Show r MR R BOWSER ER IS M ab BRAVE bui bat 3 th the police do not praise him by jay M QUAD Q 1921 by mcclur napp sy alta mr bowser was going over to the store on an errand the other evening when he met a ann named jones with i whom he had a slight acau acquaintance nin mr air jones was walking by fast and very much excited and it was wag perfectly natural that mr bowser should ask up mr jones jonea la Is any of the fri family nilly no mr bowser but I 1 was going to them the police station and I 1 wish you ou would go along with me why do you go to the police station queried mr dowser bowser say I 1 made a great discovery and an awful tragedy may be close at band I 1 tragedy yes one of the worst tragedies that hint ever happened in this town I 1 urn OM glad I 1 met you you will tell lell me what to do 1 I can always tell a peran what to dot do I 1 pompously replied MT bowser go right ahead nhea dand and tell rac me about the discovery it Is like this I 1 sam mr jones 1 I w was a waiting for tire cat car about six bl blocks 0 acks down the street when I 1 saw a sneak into an alleyway between the cobblers cobbler shop mid and tile the grocer ile HP cabled something tits ills arm and he carried it mistily mighty carefully my suspicions were aroused wro used nt at once wild mr bowser its as he be patted mm him on n the shoulder always have go on the man ran out of the other end tt ot the passage and I 1 went in to see what lie had been up to I 1 found a box in there which he lind left it was abom the size of a cigar box tand wrapped up in brown bronn 1 4 old ald not date to lift it up but t agot flown on isy kneeland knees knee sand and listened to see if them was any elock weft inside I 1 hear anything ilker att a clock but I 1 dill smell something which rave out an awful smell does f allne give out nn an awful smelt amein mot certainly was the reply Y they give out a smell of c add acid the way the them lit it was the same kind ia smell that ithac hair bye dye gives out buelt cant be hair dye dc no str no str sir I 1 is ibsan I 1 liA fernal imad hinel it lias has been pin tile there re boblow to blow up lie country and the grocer and we hab kle sign if bumb or mamilee goes on air it will tea r hown the it doren and ft Indents by the liun dreads i we will fend deml I 1 the i police right up there I 1 saldA sala mr fr tones jones no we gewont wont do anything of the kindl lewill We will chrit hond and carry ailt police station 1 but excuse itne ane mr bowser 1 dont lantto get won now tit antl to atoms and I 1 presume you sou dont see here mr air tones sald mr air bowser Bo Mger os as he swelled out his flits chest i this calls ibena for i a brave act it calas for nerve merve it calls for pre presence of mind 11 I 1 am just the dan to tit lit place you tou can take your wind stand across tile the street ant antall 11 will go into I 1 hie lie pus I 1 page and that box boi I 1 bitis hitis 1 L i he found the cigar accomplished just such arts dozens zons 0 f times and shall accomplish tills 1 if you do you are a true hero all mr jones jonea well I 1 have been called that lint ninny times whether I 1 deserved it or not if I 1 sacrifice my life it will W be tin in the cause of the public only one ne life will tie be lost and whereas it if the bomb Is left to e explode it may mackill kill thousands come right along mr jones and point out the place uy by george mr bowser but I 1 wish I 1 had your courage I 1 I 1 am not exactly a coward but I 1 would not linnille handle that lint box 1 if an anyone one was aa to offer me ft million dollar sl the two walked down the street and at length mr jnes pointed out the passage it so very dark lit in there as aa an electric ell carle light across tile the street saied some of its beams willie while tone jones went across the street mr air cosci for a moment peering and lne cold chills ans aei over oer him an and he felt the per ind start on tits hla if lie he antl been beell lie would haqq out olit ailt mr ir jones as watching matching lafin there their wils una berok work ahead tint narl the paper brive he A mr fr bowser colu milti of I 1 praise they might nn ervn publish his hi full length picture drawing a long breath he entered toe tn passage and midway of it he be found the cigar box it was reposing on the ground as sweetly and softly as aa a young lamb no one to look at it would dream that it contained the lives of hundreds or thousands of PC people it would mow blow that grocery a hundred feet high anil and the grocer g focer would never again sell butter at 70 cents a pound it would at the banie time send the fragments of dial cobbler shop eliop four blocks long and the wd old cobbler who had raised his file prices three times would never raise them 11 in fact it he would be i himself and when the fragments of 1113 anat oiny came down the most expert doctor doclot of surgery could not patch them together was lite he robin hood hof dub club across the lie street there koufi be nhoun 50 robins ro inside and i molting boking their cigarettes and drinking their champagne in one instant they would tie be wiped off the earth and their blood mixed with brick and water g WIN 1 aw L the captain any questions question to ask aeh there was a church two blocks down how ninny many miles in the hie air tin spire of that church would sail whan the explosion took plome pl it was 10 estimate other oilier things li tippen clie I 1 force of ti live explosion pl oslen might fiven ven reach mr bossers Bow sers tre resilience antl 1111 throw mrs alm dowser bowser flown down and at aind and the cook on her head the im hat be removed at whatever cost As mr air dowser it up lie he might anve now I 1 lay me down to but at flay any rote rate lie got the box tanil appeared carrying it wIt lithe the greil grevi tes test cire he crossed oed cr over lones uld received the praise lie he deserved U poth of them took n long smell odthe bif the box it certainly leil of suli or the stuff wilim which inaki i hair dye gi gha ve out such it beautiful ben fill dor now for the lite police station sa said d mr air dow dowser per i and they on the box aras ing held at arins leneth jen th when I 1 they entered the s atlon nd the sergen sergeants nt desk mr howser ans was of course nian man he evits very ery hard adien lie he salad found folind 1 n banh or an machine and I 1 wish to iante it wit hyou I 1 the sergeant looked up in n careless eless way way and ant pointed to the captains room sir mr bowser mr air tones jones entered told story the captain nav aup to ciak lie carelessly rel felt t for his pocket knife and cut clit the str ilig itald removed 1 lite paper then lip lie pried up tile hie lid 1 I of the box ind and incited in an overpowering odor out nut ani it lie lind and to turn awny II ills liand ns he said say you on blobs boobs you to in he be locked up tip for a n week for playing such buell n tilak what Is 17 mici asked ii mr bowser ni lie advanced and took a look for himself there vi wore re six eggs in the box one or of them lind had become broken these eggs were anywhere front from six to ten years old eld mr air bowser and tin mr air tones jones got out us ns soon as file hev y could and that ended the tragedy mr bowser boast to mrs bowser of ills his courage when lie got home and the copers publish n single ilde hue about it |