Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1921, Page 77

\ THE SUN THE BULL CALLED EMILY RV S. COBB s One of the Most Popular | | |and put both his shoulder blades out | > f & e | IRE : | recognition. wheels herself around | might make a good pr tunt more kids, and as far as the human ‘A( s i 2 e +_ | |of socket. But she meant no harm!,ng then falls in alon . e o o 2 ome: Ve cl % hil n . d L. 8| g 1 a n_ falls ongside the front | ‘There's un inspiration comes to me | eye can reach, there ain’t nothing of riters 0{ Fmtwn in America T"day His ; Baltaneven It was just a little Wa¥ | hack and gets ready to accompany |and I Ssuggests to him that maybe he | the horizon of that show-shop but just R e v s o . us. all the time poking her snout over | might go ahead and make an an- kids—kids and peanuts. Yarns Are Out of the Usual Run of Newspaper | % ',:;‘,‘,:‘;‘,TK“",‘,EJJ,‘,,‘":,’S‘ and Emily |00 me and uttering plaintive remarks nouncement that, following the Sat-| = “It certainly was a beauteous spec- RS ‘ e A o but Mthe deal foll| in East Indian to me. Gents he savs. |urday matinee. Emily the Pluperfect. | tacle to behold so many of the dear Fiction: 'rhey Are a Treat for the Lover of | |through some way. and for the past|ou cee for yourselves, a thing | Ponderous. Pachydermical Perform: | little ones advancing up that runway i / when she was in one of her tomboy|and she's been trailing me: and now. moods. I've known her to nudge = | by heck. she's found me. friend with one of her front elbows | aily gives a loud. glad snort of | few weeks Windy had been infesting|like that occuring right at the be- AY STAR, WASHINGTON, Another Story by Irvin S. Cobb D. C, MAY 1, that's doing the press work for the house comes to me and asks me if | ain't got an idea in my system that er, direet from the court of the reign- 1921—-PART 4. Iy and reaching out for the next sack. And behind the second kid is the third kid, and behind the third kid, still with peanuts. To myself, I says: 'l z . : a lodging house for members of the| ginning of a funeral procession. is ing Roger of Simla County. India. | guess I'm a bad litfle suggester, eh, Good Stones—Th‘ere Is a Laugh n Every L,ne profession over here on Kast 11th | calculated to distract popular atten- will hold a recepiion on the stage to | what? Here’s Emily getting all this o 2 street, and Emily had been in a live- tion away from the main attraction. | mett her llttle friends. cach and | free provender and Windy talking bis i - v 3 vicl ollage, | Under th eire <! oS vouldn't e one ho cted £ ! of "The Bull Called Emily. | [ Featen Gkt TR Rt VGG o 8 o Whont W e e | 0] RS0 o and e noude petine ul l I |rubber head off. Windy. having run! ; ‘-”“ no corpse on earth for feeling to bring her a bag of peanuts. this advertising and none of us out a E were sitting at a corner | Pie here like Mother Emma Goldman | \ima holdins her for the bt o mA% ) was—a party that had b ad: providing she likes peanuts’ |ctruck by the fact that Emily's original table In & certamn smal|USed o make. Only you want to bel Mehring | some way that I'm|leader at Tammany Hall in his R R e i thae bah Fn% | outburst of enthusiasm appears slightly 2 | careful it don't explode in your hand.” |f: well upholstered ~ with cur-[and after that the owner of the most P, 0 F 2 o e e hanit | on the wane. It scems to me she ain't restaurant hard by where| 1 shook my head. Il mibble at|rency, he comes o me and Suggesis|fashionable retail liquor store in the |1 R IR Sure Tor e Grus BAP | reaching out for the free-will offerings 6th avenue's L. structure, | these” I said, “until you get through. |that if I'll dig up what's mecessary|entire neighborhood. and who's now o e ke A« 'a | With quite S0 much cagersomeness as Hke an overgrown straddlebuy, wades | ANd I rcached for a little saucer of) Lo, et Emily out of hock he can|riding along with solid silver handles i (ORE L ! | she was displaying a spell back. Also I 8 . salted peanuts that lurked in the shadow | SRATe, a line/ of bookings in vaude:jup and down both sides. and style {00 takes notice that the wrinkles in her through the restless curments of of the bowl containing the olives and |yilae aiid Wedl ail three wo U o anefjust wrote all over him. Here. with | (a0 s P o tum-tum are filling out so that she's Broadway at a sharpened angle. The | the celery. For this, you should Know.