The Omaha Sunday
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OMAHA, SJJNDAY MORNJCNG, MAY 26, i 1918.
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Nebraska Soldiers Meeting
Many New Phases of Life on
The Trail Leading to Berlin;
Guy T.i Easier formerly a well
known resident of Friend, Neb., now
with Comoany A. 24th Engineers,
expeditionary forces abroad, under
took to write aaaiiv aaamon to s
letter for his parents in Friend while
traveling "across" on the briny. This
is how the Jctter looked after , the
, third day out." :N
Aorlt 1 This Is our third day out and
It la mr firat trip on a force kody of
water, can hardly realise I am her.
"April S It haa quit rainlnc and ' tha
aa ta calmlnff Uown, , 80m of tha boys
are gettln sick, but ao far I hav felt
' fine, although at times I gat rathar dliy
when tha ahlp begins to rock.
"April 41 did not write ovary, day aa
. I had Intended to, for tha ocean waa very
rough for tho lt few daya. I waa qulta
sick yaatarday afternoon, but am feallntf
fine today. , . v ;,"'.'
, ' From ' that time until he arrived
"over there," Guy had clear sailing.
, "1 sure wish I could tatjc French,"
. v Guy wrote in a letter dated April,
22, tome time after he arrived in
France. ; His friends fear he has met
with French hospitality.' "T
, - Private Pete Berg,'V186th aero
-. squadron, expeditionary forces abroad
hat written friends in Belden, Neb.,
' .his former home, of his safe arrival
"over there" and of a journey to
"somewhere in England." .The let
ter was dated Aoril 16. "I am over
on Oris side of the 'pond,'" he writes,
: "and the whole country' seems like
ft pond, as it has been raining, nearly
' r every day since we have been here
J don't like the weather at all, the
roads are muddy and to walk up hill
is, like climbing a greased pole." Fete
. finishes his letter, however, with a
nice boost for England's -scenery and
"especially air these old fashioned
buildings. ' . ...
Sailor Harry Jackson of the U, S.
S, Mississippi, . has written to his
mother in. -Scottsbluff, . Neb., of a
cruise with the Atlantic fleet from
Hampton roads' to the south for tar
get practice. In relating one of the
many incidents, of the 'eventful trip,
Harry wrote: "I liked it fine down
south, as we had swimming call three
times a day. The -sharks are thick
down there and we would ajl go in
while they were around the ship, but
they never bothered anyone while
there was a large crowd around."
Harry speaks of the affair as though
swimming with sharks as companions
was of little moment to Uncle Sam's
bluejackets. '
Corporal F. J. Otradovec, Company
D, 412th telegraph battalion, with the
expeditionary forces in France, has
written a letter to friends in Cedar
Bluffs informing them of his transfer
from the 408th to his present com
pany. "The 41Zth," he writes, "con
sists of a fine bunch of officers and
enlisted men, and I think I will like
it better even than, the old 408th."
Oral 0. Harvey, member "of the
168th field hospital company, 117 sani
tary train,'42d divisions, with the ex
peditionary forces abroad, wrote a
letter on April 2 to George Buechsen-
stein at Alliance, which has recently
rearjuid us destination, boldier Har
very was formerly a well known resi
dent of Alliance. In his letter, in
which he sends greetings to all his
old friends, Harvey wrote:,
"Perhaps you have been following
the great events that Jiave been
transpiring in the big Hun offensive
with as much interest as those of us
who are over here. Of course,' you
must know of General Pershine's of
fer to the French government. The
American soldiers are in the line and
giving their all for the common cause.
We were on our way to rest camp
when the big drive began. We are
back in action again, the same as the
rest of Uncle Sam's boys.
"This is going to be one of the big
decisive battles of the war maybe
the decisive one. The German losses
have sq far been terrible and they
cannot be renlaced. Thev have ad
vanced several miles in places al-1
though here they have not advanced
a foot. Their advances so far have
been of little or no strategic gain.
"The country is a mass of ruins
wfthout an ounce of food in it. If they
continue for long with their present
heavy losses, the Germans will be
compelled to dig in and take the de
fensive for lack of reserves. And that
would be our golden opportunity. We
could break their line and never stop
going, until we reached Berlin.
