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i've Flved from from PUBLIC Fairgrounds where
tho effort Of training children is not
confined to few boys anI girls, but 10
all ehildren-wherr childgon NAV find
a refuge from the streets and bo taught
the principles of character building.
il is the hope of the Salt Lake Parks
aud Playground association 10 esta ablish
III the near future at least one play
ground and to equip IL with many of
the attractions dear to the child heart
Such a playground should have place
for. baseball, handball, basketball
swings and teeters, besides sand piles
sand boxes, a wading pool, gardens and
many other attractions which will maiu,
tain and hold the children.
But all this is impossible without co,
operation on the part Of tho public at
large. Join the association. Help a
good thing along, Tho membership fee
is only dollar, Who worldn Il plvc a
dollar to gladden. tho heart Of a child
and help him to train his mind aud
muscle IN the right direction and ut the
same time preserve and beautify some
of the unsightly portions OF our splen.
did city. Is there anything tha4 would
contribute more 10 the strength anil
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district admire him and like him This.
however. is not mainly on account of his
good looks, but because of his lofty
ideals. He has an exalted idea of wo-
man and Der place in the world-no non
sense about ii. but real sentiment. His
speech III the house on the I" Motherhood
of Our Country, which was a protest
against the forcible dragging Of Mrs
Minor Morris out of the White IIouap
brought him thousands of approving let
tcrs from all over the United States II
is remembered, rs part Of his record.
tina! when his father died. although
hardly more than boy, lie educated his
sisters and took care of his mother. That
Is the kind of man they like down in
TcXarkana. and hns it is that Shop
pard, when he seeks recollection TO con.
crpss. has no opposition. and is never
likely TO have any as long as he chooses
to hold his present job.
Handsome Senator.
Most senators arc too old to be boasi-
tiful. ia that digniiied body BoieS Pen
rose easily holds the reputation Of iEe
daudsoweSt man. Hugo of stature, he
wears Z uustachc aud no beard. He is
Il bachelor. In the upper house there is
no more remarkable sigure He holds
the stale of PcnusyNauia, politically
speaking. i'm the hollow of his hand,
having taken over thc mana cement of
the g machine from Matt Quay on the
l'afb of the latter. 4 story is told
about him to the effect that. when asked
why ne did not take a wife, he replied
that perhaps il might be u good idea.
aud that ne would refer the matter to
the orrauization
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mat their cries should not reach the
outside air, as the careful sealing of
the1r dungeons shows They seem 10
have been doomed to die together-per.
ihaps by jealous husband or ieaious
lover, who knows? Out of the lives OF
5neif ,il loved ones they once mysterious
y, disappeared and perhaps their van
lshing was chronicled at the time.
a similarly nncanny discovery, made
In Newark, n. j.. only a month before,
was that Of the eharrcd skeleton of q
woman, III the long closed attic of an
abandoned insane asylum. This woman.
who had evidently been burned while
trying to cseape-pcrhap forty years
ago--was missed and grieved for Inv
some one rear and dear to her, and Mt
the time she was doubtless hcrsldcd in
the public prints as having mysterious
y vanished.
Men Of Mystery.
y Imam Of mysterv' died last year
In the Owen county poor farm al Speu-
Ger, Ind About ten wears before he
had become stranded in the vicinity. He
was mau of culture and to tho poor
house authorities he related his travels
and conbded that he had been Nborn in
New York and been graduated at the
Ohio Wesleyan university "Scnd nv
body to a medical college, was the
oul.- Will anu teSldinclt VI LDl5 Ul1Ht
who had long ago been missed and
grieved after by some poor Suffering
soul who loved him.
And lately there appeared ia San
Diego, Cal, an artist and musician
who could remember only that ne had
lost his sweetheart and six close rola-
tives by death; that the sorrow had
wrecked his health and that he had
been taken to sanitarium, where his
hair turned white, though he was but
thirty five, He was known as cal
fred Lawrence" but his real naluo he
could remember no better than that Of
his home town, or even his. home state
He, too, has mysteriously disappeared
from somewhere.
And how strangely are some Of these
lost ones found In October. 1899,
brilliant meteorologist aud former chief
of the United States weather bureau,
kissed his wife and child good bye
at their home in Mount Vernon and
said that he was going TO New York.
