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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26
In the Pit He
Had Digged
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By JOHN DARRoUcH

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Copyright. 1916. by w. G. Chapman.)
Stepan had never feared Tozan, not
even after he won Sophie Katlok from
him. Tozan had come to the mine two
years before, a tramp, and Stepan,
who pitied him, had given him a job.
Afterward Tozan fell in love with
Sophie, old Katlok's daughter, and
Stepan won her away. Still, a girl has
the right to change her mind, and
Sophie's decision seemed to Stepan no
reason why his protege and friend
should cast black looks at him.
Therefore when Tozan came to Ste
pans bedside at night and told him
old Katlok wanted him, in his house at
the bottom of Long Shaft, half a mile
deep or more, Stepan accompanied To
a without hesitation. The lead in
Long Shaft had been cleaned out,
the shaft had been abandoned, and
old Katlok's house was to be disman-
tied. The old Bohemian, who had
lived there with Sophie for half a
on Saturday nights, was glad of the
change.
But the four of them-Katlok, So
phie and the two boarders, Stepan and
Tozan, had lived in too close intimacy
down in the mine. That was why
, Tozan lost his sense of proportion,
/ why he had been brooding over
Stepan's theft, as he termed it.
! Stepan and Tozan had still a few
days work to do at the bottom of
Long Shaft, cleaning up the debris,
! oiling the machinery, collecting har-
ness, etc.; but already the boarding
house had been broken up. Stepan
and Tozan had each found other quar-
tiers, though Katlok hoped to secure
the two men again when his new
house was erected.
Stepan accompanied Tozan without
hesitation, but he stopped at the mine
head and looked at him inquiringly.
81 thought Katlok had left the
house." he said.
mo, he is there" replied Tozan,
with Sophie"
They entered the cage and descend
ed. 1t was many minutes later when
they emerged at the bottom of Long
Shaft, beside Katlok's house. All
round them radiated the galleries
which had been flung forward from
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26
HOMETOWN
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KEEPING THE CITY CLEAN
Washington Physician Tells Of the
Importance Of the Work That
Has Been Done.

IF Washington residents continue
cleaning up this week as they did last
week" remarked a Washington physi-
clan, "a long step will be taken in
the direction of making the national
capital a fiyless, dirtless and disease
less city during the coming summer.
"Dirt, flies and disease go hand in
hand. Get rid of the dirt, and the flies
have nowhere to breed and propagate.
Eliminate the flies, and three-fourths
of the sickness of summer will be pre-
vented. &
There is no more reason for per-
hitting accumulations of d~ecaying rub
bish, heaps of stable manure and the
like to remain in alleys, on vacant lots,
or hidden in back yards, than for al
lowing such refuse to exist in the
front yard or the open public street.
the doctor continued. Property own
ers. h~ouseholders and health officials
alike would refuse to permit the con-
t%inuance in exposed places Of such
debris and filth, the latter from sani-
tary reasons and the former out of
pride.
But often the health authorities can
not know of such accumulations hid
den in back yards with high board
fences, and inspectors fail to discover
them in out-of-the-way alleys, etc. In
such cases the householder or the
property owner ought to take a suf-l
ficient degree of pride in his home or
his property to see that the rubbish Isl
hauled away; If he doesn't do il he
ought to be prosecuted, the same ast
would be the case if he permitted any
other nuisance to remain undated.
Files carry disease of many kinds,
all of them filth diseases. Typhoid
fever is the chief among these, all
though a score of the co-called sum-
mer ailments are borne by flies. Great
progress has been made in Washing
ton in the last few years in eliminat-
ing the fly by destroying the breed
ing places where the insects propagate
and from which they spread to all the
houses in the neighborhood. Much
more can be lone along this line If
citizens generally will continue to CO.
operate in a whole-hearted manner in
the cleanup activities, and it is not
too much to say that continuance OF
campaigns such as that of this spring
and several preceding springs may be
expected, in a few years, to make flies
as FAR in the District Of Columbia as
ouzzards are in aine."-Washington
Star.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26

