Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1921, Page 51

Allison, 1L, Feb. 3. ROTHER CHARLEY. Well Charley this is a funny World where a man has neighbora on 1 side of you that you couldent fine no better peopl no wheres and on the other side peopl that they aint nothing to mean and small for them to do and allways trying to make You miserable. A man name Martin and his wife is the peopl that we got liveing the next door on the left and I and Mar- tins been going down town on the same | train coming home and set in the same | traln to gather and thats the way how | we got aquanted sé the other night 1 and him happen (o get on thesame seat and I ast him why dident him and [ his Mrs. come over some night and, play cgpds and he says he dident need nothing to put him to sleep and I guess he meant I would probably flll} him up with beer but beffore we got home. he. promused to bring the Mrs. and come over and last night was the night they come. Well Charley you ought to see this here Mrs. Martin. She aint nothing but a girl you might say ard pretty as a pitcher and dresses as goud as a_course girl and you could set down and read the evening paper with out no electrick light if she was in_the rm. with her dimonds. , ) She took quite a shine 1o GFace right a way and ast her did sew her | own close or where did she get them | and Grace says no in decd hadent | had no time to sew her own close since 3 yrs. ago when little Ed was born and Mrs. Martin says yhe thot may be the close was made beffore that and the reason she thot Grace must of made them was on acct. of she never seep nothink like them in the stores wile she was shoping. So of corse Grace Was tickeled to deth like all wommen when you swell them up a bout there close and her and Mrs. Martin got a long fine but Mrs. Martin dont play cinch 80 we set down and played rummy and Martin insist {t we should play for $.01 a pt. to make it intrusting so we played a wile and I loose $1.50 and Grace lose 5.80 but it was worth the money the fun we had. S‘O after we was threw plain cards and *) we was seting a round drinking a bottle of home brew und all of a sud- den they was a crash on the back porch and I and Martin run out there and a cat had knocked the garbidge pale over: and 1 called Grace to see whos cat #was it and she says it wad Hamiltols cat | the peopl that lives the next door to| us on the other side then the Martins | lives on. And Grace says the same cat { had been doing it right a long becayse all most evry A. M. she found the pale laying on the porch so I says why dont they fe the cat at home and she| wouldn’t half to go prolling a round the | neighbors hood to get some thing to eat | and then Martin says may be the Ham- ; iltons was sore at us and starved there cat on the purpose 8o as she would come over and undisterb us evry night and he ast me if I'd gave Hamilton any reason to get sore at me that would make mm| pull off a trick like that. So I says well may be Hamilton was vore at me but he dident have no more reason to be sore at me then me to be sor at him becuse it was a horse a peace so Martin ast me to tell him a bout it 8o I told him we had gave a yarty 1 night and hadent ast the Ham- iltons on acct of them not calling on Grace after she had payed them & call when we 1st movved out here so Ham- ilton and his wife got sore on acct. of us not asking them to our party and 1 of the boys that come to the party got to many drinks under his belt and done the foxy trot out on the side walk and Hamiiton. sent for the night watch man and''had me ar- rested for disturbing the piece and so a little wile latter to get back at him 1 fixed it up with the sherifs office to send 1 of the d;guly- out to Hamil- tons house 1 P. M. when Mrs. Hamil- ton was giveing a party and plain action bridge whist for money and the deputy told Mrs. Hamilton she ‘was arested for runing & gambleing house and of corse nothing come out of it accept that they was a peace in the papers a bout it and 1 onily_done it to-get even. - Martin says probily Hamilton suspect it me of bean the 1 that sent the deputy out there and was trying to make things missable for me by starveing there cat so as she would house all night and * ok ok ok { Martl lern how and he says for me to thing up some trick to play on him so as he would quitt monking \with me. So Im going to try and think up some thing and I would shoot his cat onily it aint the cats falt-that there starve- ing her to deth and & cats got to eat the same is a human bean. 