The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-07-23
b MARC RET BARR

OF benc6ting by this diplomatic advice
their scowls indicated that they We're
considering him an enemy. His wife
beckoned him to come into the house.
he obeyed and, received scoIding for
his rashness.
Two or three days after this. when
Mr.. HollingswoEth came home from
business in the evening. as sobn as he
opened the door he was greeted by a
piaintive wall.
-'Oh. FredI'
.For heaven's4sake. what is it. dar-
why did you.taIk 50 to those 1tnl-
ians?"
what have they done3"
Left bomb Mt the back door."/
'sYou don't mean it?'''
'.oh, I'm so glad you've got home!
I've been afraid it would go or before
you came"
why didn't you telephone the po-
Ilce?"
Il didn't know what to do. The bomb
was left about half an hour ago. Su-
san came Upstairs and told me that
she had found it at the back door just
inside the she'd
..what did she say she found7''
'sA basket. HoW she knew it was a
bomb was that she heard grating
sound like rusty machinery She
didn't wait to hear any more, but came
right upstairs to me and told me
about it,
"I'Il have look at it,
ooh. don't so near it! Please don't!"
Notwithstanding this appeal Mr..
HoIIingsworth went through the kitch-
en- to the back door. His wife caught
him by the coattnil and held him to
prevent his examining it. Making n
virtue of necessity, he stopped and lis
tened. There was n successionEof small
sounds which Mr.. HolIingsworth at
tributed to the moving OF some mech
anism.
"Do come away cried his wife, tug
gfng at his coattail.
'aThere's something going Inside. but
can't make out what 1t is" said the
husband.
The top OF the basket was covered
with a thin woolen cloth, and at that
moment the latter was raiseil as if
something were passing under it.
s'By Jove." exclaimed HoIlingsw orth.
1T looks as IL the mechanical con-
trivance underneath were rubbing
against the coyer-a concentTlc wheel,
maybe"
Mrs. Hollingsworth shrTeked and
dragged her husband back into the
hall. The occasion of her action was
/ a tiny pun rs IL few grains OF gun
powder had exploded.
| ."I,hfs is ali nonsense said the head
of the house. I'm going to make an
examination"
AT this Mrs. HoIIingswortheslam
1.-the Kitchen door and locked 1t, For
some time no threats Or pleadings
wouId induce her to open Il. but finally
she gave way. and the door was open
| ed. The cover OF the basket had been
ipushed OF, and pair of baby aegs Were
mingled In confusion. the cover being
wrapped around the legs, which were
kicking in n lively manner.
'sBy thunderv' exclaimed Hollings-
worth "It's babyw
"rhe dear little thing" cried the
wife as she ran toward a child few
weeks old lying on its back. its chubby
fists crammed in it's mouth and making
all sorts of noises, from the turning of
a rusty cogwheel to the growing of Il
yo,ln.s rooster. The explosion they had
heard was an infantiIe sneeze-
| "Iucky we didn't send for the po-
llce.D said the husband, "dll we found
out what it was. They would have
laughed at us. What in the world are
we going to do with ft?''
I'm going to keep it, said the wife.
Going to keep it,"
Certainly"
The couple. having been married four
years without children, had begun to
think that they would never have any
born to them. and after a good deal OF
4 discussion it was decided to Take the
little stranger in and give it home.
Being a girl, they called her Bomba.
which is the Spanish for bomb.
Mr.. HoIlingsworth IS still Interested
in the labor problem, but is more eau
tious In the expression of his opinions
to the laborer. True, his experience
with a bomb didnot turn out as'dread-
ful as he expected, but It taught him
a lesson as to the might have been.
Little Bomba has been adopted by the
HolIingsworths and, strange to say, Is
beginning to take great interest in la
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