The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-27

use OF his horse and buggy and a key TO thu
Uiqsl cellar and any other old thing reasonable
ness, but couldn't see Jacksonville, III. any
longer l went to Springfield. H., took an
sxlo view OF the house in which Abraham Lin,
on ABOUT 3,oN prints from the view. advertised
tor agents IN ~. Louis and other tow ms where
me black man and brother abides in large
quantities and my agents sold The black popula-
tlon the photographs Of the Springfield residence
OF Lincoln as the house in which the Great
Em1nrlpator wrote the Emancipation Proc
ihmation. The, agents got 81 a throw for
the pictures, and SIX weeks from the day that
struck Springfield | was 81 900 TO the good. and
hungry for a sight. Of the old town.
got into New York at midnight. with moth
!lg pm money all over me, and ! went uptown In
the I'rlghta away to see how my fiat was maxim
ON; on my way. up | figured that I'd assemble
nome al over again. | touched the button and
got the click, and then | felt that the Dog wa q
lai,htn! Old canine TO h. still In possession. !
c"nIhnt ngir" how he'd paid the rent and kept
W" plant going, but when the click opened the
Downstairs door felt that it was all right
ne Dog stood outside the door of my Hat
When ! got up the stairs. When he saw me- |
thought his jaw was going to fall on the landing
ana break, The Dog was n startled Chink. all
Hello, ki-Yi,' / said to him. In, home early.
amt H. Got anything 70 eat?'
ne Dog could only gasp, His manner put mo
h"xt TO IN. fact that there was something doing
J, pushed the door open-and il was all of
There were only twenty-,ix people lying around
or hunkS IN my Hat and hitting the pipe, that's
,h Oh" % me most prosperous %ven.hok ,lay3uts
ms side, Of san Francisco. Besides the Dog
hi,il>eii there were four other Chink- to cook the
put. This l. the way | found my happy home.
! took the Dog out to the kitchen and gave
nm The gaze. He told me that he hadn I
expected me back, and thar he had been tempted
paid the rent, telling the landlord that | was
away on all extended vacation, had assembled
ms layout ard gathered his clientele, and he
sure ,Ma' III a big way of business when l butted
in. He told me al This calmly and grinningly.
aud ! couldn't help but feel then and there that
II ia been born with that Cele>tial's nerveld
white yacht, a-cruising the .fgean. sea;
told the Dog TO get en- out and he did. lie
went from bunk 10 bunk and handed out the
word that he'd bean tipped off that there was to
be a raid, and the bunch Of hop-smokere got up,
one by one. and crawled away. Then the, Dog
chased his -four p%ill-cook-, opened the windows,
and rice showed me the $500 he'd hauled down
50 Tar with the Joint. and told me that Tor inc
time being he wa7 too strong to work The n"T'
mor4lng the Dog gathered up HI layout. made
me Ms Nmiling d"voIr-, and that, where ne
drODs out.
put the $500 worth Of furniture in storage,
and after a couple of months ! forgot Ia pay III"
storage.
All this happened six year, ago.
Last week | was walking through Madison
Squarr. wondering why the h9boes sitting on
NV VIZ ~ N'Al'll ' t'Llti' w" NV '''''
once and forever e. like all Of Ms here present
did when the gnN got too strong and we had
too when | got n clip on the back that sent ~"
forward about twelve feet, wheeled around
There was tho aN-iumnte Of NV happy home.
the funny raper artist, lpOn whom ] hadnt
claprcd a lamp since that time d taken him
10 the bug ward when n saw the carrots grow
ing out Of the walls and ceilings of our eight
room Arcadia. lie looked all to the good, fat,
sassy and dre~sed-uu-h he n candidate for
election to membership in This club al tho next
quarterly meeting and after we'd talked II
over for an hour or So he dragged me over 70
Bdvoune, y, j.. to have dinner ri his plant. !
walked into his derned rice little home, was in
trod lnod 10 his pretty, tidy little wife. "A" 2
couple q fat Young one. PLAYING around ana
th"n that queer feeling that Id seen II all be.
fore crcpt over me. ! rubbed my lamu- and
looked again. The funny raucr artist stood
a Ittl" away from mo, grinnirS,
l1oOfs kind . familiar 10 you, CHI sad he.
! couldn't get nay owes ava from that tur-
niluro. II seemed ~ if ! knew every stock Of Il.
II the same old u A., said Ia. bought
il at auction when ] waS married thrc" years
ago, wien the storage establishment sold II 10
paw overdue storage charges.
4 -tHvpd nil wight. and slnpt in the same
hra.--Gnd-Wh ite bed in which I'd reuosed In my
own htDUv homo six va1r- before,
Then the Harlem Club Of Former Alcoholic
Dcg"nsratpS sang two verses Of "lir Don't
Want No HaoDy Home, \ohoS, ard 'Ie meet
INK was AZ an end.