) floating 1 1 -iMJSW hi
WHICH MAKE N M- .' , . , ' j
TODAYS' BE.M . . : Vp-1 a-1
for acceptance, and. if. she fulfils tha
test, will go Into commission about Sep
tember, 1910. The building of the North
Dakota does not closely approach the
record held by the British navy in the
construction of the first Dreadnought.
The keel of that vessel was laid In July,
1905, and on October 2, of the same year,
the vessel wag launched, and exactly a
year later the ship had Its standardiza
tion trial.
Four shipbuilding companies competed
for the contract for the construction of
the battleship Utah, bids for which were
opened In Washington November 11. Tlie
lowest bidder was the New York Ship
building Company, of Camden, N. J., at
J3.946.0OO, for a 20i-knot ship, and the
contract has been awarded to that com
pany. The Utah is to be a sister ship of
the Florida, to be constructed at the
New York yard, and In to be of about
21.S25 tons trial displacement. Bids also
were opened for supplying machinery for
the Florida, and for armor for both vessels.
For the machinery for the Florida the
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydork
Company was the lowest bidder, at $1,
517.000. It has been said that the battleship of
many-caliber guns would smother an
'1
sr-HE all-big-gun battleship, the real
1 floating fortress, has arrived. She
is as far ahead of the 16 fighting
fhlps that Admiral Evans took around
Capo Horn as they were ahead of the
Monitor with Its "cheese on a shingle."
This new giant of the seas carries ten
12-inrh guns In a broadside an the na
tions' of the world are now building not
e few, but squadrons and fleets of them.
The powers that sleep with a mailed hand
Jiave built, are building, or have author
ized a total of 84 of these monsters of
eteel. And these Hercules of the seas
will not only strike a blow that will make
a 20,000-ton enemy reel, but they will fly
Into action with the epeed of a trans
Atlantic liner after a record. When the
Monitor and the Merrtmac had It out In
Hampton Roads It marked the passing
of the wooden ship. When Great Britain
launched the Dreadnought last year It
was the signal to abandon the battle
ship of many different-sized guns for tie
all-Mg-gun leviathian. The United States
replied with the North Dakota of 21 knots
speed, two more 12-Inch guns than the
Dreadnought and 2000 more tons displace
ment. Great Britain retorted by author
izing a whole fleet of 12 Dreadnoughts,
four of which Rre to make 30 geograph
ical miles an hour, and Germany pro
mulgated plans for a fleet of 38 big
lighters to cost over $1,000,000,000. Japan,
Italy. Fiance, Russia and Brazil have
joined in the race to build these monsters
costing from l,000.000 to $10,000,000 each.
Ttiey are aw-foot long masses of steel,
with walls of metal a foot thick and
crammed as full of machinery as a watch.
Yet they travel a mile In three minutes
and lcxs, and each ship will have a com
plement of PiO men. The United States
Is building the North Dakota and Dela
ware. They will be followed by the Utah
and Florida, and the proposition to
Inount 11-inch guns on them, the btegest
yet, is being considered by the Naval
authorities.
Terrific Speed of Shells.
The 12-inch gun has a mouth a foot
witle and. a length of 50 feet. It will fire
a shell through ten inches six miles dis
tant from the gun. The projectile weighs
f7 pounds and the charge of explosives
4!0 pound?. The monsters weigh io tons
nnd coft J.v.0i. It takes a year's time to
construct them. When a gun of this size
is hri'd the recoil is as great as If a trans
Atlantic liner were stopped almost in
stantly. The explosive force at the mouth
of the gun is sufficient to move the
weht of two battleships one foot. The
projectile has a speed of half a mile a
second. Every time the gun la fired It
costs JllL and it can shoot away $75,000
worth of ammunition a minute. With
these guns a battleship may lay out at
-a and fire into and beyond New York
1ty. With such monsters as these In a
broadside the life of a battleship de
pends on which one shoots the straightest
and begins first.
On the day and almost at the moment
the American battleship fleet sailed out
from Hampton Roads on Its voyage to
the Pacific, the keel of the first so
called American Dreadnought was laid
t the yards of the Fore River Ship
building Company at Quincy, Mass. This
battleship is the North Dakota and is a
sister ship of the Delaware, building at
the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry
dock Company.
