearled with
our travels, he hitched me to fence TO
feed. and under my parent tree he went
to sleep.
Now, this was life! Oh. the many
places We visited together. Oh, the many
transformations I made. from a horse
to sword and from a sword to scep-
ter and from a scepter to train and
from a train to another boy. Not every
thing that begins with an acorn and
then dies, in part. turns into as many
things as I did. Sometimes l could hear
the squeak of a hickory whistle another
little boy carried and knew Il was part
of me; but 1t did not seem like 1t was,
and this was the most wonderful thing
Of all.
After a. long time the little boy lost
me in the grass. and I lay there the
longest time. nothing but stick, get
ting drier all the time. My, but it is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-27

The new electric railroad mileage built
in 1908 in. the United States, Canada
and Mexico was 1883 miles. computed
as single-track road. New York state
takes the lead in mileage with 1874 miles.
closely followed by Ohio with Ill miles.
Pennsylvania is accredited with IA miles,
Texas with 81 and Illinois with "a. while
Wisconsin. Colorado and Indiana come
close together, having 73, IS and 66 miles,
respectively.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-27
Beheadings.

~ Behead that which signifies emptiness and
leave the gait Of horse % Triply behead the
stem of a certain species of palm and leave tina
which boys wear their faces in summer time.
49, Behead number of sea vessels aPd leave =
grain.
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dust to rise and cover my leaves,how
7 longed then to travel. But | couldn't
because was rooted fast In the earth.
Yet 1 got to travel. ,s,
The boys. going to school, used 10 pass
and break off my leaves pee'hs '"o
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together with the training which enabled
him to utilize the material. Therefore he
is the greatest humorist Of this age. and
will in all probability remain the greatest
Of ali ages since Cervantes. The reason
he is such lies in his boyhood-his oppor-
tunities and his use of the chance:
In this day there may not be the ro-
nance Of pioneering. to attractL no
''Roughing IT, or Life on the Missis-
sippi" no "Gilded Age" or River Tales
demanding voice. but nevertheless there
are strange things happening now that
some boy or some girl shall see and tran
lion of the future, when "even this has
passed away" Which Of you is in prepa-
ration for this work OF recording what
nature and man both want saved!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-27
ConundrunnS.

When acc oysters like fretful wives! Ans
" hen in Il stew.
why is an orange like a church steeple? Ans
Because We get n peel from it.
What flowers are always under persons nose!
Ans.-Tulips 1.-TWO lipsl.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-18
kEokUk BABE HAS MIRACULOUS
ESCAPE FROM SERIOUS IN
JURY OR DEATH.
NOT MUCH
INJURED BY 4o.Foor DROP
on Board Sidewalk After
TumbIins From Third STORY Window
at Parents Home, 1s.Months- Old
Boy Suffers Little From Effects
Other Iowa News.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
KeokulS, May 1S.-Stephen, the nine
teen months old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hullinger, of 327 South Fourth street,
miraculously escaped death in fall
from the third story of the Hullinger
dwelling and is alive.
The little baby boy crawled to the
low window sill Of a bed room on the
third story shortly after o'clock while
the mother and father were down stairs
and tumbled to the board sidewalk be-
low, distance of between thirty and
forty feet
The mother heard the fall and says
that she knew Immediately what had
happened. She ran quickly outside and
picked the little boy from the heap on
the sidewalk and carried him into the
house crying, but seemingly very much
alive.
A physician was called as quickly rs
possible for the parents We're fearful
lest the child had been seriously hurt.
but upon a careful examination it was
found that no bones were broken. The
parents stated this afternoon that an
A-ray examination would be made for
the child seemed to be in pain and may
be suffering from internal injuries.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-18
GEORGE LITTLE IN CUSTODY AT
FORT DODGE ACCUSED OF
CRIME.
SUPPOSED TO BE ONE
OF BADGER BANK CROOKS
Has Been Long Sought and is Finally
Captured at Sioux City - Believed
That He Will be Identified by citi.
zens of Town Where Robbery Was
Committed.
special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Fort Dodge, May 1S-Sherif Lund
has returned from Sioux City having
in custody George Little, suspected of
being one of the men who robbed the
bank at Badger, in this county, sew
eral months ago.
Little, who is under several aliases
among them being iowa Swarthy,"
is man about forty years Of age, and
had but landed in Sioux City when
his presence was tipped of to the
detective who has been working on
When taken in charge Sunday after
noon by Sheriff Lund he took mat
tiers very cool, and inquired as to
the distance to Fort Dodge and the
size of the city, asserting he had been
over the state great deal but had
never visited this city. He also made
many inquiries regarding Badger and
been committed.
On the way here from Sioux City
the man proved to be a model pris-
oner, sitting calmly by the side Of
the sheriff and smoking during the
greater part of the trip, altho for a
time he pretended to be sleeping.
Since coming here, IT is claimed, he
has been identified as man who has
been seen in Fort Dodge in the past
and the officers have strong hopes
they may be able to connect him with
the recent robbery of the bank at
Badger. With this aim in view he was
photographed Sunday afternoon be-
fore leaving Sioux City and copy Of
the picture was this morning sent to
Badger for the inspection of the cit
liens there. 1t will also be shown to
local parties who saw the four tramps
camped near the Great Western round
house a few days before the robbery
and who disappeared on the night
of the crime.
Following the robbery at Badger
two detectives worked in Fort Dodge
for several days looking up evidence
and searching for possible clew, one
of the men being outspoken and telling
| nearly everyone he came in contact
with that he was working on the case,
while the other remained in the back
ground and his presence in the city
was known to but few people. I'd
the latter man is due the credit OF
the capture Of Little, he having dis
covered clews while here which LED
him to suspicion the man. Knowing
This haunts at Sioux City and Omaha
he visited the same, but was not sue
cessful in locating his man until the
latter part of the week, when he re-
ceived a tip to the effect he had re-
turned to Sioux City His immediate
arrest followed on warrant charg-
ing him with being one of the men inn
plicated in the Badger bank robbery.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-18

The former Is a son OF John Whan-
mel. He is not In good health and he
and his wife will leave for Colorado
next week expecting to locate in Dem
yer.
Thomas Wilson, of Donegal, Ireland,
was in Traer yesterday. He is a cous-
ms OF Henry McElhinney. and will
work for him on his farm north OF
town.
Grant p. Reynolds left Monday for
Chicago on business.
William Stevenson objects to tho
assessment of $4,000 in moneys and
credits made against him by the city
of review refused to cut the assess
ried into the district court, at tho next
term.
Mr.. and Mrs. N r. Gordon. OF Min
neapolis. have been visiting the form
ers mother, Mrs. Maggie Gordon, this
week.
For the first time since last fall,
Traer is now practically free from dis
ease. According to physicians reports,
there has not been so much sickness In
years. as there was during the past
winter.
Jurgen Cohrt, of this city. Is in Tama
acting as one of tho three appraisers
to apprase the estate of Fanny Hud
son for collateral Inheritance pur-
poses.
The Tama County Normal Institute
will convene for a six days session. on
June 4. All teachers that expect to
teach in the county the coming year.
will be exepcted to enroll in the insti-
tute.