Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-23 | Page 7 | Something Wrong Somewhere

Na SOMETHING WRONG I SOMEWHERE and Its It's nice to be an optimist to see seo the the brighter side p of t every everything thing but ever so often orten some little thing happens that makes It if civi you 0 stop and wonder our couldn't be bo greatly Im lot Improved proved pro somewhere III In Ingersoll Olda Okla there there lived on an old ol lie He a sort Bert of oC shack aback and rave cave on a vacant recant lyt l it earned five dollars a month as 88 night wal and raised gf garden rdell truck He was quiet rather queer but harmless Zt ITA had bad two pets peta a cat and a dog dog- Ills his only friends His sole recreation consisted In scraping away on ona ona a violin The boys botI In the neighborhood used to tease the old old fellow It seems just how bow Is not clear but app apparently they found sev- sev sev seY several eral ways In which they could sho show their boyish disapproval o of so strange and queer a person Last fall taU he felt fell on hard bard times He Held had ld to sell hut hIs lil violin Then ho found his pet cat cat cat poIsoned A little later someone enticed his bis dog awa away For a whole day daylie daylie lie he hunted the do dog At last he be found shat It-shat shot It-shot It shot to death The Tho hermit thereupon got a agun arun gun hunted up a old year boy bay who ho he believed belie was responsible and killed him lie He pleaded guilt guilty The judge struck by the tragic aspects oc of the case offered of offered CHell him him a life liCe term No 10 said said the hermit Lie Lite Is no no use to me Im I'm old oW Im I'm falling Coiling in strength Im I'm going blind and life is a n burden hurden to mp Electrocute me and get It 11 over oer So sentence was pronounced On 1 March larch 15 Iii in the Oklahoma the tho old hermit will shuffle buWe down a corridor r r to the death chamber and ani part with the life he lie no longer wan Theres There's the story stor It Is a tragedy as aa bleak as any ot of o the dark outpourings ot of o the Russian dramatists Tragedy for the the boy I possibly Innocent tragedy for hl his I mother and father ritner and tragedy simple dumb a and ani i poignant for forthe 01 i ithe the pestered lonely old hermit I The only onh solution that our civi- civi civilization civi civilization can find Is to the pathetic old man What Is the solution anyway Its It's hard bard to tell tIl But somewhere in our vaunted social so lal the fabric fabric the same came fabric that Is la Interwoven WIth gorgeous colors of or mighty dUes cities bravo brne heroes high Ideals and hints ot at o- o there righteousness righteousness there is something tragically I tragically wrong rong