The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-05-01
Fables by Tom McNeal.


about the smoothest article at social
function that there was IN the town.
His manners were also decidedly ole
aginous and several people predicted
a great future for him. His paternal
ancestor concurred in the general
opinion concerning his offspring and
casually mentioned every time he got
a chance that while it might not seem
just the right thing for him to say,
there was no question about that boy
going to be an ornament to the socia!
and business world The boy took TO
education with the facility of duck
to moisture and when he was 90 he
was cashier of the bank of which the
old man was president. He married
a girl who ranked as the belle Of the
town and when the wedding came off
there were enough silver spoons and
napkin rings bestowed by the invited
guests to supply hotel.
The other boy wasa disappointment
to his parents. He didn't appear to
count for much more than three spot
in suit that wasn't trump. He did
not give two whoops fer society and
when there were any social functions
at the house he made get away and
stayed out at the barn till the thing
was over. He didn't seem to care
much more for education than he did
for fine clothes and he would rather
be out driving cattle than at schuol
posting up on photography, His ia
ther said that he didn't see how it
came about that jim was the kind of
a boy he was; that he must have bred
back to some unknown and unhOnored
relative with low tastes and aspira.
lions. jim was given up by his par
ents and the Deighbors as bad job
and left to hustle for himself about
as he pleased. He got job in livery
stable and the smell of horse that he
carried about his person tended 10 bar
him from refined society, for which
bar he didn't seem 20 care cent. A
few people noticed that he seemed to
know how to take care of horses and
that he attended to his business, but
it was conceded that he had no lofty
ambitions like his brother.
At the end of five years something
happened. The smooth son was dis
coyered to be defaulter. The old
man broke himself paying lawyers
fees and court costs and when the
young man got his sentence to the
penitentiary his father was busted
community.
And then it was discovered that the
boy who looked like 80 cents when it
came to society functions and who
smelt of the stables, had bought the
livery barn and paid for IL and that
he had house of his own where he
took in his father and mother and the
balance Of the family TO care for them
while the smooth brother was serving
out his time.
Moral: You can't always tell by the
way boy combs his hair just how he
will pan out in the sweet bye and bye.
A foolish hen became envious of the
flying power of hawk and concluded
that all she needed TO get in the hawks
class was training. SO she hailed the
hawk one day and asked what he
would charge to teach her to do fancy
flying. WELL" said the hawk after
few minutes study, 81 will give you
courses of lessons on condition that
you turn over to me all the eggs you
lay" The hen being pleased with the
proposition, closed the deal at once
and for the next year she furnished
that hawk with fresh laid eggs, and
the hawk gave her daily lectures on
the art of high flying. 1t was no.
ticed, however, at the end of year
that the hen could not fly a foot far
ther or higher than she could when |
the lessons commenced. Finally a |
wise old biddy, getting onto the stu
alton, called the ambitious hen to one |
side and said: ut OCCURS to me that |
after you haye been worked for year
by a CRATER you ought TO know that |
no individual with your fat body and
short wings was cut out for high
flyer, but what surprises me most is
the fact that a hen who has regular
and profitable business should want
to leave it to get into the class of a
bird who has no standing among either
beasts, birds or men,"
Moral: Many an individual who has
the capacity to do something useful
bankers after the useless accomplish
ments of the genteel loafer.
SPRING AILMENTS.