The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-11-12

out VI d One-uOlldr JOD with as mucl
ease as magician can extract a rab
bit from silk hat; and he could d,
his work so artistically that he woult
have to come back to it q second. an,
perhaps even a third time. His lif,
was one long golden dream, until a de
partment store automobile knocked
him down and dislocated his right hin
Sorry" said the hospital surgeon
"but I'm afraid this will incapacitate
you for continuous work; for its
liable to pop out any time"
The store compromised for a thou.
sand dollars, of which Jimson's attor.
ney gloomily appropriated a mere
half.
"A good case for five thou, II you
hadn't bungled it by contributory neg
Hgence," grumbled the legal philan-
thropist. Next time, don't contrib
ute"
You bet 1 won't" mourned Malachi.
He did not mind being incapacitated
for work; for he had never done any.
But how was he to get money to live?
AS he fingered his five hundred loving
ly, an idea came to him. On his dis
charge from the hospital, his brain
took his hip into partnership, and
organized "Jimson, Limited" He
sought retired spot and experiment.
ed until he could dislocate the joint
and replace 1t without any great in
convenience.
Malachi trod on air, as he limped
along the city pavements. Between
the curbs was flowing a Pactolus with
sands of pure gold. Only, to convert
1t into cash required courage and
judgment.
His five hundred dollars ebbed rap
idly, while he awaited a favorable
opportunity. But most Automobiles
seemed to be either too reckless or too
provokingly careful. He was roughly
rescued several fines by meddlesome
policemen, once being kept only by a
hairs breadth from snatching three
thousand-dollar bonanza from under
the tires of green driver. Despera-
ton urged him to take a chance with
q sedan, in which young couple were
incoming happily along through the
twilight of a side street. He was
picked up, bruised but triumphant
with badly dislocated hip. The set
Element netted him six hundred and |
fifty dollars.
Then ensued an Odyssey of disas-
70 nil in,
place.
In Cincinnati, Rudolph Edersheim,
forty-seven, was thrown violently to
the ground by grocery wagon; he
mad the good fortune to roll just clear
Of the wheels. At the hospital his
light hip was found to be dislocated.
Il cost the concern eight hundred dol
ars to adjust the damage.
A month later Ladislas Ladislaski
vas knocked over in Cleveland by a
leavy furniture van. The Granger
company, after an examina-
ion by their own physician, paid five
hundred cash and all expenses, In
luding a fortnight at a first-class
lotel.
Five weeks afterward in MinneapO-
Is Jens Jensen fell under the wheels
f Mrs. Goldvelt's limousine In Water
90 park. The lady stoutly insisted
hat the man had thrown himself be-
ore her machine, like a deyotee OF
uggernaut On the contrary, the man
estified with evident unwillingness
hat he had tried his best to escape,
ut that she had run him down. His
iwyer made much of his clients re-
lctance to throw the blame on a
oman; and the jury, after being out
My ten minutes, awarded him fifteen ,
undred dollars, against the fearful
nd excited protests of Mrs. Gold :
cit, whose own husband believed she ,
as at fault, but who fought the case 7
4 principle.
The strange thing was that all these 6
fferent victims inhabited the earth :
tenement of Malachi Unison.
As the experienced prospector dis Z
,yers wealth in the common soil, T
-er which thousands have thought =
ssly trodden, so Malachi garnered O
lggets, overlooked by the careless I,
ovid. While he was spelling the E
yyptians, he lived on the fat of the /
nd. AS he rested comfortably in the
spital In one city. he drafted his h
xt campaign with Napoleonic skill. q
Whenever he needed money. an &C "
lent occurred. Either the party e
or fought furiously; the "
ard by a sympathetic jury was gen. is
ally larger than the damages would D.
We been in a settlement out of court. m
llachi, however, vastly preferred al
, latter method, for he did not then w
We to divide the spoil with his law m
The business was no more difficult til
dangerous than football, and incom- on
-ably more profitable. Malachi had
,rything calculated to a nicely. he
hewed witnesses. He banned con-
)utory negligence. Electric cars he
lnned like a pestilence. He had pc
n a man gathered up from under tn
der, and he felt no desire to have ov
own profitable career terminated tn