Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 80, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1921 — Page 4

Jttiftana Hiatt# 2Timpo INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Stret Telephones—Main 3600, New 28-351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. I CMcago. Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logau Payne Cos. Adrertiaiug otnoes J jj ew . Boston, Payne, Bums & smith, Inc. YES, ten lives Is a pretty heavy toll to pay for neglected promises of swimming pools! POOR OLD Mother Earth! After having from a deluge of blood, she has now passed through the tail of a comet! PRESUMABLY, the State tax board will leave the recommendation as to which architect It wants the school board to employ to the committee it desires formed by Alfred Potts. IN SEEKING to help Otto James get off the penal farm, Lew Shank Is possibly guided by the precedent established in the Dennis Bush case by Mayor Jewett and Senator New. >" THE PUBLIC doubtless will also recall that the Stat 9 board of tax commissioners once publicly approved of that high school cf feteria which it Is now criticising as en example of school board extravagance! APPARENTLY the street car company Is perfectly willing to enter into a contract for improvements, concerning the illegality and consequent worthlessness of which Ferdinand Winter has already given warning. SENATOR NEW is seeking to have President Harding visit Indianapolis this faH. Os course, the Senator is not moved by a pre-primary desire to show his constituents how well he stands with the Administration! An Idea Worth While The greatest handicap that Indianapolis posesses as a pleasant city in which to live la its distance from any body of water that affords opor.tunitv for aquatic sports. With this fact in mind, the recent proposal of a gravel company to provide the city with an artificial lake covering an area of approximately one hundred and twenty-five acres Is deserving of most careful considerationThe proposal itself may be open to criticism. Perhaps it is impossible of acceptance. But the provision of the body of water described Is an ultimate object to which eveTy effort might well be bent Nothing in the way of a civic enterprise would be more generally appreciated by the citizens. Nothing would do more toward filling a long-felt want From the economic standpoint, the provision of a beach where hot summer days could be spent in safety and pleasure would be most profitable tc Indianapolis. From the humanitarian standpoint it would result in the saving of life. For the absence of any acceptable swimming places has already cost ten lives by drowning this summer and how many more by infection encountered in polluted streams is unknown. The gravel company’s proposal Is to build & lagoon in a part of of the city that Is the source of much complaint at present. The suroundings of the proposed site are In no way suited to a pleasure resort, and on that grounds there would doubtless be some thoughtless objection. However, it is a rule of civic development that the establishment of a desirable enterprise in a neighborhood eventually results in the elimination of undesirable suroundings. Some of the most beautiful parts of Dayton, Ohio, are today standing on the site of what was once known as the slums of that city. A part of our own beautiful Fall Creek driveway traverses what was once known as the “dumps.” Perhaps Sellers’ farm and some of the undesirable Industrial developments that now threaten an open break between the municipality and the citizens of West Indianpolis could be replaced with a pleasure grounds that would be welcomed by aIL Whether the city accepts or rejects the proposal now before it attention should be given to the establishment In Indianapolis of a water course that would make It unnecessary to leave the city In order to enjoy a summer day in the water. Distress Calls There is nothing more distressing than the cry of a woman in the night. Nothing i3 more alarming nor more startling than the ■wall of one in distress. It seems because of instinct that the plea of a female will awaken greater apprehension than anything else. A recent news item confirms all this. A crowd filled an excursion boat In Chicago and went to one side to observe some passing ship. There was naturally a roll or list and some woman cried: “The ship’s sinking." Some fainted, others rushed for life preservers. Then the officers restored order, for really there was no danger at all. „ The consequences of a false alarm are many fold. A tailor in Brooklyn jammed his finger in a steam pressing machine and emitted a shriek. This resulted in the call of police, two fire companies and additional | police reserves. Two ambulances also came, together with several thousand people. The cry of someone In distress, or even of an animal, will quicken the pulse many times. Those who love birds, learn their call and often can relieve them when a cat or danger threaten. Many a chicken has squawked its loudest just before beheaded, in vain. A more recent distress signal, equally as nerve racking, arises from a phonograph, with a needle below par or a clacked or scratched record. Police should be called if this is suffered to continue for any length of time. The untuned piano, the squeeky automobile ard the opened muffler on a motorcycle are but minor pleadings of distress which In future generations may be eliminated. Too, some of the vaporings of political orators threaten the peace and dignity of the community but probably they will be controlled in time. For Government Revenue It apears in some of the American histories that in the early times when there was a National disaster or failure of crops, it was proposed by good citizens to start a bank for the sufferers. Such a relief would not be practical in this day and age nor was It then, but a3 the demands of an occasion arise, there is always the tendency to resort to some mass action, for in numbers there is strength. Recent news from England, after a few months’ details of coal strikes and paralysis of Industries, Indicates that taxes are so high that several communities cannot pay them. What is to be done can only be answered by some wise statesmen. The American Government recently did reap some money from the Dempsey-Carpentier bout in New Jersey. It will take a Philadelphia lawyer to tell how much, but if the Nation could truly become one of the fighters, the National debt would soon cease to bother. The State of New Jersey realized $144,866 as its share. This was 10 per cent of the paid admissions. The Government would also be entitled to that much as an admission tax. Then there were incomes on which the tax would be large from Dempsey, Carpentler and Tex Rickard, the latter being the enterprising "angel’* of the bout Each realized a sum running Into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and on each there was a large tax. It Is understood that the Government would not permit the French boxer to depart until he had paid his tax, though Dempsey may wait till next year. If. such bouts could only be maintained everywhere, the poor railroads could be subsidized until they felt wealthy and a little might even be spared to help some worthy public utility which is facing bankruptcy. The Oregon The battleship Oregon, whose spectacular trip around the horn was one of the history-making events of the Spanish-American war, is slated for the scrap heap and ctiizens of the State of Oregon want it as a relic. Wonderful as was the battleship in its day, it is no longer to be classified as among those vessels useful to the Navy and today its principle value lies In the traditions that surround it. The Oregon, steaming from the Pacific to the Atlantic before the Panama Canal and the wireless were in service not only faced the fury of the elements on a treacherous course but for many days steamed in waters where its crew had every reason to believe a Spanish was lurking. Its journey demonstrated not only the ability of the crew hut also the stability of Its design and the honesty of Its construction. The story of the Oregon will live long in naval annuls as an example of American ability in design, construction and operation. The scrapping of the old hull may deal a blow at sentiment, but it cannet destroy the thrills of pride that come whenever the story of the trip the Horn is told.

