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A Duel Willi
Davy Jones
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Some years ago Davy Jonca was in
Liverpool on business, says "J. M
In the Manchester Guardian. Davy
Med to spend most of his time In
Blmpson'- , on the Land'ng-stage, look
ing out over the river at the thins.
The Conwny hoys used to come then;
twice a week for Uncles cakes and
buns, and Davy Jones was always
pleased to see them. He used to
listen to their talk and to Inugh at
the Jokes they made, and when any
Very great boy came there, with a
Wisdom beyond his years and a prom
ise beyond JiIh years and a promise of
iuiure greatness, lie would talk kind
ly to him. "You and I," lie would say,
"will be better acquainted by and by."
He liked to see the boys, they were so
fresh and merry. It always went t.)
his heart when he heard that So-aiul-so,
the handsome die, or So-and-so,
the brave one, was about to sail. "You
are safe here," he would tell them.
"Out there you will not be so safe. It
:s a hungry thing, the sea a hungry,
hungry, hungry thing." They would
laugh at this, because they were glad
:o be leaving school, and he would
laugh back. "You and I," he would
jay, "will be better acquainted by
wid by. I?y and by we shall be better
Acquainted."
One evening as he sat there at tea,
3111 Harker entered. Davy Jones had
'.iad his eye on Bill for Eome years,
ind knew him. It was very shocking
.o Davy Jones to see that the young
man was crying, though he made
rave attempts to chaff the waitress
ind to nick an extra rock cake as soon
is her back was turned. "Harker," he
..aid kindly, "come and sit down, boy.
What's the trouble?" "She's mar
ried," said Harker, between his sobs.
'She's married." "Ah," said Davy
'ones, "and you were in love with her
yourself?" "I love her, I love her,"
tald Bill Harker; "I always loved her.
Ind I threw her over, man, because
,he told me the truth about myself."
'Truth Is a rare gift, Marker," said
3avy Jones. "Ah! she Is beautiful.
Jbe is beautiful. She is not like me,"
aid Bill. "Beauty Is a great gift,
Harker," said Davy Jones. "And she
laa married old Hawk of Ere," said
Mil. "and I threw her over. And she'll
M in hell till she dies. And I shall
ove her forever. Forever." "Lova is
i sweet flame, Harker," said Davy
ones. "Truth and Beauty and Love
ogether, Harker, are not things to
mow in the dirt." "She Is going
broad," said Harker. "They r.re poor,
;nd they are going abroad." "Ah!"
aid Davy Jones. "In w.'.at ship,
.owl" "That Is the curse cf It," said
larher. "They are poor. And they
-re goint in the old Glasgerion, the
rottenest old hulk that ever was over
asured. She will never fetch to
-t. Mary's. She'll go down In the
ly like a stone. And I shall have
illed her." "We all kill our loves,
arker," said Davy Jones. "And so
rie's going In the old Clasgerion. I
snow the Glasgerion. Harker," said
vy Jones at last, "the Glasgerion
..ill never fetch to St. Mary's." "Ner
said Harker; "she's a doomed
ilp. I dream in the night that I saw
!r. And the sea was all crawling
ross her deck. Her deck was all
ry with It. There were weeds In
y love's hair," he added; "the gulls
the sea were crying at her beauty."
.h," said Davy Jones. "And now
iu have killed her. "Harker," he
!ded, after a time, "you say you love
;r. Do you love her very much?"
Jore than my life," said Harker. "I
ould die for that woman." "Even
iw she's married, Harker?" "Yes,
en now, even now." "Suppose now,"
iid Davy Jones, "that she could be
.ppy with ,Iawk. Would you die,
that they could live and be hap
'?" "I would die," said Harker.
ife Is a little thing to give for a wo
nn like her." "So you would glvo
ur life for theirs, Harker?" said
ivy Jones. "I would," he answered.
Tney were quiet after that, till Davy
mes got up to go. "Harker," he said,
dly, "sometimes life Is very bitter,
'lose who don't know me call me a
;rd man; but I am not hard. You
id you would die for those two.
'hen do you Sail?" "To-morrow, by
'e morning tide," said Harker;
ie Glasgerion sails the same time."
o you would die for them, Harker?"
id Davy Jones. "So ba it. I think
u would die hard, Harker, from all
J fave seen of you. It Is cold in the
1," he added softly, "but the bub-
is are bright, and the multitude of
3 drowned is past counting." "I am
rtalnly tough to kill," said Harker.
served my time on the coast. I
a'n't shame my breeding when the
'1 comes." When Davy Jones had
oe, Harker looked at the old Glas
rion as she lay at her buoy In the
er, with her ports all lighted like
. latlroom.
rhe next morning, as the Glasgerion
ipped down stream, she passed the
irons bark, to win out. with
ek tug ahead of her. They were
neing sans in the Corunna, and the
una man on the fore-rova.1 ni
tebed, the Olasgerion narrowly at
thrashed past, sounding her siren.
would die for her." he aatd; "life
little thing to give for a woman
her." Four or five weks passed
tore Davy Jones made spy sign.
a Old Gnaorlon rrlkA m
Vrfs, greatly to her owner's dls
and ah wu there condemned
unseawortay. The Coruana v,.t
.wly to the westward, against fresh
aterty gates, but he wi e A
M before u. came on to. blow. Thea
- yTS wp wwn. a, roaring
Ocean fury, and the sea hemme Irnn
gray and grim, and the wind whipped
the tops from the seas and flung them
over the Corunna's bows as high as
the foreyard. For three days the
gale blow, and never once did they
see the sun. It came down In a lonj
screaming howl day after day. On
the third day th9 sky cleared a little,
so that tne forlorn crowd clustered on
the Corunna's noon could see Hoe Isl
and, on the lee beam, distant some
two miles.
"I will let them have time to pre
pare," said Davy Jones.
The old man stood beside Bill Hark
er, under the weather-cloth, hanging
on to a shroud. Ho looked at the
sprays flying high over the rocks, and
'glanced at the young man beside him.
"We're done, boy," he said; "she'd
never stay." "There's room to wear,
sir," Raid Harker. "Not there," said
the old man. "You're old; that's what's
wrong with you," said Hill. He made
a Jump fcr the wheel. "Hard up," he
shouted. "Hard up. Hands wear
ship." The men ran to the weather
braces; the helmsman hove the wheel
over.
"No, you don't," said Davy Jones.
He sent a green sea against the
Corunna's rudder. The shock made
the wheel take charge. The helms
nan went over the box Into the snip
pers. "I think that's done you." said
Davy Jones.
Bill l.unc a b!cht of the relievlne
tacklefall over the flying spokes. At
the risk of his life he checked that
wheel. "That was a near thing." he
thought. The shlD took In a rrepn
sea along her length. Very slowly she
bejvan to pay off.
"No, you don't." Baid Daw Jones
The full fury of the gale beat unon
them In a screaming gust. The two
lower tODSalls SDlit into ran and fHrlr.
ered away to leeward like dirty pa
per."
"That's done vou." said Daw Jonea.
The sprays boiled high close aboard.
as the Corunna ci arged down, bows
on. "You shall do it in style." said
Davy Jones. "Y'ou have the gift of
beauty. You shall die finely." A sea
took her over the poop and washed
Bill Harker forward. Wheel, chart
house, deckhouse, fo'c'sle. and rain.
boose vanished Into splinters before
that sea. The old Corunna lav on her
side, and broached to. The drowning
men in the waist thought of the
laughter of the captains. They clutch
ed at brace-ends and buckets: they
struggled up and swore. Bill Harker
found himself Inside the pigsty. "I
was always fond of pork." he said.
"But this is like Mother on a wash
ing-day." He saw the rocka and the
white water: he thought of the old
Glasgerion and flushed with the
thought of the woman's beauty.
"You're done," said Davy Jones.
BUI swung himself Into the fore
shroud and spread hia coat abroad.