'Well Charley I wisht you and Mary could get a look at Mrs. Martin when shes dolled up for the evening and shes prettier then Mary Pickford or any of them stage beatys and last night she had on a dress that you kept thinking may be it would fall ol)bocuu-e you couldent see what| was keeping it on but it must of/ been attacked on some wheres with stables or some thing and her arms and neck and soldiers was bear and all spred over with this here tacklum powder and evry time she come clost to you you thot you was in a Green house or to & funerel or some wherea. Martin was all dood it up to and they was a swell lookink pare but man would half to spend a bout a wk. In a barber shop beffore ha would look good enough to run @ round with her. ‘Well Charley 1 wisht it would warm up & little and Im burning pretty near a ton of cole a wk. and still Grace comeplanes a bout how cold the house §s but I guess she would comeplane of the cold we was liveing down to the South Pole and if the house| was relay cold last night like Grlcc' says why dident Mrs. Martin make some remmark & bout it because if any body was cold she ought to been with out no more than a batheing sute on you might say. . Rdgs. to Mary and take ca your self. re of Your Bro. FRED. A. *® % Allison, IIl., Feb. 12 ROTHER Charley. Well Charley 1 B guess this here Hamlilton will keep his cat to home and mine -his own busness beffore I and him s} threw with esch other. 1 found out! today from Grace that Mrs. Hamliton is going to give a party the day after tommorow night the 14 and the wnly bout it wi the little zfl:’h“:?rlfltll‘nt comes and sets in the house with GROSS, the blbyl"wlllnwfl‘li!ou: ts found ‘it ‘out from Hamilton mfl:ar girl and thats how I come to find out 8 bout it. Grace was telling_me a bout it at breakfast thi was telling me a bout it a idear come to me because she says it was going 10 be a valentfne party because the 14 is valentine day so I thot all of & sudden a bout sending this here Ham- fiton & valentine not 1 of these pretty ones that fold up with flowers on them but a comical 1 only it would it would make him be so comical sore and he wouldent get no laugh out of it. So I set down desides Mar- tin_on the train going down town and I told him about me going to send Hamilton a valentine and he says it was a grate idear only ‘you should ought to go stronger then that end oft some_thing else on him a loi with it and 1 says what could I pull and he brot up a bout thg party the Hamiltons is going to have and ast me couldent I get a hold of 1 of these sines the helth’bord hangs up on a house when the residence has got some decease and got to be quarnteed and he says If T could get a hold of 1 of them sines and hang it under the elestrick light on Hampiltons porch the night of the rty the guests would all of them see it and be scared i wasent mo letter but 1s A. M. and wile ghe|. By RING W. LARDNER. ustrated by Fontaime Fox. DANCED TOGETHER AND | THOUGHT I HAD A ARMFUL OF FLOWKRS.” 11 took a punch at Hamilton he would to go in the house and turn 2 round | probily half to call in the Dr. and and go home and Hamilton and his|go to bed and they wouldent be no wife would set there all evening won- [ party. So I decide it to try and hold dring why dident there frends come |on to my temper and that night when to the party. I seen the Hamilton's was eating ‘Well Charley I seen right a way |there supper- I snuck over on there that was better then sending him a{porch and hung the sine up and then valentine but Im going to send him |l came home and ett supper and set a valentine to and I got 1 down town j Wher€ I coujd look over on there today and going to male it to him [porch and wHat do you think Charley fomorrow #nd its some valentine{he was to cheap to light up the Charley a pitcher of a big hog drawed | electric light on tie porch and it was on it and then theys some pottery |8s dark is & pitch but he dident never under the pitcher that says. light the light all evening but just left the porch dark and of corse the peopl that come to the party couldent see no sine or nothing else on the porch so they went in the house like they was nothing wrong and I ‘could “1 AND MRS. MARTIN ¥ They ought t keep you in a pen Not let you be with other men Your not a man but just a big Dissgusting stupid greasy pig , i ) hear them singing and enjoin them 0 R ey C ¥ | think of a guy Charley thats so cheap but I was going to tell you a bout he wont light up his lights but just the si ’ he sine I got & hold of und it says|ag goon leave his frends seumble in SMALL POX in big letters on it the night of the party as Soon i it ‘gets dark and hang it up right| Whem I seen they wasent nothing Uinder "where they "an& ety UP, BNt comeing off and a8 soon is 1 got up electrick lizht on thg porch and the¥YeSt A- M. 1 looked over there and Buests eant heln from aecn t awhie|some body had tooken the sine down They et ready to Fing the door Lei fall ready. Well 1 guess Grace must and then they will See the Sine aed|think Im sick or something the way beat it home and Mr. and Mrs. Ham.