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Show It was in 1836 that Henry Rogers was graduated from the high school at Fairhaven. and it appeared to him that there was still something else to build as the fiftieth anniversary of that event approached. So he called for his merry men all, and commissioned them to build and equip the finest high school ever, and as It went up he watched It and nursed It as a mother might a growing child. And now, with its wonderful fittings, its gymnasium, Its class rooms, Its offices, it Is at once the most luxurious and practical building of the kind in pENRYH. fen Portrait of Once Active Head of Standard Oil hand able to support your head, and maybe your head will learn In time to support your hand.' It was worth a whole volume of maxims to me. I never forgot it, and for the 11 years following I worked wtth my hands. No doubt I was born with & mechanical bent, but when, in 18C8, I entered the oil refining business in Brooklyn I had an equipment of mechanical knowledge and experience that gave me a special value, and I may say that I exacted a money return for It My mechanical knowledge and aptitude were of great advantage to me with my young competitors In the business, and, Indeed, with many, if not most, of the older ones. Great Opportunities "What, I am asked, Is the young high school boys chance now as compared with 60 years ago? Th6 cry 1b general that it Is much less than it was then. Is that so? It Is emphatically not so. The chances for the high school boy now are many times greater than they were then. People ceunt too much by the conditions they find In their immediate surroundings. They dont look at it ln a broad enough way. Remember that in 1856 I seemed to find closed to me a trade that has since grown with the country's growth, in a proportion far greater than the increase In population. Think of the number of machine shops In the country now com- - SMALL BOYS LOOT DESK OF TEACHER At that hour the lad appeared, carrying a pair of new shoes and a new suit of clothes under hls arm. lie was FAR BEHIND. questioned by the policeman as to Ibl where he had been and he nonchalantGenial and Companionable, He Has ly replied: "'Down to the lake for a HAPPY Is and MAKE THEIR FRIENDS Praised for His Many Friends swim. the world. His Americanism To all questions about the missing Generosity What Is at the bottom of all this sum of money the hoy made evasive of Bills Give Large home Away Youngsters love and passion for local adorn...ll answers. Not until he was confronted Denomination with Reckless ment?" a friend of hls was asked. with the hoy and girl to. whom he had Now to Have Is It his Americanism," was the Prodigality the $.70 each did he confess and given ...10 He loves his people and Broughton. Mrs. W. R. Coe, and Mrs. answer. Pay the Reckoning. . York -- When two youthful combis Implicate W. K. Benjamin, have see them second to none in the uogora drops out of the ac' already pro- would panions. of the , and Chicago. Boys girls Hess world wherein he made vided him with nine grandchildren. world. with the air of a millionaire, northwest side are reveling in the Then, ar And hls he fr,eru,s is Taking Life Easy, a figure, proud of them in a way possession of unexpected five dollar the ringleader, with no more concern him. usual to grandparents, and one Mr. Rogers Is taking life easy now, income anecdotic about may ;.ll and ten dollar bills as the result of the romantic find a on their pictures making cheerful and oheya the behests of his doctor torlea that take .... prodigality of three schoolboy thieves. his roomy office at 26 Broadway. 211 with a smiling acquiescence that conbank parlors and directors The trio Edgar Hettinger, 11 years of corners From this lovable domestic side ceals whatever Impatience he may ,d in the chatty Frederick Clark, ten years old, old; Jtlll feel at unwonted restraint. You noChange, not to apeak of the one travels easily to his general soEric Kell, ten years old pupils and 't'klt cial outlook. That can best he de- ticed the other day that he had Mark offices near the water front, cent. of the Richard Yates school, "blew in the scribed as frankly American. He is Twain with him on a short yacht like feels resuming gors $35t in a few hours the other afterGreen In a few t o simlblp of the value of his posi- cruise. Well, that was not the first of Dowling noon and evening. recon-tion as a man of wealth to underes- time they