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It. CAMPBELL, V.S.
pate of Ontario Veterinary
University of Toronto. All
a of domestic animals treated
e most modem principles.
a reasonable. Day or night
promptly attended to. Office on
Street, Hensall, opposite Town
Phone 118.
LEGAL
R. S, HAYS.
Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and
fairy Public. Solicitor for the Do-
�m tltepna Bank. Office in rear of the Do -
inion Bank, Seaforth. Money to
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BEST & BEST
Darrietera, Solicitors. Convey-
ancers and Notaries Public, Etc.
ptsee in the Edge Building, opposite
The Expositor Office.
I'ROUDFOOT, KILLORAN AND
HOLMES
barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pub -
11t, etc. Money to lend. In Seaforth
Me Monday of each week. Office in
Bids Block. W. Prondfoot, K.C., J.
L. Killoran, B. E. Holmes.
VETERINARY
F. HARBURN, V. S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
aay College, and honorary member of
the Medical Association of the Ontario
Veterinary College. Treats diseases of
all domestic animals by the most mod-
em principles. Dentistry and Milk
Fuser a specialty. Office opposite
Dick's Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth.
All orders left at the hotel will re -
w ive prompt attention. Night calls
Waived at the office
JOHN GRIEVE. V. 8.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
College. All diseases of domestic
treated.. Calla promptly at
d to and charges moderate. Vet.
wry Dentistry a specialty. Office
ad residence on Goderich street, one
tIsar least of Dr. Scott's office, Sea -
MEDICAL
DR. G. W. DUFFIN
Hensall, Ontario.
Office over Joynt's Block; phone
114. Office at Walker House, Bruce -
![aid on Tuesday and Friday: hours
2 to 5 p.m.; phone No. 31-142. Grad-
uate of the Faculty of Medicine,
Western University, London Mem-
kir of the College of Physicians and
surgeons of Ontario. Post -Graduate
4ember of Resident Staffs of Receiv-
and Grace Eospitata, Detroit, for
1$ months. Post -Graduate member
of Resident Staff in Midwifery at
Herman Kiefer Hospital, Detroit, for
three months.
DR. .& NEWTON-BRADY
Bayfield.
Graduate Dublin University, Ire-
land. Late Extern Assistant Master
Rotunda Hospital for Women and
Children, Dublin. Office at residence
haiy " °ceiipied by Mrs. Pinions.
Hours, 9 to 10 a.m.; 6 to 7 p.m.
8nndity,, 1 to 2 p -m 2866-26
DR. J. W. PECK
Oraddati of Faculty of Medicine
Uliyeraity, Montreal; member
College of Physician, and urgeonn'
(amnio; Licentiate of Medlcal Conn-
or Mita; Post -Graduate' M'e'mber
iResident Medical staff of General
capital, Montreal, 1914-16. Office, 2
east of Post Office. (Phone 6e.
*null, Ontario.
DR. F. J. BURROWS
Office and residence, Goderich street
suet of the Methodist church, Seaford
!lone 48. Coroner for the County of
Aron.
DR. C. MACKAY
C. Mackay honor graduate of Trin-
ity University, and gold medallist of
Trinity Medical College; member of
me College of Physicians and Bur-
eaus of Ontario.
DR. H. HUGH ROSS
Graduate of University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate courses in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago;
Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London,
England; University Hospital, Lon-
don, England. Office—Back of Do-
minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5,
Night calla answered from residence,
Victoria street, Seaforth.
AUCTIONEERS
THOMAS BROWN
Licensed auctioneer for the counties
Of Huron and Perth. Correspondence
arrangements for sale dates' can be
made by caIIing up phone 97, Seaforth
or The Expositor Office. Charges mod-
erate and satisfaction guaranteed.
Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na-
tional School of Auctioneering, Chi-
cago. Special course taken in Pure
Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mar-
[tlidfse and Farm Sales. Rates in
with prevailing market. Sat -
n assured. Writb or wire,
Oar Klopp, Zurich, Ont.2� Noone
6-62
E. T. LUKER
Wined , auctioneer for the County
tiro*. Sales attended to is en
or the county, Seem y�esasrr'ss' ea -
Manitoba and Saaltatch.-
nontonable. Phone No.
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deft at The Heron
moth, promptly
at4a women kgpwn es P$Smi
eSy vellere balsa Measgretdf e
pat diminutive apecirner ,"a,,nd th, s
.exaggerated idea of their' small -
'nein has-been produced.
The average stature of the pygmies
that have been measured is about
four feet eight inches, but the beat
authorities in anthropology say that
the real average limit of stature is
five feet. Some are taller than that.
The pygmies have been found in
eight or ten different places in Cen-
tral Africa, but wherever found•they
possess certain striking resemblances.
The plant furnishing the covering
for their huts is the same in tile
widely separated regions visited gy
Stanley and others, and the shape of
the huts, a rough hemisphere, is the
same.
All the pygmies are alike charac-
terized by neglect of agriculture, by
the use of poisoned arrows, and by
the absence of any centralized tribal
organization.
TRY AND HATCH ONE
A vegetarian had an amusing ex
perience the other morning at break-
fast. His family were out of town,
and he went to a restaurant, and took
a seat next to a stranger. The vege-
tarian took occasion to advertise his
creed by telling the stranger that all
meat was injurious, and that the hu-
man diet should be strictly vegetar-
ian.
"But," replied the stranger, "I sel-
dom eat meat."
"You just ordered eggs," said the
vegetarian. "An egg is practically
meat, because it eventually becomes
a bird."
"The kind of eggs 11 eat never be-
come birds," answered the stranger
quietly.
"Good gracious," cried the vegetar-
ian, "what kind of eggs do you eat?"
"Principally boiled eggs, sir."—
Pearson's Weekly.
RARE BLUE -SKINNED MEN
APPEAR IN REAL LIFE
The recent death in New York of
Barnum's famous "blue man," Cap-
tain Frederick Walters, has revived
interest in these human freaks. Wal-
ter is the best known "blue man,"
because he was the best advertised,
but men of his peculiar shade have
occasionally appeared in fiction, and
not infrequently in real life.
Wilkie Collins featured a blue man
in one of his stories, and "The Blue
Dwarf" is one of Sir Walter Scott's
novels, though seldom read nowa-
days.
A few decades ago London society
was somewhat startled by the ap-
pearance of a blue man of high in-
tellectual attainments and rare charm
of conversation. On one occasion he
was a guest at a large party, and
naturally the centre of attraction.
Mrs. Langtry, "The Jersey Lily,"
then at the height of her popularity,
was much intrigued by his indigo
complexion,
The famous actress sought enlight-
enment from a lady sitting next to
her:
"Who is that man with a blue
face?" she asked. "Is he an adver-
tisement for Reckitt'* blue, or what."
"No, madam," came the freezing
answer. "He is not an advertise-
ment. Re is a distinguished gentle-
man—and my husband!"
Mrs. Langtry was not in the ,least
abashed.
"Oh, I am so glad I spoke to you,"
she gushed. "You are the only one
who can answer a question I am dy-
ing to ask. Tell me, is he blue all
over?"
A new process for the mechanical
manufacture of plate glass of uni-
form quality and high polish has been
discovered in Bohemia.
A metal band to surround a stove
pipe from which extend wire racks.
cm which utensils or clothing can be
dried has been patented.
GERMANY WITHOUT REAL
MONEY NOW
Decline of the German mark quo-
tation in the foreign exchange mark-
et last week to a point where more
than 6,000,000 marks were required
to give a purchasing power equiva-
lent to that of a dollar brought into
immediate prospect the termination
of Germany's disastrous dependence
upon the printing presses. At home,
as in the markets of the world, the
usefulness of the mark has been viti-
ated and to -day Germany stands
tually as a country without a cur-
rency of its own. Foreign currencies
are now used for purposes of calcula
tion and have come to a large extent
to supplant the mark in circulation.
