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Exeter Boy Wina 'Scholarship For
Second Time.
At the Convention of Se C'ainadian
Medical • Association 11014 at :"l'oronto
last week, it Wee: announced that Da.;
W. Stuart- Stanlbtiry, ,S°. .., ho is
' aatholagiht.,.at the 'Mountain anitar-
iunn, Hainilton, had been awarded
the +Scholarship of the Assoeiatiou
for the beet : thesis on tulberculosie,
giving the results a original re-
.nteaiteh in Canada during 1931. Rrhe
ihoitor carries with it a money award
of $259. This great honor is all the
More unus:na1 because at Vancouver,
B. 'C., last ;year ..Dr. gtanbury was
awarded the same scholarship f,n-
11930.---Exeter Times -Advocate.
Exeter Seed Dealer 'Awarded $182.00
Claim.
George Hay, Exeter dealer in seeds
:and Dutch set onions, was- awarded
.1182 by County Judge Joseph Wear.
ing in the County Court, London,
+claim against Morris Morgan, McGil-
livray Township farmer. Hay claim -
.ed $205 and interest, but this amount
was reduced and division court el'
lowed. Claim was. for money alieg-
asdly owing in the purchase of fertil-
:izer, onion seer, strawberries and
strawberry plants in May, 1928. The
defendant, although admitting receiv-
ing the onion seeds, claimed to have
an agreement whereby Hay was to
sheave bought the sets grown from
:them, applying that to the cost. He
.denied agreeing ta, buy the fertilizer
:at. $40 a ton, ;but, claimed that ou
1HHay's order he -'obtained 500 pounds
to be used on the onions. Morgan
farther denied purchasing the berries
*or plants.—Exeter Times -Advocate.
Engagement .Announced.
Mr. and Mrs.' Charles E. Parsons,
Iiullett,. wish to announce the en-
gagement of their ".younger, daughter,
:Ena, to Mr. R. Gordon Jenkins, Strat-
lord, : son of•I Mr. and . Mrs. William
..leukins; •' Blyth. The wedding will
-take place early in July. -- Clinton
Yews -Record.
Ashton Family Gathering.
The Ashton -family reunion was
"held at Hayfield on Saturday lin
.Jowett's grove, 'about one hundred
end twenty-five being present, in -
eluding visitors from Clinton, Sea -
forth, Gorrie, Elpra, Goderich, Blyth,
Tucikersmith, London, Ruthven and
Pontiac, !Mich, Sports, games, fam-
ily reminiscences and the enjoyments
.of the good things provided by the
"housewives' skill were indulged in by
:all and a happy afternoon spent.
Prizes were given the oldest member
of the family present, Mrs. Walters.
of Goderich, although Councillor Her-
bert Crich just missed the honor,
.coming second, and to the youngest,
Amy Walters, the little daughter of
llMr. and fMrs. Frank Walters.—Clin-
ton News -Record. -
John Jardine. Sought.
• -`A posse of police are to -day search-
ing the township of Ashfield for John
Jardine, wanted on two very. serious
charges, preferred by his daughter,
Mrs. Florence Mary Berry, of Ash-
field township. Jardine made his es-
cape into the bush before'the police
could reach the scene, but the coun-
tryside is being scoured, without suc-
cess at time of writing.—+Goderich
Star.
Ffddler Pleads Guilty.
'Sentence, was reserved. until July
Sth ivli'sii ,J'o§eph SAM, of , bene.
:Bluevale, appeared tbheore, Judge T.
'Gbstello op Friday last and •plead -
t ed guiltlr $o assault and causing bed-
ily harm to Earl Underwood, a men-
!ber of the Bluevale Orchestra&... In
the meantime he has his liberty on
$1„e00 bail. During a dance at Blue -
vale, Smith, a musician himself", ap-
proached Underwood during an inter-
miseion with a request to "fiddle" a
dance or two. Underwood refused
the request and an altercation was
started. 'A. dblow from Smith's right
fist bzoke' Underwood's jaw in two
places.--!Goderich Star.
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Get'ii Dredging Contract.
The1old saying that it's an ill winds
that •blows no one good holds true.