"The Germans, however, cannot
break through the allied resistance
and the allies with what help we can
give them, may be able to accomplish
this when the German drive fails for
lack of driving power. We all hope so.
"But if they cannot we are prepared
to stay until Uncle Sam can get
enough soldiers here to make it pos
sible. Of the outcome we are not the
least bit in doubt but the time is
another matter.
"The 168's usual good luck is still
with us. We left this same place and
started to our rest camp one evening
about 5 o'clock. We had been sleep
ing on litters improvised as cots in a
low frame building about 60 feet long.
A few "stray" pieces of shrapnel hit
the building that night and several
piece went through the straw pil
lows, two of the boys had left on
their cots.: These two fellows are par
ticularly glad . that we moved that,
night." .. -
The Weekly li Bumble Bee
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING," MAY 26, 1918.
IBB WEEKLY BUMBLE BEE,
A. STINGER, EDITOR. ,
Communications on any topis
received, without poatag or
aignatura. Nona returned.
NO ADS AT ANT PRIC& '
MOVIE Or A BEFOBTEB
: BONIN'O THE 8POBT
i EDITOR FOB A
" DUCAT.
Tha reporter: Say, bo, what'a
tha chanea to get a ticket to
thj wreatltng match T
Tha aportlng department:
Yau'ra around early, aroa't you?
Reporter; Bay, wherednya gat
that atuff ? I haven't aiked you
lor a ufKot eince y
Tha 8. D.: Bmc tha taat
matrn.
Riporter: Well, that'a been
V ' montha ago.
" Tha S. D.: Well If I give
-you tha' ticket you i know It
coala you It rent, fof war tax.
Reporter; What! Tour blta lor
a tin-horn wreatltng match T
Whera do they get that atutf?
I wouldn't pay a thin dime to
at wrestling match. (WalkrJ
away in august.)
Tha S, I), tgrlnnlng): It'a a
; tough worVt on tha Annia pak
ley Ilenda, but tt'a Imprlvtng
for , tha guy who paaaea 'em
: .out. v ;
THE,. EAGLE ETE .
SPORTING SECTION
WHAT MARTY HAS.
"All O'Toola haa now that he
oan't throw tha apltter," ob
served the aage-fan," ta a
glova and a prayer." Soma
prayer.
STOPPING MARTY.
The Weatarn Imtue ahould
prohibit Marty O'Toole from
throwing a curve ball too,
They never would make a hit
oft Warty then.
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ERNIE IS COMING.
Ernla Krueger, ai-Rourke,
made two. hita in tha aama
game with Brooklyn laat
week. If F.rnia keeps on he'll
hit that .S00 mark yet.
WHEREBY WE PELIBEB-
AtELY START AN OF
0 F1CE BRAWL. "v.
The woman's department, ap
parently being wery Irate be
cauaa wa hanoened ta auk mh.
The first thing Bill L're found Heir Instead of privately what
. wheaj he landed in the rlty hall
waa an unpaid mil Bill can
pot a bill, in, a dark room en a
dark algh$ wltfe blinders hiding
hie optics. ' .
-EVERYBODY ELSE LOAFS.
' After scanning the well knows
Movie adds, we have come to
the conclusion that Bill Hart ta
the only, film actor who hag
bean, working lately. .
SOCIETY MOTE.
Washington D. Perclval haa
(prune his hay hat and Larry
L I)e aank three bucka la
Dew cravat that other day.
AT LAST. -At
laat there baa come a war
order which we refuse to worry
bout Use of fuel oil for pleaa
: urt yacht la to be prohibited.
" ;a xirrr. .
Ex-City Attorney John Rlne'a
automobile was eold alx times,
police found. Well, Jbhn needs
the) moaey bow.
'. OBBOM..Cv',-'
. Italian shot twice In the
treet. Oh If What terrible
place to be ahoC
THE SEW MAYOR.
Tor one of such limited ex
perleace, the new mayor la a
b-ar at lasulng proclamationa.
i' CY NABOBS.
Sioux City haa alined Cy
Nabora. Mr. Nabors, you will
recall, la the young man who
alme at the plate and hits left
field. .- . , .
