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10 THE BOSTON ULOBE-BiCTTJIlDXr, 3TXNU5BY 6, 1D23 Jlmlgr It Seems to Me More Truth By James Than Poetry Montague master of the etherj with full control over top and go Oroad- casting stations. i The law which now applies to radio dates from 1912, an era In which the average man knew almost nothing average man Knew almost notmng about it. There can he no doubt off the need for a new law, and the at making changes in the financial system STS and concentrating State funds lrt a few the canflbe readily, has got along for a fiscal year without hiring money in anticipation of taxes thus reflucln an merest item which 1920 wag nearly 1200,060, to noth- ink, hag certainly earned his salary. 0 History and Legervd aT Ljkp- LX--1- Benjamin West TSsSJ The Real Golfing Season It not in the tender Spring, When apple blossoms scent the air And orioles and robins sing. And swallows flutter here and there; When soft cloud-shadows slowly move Across the emerald fairway floor.

That it is easy to improve My score. Nor is it when Summer sun Comes blazing up with dewy dawn, And when the perfect days are done. The hazy twilight lingers on. That I can surely follow through And putt and pitch like one pessessed; In Summer time 1 never do My best. Nor yet does Autumn bring to me That harmony of arm and eye That makes my brassies firm and free However cuppy to have the I ought game flown pat, So frequently have I rehearsed.

Yet Autumn always finds me at My worst. do But when the snow Is on the ground And frozen water hole and rill; When chilling blizzards sweep around The club house, on its icy hill; I shoot par scores with quiet pride. And win whenever I desire, For then I play the game beside The fire. BENJAMIN WEST As the Mercury Drops What we need just now is not the output of the best minds so much as the output of the best mines. Easy Bootlegger's cannot Incorporate; but they can nevertheless make money out of watered stock.

Hard Lloyd George is the kind of a In a submarine and chases along (Copyright, 1923, by By Hqy wood Broun WHEN' the cowboys from the Far. West were at Madison -Square Garden for the rodeo we heard a pitiful story about the experiences of one of these Innocents in a great city. The tale was told to us by one of New York's best known sporting writers. For purposes of convenience we will call the sporting writer Waltei' Thomas, because that Isnt hip name, and we -will call the cowboy Sam Babbitt for the same reason. The rodeo had ended and all the cowboys had returned to the open spaces when Bam approached Walter to confess his plight 'and borrow railroad fare.

t- The cowboy said that he -had met the man in the lobby 6f the hotel. "He asked me where I was from and I told him Montana, and he said that was funny, he was, from Montana, too. He knew -the names of a lot of the fellows that was bufidogging In the snow. We talked some and then he said how about going to the Hippodrome and that was all right, and so we went out and walked up Main st a piece. There was a fellow that was a friend of his come along He was kind of a German fellow and I didnt like him so much as the fellow from Montana that was taking, me to the show.

Tte Gorman fellow got arguing with my friend about prize fights and hes one of those bull-headed fellows that knows ft all. He said John L. Sullivan beat Corbett the first time they fought and I knew that was wrong and the fellow from Montana knew it too and give me the wink. The sort of German man said, 'Well, If you think Im wrong Ive got a hundred dollars says Im and they make a bet on it. "My friend says, 'Here I got to take this, but I've got nothing but a $500.

bill. You let me have $100 for a second till I win this "And so I gave it to him and he pulls a record book out of his pocket and shows the German fellow hes wrong. The old bullhead cusses some, but he digs down and fetches out a hundred dollars and gives It to my friend and hes Just going to give me back my hundred when all of a sudden he gets scared and grabs me by the arm and says, 'Do you see that cop standing over there in the middle of the "It didnt look to me like he was paying any attention to but my friend says that hes got us spotted and they put you in jail in New York for gambling and wed hetter beat it. He says for1 mr to go around the block one. way and he'll go the other and well meet in the lobby of the hotel and hell give me my money there.

