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the self-reliance and the industry of hi
later years.
The whole State of Florida is proud Of
one Of its young sons, Robert Fulton
Webb. Jr.. who is only eighteen years old,
and yet he won the Rumrill scholarship AT
Harvard, and In doing SO had to enter
into competition with pupils from South
Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky.
Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. Young
Webb received letters of copgra tuiation
from many prominent men. Governor Gil
christ. of Florida. took the trouble to send
a letter of congratulation, and also little
gift in the shape of a half-penny he had
brought from the Netherlands.
Then there is a young fellow up in Yer
mont OF whom the State is beginning to
feel proud because of his unusual musical
achievements. He Is now only nineteen
years old and is manager Of the best band
in the State. He was only twelve years
old when he organized a fife and drum
corps in the public schools of Montpelier
that became the largest in the world, for il
had ninety members. The name of this
musical genius is W. d. Bartlett, and he
not only conducts large. band and an
orchestra, but he also composes many of
the pieces the band and the orchestra
play. He has a mandolin club as a side
issue, and when he wants a little change
from so much conducting and composing
he goes out with the baseball team. Of
which he is manager. 1t takes a good
deal of Splinter to get ahead Of him on
the football team and his athletic achieve
ments are almost as unusual as his
triumphs in the world of music. He has
plenty of the spirit the American boy il
sometimes charged with lacking.
When it comes to the boy on the farm
we have abundant evidence to prove that
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Taft Family Undisturbed by Politics

of combined restfulness and seclusion.
During the afternoons when Mrs. Taft
is hostess to her friends the President is
tucked away in his study within few
teet Of the door by which his callers ar
rive.
All Of the routine business, such as ar
ranging appointments for callers, copying
and preparing correspondence and prepar-
ing matter for the Presidents signature, Is
done at the executive Offices at Beverly,
about half hours walk from PARA
malta Persons desiring to see the Presi-
dent on business must communicate with
Rudolph Forster, the Presidents assist
ant secretary. Mr.. Forster makes up the
list OF afternoon appointments and COM
II 10 tine President and also
TO the Secret Service men who are always
on uuty at the Presidents cottage while
the President is there
Thus all the callers are expected before
they arrive and the exact hours of their
appointments with the President are ar
ranged. The President is very particular
about not keeping callers waiting if he
can help it. he never breaks an oppoint-
ment once made, even though Keeping il
deprives him Of his early evening automo-
bile ride, which he takes before dinner.
President Taft gets a great deal ont
Of each day spent at Parrzmatta. He al
ways arises early-sometimes at sir
o clock in the morning-and goes 10 his
study, where, with some Of his STAFF. he
iisposes of correspondents and business
matters left over from the day before
It's work, and hard work, for the Presi-
lent until breakfast time with his fam.
Ily, before nine o'clock. After breakfast
he President looks over the morning
papers and maps out his Programme OF
work for the afternoon with Mr.. Forster
before leaving for his morning golf game
It the Myopia InkA
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toopyrirht. 1912. by the New York Herald Co, Al
rights reserred)
HAT the American boy Of to
day can hold his own with the
boys of other lands and that he
is just as intelligent and brave
as the boy of any age could be readily
proved. He is more alert and better
equipped physically than the boys Of the
bygone years because of the great inter.
est he takes in athletics and in sports Of
all kinds.
Tens of thousands of our boys receive
physical as well as mental training in our
public school gymnasiums, while the Y.
NJ. C. A, the boys clubs and other or
CARNATIONS for boys are giving physical
instruction such as the boy of few dec
AIDES ago knew nothing about. 1t has
been quite clearly established that the de-
gree of longevity has increased in our
country in recent years and there is no
doubt that this is in part due to great
increas, in athletics and outdoor sports
and life on the part of both sexes.
Physically the boy of to-day measures
up better than the boy of long ago, and
his mental alertness is probably greater
than that of the boy of any other age in
the history of our country. He is an up
and coming youth, md it is because this
is true that youth is to the front as it is
in our land The things he does even in
the Short pants" stage of his career
prove that he is manly and ambitious,
and his achievements in the early stages
of his career do much to refute the charge
that we are rearing a race of weak.inss.
1t is only the pessimist who takes this !
attitude toward the American boyhood of
to-day. The boys of our country are to
be found in every department of human
Industry, and many of them are breaking
records along lines of both physical and
mental alertness.
Time was when school boards reckoned
a knowledge of spelling as of greater
value than knowledge of higher mathe-
mates, and the best speller in school
district was looked upon as having lib
eral education. But in all the records Of
the champion boy spoilers of the past it
is doubtful if there is one whose record
could equal that of a boy out in Okla !
made him the champion boy sreller of the
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ahead, and take the consequences. That
time. as the public knows, took some
consequences, and now We will say no
more about it,
mister, please let Badly out" at this
moment came from the roadway outside
the window.
Some Of my constituents-the bunch is
in front of my place now waiting for me.
You see have q bigger house than the
rest and all to myself. They say rough
house too much for the others. Maybe so,
but no harm meant. Just got TO slam
around and let it ont. you know. to keep
up with my mentality. And it goes down
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he is achieving results beyond those ever
achieved BY the boys of a few decades
ago, for no boy of the olden time, when
boys were supposed to be of so much .'ac-
count" ever equalled the corn growing
achievements of the boys on the farms in
our own day. The corn growing clubs
that have come into existence in recent
years are in part responsible for this.
The United States Department of Asri.
culture never did better thing for the
rural youth of the land than when it or.
ganized these corn growing clubs. to
which thousands of our American bows
now belong. Some of them have achieved
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The ALERT AMERICAN 30
He Can Hold His Own with Boys of Other Brighter and Better
Equipped Physically Than His Brother Bygone Years.

