| Show I TIUYINU TO PLEASE I I I THE ADVANCE AGENT TELLS HOW HIS l FRIENDS OBSERVED THIS RULE I I Iftasactar 01 na rrotrhl Ali Who 4 4 Didnt Vital to IlHaupolU till Audi 1 nroA Monument Which ProTcl TIt j I III Efforts Were Appreciated 1 I I nlwayg strive to pleoe remarked the dramatic editor m ha scratched tho i words big thing J out of tile advance police ho was writing and substituted I mesatheilau aggregation I I Thanks J I nm snre said tile ad 1 l i I franco agent oio read over the ten lines tho dramatic Critic was giving to Ifclm and carefully put bide into his jpooket tho lulf column notice ho had first drawn on tho d a I I presume milled the d o that 0 you always trlvo to please too elont t I jour Not always inascraidlsippolntcd I I tone but I used to havo n friend who did lie really was tile most self denying deny-ing chop I ever saw and what ho i WouldnI do to pleooo nn audience a I oI worth doing I 11 7r Where Is ho now I 11 D c nil w I Dead Yen It killed him ItwH this way I i Ho was in tho pyrotechnics branch of I tlio dramatlo art and mod to gho chows at ono of these imitation Coney Inland I I I to bo found on nearly oery Baud bar In r nearly v r river tributary to tho llis I fisslppl Ho had been the originator of that fireworks fcitnro at this place mill I his phenomenal BUCCCM had made him i i FO proud that ho would sooner have died v I than hid n failure Ono Fourth of July vI ho was going to give tho gr indent display dis-play of his lIfo anil the ft aturo In tho biggest letters on the bill was n set piece 100 feet high with nn mormons A balloon loaded with fireworks to go np from tho top as n grand finite There i I were ten times ns many people there that night as there hid cv < r been and t my friend wns feeling so goodiyon could i fee > lt in his walk al I Everybody was on edge too for the alI I grand blaze of glory tho mau gejuent 1 hnd been advertising for weeks and when promptly fit tile Iwur of 10 oclock my friend stepped forth like n peacock to set oil the grcahdisplay with 4 I his own hind there was mroniid of tipI tip-I Plunge followed by n dend silence ns tho nndleuco cat brciithlessWntchlng for the burst of blazing glory Dot nouie d how It didnt burst Tho iirofessor fired tile train nnd rctreuted to n safe place I bnt thopowderwonUntbnm Itfizzled and went out Instead Once twice thrico it fizzled spattered and went Ell out nnd then tile crowd beg in to growl and guy ns crowds nhvnys will and the professor began to get wild k Several other attempts to pet tho piece off were no more successful and 4 nt last with n mothered scream of I crazy rage ho shot up tho ladder of the tower to its very top whero ho had n platform storel with nil Forts of inflammable inflam-mable nnd xpki ivo things arranged togo to-go off at tho proper time Ho Hood there n moment silhouetted against the sky the crowd Indulging in gibes mill I jeers with now and then n threat no to I what ho might expect if ho would only come down to tile ground Thin waq film time to thowwhat he could do to pleino lain oudleneo 011I1 In I a minute and 10 fore anybody had any idea what ho I would do next ho caught np m armful T of tho explosives about him fastened them to hhl clothes mid hnng wreaths nnd rings over his neck and slnuldcrs and netting tho wholo thing tire ho swung out into tile air In the balloon y which wag already tugging Itsmuchor As tho balloon shot up it win n ter rlflo eight nnd the poor 4wvLs shrieks added to tho Intensity of tho ecrno already I al-ready lurid with red and blue lights I while tho air Vag llllnl with nil manner of bursting bombs and crashing xplo I elves Women fainted men ran help least y bout shooting end Hill tho balloon j bal-loon swept upward with its fiery freight and passenger nutil when it had reached n point 1000 feet above tho I earth It caught fire and the wholo I burning mass shot like u blazing ball Btrnlght to tho ground Yon will tw 1 Safe in betting thofo people never taw such an exhibition in that before nor will ever again in nil probability unit when it wns ever concluded tile agent the audience I seemed to realize what tho profchior had done to pleorn them mid they chip I lied irsh and built Jim n monument where bo fell having on it hostiles his I name and tho proper elites no other Inscription In-scription eictptJIo itrhedtoplcake I Tho drimatio critic was nt least hilt I n minute in recovering his hpeech after I tho recital of this remarkable tele mill i before ho could ask any questions the wIv rice agent hid folded his tout llko I a circuit and stolen nwar to tho oflleo of II the next dramatic critic ho hud to call l I npon Washington Star |
