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Show - IWar. r fc November 13. 1531 t jL Iwvi cm-- A Jl Xmf IfARNA TTMFQ m Vrv I Vlai a M imla. a4 hua .)atla.k.piW ,, Mnii.il It rtl nl Lttp-Yt-tr w M t. Su la taaa k A TALES ' 1TTAI1 Ladies of French Ambulance Corps STAGECOACH t 1kflft k l By E. C. TATLOK ItUnili The Cun Girl The last eight-yea- r interval between leap year waa between 1803 and 19M. Thla will occur the next time between 2008 and 2104 Teara marking the dose of centuries are not leap year unless divisible by 400. The year 2000 will be a leap year. ' I 'HE Gun Girl, a little more dap boots oa at tha ago of twenty-one- , waa apparent as Georgs Goa talked of bla paL P raises Kid's Principles.' "Ha waa a great boy with plenty of principle nlth hla frienda, but pretty bad with hla enemies I waa hla pal for eighteen months. Ha waa the most agreeable man 1 ever was with. Outside hla g ha was fins He didn't use half tha bad language the rest of us did. We felt aa If wa had about tbs same bringing up, and that made oa kind of chummy. I waa left an orphan when 1 was four years old, and hla father died when be waa four, too. Ha did hla first killing In Sliver City. That waa when ha was twelva years old. Hla mother took In washing for their Uvlng, and blacksmith aha washed for got Insulting. Billy went out locking for him and mads him take It back. He told me ha didnt mesa to shoot, but ba did. man-killin- lug, perhaps, but not so quick on tbs trigger as the gun girls of the large cities today, made her appear anco along the National pike as early as 1834 She was accompanied by four men, and it was only the courageous conduct of Samuel LuFool for a Master ma n, stage coach driver, that thla No man la eo foolish but he may highway girl and her highwaymen Sire another good counsel some-- 1 aides were repulsed. no man so wise but be times, and Samuel Lumaa waa one of the may easily err if he takes no other best known and best equipped drivcounsel than his own. He that was taught only by himself has a fool ers on the old National road. Hs was a giant In stature, and reputed for a master. Ben Jon son. to be fearless. He began driving a ' Delicate Wires stage coach In 1832. On August 12, 1834 his coach Wat Apparatus invented by a California institute of technology sci- waylaid In the mountains between entist to measure the heat of the Plney Grove and Frostburg, lid. It stars is operated by wires so small was night, and Lnmans teams althat It would take 1.000 to weigh as most ran Into a rude obstruction of much as a drop of water. logs, stumps and brush that had been placed across the road. Need for Companionship The spot was lonely, and sup A man would have no pleasure rounded by a thick growth of pine In discovering all the beauties of the universe, even In heaven Itself, trees. Luman was unarmed, and unless he bad a partner to whom the only gun among tbs passengers In tbe stags coach was an old bran he might communicate his Joy. O- - o. pistol, which, however, was not What th ambulance driver will wear In the next war. brought into play. A Sour Note As the stage conch reached the Three ladies of the ambulance corps photographed during the French T never seemed to have any Inch barrier across the road, one high- army maneuvers held at Nahcy, with the women, sighed the old wayman stepped forward, seised the bachelor. bridle and ordered Luman to dp Then youre lucky," growled the rend from hla seat and surrender the mall and money the coach cap pessimist. ried. Luman refused. He wouldnt "What do you want?" he tempop Good Friendly but Bad were thirteenso ofua. ' every one started surrender, tied. With HU Enemies. pumping lead. Ona bullet tors off We are traders," the highway-- I my index finger and knocked tbe man answered. Chicago. Billy the Eld's pal cams out of my band. I got 1 have nothing to trade," said out of the West the other bring- a couple of other good wounds beLuman. T am satisfied with my ing tales of New Mexico laday, tbe days fore I got out af tha country after trappings and not desirous of ex-- when fenda meant shooting It out tha Lincoln county war. them." changing on sight and plainsmen died with How Trouble fitartad. The highwayman holding the lead their boots on. team thereupon called out to one of "It began because Cberlff Brady It was George Coes first trip to hla companions hidden In tbs trees C3iicago. and hla gang, the Murphy faction, Tha