Ten Big Guns in Broadside.
While both the North Dakota and Dela
ware have been commonly called Dread
noughts, that appellation Is not alto
gether correct. These two American ships
not only have greater displacement than
the Dreadnought, but their design Is thor
oughly distinctive from the chief feature
of the big British battleship. The great
feature of these two 20,000-ton American
battleships la found In the arrangement of
the five turrets which they will carry. In
both the North Dakota and Delaware
tli-. turrets will be arranged in a
, --... r'-rn to bow. so that
a broadside of 10 12-inch guns may be
i. i..i-r sMde.
The British Dreadnought also haa five
aunts, but they are arranged entirely
:fr --9- THn-rrv-r wrTTS&JEt&cS'c7 11911. an
C-lyCJU- ft ' '
different from the Improvement designed
for the North Dakota class. The Dread
nought la capable of firing only eight 12
lnch guns on each broadside, or two guns
tu. nn a broadside than the new Amer
ican type of ship will be able to fire. The
original Dreadnought has a 12-Inch turret
In a raised bow deck, two lower 12-inch
turrets on the stern deck and one 12-lnch
ir. nn Mr side, farther forward; but
both of the stem turrets, and the bow
trie turrets are on a deck that Is lower
than the bow turret. Kach of the Dread
nought's turrets has two guns, but the
floor plan of the turret arrangement Is
such that when a broadside is fired on
the Dreadnought one of the side turrets
cannot be Included In the broadside fire
toward the opposite side of the vessel,
and this reduces the Dreadnought's broad
side fire to eight guns, as against the
North Dakota's 10 guns.
England's Fleet of Dreadnoughts.
Every naval power worth while is build
ing Dreadnoughts. The British navy will
have 12 of tnem ready for battle In two
years, while Germany Is building a billion-dollar
fleet. England wiU have three
divisions of these giants out. on the first
line of battleships by the Fall of 1909. and
twice the size of anything Germany will
be able to get together In that time, but
four German Dreadnoughts will be afloat
In 1909, and from that time they will
come U the rate of about three a year
until 1S17.
FIRST DIVISION BATTLESHIPS.
Vessel.
Completed.
Dls- Eceed. Guns.
pi are- 12-lnch.
ment.
17. POO S1.SS 10
18. BO0 21.00 IO
1S.600 21.00 ' 10
le.ooo 21.00 io
DreartnotiKrtt ....ItS
Bellerophon ISO
Temoralre lx
BuDorb lt09
SECOND DIVISION BATTLESHIPS.
St. Vincent !!" 19.250 21.00 1 0
ColllTiKWood ....1010 10.2SO 21.00 10
Vnuard 11 19.2M) 21.00 10
Anion 110 20.000 21.00 10
THIRD DIVISION BATTLE CRTjSIERS
Invincible A 100S 1T.2R0 2 00
Inflexible 17.2S0 2H.00 S
Indomitable H'S 17.2SO -H.ttO X
New Invincible... 1U0S 13.000 28.00 2
The total displacement of these three
divisions of Dreadnoughts will not be
less than 221.200 tons. This Is about the
displacements of the fleet of IS battle
ships which "Fighting Bob" Evans took
on his voyage to the Pacific Coast of the
United States. The 16 battleships In the
Atlantic fleet making that voyage had
an aggregate displacement of 223.43S
tons. In other words, the 12 chips of the
proposed Dreadnought fleet displace
ment In the aggregate 2238 tons less than
the 18 ships of the Atlantic fleet which
made the voyage around South America.
Another way of putting It would be to
say that four strips less In number dis
place the same number of tons.
Broadside of 112 Big Guns.
The 12 vessels mentioned carry a total
of 112 big guns, all of the same caliber
12 inches. All except 16 of these guns
represent a broadside fire. If the 12
Dreadnoughts were stretched out in sin
gle column formation, with the greatest
possible number of their heavy guns
trained on the beam, they would present
to the enemy a total broadside fire of
96 big guns, each of 12-lnch caliber.
