Gunnison Gazette | 1912-05-03 | Page 2 | Missing the Point

Missing the Point. Representative Rucker of Colorado, apropos of 'a tariff argument about Bugar, said to a Washington correspondent: corres-pondent: "Oh, well, those men don't Bee my point. They miss it as badly as the old lady missed her son's. " 'Mother,' a young man said, looking look-ing up from the Bulletin, 'would you believe that it takes 5,000 elephants a year to make our piano , keys and billiard balls?' " 'Make our piano keys and billiard balls!' cried the old lady. 'Well, I always understood elephants were intelligent in-telligent creatures, but I never knew before that they'd . been trained to make piano keys and billiard balls.' "