"Well, I get back there all right and I wait for him about 10 hours and he dont show up and that $100 was all the money I got. I could telegraph my father. Hes got a fine ranch In Montana, but 50 miles away from the place where they get the And so Walter, the sporting writer, lent Sam, the stricken cowboy, $50. "It was the most pitiful thing I ever listened, to, Walter told us. The poor kid said, Mister, dont you think theres any chance now hell sho And when told him that hed been robbed and wed better tell the police about It he said, 'Well, I know his name, if thatll be any use.

His name's John Collins. -'''it seemed-a pitiful story to us and yesterday we told Will Rogers about It. Yes, said Rogers, "that was pretty slick. It was a good game. You see, I met this cowboy, Sam Babbitt, and he told me how busted he was and he wanted to sell me his horse.

I was going to buy it, too, but I happened to find out hed been hanging around the theatre all evening and hed sold that horse to six other people in the show. -see The young man who plans to be a writer can do a great many things more helpful than to take courses in composition. One of the best ways of learning to write Is to become a great naturalist. We have W. II.

Hudson in mind and Will Beebe. Nobody in our time ever combined simplicity of style with beauty as Hudson did. Naturalists learn to use their eyes and when they come to write they have the advantage of being able to see over so much more than any one else. Being a sailor also works out well. Conrad, Eugene ONeill, McFee are the strikdng examples, hut we invariably turn with confidence to the writing of any seafaring man.

They seem universally to escape sweetness. Somehow or other the salt gets Into them. And they have the faculty of never confusing profundity and discursiveness. Perhaps they learn by experience to have a dislike for windiness. One of the most striking things in McKees novel.

"Command," is the description of the sinking of a steamer at night by a submarine, and the event Is set down before us with incredible speed. Many of the words which seafaring writers use are strange to us. When McFee writes, A ldw muttering rumble came up from the deck members, culminating in hoarse rat-1 BOY of seven was left, one day, to sit beside, the cradle of his baby sister and watch her while she slept, as his mother had an errhnd to do. In those days, about 1742, nursemaids in this country were rare and the older members of the family had to take their turns at minding the baby, This particular little boys name was Benjamin West and he was the son of a Quaker family who had emigrated from Buckinghamshire to Springfield, Penn. He did not mind looking after the baby, for he had found something to occupy his hands while he sat there.

His mother found him, when she came in, Intently bending over a scrap of paper on which he was marking with red and black Ink, So interested was he in his work that he did not notice his mother come into the kitchen. She called to him from the door: What Is thee doing. Benjamin? Art thou tending little Sally as thee promised?" Now Ben was rather afraid that what he had been doing was wrong, so he fried to hide the paper behind his back. He heard the voice again, this time a little more stern, "Answer me, Benjamin! What Is thee doing? His older sister had come into the kitchen by this time and added her word, so Ben had to bring forth the paper and show that his attention had not been entirely occupied with Baby Sally. But instead of receiving a box over the ears, he heard his mother say In great glee, "Why, I believe the boy has made a likeness of Sally!" Elder sister then gave glance at the scrap of paper and she.

was obliged to admit that It contained a drawing very much like Baby Sally. Bens heart resumed its normal pace again, but when asked who had taught him to draw, he had to confess that no one had, he had not even asked the Friends whether It was right to draw. The mother did not know, either, but she rather suspected that her son had remarkable talent, so she took the drawing and A CHARLES HANSON TOWNES POEMS I LOVE Auf Wiedersehen By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL No one has better shown the necessity of filching this beautiful phrase from the German than Lowell. It has become a pai of our language through "constant use; and surely until we meet again or, literally, until we see each other again Is so.ter and lovelier than our own definite and iron SATURDAY, JAN 6, 1923 The Globe Man's Daily Story A stranger walked up to where a gang of men was working cm a railroad and asked who was the boss. A red-shirted man at once turned on one of the Shouting: "Rafferty, you are fired get to 1 out of here! Then, turning to the stranger, he said: That shows who is boss.

