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The evening world., 1912-01-06
The Two-Gun Man
The Best C0ubOy Story In Ten Years
BY Charles Alden Seltzer

could not say hat he had been entire
ly blameless. He should have told her.
But II was not the end that he was now
contemplating. There could be no end
until there had been an accounting be
tween him and Leviatt. Perhaps the
man who had shot Ben RadfOrd IN
the back would never be known. He
had his suspicious, but they avallea
nothing. In the light Of present c!rcum-
stances Miss Ralford would never hold
him gulltless.
Untll near noon ne sat on tho rock
on the crest OF the hill. tho lines Of his
face growing more grim. his anger
slowly giving way to the satisfying
calnness that comes w:en the mind
has reached n conclusion. There would
be a final scene with Lev!att, and then
He rose from the rock. made his way
deliberately down the hillside. mounted
his pony. and struck tho trail leading
to the TWO Diamond ranchhouse.
About noon Lev!stt and Tucson rode
In TO tho Two Diamond corral gate. dis
mounted from the!r ponies. and pro-
ceeded to the bunkhoiso for dinner.
The men OF the OUTFIT wcro already at
the table. and after washing their faces
from the tin wash basin on the bench
outside the door. Lev!att and Tucson
! entered the farmhouse anl took their
places. Greetings wore given md re-
turned through the medium OF sh3r'
nods-with several oe the men even TIL,
was omitted.
L.eviatt was not n porul1r range bass.
and there were sone u the men who
! had whispered their suspicious that the
death OF Rope Jones had not been
brought about In the regular way. Many
| Of them remembered tho incident tina +.
! had occurred between Rope, the range
boss, Tucson and the new s~tray-naa,
and though opinions differed, there were
some who held that the death Of Rope
might have resulted from tho i~l!-feel-
| Ing ~ensendered by the incident.
But In the absence OF proof there vas
nothing TO he done. So those men who
held suspicious wisely RETAINED from
talking in public.
Before tho meal was finished the
blacksmith poked his head In through
tina open doorway. calling;
"Ol Man wants TO soc I.sv'stt up In
the ofnce!'
Tho hiacksmith's head was with
drawn before Ieviatt. who had henri
the vu'cr but had not seen tho speaker.
could rnlsc his voice In reply. lie did
not haste, however. ana remained q.
the table With Tucson for hvs minutes
after tho othcr men had isft. rhen
with n Caal word 20 Tucson hs rosa and
strndc carelessly to tho door Of Star
ford's office. Tho latter HAD hsen wal.
ing with soms impat!encs. ami a. the
appearance of the range boss no showed
his chair back from his desk ana arose
Just come inT' he QUESTIONED.
! "l-st come Ia repeated Levtatt
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SOLD $4,000" FOR 81 900.
Green Goods Merchants Caught ~
Their Plant In Newark.

