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trapping for animals, raising reindeer, and numbering.
 Now l will tell you about myself. 1 am fourteen years old. Just think, my birthday comes on the 29th of February. Wasn't | that tough luck? 1 have brown hair and grey eyes. 1 am Engli sh, Irish and some Russian. think Pm mostly Irish, because l have an Irish temper. My pet hobby is dogs, 1 just love dogs.
 In the winter we have many sports. My favorite is dog -mush ing. Yesterday 1 hooked up two dogs to a light sled. The dogs names were Rex and Mig. Both are part malamute and husky We started out fine, but soon they wouldn't go fast. Then 1 cut myself switch. They would n't go, so 1 turned them around and started them for home. Say you should have seen those dogs go. l never had a faster ride in my lite. They didn't want to go away from home, that is why they wouldn't go at first. Don't you think they're smart?
 We also go skiing, sliding and skating. We all ski well because we have all skied ever since we were four or five yearr old.
 If any of you would like to write to us, we would always answer your letters, and tell you lOCS more about ourselves.
 Hoping you will enjoy our package, 1 am
 Cordially yours,
 Mariane Wills. My address is:
 Mariane Wills
 Mccarthy,
 Alaska. Box 464
 Mccarthy, Alaska
 March 5, 1925
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The Children's
 Orthopedic Hospital, 2107 Warren Avenue, Seattle Washington. Dear Friends:

Under separate cover we are sending you some gifts which we hope you will enjoy. All the children of the Mccarthy school are sending some toys. Leonard Brenwick gave a toy car and 8 toy builder. Margaret Ahrens gave doll and many other things. Louise Ahrens sent you some toys, too. We all sent you some books, too.
 We are sending to the Orth- opedic twenty five dollars. With this twenty five dollars they will get you braces and crutches. We got the money by selling candy to the people. There was
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Seats for J. J. C. Games

During the pro football season at
Washington Park, which will open
Sunday with the Indianapolis ]. ].
C.s meeting the Shelbyville Ameri.
can Legion eleven, there will be no
reserved seats in the park, the one,
popular priced admission ticket en-I
titling the patron to occupy any seat
in the grandstand, according a.
Manager Joe Canning. v
Several members Of the ]. ]. G..
club took advantage OF the locals
late start and last Sunday played
with other State teams, but these
players will be back in the ranks
when the outfit lines up Sunday
against Shelbyville, Canning said.
Sundays contest will start at 3
o'clock.
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Old Stuff From
Prexy Heydler
Blu United Press

Blu United Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 29.-'Being the
head of league that is represented
by one of the teams in the world s
series, it would not be in good grace
for me to make any predictions as
to the outcome of the series" John
A. Heydler. president of the National
League, said today.
Naturally L lean toward the
Cardinals, but realize the strength
and class of the Yankees" he said.
II do feel, however" he added,
that 1t will be a most Interesting
series because It will be the first
time that ST. Louis has won a Ma
tional League pennant."
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EASTERN POLO


BIZ United Press
WESTBURY, Z. l., N. Y, Sept. 20
The Hurricanes. by defeating tn
Princemore polo four IL goals to :
Tuesday, has won the right to con,
test for the Monty Waterbury me
mortal cup. The Hurricanes will
meet the Meadowbrook Army team
in the final on Friday The gana
viii be the last Of the Americ
polo season.
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Amateur Football

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TARTAR A. A. NINE

The Tartar A. A. baseball team
will hold its final meeting Of the
season at Speth's home, The fol-
lowing players must be present:
Seyfried, Priller, Beck. Seal, Har-
mening, Kuhn, Speth. ScAmalz. Den.
naman and Snowfall. Saturday the
Tartars play the Class 3 champs Of
Cincinnati at Riverside Diamonh
No. 1,
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MICHIGAN IN SHAPE