d by the roadside to shoot Luman. had killed an English cattleman, J. H. plainsman . The robber leveled his pistol at heard about something Chicago be- Tunstall. Thera was a faction that tbs stage coach driver and polled fore, but It waa more about gun- didnt want any other cattlemen In the trigger. There waa a snap, and men than greet era. the country, .They tried to aew the , Lnman owed hla Ufa to tha fact "Pd heard Chicago had an aw- whole country np for themselves that tha night air was damp and ful rep," confided tho visitor, "but and would try to run out newcomtbe powder would not explode. ' I havent seen anything to confirm ers. WhUe the highwayman bolding It since "Tbs Englishman bought n ranch been here." Ive tha horses was turning the lead When With Mr. Coo are hla wife and and started a sort of supply store team aronnd So that It faced tbe niece, the latter, Mrs. Louise H. Coe, in competition. Hla murder set opposite direction from the stage New Mexicos first and only woman .things off. - It made Billy tha Eld coach, the girt called out from the state senator. 7 go wild because TunstaU was tha oT th roa(38!(!e -Howd I get that?" repeated the best friend be bad. Before he waa dered another highwayman to bind the Eld got alL of plainsman, looking down-a- t the stub done One of the most Important things the driver. men. of an Index finger on his right hand twenty-on- e One of the fibbers mounted part "Back In the pu can do to make a teething baby "Tbe really bad part of the war days when Billy tbe portable la to see that little I way to - the - driver's seat, and Eld and me fought together out In lasted six or eight months it began ela do their work of carrying off wrapped the reins-tightlaround Lincoln county, New Mexico. when the February 18, 187S-en- d ante matter promptly and regulap Lumana arm. Luman saw an ad-whole war waa over there were saw"It waa tha battle at Blazers For this nothing is better than vantage, and started violently lash- - mill when Bill Roberta of the other seventy-tw- o men dead. About even Astoria, a pure vegetable prepara-to- n lng the highwayman with the ends faction walked In unawares there on both sides, I should say. The The beaten robber specially made for babies and of the reins. soldiers Interfered and most of vs .hildren. Castoria acta so gently you backed off, and as be did so, the got out of tbe country. We had an give It to young infanta to re-- horses still attached to the stage been fightln fair and aquare, but Jeve colic. Tet It la always effective, coach leaped forward, broke from when the soldlera came np we knew tor older children, too. Remember, the lead team, and Two Couples Wed we couldnt fight the United States. leaped over the President Hayes sent a committee pastorla contains no hank drug. barricade on tbe road., Tbe coach Minutes Four in la absolutely harmless. came within an ace of capalzlng, lo narcotic to investigate 'after the EnglishTha Paar- Man. What la JVben your-bais fretful with but LumansskUL with the reins man's family had raised row, and to bo new a worlds thought Seething or a food, upset, gi kept It on its wheels, and the coach they found we bad been In the record for quick marriages deansihg dose of Castoria. Be sure and Its passengers flew Into Frost-burright" waa created recently on the 'on get genuine Castoria with the The affection that atUl exists for when Hudson r BUly Bay railway tame: Luman told the authorities that the Kid, wbo died with his Archdeacon Fariea of tbe the bandits he saw were all heavily church, passing Anglican disguised. He did not get a look at Mila 214 on station through X-RAthe gun girl or two of the hightha Canadian National railwaymen with her who had remained ways way freight, performed In the dark shadows of tha pins a double wedding In slightly trees. The robber wbo held tbe Detectives Turn to Science less than four minutes. bridles of tho lead team, ho laid, wera All to Solve Mystery. arrangements wore a long dress like a Mother Learns by Fells made by wire, for tbe cereone bound who and tbe The child, Hubbard, through' stumbling, How- - sensational monies had to be performed Copenhagen. arng to walk erect. Every fall la tbe reins around bis arm wore a - short time the clew to a murder mystery were obthe during white vest, dark pantaloons and a fall upward, Parker, has Just tained by tha use of train stopped. When -- the black mask. They were never