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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, 'N. C, FRIDAY AFjuiUNOOK, APRIL 8, 1921- 13 O. HENRY Stotyg Day vrifrht. 1920, by Doubleday, Page: Published by Special Arrangement With CP- 6 the Wheeler syndicate. Inc. THE FIFTH WHEEL. The ranks of the Bed Line moved ,rothpr: for it was coia, coia. F5 wore alluvial deposit of .the P m of Hfe lodged in the delta of t r, venue and Broadway. The r'"la Tiners stamped their freezing sFetl at the empty benches in n auare whence Jack Fronsi fad e a confusion of tonerues .. niouiti . Flat iron isuuaing, : : witn cloud-piercing aremtec- ig mistily above therq, on Witft delta, might well have irhe Lre loomin art 1 1 iT i I I t nnn TO" luc: ""'v' " ' " 0 Mrnt idlers had been called tie Wingea wainmj uciioc JJ- -'han nis Hock of goats, the Preach r ...l'i-tpii whatever transient and I 'ft'iig audience the north wind doled V to him- It: was a slave market. Pven cents bought you a man. You Wded liim to Morpheus; and the rs Udimr angel gave you credit. . 3 "Preacher was incredibly earnest Li unwearied. He had looked over i"e list of things one may do 'for La'o fellow man, and had assumed him fe!f the task of putting to bed iWRHEBS IBIEN1) j For Expectant Mothers Used By Three Geheiutiohs BOOKLET 00 BOTHIRHOOD AID Tt BABY, Mil f,, REGULATOR CO., DEPT. W. ATLAHTA. A. The Prettiest Lawns Didn't Grow That Way THEY WERE CAREFULLY ATTENDED TO (een-Kutter LAWK Are First Aids to a Beauti ful Lawn START NOW TO CARE FOR THE GRASS Even as. complete as is our stock of other lines of hard ware, so are we prepared to provide lor your needs in equipment to beautify the grounds around your home and cultivate your flowers. Mathesoa Hardware & Paint Company Everything in Good Hard ware, Paints and House Furnishings 30 West Trade St. Phone 175 all who might apply at his soap box on tne nights of Wednesday and Sun day. That left but five niehts for other philanthropists to handle; and had they done their part as well, this wicked city might have become a vast Arcadian dormitory where all might snooze and snore the happy hours away, letting problem plays and the rent man and business go to the aeuce. The hour of eight was but a little while past; sightseers in a small, dark mass of pay ore were gathered in the shadow of General Worth's monument. Now and then, shyly, ostentatiously, carelessly, or with conscientious exact ness one would step forward and be stow upon the Preacher small bills or silver. Then a lieutenant of Scandi navian coloring and enthusiasm would march away to a lodging house with a squad of the redeemed. All the while the Preacher exhorted the crowd in terms beautifully devoid of eloquence splendid with the deadly, accusive monotony of truth. Before the pic ture of- the Bed Liners fades you must hear one phrase of the Preach er'sthe one that formed his thems that night. It is worthy of beins stenciled on all the white ribbons in the world- ao man ever learned to be a drunkard on five-cent whiskey." Think of it, tippler. It covers the ground from the sprouting rye ta the Potter's Field. 1 r- . - a ciean-prontea, erect voune mar. in the rear rank of the bedless emulat ed the terrapin, drawing his head far down into the shell of his coat col lar. It was a well-cut tweed coat; and the trousers still showed signs of having flattened themselves be neath the compelling goose. But, con scientiously. I must warn the milliner's apprentice who reada this, expecting a Reginald Montgressor in straits, to peruse no runner. xne young man was no other than Thomas McQuade, ex-coachman, discharged for drunk enness one month before, and now reduced to the grimy ranks of the one-night bed seekers. If you live in smaller New Tork you must know the Van Smythe family carriage, drawn by the two 1.500-pound, 100 to 1-shot bays. The earriage is shaped like a bath-tub. In each end of it reclines an old lady Van Smythe holding a black sun shade the size of a New Year's Eve feather .tickler. Before his downfall Thomas McQuade .drove the Van Smuythe bays and was himself driven by Annie, the Van Smuythe lady's maid. But it is one of the saddest things about romance that a tight shoe of an empty commissary or an i aching tooth will make a temporary heretic of any Cupid-worshiper. And Thomas's physical troubles were not few. Therefore, his soul was less vex ed with thoughts of his lost lady's maid than it was by the fancied pres ence or certain non-existent things that his racked nerves almost con vine-? ed "him were flying, dancing, crawl ing and wriggling on the asphalt and in the air above and around the dis mal campus of the Bed Line army. Nearly four weeks of straight whiskey and a diet limited to crackers.bologna and pickles often guarantees a psy chozoological sequel. Thus desperate, freezing, angry, beset by phantoms as he was, he . felt the need . of human sympathy and intercourse. The Bed Liner standing at his right was a young man of about his own age, shabby but neat. "What's the diagnois of your case, Freddy?" asked Thomas, with the free masonic familiarity of the damned "Booze? That's mine. You don't look like a panhandler. Neither am I. A month ago I was pushing the lines over the backs of the finest team of Percheron buffaloes that ever made their mile down Fifth Avenue in 2.58. And-look at me' now! Say; how do you ' J a Lot in Dilworth. Users o esinol an? quick, to recommend it They hare learned from experi ence that no matter how many other treatments, hare been tried without success Reeinol Ointment la of ten the very thing to bring speedy relief from eczema or similar itching, em bcrrassing eruptions. 