|,nd me as manaser and Emily as the| 20 utt disregard for expense. he's [WORC GRIGE G CANRLY: - | beginning to lose some of that deflated was a table d'hote establishment. and | principal attrac | imily as th¢lputting on all this doz for his last b don't know precisely BoW | or punctured look so common amongst dish upon which we principally dined =n %l “rhr B0 ; principal attraction. The proceeds|PUtting 3 iy Reinut e e . s place is complete without itsis to be cut up fifty-fifty as between;Public appearance and & cause if 1 ever heard the Bulls was called on the menu chicken a 1a | drowned olives and its wilted celerv. |me and him. plant comes a.ong and gr: S e for i e Still, 1 don’t have no apprehensions, Marengo. We knew why. Marengo, | . "Speaking of peanu he said, “I| The notion don't sound like a bad away from him fres Dve foraat tem bt T ke L but thinks to myself that any buli by all accounts, was a mighty tough | (25t Seem to are deeply for sueh. 1fone That wax' back fin’ thedavs| “CThe bereaved damily don't las AU Ditle vlght to five thal| (Hich can eat half a ton of hay for . ¥ ost my taste for them dainties quite|When refined vaudeville was run-[for it. neither. I gathers as much | = $ 3 e S g ¥ | breakfast certainly is competent to battle, and this particular ehicken, |some time back.” ning very strongly to trained-amimal|from the remarks they're making out [ (he world and ihen set down right |/ 050" Gouple of wagon loads of 8 e X st acts and leading ladies that had quit 6 Windows of he = where she happens to be. to W 5 S R, Foin 4 L drops we judged. had never had @ny refin- | What was the Rocamion? L prompted; leading” but_had'nt found out about Ty et et Ak AL S| for mext years o come onto] Branuls of 2 Shar it wont fo any mshndmflfi its ill-: ife. 5 €1 it yet. Nowada X~ s of| sticks alor g e market. i « « o 0] al ”';l Influences in d"; il l:{:“d"f' smoldering in his eye. ek, Sowadayy tiem ex-aueens :s‘!::,’,' < alonz until [ stops the proce e e much She | harm to coach along a little. il om its present defiant attitude in Tt wasn't no occasion,” he said: “itdraw down so much money that if they Sion and goes in a ltalian fruit sto > ol to it I says to the ing ol a cooked form we figured it had |Was a catastrophe. Did I ever happenjonly get half as much as they saviol the next block and btys her a bag Well, that convinc her. ‘You a rted. Here's delay. pipped the shell with a burglar's to tell you about the time I furnished|they're getting. they're getting almost i::. Dlll;(uuc ’rh’;!l"; all” she "'ff to “" lrr h!;’ 1 a4 chance, 1 say stablish a new S| the financial backing for Windy Jordan!twice as much as anybody would|She takes it and she leav. '8 peanut reception world's record nuts’ jimmy and joined the Dominecker|and his educated bull, and what hap-|&ive 'em: but them times vaudeville|S0cs on back to the stahl h s Friday. the “That remark appears to spur her up Kid's gang before it shed its pin|Pened when the blow-off came P7[Was their ane best bet. And next| “‘Buf. as the feller s it practi- both the p Saturday after funch. | for a minute or so. but something 5 T ehook my head wnd in silonce hark- |10 emotional actrines = who could | caily ruined the entire day for, t when 1 < round to the show shop|seems to keep on warning me that feathers. There were two of us en- | n.q lzt‘npnshm(‘ua-n( xlal\l\; (rvr‘(hum‘n_\' min-|berefts. T lost their patronage r for the rnmnnw- one giance around the her heart ain’t in the work to the ed in the fruitless attack upon| “It makes quite an earfulhe con SO ctch, without "2iving)there—and them a nice family. too. r from the entrance proves extent it has been. Windy don’t see = 7 z:’.l“' tiasties—the presont writer| tinUED. aginews for agents in mylpay alywhere, a good trained-animaliA fot of the friends and relatives alsn|to me that cur little social funclion isinothing out of the way. he being|fact, I should say the surprised com- 1 find Windy in the act of being forc- ¥ Jisnuee =t 19 pres Drofession was very punk here on theriurh had the call It ormiEht Dbe d resented it; they were telling me so | certainly starting 1 be a success. congenially engaged in Shooting off [Ment might of been heard for fully |ibly detained in the front office. and his old un-law-abiding friend|main stem that season. | n ot s eucated Uhe lon & olty broks G M[all the way back from the cemetery. The street in front is lined on both sides | his face. but I'm more or less con-|half a mile away { mmediately after 1 arrived, the Scandalous Doolan. The "dishonest poltce. it was MIZhY| monater or o Mialine hotee or what | There ain't no real hirm in Emily. | with dagos with peanut stands, selling | cerned hy certain mighty significant |, 0oy hesitates as she reaches the|pay off started and continued unaba h a 5 k. B {land I've got powerf attacl seanuts to the population as fast ax fa For one thing, Emily ain't|Sidewalk. as though she ain't decid or quite a period of time. First we For a period of minutes Scandalous | hafd for an honest grifter to muke|not In our case “twas Emily. the kot peweELHV. attarhed Lalneany prigtona . YAt S in her own . mind just where settled in full with the late proprie- wrestled with the thews of one of the |ing to trim an Ezra for hin roll andl t thing. we goes down to the -*(hl"]'" &0, and then her agonized e tors ot enem ;'Nunfl JDranul-roasting o, i then have to cut up the net proceeds! iy <table where Emily spend- alls on al them peanut-roasters machines. and then the owner of the embattled fowl's knee-joints. —After | it} 15 many central oftice £uyS thatiile (ha D e ore bmily 12 omend-| standing in a double row alon wrecked fruit store, and the man that a struggle. in which the honors stood | you had to go back and borrow Car-fing half her weight in dry provender | the curbings on hoth sides of the |owned the opera house, and the stout practically even, he laid down his|fare from the sucker to get home on.levery twenty-four hours. 