The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 11, 1912, Image 7
ohn Henry
Gets A Surprise
By GEORGE V. HOBART
Bunch and 1 had engaged Sklnakl i
to go out on the circuit with hit j
? eight of hand sketch We needed
che money. Everything was ready to j
start and Nun? h and I attended to
the shipping of all the scenery and
props and trick stuff; we were too
nu?y radg, gsMetg me.
^ On WejSJMgdgg we tried all day to
^locate SklniM. b?/ he avoided pun?
ishment until abj it four o'clock In
the afternoon. when wo finally
flagged him and began to ask him
questions
'I've been busy since Monday." he j
^explained: "brokers and bankers and
0!awY?>r? ?nd thvre are doings. 8ay!
you're two of the dead gamest sports
1 ever bumped into, and no matter
what gSJMSefjf I'm for you for keeps!"
"What's Um r?a.?on for the crab
talk?" I asked sharply. "Are you
going to give us the sorry hand and
bow vourself out after we have put
^ssjsn p rv*?rv razooboe we possess?
Whst kind of a sour face are you
pulling on vis*"
"Walt and see. smirked Skinski.
?"And. bv th? way nephew Bunch. 1
met a SjgfftSjtg old party this mornlne,
who thinks you ire very hot fried
psr?nips'"
^ 'You did." Hunch came back, with
^a yawn
.??Yes." replied Skinski: "and a nice
old man. too. is Mr. William Grey.'
"Wh?re t** devil did you meet Mr.
Grey*" Punch Inquired excitedly.
"Rack, back up'" said Skinski
Ontetly; '1 didn't disgrace my family.
Mr Peter Grant introduced me to
Wbim as your Tncle and I made good."
"You met UfJgfS Peter, too!" I
asked In alarm
"8urest thing you know," salt?
Skinski; "but. don't worry. The .lef
f er son family tree will never b*
blown down by any hot air from m<*
<4f^ rest easy. Now. let's get down to
cases about our opening Thurrday
night ?
Punch and I were both puzzled by
ftklnsU's pecu'lar line of talk, but we
forgot It an4 completed all the d???n?
'or Ii s
It ? ??.-.??,? (i wi e! I
?'? .i:
t iti
^ K.M.. fr't>>l,
as vhe dragged me Into the dining
room
Make mine a small one," I admon
^sh-d. I ve had a busy day."
seal "This ia a cure for all your busl
ness worries." she gurgled. "Guers
whst. John! We sail for Europe next
Wed need a >
"Poor Peaches!" I said sympathet
Ically; "that's what you get for drink?
ing too much tea."
I mean It seriously. John!" shi
sJgrled esgerly. "I'ncle Peter has
booked passages on the Oceanic fot
t ration and the nightmare, with cir.O
matograph pictures on tho side.
All night long Sklnskl had me on
the stage In a wicker basket, while
I'nele Peter jabbed a sword through
me and Dodo iSkinskl's partner) sat
In the front row *ou the aisle yelling
"You betcher sweet!"
Thursday broke clear and cloudless.
Just before I left home for the fatal
scene Peaches said. "I'm so sor-y
business will keep you in the city this
evening. John; but of course I real?
ize you have much to do before we
sail on Wednesday. Alice Grey just
phoned over that she has a box at a
theater somewhere. I didn't ask her
where, but if you're sure you won't
be home I'll go with Alice and Aunt
Martha."
"Fly all means." I answered, and
kissing l or good-bye I trolleyed to
New Hochelle.
Hunch was there ahead of me and
so were Sklnskl and Ma'moiselle
Dodo, all working like beavers.
"I'm going to take the 11:40 to
town." Pkinski Informed us after all
was in readiness for the performance.
"I have a very important date,
haven't I, Dod*?y?"
"You betcher sweet!" she puffingly
replied.
Hunch and I loafed around till
about an hour before show time, when
we put a young chap we had sworn
to secrecy on the door, and then We
went back on the stage and began to
chatter nervously.
