Show I 1 Zb 4 r 1 tinn i in I 1 i I il I I 2 SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES 5 t a 1 C BY obit Ml MIH H U 5 ff I t j 5 5 i it t nN s I ASHINGTON a Nov bv 21 a 1 I i havo vo I i W always claimed that y d II I Doyle was the greatest swim swimmer s a m mS I I mer afar that over aver at lived If I ru say t A Capt R It S VII V 11 l I f f r Ilan flam Shelley of or the treasury depart department r n t ment I l Darby was wall w ap the thc only man that Hint ever e y dr r 1 t r 1 swum the th t Channel before mill ams Milli t s I i i d i up ill III and 11 J buck back In time for tor break brenk breakfast l I P r 1 I fast No NIJ h hIi o other man m an over even ovon tr il to Ii Ic G 1 v l swim from h hI r Liverpool to In Now York YoI I 1 anti and he lie modestly wild ahl t to me when b hw y yI I p M I 1 Imbed a lip up u n t the he Ifor l lit at New N w s York I K t tr I j Dont Dunt Di nt be lit I me ne l too Ill 1 del I 1 Hill 1111 iu l ll l Id never noer been bren to lit the I I t s ec IOCO 30 C miles 1 n I des f U If t It n nIn rt horn been b cn rill fur In my lilY Y r 4 ld manager tot In gt r who s cI u t Kept Ic c P t ull all of or the tho t sharks a ra k I r out of ot the tho way vay wn r LI i t heart was almost broken when his hili manager t refused r orti ad t to take the thel I l hot ic ct t ur u f t Dr Darby a b 3 d r I down Wall Wull street lit reel In lu New ew York on the th thI e I Iday I 9 r day tiny they ther watered the Darby DaTh d t 1 a I r cried cre I rl and n g his manager ae r to l u take I Ithe I n h the bet hot but lio ho nt answered t rt I 0 to therell be hI brat awful I sy ii Darby me boy Y nn Oil t r uv t t flood the thi day they the water the Mocks In III InWall Iny y p it Wall Wull street but Im Fm not 1101 of or I I Il I I l that Im Pm to bet het that you OU could l vIlli t t down d owl a street In of or thu tho when hell they thuy water the sU tuck ik k Hut Darby mo 1110 o boy bt f hero heres t tI where wed wad loso Iran I could coule never keep keep nil ur of the a 1 out ou of or Will Wall I street i j I Out nut 1 t nib Jarll on n tho bet of ot f l Against the Norwegian Olaf Darby crane Clune down dawn to III till thu wharf with n a big bl Iron collar mound his Ills neck a II heavy chain attached 1 to the collar mud and the end welded onto Into a u big bis anvil file Norwegian looked nt lit him and 1101 asked lI kl he wag currying carrying such Huch n R for Cor or Darby Fl 1 I promised i jd to l n bring my t n II an nn I American anvil when I tame back hick to 10 Ireland II Im only k ee In iny my rn Y prom Irom Ue In like Ilke un an Irish gentleman gen That feared the Norwegian almost to death and anti be lie ran away and forfeited his bin bet bel rather than swim t such euch sucha eucha a i tins Hob nob of ot the tho agri arl agricultural cultural rI department says ay that thai III ht his homo 0 town of or Harvard coal s there WOK unit a 1 landlord 1 e n 1 who ts ho ln nd mid that he h lid did I not have lIle beds a d s h to t the IW b tH who 10 to attend annuli n a certain u PO 10 he be wrote to tu an 1111 another I other othel hotel hotelkeeper r H II few r a aWa aWad Way d away tinned named Taylor and nuked naked him hint for thu the loan of flu ne II many cots as al he could spare He III nl ulso o If I r you OU hll ent enough a Illk c tome orne one els I tu rend end nio rota for tor forI I 1 will nod about n Now Nol landlord Towns h a u I tine fine hotelkeeper hot lk ller Willi w a Out not u at l n penman not liot liy by II any lUlY mean Con Conee onse the word rata cot looked moro more ilia I cats ats the lie people II ople gathered nt at the ho he hotel hetel tel they were surprised and amazed at nt the number at rf t cuts rota ss l surround surrounded ed d cl them Ilium The rhe hotel men all nil along the theof line of or railroad tnt dent ab F Fh Thuy rho v mime iame by II h tie Ille dozen Ilmon by h b the II th more acorn arid and h b by tho the crate Irate full They wen wean all 1111 brought to the Iho hotel hot l let loose loo a e Immediately they begun began fighting and yelling unit and howling Night particularly unit waH hid hll coos The Tho hotel lintel keeper Taylor Caylor who nho start started started ed 01 the fun tun attended d the tho convention ii oral ml had hlll a II room roost ut ul Towns hotel for Far his hid lint dinner dimmer n mm I broiled black cut wax was wasP seared nerved to him hint with the tit tI P hair and amid 1111 remaining on rn nit nil nI 1 four ft feet e t nod c less lers le ts Otherwise the cut cat win wua well cooked I t h Ever er aloe pineo u that day dav Hotel Keeper er Towne fow ne hUll bait dictated I I his hiM letters Instead of or trying Eying to write Not long Ion ago OBO it IL colored washwoman s na taken laken iI before the n nn police court foi Jn m brutally hrs t nail beating a n little S Stul oId boy tul lIo limo Tho t del hb orva were WIto used to ln bril hru Inline but bill the the cruel treatment of or that little boy bur was WIl wa a more mOrt ore than they the Y could 1 endure t co o they the y had 01 1 r her arrest td tt d and mt Il they tho freely