The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-02-01
BE HAD THE MONEY.
ala 1t to Fool His wife And Forgot
whore X Wa when He Be-
came sober.

came sober.
The almost preternatural foxiness
of some men who occasionally find
themselves considerably more than
half seas over il a phenomenon
of which there are innumerable
instances. A certain Washington
citizen Of more than fair av-
erage sobriety afforded one of the
instances only a couple Of weeks ago,
relates the Star.
This man took an afternoon of
from his business and went out to
the Benning races on the first day
of the final week of the meeting. n
was his first visit to the track sine.
the beginning of the meeting. Mirac-
ulously enough, he won some money
considerably more than $500. 1t
was SO miraculous that he felt that
he would never experience another
days luck ON earth if ne failed to
celebrate the extraordinary event.
So he celebrated. He celebrated so
effectually that when he got home
along towards midnight Ito with
stand as best he could, of course, his
wife's reproaches) he had only $50 OF
his winnings left.
After she had relieved herself of
the due and proper quota of re-
proaches necessary in the circum-
stances, the mans wife went down
stairs to close up the house for the
night. Then the man, who was in
just the shape that man always
gets into who unwisely celebrates,
developed his foxiness. Unto him
self he reasoned:
I'm my right hand trousers pocket
I've got SEQ pure velvet. All right.
l want to maintain my personally
conducted clutch on that $50. But 1
can't maintain any kind of a clutch
at all ON it il l permit it to remain
in my right hand trousers pocket.
I'll no sooner fall into the deep, rest
full slumber as of little che-ild than
my true and faithful wife will pro.
coed to go through my clothing. in
accordance with her invariable and
instructive custom under circum-
stances like those of the present
She will grab out the 500 and never
say q word about it, and I'll have
forgotten about what did with it
myself when l wake up tomorrow
morning, and she'll be in undisputed
possession Of my $50 to blow in on
hats and boas and a whole lot of I'M
necessary truck like that. VARY,
VARY well. I'll just fool her up a
few. I'll just take this little $50 wad
and place the same behind this cute
little picture on the wall So. There's
the $50 behind the picture. And, to
provide against my forgetting what
has become of that little $50, / shall
proceed to make little memoran-
dunn in my notebook. All, here's my
pencil. I'll just write down here
Dough is behind the picture and
when see that entry in my little
notebook I'll be just $50 to the good
and she'll be fooled up quite heap"
lie barely had time to get the
money behind the picture hanging on
the wall over the bed and to make
the little entry in his notebook be-
fore his wife, having closed up the
the reproaches, mentioning a few
that she had overlooked and remem-
bered while downstairs. Presently
he fell into q sound slumber. He
never knew whether his wife went
through his clothing or not after he
fell asleep, but he considers it high
ly probable that she did.
VX1,ov. <ho vra~ voLo .Aco~;-J.
and hang-dog, the next morning, he
remembered the money he had won
on the day before at the track, but
there was a good deal of blank after
he returned to the city from the
track. He remembered not thing
of the 500 he had when he returned
home. The memory of having placed
1t behind the picture did not abide
with him at all. When he asked his
wife to go downstairs and get him
cup of coffee he jumped up and
went through his clothes in great
hurry. He found 40 cents in change,
and nothing else. He asked his wife
when she returned upstairs how
much money he had when he re-
turned home, and she regarded him
with an aggrieved stare when she
told him that the sum total of his
cash had been 40 cents in silver.
"Well," the man unused, as he rode
down town to business in the car,
III my true and loSing spouse didn't
get what money l had left of that
winning then l must have spent a
heap down town last night, or else
l was touched. It's one or the other.
However, we'll forget it. I ought to
have 80 days in Jail, anyhow, for not
keeping the dough l got from those
bookmakers; it hasn't been often I've
hit them in recent years, heaven
knows"
1t was only two days ago that, in
running over his notebook, he came
upon that queer scrawl. dough is
behind the picture" It perplexed
him for a few minutes, and he
scratched his head and gazed at /: