Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-15

forgetfulness in the cafes Before one
In particular the crowds were swarm
ing like flies over molasses. Within.
a woman, she looked to be an Ameri-
can at that. blonde ana 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 iife?"
More than the two newspaper men
were watching the negro in question.
He was nearly seven feet high, mag
nificent in his proportions, and dressed
in Immaculate white duck. His fea-
lures were typically 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 a butcher kill little squeal-
MS Pi6s lDt piS 10 AiOb WI I'll ihuSh IA
the aesthetic scale az 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 Tets him out of
being a pig. and provides for his trans
mogrification 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 black pulchritude. The dancer.
noting this waver of allegiance, lurch-
ed forward and kicked into the air
with def aim. One gaudy red satin
slipper flew directly through the crowd
and grazed the giant on the back. fall
ing within a 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
txrhf No toni the shoe
and flung it 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
a tiny thread over her chin and drop
per on her white shoulders.
The habitues of the cafe could not
endure this treatm of their favorite.
Pandemonium was loosed. Bottles,
lamps, glasses, even chairs, they hurl-
| ed at the retreating figure of the Afri-
can. He was cut and bruised in a
dozen places and almost overcome, for
the strength of a Hercules could not
have resisted such onslaughts. john
son and Morris had gone out of the
| door when the riot began, and were
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 :,
Suiveler, the Associated Press man al
| Algiers A weak, dissipated little fell
low, Suiveler was at that moment the
foremost in consoling the dancer.
Larry Morris thought quickly. He
knew Suiveler WE'LL 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
ny cranked the machine Morris hus-
tied the black within the ear, threw
from his perch the dazed chauffeur anc
in three minutes the black, Larry Nor.
ris and Johnson, in .Suiveler's car, were
headed for the desert with the mol
bowling hyena-liIe behind them.
"All right, old fellow. Wen hell
YOU" Larry had whispered in thu
blacks ear as he hurried him towards
the motor. Larry had had to do it, foi
downed as he was, the black Instant!
made a motion of resistance towards
anything that smacked of captivity.
Ito be continued.)