The evening world. Newspaper, June 6, 1919, Page 25

Graham Bell Was Born, By Will Mack Coprright. 191 “N UMBER, please? Central in-| his ear. quired with a rising, maple-| “Ouch!” sugarish inflection. “Murray Hill Six Seven Eight Nine!” was the confiding reply in the impersonal tone of a man who thought the telephone was a busi+ Ress adjunct. “Operator!” “Yes, sir!* and “out out.” ' “No, ma‘ath; that's wrong!” the candescout lamp in Central's board, but by now she was busily talking from the side of her pretty mouth to the girl on the adjoining chair, as follows: answer to the fake call. her out because she’s my buddy's! the Manager, Nell?’ sister!’ but I don't believe that, do “Mebbe! Some of our best eub- scribers forget themselves once in a while! Make a record of your ring, Elia. Report grief on his Hine, too; {t's always best to cover yourwelf, kid. you, Nell?” “I should say not so! Catch mo believing a fairy tale like that! You tel him, Ella, that fellas have G@ropped dead springing etuff Uke | He might—Circus!” that on innocent girls!” Ghe cut back on the flickering ght. ‘“‘Wumber, please?’ and now there was just a hint of vinegar added to | everything.” ‘the cougar. “I love that tavaificre, Miss Hoorts! ‘Wish I could afford di’monds like you! Uh, truh, bis Tine'’s in trouble. I re- ported ft to the Wire Chief!” “All right, dearie! { Nke the way you wear your hair; mine won't roll worth a cent! If he comes tn again, give him the right of way on one or two calle tf you can. He eald some- thing about going down to Dey Street Out went the connection. “Oh, Neil! Here's one of those ‘I- told-youl’ guys, What'll I do to him? “Give him the ‘busy,’ Ela! » ek-olack, click-clack, olick-clack! waid the telephone. “Line's busy!” she crisply informed the now impatient victim, and in-| to make a kick.” tantly cut away, ‘The light began to wink with some “He'll want the Manager now, the poor fish! Say, Nell, does the wearing of the hair over the cars affect your Dearing any? Mine does. Sometimes Nine, could wet” ders.” “Nope; not mi Ella. I could hear ‘em with earmuffs on. I have fine acow—acoustics!” “I got such thick hatr, you know, Nel. I'm gonna give this sap the works now . . « There's another Meht!” glided away. chum. “Ub, buh! Gimme time, kid, and “Just a moment, Central! What/ rp ghow you sont ae are you to” fd vi of bod Burleyeon Out she went. “'Juh get yer party?” “He doesn’t want the Manager, Nell. ‘He's using that 'What-number’ gag!” “Stay offa him a while, Ella. Say, ain't that luxury tax the scream? Hadie says the Congressmen and Benators is a bunch of bones taxin’ the ice cream joints, He says they're the boobs that put the nut in mut- HOME PAGE June 6, Friday, Daily The The Telephone As Visualized by a Subscriber Who Is on the Verge of Cursing the Day That Alexander by Tho Press Publishing Oo. (The New York Rvening World). “Excuse it, please! Did you get”-—— “Say, Central, give"— “Did you get your party?” “Give—me—the—Manager!” “Stuyvesant One Two Three Four!”| “Manager? Yos, or!” the swest voice hazarded, cheerfully, Pher voice would have tured wild dickey binds to forsake their freedom. The Nght became fixed for a long, subscriber declared earnestly to the| stubborn two minutes and then died. Dlooked current and patiently began} “Ain't this fanny, Nell! to jiggle the receiver hook. his Central now; it's “Marray Hi'!” That action flashed @ tiny tm-/ “Don’t give it to the freshy, Hla! Slip him a crossed}wire fora change!” Bhe rang Nis bell off and on for weveral minctes, bat there was no “Wonder if this party has gone to “He says to me: ‘Aw, I only take| another phone to register rage with Miss Hoozis, the manager, majes- “Oh, huh! I'll do that little thing. | tieally approached the board. “Party on (number censored for wafety’s eake) complains of inatten- tion, Mila. I didn’t Mke his tone; he was excited. {told him how ousy the Birla wore; we're whort handed and “Tll watch out for him, Miss Hoo- zis!” Ella agreed, grimly; “just make rapidity. @ note: The party wanted ‘Murray Hill Gix-Seven-Dight-Nine,’ but we coulin't ive it to htm on a ‘trouble’ “No, indeed! Don’t worry about I have to make @ stad at the num-|the phywioaMy impossible, Ela, “Thanks, Miss Hoosis!” “Number please?” sang the night- ingale on the wire as the Manager “You're learnin’ to throw the ball can either band, Ella!" Nel assured By Vv ER Y woman strives for the quality of style in her clothes, but with summer ma- tertals it is more aiMoult to attain because the dainty decorative fabrics suggest picturesque. ness and becoming- ness as the main consideration. There are summer fabrics, however, of weightior character, such as cotton crash rep, and heavy linen which, constructed on s0- vere, obaracterful and “snappy” laos, may be employed to lend spice to one’s warm weather wanl- robe, My design to- day offers a delight- ful suggestion for a heavy cotton or linen texture, its youthful style being partiou- larly appealing tu the miss not yet out of her teens, But this frock also expresses a dignified attribute whioh the matron or girl of business will find delightfully suit- able. The front por tion of the frock is in one piece from neck to hem, but ts opened to the knecs down the centre #0 that it may be slipped on over the head and then ef- fectively buttoned together, This long line of buttons is one of the distinetive features of the frook, it being emphasize! by the absence of any seams io the skirt until at the sides, where they are matching the frock. ~~ OF The North by JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD SZ eundae!” “He said a few, Not. This fella 'm telling you about”— SOIRCUS!" Nell hissed, warningty, ‘m their secret code. As the Chief Operator strolled past have been dead within a quarter of an hour, and Le Beau would not have gone far to find his body. As it was, he was beginning to turn sick at the end of the fifteen minutes, A pre- monition of evil that was upon him drew him off the trail and in the di- rection of the windfall, only @ short distance when suddenly & dozen secon they were at the mound, They swept around it and It, all gave one—a huge gray them with meat soaked in boiling fa He made himself a “blind” of spruce and oe A Story of the Woods, in Which the Adventures of a Pup and a Bear Cub Are Entwined About the Romance of a Man and a Beautiful Girl boughs, and sat for long hours, watching with his rifie, And still Miki was the victor, One night he wandered out into & big turn, and there the night was #o clear that his shadow followed him and all other thi uw wraight at the prey the others had not yet seen, There was a snarl in Mik\'s throat as he came. he was facing the thrill of a great Ld Onve more the blood ran sud- denly hot in his veins, and fear was He had gone ‘them Ella swiftly cut in and stopped the Diinking light. Copyright 1919, by Doubleday, Page & Os. ) “Number, please?’ and now the \@ream palpably was curdied, “why, I told you before, Central! T want six—soven—eight—nine"— Out! “ dust to abow that her heart was ‘om the left aide she gave him that umber now, but it was the wrong Central. ‘Wink, wink, winkety wink went | grr was in the afternoon that Miki, the light. who was hunting, struck his trail ’ “Number, please?” in vinegar with in @ swamp several miles from Darely a trace of sugar. the windfall. No longer was his { “You gave me the wrong number, | soul stirred by the wild yearning for Operator! I want six—seven—cigtt— | master. He sniffed suspiciously of Le nine”—— Beau's snowshoe tracks and the crest “I gave you six—seven—cight— | along his spine trembled as he caught ‘pine”"— the wind, and listened. He followed cau- “You gave me ‘Stuyvesant.’ I/tiously, and a hundred yards further sant"— on came to one of Le Beau's kekeks Nothing on the circuit. or trap-shelters, Here too there was ‘Kila! They're knockin’ goverment ‘when I was breakin’ in’ “Uh, huh! Harry says Old Man Bur- | evade them, it, can you, Nell?” “I sure would! I'm going back in @he rang an acoustic THE UNSPEAKABLE ‘TURK man-beast. But he did od of their meat, HE Turkish armistice led Play- | ropp T wright George Cohan\to say at] T @ dinner: be os “The Turk has well been called |) Ving: fall, Or e ves,’ he told me I have seven wives,’ he told me |enhy from his hookrh | "And in broad day!" e ‘How do you manage to pay their oreps into Wi dressmakera’ bills?" it “The unspeakable Turk waved his ‘Noa! ‘and. A devil of a ay rag ¥40 dressmakers, son of an | t: ig infidel about him cast shadgws. He caught in the night wind a sound which he had heard many times before. It came from fat