The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-27
SCHOLARLY Studies ATTRACT.

Marvin is anxious to get to work
again, and is tired of the inactivity
of the past week He is very favor
ably impressed with Eugene as a
pretty town, but deplores the publicity
that his peculiar situation has brought
him.
q would like to find an opening
for work here in this town." he said,
but of course it is impossible now
| am marked man after all this, and
people turn around and point me out
on the street
Il am going to look for something
better than just working with my
hands anyway. There is nothing in
it for the plain working man. | am
going to get into something that
takes headwork, and that has some
future to it,"
He would like to go into either
newspaper work or meteorological re-
search, or possibly criminal invesei-
cation.
q have given a good deal of study
to bacteriology," he said, "and I am
very much interested in it. Of
! course, l have been handicapped by
not having access to good micro
scope. 1t is fascinating subject,
though. If | had ever had access to
well equipped laboratory, l could
have done something along that line
/ l never went to school I would like
to have some technical work, but it
takes too much money for work
ing man | have done a great deal of
reading, though. A man don't haze
to go to school to learn a great deal"
Notwithstanding that he maintains
he is a plain logger, he talked enter
tainingly, and at considerable length
of the classic writer's. He knows Yer
gil well, and is familiar with the phil
osOphy of Plato and Aristotle. He is
a close student of Homer and the
wanderings of Ulysses through
strange lands and amid strange ad-
ventures hold peculiar fascination
for him, he says.
History of Ancients Told.
81 have often thought that | would
like to do something like that my
self, but then, of course, the day for
such things is ages past"
Xenophon's tory of the wander
ings of the Ten Thousand Greeks also
interested him greatly. He is famil-
lar with early Egyptian and Assyrian
architecture, anG with the technical
points of difference. The principle of
the wheel, he said, was not known in
ancient Egypt at all and all the
stones for the pyramids were barged
down the Nile, and then were dragged
across the land.
His knowledge of dates and places
for a period of two months back is
clear, but it is hazy beyond that time,
and he evades questions which bring
in the elements of time before this
period. He is familiar with places
and people in TillamooK county, nam
ing both readily. OF other places,
/ however, he speaks rather vaguely, as
if more from geographical knowledge
than from first-hand observation
Questions about his early life ne
evades, or answers indirectly.
Early Memories Vague.
| 81 was born in Rochester, ~ y"
he said. mo, don't remember much
about my parents, l think my mother
is dead. don't remember them we'll
have been around the country a
great deal. | worked in a sawmill in
Muskegon, Mich. have been in Sci
don, Iowa, but l don't know anyone
there. l have been in this country
quite a while, but l think I will so
back East
Marvin went this morning to Wend-
ling, and will resume work at the
Booth-Kelly mill there. DR.. Iceberg
returned this morning by stage to her
home on the Mckenzie river.
She refuses to talk to newspaper
men, but has told friends that she