Show SAY IT SAY IT QUICK colonel pepper of or kentucky has a lively lii aly picnic BE HE i celek it he the ll 11 llobel otel london loudon lr for fill his lad ind lilily to ts imer icam guests at tte lie flon hove 4 I 1 special F T chronicle LONDON sept 20 colonel james pepper Ji of pepper lepper whiskey fame who baa his been on a wedding tour in europe tailed with his wife on the servia tor for new york followed by bv the blass ings of baay american visitors to london who have stopped at the hotel ibe the employees of this establishment have never been noted for courtesy to A american guests and bia this has had been the case cue during tho the present season particularly na as the gre great at influx of transatlantic trans atlantic allan tic travelers baa bag in made de hotels feel independent it was reserved a arved for coloni colonel 1 pepper however bv er to intro introduce duco discipline the colonel and bis his wife came home from the theatre one night this week mrs pepper at once got into an elevator tar while bile her husband stepped UP deck desk for bis his key tho night clerk a particularly haughty and pompons person as talking to in n glissman doge close to the ke key b board oar d bat though col pepper a asked S d hg him three or tour four times forlis for his key tho the clerk paid not the slightest attention ill till ho lie had finished his conversation pepper took thin thir calmly enough but when he got into the elevator tho the englishman who had been talking to the clerk ead 1 I beg your pardon sir air but I 1 think you really ought to 0 o know why that clerk was so inattentive he lie said to me when iou on first asked for your key hes lies only an american let him wa we t 1 the colonels kentucky blood mood suddenly sprung to a boiling heat lie ile sprang from the elevator and whipped a pistol from his pocket come out from behind that desk ek 11 ha lie shouted to the clerk come quick come a rann running 1 the clerk came and became bo came running nin likewise p ra with terror ills ilia face wae was ah ashen e n and though be he was trying to speak his lips moved like the laws aws of ai an expiring trout and no sound came from them fifty people in the great corridors rushed up to see what was the matter get awn d wn on your knees cried pepper in an awful voica voice 1 relapsing into kentucky vernacular get down on your knees or ill shoot your care ears off the terrified clerk hesitated but a second and came down to his knees on the marble floor now cried the kentuckian you apologize to every american whoever stayed here for your d d impudence to people who keep your hotel going repeat what whit I 1 say 1 I apologize to all americans in london say it quick 1 1 I apologize 0 I 1 01 to all the amoric americana in 1 london 1 stammered its he cleric clerk tor for all my previous incivility 11 continued the colonel sternly ernly at for all my previous incivility faltered the victim and I 1 hereby solemnly promise to treat all americans americana with respect and consideration hereafter quick say idill the menial obe ed and pepper ben then allowed him to rise and retire th a behind his desk the humblest and moat most crestfallen clerk in any hotel anywhere then the colonel showed his pistol to tha the assembled multitude itis t is ono I 1 picked up in a curiosity shop in paris for a friend who bea liza a collection of old and ancient firearms fir eirma be said and it has not boen been loaded for a hundred years 11 up to date dale the clerk has hat kept his vow row to treat all americans with respect |