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Vesta

Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Volstead of Echo
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. C. w
Johnson Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Pettereins of Echo
motored to Vesta Thursday evening.
Ed. Engel of Okabena is visiting
this week with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. N. Engel.
DR.. and Mrs. McPheeters were
Storden visitors Thursday.
Harvey Anderson of Minneapolis
spent few weeks at the H. Harris
home at Vesta, the guest of Miss
Claire Harris.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Schiller of Vesta
left for New Ulm Sunday for a few
days.
Mrs. ]. B. Zueg of Storden spent
the weekend at the C. w. Johnson
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North Redwood

Mrs. Fred Wise and daughter Mae
of Franklin were guests last week
Tuesday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. j. Hutchinson.
Mrs. H. Hoffer was hostess to the
Union Home Missionary Society last
Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. H. Holdhouse of Redwood
Falls was the guest of her sister,
Mrs. Lamphere of Beaver Falls last
week.
Mrs. VIM. Hosken and children,
Mrs. Thos. Hosken, Jr., and Thos.
Hosken, ST., motored to Lake City on
Thursday.
Miss Betty Halter of st. Paul is a
guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
U. H. Lipp and other friends this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Evans of st.
Paul and Mrs. Harry Redman of Min
neapolis recently visited at the home
of MIR. and Mrs. J. E. Franklin.
Mrs. Margaret Dreyer and Mr..
and Mrs. Pete Shippman and daugh-
ter visited few days last week with
relatives at LIE Sueur.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Prodehl re-
turned to their home at Colorado
Springs, Colo, Thursday after few
weeks visit with relatives here.
Misses Mary and Viola Frederick
son spent last week at the home of
their sister, Mrs. H. Hoffer.
Mrs. John Schweinfurter and dau-
ghter, Susan, Miss Lillian Amberg
and Louis Schultz motored to New
Ulm last week Monday.
Miss Ruth Dittbenner and Beatrice
Miller of Minneapolis are visiting at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Hag-
berg and with other relatives.
John Rivers and daughter of Min
neapolis were callers last week at the
L. P. Dolliff Lumber Yards.
Mr. and Mrs. Vern Shoemaker and
daughter were guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Grant Gaffney of Willmar Sunday.
The Ladies Aid pleasantly surpris-
ed Mrs. G. Timm last Wednesday af-
ternoon, it being her eighty-third
birthday anniversary. The time was
served by three ladies. The out Of
town guests present were, Mrs. A.
Roper, Mrs. A. Schmahl and Mrs. F.
Schumacher.
Miss Adeline Mittelstadt who has
been attending summer school at Du-
luth returned home last Wednesday.
Miss Florence Draeger and Sarah
Simondet attended a parcel shower
for Miss Isabel Smith at the home of
Miss Alice Wester last Thursday ev-
ening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher and children
of Lucan were Sunday guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Ken. Gaffney.
K. p. Harris is enjoying his vaca-
ton from his duties at the bank. Miss
Florence Draeger is assisting at the
bank during his absence.
Adolph Lippert of Lamberton was
a guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Beck
er Saturday.
Mrs. A. w. Kruger and daughter of
Mankato are guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Lindeman this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Lindeman, Miss
Adeline Lueck, Harold Lueck and Mr..
and Mrs. Elmer Lueck and family mo-
tored to Echo last Tuesday to attend
the wedding of Mrs. Lueck's brother,
Leo Laabs.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Amberg and
daughters, Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Zim-
mer and Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Prodehl
were Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
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Kintire

Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Payne were
Twin City visitors the past week.
Miss Belle McCorquodale is visit
ing at the Sherman and Lucien Payne
homes this week.
Miss Ruth Peterson left for Min
neapolis after spending her vacation
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. W.
Peterson and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Mack left for
Viola, ILL.,, Sunday to visit their dau-
ghter, Mrs. Frank Bennett who is
ill.
Mrs. Helen Nc MILAN and chill
dren and Mrs. A. Leonard spent We'd
nesday at the Herman Muetzil home.
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G orres pon d e nee

