Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1921, Page 69

Allison, IIL-May 1. * EAR Bro. Chas.: Well Chas. 1 suppo! you thought my sporting days was all over.so it will come like a surprise to wou when I tell you what I' have pulled off now. I have joined the Al- lison country club Charley and the first day I can get off I am going out and take a whirl at golf. You remem- ber how I used to play shinny.Chas. wnd golf is a hole lot like it. But it isent on acct. of playing golf that I have joined the club but most- 1y on acct. of the Mrs. because she is +0 crazy to bult in to society out here and it seems like all the high class people In town belongs to the club end if & man dont belong you dont get in on half whats going on. It seems like there trying to build a new club house so they been make- ing a play for new members to get there money and thats how I come to zoin. It was Mr. Carlton the presi- dent of the village and Mr, Ewing thats in the coal business down town that ast me to join. They ast me dident I want to joIn the golf clup and 4t wouldent only cost me $150.00 to go in and $50 dues per annum Now but later on the price would probly be doubled. So at 1st. I says I did not think I had time to spare for it but tinally I says I would think it over. 8o I told the wife about it and told her I dident have no intentions of Joining and then she begun to argue with me. She says if I joined the club it would be a grand thing for hier because all the best women folks in the town had partys and etc. out there. “So she argued me into it and the next A. M. I called up Mr. Carlton and told him to put me down for.a member.and he says all right I was elected all ready and could pay my fees when ever I felt like {t. So I am a full fledged member Chas. and will pay up the $150.00 as soon is I get hold of it and the dues is payable every 8 months at $12.50 a clip so a m{l.n wont hardly notice that part o it. T dont expect to get no excitement out of .a baby game like golf but I ¢ont half to play much and the main zet the hang of it so as I can ta with the other fellows going in on ahe train because that se¢ems to be about -all they_ talk about. e Bro ™ £, A, GRoSS. R 2 Allison, IIl., May 7. |QROTHER CHAS: Well Chas. Thave broke in to the golf game and its siothing at all like shinny but as soon 33 I get the hang of it I will get alonf I layed off yesterday P. M. and came out home and hired a rig to 1taRe me out to the country club. 1 got out there about half past 1 and | thing is being a member of the club. | the matter with . me. Rut T want to play a couple times :z | Nothing only you went back too fast the 18t hole and Fredericks done’ it old game of and I done it in 12 not times’ I missed the ball. played the nexs: hole and so on till we come to:the 7th. hole and I had to quit then because I had lost the 3 balls the teacher left _me take and 1 of Frederick's besides_ and he dil not have no more to -loné me ‘so I quit. They dont keep the coarse in very good shape or-1 would not of lost the balls: b cause it was in the long gra: ‘weeds. where I 1 them. .~ T walked along with Fredericks while he played the last 8 holes and he told me to watch how he shot and maybe- I would pick up some pointers. He says the main thing was to keep your head still -and keep your eyes on the ball and not try and hit the ball too hard. They dont take no care,of the ground here and its got a lot of long grass and trees that should ought to be cut down and a lot of mounds that should ought to be leveled off and the 7th. and 8th. holes is built right along side of the river so a mans mind is on keeping the ball from going in the water and you cant do yourself Justice. Fredericks had his = automobile along and ast me to ride home with him. = Before we left the teacher ast me if I wanted to buy some clubs off of him and 1 says ves and he says I could keep the clubs he had give me to use. So T got my own clubs now and- dont half to pay for them till the 1st. of the month. I suppose ‘there about 3 a buck a throw and the.