The Federal Government had intend-
ed dredging Kincardine harbor and
entrance this Summer with its own
equipments, but; as- is. now well known,
the government dredge sank en route
during a storm. With the splendid
dredging equipment of Wr L. Forrest
close at hand, the logical thing to do
was to give this well known gentle-
man the jab, and this very thing has
been done, for Mr. Forrest has been
awarded the contract. The result is
that local and county men will be
given work which they had not an•
ticipated securing. The tug "For-
rest" Left on Tuesday afternoon fa:
Collingwood and will return to Kin-
cardine with the dredge "I'. J;. Car-
ey.''--•IGaderich Star.
Another Swarm of Bees. .
In the 'disused part of a chimney
at the home of J. A. Haugh, Diag-
onal Road, a swarm of bees settled
and after they had been there three
or four days,_ were removed on Fri-
day last by Bill Clarke. Mr. Clarke
will soon have a colony of bees if
he keeps collecting these swarms as
thin' is the .second lot ' of bees he has
collected this year. Three. years ago
'bees:maa'de this same'cshininey at Mr:
Haugh's their visiting 'place.—Wing.
ham Advance -Times.
Memorial Service at Blyth.
The annual Blyth Memorial Ser-
vice was held in the Memorial Hall
last Sunday evening. Rev, George
Weir, of St. Andrew's Church, was
chairman and read the list of names
of. those who fell during the-, war.
Re'v. Mr. Pocock, of the Anglican
church,, read the ,Scripture lesson-.
Rev. iMr. Anderson, of Queen Street
Church, led in prayer. The address
of the evening, "Cause and iRemedy
for War', was. given by Rev. Ken -
neth , ,MaciLean of St. Andrew's Pres-
byterian Church, Wingham. After
the service the Blyth Band "gave a
concert of sacred music on the Mem-
orial Hall lawn. :Wingham Advance -
Times.
Trouble Over Store Account.
That bill collecting is not without
its • perils was demonstrated before
Judge Costello in County Court on
Tuesday, when Ira N. Marshall. store-
keeper at Kirkton, was the plaintiff
in a suit against Wm. Elliott,an Us -
borne township farmer, and his wife.
Marshall had • a grocery bill of. over
$300 and when he went to 'Elliott's
plaace to collect it a row ensued in
wfiich Marshall was roughly treated.
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"Yes— they're fine
young chickens!"
Lew evening rates
on. Station -to -Sta-
tion Calls begin
7.00 p.m. Still
lower night ,rates
at 8.30 p.m.
It was Joe Kingsmill's wife who
spotted the advertisement -- a
firm in town offering to buy 60
young chickens. She showed it
to Joe.
"Every poultry farnaer in the
province will be writing," Joe
said. :'I'll telephone right -now
and beat the crowd."
So,he, did. And got the business
too for his alertness. The Long
Distance telephone call cost him
35 cents.
¶as to;ry
as. again Urs 1ijgtt w
edd.*--(Goderich "tegna.
Dredge Hardly Worth
.It is unlikely that ilia. Government.
dredge, Q. & R. No,' 1, which sank in
Lake Huron off Bayfield . on Thum-
day,of last week, will be raised. Thio
is the opinion now advanced, al.
though contrary to that held earlier
i'n• the week by those in charge of the
investigation into the eOndition of
the sunken vessel. J. E. La1Rochelle
of the Federal Department of Pub-
he Works, was here early this week
and made an investigation as to the
damage sustained by the dredge,
which wars located on Saturday. She
lies in eighty-two feet of water and
the view held is that she would hard-
ly be worth the cost of raising her.
The diver was Captain Earl Mc-
Queen, owner and operator of :the
tug .Max L. Captain -McQueen is in.
charge of all buoys on the Detroit
River, and was assisting with the
transportation of the dredge „on this
trip as a sideline. Captain. Blanch-
ard, of the Peel, on Fridaymorning
described the events leadng up' to
and, immediately following the sine-
ing. the dredge.-4Goderich Signal.
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Some Desserts
• WorthTrying
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Bitter Chocolate Custard.
0 eggs.
1 quart of scalded milk,
teaspoon salt.
1-8 cup sugar.
1-3 teaspoon vanilla.
1% cups bread cubes.'
2 squares cooking chocolate.
