The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 90, Ed. 2 Sunday, August 9, 1903 Page: 3 of 8
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THE OKLAHOMA STATE CAPITAL SUNDAY MOWING. ATTfiFST r>, 190S.
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SAMPLE GOSSIP AT THE SIGN OF THE STRIPED POLE
FROM ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT
The second-chair barber said to the j in all I had left to cover ray shorts,
dead game sport that he ought to be wll- | That's what broko ray h« £t The horse
ling to pay morn than the regular price Russ was backing for that race was one
for a shave. "Your face Is much longer t.h -y call Aylmer Bruce, one of Bennett't,
than usual,"* said he. "Been up against ! who never feeds or curries, an also ran,
It?" .1 good hors«- <">n form, bottom, and every
"You've called the turn." said the thing else. When 1 found that Russ was
dead-game sport. 'Tp against It, with a behind that horse I was as sure of get-
tioodoo for a side partner. 1 went out ting some of that pie as I am sure now
to Deimar Tuesday night and rode back that I didn't #et "■ 1 blew In my last
In a chartered cab. Went out again Wed-
nesday afternoon and walked bark. I
fisd an engagement to go out there again
Wednesday night, but 1 had to write the
lady a note with my regrets and saying
that i wasn't feeling well, and that was
no lie.."
"Hut how did It all happen?" asked the
Ka y Mark. "I thought you was a four-
the fifth time 1 guess.
"But there's luck in odd numbers."
•nickered the Wise Guy, as he took the
next chair to the rear.
" Bure,*' said the dead-game sport.
"There was lots of luck In that number,
but It wasn't my luck. It was the other
fellow's. You see, I have a system
You can't play the races any other way
and keep your face inside the market
price for a shave. My system Is to ki'ep
tab on the bookies. Luck turns every
now and then, you know, and when _
n bookie who has been making a killing
right along for a while, I keep my eye
on him and calculate about how much
longer the luck Is going to stay with him.
When It turns I want to be betting on the
horses he is booking against. To «ot
down to the One point of it, my system
Is that the luck will change with the
moon. I don't mean to say it wtU change
with every moon, but, up to last Wed-
nesday, I thought that after a bookie
had been making winnings for several
moons it was a safe proposition to go up
ngainst him when the moon changed the
next time. And that's why 1 had Rosa
Baber spotted for my meat. There's a
new moon, you know, and Russ has been
having aucll a long streak <>f winning
that i was sure the time had come for
lilm to Ket his'n. 1 might have had some
doubts about it. and not plunged the way
1 did, if I hadn't happened to see the new
moon over my right shoulder, eli ar, when
3 went out to Deimar Tuesday night.
That settled it. I was sure Russ had
come to the place where it was up to him
to go into liquidation. The next day 1
watched close to see his bets, ami I bet
the other way In every case but one.
There were six runs and I bet against
five of the horses Russ was backing Ev-
ery one of the Ave came home gal
The1 dead-game sport emitted a sigh
•which came perilously near a groan. A
sympathetic silence fell over the shop,
which was broken by the.Wise Guy ask-
|n« "And how about the sixth?
"Hush," said the (dead-game sport, "or
you'll make my face so long Ibis n t n
will want to clfirgi me a quarter foy a
shave, and 1 haven't got It I 'lint
know whet iter there's luck In odd ^um-
bers or not. but that sixth race clinches
It that there's no luck for me In evens.
You see, a part of my system Is to do a
little stunt like these fellows down ot
'change, who have a habit of what they
call covering their shorts. If they're
holding cash wheat for a raise in price;
thev will sell a lot on margins to protect
themselves In case the market should go
the other way for awhile. Well, gentle-
men. after I saw that Russ Baber's luck
hadn't changed with the moon I com-
menced to hedge. I was getting to the
bottom of my pile, and the way Russ
luck w«« running It wasn't safe t< go
against him at any stage of the game
dollar
Aylmer Bruce, with a putty
□0QOI
mnm
Jc/r
ute whan the change in the moon will
bring tht* change in luck. Rut you can
see how close to it I come this time, ir
I only had had more faith In myself and
poker with him at home of nlghta to satlon rightly conducted la
keep him from going elsewhere to play for a
.. .. tihvsicallv i eve oi
"That man's got a level heart
in my system I would not be a busted , horseman, who had been reading a papei
good place save the recipe. That's the way It got by way of an advartlsemaut for the
- ibis country. j ^ oriu Fall.