had foregathered will find a in the u or bo he The money was stolen from the him from timate Its iKissihillties. He mixes cabin after a day of steaming In the Rogers looking at locker of Mrs. Eva E. Clerc, teacher In rwmer, and whom he may have easily In society, entertains on a genopen. Men like Mr. Clemens and the the school. The small fortune was erous scale, with an eye to the ele- late Tom Reed are the type he most In recognizing. mtie difficulty pilfered after school hours, and Its erect figure of a well-ma- gancies so easily within hls reach, hut prizes for companions they should disappearance was learned by acciwith whitening hair and he enjoys most the company of the dent The boys, according to their om r gifted, the genial and the witty, for he moustache, who somehow had been robbing teachers' confession, ike hls ripe age of 67 the graces rather leans to saying good things lockers in the school for some time. himself and is never happier than a quarter of a ike Mrs. Clerc had been given this particle cultivated Is, however, the figure that when he applauds a smart saying or a ular large sum by her husband to degood story. A quiet game of cards posit In the bank. for the love of the game In congenial In her statement to the police she ...I company Is hls occasional pastime. said she left her room for a few molepw He has never developed the fondness W ments, carelessly placing her keys on for field games that pleased him In her desk. When she returned she dishis youth. He has taken easily to the covered the loss of her money. The L! automobile, but. like all good sons of boys had entered during her abseqee, the saltwater, hls liking for the sea opened the locker, extracted the Wtr Coming Home .vith the Spoils. has grown with the years. money, and relocked the door. At Home on His Yacht. Half a dozen detectives were de0U Uigii ill Nowhere is he perhaps more genialIll ' tailed on the case, with instructions than If he were reciting a lesson, reEdgar, didnt I give you $50, to corral every pupil who had been In plied: ly at home than on hls yacht. No the room presided over by the teach- and Eric, dldn'M also give you $50?" hurry that sends men to express er. Shortly after the sleuths had Both boys confessed the truth of the trains is allowed to interfere with his UULI --- "3 started out, however, a tip leading query. IJ- yachting runs to Fairhaven. Hence All three then related how they bad to the identity of the culprits reached as known Is well Kanawha about the keC!: the station. A man whose name could enriched acquaintances with five dolas Mr. Morgan's Corsair around the not be learned visited Hanley, telling lar and ten dollar bills, how they had waters of New York. But it is In him hls little daughter and Bon had purchased new outfits, leaving their Fairhaven Itself that he fairly revels each given him $30, which they said old clothes In a convenient ash barrel, in life as he thinks he would like to had been presented to them by Edgar how they lmd bought roller skates, live it. There he was born and School. Fairhaven The High visited every concession at a nearby Hettinger. reared, and his affection for the town Acting on the clew, a detective was amusement purk, tipping the attendand the bay and the country road is be bright and brainy both. Of a win- pared with then. Not only that, but extravagant In its manifestations. ter evening when he lives In town he think of the Increased average of out- sent to the home of young Hettinger, ants largo sums, and how they had Rogers Library, Fairhaven. There, In hls frequent visitlngs, It is may spend a few hours at one of his put or the total of machinery of the only to he told by his mother, a ridden In automobiles until midnight. Sends will recognize. was not at home and Then, proud of his achievements, HetHls photo'- his delight to move about and chat dubs the Metropolitan, say, Theres United States compared with widow, that he had not been home Blnce be left for tinger told of tossing five dollar bills ll hare done him the doubtful with all and sundry old cronies of half he would be apt to gather a group of 50 years ago. hn; ee of giving him a proud, rather a to the amount of $35 to the wind in century gone, who call him Hen;" bright people and smoke a single We are truly In the way of having school after luncheon. N A guard was then ' placed at the an alley! These bills, the police ty, air, as of one who marshals sons and daughters of old