Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-12-14
Pbe Strange Experience Of an
Obituary editor
Dearest brother thou hast left us,
And thy loss we deenlY mourn,

Dearest brother thou hast left us,
And thy loss we deeply mourn-'u
Van made grab for the top of his
head where his hair should have been.
looked wildly at the old gentleman and
cried: "Stop it! Stop it! Cut it out!
This punishment is greater than / can
bear" And with great rush he Jump
ed on his mule and commenced flashing
down the hill, almost running over
Harmonious who had hard work to
stop him.
Van was mad and in no gentle man
ner demanded: GLOW far back can YOU
take me; | don't want to stop at any
side-track water-tanks, either.n
~ can only escort you back to my
time-the reign of Hammar Rabbi, the
Law Giver, 22,1SO years b. c., said
Harmonious.
"I'm desperate; I'll do it; I'll take
the mad leap; hurry up; work your
graft; let's be gone" +
CHAPTER VIII.
On the eastern banks of the Tibris in
the great city OF Nimrud, King Ham
mar Rabbi was instructing his subjects
in Assyrian laws, showing them how
to live in peace with their neighbors.
His was kingdom of peace and love.
He had caused to be erected in the pub
lie square before his palace large ODE
llsk, on the four sides Of which were
craven laws laid down by himself, and
teachers gave daily instructions in how
to keep them and penalties for breaking
them. These laws were craven on the
obelisll SO all might read them and none
be ignorant.
Here We're laws governing marriage.
divorce, duties of husbands and wives:
land laws, civil laws, moral laws, for
here We're the Ten Commandments pub
lished in the first law book-an obelisk
over twenty-five thousand years before
the Christian era.
The King had just finished giving in
struction to the teachers and retired to
his audience chamber when a servant
announced: "Usher Harmonious and a
stranger would hold audience with his
Excellency Hammar Rabbi, the JUST
The King babe them enter.
Van was about to walk into the pres
ence OF the King when Harmonious
motioned for him to crawl in on his
hands and knees and place himself in
the position of humility, to which Van
objected as being free born American
citizen; but with one fell glance from
Harmonious Van fell and thus entered.
20 wise King, Hammar Rabbi, / in
troduce to you stranger, one Van Zant,
who would partake of your wisdom. y
The King babe Van remove his head
from the floor, and asked his mission,
III seek the author of the Little Will
lie poem"
"It is needless to repeat it. / have
heard it before; but why did you not
ask Harmonious"
81 did, but he said he didn't know
the author"
"Neither does he; yet let him explain
why he is doing penance; why he is
usher to the past"
Harmonious thus appealed to said.
Van Lant, twenty-four thousand and
thirty-five years before you was born L
committed crime; / broke one of the
Kings laws, the law OH plagiarism. For
several years | was deemed poet laure-
ate OF Assyria: My masterpiece being
the Little Willie" poem; but our wise
men IN unearthing an ancient ruin UNI
covered some tablets of stone that We're
I with much labor read by our King; and
10 there was the poem word for word
that | had claimed for my own, and as
just punishment for my crime the
King condemned me to -
= x X X X X 4
He seems to be coming to; he is try
ing to speak; listen and see if he is CON
scious" said the doctor.
" Little Willie he has left us;n muir
INJURED Van. "Now what has he left
us? Nothing! He has climbed the
golden stairs Why didn't he take an
elevator or fly? He is now among the
angels So that's why he didn't fly;
didn't have any wings yet"
| And as Vans voice grew stronger he
| finished the verse:
Little Willie he has left us-nothing.
He has climbed the golden stairs
He is now among the angels
! Ta-rar-rar-a-boom-de
THE END.