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Show CIIKE Sure Relief LOOT MISSION HOMES MOBS, COMPOSED LARGELY SOLDIERS, RANSACK AT WILL IN FOOCHOW OF FOR INDIGESTION Antiforeign Demonstration at Canton; 5$ and 75$ PkgsSold Everywhere Planned foe Last Sunday, Was Called Off awful high, blit I has gone up II kt th dime novel, some o wliicli soil for $3. ft Is not certain whether Abe waft milking this sly insinuation against the quality of some of our modern fiction or against a new development in American writ lug in which the exploit of dime novel hen.es are heitig preserved in such formal biographies as The Saga of Hilly the Kid" by Walter N. Hums, The Rise and Hull of Jesse James" by Robert us F. Love, and Wild Hill, the prince of Plslnleers" by Walter J. Wilstuch. it was that Abe had in mind, be was, hi reality, doing the dime' novel an Injustice, in monetary If not In literary value. For the old fen-rethrillers which were devoured, swapped and accreted by the boys of 40 years ago and which were then considered the source of all juvenile crime have In late years become eminently respectable and extremely valuable possessions to have. Remember the days when you spent your whole weeks allowance for a copy of Deadly Kyo"; or The ITalrlo Rover, by RulTnlo Rll' (William F. Tody); or Arkaasaw, the Man With the Knife"; or The Queen of Fates He vonge," by T. flarlmugh, to be read surreptitiously behind your joggerfy book" at school or fn the hayloft at home when you were ee.rtaln that dad would not appear unexpectedly? After you had read this treasure to the last page, perhaps you traded It off to a crony for his copy of Arizona Joe. the Iioy Hard of Texas .lack or California Joe; or, The Arigei of the Wilderness: A Story of ihe War In Virginia." For all of those were titles in Beadle's Dime library or Beadle's Half Dime library, published by those eminent Instructors of American youth in the wuys of the wild and woolly West Ileadle and Adams of New Volk. If you had a copy of them now, you wouldnt need to hide It uwny ns You could exhibit It proudly to you once did. your friends' as collectors Item" or rare Americana which has taken a place In American literature and which not so long ago was the thesis subject by which a student won his Ph.I). degree In the English depurtment of one of our es. If you wanted to sell your copy, you could probably get anywhere front five to ten dollars for what originally sold for five or ten cents. At least. If the prices paid for Dr. Frank P. DT.riens library of dime novels in New York only a few years ago Is any criterion, you cjm)L. Ills collection of ,110 volumes of thrillers, which represented 20 years of searching through 30 states In order to secure three ruphlly disappearing little books and pamphlets relating to pioneer American life, were auctioned olT for a total of $3,108.20. Individual volumes brought various prices but the top price wug $1,02.1 for 28 volumes of Hcadle A Vs weekly magazine, the Saturday Star Journal. It Is not likely that another such collection will ever again appear in the auction rooms hut from time to time Individual volumes, boh up somewhere and they are quickly snapped up by collectors who know their value. Other echoes of the old dime novel days are beard occasionally to retail to the boys of yesterday the favorite literature of their youth. One of them was heard a year or so ago when press' dispatches carried the news that T. U. flarlmugh bad sold olT his meager possessions and entered an Ohio ponrhouse, there to spend his declining years Tills T. (., llarbaugh was one of the most prolific of Houdle's dime novelists and between 18ti!) and 18'.)7 lie wrote nearly a thousand volumes of tills type of fiction, or more than ,1,000.000 words of thrills, of vvltMi it was. once said, There are ten thousand shudders in his writings, Ian not one blush. Hnrhnugh was paid $2."0 each for the dime novels and $1.10 for the novels, and tie iivrnle a fortune at the work, only to end bis days in poverty. other echoes were heard ir- more recent press dispatches when the original Deadwood Dirk, whose real name Is Richard Clark und wlm lives near Whitewood, S. D was quoted as protesting against the news that he was dead, as It had been reported from California, and when, from Norfolk. Neli.. came the news that the original "Diamond Dick" was still living there. Hes not known ns Diamond Dick, however, by the people of Norfolk, hut ns Dr. Richard J, Tanner, one of the foremost physicians In the county. Although neither Deadwood Dick, nor Diamond Dick, had one tenth of the thrilling adventures credited to them in the dime novels, both have lived sufficiently interesting lives and had more than their hare of narrow escapes from death. Deadwood Dick was a tnlnpr nnd stage driver In the Pluck Hills of 10 jours ago. Diamond Dick also had a varied career In that country in the old Indlan-f.ghtiiidays lint he was best known for his later rareer as n fancy ride and pistol shot with a Reus until he gave this up to study