The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-02-27
CONTRIBUTION TO Y P. A. S. =. S.

paper man and a sport Dick is square
| sport of the kind that one ties TO- He
likes to play the races better than 10 eat
and what he doesn't know about horses
| IS SO little that it's smaller than the
small end OF a 100 to 1 shot Dick IS
only gambler as playing the races con-
| stitutes one.
Richard s. DAILY has brother whose
( name is Robert s. DAILY. Robert : cannot
be called a sport in any sense of the
| word. He doesn't play the races and he
lacks gameness and lot Of other things
| that go to make up The true sport as well
1 as the true man. Robert S regards
! Richard s. 20 A great extent as an OUT
/ cast. The amount OF brotherly affection
/ that he extends to him wouldn't test the
| holding power of the spoon that goes
with an after dinner coffee. II Is hard 70
tell which Robert S. most disapproves
I Of in Richard SIS career-his being a
newspaper man or his being a sport.
They are both equally low in the estima-
! ton of Robert s, who makes soap on a
| large scale and is the vice president Of
the great Young Peoples Association
/ Tor the Suppression Of High Spirits.
I Richard s. writes good poetry, while
Robert S. confines himself TO prose Of the
/ kind usually found in business letters
I Perhaps Richards being a good poet,
while Robert is a poor prose writer, has
something to do with the matter.
| one DAY last summer Dick Daily was
approached by a man whom he knew as
a gambler pure and simple. His name
was Hank Powers.
DAILY" said Hank, II have friend
who has invented new kind of wheel OF
fortune. It's an intricate thing and full
| Of interest. People like to work it just
| to see the wheels 90 round It's so at
| tractive that there doesn't have TO be
anything crooked about it. The chances
in favor of the house can be seen at a
| glance by the player, ard they are strong
enough TO make the working OF the thing
/ bring big money without the necessity Of
working a skin game. Ny friend Billy
Johnson is going TO take the thing
through the state to all the country
fairs. There's nothing like it ever hap
pened. Now l told Billy that you could
write stun that il a good barker got hold
of the people would come focking around
| like blackbirds in corn time. Billy's as
square as a die. but he's blown in pretty
near everything he has in making this
/ machine, or rather. the two dozen of
them, for that is the number he is going
10 put on the road. The United States
treasury won't be in it when the season
closes, which will be some time in the
late winter, because tours are to be made
in the South, where it's summer all the
time. Now, II you'll write some stuff, the
/
write jokes and poems and such like. that
Billy's bargers can use he'll make it all
right with you when he gets baeK.'
.Au right, Hank" said Dick, I'D do
/ it for you. anyway, provided the wheels
are square, and 1 have the time just
now"
Richard S. Daily wrote many pages OF
his best stuff, sent IL to Hank Powers,
and never thought anything more about
it until the other day.
Billy Johnson, the wheel OF fortune
man, did not know Dick DAILY by sight,
and did not even know he was a news
paper man and sport. Billy got back
the other day from his trip that had
lasted many months. All his machines
had made money, and there hadn't been
kicker. for things were square on their
face and behind their face as well Hank
Powers was out Of the city. Billy John
son remembered his obligation 70 Rich
ard S. DAILY. He started out the morn
ing after he reached Chicago with s., geo
in greenbacks in a neat little bundle TO
be put into the hands OF the men whose
written eloquence' when voiced had
brought such crowds about the wheels.
He had Days name like this, -R. 5.
DAILY" He took up the directory in the
Pilgrim House and ran down the DIS.
He found this, "R. 5. Daily. soap man
ufacturer. 1900 River street"
That's the name all right. though,
said Billy to himself. but I didn't know
he was in that business.
He went to the address given. His
loud vest attracted the attention of the
office boy. who eyed him with suspicion
Queer looking man with a red vest
wants TO see you, Mr. DAILY" said the
Office boy.
Tell him I'm busy and cant see him
for two hours. That viii probably make
him leave. I've no time TO see strangers"
The office boy delivered his message,
but in a minute was back again. He
says he owes you $1,000 and wants to pay
Let him in, said Robert S. DAILY.
Billy came in. He saw the sleek, side
whiskered person in the chair and said
TO himself Gee whizl He doesn't look
much like a fellow who'd write sporting
stuff, but you can't always tell" Then
aloud he said: Are you r. s. DAILY?
Them rhymes YOU wrote for me last sum-
mer brought my wheels a pot Of money,
specially that one about the colt winnin'
by a nose. You ought TO have heard the
bankers get that of. It was a peach.
The wheels might have made money
without It, but they wouldn't have made
so much. ! asked a newspaper man what
they paid for stuff like what you wrote.
He said the ordinary rates was low, but
that he ought TO get $50 for it. There was
1.5C0 words all told. Here's $1,000 for you,
Mr.. DAILY. and your poems and jokes was
worth it every cent
A light broke in upon the mind OF the
vice president of the Young People As
ISOLATION for the Suppression OF High
Spirits. THAT low brother OF mine" he
said to himself, has been writing some
Of his doggerel verse to help along a
swindling gambling scheme." Then 70
Billy Johnson he said: Efforts ike that
are hardly worthy Of consideration, bat
still If you think they are worth 1850.
III take the money"
Billy handed orer the thousand and
took no receipt, as square sports seldom
do. Then he shook hands with Robert s.
DAILY, said good-by, and wondered the
while why It was that the hand which
How Little Nell Won the Derby" could
be so very Ike a fish.
1t had long been the desire OF Robert
s. DAILY 20 do something in a money way
for the y Z. a. for TIE s. OF II s.
Now he had e way 70 do Il without
costing him a cent He mailed a check
for SIe9 20 the treasurer OF the y. p
etc, within an hour II another hour
this letter found its way into the mail
u was addressed TO Richard s. DAILY. and
read ike this:
Dear Richard-I have long pleaded
with You against the owl OF your Ways
New / 0nd that you have been writing (
verses tending 10 lead the vlrtuous into
paths OF vice You have been in partner {
shin with the owner of sTindIins gam .
bling schemes which are snare ard q
ritfaU before the feet Of the unwary. I
For-r ,erf-,ar "a crime lied rrfa morn.