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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-29

Bay is for the most part shoal bay, which
means that unless one knows its waters,
one is apt to go aground. The depth
varies from two feet to thirty-fve feet,
the latter depth being found only in the
channel, which runs from the inlet, just
east of the Fire Island light to Patchogue,
a distance of nineteen miles. The average
catboat, the type which is most prevalent
among the creft on the Great South Bay,
draws about eighteen inches of water mot
counting the centerboard) and are safe
on almost any part of the bay. There are,
however, many places where sailors on
these boats must watch the channel
stakes.
These stakes are carried out every
spring when the ice breaks up in the bay.
Buoys, willow witches, saplings and every
thing used to mark the channels. go out
through the inlet, leaving the bay clear
of everything. In the latter part of
March, or the first of April, every year, a
survey boat, usually tug. is sent in by
the photographic department of the
United States Navy, to replace all the
markings. This is done before the regu-
lar navigation season opens, and few
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-29

knew the tracks of beasts In the forests
they learned the properties of herbs and
how to make use of the roots and plants
around them in their primitive medicine;
how to tan skins and sew them in their
rough fashion; how to whittle arrows,
feather them and send them on their way
to bring down needed food or an unfor-
tunate enemy.
That must have been jolly sort OF
school, you think, where such interesting
things were learned instead of dry Latin
and dull German and stupid arithmetic or
dreary spelling and grammar.
Well perhaps it was little more ex.
citing in those old days, when an Indian
boy knew that If he hadn't learned Alright
his lesson of the animal tracks he might
be installing for the tracks of some he
less creature Of the forest the trail Of
some fierce beast which would pounce
upon him in a moment and tear him limb
from limb.
And 1t must have been jolly, too, for
the Indian girl. who acquired her educa-
don by patiently pounding corn or hunt
ing through the forest ceaselessly for
days for certain curative plants which
were needed to make some one of the
tribe well again. 49,. q.
1t may be those were easier kinds of
schools and more interesting ones than
he ones We have nowadays, those schools
If experience which children used to at
END long ago, but IL they were it is very
probable that the boys and girls who at
ended them didn't see that side of It at
Ill. but would have much preferred to be
pupils of the kinds of school we have to-
lay.
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But he was subdued. and the colonel
and the other officers praised me. You
might as well have him; nobody else can
ride him. said the colonel, and then he
looked at me sharply. Twant the horse
and I want you to stay and ride him and
serve as regimental courier. Will you
do it?
II was naturally elated and pleaded
with my father for the post. He re-
luctantly consented, and so was taken
into the service"
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Buster lie o

