The evening world. Newspaper, July 13, 1907, Page 9

The Evening Worl ‘€ LEOPARD Man. 3A Romance of Ralousy fe. EOPARD Was the look He hl not meancholy » but he age of performing * audiences, and to| HI those audiences by certain exht- bitton® of nerye for which his employers | rewanted Tim Gn a seale c mmensumate | ais t rf Daily & Magazine, Sa turd ay, by main strength. The arm seamed stretching out longer and longer ilke @ |thick elastic, and the unfortupete mon- | key’ mates were rafsing a terrtble din. No keeper was at hand, eo the Leopard Man stepped over a couple of paces. dealt the wolf a aharo blow on the nose with the light cane he car- Hed, and returned with @ sadly apolo- with thecthrills he produced. As Tear; he ald ot loot tt 5 etic smile to take up his untnished Tnarrow-hlpped, row-shouldered und sentence aa though thers had been no Janemic, while he seemed not wo much| | interruption. : “looked at King Wallace and | ed by gloom as by a sweet and | i gentle sadness, the weight of which was | tas-aweetly and—gently borne For an! hour I had been trying to get a’atory | jout of b but fie appeared to lack) |Imagination, To bim there was no _ro-| mance in hts gonedus careeé, no deeds of daring, rio thrills—nothing but a gray | sameness and infinite boredom | Lions? Oh, Yer! he had ‘fought with | | them. It was nothing. All you had to} do~was to stay xober. Anybody. could | | whip a Mon to a standstill wth an ordinary stick. He had fought one for [half an hour once, Just, hit Bim on| the nose every time he rushed, and! when he got artful and rushed with | nin head down, why, the thing to do!| was < Kk out your leg. When he grabbed at the leg you drew it back] |and plt him on the nose again. That was all With the faraway look in his vyes and | his soft flow of words he abowed mo} his scars, There were many of them Tand one recent one where a tigress had eached for hia shoulder and gone down | , the bons, I could sea the neatiy{ rfiended rents in the coat he had on. Hi | rurht‘arm, from the elbow down, looked | as though {t had gone through a thresh. | King Wallace jooked at her, while De Vilja looked black. We warned Wal- lace, but It was no use He laughed at us, as he laughed at De Ville one day when ho shoved De Ville'n head into a bucket of paste because he wanted to fight f “De Ville was in @ pretty mess—I helped ‘to scrape him off; but he was cool as a cucumber and made no threats at all. But I aiw ae giltter in his eyes which I had asen often in tho eyen of wild beasts, and I went out of my way to @ive Wallace @ final warn- tug. He laughs, but ho did not look Bo much in Madame De Ville’s adtrec- tion after that. “Beveral months passed by, Nothing haa happened. and I was beginning to think {ft all @ aoare over nothing. “Wo were West by that time, showing In ‘Frisco, It was during the oon performance, and the big tent was filled witt! women and children when I went ooking for Red Denny, the head can- yae-man, who had walked off with my pocket-knife. “Passing by one of the dressing tents I glanced in through « hole in the can- VACK_LONDON. oo — oar A Romance of | 4 ‘The look troubled me at the time, for : Mot only did I see hatred tn it, but-i/ saw triumph as well. 2 “‘De Ville will bear watching,’ I said / tomyseit;-and 1 reatty breathed eksier when I saw htm go out the entrance to | the circus grounds and board an elec- tric car for-downtewn,_A few minutes fater I was in the big tent, where T had jing machine, what of the ravage! if I could | hi overhauled Red Denny, King Wallace yu | ‘vas to see oul Jooate v enny. 19 | wrought by claws and fanga. Bat it] ‘ im. Hel ‘vas doing hia turn and holding | tho. t | was < nothing, *: only tte old wam't there, Dut directly m front of mel audience spellbound. He was ine par | Se ouaaa Wibathier thin Ginomow hetiereres waa King Wailace, in tights, walting| ticularly viclous mood, and he Kept the Mons atirred up Wil they were aft | . TORY= (lreiny weather came on. Biuddenly his face brightened with a Tecollection, for he was really as anx- fous to give me a story as I was to for his ¢urn to go on with hie cage of performing lions. He waa watching with much amusement a quarrel between a. couple of trapese