medicine. in fact, u gicut many of the dime novel heroes were real persons and In some cases the events i at rated In the hooks were autobiographical, since ihe authors themselves had lived on the frontier and la d their share of thrilling experiences. Certainly HulTalo Hill (Col. V. F. Cody), who was I" alt it dime novel hero nnd author, was a rent as history will testify. Other homes who well kuown were California Joe, Texas mt hut Foochow, China A number of British and American women and two ministers were badly beaten, and several later were dragged through the street? by Chinese mobs during the worst antiforeign riot in the history of the thurcu here. The riot was precipitated by northern soldiers incorporated in the southern Catonese army. Churches, schools, hospitals and foreign residences were completely looted. After a similar disturbance Saturday night of last week tlie rioting broke out anew Sunday morning cad continued until evening. The foreigners finally escaped and reached safety. The rioting occurred within the old wi.lled city. The following institutions wore plundered: All Catholic schools and churches, Anglican and Methodist hospitals, the city branch of the Young Men's Christian association, Anglican girls school and the boys blind school. Imlf-dim- - po-M- n. e Take Tablets Without Fear If You See the Safety Bayer Cross." Warning ! Unless you see the name Bayer on package or on tablets you are pot getting t he genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe, by millions and prescribed by physicians for 20 years. Say Bayer" when you buy Aspirin. Imitations may prove dangerous. Adv. n Mexican-N'icaragua- Rubens Inspired by Wife ir Jack, Arizona Joe, The IOvil Spirit of tin Ilains." Roving Joe, Huckskin Sam, Fancy Frank, the Irqn Face; Old Grizzly, the Hear Tamer; Drain Adams, Captain Jack, the I net Scout, and Ned Runtime. California Joe is often referred to us a man, "the riddle of whose Identity, like that of the man in J lie iron mask. Is still unsolved." As n matter of fact. It vvus solved long ago and whatever mystery there was about it arose from a confusion of two men a member of Berdan's Sharpshooters In the Civil war, who bore the name of California Joer and Joseph E. Milner, the real California Joe, who vvns a native of Kentucky, a scout for Generals Sheridan and Custer during the plains Indian wars .after the Civil war and a miner In the Hlack hills where he was assassinated in 187(1. - Texas Jacks real mime was J. H. Oinnliundro, a Yliglniun who emigrated to Texas at an early age where he distinguished himself by extinguishing several had men who made the mistnke of thinking thnt this quiet .voung fellow wouldnt tight. He served in the Confederate army during the Civil war and was a guide, rancher, mustang-breakehunter, scout and Indian fighter afterwards. He and Hufl'alo Hill were t he guides for tile earl of Dunraven when that adventure-seekinEnglishman penetrated the Yellowstone country In the seventies and the ear! speaks highly of the character and ability of both men. Texas Jack is said to have died in Leadvllle. Colo", in 1880. Wild Rill is hNo a historic character as any number cf authoritative works will testify. His real name was James Duller lliekok and he was born in Illinois in 1837. He was a scout for the JTnlon forces in the Civil war, an overland stage driver and a scout tor Custer In the Indian wars but he won ids greatest fame us marshal of Hays City, Kans., and Abilene in the days when they and roaring frontier were typical of the wide-ope, Hike his California Joe, wild Hill town was also assassinated, shot down from behind, in the Hlack hills, in 1S7(. HntTalo Hill. Wilil Hill and Texas Jack are the i riumvimte of heroes in Col. Prentiss Ingraham's The League of Three; or. HulTalo Hill's Pledge," which gives nu interesting and accurate picture of the city of Omaha us it was in the sixties. Colonel Ingntlinu) was also Ihe biographer of Hruin Adams, who vvns the nephew and biographer of the fauil'iis Old Grizzly" Adams. James Capon Adams (Old Grizzly) was one of ihe most remarkable characters In tl.e history of the West. He was horn in New York hut went West at an early day. of him Doctor O'Hrien has said. In future milleniunis the quaint figure who wont about the country riding an enormous grizzly hear, with u second similar beast for a laxly guard, will probably become a legend and finally a myth. Hut he was ji real person, nil right, even though it Is difficult to pick out the truth from tin (ictlon In the accounts of his life as written hv Fancy Frank, live Iron Face (Dr. D. Frank PovvcM, who was also known as White Heaver and who was associated with HulTalo Hill at one time) and his nephew. Bruin Adams, who joined him in the Rockies at an early age. Arizona Joe's retd name was Capt. .lop Bruce, und Captain Jack, the Poet Scout, was John Wallace Crawford, vv ho fought In t he Civil war as n hoy and later became noted at n scout In the Sioux Indian wars, a miner In the Black hlils and a friend of Wild