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. Houston Texas Saturday January 1 1916.
"Our Country ! In her intercourse
with foreign nations ftiay she always
be in the right; but our country
right or wrong." Stephen Decatur.
POLL TAX CHALLENGES.
(From the Austin Statesman.)
Dallas has challenged Houston and San
Antonio to a poll tax contest. One or both
vthe challenged cities probably will take up
V the challenge and the present poll tax sea-
son may witness a race as interesting as
' that of 1913.
Austin appears to be rolling up a very
good registration this year and it is in order
to challenge Waco. In 1013 this city put it
-over her rival in a poll tax contest and prob-
. ably would be able to do so again. The con-
. test would bring out a big registration which
la good for the city and county. The aver-
age man who pays his poll tax doesn't for-
. get to vote in a presidential year and the
larger the vote the better safeguarded are
the interests of the people.
HOUSTON IN 1916
The New Year which has dawned ought
not to be merely a good year for Houstoa
but the very best year Houston ever had
and it will be if the men and women of
Houston approach the opportunities which
llftngs with resoluteness courage intelli
gence and vision. There are times when it
is the part of wisdom to proceed cautiously
6r even halt and Houston has known such
times but every signal now is "go ahead.
We do not mean by this a revel in wanton
' speculation but well directed effort for ma
terlal achievement.
We do not mean the investment of capital
Without due regard for the reasonable prob-
abilities of success. For instance we do
- not need for the present any .more great
' Office buildings or hotels. Fortunately we
1 .are supplied in that respect. But we do
. need intelligent and persistent effort to ex
pand our industrial foundation and in doing
; this some things are to be kept in mind.
No city can become a great industrial cen
ter if the burdens upon industry are so
great it can not compete with similar in
dustries located elsewhere. Successful in
; dustry must have cheap ground located with
regard to track facilities. It must have rea-
sonable taxes. It must have good living
( ' conditions for labor at reasonable rates. It
' must have cheap money. It must have the
encouragement and patronage of home mar-
kets. It is useless to talk of building great in
dustries in Houston unless these advantages
are to be had for other cities have such ad-
V vantages and .unless we can compete with
v them it is useless to attempt to build fac-
' tories. If we are to attempt to make 1916
1 an industrial year for Houston there needs
. to be co-operation and Houston capital
' land owners and manufacturers ought to see
. What can be done toward placing all Indus
tries upon a firm and profitable 1 asls.
The people of Houston can help. They
- Can help by buying Houston-made products
and keeping Houston money at home as far
as possible. We are yet sending millions
onf of the city and State for articles and
Commodities that ought to be produced or
..manufactured at home and in this way we
I are diffusing our real strength whereas con
Vcentratlon would make for the city's develop-
V meat
i?XjlJther thing that we must do in 1916
'It we are to reap as we should is to rally
; unitedly to the ship channel. We made some
' progress with the channel last year but we
did' Hot do our utmost and the utmost is
' necessary. We shall have additional wharf
- facilities this year. We ought to have addi
.' tionai Boats and we should remember that
1 Houston-New York tonnage is not all that the
' channel was constructed to accommodate
f 80 far out manufacturers and merchants
have hot considered seriously the trade pos
' libOities in Central and South America. If
Houston If to become the port we are strlv
lug' to-jnaks It w must have commercial
. relations with other countries and we must
. Inveatlgats and ascertain just what lines of
business we can most profitably conduct
f Moreover wa must enlist for our waterway
the Interest of Interior merchants for the
chanrW was constructed for the beaefit of
til tLe States of the Southwest and the
greater use they make of.it and our harbor
f4cllttIesUa .better wilt be for .pur own
r--71 mercial and. industrial development.
"Ye raa not possibly do more to increase
the channel 'tonnage this year than needs
to be done it we are to lay the essential
groundwork for future appropriations for a
greater channel and harbor.
And do not overlook Houston's Interest in
the development of the country tributary to
the city. Houston's real greatness will not
precede tbe settlement' of the millions of
acant acres in this section ?f the State.
We must help for we are directly concerned.
There ar countless opportunities that are
inviting our capital and energy. Let the
men who believe in Houston take a fresh
start and with enthusiasm intelligence and
determination get together and make 1916
a year of great achievements.
NEW YEAR HINTS.
