Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-03-16

to be sent to university. The old
man thought It over awhile, then fore
closed on another farm, aud set por-
ton OF the proceeds aside for this
purpose When the news got around
to Helney's father he ordered O keg OF
kerosene, another side of sole leather
and spread the information that he
would keep his shop open nights.
When the professors Of the uni
verslty beheld Thomas dome OF
thought they gathered about and made
his matriculation an Intellectually hi
larious event. but when lieiney pre-
sented himself they sized up his bullet.
shaped conk In one glance, then hand
cd him a frown and the highly cul.
tured term of beat for beat IT. They
had to simplify the expression before
he could understand II, and then
Heiney picked up his carpet sack and
went forth wondering II dad would use
the oak lath on him when he got HON
and reported However, he didn't have
long to worry about II. for as he was
wandering about the campus like a
stray calf with too much sour milk
aboard, he ran into the director OF
athletic sports, who was looking for
piece OF humanity about the size Of
Heiney to At into the keystone position
Of the football bunch.
He gently drew from Heney his tale
Of woe ana llfes history, and when he
learned that the bulky young man
with the small cupola could butt hole
through two-inch board without
even peeling the bark off his topknot.
and could land a drop kick from the
| 50-yard line, he took him by the hand
/ and led him back to the men who had
| turned him down, and ordered his
name on the roll for the good OF the
school"
At the first recitation Thomas got
100 per cent. and Heiney got zero,
but the professor had his orders from
the athletic director. and that counts
some in most colleges-or did when
this happened. When the first football
game was played Thomas was in his
room wrestling with quadratic equa-
ton in the third degree. while Heiney
was covering himself with glory and
I liluu Oh ihS anu ht wac
carried from the field on the shoulders
of the enthusiastic football bugs, his
standing in the university was set.
tied, no matter what blunders he made
In the class room, and he wrote a
badly spelled letter home to cheer
dad at his nightly vigils with the last
and shoe pegs.
AS time went by the intellectual
bumps on Thomas head grew larger,
while Heiney was taken up by the
hilarious bunch that had money to
spend and didn't care how It spent Il.
Trigonometry, geology, calculus,
psychology and such things became
like unto ABC's to Thomas, and by
hard work Heiney got enough mathe-
mates into his head to figure out a
race-horse dope sheet and the per-
centages of the baseball teams. He
was star in the fall on the football
field. then he hibernated in a spell of
glory until spring, when he added new
laurels to his crown by being the only
pitcher that could be relied upon by
the baseball team. All the girls were
daffy about him, the young men were
proud TO know him, and small boys
followed him along the street hushed
to whisper by his greatness. No one
but the faculty knew that Thomas was
on the roll of students
The time finally came when Thomas
and Heiney's class had to graduate
and as Heineys days as a football
} player were ended. by the laws of the
J game. he was handed a sheepskin
that had as much Latin on 1t as that
of Thomas, but he was afraid to take
1t home for fear his father would ask
: him to read II.
7 Thomas was Immediately hired by
the faculty as an assistant professor
of mathematics and the dead Ian
guages at salary OF $500 per year
) while Heiney was offered the positioE
: OF football coach at $4,000 a year. Bu
: the big leagues had been fighting 70
l him some time, and after haggling tn,
r usual time he finally signed up as I
: pitcher at the modest sum OF sc, 6,00I
per season. Every paper in the United
States made mention of this fact ant
3 lots OF them run his picture. The hom,
paper donated nearly a page to II
3 while Thomas high honors were dis
; missed with a aVe-line squib on tn,
4 local page.
While the folks OF the home tow
: were still talking in bated breatl
: about .leiney's great good fortune h
Q slipped out OF town one day and tn,
next heard of him he had married tn,
daughter OF a millionaire. who ha'
been bombarding him with sofa cush
< ions. college flags and such things 70
four years. and trembling all the tim'
I for fear she would not be able to lanC
him.
J. When the old cobbler heard thu
e news he sent his congratulations, ant
the happy bride responded by max
g ing him a present of a mahogany cob
d bler's bench, with inlaid pearl dudad
all over 1t, gold peg trays. a seat o