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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-12-12

Fred Miller has two splendid business
propositions for sale. Both are good
paving investments See Fred at once
and secure these bargains.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-12-12
For Sale.

l have choice millet, kafircorn and
alfalfa for SALE For prices see
46-tf HENRY SCHLYER-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-12-12

Any insurance policy will do if you
have no loss, but none at all is just as
good. We pay losses without delay
and without discount 52-tf
]. M. SCHAEFER.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-12-12
w. S. Keel
The Land Man.
| sell the Earth.

Farmers, Take notice! I have
customers for Ellis Co. farms.
If YOU will list your farms with me
and the prices are right, I can bring
you a customer. NY commission is
reasonable. Give complete description
of Improvement and crops. For refer
ence I refer you to the National Bank
at Sabetha. ADDRESS
w. S. KEEL,
nj Sabetha. Kansas.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24
COLISEUM OWNER FILES
SUIT TO CANCEL LEASE
Declares SubIetting Of Building
for Prize Fights Violates
Contract

The subletting Of the Coliseum at
Baker and Fell streets by the Coliseum
amusement company for prize fights
has resulted in the fling of suit by the
owner of the building, r. Toplitz, for
the cancellation of the lease and asking
that the company be ordered to restore
the premises TO him. Toplitz leased the
building to the Coliseum amusement
company in August, 1906, for five years
at $500 month. 1t was agreed that
the company should not assign the
lease without the written consent of
Toplitz, although portions of the build
ing. might be sublet for any lawful
purpose. In March, 1908, 1t is alleged,
the company executed a lease of the
building to Samuel Berger Luke Mar
isch and John j. Gleason for ten nights,
to be selected by the fight promoters
in thirteen months, at $400 a night
Toplitz claims this was contrary to the
terms of his lease to the company. He
also asserts that there are nine unsat-
isfed liens on the building, notwith-
standing that the company agreed to
satisfy all such liens, leaving the owner
exempt.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24
No Shoes
Exchanged
YUMA Lfv[fS now
READY FOR FLOODS

WASHINGTON, May 2s.-The en-
gineer in charge of the Yuma irri-
CATION project, Arizona-California, re-
ports that the maximum discharge OF
the Colorado river for the month of
April was $4,000 second feet, the mini
mum 1900 second, feet. On the Ari-
zona side of the Laguna dam the con-
crete walls have been carried into the
outer cofferdam, thus making this
feature of the work secure. Work Is
also progressing on the excavation of
the sluiceway and placing of rock In
the dam. About ESQ men have been
employed, working in two shifts.
On the California side the concrete
walls have been we'll advanced toward
the outer cofferdam. and a steam shovel
has been installed to take the place of
the derrick in excavating for the
s1uiceway. On the shore end of the
dam the concrete walls have been ex-
tended into the bed rock and tho pave
ment on that portion about completed.
Two hundred men have been employed
on this side.
The reservation levee IL now complete
from Yuma to the Laguna dam, with
the exception of the brush defenses.
which We're also completed during April
for about seven miles. The railroad
along this levee was operated during
April, giving a round trip passenger
service daily besides the work train
service. Work on the Yuma valley
levees has been finished for the. season.
The levee is now intact from Yuma
to the Mexican boundary. and for this
entire distance It Is sufhciently high
to stand any Colorado rise OF record,
and all but two miles of It is high
enough to keep out the highest known
ella flood.
The Farmers gravity canal Is In
shape to supply water when the river
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24
CHARGED WITH BURGLARY

Frank Rose and Herbert Schmidt
were booked at the city prison yester-
day by Detectives Regan and OConnell
on a charge OF burglary. They are ac-
cused of breaking into Kingwelrs foun-
dry, 1898 Mission street Friday night
and stealing a large quantity OF brass.
George Barlow, who was arrested for
burglary Wednesday night, had an ad-
ditional charge booked against him
yesterday. He was found by Thomas
Shay OF 743A Fifth avenue. Richmond
district, under his bed Wednesday night
and yesterday he was identifed by N.
A. Trubeck, contractor, 7S3 Fifth ave.
nue., as a man who entered his home
about an hour before he was discovered
in the Shay residence
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24

