The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-22
NVhin1s of the Idler !.
q Dolorous Dirty Of Doodle-Bugs and Dollars.

II, my childhood's days. when nothing
ever worried me savo nj, occasional at
tack OF cholera inorbus or totcii OF
TINT centralized agony which folloWs a..
.over-indulgenco In very green applcs :
used to observe my youthful companions
performing a font which was ever rus
5cinatng but impossible to mo-
II was the capture Of doodle bugs.
Tho adopts In this Juvenile nrt woa ,,t'
hio themselves to tho ndoreshlu eou. 49,,
bugs habltat-n hole In the grouh ,,
"a through solno sort OF lncnntation
which sounded ike this; Doodle DIVE,
doodle laiE, como out OF your hole; Winter
4 has gono and summer has come, WILL. .,,
1T the Euileless insect III question "ouiu
show himself and be captured.
It was always tho height or my h1h-
bttion to lnnd ut least ono doodle Dus'
but although I swcntcd rs conscientious
" and worked as hard Mt the tr.os -. ~
any OF my companions. ! nave ~. "a -
score one Of the usually unsop.l.s' 'ouso.r
littlo beings TO my credit. 1ry 10
might. thoy wouldn't come my 49,, 49,,
though to this hour have never 5poc''
X 49,
And 80, since boyhood's days y nus
Leon with another species OF dood'e pug
4 layo tried to cnpturo-tho great Amer,
tenn dollar, My siren voice has cal'eu
d thousand times to him and IN t'lou-
sand different tones, but there IS noun
Ing doing. No metallic or greenou l'i
doodle bugs have come my way
Now, III success, when there arc COM
pantons IN misery, hurts no moro '"a.
ugliness in land whore mirrors .ie ~
unknown quantity, but heavens! ~ -. ooes
yank at the very hbres OF one . te,,,s
when MI is going we'll with other 1oiKs
and the goose is hanging ilisl' ~ 4"'>'1'H
everybody but ones self. ~.
The most impatient Of us, when hunt-
ing the doodle bug that Mt first reluse.li
to hearlten to the voice OF the peIsu,.uo.'
are willing to walt rehsohh Do 8tilt1e'
but there comes an hour WheIl w Io A
wait no longer--when we get hopp'iis
mad and emit eSpletivts. 80,
& This wrath In due course becomes sup-
dued into a sort OF dull pesslHllsm' wi'icn '
In turn is generally succeeded ny ueup,
rooted, nera dicablo despair. we a u.t,
surrender at last. though through - o..
we nre mysti1ed, for on every slde Wy
seq others. with no more ability. WIN
no more ZEAL with no more 1ldellty -
purpose, and seemingly no more talent'
landing doodle bugs with degree OF IA
cility which makes US fancy the monetary
insects have become sort, OF uhiSeisa'
pest in every neighborhood but ours.
Great scottl It is pitiful to note the
eagerness with which these golden ana
these silvern doodle bugs jump INTO Tug
hands OF other people, While we stanu
at their holes and toll so vainly TO m
duce them to come up and surrender.
no,, crfva
to explain my own failures. At last !
have come TO accept the fact. Not
with Christian resignation-oh, no! not
with any sort of reslgnatlon-but. Win
the consciousness that the moving hnger'.
having writ. moves on, and that tnere
no use contesting the DEGREES OF us III
applicable chrography.
The dollar-1naker is born, not made.
IN him the lucrc- hunting and the lucre-
landing instinct is born as In the mouse mouse
hunting instinct in kitten, and. py ana ana
by, the instinct becomes second nature
and the second nature sort or Hlnt'
which turns out money autoinaticaiis..
Our old friend Croesus for instance,
probably 1,egan making money before ne
could sign his name to the sheepsKln
checks used In his day and generation
in Asia Minor, and It Is Il safe guess:
certainly one that nobody can contra
dict-that during the whole Of his boy
hood he never captured a chrome or
won Sunday-school prize.
But when 1t came to going after the
coin no hound dog trailing RABBIT nad
q keener scent. Other little boys OF that
day, who sold old rags, bones and bot
ties to the junk dealer. must pretty soon
have realized that Croesus, apparently
without losing his wind in tho least, was
always ahead OF them with the goods
and that he produced them on the days
W hen such commodities were being sold
on rising market.
Now, be 1t understood right here that
this article Is not designed to put the
successful hunters of doodle bugs out
OF business or to depreciate their good
qualities
Quite to contrary, for none Of US ever
gets so pessimistic that he desires 70
insult the prosperous. Far different IS
the writer's purpose.
Behold. shew you mystery!
And the mystery is this--that the pros
porous do not expend half so much
energy In trying to land the lucre as do
the ne err do-wells.
The expert doodle buggist. who doesn't
by any means have to be an intellecttal
genius ut the start, somehow gets two
dollars and almost before he has had
chance to test their genuincness by biting
at them, they breed twins. which IN turn
produce triplets. while the respective trip
let's astonlsn the world by giving birth
To bankruptcies. And so It goes on IN
t.ithmetlcal progression, and nobody Is
under any particular strain either.
But quito another story is told OF the
man on whom the monetary doodle bugs
are so,,red This wretch is acknowledged
on all sides to be notwithstanding tai
ented-but he and money. go IN different
directions.
He, too may have twins-indeed. is
most likely to have them-but they VIII
he the kind OF twins that keep dollars
from staying In the family instead or the
species that makes them multiply
SfrIVe9 and