S11,
Br
ars.
KNOW
Bnd yet
ame on
11 primed
0 me, they
irned me down
Wouldn't
even listen to my proposition. Glanced
ook, mind you.
By the win- lat each other, nodded back and forta,
ait He won’
a51es81
hin't quite
ints Swifty,
as to find somebody tha
don’
Hiltor
for a touch he
Bid of the idea that
onage in disguise.
ave been
Nifty.
somebody
e was,” I admits. “Ten o
ears ago eh
the old Gilsey House, anc
he used to travel around
Skip
manager, Rooney,
1. Always had the hox tickets |issue. We have
how [for a month and have all the details
found out
tied the can tc
some guy, Bil
ct, untl
1 he was and
Skip
Oh, ves, he’s
That is,
Rd looks.”
Ms Mr. Murdock Tupper
thing he
finished | know later.
indicatin’
once,”
was head bar-
if you're judgin’ by
t land said they were sorry, but they'd
have to talk it They'd let me
And that’s the last I ever
heard them except when they
placed their issue in the hands of an-
over
from
t other man the next day.
t “You think it
{queered you, eh ”
“It isn’t a flattering thing to admit,”
says he, but I think exactly that. I'm
And tomorrow—well, I
r | suppose it will be the same old story
1 have a conference on with some De-
1 |troit men, and an executive committee
i| 'epresenting an automobile
So you see?”
was just your looks
says I.
sure, in fact.
concern
as [that is going to float a million dollar
been corresponding
y | ractically settled. All but signing the
1 |papers. 1 tried to have that
through our attorneys. Dut no, they
had decided on a personal meeting.
You know how directors are. And it
done
| pays us real money [gives them an excuse for a little junket
a gentle, ladyilke
vork in the hopes
more'n
kleepin’
be al
i
does
insFgnificant
Vn 1ad him sized up
the way Swifty does. But by
ees 1 discovered that there was
more or less to Murdock Tupper. He
talked quite sensible and not too much,
seemed to have a good disposition,
and was quick at, pickin’ up hints.
Besides, look at who he was in a
business way. Oh, I don’t mean he had
Wall Street eatin’ out of his hand or
anything like that. | But here he'd come
from West
without pull and w)thout friends, and
was makin’ good. More'n that, he had
his net spread for something big. He
told me about it, after we got better
acquainted, one day when I asked him
what his idea was, in huntin’ up the
Physical Culture Studio.
“You know you ain’t exactly built
for rough-house stunts, Ain't
trainin’ to punch somebody in the jaw,
are you, Tupper ”
some little middle burg,
says IL
“Oh, my no!” Tupper. “I—
wouldn't if I could, you know. But
1 simply have a theory that the brain
says
functions better if the body is in good
physical condition. And I don’t want
to be handicapped by indigeston when
I am trying to put through a big deal.” |
» | Bill Hilton, and the longer I put off
“You got the correct dope, Tupper,
says I, “and I'll do what we can for
you n
So 1 did, too, and after a few weeks
I believe 1 had 1
off his little flush
started in his sallow cheeks. So I'm
worked a few spots
liver and got
a bit surprised, on this particular day,
wehn he lets out this moan about be-
ing discouraged.
“After all, Shorty,” says he, “I don’t
know as it’s of any use.”
“Eh?” L.. “Aint you
roast beef for dinner now and poundin’
says tacklin
the pillow reg’alr every night?”
“And I suppose
bught fo feel grateful for that. I
in a way, too. But that doesn’t
hp to get me anywhere.”
w’s that?”
RB “Oh, yes,” says he.
says I, gawpin’ at
look like a flivver, don’t I?”
ds.
says I, stallin’ around, “I
you do.” \
, [trip to New York at the expense of
the company. Yes, they insised on a
conference in my office, and if they
ke the others—well, I know what
7an just picture the way
gler they've had their

