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him to do. Y see. having determined
10 tell her the truth. he hadn't thought
plunge in and go through with IL.
Were you worried. little wan?" he
said to her, cajolefully. Well, I'm
sorry. 1T was kind a. onnery OF me to
stay out 50 late. but | got sewed up
with a gang of Injuns."
Then he paused.
Well" she said to him again, with
sort Of barking effect that reminded
him Of what he'd read of walruses and
things The well" meant: Tell me
where you've been and what you've
been doing, YOU misfit in the makeup
Of mankind"
ooh, YOU mean where have i been?"
said Fizzgigg, a little gulpily. for his
truth-tellinS scheme didn't look any
too good 10 him by this time. We'll.
I'll tell you. doll: I've been out with
the boys, that's the truth. Just been
frivoling around with the gang, that's
all. Didn't intend 10 stay out so late,
Of course. but somehow 1 COULDN'T
break away. Reason L didn't get home
for dinner was that / met Jim Hotclip
and Eli Stepalong when ! left the office,
and l had couple OF ScuttleS OF malt
with them. and then they roped me
into Il game Of pin-poo for the drinks.
We played for couple OF hours, and
then ii was too late TO come for din
ner. and Jim luoSened up for sea food
dinner what was wanted 10 bust away
right after the feed and come home To
my toodIeumS but nix: the boys
wouldn't see il. They toted me off To
4 show. I spose j ought TO say that
the stag show was tiivver and that |
didn't enjoy il at all and that I'd "A
thousand times rather have been home,
but. really. il was a whoppinG good
show and 1 enjoyed IL keenly, even il
il vas rather foolish and leggy be-
sides.
Well" FizzgiGg went on recklessly.
then. after the show, Jim and I'D
and breeZed over To Garyey's
and eased line Of deviled crabs
with dampsky trimmings into our
respective diaphragms, and the crabs
were great believe meh-hot and
peppery. you know.
Well" FiZzgigg ambled on fatuously.
every word he said being the solemn
truth and nothing but, by this time
/ made up my mind that i might as
well be hung for lamb with mint sauce
as for an angora, and SO. when Jim
suggested that We all kick into a little
four-bit limit poker game that lie knew
about why there was |. little sunlocks,
brutally willing TO take chance with
my little twelve seeds, and SO | went
along with 'em and copied fourteen
bucks Just as easy nibbling ice
cream out OF a cone. We played till l
O'Clock. and then l broke away and did
my Dorando home. Sorry to've kept
you awake waiting for me. pansy-eyes,
but
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Did it get by?

Foolish question up in the octillions!
II never had a Bitl-Daly' s-horse chance
TO get by from the instant the first word
was uttered. For. as you have previously
been informed. Fizzsigg's story was the
truth. and the Simon-pure domestic truth
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morning He felt pretty hangdog about
II. lie hadn't done anything particularly
wrong. but. having accustomed the spouse
OF his bosom 10 expect him 10 hang
around a, home all the time that he
wasn't working he felt At a loss just
how 10 explain 70 her his being-out-ness
until 50 frIghtful an hour as half-past
one o'clock on this morning.
And 50 he determined TO tell her the
truth about IL
The ou-the-level gag i the best. after
all thought Fizzgigg a. he blinked
sleepily in the homeward-b bound car. mo
use irving to stake '.m To a lot If
IaIlad-and- waltz stun. Fellow cant get
10y with that brand Of goods. AMI, be-
si.lss IL isn't the square thing. They ire
entitled 10 the real dope about where Il
f"llaa been AMI what he's been doing.
tic poor little things. They can't help
their curiosity. 50 M Tor the square httIe
Go-and-up story about what kept M oIt
tail this hour. Shell like her little Brigh;
EJes all the better for uncpiling iii.
truth and nothing whatever hut
The light shone ominouslv ia the sec-
onG-story front bedroom as he approached
Ais home. AMI Fizzgigg felt another little
tSiDge ~ guilt over having worried her
10 such an extent as 10 compel her u
wait u for him or at least 10 keep the
light burning IN their room when sh.
should have been getting her sleep.
