The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-05-15
THE PHANTOM FANCY
OF A FAN
Old Bill Misgivens Had Great
Dream and a Sad
Awakening.

, 81 had dream the other night, r,
marked Old Bill Misgivens.
= dreamed / was among the spectator
in police court and while there vii
messed an affecting scene when
,, prisoner, charged with whipping hi
small son, told story so simple an
touching in it's unstudied eloquenc
that Judge Stokesbery burst int
tears and discharged him.
"The prisoner was Dubb L. Stea,
well known citizen and baseball far
who had always borne an excellen
reputation. He was awakened on
morning by his little boy, whose dut.
it has always been to call his paren
in time for breakfast. The father
in rage at being thus disturbed
had seized his razor strop and whaleC
his son until the neighbors had to in.
| terfere.
1T was this way, judge" the
prisoner said. 81 went to the ball
game yesterday afternoon and saw
the High School win their sixth
straight without defeat since the
opening of the season. | reckon !
couldn't have been in my right mind
when | went to bed, because | had been
wondering what would happen if the
High School boys kept up that pace
all the season. | was still thinking "a
bout it when / went to Sleep"
The prisoner stopped to wipe his
eyes and the spectators bent forward
eagerly.
"Of course" said the weeping man,
81 see now that it was a dream. But
Judge, it seemed to me that the
High School hadn't lost a game all
season. Their percentage, by I'M
animous vote of the city council had
been blazoned in electric figures one
hundred feet high on top of the new
Butte building. They could be seen
for eighty miles. The figures were
1000, 100000,
''While the whole country was ring
ing with the exploit of the school team
Gilmore Bell took the champions East
and challenged the winner of the
worlds series. Our lads were given
the freedom of the city wherever they
went. The regular army was order
ed out to guard them and keep the
crowds back. John d. Rockefeller
gave 10 million dollars for a bleacher
ticket. When there was only one tic
<et left President Wilson and the En-
peror of Germany fought duel for it.
Judge, our boys took four straight |
games from Pittsburgh, the worlds
,hamps, and were acclaimed the cham
1ions of the entire solar system. Con-
yress voted them all a pension and |
hey were brough back to Emmett on
he Atlantic battle ship fleet. The
leet lay off the municipal wharf and
ired salute of a thousand guns. The
'eople Immediately voted a million
ollars in bonds and erected a monu-
nent in front of the Wardwell School
1t was of marble five hun
red feet high, and bore the heroic
cures of the whole bunch with their
nightly bats and laurel on their brows
Judge, other cities tried to buy
ur heroes, but the mayor ordered
ut the Boy Scouts to guard them. !
Iuggsy McGraw was caught skulk-
Ig off train here, his pockets stuff
with 100000 gold certificates. A
Try gave him one thousand years. p
hose figures became Emmett's trade :
ark. Emmettites travelling abroad
ore them on their hats. The city
ldowed baseball and made it free to !,
citizens who could read, write and =
'onounce the words, 'Emmett-one
ousand. I
Judge, | was just attending the
st of these free games and was a. 9
ut to sit down on the marble benches :
divided by the city when my small F
II came and woke me up. l thought
was the umpire, and / asked him W
as it ball or a striker And the +.
ply had was: "Maw says if you +
MT come to breakfast you won't get /,
" IL
Judge, | just got up and whaled +
at kid till the police came"
The spectators in the courtroom
re all weeping when the unfortun- y
= man concluded his story. The =
ige, weeping violently, seized him
the hand and wrung it.
Co." he said huskily, you are 81
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