away, and it was first, an echo of wind, i e Beh OE Rare WAY, uncer Bim 0be 2 driven from him as the wind drives wmoke from « fire, only there now, to fend at his back while he fought in front! ‘up on his feet. ing pack-bru his body trembled, His eyes grew wide, If Neewa were teeth clicked. and it was inpossible for move. And thep, like a band throt- Uing him, there came a strange sti ness in the back of his neck, and his ss breath hissed chokingly ot of his we throat. The stiffness passod Uke a wave of fire through his body. Where his muscles had trembled and shiv- ered a moment before they now be- like a whisper at strange volces riding on the A hundred times be had heard that cry of the wolves, Since Maheegun, the she-wolf, had gashed his shoulder so fiercely away back tn the days of his puppy-hood he had evuded the path of that cry. He had learned, in a way, to hate ft But he could not wipe out entirely the thrill that came fo with that call of the blood, And to- night it rode over all his fear and Out there was company, the cry came brethren were running two by two, and three by threa, and there was comradeship. His body quivered. An answering cry rose dying away in @ whine, and for an hour after that hi the wolf-cry in tl The wolves that bore down upon Le Beau's country were red-eyed and thin, Their bodies wer gashes, and the mouths of some frothed blood’ They did not run as wolves run for meat, They were & sinister and muspicious lot, with sneaking droop to their haunches, and their cry was not the deep-throated ery of the hunt-pack but a ravening ed ee He met the up-rush- head to head, the wild wol t Jast that crunched through hie Own ws if they had been a wheip's bone, and twisted back to the plain in But not until another gray rm had come to fill his place, the throat of this second Miki drove hie fangs as the wolf came over the It was the slashing, sabre- like stroke of the north-dog, and the throat of the wolf was torn open and the blood poured out as if emptied by the blade of a knife, junged to join the first, and in that Instant the pack wwept up and over Miki, and he was smothered under the mass of their bodies, Had two or three attacked tim at once they would have died as quickly as the first two of his enemies had come to their end. him in the first rush. On the level of the plain he wouk! have been torn into nieces Itke a bit of cloth the srmoe at the top of the kope, no larger than the top of a table, he was seconds under the rending horde he rolled and the pocket of bis coat he drew a came rigid and lifeless. small tin box, and from this box he tling grip of the poison at the base of ~his brain drew his head back until his muzzle was pointed straight up to the sky. Still he made no cry. For ry nerve in bis body was at the point of death. Then came the c &@ string had of the fat was @ strychnine capsule, It was a poison bait, to be set for wolves and foxes, Le Beau chuckled exultantly as he stuck the deadly jure on the end of the bait peg. “Ow, wild dog,” he growled. Py) teach him. To-morrow he will e ‘ ‘On each of the five ravished bait- placed a strychnine oapaule its inviting Iittle ball’ of snapped, the horrible in his throat, grip left the back of ‘his neck; the stiffness shot out of his body flood of shivering cold, and in an- other moment he was twisting and @ snow in mad convul- m lasted for perhaps hen it was over heard no more of covered with Numbers saved CHAPTER Ix, | Nell! He's |meat—fixed on'a peg. Miki reached ana perky ia peweed, Ha pe HE next morning Miki set out in, From under his forepaw came a fussy about the kind of Central be | vicious snap and the steel jaws of a gets, Can you imagine!” trap flung sticks and snow jae his “Som to please, |face, He snarled, and for # few mo- oi Deee® AER BATS, 0 eh ments he waited, with his eyes on the trap. Then he stretched himself un- control after they been fightin’ tot) he reached the meat without ad- get it for years and years, I ‘member |vancing his feet. Thus he had dis- covered the hidden menace steel jaws, and instinct told him how dripped from But he was alive. missed him by a hair, and after a lit- tle he staggered to his fect and con- tinued on his way to the windfall, ‘Thereafter Jacques Le Beau might place a million poison capsules in his way and he would