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unmarried women! And let us have
no more mother associations.
In view of the fact that many
States specifically bar married women
from teaching jobs, and that Mr..
Erskine has just been deploring the
influence of the mother on educa-
tion, even in the diluted form of the
parent association, the remedy seems
Just a trif1e confused as piece of
reasoning. In essence, of course,
there is considerable to be said for
what he means. The trouble with his
book is that he does not say it.
Getting Indignantly into politics
the professor next storms at the
groups of women who, in the name OF
their ancestors, form societies and
pass resolutions. His chief grievance
against these groups seems to be that
they advocate upholding the Consti-
Continued on Eleventh Page.)
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BOOKS RECEIVED.
A. v9fAR

Nom Fiction.
THE STORY OF THE CONSTITU-
TION. BY John w. Mace and
irving T. Gumb. New York: The
House Of Little Books.
BOZ: AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY
OF CHARLES DICKENS. BY JOS
eph G. Boarman and James L,
Harte. Boston: The Stratford Co.
DARBY AND JOAN. BY Maurice
Barring. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf Inc.
WHISPERING RIVER. BY Helen
Topping Miller. New York: D. Ap-
pleton- Century Co. 49,
THE GOLDEN QUICKSAND. BY
Anna Robson Burr. New York;
D. Appleton Century Co.
THE GIRL IN GOLDEN RAGS. B,
Robert ". Chambers. New York:
D. Appleton Century Co.
SWORD OF MARS. BY Edgar Rict
Burroughs. Tarzana: Burroughs
THE WOMAN AND THE PUPPET
BY Pierre Louys. With an Intro.
duction by Arthur Symons. New
York: TIE Macauley Co.
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Youngster, Now Grown, Pic
lures Better Heaven for
His Presence.
By NC. r.

= THOUGHT first that I would
write something about Kipling.
But, while have been waiting for
L my deadline, I have read what
some other writer's have put down
about him, and now see that it can
not be done. For they are capable
men and if it could be done they
would have achieved it. Thus far,
none of them has conclude that we
cannot write about Kipling-not any
of us. So I, for my part, will write
about myself.
was years old when I decided
that growing tall enough to reach the
top shelves of our home library was
going to take too long, and moved the
Morris chair over alongside and
climbed up, one Summer afternoon
when the big room was entirely my
own. I remember what I found.
There was a complete set of the works
of Bret Harte, bound in soft sage
green and embossed with pine tree
decoration, and small white and
gold volume on which spelled out
the curious words, Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam and Certain Ballads by
Rudyard -Kipling."
I took that and one Of Bret Harte's-
"Mr. Jack Hamlin's Meditatior"-and
retired to the safety of my own room.
fell in love with Jack that after
noon and subsequently, as removed
green volume after green volume, I
came to view life with incredulous de-
SPAR because, in 1t, I was small and
scrawny and terribly young female
child and the year was 1900 and some
thing and the gold rush had ended in
the 1850's.
That despair was more than I could
endure. Genuine, unsophisticated de-
spair is more than any human being
can endure. I had to escape 1t. so I
performed . miracle. simply moved
back the half century and more Of
which the calendar had cheated me.
It was q kind of madness which is
necessary until ones feelings lose
something Of their first exquisite SEN
sibility. So, that Summer, lived in
Bret Harte's world-because I wanted
to. It was necessary.
did not imagine myself in the role
Of any Of the characters whose ad-
ventures I read. I was just a spec
tator. I watched, round-eyed, when
Col. Starbottle shot it out with Judge
Boompointer and when Jack Folinsbee
died in the hotel owned by the heiress
Of Red Dog. knew every article in
the room and could have drawn you
plan Of the hostelry il you had asked
1t. rode the stage with Yuba Bill
and wandered freely In and out Of the
Evening star., 1936-02-02
Dust Caused Blast.
THE constant danger of severe

THE constant danger of severe ex-
plosion resulting from dust has
been demonstrated again.
In the soy bean processing plant ex-
plosion in Chicago IN which II were
killed and IS injured and in which
100000 damage was done as the re.
suit Of heavy blast and fire, the
cause has been traced to dust.
The dust explosion, which was
minor in character. set of blast Of
hexane gas. according to the report
OF an investigation made by the chem
ical engineering staff of the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
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camp of the Three Partners. Moth
ing happened to me, but I saw Won
derful deal.

