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The Human Side of the News
Saga of Billy the Kid-"White Indians"
By EdWiu C.. Hill

Cattle rustling on a wide
scale in Colorado, and suit
in Texas over the gun which
spelled death for Billy the Kid,
are two bits of news which
throw back to the wild and
woolly West. Our present-day
rustlre has gone modern. His
mode of operation is to drive
stolen cattle to the nearest
highway and load them on
speedy trucks. The odd law
suit in Texas traces back to
the pioneer days, and the cat
tie wars in New Mexico IN the
late seventies and early elgh-
ties.
It was on a balmy summer
evening in 1880 when Billy
the Kid, visitor at a ranch
of Pete Maxwell, was on his
way to the ranch house to cut
himself a steak from a freshly
killed steer. Sheriff Pat Gar
rett had chosen the same hour
to ride out to Maxwell's ranch,
seeking the elusive Billy. The
sheriff saw him first, beat him
to the draw and in the quick
ness of the flash Of a six
shooter the life was snutted
out of the young man who was
credited with as many Killings
as he had birthdays.
BY the Gun
Billy, the last Of the frontier
feudists, was born William n.
Bauney, and one of the many
stories has it that he came from
New York's East Side. There's
no doubt that he was a pretty
bad two-gun man and given to
the boast that he had killed u
white men before reaching MS
majority. Billy was one OF
three things: The most cruel
and desperate outlaw in the an
mails of the Southwest" So he
is described by the historians OF
the wild and woolly. He was
a good kid, but he got in bad
company" That is the teStl-
mony of a frontier woman. Z
don't believe he killed any more
than six men and these in the
feuds of the time" This third
and last opinion came recently
from a survivor of the old West,
a man who knew Billy well and
who happened to be a neutral
in the cattle wars.
This witness, Charles Foor,
told also of being present at
the truce between Billy and the
gunbearer of the rival, one
Evans. They were unarmed,
but behind barricades on either
side of the muddy street Of the
COW town were the two bands
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pose. aside from taking our
minds off what is coming. They
are natures way Of helping us
to catch up on our back reading.
No one can read everything
that is printed during each
month, although I may be called
a defeatiSt for saying so. buy
a lot of papers and magazines
as they come out, and arrange
them neatly on my living room
table, but rarely get a chance
to do more than file them away
when the next issues come out.
If it were not for my teeth, I
would be hopelessly behind in
current events. BY current" I
mean the current century.
While waiting for the young
lady to appear at the door with
the awful news that DR.. Merch
will see me now. I have picked
up information which eluded me
at the time when it was news,
information which I could not
very we'll do without. In those
issues of May, 1880 and 1881, I
have found such fascinating
reading that have almost been
willing to say to the young lady:
Tell DR.. Merch that will for
felt my appointment. I am en-
crossed for the moment"
For example, I had no idea
in 1881 that a movement was
on foot to emancipate Turkish
women completely from their
thralldom. I had been think
ing, right up until last Thurs
day at 2 p. M, of Turkish
women as rather attractive, but
very cabined, females, who kept
their faces covered, but who
were more or less at a beck
and call. In fact, I had never
given very much thought to
Turkish women, because I had
a feeling that it wouldn't do
any good.
Just before experienced
this inlay in my right bicus-
pid, however, I discovered that,
as long ago as 1881, they were
an up-and-coming sex, who play
the harp and attend the Is
met Pasha Girls Institute,
where they study millinery and
The Washington times., 1933-12-30
Have a Good Time
The Old Year Dies