John thinner.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Brown anG
family and Mr.. and Mrs. F. ]. Schaef-
er and family of New Ulm were Sum-
day guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. j
Simondet.
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Kamn:tz family at North Redwoo.
Sunday.
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enlivened by the steady wash Of dis
placed water as it slid past the TANKS
of the vessel. Finally we heard for the
last time the blessed signal. "Signor"
"Fineesh Turkey" said Feodor a 8 he
smiled and helped us through the
manhole.
Gone was the Bosphorus. In its
place we saw the leaden waters NJ the
Black Sea. From the portfolio of
Josef's cabin we could distinguish,
many miles west of us. the coast line
of the country in which White had
spent three years of the most dread
full captivity.
Feodor' soon left us, for he had 10
bring other stowaways into the light
Of day. From every concealed Granny
of the vessel men and women, as light
hearted as ourselves at deliVerance
from the Turks, were coming into the
open.
One of the stowaways, a passport
less woman, did not rejoice for some
time AS hiding place for her, the
captain had chosen n deep locker in
his chart room on the bridge. There
she had remained for the past two
days.
Now. Katrina. the kitchen wench,
knew nothing OF this, That morning,
not wishing TO send him back TO the
bunkers. where he had spent the pre-
vious days, she thought OF the locker
as a temporary home for a Turkish
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to feed. warm and lodge some % 200
travellers. well to do and poor to-
gether, annually. in spite of the old
grants and annuities having disap-
peared or shrunk lameDtably.
This being so. what do you think
the 5000 gay and arroga Mt tourists of
last Summer put into the aims box?
1t averaged less than what a mere
/ 900 of them would have been obliged
to pay in a hotel. That Is to say. an
average of one tourist IN six paid hon.
orably. The rest sneaked out OF it
they paid practically nothing!
For this reason the poor dogs have
less appetizing soups and biscuits.
Quantity they must have or else die
out. Once they had gold collars
every dog had! Now they wear worn
leather! They do not even know that
men have tried to buy them for large
sums. The good monks refuse such
offers gently. They would never send
their dog friends down below, 10 pant
miserably in the thick air Of the
plains.
And here is the queerest thing of all!
1t concerns only the dogs Of the
hospice, and not at all the 81. Ber-
nards, still fine. which you can buy
in towns of the two slopes-dogs
which have never seen the pass or
hospice, but descend from oidtime
overfiows.
The real dogs of the hospice take
their formal rescue orders only from
the monks, or canous. not from stu
dents or Brown Prothers tmarron-
niers), who, nevertheless, live with
them, feed them, train young dogs
and have their greatest affection. Yet.
before sending out the pack on a real
ANnp0ttiOn (OftAn with Brown Broth
ers}, monk, or canon has the chief
dogs up before him. one by one.
IL happens in silence II is strange
beyond words. Something passes!
When the strong souled, unworldly
man looks into the super dogs eyes,
something passes into the subcon-
seriousness of that high bred and
human companioned animal Of the
thin air and lonely heights,
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CHILDHOOD OF GENIUS.

