The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-08-02
ELL AND
JOSIAH

dlscernment could have told from the
start what would happen to Josiah
Sneech. 1t was useless to send a
palefaced highbrow like that TO col
lege He wouldn't do anything but
study. Now Bill Wing was differ
ent; Bill would do anything but
study.
"Thunderation, sir" angrily ex-
claimed Bill, when a professor once re-
preached him for lack of familiarity
with the xtbook-"Thunderati 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!"
We'll" 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 a success in the game OF
life. He had a glass arm from birth.
He could not have hit a balloon, il
il was fastened in front of him.
Bill Wing was the goods.
1t takes a sure-enough college ath-
lete to make a success in life. Bill
was the greatest pitcher the old uni
Yersity had ever turned out Courte-
Gus, affable, distinguished in his bear
ing, possessed of muscles like iron,
and generalship such as Napoleon
and a handful of officers in the worlds
history have acquired through sea-
sons of stress. Bill Wing developed
into the "headiest" pitcher that ever
made a 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
10 sell patent egg beaters to house
wives who shooed him off the prem
ises, the summer vacation before he
went back to college for his senior
year. This was really the nearest APP
proach to anything useful that poor
Sneech accomplished in his college
career. The fellow was perfectly fool
Ssh about books. He used to study
till the midnight oil refused to burn.
Sneech took 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 Jevon's
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 a 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 unapprecatiye world was to
come to him.
Already he was catalogued as a
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 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 a Young
ster."
BY some unexpected vagary of fate,
Josiah Sneech landed a 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 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 fed. Eleven years
on diamond and in dingy Office
In a sumptuous library a keen-eyed
man was turning the pages of his
newspaper carelessly. He brushed
back the hair from his brow. The
diamond on his finger caught ray
of light from the $4,000 mirror across
the room and flashed gorgeously. The
gentlemans eye fell upon glaring
headlines, as follows:
"Sneech Wins in Brilliant Battle"
Eminent Young Corporation Counsel
Puts Legal Talent TO Rout."
Mini" 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
a silver bell. An obsequious serving
man appeared.
James, said the gentleman. Il
wish you would order the barouche
for 10: 80"
Yes, sir" said James
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