Compare this with the 16 battleships
which Rear Admiral Evans took to the
Pacific Ocean. If they were stretched
out In single column formation they
would be able to present a broadside
fire of 48 12-lnch and 16 13-inch guns.
The total number of guns that can be
trained on a single Broadside In the 16
American ships Is 222, but 53 of them are
of eight-inch caliber, SO are of seven
Inch, 62 are of six-Inch and 14 are of
five-inch caliber. The total of guns of
over four-inch caliber in the main bat
tery of the 18 American veasels is 356.
Germany's Billion-Dollar Fleet.
Germany stands committed to" an aver
age annual expenditure on her navy of
JHH.Soo.OOO; four years ago the annual
outlay was less than half this sum.
which strikingly represents the naval
ambitions of the country. The ten-year
bonding progra'nrma sanctioned by the
Reichstag this year calls for a total ex
penditure of $1,043,000,000. The scheme
originated in 1908. but was delayed, ow
ing to the advent of the British Dread
nought. The re.ult Is that the original
sum of $736,500,000 has been swollen to
the above amount, and of the $245,000,
000 added, practically $180,000,000 Is for
new construction.
Germany has this proclaimed in
plain language before the world the
extent of her martial ambition. That
she will do her utmost to realize this
ambition is as certain as anything in
this mutable world may be. Speaking
at Bremen a few years ago, the Kaiser
uttered those words which have since
assumed a greater significance than
was at first attributed to tnem. "Our
future." he said, "lies on the water.
German Interests and German honor
must be protected in distant seas, and
to this end Germany must be powerful
on the sea."
It Is but natural that Germany's
great awakening to maritime ambitions
has created a steadily-growing uneasi
ness in Great Britain, who sees her
century-old undisputed naval suprem
acy threatened by a formidable and
determined neighbor.
Order 38 Battleships.
Germany's naval programme calls
for 24 battleships of the Dreadnought
class. Under the new programme 17
German battleships will be replaced In
the period from 1908 to 1917; three
each In 1908, 1909 and 1910; two in
d one each year from 1912 to
1917. In addition to the ships thus re
placed, tnere will be four new arm
ored cruisers of the British Invincible
class built between 19a8 and 1912. one
each year, under the original navy act
Of 1900.
The German programme for 1908 is
three Dreadnaughts, one Invincible,
two small cruisers of 24.5 ltnots, and 12
larere destroyers. This programme is
to be repeated in 1909 and 1910. The
building programme during the period
1908-1917 will be as follows:
Three battleships of Dreadnought
improved class to be built each year
In 190S-9-10.
Two battleships of Dreadnought Im
proved class to be built, in 1911.
One battleship of Dreadnought im
proved class to be built each year
from 1912 to 1917.
One armored cruiser each year from
1908 to 1917, including six to be re
placed. Total built after 1S07: Seventeen bat
tleships and 10 armored cruisers,
making 27 ships of the line; In addi
tion to 19 scouting cruisers and 48 de
stroyers, to say nothing of destroyers
to be built after 1911.
It is estimated that by 1914 the Ger
man navy will consist of 37 battleships
and 14 large cruisers "in commission."
Of these. IS battleships will be of
19,000 and more tons displacement; 10
of 13,000 tons: 10 of over 11.000 tons,
and four of 10.000 tons. There will be
five large cruisers of 18,000 tons at
least, one of 15,000 tons, two of 11,500
tons, one of 10,500 tons, and five of
DREADNOUGHTS BUILDING
GREAT BRITAIN.
Battleships srd battery.
Dreadnought, ten 12-ln
Belleropbon, ten 12-in
Temeralne. ten 12-ln
St. Vincent, ten 12-ln
Superb, ten 12-in
t'ollinuwood, ten 12-ln
Vanjruard. ten 12-ln
Anson, ten 12-ln
Invincible, elffht 12-ln
Indexible, eight 12-ln :.
IndomltaWe. eight 12-ln
New Invincible, eight 12-ln..
GERMANY.
