Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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27 fame. T0 13nd this plant he has searched the depths of the wilds of Africa and South America, and has at last found it in Florida. The name of this plant is known only to a few, but was told to me the other day. It is ttThistle-downt, t0 feather the nest of Brown and Brown. Charles A. Coburn has attained great success in his line of work. He has built several large factories for the manufacture of large balloons and air ships, and has succeeded in finding a new way by which Hhot ail may be supplied for a continuous trip around the world, Which he shortly expects to take. And this same supply does not affect in the least the overflow of tthot airti from the supplying individual.

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26 suits him. He has become a head carpenter and contractor for houses, and while overlooking the work at two olcloek the other afternoon he would have fallen from the second story had not one of the workmen caught him. They told me that he always falls asleep at that time from force of aihabit contracted years ago. Jessie Covell has realized her ambition to be a great professor of Latin. She has produced several books in Latin rivaling those of even Cicero and Virgil. One that surpasses all the rest and which is drawn from personal experience is entitled HChildhood Stories Told in Rhyme? and is intended for the amusement 0f the youth. During my travels I met Fred Marsh. I noticed that he had a very wide- awake expression and seemed to regard everything and everybody in such a scrutinizing manner. No one seemed to know much about him, but at last I found out through a friend of his that he is a detective and was at that time working on a very important case which he hoped soon to be able to iitrack Oiitf7 He thought that he had found a clue as to the whereabouts of certain people who are in the habit of breaking the ten oiclock curfew law. L. J. Oare is now a member of congress7 having succeeded Uncle Joe Cannon. He is a Violent Republican and has introduced a resolution that every man who does not vote the Republican ticket should be fined five dollars. In behalf of his proposition he has held the iioor continuously for a period of forty-eight hours. Some years ago G. C. MaeLaren went to Montana and while in the West visited some friends in Washington. This Visit must have affected him deeply for since his return he has produced a poem similar to Tennyson7s NDream of Fair Womenf and we think that this dream will soon be realized. During the last few seasons he has been a powerful aid to the tiWhite Soxli in their most strenuous games, and is now at the head of the Y. M. C. A. National Athletic Association. Some years ago Walter A. Zaugg met his affinity in South Dakota and located in the West, where for a time he was lost in oblivion, but iistruck it rich in a new oil iield and shortly afterward united with the Standard Oil Company. He is now recognized by John D. Rockefeller as one of his most promising men and is rapidly rising in office. Herbert A. Brown has become widely known among the naturalists of this country. He has made many important additions to science by his discov- eries of new botanical specimens. He has, for the last few years, been searching for a plant, the discovery of which will add the climax to his present

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WALTER A. ZAUGG mens agitat molem nihil quad tetigit non ornavit ALBERT WEDEKING