The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-06-07
fROl|C OR RICH men
Dressed as Hoboes, They Start
Out b Settle a Wager.
eEA AS AUTOMOBILE WAITS.

BEG AS AUTOMOBILE WAITS.
Garden City, N. r. Lavishes Cold
vietuais on Thsm-Tramp Who Got
ein Lemon Won Bet-Then Auto
Party Dimes at Losers Expense.
Chadwick Il. Sawyer is twenty -one
years old, lives In Garden City, N. T..
and doesn't have to work. Patrick A
Togarty is twenty-five years old and
lives In New York. He feels that he
does hard days work when he winds
up his automobile and runs out to see
Sawyer, says tho New York World
In the refreshment room Of the Gar.
den City hotel the pair are considered
men OF promise. They were In there
the other afternoon after day Of ar
duous golf when Fognrty pushed the
button and remarked amiably to Saw.
yer that be looked like tramp.
Fogarty sprang up and-looked In the
ginss. Then he came back and said to
Sawyer;
"You say look like a tramp. I
know you look like one. Now, let M
get into tramp clothes and 90 out on
the Jericho turnpike You take one
side Of the pike and take the other
side, and wen cali at the back doors
of the plethorlcaliy rich and the front
doors Of the worthy poor, and the man
that gets the biggest handout Is stuck
1r dinners for everybody In this room.
IT'S sure thing that the bigger the
hnndout man gets the moro that man
looks like tramp. Arc you onY
Sawyer pushed the button again tn
his inimitable way and replied that no
was ''on." Everybody In tho room
Joined In mighty shout Of approval
A couple Of dishwashers supplied tho
proper raiment Fogarty and Sawyer
rot themselves into these clothes,
tubbed enough Of Mother Earth into
their faces and hands to complete the
makeup ana said they were ready. A
few more pushes of the magic button
and select party drove away from
the rear Of the hotel In Eogarty's tour
ing chr.
Arrived at the Jericho turnpike, the
two adventurers alighted. The rest OF
the party cruised up and down in the
automobile. Sawyer. looking truly
footsoro and weary, with q note OF
heart rending appeal In his voice,
begged his bread from door to door.
At tho farmhouse Of Thomas Wicks
he got four biscuits. Mrs. Or1n Pear
sall gave him ham bone. and Ger
man family at his third stop gave him
two slices OF rye bread and butter.
At his fourth, fifth, sixth and sew
cnth stops he received 50 much more
that he was compelled to stop the auto
and ask his friends to take care Of It
How about Fogartyf Well, he got
plenty OF cold pancakes, prune pie,
canned corned beef and left over tapi-
oca pudding, but e was at tho farm
house OF Orlando Titus, near West
bury, that his ''handout' won the bet
Titus has a daughter that everybody
In the party agreed ought to be hang
ing out In the orchard "she Is such o
peach" Instead she was hanging out
clothes when Fognrty came slouching
into the yard. For full i've minutes
she listened to his Arabian tale Of the
widowed mother and the seven little
children In the Bronx who would
starve to death In their cheeriess
rooms II some kind lady wouldn't give
the only support Of the family Fogars
ty) a piece OF bread SO that he should
~ exA~ <vR, tN vry<p M wi
money enough chopping wood to get
hack to the Bronx and maybe get a
Sob that would keep the wolf from the
door Of the widowed mother and the
seven children. Then Miss Titus said:
II don't think anything you say Il
true. I believe you drink liquor and
are afraid OF work"
Fogarty retold the story Of his sad
estate.
"Well, all right" replied Miss Titus,
''Tll give you the same as l give all
the tramps that come here IL you'll
promise to eat It"
"Gladly, num-" said Fogarty. "rm
that starved could eat dog"
So Miss Titus went into the house
and returned with plato covered with
q snowy napkin.
Put your hand under the napkin"
she commanded. ut won't bite you.
It isn't dog"
Fogarty complied and drew out-a
nice. smooth, round lemon.
1 When he got out on the road he
proved by 1t that Sawyer was more Of
a tramp than he So Sawyer climbed
aboard, and they all drove back to
Garden City and dined on Sawyer.
70 Russia For q Parasite.
DR.. L. o. Howard, chief Of the bu-
reau OF entomology. department Of ag-
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