Show - - i J 4 THE ' SALT-Z-AK- E TRMINE SUNDAY MORNING WPRIt 22 1931 ‘ 1 I STORIES ' 11 Po ' 1 4' 4 1 ' s 1 e II:1 JA' "Burnt the seat of mah britches feet Then fifty heels Seventy-fiv- e some but Ah done wins apd—tkout Air now feet Now twenty-fiv- e to' dem flames" comes 'rushing around the cage But the flames and black smoke Some mighty hand is beneath it had already shot up and passed aid pushing it up fast too fast ' The Ramcat as he stepped ligfitly One foot to go! Swish hot scorchBy J9SEPH LORD Spring Canyon 4 off the cage—that cage that did ing flame Hell turned loose! 'rile (Frei Lance) not stop at the landing but Stint landing The Ramcat steps off as - s of the frame tiphead the cage leave him ind goei hurup thra the Crumpled-on- e hundred and ple tling up thru the head frame with lay and feet away by the a tornado of flame and black "You have to go In yo' own and will shoot iron) the Inside out as that building yielded to the imbehind it smoke ento east The Ramcat shoots all the !in out?" asks Ramcat Ramcat The and Pansy 'welto pact of the explosion it rolled once tries while Wampus shoots tauntingly more then came to rest A hilarithe dance while the helmet crew entries Their "runes are alike "Ah just called you up to see ous crowd lustily cheered The toiled thru debris and foul poisonin every respect To win each must how you lak to go to tha' dance by ous gas for long weary hours be- -' Ramcat as he emerged the winner on own luck and denied and riot set" speed Wampus depend yo' fore they found good efficient of one of the strangest races ever too many "wet holes" a bother"How's it outside?" (A moment's run by two men for pail some thing to ashooteas he must- 'Wampus burned to a ettspiT but Inspection outside the doeirS3 ' with a smile on- his lips A good These were sad days for shot- "O K here boy" tamp these himself whereas the loser's smile firers in the Kansas mines Nearly miner tamps the sky holes and !same here lee go' two score had been burnt to a leaves the fuse spilt ready for Ina few weeks The Ramcat took Near Disaster like unto about blown or tumblehimself a bride and both acetytduch of crisp the lighting The Both men had been dangerou--weeds ist the autumn their legs lene flame to the fuse a sputter Pansy "nd be svvore mightily that near disaster A 'few shortraintites their first born- Should-- - be called and arms ripped off and someof slow powder and the shooter At means In that dense times they: were decapitated' Wampus be it boy or girl passes on to the next shot knew this were found between end of a the times they I Watch Each Other but on and 4nt they Went The wrecked mine cars or buried under Editorial iNote—This is an excellent were Seldom RamsatOut the main entry Wam- they falls of rock Now ordinarily as each shooter Both are found alive To be sure precau- would light ten or twelve shots he pui out the Whill the dialect smaéks strongly of hot-Nmeastool Octavus so ever it is full Of flavor tired and were hot takemand safety would run for the nearest tions makes The aca good were the have impressión ad to them refresh They air ures Installed hole cjosi the doors and calrthe is fast strong And exciting Altobut tpn out water of drink their last of taken safe that Ids refuge places only partnir xpight gether the story keeps one reading of their work lies before be in Each kept' track of the of the solid coat pillars these dogwith lair suspense untilits close— ' h them-Eacboy has by eight by holes were about-siother's movements the condition What one most Misses is some vivid d shots to light If they go' easy all of the four feet high with thick double the violence of the portraiture of the twosegroes There is excellent chance tework it lust two doors Inside this hermetically blasts Rarely did these brief telemight be well A little faster and teleplaces: When the Ramcat is talking to sealed compartment were la phone conversations Stake on a hu- - - most likely a trip to the will Pansy andwhen the two men meet be air lost where time morous aspect save for some narpipe phone and a compressed the mine Also at all places where there filled what about that But girl? Pansy rovi escpe that might be While the mine raight be is conversation between the negroes ' gases Paley! Brown eyes! Dark olive with flames and crously embellished some well chosen "stage business" who was fortunate But tonight "was different Any-- - skint An armful of heaven! The a shot-firwould have made the adtor seem alive one of these holes Ramcat smiles as be steps faster and real thing could and might happen enough te The lack of significant as the folks on the and faster Wampus IS working was:as-SaThe Ramcat has lit the fifth and throughout the story as in most of the like a perfect machine but not too sixth east entries his smallest ter surface stories that have been read and acfast He is timing time and making' ' A Real Race ' ritory "Boom a boom" go the shots cepted