of what is really underneath the sur
face-a Russian individual character
istic. Your Russian Is a fatalist in
great crises. When 1t m to
something really big he settles down
to an imperturbable calm, shrugs his
shoulders, and takes his medicine"
That the general attitude of Russia
toward the war has changed since hos
Titles began is testified to by those
who have observed.
In the beginning of the war" said
n Of these observers, a Russian mer-
chant with large interests in Petro-
grad and Warsaw, I'VE felt that we
were fighting only to repulse an en-
emy-to prevent invasion of our ter
ritory. There was little show Of bit
terness against the Germans. But it
is different now. This war has lone
more to make Russians think and to
draw them together than anything
that has ever happened in the historv
Of the country. Today there is a fixed
finish and to end the probability Of fu-
ture conflict by destroying Prussian
militarism. That may sound strange
to those who have looked so long upon
Russia as a military nation, but il
is nevertheless true. A new feeling
of patriotism has been born"
and do you know" he added, much
as though it we're a matter of course,
that it is impossible for Russia to
lose-for the allies to lose this war?
Russian III of men and money
are too vast. Why, there are a mil
lion young men arriving at military
age every year. Russia could lose a
million every IL months, which is in
conceivable, and still keep her armies
in the field in undiminished number.
Russia can feed her armies, and never
feel it. All the b~lockades in the world
cannot affect us! We raise our own
food, andacan and will make our own
supplies of every sort, If necessary.
We have the money, we have the
men, and, by heaven, we have the
SPIRIT"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26

sides, and, as soon as he was out Of
immediate hearing, struggled furious
ly with his bonds. Sophie eyed him
dumbly. Stepan knew that she had
hearo everything, but she was unable
to move or cry out. What would it
have suflced, in any event?
Stepan could not get free. The loop
of rope was Stacker, but his legs and
arms were still bound. AS he strug-
gled he saw Tozan mount the rock
and stand there; he fancied his watch
vas in his hand, but 1t was impossible
to discern anything clearly. Cut of
above, the glare Of the electric lights
beneath, the man looked like a mon
strous phantom. 1t was easy to hear,
however.
Five minutes more, Stepan," cried
Tozan's hooking voice. "In FIVE min
utes the rope burns through, and the
dynamite will fall plump down the
shaft between you and Sophie there
in four minutes. That will be a les
son to both of you, my friends. In
three minutes more you will be blown
to fine powder. There is no escape,
unless a miracle saves you. In two
minutes, Stepan-'
His voice rang out through the col
m Of air imprisoned in the shaft.
and the sonorous echoes beat in a
hundred little waves among the rocks.
"In two minutes-in n minute,
Stepanl"
And the last word was drowned in
the explosion of the dynamite.
Stepan, hearing the discharge, COW
cred, his hands owe his head. The
motion was an instructive one, for he
did not doubt that he would be blown
into the tiniest fragments. And the
volume of the exploding dynamite
seemed to fill the shaft. Above it rang
out Sophie's shrill screams.
Stepan was coming back to con
seriousness. Somebody-a woman-was
screaming. Sophie had got her gag
free from her mouth, and with her
cries there stole into Stepan's mind
the realization that neither of them
was dead.
"Sophie!" he gasped.
Slowly the dust settled down. Ste
pan saw the girl peering through the
thick cloud; she looked toward the
rock where Tozan had stood and stood
no longer.
That was the moment when the res
cue party descended the shaft in the
alternate cage. But it was not fol
several days that Stepan understood
what had happened.
They told him hat day, when Sophie
and he were married-quietly, not as
is the Galician custom, with dance ant
drinking. Sophie insisted it was {
miracle, but Stepan understood read
lily.
you see," said the mine engineer
"Tozan's theory was well enough. HI
anew 1t jibed with gravitation, but HI
didn't stop to realize that the eartl
is moving all the while. If you droI
anything down a half-mile shaft, Ste
pan, it'll hit the east wall en- route, in
stead of the bottom. That's where To
zan got his"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26

