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lARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN SAN ANTONIO
The Gold
in the Smile
— — And yet, the real treas-
ures of life, which give to all the outward things their
meaning, are of the heart.
‘•Tangible” riches? Why, but for so "intangible" a thing
as sunlight, the whole material universe would be black
nothingness; but for "intangible” heat, not the smallest
spark of'life could be; but for "intangible” colors and
fragrances, the sweetest flower would be only a weed;
and but for the "intangible" light and warmth and fre
grance of a smile, the most perfectly-formed human face
is only a lifeless mask.
It would be very interesting and highly instructive if
one could compute the value of the part which the smile
has played in the history of humanity. Statisticians ac
curately measure the wealth of the mines and of the farms
and of the factories and even of the seas and the air—bil
lions upon billions. But there are no figures vast enough
to express the value to mankind of so small and simple a
thing as the smile.
Like the ray of sunshine, it comes from the boundless
heart of universal love; it is free; and so cannot be relative
ly valued. And like, the sunshine again, it gilds with
glory all it falls upon, and so is limitless in value.
If you smile in your mirror, it smiles back; and it is the
same with the world. As soon as the world finds out that
you have a pleasant smile it will bring you many a pleas
ant story, many a happy circumstance.
Care flees from a smiling face, but looks upon a sour
one as an invitation to come and abide.
Not all smilas have real sunshine in them. Some faces
have learned the art of "making up" so well that even a
smile can be put on so smoothly that none but a child can
see its insincerity. A child that has not learned to de
ceive has not wet learned how to be deceived.
In every department of the commercial and social
world —everywhere—it is geniality that pays the biggest
dividends on the smallest investments. It is only by mak
ing concessions that the surly boor holds his own in bus
iness.
There have been sweeter emotions smiled than can be
expressed in any words. The smile has always been uni
versal speech. It has ever expressed clearly this simplest,
the sweetest, the greatest emotions of the human soul.
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Judging by the increased killings. Mr. Aldrich must have
revised those football rules.
Rockefeller told a New York friend that if he hadn't
been able to enjoy a joke, he'd have been dead forty years
ago. Didn’t know that Brother Rockefeller had been
laughing at the joke he's got on us that long.
♦—
"Reader” wants to know what's the scientific name for
hash. Well, at our restrong, the lady who slings things al
ways yells, "Piate of Misplaced Confidence.” And it brings
the hash.
♦
We —meaning the nation —eat 2.995,000 pounds of bad
eggs annually, according to statistics. Most of these eggs
go into cake and such, for society functions. Consequent
ly, we—meaning us —don't eat hardly any eggs of any age
whatever. "
"Constant Reader” asks: "Hot can I best spend $1.50
on Christmas presents?” We don't know. The mere
thought of all that money rattles us for fair.
4*
Norma Delza, one of those lovely actresses of Paris, who
was earning $3 per week a year ago. has won King Al
phonso. You can almost see Alfy landing at Gibraltar with
tears in his eyes for an ungrateful country.
4>
Remember the poor on Christmas! What's the matter
with remembering your editor with a few kind words? Be
sure you have the right postage on ’em.
+
Ohio mine officials fined $25 for responsibility for a
miner’s death. Rate of $2500 per hundred. Cheaper to
kill than to rescue.
4>
Tolstoi dedicated his copyrights to the purchase of his
family ’estate of 2500 acres, which is to be divided among
• the peasants. Thus he restored one portion of the earth
to the people who use it.
♦-
Someone complains that Wellesley, the famous worian’s
college of Massachusetts, "has no intellectual atmosphere.”
How could you expect it, with all those Harvard boys only
a few miles away ?
We hear more of Panama, but Cape Cod is cutting a
ship canal, too; and expects it not only to save time and
money for shippers, but lives that would otherwise be lost
when tempests sweep the treacherous cape.
Taft asks the insurgents to the white house. If they
won’t have the patronage, they’ve got to bask in the sun
shine of the smile or cut him dead.
♦
Rockefeller calls Ida Tarbell “Miss Tar-barrel.” Won
der what the Rhode Islander will call her when he reads
her current essay, "Aldrich and the Tariff.”
♦—
William Allen White has told us about "The Tnsurgence
of Insurgency.” but what we want to know is the “Stand
patitiveness of Standpatriotism.'’