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r all the water
melons brought in
to Washington last
week had legs on
their portly stom-
achs and. mar
shaded in front of
the Peace Monu-
ment by some fat
chief Of a. melon,
should march In
their striped green
uniforms UP Penn
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Rut. as usual, l was wrong-wrong, that
Is in supposing a mere hallucination could
work out with such intense realism.
found that on the hottest days the water
really IS the coolest, and t'other way
around.
4 Young beach guard-Carl Clement BY
name-put me right about the matter
after my years of futile queries on the
subject. And the answer is easy enough
after YOU know 1t. The hottest days IN
Atlantic City are caused by what r.
known as the land breeZe-the breeze that
sweeps like a furnace breath out of the
west or northwest over the parched coun-
try and blowing straight toward the sea.
This land breeze makes the resort almost
insupportably hot, and If IL blew often,
which il happily does not. Atlantic City
never would do for a summer resort. But
the land breeze has still more striking
eject IN its influence upon the tempera-
tnra of the water. That is to say it blows
away from the oceans verge the dell
ciously warm, comfy surface water, and
gives the ice-cold underneath water of the
sea its chance to emerge to the top for
the discontinue of the Dathers. AS long
as the land breeze blows the lower stra-
t,,m of cold sea water bubbles to the sur
face and losses itself in breakers on the
heach even on days when walking on the
Roa I'd walk is like toeing a crack right in
the middle of the equator.
Per contra, when the breeze is on shore,
from the east or south, the force OF Ii
Leens the warm surface water Shaping
on the beach. The on-shore breeze near
" always is a delightfully."- cool breeze,
hut n doesn't in the least affect the tenn
perature of the seas warmish surface
water. and when you go in sea bathing
shore breeze blowing, you find the water
az the sea many degrees warmer than the
temnerature of the air. When you come
out of the water for while on such
Jay Won ind your teeth chattering very
soon after emerging, and you are glad to
get hack into the breakers for the actual
warmth OF the water
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Eylvania avenue they would make pro-
cession that would weary the bystanders
on the curb and drive home even the
folks in the grandstand. for II would be
just fifteen miles long,
Fifteen miles OF solid watermelon.
That's what Washington ate last week
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She had the pillows banked up under
her head when he tippytoed apologet-
!cSlly into the room. Her hair wa
done up tightly in kids, and there was
a hard. manganese compression about
her lips. Her eyes were Of blush steel.
with the bronze glints OF wrath show
ing In them under the slanting rays OF
the gas
Hay-o. heart Of gold, said Fizzgigg,
with a hollow attempt at the light
bunkerino. as he walked over TO the
bedside with the intent TO imprint the
customary salute on her cold-creamed
lips. little bittie wild bird pining for
!ts mate?"
she pushed him away. gave she top
pillow a whack. tmpaled him on the
yickets Of her eyes and said in q horse
lair seal-like tone:
"Wsu.'
JusI that. and nix any more.
FiZgigg faltered mentally a little
over his truth telling determination. 1t
looked q fooIhardy project.
However, there was nothing else for
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n u 3 uSl 80 LCAO W
NE becomes I'M
cannily weather
wise w h e n he
lives close to the
sea all the year
round. / fnd. for
example. that ! al
most know the d.
rections OF the
compass h e r e.
Come to think OF
it. though. that
isn't e X a c I
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% dzA1Z BOYS DELIGHT

ony OF their own when in town. Each
boat is the home OF the crew. which
numbers from three to five. and lying
anchored around the wharf they disport
themselves in leisure hours In O manner
that asks no favors or uptown Washing
ton. Each boat hangs out all its lar
terms at night, supplemented by torch.s
to lyen the scene. Musical instruments
are brought forth. banioes. accordeons
and mouth organs. Back and forth they
visit. here and there indulafng In an I'm
promptu dance: serving up an impro-
vised supper for sudden guests and al
together rivaling In genuine fun the New
port meet OF the New York Yacht Club.
Here and there In some cozy cabin the
sager members Of the guild will decide
the political fate OF the country. or per
haps oftener bring forth a greasy deck
and show their skill at turning jack In
seyen-up.
