Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 32, Ed. 1, Wednesday, January 3, 1900 Page: 6 of 8
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THE NEPHEW
OF A PROPHET
6Y HOWARD PIELDIN6
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Rome oiu knocktd nt Jack Willis
tioor 11ml Jack yelled Come In
The duur Blow ly opened nml a round
ml face vvns cautiously thiust In It
looked as ir It might lie a dummy on
tho end of n stMi A neck and l > o ly
followed It ho vever considerably to
tii relit f for Ivllsllkc tliv uucunuy
Tht > face cxhRilttd signs of surprise
tiud I knew uh far as Ions oh I IhuI
linowii lurk hh olllce door had stood
tlrmly between himself uud tils ered
mts ts re You rejoivko rnz max
Imrs KouWIeis the man wllh the
tutiml face had called often uud had
leurued tovipect uothlnp
Arvyou Mr Willi sold he
Yes rcpMcd Jack
Sir lobtilmrrlHouwIIllsV continued
tLc visitor Urllif the luttue lb lire form
jf a lush trojet tile
1 guess nt said Jack
Then the In ror you rejoined the
man passing 11 folded paper to tuj
friend and Immediately escaping fiuia
the room
Jotk opeovd the document and pave
It a single t nce Surely 1 saw tears
5n Ms eyes
TlintB right raid be reading my
Klnnee of sjrmpithy Thin cum me
mi mjrAewagaln mid he In a hairy
to collect Ills due I wlMi lie liad wait
< cd Jind glvrti im a chance to prove uy
Willingness to pay my debK The man
was my clnssmate at coIVegc Hilly
nnd lias known me ever nine I wns a
topjIt
It Is a little rough lack tll admit
eald I
Tie tilted bis chair back against the
wnll and sat then staring tit the legal
paper
Wily SW he at last Mo you know
Urn I this Is the last debt t time In the
wot Id Tew days ago their name was
lesion I hail not lieen out of debt
Sluce the first dny of July 1MCJ
On that fatal day mid dale he
trontluiivil with considerable emotion
1 went to tny uncle Irnnklln WHIR
nnd asked lilm for SlttO 1 bad Jurt
come out of college without n penny
lexaclly even ou the motley that my fa-
ther had left to carry me through
Uncle Trunk pave ino the money
nnd with It n littttre on debt I wish
you had seen lilm It would help you
to understand wbat t am going to tell
you Uncle Frank was positively the
most Impressive looking man ever ere
it ted He looked like one of the major
prophets Von know there U > n New
England type which Is close to that
which palnrors use to portray the sotn
t > er but mngliltlienl leaders of nuclent
israeL JInctV 1rnnk had a patriarchal
beard nnd st voice like the bass of a
hurth organ I had always reverenc-
ed and fcnrwl lilm I remember how
In summer evenings when I was a
lioy be nsed to talk to me or the stars
culling them all by name and I be
llemi that hv could read mbrtal des-
tiny In them
Well as I Was saying Uncle FranV
lent me the money and he told inc
that be regretted doing It on my ne
vount tf you get Into debt nt this
period of your life said he you will
toeve get out I thought of the stars
nnd trembled Yet I bad made my
plunsor the payment of this money
and It seemed that they could not go
wrong
Anyway I hnd to bare It Thats
the point Abd If Uncle Frank hod
lieen ns wise as he was reputed to be
or one tonthouwindtli part as wlbe as
he looked he would bare Been It and
ecelng the necdty he would not have
taken the heart out of me by any such
gloomy prophecy If he hnd sold All
right my boy heres the money and
welcome I know youll give It l > ack to-
me by the 1st nf Scptemiier I would
have riobe tt irtiro
Instead he told me Hint Id never
pet out of debt nml he convinced mo
of It That m nner of tils which
when he asked Tor the lirrnil at the la-
Me would make a slice get right up
out of the plate nnd walk over tn lilm I
fairly hypnotised me tJ 1 have never
J > een able to get over It nnd even now
i nllh opli Jhts debt Id the vnrlil
1
ami me money reany 10 piy 11 1 < mhi
Itelp feeling ns If something would bnp
tien Uncle Pranks prophecy has held
good for IS years and why not for
ever
Nonscnt e Tack naltl I With n
due respect to your Uncles nnmorj
what you have told me proves that be
was a good deal of n chump Any one
who loafs up n vnung man Just stnrt
Ing In life with that fort of gloomy mt
Is a good kind nf person to nvold nnd
forget Youre ahead of tin1 unmo now