Love’s Labor
Is Not Lost
f Avon was mistaken in this instance.
Love’s labor can’t be lost—for it is its own reward.
If you bandage a lame dog's sore foot, you are amply
rewarded by seeing the lame doggy wag its tail as it runs
away, aren’t you ?
If you rescue a homeless kitten, doesn't its purring mews
spell ‘‘l thank you?”
When a hungry man asks you for a dime for something
to eat, and you fork over, you do not expect the man to
wait around until next spring to mow your lawn.
The labor you do for your wife and children isn't lost, is
ft? Aren't you paid tenfold by seeing the girl happy—the
girl you so proudly and exultantly led to the altar a few
years ago; and aren’t you paid ten thousand times by see
ing the happiness of the kiddies?”
You help a woman—and ft is certain that any man with
one spark of gallantry in his soul is paid in full by the ex
pression of relief in her pained eyes!
Love’s labor lost!
Bill, you were, in an un-Shakespearean slang, off your
trolley!”
DAY,
It is a material world. We
value as riches only the
tangible things we can
grasp and hold in our
hands.
Shakespeare said some
thing about "Love’s labor
being lost.”
Now, with all his wisdom
—which it must be said
was wonderful—the bard
Is the Real
Stone Age Coming?
- ■ 111 The iaL c was imported
from Russia. It is manufactured from the fiber of a fila
mentous stone from the Siberian mines. The material is
soft and pliable, and when soiled has only<to be placed in
a fire to be made clean.
Mankind has been for years bragging about getting
away from the stone age—an age when tailors were un
known, laundry bills unheard of, and tariff on wool but a
vague chimera.
Can it be that we are verging toward that'happy con
dition once more through the medium of stone clothes for
pa, ma and the children?
.—+ !
Champ Clark has written a magazine article to prove
that congressional oratory is a lost art. Incidentally, he
showed that congressional literature has suffered a similar
relapse.
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Now Martin Luther is enjoying a boom in the magazines.
It's a change from the Napoleon stunt, anyhow.
Letters From the People
PROPERTY HOLDER’S VIEW.
Editor Light and Gazette.
Sir—As a property holder in San Antonio. I think the
only argument necessary to convince the property hold
ers of San Antonio of the necessity of a change of city
government, is to consider the millions of dollars, of tax
payers' money, paid in during the many years of Cal
laghan control of the city, and then consider the present
miserable condition of the streets, and the fact that scarce
ly a single permanent city improvement has been made
from these millions of tax money. Not another argument
should be necessary to any citizen of San Antonio, and
especially to a property holder, who has the future growth
and prosperity of San Antonio at heart.
Is not the many years of Callaghan control sufficient
evidence that we need a change?
Shall we continue to allow our millions of tax money
to be frittered away in temporary improvements, as has
been in the past?
San Antonio has grown the past years owing to its fine
climate and geographical location, and advertising, but not
by reason of a single act displayed by the present city ad
ministration. In many instances .very important enter
prises have been killed by the present ruler which would
have greatly benefited and advertised the city.
The fine hotels and large office buildings have not cost
the city a dollar.
The many additions, where the only decent streets can
be found, and which additions have added many thou
sands of dollars to the taxable property of the city, have
not cost the city a dollar.
I have talked to many strangers visiting our city, and
almost invariably they speak of the miserable condition
of our streets. Owing to our dry climate San Antonio
should have the finest streets in the world, if we had
one-third of the rainfall some of the northern and eastern
cities have, and where they have good streets, we would
not have any passable streets.
San Antonio is the only city in the United States that
I know where the property holders, who pay the taxes
to support and improve the city, are controlled by the
non-property holders, who pay little or no taxes. Prob
ably this accounts for the way the taxpayers’ money is
wasted, and little of a permanent improvement to show
for it.
This condition of affairs will continue unless the prop
erty holders wake up to their interests and vote for a
change of form of government. Many property holders
have said they will leave the city should this commission
form of government fail and go to a city where the tax
payer who holds property will control the finances of the
city.
Property holders, wake up to your interests and pay
your poll tax at once and do not wait until it will be im
possible, unless you are willing to stood in line awaiting
your turn, for hours, possibly. ’ ds is a serious matter.
