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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST s S' at flret, aald She, when I , "When I promised to change WUlle'e name? , "1 found out when I went to them, on the night it came out in the paper. They were woefully frightened. They are frightened still. Mr. Downey has worked for Mr. Wilhram since he was a bov. They think Mr. WUbram Is almost a god. Ite It'e a tragedy, Sam, to them. "Would it do any good to warn them" "They need no warning." said Miss Angelin- - "Don't add to their terrors T am more sorry than I can say. May I hope to be forgiven some day1" There nothing to forgive. Sam. It was an aecldenL But don't you tea what a dangerous weapon a newspaper la? "Worse- - than a car or a gun," he agreed. As he strolled homeward along a stately avenue, wondering what he could do to avert the retribution that moved toward the Doanej a. and finding that hls assistant city editor's resourcefulness had availed him naught, he heard the scamper of feet behind him and whirled about with cane upraised In time to bring a snarling chow dqg to a stand. "Beat It, you brute" be grdwled. "Yeowp!" responded the chow dog, and leaped In the air. "Dont be alarmed," epoke a voice out of the gloom of the nearest lawn. When he sees a man with a stick, he wants to play. Sloan peered at the speaker's face. "Irn t this Mr. WUbram? You were at the Bee office today, sir. May I have a word with you about the W Ulte Downey matter? lander when you Dear Aunt and Uncle: Charles and I see by the paper that Mudge Is hungry, so w are sending him a little present. "Whet can the child mean, Abe?", "Don't ask me," he anewared. "Undo the present and see." the blue ribbons and , They loosened wrappings of soft paper, 'and disclosed a link of bologna sausage. Maddening? It might bav been. If Hlldegarde had not thought to lnolos a page from the Daily Southern Californian, upon which, ringed with pencil marks, was a bit of miscellany, headed, Morel Prinsaples." They read it through to the conclusion: So a I say let us all stick up for our Morel Prinsaples like my Father eome what may. Willie Downey in Ashland (Nj J.) Bee. J j "Why! why! Its Its the! Cried Mrs. Wllbram. "I did telephone jto Mr. Myers fort two pounds of bologna and a dog bone on the night. we dined at the Trevelyans It, come mighty close- to libel, fumed Wllbram. How do they dare! Tou mutt tee. Worthington Oakes about this. Abe. I certainly wlU, he jr owed, j y - I i "Come In, He oertalnly did. as Mr. Worthington Oakes, the publisher of the Bee, will teseditorial tify. In the front office on the r, floor be saw Mr. Oakes for a bad Sfld demanded a publlo retraction of the Insult. At about the same time, a dapper up In the elevator stranger who had come with Mr. WUbram held speech with Assistant City Editor Sloan In the local room at the other end of the hall. "Yonder yeur bird," said Mr. Sloan, pointing to a poetic looking young man at A AAfriAP. w- Crossing to the poet, who wm absorbed tn hi day's poesy and talking to himself as he versified, the stranger Smiled and spoke. the celebrated D. "Am I addressing K. T damn, ham. Jam, Am, cam, dam, look of genius faded out The of the poets eyes. "Not buying, said ha "My pay envelope la mortgaged to you book agents for ten year to come. Ma'am, ram, Sam, cram, clam, gram, elam "Books are not my line, said the dap-e- r on briskly. "I represent the Newspaper syndicate. In fact, I am Jonea I have a proposition en-to make to you, Mr. D. K T , that may able you to buy more book than you can ever read. You know, of course, what servlet It. We reach the the leading dallies of the United States and Canada "Have a chalk, Mr. Jones." "Thank you. We handle some very successful writer. Malcolm Hardy, you may bav heard, takea hi little five hundred a week out of us; and poor Bonner pulled down eleven hunLarry s dred as long as he had health. Hls laundryroan sketches might be sellyet. ing 'Suspense la cruel, spoke D. K. T Let the glad news coma eagerly. "Soma time ago, said the syndicate roan, "you printed tn your column an essay In imitation of a school boy' a You called it Moral Principles. D. K. T. sank back with a low moan. "If you can write six of those a week for a year, continued the visitor, you won't ever need to slave any more. You can burn your pen and devote the rest of your life to golf and good works. The poet closed ki eyes. "Sham, swam, diagram," ha murmured. "Does a minimum guarantee of fifteen thousand a year look like anything to you? There will, of course, be the book rights and the movie rights tn addition." Anagram,' epigram, telegram, tllm- - r poet-dow- st copy-reade- rs heart-stoppin- oen-tur- y. -- ' lamb" far-aw- Jonea-Sonpar- ltr poet-boxe- of-th- e rs Naw-thor.