For ten years thereafter Mrs. Harring-
tom vaiply searched for her dis
tinguished husband, only TO find him
Doe No So in an asylum at Norris
Plains, where he was being treated for
loss of memory.
Years ago the son OF Robert H.
Burnham, wealthy ranchman of Rano,
New, went to New York pIentifully
supplied with money with which Ia
seek his fortune in Wall street. For a
time he led a gay life. then he lost his
all, and TO keep from starving found
a Job as waiter. Shame now inter
rupted his letters home and he became
lost to his mother Then his father
died, leaving a fortune. Of which he
WAS ignorant. But last summer that
good lady, while in New York, went
for afternoon tea to the Hotel Astor.
and through n strange fling OF fortune
her son was assigned to her table. OF
course he was forgiven at once and
his fortune was restored TO him. Yes
had this chance meeting not occurred
he would still belong TO that vast
throng-the mysteriously disap-
peared -
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both the pirate and shipwreck
hypothesis would seem to be elimi-
mated, as pirates would not leave such
valuable loot as silks, while storm
would not DESTROY the passengers and
leave the boat intact.
Grim Testimony Of Three Skeletons.
Upon what has befallen some disap-
pearing personages-though probably
none of those mentioned above-several
grewsome discoveries of recent times
have thrown their light The other
day. in Richmond, Va, workmeu de-
molishing an old building in once
fashionable section of the city came up
on scaled dungeon, ten feet below
the street level. Breaking through a
brlckcd-over trap door, they entered this
prison, finding TWO connecting chambers
each containing Il skeleton, one that of
a man. crouchiug in corner, and the
other that of q young woman, lying at
full length.
The adjacent houses dated back to
the fortIes and had been used success
slyely as a fashionable dwelling, hotel
club. hospital and tenement. but 10
which one of these periods the skelc.
tons belonged no one can as vet de.
termlne, That they were alive when
imprisoned is evidenced by the discoy-
cry of cooking utensils found with their
bones. But their Imprisouer took care
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be never was assigned to duty as a
white housc aidc) Is himself the
nephew of a former preSideUt-Gamcs
L, Mckinley of the Eleventh cavalry.
lbs likeness to his lameuted uncle is
very striking. In 1898, when the war
with Spain broke ont. Young Mckinley
enlisted in the Eighth Ohio cnvalry.
He earned the shoulder straps OF a
second lieutenant i'm the following year,
and was made q first lieutenant in 1901.
He IS now a captain.
AS an evidence that stature is an
important help 10 q man in political
hfc, II is open to auybodv'S obscrya.
ton that members of congress average
fully an inch and half over the
ordinary height. But in this career
beauty does not appear 10 lend much
assistance, Judging from the circum-
stance thai very few really handsome
mon are to bc found in the national
legislature.
Beauty From Texas.
The handsomest man in the house of
representatives, beyond question, is
Morris Sheppard. who halls from TcXar.
kama, Texas. AZ thirty-four wears Of
age, he already has tho reputation of be
ing one of the most brilliant takers
in that great Legislative assembly. the
Of which hp is able TO hold as
few others can. People speak of him ms
n ''word carpenter. but with admira-
ton, on account of the beauty Of his
sentences. Very popular everywhere. he
holds his seal with unique aud peculiar
grip, largely because thC women of his
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wcll-to do resident Of Germantown.
PhIladelphia. Charley, then four, and
Walter, his six-ycar,old brother, dis
home July ], 1874 After their pa
rents had spread the alarm Walter
was returned the samo night by a
man who had found him crying on
street corner III Kensington. Walter
told his parents that several days be-
fore two strange men had given candy
to Charley and him. These men had
returned to the neighborbood July /, in
a wagon, and when the children asked
them If they had any firecrackers for
tho coming Fourth they had invited
the youngsters to jump in and drive
to fireworks store. In Kensington
Walter was given quarter TO 90 into
a store and buy the tirecrackers, but
when he emerged from the shop he
found that the wagon had gone with
Charley and the two strangers in it.
Charley has never returned to this
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that he had been reared by family in
Shamokn. Pa, and that his so.callcd
parents had refused to make denial
when he accused theE; OF conccaling
him from his real parents.