capbeen revealed here. archdeacon arrived tha 'train No plan "works tured. very well.",. Following the discovery of a put tha question to tha two When the attack waa first made fashwoman' legless body In tba moat couples In machine-gu- n on the stage coach, Luman told the of the old fortress of Lengeleje, the ion. There is no time for passengers of the Impending dancleverest detectives or the Copenhahesitation In a wedding servger and asked their assistance, but ice on tbe Hudson Bay Una, gen force found themselves baffled. they crouched in their seats and annot was not a single clew to go ba Thera where there may made no effort to help him or deon no marks on the clothing, nothother minister along for fend themselves. ' three months a ing. They were all western merchants An examination of tha people and east to goods, buy traveling In tha district failed to promissing between them they carried $80,000 duce. any. Information' which Wo old in cash. Hit Utility clear up the mystery. When, they reached thr Highland Pa. Pipes strong Shamokln. It waa then that a woman reporthouse In Frostburg, of which George enough "to walk" and briars that er photographs suggested that Evens was proprietor, tha grateful "talk" have their counterpart in be taken of the body to aee If soma For Trwbh passengers took np a collection the old briar pipe carried by High distinguishing formation or tissue duelohwd with which to reward tbe brave Con stab la Weary. Weary uses his might be discovered. sr moist KOMAC" stage coach driver. It waa so lu- pipe as a hammer fai tacking noACiO Photographs Taken. niAATBue dicrously small, though, Luman sold tices, campaign cards and other outThese photographs wera taken, eASrHehuSt later, that he Indignantly refused It doors advertisements to posts, and tha developed plates showed per- "They were a mean set" was his fences, poles and such backgrounds. that tha victim had suffered from a comment Lnman gave np driving Stage coaches In 1830, and for several years after that Interested himself In detective work and punishing robbers of tho mall coaches that E3 Ship Are Rusting at An munitions to tho United States. For elgn tonnage mostly waa destroyed rattled along tho National road. cbor la Mississippi. In tho war and this reserve fleet so frethreatened waa AOUT two hours after Ufa Hla eating 1 many gave America unchallenged supeople suffer from sour quently, however, that finally Lndua New Orleans. Anchored In mud premacy of the sea. American wheat Tney call it indigestion. It W. Stockton, president of tho Nathe stomach nerves have tional Boad Stage company, feared and rusting tnto decay as they fact and cotton was moved to all ports f I jpjeMtimulated. There is excea an abandoned old age, 56 steel ships, of The' world. America waa IndeLnman'a safety. Lnman then Vltie way to correct it is with an for part of a bnee mighty fleet that pendent and wealthy. where moved-ea- st of Cumberland, which neutralize many had a direct bearing on tbe ending unSoon foreign ships began to aphe continued hla activities, and pwmela add. of tbe World war. Us In tha Misnght way is Plumps Milk of til recently lived In Unlontown, Pa. pear again and trade began to sissippi river here. so tbe less desirable of tbe (&. ltIL Wwtvra Nwpor Unis.) tasteless doaa In vS?""ust slacken, The ships, designated by a signV 11 J pleasant, efficient and American ahlps were laid up. Some Fleet," U. 8. aa tha Laldup board Results come almost in were sold and transferred to servSpades n Spade ? It is tha approved method, were part of the bridge of vessels The sua ice be not under foreign flags. expert bridge Ted may wui never use another when America rushed to completion that servtii th Ona left were cards. sow. day near the close of the war. They perior craft but he kuowa hla to get the genuine Phillips he was sent to a neighbors to bor- wera to have been used to trans- ice. but the weaker ones were sent L to marine graveyards," to ba Magnesia prescribed by row a spade that Dad wished to 2,000,000 more American sol?? food-stuf- fi correcting excess adds. use. But the neighbor said he bad port stripped. aoil ; to carry 1 kttle any drug store. none. Then Teda attention waa diers to foreign Many of tha vessels hers have and munitions to tbe greatwaa I A lone attracted to a card game that hisand ttal&T been In tbe force partly atripped. est expeditionary on each, MagnesuJ fSSerioftKh I 1 progress and