Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-05

handsome boy"' he exclaimed
 MT Hammond reached for his hat. "i think l have time to go over to the bank with you and introduce you to the president" he said
 On Friday Mir Hammond, by his right as d stockhoIdcr, learned that Mir. Wallingford'S check had proved thor onghly good and that the stranger now had 7:OUO regular dollars in the Broad. way National. so that night. which was the clubs official social evening. Inc made Ar Walingford his guest at the Commercial club and gave him q two weeks card. which privileged him to- come up to the rooms whenever he chose and buy whatever he liked and pay cash for it.
 On the way up to the club Mir. Ham rnond stopped in at d grocery store and bought q pound of sugar and Il jovial wink for Sl3O. He explained this pur chase up in the club. in q little room full of lockers.
 ''You see. we don't have !; bar in the Commercial club, on account of the strong tempcrance elcmcn. in this town." he stated. as he took q self pull ing corkscrcw from it's nail by the door. "and we have strict bylaw which says that no liquors shall be brought into the rooms. so we all bring in sn%ar, or tea. or coffee. or whatever we like" and with q juvenile grin that struggled oddly with. his per pctnally creased forehead, he opened his package of sugar and drew the cork wherc,lpon he offered Walinyford q water glass to drink from.
 Two other gentlemen, hatlcSs and CoatlesS, and with billiard sticks in their hands. walked into the grocery room, one of them laughing and the other one trying to laugh. The one who was trying to laugh took a key from his pocket. opened his locker and produced Il bottle, holding it sadly up to the light
 Third straight chocolate drop Ly- hargcr's lost tonight. Hammond" eX plaincd the laughing one.
 Mir. Woods and Mir. Lybarger, the former d fat young man with an in tricately veined face, and the latter rhenomenally lean man with painfully lark hair and complexion. were pleased to welcome the eastern capitalist into their midst and Mir. Hammond, under cover of the noise of the running water st the sink. where goblets were rinsed informed fat Mir Woods:
 "Ilas sevcnty-tive thousand in the Broadway National. real money"
 "Mr WaIlinyford." invited Mr. Woods hastily. "wont you try some of my chewing gum:' And he produced d bottle from his own locker. This is some very special chewing gum. Friend of mine in Kentucky sent it to me Twenty years old.'
 Others came in. and Walingfolu was introduced to them. and they conduct ed him hospitably to the reading room. By the time he had sat in his chair every man in the Commercial club knew that he had $75,OOO on deposit at the Broadway National, He could hear them telling it to one another, and he enjoyed himself very much
 Mir. Hammond was very proud of his friend Wallingford as the evening wore OH. lie Was q good story teller and he looked so iovia that by the time he had told three or four good ones his auditors laughed every time he said anything at all. Finally. hoary headed Dan Hlessus. who ran d furni- ture factory on thc profit sharing plan. with a daily chapel attachment. and obtained the manufacture of his output cheaper than any af his competitors asked Walin@ford the question that had been snrouting at the root of every mans tongue for the last half hour
 I'll 1t were not presumin@ too far" he suggested. "I'd like to ask you what your own line might he. but I'm afraid l % do So.''
 "I'l save you the embarrassment of 1 askl.ig.' returned Wallmgford cHeer | fully Il am an industrial physician
 And surgeon:" inquired fat littiu Woods, whose sense of the ridiculous was far kecner than his sense of pro- | pricty.
 There was a laugh upon this. and