People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-30

victim and hurled him at the group;
it was a ten strike, and we hurried
from the scene, reaching my lodgings
without attracting further attention.
/ atOnee proceeded to put Polycrates
into more conventional raiment, not
without many objections from him,
however, to the number of pieces and
variety of shape.
1t made me feel creepy when I
touched his hand or arm, and | asked
if he wouldn't soften somewhat with
time.
No" he answered.; 81 remain as l
am during one journey of the earth
around the sun, when once more be-
come lifeless marble"
well" said |, "the first thing to be
done is to get away from this town,
and the next, to get out of the coun-
try, for when the police get hold of
this drnkey-driver's story, jail will be
too good for us"
Police? What is police?" he queried.
/ explained the use and beauty Of
police in general, and the New Haven
force in particular, but my description
did not alarm him, for he said: Let
them find US and we will serve them
as we did those wretches but now"
He was talking like freshman, as
yet unacquainted with our guardians
of the peace, while his ideas were al
together too sanguinary for modern
civilization.
Hastily packing, we made our way
under cover of darkness to PirRus
where we were fortunate in finding
steamer ready to sail early in the
forenoon and before sunset we had
left Mount Athos low on the horizon
and breathed naturally once more.
To keep Polycrates' marbelized con-
dition a secret was most difficult.
People would come close to him, and
it was only by constantly interposing
myself that encounters which might
have raised question were avoided.
One Englishman, indeed, did run
against Poly's shoulder in passing.
Rather solid shoulder, that" he said;
..falt hard as marble"
Not marble, SIR" l answered,
hastily, plaster Of paris-met with
an accident; doctor did him up in
plaster"
occupied the balance of the voy-
age posting Polycrates upon nine
teenth century matters He grasped
new ideas fairly well; but his ques-
tons were annoying at times, when
he touched on our great system of
government. He was misled by his
untutored. 300 Il. c. mind into believ-
ing our officials represented their con-
stituents, and consequently thought
constituents must be a horde of
thieves. made it clear to him at last
that our satisfaction was derived from
being robbed by those of our own
political faith; when the other fellows
robbed us they were rascals.
We reached New York by the latter
part of September, and at once had
Polycrates entered as a special stud
ent. had posted him upon how to
cut lectures, and knew l could GET
him through his FIRST term
The football team began practice as
soon as the fall term commenced, and
| Poly was an interested spectator. He
did not at first see all the beauties of
the game. and thought we could scrap
just as well without the bali as with
it, why we did not kick the ball also
puzzled him, until explained that il
was more to the point to disable the
man. When the play finally became
clear to him, l gave him some practice
one afternoon, and his JOY was com
plete; l coached him carefully, and
by Thanksgiving day, | was satisfied
that Harvard was ours.
The great day came at last, ant
with it 4 crowd which filled the
grounds to overlooking. When we ap
peared yell Of delight went up from
the blue side, but changed at once int
a roar of rage: Look at him! Look
he's smoking"
turned and saw Polycrates pulling
calmly on a big cigar and smiling
cheerfully at the crowd. ! made hin
throw it away, and the roar subsidet
into a murmur when the play began
His instructions were to go aheat
three PAGES, and when jumped ON t,
fall and stay there until told him Il
get up He did this most religioxsly
ana the half closed with a score o
twelve to nothing against us. BY fol
lowing my instructions, Poly had ap
peared as thorough duffer as eve
put on a canvas jacket, and only m
absolute refusal to go without hin
kept him in place for the second hal!
Play commenced and we had tn
ball.
Poly" I said, "we must reach thei
7 ten yard line, understand"
He smiled assent, and. with a rush
we started. The rest of the wedg
was torn away, but Poly, with me
hanging on him like buttons, 20
there. We lined up again, and bac
of the goal he lay down on the bal
i kicked a goal, and the blues yelle
themselves hoarse.
Harvard took the ball, but soon los
! it. l called on Poly, and he repeate
l the performance-another goal, an
the score was tied. The former curse
of the blues were turned into yells c