"It's a bare chance," he said, "but I'll
go down fighting." The old man, lying
on his back In the scuppers, uttered a
choking cheer between the seas. The
Corunna rose up and shook herself;
she felt the new force; she wallowed
up and trembled. Bill's coat split
down the seam; and the ship wore
like a child. Very tenderly and Quick
ly they set the stormstaysails, and
drew away from the land.
"You deserve tc live," said Davy
Jones. "You shall be my wedding
present to Mrs. Hawk."
Which la Ed?
When the late Senator Wolcott
first went to Colorado he and his
brother opened a law office at Idaho
Springs under the firm name of "Ed.
Wolcott & Bro." Later the partner
ship was dissolved. The future Sena
tor packed his few assets, Including
the sign that had hung outside of his
office, upon a burro and started for
Georgetown, a mining town farther
up in the hills. Upon his arrival he
was greeted by a crowd of miners who
critically surveyed him and his out
fit. One of them looking first at th'e
sign that hung over the pack, then
at Wolcott, and finally at the donkey,
ventured:
"Say, stranger, which of you is Ed?"
Great Chance of Marriage.
It is estimated that the women nf
Great Britain have nearly twice as
many chances of being married aa tha
women of any other nation in Europe.
This is one of the facts Bhown in the
annual statistical abstract from the
principal nations of the world, Issued
by the English Board of Trade n.
cently. The period covered by the fla-
ures is from 1893 to 1903. In each of
these ten years there have been four
teen or sixteen marriages per thou
sand Of the population of Great Rri.
tain, while in other countries the rate
has remained steady at between sev
en ana eight per thousand.
Roman Mint Found.
A completely equipped Roman mint
was discovered m a cave in the neigh
borhood of Karosovar. Hirffnarv n.
sides crucibles, walch still contained
oronze, there were three dies for the
production of gold coins, dies of sil
ver, bronze and iron ore and three
hundred coins. The Investigation
made showed that the workshop dated
from the first century of the Chris
tian era. A number of neatly worked
earrings, bracelets and other objects
of bronze, as well aa tools, such as
hammers- and tongs, were also found.
HUtorlo Drawbridge.
M Helmlngbam. Hall la Suffolk
county, In England, the drawbridge la
always raised every night over the
historic moat, which is more than
en hundred year oM. The moat
to not dry like so many of ancient
date, but to filled to the brim. This
to the only English castle where the
historic right of raising toe draw
bridge has com down, fjoco the day
oi chivalry.
THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBUTjQ.
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Domestic
Tactics
niin mi nn nn .mi ii-M-f
Here's a mi.n who has developed
and put over what he calls a beat-her-to-it
system for use In domestic
skirmishing. He onlv nuts the rvb
tern Into play when he's wrong and
knows it.
He evolved the scheme a connle of
mon t lis ago. and It worked out beau
tlfully. Just according to the plans and
Bpeclllcations,
On that occasion he had left the
house about 7 o'clock in the evenlna
to get a cigar at the shop around the
corner. At the cigar shop he met a
pal who exuded a buzz about a little
four-bits limit game that was going
to happen at the rooms of a mutual
chummle that evening. The man
who'd only left the house to get a
smoke knew thRt If he went home
and tried to frame un some achemn
whereby he'd be able to get out for
the night he had every chance on
earth of falling down on it and would
therefore miss the chance to kick in
on the tidy little four-hits limit game.
So he didn't go home at all, but ac
compacted the friend he'd met to the
rooms where the game was to hap
pen, figuring that he'd have to take
his medicine when he got home, at
the break-up of the game, for Jumping
his household at twilight "on pretense
that he was going after a cigar," as he
knew full well the matter would be
expressed by his wife.
The game broke up along toward
2 o'clock In the morning, and the man
with his wife yet to meet trudged
home rather than wait for a car. He
had plenty of time to think it all over
on the traipse home.
"I'm wrong, of course," he reasoned
out. "Had no license to Jump out
early In the evening and stay so late
or early, I mean, without saying any
thing about It. Of course I didn't
Know I was going to stay out like thia
playing poker, but I'd never be able
to convince her of that, and there'd
be no use In the world for me to sav
It. Well. I know evervthina-
mg to say I've got It all discounted
in advance unless I can think of
some way out. Let's see; she'll open
up by saying tnat by cracky, that's
the fine idea. I'll do It! I'll open it
myself! I wonder how the scheme'll
work out, anyway?"