RUVO no In ln their evi evl evidence deuce dence against n her herThe herThe The Judge reproved her severely fleer ly and anil told her that be Ise would not 1101 Imprison her because her hr work was Wit needed for or but tint he tie assured her that he would be locked up If Ir complaint ever mini nIll to him on that score She Sho listened Intently and mid when the Judge fudge tied she mild Judge yo i t I sp yo o M nat ii h t 1 Enna n de of or no low lowdown down worthless worthies ll lIah baby tuby hns has you In a n town In III tl ut there lived list lista r n a useless j man n t a rr et I but hut us usk use k It i he II never himself well wehl welland mind and he gave his bin hi family scant support Everybody E In town lown knew him He lie was not no bad ball but useless So when It be became became came he had become b lOrne tho the rUler of or triplets everybody took It I for granted that thai they the would have to go get goto goto getto to the tho poorhouse or that V childless would J adopt them The mat matter matter ter tel was discussed dl In many homes homed j In all ull of or the homes of ot the town Una Ow lIttle old girl ii to the r nt at the t r table and 1 she ehe ho Y I a r I wish in h oud c u 1 adopt tolon t the tho little littleboy lc boy baby bat I l wont vent a n little lit II 0 brother IlM 11 i e ask th m for tor the little boy I meow mean of ot course It If they II break the nut When drover Gruver Cleveland was nom nominated l for tor n a second ec nd term the writer asked e I l Gen Gems r ran how hn lIo n he liked III the nomination nr on Now Rosecrans wt r s a aDen n Democrat Den of or prominence pI and Cleve Clere Cleveland land had not treated him right rl ht during his hla first term The Tho writer felt relt sure that dl l not like Tike his that d u but In reply to tho the question I th the old oll wid said Mill When When I 1 wai lIal w as in the Junior class nt lit litI I West PoInt we went out on acan Ins Ing expedition It fell rell tu my lot to cook for our company com pan until some nonie one should complain anti and an then than the tho com corn complainant would have to do the cooking I After two or three days clays I not got tired d of or orth the th Job but nobody no otly complained We Wo Jail had n a young fellow tellow train from Massachusetts and he liked hiked pie He lie wanted wl pie Ile ut lit ev every ever ev ever ery er meal So Ho I malt made a 3 line tint apple pie Ille de and and the way Yay I salted s It was wicked It H was salted rood good and plen plena plenty plent ty t At 1 the breakfast table 1 I cu tu him u a anice unice 1 nice large slice and lie he poked half hulf of It Into his face and In n he ho slug u Jumping about spluttering and cursing the pie pic and thc cookI cook 1 I took oft off my cooking cook In clothes clothed and sot got Into my uniform nit a quickly ns us possible Ho Ito bee became une our cook mind cook he hu remained rental during the tha entire lira out lag Irig III of u n 1 month menthe hut But ti general I sold paid c how about abott that tint nomination Ill not be tho first to 10 complain i sold said l the veteran with a n quiet chuckle chuckle den William W secretary of ot war Will during the second J Grunt ad nd administration administration ministration went to tho the war Will between I Ithe the us is the major of or the Fifteenth Iowa I t su Infantry He II c often orten told this tory story on himself In tine one of ot the tho th e corn com companies ro ar panics of ot that thai regiment was n young fellow rellow named d Darby Greely GreeS i hut but bu t they the Y pronounced It t Oraly GralY When tho the regi reRI regiment ment mints was marching t over Ocr the tho gang planks onto the steamer Sucker Sudler State the tho major sat rat on his horde borne close cloo clo o by hy byAs As fI Darby Graly Gral stepped on oil the time plank his hb mother grubbed him und anti pulled ul ll him to her bosons bosom bo With intense Irish emotion t rime die and amid crooned over OCI him ond then theil seeing the tho major the tho blarney blamey h eY In her bubbled forth and an she ho cried Darby mo the by stick close to tn the tho I major nn nil yell yo 01 II sit It hurled Very Vcr doubtful compliment that I When Rhen time the bishop of Pennsylvania was visiting he hI h e noted Judge I I 1 L an nn eminent Ins lawyer In er 1 Ilan for three or four legal lecal brethren whom t he h had brought t to 1 church with him hl m The Thu bishop i know Iwo that Judge L ti was ns n II great groat hand band to bring sinners to church with him nail he liked him tint the better for tor It The rhe bishop also ulso observed that tho the other othel lawyers l were bored with the and Amid C lid for tor It to be bs oYer serlee In inO that the they tho Ohle When V Iho camu to tho he saw Judo 1 Illan O 1 ho he heard one helping ot them his Whisper hl fler Judge this beats bents the devil That Thill Is s the Intention Good in Lord deliver us W lIIS H the tho S the prompt I he the Ju judge people reply relly ot ge and very nr many pe pie h aril It t L For n a moment tho Litany turned turnell tl into n a lauGh was |