{! been acting vest. and today because iiton can have there party all (o them self and may be some Dpeopl might think it was a dirty triok but It aint % as bad Is starveing your cat so she will come over evry night and knock over a mans gar- bidge pale over. And yowel a round the house. Well Charley 1 will write and let you know all a bout the Hamiltons big valentine party hey Charley. Your Bro. F. A. GROSS * x % % Allison, Il1. Feb. 15. DEAR Charley: “ Well Charley Grace has went to bed and says she wouldent set up no longer with me because I was to mean and cross and T guess I got a right fo feel sore but she dont know nothing a bout it because I diden’t tell’.her nothing a bout it. ‘Well Charley I told you a bout me_ sending Hamilton that valentine and I just ment it in fyn and what do you think he done Charley but. he must of did it beffore Ke- ever got my valentine because I sent it to him Wed. AM. and when I stoped in at the P. O. Wed. on the way to the train to go in to town they was a letter there for me only it s valentine of the dirtest you cver seen Charley a pitcher of a man that was suposed to be_ a detective only they was a bandige over his eyes 80 as h couldent see nothing and he was holding out his hand and a stickup ing a r guy or some thimg wa putt! role of bills in his h: an Charley mad couldent hardil; on the train some thing wrong so he ast m what was the matter so 1 showed him the valenting and he s he |.. dident blame me for geting sore and who ever sent it was a slr v trick and he was me he wouldent never he found out who sent It and then he would get even with well the adress on the en- vellop was wrote with a tipe writer 1 couldent tell whose hand wrl it was so I says to tin how was I ‘nln. to find out who sent it and he says I thot you was a detective and 1 says I am a detec- tive but I dont know no body mean Im still so sore yet that I cant hardily talk to no body and if it wasent like picking on & baby I would go over to Hamiltons house right now and bust his big nose for him. 1 dont half to tell you Charley that I dident never take a nickle that wasent comeing to me and the only thing 1 ever got from stick up men was abuse and thats because I been after them all my life and if it wasent for me theyd brake in to the mayors ouse wile he was eating his lunch “THE HOLE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE WAS UNDER WATER PfiE’I‘I‘Y NEAR AND I WAS A RECK.” and steal the cream off of his coffee d he says I bet it was your friend | but they aint been the stick ups Hamilton "and as soon _is he men-|and burglerys sence I been over look- shoned Hamiltons name” of corse I[ing that end of it and now this swell knowed it must of been him. head pu Well Charley what do" you think|a grafter but you can bet your last of a man that will pull off aidirty|shirt that he will hear from me be- trick like that and he aint man|ffore Im threw with him the cheap enough to come out and say some-|bum. thing to my face and I told Martin| Well Charléy they should ought to be a law against sending these here 1 says L would go to Hamilton's house on my way home that night{valentines gnd may be it might be all 0. K. to send them pretty valen- mfl call him out on the porch and tines with the flowers on them st his jaw for him and Martin says if 1 done that i§§ would get in to|the wommen but they should ‘ought all the papers and” I would get in|to bar these here comical ones and bad and besides that would- spoil my | there a bout as comical is a hanging over to the. county jeil and it lnT‘ idear about hanging the smallpox g t e all right to send them for & joke enough to pull off a stunt like that sine on Hamilton's door because . ,THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. " UNCIVIL WAR. One of the best stories ever written. but not try and Inselt s body and call them a crook. Hes so crook it with him hey Charley. Your Bro. * K ko Allison. Tl March 1. F. A. GROSS. you could of been along with us last night you and Mary the both of you but 1 dont know if Mary would of liked to went a long or not beca ‘we was over to the Martins and when your in the same house with a lady that dresses hke Mrs. Martin a womman must feel pretty slopy a loug the side of them close Mrs. Martin wares and of corse I aint sane that Mary cant look good when she wants to but this here Mrs. Martin has got them all beat when it comes to close but at that shes all ways talking a bout she wisht she hold of some close like ht she wus after Grace to leave her borry 1 of her dresses and ware it to a mask id. "lWell Charley Martin give us some cock tales that he made them up him gelf and if & man drunk 3 of them you would start down the draneage cannel in a finger bold but he glves us 2 of them and u few bottles of beer and b he evening was over Mrs. Mar- e s Face the ballad dunce o Charley and its better than any thing I ever seen down, to the columbia it ‘Grace had to make a liveing ballad dénceing she would starve her self to deth for lack of nothing to eat and they Wasent nothing in Martins house that she dident run in to and I bet If the chairs and tables could talk they would of_hollered rhurder. .