Several readers of The Post have re
quested the reproduction today of some New
Year hints published in this column several
years ago. and in the hope (hat they may
he beneficial the request is complied with:
Get into the new year right. Discard your
pessimism take your hands out of your
pockets and go to work.
Don't lounge around the streets; don't
stand in front of the saloons; don't inhabit
he hotel corridors during working hours.
If you are out of work by all means don't
'hang around." Keep moving and move
fast; it will indicate that you have energy
ind the man who has a position to give will
see that you are not a dead one.
Appearances are not everything of
ourse but appearances count for much.
Keep your shoes polished and your face
shaven. Brush your clothes. Get acquainted
with a clean shirt occasionally.
If you have money or if you have a regular
salary wear good clothes the best you can
afford. Don't be sloppy.
Get some ginger in you. Stand erect. Look
people in the eye and talk as if you were
wide awake and noticing everything going
on about you.
If you are a gentleman or if you have a
trace of refinement about you don't use
profane language on the streets or anywhere
else. The man who loafs on the streets
and pours his dirty profanity into the ears
of women and children is not only a brute
but he has no sense..
Turn over a new leaf this year and see if
you can't be a gentleman. Brace up your
self-respect and make up your mind you are
going to put in A. D. 1916 trying to be a
real man.
If you are married throw a few sunbeams
into your home and make your wife think
of the time you were so attractive you won
her. Give her her share of the money and
don't grumble about it.
Don't brag about her cooking when the
gang is around if you are not considerate
enough to praise her ether noble virtues
A man who can't say anything more for the
partner of his joys and sorrows and the
mother of his children than that she is a
good kitchen servant is a blaze-faced scoun
drel.
Take some interest in your children. Don't
let the yeas of their adolescence drift by
empty of joy. Make them happy and so
conduct yourself that they will think dad is
a gentleman and a scholar.
Keep sober be gentle kind considerate
and never be brutal to one beneath you or
to an unfortunate. Give up something now
and then to alleviate pain and distress.
Above all things be respectful and con
siderate of women who work. The most
shameful phase of out civilization is the
careless cruel brutal attitude of mankind
toward the women who work. If you do
one a kindness don't exact in return the
price of an immortal soul.
Do unto other women and girls as you
would have others treat your mother your
wife your sister or your daughter if she
should havn the misfortune to be forced into
the world to make a living.
In other words he a gentleman and above
all things a man.
Pay your poll tax and never lose an op
portunity tn vote the ticket of an unconquer
able and imperishable democracy.
Subscribe for The Post.
Happy New Year.
It is not always so in the popular judgment
but the proverable saying that "Justice though
he travel slow or late is sure at. last Wrong to
overtake" is inevitably vindicated in Nature's
unerring support of its own decrees. Five years
ago the Los Angeles Times building was blown
up. something like twenty employes lost their
lives as a result of the explosion. If a con-
spiracy was concocted and was responsible for
the explosion its purpose was not to destroy these
lives. The conspiracy if it was a conspiracy
was based on a false idea of how to accomplish
good. Two men are now in the penitentiary one
under a sentence of fifteen years and the other
under a lifetime sentence upon being adjudged
guilty of the crime. A third man who has long
evaded the law which he was believed to have
outraged has Ix-en convictedof complicity in the
alleged crime and given a lifetime sentence for
his offense. A conservative reading of the evi-
dence that was adduced in the trial of all three
convinces us that Old Justice in his travels has
overtaken the right parties at last.
Geologists tell us that during the F.ocene era
when the shores of the Gulf of Mexico lay con-
siderably farther inland than at the present time
a .long baylike extension of the gulf filled the
present valley of the Mississippi up to the mouth
of the Ohio says a bulletin of the United States
geological survey. The boundaries of this ancient
bay were not stationary But shifted slowly back
and forth from time to time so that open sea
was gradually replaced by buckish water and
this by swamps and peat bogs. The succeeding
advance of the sea buried these old peat bogs
beneath accumulations of clay sand and sea
shells.
The VVaco Times-Herald 'which we are sure
will not support Tom Campbell for the United
States senate has finally smoked the sly fbx
out of his hiding place and the old fellow's hat
got . into the enlarged senatorial ring two days
before New Year. Good for you brother news
paper tnan you served Texas a fine turn in
making it more easily possible to elect a fitting
representative to the upper house of congress.
And theVsenater elected from (Texas next year
will not t lom campbeu
Paragraphorisms
Br Gioaaa M. Bailby.
