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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C , FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 3, 192L CABBAGES AND KINGS By O. HENRY Copyright, 1921, by Doubleday, Page & Co.; Published by special arrangement with the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc. , TWO RECALLS. Continued fr&m Thursday. . v..- remain three duties to be per- without disturbing the slumbering Mir- formed before tlie curtain falls uponlacles. Thiman was short and com pactly DU11L. XatJ HAUL UUIIVIUC, UCUU th natrhed comedy. Two have been promised; the third in no less obliga tory. It was set forth in the programme of this tropic vaudeville that it would b made known why Shorty O'Day, of the Columbia Detective Agency, lost his position. -Also that Smith should coma again to tell us what. mystery he fol lowed that night on the shores of An churia when he strewed so many cigar stumps around the cocoanut palm dur ing his lonely night vigil on the beach. These things were promised; but a big ger thing yet remains to be accom plishedthe clearing up of a seeming wfong that has been done according; to the array of chronicled facts (truth fully set forth) that have been present ed. And one voice, speaking, shall do these three things. Two men sat on a stringer of a North River pier- in the City of New York. A steamer from the tropics had begun to unload bananas and oranges on the pier. Now and then a banan'i or two would fall from an overripe bunch, and one of the two men would shamble forward, seize the fruit and return to share it with his companion. One of the men was in the ultimate . stage of deterioration. As far as ram and wind and ' sun could wreck the garments he wore, it had been done. In his person the ravages of drink were as plainly visible. And yet, upon his high-bridged, rubicund nose was jauntily perched a pair of shining and flawless gold-rimmed glasses. The other man was not so far gone upon the descending Highway of the Incompetents. . Truly, the flower of his manhood had gone to seed seed that, perhaps, no soil might sprout. But there were still cross-cuts along where he travelled through which he might yet regain the pathway of usefulness J WHEREVER the itching, and whatever the cause, Resinol Ointment usually stops it at once. Easy and economical to use. Try it and see. 'Your draggiit sails it. Resinol eye, like that of a sting-ray, and t,he mnnatnohn nf a cocktail mixer. "We know the eye and the moustache; w know that Smith or tne luxurious yacht, the, gorgeous raiment, the mys terious mission, the magic disappear ance, has come again,' though shorn Qf the accessories of his former state. . At his third banana, the man with the nose glasses spat it from him with a shudder. "Deuce take all fruit!" he remarked, in a patrician tone of disgust. "The memory of their taste lingers with you. The oranges are . not so bad. Just see if you can gather a couple of them, O'Day, when the next broken crate comes up." "Did you live down with the mon keys?" asked the other, made tepidly garrulous by the sunshine and the al leviating meal of juicy fruit. "I was down there, once myself. But only for a few hours. That was when I. whs with the Columbia Detective Agency. The monkey people did me up. I'd have my job yet if it hadn't been for them. I'll tell you about . it. '.'One day the chief sent" a note aroundto the office that read: 'Send O'Day here at once for a big piece cf business.' I was the crack detective of the agency at that time. They always handed me the 'big jobs. The address the chief wrote from was down in the Wall Street district. "When I 'got. there I found him in a private office with , a lot of ; directors who were looking pretty fuzzy. Thev stated the case. The president of the Republic Insurance Company had skip ped with about a tenth of a million dollars in cash. The directors want ed him back pretty bad, but they want ed the money worse. .They said they needed it.. They had traced the oid gent's movements to where he boarded a tramp fruit steamer bound for South America that same : morning with his daughter and . a big gripsack all the family he had. "One of the directors had his steam yacht coaled and with steam up., ready for a trip; and he turned, her over to me, cart blongsh. In four hours I was on board of her, and hot on the trail of the fruit tub. I had a pretty good idea where old Wahrfield that