Show 1 by elbert hubbard I 1 HE little girl got on the street T THE car she was about nine years old she wore a b g w de picture bat hat probably d scalded by one of 0 her older sisters her dress barely came to her knees she evidently was grow ing rapidly and this dress fit ted her per perhaps has a year before one stocking was succumb ng to the law of gravitation and both shoes were badly run over at the heel she was nas a clever wistful pictures picturesque lue bit of humanity and I 1 looked at her as I 1 sat opposite and smiled and then I 1 inwardly apologized to myself and to her in irk one little grimy hand she had three pennies I 1 saw her count ing them carefully in the other were two pennies when the con ductor came in she handed him up the three cents and looked off into the distance in a hypocritical d dan s n te rested way the conductor looked at the pennies then he looked at the tirl and in a voice of authority sa d how old are and the girl sa d with a delightful I 1 sp thay ill pay my fare but I 1 don t r give no and then she passed up the other two cents and covered the minion of a godless cor horation po ration with a look of contempt the men who live as saviors of the world are those who have had the good luck to d e at the right time and in the right way the IF hemlock the cross the loop and the 9 knife are all sacred to the memory of heroes here a to leon das at with h s guts furl of spearheads trampled by the mob until h s flesh waa was ground into the mire here heres a to jim bladsoe who held her nose to the bank until every ga loot was ashore here beres s to jack binns who was on the job and is yet here s to the band on the Ti that played in the water waist deep here s to nathan hale for the rope that tightened and cut off oft his breath did not destroy hia his soul here a to old john brown in the lound house at harpers Ilar pers ferry lighting against insurmountable odds here s to the last of the old guard at waterloo who having fired the last of his ammunition ammu niton on stood with broken sword in hand and hurled at the enemy the only weapon he had to offer an unprintable word bo so my heart goes oat to the men who are men when emergency calls they are faulty men perhaps but then didn dian t sheridan swear like a pirate until streaks of profanity trailed the air on that ride to winchester at the break of day grant drank whiskey wh isleY sure but he did something else the question is can afford to destroy men of initiative 4 here s to the criminal class if somebody hadn haan t defied the law there would have been no progress there are no words to express feelings that is why music is feces bary i the things we know the least about are the things we studied most the cure for hard luck is hard work 4 three fourths of all the lawyers are rogues figuring from the top of the head down 4 if it comes to getting things by hook or crook choose hook when in doubt d memorize a few ex tracts from the essay on silence and recite them to yourself 4 As a general thing the courts pro hect the lawyers the tho law being most ly devised by lawyers for the krotec 4 tion and benefit of lawyers |