anyhow so that proven that he didnt
know what be Was talking about lie
did not descru to get his money back I
Ills estate said Jack got that
tnoUe Inst Tuesday Hut as you say
Itll a good thing to forget As to this
claim of Italics Ill write the lawjer
a tetter But us to this matter of debt
Kllly I suppose you know why I nni
no anxlotiM to get clour and why I feel
the ehnme of this null Just noWV
1 know the iiiihou said I and It
Is the most beautiful charming nnd al-
together desirable reason that ever
animated auy one litis the day been
tr-
I swore that I Wouldnt marry till 1
bail paid every debt Mild he and
thats what Inspired me to make the
deal that firmed me Now I can pay
the 1U00 that I owe Halley as a result
of thnt coufoundeil magazine scheme
of his that I went Into nud then bue
In the bank with which to begin
housekeeping Anil now If youll let
me get to the tjpe rltlbg machine Ill
knock out the letter to these lawyer
Arihlbnld niake Co
Dictate It to me said I wheeling
around lu my rhnlr 1 enn thump a
typewriter to licnt the band
Ko Jack dictated a lonjt nnd some-
what nbsurd letter telling these gran-
ite hearted Inwyers how wirry he was
etc rtttd how circumstances had con-
spired and bow linallyi It was with
great relief that he found hlmtelf abb
to meet this clulm III full and at once
I shall be detained In my ollloe be
djetated vior file remainder of men
pre
i u tf Wu x ttTerh6iTnntrirvoti will send n rep
JWHey nesvbrant that I am Bonml ot yoitfllrln m me with n 1
relit lu full I will pay the aiuouut In
cashWhy
Why not send them a check I
askedWell
Well the fact Is be replied that
I have nut the amount In one bank nud
I dont want to send two checks
Reeves you know he the fellow who
Is managing my little deal for me will
be here plesently with the flnal pay-
ment of about fT O In cash Ill send
to the Anb Street hank for the bal-
ance and meanwhile Ill have a boy
carry this note over to Archibald
Blake Co
lint upport Heeves doesnt come
zntd I
Oil theres tlo chance of Hint he
replied lere be Is now J guess
There was n knock but the caller
proved to be a man from tile adjoining
office who had come to borrow a drink-
ing glass with which to refresh him-
self from the water cooling apparatus
In the hall The glass was always kept
In A drawer of the tjpeWrller and
the man hid borrowed It before ns
Jack Informed me after he had gone
The note to the lawyers Was dis-
patched nml then Jack anil I cat nml
tnlked or old times Ah for me I was
anxious about Heeves If anything
Went wrong with him Uncle Franks
prophecy might yet bo fulfilled But
Itrcves Was nil right He ime In
nlmnt a quarter of an hour and paid
the JTTjO
Then Jacks sweetheart dropped In
Ite bad known thnt she was coming
bllt had not been sure of the hour
Thnt Wits why he had written thnt brf
would be detained In Ills office Such a
prospect Would detain me pine consec-
utive years If necessary In any place
thnt might be appointed not that I
covet Jacks swcoihrart but I wish
thefe was another girl In the worlii
Just like her
I was nliout to take rojr departure
when n very dolefnl flud formal rap
was heard abtl presently there entered
a long thin In fryers clerk who looked
IUK KNTKlifcD A WSJ9 THRt LtTKR
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ns ir ui nml juiii sieppca out ot ul > t
iiiuitTtliiitiiisrtilniwtiiiiiiriri
niMiiu t
Ths letter Is from yon I bclleVe
said be banding It toTnck
Mv friend glanced nt his communica-
tion nnd I could eejnint there dawn-
ed upon htm for the flrffjtltne a percep-
tion thnt It was solnewhnt effusive to
be Hddiesied to a Itlw 11 nil It con-
trasted I 1 itlfnlly wTlli1 the typewrit-
ten uiclpt exhibited by the solemn
eleik >
la < k meanwhile Imil sent to the bank
for the balance nboVe Ileexes T > 0
nnd to be was nlile to pny In cash as he
had promised I rejoiced with bttn
nnd t could see n light In Millie Hlalra
ejes The situation had been explain-
ed to her and she knew that the man
she loved was setting himself square
with the world
The solemn clerk counted the money
landed over the receipt nnd deptrted
inn we hook hnn < f nil nround nnd
ifiur that I was tl gald about to dfe
paru <
Again there Tins a rap oil the door
This time a Jolly looking youth with n
