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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17
BY STERLING HEILIG.

~ HIS week a farmers wife, Nine.
Roisse. at Puissoux en- Bray,
strangled her .husband-he a
strong man and she slender.
sickly woman-with u dish
towel and complete ease. in the per
feet manner of Pere Francois. in
ventor of the art in Paris.
The papers recognize this popularlz-
ing of the coup de Pere ancois. here
tofore supposed to be pit. more or
less. a trade secret by the specialists.
and tell how Nine. Roisse did it as a
simple news item. Only one paper
gave brief editorial comment. I'VE
knew the coup to be extending to pro-
vincial cities. At the hands of pro-
fessionals it is more humane than gun
play, but We do not like to see it prac-
ticed with passion. Roisse is dead.
The farmers wife operated with
passion.
There had been money difficulties
and daily disputes" runs the item.
Their life had become a continual
quarrel the strong man dominating
and wilfully eXasperating the faugued
and nerve-cagged woman to the point
of hysteria.
yesterday morning, as the farmer
refused to allow their elder daughter
to run an GRAND. Nine. Roisse slipped
up behind him. passed a discloth
around his neck, and. putting herself
promptly back-to-back with her hus-
band, pulled with equal force on the
two ends of the dishcloth, while her
self bending forward. The murderess
was committed to Beauvais Prison"
EAll readers were supposed to be able
to fill in the details between the pass
ing of the foulard'' and Nine. Rouisse
becoming a murderess-because the
thing can kill, although invented eX
pressly not to do so.
IN the night streets of Paris the
method answers to that of the
strong arm"-at the hands of opera
tors who are, regularly, not strong.
Two nights ago a young soldier. on
permission, returning home late, was
accosted by a terrified woman.
THE strangers are down there!'
she cried. "They have taken my
handbag and all my money!"
Two policemen coming along, the
three men slipped down there without
noise. Sure enough, at the corner of
the Rue Bellegarde. they came on
three individuals Operating on a
rather important bank official.
Examined in the morning, all three
strangers were found understood and
weakly. Only one, Lepeltier, aged 27,
could claim employment. Recently he
had worked as washer in a garage.
The two others, Belgian, aged 81,
and Partisan, aged 80, were proba-
bly, real strangers. though gloriously
unfit for any strong-arm work. Yet
between 10 pm. and midnight they
had held up four passers-by, whose
money, iewelry, pocketbooks, private
papers, etc, We're still in their. posses
sion. All without physical harm to
the victims.
Paris also has gunner.
In police court practice the most re-
lentless severity is dealt out to work
ers with revolver or automatic, even
when they no more than point the
weapon at a frightened victim.
: ~, -, 49,. n.th .hc fou.a~d'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17

that rippled and gurGled and made
soft. cooling noises as if the water
were joyful to be upon the surface o.
the earth once more Ii filled the
pool. and overfiowed it, A little
stream trickled down TO the wind
smoothed sand that had been the
ancient stream bed. The thirsty sand
drank it up. But more came. A little
tongue of water reached eXplorativc1y
down toward its ancient channel. 1,
reached farther and farther. The
stream had begun TO run.
The big man fell upon his knees
beside the pool. feeling the water with
his hands. feasting his eyes and hi
skin upon its touch.
After a long time he reused him
self With his great nippers he cui
loose the chain that had bound hia
prisoner. He led him To the bucl,-
board. With the coming of water
something Of his old self came back
He put the reins into the hands az
the n}an who had swindled him.
"Gol' he said slowly. you've mad"
your lie good. CO.
1t was late that night that the man
came back to his house. The star
light shimmered upon silvery
stream, flowing where there had been
only wind blown sand. II seemed that
one could hear the parched earth
drinking. gratefully.
The man stood upon the porch
gazing over the ground he had bought
Six hundred acres. 1t would be a
paradise.
His wife rested her head against
his shoulder.
"On land like this. said the BIZ
man. his voice booming. water is
worth its weight in gold. Its weight
in gold
He watched. and listened to the
lullinG. lifting. liquid note of IN"
stream as il burbled between its new
found banks He could hear thirsty
little signs. as the pores of the parched
earth sucked it up.
His hands itched.
81 don't like 10 see il going l."
waste he said slowly. IN so gel
a tool or so and begin to dig som"
bitches to spread it. ! can work in
the dark. Thank God. We've got
ample water
Down by the pool, a wild rabbit
crept to the waters edge. He list
ened. and heard nothing save the Wa.
ter bubhling up. And he dipped IN
his muzzle and drank. and drank. and
drank.
Copyright 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17

