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Show BABE AND OTHER KINGS With his daily triumphs there must eome to Babe Ruth, the home-run king, momenta of solemn reflection, f It must occur to liirn that in Other day! to eome tho charing stands will echo leei welcome sounds, Whntsn matter, Babe, lotin' ths old pep!" "Where's the old bat tin' eye. BabeT" "Ain't ymi got no more homo runs left, Bab'f" "Vnu 're slippin', Babe' ! Bnefa ir the way the people eventually handle thpir heroes, Babe i Ruth. You've probably been too busy lately knocking out home runs to read what history has to say about ungrateful peoples who haw razzed othfT kings. N'npnlpon. once the dnrhng of Franco. Hod Bans after Waterloo, while booting mobs raged through the stroots. Tnio. about twenty years lator, Baris ga' Napoleon a groat ovation on his Ml return from St Helena, n' he wo dead then. " Beople are fickle," said Machiavelli, the statesman, in his advice ad-vice to kings. And our old Wend Shakespeare summed it all up in the immortal words he put into the month of Cardinal Wolsoy . j Farewell, a lone farewell, to all my greatness. ; This li the state of man; today ho put forth m Tho tender leaves of sept . li Borrof blossoms a And boars his blushing honors thick upon him h The tHr.l day comes a frost, a kllllnt frost, h nd wlun h' thlr.lts . man. full 6ur-ly H His greatness Is n pjps tbs root, mW And then he falls, as I do. What a tragio day that will be whm tho crowd discovers that the running of Baho Ruth's bat has departed. Hj "Oh, Babe, have yi losit that good old batY" mWu The words will out like an assassin's dagger to the heart of tho home-run king. |