Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1921, Page 68

1921—PART 4 > UNDAY STAR.” WASHINGTON, D. C. that “See, the Conquering Hero|long walk ahead of him and needed , . v Comes” was an especially felicitous | the darkness for shield and buckler. COnl lete tor n Serles b }I()l’nall LY | selcction for the aceasion. 1t was ren- [ He felt that when a man goes down § ) 4 dered in quick tempo when the van|into a hole In the ground there's went bouncing away no telling when he will come up The Dodge brothers were not as|again 4 i § i s v alert as arg So. e advanced i ¥ AME the Hon. J. Flavius Dob- | T0te with old Seth Watson of our|go down to the ico-cream tent and | traband in question. and they pur- (I domt feel like deciding for myself|business turn. and T like to keep my {0 5 their chargers. Something! He advanced into the lanterns i s . PoOr farm—meaning no offense to vou, | bring me a goodsized hunk of ice?|chased. Furthermore. they passed the |on much of any topic latel plans humming. | where they stood. But when e Wit ] me. Honubble Dobson but there's s son. making his triumphal|gir;. But it wouldn't amount to noth- | ¥ % % ® word to friends. The friends came.| “What did You mean by showing| “‘Do it now' is a good motto. T aEiCt 00 oA, Bul Wit A ) e matter of business——" entry upon the grounds of [ing. only to get me into trouble. Most < So did the section of the public that | yourself in public after getting ba-!agreed the donor. “Lenda hand, Seth." [y o, "0 Gives: himself of it so the East Lebanon Agricul-|of the world is at peace right now.| [T was a compound that required My Wincapaw. traveling afield. was|zooed up in that mtylez asked one of| fTn a short time the moth-eaten baslinat i “might he able to tackle a * ok x ¥ tural Association at an early hour in|®Nd | want to stand in with the major-| L care and attention: the partners |able to interest. his hosts. Now Mr. Wincapaw awoke | boon was removed from the coils. and | (UL ¢ MIELE Do able to tackle @l gem § oiidently occurred to the {and flamed into passion. “Hold vour|without hesitation. Mr. Wincapaw put ity. Betier follow example.” i i i ; 5 e, rofe: r 9 the torenvom. Ho atiraeted fany as| B Beier follow ms examples” | eat up with it that night. dozing by | * o % | Rogses right there, Sister: | 1'm Good | mimselt o the - Babgon s Biace the | (ree: the professor shrieked: “Tun for Honorable Dobson that he could ach attention from the populace as| time to take n positian First he prics | turns. Mr. Wincapaw was the ice- | hUT it wgs not long before Prof.|Templar to the core. 1'd ng morel coils fitting snugly around his body ¥OUL Iife, Bt 1s getting ready | not possibly have any business with taste of the cuss of humanity thanland halfway down his legs. “Again H o I'd cuddle that there snake io slecp|] thank vou.” he said. peering from | Then s a chance for mistakes in other if he was alive. LAGLE Die anilisc head. “I'l.be has: cor dived into the|A talking snake. He pitched his lan- loose and casts adrift my brother and | purveyor and made frequent trips to Dodge fvas apprised that there | ion. and his brother | tern onto the turf, leaped out of the - by | the rofe n Wincapaw! I he hadn't done that | (he fair-ground ice housc. having | D ever did J. Caesar charioting it down woods in one direc the middle of Main street in Rome. might keep out of it. And now he's | iR | i “ o 4 T Ait The vehicle was a landau, drawn by | starting in to make hoss-trotting in | found that he could pry loose the |quarters. Came one with intelligence Then where did vou get that|tening on with my plans” He went | Win1 the other way with even more|hole with a yell of terror and gal- two high-checked horses which were | this town the laughingstock of the ! padiock. |—a bulletin which referred to the beaut’ that vou was lugging around|forth into the night. Suddenly the wheezy organ ceaseq | 10Ped off. his helpers at his heels. * % % x to proclaim the conquuring hero. An| The lantern was still burning. Mr. ME WINCAPAW had hurried the ©Mminous crash attended the wind-up| Wincapaw put off the affectionats of the tun Mr. Wincapa trudges k. matter for fear that he might belan hopeiui e AaeAE tnon o £ his partner, picked up the quizzed about his plans: a statement:wreck of the tune-cam. lodged against | lantern and found that steps de- a tree. The front wheels, with thill activities of the field worker: | “Let me inform you that I was be- Mr. Wincapaw was out on the home- | fore the public on a noble mission, in- troducing something for the uplift of suffering humanity,” declared | Wincapaw with dignity. My et Bz | whole United States. 1 don't propose Prof. Dodge was boiling the mo trying hard to bump their chins with 17 thut | 1asses in the tin wash-boiler in which 3 3 | to have any such word go out. their knees. The driver wore a plug|potbellicd old plug-hatter aint put his brother steamed out the banda, »alb. He turned the cover | streteh and very active. He had al- hat which he matched in perpendicu- | where he belongs. risht here and now, | for Dusiy Y heh Sy 4 pell be setting up & (hrone out in | of the boiler upside down and tied a | ready broken up the two-nineteen lar uprightness with the straightness| "% 1 P00 0" 0 Ghiige us to give| tin pannikin to the handle. The lce | pace which the Honorable Dobson had today before the public™ ’ coils of his back. The flashing doodangles|him a jew's harp serenade. 1f nobody | in the cover condensed the vaper that | been making desperate efforts to, Tistt &0f j“‘] "“.”M up as vet. but|involved confession. He had not|® tree. The front wheels with thi scended into the pit. He went down on the narness made observers wink. e s ver s oing when the | money enough to buy transportation |from them. were one GlactoEILE [ without hesitation. He traversed So did the shimmery sheen of Mr. Dob- | | een, T maw: ol taiRinE s e down the line to the next fair. Mr.