The Cairo bulletin., 1906-06-03
Jimmy Traut the Dreamer
WONDERFUL THINGS HAP.
PENED TO HIM.
BY KENNETH HARRIS.


my Traut--Grimm's and The Arabian
Nights" OF course there were other
fairy stories Jimmy got hold of where
magic finder boxes, rings. lamps and
the like brought treasure and conse-
quent happiness to their lucky possess
ors.
Jimmy used to dream over these de-
Hghtful happenings by the hour In
his childhood, and he found it great
comfort. When he was struggling
with his home lessons that tangled
themselves up hopelessly In his puzzled
brain 1t was SO sweet to imagine some
beneficent brownie or other appearing
unexpectedly to wave wand and cause
the exasperating examples to arrange
themselves IN neat and correct solu,
ton on the tear-blistered paper before
him, and to picture the subsequent
surprise, and catering concentrations
OF his teacher. Or when circus day
was approaching and he was bemoan.a
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 whole row
of the best reserved seats!. What pots
of gold Jimmy discovered at rainbows'
ends: what plumber of robber bands in
secret caves: what wishes he wished In
series of threes! 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. H. 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 munifi-
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 hoy at first and 1t was rather
rough Shedding for him The boss
didn't call him In and after telling him
that he had observed with gratifica-
tion the evident devotion to the BUSH
ness he, Jimmy, had displayed, make
him 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
time he took an hour and half to ca
from Market street TO State street and
back he would be fired.
He rose to his clerkship, for, in spite
of his dreaming, he could and did work
In way and he was liked. Nobody
could help liking Jimmy. He had lit
tie to say for himself. but he had a !
wonderfully ready smile and ain equal |
iy ready sympathy for anybody's trou- |
bies. He was careless with his money,
too, 1t may be remarked. He didn't /
have, 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 graclously at him
as a princess should, and ten minutes
after that Jimmy had won her blush.
Ing acknowledgment of her love for
him and her fathers consent to thei,
union. The same old partnership fol.
Owed of course. Just then Tammit,
The chief clerk, touched him on the
shoulder and said: IF you've got those
invoices ready. Mr.. Traut, I'll take
EN-"
For two years that happiness lasted
Ind then the princess married Albert
?. Wrenshaw, of Wrenshaw e Biddles.
Perhaps that ought to have cured Jim
ny, but it didn't.
At last Jimmy married, II Mrs.
rraut was not really the princess, she
vas at least mighty capable woman
Ind did wonders with Jimmy's small
alary 1t was certainly wonder that
he could make 1t stretch to the needs
If that family, for 1t got to be a siza-
lie family in time. She was rather in ,
olerant of Jimmy's dreaming--his /
peeulations on the convenience. for in ,
tance, of a tablecloth that whenever I
pread instantly covered itself with a :
quare meal. adjusted in size 10 the !
ppetites of any lumber OF persons .
Who should sit around II: or carpe,
hat would solve the question of family
10 Michigan for the an
ual two weeks vacation. II was non
ense But for all that Jimmy feasted
oyally on the rare viands OF the magic
ablecloth and voyaged on the carpet.
OF only to Michigan but to all the
pice islands, distant Adens anc rom
iddler's grounds OF which he had ever
card or read; and the children Toasted
18th him and iourneyed with him.
People use1 to say, Jimmy Trau,
lust have hard time of it," II lid
,ok little that way to superficial
bserver. Up in the morning early.
own TO the mill that ground him.
fork. work. Day IN and day out, rain
+ shine, wet or dry, and for, recon-
ense shabby clothing, scanty fare anal
lie bare, mean shelted that be called I +
ONE. And yet when the doctor told I
i'm that there WASH any chance lin 4