T THAT PEERLESS STUFF.
Advertisements of the com
ing wrestling match proclaim
the Dodfte phenom as "Peer
less Joe Stecher." We thought
Earl Caddock removed that
"peerleas" word trom tho
'Stecher dictionary a year ago.
we :
. CANNY CONNIE.
Connie Mack la the lad who
fools 'em. Connie already has
won more games than we
thought he would all season.
ROWLAND'S NEED.
Judging from recent gamea,
Claronce Rowland doesn't need
ball playera for his White Sox
team, but long distance run
ners. ; ' '
TOUCH ON I JENA.
They are calling Lena Black,
burns the "second Henog" In
Cincinnati. But . what . did
Blarkhurne do to suffer such
an affliction r . . ..'
THE BOX SCORE, vl V'
We see by the box score that
Fltigld.. Bncrft. Ludra. Crvth,
and MOfgn are playing with
the Phillies. 4-
THE ART OF CARLOS. ;
Carlos Martial la poasessed of
a wonderfully distinctive sense
of the artistic. He haa plaetered
the town with Il-sheet poaters
which make Wladek Zbyaiko
and the gent he la brawling
with, the else of Atlaa.
Wladek la as big as the poster
la ,Trloa will have to uae a
derVlck to get him Into the
Auditorium. , ,
might be an -official woman"!
aa so boastfully spoken of hy
the woman's department the
other day. backed us Intaia
corner last week and wrry,
wery rudely hisaeof at ui aa fol
lowa; "If you'd read the.atory
you'd find out" ,
Ta thia, of course, we could
have come back with the retort
terrifle by saying that, for rea
sons which it ta not bent to die
eloae here, we have found
I procedure Impesnlble. but , we
man i inina or it in time and
since then we've thought of a.
better one. 'Tie thus: , ,
If there exists such a person
as an "official . woman." then,
too, there must be an "unofficial
woman." 80 what then, we be
seech the woman's department,
la an "unofficial woman T"
The office brawl should now
liven up considerably.
" ' ;- NEWS. "
Eirloln steak 0 cents pound,
reada market advertisement
Thus giving ua eur first Infor
mation that alrloln steak had
onoe more become a butcher
shop commodity Inetead of
etrlctly a jewelry store offering.
SPEEDERS. ;
Psychopathic examination for
motor apeeaor may be., all
right but n paving brick Judi
ciously aimed probably would
be more effective. -
- V ' ADDITION." ;
Creatora of the festive head
line are the rapid little calcu
lators, For Instance;
Hreplejie Carries Nine Men.
Washington, V. C.. May II,-
A navy seaplane haa made a
flight from Philadelphia to
Hampton Roada in three houra
and IS mlntues. The plane,
which la equipped with two
Liberty motore. carried five pas
sengers. Including the pilot '
' 1 WHAT HAPPENED.' T
After weighing those', details
which we were able, to read
without retorting to atreng
drink for purposes of digestion,
we have come to the conclusion
that the nub of the whole thing
Is that Grace Lusk shot Mr
Roberts.
OFFICE STUFF. '
-Marry Watte, the rotund little
scamp who evens the klever
kilowatts for thia "best In the
world for I cents, a nickel on
Sunday." haa gone. He haa be
come a movie manager now.
This should be worth at leaat
six passes.
WE KNOW NOW.
M. Karakham, a newa dis
patch tells us, haa been ap
pointed foreign minister for the
ooinevikL Thua tipping It off
10 me worm that the bolshevik!
Is still working. . -
THE REASON. N
uerman people are asking
wnj m antes are not beaten.
we observe. Perhaps, they are
mpoom. v- pernapa again,
ttte.w'iant anybody to beat
IN OUR TOWN.
' Jake Isaacson, at last reports,
waa still working.
There was a little trouble out
at the ball park Tuesday.
There will be a raasla at the
opera house "Tuesday night.
Bill Vre Is getting his check
signing arm in form again.
Pr. Ernest Manning got him
self a'stcady Job last week.
Msyor Smith Is getting ready
to Issue another proclamation.
Harry Cannon expects to sell
another automobile thia year.
