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retired. former adjutant general
Of the Army.
For few days two experts from
New York viii remain at the Heci1f
store to give the benefit OF their
experience with the machines. They
are Harry Freidin, head mechanic Dc
the company, and C. s. Nicks, his
assistant.
Attractive young women with
French artists velvet cans and
smocks are in attendanca.
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and it Is on file in the court of
domestic relations at Cincinnati.
when the threat was made
against nay life paid no particular
attention to it because all prohibit
ton agents are lsubjected to the
same thing, time and again.
"Remus meant no more to me as
bootleggers. It was my duty to
obtain evidences against him.
Because he has been q FotteF and
mistreated his wife he is now at
tempting to link me with his do
mestic relations as an excuse for
his actions.
Every statement he has made
about me is a tissue of lies"
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BUILDER s SON
HELD IN THEFT
CONTINUED from First Page.l

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mond ring worth SITS, and the rob.
berry of the home Of Mrs. Charles
c. Wolfel. 1905 Newton st. N. E.,
September 4.
Cohens arrest followed the re-
port of the theft Of money from
the Lamont Street address. They
rushed to the scene and found
the negro in the vicinity. Although
he denies having broken into the
house, he was said by q colored
woman to answer the description
of a man she saw crawling through
a window and police claim that
he has q record for similar Of
lenses.
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Former Ship Board Man
is Convicted of Fraud

Clifford p. Cowen, formerly Of
Lewistown, Pa, today was sem
fenced to one year in the peni-
Tertiary In the District Of Columbia
Supreme Court.
He was convicted recently of
faIsifying vouchers of the United
States Shipping Board.
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BY HELEN FETTER.