an't help
RX
ud 0 clicate
about, a face like | troit
his feelin’s.
could only find such a
y. says Tupper, starin’ at the floor.
“Eh?” says I. “You don’t mean you
—you don’t try it?”
“Yos.” prompt. “I'd try
anything that I thought would work.
I would even wear a mask if I had a
chance of getting away with it. Why
not? Just because I was born with
the usual amount of brains and a mis-
fit face must I allow myself to be
beaten Look at Disraeli?”
“Who?” says I, gawpin’ ‘round.
“A homely little hunch-back Jew,”
goes on Tupper, “who made himself
prime minister of England. Jay Gould
|wasn’t much to look at, either. And
| think of Morgan's nose. But they
[ succeeded. I don’t know just how.
| Probably each had his own method of
{rising above his facial or bodily in-
| firmitives. I must find mine for my-
| self and if I can do it by making use
{of someone else, why should I hesi-
{tate? But who? Where could I find
la man who—"
{At point I looks up to see
| Swifty Joe tryin’ to make signals to
(me through the “Well,
| what now?” I asks.
“That Hilton party,”
still waitin’.”
| “Oh, pardon me!” cuts in Tupper.
| “Didn't realize you had anyone wait-
{ing to—"
| “Don't
says he,

which
gym door.
says he. “He's
worry,” says 1. “It’s only
{seein’ him the better for my roll.”
Tupper nods.
|a non-interest
“Comes to negotiate
bearing loan, eh?” he
| asks.
| “Also non-collectable,” say I. “And
{between you and me'l have about as
much invested in Bill as I care to
sink.”
“What's
| Tupper.
‘“That’s the puzzlin’ part about Bill,”
says I. “He don’t seem to be much
star at any of the vices; you
booze, dope, gamblin’ or such
things. Might hit em all a little, but
not enough to count. Courst, he does
fall easy for eh ladies; that is, he
would if he had a chance, which ain't
often. Just can’t seem to ,stick to
anything or get anywhere. Maybe
you've seen a lone log floatin’ down a
stream, bumpin, into a rock here,
hittin’ teh bank there, gettin’ stuck on
a mud bank for a while, and finally
the chief trouble?” asks
of a
know,

table of you, ‘Shorty,
Ss he. “But every time
floatin’ on. That's Bill. A drifter.
5 red
F.e to see
sust the type |
®adlin’ around.”
Jd0 you mean by that
Shorey’: asks Tupper.
“Why,” says I, “I don’t
can say exactly. Only he seems cut
out for something big
bank president.”
Tupper smiles and shakes his head
doubtful.
‘Here, take a look at him” says I,
steppin’ up and swingin’ open the gym
door. “There he is, restin’ easy.”
And even slouched down in an office
chair with his feet on the window sill
Just
the bulk of him, to say nothing of the
way his big head is
he does look sort of imposin’.
strong neck, or the odd streak of gray
hair that shows on top. Tupper takes
a good look.
“You're right, Shorty,” says he. “If
that man was shaved and cleaned up
and well dressed eh would pass any-
And the
next thing I know Tupper has pushed
the door shut and is grabbin’ me ex-
cited by the elbow. “Why not him?”
he whispers husky.
“Eh?” says LL
“As my understudy,” he goes on.
I expect I stares at him, “You—
you wouldn't really try to pull that,
would you?” I asks.
“Certainly,”
arranged.”
“But how,” I asks.
“It ought to be simple,” says Tup-
per. “I could coach him as to what
he had to say, fix him up, put him at
my desk, and introduce him as Mur-
dock Tupper. I might appear as his
private secretary. Yes, perhaps that
would be best. He could consult me
when in doubt. Really there wouldn’t
be much for him to say.
where for a—oh, I say!”
imply yes
ically de-
a senator or a
poised on the |
says eh, “if it could be |
1 to touch
ry taxi
coaxin’
i
|
[ but
ow Yorkers
what will you
know as I| 2
{do t
|all ov
| Say hovrem 1 1eel, eh?’
| “Empty,” Bill. #Couldn’'t we
{drift into a hashery while I threw in
{some ham and eggs an@ a hunk of
pie ” §
| “Certainly not!” says I, shocked.
[“Ham and eggs! What low tastes.
{It’s you for the Plutoria grill, Wil-
(liam Hilton, Esq., and’ an order of
[sweetbreads a la finaneler, with may-
Ibe an alligator pear salad on the side
and | French pastry to follow. Come
along. And for the loveyf Mike keep
| these big paws of yoursgout of your
| pockets.”
| From then until 9.30 #. M. I re-
|h@arsed Bill for his part, until he
| complains that his neck is gettin’ stiff
|from holdin’ his chin on this collar and
lhe claims he’s tuckerétl out. So 1
[lands him in a $12 roomiand bath and
|leaves an 8.15 call order at the desk.
| Just to make sure that he don't
|wander out to a park bench again I
goes around and collegts Bill early
(next mornin’ and delivers him at Mr.
| Tupper’s downtown offices.
| Bill was pretty nervous over it, and
Gach? Say, it's
on the dotted line.
says
(leaked a lot around the forehead while
they were asking him ‘a few simple
| questions . Said he was all in when
lit was over and I had to send him off
[to rest up. But I think with a little
| practice he'll get used #® it. I hope
[s0, for I have in mind giving him a
| small interest in the business and
| making him vice-president. Then he
|can send for his family and
|down here like a regular‘person. He
| would really be a big assefy D me, you
settle
& brown stallio
hands high and weighs 925
He was sired by Hugo . Hu
sired by Meteor Morgan and i
Calve by General Gates. The
Lucky is Eunice by Genera
and out of Carolin eby Danie
+bert. Lucky, his sire and dam, a
{of his grand dams were bred
Government farm at Middl
Lucky arrived safely at his new
on July 22nd.
Morgans have always been noted
their endurance and stamina, and b
been used to some extent on the ra
for the production of cow ponies.
outcome of this systematic stud
co-operation between the King
and the Bureau of Animal Indd
will be watched with much interest
horse breeders.
Lucky is
Orange Rust
Blackberry plants and other bram-
bles are attacked by a fungus disease
that ultimately causes the underside
of the leaves to assume a bright rusty
orange-red color. This is the Orange
Rust. Infected plants never amount
to anything and it wil spread from
plant to plant. The only method of
preventing serious damage in the rasp-
berry patch is to remove each infected
plant as soon as it is seen and burn it.
For information regarding insect
pests and plant diseases write to the
Bureau of Plant Industry, Pennsylva-
nia Department of Agriculture, Harris-
burg.
of Brambles
Ge
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Wonderful Collection
or no. Everything is pre
cided now. Only they wan to see me
pd if they could see this Hilton per