tnins many pathetic instances of boys who
have been brave at the cost Of their own
lives, and one cannot read this report
without feeling like taking Oh ones hat
to some of the brave lads Of Ameriea.
The way in which the boy is making
good in the business world is worthy the
attention Of those who are disposed to
apply the discreditable term Of mo good"
to the American boy. Joachim Richard,
of Lynn, Mass, Harvard freedman, Is
director Of corporation having large in
terests at stake, and he attends every
meeting of the Board Of Directors. Ste
phens Q. Luce, Of Vineyard Haven, Mass,
is refuting the commonly accepted opinion
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I'sy,e b.. Elder stseiaA

educated in the public schools and In
business college, and then he became
bookkeeper in the bank of which he is now
cashier.
Seldom does one hear of . boy Of
eleven years making his bow to the public
as a lecturer. but this is what Karl A.
Richers, a boy of eleven, living at S.lem,
Mass, has done. After having spent q
summer on a farm at Hermon, Me-, he
prepared a lecture to which he gave the
title, "A City Boys Vacation on
Farm" He took about one hundred pho
tographs and had them put on lantern
slides. On his return TO Salem the boy
gave his lecture before every grade Of
the public school he attends in Salem.
He also gave it before several clubs. in
Guiding the Salem Fraternity.
Roger L. Marble. of Brockton. Mass
is a youngster who will surely make
good in the years of his manhood if he
keeps up the pac, he has set himself il
the days of his boyhood. BE won over
203 other contestants who were trying to
win the Pettee memorial scholarship,
which gives gives him tuition at Brown
University.
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Governor Wilson's Family Cabinet

MRS. WILSON has been Governor
Wilson's constant adviser throughout
the campaign. In marked contrast
to the political methods of some for
mer campaigns, the Governor talks over
with his family many of the important
issues he is called on to decide. Nearly
every day he and Mrs. Wilson spend a
little time going over the big things of
the campaign. And it is undoubtedly a
fact that Mrs Wilson shares in many Of
the important decisions reached They
discuss not only political issues. financial
problems and the campaign programme,
but important correspondence and
speeches.
The entire private life of the Governor
and his family has been readjusted to meet
the exigencies of the campaign. 1t might
almost be said to have been abandoned.
There are whole days when the Governor
has time only to greet his wife and
daughters hurriedly. Seldom do they have
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with the crowd all right. You ought to
see them laugh at the things I do. As
matter of fact" and he leaned over CON
fdentially, srinning from ear to ear,
they think of electing me president here,
and if they do you just watch me, Got
to so now. Goodby, old chap, and say,
give US a square deal in this write up,
won't you? We do suffer so from those
awful prints they sometimes use" In
another moment there was cheer from
the outer room and q banging Of iron
trapeze bars against the walls of the
cage. Badly was keeping up with his
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Interviews with Eminent Animals---i" Ba E AnooDas

