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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-20
Ice and Snow in Italy May
Freeze in Teuton Invaders
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WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES
IN ITALY, Dec. 20.-The fate OF
the Venetian plains today hangs
on the weather.
II Italy's lines hold for a fort
night under the tremendous Teu-
tonic pressure, winters ice and
snow will effectually lock the door
to the plains.
Both sides realize the supreme
necessity of a decision on both
sides of the Brenta river. IL italy
can make successful defense-as
she il now-and check the Aus
tro-Germans on their present line,
she will be ready for a spring
counter offensive.
Officials regard the present
situation as the most favorable
and the most hopeful for the
Italians since the original re-
treat.
During a. four-day continuous
assault by the enemy last week,
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the Italian fourth army put I'M a
resistance SO formida BILE as tc
win the unstinted admiration OF
both the French and British
armies.
Snow fell turnout the noun.
tain sector on Monday-the first
real winter weather. At the most
the enemy has only a. few DAYS
left before great drifts of snow
Will freeze him up.
But even should the worst
come to the worst and the Jtal-
Ian defense be wiped out, the Ital-
ian, French and British armies
are always ready to meet yapy
emergency.
The terrific intensity Of
the battle now raging is aptlv
illustrated by testimony OF
Austrian prisoners. They de-
clare they are driven to the
attack by a barrage fire of
their own artillery put be-
hind attacking waves and
constantly moving forward.
Tho Austrians must advance
or be wiped out by their
own guns.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-20

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. 20.
allied demands for be-
tween 100000 and 100000
tons of shipping In 1918, the U.
S. shipping board is hard pressed
to fill the order.
This was officially admitted to-
day by members Of the shipping
board preliminary to appearing
before the senate committee to-
morrow morning, opening an in
quiry into ship construction work.
But we've got to do 1t, and
WILL" Chairman Hurley declared.
With red tape and necessity for
frequent reorganizations of the
board and It's subdivisions, the
fleet corporation are
responsible for part of the delay.
"A serious condition" in ship
building yards also exists. OF the
old yards, 20 per cent are now
being used by the navy depart
ment. In the new yards establish
ed for emergency building. there
Is the tremendous work of orga-
MIXING labor to carry on the work
Nevertheless, Hurley Is prepar-
ed to go on the senate committee
grill tomorrow afternoon - the
first witness with a story of
much accomplished under trying
conditions and a promise of a big
tonnage delivery at the end Of
1918.
To-day the shipping board
received telegram from
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COAST SH,PYARDS TO
BUILD 100000 TONS

shipbuilders In Seattle, stating
that their yards would cer-
tainly produce the million
tons promised for next year.
Reports from Tacoma and
west coast yards alone show
ell that 100000 tons will
10 built.
Return OF Bainbridge Colby,
representing the shipping board on
the American commission to
Paris, has increased the figures
the allies have placed on what
America must contribute to the
shipping cause In 1918.
Increasing submarine successes
by tho German U-boats lead Of
ficials here to state 100000 tons
must be provided by this country.
Hurley will tell the senate com
mittee that day and night shifts
are being organized in the ship
yards.
Hurley is now In complete
charge of the shipbuilding work
a change from the regime under
Admiral Capps when Caps was
virtually in control OF the build
ing and Hurley the contracts. This
divided responsibility, 1t is claim
ed, led to confusion and delay
which Hurley now believes will be
eliminated by placing control UNI
der single head.
While Hurley is determined on
achieving at least the 5000, 600
ton mark by 1919, some critics OF
the shipping board declare he will
fall far short,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-20
SHAKEUP In
HAIG'S STAFF

NNuitNu EEtrS Ieuseu WhFesb
LONDON, Dec. 20.-Chamcellor
of the Exchequer Bonar Law told
the house of commons today he
could not state how many gem
erals had been permanently retlr-
ed in connection with recent op-
eratlons in France.
The declaration was made in re-
ply to q query impalled because
Of recent reports of a shake-up
among the members of Field Mar
shall Haigs staff.
London newspapers have been
reporting changes, presumably due
to British failure to prevent gains
by the recent German offensive
out of Cambria, which practically
lost to the British all ground
gained by Byng's great drive.
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HITS DIARIES
PRETTY HARD