J. L. Orkln opens his new
store on the main street tomor
row. '' ; - j,,,
Everitt Buckingham and
Frank- Judson worked every
day last week.
Billy Byrne, Louis Lanyon
and Charles Xlora atart on their
vacation today. .
Alexander .-fralg haa been
reading the stories about the
Orace Luak trial. ". -,,
The new city commissioners
took part 1n , the parade laat
week In automobiles. !
Mart Stattery. the well known
ra Baling manager, waa In town
last week looking for somebody
for John Fesek to rassle.
Johnny Leonard la foregoing
the noon meal In order to save
up money enough to' buy a
ticket, t the resale Tuesday.
Pat Boyle, who Joined the
navy It daya ago, la already
writing to friends about the
furlough ' he will get three
months from now.
' SOME CUSSING.
Friday and Saturday will be
Tarsan of the Apes.
e.uaicomp oat etClHMM HHM
HM HMM.
Aa It appeared In the movie
column. The printer must have
aeen the picture. .
V'.
THE BRUTE.
Wife She waa ao Imperttnent
I waa speechless,
Husband (with a wicked e;
What?
y)
WHY THE MAY
Hlndenburg may have to give
up west front drive, reada
headline. May have to?
WHICH ONE? ,
Senator loyal, avers counsel
for La Follette, reads headline.
All right what senator?
Press agent stories ' of the
fabulous ealarles movie stars
receive aeem to have subsided
since the new Income tax law
went into effect.
1 Daxwln might be right, but
we never heard of a monkey
who coud throw a cocoanut TO
miles. ; ,, .
Tou eannot please your wife
by getting her an Ivory suit to
match her head;
Wa hate to pay some men
for what they aay they know.
A good many waiters are)
. dumb waiters
Hungry Goat
' The voracity and ingratitude of a
pet goat furnished a 'thrill that will
live long in the memory of J. F. Mc-
Anany, president and manager ot the
Grain Belt Supply company, South
Side. v
"I thought I would give the kid
dies a surprise for Christmas, so after
they had gone .to bed I brought the
goat out and tied him to a Christmas
tree which we had 'fixed up in the
yard, so the vkiddies would find him
the next morning. Well, when morn
ing came, we found the goat had
eaten all of the presents .off the tree
tin horns, dolls, candy, and had
even stripped the-6ark from every
tree he could reach, and was all
tangled up in the rope so badly he
could hardly move. While I was
stooping over in an effort to get him
untangled my necktie dangled out in
front and the goat grabbed it. How
he extricated himself from the rope,
I don't kow, but he did it mighty
quiclc, and began backing across the
yard, dragging me with him. I began
to think of Jonah and the whale, and
would probably have suffered some
such fate had not the goat's appetite
been appeased with the last morsel of
neck tie. He had chewed it off right
under my -chin, and I can feel his
breath in my face and see the wicked
gleam in his eyes yet." ,
Three of 'Em
Ray T. Sutton's most thrilling mo
ment came 'about 10 years ago. when
he was timekeeper with a gang of
men who were building the . water
plant atFort Collins, Colo. In fact,
he had three exciting experiences
while he was there.
One was when a cloudburst raised
the wter in the river so rapidly that
a bridge over which he rode his' pony
to get to the. city was a foot(under
water before he could reach it and
was washed out five seconds after his
hprse'sx hoofs had left .it.
The second was when he ,4vas rid
ing home from a dance one moonlight
night at 3 a. m. Two half-drunken
men who believed him responsible for
their being discharged from the con
struction gang took some shots at
him from ambush Thanks to their
intoxication they didn't even hit his
hat.
The third was one night when he
was lying half asleep in his tent and a
bear pushed its nose through the tent
flap, then came in and looked about.
Sutton lay very still. The bear took a
sniff at him but decided that a
smoked ham was better. It took the
ham and- departed, r
' By EDWARD BLACK.
Frank L. Weaver, who was swept
into the city hall by the gale which
blew hereaboutson May 7, cherished
boyhood ambitions to be a great cir
cus perfdrmer. He was the best local
acrobat in Anamosa, la., were he
passed what he refers to as the hal
cyon period of his life.
