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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE, UTAH .. i THEN AND THERE HISTORY TOLD AS IT WOULD in Original Houdini Tells How He Did (t II kb. not the first a the hinda Houdtoi IW. wu S.x'wn-Stnta hngile toow fro. asinaclee aaalefaetcr, who seemed to be English b jscfc. could forf. 'ess lot bins and who fini'itd hi. dy. encumbered with M hi much ,or ound ,l,Eoil d. There PO" tfa. webint eo din, famous Jack Sheppard, whose exploit, in ,e:tw, out ol Newest, end incidentally London notortet which him a , of shackles. earned for him. ouSJ never thara waa a lock- -i ker and a T and Lon, before HoudinTs dap j,a. which new baa been equaled, aid tie man in his strurrtes mark a eel .be Create, odds wis a tatad by an indanitabie par-po- se unconquerable seenms acainst (or liberty which starans him a ana of the moat unique figures of bia ewa tiaie or. for that Better, of any time. Earon Trench waa bora In 1726, of Austrian dscnt. at Konisteri in Cenaany. the son of a Prussian fcneril, and tefore be fell into ditfavor in high placee was He courtier and as a soldier. He had been a favorite wi!h laJ distin'iuthed himself aa a Frederick the Gicat. tfce ancestor of the living e- Ifcat tyrannical but brilliant ruler, descendant acquired his delusions of Divine kiisf, frcra whom the p.esent Rifht, the mi'Jtary abilities or the genius for statecraft which wiUicut having inherited either This young nobleman, Trenck. dared to have a love Ut imperial forbear possessed. Princess Anuli. For his presumption the .flair with Croat Frederick's . sister, the of his sweetheart determined by rlgo ous cap.ivity either to kill him royal brother For upwards of tea years Trench was tortured with dark-Bes- s, o, to drive him Insane with soli'.uce. and most of all with ponderous irons. with How, decade be kept bis wits, his bodily end trance and bis courage, end whole thst through of his bonds and bia dungeons seemingly at will, makes a memorable how he broke out chapter in history. Hrry jilr ft " he his own autobiography one of the most remarkable bu-man documents, I think, that ever was written and from -- RO.M " i of bis Incred-I- e a graphic keness of Haron Trenck at the time c i falls into disfavor, with his auio-ratioverlord, the Great Frederick, le is enormously wealthy. Ills course is known in every military camp lie has a brilliant i central Europe. lind, a handsome face, a powerful He Is of noble t. r.d graceful body. He has friends In high places jd he had powerful enemies there, You could search the continental io. rarts of the period and find nowhere mors dashing figure than Baron renek. But It will be eleven years ter, when he has emerged from bis ring tomb and has written down the )ic of his captivity, before, the world ill know him for one of the most solute, the most resourceful, the lost indomitable beings that ever red in any age. First, for seventeen months, he Is ppt in strict solitary confinement at latz. Then under heavy guard he is moved to Madgeburg, on the borders ' Saxony, and lodged in the citadel a medieval fortification, gloomy id dark. His keepers think they'll )!d him fast here. If there Is any larantee of security in s'one walls iven feet thick, in massive iron bars. double gratings, in high palisades itside, their confidence Is justified. 'ieir charge is buried in a lower case-sitte- , on bread and water one jar water, one and one-hal- f pounds of iarse soldiers' bread every twenty-'ii- r Diitemporary accounts achievements, we-g- et de-ren- ' hours. Trenck declines to be vanquished ther by the processes of slow star-itioor by the rigors of his prison nee. Promptly he sets to work to g out. With his bare hands he pries ose the iron strips which bolt his k1 to the solid masonry of the floor. i persuasion and by promises of he corrupts certain men among e soldiers who have been told off to itch him. They agree to aid him escaping across the boundary into ixony; hut as for getting out of his H, that is his own job. I'sing his bits of scrap Iron for ols, he removes the bricks of the rtition which stands between him d an adjoining corridor. To do this must first scrape off the coatings lime from this wall, which, as be .vs. had perhaps been whitewashed hundred times, and then, after each of excavating, must replace the wdered grit so as to defy detection his guards. Very'simply he dere-ar- d fines the process: "I formed a brush with ray hair, wetted the lime and rubbed it the wall, against which I applied t warm naked body until it wns He dry and of a piece with the rest" en Wasted Labor. He hides the removed debris d and at night iies on it, with only thin mattress between him and Its ugh irregularities. In one brief casual paragraph he defines how, after persevering for six Whs, he practically Is ready, for He has tunneled rough many yards of masonry. By Ing his sentries he has secured a ife. a file, and writing paper. He s smuggled out letters advising his and certain of his friends of his R'Kn and bidding them to be ready stand by when the hour comes. n the very night of. his Intended l't. disaster befalls. King Freder-- t has visited and