BIZ JHIItU FTt85
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Sept. 2e.-
The Michigan squad is rounding into
satisfactory shape for the first game
of the season Saturday when Okla
homa Aggies will be Ann Arbor visi-
tors. The kicking of Gilbert is espe-
cially encouraging.
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Injuries and refinements Of a more
civilized community.
His. brother, George Rogers Clark,
who was also living in Kentucky, and
was almost 20 years his senior, had
won lasting fame by forcing the
British out of the Northwest, and so
winning it for the United States. The
story of his capture of Vincennes
from the British General Hamilton,
is one of the most dramatic incidents
in the history of our country; when,
with a small company of backwOOds-
men, he made the long march from
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captain, when he was little more than
boy.
The Michaux Episode
For a long time President Jeffer-
son felt a desire to learn what the
vast country extending from the Mis-
souri, river to the Pacific cea con-
tanned beside Indians and wild ami
mails, and asked the Philadelphia
Philosophical society to send two
men across the continent. No ac-
ton was taken in this direction for
several years, and until the French
botanist, Andre Michaux Cor Mich
audi came to America to study trees
and plants. Jefferson then took the
lead as a member of the society, in
offering Michaux a thousand gum
a to undertake the journey, al
though about $4,000 would not have
gone far in Outfitting such an expe-
ditiOn
Notwithstanding this was an mad
equate amount, MichauX accepted the
proposition, and Lewis gained per-
mission to accompany him. The two
had only reached kentucky, when
the French minister, being informed
of the affair, and not wishing to en-
courage their investigation of Louis
lana, ordered Michaux to return and,
as McMasters states it, do his bot
anizing elsewhere" This was a sad
blow for MeriV ether LAWS, who was
but partially consoled for his disap-
pointment by becoming the private
secretary of jefferson, who was still
planning to send an expedition to the
Pacific.
The Michaux episode tended to
make the president more secret in
his preparations this time, until the
purchase of Louisiana having been
completed, he could work in the OPP
en-. Lewis had obtained. permission
to head the party, and. the better to
be prepared for the duties he would
assume, went to Philadelphia for a
short period of study.
A Mammoth Undertaking
Not a few months spent by. one
man in study, but a lifetime of in
VestigatiOn by many, would have
been required to carry out the in
structiOns given Lewis. He was to
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Kaskaskia in the dead of. winter, Y
er frozen marshes, and through we'll
nigh impenetrable forests, and sur
priced the Englishman, who had not
dreamed an enemy would undertake
such a hazardous journey at that
season.
Was a Soldier
Like his brother, William Clark he
was a soldier. He fought under
Wayne, and then may have had Le-
wis as a cOmrade, although the latter
was four years younger than he.
Clark likewise fought the Indians,
and attained the rank Of lieutenant.
It is hard to realize today that to
both Lewis and Clark, Indians were
no novelty at the time they started
west. Indians were all about them,
but they members of different
tribes from those they met later, and
differed from them in languages and
customs. Nor was there such a
great difference as might be mag
ined between the Indians and the
frontiersmen; n nearly as savage
as the other. If this statement is not
credited; it is only necessary for the
skeptic to read early Colonial his
tory, to- discover that our fOrefathers
were offered bOunties for taking IN
dian wOmen's scalps, which they
were not aVerse to earning. This Is
but One instance Of many similarities
that could be cited Of race likeness
both then and now. William Van
Loon truly says that the present day
man is "a neOlithic riding in a Ford
and smoking a cigarette" and the
sooner we admit this view Of our SOL
called civilization, the sooner we
mend q morals and our manners.
What kind Of an education Clark
received, I have been unable TO learn.
but probably the equivalent Of. that
gained BY his brother George, who
had what Was then known as q COM
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mon school course, which may have
grounded the student in the Three
RS" but looked upon spelling as
incOnsequential, and a subject the
individual ives best qualified to han
die, after his own fashion
Here are a few quotations from
one of Clark's letters to Lewis, which
are admirable examples of how he
dealt with the English language, and
many others can be found in the or
iginal journal of the expedition; but
in reading them it should not be for
gotten that the great men Of the per-
iOd were Indifferent spoilers, and that
Napoleon was said to be one of these.
Dear Merne:" the letter begins:
yours at hand touching upon the
ExpedishOn into the Missourie COun-
try, & I send this by special bOte up
the river to mete WOu at Pts'brgh, at
the FOarks. You convey a mOast
welcome and appreciated invitation
to join you in an enterprise cOngen-
ial to- my Every thought and Desire"
= = = Il need not say how content I
am to be associated with the man
mOast of all my acquaintance apt to
achieve Success in an undertaking Of
so difficult and perlOUs nature"
Clark, in the same letter, refers to
some Of their mutual experiences,
and also those of his family When
