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More About That Alliance.
From Philadelphia City and State.
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's recent j
speech at Leicester, In which he made j
very positive reference to the existenco j
of some sort of alliance or understand- j
log between Great Britain and the j
United States, must have a very dis- |
turbing effect in this country. It at ,
once creates a demand for specific in- ,
formation which the administration
should promptly and fully satisfy. The j
people of the country have a right to !
know thi' facts. No formal alliance can
exist between the two nations, because
that would presuppose action by the
treaty making power, which is the joint
action of the senate and executive.
But no such action has taken place.
What, then, does Mr. Chamberlain
refer to? Does some secret understand
ing e.\i9t between the two great nations,
both of which are engaged in wars that j
show striking points of resemblance— I
Great Britain is fighting for the destruc
tion of a miniature republic in Africa:
the Republican administration, for the
extinction of an infant republic in the
Philippines. Our object seems to be
nearly accomplished, while that of Great
Britain, although more remote, probably
will soon be attained.
Great Britain gave marked encour
agement to our Philippine programme—
a programme which, let it be noted,
was made out by President McKinley
virtually in secret, away from the
knowledge or approval of our people.
This administration programme was a
revolutionary reversal of all past
American precedent, while at the same
time it was strikingly in line with the
settled policy of Great Britain.
Another fact not without significance
is the time chosen by Mr. Chamberlain
for forcing his dispute with the Trans
vaal to an issue. He did this at the
moment when the bloody business in
which we were engaged made serious
remonstrance from us impossible. How
could we cry "shame" to Great Britain
just as our own strong fingers tightened
to strangulation upon the throat of the
poor little Philippine republic?
In view of a concatenation of events
o peculiar, Mr. Chamberlain's allusion
to an alliance or understanding, which,
as he suggests, is more convenient and
practicable than any written agreement
oxisting between the two great English
speaking countries, needs some very
satisfactory disclaimer from the ad
ministration if it is not to result in
sowing a fresh crop of suspicions in not
oversuspiclous minds.
If no such understanding does exist,
then so prominent a representative of
the British cabinet as Mr. Chamberlain
should be more cautious in public
speech. Washington's advice to avoid
"entangling alliances'' is notantiquated.
It never was more lerviceable than at
present, when there exists for us a yery
real temptation to trip into one.
And, by the way, that kind of un
written alliance which Mr. Chamber
lain prefers, and which we should
beware of—the kind we had with
Aguinaldo, for example—is exceedingly
convenient, since, after gathering its
fruits, it can be so cleverly repudiated;
its very existence can be denied.
Irish and liners.
Prom the Philadelphia North American.
Tho conduct ot the reservists ot the
Royal Irish Fusiliers, who sang "God
Save Kruger" and threw away their
rifles as they marched abroad tho trans
port for South Africa at Cork, has
naturally caused bittor resentment in
England, but if Englishmen are wise it
will also cause thought. England's
dealings with Ireland have boen based
on naked force. Tho English have not
shown that they value the voluntary,
heartfolt loyalty of the Irish people,
and of course they have not had It.
They are learning now that the time
may come when undiluted force as a
cement of empire may havo its defocts.
These are times when good will havo a
certain value. 1
Perhaps the same lesson may be re
peated in South Africa. Supposo tho
Dutch conquered and the whole country
from Zambesi to tho Cape wore convert
ed into a new Ireland, what will happen
in some national crisis when every part
of the empire must put forth its own
power of resistance to a foreign enemy
or cease to be Itritlsh? Will bloody
victories now pay for their cost then, or
will England wish that her destinies had
not been committed in 18'J'J to the keep
ing of a man in a hurry?
i !■ a
[By Deonarfl Oatman 1
They were out on the veranda in
the cool of the evening, old Caleb Bor
ing in a rocking chair, smoking his
corncob pipe; Bertha, his daughter,
swinging in a low hammock, and her
husband, Edmond Hackett. who was
perched upon the wooden balustrade.
