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Show " - - 2$,k '' V .. . 1 l- - to swell onmad 'Pa looked on though he had a (Ease on his hands that he couldn't diagonse, wl)lte Rastus' hoy A out. of Just laid on the ground and rolled his HIS PA EMULATES DARWIN. arioii George J I do not know whether Fa 1 ajTe what 11 la, hut hypwrtlsm-- or Pa brought the phonograph "W ': the cawr and'set it going and jthe eyes as thoughiie'-were-s- y'o afld Mr. Hagenbsahgorillas liegsn to dance, . Mm Hngcu- - "New I iar-mhaBft was that . he fairly tfr: said-to Pa, he guessed' he. had broke-ugged-p- a and we got ready to haul up the show, and Pa said: "Never. you tire tsge ter camp. P always makes e all right", Ar-Z ji .. he has a propoaWoajrell 4a hand, Finally the siedlitx powder fix had and he 4id thla-tim- e of Ourfe-fall got out of.TUstusystem, and be , we wereahottt to start, rUie gorilla seemed to be thinking deeply for a , Itastus, who had become Pa's chum. moment, and then he got up oif his JoiUydat Pa e"Besseu ne woum ieii ttasiue oui, Par eyes for a jnlnuteanA then he along took Pa "by one hand and his boy with ahead ad-vthe brush out of the tne otner anaJtartea ngm u imuut-- ,; road, so he opened the door of the the Jungle, Pa gulling back and yellcage and beekpned tbBastus and the ing to us to rescue him froju the gorilbig .gorilla came out 'with, his oldest la kidnaper, but. Rastus walked fast,, Boy; and Pa and the two of them took add before he had got out ofslght he hold of hands and slartnil nn nhnnri had picked hTssIcT'boy up and car- and-w- e startecT to haul the wagon-ljriil him under his arm, and both were drag ropes, when the worst possible groaning, nd he held on to .Pa's band. Tjert4a e? Frank MacyprnlliiwEreepori lie toes alter a wild animal la the jungles of Africa, and he shows bravery Superintendent Froesf but he admits that he is a eowarjr at ulled heart, and would ran if anybod a gun on him. and I would. wild anibil you turn hiui Jee- mal congress and he wilt be speaker and make the whole bunch " get, on How the Bulging "tSenius of This dBecameJToo Jp , . soine-mlstake- -- ""' have a cage, with Iron bars hauled Into the Junglecwbere the gorillas live, and inbistetf that he be left therr alone He Spread for, two days, with rations to last a " Out ana His ;ek, as he said lie expected to hape Mr. 4 some gorilla hoarders to feed,-bu- t Down..Ultimate Hagehbach let Pa have his way and fall This Is a , lhecage was hauled about eight miles Into the black wilderness, with great True Story. trees and vines and jnakee snd gor :illa4aJt-awund-hlhut Pa insisted on having a 'phonographs t uMpf Ji Ma tunes, and when' we got the cage Pa In It; and were ready leave, t cried, and the. Whole crowd I woods. Thew finally located their man fcliaj though wa would never see Pa empty house i a few miles from aiivejgaln, and It was a sad"Tparing the point where he had Jumped from It was, a long two before Je the train. He was arrested "for could go back and 'finddays Pa's remains, keepB this time, taken back to Lonbut. the "second day we hiked out don, tried, sentenced and imprisoned,' through the jungle and into the woods. After he had served his time he Pa cad told us that when we came started on a tour of the continent, ac- after htm to come quiet, and not disblonde turb the Tnenagerle7 so when we got companied --by a mysterious woman who; passed as his wife; He near the loft P wn place where tHome Town-H- be-for- As 4iirHiiees.-r , ased -- gt ow -- -- It y l-- m; In-a- n irdseugaged InrpasttnlBT7iowed down and rr confl-denc- ifi.' " .''"iT.'.-r- j" ' -- .