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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29

portrayal of the system of prison in
EQUITIES, of which 5000 is the victim, the
authors have described an inhuman
and outrageous state of things, and
their manner of describing 1t leaves the
conviction that they know.
The convict loses his copper" the
time off his sentence for good behavior,
through a plot laid by trusty who has
become his enemy. Herded with brutes,
shut off from the sunlight, his last hope
gone, he becomes a finished murderer
and waits patiently for his chance to
escape and kill. 1t comes:
HE ran swiftly and silently on the
balls of his feet, his arms half doubled.
his chin thrown upon his bumped right
shoulder looking backward all the time
at the guard upon the wall, who paced
along with his back still turned He
covered forty feet-and the guard still
walked; fifty, sixty-the guard was
slowing up; seventy feet-the guard
paused. There in the middle of the
walk something, perhaps some cold pre-
monition, had arrested him. His gun
flashed; he was turning; throwing his
eyes forward, 5000 leaped in great
bounds; the shadow of the dining hall,
sharp as the tape at the end of race,
cut the ground ten feet ahead. He
gave a last look backward; the guard
whipped around; 5000 plunged head
first, like a frog, and sprawled upon his
belly within the darkness which imme-
diately closed about him like water
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29

HE lay as he had fallen, awaiting
the shock of bullet, the roar of the
guards rifie-but he did not move.
g. Finally he turned his head.
HE turned it slowly, smoothly until
he could look at right angles to his
body, then with infinite precautions, in
imperceptible progressions, he bent 1t
until the lime of vision had passed his
shoulder. But still he could see moth
ing. Something opaque and enormous
barred his way; an immense pillar. 1t
was barred. 1t was his arm" e.
"A terrific feeling of power had risen
through him. Once in this prison he
had been a man, intent on obedience;
months had changed him to a sullen,
suspicious convict; years had made OF
him a crouching, stalking beast; and
now at the touch of this rifle he sprang
up a monster"
Society had made him this and he
went out to wreak vengeance on 1t.
After he has committed a number OF
murders in making his escape he is sur
rounded and shot in the mountains
1.-THE men rushed forward; they met
face to face above a lifeless body.
1.-THE sheriff touched it lightly with
the tip of his boot. Well he said, and
his low voice in the still air had an
unexpected, booming finality; well, he
WAS a bad one!'
But John Collins, with glazed eyes,
was staring up at the cloud"
Hopper is more of a stylist than
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29
~sooep A REMARKABLE BOOK

~ RED R. BECHDOLT and James
Hopper, the authors of "9009,"
= say in the preface to their book
that indignation moved them to write
it. The word indignation seems in
adequate in describing an impulse
which could produce a work of such
power The book is an cutlery against
society's maintenance of institutions
for the manufacture of criminals. Inc
authors tell what they have seen, and
they tell it convincingly, but the book
stirs something in the reader far deep
err than conviction. 1t stirs a shudder-
ing horror of the whole barbaric sys-
tenn which endless reports and theses
by learned investigators never could
arouse.
Bechdolt is a lean, brown westerner.
Some men are lean with the leanness
which abhors redundancy, the tenulty
of fibre which makes them tough ana
incisiVe and penetrating, and gives
them a grasp Of essentials. 1t Is not
strange that these men write clair
voyant English or that they go always
to first principles
Bechdolt lived several years in Los
Angeles. During the last few years
he has seen life in the rough in hall
a dozen western states. He has seen
men imprisoned and stripped of hu-
mainly and turned out to prey upon
society-monsters whose law of lie
was to Stay. He reveals the methoc
but not the justification of the process.
and his work is a damning, unanswered
accusation against society. He de-
scribes what he saw. His intorma-
ton concerning prison horrors comes
first hand from guards, jailers, TRUSTEES
and eX-convicts.
Bechdolts most marked personal
characteristic is an abridged haplt oI
thought and expression which searches
out the heart of a problem unerrlngly.
There is not an ounce of redundant
flesh on his spare frame and there is
not a line of verbiage in his DOCK. Inc
work of a man of this type must be,
above all, sensuous. To him adJectlVes
are more or less superfiuous, but
imagery is one OF MS most ehectiNe
devices.
Hopper also is a westerner of type
similar to Bechdolt. Here you have
the men and the motive. The result
of their work may be called reallsm
only in so far as its percepuonallsm
goes The fact that it deals with the
nathological, and that it possesses a
compelling ethical motif places the
authors among the misunderstanding
ethical analysts. Maeterlinck, Tolstol'
Suderman and their followers lead this
school in their use of art as device
with which to strengthen their ethlcal
or sociological appeal, and often the
artistic overbalances the ethical motive.
The book deals with the prison eX-
perience of John Collins, described by
the authors in their preface as typlca!
convict. He is not absolutely bestlal
There remains in him a shred of hui
manity. He has hope and looks for
L II
he is changed into a brute. In their
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-29
LOS ANGELES AUTHOR MEETS WITH SUCCESS