In choosing roses for planting in
lath houses or places somewhat shady.
extreme care must be paid to choosing
sorts known to be free from mildew.
First-class drainage of soil will do
much to overcome this fungus and it
viii prove a pleasant surprise TO see
how many roses will thrive in summer
with little or no sun. A concrete
building was erected on a lot adjoining
a garden, on the south side. This
threw in complete shade a half-dozen
roses, and several others were there
after in partial shade. 1t was a pleas
ant surprise to note that in three years
but two have been troubled with mil
dew, not badly however, and only at
such times as others in full sun were
also affected.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26

this center. Infinitely high above
them was a tiny star-the great arc
light at the mines head.
HE is in here" said Tozan, turning
toward the house. Stepan turned too,
and Immediately Tozan's loaded cane
descended with calculated force upon
the back of his head, flinging him to
the ground, stunned.
When he opened his eyes, Stepan
was lying upon the ground in front of
Katlok's house, securely bound with
ropes. His head ached and throbbed
madly from the blow. Over him stood
Tozan. He was watching him in
tently.
Where is Sophie?" groaned Stepan.
Tozan laughed and pointed behind
him. AS Stepan turned his head a
mufied, choking cry reached his ears.
He managed to twist far enough to see
Sophie, a gag over her mouth, strapped
to a chair against the shaft OF the ele-
vator.
Nov, Stepan, l~isten5" said Tozan,
smacking his lips. You stole Sophie
from me, and you are going to die,
you know. At first l thought that l
would spare you and kill the girl, be-
cause you got me my job. But that
would be inconvenient, and so you
are both going to die together.
"At the top of the mine shaft, right
in the middle of the shaft, are a dozen
sticks of dynamite, suspended from a
cord, connecting with a time-fuse. In
fifteen minutes more the fire eats
through the time-fuse to the cord and
eats through the cord. The dynamite
falls half a mile, vertically. 1t falls
on you, S~tepan--just between you and
Sophie Katlok-"
You murderous snake!" yelled Ste
pan. trying to make for him.
And suddenly he stopped dead, for
this time he had actually loosened a
loop OF rope in his struggle, and it was
necessary not to let Tozan know this.
He stopped still and waited.
Il shall watch from that rock, two
hundred feet above the bottom OF the
shaft" continued Tozan. 1.-THE little
cave will protect me from any results
of the explosion. But 1 shall be high
enough to be out of danger, Stepan.
You will hear the dynamite shoot
down. and you will look up and see
it falling, and then it will drop
bang!-between you two, and
Devil" muttered Stepan. as Tozan
took himself on. He watched him
scrambling like a goat UP the a
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26

tary training. Teach young men and
boys to be soldiers"
where we stayed all night. Next morn
ing we found ourselves in a little pad
dock, only two fields away from the
Germans, in the middle of their lines.
So we lay low all day.
Then eight Frenchmen crawled up
to us. We managed to keep out of
sight until most of the Germans had
gone IN. We had most Of the time in
orchards, and lived on pears for ten
days. We we're then a party of
twenty-one, eleven English and ten
French.
AS we were desperate for want of
food we decided to make for a viii
lage and fight to the last man If we
met any Germans. Just before we
left the orchards twelve Germans
caught two of our French comrades
and bayoneted them without giving
them any chance to surrender if they
had wanted to.
I'VE got to a village, making our
way along the railway line and
through the forest. Here we all
lodged in a barn, and a woman, the
best soul we aver met, brought us
milk three times a day.
"The Germans, who we're searching
for us, were in a horseshoe shape
round the village, and we're closing in
on us. Private Jameson, a scout, and
a good one, took command. He got
us out, nearly under the noses OF
twelve uhlans. We got into a field
and stayed there for a month, with
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26

Germans only six fields away.
I'VE dug a sort OF trench along the
fence, to hide in. The farmer gave us
civilian clothes, and we worked for
him in the fields for three weeks, I'M
der the noses Of the Germans. Then
we had 70 clear again.
1--WE divided into three parties. My
little party of eight got into a field,
where we made a dugout. We lived
in this for a month, stealing out at
night to get food from some people
in a village close by. While we were
there a Frenchman brought us a no
tice which had been stuck up by the
Germans in the villages about. This
said they knew where there were Eng
lishmen hiding in the district, and
that II we did not give ourselves up
we would be shot when we were
caught.
1--WE made another trek, and then
lived a month in a hut, which we
built in a corner of a field. Then a
Belgian guided us to a village"
What happened to the fugitives af-
ter this must not be disclosed, as it
might implicate friends who helped
them to escape. Private Jenkins has
scratches on his face and torn
clothes, as a result of creeping
through the barbed wire into Hol
land.
For the first six months the six in,
trepid fugitives wore their uniforms
under their civilian clothes. Said
Private Carrighan: I'VE we're de
termined to stick tt our khaki
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26
Ethics Of I'M oath.

