Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-09
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 Hagerstown, Md, May 6.-Gabriel Shipley, the well-known millionaire, tossed another pungent bucketful in- to the trough, and wiping his sweat ing forehead, exclaimed, "Ain't they Beautiful li'l bunch o, hawgs? Only paid $7.20 apiece for 'em, too"
 No idle bit of fiction is that sen- tehce. No romance. An actual quo tation printed exactly as the writer wrote it when he was able to pull out wad of paper and a pencil without making people think he might be taking notes. And he wrote it exactly as Gabriel Shipley said it.. And Gabriel Shipley, at the mo- ment he said it, presented the picture of millionaire-a $7,000,000 mill lionaire-engaged in the act of feed ing pigs. What sight for the sore eyes of the down-trodden working mana millionaire feeding pigs!
 Gabe Is Lock Tender.
 You know Gabe, of course. He is the tender of the lock just above Dam No. 4, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and he has just inherited $7,000,000 from his Uncle Jimmy Me- Coy. The most money he ever had seen in his life was the $51 he got sthe first month they raised the pay of lock tenders from $35 q month. As matter of sober fact he hasn't seen any more yet. And saddcst of all--he really doesn't give a hang whether he ever sees any more or not.
 Gabriel Shipley is monument marking the. stage in the worlds evo- lution-nothing less. Aladdin tried to stand on both ears at once when the Geni first showed him the jewelry store window and told him the pro- prietor had gone home and left the door unlocked. Little Tom Canty turned all the colors of the rainbow when the Prince changed clothes with him. Good men have tainted when long shots, on whose fleetness their future relationships with their shirts depended, came in first in the Mst race. All have acted as befitted tie times and the manners in mat tErs concerning cash, and all are his toric figures.
 And when Gabriel Shipley got a letter from his sister, Sal Crone, in Washington, D. C., saying that Uncle sJim" Mccoy had left him $7,000,- 900, he deliberately reduced his hogs supper portion of slop because he swds afraid he might accidentally, in sudden wave of generosity, give them more. In short, "Gabe' Ship ley brought the Aladdin idea up to 1920.
 The news having been given to the world that Gabriel Shipley had sud denly inherited $7,O0o,O00, the cor. respondent went up into Wash ington County to see what h' looked like. He also wanted to learr what "Gabe" proposed to dt with such a vast fortune, what hi reactions were, what ideas he hat about spending it and so on.
 Everybody knows how it is whcl one wants to exercise onc's imagina ton to the limit and start up al exciting discussion, one says, "Oh what would you do if you had mil lion dollars 2" Even that is lot Q fun when you have no chance in tn world of getting million dollars. [,
 How much more fun it would b discussing the matter with ma, 1Rho was just about to wrap his ban Book around $7,000,000!
 & That was the idea in the corre epondent's visit to Gabe Shipley, wh lyes about 12 miles outside of Ha 14rstown. And here is what Cab thinks about it. :, He thinks he will quit the lock tending business within "A hour After he really gets the first install rfient of the $7,000,000.
 \ He thinks he will move away frol 4he house by the canal.
 He thinks he will buy himself skttle place in Hagerstown and scttl Gown to quiet life. < { And that's about all.
 Was Eating Apple Pie.
 He was in the kitchen, eating nc apple pie, when the correspont ent, footsore and weary afte . long tramp from the piat where automobiles either stop { 4 Snmn into the canal, arrived at hi Front door. His wife, Urilly, was the kitchen, baking more hot app pies. His daughter, Mrs. Fran Winters, and baby, Lois, were in tt kitchen cleaning up hot apple p
 In the places on the table not o' 1upied by hot apple pie there ws hot pork sausage made from the rel hir and slabs of white, home-mat
 Bread and hook of ham.
 Gabe and his wife, Urilly, and h Slaughter and everyone talked ire ly for publication. Later on Jat Ehipley, his son, came over fro Icrdss the canal and talked frcel Gabc had no secrets about himsc pr his fortune. The only thing ] couldn't tell about it was where was and when he was going to g it, He hadn't ehard word sin, the letter from his sister Sal Washington.
 He was the most democratic mi lionaire. And jolly! When the ph' sfographer said he wanted Gabe ar his wife, urilly, to pose for pictur She said, "What, that ugly old womar You don't want no picture of hcr!" g Gabe being nan of immen' SWealth, the correspondent crowdt Elose when he leaned over the sto' Mith one foot on the fender and, r fmoving his corncob pipe, whispere ksonfidentially.
 Priceless Recipe.
 "Ye just take" We'll, there momething in the volstead law abo' 3printing that sort of thing in tf eublic press. q know a feller dow gkhc country piece" wound up. u 4oId man. "that stay'd drunk all VII