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Show Puts Electric Light in Bureau Drawer Man From Lucern Meadows Furnishes Fur-nishes Unique Variation of an Ancient tory. He was tall and lank and his walk for some reason made people think of sago bruh and pitching bronchos. II.-had II.-had the beard which ha:; crown old In song and story and is generally associated asso-ciated In the mind of the observer with walnut shells, peas and glided bi b ks. And his raiment didn't look at outu with tho rest of him, either. But In Spite, Of all these things Night Clerk R. O. Hogue of the Kenyon never thought for a moment that the stranger was going to furnish him with a new and unique variation of the "blow out the gas" story. At that Mr. Hogne has seen many strange people peo-ple during his r-.ireer. And so the stranger got his name on the register und almost fought a single-handed combat with the bell boy, whom he accused of trying to steal his telescope. Reassured by the clerk, to whom he had already taken a fan' v. for Mr. Bogus looks honest, he got Into the Hi'vat'ir and had that funny feeling feel-ing which comes with the first tide up lour stories He stood still a mrum-m after the 1 machine" had stopped, and then gained the hall outside Its open iloor with a single bound. They didn't hear from him until the next morning. morn-ing. It was bright and early when the man from the Lucern meadows made his reappearance in the lobby in fact, It was the hour when the- hurd-handed t'.irmei geis, up to 1 1 the- stuck and do the milking. It was plain to the night clerk, nnvj)n the last lap of his shift, that habit still had hold of his gne-st. The eyes of the guest were bloodshot ami he looked like a man who has been wrestling with thought. "Say," he said, as he approached the desk, and his voice made the glasses In Mulvey's next door Jingle. "Say. what sort o' gosh blamed lamps you all got here anyhow 2" He didn't wait for answer, an-swer, but drew near and told It all. "I got to bed last night." ho said, an' I was tired. So I didn't waste no time, but I starteel right In to blow the lamp out. I might as well o' saved my wind, f..r there wan't no use tryln" to blow. Tho caused thing Jest swang around on that little string it was tied onto So I give It up an a bad Job. "Well, sir, I drawed the covers up an' tried to go to sleep, but I couldn't I felt that lamp all the time. An whenever when-ever I opened up an eye there It was shinln' Into my face. I monkeyed around with the thing fer an hour or so an' was Jest about to give It up for a bad Job when I got mad an1 took down that string an' put the lamp In one o' the bureau drawers and shot the drawer, Well, sir. that did the business. busi-ness. This mornln' I took a look at It an' sure enough It had went out." Hogue says he has heard stbrles of blowing out the gas until he 8 tired, but this. In his opinion, discounts therri all. And what Is more he swears It is true. |