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Show 1AGE 4 San Juan Record Thursday, September The Old Settler 20, 1930 . . . By Albert R. Lyman My dear San Juaners: long and melancholy lines appearing on my face, admonish At the time appointed for me I have been missing President Lincoln to sign the some that of the real essentials of great Emancipation Proclama- life. I find Yhat Holmes, the auth tion, Secretary Stanton found or of The Chambered Nautilus, him reading a volume from the wrote s Shay. also, The humorist, Artemus Ward, and William Cowper, the author of laughing his head of. He read the wondrous hymn, God Moves some more and laughed so long a Mysterious Way, is also and so loud that Stanton became in the producer of John Gilpins alarmed, fearing he had lost his (The Chambered NautiRide, mind. Mr. President, "he said lus challenges though, solemn sternly, You must not laugh: and profound. The One Hoss this is a solumn occasion. a relieved challenges Lincoln laid the book down, Shay smile. Cowpers hymn impells and straightened his distracted serious reflection, but we follow-hors- e I must laugh facial muscles. and are pleasantly refreshI must he said, sometime, ed. throw it off and laugh or the Laugh and the world laughs burden will kill me. I have around me in my study with you; weep and you weep a great lot of deep and heavy alone. Excess of laughter, is books which my sense of duty bad, yet a cheerful heart doeth tells me I should be digging into good like a medicine. The man all the time, and yet, half hidden with his smile, his humorous from view I have volume with- story and his dry wit, is a pleasout a lick of real sense in it and ant fellow to meet. The world is ever so often I yawn wearily hungry for what he has to say, and reach for that volume, and and sometimes takes pleasure in read it and read it till I hear praising and advertising him as natural-bordarned fool. somebody coming. I justify my- a As I remember, a prize was ofself in this habit by what Lincoln did, for to me he was al- fered for the most sensless thing that would provoke a laugh. The ways all right. The infirmities of age, and the prize was awarded to Wallace One-Hos- n 214 Ucasulk SOTQEagjs the highest bank rate permitted by Federal banking regulations Irwin who wrote, shall I call it a poem, an elegy, or just a fantastic stab at the ridiculous. It runs this way Hadst thou didst knew what thou didst done, I would have wept, Oh Cruel, cruel one. Yet eft 1 yearn since thoy didst, so far from hence, thou didst, thou didst! But why dost seem-es- t wan and faint? Dost think-es- t me ill? I aint. As author of Pigs is Pigs, Irwin had already established his reputation for the richly extravagant, and this was accepted as a gem of meaning. In my books of poems I passed William Leer as an old fool till I discovered that I had simply not been educated up the standard of his offerings, and then 1 read with a keen relish about The owl and the pussy cat went to sea in a beautiful peagreen boat. They had some honey and plenty of money wrapnote, etc. ped up in a I read it when I have indigesten-poun- d tion. I had disgust only, for Baron Monchausen and Don Quixxote untill I discovered how really refreshing they are, and what a relief from hard and conventional facts with too much of which we grow prematurely old without finding the avenues of relief which are open to us. So I say, Come read to me some poem, some simple and (Number 176 July 14th 1856) brainless thing without a lick of sense in it. Not from the grand program outweigh in importance the actual dollar sales of stamps and bonds resulting from it, he pointed out. Purchases of series E and H savings bonds in Utah continued high during August, according with music and the thorns that to Chairman Hafen. Total sales infest the day,, shall fold tht were $1,548,646, slightly higher tents like the Araos, and silently than last year, and for the 8 monsteal away. ths of 1956 are 9 per cent ahead Albert R. Lyman of the same period last year. For San Juan county, August sales at $4,177, bringing were San Juan 3rd. in Slate the reported total to $34,895, or sales School Savinas Proaram 86.2 percent of the years stated. chairman the quota, Weekly stamp days for the Ten counties have exceeded purchase of United States Sav- the sales average to date: Emery ings Stamps and Bonds are be- 169.8 per cent; Sanpete 93.6 pering started or resumed in many cent; San Juan 86.5 percent; schools throughout Utah with Washington 85.9 per cent; Juab the opening of the 1956-5term, 80 percent; Weber 75.4 percent, Ralph J. Hafen savings, bond Sevier 72.7 percent; Davis 71.2 chairman for San Juan county, percent; and Garfield 67.9 announced today. San Juan exceeded ony by Emery and Sanpete counties exNever absent from our post, pects to retain high its high never off guard, never standing. never unready to worgk The school savings plan is for God is obedience; being valuable training in thrift, faithful over a few things. in the primary grades. Mary Baker Eddy. The habit of saving regularly, once formed, can last a lifetime. The child sees how systematic savings accumulate. He learns about money management. He learns what it is to own a share in America in the form of bonds of his country. In fact, these benefits of the school savings old masters, not from the bards sublime, whose distant footsteps echo tnrough the corridors of time. But read' from some humbler poet, whose soul was full of cheer and wholesome nonsense. And the .night shall be filled 7 Interest paid twice a year June 30 and December 31. 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