Everybody should have good time night when
the old year departs and the new one enters
Everybody who has lived through 1888 deserves good
time.
And everybody who looks forwards we all do-to a
better year in 1884 will want to have good time to start
the year off right.
Nineteen thrythree has been turbulent and exciting
year, particularly here in Washington
The coming year will probably be equally turbulent and
exciting, but it dawns more hopefully than did 1888
So the signal for tomorrow night is JOY
All the city there will be celebrations any
which may be expressed at the departing of 1888 will be
tinged with irony
There few who would want live that year over again
and many would like to wipe it from memory.
New Year Day is commonly day for resolutions by
which determine to guide ourselves for the coming year
These resolutions unfortunately don't last very long
rule.
But there is resolution which all make and
which might help
We can all resolve that when another year around
Will be able to look back with of satisfaction
the way treated fellow man.
That is the essence of happiness which should
season our every act
So have good time tomorrow night and be prepared
another one year from now
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that, if elected, he would invite
Mr.. Coolidge, who ran on the
ticket with him as candidate
for Vice President, to attend all
meetings of the Cabinet.
When Mr.. Coolidge became
President in his own right, fol-
lowing his election in 1924, it
was his intention to follow the
precedent set by Mr.. Harding
and invite Mr.. Dawes, the
newly elected Vice President, to
attend the Cabinet meetings.
Before the invitation Yves ex-
tended. Mr.. Dawes announced
that he did not expect to
attend the Cabinet meetings.
and for that reason he was
never invited.
When Mr.. Curtis was noti-
fled at Topeka, Kan, m Au-
gust, 1923, of his nomination
for Vice President on the Re-
publican ticket. there was read
at the meeting a telegram from
the Republican presidential
nominee, Mr.. Hoover, in which
he said that, if elected, he in
tended to invite Mr.. Curtis to
attend the Cabinet meetings as
Vice President. The invitation
was extended and accepted.
Cabinet Meetings
This precedent was followed
by Mr.. Roosevelt, who, as a
candidate for President, gave
notice that, in the event of his
election, he had obtained Mr..
Garner's promise to attend the
Cabinet.
Upon the invitation of Presi.
dent Roosevelt, Vice President
Garner attended all sessions of
the Cabinet while Congress was
in session. His opinion was fire.
quently asi.ed by Mr.. Roosevelt
on questions under considera-
ton by the Cabinet. In fact the
relations between President
Roosevelt and Vice President
Garner, during the extra session
of Congress were much close"
than those between President
Harding and Vice President
Coolidge aad those between
President Hoover and Vice Presi-
dent Curtis.
BY holding himself aloof dur
ing the recess of Congress from
Executive affairs, Vice President
Garner returns to the Federal
City possessed of a good per-
Spective, in close touch with
public sentiment in his part Of
the country, and in a position
to respond effectively to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's call for advice
and for other assistance during
the coming session.
There is every reason to be-
lieve that the Roosevelt admin
stration is we'll satisfied with
the policy initiated by President
Washington, and revived in re-
cent administrations, of having
the Vice President meet with
the Cabinet while Congress IS
in session.
1888. The Washington Times)
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theme than that.
A true story about a mother
the strangest and most diff
cult of all stories to write!
For, as every mother knows,
mothers are not at all what
they are supposed to be. And
mother love, with its cruel con-
fusions, its dragging inertias, its
bitter penalties, is anything but
the ecstasy which the poets
would have us imagine.
Mary of Nazareth was to
know and suffer all these things
even though in later years she
was to be called the Mother Of
God.
First of all she was to dis
cover that her boy was a
stranger to her-a stranger
whom she could never hope to
understand.
Never yet was there a mother
who was not forced to make
this discovery, or whose heart
did not chill when she made it.
And always it comes as a de-
vastating shock. against which
she battles with all the force
of her nature.
For this is incredible
trary to all the beautiful things
one has heard about mother
hood. Does not everyone know
that mother and child are, in
some miraculous way, indis-
Solubly one-bound together in
spirit as well as flesh? How
could it be otherwise? How
can this little creature whom
she has created within her own
body, fed with her own blood,
filled with her own spirit, ever
stand apart from her, even in
his most secret thought?
No, it is not imaginable.
Perhaps some children and
some mothers may be strangers
to each other, but not her
child-not HERS.
And so every mother sets
herself against the truth.
Sometimes she fights it all her
days, and spoils her own life
and her children's in the cruel
combat. But nearly always she,
braces herself to accept this
hurt, as she has braced herself
to accept all the other pains
and terror of motherhood, and
goes on with her service. know
ing that with each step forward
her child leaves her further
behind.
Men are spirits clad in wells:
Man by man was never seen:
AL our striving somehow fails
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-"White Indians"

