The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-09-13
Sally Tigg of
the Tutti-frutti's
By WILLIAM HEYLIGER
tcopyrdsht, 1900. by Daily Story Pub. Co.,

F THE many schmes to separate
the public from its money" said
Major Ike Gleason. commend me to
the idea of fraternity. If ever have
a dollar that desire to see disappear.
either wholly or in part, steer me for
a lodge room. And if the day should
ever come when I forget the hard
truths I learned across the knee of
benevolent Sunday school superinten-
dent. make me president of the Sons
of Beelzebub, or something else.
Its a queer game. with more mys-
terry to the square inch than a plate of
boarding house hash. The cards are
all marked and stacked, and grim Fate
has decreed that ladies shall make the
best dealers. A man has a slim, for
lorn chance when he sits in a game
with fellow man who wears plug
hat and sports a diamond in his tie;
but when a woman throws in her
chips, he wants to bring along an ex-
ira suit, or he'll go home without even
the protecting embrace of his own
very shirt
sally Tigg was a case in point, and
said point was sharp. Sally was 80
and unmarried. which may account
for many things. Take a spoonful of
tobasco sauce, sprinkle II with pepper
and swallow it, and you'll have a life
sized portrait of Sally. Take a Wall
street gentleman, with an eagle eye on
his neighbor's wealth, and you'll have
Sally again Then take any ordinary
old gentleman who makes q practice
of minding his own business and pay
ing his rent. and you'll have what Sal
ly was not
sally Tigg Joined the Tutti-Frutti
Ladies Just when they needed her
most Money was as scarce as billy
goat whiskers, and the treasurer had
nothing to do but look wise. For a
couple of meetings there was nothing
doing. Then somebody said that Sal
ly, poor thing. was beginning to show
her age and was getting too old for ac-
tive work. and rolling up her sleeves.
Sally spat on her hands and spared
for an opening.
Her first offering was dark horse.
| II was concealed in a bag. and the
members were to pay five cents q
| chance, and the winner was to bring
| a dark horse for the next meeting. and
| then they were to take chances all
| over again. The more dark horses
the more money said Sally. and they
went at the constitution with a bowie
| knife and cut out such a scandalous
thing as monthly meeting, and
| changed il to a gathering every week
Soon the Tutti-Frutti's money was or
speaking terms with some of the
swellest accounts in the bank, and al
the end of six months the society de.
cided to give ball
Sally was the whole show. On,
little girl was engaged to Perkins. {
printer, and Sally appointed her 1
committee of one to see to the press
work. How much?' said the little gir
to Perkins, and Perkins said Moth
ing and went to the back Of the shol
and asked somebody to kick him
Then Sally called on some of the mer
chants. They were looking for con
tributions to rattle, she said. sweetly
and the first man she tried to hold u
| SQOWeu HcE luc uOOir dAu hShcu hc
did she think he was running a hocl
shop. After that she used tact. o
course, if a store-keeper could afford {
lose the Tutti-Frutti Ladies' trade h
needn't give anything, but TIL
merchants took the hint First cam
a morris chair, then a bottle of hal
oil, then a bunch of junk that woul
have done credit to an iron foundr,
and lastly a cheap wedding ring. 'Yo
can give it to some one of the oil
maid ladies' said the clerk In the jew
elry store. Sally never spoke to hiI
again
THE society called on the editor {
the Weekly Howler' in a body. an
that divinity nearly fell out OF hi
= sanctum when they asked for FIRE
, space. II was unheard of. he spu
tered. and then they sat down to arEu