Excuse me a moment, please" and
when We next saw Badly he wasarrayed
in his new blue suit, stripes down the
trousers, and cap to match.
Now, before we begin to talk maybe
you'd like to see me do something. Keys
there, Ensy" Keys in dozens that
looked as like as grains of sand. Badly
jiggled them in my face.
Watch me!" Picking one out, he fitted
it into the door and turned it.
You see," he said, turning around
abruptly, most animals do their stunts
by cues. / have a brain-I reason. Try
it again? Oh, very WELT, Again he
shook the bunch, picked out the winner
and fitted 1t in successfully.
And now proceed" he said, jumping
on a chair beside me. He reached out for
Engy's pipe. Engy wiped it off and
handed it over. Badly took several puffs,
wiped off the mouthpiece again and
handed it back.
Il just did that TO show you I was,
gentleman" he said, with a wink. How
ever, proceed, we're losing time"
Tell me about your life," said.
Collectively or subjectively
oh, just generally"
We'll, you see," be said, marking on
the hoor with his toe, its all matter of
compromise. You give up one thing, and
Jon gain another. was just a brat when
l came here, when I gave up the simple
life and my wicked ways-vegetables,
eggs, anything / could steal near habita-
tons. Stealing wasn't wicked then, for
my conscience wasn't developed. Here
it's different; you live in a world of rea-
son. When you get whipped there's a
reason-you may not get it at first, but il
comes to you after you think it out. No
matter how starving we were, we wouldn't
touch the food that Engy puts in front
of US till he tells US to go ahead. Why d
Because we're gentlemen.
You saw the word Primates over the
door as you came in; that's US, first fami-
lies of the Bronx! You see, I'm a Primate,
you're Primate-just a chance that
gave you the start of us. But I'm COM
ing along. ] learn something new in ourl
here, each day."
"How about swallowing the box Of
that gink gave your" I asked.
G. Badly WINGED, but he quickly right
about faced.
"When we want to find out about q
thing We taste 1t. If it tastes good we 60
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BY ANTHONY H. EUWER.

BY AN IHON4 n. EUWER.
Editors Note.-Ifyou don't believe ar
animal can talk-that is, in his own par
ticular way-there's no use of your read
ing what follows. These articles WERE
written for true believers only
O0DyFat ls1I t p the New f9st Herald Co
sH WOULD like to see Badly An
thropopithicus Calvus, of East At
RIGA, please" ratified off slibly, fol
1 had the Blue Book just under my arm
/ followed the manager down the narrow
alleyway to the rear of Baldy's house
He jigsled the lock, when appears mine
hosts face at the little glass window to
see who the jiggier might be, and now a
back jump, shaping of hands on the
floor, a clap, a leapfrog spring through
the air and both hands come biting ker.
chunk on the wall right in front of you,
all of which means, It's all right; open
up"
You open the door and there stands
Badly, his hands eutstretched to welcome
you, not the limp, loose, codhipper kind,
but the real clutch, the high sign of the
thirty third degree ,Primate, and the next
thing you know he's started to pull you
into the cage. g
"Oh, really, really-thank you very
kindly, but To think I'd made such
an instantaneous hit was fattering indeed,
and to be received right into the bosom of
his family most gratifying, but 49,
r.
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little chap that some of the spoilers of
twice his size felt rather sorry for him,
because it did not seem that one of his
years stood much show among the stall
wart spoilers with whom he had to con-
tend. But Master Lee entered the ring
well prepared for the fray, for in a letter
written to the writer of this article he
|says:-
While other boys were fishing and
playing I was studying words from the
dictionary as long as a clothesline. Not
that l think that the above mentioned
pastimes are not good for boys. They are.
But was out to win, and winners must
work"
Speller after speller of the forty -one
who had entered the ring with young
McMahan had to sit down while he stood.
Strange words "as long as a clothesline"
could not down him, and at the end of
eight hours he was alone in the ring and
had spelled correctly more than FIVE thou
sand words. He was the. possessor of an
other gold medal as the champion speller
of the State. The crowd was shouting
Bully for you" with true Western yigor,
and the youthful champion received such
honors as he had well earned.
At about that time a boy from Maine
in a New England academy was making
another record to prove the general alert
ness of his kind. He is Henry L. F.
Kreger, of Fairfield, Me-, who had been
a student at Phillips-Exeter Academy.
There he had broken all records as a
prize winner. He had won the Hubert
E. Teschemacher scholarship of $3.50 a
year for four years. He also won the
Merrill prize of $50 in English compost
ton. Then he gathered in the prize of
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West. His name is Lee McMahan and
he lives at Medford, Okla,
He went to Oklahoma City to match
his ability as speller against that of
forty-one other contestants in State
spelling contest Although only twelve
years old, he carried with him one or two
gold medals he had already won in con-
tests of this kind. He was full of the
ginger with which the Western boy is apt
to be loaded and he was unafraid of any
other speller on earth. He was such a
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that boy has mo chance" in a bank in
our day. At twenty years of age young
Luce is possibly the youngest bank cashier
In the country. He is cashier of the Mar
tha's Vineyard National Bank and is also
a notary public and treasurer of the Vine
yard Haven Public Library. His oppor-
tunities have been no greater than those
OF the average American boy. He was
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Copyright. 1872 by the New York Herald Co. Al,
rights reserred)
HAT the American boy Of to-
day can hold his own with the
boys of other lands and that he
is just as intelligent and brave
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-31
Look Who's Here