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COCHRAN & ROSS CO. a 15 West Fourth St. come to be at this beg bargain-counter rummage sale?" The other young man seemed to wel come the advance of the airy ex- ooachman. "No," said he, "mine isn't exactly a case of drink. Unless we allow that Cupid is a bartender. I married un wisely, according to the opinion of my unforgiving relatives. I've been out of work for a year because I don't know how to work; and I've been sick in Bellevue and other hospitals four months. My wife and . kid had to go back to her mother. T was turned out of the hospital yesterday., And I haven't a cent. That's -my tale of woe." "Tough luck," said Thomas." "A man alone can pull through all right. But I hate to see the women and - kids get the worst of it." Just then there hummed up Fifth Avenue a motor car so splendid, so red, so smoothly running, so craftily demolishing the speed regulations that it drew the attention even of x. the listless Bed Liners. Suspended and pinioned on its left side was an extra tire. When opposite the unfortunate cmo- pany the fastenings of this tire be came loosed. It fell to the asphalt, bounded and rolled rapidly in the wake of the flying car, Thomas McQuade, scenting an op portunity, darted from his place among the Preacher's goats. In thirty seconds he had caught the rolling tire, swung it over his shoulder, and was trotting smartly after the car. On both sides of the avenue people were shouting, whistling, and waving canes at the red car, pointing to the enter prising Thomas coming up with the lost tire. One dollar, Thomas had estimated, was the smallest guerdon that so grand an automobilist could offer for the service he had rendered, and save his pride. Two blocks away the car had stop ped. There was a. little, brown, muf fled . chauffeur driving, and an im posing gentleman wearing a magnifi cent sealskin coat and a silk hat on a rear seat. Thomas proffered the captured tire with his best ex-coachman manner and a look in the brighter "of his reddened eyes that was meant to be suggestive to the extent of a silver coin or two and exceptive up to higher demnom- Inauons. But the look was not so -construed The seal skinned gentleman receive! tne tire, placed it inside the car, gaz ed intently at the ex-coachman, and muttered to himself inscrutable words. "Strange strange!" said he. "Oncn or twice even I. myself, have fancied that the Chaldean Chiroscope has avail ed, uouid it be possible?" inen he addressed less mysterious words to the waiting and hopeful x nomas. "Sir, I thank you'for your kind res cue of my tire. And I would ask you. if I may, a question. Do you know the family of Van Smuythes living in vvasnington square North?" "Oughtn't I to" replied Thomas. "1 lived there. Wish I did yet." The seal skinned gentleman opened a cioor or the car. "Step in, please," he said. "You have been expected." rnu . . . t w yv . iituiiuis ivicviuaae ODeyea with r.ur prise out witnout hesitation. A seat in a motor car seemed better than standing room in the Bed Line. But after the lap-robe had been tucked about him and the auto had sped on its course, the peculiarity of the invi tation lingered m his mind. xviayDe tne guy nasn't got any change," was his diagnosis. Lots' of these swell rounders don't lug about any ready money. Guess he'll dump tvj out when he gets to some Joint where he can get cash on his mug. Anyhow, it s a cmcn that I've got .that open air bed convention beat to' .a finish'.' bu&merged in his great coat, the mysterious automobilist seemed, him self, to marvel at the surprises of life "Wonderful amazing! strange!" he re peatea to nimseir constantly. When the car had well entered the crosstown Seventies it swung eastward a half block and stopped before a row of high-stooped, brownstone-front houses. - "Be kind enough to enter ray house witn me," said the seal skinned gen tieman when they had alighted. "He' going to dig up, sure," reflected Thorn as, toliowmg mm inside. There was a dim light in the hall His host conducted him through a door door to the left, closing it after him and leavine them in absolute darkness Suddenly a luminous' elobe. straneeJv decorated, shone faintly in the center of an immense room that seemed to Thomas more splendidly appointed than any he had ever seen on the stage or read yof in fairy stories. The walls were hidden by gorgeons red hangings embroidered with fantastic gold figures. At the rear end of the room were draped portieres of dull gold spangled with silver crescents an? stars. The furniture was of the cost liest and rarest styles. The ex-coachman's feet sank into rugs as fleecy and deep as snowdrifts. There were three or four oddly shaped stands or stables covered with black velvet drap ery. Thomas McQuade took in the splen dors of this palatial apartment with one eye., With the other he looked for his imposing conductor to find that he had disappeared, "B'gee!" muttered Thomas, "this lis tens like a