The result of the increase i paper
mark circulation at the rate, more
than 5,000,000,000,000 marks a week
and of the consequent decline in its
purchasing power has been to create
a very serious money stringency
within Germany. Neither the banks
have been able to meet the demands
of their customers nor the Reichs-
hank the demands of the banks.
Recent experience naturally points
to the example of Russia as most
likely to he followed, although in view
of the restricted intercourse of Rus-
sia with outside nations, even greater
safeguards, it is thought, would have
to he built up around any currency
that is substituted for the mark. The
experiment of trying to do business
in worthless paper having failed Rus-
sia adopted the expedient of central-
izing such gold as remained to her
and placing this, with the jewels car-
ried over from the Czarist regime, as
the reserve for a new currency. The
excess zeros that decorated the paper
Soviet rubles, giving them nominally
a fantastic value, were lopped off and
arrangements made for securing, -the
Same bankele''.V,O °tgitie•'studi0
the eituatian ;a Iter .,lonely believe
that Germany Will ahartl a follew the,
precedent set by Rusaid. They om
phasize, hos+ever, that In the case of
Germany any currency to be intro-
duced must be held to a gold basis.
A departure from such a foundation,
it is believed, would,•so long as the
reparations question is not adjusted,
lead inevitably to a collapse paral-
leling that of the present mark.
Until some new currency project is
devised Germany is expected to get
along as best she can on the present
unsatisfactory basis, To a certain
extent the requirements for circula-
tion will be met by dollars, of which
Germany is known to have a fairly
large supply. Until two years ago
it was a regular procedure for Ger-
many to return such United States
currency as happened to be received.
Lately there have been no such ship-
ments and the tendency has been to
increase the supply within Germany
of such bills from every available
source and in every practicable way.
In addition to the dollars, curren-
cies of almost all the countries of
Europe are being employed to supply
the deficit in circulation resulting
from the virtual elimination of the
mark. One banker reports that the
balance sheet of a small industrial
company in Germany showed a cash
item, including the currencies of sev-
enteen different nations.
Doubt is expressed that Germany's
foreign balances will be withdrawn
from abroad to any considerable ex-
tent to meet the currency shortage,
although this may be done in extreme
cases. The uncertainties of the situ-
ation are such that Germans natur-
ally prefer to keep their resources so
far as possible in foreign countries
where their seizure or heavy taxation
is not so likely. Moreover, the man
in the street who will be chiefly af-
fected by the- situation controls no
foreign balances. These are in the
hands of the men of great wealth and
of the industries.
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
Carola Drehman is the first wo-
man in Germany to take up gliding.
In Baden a woman officiates as
minister of the gospel in a women's
prison.
Georgia and Arkansas were the last
states to admit women to practice
law.
A woman optician in Brooklyn has
an entire building devoted to her
business.
Miss Ethel Coolidge, cousin of
President Coolidge, has given up so-
ciety to act in the movies.
An athletic club in Easton, Pas.,
formerly controlled only by men, is
now in sole control of woman officers,
Mrs. Palmer Jerman, of Raleigh,
N. C., has been appointed a director
of She Atlantic & North Carolina
Railroad.
Lillian Johnson, a mere slip of a
girl, directs by megaphone a fleet of
tugboats operating in San Francisco
harbor.
New York City is increasing its
already large corps of policewomen.
Miss Marie Kelly ,once librarian
for J. Pierpont Morgan, now controls
one of the largest fur trading posts
in Siberia:
Three American women are spend-
ing three months in France and Eng-
land under scholarships awarded by
institutions in those countries.
New York City will have the
largest political clubhouse for women
in the world upon eempletion of the
Women's National Republican Club.
Florence E. Allen, judge in the,
superior court in Ohio, holds the
highest post of any woman in this
country, although there are a num-
ber on the bench in lesser positions.