Constantly from the times of EAR
Hest intelligent antiquity swearing has
been known to man. Throughout the
ages the supernatural has been called
upon by the ~invocations and 4impreca-
tions Of the oath.
The practice Of swearing is now SO
common in all civilized communities.
that the probable volume of daily
oaths must be intellectually large.
Prodigious as is the multiplicity of
documentary oaths, the more serious
oaths taken in the carrying on of judi
cial proceedings. and the official oaths.
are quite as innumerable.
The oath is defled. declares Charles
]. Martell, in the May Case and Com
ment: First. when 1t is carelessly TAX
en- or taken upon an occasion OF un-
justihable insigniicance; second.
when a person sworn contravenes the
truth by perjury; and. third. when
aver an ofhceholder under oath com
mits a reprehensible Official act or
omits to perform that which bis duty
imposes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26
Lightning Rings Alarm.

Fire companies in Philadelphia re-
sponded for the second time in "a
hours to an alarm of fire sent in to
the electrical bureau from a box at
Third street and Wyoming avenue.
only to find upon their arrival that,
as on the night before, lightning had
struck the wire leading to the box.
The box is a private one, in the barn
of the Rapid Transit company. The
alarm was sent in during the height
Of the storm at 1905, Is minutes
later than the alarm on Wednesday
night, during the electrical disturb
ance.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26
Put Well Away From the House.

The old-fashioned idea of having the
well in close proximity to the house is
being relegated to the discard as fast
as a growing knowledge of sanitary
science can put 1t there. To locate
the well away from the zone of pos
sible contamination and at the same
time meet the requirements of house,
barn, garage and garden, is causing
a decline in the demand for the long
popular cheap pump. The growing
demand for modern conveniences in
suburban districts is creating a de-
mand for a better grade of pumps.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26
Prisoners Nav Fish.

~Greencastle, Ind.-A fish pond prob
ably o o will be built on the state
penal farm, according to the trustees.
Deer creek passes through the farm,
and the trustees say they will stock
the stream with game fish. The trus-
tees say they want the prisoners on
the farm to have some recreation.
They are of the opinion that fishing
will be about as good as any.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26

about an hour he caught a little eel.
He proceeded to string it. declaring
he was going to have something to
show. anyhow.
He dropped the long stringing line
over the side OF his boat. ished for
nearly an hour. and caught a hve-
inch trout.
He started TO pull up his line to
string the trout and felt a fierce tug
and after a hard struggle he pulled in
10 big black-mouthed bass. running
from O. pound to two and a half
pounds,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26
BIG HAUL BY JOE MARTIN
Nineteen Elusive Bass Trapped by One
Little EeI-seeond Try Gets
Seventeen More.

Smith. La.-Joe Martin has Just
brought in the finest mess of bass OF
the season, and with It q strange tale.
He had SO plymouth black bass that
he caught at two hauls with a string
line.
He was using small minnows for
bait and had no luck. After fishing
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26
8 Names in 10 Minutes.

Winamac, Ind.-Mrs. Ida Moore OBJ
tanned a divorce from William Moore
in the circuit court here and her NAL
den name, Ida Maibaur. was restored.
Ten minutes later her name was again
changed when she was married to
William Beach. 1t was the fourth
marriage for Mrs. Beach and the first
for Beach.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26
COINED ..AnoeIsr

An 'angel" was an ancient gold coin
weighing four pennyweights and val
ued at 6s in the reign OF Henry vi.
and at los in the reign OF Elizabeth
in 1869. It took its name from the
efigy Of an angel embossed on u
side.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26

The bass had tried tS swallow the
eel, and 1t had slid through their gills
and strung them. Joe put the bass on
another line, dropped the eel overheard
again. In II minutes he pulled up II
more bass.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26
conxlncinn.

