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I 1 fiinviy k.,o of i uiiks coiuitstS i. crickets, beetles,, . ; J sijulrrels, pocket i n i i (itluies stems of sue- i-'iiii.a. They are not averse a t ouiid Ui4 if they can catch. I ui. and now and then, they are t. racing a farm chicken house. .s ever,, bureau of biological sur f r porta show that skunks rare- make these raids, preferring to o their hunting at distances from tne haunts of men, , , Although usually safe because of Its protective "smell-gun," the skunk; sometimes falls victim ' td wolves. luxes, oaagera, ana great 1 . horned owls. i , m , , The general color of the skunk M black with a thin white strip be. ' tweed the eyes. This stripe forks at the shoulder and continues along m awes nnui it reaches the tail. ' The tall la furred with black hairs , with white bases, and ends usually ib wnite ,rurt There la much va riation jnwlda. or? these stripes, trappers preferring pelts with the narrower stripes, j ,?, 'i," Skunks vary to size, but usually weigh from live to ten pounds. Their I . DiacK ana whit markings, size and bushy talis make skunks one of the easiest fur-bearing animals to rec- '.(id, 'liEi . To keep clean and healthy fake da . Ob the Coatraryt Chin music is exercise, but it re moves no double chins. , . , ' mm 'Ned . Buntline c n. L "3, A Few Props Every :, Night and Morning Will Promote a Clean -Healthy Condition! - - At All Drug Stores -. WrkMriMCowDK.Wlqiilwo.f rmBak To Be Letting AU progress that we recognize as such must be moral also , ' O Yeef owe dragiM "J ietfcxizss t ! cbeerfelly rsrsad yoar araeqr ea the spot . if roe ere act relima or Crsenliha. A Retain Vitality ,; . Good Ideas that are . never used may lie dormant for centuries. Help Kidneys OH poorfr fmKtfcahK- KMnm eat Bladdar maka jpoa raflar (na OttUnc ' Up tilchts, NanrouoM, RhromMia ' V . Fain, StiffMaa Bominal Smartin. O Itehlne, r Aridity try th ruintj By ELMO 8COTT WATSON v HB Increasing popularity of "Hobby Shows? . through -. the country . la bringing into the limelight once : more a type of native literature to Which an older generation of Amer icans looks back with fond memo ries. For, nearly all such exhibi tions display examplea of the little yellow-backed books which the boys of yesteryear read In secret with avid ' Interest; ' their enjoyment heightened by the almost-certain knowledge that discovery meant a stern "What's this! i . Beading a dime novel!!!! . , ," from disapproving parent or teachefci:.'V's';-v:';:TV . Those of a later generation who get their . vicarious thrills from watching -movie melo dramas or listening to radio murder mysteries, are likely to be scornful of the blood-and-thunder heroes whose desperate deeds and hairbreadth escapes so enthralled Dad. "Aw, bunk 1" they say, !?, betcha there never was any such fella as Daredeath Dick, tha King of the Cowboys, or Captain Cool Blade, the Man-Shark of the Mississippi!" . r - ' :'i '.'..v : Maybe not!. But ask Dad about soma of the other dime novel heroes. , . . ' :" . ' Didnt he smuggle copy of "Buffalo BID, The Border King" up to bed with him one night and there, by the dim light of the old coal-oil lamp, read how "with one leap the Bordsr King sprang np behind bis disguised pard, bjk to back, and opened Are with his trusty revolvers on the yelp ing redskins"? And, a few months later, didn't be go down to the county seat town and with his own eyes see that same "Border King", enter the arena of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, ush ered in by a blaring band and the excited yells of several hundred young Americana like him self! That tall, long-haired, buckskin-clad fig ore, atttlng on his white horse with regal grace wasn't he a story-book hero come to. life? Tea, sir! ,:.v '-.A.V.