- Bee-Stin- cuss-tam- Three. Th tooeened ribbon and wrapping disclosed a link of, bologna aauaagU, flam aha!" cried D. K. T. Slam!" He eighteenth you printed this thing. Hla wrote it down. finger rested on Wllllte essay. "Why "That little eldt of yours," pursued the did you do It?" "whats the matter with It? replied caller, "has (wept the country. You have created a nation-wid- e demand. My D. K. T. on Is The matter with It, spoke Mr. Wllthe and I Journallatlo finger pulse, bram terribly, know. Can you repeat?' is that it slanders my He drew a paper from hls poeketbook. Wife. It makes her out to eat dog' bones. "Her I a list of subjects your Im- Friends of ours as far away as California aginary Willi Downey might start with: have eeen It and recognised her portrait, Tha Monetary System; the Cost of Liv- drawn by your scurrilous pen. Tb worst of Nations; Capital and of It la, the slander founded on fact ing; the League " Labor By what right do you air my domestic Over the stranger's heed an office hoy affairs before the publlo In this out whispered significantly: "Front office. rageoue fashion?" "Excuse me, said the poet, and hurWith agonised eyes the funnyman read ried away. ths essay as far as the fateful line, "It With the publisher In the front office was mra Will Brum. sat A. Lincoln Wilbram, quite purple in "My gosh!" he cried. the cheeks. They had a file of the Bee "How did you come to writ such a befoffe them. thing?" Mr. Oakes demanded. "Me write that thing? If I only had! Dledrlck, said Mr. Oakes, "on March Ths facts were recalled; the sending of Mr. Sloen and many reporters to Rutland, the need of extra hand at the copy table that day, "I found this contribution on my desk, It looked safe. In the rush of the morning I sent It up and never gave It another thought." "So It is really a boys essay, and not some of your own fooling?" suited Oakea "A boy' essay, yes, entered In Mr. Wilbram's prise oonteet, eliminated by the boy's teacher and shown by her to Mr. Sloan, who brought it to the shop. 1 know now that Sloan meant me to change the authors name to save tha kid from ridicule. It there were actual persons In . It, I'm as amazed as Mra Wllbram. 1 wonder, Oakes, said Wllbram, "that a dignified newspaper like yours would In the first placa print such trash. Worthington- Oakes looked down hi noee. D. K. T. took up ths challenge. Trash, air? If It s trash, why ha the Ashland Telephone company asked permission to reprint It on the front cover of their next directory?" Have they asked that? "They have; they say they will put a Uttl moral principle Into the telephone hogs tn this town. And didn't a Fifth Avenue minister preach a sermon on it last Sunday? Doesn't the Literary Review give It a half page this week? Hasn't It been scissored by almost every exchange editor in the land? Isn't there a man in the city room now offering me fifteen thousand a year to write a dally creed like It?" You can see, WUbram, said Mr. Oaket, "that there was no intention to injur or annoy. W are very sorry, but how can w print an apology to Mrs. Wil bram without making the matter worse?1 "Who Is this Will! Downey? demand 1 i er -- -- - f itan Newspaper Service, New York ) ' NO INDORSEMENT. r "Is your beef tender today asked the shopping husband. "Sir," replied the sentimental hutches "It Is as tender as a womans heart Gimme a pound of sausage, orders! the customer hastily. American Legion Weekly. -- ANOTHER WOMAN ESCAPES ft Mrs. McCumber Avoided Lydia L Pinkbams Vegetable Com-- ' pound in Time Operation , a Serious " bj Tailing who 1 the school n. t -- (Copyright, 1921; all rights reserved.) (Printed by arrangement with Metropol- , tela-phon- V Four, corrected WUbram. "First was , Mlggins. I dont count him, elr. Him and I started together. Miggins was a- failure. Then Fari-Sel- l; now lti prison. Next, McCardy; he. ran off to Simonda A Co. the minute they, crooked a finger at him. Last, young Prescott, who is now to coma her with hi father. Could you run tb department If you had It? 