'The pro-| strect. The Italian and ¢ )!:lfl\“-!(l) who'd fainted from the waist up Enite and Mitiod /s thamb towasd alp ades Tiwas somewhar lonely andiprielor of shix her¢ (odderzemnorium | who owns already departing |but was now entirely recovered. and nife an 14 a thumb toward alow in my peace of mind on accountis named McGuire, and when 1 tel hence in i manner. but [the fleshy gent who'd climbed the tel. ) bottle of peppery sauce whieh stood |of MYy regular side-kick the Sweelihim I'm there to settle Emily's ac-; they've left their outfits behind. and [egraph pole and the railroad agent and Caps Kid being in the hospital. = He'd i on my side of the table. Caps Kid being in the hospital | Hedicount in full, he carries on as thongh | right away it's made plain to me |some several t undred others who had o e . made the Erievous mistake of tryin entirely ovércome by joyfulness— by her actions that Emily regards |claims for property damage or mem- Hey. bo he requested, “pass the | (> 8¢l & half-interest in the Sauariph) not that he's got any grudge against| the sight as a part of a general |tal anguish or shockages to thelr Nniment. will you? This sea gull's|middle of the negotiations Something | amd wbumiant maficincio Oer sood conspiracy to feed her some peanuts |nervous systems or shortage of got the rieumatism.” came up that made the Swede doubt-| iy wfoant sufficiencies. He states when she already has more peanuts |breath or loss of trade or other im- - ful tiat all was not well, and he be.| {125 “p far as Bmilys personal con- than what she really requires for |juries—all these were in line, waiting. The purport of the remark, taken in |trayed his increasing misgivings by|farced sojourn. in. his midec shes aie personal us She reaches out for| “We was reduced to a case ten-spot connection with the gesture which Rauling out a set of ‘old-fashioned s deported herself like & per- the first peanut machine in the row, |before the, depot agent. whe came e e P on 0| EeRuine antique " brass knucks and| fel iy But she takes ip an A | curls her trunk around it and slams |last, lined up for his'n: but he took " acoompar: pi gh- to hic "‘g'nulr\n;)_ set Caps scalp !fyf‘“ h ' ful 1ot of room, and one of the hands it against a brick wall so hard that |one good look and said he wouldn't my understanding: but for the nonce | i1y (o Shend three weeks o DIppa < now on the verge of nervous pros- it immediately begins to look some- |be a hog about it—we could keep that I ocould not classify the idiom in|of his back in the casualty trat mk_(rnvr;‘ n\'l‘rn‘:vrnnn. incunred ! thing like a flivy -;I_(- r which has :"n"!fl:eker. and he'dlbe' un-n;-d Just S coasle ofd asus e d packing hay to Wer and it seems! been in evere collision and some- |to take over our private car in con- which Seandalous couched this re- mmig; P r"'"l“,“g: the divets " Penid | she's addicted” to nightmares. Shei thing like a tin accordion that's had |sideration of the loss inflicted by Em- gets to dreaming that a mouse near- hard treatment from a careless own- |ily to his freight shed. 1 was trying quest. Tt could not be underworld ing his recovery, 1 was sort of figur-| I¥ an inch and a half long is after her er. With this for a beginning, Emily to tell him how much we appreciated s ing on visiting ‘Antioch. Gilead, Zion! % Jargon; it was too direct and at the and ‘other religious town k"nl‘lvhu}l‘l.\' is terrible afraid. you, starts in to get real rough with them [his kindness, but the chief of police #same time too picturesque. Moreover|with a view of selling the haymakers Yo that some dayia mouge 15 go- roasters. For about three minutes |wouldu't let me finish—=said he the Underworld, as a rule, concerns |Some Bemuda oats for their fall plant- | L, (0, come along and eat ‘em—and it's raining hot charcoal and hot |couldn’t permit that kind of lunguage {taelf only with altering such words | IDE: when along came Windy Jordan When she has them Kind of delusions sh. | peanuts and wooden wheels and |to be used in a police station, said it ies out in her sleep and tosses around | { netal cranks and sheet-iron drums |might corrupt fhe morals of some of and broached a proposition. S o s arriotly 08| “This here Windy Jordan was onel4nd maybe knocks down a couple of | all over that part of the fair city. |his young policemen, rious crafts and pursuits. Nor to me of them human draughts; hence (hcl””‘l'll beams or busts in a row of box- | | ““Having put the enemy's batteries| “So everything passed off very pleas- . name. At all hours there was a|Stalls or something trivial lik @ ! out of commission, Emily now swings [and satisfactory at the police sta. H > did it sound like the language of the, aroos lot. for in such case it prob- ably would have been more complex. 