Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-08-30
BILL AND
10 sIAH

Sneech. It was useless 10 SEND
pale-faaod highbrow like that to col
lege He wouldn't do anything but
study. Now Bill Wing was differ
emit; Hill would do anything but
study
'Thunderation, sir" angrily ex-
claimed Bill when professor once re-
preached him for lack df familiarity
with the text-book--Th ulderation and
blazes, sir. fellow can't know every
thing! Besides, sir, $neech-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. Il 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 did
of being success in the game Of
life. He had glass arm from birth.
He could not have hit balloon, Ii
1t was fastened In front of him.
Bill Wing was the goods.
1t takes sure-enough college ath-
lete to make success in life. Bill
was the greatest pitcher the old uni
versity had ever turned out. Courte-
Gus, affable, distinguished in his bear
ing, possessed of muscles like iron.
and generalship such dis Napoleon
and handful of officers in the worlds
history have acquired through sea
sons of stress. Bill Wing developed
into the ''headiest" pitcher that ever
made batsman wildly smash the air
and bite his lips in sorrow.
Was Bill Wing the goods?
Certainly.
Josiah Sneech travelled for a hard
ware firm, In a half-hearted attempt
to sell patent egg heaters to house
wives who shooed him off the prem
ises, the summer vacation before be
went back to college for his senior
year. This was really the nearest APP
proach to anything useful that poor
| Sneech accomplished ih his college
career. The fellow was perfectly fool
| ish about books. He nsed 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 into the
| bleechers, made straight for Sneech,
broke his finger, and dashed Jevons
logic to earth. Oh anybody could see
the finish of Sneech.
Hoodooed from the start, and a
man marked for the cold unconcern
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 Sneach was q al. IL.
| ated.
Poor Sneechl What q struggle
with an unappreciatiye world was to
come to him!
Already he was catalogued as d
failure by such persons as ever let
their eyes rest upon his pallid, mourn
full features. his painfully STOPPING
shoulders, and his forlorn. hopeless
aspect He looked like ruin.
| The post college career OF Bin
Wing began right away. Il differed
no whit In brilliance from his effuI
gent college existence. Bill pitched
winning bali for the Giants all sum
mer. His salary was said to be the
highest ever paid to Q Young
-ster"
BY some unexpected Fagary of fate
Josiah Sneech landed job shortly
after graduation. He read law and
worked as Office boy at three dollars
per week In a dingy office where day
light was myth and got In only By
accident.
And Sneeeh did nothing but get dis
liked by the junior clerks on account
of his disgusting habit OF studious
ness
On the diamond, Bill Wing wa.
winning the plaudits of the muI
titude
Eleven years fed. Eleven year
on a diamond and In dingy Office.
In sumptuons library a keen-eyet
man was turning the pages of hi
: newspaper careiessly. He hrushe,
back the hair from his brow. Th,
diamond on his finger caught q ra,
Of light from the $1,000 mirror acros
the room and flashed gbrgeOusly. TIL
gentlemanss eye fell upon glarinI
headlines, as follows:
"Sneech Wins in Brilliant Battle. ;.
Eminent Young Corporation Counse
Puts Legal Talent to Rout."
"M-m." said the gentleman. Nm!
He appeared in no wise displeaseC
Rising he threw out bis chest an
paced back and forth upon the thie
). velvet carpet. Presently. he touche
. silver bell. An obsequious servin
II man appeared.
/. James" said the gentleman. .
/. wish you would order the barouch
) for 10: 80,
Il -.