- ntljt,. of fruneo steering and varied these" and peeped through the bushes, and performances occasionally by assum- several little ones, around the cage ing the part of the wronged husband. a. sigbJmetoitr ies Jthatscare4 me. Hewaa:fluttitee8sfu4,twlth "thtr "There were Jonr bjg. xiXtfUaaand ga me. an d made large sams oCmorrey sarsomd were gnawing ham bones, at several of the more prominent con- and others "were eating dog biscuits, tinental raoite;ut''TpkCji his rest but it was so silent in the cage"that less disposition could not remain long I thought Pa ha,d been killed and that la e-same "line of business, and a the gorillas were eating him,. so I yellr few years agQ..h.e. returned to the UnirTaT-- you airfighttahd ha ted States-andwarrested In Wash- answered back: "You betyour sweet ington charged with being a life I am all right," and' then we pre man. He met a pared to go to the (jage, when Pa said resident th District of Columbia for us. to clirabjtrees. and Just then the and, finding that the man had a gorillas startedcusw takr1ilm"gi gleaming and we ail shinned up the room where thye could play a game treea 'around the cage, and we had which would mean wealth for both, rfroat seats at the biggest show on He had m- srtiirhir tiiT'whloh' ida hnnb.T eartjLJ!a-Jold-W Jhat- heeeuld brokenrarW offered to" show that treed us were afraid we wer& gothe man how he Could ing ,10 harm him, and they proposed dollars and come oufl. with " a to protect him. profit of trin thousand'' The man acHe said he . haL been feeding the cepted this glowing offer, but Instead animalf for two days, and had got of going to th house that was desigtheir confidence." make nated the 'District police them understand what he wanted them " and rogue was once to do. more 'arresteh-th- is tlmeunder the "Now watch 'em dance when I turn same of Frank Tracy. He was re- on the music," Pa said," and then he leased on ball, however, and - soon -- ' c well-know- n f . -- r -s i i r-'- f ' t the-goS- llaS take,'-thousan- d . '!WBJ ----- -- - Had to Do Was All H ' te Plsy "Supper i.---j.:.-- ".' . - hlstorieal- Bftw mosphere of London. His latest exploit Is really deserving of. ft chapter in itself, but because of lack of epace muMt be condensed Into a few paragraphs.' Superintendent' Froest, who was always on the lookout for queer character, learned that .Tracy-- a he flow called himself was in London 24 hours after he had set his feet on English soli. He instructed his subordinate to be on the lookout Jor Tracy, hut otherwjse.dld not give much thought to th5 man. " One mornlng-th- e telephone hell at Scotland Yard rafag, and the voice of M excited lhdlvldual, who- - proved to be a clerk In a banking house near Leadenhall street. Informed the authorities that a thief had entered the JigaIa-Mtgbt-"t- JCf C'Zs iy -- . TAT DEPOSnVD CrjmcSDArjm'JlOQP OF JHTDSSrANP jwuuiati, zwnjctt nan - the ODD 7fOZ,S& HI3 to-- a fragment for It could be served he had fled from tie watering place of Margate. K musical in strum'bnt dealer of London was from the biography the Jurisdiction of the local court. f a versatile rogue rrThe acene iiowTih.tfts Trom Chicago taking his holidny at thisresortand aa enjoying himself a man whose ad- to Low'e Exchanges JaTrafalgar .manner Square, London, JS'llkie at that time such as is" possible only .to a London venturous bound was the London correspondent of an tradesman.-- As he was strolling "along leaps at-the" strand he came .face to face with from ... Chicagoto American and ill the corridor of this hostelry he was Lacy, who was then Town, Cape fugitive from Justice. He grasped him by the- - coat. ''Gyp whose criminal his- surprised to see his lMUtuUonlhattoornlng and" robbed tory It a part of friend, Frank Macy. enter and place - "Mr. Lacy,'' he exclaimedVffr1 Bffr 200 There depositors oneofjts o name on tne notci register. Macy giad to aee you." the nollca archives of New. York, w?Mffittch ,eicllBnienU.A-crowdiha- d ViennaajidJJkedpj?speroUi,llft was.djessetJa London. Faria. Chlraso, "gathered