He saw the bright light in the sec
ond-story windows when he came
alongside his house, and he knew that
sne was waiting up for him, as he had
confidently expected. He stenDed
briskly up the steps, didn't make any
enort to creep or crawl or pad the
sound of his footsteps as he mounted
the stairs, and, when he entered the
Dea room, to see his wife, stretched
out reading a novel, but with a hard
look in her eyes, he hustled right over
to ner and deposited a most peniten
tial kind of a lip salute on her left
eye. She gazed at him in amazement,
for she had been expecting him to
slink In with a hang-dog air, prepared
either to brazen it out and take his
part in the scrap or to stand utterly
mute under her upbraldings.
But he took her right in his arms
and began to knock himself.
"Look here, my dear." he said.
rapidly. "I'm a mean mutt, and von
don't have to tell me that I'm one. I
know it. I'm nshamed of myself. Nev.
er felt so ornery In my life as I've
felt all this evening for staying away
from you like this. I sure hate my
self for it; honest I do!"
'Well," she began. "I should cer-
tainly think you'd"
"Yes," he broke in aulcklv. "ana I
do, too. It was perfectly contemntf-
bio on mv nart utterlv niio an
brutal. I don't blame you for being
hot about it. I'd be as Bore as a
butcher myself if I were in your
place. No use in trying to phony
about It, either I was playing poker."
"But," put in his wife, viewing him
suspiciously, "how did you happen"
"Oh, it doesn't make any difference
about how it happened, little one, "he
cut in, "I'm the mean skate for doing
it, and there are no two ways about
that end of it. The idea of me biking
off with a crowd of gambling bums
and leaving behind the dearest and
most considerate little woman on
earth to sit up and wait for me and
worry over me all this long time
somebody ought to put me to the
bastinado for it and I'm Just the lout
that knowB It."
"But didn't you stop to think of"
"Did I? I never had my mind oft
of you the whole evening but I was
ahead of the game early in the even
ingaway out in front In fact and,
of course, I couldn't cash in and crawl
out when I whs bo much to the good.
especially as I couldn't get 'em to
name an hour when the game was to
finish, and so there I was, with a big
double stock of chips in front of me;
and no chance to vamn hnm Kara
even though I was frightfully nervous
and bothered all the time, for I knew
mat you'd"
"Tea, and I've been worried to
death for three or four hours, for
fear you'd"
1 knew H all the time, and i vnt
looking at my Watch, so as to give
aw- a . . ...
' ... " . - - ' i a.u uiiuw um Nmgr consider Dly
those fathead, n the game the hint lessened, the number of cU In Per
that I wanted to get out: bat thav n,?" eCl c : .-- Z,T
proteased not to see my nervousness.
I could picture my little bah doll
worrying herself to. the verge of hys
teria, and It put me Into a perfect
rage and Jury with mys elf and, I made
up my mind right then that the next
time t - . . '
"But when you thought of me her
all alone wrth nobod to protect" mc
a ova of burglars or" ' : 1
"DM I think of ItT "Well, If I have
not fuMid a w hole lot of gray hairs to
i.isht thinking of it then I d ir. t know.
I .va keenly conscious the whole
evening tliat I wasn't behaving right
by yo;i but what could I do? I knew
very well that you wouldn't have nic
such ft mean piker os to Ret cold feet
nnd quit the game when I was pranc
ing away out in front and yet there
were times when I felt llkp throw
ing my chips out of the window and
Just rushing home to you anyhow
Doggone my ornery hide honey, I
sure have a grouch against myself
for staying any old place away from
you till such an wr In the middle
of the night as this, and there's only
one thing for me to do, and that Is to
try to square It with you, that's all
You Just overlook It this time and
you watch me "
"Well. I must sav. this in the firnt
time that you've owned up to It that
you weren t treating me right, but it
you ' 1
"No, I've been pretty pig-headed
about It. I have mo doubt, but I mens
I can see as far through a stone wall
as the next one. and I'm lust the In
dian that can skate to the centre nnd
admit things when I ne I'm dead
wrong. Y'es, ma'am, 'detd I am
What an ass a fellow i.t, anyhow, to
stick around with a hunch of mm
eyed cardriffiers when he might be
spending a nice, pleasant unlifttnK
evening at home with tho dearest and
nicest and prettiest little wife on
earth, and get In his full night's sleep,
and"
"Well. John. I certainly did mean to
say a great many things to you about
the way you have been treating: mo.