camp of the Three Partners. Moth
ing happened to me, but saw Won
derful deal.
FINALLY, however, when came to
that auriferous volume so lacon-
Outcasts of Poker Flat, ETC." 1 did
undertake some action. For 1t was
more than I could bear-literally-
that Mr.. John Oakhurst and his
friends should have perished in the
blizzard. had to do something about
that.
And this is what I did. I took pen
and pencil and sat down to rewrite
the ending of that immortal classic.
AS critic today I am happy to be
able to relate that I did not persist
long in the effort. saw soon enough
that what I purposed could not be
accomplished. Bret Harte's ending
was the right one, the only one, the
inevitable. Nobody could rewrite THE
Outcasts of Poker Flat" Oakhurst
had died in the blizzard.
I told myself that it was cruel, that
it was worse than cruel-it was wrong.
I reiterated that the people who cast
him out were worse than he-they
were hypocrites and towards, they
were pretenders. But still-there 1t
was. I accepted it, I remember with
feeling of somber spaciousness.
But could read no more Bret
Harte.
I picked up then the little white
and gold book, half-forgotten by this
time, which bore on its cover such
curious words, "Rubyiat OF Omar
Khayam and Certain Ballads by Rud-
yard Kipling." And when had read
the Fitzgerald translation through
from beginning to end, decided that
did not understand it. Not liking
to be outside any printed word, even
at that early age, next tried the
long, long preface. It was chiefly q
comparative study Of Persian verse
forms.
So, at last, I turned to the back
of the book where there were certain
ballads by Rudyard Kpling, an au-
thor of whom I had never heard. And
read the poem that begins with
this gorgeous, more than gorgeous,
| music
when Springtime flushes the desert
grass
Our kafilas wind through the Khyber
Pass"
and so on through the salty, sardonic,
violent tale of the fool who died in a
peach tree because he could not hold
his tongue-the great Ballad of the
Kings JEST"
Oh. the ecstasy! Oh, the discovery
once again. I did not say to myself
then, what writing!" said, What
a grand world!" And I forthwith en-
tered into 1t. My spirit performed
such leaps and curvettings as are
possible only to very young things
to kittens and puppies, for example
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desired. A pine tree on other WORKS
had already served the same purpose,
I wish. somehow. that the man whose
ashes so recently have been inferred
in Westminster could know this.
EOR one day / took down a volume
L called American Notes" And l
found that it began with a salute 10
Bret Harte. And then I experienced,
in my 8-year-old brain, understanding
of what is meant by Literary herl-
tage." why" I thought, stunned by
the apocalyptic vision, "Kipling knows
about it, tool"
And, in the ineffable manner OF all
miracles, the three worlds impinged
upon each other--the camps OF the
Forty miners, the outposts of the en-
pire and my own minute estate. Bret
Harte. Kipling and myself-we became
the Three Partners. Or, If you pre-
fer. the Soldiers Three. Bret Harte,
Kipling and I've were brothers and
friends.
And now, as I have said, I have read
what other writer's have put down
about him and it is disheartening to
me. For they have struggled briefly
with questions of political import. One
of them has asked, for example,
whether Kipling created the myth OF
empire or whether the empire created
Kipling. Alack, alack-what prepos-
ferrous folly.
He only did what every artist does.
and made his own world to look at.
The outside dimensions Of the British
realm bounded him, as a frame does a
picture. Within them he painted as
he pleased.
The empire did not esteem him,
particularly. Victoria would not have
him for her laureate. And I knew
better than to ask such questions
when was 8.
Yet another learned critic has said
that heaven for Kipling will have to
be arranged like some corner OF the
empire (againD If he is to be happy
through eternity. do not think so.
I think that somewhere-beyond the
loom of the last lone star-Bret
Harte has greeted his young disciple.
And Kipling has touched hands with
Cervantes, and 'Omer and Stevenson
and Tchekov, and de Maupassant and
Dickens and o. Henry. And there
will be tall ale-telling there in Co.'S
mos. For these are the men VINO
not as he said-made our world, but
made worlds for us. Could one but be
8 years old again and sit somewhere,
Just outside the light of their immortal
campfire-and listen!
The king of modern tale-tellers Is
dead. The next line, unhappily, can
not be written.
Evening star., 1936-02-02
By John Frasier

4 STRONG, nrm hand toucneS
~ lighted match to frail
~ caniie. The candle sputters
4 a and dips, then nourished by
It's wax body, it begins to burn steadily.
Around the candle are grouped a
host Of other smaller candles rising
tier on tier on a white pyramid and
encircling the table are children's
faces dancing with delight at the sight
Of the strong man so tenderly bending
over the mammoth birthday cake.
Some Of these childish faces still
bear the stamp of pain, eyes burn
with that knowing look which suffer-
ing brings. The same expression is
reflected in the eyes of the man who
lights the candle for he has gone over
a certain trail with them-he knows.
Not all of the great affairs of state
and important questions to be settled
can dim the sympathy in those clear
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Original
By Foremost Ame1ican artists

