Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — EPIGRHYMES: [ARTICLE]

EPIGRHYMES:

Td like to be as FORTUNATE as lots of MEN I know who rouse an agitation in all hearts where’er they go. Now take YOUR old friends Tyrus Cobb; he leads the COUNTRY, fans, In clever execution of the. tricks Hugh Jennings plans. And then, in little, old New York, LIVES “Muggsy,” John McGraw, and many other notables who follow “fame” quite raw BECAUSE it’s served to them so fast there is no time to cook the adulation that they get each blessed way they look. You’ve got to hand it to these chaps; they’ve earned all they have won, and it’s worth while to rouse the shout: “Gee 1 Attaboy! Well done!” But, humbly, may I ask-of YOU to porfder Garfield’s thought: Behold our land, in twenty years, and see the men who fought in this, we pray, the final war for everlasting peace, and hear all nations’ cry of thanks which nevermore shall cease! And then imagine, if you can, that reverence multiplied ten thousand times ten thousand, for the Fighting Men —who DIED! „ L Robert RusselL “Fortunate men your country lives because you died.” $ (Copyright, 1917, by Int’l Press Bureau.)