The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-30

his silverheaded cane after he had broken a chunk of it off on Manx's head. We finally patched things up, but something like that happens every day"
 Dan Beard can't figure out how Manx got statted on his bellicose ca reer. It was three years ago last sum- mer that MT. Beard first saw Manx and fell in love with him. The artist was walking along by Flushing Park late at night and there under the trees was an old man in ragged clothes who looked as if he hadn't had square meal for days. IA white bull terrier sat by him and acted just as if he wanted to say to Dan Beard, T just dare you to lay hand on my masteri"
 MT. Beard woke the old fellow up and found out that he was Bill Cook, who once upon time had good cir GUS of his own, but who met hard luck and lost everything he had except his wife and Manx. He needed money so badly that he consented to sell the white bull terrier, and after he kissed Manx good-by and told him to follow Mir. Beard, he took the money and sent all of it but one dollar to his wife. No- body knows what's become of old Bill Cook, He's just dropped out of sight.
 Dan Boards little daughter, Bar bara, was two years old when Manx took possession of the family, and the white terrier kept dogs away from Bar bara's perambulator until she was old enough to push the new baby, Daniel Bartlett, in his go-cart. Then Manx trotted along, guarding Daniel Bart lett and Barbara and ready to scrap if any dog came shifting and snooping along. Anyway that's MT. Boards ex- planation of the thing, but they insist over in Flushing that Manx has 1t in only for Independence League dogs.
 The fuss started about three weeks ago when Lillian Lorraine, who is an artist or an actress or something like that, took her French poodle, Mulber- ry, out walking, Lillian Lorraine's father is red-hot Independence Leaguer, and naturally Manx, who was taking the air near the Pie Wagon in Main street, sailed into Mulberry and chewed at him for six blocks Lillian cried and her papa threatened to shoot Manx, and there was the dickens to pay.
 Next thing, Jimmy Renwick, also an Independence League stalwart, met his two dogs, Bill the bull, and Snappy the terrier, beating it home on five legs and only one ear between them, and it made Jimmy sore, He broke his cane over Manx and wanted to wallop Manx's owner, but they fixed 1t up over at the Curio.
 A day or two afterward Manx got peevish over some sRtrgy cracks that the Swensons' St. Bernard, Dan, made Pie Wagon, and Manx had to be pried off the St. Bernard by the whole Swen- son family. Of course a coolness arose bety, cen the Boards and the Swensons, and maybe few votes went wrong right there. A M. Ryon, the coal mer- chant, had a pretty classy beagle un- til Manx took a dislike to the beagle's architecture and proceeded to remodel 1t. More trouble. Bill Hicks screw tail Boston terrier was the next victim Bill, being a barkeep, controls some votes. Deeper woe, August schmitz, the butcher, is the hottest kind of a Hearstite and Leaguer, but when Fritz, his big yellow hound that travels the route with the delivery boy, came limping into the shop looking like a hamburg steak spilled over a yellow tablecloth August Schmitz went right straight to Johnny Hogan, the Demo- cratic candidate for alderman, and said that Johnny could have his vote, after all.
 This just shows you what kind of a game Dan Beard is up against, and the worst of 1t is he thinks too much of Manx to give him away or sell him. Besides, Miss Barbara is a pretty irn- and she has said she would never cross her -heart-and-die, speak to hen father if he ever turned Manx out in- to the cold world.
 The only thing left for Mir. Beard to
 
 do Is to start on the stump this week and tell the voters just what the facts are. He believes it will have some effect on the situation if he can show that Manx's bitterness is not confined ex- clusively to Independence League dogs but that, with sufficient provocation, Manx stands ready at any time to go in for a finish fight with any of the old line party dogs. MT Boards idea is that you can start on a solid bed of
 facts and then exaggerate all you darn
 please. It Is quite likely that he will do be heard in the Town Hall on Main street beforeiSaturday night,
 The reporter was anxious to get more facts from MT. Beard, but while they were talking in the barn there was q noise out in the street just like
 big phonograph makes when it gets
 cramp in it's record and MT. Beard,
 with Good Lord! He's at it again." sprinted for the front of the house.
 Manx was taking little exercise with
 a stranger dog, which appeared to be- long to no recognized political faction,
 and the outlander was all in when MT. Beard grabbed his terrier.-New York