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clean. Keep mind and heart and body
dean. Physical heroes there are a
plenty in tills world. What is needed
just now more than anything else w
the moral hero the young man who is
not afraid to stand forth among Jits
fellows as an advocato of tliocleauly
life cleanliness in body and in inlmb
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Shprt Talk WJth tha Boys
-"-The architect of this department
- heard a temperance sermon the other
"nlght.: Not onp of your regular stere
otyped temperance addresses, but the
remarks, of a" man who knows from
. practical experience what temperance
means. He didnt look at It from mo-
ral grounds, but from the standpoint
of "a,maii Who had demonstrated that
, to'bo-the best kind of; a man, physi
cally," mcutally and" morally, a man
had to bo temperate.
It was at a wrestling match, an ex
hibition of .clean, clever athletics, ,un
marfed'by brutality. One of the con
. testants was a man forty-seven years
fold) yet his. "flesh was as white as mar
ble, the great muscles', writhed and
-twisted under his firm" flesh 4like ser-
; pents, his eyes were, as bright as a
"' baby's and he was as jqulck on his
feet as any schoolboy. Just before he
dempnstrated that he was still entitled
to rank among the few-only great
'wrestlers of the world he made a lit
tle talk to the. assembled multitude,
and in that little talk he compressed a
temperance sermon that every boy in-
.the Jahd should heed.
"There aj;e five reasons why. J,, at
ithe age oil .forty-seven, am 'still able
to hold my own," said "Farmer"
'Burns. "First I don't chew; second,
tI don't smoke; third, f don't drink JLti
itoxicants; fourth, I don't swear; fifth,
IT don't use tea or coffee. Xou. may
wonder why I mention swearing. I'll
ell you: Swearing is the first step
"in -'toughness' and . nbs. 'tough' ever
made a mark as an athlete. Men who
swehr are Jikcly tor :lose? theii temper
ehsily. No athlete can "'succeed -who
;doos not know how t Control his tem
per; I .have played this wrestling game
nearly thirty-nine years, and X have yet
to. take my .first drink, smoke, my first
cigar or take my first chew of tobac-
- co: I've seen hundreds of atnietes o
'down before these things. Old John
Barleycorn is the champion, wrestler
of the World.' He wins against every
. man -who tackles" him' and stays in the
.-xlnglong endugh: Boys, If you want
to-be strong men, keep .clean inside
and-out"- --
., "Then "Farmer" Burns went into the
arena and "'demonstrated that it pays
, to be temperate. His forty-seven years
sit lightly on Lis brofid, firm, sloping
shoulders. There was, nothing brutal
, about the exhibition. It was a game
"of science! and skill two stalwart men
engaged In a friendly wrestling match
arid dyspeptic business men sat
.around and envied the build, the mus-
." cle,. the wind and the endurance of
. two men who had lived clean and
- careful lives.
N Bbysdid you ever read Thomas
,,. Hughes' great boy story, JTom
' , Brown's School Days?' If you never
v. did you have a wonderful treat be
.foro'you. My, how the architect of
this department envies .he schoolboy
. who has neveV read that corking story!
Tom Brown was a real boy, with all
- of -a boy's love of sports, but he was
" a manly boy, wbo wasn't afraid to ad-
"- mit when he was. in the wrong, and
. strong enough to try and" do rignt
when the right was pointed out to
him. Now don't imagine. - that Mr.
..Hughes "preacbes" in this story.' He
tells plain facts ill such a' way that
every boy fairly loves him for it And
" Mr. Hughes advises' every boy to learn
to box, to row and to swim. That's
mighty good advice too. All three
-are healthy exercises? they strengthen
-Ttbe muscles, Improve; tii.ewi.ricl, clear
tlfe brain and trainjthe eyes. No boy.
;ivasr.ey.er the worse for knowing, how J
W do these tilings well, Buf,Cmy
young- friebds, you can never be a
first-rate boxer, a good swimmer or a
good oarsman unless you keep clean,
Inside and out
By a strange coincidence there is a
mau named Hughes down in the In
dian Territory who Is a demonstration
of Thomas Hughes' sound advice. The
Indian Territory Hughes is named
William. Thirty years ago he was a
schoolmate of the architect's away
back yonder in an Illinois town. Billy
was a plodder. He had to study hard
in order, to keep up with his classes.
While other boys skimmed their les
sons and rushed out to the play
grounds, Billy was digging away at
his books, and even at that he usu
ally showed up at the foot of ttie class.
There were only two things he could
do well he was the best boxer In
school, and the way he could swim
would make an otter envious. Time
wait on, and Billy wont to law school.