-
1t Is a strange fact that but few OF
these men ever spend their leisure time
away from the boats II have been COM
ing into Washington with watermeions
for a dozen summers said one veteran
from the Nanticoke district. land I've
never yet been the other side CT Penn
sylvania avenue. Some summers I've
never even been Off the wharf here"
They are generous with their wares.
these hardworking watermelon fellows.
get a good square bait of prime water
melon will take the trouble to 60 down
TO the 18th street wharf and scrape &c
quafntancea with any OF the shippers he
can get the biggest. juiciest melon OF his
choice merely for the asking.
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Y his way home,
pretty late for him,
Fizzgigg decided
that he would tell
her the truth about
IL.
Ii was a rare
thing for Fizzgigg.
a stick -around-the-
house man. TO find
himself mooching
homeward at half
past one in the
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YOU'LL never get an Atlantic Cityite
to acknowledge that the sea does
any encroaching down this way. At
lantic Cityites may be open to conviction
that the sea engages I'm the encroaching
business eIsewhere-up around Coney
Island. say-but around Atlantic City
newer, The sea minds its business
down here IT'S a decent, modest, well
behaved sea i'm this neighborhood.
Now. to the eye-perhaps 10 the mis-
taken eye, but nevertheless the eye-of
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weather-wiSdom, is IL. but, -
matter, there are times, really, When
nearly know from which direction OF tne
compass the wind is blowing one leeis
quite set up over the possession OF su.i'
profound, abstruse knowledge as al Inns
comes TO. One talks learnedly ana saseS
to visitors about the wind being Out
tn sou'west, or the prevalence or ors
nor'easter, and the on-shore breeze anu
all that stuff, and then one involuntariis
catches himself making the preliminary
moves toward taking deep-sea ola SAT-
hitch at his trousers, and shivering his
timbers, and piping down the ridge rope
and manning the cathead, and splicing
.ha ynizzen rail and all that Capt. Marry
att kind Of thing.
Recently. though. l came into posses
sion OF q bit Of information for Wncn
had been vainly cropping for many years
without ever having been able to ma
ANYBODY who could Or would give me
satisfactory reply to ny wistful question
ings.
ALWAYS IL had puzzled me as to why on
the hottest days in Atlantic City the ocean
water Is found by bathers 10 be ice-coia
so cold as 10 make sea bathing not only
cheerless. but positively misery-where-
rs on the days Of quite moderate tempera,
t,,ra or even on days when the air had
an actual suggestion Of autumnal chill.
.he sea water feels positively tepid to the
skin. 1 had been imagining that this idea
was more or less hallucinatory or lllu-
sorry. that IL merely sifted down 10 mat
tor OF ones experience of the contrast
between the state of the atmospheric tenn
nerature and the temperature OF the wa
fer. That is. / supposed that the atmos-
pheric temperature. being excessively hot.
one imagined that the water really was
much colder than it possibly could be, and
vice versa.
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1T takes a boat from one to three days
to dispose OF her load, depending, Of
course, on the class Of melons, the worst
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About 90 per cent Of the time the on
shore breeze blows here, ana the only
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here are just too scrumtitiously benign
for any use whatever.
II this isn't plain and out-and-out de-
pravity on the weather's part the under
signed would like to be Informed what
else 1t is or can or could be.
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I'm the first place. L came upon durn-
ed measly little error Of cents In my
books, and ! had 10 spend FIVE or six
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hours after closing-up time going over
the hull blamed business trying to find
out where and what the error was.
, was just getting ready TO leave the Of
flee. along about half-past 10 last night.
when Fred Jiner. big chief OF my lodge.
saw the light in my office and he swirled
in and told me that Joe Ginksey secre-
tary of the lodge. had had an apoplectic
stroke. early in the evening and was in
bad way, and SO Fred slammed me into
hack and We went out to Joe's house.
up near Lincoln Park, to see how he
was coming out. Well we found Joe's
wife and grown-up daughters almost
crazy, and no men around to cheer EN-
up, and so there was nothing for Fred
and | to do but stick around the Ginksey
home for a few hours to sort o. hurl a
bit of comfort into the down-hearted
woman folks. 1t wasn't till about
half-past that the doctor pronounced
poor Joe out OF danger, and then
L started for home In q car, and there
was a block in the car line. and after
waiting for about half an hour, why. 1
got out and walked. and while I was
walking ! came upon colored man try
ing to wrench cops club out of his
hand. and. of course, Ii was up to me to
sail In and help the cop, which did. but
! was bit sorry for 1t afterward. be-
cause the cop made me go to the police
station with him and his prisoner sos to
verify his story OF the colored mans at
tack on him, and that's what caused the
internal delay. and here I am, as tired as
Dalmatian dog after a four-day run
under racing automobile, and I'm as
hungry as wolf. too, and wish II was
break Breakfast st time SOS ! could dredge into
ABOUT four gallons Of that conh, you
have got the lost art OF making, hd-"
-.