artists. All the rest of thy people in the dreasing tent were snarling and growling around him: that ix, all of them except old Augustus, ang | he was just too fat and lazy and old to get stirred up over anything. ! “Finally Wallace cracked the old Hon‘a knees with his whip and got him Revenge _ i Ket tt z snips [edie ed “I suppose you've nenrd of the lion- + watohirs _ ne thing, th ~pinta,_pesltion._—__C Augustus, blink! tanier who was hated by anothe ception of De Ville, whom I noticed star-|qood-naturedly, opened his mouth aa aa *_ nee ne aneinet ing at Wallace with undiagulsed hatred. allace'a head. |: Then xia Toe ck »yndon. mant’ he ked. He paused and looked penslyely at a Bick lion tn the cage opposite. Got the toothaene,” he explained. ‘NVell, the lon-tamer's ble play to the audience oras putting his head in a lion's mouth. The man who hated him Attended every performance in the hope me time of seeing that Mon’ crun last one day, sitting in a front seat, he! would have been critical had 1t notbeen|the skin. saw what he had waited for. 7 ‘The ton ¥o sad, ~ “The clowns had-te-puil_the knives “(De Ville kept_the air onfire with his knives, sinking them into the wood around the ringmaster so close that most of them bit into his skin.’’ At an uproar behind ag the Leopard It was a -Man_turned_quietly around. all following the querrel to notice this or what foliowed. “But I saw it through the hole in the canvas. De Ville drew his handker- gniet from his pocket, made es though to mop the Bweat from his face with it (it was a hot day), and’at the same time walked past Wallace's back. Ho u ped ewe earns together, crunch, just like Akiak! ieee Man emiled in a sweet! jaca,” ho went on in his aad, low voici “After the excitement cooled down watched my chance and bent over and fallace’s head. Then [ ‘It © ¢ © wae © © © rf I queried ex heen gus Ni aad, om Volek never stopped, but kept right on “the @oorway, where he tumed his head, awhile passing out, and shot a swift look back at the unconscious m: down. He followed the show about ali over the country. The years went by and he grew old, and the lMon-tamer grew Old, andthe lon srew ol. And at divided cage, and a monkey, poking through the bars and around the parti- ton, had had its paw soelsed by a big gray wolf, who was trying to pull it off halting eagrern: - “Snuff—that De Ville dropped on his hair in tho dressing tent. Old Augus- tus never meant to do ft. He only 4 sneezed.” 4] E had « dreamy, far-awny look fn his eyes, and his sad, (nefstent voioe, gentle spoken as a maid's, ed the placid embodiment of some crunched down, and there wakn’t any| “Now, that's ~whet I call patiencs,""|out to get him loose, for he was pinned need to call a doctor.” he continued, “and It's my style. But/fast. So the word went around to The Leopard Man glanced camually It was not the style of a felow I knew.| watch out fer De Ville, and no one over his finger nails {n a manner which He was a litte, thin, sawerl-off, sword-|/dared be more than barely olvil to his Lo ye 3 Tea and Confession, swatowing and juggling Frenchman,|Wife. And she wax a aly bit of bag- | De Ville he called himself, and he had/ €4@, too, only all bands were afraid of a nice wife. She did trapeze work and) De Ville. used to dive from unsler the roof into a| ‘But there was one man, Wallac Inet, turning over once on the way as| who was afraid of nothing. He was the jnice as you please. Mon-tamer, and he bad tho aelf-sam trick of putting hia head into the lion’ The Fighting Rabbit Laughter + De Ville had a quick temper, as quick By Jane Kellogg. jan his hand, and his hand qvae as quick|mouth. He'd put it Into the mouths By Charles Battell Loamis. a3 S |as the paw of a tiger, One day, because|ot any of them, though he preferred “ > her head bald Algh. When she [ose camo Into the room with saw me an expression of sure 3 crossed her face. %." whe sald, In Sléappolnted tones, When {a it to be announced, Will ‘There tent any engagement! dimples became manifest—‘‘yet.”’ | j>Marian-changed-te— subject adrotthy{ ner | declared, glance ‘leaped to mine, and in the wary | #bOKE. giving me her Pdarting a quick gla: that inight have meant anything, Howeve: then I shant marry him." she|or something Mke that, and maybe a hand as she littie wor @ at hie | sort } know -Martan, and her master didn’t have time to think, and Augustus, a Dig, good-natured beast who could always be depended upon, “As I was saying, Wallace—'King’ Wallace we called’ him—was afraid of nothing alive or dead. He was a king and no mistake. I've seen him drunk, and on a wager go tuto the cage of a [the ringmaster called him a frog ter , he shoved him againat the background -he used -in—his+ act #0 quick the ring- pine | knife-throwing NCLE BLI was smoking a cormn- cod pipe on the woodshed steps, when two of the youngest board- ers came out and, sesing him, stopped ‘and clapped their hands enthustastical- ecientifo style, too. I can't talk of any- (and useful lire.” “Yes, but nve'd ‘rather hear « story that's never been printed than read one those in the magazines, done up in realffoster mother, “The old dog seemed to know that by thing but what ive observed in « long nature ber long-eared pup wes not as brave as her other puppies, and sho ave ber mpecial feasons in holdin’ on. The rabbit was all for kickin’. You cing around the room as if Joath to by saying, “You look tlred, Will. I] glances. and i greatly fear that befor ere before the audience De Ville kept a up the hopa of seetng some one} think you work too hard." {Ge yoar ts out she wil have become tie air on fire with his kntves, sinking|Hon that'd turned hasty and without al ‘ion, we were hunting for you, Uncle /in print. “Do tell us on know rabbits can everlastin‘ly kick, byt “Tt ts you I glanced away from her wide-opened | Mra. Vincent Farrington. The ques- | (tem Into the wood/all around the ring-|stick beat him to a finish. Just did it] - Can't you tell us one of those| The young women were both pretty, | bulldogs don't think it's good form ae lowed this statement to pass, and| eves. “Unfortunately, Ican't help that. | tlon which troubles “tie ts whether I | master so close that they passed through|with hls fat on the nose. insect stories Y"' and Uncle Ell, although a little be-| kick, #0 every time that rabbit kicked lred: Tam not @ milltonatre. shall be able to keep my resoly [his clothes and moet of them bit into, “Madame De Ville— “Why, you'll get all you want of | yona ene Psalmist’s limit, was not proot}ok Sareh woula nip its ear and set i Voat is the matter? go¥n come home when alsed, or Didn't tt h candy and made him sick? pay is Marion's fox terrlor. r’ eyebrows elevated your w have you fed; Topsy too themnelves -onfully and the discouraged dimples. Ppeared. She asked (me, tyr-like alr, wit A a it T would take sone “I wish you were. “Why? So I could @rtye a cart like Farrington’s?" "I don't seo why you alway, back to him," she said petulantly. ‘Well, 1 have made my confesslon. Siippose you follow my example. Is What every one is saying true?” —‘I_suppose you have heard that I am engaged to him," she said, with a sud- come Seashore Freaks £2 &3 G3 By Maurice Ketten @gainst admiration. Mt pleased him that his stories were well received by the boarders. The chores wero all done and he had nothing to do but talk until bedtime, Mr, Butler, a boarder, who was tn the habit of writing stories himself, winked @entally ot Uncle Wil, and, ending. a apt log, ads himssit * seat and the trio prevared to listen. the pups to holdin’ on the way they have, and es animals are imitaters, Pretty soon that rabbit begun to holll on, I put some pieces of ctoth where Garah could get it and she'd holt one end and let the rabbit worry at the other end until after awhile the rabbit could hold on fonger than any of the | pups, i gave her -chunke-of rew-meat.