friends who cigar while good things went around. the whole world as our market Our i of facts and figures and who is are middle-agemen and women boys house. Shortly after two oclock learned, had been picked up the folI heard him once tell of meeting a cotton, wheat and corn, our coal, Iron In the morning the long watch was lowing morning by a rag picker. The bent on hard achievement It salute him as Mr. Rogers, and third whaling captain whom he had known and copper, our gold and silver, our rewarded. re. familiar trick of the camera to generation little ones, who regard him hoys will be prosecuted. not to as a lad 40 years before. He took his oil and all Its oat in the moment open-eveas the local representative old comrade about the town and the speak of all the manufactures that one stands before it the traits of a r.mgnifcent providence. Said a identifying old land- arise out of these and which call for STARVED IN CITY 8TREETS. are at the root of character rather I couldnt countryside, newspaper man recently: FOLLIES OF FASHION The captain had more and more millons of workers marks together. toe that are familiar to every- - find anybody there who would say been for the away six years from home and these are the great fields open Unfortunate on Verge of Death Picked :ui anything but kindness of II. II. Rog- was to sail on a new voyage the next effort of the young men Just out of DENOUNCED BY PRIEST Up in New York, The Habit of Victory. wan alone United States And ers.' these I'm going aboard now, Hen, school. day. UR1 ike all Generous to Fairhaven. great men of business, he remarked. "And won't you go will some day be' the home of 500,000,-00IN STRONG New York. After reeling along AmFATHER VAUGHAN ork In this great opportunity of toI banker, H. II. loved affairs He surely has been good to home first and tell your wife good-by- ? avenue like a drunken man WOMEN :!eai sterdam. PARABLE SCORES than anything else. It was not which picturesque village looks I asked. Itfazes, no, replied day, and this multiplying prospect of D for blocks George Chester fell In a GAMBLE. WHO school New to the Bedford, may Buzzard's boy across for draggle high Bay the sake of the fight, the whaler, "I'm only to be gone two .IAj street. limp heap at 'or the end in view. As soon as ancient home of whalers and all the years. That seemed, he said, the surely find all that any age has preirk. Dublin. Father Vaughan, brother of Policeman George Fox seized the prosof will came ever or that business he and romance halt present a sented, had 'is passed on without most extraordinary utterance he and dethe late cardinal, who has been trate man by the collar 7 another tilt, and he had what their seafaring. There he built a ever heard. He saw the humor of It, manded: of sins the society" preaching against It seemed sacriportant, the grit for a' long great mansion for himself amid beaublit to a home-love- r In London, addressed a fashionable auTO CROSS ATLANTIC IN DAY. "Come, now, get up and go along hand what, believe me, is most tiful grounds, and there he loves most lege. me. with House the here Mansion at dience the nant, the habit of victory. to live when away from work. But .; Inventor of New Gliding Boat Is ExThe policeman aud the curious When the new high school other evening. Among other things, he be the to s like the head3 of the Stand-01only he alone was not about to be opened I spent an aftertold the story of a dream that be bad crowd that had gathered were surtremely Optimistic. who was finely housed. He noon with company are no accidents," him, and our talk turned prised when Chester opened bis eyes a citizens to the a sharp observer. What They were built and presented on education. and shook hls head after a feeble efnaturally Wilquite few a Within says years, out In a hundred before handsome town hall and a Masonic he said then 1b about as good a key ways fort to rise. World Technical idbq liam G. Fitzgerald, in fame to control. It was the many-neshall. I'm afraid I can't officer," be said the man Hnd bis opinions as any- Magazine, the crossing of the Atto tin beOn the death of Millicent, ft of II. H. Rogers that made I haven't got any I can think of, and thla is the dm weakly: thing of strength miles with Its 3,000 stormy lantic, built a beautiful prise a necessity In that remark-frou- p loved daughter, he Hits left. I'm starving." of It: drift excurmere be a will sea, pleasure is It wilt headed by John D. Rocke- - public