80 by process of elimination 1 decided it was of the slang code of the bur- lesque and veudeville stage. with | which, as with the other two, Scan- dalous had a thorough acquaintance. along the memory grooves of some one or another of his earlier experi- strong breeze blowing out of him in the form of the words. If he wasn't conversing, it was a sign he had acute sore throat. But to counteract that fault he was the sole proprieter of the smartest and the largest bull on this side of the ocean, which said bull an- swered to the name of Emil v 1 am, but a bull named Then. right on top of them petty ! lances McGuire some days previousi as made the m ding Emily ?p.- nuts, which peanuts. as he then finds |out. is her favorite tidb P 4G T says McGuire to me and | i that aet of kindness. I merely meant around and heads back in the oppo- site direction with everybody giving her plenty of room. 1 heard after- {ward that some citizens went miles out of their way in order to give her {room. Emily’s snout is aimed straight !up as though she's craving air, and |about every few seconds a painful | quiver runs through it from the end tion, but Emily spent the evening and the ensuing night right where she was voicing her regrets at frequent in- tervals. Along toward morning she felt easier. although sadly depleted in general appearance, and about day- light her and Windy bid me good. by and went off acrosst-country a- Did you say a bull?” T asked. ! m I felt sure. then, that something had| “Sure I sald” o ball “;N:‘;, not?) Windy Jordan. ‘I shore did her tail is standing straight out be- [ foot. aiming to catch up with Ring- _set his mind to working backward!Ain't vou wise to what a bull is?"|make the error of my life when I done {nind, stiff as a poker except that|bold's Brothers' circus, which was re- y ported to be operating somewhere in that vicinity. = As for me, I'd had enough for the time being of the re- onces in the act-producing line of en- isten, little one: To them that fol-|them peanuts as a special tre . X Goavor. and that: with Droper pump- | IoF afer the” red wagon' and the. Emily figures it out that the Lt e her: Windy s | [ined amusement business. I took ing. & story might be forthcoming. | LAte, toP: all elephants is bulls dis-| ™ o o fixed habit' he eofee 1t Riohe About Afty feet back | WY BALL of that lone stwbyck which As it turned out, 1 was right. regacdless of eurh:rn,hju;( the same oin ao b . { hoofing it along abou y k a| e all that was left to us from our e e gkt Tt e Scanday- | 35,811 Tegular bulls is' Re cows to re-| ‘Ever since then. if I forget to bring of her, uttering soothing remarks and | frittered and dissipated fortunes, and e Jou gee that one, Sesndal: fined maiden ladies’ resldin’ in Xew|her in one five cent bag_of peanuts| entreating her to listen to reason, |] started east. traveling second class age. or did you w it some- | show-people _ll’“.' g0t any faise m’:’d_ per diem per day she calls person- and I'm trailing Windy, but for once | and living very frugally on the way. Soere from ¥ fals {ally to inquire into the oversight. | Emily don't hearken none to her mas- | And that was about all that happened, body else™ *% %" E only grinned cryptically. After a bit he hafled the attendant waiter, esty that way. In the show busin a bull is a bull. whether it's a lady bull or a gentleman-bull So very properly this here bull, being one of the most refined and cultu ed mem- bers of her sex, answers to 'he Chris- She waits very patient and ladylike| until about eleven o'clock in the morn- ing, and if T ain't made good by then| she just pulls up her leg hobble by the roots and droops In on me to find ter’s voice. “Out of the tail of my eve I see a fat lady start to faint, and when she’s right in the middle of the faint change her mind about it and do a ‘worthy of note, with the exception of a violent personal dispute occuring between me and a train-butch coming out of Ashtabul. “What was the cause?” I asked as Scandalous stood up and smoothed ‘who because he plainly suffered from |tian name of Emily. out what's the meaning of the delay. < \ fallen arches had already been re- * % % * “‘She ain't never rough nor over- back flip into a plumber’s shop, the | jowpn his waistcoat. purtiest you ever seen. I see a PO-| I had just one thin dime left” christened by Scandalous as Battling Insteps. . | “Say, Battling,” he said, “take away ! the emu; he's still the undefeated cham- pion of the ages. Tidy him up a little and serve him to the next guy that } ey {7ELL, this Emily is not only the joy and the pride of Windy Jordan's life, but she's his entire available assets. she’'d been with him from eurly child- hood. In fact, Windy was the only Bull