{yan & s narrow alleys that were hedged to son’s headgear. Mr. Dobson sat in| {men and patting a tin teavot, (Several | pobson's ediet having knocked out | "'Ha found his tent and loaded that|{1¢ roof with barrels and kegs and stately isolation in the middle of the | \k A TaKing @ Swiz &t the nossle befme ron|two days of business. He resolved 101a5q the snake on the makeshift har-| LoXeS and jugs and demijohns. There rear seat of the landau. The dabs of | passed the teanot jo foome, before oll| foot it by night. being aware that|row that the wheels and axle made, | SCTC Inany alleys. The eicavation gray whiskers on his cheeks stuck 7 o m. stated his | 2%anq s new possession did not|hmee mre he ook ap e e made | seemed 10 be limitiess. Mr. Win “ut like bats' wings. 77 | 2 { present a spectacle that suited garish |anq af 1ast he cama to the cates gf| CAPAW lost himscif several times Old Sanford Wincapaw. straighten- x “They all made me take the first taste | duy. Furthermore, he hoped that heii‘resimoor The gates wore high amd| AR #t one of those times he lifted ing up from pulling taut the last guy | s0 as to show ‘em that 1 wasn't intro-| was on the trail of his tent. AZUring go was the wall which stretched away | 1® Yoice and wailed: “My Gawd of his little tent, surveyed the passing lfllm‘rnz nothing that was hurtful.” con-|that the Dodges would be at the fairion either side srete A¥) I'm in the abode of the Demon Rtum the Hon. Dobson 1 Ifamd the field worker. A man who,and that he tould replevin his prop- "Tllw ain bustness all hetween | HE spoke with all the horror of an Emp'ror, or only plain King?" he: won't take his own medicine cant do|erty in time to be rcady for theinim and me and (he snake® declared | AP0stle of temperance. Then he ded asked Professor Kezar Dodge. who | | business with the publie.” lcrowds. And above all. he had an- 'yr Wincapaw. ins ting the wallandlas one would flee from the pit of Wwas in a booth close by. { “Wincapaw, there was rumor around |other prgject in his still muddied s gecining that’ heb wouln be ahie 1) fame. provided the door werg left “Well, so far as this fair is con-| [the grounds’ that the Dodges were|mind. “These ritters set up till | ¢limb over it. ‘Therefore he cut off a ] P& cerned, he's bigger than either one { working you on some kind of a boot-{all hours of the night.” he informed |tent-rope and used 1t to pull ghe | pio gmameanaw did not recover ail would be. He has promised to do-| | terging proposition. They have skipped | himself. “I'll £o Found by way of |sersenr 10 the top of the whil afe | 18, equanimity until he found him- nate a new exhibition building. -nd out. The United States revenue officers ' Bragg's Hill and ketch Honubble Dob- ho had mounted there. He low sclf installed in his little tent on ered | the grounds of the Anson fair next s burden on the other side and Again | morning. Then he found himself ook up his march inside the coils. ble to do a whole lot of thinking He spied a light at the far extreme |~ Anson is the shire town of the »f the Honorable Dobson's spacious | county. b crounds, Mr. Wincapaw impulse | AMr” W aw W, till thinking Honubble Dobson has put the | ambulating anaconda g i ol P o R s i to gago that light before tackling | wie e o i naconda out of business. Done! He came to a wood-road that led off Tt chine Nt inelnhon the Bk aherit el the ten) rit f_-‘;‘r?.l h; )z‘;r,"nf';:ltlpox:;:}-?--s :;:'ah{r‘}ou :'L\:'”'::In highway in the desired di-|jjghts tonight has had important spection. Mr. Wincapaw glanced at fo s SRS YO nies =4 g g oo sults. [ may as well see what this!the d b ently request- jwasmt Ke-ping up with the tmes, Win-| After a time, swinging around a [on is he mused. fhe Fold badke sufKgently renuest jeapaw. Its about time that vour in-'hind of the réad he' came upon s third light was of the wi The sheriff listened for five min- { fant anaconda growed to some size.” He ' tableau that intcrested him: under wisp sort. It was moving. Mr.|utes. mouth open, eyes Rrowing {exchanged looks with his pariner, ami {the light of a lantern which swung e wae obliged 1o, ToliGw 1L maas Jumping | Judast e ex- :lhe partner nodded. “Seth and 1 were | from a limb were the Dodge brothers, time he had become So ac- | ploded. “That's the hide that the [Just talking over the case of this snake. | busy over the tin wash boiler. Near|customed to his ophidian companion [ federai officers and 1 have been hunt- i here. Moths have :ot nto the baboon. by ‘was the knock-kneed hoi and [that he was in a way to forget that|ing months for! Wincapaw, Debson jand without the baboon, the thing ain't|the tune-cart. The knock-kneed|ihe rest of the world might not re-|has plaved a game that would have so much a wofider of nature. We don't}horse was rubbing noses sociably |gpar o peripatetic o ati 2 o Wl ' fooled! T tak B & yofderiof DAy, yedoni| oy was Junl gard the peripatetic combination with|kept the whole of us fooled! ake | want to see an old-timer ! sty Joab. yplacidity. He hurried to catch up.|off my hat to him. We never thought ig . If you s capaw’s mind hadiSoon he made zood progress in over- | twice about those big moving vans will be on their trail. There's my word ; son before he goes to bed. When he |y, of warnin, T've known vou of old.|sees this snake. Le'll have a new id and T don't want to see vou get into|on the subject” trouble. . (et back on your old job. I On the Candyhook road Mr. Winca- haven't got any job any longer.:paw traveled in the guise of the per they have voted him in as president of the association. I see that you're & stranger in town. Have'nt you heard about the Honubble Dobson Mr. Wincapaw confessed that he had not. | “Why he's the one that has give | the new horse trough for the village | square, with¢his name on it: and the | square has been named for him too. And so is the new library building. | because he donated to it. and _the same for the hall that's been fixed | over for an op'ry house: and they're zoing to call this here Dodson Park. and they'll probly name the town | over for him if his money holds out. | He has bought three farms on Bragi's | Hill and calls his place Crestmoor. and has city folks down to see him. | and rides around on hosshack with a | lot of dogs so as to_ boss his hired | help, and all them that touch their | hat to him get a rise of pay'" “I'd like to know the receipt for how so many dum fools in this world t rich,” said Mr. Wincapaw bitterly. What have you got for the public this trip?” he asked the professor. “Hay tea that iz touched up with ’lrchloph el):l"é" conflded fnu.