At seven o'clock Dodo came in with
one of those sunburst souses, and as
she w*?nt sailing by to her dressing
room she gave us the haughty head
and murmured, "You betcher sweet'"
Seven-thirty and no Sklnskl
I was afraid to tell Bunch what I
was thinking, and Hunch was afraid
to think for fear he'd spill something.
Klght o'clock came and still no
Sklnskl.
It was pitiful.
I began to see visions of an Insulted
audience reaching for my collar over
<ho prostrate form of my partner in
sV
. 8:15 the orchestra leader came
o see why we didn't ring in and
?h told him to ring off.
told DeeTOoven, 6T whatever his
name was, to tune up and play every?
thing in sight till I gave blm the
warning.
At 8:20 Ma'moiselle Dodo waltzed
?Mit of her dressing room made up to
look like a cream puff.
"Where's Sklnskl?" I shrieked. "It's
nearly 8:30 and he's keeping that mob
waiting. Isn't he going to show up!"
"Y->u betcher sweet!" she gurgled,
and passed on.
At ||N I rushed into Skin ski's
dresslr g room, put on a swift make?
up, dove i'ito Skinski's fright wig, hid
my face behind a false moustache and
"And la That Where You Invested My Few Plunks?"
Wlh* wl <)!??
f>Bj nil the eipoOtOl for a IfcfOO
MMW trip "
W ' \\at"i " I ku <|.?d faintly.
' I im*:.fit lt. h?t ivaeh*..* thought I
was only ?ut; ? |
"I kn?*w >, Ii i delighted."
__rapered on; el d 00f all 1 fOOid Uo
^?r> K?.|? from ? g you long ago.
rwie NHM kl ti in l? the dull
iritMon In your broUei .ago huniro^
and the t'ij? lr <'o ;.ou a world of
good Von 'I 01 v t.ike a few htm
dr??d doWofl 1 1 i ?ekel Booty, ami
he' t g '?? t: ? v? ?ur $6,001 w her*
swf eox Id only i?lt and listen and i .i <
a I i
". ' - . I U BJM of Skins U and
fi r< ?? Old our g Od MOOOf *
how eould 1 Of Of o'ounl for the
r >i .. fuT.iN without loading
Iobsjk ? " : ? productive "
?4 ??? ri to V. :l
I k *? the lall bot
? ' !? ! y dOtffk
? I thoughts
I IVoi hoi
||| let ?n
I I la
oi in
i .\.a <>n h
tee, ami ;. epar< d to sell my life
nearly.
What a.' JTOU golgg lc asked
i 'mit h In wlh. alarm.
"I'm g< Ii i < l und pull a feu moldy
IticUfl till Bklnskl get! here." I an
a orod hei oi? ally.
Tin n I uav? th" warning to the
leader and r .r.i? up the eurta'n.
I w..^ greeted by i hnrah round <?f
i lau e Ii I kteppod out ami 1 could
. 1 hoth kneel gel up and loava my
logs,
I pulled my roll together, picked uji
? pai k of i ai de and I i gafl U do
Iking? erlt.1i the doek thai no mortal
man ever saw before, while Hunca
pi od I" Ihe Ain"< e/ttb Mm teoth chat
tcrlng eo loud thev sounded like g
Then i picked up an egg where
tkln k! had placed it on Ihe tabarcl
?nd started it> tod something myate
i i Inua with II
In ta ii afceed 11.Ig lo show II
, o the let ? ? l ?? a flaah of Ihe
I \ , i, ,-\ ar i \nn< Mai Ihi
i my igii'. and ifi re,
aly ? ' me, at l*en h?*?
.;. an l It
' ij at ii.> !<?? ' ii
t >rin
of an omelet, while the house roared
with Joy.
At this moment, Sklnskl bounded
on the stage, bowed right and left,
and In five words be made It appear
that I was only a comedy curtain
raiser.
Say! I never was so glad to see
anybody In all my life.
I backed off the st8go, and be
pulled something on my exit that got
an awful laugh.
\ When the curtain Anally fell Skln?
skl was given an ovation, and when It
was all over we backed into his dress?
ing-room and sat looking at each
other.