but since you show that you really
are sorry, why. of course, the onTir
thing I can do Is to try to forget"
"That s It. nreclouB lust forret It.
I in not going to be a mean, neglect
rui sKeesicks all mv life, vou ran
bet all you've got on that, and tho
next time I leave you in the lurch
this way. But, at that. I'll tell you
wnat I did luat to ret back to vou
I was still away to the eood in tlm
game when It got close to 2 o'clock,
and i was determined to quit at that
hour, no matter what the mullets In
the game thought, and so I deliberate
ly over-played two or three of my
hands and lost my velvet, and so I
cashed In Just exactly even to a pen
ny, and then you ought to've seen me
hustling home here to you didn't
even hang around for a car. I was an
eager to get back and try to square
myself, and b-Jlng. the next time I
make a loafer of myself like this I
want you to give me the awellest
calling down that ever happened, for
it'll be only what's a-coming to me,
and"
"Well, I must say, you certainly are
a dear to own up so sweetly, and of
course I couldn't reproach you after
you've been so nice about It," ice.
This Is what the man calls his beat-her-to-lt
system. It 'sounds ptty
good for a one-time thing. It might
at a venture even be put over twice,
with a properly lengthy Interval be
tween the two attempts. But the
wise old fish of a married man who In
vestigates and gives a bit of thought
of thia beat-her-to-lt scheme will prob
ably reach the conclusion that it
couldn't possibly work if used as a
steady thing and that the man who
tried to get by with It for say, the
third time would have his line of
bunk eaten alive before he'd emitted
more than fourteen brief words of It.
Washington Star.
Parrots In Nebraska.
Only a few naturalists and early
territorial settlers know that parrqts
were once numerous In Nebraska,
says the Lincoln State Journal. Fifty
years ago they were still seen alone
the Missouri River in southeaatern
Nebraska,, but disappeared verv sud-
denly after the first settlement in
that region. The Nebraska parrot was
the Carolina paroque (cornus Caro
lina), it had a beautiful green and
yellow plumage, so strikinir in annenr-
ance as Instantly to arrest the atten
tion or tne early hunter. Besides this
the birds gathered in larsre flocks and
were so exceedingly tame and simple
Hint the whole flock was easily killed.
Add to this that the birds were fine
eating and their feathers attractive
trophies of the hunt and the fate of
the Nebraska parrot was assured.
Too Fat to Squeal.
A Pekln correspondent says: "It la
no uncommon sight to see twelve or
thirteen enormous fat pigs with their
legs tied hunddled close together hav
ing a ride in a Chinese cart with some
sort of light cargo on top of them
and a man sitting on the cargo. The
pigs are silent and consequently one
would think they should not be ob
jects for the action of the Society for
Prevention of Cruelty to Animal. The
fact Is that the animals are too fat
and lazy to make any noise until dis
turbed at their Journey's end, when
bagpipes are aa Italian opera to the
terrific squealing heard."
Tax on Cats.
Every cat owner In Berlin has now
to pay a tax, which to equivalent to a
license, and each cat has to wear a
metal disk round Its neck aa evidence
that the tax has been paid. Any cat
found on the street without this
metal diak is taken off to tho munici
pal lethal chamber by the police.
"PVI. MAk.J L. 1 a
wiuimivi win, umm m uaireu
of cats almost amounting to a menla
is said to have Induced the Berlin
municipality to take action.
Professions! Pride.
