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ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those 

 whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may 

 become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has he 

 may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it 

 most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of 

 ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their 

 knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first 

 to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon 

 our heads. The one absolute, unselfish friend that man can 

 have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one 

 that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. Gentle- 

 men of the jury, a man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in 

 poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold 

 ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, 

 if only he can be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand 

 that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that 

 come in encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards 

 the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all 

 other friends desert he remains. When riches take wings and 

 reputation falls to pieces he is as constant in his love as the sun 

 in its journey through the heavens. If fortune drives the 

 master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and home- 

 less, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accom- 

 panying him to guard against danger, to fight against his ene- 

 mies," and when the last scene of all comes, and death takes the 

 master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold 

 ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there 

 by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between 

 his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithful 

 and true even to death." 



FARMERS' HAM AND BACON SHOW. 



(W. L. Nelson.) 



For best home-cured country ham — First premium, $25, W. H. Thomson, Columbia; 

 second premium, $15, J. E. Ballenger, Columbia; third premium, $10, H. G. Windsor, Boon- 

 ville. 



For best home-cured country bacon — First premium, $25, James Bachler, Frederick- 

 town; second premium, $15, Walter J. Bachler, Fredericktown; third premium, $10, A. J. 

 Caldwell, Columbia. 



The second annual Missouri Farmers' Ham and Bacon 

 Show held in connection with the 1914 Farmer's Week, and put 

 on by the State Board of Agriculture, was another success. 

 Owing to the scarcity of meat throughout the State, this second 