-vi ,i'V,.r:'-,;;y J:-i-y '.,;, ' Y?:y- Despite the fact that many a Bloody Pete' and Dead-Shot Dick and Reckless Balph existed only in the fertile imagination of old Erastua F. Bid die's scribblers, some of the characters tmmor- Col. Prentiss Iriqraherrt - (Reproductions ef dim novels from the eok lection ef Charles Bragln, Brooklyn, N. Y.) a miner In Montana and the Pacific Northwest -and for a brief time chief of scouts for Gen. ueorge A. Custer during the campaign of 1867, 68 against the tribes of the Southern Plains. - He also served ai a scout and guide for army officers In Wyoming and Montana In the 70s, was a pros pector In the Black Hills gold rush and met the same fat as his friend, HIckok. .Like "Wild Bill" he was shot down from behind bv an in lo70 lust before setting out tram the old Bed Cloud agency In Nebraska to guide the expedition of Gen. Ranald. 8. Mackenzie against the Sloox and Cheyennea, , ,v l . , '"Pawnee BID" Was Mai Gordon Llllie, a nHv. oi uiinoia, wno went to Oklahoma In the' early days as a 'Boomer, was a friend of the Pawnee Indians, who adopted him Into their tribe, was assoaaiea xor a time witn , ooay in the WUd West show business and later had a similar show of "his own. He is stUl living In Oklahoma O. raw suuiMM, xramuic, EMnarunx, ; Itekfafc r Adcllty try th rumratoat . HiintnrtrrwrrirHniirntOTlllli ! VVrmbnlUvil .1 " 1 . y tw Vi ' II Fig it km . V - !,imiltiMnifei :..- Am ns am mi rank .' , kt kkaebr. mw4 In im A J Ah. plpp MMfoal fa oiy mi sr- - w sbsb l M 3 fi I I fjjSSMA SO i Y aa the nrosnerona nwnpr mnth M uuucu ux uwfc v1"" iuiuB(ior jlsuub iiureiB, i its nerd of DpnTalo. i "Oapt Jack" was John , Wallace Crawford, a native of Ireland, a boy Midler In the Union army, a prospector and miner in the Black Hills, a, scout for the army in the Sioux war of 1878 and until his death in 1917 was widely known as a Chautauqua and lyceum lecturer under '' the name of "Capt Jack, the Poet ScouV -.ti i -Arizona Joe" waa Joseph Bruce, a noted frontier character, a miner, Indian flghtec and a close friend of "Texas Jack" Omohundra "Calamity Jane" was the notorious Martha Jane lnary, a native of Missouri who, dressed In "Half-Dime Library," "Pocket Novels," or "Boys Library? were real persons, even though they never had one-tenth of the adventures ascribed ; to them. Chief among Ciem, of course, waa this same "Border Hng 4: - t' -j,- :. William Frederick Cody, youthful guide for army officers In Kansas in '1866-or and ' hunter who supplied meat for builders of the Kansas Pacific railroad, may have been dubbed "Buffalo Bill" by the grateful K. P. workers, or be may have-wen that sobriquet In a btiffalo-ehooting match -With Billy Comstock. But It remained for two dime novelists, Edward Zane CarroU Judsoiy j men's clothes, worked as a teamster with Gen. who wrote under the name of "Ned BuntUne." Qeorse Crook's armv in th stm. ... i and Col Prentiss Bigraham, to make It world waa a picturesque figure In the Black Hllla gold famoua. r-r'-v' ;-''tes-3'..W"; rush. and 4ater'drimi Mnnfmi .k. Other dime novel heroes who had counterparts I died In 1001 "Fane Vrinv n , In real life -were "WUd Bill," "California Joe," Powelt- who started in lif n..nn . rpm itciii;;g nrrnen and promote healfncr irnwicg 5Kinuiirn Texas Jack,, "Pawnee Bill," "Capt Jack," "Arizona-Joe,", "Buckskin Sam," "Bovlng Joe," "Fan cy Frank,'' "Deadwooi Dick, "Diamond Dick," "Calamity Jane," "The Evil Spirit of the Plains" a,nd :"01d Grlzly.: &W;iti;Sk' James Butler hickoe, a native of Illinois, a porter, studied medicine, had a varied career on the frontier, Was associated, with Cody In 'the Wild West show In which he was known as -vnit Beaver- ana the "medicine man of the WlnnebagoeaT and ended hia career In hia na. tlve Wisconsin where he was mayor of one town soldier and scout In the Dnion army in Missouri and a practicing physician in another. o WE DIJY o Dbck Walnut Kernels LARGE AND SMALL QUANTITIES. Wriu Imftrmnim miPrkm during the Civil war, Overland stage driver, mar shal of roaring Kansas cow towns, gambler and gunman par excellence, was already famous . as "Wild Bill" before ever Buntline multlpUed his adventures tenfold In the little yellow-back books Even after bis assassination In Deadwood, S. D., In 1876, he was still good "copy" for the dime novelists, as he baa been for the more serious Both "Buckskin Sam" and "Bovlng Joe" were somewhat anomalous characters In thai they were both heroes of dime novels and writers of sucn literature. "Buckskin Sam" was MaJ. Sam 3. Hall, born on the frontier where he led. an adventurous life before turning hia attention to producing such, thrillers as "Double Dan, the uastara ; or, xne pirates of the Pecos" and "Ker- v. - '.a dam to Colds, RSInor k. .1 and Throat Irritations fMTT.Y SOW, RMtlmotw, ST. 885 . w f If - m a L w 1 1 I p' i r ' 1 far a w. .. C.