LAW FOR. BABEL ((T SUPPOSE, said thet, curious A friend, you can hear everything on your radio receiver. That is the ghastly part of it, groaned the man who had just paid good money for a set. "Sometimes I can hear concerts, jazz, grand opera, Eerraons, health' talks, reports, and a good many other things I cannot pick out. The trouble is that they are all going at once: the ether is too full, and often stuffs your ears with sections of a verbal crazy quilt.

The amazing growth of radio broadcasting has produced a situation which1 demands an immediate remedy. This is what has happened. A year and a quarter ago there was one great broadcasting station In the United States. It furnished good programs with commendable regularity. By glancing at a printed list, the owner of the receiving set could tell exactly when he was to listen In to hear those numbers which interested him.

And then other broadcasting stations began to appear. At first they came singly, then in groups of twos and threes. After that the deluge. In the short space of 15 months the broadcasting stations have increased from 1 to 572. All sorts of concerns have entered the field.

There are electrical companies, large department stores, firms in the publishing business and a host of others. Each one of them plans to furnish a good program which lasts for hours. Some large cities have as many as a score of sending stations. In the beginning the Department of Commerce, in charge of "radio ac- -v- ti vi ties, set aside the -26Q-meter wave length for the use of broadcasters. For a time this did well enough.

Stations were few and separated, and mostly they did not send very far. As the apparatus improved and the number of senders multiplied the congestion In the ether began to be serious. On- Their own initiative the broadcasters-attempte apportion the opportunities among themselves so that each would have a fair chance. The hours were divided and assigned, there was a rotation so that no one concern should have the most desirable periods or days. But whenever a new broadcaster appeared the schedule was upset.

Radio was outgrowing its new suit. The Government then took a hand and decided to issue licenses to a certain class of stations, permitting them to use a 400-meter length. It was made difficult to qualify this group and the number was kept low, but that did not help the other stations materially, as the graduates from the 360 length were soon replaced. Meanwhile the public, which had invested millions in receiving sets, was not being satisfied. There were too many lost chords and detached sentences floating about.

Radio for anyone who puts up antennae to catch the voices In the air is too great a development to be permitted to be swamped by lack of an etherlal traffic squad. So far as scientists can tell, it i3 yet In Its infancy.and is destined to fill a larger and larger place In the lives of the Regulation is Imperative. At the same time the regulation must be of such a nature that sufficiently free play will be given to encourage in-ventions and Improvements. If a set of hard and fast rules should be established the future of radio would be imperiled. The White bill, now before Congress, Is an attempt to deal with the radio situation in a way which will produce regulation, but will not induce stagnation.

The framers have come to the conclusion that what radio needs now is a dictator, and the bill would make Secretary Hoover, by virtue of his position as head of the Department of Commerce, the radio dictator. Naturally the bill contains other clauses which limit in this or that direction the power of the Secretary of Commerce. Care Is taken that the Government shall have exclusive rights in time of war; the amounts of the license fees are specified, and there is a committee of advisors to help out; but through it all the authority of the Secretary of Commerce overshadows everything else. He" is to be traffic farewell or goodby. The little gate was reached at last.

Half hid In' lilacs down the lane; She pushed It wide, and, ae she- past, A wistful look she backward cast. And said Auf wiedersehen! tempt to enact the White hill is the response to the demand that the ether congestion be straightened out for the listeners. Some future age may spin aperies of legends about the figure of; Mr Herbert Hoover, If he Is given the radio job and manages to swing it. The mythology of the year 3923 will have a nursery tale about him, telling how he solved the problem of the Tower of Babel, without pulling down the tower or making people who had something worth telling leave off broadcasting. Uncle Dudley.