the tip top of a very high hin with very
very steep and very, very rocky sides"
Mercy! and how did you ever get to
the top:"
''Oh, climbed itr' Next moment there
was nothing but shell before me and a
hosrse chuckle seemed to come from
somewhere in its depths. The old cut-up
had just been waiting for his chance l
was paralyzed, to think of keeping ones
humor sense unimpaired, and to be able
to remember a wheeze like that through
three long centuriesi The head pro-
truded cautiously and continued.
Really, though, it was delicious that
Bang Bang fruit. How they envied me,
my fellows, for my neck was longer than
theirs, and / could let it slide into my
mouth from the overhangins bcughs.
Darwin stopped at our island once. He
interviewed me, too. / gave him lot of
deductions. That was when we went
around by the thousands, and remember
my grandfather saying how his great
sreat-grandfather said he remembered
when his ancestors were ten times as big
as we were"
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I have watched the stars, and at times ]
have even thought"
NO.
Yes !"
"Oh, think again-think hard-try to
think Of some of the interesting things
that have happened to you in all those
years. i said, hoping that some % my
zeal would penetrate the thick shell.
"Once-'
. Once? Yes on"
AS / was saying, my earliest recollec
tons were of the Spanish buccaneers. /
was but an unsophisticated tortling Of
eishty-three when 1 found my father
turned on his back, helpless by the sad
sea waves helpless where the buks had
left him till later they returned to carry
him away"
Ancestors Ten Times as Big.
TO think of tortoise turning turtle ~
l observed with sympathetic solemnity.
Don't interrupt" snapped the speaker.
so ended my father at two hundred and
sixty-seven, carried off in his prime to
safe the greed of pirate stomachs. Pretty
tough, eh?'
Rather" I said tenderly, ''but then if
he were cooked long enough
Maybe he didn't hear, for he just went
ON as if nothing had happened.
Great days, though, in dear old Galap-
aeos. Yes, yes-why, We used to train
up and have regular races every twenty
five years. Six times l won the cham
pionship in the Night and Day event
seven miles in twenty-four hours and
three quarters
"Wheww
Yes, siri"
And how do you account for the enor-
nous size you stain down there in the
''Oh, climater'
And your wonderful digestive or
gans?"
"Climate! OF course every tortoise
,bourJ tome ~ -. - 49, -, tbn
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boys education, while it was not neces-
sary for him to read or write at all, for
both reading and writing were thought to
be necessary for the clergy only. Then
the girls were not expected to know any
thing of books at all. but they were re-
.quired TO know how to work well at huge
tapestries and to be proficient in what
ever needlework was the fashion of the
time. to be learned in household affairs,
and to understand the nursing of the sick
and the care of wounds. The same SOFT of
quired in Europe during the Middle Ages
even of the sons and daughters of mobiles,
was also locked upon as the necessary
kind of schooling by our North American
Indians. The Indian boys learned early
to ride the swift Indian ponies. do their
part in the hunt, trail the wild game with
success and spear the salmon with skill,
while the Indian girl worked quite as
heroically and much more steadily at her
tasks of the household, did all of the
little farm work which the wild tribes
carried on and made the garments for the
family of the skins of animals, embroider-
ing them with beads and oolored strands.
How Indian Boys Studied.
All of their actual education from our
point of view consisted in acquiring the
art of using with skill the strange hero
glyphic writing which some savage tribes
employed. But from the point of view of
general knowledge, such as is not learned
in books or schools, they were very well
Informed indeed. They knew all about
the weather signs, the sounds made by
wild animals. the calls of birds; they
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MYSTERY ON THE WIRE.

went the telephone
bell Matthews put the receiver to
his ear.
Hello" came in feminine tones. rs
Miss Gold there"
NO; and Miss Silver isn't here, either.
You're misled," returned Matthews.
Miss Lead? Ha! ha, That's a good
one" and she rang of into the mysterious
unknown.
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The Terrible Bang Bangs.

MY! What they must have done to the
Bang Bang fruit! But what made their
shells get gradually smaller, wonder!'
That was just it; it was the Bang
Bangs, you see, that did the business, and
when they ate most of them up posterity
had to suffer"
How do you ever keep track of your
age, anyhow"
See that little white line around the Sec
tons of my shell-each year we get a new
one of those. which makes us that much
bigger"
"oh, see. Isn't it funny Isaid as |
Iressed my nail into the white line. Out
went the bind feet with a kick
Gee! DON'T do that! 1t hurts"
Hurts? Through all that shelly
Sure, that's my quickr'
'Oh, that's how you won the races, was
itT There was no response, for some
fresh melons had appeared at the fence
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kept this prospect before them, promising
the particularly noisy youths good parts
If they would keep their department up to
a fair standard. The promise had the
desired effect, the boys were reasonably
manageable, and when the performance
came off it was a bowling success.
One little temporary darky, rubbing his
arm, finally attracted the attention of the
interlocutor.
Why, Mistah Jones'" he exclaimed,
what's de mattah wifi 20 ann"
Why, Mistah Bones, ali wuz out in de
Hudson Ribber yestahday TO- shad, an ah
got NAH am lame rowin' against de tide"
We'll, WELL" returned the young. Mister
Bones, "ah neyah saw such foolishnss!
Why didn't yo' let de shad row."
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COST OF MARKING" GREAT
SOUTH BAY.

