Evening star., 1914-01-25

two weeks most of which time spent in the city park
where the benches were packed ten hours day with
parchment-skinned sufferers
One day Jimmy Green sauntered along looking like
the last end of nowhere. but wearing the button Of the
travelling fraternity. In all my rambles | had never
seen him before; but we shook hands fervdly
weakened bceps would permit, and he sat down the
bench beside
~Tell me about it, Brother, he said
l unroled the yarn of my folly, and he grinned like
ape
"The story of my downfall, he remarked, "differs
from that only the price marks and that is merely
question OF code. Let's go and get drink.
"There is hydrant there the corner | told
him without getting up but the water pretty salty
"I don't want BATH says Green. Il want some
ttng-wel never mind I'm hungry than thirsty,
anyway
IF YOU are so anxious to invest replied testify, Il
will go with you beanery if you will aid my falter
ing steps.
He went into his pocket with thumb and forefinger
and brought up a dollar and thirty cents.
We again several days later, little poorer and
little more desperate Green had spent-a day
shovel handle, and his hands about as his
feelings.
1T is fine day. is it not?" he inquired spreading his
hands for me to examine
1T is fine day, told him. "and is fine country,
and the atmosphere present in large quantities
and healing properties | would be as healthy an
onion if | could keep myself fed and watered, and |
could find work If it to be found and wasn't grabbed
up faster than it to the surface by army OF
senlungers that will work for nothing just to be where
they absorb this healing oxygen | am fervdly IN
ove with the climate, enjoy the people almost to dis
traction l think well of the prospects, and
If should spread my coattails, interrupted Green,
that output of hot vituperation would watt
the street to that saloon and there would be enough
energy left induce the barkeep to give drink.
But | am not thirsty, and | am going to make you
ashamed of yourself. Now listen am going to take
YOU into partnership that will be mutually agreeable
and profitable. could pull it off alone; but my hands
are sore. l don't need much money, and besides
! think your ability along the line of gentle and per-
stasve profanity might be useful.
He took out of his pocket couple of sheets OF
writing paper that he had extracted from hotel He
folded them across the middle, placed inside the
other and pinned them so as to form eight page
booklet.
"Now YOU are supposed to be examining restaurant
These spaces the four inside pages
will be devoted the bill OF fare The rest of the inside
will be divided into four spaces page and sold to local
merchants at ten dollars ad. The outside OF the
cover will be sold for forty dollars and the wonsde
pages at twenty-five each. The total will be two hun
dred and fifty dollars. and shall have pay for the
printing Now come with that German silver tongue
and get busyl
grabbed that stunt like a drowning man grabs at
straw. We Chinese restaurants, and they
all agreed the menus, to furnish them gratis
We got copies of their bills OF fare and went to the job
printer. He wanted eghty-tve dollars for furnishing
the stock and printing the four set-ups, two hundred
and fifty of each and we finally agreed to give him
sxtv-five dollars
We got a dummy which spaced off carefully
show the size OF the ads, and fixed up fine
line Of talk 1t took three days close out the