Bechdolt, more carefully trained In
literary craftsmanship and the god OF
the machine is more to be seen in his
work Various literary devices are
used effectively.
9OO9 is in his bunk at night:
"They were silent for a long time.
The darkness lay upon them like a
heavy vapor lay upon the strong
man in the lower bunk, tortured with
twtching nerves, upon the little man
above, nauseated with weakness; 1t lay
upon them heavy, tainted, without
mercy"
Again, when 5000 joined in an at
Right away he had to leap. He
had to leap the gray haired guard
looking upward, with his scarlet
masked face; to leap the burglar, still
gesticuiating jerkily, with his long,
striped legs, a trusty, doubled up
coughing, another paralyzed with fear.
He leaped like a lean greyhound"
This trick of repetition is as old as
literature but seldom has it been more
effectively employed. The authors
achieve the same grinning horror as
that of the Ballad of Reading Gaol,
the same soul-wrenching tragedy as in
1.-THE little patch of blue that prisoners
call the sky" The effectiveness OF the
phrasing is largely due to skillful
use of Anglo-Saxon words and the en-
ployment of onomatopoeia. The
imagery, which is one of the most
striking characteristics of the book.
is Carlyle-like, grotesque, horribly
grotesque, and yet always vital:
Bechdolt gives Hopper credit for the
construction. While the design of the
book, in its general outlines. apparently
is fawless, there is ground for dill
ference of opinion in regard to the
ending. The artistic effect might have
been heightened by ending it when
5000 leaped down from the wall, rifle
in hand and was turned back upon So
ciety with his murderous purpose in
his heart. The events which happened
outside the wall have no connection
with the artistic motive of the story.
The consistency of the character
seems constantly to have been kept in
mind. When the man has been made
a monster and has escaped, he must
kill and kill wantonly, not only in de-
Tending himself, but in the apotheosis
of hate. When first he violates his
law of life by not killing the BOY,
whom he fears will betray him, he is
lost Here the authors show their
close adherence to their clearly con-
ceived design. If it had been some
faint stirring of humanity that had
kept him killing the boy the whole
thing would have gone wrong. But it
was lassitude and WEAKNESS. Here the
story is beautifully consistent.
Nearly all the last chapter is Hop
per's. Again high class literary crafts
manship is shown. Here are clouds
and mountains and sunshine and grass
and trees. 60 hell" says Collins, as
he lies down and waits for the
sheriff's men to kill him. If there is
any suggestion of redemption in the
beauty about him it is lost. His
glazed eyes are staring at a cloud
when they find him.
"9OO9" By Fred A. Bechdolt and
James Hopper New York: The Nc
Clure company.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-12-01
Poor Air and Poor Living.

When Jim Bridger. the one time ia
nous scout of the plains. grew old he
thought he would like to retire from
the somewhat arduous life of plains
man and settle down to the ease of
''the east" which to him meant Mis-
souri, So he used his bee endeavor
to find competent man to fill his
place and went back to Missouri.
A year or two passed. and one day
Captain Russell, the commandant of
the post which Bridger had left, was
surprised to see the old scout heave
in sight When he came in the cap
tain asked;
"Well, Bridger, what brings you back
here?"
Captain" said Bridger, Il want to
go back to scouting again"
Indeed? Why, I thought you had
settled down IN the east for the rest Of
your Iifew
"Well cap'n, III tell you how 1t is.
1 went back to old Missouri, and If
you'll believe it they've got a railroad
station within ten mile O. the old place
yes sir, railroad stationl And,
what's more. they've got a ranch now
in every four mile. tell you what
cap'n, the air amt pure down there
no morer'
"Is that possible? But l thought
you'd like the good things to eat they
have down there You like good things
to eat, I remember"
"Good things to eat! Why, cap'n, l
didn't have a Drilled beaver tail the
whole time was therev
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-12-01
WHAT coLoRs TELL.
The Way the spectroscoPe Reads tn
Sun and Stars.