n n USIC is often dragged in by
MI the hair to help out sister
V arts. The most modern of
4 all, motion pictures-the art
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the analytical suggestions of Mr..
Spier. as detailed in the foreword OF
the catalogue and, in the cases Of
some. pictures, observers have indi.
Gated that they were enthusiastic to
take the pictures home and play
them on the piano" More than 500
people attended the New York open
ing OF the exhibition.
Among important patrons of art
and music and artists who have
viewed the paintings are Mrs. f. II.
Hartman, Otto Fl. Kahn, Mrs. &. G.
Rumsey, Arthur b. Davies, William
Fox, director of the Brooklyn Mu-
scum: Alexander Brooke, Yasuo Ku-
niyoshi Louis Bouchee, Tennessee
Anderson, Margaret Huntington,
Elizabeth Grandin, Louise Vermont,
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Branson, formerly
of Washington: Charles Sarka. Fran
els Brugiere Milt Gross. Mrs. Willard
b. Force and Daniel Chester French.
Prominent among the paintings
which caused daily discussion was the
already famous painting, 1.-THE City,
admired by some of the visitors. but
arousing others to wrathful state
ments. Heated arguments We're OF
frequent occurrence. The picture,
which one might call modern al
famous female figure clad in the
tights and spangles of the circus ring
The various parts of the composition
are suggestive, respectively, of the
strength, beauty, movement. etc, of
a modern city. But. as the artist
admits, the painting also contains
number of very unpleasant truths.
1t is this picture that Mr.. Spier
feels lends itself best TO musical
analysis. He says:
'"ro nay mind. it is based upon a
similar structure to that of SYM
phony for full orchestra. 1t embraces
the whole range of sound and was OBJ
viously composed in the sonata form,
with the central figure, from the bo
dice upward, including the arms and
head, representing the first move
ment, the bodice itself the second or
slow movement, the red rose on the
bodice the scherzo, and the lower part
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pened, and ] was sorry. For fort
night | hung around. loath to go, but
hating myself all the while for not
doing SO. And every day Whitney
would come at me with his insane
scheme. over there 1t isn't very
far. A day--maybe two. How about
it? En- | don't know what it was
WEAKNESS, disgust. But finally. and
to my own astonishment. | found
myself conserving, and we set out"
x * !;
HARDY took a sip from the glass
i in front of him before he began
again. i've knocked about a good
deal in my life he said, but that trip
across the desert was the worst I've
ever taken. I'd rather he tied for life
to West Coast niger than to Il
man like Whitney. 1t isn't good for
two people to be alone in a place like
that and for one to hate the other as
l hated him. Heaven knows why /
didn't kill him; I'd have to get up and
leaYe the fire and go out into the
night, and, mind you, I'd be shudder-
ing like a man with the ague under
that warm. soft air. And he never
for a minute suspected it. His mind
was Scared with drink as if a worm
had bored it's slow way in and out
of it.
Il can see him now, big, unshaven
heavy jowled, dirty, what he thought
dripping from his mouth like the
bacon drippings he was too lazy to
wipe away. l won't tell you what he
talked about: you know, the old thing;
but not the way even the most wrong
minded of ordinary men talk; there
was a sodden, triumphant deviltry in
him that was appalling. He cursed
the country for it's lack of opportun-
ity of a certain kind; he was like a
hound held in leash, gloating over
what he would do when he got back
to the kennels of civiliza ton again.
And all the while, at the back of my
mind, was a picture of that white
and-gold woman of his, way back
toward the south.
II would have turned back, but ]
felt that every day l could keep him
away from Los Pinos was a day gained
for Mrs. Whitney. He was a danger
Gus maniac, too. The first day he be-
haved himself fairly well, but, after
supper, when we had cleaned up, he
produced a bottle of brandy.
Fine camping stuff" he an '
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| ~ 1SIC Is often QFdRRCu III Dy
MI the hair to help out sister
VI arts. The most modern of
4 4 all, motion pictures-the art
Of photography of moving
| objtcts-is demanding not only espe-
| cially adapted scores for aid in ex-
pressing the emotions or narrative In
cidents displayed upon the screen, but
also for colorful atmospheric" pres
| entations to precede q picture. OPP.
erettaS, ballet, musical comedy, even
| the interludes between acts In formal
dramas, depend upon music for as
| sistance and enhancement Of their en-
| tertainmtnt qualities. However, 1t
was left for a Washington musician
| to discover the relation of music to
| the art of painting, which has been
| amazingly exemplified during the past
few weeks in an exhibit in New York,
| which has recently been moved to
| Chicago.
This musician is La Sale Spier,
| pianist and composer, an American
and native son of Washington. He is
a member of the Composers Society
of Washington, and his songs, which
have been heard in public. while mod
ern, do not seem strikingly so. He is
the founder Of the Chamber Music
Society Of this city and Is member
Ensemble. He has appeared with the
Lenox, Rich and National String
Quartets and with other organiza-
tons and in recital here and abroad.
His works include compositions for
voice, piano, chamber music and or
chestra.
The artist whose painting inspired
Mr.. Spier with this idea of musical
explanations is Walt Kuhn, American.
of extreme originality Of style in paint
ing and individuality Of subject treat
ment. A very good idea Of Mr..
Kuhn's work is given in Mr.. Spier's
preface, in which he says:
"Whistler's use of musical terms
as applied to his pictures tends to
befog, emotionally, the mind of the
observer. In reality, his works have
practically no relation to music what
ever. In SO far as the structural basis
Of his compositions is understood to
parallel that of music, his work Is
elementary as compared with that of
Walt Kuhn.
I'm the latter case the application
OF musical structure to painting is
one of real intelligence and solidity
and will be easily recognized by any
trained musician.
1T is almost certain that the most
casual layman viii Immediately take
an entirely different point Of view and
derive instant pleasure from Mr..
kuhn's pictures if he will apply to
them the same analysis which he en-
ploys when listening to the rendition
of a musical composition.
Music is considered the most per-
feet form of art, mathematical in it's
precision, demanding the highest de-
velopment of intellectual and emo.
tional combinations OF tonal lines.
contours, shapes, forms, rhythms, col.
ors and dynamics.
Walt Kuhn puts painting on
similar basis.
1T must be understood, however,
that. while the method of procedure
N the same, the final result visible
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on the canvas Is not music, but paint
ing in its purest form.
"A careful analysis of the work of
this artist shows that he divides his
canvas into sections corresponding to
the measures, sections, phrases and
periods of musical form and to the
different groups of instruments in an
orchestra. He then plays on these
instruments in these forms and sue
ceeds in obtaining wealth of
typically musical effects.
Zone does not have to search far
to discover astonishing examples of
rhythm, harmony and counterpart
Polytonal and atonal chords, even, are
frequently to be found. His scale of
dynanics Is most unusual and ranges
from the subdued velvet tones of
muted strings to the powerful volume
of full orchestra. His color schemes
include everything from the wooden
clack of the Xylophone to the blatant
brass blasts of trumpet or trombone"
Mr.. Spier, in telling how to get the
music in a Kuhn painting, empha-
sizes in particular the fact that
painting. in contradistinction TO
music, presents all of it's elements to
view at once-structure, rhythm, har-
mony, thematic development and pur-
fusion in the mind of the uninitiated
observer, who is apt to attempt to
look at a picture in this total fash
ion. A much better way is to allow
the eye to follow, slowly, preferably
in measured time, the principal lines
Tor melodies) in the picture. Har-
monte, rhythmic and contrapuntal eff
fects will embellish and enrich every
step of the way from one linear
climax to another. Every section of
the canvas should be transversed in
this manner, with the eye and mind
keenly alive to new Impressions
Short excursions into the background
will serve as contrast to the principal
theme, and will seem to balance it.
This procedure will be like, listening
to the gradual embodiment of piece
of music"
The public in New York responded
with most encouraging readiness to
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Concerning Glass.

