Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-01-02 | Page 16 | The Honorless Prophet

THE PROPHET Jed Hawkins a bank as well as any man or men menI I ever see he at it then He did all kinds o 0 but any summer day He used to stan an talk finance In his hie way He wrong with our cur currency rency and what we orter arter do doT doT T make It more elastic for tor th needs o ome me an you But when they got a new cashier they paid one round an high highT T or come on from some city bank an passed Ted Jed Hawkins by Jed Hawkins a dry goods store I guess from A to Z ZAn ZAn An department stores which was his specialty Hed been all through th Broadway stores an had th system down So fIne he thought with he could run one here In town He used t often otten stand In front on sunny days an fine An tell how he dry goods stores from ladles suits to twine But when they got a manager for our one store here why They got one from outsIde somewhere and 1 passed assed Jed Hawkins by Jed HawkIns newspaper work I guess about as well As any editor that walks an I have him tell About Th Times an them days when big men run Th papers as they orto be an Dana had Th Sun Why all that kept Jed often otten them was bein here an soTh so soTh Th papers never neer o 0 him an so 50 he had Imd no show But when Th Piketown Courier was short a writer why They hired some college kid an passed Jed Hawkins by Jed Hawkins said a good live man I such as he had In view Would run bout halt half our business m men n right town he knew An such a 0 bank as he be would run right from th h hats fust drop Would make th old Cornplanter bank go some or shut up shop An Ted Jed he aint much disturbed be because because cause they pass him by byAn byAn An said Its plain to anyone to see th reason why A prophet prophet Ted Jed says wIse up ot at th town hall dome A prophet Bits no honor all as long longas as he home I IJ J W Foley in the New York Times