-| ‘and she ate "em and It made ber sa = iega(hesvis cuit ccd inaakin? S-laee” frankieas” THAT made —m0—wary: “I suppose it’s no use to tell you that| Now the pups ate raw meat, Dut = inc hsm peepee “People will talk,” ; rabbits-ore about os tintid as any ani-| could bandle them without any troublé-! . "Well, you wee, there aro drewnacks wal, without &’s sheen. Now I've al-| but the rabbit got eo rantankerous on 7 gmon, Please. T once heard @ YOUNE| 4, owning a particularly high and con ways fait that the reason they're timid| the aiet that I-hedto-warn the boardera} TAH, hose Hidgmment admire —s0¥+ pot nous cart: Bvery-oneknows. fiat tu because ali they ever hear prenohed| about her, and finally I hed to chain j j only old maidy took crea: mink bev= : : head} sires,” thi g 3 = ‘De you think _it-would be @~ good for tare of your and they | 4on—jady—thought—«—heap—of him te. “Won't y a husband | t The poke eatted ae thing?” she asked. Srow up ike their fathersiand mothers. was siwayeafrald—that—he—might get ag ‘ perfect cowards, into @ fight with some of the puppies, artan's eyes~ emi! mt -aparkled demurely as ahe “Back= put her th was grave as he said: No. He be tied to my apron’ str —teatiy?_De_you Know, him in the way there. lan, from “previous knowledge of-you,you-will The women ‘@o li for that sortotthing-are the Now 1 eatic, house-wifely kina. Cihagine—yor- weartng-an—epren: “Wer, inumy fo?” she sald, loftily. fon it would be easter to find an m that would wear well than a hils- should imagine that your experi- > #ith both had been orief,” I re od. RA moment's pause; ths inp eaid, stirring her toa with elab- ‘@ unconcern. saw you out walking yesterday.’ fen? I didn't acq you. { you had looked you might have ‘as in the window. batore too," Vell, I paw you the if you will lve on the Lake fe Dilye you must pay the penalty how often Iarrington comes to see you| and how long heetays” TT peratsted. I Hesitated; With all her fascination | Marian 1s made. rather to be loved than }40 love, Good-natured, clumsy Far- rinxton. would in all probability be as Uttle in the-way-as any husband she might choose, To borrow her own fia- ure she micht. hang her apron‘in the closet and shut the door upon It, with nim_astt}!_ttea contentedly to the etrin, ‘An forimyaelf, I huye long. slice aban= doned any hopes I may have cherished. ‘Marian put up one hand to toveh the most tempting of the little curia that clustered bout her face wall? maid she “Yes,” I answered slowly, “I think Farrinxton 1s the best man for you.” Ag she asked, ‘When I am marries will you come and drink tea with me in just the same way?” “No,” I maid gravely, Why not?’ she tnquired in ameze- ment. ‘Surely you are not #0 old-fash- foned as to think that married women shouldn't recelve’ calla?’ PENNY ARCADE SPoRTS in the home circle js|timidity. They're *quakere: everyone of.'em, and belleve her up. ) “One day there —was-s boarder came { “But if rabbits were put out to nurse with wildcats they'd soon get more pugnacious idees on their heads, if the Wildoat didn't yield to ftw. instincts and eat ‘em up at once. ' “In other words, it ain't what your parents was, tun who you're thrown among that/makes you mhet-you arc, *@o much for a starter. One day, couple_of years ago.in the fall Twas. animad that !s claimin’ protection has a mighty inferior set of teeltm'a, way that rabbits use when they do bari. : if [Sere _some inte-the- yard ——— "Well, when be ea Masber Rabbit he Dut. they minded their own business and left him alone, “One day my grandson came over to ‘visit Us and, boy like, he let the rab- bit loose and he ran around huntin’ for” meat and dariin’ tn that funny hoarse came gaily into the barnyar huntin' for trouble. He knew it was @ strange bark and he felt like fightin’, “Well, I was up im the bay loft look~ in’ out-of the window ei-a cloud that looked kind of thundery and wonderin’ whether I'd better get my hay in oF chance i, when I saw the dapper Uitte thought, "My, but here's dinner without the @ of cookin’ it,’ and he made © Tap fer, the rabbit, it the rabolt saw him comin’ and wheelin’ round he waited tll was within leg shot, and then he loc drive those two bind legs of his and sent the terrier Gn end. But the terrier wae up in a minute and came : Bis : ; “[ peyer Chought of that!’ whe ex- in the virtue of non-teaistance, No|mers from Baston with a Skye tersler: ; nd only geidibachelors,.rum;*s0 YOu oiasmea, young rabbtt ever hears another rab-| Pretty intolligent fellow, game clear | take feta == bit declaimin’ Friday afternoons Strike | through and a thoroughbred. The Bos- yeelng your friends go by." “No, that's thelr own affatr, Person- they. don't always go by!" Marian’ | AlY. they don’t attract me." fe ‘T lata my gun down end pack with his