little derby lint onbne side of his
bend answered the call Come In
You Mr Willis said he address-
ing Jack lc
My friend nodded
Then Mr Archibald snya Its no
farther from your olllce over to his
than from his olllce over to jours iou
bettor come over there and pay the
money
Why I Just eavo It to his clerk
crleif Jack
Not snld the boy There aint
been no clerk of MrfArchlliiMa over
here Stt
An Invisible hnndlpoured a cup of
told water down tny spine
Ite presented my letter sold Jack
and this receipt
We dotlt give receipts on old sec-
ondhand taw blanks said the boy
This Is the way we do It 5
And he exhlbHod a sample receipt
With the firms name nb the top of It
Walt here cried Jack to us Walt
here for me V
lie seized his hat and dashed away
As he vveur by MllllGthe kissed her
on the end of the nosel think It was
hasty wort but carried a world ol
Consolation i
Im afraid lack has been mlndled
Mid I That boy Isjoo original to be
anything but genuine Hut we mny Ih
able to help Jatk out Just wait lien
a minute j
I made tny best speed to a telepbom
In the lower ball nndjcilleil up pollei
headquarters receiving n promise lhn >
a man would he sent dpwtl at once
and lark arrived at lie Willie moment
There uo doulitinbout this thing
said Jack T Mn P3
tbeMnouey < HiTW > Hfciietfon wl
Archibald iuT itwWdleufand nillj
old boy Im still in debt What di
7011 think of tny Uncle Prank now
Ite dropped Into a chulr and stareo
pltirullrnt Millie
The detective from headquarters wn
n very smooth nnd able iierson I
took hint exactly minutes to 1111
ratel Ibis terrible tangle of cflme
Without attempting to make n inr
tfry of It for tile reader I will state tin
Bid hud by whlrh my friend Il1d been
rohlied Just behind bltli as he sat n <
bis desk wflK a door commiiUlcatltu
with the next orllce hut always lock-
ed of course That 0IU1V was lennnt
ed by n rnil > lp of men whose reconl
when Investlgnleil proved 10 be nnn
ly ns bad as possible Indeed oni
wait hkHr ron Mr
frlcdd from lieudipjarters knew tbehi
both and was ubleby description tt
Identliy the person who had played
the cHfks part as one of their pals
It was Ivldcnt thrtt Jacks con versa
tlon vrllh bie hnd been overlieftrd ami
that WhtU be began to dictate bin let-
ter to Hie lawyers oue of the stviftdlen1
aw a chance to do business Listen-
Ing nt the door be had tnktU down
Jacks letter In shorthand JJbeti ht
had coble In ostensibly for the drink-
Ing glass but really to steal itonie ot
Jacks paper out of he typewriter ta-
ble This he had accomplished right
tinder our noses I remembered after-
ward what a bother be bud uindu
attout finding tbe glass
Thed he had written the letfer on blf
own typewriting machine had coucoct
ed the receipt andhnd serit In br
pat who bappeueilto lx > wllhln call
to do the Job tn showing the lettet
to Jarlt he hnd exhibited only the Orsl
page thus getting around the dltllculty
of tbe slgnnjurw
All tldK wan verified by tbe confes-
sion of one of lite criminals who waf
captured within the week by the
prompt work of the police Noie ol
Jacks money huyeVvr could be rt
i
eovered
JacK paid HalleysVchlni but Iq ordet
to do so be hnl lo brrou JVKl of t ue
loaned x on the uidltluu linn th
Ueht should not arop Jack tfOtn tb
altar of matrimony
Rut t Beter expect to cetMhe mon
ey 1 liAVe now too much eonltdenre
Ill the prophetic power of Ubele frank
Willis to cutcrmln auy such hepo
Calnotil ners
Clinrlos DIcketiH wlis dogged through-
out bis life by the rno t perjilexlng co-
incidences and bV death cumpleed
one Of the most relnarknble of them
all On the Oth day of June 1MI be
escaped death by a railroad accident
as by a miracle and In commenting on
his escape be wrote
I can never be much nearer partlnj
company wllh my render forever thsu
1 was then until there shall < > e written
ngnlnn my 11 fo the two words the
tndThese
These two words were written by
death five yearn Inter on the same day
of the samo month San Francisco
Call
tic Stopprd
I tell you the drink habit the opium
habit and the cigarette habit can nil
be stopped Its nonsense to say tbey
cant Look nt that boy who smoked
53 worth of cigarettes every Week
Did be stopr
Yes
Dealer
hre bcluft driven to wle by Sir Charles
Knapp of San Franeiieo
Tommy Brltton sold ftt Mndtson
