Show REED AS A TALKER TAL KEp eloquent word words that now sem almost prophetic 1 william alien allen white of emporia took luncheon with wit h thomaa thomas 0 D reed at the century club new no york the day president mckinley died after a simple meal had been put away mr air white relates reed pushed back his chair and began to talk for three conj hours he discoursed most beau tift illy upon life it its uncertainty its real rent rewards and its checks and balines upon fame and its accident accidents and its emptiness empt ln g upon death and fit mortality and god and all hia his ways and works it was a kind of at funeral oration the like of which few men are to at w r the end of it all the big niao man threw back his head bond and looked up at the great oak rafters ratters of the room tor for a long while and then let his hands tall fall heavily on the short arms of at the chair as he sighed III hoi bat what does it all mean where la Is it going who are we what Is s this unfathomed mystery we call eife god knows I 1 dont |