Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1920 — Indomitable Cheerfulness. [ARTICLE]

Indomitable Cheerfulness.

That a man can remain cheerful though imprisoned for a crime he did not commit is proved by some of the letters that Mr. O. Henry wrote to his little girl while he was serving his unjust sentence. They are quoted in the Boston Globe. “Hello, Margaret!” says one playful missive. “Don’t you remember me? My name is Aldlberontlphostiphornkopohokus. If you see a star shoot and say my name 17 times before it goes out you will find a diamond ring in the track of the first blue cow’s foot you see go down the road in a snowstorm while the red roses are blooming on the t<*nato vines. Good-by! I’ve got to tike a ride on a grasshopper.” Again he wrote: “I hope your watch runs all right. When you write again be sure to look at It and tell me what time it is, so I won’t have to get up and look at the clock.” And in another note: “Be careful when you are on the street not to feed shucks to strange dogs or pat snakes on the head or shake hands with cats you haven’t been -introduced to or stroke the noses of electric car horses.”