The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-05-01
w d ULD EXCHANGE
PLACES WITH AMBI.
TIOUS YOUNG ARTIST
HAS NO HANKEUING
FOR HEAVENLY ABODE
His Dearest Wish to Stay
on This Earth as Long
as lie Liked

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! New York, May l.--Androw Carne.
gle beamed through his halo of white
4 hair and whiskers as he sat at The
luncheon table OF the Vagabonds IN
I the Dutch Tavern grill room of the Ma
ltional Arts club yesterday noon and
gazed into a glass of ice water. while
/ President Edward J. Wheeler stretch
ed him on the rack of an informal I'M
PRODUCTION.
Il am about TO enrich the world
with a new epigram.' announced Mr.
! Wheeler. in saying that ] don't care
who makes the country's laws or its
songs, so long as they let me make
the introductiOns. For IL is a peculiar
ly thrilling sensation to feel that. no
matter how learned, how distinguished,
how rich or how powerful the guest
may be, ] hold him-for a minute or
So at leastt-absomtely in my power.
Without yielding to the terrible tenn.
tation to prolong this minute indef-
( initely, | take great pleasure in In
Producing Mr.. Andrew Carnegie.
The Star-Spangled Scottish million
aire, who after having given away
lsome Sl50,000.000 now suddenly found
himself at breakfast with Vagabonds,
looks helplessly about at the editors.
musicians. playwrights and minor
poets, then arose and said;
/ I've been taken In, and so you II
! be- my friends, If you expect q speech
! from me. But | am glad Of this op-
lportunity to be among the Vagabonds.
! The Bohemian side of life always APP
pealed to me strongly. though circum-
stances have prevented me from fol
flowing ont my tastes in that direction.
True have hObnohbed with Mark
Twain and with Joe Jefferson, and
only the other day the staff of the
/ outlook invited me to lunch with them
oh YOU see, ! have been in some
good society in my time. Still, for
/ the most part ! am committed TO 2
1 life of order and respectability, which
! assure YOU, is a great strain. But
1 here / feel quite at home. This is
where enjoy myself All YOU don't
need any advice from me on how 10
/ be happy you boys with youth and
ambition and the world before YOU
u wish / could trade positions with
you, continued MIR Carnegie. address
ling the Vagabond who sat nearest
him; "you have youth and good looks
no. ! don't mean you, Mr.. President,
I but the young man on your left and
You have clcyerness, or yon wouldn't
+ be here. Now. II you could trade with
1 me. how many millions would you
want to boot? You see gentlemen,
ihe don't take ME up
/ Shall ] tell you my dearest wish
something past praying for ] know
hut If | were to think Of the thing
/ should most desire ii could have
lany wish wanted, II would be this:
I that | might have an option on remaip-
Ing here on this green earth until
should care TO loave IT, ! don't want
lany sudden change from this life and
this world as ] know il 20 be, al its
hest FROM my own friends around me
I'm not hankering after heaven
II can sympathize with the old me-
gro servant of q friend of mine an
lOld fellow who was always complain.
Ing. hut who liked his perluisites in
1.-The way OF the scraps and leayinee
lof the banquets which his master gave
lIm feared rs gwine to leave YOU
marster. very soon he would say Dis
pooh ole niggah am booked for De
golden shore, dats suah' Then, after
The feast, this same darky would be
hopping about, merrily, singing, = ] bet
mah money on a boh-tailed nag, ho
lde-doo-dah-da' His master would
surprise him i'm This mood and say
! You're not feeling so poorly as you
were-eh. SAM oh yes, sahl u
pow ful bad. deed J is. as bound Ton
dat golden shore, all risht-only
thank God de excursion am post
lponed
q After Mr. Camegie's health and
long earthly lease bad been copioua
\ IS drunk. he got bis second wind ana
continued, pushing aside the ice water
lcafafe.
"One good thing about Vagabond'
rs that they won't stand f0Y being lee
iured. They are impatient Of good
advice, and believe they have brains
enough 10 find ont things sor them
selves SO IN merely state that ms
attitude on the temperance question 4.
somewhat like that OF a man whom
7 once renroached for Wee fing the blue
ribbon on his lapel WtNe he stagsered
from bar 10 bar dopledng tae eniir-
available supply Of Scotch WHISKY
I'm q temperance mon' says he Bat
I'm nae hlsot Though not q bisuI
myself, J ike 90 encourage iemperai,
hnbiis among those In my service
especially the sailors and engineer.
who run ms Yacht SO J give SD pci
cent bonus over and above their rcgu
lar wRaes. 10 an who promise lO ab
stain from liquor
Through the i0g Of cigar and cigar
oitc smoke President Wheeler callef
for ludge Walter Malone. OF Memphis
Tenn who said
Having az last gained the ear OF
Mr. Andrew Carnegie. beg respcc,
fully 10 urge that he nex $1le00 90.
he don't know what 10 do With be pu
Into founding a home FOR broken dow
ipoetd, among whom am which.