Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1899 — Essay on Heroes. [ARTICLE]

Essay on Heroes.

Heroes are folks What has their Name in the Paper every day and their Picture on Sunday. Some Heroes is lucky to Be Where they ain’t no girls to Get them in Corners and Kiss them Before you Can say Jack Robasen that’s where Dewey showed His good Sentz if them girls over to Manila got after him He could yell to one of the Boys to turn the hose on Them. Every time a Hero goes down Street Everybody wants to Set them up Fer Him, and He Don’t haft to do Nothin fer a Livln Becos he can board around if He wants to and The theaters all lets Him in Free. He rides in one of the Front Carriages in the Processions, too, and Everybody Cheers Him and I bet he feels Blame stuck up only He tries not to show it. I wlsht I would be a Hero with a sord and a uniform with Them things on your shoulders what hang over in tossles. They look fine in a body’s photograft, and Then mebby Ethel Wharton wouldn’t Think so much of tom barlow just becos He stole a little old measely pup, and give it to her.— Cleveland Leader.