Ne*M" shouted the first chair, and the 'Neatl" shouted the Brat chair.
..ij .>,„ hllit\ and do him'no harln that I can see. restaurant keeper, who took the seat, ' Tm next," said the real estate dealer,
said the I bilUJ ana o n «i o narm « at a ^ ,M. wondered If they would ever gel taking the chair neat to the horseman^
ung mtn ran acquire bad habits, they Rudolph , I **
inert («>. « mu __ .. I sald the horseman. "I see by the Fair anothe
it will bring him out, to this country
physically, develop his sense of responsl- |
anVd^^Uor{h^rj«nd if a player are iH.t serving their purpoae at all."
the
ng after Ruas, thinking
i had nothing to do with his luck
the old man Is.' said the harkeep
he wins all the time, the boy wl
for easier game."
and at that very minute the new moon
waa getting In ita work onhlin. His luck
was turning right then, and on the next
race, when I waa betting on the luck or
Russ Baber. it faded away like the word
that Is never spoken. The horse he bet
on. which was a good horse and fit to
win and that I was betting on becausn
Ruas was betting on It, carne in behind
1 bet ugaInst my own system, I bet
against the moon, I bet against myself,
and lest, because there had been a change
In the moon aoid a change ih the luck of
Russ Baber."
The Dead Game Sport made a signal to
the barber, who needed his and smiled as
he made a memorandum • in his cash
book. The hang the Dead Game Sport
gave the door In pacing out had hardly
censed resounding when the minister,
sett 111 g himself comfortably In the cush-
ion*, said to the man who was shaving
him: "It Is sad and strange that men of
the world cling to their delusions with
such tenacity. Why Is It that they can-
not see. after such experiences as ou*
friend has been relating, that the way of
the transgressor la hard?"
"That is the problem of the ages." said
the Wise Guy, struggling to loop the
loop with his four-in-hand. "It pays to
be good. I know it by experience. '
And
r „ . Tt*>> •). yet "there are thousands who prefer to
Have You Been Lp Against Itr j take t>ieir chances, both in this world
Barber Asked.
blower, and then I sat down and waited
until it would he time for me to call
down my money. Oh. forget It! The devil
was in the horse that day sure as there's
a new moon. Aylmer Bruce was beaten
hands down. I couldn't believe It when
1 found it was true, every word of it, I
felt in my pocket to see If I had any-
thing left. There wasn't enough to buy
a copy of a newspaper to tell me I was
Broke."
"Didn't you know It, anyhow?" asked
tht Easy Mark from the front chair.
"No," said the dead-game one. "It's a
strange thing about racing, that when a
man goes dead broke, and ft-els In every
pocket, including his pistol pockets, In
hop«* of finding a coin he may have left
there in more prosperous days, he feels
that something has happened to him, but
he don't completely make up his mind
that he's smashed until he sees It In black
and white. My first overpowering grief
1 remember was that I didn't have a cop-
per cent left to buy a paper to find out
whether It wasn't all a dream."
"i reckon." Hgid the Wise Guy. "that
yen are now fared of your superstition
about a charge of moon bringing a
change of luck
und the next, rather than follow the nar-
row path. Our friend who has just left
us will be playing the races again Just
as soon as he can raise the wind.
"I fear It is only too true." said the
minister, "and 1 fear that vice, once it
has found u welcome In the mind and
heart of a man Is hard to eradicate. On
lv this morning I was visited by a lady^
member of my congregation, who ask-
s
k
m
i'he Wise Guy W as TO
Loop
"You'r wrong."