_ | know.”
.| “Huh!” thinks IL
ay, Shorty, let's see if he'll try |of luck for you. From
unds kind of batty to me, Tup
says I, “but you're the doctor.
> On.
I a minute later I'tn puttin’ the
kition wn to Bill
sub in «s head of
ollar deal ” I asks.
“What's the joke, Shorty {’ says Bil
in that detp, rumbly voice of his.
“The joke will be on a bunch o
plutes,” says 1. “That
vided you can give a half-hour
tion of a big business man.”
“Me?” aown
them shifty eyes and starin’ at me.
“Uh-huh,” says I. “Course, you'll
be costumed for the part, and the
scene will be set proper. Then all you
got to do is imagine you're Mr. Tup
per hert, and that you're about to be
persuaded to handle this big stock
issue that he’ll tell you about. Get the
dea?”
says Bill, steadyin’
It was hard to say whether he did
or not.
but dignified.
“Perfectly bully!” says Tupper. “If
you can only look like that you'll have
em jumping through a hoop. I'll
make it worth your while to try, you
can be sure of that. And perahps it
won't end there. I may be able to give
you a permanent situation at a good
salary. What do you say, eh?”
You'd most thin ka down-and-outer
like him wouldn't have stopped for a
econd thought, but would have jumped
at the chance. Not Bill Hilton,
though. What mind he’s got always
seems to run in low gear and he ain't
sure at that if he’s in reverse or not.
“I—I don’t know,” says he, runnin’
his fingers over the chin stubble aim-
less.
“Well, I'm decidin’ for you,” says
I. “You'll try it or else you'll be
turned loose without taht five you was
expectin’ to nick me for. It’s tomor-
row you need him, ain’t it, Tupper ”
“At 2.30 P. M.,” says Tupper, “but
I shall want him in my office by 11.00
A. M., at least.”
“He'll be there,” says I, “If I have
to tow him at the end of a dog chain.
And about the costume? How deep
do you want to splurge on that?”
“Go as far as you like, “Shorty,”
“Just a moment. There!
My check for a couple of hundred, and
if you need more charge it to me. 1
hope you can get him to look the part.”
“I'll do my best,” says I.
says he.
It’t kind of an interestin’ job, too,
takin’ a seedy specimen like Bill Hil-
ton, who's been knockin’ around cheap
lodgin houses and loafin’ on park
benches for months, and in a few hours
doing the prosto change act with ‘em.
But it’s amazin’ what a difference
there was in Bill after I had him run
hrough a turkish bath and a barber's
chair . Then I hustles him to the best
ready made clothing store in town
and has ‘em trot out their medium

