The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-18
TULSA DAILY WORLD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1S, 1921

Hibilttics OF production ana now
that part Of the country could be
irrigated to supply millions Of peo-
pie. (the finest section OF America
today. All " needs Is the touch OF
water. They asked him 20 come
along and write up the possibilities
OF H. lie walked through the hot
sun and eouds, seeing the mirages
dance here and there, which looked
like great lakes OF sparkling water,
and the bounding coyotes. and the
inckrabbits, and the buffalo and the
graes and the punches Of sage brush,
and he thought, "Oh. how like that
desert II my life. II this desert only
had the touch OF water with the
marvellous fertility OF that soil and
the matchless sunshine she would
blossom as Paradise. II only had
that little added something | would
not be down and out"
lie finished with his paper and
when he got 60 Chicago he got a
Job wit hthe Chicago Tribune, then
owned by Carter Harrison who used
to be mayor. but he soon lost that
| Job with the Chicago Tribune, then
| he went around TO the Inter-Ocean
/ and the Tribune, and they all turned
him down. lie said, What Is tho
use OF living? l am going to end
| &c all"
IIe started west on Madison street
J for the Chicago river. 10 was n cold
| evening In December and he took
out his reporters book. lie wrote
! his fathers name and address, who
/ lived In "A little town In Illinois not
1 far from Peoria, and wrote:
Dear Father. have sent mother
broken hearted 90 her grave. !
am sending you down to the grave.
Here am. still young man, but
| / am bum, | am not worth living,
staying on earth. and II you care 10
look for me. you will find my body
I'm the Chicago river. south OF the
| Madison street bridge In the channel
near the pier. Your loving son,
VIII Goodby."
lie threw his book into tho snow
and turned his collar about him and
pinned II tight with a safety pin
and started to climb upon a rail
ing. 4 policeman whose beat was
nearby had noticed him as he was
walking down, for he would walk
and look behind him. SO he fol.
lowed him and took n chance on
him and as he climbed upon the
railing tho policeman grabbed him
by the shoulders and said, "What
are you going to dor"
Went 20 Mission.
81 am going TO cash in"
mo, sir: can't let you do that
Come on with me-"
And he led him back TO the street
and my frilend tore out page after
page. OF his black, miserable. drunk.
en- life. The policeman said,
"I don't know whether you are
stringing me or not. but II half yor
say, Us true, / wouldn't quit. Dom
you give up. You must have had 4
In you or you wouldn't have hols
down the Jobs you told me you had
I can't leave. to go down there with
you, but / would like to have you gt
there"--and he took out of hi
pocket n pencil and wrote on n lit
tie piece of paper, 100 II. Nar
den Mission, where thirty years ago
one dark stormy night | founC
Jesus Christ, my Saviour" II,
said, Go down there, think the!
will help you"
so ne staggered back. and n
staggered in, and dropped in rea
seat by the side of bum. He rea,
tho notices on tire wali and ~
verses of Scripture ana nudged
fellow next to him and said, "Wha
graft is there in IL for this damnej
bunch here"
He whirled around and said
: Mrs. Clark just mortgaged he
home at Morgan park for $4,000 I
pay the back rent on this Joint (
keep 1t open so that poor miserabl
buns like you and me. might hav
some place to drift in and get warn
-, Say. GULL you sec them four bi
stoves. they will keep them red no
! all night and you can set there o
> that chair and sleep or you can la
down on the floor and in the morn
ing you can go downstairs and yo
9 can get "A cup of coffee and a sink
Z er." (That Is doughnut) An
he said. You can go out and paI
handle and IL the gang won't com
across, you can just shuttle your oil
. carcass back here tonight and y
'' downstairs and get a cup OF coffe
. and a sandwich and come up her
and hit the chairs again tonight b
the stove, for they keep this joir
open all the time for buns like yo
!, and me-"
That touched him. When som
. fellows got up and told their stor
. and the fellow said, who her
q wants to live for Jesus Christ an
a are willing to do your best" h
Jumped to his feet and staggere
to the front and knocked over fiN
5 chairs getting to the mourner
o bench. He reached up his han
n and said, II give my heart TO Jest
2 Christ" and started out to tell III
K story oh, he was in great d,
e mandl
. was in Chicago and was goir
. up to pay my life insurance prem
!, ium. l met him IN the elevate
! dressed fit to kill. lie had rrin,
Albert that hung below his knee
silk facing, and a silk lid and I
/ had a diamond in his shirt frol
y as big as a hickorynut He had
q diamond ring and nc pulled out h
u watch and said: bin, listen, 81
l. strikes."' She was n Swiss.
Z He said, Feel of It, she's all woo
Bill. three years ago, / staggered int
. the Pacific Garden mission, and
= DIDN'T have clothes enough left q
me to make a pad for crutch.
am under my own vine ana fig tr,
:, and getting l75 bones a month. G.,
, has kept me sober"
:, oh. he tried every goll cure fro
- Dewitt to st. Petersburg. He III
a six certificates of graduation, b
's old Keely said he couldn't inje
Il brains into any gink, IL he couldr