In the xorrldora. and in the long coat, caf Horlln. npsjlunlns as a prototype of swagger style, wor-Whretprtcd the othe: ctmfustol escapeanniB ried nS a now cane sunburst had heavy you will pay me for the mandolin the the Artful Dodger, he bas gone from money. ' of diamonds reposing amidst the folds you bought from me about aimontb " pocket picking to bunco steering, and "Pardon "me,',ZsaJd he stranger, .:, he M!ravatin- fact, then run the entire gamut of crime, oL A.bIood-re"but you haverr dropped one ' looked too vulgarly-ric- h to- Ur-tr- ue. , ;'"". .. tey" raugfied stopping. onlyprovUlJMiUally, perhaps notes." , . Wilklo consulted the hotel .' register -- 'You will at murder. pay me, wont you?" cried The depositor glanced at the floor and found that bis erstwhile criminal the dealer, hysterically. "You wouldn't on the other side of the desk and, sure Frank Maey, the doubtful hero of friend had registered as Frank Lacy. poor man, would your rob, . , this quoer.storytwas born at Freeport, The change of attire and the assumed '"Fade away," said '"the versatile enough, there waa a bank note. 111. rTbank. he you, uIy. tepfreTrirratef There are. many, old: r?sj4ejitala name, were Suspicious and th Anre bavin" me holidar nb? rogue. "I'm; lLaad that place who still recall him as ajcan lost no time In going to th rtti - l ajd Jcnn!t J?.s disturbed h i ; amd aTimone and calling up- Frank Froest, J tradesmen.;.. - note; The set only consumed two or clever youth. .Freeport goo a proved to one of the brightest detectives In When the .musical' dealer made' a three seconds, but when the depositor straightened up and was about to add be too small to .satisfy : his bulging Scotland Yard. Wilkie told' Freest third appeal for his money Lacy: note to his pile he"found, . gpniits, but- - even" before "he vleft his that It might be worth" hls while to him. to, go to. a warm- - climate; tiirElipiace' he made little eitcnrslpns. come up ta Low's and have look? at with such emphasis that the trades- to; his amazement, that- the original package of money had gone, and with from the paths of virtue which, in the the latest addition to the American man realized the futility of further It the stranger. He gave the alarm and boy, are so often! prophetic of the Invasion of London. He knew talk. thatXacy was a fugiman's career. Whea he reached man's Froest followed the advice of his tive and h determined fo have his rushed out of the bank, but when he reached the street the crowd wasso was estate be tall and as straight as. J friend and took several lookrol rm Lcy reveupw. He hurrjej Brgst that It was impossible to find su HWaw)ai-bTac'KTialand 1 Hi had htm shadowed"day" and night, telegraph office and wired Scotland great a jiiilhsw' complexion, which lighted bls.manrIZlZnil and after' a week's work was tn Yard that the man thtor, sought- eeuM rWhen. Superintendent Froest rewhenever he was In a humor pT r hlai; history. He ' found, be found "at Margate. ;;;;: ; ceived news of the theft he immediately-dto be affable wRh his fellow-man.- : among other thing, that Lacy had be"Lacy immediately realized the mis- ispatched "one-his men to It was in Chicago4hat Frank Macy come a card shark of :fhe first water. take, he had made and, learning the" the with this, not 'satisfied but; bank, He had across traveled, the Atlantic character, of the telegram that had first aistinguiahed himself in crime. A he resolved to go there lo person as ocean in. luxurious style and had made beeff-eea- to - Scotland - Yard, made little more, than a dozen years apr an soon as he had finished thewor!ln m comfeurfable amn Quick preparations tpr; shortening his advertisement appeared la .the Chica- his expenses, and Yard. which" vacation afthe cosy seashore resort. his private office at Scotland the besides