The Carlisle independent., 1919-12-11
THE DOWNFALL OF BLUE SKY"
 BLG}sS
By (. oI6EisoH)

A green goods game But rural free deliv- cry and the ~laySeed telephone" lines along with the wide distribution of the newspapers have made 1t ueces- sary for the Alonzo Biggses of these days and parts to change the game But after all the eternal principles thereof remain the same
 You recall the woman down ia Georgia or in some other part of the cotton pea nut-peean belt who paid S4 d share for .League of Nations and s d share with reservations Some one of the Riggs tribe was putting that over of course
 But about Alouzo Biggs, better known to sderiffS and postal authorities as Blue Sky" Biggs AIonzo was possi- bly, the son of an honest home. But Alonzo had traveled long way from home He was slick article. this son of old man Biggs.
 About the time the pawpaws were ripening Riggs had started out with a new one. It was wild cat" from blue sky laws Alonzo naturally be- came known among his fellow knights of the shearing as Blue Sky"
 This time he was peddling stock i'll a secret formula for transoeeanie pipe line, or something equally "woozy".
 k-l L;s oily +opo,,a v.-oa v,-,rl-iur a. we'll as it ever had in his life and he was talking contracts. certificates of participation. debentres and all the other jargon and pater that had always got him the business.
 Blue Sky Biggs got into town along | about Christmas. Things had been pret- ty easy for some and pretty hard for others. Some people had got tired of looking at their Liberty Bonds anyway and were perfectly wiling to be per suaded to swap per cent in hard cash for 8 per cent on the Bank of Pearly Promise
 When Alonzo Blue sky" Riggs came around with the pretty green and blue engraved things with the red seals and the signatures done with flourish, he somehow just hypuotized some folks in forgetting all about War Savings Stamps and Treasury Savings Certifi- cates. What with the Yule ti3e spirit and everything, Blue sky. saw no real cause for complaint. He was ' getting rid Of a paper worth about six cents pound for all sorts of fancy prices.
 It looked like a shame to take the money Blue Sky" was gathering in the coin ia wad7 and rolls big enough to choke COW. He had plaued to get out of the high grass to Use his own elas- sieal expression He would grab a rat tier" on Christmas Eve and spend the holiday with some gentry oT his own kidney in doings deemed appropriate for the occasion.
 But Blue sky" like many another, | fingered too long And. also he had talked little too much. a little too loosely and d great deal too earelessly. i He made what proved to be the fatal mistake of repeating too often his asser- tion that his proposition was as safe as a Government bond and a lot more pro titable than a Treasury saving Gerti- |. ficate.
 That sounds pretty strong 10 me, one of the .'nibblers" said to himself as he pIodded homeward gab the spell of Blue Sky's7 persuasive powers stil | hanging over him It won't do any i harm to find oHt abant tas, anyway. | Hanged if don't do little mquuing about this If it is a- good ss all that I want a chunk of t. But don't know. Better find ont about t. guess
 If all the nibBIer~ tHat fl-e to the ! hook Of the ',ElHe sky boy would in quire and inquire in the e4t plaee.. the Blue sky Bigese- would have gone ! out of bus=uess long since I.ar inquiry 1 was made and the old banker ot whom familiar Then he picked 1p his teie- it was made listened to a tale long since 1. phone. got long distance connection and in one brief minute had gwen the | information that turned Nemesis loose upon the trail of Blue sky Biggs.
 Wherefore Q day later q 4uiet. unas- ! suming man got off the train and went over the trail Of the 7nsuspeeting s.PIue S[.t9 If was fine o55 sTor,r mai uraly, bnt it was new enough tale to the victims with the hook aeil through their giIls.
 Trousers freshly pressed, much money in his pocket. the smell of Hair lotion about him and a red-and-gold banded cigar in his mouth, "Blue Sky picked up the grip to take the train that Christmas Eve. All was well in his