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THE PIEDMONT
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THE NEWSPAPER JOB.

A literary genius is a man who
has the ability of saying the com-
mon things of life that you know
are true, and saying them in artis-
tic form, so that when you hear him
speak you say: "I had thought of
that but couldn't express it in
words." We take the crude marble
of thought, rough and indefinite in
shape and carve it into a Michel-
angelian angel of expression. There
is a man of that type out in Cali-
fornia. He is a preacher and he
thought he could run a newspaper.
He tried it one day and told how it
felt. Someone clipped it out and
handed it to us, and since it is en-
tirely too good to run under "What
Other Say," we are going to give it
more prominence. Here it is.

Many people believe that a news-
paper falls together without work
or concerted activity or plan. Rev.
McLeod, a Presbyterian minister at
Pasadena was of the opinion and
asked to be allowed to edit an edi-
tion of the Pasedena Star. The edi-
tor gladly accepted the opportunity
to go fishing and the minister took
up his duties in the newspaper of-
fice. This is how he felt when he
found himself at the end of the
task, which, it must be said, had
been done quite creditably.

"My time is almost up as I pen
this last line my hand is almost
paralyzed; my brain is befuddled
and I am free to confess that I am
right glad to vacate the holy spot.
Such a rush and riot and disarray
Such a jumble of potpourri; it
strikes me as the effort of taking
order out of chaos and to do it
lightning quick.

"I am reminded of the memorable
words, The earth was without
form and void, and darkness was
upon the face of the waters. Never
shall I criticize newspaper men
more, I shall pray for them. They are
the hardest worked, shortest lived,
poorest paid brain workers on this
weary old world of ours."
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ONE RESULT OF THE WAR.

One is never brought for the first
time face to face with death, either
his own or that of a close friend
without having his philosophy of
life profoundly changed. That is
what has happened in Europe dur-
ing the last two years, and Europe's
view of the spiritual life has been
greatly changed. Religion Europe
had before the war, but it was
largely of the kind that the follow-
ers of Pizarro and Cortez had out-
wardly very pious but viciously
cruel, and with morality at a mini-
mum, that was careful to plant the
visible cross on every cape and head
band, that was careful to leave wit-
ness to their faith to such names as
Cape Thanks to God, the Blood of
Christ Mountains, the Holy Faith
town, the Holy Cross city and
scores of other sanctimonious names
by which we trace the course of
the early American explorers over
our continent but that was either
careless or grossly ignorant of the
true spirit of the Master.

The largest part of the population
of Europe at present is almost like
ancient Egypt the night of the Pass-
over, when there was not a house
but had one dead, and sometimes
it is more. Statesmen and scientists,
noble and pleasant, Teuton and
Frank, Slav, and Saxon, have been
brought to the verge of the awful
chasm where sons, fathers and
brothers have vanished by the
score, and the age-long question of
Job rings with a new meaning for
thousands and millions in Europe?
If a man die shall he live again?

Long ago there was a new exodus
of worshippers to the neglected
churches. When Rheims cathedral

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was defaced by the cannonding of
the Teuton artillery early in the
war, a howl went up from the art
world over the destruction of a
masterpiece of architecture, not
over the ruin of a temple, and when
some one pointed out what a ma-
terial conception was portrayed is
that form of protest as really ex-
perience a shock. Today we do
not hear so much about the re-
construction of the Rheims cathedral,
but we do hear talk of a recon-
struction of religious thought. In
Europe, religion too that should hold
spirituality and not mere formality.
It is manifest in the European lit-
erature; compare some of the ante-
bellium Omar Khayyamish devil-
may-care writing with the follow-
ing, "A Prayer in Time of War"
by Alfred Noyes:

"Thou, whose deep ways are in the
sea,
Whose footsteps are not known,
Tonght a world that earned from
Thee
Is waiting—at Thy Throne.

"The towering Babels that we
raised
Where scoffing sophits brawl
The little anti-Christ we praised
the night is on them all.

"The fool hath said—the fool hath
said,
And we have deemed him wise,
We who believed that Thou wast
dead.
How should we seek Thine eyes?

"How should we seek to Thee for
power,
Who scorned Thee yesterday?
How should we kneel in this dread
hour?
Lord teach us how to pray!

"Grant us the single heart once
more
That mocks no sacred thing,
The sword of truth our Fathers
swore
When Thou wast Lord and King.

