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CHAPTER XIII.
Mr. Catbird' Trick.
In a clump of lilac bushes near
Farmer Green's garden Mr. Catbird
made his home. He was an odd fel
low, very friendly toward everybody
in the farmhouse, except the cat,
whom he dearly loved to tease.
When she passed through the garden
on her way to the meadow to h. nt
for mice, Mr. Catbird was quite
iFi-am his hiding place Mr Catbird
watched closely.
likely to begin mewing. It always
made Miss Kitty furious to be
mocked. And sometimes she crept
into' the bushes herself, hoping to
surprise Mr, Catbird and teach him
a lesson. But she never caught him.
Now, the cat was not the only one
whose calls Mr. Catbird imitated. Al
though he liked almost all his bird
neighbors and was especially kind
and helpful when they were in
trouble, nothing please 1 him more
thafJ to sing their songs. Knowing
as they did that he was always ready
to feed any nestlings that were left
to fend for themselves, and that he
was quick to help any of the small
feathered folk to fight an enemy, his
neighbors did not care how much
Mr. Catbird mocked them. It was
Romance in Origin
Of Superstitions
By H. L. KING.
Up and Down.
To insure a child being bright and
rising in the world a baby should
be carried up stairs before it is taken
clown stairs. This is universal in the
United States. Some nurses take a
baby up a short step ladder before
carrying it down stairs for the first
time. This superstition is purely one
of an association of ideas in a meas
ure the same as the idea that the
right hand is "right" and the left
hand, consequently, wrong one for
good hick and the other for bad.
Primitive man conceived his prin
cipal gods as inhabiting high places.
The iook upward for good spirits and
jA.ii)iril fnr thf nnwers of evil.
T..:. l,,c miirt dwelt on high.
J U (M l AI1U ------ - .
Olympus and the sun and moon in
the heavens were Osiris and Isis to
the Egyptians. Pluto dwelt m the
under world his shadowy realm was
"down. The idea is ingrainea m
the human mind. We look "up to
superior and "down" upon an in
ferior. Children were, from time im
memorial, looked upon as peculiarly
susceptable to spiritual influences; to
magic of all kinds. It is important,
therefore, that the baby should start
right in life; should receive the prop
er impetus. It follows then that he
should be carried "up" before he is
carried "down." The magic of as
sociation applied to movement.
Copyright, 1M1. by The McCIure News
paper Syndicate.
WHY
Is Today Called Memorial Day?
In an address made in the Metro
politan Opera house on May 30,
1879, Chauncey M. Depew gave the
following description of the origin
of this day, now celebrated in the
majority of the states of the union:
"When the war was over m the
south,' where, under warmer skies
and with more poetic temperaments,
symbols and emblems are better un
derstood than in the practical north,
the widows, mothers and children oi
the confederate dead went out and
strewed their graves with flowers. At
many places the women scattered
them impartially also over the un
known and unmarked resting places
of the union soldiers. As the news
rf ttiU tmirhincr tribute flashed over
the north, it roused, as nothing else
love, and allayed sectional animosity
and passion. .Thus, out of sorrows
coming alike to north and south,
came this beautiful custom."
But the growth of the observance
oi May 30 as "Decoration" or "Me-
mnrial Dav" was a crariual one. In
1868, General John A. Logan, commander-in-chief
of the Grand Army
of the Republic, issued an order that
on May 30 of thaTSyear every post
should take tart in fitting ceremon
ies in memory of their dead, and that
flowers should be scattered over the
resting places of their comrades.
Gradually the state legislatures be
gan to take up the idea and made
"Memorial Day" a legal holiday, so
that at the present time, it is ob
served throughout the entire United
States, with the exception of a few
southern states, where, on account
of the fact that flowers bloom ear
lier than in the north, April 26, May
10 or the second Friday in May
are celebrated in the same manner.
(Copyright, 1131, Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.)
n
.ommon sense
, By J. J. MUNDY.
Time to Work Hard.
Employes, if ever there was a time
for you to exert yourselves to keep
your job, that time is now!
In nearly every establishment em
ployers or their representatives are
taking inventory of their employes in
every department and weighing their
value in relation to whom they shall
retain, for some must go.
As an employe you are going along
jBYjARTHURASCOTTILEY.l
only his way of having fun; so they!
airln t mind.
Mr. Catbird was always prankish
and full of spirits. And feeling all
ready for a lark one morning and
not knowing what else to. do, he de
cided to visit the meadow and play
a trick on Bobby Bobolink and his
wife.
So when the Bobolinks were away
from home on a short trip Mr. Cat
bird flew to their end of the meadow
and hid in a bush not far from the
spot where they had built their nest
on the ground.
From his hiding place Mr. Catbird
watched closely. And soon he saw
Mrs. Bobolink, followed shortly by
her husband, come, skimming across
the- meadow and settle down in the
grass.
wen, iir. viiumu was aj uc-
lighted with the tncK ne was aoout
to play on them that first he spread
his feathers, and then he tucked
them close about his slim body,
while he bobbed about on the
branch where he sat, giving his tail a
flirt now and then as if he were
so amused that he simply couldn't
keep still.
After spending some minutes in
that fashion Mr. Catbird peeped out
of his bush again and began what
he expected would be a perfect imi
tation of one of Bobby Bobolink's
songs. But somehow there seemed
to be something wrong. They were
very strange notes that he tittered.