§ of them will come to_$2.50. Your Bro. " FRED A. GROSS. ERE Alltson, TIL May 18. DEAR Brother Charley: Well Char- ley since the last” time I wrote you a jletter I have took 2 lessons from the golf teacher out to the club. The 1st> thing the teacher told me to do was to stand up and hit the ball off of what they call the tea so as he could see what was the matter with me. So I hit the'ball but it went off to 1 side. So I says Well whats So- he says and, & L and you took your left ft. oft of the ground, and you took your eyes off of the bail and you moved your head and you stoed too far away from the ball and yeu dident take no alm at whete o was shooting_at and you tried to ill it and vou pulled away from it like it was a snake or something. So he worked with me a hole hr. just tr‘ylng to drive the ball -off of the-tea -an when he was through he says I"was doing a hole lot better- than when 1 started. . . - So 1 took another-lesson 4 days after the 1st..1 and. he showed me how to hit them with my brassy and click and masher. . So I been practicing and now 1 got so as 1 dont never miss the b; no motg and I made the 7th, hole:the 501! now Chas. Yesterday 1 went around the 9 holes in 63 strokes and I havent only lost 3 balls the last 2 times I played and 3 of them went in the river where any bodys libel to shoot no matter how good you are. But the balls and the bats too costs money Charley.. I found tMit out when the bill come in from the club. . The balls come to & dollar a_ peace and the clubs was 35 a peace and hows fhat'for a skin game Charley, But they wasent no use kicking because they would tell you the prices was up on acct. of the war being over like every body tells you about every thing these days. But you, can bet I havent told the Mrs. about what it8 costing me be- cause she is sore all ready on acct. of me spending my vacation here instead of takeing the family acrost the lake or somewheres. There haveing some tournaments up to the club and I am going in_to the 1 that starts next Sat- urday. What I am going to play for is the presidents cup thats put up by Mr. Ewing the president of the club for the man that wins the tournament and it isent no common tea cup but it Is a 5"“ big solid silver cup with 2 han- les on it and so big that if you drunk it full of beer you would begin to sin; tenor. And if I win this here cup will make a present of it fo the Mrs. and I guess that will be better than going acrost the lake especially if it was a rough day. They give a man a handicap in these here tournaments and I seen - FETAD 'FORE! acquainted with Mrs. Thomas. Be- cause of corse Mrs. Thomas will be out to watch her husband play the finals and I will take Grace along with me and wile they are watching us they can make friends between themseives and maybe fix up a party for the Thomases and we to - cele- brate who ever wins the cup. They will probly be & big crowd watching us_besides the 2 women. The tournament started a wk. ago today and I played better than I ever did in my life and when I turned in my score I was way up in the list includeing my hundicap. The next day we played some more and when we got through they was only 4 of us left and the 4 was I and Mr. Thomas and Mr. Carlton and Mr. Car- “'l‘lil': FIRST THING YOU DQ, YOU TAKE A LITTLE CHUNK OF MUD OUT OF A BOX AND MAKE A LITTLE MOUND WITH IT, AND THEN YOU STICK YOUR BALL ON TOP OF IT.” the list of handicaps wall up to the club yesterday and I|penter and he phoned out but mine |and says he couldent get there overlooked all the names Was not there 80 Lewent to the teacher | would I wait and play to give me mine and he says he had | A. not done jt befors because most gen- erally a man.dont go in to the tourna- ments the 1st. yr. you play. But I says 1 was going in tto this 1 all right 80 then he ast me what I went around the links. in and I told him I usually magde it in_about 74 but once I made it in 63 and other times as high as 81. So he figured a wile and finely says he would give me a handicap of 48 and thats for 13 holes because they play 18 holes in the tournament instead of 9. Well Charley if I cant anging on the|penter. So today I was to play | Mr. Car- from Chi and tomorrow M. and I says No of corse I Wouldent wait. So he says All right go ahead and claim your match by the fault and you will get a good beating in the finals but I just give him the laugh and told the teacher that ‘Mr. Carpenter had gave up s0 the teacher wrote it on the board that 1 was going to be in the finals. Well Mr. Caritons a better player than Mr. Thomas but Mr. Thomas has got a handicap himself and he win his match and the téacher announced that I and Mr. Thomas would play it off tomorrow. » Well Grace is all excited about me playing Mr. Thomas and she meet- ing Mrs. Thomas and the cup and every thing and cant hardly walit for tomorrow to come and neither can I Chas. I will let you know how I come_out. TYour Bro. FRED A. GROSS. * % % ¥ ; Allison, 11l July 2. - EAR Charley: Well Charley what do you think I got here on the table where I am writeng this letter. A big silver cup Charley and I win it yester- day in the finals