Arizona republican., 1903-08-26

a rCtund, smooth-faced, fiashily dress ed man, cleverly stimulating the posses sicn of a good-natured jag, lurched to his feet from his seat by the rail over looking the floor.
 "Aw, let's stop pikin'," he believed, and then he began to toss five-dollar gold pieces to the slippery floor.
 The grand march faded like a sea ward blown mist, the cakewaikers pill ing themselves in squirming and wrig- gling heaps to get at the coins. The crowd applauded wildly.
 Hes a dead game Prince Charlie, all right" they said, admiringly, of the fat man with the phony jag, who was toss ing the gold to the cakewalkers.
 But they did not see him, immediate ly after the cakewalk, in his capacity gathering up those gold pieces from the reluctant cakewalkers who had grah- bed them from the floor.
 They spring some queer advertising novelties down here. The sea was very calm at the bathing hour the other morning. Toward Il o'clock. when the beach was clustered with thousands of bathers, a row-boat of the outrigger pattern rounded the end Of enc of the long piers
 The young man at the oars pulled the boat in the direction of the beach. Two young women, both of them pretty in their white dresses, sat under a para sol in the stern sheets of the boat. Suddenly, when the boat was about a hundred yards from the beach, the young man let go of the oars. stood up and began to rock the boat. The white clad girls under the parasol in the stern sheets shrieked. The thousands of bathers began to yell eXcitedly.
 Look at the internal rock-the- boat idiot" was the cry all up and down the beach.
 "Cut that out, you pinhead." thou sand men on the sands beloved at the young man who was rocking the boat
 He paid no attention whatever to the shouts from the shore, but went right on rocking the boat, the girls in the stern-sheets continuing to shriek.
 The inevitable happened, of course The boat was capsized and the young man and the two girls were thrown into the water. The bathers were in fren- Zy, and the air was pierced with the hoarse cries of men and the screams of women.
 But before the coast guards had time even to chamber into their boat the rowboat of the outrigger pattern had righted itself, apparently without ship ping any water at all, and the young man and the two girls nimbly climbed back into the boat. The girls resumed their seats on the stern sheets and raised the soaked parasol, and the young man picked up the oars, which were still in position. notwithstanding the overturning of the boat, and hastily pulled ashore.
 He ran the boat up on the beach stepped out on the sand, pulled off his cap, and made d bow.
 Ladies and gentlemen" he began ir neat and practiced way, II am talk | ing this method Of introducing Soak ems unsuitable skiff-' and then he proceeded to descant eloquently upor the merits of the boat
 The tall, lanky, but agile-looking mal in a green sweater, pair of athletes gray trousers and canvas shoes was | leaning against stanchion out at end of one ot the long piers at the piers crowded hour the other forenoon wher ha suddenly stiffened and gave a gasp Everybody on the pier twisted around 1 to look at him. He was gazing eXclt- edly over the pier railing. | "Merciful heavens." he exclaimed ina hoarse, smothered sort Of way, and then he jumped up on the rail, brought his palms together over his head anG made a superb dive out into the pillows about twenty-five feet below the rail- ing He came up after few seconds an dthen swam with splendid strokes under the pier
 The people out at end of the piel were in q panic. They let out all sort: of cries.
 Man in swimmings got cramp!' | Kid fell over the railing!" Girl drowning under the pier.'
 Boy fishing fell into the water."
 They almost fought for positions al the railing to peer down below. Presently the man In the greer sweater was seen swimming from un- der the pier by the excited throng al the railing. There was a contenteC grin of accomplishment on his wet feat ures. He was dragging after hin | through the water a huge black in- | Hated rubber ball, about three feet 1T diameter-it had been fastened under meath the pier until the hour had ar- rived-around which was painted in big i white letters:
 Bumpers High Ball.''-Atlantic City special in New York Sun.