The sun., 1907-04-21

in all kinds of a bob5ery about some short
time paper that he's got out--a whole hesp
of 1t. they say-and | wouldn't be surprised
any minute to hear that Nokick's gone
bust.
We'll. there's the pony thing for you!
/ That Ramell get your shirt il you stay with
it long enough. and I'm hearing that it Is
pretty nigh got Nokick's already. Member
how be always had the horse bug. don't
/ you? Well. l never heard of a man with
! such a case of the Dementia Americana
! for the horses as he's developed the last
year or so-a thousand times worse than
! he ever as before.
-Ne-eh. sure thing. he thumbs the dope
His desk is cluttered up with it-dope away
back four or five years. and when you
don't catch him telephoning a bet, why,
you'll find him sitting there at his desk
in a kind Of trance fumbling over charts
and oblivious to everything.
you drop in on him to talk business
and he's there with some kind of a good
thing that he wants to tell you all about.
and you can't get him to talk about anything
else. Sort of wild, uncanny look in his
lamps, too. and l wouldn't be startled
any time to hear of him having a series of
those brainstorm things.
IL tried 10 kick in one day a few months
ngo-felt il my duty-and tell Nokick that
he was giving himself the worst of it, but
he wouldn't see il the right way and got
real messy about it. and talked like he con-
sidered l was butting into his affairs, and
had the nerve to say that he'd be wearing
pigeon blood rubies when / was eating
hailstones and all like that. It's the deuce
isn't it, how a mans whole makeup'll
,han Ia, hnk kxr
thing like that takes possession OF him?
Take Lettemchaw, for another. What!
You haven't heard anything about Lettem-
chaw? Go way Well, you don't have
TO hear anything about him-all you've
got TO do is to- look at the man.
oh. you haven't seen him for a year OF
SO? Well. ! don't feel like saying anything
about II then, Of course-you'n meet him
time enough, and then you'll notice the
tremendous change in him. What is
II! Well, you can search me.
Nobody knows exactly what it is. so far
as J can find Out-morphia. hasheesh CO.
caine. laudanum or what not. But it's one
OF those things or something pretty close
TO 1t, you can take 1t from me. Why.
thought everybody was jerry to IL that
poor old Iettemchaw had become a done
fend' II hadn't figured for a certainty
that you knew all about 1t wouldn't have
Member what an alert. active, hustlinR
him now! CLASSY eyed. listlees, broodinR-
perfect picture OF man in a dope trance
all the time. Never gets a move on. Hardly
says "A word to his friends when he meets
up. with EN-. Can't figure out just what
u is that he's up against. but I imagine
that maybe it's laudanum. for his breath
has always got queer smell 20 IL when
meet him and the smell reminds me of
laudanum-l had an old great aunt once
that used to be a laudanum fiend and that's
how remember IL.
Queer gag how a wOmauIl fight for a
man sometimes. isn't it2 MY sister. Mrs
kubberino, tells me that Mrs. Lettemchaw
gives II out that Iettemchaw Is suffering
from stomach trouble and that that's what
makes him look 80 queer. but Of course
we Know that's all hosh. | guess the only
way for some fellows 10 keep out Of trouble |
ls 10 live down in a coal mine
-, Oh. say, did you hear about the way
NIxcare hlt on phony MN ing gag the |
other day? Ha, ha! They say that a bunch |
OF those phony, copper promoters cleaned !
nm OF hfteen thousand just as slick as a
whlstle-and Nixcare one Of these wise |
DrOws that knows all about it-ha, ha!
ID Jevver notice that it's these real smart |
people that get 1t every time where Mime |
mana wore the bears claws1 Nobody ever
the answer
The knowitalls are the people that these |
crafty bunk sharps are out looking for at !
all hours OF the day and night and they land |
em hke yahklng up mud eels with worm /
bait dropped in on Nixcare couple days |
ago TO see how he was taking it, but he never !
let on word and was there with all kinds |
OF blum at cheeriness, but I could see |
through that putup all right-he's Just |
trying to get away with that old taking my
medicine pose. but that never gets any
body anything. does it2 bet he'd like TO
have just one more peek at his fifteen thou
sand bucks all the same. and II he
Here's my stopl S'long. old pal. Don't
take any hickory dollara witho,It con.,,ItI,.S
mel Slong-