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THE -ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1920 PAGE SEVEN (Section Four) Thre Big "Stories" of Decades Recalled In Repub Pages ican Battery Of Linotype Machines Composing Room Of The Republican -t-tt--'- 1 Photo by Kunslman-Harpe Co. was bunt and arranged with the advice of one of the best efficiency engineers in the country. Every facility has been It is a pleasure to work in this department. There are at present seven linotype machines, but equipment has been FLOOD OF 1891 WILL BE REMEMBERED BY OLD-TIE RESIDENTS Among the events in the Salt River valley that have made unusual "stories" for The Republican, and which will be readily recalled by the earlier residents, was the flood of 1S91 After three days of steady rainfall along- the course of the stream, the Salt river, early on the morning of February, 1891, began perhaps the greatest rise in the memory of white men, culminating on February 24 in a flood which came up to Washington street arid which almost destroyed the southern end of the town. The filfst indication of the flood came early on the morning of Febru ary 19, when the water at the Arizona dam rose.

reet At 10 waters had covered the race track on the iair grounds, south of the main part of the town, and interested spectators used the court house cupola as place of vantage from which to view the tide as it came steadily toward the central part of the city. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon the waters had reached Jackson street and numbers of refugees began coming in. The adobe houses especially those which were unsupported, began to fall and by evening Phoenix was experiencing all the thrills of a real disaster. By the following morning, however, the water had fallen appreciably and steps were taken to repair the damage which bad been done and to assist those who had suffered during the high water. A feature of the work of helping the unfortunate was the part taken by the gamblers, who closed all the games, made large donations to the rescue fund and announced that the tables would not be open to play until the able-bodied men of the town could be safely, released from the work entailed by the flood.

On February 21 the work of rebuild ing the dikes and repairing the canals was well under way. Scores of men were put to the task and there was a definite hope that the errant river had ceased its sport. Mail deliveries were resumed tabulation of the financial losses because of the flood was begun and relief work had been pushed vigorously. But on the following day, February 22, rain again started to fall and a rise in the river of 10 feet had been recorded by 4 o'clock in the afternoon. At 11 o'clock on the morning of the following day the water had reached Washington street.

The scenes of four days before were repeated refugee families with wagon loads of household goods coming into the city, men working t'1-antically or. the levees and rescue parties traveling along the edge of the flood on the lockout for people caught in the rush of water. On the morning of the 24tfe, however, the river- began to fall and by night the greatesc flood in the annals of the town had become a matter of history. theory advanced by the prosecution. Only one day, Monday, May 20, was consumed by the defense arid the case was given into the hands of the Jury at 6 o'clock Monday, night.

Four forms of verdicts were handed the Jurors by Judge Kent. They were murder in the first degree with the death penalty as punishment; murder in the second degree with life imprisonment as the penalty; second degree murder and acquittal. A verdict finally was reached at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning, but it was not announced until the opening of court. The verdict was guilty of' murder in the first degree with a sentence of life imprisonment. Judgment of the court was pronounced June 4.

Eytinge, then thought to be suffering from tuberculosis in the last stages, was given but a few months to live when he was taken to the state penitentiary. Since that time, however, he is said to have completely overcome the disease. He also has carried on an extensive advertising business through the mails and is today considered a genius in writing direct appeal advertising. During the war, he did considerable work for the Liberty Loan drives and other war measures. a move was made to secure his parole, but it was tabled and has never been renewed.

Various influential organizations in the east have made attempts to secure tho release of Eytinge, recognizing the great ability he has demonstrated under about a severe a handicap as could be laid upon a man. His form letters are said to be the most effective that ever hafe been devised, and advertising agencies have held it to be a crime to confine so much talent when it is so much needed. There has been a doubt always whether Eytinge meant to kill Leicht. There was no reasonable motive for a deliberate murder. There was no financial stake.

At least none that would have been attractive to such a man as Eytinge. In the letter he referred to In which he admitted that he was a forger and swindler he said that he had never descended to so cheap and rough a crime as murder. The location of the body indicated that' he expected Leicht to recover from the effect of the chloral, and once on his feet he could see a house across the canal and make his way back to Phoenix. It was this location that prevented the discovery of the body for a week. Every distant and out-of-the-way place had been investigated.

