Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 23, 1909, Page 12

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Only 2 cent stamps received in payment of mafl accounts, Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, s: George B. Tzechuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing company, belng _Auly swWorn, sa. that the actual number of full and omplete coples of The Dally, and Sunday Bee printed | of April, 1909, was as Morning, Evenin during the mont follow 1. . 39,280 17, . 41,090 . 39,080 . 37,130 | . 39,400 . 40350 | . 7,600 . 40,630 | . 41,300 . 40410 . 40,540 . 40,460 | 41,600 . 40,380 | . 41,450 . 40,640 « 41,680 . . 43,400 s 37,300 . + 41,300 . . 41,440 . . 40,520 . + 40,000 1 Liive. 40,660 Total. 1,236,410 Returned coples. . v 18 Net total. Dailly "averag . GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasu er. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to betore me this 1st day of May, 1905, M. P, WAL KE Notary " Fublie. WHEN OUT OF TOWN, Subscribers leaving the eity tems porarily should ve The Bee mailed to them. Address will be changed as often as reques o Whether the south remains solid or not, Mr. Taft appears to be solid with the south. ——— The alrship has not been perfected sufficiently to warrant a cessation of the efforts for good roads. —_— The vellow peril is a real one. If you don't believe it just observe the man out on the lawn with a knife in hig hand. The Illinois legislature has refused to Itmit the size of women’s hats, but has added another foot to the length of hotel bed sheets. A fair offset. Give George J. Gould credit, at any rate, for being the only one in the family entering into wedlock and stieking to it for better or for worse. It is announ that Ruth Bryan Leavett ig to lectura on political sub- jects. Trying to qualify for that chair of citizenship in our Nebraska univer- sity? Two of the children of the late Claus Spreckels are contesting his will. They may break It mow, but the elder Epreckels certainly had his way while he lived, The growing tartness of the debate over the tariff indicates that the sena- tors are tiring of mere talk and may soon get down to real business and stick to it. —_— A New York firm of brokers failed for $1,250,000, with assets of only | $4.10. The scramble for the position of receiver is mot expected to be a record-breaker. —— Mr. Bryan continu to proclaim that the democratic party is stronger end Iits prospects brighter than ever before. Can it be that he is figuring on running again? The Mecklenbergers may have to de- fend thelr claim to having been first to declare American independence, but, at any rate, they do not have to bear the blame for all the innocents slaughtered in eelebrating it, The commission sent to Liberia complains that there are too many fes- tivities planned for them to permit the dofng of their work promptly. What is the matter with the climate that the members are in such a hurry to get away? —_— Latest developments indicate that Japan is more up to date In modern financiering than had been supposed. That sugar company manipulation seems to have been as artistic a plece of high finance as has come to light anywhere in recent years. According to testimony offered in behalf of woman suffrage by a woman who speaks from personal experience gained in Colorado, ‘“‘women never discuss politics. Now, if it could be done under guaranty to produce that effect some of the objections might be withdrawn, The position of trustee of the Equi- table stock held by the late Grover Cleveland is still vacant, with no im- mediate prospect of being filled. These three nlce, fat, salarlied jobs, with wothing to do, were an outgrowth of the Insurance scandals and designed to help reinstate the life insurance business in popular confidence. Hav- Catching the Spirit of the Age. The general assembly of the Pres- byterian chureh, in session at Denver, 18 giving evidence that it is catehing the spirit of this industrial age. Not that the church is becoming worldly or abandoning any of its religious ideals, but It is applying to the business branches of the church organization the business methods which have been demonstrated produce best resuits in other lines of human endeavor. There are at present eight boards having the | direction of the various agencies of ad- ministering the temporal affairs of the church, which in the light of experi- ence and the example in commercial and industrial life appear wasteful of effort and lacking in effectiveness. It is proposed to consolidate these vari- ous agencies, so far at least as the gen- eral direction of their affairs is con- cerned and place them all under the supervision of a central authority, At present in the raising of money each of the varfous church boards covers the entire fleld, making a dupli- cation of effort which in a large pri- vate business enterprise would be con- sidered so wasteful as not to be thought of. The same condition exists as to certain other work of the church to a considerable extent. Under such a system the “cost of doing business,” a8 the captain of industry would de- nominate it, is necessarily high. The intelligent churchman is realiz- ing as never before that not only in methods, but in thought, the church must get nearer to the everyday af- fairs of the people. The churchman who neglects to avail