The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-09-09

made no protest. On the contrary. he
entered whole heartedly into the prep
aratlons for the new show. Assuming
with Sans assistance, blue mustache
and "sideburns," he helped in the
painting of a new poster, which, sup
planting the old one on the wall of tho
stable facing the cross street, screamed
bloody murder at the passers in thai
rather populous thoroughfare:
SCHoFiELD & WILLIAMS
NEW BIG Show
RoDERiCK MAGSwoRTH BITS JR
ONLY LIVING NEPHEW
OF
RENA MAGSWORTH
THE FAMOS
MUDERESS GOING To BE HUNG
NEXT JULY killed EIGHT PEG
PIE
PUT ARSiNECK IN THEIR MILK
ALSO
SHERMAN HERMAN AND VERMAN
THE MICHIGAN RATS DOG PART
ALLIGATOR DUKE THE GENUINE
Indian DOG ADMISSION / CENT OR
20 PINS SAME AS BEFORE Do Not
MISS THIS CHANSE TO SEE Rod
ERiCK
ONLY LIVING NEPHEW of RENA
MAGSWORTH THE GREAT FAMOS
MUDERESS
GOING To BE
HUNG
Megaphones were constructed out Of
heavy wrapping paper, and Penrod,
Sam and Herman set out in different
directions, delivering vocally the in
fammatory proclamation Of the poster
to large section of the residential
quarter and leaving Roderick Mays
worth Bits. Jr., with Verman In the
loft, shielded from all deadhead eyes.
Upon the return Of the heralds the
Schofeld & Williams military band
played deafeningly, and an awakened
public once more thronged to fill the
Golfers of the firm.
Prosperity smiled again. The very
first audience after the acquisition Of
Roderick was larger than the largest
of the morning. Master Bits, the only
exhibit placed upon a box, was super
curio. All eyes fastened upon him and
remained, hungrily feasting, through
out Penrod's luminous grafton.
But the glory Of one light must ever
be the dimming Of another. We dwell
in vale of seesaws, and cobwebs spin
fastest upon laurel. Verman, the tat
tooed wild boy, speaking only In his
native foreign languages, Verman the
gay, Verman the caperer, capered no
more, he chuckled no more, he beck
oned no more nor tapped his chest nor
wreathed his idolatrous face In smiles.
Gone. all gone, were his little articles
for attracting the general attention to
himself Gone was every engaging
mannerism which had endeared him to
the mercurial public. He squatted
against the wall and glowered at the
new sensation. 1t was the old story
the old, old story-of too much temper
ament. Verman was suffering from
artistic jealousy.
The second audience contained cash
paying adult, specialized young man
whose poignant attention was very
fattering. He remained after the lee
ture and put a few questions to Rod
DIV. which We're answered rather con-
fusedly upon promptings from Penrod-
The young man went away without
having stated the object of his inferno
cations, but it became quite plain later
in the day. This same object caused
the specialized young man to make
several brief but stimulating calls di-
rectly after leaving the Schoneid
Williams Big Show, and the conse-
ouences thereof loltered not by the
wayside.
The Big Show was at high tide. NOT
on,v was the auditorium filled and
tbrobbing: there was an immense line,
by no means wholly juvenile, waiting
for admissiy to the next puformance'
A group stood in the street examining
the poster earnestly as 1t glowed ID
the long. slanting rays OF the west
ward sun. and people in automobiies
and other vehicles had halted wheel IN
tho street to read the message so
piouantly given to the world ihese
were the conditions when cresteu
victoria arrived at a gallop, ana u
large chastely magnificent and hiGhiy
eusbed woman descended and pro-
crossed across the yard with an air OF
violence.
At sight of her the adults OF the
waiting line hastily disappeared anu
most of the pausing vehicles moved In
stantly on their way. She was follow
ed by a stricken man in livery.
The stairs to the auditorium were
narrow and steep. Mrs. Roderick
Magsworth Bits was of stout FAVOR
and the voice Of Penrod was auaioie
during the ascent
"Re-mem-bur, gentilmun and lay
seeze. each and all are now gazing
mon Roderick Magsworth Bits, Jr',
the only living nephew of the great
Rena Magsworth. = She stuck ars nc