library as a memorial. An ambulance was called and sion of 30 hours in length. The marHigh School Best Outfit. I don't BO know any of the quail-he- called the Mlllfrent library, and has Chester was taken to Roosevelt hosInvented Peter velous boat. Cooper by for IKK the In country For the boy starting out in life possess that Is not common the highest record pital. which Is supported by planes business world of America, books taken out and read In proporwho is anxious to succeed in business Hewitt, It's a plain case of starvation, skint or the which through glide shelves. Its of ore no better and no worse than tion to the contents I believe that the ordinary high school said the doctor. down to cut the Is water. expected housands of men engaged In the The village wanted water works and education is the best outfit. was given the starving man. Milk a length of the trip to Europe to day them. That at of the The physicians did not dare to put He Is master of the ordinary Im- and a higher business of the H. II. Rogers provideduseful to same time at the doing quarter, 7. but each one has had Borne they might be doubly even broth or soup into hls weak plements of business life, whether it of an he deeded the Income from be mechanical or commercial that Is, away with most of the danger stomach. Chester said ho was 49 years tie 7 notably In excess of the aver-Theocean voyage." combination has been lr- - them to the Millicent library forever. he can read, write, spell and figure. old and had no home. told Mr. Hewitt first model, My Ills clothes were of good quality but He has at least a foundation of gen- the Technical World, "was entirely well worn. He said hls family was In eral knowledge. Our American high supported by the planes at 16 miles Since he had good rlrrumstnnres. schools, too, cultivate a sense of the an hour; the flotation hull being enbeen In New York, he said, he had greatness of the country which In tirely out of the water at that speed. been unable to find permanent emspires him with confidence In her fu- I found, too, that the area of the ture and hence In hls own. I speak planes should decrease with the speed ployment and was too proud to beg. For six days he had eaten nothing hut now more particularly of what may be for economy and safety. So far, ' occasional scraps of food. called the country schools, which speed has only been limited by the know best. The high school hoy has propeller, but the craft will gradually LOSES HAND FOR LOVE. had set for him a standard of good improve with Increased size, and the which conduct, and that liner of the future will be practically California Ranchman Shows the Spirit is the necessity of all civilized social independent of weather, and have no of Chivalry. conflict. motion from the waves." Not Transferable. InHls great advantage over the colMr. Hewitt Is known for the Santa Monies, Cal. When John' lege bred nym Is that ho gets hls vention of the famous light which on the night of hls arrival In Dublin Campbell, a bean rancher, 30 years start in life at 1C or 17 years of age, hears hls name and of munjr devices He fancied that he saw a well between Morocco Junction us against the 21 or 22 years of the used on automobiles. Hls reputation known gambler pacing to and fro In old, living aud left for a visit to hls old Sawtelle, college graduate. Tin high school U thut of a conservative and Careful, single loneliness in one of the outer home In Ohio three months Bgo, he ' In hls way Is proud rough Hls courts of heaven. When he could stand was a well is well ns brilliant observer. graduate nigh perfect specimen of of what he has aeeomplished In get- new gliding boat has been seen and hls solitude no longer the gambler aprugged manhood. Wednesday ho came ting his class stnnding. but he does approved by many lending scientists proached St. refer and confessed that to Santa Monica, where former friend he not bring hls pilde with him when larger model for which a speed of ho had Bcettred passage to heaven by at once noticed the absence of hi is going to work or looking for a Job Tn miles an hour Is confidently pre-- j cheating, and begged for permission to left hand. After attempting to evade On the other hand, the college man dieted, Is now In process of construe descend to the Infernal regions to see Campbell Inquiries, finally explained who Is not entering one of the profes- tion. fortm-what hls friends were doing that he had been out driving