not touch them, Never again would he steal the meat from a bait-pog. From that day he hung like a grim, ‘ay ghost to the trapiine, footed, cautious, always on the a for the danger which threatened him, Jacques Le Beau. thought of food easily se- tempted him. would have been a greater thrill in killing for himeelf. with its smell of the man-beast, th: drew him like a magnet. smell was very strong he wanted to Ne down and wait, sire there was also fear, and a steadi- ly growing caution. per with the first kekek, nor with the vebond. At the third Le Beau had fumbled in the placing of his bait, and for that reason the little ball of fat was strong with the scent of his A fox would have away from it quickly. to have no snarling and lorship or cause, Miki heard them again, after that of silence, Farther and farther he had wandered from had crossed “burn,” and was in the open plain, with the rough ridges cutting through and the big river at the edge of it. It was not so gloomy out here, and bis loneliness weighed heavily than in the deep timber. And across this plain came the votce of the wolves, He did not move away from ft to- night. He waited, silhouetted against the vivid starlight at the crest of a ok top of this knoll #0 small that another could not have stood beside him without their shoulders touching, On all sides of him the plain swept away In the white light of the stars and moon; never had the desire to respond to the wild brethren urged itself upon him more firecely than now, sank into other wolf-flesh; ness of the pack became a blind muyre, and the assault upon Mik! turned into & slaughter of the wolvos themselves, On hts back, held down by the weight of bodies, Miki drove his fangs again and again Into flesh. A pair of Jaws seized tim in the groin, and a shock of agony swept through him. a death-grip, sinking ateadily Into hin Just in time another pair of jows seized the wolf who held him, and the hold in his groin guve wa: It was the trail, hour's interval Jeyson is a gone goose for what he's) Wor another third LA ao mie he . 1 can't eee |followed Le Beau's tracks. He sense pene with wie telephone ° the presence of @ new and thrilling danger, and yet he did not turn off “Not me! I'd say he brought it UP ling trail, An impulse which he was to a fine state of ‘ficiency, wouldn't |powerless to resist drew him on. u, Ella?” came to @ second trap, and this time ated jhe robbed the balt-peg springing the thing which he knew and kid this bird.” was concealed closo under it. knockout in |iong fangs clicked as he went oni ¢ —=—===== |He was eager for a glimpse of the Yet with his de- He did not tam- thoughts and fotsteps with the lusive of a were-wolf: garou of the Black Forest. the next week Le Beau flash of him. Three times he And twice he followed his trail until, in despair and exhaustion, he turned back. caught unawar baits in the trap-houses, Le Beau lured him with the whole carcass of a rabbit touch it, nor would he touch a rabbit dead in @ snare. teau's traps he took only the living chiefly birds i lunging down the steep side of the noll, and after him came a half of what was left alive of the The fighting devils in wave way all at once to that cunning of the fox which had than olaw and fang in times of great danger Bev he reached the plain before he was and no sooner had he feet than he was Uke the wind river, He had gained a fifty-yard start before the first of the wolves discovered his flight. the peg and dropped it_in the snow between his Then he looked about him, and listened for a full minute, that ho licked the ball of fat with The scent of Le Beau's hands kept him from swall had swallowed ate no more Miki's brain A third, fourth, and @ fifth trap he as the day ended, he swung and covered quickly the tween the swamp and Ho flung back his on his feet, his black-tipped muzzle pointed up to the stars, and the voice rolled out of hia throat he saw them, They were sweoping like dark and swiftly mov- shadows between him and the suddenly they stopped, and moments no sound ‘came from them as they packed themselves on the scent of his fresh trail And then thi unspeakable, I onco met 4M wn-| Half an hour later Le Beau came bh ‘urk in Pera, back over the line. He saw the first mee 7 lempty kekek,, and the tracks In the crushed it slowly between his jawa. The fat was eweet. gulp it down when he detected an- other and less pleasant what remained in his mouth he spat out upon the snow. bite of the pol He was about to rabbits, And because a mink jumped at him’ once and tore open his nose a number of minks #0 utterly that their pelts were spoile found himself another windfa: but instinct taught him now never to go to it directly, but to approach it, and leave it, in a roundabout way, Day and night L brute, plotted against him. many poison-Daits, ait walmly, blowing a perfumed cloud)“ wponnerre!