New-York tribune., 1909-11-07
Torchy
CCltEasa fI0F VlEs :

You're the chosen one" SAYS he.
Gee saws /. You had me guessln
though, But YOU amt drawn any blank. III
shinny on your side Mr.. Pepper, as longs you'll
let me-and that's no gust Of wind, either"
And say inside Of three days Ia got the
minIn' business down 10 science. Course II
Was a cinch. All ! has 70 do Is fold punches Of
circulars stick stamps on the envelops and lug
EN- up To the general r. O. once a day. That,
and chasin' out after a dollars worth Of cigars
now and then for Mr.. Pepper, and keepin'
Sweetie jollied along, didn't make me round
shOuldered.
CWEETIE was cut out for the undertaken
~ business. bv rights. Tie took things hard,
he did. Every tick Of the clock was a solemn
moment for him, and me gettIn stamp on
crooked Was a case that called for a heart 10
heart talk. lie used TO show me the books he
was keepin and the writin' was as reg lar as If
It'd been done on job press.
" You're wonder, YOU are, Sweetle, says ]; ;
90 but some day your hand Is going To Joggle,
and Ihcreu Ice a blot on them pages, and then
Voull die of heart disease
Miss Allen, the typewriter fairy, was good
deal of a frost. She MAS one OF the kind that
would blow her lunch money on haYIn her HAIR
done like some actress and woTry through the
week on an apple and TWO pieces of fudge At
noon. / never had much use for her. She
called me iust Boy, as though ! Wa n hardly
human IL all She'd SIT and pat that halr OF
hers bv the hour. fccIn 10 see II al the diff rent
aI
work Of art, al right; but il didn't leave her
time u think Of much else. ] used 10 get her
wild bv askin' how the SIX other sisters was
comm on these days.
We didn 4 have any great rush of customers
in the Office. About twice day some one
would stray IN; but gen rally they Was lookln
for other parties and We dldn take IN money
enough over the counter 10 pay the towel bill.
II had me worried some, until ! tumbles that
the Glory BE MIS- a mani order snap
reI Ifs ON 70. al
mine And say, after I'd read one OF en- !
didn't see how il was didn't have a crowd
thrown money Al rs. II Was goo'l readIn',
too almost as eNCItin' AS a nickel hbry- Ia
never been right next TO a gold mine before
and IL got me bug eyed Just thlnkIn about II.
Why. this mine of ours Was one that the
Iniuns had kept hid for years and years, klllIn'
OFF every white man that stuck his nose INTO the
same county. But after awhile a ie-ler by tht
name. Of Dakota an turned lnJun, got hiIllsel
a1or,ted bv the ,r-be, and monhcy cd arO 'ft
until he found the mr. u 4.-.lr % ~ leo nm
The first squiut he got oi thin 3 cA1hKs oi
gold The Iniuns caught nlm q II ana hnlShed
The business with hot IRONS. Then they roasted
n, over a fire some and turned HIM loose to
~ himself lie was tougher n motorndn
, Oh He didn't die for years after that; but
he never said nothln about the Solu mime uillii
he was nearly al in. Then he told ms Oldest
boy the tale and gave nm a map ol lite PiITe, TI
maxim him swear he'd never go near II. Inc
how stuck 10 IL too. He grew up ana kept a
oroc,rv store and II va I until after he q died
II lackiaw from runnin' a rusty nan IN his hand
and .he widow had sold out the store To a Swede
tbat ths map showed up. The Swede s"apped
tb,. map 90 a soap drummer for han = dozen
cakes of scented shaving sticks and the drum
mer goes eXplOrln'
LIE had q soap drummer's luck. lie didn
III fnd anv Iniuns left. Most Of EN- hAd aled
off and the rest had Joined MHd West SHOWS
The gold mine WAS there, though with chunks
- eoiid gold lvin' around as big as peach bas-
l,ts Mr.. Drummer looks until ms eyes acne
nj tben he hikes himself back last To get up a
.~o-,lu' nv 20 work the NINE lied Just @ @LiIue
,,lsns 10 build a solid gold manson on fith-
~, and hire John ID. Rockefeller Tor a ~ ~DuueI;
when he strays into one OF these DoSlS!
missions and pets religion so hard that ne can
ebslr II Then he sees how selfish IL "ouiu Do
30 keep al that gold for himself.
but how'll divvy it, says he. Ana VINO
Then he decides that he'll divide with INNS
-. tccsuse they'll use II best 80 he gets up
- GLORY BE Mining Company ana hIea MI
I5,,,,,r 40 sell the stock al twenty -hte cents ="
- - ~ "a .V he preachers IN the country;
blamed # IL want straight goods looAeI
90, tbe letters We sent out, and every Last one "a
-, y-ss 10 ministers. Talk about your easy
,,@ncv This was like pckin II of the Dus.s, ne,
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