Helene Burnlaux, of Belgium, has
been elected president of the Inter-
national Federation of Working
Women, succeeding -Mrs. Raymond
Robbins, of Chicago, who declined re-
nominatigp.
The oldest museum in the United
States and one of the best organized
is the Charleston museum at Charles-
ton, S. C., where the director and
curator is a woman, Miss Laura M.
Bragg.
FOURTEEN MILLIONS LOST IN
YEAR'S FOREST FIRES
Canada's bill for damages sustain-
ed by reason of Forest fires during
the past rive years averages $14,500,-
000 annually. The number of forest
fires averaged 5,779 a year and the
causes of this shocking display of
vandalism were nine times in ten hu-
man recklessness. Campers account-
ed for 24 per cent. of all these fires;
settlers burning slash started 22 per
cent.; lightning 10 per cent.; and rail-
ways, 26 per cent. The figure charg-
ed to railways is, however, an unfair
index of responsibility. In the first
place, practically all fires started, or
said to be started, from railway lines
are instantly reported. This is not
true of campers and settlers .and
lightning fires. Again, the majority
of railway fires, being quickly detect-
ed, are quickly put out so that as
timber destroyers the railway lines
have fallen to h minor position.
The problem of land Bearing fires
started by settlers anti running into
the green timber is one of the most
aggravated and complex. Settlers
in newly developed districts must use
fire to clean up the debris and natur-
ally wish to choose hot and danger-
ous weather when burning conditions
are hest. This inevitably means that
for the clearing of farms Canada has
paid a tremendous forfeit in destroy-
ed timber. Much has been done, how-
ever, to make the process of land
clearing safe by issuing permits far
burning and supervising the opera-
tion thryugh officers of the Forest!
Services.
The Canadian Forestry Association
has repeatedly pointed out that the
wood -using industry of Canada ac-
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'COM PLETE
TREATMENT
Fertiiizei—Grower—Skempoe
AU 3 in one package $1.00
FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE
to law ea their epveareaeq SEVIN SUTH-
EBLAND BI8TBBS' OOLOBATOBB will
transform Wet' hair to Ouy shads desired.
a senate hems trmtmant. Eatmisa, maul
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E. CREAM, Druggist, Seaford._
counts for a notional income of 600
million dollars a year and cannot
continue indefinitely unless every
safeguard is thnnvn about the limit-
ed possessions of the Dominion.
CONCERNING SQUEAKS
As I started sot for the movies the
other evening, I halted to speak to
my friend, Basvru. Bassett, by the
way, was squatted half under his new
Thunderbolt car. which stood at the
kerb.
"Hello, Basset:." I said; "what's
trouble?"
Bassett, in sl• to of the heat, was
smoking furiouw.'y, and there was a
worried frown on his forehead.
"A squeak," he said, removing his
cigar momentarily. "I've just had
the old bus a ninth, but a squeak's
developed somewhere up in front
here, and to save my life I can't lo-
cate it,"
"A squeak!" I scoffed. "Why bother
with a mere squeak?"
"It gets on my nerves," explained
Bassett. "Hearing that eternal
squeak, squeak, squeak, mile after
mile, almost drives me crazy."
"It shouldn't be so hard to find,"
I remarked, moving closer.
"Try it," said Bassett sardonically,
and rising heavily he gave the body
a push that resulted in --an unmistak-
able series of squeaks.
"Start it swaying again," I said,
squatting near the running board
and stretching an attentive ear, at
the same time loosening the knees
of my new cream flannel trousers to
prevent them from bagging.
We had just about decided that the
left mudguard harbored the madden-
ing squeak when Latchford came
along. Latchford was on his way to
visit his sister in North Toronto, but
when he learned what we were doing
—or rather attempting to do—he en-
tered into the quest as heartily as
either of us. Is less than half an
hour he was lying on Itis back be-
neath the car, with a wide smear of
grease across his face from ear to'
nose, straining his hearing appairt-
us to place the elusiye squeak, while
Bassett and I'took turns in rocking
the car.