Beat the eggs slightly. Add the
sugar and salt and mix well, Then
add the scalded •milk and stir in the
vanilla. CO bread in cubes and dip
in the chocolate, which has been
melted over hot water. Pour the
custard mixture into a 'buttered bak-
ing dish or into individual buttered
moulds.• and drop the bread cubes
carefully into theliquid, distributing
'Ultra evenly about'.the 'surface, Place
either the large pan or small one,,
whichever are used, in a shallow pan
of hot water, and bake for 40 min-
utes (large dish) or 26 minutes (in
small moulds) in a slow oven. Thus
amount makes six servings.
To make the coffee infusion calle'i
for in these recipes, use one rounded
tablespoon coffee .oto each tea cup of
water, or two level tablespoons cof-
fee to a measuring cup of water, and
prepare the usual way. .For doubte
or triple strength infusion, use two
or three times the amount of coffee
to one cup of water,
Coffee Sponge Pie.
3 eggs.
1 cup sugar.
1 cup triple strength coffee infu-
sion.
1 tablespoon gelatin.
1-3 cup cold water. -
14 tablespoon salt. -
1 teaspoon vanilla.
1 baked pie crust.
1% cups Whipped cream. •
Soak the gelatin in the -cold water
about, rive minutes.. ,'Separate eggs
and stir one-half cup of the sugar.
irito the beaten yolks. Cook five min-
utes' in a double boiler, add the coffee
and salt and cook five minutes long-
er. Stir constantly. Add the softened
gelatin and continue stirring until
thorou'ghly dissolved. Chill. Beat
whites of eggs stiff and add remain-
der of sugar and 'vanilla. FoId Vie
coffee mixture into whites.. Place in
a baked pie shell and cover with
flavored whipped 'cream. This recipe
willmake eight servings.
The combination of coffee and or
ange flavors has long 'been recog-
nized as a happy one. Other fruits
are added with delicious and unusual
results in, this coffee -colored salad.
Canton Coffee Salad.
1 package orange -flavored gelatin.
2 cups double strength coffee in-
fusion.
% cup chopped crystallized ginger.
2-3 cup sliced bananas.
1/4 cup sliced maraschino cherries,
Dissolve the orange flavored gelatin
in the hot coffee and set aside to
cool. When it is thickened slightly.
add the sliced fruit. Pour, into in-
dividual moulds and chill. When
ready to serve, unmould ovrisp let-
tuce leaves dnd serve with generous
Portions of mayonnaise. In the pro-
portions given, this recipe will serve
five persons.
An excellent sur nmer pudding,
steeped in a . combination of coffee
and fruit flavorings has the Euro:
pean touch.
Vienna• Coffee Pudding.
5 eggs.
'/,F cup powdered sugar;
1 lemon rind.
1 orange rind.
1 cup stale bread crumbs.
1 teaspoon any baking powder.
2 cups double strength coffee in-
fusion.
4 tablespoons, granulated sugar.
2 tablespoons fruit juice flavoring.
Separate eggs. Beat the yolks and
add powdered sugar gradually. Con-
tinue beating until light, then add
the grated lemon and orange rind.
Fold in crumbs which have been thor-
ougtjy mixed with baking powder
and the stiffly beaten egg whites.
Bake in a spring form pan in an al.
most slow oven (32.5 degrees F.) for
about 30 minutes.
Turn out immediately after baking.
Pour over it the coffee, flavored be-
forehanr with fruit juice and four
tablespoons of granulated sugar. Let
stand 24 hours before serving. This
quantity will make six to eight por-
tions.
Jellied Meat. Loaf.
1 tablespoon gelatine.
1-2 cup cold water.
1 cup stock, well seasoned,
1 tablespoon minced onion.
10 crackers, crumbled fine.
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce.
2 teaspoons lemon juice.
3-4 chopped 'cooked meat '(!v'eal,
lan!b, hare, beef or; chicken-.