himself of the means which produces results is as much an impractical dreamer as a | business man who lags behind with obsolete methods. The business man who puts money into church work wants results and he wants to see the church display capacity and those qualities which assure success. The proposed change is purely one of ad- ministrative system, but it is through its administrative system that the church must insure results on the busi- ness side. Whether the particular plan proposed is found practicable or not, the fact of its being considered Is evidence that the church, as is every other institution, is being touched by modern thought and adapt- the boats from the cars by American machinery which dumps a whole car- load at a time, What 18 being done in Germany of- fers an unanswerable argument for the larger improvement of the rivers which {8 needed to give a proper out- let for the grain of the great central west. If we utilize fully the facilities we now have, congress can not long turn a deaf ear to the plea for s tematic waterway improvement. Still the Top-Notcher. Enclosing a newspaper cutting con- taining the announcement that $44,- 000 of undistributed profits remain in the coffers of the World's Columbian expoeition, whose equal division among those entitled to it would give each 47 cents, Z. T. Lindsay, who was one of the executive committee of the Omaha exposition most directly charged with its finances, writes to The Bee: This Is the first notlce of the kind to stockholders of the Chicago World's fair that I have even seen published. We were stockhiolders recefved 10 per cent of their investment back, but I never met one who 0 stated. The Transmississippl exposition at Omaha returned 7 per cent of the stock- holders' investment to them five days after the exposition closed and 17 per cent more later on, or in all, 9 per cent. No other exposition in America has made any such showing, while most of them were financlal taflures, As one exposition after another is held, the unlque record made by our Omaha exposition as an unqualified success financially, as well as in every other way, stands out all the stronger. Taking into consideration the limited resources of the men who promoted the Transmississippl enterprise and the depths of the industrial depression from which we were just emerging, the Omaha exposition had more ob- stacles to overcome than any of the others and still made a top-notch mark which none before or after has been able to approach. Lo, the Poor Indian. After doing the Indian for about 300 years, the thought has taken root to do something for him. This idea found voice at a recent banquet in New York in the proposal to erect a glant statue of the American Indian in New York harbor alongside the ing itself to modern needs. Social Life at the Capital. Several incidents of late have served to emphasize the strenuosity of social life in Washington. The wife of a foreign diplomat who recently came to this country after a wide experience at a number of European courts has commented on the fact that she should like an opportunity to form a more in- timate acquaintance with the Amer- ican women, but that she has found it impossible. She does not complain of our people being distant or unsociable, but that their time is so thoroughly taken up with social functions and du- ties that no leisure remains for the more intimate personal relations. Another illustration is found in the illness of the wife of the president pro- duced by a nervous breakdown. The gocial demands of the capital, es- pecially as they reiate to the wives of officials, are so exacting that nothing but iliness is accepted as an excuse. In the cases of many who have been a part of it for years it is, if current gos- sip is to be belleved, resulting in con- ditions greatly to be deplored. So- clety at all times 18 a giddy swirl of currents and cross-currents, but at Washington, with the added strains of official jealousies and the intermixture of political wirepulling, it i8 a game which taxes the strongest to the limits of their powers and the weak must necessarily succumb, In the case of the president’s wife the strain is so centered as to be ex- cessive. One misstep might make serious trouble more harmful than a tactical blunder of the president him- self. It is no wonder that under such conditions Mrs, Taft must be cau- tioned to look to her personal health and seek to preserve her strength by | all reasonable precautions. Germany is Showing Us. Waterways transportation is a live question in the United States today and the demand is growing that con- gress make suitable provision for im- proving all our great natural water- ways. is to secure in the rivers a channel deep enough to float ocean-going ships 80 that the eost and delay of breaking cargo may be avolded as well as cheaper rates to the seaboard secured. To attain this will require the expendi- ture of large sume of money and take a long time, but this does not excuse us for fallure to make use of our water traffic facilities as they exist. As with improvement of waterways Germany is also far and away ahead of us in the utilization of facilities no better than this country now pos- sesses. In Germany millions of tons of freight are carried upon streams of less volume and no greater depth than the Missouri. The ultimate hope in that