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dead. Tom was shot while robbing bank In Arkansas; Ike was killed during the more dangerous pastime of attending a dance in the Creek Nation. We selected a place on the Santa Fe where there was a bridge across a deep creek surrounded by heavy timber. All passenger trains took water at the tank close to one end of the bridge, it was a quiet place, the nearest bouse being five miles away. The day before it happened, we rested oar horses and “made medicine’’ as to bow we should get about It. Our plans were not at all elaborate, as none of us had ever engaged In a holdup before. The Santa Fe flyer was dna at the tank at 11:45 p. m. At 11 Tom and I lay down on one side of the track, and Jim and Ike took the other. As the train rolled up, the headlight flashing far down the track and the steam hissing from the engine, I turned weak all over. 1 would have worked a whole year on the ranch for nothing to have been ont of that affair right then. Romo of the nerviest men In tha business have told me that they felt the same way the first time. The engine had hardly storped when I Jumped on the running-board on one side, while Jim mounted the other. As soon as the engineer and fireman eaw cur guns they threw up their Hands without being told, and begged us not to shoot, saying they would do anything we wauted them to. “Hit the rround," I ordered, and they both jumped oft. We drove them before us down the side of the train. While this was happening, Tom and Ike bad been blazing away, one on each aide of the train, yelling like Apnchea. eo as to keep the passengers herded in the cars. Some fellow stuck a little twentytwo calibre out one of the coach windows and fired it straight up lu the air. 1 let drive and smashed the glass Just over his head. That settled everything like resistance from that direction. By this time nil my nervousness was gone. I felt a kind of pleasan' excitement as if I were at a dance or a frolic of some sort. The lights were at! out in the and, as Tom and ike gradually quit firing and yelling, it got to be almost as still as a graveyard. 1 remember hearing a little bird chirping in a bush at the side of the track, as if it were complaining at being waked up. 1 made the fireman got a lantern, end