~ Well we dident play no cards but we fooled a round and done this in that !and they turned on the phonegraf and T and Mrs, Martin danced to gether and I thot 1 had a arm full of flowers #nd hen we set down’ and talked and Mar- t me hadent 1 did nothing to Hum- me that valentine and nt because 1 and Grece over to gather and 1t « bout it and 1 andsher hud up in_our mind tu not do ubout it but just leave { the Hamiltons a lone and,act like they wasent no such peopl and then Mr. and Mrs. Martin both says they thot we was suckers to leave Hamllton get oft 4o easy when hed inselted T and Grace 80 1 says well I cant think of nothing to do only go over there and bust him in the jaw and Martin says well may be he could think up some thing him self and if he could think up a good 1 he would tell me because he was my frend and dont like to see a man get the worst of it and thats the kind of a friend to have hey Charley. Martins entirely dif- forent from the big St which is to cheap to Lght up the lights in his house When_ hes giveing a_party. Well Charley T wisht you and i i tin asf tir had old her made it ! nothing more Mary Marting and 1 bet thev liveing near you thats as good Co. as them and 1 and Grace i {pretty lucky to have them liveing thv next door to us only we dont no more than brake even on neizhlors with the Hamiltous on the other side. Well 1 guess I ain't told vou a bout I and Grace is golng to give a party and 1 thot we was all threw with partys for_a wile but Grace says that Mrs. Martin told her we should ought to give a hole lot of rtys on accl. of um bean new people in town and if we wanted to stand in good we should ought to enter tane a good eel S0 wear Oing to give a porty next Friday night only It wont be nonc of these here stew | partys or no ruff stuff but every thing leould see th | aint no bod the best and up to date and Mrs Martin has grave Grace u lot of tips @ bout how should a party be ran and 1 guess the peopl will think | wear as good is the Hamiltons or any of them sweil heads before wear | “SURE ENOUGH THEY WAS KRAPE ON THE DOOR." threw but of corse we aint going to ast the Hamiltons because 1 wouldent have them in the house. This here partys going to cost us some money but its like Mrs. Mar- tin told Grace if you want to live right you got to puy for it and they cant no cheap skates get by with the right peopl in a blace like this here. Grace is going to serve them with sand witches and ice cream and coffee- and cake only not no cheap home made ice cream but get it from the drug store and nf-y will be 16 of us all to gather the Martins and the Curtis and Carrys and some other mice peopl we met & round here and ‘you might say its the cream of Allison society and of corse we got to play auction bridge ::'1“51 On acet of that bean the swell e a round here tho it the Knm(fhllke cinchigmy Rt AT Vell Charley I wisht you and M. could be here for the party even If it would leave 1 couple out of the card game because with you here they (\;‘?.uclg b‘:let ‘1: of us. including T and y way tak self and rogards to Mary O oo ' Your Brother, F. A. GROSS. * % Allison, IIl., March 14. BROTHER Charley. Well Charley 1 guess T would be better' off if 1 was a cheap skate like some peopl and if T was a.cheap skate they wouldent of never nothing come off like list night. Well Charley T been 80 sOrry sence it come off that I was a bout to pull'wmy gun on some body with out naming no names but a man can be drove so far Charley and not no farther and if it wasent for what would happen to Graee I would shoot this here Hamilton full of led and take my medison oply I'don't belleve theys a jury in theé world that Would convict me when I told them what he pulled off. 3 ‘Well Charle¥ theys a big differunts between a joke and not & joke and | ¥f Hamilton thinks that what he done jwas funny I feel sorry for him but he dident do it because he thot it was funny Charley but because he dont know how to do nothing but play mean rotten tricks like sending me that valentine. Grace wont never give no more in the parlor I and Grace for Bir."and “Mrs. Sartin and th ke goting and all of a sudden phone runge and 1 went ithe bell and ast who wi | was Mrs. cuse her for ealling up but she |cou dent wait no longer to find, out Weather she couldent do some' thin |for"us and find out who was'it an 1 ast her what sbe ment who was it himself that you couldent pull corks|door for and I RO. CHARLEY. Well Charley I wisht | ~o 2 JULY and she says she ment who w the krape was h. it s they wagent no krape on the front door an says 1d better go and look an went out there and sure enough they wi krape on the door like they some body dead. ell Charley come to find out the Curtia and th rrys and 2 or 3 other peopl Wi comeing to the party to gather an Just beffore they start it to ring_th door bell they notieed krape c this here on the door and a couple of the wommen pretty near (fainted a way and finely Curtis says ring the bell and find out what hap- pened but Carry says no he dident feel like romeinfi in to a house where they was krape on the door when he was all drest up gay for & party so finely they decide it to &0 over d ast the Martins if they knowed any thing a bout it on acct. of them liveing next door. Mrs. Martin screamed. when they told her a bout it and then