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THE CHINA MAIL

A Pretty Cute Little Stunt

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BA., I'm right here to tell you .I kind of grinned when he said that this fellow thought he had si that, but when I looked at him, just message for us I called up Gay that when that ragged bum finished as solemn as a judge when he said and he said it would be all right. that story ever'one around that table it, I didn't lose any time wiping So I want to introduce Oscar" was a 'salffing and a subbing and that grin right off my face. I felt says, "and if he'll get up now he making dabs at their eyes and try- kind of ashamed, R.A. I mean the can do his own explaining."

ing to grin and make out like they way he looked at me made it seem I sat down, and this bum, just as wasn't crying at all. If any speaker Wednesday, 4th Oct. at 10 am kind of heathenish to grin, at Rotary ragged and dirty as a Turk, stood ever had magnetizin, that man cer- The way be used Wednesday, 18th Oct. at 10 a.m.

spirit like that, R.A.

up. The boys clapped for him, but tainly had it. Wednesday, 1st Nov. at 10 a.m.

I turned around to the Chief and they was an about to bust laughing. that psychology on them wasn't even said, "Chief, I guess you haven't got This bum just kind of looked around (funny.

Well, he finished up by saying. . Monday,

2nd Oct.

any objection, have you, if I took over the table, and it got still enough Dscar to Rotary with me to-day." so you could of heard yourself think that all his message was that if he The Chief didn't crack a smile. You talk about magnetism, RA, could just get us to live a little more He said, "Well, Harry, it's a little well that man had it. He used like the Master Rotarian, and follow irregular, but if 1 go along to keep psychology on them. Nobody there in His footsteps, his mission would him in custody, I guess it'll be all knew any more about him than 1 be fulfilled, and, even if he was à right. I mean we've got him booked did, but he stopped that laughing, ragged bum, he would a done some-

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He says, “Now, boys, you're I wish you could of heard that

going to forget me. I'm just a rag- Before we started out, though, man talk. He started right in. looked the bum right straight in the

"Boys," he says, "you don't know red old buin, and I'm going to pass eye and says, "Before

we start, me, and I guess none of you care out of your lives. But the idea of though, Oscar, I want it distinctly very much who I am, or what, I was fellowship is what I wanted to get across to-day. The bums and the understood that there's to be no beg once upon a time. And I'm not go- ging for alma dens. The boysing to dwell on that," he says. " gaolbirds need the grip of a manly wouldn't stand for that. We're glad came into your fair city unannounced hand sometimes. Fellowship, that's to have you come eat with us, and and I'll be lucky if I can go out the all!"

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to hear your message-but no beg-same way," he says. "The way you He says, "Now I know what a lot ging speech, remember that."" see me now," he says, "I'm on the of you boys been thinking I've been

The bum kind of drew himself up dog, just a poor down-and-outer, kading up to, but you're and says, "Why, of course I have But," he says, "I'm not here to play I'm not going to make any plea for no intention of begging for alms. on your sympathies. I just want to money, or for aid of any kid. If That wouldn't be talk to you a little about Rotary you was to offer it to me I wouldn't Because that Rotary." he says. And somehow or fellowship, and then I'ms through," take your money.

But just re- wouldn't be Rotary, other he made me feel pretty cheap he says. (again, the way he said that, "It

"This morning I was sitting in my member what I told you about fel- wouldn't be Rotary."

gaol call meditating." he says. lowship, and try to be a little more Well, the upshot of it was, we all "You know that's one thing about like that Master Rotarian of long piled into my Chivy sedan, the Chief being in gaol, you get a chance to "

Then he turned around quick and and the bum and me, and drove right do a lot of meditating, be says. up to the Hotel Beckman just like And then he went on to describe says to the Chief in a kind of tired. we was a delegation of millionaires. about how the early disciples of the out voice, "Come on, Chief, let's be I wished you could of seen that big Church had all spent a lot of time going."

nigger doorman they got there at the in gaol, and about how that had give The Chief got up and took him by Beckman, R.A., when we come piling them time to do a lot of meditating, the arm, and they had almost got out of my Chivy. That nigger's and that had a lot to do with the to to the door when old Cliff Oliphant jeyes just bulged out like stoppers purity and inspiration of their mes--you know old Cliff, R.A., just as on an organ. I'd give a pretty to sage, and so on and so forth. Well, kind-hearted as they make them- know what he was thinking. R.A., it seems like he was setting jumped up with his eyes streaming When we walked through the there meditating and all of a aud-tears and began trying to say lobby I could see ever'one, craning den he got this inspiration that if something.

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to get a look at us, and when we could just give a talk to Rotary Well, the whole place was in

once more, he had a message for hubbub, and I guess they would of passed the hat if Gay Harrison

come into the dining-room they had already started eating. But ever- one put down their knife and fork them that was worth hearing.

"I used to be a member of Rotary hadn't stood up about that time and

when we walked up and took our in good standing," he says, "I'm started to tapping on a glass with seats at the speakers' end of the not going to say where it was, be his knife. "Hold on just a minute, table. They didn't know what to cause that don't make

dif-boys," Gay says. "Bold on there make of it.

ference," he says. And then he just a minute,"

And then he beckoned to seen talked a little more and went on and

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"Boys," Gay says, "I want to in- troduce you to the Reverend Oscar D. Sneathen, pastor of the First at Garden Well, I don't remember now just how Christian Church over

The men who......."

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it goes, something like that, but any-City." how it ends up:

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The bum reached up and undid the safety pin at his cont collar and threw back his ragged old coat and showed that he had on a collar and

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it, but he knows just as much as

Ancher place there he went on and I do. About 11,80 I got a telephone told about how in a town where he call from the Chief saying that he had been a Rotarian one time 'hud an old ex-Rotarian in gaol, and Rotary had taken all the kiddies in town, all the poor kiddies, out on an outing out in the woods. Well, be was a respectable business man back in those days, and he was getting around among the kiddies, seeing || that they all had a good time, and

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