Tacoma dairymen have been
hard hit by the recent floods.
According to Milk Inspector DR..
Button. the American dairy. Mt.
Tacoma dairy and John Baggen-
stus' dairy have all been forced
to cease business temporarily,
while several others have been
unable to get their milk to the
city.
There has been no milk short
age, however. as other dairymen
have taken care OF the customers
of the flood victims.
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PLAN SUPPLY
DEPARTMENT
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WASHINGTON, d. G., Dec. 20.
Details of the plan for the crea-
ton of a government supply de-
partment to cut red tape and
speed up production OF everything
needed to make war effectively,
were learned today.
This plan is sponsored by mem-
bers of both houses of congress
and will support legilation Great
ing the post, IL It is not created
by the administration on its own
initiative.
The plan contemplates three
chief subdivisions munitions,
clothing and general equipment
and food. In charge of each
would be the best man obtainabis,
without regard to whether he Is
q civilian or military man. The
chief OF the department. would
have a place in the cabinet.
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GENERALBACK
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PORTLAND, Or, Dec. 20. -
Exclusion OF all but Washington
GOAL from Washington, part of
Iowa, Western Oregon and North
ern California Is being arranged
by federal fuel administrators Of
Utah. Wyoming, Oregon and
Washington to offset the shortage
in the Utah-Wyoming district.
The shortage has been felt
while several Washington mines
have been closed owing to lack of
market Cooperation of producer,
dealer and consumer are counted
upon to make the plan a success.
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BRITISH AIRMEN
GET DIRECT HITS
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LONDON, Dec. 20.-Direct hits
were made by British naval avia-
works at Bruges, held by the Ger
tors on buildings of the Brugeois
mans. Tuesday night, an admi-
rally statement announced today.
A large fire was noted after the
aviators had dropped their bombs.
The statement also announced
several direct hits on sheds on
the vlisseshem aerodrome yester-
day. ~ ~ -sN ssgl
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ALIENATION
SUIT BEGINS

The suit brought by Hans Maui
seth against DR.. j. w. 6layden,
charging him with alternating the
affections of Mauseth's wife,
comes to trial Thursday afternoon
In Judge Chapman's court.
Browder Brown is the attorney
for Mauseth and Gordon and East
erday represent Slayden.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-20
BLAST KILLS
II MINERS
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 90
Twelve miners were killed in an
explosion of mine No. of the
Oar Dour Coal & Coke company
at Catoosa near here, last night.
Seventy-five men were in the
mine. All escaped except those
killed outright.
The explosion was confined to
the main heading" George Syl-
vester. engineer In charge. says
the blast may have been caused
by a keg of powder.
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Regulate Coal

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ZURICH, Dec. 20.--The Belgian
General Leman, who was In COM
mand at Liege. Aug. 81, 1914.
when that fortress was taken by
the Germans, arrived here today.
back from captivity. He is re-
turned IN exchange for German
prisoners.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-20
ALL DRESSED UP;
NO PLACE TO GO

SIOUX CITY, s. D., Dec. 20.
Mennonite and Huetterische
colony members are all dressed
up with no place to go. Antipathy
to the war and the draft caused
these community religious scots to
favor moving to some more
peaceful country"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-20

FOR SALE+$450, "A down, bal
ance easy, Groom house, porch,
fine well, all fenced, 100x109,
chicken and wood house, ber-
ries, fruit, fine soil, no rocks,
stumps, 4 blks. to school. In
quire 1913 Broadway.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-20
2O-ACRE FARM

ACRES ready for pillow, half bot
tom land, some good timber, locat-
cd south of Gig Harbor on county
road. This Is worth 1920. For
quick sale 800; terms.
|. Fl. J. SCHWINN d co.
216 Tacoma Bldg.
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FOUND

re oLDR BooKR sHoPPE, sOIH
January LIST. Better browse NOW
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CITY Garden Homes

City Garden Homes
WE HAVE two 1-acrs homes each
with fine modern Groom bunga-
low and one with a 5-room bum
galow, which We can sell at a low
price on very easy terms; We also
from 4 lots to one acre. II you
want a home in the city where
you have all the modern oonve-
-niences and where you can have
fruit, vegetables and chick ems, let
us show you at once. as they Will
only be on the market very
short time.
JAMES A. MASON
GEORGE M. ELLIOTT
EOS Equitable Bldg. Main 21Ts
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To-day the shipping board
received q telegram from
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Exchange
6O-ROOM HOTEL

room In connection,
all complete with kitchen range,
soft drink parlor, big fine cash
register, cigar cases, large porce-
lain ice chest, electric plano cost
$1,000; Will rent for $50 leaving
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23