was his name, J. Churchill Wahrfield would head for. At that time we had a treaty with about every foreign country ex cept Belgium and that banana repub lic, Anchuria.. There wasn't a photo of old Wahrfield to be had in Now York he had been foxy there but I had hts description. And besides, the lady with him would be a dead-giveaway anywhere. She was one of the high-flyers in Society not the kind that have their pictures in the Sunday papers but the real sort that open chrysanthemum shows and christen bat tleships. ':. "Well, sir, we never got a sight of that fruit tub on the road. The ocean is a pretty big place; and I guess we took different paths across it. But we kept going toward this Anchuria, uigiu--H--Wti--dfMi The Lawn, Lawn Trail ... . . There's a lawn, lawn trail a winding" About the House where you dwell. Where the Lawn, Lawn grass, is growing In the Sunshine's spell. . There's a Lawn, Lawn Mower waiting In our store, sharp and true, Till the time when it goes mowing down ' That lawn, lawn trail for you. MAKE IT A KEEN KUTTER LAWN MOWER They are so reasonably priced 810.00 t0 $18.50 . -Rubber Lawn Hose in 25 and 50-ft. sections. "JUST LIKE RAIN LAWN SPRINKLERS' Everything for the Lawn and Garden at the "GOOD SERVICE STORE" MATHESON'S 30 West Trade. Phone 175 AKEWOOH PARK Now Open For The Season S?HCoDoNxCES Tuesdav Thursday and Saturday Nights, 8:30 to 11:30. Fine dance hall, good music. Couples, $1.00; Ladies alone, 25c. Reserved seats, 10c. Standing room free. Articles checked, 10c. PRIVATE DANCES, ' Monday, Wednesday, Friday Nights. Secure hall in advance. . . SWIMMING POOL Open daily 8 a. m. to 11 p. m Filtered water changed Monday and Friday nights. Pool thoroughly cleaned before refilling. Everybody learn to swim. GOOD SAFE BOATS on the lake. Learn to row a boat, "'tobe had RACTI0NS N THE GROUNDS the best S!CnnSTIE welcome. cities or country. Plenty, of tables for free use and well lighted. iaft haS Peen' Pra.icallv rebuilt and more than 18,Q00 spent on pavillion. Good order will prevail at all times and the public patronage is solicited in or the parkUaran the continued uPkeep and growth of W. S. ORR, Manager and Deputy Sheriff ?'v' PHONE 9245 i where the fruiter was bound for. "We struck the monkey coast one afternoon about four. There was a ratty-looking steamer off shore taking on bananas. The monkeys were load ing her Up with big barges. It might be the one the old man had taken, and It might , not. I went ashore to look around. The scenery was pretty good. I nev.er saw any finer on the New York stage. I struck an Ameri can on shore, a big,, cool chap, stand ing around with the monkeys. ; He showed me the consul's office. The con sul was a nice young fellow. He said the fruiter was the Karlsefin, run ning generally to New Orleans, but took her last cargo. to New York. Then I was sure, my people were on board, although ' everybody told me that no passengers had landed. - I " didn't think they would land until after dark, for they might have been shy about it on account of seeing vthat yacht of mine hanging around. So, all I had to do was to wait and nab 'em when they came ashore. . I couldn't" arrest old Wahrfield without extradition papers, but. my play was to get the cash. They generally give up if you strike 'em when they're tired .nd -rattled and short on nerve. "After dark 'I sat under a cocoanut tree on the beach for a while, and then I walked around and investigated that town some, and it was enough to give you the lions. If a man could stay in New York and be honest, he'd bet ter do it than to hit that monkey town with a million. "Dinky little mud houses; grass over your shoe tops in the streets; ladies in low - neck - and - short - sleeves walking around smoking cigars; tree frogs rat tling like a hose cart going to a ten blow; big mountains , dropping gravel in tHf Vnlr vara onrl tVio con Unlrino. tVA paint off in front no, sir a man had Dener De in uoa s country living on free lunch than there. "The main street ran along the beach, and I walked down' it, and then turned up a kind of lane where the houses were made of poles and stra. I wanted to see what the monkeys did when they weren't climbing cocoanut trees. The very first shack I looked in I saw my people. They must have come ashore while I was promenading. A man about fifty, smooth face, heavy eyebrows, dressed in black broadcloth, looking like he was just about to say, 'Can any little boy in