- ■■■ — 1 Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright. 1921. by Star Company. By K. C. B. ! ELIZABETH, N. Y., Sometime In August. • • • AT THE first hotel. • • THEY HADN’T any rooms. I* * * AND 60KEB0UT said. • • • | IF I'll ti! the clerk. - 0 0 0 AT THE Deer Head Inn • . . I WAS K. C. B. • • • MAYBR HE'D know me. • • • AND MAYBE It would help. . . . AND BO I did. • • • AND THE Clerk was plssurant. * * • AND SMILED very kindly. • • • AND HAD no Idea. • • • WHAT ED said to him. • • • BCT I tried It again. * • * AND HE didn't understand. • • • AND ASKED me to repeat it. • • • AND I’D gome o far. • • • I HAD to go on. • . • AXD I frft quite tooliwh. 0 0 0 AND LOST my voice. • . • AND ALMOST whispered. I* • • AND BIGHT away. • • 0 THE CLERK got an 0 0 0 I WAS making an +CPort. • • • TO BCT a drink • • • AND HE told mo plainly. • • • I COtXD'XT do it. • • • AND WHEN I told him. • • • I DIDN’T want a drink. 0 0 0 HE WANTED to know • • • WiLAT IT waa I wanted. • • • AND I said two rooms. • • 0 A.KD A couple of bafha. • • • AND HE raid all right. 0 0 0 AND WOULD I re*iter. • • • AND SO I did. • • • AND WE got the rooms. 0 0 0 AND IN the morning. • • • WHEN WE paid our MIL ... THE CLERK was friendly. • * • AND STARTED to tell me. ... HOW STRICT they’d boon. ... IN OBSERYINO the law. ... SINCE PROHIBITION ... WENT INTO effect. ... AND I tried to tell him. ... I DIDN’T want a drink. AND lIZ smiled ot m. . . . AND I went away. \ ... .AND HB Still thinks. ... I WAS whispering to him. ... ABOUT BUYING a drink. ... I THANK you.