Wilton Boring was there, too, loung
ing iu a canvas chair and smoking a
"domestic" cigar. The veranda ran
around three sides of a modest frame
house, all painted white with the ex
ception of its bright green shutters.
Edmond and Bertha, recently married,
lived there in the outskirts of Wash
ington with the head of the family.
Wilton had run down from Phila
delphia, where he was cashier of the
Ranchers' National Bank. They were
all grumbling over their meagre in
comes.
"Uncle Sam," remarked Edmond
Hackett, a quiet, steady-going sort of
fellow, well advanced toward middle
life, "Uncle Sam is not generous to
us boys and girls of the civil service.
We handle between us nigh upon a
million dollars every working day, and
give our lives to the mill horse busi
ness for a bare existence."
"Since I've been cashier of the
Ranchers' National," said Wilton Bor
ing, "I've had enough money pass
through my hands to make me crazy
with thirst for it. It's like being—"
"Don't like to hear you talk like
that, Wilt, my son," remarked old
Caleb, with a quick shake of the head,
as if a mosquito had settled on him.
"Thoughts of that kind sometimes
materialize into deeds you'd be sorry
for."
"Humph! I'm not so sure I shan't
one (lay try to pinch something," pur
sued Wilton, with a wink at his sister.
"But big steals ate the sort to suc
ceed nowadays. To make a corner in
something or other; to iloat a salted
mine, or a bogus building society.
That's the game."
"Tut, tut!" protested the elder Lor-
Ing. with a fierce expectoration; but
Bertha mischievously took up her
brother's humor.
"There's a fine chance now I've got
into the counting division at the
Treasury," said she. "Say, now, why
not make up a family combination?
You, Wilton, are cashier at the Ranch
ers', and you're constantly having old
bills to send into the Treasury for re
demption. You 'pinch,' as you call it,
a thousand-dollar greenback, and for
ward the packet to the Treasury in
dorsed as contairiag one more bill
than it actually does. That packet
comes to me to 1)0 counted and ex
amined. I lust pass it as containing
the number of greenbacks specified.
On It goes to Edmond, my husband,
whose duty it chances to be to check
my count. Smart Edmond finds one
bill short: but, seeing his Bertha's
initials On the wrapper, he Just winks
a little, and the packet, with, say, 99
bills instead of 109, goes Into the
macerator, Uncle Sam thinking he de
stroys 100 bills against the new ones
to that value which ne sends back in
exchange to the Ranchers' Bank
through the Division of Issue. 9ee?"
"Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Edmond
Hackett, disposed to enter into any
Joke conceived by his adored little
wife. "How we could bleed Uncle
Sam, and help ourselves to the
salaries he ought to pay us!"
"Have done! Have done!" burst
out the old man. "If I believed my
son and ray daughter and my daugh
ter's husband were capable of such
roguery I'd fetch out my gun and fill
you full of holes, every one!"
He meant it. His usually placid
features were distorted and purpled
with indignation, and the stem of the
pipe he held snapped in the angry
grip of his fingers. Wilton flung him
self back in a fit of hearty laughter,
but Bertha perceived that the joke
had gone too far.
"Father! dear father!" she exclaim
ed, soothingly. 'You know ns all bet
ter than that, sure. We were just
poking fun; weren't we, Edmond?
Besides, such a combination as I
figured out couldn't be, anyway."
"Quite Impossible!" averred Wilton,
getting over his mirth.
"Well, I reckon it's impossible In
the last degree," said Edmond Hack
ett.
"So, as opportunity makes the thief,
and we shall have no opportunity,"
added young Doring. "the whole three
of us'll have to be honest, will we, or
won't we."
"You know, father," urged Bertha,
to calm the old man, who muttered
and protested still, and seemed to
have taken fright at the very thought
of a breach of trust, "there are nine i
ladies in the Counting Division besides
myself, and Wilton's imaginary short
packet might go to any one of them
instead of to me."
And if Bertha did get it and pass
It," remarked Hackett, to clinch the
argument, "there are plenty of fel
lows in the Secretary's office who
check the counts besides me, and one
of them would spot her 'oversight.'
