By George Matthew Adams

Under the glass of my work desk is a little phrase that has helped me not to mind, when things looked dark and people misjudged and mis-understood, or when some have proved disloyal.

Here it is: "The dog barks, but the caravan passes on." After all, there is a world of sense and philosophy to be gained from animate things that "move and have their being" but which do not talk.

Horse sense? Well, dog sense is pretty helpful, too.

Have you never seen a great dog meander its way through a street, followed by a troop of small dogs, barking and snapping at the big dog? Such an incident has given me many a thought and many a smile. For the big fellow just walks on - and doesn't mind. And soon the little snappers drop away.

Never mind!

There is one big principle that counts in the formation of character and a life success, and that is to stick to the "main chance." To swerve neither to the right nor to the left, but to do the things at hand that bear upon the greater things to be — and then to pass on.

Mind not the little daily irritations. They come to us all. "The dog barks, but the caravan passes on."

Gossip is poisonous? Oh, yes — very. But it poisons the other fellow infinitely more than it poisons you. And besides, you are able to be so big that the poison is soon thrown off, and forgotten.

"The dog barks, but the caravan passes on."

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