Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-11

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fourth and
"'God knows It, interrupts Mellin
ger, and IL you'd told me you knew
Billy Renfrow I'd have invented tons
! Of ways of making you happy. Bill,
! was my side kicker in New York. That
| is man who never knew what crook
ed was. Here am working honest,
for graft, but that man loses money
on 1t. Carrambos! get sick at time
Of this country. Every things rotten.
From the executive down to the coffee
pickers they're plotting to down eacl
other and skin their friends. If mu!.
driver takes Off his hat to IN official
that man figures it out that he's &
popular idol and sets his pegs to stil
up a revolution and upset the admins
tration. It's one Of my little chores o.
private secretary to smell out thest
.evolutions and aftix the kibosh befor.
they break out and scratch the pain
OFF the government property. That's
why I'm down here now in this mil
dewed coast town. The governor OF
the district and his crew are plottin.
to uprlse. I've got every one of thei
names and they're invited to listen t.
the photograph tonight compliments
Of Fl. P. NJ. That's the way I'll ge,
them in bunch. and things are on the
programme to happen to them
I'VE three were sitting at table In
the cantina of the Purified Saints. Mel.
linger poured out wine and was look
ing some worried. was thinking.
"'They're sharp crowd he says
kind of fretful. They're capitalized
By foreign syndicate after rubber.
and they're loaded to the mnzzle for
bribing. I'm SICK goes on Mellinger.
of comic opera. want to smell East
river and wear suependers again. AT
times feel like throwing up my job.
but I'm fool enough to be sort Of proud
of it. "There's Me,linger." they say
here: "por dos, you can't touch him
with milllonv' I'd like to take that
record back and show 1t to Billy Rem.
frow some day, and that tightens my
| grip whenever l see fat thing that
1 could corral just by winlsing one eye
and losing my graft. By George
they can't monkey with me; they know
| 1t! What money | get make honest
and spend It, Some day I'll make q
pile and go back and eat caviare witt
Billy. Tonight I'll show you how to
handle bunch of corruptionists. II
show them what Mellinger. private
secretary. means when you spell i
with the cotton and tissue paper or
''Mellinger appears shaky and break
his glass against the neck Of the bottle
II says to myself. White man, ifsI'n
not mistaken, there's been a bait lait.
out where the tail Of your eye could
see IT.
"That night, according to arrange
ments, me and Henry took the phono
| graph to room in 'dobe house In O
dirty side street, where the grass was
knee high. Twas long room. lit with
smoky oil lamps. There was plenty Of
chairs and table at the back end.
"By and by the invitations to the
musicale came sliding in by pairs and
threes and spade Pushes. Their color
was Of diversity, running from {
three days smoked meerschaum to 9
patent leather polish. They were as
polite as wax, being devastated with
enjoyments to give Senior Mellinger the
good evenings. understood their
Spanish talk-I ran pumping engine
two years in Mexican silver mine
and had 1t pat-but never let on.
maybe fifty of 'em had come and
was seated, when in slid the king bee
the governor of the district. Mellingel
met him at the door and escorted him
to the grand stand. When l saw that
Latin man knew that Mellinger, pri
yate secretary, had all the dances on
his card taken. That was q big
squashy man, the color of rubber
oyershoe. and he had an eye like 4
head walters.
"Mellinger explained, fluent in the
Castilian idioms, that the soul was dis
concerted with. Joy at introducing t.
his respected friends Americas great
est invention, the wonder Of the age
Henry GOT tue Cue @AO SuA w 49, -
CANT brass band record, and the res
tiyjt,es became initiated. The govern
or man has bit of English under hi
hat and when the music was choket
of he says:
".ver-r-ree fine. Gr-r-r-racias. tn
American gentlemen. the 30 espien
deed moosic as to playee.'
! 1.-THE table was long one, and Henr!
and me sat at the end Of 1t next tn
wall. The governor sat at the othe
end. Homer P. Mellinger stood at tn
side of it. was just wondering nov
i Mellinger was going to handle hi
crowd, when the home talent SUDDEN!
opened the services.
'0rhat governor man was suitable
for uprisings and policles. judge D
was a ready kind Of man. who too
his own time.
i ADO the American senors understan'
SPANISH he asked In his native &C
cents.
.Ihe1 do. nat. s.B MeliinseF.