Toone thought of looking for the body in a place so public. Beside, what Eytinge did could have been done in the room of himself and Leicht, and the getaway would have been made with equal facility. It is thought by many that it was only the nvrtUctnnnr that Vrt 1 nf criiirrit thi excitement of the chase for which he nrenaxed bv havine his photoeranh had prepared by having his photograph taken here just Derore ne ana Leient left on that fatal excursion. And it was to keep ap that excitement and give the officers a clue when they had none that he wrote that letter to the editor of The Jtepublican. Those who have sought the freedom of Eytinge on parole now argiie that, having engaged in an enterprise almost nation-wide in its scope, he could usefully exert his energies and would not recur to indulgence in criminal excitement.

IBS I. EIRE fiBIST MOUS III Saving Life Term In State Penitentiary Eytinge Has Won Much Fame As Expert Advertising Writer Of all the big "stories" in The Republican in the past 31 years of its existence probably none has created greater interest here and in other states than the murder of John Leicht on the desert north of Phoenix on March 17, 1307. Of this crime Louis Victor Eytinge was convicted and npw is serv-InK a life sentence in the Arizona state penitentiary. Both Leicht and Eytinge were healthseekers. The murder, it ts claimed, was errectea by means of chloral hydrate or chloroform poison- inf.

Eytinge who has become one of ihe most famous of convicts, already ias served 14 years. Eytlngo and Leicht first became acquainted on a train en route to Phoenix, where they were headed in search for health. Eytinge was from Columbus, Ohio, while Leicht's home address ts Sheboygan, Wisconsin. In Ohio, Eytinge had served time as a forger and his reputation, prior to coming to Arizona, was that of a polished His crimes all involved methods of obtaining money by false and criminal meaaj. Arriving in Phoenix, Eytinge udWcht became roommates.

Their close tssociation finally developed a verr dose friendship or at least a mppossdly close friendship. Sreral weeks after their arrival here, on Sunday, March 17, Eytinge hired a ris from a local livery and, with Leicht drove oat on the desert. Eytinge returned later in the afternoon, alone, explaining to the landlady that Leicht had been sudd inly taken ill and that fce, Eytinge, had taken him to the home of a friend, where he would secure bet-ler care. The next morning, Eytinge disappeared. Nothing was thought of the incident until late Monday afternoon lrhen it developed that Leicht had not been seen by the friend, as claimed by Eytinge.

The first story of the supposed crime appeared in The Arizona Republican Tuesday morning, March HOT days after the crime was com- Mtad. At that time, the murder had mitten developed, although it was laspected. Sertral hunting parties took the field Jteday in search for Leicht's body. Hundreds of citizens participated in daily searches until the following Sun-cay afternoon when Joe Monihan came across the body near the Arizona canal and Black Canvon road. Then started the search for Eytinge.

He was traced to Maricopa, where it ras supposed that he had boarded an eastbound train. The mystery as to his whereabouts, however, was clarified, to an extent, by the receipt of a letter Tuesday morning by J. W. Spear, editor ot The Republican, from Eytinge and bearing a San Pedro post mark: Eytinse, in this letter, attempted to set himself right before the public in the matter of the Leicht murder, giving many reasons why he would not have committed such a crime. Mr.

Spear received at the F.ame time three other messages from Eytinge in the form of postcards. A widespread search for Eytinge was instituted throughout California, but be succeeded in dodging officers until Monday night, April when he was arrested in a San Francisco store by Deputy Sheriff John Powers and Detectives F. B. Keyes and C. X.

Watkins, private operatives. When accosted' by officers, Eytinge drew a revolver an intent, he saya, of committing sui- un wa lajien xo can itaiaei. jai-iloraia, where he was held for Mari-Mpacototy officers. A reward of S1000 as pais for Eytinge's capture. sheriff Carl Kayden.

armed with warrants, two charging murder and two cnarsing forgerv, and requisition papers on the governor of California, left San Rafael Wednesday morning, Apnl 10. a Mrs. Davis, model in a Los cloak store, figured promin-y in Eytiuge's capture. sheriff Haydcn returned to Phoenix Eytinge Monday morning, April Public sentiment was at a high u-ith a result that upon his ar- TV11 1,03 Angeles. Sheriff Hayden that he would not reach Phoenix fto prisoner until Tuesday.