THE manufacture of glass antedates
authentic history. 1t is only
about three-quarters of a century
however. since its true character was
ascertained 1t is now generally con-
coded to be salt-a chemical com
pound resulting from the union of an
acid with a base. The acid is SILICA.
the same that is found in quartz. or
the quartz particles of sand. Hence
the use of sand in it's manufacture.
The base may be potash Tor soda,
together with alumina and lime--or
lead may take tht place of lime. Lime
makes u hard glass, one less suscep-
tible to acids and suited to windows
and chemical purposes. Lead. a SOFTER
more fusible and more lustrous article,
suitable for optical instruments.
All acids act to some extent on glass.
especially If the latter has an excess
of alkali. Even wine may corrode the
bottles wherein it is contained. The
moisture of the air often dissolves out
the alkali, causing the rainbow-like
tolors Qridescence) OF some window
panes.
Not so many years ago a German
professor stumbled upon the discovery
of soluble glass, which he made from
SILICA. with soda and potash combined.
This is now extensively used for rem
dering woodwork incombustible and
marble and plaster secure against at
mospheric agents, as vehicle for
mineral colors, in a kind of frescp
painting to be exposed to the weather.
in the manufacture of artificial stone :
and in the composition of fireproof &C. =
ments for stoves, etc.
About 80 years ago it was discovered
that glass might be rendered exceed
ingly hard by dipping it in oil when at
a certain temperature. The particles.
however, seem to be put in state OF
high tension, and the whole may sud
denly ny into thousand pieces.
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THE WATER HOLE
By MaxlUeU St1uthe1s Burt
Recording Test the Question Whether He Was

