Show BRAVE LITTLE NEWSY Clever Bunch of Voice and j Nervs I f DESPOT IN HIS PROFESSION Swimming at tha Sanitarium His Only Recreation Lost a Sale When Horse Trampled Him but Finally Disposed of His Stock Shccucy Is the HJUHO he acknowledges nud by that sign 1 he Is known to a wide acquaintance In Salt Ixilcc Though ho hia boon In the city only n few shun s-hun rcII ot pooplo who buy newspapers Uhmown know Shecney and probably not even one of his Intimates know or have over thought he had another name At his christening some twelve years mo It was decided that the world should know him us Benjamin Dtaraoll Abraham Harris For I a few weeks or as long no he remained at home he was known as Don But that was dropped as aoon as he asauiicd I hit prcMnt duties and tho moro oxprctslvo nume of Sluonoy substituted Tho rest ot Ills l name has been forgotten by everyone and oven ho himself boa tor gotton nearly all but the Harris end of It VOICE AND NERVK Shconoy Is a newsboy and one of tho cleverest hunches of voice and nerve that PVIT yelled Into the cars of pedestrians UP arrived In Salt Lake from Omaha Unco ncokH ago to toll newspapers And ho Mils enough to net him between 10 f and 512 I per week IIl works Inccpsantly and brooks no competition unless It Is I from a larger bov In such oises ho Is statesmanlike i states-manlike In his diplomacy He grows suddenly sud-denly Indifferent to the trade Ignoring thou tho-u lInl signs of 11 possible sale To weaker competitors he Is a I despot ind rules his tcnltory as a despot should For tho offense of trespassing on his boat more newsies are said to have Siuffirecl darkened eyes and carried away more dlsllgur countenances by his hands than hnvu been caused by all the others combined f ITICRS TO SWIM Since his urilvu Shconey has taken quite a fancy to tho swimming pool at the Snnltulum So well docs he like It that aevorul hourn each day are spent in playing play-ing fish and floating Idly about Only in that way Is he cxuava > ant In the matter mat-ter of clothing and lodging he IH penurious penuri-ous to the point of raggcdncss but when it comes to swliimini In the warm water he gladly digs up the last quarter he has Jn the way of lodgment he Is I not fastidious fastidi-ous nor Uen caivful He has made frkmlfl with the printers In Tho Tribune compoHlngjooin and thoro he sleeps He has selected a warm place made soft by piles of old guiinenls discarded by the prlnUia behind a vat In the composing room The vat Is I used to melt the metal from which the t > pen are made When he growu weary ot tho street or the swimming swim-ming pool he climbs to the only home he knows ODLIYIOUS TO SOUXD Around him Is he constant roar and him of machinery nil through thu night but Shcenoy Is oblivious He sleeps until It clops and 1t1 stopping waken him for then he known It Is time to begin his work upon the streets Though usually broke he IK an extensive tiveler For ihe most part he travels lite In coming from Omaha he had a few dollais but Hooded it for ulgimitlcti and otler nocMsltleri nlong tho oulc He cspIM n benevolent old woman In the seat across the alslo and began sobbing as though his heart would break Soon sho did what In krcv she would and came ov r and at down bcsldo him Hor arm went around his sobbing and ragged little body and In a motherly way nlo tried to learn his troubles Finally he told how hi mother and little ulster were stole at Salt Lake and he dldnL have a ticket She told him Just to sit by her and snt would HPO that he got to sec his family fam-ily He ducked way down In the scat m h c conductor < came along and was deeply absorbed In thu scenery outslde the window THE RUSH WORKED The ticket man glanced I auspiciously at him but ucclng a welldressed and motherly mother-ly J woman beside bin thought he washer was-her Hon So ho rode with her to Cheyenne From then I he reached Salt Jakc by means of a freight He secured a Job and lKfnn to make money as soon IIH he tir rlvcd I Saturday < < nlwht ho had the first tioublc 1 that linn befallen him since his arrivul lie wis soiling papers In tho vicinity of lI III 1I llgj First Soutli and Muln slicecs There was j a jreat crowd of people hurrylnj II l v on tho sliUiwalks while caui und teams = nnKtd and rumbUd In the streets lie 11 1 aas u prospocilxi buyer on th > other side t ii of the sticet aud datted actors A crowd of people cathorcd around the 1 lud us n policeman lifted him from tho jacmcnl J Ilo had dodged beneath a team und hod JIn struck by a hoof In Schramma druKStoro he was unconscious nnd laid upon tin floor Clerku and sym lialhclle xvom n hondod over him and by tho tild of diiiji and stimulants he was Hnall revived Kvcnlnj I jiaprrs he said nn ho roae painfully and haw the crowd all around I Im Mi I didnt know anything else to say 111I1 In Mt weak nnd tired Last edition edi-tion all about Mortcnnon I and till strike JIo hurrlfd awiy from the crowd off of-f > ajrcr peoplo which suroimded him but llmp d < < I nnd didnt run after pnoplo ns he did bifor lip sold all his papers though bin uat most of th1 fvonlnw on the atopn In front of Thf Tilbimo Ho I Inslutn that ho Isnt hurl but thoro Is u pained cx iireDMlon about hli white face which kcopa him from mliiKllnrr as he did < < with tho other nownlea |