Frank Adams. who Is said by the
United Secret Service agents of this dis
trlct TO be a veteran green goods mer-
chant. and John Smith. n young man
who Ia believed to DO his confederate.
were caught by the Newark police ~
No. SO Centre street, Newarli, to-day.
The W. were selling bundles OF blank
paper wrapped In real paper money and
.ostensibly amounting TO 10000 20 y.
Malakcff OF Bentleyv!llc. Pa, for sl.9cy.
The case was worked IN by the Secrc,
Service men with Malakorf's ala. The
Newark police were asked To make the
arrest. go the Secret Service men would
not have to disclose their Identity. The
Federal agents say they have bcen hunt
Ing Adams FOR SIX years.
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return? oh. Orpheus. OF course. ~
that Is a matter for Mr.. Gatti TO de-
eide. ! am glad you liked from the
beginning my dressing OF the part. II
was not idly. or indinerently assumed.
was not idly or ind!ferently assumed.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Alexander made q
careful study OF innumerable ancient
Grecian urns and vases and every avail
able source OF Information as to the
correct costume that ! should assume.
The Roman idea OF the character
vas that essentially Orpheus was a
priest: but one must remember that 1t
was Orphcus the Musician. not the
Priest, who crossed the Styx and pla-
Gated the Furies In the search for his
beloved Eurydice. and really. when !
I'M inpersonatlng the part. 1 do make
myself feel that I am "A man.
81 am looking forward with the great
est pleasure to The production Of Prof.
Parker's Mona in English. In which.
you know. | am to have the title part.
l studied II Thoroughly last autumn and
shall be ready whenever Mr.. Gatti de-
cides to produce the opera. You Will be
deeply impressed by the work. | am
sure. Don't listen TO any talk about it's
beng TOO much IN the ofdtorlo style. L
think II Is intensely dramatic. The
characters are well differentiated and
tho music for them Is especially appro-
pirate. The orchestration Is fine. Just
you walt and zee, OF course the opera
IL serious and austere. How could II be
otherwise founded on such a ira gic
story OF the last revolt OF the ancient
Britons against the domination Of the
Romans?
Il hope what YOU say Is true. that
the public viii welcome me back: for
while | am proud to be u mother and a
! thoroughly domcsiicated American wife.
that loves her home. ] am also proud
to be a singer and 10 be appreciated for
my art. ! don't see why one cannot be
both mother and artist. do your"
Just then the nurse intorposed to say
that Madame was talking too much. and
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Copyright. 1871. BY tire Outing PUBLISHING
ConpAny.l

-3YNOpslS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
Ned re.su-u - a t."urs shp@' Gt+,+ls ilarN-
manship aud Iab.t Oi oan}ns a couple Of re-
,oi'ers maze W.T. hin ,ut sale y. i"u,oun
Man." lie IS hired b. sta.i0id, naLagtr OF he
Two Diamond rluIh. TO trd.. down a rastlsf
ioStue thi.ij AnD has b+.E lie aststiLs the TO
DIAMOND herds. i,isIs.L tsnAg - 10. anon
ostenrblN 10 /, ssker tr s,:iy o. !e. IN me
Day thither h. is ni;t,n uy . fat.i,siike aud "a
sa'ed iron. death - ttr skill ~ Na!,a asttr
OF ben NadicrI. a L,.kh .otiHs !arcAer. MAJ has
come for the material. tT = ,vNU,y un'el. trisu.
son fal IN love .itu htr. - do DI,e lsNlatt.
sfsffori's fulgt boss. ,ul mos, Of tn latter's
cowboys. Between iasa,t and. Fe:su>ln az. IN:
~stlnetite hatioi .prIuss ~. HJre but s'afori
and Leviatl Is supnosSt To knl' iht teal lta-u
tor Feisu'on's nl,sucr al he Two bisnond. Lev
iatt publicly insults f,rgus 3d.. The Latter. Win
drawn pistol frcs a. s'A's, ':Jn Lin. After
thai thsr Is ttcit wag tstA en them. Ferg sA
b NJ TO susg..t ir,ia'i - having sH;e hand IN
The "ristlins" Ne manages to 10. Lc,iatt know
81 his sns Icions without. Ol,ply Gctts,ug him.
I. dMt's hatred " fery 4a 'g .iurthol s;rensthe 81
~ the belief that Mas Eal'1rd loves he 'rwo-
dun" mar. l.. %r,grfss Ar ,e!is Boa Hadia-d, her
BROTHER. that Ferguson II tanning TO MI. him
Eerguson unsus. etnt, s.,s ,ndins a1aln VII
Mar. They t,tN M ~ttstsct, RadioI is wlnn ed
~ o shot frum the lastne-s behind him. H. tells
Mary that FGryi>Dn saHL LIN. Ferg lsln call, o.
Nay, who ~corfrlu.A him with a rifle, arcuNes hin.
VI shooting her irih'' and nrdeIs him away.
tergnon returrs 90 ~ fan'N and prom ? stat
ford 70 show him ihc mr'.cr!1us "rustler" within
he next twen,y .orr E9us..
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HEMMeD IN BY FLAMES.
Waterman Fighting Factory rirc
Escapes ny Drop From window.

