R. TURKEY GOBBLER was In the barnyard. Near him stood Mrs. Turkey Gobbler as well as many other of his relatives and barnyard friends, “Listen to me, Turkevs,” he sald, “for today 1 wish to make a speech, Gobble, gobble, gobble, I have a great deal to say.” All the turkeys gathered around Mr. Turkey Gobbler, and afier he had cleared his throat and looked at all the different animals to sce (if they were® paying attention to him, he smiled his best turkey smile, and commenced : “All friends,” he sald, well to beast, Is all right. fy proud. “We are honored on the principal tolidays and other state occasions. Now Porky Pig over yonder in the pen, is never honored in such a way. His family never receive the grea! and beautiful, compliment we do “I often look at them, and | say to myself that it is no wonder they always digging in the mud wir, snouts, heads can, Pinky Ham, “It Is not but a little real pride We turkeys can be just are their for they cannot hold up their and gobble with pride as Sammy Sausage, Brother Bacon, Pig, Master Pink Pig, Miss Sir Percival Pork, Sir Ben Jamin Bacon, are all right in their way, but they are not animals of any importance, And they know it! ‘hat is why they grunt their way through life. “Now, the ducks quack and swim and the geese cackie and make a great deal of noise and quarrel with their neighbors, That's because they're geese, of course! They don't know that creatures are far happler and have a far better time who are pleasant, and who enjoy their nelgh- bors. But then of course you ean't tell by their family name what they are like!" Mr. Turkey Gobbler cleared throat again and after seeing that were still listening to him, he contin ued: “Billy Goat i= all very well, but then, too, one tell by his family hame that he doesn’t amount to nach How glad 1 am our family name isn't that of Goat! He will eat almost uny thing. There is nothing superior about his diet, and by diet, I mean his food, “Mr. Rooster crows and makes a great fuss, but he gets pretty fright. we his all enn By MARTHA MARTIN éned by an automobile horn! His grandfather or great grandfather or great-great-grandfatlier sald he made automoebiles stop to see which way he was going, as he wusn't golwyg to let them think thelr horns were of more Importance than his crowing. “lie is of the opinlon that ruosters should go up and start some barn. yards in the clouds just se as to show the airplanes they haven't the right to go wherever they please! “But he hasn't gone gs yet becnuse he hasn't heord of any Rooster air plane express going to the clonds. “The hens cackle and make a great fuss, but they don't amount to so much. And the chickens uren't great er. But ah, we turkeys! It Is not Mr. Turkey Gobbler Almost Bursting With Pride. because | wish to boast, but It is be cause I am almost bursting with pride “Porky Pig's fumily will do for any old breakfast. Who has set uside a special day in the vear when tiie spe cial food ant the banquet is bacon or pork or han No and | doubt if they ever will “Who has set aside a gpecial day In the year when the special food at the hanqguet Is chicken? No one, A chick en will do for any meas at all, thongh I think chickens more favorsd than pigs (CHickens do mostly for lune! dinners and suppers, and bacon mostly for hreakfast, Where is honor in being eaten by people wha're hurrying off who're still kf: 1? one, ire “es and is the to school or husiness or half-asleep and not in By H. HE idea that it is bad luck to stumble when setting out upon any new ‘enterprise Is a very old super stition easily explained by psychology, It is one of «hich there are a great number—- which arises from natural symbolism, Stumbling Is the natural symbol! of poorly directed action and the word is so employed in popular speech as: He stumbled into a hor net's nest.” to signify blundering into trouble: or “He stumbled into a good thing,” to signify that he micceeded only by nccident. And falling Is the natural symbol of fallure—as witness the popular slang. “He fell down on his job.” The primitive mind, still active In min no matter how civilized he may bere and natural superstitions, make the analogy instinctive, and hence the superstition, If a man stumbles on the threshold of a new enterprise the out. come of the enterprise is doubtful; if he stumbles and falls it is doomed to failure. The story is well known of how Wil {finm the Conqueror, mindful of super stition, when he stumbled and fell upon leaping ashore in England. an swered the cry that went up from his soldiers that it was a bad omen by /grabbing the sand and crying out “1 have tnken seizin of this land with both hands.” There is a similar story of the landing of Caesar In Africa, But if Caesar and