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Show Tol tec feilJf! 7 I ; ' By ELM0 SC0TT WATS0N Air Vvf 5L f V V Sfm NCK upon a time a llls" V"'fc 1 1 f iW I ( ftT 1 torian of the American '?PEI''F rl'Ta 7 4 ' fiv-- V, frontier set about his task i Vi'V AO M InU V i 1 JP by listing and describing ,f$MXj JrjijrL "ie "liiftruments of civili- - i Y "I I. ti f , ' A i NVv zation." He named the f 1 A I M,'MJm IfflXi yvj ' " W N ax. the rille. the boat and i 4' U At-lMf- i'' . the horse, and then, having put these J Jt vfl! " ' "' j liinimenvs in the hands of a restless JT VW f raw of men, he started the protag 'IVJfe W Ch "'lifts of his tale on their epic of wil- - vy X'uy y'iA 1' .ieiness-breiiking- . That historian' was r 'Oi"! NvX Kinerson Hough, and the book was f j t "The way to the West." published by T"' ''11 XjUl' (he r.obbsMerrill company of Indian " r llpl'IlS. A quarter of a century has passed I V 4 4 ,H ' gfTj Hi.d another historian of the frontier ifi ST h:,s added one ...ore to the "Instru-- ; LjAWVI?r & I mrnts of civilization," which a later 4j - 4t. NKsSs If . r;;re of resiless men used in winnin? Gdzzp cF' 'COKSOK I QLZ He West, after their fathers had hi toiind the way to it. This was the and it seems particularly that Bobbs-Merril- l are Ieivsliooter of "Hands Up! the S!x-Gu- Fighters of U. , I lie Hid Wild West," as told, by Kred I). Suttn and written down by A. 1? M a Konald. As the title Indicates, lliis hook deals with the final phase J of the frontier era. the days when : i i i , as exemplified by the . westward-pushin- white man, had ilelinltely dispossessed the red man. established a home of sorts In the wilderness and i m-- i about putting its own house in I order. - . t Insofar as some members' of thai lmusehoid found It dillicult to breal. ; i.way from certain lawless habits ac H ii.-- ( (l; while what Theodore Koose ' wit I (lis characterized as the "rough work of conquering a continent" was j , going on, the task of x was done in a primitive fashion. Su pi rlluo :s forms were dispensed with ainUl'lie- - .1 ulir.g' out of justice was, in the,, ; V ( itlJt of, presenl Inj! 'foeedur'i?, appal' fl i i.iy-siiiip- le nhd di'W'.ct. ;For. In must p .!. irsos Old Judge bolt was tfie tinai. I i.rliiter, and from his dei'iiji'onSj (here' I . '. v.iis rarely ' ,, ,. ' Sutton one night at a dance to save the life of the notorious Hilly the Kid. "not polely for the reason that I knew him well but simply that 1 could not see a man murdered from behind," as he explains It. But for all that he saved Billy from being shot in the back, the author of "Hanrfs Up!" has no Illusions about that young outlaw. "If ever a man de-served killing, it was Billy the Kid he says, "He was a human tiger, the most 'pitiless killer of that period In his short life of twenty-on- e years he killed twenty-on- e men, and the most of those killings were murders done in cold blood." Thus this old timer shows a refresn lug lack of maudlin sentimentality tor those kiilers which colors the writings of others who have chron Icled their dark deeds, the same type of misplaced sympathy which saves the necks of so many murderers to-day. He knew many of them Jesse Jaines, Cherokee Bill, Bill Doolln Crescent Sam, Belle Starr, the Pulton,, boys, gang, Henry Starr Blackethfncpfl Charley and Arkansas Tom and," knowing them and the. en-vironment which shaped their desti nies, he can account for what they President Roosevelt on one of his vis-It- s to Oklahoma City by the veteran Billy Tilghman, as follows: "There'i one thing that always counts In a tight of that kind (between a peace officer and a bad man, equally skillful on the 'draw') the man who knows he is right always has a shade on the man who knows he Is wrong." But that was not all, according to Sutton, who explains Just how these peace officers handled their six-gun- s, and In doing so he does a lot of ' much-neede- d debunking of the Wild West, as It Is presented by the mo-vies. Sutton got ' his Information first-han- for he once saw Wild Bill demonstrate the secret of his llght-nlng-li-draw and various other mat-ters