- J t a. J historians, several of whom have tried to sort I whoop, ke-whoo!; or, The Tarantula of Taos." Later ne made his home in the East where he, "a wiry little man." according to one historian, ''occasionally showed hia virile Western 'man hood by going on a shooting rampage at his home In Wilmington, Delaware.? Joseph E. Badirer was also a Westerner who wrote the story of nis ure.on tne frontier, calling It ."Roving Joe" and signing it "A, H. p'ost" Later he became one of Beadle's star writers under bis own name of - Badger.' '-"j-"1"? "'v ..ijs.-A'Xm:'-As for "Deadwood Dick" and "Diamond Dick," tho "originals" of both, bar been legion. But the best evidence Is thatJ'Deadwood Dlck" was a purely fictitious character, created by Edward L. Wheeler, a writer for Beadle and Adams, and the first "Lteadwood Dlck" story, appeared In Beadle'S Half-Dime Library In 187& "It was not Wheeler's first' novel," says Edmund Pearson in his book "Dime Novels; or, Following an Old Trail In Popular Literature", (Little, Brown and Company) "but never again in all his list of alliterations did he ever chance upon a name so felicitous or a character so appealing to his read ers as that of Deadwood Dick." ; : ;' . .-. As early as 1908 an "original" of "Deadwood out the fiction from fact and write authentic biographies of him In recent years. ,v.f '.:-:' J. ' ' However, "Texas Jack" waa a. same of Bunt line's manufactur for John B. Omohundro, a native of Virginia who emigrated' to, Texas be fore the Civil, war; became a mustang-breaker and rancher, a Soldier In the Confederate army and afterwards a hunter, scout and Indian-lighter until his death In Leadvllle, Cola, In 188a -In ' 1875 Buntline brought Cody, HIckok and Omohundro to Chicago wrote a play, "Scouts of the Plains" for-, them In less than four hours (which prompted the classic remark of one re viewer: "One wonders why It took him so long!") land presented them In It to the public next day. V The case' of "California Joe" is atmilar to that of "Wild Bill" In that he was famed onder that name before ever the dime novelists took him up. Although one of Ingraham's novels char acterized him as "The Mysterious Plainsman, An Cnknown Man. whose real identity like that of the 'Man of the Iron Mask' is still unsolved" there was no real mystery about his Identity He waa Moses EL Mllner, a Kentucklan, who first crossed the Plains in the Golden Days of '49, was i r 1 Dick," a certain Frank Palmer, died In Denver. In 1020 another "original" died in Los Angeles tm time being Richard Bullock, who had been a guard on the stagecoaches which brought bul lion out of the Black Hills. In recent years, and until his death. In 1930. a , certain Richard W. Clark of South Dakota was widely publicized at the "original of Deadwood Dick." Says Pearson, "There is a far-away resemblance between the pictures of the old frontiersman, aged eighty- two (in 1928) and the drawings of the young aesperaao of the eighties In Mr, Wheeler's sto ries. I fancy that this distant resemblance la aU that obtains between the career of Richard Clark ana Deadwood Dick." V AS' for "Diamond Dick" in 1882 BAailla n1 Adams published "Diamond Dick, the dandy from Denver: A true story of the mines of New Mexico" by Ma Sam s; Ball ("Buckskin Sam"), But the great popularity of the "Diamond Dick stories came In the late eighteen nineties and early nineteen hundreds, when, according to dime novel experts, uus form of literature was beam nlng to "degenerate" from the virility and red- oiooaedness (or