Nassau. 12 11 -In
Fanrhen. 12 11-in
Baden. 12 Jl-in
Otdnbnrg, 12 11-ln
Slccfrled. 12 11-in
Wurttemburg. 12 11-in
Beowulf. 12 11-ln
Bleucher. 12 11-ln
25 others of the above clsas unnamed. 1
JAPAN.
Fatsuma, four 12-ln
kl. 12 10-ln
Huke. 12 12-ln
Vnnameu. J 2 12-ln
Unnamed. 12 12-ln
UNITKD STATES.
North Dakota, ten 12-in .'.
Delaware, ten 12-in
Utah, te.n 12-ln
Florida, ten 12-ln
' FRANCE.
Dauton, four 12-ln. and 12 0-ln
Nlrabeau. four 12-ln. and 12 D-ln
Condorcat, four 12-ln. and 12 tf-ln
Diderot, four 12-in. and 12 i-in
Verglnaud, four 12-in. and 12 i)-ln
Voltaire, four 12-ln. and 12 -ln
Unnamed, 12 12-in
Five others of the same class as last named.
RUSSIA.
Unnamed, ten 12-ln
Unnamed, ten 12-in
ten 12-in
ten 12-in
ITALY.
12 12-in
12 12-ln. 4
12 12-ln
12 12-ln -
Unnamed,
Unnamed,
Unnamed.
Unnamed,
Unnamed.
Unnamed,
BRAZIL
Mlnu Geraea. 12 12-in
San Paula. 12 12-inch ,
Rio de Janeiro. 12 12-ln
ARGENTINE RETTBIJC.
Unnamed. 12 12-in
And flv others unnamed of the same class as above.
Speed. Tons Iength.
21 17.9O0 4!W
21 1S.B00 40
, 21 1S.HO0 4!I0
21 IK.K'K) 4K0
, 21 in.2.10 ro
21 19.2T.O r,O0
! 21 10.2.-.0 . .ViO
, 21 20,000 MK
2 17.2SO nno
. 2.". IT.'-') !
, 25 17.2.tO 5m0
, 25 18,000 500
, 21 l.non 472
, 21 19.000 472
21 10.000 4 72
21 in.nnn 472
21 10 000 472
21 19.000 472
21 19.000 472
21 10.000 472
, 20 19.500 4S2
20 19,500 42
21 21,500 .VI7
21 21.SOO H3T
, 21 21.500 637
20 20.000 SI 8
20 20.00O BIS
21 21.850 618
21 21,800 618
20 18.000 475
. 20 18,000 476
20 18,000 475
20 18.000 ' 475
20 18,000 475
20 18.000 475
21 20.000 500
20 21.000 , BOO
20 21,000 BOO
20 21,000 BOO
20 21.000 600
24 19.000 BOO
24 19.000 BOO
24 19.000 500
24 19.000 800
21 20,000 BOO
21 20,000 8"0
21 20,000 500
21 20.000 600
9000 and S500 tons. The total tonnage
of the fleet would amount to more
than twice the present figure.
There are now 20 German battleships
classed as effective In commission. The
Baden, Wurttemberg. Bayern and Sach
sen are to be ready in 1910. In 1920, under
the proposed project, the high sea fleet
would consist of 24 battleships of the
Dreadnought class, ranging from 19.000
tons to over 20.000 tons: ten of the
DeutschlancV and Braunschweig classes of
13.200 tons each, and four ships of the
Witteslbaeh classes of 11,800 tons, all fit
to fight.
England Accents Challenge.
Premier Asquith set forth in the Eng
lish House of Commons only a few days
ago what was meant by the two-power
naval strength of Great Britain, and hts
announcement brought out hearty cheers
from all sides. Up to the present time
Mr. Asquith had been noncommittal con
cerning a radical definition of this
standard, which the government Is
pledged to maintain.
'The Premier informed the House that
the government accepted the two-power
standard as meaning a preponderance of
10 per cent over the combined strength
in capital ships of the two next strongest
naval powers.
This statement is taken to confirm the
belief held In naval circles that at least
six, and perhaps seven, additional ships
of the Dreadnought type will be provided
for In the next naval estimates, and that
Great Britain is to maintain double the
number of battleships under th- German
flag. At the same time England's 25-knot
Invincible broke the world's record by
steaming 28 kots in an hour.