STOCK MARKET
~~~~~~~~~

New York, April 23-Opening.-The
mixed changes which have character
lied recent operations in | the stock
market were again observed on the
resumption of trading today First
quotations tended toward higher lev
els especially in equipments, NUM-
tons, shipping and standard indus
trials. There was recurrent heaW-
ness, however, in motors, Industrial
Alcohol and utilities. United States
Steel son forfeited its slight gain and
metals inclined downaward on light
dealings accompanied by irregularity
in railroads, Harvester and oils
Neutrality-suspicious. proceeded with
caution, this being most evident in
the insignificant turnover of the morn
ing. Offerings were tentative and the
demand equally narrow. Prices hard
ened generally in the first hour. ef-
facing most early losses and adding
moderately to first gains, but the rise
was stubbornly opposed by the pro-
fess1onal element. United States Steel
made an extreme recovery of about a
point and other leaders moved in like
manner, but coppers and specialties
made little resistance to further pres
sure. the list yielding again before
noon. Bonds were irregular.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23
of Finance nance
materially restricting the amount {

materially restricting the amount OF
American money going into new do
nestle enterprises. For a period at
least, many extensions, improvements
and engagements will have to be
postponed. A few years ago our rail-
roads were accustomed to absorb
about a billion dollars annually and
hundreds of millions at the same time
went into all kinds of industry Such
investments will be largely curtailed
until the war is over, when they will
again be taken up. There has been
considerable uneasiness, perhaps
more than necessary, over the gov
eminent tax proposals. Both the ex-
cessive corporation and income tax
proposals excited grave concern lest
they intimidate capital and discour-
age new enterprise. There is much
difference of opinion as to what pro-
portion of the cost Of the war should
be born by taxation and what by
bonds. So far as taxation goes, the
object should be to raise as large a
sum by taxes as feasible and consis-
tent with an equitable distribution
upon all classes; the higher rates Of
course falling upon those best able
to bear them. AT the same time, seri-
Gus self-injury would be inflicted if
the rates were carried SO high as to
dry up the springs Of capital and i'm
pair home enterprise. This is a prob
lem which Congress Is endeavoring to
solve; and the Administration can no
doubt be safely depended upon to
handle the expected bond and note
issues with as little public inconven-
fence as possible. One decidedly en-
couraging feature was the report that
the Interstate Commerce Commission
would grant the railroads their re-
quests for an advance in rates to COM
pensate for recent increases in ex-
penses.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23
LEGAL NOTICE
OFFICE OF THE FAIRFIELD
UNDERWEAR COMPANY

OEEICE OE'
UNDERWEAR COMPANY
Fairfield, Conn, March "a. 1917
CALL FOR STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING
Pursuant to the statute in such
case provided and pursuant to the
votes of the directors Of The Fairfield
Underwear Company reading as fol-
lows:
VOTED: That the corporate exist
ence of The Fairfield Underwear Co.
be terminated and that it's affairs be
wound up in accordance with the
provisions of the statute.
VOTED: That special meeting of
the stockholders be held on the 28th
day of April, 1917, at o'clock, p.
M, at the office Of said corporation,
in Fairfield. for the purpose of act
ing upon the confirmation of the
foregoing vote; that a call for such
meeting be duly issued, to contain a
copy Of said vote, that said call be
published once a week for four weeks
next preceding the meeting thus call
ed, in the Bridgeport Farmer, news
paper having circulation in the town
of Fairfield, the town in which said
corporation is located, and a copy of
such call be sent by mail to the last
known address Of each stockholder:
which votes were duly and unanimous
ly passed at a meeting Of the directors
Of said corporation held at Fairfield
on the oath day of March 1917;
A meeting of the stockholders Of
said corporation is hereby warned
and called to be held at the office Of
said corporation in the said Town Of
Fairfield on the 28th day of April,
1917, at 2 o'clock, p. M, for the pur-
pose Of passing upon the confirmation
Of the vote of the directors to termi-
nate the corporate existence of said
corporation, to take such other steps
as may be properly incidental there
to, and to transact such other business
as may properly be brought before
said meeting.
Dated at Fairfield, Connecticut, this