'Between you and I, replied Jacob Downey, sick, dlssy, trembling. "I been running the department these fifteen years. Mow'd you like to run It from now at manager? When I find a man with convictions and courage I advance him. The man who stands up le the man to sit down. That'a evolution. If you could stand up to a big butcher like Myers and talk Dutch to him the wav you did, I gueaa we need you at a desk. What do you eayr , A desk! A chance to rest hit feet! Jacob Downey stiffened. "Mr. Wllbram, I I got to tell the truth. I never said those te Myers. I Just walked out." things But you said them. You acknowledge 1 said em, ee after I got home. To the family I aald em. When I was In the meat ahop I only thought em. "80 Myers haa told me, said Jove, smiling. "Downey, my man, you've got more than mere courage. Youve got common sense to go with 1L Tell young Prescott to give you hie keys. After my first Georgetown, 111. was bom I suffered so with my baby 1 dont believe my moral principles left aide that I could wlU let me tell you," replied D. K, T, not walk across the "I'm positive Mr. Sloan's wont let him. floor unless I was all We received the essay In confidence. "Enough aald, Mr. Wllbram exclaimed humped over, holdGood day to you. 1 dont nee rising ing to my side. I docyour help, anyway, TU find out from the tored with several butcher doctors but found nc vn relief and they said It teemed necessary that Mr. Sloan should call at the Lance home that eveI would have to have ning Whatever Miss Angelina might an operation, My think of him, it was hie duty to take mother insisted on counsel with her for the welfare of Willie. my taking Lydia E. He began with the least Important of Pinkhanva Vegetatha grava matter upon his mind. ble Compound and 1 Do you auppose your protege could writ some more esfaye like the on we soon found relief. Now I can do ail my own work and it is the Vegetable Comprined? "Why. Mr. Sloan?" If MIsa Angelina had responded, "Why, pound that has saved me from anopera-lioI cannot praise your medicine too you bvena1 ehe would not have cut him more deeply than with her simple, "Why, highly and I tell all of my friends and Mr Sloan? neighbors what the Compound did for "A newspaper syndicate, he explained me. Mrs. Margaret McCumber, "has offered D. K. T. a fortune for a 27 S. Frazier St., Georgetown, Illinois. rles of them Mrs. McCumber is one of the unnum"Poor Willie! ahe elghed, "He flunked hie English exam, today. I'm afraid bered thousands of housewives who shall have him another year." struggle to keep about their daily tasks, He Is a lucky bov, said Sloan. while suffering from ailments peculiar "Do vou think so?" Clearly her meaning was, "Do you think to women with backache, siaeaches, he la lucky when a powerful newspaper headaches, bearing-dow- n pains and nergoes out of Hr way to crush him?" and if every such woman There Is no use approaching him with vousness, Ihould profit by her experience and givg a literary contract?" d the baseball Reason Just Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable . "Not with His team beat the Watersides opening. a trial they would get well. He ha more yesterday, aixteen-nothlnImportant business on band than writing, for newspapers. wrote for a 4newspaper, Since Sloan this was rather a dig. Nevertheless he persevered , A. Lincoln Wllbram Is on hie trail. Dr. B. E. Paddock, a physician, of KanDo you know that Willi libeled Mrs. sas City. Mo, Is giving away free an IllusWilbram1" "Oh! 8am. Surely I know about the trated book that telle how hundreds ot libel But la la Mr. Wllbram really has people have obtained wondetful result ha discovered? from a simple home method of treatment of "He came to the office today.' W in cases of Inflammation and catarrh as assogave him no Information; but he has the Gall Bladder and Bile Ductssend nam other sources. He Is bound to identify ciated with Gallstones. Juet Ken. to Dr. E. E. Paddock, Box bis enemy before he quits." v "I didn't know about the totalled tee City, Mo. "And teacher? ar l next January, r ' I years "Floor salesman all the while "Since 1900. Before that I wa a wrapper." "How many men have been promoted over your head?" ed Wllbram. rs vni Twenty-thre- e Jones-Nonpar- Chi-ne- . said Mr WUbram. On the first pay day In May the Impending sword cut it thread . Said a messenger to Jacob Downey: "They want you on the eighth floor. Downey set hla Jaws and followed. , In the mahogany paneled room A. Lincoln Wilbram turned from the window and tranaflxed hls servitor with eye that bored like steel bits. Downey, I understand that you have a literary son i -- Jacob held KIs breath, eved hie accuser steadily, and assured himself that it would soon be over now. "How about it, Downey?" 