makes one wonder whether our time He smiles and appreciates number in room one -a beginuisg writeralave learned to -before the To reach a bisown 'work It 14 the smile- — two answers Three and four n closely There are two classes- of explosion! That was a race And door pugilist displays before kicking patrons at a movie: The Very large rapid succession The cut-o- ff ' mass of people whe look out his opponent For a time-tic- k such a race was on OM winter's only for the bangs hard againit thl rib while 1916 the Ramcat The story- and the very very few who see in for feels "Swish-lshhe " the year scirry night violently sighi the air ' the little actions the slight smiles And what of The Ramcat? The Cat is moving fast as the warm big guns boomed on the Western quirks and facial changes- the He What's he? is Where 'wrong? Front He air kissesthe back of his neck and management of- the head has passed thru the crosscut into Pansy Paley was the cause of it Ii smiling and traieling traveling the body and the limbs:Writers are all The Ramcat :and Wampus "Crack! — crack the !kit east entry and is down crack" like that concerning the film rimning on the silver screen of their brains: to number five working out Is Jackson had each asked Pansy forfive and 'six echo near at hand 9999 per cent of them see only the the man mad? Over fifteen shots her Company to the dance Being Just as The Ramcat reaches his ' flirtatious and vivacious ste broad general action of the Stott Mid lit and they have started their ina "loose board flies first become the superficial cheap Warn-pu- s decision a Never did he unable to make fernal past him He is inside Re gurgles of the country and lonesomeness down a pint of water then goes to 'pleaded light so many at one time Number' writing with but a modicum of success one and two rooms are worked love'The Ramcat argued and perthe phone and rings up the sixth-we- st An exceedingly small number get all of a was quirk strange suaded It out Only four- and- three are left this plus the smell details which are Wampus has hide- Five shots Quite a ways back te like himself he should be Immensely sigutficani and which spell Pansy's nature that out of stepped came decisiOn Once character This last is true observation and shots lit on there No answer He turns the the last the first is mere looking Ruskin says are more The Ramcat is pleading valve It side of going air each Things one:quarter compresed that Ram-c:all art is seeing and saying" does "Tells you what Ah to happen surely Fifteen shots lit on inhales deeply then opens the As passing note it is rather poor You all shoots shots tonight?" at once! This was stark lunacy doors and looks nut Air good and which has to use the imitative art "Sho does" agreed The Ramcat of Warn-pu- s' But the race was on the distant "boom-boOwords like "boom" "bang" "buzz" etc he curses "An Wampus shoots too?' "Hell wit to get effects Descriptive narration if shots As he returns to the Ah has to one can find the right words will get Men to "Same shift" with bell a "Got the git gal rings telephone like to much more itrikitig results run boths "And you has ride the fust flame out" Wampus' voice at the other end bell?" "Hello Wampus?" Thoughts Confused "Run is me" "Iviè Whereat he lights four and 'Well we does things Wen you "Get goinl boy" three Twenty shots now An exploall beats Wampus out the mine to"Gone" toitself And" it was dusty dance to in the sion we goes night The Fuses Respond talcum-lik- e Of 71280 beats dust that was Fine But 'lien Wampus getha exYo' me scarcely visible yet' with all the They are on the third and fourth you all out he done takes LANCAS'rER Pa (UP)—A hundredyeentries east and west on?" plosive possibilities of atomized ar-old the strongest quilt made from 71280 pieces Maybe gasoline sputter the fuses as theyrespond is in the possession of Mrs of material Wouldn't flame stand of the lamp' to the touch up built "You tells Wampum?" Richard Van Riper Is him:" the And Each tells blast good are terrific Ah this boy "Sweet message going Things against Very little is known about the history working fast No raissteps mtting gad Plenty oflt'"Whew" The Cat of the quilt exceptlhat ilvfas made "§et somebodytonight May lie" each time Is puzzled Strange thoughts Come the right And Pansy galoshes down the about 1834 by Elizabeth Zell 4ho lived distime and of Good to him "Dog-holin Little Britain township near here Wampus Panjudgmentstreet tance the first shots are exploddance dust Pansy By inheritance the Wit went into thik sy flame 'tomcat Hails Wampus hands of Mrs Arthur Bickham who proing in The Ramcat's run Wampus" These were his confused vided that her the present "Good shots" The Four o'clock comes The weather boora thoughts owner should have it upon her death are miners d is cold Cat soliloquizes from their sound The shalt bottom is one thouIt has been estimated that thework on A faint "oom" comes from Wam sand