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then X went to the express car and yelled to the messenger to open up or get perforated. He slid the door back and stood in it with hig hands up. “Jump overboard, son,” I said, and ha hit the dirt ilk* a lump of lead. There were two j safes in the car—a big one and a little j cne. By the way, I first located the meg- ' ganger's arsenal—a double-barreled shotgun with buckshot cartridges and a .58 in a drawer. I drew the cartridges from the shotgun, pocketed the pistol and .■ailed the messenger Inside. I shoved my gun against his nose and put him to work. H couldn't open the big safe, but he did the little one. There was only S9OO In It. That was mighty small winnings for our troobfc, so we decided to go through tha passengers. Wo took our prisoners to the smoking car, and from there amt the engineer through the train to light np the coaches. Beginning with the first one, we placed a man at each door and ordered the passengers to stand between the seats with their hands up. if you want to And out what cowards the majority of men are, all yon have to do is to rob a passeager train. I don't mean because they don't resist—l'll tell j you later on why they can't do that — but It makes a man feel sorry for them tlie wav they lose their heads. Big, burly drummers and farmers and ex soldiers and high-collared dudes and sports that, a few moments before, were filling the car with nolee and bragging, get eo •cared that their ears fiop. There were very few people lu the day conches at that time of nlfht, eo ve made a slim haul until we got to the sleeper. The Fuliman conductor met me at one door, while Jim wits going round to the other one. He very politely lni formed me that X could not go into that car, as It did not belong to the railronl j company, and. besides, the passengers ! bad already been greatly disturbed by ! the shouting and tiring. Never in all my life have I met with a finer instance | of official dignity and reliance upon the j power of Mr. Pullman's great name. 1 I jabbed my six-shooter to hard against | Mr. Conductor's front that afterward ; found one of his vest buttons eo firmly wedged lu the end of ihe barrel that I had to shoot It out. He Just shut up like | a weak-springed knife and rolled down j the car steps. j I opened the doer of the sleeper and | stepped Inside. A big, fat. o’d man came wabbling up to me, pnfflng and ! blowing. lie had one coat-sleeve on and was trying to put his vest on over I that. I don't kuow who he thought I was. 1 “Yonng man. ycur.g man.” says he. : “you must keep cool and not get ex--1 cited. Above everything, keep cool.” I “1 can’t," says X. “Excitement's Just ! eating me up.” And then 1 let ont a yell and turned loose my forty fiTe | through the skylight That old man tried to dive Into one 1 of the lower berths, but a screech came , ont of it and a bare foot that took him 1 Id the bread-basket and landed him on the floor. I saw Jim coming in the I other door, and I hollered for everybody to climb out and line np. I They commenced to scramble down and for a while we had a three ringed circus. The men looked as frightened and tame ass lot of rabbits in a deop snow. Yjv*y had on. on an average, about a quarter of a suit of clothe* and one shoe apiece. One chap was sitting on the floor of the aisle, looking a* If he were working a hard turn in arith metlc. He was trying, very solemn, to pnil a lady’s number two eho# on hie number nine foot. The ladles didn’t atop to dress. They were so curious to see a real, lire train robber, bless ’em, that they Just wrapped blankets and sheets aroond themselves and came out. squeaky and fidgety look- j lng They always show more curiosity i and sand than the them do. We got them all liucd up and pretty qniet, and I went through the bi neb. ! f found very little on them—T mesu In ! the way of valuable*. One man In the line was a sight. He was one of those big. overgrown, solemn sneezers that sit on the platform at lectures and look ! wise Before crawling out he had man- , aged to put on his long, frock-tailed coat end his high silk h.st. The rest of! him was nothing but pajamas and bun- 1 lons. When I dug into that Prince Albert, I expected to drag oilC at least a block of gold mine stock or an armful ! of Government bonds, but all I found was a little boy’s French harp shout 1 four tnches long Whst It was there ! for, I don’t know. I felt a little mad because ho had fooled me so. I stuck the harp up against his mouth. “Xf you can’t pay—rlay,” i say*. I can t play.’ says he. “Then learn right off quick," says I, Totting’ him sineJl the barrel. He caught hold of the harp, tnmed red a* a be^t # and commenced to blow. He blew a dinkv little tutie I remembered

Men You May Marry • By E. R. PEYSER

Has a man like thin proposed to yon? Symptoms: Looks well fed, he’s slick, round and deliberate -—a little over-fat, puffs a little even without his stoyie. He's been told he m ist diet —but you never notice It. lie Kays; “Os course I can't diet in company; It's too Immodest’’ He likes his owm sense of wit and food —it oft goes together when the food is good! Says probably when he gets married he’ll diet IN FACT Diet will he Ms king of Indoor sports. Prescription to brlJe: t/ Us Be versed on cooking. Remember food Is his Ideal, second not even to you. Absorb This: IT TAKES STEW TO MAKE A QUARREL Copyright, 1921, by Tho McClure Newspaper Syndicate.

