| Show MO E THE FABLE F E OF THE DENOE MAN AND THE REFORMERS once upon a ahne in a certain overgrown village that had incorporated corp orated itself its as a city thero dwelt a gift man who extracted a livelihood froni from the innocent and unsuspecting by inions of r a series series of dark transactions ue ile sold beautifully engraved stock certificates to rich widows sparkling white white sapi sap hires lires to the peasantry mid and made books on faraway far away races all and prize fig lits lit in tile alie tile the winter months when business was slack lie promoted wrestling jun matches telles and scalded scalped theatre tickets and did tile lit alwart arni arm of the law descend lica vily upon hrs shoulder and halt his 1081 sur stir transactions it did not for lie ho robe himself in fine raillie raiment nt and was lie not known down the entire title line as a prince of good mellown fellow fel lown 6 ile he certainly i lid did lie ile certainly was but time camu came when tile the en ell little on oil liis his chi cla destine operations began to wear oft off and they were be becoming coniing parent widows beall to place their in in the hands of their lawyers visitors from tile the tall uncut 9 grew rew wary and ilis insisted isted upon a jewelers examination before exchanging tiny any more allore bullion for white rocks police began all to inforno ordinances against book makers and ticket sc alpers and the sports of the ver grown village insisted upon square wrestling and horse racing ini im inedia toly folloN following vi jig elioso foolish reforma our erstwhile prince of good follows fellows noticed liis ilis tr tion users seis taking on oil a sheen of bellec reflection tion and his patent leath ors rs often went li hungry tingry for or a shine now it liappess liap pens that when a confidence on I 1 man is severed front from a a prosperous appearance lie alo 0 SO is severed from many other things lings ti and so it was that one cold ni morning orning lie came caine down town with a 0 holo in ono one pocket and a cau cancelled celled meal ineal ticket in the other ue ile had resource res ourse to iut but one remaining possibility gently folding his overcoat under liis his arni arm by be transported it to the shop of a jewish acquaintance and exclia exchanged liged it for a rail road ticket to a community mi hampered by and refo reformers MORAL all pastures however green must sometime die |