of desperadoes waiting for the
first sign of treachery. How
ever, there was none, and the
only victim was neutral who
was shot down at Charley
Foor's side because he was IN
gracious in his refusal to have
a drink in celebration Of the
peace pact.
AS already said, Billy lived
by the gun and died by the gun.
And now the Court of Appeals
the sovereign State of Texas
rules that this particular gun
is the property of Mrs. Pauline
Garret. widow of Sheriff Pat.
The estate of one Tom Powers
had claimed ownership of this
celebrated antique. Contending
that it had been given to Pow
ers in payment of loan. The
gun returns to the Garret
trophy room.
Brave and Sturdy
The weeds grow over the
grave Of Billy in the cemetery
at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
And his name and his misdeeds
fade into legend.
Two Navy planes from the
Panama Canal base went wing
ing with doctors, medical sup
plies and a laboratory to the
San Bias country, made up Of
many small islands of the
north coast Of Panama.
A brave and sturdy people,
with amazingly fortnight ideas
on morals and manners, the
San Bias came in for general
attention few years back when
an explorer persuaded three
blond tribesmen to return with
him to this country. Here theS"'
were hailed as white Indians" ;"
but science catalogued them as
nothing more extraordinary
than the offspring of an here6'
tary Alblno strain.
Interesting news from the
warm Caribbean that the Is
land Of Haiti will hereafter pe
known under its old Spanish
name, the name Columbus gave
it, "Hispaniola."
All this makes one think OF
soldiers of fortune, of whom
there is in New York a lively
and authentic example. Young
Winston Ehrgott is here to work
for the recognition of the pres
ent government of Cuba. A
lively, husky, good-looking chap
who had a hand in ditchlng
Machado. They fired him from
West Point seven years ago be-
cause, when it came to mathe-
mates, his co-sines got all mixed
up with his logarithms.
Copyright. 1888. King Features
syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-12-30
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

, ITO lift that which lies be-
tween"
No human being realizes the
torturing truth of that mystery,
or pays as much for the knoWl-
edge, as a mother. And there
is a bitterness in that, at times,
conquers the noblest heart. For
the child, in his strangeness,
may find new worlds for him
self; but for the mother there
can be no greater adventures.
She has given everything for
love. Now she must carry its
inevitable cross of loneliness as
best she may.
So Mary, the dreaming girl,
became Mary, the mother. Not
an all-wise saint, comforted and
fortified by divine confidence
and superhuman revelations. but
only a simple, beWildered, utterly
loving woman who was deter
mined to live for her boy,
though she could never hope to
understand him or be comforted
by his understanding.
And that was only the begin
ming of the long. hard trail.
He was to die a terrible death
this passionate, mysterious
alien to whom she had given
birth. But before He died, He
was to live an even more ter
rible life-a life that defied the
most cherished traditions of the
orthodox Jew-that denied the
teachings of His own father and
mother-that brought down
upon them awful persecution
and humiliation, and even more
terrifying adulation.
All of Mary's gentleness
shrunk from such a life. All
her piety recoiled against it.
And yet-she followed him.
She was His mother. He was
her boy. Then, for her-for
any real mother-there could
be but one rule. She would
stay at His side. Though He
ascended into heaven, or de
scended into hell, and though
either process was a nightmare
mystery to her poor, confused
spirit, yet She would share His
lot.
"ENTREAT ME- NOT TO
LEAVE THEE, OR TO RE-
TURN FROM FOLLOWING
AFTER THEE: FOR WHITTIER
THOU GOEST I WILL GO
AND WHERE THOU LODG
EST I WILL LODGE: THY
PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEO-
PILE, AND THY GOD MY
GOD. WHERE THOU DIEST
I WILL DIE, AND THERE
WILL I BE BURIED. =.
Dim ages since, another Jew
esS had said those words, and
they had become, forevermore,
the creed of all selfless devo-
ton. Weary, bewildered, heart
broken, Mary lived that creed
from the travail in the straw
filled manger, in the drudgery
of a poor mans home, through
the mounting horror of those
three incredible years-to the
foot of the bloodstained cross
Mary followed her boy, sharing
His life, feeling in her own
heart, the agony of His death.
Then, for her, it was all
over.
Just the story of mother
the truth about motherhood.
Only another mother can know
the comfort it will bring.
Copyright, 1888, King Features
SHndicstA -1nal =. =.
The Washington times., 1933-12-30
By T. E. Powers

