Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-07
A TRUE
TALE OF
JOHNNY
Journal Horse Editor Does
Not Agree With the Brother
at Banion About JohnnieS

J
N~rs.lavs when Johnnie is bad al
.,toa, -he teacher takes out her book
ans gives black mark. Next day
Iosuris i worse than ever. Fifty
wears zro wher Johnnie was bad at
| ahool the teacher took down a dog
WOOD sprout. ma j.. about a dozen black
rl.-ks about bis bare legs, and Johnnie
revs. repeated the offense Fifty yeas
sgo Johnnie GOT up az daylight. started
he FIRE. I'd the horses. MIXED a dozen
lonehoruel cows that gave barely
enough milk to Put into the coffee,
chopped and brought il wood enough
20 last mother all day, ate hearty
breakfast and walked five miles to
school. To-Day Johnnie doesn't get up
a, al unless be is forced 70 DO 50, eats
little or no breakfast, goes out behind
the ban 70 smoke cigarette and if
the school house is ovsi' three blocks
away he grunts about the long distance
he has 10 walk. The Johnnie of fifty
wears ago is now a hale, hearty man.
Fifty wears from now the Johnnie of
today will be dead and buried. Isn't
that true tale of Johnniei-Bandon
Recorder.
There are Johnnies and Johnnies.
Fifty wears ago little Johnnie, in addi.
tion to the duties enumerated, stra3.
died the old gay Pennsylvania mare,
with feet just like Stove lids, and a
poop-deck like the great Christopher
ColumbuI good ship, the Santa Marie.
and he had a loEg three-bushel sack
with two bushels Of corn in it, and he
toted' it TO the mill, whore there
was also distillery, and got half a
buShel of corn meal and two gallons of
whiskey; and when he got home he
took the old stone jug with its ccncoh
stopper out TO the harvest field and got
a snort a. two for his trouble, and his
daddy drank with him. He didu t
know how 10 roll cigarette, but he
chewed his niggerhead tobacco as a
COW does her cud, or an Oregon girl
he gum. His average of life was not
50 long "a the Johnnie Of today, though
Of course some of rs old Johnnies of
the fifty years ago hang on like ticks.
and when the Angel Gabiel blows his
hast trumpet, he will have TO appoint
committee to 20 round and knock Us
in the heal, 20 he can finish his Job and
clean mp the grounds.
There are some weakly Johunies now.
Just as there were then. and they vii!
fall by the wayside, Just as the other
weakly Johnnies did So and 500 an
5000 years ago.
Yet there a1e some Johuuies in these
20 called degenerate days, lots Of them,
zig, husky. s'rong-hmbed Johnnies.
with the rod blooj Of health coursine
hrough vein and artery. Johnuies who
an swat baseball over the fence for
! home run or knock the cover off il.
md then streak il around To the home
'late like a telegraph message with a
'weater on il. They can kick the pig.
kin hader and stand more rough usage
without a whimper than the Johnnies
vh Us relies of the good old DAYS
were boys, And besides that, thev are
Tot afraid 20 spend their vacation in
he haveSt fields. the hop Yards, the
erry patches or factories. whae they |
an earn more money in three months
han Us Johnuies Of fifty wears ago ever
iresmed Of. The horse eJEto- insists
hat the b'ys Of today a-e as good ani |
trong and healthy as any crop of that
lind ever raised
The hosse editor las only one John.
Ne and Re is 3 years old-and he
ome'lHes smokes cigarettes. He was
< II CONTINUALLY from about 10 yeas I
Z See urrl is, aDi fortunately il |
snnted bis growth 81 be is only six
eeV thee inches tall aR5 weighs a
rife oveT DO pounds Thank God for
he eig'.rettes, that prevented him Be
~ uAssoSon or a giraffe or ssns-
hing oversize.
The Joannies Of today are $ clean
lne--dr hFsgsCeyei, gcOd lot Of John.
les. ard Il Ne lad our wish We w,ouId 4
e ore of th0Se sane Johnnies ana pex,
o laar We would be = siScr 70 him-a
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