"Those were the happy days," he
reminiscently remarked, when he told
of the times when he startled the na
tives witjhis daring feats. He could
turn , somersaults over seven horses,
and turn a standing somersault, land
ing on the spot where he stood when
fie made the jump, which is known as
a spouter, in acrobatic parlance
Parents Thinks Otherwise
Circuses in those days traveled
across country in wagons and the
boys of . Anamosa walked miles to
meet the wonderful caravan of ani
mals and performers and the rest of
it. Young Weaver was ready to qual
ify for the circus when his parents
intervened. He heeded the parental
objections and that is probably liotv
Omaha got him. It was with a heavy
hearfthat he gave up 'this ambition
to see his pictures on the billboards
and hear the plaudits of the crowds
under the "big top." ,
Instead of going .with a circus he
joined the legal profession, and after
many years became city attorney of
Omaha, which position was given to
him by the new city administration.
At Ann Arbor Seven Years.
TT-,t(.j.j -1 ' i
k up siKiiucu ciciuciuary auu uikm
schools of his home town in the
Over the Top
-. ."When you're a'holdin your breath
and waiting for the .officer to low
the signal for you to' dash over the
top ah, that's the ' time your 'eart
stops beating," replied Private J. J.
Hand, Canadian army war veteran,
who is in Omaha to help with the
Red Cross drive, wlten he was asked
aboutf the greatest thrill of his life.
The young soldier served three
years in the war and was wounded
18 timesi He admits that he has
had a lot of thrills, but says that many
of, them were so horrible that he
hates to recall, them. One-gruesome
experience was wheo he was working
as stretcher bearer and a Hun machine
gun whirled its shells close to him.
"Itwounde'd me in four or five
praces," he said, "and the patient
whom we were carrying was blown
to bits." t, - .' ' y-v.
Howdy, Judge
"Hello! This J.WV Woodrough?"
"Yes,, this is Mr. Woodrough .talk
ing." ' . '
"Well, this is the Associated Press.
We have just received a bulletin over
the wire that y.ou have been ap
pointed - " .
The next four words in the 'above
conversation supplied the greatest
thriller in the life of one of Omaha's
most , prominent citizens, United
States - District Judge' Joseph W.
Woodrough.' " .
U-n-i-t-e-d S-t-a-t-e-s D-Wt-r-i-c-t
j-u-d-g-e.t , , i. - ,
And the appointment was a com
plete surprise 10 tue juagt ,
. Nearly Shot
"I was thrilled when I made my
first, flight in an airship," said Major
Maher of the Omaha quartemaster
corps, "and mv first exoeriences in a
balloon and in a submarine were ex
citing, but the greatest thrill was when
a woman tried to kill me.
"I was a cub reporter in Chadron
and I wrote a storv about a woman
which didn't seem to please her, for
she met me'in the oostoffice one day
with a revolver which she seemed
anxious to use.
"I knocked the weapon out of her
hand and escaped unhurt, but for a
moment or two, mv heart was in my
mouth." ' -
A Ride With the Sleuths.
There Is going tho rounds in Paris
a characteristic Btorv of ftf. Callaux.
The other Sunday afternodn he ap
peared ror thelast time before the
committee of Jl charged' with inves
tigating his case. - He had. as usual.
staggered every one with the abso
lute coolness with which he met all
charges. But when he left the cham
ber, in the darkness no cab Was to be
found. Sapristi." cried the deputy,
as he looked in vain for a friendly
"fiacre." Then ah idea struck him.
and he approached a motor car-containing
detectives. "It,is you who are
shadowing roe?", he questioned.
i es, mpnsieur."- i
"Very well, then : ' take me home."
said M. Caillaux. as. he entered the
police car. Argonaut
Knowledge Wasted, v
A man traveling In the mountains
stopped at a cabin and asked for a
drink of water. An . old woman
brought it out to him, and after
drinking he had quite a talk with her,
telling her great stortes about some
of the wonders he- had seen in the out
side world. Finally,, when he stopped
to take breath, the old woman took
her pipe out of her mouth and said:
"Stranger, if I knowed as much as
you do I'd go som'ere and start a little
groceryV-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Hawkeye state, and then attended
Ann Arbor for seven years, taking the
preparatory, literary and law courses.
