Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-09-25
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Club to compare Hang-Overs and find
out what had happened after the Roof
fell in.
Our Hero appeared just as the Boy
was getting ready to throw a Life
Line. He was greeted with a ribald
Shout and told to come running and
Save Himself.
The Moment had arrived for him to
be a Man. Surrounded by Ice and
Squirters and Mixing Spoons and
Orange Peel and Jiggers and Jaggers
he drew himself together and made
the Announcement.
For a Moment they were stunned
by the Impact and then every Son Of
Peoria leaned back and let out a
Yowl. To think that real up-to-date
Fellow would pull any of that Old
Stuff! A puny Mortal trying to get q
Toe-Hold on the Demon!
They told him to forget It and quit
his Spoofing and remove his Over.
shoes and ease couple Of Gills into
his Reservoir and try to be a Human
Being, however painful the Effort.
He came back with a few Gems
from the Family Medicine Book about
the Effect Of the Accused Stuff on
various Organs. He did not propose
to feed himself anything that would
cut the Varnish off of Wood Work.
The Hard Stuff had passed out of
his Life.
The Cackles died away and were
succeeded by looks of Blank Dismay.
They saw that one whom they had
long regarded as a reliable bench.
working Union Lush had turned In
his Card and deliberately made him
self an outcast-
They saw him order vichy and 60
to 1t as II 1t were Beverage and
then they tore up his Credentials and
burned his Photograph and told him
to go out into the snowy Streets and
find a new Home.
He sat back and pulled the Grim
Smile which Savonarola wore when
they piled the Fagots around him. He
was a Martyr and proud of his Job
BY the same Token, there is no Brand
Of Rectitude that grades so pure and
spotless as that exhibited by the disin
fected Dove who has not touched q
Drop for nearly "a hours.
They saw him go home with q
Magazine under his Arm and ther
they sat around until all Hours, lap
ping 1t up and progging his Finish
They said he never would last Weeh
and when he Fell II would be Some
Splash.
They began to issue daily Bulletins
and watched the Case with much
Anxiety because they really liked tn,
Old Scout in spite of his Eccentrici
ties. When they learned, at the Enc
Of Week, that he had played Butter
milk to a Standstill all up and dowr
the Quick Lunch Circuit and was a
his Desk every Morning with his Fac,
clean and a Flower in his Coat, the,
called Meeting OF the Vigilantes ant
decided that the Joke had been car
ried far enough.
In the meantime, Our Hero ha,
learned two new kinds of Solitair
and began to call around for a Disl
OF Tea with some distant Female Rela
tives who had long supposed hin
Dead. Along about the Cocktail Hou
he would find himself sitting first Il
one Chair and then in another but h
Cashed big every Morning when h
awoke and found that Henry Katzer
; tammer was not sitting on the Foo,
Board making Faces at him.
Only. sometimes he would stop o.
Corner and look all about him an
up at the Buildings and wonder II tn
Town had always been as Quiet as a
Present.
After he had stuck for a Fortnigh
the desperate ENJOYS from the India.
Camp went after him for Keeps. Tht
held II In front OF him and splashed /
on his Clothes and begged him to ste
aboard with them and go right up (
the 18th Floor.
Probably II they had let him alon
he would have come sneaking bac'
into the Reservation to watch the re-
Whirlisigs and pick a few of thos
Night.Blooming Martins but yhe
they tried TO Stampede him, the oil
New England Stock asserted itself. q
he substituted Rivets for Straps.
He Is now the honored Associate O
those who play Cribbage in their ow,
Homes and eat Apples before turnin
In. But II you want to get Line O.
his Real Character Just ask the We
Brothers. They will tell you that h
wasn't there with the Strength O
Character 80 he simply sank out O
sight.
MORAL: The Way OF the e,
Transgressor is Hard.