goryness) which characterized the. early pnesiK-iwi But In the minds of many people. Dr. Richard J., Tanner of Norfolk, Neb,' Is the "original of uiamona uict" A native of Illinois, he went to Nebraska at-the age of nineteen, became an ex pert with both the trifle and pistol and after a career of 20 years with a circus, where he was billed as '.'Diamond Dick," he decided to study medicine and retired from the show business. For a quarter of a century he concealed his clrt cus Identity and waa known m doctor in. a Nebraska towns Then In 1925 when connected with the railway. ne tooa jarj in an American Legion show In n,,y t,w Tester Into partner- a.v.avm, wid iK uiai. wi uiq lonuer uia mond Dick", was made known. ; iV s s? ?y; "The Evil Spirit of the Plains" waa Dr. Frank Carver, a frontiersman and buffalo-hunter (a far greater one than Cody, according to some author-' S3 fcnnJreJ t ,.. in E.1I4 pack! J in iron t a. t tsif.-ie In turn placed in a k wlsli a !'"' K-lc, was stolen d- I the U'lp from Folia-stone to Luu 1 , ne. - ' ', That is to sny, the gold was In the safe when It loft the office of the express comnanv and it was not there when it reached its des tination. To add to the mystification there were only three keys to the safe and the whereabouts of each one was known. . ' . The traffic superintendent In Lon don had one ; the head of the Folke stone railway had another, ' and the captain of the Folkestone-Boulogne boat had the third. The outside of the safe gave some evidence of having . been tampered With, but the iron boxes. Instead of holding gold dust, were filled With small shot When had the gold been stolen t Where had the change been made from the gold to the shot! Who could have been guilty of this audacious , robbery T ', These were the three questions which troubled the police of two countries. It Was annoying. Irritating and all of the'other things In the cal endar. The boats running between the two ports were carefully searched. The waiting rooms at both enda of the line were subjected to a keen scrutiny, and altogether: the detec tives used up all the tricks of the trade In trying to And the clue to this astonishing theft' Finally they found an article that cast a ray of light on the ease.' It was In the form of an "old car pet bag' which was located Iff th station at Folkestone. ' ; 3 The ownership of the bag was traced to a man named Peter Agar, That in itself meant nothing. The -great big fact waa that the photograph of Peter Agar occupied a place of honor In the Rogues gal lery at Scotland, yard. . . numerous copies or tnis pnoto- graph were made and were shown to conductors,' . sailors, .1 storekeepers and others, and as a result of this It waa pretty well proved that Peter Agar had been seen loitering in the vicinity of the Folkestone- Boulogne boat on the day the money disap peared. But if he were guilty of the theft how could he have gotten the money from the locked safe! ' In the meantime the police start ed to look for Peter.; : n might. have takes, them a long while to locate him If Peter had not been conveniently arrested for forg ing checks. -a-,. jsyitV The detectives visited him in Jail and asked him to tell what be knew of the robbery of the safe with the gold dustr'i'ft S::is;;;; ;,;;: r He waa quite- Ignorant of ' this, and Intimated that be considered H highly professional to ask a man if be is a safe robber when he Is already , serving time as a check toiler,! it-S'11'..:VrC In othf.r words, he declined to rive the authorities any , Information. use r morning ; a woman tamed Mrs. Kay called at Scotland "lard. and without any preliminaries told the amazed, officials that the gold dust robbery had been committed by Agar, John Pierce ;.aand "Charles Tester. ; . Tester was employed In the traffic; department at v London They asked her what motive she had in "MueBMnf.lr,ftvtVj'.S'.c" She answered In one word: . 'Revenge V : ,-.; .V'.?'