White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-04-08

ooout d week & why THIS 11Bnt
would not come on when we mon
keyed with it.
incidentally it was my brother
who had the honor of being the one
who had an accident with the dyna.
mo the night Julia Ward Howe lee.
tured there and she had to make her
spiel by candle light, which gave him
a chance to hear the great author of
The Battle Hymn of the Republic. ;
We became friends with Wallace
but Harry was never a fellow to
have intimates. Our friendship con.
tinued during the two years that
l remained in the school. II was his
nature to treat everybody the same.
never to get in bad with any person
and to not take a hand in ridicule
and sarcasm, so common among kids
of that age.
He had a roommate, also from
Winterset, named Brown. This kid
was a harem-scarem, wouldn't study
and wouldn't do anything. We con
tinued to be hard up but one day
Brown came boiling into our room
and said: Lend nj Is cents quick.
Got a chance to buy A purse" We
nearly died laughing and Brown
finally tumbled to why we were
laughing.
Those were the days of the auto
graph album fad and il a school kid.
male or female, did not have one no
was poor indeed and an object of
pity. Get along without anything
else, even TO being kept out of school
for want of funds, the autograph al
bum was essential. the same as today
Is its notorious successor, the auto
mobile.
Harry wrote In our albums and
we wrote in his. l don't remember
what he wrote, though 1t was some
nice sentiment. but when he gets to
be president Ill dig 1t up from where
1t has been cached for the last thirty
years at Seattle and publish 1t. The
reason ! remember what | wrote IN
his was first because | thought il
was smart when | wrote II and Their
after writing and spelling n page in
his nice album | got cold feet, think.
ing he would not like it. and so
wished to tear cut the page but did
not dare to do so. VIC were both
taking the agricultural course and
thought some farm sentiment would
be appropriate, so If Harry will dig
up the album today he will find on
one of those pages this epic:
Not every man can be a poet
No more than a sheep can be a
goat. l.. c. BRANSON.
That was not original but Harry
never saw it before and thought il
was, SO 1t answered the same pur.
pose. AS | said | got cold feet and
dreaded to show 1t to him but when
he read IL he laughed out in that
elattery way of his a good deal az
Mayor ALI Tamblyn laughs when he
is good and tickled. and the laugh
put me at ease. much as aid his gr.r
on the morning after. which 7 told
about.
W. both joined the Hayseed Club
and had many a debate. Durb Col
lier. a senior and the college proc
tor. was Its president.
While | lined" such things and
stood in with the %hayseeds all the
way through had no intention OF
becoming a farmer. for my famil,
had just gotten put of n farm
mortgage scrape. My object was to
get work on the college farm to pay
my board and expenses at the fabu
lous wage OF 10 cents an hour with
out board while | was getting m
education to become an editor, and
made 1t go. too.
Besides Harry other notables Were
in the class. | will mention two in
the same connection and paragraph
One was Henry Corbett, from Mel
son, Neb., who IA a fine student
and was an admitted bell wether q
the class of IS. Our teacher in
free-hand writing. Miss Budd. who
was a daughter of the Horticultural
professor. was smitten ON him. Ev
cry class session she would marel
around back of us. look over oul
shoulders, eriticise II work, always
managing to come to Henry's place
last and save for his work the high
est compliment of all. The day IL
mind Charley Bartholomew, from
Creston. Iowa, was sitting next to m'
and as she saw his sketch she forge
herself and almost shouted. That
better than the original But whei
the last word was half out Of he
teeth she threw her hand to her lips
thinking then of Corbett. of course
Sure the kids caught On. They wcr'
lightning in matters of that sort ani
they only quit ioshing Charley am
Henry when all handc quit the col
lege. Well Eta. or whatever he
name was. ought to have stuck to Il
for Charley became the greatest ear
toonist in the world during his day
- II. 44D.-tfs ..f.lp. In Min