country is to produce a three- foot channel in the upper Rhine, where it 18 now about two feet. Yet with this depth of the river traffic is enormous. river Oder at Breslau has a depth of only twenty-four inches, yet the eity has a river trafic of 3,500,000 tons per year and the docks, £8 at other German river ports, are supplied The vital problem, of CO\lrlGJI famous representation of liberty. This benevolent idea, like the one- day-a-week religion, eases the mind and will not interfere In the least with the six-day-a-week process of skinning the Indian out of what little has been left to him. It might be pertinent to suggest, however, that the Indian statue be placed to the rear of the one of liberty, otherwise the great bronze maiden might acquire a perpetual blush of shame from staring at the metal counterfeit of the white man’s confidence game victim, The projected Indian statue would be particularly appropriate. It would accord with the habit of the world to recognize as a good Indian none but a dead Indian. By all means eérect a statue to the Indian., The sad remnant of the race may never see it, but as he sits around the agency store waiting to be re- lieved of his allotment of land, he may be consoled with the sweetly solemn thought that he, too, will perhaps bave a monument after he has been long enough dead. But, really, would it not be a monu- ment more to our credit if we would keep temptation away from the Indian and help him up by fitting him to hold a place in the new conditions which the white man has forced upon him? Patten On Wheat. Mr. Patten has stopped long enough in his speculative operations to speak on the question of wheat in the broader aspect of its future produc- tion. Mr. Patten is no novice who has flashed from the speculative sky with a roll of money to take a fiyer in the pit, but has been a figure in the grain business for years. Operating on a large scale, he necessarily has made a study of both production and consumption, and what he says along general lines on this subject is entitled to attention. As others have done be- fore him, he points out that food pro- duction in this country has not kept pace with the increase in population and consumption and that the wheat lands, through lack of intelligent | farming, are being cropped to death. It 1s the realization of this fact on it the remedy, which the agricultural schools of the country have been seek- ing to drive home. It is this reason |in part which gave birth to the corn show and which stimulates the work of the federal and state agricultural departments. Mr. Patten has not said anything new, but he has added his force to the pressure which in time will work out a remedy for the condi- tions of which he speaks, for the fu- ture of not only the farmer, but of the country, depends upon It Not All Canada's Way. Notwithstanding the great influx of settlers from the United States into the provinces of northwest Canada, more people came from Canada to the United States, according to the sta- tistics for the year 1908, than went from here to Canada during that pe- riod. The figures show 56,860 going from this country to Canada as against 58,268 Canadians coming to the United States. These figures will un- doubtedly surprise people in this sec- with powerful cranes and other mod- ern appliances for rapidly and econom- ically handling freight. At one point on the river Rhine, where the coal from Westphalia comes to the water, there 1s a commerce of 15,000,000 tons annually, or more than the en- ing accomplished its purpose, one trus- tee will do a8 well now as three, tire traffic of the Mississippl and Ohlo rivers, and the coal is loaded omto tion which has seen so many farmers seek the cheap lands of Canada. While in point of numbers the United States is the gainer, the class of set- tlers golng from this country to Can- ada are, as a rule, of the very best type, mostly farmers and practically all of them possessed of considerable means, while the immigration from THE OMAHA SUNDAY told many times that some very fortunate | the part of the farmers, and along with | BEE: Canada is mostly to the eastern states and of the French-Canadian laboring class possessed of little means. The lure of the great northwest, which has appealed so strongly to many western farmers, does not ap- pear to be such an attraction for the Canadian himself. The best obtain- able figures show that for every 1,000 native-born Canadians who remain in any part of their own country there are now 200 in the United States, or, in other words, one-fifth of all the native-born Canadians have emigrated to this country. As soon as the great northwest is partially developed, which at the pres- ent rate will be within a very few years, the influx of settlers from the United States is likely to cease and its future development left to the im- migrant from the colder countries of northern Europe. It has always re- quired some unusual lure to induce people to migrate from a mild to a much colder climate, and when the disparity of land values becomes less the movement is likely to cease. In | the meantime Canada is to be con- gratulated in securing some of the best of our American citizenship. The Monetary Situation, The condition of the money market throughout the world is unusual in the amount of idle capital, especially for the season of the year. The