San Antonio should not allow Dallas, Houston. Fort Worth
and other live cities, where they have the up-to-date form
of government, to outstrip us. which they certainly will
if we don't get out of the old rut and throw off the
handicap of the present government. Every property
holder, no matter how small his holdings, should pay his
poll tax and vote.
Do not think there will be enough without you. too
many may think that way, thereby allowing this very
important matter to fail, and your property depreciate in
value, which it certainly will if conditions are not changed.
You are vitally interested in this matter, and it is up to
you to do your duty. PROPERTY HOLDER.
Uncle Walt
The Poet Philosopher
Old Robinson stood by himself on the shore, and looked
at the -murmuring sea. “This island some people would
probably bore,” he said, "but it looks good
ROBINSON to me. No oily-tongued agents can corner
CRUSOE. me here, and sell me a raft of old junk; no
statesman can nail me and breathe in my
ear a job lot of promises punk. Assessors won’t camp
on my mid-ocean farm, to pry and to snoop and to poke,
and fill out a paper as long as my arm, and leave me dis
gusted and broke. Here ardent reformers will leave me
alone, and perils no longer will fret; and no one can call
me by long-distance phone, to ask if I've registered yet.
I can’t run in debt, and I've nothing to pawn—no uncle’s
at hand if I had; no bank can inform me that I’ve over
drawn; the first of the month isn’t sad. So why should
I prance on the beach and lament, because I'm forsaken
and broke? There's nothing to buy and I don’t need a
cent, and the whole blooming thing is a joke. Leave tears
for the spineless and chicken-souled dub who would at
the wailing place sit! This island’s in line for an opti
mist club, and I, by your leave, will be It!”
Copyright. 1910, by George Matthew Adame aaHlVi
As Others View It
A THOUSAND-MILE BOULEVARD.
A growing appreciation of the historical value of the
old Cumberland road has induced the state through which
it passes to undertake more o- less extensive repairs along
the ancient thoroughfare. Pennsylvania is resurfacing
her part of it. and many of the counties in Ohio and In
diana are doing what they can to mend the great high
way, which in its day was by far the most important in
this country.
Hopes are entertained that the federal government may
be persuaded to co-operate with the states in a scheme
for the reconstruction of the famous pike all the way
from Cumberland, Md., to its western te minus at St.
Louis. Nearly 800 miles in le: h, and following an al
most perfectly straight course from Atlantic tidewater to
the Mississippi river, it would furnish a magnificent path
way for automobiles.
If this shall be accomplished, with or without the help
from congress, the old road will again become a busy
thoroughfare Taverns will open their hospitable doors
at frequent intervals along its length, as In the ancient
days, and the echoes of the hills in the passes of the Al
legheny mountains will be awakened by the cheerful honk
ing of motor horns—Just as In former times they respond
ed to the merry tooting of the coach guards' trumpets. It
would become the fashion for automobile parties to "do
the pike,” the long, straightaway stretches of which would
afford most attractive opportunities for speeding, while a
l ’rip over it in a gasoline car might well be deemed worth
taking for the mere sake of the extraordinarily plctur
iesque and beautiful scenery.—Technical World Magazine.
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE
_ A New York tailor has
made a stone suit of clothes,
and it is being exhibited as
the very latest thing on
Broadway.
— The tai. 'c was imnorted
i ALL SORTS
• Copyright. 1909. by
Post Publishing Co.
! By NEWTON NEWKIRK.
JOSH WISE SAYS:
"Sim Fridemush, who wuz goin' ter
'stonish th' world with his invention,
is usin’ his aeroplane fer a wood
shed.”
Dear Santa Claus:
I herewith send a little list —
I hope to goodness I won't be
missed:
A stands for any old thing, or an au
tomobile,
B stands for books, bustle, bird or a
bottle. .
D stands for diamonds.
E stands for everything.
F stands for fur coat, flowers, a fly
ing machine,
G stands for goodies, grandfather
clock,
H stands for "haukies” and a heaven
ly home,
I stands for Irish lace dress.
J stands for jewels and a joy ride,
K stands for a kimono,
L stands for “llngeree,”
M stands for M-A-N,
N stands for neckwear and a new
nose,
O stands for oranges, and a pet ou
rang-outang,
P stands for pictures, petticoats and
a parrot
Q stands for a quart of anything,
R stands for a raincoat or a reindeer,
S stands for silverware,
T stands for turkey,
U stands for useful things, umbrella,
V stands for various things, 57 vari
eties, etc.
