Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 17, 1915, Page 6

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He was our colonel till he was transferred for staff duty,*an’ a ram- pageous old porpoise he was, t00.” “Cut it out,” said Corporal Toplatch. “Don’t 1 know him? Afn’t I took his lip magy’s the time? Get along to the snakes. ' “Well, then, it was old Blue Nose's lip that brought on the riot. We'd sat down in cantonments, an’ they sent us a batch o’ the rawest rookies that ever ; signed away their souls for love o their country. D company's draft was a bunch to sicken a steer. An' Chislett set to drillin’ "em. ed 'em an’ I drilled 'em an’ I ' Tiots I ever attended. You could hear | There was m till I'd wore the soles off | an’ they'd still go seven ways ; day when I gave 'em an order. | Then along comes old Blue Nose stalk- in’ 'cross the parade, with a look on him like he'd bit on a worm. He stops | an’ watches the sheep I was herdin’ an’ % then he steps nearer. 1 halts the i squad and comes to attention. “‘How long have you had 'em, ser- geant?’ he says. *“ ‘Three days, sir,’ I tells him. +*‘Well, you're a darn poor drill mas- | ter, then,’ says he, an’ tramps off. “Well, say, I could 'a’ et him alive right then, an’ relished him. The rook- an’ I was wore to the raw with 'em | anyway; an’, one thing an’ another, I ' .just put that away on jce, in my cold- H i storage plant, an’ swore I'd get hunky , | with old Blue Nose or die tryin’. H “Later, D company was sent up in' the Bengalong district to keep the, peace an' after we'd been there a! spell along comes old Blue Nose an’ ! + allows he’ll make us his headquarters for a while which we had no use for | him, but couldn’t lose him. He brought [ his wife with him, she havin’ just come out, an’ bein’ crazy to see the coun-' try. “Say she had him cowed. He was the little dog under the wagon. She was a pill, she was, with the sugar- | coatin’ wore off. An’ old Blue Nose took it out on us. f “Well, anyway he brought her up to ' Bengalong to pacify her, an’ after he got ‘her there he had to provide con- tinuous amusement to keep her paci- fled That's how it happened that he picked up a Hindu snake charmer down in the bazaar an’' hiked him an’ his fang-drawea reptiles up to canton- ments “He was one o' these here dreamy- eyed little heathen, with a sun-baked complexion an' a scraggly white beard. 1 happened to see old Blue Nose a hik- in’ this outcast from Injua’s coral strand down toward the officers’ row. : an’ I recognized the beggar instant. I'd watched him doin’ his stunts in the " bazaar. “Things were horrible quiet round the barracks. an’ it seemed a shame for to let such a chance for excite- ment escape. Here was a Hindu heathen with twenty-five or more per- fectly venomous reptiles, right in our midst. An’' here was the boys in bar- racks a needin’ something bad, to take their minds off the thought o' bein’ sold into slavery for three years; an’, besides, I had that score chalked up against old Blue Nose. “It was a case of your Uncle Jarvey on the job. I sat down in the shade, an’ studied how to get them two in- gredients o’ turmoil properly mixed up. Well, 1 sat there for mebbe an hour watchin’ the veranda where the fakir was a doin’ of his stunts, an’ the little red an’ yellow reptile ever an’ anon stickin’ his tail in his mouth—" | “Aw, cut it out!” came from the corporal. “By an' by the Hindu packed his squirms in the basket again, made his * little salaam an’ backed off. On the way he had to pass me. When he | came opposite I held up a quarter to him an’ motioned to him to sit down. ! “‘What I want to know is this, I says. ‘Are their fangs drawed? “‘Are their fangs drawed? says I, an' made out to pull one o' my front teeth. Also I showed him the quarter | again. “With that he reached into the bas- ' ket, casual-like, an’ fetched out four or five feet o' reptile by the neck. He ' pried open its jaws an’ showed where | the teeth had been pulled. “‘Good!’ says I. ‘They look danger- ous, but ain't’ “Then 1 pointed out the barracks to him an’ gave him his instructions. He took his quarter an’ made tracks with dignity, while 1 went off to pave the way for doin's which was to paralyze all the blue devils in cantonments, an’, at the same time, square up my ac- count with the colonet ‘Casey was with us then You re- | member Casey, the little red-headed Mick, who was game to fight anything up to an elephant? Sure you do. Well, | hunts up Casey an’' puts it to him straight He was shy at first not lik- m snakes bein Irish but 1 told him they was toothless. an that ['d looked in their mouths, so he came 1n at last, an’ we framed up a program We feit Ilike philanthropists, for D company needed diversions bad “Well, the boys was sittin’ round the barracks that evenin’, smokin’ as asual, when the fakir pokes his sead in, an’ Casey gives a vell o pure joy He grabs the little man by the shoulder an’ hauls him tenderly in. basket an’ all. an' the boys gel up an' begin to Man of His Werd. “Is Bliggins & man of his word?T™ “Unfortunately so. Whenever he sings ‘Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl!’ or | T Won't Go Home Till Morning!" he | absolutely insists on making good.” Alligators’ Eggs Edible. Alligators’ eggs