Willlam scorned this hoary superstition Sir Waiter Scott did not. When Mungo Park, pre vious to his Iast and fatal expedition to Africa, was taking leave of Sir horse stumhled. Scott, “1 shall And he didn't, sufficient number the superstition Is bound to work out scmetinies. And then peo ple say, “There! | told you so!” (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Walter his sign.” said him again” given a hiings, “A had never see Of course of stam (Copyright, by MeClure Byndicatel) Yrmmmnin First Air Mail On September 23, 1870, M. Jules Durouf flew from Paris In a balloon with mall to Craconville, France. At that time Paris was withstanding the Prussian siege. This was probably the first successful Qellvary of mall by air, EE the least apprecintive? As 1 say, 1 do net wonder they grunt thelr way through life. But we have duys set aside when we are the great and Im: portant feature of the occasion. (Copyright) SOAWKS By VILOA BROTHERS SHORE Pre pe ee te Petts Poe Pt pt FOR THE GOOSE~— ! O MATTER how much he wor ships beauty a Lungry artist won't turn down a cucumber just be cause It's got warts, A man you wouldn't listen to if he was your father can get you to belleve anything frem a platform, If you're rich and no good people point their fingers at you. poor and no they toes, If you're good point their FOR THE GANDER You can depend on on woman's sense of smell, her sense of beauty and her sense of dishonor. To a woman all is falr in love, and the lookin® glass, war What would you rather have, your eremies snyin' mean things because they envy you, or your friends sayin’ kind ones outa pity? (Copyrizht) architectural achievement In the Denmurk—e brifliant manner, designed apparently A GOOD executive never commands where hie enn request, He knows that people do pot like to peremptory about This may seem ta be very obvious Yet many persons seem to forget al nhout it as soon as they acquire a ht tie nuthority, Did you ever listen to the hoes of a rond gang explalding his wishes fo the men under him? He usually an interesting study. His station In life is certainly lofty. Yet he generally rules his tle kingdom like the autocrat. No fair words for him! No sent mental respect for the feelings of his be ordered is not lit most despotic The Casual Greeting BEAN AS Ir a ae By DOUGLAS MALLOCH Ge Oe OOOO» O00 OvOe Owl) V TE GREET them lightly Some day We'll think a thousand things to say, We'll long a thousand thing We greet them lightly. If we knew. I wonder if a wave of hand Would he enough? Though here they stand, Another day, another year, I wonder, will we both be here? On OO a OOO + Oe OO OOO now 8% to do! We hail them lightly when they come, Life yields so prodigal a sum Of joy, our joy we hardly heed ut if our eyes the years could read No lips would ever have the power To tell the gladnese of this hour, No voice could ever half express This moment of our happiness, We kiss them lightly when they leave 1 would not want your heart to grieve And yet some moment after this We may recall the hurried kiss, This hour together may recall And treasure it the most of all Perhaps ‘tls well we pever know- For then we could not let them go. (EY by MeClure Newspaper Byndieste.) taining note lssued. # is compelied to deposit an By JOHN BLAKE workers. It's all command--loud and | insistent—often with phatic and stimulating ouths Is he winning the afl of the men under him? No, but he ig feed ing his lon of himself Fis ten may detest him and do It when Le n't looking Dut insolence will feed his own vanity After you have studied the gang boss for a while drop In at the officer of some really Important Hear give a few helpers, * - » ® . * - If the will take quests, backed up em ection great opis his overbearing executive him orders to his man is really big his orders the form of courteous re You will hear him ask his subordinates instead of telling them to do things. Yet they will be orders just the The there Win this same. that between and “Ix pride. The knows difference this? soothes executive vast smart is a you please The one rages I There may be po good reason fo existence of such pride. Order: have to be given, apparently, and the have to be carried out. Why, then should anyone quibble about the wa the arders are given? Perhaps no ene should fact remains that aimest does. . * v - - * » I'ride is a very important human attribute. It may be unreasonable bu: it is fundamental enough to command attention and respect. If a courteous request flutters that pride and a curt command offends it why not make use of the former? The arrogant boss may get a malicious satisfaction out eof antagonizing those under him. But he will pay for that satisfaction in a number of ways. 1 don’t think many