Did this layout or pure concentrated
lye-lie get by?
That, neighbors. is precisely what it
did.
II got by with a hoop-la and a yow-ee,
Mrs. fizzgigg's countenance gradually
softened as Fizzgigg unreeled the mess
OF Irame-up stun on her, and when he
SaIne 10 the part where he spoke Of his
helping the cop subdue the colored man
and brother she shuddered AT the very
thought mat her man had been In peril
And when he mentioned his ravenous-
hsss. nhe offered to get right up and fix
MN , an me coffee he wanted, but FIzzgigg
hasseu her from that purpose in con-
sideratlon of the fact that he'd got out
size OF ten or fifteen hard shell crabs
ana some cheese sandwiches and many
hagons of maltousness only a shnr. .i,,a
before. e
We are the last person In the world n
SO ABUSE our responsibility as deliberately
% ADVISE even the most minor depart,,re
rom .ne strlctest veracity In connubial
Nevertheless. we're here for the purnose
or typewriting human Documents and
we've told exactly what happened to Fig
gigg when he told the truth and when he
ducked the same. U ""en ne
CLARENCE L. CULLEN
New Employer-But WIN did vo,,
your last mistressp 'ou ioefo
New Maid-Hivens! Did yez expect me
oring her along wild me?-CieveIand
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and their lips blue, and they "Br-r-r-r"'
around the beach and pronounce the wa
ter something devilish for scandalous
GOODNESS. and large groups Of prospective
bathers gather around the teeth-chatter-
ing ones and listen to 'em talk about
the vile chill of the sea, and the groups
decide respectively and seyerally, that
it'll be twice-niX for them on the bath
ing idea that day: and the bathhouse
keepers in their booths grind all OF the
enamel off their teeth and shake i'm
potent fists at hoary old laughing Nep-
tune as they see the tens of thousands Of
fine metallic coins slipping out Of their
grasp solely owing to the icy condition
OF the sea water. The over-Sunday Wis
itors hundreds of thousands of EN-, beat
II back to their cities Sunday night or
Monday morning and carry with them
everywhere they go reports as to the
savage coldnesS of the sea water at At
lantic City this year. and that kind OF re-
norting of course, keeps unimaginable
numbers OF folks from visiting the re-
sort.
And on Mondays. nearly always. the
wind switches around and sweeps in from
the sea again, and the water becomes
nretty nigh as warm as toast I'm it's feel
upon the pelts of the weekday bathers.
And the land breeze blowing on Sum
day and making pedestrianism on the
boardwalk something difficult to endure.
the same over-Sunday visitors romp away
after their day of heat here and say
that never again on the Atlantic City
thing and its awful heat for them. where
as by the time they are uttering these
anathema in their home towns the on
shore breeze Is getting in its choice work
again and meteorological conditions down
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leveled at her with unblinking eyes:
Hello, presh. Been awake long? Say.
I'm SO tired l. can hardly stand on my
hoofs. Never was SO busy in my life
before and never want to be again.
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your last mistressp N '"u ioeFo
New Maid-Hivens! Did veg expect me
oIlns her along wild me?-CieveIand
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-27
ACQUITAL IN A
CLOVIS TRIAL
Defendant Found Not Guilty
of Killing Another Man
at That Place.

Clovis, n NJ. June pa jury at .
o'clock Sunday returned a verdict Of &C
quittal in the case of the territory VS..
Frank Leteaux. charged with the muir
der of Dan Lyons last January 81. The
jury was out 10 hours.
The trial occupied six days. 1t was
given to the jury at IL o'clock Satur-
day night. The case was hard fought
on both sides. Attorneys for defendant
were Terrell and Spicer. of Crows. and
r c. Reid, Of Roswell Attorneys for
the territory were: Cullin F. Thomas, of
Fort Worth; Reader, of Amarillo. dis
trict attorneys L. o Fullin and Nc.