Fear-'bLv actIon' then quietly slipped "rathe city and deposited his prisoner iffle- county jail before anyone was iware of the sheriffs movements. iae grand Jury met Monday April 22 facts in connection with -ats death and on Wednesday, April hUn ed four against rSlL, 0 charging murder and two t6arEias forgorv. ih c- Baker, now a membef of before the grand Jury and later nted to iccept the when it fen-! triaL Associated with him la! of the case was Alfred of who Iater became chieJ iast-eo L. Etate supreme court and is sWrS revenue collector for this Stffltv entered pleas of not the fi, he wo murder indictments Kent vne iay before Judge Edward wurt Maricopa county superior iSbS action was started May djy re JudBe Kent The entire first selection of a jury. 47 Wsr.

bein examined. district day -UK: "rowjeution. an'1 Saturday, Mi were attorney. IS 'J1 and Saturday, May 17 an.l ere eonsumHi hi- tv, consumed by the nrosecution Prenf- me prosecution torsev case District At- ssedrv rtsted when court re" ere Motions to acquit Attorney Baker and wi. 1 These mo- Tie dnf 'ne court.

M'-tnT1'8 insisted almost entire-touted lcslmny. The defense imri Ulat it would have for Eytinge to hive Wmtt-rf 1 wilh either chloral mi'iroform according to the a In the GATHERING NEWS FOB THE REPUBLICAN IN THE OLD-TIME BAYS News gathering in the old days was simpler than it is now. There were fewer news sources in Phoenix. A reporter of average alertness would quickly form the acquaintance of every man in the community and would soon come accurately to appraise his valutas a news source. There was then, too.

an intimacy between the citizen and the reporter that has since been sadly diminished. We had then the territorial offices correspqnding to the present state offices though there were fewer of them; there were the district court and the justice courts, the city hall, the chamber of commerce and the "poor man's clubs," at one time 30 or more of them, including such places as the Palace, the Capitol, the Cabinet, the Richelieu, the Hoffman, the Anheuser of blessed memory and Bodega. Of these latter sources the present day reporter is deprived and does not know what he has missed. The saloons were great new3 sources Men opened up there under the genial influence of the nectars that the whlte-aproned Ganymedes shoved across the polished bars, told things that they would not have breathed while sober. Reporters did not transcribe all they heard.

In the first place they were not sure how much of it was truth and how much alcohol, but In many cases the admixture of the latter was much more than one half of 1 per cent. Then, too, the reporter's consideration for his informant often bound him to silence. He would wait until the relator got sober and then go to him for a "release." But the leads for many good stories were obtained there. It is to the credit of these news sources- that few or no scandals, other than political scandals, originated there. I have before observed that for a time the whole reportorial and editorial force existed in me.

In 1898 The Republican took over the Herald, its good will, its press and linotype and everything else appurtenant, including its A. P. franchise. The franchise was really what The Republican was after, though it 'really did it no good. Superficially considered, it was a bad bargain, and it would have been but for one acquisition which at the time was not considered.

That was "Scotty" C. S. Scott, who had long been the Herald's sole reporter and who came with us to news edit the Herald as an evening edition of The Republican. The Herald was allowed to expire quietly after a month or two, but Scotty remained until 1912, when he left to take the ownership of the Arizona Magazine. Scotty was the loyalest man I ever knew.

I do not go so far as to say that he was the loyalest man that ever lived, but of the others I do not know. And he was one of the best. He was an indefatigable news-hound. There was not a spark of malice in his makeup. If he wrote a story that hurt, and all reporters have to do that sometimes.

it hurt Scotty as much as the victim of the story. Scotty "covered" the Roosevelt dam -from the inception of that enterprise. He knew more of the details of it than any other man, I think, with the excep tion of Louis Hill. He wrote the story of the formal opening of the.Uim in 1S12. He was the unofficial reporter for the Water Users' Association.

He was an authority on everything relat ing to the project all its stages. Scotty's departure from The Republi can was regarded by all of us as a great loss, second only to the greater one we felt when he died after four years of such physical affliction as few men are called upon to endure. As The Republican grew we needed a larger and larger force. The first accession was Lloyd W. Damron who from a cub quickly became a good reporter.

He went to Los Angeles where he-distinguished himself and thence he REE FEUD MURDER TRIAL HERE 1 1892 IS FULL OF THRILLS Court, Attorneys, Jury Spectators Given Thrill and Murder Is Prevented Only By Merest Chance Perhaps the most sensational murder and trial ever recorded in The Republican was that of Tom Graham near Tempe in August of 1892. The greater interest lay in the fact that it was the closing tragedy of the Tonto Basin or Pleasant valley war otherwise known as the Tewksbury-Graham feud in" which the number of victims was rer ported from 30 to 75 odd. Tom Graham was the last of the Grahams and Ed Tewsbury, the last of his line. The feud had its origin in the usual clash of cattle and sheep oh the range. The Tewksburys were sheepmen and the Grahams were cattlemen.