- pro- essor, holding mne secrets from one hac) Sty = of his'own Kind. o Imperial influenzy the end of the halter and went off on Knockout Drops.’ is how I announce. [ the Tun. “Use now and fortify the system and % ox % £y ¥ the word.| While Mr. W we'll rip out that baboon and give vou,been clearing, his wrathful certainty | nauiling beeas e lantern halte came to his estate—naturally the snake free gratis for nothing. Then!chat Le had been put upon Kept flame | s ne S ianoranie Dotann wemrine a | ot ceatng e e to b you can get up a lecture on how the|ing higher in him. He began to run.[goif cap, was holding the lantern to! Al these fake tin peddlers and fish ?:.e:ra(‘tm:(|;1fan('.a?ur:;lerl:fl;\ has—and so | When he was near enough % thadl the | light the work of two helpers. The | cart men who have been selling booze i i , et cetry. Ge ? antern's light was reflected in!tpree we od e “sma v $10 quart all over the state start without disaster and riot. It seems oo good to be true ffll-lspurkles in the serpent’s staring Kla:'x‘:r:.» ?ry,:.e hi:;:-’sqdh(:‘(?kdp'( ,1‘“.:"1‘,‘,‘.{, :v'u:s! ‘h.- ?\m'nzpma'l Well. there's a T e N o was further in a fair way to break tered the old showman. “And I reckon'cyes, he began to curse the men who|of tackle-and-falls to an iron ring- | thousand dollars reward coming to up the whole fair. . __'if 1 go to Honubble Dobson and let him had rayed him. A profane and | holt high up on the trunk of the tree u! Tl see that you get it" Just what is the main trouble with {inspect, h<"ll back up about posting me | rampant snake proved too much for'an:l the other end to a ring which ! Mr. Wincapaw drew himsell un. him hasn’t been wholly figgered oul.” [on the circuit.” cried Mr. Wincapaw the outfit upon which he was charg- | they lifted up from concealment in|*“As an l. O. G. T.. 1 want to say i reported the informant. who was not|hopefully. “Gents I'll take that snake ing. Dusty Joab, having only a sulky | the grass. Then.they heaved on the | that the knowing that I have rooted a customer. but had come to the stall !and be everlastingiy oblecged.” to haul. got away first with a flving | tackie, and the tree was tipped over, out the Demon Rum is reward with his news because. o he said. the | “All right! Call around in the morn-|start. The knock-knced horse heaved | lifting a square section of the sward. , enough for me!” disturber had been shouting the name | ing." . |at the van and followed closely. hav- | They made fast. and the Honorable | “But that thousand dollars— sc can’t sce their duty clear. by the pie-eved Jethro. 1 can. and I'm going to i He whacked Dusty Joab with Z of Dodge brothers as the saviors of | wie i e . 5o Bely. ha > o L 0ia My, Win- guard ' against pext season’s out- i iSea i finge i haid 2 of | "It it's all the same to you. I'll take! ing panic ax an effectual goal. The | Dobson started ahead down the hole | “Oh I'll take that.” said Mr. Win Break. The doctors have done so| [ HE professor retired into himself :‘,:"" humanity. “But it doesn’t Jook as . "o *1 ain't meaning to hint that | tune-lever was jarred into place when | which had been opened for him. capaw loftily, “so as to square my- much predicting that the public is S0 effectually that Mr. Wincapaw (it he had been in the hands of his| oLl change vour minds—not a bit of | the wheels bumped over a big rock.| ~Mr. Wineapaw was hankering to|scif in part for the two days’ busi: ready to try anything. Cuss them |found the situation embarrassing. He with :'pafleo?“fi::: Zzg:;:«i‘g}:i?fl"z But I've got plans, and I'd like to|A calm zndhunprejuullcfld bystander, { have his errand over, so that he mess that n.-m.,_m,ne'n;hm“ ;(:;o?_kevl reglar doctors; anyway! I wish | ayeq o 53S0 O RET U e Slth & pair of drivars gogles leshed | be worlsing 1 nt at the scene, would have felt | might be on his way, for he had a 'me out of at kast Lebanon i know something that N oM fuic |(o take up his mind. He found it|“GUESS THE CONSTABULES ARE| heen smoked.'He lugged a larntern. . Jns 2 9 ; 7 ; OMING : q and was singing there in the blazing ness! I'd give it #way! Them reg'lar |later when he arrived the neigh- COMING RIGHT ALONG A8, 2n¢ 1w it ¢! 2 [Y) doctors won't give me a show. Every {borhood of the judges' stand. Mr.) SOON AS THEY GET OLD Win-|jin. ‘108 a Starry Night for'a Itam- P R H & RA time I locate and stick vy a sign. they CAPAW WINGAPAWED SOWN | ity ¢ banged that Jarntern I o 5, Cezs Bitterson Dod ) hurtli right and left inst th, ses of ; % of. Keza ge came hurtling g eft against the no: | ll‘;;?’;:esvvflnghsti:?uj&w T'm Pr ezar TO TALK AND ACT A | hossis and started three runaway ey won't let me | through the little door in the base of [ BNOU tart ! have my sign wp." the stand and landed on his hands| _ LITTLE SENSE, and when they tried to arrest him, he 113 ” “What do them letters stand for"| 3 j— e N {bulled a couple of pickets off'm the and knces in the dust of the home- Tence and belted the marshal oft'mithis . Wincapaw affably. = ;lxfi?‘tufi-ubm- ‘Specialist.” Thanks |Streteh; it was very evident that Mr.] rose from the molasses and the little | hoss and stood off two constabules ay 1 ask what | Dodge had bee A streams trickied cown to tne peak o1 |and stopped the whole fair till they BY STERLING HEILIG. 'y?,'ur’fifii Intgre = h,"“ had been violently assisted in| 5000 Cover and dropped off | 30 ub a bee and locked him up in the MONTE CARLO, Apsil 21, 195%: I Sive infant anaconda in cap- 1S €Xit. But he was not wholly con-| inio the pannikin, Crude as wos the | Calaboose under th~ grandstand. That's MONTE CAILO, = 4 vy e price -admits to all—a quered. He rose and shook a mus-| process, nevertheiess i was distilla- |all to date! But there’s a movement ONTE CARLO is probably the wonder of nature that it's the 'l'lul.