her and Martin and ¥he rest of them come back and seen the krape again and Mrs. Martin was pretty néar haveing histeriks so Martin tobk here home and Martin says to the other peop! that it looked like some think swful had of happened and says evry body had betted go home and after a wile when Mrs. Martin got back her nerve she would ring us up and find out what cowld of happened and then she would call the rest of them up and tell them a bout It. Well it wakent till pretty near 10 a clock that she got her nerve up and called up on the phone and then of corse we explained that it was 1 of Ham- iltons dirty tricks and Grace wanted Mrs. Martin to come over and have the party and Grace would call up the rest of them peopl and tell them a bout it and we could have the party any way and better have It late then never but Mrs. Martin says her,party close was all off and hung up and it would be 2 hrs. beffore she could lgel drest again su she was sorry that {it had happened "but they wasent {nothing she could do accept tell me |that if she was me and any body had of p some thing like that over on her she would of shot them full | of holes so Gruce called up the Curtis jand the Carrys and told them about {the miss take but some of them was {like Mrs. Martin with threc party yclose off of them and hung up all ready and they all says they was s0 worred a_bout seen the krape that they couldent come now even if they wes drest ang they savs theyd been seiing up to hear from Mrs. Martin a bout what had happened and they woudent of never been able to sleep if something had of relay Happened but now they was so relieved that they thot they would try and go to sleep and forget it and so 4th. Well Charley that was all right and nice of them to feel g0 sorry for us but what a bout the refresh- munts and (he 3 gts. of Ice cream from the drug store and it was there best stuff 80 cis. & gt. and how a bout the 2 new decks of cards we had boughten for the party and how a bout T and Grace going to all that trubble and dressing up swell and so 4th. Well Charley Mrs. Martin says we should ought to posepone the party and have it some other night but Grace says she was threw with partys and I says the next 1 that says some thing to me a bout | party would get a crack in the jaw. Thats what a man gets for not bean no cheap skate Charley and if I had of been & cheap skate and teft the light off on the front porch like Hamilton done the cheap stiff the 1st. peopl that got there wouldent of saw the krape and would of rang the door bell and then ether Grace would of went to the door and the 1 wouldent of been no trubble. Well Charley Im trying my best to hold on to my temper so as wont go over to Hamiltons house and shoot him up but as Grace says it probily wasent Mrs. Hamiltons falt but .just Hamilton him self and I wouldent have no right to make a widdow out of her pust because her husband aint no good and a speshuly when I dont know wheather hes go- ing to leave his wife enough to 1fv on. But 1) guess you know we well enough to know that he aint going to get by with out no come back and 1 will pull off some thing on him that will make him wisht he had treated I and Grace with respect and I feel like going right over to there house and hanging the krape on there own door and see how they like it only Grace says whats the use of givein, them back there krape because I an her cant live for ever and it dont do no harm keeping Some around the house. Well Charley wait till I get batk A 1o Mary® at him and regar ry. Your. Bro. F. A. GROSS. * * * % Allison, 11l. March 20. EAR Brother Charley. Well Charley this will be a.supprise to you after what I been telling you right a long and it was a supprise to me onily 1 kind & suspect it all the wilé that'this here Martin was wron He dident never act right some way so finding out a bout him dident supprise me like it would of if I hadent of Well Chatley it wasent Hamilton that ,was pulling all the dirty work like sefMing me that valentine and . hanging krape on my door and so éth. but it was Martin all the time and Hamilton is good friends now and he says he dident never mean no harm to me and says both him and DMrs. Hamilton and there higher girl that the cat was geting enough to t And he says he wouldent never thin| of mixxing up in no brall with his neighbors so I and him feels the same way to gather a bout it and they wont be no more trubble be- tween us. Charley you wont hardily fi‘slleve that a man could live as ean and nasty as this here Mastin trying to make trubble between neighbors and I will tell you the reason why he done it Charley and you will see what kind of - bum he is and no wonder I never crelay liked him. In the 1st. place he was gore at Hamiltons Mrs, Hamilton hadent payed no call on Mrs. Martin and Hamilton says that him and his wife seen right a way that Martin wasent no thats why Mrs. Hamilton dident call on Mrs. Martin because she dident want to get mixxed up with them and the miltons is here so Martin got sore because