for the presidents cup out to the club., How is that for a man that dident never have a golf stick in his hands till this 5. eh Chas. And bestdes me winning the cup 1 found out something about the club that T dident know about and if I had of knew it in the 1st. place they wouldent never of had to coax me.to gt me in t3 there club. After the game we come back to the club House:and I left the Mre. setting out on the porch wile I went in and washed up. The stewart was standing there in the locker rm. and I made some remarks about wishing I had a drink. "So he suys what do you wark Jtand I says a high ball just jokeing. But sure enough in & few minutes he come in with « high ball and when I ast him ‘how much was it and tried to pay him he says, No you just sign your name 80 as we can keep track of who got it; this is personal licker for a guest of a private family. So it seems like he has got all kinds of drinks on hand and a man can get any thing he wants and dont even half to pay for it but all as you do is sign your name. Pretty soft eh Chas. and I guess I will get writers cramp before this here summer ig over. No more home brew and costly boot- leggers for me, behind it and the ball went down in a kind of a ditch thats this side of the green. Thats where you should ought to of used your brass and wood club, ! W a ‘ell finally we was both on the green and I had had 4 strikes and he had 4 strikes and my ball was farther from the hole than his ball so it was my 1st put. Well Chas. you can belleve it or not but the ball went clear in the hole come out again and layed here about 1 inch from the edge. So if 1 had of had any luck I would of made 5 for the hole and thats what the best players make. I had to count 6 strikes and it was Mr. Thomas turn and he was about 4 ft. from the hole and if he put_the ball in-in 1 strike that would be 5 strikes all together for him and 6 for me, 50 they wouldent neither 1 of us win the hole on acct. of my handicap. Well he leaned over and was just going to hit the ball when I says, Bet you a buck you miss it. So that put him all up in"the air and he hit the ball and }it went about 3 ft. past the hole instead Lot in to it. Well, 1 says, that's 1 for me. Are you ahead, ast Grace. Sure T'm ahead, 1 says. Well, she says, maybe Mr. Thomas will be luckier this time. Neither 1 of us done very good on the next hole. Mr. Thomas took 6 strikes and was still 3 ft. from the hole yet and I was just about the |same " length away with 7 strikes. This time he put 1st. and I says, Look out, just as he was going to hit the ball, pertending like they was a_snake or somgthing behind him. T guess it scaref him out of makeing his put besiuse he come about a ft. short of the hole. - I made a dandy shot myself and right in' to the hole she went. I wish you could to death with-it. F. A Your Bro. GROSS, . e Y Py Allison, Tl July 29. TYROTHER I found™ out something yesterday and that is that & man cant do yourself justice playing golf when you dont feel good and it cost me $50 to find it out but you can bet I wont never.play golf again after I have eat something that dident agree with me.’ 3 The night before last I was over.to a banquet at the annex and the chief ‘sent me over there to just keep my eves open and see that they wasent no dips getting away with something on acct. of all the women ‘wearing there rocks and etc. Well I run in to some pals and we spent most of the evening in a room together and I had a hole lot to drink and when I got up yesterday A. M. I felt bad, so I called the chief up and he says for me to take the day off. So after breakfast I went up to the golf club and was going to play but they wasent nobody else there so I thought 1 would walt around till some one come to play with. So I waited all the A M. and nobody come and wile I was wait- ing I got thirsty and the stewart brought me a drink and then he brought me some more and 1 guess I must of had about a dozen but I should worry when I was getting them for nothing and just signing my name so as the stewart could keep track of who got them. Well finely it come noon time and T was hungry and the stewart says he could serve me my lunch so I says all right and he gave me a lunch and they must of been something that was poisoned because I noticed later on that 1 was kind of dizzy and my head spin- ning around. But just when ‘was through lunch who should come in but Mr. Carpenter and Mr. T ‘Well, T says to them, I hope you got over your soreness about me winning the cup and if you aint sore you can set down with me and have a drink. So they looked at each