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Show BIGGER THAN UTAH'S BEST CROP. Utah Js known for its "beat orop," which is babies, but Utah has no family, fam-ily, laboring to correct the offects of raco-sulolde, to compare with the Scotts of Kansas. An Oklahoma paper pap-er supplies us with tho following facta and figures. "Mr and Mrs. Frank Scott of Highland, High-land, Kansas, have been marriod hot quite ten years and are the parents of ninoteoen children, all of them boys and thirteen of them living. They hold the record on triplets, having five sets to their credit and two Bets of twins. All of the thirteen boys living liv-ing aro under five years old. Mr. and Mrs. Scott are the children of farmers living near Highland. "Last fall the Scotts, doclding that they must find more land, wont to Albertn, Canada Thoy were not satisfied sat-isfied there and returned. On tho return re-turn trip all records In the history of railroading were broken. Mrs. Scott and her thirteen children all rode on one first class passenger ticket. At Omaha the conductor made a vigorous protest " 'Madam you cannot carry a whole Sunday sohool along with you on that one ticket, and you need not tell me these are all yours. You will havo to pay faro for Borne of them.' " 'The rules of this railroad company com-pany provide that a child under -j years of age may ride free when accompanied ac-companied by it5 parents with a first class ticket, don't thov?' retorted Mrs. Scott.- "'They do, but jou will have to show me.' "Then Mrs. Scott dug down into her valise and brought out tho family Blblo In which was recordod tho names and ages of each of the children chil-dren The conductor had to give in The mother and children occupied five double seats in the homcBceker's car and paid for only one. "The names and ages of the Scott children begin with A They are-Ashbell, are-Ashbell, Archer and Austin, triplets, 4 1-2 years old; Arthur and Arnold, twins, 3 1-2 years old; Allan, Almon and Albln, triplets, 2 1-2 years old; Albert. Al-bert. Albion and Adolph, triplets, IS months old; Abel and Abner, twins, 6 months old Mrs. Scott is thirty years old and her husband is only a year her senior." |