him and his wife couldent horn in the ¢ hundred club. So he used me for a Tool you might say and kept geing me on by san {e.obs Hamilton that was doing sll them things to me and all wilé he elf so I would pect it him all the wile. because good and that e e e Bome 1t Well Charis why he done it. Wel y. tween I and you they wasan SRR on the front | 1 h gh high soclety in to| Th int ki g as Ham| mfll‘ d thats. be- othax 1921 —PART 4. reason that Grace or Hamilton dont know nothing about it and will tell you a bout it onily dont say nothing en to Mary. This here Martin_ wi sore at me Charley on acct. of the way his wife looked at me and thot may be I was trying to steal his wife and you know Charley that I aint in that kind of busness but I cant help it if a woman looks at me onct In a wile and I noticed Mrs. Martin myself so of corse her husband coula see ‘it to and they couldent no body. help from not no- ticein, it unlest they was blind But what could I do about It nothing. Well Charley it all come out nlshl @nd we had some big time and I dont never want an other time like it only Im glad that I and Hamilton under stands emch other and Ham- #iton says he will see that the town pays for what ever dammige was did a round my house. Martin w. to yellow to stay home wile he was l‘:ulllnx off his little trick and nether im or his wifes been home sence yest, beffore supper and the house is shut up but he needent be scared 'm going to do nothing to him not now any way because Hamilton says for me to lay lowe and pretend like 1 dident know the truth and if Mar- tin tries some thing more Hamilton will go in with me and we will run him out of town and an other reason is acct. of Im sorry for Mrs. Martin and to bad shes got to be tide up to @ man like he and you couldent hard!ly blame her for looking at an other man onct in a wile. Well Charley 1 aint got much time so 1 will hurry up and tell you what come off. | and Grace went to bed early last night and we wasent hardily no more then in bed when we heard the fire whistle blown and all of a sudden we herd the fire en= jine and hose curt out in front of e e = the house and then the front door bell rung like they was trying to | wake up the town and I thot may be the house wi on fire so 1 run jdown in my night gown and opened {up the door afld pretty near got drowned. Well Charley the hose | was turned right on me and me with {out nothing on only my night gown {and they give it to me full forse all over. ell I tride to holler at them to quit but a man cant holler very g00d with the hose turned in to ; your mouth and 1 guess it would o/ been all off with me only for Ham ilton comelng. He grabed the 2 guys that w. holding the nozzle and busted 1 of them and told them if they Sident shut off the water insolently he would have them ail in jail and the; seen who he was and shut it off. Well Charley phe hole lore fir. of the house was under water pretty near and I was a reck. Phad sence p stares hen amilton men a 8he was out of the way come in amd brung the fire can do is tell the truth and then he told them righ out what he suspect 1, 4nd they owned up 1o it gud iold o us hoy Martin had got them do #t and they thot it was just d joke be- tween frends or they woul had mothing to do wich oo oent of *x x 8 V\/ELL Charley what do ~ou thini of that. Martin give them a peace of money and got a few drinks under there belt and then told them to pull this off and says it was just a joke and that 1 and him was frends. A fine frend hey Charley. Well Hamilton give them a awfull balling and then told them' to beet it and if they ever dome any like that agaip he would qe’t tl';l’:l: and bes 1 of the bord thet runs tne 0 you ca t t tension to what he :-ys.h" i Then Hamilton come in and told me to go up stares and get some dry close on because he wanted to talk to me 80 1 went up and finished my bath with a towl and put on a pare of pants and a shirt and come own and 1 and Hamilton had a [Eo‘o‘gl Jlong tatk. ell HMamilton says that {his wife had knew & boul what Mer: tin was puting over on me for sev- rul dave but they thot it wasent there busness to but in unlest they was some real dammige done and | when Hamiiton seen the fire dept. fout I the front of my house he thot it was a bout time to enter fear and 1 thanked him and we tafkon it all over and.had a drink to gather and shook hands and ke went home onily he told me beffore he went to :‘:: gzrfl:d.g:dna'tl "t" untill T could a = fin S0 make the mext move. " Mar y it laoks like I and Well Charle; race would Gi be in right Hamiltons and the rest of the ¢ hunt dred club and may be Martin whi know enough to not more but if he does 1 and Haoing 1 and :nlllly n:v':.:h:‘ ?rz’e out ,;:ml'})':: sorry for l‘rl." e ek O do nothing to inj womman cant be I“‘v“ an other ma: bac] 'k guess he will be m to find I and Gr: h with the Mamiltons and the o monky monks hey Your Bro. uppr and t] %,and the other high . A. GROSS, All rights reserved.) Reindeer in Alaska. IN the last twenty years the