! . It seems tnat when Agar went to Jail on the forgery charges he left 146,000 with Pierce to support Mrs. Kay, who was hia "dear, friend." Pierce sent ' her"; money once or twice, and then- ceased payment' al together, : ' . - , . .. ; It was evident that he Intended to cheat Jier.-i','tir:i;r'&3-I She was furious and a furious womaff'' Is.' dangerous.'''':; fM;VS-i,' The state of affairs was ex- plained to. Agar and, h told the wnoie story, i;:'.:': 'ff;j.JX. . Agar and Pierce bad conceived the scheme of robbing the safe, but in oraer to do so it waa necessary to get the aslbtance of some one ill 1 umt f,di 1943 f Here Is a practical idea which la . at the same time devastatlngly cblc .X: --it Is, as you see, an ensemble con- suung -or siuix, Diouse ana jacket., Make it, up of black satin and wear It on warm days without the Jacket. ane contrasung bodice frill and col. . lar are . delightfully tresh looking';: buu ' Lft-f ijiiiiiir. t 1 im ' rriiii nnifnn Jacket Is a stunning addition, and . the whole smart affair goes with the -' best possible grace under a top coat -Of course It would be a very nice Pattern 1943 is available la sizes jo 4i. la 10 ..4 nn' t3iM 1, ;':i ynrua o-inca' laDnc ana ' , . ynras conirasung. rguiustraiea step- - oy-etep sewing -instrucuons mr eluded. :.-fii"'i'-i!'jy:,: coma or siamps (coins prererreaj ior uui iMaiieru. write plainly . name, . aaaress, . style number. - bh . SUiia TO STATE SIZE. . , :."". Address orders to Sewing Circle Pattern Department 243 West Seven teenth; Street, New fork City. QUEST OF INFORMATION "Why are yon going to thevDUbllc library, Mrs. Brown t Taken up scl-1 "The doctor told my husband he was bibulous, and now he's torn the page oat of the dictionary." , t, :':'. '' il-"V- '" ' ?'"?'-? ' 'i ' Impatianc ' 1 ' ' "What Is you opinion of, the old- ' ' age pensions?!, asked the human v questionnaire, ft-..-'?,;, '" ::? ': 1 "j- 'They're al right," answered Sen-" tor Sorghum. ; "But too many (oiks won't wait-for the veara to bring an excuse, for collecting some thing . for doing nothing." Wash-1 tngton Star. ... ';;'. ;.-.:.. v- Or Mayb Elavea , "If yovt had the finest library In tiie world and fire broke out" asks ; . librarian, "which 12 books would van mvaV ',:',.;'.''':' :'i......-.'',,:'.;i''.'- -The 12 nearest the door."; 1 v ' -' Hav to Stand for That He-Women are settlmr men's loba ms , these days and, If la a shame. 6H) ' She Well, they are not p ""ng sien's seats In the' street cax . aud mat's another shame. : 1 ship.. and tha first move came when Pierce visited the Folkestone office with a handful of wax and secured an Impression bf the key of tha safe. After that It was simniv tries and better entitled to .the title of "Buffalo Blotter of arranging the details. Blll, mainly because of his victory over "Buf falo jack" Jack McC&lI, the slayer of 'WUd Bill" HIckok in a buffalo-shooting contest) who was for si time associated with Cody in the Wild West Show business and later, when ha na Cody quarreled, produced his own show. Old Grizzly" was one of tha most lnrantin,r of all the "originals" of dime novel heroeaL He They arranged to meet the mes senger with the safe at a certain point In the Journey. Agar carried he old carcut ba tilled with shot ' and t is was quickly substituted for the goM dust - The loot was divided Into fire.) was James Capon Adams, bom ; near Seneca el,,fll Dflrt Hna the mystery mi; Lake, N, Y., who became famous as a bear tamer because he Was accustomed to go about the country riding on an enormous grizzly bear with a Second similar huge beast aa a sort of a body, guard for him. His dime novel fame started in a book written by his nephew, James Fenlmore' Cooper Adams, who was himself later known as Bruln" Adams and was the subject of several dime novels by CoL Prentiss Ingraham. f! bt wrta Nttrapapar Daloa. ; t never have been solved if it had not Deen for the olo carpnt bag. t , . WNU Brvlo. ,1 vu:i::-'r t o A person suimm- at a hel.-ht ot 40 feot aboai j fr' cm n 0 lue li rl. on at a d'.i-i, t f nn-"i. mi: i, an 1 c-n f a t' 0 tn c" ea t J t 4 ) f t I.' '1 pt a u 1 11. i B-'ivlotl niili:
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