The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-11

N' Hlu Vu 5ec dig rat juicy
grasshoppur pass this way2"
And MS the turkey gobbler gulpod.
he said, ''Ho didn't pass, ne stop.
ped"
And as the grasshopper tried 20
adjust himself to a comfortable poal-
ton In the craw OF the turkey he
thought, How big I was on the sun
Tower; how winzened and useless /
am In herel"
SO you are big or little. largely
owing to whore you are IN this old
world.
And yet how many little people
we have in this land although they
lhe greatest opportunities TO de-
Velop and grow, the world has ever
knownl You are the one that puts
the limitations on your success. We
put no social, we put no financial
we place no educational limitations
upon you. You can go just as far
as your ability and decency will take
you. And If you are handicapped.
we didn't put IL on. YOU put 1t on
yourself because OF the gang YOU
go with and the life you live. You
are the one that puts yourself out
or the running-not us az rll. Now
| say the man who IL sober ia big
ger than the one who drinks, and
drunkards are made from moderate
drinkers. drunkards are never made
a total abstainers--neycr one
may drink and never get drunk but
ms only those who drink that get
drunk-that's surel So you will
never get drunk IL you don't drink!
That's four TO one shot, and a
lead pipe cinch,
You take all OF the drunknrds out
of the world tonight and leave only
the moderate drinkers and you
won't have 10 wait long until you'll
! have another crop OF drunkards
Not very long! You can't beat tho
camel
Defined Marriage.
There have been good many
people tried to drink the breweriea
| dry. They have all had to go up
against the consequences and since
running the risk OF being a mod
crate drinker Is so great, COM
mend you TO the caution of a
French minister who was officiating
| at a wedding OF two young people.
| lie eald, Marriage Is a blessing TO
/ a great many people, and curse
| TO other, and Il risk TO everybody
who take the venture. Now do you
wish TO take the step?"
| Do you suppose that Edgar Allen
| Poe dreamt when he took that first
drink of liquor in the homo Of that
Virginia gentleman that the time
would ever come when IL would
| bring that weird. heartbroken wall
/ from his lips. Take your form from
off my door; take your beak from
ont my heart. Quoth the Raven,
| 'Nevermore,' = Did he dream It?
No!
And do you suppose that Tom
Marshall. that brilliant, gifted Ken
tucky orator, dremt when he stood
at the foot OF the ladder OF fame
and all Of Kentucky pointed to the
golden summit at the top. that his
/ last words would be: "And is this
the end2 Tom Marshall dying under
n borrowed sheet, without a decent
suit of clothes to bury him in?'
! preached in Lexxington, KY, not
long ago. / was entertained in the
home of my friend, Gen. George w
Balm. the silver tounged orator OF
Kentucky, Pointing across the
street he said to me, "Bill the last
time / saw Tom Marshall he was
lstanding on that street corner aCros.
there: his hair hung i'm a tangled
mass about his shoulders; his eagl,
eyes were dimmned from the de-
bauchery and his thin, worn coat
twas buttoned over his soiled linen
lie made his way into a near by bar
room. traces OF his greatness still
fingered upon him and the hangers
on shouted and cheered and laughed
at his witticisms and at his idiosyn
carasies and his stories. Then they
lCried Give us another one, Tom
That's q good one' When presen'
lily a sense of his better self seemed
10 dominate him and he whirleC
upon that gang OF barroom loaferi
and he said, You remind me o
bantam chickens picking the sort
head OF an eagle after his wing
have been broken!"
Young men he stood right wher,
you stand now, with just as brigh
, prospects before him as ever dawnet
on your path. He stood in front o.
a blacksmith shop in Louisville
Ky, ono day and watched a black
!smith welding a piece Of redhot irog
land as the tears trickled down hi
, icheeks. he said, 81 would take tina
, piece OF iron and hold IL In my righ
, hand until It cooled off II l knev
,, it would take away this appetite
/, for drink"
Thirty years ago the grandson o
, one OF the greatest Statesmen ina
America ever produced was shot II
4 a saloon. in Louisville while drunk
And while that young man was dylnI
a few blocks away grandson or on
! of the greatest men that ever Wen
l to the United states senate was II
? iail waiting 20 be tried for murde
[ committed while drunk. And Il
a that same city at that same hour
: in a police station a few block
a away, dead drunk. was lying IN
y. grandson Of the author OF CIV
I me liberty or give me death!'
Who was II? Who was u tina
$ Daniel Webster left the Unite
j states senate and went over to th
3 house of representatives 10 lste
r to? S. s. Prentiss. on, he cam
s from a gifted southern family an
o they gave the nation their glfte
G son and they sent him 70 the nan
u Of national congress, and drum
e wrought his ruin. Horace HreeIe
was his friend. Meeting him on
day on Pennsylvania avenue /
i Washington. he said to him. PREM
- tlss, why don't you give up what
c running your
!: Pcntiss A Suicide,
He said TO him, Horace, ask m
II To take a iaokknife and cut OH m
q arm. I can do that but l can
2: stop drinking"
Is A few days later the guests
the 81. Charles hotel were startle
s by the report OF a revolver, and 5.
e Prentiss had pierced his brain Wit