\‘ n{ sed-up sheet of paper at Judge Dob- :;:"_",ml“*;; yrnl‘ex-\’fr did something o ‘c";‘";';‘i‘w'fl" ‘?:d““:'l "',0“‘ l;"""_ two are most luxurious pleasure city ity offt and S Ret : uice also. - vith his performance’ | g i shion- parents) Hereflceom::‘,\‘;:ck L ot 4 [son and that gentleman's associates | NG IT P YER 2N L quite as stip- | Guess the contabules are coming right in the world, yet the fashion- | SO b Argyie: He's stopping at |in the stand and cursed in horrible| dicular as L can do. give me more |along as soon as they get old Winca- | able Americans who seek Its 2l 3 tashion. | time,” he advised Mr. Dodge while |paw wincapawed down enough to talk | ,iiraction soon tire of so much sweet- every tent!" g ; Mr. ‘Wincapaw was napping. “But |and act a little sense.” The new: s ‘s get * k% But 1 have no time to attend 10 yo, (ake and punch that heart cider |monger scrutinized the two with|ness—as clerks in a pastry COORREEL | HEY watched the approach of subscription papers, my g0od man—! scvere enough with that molasscs | curiosity. “Perhaps you can tell me|stalled on cream puffs T President Dobson with consid-|not today,” declared Mr. Dobson. br\,lgze-“ lunnd smooth off :he Fibiaw what was ’danel inat he should get| jonte Carlo is a cream puff. i . p 3 s | edge with prune juice, and we've ot | pepersaxsed up like he i H . erable anxiety. He wu_marcmnxvmt: A'meri his Srerienceron :uslhl-:l_"’ j @ fair sort of u proposition to go be- | The Dodge brothers exchansed looks | S0 you see a aueer slgh(.b foisies the little tents of the fair midway an :o:, t was evident that Mr. Dol btml rv,:}"‘; n\; puilnlui“wnlh. o ofh alarm and declared in duct thatguld fashionables become labor (‘)usz - ain. His coruscating |kad only one idea in regard to any| ut how in blastnation are you go- | who this Wincapaw person could be | idle rich go motoring far b l“"‘l;.l'"‘;“l:e:'mm Sanier (hut: was SHORed At K. | ing before the public?” demanded M. | they had not the least idea e a T:‘e seek “different” cookery chario A8 RO b A : ...| Dodge. “Them constables will nab| The moment they were alone they|and wide, to g corld" At last he faced Mr. Wincapaw. “My 1 ask you to peruse these names you Ior pocket peddiing. Don't 100k | bezan to get their belongings to-jfrom “the best cuisine in the world"— The lan- man, what is the nature of your €x-|clamored Mr. Dodge. e 1o be a salesman! T've still got | gether. They flled the. wash boiler | - say of the Hotel de Paris, and hibition?" he inquired. e “Get oft ihe track. my good man.”|my hossman reppytation Ieft. and 1| \ith ail the Ineriminatimg eviaoncs | they say of the Mot d6 e real “Strictly moral and uplifting—a |commanded Mr. Dobson. ~l am in| Propose to use it after that blug-|and tugged it on the trot to the tung they finish by acquiring B wonder of nature—" command here, and I cannot have the | hatted Dobson gets done dobbing. cart. s ‘Igsmc in veritable Veter Pan towns! ] i “Enough I must inspect it." Helgecasion marred by any violent talk.” he professor made sure thet Mr.| “You hitch uj e = ; served! mmhed' into the tent. He marched | ‘“Marred—marred!” squalled Driver| Wincapaw was sound asleep. and even | quick’s you c‘;n.?'“dpa:';:l'edmvln‘:)rh'ct e “mcb:arles Carroll of Car- out before Mr. Wincapaw had declded | podge. ‘Talk of marring something!| then he whispered cautiously: “The | Dodge. “I'll grab up my traps and| “f- and Mrs. Whether or not he ought to follow |If they let you start these events| thing has got to be puss¥-footed |gvertake you on the Candyhook road,! rollion, they say, have bought or are and explain. % here today there won't be nothingithrough. You just said a whole Iot, a| prof. Dodge did not announce any- |negotlating for a 600-year-old “play “My man, I see nothing there eX-lleft of thése fair-grounds but a dent| minute ago. Reppytation! It's some-|thing, musically, about the conquering solAsne e the vt Rt cept what -'ser:-“tlo'he an angleworm mg-.: face of matur-:" o T thing wn)l.an;:eggiw;gu; any mans got | hero when he' whinped the knock: Hotise in Roquebr: a mustard bottle! “Constables, put that man ol e n any s ine. Now, kneed horse off i 3 s . o I n infant ansconda does sort of |¢rack shouted the local god. Wincapaw has got a temprrance rep- | mage unobtrusive and. hasro it ne| Ralph Curtis and the Bellamy Stor favor an angleworm in the early| ‘The' constables who had previously | pytation. I'm Lanking on that. He|way of a rear gate before any cop. |€rs are supposed to be already real es- stages. but if you have a notion 10ihandied Mr. Dodge and were waiting | I8 well known as a Good Templar. |giables arrived. tate owners in romantic pirate Eze— wait till he grows— {for further orders picked him up,|I'm going to let him Introduce goods. |* Th® oMcers did come upon Driver| Which. though all but deserted of its “I have no time to waste and Noithrew bim over the fence jnto theiI'm going to have him talk ub Tri- | Bitterson Dodge when that gentleman |FoPulation, remains “the town that can- taste for jests, my good man. T have!:nner oval, then pursued through the| umphant Tincture. He'll talk honest ! wag lashing to his sulky the last of the | POt forseL.” this whole fair on my shoulders. I|gate and walked him Spanish to the|and sound honest, because he'll be| quipment and furnishings of Dusty| And Henry Clewes, jr, who already am in supreme command. 1 will havelpack stretch and threw him over an-| sure that he's whooping it up for a| joab. St | gwned, and is restoring the ancient no fakes or frauds here. My name|qther rail medicine that's planned to benefit the | “"“If a man by the name of Wincapaw |chauteau of Theoule. with its two Sara- must stand for honesty and excel-| He knew”where he would find com- | suffering human race.” g dont Al that vo8 oy : Gen towers, on the bay of Can has Jence. Take down this tent at once|panions in this misery which had "I tell you he'll be yanked up forretorted to their e e has. he | Cane cahoots with another American and_get off these grounds!” been whipped up by the Honorable J.! pocket-peddling. even if he's got is crazy. And when a man is crazy, | in buying an entire ruined city, with- “Will you allow me to put in a|Flavius Dobson: he went out behind | reppytation to match the "Postlelanething he says is only out population. It is Oltvula, the Rid- word?" preaded a man who overheard. | the horse-harn und joined his brother | Paul's” insisicd the skentic ol et exprct a man of mi repuand {dle. ' You cannot find it on ‘any map 1 am one of the fair trustees. Mr.