, 1919-02-27

asked, pointing to the skull which still
lay on the table.
THAT was my head. It was cut
off in the jungles of Hanky-Foo. where
| tried to murder a gang of the worlds
most famous scientists. oh. you got
to give 1t to Tom. He was a big top
spieler. This was his stuff. | know it
by heart:
Look! Look Lookr he'd yell and
hold up that skull.
THE crowd would come on the gal
lop. After a couple or three women
had tainted in the crush of people
who were afraid they'd miss a free
pike at something. he would begin
Upon the inside. ladies and gen.
tel-men, is the mar-vel-us geological
spess-i-man brought here this week for
your approval by your own govern
ment-the United States of America
"Then he'd wave the head.
awhile searching for orang-
utangs in the Himalayan jungles of
Hanky-Poo, where the most mammoth
species of the beasts abound, a party
led by Prof. Jules LIE Pax, the noted
French scientist, of whom you all have
heard, came upon a huge, hairy being,
the largest orang-utang the scientists
eve had seen.
Like the enraged monster 1t was.
1t leaped from a tree with murder in
its heart. After a bloody battle in
which W men were struck dead with
trees which the brute uprooted and
hurled at the members of the party,
Prof. lie Pax, with one swoop of
his machete-the only weapon ever
used With success in battling with
orang- utengs-severed the beasts
head FROM its body.
-"'Never have the chains been re-
moved. II is feared that once re-
leased II might rush among the people,
killing hundreds in its blind flight.
"'Prof. LIE Pax presented it to
h French government, which turned
it over to the French Society for
Scientific Research, and after the IN
1uence Of our greatest diplomats was
brought to bear, 1t was leased by the
United States. A bond Of half a mil
lion dollars was deposited by the treas
urer of this nation. guaranteeing the
safe return of the monster, and the
beast is o being displayed to GER
tained favored communities.
"'The Hendless Hottentot is Sc
curely Gagged; loaded with chains 81
there is nc danger, and any little child
may view with safety this marvellous
educational exhibit in the amphithea-
ter behind me. It's a government ex-
hibit, ladies' and gentlemen, and just
to cover the travelling expenses the
government authorizes us to charge
only a dime-ten cents-for every ad
mission ticket which you can purchase
from the lady at my left. Here's his
head. Go in and see the living, breath
Ing body
"And the way they would fight to
get up to pay a dime to see me was
enough honor to last me all my life
Tenn would come inside inc give an
other lecture. I'd try to batter dow
the bars. tear round the cage just a:
If I could strangle a bull with ON
hand
"At night Tom would unlock the pad
lock tha held the chains on me IN
hook me, and we'd go to our hotel and
count our money. We saved nearly g
thousand dollars in three weeks. We
landed here three days ago. and have
been playing to all the Rubes in the
world, 1t looked like to me.
"About foul hours ago, after the
show was closed. Tom came round
But he didn't unlock the cage. He
stood In front and laughed.
"'what's the joker says !.
"sIt's on you,' he answers, sort of
rarf GJpn. 0ofpO IN 1aavo town with
the capital stock
"And. laughing fit to kill, he turned
out the gasoline lights and walked
out of the tent.
"I thought he was foolIng, but he
wasn't. I waited about an hour for
him to come back. There I was chain
ed in the cage in that dark tent
and nobody round. I yelled and tore
and fought the chains and shook the
wagon-it. wasn't n put on. 1 was
a raving brute for sure. woke up all
the people in the neighborhood, but n o
body would come within a block of
me until the town marshal arrived. he
stuck his head in the tent.
what you want?' he says, speakin'
timid like.
az want out 1 answers, and tears
out a couple OF bars. =
"He ran Off and got the whole police
force. The police force wanted to
shoot me for fear I might get loose
and kill everybody in town but the
marshal shook his head, bless him,
and said If they did the French gov
eminent might get after 'em. So they
all went home and locked their front
doors and went to bed.
FINALLY ! pulled the chains loose
from where they were fastened to the
cage and got away. I couldn't get out
of the skin, and I was in q fine fix.
The only valuable property 1 could find