The Cairo bulletin., 1907-09-10
HIS FINAL Films
Copyright. by Daily story Pub. Coz
BY W. Q. hoWEY


sleep with toddy and awakened fol
a gin nzz. His income was generous
and his thirst was commensurate. His
money paid the rent, light, license and
labor bills of several fiourishing ga
looms in his city. But for Hyland
Flynge and his full-grown thirst the
saloon owners might have passed into
bankruptcy.
Not that Hyland FIynge did not
know his weakness and seek to avoid
IT. His friends tried to reform him
and Hyland tried to reform himself
He took the pledge, took the gold-cure
took the entire menu of reform from
soup to demi-tasse. But he always
| took relapse as q chaser to his
| reform.
/ There was but one thing that Hy.
land Flynge loved as he did his
| liquor. That was his beauty Gen.
| erous nature had bestowed upon Hy-
land face and figure designed for
a god. The best tailors. the best
matters, the most pains-taking valet
that money could procure, set off
| these charms with all that was good
in their arts.
And Hyland Flynge was proud. And
Hyland Flynge was vain. Hyland
Flynge loved his beauty almost as
much as the tabled Narcissus. Which
led to the undoing of said Hyland
Flynge. just as 1t did with Narcissus.
One morning as the young gentle
man sat slipping his eye-opener while
his valet was dressing him for the
day, Mr.. Flynge casually glanced at
his mirror.
He dropped his glass. Horrors! A
blue vein showed in his faultlessly
shaped Grecian nose! Hyland hur-
ried into his clothes and motored to
his physician. Said physician looked
grave, played with one set OF his
gray Whiskers, wrote q prescription,
and separated Hyland Flynge from a
small portion of his income. He said
the vein would go away.
Hyland sped to the nearest consola-
ton parlor to take something for his
nerves.
Next day there were two blue
veins. Mr. Flynge repeated the act
OF the previous morning. Only he
took little more for his nerves.
The valet put Hyland to bed that
night and many succeeding nights.
For the amount of liquid consolation
that Hyland sought in those days
was almost sufficient to float the pa
cifie squadron.
One day Hyland sobered up.
When he sought his glass, that
beautifully ehiseled Greeian nose re-
sembled Bavarian summer sausage
Hyland Flynge tainted. He was
revived with water. Reason told Hy-
land that, according to tho law Of
cause and effect, 1t was red liquor
that led to the red nose. So Hyland
reserved a seat on the water-wagon,
and, as for irrigating he stopped. But
said nose did not stop. Hyland took
trip to Europe. He sought the cele-
brated surgeon. DR.. Ficksum, and laid
his case, likewise his nose before the
scientist.
"Amputate or you die" said one.
Fcksum, M. ID.
but cannot live without q nose."
said the mutilated Adonis.
An attendant hesitatingly suggested |
that It would mean great saving In |
linen and laundry, but Hyland squelch- |
cd him with snort that inflated his
proboscis like a toy balloon.
II will give you new nose" said |
DR.. Fcksum. Science does all things. |
will graft new nose, beautiful as
ever on the face, Tiff you'll give a
finger for it."
Elynge thankfully remarked that
he'd gotten two fingers" so often that
the loss OF one wouldn't count. So the
operation took place. The flesh OF
one finger was grated from Hyland's
hand to his face. 1t was shaped grad
ually II grew beautifully. In few
one Hyland Flynge blossomed
out with a new handmade nose. AS a
thing of beauty 1t would have been
a Joy forever-but to proceed.
Hyland Flynge rode securely on the
water wagon until one day when an
stranger soaped the
seat. Hyland fell of the wagon with
a thump. Before he got home that
night he repeated the process OF fall
Ing many times.
When he awakened, late the next
day, he saw lots Of things he didn't
know were In the room before. He
emptied a pitcher Of ice water and
then dragged himself to his mirror.
Horrors!
The nose was there. II wasn't red
! bit Its shape was perfect
But between the eyebrows, where the
grating had begun, Hyland F1ynge
DeheId a beautiful finger nail sprout-
ng as from the hand of mandarin
Into the motor car rushed Hyland.
OFF he drove to the nearest beauty
1arlors.
Il want my nose manicuredl" he
shouted, then loped himself over the
arms Of a chair In q very striking
'aint
They took him to a sanitarium and
rave him the best of care. IL was
Iome weeks before his friends could
persuade him that the finger nail