When one lights a common sulphur
match In the dark it is worth while 10
notice what happens. First, Its pnos-
phorus gives out faint yellow rays
and almost at the same time the sui
nhur begins to burn with blush
beams.
AS yet the fame yields little light.
In a moment or two the wood OF the
match takes fire, and then stream
of clear white light pours forth. Eacn
of the materials of the match-lts
phosphorus, sulphur and wood mas
shone in burning with color OF It's
own.
In street lighted by electricity and
gas the eye detects at once the dlI-
ference between the white rays of the
one and the yellow beams of the other.
If nitrate Of strontia is set on fire we
|. have a splendid red flame. Filings OF
copper burn with ii glow OF greenlsh
blue. and fine. pure blue Is had
when filings OF zinc are ignited. These
and other such substances furnish the
maker of fireworks with his materials.
| Rockets, roman candles and bombs
all derive their beauty from the spe-
ciaI tints which attend the combustion
of their ingredients. And any one
who has once seen the colors peculiar
to common salt. iron or anthony as
they trace themselves on the evening
sky will always know what is afame
when he sees those colors again.
\ Sir John Herschel was the first to
understand that colors of this kind
tell a wonderful story. He will knew
how the stars varied In tint-that Al
debaran was ruddy, Arcturus yellow
and Sirius, the most glorious of all
white. Might not the colors of body
aflame, whether on earth or in the
sky, really be telling us of what that
body was composed?
His suggestion was taken up, and Its
fruit is that marvel of ingenuity, the
spectroscope. One of its prlncipa
parts is prism employed to break uE
the hues These hues, which are di
vided by many dark lines, make known
to us that the sun and stars are bull
of such materials as compose our owl
globe.
Yet more, they tell us what kind o.
atmosphere surrounds them and, mos
astonishing of all. give us the rate a
which q remote star is moving toward
or from the tiny orb we inhabit.-Nev
York Herald.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-12-01


Spider Cures.
In China spiders are highly esteemed
In the treatment of Group. You gel
from an old wall the webs of seven
black spiders-two of which must have
the owners sitting in the middle-and
pound them mp In a mortar with lit
tie powdered alum. The resulting
mixture must then be set on fire, and
the ashes, when squirted into the
throat of the patient by means Of q
bamboo tube, are said to effect Ger,
tain and immediate cure.
Black spiders are evidently full OF
medicinal virtue. for they are largely
employed In the treatment Of ague as
well. In Somersetshire, II one is at
fiicted with the unpleasant ailment
the way to get we'll Is to shut up q
large black spider In box and leave
it there till It dies. At the moment
of its disease the ague should disap-
pear. In Sussex the treatment is more
heroic: the patient must swallow the
spider.
Perhaps. after all, this remedy may
not be SO disagreeable as 1t appears,
for a German lady who was In the
habit of picking out spiders from their
webs as she walked through the woods
and eating them after first deprivine
them of their legs declared that they
were very nice indeed and tasted like
nuts.-London Chronicle.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-12-01

There is an amusing English defini-
ton of gentleman" It is "a man
who wears a silk hat and If he has
no other title insists upon having Esq
added to his name when letters are
addressed to him."
The west end Londoner of social
pretensions accepts this definition In
practice. Summer and winter, in rain
or shine, he wears a high silk hat In
the streets of London and carries 1t
into the drawing room when he pays
an afternoon call 1t is only when he
takes a train for the provinces or for
the continent that he ventures to use
more comfortable headgear. He also
expects to have the distinction OF 'es-
uuire" when a letter is addressed to
him and is highly offended If he finds
on the envelope the prefix Mr. As
a matter of fact, the number of Eng
lish gentlemen who are legally en-
titled to the medieval honor OF "es-
ouire" is insignificant. 1t is a self as
sumed title which signifies nothing
that is 81. ostantial in rank or privilege
In common use in London esquire
simply means that the person so ad
dressed does not choose to be assocl
ated with tradesmen and ordinary
working people and that he is gen
tleman'' who invariably wears a silA
hat
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-12-01
The First Cookbook.

