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

NJ" MUS 10, OF course,
when' they are scared to death.
Come with me-" he said. and
make your deposits"
We marched back through tho
college chapel TO the stewards of.
hce and the young m at tbe
counter said It would be s2s aniece
-s52. Why. We told her. We
thonght 1t was only $21 apiece She
said yes, she knew 1t was s21 apiece
In the cottages but the rooms were
taken and all had been taken in the
college building. too, but n couple
Oh Fellows had been expelled and we
could have their room. We counted
out our money and found we were
Two or three dollars shy. The hand.
some blonde young man reached in
his pocket and drew out his nurse
extracted a ten-dollar bin from
quite a roll, handed 1t to me and
said we could pay him hack when
we got the money. The girl called
him Mr.. President" and then It
dawned on US that this was Leigh
Hunt. the newly elected president of
the Iowa agricultural college. who
VIII say was the most remarkable
man | ever knew, and | worked for
him Tor five years afterward when he
was owner of the Seattle Post-Intel-
ligencer. low we longed to only
have the courage TO say TO him then
that We had net had our dinner or
breakfast or even our supper the
night before and were dying from
hunger, but we had not the nerve.
w were assigned TO our room, /
walked TO town and back and my
brother got our meager bedding and
outfit In and about 3 o'clock we
tumbled down on the bedding en- the
floor. clothes on. shoes on, and never
.awoke until we heard a bell ringing
and II proved to be after daylight in
the morning. incidentally we had
again missed our supper.
WI had almost ceased to be hun
CRY. We were weak and could hard
ly walk. Johnny said he would go
and find out II IL were possible to get
something to eat somewhere. He
came back saving II was just break
fast time.
In the dining hall we were ushered
TO a table and the only person | re
member at our table was a red.head-
headed fellow. about my age, with
a genial face. and when he got up
he proved 10 be short in stature. He
was one OF our own class, as common
rs an old shoe. possibly a little more
at ease than ourselves, for he had
been there a few days and had had
the advantage OF being raised in 4
parsonage and naturally was more at
home. lie had a grin that would
make others feel at home. too, as IL
did us. For looks. except for being
a couple of inches shorter and all
the Scotchy expression az face going
with 1t. he was a dead ringer for
Harry Johnston, the Ruth and Gold
Hill drug store magnate.
That was the gentleman who next
week is to be the guest Of the state
of Nevada. who holds down a posi-.
ton In President Harding's cabinet.
and II the president. yice-president.
secretary of state and enough other
cabinet officers should die. and he
should not. would become president
of the United States. II was Harry
Wallaee-since his fathers death,
Henry c. Wallace.
He didn't look a bit like his cons.
ins. Doug, Doc and o. NJ. Jr
We soon learned that he was from
Winterset. Iowa, knew some rela-
tiyes of ours and that he roomed
across the hallway from us, one door
TO the west. We also learned that
common as he was. he was the son
of Rev. Henry Wallace, editor and
owner of the Iowa Homestead. a Ia
nous farm paaer In Iowa.
W. ate regularly after that, got
assigned to our classes that day and
that night about dark we commenced
10 tumble with n glass bulb hanging
by a cord from the ceiling. with a
little fine wire inside the glass. We
had seer no lamps or candles around
there. My brother Il year before
had written a school essay on cleo
trio lights. invented about eight years
before. and said he thought this wa
one of them. VI looked II over fell
OF II a few times. observed the little
black faucet or whatever you call II
on the side, and decided we would
take a chance and try TO light II
First one and then the other turned
the little faucet. easily and slowly
standing back and leaning over FOR
ward. frightened out of our boots
from a possible explosion, bu' Il
would not light. We noted the sharI
point at the lower end of the bull
and said that must be thep lace tt
light II with a match. We lit two
or three matches, held them TO TN
snot and b~lackened the point witt
- o,,oko Still ii did not light