cleverness with by go papers, stating that i ;a wea:thy he a That few consumed minutes. only . the noble played game of poker He acted with characteristic dlsregarj widow, about to take a long trip "OinSrrTf Cicouventtonaiities. He summoned a down the top of; .his. abT0ffar"arwlllIug to sell her favor- Ingvln London,, he established a gam fisherman .and hired him to take him pulletf ite horse "Dobbin." . and- -'- hurried towardsTi Leadenhall in hous in a the out West small Casa hailed and where. boat, bliag End, At ; Oldgate, where Oornhlll After the money had been paid,, he met with remaj-kablsuccess. Itle .liner vrhlcbr was bound for South street Leadenhall street ; converge, he and and within 24 hours, Dobbin began to Not long arter the meeting In Low's Africa. By the aid of a clever "cock an,- - hurrying transforma- Exchange all London became excited and bull story" he Induced the cap-- saw a tall, undergo a most eurtou crowd. the It , did not tion, What had been a magnificent over what was called the "Cutlasa take him aboard and before along jpmidst to recognize him take epwlmen of horseflesh began to show Mystery," It began,, when a . Yard man reached the man. as his old friend, the versastrange signs of decrepitude'. He shrivwas. calmly sailing the sea elderly gentleman of considtile rogue, who had lived successively eled up. as It we're; It seems almost erable wearttrwas found on .the side- On his way to Cape Town. under the titles of Frank Macy, Frank .lniposnible to properly describe this walk, with his bead .barfly cut-anthe Superintendent Froest immediately and Fjank Tracy v Instinctively - iflitrrelous transformation in - mere Lacy to the authorities at Cape bipod flowing from several saber telegraphed ftorU It was necessary to be seen to ("wounds. Ha said he had no recollec Town descrihlng Lacyr and Instruct- the superintendent 'associated the fel- be low! with? tb theft of e-bank In tuny appreciated. Anyone who tion of bo he cama.la.be n such, ing them to apprehend the man off his Leadenhall lias the tall, erect form of ' DC plight and resolutel7 declined tn arrival at that port Lacy managed to Jookrac-a-4ae-aTBK- -street He walked up and LEiadually. sinking Into" the per the 'polle 'any jnfrtrmBUnn npfat thlt It UHT" . "Mv "T 'i InI -- career -- T a- old-tim- e r it rsz-t- , , i sy -- it ri n 1 t ' ' well-drees- Eto many-second- s -th- sf-c- luity.ot the shapeleCTna;f!iigpra: JuhleclZTjto waa found 'similarly wotu c. Bine. u!uiitutt. - 11 was. not ss : 1 heu Ilia 'hoble "Dobbin"" be-- i as the flrsr individual, Mic a spavined, Snoek-kneeand and went so far as to say, that his that would have made misfortune was the result of a card v;i (.;: i street car horse blush for very party in which he had participated .' 1 a iiKuated, not once, but a afar biahy of the nu t) of rtiit-Hgbad" bach ihe began to. lvestk y v stimulated and as-! iv.iiii by tlohiv K. V.mp, was in charge .irLrueut.tif. ,fliaa.X)f ' ia Chicago. '(a, an;l r i . . Wii-"j;!- vr i"'.i J , it w n t f ; ':. i that jit PftUed. S'as ( ::,!:, : im '. ..:.!, but1e- e A.w:ir-- ; - 4 ''iH of tourist " whose ot.y. desire is to profitably while away an idle hour. Ha was inspecting the fine new docks of the place when the agent jpLiJcctlandi Yard clapped his band on his shoulder and placed him under arrest. Lacy submitted with perfect good grace and was formally lodged In Jail at Cape Town. Arrangements were made to have Jilm, returned to England the folwuatid.