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them being estimated at more than one-half million 

 dollars. The greatest movement or cleavage was 

 along the foothills near which the University 

 buildings stand; and in one place the slip of the 

 earth was at least six feet, as shown by the board 

 fences. But it is not my purpose to give a detailed 

 account of the earthquake and fire, as that can be 

 found elsewhere, in print only to relate so much 

 of it as came within my purview. 



One more digression I must permit myself be- 

 fore I set out on my personal narrative. If this 

 history of a farm boy should ever come to print, 

 I should not expect that it would interest the liter- 

 ary men of that time, but I should hope that it 

 might give courage to boys on the farms who are 

 often denied opportunity to acquire a thorough 

 education by reason of lack of means and too 

 strenuous physical labor. Theodore Roosevelt 

 has said that he began to get his education young 

 right away after he left college. It will be 

 seen that I began mine at a much earlier date and 

 continued it for three-quarters of a century. The 

 farm boys who may read this should learn from it 

 the lesson of continuous growth, by which even 

 the slowest may arrive at their full capacity. 