Even if the short packet came to me,
it would tie useless for me to wink,
for I should only have one-half of the
bills. They are cut longitudinally,"
he added for Wilton's information,
turning to his brother-in-law; "one
half —the lower section—comes to the
Secretary and the upper one goes to
the office of the Register to be check
ed there."
"We should need another confeder
ate in the Register's," put in Bertha.
"The steal would be caught to a cer
tainty in the Register's office."
"Unless —by Caesar! we've the
whole bag of trioks. The combina
tion you figured out is not only pos
sible, it is here in our hands. Dad is
the senior counter in the Register Di
vision. The big bills go to him. This
is marvelous. If fortune is disposed
to do us a good turn, here's the
j method all ready, cut and dried: I
| nobble a thousand dollar bill at the
| bank, and send a packet of ninety-nine
j In to the Treasury indorsed as 100.
j Bertha passes it through the Counting
Division, Edmond gets the lower half
| in the Secretary's office, notes his
wife's initials, and swallows the short
age with connubial submission; and
Mr. Doring, who spots the game in
the Register's, out of respect for—"
j "His tTUBt his country's confidence,
j the honor of JjJs nafno," burst out the
' old man, "reports the matter Instant
-1 ly. Yea .gives the lot of you away,
to ruin, to disgrace, to the hulks. Ha
woros about it! Thai's what I should
do, mind that!"
Wilton laughed lightly.
"The bundles of rubbish; ninety
nine or a hundred bills; what would it
matter to Uncle Sam? And 1 should
send each of you $250. Think it over,
Dad."
"Think it over? I shall never for
get this talk of yours. Wilton. A
crime conceived Is half executed.
May I never hear more of this com
bination of yours, In joke or in fact,
will be my prayer from this day to
God in heaven."
And shaking his head angrily yie
father strode into the house.
A few days after this conversation
Bertha Hackett sat in the office of the
Redemption Division assisting Mrs.
Dawson, the senior lady of the depart
ment to count a package of "big
bills." Greenbacks of large denom
ination were allotted to the senior
lady in the ordinary course, and the
juniors would take it in turn to work
with her for the sake of becoming ac
customed to every kind of note, and
by such familiarity detecting any
forgery that might fall into their
hands. Bertha was serving her ap
prenticeship in this department, and
that day she sat at Mrs Dawson's
desk to learn all that this good lady
could teach her.
Now, among the packets of old bills
sent In from all parts of America to
be canceled and exchanged for new
currency, it was not unusual for the
Ranchers' National Bank of Phila
delphia to contribute to its quota.
Bertha's bright gray eyes took a side
long glance at the heap of parcels be
fore hercompanion wondering whether
chance would so far realize their fan
cied combination as to bring into her
hands a consignment from her brother
Wilton. Dike a pestilent tune that
keeps echoing in the brain, that fam-
ily talk of a conspiracy to defraud
Uncle Sam could not be dismissed
from her thoughts These slips of
dirty paper authorizing the payment
to bearer of large sums of money,
what a pity they should all go to the
macerating machine to be ground into
pulp! One more or less would make
no difference to the wealthy Nation,
but would work wonders for an under
paid official who found it hard to make
both ends meet. She told herself It
was horribly wicked to think of mis
appropriation, but she could not con
trol her thoughts, and they pictured
for her persistently the staff of the
three departments reduced to herself,
her father, and her husband, and
figured out the fortune they might ac
cumulate by the aid of sticky fingers.
While thus musing, she was startled by
a remark of Mrs. Lawson, as that lady
placed before her a heap of thousand
dollar bills which she had been critic
ally examining with a magnifying
glass. "That's a big charge from the
Ranchers' National —a hundred bills
of a thousand each. I make them
right, but you go over them again one
by one, count them in two packets of
fifty each, and bind them with a paper
band in the usual way for me to initial
and pass forward."