Slowly, GrimIy. the big man took
his strange bomb 10 the water hole.
There was the tubelike orifice, wind
ing down through the rock to I'M
known depths below. Working in a
frenzy of destruction to annihilate
the thing that had Knocked him, he
lowered the end OF the rope
while I'm at it. I might as well
blow the who're place up he said
harshly. Then il won't mock
another man
The dynamite WAS nitroGlycerin
dynamite, not designed for use under
water, but it would withstand the
moisture for 20 minutes or more, and
the whole mass would 90 off if a
single stick were detonated. It only
required that the wire connections to
the illuminate cap be taped against a
water short-circuit to make the thing
fiendishly certain. The spark would
set off one stick of explosive and the
turn.
The big man looked up and
laughed again. recklessIy, bitterly.
And he touched the wires
For a space there was dead silence.
And then there was a deep-throated
below far below. From the tubelike
hole in the sandstone came a column
OF water, NaGuS 1lSn, sDOullilS-- TOdI
. ing. rushing skyward. 1t. went up
ward in screaming mass, and came
down again in a peltins downpour
that was only partly divided. Great
masses of water. cubic yards in size,
fell with mighty crashes upon the
parched earth. From the pool arose
7 smoke and nauseous gases and
monster bubbles. And then the f1oW
/ ceased.
The man in the sand pit was down
on his hands and knees. The water
drained naturally to the old stream
bed 1t formed. momentarily, tiny
stream perhaps inches deep, at
which Blake was tapping like an ami
mall lie flung himself down in the
water. waliowing. rolling. insane with
jor.
The bearded man laughed.
Ample water he barked. Am
pie water
He heard something behind him. a
soft, FLASHING, Eurgling sound. He
turned The rocky bed of the old
pool was shattered. Great rents and
assures marked the stone. And from
those rents and openings water was
bubbling up. 1t came up softly, ev'
, erywhere. but from the gaping hole
where the dynamite had been lowered
it poured upward in a solid stream
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17
Strangers of Paris Operate
In Ways That Battle Police

gets comparative leniency-even when
the party choked by him is a day or
so getting his breath back.
The civic policy of this appeared.
think in the cruel shooting of our
friend, Rene Berger, the feature de-
signer for newspapers, as he returned
late from work, month ago
Berger, a married man. making
good money, had often done pictures
for me. knowing his Paris-bynight
like the palm of his hand, he would
have run from stranglers-after, per
haps, taking a punch at ones head
But he could not accept gunner seri
ouSly.
Berger tried TO knock aside the auto.
matte pointed at him-he had several
thousand francs in his pocket-and
was shot in the neck, close to the ca
rotid
He fingered a week in hospital, haT-
ing time to make a good portrait
sketch of his killer. Then, suddenly,
the big artery gave way.
MO wonder the Paris police have a
1 panic determination to stop gun
play by every severity, even to riskinS
harsh measures.
Gun play, should it go on increas-
ing, would make hell of the easy
going City of Joyous Nights.
No wonder, by the same token, that
strangers get off more easily-and
profit by the fact to continue stran-
CLING
Any one charged with hold-up. with
no weapon found upon him but big
silk handkerchief, is received by the
police commiSsary. you might say,
with a beaming Smilel
There are more strangers than gun
men in Paris.
Art has its simplicity.
A light step. a good eye, sure
hand, deft turn of the body and
judgment not to pull too hard on the
mans neck-such are the star stran-
gler's requisites.
A capable American, experienced
and alert, quit a friends house off the
Champs Elysees after midnight, and
said that he would find a taxi in stroll
ing.
He had no fear. He carried a gun,
and was prepared to use it.
At the Roundabout n disreputable
little man doomed up, and asked the
time, very respectfully.
He stood there, blocking the way.
The American reached promptly for
his revolver, and got it. Only, at the
same moment, heavy silk handker-
chief was thrown over his head from
behind by the real worker of the
strangling combination.
He felt himself choking, as he was
pulled backward by the neck. The
more he struggled, the more he was
bent backward. on another mans
back. his arms waving helplessly in
the air. with nothing to take hold of.
He could not see any one to shoot-his
eyes looking at the stars, because his
face was jerked up by that foulard
under his chin, pulling him. bending
him backward. Then he lost con-
seriousness.
When he came to, he was resting in
the bushes. His pockets were empty
and his neck was strained.
He never saw the man who did it.
But he describes the operation as he
felt it.
Il rec!incd upon that robbers back,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17
Mining for Timber.

TIMBER mining goes on in a swamp
not far from Chicago. Seven or
eight thousand years ago terrible
storm fiattened out a forest of white
oak. and in the course of centuries the
timber was buried, but preserved by
some chemical agent of the SOL.
While the outer layers are decayed.
the timber is very hard and of an x
quisite color and fetches very high
prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17
Shell Contains Net.