Fire destroyed 4 three.story frame
building occupied ms a clothing factory
at No. III Osborn street, Brooklyn. t.
day. Three frms In the building en-
ploycd more than three hundred persons.
but rs this IL the Jewish Sabbath. the
Waterman. Charles shuay. was the only
person In tho building.
shuay found a big blaze on the top
floor. and tried 70 ~estingnish the Aro,
which cut on his escape by the stairs
lie dropped from a window. but escaped
injury.
A policeman turned IN an alarm.
Owing 10 low pressure caused by the
cold n second alarm was necessary,
The blaze damaged factory buildings In
watkins street. In tho rear.
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ST." Fire Blocks Tramc.

Traffic IN the Second avenue IT, was
tied up for thirty-ive minutes early to-
day. when an empty car In the centre
track near One Hundred and FRS,
stree. took fire. For a time tho IRE
was fought with hand extinguishers.
After receiving assurance from the
railroad that the power in the third rail
had been turned off the blaze wal
quickly extingu. shed by several streams.
The car was almost q total loss. Thou
sands OF workers crowded the platforms
while the fire was in progress.
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"AiDA." WITH CApski
SUBSTITUTED For ARMIDE.

Because " the illness Of Nine. Frem-
stad. Aida" instead Of "Armlde." was
suns at the Metropolitan Opera House
last night. with Mime. Gadski for the
frat time this season In tho title part.
She was In fine voice and gave a spirited
Interpretation of the part. The cast In
Guided Caruso az Radamcs, Margaretr
Matzenauer az Amneris. William Hin.
shaw as the King. de Seguroia as Ram.
lis and Dinh Gilly a. Amonasro. Tos-
caninl conducted. The house was filled
to capacity.
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WILLIAM eAcHAUs, PIANIST.
MAKES AMERICAN DEBUT.

william Bachaus. an English pianist
with a European reputation. made his
American debut with the symphony
Orchestra at tho Century Theatre yes
tefday afternoon as tho solois. IN
Beetnoven's Emperor" concerto. lie
made a profound impression for his
m~usicianshlp. his tasto and his scnti-
ment. The programme. all beethoven.
included the fourth sympliUny aud The
'Leonora" overture No. 4. beautifully
played by the orchestra under Walter
Dainropch.
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BY SYLVESTER RAWLING.

-<YSN'T she u dear?' said Nine.
Louise Homer last evening as she
gently pulled back the coverlc, ~
a CRIB In which. sound asleep. lay her
daughter. Hester Makepcace Homer.
born on Dec. Il. And look at those
hsndsl Aren't they just Hike sidney'sT'
They were such uny little pink things
that the writer hesitatvd for a reply.
But S.dney-that's her husband laughed
and 30 did he. w%hereupon Nine. Homer
very quietly but firmly said: IL either
OF you dares to make q noise that
wakes my baby up. out OF my sitting
room both Of You 20 at once"
Alphabetically the writer ssid But.
Nine. Homer. I am utterly unused to
Interviewing babies" To which she
replied: We'll. you'll be lucky II you
escape without my baby interviewing
you"
just then the famous twins. Katharine
Hum Homer and Anne Marie Homer. o
lovely pair. came tiptoelng In and they
were old friends. Wouldn't they rather
have had q baby brother they were
asked. They hesitated. but presently
Katharine said. MOI! Baby brothers
are very scarce in Heaven jus. now and
Il takes, oh! such a lot OF praying to
get even a baby sister. Anne and I.
night after night. prayed all night. be-
fore We got her. It's very hard"
Run OF 20 bed" said Nine. Homer.
He a crusty old bachelor who doesn't
know anything abou babies. n nc
wants to talk to me. and not to you"
And with charming curtseys they re-
ti,a1
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had known before his brief ro-
- nance had given him a fleet
happiness TO come,
4 MANY times. when his hopes had heen
Ugh, he had felt n chilling fear that
Z would never be able to reach the
innacle Of promise; that IN the end
A,ts would place before him a barrier
yyths barrier In the shape OF his con-
rase with stafford. that he had re-
-ekted many times.
.IWary Radford would never believe his
sotest that no had not been hired "a
IN her brother. Fate, in the shape
fLvlatt, had forestalled him therc.
Hnny times, wien she had questioned
- regarding the hero n her story.
\, had been on the point ~ taking her
nto his confidence as u the reuson ~
HE presence at tao Two Diamond. but
hs had always pa, Il Of, hoping thu,
taings would be rlgh;ed IN the end AMI
that he would be able to prove 20 hor
the honesty OF his Intentions.
I But now that time was past. What
kysr happened . she would believe
il the creature that she desp!sed-that
| men despised: the man who strikes
the dark.
This. then. vas 70 be the end, lie
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OLD BLOOMFIELD HOTEL
BURNED TO THE GROUND
Flames Threaten Surrounding Prop
erty in Jersey Town, but Other
Houses Are Saved.

