The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-02
THE BIOCRAPH
WAS LOADED.
How a Gallant Drummer Was
Brought Sharply to EOuk.
wife KNEW HIS PICTURE.
Nov Hs felIs Her No More Lies and Thsy
Arc as Happy as a Pair
Of Dovss
WIFE KNEW HIS PICTURE,


etograph. or whatever you call The
blamed thing remarked the Chicago
drummer for wind mills rs really one
of the greatest inventions OF this age OF
Invention, and as means OF making
interesting historical records Il Is with
out rival; II also makes other kinds OF
records, and | may add. ais pertinent TO
my stoSy, that II is sometimes loaded.
How do know? Because | have been
up before II when Il went or and II didn't
miss me n little bit.
Mon don't interrupt me and IN tsli
you just how II happened l guess I'm
not much different from the rest OF ths
chaps on the road who have wives at
home.and in most OF the towns I visit
have some very pleasant acquaint-
ances to whom I pay a few scattered at
tentions now and then.
'of course ] would just as soon my
vile knew about II az not but she IL
Jealous little body. so I don't say any
thing TO her, except 10 tell her how
dreadfully lonesome | get when far from
home among strangers who don't care
whether live or die.
You zee 1t makes her mind easy ana
a lie more or less doesn't make any great
difference; we've all so, plenty TO
spare.
HIS WIFE SAW PICTURE.
'Wel. one day in September last
struck town in indiana where there
was big celebration going on. and when
round that my customers were too
busy with Il 10 talk 10 me about buying
goods, Knocked Off work and went to call
on you1g woman or my acquaintance
ana get her to go out and see the show.
IL was of sufficient Importance to de-
mand che attention of the biograph peo-
Pic Ind they had couple Of cameras
on the street catching moving pictures.
My companion and I. in the course
OF our rambles, walked right UP to the
mouth OF one OF the machines and we
thought IL a huge joke.
II never gave IL another thought, and
IL had passed clear out of my mind until
one night I'm November when l was at
home for three or four days TO vote. My
wife and thought IL would be nice TO go
10 continuous performance show, a
feature of which was a biograph with
all the latest pictures of interest so the
bills said
what they were represented. and my
wife was enjoying them hugely. and /
was pleased because she was.
Il wasn't paying much attention, and
really didn't notice what the man said
who was introducing the pictures. when
all at once my wife. gave me a sudden
jerk OF the arm
What is 1t. my dear?' said l kind of
waking up.
Look at that said she nodding to-
ward the picture then before us.
What is IL all about?' said l. noticing
that IL was a scene OF a great crowd on
street somewhere.
Why she said, jerking at me as IL /
was fish she had caught, there's you
in the crowd and there's woman with
you. Oh. John and she sobbed like
Then l began TO take notice. and by
this time, too the picture was moving
down the street, apparently coming right
straight out into the audience: you know
how they look In a biograph, and, by the
jumping Jehosaphat, there I was In that
Indiana town with the woman hanging
on my arm, laughing and talking. and
pushed every which way by the other
people. and having fun, .and my wife star
ing right at us and clutching my arm
like a policeman making an arrest.
AT first we were quite way back
In the crowd, and there might have been
chance i'm a hundred that / could have
denied my identity, but with every turn
of the machine We kept coming closer,
and when / made weak attempt TO
laugh IL off as remarkable resemblance
my wife gave another clutch at me.
laN s..H-
There's that T. p A. badge In your but
tonhole.'
HE DOES NOT LIE NOW.
"It was there all right. and it was 7.
all right. but any jury in the world would
have acquitted me on a failure to prove
identity IL Il could have compared that
laughing face I had on IN that picture
and the one | had on out there I'm the
audience with my wife looking at it.
"As we kept coming closer and getting
larger on the screen. TIL thought we
were a pair or giants. I believe my wife
would have had Mysteries but just be-
fore the tragedy occurred the end OF tho
nlm was reached and the picture sudden
ly disappeared I'm the darkness.
THAT ended the show as far as we were
concerned. because my wife insisted on
my explaining myself. and | couldn't do
n at the show. so we got out on the street
where ! could get chnncc 10 breathe,
being by this time almost IN u state OF
suffocation.
"Of course 7 could explain all right
about the picture. but ! couldn't about
the lies I had been telling her for Eve
or six years. though she was little
easier on me when told her had done
it for her peace of mind.
"She didn't think two wrongs made
~ aalI hut fs1 xff hnr
and backed my arpuraent< hy pretty
diamond ring she had been wanting for
a long time. and now we are on good
terms again. and she goes 10 every bio
graph chow that comes along and | don't
tell her any more lies"