Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-09-13
17I-177 q n ~ ~
The Intensely
Practical Poet.
BY ]. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

foolish ?" and Harry Furher shr,gs
HID shoulders fahhad Me hands in
his n,ckets and tbouobt the nuast,.
decided
~ wish I couId 9et van n annrec,a
the artistic II IL a great thing
love art"
INV eoodness 7 love Won and IN,
il enough for me, can On n II
tbeater and nick n good rIav eve,
time see one. Al the exhibit ca
admlya the hest pictures ike bea,
tjni sinoing can road a good stor
or good book. hut poetrv-and yo
now want me- 10 write coma"
"yau are too intensely nractical -
"And vou don't lika intensely nraf
tical, reonle?"
"They are yerv nice IN have around
"Then / NAV come around as usua)
Won wbn't denv mo that9"
"oh no. Won are always welcome
Then F,rber took bis laave Az h,
went down the steps OF the Koessle,
mansion. he met Robert Phelan. bu
he did not look At him. phelan wa.
a poet.
The, had been AT Harvard togeth.
err. Both had yery indulpent fathers
Phelsn had written poetry for the
MONTHLY" and in his senior. wear had
been chosen to be its literary editor
After graduating he had still continued
IN write noetrv and once his contrjbu-
tion had been accented nv an eastern
magazine
F,,1ber had been a little Of every-
thing in college. and in the end had
turned ont r., he not much of ANYTHING
He had made MANY friends had good
time managed IN get a diploma and
he asked. "What more could anyone
xantq" Immediately after graduation.
Furber the elder had taken his son
INTO his office. intern on teaching him
he Grain business. Furber was a
n 9me mrrh known ON change in Chi
capo Harry Further was an,ninted 10
he me Of the CONSERVATIVES Of the
arm In the nit and he had soon
earned to hid in on the wheat with the
sesr of them
Rm Puth Koessler was his stumbling
b,ock and phelan. the met was the
hard thing he bumned against every
lime bn stumbled Together Further
and pbe,an had beeun to call upon
Ruth Ruth said she liked both 6.
hem hut she had gradually devel. |
med a sense for the artistic. and Fur-
,er was MOI artistic. Int Phelan was
poat and ao he mnst he artistic He
onld tslk all about ancient creece and
,oma and could ouote mnch from the
lassios
Fnrler knew the original source of
hose lectures and althonqh he liked
n hear Ruth talk he would not stand
mr. ANYTHING that came from his riva,
md now she wanted him to write no.
trv
Il was the middle of the forenoon
nd thinoa had onisted down IN the
Il The market was holding steady
nd Fnrber was wondering what Of.
,ct the war IN the east would have
n tho vear,s cron
He walked nm out NJ the nit and sat
,wr In a chair awav from tho root :
Tho crowd He wac tbinking ~ Putb
ain ua GA. and +horobt ~ tho
M thav bod bod Tho dov hasoro
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n were writing, ana spoke rev u
rds to them. Then he came back to u