The next great disappearance mystery
prior to that of Charley Ross was the
Tichborne case Sir Edward Tichborne,
with an income of 100000, had as heir
h1s nephew, James, with two sons, Roger
and Alfred. Roger. who was born in
1929, fell in love with his cousin Kate,
Sir Edward s daughter, and the old
knight gave Roger two years in which
to reform before giving him an answer.
So Roger, who was Il dissipated young
army officer Of twenty-three. put ont
for South America, where he wandered
for year or so in an unhappy frame
of mind. Then in the early hfties Sir
Edward died leaving his buronetcy and
vast fortune TO Rogers father, James
Tichborne, and Roger. as the elder son,
now became direct heir to both. Learn
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Gentle Art of Disappearing

Tacoma. In June, 1907, he was ''posi-
lively SEEM in London. while last sum
mer his mystery was solved by a
Chicago newspaper which devoted the
entire front page to tho story of ma,
chinst working in shop at Plainevillc,
Ohio, who .Fconfessed that he was the
lost grand duke and that he had come
to America after his beloved Ludmilla
had been killed by the eruption of Mount
Pelee. Wherever Johann Salvador may
bo, his cousin, Franz Joseph of Austria,
believes him to be still alive, He lately
issued an edict that the large estate
which awaits the runaway in Austria
be held intact until 1917.
Two Vanished Naval Officers.
The mysterious disappearance OF two
of our naval officers troubled the public
for three years prior to the vanishing Of
the archduke. February II, 1887, Lieu
tenant Edward w. Remey, brother of
former Judge Advocate General Will
liam B. Remey and of Rear Admiral
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George C. Remey, walked down the
gang plank of the steamship Roanoke
TO be swallowed into the maZes of New
York City, and never heard of more.
Had he been a man of irregular habits
there might have been some suspicion
as to the cause of his disappearance.
but he was sober, highly esteemed
and popular officer. with an irreproach-
able record. Detectives the world over
have searched for him without avail,
Our other vanishing naval officer was
eX-Passed Assistant Engineer Richard
II. Buel, son of Rev. Samuel Buel, then
dean of the General Theological sem
mary in New York The younger Buel
had served in the Civil war with dis
tinction, and was a well-kpown figure
in both naval and engineering circles.
December 20, 1889, he started from
New York for Boston. but has never
been heard of since, in spite Of dill.
gent efforts which his family and
friends huvc made TO locate him. Like
Remey, be was man whose personal
habits would preclude the usual
theories which spring up in such cases
Charley Ross Still Sought.
What has remained our most per.
picking disappearance mystery directly
preceded these cases III was the van
ishing of Charley Ross. Youngest of
the five children of Christian X. Ross,
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all on board had made
them ''walk the plank. - But that
Mrs. Aston shared this fate was con
sIdered doubtful by many, who took
into account her wealth and her
ability to pay heavy ransom TO
pirates. Some. who believed that she
was held captive because of her re-
nowned beauty. maintained that she
was later taken TO Alexandria, where
she died at an inn and was buried in
what has since become famous as the
% Grave Of the Female Stranger-y A
few years ago new clue was given
by portrait greatly resembling Mrs.
Aston, which was found in a North
Carolina house and which was alleged
to have been found during the war OF
1912 in a mysterious ship which camc
ashore. fully rugged, in Carolina in
let. This vessel, so tho story goes,
contained silks and other valuables be-
sides the portrait. but not human
soul If this ship were The Patriot.
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morality of our children than o proper
playground properly supervised ?
Wouldu t il help solve the boy problem
which our Juvenile court is struggling
withe Judge Lindsey of Denver says:
aud who knows better the needs of
the child. that ca plea for a public
playground is simply a plea for justice
to the child We are literally crowding
him of the earth We have no right
TO deny him his heritage. but, that s inst
what we arc doing in many large cities
and that is why he is hitting back-hit.
ting back hard, and We stupidly pun
ish him for crine. The amazing thing
is that he is not worse than no is
Let Salt Lake take warning and heed
the crying need. We can't afford in
planning for big and splendid city to
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energy had been properly supervised
aud guided by those interested, or who
should have been interested In his wei.
fare and future citizenship.
Now in her period of reconstruction
is tho time for Salt Lake to solve this
problem. Let US rot wait until suitable
locations arc available, but with one
accord and common interest at heart,
JOIN forces with the public playground
association and pull for the kiddies. Ev-
cry good word helps tho cause along.
In unity is strength!