of Colt technique were explained to him by such masters as Bat Mas-terso- Billy Tilghman. Al Jennings, and others. He learned about this When, as a boy, he first arrived In podge City, Kan., in the old days when "there was no Sunday west of Kansas City and. no God. west of Fort Smith." and was taken under the wing of such frontier notables as Mnsterson; Luke Short, Wyatt Karp. Chalk Beeson and Robert M. Wright, and he added to his knowledge in that J. ; Mention the word "gunman" mid 'J " ' (HiejfititUtuHy Chinks' of tjie gangsters in purr big cities of Jnday. But: as.' I '.iiicrson I lough-- ' long" out :' Cn liis "The Story of the Outlaw") V li is tjeeedlngly unfair to the gun ;i :in .of the Old West to compare the k;i!tT of today with him. "The on'e '! !.- - ;:n assassin, the other was a war i r or; the one Is a dastard, the other ins something of a man," said Hough , ;,1 who declared that the nature of Jr Mme of the crimes committed by the li modern type of "gunman" "would a hardened desperado of the ) Win to blush for shame." And In j Unit opinion Fred Sutton, who knew j some of those old-tim- e desperadoes 1 lir.li'.iately. seems to concur. In his I rliiipter on "The Border Code" Is an 'I ' Illuminating exposition of "the un tf written law of the Old West, which ft Cive to every man a chance." One l 'iince Is typical : fi In h freighters' camp at WaKon-Be- d Furing two men quarreled, and after II uipy were separated and all of ue fl thoupht the fufs was over, one of 4 j I hem Arizona Jack, shot and killed , I' the lither without warnlna We formed f whnt wns called tack-rabb- it court. . Artmna wns put on trial for his llf 1 rod found Euilty He beeeed for his t'j HO hot thp executioner lust before H he rull-- d the triesrer rebuked him Pf You re -- ot as decent, even, as a m for it warns before It I "'7, 'Jus this same code which caused were and what they did. But he does not glorify". Mheir crimes.' He may have, admired them for what good qualities' they did possess, but he ad mires more the type of gunman who drew his in the cause of law and order. "Nearly till those peace oflicers of the old frontier were likable men, but there was nothing maudlin or Irresolute about them They knew that death was the onlj penalty that would curb those wild men of the border, and when It was necessary to Inflict It they did no. hesitate," says Sutton. Such were Wild Bill Hickok, whom he character izes as "unquestionably the fastest and surest man with a that the West ever knew." Bat Mas lerson, Pat Garrett and Billy Tilgh man. It was men of this type who used the as an "instru ment of civilization." "Fill your hand!" was the remark that Wild Bill made when he "got the drop on" a bad man from Texas who had come up the trail to Hays City Kan., where Bill was marshal, with the announced intention of spilling the Hickok blood. For the border code extended to these exponents ot law and order when they set about arresting a desperado and made them -- give the other fellow a chance, even when it was exceedingly dangerous to do so." One of the reasons they were willing to do so was explained to turbulent period wnen Isaac u. i iirhtr was the "hanging Judge" at Fort Smith, Ark, and' the outlaw- gangs, such as the Dnltons, the Doolins and others, were making their last stand in what Is now the .state of Oklahoma The sum total of Sutton's observa-tions, as set down In. the pages of Ids book, Is a paraphrase of the old saying that "they who take the sword shall perish by the sword." For, as he puts It, "The ended the lives of nine-tenth- s of all the outlaws of the Wild West." And It was al-most equally true of those others who took up the in de-fense of the law. Of the four moc fumou? peace officers whom Sutton knew, three went down before a smoking Wild Bill' brief career as "prince of pistol-eers- " ended abruptly in 1S76, when he was shot down from behind In Deadwood, S. D. Nearly a quar ter of a century after Pat Garrett had killed Billy the Kid. he himself was shot and killed. After fifty-on- e years as a peace officer Billy Tilghman went out" as he had hoped to do "in smoke