By Peter B. Kyne
In which he discourses 011 the folly of 11ng one’ s
r 1 mouth for disclosing valuable 11 :formati6‘h
in Iw employ may
1 art and of any bet
that the next“ time itfhsppens some-
body is going to be‘se’psrated from
the Ricksfpa‘yron); managed to gain
secess to my priwte cities at. about
two-thirty o'clock p. m‘.. at which
hour I have usually c mpleted my
after-luncheon cigar am about to
compose my need areas: for the (or-
ty winks that have kept me young 11:;
these years. . 1.
The stranger was the embodiment
oi aifability and mental and physical
energy. Also 1 observed that he wal-
_ 1 or fashion and the mould of form.
‘ ' ' '“' There was about him a perfume
° “Ck“!l‘md 1' Mi 1'2 inn. no.w n rcnrin- . rum: 1- 0 of destruction pouring forth the streams or fiery: lava which proved to me that he had been
s of feet wide and 40 (not hi1:h rnmh 1-111- . nt- 1-111 101'. 000 inhabitants of Sicily homeless. Ten townships with shined recently in a gilded barber
uch as those shown in the toroground h: .0 111111 . , , . , shop, or else he was Just one or that
‘r
*1 ‘9’
. . .‘ . kind or boys. Ho greeted me with a
g . - f ' ,_ smile and tried to' shake hands with-
In DEE'iled to [when the state Ilcnrd oi Pardon held The doors or the prison house me, but I picked up a cut-glass paper ’ ~
“ ,7 m annual June meeting. and Dam.“ l cloned upon Bassett on March 1.1873. weight and commenced to toy with ii
Lifer 44m Aimed! ' wont l)’l(‘k to serve out his sentence He had been found guilty 0: n'uurdcr- casually. me‘nWhue eyeing h‘m as
‘ _ ‘ ‘ ' f j ' ‘ “Lng "Stuttering Jack" in what was haletully as a German police'dos;
Snowing plainly that age 18 now “D‘ then the village 0! Biidchoit. .01 whereupon he cut out the social stuff:
T'l‘HERS'cII L.“ July 3-4-0]. on l11.n in his 68th year. (arrylng the body in a trunk. to Mil- and proceeded to Ru m an atlas oi
- than 44 years Frank Ilassctt. of lassctt alone of the prison inmates fordo’Marshes and burying it in mud the world
geport. has lived within the; has never seen a trolley car. Airplanes But he forgot to got rid of the trunk What a. line ofm that young fei-
walin or (:onn‘ectivut‘s Sifllt‘ , and radio and automobiles are to that contained the body. and I Shift-1 low had: Before he'd talked ten sec-
n here. serving a life sentence him but lll"l‘i‘ names. but still helm! tide was the chief agent in the ends I knew that ll). his day he had'
is part in aiming one ‘Stuttor- hows for 1710 day to come. when h0:\\'0rk of justice. Death long ‘80 bully-booed for mm“. .014 corn re-
“it." a. waterside character, oil will slop nut to save all these modern ; claimed Bosset's accomplice in the movers and snake-ail (5.. the cure or
, ‘ck in 1873. For ”11‘ 1 \znllclcl‘n. and as long as the breath of ' crime; and he nmv insists he has rheumatism n“ 4mmnuonm M
rth timo' in his prison life! life 1" mains in him he expects to con- ' lmen punished enough for what he liltl liri ' oce
t Was,rt‘ft:scd jmrdorf or parole- I lilxal 1. to wok i'l'cmiom. will]. 8 ps of Ed #31"!!! “a mmm
, . or blue-stone to phi; in the ,‘1armers
. kerosene lamps to keep them from
exploding. . However. struggling to be
polite. i told him I was. and had
days. but to the genius and industry been since October 61‘ 1887. the proud
of Ben bimsel! had been due its proprietor of an atlas of the world.
