Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-04-15

| anybody else can. Sh0atS IS q KIND OF
inspiration and genius with me. Spe-
clally this one. | wouldn't take two
hundred and fifty for that ANIMAL
Now listen,' says /, wiping off my
forehead. It's not so much matter
of business with me as it is art, and
not so much art as it is philanthropy
Being a connoisseur and disseminatOr
of pigs, l wouldn't feel like I'd done
my duty to the world unless l added
that Berkshire to my collection. Not
intrinsically, but according to the eth
les of pigs as friends and coadjutOrs OF
mankind, l offer you $500 for the anil
NAL
JEFF. says this pork esthete, it
amt money; it's sentiment with me-
Seven hundred says |.
"'Make it eight hundred says Rufe,
and I'll crush the Sentiment out Of
my heart
81 went under my clothes for my
money belt and counted him out forty
twenty-dollar gold certificates.
"'Pll just take him into my own
ROOM says l., and lock him up till aft
er breakfast
81 took the pig by the hind leg. He
turned on sQueal like the steam cal
Hope at the circus.
"Let me tote him in for YOU says
Rufe, and he picks up the beast under
one arm, holding his snout with the
other hand, and packs him into my
room like a sleeping baby.
"After breakfast Rufe, who had a
chronic case Of haberdashery ever
! since l got his trousseau, says he be-
lieves he will ambe down to AIisfitz-
ky's and look over some royal purple
socks. And then l got rs busy as a
one armed man with the nettle rash
pasting on wallpaper found an old
negro man with an express wagon to
hire, and we tied the pig in a sack and
drove down to the circus grounds.
81 found George b. TOpley in a little
tent with a window flap open. He was
a fattish man, with an immediate eye,
In a black shullcap, with four ounce
diamond screwed into the bosom Of his
red sweater.
care you George B. Tapley?' asks.
"'I swear it, says he.
"'Well, I've got it, says l.
"'Designate, says he. Are you the
guinea pigs for the Asiatic python or
the alfalfa for the sacred buffalo?
"'Neither, says !. I've got Beppo,
the educated hog, in sack in that
wagon. found him roofing up the
flowers ln.my front yard this morning.
III take the $4,000 in large bills If it's
handy
George B. hustles out OF his tent
and asks me to follow. We got into
one of the side shows. In there was
jet black pig, with a pink ribbon
around his neck, lying on some hay
and eating carrots that a man was
feeding to him.
"Hey, Mac, calls G. B. Nothing
wrong with the worldwide this morn
| luBt Is lucIt9
"'Hlm? No. says the man. He's
got an appetite like chorus girl at /
II. m
How'd did you get this pipe? says
Tapley to me. Eating too many pork
chops last night?'
II pulls out the paper and shows him
the ad.
Fake says he, Don't know any
thing about 1t. You've beheld with
your own eyes the marvellous. world
wide pOrcine wonder of our four foot
ed kingdom eating with preternatural
sagaclty his matutlnal meal unstrayed
and unstole. Good morning
81 was beginning TO see. got in the
wagon and told Uncle Ned to drive to
the most adjacent orifice of the nearest
alley. There took out my pig, got
the range carefully for the other open
Ing, set his sights and gave him such a
kick that he went out the other end Of
the alley twenty feet ahead of his
squeal
"Then paid Uncle Ned his 80 cents
and walked down TO the newspaper Of
fee, wanted to hear it in cold syl-
labes. got the advertising man to
his window.
"'To decide a bet says |, wasn't
the man who had this adj put in last
night short and fat with long whisk-
| erS an1 II clb foot9
"'IIe was not says the man. 'He
would measure about six feet by four
and half inches, with cornsllk hair
and dressed like the pansles Of the con
servatory,'
AT dinner time went back to AIrs.
Peevy's
"'ShOll keep some soup hot for
Mr.. Tatum till he comes back? she
asks.
IF you Go, ma'am, says l. 'you'll
more than exhaust for firewood all
the coal in the bosom of the earth and
all the forests ON the outside Of it,
80 there, You see said jefferson
Peters In conclusion. how hard 1t is
ever TO find Il fair minded and honest
business partner"
but" | began. with the freedom Of
long acquaintance, "the rule should
work both ways II you had offered
to divide the reward you would not
have lost
Jetr's look Of digniaed reproach stop.