The Washington Post alluaes to Our Bob
Henry as "an active candidate for United States
senator from Texas." If Bob's activity as a
candidate were put in on a black land farm with
a perfect season the yield would be one bale of
cotton to seventy-four acres. 1'
-
We did not see the New Year come in but we
heard it.
Luke McLuke digs up the interesting historical
fact that the Romans were the first people to
shave. That is old history. We want Luke to
know that the Hon. Cyclone Davis of Texas and
General Carranza are not Old Romans because
they never shave.
Los Angeles has her snowstorm but the beauti
ful orange groves of Houston remain unflaked.
The census bureau shows that in 1914 Hous
ton paid laundries for washing duds the sum of
$748419 whereas San Antonio paid in the same
year $462348. In other words Houston changes
its shirt twice as often as San Antonio does.
We think it is ail right for a man to love his
enemies provided he is reasonably kind to his
friends.
'The dove has been almost exterminated in the
United States" according to a report from the
department of agriculture. Well what could you
have expected? Somebody touted the dove as
a bird of peace and every gun went for it.
Apparently the New York politicians have
about landed the goat of the Hon. Thomas Mutt
Osborne.
We are ashamed of the way New York behaved
last night in welcoming the New Yea. We feel
sure the democrats of the old town conducted
themselves properly and that only republicans
were boisterous and drunk.
London says there are food riots in Austria
but neglects to say just what it is that is pester
ing England.
Same old Billy Sulzer says he will accept the
prohibition nomination for governor (of New
York. And it wouldn't surpise us a particle to
ascertain that the pros of New York are foolish
enough to give it to him.
Say young fellow drop that cigarette spit on
your hands and get a fresh grip on the grand old
situation. Go to it.
We are not disposed to inform curious people
how it happens that Colonel House is a man of
such perspicacity and influence. But ' he was
born to his talents as he is a native of Houston.
Probably one of the question that President
Wilson never asked in his life is: "What does
Mr. Hearst think of this?"
With Charles Warren Fairbanks out for the
republican nomination we feel sure that many of
the republicans will be able to control their emo
tions when the dog days come.
Henry Ford says he will return to F.urnpe with
his wife. Rut is that plan likely to inject more
peace into the Ford pacifists?
The inquisitive subscriber of Wharton asks
"Are you going to break your New Year resolu
tions the following day?" No the following
day. will be Sunday.
The world will be a. great deal better when
one can get the young people to follow one's ad
vice and disergard one's example.
That M. Louis Globe-Democrat man is worry
ing because it js three months until dandeloin
time. Why borrow trouble when you can get it
handed to you?
Martha Hedman advises girls how to exercise
their eyes. Martha would do better by telling
them how to make their eyes behave.
If you don't pay your poll tax before t.he en
of this month you shall not stand around our
bulletins on election night to cheer for the demo
cratic victory.
Miss Ida Tarbell says the ultimate aim of a
girls is matrimony. Would Ida mind telling us
how it happened that she missed the target?
The dear little scholmarms ot Alabama are
not trying to have their salaries raised. They
merely want Alabama to raise the money and pay
the salaries.
Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain behaves very
much like a young wife who will fly the suffrage
coop within three days after the first baby ar
rives.
SOME POSTSCRIPTS.
The handle of a new screw driver is pivoted so
that it can be turned at right angles to the shaft
to give additional leverage or serve as a ham
mer.
For literally shooting trees to death a pistol
has been invented in England that fires into
their limbs steel bolts that tear out the living
cores.
A French inventor's home exerciser is in the
form of a stationary bicycle and can be used to
generate electricity and store it for house illumi
nation.
Apparatus invented in England for preserving
fish in carbonic acid gas under pressure is said
to keep them perfectly fresh for at least six
months.
An Oregon man has developed a motor driven
machine for cleaning fruit and sorting it into
fen grades at a rate of more than 17000 piece
an hour.
According to a European investigator an elec
trie current powerful enough for industrial pur
poses is dangerous to human life under certain
condiUons.
Electrically operated sand sifters that do as
much work as ten men with hand screens hav
been invented for use in preparing foundry sand
for castings.
For putting the finishing touches to concrei
roads a machine driven by a gasoline engine
has been' invented that can finish about 8000
square feet a day.
Our Biggest Industry.
