Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-18

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There's all kinds of So y -
cieties for keepin the NA~ liz
poor contented with MMM IN
poverty, anyway; but Wg S mS9l
all the got rich yester- ~A& ~ 4
day folks has handed @ /N~ -
them IS knocks in the - S8 n K
funny column ~ III
What gives NJ
thought like this was
the stunt I've just been
mixed up in with Mr. Todd Maddox. Hadn't heard
of him yet? Well, you will. He's of the
paragus brand of plutes, all right; but it's been
comm on him SO swift he hardly knows it himself.
Why, a few years back he carryin' a dinner
pail and catchin the sunrise trolley the foundry,
out in Altoona. But one day he figures out patent
doodad to blast furnace, swaps it for big block
Of preferred stock, works combination freeze out
the gang that tryn to put the Indian sign
him, and the first thing he knows he lands in
leather covered chair with his name we'll up the
letterhead Since then he's struck gait that makes
skyrocket look like twas bein pulled up by string.
You can judge how new he is by his havin'
showed up at the studio for the first time 1ess'n a
month ago. He's been comm regular ever since,
though, and I've got a standin' order to keep him
down to hundred and eighty-five even if l have
to manicure him with sand paper Consderin' the
size of the check I'm to get if | hold him to FORM
reckon the games worth stayn with
That's what's been fetchin' out to Sound
moor, where he's located the family for the summer.
It's of them Sound front properties that he
leases by the season, for about hundred dollars
day, and the Maddoxes is havin' the time of their
lives rattn round in thirty rooms and five acres
Ol lIOHI ldWli 1Ouu lie uOeS tne T1lQaE nSnC 10
Monday mornin act; not because he likes it, but
just SOS to keep in touch with mother and the kids
That's of his good points. Mrs. Maddox
amt what you'd call Little Bright Eyes. She's
about forty-siX measure from shoulders to waist
with wash day complexion and voice that could
60 against the tomtoms But her and Todd seems
to do good teamwork, and far he don't act like
he was thinkn of changin' her for the kind you can
pick out of roof garden chorus.
Well, l maxim my third trip out there, and
everything lovely, when this banzai proposition
Maddox a a
ton in the black and yellow tourin car, wearin'
worried look on his low cut brow.
Shorty, says he. you We mixed more or less
with the ee-lght haven't YOU?
''Sure! says |. - | amt too proud for that"
Ever across any real swell Japs?" says he.
I've few slit-eyes dom hired girls work,
and watched others runnn rollin' ball Joints and
auction houses but | can't say | ever met any
that come in through the front door," says l.
Have you?"
No." says he; but there's one due here to-
He's Baron-Baron Hoshi"
You're comm on says l. Next thing You'll
be diggin up coat of arms and givin' tea parties
to the King of Siam. Where d you meet up with
Jap Baron?'
Seems that this was somethin that had been slid
on to Todd unexpected. He'd got cablegram from
the main gadzooks of the steel trust who was some
where's in Europe, ten him how the Baron who
has lot to do with givin out the Jap armor plate
contracts, goin to strike New York, and how
he'd got to be taken of and taken of right.
Course, if the big wheel was at home himself
he'd been the to go the job; but he wa MT
the points to Mr.. Maddox. Now if it
case of producln estimates a thousand tons of
air bubble rails, buCkn a puddlers strike, or