—a wolf!” he exclaimed. There were followed him Of the thirteen mad beasts five were dead or dying at hillook, Of these Miki The others had f fangs of their own brethre mile away were the great cairn of But the acrid remained upon his 1% wy owers,’ I laimed.| Then # slow look of amazement porate. hex ers — face, and he fell upon he snow and examined deoper—and he caught up @ mouth- ful of snow and swallowed it to put out the burning sensation that was crawling nearer to his vitals, ro Had he devoured the ball of fat as and scattered he bad eaten the other baits he would tralls, He built deadfalle and baited anette IS Beau, the man- in the snow, in bis direction; this time @ still florcer madness in ery that rose gasped. ‘It is a dog! wild dog—robbing my Maid —Washington ‘Bia! se rose to his feet, cursing, From ST WS eal e i aeadfala and baited thelr throats.” 19. of these. sits ——— rocks in which for one night Miki He had not for. gotten the tunnel into the tumbled mass of rock debris, nor how easily it could be defended from within. Once in that tunnel he would turn in the door of it and slaughter his enemies one by one, for only one by one could they attack him, But he had not reckoned with that gray form behind him that might have been named Lightning, the fiercest and swifteat of all the mad . He sped ahead ot his slower-footed companions Uke had sought shelter. wolves of the pac a streak of light, made but half the distance to the cairn when he heard the panting breath of Lightning behind him. Even Hola, his father, have run more swiftly than Miki, but great as was Miki ning ran more swiftly, f the distance to the cliff and the nuwe wolf's muzale was flank, With a burst of speed Miki wained a litte, Then steadily Light- ning drew abreast of him, and merciless shadow of doom, A huodred yards farther on and a little to the right was the cairn, But Miki could not run to the right without turning into Lightoing’s jaws, and he realized now that if he reached the cairn his enemy would be upon him before he could dive into the tun- nel adn and face about, To stop and fight would be death, for behind he could hear the wolves, more and the chasm of yawned ahead of them, At \ts very brink Miki swung and He sensed death now, and In the face of death all his hatred turned upon the one beast that In an instant they were down, Two yards from the ige of tho cliff, and Miki's Jaws were at Lightning’s throat when the pack rushed upen them. They wero swept onward. ‘The earth flew out from un- der their feet, they were in space. Grimly Mik! to the throat of his foe, Over and over the midair, and then came a terrific shock. struck at Lightning, hod run at his aide, Lightning was under, was the shock that, even though the wolf's hage body was under him like @ cushion, Miki was stunned and dazed. A minute passed before he Lightning lay etiM, the life smashed out of him. A little beyond him lay the two other wolves that Im thelr wild rush had swept over the cliff, Miki looked up. Between him and stars he could see the top of the cliff, a vast distance above him. One ifter the other he smelled at the bod- les of tho three dead wolves. he limped slowly along the base of the cliff until he came to a flasure be- mn two huge rocks. crept and lay down, wounds, After all there were worse things in the world than Le Beau's trapline, Perhaps there were even worse things than men, After a time he stretohed his great staggere’ to his feet. t head out his slowly the the snow less aks BOA aguzine Original Dress Designs ~ For the Smart Woman »— Mildred Lodewick Copyright. 1918, by Phe Pres Publishing Co. (The New Tork Evening World). Smart Dress for General Utility Wear. 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