And just now he seems to be stuck in
stouts. That's where Bill shows his
“How'd you |bullg
a stock
erage firm and swipg a million- | 9
He just gazes at me, stupid |
n to broker,
tall on a chance break. ell, well!”
_| It must have seemed to Bill a good
if some: fairy had waved a
i me et any dirget |
me | 9f Benjamin Franklin
se says Bill |been presented to the University of
day for two [Pennsylvania by the Curtis Publishing
, |Company, of Philadelphia, Pa.
ill fis getting a |Curtis collection contains all but four
" Not fast, but |of the thirty-four issues of Poor Rick
lly. Anyway he hopes so, for |ard’s Almanac.
preparin’ to spring him as vice- | single number—that of 1739—was solc
{deal as
land ovar
> reportg « gives
gets restless
|
siness.
sident on another crowd very soon.
That goes on for a month or so.
Pita |
{And then here the other day Tupper [ the Treaty With the Six Nations in
{comes into the studio with his shoul-
ders sagged and what chin he has re-
tredtin’ into his collar.
“Bill's gone,” says he.
“Eh?” says Il.
“Yesterday, just before that conter-
ence I was plannin on,” says Tupper.
“Left a note to say he couldn’t stand
the strain of it.”
“Tough luck,” “After all
you've invested in him, too.”
“But that isn’t the worst,”
Tupper. “He's run off wit my best
voung lady stenographer, one that
I've been training for three years and
depended upon a great deal. Of course
I had noticed that several of the girls
were rather silly about Hilton, but I
can't imagine him beirg such a fool.
‘Why, with this splendid head of his
and the dignified way he carried him-
self—"
“It’s simple enough,” I breaks in.
“Maybe you've got a misfit face, but
in Bill'§ case dit was a misfit brain.
And if you could have your choice I'll
bet you wouldn’t change. Now would
you?”
So Tupper goes out with his half-
portion chin up in the air again.
An Artistic Gem
The night winds swaying the bells
of an old temple might have whispered
the story.
says 1
says
Insence smoke curling up-
ward in wreaths of mauve and gray
from a dim old altar might have sug-
gested it ,or the amber notes of a flue
across the waters of a shadowy lake.
Such as “The Breath of the
It is the almost forgotten
tragedy.
rods.”
art of
Tsuru Aoki charms with her artistry
and lifts the picture out of the depths
making it a voiceless art.
As this story of women’s devotion
is told one realizes that they are
looking at an unusual play because
the sense of “acting” is not there.
It is as if the curtain of the Orient
were drawn and for a brief period we
witness a simple little story, almost
as simple as love and death, that give
it foundation.
Try mixing mustard with milk in-
The flavor
is said to be good, the paste is very
smooth and the mustard will not dry
£0 quickly.
stead of water or vinegar.

“Thete's a stroke
| Collection Includes All But
“Poor Richar
The unique and valuable colle¢ficn
imprints has

The
Sixteen years ago
{at auction for $565. Minutes of the
| Lancaster Conference in 1762, the
1742, and the Treaty of 1744 have
brought from $300 to $600 at auction
sales, and of the second of those but
six copies are known.
Twelve of the fourteen treaties
of
Presented to Univers
Fo
d’s
the
is extant—that in the 3
the Historical Society.
ection, as well as many oth@T varieties
Company in 1757, of whiglh but
other example is known =
other collection is knt #°
tains any of the follo™® “ \ Mlstiche
and Sehr Geheyme ing: te, 1730:
the Minister of Christ, PT" Instrue
tions for Right Spellin} *'7
ters of the Province amg’ Cit
The Querists, 1741; Briel [0 1751;

printed by Franklin are included. Of
Country Almanack for 1755. .

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