Bellefonte, Pa., February 10, 1922.
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LINCOLN.
By James Russell Lowell.
Life may be given in many ways
And loyalty to truth be sealed
As bravely in the closet as the field,
So bountiful is fate.
But then to stand beside her
When craven churls deride her,
To front a lie in arms and not to yield—
This shows, methinks, God's plan
And measure of a stalwart man,
Limbed like the old heroic breeds
Who stand self poised on manhood’s solid
earth,
Not forced to frame excuses for his birth.
Fed from within with all the strength he
needs.
Such was he, our martyred chief,
Whom late the nation he had led,
‘With ashes on her head,
‘Wept with the passion of an angry grief.
Forgive me if from present things I turn
To speak what in my heart will beat and
burn
And hang my wreath on his world honor-
ed urn.
Nature, they say, doth dote
And cannot make a man
Save on some wornout plan,
Repeating us by rote.
For him her old world molds aside she
threw,
And, choosing sweet clay from the breast
Of the unexhausted west,
With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,
Wise, steadfast in the strength of God
and true.
How beautiful to see
Once more a shepherd of mankind, indeed,
Who loved his charge, but never loved to
lead;
One whose meek flock the people joyed to
be,
Not lured by any cheat of birth,
But by his clear grained human worth
And brave old wisdom of sincerity!
They knew that outward grace is dust;
They could not choose but trust
In that sure footed mind’s unfaltering skill
And supple tempered will
That bent like perfect steel to spring and
thrust.
His was
mind,
Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy
bars,
A sea mark now—now
blind ;
Broad prairie, rather, benial, level lined,
Fruitful and friendly for all humankind,
Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of lof-
tiest stars.
no lonely mountain peak of
lost in vapors
Nothing of Europe here
Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward
still
Fre any names of serf and peer
Could Nature's equal scheme deface
And thwart her genial will.
Here was a type of the true elder race,
And one of Plutarch’s men talked with us
face to face.
I praise him not; it were too late.
And some innative weakness there must
be
In him who condescends to victory
Such as the present gives and cannot wait,
Safe in himself as in a fate,
So always firmly be.
He knew to bide his time
And can his fame abide,
Still patient in the simple faith sublime,
Till the wise years decide.
Great captains with their guns and drums
Disturb our judgment for the hour,
But at last silence comes.
These are all gone, and, standing like a
tower,
Our children shall beheld his fame—
The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing
man,
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not
blame,
New birth of our new soil, the first Amer-
ican.
HOW WE MAKE
ALASKANS HAPPY.
A wholly novel and original scheme
recently adopted by Uncle Sam is
bringing comfort and happiness to
great numbers of Alaskan natives,
with the additional advantage of rais-
ing them in the scale of civilization.
In fomer times, when intertribal
warfare went on more or less con-
stantly, the sites of villages in south-
ern Alaska were chosen in many in-
stances with reference rather to stra-
tegic security than to advantageous-
ness for hunting, fishing and trading.
Hence, in later days these small cen-
ters of population have in some cases
bosoms poverty-stricken and wretch-
ed.
Alaska is a vast territory, with
plenty of unoccupied and desirable lo-
cations. Why not remove the unfor-
tunate villages bodily and settle their
inhabitants in places where they would
have a chance to prosper?
This was the big idea. Suitable
tracts were picked out and reserved
for the purpose by Executive order—
areas in which fish and game were
plentiful, where unlimited timber was
to be had, and where the natives
would have opportunity to develop and
conduct for themselves commercial
and industrial enterprises.
There was no question of compul-
sion; no notion of interfering with
anybody’s liberty. The idea was mere-
- ly to make the reservations so attract-
ive from an economic and social point
of view that the natives would gladly
move into them.
For example, take the case of the
Hydah Indians, occupying the villages
of Klingquan and Howkow. They
were starving. A tract twelve miles
square, uninhabited, bordering upon a
bay on the west shore of Prince of
Wales Island, was chosen for them.
It offered an abundance of timber,
with plenty of fish and game, fresh
water and accessibility to trading ves-
sels.
The Hydahs were pleased enough to
move. They made the “trek” by wa-
ter in a fleet of canoes, taking with
them all their portable property. A
clearing was made in the primeval
forest; a school house was the first
building erected; then rows of neat
cabins along a newly created Main
street. In the meantime a saw mill
had sprung up as if by magic, fully
equipped, to provide the requisite
lumber.