GIVING 3ot of the geniuses of his
- tory an intelligence test is the lat
est feat Of psychologists at Stanford
University. The test was given to
John Milton. Michelangelo, Napoleon,
men and women born between the
years 1850 and 1850. Results OF the
Investigations have just been publish
ed by DIR. Catharine NJ. Cox. who was
assisted by DIR. Lewis NJ. Terman. Leila
Gillian and Ruth Livesay.
Historical records showing child
hood traits and mental talents of the
geniuses were used as a basis for CIV
ing out the intelligence ratings. e John
Stuart Mill. celebrated English philoso-
pher and economist, was awarded the
highest rank of all the 301 famous
children. His intelligence quotient was
placed at 1870. which is 80 points higher
than average mentality. At years
of age Mill wrote a history OF Rome.
and at 3 he gave Latin lessons and
was held responsible for the errors of
his pupil.
Three children were given Intelli-
gence ratings OF 1876, DR.. Cox reports.
These were Goethe, famous German
poet Grotius, who became a Dutch
theologian, and Leibnitz, who won
fame as a mathematician. Napoleon
and Beethoven got ratings Of 1876 on
their childhood mentality Byron was
given $50; MfcheIangelo got las: Lin
coin. 1926; Nine. de Stael. 1855; John Q.
Adams, 165; Coleridge, IT'S; Washing
ton 1875: Raphael 40
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thief. whose presence among us the
police suspected. Five times they
searched for her. The sun detailed
a man to watch the shore, and when
ever police launch appeared this
lookout would blow a whistle, All
the stowaways then scurried TO their
various hiding places.
White and I, being the most dan.
gerous cargo, were given the safest
and certainly the dirtiest-- hiding place
Of all. This was in the hallast-tanks
at the bottom of the ship, underneath
the propeller shaft. The entrance to
them was through a narrow manhole
covered by a castiron lid, about 20
yards down a dark passage leading
from the engine room 10 the propeller.
The alarm having been given.
Feodor, the second engineer. would
lead us along the passage by the
light of taper, remove some boards.
raise the lid, and help us to wriggle
into the black cavity below.
Our feet would be covered by
inches of bilge-water while we crouch
ed down, so as 10 leave him room
enough to replace the iron cover and
relay the wooden boards that hid It.
Then, one at a time, we crawied from
tank to tank through the water.
Halfway along the line of tanks
were two that contained small mat
treesee, which the second engineer
had placed in position for us After
the hrst day they were Boodsn with
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the clouds on the fertile plains of the
south. They could do ii with their
impedimenta by the Great st. Ber-
nard,
Otherwise, Napoleon had led his
armies round by the Mediterranean
and surprised nobody Otherwise.
Hannibal, with his war elephants
from Spain, had wandered back to
Spain or stayed in France Instead,
he climbed the grand old road to the
SHOWS of the pass elephants and alD
and descended on the vines and fig
trees of Capua. to the surprise and
CONSERVATION of Rornel
The dogs were taken up there, origt
nally, by an uncle of Charlemagne-at
whose court they had been bear
batting brutes for generations. He
gave a number of them to the noun
tain chiefs in part payment of toll,
when he took an army over the pass
in AID. 773.
So you see how long the dogs have
been up there-even before the ar
rival of st. Bernard of Mention, who
found them bear.hghting and taught
them life saving!
They are as big as calves as husky
as bears. as intelligent as folks. as
pedigreed as princes, as meritorious
90 SdIhtS anu do pune anu pldIu-llNiliS
as the monks. their masters,
Yet the unique dogs risk dying out.
The hOspfce is now poor. Before
the railroads. it was rich. The great
St Bernard route was one of the most
travelled and secure of Europe Dur
ing July, August and September it
Is still alive with traffic over dry
earth and rock, with quantities of
well-to-do tourists in mountain-geare6
brakes. But rescue work for such is
practically nil.
The dogs, unhappily, have to res
cue mostly poor folks on foot. and
adventurous tourists who risk wrong
tracks. AS soon as there is snow. the
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AVIATOR Is Struggled Out of Turkey in Vessels Tank
Beneath Propeller Shaft of Craft to Evade Officials

