The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-06-17
OCff to Pigsburg.

aSfiSaq 6lino, aas he led Jimmieboy up the
rfead.
"ssHesaapperfect DEAR" said Jimmie
hBSy.
"F44HfResY" CALCULATED the Armour
xaaipo. "YYSif're queer kid. You talk
LIKE IA regular investigating commit
teee, YY6u ssee one thing and you say
a&faefHer. NMeoley may be a perfect
ceSW. bBtt sshe's not in any sense
taaeer.." Here the Armourdillo paused
''sSne issrfelAted to the does, however
TDoouugghh, eeh? Ha, ha! Good JOKE
sch, JJfhfhHeBoy ne added, mirthfully
tBHNy,"ssaid Jimmeboy, Laughing,
aSaeRBaeha away down in his secret soul
me- tfR6aght lit was a pretty poor sort
c6fj96Re aAfter all.
YYBu da6rit happen to have any
aaSakh witch you, do you, Jimmieboy?'
THE A1Fffl6ufdiIo asked, anxiously.
Photographed Jimmieboy Il left 1t
aAal aAt tehe ggate with Cerberus. He's
ssdaKg too daouble it for me-
"F44ul7st tRat all? said the Armour
a8ino. "TY5us should have brought it to
y4fae Irdnaaee' treb1ed it,
"cth=sso, then. you do make money,
MIR. AHFff1bafdillo cried Jimmieboy. Il
tfH66Ehtyyeu'were one of the anthrop-
'ss#svs@hoggo into business just to help
oeeherpee5pe out"
VVFell, Iaam," said the Armourdillo,
rfedaahiHg "a ttrifie. I'm in the Moo
'ayy oBasihsss oout of the very highest
asfid nfh6st charitable motives, just to
keep nfny fellow men from starvation,
asahdI Ida8ri't make a cent of profit out
oef liF9dst eenough to keep Mooley in
rthe lq6Hgggfeen-ahe But, OF
course, Ice6uldn't be an anthropist, if
A1odiaTthhave the money to enable me
tfodaoaAllt these: beautiful things. Being
AN aahAhY6pst is almost as expensive
aaso6WHihgtt an opera box or paying fines
f46r yYBGr aautOmObile. I've known the
e4xpahses o6n my anthrOpy account to
PUN a6s hIHgh as $7.35 in one week
odeadi qess, n1nind you. Well or course,
IIce6Han't keep that up forever unless
ithhadaafother business to pay for it"
ooh, Issee," said Jimmieboy.
ut *H5aeht7 you would" observed the
aAfia6nfdiHo. Its in that other bus
mess tehat I'd be able to treble your
money"
+Vrhatifst the other business?" ask
eedJ 9nhfifaeboy, very much interested.
"c1h, iftsaa little trolley company I
noWnt soce carry chops and beefsteaks in
ssaid the AArmourdillo. IN carry a
o6h6paat Thousand miles for you for two
cethts..'
"aThat sounds reasonable" said
yJirnfIaeboy
yves; lit SIS" said the Armourdillo.
considering that my trolley line cost
SIhe ooeer "a thousand dollars To get
six pperc cent interest on my money
fhaeetaoceafry more than three thous-
aaidc tHBpsa a year
eTAat dd6nt seem so many, though,
does ct ?"ssaidt Jimmieboy.
"Mahy? We'll, 1 guess it is many"
ssaid tahe AArmourdillo. Just you try
ftoeeat thfeet thousand chops and see
11lloBetySsu couldn't do it in ten days"
tFdidn't think of that" said Jimmie
1B6y. tBgaess it's good many.
at sshows you, too, how very an
dthf5piealnmy AMooley business is" OBJ
ssereedt 4heAArmourdillo. For instance,
IAefeiasaac chop situated at A. A man
IN hB "WAnts cone for breakfast, but B
+Ssaa' FRe6s6nd miles from A. Now to
sget fhatc eH6p from A to B l have to
"BuHda trolley line that costs a thou
SsHHdud6Hafs Do l charge that man a
|th6Hs&fid adOllars and ten cents-ten
cents Y6rd a chop and thousand dol
A4afs' 96r the railway? No, sir. l charge
him 'rWo cents and he saves the diff
~fefehee. That is to say, on every chop
chat nfhan eeats he saves, through my
sehtePbfise and forethought, one thou
ssafd od6hars and eight cents, which,
ss6Bp6glRg that he eats ten chops a
Week, Or hive hundred and twenty
cchSpsaa Year, save him $52O41.6O an
snaaHy. 1Thats what l call darn
sg6od 'ihc6fne, but nobody gives me
credit 46ri it.
-The i4egic of these figures was so
oovefpoWering that Jimmieboy stood
Sspeerfhess, and the Armourdillo re-
ssHffed:
41fhey hhot only don't give me any
credit for it, but they holler with
Wrath every time they hear my name,
and WHENEVER they get chance they
shy, bricks at poor old Mooley If the
people could only understand the real
Truth 1t would be very different and
sPdbe,a as popular a person as ever came
down the! pike. What's the population
Of the United States, sonny?"
Eighty Million said Jimmieboy.
<s.,, very well, then,' said the Armour
\ diflo, ni1npressively, Just figure it out
for yourself. If l save one American
So2e4f60l a year, how many dollars do
save 80 100000 Americans?"
Phe- e-ew!" cried Jimmiebov as he
\ made"a rapid calculation. Hit comes
TO four squillion one hundred ana six
ty-!thTee billion two hundred and eighty
( million dollars
Exactly, said the Armour1ilIo
and that on chops alone I haven't
even mentioned hams, and porteraouse
roaasts. and picked lambs tongues"
you are a very much misunder-
STOOD person. Mr.. Armourdillo." said
+;Jirr1f1fieboy. breathless in thu face of
THESE tnndeniable figures. Il shoulJ
ht think it would pay you to hire some
body TO explain YOU
1T might said the Armo,,rdil,o
- sat"what's the good All great peo-
PIE are misunderstood Noah was re-
garded as crank by neighbors. His
own times regarded Jonah as regular
Jonah Julius Caesar and George
-,' washington and Grover Cleveland
ti weren't considered very great men un-
thnx,