gath day of March, 1917.
r. w. s. PICKETT,
Secretary,
Fairfield, Conn.
U1u* III
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23
April 20, 1917

April 20, 1917
Allis Chalmers PAW
Allis Chalmers pfd. s1h
Am. Beet Sugar e2M
Am. Car & Fdy. Is
Am. Can N43
Ann Hide & Lea. pfd 61h
Am. Smelt & Re. Co. 9Yh
Am. Sug. Refg. Co. 111M
Am. Tel. & Tela 124
Am. Wooden 48
Am Zinc 301s
Alaska. Gold 79s
Att. Gulf & W. Indies 90
Atch. T. & S. Fe 102
Anaconda Copper 74B
Baldwin Loco. 50
Baltimore & Ohio 76A
Bethlehem Steel 'tB' 116M
Brooklyn Rapid Trans. 64H
Butte & Sup. 411z
Calf. Petroleum 20
Cen. Leather Co. s2k
Chi. M. & st. Paul SOM
Chi. & Great. w. 113s
Chile Copper 21ss
Chino ,s 81 :.
Chesapeake & Ohio 6011s
Consolidated Gas 111A
Corn Products 235s
Crucible Steel 591a
Cuban Cane Sugar 451s
Distilleries Securities 1925
Erie 26z
Goodrich Co. 48
CT. Northern Pfd. 1925
CT Northern Ore 3O5s
Green Cananea 40
Inspiration Copper 521a
International Nickel 40%
marlborough Cons. 10A
Interborough Cons. Pfd. 60
Inter. Mer. Marine 26 :
Inter. Mer. Marine Pfd. TIN
International paper - 3Sk
Kennecott Cop. 415s
! Lackawanna Steel 33
Lehigh Valley 65M
Maxwell Motors AN
Mex. Petroleum ssh
Midvale Steel Sc
Miami Copper 4O5s
Mo. Kan. & Texas
Nevada Cong %
National Lead Co. 545s
Norfolk & western f12s
N Y. Central 93A
N. Y, N. Fl. & H. 401s
Pennsylvania SO
Pressed Steel Car ~
Ray Cons 2S3s
Reading 1913
Repub. Iron & Steel 10
Sloss Sheffield & Iron AK
Southern Pacific 93A
Southern Railway 28M
Southern Railway Pfd. 58A
Studebaker Corp'n., SAh
Texas Oil 207
Union Pacific 1868
u. S. Ind. Alcohol 104A
u. S. Rubber 1914
U. s. Steel 111A
Z. S. SmeIter 55
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23

The American people are watching
out carefully for the plotters during
the daylight hours, which Is just the
time the plotters are asleep.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23
TAXES, GRAND LIST OF 1915

TAXES, GRAND LIST OF 1915
Notice is hereby given to the tax
payers Of the City of Bridgeport, that
the taxes on the granad list of 1916
are now due and payable at the Tax
Collectors Office, Room 6, City Hall.
The undersigned will be at the Col
lector's Office as above, on May 1st,
1917 and daily thereafter, Sunday ex-
cepted. from 9 a. M to D. m. and
Saturday from a. M to IL m. for
the purpose Of collecting said taxes.
After June list, as required by law,
interest at the rate of three-quarters
of one per cent, will be added to all
unpaid taxes and the same on the
first Of each succeeding month.
HOWARD F. SMITH,
Collector.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23
New York Stock
Exchange Quotations

Reported over the private wires OF
T. L. Watson & Co.. Bankers and
Brokers. Corner Main and John Sta.
Bridgeport, Conn. Members Of New
York Stock Exchange.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23
MAIN ST. STORE TO RENT.

The best location in Bridge
port, store 1893 Main street,
now occupied by the Union
Dry Goods Co., will be for rent
July 1. Apply to E. H. Dillon &
Co., 11O5 Main street.
r % II =
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23

III. IA. LEOPOLD is now located in his
fine new store. 1493 Main st. oppo-
site Armory. Bicycles, Edison
Cylinder Photographs and recordA
Repairing OF every description.
B II ale
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23
PLUMBING AND HEATING

IF YOU DESIRE first class plumbing
call on New York Plumbing and
Heating contractors: also jobbins
and Thinning promptly attended ia.
1721 Main St Phone 1899.
b ~ ale
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23

WE HAVE REMOVED to our now
market 1879 Main street. All meats
20 a pound less tina others. Also
cattle, pigs and poultry bought. II.
AaronSon.
n Z ale
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23
=. Finance, Real Estate and Insurance ..
ROSTGN STOCKS.

Boston 1880 p. M. Prices Reported
Over Private Wire to T. l..
Watson & Co.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23
PHOTO SUPPLIES

CAMERAS, Films. papers. supplies.
developing, printing, charging for
amateurs. Arcade Photo Supply
Studio. 23 Arcade.
s 16 alls
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23
POSITIONS WANTED
REMOVAL NOTICE

NOTICE-Dr. James II. Daevis, NJ. T..
will change address from No. 12<2
State street 70 the corner OF State
street and Park avenue. Will be
open for business at new address
Saturday. Jan. ~. 1917.
A - III
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23
WATCH REPAIRING

IF YOU PAY STORAGE and small
balance due on good upright piano
it is yours. Write the Gibbs Piano
Co., 71-73 Main ST., Springfield.
Mass. S Ia
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23

JENNIE A. BALL-0raduate N. 7.
