The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-05

Once there was a long-headed Faith
49, who had taken the Junior into the
v1ou,n-Town Office and was trying to
eradicate the Greek and Latin from
his system.
The Junior was a Lovely Chap whose
Clothes came to about twice his Salary.
II resembled the smooth-faced Hero
~ Richard Harding Davis $3.50 Book.
Nv keeping his Hair neatly gummed
down and wearing the right shape of
collar. likewise vamping a few tender
chords on the Piano and holding up
his end in a lightweight Conversation,
ba had managed to elbow his way
INTO the Front Row of that Select Di-
,,ision of the Human Race known as
,bA Landed Gentry, because they get
landed so often.
bertrand Flappingdale was the Name
Of mis- particular CONNECTION. In Our
Cot he was known as BERTHE and among
he Employees at the Shop he was
known as a Bluff. Bert's Pathway
" life was so nicely fabricated and
Every one was so awfully Nice to him
mat after a while he felt reasonably
Certain that the Earth and the Full
ness thereof had ben dished up es-
pecially for his Benefit and he could
cancel the Order any time that he
saw At.
FIanpingdale, Senior, had never
smoked Egyptian Cigarettes and at
tended Junior Proms during his In
cubator Period. He had been too busy
irving to make the Meal Tickets last
from one Saturday Night to another.
The only Time he got real Lungy was
when he told how he used to work for
six Week and plant $500 a Year in
the Building and Loan Association. 1t
had been many Years since they took
his Boiled Dinners away from him and
made him eat Artichokes, but he was
still a Farmer at Heart. And when
thev threw him into the long-tailed
Regalia with the misfit Tie, he had
Van stencilled all over himself
You may take one of these self-Inade
Luminaries and wean him away from
his Pie and rub him with Silk Under
wear for years, but you cannot iron
the Lines of Rugged Character from
his Front Piece nor separate him from
the Homely Doctrines that were called
to his Attention by means of Hickory
Cad some forty years earlier IN the
Game.
Consequently the elder F'lappingdale
did not hit it off to any large Extent
with Berries Friends, most of whom
had their Names already set UP in the
Society Column 365 Days in the Year,
but NOT one of them could have figured
a 2 per cent. Discount, unless he had
taken a Day off. They did not care
for Business, but Business never SEEM
ed to Languish much on that Account.
One of the Hard Jobs that Fate had
mapped out for Flappingdale, Senior.
was to prevent his blue-eyed Offspring
from being abducted and snaked
away toTthe Altar. The Trouble was
that BERTHE wanted to be Abducted
About every Change of the Moon he
would begin to act more or less Dippy
and cut out the Office altogether and go
Glr-Hunting in his cream colored
Chariot with one Horse hitched in
front of the other one. Then the head
of the Works would have to call him In
and put some Cracked Ice on him and
get him cooled down.
The first one to lay him out and have
him Fluttering was 90-pounder about
SIX weeks from the Nursery. The cold
FLOODED Guvnor begged him not to rob
the Cradle and wanted to know some
thing about her knowledge of House
Keeping, which is invariably a Stiff