mid with hi? boots on." He was shot In an Oklahoma oil tiooni town in 1924 by a man whom he had arrested and was taking to the police station. Only Hal Majtterson, who left the Wild West years ugo to le come a New York newspaper man died peacefully "with his boots otT." (EASY lessons in f AUCTION BRIDGE : r 4 I Br PAUL H. SEYMOUR 1 f Au'.hof "HifhlihU M Aoctioo Bridf I ., . - - 9 (Copyright. b Hoyl. Jr.) Artlsle Seventeen. Senior' Play to a Declared Trump (Continued.) IIE "rule ot eleven" u9 8,atca 81 1 Hie close of Hie lust article l: If thv number of spots on the card led (fourih best of leader's suit) be subtracted from eleven It will tell the number of curds lu that suit above the one led which are in the other three hands." After senior's first lead dummy B cards are spread on the table Immedi-ately. Thus Junior and the. declarer each can tell at once how many cards the other one holds above the one led. t,i i,,.i id liiL'h as the sis or IJfU IIIIO - - " IM It frequently gives very valuable Suppose, for Instance, that senior opens by leading the six of clubs, that dummy contains the ten, nine, seven and four, and that declarer holds the Ace, Queen and three spot. Six from eleven Is live, which means that there are only live clubs above the six spot in the three hands held bv dummy, Junior and the declarer. In this case the declarer can see all five of these cards In his two hands and so knows at once that Junior can-not cover the six spot. He would ther.-for- play the seven from dummy and would not need to play the Queen from his own baud. In the same way Junior often obtains Information of value by applying this rule. Kettivnlng to a further consideration of senior's leads. It frequently happens that he does not have any combina-tion which is recognized as desirable from which to lead, and that he must ntake a choice between several unde-sirable ones. In this case a singleton often may be led to advantage. If senior holds several small trumps which will be of no use because declarer will draw them out as soon as he gets the lead, a singleton lend may enable Junior to take the trick and lead back so that senior may win a trick by trumping. Suppose.- for instance, that senior leads the eight of clubs when de-clarer is playing a heart declaration. Suppose that dummy has the King. Jack and several small ones and that Junior holds the Ace, ten and one or more small ones. Junior spplies the rule of eleven and finds that this is not a' fourth best lead (because he can see four hlt'her ones); tnereio.e he knows that It must be a singleton. In suoh case be would win with his Ace and lead the suit back at once. The fact that the King Is In dummy would deter Junior from leading it hack unless , he recognized senior's lend as a singleton. This again shows the benefit of the rule of eleven. The lead of a singleton is not wise when holding three trumps to the Queen, or four to the Jack, because in such case the trumps are too valuable In order to embarrass declarer when he starts to draw them out. The suit should not be weakened by using even one for rutllng. . The order of preference best to be observed for an original lend at a de-clared trump may be stated as fol-lows : (1) A from A K and no others. C") K from A K and others. (3) Top of a three;card sequence. (4) Top of a two-card sequence. (5) 'A singleton (provided hand has four or less small" trumps). . (() A doubleton. , (7) Any four-car- d suit except with a tenace or Ace or King, unaccompa- - nled by another honor. For (7) the order of prefnr:? would be: (a) x x x X (d) KuX (b) K J 10 x (e) A x x x (c) KJtX f) A Q x x Note: x means any card below the ten The card in black type Is the one which should be led. , After we have. stated that the ad-versaries in a declared trump seldom make more than their aces and kings and that usually It is best to take tricks with them as soon as possible. It may cause some surprise that the rules should go on to put such comb-inations as A xxx and AQxx at the very bottom of the list of desirable leads and advocate the lead of a small club from the following hand being played