The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-07-16
rHE NEW FABLE OF THE RoisT.
ERiNo BLADES WHO ABSORBED
THE MAGNETIC CURRENT Di.
RECT FROM THE CENTRAL
STORAGE PLANT.

Out In the Celery Belt OF the Hin
srland there Is a stunted Fag-Station.
Number Six. carrying one Day
Coach and n Combination Baggage
and Stock Car. would pause long
enough TO unload q Bucket OF oysters
and take on q Crate OF Eggs.
In this Settlement the Leading Citi-
tens stili wear Gum Arctics with large
suckles. and Parched Corn Is served
1t Social Functions.
Two highly respected Money-Getters
u pure American Stock held forth In
his lonesome Kraal and did q General
Merchandising.
One was called Miit. in honor OF the
Blind Poet, and the other claimed the
following brief Monniker. to wit:
Henry.
Neither OF them had to pay the wo-
man who did the Housework.
Henry and Milt got what they could
turing the Daytime and always stood
ready to trim up the Dark Lanterns
and operate at Night.
These two Pillars OF Society had
marched at the head OF the Women
and School Children during the Dry
Movement which banished King Alec
hoi from their Fair City.
As q result OF their Efforts Liquor
was not 20 be obtained In this Town
except nj the Drug Stores and Restaur.
ants or in the Cellar underlying n
well-conducted Home.
For Eleven Months and Three
Weeks u Of every Calendar year
these two played Right and Left
Tackle In the stubborn Battle 20 Up.
lift the Community and better the
Moral Tone.
They walked the Straight and Mar.
row. wearing Binders. Check-Reins.
Hobbies and Interference Pads.
Very often a Mother would hurry
her little Brood TO the Front Window
when Milt or Henry passed by carry
Ing under his arm a Package OF Corn
Flakes and the Report OF the General
Secretary In charge OF Chinese Mis-
sionary Work.
Look" she would say. indicating
local Paragon with index Finger. ~
you always wash behind The Ears ard
learn your Catechism. you nay grow
up 10 be like Hin"
But-every Autumn. about ne tine
the Frost IL on the Stock MARKET Ere
Wall Street 10 in the Shock. NIL ard
Henry would do a Skylark Ascension
from the Home Nest and Wing away
toward the Rising Sun.
They called II Fall TuyinR became
both OF them Bought and both Of them
Fell.
At Home neither Of them would
Kick In for any Pastime more worldly
than a 1O-cent W. =. SHOW depicting a
large number OF Insane People falling
over Precipices.
The Blow-On came on the Trip 20
the City. That was tho Big Show.
Every Nickel that could be held out
went into the little TIN Bank. for they
Of these Washers. a man up In New
York would let them have some TIT
fanny Water OF Rare Vintage. with a
Napkin wrapped around II as an Evi.
dence OF Good Faith.
On Winter Evenings. MIlt would
don the Velvet Slippers and grill his
Lower Extremities on the mate Por.
tico such az surrounds every high.
price Base-Burner.
While thus crisping himself he loved
10 read News Notes from Gotham,
signed Carolyn Stuyyesant. who
seemed to have the Entree into the
Best Houses.
He did not know that Carolyn had
tangled Whiskers and Iotted down his
Boudoir Secrets In o. Weinstube. usinp
a borrowed Pencil.
So he believed what II said In the
Paper about a wellknown Heiress hav
ing the Teeth OF her favorite Pomer
anian filled with Radium at a Cost o.
100000.
Whenever he got this kind OF
Private Peek into the Gay Life OF IN,
Modern Babylon. he began TO breath,
through his Nose and tug at tn
Leash.
He longed 10 dash away on the Fri,
10 look at the Iron Fence In front o
the Home OF the Pomeranian.
When the Day OF Days arrived, Mil
and Henry would be seen at the Depo
with congested Suit. Cases and thei
Necks all newly shaven and powdere
for the approaching lybilee.
Each had pinned Into his colleg,
made Suit enough currency to lift tn
Debt on the Parsonage.
Already they were smoking Foreig
Cigars and these were a mere Hint @
what the Future had In Store
While waiting for Number SIX the
wired for Two Rooms and Two Bath
and TO have Relays waiting In tn
Manicure Parior,
Up at the Junction, where the
caught the Limited. they moved int
the High and began 70 peel from I'll
Roll.
The Steak ordered In the Dinin
Car hung over the edge Of the Tabl
and they scutied 10 o which on
would pay the Check.
AZ for the Boy in the Buffet, ever
time NO heard q Sound like rs cent