School Of Deruatology. Growth OF
hair on face, warts and molcs re-
moved by electric needle. Facial
massage and scalp treatment. Room
40. 111k Main street. PhOno Ole.
- = - ALL
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23

SEEDS, GARDEN, Field and Flower.
Lawn ssed. white clover, alsyke
clover, alfalfa, timothy, fresh and
reliable: fertilizers. sprayers. spray
Ing materials, Pratt baby chicl3
food and poultry supplies. VIM.
Willis, 81 Wall St. Barnum 684o.
~ 8 "a sss
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23

FLUFF RUGS-Made from old car
pets, Call us Barnum 1856.
s 8 ali
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23

CARPETS CLEANED by the old re-
liable Bridgeport Steam Carpet
Cleaning Co., Tel. Barnum 1855.
S 8 ale
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-23

TO RENT-U pleasant room flae. ali
improvements. $40. Adulta Call
1906 North Ave.
A 8 stf
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-05-18

he had taught the men to cut for him,
and they were beautifully illustrated.
He drew admirably. He had some of
the funniest drawings there, and some
Of the most pathetic, that have ever
seen In my life. I wonder who will
have Nolan's scrapbooks.
Well, he said his reading and his
notes were his profession, and that
they took five hours and two hours
respectively of each day. "Then,"
said he, every man should have a di-
version as well as a profession. My
natural history is my diversion" That
took two hours a day more. The men
used to bring him birds and fish, but
on long cruise he had to satisfy him
self with centipedes and cockroaches
and such small game. He was the only
naturalist I ever met who knew any
thing about the habits Of the house fly
and the mosquito. All those people
can tell you whether they are Lepi-
doptera or Steptopotera but as for
telling how you can get rid OF them,
or how they get away from you when
you strike them, why, Linnaeus knew
as little of that as John Foy, the idiot,
did. These nine hours made Nolan's
regular daily Occupation" The rest
Of the time he talked or walked. Till
he grew very old, he went aloft a great
deal. He always kept up his exercise
and / never heard that he was i'll. If
any other man was Ill, he was the kind
est nurse in the world; and he knew
more than half the surgeons do. Then
IL anybody was sick or died, or If the
captain wanted him to on any other
occasion, he was always ready to read
prayers. / have remarked that he
read beautifully.
My own acquaintance with Philip
Nolan began six or eight years after
the war, on my first voyage after /
was appointed q midshipman. 1t was
In the first days after our slave trade
treaty, while the reigning house,
which was still the house Of Virginia,
had still q sort Of sentimentalism
about the suppression of the horrors
Of the middle passage, and something
was sometimes done that way. We
were In the South Atlantic on that
business. From the time / Joined,
believe I thought Nolan was a sort of
lay chaplain---a chaplain with a blue
coat. / never asked about him. Ev.
erything in the ship was strange to
me. knew 1t was green to ask cues
tons, and I suppose I thought there
was a "Plain-B Buttons" on every ship.
We had him to dine In our mess once
a week, and the caution was given that
on that day nothing was to be said
about home. But IL they had told us
not to say anything about the planet
Mars or the book Of Deuteronomy,
LIQUID not have asked why; there were
a great many things which seemed to
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-05-18
% Nan Without
q A Coluntty q
81 Eduard Everett Hale
CONTINUED from last week.


have been near eighty when he died.
He looked sixty when he was forty.
But he never seemed to me to change
a hair afterward. AS I imagine his
life, from what have seen and heard
OF 1t, he must have been In every sea,
and yet almost never on land. He
must have known In q formal way,
more officers In our service than any
man living knows. He told me once,
with grave smile, that no man in the
world lived so methodical life as he.
You know the boys say I am the
Iron Mask, and you know how busy
he was" He said it did not do for
anyone to try to read all the time, more
than to do anything else all the time;
but that he read just FIVE hours day.
"Then," he said, ~ keep up my note
books, writing In them at such and
such hours from what I have been
reading; and / include In them my
scrapbooks." These were very curious
indeed. He had six or eight, Of differ
ent subjects. There was one Of his
tory, one of natural science, one which
he called "Odds and Ends" But they
were not merely books Of extracts
from newspapers. They had bits Of
plants and ribbons, shells tied on, and
carved scraps Of bone and wood, which