The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-08-12

OF the tnlnK anu NiW h'hff ~ lN7''tS ~
small attachment down 80 that 10 rubbed
on the front wheel, the mechanism OF the
phonograph was made 20 revolye, and 10
shouted out whatever was in it until the
clamp was released Barker said he had
talked into IL half day, and IL was evil
IDENTIFY well supplied with a vocabulary
BY the time We got TO the clul)-for we
belong To "A club. both Of us-Barlor was
I'm "A state of hilarious delight and hall Of
the dog. children and old ladies' in town
were on the verge OF frenzy or course all
the other fellows i'm the club had 10 learn
all about IT, aud Barker pushed has ma
chine around on the sidewalk and made
the phonograph curse them and all their
relatives to the tenth generation, which
seemed TO afford them the most unbounded
pleasure.
AS a fitting conclusion 10 the evenings
entertainments we all went up stairs, and
1 regret 10 say that Barker, after placing
the monograph carefully on table beside
him, got as drunk as lord and talked and
sang and shouted in IA very scandalous and
disgraceful way.
After IL was all over / took him home
and put him 10 bed, and while doing TINS
he informed me i'm "a maudlin and discon-
nected way that he was going out riding
the next evening with the two Cutter girls,
daughters of old man Coupon Cutter one
of the directors i'm the bank, and he wished
would happen To drop around ana ride
with the big one, so he could talk to the
little one He said that | was his only
friend, and that he loved the little one.
He did not love her in an ordinary way,
either, but in way in which no one over
had loved before.
Now like Barker, and he is a friend OF
| mine, and as a matter of course IL was only
| common charity To help him out in case
| like that So | gave him lot of good ad-
| vice about how To doctor his head In the
| morning, which he received with very
bad grace, and promised 10 be I'm the neigh
borhood of old Cutters the next evening
| without fail.
| Twas a little late getting off, and had
hardly got within sight of the house ON
| the following night when l met the two
girls and Barker coming toward me, He
seemed to be in high spirits and was par
ticularly jolly when they met me. l want
ed to ask him about the monograph, but
hesitated to do so. He Immediately men
toned the matter himself, however and
explained that the youngest Miss Cutter
was infatuated with the thing and had in
sisted on having it put on her bicycle, ano
that they all were anxiously waiting fOi
something To get in the way so they could
| give il "a trial. l afterward discovered that
Barker had represented to them that tho
whole thing was his own idea, and they
had declared that he was wonderfully in
genious.
We had gone about three blocks, Barker
and "the little one being in front anc
| the elder Miss Cutter and myself in The
| rear when "A man tried To cross the street N
| front of us
"Hooray Gimme another drink" sait
| the phonograph i'm IA CHASTITY counterfeit o
Bankers voice
The man gazed at us in astonishmen
| and fell into the gutter, Bankers machin
wabbled violently, and / could see that hi
nerve had crumbled, while l felt shive
along my own spine as i took in the situa
ton.
"Her golden hair was hanging down he
-h-h -hic--back!' sang the wretched III
: strument in Bankers well known treble
Evidently 1.-THE little one couldn't loose
the clamp.
Drops of sweat stood on Bankers brow
and he tried to turn it off as joke.
Funny, amt it" said he. Never ca
tell what it will say. !"
You're a liarp' screamed the phone
graph Come long now and pass I'll
whisk.
: Icould see "the little one" turn pail
! and the elder Miss Cutter was looking dag
gers ut Barker.
Q IRA la In, ira In la, WOW, WOW, WOW
whoopeep said the monograph.
"Shay," it continued in coniidenti'
whisper, "I'm struck on thc-hic-prett
l est-hic-grl'-
"Takc it OFF, growlcd Barker, maxim
y a lunge at the instrument, but his equiliI
i rum was gone, and he fell into an ign
{ minious heap on the pavement.
"Hol hol you're drunk shriekcd q
n machine derisivcly as we started on an
z left him.
"Mr. Perkins, - said the elder Miss Gu
ter, dismounting and pointing imperious
i'm the direction of her sisters wheel, "tal
, that thing off,
n | obeyed her with the utmost alacrit
/ and east it at the dark spotw its owl
or was rcposing
o "Now." said the elder Miss Cutie
y take us home, sir
d And SO did, and when old man Cutt
20 looked at me in an inquiring way over q
1t top of his glasses felt as guilty rs ma
who had robbed bank and struggled q
janitor
st They didn't ask me to come in, and so
went off to hunt up Barker. found III
d sitting on the curbstonc pounding ut som
4 thing with brick.
whats that" said l.
rs 81 never saw u man who could ask
a many foolish questions said he sulkil
n and then he climbed up on his bicycle al
e rode away, and now understand that
board of directors have become economic
IN and cut down his salary. New Orloa
e | Times Democrat