are eaten in the West India islands and on the west coast of Africa. They resemble in shape a hen's egg, and have much the same taste, but are larger. More than a hundred eggs have been found in one alligator. in the middle. I was conspicuously absent, it bein’ my duty to disallow such proceedin’s. “Casey said they had a gorgeous time. The snakes come out o' the basket one by one an’ crawled over that old heathen like grapevines on an arbor. When it was over they took up a collection, an’ the fakir packed up his pets, an’ then Casey give me my cue. I ramped in immediate, boilin’ with rage. ] ripped through that ad- mirin’ circle like it was paper dolls 'stead o' grown men, an’ I give that basket one everlastin’ kick that disin- tegrated it completely an’ spread them serpents like a summer shower all over the place. “‘What you doin’ here? I says to the fakir, takin’ him by the neck. ‘Git | out!’ I says, an’ give him a shove to- ward the door. i “He ran into a jam o’ men fightin’ for the doorway, an’ bounced back like | injia-rubber. Somebody hit him, I| reckon, which was a pity. “'Twas one o' the most successful the noise of it for miles. Presently, as’ 1 stood watchin’ it, a big cobra come amblin’ over my foot, an’ I kicked out i by instinct. Well, sir, that reptile rose ! ! right up like a goal from the fleld, an’ | determination not to leave until he tell in the middle o’ D company, fight- in’ in the doorway. “With that somebody yells, droppin’ from the roof!’ “When the fightin’ riot finally broke ‘They're | \ through the door an’ spilled out into the veranda, a mob of officers came pourin’ in. Casey was goin’ gingerly trom cot to cot lightin’ the lamps. The noy.” | Hindu was squattin’ on his hams, | wailin’ like a Chinese gong, and your fes were a snickerin’ behind my back, ' UDcle Jarvey was doin’ the virtuous think you'd be glad to see me back. herd act in the middle of the floor. | “Then in ramps Chislett, old Blue 1 Nose, the major, an’ half a dozen oth- vou all about it anyway. | 2ot to tell someone ers, wantin’ to know. the reasons. “ ‘Snake charmer, sir,’ says I to Chis- lett. ‘Found him here amusin’ the boys.’ { “‘How'd he get in?’ enaps Chislett. “ ‘Someone must ‘a’ brought him in, sir,;’ I says, an’ old Blue Nose cut in quick: “‘Well, never mind how he got in,’ he says. ‘Get him out again.’ | “Right then a big king cobra come out from under a cot an’ reared up, | with his hood spread, not two feet from the colonel's leg. Say, old Blue Nose jumped back like a yearlin’. | “‘Look out there, sergeant, says Chislett. “I took a look like I hadn't seen the beast before, an’ then, with the worst yell I had in me, I leaped for a cot. “‘Gather 'em up,’ says Chislett to the heathen, an’ the little man rolls up the whites of his eyes at him. He was gatherin' 'em up the best he knew, but they wouldn't stay gathered. They oozed out of his clothes faster'n he' could shove ‘em in. | ‘“‘Are they dangerous, sir? I says, like an innocent che-ild. \ “About then some one o' the boys that didn't know any better hove in a ' coffee basket, an’ the Hindu grabbed it like a godsend, an’ begins shovin’ | in his pets. After he'd got all there was in sight, he had to turn 'em out ' again to see if he had lost any; an’: when he got through countin’ ‘em he ' let out & wail, an’ begun talkin’ wild- like, in the language of Injia. ! “We switched him into United States after a bit, an' learned the pleasin’ news that he was four snakes ' short. | “‘Find 'em,’ says Chistlet, short as tacks, | “The Hindu pokes around on his | belly under the cots, moanin’ like a | bereaved parent, but he don't find any loose serpents; an’ all of a sudden he | jumps up an’ trots over to old Blue Nose an’ begins revilin’ him in mighty choice language, accusin’ him o' bring- in’ him in there and gettin’ him into | all this trouble. He winds up by de- | mandin’ five dollars for his lost | snakes. “Well,. I thought old Blue Nose | would have apoplexy. He turned | seven colors, an' made sort o' suffo- | catin’ noises in his throat; an' then, without sayin' a word, he hauls out | his wallet, digs up a fiver, an’ lets it g0 at that. “Halt D company had black eyes next morning, but there wasn't a blue devil in the outfit. “Well, Casey an’ I were talkin’ it over that afternconm, when along comes old Blue Nose, trottin’ his wife out to see some more sights. “I had my back to him, an’ I says 'asey, I says: Things like last night’ 1 says, ‘are rotten bad for discipline. There's that bunch o' rookies. How're we goin’ to beat 'em into shape it our officers—' “About then old Blue Nose sort o’ checks in his gait, an’ Casey an’' I faces front an' salutes. The old geezer hangs on one foot for a second, starin’ at us hard, an’ then clamps his mouth shut an’ goes on. “An’ with that I called quits.” Would Only Stand One Verse. At Christmas the children of an Eng- lish provincial school tried to collect money by singing carols and snatches of hymns. Many complaints had reached the rector’s ears of bands of youngsters scampering through the first verse of “While Shepherds Watched,” and then violently ringing the doorbell. So he instituted inquiries on the next occasion he visited the school. “Why is it,” he asked, “that instead of singing the hymn in a rev- erent way, you scamper through one verse and then ring the bell?” Silence reigned for voice from the room was heard in explanation. “Please, sir, it's 'cause they always lets the dog loose at the secona verse.” Ingenious Youngster, A lttle boy came near getting & good spanking for answering his father in a pert way, but escaped by saying, “When you were a small boy, dad, didn't you ever get excited and say the wrong thing?” Stickers. The great difference between a pub- lo servant and a domestic servant is that the public servant would not re- sign even under fire.