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jivotect the trees in front of his own premises. A majority 

 of our people do not realize with how , little work and 

 ■care they might beautify their grounds and streets by 

 planting trees. Trees are our best friends. They conduce 

 to the physical, intellectual and moral welfare of the people. It only 

 needs one or two persons who strongly feel the need and importance of 

 such things. In Boston they have a club whose business it is to look 

 after such things. They have so educated public sentiment that the 

 small boys are the best policemen to look after the welfare of the street 

 trees. I have seen a small boy make a truck man remove his horse 

 which he hitched to a tree. 



Music by male quartette. 



Recitation bv Master Martie Read. 



NECESSARY PRIDE. 



By Lulu Wayman, Alvord, Mo. 



As nature conforms in a greater or lesser degree to man's ideas, 

 when directed by his head and hands and is transformed and perfected 

 on certain lines to meet the requirements of a progressive age, it is 

 equally true that human nature is directed and governed by the plaudits 

 ad criticisms of his fellow man. The love of approval is scarcely 

 pride in the noblest sense of the word, but doing right because it is 

 right, and being never weary in well doing are the essentials in grand 

 character-building. 



Perhaps no one word which it became Mr. Webster's dutf to 

 chronicle in his vocabulary has a greater diversity of definitions and 

 more shades of meaning than this word "Pride." In one sense it is 

 conceit, vanity, arrogance, and like qualities fostered by a distorted 

 idea of what is true life and living, but there is a sense of the word that 

 is inspiring and is a prime factor in all great and noble achieving. 



True self esteem or necessary pride in strict fidelity to duty makes 

 heroes; nor are great heroes of mushrooms grown, for by the time their 

 deeds of valor have been heralded over the continent their biographies 