1 know what you mean, sir." "Did you say the things printed there? The little man wasted no time In examining tha newspaper clipping. "Yes, sir, I did. If it .has come to your lady's ear what I called her, I beg her pardon. But what I said I'll stick to. If stand fifteen minutes In line in a meat store or any other kind of etore, I've got a right to ba waited on ahead of anybody that rings up, I don't give a ding who she la Good for you, Downey, Let me see; how long have you worked for ue? half-hou- A Bates Gilbert. Illustrated-b- y de Jacob Downey bode his time despite HI aching feet. before bedtime she called hls lodgings. On that condition Miss Lanct conMr Sloan was not In. . sented. , Before the last call, she .donned her m. street. found wraps and went out to Plume At the office next morning Sloan the essay in his pocket and looked around Courageously she pulled the bell at numthe Willie's opened mother ber nine, the city room for X. K. T. The staff Whyl Mis n was no daylight saver: pro- door and cried, surprised, the Lance. fessing to burn the midnight oil IndriftIs Willie here? Have you seen the interest of hls employer, he seldom you let ma tell him bow It nine. ed in before half-papaper? Will and happened, and how sorry I am? "See me. S. S , wrote Sloan, Willie wm not receiving callers this dropped Willie's manuscript on D. K. T.e withevening. He had been sent toatbedRutland desk. out and supper. The explosion and Then he Jumped gasped, to tbs seemed, and office boys Jumped and had been Inas nothing. It home. the Downey gasped, and the religious editor dashed outburst the extent of the harm dawned the Slowly frantically for the stairs, outrunning , n. Angelina. staff down the hall, though he had upon Miss Mrs. ' of Miss entire A. Lincoln Wllbram wantwas It was evening In the home or man It other to go than any Twenty-seve- n hours further said Mrs. Downey, g ed the dog bone, Angelina Lance. woman there. A huge, her; had passed since Jacob Downey's exas- shock had rocked the set the tearfully. "Everybody will recognise building, exit from Myerss meat shop. windows to and the lights to and what Mr. Wllbram will do to us1 we0 perated Jake Poor The eyes, of Miss Angelina were bright swinging, andclattering told. brought down In a cloud dont need .to he uiftet, he has gone out to roam In ths ths accumulated dust of a quarter dark. He couldn't stay In the house." clock. Sloan New Jobs wera scares for men at hls Within two minutes by ths and and five reporters had started for ths time of life, and with hls feet. Dora high school. scene of the Rutland district, fifteen Jennie might have to leave Miss no us meant wrong, sure you 'Im where miles away, enough giant powder had gone up in one petrifio blast to rase Lance; Im sure there was a mistake. Is, after twen-t- v Gibraltar. A thriving town lay In ruins; But think how dreadful It Mr. Wilbram's two years of having hundreds of families were homeless; a backbite hls and around turn to then steamship was sunk at her dock: a pas- pay, wife like that, right out In print! senger train blown from the rails. followDoubly troubled now. Miss Lance deAt eleven o'clock on the night gathering Sloan Journeyed parted. Attracted by a quick ing that pitiful day, homeward to Ashland In an interurban of loiterers in the avenue, she witnessed have bethat easily a of controversy might trolley car In company with a crowd a police matter. refugees. A copy of the last edition of come said all If you liar a you say Youre the Bee comforted hls weary soul. shouted the burly Butcher The first page was a triumph. Count that to me;" head, never You you opend your on the office to back up its men In the Myers. In the papers field' There was the wholestory, the shrimp! Bawling me out whole horror end heartbreak, finely dis- and losing m my best customers! What-dy- e mean? played. There were hls photographs of ths retort from Jacob Back cam the wreckage; there. In a box, was hls Interview with the superintendent of the Downey with the sjiarl pf a little creature at of the was bay. a Rutland company; there map "If I didnt say It to you then, you big devastated area. Perhaps someone had