by his Magdeburg, 3ers another prison has been pre-r(- ,t in the Star-Foras it is called, tne opposite side of the city. With-- t warning, three officers enter his "natte. Hearing them- - at the door' "as iarely time t( secrete h,g prec. knife on his person. They shackle " "and and blindfold foot, him. lead " .ut' n"t him in a coach, and ride n him across the town. s quote the baron here-c-ern'J his stry i a9 grBphC a one in-hi- s 1 Jail-brea- tf t, fwe could ask for. length the coach ra U o flre-pa- n 'Immede,, ' " TJ and hammer. wlws to my view and u "chain-- ! II lnt0 my new smiths Z M halted; I was prison, cioth was loosened from my eyes, black diabolical-lookin- g L, feef "2 ' tms rin8 , . o,m u . CVered wIth Donder tney ere bound with heavy n rIng 5r,ven ,nt0 the "as raised thret feet - j " By IRVIN S. COB3 ! ... .. . width. . .Imm IU, nuge necklet lies VV chain uuwo ifuuo ue oaron a front to his ankle shackles. Two short- er chains join the collar to his wrist fetters. He is woven Into a veritable BE WRITTEN TODAY q., net of Ironmongery. A certain Lieutenant Sonntag". an under officer of the garrison. Is won over by Trenck'g fortitude. Sountag has false handcuffs made which Trenck substitutes for the others. He brings a file, too, and soon Trenck disencumbers bis burdened body of all his bonds excepting the necklet and Its pendent chains. These he dares not remove. Through Sonntag's good offices b3 obtains sausages and wine; until now his sole fare, even In his illness, has consisted of dry bread and water. Again he breaches the floor and through the earth beneath the foundation he bores with his bare hands a passage thirty-sevefeet long leading towards a in the principal rampart This operation takes him six months. When he is within arm's reach, almost, of freedom, with but six feet more of soil to be excavated, a sentry on the ramparts hears the rattle of the chain dangling from Trenck's throat The captive manages to regain his cell and slip into bis other irons before the chief Jailer bursts In on him. The filed places in his fetters are not discovered, nor is his tunnel found, so the stupid commander decides that the sentry has been mistaken. The warden, though, thinks up a fresh torture. He gives orders that day and night at Intervals of a quarter of an hour Trenck shall he visited and if found asleep shall be forcibly awakened. This dreadful system prevails until a more humane governor succeeds Trenck's old oppressor. Writing on Pewter. The successor suffers the prisoner to have more light and more air. But since a guard stands at the door to observe him, Trenck cannot resume his tunneling. But he finds employment and incidentally a method of communicating with his friends in the outer world. Here's how he does this, as told in his own. words! "Having light I began to carve with a nail on the pewter cup out of which I drank, satirical verses and various figures, and attained so much perfection that my cups were considered as masterpieces both of engraving and Invention, and were sold as rare curiI grew more expert osities and spent a whole year in this employment The officers made merchandise of my cups and sold them. Their value increased so much that they were now to be found in various museums throughout Europe. There is another remarkable circumstance attending these cups. All were forbidden, under pain of death, to hold conversation with me or to supply me with pen and ink; yet, by writing what I pleased on pewter, I was enabled to inform the world of all I wished and to prove that a man of merit was sorely oppressed. I attained the art of giving light and shade and, by practice, could divide compartments as a cup Into. thirty-twof the hand a stroke with regularly as with a pair of compasses. The writing was so minute that it could be only read with glasses, yet I could use but one hand, both being separated by the rigid bar, and therefore must a cup be held between my knees while I labored." Another year passes thus and yet another. Trenck wins over certain officers and certain common soldiers. Secretly they give him aid by furnishing tools for digging. An ingenious device occurs to Trenck. He makes two different openings Ur his floor. One hole he hides; at widening the other he purposely makes so much noise that a sentry becomes alarmed and calls the governor, who comes and finds on the floor a great heap of sand. The second opening Is nailed fast and convicts wheel away the sand. No one except those In the conspiracy guessing that most of it has been taken from the still concealed working. He continues to delve underground, aiming always to break through the earth outside the walls. When victory is almost within his grasp, an accident almost costs him his life. He de scribes It thus: "While mining under the foundation of the rampart I struck my foot against a stone In the wall above, and It fell down and closed up the pass-ag- e behind me. I began to work the sand away from the side, that I might obtain room to turn round, but the tsinall quantity of air soon became so foul that a thousand times i wisnea atmyself dead, and made several tempts to strangle myself with my hands. My