{and Mr. Wincapaw. i “He ain't going to peddle. I'm going | tjon and standing to waste his breath |or in any histoiy book, vet it is right Dobson. San Wincapaw is one of thei Prof. Dodge had come 6ut of his|to start him out among the hossmenjon something that ain't no more im- ! there, on the heighis, above Ville-{ characters of the section. and he has!abstraction “You're the kind [!with a sample in that old tin teapot|portant than a wind-hoot over a bung- | irance bay, within rifle shot of the made the rounds of the fairs for years. i want” he stated. jof his. Adyertising campaign. %0 10ihole. But Ull tell you what is impor- | Duke of Connaught's villa. and every year he hasa new joke i Mr. Wincapaw had returned to the !sveak! He'll 1ot u prospect soop at$Ti: It's that this trot track ain't ne * x % K ™1 must remind you that the name tent after following in the fringe of |the nozzle. If sample suits. the payiron| more a fit place for a good hoss, whils: of Dobson stands for something in|the retinue that had accompanied thelis directed to eall at this stall for|that pot-bellied old Dobson is in. that JFROM the terruce Monte Carlo IN A “PETER PAN TOWN" OF THE RIV this town. It must not be smirched. progress of Mr. Dodge acroes the in-|further —instruction and - guidance stand than a red-hot stovelid is fit for you can sce Roqucbrune, a brown T order that tent taken down. This|ner oval. He glowered at the profes-falong the troubled pathway of life. asia schoolmarm’s bangle. That's why 1'm i dertaking, not a|#or. “I'm lad I have found out what | the ritual of the Independent Order of | leaving. 1t splash on the mountainside, plastered | where there are no straight lines.| Today, T say. Igke huddles in the|Var (perfect medieval walled city of T B Turned to Prot. Dodges | you're looking for, and thal'} ot | Ostriches used to have it Wincapawy oL T i °,f!precarious|y against the slope, uhoul; Svery boy with & pirate book | sun. remi(‘mbfir(ng,,# the hills) grip the blase soul, cach .- e O man what have | fit. It you need a few more despera-|ain't selling. we don't have to trust | juicy Drospect around. in: eircior o ittt 4 ¢ legend says (the! knows it. here is no water. “Workingmen” |standing on its island rock, its aged ootk A TN | does. vou'll problv_ be able to enlist|him on the money part. and hisfday e o , circles. Good \hall way down. But legend says (the RO Ny L\ ouja prefer Fze. It [demand forty francs per day of four |walls dropping to the vineyards, or- i ST lably chécked the professor's|'em after that 234 trot has been |temp'rance principles keep him from | “Dusty Joab started with a jump ana |78t thing that inhabitants of Roaue-| s noy’ flowery-gay like Roquebrune, | working hours to tote your water up |ange groves and winding white rouds el nce. “More of this barefaced|started by Honubble Dobson. | embezzling goods. 1 tell you, you can’t | kicked disdainful clogs of dirt in the|brune tell you) that the town was once | and fuller of truly horrible placesand |the heights to drink. 1ts visiters of the grey-green richness of Prov- robbery of the pecple with nostrums:!| “As I said before. considering the beat it. Bitt faces of the constables. - away up there and slipped—slithered | half-hidden windows out of which he lare tourist crowds in carryalls, who ence. Il have nothing of the sort on the he theo is g fl'lml“"di At cven-fall, after the races were|down in the night, castie, town and all. | could scream to the terror of honest poke about the lower streets for half| They have as bloody pages as any n't You ot a doseover, and the list of casualties that day| The inhabitants were not even awak- | folks. In fact, he might scare him- lan hour. and idle rich. in powerful |towns of Europe. For centuries war ounds good.’ condition to which you have been re- s grounds. Off with you!” {duced by no fault” of your own. I Mr. Dodge. . Mr. Wincapaw and the professor set | hope you're going to look at the;of that stuff simmered down cnough|on the track were footed up. there wag | €ncd from sleep: no stool over- | self—there are so few live folks to |motor cars. who picnic in their |waged through these valleys, follow- up a plaintive duet {thing “with sense and reason. Mr.jso that | can sampie it? 2 conference of the fair officials re- | turned, no door uwung open; the mug Eze is full of ancient|boughten pirate houses. ed by pestilence and famine. e time 6 listen. My deci- | Wincapaw. This is a case of where|: After o fow minutes the professor | zarding the case of Mr. Wincapaw. of ‘wine left overnight stood unspilled | Henry Clews has bought the queer- | * % % % on stands” insisted the dictator.|Wewve ot to scratch each others|fud, BUUDE at little matter for|~'“if he's taken into court, there's no|On the table. No dog barked and no ted. T am offered | est plave of all. > A RCHBISHOPS and princes tool backs—me and vou and Bitt. We his brother i telling how much the b R cock crowed. The folks just woke and! the “house of Blacas, the troubadour.” | The Middle Corniche road is partly | need each other. I took &@e m..-m-; Mr. Dodze sipped. blinked and i wil arag out about u I":‘:fl} l:;:;ir::: found their native town had journeyed ! for 400 francs. of $30. A first-class. [open. Already. from Momo‘vang Lol and sacked them, repaired theit over your stuff while you | smucked hix lips. "It ain't. exactly|official. *The fair is all over. and 1] far down toward the scu—houses, foun- | truc old pirate house was to be had |can go along it to the inexplicable ®image. and lived in them untid You must wake up, you two men! You are behind the times “l'hoy?:::"’ lookin: .foolish fraudf. Yeou must o Tt . ratnip tea like h - v = 2 2o were away just now. I gce you haveainip tes like mother used to make.l gant to forget it, and can’ dations, cellars, wells of water—the en- | for $100. € Olivi - :"‘)‘;'.j:m;"""‘l;':“‘ 13 '{;’:“i L e plenty of dried prunes.” Jhue by Hoses t At all rashful[ i 4f we're R illea Tto cont. Larorget | ire varth surtace slid and left a vast,| Ege. by reason of itx grim history e pgu;‘e‘rlnl: has passed/ into the | g :::n:«rim'l'»“i-‘;n'm Ml-:\":;;""«'e; bt N © ! “I have lived on prunes and bannock } he he mMain ques- | poeges.” bare scar up there, which you can sec|and astonishing position on a lone )),ng T b ica entleman.” | mi aw He strode away, e et jon ix. how about the kick? I'Il take & 4 1 o Jone i hands of an American gentleman.” miles you come on raw bleeding ‘.