dis- count rate in London is 1% per cent, which means % per cent for call loans; in Paris it is 2 per cent, and in Berlin, owing to the absorption of capital in an imperial loan, it is 3 per cent. In New York the rate for time loans is from 3 to 8% per cent. This large amount of ‘surplus capital just as business and industry is quickening in earnest from the depression of 1907 is an indication that the revival is not likely to be halted through lack of available funds. Speaking of these conditions, the New York Financler says: Cheap money the world over must, as soon as normal political and monetary con- ditions shall be restored, stimulate, with startling impetus all speculative activities. The impulse may be first felt at this cen- ter, because here there is such an enor- mous aggregation of securities as to invite their absorption; moreover, here there are industrial conditions that promise stability, evidences of the entire recovery from the effects of the late crisis and assurance of the maintenance of the constructive policies of the administration. The development of activity in our markets should be re- flected next In London; there Americans are the favorites among speeulators and in- vestors, and so long as the speculative boom shall be conservatively promoted, the British will buy and retain their holdings. Commons decided to construct four new battleships of the Dreadnaught class. In his present state of mind John Bull could not be expected to heed the volce of disarmament speak- ing at such long distance. A pew recrult has volunteered his influence to expedite tariff legislation, and this influence comes from a source not counted on heretofore by anybody. It develops that the most prominent actors In the tariff drama at Washing- ton are booked for lecture dates on the Chautauqua platforms on terms of generous division of the gate receipts and, like time and tide, the Chautau- qua season waits for no man. Con- gressional and senatorial salaries run on undiminished irrespective of long or short sessions and regardless of ex- tra sessions altogether, but the side line money drawn from the Chautau- qua circle is C. O. D,, and return the forfeit money if date is cancelled. To make our distinguished law-makers choose 'twixt tariff and Chautauqua must be one of those unusual and ex- cessive punishments prohibited by the constitution. If lengthening the Chau- taugua circuit means shortening the tariff debate, who will deny that there are not compensations for all things? —_— The county board has at Jast done something it should have done long ago in prohibiting the buying and sell- ing of warrants and assignments of warrants within the confines of the court house. It remains to be seen, however, whether the new rule will be enforced or be allowed to become a dead letter. Further than that, the same prohibition should be made to apply to the transaction of similar business in the city hall. There is no good reason why any public building should be made the base of operations for private warrant scalping business. A request has been made to the gov- ernor to set aside one day as a weed day for the extermination of these ag- ricultural pests. If the weed man will go out into the country he will un- doubtedly discover that every day is weed day on the Nebraska farms. Over 5,000 Indlans live on reserva- tions in the state of New York as against a little over 3,000 in Nebraska. And still some of the New Yorkers be- lleve they are in danger of being scalped if they come this far west, Get 1t Right. Washington Herald We desire to say to those outside bar- barlane who are forever and eternally Though France holds the largest amount of liquid capital of any European country, |1t prefers to employ It in commercial ac- | ceptances rather than In securities. Ger- many has use for all lts floating supplies, and its investments will probably be small. Though the demand for money resulting from business recuperation may be large, as the result of & long period of stagnation in productive enterprises, there will be no dearth. While speculation has been by no means dormant, the present tendency is to permit this money to go into in- dustrial lines where required to meet legitimate demands. The capital needed for the expansion and develop- ment, which is being planned on an extensive scale, I8 sure to be forth- coming at the proper time. B ] The Gospel of New Ideas. The pessimist we always have with us. At least, he does most of the talking. 'The optimist is often content to let things take their course, having a firm abiding faith in the ultimate good of all. But it were perhaps bet- ter if the optimist was more active, it he would more often give us the reasons for his faith to oftset the loud lamentations of the grievance-bored pessimist. Those who see in the mod- ern trend of civilization much that is good also perceive that much of the evil is due to a lack of knowledge. Not so much is intelligence lacking as a knowledge of the fundamentals of the sclence of common sense. In other words, much knowledge which would tend to ameliorate present social hard- ships 1s possessed only by a compara- tively few. Not only must the many get this knowledge to make it a social force, but they must assimilate it if jt | | is to help them throw off the conserva- | tism of mere tradition and custom. Too often