"Let darkness unto darkness tell
Our deep unspoken prayer,
For while our souls in darkness
dwell
We know that Thou are here."

"All things," said the apostle "work
together for good to those that love
the Lord." The devil never brings
forth a cloud of despair, no matter
how dark, but what God can paint
the rainbow of promise upon it.
Even the war in Europe will ap-
parently have some good effect to
leave with succeeding genereations.
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What Others Say
"Isn't This Going Some."

The research department of the
Board of Temperance of the Meth-
odist Episcopal church is respon-
sible for the statement that of the
2,543 counties in the United States,
2,047 were dry before the No-
vember election, when 191 more
were added to the dry column,
leaving only 355 wet counties in
the entire nation.

A nation all gloriously dry by
1920 is our hope—and our abso-
lute prophecy by 1924. America's
safety as a nation rests upon the
sobriety of its people.

If we place prohibition on no
higher plane than that of making
us more efficient in the manly art
of self-defense, that is very well
worth while. "Hang Johnny Bar-
leycorn on the sour apple tree." In
the words of Brother John Hannon
—"Amen."—Richmond Virginian.
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The Bubble Bursts."

When one thinks it all over, he
cannot be surprised that the Na-
tional Musical Festival of America,
that gigantic enterprise which was
to be a second Bayreuth has col-
lapsed. It has gone the way of all
bubbles of similar nature because
too much was claimed for it at the
start. A city cannot be built in a
day, nor was it possible to float a
$250,000 corporation overnight.

The Citizen is free to admit that
it "fell for this festival stuff" large-
ly because it hoped to see Black
Mountain fall heir to such good
fortune. The contract seemed a
large one at the time—too large,
indeed to promise success, but hav-
ing received many assurances which
we thought were well based. The
Citizen rejoiced in the prospect
and gave the proposal festival all
the publicity which it apparently
deserved. It is not our purpose to
sit in judgment upon the sen-
sational suit which a Mr. West-
brook, alleged promoter of the fes-
tival, has filed at Durham in an ef-
fort to recover "damages" in a large
amount but we cannot but believe
that his action comes with very
poor grace when he himself was so
largely identified with the Black
Mountain fizzle. He secured the
sincere co-operation of the press in
several sections of the state, and
also the hearty goodwill and sup-
port of men who stand high in the
professional and business world.
Now he seeks to make capital out
of his former association by drag-
ging in the names of these men who
placed inplicit faith in his (West-

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brook's representations and gave
him their full moral support. We
fail to see where the plaintiff can
hope to realize his investment
in the law courts.

Whether or not the Westbook
charges as to attempted land deals
on the part of well known specula-
tors were proven, he should not, as
we have previously intimated, seek
to drag in wholly innocent parties
whose only error seems to have
been that they regarded the pro-
moter as being fully capable of de-
livering the goods.

As to the proposed festival itself,
had it been at all possible, it would
have been a windfall for Black
Mountain and the entire section, but
looking back at it now, when the
momentary flush of enthusiasm oc-
casioned by the first announcement
is little more than a memory, the
whole proposition was too far
reaching in its aims and purposes
to have been undertaken in spir-
it that took everything for granted.
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Lafayette.

That a group of Americans have
bought the home of Lafayette to be
preserved as a shrine of patriotism
is most appropriate. He was a
great American as well as a great
Frenchman. The name and memory
are links unbreakable between the
republic of the Old and New
Worlds.

As an American, Lafayette was
one of the founders of our Repub-
lic, along with Washington, Jef-
ferson, Franklin, the Adamses and
Hamilton. His aid was appreciated
during his lifetime, but it was not
and could not be overestimated.

To France, Lafayette was a gal-
lant Liberal who bequeathed Liberal
principles to the descendants of the
flesh and of the spirit. He saw the
great good in the French Revolu-
tion, which most Englishmen and
many Americans persist in ignoring.
He deplored its excesses, was prob-
ably wise in desiring a constitu-
tional kingdom, suffered the mar-
tyrdom of Austrian imprisonment,
from which a brave American,
Francis Huger, sought to deliver
him. In 1871 his reputation
among his countrymen came into
its secure place.