‘\ng'r had flashell in th pruns.&uri;’:’r:ml::":“ol\‘en’_“’;'fl?xfir:“z t{l\;-r‘p;:!(: Yo how about the Kick? Tl take | Therefore a constable was ordercd to | today for proof. pinnacle of rock above the Mediter- [go™t 0 O M oca M hapers. "as a fact, | lumps bf histors. Mr. Clews and an American asso- Barbarossa. empero lease Mr. Wi . Yooy He swallowed the contents of the | tomeee Mo Wincapuw from the cala- | ortop "Gi" go- through Roquebrunc's of pirates e and Roque- and Mr. Wincapaw for only 4 moment. | & ot the Riviera. Its past has been ciate who lives near the spot do not came on a visit to The motor carryalls of the l'nm-rlmm n, is the most fascinating town Black gloom sueceeded. R B AN alpannikin. He sat staring straight cst strect, outside the walls, and nd tragic than tha Before the twatn had fnished pack- |, V65 we need (he stove” pursucd) Bool 8 o muning with hix inner * Ok ok ok o e e “toutints Bape,. 10 15 | oo he, UMl LOUS #Tht i size in Pro. |interferc in any way with the ex-|brune from his snug harbor of Alex- ing up. they Nad formed a sort of but.|ihe Professor. “Bitt doxou sUll | rions [FREED. Mr. Wincapaw went forth | chearfal lttle town for one of its bud | Vence: Ji. has seen So muck, done so plorations of the Abbe Cardon. but. on andria in EgY¥pt, to smell the road tonhole purtnership, attracted to each | AITY 2FO0RT “How do you figzer it up to date?" into the dusk and stared U the | past—clean, trim, full up. S0 property | much. suffered so much; it cup of |the contrary. back him up handsomely. |of the Provencai walled towns. S other by mutual sympathy. They pro- | "U10."{wo gallons of It over to the|anxiously asked the professor after| ... G : Up at the | L7 car. | sorrows has so overflowed. that 200 * % x % ting sail with his galleons and land poxed To retire to some spot where | a1 g5id Mr. Dodge. showing no in- | S0me minutes, winking stars and into the mystic| Tpe supposed Carroll house. gay with | ygars ago it ceased to struggle. Be-| o i . i . |ing, first at Monte Carlo, he took anc they could confer on the matter of [ {opent “Tt buzzes! There ain't no question | depths of the heavens as if he wera now |carved woodwork and diamond panes. | fdre these recent American deals no | [T 1S @ ¢ity without a soul living iu pled them white. what to do mext. piic | “¥ou ought to be ashamed to own |ahout it Kezel 1t buzzen:t asking of the universe questions which | considered to have @ front shaped “lke | real estate iad been sold in Iize for | it. There has never been u word | The betrayal of Ese numbe the 3 e public = stders A pouse for convietin iy o et 2 o1 2,5 = 3 4 k % . ) # ation. e T v i ive the public whal P up to having hard cider.” was re- L convictinn firmiy to es- |0 paq been vainly asking himself in the | EFiNRINE face,” was offered for over a century about it in the history book. There TReE BEHAL ’h“r"c‘m N ‘;"f 2o last year, though it has “never been ~ Nome but a romantic American) % i : < empty for 600 years.” It will be great] would give two sous for the best|¥as- truly, once, a Roman town called | path Jeading up to the narrow gat.- fun to furnish it wp “epoch” and Bive | house in Ize, although many of them [Olivula, down on the seacost below,|way being so steep that only hu- some week end parties in it. are stanch and solid, perfectly apt{on Villefranche bay. But these ruins|Mans and donkeys ever used it. ~ wants—something worth while—that's | proof from the good templar, Winca- | tablish an opinion. Then Mr. Dodge I j Mrs. Seth Barton French and the)for modern repalrs and civilized Barbarossa was a bit of a Hun ir what he said,” iterated and reiterated | pave rose slowly, a radiant smile beginning | Ulackness of his prison pen. His hair Prof. Dodge sourly. “I wonder what | "] said *heart’ cider,” corrected Pro-|l0 wreathq his face. from dewlappy | was roached: his evebrows stuck up: kind of a dose it was he give 'em |fessor Dodge. “It’ ite another #| fowls to brindled hair. He x100d 222- | orehead was wrinkled, and his de. wi make himself so well-fixed |thing from hard cider But he did|in€ upward and then gigcled ecatati- € i 8. de- "Chioroform, prob’ly, and then pick-' not bother to explain that “heart”|Ccally. He clapped his hands vigorous. |Meanor was that of a man who was ed their pockets before they come 10." | cider is made by allowing a barrel |V and rapidly, over and over. against lavidly cager to get at the solution of A little later Prof. Dodge hitched|of cider to freeze. and then using |DiS 1€g%. and then sent forth a rau-|certain problems. E are away up, on the mountainside.|nis Bizabethan: wav. and he ar- Duchess. of Marlborough are said to be | habitation. Every house, in fact. is hesitating between houses on streets: owned by inleritance; and the own- |They were always there. A seven-|ranged for the easy conquest of that, as Alice in Wonderland would | arg Jiving elsewhere. fome at times |teenth century writer explained them | The gates were opened to hi ne knock-kneed old horse into his|only the center of the mass, where ali | COUS “Cock-a-doodle-doo-00!" |~ Naturally. his first thought was that)say, are ‘curiouser and curiouser.” | (o brood—whether it might pay toiby saying that in the ninth century |had traitor friends inside and outside, “tune wagon.” & vam which hud althe alcohol is assembled. Mr. Wincapaw woke and scrambled | Prof. Kezar Dodge might be able to af-{ They go where they please, s0 lonz 4S{ plow it up for treasure. It is “the !the Saracens raided the old town.: his sea cavaliers. hidden among thc wheezy music box geared to an axle., The professor picked up the two- 0 his feet. . ) ford information. He stumbled his way | they go uphill. ' They are delightfully | town that cannot forget.” ldown below. whence the inhabitants | rocks, ready to leap into the gateway. The music box emitted a single melody | burner kerosene stove and stuck the| ~Thats my opinion. put in a nut-|10 the stall where the alchemic myste- | mysterious: they have so many unex- * & ok % had built this fortress town on the| There are many Americans buying when the lever was pulled. “See. the |box of vrunes under his arm, com- |She!l™ declared Mr. Dodge farventlv. | ries hud been performed. The door was|pected turns wnd twists, odd corners 2 heights. But now, in a brochure, the | romantic real cstate in France. On Conquering Hero Come: Any man |mandeering Mr. Wincapaw's property.