sufferings were Incredible; I passed full eight hours In this disI made a traction of horrors. Into a drew my body desperate effort, ball and turned round; I now faced the stone, which was as wide as the whole passage. My next labor was to root away the sand under the stone and let It sink, so that I might creep over, and by this means, at length, I once more regained my dungeon." This terrific exertion makes Trenck very HI. Months pass before his restrength and bis will power are stored to him. From now on, while he digs, he hangs a knife about his riprk so that if again entombed alive. he may end his miseries by suicide. For the sixth time his nndertauing oii. ormnrfl defeats It. For the sev enth time It falls. Undismayed he Is win his planning an eighth attempt to him that reaches word when liberty his unrelenting enemy, King Frederick. grows is dead. Hope of paraon stronger, and eventually he Is released, ofror eleven years of such Incredible man experiences as probably no other ever endured and lived to tell the tale of afterwards. bv the Bell Syndicate, uo.) cross-galler- from the floor so that I could move about two paces to the right and left. An Iron girdle as broad as my hand was locked round my naked body, to which was chained a thick iron Car, two feet long, at the opposite ends of which my hands were fastened In heavy iron rings bolted and riveted over my wrists. I was left sitting io gloomy darkness upon the wet floor. "By degrees I accustomed myself to my chains. I learned to comb my hair arid even to tie it with one hand. My beard I plucked out; the pain was terrific." But Trenck does not succumb to everlasting gloom. Neither that nor loneliness, nor the misery of bearing half his weight in dead iron, nor the seeming hopelessness of his situation can break that dauntless spirit. Within a day after reaching the Star-For- t he is contriving means to remove and replace his fetters at will. He hammers the iron pegs of his handcuffs until the blood streams from under his nails, but eventually the rivets become loosened and he may free both wrists. By main strensrth he snaps two links of the chain which binds him to the wall, and to hide the break, ties the severed ends together with a scrap of hair ribbon. He wrests away the short chain which fastens his arm-ba- r to his iron belt. When his keepers call, he is squatted on the floor, apparently hobbled at wrist and ankle and waist But no sooner Is the door closed behind them than he has the use of his limbs. Defiance Against Odds. In less than forty-eigh- t hours he has accomplished these seemingly impossiHe goes straightble undertakings. way to a yet more herculean task. Within the space of the next six hours he has, with his knife, dug the wood from about the lock on the inner door. He decides that, given a whole day, he probably can master the bolts of the three remaining doors. On the Fourth of July he begins the task. Read what he says : "This, with great labor, I accomplished but found it more difficult as everything was to be done by groping in the dark. Soon my fingers were all wounds, the sweat streamed on the ground and the raw flesh hung bleeding to my hands." Nevertheless he perseveres. The fourth door has been attacked; Its tough oak has been whittled through when the knife snaps, Its blade falling through the hole Into the ditch of the lofty rampart on beyond. "It Is utterly Impossible to describe my weariness. My blood dyed the walls and the floor, and but little remained In my veins. My wounds pained me; my hands were stiff and swollen with my excessive labor; I have been without sleep ; I had scarcely strength to stand upright As soon as it was noon and the head keeper came with his men, they found me standing op. posite the Inner door, a most frightful desfigure, covered with blood, like a a I held hand one huge In perado. brick, In the other my broken knife, and I cried out, 'Keep back I Keep back ! Major, shoot me. No man shall enter, I will slay fifty of you. ere one gets In!' A parley follows. Finally Trenck that he is to condition on capitulates have better treatment The pledge Is as given, only to be broken. As soon he gives up, his Irons are renewed; this time they are heavier and stouter than before. He does not despair, though. In this man's nature there is never any over thought of surrender. He wins this and fortress the of a grenadier man slips him a file. With It he files his fetters, hiding the cut places with in spitdough which he has moistened tle and then coated with earth. He fabricates a screwdriver from a nail pried out of the floor. the grating at his winunscrews He dow and with smuggled wire he makes a false grating Identical with the orig g inal but removable at win. ey gmm-Inagainst his own tombhis arm-ba- r a stone he forma chisel with which he of three-plgouges through nine inches like a Burrowing oak flooring. mole, he has penetrated several yards of the sandy loam upon which the once more building stands before he is detected. A Fresh Attempt His head keeper vows that this time he will render the prisoner helpless. former Trenck's After renewing who smiths brings Jailer shackles, the an collar iron an weld about his neck In Inch thick and four finger breadths ten-inc- h y ' : y ... . SUB By ROSA r 75 r M1MI ZAAAAaAaAAaai 'eJMv';.'