IHE AKlISlS ,
Peggy Bacon
Loren Barton
Thomas Benton
Arnold Bldnch
Aler Blum
Alexander Brook
George Elmer Browne
Alice Standish Buell.
Philip Cheney
John Costigan
John Steuart Curry
Lewis Daniel
Adolph Dehn
Christian Dull
Churchill Ettinqer
Don Freeman
Gordon Grant
J. Kno,ples Hare
William Heaslip
Albert Hickman
Ir,Di,t Hofmdn
Philip Kappel
Andre,o Karoly
Robert Lduson
Doris Lee
w. r. Locke
Luigi Lucioni
Margaret Manuel
Joseph Margulies
Earl Mckinney
Ira MoskotUits
Jerome Muers
Frank NdnkiDell
II. AmiGrd
Oberteufer
Frederick L. OWen
Roselle Osk
Henry Pitz
Andree Ruellan
Chauncey Ryder
Margery Ryerson
George Shorey
Yngue E. Soderberg
Louis Szdnto
Clara Tice
Keith ShdD Williams
C. JAG Young
Henry Zieoler
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Envisages Meeting of Harte
Homer, Tchekov and Other
Tale TellerS.

desired. A pine tree on other WORKS
had already served the same purpose
1 wish, somehow. that the man whose
ashes so recently have been inferred
in Westminster could know this.
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made which betokened a better time
from the beginning. Ranchero and
Woodruff went around the lower turn
Tapped with Carrie Bell next, but she
up and took the third place and passed
the quarter in "a seconds. Then there
was no change in the position to the
half in 1:09. On the upper turn and
down the home stretch the horses con-
tinued to keep up that terrific gait and
passed under the wire in the fast time
his wheel. Velox third, Carrie Bell lay
ing up just inside the distance. The
time was the best ever made west of the
Missouri river and east of California"
There was no pool selling nor betting
on the third heat, it being generally
conceded that Ranchero would win the
race. Passing the lower turn, Ran
chero broke when Woodruff took the
lead. The quarter was clicked at IS,
and the half at liz. Ranchero broke
OF the way to the three -quarter and
settled down in the lead, going down
the stretch, Ranchero slightly in the
lead, woodruff second, Velox third, Bell
fourth, all close together. The horses
passed the wire in this order, but
Ranchero vas set back for running,
thus giving the heat to woodruff. No
time was given, but it was announced
the heat was made in 2:263.
woodruff came up in the pools for
the fourth heat, selling almost even.
After the start Ranchero and VeloX
were Slightly in the lead, but before
reaching the quarter Velox forced
Ranchero to break and took the pole
on the back stretch. The quarter was
made in IS and the half in 1:12. Velox
led Ranchero on the upper turn, bring
ing the latter back on even terms with
Woodruff, with Carrie Bell close up.
Ranchero was directly behind Velox
at the start to the stretch, with Wood
nut alongside and Carrie Bell close be-
hind at a distance. Ranchero broke
again, and Velox finished first, Ranch
ero second, running, Woodruff third,
and Carrie Bell fourth. Time 1924.
After the heat it was announced that
Ranchero was again set back to third
place. The mutuels on Velox for this
heat paid $237.50 to IS. They seldom
paid more, it was stated. The fifth
heat was dramatic.
"Ranchero's hackers began to hedge
while the field buyers felt jubilant.
velox got away slightly in the lead.
After passing the first quarter Ranch
ero went to the front. The other horses
punched. On the back stretch woodruff
came up on even terms with Ranchero,
Velox a close third, Bell in the rear.
Down the home stretch Bell performed
masnificentiy, coming very fast, pass
ing Velox and almost catching Wood
nut, who Tapped Ranchero, and Holly,
Woodnut's driver, claimed the heat on
account Of Ranchero's running, but
after considerable delay the Judges
gave the heat-time 2:31-and the
race to Ranchero. Between SIS, 600 and
10000 changed hands on the race. The
Helena men %. Sam Scott o val
ues Ranchero at $4,000"
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a short time, digging beneath the ashes,
when he found the body of a man. 1t
was Harry Norris. Allen aroused the
others. At first glance they found no
marks to account for the boys death.
Frank Roberts face was livid.
"The kid died suddenly" he ex-
planned, land I buried him here. I was
afraid, if I told the truth, you'd sus-
pect foul play"
Grim-faced men removed the coat
from the body and discovered a bullet
wound. Then Roberts pleaded self de
tense. Eyes, I shot him, but I had to.
Norris got mad and pulled his gun and
I shot in self -defenSe."
The men found no blood on the boys
coat and no bullet hole. Moreover, the
shot had entered the back and pierced
the heart. Norris had been shot at
close range, and from behind, prob