It was not really a war. Most of the victims were killed from ambush or else overpowered by numbers and the barbarities practised upon some of were almost unbelievable. In July of 1S92 Tom Graham, ac companied by an adherent, Charles Duchet, went to Tonto Basin to gather cattle. One day word reached Phoenix that the two men had been waylaid and killed and as the story seemed probable. The Republican printed it.

The next day Graham called at the office of The Republican and proved by his presence that the last of the Grahams had not yet perished. But he was killed a month later. He was hauling wheat from his home southwest of Tempe to the railroad. About 10 clock in the morning a. shot was heard and Graham was found lying on a load of wheat, unconscious, with a bullet through him.

He was taken to Tiis home where he recovered consciousness when, he made a statement: "Ed Tewksbury and John Rhodes shot me." He died soon after. Rhodes was one of the Tewksbury clan, but was living in the valley. Tewksbury was not known to be in the valley and seldom visited it. Rhodes was arrested and was given preliminary trial which was held In the courthouse and lasted for a week. There was a general belief at first that Rhodes had been present, at least, at the shooting, but the testimony of the witnesses for the territory made it quite clear that he could not have been.

He had been r.een by several persons at a great distance from the the shooting about the time it occurred. He was discharged. Tewksbury surrendered himself some months later and was tried in the district court of this county. The jurv brought in a verdict of guilty and he was sentenced to be hanged when it was discovered that the record did. not show that he had been allowedto plead.

There were several persons who wcqs in court at the time who said that they remembered distinctly that he had pleaded not guilty. A new trial was ordered and the case was taken on a change of venue to Tucson where a jury disagreed. Tewksbury was admitted to bail and the case was never recalled. Tewksbury died at Globe not long after that. He is said to have made a statement as to the manner in which Graham met his death.

He said that he had come into the valley in the night time lor the purpose of killing Graham. He was told that he was hauling wheat to Tuc son. TewKsbury rode into a thicket by the roadside and waited until Hi enemy Without dismounting fron his horse, Tewksbury fired anil Graham fell back on the wheat sacks. baia Tewksbury: "I rode out and looked at him to see whether I would have to waste another cartridge. I decided that I needn't." In the same statement said tirt in coming to the vajfeK he.

nadcaf5 fully avoided John Rdea tortefe iSlgt no suspicion might? attach iar -igtf. Rhodes, he said, waa not even apprfSsg that he was coming. A very sensational thing happened on the last day of the preliminary triaksf Rhodes. Several of the witnesses -fin-the territory had been constantly -an attendance upon the trial. There "was one group consisting of Mrs.

Graham, her mother, a Mrs. Hedenburg, and ait-other woman. They always occupied the same seats in the court room, Mrs. Graham inside the bar next to the gate. Mrs.

Hedenburg next to her, then "the mother of Mrs. Graham. Rhode, the defendant, sat on the other side of "tlie gate midway between the bar and the judge's bench. Several of the witnesses were on the stand frequently throughout the hearing. After Tioon of the last day these four women entered the court room and took their accustomed seats.

Mrs T- oanburg was recalled and when she was dismissed iand while she was goingr-tit) her seat, Mrs. Graham was called and left her seat. Mrs. Hedenbunr.instekil ui Kuuiig me seat sne naa vacated, teeK uiat wmcn naa Deen occupied by Mrs. Graham next to the gate.

When Xir- uranam was-dismissed instead-of taking the only vacant "seat, she motioiied Mrs. Hedenburg ont and occupied A weary Republican wiio had observed this play wondered what difference it could make to Mrs. Graham what seat she had. But he was soon enlightened. The dreary repeti-tion went on and the reporter as well as the other members of the audience were sinking into a doze wheri'Sll at once a black streak seemed to shoot across the floor toward Rhodes.

When the senses of the crowd had been restored, Rhodes was seen to be standing with his hands raised. Mrs. Graham had the muzzle of a revolver pressed against his abdomen and was trying "to fire the gun. Sheriff Montgomery, father of the present sheriff, with other officers of the court seized her, but slie. held the weapon with both hands, pulling furiously at tho trigger and screaming.