So I think." said the minister. "I agree
hunt W|tn you that there Is much in a military
training to make a man. and nothing to
niar one If the othcars are conscientious
In th* performance of their duties. It
nearly all depends upon them "
I know a good many boys In the me-
liah," said ttin barkeeper. "Two that I
know brought black •>** home with them.
They both had blue ..nea when they left.
The fireman from the engine house in the
neat block look the fourth Ohalr and said
"The boys in the militia get no money,
and are entitled to a little fun. but. of
court*, discipline ahouhi he maintained
Nothing in the line of * public service can
bo maintained without It."
"■'Yiju are certainly right,'' said the mln
later, "and | see that another of your gal- I
lant comrades has come to grief In doing
his duty as a man."
• it 1* likely to come any day." said the
fireman and It doesn't take a confiagra
tlon to bring It Phellm Toole, you re-
member. waa hilled in a little baaement
fire by the explosion of an extinguisher,
but ..111\ the fatal or moat serious acci-
dents uet Into the papers. I know half «
dozen men that haV had their hair burn
•'Send them to me." said the fourth bar-
ber. ' and 1 will guarantee to restore it
111 a week better tlvm.lt waa before.
"What have you got?" the fireman
""The oldest prescription In. the known
world," said the barber holding up a bot-
tle "The Bible says. you. know, that
Absalom, the son of David, was caught
bv his hair In a tree top, and while he
was fastened there Joab came along ana
killed him with a spear. Joab was a
friend of David, and he pretended that
he killed Ah.- 1 lorn because he«ms In re-
belllon against his father, but the Biwe
.Id th, ham-man "If :■>« -' > '•).„«$"JE?.
w#ii witn tne mo. Thv irutn_ wis ma. -
dispatch from Hartrord that they're
a tilling i lie woman that he went with
vhen lie waa there Now that it's got
will not get him there, but If
Loop the
stin gan
WIN..I"
Absalom.
hen he
old man can play
with tears, that she consented to his
Joining because he was gtoop-should«red
and she wanted
and martial fl
well for a time.
drill regularly, and
time until his part
that his slouching w
rejoiced exceedingly. - ■ , .
somehow manages to work Into all good congregation for hei
devices was not idle. Only a few days] "These inllltla encampments are a good
nao the regiment waS offered to Lak$j thing." Said the horserm if the.\ ar.
Contrary, near St. Joseph,,' for. t he annua! j only run right. Their theory is that .they
Slimmer encampment. Th^ h°&'H marched J
said the fireman, "he wsnt-
Oh, T see
he could
I to keep the recipe a secret so
market."
- ., i.
J( lioluda. w ho did the Job found Pt
his pocket
train the boya for service In 11 «• field, but
dead-game | off wlt'i pro
that aftef i
• and went into camp Satan 1
For in drinking, carous-
t |ng card playing, fighting and all manner worth the money that is ape:
i of unworthlness the nights. If not the. and more t..o. I believe in ti.
t days, were spent. The orgies became a | the military arm of a soverel
That's the way 1 sized It up. and 1 blew and her mysteries to know the
■"Not on your life," said the - -d; - - i ,, th v:
shftrr, tn he got out or the chair and , ti p.audita an£ smile* , t all the pret y
made room for the minister of the big u • tin y knew. But it se. ins
church around the corner. "What 1 they got t
have just gone through proves it to ajw s there
dead moral certainty. You didn't follow
my storv very close, partner, or you
would remember that the thing that
broke me Into small pieces was the turn j publi — _ th ,t
In the luck of Russ Baber. The new | pealed to to exercise his author!
moon has brought It. In the first five: are to be a number of court-n
races. In which I bet against him. think- It has come to the ears of the parents
lug hH time for a turn had come, he kept | of tills young m " Of ff^Sne of
on winning. That was the. influence of he was one oft h ost n
the old moon Mill making itself felt, the worst of *henlavlni d?iw
That's the one weak point In my sys Intoxicated and was also plH>,lng draw
tem. I can't tret close enough to nature | poker. His mother Is neartDtoken.^ana
I and it,r JaV?ti"ead"'arnlii If ciir.1' ptayin/uiid flrlnklriK un.l liishtlng
r T u]iowed the force is d.
