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Show Push Gobbler as National Bird v Old Achievers "Quotations" A In the World war some of the great commanders were Hinden-burin 1914; who was sixty-seve- n Von ' Bulow, sixty-eigh-t; Foch, sixty-threJ. P. Morgan was seventy when Wall Street in an hour of need turned to him as its leader. Commodore Vanderbilt did most of his railroad building between his seventieth and eighty-thir- d year, adding a hundred million to his fortune. Gladstone was made prime minister for the fourth time at eighty-thre-e years of age. John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay were great political leaders at eighty. Oliver Wendell Holmes was writing liberal opinions at the age of eighty. Wash- g, He who would climb and soar aloft must needs keep ever at his side the tonic of a wholesome pride. Arthur Hugh Clough. If you are solitary, be not idle ; if idle, be not solitary. Johnson. Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million. Bernard Shaw.1 Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life. Temple. He who saith there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. Bishop Berkeley. The days that make us happy, make us wise. Masefield. e. ington Star. Ready, Take Aim Queer Duels Are Fought Two men stand tensely in circles 30 feet apart. A word from the referee and the duelists go at it. Three minutes later, its all over and the opponents white clothes drip with red tomato juice. It happened in California. One man charged another welshed on a bet. The latter challenged the accuser to a duel. The seconds chose tomatoes at 30 paces. That reminds us of the old gag about the tough, uncouth youngster who defied the polite boy, demanding he name his weapons. The second lad wasnt afraid. Grammar at 20 paces, he shot back. miles. The longest route is Route No. 1, Brawley, Calif., which is A Quiz With Answers 94.28 miles in length. 3. The scientist received nine Ottering Information on Various Subjects plant patents posthumously. 4. De jure government is one existing by legal right or interna1. How much of the earths sur6. In Greek mythology, who had tional agreement. De facto govdominion over the winds? face is water? ernment is a power governing ir7. Is shellac a synthetic prep- respective of its legal authority. 2. What is the average length of ) a rural mail route in the United aration? 5. The land and water area of States? the United States is 3,738,395 3. Did Luther Burbank have Answers square miles. any of his plants patented? 6. Aeolus. 4. What is the opposite of a de 1. The superficial area of the 7. Shellac is secreted by an infacto government? earth is 196,950,000 square miles, sect. While repeated experiments 5. What is the total area of the of which 139,440,000 squire miles have been made to make it synare water and 57,510,000 are land. thetically, none has been United States and all of its 2. The average length is 35 p ASK ME ANOTHER i Los Angeles, Calif. The American eagle will have fo give up his job to the. turkey gobbler, if the Northwestern Turkey Growers association gets its way. Senators and congressmen of 14 states were asked to make the turkey the national bird at the next session of congress. It was argued that the turkey, besides being the symbol of Thanksgiving, is native to America. Misses Edith Lawrence (left) and Pat Gergen are pictured above showing how the turkey would look in the eagles place against the American shield. Ye Council Eats Right Well After Ye Slick Barter Deer Is Thanksgiving Meal and Indian. Is Goat. AMERICANS this Thanksgiving are well able to appease both their consciences was tender on ye point of. ye venison. In nearby Boston a few years lat- er the arrival of autumn with its storing of the winter supply of salt pork brought mingled thanksgiving and chagrin to a boy named Benjamin Franklin, who often became restless during the long graces which accompanied Massachusetts meals. So one day after the pork had been dutifully stored away, he suggested that if his father would PEQUOT, VE WILL GET FOtTTV STRIPES AND--E- GHD0!)03 OKI (M33EB QflfflOffi 033MB R, and their appetites, their moral dexterity is no better than that of their forebears on the town council at Danvers, Mass., in the year 1714. Venison, rather than turkey, made up the piece de resistance on a Thanksgiving feast there, but religious complications arose, as recorded by Rev. Lawrence Conant, of that city: After ye blessing was craved by Mr. Garrich of Wrentham, word came that ye buck was shot on ye Lords day by Pequot, an Indian, who came to Mr. Epes with a lye in his mouth like Ananias of old. Ye council therefore refused to eat ye venison, but it was afterward decided that Pequot should receive forty stripes save one, for lying and profaning ye Lords day, restore Mr. Epes ye cost of ye deer, and considering this a just and rightful sentence on ye heathen, and that a blessing had been craved on ye meat, ye council all partook of it but Mr. Shepard, whose conscience l0BS8 Mr. Shepards conscience was tender, and so was poor Peqnots back. only say grace over the whole cask, once for all, it would be a vast saving of time. In the latter half of the same century, whenever a feast was in order in the back country of Virginia and the Carolinas, young Daniel Boone or some other hunter would go out to find venison or bear meat to mix with pork in the habitual great stew of such a celebration. With it were served roast pork or bear or broiled venison. 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