"That's the last," our star said,
after a pause; "and it was a hot fin?
ish all right."
"What do you mean?" I gasped.
"The syndicate has bought my gold
mine In the Blue Hills," he answered
calmly.
"And you're going to throw us after
making a start like this?" Bunch al?
most sobbed.
"Throw nothing!" Sktnski came
back. "Didn't I tell you onco before
that I am for you two guys all the
old while?didn't I. Dodeyr
"You betcher sweet!** she an
swer*>d solemnly.
"Well, that still goes," Sklnski went
on. 'T\e sold out a half interest in
?
I Was 80 Surprised I Dropped the Egg
my Blue Hills gold mine, and I've got
the coin to show for it."
So saying, he dug up a wad that a
hound couldn't leap over.
"Now, I'm going to pay you each
$6,0i)0 to cancel my contract," SkinsVi
added, aiter our eyes had feasted o>
his roll.
I looked at Bunch, and Bunch was
stepping on his left foot to see if he
was awake.
"No, by Hick! I'll make it seven
thousand each," Sklnskl chortled.
"Oh! pinkies!" said Sklnskl; "what
do I want to go hugging one-night
stands for when I have u hundred
thousand booboos in the kick? It's
the Parisian boulevards for us. and a
canter on the Boy Bologna, eh,
Dodey?"
"You betcher sweet!" she gurgled
thirstily.
And so it came about that we de?
stroyed the contract, pocketed our
seven thousand each, and bade Skin
ski and Dodo an affecting farewell.
Bunch and 1 couldn't talk for hours
afterwards.
We were afraid we'd wake our?
selves up
Next day I handed five thousand
dollars to Uncle Feter, and he com
plimented me so highly on my ability
to save money that I nearly swal?
lowed my palate.
"I'm going to invest this carefully
for you, John," ho informed me.
"When wo return from Europe you'll
be surprised."
I don't "know what powers of per
Elia- ion Bunch brought to bear on
Alice and I'ncle William, but I do
know that there was a hurried wed?
ding ceremony, and that a certain
blushing bilde and bashful groom and
a delighted Old uncle who answered
roll call when you yelled Bill Grey
took passage that next Wednesday
with us on thao Oceanic.
I was promenading the deck with
Peachei and Uncle Peter after we had
been out two days when the old gen?
tleman .-aid: Mohn, aren't you curious
to know bow I Invested your money?"
Not particularly," I answered with
a laugh
Mohn knows it Is perfectly safe in
youf hands," Peachei beamed.
"Well. 11 tell you." said *l'ne!e
peter, "pin Grey and myself cele?
brated th< finish of our long quarrel
by going Into a little business deal to?
gether."
"Pine!" 1 tald approvingly,
' We burled 'le? hatchet," l'ncle Pe?
te? went on, "by Investing together In
I & gol 1 mine."
"Where?" 1 asked nervously
"We formed a little syndicate and
bongl t a li ill Interest In a mine owned
t v w inch's I neb' Me t Ion an, out In
the l ine Hills!"
\td Is thai where you Invested my
few dunks?" i asked, for* Ing my
? elf |.| he calm.
"Thal'a It," chuckled Pucle Peter, I
I "ami that's win tf Mill Grey has In* ]
\eated $5.1for Punch "
I excused mj self nntl said I didn't 1
feel like promenading the undertow
mads mo dlsiy
I went off by my lonesome atid
looked across (he troubled sfa
It Keen ed f'? me that I could hear a
voice routing Mom fur away behind
that I h . ? t ? live, | ml (he VOlco Bald, '
j "You bei< 1mm SV eel!"
(Cop) right, (I, w. 1 >lllln*ham Ca)
PROBLEM FOR WOMEN
CAN ONE A8K ANOTHER WHERE
SHE GETS HER CLOTHES?
It It Done In Prance Without Offense,
but Here the Fair Questioner
Might Be Considered Moat
Impertinent.
"Have you the right, when you see
a beautifully dressed woman, to ask
her politely where she gets hei
clothes?"