feet away Therein lay safety coming up the shaft the quilt required at feast ten years check-up- s comparisons and or- But he was so tired A terrific pace There is some dispute as to whether most pus' rum Each knOwe the other Is — trirthele of the material used is old chintz or oil he 'had set A thousand' feet out! –Irtri making fast time The Cat hears chalice The pattern is made up of 7920 two three and four go off Five feet The engineer stops the fan to el- shotS One hundred up! Wenty dia9onds each with nine tiny rosettes startas is flame he low the mine air to get warm The of lit! just spouts Each rosette is made of a tiny circle of ! Ramcat comes stepping high The Cat) feet are itching What hig up number eight room Be cloth apparently cut around a dime sees Wampus and hails him makes the di so still? halts six had some tight holes Half the diamonds have eight rosettes "You all dances tonight Warn- His lamp flame with a red one in the center This color heavily loaded Number two dog scheme is reversed in the retraining half hole Is near room seven He can't sways violently back and forth pus?" of the diamonds Seen from different "Alms to" Time to do Something Lte starts afford to lose time in angles the quilt shows hundreds of geobut- - he- - knows he's got plenty - of He Ls trotting now 'He 'Take sOmebody wif you?" metric designs of larger diamonds pyrarlooks over his shoulder shots lit in narrow territory No "Pansy Paley' maybe" nicis and cubes Held to the light the me The too" suits room for gentle expansion- Be grins and his legs travel faster "Maybe quilt looks like old lam- -Itaracat Good headroom now His ghoul- Idles toward the hole urged by a The quilt is 7 feet 11 inches long by 7 feet 2 inches wide So fire Is the "Talk sense boy" ' admonishes sudden whim to take a drink and ders are hunched his needlework that the stitches scarcely to he -As the a feet 7 smoke going-gets Wampus cigaret can be seen with) he naked eye "Does Pansy says either of us six goes A door of the haulage' wp takes her essen one of us beats he feels ominous sheet of flame ahead of him Five Backward Anesthesia once more shoots flame The the other'n out tonight What you ha air around the back of his ears Many thousands of lives which are Still likes Pansy?" He becomes like a abbit before is jammed tight But wait—it's air now lost annually saY1 through surgical shock electrical shock asphyxia drownSikes ain't somebody else We the hounds Timing time lust its pressure In a moment the backing and overdoses of anesthetics or alshoots shots quickerthan dey goes Wainpus did an hOui or- so ago lashwill come Sure enough here cohol may now be saved as the result ‘'' of a discovery made in a small laborashe tomes gentle at first then Not minutes nowlust seconds to off tonight" tory at Joplin Mo by Ma Pearl Moor not So swishWas far from the The door lt's a roaring make the shaft This hits the bottoni man a woman chemist Miss Moorman Jound that minute switchi and has Passed the empty truth for eachman Would light ai 'opens and The Cat scarcely enters amounts df common hydrochloric acid finkcould as shots he Thereach closes and to when "bang'' it inany the cage! He trip Fifty feet Injected directly into the veins pro::duced remarkable results in resuscitat reach a dothole before they start- lash! Outside the door a bank of backWhat'sthatiFlamel looks ing rabbits dying from too much anes- ed to explode A roaring Mass of white smoke whizzes by t everything In thetic "Ah me I'se losin' time" he Both men are in the lulu& travelThe applicability of this discovery to flammable anctinovable' Ten feet! wider fields of medicine was quickly recOn she comes He hears the roar fleets ing along the Main North entry orgnized by physicians and is now be each with two carbide lamps one from the telephone feels the tremendous air preuure studied intensively The method haft been given a name "palinaesthesia" on his cap-aHe hits the bell Once On the cage the other in his Wampus How is you?" which means literally "backward anest' hand They come to the "Whit's you all doin' in that now Won't it ever move? Here she thesia" and hm already saved at least one human life that of a patient who entry Here they separate They comes and the cage moves up Up boy? Piayin' wif some reacted dangerously as sometimes hap axe aa the "far Inside" 9f the mine he goes with an Inferno at his POP)! dogsZ" pens to au anesthetic a ' ) i'i I 1 1 i i : i I 1 st 2 v I 1 " - white-Teloli- man-The- b i 1 Editorial Note: The Tribune has been receiving many attempts at short short stories which have been of little worth largely because the writers evi- dently have been unfamiliar with the technique of this highly specialized and digicult fohrk To aid 'those attempting it we have had this article written by one who has devoted much time and study to the short short and who is an expert in matter' pertain- ing to story writing This page was announced