BEHIND THE SHADOWS PROGNOSTICATIONS of evil, as Mrs Partington once remarked, "bode no good. Certainly prophecies about French policy toward Germany, implicit in events up and down the world since the Paris Conference was disrupted, bode good for nobody con cerned. Nor does that Jeremiad look less gloomy, on the, surface, as a result of the latest action of Washington. The declaration of the American State Department that it will proceed no further to help straighten out world af fairs unless askeh to by France goes one step further than its original avowal that It would not step in unless re quested by the Allies. This decision completes the Isolation of French policy by putting all possibility of aid from abroad squarely up to France.

It is obvious that there would be no gain in any attempt by the United States to help if the chief party to the row refused to listen. Meantime, events are moving swiftly, The mobilization of French troops, the call to arms of by Turkey, the grumblings about war from Berlin, the crash of the German mark, the tumble of other European exchange rates, the crisis in affairs in the Little Entente and the reported resignation of the British member of the Allied Separations Commission these are indications whither Europe is headed, unless Poincare changes his tactics. That he will not be forced to do this Is almost inconceivable. The financial leaders of the world, in France as- well as'Wlthout, recognize clearly thaiTThere is more at stake than a German detoaele. whole social plan of things Is threatened with disaster unless sense makes itself heard.

Natural reluctance of these forces to stand by at their own funeral is bound to find expression soon. In France business men are uneasy. Politics there is also uneasy. Poincares (party lost the last by-election in ce by a significantly overwhelming. of polltlcal 8enUment ah things considered, it is possible that finance (the thing that France uses as excuse for action against Germany) may shortly begin to talk turkey to France.

If the international bankers, whose skins are at stake, offer to prime the pump of German reparations, it might be extremely embarrassing for Poincare to refuse. SHALL WE BE FAIR TQ PORTO RICO? THE unofficial announcement that Gov E. Mont Reily, the Administrations director of affairs at Porto Rico, is to resign office ought to be confirmed by official Washington at once, so as to put an end, definitely, to a situation which has brought America little credit and much criticism. Gov Reily, so dispatches indicate. Is confronted with the possibility of a Congressional investigation of his actions while Governor in Porto Rico, as the alternative of his resignation.

The use of Congressional investigation to bring about his departure from the control of affairs in this island, however, pales into insignificance beside a much more potent reason for his resignation: Gov Reily is not In harmony with the majority of citizens of the State he has been ruling. The fact that he ha3 been a constant Irritation and cause for appeals to Washington, ever since he first put foot ashore there, should be sufficient grounds for relieving Porto Rico of himself and his methods at once. When the majority of the constituted political representatives of a people feel so much at odds with an imported Governor that they are driven to memorialize the President and the Congress of the United States asking for relief, it is time to meet their wishes or else abandon all pretense of belief in the rights of representative government. Further, to keep this undesired Governor in Porto Rico is to add one more ingredient of suspicion to the already unpleasant stew of our Latin-American relations. Gov Reily should be made a matter of past history by responsible leaders at Washington as soon as it is humanly possible to piake him.

EDITORIAL POINTS The bituminous coal operators and mine union officials, unable tq agree on a means of negotiating new wage contracts before the prevailing ones expire March 31, so that a strike April 1' ia threatened, have considered but the publ(c. Will the French venture to take action that so many eminent authorities declare would be destructive? The coal operators and miners in the Chicago conference falling to reach a wage agreement, declare that the next move is up to the United States. 'Well, Congress is In session. State Trees Janies Jackson, who oy Perhaps you thought there was a good deal of snow to shovel, but sup- becn on a levei around Boston, as it was in Milton, The announcement that Premier Theunls of Belgium has decided to resign is followed now by an expression of hope that he help greatly In straightening out the European tangle, as he is a diplomat of great ability, a financier of large experience, and a personal friend and trusted associate of Premier Poincare. We shall, really have to find out how to pronounce his name.