Square Harden for fcXlUOO Is said to
have been shipped to Chicago wltliln
two hours after the purchase
A match raco twtweeu Erin and
novvell vims trotted recently at Ana-
conda Moo for 10U a side Urln
Won both heats In 231 hhd 230
The Ohio gelding Moqutirtum 22214
by Moquette 210 was a Hue race-
horse the past season for a green otic
Wlnnlnff five heats nnd two seconds III
lllgtotl that Electric Bell has three new
man
An InilioMslblr Storr
Wlllttxrt M rmcilc K Ilnmipp
SaM bf wool 1 put llie itofrpipe opt
Eiitl that man wat uicIrM rxpoBR
Kot to t tbought ot t > pwplfr of fvoae
Said that tbe procraa waa atmplr Inil quicfcl
Doavtlncly aatd It waa Dot anjr trlckt
Brlrflj Il aalil all tb lisual thlnea
Lacking tbe gumption iperient tnlblfl
Cut Mra W M C nraauppe
Salil Dial heM neltrr site that titea up
Told hid heM ruin the clothe that he wore
Also th good rrpmallon he lioee
Eald troln the lxljrr bed protablv ail
And then do a ralchtr poor job alter alt
Bhc told him all thli < nd sows mote tlont yoU
allow
Juat so the could tar that the did tall hm to-
W llllbert MamaduVe thed hU mat
Tied a Mndlerchlr roljlil hia throat
Brouglit the pipe front lllr haiement dark
And uhhtled aa ra v aa a looming lark
Joint Flipped In joint Just aa aUcV aa greaae1
And VVllliUna atiul It al full of peace
lie fitted the elbow In prffert calm
Evinced by hla liuuunlna tt chccrlul psalfh
Sot once to St did a section fall
And in two quick Jrrka tt m lambUntt tall
The ptpe uafe up and was alao wireil
At ttlff and aa straight ta coUd be desired
And W Hubert atltt waa clraa and neat
Aod nautfht haJ said I could not repeat
tn lite iniln ft most tnnhful bard au L
But oner In awhile I tort to r >
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THE TURF REVIEW
Blngcn 20Gt4 lias been priced at
50000 to the Itusslaui
Henry Titer thinks May Tern 21114
capable of trotting two miles lu 430 or
better
Ardlne 223V1 Abby Kelly
2I24V4 arc a pair ot ncvvcOmers by
lllot Medium
Two For One
By special nrrangctnunt weoflcf
Hume und Farm in combination
with ottr pnper for 1 being lUo
price of our paper alone Thai it
for all new or old gubscrilicra vc
Spring tllrl 230 a new trotter Is by neiiing nml paying ill advance vii
Strong Hoy 21 Hi pacing aud s > sister Kell Huiiih and Farm one oif
of Spring Hoy 2 0 i tne > Home nntl Kami has for man v
Drlftaway by Ued Baron dim nrlft Ww imMng aEricultu l
cJ son cc fr rLr
b rnP lor
rrJnp
very fast trotter
Mndntlcil W
The fast tacefs I Dln t and KUnny Doparttnpnt
tnam each With a reconl of S13 Aunl Jabe il Ilitldicn Depart
inKnt nhil its lairy Department
are brighter and lieller than enra
Itenevv now and pet thU preai
jonrnal for the lulliie hnd the t irnl
free
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WE OFFER nm
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Cfnyon ttwtol Wdter Color
or India Ink
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MisoltitHjt XvteeofClihrgo
lion J W Bailey wrItesjTomWash s > iW J
TntrViUure unnxeell
In nrtlerto nur
of standard speed for lsbo york wo will tnuke FltEE
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performers
In Itiliel fr1 aBd CHABQB a life sUurdtlniit folded
K tt ii o l 1U Cardlna ami elilnrpetlfrohi mil lUbJrjtlntuv
ny ucn 1 a degiirnOlype to anyone sending in
In Anaconda 203 < Direct 2Ki1A nuidiolo Oltt wotk 1 iineieellili
and Klatawah 2STOU Mr James Bm > our llkenwes ntv xtrlklnsr out tin-
ier Is said to be the owner of the fast Isbes tue mo < t nrtl te Small i > I > j-
est trio of light harness performers UiieanlvviivsiiBtiinjed on demand
that were ever tb property of one > > wH I JJ
ColorPortniit or yourselves ehlldreii
fHther mother etc Flee of Chiir >
send lu jour photo utoiice to
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LECHL BLKNKS
Hit RAZtTTK Iihh on hand tint
fnllntt ing named blanks for sib
Hill of ale
Kill of Kile Cattle
Chaltel Mortfenset
Crop Mortgage
Deed of Trns t
Deed Warranty all cash
Deed Warntntv endor Ileh
Deed Qolt Claim
Potver of Attofney
Pfomissory Jv ote 10 per Cent attotJ
neis clanse
Promissoiv Jfote Yehdors Lien
ReleasenfDeed of Trnst
Release of Vendors Lien
Transfer of Vendors Lien
SUlNERGAZETTr
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