Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-08-12
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The day of our runaway Mr.. Ton
Croft overlook us as we were enrout'
back to the scene of the disturbance
and taking us into his rig, drove t.
the spot and helped us look for on,
sp~ectacles. We could not find tn
said specs, and Mr.. Croft told of {
peculiar incident with his glasses IL
their home. He laid them in tht
window back of the lace curtains
When he went to get them he coult
not find them. They looked high ant
low for the spectacles for days at ode
times but no glasses. About a month
afterward when they had given up al
hope of ever seeing them again they
found them hanging in the lower apr
Of The lace curtains next to the wall
Happily science not only delves II
the pnraphernalia of war but also II
the things of peace. Now. as the
gMns of old Europe are laundering
aleng the battlefronts, comes the WORD
oil d non-skid banana peel-yes, sir
a non-skid banana peel, by crossing
the banana with a species of cactus
pear OF the west, evolving a sand
papsrlike covered banana, This oc
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California. Do you know, the fact
struck us with considerable force
that in this great age IN this grand
and great country peace and progress
move on with irresistible power in
spite of war and the din and disturb.
ance OF a half OF the world in deadly
strife. DO you remember that even
while our W great Civil war was in
progress Cyrus Nv. Field and his as.
scciates laid the first submarine tele,
graph line. All. perhaps some day,
III Gods own time, in the progress OF
the evolution of a more perfect man,
peace and her scientific victories will
not. be married by the fact of human
slaughter.
Another thing that has but recently
happened, out here in Nebraska, has
stuck In our mind for days while we
have pondered 1t over and over. The
state OF Nebraska was called upon
To- say who was her most distinguish
ed citi2en. It decided through an APP
pointed commission. One would have
naturally thought that Mr., Bryan
would have carried the honors, but no
Ia humble, hard working, devoted
scientist In the line OF chronological
research was named as the stats
most to be honored man. A man con
nected with the agricultural college
of that state "a man who had quietly
specialized On the grasshopper In Its
relation to growing crops, but whose
lifelong toll in the one direction had
resulted In knowledge which has
been Of vast benefit to his fellows,
not only Of his own state, but OF
Geighboring states, Of South America,
and across the sea. To show you
how humble this plain. workaday
scientist is, allow us to say we had
not remembered of ever hearing OF
him or his work before the other day,
even now. having mislaid the paper
containing the account, we cannot re.
naII His name nor the facts any more
lfhHfiSwe are relating. Mr. William
Jennings Bryan Is known in nearly
Axery single American home, has met
fefas of thousands of his fellow citizens
f8cs to face, has shaken their hands,
dAliherated In his country's halls
snY 6onkreBss has u thrice for. The
81 9lIest flce Id the gift of the Am
#erf6 III people has swayed the con.
wanfforfs great political party,
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