W stands for willow plumes, and a
watch,
X stands for X dollars,
Y stands for yacht,
Z stands for zebra-striped waist.
Npw, Santa Claus, please tell me
what you like best, so I will know
what to drop down your chimnqy?
GRACIE.
BOWLING.
Dear Sir—Will you kindly explain
to me the reason why when I am
bowling I cannot knock down all the
pins with one roll of the ball?
Any other points or helpful sugges
tions with reference to this popular
game which you may see fit to give
in “All Sorts” will be appreciated.
AMSOME BOWLER.
The only reason I can think of why
you are unable to knock down all the
pins with one ball is that you must
be an amateur.
You are just like a lot of other
amateurs at bowling—you. are not
satisfied to patiently persist until by
long and arduous practice you are
enabled to get results. No—you want
to see all the pins go flying ahead
of one ball, the first time you ever
try to bowl.
Personally. 4 have spent a great
many strenuous evenings in bowling
alleys, and after many years of per
sistent practice, I am now in a posi
tion to get results. The trick of be
ing able to knock down all the pins
with one wallop of the litill has cost
me not only strenuous physical exer
cise. but considerable personal
wealth in the bargain.
It costs almost as much to take
bowling lessons by experience as it
does to learn to pla ythe piano, or to
become a grand opera singer. Now,
however, since 1 have become an
expert. I am in a position to retreive
my lost fortune expended in learning
how to bowl, aud henceforth I will
not hesitate to play at the expense I
of those who are in the game with |
me and thus I will joyfully put the |
bee on them as other better players '
used to put It on me.
I tell you, when I stroll into a
bowling alley of an evening and take
oft my coat to hang it on a peg in
the wall, an awed silence falls on all
other bowlers present.
If this silence is broken at all. it
is by some whispered remark like
the following. “He's a wonder!” or
“Now you'll see some bowling!” or
“Here comes a bowler with some
class to him!”
As I hitch up my shirt sleeves
and adjust the beautiful silk elastic
garters which I always wear around
my arms just above the elbows —I [
say as I do this in a very blase and
desultory manner, all eyes present
are upon me. You can always hear
a pin drop when I take up the ball,
heft it in my hand to see if it is
the right size and weight, and there
are always -a few faint sighs of ad
miration. Then as I advance one foot
proudly to the scratch line, draw
back the ball and launch it on its ter
rible career down the alley by a deft
twist of my wrist, the eye of every
man in the place eagerly follows its
course.
Invariably all the pins go down
with every ball I roll, and after I
have repeated this performance sev
eral times without an exception, the
admiring amateurs i nthe place al
ways crowd about me so closely to
congratulate me that 1 become so
hampered and irrated and annoyed
that often I have put on my coat
and departed highly indignant.
It is very difficult for me to tell
you how to bowl in print. I think
a better plan would be for you to
take lessons from me. Of course I
am pretty busy at the present time,
। but just to show you that a noble
heart beats beneath my fancy vest
and that I am always willing to help
a young and ambitious bowler who
wants to learn. 1 will meet you every
evening at some cafe, where we will
dine together (at your expense), af
ter which we will both retire to tne
nearest bowling alley, where I will
instruct you in the art of this most
[delightful game (at your expense). I
would also suggest that we might
have a little wager on each game,
of say the trifling sum of $lO. A lit
tle side bet of this kind always
stimulates the bowler to his greatest
efforts.
You will find me on the plaza this
evening promptly at 6 o'clock—please
don't keep me waiting as my time
4s valuable.
CHICKENS TAKE TO DRINK.
Wendover Young, a native of Ce
dar Grove, N. J„ declares he has
half a dozen young chickens, all
about a month old, all of whom have
a great appetite for whisky and also
Jamaica ginger. On election day it
snowed in Cedar Grove. Mr. Young
found his chickens almost frozen. He
brought them into the kitchen,
placed them near the fire, and also
gave them some whisky and ginger.
It snowed again in Cedar Grove
recently. When Mr. Young opened
the door he found six chickens all
lined up like soldiers waiting for
more "medicine." —New York Amer
ican.
HAD TRIED IT.
"Would you marry a self-made
man .' ' asked the girl who had never
even been seriously engaged.