growth into one at the influential 73' lie just smiled at me and remarked
althutLOf: not ill. m‘bu‘t 01:1“. that he had observed the' relic repos-
s a per quarters. II 3 ing on top or my filing cabinet: while
:0 311:0 lid": “:1 mgcngfigg 11“ I [he hated to waste my time. still. it 1
“11 namu “9°“ 3“ directorate. Ben- !3:??3112'ogstl‘l'eouwlgrgocoengmme that
. ._ ed no
”"4 3"393- t" m”- m “3' b‘p—to-the-minute plates sh’owing air
richest at the big cattle barons: Map currents ocean m
tin Murphy was known as the Ar ' ‘ 1 " modern
steamship lanes. coal tations. and
’ \
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l'| Ml - h. I l'lll m "mu 1. - i=9 :1 ..
1111‘]
“He hung that atlas salesman across his hip. carried him
to the door and cast him forth."
111mm
mum
g .
hnsas hardwood king. and Herman . .. 1 . . ._
cow-mm N“: ., R" ”M... Gaze owned and operated a chain m-dm “mm" :1 atessliop kerosene can half tilled he pretty blamed “'01! kntw “ii-at “1° 3"va {he °1ji m3“ “Sped’ 0“: “711°
mimosyasummuvmuunmu- mumg'wyu‘ of department stores. 11,. mg j 1 \‘Vithout waiting iota. reply he got with oil. Fitteen minutes after Edit money was to be used for boiorc 1.0 is the damned tool that: gomg to
3mm HERB TODAY mm..." to our dau bter x. that two—there were but seven. includ~ out a blank form. fined min. and My held cast him tort'u he re- {raid the drain. And. in. order to be build ans-115:1 and'dOOI‘ factory on Yap
“rt-"ram mypped “in. ‘ma mum. ins Bell and his lam—were northern , mode a little cross offline dotted line turned. entered the general office. and .‘certain things were going right a'. 111111111. 11.11 . no ll go broke as sur.
:V‘fihgngfgglgnogmgm 5‘; mod n “cannon“. m‘u‘m capitalists who tooh no very active 1 where I was mm. 1.811“ Lhuim- sold Skinner one of his atlases! How- .the mill. he used to go up‘ihcrc about astt-ath and lanes."
, 1 .1 Henry 3.1.0.. o; 9.11.. as“. i hope. because you question interest in the bank and almost , j ed! However. he did get. Immedi- ever. he didn't deliver the atlas—— three times a year and find out for 1.1 know he will,’ the drummer re.
on g." 'Pflia’iuag‘g'l“? 313."- the nature of my intentions?" never attended its meetings. For that . atelyhe slammed his atlas onn‘i dent then. Not that baby. He just separ- himself. P 1‘ d-_ Hmwwr. my busmess is to
‘3... for}; Brink‘owe n31“. em “on no!" mm: a" "If” local men '5". t and cbmrflenced turning the m4“; ated Skinner from a flye- dollar bill. ‘: “'eli. the‘onlynvay to got up tin re eclrhim the machinery. My customer
Gr y helps the iamliy to adapt "I'd my ,3, and no to that," Hal- named concerned themnlves lath ’- fast and expiainiui each mm. in to bind the order, as it were. with the tram San bra11c1sco was by steam .s .111qu l orlcr. or the Porter Mill
.muAvlfis‘to“. ”323;..1'5' 11501;; l0”!!! . declared. argumentatively. ‘nh the actual 1;:me ”'71 .4 {med It thfiti My cont! int-exam We of twenty dollars to be paid schooner or else-by rail to l’oztlanil. Luniber company."
g, “a to Bud. m. "m.- h. I "Tom and 1 a" gentlernen of the stlthtiop.10r : ' ‘an affidavit _ as to wh‘gbe mafinpfi delivery or the atlas [p to and thence by a. small coastwise pa5< fit-s, he‘s .a tool."' the old fellow
ro. Grey brings and from the 01.! on school: we live by the code and "Md Mind-elm“ 0‘ “I. ‘W won : Md the World atlas. 3. the moment or going to press nobody scngcr boat that ran from 1101113111. one» sadly, ‘and his old man 1. .
