Show T c c t f t J i a I OUR SHORT STORY Copyright 1910 by B S Hampton H i T often oten that a n town like Kilo has bas hasa t a real Journalist In Its midst and when whon I It does docs have havo It t ought to bo be proud and IW thankful ul but ut right at nt first Kilo was more mora dazed and startled than anything SV G else dice I cay say that Kilo when It acquired tho real journalist was Voas like a 0 nice motherly old roW cow that had sono gono out Into tho the back lck pasture with tho the bost best and mildest Inton Inon dons In tho world to have hae an ordinary Gentle renU nob bbl calf calt and then found all nIl of or a sudden that she oho had given en birth to a n wheelbarrow row loaded with fireworks lighted fireworks at that with pin wheals and Roman candles and skyrockets and andred rod red and blue lights all going off oft at nt once At first that cow would bo ho surprised then she Bho would ibo Iho pained and disappointed and then aho would probably probably probably ably rot got used to It IL ext to a hen or the tho American Public tho aho cow Is tho tiro biggest fool 1001 on earth and will get used to anything oven een a 0 yellow journalist When Whon Thomas Jefferson Jonea Jones sold tho Kilo Kl o Times ho bo had bad been editing and publishing It and working tho the old Washington band han press for about ton ten years and ho he had made mado It ono of oC tho the most slow going sowS respectable desiccated weekly papers In Mid dlo Iowa one ono of ot the tho kind that If I he was sick Rick somo 60 O week ho he could week lasts fasts paper and nobody ly would notice tho difference and anel Kilo bad got used to that kind hind of ot paper and rold liked It it But ut Davis 7 y was as a different sort of oC man Ho saw that tho Times needed nee ed a lIUo put Into It and ho put It In On tho paper for which Davis Dals had been potting typo before ho he came camo to Kilo Ufo life meant red Ink headlines h and scandal and erimo crimo on tho first page e and tho very ery first number of or the tho Times lie io got out had a Wao Waco of or headline across tho top of oC tho first page In red with subheads of oC Kilo Police Rankly Inefficient and Tho The Criminal Still At Large e That was the best host ho could do with tho news newa at hand which was wag that a chicken had been stolen from Doc Weavers hen coop but ho mado made up for Cor It by a n startling Lator Later Item Hem at tho bottom ottom I of or tho page pago In d lines telling that Just as the tho Times was going to press It was learned that the tho chicken had not been stolen but hut had been beon dis discovered discovered covered by Mrs Irs Doc oc Weaver under tho the back Porch on eleven eggs Davis been publishing tho Times Tinges moro more than a n month and a halt before ho bo saw that it was going to strain him bim to keep up tho the speed ho lie had bad sot for tor himself olt Tho minute Davis stepped off tho the train when ho came to Kilo he lie set his o oyes ca on Old Billings s and gave ayo him his bin proper news newn news value There Thoro was wa Old Billings bunched up on an egg ogg case against the side sille of or tho the depot right tin In the heat of or the sun with his hat slip ped I f ped down onto the Hie platform mid and his life head hend lolling over oyer onto one shoulder and snoring like an automo bile bUo horn with a n grunt brunt on the tho full ull blast and a treat oho olo on the tho and his ills face rind and nose as nii ns 11 tho the side eide of or tho the Kilo Ihlo Livery Feed and Sale Stable St blo Nobody can deny den that Old Billings s looked drunk It If finis ITS Jarley had wanted to make a t waxwork figure figuro and had made ono one with a inside of ot It ft to tomako make mako tho the chot rise i ind nil Jail flail and a tooter looter to snore and had called It t Sleeping Off Ot His aha sho havo done better than to copy Old BIT lingo Just as ho looked when whon Davis stopped from tho the train Old Billings was a perfect imitation of ot him himself self soli as ho would ha have hoo o looked looke if it ho had b a d boon dead i drunk only ho drunk and never nover had been In fa hIs bis Ufo life Ho ao was a teetotal hard blue Iowa dowa prohibitionist I dont wonder It H riled Davis News dows values ono one of ot the tho things Davis Das was WaG especially atro strong t on A A man mail 1 jiho Vho Is n a modern jour journalist jOI with gallons of ot red re ink Isla and fourteen on assorted fonts of ot woodell oare head type has to bo ho strong on Old Billings He said afterwards that ho to caro for his looks and that if It f ho had been beon looking for a n aman aman man to put Tut a n news value on ho would havo bno put it on someone so no else elso but that ho had worked under many manyan an editor and ho knew they wore all more or less I ss crazy and that Davis was nas boss If U Old Billings was tho kind of or man Davis had picked out as having maving a news value the tho thing to do was not to complain but hut hutto butto butto to get tho tho the news nCi S out of oC Old Billings Then ho he asked Davis about how high ho he toad had sot Got Old Billings Billinga news flows value and when ho heard hoard ho sat down and whistled ono one long whistle and scratched ills s head It Qt looked like lIko a good deal of ot nova to got out of ot