and bulline,| feols like he needs exercise more'n he|Parent Emily ever knew, she having does nourishment. The gravy may be|D¢en left a helpless orphan on ac- omed up 8 trifle, but the ald ring gen. | COUNt Of a railroad wreck to the old T ot o e oty pio- { Van Orten shows back yonder in the b ought him | gigpteen-eighty-something. . So Win- three rounds and didn’t put a bruise onidy. he took her as a prattling infant in’ arms when she didn't bearing. but it interferes with trade for me to be sitting here in my oi- fice at the front of the stable talking | ! business with somebody, and all of a | isudden the front half of the lurgest | East Indian elephant in the world| shoves three or four thousand pounds of herself in at that side door and be- ging waving her trunk around in the air, meanwhile uttering fretful, com- plaining sounds. I've lost two or, three customers that way,' he say ‘They get right up and go away sud den.’ he says, 'and they don't never come back no more, not even for their liceman dodge out from behind a lamppost as Emily approaches, and reach for his gun. 1 yells to him not to shoot, but it's unnecessary ad- vice, because he’s only chucking his hardware away so's to lighten him up for a couple of hundred yards of straightaway eprinting. I see Emily make a side-swipe with her nozzle at a siout gent who's in the act of climb- ing a telegraph pole hand over hand. She misses the seat of his pants by a fraction of an inch, and as he reaches. the first cross-arm out of said Scandalous, “and 1 explaned my predicament to the butch, saying as how I wanted what was the most filling thing he had for the price— and he offered me a sack of peanuts™ (Copyright, 1921. Printed by arrangement with Metropolitan Service and The Washington Star.) Naming the Canoe. ANOES are gliding on the Poto- mac, the eastern branch and the canal. Tt is the season of the gay, him." weigh an|hats and umbrellas. They send o ¥ “Couldn't T bring you somethin' elso™ | Sdopted her and “cducated her and| °T ) e There's some scenery 1n her reach, and drapes his form across | light. swift craft. The thoughts of sald the waiter, “the wiener schnitzel| Pampered her and treated her as a|wuva byeriiria i poorst o her way, and some furni- it, the reason for her sudden anic | thousands of men and maidens are il Doddled 1 Sy {member of his own family, only bet-| %4 % ay., he says d h mosity toward him is explained. turning, or have already turned to es is very'— ter. until she repaid him by becoming|CUl My Whole string of coaches and ture and props, but she glass jar falls out of one of his hip 2 & “Nix," said Scandalous; “if the casso- |not only the largest bull in the bus- teams for a burial turnout over here pockets and is dashed to fragments | canoeing. Year by year the number on McDougal street. and |of canoes and canoeists increases and . iness but the most highly cultivated wary licked us. what chance would we! "“Emily "knew nearly everything stand against bison? Thatll be all for | there was to know, and wh: didn. the olio: I'll go right into the after show | know she nusnebt}:fls vtra_v! S:lerul‘:éll : Being as it's a sion, I'm driving the first nontaining the sorrowing fam- Naturally, with a joh big oce riage, ily of deceased. don't trouble to go round on the cruel bricks far below, its contents is then seen to be peanut butter. * % ¥ % it is reasonable that more canoes will flit and glide in the home waters of Washington this spring than ever be- i now. Slip me a dipper of straight; Likewise, as I came to find out lat-r. | like that on my hands, 1 don’t thi ; 7 5 5 hink ehicory and one of those Flor de Boiled 'she was extremely grateful for small| ahout Emily at all: iy mind' = o Dinnees, and then you can break the bad | favors and most affectionate by na- ' oecapied up. enall Sy, mina g jall; G SEES these things as if in & trou- | fore. Old canoes are being repaired news to my pal here.” By this 1 knew |ture. To be sure, being affectionate pass off in a tasty and pleasant fash. | bled dream, and then, all of a/anq repainted and new canoes are he meant that he craved a cup of black |with a bull about the size and gen-| io, for all concerned. Well, the cor- sudden, me and Emily are all alone in being launched. cofte nd one of the domestic cij eral specifications of a furniture car( ° i & S S S o fo which he was addicted, and that 1|had its drawbacks. = She was liable S5Sn dur jeaving the late resldence - % deserted city. Exceptin’ for us two.| One of the canoeist’s problems is the could pay the check. o ttean D aealnat You i & Payful | corner comes bulging Emily, follbwng | Ner. but taking one thing with an- thex can pass ‘em out: and there’s a | eatin’ sacks and all any more; she's|there ain't & soul in sight nowheres. | selection of an appropriate name and gl:az:_n:d;:“me‘:om‘ 1o fnish your|MOSL of,your riba" ¢ N A st a ;ullab]: distance by eight or :_v;af‘r.e lrnnr;‘r‘:l regrettin’ “none !Iln‘; Ilnm; line, main ‘dkldsk at the lrgx office | emptying the peanuts out and {hrow- | pyen Windy has mysteriously van-|an Indian name is considered the a /ith 2 | nine thousand of th ac Ak down all organize Zoes on in and takes a flasRt at the|ing the 3 2 i gl i ng a violent flirtation with a land nd e populace.” Bhe's [510 15,11y o take her out o nawn.