Orphaned, rich and his own mas-
ter at thirteen, married at sixteen,
a famed leader at twenty, still but
twenty-seven when he came again
to America in triumph in 1784,
with the war well won, Lafayette
is a type of history of eternal youth
which is one with the spirit of
Liberalism and hope.

With Lafayette, France and
America, face a future vowed
to the rights of man. They would
proclaim, complete, fulfill the two
Revolutions.—New York World.

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OUR CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB
Will Prove a Pleasure to its members the Year Round. Join Tomorrow.
Farmers and Merchants Bank, State Depository, Greenville, S. C.
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Palmetto Press
Made at Home.

A Greenville company is puttin[k]
out a cereal which is said to be gain-
ing in popularity. We see no reason
why the South should not manufac-
ture cereals and automobiles instead
of sending millions of dollars to
other sections that do make them.
But the South hasn't been active and
it would be a feather in the cap of
this state if the Greenville company
should make a great success. On the
other hand—

When examining a package of the
Greenville product, we wondered
whence it obtained the boxes or con-
tainers. Is there a paper box fac-
tory around here anywhere? We
know of none that is operated for
the region. The Excelsior Knitting
mill at Union has a box factory that
makes the cartons for its own pro-
duct. These are as handsome boxes
as can be found on the shelves of
any haberdasher, in fact they are
found in the noblest stores in this
country and in England.

Of all the millions of boxes that
are used in the state of South Caro-
lina every year it does seem that
there should be some plant here for
the manufacture of them. Millinary
boxes, cartons of various and sun-
dry kinds could all be made in this
state if the users would guarantee
the trade. In the case of the Excel-
sior mills we find the probable ans-
wer to this question. When the war
in Europe came on and it appeared
that the trade with the British Isles
would be interrupted the Union com-
pany offered its product to the peo-
ple of South Carolina, but they
would not buy directly from the
mill. No doubt some of the same
hose came back to South Carolina
from the warehouses of jobbers. If
the people of the South have one
lesson of economy and thrift to learn
it is that "home" made is the best."
—Columbia Record.
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Wider Income Tax.

The need of new sources of re-
venue to meet the increasing ex-
penses of the Federal government
has encouraged the newspaper and
congressional representatives of the
big corporations and the millionaires
to renew the demand that the in-
come tax be extended to cover all
individuals who have incomes of $1,-
000 or more. Some of the most
capacious demand that incomes of
as little as $500 per annum be taxed.
In a time of dire necessity or great
national danger the people would
willingly pay whatever might be
needed, but so long as the people
of moderate means continue to pay
more than their just shares of taxes
under the present indirect system of
taxation an income tax on incomes
that yield only a bare existence. The
people of moderate means—constitute
a majority of the population of the
United States and they pay by far

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the greater part of the tariff and in-
ternal revenue taxes levied for the
support of the government, and to
impose an additional burden upon
them by taxing their meagre incomes
would not be fair. The necessities of
life should not be unduly taxed and
to tax an income of $1,000 would be
an undue tax—Sumter Item.
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Rasputin Assasinated.

In yesterday's American we pub-
lished the news ahead of our con-
temporaries of the assasination of
Rasputin, the wonderful monk. The
news came from London, and Ras-
putin is called by the English censor
the "notorious" monk. If one con-
siders that the czar is the pope of
the Russian church, and that Ras-
putin was his father confessor, the
term "notorious" coming from Lon-
don looks very much like a slur on
the Russian religion. Having the
Russians to fight for England, and
having "given" them Constantinople
and the liberty of invading Central
Europe whenever they like, the Rus-
sians would surely feel deeply offend-
ed if they could read what England
says about their second hightest
churchman. But the Russians will
not see it. They are kept under the
belief that England LOVES the Rus-
sian faith, and is willing to fight for
it.

As a matter of fact, Rasputin was
the power behind the Russian throne.
He was undoubtedly a man of learn-
ing and foresight. It is said that he
was against this unholy war because
he clearly foresaw the consequences
to Russia, and he could not be bought
or blinded by bribes, like Sasanoff,
who ousted the monk in the council
of the czar.

Again, it is said, the monk's voice
has been raised against a continuance
of the war, and in Russia, is effec-
tively blockaded, overrun by millions
of poverty-stricken people, at the end
of her resources, the czar undoubted-
ly listened to the council of his fath-
er confessor with open ears. It was
necessary, therefore, for him to be
disposed of. He sought peace and
found it in the grave.

