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teen, could one minute swear at them as loudly 

 as a Mississippi pilot, and the next be as tender 

 in talking to his charges as a child playing 

 with her doll. Listen for a few minutes to 

 the modest history of the struggles and tri- 

 umphs of this energetic man. 



Louie Jaquotte was born in Alsace-Lor- 

 raine, once a province of France, but now by 

 the Treaty of Paris held under the rule of the 

 German Empire. He says that their German 

 conquerors are bitterly hated by the inhabit- 

 ants of this fertile and thickly populated prov- 

 ince. Long before he came of age he was 

 possessed of a strong desire to leave his native 

 heath, and so with many others he resolved to 

 emigrate to the "promised land." He had 

 heard that a big, silver dollar w^as as easy to 

 get in America as a Kreutzer is in Alsace. 

 His father, when appealed to for advice, told 

 him that he thought he was able to do for 

 himself. As the family was large, and the in- 

 come small, it was decided that it w^as best for 

 him to go. When the time came to start, the 

 father gave him his blessing, and bid him 

 God-speed to the land said to be full of gold, 

 where there w^as plenty of room for the indus- 

 trious youth to w^ork out his own destiny. 



The boy, like thousands of others, started 



