The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-25
Nebraska Magazine Which Hits
Right and Left.
Blair (Neb.) Special in Chicago Chron-


Blair (Neb.) Special in Chicago Chron-
icle.
Nebraska is prolific of geniuses.
They grow here as thick as sage brush
on the Western plains. They spring
up in every town and hamlet and
flourish like green bay trees beside
running brooks. There is something
in the very air and the soil that seems
conductive to eccentricity and errati-
cism. Long hair, wild-eyed notions,
Populism and poetry and whiskers
abound in the bug eaters state. 1t is
the home of the crank, the native
heath of the freak, the habitat of the
spouter.
There is no locality especially fav-
ored The western part of the state,
the eastern part of the state, the
southern and northern parts of the
state have produced. North Platte has
her William F. Cody, known from zone
to zone and pole to pole as Buffalo
Bill" Newman's Grove has her ]. Mar
yer Gortner, the poet of nine VOL
umes, author of the immortal lines
We had turkey for dinner to-day,
The finest the state could produce,
And as on the table it lay
Twas better, thought, than a goose.
Beatrice has her Walt Mason, of
whom James Whitcomb Riley said:
"He might have been the bestknown
humorist in the West, but he lost his
grip" Omaha has her George Fran
els Train, prince of all cranks and
emperor of all freaks. Bellevue has
her Pat Grove, the most famous kid
naper the world has ever known.
And now from Washington county
and the town of Blair comes the lat
est aspirant for notice and the most
recent candidate for the title genius.
Will A Campbell, printer, editor.
human being and genius, saw the
light of day first in some obscure lit
tie Nebraska town. He grew up like
other children of Nebraska towns, OBJ
tanning some schooling and began to
scramble for a living when he was
yet at a tender age.
There was always something the
matter with him. He knew it, and 9TH
ers knew it, but he never knew what
it was until he started a little maya
zine called The Knocker, and then it
developed that he was a genius.
In the initial number of his literary
venture the young scribe relieved him
self of rs articles of faith, which have
been eagerly perused by large num-
Der of readers. Some of these articles
follow:
I knock on the self-righteous They
are usually people who by worldly sue
cess have crowded into view. The best
we can do is to be virtuous as posi-
BILE.
| knock on the social rule that per-
mits a woman to cover indiscretions of
other days with a sealskin cloak A
woman has a right to live it down,
but rich woman should have no
shorter probation than a poor one.
| knock on the man who tells chill
dren that there is no Santa Claus The
tragedy of life begins when faith de-
parts and the man who will hasten
the departure is related to the devil.
l knock on the knocker who knocks
on his wife. A man who respects not
the mother of his own children res
poets not himself. His plant that she
has not kept up with him fools no.
body. He has his eye on another wo-
man. In the Greek for better or for
worse" means take your medicine"
knock on the social pest, whose so
eial rating is a hat full Of prunes, and
who passes by old friends. He is a
snob Trace him back to his father and
you'll find a rabbit.
knock on the woman who nags her
husband More men have gone to hell
by this route and picked up correspon-
dents along the way than by any other.
/ knock on the American girl The
girl who has been raised In cultured
home, who possesses poth talent anu
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT who has grown into
a womanly woman and II too worthy
for any young man, but who casts her
ne by her own choice with smooth
guy. whose brains are worth cents a
BOUND for soap grease descendant
81 a long line Of half-wits; a dizzy
Young dude too lazy 30 work and too
cowardly 20 steal, TOO eyeriastinEly
"ornery" 70 raise a respectable crop or