tem-
klng,
r®c:
didn't know what
It was, but kept It as n souvenir of the
event and it was handed down n his
family fpr generatJons. .One of tola d£
cendants in Jerusalem thought he'd mix
of dlsi
•t-martlals.
lized In-j the atuff
Ipllned. I've be«n in several That was
of these encampments, and If they were Itotnans.
what they pretend to be they would be tie of t ^ stuff to CU'
worth the money that is spent on them. ,J ' 11
. m .. niilitia aa
ign state, to
, the peace and protect the lives
and property of citizens, which are the
first duties of a state that is truly sover-
eign. But I don't believe In rowdy camps,
paid for by taxation, and. from all uc^
counts, there was a rough house going on
all the time up at St Joe That will never
do vou know. The fteople won't stand
for It, and there's no><«ason for it If the
. .i .« onnnirh tr. nature .inker His mother is heartDiouen, ana i.. r it, ami n lie u'> ■■■•< >• " •" w
rlea to the exact mill- iils^ father haa taken to playing draw o.llcera do their duty. A mlllta organl- happened and told
ip and see what It was for
hen Jerusalem belonged to the
his descendant sent a bot-
to Caesar, thinking it
would K'U him. and that It must be a
d nd t ■ poison, or a man Wke Joab
w . t carry It around with him. But
Ca -1 smelled of It. and. having heard
Of the Jewish custom of annotating the
he.* d lie thought It mual be,.f?r,thV!
ludgirc by the pleasant odor It had. Ho
he po red It on his head, and In less than
week hi" friends didn't know him, be-
cauti. his hair was down to his knees^
He k pt the secret to himself, but the
Jew 'n Jerusalem found out
"The Oldest Recipe for Hair Grower In
the Known World."
he has a girl In any other part of the
country, and can manage to keep still
about it they will got him sooner or lat
or A fellew like that has always to go
poking around where he has a Moll. The
detectives are onto that, all right
they can locate his Moll" 'hey wait and
bag him. And that sort of men always
have plenty of women that are willing to
entertain them."
"Lota of thein visited Rudolph when hs
was ill jail here." said tha barkeepor,
"and nobody knows that he Isn't hid In
the houses of some of them in town right
" 'Since Collins got back from his trial."
said the policeman on the beat, who had
Juat come in, "there have been a dozen
w<<men around tha jail to see him, but
Jim Dawson has had his eye teeth cut
now. and-not ons of them liaa got a
glimpse of him."
"The funnleat part of it all Is." said ths
grooeryman, "that there's it jjoman drop-
ping around to the Jail at Clayton to leave
flow era for Harrington. Nobody out there
knows her, but it is well understood that
she Hres somewhere In tha city. She
doesn't ask to see him and never tells
who she la. but just l*avea a bouquet."
"These people who are looking forMc-
Cunn to show up again hava about hush-
ed ur%" aald the horseman. "I don't hear
any fliore about MoCann walking into
Clayton and declaring that an Innocent
man la being Imprisoned an justly. Do
any of your*
Nobody said they had.
"It's strange," continued the horseman,
"what notions people will get Into their
heads. They thought that bocauso Bar-
rlngton had got rattled and given him-
self dead away in a« many different stylea
as he could find, that there had been no
hia descendants to murder, and that It was all a conspiracy
year. Rants ara going
You cau gut (27 &d now for a flat that
you couldn I g< t t i fur two yeaia ago.
Detached houaes mat bring only a
year ug<> aie bringing now Things
ar« on trie up wave, and it litie prosperity
tan be ooniiuued a ysar longer limn next
year who ;« going to kiakT We had bet
tsr hold en to u good ihing while w*
have It, anti atevten It oat aa long aa
posalbie, for look what poof Chicago suf-
fered for ai Uast throe >aara attar it waa
all o\er. 1 tell you, aa bad batter put
the Fair ?tf «a long aa we «an. for ther*
will c.Mne a slump after Hie uaiea aie
closed."