| front of the house (hroush the peephole | Rer work amm t bags aside Likewise| | o And now Emily, in passing|proper thing for such an Indian . turn™ he asked. “They've got mince % inside a fruit | vehicle as the canoe. Old canoes may Emily makes a side-swipe at a stout gent who's in the act of climbing a telegraph pole. a nick in the bank roll, and then we goes back to the rear of the utablnl where Emily quartered, and is she falls on Windy's neck. mighty nigh dislocating it, and he introduces me | to Emily, and we shakes hands to- n trunks.—and thea les her, and she fol- lows us along just as gentle as a kit- ten to them freight yards over on Tenth avenue, where her future | traveling home is waiting for her. It's a box car, with one end rigged up with bunks as a boudoir for me | and Windy, and the rest of it fitted | out as a private stateroom for Emily. | “From that time on, for quite a spell, we're just the same as one big |happy family, a8 we goes a jauntily touring from place to pla . “We're playin' the Big Time, which hard | means week stands and no jumps. Emily’s a hit, a knock-out and| a4 riot wherever she appears. She| knows it too, but success don’t go to| her head, and she don’t never get no| | attacks of this here complaint which | they calls temper'ment. 1 always fig- {gered out that temper'ment, when a igrand wopra singster has it, is just {plain old temper when it afflicts a | brickiayer. I don’t know what form it jwould take if it should seize on a {bull, but Emily appears to be abso- {lutely immune. Give her & ton of hay and one sack of peanuts a day, and she's just as placid as a great gross of guinea pigs. Behind the scenes she never makes no trouble, but chums with the stagehands and even some- limes with the actors, thus proving| that she ain't stuck up. i “When the time comes for Emily to do her turn she just goes ambling on behind Windy and cuts up more! didoes than any trick mule that ever | lived. She smokes & pipe, and she | toots on a brass horn, and waits on table while Windy pretends to eat, and stands on her head, and plays base ball with him and so forth and 8o on, for fifteen minutes, winding up by waving the Amurikin flag over her head. But all this time she's keeping one eye on me, where I'm standing in the wings with a sack of peanuts in_my pocket waiting for her to come off. Every time she works over toward my side of the stage, she makes little hoydenish remarks to me in her native language. It ain't long until I can make out everything she says. I've been peddling the bull too long not to be able to understand it when spoke by a native. “For upwards of two months things soes along just beantiful. Then we tows: out in Illinols where businsss t indeed 1t ever through a Georgia goober king’s planta- tion. * ok ok X ] GOES to where Emily is hitched. and she's weaving to and fro on her legs and watering the mouth until she just naturally can’'t control her own riparian rights. She's done smeit that smell, too. “‘Honey gal' 1 says to her, ‘it shore looks to me like you're due to zet yvour fullupances of the suc. culential ground-pea of the sunny southland this day She's 8o grateful she tries to kiss me, but I ducks. All through her turn she dribbles from the chin like a defective fire hydrant, and I can tell that she ain't zot her mind on her business. Shc's too busy think- | ing about peanuts. When she's got through and taken her bows the manager leaves the curtain up and mily steps back behind a rope that a couple of the hands stretches acrosst the stage, with me standing on one side of her and Windy on the other; and then a couple more hanus shoves | a wooden runway acrosst the orchestra rail down into one of the side aisles; |and then the house manager invites Emily’s young friends to march up the runway and acrosst over from left to right. handing out their free- will offerings to her as they pass. “During this pleasant scene, as the manager_explain: mily’s dauntless owner, the world-famous Professor Zendavesta Jordan, meaning Windy, will lecture on the size, dimensions, habits and quaint peculiarities of this wondrous creature. That last part suits Windy right down to the ground, him being, as I told you before, the kind of party who's never so happy as when he’s started his mouth and gone away and left it running. “For maybe a half a minute after the house manager finishes his little spiel. the kids sort of hang back. Then the rush starts; and take it from me, little one, it's some considerable rush. Here they come up that runway—tiny dots in blue, and tiny dots in red, and tiny dots in white; tiny dots with their