Russia, however, has lost the san-
est man in her empire. He fur-
thermore was the holy man of the
Russian plebs, and he wanted peace
for his people. His assasination
will stir up the common people of
Russia as nothing else. Many times
a revolution in Russia has been hin-
ted at. Now it looks as if it may be-
come an accomplished fact in the
near future. The hand of fate may
use the hand of an asassin to good
advantage. Rasputin has been sav-
ed the heartache of seeing his be-
loved Russia torn in pieces, but Rus-
sia and those who induced her to
enter this senseless war, will per-
chance live to see all their hopes
shattered.
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Little Willie`s
Compositions

MUD

Mud is moistened dirt that has
more stickability than Le Pages and
more plain nerve than Teddy Roose-
velt. Mud always plants itself right
in the path you take to go to work
on or on the road you drive your
Ford while joy-riding. However, the
mud takes the joy out of the joy-ride.
It is the pet peeve of many folks to
be standing on a street corner and be
immersed in mud when a passing
jitney bus turns the corner, hitting
the biggest mud hole squarely in the
middle and allowing you to get the
benefit of the splash. Of course, the
path that is trodden most is the path
that has the most mud on it after
a shower. On particularly muddy
days, the poor bootblacks get their
share of the labor for they are not
allowed to go up on the price of a
shine just because the customer
brings a load of mud with him on
his brogans. On a rainy day in New
York once, a captain in the United
States army took a seat upon a boot-
black stand to get a shine. His shoes
had enough mud on them to stall a
fire truck. The shine boy gave the
said soldier shoes a keen once over
and then turned to his companion
and bellowed "Lend a hand here,
Jim, I gotta army contract." But
in all fairness it should be recorded
that, while mud has its objections,
still it has some useful purposes for
it is sometimes taken, dried and
pressed and them made into a beau-
tiful brick building which has no
more resemblance to the original
slimy substance than an aeroplane
has to a dray wagon.
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[illegible] to the following anecdote
our blockade of Germany has been
much more effective than certain
newspapers will admit. At a recent
banquet the Belgian consul, H. L. de
Give said:

"I have just heard an anecdoete
about the German food famine."

"A regiment of Landsrum men
were setting out for the front from
Berlin. The usual crowd were seeing
the old boys off—an anxious, silent
crowd. But finally there was one
chap who screwed up spirit enough to
shout, "Long lived Germany!"

"At this a gray whiskered Land-
strum man turned round and yelled
reproachfully at the shouter, what
on?"
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My rector has a fine sense of hum-
or, but he goes too far sometimes.
The cobbler, who had been married
twice and was divorced from both
went to the rector with No. 3. When
the knot was tied the good man raised
his hands devoutly and said "Let
the shoemaker stick to his last."
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"This play is going to be a howling
success."

"Is that the reason you are going
to try it on the dog?"
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BROWNE AFTER NEWSPRINT

Atlanta, Jan. 4.—For the purpose of
investigating the news print paper sit-
uation, which has become acute with
him as with thousands of other editor
and publishers, G. G. Browne, publish-
er of the Daily Mail of Anderson, S.
C., was in the city yesterday confer-
ring with paper dealers and others.

Mr. Browne whose paper is one of
the leading dailies of the Palmetto
State with a large circulation and a
wide influence in public affairs de-
clared that the news print problem
with him, as with practically all of
other publishers, are the most acute
in his paper's history.

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HEALTH TALKS
By WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.
Teasing A Cough

What cough medicine is best for
the ordinary cough?

Well, how long should we cut
pants to fit the ordinary human be-
ing?

We think old-fashioned medicine is
much better than the dope dispensed
nowadays for conditions of which
cough happens to be a prolonged
symptom. Grandma and the old wo-
men will please note this in our
favor. When any member of our
own household develops a cough—
and it takes courage to do this in our
household—we pretend we are not
interested in the cough. And we are
not. We are interested rather in de-
termining what is the matter. If the
cougher insists upon having some-
thing to relieve the cough we instruct
the nurse to prepare some flaxseed
tea, and to administer a few ounces
every half hour. The tea may be
flavored with lemon juice and sweet-
ened with glycerine.