The speaker, beautifully dressed her?
self, was drinking tea and eating
scones at the Acorn club. Her words
evoked tremendous Interest among all
the dainty occupants of the dainty
room, and a former ambassador's
wife said:
"That question is very important.
It has troubled me, in fact, all my life.
I once put it to the test. That was
three years ago. I sidled up to a very
stunning girl who was buying silk
stockings in a department store, and I
said:
" 'Your dress is so pretty?do you
mind telling me where you got it?'
"She looked me up and down as i!
I were dirt. 'I got ii in Paris,' sho
snapped, and turned her back on me.
I walked away so crestfallen! To this
day my cheeks burn when I think of
it.
All the women laughed gently, sym?
pathetically, over their tea.
''And it wasn't as if you hadn't been
well dressed yourself," one said.
"No," said the ambassador's wife. "I
had on a new Paquln."
"Once, In Monte Carlo," said a wid?
ow, "a girl asked me at Giro's who
made the coat-suit I was wearing, and
her question delighted me. It was a
tribute to me and my dressmaker both.
I was but too glad to give that pretty
girl all the information she desired."
"In Paris," said an heiress, "the
leading dressmakers send their manne?
quins, or girl models, to the races, to
fashionable hotels, and to the promen?
ade in the Hois and the Rue de Id
Pali. This Is in order that women
may ask these girls where they got
their lovely frocks. Frenchwomen,
you see, don't mind asking one an?
other that."
"The French are so intelligent,"
said a lady novelist.
Then, after a pause, the original
speaker said:
"I've often wanted to ask strange
women where they got their clothes,
and my husband has often wanted to
ask strange men where they got
theirs. Neither of us has ever dared,
though. Yet we've been asked our?
selves, and, tremendously flattered,
we've replied politely. My solution of
the problem is this: Intelligent per?
sons, like the French, are pleased
when the question is asked them, and
therefore, if you are sure your stran?
gers are intelligent, don't hesitate;
but, if your str?nget s are unintelli?
gent?snobs or pseudo-aristocrats?
then, beware, for, no matter how deep?
ly pleased at the question they may be
at heart, they will snub you horribly,
and you will walk off as ashamed as
though you had been caught trying to
pick a pocket."
Joys of Litigation.
Another case illustrative of the old
saying that some men take real de?
light in "going to law" Is before
the court of an interior county of
Pennsylvania. And as so often hap?
pens In such litigations, it began in
a quarrel about a cow.
The cow wandered into :i fold of
growing wheat and ate her fi i. The
owner of the field sued the o- nor of
the cow for damages whicli | rob
ably would have been fully covered
by a -erdict of $10. But the owner
of the cow, with a reputatkn t'.s "a
fighter" to maintain, brought ft cross
suit, and that started a war which
has raged ever since. It be ;i more
than the years ago. and In that time
there have been half a do/, n differ?
ent suits over the affair, i: i lading
one for false arrest and 01 e for
slander. The litigants have already
paid upward of $1.000 and as much
more for counsel fees, and as both
parties are men of means the con?
troversy is scheduled for a long run.
The cow whose stolen lunch started
It all is dead.
The Distome and the Pearl.
In the opinion of many experts
pearls are the product of decay. The
free pearl- found In the common
pearl-hearing mollusk are little tombs
surrounding the bod los of the marine
worms known as distomes,
In tho month of August certain
mollusks are found thai lave num?
erous small reddish-yellow points In
the spot where pearls usually form.
Then begins the Imprisonment <?f the
creature. In the first stages the sur?
face f the distome is sprinkled with
t;..; grains Of carbonate of lime.
These granulations grow and take tho
form of crystals which end by form?
ing a calcareous dopOElt around tho
creature's uody.
It lei.- come t<> puss nou that it I*
no longer so ver> disagreeable in wall
down street during shower* of rain
for Ihe gutters which were Installed
recently allow Ihe water no longer b
trickle across the pavement or 1?
run in Hoods in ross it during :? ? 1 *
immediately folio win; Hie rains,
Tho big electric sing fur the I >. I
i 'hti ndh 1 1 'lot hing 1 'on p?n> l
rived in Ihe city 11 ml
WI8ACKY FARMERS fU SV.