reindeer industry has attained considera- ble proportions in Alaska. According to the latest figures svailable, there are approximately 48,000 reindeer in Alaska. About 5,000 animals are killed anpually for food and skins, The government owns but a small proportion of the desr, about ¢,000, and is planning to go out of the in- dustry as fast as it.can train natives for individual ownership, the policy being to encoyrage independence and initiative among the native popula- tion. - Distribution is in charge of the Unted States school teachers, and it 18 expected that shortly the gov- ernment will have disposed of afi'u its reindeer. About 5,000 reindeer are o'!u:d by Pe ut e reo- kimos s ‘;. :M Inai Ohe (Copyright. missions, I.Q.Q.O by deor is valued mainder by dustry has mide the ves ns n - suls a civilised, thrifty n»lu.":.‘:. ing "in their héi suppert S e 3 SENEs t the at AL National Museum Gets Queer Old Automobi 5 lc S TET, o~ ONE OF THE FIRST GASOLINE AUTOMOBILES IN AMERICA, CONSTRUCTED B NATIONAL MUSEUM. CHARLES E. DURYEA IN 1803, PRESENTED TO THE HE second gasoline automobile designed and congtructed by Charles E. Duryes, between September, 1892, and Septem- ber, 1893, at which latter date the machine was successfully operated, has been presented to the National { Museum and placed on exhibition in the arts and industries building. Although this machine is not the first made by Duryea (the first being designed and bullt between Augu: 1891, and September, 1392, and suc- cessfully operated), it is a duplicate of it except in having a more power- ful motor and correspondingly heavier and stronger parts. i Just as in the very beginning of railroad transportation, the passen- ger coaches used were simply stage coaches mounted on wheeled trucks, 30 Duryear's first and secong aut mobiles were simply converted horse drawn carriages, the particular style chosen being the ladies' low phueton. Every part of the carriage was used, simply adding to it the engine and propelling and control mechanism The motive power of the vehicle a single-cylinder, four-cycle, watel coole: oline engine, designed by Duryea.. The engine, whose piston rod and crank shaft are exposed, lles horizontal, with its head toward the rear of the carriage and the crank shaft and fiywheel lggated at the center of the vehicle below the seat. The engine is fired by a make- and-break spark, a pin attached to the center of the piston head striking 8, Wiy him and then he ast them | g'pivoted arm, which in turn is in says it must of beemig: faWR ANarmgeontact with an insulated connection but he says dont try }:s m Bua-. hrough the cylinder head to the ness with me and the best thing you] S0Urce of the electric cufrent (dry | batteries). The carburetor is of the spray type. but without a float such as 1s gener ally used today, and fuel was fed into the float chamber at @ rate which would give maximum power at the desired speed, the motor being ope: ated at a constant speed, as it wi thought at that time that a gasoline ITHE RECONCILIATION engine could not be throttled. There is an overflow line in this so-called | carbuerator. €0 that if the speed of the engine is slowed down. the excess gasoline would flow out into a tank below from which it could be re- turned to the supply tank by means of a hand pump. The starting crank projected at the rear parallel to the engine cylinder and turned the crank shaft by engaging a pair of bevel gears on the upper face of the fly- wheel. Attached to the center of the under face of the fiywheel is a bevel gear, which engages two gears on a hori- zontal shaft. Through small friction clutches, this horizontal motion is transferred through rawhide gears 10 a jack shaft, at the ends of which are small srocket wheels. which are connected by bicycle chains to large sprocket wheels, secured to the In- side of the spokes of the rear wheels of the carriage. In addition to this shaft there is a small differential in- closed in the housing. being almost a miniature of the modern differen- tial There are two clutches at- tached to the main driving shaft, one for forward motion and one for re- verse. They are conirolled by &n nd-down motion of the steering tiller, through wires over pulleys controlling a sliding cam. which en- gages and disengaes the clutches. The steering mechanism is of ghe tiller type, the left and right motfon being transferred through a radius rod to the “C" type Steering knuckles. The pivot line of these knuckles in- tercepts the plans of the wheels at the ground. a feature Which is still found in the designs of modern au- tomobiles. The whole power plant is cupported on_a chassis. the rear end of which is held by two rods attached to the extremities of the rear axle, and ‘the forward +nd supported @t a single poiut‘on the front axle, form- |ing a mort of pivot and resulting really in a three-point suspension. | ™This ‘machine wus useq about ! Springfield during the winter of 1893 {and the spring of 1914 in the | meantime another machi | | | and ne was