The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-06
GEORGES PA
Discoursss Very 1earnedly, as Usual,
on Cecil Rhodes.

on Cecil Rhodes.
Chicago Ttmes-H Herald: who is Cecil
Rodes, and what did he do?"
Them was the words NAV hurled at
paw when we was EatIn breckfust yls-
tady mOrnen.
"Wen," paw says. "I'll tell You. I
alwais Like to incurrIdge people what
asst about 1t when they Don't no things.
That's the trubble with so menny foxes.
They set around and don't asst becoz
they are afrade they might get looked
Down on, and 30 they Go thru life with
out filndin out lots they wisht they new
and that they OF to no."
Ibid you ever asst ennybuddy emmy
thing, little albert says.
Paw looked over the Top Of his
glasses fer about a mint, but little al
bert give the best imnuttashen Of a
ninnosupt lam ever seen, and Bit of
anuther Link Of sosgldge, 50 paw went
on:
''Nobuddy ever lost friend ylt by not
purtendtn to no II all. You can't make
emmy man mad by lettin Him think he
can tell you sumthin you don't no. There
was q man came Into the store day be-
fore YistRdy. and Begin taken to the
Manager and asdn questions. He said
he Never understood how the Bulls and
BARS run the makets up and Down, and
the Manager told him, and never seen
"a person az interested in Ennything be-
fore, and when he found out all the
manager didn't no sbout that He asst
the Manager asIot OF other things bet
he new all about himself, and list be-
fore he got Reddy to go he borrowed
nifty dolers from tho Manager
What was that you asst me about?
Oh, yes, Cecil Rodes He's the Richest
man In South Afriky, but he wouldn't
be II It weren't for one thing"
whats that I" NAV hst.
''He can't git out" says paw. 'They
got Him surrounded. They say he owns
a Bushel Of Dimuns, and when the ma
bers chickens git to scratchen in His
Garden he throws gold nuggets at them
II they amt ennythlng else handy. Pee
pie ofrun wunder why purson with all
His mummy wants to Live away over
thare around the corner from the
worlds back door, when He Gould Re-
turn TO his native land, and mingle
with the Richest Brewers In Englund
II he wanted to. But you see II he
would do that him and ]. Peerpont Nor
gan would be on the same side Of the
erth, and they wouldn't be ennything TO
keep It from tippun over
II read somewhere the other day"
NAV says, that he is a preachers SON."
yes" paw anserd and that only
goes to Sho they are good deal OF
truth about the old sayln that preach
ers has the worst Boys on erth. Of
fen think was cut out for a preacher
II my family are emmy sine. Cecil pre-
tends to be oftul pie US, and has Fav-
critic him, but nebby that's only becoz
all the crate men like Lincoln and
Gladstone had fsverlte hlms.
"stIll," paw says, they ar one Thing
about him can't help but admire"
WHATS that" NAV asst.
"He amt married., paw says.
Nav purtended to be lookin Mt the
Hem stltchen in the table cloth fer
awhile, and the vains begin to swell up
on paws tempuls becoz he was trying
80 hard to keep from Dustin out lnfTn,
but after while she let on she dlden't
nOtus II and sedi
81 wished you would cit the manager
to tell you q few Things, paw. Mebby
he mite promote you II you nst him
enuR questions"
That's the trubble with me-" paw
anBerd. II can't 20 around purtendin
I'm Ignerant even II II would help me
in my Blzness."
>"weil," ! says, you mite just act
natcheral."
Then / tride to do the Innosunt lam
stunt, but it didn't seem to mike hit
with paw. So omit the pnncfull De-
tails. GEORGE.