Old Billings Tho rhe next nat number of or tho the Times had bad plenty of red ink and tho the words at tho top of or the tho first pago page were The liTho Carnival It took Kilo fry by storm and mado more talk than anything since the tho Civil War Kilo KlI known there thero was going to be bo a carnival but it t was all set seL forth In tho the Times so thero could bo bono bono no doubt about It H IL It was to bo be a merchants car a tremendous celebration In honor of or Kilos prosperity and thero there wore to tobo bo ho tho populace In costume and decorated streets and fireworks In tho evening and the day was to bo ho the 1st of or Oc October October October tober Casey wrote role tho whole thing and had an Order of at March for the Oho parade and the whole thing was as ns attractive as It could bo be in print By Bj tho time limo the Times Timis T mu camo came out again 11 In a n week later everyone cerone was pretty well tell used to tho the idea and Casey C soy called It tho the Times Carnival without anyone car caring lag ing and it brightened up to go around and talk tho the thing up with tho the merchants Casey Case Just took things easily casU All ho he did was Wo to alt nit ground In front of o the grocery or tho the livery stable of fib t i tho th o hotel botch and pat loaf but ho always happened to sit si not hoU h to Old Billings yo JO over oer ties been to Parka Paris Mister Billings ho said one day when they thoy worn wore sitting together Well no I 2 aint admitted Old Billings reluctantly reluctantly reluctantly antly I r dont doni say but tout what Ive 0 thought some of or but I aint noyer nover seemed to find time as as you jou ou might say aay takes dine Now NOT but aint that a pity said Casey I was hopin yo ye had teen been I was wao thero once I was as young oung an d tI wao wan Just you YOU had beon boon Thom Thorn French do too ho knowin how to run a carnival better belter than what Davis doss does Im rm disappointed d yo ye aint seen seon a Paris carnival Mister Billings Yo Ye would bo ho botho hotho tho kind of ot a n man mau could tell Jell Davis a tiring thing or two about It ItI t 1 I guess maybe I could said Old Billings with t J got a remarkable memry for things I remember In n the fall o 0 MIf Il If yo ye O had peen been to Paris Pam said yo could toll Davis about that there confetti An yo ye 0 would do doGO doso so GO No one that has boon been to Paris like yo ye would have been 1 oen would forget to tell Davis about that there confetti bo th first thing thine yo would tell teU him about It now I 1 guess bUess I 1 lot much stand in tho tiro way of army my him said Old Billings tf lI Dont ont nt you ou reckon ho knows about that th t thero ther that Ho MHo do not noUN said Casey y positively How should ho Ito an Rn him never harm bavin been to Paris I wager thoro bo bono no ono in Kilo K low butt but you JOu an mo do know about it Mister Billings An Ana a grand sight It Is 19 to tobo tobo tobe bo be sure suro to see seo CO tho t o air full tullo o It t an th coy ored ered with faith Ith It I Ah Ahi tie a pity pit wo two are arc to have havo none of ot It hero horo with Itu tho the carnival an nn still Have yo ye over ever been boeri on on th boulevards In Paris como come Mardi Gras but no noI nol nolI I remind me yo ye say cay yo ye 0 have ban not Confetti but confetti nn plenty of 0 carnival with fth olse but b t confetti I would no 00 give a dang daug d for a I carnival without confetti air Mr Billings would you your Do Dog me mo If it I would said eald sal Old Billings Tin Tm o d Davis Davia aint thought on It Moro now Casey C waved his hs hand band In the air to dismiss Davis from consideration To To Yo know knoY what hat ho bo is la like ho said eald of or n but thlin thim rod headlines o his I 1 nl I IIo Ho fo Io paused wistfully on tho the word and then his lace brightened and anI ho turned to o 0 Old Billings and lowered ills his voice to a whisper An why wh not havo bavo confetti ho exclaimed Thero would ibo ho good money In it t for some Como ono one Mr Billings tJ If it they the had bad a monopoly of oC th confetti cont tU business for fon forth r th lb Kilo carnival Th people would bo be after goin crazy over it they would tako to It so BO 80 Ten cents p a bag wo G could co ld get for tor it an to think It costs coss to make But no not nol he wild did letting Jetting his face grow t 1 OW TH sad Gad ld again I have not th timo time t make mako It Old r s proved moved restlessly y on his chair l I e et t t r 1 L j v r I OJ I cr t SA printing big bIc headlines over unimportant ant new ne news so long that he could hard Siard hardly rd ly y believe that OW Old Billings lurking around sort of ot playing n t Joko o on h n him waking n the tho hews flows look true tr true o But Old Billings He was down d cellar gutting cutting out and onci getting gotting mighty tired of tho Job j b Ho have tho the right rl ht kind of or shears shame nor no tho the right t kind kl d of fingers finse to cut out confetti tho the size ot of ota ofa a lead pencil end and ie Ire was pot got potting ting dug madder and mad dor Ho Io zoo GOO why hy fu Cetti had to tobo tobo bo ho so BO small anyway and arid b by b b ale 1 J I 1 1 I h rI j w i r P aJ iGn J i R I l It so soAr Ar T 1 et k i t 1 L f LJ a rJ h hI S oJ II I Could