FEW among the hundreds who sail
every summer across the broad waters
of the Great South Bay, Long Island,
laying their course by the channel stakes
and buoys which mark the waters, realize
at what great expense of time. effort and
money those stakes are placed there. The
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Galapagos.

and Buster had started in on a two-yard
dash to maintain his championship.
Not so good as the Bang Bangs he
said with grin between gulps, but We
manage TO make 'em do in pinch"
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japanese boy when he had advanced to
a place in the schools which would be
equivalent with us to a high school was
the study of the Chinese classics. All
this has been changed since English and
American ideals of education have be-
come popular in China and Japan. Y
An amusing school which is now being
conducted in England by the London
County Council holds its sessions every
morning in the band stand in the park.
All the children are warmly wrapped up
when the cool weather comes on, and
there they sit all day long in the open air,
the envy of all children who have to be
imprisoned in a school room. The chill
dren come from different parts of the city.
and part of the morning in the band stand
is devoted to a botany lesson, when the
pupils draw the objects around them. such
as the park trees and bushes.
Hawaiians Like School.
The little boy or girl in Hawaii who is
so unfortunate as to be an orphan may
go to school in a building that is much
more like kings palace than it is like an
ordinary school building. And indeed
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-29

ago there were quite other requirements
which the young men and women, were
expected to be proficient in before they
could take the place of their forebears
in the family and the state.
ITO ride free, to shoot straight and to
tell the truth" were at one time eonsid-
cred the three important features of .
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-29
BY ANTHONY H. EUWER.

Editors Note.-1f you don't believe an
animal can talk-that is, in his own par
ticular way, there's no use reading what
follows, which was written for true be-
levers only
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/, the school house was once tine residence
of man as rich as king, and through
the daughter of this man it came to be a
part of huge gift made to the orphan
children of Hawaii for their education.
This huge and palatial school was once
the family residence of a chief of the
Kamehamehas. and by his daughter was
left to the government to be used as a
school building for lie orphan boys and
girls. In the country parts of Hawaii the
usual costume which the children wear
Ito school is eolored chemise and the
flower wreath which is the beautiful head
dress worn by all Hawaiians.
The Hawaiians do not dislike school so
much as boys and girls in some countries
and they learn very quickly. They are
very imperative, and especially so when
they are learning English. which is now
taught in all their schools. If they are
taught English by teacher from the
British Isles they will speak with cock.
ney. an Irish or a Scotch accent, accord
ing to which part of the islands the
teacher halls from. Their native Ian
guage, Hawaiian. is not taught at all in
the schools, and they do not desire that
it should be. as they are very anxious to-
learn English well, but the Hawaiian Ian.
guage is such a beautiful one that it
seems pity it should fall into disuse, as
it is bound to do if they all learn to use
English alone at school.
Learn Three RS First.
Although the Hawaiian boy and girl
are so fond of school, they also are de-
voted to play, and when school is over it
is wonderful to see them dancing in the
sunshine, the bright wreaths on, their
heads and their 1.-THE, graceful bodies
swaying to the music. The Hawaiian
SA-4uieh arc nobuiai uduCeTsp ana Iney
also swim and dive beautifully. Another
farorite sport with them is surf riding.
They often dive for pennies in the water,
and they are so skilful and SO GRACEFUL
when they ride over the big waves oni
their surf boards that visitors to the
islands always watch them with admira-
ton.
Nowadays almost all boys and girls
are expected to learn much the same sort
of things at school, although the LAM
guage that they study and the country to
whose flag they swear allegiance are en-
tirely different. They all learn reading.
writing and arithmetic first of all, and
of foreign languages and the
sciences next in order, and along with
this they study their own literature and
the literature of other countries and
little bit of art and music-or perhaps q
whole lot of these interesting subjects
and then they take in the classics, Greek
and Latin classics, if they are Europeans
or Americans, and Chinese also if they
are Asiatics, and so on. A long time
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-29

new ones, it is probable that before
very long boys and girls all over the
world will be going to school in exactly
the same way, in the same sort OF school
houses, to the same sort of teachers and
studying from exactly the same sort of
books Even now there are not as many
interesting ways of going TO school as
there used to be before enlightenment and
modern: methods spread 50 far over the
world But in remote country districts of
foreign places there are still the old-fash-
Toned schools where the pupils didn't
learn so much perhaps as in the more
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Of those who take advantage Of it see the
work done. 1t is said to cost about s., 500
a year for the Great South Bay alone, and
there are dozens of such waters along
the Atlantic coast.
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0W that everybody all,
over the world is finding
out exactly how every
body else does things and
all of the different nations
are giving up their old
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-29

