Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-04
At the End Of the Rainbow.
TisOjBL iEXTE.>.s.
BY Walt Mason.
BY Walt Mason.

"Abe kersmith is in trouble again,
| remarked the druggist. He keeps Sc
many dogs around his place that the
neighbors made a complaint at the po
lice station and he was arrested fol
maintaining a nuisance"
1T will serve him right if he is Sent
to the penitentiary for life" said the
village patriarch. "Abe's been in trouble
ever since he came to this town, and
that was twenty years ago. He has
more trouble than the Balkan allies
and he thinks he's abused shamefully,
but the truth is that he goes hunting
for trouble. 1t takes no sleuth to md
trouble. You don't have to wear false
whiskers or carry a dark lantern or have
la DIR. Watson with you. Whenever you
see a man who complains that the world
gives him Il crooked deal you may be
sure he's n trouble hunter.
Il have lived in this world long
time my friends and the more | see of
it the more ] am convinced that its
success. If you so forth in the morn
ing determined TO have a good time
the chances are all in favor of your
having a good time. II you are con-
WINGED that the people you meet in
your daily walks are perfect gentlemen
they'll prove to be perfect gentlemen and
ponds on your own attitude whether you
find life a Christmas present or gold
brick Abe Kersmith takes the wrong
attitude. He has convinced himself that
everybody has it in for him. Te's al
ways looking for bricks instead of bou-
Duets, and SO he gets the bricks.
Zone day he went into Clinker's gro
Gerry and ordered pound Of butter.
Crnker weighed it in a little dish and
then wrapped it up in paper and laid
"a thn flrlfQ Hhny u al Svr1if b
produced from his coat pocket a sort OF
a spring scale that was made in the
time of Noah and weighed the package
with it. Then he fused around and
said it was two ounces short. He said
he had long suspected Clinker OF dis
honesty and now he had the proof
".As a rule. Clinker isn't given TO VIC
lence. He is an eminently respectable
man, who conducts himself like a church
warden, but there are some things that
he came out from behind his counter
and smote Kersmith over the head with
large salt Goldfish and then dragged
him to the back door and kicked him
into the alex. Kersmith had him ar
rested for assault and battery and def
amation Of character and several other
crimes, but when the judge heard the
evidence he discharged CIinker and read
the King James version OF the riot act
to Abe.
That's the way with Abe. He makes
himself so disagreeabie that he isn't well
come in any store in town and when the
merchants tell him to chase himself he
wants to have somebody arrested In
the spring he always has about a mil
lion long-legged chickens, and they tear
up all the gardens in the neighborhood.
and about every other day the police call
at his residence and invite him to take
a joy ride In the patrol wagon Those
chickens cost him more in fines every
spring than all the hens from here to
Jerusalem are worth, but he wouldn't
get rid Of them or pen them up for any
thing. II does him good to see the
crazy birds keep the neighborhood in an
uproar He's looking for trouble all the
time and that's one sure way of find
ing 1t.
ABE has black eye or disIocsted
nose every now and then as result OF
his search for trouble, and you'd think
he'd profit by the lessons he receives,
but nothing makes any permanent inn
preston on him. Last summer col
lege professor rented the COTTAGE next
door to Abe's thinking 1t would ibe a
quiet place to study. He was a reserved