Raab's Hotel. for many ysar, q and.
mark a, Bloomfield. n. j.. was des-
troyed by fire to-day. Surrounding
property was threatened for q time.
but the firemen kept the blase con-
fined TO the hotel building despite the
bitter cold and tho resultant low water
pressure.
The hotel accommodated about sew
enty-flve guests. most OF whom were
absent when the fire started. The
spread OF the flames was so rapid that
those In the building were compelled u
run Tor their lives and abandon their
ossesslons. william Rose, the pro-
prietor, estimates the loss at about
$40. 900.
The evening world., 1912-01-06
oCK DUCK GIVES BAIL AND Is
n REARRESTED.

Ihe Cinnamon were arraigned this
r Forming before Chief Magistrate Nc
kdoo, sitting in the Tombs Police Court.
ne tw men who are accused OF doing
The shooting were sent to the Coroner.
nd the others. Including Mock Duck.
we're held as witnesses in $1,000 bail each.
k,ail was Immediately furnished for Mock
Duck and he was rearrested on The
charge Of running a gambling house.
Elhe Hip Sings maintained to-day that
murderous onslaught of the On
Songs was prompted because OF the
prder Of n member of the Lee family.
DO belonged to the on LeoHgs. in
~icago some time ago. For this a
Sing man was convicted OF murder
the first degree. Then. It was added.
On Leongs put much blame on the
Sings for the case against Charlie
>ton, who was sent to the Atlanta
ION for running an opium head
1rters on seventh avenue.
They'll go on shooting now" s,.d a
that stood at the corner OF Pell and
)oyers streets this morning. beating MS
ands on his shoulders as the .cy bias;
anne up from Chatham Square. "This
only the beginning. Within a week
here will be fewer Chinks In this
oe!ghborhood."
4 Only an occasional Chlnaman vas In
The streets this morning and they gave
nut a passing glance 20 the stained win
low at No. 81 Pei. on which the letters
hat tell It wa once the place of bust
oess of the sun Kim Sung Company
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nsLP WANTEO-MALE.

a ArLD ron 4, :. ..aAI-As.sOu.si W.
uaTrri men, between as,s ct 10 snd ~
clli4en, u luIlei atates, Of good character and
Temperate bat l., who ga leak. Rad and write
the tusi'h language. For information apply "
tie ru,qus lii,e, 20 % Az. 40 9TH Az Ne.
Mont'pmcrv a., Jem CITY. n. j.. or any ~
cuifu' f,'frn
DANNA-rUI Nlttel In aud around Nes lors
mon lf 81 Iau. fv 4 H,o1 selling arIrle. Al.
ply ly writing 20 I, Stpt Eaveaon. BrAisA,
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EMPEROR" CONCERTO BY
BOTH SYMPHONY SOCIETIES.