(From the Wall Street Journal.) .
Measured by the number of persons employed
what is the country's biggest manufacturing in
dustry? Lumbering with its 48060 saw mills
its $1000000000 investment in these plants and
its employment of 60000 men to operate them
I his does not include says the Nation s Bust
ness the .standing timber which brings up the
total investment to $2500000000. This indus
try lurmsties railroads with a traffic .income
amounting to $2oq 000000 a yvr. Yet lumber-
ing is one of the most depressed of industries
and seems to be the victim of its own helpless-
ness because of uncontrolled competition. In the
yellow pine industry which comprises more than
half of the lumber production chaos has resulted
from the ouster proceedings of the Missouri su-
preme court bringing prices down st.jt tut cent.
The past few years have entailed an estimated
loss to labor carrier and manufacturer of $89-
000.000
Ford Plant in Three Days
Can Pay for Peace Junket
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The search for peace so far' has cost Henry Fori; - '.' '
Expenses of entire expedition up to arrival in Norway (estimated by Gastbn Plantiff
Ford's general manager) r... .v. .$iaiooo
Wireless bill during voyage 10000
Tips to crew of Ocar II........... 950
Contribution to Norwegian Students'' association .'. . ...... 10000
expenses ot the party at Lhnstiania.. .......
Left behind to finance remainder of expedition (reported)
Given to Oswald Garrison Villard to fight preparedness
Total estimated f ' . . . $444950
Number of Ford cars which must be sold to realize this sum (estimating Henry Ford's
profit at $106 per car) 4450.
Daily output of the Ford Motor Car company at Detroit 1800 cars.
Number of days' work required hy Ford factories to finance expedition a days 3 hours
46 minutes 40 seconds.
What Railroads Need
By James J. Hill.
The problem that confronts the transportation
agencies of the country today differs only in
intensity and not at all in kind from that which
they have tried to solve for the past ten years.
It has been 'atecl so many times and so fully
that it seems useless to repeat facts now familiar
to all who are willing to hear facts ; to all except
those whose theories and acts are based upon a
blind and unreasoning hostility to the railroads.
Nearly nine years ago I set forth publicly the
urgent need of an expenditure of five billion
dollars to bring the railroad facilities of the
United States up to the level of then existing
business. Many times since then I have shown
the inadequacy of our terminals. These deficien-
cies could be supplied only by a corresponding
investment of new capital. Not only were the
railroads prohibited from earning that money
themselves but they were forbidden to take such
reasonable profits as would bring in new capital
for these indispensable improvements.
With a large portion of the railroads of the
country in the hands of receivers the difficulty
of obtaining the still larger sums now required
to remedy conditions that have become each year
less adequate to the commercial needs of the
country has increased. Either the fetters with
which the railroads have been bound must be
so relaxed that they will be able to deal with the
situation or that situation will grow worse to
the great and permanent injury of every business
interest in the United States. However tire
some it may be to repeat this fundamental fact
there is nothing else to be said just as there
s no other way to make poor land produce good
crops except to fertilize it.
1 here is great interest in the subject of military
preparedness and hundreds of millions are to
be set aside for that purpose. But the war in
hurope has demonstrated the value and the
necessity of a complete railroad machinery for
the transfer of troops and munitions from point
to point with speed and efficiency. Not even the
number and discipline of soldiers have decided
the fate of so many military movements as has
the ability to use the railroads for strategic pur
poses. I 0 ak what the railroads of the United
States could do in -a similar emergency is to pro-
kr a laugh. 1 he apparatus to carry either
Kims or troops in any number from place to
place dots not exist and any demand for such
use made upon railroads would not only find
the 11 unprepared but would put the iinishing
stroke to the congested daily traffic with whose
demands they are struggling.
In the enthusiasm with which plans for the
nlistirig of men the building of ships and rais
ing of huge sums of money for national defense
are received "there ought to be some recollec-
tion of and some intelligent provision for a
branch of the service without which an entire
army would he as badly off as a man who should
lie ordered to share in a cavalry charge on a
horse barely able to drag one foot after an-
other. The future of the American railway interests
depends entirely on the attitude toward it of
the American people. At the close of this year
as of so many others the future of the railroad
interest is in the hands of the people who have
assumed the direction and control of it so far as
ts finances are concerned. All that it asks of
them is justice and fair play as these are de-
fined and dictated by the facts of the situation
now actually existing.