"No. my dear, never again.” re
plied the still lovely widow. "They
are awfully hard to make over."—
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Hall Room Boys
They Do a Thanksgiving Stunt for the Moving Pictures
Observant Citizen
"Now see here,” said/ a Prospect
Hill resident, who called up the tele
phone company to complain of the
service. "I'm not going to tolerate
this any longer. I want you to come
right up here and take my 'phone out.
For ten minutes I've been trying to
get my office, and I’ve been given the
wrong number every time I took down
the receiver. Now, remember, if this
'phone isn’t out by night I’m going to
remove it myself, see?” "WlVo do you
think your're talking to?” inquired the
party at the other end of the line.
"Why, the telephone company, of
course." “Sorry I can't help you out,
old man, but this is s drug
store.”
“I’m off this evening for a shop
ping stunt," said a middle-aged man
on a South Heights car Saturday. "I
could just as well get off an hour in
the morning to get the Christmas
things I want, but 1 thought I’d prefer
going down in the evening. I made
the trip and I never was shoved
around, trampled on and elbowed so
in all my lite, and I’ve been through
one or two small-sized riots, too. I
got into one Alamo plaza store, and,
believe me. 1 didn't even try to make
a purchase. Before I could steer my
self to the counter I wanted I was
swept to the rear door. You can take
it from mo that if you're wise you'll
do your shopping in the morning,
when the rush isn’t on.”
SA?JANTONIO2IYEARSAGO
i from The Light. Dec. 19. 1889.)
A movement is on foot to organize
a Grand Army post here. The meet
ing will be held tomorrow night at
tire house No. 1.
G. Schmelzer was presented with a
diamond ring last night at Sholz’s
halt.
The Turners are preparing for their
grand Sylvester ball which takes place
December 31. The hall will be beau
tifully decorated and a great Christ
mas tree will be put up.
C. F. Lehman of the Hallettsville
Herald, is in the cljy.
United States Marshal Fricke is in
the citv.
Dr. L. L. Whitaker of Elmendorf,
is in the city and is stopping at the
Mahncke.
Major Hickman has been very ill
but is able to be out again.
Will Tobin's company of amateurs
gave the well known opera. “Chimes
or Normandy,” to a crowded house at
the Grand last night.
C. hL. Smith came up from Rock
port yesterday on business and is
stepping at the Mahncke.
R. H. Burney, W. E. Stewart and
son, Dr. J. T. Everett. Henry Achmedt
compose a jolly party from Kerrville.
They are at the St. Leonard.
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IN ONE HOUSE 65 YEARS.
In the house in which she was born
Miss Abigail !>. Wright of Wethers
field, Conn., quietly celebrated today
her ninety-fifth birthday by receiv
ing a host of callers in the “Sun Par
lor,” her favorite room.
Miss Wright, probably, the oldest
woman in New England, said sh, at
tributed her long lot eto hard work,
regularity, general temperance ard
good sense in all things. Sh was
born, she says, the year that C neral
Andy Jackson fought the batt . o (
New Orleans, and save for a -light
deafness she retains her facultl.j un .
impaired.—New York World.
Texas Talk
THANKS TO SANTA FE.
The Panhandle country and in
fact all west Texas has much that
they can to the Santa
Fe railread for. During this year
that great road has built several
miles of railroad in this section
of the state and many towns
which before were mere cattle
pens have been transformed into
centers of clanging activity. In
the Panhandle alone the follow
ing track has been laid during the
past eleven months: From Lub
bock to Coleman. 122 miles; Plain
\ iew to Floydada, fifteen miles;
Slaton to Lamesa, fifty-four miles,
in west Texas outside the Pan- ,
handle this road has built from
Lometa to Colorado, two miles;
Brady to Melvin, twelve miles;
San Angelo to Sterling City, forty
three miles. Every tie that has
been laid in these new roads has
served to bring Amarillo into
closer relation with the south
plains, country and imprint the
name of this city more indelibly
on the map of this portion of
Texas.- —Amarillo News.
Did anybody say that the Santa Fe
has built any new lines unless it was
expected that the investment would be
piofitable?
USE FOR NATIONAL GUARD.