Planting of c otton and Corn Being
Wound up and Oat Crop Looking
Pine?Many School* Cloning.
Wisacky, May 3,?Farmers .ire very
busy Anshing up the "planting of dif?
ferent crops, tome few have finish*. d
planting cotton, and have good stand
of both corn and cotton. They are
very much encouraged over * it fine
prosp.cts of a heavy oat crop.
The health <?f the community is
moderately go.?d at present.
Mr. M. L. Williams has been suf?
fering for weeks from a very severe
case of eyeletus, lie is being treated
by Dr. Wilson of Sumter, eye spec?
ialist. Since his return from the
hospital he has been gradually im?
proving. The doc t??r thinks he will
soon be well.
This i1-' the ( losing week f'>r sever?
al schools in this county.
The Invanhoe school taught by
.Miss Mary ByerS el' Hock Hill has
closed and she has returned to her
Mhw Clara Smith who has been
teaching near Spring Hill has closed
lau- school and is at home for the va
rata n. Miss Maud Williams, who if
teaching mar St. Charles, will (lose
her school in a few days, and very
s .on all the boys, and girls from dif
f a , nt colleges will be home for s
long and happy vacation.
Mr. Arthur Ontllng, <>f f'onway.
Spe> t the past Week VefV pleasantly
with relatives and friends. He was
so notc h ph ased with our town and
community be thinks he will come
agnin soon.
The following c ases were tried be*
fore the Recorder Tuesday:
Thomas Williams. Indecent e*>
posure <'f person, forfeited bail of $5,
Saul Pringle, drunk. creating a
disturbance and cursing, was found
guilty ami given a sentence of $10
or :'?<? days on eac h charge.
1'anicd Means, assault and battery
ami creating a disturbance. was
found guilty and sentenced to pay a
tine of |S0 or serve 30 days on each
In the Police Court.
KAf.sDALF for co\<.RFSS.
Florence Attorney Filter* 1 >?'!.?
Against I, F. Flierl*.
News and Courier.
In the mass of political n< ws COR*
tained In yesterday's N ws and Cour?
ier, a very Interesting Htm is worthy
of mention again. The Floren. |
I County Democratic Convention pass?
ed resolutions endorsing the Hon. J.
Willard Ragsdale, of Floren? c. for
Congress. In a speech to ihe Con?
vention. Mr. Ragsdale ;innounrcd that
he was in thv fight to a finish, and
the outlook li for a very interesting
campaign in the ?*?th CongrosYtOARl
district.
Mr. llagsdale la arttl known all oVOf
the State. lie waged a strong cam
palgn against J. Fr?ser Lyon for the
office of Attorney (.i ivral and a f H
years ago opposed Congressman J. K.
Kllerhe for Congress. He is an ag?
gressive campaigner, and the race
! will no doubt be Intent ng this year.
PROM "TU F GIRLS OF WIN?
THROP."
Senator Tillman Touched b> Menage
of Appreciation.
Washington. May 7.?Senator Till?
man says that nothing hai ever given
him more generous pleasure than the
receipt Saturday of the following
j telegram from Rock Hill, sent May 3.
! during the Winthrop Co lege celebra
j tion:
"Senator Tillman: We have nee.lei
but one thing today to make this
celebration a perfect one, and that
was your presence. We have remem?
bered you, and send this greeting with
our love and grateful appreciation of
what you have done for us.
"The Girls of Winthrop."
Dr. Mitchell's Lecture.
Dr. S. C. Mitchell, pre.-ident ot the
j University of the Botlth Carolina,
I made an excellent and short ad lress
at the auditorium of the Roys' High
j School building Tuesday at r oon.
'There were a number of visitors pre
| sent besides the pupils of the high
school, all of whom heard Dr. Mitch*
ell with the geratest pleasure.
GEORGE H. HURST,
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We have the beat equipped office in
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Sumter '.sing the new method for the
painless attraction Of teeth. We ex?
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Sumter Dental Parlors,
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