Hotel Dacotah-Mr. and Mrs. Il. w.
Ames and Miss Mathilda Ames, Nav
vile: c. c. Gutzmacker, Emerald; o.
II. Drews, Munich: L. d. Stewart.
Langdon; j. w. Boeing, Mimic; d. w.
Hunter, Crary.
Frederick Hotel-A. A. Nelson. Far
go: j. Fl. Foster Mohall; G. l.. Lohrkc.
B%alfour: II. +. Beall, Minot: III. Bach
ers. Minot; r. Olson, Minot: Mrs. G..
Montgomery, Ncche; NJ. G.. Straus,
Cassclton; II. 3. Springin, Northwood.
Imperial Iotel-Clarence Rood.
Marvel: S. L. Iceberg. Mekinock:
John Iiosford. Park River; c. A.
jacobson, Schafer; j. A.. klassen. Far
go; MIR. and Mrs. William Field, Des
Laos; e. n. Walker. Grafton; a. j. Ser
hus, Jaj Hastings. Fargo; c. Berry
man, Hannah.
Columbia Hotcl--C. c. Ball. Crook
ston: Charles T.. Smith, Cass Lake;
John Cover. Hoople; Ole knutson.
Thompson; w. H. Sullivan, Crookston;
A. Gherity. CLYDE: A.. l.. Moravetz.
Brocket: o. r. Bake. Lankin; f.. F.
Copps, Mimic: q. Nj. Larson, Finley;
G. Carlson, Orr; Alfred Gabrielson,
Fargo.
Hotel Northern-George M. Kinney.
Fargo; l.. Melgaard, Kennedy; o. l..
Melgaard, Argyle: ]. Is. Garwood,
Souris; j.. a. Jardine, Fargo; Otto P.
Hoff, Arvilla; George and Russell Lee.
Emerald; r. Leigh Nudge, Edmore;
+. r. .Aas. Albert Hager, Gilman Bent
ley, Northwood.
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COMMENCEMENT To
Be OBSERVED
TONIGHT
Seven Pupils Will Be Gradu-
ated From the Local
High School.

In the auditorium of the high
school building. following the pro-
gram which has been arranged for
the occasion. seven pupils will be
graduated and will he presented with
diplomas. for which they have striven
for the past four years.
The class this year is composed of
Mamie Franklin, Margaret Kolars,
Anna Ryan. Anna kaufman, George
Horgenson. Everett Capes and Clar-
ence Lukkason. Each will deliver an
grafton. the salutatory being given by
Margaret kolars and the valedictory
by Anna Kaufman.
The auditorium will be tastefullv
decorated in the class colors and the
program will begin sharply at 8
o'clock.
The program which has beer ar
ranged by Miss Amy Whitson. di-
rector of music and drawing. is as
follows:
song-"Merry June" Charles Vincent
Girls Chorus.
Salutatory ."Open SEES. e"
Margaret kolars.
Grafton industrial Arbitration
George ~Jorgenson.
Manufacturing to Me Only With
Thine Eyes. ..... Frank j. Smith
Boys Glee Club.
Grafton. Message of a Noble Life
Mamie Franklin.
Grafton. Needs of the Hour"
Clarence Lukkason.
Music-"Shoogey-Shoo" ..........
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PENNINGTON COUNTY
WILL START THE
WORK SOON
Residents are Enthusiastic
Over Prospects For
Good Roads.