About nine o'clock it became evi-
dent that we were mistaken, particu-
larly when Thompson, who was on
his way' to the drugstore for an ice-
cream brick—company ;had unexpect-
edly`arrived at his house—stopped,
became interested, and crouching on
hands and knees in the roadway, re-
ported that the squeak emanated un-
mistakably from, the radiator. After
some argument and further tests
Latchford and Bassett both corrob-
orated his finding.
It was felt that since Thompson
had shown his competency by really
isolating the squeak, to him should
go the honor of crawling underneath
the radiator and fixing the position of
the noise so definitely that treatment
with oil or a wrench would cure it.
Thus while Thompson did this, Latch-
ford and I crouched on all fours near
the right and left front wheels re-
spectively, and Bassett once more
proceeded to manufacture squeaks by
pushing.
When the light began to fail,
Saunders, who happened along on
his way down to the car line to meet
his wife, volunteered to go back and
get his searchlight, and with its help
the search for the squeak was prose-
cuted with renewed energy. After a
time Saunders became so engrossed in
the business that he surrendered the
light to Latchford, and himself
crawled in beside Thompson.
Within forty minutes Saunders and
Thompson had reduced the possible
locations of the squeak to two—a
loose nut on a connecting rod and a
wabbly brace a few inches from it.
In some excitement Saunders called
for a wrench. There is little doubt
that in a few moments at most the
objectionable squeak would have
been stilled forever had it not been
for an annoying interruption.
The interruption came in the per-'
son of Mrs. Thompson, who caused
a scene that was totally uncalled for.
In loud tones she asked Thompson
whether he hadn't stayed long
enough, adding that the visitors had
got tired waiting for his return with
the ice-cream and had gone home.
With a muttered apology to us,
Thompson vanished into the night
with his wife.
No sooner had we resumed work
than who should appear hut Saun-
ders' wife. r had always had a sort
of instinctive dislike for Mrs. Saun-
ders, and I found now that instinct
had not led me astray. The row she
raised was something, disgusting—
and all because Saunders, the poor
beggar,
had 1
a
gg delayed, a little in meet-
ing her at the car. Thus we lost
-Saunders.
Undismayed, we tackled the job a-
fresh. But it was a night of inter-
ruptions. Just as I had got a strangle
hold on the suspected nut: with`
wrench, Mrs. Bassett came out andtold Bassett that if be thought she
fiord I et? lM, OS r P
*416 k .le *that* juga O` hl..
have tp 1 t the, aggeak, go 1l' °
night, e;rid we ere wafd !sig bfa'
tail -light fade . in the distance, '
One unpleasant'thiug; it ace ns,, ter.
ways leads to another.' When .I
reached home shortly after eleven
o'clock, my wife. appeared to be in
a very bad temper. She at once drew
sarcaatic attention to the oil ataine
on my cream flannels, the split in
the back of my silk shirt, and the
fact that my appearance was slight-
ly mussed. I pointed out, whenever I
could edge in a word, that had I
gone to the- movies I. should have
anent at least forty cents, which
amount I had saved by my change
of plan—but she simply ignored that,
In the middle of our conversation,
Mrs. Latchford 'phoned to find out
whether Latchford had really spent
the evening as he claimed. My wife
answered the ring, a'nd the conversa-
tion that followed between them was
eo unfair, silly, and biased that I
went to bed without listening to it.
However, I heard all about it later
from my`wife.
After considerable thought, I have
decided to have nothing more to do
with squeaks. Although the China-
man got most of the oil out of my.
cream flannels, I have enough tight
squeaks at home without hunting
for them elsewhere.