Bee and Hockenhull, of Clovis.
The trial was before judge Pope.
Opinion here has been about equally
divided on the case.
LeteauX was a drummer for the Rel
doria hotel and Lyons was a drummer
for the Antlers hotel. \ quarrel arose
over SOLICITING trade. when Leteaux
drew a pistol and fired three shots.
The defense won the case on a plea
of self defense.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-27
AT THE HAPPY HOUR

There will be eNcomplete change of
program at the Happy Hour theater to-
night The Oldham trio Will be seen in
a musical work entitled Around the
World in Music" They will give all
national airs. sing in every language
and appear in the costumes of all ma
tiOns.
Harris and Vernon will be seen in a
comedy sketch, singing. dancing and
talking, giving eccentric acrObatic
dances.
There will be a change in the motion
pictures, four subjects being shown
which consist of four reels of films. The
summer prices prevail. general admis-
sion being 10c and reserved seats zoe.
All children under u years of age viii
be admitted for sc.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-27
1T YEARS AGO TO-
a - from The Herald Of date 1867 IA Y

Much rain is reported in the dist
trict, an inch or more having fallen
at Ysleta, Sierra Blanca and other
places in the vicinity. FL Paso also ex-
perienced considerable rainfall, while
the temperature remained between SIS
ond so, remarkably cool for the time
Of year
Alderman Whitmore returned from
the gold bug convention at Austin. He
said A Chinaman was secretary and
the bugs sent as delegates to Chicago
were selected indiscriminately without
knowledge as TO whether they would go
or not The alderman thinks silver will
triumph.
The house Of W. B. Gilman at 1906
East Overland street was burglarized
early this morning. The barking Of a
watchdog awakened P. Murther, who
was lodging there. He opened I'D on
three miscreants with sixshooter
sending them away squealing.
D. B. Smith, who is shipping alfalfa
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-27
CLOUDCROFT AND
FOURTH OF JULY
Big Celebration Is Planned
Plenty of Rain Falls
There Sunday.
by Mrs. ". S. Tiltonl

ClOudcroft, n NJ, June 27-Manager
Beckham is making great preparations
TOR the Fourth of July at the Lodge.
Besides a baseball game, there will be
wrestling match between a white man
and an indian from the reservation. foot
races, an egg race, catching a creased
pig, climbing a creased pole, bareback
Morse race. camp fire indian lance at
night, a cowboy dance in North 0oud-
croft and the usual Fourth of Jult BAH
IN the pavilion There will also be some
good speakers for the day.
ClOudcrOft has been exhibiting some
1Teaky weather this season. For three
weeks IT was unusually hot and dusty.
then 1t turned very Good for a few DAYS.
and everybody hustled into their win
ter clothes and piled extra big logs on
the fires Then, Just as the excursion
pulled IN on Saturday. it radned and
poured, and turned dark and gloomy. but
the sun came out Sunday morning srlil-
ing brightly, and the scent OF the pines
was IN the air. Everybody forgot the
discomfort OF the dav before. the woods
were soon full of people strollinp around
taking IN the beauties Of CIoudcroft and
listening TO the call OF the birds to their
mates.
Fred Wecl1erle is spending his vaea-
I'm WIN 4iAS IdIilE az TlH Lodge.
Julius krakauer, Charley Pomerov.
Frank Langan, CLYDE Holmes, ". III.
Petlcolas. George Evans, D. c. kinney.
George Ferguson and ". G. Roe all Wis
ltet their families for the week end
Mr. and Mrs. John Dyer are visitors
to the croft
\. P. Averill, paymaster of the F. P.
4 5 W, spent the week end at the
Lodge.
Miss Elizabeth Aldrich of New York
city IS a ClOudcroft visitor. Miss Aid
rleh IS cousin Of Miss Ruth Williams
of FL Pas0.
John Wyatt spent Sunday here.
Miss jamie Ellis spent the week end
with friends She expects to return
later IN the season with her sisters TO
take cottage
Rev VI, Egan of Alamogorio held d.
vine services here Sunday at the resi-
dence Of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Steven
SON.