A LBERT JUARON, French inven-
tor, has perfected an anti-aircraft
shell containing a net. which spreads
when the projectile bursts, enveloping
the airplane, smashing or stopping
the propeller or breaking the wings.
thus bringing down the machine. He
intends to sue the Japanese govern
ment. which has announced adoption
OF Il similar net shell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17

hands raw and bleeding from his dig
ging in the sand lie pointed to the
pool and to the blackboard.
You said there was ample water,
said the big man somberly. You
swindled me. / could have killed you.
I could let you die, now. wonder
why"
He fell silent. The thing in the
sand pit made sounds with its mouth,
struggling frantically to be under
stood.
Observation-Disclosures the hole
stopped up. Dyna
mite loosen it.
<You want me to lower dynamite
down the hole there and explode ii,
said the big man somberly.
The thing in the sand pit watched
him in a terrible. tremulous hope.
His speech of release simply had not
been understood. The bearded man
watched without pity.
rs that your way of bringing wa
teri" The bearded mouth opened in
bitter laugh. "All right, III do it.
It's my place now. You'll never have
the chance to swindle another man
with It,"
WITHIN the house his wife was
beginning TO pack. lneS were
bound for other acres, other places,
to begin again the fight they had
fought for 10 years, and won, only
for the benefit of the man lying there
in the dried up stream bed. Ten
years gone! The best of his life
wasted, Beginning old age with
empty hands
Something of fire came into the
bearded mans eyes. Hatred had not
been appeaSed by the suffering of
the man in the sand pit. Nothing
short of utter destruction could give
him peace now. And since he must
not destroy the man who had caused
ii all. who had swindied him of all
he possessed. there might be some
relief in destroying something else.
His great hands were strangely
supple as he bent TO his task with n
grim pleasure. He took heavy rope
and bound the dynamite sticks along
it's length, padding the first lest they
go off too soon. He packed them
closely A full case he bound along
the length of the rope, so that he
had a flexible cartridge 10 feet long.
And to the uppermost he fastened
the illuminate, caps. Blake had had
all things ready for, his blasting.
Even a coil of wire and batteries
We're in the blackboard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17

l HE rabDlt cOuld not understand the
irony nor the despair. He was
drinking. But he seemed to feel a
hint of danger in the air. He slipped
quickly and quietly away into the
darkness.
Tie 'Vorl6 was baking as if in an
zen neated from above. A fierce,
Distering glare poured down from a
brazen sun, and the earth had
Drowned and shriveled from the
super-cookery. The encircling cliffs
impounded the heat and radiated it
out again. unrelieved by any breath
of wind. Far overhead tiny dark
.;peck scared and circled effortlessly,
waiting for something to die. But it
seemed that everything was dead al
ready.
In the valley. certainly, there was
little sign of life. The lone horse
cropped, and sought the insufficient
.hade of tie willows The house
sse.ueu " ui,aCe III The neat, "niie
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-08-07
WANTS VISITORS
TO LEAVE
U. S. MarshaIs Stay at Wine
Owners Home 3 Months

cALtsToGA. Cal Aug Nathan
Ghtsoio. proprietor o. bonded
winery here, wants 10 Know how To
cut thru governmental rcd tape and
rid himself Of unlimited guests
Three United states mnrshnla as.
rived az bis place three months ago
10 watch $4,000 gallons n wine IN his
winery which the government had
iibsled.
When first they arrived ghtsoio
welcomed them. took them into his
hogsc. fed them the best his ranch
tablo atforded-treated them gcnsr-
ally bkc long lost brothers
That was three months ago Chi.
solo thought Uncle sam would get
around TO disposinR % the wine In
"a reasonable length OF time. bat the
red ihpc strung out iutcrmiuabIy.
he grew tired Of having the law con-
stantlY In front or him.
Ghisolo journeyrd 20 san Francisco
TO see what could bg done about get.
ting I'D Of his guards lie offered
so pas up $4,000 bond " they would
only 30 away United States District
Attorney Sterling Carr refused 10 rc.
call the marshnls or accept the bond
on the ground that the wine might
be done away with ny substitution or
odulteration. FcIeral Judge John s.
Partridge said he couldn't do any.
thing unless Carr consented
Ghi:ulo does noe know what 10 do.
and the marshais face the problem
OF boarding themselves or eating stale
sandwiches.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-08-07
CAPTURE KILLER
Taken by Deputies After He
BarriCaded Self

DENTON. Tex. Aug. w. A.
Martin, 80, alleged slayer OF H. y.
Parsons. deputy sheriff. who was
killed on the street in Denton
Thursday afternoon. was arrested
here Thursday night by Denton and
Dallas county officers, after he had
barricadcd himself In his home for
several hours.
Sheriff Fry OF Denton county adj
vised the United News Thursday
night that several shots were fired.
previous to tho arrest, but none of
the participants was injured. Dallas
county officers. with sawed Off shot.
guns, had been summoned to aid
the local constabulary in taking
Martin.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-08-07
Washington Horses
Wanted in Kentucky