men think they hold a be- llef which is simply to them a form. Selfish individual interest is frequently due to failure to see that the social good benefits the individual. Men do not consider the future bearing of things that affect their own cases. The rights of posterity should be as impor- tant to the real patriotic citizen as the bullding up of his own present self- interest. On the eve of the French | revolution those whose actions caused it could not be made to realize its im- | minence. It is not that we lack knowl- edge and experience, but rather that these are not universal. We talk more of actlon than of ideas, of men who do things than of men who think. But, after all, it is ideas which are the effective soclal | forces and it is the spread of correct ideas which will bring about a true conception of the rights of soclety as distinguished from the rights of the\l individual. The greatest good to thci greatest number can be accomplished | only when men take thought of the | future. To accomplish this result all helpful agencies must be utilized, whether the school, the newspaper, the church, the lodge or the tradesman. It behooves men to consider carefully each agency as to its way of carrying on this necessary work. Those which contribute to the good of soclety should be encouraged and those which merely exploit selfish iuterest should be reformed or repressed On the same day that the Mohonk conference passed a resolution in favor of disarmament the British House of poking their noses into Worderful Wash- ington's affairs that Mr. Taft does not pronounce 1t “gcf.” One OMicial “Making Good.” Philadelphia Prees. Mr. Loeb I& making good on his new Job, and with a blg G, moreover! Since he got away from the reflected glory of his former chief, he is letting his own lights so shine before men that they may see his good works—and they deserve ta be rated nothing less than “bully.” Another Romance of Science. New York World. The controlling of 4,000 incandescent elec- tric lamps In the Omaha Electrical show from a wireless telegraph station five miles away l& another romanece of sclence come true. How this new development may be utilized in operating llghts off shore or clear out at sea opens an almost limitless field for conjecture, Vindicating the Rooster. Baltimore American. The New York court of appeals 1s 'to pass on whether the constitutional right to the pursuit of happiness extends to a man's satisfaction in hearing his rooster crow at hours of the night which deprive other men of that constitutional happiness which lies in slumber. The question appears trivial, but so determined is the man in the case to enjoy this constitutional priv- flege, as involving a supreme right, that he says he will carry his rooster's mid- night crow to the supreme court of the United States if necessary. SERMONS BOILED DOWN. The glory of love is that it never knows its own cost. Bhifting the blame for sin does not up- root its sowing. No man can feed his soul who is starv- ing his servants. Only & clothesrack will let dignity stand In the way of duty. The stralght truth would often save a lot of crooked traveling. It takes a tremendous lot of religlon to convert a man's pocket 8o many mistake anxiety to wear a crown for endeavor to win one. Bome people get 80 close to the facts that they cannot see the truth Nothing costs less than encouragement and few things arc worth more. It takes more than manicuring to make hands clean for heavenly inspection The best way to wait on heaven for bread {s to work for your bread in a heavenly spirit. If our justice were only more even our generosity would be a good deal less stralned. Some men seem to think that the only way to handle straight truth Is to make a dagger of It. There 18 no harm in desiring to get ahead; the danger ls in our anxiety to keep our competitors Chicago Tribune. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Washington Herald: A Maryland minis- ter has announced a forthcoming series of sermons “Why Men Do Not Go to Chureh.,” When he gets through, how- ever, doubtless he will still be in ignorance of one of the big reasons. Philadelphia Record: An Indlana min- {ster says the women of his congregation must remove thelr hats, and the women say they will not. Right here Is where between on this minister haw to choose changing the subject and taking to the woods. Pittsburg Dispatch: The Chicago clergy- man who lays down the law that the hus- band should rule the family, but the wife control the purse, is evidently on the side of gynarchy. fas mnot history demon- strated that the control of the purse means the control of the government? Baltimore American: Now a Washington minister says that Cain's wife a fine wo.nan. It 1s a good thing that it h struck somebody, even though this late in the day, to do justice to this neglected lady. As her history buried in oblivion it is to be hoped that If her husband did exterminate his brother, he was not any: thing of & lady killer, nothing so potent as a d ‘“The wearing of the human nature to entrust this date very large and very few dollars weekly. mond selling in Omaha, as you wish. or §2 weekly.” Diamonds! Wear a few by all means! ‘‘As a ‘confidence getter’ in business there Is world that YOU'VE been prosperous, and it's only has made a success of his own. “And the greater portion of diamonds