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twyfr f The Commoner. 13 'EBRUARY 7, 1913 " &i 'ommoiiorxfflf Mfupin. Generalities There is somethinxr missincr from Jhe life of a boy who has never had aog, ana from the life of a girl gvno nas never had a rag doll. The Iroy who has never had a chance to Srorry a loving pup around, wander ing tnrougu the woods, scaring up cottontails, cnaslng squirrels and digging for woodchucks such a boy enters upon the stern duties of Blife suffering a serious handican. Ho Wasn't learned a lot of needed les- Ions in fidelity and love and service. Krii m . . . tiiiere is no better teacher of those things than a dog, for the dog teaches bv Gxamnlo Inntnnri nt hv gprecept. The boy who has been Compelled to spend his days adorned sin spotless linen, and nrdventod from 5v;'-1retting out and digging in real dirt; n-who has never had a chance to climb ," ,vitrees and wade in mud puddles; who b never Known tne aengnts or ilaying Indian in the deen woods or tdiving from an old stumn into the wool waters of the creek; who has gueen reared amidst luxury and fed ion delicatassen stuff that sort of a boy never will amount to shucks, trust let him get his bare feet to the ground about the time the frost is wut, wnistie for his yellow dog and So hiking down the ellayes and across lots for the timber and prou've got a happy boy on your anas. Don't forget the dog. That's fmSmthe -nrinrtinnl inrrrAfTlonf l fh wijpe for making a real boy happy. BP doesn't make much difference Ewhat kind of a dog it is, either. Just )iain dog will do. . An Appreciated Iietter To the Architect: I have been an ardent admirer of your pungent style K?f telling the interesting happenings RTf this life for manv years fvnn in the days when you presided over a column in tbe Omaha World-Herald. kl have been narticularlv IntarnRf-ari in 'the letters you get and publish from ime "old boys" the "has beens" who for some reason or other feel that they have the right to stay on earth a while longer to enjoy life regard less of the proposed Osier method of extermination. I am reminded by the holiday season of some of the simnl Christ mas festivities indulged in when a boy of six nearly a half century ago. In those days parents reared large families. My parents did and it was something of a struggle to make ends meet and keep the proverbial wolf from the door. I recall the first Christmas I ever knew, the first taste of the jpyousness of receiving gifts. The day before Christmas our teacher at school, whom we all loved next to our mothers, brought a bucketful of candy from the village store and distributed it to tho fifty or more pupils at tho close of the day's session. Looking back through the vista of the intervening years, I now realize that I was a greedy little tyke, for I held out both hands and received the limit Such a lavish gift had never been bestowed upon yours truly before, and without waiting to don wraps or mittens I ran the dis tance to my homo, two miles, in zero weather, to display to my elders tho rare prize. It seemed that I literally "walked on air,"" and while the ex terior was nipped by Jack Frost, the .heart was warm. That night old Santa Clans came down the chimney and deposited doughnuts, popcorn and "molasses tatty" in my woolen stocking. Father had -visited, the village too, and brought his numerous offspring of ft healthy "kiddies" many wonderful things, including candy marbles and colored picture books, specimens of which were preserved for years afterwards. Tho next day we had a great dinner of turkey, plum pudding and "johnny cake" and other good things we had raised on the farm. And then the games and other pleas ures unalloyed of course you know, the story, as you've often told it yourself, but it does a world of good to us old fellows to have it retold now and then. People lived in a very simple and unaffected manner in those days. They cultivated corn with a single shovel plow, cradled their wheat and flailed it out of the straw, or drove their horses and cattle over a circle to trample it out. No such imple ment as a binder or threshing ma chine was in general use at that time. It was in the early period of civil warfare and scenes of uniformed men pursuing fugitives are among my first recollections. We reared sheep and fashioned our own cloth ing from tho wool. My father was, in addition to being a farmer and parson, a wheelwright and in a log workhouse wrought spinning wheels, reels and looms, which were sold to tho neighbors. On Sundays the whole family dressed up in their "Sunday best" and rode to church in the family carryall, or raaphap rode horseback, two or more riders to each horse. All this occurred just across the border in old Iowa and the span of fifty years seems but yesterday, "When I was a boy why, bless your heart, it wasn't so long ago A matter of forty or fifty years what's that, I'd like to know? A few swift days, with their cares and joys, have lightly sped away, And I live my life with as keen a zest as I did in that happy day. "You can't measure youth by the glass of Time, or gauge it by whitened hair, Or a dimness of sight or a shaking hand, or a wrinkle here or there; As 'Love laughs at locksmiths' so youth laughs at years, as they play their little part, And Time and his scythe are pushed lightly aside, for youth has its home in the heart." Never The new parcel post may worry the express companies, but there is one special carrier or precious par cels that will not lose any sleep. The stork will continue in the carrier business for all time to come. Brain Leaks Dynamite may blow up, but it can not build up. However, Job never had to wrestle with a greedy and refractory fur nace. Our fathers lived at less expense than we do, but that is because they were satisfied with what they had, while wo are always complaining be cause we haven't more. They do say that such a thing as pur maple sugar is still made, but the Architect of this department is a native born Missourlan, and it is necessary to show him. Cabinet Predictions The Architect of this department has as much right to make cabinet predictions as anybody else, so ho is going to make a few. But he is not going to follow the usual rule and predict who will bo the members of President Wilson's official family. He Is going to adopt a rule of his own. Therofqro ho predicts that tho following gentlomcn will NOT bo membors of tho new cabinet: J. Pierpont Morgan, secretary of tho treasury. John D. Rockefeller, secretary of tho interior. Andrew Carnegie, secretary of tho navy. Col. Dupont, secretary of war. John J. Klrby, jr., secretary of commerce and labor. James J. Hill, postmaster general. Chauncey Depew, attorney gen eral. And the Architect is willing to wager a doughnut, hole and all, that his predictions will be nearer right than a lot of others now being made. Discouraged "BIngerly has lost all confidence in the ability of the people to govern themselves." "Now what's happened?" "BIngerly was defeated for reelection." THE MAN WHO SI3HYES Every note the president-elect has struck rings true. Every utteranco of his thus far Is more suggestive than any previous one, of a profound understanding of the great problems of his time. His Staunton speech is especially encouraging. Passing over his thrill ing assurance in that speech of in dependence for tho Philippines not begause this Is unimportant, for It isn't; but because it had been promised in tho campaign passing over all that, and what else could be so encouraging as Mr. Wilson's shib boleth as ho declared it in tho Staunton speech? "Tho word," ho said, "that stands at the center of what has to be done Is Service." And what did ho mean by "ser vice?" In that same speech ho tells it: "The word that stands at the cen ter of what has to bo done is a very interesting word indeed. It has hitherto been supposed to bo a word of charity, a word of philanthropy. This word Is 'service.' The one thing that the business men of the United states are now discovering, some of them for themselves and somo by suggestion, Is that they are not go ing to be allowed to make any money except for a quid pro quo; that they must render a service or get noth ing, and that in tho regulation of business the government must de termine whether what they are doing is a service or not. Everything is business, and politics will bo reduced to that standard. Tho question is, "Are you giving anything to society when you want to take something out of society?" A largo part too large a part of the fortune-making of recent decades has consisted in getting something for nothing. I do not Include brains in the category of 'nothing.' A man Is entitled to the earnings of his brain. I want to declare for my fellow citizens this gospel for the future, that the man who serves will be tho man who profits." "The man who serves will be the man who profits." 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