Josef Strnnsky's programme for the
Philharmonic Socicty's concert in Car
negie Hall tomorrow Afternoon will
have for is feature schubctt's sym
phony in c major. The soloist will be-
Josef Lhevinne. the Russian pianist.
who will take part In Beethoven's Eth.
peror' concerto.
Walter Darnrosch's programme for the
symphony Society's concert at the Gem
fury Theatre tomorrow afternoon. like
Mr.. ~Stransky's for the Philharmonic.
includes the Emperor" concerto Of
Beethoven's. In which Wilhelm Bachaus
will play tho plano part. Mr.. Damrosch's
programme Is all Beethoven.
The Volpc symphony Society viii give
It's second subscription concert On Tues
day evening at Carnegie Hail.. The So
loist will be Ludwig Hess. the German
tenor. Mr.. Volpc will give n first per-
Torrance in New York OF a symphony
In ID minor. by Pletro Fluridla. an ltal-
ian composer. who has lived IN this
country for eight years.
At the HIppodromc tomorrow night
Florencio Constantine. Alice Nielsen,
Rose OlitZka, Oscar Seagle and Miss
Luba d'Alexandrowsky. a young Rus
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sian pianist. will be the soloistS The
Russian symphony Orchestra. with
Modest Altschuler conducting. will fur
nlsh the orchestral music.
4 farewell New York performance 81
the Imperial Russian ballet will be
given at the Metropolitan Opera House
on Monday afternoon. with Delibes's
"Coppella'' as the feature. NOllnine
will be the principal man dancer In-
stead of Mordkln.
The Boston Opera Company IL to Civ
"Pclleas ct Meiisande" for the first time
In Boston next "Wednesday evening.
with Gocryette Tnhla rci N~set'~Nrrk ne
MclIsapde and Jean Rlidos. a baritone.
as Pellcas.
Elena Gerhardt. soprano. with n Flu.
ropean reputation Ms u l,edcr singer,
will make her first American Appear.
ance at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday af.
ternoon.
Gardner Lamson. the American inter-
prefer OF Wagner and German lieder.
1lves tn. second OF his r~ecitals at Car
negie L.yceum on Tuesday evening.
The commonwealth symphony Society
will give It's lfth concert In tho Aud.
, tor!um OF tho Educational Alliance to-
morrow night
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there was nothing for Mr.. Homer and
the writer TO do but retire TO the dining
and-well. that's another story.
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Nine. Homer, Ready to Sing
AGAIN Jan. %, Talks of
Motherhood and Art

Is Proud Of Her Three.
Weeks Old Baby, but
Glad to Return to the
Metropolitan Opera
House and Would Like
to Make Her Reappcar-
ance as Ovpheuc.
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CHAPTER XIII.
(Continuod.)
Keeping a Promise.

EREAFrER he would return 10
that l!fc that he had led OF
Old: the old hard life that he
\ had known before his brief ro-
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Killing and Wounding Last
2 Night in Chinatown Fore.
runner of Gun Fights.
IN CLUB HOUSE.
Peace Pact, Made After Forty
Men Had Been Slain,
Is Again Broken.

Mnatown pulsated to-day with .
I fvousness II has not known for more
IAN a year. The Tongs were at war
again. another murder and possibly
two had been added to the long list
OF feud crimes and the denizens OF the
District. as we'll as the police. were
e~psculating on where n fresh outbreak
woulc start.
Nine Cinnamon, two alleged to have
Done the shooting. and seven witnesses.
werc %arralgnsd before Magistrate Nc
Adoo IN the Centre street court today.
Neck Sing and Eng Man. who were
ICED with the killing. were re-
bded to the Coroner.
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A Nautical Christening.

Some years ago a slow sailing YES
sci. when some 500 miles from Liver
pool. picked up lusty youngster of
FIVE years dashed to mast.
The captain took great liking to
him, called him his son and decided
that the little chap must be chris
tened-one of the few things which
he knew must be attended to in the
case of children.
OF course there was no chaplain
aboard, so the captain himself under
took the ceremony. He gathered the
men about him, and with a mixed
knowledge of his duties, he glared
about him and asked whether any
one knew just cause why the boy
should not be christened.
IF there Is" he roared. speak up
like a man or forever hold your
tongue"
Then he suddenly cracked a bottle
of wine over his head and christened
him.
The ocean waif is now settled down
"a steady longshoreman, but he still
relates with satisfaction the story OF
his christening.
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Happv Gioomer.