"Nu there won't," Mid the horseman,
"Conultlone here now are «>ntirely dif-
ferent Iioui what the ware in Chicago this
lung b«4or« it,• (air up th«ra They
ware putting reaidenoe houawa so fast
there at that tlma that you oould aee the
while a; ring, Ihat marks the building
Hue, moving Bp ao tnal it looked like it
never aftopuad el all. I've watched it
inyaelf, and they kept that thing up to
the day the gate* opeuud, aud Umgar. Do
you nea any of that hare? Not much.
The people who own the houses, and were
uxpeeled to build moia. axe not doing It,
but, lnatead of that, they are patting the
rente up on the heeees ibey have al-
renta up on the heueaa Uiey already have.
And thoy will atiok to thai clear through
tha pleue. The result will be that there
will be nothing like the nauiber of apare
houssa here mat there were in Chicago
after it waa all over. Them «rtU be a fall
In i enia, of course, but these are lots ot
people In this town who wouldn't call
that a calamity."
"But the report of the peftce nommls-
aloii says there ara ttO.Ouu people here
now. Why not keep thorn ae long aa wa
can?"
"My friend" aald the horseman, "fw
talk about St. T,ouis like a town boomer
In Oklahoma talks about the opposition
town. IX a railroad doesn't aocne through
It s all oft. Ht. Louis waa booming be-
fore the World's Fair waa aver thought
of. The development of Ht. Louie depends
upon the development of the great coun-
try west of the MlsalaalppI, and the part
of that country which Is moet directly
tributary to this city la developing now
as tha great Morthwest did In tho days
when Chicago waa doing her best run.
We ace now where Chloago wae twenty
yeara ago. Don't loae any alcep or have
any bad dreame oyer tha fear that HU
Louia will collapse like an empty ssck
after tha Circassian girls and the edu-
cated pigs are gone. The oountry be-
hind her will still be moving, and she will
move along with It.
I think that poll' s eatimate of KO.OOO
people is too hlgn," aald the doctor, who
had juat oome Tn. "There a been no per
centsge of growth in Bt, Louis since X
have b«>eii hare,"
"It la poaalbka." said the horseman with
a grin. r'that the percentage of gain has
fallen aome elnce you began nraotlclng I ti
the city, but let It go at 7M.000. That's
three-quarters of a million. Aa soon as
Chicago got half a million aha organized
tha Million club, and that culb went to
work to make it a million aa anon as
possible. That's what we ought to do."
"Why said the doctor, "there are sev-
eral cluba In thla place composed of men
who have devoted yeara of tliek lives to
making It more than a million."
"For the town?" asked, the horseman.
"Oh. no," aald the doctor, "for them-
selves."
i UPS AND DOWNS OF f | |
l PROKUP- PROMOTER t
the district Mid.there were all kinds «r JOOftO C 0-:-0<>>?C-00-:iO«OCHa .OOC^-50000<HyjC««QOOOCa>OQaftOO
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New York Hn
t
up
The taller
Broadway was ev.-
They were coming pust the lower end of
1 he "post Office when they ran plump Into
a dlgnlftfed. leisurely gentleman whom
ci>'en the casual observer would have set
down positively tor a Yankee of the reg-
ulation New England type.
The Westerner stopped short as he saw
the other and then thrust forward his
brawny right hand and sang out It a
voice whose carrying quality revealed Its
prlarie training:
Frokup, by the I.ord Harry! \yiat arc
you doing here? 1 haven't seen you for a
coon h age!"
The man addrefcMd halted and looked
the Westerner ov*r cooly. Then a smile
of recognition came over Ills face amj he
grasped tho proffered hand warmly and
gave It such a pump-handling as one
rarely Bees performed by the genuine
Yankee.
"Hello, Iteese!" be snld. "I'm glad to
ge< you. Where did you come from?"
■Jlist now from Wall street." answered
the Westerner. "Been looking over the
cuttle ami game markets down there for a
•while. First time I «ver saw bulls and
bears together, you know."