The National Guard is a grow
ing danger in more ways than
one; it is a menace to the repub
lican form of government design
ed by the founders. The ten
dency to call upo'n state militia
at almost every turn is an evil
productive of more harm than
would ever result without them.
It teaches a people capable of
self-government to depend upon
some outside force instead of
themselves preserving order m
their own community by the or
dinary means of civil govern
ment. —Redland Herald.
However, the National Guard might
come in handy in suppressing the pis
tol-pocket boys in case the juries
continue to be too sympathetic.
REST NEEDED.
And in spite of the protests of -
the few irreconcilable demagogues
Oscar Colquitt keps right on in
his "riilickalus” preachment of
legislative rest, political peace,
domestic govern..lent, home rule
and statewide material prosper
ity. In the lexicon of the dema
gogue, Oscar Colquitt is a crim
inal of the first degree.—Paris
Advocate.
Most of us will take chances on
"legislative rest” if it is possible to get
a little tongue-rest on that particular
topic.
HELP For CONVENTIONS.
The bringing to Texas of so
many big conventions is bound to
pro v c a great thing for our state.
Bbl IV a '. so Ihink it would be a
dise idea if all the smaller towns,
surrounuing the cities where the
conventions are held, would send
delegates to the meetings and
keep up with the proceedings.—
I loresvllle Chronicle.
Good idea! Boost the conventions
after they get here and the subscrib
ers to some of the entertainment funds
will feet better satisfied.
DECEMBER 19, 1910.
Little Stories
THE UNWILLING EMPLOYER.
Secretary Knox Illustrates Change io
Diplomacy by Brownsville
Anecdote.
Secretary Knox, at a dinner it
Washington, said, with a smile*
"Modern diplomacy has frankness
and friendliness for its watchwords.
The diplomacy of the past seemed til
consist too much of dislike, deceit,
trickery. Nations treated one another
as White and Black of Brownsville
did.
“White and Black were enemies.
White being the Brbwnsville giccer
and Black the Brownsville druggist.
A gaunt giant of a man acouxted
White on his way to business one
spring morning and asked for a job
of window cleaning. White remem
bered it was April 1. and looking at
the other’s hurculean shoulders In
said slowly:
“ 'You can clean my shop windows
if you like. That's my place, Hie cor
ner pharmacy there. I’m < n my way
to the city, but you just tell my
ager I sent you and get to. wont He’s
a cross-grained scoundrel, my man
ager. and may object; but you dean
the windows, even if you have to
break his head. I’m going to fire hnn
next month, anyhow.’
"The brawny window cleaner
thanked the grocer warmly, and hur
ried toward the pharmacy. The grocer
darted into his own shop and peep d
from his window to see what would
happen.
"The happenings were qu'ek—a
couple of sharp oaths, a ser‘C3 of
shouts and yells, and lo! the body
of the druggist hurtling out of his
own shop door and landing reavi y
on the surbstone, while a voice caved
from within.
" ‘Yer boss said I was to clean thB
windows, and clean ’em 1 will, ye ob
stinate jackass:’ ”
OPINION OF WAGNER
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
We had more than enough of the
"artiste of the future,” Richard Wag
ner, whose confused, noisy, frantic,
and almost impossibe overture to
"Tannhauser,” taxed the powers of
the band to the utmost and must
have absorbed for its rehearsal a very
large portion of time and attention,
which might have been much more
profitably employed.
“It is quite delightful, after all this
impotent raving—this “sound and
fury signifying nothing”—to turn to
the simply grand and beautiful
chorus of Mozart.—Cologne letter to
the London Post (1856).
BLESSING THE BEASTS.
A quaint ceremony is that still ob
taining in some parts of Norman iy—•
the "benediction des bestiaux.”
The oxen, the asses and the draught
horses are assembled in front of a
church. There may also be a bullo :k
or two, andp erhaps some cows, i'he
procession of peasants, clad in their
very best, issues from the churin to
the soun of a chant that is droned by
the priest. The venerable cure
sprinkles a few drops of water on tl,e
heads of the beasts, and when a!! tho
animals have received the benediction
the next feature of the ceremony is
to place at the pedestal of the cross
facing the church certain bundles in
coarse linen. These bundles contain
bread and salt, which are to Be given
to those beasts not able to attend the
ceremony.—-Tit-Bits.
The health record of all the world s
fighting forces is claimed by the Ger
man army.