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HOAX SENDS FLOOD OF CATS TO
MOSCOW; CAT SNATCHERS
CLEAN UP WHOLE CITY
Vladimar Gezikavitch, a Russian
tallow merchant, who arrived lust
week on the American liner Mongolia
from Ojinckikoff, near Nijni-Novgo-
rod, where the famous fair is still
held annually, said that the whole of
northern Europe was being denuded
of cats through a notice printed in
the newspapers in Moscow and Petro-
grad.
It was sent to the editors by a
practical joker under a fictitious
signature, and stated that the soviet
government had just purchased 10,-
000 cats at 260,000 rubles each, to be
sent to the Don Valley to exterminate
rats, so that the land could be
colonized by the Russian refugees
rom Turkey and Egypt.
Since the early days of the war the
land had laid fallow and rats had
multiplied there so fast that they
overrun the country and were now
numbered in millions.
Government officials,: who were
sent to survey the landvecently, Mr.
Gezikavitch said, were. surrounded
by armies of these rodents and had
to climb trees and wait until armor-
ed cars were sent from Moscow to
rescue them. It was this plague of'
rats that had helped the joker to get
his announcbnient into the Russian
press. Since it appeared a reward of
5,000,000 rubles, $5 in American cur-
rency, was offered by the police for
the arrest of the offender.
Ordinary news travels slowly in
Russia to -day but the reports that
the government was eager to pay
260,009 roubles apiece for cats spread
like chain lightning throughout the
country. Within forty-eight hours
of its appearance in print cats were
being shipped from Petrograd and
Odessa to Moscow, addressed to the
soviet officers in the Kreinlin with the
Hank of the sender attached and the
address where the amount in roubles
was to be sent.
Grouchikeff, the chief animal in-
spector, was sent for and told the
authorities higher hp that he did not
need any cats and had bought several
tons of poison to settle the rats in
the Don Valley. The crates . filled
with fretful felines arrived so fast
in Moscow that the officials of the
government did not know what to do
with them. The meowings 'lof jthe
assembled cats were so terrific and
kept the dvornaks, as the night
watchmen are called, awake so long
that they became nervous.
People found that their pet cats
were being stolen by organized bands
of cat snatchers, who went about at
night carrying bags to smother the
cries of the animals when they were
snatched up at the garden gate. In
vain the soviet issued notices, said
the tallow merchant, stating that
they did not want cats even if they
were offered free of charge and
carriage paid. It was too late. The
news had passed through Russia to
Finland, Latvia, Esthonia and to the
lYilsliisi',ti
It insures tial t' at is fresh.
fragrant and' pre - Try it.
Scandinavian countries.
Interest was added to the boom in
cats by offers from the fur mer-
chants to buy the skins if the gov-
ernment did not want the animals.
At Helsingefors, Finland, a gang of
cat snatchers cleaned up the city in
two days.
So fur the government has declin-
ed to buy any of the cats and has
held up the order for the shipment of
poison to kill the rats in the valley
of the great. River Don, so that the
exiles from Turkey, Greece and the
Near East have not been able to re-
turn to Russia and start to culti-
vate the land which was formerly
one of the great granaries of Europe,
Mr. Gezikavitch said.
MAN 6F MYSTERY -IS CALVIN
COOLIDGE
Either Calvin Coolidge is one of the
most extraordinary men who have be-
come President of the United States
or he is the most commonplace. This
can easily be proved by the anecdotes
that have been collected by an indus-
trious press for a hungry public. They
are probably the most jejune collec-
tion ever made, and if one views them
in this light he will find vast pleas-
ure in reading them. Careful search
has failed to reveal a single incident
in his career, a single remark in the
slightest degree out of the ordinary.
The record has been examined close-
ly. His relatives, and friends, his
fellow students and his fellow legis-
lators have been questioned and
each has told whatever he thought
worth telling about the President
and the sum ,total amounts to ex-
actly nothing, but for the fact that
Mr. Coolidge has become President
of the United States as the result of
a great tragedy. The subject of the
reminiscences was a member of the
Massachusetts Legislature; he be-
came Governor of the State; then
as a result of conditions which he
did nothing to create, he was nom-
inated for the Vice -Presidency, and
when the President died he became
President.