speaking of the latter he cites one of
his qualifications as a partner in the
proposed expedition: 1--WE are not
new to life among Savidges," the
very word "~Savidges," with this
spelling fairly makes ones blood run
cold, and it is the added I'D" which
does it. The peculiar spelling, and
the liberal sprinkling of capitals, be-
longs to the times, and not to the in
dividual.
Fought With Wayne at Fl
Clark fought with Wayne when but
81, and a few years afterward was
compelled 30 resign his lieutenancy
because of ~ill-health, but was rein
stated in the rank before Joining Le-
wis. The two were admirably cal
culated to be |cOngenial companions
on a journey which would try these
mems souls, on account of their in
innate association day in and day
out, week in and week out, and eX-
tending into months. 1t was an ex-
peTience which if successfully r
ried through, should have qualified
for saintship those who experienced
it without qUarrelings, as anyone
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ed to converse with the Indians, he
was forced to rely on his mulatto boz
dy servant, who, by chance, spoke
french. The servant translated the
message to Charbonneau, one of the
french guides, who could render it
into the dialect he used in talking to
MS Indian wife, Sakakawea. She in
turn translated it into whatever Ian
guage was necessary as they met
tribe after tribe along the way. She
was a squaw of western origin, and
mad been handed east among the
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MIS- ". ~. RNHHHmnmm AOOhAA6 LAAGHAg ~
il being the fash
ion in his day for gentlemen to have
smooth faces, it is possible to study
his. The best portrait of Captain
Lewis shows a long face with a high,
sloptng forehead, a large nose,
straight eyebrows over rather small
and sUnken eyes, a beautiful mouth,
and a firm chin but for the; cleft in
it. Taken as a whole, the impression
gained from the picture is that its
original was both sentimental and Of
a melancholy disposition.
Emerson HOugh has made Lewis
the hero of his story, The Great Adj
venture with TheodOsia Burr as the
heroine. While perhaps not. alto
gether accurate, the story. is we'll
worth reading for its historical set
ting.
Was OF AristOCratic Family
Meriwether Lewis belonged to that
aristocratic coterie which clustered
about Charlottesville, Virginia, his
father being a near neighbOr and in
innate friend of President Jefferson.
His granduncle, Fielding Lewis mar
ried a sister of George Washington.
The family was w~ell-tO-dO for that
period in our history, when there
were no very wealthy men, estimated
by present standards. How his sur
rOundings affected the explorer in
the days of his youth is told in Viii
liam Eleroy Curtis book, "The True
jefferson"
Jefferson having spoken in praise
of industrial habits, "Meriwether
Lewis, who was a very bright little
fellow, spoke up and said: If we
should work like Fielding and Thorn
as, our hands would get so rough and
sore that we could not hold our
books. And we need not work so.
We shall be rich, and all we want is
a good education, SO that we shall
be prepared to associate with wealthy
and intelligent people,
"'Ah,' said Mr.. Jefferson, the de-
mOcrat,I have thought of the re-
mark a thousand times since. Those
that expect to get through the
world without industry, because they
are rich, will be greatly mistaken
The people who do the work vii
soon get possession of all their prop
erty.'" A statement trUer then thar
it would be under present industrial
COuQlllOuSy DuI ClGdIly lnQlCdLlu6 NOV
jefferson regarded work
For all his expressed desire for ed
ucatiOn, Lewis could not have ha,
the equivalent of a high school train
ing. He was barely twenty when h
answered the call for volunteers t.
put down the "Whiskey Insured
ton" Thirteen thousand men weT,
enrolled. It was one of the first at
tempts OF the government to act a
a centralized power, and had a pro
nOunced diplomatic effect, in max
ing the United States more respected
by foreign powers.
Briefly stated, the trouble had it
origin in the difficulty pioneer farm
ers encountered in marketing thei
grain. It could be handled wit
greater ease, and sold at increase
profit when made into whiskey, an
the farmers rebelled against payin
the tax placed on it by the govern
ment. At the esnd of this engage
ment, Lewis was an ensign in tn
army, and campaigning with Genera
Anthony Wayne, won him the title c
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must have been a man Of strong
character to have filled the different
official positions he held.
Born, like Lewis, not only in Vir-
ginia, but in Albermarle county, ne
was a neighbOr of the man with
whom his name is linked for all time,
and lived near the home Of Thomas
Jefferson. When quite young he re
moved with his family to Kentucky
which was then a frontier region,
with what that meant, the rude man
ner Of life, and deprivation of the
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tage lay between the waters flowing
into the Gulf of Mexico, and the wa
ters flowing into the Pacific ocean,
and whether as good furs coulo nOC
be found about the sources OF the
Missouri, as were brought from Iue
Indians on the Columbia" Quite an
extensive program for two compare
lively unschooled men to carry L
For there were two, Captain Lewis
having associated with himself Lieu
tenant William Clark, the brother Oh
George Rogers Clark.
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That was not the day of scientific
training in America, and it was not
