Motor Matt's Engagement; or, On the Road with a Show

Issued Weekly. By subscription $2.50 per year. Copyright, 1909, by Street & Smith, 79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York, N. Y.
Motor Matt's Engagement;
OR,
ON THE ROAD WITH A SHOW.
By the author of MOTOR MATT.
Motor Matt King. Joe McGlory , a young cowboy who proves himself a lad of worth and character, and whose eccentricities are all on the humorous side. A good chum to tie to—a point Motor Matt is quick to perceive. Ping , a Chinese boy who insists on working for Motor Matt, and who contrives to make himself valuable, perhaps invaluable. Carl Pretzel , an old chum who flags Motor Matt and more trouble than he can manage, at about the same time. In the rôle of detective, he makes many blunders, wise and otherwise, finding success only to wonder how he did it. Ben Ali , an elephant driver; a Hindoo gifted in the arts for which his country is famous and infamous. The uncle of Margaret Manners, he revenges himself upon his brother, the rajah, in a way that proves his own undoing. Aurung Zeeb , another elephant driver, and a friend of Ben Ali, assisting in his scoundrelly work. Haidee , whose real name is Margaret Manners, a girl from India, who becomes the hypnotic subject of Ben Ali, and is saved from him by Motor Matt and Carl. Boss Burton , manager and proprietor of the Big Consolidated Shows. A man who tries to be square, in his own remarkable way.
ON THE BANKS OF THE WABASH.
Strange, how a few harmless ingredients, thrown together and mixed, will set the trouble pot a-boiling.
Saltpeter is an innocent and useful product, and so is charcoal and sulphur; but seventy-five per cent. of the first, fifteen per cent. of the second, and ten per cent. of the third, when properly mixed, will make gunpowder—an explosive that has slain millions, made kingdoms over into republics, and changed the map of the world again and again.
So, on this beautiful morning, with the banks of the Wabash River for a setting, fate was juggling with a few trifling elements for the purpose of combining them and manufacturing trouble.