Mrs. Lawson proceeded with an
other packet, so absorbed In her work
that Bhe did not notice how strangely
young Mrs. Hackett stared for a mo
ment at the task before her. With
the heap of bills lay the paper band
that had Inclosed them when they
came from the Bank at Philadelphia.
It was Indorsed with the number nnd
denomination of the notes, and bore
the signature, "Wilton Loriag, Cash
ier." Mrs. Lawson vouched for them
as correct, and yet Bertha's fingers
trembled as she turned them over.
She counted half of them backward,
from 100 to 50, and made a packet of
them, as instructed, and the other half
she counted in the usual way, begin
ning one, two, three, four, and so on.
When she came to the end of this
count she paused, and counted this
second half again backward. Then
she slowly fastened a band around the
packet.
"You're not very smart at present,
my girl," remarked the elder lady, ob
serving her sluggish action. "I have
to hunt for counterfeits, but 1 should
never get through if I took so long as
you have done with that simple check.
But maybe you reckon to find I've
passed a wrong count?" she added
with a little touch of irony. "After
thirty-four years at this work, my
dear, the bills that have passed
through Rosina Lawson's hands can
he taken as right if she says so."
Mrs. Dawson was rather tetchy, and
had a good conceit of herself, horn of
long infallibility. Bertha in silence
wrote her own initials on the wrap
pers of the two packets, and this ac
tion molified the senior lady for by
thus taking responsibility for the cor
rectness of the packetH Mrs. Hueket
seemed to convey an expression of
confidence in her. But something else
was on Bertha's mind for she mut
tered to herself as the packets were
taken away to the cutting machine to
he further checked in the offices of the
Secretary and the Register, "There is
just one chance!"
An hour later Edmond Hackett sat
at his desk in the department of the
Secretary to the Treasury, counting
i and recounting a packet of one thou
j sand-dollar bills. They were old and
I frayed, ragged and discolored, and be
i longed to the issues of long ago. They
were only half-notes, moreover—the
lower halves; and each fragment of
paper had two big holes punched in it
by a blunt instrument, totally destroy
ing the signatures which had made
it money, and at the same time reduc
ing the half note to the merest rem
nant.
One by one Edmond turned over
these morsels of dirty paper, counting
them most carefully.
"Forty-one, forty-two, forty-three,
forty-four, forty-five, forty-six, forty
seven, forty-eight and forty-nine!
There was not fifty here. And yet
they've been passed as fifty In the Re
demption Office. Humph! Awkward
for one of those clever ladles . A thou
| sand-dollar bill missing. Poor Mrs.
Dawson! It must he she who's in for
this."
[ Taking up his pen to make out the
report, he glanced at the wrapper up
on which appeared the number of bills
it was supposed to contain and the
initials of the ludy examiner who In
| the Redemption Department had
counted and made herself responsible
for the packet's accuracy. "What!"
i The pen dropped from his fingers.
"B. H. Great Heavens!" That was
i the signature of his own wife.
Now this error would mean more
than discredit and a consequent check :
to Bertha's future promotion. It was I
a rule that the examiner who over
looked a counterfeit or missing bill
should make good the value of It. To '
make good SI,OOO would pretty well
ruin the Hacketts and old father Caleb
Into the bargain. But It was his duty
to make the report to tne Secretary
instantly, and with painful reluctance
he filled up the prescribed but seldom
requisite form. With slow, dragging
steps he proceeded with It to the Sec
retary's private room, but halted with
his hand on the door. Suddenly the
frivolous gossip on the veranda rushed
into his memory. Had Wilton Lorlng
—had Bertha herself stolen the miss
ing bill? What then? Should ne turn
conspirator and cover the fraud? No,
no; his duty was clear. He would not
allow himself to hesitute, but knocked
at the door and entered.
But there was a respite for himself
and for his wife. The Treasurer him
self was closeted with the Secretary.
