The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-05-25
HB0B" WYNNE's CATERS
From the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star.
Flo Is now Robert j. Wynne. Un.tet
States consul general to London, and for
fmer member OF the cabinet. Rut he wa.
Sust Bob" Wynne for u good many years
makes no bones about. and SIM likes to
oe Waen IN the company OF his intiuatcs
~Mr. NSnne began to hustle for his livins
when ne was about 10 years old. He
DOESN'T TRIP TO keep that fact under cover
either. He began as 81 sweep-up boy and
message deliverer in the office in Philadcl-
phia OF the old United States Telegraph
He got the mun.ticent salary of
y a week at that job for the first year
or so. but when he graduated into the POI
sidon of head COY around the plant his
pay was raised to S. the lunar week. Lat
or on ne became one OF the most skillful
telegraph operators in the world. ard from
this he graduated into the ranks of jour-
nallsm, at which work his career is well
known to folks who live in Washington,
where MI. Wynne has lived during the
most of his manhood. Mr.. Wynne unreeled
a little reminiscence of his 81 a week period
of existence the ether day.
In a street car this morning. he said,
there was a very old lady wearing a
par of those oid-tashioned cloth CATERS.
lhe CATERS reminded me OF something. L
never, in fact. see a pair OF those oid-t:me
cloth CATERS for old ladies that I'm not
reminded of this thing.
when my pay was raised from two
TO tve a week in that old Philadelphia tele-
graph office. l felt 80 blamed aur:ferous,
as lt were. that ! honest didn't know what
to do with my money. I'd just been liv-
ing around up to the time of that raise,
but. when l saw the five per week. I
hunted around md ,,,,~ Wa
mouse where they charged me $3.50 a week.
LOOKING back to it now. I feel assured
mat the accommodations of that boarding
house must have been pretty bad. But [
felt like a bioated ~bondholder. all the
same. With a room of my own. and the
character of my appetite surely atoned
for any lack of connoisseurship on my
part as to the quality of the food.
After paying for my board on pay day
night. L had. as you will see by a single
mathematical calculation. s1.O a week
left. This at first seemed a shocktngly
large amount of spending money to me. I
was really put to it as to what l was go
ing to do to get rid of that large sum-. But
l fell into the way of rioting in gum drops.
Morse cakes, chewing gum. and once a
week, and sometimes even twice. / invest
ed two bits for a gallery seat at the the
alter. l will say here that l never en-
joyed the theater since with anythtng even
experimenting the keen. not to say costa
tic delight, that [ took in the shows OF
that a The answer to this is not, I
suppose. wholly d!ssociated from the diff
ference between the points of view OF a
boy and a man.
But there came a day when I found. to
my keen chaSrin. that. with ALI of my
wealth. I was o~verp,ayirs myself in the
expenditure of that muniticent tive-a-week
income. You see, I had quite left out of
the calculation ANY idea that I'd be called
upon. soon@r Or later, TO replenish my
wardrobe.
For example. 1t struck me all Of a sud-
den one day that | was sorely in need of a
pair of shoes. The ones L was wearing be-
gan to break down all of a sudden. Now.
the idea Of laying out about $3.50 for so
a proposition as a pair OF shoes
seemed a grisly sort of a hardship 10 me.
moreover, L didn't have the price. I'd been
particularly festive for some time with
sl.5O weekly residue after paying nv
and on the day that I discovered
my need for shoes / had only Si.6D in my
pocke%. 1T irked ME even to think of hav-
to lay out any part of this on any old
KIND of a pair of shoes. but there was
nothing else for it. My feet were on the
ground. and / had to walk many miles OF
the Philadelphia pavement in delivering
every day, and shoes L Just had
nave.
II knew verY wcli. of course, that I
get any kind Of a pair of youths !
shoes for any St.6N. But, in gazing re-
into the window of a shoe es-
adjustment I saw & greAs heap of those
Old ladies' cloth CATERS marked Sacrificed
at s1.50.'
Well. that let NE out. The cloth gait
although meant for old women. we're
shoes. weren't tley2 And knew. from
cooking at them. that I'd be able to get a
pair to fit me.
so I Hmped into the shoe store.
Wasn't lame. and there wasn't any reason
for my limping. but desired to preserve
amour propre in the eyesrofs the shoe
So I framed up the assumed
imp lot the purpose of trying to make
nm think that I had a reason for pur-
chasing a pair of old ladies' cloth CATERS.
II want a pair of those cloth CATERS for
ladles, large size, like you've got in the
window L said to the salesman. who ad-
Vanced to wait pon me. My feet are
'ore' ana ! cant wear regular shoes till
hey get better
II can remember yet the shrewd and
sllshtly amused glance that that shoe
bestowed Upon me. But. bow
Ike. 1 thought then that I was fooline
1tm. He knew as we'll as 1 know that I'm
alive that l wasn't there with the price of
4 regular pair OF youths shoes and that r
was only adopting a 5oyish subterfuge to
ave my concett. but he didn't say any,
and fixed mo out with a oatr OF tha
CATERS.
Those CATERS lasted me all OF four
when they fell apart from the hard
Usage my job compelled me to give them.
moreover, was numerically guyed by
he other youngsters I knew for wearing a
pair of old ladies' shoes. 1t wasn't a bad
of lesson to ne. I had to get some
ADVANCE money on my salary to fit my
'elf out with a regular pair of shoes. but
he next time L was in need of shoes I had
he price OF them jinsiing in my clothes"
ITCH IN CATTLE.
Itch" in cattle covers quite a mum