The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-18

mesilf a simple man IL / have to
bake In slow oven to do IT.. What'll
| do? Throw away tn superfiooties
says Hogan out Nv Chas, his book.
But what ar-re III superfiooties? I'll
turn out tn ilicthric light. shut of
tn furnace, an desthroy tn cash
raygister be which complex macheen
keep mesilf firm Robin mesilf. But
am / amy more simple because I'm
holdin' out on mesilf with frozen An
gers be a tallow dip? Was tn wur-
ruld iver amy more simple thin 1t Is
to-day? l doubt il. / bet We there
was a good dale iv talk about Adam
an Eve dhressin SYSTEMATICALLY an
haVln' tn King iv Beljium's ancesthor
to supper with thin. Hogan was read
In me out Nv a book tn other day
about tn simple fathers Nv tn coun-
thry. 1t was a tur-rble shock to me.
This fellow says that Robert Morris
who | supposed sacrificed his fortune
FIR liberty. injooccd tn government
TO pay good money FIR bad; Jawn
Adams wanted 10 make a kingdom Nv
tn country. while as FIR George
Washington he acted like a coal-oil
JaWnny whin he wint to tn White
House, an his wife put on Unsuitable
airs an had such bad table manners
that this here pathrite was compelled
to leave tn room an run home to
put 1t down in his diary.
An there we ar-re. TIL more I
think, tn less simple simplicity be-
comes. Says Wagner via Hogan,
man shud be like a lamp on tn more
light he sheds tn betther man he is.
That's tn throuble with ivrybody that
thries to advise me to be something I
amt Whin / run him into a corner
an say: Come on now an make good.
Show me tn way he tells me I'm a
lamp, or a three, or a snowflake blown
be tn winds, or a bur-rd in "a gilded
cage, or a paint brush or a ship. or
something else But says I: Tn none
Nv these fine things. I'm kind iv a
man an I'm not mintioned in tn bot
any or tn mail ordher list. Tell me
what | must do An he looks me In
tn eye an says he: BE a man.. An
there We ar-re. If a mans a lamp, it's
because he smokes. don't show up well
I'm tn sunlight an viii wan day be
blown out. There ARE other simple
uses fr lamp besides givln. light
which is wan Nv tn poorest things they
do nowadays. Rcthschild thrades in
thin, tn German impror thinks they
ar-re on'y useful to throw at his i'm
imies, an my business is to fill thin
with karosene.
mo, sir, they amt amy simple life.
There's ony life. It's kind Nv an
obstacle race. Sinnin' repintin'. sim
min, repintin'. Some can jump high;
some can't jump at all. Thin that
jump highest have farthest to fall.
Those that go farthest are ruled<off
f'r fouln' A mans no more thin a
man an he has as many things In him,
amy wan iv thin li'ble to go wrong
without a moments notice as all tn
mines, tools, lamps an other hard
ware figure Nv speech In prize pome.
He has to make his clumsy repairs
while undher full Roadway. Lucky
man II he staggers into port without
havin' caused too many shipwrecks on
tn way over. 1t isn't tn most succss-
full passage that has caused tn most
shipwrecks Ye see. Hinnissy I'm a
kind iV a Chas. Wagner mesilf on'y
betther. He gets his out Nv Fr-renoh
head an | got mine out " tn third
reader that a little boy left In here
who come f'r a pint ~ simple refrish-
ment fr his fathers complex thirst.
Il don't think we know such lot
about It," said Mr.. Hennessy.
II know more about tn sample life.'
said Mr.. Dooley