She was at last disarmed. 'WfSLt, saved Rhodes was this Mrs. Graham had the revolver concealed laa. black velvet bag. She began drawing it out as she sped toward Rhodes, sega as she 'reached him and pressed tbt muzzle of the gun against him an edge of the bag caught the trigger.

2-T Excitement ran high throughout th trial of Rhodes. There were scores" iir angry partisans, on each side and tho peace officers were momentarily on the alert against a bloody outbreak. I ne composing room or rne rtepuDiican provided for the comfort of the printers. provided tor d. REPORTERS MADE IIS IN THIS CITY Every reporter in the United States 25 years ago has heard of Joe Mulhat-ton.

To most of them he was a myth. an unmcarnated newspaper liar, the most famous in the United States. Telegraph and mail stores from all parts of the United States were re ceived at the larger newspaper offices detailing the most incredible happen ings. They were such vast products of the human imagination that they were readily printed. But Joe Mulhatton was a creature of flush and blood.

He was a hardware drummer of Louisville, Ky. The concoction ofv these marvelous tales was a sidelh When I was a boy I first encountered the handiwork of Mulhatton, though It was not until some years afterward that I heard of him. Like some thou- sands Of other families in Ohio we took the-Toledo Weekly Blade. One issue of it contained the story of a wonderful well in Iowa. When the water was struck, the pressure was so great that it washed all the tools out and came through the opening with a rush and a roar.

It rapidly enlarged the orifice unfil it was as large as a barrel and, then as large as a barn. It was flooding the surrounding country, and the inhabitants were taking to high ground as "we went to press." I could hardly wait until the next issue of the Blade arrived. I rode to the posfoffice and, receiving the paper, tore off the wrap- and spread the paper out on the floor to find out what else had happened in Iowa. There was not a word about the -well. It occurred to me.

that is was not good newspaper work to let a sensation like that rest in the air. When some years later I heard of Mul hatton I wondered if he were not the author of the well. .1 first met him in Tucson where tin had come with his sister and a party of distinguished Kentuckians. The Southern Pacific was paying the expenses as a mark of gratitude for certain legislation that had been enacted in that state favorable to the "Southern Pacific of Kentucky." Some of the members of the party were interested in'a Pinal property known as the Rip- sey mine in the vicinity of Christmas. Joe Mulhatton then took up his residence in' Pinal county and died there in a flood in the Gila about 10 years ago.

I became intimately acquainted with him and he told me that he remembered the Iowa well among some hundreds of other stories no less marvelous. He explained to me that he indulged in such flights of the imagination for the entertainment of the public which is always partial to fiction. He had derived no revenue from his work and wanted none. He had never written anything that was calculated to harm anyone. But after his residence in Arizona he did unintentionally put a great 'educational institution to some unnecessary expense and inconvenience.

He had sent out a story of an areolite falling in the vicinity of the Ripsey mine, killing 300 sheep and a couple of Mexican sheepherders. It was a meteor ot wonderful proportions and heated up the surrounding country-over a great radius for days. Yale University sent out a scientific party to make a study of it. Mulhatton later came to Phoenix and made The Republican his headquarters. Purely for amusement he held himself out to be a palmist and soon established a clientele of society folk.

Occasionally he would be absent for long periods at his mining property and while there he drank immoderately. His mental condition became such that he was sent to the territorial insane asylum. After a residence there of more than a year he was discharged and went to California. Some months later I heard that he was In the Napa asylum, and later, that he was dead. A year or two later after that, one i III ONE QF MOST FAMOUS to night a military looking gentleman called at The Republican office.

He said he was William Mulhatton nf Louisville, and that he was seeking information' concerning his brother, Joseph Mulhatton. Some one had told him that probably could furnish it. But he had heard as much as I did. That night I wrote a story of the inquiry and a review of the career of Joe Mulhatton. The' following morning on my return the office I was told that a party of three strangers had called several times to see the writer of the story.

They appeared to be laboring under great excitement. In a few minutes two of them came in. One of them told me that they had arrived in town the night before with a man who said his name was Joe Mulhatton. He had represented to them that he owned mining property in Pinal county and needed capital for its development. They had put up about $300 and had started with him for the mine, paying his expenses as well as their own.

But having read that Joe Mulhatton had crowned his fame as the biggest newspaper liar in the United States with a residence in two insane asylums, they questioned whether it was advisable to proceed further in that direction. While the spokesman wasrelat- ing this, the third man accompanied by Joe entered. I told them that Joe seemed to be alright now, and as for newspaper liars and other liars, there was a vast difference. I assured them of my belief that Joe would not lie about his mine or any other business matter. But my word was not sufficiently reassuring and the trio returned to Los Angeles.