worn at are not paid for—that is, not paid for in ONE payment at the time of purchase. metropolitan SANDS of stones are purchased on an honorable, easy payment basis—a few dollars down—and a “l am the main exponent of this mode of dia- that way-—satisfactorily—and if YOU are inclined to return a ‘square deal’ see to it that YOU, TOO, Pay me as you accumulate—$1 or --Mandelberg 1522 Farnam Street elberds famond or two. gems seems to assure the ones' business to one who In the THOU- cities, I've sold hundreds of them for a ‘square plan’ 1 will will wear as many stones PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Reformers In Atlanta, Ga., propose to abolish barber poles, leaving only lamp- posts for the soaks of the dry district to lean against. With his savings of thirty years seques- tered and his harem scattered about all that is left A, Hamid is his good name. Precious few are bragging about that. The sudden revival of blue laws at Coney Island affords timely diversion for the New York mind which was thrown into the dippy condition by the question, “‘How shall we crease our trousers?'’ There was a beam of foresight in the act of an Ohlo girl who had six of her former sultors at her wedding. In these uncertain times it Is the part of wisdom to have a reserve on the string for future emergen- cles. An Indlan monument in New York is peculfarly appropriate. Pete Minnet found the Manhattan tribe mighty good Indians, caslly “miked” in a land deal. Pet's suc- ceasors can well afford to pay for a memor- tal out of the subsequent dividends. A professional funny man insists that there is but one genuine joke with the bark on. That is the one on Adam when he lost his rib. All others are base imitations. If Adam found the rib & joke, his biographers lacked the saving grace te mention ft. “The American Flag” is the Impressive title of a leatlet {ssued by the Merchant Marine league of the United States, with headquarters at Cleveland. The leaflet is Intended to make life a round of joy and ease for exchange editors seeking ripe provinder for the sclssors. A thrilling patriotic note I8 sounded in the sugge tion that the American flag would fiutter with greater glory It its folds carried a fat appropriation from the national treasury for ocean going ships. Among the land- lubbers named as state representatives of the league are A. L. Gale, editor of the Lincoln Star, and W. C. Deming, editor of the Cheyenne Tribune, two imposing boost- ers of inland navigation, DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, “How it rains! Doesn't the scare you dreadfully?" “Not when my husband ie around.” “He's a—er—conductor, is he?" “O, no. He carries a $5,00 accident policy.""~Chicago Tribune. lightning Maud—Marie 1s such a queer girl, with such notions of honor! Gladys—In what way? Maud—She insists it is not right to be engaged to more than one fellow at a time.—Baltimore American, Husband—You never kiss me except When you want some money. Wite—Well, fsn't that often enough? “It's something dreadful the way I am losing my memory. Now I'm quite sure 1 shan't remember tomorrow what I have done today," “Really? * Well, can you lend me $107"— Philadelphia Bulietin “Looky yere, mammy." said Plekaninny Jim, “at de knot holes in dis here plece of wood. What does you ‘speck dem s fur?” “Why, h answered Aunt Elvira Ann, “‘dem’'s de button holes what dc branches is fas to de trees'— Washington Star, Passenger Agen are some post- card views along line of railroad Would you like them Patron—No, thank you. I rode over the SALT SULPHUR WATER also the “Crystal Lithium" water from Excelsior Springs, Mo., in b5-gallon sealed jugs. G-gallon jug Crystal Lithia Water. .82 b-gallon jug Salt-Sulphur water $2.25 Buy at either store. We sell gver 100 kinds mineral water. Sherman & McConnell Drug Co. Sixteenth and Dodge Sts. Owl Drug Co. Sixteenth and Harney Sts. line one day last week and have views of my own on it—Chicago News. I wish you would tell me If (h any change in the size of tI within the last ten or fif| years, Man at the Desk—'Decidedly there has The 5 cent plece of ice isn't more than half as large as it used to be.”—Chicagn Tribune. CROSSING THE DIVIDE. J. W. Foley in Philadelphia Ledger, Parson, I'm a maverick, just runnin’' loose an’ grazin’, Batin' where's th' greenest grass an' drinkin’ where I choose, Had to rustle in my youth an’ never had no_raisin Wasn't never halter broke, an' I ain't much to lose. Used to sicepin’ in a bag an’ Hivin' in 3 slicker, Church folks ne hranded me—1 don't know as they tr Wish you'd say a prayér for me an' try to make a dicker, For the hest they'll give me when T crost the Big Divide. {Tell 'om T ain’t been corraled a night in more'n twenty, Tell 'em I'm rawboned an' rough an' 1 ain’t much for look Tell 'em I don't need much grief because had a plenty, I don’t know how bad I am ‘cause 1 ain’t kept no books. Tell ‘em I'm a maverick a-runnin loose unbranded, Tell ‘em. 1 shoot straight an' quick an’ 't got ch to hide; Have n' size me up as soon as & T just want my needin's when I cross the Big Divide. Tell 'em I rose straight an' square an' never grabbed for leather. Never roped a crl steer or rode a sore-backed horse, Tell 'em I've bucked wind an' rain an' every sort of weather Had my tilts with Al K. Hall an’ Captain 2. 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