The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-02-13

Hoo-Hoo-=olas hundred Year, litsr; n
1900. there were {ve hundred millions
In Europe flvs grains Of sand. Hoo
Hoo, ana this one tooth. This shows
how easy was the getting Of food,
ana how men increased. And In the
year 1000. there we're fifteen hundred
millions in Europe. And It was the
same all over the rest Of the world.
Eight crab shells there. yes, eight bi!'
lion people were alive on tho earth
when the Scarlet. Death began.
Il vas ! young man when the
Plague came -twepty-seve years old;
and lived on the other side Of San
Francisco bay. In Berkeley. You ~
member those stone houses, Edwin
when we came down the hills from
Contra Costa? That was where
lived. In those stone houses. ] was Z
professor Of English literature"
Much Of this was over the heads
Of the boys. but they strove to com
prehend dimly this tale of the past. .
What was them stone houses for!
Hare-Lip Queried.
"You remember when your dad
taught you to. swimi" The boy nod
ded. well, in the University Of Cali
fornia--that is the name We had fol
the houses-we taught young mel
and women how to think, just as
have taught you now, by sand and peb
bles and shells, to know how many
people lived In those days. There
was very much to teach. The young
men and women we taught were called
students. We had large rooms in
which we taught. I talked to them
forty or fifty at time, Just as ] an
talking to you now. ] told them about
the books other men had written be
fore their time. and even. sometimes
In their time"
"Was that all you did?--just talk
talk, talkT Hoo-Hoo demanded. WHO
hunted your meat for you. and MIXED
the goats, and caught the fish?"
"A sensible question, Hoo-Hoo,
sensible question. As / have told you
in those days food-getting was very
easy. We were very wise. A few fner
got the food for many men. The 9th
or men did other things. As you say
talked. I talked all the time. and
for this food was given me-mucf
food. fine food. beautiful food. foo<
that / have not tasted IN sixty years
and shall never taste again. some
times think the most wonderful
achievement Of our tremendous civil
xation was food--its inconceivabl'
abundance, its infinite variety, III
marvellous delicacy. Oh. my grand
sons. life was llfe In those days, whel
we had such wonderful things to eat
This was beyond the boys. and the,
let II slip by. words and thoughts. as
mere senile wandering in the nara
tive.
"Our food-getters were called free
men. This was . joke. We Of the rul
ing classes owned all the land. all thu
machines, everything. These food-get
ters were our slaves. We took almos
all the food they got, and left them
little 30 that they might eat. and work
and get us more food"
I'D have gone into the forest ami
got food for myself" Hare-Lip an
nounced; "and II any man tried to TAX
It away from me I'd have killed him
The old man laughed.
did ! not tell you that we Of TIL
ruling class owned all the land. al
the forest, everything? Any food-get
ter who would not get food for M
him we punished or compelled 4
stafve to death. And very few di'
that. They preferred to get food 70
MS, and make clothes for US, and pre-
pare and administer to rs . THOUSAND
"a mussel shell. Hoo-Hoo--a thou
sand satisfactions and delights. Ant
I was Professor Smith In those days
{, Prof. James Howard Smith. And m.
lecture courses were vary popular
that II, very many Of the young msa
and women liked to hear mo tail
about the books other men had writ
ten.
CONTINUED Next Week.l