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...them near Fort Sill. Like most primitive peoples they regarded half-wits as inspired. Nearly fifty years passed and the inspired child grew to middle age. In Grover Cleveland's time he was making 75? a day as a farm hand near Henryetta, Okla., living in a miserable shack, dressing in dirty blankets. The people of Henryetta knew him as Crazy Jack but on the Government's records he was set down as Jackson Barnett...
...month-old child Harold partly emptied his bottle. Then Mrs. Watson Patrick tucked him in his crib under the tree at the 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...
...Daytimes he devoted to his medical lectures, to founding and organizing a medical school for women. He called himself a Sunday musician because holidays gave him his only chance for composing. Nights he minded his wife who wheezed through the winters with asthma, dragged him off summers to a shack in the Caucasus where she went barefoot and he had no piano. Borodin called Prince Igor his natural child. Its wild barbaric dances were in his blood. Its Oriental coloring came instinctively to the son of a Georgian chieftain. But Borodin dropped dead at a fancy-dress party, leaving Prince...
...York City's Home for Dependants on Welfare Island. When they asked him what he could do, he told them of his doctoring days at sea. Therefore he was promptly put in charge of the Home's ''ulcer clinic," housed in a filthy, waterfront shack which had once been a morgue...
...strikers; got a brand-new sensation when he went on the picket-line and was beaten up before policemen recognized him. As the months wore on and the strike continued, public opinion went more & more against the strikers. Kicked out of their rented headquarters, they built their own shack. One night a citizens' committee, headed by the chief of police, made a raid. Guns went off and the chief and one of the strikers' guards were killed...