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Show JtajhlevMilltollajiS g;rgfejCopriht,by DoublecLay. Pae & Company - hand at the paralyzed Ramsey "you pick out a boob like that fer the Cho-mun Cho-mun side, a poor fish that gits stage-fright stage-fright so bad he don't know whether he's talkln' or dead ; or else he fakes it ; because he's a speaker so bum It looks more to me like he was faking. You git this big stiff to fake the Chol-mun Chol-mun side, and then you go and stick up a goil agalns' him that's got brains and makes a paclfls' argument that wins the case agalns' the Choimuns like cuttin' through hog lard 1 But you ain't a-gunna git away with It, mister. Lemme tell you right here and now, I may be a mix blood, but I got some Cholmun In me with the rest what I got, and before you vote on this here question you gotta hear a few woids from somebody that can talk ! This whole war Is a capitalls' war, Belgium as much as Choimuny, and the United States Is sellln' its soul to the capitalls' right now, I tell you, takln' sides agalns' Choimuny. Orders fer explosives and ammanitlon and guns and Red Cross supplies 16 comin' into this country by the millions, and the capitalls' United States Is fat already al-ready on the blood of the workers of Europe ! Yes, It Is, and I'll have my say, you boorjaw faker, and you can hammer your ole gavel t pieces at me j" He had begun to shriek ; moisture fell from his brow and his mouth ; the scandalized society was on Its feet, moving nervously Into groups. Evidently Evi-dently the meeting was about to di6- when he called you a fake. He must have thought you unyway looked as If you could make n better speech than you did. Oh, golly!" And as Ramsey groaned, the Jovial Mitchell gave himself up to the divan and the mirth. "Oh, oh, oh, golly I" he sputtered. "Never you mind, Brother Milhol-land," Milhol-land," C'olburn said gently. "The Lumen Lu-men is used to nervous beginners. I've seen dozens In my time, Just like you ; and some of 'em got to be first rate before they quit. Besides, this crazy Llnskl Is all that anybody'll ever remember re-member about tonight's meeting anyhow. any-how. There never was any such outbreak out-break as that in my time, and I guess there never was In the whole history of the society. We'll probably suspend him until he apologizes to the society I'm on the board, and Tm In favor of It. Who Is the bird, nnyhow? He's In your class." "I never saw him before," Ramsey responded from the deep chair, where he had moodily thrown himself; and, returning to his brooding upon his oratory. ora-tory. "Oh, murder I" he moaned. "Well," said the senior, "you'll know him when you see him again. You put your mark on him where you can see it, all right I" He chuckled. "I suppose I really ought to have Interfered In-terfered In that, but I decided to do a little astronomical observation, about fifty feet away, for a few minutes. Tm 'way behind In my astronomy, anyhow. any-how. Do you know this Llnskl, Brother Broth-er Mitchell?" "I've talked to him a couple o' times on the campus," said Fred. "He's In one of my classes. He's about the oldest in our class, I guess a lot older than us, anyhow. He's kind of an anarchist an-archist or something ; can't talk more'n five minutes any time without gettln' off some bug stuff about 'capitalism.' He said the course in political economy econo-my was all 'capitalism' and the prof was bought by Wall Street." "Poor old Prof. Craig!" Colbu-n laughed. "He gets fifteen hundred a year." "Yes ; I'd heard that myself, and I told Llnski, and he said he had an uncle un-cle workin' In a steel mill got twice that much, but It didn't make any difference, dif-ference, ole Craig was bought by Wall Street. He said 'capitalism' better look out; he and the foreign-born workmen were gcln' to to Ice this country some day, and that was one of the reasons he was after an education. He talked pretty strong pro-German, too about the war In Europe but I sort of thought that was more because he'd be pro-anythitig that he thought would help upset the United States than because be-cause he cared much about Germany." "Yes," said Colburn, "that's how he sounded tonight. I guess there's plenty plen-ty more like him In the cities, too. That reminds me : I'd better arrange a debate on immigration for the Lumen. We'll put Brother Mllholland for the negative, this time." Ramsey started violently. "Se here-" But the senior reassured him. "Just wanted to see you jump," he explained. "Don't fear ; you've done your sliare." "I Bhould think I have I" Ramsey groaned. "Yes ; you won't be called on agttin this term. By the way," said Colburn, thoughtfully, "that was a clever girl you had against you tonight. I don't believe in pacifism much, myself, but she used It very nlftily for her argument. argu-ment. Isn't she from your town, this Miss Yocum?" Fred nodded. "Well, she's a clever young thing," paid the senior, still thoughtful. And he added : "Graceful girl, she Is." At this, the roommates looked at him with startled attention. Ramsey was so routed as to forget his troubles nnd sit forward In his chair. "Tee," said the musing Colbtirn, "she's a mighty pretty girl." "What I" This exclamation was a simultaneous simultane-ous one; the astounded pair stared at him In blnr.k Incredulity. "Why, don't yon think aeT" Colburn mildly Inquired. "She seems to me very unusual looking." "Well, yes," Fred assented, emphatically. emphat-ically. "We're with yon there I" "Extraordinary eyes," continued Col-hurn. Col-hurn. "Lovely figure, too; altogether n strikingly pretty girl. Handsome. I should say, perhaps. Yes, 'handsome' rather than 'pretty'." , He looked, np from a brief reverie. "Yon fellows known her long?" "You bet !" said Ramsey. "She made a splendid Impress! on on the Lumen," Colburn went on. "I don't remember that I ever saw a first appearance there that quite equaled it. She'll probably have a brilliant career In the society, and In the university, too. She must be a very fine sort of a person." He deliberated within himself him-self a few moments longer, then, realizing that his hosts nnd brethren did not respond with nny heartiness err with anything nt all to the theme, he changed It, and asked them whst they thought about the war In Europe. They talked of the war drowsily for a while; It wns an Interesting bnt not an exciting topic: the thing they spoke of was so far away. After a few moments of fervor, the conversation languished, and Brother Colburn rose to go. "To go over and help hang their d d kaiser!" (TO BE CONTINUED.) "PEACH OF A PUNCH." Synopsis. With his grandfather, small Ramsey Mllholland Is watch-ing watch-ing the "Decoration Day Parade" in the home town. The old gentle-mail, gentle-mail, a veteran of the Civil war, endeavors to Impress the youngster young-ster with the significance of the great conflict, and many years afterward aft-erward the boy was to remember his words with startling vividness. In the schoolroom, a few years afterward, Ramsey Is not distinguished distin-guished for remarkable ability, though his pronounced di6likes aro arithmetic, "Recitations" and German. Ger-man. In sharp contrast to Ramsey's Ram-sey's backwardness is the precocity of little Dora Yocum, a young lady whom In his bitterness he denominates denomi-nates "Teacher's Pet" In high school, where he and Dora are classmates, Ramsey continues to feel that the girl delights to manifest mani-fest her superiority, and the vln-dkrtiveness vln-dkrtiveness he generates becomes alarming, culminating In the resolution reso-lution that some day he will -v "show" her. At a class picnic Ram sey is captured bag and baggage by Mllla Rust, the class beauty, and endtrres the agonies of his first love. - Ramsey's parents object to Mllla and wish he'd taken up with Dora Tocum. RamBey kisses Mllla. Then Mllla suddenly leaves town. She marries. Ramsey enters the state university and there is Dora Yocum again. Ramsey meets Dora In a World War debate and Is ln-glorlouBly ln-glorlouBly vanquished. 0 CHAPTER VII. Continued. 9 He was so right, In regard to his own performance, at least, that, thereupon drying UP utterly, he proceeded to stand, a speechless figure In the midst of a multitudinous silence, for an eternity eter-nity lasting forty-five seconds. He made a racking effort, and at the end of this epoch found words again. "In making my argument In this debate, I would state that " "Two minutes!" said tlte chairman. "Refutation by the negative. Miss D. Yocueq. Two minutes." "I wfclve them," said Dora, primly. "I submit that the affirmative has not refuted the argument of the negative." "Very well." With his gavel the chairman sharply tapped the desk before be-fore him. "The question is now before be-fore the house. 