/ We stopped him in the street and
asked the way 10 r. A. F. head
quarters. Beatifically he breathed
whiskied breath at me as he stared in
unsteady surprise.
George" he called to his conpA !.
ion. the wars over, and here's two
English blokes in Civvies. Want TO
join the Royal Air Force, they do
Then. tapping me on the chest, "Doa n
chew join the Royal Air Force. We're
a rotten lot of drunks."
Armed with signed certificates OF
identity, we went to the officers rest
house 10 demand beds.
Speak English?'' said a quarter
master sergeant as we entered.
Yes"
Been expecting YOU The Greek
contractors sons, aren't you?"
Later. not long before the bulletin
| board showed the rumored armistice
with Germany to he premature. ar
| orderly in the rest house wished &c
share the great news that wasn't true
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ing the Black Sea. lust before 6
there came the shock Of bitter dis
appointment. The captains telegraph
changed, the engines subdued to dead
slow the vessel swung round into
the tide and seemed to remain sta
tionary for a quarter of an hour.
We had expected a last search by
the Turkish customs authorities at
the outlet of the Bosporus, and sur
missed that this was the reason for
the slackened speed.
But a repetition Of the whirring
and clanking on deck. followed by
a. loud splash, showed that the anchor
was in action again, and that some
thing more important than a mere
search was on hand.
X *
EOR two hours longer we remained
in the blackness, unenlightened
and very anxious. Then after the
usual removal IF the boards and the
Id. there fioated through the tanks
a low-voiced "Signor."
Feodor, candle in hand. was wait
ing for us. He whispered a warning
to make as little noise as possible,
because two Turkish officials were
on board. Having reconnoitered to
make sure that the way To Josef 8
cabin was clear. he led us there
The delay. 1t appeared, was because
the Turkish merchant had left some
Clearance papers at Constantinople.
He had left for the capital by motor
car and meanwhile two Of the GUS
toms police would remain on the
Batoum The merchant was expected
to return With the missing document
next morning. when permission to
leave would be given.
We slept in the cabin, and at dawn
descended once more to the ships
bowels. We spent five more hours of
purgatory in the ballast tanks. The
Batoum remained motionless during
three of them, but the last two were
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key. The noise from the engine room
was merely that Of a pump prepar-
ing the pressure. After three quarters
Of an hour it Quieted as suddenly as
il had begun, and we realized that
the Batoum was still moored in the
Bosporus between Seraglio Point
and the Sultan's Palace of Dolma.
Bagtche.
Soon after noon came the real mu-
sic for which we had waited The
telegraph from the bridge tinkled, a
fuller and more throaty rhythm radi-
ated from the engine room, loud
grinding and rattling from the deck
testified that the anchor had parted
company with the bottom Of the
Bosporus
4 few minutes later we felt the
ship swinging round, and swishing
and rushing of water told us that
this time we really were away. In
silence we shook hands.
For long hours we remained in the
Shiny tanks, crouched on the sodden
mattresses; but II was no longer pur-
satory The swish, swish Of the
screw chased away all sensation Of
discomfort. and there remained only
the realization that we had left Con
stantinople and soon would have left
Turkey.
BY early evening we had calcu
| lated the Batoum should be leaving
Turkish territorial waters and enter
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telephone from st. Rhemy, on the
Italian side. and the Cantine de PROF.
on the Swiss slope, notifies the hos
| pice of the passage of each vehicle
band of pedestrians, or solitary
adventurer.
| 1t is a. painful subject.
! Without the hospice, Il 200 pedes-
| TRANS, that Is to say fairly poor
| folks, smuggling, seeking work, going
| back and forth for the Italian climate,
+, or doing fairly honest trading. would
be in a wretched and dangerous
| plight each year!
| Without the hospice 5000 well-to.
do tourists who do" the pass In the
better weather would find it a less
| delightful and romantic adventure, ="
with probably some really painful
| details!
They might have to pay. for one
thing,
When a brakeload arrives at the
| hospice. they ring the bell on the
ancient porch and are welcomed by
a monk called Canon like guests al
a chateau.
With old-fashiOned courtesy. the
guests" are taken to their rooms,
and, after the meal, they are shown
round the church, the museum, and
the beautiful kennels, quite like
guests in a country house.
Never is there a hint of money.
Every tourist knows Gt is universal
conversation and guide books all ex
plain IT'D that each tourist ought to put
into the aims box at least what he
would have TO pay at hotel of similar
altitude. All provisions have to be
hauled up from Aosta. and in July,
August and September 80 horses are
employed daily in transporting fuel
from the Valley of Ferrit, miles
distant.
All tourists know similarly, in ad-
vance, that the hospice has grown
poor in modern times by continuing
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DR.. Cox explains that there was a
tendency for characters whose child
hood has been reported more fully by
historians to get higher ratings. be
cause full accounts brought out more
evidences of precocity. The ratings
are in many cases far too low. she
says.
The investigation was conducted to
shed light on the early mental traits
of geniuses. DIR. Cox finds that gen
orally eminent men and women show
signs of superior mentality in early
childhood.
I'VE are probably warranted In ex-
pecting superior adult achievement
wherever in childhood the intelligence
quotient is above $780," she states
But we may not he warranted in ex-
pecting a world genius II the zoo 10
is reached "
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Copper SkewerS.

NCIENCE again brings relief TO the
weary housewife. The long hours
spent in hot kitchen while roasting
the meat for dinner may be mate
rally reduced by the use Of copper
skewers and at the same time there
need be no worry as TO whether the
roast will he underdone or overdone.
Reports from the home economies
department or the University OF
California state that roasts run
through with copper skewers arc
jucier, tenderer and more appetizing
than those cooked in the ordinary
way and also require 30 per cent
less time for cooking. An economy
of meat shrinkage az we'll as or
time and fuel was likewise claimed.
The explanation Is that the copper
carries heat into the interior OF the
roast evenly and rapidly. while
meat fiber alone has very low heat
conductivity.
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Incubates 100000 Eggs.