parents, guardians or nurses, and tiny tots without none; tiny tots| that are beginning to outgrow the tiny tottering stage, and other vari- eties of tiny tots too mumerous to men- tion. And clutched in each hand is a bag of peanuts, five-cent size or ten: cent_size, but mostly five-cent sis As Emily sees 'em coming, she smiles| until she looks in the face like one of| these here old-fashioned red-brick Colonial fireplaces, with an over- grown black Christmas stocking hanging down from the center of the mantel. “Up comes the first and fore- most of the tiny tots. The Santy Claus stocking reaches out and an- nexes the free-will offering. There's a faint crunching sound: that there sack of peanuts has went to the bourne from out which no peanut, up until that time, has ever been known to re- turn; and Emily is smiling benevolent- ¢ ()BSERVING all of which, 1 says to myself. L say; ‘f ever Emily should start to cramp, the world's cramping record is also in a fair way to be busted this afternoon. I certainly do hope’ I says. ‘that Emily don't go and get overextended.” “You see. I'm trusting for the best, because I realizes that it wouldn't do to call off the reception right in the middle of it on account of the dis- appointment amongst the tiny tots that ain't passed in review yet and the general ill-feeling that's sure to follow. “1 should sdy about 200 tiny tots have gone by, with maybe 500 more | still in line waiting their turn, when | there halts in front of Emily a fanc: | dressed tiny tot which he mustve | been the favorite tiny tot of the rich- est man in town, because he's holding in his hands a bag of peanuts fully a foot deep. It couldn't of cost a cent less'n half a dollar, that bag. Emily reaches for the contribution, fondles it for a second or two and starts to upend it down her throat, and then, with a low, sad, hopeless cry, she drops it on the stage and sort of shrugs her front legs forward and stands there with her head bent and her ears twitching same as if she’s listening for something that's still a long ways off but coming closer fast. And at that precise in- stant I sees the first cramp start from behind her right-hand shoulder-blade and begin to work south. Say, it was just like being present at the birth of an earthquake. “Moving slow and deliberate, Emily turns around in her tracks, shivering all over, and ‘then I sees the cramp |'ripple_along until it reaches her cargo-hold and strikes inward. It lifts all four of her feet clean off the floor, and when she comes down again she comes down traveling. There's some scenery in her way, and some furniture and props and one thing and another, but she don't trouble to go round 'em. She goes through ‘em, as being a more simple and direct way, and a minute later she steps out through the stage en- trance into the crowded marts of trade, with half of a cottage flat hung around her mneck. Me and Windy is trailing along, urging her to be ca'm. but keeping at a rea- sonably safe distance while doing s0. Behind us as we comes forth we can hear the voices of many tiny tots upraised in skeered cries. “Being a Saturday afternoon, the business section is fairly well crowd- ed with people, and I suppose it's only natural that the unexpected appearance upon the main street of the largest bull in captivity, wearing part of a set of scenery for a_collar and making sounds through her snout MHke a switch-engine in di tress, should cause some surprised comment amongst the populace. In | [ in the po'm, and at that the entire front end of that establishment seems to give away in a very simultaneous manner, and Emily reaches in through the orifices and plucks out the con- tents of that there store, including stock, fixtures and good will, and throws 'em backward over her shoul- der in a petulant and hurried way. But I takes notice that she throws the bin of peanuts much farther than the grapefruit or the pineapples or the glass showcases containing the stick candy. The proprietor must of been down in the cellar at the mo- ment, else I judge she'd of fetched him forth, too. “Thus we continues on our way, me and Emily, in the midst of a vast but boisterous solitude,—for while we can’t see the inhabitants, we can nu; ‘em,—until we arrive at the foot of Main street, and there we beholds the railroad freight depot looming before us. 1 can tell that Emily is wishful to pass through this structure. There atn't no opening on the nigh side of it, but that don’t hinder IEmily none. She gives one heave with her shoul- Qders and makes a door and passes on in and out again on the far side by the same methods. 1 arrives around the end of the shed just in time to see Ter slide down @ Steep grade through somebody's truck-garden and sink down upon her heaving flank in a lit- tle hollow. As I halts upon the brow of the hill, she looks up at me very reproachful and 1 can see that her prevalent complexion is beginning to Yurn very wan and pale. Son, take it from me, when a full-grown she-bull she's probaly the wannest gets wan, thing there is in the world. “ 'Stand back, Scandalous’' she moans to me in bull-language. I don't bear you no grudge—it was a Mmistake in judgment on the part of 211 of us,—but stand back and give me this time, she says, IO Rty but ~ something 5 been po'rly. llE:r.