Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1917 — Such Is Fame. [ARTICLE]

Such Is Fame.

Many years ago Wilbur D. Nesbit, the author of “Your Flag and My Flag," was known to the little village of Cedarville, 0., his native home, as only one of the neighborhood. Recently he returned to Cedarville after a long absence. Of course, his coming was heralded by the local newspaper, so he was expected. When he was walking quietly through the town (he tells this tale himself), he overheard this conversation between two old yillagers: “I understand by the paper that Will Nesbit Is back in tofan today.” “So they say. I wonder what he looks like now?” “Oh, he didn’t ever amount to much. He went off to college and that Is about the last good he ever did.” “And to think what he is doin’ now. Of all the easy things, writin’ poetry I”