"One moment, Mr. Hackett! I'm en
gaged," was the sharp, peremptory
dismissal, and he perforce withdrew,
postponing the declaration. As he re
turned stupefied to his desk a clock
struck the hour of his luncheon inter
val. It was the custom of the family
to meet at home for their midday
meal. He locked up the report and
rushed out of the Treasury. Flying
home on a cable car he found his wife
before him. Bertha sat at the table
like one in a dream. She did not raise
her eyes from the food that stood un
touched before her. Edmond himself
could not swallow a morsel, but fur
tively watched his wife while the ne
gress who waited on them tarried in
the room. The moment they were
alone he leaned acrosß the table and
whispered hoarsely:
"You passed a packet to-day—a
packet of thousands."
The young wife looked up with a
start of surprise. The fear that was
written In her troubled face gave way
to a flash of desperate hope.
"It came to you?"
"One bill is missing.''
"Thank God, you can pass It!"
No word of denial. She instantly
assumed his power and his willingness
to save. She caught his recoiling
baud across the table.
"For my sake —for your Bertha's
sake—you will, you will!"
Edmond Hackett raised his other
hand to his damp forehead.
"Impossible, child —impossible! You
must be saved another way—if it be
nut too late. Find the missing bill
among some papers, as if an accident
had placed it there. But whatever
you do, put it forward instantly, in
stantly!"
"I cannot, Edmond, I haven't the
bill."
"You did not steal it? Oh, forgive
me! Heaven be thanked for that! It's
an oversight, then? Bad enough, but
not beyond repair. Make out your re
port at once and send It In. You are
a novice. The delay and irregularity
may be overlooked."
"I cannot do thaf .Edraond. It would
east suspicion upon the cashier who
forwarded the bills to the Treasury."
"That is his affair. If the packet
was short when you counted it "
"Edmond, why will you not Ignore
the shortage? By a miracle it is in
your power to prevent the discovery."
"It is not in my power."
"How not in your power? The pack
et will go from your hands to the com
mittee, which does not count it again;
and hy it it will be deposited in the
macerator, to be ground into pulp. It
would never be known that forty-nine
instead of llfty bills had been de
stroyed.'
"Bertha, you forget the other half!
I have only a portion of the bills. The
upper section of your packet went to
the Register's office to be counted
there."
Bertha Hackett grew white as death
and hot tears sprang into her eyes.
"We are rained!" she cried, "unless,
unless " Her glance from the win
dow perceived Caleb Lorlng entering
the house. "Here Is father! He will
find out who had the count at the Reg
ister's."
But the old man know already. They
read it In his face as be confronted
them, closing the door. Whatever
hope he had cherished on his home
ward way that he might find Bertha
unconscious of the storm that threat
ened was dashed to the ground the
moment he perceived her and her hus
band's agitation. The IhsmOry of that
evening on the veranda burned In his
mind, and In a fury of rage he demand
ed fiercely:
"Daughter, what infernal thing Is
this yon have been doing? Are you
mad? Is Edmond in it? Or has Wil
ton No, no! For God's sake,
don't tell me It is my son'"
Then Bertha, to her husband's
amazement and dismay, fell down at
her father's feet and confessed that
she—she had yielded to temptation
and stolen the missing bill. She hur
riedly stated the miraculous chance
that had put Edmond In a position to
save her, and, Inferring from her
father's knowledge of the affair that
the man who had detected the short
age had confided to him his daughter's
responsibility, with a view of screen
ing her, besought him to accept the
friendly overture.
But the stern Caleb spurned her
from him.
"I would permit no man's dishonor
for the sake of me or mine," he de
clared. "For what you have done you
must pay the penalty. Your impossible
combination has actually come to
pass. As the countercheck came to
your husband in his department, so It
has come to me in the Register's. It
was I myHelf who caught the short
packet which you had signed for."
'Then, father, you alone know?"
"I—and one other."
"One other?" repeated Bertha,
aghast. "Who in your department
should know besides yourself?"
"My chief!" replied the old man,
with a face of adamant.
"You have reported It, knowing that
your own child "
"Certainly. Fraud or oversight;
yours or your brother's; It was not
for me to consider. I am, first of all,
a servant of the State."