other and then they both excepted the invitation and set down and I ast them what would gou had to pay for it. Any body can uy wihe when all as they .half to do_is sign_there name. 8o he says the reason he suggested CHARLEY: Well Charley him signing his name was because he thought I was too sick to sign my name. So I says, I will show you if I am too sick or not, so when we gt, in the club house we had 6 more téles and I signed for them. ‘Well Charley they got me that time and got me for $50 which I suppose is pretty near as much as the cup is worth that I win from Thomas. But they wouldent never of got me if it hadent been for them pickles I eat for lunch and I 1 get back at Thomas Iif it takes me all the rest of the summer and he cant never beat me in the world I havent eat something that was spoiled. Your Bro. F. A. GROSS. * % %% Allisen, IIl. Aug. 3. DEAR CHARLEY: Well Charley I am not going to have no chance to get back at Thomas and Carpenter and if any body ever mentions the word golf to me again I will take a punch at there Jaw Thomas and Carpenter inclusive. Last night when I come home from down town I found the Mrs. crying like 2 baby with the collect. So I ast her what was the matter and she says she had been to the P. O. and got the bills. Well,’ I says, this is the 1st of the month and if you cant look at a few bills without flooding the parlor you better of kept away from the P. O. Yes, she says, but look at this 1. And she handed me a bill from the golf club and how much do you think it was. Only a measly $327.50. And it says that $150 was for joining the club and $12.50 was for 3 months dues and $165 my pri- vate account with the stewart. Well Charley I thought of corse it must be & mistake and I says so to the Mrs. ‘The _$150 and the $12.50 is O. K, I says, but told me I dident half to B, the $160 till I felt like it. But 1 avent no account with no stewart and I dont know what there talking about. Well she made me call up the treasure of the club and'I ast him what it all meant and he says the $165 part of it RE POOL B Ring w. Lardner But_you wouldent buy no wine if come hoine tonight the Mrs. was all g:cuehd and she says that the silver up had been stole, and she saye She bet the golf club people come 2nd took it on acct of me quitting the club and she owned up that she forgot to lock the front door Ehen she took the babys out thix Ptk po Well 1 just scolded her little for lenveing the door uniocked nd then sayvs for her to not worry about the cup because I dident think t was worth much any way. It wasent neither Charley. T know be- cause I s0ld it to a hawl Clark St. this morning for (Copyright, 1921.) k _shop o $4.50. Way of Bootlegger Is Made Difficult (Continued from First P: roads, with a wpeedy pilot fnronr to scent danger m?dowar;rnin'»‘ embers of the supply train, trailing at the rear. This type of Fum-run. ning did not attain its highest stac» Of, erfection until after the mation- Taptar: ilyme probibition during n the meantime came th {ake seats and camouflaged easaiine tanks. Beneath the rear seat of a touring car was extended a cavie, with storage capacity for from four 0 eight cases. The springs of the seat were taken out to use the ui- most limits of the space. For quits a while, the machine laden with indifferently Ly offi- the roads and in the ciis ‘m_zn all appearances of re- The “gasoline tank” is well know by this time. Wide official know e dg. of the utility of the reserve tank in storing liquor virtually placed it in the discard at a youthful stage. They came the day of the turtle-back road- ster, with its compartment storing 4n mmense quantity of liquor for the i8pace. The day of this device came and went. and the speed car, jover the roads at a desperat neck pace, rounding curves liquor breezed cers on streets, wheels and whizzing toward the c. With utter disregard for officials Yived all the ingenultics. Tt rema as the most powe vehic of the law breakers” "l bl In the days of early infractions of the prohibition law the rum-runners as a rule, worked alone. They went to thelr out-of-town supply base and obtained their cargoes. The bootles- ger got his consignment, rushed pel mell over the roads and proceeded store it until he could sell. He pei- dled it from a convenient down town Ravages a officers of the law bore down heavily upon him and his method cuanged. Skilled chauffeurs speedily went to ithe front as “road men.” They be- {came specialists. working for an en. ployer, who paid them flat prices for i consignments delivéred in hine- ton. The employer theg obtained men who were willing