with hls sions Is apt to have more pride than down there. St. Peter consented and sweetheart at the old home. Ills left In Felrhavsn. a Is H. nndthnt situation of warrants, Rogers Home furnished the him a Henry with return ticket. Country Woman's Telephone Graft. hand was scratched by a holt buckle In the Inferno he found an enorhampering thing. He Is expecting the to have our phono tak We've ilm got ftom worn by his companion. Blood poisonplerluii that draught so world to come to him rather than he en out or else move, 'unisti Its action has been satisfaction said a little mous crowd of fashlonahlo men and ing followed nnd, to savo the inau'i to heart with Us steady business spring might supplement out set eager should woman mournfully, the other' day. lt't woman, all being torced to play life, the member was amputated at the of the ordinary thirst of the villagers. discover the world. method. Its dimmer-llli.no expensive where wo are now. Yes bridge without Btakes. He watched the- wiM. Commissioner of Highways. have been due. I have Had Mechanical Bent. the 'phone Is the cause of It all play with mingled feeling until, over- j Alter passing a month In a to John D. Rockefeller, hut He built a grammur school and a a woman In the suite hack ol come by hls former passion, he drew I was very eager to There' for Campbell returned to hls Call "As myself, oonht, either, that Its By I'niturlun church. with a parish house ours In who hasn't any 'phone and once forth hls return ticket to heaven snd lornla ranch. "Yes, It's tough luck," he snd work after graduating, to go outreach and conquering and parsonage, altogether one of the staked It and lost. A society woman , as he looked ruefully at the to work In less than a I told her she could use ours. Sine iie been greatly duo to the most complete and handsome edifices fact did go the secured It, and clutching It tight!, v. she declared, In lias shout I she a as then dozen a school left put where the hand had been, but from day week stump uniat once made her way to the gate, side of the temperament He became, at In Massachusetts. I don't mind so much an' neither does My father and I were long distance calls at different times where II Satan Rogers, lie Iihs Inherited versal request, commissioner of high- graduate. congratulated her upon she. 1 tell ycr, young feller. I'd lose I should take up the trade After she's had a long distance con r never were agreed that hut there was no chance. vet sal Ion of about ten minutes she'll her success, hut pointed with a smile spirit." ways, and thereafter my arm to win that girl, and I'm gomachinist, of i Domestic Life. streets so looked after. He turned Apprenticeship were limited even nr say, 'O. tbat11 be charged to you, to a legend on the ticket, Positively ing hack to get her for keeps not the henutJfied transferable." she Thereupon low In ml Into S park. long." 'says happy in hls domes-thut lime as touch as they are now. won't It? Well, I'll hand you whatevet and byways, furnished n The machine shops within rench were It comes to In the morning. But she screamed and tore the ticket to shreds, and devoted to hls fam-ser- a highway tlm over and the devil led her back to resume 1 "Walter, these eggs re stone cold!" has been accumulating stone approach to the bridge full, so I hal to look In another direc- never does. never have the neve tc her everlasting piny In the Infernal complained the Indignant diner. I refuse her when she wants and work be at to to tele 'luil with the regularity of Acushnet river and. Jest the traveler I wanted tion. hostel-rles- , room, over the portal of "Yes. rah. replied the dusky waiter, " in other wealth. lie has might think 111 of Fall liu veun Tao thn found work. 1 was proud to get three phone she's always so nlre about It drawing which was handsome the written, "All hope "we always ha to keep do eggs on de erected she's But to week .hart making things a begin. mighty dollars married, and hls son, vlmmlon, ve who enter here." of New Kng-lanhe hi for we cooks 'em. suh!" Rogers, Jr., nnJ hls three Inn name auggestlve Mv father, suld to me, Make your for us." ami quaintness. neatness II. laughters, Mrs. Irbsn si J f FOR A BRIEF TIME LEAVE RECORD OF COAL OIL JOHNNY $ it To-da- 2 n , 1 i ' n 11. t ; ;E . J '5 re-di- n cen-iac- it 11. I 'fysTr' Birsaarnfflll 'if!? 1 I: I to-da- y d V d i Si . - Fair-have- Sixty-secon- d Fair-haveni- 1 s Fair-have- ir , 1 : l r pres-hmuv- ! hos-plta- a I |