R.' "And on that program he started right in.

Fust off he bought his dad's old place, built it over into the eight-sided palace that's there now, fetched down a small army of servants skippered by an old housekeeper, and commenced to live simple but complicated.

Then, havin' provided the needful charity for himself, he's ready to scatter manna for the starvin' native.
"He had a dozen schemes laid out.

One was to build a free but expensive library; another was to pave the main road with brick; third was to give stained-glass windows and velvet cushions to the meetin' house, so's the congregation could sleep comfortable in a subdued light.

The stained-glass idee put him in close touch with the minister, Reverend Edwin Fisher, and the minister suggested the men's club.