Your husband is a very convincing
talker, isn't he?"
Indeed he is. When he asked me
TO marry him he convinced me that
he could keep me as well on SIS a
week as my father had been keeping
me on ten thousand q year"
Il was talking to him and he told
me about that; only he said II was
YOU who convinced him that he could"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26

Bayonne, N. 1.-The throwing of
rice and old shoes at weddings in the
new 100000 St. Henry's Roman Cath
Ollie church viii not be permitted. The
pastor, Rev. Peter q. Reilly. said he
did not want the new church unused
up"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26
BARGAIN Day at EIushlnn.

Flushing, N. Y.-Six shaves, two
h~aircuts, two shampoos and three mas
sages for 81 was one Of the bargains
sold at a dollar day" celebration
here.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-26
outraoeousIv FUNNY.

"ITl never again invite that profess
sional humorist to dinner" exclaimed
Mrs. Newlyriche. why, he made u
English butler augh."-Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
AMERICAN OFFICE HELPING STRICKEN
 BELGIAN PEOPLE

London Jan. 2.-The death of Bertram Dobell, a downtown book seller, commands more space in the London newspapers than the obituary of any man since Lord Roberts. He was the last of the o1d-tiIne London booksellers, and occupied a unique place in literary life for forty years.
 MT. Dobell not only sold books; he loved them-some of them so well that he practically refused to sell them He read constantly and wrote occasionally. His services as book seller were mainly performed for wealthy individual buyers of old books Of more permanent impor- tance was his work in encouraging budding genius, as he occasionally. came upon it. His admiration for some of the early work of James Thomson. author of tThe City of Dreadful Night" led to a friendship that meant much to both men. De- bell edited much of Thomson's work for publication, and after Thonson,s death collected and published all his writings
 1 Another service which MT. Doben rendered to literature was the dis covery and identification of the works of a forgotten seventeenth cen tury writer, Thomas Traherne. MT. DobelPs own writings included two volumes of verses and one volume of prose, together with humorous con tributions to the magazines and re- views
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
NEW YEARS AT THE
 LOCAL CLUB HOUSES


 In the clubs where the crux of the new years celebration was held, music, good wishes and entertainnent refgned supreme. Hundreds received the hospitality of the Bridgeport, All gonq1in and Seaside clubs from an early hour yesterday until late at night. Special lunches had been pre- pared at all, and entertainment com mittees were appointed to meet the various officers, house committees and members that called to pay their mu- tual respect.
 By coincidence both official visiting parties of the Algonquin and Seaside clubs arrived at the Bridgeport club together. Under the direction of Sec retary James Turner the dining room was transformed into a large banquet hall, and following the luncheon Pres idents Wilson, Mackenzie and Fair child of the Bridgeport, Algonquin and Seaside clubs respectively drank to the New Year and the coalition of, the three in sociabflity, a union which was baptized as the Triple Alliance
 At the Algonquin club a several course menu was served and the speechmaking revived. At the Sea- side club the visitors were shown through the newly arranged bud1d- ing. The New Year was a gala day in club6ion
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
SHIP LOAD OF BRIDES
 COMING HERE TO WED
 MEN THEY DON'T KNOW

Sam Francisco, Jan. 2.-The scores Of picture brides who will cross the Pacific from Japan during 1915 to em- bark on matrimonial seas with the husbands they never have seen, on reaching Angel Island immigration station will place their. affairs in the hands Of Dr. W. c. Haworth whose appointment as secretary to the Jap anese Assoeiatfon of America, was an- nounced today
 Before leaving Japan a register marriage is performed by the govern ment- This consists Of traIsfeIrirls the brides name to the register con tanning that of the Bridegroom She then is supplied with photograph of her a1llsband and after a physical examination is given a passport. In the meantime. the husband in Amer lea has received a photograph of has approachdng bride and is informed Of the date Of her arrival.
 pr. HaWorth in his new capacity will see that the exchange of ptoto- graphs is made correctly and that each man gets his own wife. The bridegroom is obliged to show a cer- tidcate issued by the Japanese con suIate that he financially is able to support a wife. These formalities disposed of, an American ceremony is performed
 Dr. Ha.worth has been inteTpreteE at Angel LsIand since 1907.