The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-08-30
ARP'S CONUNDRUMS.
Bill Answers Letters OF the
School Girls.
THEN GIVES SOME PUZZLES
Saws the Best Part OF Parenta
Life Is to Please the Little
Ones,
ATLANTA Con s,itutionJ

! TO know why il is that geese VIII no' '"'
corn when il il strewn around the CIR
cumference ola circle They say tna'
their presiding elder couldn't tell, ana
advised them to ask me. | supposed u
was conundrum, or that there was some
catch in the question: eaten ike Tue
one. Why will guinea pigs eyes tall out
| if YOU hold it up by the taiiF AS the
guinea pig has no tail, of course his eyes
are in no danger But lady fnend VINO
raises geese assures me that she mas
often seen them tempted with corn or
other grain strewn thickly round CIR
Gle. and they will not venture near H.
lint if scattered, they will, after careful
inspection, approach and eat. "ha' '"e
circle has TO do with it is past my keh'
though we do know that geese march VI
straight lines and the Wild geese ny III
straight angles. a goose IS very suS-
pjc;ous fowl, and is always on the look
out for danger. A goose hash "uc"
sense. in fact a goose is goose ou'
their devotion to each other when m"leu
is heautifnl How faithfully the gandeT
will stand by his mate while she Sis Oh
her nest. She plucks the down from MS
hreast and covers her eggs. How gal
lantly he escorts her to the grass anu
escorts her back when she leaves them
for food. How tcndcrly they care loi
the brood when it comes, and never Iea''
Them until feathered and grown. There
are no divorces nor grass widows IN TIC
Anserian family-what pity we are no'
all geese.
But, speaking of cOnundrums REMINDS
mo If how lady caught me yesterday
when she asked me how the water go'
? into the watermelon, and as ! proceeded
TO expound the chemical processes That al
fruits and vegetables had to go through
she stopued me and said: ooh, major, inc
water gets into the watermelon because
$ it is planted in the spring J got even
: with her, though, by asking her why was
an elephant like a lady's belt. when Sh'
pave IN. | said, because there IS a -
}. in both" "Why," she said, "lhere Is Nc
!. ~ in elephant "1here is y
d in .both.," said |, 'B-o-t-h'-you can
smell both without 3D.. 1t taxes
LITTLE time TO see that. And there is an
: other conundrum that was classic when
| was young
"Charge, Chester, charse-On' Stanley
on,
We're the last words of Marmon.
Had but been in Stsnley's place
Tears wolld have moistened Chester
!. face"
Il Tho smel of an onion would have
& brought tear or two, | reckon. NOW
DE- lief those sweet school girls strain 'heI
4 minds over that, aud then let then
a search the scriptures aud tell nae lh'N
% There is reference made in the old AM
80 new testancnts to Il person who died
y no other person ever died; whose boa
80 never saw corruption, whose name - new
D5 or spoken and the material OF who's
50 shroud is found in every household Their
40 is no catch in that-it is a fact. Ask tn
80 presiding elder.
20 am INDUCING in these thoughts
10 please the children, Tor that is the blg
80 sest and best part of parental life, and
n what the world is working for. Sometime
No cannot help Eliminating upon VIVA
20 pleased me when | was young and IN
90 mind was expanding into knowledge da
by dav. How did strain over tn
ID. problem of the fox and the goose and ;h
bag of corn. And there was the elephaI
p' puzzIe. where an old man died leavln
Nj eighteen elephants to his three sonS-on
90 to have half of them, another One-thlr
10 10 of them aud the other one-ninth. st
40 before the division one elephant died, an
90 seventeen wouldn't divide even at all. ;
5 D." they consulted wise old MAJOR who Ina
81 hut one elephant. He generously dro'
81 his one Into the herd of seventeen an
then divided them, giving TO one OF I'll
o, bows nine, to another six and 10 ii
a. other two. This took bat seventeen. al
so lie drove his own elephant back hon
d" again. How is that? Wasn't he sma
old fellow to satisfy the boys and SAL
en- his elephant
But by and 10y these school childr(
iae advance into their teens and begin
choose sweethearts, and the boys bru
their HAIR more carefully and the gin
cast glances that are shy and sly and re-
poetry and mark the loving passages, al
flowers grow lovelier and the birds siI
. sweeter aud the world grows bright'
and the DAYS of loves young dream ha
n come. Delightful days, delicious mem
u rics-even an old man loves 10 revel
them. No wonder the poets wrote so te
= derly of love and the noyelisIs make
the chief subject of their story. |
- eliminating the other day about comp
ing and publishing a book-a little DO
that could be sold for less than a doll
"' book of gems-poetc gems by the b
authors, and urge every parent to /
. il for the children, for it would help
,, mold and refine their characters and 8
them pleasure and comfort all their liv