found time even to do an editorial; In lobster, I say It to you now. All that would he com- the paper says I said I say. Whatll you that oase the clean-u- p do about plete. Hah! You!" Myers snapped hls finOpening the paper to the sixth page, he groaned; for the first .thing that gers In Downeys fiery face and turned esaway. caught his eye was Willie Downey's Mise Lanees path to the Hilldale column, say, at the top of D. K. T school next morning took her past three The butcher smiled blandly Into the with Willies name below the headline. s. Into the third she dropped transmitter. a note that she had carried from home. MOREL PRINSAPLES 'fetehind her not unbecoming would find her meseage exMr. as Sloah spectacles By Willie Downey solemn young she watched the face ceedingly brief, ahough (or, perhapa 12 Age had man in the Moms chair near the reading spent hours In combecause) she Morel Prinsaples Is when you have a posing It. lamp. some for to stick up In hi hand the solemn young man held nerve thing. Like last nlte my Father went In Mires Dear Sir; 'three sheets of school composition paper. As he read the pencil writing on page meet shop A stood in llns li or twenty I regret to discover that you lack one he lost his gravity. Over page two min. vatelng hie tiro A when his tirn moral principles. ANGELINA LANCE. he smiled broadly. At the end of the last oome he says to mr. Mires lie have ( poro chops. page he said: at that Inst. the telephone wrang A "D. K. T. couldn't have done better. before the last bell, the Janitor Just m. Mires slldd for It like it was 2nd base. brought in a prisoner for her custody, May I show it to him1" In the office of the Ashland (N. J.) Hold on Mires says Pa, who got here 1st, Willie Downeys head was bloody, hut he had Bee the solemn young man was known me or that bell wringer. unbowed; three seventh-gradeas Mr. Sloan. At Miss Lances he was Igscuse me Just 1 min. says Mr. Mires. vanquished In one round. "They guyed No I be ding If lie Igscuse you says me,7 said ha ms Bam. The mentioned D. K. T. conduct called a They ed the celebrated column Pa, 1st come 1st served is the rool of on the editorial page of Mr. Sloans Jour- blsness all over. prayer and song waited while Morning But Mr. mires wyped hls hands on hls teacher and pupil spoke earnestly of nal, his levity being - offset by the sobriety of Mr. Sloan, who-- was assistant city apern A ansered the wring A It was mra. many things; while the teacher1 eye Will Brum, she was going to eat out at filled with teara and the pupil's heart editor. On two evenings a week Mr. Slosn frends so she wants 2 lbs, bolony A filled with high resolve to bring home the fled the cares of the Fourth estate and a dog bone baseball championship of the Ashland So then Pa give him hale eolumbui. becune Sam In the Publlo School league and lay It at Miss presan our Vt ence of Miaa Angelina. He, was by no bin hs said, "Here I watebig feet, or perish In the attempt means her only male admirer. In the yet when some lasy lofer of a woman has Angelinas Sixth grade at the Hilldale public school been reading a novle or a sleep all after A. Lincoln Wllbram prise went to The she bad thirty others; among these Wil- noon pfhonea you to rush her up some a small boy named Aaron Levtnsky, lie Downey, whose name appeared on ev- dog meet in youre Autto with gass 36 whose English was St per cent pur. ery page of the composition Mr. Sloan eta A charge it to her acct. A may be Little Aaron's essay was printed as the bad read. you wont get youre munny for three 4 centerpiece in Wllbram, Prescott A Co.' With a host of other munts, wy you run to wate on her while page in the Bee; little Aaron Invested bis I stand A shovle my feet in yeure saw gold in thrift stampa and the tumult and Willie had the striven throughout city that day for a prise of ten dollars In gold dust like a ding mexlcan pea own or the shouting died. offered by the public, spirited A. Lincoln some thing. Miss Angelins sat alone every evening of the week. True, Mr. Sloan had tried WUbram, of Wilbram. Prescott & Co., . What says Pa is there about a for the best schoolboy essay on Moral who takes ths trubbls to come for to right the wrong; he had called Miss hls meet A pay cash for it A dellwert It Angelina on the telephone, which he Principles. Moral principles, gentlemen; that is him seifs that malks him so Meen A Lo should have known was an what we need In Ashland. How