Cut Cat Out a cz Lot of oj Confetti Con I You Let Lol L l Mo Try Tj Il It Mr Casey CU J Howa OW values Davis Dais Ho He was oms could tell tho the news value of ot anything at tho the first glance clance Davis could look at a man manor or woman and give Cho that person his or her news value and ho was proud of or the faculty fac faculty faculty So as soon BOon as S he ho saw Old Billings asleep on the tho th station platform he ho save gave ayO him his news new value and it IL was a big one He expected Old Billings to furnish a 0 great many pages of or during each year roar Old Billings asleep there looked like lIko crime and I debauchery and our dissipated leis Jels leisure ure tire classes all In one and expected him to behave as such After Arter Davis Da Is had been publishing 1 tho the Kilo Times a n tow few months he ho began to look worried The Tho strain of ot getting cottIng up a 0 red typo sensation for his first page vage page every week In a a town t i 1 whore where nothing happened was beginning to tell on him and all his Ws efforts to do tho the modern Journalistic thing had bad not boomed his hb cir dr circulation d r the tho way w ho had thought It would Tho The Times had h d hind had ono one hundred and six moro more or less leGs paying pa subscribers when Thomas Jefferson Jones sold eold out and after atter several months of oC Davis av It had ono one hundred and seven soven but ut Davis learned that tho the now one was lS less paying than any of or tho the others Kilo did not appreciate rod red Ink and a ld that worried Davis and news was rag hard to got get and that worried him and rold tho the advertisements actually fewer In number than they thoy had bad over been boon and that made him mad But the thing that ho bo hated worst wo t of all was that Old Billings lived up tip to his news value It Boomed to cast a slur Glur on Daviss Journalistic ability and Old Billings do a 0 that would look oven oen plausibly like Ilko nova newa In tho the Rimes Ho lie cover noer had bad dono done much in tho the making line Hue ox ex except copt to bo be born and ho help that tbt The Tho only other othor news ho he seemed liable to furnish was a 0 death notice DoUce and c Qt at tho the slow Blow easygoing rate he ha was Tas 1 s liv living lag ing It looked as QS though ho would 1 Davis Old Billings wasting any energy Ho no generally Bat sat down in front of o the tho hotel or OT tho the grocery or tho livery stable blo In m the tho morning mornIn rind find sat Mt hero bore until and thou than sat lint In front of or tho depot until supper and attar after that ho sat In front of ot tho the grocery or the tho tb livery stable or tho the hotel until bedtime It Was no nota floe a wearing Ufo life not tho the nervous prostration kind Hard Hardly ly l anyone anyon died of ot nervous prostration In Kilo but it began to o 0 look as If it Davis would Old Billings wore on him so And then than Just as Davis Pans had 1194 about decided that his health was W 9 giving out entirely his only compositor wandered out of at town and never noor camo back For l or two con Davis struggled along weakly trying to typo as well eIl as flows and keep an on oyo em on Old Billings and ond the day da ho took to his bed deciding decd tag ing Ins that ho was teas going Gomb to dlo die of or It t all an Casey Y wan wandered dered dore I Into Kilo and hunted bunted up the tho Times which very c hard to find and nd struck Davis tor a job jobY ob f Y I I ti It was wag W 9 new now lifo life and leo Ice cream forra forI for Davis for tor Casey CasO wan wao no one of or WB his own kind only more moro so Ho Ilio was a n mod modern modem ern em a Journalist too but ho was a low few years ears In advance of or Davis 1 Ho tako take tho news nowa as be Jle found It and swell it up big bib If Jr there thero any news he be made mado somo some Ho He belonged to that school of or Journalism and aud it itIs t Is Iso a pretty good school to belong to in a 0 town like lUto Kilo lillo As An soon as ho heard beard about Old OM millings Billings and how bow Davis had put pul his aIls faith in him and bow ho Old Billings had betrayed that faith ho went ent out and had a look at C 4 By ELLIS ELLES PARKER BUTLER U do no good t havo have a wee bit of It said Casey sadly Wo We would bo ho all an sold Bold out of ot it before th tho middle of or th day take ons ens ns of at it t th di peo people 1 00 be bo so BO crazy to get It It no use usa of ot It Let it go so Seems liko like a pity not to make money when those there thores Is s a n to t said eald Old Billings nervously Might nt I make mako some Borne confetti Mr r Casey An listen to that now exclaimed Casey Joy Joyfully joyfully fully Sure it takes you f t think of or things air Ir Billings But no ho be said dropping Into sadness as as suddenly sudden I as ns ho had been roused to Joy Us not t toe Ibe beth thought th l ht of or Ye would get tired before th di Job was half halt done Mr Ir Billings It takes a 0 lot o 0 confetti t make malte enough for tor a n carnival an too little Is worse than none at all Yo Ye would tiro Ur out before yo made mado enough Mr r Billings Lett go goI I tiro lr out sold said Jd Old Billings eagerly confetti aint no harder than woodis woodis wood is it IU I used t bo ho a fine fino wood when I was as young |