Supremacy on the Pacific.
Representative Richard Pearson Hob
son, of Merrimac fame, In urging the
last session of Congress to build more
battleships, said:-
"The events of the last few years have
doubled the exposure of America. For
merly our Navy was maintained on the
basis of protecting the Atlantic. Now we
have to protect our possessions in the
Pacific, and our Atlantic as well as our
Pacific seaboard. We have but one fleet
with which. to do this. It would bo folly
to divide the fleet. Consequently we are
defenseless in the Atlantic today, just as
we weTe defenseless in the Pacific last
year. A nation of Europe Is liable to
be allied with a nation of Asia. There
fore, our Navy ought logically to be
doubled. '
"A revolution in naval architecture fol
lowed the Russo-Japanese "War. All the
other great nations have been rushing the
confitruction of a new type of warship
conservatively estimated as equivalent in
power to at least three of the type now
constituting our fleet.
"Though we now have a margin of su
periority in the Pacific over Japan, this
margin will disappear as Japan's new big
ships are added to her present fleet.
This being the situation, the President
and Navy Department have urged upon
the House committee on naval affairs
the providing of four new battleships of
the highest class. Five members of the
committee voted to recommend to the
House the four new battleships asked for
by the Administration. The majority of
the committee voted to cut the recom
mendation down to two battleships. .
"The House would certainly vote bil
lions If the country should be come in
volved In war. It takes several years to
build a first-class battleship. A crisis
has to be met with the ships on hand.
It Is simple logic, therefore, that we
mut prepare for the future."
What TJncle Sam 19 Doing.
After a month of hearings the House
committee on naval affairs met for the
purpose of voting upon the programme
for the increase in the Navy and au
thorizing the reporting of the Naval ap
propriation bill to the House of Repre
sentatives. The Naval bill agreed upon
carried, in round numbers, items aggre
gating over $102.000,000 a very material
reduction from the estimates submitted
by Secretary Metcalf through the Treas
ury Department.
Sentiment in the House committee
strongly favored the adoption of the
entire "four-battleship programme" of
the Administration, but intimations had
come from the powerful House com
mittee on appropriations that the plea
of economy would be urged against that
project on account of the condition of the
Treasury. The naval committee, there
fore, decided to cut the battleship pro
gramme in two, and to eliminate entire
ly the recommendations for scouts, col
liers, ammunition vessels, mine-laying
craft and repair ships.
The naval Increase recommended by the
House naval committee for consideration
by the House was as follows:
Two battleships of the same type
as the Delaware class $19,000,000
Ten torpedoboat destroyers 8.500,000
Eight submarine torpedoboat. . . . 8.O4O.000
Total for Increase of the Navy .$80,640,000
The total amount thus recommended
for the Increase of the Navy was not half
as large as the appropriation which the
general board, the board on construction.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf and Presi
dent Roosevelt urged upon the attention
of Congress. The naval increase which
the Administration recommended was as
follows:
Four battleships of the Delaware
class $38,000,000
Four scout cruisers of the Ches
ter class
Ten destroyers
Four submarines
One ammunition ship
One repair ship
Two mlne-levlna- ships (conver
sion of existing sliips)
Four fleet cotliers
10.000.000
8.5OO.000
1.32O.O00
1.7.-0.000
2,000,000
500.000
7.0O0.IIO0
Great Fighter.
Total $(19,270,000
The total amount recommended by the
House committee was approximately $S,
Xm.0iX loss than the Administration asked
for the four battleships alone, to say
nothing of the rest of the programme
recommended by Secretary Metcalf and
the President.
Xorth Dak'ota
The North Dakota. America's first
turbine battleship, was launched Novem
ber 10, at the works of the Fore River
Shipbuilding Company at Quincy. Mass.
Captain Charles J. Badger, Superintend
ent of the Naval Academy, Is to lie the
first Commander of the new battleship.