If the illness be accute, accompa-
nied by feverishness and general
malaise, aches and pains, perhaps we
vary the monotony by administring
citrate of soda [asan] expectorant, dia-
retic, diaphoretic and corrective of
acidoses. From five to thirty or more
grains, dissolved in a little water and
flavored with licorice or whatever
syrup may be preferred, every hour
or two. Both of the foregoing reme-
dies tend to loosen and aid the [ex-
pectoration of mucus.

If a cough is unaccompanied by a
very viscid or sticky expectoration
and it is desired to liquify the secre-
tion and thereby ease the cough, a
grain or two of ammonium chloride
may be given every two hours dis-
solved in a little water, milk or ad-
juvant elixer (National Formulatory).

Better than cough medicine in the
beginning of any acute illness of
which coughing or sneezing is a

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symptom, is a hot mustard foot bath
administred to the patient in bed—
and that is the only proper way to
administer a [h. m. f. b.?]

Hacking cough which disturbs
sleep at night is often relieved by ap-
plying a cold compress to the front
of the throat. Wring a napkin or
small towel out of very cold water,
fold a compress about as large as
both hands, apply to the throat, and
wrap some woolen flannel or some
oiled silk about the neck to keep
clothing dry. This soothes, relaxes
and diminishes irritation. It may be
changed after an hour or two.

The only trouble with the ready-
made cough remedies, so-called is
that when you eliminate the narcotic
ingredient which makes the medi-
cine a good "repeater"—you have
nothing much left but the buncombe
on the label.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Intrepid Volunteers

Can you find room in the Bread and
Milk Club for two new members
weighing 141 and 150 pounds, both
women about 63 inches high and on
the safe side of thirty? If so, please
give us the password, grip, by-laws
and medal. (M. K. S.)

ANSWER—Welcome to our happy
circle. Push over there, girls, and
let the women in. Monday is
Milk Day. Glassful sipped slowly at
8:00, 10:00, etc., throughout the
deadful day. Some members take
a cracker with each glass. Of a
a fourth of a slice of bread (no but-
ter).

Iodine and Goitre

Will iodine cure or stop a goitre?
(Mrs. L. L. G.)

ANSWER.—One type of goitre
would be made worse by iodine. Let
your doctor decide.

Dr. Brady will answer all questions pertaining to health. If your ques-
tion is of general interest it will be answered through these columns. If not
it will be answered personally if stamped, addressed envelope is enclosed. Dr.
Brady will not prescribe for individual diagnoses or make diagnoses. Address all
letters to Dr. William Brady care of The Piedmont, Greenville, S. C.
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BEDTIME STORIES
By HOWARD R. GARIS'.
(Copyrighted, 1916 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE CORN CANDY

"Isn't that some one knocking at
the door?" asked Uncle Wiggily
Longears, the rabbit gentleman, of
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, his musk-
rat lady housekeeper, as they sat in
the hollow stump bungalow one
evening after supper.

"Rat-a-tat-tat!" came the sound.

"Yes, there is some one there,"
exclaimed Uncle Wiggily, getting up
so quickly that he almost dropped
his spectacles into Nurse Jane's lap.
"I guess it's Grandfather Goosey
Gander coming over to play bean
bag with me," he went on.

But when the bunny uncle opened
the door there on the steops stood
Sammie and Susie Littletail, two
rabbits, Johnny and Billie Bushy-
tail, the rabbits, Johnnie and Billie
Bushytail, the squirrels, and Jackie
and Freddie Bow Wow, the puppy dog
boys.

"Why, hello! How d'do! Come in!"
cried Uncle Wiggily in his most jolly
voice, his pink nose twitching like a
buckwheat cake, with maple sugar
on it. "This is fine."

"We came over to spend the even-
ing with you," said Susie, the rab-
bit girl. "You see, there is no
school tomorrow, so we don't have
to do any home work tonight and
we can sleep late in the morning. So
here we are."

"And I'm glad of it, too" barked
Jackie Bow Wow, chasing his tail.
"It's cold outside."

"Well, get right up to the fire
and warm your toes!" cried Uncle
Wiggily. "Then we'll have some
fun."

So, after the animal children were
nice and warm in the hollow stump
bungalow, they began to play games
with Uncle Wiggily, while Nurse
Jane went out to the kitchen to
was the supper dishes.

"Do you know the game, hide the
box of candy, Uncle Wiggily?" asked
Susie when they finished playing
chase the rubber ball.