And the moment she heard them
Mrs. Bobolink said aloud to her hus
band, "What in the world is that
queer call? I never heard anything
like it in all my daysl"
Bobby Bobolink couldn't tell her.
And since they had no idea who was
lurking near their home nor exactly
where he was, they kept quite still,
hidden as they were by the tall
grasses.
Mr. Catbird had heard what they
said. And he was slightly upset, for
he had intended that they should
think there was a strange Bobolink
in the meadow.
"I'll have to try again," he said to
himself. "Next time I'll do better."
(Copyright by Grossett & Dunl&p.)
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By JACK LEE
"The good old days," thus sang the poets of old and
even today there are men who sit down and sigh for the
good old days that were. Somehow, in looking back
ward, there is a tendency to clothe the past in a golden
halo. But, like oil and water, past and present never
get very clubby.
Hercules cleansed the Augean stables, after untold
effort, straightway became a hero and a bane to be
ginning Latin students. Alexander cut the Gordian
knot with one slash of his sword and since that time has
been the example for those who hate detail and go to
the bottom of things at once. Hannibal marched an army
across the Alps and the deed put his name ahead of all
mountain climbers for centuries after.
Cato hurled bitter, scathing invectives at Philip
with such caustic precision that at last the Roman senate
paid heed and gave ear to the great orator's warnings.
While Rome burned Nero played a fiddle. The Spanish
Armada gave England one of the worst fights she ever
experienced and she was only saved by an opportune
burst of temper on the part of the English channel and
the nerve of a doughty sea captain.
In the good old days learning was only for the
chosen few. Great kings and heroes were woefully
illiterate and couldn't write or read as well as a very
small schoolboy of modern days.
The results of the genius of Di Vinci, Michael
Angelo or Rubens hung for years in galleries which were
available only to those who could make the journey to
see them. Now the reproductions of all the masters of
art, literature and music are in every home that wants
them, at a small price.
How the world has progressed since the "good old
days!" The world is changed and its people are dif
ferent and growing more so each year.
A modern engineer confronted with the task of
cleansing such a mess as the Augean stables would burn
them, haul away the debris, cover the unsightly spot and
forthwith select a new site and build stables in which
filth could not accumulate.
Alexander would have to make more than one slash
with his sword to cut a Gordian knot tied of modern
cable. Flying over and tunnelling the Alps long ago
eclipsed anything Hannibal did. Cato could have saved
his throat and put a crimp in Philip in no time had he
owned a modern newspaper and commanded a corps of
trained writers. He could have told the Roman senate
to keep on orating and could have put the Indian sign
on Philip alone.
Nero's playing a fiddle while Rome burned showed
a woeful lack of imagination and now seems almost
puny. A modern Nero could watch Rome burning to
the accompaniment of a symphony orchestra or "jazz"
band, then get out an extra giving all the "horrible de
tails," with himself played up on the front page leading
the band1.
The mosquito fleet which patrolled the eastern
coast during the war, with its light armament, could
havd routed the Spanish Armada of wooden ships in
short time.
A half dozen modern machine guns in the hands
of his enemies would have made a tramp out of Napo
leon. Charges such as were made at Gettysburg were
an every day occurrence during the late war, and the
Light Brigade wouldn't have got started. Ask any Yank
who was there.
In the "good old days" when mother was a girl she
sat alone in her parlor, primly dressed in her starchiest
best, and waited for the man of her heart to come for
her. Like a modest violet she waited to be carried
away. It wasn't nice in those days to evince a prefer
ence for any of the young men and often she waited so
long and was so prim about it she had to take what was
left over.
In these days if daughter likes a man she lets, him
know it. She waits in the parlor about once and if her
man doesn't show up she goes out after him and usually
brings him to bay. Daughter has more of a field to se
lect from. She goes out oftener than mother did and
she knows all the eligibles in her set. And, in spite of
all the divorce scares and alleged unhappy marriages,
daughter is just as happily married as mother was.
The same is true of business. In the old days busi
ness men thought it brash to advertise more than a line
or two at a time. They thought it uncouth to say too
much about their business. They cast anxious eyes atsure
pay customers, but didn't make any overt attempts to
get his business for fear they might be thought forward.
The present day business man wants to attract at
tention. There's nothing he hates worse than to be
called old-fashioned. His ads are anything but modest,
often they are violent works of art in color and adjec
tives, but they bring about results.' From the modest
violet to the sunflower is a far cry, but the sunflower
gets higher in the world and can't be overlooked.
Practically everything that counted in the past has
been improved upon by the genius, pep, brain and even
"jazz" of the moderns. Banking has been improved
upon and instead of conditions of '93 or '07, which
wrecked many Omahans, financial panics are impos
sible. The Federal Reserve bank is the answer.
Comparing the things that used to be and the things
that are is, after all, a futile pastime. The past is placed
at a disadvantage.
One cannot live in the present and dwell mentally
in the past. A modern business man lives and thinks
in the present, more often in the future, and while his
competitor thinks back on that golden past the live man
of today gets his business.
The olden days remind one of a peaceful summer
afternoon, with everything serene. Contentment is on
every hand and there is no hustle or bustle, just floating
along with the tide. The present times are like a blus
tery March day when one has to fight or be blown away.
There is no floating with the breeze on a March day
if one is going any pla6e. One must go in spite of the
wind. The business man or concern who isn't afraid to
breast the gale, take a few severe knocks and tumbles,
yet keeps alive to what is going on in the world and
takes advantage of the new methods that time brings,
never dreams of those "good old days." ,
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