THREE MILLION baby chicks a
year ia the output Of a California
hatchery. where the incubators have
a capacity of 100000 eggs. 80 tons Of
them, at time. Electricity is used
throughout. SAYS Popular Science
Monthly, to turn the eggs automat-
ically six times a day and 10 main
tain an even temperature of 100 de-
grees. After 81 days. electrically-op-
Grated gears open the long line OF
incubator doors so that the new
chicks may have light and air.
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with the nearest person, VINO hap
pened to he White. He stopped abort
on seeing a dubious civilian. But HIS
good fellowship wss not 70 be DE-
MED. Pidxin French being the means
Of liberalization between the multi
nationalized troops in Salonika and
the Greek civilians, he slapped White
on the hack and announced, "Mstsy.
Ia gusrFe sst ffnie'"
Metamorphosed by ordnance uni
forms from third class scarecrows to
the regulation pattern OF ohicer, we
spent glorious days of rest and re-
cuperstion
The thousa nd-m Odyssey ended
when, by way of Port Said. we passed
from Salonika the squalid to Cairo the
comfortable: and so to the world wilers
they dined. danced, demobili7ed, signed
peace treaties and went on strike. And
| time, the greatest of romantics, has
nearly persuaded me to believe that
enjoyed IT all.
Copyright 1927
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~ APT. WHITE ana /, nGtei
various adventures, had sue
ceeded in escap ping from cap
~ tivity as Turkish prisoners Of
war. and were now on our
way to Russia, disguised as Russian
seamen on the tramp steamer Batoum
Besides ourselves, the syndicate of
ships officers undertook TO carry
across the Black Sea two Greeks. a
Jewess wanted by the Turkish police
and four passportless women, all Of
whom. to the extent of some 30 10
100 pounds apiece. wished to leave
Constsntinople for Odessa.
Most of the crew. also. were SNUG
Cling men. women or material across
the Black Sea. Even White and / be
came infected by the contraha nd
craze, gsmhled successfully on a con
signment of leather, and so covered
some of our escape expenses.
At dusk when we left the wireless
cabin and paced the Swallowed portion
of the deck for exercise. we often
saw a small boat creeping toward
whichever side Of the Batoum happen
ed not to face the shore. Somebody
in it would exchange low whistlings
with somebody on deck-the second
somebody often being the chief engi-
neer, who headed the smuggling
syndicate.
When the boat had been made fast
to the bottom of the gangway. a fig
ure. or two figures. would climb TO the
deck and disappear. Sometimes they
brought and left a package; sometimes
it was a visitor himself or herself
who did not depart with the rowing
boat
a Turkish merchant had chartered
"a
and since our many delays in sailing
were the result of his haggling with
government officials over the amount
of baksheesh to be paid for permits
sion to export, the steward undertook
to feed the officers and crew for as
long as they remained at Constan.
tinople.
incidentally, he unknowingly fed
White and myself, besides the other
stowaways. He ordered more pro-
visions than were needed, and few
hours after the delivery of each CON
signneI1t boatload would be sent
back to the quay and carted to the
bazaars. The chief engineer, who
organized the sale, shared the proceeds
with the steward.
The chiefs methods of graft took
him into many dubious bypaths.
notably those around the offices of a
Greek coal dealer. After preliminary
plottings, he would order a hundred
tons. The coal dealer would deliver
80, the bill for 100 would be presented
to the Turkish merchant, and the
chief and the Greek split the value
of the missing 10 tons.
II was easy enough for the chief
engineer to make good the deficit by
burning 10 tons more on paper than
in the furnaces.
With all this Illicit traffic In men
and goods, there were some restless
half-hours during the last few days of
out stay in the Bosporus.
Trouble was caused by a woman
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Army Mule Endures.

The Army mule is still an integral
part of the United States Army, the
War Department having recently set
aside $4,000 for the purchase OF
these worthy animals IT s1e5 head,
says the Dearborn Independent.
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trance rahnd the corner, so aht yew
go, double quick"
That day Salonika gave itself up to
revelry, by reason of an unfounded re
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port that an armistice had been signed
on the western front One of the
celebratOrs was a certain second-class
air mechanic of the Royal Air Force.