as open to short stories only and we consider the— minimum length of the true short story as somewhere around 1500 words We will however welcome a very few short short7 stories provided profit by the instruction here given and that the stories in and of themselves are good -- - -- ' d y - It t Lamatetirattempt-st-a---segre-Latoryi---- --- air-cour- se ' I o Dog-hol- t es One-thi- -- - rd about-twenty- As with alf-an- U e s a - i 1 - man-killi- 11 1 e 1 h "Ca-boo- i '- - - -' ve dog-ho- le - '' 4 go-i- move-run- ts - - r - - dog-ho- le pulp-pap- er "ca-boora- " I I : story-telle- - : rs dog-ho- le I y 1! cision-quiCkl- Is dog-ho- le at i t -- 4 i 'dog-hole- s" I 1 $4 100-Year-O- S ld Pieces I ' "Ca-fizz- " break-throug- h - - I es 1 sister-inla- if ba-oo- ) Black-face- t A Last-minu- Iit t i ir i ' 1 te - "Ba-oo- m A i " ba-oo- dog-hol- es 1 -- -- - - n--tiptoe fast-flyi- i ng - f?) dog-ho- le "Boom-a-boo- swish-a-swish- - '' ' : ' 1 By from - - The war - - dog-ho- le m - 6' : ' ' ' 1 I ' - ' ' I'ot ' - - ' ' ' - ' -- - - ' he has fdrnished the material and has by setting up certain relations and associations between its parts eatablished controls (words phrases or ideas used to point the way toward the thing to be Imagined) upon the reader's Imagination so that he will build truly and correctly the writer's work is done If the reader's result when he has done his building is disappointing either to him ot to the artist the disaster is wholly the fault of the writer for it is his duty to establish such controls that it is int possible for the reader to do other than build a satisfactory storyd Job A Tide then is the lob of the writer-4- o bring his materials together In such a way- thatth'e assMationo and relations set- up will establish certain limits within which the reader is free to develop the suggestive values thus given yet bound to arrive at a result which will be pleasing to him and which will approximate the conception which the author had The controls which must be set up vary with the suggestibility and 'Mai-gene- s of the audience A highly stig- gestible audience needs few controls but very rigid and the results Obtained will bevery variant This does not mean that the individual resulbi will be unsatisfactory The young authör should always write out the full short story before attempt- Mg the shortened form He should then choose that portion which can best be modified and reworked inorder to suggest the remainder and by proper trianip ulation and revision shape it to his pig poses Only thus can he succeed Type 2 is not very artistic Type I may be practiced with some success and with some art but It has not the attraction the art the scintillating beauty- of the suggestive short short which should be the study and the goal of all seeking this dainty form Then will the short short story be a glad a live a wonderful add! tion to our fictional literature - - - - - Man-She- man-size- d - - - I Herbert Riley Howe i s 1915 and here Used by permission et issue of September the publishers) was over smd he was back in his native city that had : - ' IA' - He looked down at her They were near a street lamp She screamed shoulders and dragged her nearer to the light flesh and his eye gleamed "Joan!" he gasped sixth-eas- I and having complication of two or more lines of interest with a tonsequent denoue- merit There is usually a modicum of bacicground Itis these things which must be suggested in the portion used In order to bring out the remainder Not to suggest The complication the lines Of Interest and the struggle or dramatic conflict is just where the fumbler for this form fails Unless our writers learn so to do the short short will soon fall into disrepute and what is the develop' ment of-- a great new fictional form will - be aborted into the production of Cori tied incidents for the incident Is the aimplest form of tale having one line of interest practically no plot and no corn plication Building Suggestiveness In attempting to build suggestiveness into the portion of the story chohn to bring out the remainder the beginner Is more than likely to mistakeobscurity for suggestion That suggestion is ob- seure that fails to enter and amuse the reader's imagination either because the material furnished is beyond comprehen- mice or because it is meaningless by rea- of absence of association of its parts ' In this instruction our only concern Is the lack of comprehension If this ex- Ists the writer is the one to be blamed for he chose his audience When he has done that it becomes his duty to acquaint himself with its capabilities and to offer nothing that it cannot apprehend and manipulate If be is sure that the reader can recognize all the pieces furnished him and that he has the ability to shift them about so as to get the various patterns the writer's responsibility is ended It is then a matter of the reader's acuteness and creative imagination and art has