There was a few minutes of honrty con
versatlon, and th. n the man addressed as
Prokup pleatVd a business appointment
and went on downtown.
•There," said the Westerner to his
friend, as Prokup disappeared in the
crowd down Broadway, "is the best dem-
onstration 1 ever saw of the truth of the
old snyllng that you can't keep, a good
man down."
"Who Is he?" asked the other.
"Prokup," replied the Westerner "He's
the best promoter that ever stood in Bhoe
leather. Just now he's the head of one
of the biggest breakfast cereal concerns
In the United States, and this time he
seems to have landed where he'll stay.
But he has had wnat appealed to ba
Just as good things so often before that
It wouldn't be a whole lot surprising to
aee liiin go broke again.
"I've known Prokup for so close onto
thirty years that you couldn't make much
of a trip to Europe In the difference He
was one of the first men I met when I
went west. He owned the paper In the
town where 1 settled and was practising
law as well , „
"He wasn't much of a genius as an ed-
itor or as a lawyer either, and nobody
suspected him of being specially smart
In any other llne.But you can't tell, you
know. When ray brother bought out his
paper Prokup gave up the law buslneaa
and turned promoter.
He ha l been dabbling a little In land,
and had a chance to do a good business in
it. for the country was just settling up
end tha railroads were selling off their
grants at next to nothing to get settlers
f i Prokup arranged to handle a lot of
that land and then started In to boom
the country.
"He took a way that seemed mighty
strange to me, and the result showed
that he had made a mistake, but It was
his first venture In promoting, and ho
didn't forget tho lesson. He organized
fKieat horse fair at our town. It was
n absurd proceeding, for there wasn't
•hough good horseflesh In that part (if
the state to get up a good show, and there
weren't people enough to make It puy for
one day.
•That didn't stop Prokup. though
fenced In half a section of bottom land
down below the station, put up exhibition
buildings and built a track. He had
st> hies and a grandstand and all the ap-
pvrtenances. Then he advertised big pur-
e/a and actually got n lot of cracks en-
tared for his races. Barns, with a rec-
ord of 2:17. was the top-note-her of the
trotters in those days and Prokup got
him lor his show and advertised exhibi-
tion heats against time.
onveniences.
"The railroad built a branch out and i T
promised to run trains every few seconds • J.
—or hours-- and the ilrst locators there J.
were to get tho lots for not hlng, provided j .%
they built on them at onoe. Then tho A
other lots were put on the market and 4*
sold like hot cakcs. | T
CAR R--B URDETTE COLLEGE
"There was to be a big fair along with
the rest and all the farmers were to
bring in their fine stock and their big
pumpkins and so on, and there was to ba
a baby show, and bread-making contests
and ball games and a baloon ascension,
it was the real thing In the fair line, I
tell you, and it waa to run a week.
"Well, it did. Prokup saw tha thing
through, and everything went ofT as he
had advertised, it was all there but the
people to pay for It, ami they didn't live
In the state yet and prokup had neg-
lected to arrange for excursions from
New York and Chicago and other met-
ropolitan points.
"It took several days to figure up Just
how far prokup was in th«> hole when it
was all over, but thei j wasn't any more
chance of hia paying out than there is of
my being the next king to England. Prok-
up gave up the effort to boom land In
that country and just faded away.
"We didn't hear for some time where
he had gone. Then up he bobbed as pro-
moter of a railroad deal in a mountain
city further west.
"There were two railroads that made
that city, but neither of them had secured
an entrance into the place. Both stations
were a mile or more away from the bus-
iness part of town. Prokup sized that
thing up Juat right. He concluded that
®lther one of those roads would pay a
£ood price for a right of way through the
city, and he set out to get It.
"He organised a great Stato exhibition.
The purpose was to advertise the state,
and It was to be a permanent affair. All
true Westerners are boomers, you know,
and prokup had no difficulty In getting
the city men Interested hot and h^avy
in that fair, aa well as the big men all
over the Htate. Then when he had that
going well and sure to be put through,
sprung his other Idea.