,Soak gelatine in cold water five
minvtee. Add stock and onions, bring
to boiling point and pour over soak -
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nish is i elm+ af' with ohil1e
peas in lettlaee clips; veal 14a4 ,!vi4th'
potato- salad in lettuce eupa; !ami
toiiriiitinuiti.tjeW on butter waf!exs
haat Ioaf with, potato chips and
mustard picitle ip r tiny' lettuce cups -
beet loaf ,With Pimento strips ,and
sliced dill pickle. Six Portions. Pre-
paration, 10 minutes,
Said the young daughter to her
mother. "It isn't fair. At night
you tell me- Pen too little -to stay up,
and in the morning you say that I'm
too 'big to stay in bed."—.Pearson's
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The short • tempered 'golfer had
spent a quarter of an hour unsuc-
cessfully searching for a lost bah,
when an elderly lady seated on the
links called out to him: "Excuse nae,
sir, but shall I be breaking the rules
if 1 tell you where it is ? "—Path-
finder. ,
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About the only line the modern
girl draws is with -her lipstick.--JBos.
ton Transcript.
Australian Giants
Of the Cricket Field
There is a ninety piece of discolor-
ed 'parchment, drawn up by the hand
' of an industrious monk Whose duty
it was to chronicle for ,posterity the
events of the day. It may be seen
by the curious in the King's library,
and it represents two cowled figures,
one holding a crooked stick, the Sax-
e word for which was Cric or Cryc.
That is our earliest record of the
game of cricket which to -day is play.
ed wherever and `whenever : twenty-
two or more 'Britons are 'gathered to-
gether„ anywhere between Vancou-
ver and' Shanghai or 'Hobart and
what have you. The game was orig-
inalIy a Saxon one and is typically
•so ,to this day in its tenalperame, 11.
requirements. Curiously-i;,e ,:°it
wats"p1ayed chiefly,by the -Normans,
the leisured classes, in the Middle
.ages. We .find reference to 'it in
King Edward i1I's wardrobe accounts,
£6 being appropriated from the Ex-
chequer. .It crops up again under
Edward IV as'beifg one of the past -
times denounced as "Iudos inhonestoa
et minus utiles aut valentes" which
may be very freely translated as
meaning "fixed, feeble and futile." It
interfered with that international
pastime called war, an arrow being
a more dangerous missile than a ball,
although in 1751, Frederick, Prince
of Wales, a great enthusiast, was hit
by a speeding ball and died as a re-
sult.
Therefore, it was quite natural that
when men in 'Great Britain began to
cast their eyes'. at the virgin eonti-
nents Of America, Africa and Aus-
tralia, they took their cricket along
with their other virtues to , their
adopted lands. The game developed
and became very -scientific; records
Were made and broken; matches be-
-tweet component parts of the Empire'
were instituted, and to -day its repre-
sents the bond between Britons al-
most as much. as the Union Jack.
The rules are entirely uniform wher-
ever it is played; there are no tariffs,
no preferences and no depreciated
currencies. 'In Australia from whose
shores a party of famous cricketers
arrived in Toronto last week to play
at the Cricket Club Ground, cricket
made great strides. The Australians
favored by climate and soil, took up
the game very seriously; they com-
bined, efficiency_ with enthusiasm and
the result is that to -day cricket as
played in Australia is second to no-
where in the world. A team of Aus-
tralians, including several aborigin-
als answering to such picturesque
names as King Cole, Six-perm•y and
Red Cap toured England in the
1860's, interspersing their cricket
with acrobatic feats • and hurling
spears and boomerangs incredibl
distances. Since .then, teams have
gone to and fro with great regular-
ity and the series of "Test Matches"
has taken place every few years..
The Australian crickets at Toronto
are worthy bearers of the great tradi-
tions of Australian cricket. The' team
includes some of the finest •expoa,
ents of the game in the entire world.
Don Bradman, "thee Bobby Jones of
cricket," was :the cynosure of all
eyes. This young man, who five
short years ago walked on to a
cricket field in Sydney, I<V.S.W., with
nothing but his, amazing native skill
as his equipment, has to -day broke.i
nearly every recond in the gar.12. He
is a tremendous scorer of run': and
a magnificent fielder—something That
appeals to any audience. Victor I'.'.ch-
ardson, the captain, is a srlcndid all
round athlete; like our Lionel' Con-
acher, he does everything well and is
probably the finest fielder playing to-
day. Alan Kippax is a beautiful
batsman; even to the uninitiated his
strokes seem to be made with effort-
less ease, the true harmonization of
hand and eye, Stanley McCabe
yoninger even than Bradman, is •an-
other excellent player. To be just
one should enumerate theme all in
terms of the superlative were we not
constrained by the thought that they
come as a team, play as a team and
would themselves be the last to wish
to bask in the spotlight of publicity.
