The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1906-09-01

WONDERFUL TH1Hos HAP
PKNED TO HIN.
BY KENNrrT HARRIS.

BY KENNETT HARRIS.
[. H;rmms "Goblins'' began 1t for jim
my Traut-Grimm's and THE Arabian
Nights" OF course there were otner
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-
lightful happenings by the hour il.
his childhood, and he found 1t 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
benehcent brownie or other appearing
unexpectedly to wave wand and cause
thu exasperating examples to arrange
ton on the tear-blistered paper before
him, and to picture the subsequent
surprise and hattering Communications
of his teacher. Or when circus day
was approaching and he was hemoan-
ing the parsimony of his parents. face
downward in the clover in a secluded
corner Of the orchard, then to think OF
a 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.
l suppose. only we get over such nom
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 munif1-
cence for the rest of his days. II Jim
my's dreams had come true poverty
would have been abolished In that lit
tie village Of his. l can tell you.
But the dreams didn't seem to come
true. Jimmy wasn't much moro than
an errand boy at first and 1t was rather
rough shedding for him. The boss
didn't call him in and after telling him
tudL hC Adu OUoCtNCu Will 6k0tAuNN-
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
time he took an hour and half to %
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 q
wonderfully ready emile and an equal
'ly ready sympathy for Anybody's trou-
bles. He was careless with his money.
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 q 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
thC uNOt hol uCt dS BIG CfaIl0 ia OhC
day and she smiled graciously at MIN
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
union. The same old partnership fol-
lowed. of course. Just then Tammit,
tho chief clerk, touched him on tho
shoulder and said: "If you've got those
invoices ready, Mr.. Traut, I'll take
en-
For two years that happiness lasted
and then the princess married Albert
+. Wrenshaw, of Wrenshaw 4 Biddles.
Perhaps that ought to have cured Jim
my, but 1t didn't.
At last Jimmy married. II Mrs.
Traut was not really the princess, she
was at least a mighty capable woman
and did wonders with Jimmy's small
salary. 1t Wis certainly wonder that
she could make 1t stretch to the needs
Of that family. for 1t got to be a sixa-
lille family In time. She was rather in
tolerant Of Jimmy's dreaming-hjs
speculations On the convenience, for in
okAANOB VI . t1OAoNAotu ludL whichever
spread instantly covered itself with q
square meal adjusted In size to the
appetites of any lumber of person.
'sho should sit around it; or carpe,
that would solve the question of family
transportation to Michigan for the an
ilual two weeks vacation. 1t was nom
sense.. But for all that Jimmy Toasted
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 Tom
'riddler's grounds Of which he had ever
heard or read; and the children Toasted
with him and 5ourneyed with him.
People used to say, Jimmy Trani
must have hard time Of It," 1t lid
look little that way to a superficial
observer. Up in the morning early