They went back to the Treasury,
where Edmond at once delivered his
; report.
Bertha found Mrs. Lawson imps
tlently awaiting her. The Treasurer
had sent for the head of the Redemp
tion Division to Investigate an error
in one of the packets which Bertha
I had made up. Mrs. Lawson was hlgh
' l£ indignant. ■
"I counted the Ranchers' yackft my
self," said she. "I am positive there
were exactly a hundred bills."
"If one is missing," began Bertha,
but the senior lady Interrupted her.
"Missing? No, nothing Is missing
at all. There Is said to have been one
too many."
So many miracles had happened
that day that Bertha could only gape
at her in astonishment. It was an
anomaly in arithmetic that one taken
from one hundred should leave one
hundred and one. There came another
Bummons to the Treasury. Another
report had come In of an error from
Mrs. Lawson's desk. The old lady
was almost in tears, but she carried it
off with a show of Jocosity.
"Either there must be some con
scious money knocking about or Mrs.
Bertha Hackett brings a mascot to
the Treasury," said she. "Is this an
other surplus thousand-dollar-bill,
sir?"
"But this was the shortage which
Edmond and Mr. Lorlng had reported,
and it was happily met by the excess
In the other packet. So beyond an
admonition tempered in mercy for the
manifest distress of the girl, Bertha
got into no trouble She held stoutly
to a theory of the intervention of
a most divine Providence, when
discussing the matter at home, but
her husband swept the precious fancy
away.
"I reckon Providence don't supply
cheating clerks with thousand-dollar
bills," said he. "You divided the pack
et of 100 into two of 50, as you thought,
but you counted the first backward,
from 100 to 50 inclusive, and that left
you only 49 for the second packet. But
why didn't you tell Mrs. Lawson you
made one short?"
"Fact is, Edmond. that combination
chatter of ours had got Into my brain.
I thought Wilton had pinched a bill,
and I reckoned to do more for my
brother than daddy "Would do for his
little girl."
"Ha!" observed old Caleb, filling his
pipe. "Duty first, family afterward,
and roguery never at any time, under
any circumstances."
She Still Smokes.
Societies for the study of longevity
will find an Interesting subject in
Mrs. Mary McDonald, a co'ored wom
an, of Philadelphia, now en occupant
of the Home for the Aged and Infirm.
The date of her birth, November 14,
1770, 1b well authenticated.
She remembers of the War of the
Revolution, and recalls many of its
great battles. She tells a thrilling
story of the skirmishes with the Brit
ish that were fought across the farm
at Valley Forge where she was raised.
She herself saw the Amer'can soldiers
when they were starving during the
awful winter of 1778. and she remem
bers the smoke of battle that blew
across the very dooryard of her home.
Mary was not a slave, but was bound
out until she was eighteen years of
age to a wealthy farmer named Rese
Howell whose grain and farm pro
ducts were always at the disposal
of General Washington's Hoops. She
remembers that during the war she
wore a plain calico dress and sunbon
net. She never owned a silk dress.
She says that she owes her long life
largely to the fact that she was
brought up on the plainest kind of
food and always had plenty of exer
cise.
She remained with her master and
mistress until she was eighteen. She
then married, and was blessed with a
family of eight children. All of her
sons and daughters, as well as her
husband, have long since died, and
Mary Is now the only one left. She
seems to enjoy life In sj.lte of her
extreme old age. She has everything
necessary to comfort In her declining
days, and she employs her spare time
sewing carpet balls. Since 1890 she
has sewed 133 pounds of carpet rags,
and she keeps at her work every day.
The Duke's Coolness.