The hothouse rhubarb in the market comes from Qiebec, but any gardener can have rhubarb in the Winter time by digging a root in the Fail after it, has frozen and planting it in a box of earth down cellar. Publication of the fact that the Episcopal service for burial at sea was sent by wireless to a Shipping Board ship 240 miles away, which had no Bible or prayer book on board, has led the American Bible Society to present to the Shipping Board a Bible for each one of Its vessels. Does anybody feel rebuked? Warning against a new counterfeit $20 National Bank note on the Central National Bank of San Angelo, Tex, Is issued now. The counterfeiters lately have been very active. Those two new grandsons of Chief Justice Taft, who arrived almost simultaneously, were both bom in Cincinnati, but they are not twins.

It Is proposed to pay a salary of $150 a month to seven members of a National commission to he appointed to deter-mine what alcoholic content makes a beverage Intoxicating, but wouldn't some of them feel that It was a shame to take the money? The Federal Bureau of Mines gives warning that the Nation's supply of natural gas Is near its end, hut there Is Congress. The first baby born in Massachusetts this year, who arrived in Lawrence one minute after midnight on New Tear's Day, has been named Warren Gamaliel Harding Wltke, as the President may expect to be informed. Londons latest fashionable dance, the Tarzan Twine, invented by an American, is said to be a gloried fox-trot shimmy, easy to perform and smoother than the Boston or Hesitation. Is it graceful or disgraceful? Heres hoping it wont take another war to make some diplomats realize wars horrors and futility. Of corn's the snowfall doesnt seem so great to 'the man who is perfectly willing to tell you all 'about the, big storm of 1867.

Will any one he disappointed if the storm predicted for today also fails to materialize? The Daugherty revised version: Isn't Volstead on the ocean, as it is upon the land?" Even in New--York all the snow has not been cleared yet from the city streets. 'Bananas, 40 and 50 cents a dozen. Is the war ever going to be over? Coue, while he Is over here, doesnt expect to have to consult a doctor. Has anybody yet filed an income tax return? WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT Anonymous communications will receive no attention, nor wlU any notice be paid those of nndue length. Denominational or sectarian questions are not acceptable.

Serpent Worship Alfred M. Grayling, Newburyport Perhaps no animal worship has prevailed more widely than that of the serpent. It has its place among the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Homans, the Celts and Scandinavians, it la found in Persia, India, China, Thibet, Mexico, Peru and in Africa, where it flourishes ns the State religion in Dahomey. It ia found in Java, Ceylon, among the Fiji Islands and other parts of Oceanica, and even within the limits of the Christian religion we find the sect of the Ophites, who continued or renewed snake worship, blended with curiously purer rites. Declaration of Independence Signers Mottle N.

The signers of the Declaration of Independence from the Colony of Massachusetts Bay were John Adams, Lemuel Adams, I'll ridge Gerry, Robert Treat Paine and John Hancock. Rank of Full General T. Boston The rank of full General of the Armies of the United States was created by act of Congress in 1866 and has been conferred npon only three persons. Grant, Sheridan and Pershing. British War Debt Martin Folsom, Salem On Nov 15, Great Britain paid second (50,000,000 instalment on the lntereat of her war debt to the United States.

Great Britain has now paid a total of $100,000,000 interest on her aggregate war debt to the United Statea of $4,277,000,000. Hoop Snake Tom, Quincy There is a hoop snake, and It was so named from a mistaken idea that it can take its tail In Us mouth and roll along as a hoop does. It is found In the Southern States and Is also called the' horned snake. Although many strange stories are told of this snakes being seen rolling along a road at a high rate of speed, no authentic record of euch performances is to be found. English Dukes F.

P. Smiley. Milton The first KngH-h Duke Edward the Black Prince, who was created Duke of Cornwall, a title s.hlch lias ever since belonged to the eldest son of the sovereign during the Ufa of Ills parent. He is called Dux nntua, or born Duke, in 'distinction to Duces creatl, or Dukes by creation, TbPre were seven Dukes in the time of the Tudors, but in Elizabeths rein the title te-ramo entirely extinct. James revived it in favor of George Villere, who was created Duke of Buckingham, and Charles II conferred the title oo several of his illegitimate sons.

