Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-01

metal spigot OF that ice water barrel.
| let go of It, as soon as could. 1t
seemed as II a streak of lightning
was going through me from head to
foot and then coming back and shoot
ing down again. My thirst was for
gotten by the time l had succeeded
in letting go of that spigot. would
have burned before / would have
monkeyed around any more Of those
thirst-quenching devices.
by the time l got back to my
seat the theater was filled and lot
of fellows we're standing up in the
rear. 1t appeared that Lord T. He'll
yer Sleigh, commanding troops in the
Indian service, had pitched his camp
on the stage, it having been rumored
that somebody was going to attack
King Ak-Sar-Ben and his guests as
we'll as us, who had come to be
knighted. His lordship, I afterward
learned, was Charles Gardner. There
was a flagstaff, equipped with war
like red flag and nice white flag
of truce SO that one could be hauled
down and the other hoisted with just
one motion of an armand 1t
wouldn't have to be any Armand
Hammer Brand Soda arm at that.
"old Lord T. Hellyer Sleigh was
in a pretty bloodthirsty mood and
he seemed to be all out of sorts be-
cause there wasn't any fighting to be
done, Here 1t is 9 O'clock, he said.
and haven't killed a man yet today.
The fighting game seems to be going
to seed
Just then he was interrupted by
sounds of heavy artillery not an awful
long way off. Old T. Hellyer Seigh
pulled the rope that made the flag
of truce replace the one of mo quar-
ter and made a dive for a barrel.
conveniently near. He yelled for the
cavalry to come to his aid and they
galloped onto the scene, headed by
Sir B. Hangdyff Knott, alias Ed
Thompson. The chief of cavalry re-
ported that Chief Sakonutz, the Kan
nibal King of the Black Hand, had
been sighted in the distance and was
bearing down upon the Den, backed
up by gang of savages as hungry as
they were naked. T. Hellyer Sleigh
seemed to be pretty much worried
but he tried not to show 1t. He
: footed his noble horn and summoned
I Dotty MESQUITE and Bugs McNutt
sometimes known as Alec Reed and
Vincent McDonough. They were a
J. couple of Chinese servants. They
seemed to know just what his lord.
ship wanted. One of them set a lad.
. der up against him, climbed it and
gave him a drink of something. The
other served him a cigarette on Q
l hod. His lordship appeared to fee
some better He saw that the fias
of truce was well to the top of tbs
\ staff and his army sang few song,
until the advance guard OF the ole
Hannibal King arrived.
The advance guard was composed
OF four Hottentots. who turned out t.
be Tom Atosupe, alias Clifford Boyle
Studus Paragus, alias Ralph Snyder
Asofiditae, alias Jim Swift, and San
Handwich, alias Bert Minor. Thor
were as black as tar from head L
foot, except for the white warpaln
that decorated their faces and mad,
big rings round their eyes. The,
looked just like the cannibals yo,
have seen in pictures and knew
right away that they were the rea
things. They had a big spear apiec
and seemed anxious,t to set busy will
them, but they controlled themselve
pretty well.
The Hottcntots sang a warm sons
the gist of which was that this wa
darned good town. This made u
feel easier, II locked as II mayb
they were open to reason and woul
refrain from killing and eating us
We would let them stay here. w
Toared applause when they bad fin
ished their song and supplements
II with one OF the cAnnlbsl fol
dances. This tickied them and the
fell to making up songs about IA
using tho same tune. Some of u
were hit pretty hard. but 1t mad
everybody laugh. We we're ieelin
better right along, ] began 10 thin
these Hottentots really were tam