"No, how do you play that?" the
bunny gentleman wanted to know.

"Well, you have to have a box of
candy, first," explained the little
rabbit girl. "Then, whoever is it
hides the box, and all the others
hunt for it. Whoever finds it can
have a piece of candy then they
have to hide it, and so on."

"That sounds nice," laughed
Uncle Wiggily. "We'll do it. You
can start by hiding the box, Susie."

"But where is it?" asked the little
rabbit girl sort of smiling at her
bunny uncle. "We have to get the
the box of candy first."

"That's so!" laughed Unclde Wig-
gily. "I forgot. I'll see if Nurse
Jane has one."

But the muskrat lady said she had
no box of candy. It had all been
eaten up at Christmas.

"Well, I'll go out to the store and
buy one," said Mr. Longears. "It
isn't late."

"Indeed you will not go out," said
Nurse Jane. "It is snowing hard and
you might get lost in a drift. Let the
children play something else."

"Oh, dear! Too, too bad!" said
Susie, when Uncle Wiggily told her
about the storm and how there was
no candy in the house. "Then we
can't play the game."

"Maybe Uncle Wiggily would make
some candy," spoke Johnny Bush-
tail. "All he'd have to do would be
to take some sugar, boil it on the
stove, mix in some molasses and
butter and other things—Nurse Jane
will have what and we'd have
home-made candy."

"Make some candy?" cried the
surprised muskrat lady. "No, I'm
sorry but you can't! We have only
enough sugar and molasses in the
house for breakfast, and, if it keeps
on snowing, I don't know when
we'll get more. The animal children
Uncle Wiggily sat chewing the end
will have to play hide the slipper."

"Oh dear! It's so much more fun

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to hide the candy!" cried Susie, sad-
ly, and the others were sad, too.
of his red, white and blue striped
rheumatism crutch that Nurse Jane
had gnawed for him out of a corn-
stalk. Suddenly Uncle Wiggily
jumped up and cried:

"Ha! We'll have candy after all!"

"How?" asked the animal child-
ren, hopeful like and expectant.

"I'll make the candy from corn-
stalks," said the rabbit gentleman.
"I happened just now to chew the
end of my cornstalk crutch and it
tasted sweet. Then I happened to
remember that sugar corn out of
which is pressed a sweet juice, that
makes sugar for candy, is a cousin to
the cornstalk."

"Down in my bungalow cellar are
lots of cornstalks. We will squeeze
the sweet juices out of them in Nurse
Jane's clothes wringer, boil the juice
on the stove and make corn candy,
Hurray!"

"Oh, Joy!" cried the animal chil-
dren."

Soon they were helping squeeze
the sweet juice out of the corn
stalks, and when it was boiled, it
made fine candy, and they played
hide the box of it and ate some, too.

And then it stopped snowing and
the animal children went home,
thanking Uncle Wiggily, and very
happy they were, indeed. And there
really is a sweet juice in cornstalks;
I'm not fooling a bit.

And if the shoe doesn't get all
tangled up in the cat's cradle when
it goes to the moving pictures with
the rubber umbrella plant, I'll tell
you news about Uncle Wiggily and
his leaky boots.
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A Willing Offering

St. Peter from the door of heaven,
one day,
Spied two young angels on their
happy way,
for the first time to see the world in
May—
Both bearing baskets.

They were to bring back flowers more
fragrant far
Than budding rose and blooming haw-
thorn are.
They were to bring back the praise of
all the stars
Back in their baskets.

The angel of thanksgiving, full of
glee,
Donned a huge hamper half as big as
he.
But the collector of petitions, see!
With a small basket.
When they returned, St. Peter as be-
fore
Sat with his golden keys beside the
door,
But each appeared to be in trouble
sore—
About his basket.

The angel of petitions bore a sack,
Cram full and bound uncouthly on his
back;
Yet even then it seemed that he had
lack
of [bak] or basket.

The angel of thanksgiving blushed to
feel
The empty lightness of his might
creel;
"But three," he muttered turning on
his heel
To hide his basket.

Then spoke St. Peter: "When again
you go
On prayer gathering, you will better
know
That men's positions in this world be-
low
Fill a big basket.

"But when you go to gather up their
thanks,
For prayers will answered, and for-
given pranks,
For health retored and disentabled
hanks—
Your smallest basket"

—Selected.

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