Boxing the Compass J. T. Thompson, South lloatoo The cc.mpass is boxed a follows: North, north 1-y east, north-northeast, northeast l.y north, northeast, northeast by east, east-northeast, east by north, east, east by south, east southeast, southeast by east southeast, southeast by south, south-southeast, south by east, south, south by west, outta-southwet, southwest by south, southwest, southwest by west, west-southwest. -west by south, west, west by ndrth, west northwest, northwest by west, northwest, northwest by north, north-northwest, north hr west, north. Origin of Curfew Mis M.

L. Cambridge The word curfew mean literally "cover fire. Throughout Europe in the Middle Ages the practice prevailed of ringing the belle at suneet in Summer sad about 8 o'clock In Winter to warn the people to cpver their tires and retire to rest. The ob. Jct wee to prevent Are, htch owing to the houses being chiefly composed of wood, were then both frequent and destructive.

The curfew prevails to some parte of England end in irw jfrruuiB ju "WMsw pni in ws sun 11 Ciilny places lu the Cnlted States for tbe pur 6 With hand on latch, a vision white Lingered reluctant, and again Half doubting if she did aright. Soft as the dews that fell that night. She said Au wiedersehen! (Monday The 20,000 Children Who Dreamed of Redeeming the Holy Land) The lamps clear gleam flits up the stair; I linger in delicious pain; Ah, in that chamber, whose rich air To breathe In thought I scarcely dare, Thinks she "Auf wiedersehen! be the lie. to Lose pilot who, when he 13 dropped, landi after the ship of state. the Bell Syndicate, Inc chips fall where they may, or however the shoe might pinch.

Along about 1 oclock this afternoon a passel of leadin citizens informed me nc certain terms that if I wasnt done went ana gone by the hour of midnight -how thev amed to tar they allowed as and feather me and rail-ride me out of our progressive and law-abidin little city, for a small matter that it am necessary for me to go into the details at this here writm. And a spell ago ft tend let me know that thov had reconsidered to the extent of deridin to make it 9 oclock instead of were already a-bilin of the tar "So you can see for yourtC.1 that it is high time for me to step dd vn and ouu No more at present. P. S. Its 8:40 right now.

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Ben had to go to school' soon after that and on his way he used to meet Indians who used to come to the village to trade with the settlers. One day, about a year later, Ben drew some flowers for them and received In return a scrap of red and yellow pigment which they used to decorate their bodies. Ben rushed home and showed the treasures to his mother, who had found out that the Friends did not object to his drawing. Then she added a piece of indigo and he had three colors! Three colors, but no brush! What could he do? He had tried to use a feather, but did not And It very successful. Just while he was wondering what to do, the kitchen cat came into the room to settle down for a pleasant sleep.

Ben pounced on her and clipped off a bit of her tail, then set to work. He had found a brush at last, but a brush which did not last very long. Fortunately for him, pussy was blessed with a thick coat and into this Ben cut whenever necessity urged him. and a.i? last he had -quite- a decent lot of pictures done. But such things mist end and it happened likektfiis: One day Bens fathef caught sight of the cat! "What on earth Is the matter with Puss? he said.

"Hast thou scalded her. Wife? No, she had not; she had no idea what could have happened to the poor beast. I "Well, then, she must have some ter- rlble disease and the only thing to do is put her out of her misery." But Ben could not hear of this, so he had to make a ''second confession, It came stammeringly, "Dont kill her father, I I used her to make paint brushes! This was the beginning of the career of Benjamin West, portrait painter, the first American 'artist to do original work. United States repreaentlng his Government oa twoifnt Utre rate between BriV," weot Eaat Boeton Tbe distance from Queenntowv Queenstown to Boston 2738 miles. Sweet-piece of bashful maiden art! The English words had md too fain.