The coolness In action of great com
manders like Marlborough, Welling
ton, John Nicholson and Stonewall
Jackson has been worth whole battal
ions In the fighting line, says a writer
In The Cornhlll. Basil Jackson, who
had frequent opportunities of seeing
the "Iron Duke" during the hours of
the terrible Sunday, has recorded the
Interesting and characteristic fact that
the only sign of nervousness that he
remarked In him was that In a dangei-
OUB crisis he observed him moving
In and out the folds of the powerful
field glass which he carried, and of
which he made such admirable use in
this and his other campaigns. By the
way, English telescopes of the time
were far better than the French, and
It was looked upon as a prize when
one of them fell Into their hands. In
one of Wellington's battles against
Soult, he was able to read that very
able General's Intentions by his ges
tures to an aide-de-camp, and accord
ingly took prompt measures to coun
teract his plans; and years afterward
when they were both old men, he as
tonished the Marshal by telling him
how be had defeated hllh.
A Use For Old Watch Cases.
Many families have somewhere
carefully laid away collections of old
time watches which vary in style from
the round, thick bull's-eye down to
the flat, open-faced gold watch. The
works of these watohes are practical
ly valueless and the cases would bring
a trifling amount If sold for either old
gold or sliver. Sentiment seems to
cling about the faithful timepieces,
and here Is away of bringing them in
to action once more as small pin
cushions for the bureau.
The change is readily made. Have
a silversmith take out the works and
fill in the hole left by the thumb
piece. The round metal case is then
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AN EFFECTUAL EFFORT.
Three-Finger Sam's Eloquence Was
Not to Be Withstood.
"Talkin' about oratory," said Bron
cho Bob, "you ought to have been out
to Crimson Gulch last fall, so as to
hear some of the real thing."
"We .have some pretty luminous |
specimens In Congress," ventured the
man who felt It incumbent on him to
show a little local pride.
"Not a circumstance. I've read some |
of them kind o' speeches. I've beard ;
'em, too. A feller come from the i
East and started in to tell Crimson
Gulch what It orter do. Some of the
boys allowed things was gettln' ruther
slack, an' they says anthin' fur a
change; so they took his advice an'
blazed away an' organized a city coun
cil."
"I see. You held an election!"
"Nary. We didn't want any Mood
abed. We Jest passed the word around
that the city council was going to be
held,an' made it an open game. Every
body was there except Nevada Bill,
an' he didn't dare show up, because
he was under suspicion of sittin' In a
poker game with a private stock of
blue chips which he had bought unbe
knownst from a store in San Antonio.
It wasn't long until, under the Instruc
tions of the tenderfoot, we had the
city council going in good shape. Only
officers were allowed to wear their
weapons during the proceedin's, an'
everybody was debarred from debate.
The first business we took up was the
case of Nevada Bill. We reckoned
that It would he no more than decent
local pride to prevent the importance
of any poker chips except the duly
recognized authority for said import
ance. Rattlesnake Pete said the only
way to mnke the law bindln' was to
pervidc that anybody breakln' It
should be shot at least once. The ten
derfoot got riled in a minute. He
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most long-winded talk about constitu
tionality an' the rights of citizenship
an' whereas and therefore that I ever
heard. He talked hard, and shewed he
had read books. But you orter have
heard Three-Finger Sam's historic re
ply. It jes' showed how quick a man
who has the gift of genuine eloquence
kin end an argument. Crimson Gulch
has not got through talkin' about it
yet. Three-Finger Sam drawed his
self up to his full higlit and p'inted
his finger at the tenderfoot. 'I don't
desire to use no harsher words than
Is necessary,' says he, 'but I'd like to
know what you mean, you low-down,
lop-eared Jack rabbit, by comin' Into
this town an' tryin' to tell us whether
a man needs shootin' or not. Have we
got to wait fur some lantern-jawed
coyote to come wanderin' in off the
prairie an' tell us what's good fur us?
Beware!' says Three-Finger Sam, still
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eloquent every minute. 'Beware, you
bow-legged burro. Don't you think you
come here an' overawe people because
you wear specs. Have a care, or the
fust thing you know you'll be travel
in' out o' this town with a bunch of pa
triotic citizens on your trail, every one
of whom is dead anxious to shoot a
freckle off'n the hack of your neck!'
The tenderfoot didn't have another
word to say. an' he left town the np
nioruin'."—Washington Star.
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