That was to build a belt railroad. In
the shape of a figure 8. with the station
In the center of the city and a loop
around each side. It was to run, of
course, to the exhibition grounds and bo
the means of getting the crowds out to
the show. That went, too. and Frokup
was secretary of the concern.
"The road was built, and nobody In the
place suspected what was coming. But
Prokup knew That exhibition was Just
as sure to go Into the hole an his horse
fair was. and it didn't disappoint him.
"The business men stood the loss for
one year in the hope of getting the result
from the advertising. But it didn't pan
out. and the exhibition stopped.
"That put the circle railroad to the bad
pretty severely and naturally the stock '
"Well, Prokup was the president of that
company. He was the secretary and
treasurer, too, and. In fact, the whole
thing. There wasn't any company but
Prokup, and he had dono the whole thing
on wind.
'Ho started with nothing but an option
on the lake front land, and talked the
hotel-keeper who was boarding him on
credit Into putting up what money was
needed for actual running expenses. They
made a bundle out of that, and It was a
good thing, too. The town actually prof
ited by it, and the suburb they put
through Is the best section of the city
today.
"Prokup must have had in the neigh-
borhood of a quarter of a million clean
when he got out of that, and I thought
that he would se'tle down there and en-
Joy it. But i guess It takes more than
that to keep him going very long.
"I can't Imagine what he does with It.
He hasn't any {atnlly except his wife, and
they never have seemed to be extrava-
gant people. They don't go In for expen-
sive sports of high flights of any sort.
He always had ns good a house as the
next one in the place where he lived, and
It was always dun In good style, but that
wouldn't bust a millionaire oftener than
once in four of five years, I should thirk.
"But Prokup never seemed able to hold
on. I suppose that is tho way with all
promoters. As soon %s they make a big
thing out of other people's money they
try to do It again with their own and fail.
I don't know what Prokup got into with
his suburban profits, but it was something
that was no good.
"It was a couple of years before I heard
of him again, and then one of the bovs
met him at St. Louis when they were
down there for a convention. He was
standing In a saloon waiting for some one
to ask him to have a drink. He was clear
down on his uppers and his clothes looked
as If they had been worn for three years.
Ills coat was so shiny you could almost
see your faco In It, and his hat had been
rained on so often that it had turned
gre.n.
"As soon as he saw our boys come In he
sneaked out and they didn't get a chance
to talk with him. so didn't find out any-
thing about what had happened. That
was only a few years ago.
"Now look at him. Anybody In this
town seeing Prokup going along would
take him for one of the prosperous, sub-
stantial men of the city, and although he
is not a New Yorker he certainly 19 ona
of the solid men of the State.
"I never heard how he got started
again, and don't know whether the cereal
he makes la his own Invention or aome
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"This thing has been going on new long
enough so that Prokup must have cleaned
up more than half a million out of it, for
the profits of the cereal business, you
know, nro not reckoned in two figure per
cent ages. I hear he Is just the same old
Prokup. though, quiet and dignified, nev-
| er making a splurge. Has a line house in
the city where his factory Is. and keeps
some good horses and travels In guud
society, but that's all.
"You wouldn't take that man we. met
for such a world beater, would youj Rift
I tell you that If I had a scheme to be
In It, but
pendim
for it.
Interest.
"Then, one fine day, the town woke up
to find that Prokup had sold out hia
circle to one of the big roads and was pat-
ting something like half a million In his
trousers pocket. It was rather warm for
Prokup In that town Just then, and he
faded away again.
"The next I heard of him he was flat
broke. Ono of the boys met him In a
drug store jn Topeka, writing a prescrip-
tion for some beer for himself, to re-
lieve a 'dry. parched condition of the
throat.' He wae clear down and didn't
know what he was going to do.
"It wasn't long a'f, r 'ty*1' _V.e" put through that had m.-ney
for, there wa„ a b& n a rtty „ , dMI
DILLENBECK SCHOOL OF ORATORY
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hlbltlon tewn. This time It wae a sum j d try ,,ard* r to get Interested In
'company had been organised Which' ^ than that same Prokup. He's a won-
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