hearing when I wag a Kid: Prettiest little gal In the conntry—oh! Mammy and Daddy told me so. I made him keep on playing it all the time we were In the car. Now and then he’d get weak and off the key, and I’d turn my gun on him and ask what was the matter with that little gal, and whether he had any Intention of going back on her, which would make him acart up again like sixty. I think that old boy standing there in Ms silk hat and bai-e feet, playing his little French harp, was the funniest sight I ever saw. One little red-headed woman in the line broke out laughing at him. You could have heard her in th© next car. Then Jim held them a toady while I searched the berths. X grappled around in those beds and filled a pillow-case with the strangest assortment of stuff you ever saw. Now and thoa I’d comu across a little pop-gun pistol, just about right for plugging teeth with, which I’d throw out cf tha window. AVTieu 1 finished with the collection, I dumped tha pillow-case load in the middle of the aisle. There were a good many watches, bracelets rings, and pocketbooks. with a sprinkling of false teeth, whisky flasks, face powder boxes, chocolate caramels, and heads of hair of various colors and lengths. There were also about a dozen ladles’ stockings into which Jewelry, watches, end rolls of Dills had been stuffed and then wadded up tight and stuck under the mattresses. I offered to return what I called the “scalp*,“ saying that we were not ladlans on the war path, but none of the ladles seemed to know to whom the hair belonged. One of the women—and a good looker she was—wrapped in a striped blanket,

saw me pick np one bf the stockings that va pretty chunky and heavy shout the toe. and she snapped outi ‘That's mine, sir. You're not in the business of robbing women, ere you?” Now, ns this was oar first hold-op. w* hadn't agreed upon any code of ethics, so I hardly knew what to answer. But, anyway, 1 replied: “Well, not as # specialty. If this contains your personal property you can have it back.” “ft Just doe*,” she declared eagerly, and reached out her hand for It “Ton’ll exeuwo my taking a look at ths commits," I •aid. holding the stocking np by the toe. Out dumped a big gent's frold watch, worth two hundred, agent's anther pocketbook that we afterwards found to contain six hundred dollar* a 82 calibre revolver; and the only thing of the lot that could hivo been s lady's personal property was a sliver bracelet worth shoot fifty cento. I said: “Madame, here's your property,” and horded her the bracelet. “Now." X went on, “how can yon expect u* to act square with you when you try to deceive us in this manner? Im surprised at such conduct.'’ The young woman flushed up as if ehe had been caught doing something dishonest. Some other woman down the line cnlled out: “The mju thing'.** 1 n-rer knew whether she meant the other lady or me.

When we finished wax Job we ordered everybody back to bed, told 'em good aigbt very quietly at the door, and last We rode forty mile* before daylight and then divided the stuff. Each oco of us got $1,752.85 In money. We lumped the Jewelry around. The® we scattered, each man for himself. That was my first train robbery, and 8t was about as easily done as any of the ones that followed. But that was the last and only time I ever went through the passengers. I don’t like that part ot the business. Afterwards I stuck strictlv te the express car. During the next eight yaars I handled a good deal of money. The beet haul I made was Just seven years after the tost one. We found out about a train that was going to bring out a lot of m-onoy to pay off the soldiers at a Government poat. We stuck that train up in broad daylight. Five of us lay in che sand bills near a little elation. Ten soldiers were guarding the money on the train, but they might as well have been at homo on a furlough. We didn't even allow them to stick their heads out the windows to see the fun'. We had no trouble at all In getting the money, whltfh was all In gold. Os course, a big howl ™ raised at the time about the robbery. It was Government stuff, and the Government got sarcastic and wanked to know what the convoy of aoldiers went along for. The only excuse given was that nobody was expecting an attack among those bare sand hill* In daytime. I don't know what the Government thought about the excuse, but I know that it was a good one. The surprise— that 4s the keynote of the trstnrobbln'g business. The papers published