to’go out and peddle the illicit goods. The sales- men bullt up a clientele; they covered regular routes, Police interference With their trade simply meant that a bondsman would be on hand fo Ianlsh bail in little or no time. And the fine paid after convictlon was made up in the huge profits of futu: sales. The employers looked out for their men. They had to. lLet them et a reputation for “double-crossing” their workers. and the other Work- ers would fade away, since the fear of the law hung always over them a pall This eystem developed to such a point that price lists, not long ago. were circulated. Certain telephou. numbers, over which known partic could obtain what they wanted, wer distributed. {_This fs what the pronhibition en- { forcement officers are now contand! with. The prohibition men in Wash- | ington do 'nor number more th |twenty-five. The men they are watch- |ine number eight times that. The first measure for the sale of illicit heverages was to { scatter “under_cover” men through- cut the city. These officers acted as agents and participated in a salr They followed up the sale sometimes for a week, sometimes for a month. | working on’ the single proposition of locating the source and the storage place. In following the clues in thix manner much of the liquor was put in custody. A raid on the supply base was the ] next step. First a small supply confiecated liquor grew up in the p lice precincts. Next, the prohibition agents started taking over the con- fiscated beverages. With the pres- sure of cases in court, the supply in custody has increased to such an ex- tent that a special wareroom with labeled compartments for confiscated consignments is now being con- structed. The danger in the life of the pro- We wias to start the match at 10! Yorclock in the A. M. but when T and | . % > {Grace got out there Mr. Thomas hadent | “BUT I SHOULD WORRY HOW THOMAS ¥ LS. {showed up yet and when he come his| T NOBODY TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME. { wife wasent along with him. So after! he and Grace I ast| I GOT THE CUP AND I WIN IT FAIR AND SQUARE AND THEY AND THE MRS. IS TICKLED TO DEATH WITH IT.” “f. WAS WAY OFF THE GREEN WITH FIVE STRIKES AND IT LOOKED LIKE I WAS GOING .TO LOSB | THE HOLE SURE, BUT WHAT DID I DO BUT PUT THE BALL CLEAR INTO THE HOLE FROM WHE! WAS, ANDIT MUST HAVE BEEN FIFTY FEET.” > . 2 beat them birds with a 48 handicap I | him it his wife I had lntmduc? 'asent comeing out and he says No she had some thing better to do. So we went out to the ist. tea and they was a l‘adfl)"fl peace for us, but they wasent no ly else "going along to watch us only Grace and I guess Mr. Thomas dont like to play in front of & crowd and had aet his friends to_stay eway. ‘Well, I says, I will drive off 1st. and give you a mark to shoot at, so I drove off good and the ball went 160 vds. and Fine, says Grace. fof heard Grace squedl S hole too and now 1 had | vantage. [ (o Vel Charley 1t would take too long to tell you the hole game. T was 3 aheud of him when we.got to the end of the 1st. 9 holes and then we started out on the 1at. 1 to go wround again and he got with iu about 3 ft of the hole with only 4 etrikes and I was w@ off the green. with 5 strikes 8o jt looked.llke T was going to loose the hole sure, buf what did holes ad- !drunk nothing omly wine. 8o I called the stewart in and ast him did he have some wine and #ure sunough he did. How is that for a club Chae. where you can et all the echampagne You want fo Iriuk by just signing your name. So I had bott with them and then ‘Thomas saye he would have another and when they brought it in Thomas says he would sign for it but the card wag right near me so I says Whats the differance who signs it I will eign it 1 win xmn‘they have and they says they never |was something 1 would half to ask the stewagt about. Yes, ¥ but you pec old me I wouldent half to pay the $150 right away. So he says 1 had been in the club pretty near 3 months or over and would half to pay or forfeit my membership. So I hung up on him and then I called up the stewart. Well Charley, he saye that all that wine and them ofher drinks 1 signed for wasent free after all but the way he run it was for a man to sign your name when you got it and settle the 1st of (hr‘:‘nunfiL Libition agent comes mostly with “road work.” The men behind the wheels of liquor transporting ma- ] chines are usually desperate and armi- {ed. They ‘tolerate no interference with their traffic. Therefore, the officer of the law sesking to' ston these men must be as ready with hix bullets as his opponents. Scarcely any of the men working with Stephenson have not been under fire. Stephenson himself and Denny Murphy of No. § were almost beaten ite gtewart ast me was I @ member |other day .in 5 stgkes and’ thats 'only good and straight. 