Show HAT UNWELCOME VISITOR john philip sousa has had some ex penances penen ces decidedly out of the ardi nary but he himself Is authority for the statement that he met with the most unusual and perhaps the most terrifying in a quiet little town in provincial england it was almost as bad as edgar allan come to life says he when relating the happening it was before I 1 opened at the alhambra last spring and the tour had been most trying on the night in question I 1 had turned in the very first minute I 1 could get away after the evening concert and I 1 remember I 1 was so tired that I 1 never touched the fruit and sandwiches always left in my bedroom I 1 slept like a log of course though once I 1 wakened as I 1 recalled the next morning thinking I 1 heard the plate pushed about on the lunch eon table I 1 think I 1 sat up in bed and looked around but I 1 m sure I 1 saw nothing and I 1 was asleep again an instant later next morning I 1 was conscious of the entry of the man with the hot water but what brought me really to my senses was his exclamation that the room waa all in a mess it surely was there were black footmarks everywhere on the furniture on the carpet even on the dresser the bed itself being about the only spot not trodden upon the sandwiches were gone so ft as the fruit As I 1 climbed into my dressing gown I 1 had a hazy idea of discovering a tramp some where about but a moment later I 1 had seen that the footprints came a big place and alpar antly returned there again well smoke him out said I 1 before the blaze from the morn ing s paper had got a good start there tumbled down from that chimney a baboon nearly as big as I 1 am the way the valet and I 1 got out into the hall was a sight to see we slammed the door after us and sent in an alarm twenty minutes later one ot the keepers from a nearby circus was unconcernedly leading off the tamest meekest monkey of his size in the world but it was a startling thing to have happen before breakfast there was a little too hufh of the mur ders in the rue morgue about it |