New-York tribune., 1909-01-03
By S. E. Kiser
Drawings by Irma Deremeau1

and took four OF the c.le green package ou; of his
pocket. open them. he sad
The first one had a dollar IN 80 had the second
The had the lvtdollar bill wrapped around the
compound and the other dollar was IN The last pack
If You'll Just count IN the dollar YOU found in
your package" ne said the account Will be all
square II let that go your salary
Its kind Of queer, said |. that happened to
pick out the right package the first time. Did you
know the dollar IN II when YOU told me to
open it,"
Ny boy" SAID the Doc let me ask YOU some
thing If you wanted a statue made, would you hire
a tinsnith to do Your sculpIug. No YOU wouldn't
would YOU Well don't YOU ever try to sell com
pound until YOU have learned The art. As the poet
says
Behold the busy little bee improve each shining hour
He'd waste time he didn't know cothcspin from
The world is a clover patch Find out how to
extract the honey, and the rest will be easy.
He smoothed his silk hat with his coat sleeve and
looked at earnest. friendly way. What |
like about YOU he SAID after bit. IS Your innocent
countenance. and hope you Re- as good as YOU look
Did tell YOU my daughter was waiting for US at
Plumville. l think You wIll like her Zacharlah'
but and She must be nothing more than friends
This combination Is to be organized for business
purposes only Kindly keep that fact in mind
Men have called her beautiful and l will confess
that she is fair look upon but she IS not 10 be
lured from the pedlgcrouS paths of melifiu"uS
rnadenhood
told him | hadn't any intention OF going into the
Turing line and let him understand at the same time
that nv name was Alexander Hewitt.
That good. honest name. he allowed; but
one of the first things should do when he en-
ters the profession to take a nom de sprint. As
nv manager YOU viii be known as Zacharlah B.
Sharpe Live up 10 the name | ask no more
IT was late when we reached Pumville, and we went
L to a little hotel near the depot The doctors
daughter was waiting for us-or for him, should
say, because She didn't know till he told her that
the company had 4 manager He d told the
truth about her looks, all right. The minute saw
her ! was glad Id come
'.Clvtie." he said this IS Mr.. Sharpe, our new
manager Nv daughters name, he explained to
me is Clvteinnestra, but YOU VIII be good enough
to call her Miss Trelawney. by which name She IS
known to the public -,
Before | went to bed that night | felt as II d
known Clytie for years. She had an innocent way
Of looking me in the eyes and touching my arm every
little while that made hate 10 get TAR away from
her | was 50 busy thinking about her and the
habit she had of dropping her head forward When
She smiled that | couldnt go to sleep and guess q
been tossing around for an hour or more when
somebody yelled Fire" and before could get
my clothes on the place was so full OF smoke
the that it oozed through the pores. never
e knew before how quick Commouon could
be raised In less than minute there was
4 crowd of people in the hall, yelling Ike a
mob of college students. And smoke! never
s,need such smoke in my hfe. One whit OF 1t
nearly put my breathing works out OF business