Still he was a plodder. But he was
a good fellow even if he never went
out with the boys. You couldn't get
a drink of intoxicants-Into him with a
firp engine and a libse. He refused to
use tobacco. - But he was a star In
the gymnasium,
A few weeks ago the architect met
Billy in the Indian Territory. He, was
the same old Billy built like an ath
lete, clean-minded, clear-brained, never
a gray hair In his head, scarcely a
wrinkle- in bis face, eyes clear arid
Blill a plodder. But It was another
case of tortoise and hare. Billv the
jiloddes has made mote money than
ne can naui in a nay wagon, and every
body admires him for his generosity,
his public spirit and his unostentatious
Christian life.. He has two . growu
sons, and they "are clean-limbed, clean
minded young athletes who think their
father is the finest man In all the
wide world And there are a lot of
old-boys classmates of Billy HUghes
who look back on the Old days and
return silent thanks- to him- for the
good influence his personal cleanliness
had upon them cleanliness of body
and mind.
"But. If you learn, to box are you
not apt to g$t into" fights"7" you ask.
Not. at all. . Just because youlike to
eat a jilcely broiled steak Is- no sign
you like to see a butcher at work in
hia slaughter house. The young fel
low who knoweTho.w.to box and has
learned thq-fair rules of the garao Is
quite suretto. be a -gentlemanly sort of
fellow. unvInr tn tnlro or. imftn .,
vantage and willing to take the worst
ini iuug wniie Derore entering a
muscular protest.
"O, you admire prize fighters, do
you?" you ask. Not much! We have
no use for them. They are not -athletes.
There is nothing attractive
about a prize fight, any more than
there is about a cock fight, or a bull
fight
Learn to box, row and swim, my
boy, But first learn: to be a gentle
man. To be a gentleman means more
than being merely polite. The
real gentleman Is always clean
inside, no matter how soiled . als
clothes may be. .He is clean of
mind, clean of body, clean of heart
He willingly soils his Jionds with hon
est toil, but he scorns to soil his. mouth
with unclean' language df his mind
With unclean thoughts, .,
Almost the last words of John B.
Oough were: "Young man, keep your
record clean." That's mighty,, good
adyice, my boy. 'Keep ybur record
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Shy
The groat railroad mngnate was in
a rage, and as he paced up and down
the floor ho fairly foamed at the
mouth.
"The sdoundrcl," he hlSsed. "He
actually broke into my desk and stole
a lot. of valuable secrets!"
"Why do you not prosecute htm?"
we asked. . -
"Now that's a brilliant Idea, Isn't
It?" queried the magnate with .fine
scorn. "Catch me going on the wit
ness stand."
Immediately we saw the force of
the argument, remembering how the
magnate had. fared the last time he
took the-witness stand. j
An Average
Walking into the office of the man
ager of the X., Y. & Z. railroad Farm
er Cornroe said:
Mr. Manager, I just come in to see
If I could get you to. strlke'ah average
if I'agree to give you my cattle ship
ment this spring."
"If you mean a rebate, sir," began
the manager, "I must inform you that
the Inter"
"I'm not looking for a rebate," said
Farmer Cornroe. "I just want to oe
assured of an average."
"Our rates are fixed aniVwe make
no deviation from the scheaule."
"O, I'm not kicking on the rate, al
though It's hlgn. "What I want is an
average if I ship, my cattle over your
line."
"Well, If you'll tell me what you
want, or what , you mean, perhaps I
can do something for you, sir," said the
manager.
- "Xt's just this way," said Farmer
Cornroe. "It takes about forty-elgh
hours to get cattle from my town t
the market If you'll give my stock
one-half as much water in transit as
you give your own stock In transit, I'll
ship over your line. But don't give
my stock as much as you have yours,
for I donlt want 'em drowned before
they "got in sight of the packing
houses."
Having ascertained what his gran
ger patron wanted, and seeing the
point of the argument the manager
quickly made a contract with Farmer
Cornroe, and the latter , departed
smiling. ,
VQsculatojry- '.
A daring theft that Jack,;vvrought last
..night -
On darling little Rose. -',f
He stole some tilings he ' wanted,
- rieht -a
Beneath her very nose.
Philadelphia Press,
i-TIs to be hoped that If fair Hose
Returned the blissful smack
'Jack did not overlook a bet,
But turned and kissed her back.
. . Houston Post
That may be as they do tills job
bown in the Sunny South.
But If Jack lived here in the north
He kissed tier on the .mouth.
The Commoner.
Why rouse again the bitter strife,
And North and South wax hot,
Let's all' agree to compromise
Jack kissed her on the spot
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