ably while he was asleep. Then the
murderer had taken pains to put the
coat on and had built a fire over the
shallow grave he had dug. If famished
coyotes had not worked with justice,
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denly filled? Still, about the camp,
there was no discriminating evidence,
no sign of a struggle, nothing but
matted spots in the thick grass where
the two had bedded, and a pile of cold
ashes. They camped there for the
night. None was more cheerfully willing
than Roberts to drag huge branches and
pile them over the ashes for a blazing
fire. It was a warm July night. The
men boiled coffee, fried bacon and
bareback, sat around for awhile, Smok-
ing and talking. Then they stretched
out in their blankets. Stiffness settled
over them. The fire died down. From
the hills coyotes began to howl. The
hideouS wall came closer and closer,
until DR.. Allen, lying awake, saw gaunt,
shadowy forms Sinking up to the ashes,
shifting and whimpering. He lay very
still and watched. Coyotes usually were
far too cowardly to venture lear mans
camp. The animals began digging in
the ashes. For a time there was no
sound except the loud shores of Sleep
ing men and the whine of hungry ami
mails as they dug. Maybe" Doc Allen
thought, they're hunting for bacon
rinds." An hour passed, and another.
The first gray light of morning came.
Quietly Doc Allen got up and with
a tin cup deepened the shallow hole
the coyotes had begun, He worked only
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ing trip. He invited a lad named Harry
]. Norris to accompany him. Everyone
liked Norris and some Of the older men,
wise to the west, advised him not to 60.
But Norris, young, fresh from the east,
ready for adventure, laughed at all
whispered cautions and followed Rob-
erts along the trail leading to Big
Horn canyon. The boy owned a good
horse and had about 81, 900 in gold dust
in his belt. Weeks passed and nothing
was heard of the two. Then, one day,
Roberts rode into Fort Custer on young
Norris horse. He said he and the boy
had quarreled and Norris had disap-
peared n night. taking Roberts horse
instead of his own. But the story, to
the old-timers, didn't ring true. So a
few of them, including doc" Allen,
then government blacksmith at Fort
Custer, rode v e to Big Horn canyon.
They took Frank Roberts with them
and asked him to show them the site
of his last camp. Willingly he pointed
to the spot. Right here is where Norris
and me camped," he said, and, in the
night, while I was asleep, the boy stole
away"
The searchers we're not satisfied. Why
should he have taken Roberts horse
which was not as good as his own? And
how could Roberts account for the gold
with which his pockets seemed sud-
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burned and her body and those of her
two children were found in the ashes,
Immediately DR.. Attix, acting as cor
oner, and the sheriff started out. Snow
was still deep on the ground. They
were three days reaching the site Of
the homestead shack. The second night
they stopped at Red Shocks cabin
where they were fed, DR.. Attix recalls,
with bareback and our beans. Shocks
appeared very much shocked by news
OF he tragedy. He said he had heard
nothing of it and he volunteered to &C
company the officers. As ne was getting
ready DR.. Attix noticed, without giving
much thought to the matter, that both
overshoes which Red put on were for
the left foot. The men found the usual
curious crowd gathered about the ashes
of the shack, obliterating whatever evil
n there might have been, and DR..
Attix concluded, though reluctantly,
that the tragedy must be reported as
accidental death. Then, out beyond the
circle OF trampled snow, he noted foot
tracks leading toward Red Shocks
cabln. The mar who had made those
track wore overshoes, both for the left
foot; The officers followed the telltale
tracks to the cabin where they began
a careful search. They found an un-
washed shirt spotted with blood. Also,
caught in a button, a strand of long,
human hair: Red Shocks was arrested
OIL IuurQer charges ana Caken to Lewis.
town. Persistently he denied his guilt
but on his face, under a weeks growth
OF Whiskers, were long scratches, un-
q~uestionably made by finger nails. His
stammered explanation of those marks
was too lame to be accepted as the
truth. They told the pitiful story Of
a woman's frantic struggle. Red Shocks,
who for years had gone his evil, trt-
umphant way, challenging justice, wa
tried, convicted of murder and Gen.
fenced to be hanged.
There was a time in the early DAYS of
h west when the strength and cour-
age of a few men were pitted against
