Show black box that ticks stirs presidents guard F FIVE minutes of fei feverish erish anxiety ended in a laugh at the white house and the joke seemed to be on jimmy murph ph held of the white house secret sen serece ice someone telephoned to the ca cae e of the N winds by which the news pa paper p er room at the IN hite house Is 1 li that a man mail was nas on his way to the exec executive uthe offices bearing a black I 1 be box that ticked the news was instantly communicated to jimmy murphy 1 who iio stationed three of lils his beat men at intervals in the executive t offices with alth orders to intercept tile the ticking itching box visions of internal infernal mi chines and bombs with clock attach 1 ments arose in tile the minds of the dents dent s protectors finally the mysterious min mill appeared with ith the I 1 black box and sure cri enough ough it ticked lie he was nas nailed im nie diatel by mr murph personally per tonally it took but a minute hoN however cier to ex plain that the box contained an alarm clock which bich lee 0 duncan of la IL salle ill brought lo 10 0 o the president to assist him in opening the san diego exposition to start which tho the president had agreed to press the button it at ahr ahrea new nenn acar coining midnight san diego time A big smile wont ment all around the exec executive uthe offices boien the truth was dis covered and no do one smiled more broadly than the nt himself who seemed to think be bad a good joke on tile the men mho guard him so zealously when it was all over mr fr murphy wiped large beads of sweat from his ha brow bron and acknowledged that he be had had a bad lie file minutes |