Only a generation removed from
savagery, these people have already
built for themselves a thriving, well-
laid-out, electric lighted, self-govern-
ing town, with several miles of plank-
ed streets, a modern dock and float
landing, a cannery, a church, a co-op-
erative store, a shingle mill and a
lumber yard. To transact the mer-
cantile business of the settlement, the
inkabitants have organized the Hy-
daburg Trading company, the stock
of which, originally $10 a share, is to-
day quoted at $228.
The Eskimos at Deering, on the
bleak coast of the Arctic Ocean, were
obliged to dwell in holes underground
for lack of timber. Disappearance of
game animals threatened them with
starvation. Three years ago they
were removed to a tract fifteen miles
square, well forested and abounding
in game and fish, on the Kobuk river.
Here, within the Arctic Circle, they
have built a little town which they
call Noorvik, with well laid out streets,
neat, single-family houses, gardens, a
saw mill, a plant for electric lighting
and—imagine it—a radio station,
which keeps them in touch with the
outside world!
Formerly it was possible for the
Eskimos on the shores of Behring Sea
and the Arctic Ocean to dispose of
their valuable furs, ivory and whale-
bone only by sale to traders. The
prices they obtained were low, and
usually they were in debt. Today,
availing themselves of the parcel post
and of newly acquired opportunities
for shipping their own goods, they
forward all such merchandise to a
government office at Seattle, which
sells it at public auction, returning to
them its full value.
Once a year—in the summer time,
of course—a government ship carries
supplies to the Arctic coast of Alas-
ka, stopping at one village after
another and delivering hundreds of
tons of food, packages of clothing,
household goods and building mater-
ials—all of this stuff being purchased
with the proceeds of the furs and oth-
er products of the land sent out by
the natives in the previous summer.
The greatest work for the benefit
of the Alaskan natives, however, has
been the introduction and development
of the reindeer industry. Thirty years
ago there were no reindeer in that
Arctic province of ours. In 1892 the
first of them, 171 in number, were
brought from Siberia by the revenue
cutter Bear. There are now in Alas-
ka 216,000 reindeer, valued at $4,-
500,000, and two-thirds of them are
the property of natives.
The original object was to furnish
a source of food and clothing for
starving Eskimos in the vicinity of
Behring Strait. So successful did the
enterprise prove that it was expand-
ed. Within less than a generation
the reindeer industry has advanced
through one entire stage of civiliza-
tion of the Eskimos all the way from
Point Barrow to the Aleutian Islands.
It has raised them from the primitive
to the pastoral stage, from nomad
hunters to civilized men, possessing
in their herds an assured maintenance
and even an opportunity to accumu-
late wealth.
BOB-WHITE THE BUG
DESTROYER.
Every shot fired this season at the
bob-whites that are wintering in your
fields is a shot at your pocketbook,
says Farm and Ranch. Quails destroy
millions of hibernating bugs that
would otherwise awake next spring to
fall hungrily upon the product of field
and garden.
“While you fight the chinch-bug, re-
double your efforts to increase bob-
white quails,” says A. C. Burill, of
the Missouri College of Agriculture.
“They are said to eat from 500 to 1,-
000 chinches at a meal, and their
stomachs crave another meal every
two hours. At least this is the usual
rate of digestion in most insect-eating
birds. Quails are the only wild birds
which specialize on chinch-bugs in the
winter season.”
To protect the bob-white the most
effective plan is for several farmers
co-operatively to publish a notice in
the county papers forbidding hunters
to shoot quails on their premises. This
has been done successfully in several
Missouri communities. Many county
papers already are running such no-
tices properly drawn up by a lawyer
and kept standing in the paper
throughout the hunting season. In
such cases the publisher will add the
name of any farmer in the county
and keep it there for, say, 50 cents for
the season.
Protect the quails; they will fight
your bug battle for you—winter and
summer.
Don’t Ignore the Insect.
Fascinating as is Henri Fabre's
study of the insect world, we seldom
think of what would happen to us all
if the insects of the earth, multiply-
ing as they do, all came to maturity.
Huxley is quoted as saying that one
green fly, in ten generations, accidents
apart, will produce a mass of organic
matter equivalent to 500,000,000 hu-
man beings—that is, equal to the Chi-
nese Empire in sheer mass of living
matter. A single hop-louse will pro-
duce in one season nine and a half
quadrillions of young. If nature,
“oareful of the type,” “careless of the
single life,” only brings one of fifty
seeds to bear, we may well be grate-
ful that out of billions of hop-lice,
aphids, midges, beetles, spiders and
other like creatures, only one in a
multitude reaches the reproducing
age. All children should be taught
to protect the ladybird, or ladybug, as
some call it—the pretty little red-
winged bug that destroys millions of
harmful insect eggs.
