The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-01-25


and so it turned loose and made things
lively. Two sleepers awoke-two scar
ed people jumped out of bed-but it
was Mr.. Bowser's voice that was heard
saying:
Now may l be turned INTO buckle
berry before | stand any more of this!
Woman, you must have given that
clocI, shaLe."
Il was sound asleep" protested Mrs:
Bgwser.
"--yG that old yailcr eyed cat Of
yo.r5 WAS purr.ng around here and
started it off 10 spite me, and III have
her llfo."
Better throw lie clock out eff the
window and wake yourself Up when
it's tine. II you keep the hour on your
mimi you'll wake up all right
Mr.. BoWscr walked out into the hall
and gave the clock heave into the
darkness downstairs. When it landed
It set up a new whjr ANA kept it going
for ten minutes, and when the strains
died away it was like the last sigh of
a lost soul. Sleep came again, but at
2 o'clock the sunrise man was out Of
bed to see what time it was; also at a
quarter to 3; also at a quarter past:
also at half past. At the latter hour
there were signs of daylight, and he
began to dress.
1t was his private opinion while
dressing that Green or any other man
who got up to take the sunrise cure
was an ass, but after getting down
stairs and outdoors and hearing the
rumble of the milk wagons he felt bet
ter about it. He sat on the front steps
until day had fully dawned and until
4 policeman had come along and asked
him if he had roasted there all night
and then he started for a walk in the
suburbs. Green didn't claim that the
sun had any better show out there, but
he wanted all there was in it. He
hadn't walked two blocks when an old
tramp with straw in his hair who had
turned out of some alley, came along
and halted to say:
Its what brought me where l am
today
what do you meanE
Turning out at this ungodly hour of
the morning to get a nip. Drop it, Old
man. Drop it or it will drop YOU"
At the next crossing a milkman tried
to run over him, and a policeman look
ed at him suspiciously and shook his
head, and when he had gone five blocks
he encountered three roisterers who
had been oUt on an all night lark ana
We're weaving along arm in arm and
singing ut the top of their voices.
"Shay, Old man-shay" they called
out in chorus.
well, what is it,"
LET 'er fcller have a closer look at
That rum blossom nose of yours, will
YOU? How long did it take you to bring
out zhe color?"
Mr.. BoWScr would have got away
without q row, but the trio grabbed
hold of him. and in the struggle all
went down together, and when he final
ly managed to pull loose his coat was
ripped up the back and his necktie
missing He at first headed for home.
but after going a few PAGES he made
up his mind to see it out. The sun
was rising blood red, and what he had
to say to Mrs BOwser would keep for
another hour.
In fifteen minutes he reached Il wide
eXpanse of commons. and there he
stood and sWelled out his chest and
breathed in the morning air and let the
bright orb Of day hit him between the
eyes. 1t was glorious. 1t was an elixir.
1t was worth a dollar a minute to his
health. He could feel the thrill of re-
turning health-he was feeling it
when two truck peddlers came along
on their way into town to whoop and
yell and shrek and wake everybody
up. When they had reached Mr.. Bow
ser they halted.
Same old coon that threatened to
break my jaw a month ago because l
hollered in front of his house." whis-
pered one
1.-The same Old crank that offered to
kick me out of his yard last Wednes-
day" added the other.
Lets 90 for him.
Then the sun-the rising sun-the
blood red sun-the health giving sun
the sun that Green had recommended
for laSSitude-witnessed another cpl
sode in the career of Bowser He
fought well aud gamely, but the hea-
then prevailed, and it was a bunged
up figure that Mrs. BOwser and the cat
welcomed at the gate.
What in heavens name has hap
pened"
"Woman'-
rs this the sunrise cure?"
woman, behold your work"
How my work."
Come inside the house l can only
stop a few minutes, but our respective
lawyers can afterward arrange all