Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-14

lM KELLY, bachelor and odd-iob man at tno
age OF hfty-hve had been for sixteen month,
without work
he waited day after day on a bench in
Madison Square, looking attentively at his finger
nails His coat was of black CLOTH turned a cheap
green; his vest Of brown check and his trousers
ravelled at the edges were dark blue and very
uEht-fttins Indeed they fitted him so tightly that
his shrunk shanks looked like bird legs in then,
and then, above, the little birdlike face with the
beady eyes helped the resemblance. He had
needed shave for four days and his nose was sus.
picousy red But his collar was clean and the
tops Of the toes Of his shoes black for he was
hunting job.
Nobody knew where Kelly lived. If he really lived
anywhere 1t seemed as if he somehow in a nys-
FERROUS fashion, existed without the aid of meals
and sep for at any hour of the twenty-f -four YOU
could lass the little ierky fountain and find him
midi inoffensive ever warming the same rarou
lar bench hopeful taIkstve. but passive and
irresolute anu
ITO tell yuh the truth" he would say Pm
ashamed to ask for work. That's fact
ashamed For sixteen months now eoin' on sevs,.
teen I've tred-an' tried hard-and can't got a.
An whatve l done? Why, I've done nothin' to
NOBODY other men no better'n me. have turned
the trick before my very eyes sir Yes sir II
must be something in my looks. I've concluded an
so I've give up goin' around myself and lettin ther
ieiers turn me down. I'VE got a cousin Sam-Sam
Mcurath; he's out o work, too and I'm lettin' Sam
would
MS hands across his abdomen. blink his little eyes
ana wait amid the green trees and the sparrovs 10
near the good word from sam
somehow you got the Impression that lin, was
decent clean old man. Little things he dronnad
I'D conversation, little hints OF his former life 81
oesah Ire as an actor sir. though you'd never
l"hk It, he said one day. 1T was a melodra ma
which showed in little country towns the lnanagsr
was very nice man. but he left one dav vvitbout
pawn US our money. l never thought anvtbi,.
nara Of him myself for dom it, cause he'd raau,
oeeh losin a lot on the troupe, but some or tb.
others-he. hei-they him ATS" He had hoo,
an advertising solicitor. insurance agent a nro
'esslonal baseball player. assistant in a billiard
nail proprietor OF small newsstand at was
mere took a lilIin to readn'. used to read
almost everything on the stand especially the mic
lures. Occasionally now in the park he read
newspaper which some one had dropped and the
sort Of thing he liked best was the scare-head stor
'i the sunday supplement- Occasionally he TAXED
''' 'e various wanderers who came and wont
'.fo'-' tine park. To one, Kelly spoke of tobacco
eng Dung clerk, of for his noon hour eraaa,,,
mhal ng cigarette '
never smoke no more. IL hurts my ayas ,,,,
as' 'Heiss eiSht per cent o. nicotine i'm Aucric,r
.'oaeeo an only one an three-fourths ner ro,t ~
EUROPEAN tobacco. ! read it in magazine n
'S am aesuitory. futile conversation fndulpe5 I'm
a'eaIE while waiting for the return Of sam
"t had his one prdo. though this waif Of ,t,o
"'i'D. y ua see that line o felers over tbero9o
II SAID pointing to where in the tbioIk dus.
9 u "ieiched men were forming beneath tbs