Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-09-08
MR.. DOOLEY ON
THE POETS FATE.
Ry r. p. DUNNE.


messages iv coincidence firm frinds "
his he niver see or heer iv, copies "
tn same havin' been STINT to tn local
newspaper. TIL pa-apers was full "
tindher remarks to tn gin'ral effect
that if Kinpling died. Lithrachoor wud
sount tn cash raygisther, put up tn
shutters an go out into tn night Tn
articles was accompanied be silictions
firm his copyright PONIES. Conductors
on tn sthreet cars sobbed at tn min
ton iv his name, fatal cocktails was
named afther him, near ivry clergyman
in tn country side thracked tn ser
mon on vice an bracketed kiplng
with Martin Luther an Rockefeilaf-
Down on tn stock exchange, sthrons
men cried as they said: Poor Kipling!
What did he writer TIL Amalgamat-
ed Browning, Omar Khayyam an Wait
Whitman Association iv tin workers "
Baraboo, Wis, held a meetin' an ray
solved that Civilization wud lose an eye
If Kipling wint, an it was tn sinse "
tn meetin' that tn threasurer be in
sthructed to hire copy iv his book an
see if il was as good as they SAID.
TIL sicker he got. tn bigger man he
was Ivry time his timpraehoor wint
up, his rapytation as pote advanced
tin degrees. Bets was offered in tn
pool rooms five to wan an no takers
that he cud give Homer an Shakespere
twinty pounds an batting. If he'd
gone out, they were goin' to put spec
tacles an fur coat on tn goddess "
liberty an call it Kipling.
Thin he made tn mistake iv his life
He lived. If we liver get to be pote'
Hinnissy, don't take any chances on
fame. Cinch it. Jump into tn river
But Roodyard Kipling didn't know
He whit away an settled down an be-
gun to hammer out a few lengths ~
tinted pothry to sind over TO MS
pa-aper tn other day. | raymlmbef
twas wan that had confused to me tnat
if anything happened to Kipling, tn
iditor wud feel that he cudden's go on
with his wurruk without substantial
increase in salary. Well, they was an
article about a man that had killed his
wife, an it says: 'Misther So-an SO,
a well-known an poplar burglar on IN
west side, yisterdah was so unforchn'
as to sink an axe into Mrs. So-an so.
1t is believed he acted undher great
provoeation. Mex to this piece ~ so-
cety news was a scholarly article on
Roodyard Kipling. We have just been
r-readin' a pome be that commence
OPERATOR, Roodyard Kipling, an II there
is pressman in this buildln tnat
cudden't write batther wan, we'd feeu
him to bis own press, We do not see
who buys tn wurruks iv this fend III
human form, but anybody that Goes
ought TO be put in a place where u
green goods men can't get at nun
Whin We recall tn tears are shed WIN
this miscreent was pretindln 10
sick, we feel like eomplainin 10 III
polls. Il he liver comes to this coun-
thry again, we will be wan ~ I'm
thousan' TO go out an lynch him. 10
think iv tn way this imposter has oeeh
threated an thin see that young swan
iv Main street, our own toWnsIna'''
Higbie j.. Duff, clerlSin' in shoe sto!e'
makes us ashamed iv our country:
"An' there We ARE. Tnats "Has
happens to pote whin he's rouhu ou va,
an pote can escape. TIL Amalsaih"'t
| Association iv Baraboo has become u
Society r. tn Prevention ~ hlpln7'
tn Stock Exchange is r-readlns IN
| lis Gazette, an we won't amy nv
hear Kipling mintioned in tn pun"
thin We will tn bible n.
81 don't suppose he cares, SAID MI
| Hennessy. ,;1
"Well, maybe he don't know, saia
| Mr.. Dooley. But 1t ought to be
lesson f'r amy young man who thihhs
| iv goin' into potnry. Theyse ony van
| thing f'r pote to do: just as they 10
about to hang tn lorls on his proN u
| fure they begin to throw tn brleRs, Il.
ought ID pass away. Tn mex pes
| thing is to write his pothry whefe ~ u,
wan can see him an lock it up ID 81
cellar till he's gone. Thin they MAJ
blame it on some wan else"