people prefer in solence to courtesy. | have always suspected that a little of the latter do other out the Yet the everybody quality would not be out of piace even on ou road gang nd consideration precigted by ofiice dents. Hoth human pce Why Kindness uo ure ap pres both bye und human. Tuy are And live : nol ide them recognize that po and accordingly? (Copyrindet. y Bcc Getut add died, Sitios ¢ The “Carrousel” BINION BASE By JEAN NEWTON ¢ etalon’ Tos word, which names the ern merry-go-round, carries in is of that ep old syllables a complete history f entertainme in the tilting knights, sword “dr prowess on re al it from Its fn exhibit hand, ¥xhib not orm of tion fons of when ited the eti—chargers to the in word mini merry which are oc jonas gathering cents a ride, the go-rounds in city streets children at a few “Carrousel” comes from meaning tomlay, Italis ‘carosello” which is a derivative of guarrelsome and “puerra” war. There we have the first of the “carrousel.” the medieval exhib bitlons of sword-play ‘and horseman: ship, which were called by “surose,” modern prance live again In the platform, on which nn wooden chargers! The word Is also connected by popu lar etymology with the Italian “carrie cello” meaning a little car. And there we have the connecting link of the word with its modern: significance. of the mechanical contraption which was the substitute of the common people for the flesh and blood carrousels staged by royalty of former times. Copyright.) By A. F. HOSE fretful !ndividuals who su- ploely drag thelr way through the world, complaining nbout hard fuck and lack of opportunity, while théir acquaintances look on In stupor, cause society most of Its serious troubles, and multiply troubles for themselves. If traced to its source, It would be found that their discontent comes mainly from Inactivity of the hand and the mind—a natural result of idle ness and the baneful habit of stepping aside from the exacting duties of life The indolent are never happy. They strut languldly with a proud air be fore the industrious with the feeling that the world and {is pleasures were made for them alone, so they file away thelr life by wasting thelr time in find ing fault Not content with their surround ings, their clothes or their home mates, they proceed to make every body discontented. Sad to say, these mishegotten souls who enll themselves men and women, represent a type of idiers who, pur posely or not, are becoming a serious menace to our laws, our home-life and our faith, In plain words, they are andermin ing the structural principles of gov ernment and sowing broadcast seeds of rankest polson, Erring. mischievous and reckless. they are hastening thelr own destruc tion. which they are doomed to reach Let it be hoped: that you have neo afMliation with such: people That you belong to: the industricus. solid sort, who go on from day to day, bending cheenfully te their task surmounting difficulties and saving a tithe of their earnings for the uncer tain years that lie ahead Create for yourself seme high ideal, some noble pnrpese Turn your boek upon the fretful, discontented trogble- mongers. Shun them as yen would a reck at sen, and press steadily forward with the hopeful and the courageous Remember that gold is tried In the fire. and that ren, too, until you ring true and stand the acid test, Your trials are meant to purify you te prove your faith, to mold your soul into a thing of enduring beauty and to develop your worth, not only for your own sake, but for the sake of loving friends whe are “watching yon, and whess hearts would break if you shonid stumble and fall {1 wy MeClors Newspaper Syndicate.) wssesnannis i} Cashmere Shawls The fine wool used for cashmere shawls i= only obtained from animals diving In the highest regions Napo. leon Bonaparte imported some of the gonts Into France and some were im ported inie Essex county. England. in fan effort to provide domestic wool for the manufacture of shawls, bat in in the eve of thelr lives in rags and dishonor, a rend moreGas Sourness, Dizziness Heartburn or Distress after eating or drinking Not a laxative but a tested sure relief for digestive dig~ orders of the stomach and bowels. Perfectly harmless and pleasant to take, Normalizes Digestion and Sweetens the Breath SELL-ANS FOR INDIGESTION 25¢ AND 75¢ PACKAGES EVERYWHERE Increase in Whaling In recent Ing cf mpanies has and no ocean 18 exe | operations. number of whal- increased rapidly mpt from whaling In excess of 10,000 whales | are annugdlly, the maximom yield being reached in 1025, amounting to 44000000 gallons. Mil i find Hons of gallons of whale oll now a ready market in this country.—8ci- entific American. 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