The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-05-19
Daily Short Story
The FOOnlICHTS AND
SALLY.

80 1870 oatt1o1s aAla the manaE~r
heard that you had given % the
show business. Was II rue
Carter sheldon iauKhed ~rir-n.,,e.
ally. Then he rambled on In a fr.ns
ooyish way:
I'm tell you an about n Last se..
son landed a Job 10 a stock com.
pAny np In Canada. doing leading ju-
Nenlles-sarne old sfory-'Cautlle r.
last Lynne and the ret OF the funk
Our star had the emotional bee In her
boanet; thought she could hand out
NE Leshs Carter stun. But her weep
Ing and scene eating sounded TO me
more like a waitress in a hash Fac.
tory. guess that's where she be
longed. too, for after the first week
business tel OF something awful Well
things went on until one day I strolled
around 10 the show shop all ready for
The "wednesday bargain matinee. What
% ] see stuck up on the call board
but notice reading: Company dis
oanded--see Mr.. Stone
i knew what seeing Mr.. stone
meant-ld been there before-a Ions
hard luck story about returning %
New YORK TO Teorganize-start out
again In a week with a strengthened
company and new repertoire-we
have received a fatterlng offer from
the manager Of the so-and-so opera
house-much better territory than this
we should be glad 20 have your serv.
Ices and so on. But as 10 salary.
there wouldn't be one word. and there
was two weeks coming TO me then.
When ! saw old man Stone IL was
worse than / expected-they didn't
even have enough to pay my way back
TO New York. There was nothing for
me TO do but pack my trunk. wire my
brother Tor money. and sit down and
I 40
mighty little. can tell you: but the
money came. and IL was back TO the
farm for your friend Carter.
by this time / was just about as
SICK OF the acting game as I could
be II had nothing but failure. fail
caleb didn't do any prodigal son act
when my suit case landed In his attic
ROOM had done an encore on that
welcome home stun more than once;
put when ] told him l had quit troup-
Ing. he and his wife were tickled to
death..rayed. they did, about being
glad I'd abandoned a life of sin"
You don't know Caleb, DO YOU?
He's all right in his way-glad TO give
you anything he's got; but he raises
me roof when you spill tobacco on
MS rag carpet while you're rolling a
cigarette. and can't for the life OF
him see why a man needs hot water
Speaking OF cigarettes, Carter Shell
don rolled one. There was an odd
look IN his pale blue eyes, and there
was a queer smile in his well-formed
mouth. The manager waited a while
he knew. his man-the rest OF the
story was hard TO tell. Sheldon blew
cloud OF blue smoke in the air. and
then continued:
Then Il was Sally aRain-we'd
been Kids together in the same old
country school. I've half a coin In my
pocket now that | split with an axe.
glvlng her the other half to show we
were engaged. She was ten, then.
while ! was a lanky, big-boned Kid OF
Is: Mighty pretty girl. Sally is now
We'll, TO get back TO my tale OF
woe: Caleb got me a job as day clerk
IN the Rosedale house. Oh. yes. IL
was one OF those Rube sit-around-the.
hre hotels. There was the usual old.
est inhabitants who told about the big
storm, way back in the forties. and
tne buchanan 'ministration, b'gosh.
You know-the regular tobacco-chew.
ing; soda cracker stealing bunch. chin
me- MIL a Hehs ana an They couldn't see
nor ! them. for that matter: stiIi. /
neld down my job for Sally's sake.
Day by day our kid love grew strong.
er, until We came to he pointed out bv
the Villagers as 'keepin' company
Inc spring came. and the sweet
ar OF the country was making me for
get my show business DAYS. But saw.
can you picture me. handsome juvenile
ming, helping TO hitch horses. feed
ing the chickens. yelling up the stairs.
Make up the bed I'm Number -Four,
Samanthy! and leaning over the show
case with a polite Did YOU saw a Eve
cent cigar. Colonel Tompkins? Me
leading man-Waitfng m a h,,,at. . /.
yaps-good night, VI
l., one day ! was arranging the pens
~, IN tne potato and putting a new blot
ter on the counter. when n 80,
business like good morning made me
look up. There stood a long haired