Mention, however, must be -made of
Arthur Malley, under whose man-
agement the team is touring. Hailey
'is an old friend. He, was here in
1912 and in 1929 became honorary
ooa'ch to the Toronto Cricket Club.
That year Toronto brought the John
Ross Robertson Ct)p, emblematic of
the Dominion Championship!, to Ar-
mour Heights fol- the first time. He
is a great !bowler and has a splendid
record in Test cricket. And what of
Canada? What chance have we a-
gainst such a galaxy? Frankly--q,ot
a very big one, although cricket is a
game of surprises and anything may
happen. Cricket in Canada, and in
Toronto 'parti'cularly, has 'been firmly
entrenched for more than a hundred
years and many fine players have
been developed.
The, popularity of the game is
increasing yearly. There are twenty-
six teams playing in Toronto this
year—not all equal in strength, hut
certainly on a par in enthusiasm
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and keenness. Two fine, elevens halve
been picked to do !battle with our
visitors and Toronto cricket will not
be disgraced. It will certainly be
improved by its close contact with
the 'methods of such outstanding
players. 1t is very fitting in this,
an Empire Year, with the spirit of
mutual helpfulness and unity about
to find expression in Ottawa so short-
ly, that an Australian team should
be our .'g'uests. Representatives of
two great Dominions will mingle and
carry away with them their impres-
sions of each other at their best—for
where can •men show up better ad-
vantage than playing the game up-
on which the sun never sets? The
spirit of cricket might well be the
remedy for the world ills that beset
us to -day. .
The Story of Sutter's Gold
1834. An American paddle steam-
er is making its way from Le Havre
to New York. On board is a cer-
tain Johann August Suter (later
known as John A. Sutter). He is
,11. years old, "and is hastily putting
the ocean between himself and the
Euroi can courts of law. A barlk,
t upt, a thief, a forger, he deserts his
',vile and children and is off over the
',utters to seek a new life.
1829. Sufiter has won moderate
,;access as a farmer in New York,
li,tt with the blood of an adventurer
in his veins, has pushed on to the
.:eeramento valley in California.
i here, under a concession from the
Spanish governor, he founds a col-
ony. Warehouses are 'built, wells dug,
the virgin soil sown with seed. Grad-
ually the colony grows, for men and
women come from neighboring set-
tlements.
The success of the undertaking
beggars description. The crops yield
a 500 -per cent. harvest. The gran-
aries are palled to overflowing. Soon
the herds can be numbered in thou-
sands. ,Sutter not only provisions
Fort Vancouver and the Sandwich
Islands, but he revietuals all the ves-
sels putting into California harbors.
He plants fruit trees, whose har-
vests are later to make the name of
California renowned throughout the
world. He buys up farms along the
coast. At the age of 45, after a
lapse of 14 years, he suddenly re-
members he has left behind a wife.
and family, and writes them to came
to his kingdom. He is one of tlw
wealthiest men in the world. Fin-
ally the United States seizes the
country from Mexican control. Ev-
erything is now under stable govern-
ment.
1848. The month is January. Jas.
Marshall, Sutter's carpenter, comes to
his master in great excitement. Sut-
ter is surprised to see Marshall, fir
it was but yesterday that he sent
the man to build a sawmill in Col -
oma. The fellow pulls from his
pocket a handful of sand containing
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a few yellow pellets, and explains
that he was digging, when suddenly
the spade turned up something whir'
looked like gold. Sutter tests the
pellets; they are; indeed, geld!
Early on the following day, Sol-
onel Sutter goes to Coloma. They
,empty the mill -race, and test the
sand in its bed. A sieve, a few
shakings, and the gold nuggets lie
gleaming on the dark wires. ,Sutter
gathers the men ,around him; he
puts them on their -honor not to say
a word to any 'one. Then he .rides
home, his mind filled with the wild-
est thoughts. The ground on which
the gold lies so openly is his -ground.
•He is he richest man in the world!
The richest man? Nay rather, the
poorest! Within a week, the secre
was a secret no longer. A woman
had blabbed. The consequences wers
unparalleled. All Sutter's men in.
continently left' their work, and be-
haved like men possessed, hurrying
to the spot with any old sieve and
shaking gold from the sand. In one
night-time the whole countryside was
deserted; the cows bellowed vainly to
be milked, herds broke down enclos-
ures and stampeded through the
crops.
