Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-03-04

forgetfulness in the cafes. Before one
in particular the crowds were swarm
ing like flies over molasses. Within.
woman, she looked to be an Aneri-
can at that blonde and full figured.
singing an atrocious French song with
an even more atrocious Maine accent.
Between verses she mingled the cake
walk
Let's get out of this" said Larry.
John, look at the negro over there.
Did you ever see such a Colossus in
your Efe?''
More than the two newspaper men
were watching the negro in question.
He was nearly seven feet high, mag
niticent in his proportions, and dressed
IN immaculate white duck. His fea-
lures were typicalIy African, but ne
had the bearing of ancient kings and
high intelligence lurked in his eyes,
and was planted at the corners Of ais
mouth and in the lines along his nos
t1ils.
Standing in the corner close to the
, stage, he was regarding the pitiful
thing that gamboled there with the
same impressive pity that man
watches butcher kill a little squeal-
ing pig. The pig is not worth much in
the aesthetic scale as life goes, but
through him life may be sustained.
One pig more or less to feed the mass
es benefits the masses, and is very
good for the pig. 1t let's him out or
being pig, and provides for his trans
mogrif1cation into another shape.
AS the two Americans turned to look
at the negro he was leaving the cafe
All eyes turned from the dancer to his
coal-blacll pulchritude. The dancer.
noting this waver Of allegiance, iurch-
ed forward and kicked into the air
with deft aim. One gaudy red satin
slipper flew directly through the crowd
and grazed the giant on the back. fall
ing within foot or two of the two
Americans
That was a good shot" calculated
Johnny Larry Morris was watching
the muscles working in the Africans
face as he stopped to pick up the slip
per
Because I'm black" he heard the
man mutter, in pure English. Be
| cause I'm black"
Straight through the crowd strobe
the black man, and up to the stage,
"overturning half of the tables in his
way as he went. At the footlights ne
leaned over, held out the shoe and
| beckoned for the dancer to place her
| foot within it. But the women, with
| the whimsicality of her sex, turned her
head away and smote the African
| twice across the cheek.
The black man Strengthened himself
| up like a steel bar, unCurved In a
| white hot furnace. He took the shoe
and flung 1t at the dancer, lightly but
accurately. 1t struck her across her
| painted mouth, and the steel plate on
| the heel tore the gentle skin of her
| full lip. The blood streamed down in
tiny thread over her chin and drop
| per on her white shoulders
The habitues of the cafe could not
! endure this treatment of their favorite
PandemOniun was loOsed. Bottles
| lamps, glasses, even chairs, they hurl-
ed at the retreating figure Of the Afri-
| can He was cut and bruised in Z
dozen places and almost overcome, for
| the strength of Hercules could not
| have resisted such onslaughts. John
son and Morris had gone out of the
| UOOI WITCH Il1C AICL 'SoS"h1b N'''N " -
| turning down the street when the
| black burst out, winded, painting, and
| closely pursued.
| BY the curb stood an automobile
| a great red touring car; it belonged D
| Suiveler, the Associated Press man at
| Algiers. A weak, dissipated little fell
low, Suiveler was at that moment tie
foremost in consoling the dancer.
Larry Morris thought quickly. He
knew Suiveler WELL they had worked
together in the States, and the negro
interested him.
Crank her, Johnny" he cried, point
ing to the automobile, and while john
nv cranked the machine Morris hus-
tied the black within the car, threw
from his perch the daZed chauffeur and
in three minutes the black, Larry Nor
ris and Johnson, in Suiveler's car, were
headed for the desert with the mob
bowling hyena like behind them.
"All right, old fellow; Wen helD
you," Larry had whispered in the
blacks ear as he hurried him towards
the motor Larry had had to do it, for
downed az he was, the black instantly
made a motion of resistance towards
anything that smacked of captivity.
(To be continued.)