tap-danclng. This Is good to
know.
I also had not known be-
fore that the Mt. VeSuvius
which today frowns over the
Bay of Naples is not the Mt.
Vesuvius that played such a
dirty trick on Pompeii and
Herculaneum, but an offShoot
of the parent volcano thrown
out at the same time. I'll bet
you didn't know that either.
but if you had taken any kind
Of care of your teeth, you
might have.
It seems that the old Vesuvius
(Which is still there, and don't
think that it isn't, but extinct
after its one big job gave off
so much lava and truck that it
formed another mountain be.
side it. This youngster. in turn,
developed volcanic tendencies,
and today just sits and smokes
and pretends that it is the Big
Shot of Naples. So be sure to
ask to see the mountain behind
Vesuvius the next time the
guide tries to palm the impos-
tor off on you. And tell him
that you get your dope straight
from the office of DR.. Merch in
New York city.
have seen pictures of "Sun-
day morning in Sweden" in DR..
Merch'S office which have held
me spellbound. I have noted
that Arrnistice Day in London
looked just the same in 1880 as
it did in 1888 and in 1927. I
have discovered that, in 1881,
some robbers let themselves
down through the ceiling of a
bank in Paris, lowering an UNI
brella before them to catch
noiselessly the falling plaster,
and that a whales ear is so
small that a bristle can scarcely
be passed through it, which
must be a constant source of
relief to a whale to know, with
all the bristles there are about.
It might almost be worth
while to drop into your dentists
office on some day when you
have no appointment, just to be
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is not e v e n
written as a
book about a
gre a t saint.
It is simply
the story of a
br a We, de-
vo t e d a n d
terribly troub-
led mother
who was loyal
in S pit e of
e v e ry thing.
A nd tn e re
can be in all
human dra-
ma no great
er. de eene~
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LATE NEWS
By Helen Rowland

The magazines which one
finds on the tables in doctors
and dentists waiting rooms
have come in for their share of
kidding the last Is years, but
they serve a very definite pur-
The Washington times., 1933-12-30
The Story of a Mother

The Story of a Mother
Mary Borden has written a
beautiful book. 1t is about Mary
of Nazareth, the mother of
Jesus Christ.
It is not a religious book. It
The Washington times., 1933-12-30
WORDS OF WISE MEN

No architecture is so hauty
as that which is simple
Ruskin.,
Things are seldom what they
seem; skim milk maSquerades as
cream-Sir w. S. Gilbert.
Honors achieved far exceed
those that are created.-Solon.
Laws cannot discover sin, but
not xemoXe.EMilton,
The Washington times., 1933-12-30

Applause is the spur of the
noble minds. the end and aim of
weak oneS.-C. C. Cotton.
What you fear happens sooner
than what you hope.-Publilius
SyruS.
It is as natural to die as to
be born.-Bacon.
Death sets us free even from
.,ths greatest eyil.~Plutarchu 4lA,
The Washington times., 1933-12-30
Vice President Garner
Returns to Capital
BH James T. Williams, Jr.

"To keep in all things within
the pale of our constitutional
powers" declared Thomas JEFF
ferson in his second Inaugural,
'is one of the landmarks by
which we are to guide ourselves
in all our proceedings"
This has been the goal of Mr..
Garner ever since last Inaugural
ton Day when he relinquished
the office of Speaker of the
House shortly before noon and
walked over to the Senate cham
ber to take the oath as Vice
President of the United States.
Mr.. Gamers return to the
Federal City from his home in
Uvalde county, Texas, just in
time to preside over the opening
session of the Senate on January
3, recalls the promise he made
when he left for Uvalde, on the
evening Congress adjourned last
June. This promise was to re-
main there until his official
duties called him back to Wash
ington.
Official Duties
In adhering steadfastly to his
determination not to involve
his high office in responsibilities
beyond the limits of his author
ity, Mr.. Garner is eXemplifying
the kind of Vice President the
trainers of the Constitution had
in mind when they created the
office. This office was designed
to be, as one of them said, "the
guardian of the presidency" Its
chief duty was to be that of pre-
siding over sessions of the Sen
ate. The Vice President votes
only to break a tie.
AS the second officer of the
Republic, the Vice President al
ways holds himself at the call
of the President for advice and
counsel or to represent him on
ceremonial occasions when it is
the Presidents pleasure to be
represented.
George washington frequently
solicited the opinion on public
matters of his Vice President,
John Adams-sometimes YER
bally and sometimes in writing.
On one occasion-April II,
1871, at the request of Wash
ington, Adams met with the
Cabinet. The full report of the
meeting, at which there was a
discussion of foreign and domes-
tic affairs, was sent by the Sec
retary of State, Mr.. Jefferson, to
President Washington. in his
absence on a trip through the
South.
During the illness of President
Wilson, and on the invitation of
his Secretary of State, Mr.. Lam
sing, Vice President Marshall
met with the Cabinet. This did
not coincide with the wishes of
Mr.. Wilson or better the rela-
tions between him and his Sec
retary of State.
With a view to increasing his
political strength as a candidate
for President, Mr.. Harding an
ToI1nced early in his CamDaipn
Evening star., 1933-04-08
(Seal.l Attest:
A. H. SHILLINGTON.
Asst. Secretary.
THOS. j. OWEN & SON, AUCTIONEERS,
143l EYE ST. NV.
TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE ONE
ISES NO 1424 FLORIDA AVENUE

