New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-25
BY GLENMORE DAVIS

is 20 new man in the game they nave extracted lomost
ancient chestnut from the bag the contagious dcase
scare. It's 50 old it has whi5kcrs ike Father r. o-
King Lear. They probably know that I'm uori..
ahead Of the White Tops and think don't know how
~ kill their story. But wait till tomorrow s ovcr,-
aWhat are you going 20 do Stab someone
4Iact if you and I haven't more brains than OBJ.
gang of hacc-he1dcd yeggs, we ought ~ be- ashame.
If ourselves Wells and Howe shave the back Of 'h--
rcol- wear hay I'm their hair eat with their snve pick
tbc,r teeth with forks and have been frisng rube, .-
thirty years but these are no reasons why pair a
orccnborns with modest crania developments can't beat
them 20 % whisper and you and J are the pair Ar.
YOU on"
The question was unnecessary and uncalel ior. jack
Mccain and had been pals long enough to De able ~
read each others mind. Sam Harnns kne" both 70 us
better than knew ourselves. Possibly The peculiarly
intimate though accidental positions occupied in-
creased our willingness % help each other IT, see
Harkins "a newspaper man, the unwilling proprietor
81 circus was bad enough and % find me, Tom l0.e-
man. playing the role Of press agent in miserable
lets two thousand miles from Park Row was little .et-
ter: but 10 discover John Henry Nee ann, IT,, ot a-
ave-, Newport, Paris, and Cairo, owner ot ten million
dollars and the prcttcst sister on our " any other
tncnt,-to discover this clever, goOd-nature'. .-i
ilded youth travelling over the Afalf and Asa Route
on none too comfortable circus train just for the tun
Of it. was almost too much for croluhty.
Without waiting for him % answer, dropped of -he
bus and hurried 20 the newspaper Office. would meet
Mccain at the hotel for luncheon in half an hour Ie
the meantime he could keep his eyes and ears open ar.
his mouth shut
As in most Southwestern towns Of this SIZE some
thousand inhabitants, there were only two paper.
q morning and evening owned by the same pe
and published from the same building. When . IKE
blamed To the publisher that I wanted q compe'. r.
emphatic retraction Of the Hardns plague story rt.
.ff +, i1+ -~..~.
tvo-column cut Of Sam and litc-sized reproiu ..a
Of his ive-thousand-dollar challenge 70 the hc-. 10
hcers he seemed % hesitate
@What am / goin' to do with the Wells & Howe
fellow said he, scratching his head.
81 don't know, and don't care. They started This
outrageous libel and its up % you % smear ten a
over YOUR sheet or stand for a suit thatl break og
Our lawyer is in town this minute and all YOU mus. DO
is say the word and we'll start enough trouble - last
YOU and AIelrose a lifetime.
@You fellows ask so alfred much he went Here
YOU land in town, pitch your tents, stay rev hours,
spend nothing and leave with all the money within
thirty miles.
They always pull that one when YOU ask O favor or
demand something that's coming % YOU. hat CONF
plant that the circus takes all the cash out Of the oo
try the query, Where 10 YOU 60 from here anil The
man who used 10 take care Of Dan Rices trick rse
Excelsior are TO be encountered in every circu -oHn
west Of the Mississippi For ten extra tickets -ae Mel
rose man listened TO reason, and leaving him The ct--
and stories hurried back to the hotel where found
wire from Sam announcing that the State official bal
examined all the circus people and livestock and hal
given the Mighty Harkins Show clean bill Of health
Repeated over the telephone, these tiding, served
relieve the newspaper proprietor and looked around
for Jack.
LIE was on his way to the cafe and billiard roon his
IL left arm linked affectionatey in the elbow o. an
immense man whose sartonsorial appearance proclaimed
him Texan freshly secured over his heart LEI,
nothing more to the imagination This man was the
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