|, The next day. when the bottlinz [open: the stall was empty. When heland quaint nooks. uite often they dip!-"HE Phoenccians built and forti-larcheologist. Villiers-Barnett, derldes| this same Corniche road, Henry who can conquer disease like I can is|He told the latter to bring along a|had progressed satisfactorily. and it pursued his weary way behind the|under houses and bob up in little flow-1 L & 5 the town. The Romans took |the ninth century theory and claims|Clews, jr. already mentioned, has P ed % th ¢ i .| was deemed by the partners that the | horse barn, seeking his tent, he found |er; uares. be Ph ian-Ro - i i the ancient trasisors. ot e rearoe M ot | oo tThurt your temberance pan | Proper time had arrived o give the only bare sward. The (unccart was FrdUBtes e form a_medley of all| it and used ft. The Lombards fell |{he place to be Dhocpgeian-Roman bouglit and iz restoring the snelent throw in the lever when the van mov- | cipals any to Jug it.” stated the lead- | P00on of “Triumphant Tincture” to the |BONe, too. There was an object that |shapes and sizes. heights and widths | upon it, A. D. 578, and murdered.} A great amount of amateur excava. | Cannes, fit to live and entertain in. « off loaded with the tent of his new ler of the expedition. “It's only mo- World. the professor filled the tin tea- ‘fillll*m‘i‘ in thehmr-shlne- He picked | but all are old a;‘d L things 2 k’,fl{’ burned and robbed. They held it for Ition has been done at Olivula by on%| Parts of it date, certainly, before temporary, partner. The retreat was lasses that I have used to sweeten my Dot and gave the emissary tew ILup. It ‘I::; .b:e—r'lm:l’;(s.l:; Egmo.d rm; }ml;'(r[wntdayl:h:reafid fiu:m‘fllor:s_'l‘;oking 200 years, and the Saracens appeared. Mman. the Abbe Cardon. He built him- | the year 900, because it has two Keep ged an looking £ self a small house up there, and set: towers built by the Saracens when silent and sad. In a secluded grove|Imperial Drops.” words of final instruction. ! o g e A of the grounds. behind| “Say. look-a-here! Whats the idea]among the hossmen, Wincanaw. Hoss anxleworm bad eacaped. _ |iron-bound doors that open into cheer-| Those talented Scoundrels crept UD |y, work, and for fourteen years he|they were here in residence. Another the horee barn, they unloaded the|of this soothing-sirup party, any|men are the ones most likely to ere was a light in a tent on Mid- | ful sitting rooms. i the cliff in swarms, took captive those | has dug and scraped with amazing | American, whose name I am not to k. expecially here on these grounds | RaY TOW. In his dazed_condition Mr. * ok % X { they did mot kill, and held the town |results. Most of his finds are shown |.cite, is buying the nearby disman- tent and set it up. way?” demanded Mr. Dodge sourly. | s way " e % 5 g s capaw headed toward the light as a H - A g The public wants said Mr. Winca-|you'll have to use your eyes instead |happened vesterday when Honubble | broemunin: oaeanat.y Ponner which loses all control of itself, dives in-| fell on more evil days. For cen-| “fhe queer thing concerns the dates|holding names. Strange as it may seem. paw of your ears. because T cam't waste|Dobson staried them racex. Hossmen | Kiturer: o P sanely under another street—houses, | turies it was never certain of itslof the coins. pottery. etc.. which he|a quantity of Frenchmen. now, as if wilve got n:‘I;’?:“hl\-vt“.':::r:u:lr)‘rfl’-“lhl‘:z mr:e‘_mv.n ng." The professor led :'.ll::"q.:;;,l,l\] s ’x;:; :Ll‘c;‘:::":r"nl‘:xn'rl The light was behind a canvas parti- | road and af—and rushes downhill tol fate from month to month. It was !‘-““nf"“f‘,i’i;..;”‘;i,;.’f‘ u((fz;h._ Ro:j'm"'i::ll:-;‘a‘l:yll!x:lr:‘mh‘(,‘zts'f'r‘;::d:ro:‘l:‘: ::‘d e EAZirn T Wave pondered on | After watching “preliminaries for a|red nosex. hecause that Wil he a Sign | ey, “Ta b 'ward) here e volces of |apparent destruction. Then it fetches | held wlierngtely, by Gieuphs ang GhiC ]G0 G08n 0" (1 (Mirtcenth century, | tured American ~rich. * Like Capt a little more, Il give you a few ;l"(""] l’:;l&n’;' lgzgfingr;x’r‘:to:: perc that their feelings are flaming up in | was not bashful; he felt that he needed | UP serenely in a real plazza with flow | (e House of Anjou. and the next t when they stop. Hock. they shout and scare these details fectly. and he both informed and com- | them. making them sick companionship. -~ The next instant, plod- [ers and a, nice fountain, as If laughing, | the counts of Provence. Once, it was! The abbe has worked marvels, but | kindly dreamers who love France While he sat in the door of the tent. [Dlimented his brother with a wink| Mr. Wincapaw tucked the teapot|ding around the end of the partition.|what a joke on everybody! owned by Naples, at another time by [ he can have dug up only a small frac- | enough to take stock in her. They Linking into vacancy and fondiing his| W{ch Mr, Wines PtRought. me Under- | oty of sarmviand went forth'into a|he was convinced that this wax not the| * yyere. g another straet, where Jack | Monaco. theniby Bavoy, then France: Yon of what fhe immense putus o il 1{?'::"-2':'«1';:'" Sulge Attled k. one strolle ast, leadi o T~ | world of erin, rsemen. COl 0] v: 3 . ne 8 v/ y i - n. Now at i H enc e . a crow: e ctod iorae: This man Was n:'fi"“"’d» “; '°°k;d e the soaKing| = Very shortly tter Mr. Wincapaw 'iu:‘r?z“ln"?:o‘;n T mi’..J:f"""a‘. the |and Jill must surely have climbed shen :;:Efi“»’;’e;e"\-:r'f-l;fidkm tf,]-ue?:thd::;:s Nave fafen.un (Dll’\rr‘lzlrl:?l::fl\“(‘ro{::&.::laf self-constituted “guardians of the Yertii Dodge. vwner and driver _of |Prunes and viewed the molasses. the ) had started forth. two of that gentry|Visage of a particularly huge snake, they went, 12 """‘“k";"l‘, pall of watcr | ,Ld mutilated by lightning. 