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...tract of land at Lambarene, went there in 1913. As a present from friends he took with him into the wilds a piano stoutly constructed to protect it from the climate. The same friends later gave the missionary a small organ, the case of which had been carefully ant-proofed...
After "The Ant and the Grasshopper'' and an arrangement of the Blue Danube" made by her friend, Cosme McMoon, Mrs. Jenkins was too exhausted for encores. Flushed and happy, surrounded by flowers, she made a little speech in which she asked members of the audience to write and tell her which songs they had liked the best. Said she : 'It may not be important to you, but it is very important to me. Next week I am singing in Ithaca...
...heat was hard upon the flesh, drought was harder on the spirit. As he went into the "secondary" drought zone in Montana, Lawrence Westbrook, assist ant to Relief Administrator Harry Hop kins, boarded the train to give him figures: 24 States drought-devastated; 27,000,000 people drought-affected; 25% of the families in Montana and the Dakotas in need of transplanting to better lands; total damage to date $5,000,000,000. Next day in the deeper drought country, the President rode past fields where cattle were munching the last dry straws of a crop that would never...
...Foraging ants found the milk drippings, scurried back to the ant hill with the tidings. When Mrs. Patrick returned from the tomato patch, the crib, the coverlet, Harold's head were a rusty-red quiver. The baby was unconscious. Doctors thought that he might recover from the ant-bite poison (formic acid). But the red ants, like the all-devouring soldier ants which terrorize tropical Asia, had nipped the sight from...
...edge of the tomato patch, wiped dribble from his lips, and left him for an hour to help her husband cultivate the vines. Unobserved by the Patricks, shack-living tenant farmers of Bells, Tenn., when they placed the child's crib on the ground, was a red ant hill. Nor did Mother Patrick notice that her son's milk bottle was leaking on the coverlet, dripping to the ground...