—Louisville Coun ferJournal. | rina Lotta had foretold tantalizingly 1 THAT TALL, DARK MAN (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspa- per Syndicate) | Don met them at the train — Lor raine, her mother and father. It seemed centuries since he had seen her, Lorraine, of course, although It had been but two weeks since she had one away. . The parting had been full of fore- boding for Don. Such a trip was sure to be prolific in young men. To make things more ominous. Lorraine had intimated before leaving that Signo- vague things of a tall young man with brown eyes and dark hair. This was thorns and nettles to Don, whose eyes were gray and hair a decided auburn. He now searched her face anxious- ly. Had the dark young man man: rialized in the fortnight’s vacation? nothing there to tell. Lor- raine was as sweet and smiling—and bafMing—as ever. He sighed. He was asked to s*v te dinner and aceepted gratefully. e had a dogged had verified, or discipated, his fears. Two things favored him—the moon and the arrival of the preacher. The back yard swing soon had two occu- | pants. Lorraine snddenly became talkative 1 “The whole thing was heavenly Don. | From the minute we left until just “Thanks!" ; “You're welcome, grouchy! T'd} Instead you've heen glooming around like a funeral. Well, I'm going to tell | Do you remem- | ber ahout Signorina Lotta—all she said about a dark man and every- || o 1" killing a mosquito. “What did she sav? Surely you don't be- lieve the rot a fortune teller gets off?" “Oh, but I do. Tt all came true: almost every werd of it. You see, it was this w: razing ropturously at the moon "hen we got to Balti- more the city was all decorated for the hiz centennial. After we had seen the decorations and all that dad want- ed to go on a bottTeship.” “Well, where does the fellow come in?" thi S I'm comine to that! We went acrcss the bay to a great whon- ping man-of-war that made you fecl all glorious and patriotic—" “But when—" “Be quiet! I'm coming to him soon. They let us on that one. We went up a funny little pair of stairs they lowered over the side of the boat.” “But what has your brown-eyed friend to do with—" “For goodness sake, be quiet, Don. You're worse than Prince barking for a bone. Well, mother and I were looking all around everywhere. Dad had wandered off by himself, and in a few minutes he came back with the tallest, handsomest, darlingest, brown- eyed—" Don coughed painfully behind his hand. “Poor boy! What a cold! Well as T was saving, dad came back with the tallest. hand—" “I heard you the first tim “Oh. did you? Well he w And he treated us just lovely e took us lots of places other people weren't allowed to go, for he was an officer. His uniform was gr-r-a-a-nd.” Silence. “And then that night we went by | boat to Old Point Comfort and Nor- folk. We were at luncheon in the hotel when who should walk in but Lieutenant Frickson He tonk through the fort and everywhere—" “Yes, 1 know. T've been there! Then T suppose he went back to An- napolis where he belonged!"” “Who? Oh, indeed he didn’t! Dad and mother and 1 got on the b.at that night and went to Boston.” “Well—that's all, T suppose.” “No, indeed! The best"—very in- nocently—“is yet to come.” “Heavens! 1 suppose he suddenly developed a pair of wings and—" “Why, Don, you act so funny! 1 Jdon’t understand you at all.” “Humph! Well, go on about your brown-eved god of Olympus. What next?" “Why, that very day we were com- Ing out of a shop on Tremont street in Roston, when whom should we run into but—" “Lieut. Jupiter von Ericks~n, T sup- pose!” “Yes,” wonderingly. guess? And his wife!” “His wife! His wife, did you say?" “M-hum! And she was as beauti- ful as he was handsome'! Her halr was a beautiful light—" But what her hair was like Don vever heard “You little tease!" he cried, holding her tight to his breast. “Tell me what color of eyes you like best. before 1 let you go.” “Gray!” confessed Lorraine softly. us “How did you “State Use System” Favored. Governor Fielder of New Jersey fa- vors the establishment of the state use system by which convicts may be amploved. Under this nlan goods used by the various state departments will be manufactured. The various cor- rectional and nrizon reform boards urge the remova! of the state prison from Trenton to Rahway and the plac- ing of 300 convicts on road repair work and 300 on the prison farm in Cumberland. —— Wonderful Snow Figures. The delicacy and beauty of snow fig- ures have no parallel in the product of man or insect. The most beautiful of webs, wondrous as they are, of the strange insect called the spider bear Do comparison with snow crystals. 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