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Show HERO IN HAH I) LUCK FATE DEALS UNKINDLY WITH WOULD-DE REFORMER. Youth Who Rebuked Fat Man for Promiscuous Expectoration Guts Into Serious Difficulty Coarse Man Wipes Up Floor With Him. A fat man fat nml apparently conrse, nnil with n predilection for bullying over thu common people stirred up a big rumpus yesterday morning on tlio Slnten Island ferry boat Itobert Garrett, which left St. Georgo at 7:10 o'clock. This person chewed tobacco with n notlceablo velicmcnco, and with cdn-secutlveness cdn-secutlveness and frequency ho wns obliged to dlsposo of tha usual byproduct. by-product. It was the fat man's method of disposing of bis by-product that mado tho rumpus. Perhaps thcro wore cuspidors, but the fat man didn't hunt for them. 116 picked out vacant spots on tho Hoor Instead. Then; woro women wom-en passengers, and some of them bo-camo bo-camo almost panicky. Theu It wan that a small, heroic matv made his appearance. Ho was a oung man with pale-bluo eyes, o slim waist, nnd an unlinking expression around his chin. He had dodged the big man's hydraulic efforts onco or twlco, and felt called upon to do something. Ho might have chosen a more original ro-mark, ro-mark, but under tho stress of great mental excitement ho resorted to tho old saw. Catching the fat man's oyes he said, angrily: "Do you expect to rato yourself as a gentleman?" (Swish!) "IIuu.7" said tho fat man. "Then don't oxpectorato on tho floor," added tho young hero. A lot of "serves-you-rlght-you-horrld-old-thing" looks from tho women rewarded re-warded tho young man, who thought ho had dono his whole duty. Perhaps he had. but The fat man relapsed from his contemplative con-templative mood Into ono of strenuouB action. Ho reached forth his big, chubby hands, and hooked them fast to the clothes of tho young hero with tho pale bluo eyes. Then ho boro down on tho little fellow and doubled him half up llko a knife, and by Blldlng him backward and forward on tho floor across tho area of his temporary tobacco-chewing domain, ho removed all traces of wet brown from tho cabin floor. Thero was plenty of feeling over this Incident Tho young man didn't llko It. Ho was In an uncomfortable position, po-sition, as ho afterward asserted with great posltlveness. Tho nlm sought for had been practically achieved, but tho means tho means! Thero was tho rub! Ho was Incensed nt tho rub. Sovoral coarso men gurgled with gleo, others sworo right out. and tho women set up such a clatter that tho attention of deckhands was attracted. One of these hands was chewing tobacco himself, but long years of Introspection Introspec-tion had enabled him to observe proper prop-er sanitary precautions. Tho deckhands deck-hands "went for" tho fat man, but ho wriggled botween tho horses and trucks and lost himself In tho crowd at the opposlto end of the boat. Tho young man with tho discouraged-look-Inc trousers and dctcrmluod air wa3 hot foot all over tho boat after the largo person, but could not And him. With the deckhands ho stationed himself him-self at tho gangway when tho passengers passen-gers left tho boat at tho Hattory, confident con-fident of catching tho largo person. Hut ho didn't. Somehow, It Is not made clear Just bow, the 220-pound offender of-fender wriggled past thorn and went on his way, while tho young hero, after watching until tho last man had stepped ashoro, went to his ofllco chewing the bitter cud of reflection. Now York Tribune. |