(Copyright 1016 by H. R. Gait.)
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Self-love i the kind that never gets cold
feet.
In most cases an engagement ring is a band
of hope.
In the silent watches of the night babies act as
alarm clocks.
Bad news like a soft boiled egg should always
be broken gently.
Any coward can get married but it may .take a
hero to stay married.
The more explaining a man has to do the less
people believe in him.
Trouble with most handsome women they
think it's all they need.
It's impossible to suppress the man who thinks
he can tell a funny story.
Seven quarts to the peck is the way some
grocers measure their success.
If some men had to work in order to earn a
living they wouldn't live very long.
The journey of life is tiresome a man is out
of breath when he reaches the end of it.
The average woman can make as muchfuss
over another woman's baby as if she really and
truly meant it. 1 '
But when it takes a young man fifteen minutes
to assist a girl to put on her jacket she is neither
his sister by birth nor refusal.
About Morning Newspapers
(From the Austin American.)
The Fort Worth Record has the following to
says about morning newspapers :
"Some capable critics says that the really
great afternoon newspapers of the country
may be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Run over in your mind the names of the
leading newspapers of America and in more
than 95 per cent of the names that occur you
will find that the papers are isused in the
morning. At least four of thi best known
afternoon papers of the country are issued as
adjuncts to morning papers of the same name
or under the same management. The reason
for preponderance of success in morning
newspapers lies in the stability of their cir-
culation which in turn is founded on sta-
bility of news and editorial policy."
Since having the matter called to our attention
in such a forcible way and since pondering the
matter over we really do believe since we think
of it that nearly all the great papers are issued
in th morning. Cleburne Review.
The American is issued every morning.
The Most to Be Dreaded.
(From ihe El Puto Times.)
Ex-Governor Colquitt forecasts his election to
the United States senate by at least 60.000 votes.
This prediction will not cause any withdrawals
from the race but the several candidates are aow
beginning to realize that "Little Oscar" is the
most to be dreaded. Kosse Cyclone
And unless Senator Culberson announces for
re-election which he isn't likely to do ex-Gov
ernor Colquitt's figures may prove to be about
correct. Of course. Senator Culberson's entrance
into the race would muddle the situation consider
ably.
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New Year's Resolves
Br H. Addington Biuca.
All over our land tonight .men are making
resolves for the coming year. Many of them
have done the same thing other New Year's Eves.
And many alas have all too soon failed to keep
their good resolutions.
In many cases it can not be doubted failure
is due to the fact that the resolves were not
made in real sincerity. But in most cases when
failure follows it results not from insincerity
but from weakness of will and ignorance of the
laws of habit. "
New Year's resolves in the main are resolves
looking to. the substitution of good habits of con
duct for bad ones. On the surface this is en-
tirely a problem in ethical readjustment. In
reality it is also a problem in psychological and
physiological readjustment.
It means the establishing of new modes of
thought and it means the developing of new
channels for the discharge of nervous energy.
All habits physiologically speaking represent au-
tomatic discharges of nervous energy along paths
grooved in the brain by repeated use.
To "make good" a New Year's resolve accord
ingly it is necessary to block the old brain paths
by which nervous energy has discharged itself to
our harm. At the same time new paths have to
be opened permitting the automatic discharge of
nervous energy to our advantaRe.
In the pregnant phrase of the late William
James we must make our nervous system our
ally instead of our enemy.
Professor lames himself has indicated admir
ably how this may best be done. Here greatly
abridged is his advice to the man who would
mend his conduct :
"In the acquisition of a new habit or the leav-
ing off of an old one we must take care to
launch ourselves with as strong and decided an
initiative as possible.
"Accumulate all the posiMe circumstances
which shall reinforce the right motives. Put
yourself assiduously in conditions! to encourage
the new way. Make engagements incompatible
with the old. Take a public pledge if the case
allows. In short envelop your resolution with
every aid you know.
"This will give your new beginning such a
momentum that the temptation to break down will
not occur as soon as it otherwise might. And
every day during which a breakdown is postponed
adds to the chances ot its not occurring at all.
"Secondly never suffer an exception to occur
until the new habit is securely rooted in your
life.
'Each lapse is hke the let tine fall of a string
which one is carefully winding up; a single slip
undoes more than a great many turns will wind
up again. Continuity of training is the great
means of making the nervous system act infallibly
right. . . .