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Why Lincoln Told Stories.
Chauncey M. Depew, of New York,
a famous story teller, told thus why
Lincoln was fond of “yarning:”
«] can remember a conversation
with Abraham Lincoln, who was the
original story teller of this country,
in which he said to me: ‘Depew, they
say I talk too much and tell too many
stories. They say it does not comport
with the dignity of the Presidential
office and that it detracts from my
sersonal dignity; but, Depew, the
sommon people—the common people
—like plain talk, and they understand
vhat IT mean when I tell them a story,
nd I don’t believe I shall quit it just
because it isn’t considered dignified.”
WHEN LINCOLN DID
NOT GET HIS WAY.
The application of a man who want-
ed to be chaplain in the army duing
Mr. Lincoln’s administration was re-
cently found. Attached to it are a
number of indorsements which are
not only interesting in themselves, but
aid in disclosing the characters of the
two men whose influence largely mold-
ed the policy of the government in
those turbulent times. The indorse-
ments by President Lincoln and Sec-
retary of War Stanton read as fol-
lows:
Dear Stanton—Appoint this man
chaplain in the army.
A. LINCOLN.
Dear Mr. Lincoln—He is not a
preacher.
E. M. STANTON.
The following indorsements are
dated a few months later, but come
just below:
Dear Stanton—He is now
A. LINCOLN.
Dear Mr. Lincoln—But there is no
vacancy.
E. M. STANTON.
Dear Stanton—Appoint him chap-
lain at large.
A. LINCOLN.
Dear Mr. Lincoln—There is no war-
rant of law for that.
E. M. STANTON.
Dear Stanton—Appoint him any-
how.
A. LINCOLN.
Dear Mr. Lincoln—I will not.
E. M. STANTON
The appointment was not made, but
the papers were filed in the War De-
partment, where they remain as evi-
dence of Lincoln's friendship and
Stanton’s obstinate nerve.
Taking Things as They Come.
A simple-minded fellow visited the
village shoe store and purchased a
A day or two after-
ward he encountered the shopkeeper,
who asked him if the shoes were com-
pair of shoes.
fortable.
“Qh, yes,” was the reply; “they’re
quite comfortable.”
“Well,” said the vendor, “if that is
so, why do you shuffle along so slow-
ly?”
“Qh,” said the yokel, “that’s be-
cause you forgot to cut the strings
that tied them together.”
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RICHEST OF MEN.
Question as to Whether Rockefeller
or Ford Heads List.
Very rich men rarely talk about
their money. Henry Ford is an ex-
ception in this respect, as he is in
many others. Ford has told an inter-
viewer that he has about $100,000,000
worth of buildings, $100,000,000 worth
of machinery and a bank balance of
between $135,000,000 and $145,000,
000—$10,000,000 forward or backward
is a matter too small for Henry to
bother about. He also declared that
he could doubtless, if he felt so inclin-
ed, capitalize and float his business
for a billion dollars.
This last statement has inspired
newspaper headlines to the effect that
Ford has passed Rockefeller in the
race toward billionairedom. Ford as-
suredly is tremendously rich. But he
is not a billionaire, and is farther from
that unattained figure than is John D.
Rockefeller. Rockefeller never has
been a billionaire and today is several
hundred millions short of that mark.
Today’s figure would probably be
nearer half a billion than three-quar-
ters of a billion.
But all that Ford claims to be worth
in property, machinery, etc., and cash
is a third of a billion. His statement
that he believes he could get a billion
dollars for his business does not make
him a billionaire. The Standard Oil
companies in which Rockefeller is in-
terested could doubtless be promoted
and floated ‘at figures which would
give Rockefeller far more than a bil-
lion dollars. But neither Ford nor
Rockefeller is given to capitalizing
good will at hundreds of millions of
dollars.
No, it will be some time before Ford
can claim the distinction of being the
richest man the world has ever known.
Anything is liable to happen before
then.—B. C. Forbes, in Forbes’ Mag-
azine (N. Y).
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Dividing the Day.
The division of the day into hours
dates from the original sun dial, and
the notion of 60 minutes and 60 sec-
onds must be traced back to the Baby-
lonians, who combined the decimal
and the duodecimal systems of numer-
ation, and chose 60 as a convenient
measuring aggregate because of its
large number of exact factors.—Sci-
entific American.
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