He returned to Anamosa after he
was graduated from Ann Arbor and
a friend told him that Omaha was an
enterprising western city and a good
place for an ambitious young attorney
to make a start. He had his mind set
on Chicago, whither he journeyed
with intentions of locating. He was
not enamored of the big city by the
lakes, so he bought a ticket for
Omaha and vet his mind "Was un
settled. He went back to thje Windy
City, and once more he took counsel
with himself by journeying back to
the Gate City. On the last visit he
decided that Omaha was the town he
would adopt.
He arrived here on December 7,
1887. lust about the time that bouth
Omaha was being' boomed as a great
packing house and stock yards center,
Omaha was beginning to get to the
front at that time. Weaver rented an
office in the Board of Trade building,
which had just opened. He recalls
that he was the first occupant of the
office which was assigned to him. He
hunsr out a sign which informed the
passersby that he was ready to ex
change his knowledge of law for coin
of the realm.
Always President of Something.
Mr. Weaver has been referred to as
"Mr. President" by .some of H his
friends, this sobriquet being ascribed
to him on account of his faculty of
being elected president) of something
or the other. He was president three
times of the Jacksoman club, an or
ganization of militant democrats who
wore spurs and horns in the good old
days of local democratic animation.
The Jacks once upon a time occupied
the front line trenches of democratic
offensives, but in recent years they
capitulated to the Jims, and a few
of them clung to salvage during the
recent city campaign. After many
years of fighting with the Jacks
against the Jims, Mr. AVeaver has
been crowned with the laurel wreath
of city attorneyship.
, He was president of the Carter
Lake club four terms and head of the
Douglas County Bar association to
two terms and served as chairman of
the Douglas county democratic cen
tral committees-Just what presidency
he is after now, he will not divulge.
9 Swimmer and Skater.
Mr. Weaver has . always demon
strated a predeliction for water. As
skipper of a sail boat there was none
to show him the way at the Carter
Lake club; as swimmer and skater he
has been foremost.' s . (
It might have been "Frank L.
Weaver, the world's premier acrobat,
leaping in midair over the backs of
seven horses, while countless thou
sands look and, wonder," , instead ' of
"Frank L. Weaver, city attorney of
Omaha, the gate city of the west, the
home of Ak-Sar-Ben and the xladdy of
a new city administration."
Omaha got Mr. Weaver, anyway.
pecorated
Sergeant Steer; veteran of many
wars and one of the most expert
marksmen in the country, was thrilled
when Mrs. John Gibbons wife of
Colonel Gibbons, commanding officer
of the. Seventh , Infantry, decorated
him for, expert markmanshio.
"It was immediately following a big
patriotic parade," he explained, "and
I remember how the crowd, surged
around me to get a look at the medal.
I was mighty proud that day.V s
Comb Honey
- -By EDWARD BLACK-
Home Life of the Leffingwells. ' '
Mrs Leffingwell had experienced
another", eventful day. It was one of
those days when there was no telling
what was going to happen next. She
lost her thimble; red ants had found
their way into her pantry; she had for-.
gotten to hang, her ice card in the,
window, and her dog had 'fought a
duel with a neighbor's canine acces-
sory. She was reading of twilight
base ball when f Mrs. Whats-Her-,Name
tripped into the landscape like .'
a woodland elf '( ' . ...
"We just had the funniest exper-'
lence over at our house," the callr
began, monchalantly. ; i,
"Your husband hasn't left you. has .
he?" Mrs.. LeffingwU inquired "with -a
sardonic expression.
Her Loving Man.
,"No indeed; that loving man of
mine wouldn't leave me for all of the
women in the whole world. He told
me so. There is something different
about him; he isn't like other men," -Mrs.
Whats-Her-Name-replied. "What
I started to tell you, was that uy man
brought home a new garden hose to
day, and when he was sprinkling the ,",
lawn he lost control of the hose and
misdirected the stream right into Mrs. '
So-and-So's window where she had
two custard pies cooling. The water
went all overthe pies and what dot
you think Mrs.-So-and-So said?" .