'Resolved, that Germany Ger-many is both morally and legally justified justi-fied In her Invasion of Belgium.' All those In favor of the " ut here there was an interruption i a kind never before witnessed during dur-ing any proceedings of the Lumen society. so-ciety. It came from neither of the debaters, de-baters, who still remained standing at their desks until the vote settling their comparative merits in argument should be taken. The interruption was from the rear row of seats along the wall, where sat new members of the society, freshmen not upon the program of the evening. A loud nasal voice was heard from this quarter, a loud but nasal voice, shrill as well as nasal, and full of a strange hot pas-lon. pas-lon. "Mr. Chnlrrann !" It cried. "Look-a-here, Mr. Chairman ! Mr. Chairman, I demand to be heard ! You gotta gimme gim-me my say, Mr. Chairman ! I'm a-gunna a-gunna have my say I You look-a-here, Mr. Chairman !" Shocked by such a breach of order, and by the unseemly violence of the speaker, not only the chairman but everyone else looked there. A short, strong figure was on Its feet, gesticulating gesticu-lating fiercely ; and the head belonging to It was a large one with too much curly black hair, a flat swarthy face. Shiny and not Immaculately Bhaven ; there was an Impression of Ill-chosen clothe, too much fat red lip, too much tooth, too much eyeball. Fred Mitchell recognized this violent Interrupter as one Llnskl. a fellow freshman who sat next him In one of his classes. "What's that cuss up to?" Fred wondered, and so did others. Llnskl showed them. He pressed forward, shoving himself through the two rows In front of him till he emerged upon the green carpet of the open apace, and as he tame, he was cyclonic with words. 'Ton don't put no such 6tuff as this over, I tell yon !" he shouted in his hot, nasal voice. "This here's n fre-country, fre-country, and yon call yourself a debating de-bating society, do you? Lemme tell you I belong to a debating society In Chicago, where I come from, and them fellas up there, they'd think they'd oughta be shot fer a fake like what yon people are tryln' to put over, here, tonight. I come down here to git some more education, and pay fer It, too, in good hard money I've made swentln' In a machine shop up there In Chicago; Chi-cago; tmt If this Is the kind of education educa-tion I'm n-gunna git, I better go on back there. You call this a square debate, de-bate, do yrm?" He ndvciced toward the chairman's platform thKlng a frantic fist. "Well. If you dw, yon got another think comin', siy capitalls' frien' ! Yon went end give out the question whether It's right fer Oholmtmy to go through Bel-glum Bel-glum ; and what do you do fer the Chofmtrn side? Yon pick ent this here big stiff" be jwaved his passionate -I'll Have My Say!" the Frenzbjd Llnski Screamed. Integrate. "I'll have my say I" the frenzied Llnski screamed. "You try to put up this capitalls' trick and work a fake to carry over this debate agalns' Choimuny, but you can't work It on me, lemme tell you ! I'll have my nny !" The outraged chairman was wholly nt a less how to deal with the "unprecedented "un-precedented situation" so he defined It, quite truthfully; and he continued to pound upon the desk, while other clamors began to rival Llnskl's ; shouts, of "Put him out I" "Order !" "Shut up, Freshman I" "Turn tuiu over to the sophomores P "This meeting Is adjourned I" bellowed bel-lowed the chairman, and there was a thronging toward' the doors, while the frothing Llnskl asseverated: "I'm n-gonna git my say, I tell you ! Ill have my say ! I'll have my say I" He had more than that, before the hour was over. A moment after he emerged from the building and came out, still hot, upon the cool, dnrk campus, he found himself the center of a group of his own classmates whom he nt first mistook for sophomores, sopho-mores, such was their manner. ... As this group broke up a few mlnntes Inter, a youth running to Join It, scenting somewhat of Interest, detained de-tained one of those who were departing. depart-ing. "What's np? What was that squealing?" squeal-ing?" "Oh. nothing. We Just talked to that LlnRkl. Nobody else touched htm. but Ramsey Mllholland gave him a peach of a pnnch on the snoot." "Whoopee I" Ramsey was laconic In response to Inquiries npon this subject When some one remarked : "You served him right for calling you a boob and a poor fish nnd so on before all the society, girls and all." Ramsey only snid: "That wasn't what I hit him for." He declined to explain further. CHAPTER VIII. "The way I look nt It, Ramsey," Fred Mitchell said, when they reached their apartment, whither a benevolent senior, Colbum, accwnpnnled them, "the way I look at It. this Llhskl hVid of paid you a compliment, after aA, |