the road agents ruthless law-when
the destiny of Montana hung in tho
balance. It wa a grim duel of right
versus might, of justice against law
lessness, with cruel death melted out
to those few who dared challenge the
lawless. But, because x. Beidler, Refs
Anderson, Granville Stuart and other
brave pioneers did take that dare, there
are rows of graves on the hill overlook
ing Virginia City, marked with wooden
slabs bearing the grim inscription:
Hanged Jan. IA, a." And all over
the plains of Montana are other un-
marked, unsupported graves, contain
ing what is left of men who couldn't
be convinced that crime never pays,
until they were taught by the V~igilantes
who had at heart the welfare Of the
west they loved.
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Frank Roberts might have escaped the
rope, and the boys murder gone un-
avenged.
DR.. Attix of Lewistown tells a tragic
story of poverty, loneliness, unrequited
love and death. About 60 miles out from
Lewistown in the early days, a man,
with his wife and two children, lived
in a homestead shack. All along they
had struggled against poverty. They
had known what it meant to suffer
from cold and hunger. Then the hus-
band had died suddenly one winter of
pneumonia, and from over the hills
came the rumor that, within six weeks,
Red Shocks began Fostering the widow
with his unwelcome attentions. Red
was known to be a horse thief, and
worse, although sufficient evidence for
his conviction had not been found.
What anxiety and fear the helpless
woman must have suffered out in her
homestead shack a only be imagined.
Early that spring news came to Lewis
town of what was suspected as a triple
murder. The widows shack had been
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We o d n ut outside. ""n As"s Aoo orlH
After several attempts to start had been
made Ranchero broke badly"
Excitement was intensified when the
famous quartet was given the signal to
'"go." The customers rose as a solid
body of humanity. The horses were
stretched out, their seemingly winged
feet playing like sharp staccato notes
on the surface of the track. When he
passed the wire Ranchero ran clear
around the lower turn almost to the
first quarter In IS seconds.
"Woodnut, Carrie Bell and Ranchero
half in Iii. Around the upper turn
the horses were close together. Carrie
Bells sulky wheel Tapped inside Ran
chero's sulky for 100 yards. The three
quarter was reached in 1:50, Ranchero
chero, and Holly behind woodruff. The
drivers here drew their whips and
urged their horses to the utmost speed,
while Raymond behind Carrie Bell
urged her only with the voice.
AT the finish, Ranchero was first;
woodruff second, Carrie Bell third, all
Tapped, Velox just inside the distance.
Time 2:24a, the best ever made in the
That was the first heat. Carrie Bells
performance was remarkable, was the
after comment, as she trotted the heat
without a skip or a break. It was the
general opinion Of the public that she
should have been awarded the heat,
with both Of the other leading horses
breaking badly but were not set back
according to trotting rules then in
vogue. The mutuels paid SIS.
There was but little pool selling on
the second heat, Ranchero being the
favor1te ct large odds. A good start was
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Early-Day HORSE Racing
Created Public Interest
By .MON TANA LOU GRILL

BY mon TANA LOU" GRILL
Among the purses hung up in
Butte in mid August, 1886, was a
$1,000 horse racing free-for-all. Sam
Scott entered Ranchero, who, up to
that time, "made the best time yer
recorded between the Mississippi river
and the Pacific coast" A Butte spe-
cial dispatch to the Helena Independ-
ent said:
in the free-for-aH 81, 600 purse. It was
a great turf event, drawing an i'm
mense crowd today. The race proved
to be more than equal to expectations
being the best ever trotted anywhere
in the west"
Several fast horses were entered. The
first to make her appearance on the
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track was r a Y
mond's Carrie Bell.
Shortly afterward
came Holly's Wood
nut. Ranchero can
tered out on the
track, and was fol-
lowed by Velox of
Salt Lake. 1.-The
pools sold a little
m than v e in
favor of Ranchero
against the field.
Ranchero drew the
pole, Velox second,
Carrie Bell third,
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States Bonded Debt

Montana's bonded debt is $12, 116 1924,
according to a report by State Auditor
John j. Holmes. During January the
state redeemed $458, 900 in bonds in
Guiding $287,000 in highway debenture
bonds. In January the state also sold
500, 900 in insane asylum construction
bonds.