1851 EYE 81. NV.
TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE ONE
STORY BRICK STORE. BEING PREM
NoRrHEosr. SsEs Eo 1924 FLORIDA AVENUE
BY virtue of certain deed Of trust duly
recorded in Liber No. 5779, folio 34S ct sea-.
of the land records of the District of CO.
cured thereby. the UNDERSIGNED trustees will
sell at public auction. in front of the prem
ises; on MONDAY; THE TENTH DAY OF
apRn; aEGSncx AP; 1oaa AT ToUR,LHIRIY
!and and premises. situate in the pstTict Of
Columbia. and designated as and being the
west one,half Of lot 81. all of lot 81 and the
made, by Cecilia K MacCormack and John
w. Childress, executors and trustees OF lots
in square 406S in the Columbia Turnpike
Roads Company's subdivision Of part of the
other property. as per plat of said first-men-
toned subdivision recorded in Liber 63. folio
1G. of the records of the office of the sur
a3oye-described property being now known
for purposes of assessment and taxation as
lots saa s; and and ST in seS square 40es.
money to be. paid in cash. balance in four
equal installments. payable in one, two.
three and four years. with interest at six
per centum per annun, payable semi-annu;,
trust upon the property sold. or all cash at
the option OF the purchaser. deposit of
ST 600 will be required at time of sale. All
chaser. Terms of sale to be complied with
within thirty days from day of sale, other
wise the trustees reserve the right to resell
ing purchaser after i've days advertisement
of such resale in some newspaper published
in Washington, D. G.
GEO. CALVERT BOWIE
mh3o-d&ds.e .exSu Trustees.
Evening star., 1933-04-08
THOMAS j.. OWEN & SON. AUCTIONEERS.
1431 Eye Street Northwest.


TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE REAL
ESTATE. BEING A TWO-STORY BRICK
DWELLING CONTAINING SIX ROOMS
KNOWN AS 216 CROMWELL TERRACE
BY virtue of certain deed of trust. re-
corded in Lber No. 5273. at folio 443 of the
land records of the District of Columbia:
and at the request Of the he, party part secured T5,;d
auction. in front of the premises, on TUES
DAY. APRIL ELEVENTH. 1888. AT THREE
O'CLOCK, PM. the following described land
and premises, situate in the District of Co
175) in subdivision made by Jacob ;;
Shapiro of lots in square thirty five hundred
and fifty-three t3553) as per plat recorded
in Liber 73. folio "A. of the records OF the
Office of the surveyor of the District Of Co
lumbia. upon tie following terms:
fourth Of the purchase price in cash. the
balance in three instalments in one. two and
three years, respectively. with interest at the
rate of six t6) per cent per annum. and
sold. or all cash at the option Of the pur-
chaser taxes. paid or adjusted to the date
of sale; purchaser to pay interest on pur-
chase price from date of sale to date OF
settlement at six (6) per cent per annum:
all conveyancing. recording. revenue stamps,
no sale: a deposit of $4,000 will be re-
quired at the time of sale and settlement
to be within thirty GOD days of the date OF
sale or deposit forfeited. and the property
purchaser after fiye 15l days previous ad-
vertisement of said resale in some newspaper
published in Washington. d. c..
J. WRlLEY JACOBS.
Surviving Trustee,
925 j. 5th Street NV.
mho2 an an1 AKA 21O1I
Evening star., 1933-04-08
PROPOSALS.

OFFICE OF THE ARCHITECT OF THE
CAPITOL WASHINGTON, D. c.. April q.
1893. SEALED BIDS will be opened in this
office at 300 PM. Tuesday. April 81. 1893
for concrete sidewalks in Square 576. United
Drawings and specifications may be obtained
at this Office by intending bidders. DAVID
LYNN. Architect of the Capitol.
once OF the Quartermaster. United States
Soldiers Home, Washington. D. c.. until
IL am. April 90. 1898. and then publicly
terials and performing all work for certain
new construction. replacements and altera-
United States Soldiers Home Washington.
d. c. The work includes generally the
furnishing and installing of four new
boilers with piping, pumps, water softener,
fuel oil equipment and fuel oil tanks COM
plete.
Plans and specifications may be had by
general contractors upon application to the
director. Once of Publls Buildings and Pub
ap1,3,S