the Sunday school answer that?' He was freezin? on to a grip that weiglied like a doz en gold bricks, and a swell girl a reg ular peach, with a Fifth avenue cut was sitting on a wooden chair. An old black woman was fixing some coffee and beans on a table. The light they had come from a lantern hung on a nail. I went and stood in- the door, and they looked at me, and I, saidr " 'Mr. Wahrfield, you are my: prison er. I hope, for the lady's sake, you will take the matter: sensibly? You know why I want you.' - "'"Who are you?' says the old gent. " 'O'Day,' says I, 'of the Columbia Detective Agency. And now, sir,, let me give you a piece of good advice. You go back; and take your medicine like a man.' Hand 'em " back the boodle; and maybe they'll let you' off light. Go ; back easy, and I'll put in a word for you. I'll give you five min utes to decide.' I pulled out my watch and waited. "Then the young" lady chipped .in. She was one of the genuine high-steppers. You could tell by the way her clothes fit and the style she had that Fifth avenue was made for her. " 'Come inside,' she says. 'Don't stand in the door and disturb the whole street- with that suit of clothes. Now, what is it you want? ,. " 'Three minutes gone,' I said. 'I'll tell you again while the other two tick off. '"You'll admit being the president' of tlie Republic, won't you? '"I am,' says he. . ."'Well, then," -says I, 'it ought to be nlain to vnn Wo in xtk.rr "York, J. Churchill Wahrfield president oi me .rcepuDiic insurance Company. ' 'Also the funds belonging to said company, now in that grip, in the mv lawful possession of said J. Churchill Wahrfield.' " 'Oh-h-h-h! says the ybung lady.as if she was thinking, 'you want to take Us back to New York?.' '"To take Mr. Wahrfield. There's' no charge against you, miss. There'll hp no objection, of course, to your return ing with your father.' ' "Of a sudden the girl gave a tinv scream and grabbed the old boy around the neck. "Oh, father, father! she says, kind of contralto, 'can this be true? Have you taken money that is not yours? Speak, father!' ; It made you shiver to hear the trpmnln atnn I put ,on her voice. xne old boy looked pretty bughouse when she first grappled him, but shu went on, whispering in his ear and patting his off shoulder till he stood still, but sweating a little. . "She got him to one side and they talked together a minute, and then he put on some gold eyeglasses : and walk ed up and handed me the grip. "'Mr. Detective,' he says, talking a little broken, 'I conclude- tn - t..vn with you. I have finished to discover that life on this desolate and dis pleased coast would be worse than to die, itself. I will go back and hurl myself upon the mercy of the Republic Company. Have you brought a sheep?' g3b?ep? SayS I; ' haven't a sin- W '?hipV cut ' in the young ladyy. Don t get funny. Father is of German birth, and doesn't speak perfect Eng lish. How did you come?' r i "The erirl was nil rnVo 'J,,-, cl. .-il a handkerchief to her face, and kept cvcij nine die, un, father father!' She walked up to me and laid her lily-white hand on the clothes that had- pained- her at first sight." I' smalt a million .violets. She was a lulu I tol?,llher i, came in a Private yacht. Mr. O'Day,' she says. 'Oh, take us away from this horrid country at once. Can you! Will you! Say you will. - " 'I'll try I said, concealing the fact; that I was dying to get them on salt water before they could change their mind. "One thing they both kicked against was going through the town . to the boat landing. Said they dreaded pub licity, . and . now . that they were going to return, they . had' a hope that the thing might yet be kept out of th papers. They swore they wouldn't go unless I got them! out to. the yacht without any one knowing it, so I agreed to humor- them. "The sailors who. rowed me ashore were playing . billiards in a bar-room near the. . water, waiting for order? and I proposed to have them take boat down 'the beach half "a mile or so, and take, us up there. How to -et nieixi wora was tne question, for I couldn'-t leave the grip with the prison er, and I couldn't take.it with me, not knowing but what the monkeys might stick me up. "The young lady says- the old color ed woman would take them a note I sat down-and wrote it, and gave it to the dame- with plain .directions what to do, and she grins like a baboon and shakes her, head. . , . "Then Mr. Wahrfield handed her a string of foreign dialect, and she nods .ui eau anu says,, - see, senor, maybe fifty times, and lights . out with th note. ' ' . V -v - .!.,. . " 'Old Augusta only understands Gar man,' said, Miss Wahrfield, smiling at me. 