-wtula- n kViiM ' ranff 9e" have" aTTSIFover old nM times." Tracy jmade no resistance indeed, this was characteristic of the man. The moment an officer of the" law touched him he surrendered without a' SITulgle. hi"Twd met proceeded "to Scotland ;Yard and Tracy,' when nowever, to give the locality of the searched,, a found to - poSsest the bouse, Buying been taken there by an 200 which had been stolen from the obliging cabby whom hehad sought depositor in the bank that morningl with a request to be conveyed to some Vie was tried for that effeBSe, convictplace where he could satisfy. hs. de- ed and served bis time;", f . ; fo sires dally with the goddess of lowing day... '..; The rogneJs 'at liberty chance. In less than 21 hours from But, alas! his satisfaction was. pr ones versatile,, again, and for the time being is this time, still another man was found matnre.-fo- r the faring Lacy Jumped with' two saber'cuts about his bead, off .the train while It was in motion honoring the .United States with his and then the "Cutlasa.. .Mystery", be- and disappeared in the depths-o- f a presence,. This brief, sketch , la not came the relfrning' sensation of Loa- - South.. AH lean forest -- The ttincef had offered as a "etoryrof hls'life. It la .what It purparts to be a frag .."."'.. don. the train stowed at the next statloh onyt ment from the. life of a versaUIe next The chapter in Hie history of and,' with the assistance of several ' ' '" .v rogue, ; t!?;n curious rosue occurred at the Jit- - other men, made a search of 'the (Copyright 1903.' by W. O, 'chapman?" .' ;.. close-mouthe- d d pv-i- f -- . ' LZ '. :" -- '' - - " much sleep in camp that 'nightand the next day we were going out with guns to find Pa's Teliiafhs and shoot Rastus, but a little after daylight we heard the night watchman say to the 'cook who was building a lire: "Look here, and what do you ' know "Called the" whole camp up, and we'looked' out across the veldt, and there came Pa, astraddle of a sebra, with Rastus' boy up behind him, and Rastus thoroughly subdued leading the sebra with a hay rope Pa had twisted oui of grass. The wholo camp came to attention and Pa scratched a match on Rastus' hair and lighted a cigarette, .and when hfi bot near euuuuh hw naw Slept ln,the crotch of a tree all nieht Gave Rastus and hla boy a drink of whtSKy out of my flask, and cured them Of .the tobacco sickness, had some mangoes for breakfast sent Rastus te catch a sebra, and here we are ready for coffee and pancakes." w Pa got oh his sebra, opened the door, of thej cage and polntecT to it, and Rastus and his boy got fjn, and Pa kicked -- Rastus right :"where the hair was worn off sitting down, and Rastus -- Vy'" , . : " . ' P Stepped the Music and Repeated h Old Democratic "Speech of His, and - ' .'.v.Thay Acted Just Like In a Caucus. :- : . . . l abet-that;Hsnd- -h6 t" roll-des- k .. - . n of -- T were scrapping all the time. Gee, but we needed Pa' worse than " ever to sett'.e the gorilla dispute, but are all felt that Pa waa not of this kearth an air of mournfulness, and- they all ' letl"tb' addpTme 'cause I was" alone . In There was not - Qf-y- ; r - - JLtQ5pdwjiJUltat.mahM MceiwjrtJ7iiaHEiy. S . our -- out x Finally Mr. Hagenbach said to met ' iU.ennery,-- f guess your Pa has got whaUa coming to him this time. Rastus will probably drag your Pa up a tree and eat hlui, when his' appetite Comes back, but we can't helpjiim, so We Belter haul the cage and the gorfl- If s that have not had any lohacco t- owe will all campt and to a 's come out here hones'-'a'' :' J "bury them," ..Ajid 'then we an""Wenf to ca"mp7 and the poor gorillas Just remained list- . lessly in the cage, mourning as though they" knew Rastus and his boy were dead. ' We fed them everything we. could ."spare.'but they' would hot eat, " ' and by watching them" we found there was a ysase-o- f Jealousy In the htfs fis two male gorillas seemed 'to be stuck andflpd-jflufilather- i :r' ' " a 8g0----:"- Car-on- get t d -- Now deady 1A the Dining the Phonograph; and went so fast that Pa's feet only hit the high places. Tttfi- - gorillas ' in 4he-- eage- - looked atrt them disappear and tried to gel