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THE HIGH POINT SCOUT DOWN OX THE FARM WITH FA’S OL’ MULE. I’ve worked ’em some and it can’t be denied, , For it’s all day long with plow and tool Turning the soil with an artist's glide Down on the farm with Pa’s or mule. She’s a fast ol’ mule, boys, I say. When she is hitched to any farm tool; So I never work all o’ the day Down on the farm with that ol' mule. I say it now, for it is a fact: That no man can work the whole day thru. Or even follow her whirl-wind tracks Down on the farm with Pa’s ol’ mule. I’ve stuck with her all summer long; But I feel as though I’m working stew— Oh! don’t I hear the resting gong Down on the farm with Pa’s of mule. NADY CATES, Jr. OUT IX THE OPEN OVER-NIGHT. Alright, boys, get in line. The weather for a hike is very fine. All of us are feeling right For out in the open over-night. Now we’re passed the second mile post In twenty-eight minutes, isn’t it a boast? And everything is stepping light For out in the open over-night. Here we are at the fourth mile post Holding out like a mountain goat. Every haversack is buckled tight, To soon be loosened at the end of the hike. A large camfire is now being built; .\nd every boy is spreading his quilt— Oh! What a beautiful camping sight For out in the open over-night. Now it is morning, we must get up. And go to the spring for water to sup; While the sun is shining hotly and bright After being in the open over-night. —The Editor. i .Yiiotlicr Echo Fi-om the Ciiinpaign. (By BESS FURMAN) The Boy Scouts helped to win the war And we should help the Scouts, And give, tor services galore, A plunk or thereabouts. It’s such a little bit of tin. It doesn’t make much noise. But a million cartwheels rolling in, W’Dl build a nation’s boys. I dunno how some others feel, but it’s alius seemed to me, that boys don’t get a real square deal, young boys, especially. Their sisters is kep’ spick an’ span, they get the best up- bringin,’ the boy gets anything he can, an’ now an’ then, a stingin’. He’s alius in his elders’ way, and he’s so very prankful, if he just shows up three times a day, and goes off for the rest to play, they’re really, truly thankful. He knocks about for eighteen years, with no special plan except to cause maternal tears, and then he is a man. An’ sometimes, by a streak of chance, he Alls his folks with pride, again, an’ quite by happenstance, he is a full-fledged snide. His father swears an’ tears his hair, an’ wonders what he’s done, to have this awful cross to bear, this weak an’ worthless son. Now anyone with an;; sense with in his head remainin,’ should know the thing we must commence is give the boy some trainin’. Not the of fashioned straight-backed kind that teaches p’s an’ q’s, but that which fills the young boy’s mind with sump- thin’ he can use, an’ makes his body fine and strong, an’ straight as any rod, that teaches him to shun the wrong, and reverence his God. That makes him lend a helpin’ hand to all the poor an’ weak, that makes him worthy of his land, an’ not a bolshe vik. And how ■we are to do all this, some folks can’t figure out. We won’t go very far amiss, if 'we make the boy a Scout.—Scouting. There’s Lots of Difference. Nigger Jim—“Pass me the ’lasses, please.” Nigger Joe—“Why don’t you say molasses,” * Nigger Jim—“What’s de use ob sayin’ mo-lasses an’ yu’ ain’t had none?” # A BUSINESS 5IEDDLER. New Reporter—“I never stop my business to meddle with other peo ples.’ ” Citizen—“I reckon not; you med dle with other peoples’ while you are attending to your own.” “FAME.” Let me tell you, fame is a very influential thing over the human be ing. It gives you the “big head;” causes you to turn up your nose un til it looks like Pikes Peak at peo ple you once honored; makes you walk with a straighter spine and wear a louder neck tie; and causes you to do many other disgusting things that you used to criticise your city dudes and lawyers for, when you was only a ragged boy. Why, actually, some young men would rather be a book-keeper for a one-horse peanut joint at a salary of four dollars a week, than to be a farm-boy at a salary of six dollars a week, with board and lodging free. —By NADY CATES, Jr. Wings Might Do That. Mother—“Now, Johnnie, run up stairs and get your little sister’s night gown.” Johnnie—“Aw, I don’t want to.” Mother—“Well, if you don’t your little sister will take her wings and fly back to Heaven.” Johnnie—“Well, why don’t she put on her wings and fly up stairs and get her gown?” —Visitor. GET A BICYCLE ON Easy Payments Dayton, Columbia, Rambler, Ivcr Johnson. Our Specialty. See us for anything about the bicycle, M. H. HARMON 113 EAST WASHINGTON STEEET crke Printing & OfficeSupplu Company, High Point, N. C. J
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