2@ I told him yes. So finally he|3 more stfikes than'the best of them | Will quit trying to play the game. Then Mr. Thomas drove off and went|I do but put the ball clear in to|myself. So then we had 3 more bottlas | So then I called the treas cK. to death 2 little more than a year »ok ‘me -out in the shed where the|takes to it. 5 | Your Bro. 2 A EAT0SS. | over to tho Hght.. You eliced Your ball | the Thole. from where I was and it|and 1 signed for them again and then| Suppose I dont pay’ thut §150, 1 save |30 oo the Biadenshure road, when =ucher stavs and the teacher ast me “Your Brother. F. A’ GROSS. | *'k ok # T says. You was standing too far away. | must of been 50 ft. I wish you could|I sung a ballad for them and. then|to him, gud suppose I dont.pay that they came upon bootleggers with a a lesson. No, I savs, & e A So 1 heiped him look for his ball and jof seen Grace. She done all the|Thomas ast me how my golf game Was. | sicwartsbill that I got beat out of be- broken down car. They were beaten en the game vet where 1 st 4 | Allison, Tl July 23. |we found it umongst the weeds and he | dances she knowed and hollered.like; I guess vou Lnow, I save. Its good |caue they just as good us told me the with blunt instruments and fired et any body to learn me | ~EAR BROTHER CHAS.: Well Chas, | P¢8an looking in his bag for 4 club'tjan Indlan. > enough to beat you. Srnls. was free. WWhat will vou do|ubon’ with a deadly shotgun, sawel ow to play it. So he says all right Allison, 11, June 4. | 2 e -1shoot with. You better take your| Im turough. says Mr. Thomas. For how much, he savs. about 1t. . off at the muzzle to spread the leaden ' would fit me out with some clubs B sk ¥ the finals comes-off tomorrow |masher, 1 suys to him. and sure enougk | Through, I says, what for. ‘What ever you sav, I says Nothing, he oilv you will be|pellets. and left for dead. when thex 4nd ho give me & to start with und | JROT Chas.; Well Chas.-T am |, 3 and I am in on them. Who|Ne took his masher and made a preitv| I haveni get no. chance, he savy.| L will pluy you for 4 hundred bucke. fired from the ciul g cruwled through a wooded patch in 00d shot out-on the fair wave and a |1 might play on even turn¥ with you[says Thomas. | "Is that all you will do to me, 1 says, }.‘fi%.?':«"for"‘;‘“';.‘in'.fl""""" e ine & are all different and got dif- fsrent names. The takeing a wks. lay off and whers do| g0 v, : Sle 2 you . think Im going to play|fittle you think I am spending it. Charley. | ggainst. - Mr. ‘Thomas, Charley, the|But I took my ahead of where Jfiy ball was at. ‘wood and brass club and if T had the hired girl out here to cheer me on, buf the way things is im him for ‘$50 ‘and So I says I dident want to rob hi and I would play he. put up $60 and I had to write-a and he says Ves. e Well, 1 says, [ am fired and you can take your golf club and go and jump About Shellfish. drive it as far is you can H z:':ox;“c:::! ::'J.?&"ifvfi’.':n":e": richest man fn Allison and his wite|E0C 2S00 S5, SRt Caarae and right | "o T save, Dont take it hard | check and t it ith- Car- |in the Des Plaines ri th it 3 T hi; 1 sa: ont . take too “hard | checl we put it up wi ar- the nes river wi 5 AT iean club With a wood handle and | just about all.the time.since a Wk. age| :\sa::Blmll'; ""’““{:’t:‘:"l"d"'{ ‘:fl':: tords the hole but maybe 300 yds. short. | Thomas. . It aint nothing only sport|penter. So then Thomas says he . So_vyour going to stick us for z Saer ot , = Weod nob at the end of it. And|,on B TR LU T play that | because. h iraoe Instichsled to dex 8o’ then it was his shot egain and he | after all and you getting beat aint as| would give me a strike a hole and |$327.58, he says. HELLFISH are, older thau man ihe pext 1 is a brassy thats just like - And maybe o ere is her chance to get|used a click but he dident get no power | much your fault as the man that|I says he wouldent do nothing of the| Yes I am, I eays. They lived upon the earth many ;che_driver only theys a peace of SR £ : e adthe handicavs. You ot no|kind because I could beat him even.