at a heart declaration: S Axxx: H x ; D-- AQtx: i C x xxx However, there are spe-cial reasons for avoiding bot,h the spade and the diamond suits in this hand which apply to all similar When holding Ace and sev-ered small cards It Is not wise to lead the Ace because you may thereby es tahlish this suit for the declarer while If you retain the Ace you may be able to prevpnt his establishing this suit A major tenace (Ace-Queen- ) ts a com-bination which is very apt to take two tricks If It Is led up to: but If the Ace Is led. the Queen cannot possibly lake the second trick and is likely to be trumped on the third round. There foro thosp two combinations are the least desirable of all of the lends listed. When Junior has shown his strong suit by making a bid senior may wotl make 'he opening lead in it if he has no favorable opening of his own. In this case senior should lend ht highest card of tje suit when holding three ur, less; hid If holdlne four ot more he .should. lead fourth hest antes holding r)p Kce or two or more honor In sequence. w'nen he should cpon wlrr t,ia higher .honor . r : - ' - ' .,,-.- --M . - f . . v. :i . V?-- - ; II Feel Stiff and Achy? I To B Well the Kidneys Must Thoroughly Eliminate Watte Poisons from the Blood. T""OES every day find you lame, stiff and --l- rJ IJ achy? Do you feel tired and drowsy "Ys&fi" suffer nagging backache, headache and VvArVN dizzy spells? Are the kidney secretions L2J vhwzW canty and burning in passage? tZtlf VlWKi Sluggish kidneys allow poisons to rcman n tne blood and upset 1 T7 irffeNP?! I the whole system. iC l?I S. 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Argument The man who enters Into a discus slon Is full of a passion for truth and enger to hear It. The man who argues Is full of vanity and desires only to hear himself talk. American Maga-zine. Reimbursement "You were Inspired when you com-pose- d that song, professor?" ' "Yes, dear lady with the hope of selling It." 1'aRsIng Show. ;., j Australia's Cattle King A man who owns so many hoires that he recently destroyed 4,000 of them because he couldn't sell them and they cost too much to keep Is. at seventy years of age, visiting Lon-don. He Is Sir Sydney Kidman, the veteran cuttle king of Australia. He began his career as a teamster at $ a week. Now he owns 30 ranches covering more than 80,000,000 acres of land; more than 100,000 cattle and 10.000 horsee; 1,500 camels and thoo-- ! sands of donkeys and 6heep. j It's All in a Life Time Observed, lna theater lobby recent-ly, a young man holding a hand tnir-- I ror for his girl while she applied her j lip stick and rouge. There wasn't any of that back In the gay '90s. In that ' period the young man would have been tleing her shoelace. Detroit Free Press. ' clarify the water atifl care must he ex-ercised to prevent .he accumulation of scum or sediment In the apparatus, us this renders the treatment inef fective. Water Purification The use of the ultra-viole- t ray treat ment for purification of 'swimming pool water is very effective, hut It Is more expensive to Install and main tain than some other methods !'. An efficient "filter must" be provided 'ti i ... shoots. When these new shoots show themselves the plant should he given a thorough watering, a repotting If necessary, and brought up Into its place in the sun. After It is growing well It may be given fertilizer. Do Not Foixg Plants If n plant has been growing thrift-- ' l!v for some time and then begins to co hack. It probably needs a rest, and no amount of forcing will do any per-manent good. It will, says Nature Magazine of Washington, do a 'definite harm. During the resting period u plant Is better if left entirely alone in a dry, cool cellar. It will of its own accord, and without any attention of kind, begin to put out new green ; k . ..... r :i:j.. v . .' - t ' . ' ' , ."'.'." "(.!.' : Cooking Secret "At sea level wn.ei Kolls at 212 . At fi.Hl feel if boils at Wt degrees." says Ihf Woman's' Home ' rompanlon "In ' higher ' 'altitudes." adds the caustic commerrtatof. "house- '! wives probably put It intf the ttfrU eratof to boll." "lV, |