g 2312? 1"“‘mupi’r‘11‘zfi°?1lu"653 '3‘” 1' “"1010! DraperUJn a my. "PM“ "1 ill-eschew. ltwasonly ’ book" or an electric“ g... .F 15131 let in the Ricks organtmtion has seen to Gray's Harbor and way ports. The merger fool. but not tool enough-1h
Lb been dishonor-ably discharged My man who aspires to the honor it “'0 ""1“” 5308:3183 when “- é him my. on, 1113. diwm the Skinner's atlas. and a registered Iet- elm-gentleman» always got scaswk Start Web a ruinous enterpm as
”C90". "“9.de —and ‘3'“ “ buttbn under ihcd‘ g. and giving ter sent to the alleged publishers has when he went to sea. however. so he Lib son contemplates. I'll wager ten
the :1le Because Gray ions at.”— ll..ot. evep paying attentions
I“his ”for: $1.3
assent to t gm ’mun “and the acid 19,1 ably they succeeded themselves—
“fi‘. ”33%;... lthe boys in the general office the 5. been returned with disgust ' by the always planned to make his ‘maritimk dollars old Porte: doesn't know this."
Th.” must ’35 0° 510'- “Wn his that they toregntbered to conduct :’ O. 8. To my signal relief mv an- postal ImhorltiEs. journeys as short as possible. which “oh, do you know the old man?"
'W‘GO Obi WIT“ STORY ’seutcbeon." thetdutliaiiloutine 11113111113 which a .‘ , :7 lie son-in-law. Captain Matt Peiisgley, Today-i ascertained from thecash- is why he't’ound himself steaming "gig known hm ever since I w“
.- it they badgons. Gray rose "Y0“ imply' then. that there 1' a pa: ° “mu“ mee ngs. : answered. icr that Skinner had purpoaeds‘buy- down the Columbia rl\’(‘!‘ on tho born."
relic! Ind surprised Buddy by bl t0:30:11it‘l't‘enreitirred' irritabl? he misfit: g-tégewgftnihthdr: p13: He “00‘! in the doorway, grinning lug ”19 atlas for office '“d “0". for coastwite [passenger boat in question -”\V‘.‘.-l' for heaven’s sake, don't tip
7"” "Thst's enough f" now, broke out. "I‘m damn'cd it i think out and dried as usual. the do: of ,1— and Waiting for my Visitor to run personal “99—119mm the fiv°,d°nars bound for- the mm. . $1111.11...” orb“! 10.58 an order." “I.
’ goodness! Business is only you did it!‘" the meeting 'iound both father and ‘5 dowanhich ”93‘3““? he did f0? had been charged ‘° eltpense. C‘mse‘ how, old man. Pinter was fome- 1311:1011: egged. .
side of life my boy. You are "Did what?" son decidedly nervous. tor there 3 lack of breath. Then he lighted . quently. the bookkeeper has been in- what uncommunicatiye and shy. he cr, ‘ . 0 ~ Ilnanbprom'ned, and a“,
' Tom remained silent. but when his were certain questions of mm 1 1‘ cigarette without asking my Dermis— structed to make a Journal entry. liked to -be let alone so he conic 0351118 to um la titer bar the. con-
crediting expense and charging Skln- think. because he had a 10‘ of thing“ i Wham.“ maumhed'mu” “mm
1came l11t1:ully seasick. Upon arrival
tit t .eir destination, however, as the
"' to make "I“. city your home. companion drew a deep. preparatory ment and of policy Which they did sion and blew smoke in my “‘98. nt- . ..