| . All right, he says its worth more !l aars, perhaps thousands of years and ‘»rags nalled on the bottom of it Elainess giving he a strike a hole|So then we got our clubs and went|than that to have you quit. FERLS: > g and if you say so we Will play the|to it. ot "Fou ‘next_fime I mee|Derhaps thousands of centurfes, be- 'Well Charley I knowed the minute|you, I says. 1 will quit you right|fore the first man or the first apc the ‘mext 1 is a click thats got handle but in_ place .l‘ol nob theys a lead blade om the ‘battom of it thats turned up a little . xrass or the sand and it raises a ball 5ip more than the click. And the ast 1 is 2 putter that the blade on it 38 like the masher and-click only (¢ <t domnt turn up and you use it to knoek the ball in tq fhe hole when rest ‘of it even. It wouldent be even, he says, be- cause T havent got no body along to lead the cheers for.me. 'Well, 1 says, 1 will tell you what ¥ will do. to_show you Im a good We will pertend -like . we nt played at all and this P. M. or any time you say, you can bring Jour Mrs. along and leave her go around with us and encourage you. “No. he says, I can see I.am no match for you and my wife aint no- I got out there that something I had eat-had disagreed with me. But I am not no yellow dog Charley and I made up my mind I would go through with it bad as I felt. ‘Well Thomas drove off the tea and got a pretty fair drive and them it was my-turn and I was so sick 1 couldent hardly see and I miesed the ball and then I swang and missed it again and finely when I did hit it I_hit it crooked and it.only went | ir; the jaw. And then I hung up on im. ‘Well Charley I wish 1 had of | stopped that check I give Thomas and then I wouldent of been no(hlnf out only what 1 payed for the balls I lost because I guess I can sell my bag and the clubs. And I got there silver presidents cup that I win fair and square and I would of win the $50 from Thomas only for some pre- served -peaches that I eat that poisoned me. So all and all I dident that looked like a man came to live upon our sphere. Nobody knows ti- time when the shellfiish came when man came, but the shells o shellfiish and the impression of their bodies are found in older strata of the earth than any strata which give evidence of the existence of man The TUnited geological survey has You "xl'l:htlclou w.h : bout 20 f Well oy give me a & .to carry heres near a match for yours. - about t. So then Thomas got i L e P S g e e s probly good hearted,|smart and says he would tell me|come out so bad. e e balle 414 T want and I says I thoughe 1 oovs, Tand if sho aint the best|what was the matter with me. You Your Brother. . A. GROSS. |One Of the great divisions of the 1 would be plenty, but the tedcher Loty % woman in the world you want | swang back too fast, he says. and X *® % %% animal kingdom, “have existed since isent. only | you .stood too close to the ball and the earliest recognized advent of life to remember that beauty skin deep as they say. And besides, I says, you Wwouldent be talking that way about your wife if you wasent your eyes was- shut and -you was l'l:;;u' the foxy .trot with yeur left s Allison, IlL, Aug. 8. Bmm CHAS.: Well Chas. who do you thing I played golf with upon the globe, many millions of ’yenra before the first man inhabited g ive me 3 balls and 2 boy to carry sore oyer the golf game. If I was| You shut your meuth, I chief msel N * r , 1 says. odsy. Th imself Cha Now, as to that word “mollus. my bag and chase up ‘the balls 1 Jou 1 would try and forget it and| Well enter went along with us :m Ao bmh,,. i b”.':z Sometimes and rightly it is spelled n“fll‘t A :l h‘ showed me yemember that some body has always|and kept score and of all the crooked 2 % “mollusk,” and the great tribe of ?bk'nr: o];t:r ’ 'f ey was a man got to loose and maybe next time!scoreing I ever seen he had it beat. T hadent had a golf club in my hands | nyojlusks passes under the name “mol- X ”.' -B' ‘?dnl‘ l:“‘-{:hl:i, and you will have better luck. If you|Why 1 time he counted a strtke on|for over a wk. And I aint goingglusca.” “Molluscum” was a Greek 1o m¢ ou! play w im so will take a little advi¢e from me you|me when I hit. the ball with my|,q give the game up after all Chas.|Word that was applied to something T says yes. His name is Fredericks nfl‘ he owns the garage. 3at. thing you do Chas. you should spend_a couple hrs.. with the teacher and I bet vour game would improve 50%. He showed me in 1 lesson what was the matter with my putter swinging back before I was even ready to hit it tords the hole. 1 drove off pretty good on th hole .but I .got mnether dissy spell bacause I found out that theys places to play in Chi where it dont cost you a mickle. soft, and it came to be especially ap- plied to a soft-bodied animal, invert:- brate, without joints in its legs and usually having a covering of shell rake a little cnnck":ll mud ol;t o!