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: * | Loses Last ~~ ‘And Now Mr. Knopf, Who Nearly“Lost His Adam’s Apple Through the Strangling Pres-| ‘Sure of a Lariet Noose, Knows Exactly How| » the Erstwhile Proprietor of a Thirst Eradi- ‘ ‘cating Joint Improves His Vacation Time ) on the Wild West Cattle Range. . x 18 is a new one. We will offer 5 @n automatic safety razor to ©. anyone who has heard anything ike Ht. Old Hssex Market Court, in ‘ the hundreds of years that it has stood sentinel over the lives and Property of the east side admitted frankly that it won the aluminum turnip. The Bar Association, which rarely places ita + seal of approval O@ anything, declared that this de- the blue ribbon; even Essex et Post A. O. O. R, smiled, and Betrns, who is not only the peer- fingerprinter but also President _ the Litigant C)ub, extended his to Izzy and said in tones of eimotion, “Izzy, you are elected tg the Post, and without any initia- ign fees whatever. You are elected, you are a credit to any Post, to Essex Market Post A. O. O. ening, the fact that the Post in fa reluctant passing out member- even if the election fee of a or something equally inspiring Promising, this chronicle aid go down in history. Izzy, the ‘side cowboy, started something in the grand old temple of ya ? ce. til last July Izzy was as peace- @ person as one could find south ith Street and east of the Bowery. is capacity as host .in “Izzy’s} »” as the sign with forty-two elec- ‘bulbs which cost $3.41 for current week, announced to the world, incidentally lighted the sidewalk almost a block, Izzy was peace- and retiring. But with Prohibi- nd the added tax on those which used to make us forget Price of eggs and silk stockings, appeared on the casualty list of 1 as “slightly wounded.” A week the list reported the error, as always did, and read “report- slightly wounded, now missing in Patrons who formerly leaned the mahogany regarded the closed with a sigh and went two blocks to Jakey’s, where there was al- ‘a friendly bottle behind the bar, though many wondered and pon- mone knew whence had gone BREF avoid any suspense, we will skip @ few chapters and go with Izzy, closed up -hop; sold all his sur- prescriptions to a friend and told the brewery people over the phone that they could come after the chairs amd electric light fixtures if they dages, Three Bottles wished, Then he packed his trunk, and with Mrs. Izzy and the three little Izzys took the train for a place some- where near Wolf, Wyo. or there- abouts, . For the “Injun Scout” litera- ture of younger days had never been forgotten. Izzy went on @ ranch, where there are no undesirables after | 1 o'clock and no Federal agents to break one’s sleep, He rode a horse several times, shot a rabbit which a friendly cowboy had segretly tied to a tree; but above all, studied in earnest the art of lassoing, which he had seen at several circuses and in an uptown cafe the night his brother Abie came up from Baltimore. lzay concentrated on lassoing. From morn to night he pursued relentlessly the cows, pigs, chickens and other ad- juncts to the local menagerie, Finally he tried a horse, and succeeded in nearly killing him. After a time, nothing but the Union Pacific express could get past the ranch without a lasso from Izzy of Cherry Street, New York City. Autumn came, and Izzy's ambition was realised. He was a proficient lassooer. The hours in the barnyard, or whatever they, called it, had borne fruit. Then, wit true economy, he came home, and this story begins. “Did some on choke you?” in. quired District Hogan seriously ai Mr. Knopf came swathed in “He tried to hung me,” soted Mr. Knopf. “Honest, I didn't want to hung you,” protested Izzy, while Mrs, Knopf wrung her hands ff the back- ground, “He ought to be tm jail for life I should say,” moaned Mr. Knopf. “Did you try te hang this gentle- man? thundered Mr, Hogan. Then pet told Sis story. He told of his reatized ambition, and how he had waited for two hours at the top of the staircase to demonstrate it to his neighbor? It would have been all right, if Mr. Knopf hadn't. tried to run do after.) it had been ¢o: eR ET ae “Honest, Mr. Knopf, I wouldn't hung you,” declared Izzy, who was now on the verge of tears. “I just wanted to show how nice a vacation I had with all the cowboys.” " hea inquired, Mr. Knopf cau- iously, ~ carne ae got wht Pie go to you and Mrs. romised Izzy. “Well,” sighegy Mr, Knopf. : “Well” eened NE. oben as the pair left the room arm in arm, “it was unique, {f nothing else." Knopf,” BAY RUM AND PERFUMES | TO. HAVE “Kg” EXTRACTED RYeemue Officials to Hold Con-| ferences With Manufacturers to Make Supplies Undrinkable. | WASHINGTON, Niev, 12.—During the Week vesinning, Dec. 1, it was an- nounced to-day by the Bureau of In- teal Revenue, a series of conferences will be held between bureau officials and the manufacturers of alcoholic Preparations, to devise means to make unfit beverage purposes such of them as cannot be legally manufactured ff found suitable for drinking. 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