}ll to tell me that now I'm about to be what you might call real in- disposed.” “Which she certainly was. “So, after a while, a part of the po- lice force came along, stepping siow and cautious, and they halts them- selves In the protecting shadows of the freight shed or what's left of it, when 1 responds, they tell me I'm A st for inciting riots and disturbances and desecration of prop- erty and various other crimes and misdemeanors. 1 Suggests to ‘em that If they're really craving to ar- rest anybody, they should oughter be- gin with Emily, but they don't fall in with the idea. They marches me up to the police station. looking over their shoulders at frequent intervals to be sure the anguished Emily ain't coming, too, and when we get there, and they beckon me to come near ‘em, | slide to venture up clost to Emily missed me, and she wants be g mily Wants ber peanuts. Yoy have my best wishes, and o has | in the curtain, and the place is already |1t w. Her underlip is swinging|along, happens to 100l she. jam full. If there's one kid out there|down, and she's beginning to drool 3 through the window her be renamed and names are to be found * k X * | there's a thousand, and every tiny tot|loose goobers off the lower end of it store, an bin full | for new ones. Some persons feel that “o 5 has mot a sack of peanuts clutched in|and her low but intelligent forchead | unhappy glance rests upon a bin fu O we scttles up the account to 7 » H the reall ood canoe names have | his or her chubby fist, as the case may | is all furrowed up as if with deep ts. So she just presses her y & date, which the same makes quite| he, And say, listen, there's a smell in | thought. ot peanuts. like Little Mary | been already taken up and used and | the air like a prairie fire running * % k¥ face against the pane like that the list, like the list of apart- ment house names and sleeping car names has been about exhausted. There are more Indian names in the neighborhood of Washington than there will ever be -canoes on the Potomac river. Up and down the Potomac, the Shenandoah, the Patux- ent, the Rappahannock, the Yeo- comico, the Monocacy and the Wicomico are creeks, branches, points or headlands, villages and marshes with names that have come from the Indians who dwelt there Any good map of the territory around Wash- ington will probably show a canoeist the name like that he is feeling for. An authority on Indian words re- cently prepared a list of Indian words, which appeared to him as being suit- able for canoes. These words were not those used by the Potomac In dians and cover a wide range ol Indian nomenclature. In that Ifst ap- pear Maskeg., which means a marsh or swamp; Mitasse, which is Indian | for leggings of deerskin: Nagaue, | which is an Indian word for cradle; Ouragau. which means a plate of birch- bark: Pagaier, a_ paddie; Wowaron, meaning a bullfrog: Katayusti or snow snake, and also such words as | Maskinonge, Opeche, Moccasin, Iro- quois, Sacakona, Sachem, Tabague, Tomahak, Totem. Walamiche, Chip- pewa, Navajo, Cheyenne, Shoshone and Catahacret. But in a territory so rich and fruit- ful in melodious and easily pronounc- {ed Indian names as the Potomac, Patuxent and Rappahannock valleys, there is no need for men in quest of a ! good canoe name to travel far. The ! names are at our aoor. | Our Potomac canoes glory in their | lightness, grace and bright colors. They are fleeter, and more beautiful !than the canoes which the Maryland and Virginia Indians paddled up and down our river and its creeks. Their icanoe was rudely made from the trunk of a tree. They used the stout straight stem of a black walnut, oak, ! hickory or tulip popular. In some instances they used cedar. The In- dians hacked down one of these big trees with stone axes and generally burned the tree through near the meeting_ place of the “bowl” and “crown” giving the tree trunk the approximate length required for the canoe. Then with fire and stone axes they hollowed the log and gave & rude boat shape to it at the ends. There is a_reproduction of one of the Virginia Indian canoes at the Na- tional Museum, being a part of the setting of the group showing Capt. John Smith and a party of whites trading with Virginia Indians. The tableau shows two Indian women at {the paddles in this canoe and =& “brave” is lifting out of the canoe basket of corn, while several bush: of corn. blue ears and white ears, are scattered in the bottom of the canoe. Even this corn is said to be accurately representative of the corn which the Indians of this part of the ctrwtulnll.ry'x‘r:v and wufig:unel )ym artists of the museum the Iroq Indians of Canada.