Bill. California Joe nnd other worthies lu the old Black hills gold rush davs r, g n frli-nd- Roving Joe was Joseph E. Badger, Jr., nnd his biography, although written as a dime novel by A. II. Host, tinder the title of "Roving Joe; The History of a Young Border Radian. " is in I Remain an accurate historical record of Badgers career as a hunter, trapper, Indian tighter and miner in the Hikes Peak gold regions. Buckskin Sam was Mnj. Sam S. I Inti, author of Kit Carson, Junior, the Crack Shot of the West" which was a narrative of events in l.SOO which uime under his personal observation. His recital of the campaign of u party of Texas rangers In pursuit of Cortina, the Mexican outlaw, has been called a real contribution to American history. Ihe Evil Dr. Vllllam Frank Spirit of the Plains Carver, noted us a crack shot, a scout, hunter and n companion of Buffalo Bill. Most interesting of all. perhaps. Is Buntline 'Col. E. Z. C. Judson). because lie has sous claim to being the author of ihe lirst true dime novel. Jtdson, when only sixteen years of age. wrote his-fi- rst story which npieftrcd In the Knickerbocker Magazine In l'il.S p,. in ik-ibecame editor of a magazine ended d Bunt-llneOwn Weekly." lie was arrested for inching the Aster Place riots In his niagnine. Jii ed SJ10 nnd spent a year in prison. Cp. his release from prison in 1S10 lie began writing more voluminousIn I'm.o lie visited Jim ly tliur. ever before. Brhlger, the famous mounlain man and guide on Bridgers farm at Wretnort. Mo Bridger liked Judson and tooK him on ti Dip to the plains with him. In return Judson made Brhlger the hero if a series of his dime novels which brought even greater fame to this lemai knhle diameter. From that time on Judson continued us a waiter of dime novels and war. soon making $20.noo fl year with such thrillers as "Tie Red Right Hand," Life on tlx Prairies," Tile Conmndies Dream, "Wild Hill's Hast Fight," and various oilier narratives of the deeds of HulTalo Hill. Wrestling Joe, Mountain Tom. Dig Foot Wallace, -- a s Ned. runiline's great fame, however, came from his ventures in Ihe theatrical world when he transferred the dime novel' idea to the stage and brought before the American public the wild West in the form of Buffalo Bill. Texas Jack and Wild Bill. Although Ned Bnntlinp may he credited with starting the dime novel, it was Erast us Beadle who made them most famous and made the name Beadles Dime Novel a universally known trademark. Beadle may have got the idea from Hunt-linor have seen the possibilities of giving rollers a new type of fiction based upon some of the stirring scenes lie witm-s-eduring a trip from Buffalo. N. Y to some of his lands in Omaha. Neb., In 1817. At any rale, the firm of Beadle and Adams begun Issuing the dime novels in 1810. But it was not until the following year, when their novel Malaeskn; or, Tito Indian Wife of tlio White Hunter" by Mrs. Anna S. Stevens, was such ait enormous success, that they began T reduction oti a Ilia scale. Some of Mielr novels bore the imprint of Frank Starr A Co.. 41 l'hitt Street. N. Y." Starr was a foreman In Beadles printing shop and the address of the Starr company was the rear entrance of the Beadle establishment. Beadle rnd Adams ceased issuing their dime non Is In 1SP7. the last one being Colonel Ingraham's BulYnh Bills Tough Tuss'e; or. Tit Buckskin Boss Ho,. e pre-empte- d -- Too Much "Acid? Excess Uric Acid Gives Rise to Many Unpleasant Troubles. AUTHORITIES agree that an 4 excess of uric acid is primarily due to faulty kidney action. Retention of this toxic material often makes its presence felt by sore, painful joints, a tired, languid feeling and, sometimes, toxic backache and headache. That the kidneys are not functioning right i3 often shown by scanty or burning passage cf secretions. Thousands assist their kidneys at such times by the use of Doans a stimulant diuretic. . Pills Doans are recommended by many local people. Ask 'your neighbor! DOANS p6oc5 Stimulant Diuretic to the Kidney $ Asks for Dirigible Bid3 Washingon Although congress has ntir appropriated funds for the two dirigibles authorized at the last ses4on, the Davy department asked for bids oa construction of one or both ships. The ,d ' Rubens, tlie great painter, was so inspiml by his second wife that the genius Hashed anew, according to art critics. Many critics also say that, her likeness appeared in his religious anil mythological paintings for years afterward. She said to have furnished tlie inspiration that blossomed Andromeda in 'Deforth In Dido, spair, and In Susanna. Farmers. Ask. Three Probes Washington Appointment of a committee to determine the interest of agriculture in 'the McFaddcn branch banking bill, railroad consolidation and other measures before congress designed to facilitate business was asked byWilliam II. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau federation. In r. letter to the heads of five loadilig agricultural organizations, he said that, in view of the designations by the United States Chamber of Commerce and the industrial conference beard of a committee to make a national program for agriculture, it was only just that the farm interests, in turn, should inquire Into the effect upon themselves of legislation desired by industry. fST rR. ASPIRIN BAYER DEMAND Marines Will Likely Remain Washington relations will continue to furnish the subject of debate this week In both the house and senate, but with scant prospect of action oil any of the proposals advanced for withdrawal of American marines from Nicaragua. Resolutions dealing with the administrations" bo taken up Wednesday In the foreign relations committee, which also will consider at that time whether it will make pulic the corrected copy of Secretary Kellogg's statement last Wednesday in executive session. Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, chief critic of the administration's method of dealing with Central American countries, is opposed to having his committee sponsor the secretary's revised statement and has suggested that Mr. .Kellogg appear at an open session of the committee for hair-raisin- g largest'-unlversltl- Holds Hope for Lepers Dr. Haul A. Mclllienny lias .reported to the American Medical association on preventive methods that may head off many of the frightful deformities long associated with leprosy. At tide national leprosarium at CarviHe, La., corrective treatments consisting of massage, baths, exercises and ultraviolet irradiation have been used with success in treating the misshapen hands and feet even of cases of long standing, says the specialist. Since little preventive work of this character has ever been attempted in leper colonies, physicians are watching tins progress of these corrective methods with great interest. So many deformities have been improved that in time cures of the less severe deformities are not regarded as impossible. Poicr Milburn Co., M'g. Chemists, Buffalo N.Y. Too True ' Tlie minister was putting n ti new collar, and was having tlie usual trouble with it. Bless the collar!" he said, impatiently. ns lie tugged and tugged. Bless the blessed collar!" "My dear. said his wife, what la your text fur this mornings sermon? verse, Psalm," lie replied. In short gasps. of Ids mouth were Tlie than butter, but there (tug) lu his heart. was (tug) dirigibles which would be of approximately 6,000,000 cubic feet of gas capacity, were not provided for In the ' budget estimates for the department this year, but $50,000 for beginning one ship was written into the bill in the house. It still must be acted on ly the senate. Bidders must draw their own designs in acordance with specifications requiring a ship capable of 70 knots and hour at 3000 feet eleva-Foand endurance of not less than 130 hours at cruising speed of 50 The designs would allow for i.n.ots. use of either helium or hydrogen of a combination of jioth. n , ' j. A perature? Worse No. but Ive driven every oilier kind rf'ear. Barracks to bs Localized Washington Army barracks to be Creeled under the housing program are to be localized, not only as to materials used, but also historic lly. They will be built of materials New ten-yea- New One Have you ever run a Nurse tem- most This Ore Included There's nothing new in tlie world." You should read something besides r jokes. most used in each locality,-whethe- r brick, concrete, tile or stucco, to insure local conformity, with climatic conditions. Architecturally, they will conform to the prevailing design of each area, the Camp Meade, Maryland, structures fbr example, being colonial in appearance, those in southwestern states following Spanish mission models and those in northeastern posts early English architectural MUDDY OILY SKIN I quickly improved and usually cleared entirely if properly treated with Farm From Owner. Kit OrumJe Citrua grove, poultry, vvtab1ps, Ium 80. 3415 . San Antonio, Fort arbors Bill Approved Washington The ronference report cn the $71,000,000 rivers and harbors authorization bill waR approved by the house. Senate action still is necesRlvers-- Texan. nr Men t Kmijcrr Job; ami home furnirhed , prr ,annt ; experience tc. Write unHfre3sar ; hunt. (lh. trap. NRTtN, 364 Mc.Var.n LiUIg.. Ienver. $nS-S20- t1 Krai Ktnte Broker I tiara $1,000 l nthly - nlly Income CraprfMiit veiling Rio (.rand- It write A NT A AXI GII.Itjt ownProper! er. ArJc Ruiltllng, San Antonio, Texa. , sary. Sunshine Takes Sting Off Of Winter New York Bright sunshine took the sting out of the icy breath of winter in the metropolitan district, which was swept by a blizzard Saturday. The mercury, which had hovered around 5 above zero, mounted steadily and had CO, who slept passed .13. John Ila-r- e, beneath a chute outride a coal yard, wan sj severely frostbitten that he died in a hospital Slipping on the icy platform of the elevated station at Bowery nr.J IPnist in streets, an in-identified man fell in front of n train " F.'ETCKElL EYE SALVE heals irfi ime.1 eyes, granulated lids, styes. ec. .Sure. b'afe. p v. ZScat N. 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