The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-11-10
-xyyHAT are you fooIins away
10 your time reading that

rnoI hStatpr ~.lHimp0 as he SrdtcL
bimcoIf onnosirp Barnett Zapp in Was
corhouer'e
.Tbat's what Ol6 Man Zeppelin uscC
~ coc" Rornctt ZapD, the waist man
,,foo,rrnr ranfiad as he laid down the
c,rr.o+ issnn Of "SuJtry SIories.'
"E,.orv orcn in - while he would find
bic ~vnnrcast son pincus Zrppn'in
rnadino - dime novel and he would
co,cb him = hnv on the ear and ask
him v.h,t world hrcorIa of him. and
tb,+ no had q kind f,thrr and q GOOD
mother and this Is the way he rcpayS
+ho,n and +o lnnk ot his hrnthrr Sig,
u.hich r.,,ar road nothinp bnt the Ua-
,o,c and now runs one of the biggest
dai;co+a.san and fine grocery stores
in Irmonfinnnn Wurtpuburr, where
ne pirc,, I~o,neljn rnI,Idn't forget the
Tina no fooled away over 'Npd Ilar-
~,inoto, tho Rov Avi1tor" in the "Ned
u,rrinatnuo series tiIl If affected his
mind RirsLv. He Incomes rra2y on
tho srhiocr of oirshins and before he
,oco,arc his sansns y'undrrstaud he
stands a show to gnt AWAY with any
where's from fen 70 Wenty million
,doIr,rsn
.You aro talking now from one sin
ole for-inSfanra out of hundreds"
Birskv objected, "aber the shoe could
pinch on rhe other foot, roc, ZaDp. If
,,onId ra,d far avamnlp in . fen.
cent mozarinc that Ned C~arruthers'
rHncIa lnfr him TWO million dnllors prof
,ts fran, +ho CyplIar +ynst and Nod
wo,l1nt take q cont Of the money on
srcount # was tofntnd from hnfnr
proI,nd ont Of the blood Of working
WOMEN which hos on, r. cit and 500
tbair husbands dia heransa rn.ro isn,t
So murh 3s . crullpr in the bouSa and
thurs thn vov 0|d Nam r,r1thnrs-
stool IRON {. ~rrutharS rhnv ny,d n
rro7l him on rho Cruupr rvchooga-
made his money, v'understand, read
inc such s+ntf conIdn,t do mo M harm
zapp. 1t wouldn't make me turn down
n two million dollar legacy from
nv unc,o oyon tbonrh os - reu,or5 7
,,,icht stand . chow 70 marry . cir,
,yif \ fvo nillio, do1,ors +,,o v.,r Nal
CorfuthorS afd in tho storv hoc,uso in
the first Mace Zonn such things only
I'M u,,an in ctorios
f.Zanp. vou take hnre the other
dau. q ,odv which tivos or,er IN Prook- |
Iyn and I rents for 4 few dollars a fur
nished room understand and the
SnSdh TS woman actl,lIv has got an uncle |
die Oh her and leave her two hundred
tfolISAnd dollars, Zapp."
t"Nebich," Zapp exclaimed. st
tpa,Stn ia unset her something terrible"
titOrdsdarily if wouldn't" BirSkv
actxagasThe chances is she would of
refuso6to take the money. Zapp. be-
cause 4as3 read the magazines 50 long
she, didatthelieye in real life no more"
4 Neither does a whole lot of other
pe0nIe Yam declared "oditOrS of ma
bhtplrSsI for example. Every New York
~nbNtspapGft' editor has got an idea that
anshew.Sftecn per cent Of the com
mon people which lives in New York,
OF GG1U00 people, takes such 4 big
interest III gollef, understand, that
its necessary to get once a week a
funny gollef picture done bv the news
papers c~artoonist. Now as such q
cartooniSt is paid q salary e~ouiyalence
to the President of the United States,
supposing Mr., Wilson also rprnivnd q
royalty of ten per cent on the rights
to reproduce in moving picturps as
comics. the ~carryings-OD Of tho Senate
and House of Representatives, y'un.l
derstand. take one-seyenth of s,1ch q
~cartoonist's salary, Birskv. and if
makes goIlef a very extensive game
for a newspaper, even surprising it
was as popular as the editor thinks
it is. However, Birsky, if YOU vas IN
editor and was able to read all the
magazines, free, YOU wouldn't oct no
ditferenceIy, because it don't make no
difference if a author is writing a love
story, a business story, a detecatiye
story or a sea story, he thinks he
must got to ring in something about
gollef, the idee beng to make the rest
o. the story sound more refined and
give people the impression that al
though writing under an alias he is
really kin TO the AstOrs and Vonder.