After spending a hilarious week with his brother, Joe went to Pinal county and I saw little of him before he was drowned one night while trying to cross the Gila. RON FOR WIDOW WEIGHTS AMOUNTED T0 15,758 POUNDS Some idea of the vast amount of various materials that went to make up the completed Heard building may be ained from the fact that in the cast- iron window weights and in a few iron moldings furnished by the Phoenix Iron Works of 501 South Seventh avenue. 15,759 pounds of the metal were used. The mouldings cast by the local foun dry included elevator cagj headings and other ornamental castings and were done to replace mouldings that had become broken in shipping into Phoenix from outside. Some of the window weights were of standard size, while others for the large windows had to be made from special moulds, according to a statement made by W.

C. Poor, manager of the. Phoenix Iron Works. "Our factory," Mr. Poor remarked, "manufactures anything in the way of Iron, aluminum or brass castings.

We have pattern-makers who first make a model of wood of the required shape and size, whether the article to be cast is a stove, a flatiron or an automobile cylinder. The wooden model is placed in the moulding sand, which Is shaped for pouring in the metal. In this way we can cast anything of metal, including machinery parts." the Phoenix Iron Works has been in business for 30 years, it did not come up Into the lead in iron foundries until it was taken over by Mr. Poor, IS months ago. It now employs twelve men and does a good business, one of the main features of which is casting parts.

went to Texas where he became wealthy. It wojld be a waste of words, a pleonasm, to say that he had abandoned journalism previously. Ned Creighton who had seen service on the Herald was associated with The Republican for several months. A good newspaper man was spoiled when he became avaricious and impatient for sudden wealth which we understand he has attained. One of the most interesting characters associated with The Republican was the late Judge J.

M. Burnett who became telegraph editor and general desk man. relieving me of a part of fty duties. He remained about a year. From the time The Republican moved into its home at the corner of Second and Adams street the reportorial force grew rapidly.

I have forgotten the namss of many of the young men in the long procession, but I remember Howe Williams who has reached fame as an illustrator and reporter, Ernest Douglas, Henry Behoteguy, Lyle Abbott of the Prescott Journal-Miner, and Ira H. S. Huggett. There the past may be considered to have merged into the present and somewhere hereabouts the deadline. THIS STORY WAS I FUNNY IN People generally have a mistaken notion regarding humor.

They think that an essentia! to a funny story is a funny incident. But such an incident is not only not essential, but may be fatal to a play on humor which finds its best field in the development of something funny, something slightly beneath the surface. The funniest thing I ever saw was too funny for transcription as I found out when I tried to tell it. One dav several years ago I was standing at Adams street. An Indian or a Mexican was driving westward on Adams.

Two men dressej like miners were walking eastward on the south side of Adams. There was included in the -Mexican's equipment a sleepy-looking mongrel. trotting along-under the rear axle of the dilapidated wagon. The dog seemed oblivious of ail about him. The wagon and the men had met and passed.

Suddenly the dog was galvanized into action. He darted out from Deneatn tne wagon, jumped across a deep irrigating ditch which then ran along that side of the street, seized one of the men by a rear breadth of his trousers and separated a piece of cloth. about six inches square. With the cloth, in his mouth the dog. w.hich had neither barked or growled, leaped back over the ditch, dropped the patch and( resumed his place beneath the wagon.

1 The man who had been attacked was petrified with astonishment. The words he wanted to say seemed to have got jammed In his mouth. But a moment later the explosion occurred; there was such an outpouring of profanity that seldom has been "heard. He turned his back upon his companion that an inventory might be made of the extent of the dog's ravages. And as they went on up the street he tried to adjust his coat bv pulling down the tail of It so as to cover the haitus that had been created.

Tht night I put the story into type. The proof of it appalled me; it was so sad and funeral. I have written obituaries that contained a stronger seasoning of humor. A TRAGEDY FOR HER "Miss Brown rejected me last night." "Why so melancholy, old man?" "Well, brace tin: there are others "Yes, of icourse; but somehow I can't help feeling sorry for the poor girl." nusion i ransenpt. SUCCESS loung Husband "Well, Ethel.

Tve just succeeded in nersuadino- TTnri George to lend me a thousand pounds lu tsua-iL uiji ousmess." Ethel "Oh, Jack, I always knew you'd make good!" The Passing Show (London.).

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