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Show THE ORIGINAL "MR. DOOLSV." Character Made Jmmorta! b Finley .Peter Dunne. Tho original Mr. Dooley, now gone hlo way, was a character well known to George Ade, John McCutchcon, Vanco Thompson and many othor Ch'oago newspaper Ken long before Poter Dunne made ilm a national celebrity. It was iVanco Thompson, by tho way, who swooped down on tho old gentleman in a sleepy hour, borrowed two dollars from hlra before be-fore ho rightly realized it, and vanished van-ished again into the outer darkness while ho was still rubbing his oyes. This llttlo eplsodo ho subsequently roforrod to 83 "th" hurricane touch." Similar anecdotes of the old man's wit are cherished as particular possessions. pos-sessions. George Ado has one that ho ontitlCH "human gratitude." Lato one night he was surprised to find tho proprietor asleep behind his own bar. On .being rouasd, that worthy showed a marked disinclination for business and a strong desire td be let alone. So A pulled down tho blinds, stacked un the cuspidors, locked the cash register nn'd callod a cab. With some difficulty he elicited an address and then for what Beemod hours thoy Jounced over out-of-the-way streets until at last the cabbie drew up before a ramshackle little box ot a frame house with u stairway running up the outsldo. All this tlmo tho passenger had slept sweetly. Out of the cab and up tho rickety stairs, puffing nnd blowing, Ade bundled his charge. On tho top stop he lost his footing and tho two of them rolled higgledy-piggledy higgledy-piggledy to tho street. The old gon-tlomnn gon-tlomnn sat up regarded Ado with tho utmost Indignation, and spoko the first words of tho evening: 1 "Jaro," said he, "yo thrlpped mo." |