out of the cage to go along, but thejMsHfltSS' ' , gave them the "Merry Widow" waltz, thing happened,, Rastus reached in ' and by gosh If a big gorilla didn't put Pa'a t where Pa' had Just his arm around his wife, or soifie other put a large plug of tob had bit off a piece, and Rastus thought gorilla's wife, and dance right there 'in front of the T&age, and Because Pa ate the tobacco all the rest joined in, and tbe .baby so M bi off about half of the plug - -gorillas rolled pvfr. olj lhe ground and and ate It, and gave, his laughed like hyenas. Pa t stopped the boy the rest of it; and that was eaten ' music and called one' big gorilla Ras- by the boy; Pa tried to take It away . tus, and told him to In, the from them, but it was too late, and ' cactus, and the others did the same, they were both mad at Pa tor trying to beat them eut of andk Pa repeated ah old Democratic speUch of his, and they clapped their . Jti was" not'long before "Rastus ' " V hands Just ljke a caucus: .,"V(e.ll, what turned pahraTonndThe" moUffi," buThTs do you know about that already!" face was so covered with hair that said Mr. Hagenbach. was-- alt ; ': ',; ..;'' you couldn't.telL exactly how aick he lookedLLiaas ihough - Pa sal and he itv. ' Ti..n - - deserved he had thom In the"' cage was, though when he put both hands it.risrht. uvu t a several times and let them out, ahdlnjrtsjtonwch HV5.Ks.soqrwsaea4iia.assds-and- some summersaultB we knew, he "was sat down to breakfast," and when Mr, a era n.S ojAr-j-...avasfVla.. tn let ttin tuinna- all no hart tn an " ovIiLand-clawead4 -sfc his atoHiachran d a mfrev"' Pa said: D, that Is nothing; ihe lbTning Car,'', and Uiey would eome a; ,.v In and heVould slip out and lock "the ' Rastus had the most pained and re- I have located a marsh full of white - we could haul anddoor," the cage to vengeful look on his face I ever saw, buffalos, and we will go out there and v,. camp. , and he looked, at Pa as though be get a drove of them ndin a few days. Thay-aretgliert-av 'seen 'IL-glLSBStihave flghtlngest .jay 0 old gentleman call the whole bunch Pa had one of the men get the medi- animais m ine world, but I win halter, break some of them, and ride them of gorillas into the cage, and feed cine chest and Pa fixed two .seidllti thsm, and see .them act like a lot of powders, in a tltt cup, but before be without any saddle." Mr. Hagcnba h said he believed It, and Pa said: "Hen- - . boys la campt reaching" for "potatoes could put in the water Rastus had and bacon, abd wiping their lips on a wallowed the powder from; the white nery, one apell I thought you would " bur whisky saved you their hairy " arras,- - but none of hem anl blne jpapers'and reached "for a he When they got a big drink of whiskyasked--o- r napkins, or. finger ... bowls. washbasin of water, and before :Pa -' Yfben .the all Rasfus from drinking ther began" lo laugh, and then fell on , . goaeHthey neck end cried, my Just a like white gatTto. kick, like boarders at a second it On top of those powderis he bad class boarding bouse,. and then Pa swallowed every drop of the jrater, man when he Is too drunk .to fight am going fo take a x2sJL of .loclvetl and the cuminotiou jnsiiie- of hinrmust Well, l nap," and flipped of hay aud " lt and we came down out of the trees have been awful, lor be frothed at the Pa laid down on all day, and the crowd talked and surrounded the cage, and Pa acted mouth and the hubbies came out of his slept about what a hero he was. . a. as barker and told us the names he Hose, and he rolled over and yelled (Copyrisht. 1S. by W.,a. ChBpman.) had given to the gorillas:. , ..". Ilk? a man with gout; and he seemed ,, , (Copyright in Great Britain ) pistol-pocke- hare-toote- , half-grow- n ; n . theta-dess- ert. " -- ' , vi -- . 'nuiaAH',aSh . ; v-- -- he , food-was-- ot ;n4 -- -- |