When placed in commission it will be 51S
feet long over all, with a breadth of 85
feet 2 5-8 Indies. She will have a dis
placement of 20.000 tons, which is 2000
in excess of the original British Dread
nought. She is expected to attain 21
knots speed, and develop 25,000-horse-power.
Her complement will be 900 ofll
cers and men; her total cost $7,000,000. The
North Dakota will have: Ten'12-lncn
breech-loading long-range rifles; 14 five
inch rapid-fire guns; two three-inch field
pieces; two 60-caliber machine guns; two
21-Inch submerged torpedo tubes. Her
armor will be eight Inches thick around
the hull. The vessel was 60 Dnr cent
completed when launched. This is a
new record, as only 2S2 working davs had
elapsed since her keel was laid, on De
cember 18, 1907. Sometime in 1310 sho
will be turned over to the Government
enemy In a rain of shot and sliell
and noxious gases. It is the theory
of the all-hlg-gun ship that she
will smash and sink an adversary
In short ordor. When England built
the Dreadnought, Immediately after
the Japan-Russia battle of Tsu-Shlma,
and made It a singlo-tuliber, Lieutenant
Domville, of the French Navy, in a study
of the lessons to he drawn from the
Russo-Japanese war. declared himself In
opposition to the all-big-gun ship, and
argued for an Intermediate battery of
moderate range. At Tsu-Shlma. he de
clared, there were the same number of
large guns on the Russian and Japanese
fleets, but the Japanese had many 6-Inch
guns, which did much to obtain the vic
tory. Some French officers of high repu
tation agree w-ith Lieutenant Domville
that nothing Is equal to a dense sheaf
of gun tire enveloping a hostil ship in
a blanket of continuous flame. The rapid
ity of lire of the intermediate battery
allows this result.
But disregarding these conditions. th
French naval experts resolutely excluded
the Intermediate battery. They chose a
double-caliber of 12 and 9-inch guns, ar
guing out from the principle that if battle
was joined at long range say S00O yards
It would be necessary at that distance
to use armor piercing shell. In that
case the 12-inch gun is Indicated rather
than the 9.5-lnch. But as fleets approach
each other It would be necessary to
employ a gun with a more rapid rate of
fire than the 12-inch In order to cover
the enemy with blows and with flame of
a very high temperature. However, most
navies and f rrt.s are for the big 12-lnch
guns. The .stiois. What is to ho
accomplished? Shall the enemy's ship
be sunk by piercing her .armor, or to dis
able her by enveloping her In a storm of
shot, flames and noxious gases? It is
argued that shells with large explosive
charges which, bursting on the target,
will loosen armor plates, asphyxiate the
gun crews and even the stokers In the
depths of the ship.
FIRST AID FOR FRISBE
CON'TINCED FllOM PAGE FIVK
until he's led Frlsbie over to our table
and we're planted around it.
"You turned In those securities all right,
did you?" says he.
"Securities!" says Frisbie, with a kind
of a foolish nervous laugh. "Oh, yes,
I turned them in, Mr. Gordon."
"And they went through, eh?" says
Pyramid.
"With a rush," says Frisbie. "We were
a little too busy down at our place this
afternoon to look into things very sharp.
Couldn't stop to check up every package
that came In."
"You opened that one on your own
hook, though. Eh? What?" growls Mr.
Gordon, ahovin' his Jaw out.
T I I only thought" begins Frlsbie;
going to pieces under the third degree
business in a way that showed what an
amatuer he was at that kind of hold-up.
"Well, you found out what was inside,
didn't you?" snaps Pyramid. "What was
your next move? Those yellowbacks
somebody make you a present for being
so cute?"
Frlsbie had turned from pink to white,
and now he was showin' green streaks,
like a slice of Roquefort cheese. His
chin sags on h.s four-inch collar and his
stary eyes looks like they was vlewln'
an ambulance case. All of a sudden he
braces up and stares square back at Mr.
Gordon.
"I borrowed that package," says he.
"Borrowed, eh?" sneers Pyramid. "Huh!
You borrowed! On what kind of secur
ity f
"The same kind that you gave, Mr.
Gordon cigarette coupons." says he.