many that he hass to be pushed one side tor thing to do; he had also sent ainadequate men do you know who stand up for their some body that has not got Gumpthun banknote to Willie, in cere of Mist Lancs conviotlons or have any to stand up enoughf to order her dog bones before the at the Hilldale school, together with hie for? rush our? warm- - felicitations upon Willie's success If the head of a department store is s Do you think that pebple with a as a llterateur. Did Willie know that his Is than bit thunderous at times, think what a better mine, fine first effort had been reprinted, with munny any Jovian position he occupies. In'hls cloud do you think because I walk In here on proper credit. In the great New York throne room on my hine leggs that I Am a piker A mahogany paneled firt, eighth floor, he rules over a thou- cheep skalt. because If so I will bring Planet? True, too, the illustrious D. K. T. had sand mortals, down to ths little Jacob along my telapfhone contract nex time A written Miss Angelina an abject apology, In will be reckon the then show basement, who, if they you most witty and poetic, , taking all the Downeys' may you who blame to himself and more than exoner, do not quits weep with delight when he nise me as a free born american to a smile, tremble, at least, dont haff to trald where I haff bis gives them play friend, Mr. at his frown. When a large body of 2nd fiddle to a chow pupp Its agents ating Sloan. morel prinsaples says Pa." popular opinion accords him greatness, my back to Its went banknote But the were he not undemocratic to affect hu - With theas wlrds he walks out In the donor even a rejeotlon slip; and ran althogh hls feet hurt him dear down D. K. Twithout mility and speak small? humor was fatal to his client'! I speak of common men, said Mr. to Washington St. to the nex meet store, Ghastly are they who Jest in the WUbram (this was at a Chamber of Com- but by that time they were all cloased cause. of shadow tragedy. Mr. 6!can and D. merce banquet); of men whose living de- up so we had prinsaples for supper lnsted K. T. did not know, of course; Miaa Anpends upon the , pleasure - of tbelr su- of poro chopa i not had thought It of any uee to gelina Pa says If he run a store A had periors. How few there are with fearless tell them of the sword which they hsd A no body to anser H A do notheye! pfhore a thread above the head up by hung He scarcely heard the laughter from a ing else he would ring it'e neck, because of h Downey, t group of building contractors at a side while the telapfhone Is the grateet billAs for Jacob Downey, he limped about table, who had not seen a servile eye ing of the alge, but a pfhone with out the basement at among their workmen in many moons; an opperater is like a ham ommalst with amid his hardware in Prescott A Co., careworn, for a worthy project had popped Into his the ham let out. He says the reason the Wilbram, mind at that Instant.. How was the moral Chane Stores have such a pull with the haunted of eye, expecting the bouse to backbone of our yeomanry to be stiffened publlo Is becuase the man behlne the crash about hls ears at any moment On save through education? Why not a prise counter is not ail the time Jilting you In doe not with impunity publish the wife contest to stimulate the Interest in ths the middle of your order A chacing off of ones employer as a lazy loafer. The A. Lincoln Wilbrams hed servants rising generation In this obsolete subject? to be eweet to some society dame with a In many an Ashland home where bi- dog 4 miles away. and dined at home To Mr. Wllagain, cycles, roller skates, wireless outfits and Ma says she dont kno why we have a bram said Mrs. Wllbram on evening: other such extravagances were strongly pfhone "It Is the strangest thing. In the last any how becuase every time she had since been is desired, the question It a woman but In A Jiggles month I've met scarcely a soul who asKed: "Pa, what are Mora) Principles?" theyouselng A says will you pleas hang up hasn't asked me silly questions about hook While some of the resulting assays Indi- eo can call a Dr. A when Ma hangs up Mudge end hi diet. Mra Trevelyan and cated a badness in paternal minds, not A listens In to see who Is sick, wy everybody. And they always look so so tbs production that Mr, Sloan read In thisthen woman calls up a lady frend A they queer." Mias Lancs's parlor nock Ma back A 4th over the wyre for Mr. Wllbram