"I should regret vry much to bear
m ybodr bM, e,Yf r offered moeey
m 't '" " ?r' vrereweii;
"your hearing of H would lndicati
ntde work an anmttluMtv'a
. ... . . "
i
IT
tCXt
An Aparian
Renaissance
By TOM P. MORGAN
T
iTlllJ Foftly-nighing breeze, that,
straying in at the window of
l'rof. Humboldt Melllik's chamber.
rings the flagrant breath of Araby tho
tlent and Huukthunder's soap-factory.
HI
dallies with the whiskers of what
looks a good deal like a largo nnd
knobby blood-pudding, with hair and
a few foal ures on It. This is the re
sult of l'rof. Mclllck's recent tempting
of fate with his latest Invention, tho
Eureka Effluvlent.
In the other. room lies another and
darker-hued victim of tho inefficiency
of the Kffluvlent. This is old Uncle
Kufus White, tho scientist's colored
man of nil work.
The Professor became the possessor
of bees because of a young and ac
complished conversational who was
going about, as Scripture snys, like a
roaring lion, seeking whom he could
sell the pinna nnd right to build a
Complex Heverrible Bee-house.
The reversible part was a great
boon, from Hoonevllle. Kentucky. If
the owner did not like the appearance
of the front, he could, with a little
nore than a day's labor, turn the back
lide oT the bee-house around in front.
The young man kiiwlly proved to
l'rof. Mellick that the air-line to the
possession of great riches lay through
tho ConiDlex Reversible Bee-house.
He showed how the late Mr. Croesus
laid the foundation cf his 1nsMv-rrlf.
brated fortune by l ropagatlng bees
in one of these houses.
The vounz man also lmnarted to
Prof. Mellick a reminiscence of Can-
tain Kidd, who, though not particular
ly religious wns credited with wonder
ful fluency in taking up collections,
and afterwards slaughtering the col-
Iectees with neatness and dispatch.
Prof. Mellick was astounded to learn
that Mr. Kill really accumulated the
money, which he afterward burled all
along the coast from Goth to Askelon,
oy the continued use of reversible bee
houses, and not by means of his self
Invented process for expeditiously
jerking the financial cuticle off over
the heads of all whom he met, after
Which he Proceeded fn nlnw tha Knon.
ish Mainsome more, singing in a low,
cooing refrain, his celebrated aonir.
the chorus of which mentions inci
dentally that he sailed and did a few
other things, among which was that
he murdered William Moore and left
him in his gore and kept right on
sailing.
With the shining examnles of thesn
gentlemen before him. Prof. Mellick
epeediiy purchased the right to make
Prof. Mellick Set Fire to tha Odornm
Powder.
a bee-house for himself, with the privi
lege of turning the back end toward
Main street whenever he liked.
The building was nearly comnleted
before Prof. Mellick bethoueht him-
self of the fact that he had no bees to
put in it. As a bee-house without
tenants could hardly be considered a
source of revenue, Prof. Mellick pur
chased several hives of early dwarf
bees, warranted to be sound In wind
limb and stinger. The hives were
placed in the bee-house, and the scien
tist sat back and waited for the bees
to roll up their sleeves and make
honey till you couldn't rest.
Old Rufus scoffed at the Idea that
they would improve each shining
hour to the extent of increasing the
assets of their owner. This angered
the scientist so that he forbade th
old darky's annrraiohlno- tha w
house exactly what the sable nchnm.
er was working for.
Soon. Prof. Mellick was uttm VoH h
a haunting fear that the bees would
swarm and thus cause a great amount
of trouble. To prevent this he in
vented the Eureka Effluvlent a pow
der, which, when burned, would give
out a smoke, the smell of whloh was
louder than calls for reform, and was
calculated to make the bees settle
down in somnolent content
Mot being familiar with the, hoKit.
of bees. Prof. Mellick feared they
might swarm at night, and so, for a
week after their purchase, he visited
the reversible house three times each
nigm, wane Unle Rufua Whit. ...
cure In his scorn, snored serenely.
' T at nUV .1 1 . . . r
-w "'" uvui one o ciock, upon
making his visit to
- Mvuerv, W
4!scovrd that aomH.irv w. eM
The Inmates were bussing engrlly.
miii was sure that they
anoiK mi swarm.
