Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1913 — the ONLOOKER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

the ONLOOKER

HENRY HOWLAND

EVEEfMAN WHO ISN’T

I’ve never made a million through A sudden rise in stocks; No man has ever died and left To me a stack of rocks; I’ve Aever yet turned out a book That made a hit and brought Me such a fortune as the heirs To “David Harum” got. I’ve never chanced, somehow, to buy A gold mine for a song; No play of mine has ever caught The fancy of the throng; I*ve never had a chance to wed A lady with a wad; Few roses have been strewn along The paths that 1 have trod. I never have owned Texas land. And so the oil wells there Have never made and never can Make me a millionaire; But there Is one who thinks Fm grand, Who says If I could get A show I’d be the greatest man The world has seen as yet. Ah, well, she may be wrong; I tell Her that she is. that I , Am one of those foredoomed to be Forgotten when they die; ! But she Insists that I should dwell Upon the dazzling height, And in my heart of hearts I can’t Help thinking that she’s right.