The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
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Mein dear Son Heine:
Your stadtment off oxpensiveness
chust received. Now, Heine, ven you
go oudt joyousness rulings puy a auto
mobiles in, und go to a cabbyret res
taurants. vuy don't you gedt title
deed to der place insteadt off buying
idt puy installmendts nit payments to
der walters. Dot way you half noting
to show for your money. However,
talk to some peoples ISIS useless, so
heremit ISIS der check as usual.
Often half l readt puy story books
how der criminals could nodt loose
himselluf from der law, travel as far
as he would, und eventually he vouldt
| be caught, but, Heine, nefer would 1
| pellet idt. Der world ISIS large und
| der by-ways und highways numer-
| Gus, so l reasoned Wy couldn't a man
loose hifnsellus Following der same
| line off thought I half noticed dot no
! difference how important ISIS man,
regardless off how mooch ISIS he pc
| fore der public, how greadt ISIS his
| regulations, as soon as he dies, no
| pody misses him nor remembers hiss
| home address. Likewise, take der fell
| Ter dot commits susanside. Usually
| he thinks now diss is we're 1 make der
| world feel bad. Wait till dey miss me,
und den he pulls der trigger Do dey
miss him? Dey do so nix.
w.
1 vas somepody, but since learning all
| off der apove mentioned facts, L hadt
| concluded dot I vas only yum small
speck on der universe, und SO, Helne,
| ven I started on mein Vacatlonlng
| vas nodt disappointed ven der street
cars did nodt stop running und der
| wheels off der governmental continued
| to revolye Ven ] readt der bapers,
1 vas nodt surprised to find dot der
var hadt nodt stopped ven l left nome
und civilization; also der front pages
| said noting apoudt my venting away,
bonly puy der inside page der sassiety
lady said in vun line. und in small
type, no headt line business, dot Louie
| Schnitz und famblie hass vent Vaea-
tioning-dot vas all. So Heine, init
all desc facts before me, und away
| hundreds und thousands off miles
from meinselluf und friendts und as
sociamates, lost inside off der woods
| off Wisconsin away from der feetprints
off civilization, 1 felt sure dot now
am I effaced from der memory Off
man und for der time being forgotten.
But Heine, dot ISIS nodt so. Nit all
| mein reasoning, 1 am nodt forgotten
I am still a small cog in der wheels
off life und part off der organiza-
ton off our community. So mooch
| as 1 haff tried to gedt away from
| eferyting, I am still somepody for puy
| todday's mail, ding bust idt if der
postoffice Teller didn't forward me
nOtiss off mein Poll Tax Nlch PROOFS
adj lasdt dot Webter's Dictiomnery
I voss right verein he says, loft death
We ISIS uncertain, but off taxes nefer.
Heine dot shows how important am
/ adj home ven dey go to all der
trouble to sendt away oof here to tell
me apoudt dot poll tax Maybe yed'
YOUR fader's picture will hang in del
hall off infamy nit der oder gread'
men -und politicians.
Say, Heine, mamma und der poys ISIS
all excitement Der oder efenirg a
Wild cat came right oudt puy our cot
tage und howled. Puy chimney he
sure bass some bowler machinery tSo
New, Heine, 1 nefer yedt saw a Wild
cat dot 1 vas afraid off. Off course
1 will admit dot idt looked funny ven
he howled dot I vas in sooch a hurry
to gedt in der house dot missed der
door completely und vent in thru der
window, und also dot in nein rush
broke three pains off glass IND
brought der window sash along inside
nit me. But 1 wasn't scared, Heine,
vas only hurrying in ter gedt meir
shooter gun Vot L borrowed before
left home. Veil, after 1 picked roI
meinselluf und der glass und opened
der door so mamma could gedt in del