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Show THE HONORLESS PROPHET. Jed Hawkins knowed a bank as well ns any man or men I over Boen, although ho wasn't work-in' work-in' at It then; He did all kinds of tlnkcrin' but any summer day N Ho used to stan' an' talk ilnanco in his convincin' way; Ho knowed wht's wrong with currency, curren-cy, and what wo orter do T' make lt moro elastic for th' needs o' mo an' you, But whon thoy got a now cashier, thoy paid ono round an' high N T' como on from somo city bank an' passed Jed Hawkins by. Jed Hawkins knowed a dry goods store, I guess from A to Z, An' knowed department stores, which was. his specialty. Ho'd boon all through th' Broadway stores an' had th' system down So lino ho thought with hackln' ho could run ono hero in town. Ho used t' often stand in front on sunny.days an' flno An' toll how ho knowed dry goods stores from ladles' suits to twino; But when thoy got a manager for our ono store here, why Thoy got ono from outsido somewhere and passed Jed Hawkins by. Jed Hawkins knowed newspaper work, I guess about as well As any editor that walks an' I havo hecred him tell About Th' Times and Trlbbyoon, them days when big men ran Th' papers as thoy orto be, an' Dana had Th' Sun. Why, all that kept Jed offen tliom was bcln' hero, an' so Th' papers never hecred o' him, an' so he had no show, But when Th' I'lkctown Courier was short a writer, why Thoy hired somo smooth-faced college kid, an' passed Jed Hawkins by. Jed Hawkins said a good, live man such ns ho had in vlow Would run 'bout half our business men right outen town ho know; An' such a bank as ho would run, right from th' hat's fust drop Would mako th' old Cornplanter bank go somo or shut up shop. An' Jed ho ain't much disturbed because be-cause they pass him by; An' said it's plain to nnyono to see th' reason why; "A prophet," Jed snys, lookln' wise up at th town hall dome, "A prophot gits no honor Jlst ns long ns ho stays honi6!" J. W. Foley In the Now York Times. |