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Show i WALT MASON H f INDUSTRY. "By Industry we thrive." remark'- H jnie ancient sage, who. when he Wat H alive, pulled down some kind of wage H I know not how he wrought, I can- H not nunc hla trade, perhaps to town In brought some henfTUlt newly laid; H rhapa he used to mix the dope to H ' cure a cold: perhaps he peddled H 1 bricka thai had a skin of gold. For IgOB he 'a been gone to better, bright- H spheres, and still hla words roll !! on. down all the ringing years. By !& industry WO thrive; great words and af bhbI j trenchant, these! So in this humun ftH 1 hive let's hum around like bees, but bbhbbbb. all this loll is vain unless, from day H to day, In manner safe and wno. v." H Bait the coin a w I've V.nown thousand men whose diligence w 1- H tine, but they put down no yen the preserving brine. They blew In H all they earned for things they didn't need; with nutty zeal they burned their store of chli kenfeed. Day af- H ter day they slaved to earn the week- H ly (heck, and not a red they saved w hen payday was on deck. So when disaster came, and tribulations sore and sickness uueered their game, and H , wolvea were at the door, they had no I helpful wad, the product of theit H sweat, and wearily they chawed tho j cud of black regret. To tell is not I enough, man's welfare to insure; but ; he must. the stuff, the rhino. 1 I (Copyright 1922. George Matthe Adams.) 00 BMBBBBB |