OLYMPIA, wash, Aug. L. Ken.
lucky Is now coming to tho Wash.
ington ranges for horses.
A. X. Campbell, merchant OF How.
ell, Ky, has requested biological sur.
vey officials to put him in touch with
persons who can furnish him with
two carloads OF range horses. He
has offered from 50 TO 81 a head, de-
pending on their condition,
Campbell has read that wild horses
Of tho Horse Heaven district are now
bciug killed for feed and fertilizer,
and that they were being disposed
Of az a nuisance.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-08-07
URGES RAILROAD
CONSOLIDATION
Senator Watson Says Cool
idge Backs His Plan
WILL BE MAJOR ISSUE
Says Mergers Will Protect
Weak Roads
ny THOMAS l. STOKES
Il nlIed Pres. Slaif lnrrespondcnI-


WASHINGTON. Aug 2 CousnIi
dation OF railroads into a few srrat
systems win De- sought by the ad.
ADMINISTRATION as "a means Of aiding
agriculture which asks lower
frcight rates, and OF helping the
railroads az the same time
President Coolidgcs Endorsement
OF consolidation was followed hy a
statement here Thursday from Sen,
ator Watson. Of Indiana. who will
be chairman Of the senate inter.
state commerce committee IN the
new congress. approving the princi,
Pile OF consolidation generally and
the proposed Nickel Plate merger In
particular The Nickel Plate mer
ser rs now before the interstate
commerce commission Tor approval,
II am Ia favor % railroad ronsol
ldattons whenever and wherever
practicable and 20 that end believe
ia The arrangement now being madt
by the Van SwcrinErns In tho 20.
called Nickel Plate combination Of
railroad properties Watson said IN
IA letter 20 Chairman McChord. OF
the commission,
II believe IL TO be- consistent with
the spirit OF the Esch.Cummlns act
% railroad combination. and / ann
sure tina, this effort meets with ihc
approval Of great majority Of the
business PEOPLE OF the sections ar
fccted"
As a result Of the presidents in.
tercst aud recent pronounccmrnts.
Il r. expected that this subject ~
consolidation win forse To The front
as one of the major issues for the
rest or his administration
The argument Of proponents Of
consultations ~ that il viii link
weak roads with strong. 10 the end
that thr weak roads VIII hc able 10
exist. Some small roads are In a
bad way now Al the same time. IL
is pointed out this will make IL pos
sible 10 meet agricultural needs for
lower freight rates. by hooking up
agricultural carriers with nouhkri.
cultural carriers. and thus assuring
profit 20 the group. even with ~,
ducsd rates on agricultural prod
ucts, AZ the present time. farmers
are asking lower rates and the rail.
roads are asking atill further IL,
creasrs.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-08-07
Blow Is Aimed at
Evolution Statute

KNOXVILLE, Tenn Aug, o.
\ bill. asking that the state of
Tennessee hc permanently ouieined
from enforcing the snu.yyelulion
law ON She grounds that Il violates
the constitution OF the United states
viii be filed In the fcdcrd court
Friday by Judge Ken Hicks, John
n. Neat chief counsel for John r.
Scopes In the. evolution uisc at Day
ton. announced Thursday night
Tho hill will be- filed by James
Wilson. g.. father OF five children
and Il nrst cousin OF Neal. In the
bin Wilson viii state that he rs the
father OF five children and a taA-
payer
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-08-07
SEATTLE READY
Cf0R CONCLAvES
City Can Take Care Of All
Conventions, Chamber Says

= That the resent efficient haudling
~ the knights Tcmplar couclayc
proves that Seattle can care for any
s7oRvention which meets In the Unit
"a States Was the decision arrived at
~ The Chnmhcr OF Commerce tourist
sassnmi,tec at "a meeting Thursday
= Belief that the SUCCESS OF tho un-
r'rmkiug viii bc am effective argu-
Wcot In Soattlcs future efforts 10 Ice
= greater convention city was rN-
4reSscd by Dan Trctcthcu, chairman
~ The committee
= The splendid impression Seattle
radc ON thousands of visitors durinE
Snights remplar week. the efficient
handling OF the convention and the
Evaporation OF Seattle people and or
gsnizaIions during the occasion viii
sun IN substantial and permanent
Vnefils 10 the community" MIR.
Trefethen declared
The committee adopted resolutions
expressing appreciation 10 the eNeou-
re committee OF the Knights Temp
~. the Seattle people for their hospi-
mlliy, 20 the police department for
handling traffic TO the hotels for
maintaining regular price schedule,
10 Darwin Melsnest and The Way
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-08-07
FISHING?

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-08-07
CAMPING?


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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-08-07
PICNICKING?

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CAMP JUGS. Ideal for touring camping
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