To the Romans belong the honor o.
having produced the first European
cookery book, and. though the author
ship is uncertain, 1t is generally attrib
uted to Caelius Apicus, who lived un
der Trajan, ia A. d. Here are two
recipes from this ancient collection:
'First, for a sauce TO be eaten with
boiled fowl, put the following ingredi
ents into mortar: Aniseed, dried mint
and lazer root. Cover them with vine
gar, add dates and pour in hquamer
IA distilled liquor made from large fish
which were sailed and allowed to turn
putrid in the SUM, oil and small
quantity of mustard seeds. Reduce all
to a proper thickness with sweet wine
warmed, and then pour this same over
your chicken, which should previously
be boiled in aniseed water"
The second recipe shows the same
queer mixture of ingredients: stake
a wheelbarrow of rose leaves and
pound in a mortar; add to 1t brains of
two pigs and two thrushes boiled and
mixed with the chopped up yoke of
egg, oil, vinegar, pepper and wine.
Mix and pour these together and stew
them steadily and slowly till the per-
fume is developed. chambers Jour
nal
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-12-01
NEW YORK WATERS.
They Spoiled the Appetite Of the
TranspIanted Citizen.

They Spoiled the Appetite Of the
TranspIanted Citizen.
''These New York walters have got
on my nerves." said a transplanted
citizen from smaller town. Dining
in the magnificent hotels and restau-
rants would be a joy if some one would
kindly remove the walters while you
ates | can think of nothing but the big.
black buzzards that hover over your
head in Florida
There are so many walters standing
around, all in black, and they look so
big and get their faces or their hands
so close to you and your dinner that you
feel like throwing the china at them.
When your waiter has disappeared a
smaller edition keeps right after you,
filing your glass, removing dishes. CIV
ing you more butter. and If you look
away from him the head waiter has
his eve on you.
'The most maddening thing of all to
me is the way the waiter orders your
dinner for you. One took me in hand
the other night, and let him have his
way just to see what he would do to
me. | hate fish. but he averred that
fish was the best thing could eat and
one particular dish was the CHEFS mas
telpiece He brought it and, We gods.
it was fish all greasy with dope made
of cheese and mushrooms that about
finished me: but, fortunately. he only
let me take two bites when he whfslied
my plate away and set down salad
that had several kinds of fruit laced
to lettuce leaves. with strips of red
and green peppers and French dress
ing over that l barely looked at that
when he took it away in triumph and
gave me an ice cream thick with chest
nuts and fruits.
Now, dine on rare roast beef. plain
lettuce and never take dessert. so you
see how near he came to suiting me.
Come again, SIR said he Not if Pm
conscious said New York Times
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-12-01
Trophies Of the Chase.

In the days when buffalo still roam
cd the plains Of Kansas in countless
numbers a great many hunting parties
came over from Europe to have hand
in their slaughter. One party was COM
posed Of Frenchman named Auguste
Rouzand, the first husband Of Christine
Nilsson, the prima donna, and an Eng
lishman, q Mn Blackmore, from Lon
don. They arrived at Dodge City one
day in the fall with carload of equip
ment, including every sort Of delicacy
that the market Afforded and several
large trunks full of bright new butcher
knives. A detachment of the Sixth
cavalry from Fort Dodge was detailed
to accompany them, and probably no
command ever Jared better than that
one did The Englishman shot few
buffalo, and the soldiers slaughtered
them by the hundreds. But the French
man didn't kill one Instead, as fast
as the animals were shot he would
take one of his brand new butcher
knives, plunge 1t into the slain animal
until it was smeared with blood, wrap
it carefully in tissue paper and put it
back in the trunk as a trophy of the
chase to exhibit when he got back to
Paris as proof of his mighty prowess
as a hunter That was his idea Of
sport.-Kansas City Star.