At times the "Cheer-up!" idiot is
absolutely cruel, for his philosophy
and smiles and laughter would rob the
chronic gloomer, generally woman,
of her greatest and supreme happiness
In life. You all know her, the woman
of both sexes who is never really hap
Ply unless she is comfortably misera-
BILE. Without her the patent medi-
cines companies would have to go out
of existence in bankruptcy and if her
rheumatism leaves her for time she
is in agony of mind until it returns.
Hers is the dark side of life. She has
eyes only for the unpleasant and the
painful. She cannot smile without
cracking her lips and a surgical op
GRAFTON would be necessary in order
to get a laugh out of her. She is al
ways the poor lone "critter' of the
Mrs, Gummidge type and the tear
plant Is always worked over time.
She is forever expecting the worst to
happen and she is keenly disappoint-
ed If it doesn't-Grit
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RraIns and Hair

A very momentous question has
arisen: Does womans hair reduce
her brain power? Experts are busy
disagreeing on the point, which is, of
course, the particular function of ex-
perts. The principal of a girls school
says that in every case where the
younger girls have had their hair cut
short their brains have been rendered
more capable of sustained effort. A
doctor and schoolmaster, however,
scout the idea, perhaps because they
have never had upon the tops of their
heads a heat generating mass of hair,
intersected with metal instruments
and shell combs. Every woman knows
the hot throbbing, distinct from head
ache, which goes on under the mass
OF her hair, wherever it is placed.
while schoolgirls have either heavy
plat, involving some strain from the
top of the scalp, or a wide spreading
mass of hair, which is equally hot.
We may yet come TO day when
small girls will have short hair, just
as they wear knickerbocker suits to
play in.
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Measuring Lumber,

The diagrom and calculation by
which you show that log six inches
in diameter and ten feet long would
yield Is 1-3 feet of board measure are
quite correct. By applying the Doyle
rule the result is 25a feet board meas,
ure as stated in previous issue. Sat
isfactory log rules are difficult to con.
struct. and the Doyle rule. which is
most widely used in Canada is espe
cially at fault in the measuring Of
small logs as the above figures show.
The Scribner rule is more nearly ac-
curate for small logs. For log six
inches in diameter and IL feet long.
the Doyle rule accords 10 feet board
measure and the Scribner rule IA
feet, while the actual amount that may
be sawed out is 16 feet In the meas
urement OF logs 20 to 80 inches in
diameter the results from the applica-
ton Of the two rules do not differ
Logs more than 80 inches
in diameter will show a higher yield
by the Doyle than by the Scribner
rule.
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DO YOU RIDE. WALK OR PUSH7
An Old Stage Coach Story From Po-
litieal Viewpoint.

The following story was told at po-
litlcal banquet by a well known poll
tician:
IL was going to the seashore, and the
terkwater ratlroud left me at wretch.
ed station about ten miles from the
resort. However. we were consoled by
the Information that the numbering old
stage made daily trip, and | went to
bargain for my fare.
ado You want to go first second or
third classT asked the driver.
"True to my creed that nothing was
too good for me, chose first class
passage at 10 cents,
"'All right Git in and choose your
seat
II watched the other passengers pay
their quarters and half dollars. but
when we started found a twenty-five
cent man on my left aud tifty cent
man on my right. In fact, all passen.
gers were sandwiched In regardless OF
financial benefits
II was mad clear through. but luckily
did not boil over We logged along I'M
III We S'TuSh an hNlHi piece VI IOdu
when the driver stopped, stuck the
backsnake whip into the socket. tied
the lines round It. jumped of his seat.
jerked open the door and shouted:
"'All you twenty-five cent men and |
you hfty cent men must get out aud |
let the seventy-tve cent gent stay |
where he is. The tifty cent men must
walk and the twenty-five cent men
must push or Wen never get the stage
tut OF this goldnrn sinkhoer
And. gentlemen, this is the political
situation. The seventy-tive cent men
ire riding. the fifty cent men are walk
ng. and the poor twenty-five cent beg
,ar Is pushing the political machine.
ire yon riding or walking or pushing7'
st Louis Republic.