running to the rules watchman supreme world. of the Jet safeguards against acid j table he picked up an ace and toryAfter tba armistice tba fleet but he guards hla charge even from exclaimed; who might rjveai the excitedly quickly waa turned to carrying cameramen, -here a spade. boats. Some of the the of condition why, stricken European to foodstuffs 8,lt Lake City, No. bo reconditioned. ft waa. unused might ships easily countries, and returned J M ' Gold Insurance' Bp CBXaia NICHOLAS He carries It with him, ready tor Just such times. That little box of Bayer Aspirin. If he catches cold, what of it? Bayer Aspirin will tvop it. If his throat feels sore, he will end the soreness with ona good garde made from these tablets Dangerous complications can follow tho neglect of "a common cold!" Every case of tonsilitis began with "just a sore throat P Its a wise plan to take aspirin after any undue exposure to bad weather, or whenever there hi any chance that you've caught cold. If its genuine aspirin it cant possibly hurt you; and how it does banish tha aches and pains caused by colds, neuralgia, neuritis, lumbago and even rheumatism. Bayer Aspirin will Insura your comfort through tha wont cold season. The more susceptible yon are to cold tha more yon need U. Does not depress the heart. well-dress- ' OLD PAL TALKS OF BILLY THE KID Jo li Bees Carried te Work Grazing the bees in the blooming heather to make up for tha failure of the clover to blossom earlier la the summer waa the novel device resorted to this year by farmers on tha west coast of 8weden. Tha wet and cold spring stunted tbs clover, but tbs heather bloomed profusely and at night the bees were transported in their hives to the ridges where It abounded. I x broad-shouldere- white-whiskere- i . Jj a TEETHING lakes HIM Fussy man-klllln- g, 1 y f. 1 - W Not only la tha contrast theme made much of in daytime frocks, but for evening gowns tbs theme is bring exploited with Battering success. Perhaps no alliance of fabric spells a more glamorous beauty than does supple, sheer and colorful metal cloth together with velvet tn rich handsome tones The model pictured la typical of tbe season's trend to contrasts This distinguished model combines gold lame with lyon'a velvet Killl 1 -- by iJjaf J vet g. CASTORIA X-r- itoT0 J Jfood sours uEirPHfi $ f WARTIMf CRAFT AWAITING END When -- ' 80 3nk San Angelo, Texas Twenty-nin- e years ago a rattlesnake bit Holland Mayes foreman of the L. 0. Clark ranch, on the foot Since then he baa slain and kept a record of 980 rattlers killed. IDENTIFY SLAIN WOMAN YS t STUDY IN CONTRASTS t V v . ' Straightened Oit Doctor Did that medicine straight-ayour husband out all right? Wife Yes we buried him yester- n day. - Labor There ta no substitute for hard work aa an Ingredient for success. It Is every mens constant companion, and usually hla beat friend. Look askance at these "soft snaps," they generally end up in hard bumps. Grit. Oa Point of Vlow According to a scientist, the average amount of absolute rest during a nights sleep la only eleven aod a half minutes, there being muscular or mental action during! tho remainder of tho time, Craadataad Hideaway Klukker Do yon enjoy baseball, Mr. Rnkker? Busker No, I only go to get away from tha bill collectors . Kitchen Conveniences Th modern kitchen is the housekeeper's office as well ea work-shoA small desk anti In the wall and equipped with cookbooks, psmph lets, and recipe files, es well as telephone, la convenient Y ouve Get Uc There A college president saya that Europe student think,1 whit In la are trained to America students are trained to remember. Welt, pose one cant remember-wha- t sup- he waa thinking? One Point of Viow good to have money and the things that money can buy, bat It'i good, too, to check up once In while and make sure you haven't lost tb things money can't buy. Its t badly Infected tubercular long. Her ' Two Vegetables Daily condition revealed by tbe y waa Two fresh vegetables from 'the such aa to suggest that at one time aha had been a patient In a hospital. garden every day In the year". ! Armed with thla Information, the tbe slogan" adopted by members of d th police made a search of all th hosgarden clubs of the pitals In tho district and exam- Gulf Coast states. ined all tha photographs which had been taken In recent years of paToo Advanced for Belief . tients suffering from tuberculosis. Archlmedea (287-21- 2 B. OL) waa