| Show i tF i J f I 6 t I t 1 > I iWi1 6b I IJ 814 J i < V I tffV l U z I f tiJYl I 2 1 1 f < ki C1 d I ttIl k I j iA i y i f I X I I Billy clork bank < Billy Davis Is I a 1 banks president hes I I will never be the Some bright things get too bright oO tarnished while the very net of rcpol for new fif ishlns is I golns on to nt them I Idea in life Is that everyman Billys uses I if certain side which Jf nt man baa a 1f tacked properly will soon give the assailant I as-sailant possession oC the entire gani i son This Chicago bank cleric has always al-ways maintained or at last until very C recently that his pla n oC campaign I when he wishes to capture anything 3icvcr can fail Billy Davis Is good looking and he wears good clothes In the performance of which latter feat he spends thc major part oC his 16 a week salary Billy I S sees Into very good South Side society I S rather moro than semloccaslonally The other night he went to what he I I S told the boys next day was a swell function There he met Mary Waters a pleasing young woman three years S the bank clerks junior who baa come to Chicago recently to keep house for Smith who S Jier widowed uncle Jared 1 had just made a large fortune Billy Davis went at matters much after tho manner that a business house finds out about a man who wants to open a credit iL cred-it account Billy soon discovered that Mary raters was Jared Smiths sole he said You see I wont to school at a big Methodist homlnary In central I 5cw York I and Iguess Charlie Powers and Jnmdc life miserable for many r people Then Billy proceeded tell of some II studentscranes thit were not alto t Kethor Innocent lie ruteht have seen a disapproval I faint trace of something like face proval come into Jared Smiths had he observed keenly Even had he I I noticed it Billy had too much faith In life plan of campaign to be turned aside fiom assault by any abatis In form ota another it frown He charged tno a Charlie story You see Mr 1 Smith i Powers and I had great times We had and rooms in the house of a womnn ar went from there to our recitations and was a meek sorrowful study The woman i rowful kind of a person with pretty I believe near always a tear In her eye lieve she had lost several children We never flaw anything of thp t husband excepting ex-cepting on raio occasions I dont know to this day Whut he looked like We heard that he was a crackbrained In vqnlor who was certain that something that he was tinkering at would bring him a fortune Ills wife believed It too and everybody knew that she kept roomois and did all her own work HO that money could be used to help along her husbands plans We didnt do a thing to the old woman oh no Of course we were boys you cnow and that she sometimes found l1 chimney soot In the soup and that the wceks wash that was hung out to dry had to be done over again and that the blacksmiths bulldog got In through the open gate and killed her favorite cat wasnt all due to us Oh no of course not She didnt know it anyway But It was for the old man the ad dlepated Inventor that we had It In He used to wake us up when he came home in thc middle of the night from his dingy little workshop One night the landlady had gone to Ithaca to see a sick sister About 1 oclock In the morning the old fellow came home and knocked something over and waked us us It was an awful 1 cold night About five minutes after he came in we heard V 4 1 I r j l L ft W < 4 J4 7 1 I ffi fj g i1h 4 1 I f < V f If < < I t = 1L L = = = = 1 1 s JC Old Man Tared Brightened Up a BiS i I 75t i heiress He also found out that one r of Marys hobbles was botany Billy planned his campaign and directed It < against the botanical side of the fair heiress Billy secured all oC Asa Grays i works and several of those of Torrey In less than twentyfour hours he 1 knew all about pistils stamens cora < S > nas and the other things and In another an-other twentyfour hours he had gone t so far as to invade the realm of Me > sembryanlhemums < 1 It did not take Billy Davis long to I secure an Invitation to call at the Smith residence He was not singled I > out for many other young fellows were I J asked also Jared Smith wanted his niece to enjoy life The Smiths lived I < magnificently Billy knew that the old man must have a pot of money He r worked botany for all it I was worth I nnd actually believed that the bank rt clerk as well as the lowers of the Held f1j was making a decided impression Billy fii Co Bil-ly Davis had one big lump in his head > and one docs not have to think hard < in order to give It a name He came t i to the conclusion In about two weeks time that Mary had succumbed but I f i there was Uncle Jaied still left to deal Jr with Billy planned another scheme of campaign He found out that the undo > = un-do went out every few days to see the j1 high school boys play football and he 4 also discovered that the old fellow j laughed long and heartily whenever he y heard stories of Innocent boyish pranks 1T It does Uncle Jared good to laugh I lri once In a while said Mary Waters I I rt one evening to Billy and another caller I I J for his life hap been a saddened one ever since Aunt Margaret died It docs i me good to ice him livened up a little 1 lit-tle tleBilly J Billy Davis when he heard this Instantly is i In-stantly knew whore to plant another J r threeInch rifle to make a breach In the i < j enemys wall Three nights afterward j j Billy called again and the old gentle I man came and sat in the parlor Blllv j opened fire He began talking about Ills schoolboy days and of the pranks i b that he and his comrades used to play I i L Old man Jared brightened up a bit I when Billy began to talk of boyish I 1 escapades S 1 TheYIo coming easy thought the t > bank clerk to himself Then out loud i I r him get upgo downstahs and out the front door We knew he was In his stocking feet because made no noise There was pump with a handle extending ex-tending over the porch He had gone for a pitcher of water Charlie and I jumped out of bed stole downstairs and locked the front door Then we looked through a window and there was Just light enough to see that the oJd fellow had nothing on but trousers and shirt Well he didnt get back into the house for a good hour and a half It was a cold night for some one I tell you Charlie and I left the next day but I heard somewhere that the old fellow caught cold and was laid up for a month and that his wife got sick nursing nurs-ing him But you see hed waked us up night after night and we were paylng him up and when he found out we wouldnt let him into the house he did swear dreadfully It was just about a week after this that William Davis bank clerk wrote a letter to Miss Mary Waters heiress asking for her heart and hand The bank clerk was more of a strategist than a lighter He preferred this Instance In-stance to train his guns from a lonG distance It was not twentyfour hours before he received a reply Tho address was in Mary Watcrss handwriting the letter was In an entirely different hand 1 It read like this Mr yilllain Davis My Dear SlrYou forgot in the course of your thrilling re dial ot your boyhoods pranks too other Otnliig to mention the name of your landlall In tile New York school town Her name If I 1 may recall It to you was Margaret Smith I was her udulonntcd Mvontor hUMbiiid Doubtless ygii thought the name Smith was HO common that it would bo Impossible accidentally VWL In the great crowd 1 till sauna Smith twIce Mv putliiut wife Margaret wore hcrwolf out trying ICV hell hlr huabnnd Sh Is dead One of her lant nets In life was to nurse back to health s crackbrained Invcmtot who nLrlclir 1nouinonin oneS one-S cold winter niht when locked l out of 1ls hoiie by two yotInl barblrluls You ciIIL 1mo nn nlccn She iOiht want ypu at any prite ll invention did bring mu a great fOllun Let 010 t3eo i It was Friday night r think that you told UB tho story Lot mo Inclosing losing use one of your sentences It was a cold night for some ono I tell you J1lED SMITH Edward Heral UJ B Chirlc In Chicago Record WHY OP COURSE 1I 1 I H I I I 4 t F 1 J < j < > I I j Y w jtJjjjj JI 1 t r I 1 First Tramp politically inclined Would yer bolt cr ticket Ragsy Second TrampSure cf it was cr mealticket > 1 I 1 |