'We stopped in her house to astc where .we could find lodging,- and she insisted-, upon our having ' coffee. She tells us sflie was raised in a German family in San Domingo.' "'Very likely, I said. 'But you, can search me for Oprmnn nrnro "v.ivo, CAUL H Jrtix - verstay and noch "einst,.- I,. would have called that "See, senor' French, though, on a gamble.' "Well, we three made a sneak around the edge of town so as not t be seen. We got .tangled in vines and ferns and the banana bushes and trop ical scenery agood deal. The monkey suburbs was as wild as places In Cen tral Park. We came out on the beach a good half mile below. A brown chap was lying asleep 'under a cocoa nut tree, with a ten-foot musket re side him. Mr.' Wahrfield takes Up the gun and pitches it into the sea. 'The coast is guarded he says. 'Rebellion and plots ripen like fruit He pointed to the sleeping man, who never stir red. 'Thus he says, -'they perform trusts. Children! "I saw our boat coming, and I struck a match and lit a piece of newspaper to show them- where wa were. In thirty minutes we were on board the yacht. "The first thing, Mr. Wahrfield and his daughter and I took the grip In to the owner's cabin, opened it up, and took an inventory. There was one hundred and five thousand dollars, United States treasury notes in it, be sides a lot of diamond jewelry and a COUDle Of hunflr-orJ Hovono rttro ra 1 , gave the old man the cigars and a i receipt for tha v,o agent for the company, and locked the stuff up in my private quarters. , I.."1 never had a pleasanter trip than jthat one. After we got to. sea the young lady turned out to be the jol i liest ever. The very first time we sat jdown to dinnerand the steward filled her glass with tor's yacht was a regular floating Waldorf-Astoriashe winks at me and says, "What's the use to borrow, trou ble, Mr. Fly Cop? Here's hoping you may live to eat the hen that scratches on your grave.' There was a piano on board, and she sat down to it and sung better than you give up two cases to hear plenty times. She knew about nine operas clear . through. She was sure enough bon ton and swell. She wasn't one of the 'among others present kind; she belonged on the spe cial mention list! . - "The old man, too, perked up amaz ingly on the way. He passed the cigars, and says to me once, 'quite chipper, out of a cloud of smoke, 'Mr. ODay, somhow I think the Republic Company will not give me the much trouble. Guard well the gripvalise of the money, Mr. O'Day, for that it must be returned to them that it belongs when we finish to arrive.' , "When we landed in New York I phoned to the chief to meet us in that director s office. We got in a cab 'ani went there. I carried the grip, and we walked in, and I was pleased to see that the chief had got together that same old crowd of moneybugs with pink faces sand white, vests to see us march in. I set the grip on the table. There s the money,' I said. : '.'.iAnd your Prisoner?' said the;chief I pointed to Mr. Wahrfield, and he stepped forward and , says: . " 'The honor , of : a ' word with - voii sir, to explain.! - . r ' "'He and the' chief went into another room and stayed ten minutes. 'When they came back the' chief looked :vs blacR; as a ton of coal. ""Did this gentleman he says to 11 me, 'have this valise In his possession when you first saw him?' "'He did said-1. "The chief took up the grip and handed it to the prisoner with a bow, and says to the director crowd! Io any of you recognise this gentleman?' "They all shook their pink faces. " 'Allow me to present, fad goes on, 'Senor Miraflortli, president of the re public ci Anchuria. The senor has generously consented to overlook this outrageous blunder, on condition that we undertake to secure him agalnnt the annoyance of -public comment. It is a concession on his part to overlook an insult for which he might, claim international redress. I think we can gratefully promise him secrecy in the matter "They gave him a pink nod all around. - . " 'O'Day he says to me. 'As a pri vate detective you're wasted. In a -war, where kidnapping governments is in the rules, you'd be invaluable. Come down to the office at eleven "I knew what that - meant. " 'So that's the president of the .monkeys says I. 