Hurrying to his laboratory, he
speedily returnad with . .
"," ", a-inurient. The bees were
bussing1 and crkwlinr iJ..,Y i- JL'.I
pen of U. affluent: The bee. were
hlTM." CnUnln't, a- . '7T 1
. t wr oi uie nee-
IKE TRIAL OF I HEW mm
Professor Humboldt Mel
lick's Experiments with the
"Eureka Effluvient" are the
Source of Dire Consequen
ces and Result in Unfor
seen Calamities and Pain
at:
houhi! upon the inside, Prof. MellkH
set lire to tho odorous powder.
The result was as unexpected ni i:
v. as uncomfortable. Instantly the
t'e hones wan filled with a blinding
cloud of smih- that totnlly eelljiwil
tii" odor of triple extract of skunklhu.'..
rim! made Prof. Mellick kaup like x
ll.ard. Instead of (tuieting the bir!.
the effluvia seemed to Irritate t!ic;ii
ll.uosl. to frenzy, nnd they poured on;
of their hives nnd fell upon the pumi:;,
nho was groping blindly about In l':i
choking vapor in search of the dcr,
which seemed, to his excited sens-,
to he traveling around the sides of W,
house Just fast enought to elude him.
Then ensued a sound of revelry hr
night. The bees devoted their time
nnd attention solely to the scientist.
Tliey whetted their stingers anew,
nud formed a halo about his head.
Tney crawled up his sleeves and trow-
sers-legs, nnd down his neck. Tbet
promenaded up and down his spin.
The Bees Devoted Their Time te tb
Scientist.
encircled his neck and danced on hia
wish-bone. They stunsr him tram
Genesis to Revelations.
The pain tortured him almost. t
madness, and the smoke near) jitnoJi.
ered him. He tore around - in it
murklness of the bee-homo intnr t
find the door which he had nn thnnifet.
fully fastened, and which now seen
always upon the opposite side of the
bee-palace. All the time, he utter?!
soulful yells loud enough to raise
defunct Rameses II.
Old Rufus heard the racket, and.
club in hand, came on the run. tie
had scoffed at the professor's sera
and bee-bouse, but he was not goir
to lie supinely upon his corrugated
spine and let midnight robbers carry
off the treasures of his employe.
As the veteran darky reached toe
door of the bee-house, Prof. Mellick
had succeeded In unfastening It and
was Just pulling it open. Old Ruftw.
accompanied by his club, rushed la.
knocking Prof. Mellick over.
Finding himself in the very pres
ence of the would-be stealer of bv
Rufus attended thoroughly to the mat
ter at hand. The lamp was capsusivlv
and, in the darkness, each took tie
other for a bloodthirsty assassin, and
there was a wild commingling of mes.
bees, club, effluvium, woe and yells.
The bees devoted considerable at
tentlon to old Rufus, and he, sure that
his adversary was endeavoring la
murder him In a new and horrible
fashion, nearly drove that learned
gentleman's head into the floor. Hid
the club not slipped from the irsie
darky's grasp It is my Arm belief thst
the erudite Mellick would have beta
driven so far into the floor thkl
nothing short of grease eradicate
would have extracted him.
Then there occurred a variation to
the programme. The professor's hand
came In contact with the lost clue
and ho used it in quick successio
upon the sconce of his adversary s
liberally that Rufus ceased trying t
tear the mouth of his employer clea
out of his head. The overturned lamp
set fire to the straw on the floor Hf
the patent reversible apiary.
A few minutes later a passing
pedestrian was startled to see tw
Old Sufus Bushed la.
figures burst out of the blank side eC
a blazing bee-houee totally ignorlac
the location of the door. "
After they had put out their' hair,
raked the bees off from ihuiMa
and recognised each other. Prof. Mel
lick and Rufus sat down side by side.
and with' the
watched the burnln nf tha ii
reversible bee-house. -
Then tyey crawled off to bed, ae4
the groans from Prof. Melllck's eha--ber
were answered by monsMi
the bedroom of Uncle Rufjda, jnMA
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