being built, which won the first American mobile race, Thanksziving day. | auto g 5. at Chicago, 184 (Continued) portrait, which she had often pressed now shed tea to her lips. she which, however, were powerless U ease her pain. M. de Gyrieu was smoking in the library when his daughter entered. Her Vi took him by surprise: it was aheed of time. But he had a sudden {ntuition. “My dear Odeite. you came to tell me some good news. didn’t you? * % ¥ % QUETTE Kiseed him @ litle more ardently than usual' She sat down Ybeside him and said in a low voice: Tes. mgmma told me to come. 1 have accepted the offer of marriage which you have heard about. and, it seems, have approved. But I almost regret my decision. I feel tempted to take my promise back.” “Don’t you love your fiance?" the father interrupted. = *It jgn't that. If T had had any doubt about my feelings T shouldn't have become engaged so quickly. Rene is just the sort of man to suit me. His character. his tastes, his inclinations harmonize with mine. Nevertheless, T am frightened at the idea of becoming his wife. Suppose we should be unhappy'” She gave her father a look so full of apprehension that he caught its inner meaning. He was troubled. He laid his hand reassuringly on his daughter's hesd. “Odette, my dear little- girl you mustn't conjure up such gloomy | ideas. There are many happy mar- although some, alas! end in disappointment. Have confi- denci Don't cast any dark shadows over a day which ought to be all radiance for you." YAh,” she cried, "if only you would take me to the altar! If you were only there at that moment to prqtect me and give me your blessing! ~But you will be absent, as always, no dqfl‘lhbe‘ stopped, astonished at havini dared to say so much. M. de Gyrle turned pal contracted in a bitter smile. t lnlwg'l'x;‘ i ed slowly to his des! ;\: ::::n to wr( . He was s0 ab- d that he seemed to fori her ;2:::;108. Odette looked at his bent shoulders and his gray hair, hangin lectedly down the back of et “‘:‘:ek.“‘lm felt an immense ten: ::'ruc-. an infinite pity, an, grown old bef ““r&: thflr letter to your mother)’ e coming back to Wi -%m he written? ?r forgiveness or 3 'he envelope wasn't didn’t open it. 8! ber_beatin, In it! It e, S o, Bt only o rtulflt -n":vn,fi’u( have that wedding resent, that promise of & secure an bouquets sent in honor of lier daukh- ters betrothal, she wept silentiy. Her tears mounted from the depths of a feminine sensibility, cruelly wound- ed, perhaps. They mounted from those recesses in which dead illusions lie buried. Finaily she raised her head. Odette, standing before her. awaited her de- cieion, like a decree of fate. “What aid you say to your father?” the weeping mother asked. “Nothing. Nothing that you can’t hear. 1 only told him thai | was afraid. Life seemed to be full of pitfalls, menaces, obscure and treacherous perfls. How Could it look otherwise when, since my childhood. 1 have always seen you two separated” Bhe threw herself on her mother's breast and the two mingled their ted dette, my littie 'girl, my dearest child. go and tell your father that 1 am waliting for him, Hunting Sharks. AMO!G the sports of the Austra- lians, shark-fishing, or, as it might be called, shark-fighting, ranks high when the sharks are not 100 nu- merous or too big. In that case the sharks have all the fun to themselves. An Englishman tells how, with a friend. he was kept busy for a whole day supplying one shark with hooks and sinkers, The big creature would get on the line and permit himself 1o be drawn up close to the rock where- on the fishermen sat; then, bitting oft the hook, he would swim slowly past,to |and fro, as though taunting the men. | After having swallowed several hooks and sinkers, the shark bit at a large hook chained to a stout line and w drawn halfway on the rock. But & |wave swinging him around «nd throwing the line scross his jaw, he Dbit it off and escaped en then he returned and carried off two more large hooks attached to brass wire. When the men left the rock he was wimming up and down, anxious for more hooks and sinkers. The most savage of these vicious crestures is the tiger-shark, or wabbegong. One of them figures in an incident related by another English portsman, that illustrates ths fool- hardiness of man, To miners were on a rock fishing, when "they saw & tiger-shark swim- ming in the deep hole facing them. Half his body was above water. One t the miners dipped his naked' foot in and out of the water to bait the monster, while the other miner stood ready to spear the flsh with the butt end of sapling. Every now and then the “tiger” would rise, op mouthed, after that foot, and then the spearman would hit him. The by- standers were rather disgusted that there was no sport, a8 neither party sot other. JThe strangest feature of this risky fishing was that the fellow whose naked foot wi he bait had aiready been lamed by a tiger whark. He had d | caught a wabbegong and, after Kkill- proceeded to adminis few R, WaR, Of GOUING, Jamed Lug lilte