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Hohenberger Photograph Lent by State Library. The Mu*catatuck River, Washington County. ,-igp

all kinds of stories about the to*a, finally agreeing that It was between nine thousand and ten thoueaud dollars. The Government sawed wood. Here are the correct figures, printed for the first , time—forty -right thousand dollars. If snybodv wlil take the trouble to loo.: over Lnclo Sam's private accounts for ! that little debit to profit and logs, he will find that i am right to a cent. By that time we were expert enough to know what to do. We rode due weal twenty milos, making a trail that a Broadway policeman could hare followed, i and then we doubled back, hiding our tracks. On the second night after the hold-up, while posses were scouring the country in every direction, Jim and I were eating sapper in the second story of a friend's house la the town where the alarm started from. Our friend pointed out to us. In an office across the street, a printing press at work striking off handbills offering a reward for our capture. J have bsen asked what w do with the HOROSCOPE “TU* stars Incline, bat do not teaptll” SUNDAY, AUG. 14. Ultima la In benefle aspect, today according to astrology, but Venus is adverse. This should be a day favorahla to all who make appeal to the finer aide ©f men and women. Clergymen should benefit under tills sway cf the stars. Ail the signs appear to Indicate that it© people will think mors seriously than ever before concerning public question* Whflle there will be a strong tendency toward liberal ideas that encourage true dsoruxsracy, radical views will suffer a derided eclipse. / l’ureocj whose btxthdate It is have the augury of change. Young women will hare offer* of marriage. Child rem bora on this day probably will succeed beet on the water. Many sailors are born under th!a sign. Girls hava the forecast of happy marriage. MONDAY, AUG. 18. Jupiter dominates this day In friendly aspect, according to astrology. Saturn Is also In benefle sway. This is & planetary government stimulating to trade and to large achievement. Tha rnlo favors all who wield power, whether In the financial, commercial or political world. j Thors is a sign that is believed to fore \ shadow many large plan* for human j betterment and a statesman will wort them out successfully. Manlripalttles should take care of thf i populations in a manner that will pro- ; trot against suffering when the winter | come*, for there is to be severe weather, j if tho slgnfl are properly interpreted. ! Persons whoso birthdate it is have the ! augury of a fortunate year, but they : should beware of changes, j Children born on this day will find life ; very pleasant In all probability. These I subjects of I,eo rise rapidly in their pro sessions and nsnally are exceedingly talented. I 7

money we got, Well, I never could account for a tenth part of it after tt was spent. It goos fast and freely. An outlaw has to have a good many friends. A highly roepected citizen may, and often does, get along with very sow, but a man on the dodge has got to have “sidekickors.” With posses and re-ward-hungry officers cutting out a hot trail for him, he must have a few planes scattered about the country where he can stop and food himself and his horse and get a few hours’ sleep without haring to keep both eyea open. When he makes a haul he f.vels like dropping some of the coin with these friends, and he does it liberally. Sometimes I have, at the end of a hasty visit 8t one of these havens of refuge, flung a handful of gold and bills into the laps of the kids playing on tho floor, without knowing whother my contribution was a hundred dollars or a thousand When old-timers make a big haul they generally go far away to one of the btg cities to spend their money. Green hands, however, successful a hoid-np they make, nearly always give themselves away by showing too much money near the plnce where they got it. X was fn a Job it) - 91 where we got twenty thousand dollars. We followed our favorite plan for a get swy—that is, doubled on our trail—and laid low for a time near the scene of the train’s bad luck. One morning I picked up a newspaper and read an article with big headlines stating that the marshal, with eight deputies and a posse of thirty armed citizens, had the train robbers surrounded in a meaquita thicket on the

