Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-10-30
BILL Ard
JOSIAH


lege. He wouldn't do anything bit
study. Now Bill Wing was differ
ent; Bill would do anything but
study.
"Thunderstion, sir!" angrily ex
claimed Bill, when professor once re
preached him for lack of familiarity
with the text-book-"Th underaticn and
blazes, sir, "a fellow can't know every
thing! Besides, sir, Sneech-Josy
Sneech-comes from my town; and he
does my studying for met" Bill
glared Indignantly at the professor
With averted eyes the professor re-
marked sagely: "Sneech? o, Sneech
will never amount to anything"
well" said Bill Wing, 81 can't help
it; why doesn't he get wise and play
ball?"
Precisely
But Josiah Sneech stood no more
chance of playing baseball than he die
or being a success in the game of
life. He had glass arm from birth.
He could not have hit a balloon, IL
it was fastened in front of him.
Bill Wing was the goods.
1t takes a ,sure-eEoush college attn
lete to make a success in life Bfll
was the greatest pitcher the old uni.
versity had ever Snrned out Courte.
GUS, atfable, distinguished in his bear
ing, possessed of muscles like iron,
and generalship such as Napoleon
and a handful of officers in the world S
history have acquired~through sea
sons of stress. Till Wing developed
into the "headiest pitcher that ever
made batsman wildly smash the air
and bite his lips in sorrow.
Was Bill Wig the goods?
Certainly.
Josiah Sneech travelled for > hard
ware firm, in a half-hCarted attemDt
to sell patent egg beaters to house.
wives who shoosd MIN off the prem
Uses the summer vacation before he
went back to GOllege for his senior
2'ear This was really the nearest ap-
proach to anything useful that poor
Sneech accomplished in his college
career. The fellow was perfectly fool.
ish about books. He used to study
till the midnight oil refused to burn.
Sneech took a book with him to the
only ball game he witnessed during
the brilliant season prior to gradua-
ton. A foul Tip ripped iplo the
bleechers, made straight for Sneech.
broke his finger, and dashed Jevon's
logic to earth. Oh, anybody could see
the finish of Sneech
Hoodooed from the start, and
man marked for the cold uneoncern
of~a world that was eagerly waiting
for stalwart, popular, wide-awake
fellow like Bill Wing.
Bill was graduated. Some of the
more conservative professors did not
fully understand how the athletic com
mittee fixed it,
Also poor Josiah Sneech was gradu-
ated
Poor Sneech. What struggle
with an unappIheiative world was to
come to him!
Already he was catalogued as
failure by such persons as ever let
their eyes rest upon his pallid, mourn
full features, his painfully STOPPING
shoulders, and his forIorn, hopeless
aspect. He looked like a ruin,
The post college career of Bill
Wing began right away. 1t differed
no whit in brilliance from his efful-
gent college existence. Bill pitched
winning ball for the Giants all sum |
mer. His salary was said to be the
highest ever paid to Young.
stey"
BY some unexpected vagary Of fate,
Josiah Sneech landed job shortly |
after graduation. He read law and
worked as Office hoy at three dollars
per week in dingy office where day.
light was myth and got in only by
accident.
And Sneech did nothing but get dis.
liked by the junior clerks on account
of his disgusting habit of studious-
ness.
On the diamond Bill Wing was
winning the plaudits of the null
titude.
Eleven years fled. Eleven years
on diamond and in dingy office.
In a sumptuous library keen-eyed
man was turning the pages of his
carelessly He brushed
back the hair from his brow. The
on his finger caught a ray
Of light from the $4,000 mirror across
the room and flashed gorgeously. The
gentleman's eye fell upon glartng
headlines, as follows:
"Sneech Wins in Brilliant Battle"
Eminent Young Corporation Counsel
Puts Legal Talent to Rout.'
Mimi" said the gentleman. MIMI"
He appeared in no wise displeased
Rising he threw out his chest and
paced back and forth upon the thick
velvet carpet. Presently, he touched
! silver bell. An obsequious serving
nan appeared.
James" said the gentleman. Il
wish you would order the barouche
or 1890"
Eyes, sir" said James
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