Eureka Reporter | 1906-07-27 | Page 11 | The Age of Greed

the age of greed A few das ago while walking flown an omaha street I 1 saw a man ahead of me drop a pocketbook A messenger boy picked it up just then the man missed it and the boy re turned it to him without looking in side the man gave the hoy a ter the boy accepted it but was dis gusted Is dat all I 1 git for bein honest he asked yer a pretty cheap guy there s just three dollars in the pocketbook said the man well you aughter oughter gamme a dol lar anyway the boy replied had I 1 been the man I 1 d have been sorely tempted to add a kick to the quarter concluded the traveling man and there are lots and lots of people just like that boy in this world denver post cornelius in the name ot his and alfred G in the name of his mother made application for membership in the rhode island so clety of the cincinnati as the representative senta tive of the vanderbilt family the society decided that cornelius was the proper representative and he wbk elected with 15 others adam and eve should have got along better than they did consider ing that there was never any dispute about one leaving no room in the closet for the other to hang bis clothes it Is no use praying that all the world may have the bread of life when your own life has about as much nourishment in it as a brickbat unless parents set a good example to their children they will furnish a plain reason to be used by them against themselves euripides the fanatic would rather see the race go to the pit than that any should reach heaven unlabeled with his tad every man has a subdued contempt tor his sex since adam sought to lay blame on the woman