Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17
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The two khort, Etocky men in the fappy
bathing suits seemed to become involved
in a sudden alteration. They both jumped
up from the sand and began to talk loudly
and menacingiy I'd each other. A large
crowd of bathers- Immediately collected
around them and cheered them on.
The pair of short, stocky men shook
their fists in each others faces and &C
cused eachY other d all sorts of things. and
then their rage appeared to become so
great that they abandoned words and re-
sorted to. action.
The smaller NAH of the two deposited
terrific kick on the protuberant stomach
of the other, and followed this up with an
open hand smack on the top Of the larger
mans bald head that could be heard above
the roar Of the surge.
Wow! but the little fellers eating him
up!' yelled the crowd of bathers, delight
edly
However, the large man quickly re-
covered from his obvious establishment,
and went at his antagonist. He took him
by the shoulders and spun him around like
a top, and every time the smaller man
faced him he slapped him on the jaw with
mis- open hand in a cruel way. He followed
this up by deliberately kicking the smaller
pathlng sandals, until it seemed as If the
Sims would be denied up like an aban-
doned wash boiler.
XIII him. babel" shrieked the mob of
bathers, crowding around the two short,
stocky men in the f1appy bathing suits and
apparently enjoying the scrap hugely.
Inc smaller man of the two rubbed him.
self quite lot after the onslaught Of his
antagonist. but then he appeared to get
his second wind and he went at the larger
man with fierce energy. He punched him
with what looked to be all his might right
on the point of the jaw with both hands.
Ihen ne reached out suddenly and got the
larger mans head under his left arm.
Then, with his right thumb he proceeded
70 press the larger mans nose so hard that
II rocked like mere squash. After that
ne beited the larger man square in the
mouth with his closed fist and then re-
teased MIN and jumped back. still talking
fiercely, as was the other one
Inc larger man then took another inning.
he got grapevine clutch on the smaller
man and threw him upon the sand. Then
he kneeled upon his chest, stiffened the
fore and middle fingers Of his right hand.
and deliberately began to gouge the eyes of
MS PROSTATE victim with those stfffened
fingers. 1t was a hard, cruel sight. and
the crowd began to murmur. However, the
man on top didn't pay any attention to
their murmurings He jumped up. and
then he placed both Of his sandaled feet
square upon. the smaller mans face and
began to gouge his victims countenance
with his sandal heels. Then he gave two
nigh leaps in the air and came down with
apparently all his might on his PROSTATE
victims stomach
At this point the crowd surrounding the
two began to bawI:
Hey, cut that outi Pass it up! YOU'RE
killing the geezer!''
However, the smaller man quickly jumped
TO MS feet, and took hold of the larger
man hand, and they faced the crowd
Gentlemen" said the larger man of the
two, its all right. Don't you bother.
We're just practicing. We're the two Mac
Cacks, the great team Of knockabout ar
lists, and were playing this week at the
Ieeny WeeRy Casino. down the plank pa
rade. It's a hot show, and it only costs
two bits. doors ropen at and 8 pm.
Come one, came all.''
Then the celebrated pair of knockab bout
comedians placed their hands upon their
bosems made deep bows and strolled
arm-in-arm from the beach.
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"1iTinle Systems of the World.
From the Literary Digest. 80 ~ ,
, In Germany what is called central FIJI
ropean timeihas been adopted since April
1. 1893 and'tt is also in use In Austria
Hungary, Bosnia, Servia, Italy, switzer-
land, Denmark. Sweden and Norway.
Western European. time is used In Eng
land. Holland. Belgium. Luxembourg and
Spain. France alone remains obstinate and
has kept Parts time. which is, standard
also In. Algeria. and >Tunis Italy has off,
cally adopted the division of the day into
twenty-four hours, numbered one to
twenty-four, beginning at midnight This
same method has been used in Belgium
since May /, 1897, for post offices. tele-
graphs railways and shipping Bulgaria,
ROumania and European Turkey have ca St
ern European time, while Russia has kept
st. Petersburg time, which Is two hours.
one minute and thirteen seconds ahead of
that Of Greenwich. North Amertca and
Canada have four time-zones for railway
time: Eastern Give hours behind Green
wich), central (six hours, mountain Cseyen
hours) and Pacific eight hours) In Cam
ada these standards are official and the
hours are numbered from one to twenty
four. 1t Is the same for the English West
Indies. In Cape Colony the standard time
for railways and teiegraphs is one hour
and a half ahead of Greenwich time In
Japan the official time is exactly nine
hours ahead of Greenwich time, In Aus
tralia the standard times are: Western
Australia teight hours ahead of Gresu-
wich), south Australia (nine hours). Vic
toria. Queensland and Tasmania (ten
hours). For New Zealand the time ia
eleven and half hours ahead Of Green
witch.