Show H THE RECORD FOR MEANNESS I r H Missouri Father Set Small Small Value Value on on Daughters Daughter's Life 4 Joseph Folk the young district attorney attorney at at- torney of St St. Louis Mo talking one day about and the meanness meanness Of f it it said to a reporter reporter- There Is something small and little about robbing taxpayers robbing widows widows wid wiet and orphans and all aU manner of poor folk He Is a mean man who commits thi this this crime as crime as mean mean a ama man a-man man manas as as' as one one I saw saw- once on a Mississippi steamer And he was was- strangely mean that chap hap He JIe was traveling av wite his his' daughter a little girl of 5 or 6 6 He was holding her her over the rail so so that she could see a monster monster catfish catfish when hen somehow w he let g go of her and she fell into the into the deep sir stream am with a splash A deck hand was was after her In an instant Head foremost he s shot ot in and she phe was back In her fathers father's arms again before three minutes had passed The f father was profoundly grateful to the de deck k hand He pulled out a dollar bill I Got any change he said The man had none so the father went hustling nervously here and I there here over the boat waving his dollar bill and saying Got any change Got any change Who's got change for a dollar Heres Here's Heresa a a- aman man who has just saved my daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daugh daugh- ter's life and I want to give him a quarter Got any change there |