Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-07-20
Jimmy TTaut The Dreamer
WONDERFUL THINGS HAP.
PENED TO HIM.
BY KENNETT HARRIS.

| Nights" OF course there were otner
fairy stories Jimmy got hold OF where
magic finder boxes, rings, lamps and
the like brought treasure and oonse-
quent happiness to their lucky possess
oTs.
Jimmy used 10 dream oven these de
hghtlul happenings by the hour II.
his childhood, and he fond II a great
comfort. When he was struggling
with his home lessons that tanglo.
themselves 'p hopelessly in his puzzle
brain 1t was 70 sweet TO imai Inc some
1enehcent brownie or Other appearinG
1GoADeCtedly to wave wanl and cause
he eXgsperating examples to arrange
themselves IN neat and correct sOl.-
ion on the tear-bistered paper before
him, and 10 picture the sub7elo oeut
surprise 9nd nattering commenuajions
Of his teacher. Or when circus day
was approaching and he was bemGan
ing the parsimony of his parents, face
downward in the clover in secluded
corner of the orchard. then to think Of
leprechuan whom he might seize and
squeeze out the price OF a whole row
cf the best reserved seats! What pots
OF gold Jimmy discovered at rainbow
ends; what plunder of robber bands in
secret caves; what wishes he wished In
series of threesl Well, we all have
wished and imagined the same things,
| suppose, only we get over such non
sense as we grow older Jimmy never
did.
He came to the city. He did not at
all intend to stay there. He would
merely remain long enough to make a
fortune and then return to dazzle ev-
erybody with his splendor and muDifl-
cence for the rest of his days. If jim
mys dreams had come true poverty
would have been abolished in that lit
tie village of his, can tell you.
But the dreams didn't seem to come
true. Jimmy wasn't much more than
an errand boy at first and It was rather |
rough shedding for him. The boss
uluH tdll MIN III anu dllcl ltlllUS MIN
that he had observed with gratifica-
ton the evident devotion to the bust
ness he, Jimmy, had displayed, make
him a junior partner, The only time
the young man was called into the sa-
cred presence during the first year was
when he was informed that the next
'me he took an hour and half to ga
frum Market street to State street and
back he would be fired
He rose to bis clerkship, tor, in spite
of his dreaming, he could and did work
in way and he was liked Nobody
could help liking Jimmy. He had iit-
tie to say for himself, but he had a
wonderfully ready smile and an equal
ly ready sympathy for anybody's trou-
bles. He was careless with his money,
too, 1t may be remarked. He didn't
have a great DEAL but what he had
anybody could get away from him. He
was what is known as an easy mark"
In the course OF few years he had |
one Of the great happinesses of his life. |
He met the princess. She was the only
daughter of his employer and was
young and beautiful. Jimmy opened
the door for her as she came in one
day and she smiled graciously at him |
as princess should, and ten minutes
after that Jimmy had won her blush
ing acknowledgment of her love for
him and her fathers consent to their
1nion. The same old partnership fol-
lowed, OF course. Just then Tammit,
the chief clerk, touched him on ,hc |
shoulder and said: 'lf you've &C, thlse
invoices ready, Mr.. Traut, I'll take
'em."
For two years that happiness lasted
and then the princess married Alber'
P. Wrenshaw, Of Wrenshaw & Biddles.
Perhaps that ought to have cured jim
my, but it didn't
At last Jimmy married. II Mrs.
Traut was not really the princess, she
Ias at least mighty capable woman
and did wonders with Jimmy's small
salary. 1t was certainly a wonder that
she could make 1t stretch to the needs
of that family, for It got to be a siza-
BILE family in time. She was rather in
tolerant of Jimmy's dreaming-his
speculations On the convenience, for in
stance, Of tablecloth that whenever
spread instantly covered itself with a
square meal, adjusted In size to the
appetites OF any lumber Of persons
who should sit around 1t; or a carpet
that would solve the question OF family
transportation to Michigan for the an.
nual two weeks vacation. II was nom
'ense. But for all that Jimmy feasted
royalty on the rare viands OF the magic
tablecloth and voyaged on the carpet,
not only to Michigan but to all the
Spice Islands, distant Adens and Ton
'Niddler's grounds of which he had ever
heard or read; and the children feasted
with him and journeyed with him.
People used to say, Jimmy Traut
must have a hard time Of It," II lid
look little that way to a superficial
observer. Up In the morning early,
down to the mill that ground him.
Work, work! Day in and day out, rain
or shine, wet or dry, and for recon-
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