The playground movement is making
rapld progress all over the United
States. Can not Salt Lake take up the
movement with the same enthusiasm
of Denver, Los Angeles, San Francis
CO.. Portland and Scattlc7 All these
cities. have big. plans under way and
still larger projects in mind for play
ground systems.
There arc SO many benefits to be de-
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If Don Alberto Palacios Costa had
I'D earned the reutation of being the
yhtAsndsomest, ma; in Latin America, -
rL,i might rot toda be first secretary of
w., Argentine lestion IN Washington.
er bod locks are srh a help to 2 career
ankle thc case "BobD Bacon, our
sswly appointed ambassador to France.
a lclassmate Of II. Roosevelt at Har-
apfG, he was easy the handsomcst man
e stbc university On graduation. mon
ear 3less, he got sjob TO sweep out Pier
arst Morsan's iice AT tho corner of
e. and Broad reefs, New York. Mr..
;cc;;1gan, taken y his wonderful good
, m6s, advauccdhim rapidly, so that
ner hln few yes he became a partner
la7 The bankingiouse and a mIti-mii-
/, exalrc-to be adc. later on, secretary
lostatc. Woul, such things have hap
lglafd 10 Mr.. 5hert Bacon if he bad
,eeTp gifted by ne fairies at birth with
thafitncd-up ue and a sduiutl Ono
Die rurcs 10 tro not
SaJut down Vth confidence the fact
2eT personal lputy, to NAV as we'll as
thip'an- IS psf impdrlaut asset in
b9 world. y for Don Alberto Pala.
costa. th women arc practically
luminous in e opinion thai he is the
IA tt'asomest yong man that has been
an} en IN Nashirton' from LATIN America
anS aurH',orc i.n v.;,ta, a.,
kfneraiiou
81 Don PaIaci is far from BEING =
tfre ''aSpI ymau. however He IS
sfccdingly cl%er--as- may be Judged
u l1om the lact 1a within Il few mon hs
ssb ttcr coming ~ Washington, almost TO-
I!Yy ignorant Of ocr language and
'Phged l" dePnd rion an interpreter
XII pad "Hterc the George Washington
an was taking three differ
81 courses, By that Time he had
he4rned to srak English with fair
y hsgreo Of fiu6cy
opne fal8ios IS only twcnty.sevcn
n TrS OF age md a bachelor. lie makes
en- nonlc In washington at thc Bcnc.
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Of germans. and as tho best, dressed man
in Washington, the major filled the place
admirably. But. reckless of bis future
as an official squire of danes. he went
and married rich and handsome widow
Mrs. John Davis. daughter of former
Secretary OF State FreIiu9huyscn, That
settled it. Married men arc of no use
as White House aides, and the gallant
major found himself suddenly dropped
out.
One of McCawley's fellow aides un-
der the Roosevelt regime was Roscoe
c. Bulmer. who is quite generally con
sidered tho handsomest man in tho
navy. A fine, manly chap, with clean
record, and esteemed highly by every
body, Bulmcr, VINO was born in Nevada,
aud is now a licutcuaut-command
has married very beautiful Washing
ION girl--Miss Anita Poor.
Handsomest Man in Army.
The handsomest young man in tho
army (though for some unknown reason
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The Playground Idea

Editor Tbune-Tf Salt Tal,e Ga,
>. ipccts TO hp pace with her o,etorn
hsh H. "sseeIislsters, Denver, Los An
,tbnt Dea.' and Portland, and her re-
n&ads nmaA1ng TO civic improvement
rhient;nuno uo uoeheve that she has that
fJer gYn, I'm, : must not forget to con.
In nnionepnstructive and education
INES th@elfare of her children
i'm i%rnIe nn tlzeens-and provide them
psas, tun What as been approved by sue,
4 '1ls, n,av avoslp e@piment in these cities, pub
some ple must be nrov;ded for tbo
Psnre tn of children, where thnv
r}holccssee,n,eii both brain and body in a
= s,~v",nnsSomelanner. 1t has been proven
s'liies wSaj I ;abt ,G in one hundred large
osst The me playground scheme is
:,iye s@la hcoy wills now delinquent n' night lia
~ MS anal spirit and overflow Of #
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Inw
arncC corps sand Congress
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Many Celebrities Who Have Vanished

Like DR. Duke Johann
Son the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-06-24
MlDDLE BURY COLI EGE AGAIN CELEBRATES

the campus, and listened with evident
enjoyment to the program.
