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...easily the dominant figure of the last Indian National Congress. The Occidental press was poorly represented, and only recently* has the picturesque story of the Congress come to light. It sat in a great tent of hand-woven khaddar, at Gauhati, in remote Upper India. Great palms and forest trees canopied the Congress tent, the 5,000 delegates and spectators slept in the open or in bamboo huts along the shores of the broad Brahmaputra dotted with tiny islands. The delegates have no official status, but theirs is a voice that speaks for India; vast, three times more populous than...
...Drop," "Johnny Cup o' Tea," "Leather Breeches," "Dutch Molly," "Shoestring Pratt." Now they are plain "our-Mr.-Zerkle," "our-Mr.-Bragg." Along the road they used to meet, instead of small-time vaudeville folk, really queer dicks like David Wilbur, Rhode Island's gentle, weatherwise, forest wildman, whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body in a coffee sack, his head...
...charge of the Arboretum since it was created in 1872 from a bequest of John Arnold to Harvard for that purpose. This was the most important of the many tasks connected with the progressing study of horticulture and forestry which he undertook. He conducted the first census of the forest resources of the United States, which led to the first federal action of importance in this field...
...Savings Division of the U. S. Treasury (to sell Thrift Stamps). To Lafayette, an institution one-fifth the size of George Washington but with a more notable academic tradition, Dr. Lewis would take that scholarship, personal and exemplary, which made him a success as headmaster (1906-13) of Lake Forest Academy (Lake Forest, Ill.) and which the Encyclopaedia Britannica recognized when it enlisted him as a contributor...
...hood and come along o' me; and sooner than a weasel can suck a duck's egg, thou shalt be Queen of England." Near the lady's home, he loses his way, falls asleep, while Mr. Taylor's wood pieces whisper sylvan enchantments and the chorus, offstage, hums the forest mysteries. It is All-Hallow's Eve, when a maid, by performing runic rites in the woodland, may catch a glimpse of her future husband. Ravishing Aelfrida (Florence Easton) comes upon the royal emissary. They fall in love at once. Aethelwold keeps the real purpose of his errand a secret...