Thief River Falls Journals: The de.
clsion of the supreme court unfolding
the Elwell road law was received in
no county with more enthusiasm than
i'll Pennington. as the test case orig
mated in this county. arising u of
application for a grant for the con-
struction of a state highway running
from this city, east to the extreme
end of the county.
Ihe application was made for $780,
ouo. which is now available and
which will be expended under the
supervision of the state highway COM
mission.
The county commissioners have
been called into special session to
complete the formality incident to the
securing of the loan. All papers con-
nected with the application have been
in correct form and nothing now re-
mains b to complete the proceed
ings.
The proposed highway will be
twenty miles long and running di-
rect east without n bend or turn.
Inc country is all settled and is very
rich, level prairie land, every foot Of
which is under cultivation. or else
is possible of such action. The farm
ers welcome the new era of road
making. though in this section of the
state are found the famous ditch
grades which are considered the most
modern roadway now constructed.
Ihey are broad. level and we'll pack
ed and run for hundreds of miles
all through the drained region.
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= Y X X i: i: !. i y :. x X X X
WHISKEY'S ENEMY
HAS BEEN BUSY
MAN FOR YEARS
( X 4 4 x X x x X X !. 4 4

Rev. F. L. Watkins, superintendent
or the North Dakota Enforcement
league has been busy in his work in
the past three years, as the following
report of what the enemy of whiskey
has accomplished in this period indi-
Gates:
Closed in all 100 saloons on the
slope.
Made hat district the dryest in the
state.
Is closing seven houses Of prostitu-
ton.
Is securing evidence against fifteen
more.
Closed nine buildings at Lidgerwood
for blindpigging.
Enjoined three of the best hotels at
Valley City.
Sent n Valley City druggist to Jail
for three months with $500 fine and
costs.
Twenty-Five druggist permits have
been surrendered.
Of these eleven We're surrendered in
Walsh county i'm one week: Five sur
rendered at Williston in one day.
Insisted on forfeiture of $1,000
bonds of two Bowman druggists.
Has actions pending against one
druggist at Noonan. two at Kenmare.
At Bowman three piggers pleaded
guilty.
Secured arrest of eighteen members
of Antlers club.
piggers have pleaded guilty at
Bismarck in last four months.
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HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE.

1'ONT
Yesterday as stood on the street corner and
watched the memorial parade. was impressed with
the dwindlins numbers and fading features of the old
soldier boys. In each bent form saw the enthusiastic
Youth "f hall a century ago as he left home to face the
hardships of war. followed him through the awful
conflicts, dcprivations and sufferings which no tongue
"r pen can describe. saw the tattered. worn and
wounded man emerge from the ranks and return to his
civil life. assuming the struggle Of everyday routine.
in many instances broken in health. Each year secs
the ranks reduced as if by battle, and we are reminded
that the familiar scene of the G. A. r. man will soon
have passed and will dwell in memory only. AS that
little column wendell its way up the street, and finally
iaded from view. was impressed with the scene piano.
ramic Of the passing of the once greatest army the
world over knew. believe the salute is due each of
these veterans when we meet them in everyday life. for
when we of the younger Seneration have reached their
stage in Years it will be a pleasant memory to- recall the
privilege of their acquaintance long since passed.
An Observer.
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Tn to Thomson.

The directors of the Grand Forks
Y. NJ. c. A. have made a proposition
to q. G. Thompson, who came here
from Manhattan. Kan. this week to
look over the institution with a view
to coming here as physical director
OF the "i" provided everything look
ed favorable . Mr.. Thompson is said
to be pleased with the offer made
him by the directorate and will give
his definite decision carly next week.
AZ noon on Wednesday the directors
OF the Y. NJ. c.. A. entertained MIR.
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Ice: Ice! Keep Cool.

River ice. 25 to 40 pounds. daily,
aellNered' 81 per month: Detroit lake
ice. % to 40 pounds daily. delivered
So per month; 1000 pounds, 50 deliv-
cred at place of residence; 1000
pounds, $3.50 put in ice box. Owing
to the cool month of May and the
closing of so many business houses I
have 1000 tons Of ice 1 offer for sale
at reduced rates. Hugh Dunlevy.