Cimarron, and that it was a question of only a few hours when they would be dead men or prisoners. While I was reading that article I was sitting at breakfast in one of the most elegant private residences in Washington city, with a flunky in knee pants arandinf? behind my chair. Jim was sitting acrots the table talking to bis half uncle, a retired naval officer, wjiose name you have often sen in the accounts of doings in the capital. We had gone there and bought rattling outfits of good clothes, and were resting from our labors among the nabobs. We must bare been killed in that meequite thicket, for I can make an affidavit that we didn't surrender. Now I propose to tell why it is easy to hold up a train, and, then why no one should ever do :.t. In the first place, the attacking partv has all the advantage. 'j hat is, of course, supposing that they aro oidtJmers with the necessary experience and courage. They have the outside and are protected by the darkness, while the others ere in the light, hemmed into a small space, and exposed, the moment they show a head at a window or door, to the Rim of a man who is a dead shot and who won t hesitate to shoot. But, in my opinion, the main condition that makes train robbing easy is the element of surprise in connection with the imagination of the passengers. If you have ever seen a horse that has eaten loco weed you will understand what I mean when 1 say that the passengers get locoed. That horse gets the awfullest imagination on hint in the world. You can't coax him to cross a little branch stream two feet wide. It looks as big to him as the Mississippi Elver. That's Just the way with the passenger. He thinks there are a hundred men yelling and shooting outside, when maybe there are only two or three. And the muzzle of a forty-five look* like th* entrance to a tunneL The passenger is all right, although he may do mean little tricks, like hiding a wad of money in his shoe and forgetting to dig up until you jogtle his rib* some with the end of jjur sixshooter; but there’s no harm in him As to tho train crew, w never had any more trouble with them than if they had been so many sheep. I don't mean that they are cowards; 1 mean that they have got sense. They know they’re not np against a bluff. It's the same war with the officers. I've seen secret service men, marshals, and railroad detectives fork over their change as meek as Moses. 1 saw one of the bravest marshal* 1 ever knew hide his gun under his sent and dig up along with the rest while 1 was taking toll. He wasn’t afraid; ho simply knew that we had the drop on the whole outfit. Besides, many of those officers have families and they feel that they oughtn't to take chances; whereas death has no terror* for the men who holds up a train. H expects to get killed some day, and he generally doe*. My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold-up, is to line np with the cowards and save yottr bravery for an occasion whn it may oe of some benefit to you. Another reason wb> officers are backward about mixing things with a train robber is a financial one. Every time there is a scrimmage and somebody gets killed, the > officers lose money. If the train robber gets away they swear out a warrant ; pgainst John Do* et a!, and travel hundreds of miles and sign vouchers for thousands on th* trail of the fugitives, and the Government foots the bills. So, ] with them, it is a questiou of mileage rather than courage. I will give one instance to support my statement that the surprise is the best card in playing for it hnid-up. Along in *92 the Daltons were cutting out a hot trail for the officers, down in

the Cherokee Nation. Those were their, lucky days, and they got eo reckless and sandy that they used to announce before-’ hand what joy they were going to un-| dertake. Once tber gave it out that they were going to hold np tho M., K. & T. flyer on a certain night at the station of Pryor Creek, in Indian Territory. 1 That Bight the railroad company g t fifteen deputy marshals in Muscogee and put them on the train. Besides them they had fifty armed men hid in the depot at Pryor Creek. ! When the Katy Flyer pulled In not a Dalton showed up. The next station wat Adair, six miles away. Whan the train reached tbera, and the deputies were having a good time explaining what they would Lave done to the Dalton gang If they had turned up, all at once It sounded like an army firing outside. The conductor and brakeman came running into tha car yelling “Train robbers!” Some of those deputies Et out of the door, htt the ground, and kept on running. Some of them hid their Winchesters under the seats. Two of them made a fight and were both killed. It took the Daltons Just ten minutes to capture the train and whip the escort., lu twenty minutes more they robbed the express car of $27,000 and made a clean gji-away. | M? opinion Is that those deputise would have put up a stiff fight at Pryor Creek, where they were expecting trouble, but they were taken by surprise ana “locoed" at Adair, Just a the Deltona, who knew their business, expected they would. I don't think I ought to close without giving some deductions from my experience of eight years “on tho dodge/’ It doesn’t pay to rob trains. Leaving out the question of right and moral*, which I cion't think I ought to tackle, there is very little to envy In the life of an outlaw. After a while money ceanea to have any value In his eyes. He gets to looking upon the railroads and ex-p-ess companies as his baukere, and hi* six shooter as a check book good for any, amount. He throw* away money rMht and left. Most of the timo he la on the 1 jump, riding day *nd night, and ha Jivaa. so hard between times that he doesn’t, enjoy the taste of high life when he get*, it. He knows that his time is bound to 1 coma to lose his life or liberty, and that 1 the accuracy of his aim. the speed of hia borse and the fidelity of his “aider" are all that postpones the inevitable. It Isn’t that he loses any sleep over danger from tho officers of the law. In all my experience I never knew offlcara to attack a band of outlaws unless they outnumbered them at least three to one. But tho outlaw carries one thought constantly in Xri.e mind—and that Is what makes him so sore agalnqt life, more than anything else —he knows where the marshals got their recruits of d*puti.j He knows that the majority of theao upholders of the law were once lawbreakers hoc-ea thieves rustlers, highwaymen, and outlaws liko himself, and that they gained their positions and Immunity by turning State’s evidence, by turning traitor and delivering up their comrades to Imprisonmac* and death. He knows that some day—unless he is shot first—hi* Judas wlil set to work, the trap will be laid, and he will be the surprised Instead of th* Burprisar at a stick-up. That is why the man who hold* up trains picks Ms company with a thousand times the care with which a care-1 ful girl chooeos a sweetheart. That 1* why be raise* himself from his blanket of nights and listens to the tread of every uexasea hoofs on the distant road. That is why he broods suspiciously for days upon a Jesting remark or ea unusual movement of a tried comrade, or the broken mutteiings of his closest friend, sleeping by his side. And It is one of the reasons why the train-robbing profession ia not so pleasant a onp as either of its collateral branches—politic* or cornering tho market.

