location of the coffin bone or what it is there for. I often 

 wonder why this United States has not got laws like 

 they have in Germany, where the horseshoer has to pass an 

 examination before he can operate a shoeing business, and 

 when he is successful he is then registered and pays a li- 

 cense for running it. In Germany a Master Horseshoer 

 is highly respected for the merits of his labor. Here, Aber 

 Lieber Fater, but dear Lord, a tramp can run out of a corn 

 field and start a horseshoeing business. His plans are gen- 

 erally made to just stay through the winter. He makes 

 the prices as low as he is himself. After a short stay, 

 when the grass gets green, he gets the wander lust in his 

 head. The forge and fire is getting too hot for him, of 

 which he knows very little. When he meets another trav- 

 eler, they two lay around together under some convenient 

 shade tree, perhaps reading old musty books and this 

 would be horse shoer tells his companion how he was fool- 

 ing and bleeding the people during the winter ; he tells 

 him how he got in with the barn men or men that have 

 horses in charge, for just a small bribe, or he goes out and 

 begs to gei ?. horse to shoe. I don't know which is the 

 worse, begging or bribing. Of course, begging is more on 

 the cheap order, but he who begs has no pride, only a selfish 

 desire. Just now, while I am writing about this would-be 

 horseshoer, I'm going to tell of an incident that happened 

 here in Santa Ana. I am shoeing the horses for the Union 

 Oil Company. Most of the shops know what I am getting 

 for shoeing. They also know that I am getting just what 

 I charge, $2.50 a horse. And one solicitor in this town 

 went and told the company that he could save them money 

 and would shoe their horses for $1.50, but the thoughtful 

 manager politely told him that the company's business was 

 running smooth and was making both ends meet, and that 

 their horses were all going good, but if they should need 

 his advice regarding how to cut down expense and save 

 money, they would come and ask him, and, added the 