| Besides, | reflected, trip like that
might help to straighten Whitney UP
little. I hadn't much hope, but
drowning men clutch at straws. It's
curious what sophistry you use to CON
| vince yourself, isn't it? And then
something happened that for two
weeks occupied all my mind"
!: X X x
HARDY paused, considered for a
moment the end of his cigarette
and looked up gravely. There was a
slight hesitation. almost an embar-
rassment, in his monner.
Il don't exactly know how to put
it." he began. Il don't want you
chaps to imagine anything wrong
Mrs. Whitney was wonderful
woman. l wouldn't mention tie mat
ter at all if it wasn't necessary for
the point of my story. In fact, it is
the point of my story. But there was
man there--one of the young engi-
neers-and 1 discovered that he was
in love with Mrs. Whitney, and
Think never could be quite sure
but l think she was in love with him.
1T must have been one of those
sudden things, a storm out of a clear
SKY, deluging two people before they
We're aware. / imagine it was brought
to the surface by the chaps illness.
He had been out riding on the desert
and had got off to look at something
and rattlesnake had struck him--a
big, dust-dirty thing-on the wrist,
and. very faint, he had galloped back
to the Whitneys'. And what do you
suppose she had done-Mrs. Whitney,
that is? Sucked the wound! OF
course. it was foolish thing to do,
and not in the least the right way to
treat a wound, but she had risked her
life to do 1t. "A slight cut on her lip;
you understand, tiny ragged place.
Afterward she had cut the wound
crosswise, so, and had put on a liga-
ture. and then had got the man into
the house and nursed him until he
was quite himself again.
II dare say he had been in love
with her a long while without know
ing it. but that clinched matters
Perhaps he told Mrs. Whitney. He
never got very far, l am sure. She
was a wonderful woman-but she
owed him, / think. You can tell
those things, you know-a gesture, an
look, a silence.
Anyway, / saw what had hap
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dead pinon-nothing but that. and the
steel-blue sky overhead. and the SHIN
mering desert behind us. It was hot,
The horn of your saddle burned your
hand.
THAT night we Camped in a cam
yon, and the next day went still
higher up. following the course of a
rutted stream that probably ran water
once in year. Whitney wanted to
turn east, and it was all a toss-up to
me; the place looked unlikely enough,
anyway, although you never can tell
I had settled into the monotony Of
the trip by now and didn't much
care how long we stayed out. One
day was like another--hot little swirls
of dust, sweat of mules. and great
black cliffs; and the nights came and
went like the passing of a sponge over
a fevered face. On the sixth day the
tragedy happened. 1t was toward
dusk, and one of the mules, the one
that carried the last of our water, fell
over a cliff.
"He wasn't hurt, but the kegs and
the bags We're smashed to bits. T
like mules, but l wanted to. kill that
one. It was quiet down there in the
canyon-quiet and hot. l looked at
Whitney and he looked at me. I
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nounced. Lots of results for very
little weight. Have some?'
II didn't argue with him. But the
second night he upset the water-kegs,
two of them. He had been carrying
on some sort of weird celebration by
himself, and finally staggered out into
the desert, singing at the top of his
lungs, and the first thing l knew he
was down among the kegs. rolling
over and over, and kicking right and
left. The one that was open was gone:
another he kicked the plug out of, but
I managed to save about a quarter of
it's contents. The next morning
spoke to him about it. He blinked
his red eyes and chuckled
After that we didn't speak TO each
other, except when it was necessary.
I'VE were in the foothills of the
Voodoos-that was the name Of the
mountains we were heading sfor-by
now, and the next day we got into
the mountains themselves-great, bare,
ragged peaks, black and red and dirty
yellow, like the cooled-off slake of
furnace. Every now and then a dry
gully came down from nowheres; and
the only human thing one could see
was occasionally, on the sides of one
of these, a shivering, miserable, half
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WE HAD BEEN DISCUSSING
BRAVERY AND CONSCIENCE
AND COWARDICE AND ORICI.
NAL SIN. AND THAT SORT OF
THING.
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had the sudden, unpleasant realiZati
that he was a coward. added to his
other qualifications. Yes, coward
II saw it in his blurred eyes and
the quivering of his bloated lips
stark, dumb funk. I'm afraid / lost
my nerve. too. | make no excuses.
Fear is infectious. At all events, we
tore down out of that place as ii
death was after us. the mules clatter.
ing and Tapping in the rear. After a
time l rode more slowly, but in the
morning we were nearly down at the
desert again, and there it lay before
US, shimmering like a lake of salt
two days back to water.
Arizona state miner., 1927-03-19
Agriculture Department Leading
Fight to Save 1927 Corn Crop

will be wholly successful it is reason
ably certain that it will result in a
very great reduction OF the borerS
carried over the winter.
1t is certain that in the future
farmers will have to adopt methods
of corn cultivation that will result in
the destruction of corn stalks that may
contain borers before the first of May.
Such systems are now being worked
out.
The methods now adopted in corn
stalks and debris left standing in the
field consists of polling raking and
burning of such material, to be fol-
lowed by blowing so as to turn under
any surface material previous to put
ting in the seasons crop. This is
being done in all infested areas at the
discretion of the officials charged with
the enforcement of the act.
exceptions to the requirements for
polling, raking burning, and plowlng
previous to planting will be where
fields were we'll plowed last fall or
where methods of spring plowing and
the condition of the fields are such
as to secure equally efficient methods
of destruction. All such methods and
systems are subject to the approval
of the officers in charge.
The regulations will doubtless re-
quire that all lands in infested areas
on which corn was grown in 1926
which are to be used for oats or other
small grains, grass, or millets crops,
in either spring or fall seeding, must
be prepared with stubble beater or
by blowing under of corn refuse COM
pletely, in manner satisfactory to the
officials in charge, before the crop is
planted.
Federal reimbursements will be
made to farmers for labor costs in
Cured in the cleanup work which
are over and above the costs incurred
in normal farm operations.
Arizona state miner., 1927-03-19
FARMER RECOMMENDS
CASTER BEANS FOR
POISONING COP HERS