1. you must begin by meeting the breath Gray fined as hand. He ,0“ not wish to touch upon. and their ter which he slipped a fountain pen ner. Poor Skinner: He learns but to think about. _But' no sooner ,dio
' M MIC. the influential people. nervously and in a changed tone con- nervousness nunitested itself in an IM0 my trembling old hand and or- he pa?! “if his education. Etrl' lit- he 8'“ smiled ““11 11‘s “53“ in ”‘0
4‘1'l’ll'1 1‘
. WHO in :11. world right tinued: assumption oi’ lriendliness and good 1 dared ‘me to sign. tie while he invests in experience. lee oathe pzllot 11031115; when a (lirnrg— fidnmlax: 1:31:21 to go .3113, he
“Again let me speak for you and fellowship quite unusual. 3 J 1 t d 1. . . mor- roppc bot anchors )csi e r «1 o a ruxnmer an. dz
ddy- : lace in the lime to Ca tain Matt. M. . A number of years ago he used to _ 1- . _
1:“ i" ’ n ce“ 9 — Senator Lowe. the bank's attorney thew, my dear oidpboy." I 111111111131 have ‘ competitor old ma orter. lum and remarked semen-1mg which ““111, son. I'm old man Porter and
' 0° and secretary. was arranging his ~ "will you kindly throw this Sauna" who had a. boy whom he sen to an the °ld man already knew and had 5'51“." “0‘ 5°“5 ‘0 59-” thanbm 0!
New to a youth who. for months. minute books, his reports. and his man out o: my office '3" eastern college. although nothing “9""- considered “'Or‘hi" 0‘ remark. :a\\'- -mi l machinery to moon. You've
miscellaneous papers. Martin Mur-
phy was telling his latest story.
when a knock came at the door to
the directors' room._ Bell himselt
Men" immund in the oil fields.
its Falls did indeed resemble a
not marvelous portent. hrs-
on ' , . '
Certainly. sir. ' says Matt. and certainly a. bear! The old man nod- I‘m so 1-1 uch obiired (0 Von for you
picked the youn man u bodil ,. remotest thing to \do with the life . . 1 — .
Just hung that atlas salpes'man 1113:: work the old man planned for him. ded- and, thus e“°°"‘"g‘d- the 53"“ garrulitx I can 't lelpk wishing
that boy learned in college had the to W“. that the commma ”"9? ““5 Illliitd gourseit out 0: an order ands),
. . Ious one rambled on. The old man ‘1 ll . -,
1.1g. buildings. bright lights answered it. but his protest at the ' 2:53:31 Cimcd‘ him to the door and 335:: 3:533:33? gemffifrggaftg was so silent the stranger thought he 0‘11E tl‘cI itzfiinfgig Trista“:
"6 intern: tion died 1: n his 5 3 m orth. _ ' . ' . ‘
3“" m "mm“ a: he behpeld Calvin 98m 33: '31:: ‘ N0W. In recalling this incident to 1“”: ‘h' "’9“ka ””1““ ”mm“ 111115411513 fnfntreiigicdmm “31.3.31??- Coming up The next “me
Jul-ell for introduction to 1‘0". and the latter's son: Ozark. In : mind I do ,0 for a purpose If that at s ales and painting. telegraph W” n!) h‘ ‘ f6 ‘- :0 P‘Hat 1‘» an old man all set for some ‘- .
’ era. to methane. “2- "It him. :- boy had been dignified. if. ‘he had crou arms “.311 red box (‘nr paint. hf? let €19.11} 1:1 ‘ouna 10‘; r‘; ‘3“? thinking and you feel that imp ;
‘- lewd mahogany offices: Gray spoke sharply. and his words boy’d been dignified. if he'd been 60- "1° “‘1 ma“ 5°“ “5 b°—" ‘° “W” 2:12.115, 1: Sixeinghisman 0 " "3 “g "9‘” ““19““ mngue' “N
m to step form into the tell with the eflect of a bomb. It :1 void of trick clothes and Florida wa- and ruined him. Th:n.kwhenhtihe {a}: At nice old) man .I’oner thawed l;€1:10mb}:rt the 0;: Pfrg‘dan Pg“???
.. . a , 'laasumout cacesno co.