PUSS IN BOOTS JR. j Bx David Cory. TTe’l, let us see where we left Uttla Puss Junior in the last story. Oh, now I remember. Ho was back ones more at ! the castle of my of Carabas where IMs father, the famoue Pus3 in Boobs, waa ! Major' Domo. You remember that the Ark had com* up to the window of Ibiss JuMoria rooen and he had stopped out and Into bed, j hardly knowing what ho was doing, tow it was late at night and I guess he waa ! preitty sleepy. Well, when he woke up the next morning, he was surprised as he could ba. And when he Jumped out sos bed and ran over to tho window to look out, be saw his old father sitting In the garden. So IMas quickly pulled on Ms rad top boots and ran down to seo Mm, And. oh my! How glad Ms father waa! And them Puss sat down and told him all about hi* adventure*, and after that they both went Inside the castle to see tny Lord and I,ady Caraha3. Well, as the days went by, lltHe Puss took walks with his father through the i country end the woods, and one day a* J they both sat down to rest, they heard | a tiny voice say: “Twinklo, twinkle, twinkle, oh, Tell tne where you would like to go? Over the hills and far away, Down to the ocean white with spray. Or go with me to e little house i Where lives a pretty tiny white mouse 7” I “Who are you?" asked Pure, for h ! couldn't see anybody, and neither could his father; but that wasn’t so strange, for he was pretty old, you know. “I’m the swallow who lives In the royal stables,” and then down from a tree flaw a little swallow. “Oh, yes, I know you,” said Fuss Junior’s father. “I have seen you many times. But where is tho little mous* hons* you speak of?” : “Follow mo,” said ths swallow, and ! pretty soon they came to a funny Uttla house at the foot of a big oak tree* “There’s whqre she lives,” chirped th* swallow. So Puss and his father walked up and knocked on the front door, and pretty soon a little mouse looked out of tha upper wludows, for the was a very timid little creoture and never opened her front door without first looking out of the window. “Mercy mol” she cried. “Here are tw* cato knocking on my front door!” and then *Uo shimmed down the window and hid behind the old grandfather clock in tho corner of the room. “Hickory, dlckory dock, I'm hldtog behind the clock, So please go away, for I'm sorry to say 1 haven’t put on my new frock.” “Oh. well, we'll call another time." said little Puss Junior, and then h and bla father wont back to the castle, and the swallow flew hack to the roynl stables and told an old owl who lived nenrhy what a fussy thing Mis* Mousey ' was, and in the next story you shall hear what happened after that.—Copyright, 1021. To Be Continued.