Poisoning gophers with castor beans
was the most effective means of rid
ing ranch in California of the pests,
is the information proffered by letter
to the Graham County Farm Bureau
by Thomas Wilson, who is at present
residing in Round Mountain, Nevada.
The letter in part follows:
Gentlemen: 1 note from an ar
ticle in the Arizona Republican that
you are troubled with the gopher pest.
l will mention that 1 have a ranch in
Riverside county, California, where
the whole community was troubled
with this pest and we used to put out
hundreds of pounds of poisoned wheat
each spring without effect.
''In 1917, I contracted with the gov
Arizona state miner., 1927-03-19
Dogs Foot Fired Gun

Minus one eye and two fingers an
Austrian game warden named Kurz-
bauer Is now convalescing in the VI
emma hospital from the effects of gun
shot wounds inflicted by his own dog.
Kurzbauer left his loaded gun leaning
on the end Of the boat while he Jumped
out to make the anchor rope fast.
While Kurzbauer was busy with the
rope the dog made a. spring for the
shore. One Of the dogs feet had been
resting on the trigger Of the gun and
as he jumped he fred the gun. Kurz-
bauer, who was bending over at the
time received part Of the charge in his
left eye and part in his left hand.
Arizona state miner., 1927-03-19
2.15 CENTS PER ACRE
rs THE AVERAGE OF
SOIL-SURVEY COST

Gathering the important facts about
the soils of the country and pub
fishing them as county soil survey
reports is being done at an average
to figures recently compiled by the
United states Department of Agricul-
ture. Cost data from Il representa-
tive counties or areas were taken as
a basis for figuring the average cost.
This figure covers all expenses, State
and Federal, from the time an area
is first inspected for survey until the
completed report is published, and
comprises such items as field ex-
penses, salaries, preparation of base
and field maps, writing and report,
typing, editing, Photographic service,
printing, engraving, and department
overhead.
The soil survey, one of the most i'm
portant projects of the Bureau of
Soils, is the only medium through
which soil facts of the United States
are gathered and classified and the
various relationships determined. The
survey frequently supplies valuable
information for operations other than
crop production. For instance, in
southern Ohio, newly laid concrete
roads were demolished by slipping hill
side soils. Soil surveys show that
the same slipping of hillsides is going
on in other areas and that the pro-
cess may never stop under natural
conditions. Wherever the surveys
show such soil action to be present,
road builders are forewarned and can
thus adopt measures to avoid destruc-
ton of their work.
Arizona state miner., 1927-03-19
Stafford. ARIZONA

SAFFORD, ARIZONA
In as much as the cattlemen are
complaining that the cattle rustler''
has again become active in Graham
county and the cattlemen are said to
be losing heavily from the activities
of the rustler, the following decision in
a case, appealed from the lower court
OF Yavapai county, recently handed
down by the state supreme court will
prove of great interest to the cattle
men of this section:
''If it were required that the the
state should prove a defendant was
actually seen in the act of misbrand-
ing cattle, conviction for cattle rust
ling would be practically impossible.
Cattle rustlers do not as a rule in
vite spectators to witness their acts"
declares the supreme court in an opin-
ion handed down affirming the con-
viction of Watt Holder in Yavapai
county of altering a brand upon a
certain twoyear-old steers belonging
to Richard w. ,Bullard Holder was
sentenced to serve from one to three
years in the state prison for the
offense.
In cases OF this nature" states the
opinion written by Justice A. C. Lock
wood and concurred in by Chief JUS
tice Henry D. Ross and Justice A. G.
McAlister, leach one must stand on
its own facts, and circumstantial evil
dence is generally the only kind avail
able. The evidence was sufficient to
sustain the verdict"
Holder in his appeal claimed that
the verdict of the jury was special
verdict and as such did not contain
the required statements showing that
the defendant had done everything
necessary to constitute the particular
offense charged. The opinion holds
that the jury had no intention or re-
turning a special verdict but meant
to return a general verdict The YER
dict under attack read, guilty of fell
ony, to-wit, altering brandS