The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-12-02

bag of dynamite, scared them all ha.f
10 death. didn't he? All but you;
you weren't scared, You were too busy
% remember to be anything like that,
weren't you?
The crazy man went to the City
hall and police station of Los An
5eies and told the people there that
he had brought a bag of dynamic
With him and that he intended 10
blow the whole place into what he
allied Kingdom Come" when he got
what he considered good and READY
The chief Of police cleared the
court rooms upstairs and the jail
downstairs, like good. sensible chief
of police. and they roped Off the
building, and the whisper went from
mouth to mouth-"there's a crazy.
nan down there who is going to blow
the town to pieces in minute"
Men covered In their offices, anu
women blanched and shivered anu
waited.
And then, Mr.. Brown walked into
he room where the crazy man was.
What's the trouble here?" said
Mr.. Brown. .'Oh. yes; / see. Why
DOESN'T somebody take 1t away from
% and Mr.. Brown walked up to
the crazy man and grabbed the bag OF
dynamite.
The man tried to fight. but Mr..
Brown was too nuick for him; the
dynamite was gone. the city was safe,
he crazy man was locked up, and MI.
5rown, of California. went home and
had good steak. some hashed brown
potatoes and a cup of coffee for din
ner. and then went to bed and
bought no more about It.
Here's lpnkin- at Won Mr. RrDwn
If California. You did what you did
Tor the same season that the rest of
the men didn't do 1t. Because you
are made that way. That's why we
ike you, Mr.. Brown, of California, AND
why from this out every man by the
name of Brown will want to register
Los Angeles. Cal, when he writes his
name in the visitors book,
Scared? OF course, you were not
cared; you never thought of that
you didn't have time; there was some
thing to do and you did H.; that's ahe
way men like you always act.
They never have time TO be scared
IT they aren't quick witted enough to
realize"
There's something to be done, and
they do 1t, like you. Mr.. Brown, of
California. -.---.....--
and want to name the little redfaced
baby after them, and they are lionized
in hundred ways, and all the time
they just didn't have time to think. "a
l know man who was promoted
Tor bravery on the field OF battle his
insists that 1t was all a foolish mis-
take.
They sent me to let down some
bars Tor the cavalry he says, when
you ask him about 1t, and l went. /
ran into regular wasps' nest down
the field and when / came back they
aid 1t wasn't wasps-it was bullets
and they promoted me. Perfectly ri
dlculous: I just bought 1t was wasps
all the time
And it never dawns upon that man
that nobody else thoaght-the bullets
We're wasps and that every coward in
the ranks knew perfectly we'll what
they were, as he would too If he d
been made of the same kind of stun.
That's just 1t, MIR. Brown, OF Cali
fornia; your kind never does know.
never does think; there isn't time.
You're busy thinking of other people;
the other kind of man is busy think
Ing about himself. What shall | do ?
How shall | get out?' is the refrain
of his meditations.
That rock may fall on me- shiv-
ers the coward. why, it's falling
now, | do believe" and away he runs
to safety.
That rock is dangerous to all who
pass this way" says the Brown. OF
California. kind, and he stops and
mends the road and makes 1t safe for
those who come behind him.
mo man shall get the drop on
\, Il
ries pistol day and night The
brave man walks unarmed In all kinds
of fateful places He hasn't time to
think of being frightened, he's too
busy.
The woman who jumped into the
river to save baby last week in
Kansas wasn't brave. She says SO
herself. and she ought TO know. She
Just thought more quickly than the
, others. that's all
The man who stands up against his
whole community to right some popu-
lar wrong doesn't do 1t to be brave;
he does 1t to be right, and never
thinks Of doing anything else. That
isn't the way he's made.
Good morning, Mr.. Brown, of Cali
fornia. Tell US, weren't you just q
| wee bit faintish. mite dizzy. as |,
| were, when IHe aSndIl4lH WAS Safely
| out Of the way and you had time to
, Think No? You just wanted to sc,
OFF early and go home and tell the
| folks about it."
Shake again, Mr.. Brown. OF Cali
| fornia; that's like you, too. | wish
| had you among my folks" I'd have
| a picture of you and hang 1t where
| nothing could ever disturb II, and
| would label that picture. "just plain
| American, too much to do to have time
| to be afraid" and I'd be prouier OF
| that picture than / would be of all
the titles ever conferred upon any
court favorlte from one end OF tins
| to the other And ,nat's how We fee
about you, Mr.. Brown, OF California
| from the Statue Of Liberty in New
York bay to the lighthouse at the
Faralones out there in the mist Of the
,, blue Pacific.
Every woman in this country Is
wiping the tears of pride from her
good American eyes today for your
sake. Mr.. Brown, and every man In
the United States woke up the morn
ing after he'd read what YOU did out
there IN the edge OF the continent
ard wished he was you, Brown. OF
California.
Cock With Cevsrrs.
Maori housewives Of New Zealand
have discovered, like their more
civilized sisters. the value OF the fire.
lose cooker az lahor saver, but