Nothing else seems ever to have
happened to him, and nothing seems
ever to have made sufficient impres-
sion upon him to have produced a
profound or humorous remark. To
say this is not to speak with disre-
spect about Mr. Coolidge. Indeed,
he appears to have been always held
in the highest respect by those with
whom he came in contact, and the
fact that he lacks a gift for witty
speech is not an implication that
he will not make a wise President.
Yet the truth is that the American
people have never yet chosen for
President the sort of that that Mr.
Coolidge appears to bel Nevertheless
he seems at the present time to be
the moat likely of possible Re-
publican candidates. He may be re-
nominated to succeed himself. In
the meantime, almost nothing is
known about what sort of man he is
by the genial public, . That is why
there hat been suet a feverish
search for anecdotes that my throw
light upon his character, and it is
amazing what little light they throw,
if we may judge by those which our
eye has, lighted on. That he is
rather a shy, reserved man, little
given to speech was known before.
His most intimate friend is Mr.
Frank W. Stearns, of Boston, and
Mr. Stearns says their- total conver-
sation over a period of -three or four
years would not fill more than three!
or four hours of solid talk. His '
roommate at Amherst College says
that Mr. Coolidge went to the col-
lege in September, 1891, and that
the first he heard from him was in
the following May.- Mr. Coolidge
himself is quoted _aa saying: !Tye
usually /been able• to make noise
enough to. get "w'hakt'I ,wanted." A
prominent mandfacturer. . travelled
with him from Boston to Spring&
and in that time heard the GGoo
as he was then, say "yes" setts
times and "good -day" when he left
the train. On another occasion lie
went with a party to the theatre to
see a very amusing play, but be sat
silent through it without moving his
features. A few days later he re-
marked that it was an admirable
show and that he had been to see it
once by himself. At the reception
that followed his odyn wedding, one
of the guests inquired, "Who's that
*reddish -haired fellodv standing ,over
there by himseelf?"
"That? Why that's the bride-
groom."
"Oh, I thought it was one of the
mutes."
When he was in the Legislature
he approved a certain bill that bad
been denounced as radical. A friend
argued against it, and pointed out
that among other things it was un-
constitutional. "Dorman,' said Mg.
Coolidge, "you're bothered with a
legal mind." Somebody once asked
him if he played golf on Sunday and
he replied: I had a grandmother.
She was a *Baptist. She don't"
Once when he was a law student be
won a medal for an essay. The
head of' the firm noted the an-
nouncement in a newspaper and
asked Calvin if it was correct.
"Yes," he replied.
"Where's the medal?"
"Here," he answered, pulling open
a drawer of his desk.
"Have you told your father?"
"No," said the young man. "Would
you?"
A boyhood neighbor testifies that,
"he was an odd sort of a stick. He
used to ask the girls to go out with
)rim but; most of them would sort
of snub hint—only go with him if
no one else asked them"
When he returned on his vacations
he used to get out an old smock that
had been used by his grandfather
for farm work, and as the sprightly
chronicler of this anecdote remarks,
"The neighbors admit that it was a
very handy garment to keep the
clothes clean." As he was leaving
his father's home for Washington
about four hours after he had be-
come President, he noticed that a
stone step leading to the porch was
a little out of place, and turning to
his father. be said 'earnestly: "Bet-
ter have that fixed, father." When
the newspaper photographers asked
him to pose beside his father as he
had stood when the oath was ad-
ministered to him he refused, say-
ing: "It is too sacred a thing."
Nevertheless, we havee a strong re-
collection of having seen just such
a portrait. There are other anec-
dotes, all about as rich as the fore-
going. It is a Vice -President rather
than a President that they reveal.
It may be the strong, silent man, or
it may be the silent man_ Probably
there has been. no President who was
so great a mystery to his fellow
countrymen when he took office as
Mr. Collidge.
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