‘ : ax e. 8 .litle mound. wit d I can drive O, K. - g - B noticed 3 or 3 things: about your|hardly see and I hit the yround back | town “with me this A.-M. with the{o¢ “molluscum” in the English words &t mn iop of it and hit It as far is you ean sonds the hole thats about . game, I says, that the teacher could x for you in a few minutes. You stand too far from the ball and you ‘move your left leg and you swing back too fast and you dont hold your head steady. A mun cant help from of it 8 or 4 times An“dl"nl touch the ball. N You.could make higger lioles with 4 plew, says Thomas. You must think theys oil en this property, says Carpenter. -Yaur_both .too. sma But never intentions of takeing -them to a hawk . - But the train was late and I had te go right to headquarters and leave selling them till.later and when thé chief come in ha ween them. Seo _he says-he dident knew I was “mollify.” emollient,” atc. One of the oldest forms of the mol- lusk was the nautilus, and he is still You know him. His shell i ing like the shell of a snail. and he flouts on the surface of the Shiceing. and -hooking. when you do e ) - - 8o I says I wasent & @ is borne along by wind 3 ey them (hings. ow that T had told | ItoRadent ast, fhat mem foy amehr | E°If piayer no mors because it was The Greeks called him 5 swang easy again and R T M6 mutter with his| Well th unch. 15 Daby gime and too easy for a the Romans g & e, wha 5 ist- A7 alnt e e teiTiag JOU| oro - Tth. - So he | called a saflor “natuta,” and we have > ' ms ot trving 1o |2 t wasithe use of him yralal; | fhe rest eFft_ T wasent.in ne shepe T T e basn mmanking witn 11| the word “nautical” for sallor-like ing money on the teacher. But Ifito play the game and Thomas beat| *Jo.g wile and if I thought it was|or shiplike or something like that. 1 moot. of me not tryl haré. ‘Then Prederick: drass club t it the 1st. ft. ng-to B 4 I was you, he says, I.would go to night school somewheres "and take a few lessons in mann “ So then I says I guessed a few | 1essons like that wouldent hurt him niether and maybe I wasent no dude but 1 thing sure I never made_the remark in public that my Mrs. wasenl a-good looker. So he says, No it wouldent be necessary. An 1 guess I would of took a crack st him only for the Mrs. haln= here and I dont believe.in.a man. fighting front of a lally or your wife. o me by 8 er & holes. = Carpenter says I was 18 down at the end of the ist 8, but he was stretching it. You beat me all right, I says to , but you know what a fat chance you would ef had only for that ketchup I had for lunch being spoiled and made me sick. I.am glad to get that news about ketohup, says -Thomas, because when the country goes dry we will want something _that effects & man that way. _Then Carpenter says that wine was 2 good aneodo such a pipe he would take me out nd play me -for the drig®s. So I t him where we would play 0808 e says Garfield Pk, So thats where we went Charley and its public course and dont cost you nothing -to belong and we are golng out again tomorrow. - - Maybe - you can find some public courses ~around N. Y. Charley and if so Id. advise you to learn the game because I was just jolling when I:says it.was a baby game and its The nautilus is one of the three great classes of mollusks, the other two be- ing the clams and the snails. A great |class of mollusks is called ~the cephalopods, two very old words. meaning _“head” and “foot” and cephalopods are those mollusks which have something like heads and feet, and the nautilus is a cephalopod. These cephalopods are the most highly organized of the mollusca. They breathe by gills and are ex- clusively marine. They have com- ot : fomp uit f Tou = |™®But I should worry about how |a good e for & man that got | & S¥ell game Charley after you have |paratively few representatives living ' Jo knock to: VLY WB LUANED OVER AND-WAS JUST GOIN VP THE BALL WHEN o BUCK | Thomas_teels ¢h "Charley. 1 got the|paisened by ketohup and o ‘says he | mestered tt. . |todsy, yet in the remote past they i 5 Aot Ty gy ft: @70 ’ : A ZLYD MET YOV 8 & 4" rwin. it falr and “square| would Pottls when .we got in| _ Your Bro. F.-A.-GROSS. |\ere abundant, the remains of more mcie striken than, mece YOU'MISS IT. 80 THAT PUTS MIM.ALL UPTN THE AIR-AND WS NIT THE BALL AND . IT WENT ABOUT |3 (00 T nobedy take hit Awas | the club Rouse, Bt n | e I pretty mear forgot to tell| tham seven thousand species having _Well we.finally got our ¥ % . from me. And the Mrs is tickled| So.I Xes you' cheap' skate.| you & good one-Charley. When I|been found. 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