'Well, why couldn't he have said so?' "Wouldn't It jar you?" TO BE CONCLUDED. KING GEORGE IS 56. London, June 3. King George cele brated his E6th birthday and in honor of the event flags were flown on all government buildings and salutes fired by artillery at London, Windsor, Alder shot, and other military centers. Tire official birthday celebrations will be held in England tomorrow. FORT MILL VOTES ; ; FOR BETTER ROADS Fort Mill, S. C. June S An election was held here Thursday on the .iue tlon of iesuing' $7B,000, coupon bonds of Fort Mill township1 tor the pur pose of road Improvement, and result ed in favor of .the issue ty a vote of 58 to 21. Since, the proposition wa agitated several weeks ago, there has been but little opposition apparent which probably accounts for the Un usually small vote, and the township having probably 400 qualif led electors. Th construction of the roads contem plated in the issue of these bonds will probably be in the hands of a special commission, who will decide the ! best routes and locations. An opinion pre- FRECKLES Don't Hide Them With a-Veil; Re move Them With Othine Double . .... - Strength This preparation for the removal of freckles is usually, so successful in rem'oving freckles and giving a clear, beautiful ..complexion that it is. sold under guarantee to refund, the money if it fails. .- Don't hide your, freckles under a veil;v get an.- ounce of Othine and re move them. Even the first fow appli cations should show a. wonderful im provement, some of the lighter freck les vanishing entirely. , . , Be sure to ask the druggist for the double strength Othine; it is this thai is sold on the money-back guarantee. vails that there should h7TT" to,4he North Carolina line on 0 r through GnM vmi I"1?' 0n-e through Flint Hill,, the roat? ot at a. point about two mile, cl Fort Mill. Abm.t t ?.s nrth , constructed to the eouthwesf M-iU leading to Catawba rh er L a.iia twwui tne same distance i a& bridge and the Lancaster rm, . fe . -"-ao(.f I "("Hint Much satisfaction is exnm ' y 'in. assurance that FW iu;n . J now to have improved "h,p-v,J'!l! roRdn at tlmea in fhc , ,a-vs, as tk. roads at times in the past havi (IShip fiCHURMAN IS CONFIRMED "T&'ash'ns'tnTT .Tmw , r. .... c w C . i i. tion of Jacob Gould Schurnim York, to be Minister to c'1 confined late Thursday bv hl a$ WithCniicuraS and Fragrant Talcca M Y TUESDAY yyrvT day BROADWAY SUNDAY. MORNING, JUNE 5th 9:30 O'CLOCK SHARP First B Hi araca-ivieivs OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Opening New Class Room Carnegie Library Building Side Entrance North Side of Building ev. Luther Little, D. : WILL TEACH THE LESSON . Solosit: Mr. E. H. Bell, accompanied by Mrs. Coral Hayner Baker. Every class, member and every, unaffiliated man in Charlotte, is urgently request ed to be present. . ' . " c ; STRANGERS AND VISITORS ESPECIALLY WELCOME. ! I Come and Bring a Friend. . ; Snappy Summer Dresses At Worn Price HERE 'S THE LAST ' r , - -For the-- ? Big "Special Terms 7 Sale AfJPJ- ?me to a close sometime, and. the coming week will see the-end-of the great SPE ! TERMS SALE that we have been so successfully conducting for the past month. - All of those who have not, taken advantage of -the offer will have just . one .more week in which to obtain the special prices and terms that we are now offering. Don't fail to come in this week, you'll" regret missing -this bis DOLLARS On any purchase up to $30.00 you pay only $2.00 , cash, and the balance at the' rate of only $2.00 per week. , ' ' -2 ''' Never Before Equalled We are very positive that , you have never seen this offer of ours surpassed, and you'll certainly look a long way Before you will get de pendable, honest clothing on such liberal terms of payment. 1 On : any ;-purchase up to $50.00 you pay only $5.00 cash, and the balance at the rate of only , $2.Q0 per week.' ' ; ",. . New Summer Garments Just Received At Still Lower Prices Each lot ; of merchandise we have received of late hss come in at a lower price than each preceding lot, and you'll be surprised how reasonable the" prices really-are. on good idoking gairnSk rr and "ee the new ones receiveH .fhi wppV . . 1S garments. Lome -m ana see See Our Nifty Suits For Young Men ; "STORES OF BETTER SERVICE" 205 EAST TRADE STREET. W n ktmc M-npr 1$ ,f ' - : - . - ' , . - 11,11 - ' ..li-.inM.r1. j Positively m The LasrWe Of fhisiBi
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