The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-10-30
The Son Of
His Father
BY HORACE HAZEL TINE

in q supreme eHor, 70 effect Lis way
Eara sons redemption. despatched him
N q six.monghs trip around The
Wori3, he made long spsech in G
voice thar was almost feminine in ih
tenderness. and gave him q slip Of IA
per On which penned IL The bold pa
ternal hand. were three don ,s":
Don't cable fof more money!" Don't
borrow" "Dont tay what you cant
pas tor"
Obedience to these. owing 10 ths
generous figures On his letter Of credit
ihs young man ha8 found Ear less difz,
cait than adherence 10 certain pr.nci,
pies. iufo-ving tAe overthrow of be.
setting hahits which thosgA implied
in the gentle parental address, had
been neither written nor put into I'll
reeily spoken words BUt there came
a eilaa. at lengsa when ali the world
sare the Atlantic Ocean. was bahlza
aim. as were mast Of his faults as
Weil. when iaosa don'ts~ rose lika
50 many formidable giants. and de
elara3 Thus Far and no farther
ami il III the stress oG their overcoming
possibly ill-d3s seinlined conscience
failed uHerly to aa6e protest ana tAe
nicer semplez never 50 much as lifted
warning finger who shall say that
familiarity wifh s9ule Of the modern
methods Il high finance in general,
ana q his fathers methods in par
icuiar, Eas bot largely responsible for
AIs seeming moral obliQnifyg
a lesson grew OFT of the episode, al
sd events. ana under a new and up
Eftng stimulus. be- But to begin
-t The beginning:
Young David Farragut Fultener
reached London with three hundred
pounds sterling to his credit at
Browns. He was SO proud OF this evi-
denee Of rare financial management,
hat. on his third day in the British
sanisal. be drew it, A portion Of il,
he decided. should be devoted to the
purchase OF a few delayed presents
sor certain dear folk in America
Then his passage was 70 be provided
far. and his far frofa immodest bill at
She Carlton Bnt before any one q
he three purposes was accomplished,
he lost the money IL some astoand-
lne. unfathomabia fashion. his three
one hundred-pound Bank Of England
notes disappeared, leaving him with
scant ten pouRfs Lose in a trousers
poetst
When be had made -dligsns searcf
Ia places HEeiF and unlikely, and bad
instituted quite as comprehensive ar
inquiry. all without the least shadow
g rast ne began figuring on the DOB
ioillty ot meeting his small Londof
udebre mess an8 getting home lly way
of the steerag9 with the SUM remain
ag Bat with sman economies-wit1
how 10 shave OIL a shilling here and Z
lxpenc hers he was not familiar
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t hIm f.n thirty shillings short
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