passed into iti second stage Hs only is a worthwhile artist who has the ability and facility to present his material in such a manner as to energize the reader's mind arouse his creative imagination and bring about the birth of the beautiful image that is he is an artist yho baj the power of suggestive-Whe- n sweetheart" "Br-r-r-- r" I x been retaken from the Vandals He WU walking rapidly through a dimly lit quarter it woman touched his arm and accosted him in fuddled accents "Where are you going 11'sieu? With me hein?" He laughed 'No not with you old girl I'm going to find my nd - distirict-elima- WHAT THE VANDALS LEAVE - - ti a - (A Perfect short Story Example) - ' -- m t ‘'' -- " - I - story has appeared sporadically for cen- tartest but unlike the longer form its conscious cultivation study development and elaboration have been a matter of the lot decade or two The first ithpettu to its study was given wherein by a contest in Life in a capital prize of 91000 was offered arid each story pliblished was paid for at the rate of 10 cents per word for each word the story lacked of being 1000 words long For example the story printed elsewhere on this page 'What the Vandals Leave" being 97 words long 903 short of the 1000 brought its author 99030 It is clear that the incentive WWI to extreme shortness and a'consetitient reducing of the story expressed and (or) tuggested perilously close to an incident This story from Life would be scarceli more than an Incident were it hot for its suggestiveness which saves it and which makes it a short short story Note the amount of material suggested: A man and a girl are lovers in a Belgian village They have plighted their troth Comes the alarum of war The man is called to the colors A kiss an embrace promises of eternal fidelity and they separate The Vandals come The girl is ravished and passed down from higher officer to lower then sergeant corporal private to become a common prostitute The war is over The man comes back to find her Then comes the portion given with its following anguish and all of the foregoing is suggested by this incident a whole novel in 97 words Soul of Short Short Likewise Browning in "My Last Duchess" gives us a short short of 450 words which suggests another whole novel In it we read the whole sordid story of the monstrous vanity and cruelty of an Italian lord of the Renaissance from the courting of the first wife through until "I gave command then all smiles stopped together" and followed the contracting for the second wife: a masterpiece con-novel in 450 words veying a It is this suggestion that is the essence and soul of the short short and that is its very life Artistically there b no other type Atit in fumbling for the form throughout the last II) 'to 20 years authors have made trial of three different (I) The "condensed" short story lye or novel done in two ways (allby mating parts of tile story leaving the remainder full length but with no suggestion of the omissions and (b) by con 4:lensing each and every part of the story keeping all of them the whole being skeletonized nearly to what is technically called a plot (2) the simplified short story wherein brevity b obtained by eliminating the subplot or one or more of the lines on interest making it what is technically known asktale and (3) the suggestive type like the one printed today wherein one full portion is chosen from a short story or novel which the author clearly sees and that portion go revised and reworked' Trine cipally by replacing words of small suggestiveness with others of large connotetion such' as that wonderful word "Aiddled" that the whole may spring into being In the reader's imagination In all of these types it is evident that 450-pag- e dog-ho- le 1 - - Quilt Made Up 1 the writer must know the full short story in order that he may skilfully shorten it Here amateurs and poor authors have failed for in studying stories of type 1 and seeking to imitate them they have lost sight of the MI short story to be suggested have presuiri'ed that the abort short before then t wu Aust the sport of an author's mind was just "dashed off" andhavo in their irnita- tions produced only incidents with no real suggestion of the full story What then our learner may ask is a full short story? Dr Clayton Hamilton says that it is a brief narrative seeking the greatest singleness of effect with the greatest economy of means As sail it must have more or less characters one of which very greatly overshadows moving througn a plot which has struggle or dramatic the-othe- the short story the short short 1915-1911- 1 - ' )- -- ng - - I - -- es' er i: 1 dog-hol- A Quivey d -- - - x t their-authors- Roy-Cohe- dog-ho- le ) Section ' By Professor - i 1 THE SHORT SHORT STORY dog-ho- le all-we- Milonsule WnterS 0 II SOME ADVICE ON WRITING ian-hou- se 1:' s' Br rY111 U 1 Iii : i6 RIDIN' OUT ON A FLAME ! k -- t - Ile seized her by the His fingers dug her - ' S — |