Among them they discovered ona So faridvanced of bla age that hla with a lung which tallied In every principles did not become estabdetail with the y picture9 1 taken lished until the Fifteenth century. of the dead woman. ( Nam Revealed. San Diminishing Examination of the hospital recSir James H. Jeans, RrlUah-tros- ords revealed the woman's name and eiuer,1 Calculate that the aun la diaddrft, - and When Inquiry was minishing at approximately made It waa discovered that-s- he tons a minute. had occupied an apartment in th city some two months before, but Testing Metal bad not been seen since. Photohardness of metal la tested The graphs of fingerprints on th furniture and door knobs established be- by pressing a diamond into it and examining the resultant marks unyond doubt that tb former occuder a microscope. pant waa tha murdered woman. With thla Information In tbetr Ambitions Reenlt possession th police were able to Ambition often puts men upon discover that the womaB bad been th sweetheart of a man with whom doing tha meanest offices; ao climbaha had qnarreled. Hd hi since ing la performed in the same posture with creeping. Swift. been arrested and charged with th crime. Geological Term In la tb science that geology Only One Prirate Has treats of rocks aa mineral masses, Congress War Medal eepeaiallyvyritb reference to their Marfa, Texas Only on wartime microscopic character. winner of the Congressional Medal That Honest of Honor continues In tha enlisted A Ba has to bo mighty good to ranks of tbo army.' Hs la Sergeat Lloyd M. SIbert of be worth anything, and a fellow headquarters troops First cavalry, ought never do It unless hes darn stationed hers Seibert received the slick at 14 award for leading a charge on a machine-guThink Is Over nest In Francs Seibert also bolds the Silver Star Worrying is the. one game In which. If you guess right, you don't Citation, the French MedaiUa the French Croix de Guerre get any satisfaction out of your with Palm, tbe Italian Croce de smartness. Gnerra, and tbe Montenegrin Med-alll- e Whet "Off" Mesas pour la Bravoure Milltairs Of the 90 congressional medals When the average golfer says he'a awarded for bravery during the off hla game he jneans the best World war 28 were posthumous. game be ever shoL Arkansas Gaie . zette. Approximately 60 holder medal are still living, however. Several are army ofllcers, but the Scmming It Up majority are no longer In the servlcs Infinite la the help man can yield to men. ex-ra- year-roun- ' Old Mine te Reopen The threeundred-year-ol- d copper mine at SJangeli la northernmost Lapland, soon will be reopened. Located close to the Norwegian border and far from tha nearest railroad or highway, tba mine has been hitherto Inaccessible for economic exploitation. Now the mining company has applied for government permission to gain access te the mine through tho Ablsko national park. ' 250,-000,0- n Mil-Ital- rs " Testing Darien For testing the resistance of steel cylinders a water pressure machine has been Invented that can develop pressor of a million pound tot i th squar Inch. 1 Bring Moon Close telescopic Instrument at Mount Wilson with an enlargement of 2,500 diameters brings , tha moon wlthlr approximately 81 miles of tha earth. -- - - Make Important Decision a year the French academy, through the medium of It 40 Immortal decides what new worda. If any, shall be added to the language. Once - gTf r Shaking Mene Faitk in Seif It is easy terribly easy to shake a man's faith In himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit Is devils work. G. B. Shaw. . , Ins tie to Joelonty Jealousy la never aatlsfled yrlth anything hortef ad omniscience that would detect tha subtlest fold of tha heart George Eliot Really Rodonte Prairie dogs are not dogs, and they do not llv on true prairies; they art rodents of tha plains and Rocky mountain foothill. Croat Power nf Love r Love is of all th passion th strongest for It attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and th senses. Voltaire. Named (or Rosomhlaaco The Australian lyre bird got Its name from Its tall feathers, which resemble a harp of lyre In shape. Rotten Basinoso There are times when business la rotten because lta a rotten business. New York American. Th Voice Tolls There la no Index of character so Disraeli in 'Tan-cred- ." sure as the vole of-tt- Ocean "Tramp tramp vessel la one which picks up A cargo wherever possible. A |