The exercises began when the grad
uating class, headed by the Junior
Glass Marshall, f. S. S. Sunderland, EN-
erged from the chapel and marched two
abreast to the library, where the plant
ing of the ivy took place. On their re-
turn, the class president, Ray Lisle
Fisher, gave a short address, set
ting forth in few retrospective re-
marks the viewpoint of Senior,
and then introduced the Ivy Orator,
Lyman Alton Morhous. Mr.. Morhous
gave an exceptionally good Grafton,
and his fine delivery adcSed much to
his words. In introducing his sub
ject, he said. I'VE had intended to
launch a new planet in the sky, as a
memorial beiitting the class of 1910;
but on maturer deliberation, we have
decided to follow the precedent of other
classes, and plant an ivy-vine". He
then proceeded to show the significance
of the ivy planting, closing with a
quotation Of poetry.
Miss Anna Louise Butler read the
Glass Essay. In it, she drew parallel
between Longfellow's poem THE
Building of the ship, and the ideals
and aspirations of the class. and show
ed how, with "the rudder of ambition
and the anchor Of fate, its members
were ready to weather the storms of
life.
The class grafton, by Richard Aiken
Curmer, came next on the program.
He spoke with great cffocton the herit-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-06-24
THE 10th COMMENCEMENT OF THIS OLD
AND HONORED EDUCATIONAL INSTI-
TUITION OBSERVED DURING
THIS WEEK.

is the liberty of the glory of the child
rem of God.
The contest for it will be severe and
you will not lightly conquer When the
fight is open, against foes whose enslav-
ing chains have long been known, you
may bear the victory by preservation
of a clear mind and firm will But the
issue will often be clouded, and YOU will
require the utmost vigilance and ever
fresh determination to see things as
they are to assert in each new crisis the
mastery of the spirit We wish to send
you forth with the spirit of victory in
your hearts Establish the habit of
victory. Learn to expect to overcome,
whatever the obstacles, and to antici-
pate triumph over all discouragements.
Acquire the bearing of men who can do
what ought to be done, who will do
what they are rightfully expected to do,
and who are able to suffer, as strong
men still, whatever of the worlds cru
city they may be called upon to endure.
Keep undying the fires Of mastery that
burn i'm your hearts. Your ideals. which
they will soon tell you are impractical.
are truer than the pessimism of dis
couraged age. DO not lightly give them
over Take counsel of your noblcst.
bravest moments, and write your con
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where alone is freedom worth having,
or worthy the name.
Freedom means the exercise of power.
the ability to reach out i'm thought and
attainment Freedom means vet more:
it means the triumph of the spirit in
the very midst of the triumph of out
ward powers; the ability to refuse sur
render when all the might of the world
attacks one, to be master still when
misfortune and disaster, suffering and
pain have done their worst, and to say
with conqueror's JOY, 30 Death,
where is thy sting
Such is the freedom of man really
free, and it cannot be won by com
mercial and economic means, nor by
the ordering of governments.
The only liberty is the liberty Of the
glory of a manhood that has found the
right, and the privilege to work for it,
and the Joy of making duty supremest
master. Freedom is the purest personal
possession of a man 5 own heart: his
government. his station i'm life, his com
merclal standing or attachments have
nothing to do with it, When he has
fought the fight within and iconquered
self and evil when God 5 win alone is
his will, he is in bondage to no man,
to no power ON earth, nor can be- be
brought into slavery by the worlds di-
rect tragedies, but he has won the ib-
crty of the glory of the children of God.
MEMBERS OF THE GRADrATlNG CLASS:
Your Alma Mater sends you forth to
win freedom In world of old-time
slAveries. Your graduation is not your
admission into the realm of liberty, but
liz it,ft
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age Of devotion and patriotism left us
by our forefathers
In the VIII and Presentation, Pau
Denton Ross scored a decided hit.
Starting out by reading a will drawn up
with all legal formalities, he finished by
handing to the representative of the
freshman class a package of "brain-
food, with the hope that it would do
some good.
Miss Edith n. Grout, in a charming
style, gave "a brief resume of the his
tory Of the class; following which the
Class Poem was read by Miss Angeline
NJ. Wilcox. The poem was an eXcep-