The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09
A MUSTY NOTE.
RXL cARRoLL NI,KEE.

BY J. CARHOLL mEAGG'
 Frederick Gallup Hollister' nacneios
 aged 40. well-to-do ana much 1I.,orI 1ns,Se was in distinctly a bad humor. Every
 tbine had gone wrong on this particu
 lar morning. To begin with there wal
 something the matter with the heatlhe machinery and his room was cola Whel
 ha arose. He hated a cold room t'
 dress in and growled eloauentiy.
 | 'Td like to own an estaollshnienI .iI V. my own he sputtered to himselI' 1us
 long enough to demonstrate that IL !:
 nossibIe to run a heating plant so Il will heat in cold weather. I'll pet II
 would work or there'd be somepodS looking for a job. It's all danged non sense. this saying something or otner | got to he fixed. I'd turn on the hea bv gum If 1t blew the root OH th' house" ,, .As his m.
 Then the buttons were all or ms un, derwear and he switched the Vo!un'e VI his wrath to the laundry .
 CT believe they cut 'em off a'purpose' ba prowled disconsolately. Here IS brand new suit, never been worn bu, once and only two buttons on IL anu ono og then, broke How in blazes they Unnnspe to get the essential ones on avery time beats the Dutch. I'd ike to have an establishment Of my own where ,Ilr I could make the gol dummed iauhoress leave the blasted buttons on or qul. M nS1 ss hloomIng lob. I'd teach 'em to tear or. bnttons just for the fun of It." and ba nawed over whole drawers tuIl oI underwear. getting more excited every minute. .u,,,o,,t 1va. directed to the sock question ana he rummaged through an entire drawer fun in a vain attempt to find perleet- ly whole pair. ,o ana tbara
 Just a stitch or two here ana tneIs 2 would fix the entire lot" he murmureo ss he adjusted a pair so the hole would cause the least discomfort. w onues T how these married fellows feel to ma all their duds mended and ready 10
 Next if was his collars. He couldn't find one that would button around ms neck. Evidently they had sent nome the wrong eollars-yes upon eAaihii"- tion they had ,,,,I, hv inc great Jehovah" he howled. II teach ,em to leave me in fix ike thls. Inst because I'm q bachelor and maven got anybody to look after my thlhBs thev swine my collars and send me any old thing" and he crumpled the last or the lot and threw 1t after the others on the floor. ..-,..,.. .,,u,.
 Then he found that his trousers were rlDDGd--nOI lnucH but JNSS
 demand a few stitches.
 There it goes again" he walled. I've got to take 'em around to the tailor and fiddle around when I've got every confounded thing I can do today.
 He nawed over his wardrobe and found some trifiing defect in every pair of trousers he had with the exception of his dress suit.
 .Yes. it's me to stand in a barrel
 fiNnn TngER9 around for an hour or so,' he went on
 So when he strode forth from the house Frederick Gallup Hollister gazed upon the world through a pair of very blue glasses. Everything looked gray and dark to him. He even found small rip in his gloves IIe slid into his favorite restaurant and ordered his breakfast.
 Then fell the eliminating blow. His coffee was served weak and-the hoF- TOT of it--lukewarm. To his vigorous 1t was explained that an accident had happened in the kitchen If MT. Hollister would wait few min utes fresh coffee would be made for him. MT. Hollister would not. Hea be hanged if he would. He would drink the miserable stun and pass up the restaurant forever
 With all these disasters to start the day with, is'it any wonder the day was a complete failure. fin d business way as well as personal. So late in the af- ternoon Hollister locked within his pri- vate office ruminating on his sad estate | and morbfdly contemplating desperate measures-evcn suicide crossed his mind.
 In this frame of mind his thoughts recurred to other days when life was warm and bright with the springtime of existence. Into his memory half regretfully, lf-accusingly, came q bright, sweet face-the face of a young girl with demure brown eyes and soft brown hair---a face adorned with the reddest of lips and the sauciest of dim