WHEN a man gets to be a hundred
w they put his picture in the paper,
write up the surprise party that his
friends have given him, and every body
thinks he's going some / know an old
fellow who enjoys the best of health,
takes his meals regularly, doesn't even
wear glasses. and he's watched three CEN
turtles slip by and never had a surprise
party in all his life. You'll find him in
the back yard up at the reptile house.
He's no snake, though-just slight fam
lily resemblance about the face. / opened
up the talk with the thing that interested
me most.
How do you account for your extreme
longevity, BusterT l said. Out came his
head from the easement, blinking one
eye. -.s .
my what?'
Your extreme years-your wonderful
age"
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He Never Worries.

oh! Well, let me see Never hurry
/, ing, s'pose; never worrying, knowing
enough to come into my house when it
rains, mindifg my. own business and.
above all, remaining strict vegetarian"
Goodness! I'd rather die young than
bind myself over to a layout like that.
Still it must have been great th:us To
have struggled through all those years.
To think of being alive down through all
the Jameses and the Charleses, and the
Cromwells and the Georges and the
French revolutions !"
"Charleses? CromweIls? Never met
'em. Didn't tell you l never worried
and minded my own business:''
"why, you haven't lived; you've just ex-
isted!"
"My heart has kept beating all the time
and have seen the sun rise and set and
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fcouyrtrht 1912 BY the New York Herald Co. Al
rights reserved
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-06-20

Dray are visiting relatives of
the former in Co. Bluffs, this
week.
The Gumbo hooters and Riv-
er Rats kid ball teams met in
Wilson's pasture last Sunday
and played a very fast game of
ball ending in the victory of
the River Rats, Score IL to II
1t was the fastest and cleanest
played game these teams have
played this season. Batteries
for the River Rats were the
Clifton brothers. Batteries for
the Gumbo Rooters were Athey
and Powell. Athey held the
R. R. to scratch-hits and five
runs until the seventh inning
when there was a great batting
ralley and score running by the
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i!nlslalc Items

think that Erie street look
led we'll Sunday morning after
the Carnival and | think 1t is
good TO wake up out of the or
dinlry, once in a while. We
won't know how we can stir
around unless we have some
thing to wake US up.
Rev. Dacl5 and wife were
calling on friends in Hyland
Park. They like to see and
taste Of the good things we
have to eat.
Cherries are in full blast and
they are nice ones. StraWber-
ries not one half crop.
Mrs. Shocks has been on the
sick list but is better now.
Grandma Cox and daughter
Mrs. Brown We're calling on old
Mrs. Irwin AMI talking about
old times 40 years ago. 1t does
them good and all Of us to re.
member our younger days.
Mr.. Burget stopped on the
road to his farm and had some
corn, says |, what, going to
plant over" Eyes the moles
have taken it and | have been
told put kerosene on it and
they won't trouble it. am
going to try it, If it works
others do likewise.
Harry Foreman has been on
the sick list but is better now.
Mr.. Amen and Mr.. Carlisle
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Penny Street Items

The farmers have been wish
ing a rain. ] guess they got it
the night of the 18th.
Some of the people on this
street attended the carnival at
Mo Valley last week.
Misses Gidingher and john
son of Nebraska are visiting
Miss Ida House this week.
w. H. Lighted and family of
Modale were visiting at George
Cliftons Sunday.
Misses Leta Dray and Myrtle
Henry were visiting at William
McKeoun's near Honey Creek
Sunday.
Misses Cora Phillips and
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-06-20