1t has | are getting interested, As a fact. also. | patrimony” cry out in the papers: Joab, and the brother of Prof. c rofessor| came and rapped at the stall door.)Jaws wide open. throat a horrid red,|You remempber, Jack fel! down ai had a varied experience of assassina- | the new road makes Olivula acc “Too much! Too much tion, poisoning and modes of torturz. !ble, for the first time, only this sum Another American has just piously At one period kze w the terror|mer. Previously, few knew of its ex-|acquiréd the ancient Abbey of Sen- of the coast, supreme in villany. unique istence except local peasants. aque. down here in Provence. He is fin frightfulness: while at another! Tsn't it a queer thing—a ruined sensitive about having his name men- tioned. because he has been directly Dodge was taking steps to hasten. A > % < 4 came tumbling after. No child with a Dodsg oy - They were admitted by the professor. | ¢yes bulging ' out belligerently. The sk T e iened to their mournful tale | New kind of medicine?” he asked;| ™ I gon't know just what it is.” sald | Snake was coiled in a spiral, and-the [bucket could do otherwise in Roque- E ErSenes 3 ent While he| .That's what it is, Mr. Wincapaw.”| o o ““hut 1 took one swallow and|head was fully five feet from .thelbrune. On the crown of Roquebrune A made profune o & drivers | But the Honubble Dobsor sald he|gltg that it could put the wicking |Eround. There were two men, sitting|sits the old castle of the Lascaris. It nting, a man with a % | was'nt going to allow you to fooi th £ WickIng. ¢ is full of vaulted rooms and stairs and ity slewed around over one ear stood i 5 to the human constitution. How |ON 80ap boxes, but he paid no attention And | {ime it was a seat of letters and fre- | with no history, situated on the mo. 2”4 "Nitle dintance and listened. “Re-| PUpe Pyt mostrums any longer.” | much?’ : T I N S R L i Splendid Junseons | quented by poets, the home of chivalry written-up purt of the' French coust | attacked in the Debats of Parie, Jixtls pertaining to the Honubble Dob- : & “One-fifty per vial" said Prof. 3 ? he 4 Yand all the arts. between Nice and Monte Carlo? More than ever in this region. el Y fassor, atieringitho moikeses, (it the of the men. feal=bacduseritiwas, once. 1*"Every type of scoundrel that Eu-| The superb roads twine about thelruns the crazy story. “we must wat A mite hizh-fiavored. but said Dodge. He checked their protests. 5 i X . e i nt Honubble Dobson did not tell us to Mr. Wincapaw had discovered that in| It I8 impogaible, says Sir Erederic | VS8, 5loduce during the middle ihills in the green of the olives, and | and defend ou Jomarks are indorsed by me and others,” |wake up and give the public some-| 1S concentrated goods—one bottle !, "Coiic 'of the snake there was some | Treves, to take Roquebrune's dark elves. From all sides taid thix gentleman. “The latest news!thing that the public wants? will stretch furthern any quart of ; Ty sk L o or Bank lages must have rollicked and drunk |the Peter Pan towns show up sud-/comes lhe warning, after the German T et out . Honubble Dobson i zoing S emember that Che “made some| WRISkY you ever bought off'm a boot- | Kind of misshapen. shagey animal I PRGN Gy in, Mo, of all these | within its walls. During the time|denly, around croners and across val- | invasion. of an_invasion of Amer: i into the Judges' stand and start the | guch remark. legger, and I can say to you that, |aiee GOMIOHINE o fe Sohantic rock towns. whose old daye |that It was a resort of pirates it|leys, like ships from a fog. licans and Enslish, They are not T T cked. with erookedness anq reached its climax of plcturesqueness | The idle rich no longer fear old-|content to Visit. They buy They after goods has been properly intro- . | duced to the public, the price Will B0 |“Afiey o e 1 e ed e e | badnese. . Here I8 relativity, says Mr. |for then its vaulted passages were | fashioned ints, where comfort Is not|buy oo much!™ And the’ friendly the ground and tried to find words and |uny kind of a guesser, this here com- | up. and you had better buy quick and on the grounds this afternoon, you| Einstein—relativity of frightfulness bright with strange goods. its streets|“modern,” but cookery is savory in!gink”concludes: “If things are nol a. pound Is going to be something that | advise your interested friends to do |hadn't ought to be afrald of & stuffed | and romance. Local time—the time |with curiously garbed captives and|a way different from the standardiz- | Kept in order. we French will finie s zolng to start a protest paper.|the public will soon be hollering for | the same.” o of Roquebrune—shifts them as in the |its inns full of “gentlemen adventur- | inx of palace Motels. ) up by no longer being at home fu with Sgnaiures, and 1 want you to|—considering the kind of times| They were gentlemen who were| “So he's stuffed!” returned Mr. Win-| shell game. What was hateful on the [ers.” who roured villainous songs and| Feter Pan (Swns are the rage, France : zn it. shouted Driver Dodge e living in. Mr. Wincapaw, will | thoroughly acquainted with the ume|capaw, showing neither surprise mor| Aisne here passes in another world, [fought with knives over & stolen: Gorbil, Eze, Venmice, Roquebrune.) Which isn't Peter Pan rules by » “1'd just us svoft sign a Lhirty-day vou kindly take that croker-sack and |certainties connected with the: con-lrelief. . “I'll take your word for it ‘here - now - 81x - hundred - years -ago, | crucifix. 3 | Tourcttes und wonderful St. Paul du|long sight! Jaces on today's card ‘That's what he said. T ain’t bra Mr. Bitterson Dodge flung his cap on |ging overmuch right now, but if I