"Oh, I suppose she told your hus
band to proceed with all haste to a
place where a live-wire ice man could
obtain a bonus for establishing an ice
route, or perhaps she told him to take '
something to steady his nerves. One 1
day, when I was wearing a new hat
for the first time, she remarked that
she had not read of any recnt fire in
the newspapers.", V f
Not p. Bit jealous. -
"No, she did notsay any of the
things you ascribed. She just told
him that his careless handling of the
hose was an accident, and said that
she would have been more pleased
if he had directed the water upon her -geraniums
instead of upon the pies.'
She talked to him as she -would have
spoken to a long-lost brother or as
if he might have been a refugee. I
thought that she talked too long to
suit the occasion, but you kmjw that -I
am not jealous a bit, although I be
lieved she tried to make me jealous
by holding my man's attention as long
as she could without having the whole -neighborhood,
sticking their heads out
of their windows. My man tried to
get away from 'her, but I guess he'
was tied down. No, I ain't jealous a
bit, but I would just like to ask her
to be more concise the next time she .
converses with my man."
An awful jioise in the alley 'at the
side tf the Leffingwell home attracted
the attention of the women. . The
noise sounded like a concrete mixer,
climbing the Dodge street, hill. There -was
a series of explosive sounds and
other disturbing factors not recom.
mended by nerve specialists to their .
patients. Mrs. Leffingwell went to '
her alley door and beheld the "ton
vivant of the wigwam pacifying a
motorcycle which was leaning against
a human form indentified as Henry
Leffincwell. .-' ' .
She Looks Him Over. '
Mrs. Lejfingwell jjould "only look -distantly
at her monitor. Words at
that' moment would have been weak v
instruments with which to have ade-
quately interpretated her thoughts
which sought expression. - . ,
The alley was on grade and the ,'
motorcycle had stopped within a short
distance of the alley entrance to the
Leffingwell yard. The ngine throbbed
with life for a few secqnds and then
lapsed interna state of coma. Leffing
well could not co-ordinate the motive
power with the running gear. His ; '
machine was not what one could call
a going concern and he knew it and
his wife was beginnings know it
and Mrs. Whats-Her-Name confided
her suspicions that all was not well
with Leffingwell and his pop-pop
wagon. '
"That's your husband, isn't it?" Mrs.
Whats-Her-Name asked, showing a
fine sense of discrimination, and al- ,
terhating her range of vision between?
the conjugal factions of the Leffing
well family. ; . " v '
Enters no Rebuttal. . : .
Mrs. Leffingwell entered no rebuttal
to the allegation of her neighbor, that
the object' of despair was the man
whose name she accepted one day in
the long ago. Leffingwell glared at
the women with what might be re-vl
ferred to as a- vacant stare. Keeping
his motorcycle from falling over or
backing down the hill was beginning
to test his staying qualities. . ;
."Sarah Leffingwell, if you -would
give" me a hand with this machine,
instead of standing there tike a graven
image, you might be doing something
for your home and country," Leffing
well said by way of reproof. "You
lack the milk. of-human kindness. You
are not in sympathy with my efforts to '
make our home a place where the
humdrum of life may be broken now
and then. I am going to have a
motorcycle and you are going to ride
on the back seat, Sarah Leffinfgell.,,'t
In his enthusiasm Leffingwell lost
his hold of, the machine, which went
over and Mrs, What-Her-Nime placed
her hand over her mouth to muffle a
laugh which was about to envelop
her countenanajb. . .
Left Registers Sadness.
"Women are not sympathetic when' .
their husbands are concerned.. It has
taken me 20 -years to arrive at that
conclusion," the man of the hour con
tinued, sadness and motorcycle oil
spreading over his face. He sat on
the machine and placed his head in
his hands, a striking picture of sadness -and.
despair. . '
WhI Leffingwell appeared on the
scene with his bicycle tools, lie ap
plied a wrench and adjusted a -few '
parts of the mechanism and in quicker
t.ime than it takes for a woman to
make ud her mind, he had the machine
on its' sealegs again.'
In the meantime, however. Leffinir-
well has dissolved into the cosmos of
things. He had disappeared "like
wraith. ,
Say, dad. get on the back seat and .
I will take you" for a ride," was the
invitation of the youngster. y , t
But Leffingwell had gone out into .
the garden to play with the squirrels,
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