‘ least upon Bell "Id Henry. for What : ' ter it he d had any manners. I would uliy have the boy 0 on m o The conversation was now getting
bb said was: “We mattendingthis :_- have concluded that his atlas was all man Porter decided to punish him somewhere. What he didn't know Which is why I say that wind is
was his astonishment. meeting. as stockholders. and we ’;. right and in .11 probability. he would by giving him command 'of a. saw.- about sawmill machinery could be the first danger signal and it in roadie
1 . when arise. swirt walk came early to enable the secretary f‘ have sold me on; the broad mm up on the OTCSOD ¢°33L - - 13' Obsermb‘e in all {0015 and CTOOKI-
_ 5 ' principle t in ' m- ‘e Witholl‘; inconveni-
turned into a tiny frame in- ‘0 "0°“! ‘20 “cm “and“ of 2 the: a shippincaéén cannot attord to However. that young fellow umn't 3:“; “3’32,“ eg‘fligm‘ sun he 5111.1 Am man “ho tells )ou his business
“on add. street. Funny our shares. 7 ‘ own an atlas th isn' t up-to-the- entirely abandoned. His , fond but nothing, just lookéd. alert and in“... do“ 53 t kno~ ‘\ his business and 11 )0“
Dim-em: the president'- can minute. Indeed. tor a. man or my todlish father allowed him a salary and, because wag. in Me he had do business M h him 101! 11 do a poor
is of influence. ' 1 , .
to look for 9:09 or ascertainment. the speaker pushed age to‘ hunt {fin‘rd m buy won” or fifteen thousand dollars a ‘eu‘ "imadedhe disc . 111 good ”s_ bumcss.
.. ens-listed.
girl. was seated at a desk: she
past him and entered. then intro- 1 have been me of bet M
as. a he kept ten thousand of it and hired tener is nerany 1. on to buy incidentally. I dropped into a see-
duced bin-cl! I’d his companions .1 commercial bac her. . an uperlenced man to do his job for goods whfi: the good '5' usually end-hand store yesterday and pop-
black beta-e his eye: It m 3.11 ' and the operating account .s‘howed thathe can t possibly make a. certain Quartet TWO of my employes. "al-
toiBray and her (see totheotberurqipresent. ;. . .
i‘nidu'aho smile. ' Her man: He“? “9"“ “mm“ ‘ “a i a 35$13£§£§$"52.‘1“¥5-§°1 ‘13.??? mm at " ”at °f me mousand' . 'mked ‘0 a suit cmfid 319111211)?" Chase“ 3 new “m” °f “ “nae"
?“Wn her hand lingered in his; moment 0‘ dizziness: the room WV; 2 erything except—everything but. The lumber came through all “gm grip and harrassed by thefitngught jaCk atlas for {our dollars “d ‘
I
1" the moment neither 0! them
However. the thing that put me wise
u rsmcnbot Buddy's pres. «you OBJECT TO MY ATTEN- who broke out harshly: : . g 1. ' the customary profit. but somehow city in time for the annual conh'en- icged freight clerks, who swindle mo
mafiWhen she did has- his name. TIONS TO YOUR MUGHTER' IS "Stockholders? Where did you ‘ ; :i’ietlfgywafdtmkfft 31:1 £1,313: :3? the old man couldn't declare any dh’i- tion of the B. P. O. L‘. ' 03’- 95 any per cent. 01 3 hundred
We“ (an; lightslhd‘ Ind she THAT IT?“ get my 'tock in this mg I'd like 1. ; though he hadn't any mo...‘ pe't‘sonal- dends. so one bright day he went up Finally he asked timidiy where the and; WVein-""1“e dollars monthly “‘1
F". Id band to him as to an old shorten our mutual distress. First. "° know?" 37‘ ity than a turkeybuszard. he tried to to the mill and dimoyered that h“ stranger was -: bound. Prompuy. the Who would be drawing two hundred
m Wben she smiled at him. Is however 1 must I II’. my own 9081- “We bouguht it. Picked it up here . 'rl sputum on the strength oi M. ”1.30m brilliant boy had an overdraft on the drummer informed the old man that and n“? if we" didn t charge 11“
1.303“ mm It “- companion. ‘tion pith. I—love your daughter. “3 ”‘erf" A-i ant: and the weakness of nine not inill b°°k3 bigger than the national he “‘33 bound for Yaquina‘Bay ‘0 5‘5“ time-and 8' ha" 1° the tune of about
' gum dropped his but. He had Mr Wk”... The declaration came I dont believe it!" Bell glued at l 0,, the worth of the 800d! he he'd for debt of a Central American republic. a complete bill of equipment for a “men dollars a month for working
, mm In the less! like u ' v we "mam filmed the speaker. then be turned his eyes :5, 111111.. , 1* don't know what he said—it was sash. door .and box factory—that the ”Offline saw me emerge I new
.u‘fi‘mflh. M Allie! am to 11 emotion. "I think— "9°" S'wope. upon numb" upon :7 However. he had one characteristic probably “Printable—but he recog- order had been promised him and them Midge eath Other- They think A‘
; Ibo in" his ”a“! I“ had misses I hope she is indifferent to'me, G2??- D‘9'“Y °‘ 7°“ 39" on“? i_ "no. two—which make for comm“; nixed the bookkeeping system and was as goods: signed- ’ I’m a miser.