dander up. and then the } f vith quick 4 ‘ vOhjs thats depanda, on. the_raarried ot my hands, and master rebbtt rua |rabplt"suw tha {¢ was war to the kn, | ee tha wumber ot times 1 | woman,” Marian ‘sald, elevating her plump into them. He wes about two | ind es (averefemeeaney Se! ] Seecan, Farcington's oart parading | nie scorntully: weeks oid, and really not ext enous | Cudin’ ‘bis lp and aneciie F parading to be away from his mother, “Terrier bad never econ’ a rabbit do and down thin bl » I should im- “On the contrary, it depends on the unmarned man,” I answered, smiling “Now our Barah, the bulldog that died that before, and he stopped a minute, tin that. wae ‘when the mbbit) oaught ye that they dida’t. im back at her aa I spoke. last yeas, fad « litter of bull pups, and B) front of bis shoulder blade hy!" remarked Marian, indifferently. et yon HRD eae ety yA} fas soon as I tad the rabbit tn ay bands | end pak ae right tn. ..Parnhgton He baa nothing’ else niet ey ai I decided what I'd 40, Mo I teck the Peaoet ten autre cra a Iikewtae, but i acts wrled,"" he one y 'a Io ea. him the a eee ONE] “Do you mean to the gitl I was walk: | Tanblt home and woen & was dusk I | advantery and Bkye couldnt wich tea tmble. ‘With whdm were you ing with?" rent out to the kemmal, and, taking one | him He on like grim death, and king! Walt” ’ “Ot course.” o€ the pups trom the dog, I eubeti- | fekuse he'd Speen taught al raises tuted the rabbit, and hed the eatistao- | weren't onthe fight dw I knw that there’ ds every prob-| ity that’Marian {a gngnged—or next Weill, the chosen already. trouble 1s that she $s tion. of seeing it begin ite supper at ‘onoa Bein’ dark, the mother didn’t “Pretty: poga I sam the terrier'a wind was gettin’ choked, and { ran dawn and ‘tte ft-lo Vincent Farrington, the| Marlan‘a eyes aparkled as her gravity Pf rye ine ¢ rabbit off, but (t tad A'aorvil of her admirers, and also| vanished. “Who was she?" she asked, notice but what they wes all pups | feted blood and the sayngenen that THchoat, Dut it is not in her nature| and her use of the past tense was stx- ‘That's a rule thet applies to all substi- had been kept under in «enoration i anaaahaes ASAE Ree tutions tn the anima! tine, Walt unt] | @fter generation of It urcestora came Mow exe nipportant..of |-nificant. Out Init. It just waltzed around that to escape. Which accounts for her}. ‘'My,sister-In-law from: New York. fs dark, and’ if the mother mothers | yard draggin’ the terrier, It and oslty. over therstranger to’ whons'I| \‘"I,am so. glad,” Marian sald frankly, ‘em, all night whe won't repudiate ‘em | growitn’ in bloodainilin’ way spald, if thei truth must™ be: told, | “Kou. would not make a bit nice mar- in the pore Only with cats, you BEN ie Shinde a ri ried. rap!" neve to put differs on the mother oat |fivve Ht turned a ack ch Mp tneetibeteate ALCAN Jad lid because they see 20 well in the dark, | Oh, the powor of tho rabtsil's hin ing Marian’s windows. ye (hat from your standpoint, or my. FREAK~ “I gaye the bull pup to a neighbor fa something that could he celedra @ wong. Food-looking girl,’ wasn't’ shot? Th 'witd' r ; dee, Newport who wos willing to bring It up by hand, | ° «gor nd hol and, au ed; my eyes fixed’ penalvely on the pear noale there be a difference {n Mazen sales, Prien eel reli acy ate otter Act hey Were here Chis eum f-es: I didn ‘khow you Wkéd Wig} "You know est," I returned, and watch dogs and are just death for hang-| {08% Whee Bere Hint “yous ad sWomen."” "| Marian had the grace to blust In on:once theymet & arp. Amd yet) The Hoxton lady grabbed the h Kaa fi by the le id Tt up arian 8 short and dark. “Did you really mean It when you sald snaritnleseajoatectd mi tnnon area he terrier by, the leg vn 8 Weil;"aw w rifle, I don’t, but the i Wohtd “nok! come 4, me if 1 “But the doardere ili thredtened henGhaay bak Fone atdichhdl E42 S19 bveHingtont Aid ae OYSTER BAY boarders we had then to see the way|leavo if I didn't, pve (1 ancl, so &s f | aide thay way thle, BRI ces meee ENS that mother. deg sated with the rabbit] f5 lode and let. i, loose about BYP “Ry you aia" “You” he and the way tha rabbit acted with ity from the house.” : 7 : me if ca oF : re eu aie : wimiGatcats fr