Say, for a minute I thought Pyramid
was coin' to blow out a fuse. His jaw
shuts with a click like a spring took,
his eyes narrows down to pin points, and
he glares at Frisbie like he was goin to
jump down Ills throat. But It all ends In
one of them cut granite grins of his.
"There's this difference in it, though,
mv boy," says he, slow and quiet: By
tomorrow night you will probably be
making up your bed in t,Tonibs
That rings the bell. Frisbie hadnt
looked ahead so far as that, and the
mention of It crumples him up like drop
pin' a steel girder on a peach basket H s
head goes down into his hands and his
elbows hit the table.
About then it begins to filter through
my mind what Sadie'd been tellin me
of him and Ethel. Seems the girl had
been good and gone on him for a couple
of years, and he has it Just as bad But
Ethel's folks, bavin' all kinds of dough
themselves, shies at a bridegroom whose
cash on hand wouldn't finance a weddin
trip to Rahway and back. Their decision
was that when Frisbie could save up
enough to do a two weeks' honeymoon
In style he could have Ethel, and then
come home to live. But they'd put a
time limit on, and it was most up. Be
memberln' some of this, and callln up
the picture of little Ethel over there, and
how admirin' she had looked at Frlsbie,
I can't help makln' a noise like a goat.
"Excuse me for btittin' in on this game,
Mr. Gordon," says I: "but I want to
say right hern that If "
"Shorty, will you please shut up until
rm through here!" says he. "Now, Fris
bie, keeping that Tombs engagement In
view, what amount did you er bor
row, and how?"
With that Frisbie gives up. He
slipped a bunch of gold bonds out of a
safetv deposit envelop, stuffed In e
of them cigarette premium papers that
got up to look almost like a real thing,
and hocked the genuine stuff for a thou
sand. . ,
"Could you manage to put em back in
the morning?" says Pyramid.
"Easy," says Frlsbie.
"And If I should let you keep what
ever vou mav have left." goes on Mr.
Gordon, "would you promise to quit
"Id resign the day after." says Frlsbie.
Gordon looks him over keen for a min
ute or so; then he sticks out his hand
"Frisbie." says he. "you know too much
for a messenger and too little for any
thing else. I'm going to Invest just about
a thousand to get you out of the bank
ing business. Is it a go?"
It was.
"If this gentlemen's agreement is u
settled." says I. "suppose we go back
to the ladies. They're gettiu' lonesome.
Which we does, and winds up with a
mighty pleasant time. Frisbie makln'
plans with Ethel to have a private in
terview with the old folks, Sadie whls
perln' to me what a nice hoy he was.
and Mr. Gordon lightin' up a.3-cent
cigar real satisfied and comfortable after
the spread and the interview he'd had
with Frlsbie.
The onlv one that seems much worried
is Swifty Joe. Every day for the next
week until they come back by special
messenger, all wrapped In a $20 bill -he
kept pesterln" me about them cigarette
coupons.
"Ah. say. Swifty." says I. 'youre
enough to start a panic, all by yourself.
Them coupons Is safe. Let 'em lay.
You don't want to disturb the whole
financial system, do you. Just for the
sake of gettin' a safety razor?"
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A Vagary.
Cleveland Leader.
Man-. Mary, quite contrary.
Tell 'me. Mary, teli ine true
Tom s a darling boy, but dare he
Merry Mary, marry you 7
Dick s a loving lud, but wary.
And you'll Hnd that timid, scarry
Harry, very wary. too.
Mary. Mary, quite contrary.
Tell re. Mary, tell nie true
Do you think such arbitrary
Treatment of your beaux will deT
Think now youth's but temporary
Lovers' tempers often vary
Often long for something new.
Man-. Mary, quite contrary,
Tell me, Mary, tell me true
Do you court a solitary
r.lfe, who flout the lads that woof
Coyness may be necessary
Stubbornness Is not. Be ehary.
Or you'll soon be wearing rue.
Mary. Mary, quite contrary.
Tell me Mary, tell me true
Have you found your stranite vaesry
Satisfying through and thiouKli?
Cut It out, you airy fairy!
(Here the rhymlnjc dictionary
Quits, or we'd band out a roesf)