to be expected that even those high
in station were familiar enough with
the language to spell correctly. Pos
sibly J-effersonwas skilled in this re-
spect, but Washington certainly was
not. 1t was the heyday of individ-
ualism, when every man spelled to
suit himself, and left the reader to
interpret the writer's rendering Of
the language.
If the heads of the expedition were
none too scholarly, what of their
company? On these devolved almost
as arduOus duties. Professor Pax
son says of them: every member
of the party was ordered to keep a
record of the trip, was provided with
note book and waterproof cover Tor
his papers, and was directed to keep
hi9 journal by him at all times. II
there had been as much are taken
to procure men trained to know the
meaning of what they saw, as there
was to procure a record and keep
it safe, the expedition might have
added much to the store of facts. But
the men enrolled were sturdy pro-
ducts of the frontier, whose literary
habits were unframed. They were
able to live in the remote wilderness,
but none of them was a scientist ID
though or disposition. There was
not even a professional physician
among them, and no formal prepara-
ton was made for dealing with the
m Gan11n N nrTu. %mfhnC nN Tn1fnnd WnO
might block their way. The party
was heavily armed and stocked with
trading goods, but when Lewis want
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learn the sources of the Missouri and
Mississippi, locate the Lake of the
Woods, "cross the Stony Mountains,
and having found the nearest river
flowing into the Pacific ocean, to go
down it to the sea. All along the way,
the great features of nature, mouths
of rivers, falls, islands, rapids, pOr-
tages, were to be carefully located
by astronomical means. A study was
to be made of Indian life, what tribes
were met with, what food they ate,
what laws and customs prevailed
among them, what language they
spoke, what they did and what they
believed, were all to be noted down.
The animals encountered, the miner
ais found, the botany and physical
geography of the country were like
wise to be described. Nor were they
to fail to notice what kind of poT-
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tribes as a prisoner Of war, and had
taken on linguistic training as she
came. With three translations be-
tween herself and the Indian chiefs
Lewis could not nope for intimate or
accurate converse"
I have given this extended quota
ton, for two reasons. One to show
how little even a learned man of to-
day, realizes the conditions prevailing
in 10000. Where in America could
then have been procured two dozen
men, no more, who were trained as
Professor PaxsOn thinks they should
have been, who would have been will
ing to undertake such a perilOus
journey? Scientific men were not
plentiful in the United States at the
beginning of the nineteenth century.
1t is doubtful if all of the Lewis and
Clark expedition could either read or
write, then. how could they be 'eX-'
puected to keep a record?
My second reason for the quotation
was to emphasize the fact of the diff
ficulties experienced by the heads of
the expedition, in solving all those
problems concerned with Indian Ian
guages, customs, and beliefs? SAGA
jawea undoubtedly did her best, but
her scientific training was not up to
the modern professors standard.
Anyway, it is we'll proven, that it
was not "SacajaWea, the boat wO-
man." but "Sakakawea, the bird wO-
man." who was the plural wife Of
CharbOnneau; but under any name
her services to the expedition were
invaluable.
The company to which reference
has been mad, was not recruited all
at once, and when complete, consisted
of 3 members. Nine of these were
Kentucky backwoOdsmen, there were
IA soldiers, a hunter who had some
knowledge of the plains, two Canad-
ian vOyagUers, a negro servant and an
Indian interpreter.
The story of the expedition has
been told and retOld until every high
school student in Montana should by
now be familiar with it. They may
also know that both its leaders be-
came governors of louisiana Terri
tory, afterwards Missouri Territory,
and that both were given 1900 acres
Of land, to recOmpense them for their
invaluable contribution to knowledge
OF the Northwest.
Governor Clark died in st. Louis
when nearly 20 years Of age. The
subject of this sketch, M%eriwetheU
Lewis, the gallant soldier, the noted
explorer and personal friend Of
Thomas Jefferson, while on his way
to Philadelphia to have his journal
published as it is affirmed, was
slain, or. committed suicide in a Ten
nesee cabin where he spent the night.
His death has always remained a
mystery, although the general belief
Is that he suicided In a state Of tenn
porary insanity, caused by the ter
rlble strain, both metal and physical,
ne had endured while on his "Great
Adventure"
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will testify who crossed the plains in
pioneer days.
After leaving the last ~Outposts Of
civilization, these two men were de-
pendent on another for society,
Continued on Agricultural Page)
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thern near Cut
Bank, marking
the northermOst
point reached by
Lewis; but there
T compare
lively few who
know much of
the leader of this
expedition, al
though they may
be familiar with
his pO r a l I.
which is given
among those OF
other Trail BlaZ-
ers.
He was a fine
looking a and
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The Right
Breakfast
.forWOrkers
Eat Food that Supplies
Balanced Ration After
Nights Fast