The need of securing success at the outset is
imperative. Failure at first is apt to dampen
the energy of all future attempts whereas past
experience of success nerves one to future
vigor. ...
'Thirdly seize the very first possible oppor
tunity to act on any resolution you make and on
every emotional prompting you may experience
in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.
It is not in the moment of their forming nut
in the moment of their producing motor effects.
that resolves and aspirations communicate the
new set to the brain. . . .
"Also keep the faculty of effort alive in you
by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
That is be systematically ascetic or beroic
in little unnecessary points; do every day or two
something for no other reason than that you
would rather not do it so that when the hour
of dire need draws nifih it may find you not un
nerved and untrained to stand ihe test."
I have quoted this helpful advice from the
chapter on "Habit" in Professor James monu
mental "Principles of Psychology. ' ReHently
this chapter has been reprinted in the form of
small booklet whirh every man desirous of living
up to his New Year's resolves will do well to
possess.
(Copyright 1915 by H. A. Bruce.)
The Competition to Come.
(From the Boston Ghbe.)
The National City Bank of New York is not
an alarmist concern. Its officers and agents do
not see phantoms. Therefore when this bank
sends out an article bearing the title "Superor-
ganization in Industry" and maintaining that
extensive nationalization of industry will be
found in Europe after the war the opinion is
worth heeding. It is government competition
which our industries are destined to face after
the war.
Europe has been forced to extend greatly its
governmental cont.ol of industry in all branches
useful from a military standpoint. German in
dustrial efficiency has been intensified. Many
French and British factories are better run now
than they ever have been. It is the view of the
National City Bank that the industries taken over
by European governments for military purposes
will not be permitted to return to private control.
This will mean intense competition for the
manufacturers of the United States. In order
to sell in competition with European govern
ments for that will be the real name of our
competitors we Americans must greatly better
our organization both industrial and commercial.
Our manufacturers must also Jiave prompt and
intelligent treatment of the tariff from our own
government. This will be impossible without a
tariff commission.
An Estimate of Kitchener.
(From the London Opinion.)
The British race sees in Kitchner an epitome
of their own bloocTand breed. The British char
acter is built of the hard 'Stuff that stands the
blows of adversity and misfortune. It sticks and
sticks and sticks until it comes out on top. That
is Kitchener. He may lack imagination. He
may be unable to deliver glowing speeches. He
may be quite incapable of explaining himself or
defending himself. He may make mistakes. But
the British race trusts him because his character
is British through and through.
He has never flattered. He has never blithered
about a short war or an early victory. Instead of
talking he has toiled. Whatever he has set his
hand to he has done. Other men vacillate be
tween optimism and pessimism. Kitchener inarches
grimly forward with no bugles no drums no
flowers. And the people watch the squabbles of
lesser men with their eyes fixed on the big man
in the background with his tearless glance and
his terrible silence.
Any Old Cross-Road Town Will Do.
(Frm the Springfield Union.) '
St. Louis gets the democratic national
tidn and Chicago tat rcpubHcaa. Kankakee' and
JIOKOBIO a9 auu iwwum iut we jwugrrivn
Tampering With Trifles
J- Br Judd MoiTima'Lxwia. ' .
And to -'the other bear and our'n ttoo4 In
berrv patch..' -'- ' '''.'"". '-"i''-v
Where berries fipe hung all around and thorns i
1 ' ..v. . . ..n.-..f
. were lung yo scraiun ; ...... j ...J
And near them stood the elephant and idly swung .
- its trunk . ' . '.. v v; .'K ' . VJ.
And whilst the two bean squabbled it just thunk.
and thunk and thank: ..!. . - '
it thunk of other days and ways whrt it was '
An elephant's a little "thing and as it though - '
it smiled; ' V' V
You who have never seen the smile an elephant
contrives ".As '7 I: t
Have missed a lot of tenderness out of yOur
lime lives 1 . - ;:; S.
Imagine it if you can but it you-can nor
then go v ;
Next time there is one in your town into :
circus show 'S
And take along a peanut and when near the
eU'y-phunts. ' 'V
Where they all stand in a long row with trunks v
on all iheir fronts.
Just throw the-peanut right amongst 'the ele-
phants and you
Will see them jump and grab for it as little
boys would do ;
And all but one of them will miss and when
they -all unpile
The elephant which got the nut will look at you .
and smile !
