West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-07-15

When Dixie was being played a
dark haired young man sprang up
from somewhere with a Mosby guer-
rilla yell and waved franticaliy his
soft brimmed hat. Then he strayed
through the smoke. dropped into the
vacant chair at our table and pulled
out cigarettes.
The evening was at the period when
reserve is thawed. One OF us msn-
toned three wurzburgers to the wait
er. The dark haired young man ac-
knowledged his inclusion In the order
by a smile and nod. 1 hastened 20
ask him question because I wanted
to try out theory had.
Would you mind telling me-" I be-
gan. whether you are from
The fist OF f. Rushmore Cosian
banged the table. and was Jared into
silence.
Excuse me-" said ne, ---but that's
question ! never like TO hear nsked.
What does it matter where a man IN
fromi Is IL fair to judge man by his
postoffice addressy Why, I've seen
kentucktans who hated whisky, vir-
ginians who weren't descended from
Pocnhontas. Indianians who hadn't
written n novel. Mexicans who didn't
wear velvet trousers with silver dol.
lars sewed along the seams. funny
Englishmen, spendtbrift Yankees. cold
blooded southerners, narrow minded
westerners and New Workers who
were too busy TO stop for an hour on
the street to watch a one armed gro
GERS clerk do up cranberrles I'm paper
bags. Let man be man and don't
handicap him with the label OF any
section"
Pardon me-" said. but my curios-
ity was not altogether an idle one.
know the south. aud when the band
plays Dixie i like TO observe. l have
formed the belief that the man who
applauds that air with special violence
and ostensibie sectional loyalty IN tn
variably native OF either Secaucus.
n. j.. or the district between Murray
HUI lyceum and the Harlem river, New
York. / was about to put my opinion 20
the test by inquiring OF this gen
heman when you interrupted with
your own--larger theory, I must con-
fess"
And now the dark haired young man
spoke TO me, and Il became evident
that his mind also moved along its
own set Of grooves.
81 should like to be periwinkie,"
said he mysteriously. ION the top OF
valley and sing too-railoorailoo."
This was clearly too obscure, so
turned again to Coglan.
1--WE been around the world twelve
times" said he. 81 know an Eskimo
In Upernavik who sends to Cincinnati
for his neckties. and I saw goat
herder In Uruguay who won a prize I'm
a Battle Greek breakfast food puzzle
competition. pay rent on q room In
Cairo. Egypt. and another In Yoko-
hama all the year around I've got
slippers waiting for me I'm tea house
In Shanghai. and I don't have to tell
'em how to cook my eggs I'm Rio Janet
no or Seattle. It's a mighty little
world. What's the use of Dragging
about being from the north, or the
south, or the old manOr house I'm the
dale. or Euclid avenue, Cleveland, or
Pixies peak, or Fairfax county, Va. on
Hooligan's fats, OF any placer It'll
be better world when we Quit being
fools about some mildewed town or
ten acres OF swamp land just because
we happened to be born there"
You appear to be genuine cosmop-
ollte," 1 said admiringly. But IL
also seems that you would decry pa
trlotlsm."
"a relic of the stone age" declared
Coglan warmly. I'VE are all brothers
--Chinamen. Engllshmen. Zulus, Pata-
gonians and the people in the bend OF
the Kaw river. Some day all this
petty pride I'm ones city or state or
section or country will be wiped out
and Wen all be citizens Of the world.
as we ought to be-"
But while you are wandering I'm
foreign lands" persisted. do not
your thoughts revert to some spot
some dear and'--
Nary n spot" interrupted Il. II.
Coglan hippantly. "The terrestrial,
globular. planetary hunk Of matter
slightly hattened .at the poles and
known as the earth is my abode. I've
met good many object bound citi-
zens OF this country abroad. I've seen
men from Chicago sit in a gondola I'm
Venice on a moonlight night and brag
about their drainage canal. I'VE seen a
southerner on being introduced TO the
King OF England hand that monarch,
without batting HIS eyes, the intorma-
ton that his grand-aunt on his moth
er's side was related by marriage TO
the Perkinses OF Charleston. knew a
New Yorker who was kidnapped for
ransom by some Afghnnistan bandits.
HIS people sent over the money, and
he came back TO Rabul with the
agent Afghanistanr the natives said
to him through an interpreter. Well,
not 50 slow, do you thinkT oh,
don't known says he, and he begins 20
tell them about cab driver at Sixth
avenue and Broadway. Those ideas
don't suit me. I'm not tied down to
anything that isn't 1900 miles IN d.
ameter. Just put me down as r. Rush
more COgian, citizen Of the terrestrial
sphere
My cosmopoiite made large adleu
and left me, for he thought he saw
some one through the chatter and
smoke whom he knew. so I was left
with the would he perlwlnkIe. who
was reduced to Wurzburger without
further ability to voice his aspirations
TO perch melodious upon the summit Of
n valley.
! sat rejecting upon my evident cos,
mopolite and wondering how the poet
had managed 20 miss him lie was
my discovery, and I believed IN him.
How was TT "The men that breed
from them they trafIle up and down,
but cling TO their cities hem a. a
child to the mothers gown"
Not so 70. Rushmoro Coglan with