IF YOU feel tired, hungry, ed
4 getty" hours before lunch. don't
jump to the conclusion of poor health.
Thousands have %unenergetic mornings
because they start days with break
fasts lacking IN certain food elements.
To feel right, you must have a we'll
balanced, complete breakfast ration.
At most other meals-lunch and din
ner-you get it. But breakfast is a
hurried meal, often badly chosen.
Thus Quaker Oats, containing 1879
protein, foods great tissue builder,
$50 carbohydrate, its great energy ele-
ment, plus all-important vitamines and
the bulk that makes laxatives seldom
needed, is the dietetic urge of the
world today.
It is food that Stands by" you
through the morning.
Quick Quaker cooks in 8 to S
minutes. That's faster than plain
toast. Don't deny yourself the natural
stimulation this rich food offers you.
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william Clark

w YHILE MeriWether Lewis has.
wv been made, in Emerson
w Hough's novel, 'The Magni-
Ecent' Adventure" its hero, I know
OF no instance where his associate
mas been similarly distinguished. He
occupied a second place Ga the great
expedition, and little interest is
manifested by the general public to
know more Of his history and per-
sonality. And yet William Clark
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(By MRS. NJ. E. PLASSMANN)
EONTANANS have always read
IV with eagerness the accounts of
the Lewis and Clark expedition,
and some of them have seen the
monument erected by the Great Nor