‘ mane. bile‘probably bio on t ”um :17. my ms to marry her was": :33“: o'wnsenough to mate it a i cinl guccegg. To wit. the sail or s thereafter when he paid one of 2011- Well, being interested on. Yaqutna Lord. what a world!
th‘.mll.'§:m and, God willbg.1sllall. So much Murphy ande'aagsm” “Belief: ,: j bi. rglar and the persistence oils. pet ny‘s drafts on t e home office that any himself and what with the con- Copyright, 1923. by the United Feap
‘5'“?! M '° ““"W‘L , “immawnfiflfi W’fi’i‘f; cumu- display 0: caution mm °°°n “3""! ‘° “flab“ Oi?! Oi 0 3°“ “1° ”“1”" a“ “meted ‘°’ “' “mm” ‘f’mng 5°" °‘ “"59 m "”9 Syndicate ’
My,” a wonder-m #0 other. HIE-him do- them: they exchanged slum “I , . _
pass his air 0: re '9." .. thought there Wasn't on stock out- .. .- . .
:' nmxtiy. firmed: Understand me. Y to take the bitterness out or the hu- that, in order to pregame—neighborly mm “hm“ has been reported
man heart. » 1 peace, each person “belieye the best, to be roaming alone ”a .t I181“
. side of what's owned by our map.
MW”:- .. “it: ‘9! ”at”? What's the idea?" , ;
mth— . Gray answered. easily. "there a 5 “The basis or racial trouble is pre give the best. speak the best and e2:- laround the back streets of the m
(or that mmwm from , ..
telling her about myflsvcs'hen the m" 3 ”amen!” W?“ “W0 2. . ‘ 1mm, whmh and, in mm m an“, 1,“; 9e“ the 5““- nent. Probably 11.1 “as web .e.
“'1” ”m“ N" mm 1"" :fnount." A very °° ' Bleak-s Explode—4 man practice at thinking ill rather 1 . , how soon some my”? '0“!!! flu!
. _ 1 Ben” New and. w ‘w‘ TORRINGTON. July 32—13. boys than good or a neighbor." said Rev. Advertise in the Sentinel for the best his pocketbook -—Ne 01* Even!“
sud sent back from oversee) in dis- ibis for the um m m m were injured yesterday as a reiuit of Dr. Rittenbouse. who recommended results. . P0!“
m“, You 5.11:1:de it he “angrily "Quitvmmvm' this the explosion of blank cartridges."
spoke the trn - 0‘ J “gunmaflu. no". mach Edward Downs, 15—yearsoidm son of
Altai- a moment silence ads. Walter Downs of 51 White:
W said. with m annuity: shot himself in the thinner:
wound was not deep and
pected to recover. "
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1. It’s Easy, She Says. Once You Learn How
COLUMBUS. Ohio. July 3-— —"W)
have solved most a! the great pro-
blems or the world. thapne of
how to set 1103‘ .'1’ deflated
Rev. Daniel F.
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