And so this elephant stood near the huge and
snuabbline bears.
And as it dreamed of other days it smiled all .
unawares:
And oh that was a tender smile ! a tender smile
and wide ! .
The elephant's face split in two it split from
side to side
And the bears when they saw it ceased their
squabbling all at once
And looked at that there elephant both strange
to elly-phunts
They did not recognize the smile or know just
what it meant.
And so Miey gazed upon it lorlff they had not
an intent
To hurt the feelings of their friend and oar
bear in a stride
Was standing squabbling quite forgot beside his
huge friend's side
And asking: "What pains you my friend what
makes you grieved and sad f
Why should you wear a face like that when all
the world is glad? !
You should not grieve because I aim to lick this
other bear
Who stole my fish. Cheer up and smile nd
do not feel despair.
The elephant said: "Smile? I am. I thought
you'd notice that
I did not always make my home in this wood
where we're at
That was a smile. What did you think it was.
for goodness sake!"
Why" said the bear "I sort of thoughf it was
a stomach ache.
If that was just a smile which split your great
big face in half
J hope that nothing will occur to make you want
to laugh !
What were you thinking of?" the bear asked of
the elly-phunt
And with another tender smile which stretched
across his front
The elephant replied: "My mind went back to
other days
When I was just a litle babe and of my baby
ways "
You mean to say" the bear cut in "that you
were ever small
That there was e'er a time when you were not
so wide and tall?"
Why yes" replied the elephant "I. was a Ut-
ile one
A teentsy-weentsy little babe I only weighed
a ton
And I walked by my mother's side and splashed
in shallow streams
And 'twas of then I dreamed and that brought
smiles into my dreams."
It may have been a smile" the other bear came
butting in
"But I did not know what to think when I
looked on that grin ; 1
If you'd have been a chicken I'd have said you
had the pip ;
If you'd have been a woman I'd have said you
had the grip ;
If you had been a man I should have thought Of
to much skee I
If you had been a monkey I'd have thought
you had a flea ;
f you were a boa-constrictor which is .an enor
mous snake.
I would have thought that you had got a mile-
long stummick ache ;
Because you looked as if you had an ache long;
as a mile ; ;
But I should nevet in my life have called that
thing a smile ! -
Well now that that is off your mind and every
thing's all right
I guess me and this fisher-bear had better have
our fight."
"Oh no" the elephant replied "you will nt
fight him now
For this is not the time of year to squabble
and to row ;
You would not fight on New Year's Day two
lovely bears like you
For that would be the wrongest thing two mighty
bears could do.
"Do you mean this is New Year's Day" out
ownest bear replied
What New Year's Day?" the other said and
stood up by his side;
"Why we can't fight on New Year's Day I" both
of them said at once
"This is a day of peace for bears and birds and)
elly-phunts .
And we will go and look afar for nifty things'
to eat
And spread a little dinner just to make the Mew
Year sweet."
QTJT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES.
"What was the result of the flood?" asked the
Sunday school teacher. -
"Mud" replied the bright youngster.
"I think that papa and mamma likes the baby f
better than they do me" said little four-year-old .
Elsie " 'cause they let him do just as he '
pleases."
Small James after attempting-to make a pic-
ture of a horse on Jis slate asked: '. .
"Mamma does God see everything?" .;' .
"Yes dear" was the reply. " ;
"Well" continued the embryo artist "IH bet?
He'll laugh when He sees this hdrse." ; 1
"Mamma" said little Siegfried "I saw V
blacksmith making a mule today." I 'I
"Are you quite sure you did?" asked the skep
tical mother. ; ' .
"Of course I am" replied Siegfried. "H ;i
was just finishing him by nailing on one of hia
behind feet." . hi
A schoolboy of seven was asked to write a ' A
short composition on the ox and after long '1
struggle he produced the .following: ' - . "v: ;?
A ox does not taste as good as a Oyster and
he has a hairy shell but he can draw a bigger
load than a oyster and can run twice as fast" i .
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9 tin .L ... .(.'.II . at. . - - . i. '' '
' rrum tnm eprmgrmo Ktpnonctn.) ' .j' "
. It nay have Co be added to the' biographical J
i-"i ' r
ixetcnei 01 oenenu v ma mat ae knew when.
was Uckea. " . .?!
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