.-- "Jtaw. 1 I Death of the Lady Killer DONT know how many men were killed during the war, but I guess they are missed by the women of the various lands. But It wasn't only Individual men, but personages and types that were put out of business by the big scrap. Oh! I'm not thinking of the Kaiser and the Czar or some of the little monarchs who had the fourteen-cara- f derbies knocked off their royal heads. I have In mind types of men, like the gentleman and the lady killer. We have them with us nit The old style lady killer, who Is now as rare as a horse car, made his hay while the sun was shining on the old style female. She's gone too. and even If the lady murderer still existed there wouldn't be any lady for him to kill. Now, why? Well, the women of today arent half as mortal as they used to be Time was when a girl saw about only one man, and all she could do was o get a crush on him. She was marooned on the lonely Island of sweet home, and so had to signal the first sail that came along It was easy for mister man to make a killing In those old days. But. never galn. Women are ont lu the world, and every day they behold as many fine men as a woman could see before only on Decoration day. when the G. A. It veterans marched together to the cemetery. Men aren't such curiosities nowadays. I'll say they aren't But It Isn't only the quantity of masculine material which has come before woman's gaze. It's the way she has got their respective numbers. She's on to the male game, which was pretty much like the bluff of a realtor In one of our southern states. A man can't pretend he's the whole works and tell about the wads of Woman stage money he's making. knows the work game herself, and when she scrapes ber wages together, she knows that tt takes a lot of The such lettuce to make a head. "good provider" game is as much out of date as croquet. And then there's kuowledge; not the bookish kind, but the degrees one gets In the Uneeda university of hard knocks and wise cracks. Woman has learned something on her economic excursion into the world of big business and bigger bluff. The men who get us will have to get some new weapons, for we don't fall for their pop guns. A woman does want to be hunted, but the modern The girl requires the real hunter. lady killer can't carry her Into camp. Pain f People are often too patient with pain. Suffering when there ia no ived to suffer. Shopping with a head that throbs. Working though they ache all over. And Bayer Aspirin would bring immediate relief I The best time to take Bayer Aspirin b the moment you first feel the pain. Why postpone relief until the pain has reached its height? Why hesitate .to take anything bo harmless? Read the proven directions for checking colds, easing a sore throat; relieving headaches and the pains of neuralgia, neuritis, rheumatism, etc. You can always count on its quick comfort. But if pain is of frequent recurrence see a doctor as to its cause. Mm iPiianM Aspirin la the trade mark of Bayer kfannfsftnre of Monoaoeticadderter ... IT'S music you're talking about you've got to hand It to Love for supplying the leading theme ail the way down from Tubal Caln'a brass band to. the philharmonic orchestra. The musicians try to get new themes, and for a few weeks folks chant the Banana chorus, but the Love Song Is as old as the hills, as new aa the latest summer resort People like to think and sing about love Just as they spend time and money on love plays and love films. They themselves may have been out of the love game for a long time, but they are Just as mien as ever Inter ested In the necking and smacking that they see on stage and aereen. Love Is your one best bet your big headllner, and your everlasting thrill. The number of love pairs wouldn't begin to fill the Social Register, and the lovers who have made good are ad few as the millionaires of America. We have Isaac and Rebecca, Hero and Leander, Romeo and Juliet, Browning and Peaches Heenan. and then some more. But all human beings want to try their hand at tha game even when they know that they have a poorer chance than that of a lamb among the bulls and bears and realtors. It makes me tired when I read about the way that science tries to and the explain the What does science know about love, and what chance would a spectacled scientist have with a red-ho- t mamma. Well. I guess not It would be only a fresh example of the famous celluloid cat In that terrible place so famous for Its fire. No. science foozles badly when It tells us that love Is fnly an Inherited Interest In the propagation of the race. Nature may want the race to go on, although I don't know why. but she Isn't responsible for all the frills and thrills that accompany These are due to the kittenish ways of the human heart lve Is your great adventure. The other person's heart Is like the new world to a Columbus, the North (Mile to the frozen explorer, the fourth dimension to the mathematician who Is tired it having only three. 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