was remtnded that while But I couldn't let you print It," said ours A eome times they say I bet aha is Miss -- Angelina. coming home that evening with a packI wouldn't have Willie listening In on us dont you. age in his hand he bad met Trevelyan; shamed forf anything. He may be weak So ss I say let us all stick up for our and Trevelyan had inquired, What's In grammar, hut be Is captain of every Morel Prinsaples like my Father come that? A bone for the dog? athletic team in the school. He ha told what me in confidence that he means to spend may. Tomorrow, said A. Lincoln, TU ask rv ths prise money for a genuine horse-hid- e him what he was driving at " catching mitt. What Was the packager queried hls Bright were Miss Angelina's eves, hut If I cross out his name, or give him not with mirth. It was unspeakable, this wife. c a nom de plume? s' fetched It from the hall. It had thing that Ur. Sloan had done. Thrice sixth-grade- By L. H. Robins eome to him at the store that day by registered mall. From Hlldegarde, said Mra. Wtlbram, noting the Los Angeles postmark. HUde-garwas honeymooning among the orange groves. Wrote the happy bride: DOWNEY waited In line at the meat chop. A footsore little man was he. All day Ions, six day a week for twenty-tw- o year, he had stood on hi feet, trotted on them, climbed on them. In the hardware department of 'WUbram, Prescott A Co and still they would not toughen; still they would hurt; still to sustain his spirit after I oclock he had to Invoke a vision of slippers, the Evening' Bee, and the sympathy of Mrs. Downey and the youngsters. To the picture this evening he had added pork chops. The woman next In line ahead of him named her meat. Said the butcher, with a side glance at the clock, A crown1 roast takes quite a while, lady. Could tend It In the morning? No, the lady wished to see It prepared. Expressly for that purpose had ehe cornsa out In the rain. Tomorrow she gave luncheon. "First coma first served, thought Jacob Downey, and bode bis time In patience, feeling less pity for his aching feet than for Butcher Myers. Where was the charity In asking a hurried man at five minutes to six oclock to frill up a roast that would not see the inaid of the oven before noon next day? Now, crown roasts are qne thing to him who waits on faUen arches, and telephone calls are another. Scarcely had Downey's opening home te speak for pork chops cut medium, whefi off went the beU and off rushed Butcher Myers. Sharply hevwarned the unknown that this was Myerss meat shop. Blandly he smiled Into the transmitter upon learning that bis caller was Mrs. A. Lincoln Wtlbram. . By the audience In front of the counter the following social Intelligence was presently Inferred: That Mr. and Mrs. Wtlbram had Just returned from Florida; that they had en- joyed themselves ever so much; that they hoped Mr. Myers's little girl wet better; that they were taking their meals at the Clarendon pending the 'mobilization of their house servants: that they expected to dine with the Mortimer Trevelyans Ihiseveningi that food for the dog maya with propriety be brought home from hotel, but not from the Mortimer Trevelyans'; that there was utterly nothing In the Icebox for poor Mudges supper; that Mudge was a chow dog purchased by a friend of Mr. Wilbram's In Hongkong at so much a pound, just as Mr. Myers purchased live fowls; that Mudge now existed not to become chow but to consume chow, and would feel grateful in his dog heart If Mr. Myers would, at this late hour, pend him two admittedly pounds of boiogna and a good bone; and that Mrs. WUbram would consider herself under deep and lasting obligation to Mr. Myers for this act of kindness. Mr. Myers assured Mrs. WUbram that 4t would mean no trouble at all; he would send up the order as soon as his boy came back from delivering a beefsteak to the Mortimer Trevelyans. He filled out a slip and stuck It on the hook. Now, Mr. Downey. he said, briskly. But Jacob Downey gave him one tremendous look and limped out of the shop. 1921. Mr. Downey sit down only after he has stood up to a bellicose butcher, an enraged employer, and two worrying wives, his own and employers 4he life of the town, including one perfectly good love affair (which note ibid) being upset by Master 'Willie0 Downeys fling at literature. Downey Sits .Down TVlr. 14, Corn-boun- g. GALL ST0N 6T-OT- "If I didnt say It than f sty It new. Whatll you do about It? w I |