I'm short time the nomination period Will be oycr and
trick, unless you possessed Of very large supply
of energy and determination. However YOU have time
enough to change the entire aspect OF the race and
few subscriptions will be evidence to Your friends that
you arc OF the husers One or two clubs of $40
will give you enough votes TO place You among the
leaders, so get busy and receive the benefit OF carly
start.
The grand prizes given in this great contest afford
an induccnlent to energetic and ambitious candidates
that may never be duplicated The Ford 1912 model
touring car is the first Prize that candidate vii!
be awarded at the close OF this contest it is cup TO
you to win this car is cveryones race, and Your
possibilities of winning il Just good any other
candidate i'm the The present is the time to be-
gin in earnest, your very determination will stimulate
others to work and help you win, and for this
alone you should not wait Icslate tut begin at
by speaking to your friends, and organizing in
your behalf Subscriptions may be solicited and votes
secured anywhere in the universe. From uqui les
cevcd appear to think that The canyassing and
soliciting OF votes is confined to their particular dis
rict This is not the case. You NAV secure stscrip-
lions and votes anywhere
Don't fail to write Contest Manager regarding
nytng about the contest that you 90 no! understand
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Help Your Fav,,rite'
Win the Ford Auto
Get Busy


started for Wash, 1875 miles
west of Spokane to look at some
fruit land that quite a number
are interested in. If it suits
they will invest.
took a ride in a auto with
Mr.. Keeney and Rev. Dack to
the Elmdale school house Sum
day. afternoon. Rev. Dack
preached to full house and all
seemed willing to come again.
In two weeks from last
Sunday at 3 p. m. Dack will
preach again. Let there be a
full house.
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served to which all did ample
justice. After dinner visiting
and music was INDUCED in un-
til time to go home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wadell
and daughter Bessie of Shelby
Iowa, and Mr.. Grant Wadell OF
Logan were Sunday guests OF
st John relatives.
Mrs. S. X. and j. F. McGav
rem attended the party at the
Bradley home in Mo. Valley
last Tuesday.
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Calhoun Items

The heaviest rain fell in this
section last Wednesday night
that had for five years. A
steady downpour all night,
some 5 inches Of water.
TIE bottom land, are in
many places under water de
stroying crops
Mrs. j. Iierney, OF Mo. Val
ley, was the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. ID III liaedy last Saturday
Will Hicks, Of B4kerfield,
Cal was calling on Calhoun
friends Friday and Saturday.
Quite a number from here
attended church at lIlmda'e
last Sunday
Mrs. Rush Hardy aud two
d lighters, DolIla and h anche,
spent last Friday with her
daughter, Mrs. john Mlntun.
ID n p Aeau returned the
latter part Of Inc week from
Toled ), Iowa, where he was
CALI d by the SICKNESS and
death OF his father, Who was
almost so years old
Mrs Charlotte piorcv had
The misfortune 10 stem on a
rustv ns,l r1,noino it thro' her
sIjpner sole whic, his given
o,ljfe a )iftIe tsellbje. Dr. John
i,anaisiea. Of Ma Valley treat.
ed II and i Is tbought TO be in
no more DANGER
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st. John Items.
Ray Haight of Logan was q
st. John Yi.i.Nr GnturGav-

Ray Halght of Logan was a
st. John viitor Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Sahn
and family of Mo. Valley visited
at the McGavren home Sunday
afternoon.
Miss Inez Coyle has been 90
the sick list but is much better
at the present writing.
w. = Mccullough and family
spent Sunday with relatives at
Harris Grove.
Geo. Warns has been quite
sick but is convalesent now.
Martin William Newton of
Mo. Valley is visiting with st.
John relatives.
Miss Carrie Coyle has return
ed home after a visit with Co.
Bluffs relatives.
About thirty neigh bors and
and friends of Mr.. and Mrs
Frank McGavren walked in on
them about noon, last Wednes-
day June IL, and notified them
that they had come to help
celebrate their 9Th wedding
anniversary. At noon we'll
filled baskets were brought out
and a bountiful dinner was
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PAY
L.. Moskovatz, Missouri Valley

r r Clifton and Athey both
pitched good game each fan
ming five men. The game was
featured by two home runs by
Clifton. Perkins and McNiD
non umpired the game to
the satisfaction of both
sides. 1t took exactly one hour
and fifty nine minutes 10 play
the game. 1t was attended by
many of the farmers and their
families.