But these they drew us heart heart, Tet Jield us tenderly apart; She said Auf wiedersehen! A MEMORY OF MY BOYHOOD ETi 9. 1C 4S6 1: nm 3 S. tet 6 tar by Cor 1. 4 maJ the 9: tra Cm 1i I T. 7: 8to pm wei 12 bor eug far 4 bor 4: E.

bor 5: etc Jec 1C os: Tt YA diff amj IS 1 gas Id for are the olai wai this deg wit ilg 10 1 us! jlai wit or pun mig Slat A THE GLOBE MANS BATCH OF SMILES must be all of 85 years now since the thing happened. But the memory of It still abides in my mind, as the finest exhibition of spontaneous humor that ever came within my own experience. I was a small boy In a Kentucky town. John Robinson's circus paid us its annual visit. For the afternoon performance, my-father-took me and my younger brother, and a half dozen little girl3 and boys, the children of neighbors, along with him.

"At the last moment two old ladies Joined the party. One of them lived across the street from us and the other Just around the corner. Mrs Slawson, the senior of the pair, was exceedingly deaf. She used one of those old-fash toned, flexible rubber ear-trumpets with a tip at one end and a bell-like aperture at the other. Her crony, Mrs Ream, had a high-pitched, far-carrying voice.

On one of the blue-painted benches, with the old ladies at one end, my father at the other, and the row of youngsters in between, we watched the show. The time came for the crowning feature of a circus of those times. Perhaps the reader is of sufficient age to recall what this was. Elephants and camels and horses would be close-ranked at the foot of a springboard. Along a steep runway, which slanted down to this springboard, would dash In order, one behind another, the1 full strength of the troupe.

The acrobats would tumble over the backs of the animals to alight gracefully upon a thick padded mattress. The clowns would sprawl on the backs of -the living obstacles. Always there was one clown who, dashing down tbe runway, would suddenly halt and fling his peaked cap across. This time, though, a special culminating treat had been provided by the management. The lesser gymnasts had done their stunts.

-Now, to the head of the runway mounted the champion tumbler of the show. He stood there grandly erect In his rose-colored fleshings, tls arms folded across his swelling breast and his head almsot touching the sagging canvas of the tentroof. The band, for the moment, stopped playing. The ringmaster mounted the ring-back and announced that Johnnie OBrien, foremost athlete of the world, would now perform his death-defying and unparalleled feat of turning a triple somersault over two elephants, three camels and four horses! An expectant hush fell upon the assemblage. Mrs Slawson turned to Mrs Ream, and, in the silence, her voice rose as she asked: "What did he -say?" Mrs Ream lifted the blunderbus end of Mrs Slawsons ear trumpet to her lips, and.

through lta sinuous black length, In a voice so shrill that Instantly every head was turned toward the pair of them, she answered: "He says that that pretty man up yonder with the pink clothes on is goln to Jump over all those animals without hurtln himself!" On the sawdust. In his baggy white clothes, squatted one of the clowns. On the Instant he leaped to his feet, ran to the head of the larger elephant In both hands seized that creatures long, black, dangling trunk, which now! as everyone bsw, looked so much like Mrs Slawsons ear trumpet, and, raising Its tip to mouth, he shrieked out In a magnificent imitation of Mrs Roams falsetto notes: "He says that that there pretty man up yonder with the pink clothes- If he finished the sentence, none heard him. From every side of the arena there arose a tremendous gasp of Joyous appreciation and, overtopping and engulfing this, a universal roar of laughter which billowed the tent, strong men dropped through the seats, like ripened plums from the bough, and lay upon the earth choking with laughter. The performers rolled In the ring And, through it all, Mrs Slawson and Mrs Ream sat there, wondering why the band did not play, and why the pretty man in the pink clothes seemed to be having a convulsion up at tbe top tf the runway iiu ties of iplpe guards and loose cowls and running aft In a long booming whine, we are handicapped because we dont know what a cowl Is nor the sort of sound It might make when loose.

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