Telegraph wires carried the gold( n
message across land and sea: Soon
gold-diggers are coming from towns
and harbors, seamen leave their ships,
officials their posts; they come in a
long procession; this is the gold rush,
the human locust swarm. It is a
rabble rout with no law for club law,
no ,judge but the revolver. Sutter's
cows are slaughtered, his barns de-
molished to build shanties, John A.
Sutter is little better than a pauper;
like King Midas of yore, gold has
been his ruin.
The stream of gold -hunters grows
larger day'•by•lay. From New York,
ere long,' 100 vessels have set sail
for the west. During the years 1848,
1849, 1850, 1851, incalculable hordes
of adventurers come to the land of
promise. Every treasure -hunts•
makes right for Sutter's broad acres
and settles down there as if at home.
On Sutter's land now arose the city
of Sacramento; strange men haggled
over the price of his property, selling
it in lots regardless of the unhappy
owner.
John A, Sutter was once again a
bankrupt, and stared in speechless
bewilderment at the 'amazing spec-
tacle. He withdrew to a part of his
estate that was outside the gold dis-
trict, away from the unholy sand. It
was here that his wife and children
at length joined him. His wife died
soon after her arrival, but the three
lads remained, and with them Suttee
set to work once more to cultivate
his land. Once again he worked his
way up, quietly, tenaciously; and
once more he reaped advantage froln.
the amazing fertility of the soil.
1850. California had 'become part
of the Union. After a period of
chaos, order had at last been restor-
ed in the gold -mad land. Law had
again tome into its own.
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And then John A. Sutter advanced
his great claim. 'Hie declared that
all the vast sites where Saeramento,
San Francisco, and other mushroom,
towns had been erected belonged to
him. He set the law in motion and
a suit began which for size has nev-
er had an equal. He prosecuted the
17,221 squatters who had settled
down on his erstwhile estates, order-
ing them to quit; he demanded $25,-
000,000 from the State of California.
as compensation for all the roads,
canals, bridges, locks and dams con=
structed by himself, and appropriat-
ed by the state; he asked for his share
of the royalties in the gold. His
eldest son was sent to study law so
that he might conduct the law -suit.
(in May 15, 1855, judgment is giv-
en. Judge Thompson, the highest
law officer in the state, admits the
justice of Sutter's claim, declares that
the huge territories are indisputably
his property. This day John A. Sut-
ter attains the goal of his ambition:
he is the wealthiest man in the work.
The wealthiest? Far from it! Fate
has; reserved another blow for him.
As soon as the judgment become.
known, a veritable storm breaks over
the state. Ten thousand people bard
themselves together, all who heel
their property to he threatened; the
mob sets fire to the law ceuits, de-
stroys the state archives, hunts for
the judge to lynch him; the entire
property of John A. Sutter is first
plundered by the rahbleithen put :o
the flames. The eldest son shoote
himself; the second is murdered; the
third perishes by drowning while at-
tempting to journey , back to Europe.
With ruthless thoroughness the whole
property is made a desert and a
desolation.
John A. 'Sutter never recovered
front this blow; he was a broken
man. The fruit of his labors had
been destroyed, his wife and sons
were dead, his mind -was deranged.
One thought alone possessed
Justice.
For twenty-five years thereafter,
an old and doited man in bedraggled
attire haunted thetprecincts of the
law department in Washington. H�
was known as "the general" who,
down at the heel, persisted in de-
manding his millions. He appeals to
the Senate, to Congress. Rigged out
in a general's uniform, he trails from
office to office, from Congressman to
Congressman.
One summer afternoon the general
is sitting on the bottom step of the
great flight that leads to the capi-
tol, warming his old carcase in 'the
sun. A ragged urchin seanep,ers t,i
ward him yelling: "General! Gener-
al! You've won! Congress has settled
it!" Sutter does not see the little
rascals in the background splitting
their sides with laughter at the joke.
The old Man rises, draws himself to •
his full height, and saysbut one
word: "Thanks!" Then he falls like
a lag to the ground, and John A.
Sutter is dead, released at last frons
his long martyrdom.