spook shop. Shouldn't won der if it ain't one of these Moravian Nights' adventures that you read about. Wonder what become of the furry guy.' Suddenly a stuffed owl that stood on an ebony perch near the illuminated globe slowly raised his wings and emitted from his eyes a brilliant elec tric glow. With a fright-born imprecation, Thomas seized a, bronae statuette of Hebe from a cabinet near by and hurl ed it with all his might at the terrify ing and impossible fowl. The owl an I his perch went over with a crash. With the sound there was a click, an! the room was flooded with light from a dozen frosted globes along the walla and ceiling. , The gold portieres 'part ed and closed, and the mysterious au tomobilist entered the room. Ho was tall and wore evening dress of perfect cut and accurate taste. A Vandyke beard of glossy, golden brown, rather long and wavy hair, smoothly ' parted, and large, . magnetic, orientally occult eyes gave him a most impressive and strikinar aDDearance. If you can con ceive a Russian Grand Duke in a Ra jah's throne-room advancing to greet a visiting emperor, you win gamer something of the majesty of his man ner nut Thomas McQuade was too near his d t's to be mindful of his p"s and q's. When he viewed this silk en, polished, and somewhat terrifying host he thoueht vaguely of dentist?. "Sv dnc." said he resentfully, "that s a hot bird you keep on tap. I hope X didn't break anything. But I've nea. iv tmt tha wiiliwalloos. and vn?n he threw them 32-candlevowefc, lamps i yf his en me, I took a snap-snot at nuu wit-h that little brass. Flatlron Girl that stood on the sideboard." "That is merely a mechanical toy said the gentleman with a wave his hand. "May I ask you to be seatei while I explain why. I brought you pprhans vou would not ur Hrand nor be in sympathy with.th psychological prompting that causes me to do so. So I will come to M point at once by venturing to refer , to your admission that you know the van Smuythe family, of Washington Square North. "Any silver missing?" asked Thomas tartly. "Any joolry displaced? Of course I know 'em. Ahy of" the "old" ladies' sunshades disappeared? Well, I know 'em. And then what?" The Grande Duke rubbed his white hands together softly. "Wonderful!" he murmured. "Won derful! Shall I come to believe in the Chaldean Chiroscope myself? Let ?r.e assure you," he continued, "that there is nothing for you to fear. Instead, I think I can promise you that vcry good fortune awaits you. We will see." "Do they want me back?" asked Thomas, with something of his old pro fessional pride in bis voice. "Ill prem ise to cut out the booze and do th-a right thing if they 11 vtry me again. But how did you get Wise, doc? B'gee, it's the swellest employment aeencv I was ever in, with its flashlight, owls and so forth. With an indulgent smile the gracious host begged to b& excused for two min utes. He went out to the sidewalk and gave an order to the chauffeur, who still waited with the car. Returning to the mysterious apartment, he sat by his guest and began to entertain him i so weu Dy nis witty ana genial con verse that the poor Bed Liner almost forgot the cold streets from which he had been so recently and so singularly rescued. A servant brought some ten der cold fowl and tea biscuits and a glass of miraculous wine; and Thomas felt the glamor of Arabia envelop him. Thus half an hour sped quickly; und then the honk of the returned motor car at the door suddenly drew the Grand Duke to his feet, with another soft petition for a brief absence. PERFUMED MALES1 CUSSED HUSBAND! "Pretty Boys" Should Be' Voliva, OPPOSED TO 44-HOUR WEEK. Chicago, April 8. The executive council of the Typothetae of America in a statement Thursday night denied that it had ever agreed to introduc tion of the 44-hour week. The state ment was issued to correct what were termed erroneous reports that the or ganization had approved the 44-hour week. .. Chicago, Illi., April 8. Comes 8 gain before us Mr. Wilbur Glenn Vo liva, overseer of Zion City, and in forms the hemisrheres on "The Cussed ness of Modem Husbands to Their Wives," to wit: - . "A man goes into a home and courts a beautiful girl. She has a lovely father and mother, and the most charm ing surroundings. "He sits there with oil in his hair, a perfumed handkerchief in his pock et, and buckwheat batter on his head. He says: " 'Now, darling humpty-dumpty, if you only will promise to be mine you will never have to put your hands in dishwater and I will dress you in silks and satin.' "The infernal liar! "She has her hands in dishwater two-thirds of the time after she mar ries him. They have four sweet little children. He is an Odd Fellow on Monday night, playing the dunce; an Elk on Tuesday night, a Buffalo on Wednesday night, a Maecabee on Thurs day night and a Bumblebee on Friday , night. "He leaves, hia wife at home with the children while he is out fooling around, wearing a little apron In a se cret lodge room. "If I were , in her place I would sew him up in a bed-quilt, beat him with a broom and put a kitchen apron on him and make him wash the dishes." Further than this, deponent saith not. o rJ B 1 I I l f y o (J u How About Your Danger Zone? You've got it every human being is born with it your large intestine, or colon. 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