con Dios!
“Bellefonte, Pa., September 28, 1928.
STR —— HA AA.
THE LION AND THE LAMB.
(Continued from page 2, Col 6.)
He wasn’t afraid to die and he wasn’t
afraid to walk to meet his death, but |
|
he was afraid to let this skunk Bow-
ker dishonor him and force him to
stay in the house. d
ker were the only two men in Dos
Rios who never doubted what the end
of the story was to be, for the rest of
the town had finally got to regard
Bowker as a bluff.
Those were hard days on Mendel.
His wife had died about a year before
and his children had grown up and
pulled out of quiet little Dos Rios. So
Mendel’s alone, except for the ser-
vants, and what he’s going through
would have rasped the nerves of a
family man of larger caliber.
One day as the Judge is leaving his
- chambers to go home Sheila O'Hara
looms up in the doorway. Sheila's
over fifty now, but still not hard to
look at. Her life’s trial, O'Hara, has
recently passed on to the Happy
Hunting Grounds, since which wel-
come event Sheila’s not averse to
chatting with Mendel Silverberg
whenever opportunity offers.
“Come in, Sheila, and set,” says
Mendel. “You got a look in them
Irish eyes of yours that spells strict
business. Can I be of assistance to
you, my friend?” :
“You certainly can,” says Sheila.
“Mendel, you're crackin’ under the
strain of this Bowker animal’s tor-
ture. You wasn’t meant for torture.
You got a soul too fine for a warrior’s
body and a body too small for your
fine soul. You're the decentest man
in all Texas and I want that you
should know I think so. And I've
made up my mind you can’t be rode
with spurs no more by this Bowker.
You got to end this business or it'll
end you.”
“I know it, Sheila,” says Mendel.
“But I don’t know anything about
shooting a pistol. I have never shot
one. I have every legal right to kill
Bowker in self-defense without wait-
ing for him to attack me, but—he
has never made his threat publicly—
in the presence of witnesses. That
is, since he returned from the peni-
tentiary. And if I should shoot at
him, I doubt if I could succeed in
hitting him. He would, of course,
shoot back, in self-defense, and I'm
sure he’d hit me if and when he shot
at me. Then I'd be dead and nobody
could convict him of murder. On the
other hand, if I should, by some mira-
cle, kill him, and no weapon should
be found on his body, you can realize
what a predicament I'd be in.”
“Yes,” says Sheila, “I reckon I can
see through a ladder. You got heaps
of courage, but not fighting courage.
You'd die for a principle but you just
couldn’t roll around in the dirt with
an enemy and gouge his eyes out or
strangle him. Well, the Cosgraves
and O’Haras thrive on stuff like that,
so I reckon we’ll have to give you
~ some moral assistance.
“Now, you listen to me, Mendel.
Uncertainty is what's driving you
crazy, not the fear of being killed. If
you knew Bowker would pull off his
job tomorrow at eight o’clock, then
at eight o’clock a. m. tomorrow you'd
walk out of your house as usual,
would you?”
“Yes, I would, Sheila,” says Men-
del.
“Well, now, you listen to me. When
you meet Bowker on your way home
this evening you tell him you're
plumb weary of his nasty attentions;
that the next time you meet him you’ll
be armed and you'll just tunnel him
without further warning. Tell him
you know he’s a lunatic and a fool
and a coward and that he hasn’t got
you bluffed for a split second, but it’s
come to the point where patience
ceases to be a virtue and you're all
washed up on him. Mendel, you tell
him that and be as fierce as a weasel
while you’re telling him, and I'll bet
a cooky you outgame him and he
quits bothering you.” ‘
“I don’t believe that,” says Mendel.
“Well, says Sheila, “it’s worth try-
ing, ain’t it?”
Mendel agreed it was and finally
Sheila got him to make her a solemn
promise to give Bowker his warning
that very afternoon. He did, within
the hour, while Bowker stood star-
ing at him, not quite believing him
and yet
When the Judge comes out of his
house next morning and looks around
for Jim Bowker, the feller is nowhere
in sight. Mendel heaves a sigh of
relief. “That Sheila’s a smart one
and a better judge of human nature
than I am,” says he to himself. “I've
bluffed that scrub out of his boots.”
He walks down the quiet, shady
street and a stranger comes out of
an intersecting street, and walks cas-
ually behind him.
Suddenly, at the next cross street,
Bowker steps into the Judge’s path
and stands there grinning an evil grin
at him. “Well, you runt,” he says,
“pull and get busy. I'll let you get
your gun out before I even reach for
mine.”
“I’m not armed, Bowker,” says
Mendel.
“That’s unfortunate, because to-
day’s the day I'm going to kill you,
Silverberg,” says Bowker. “I’ll prob-
ably swing for it, but I don’t care,”
and his right hand goes reaching be-
neath his coat and under his left
armpit.
It never comes out in life. Behind
the Judge a pistol spoke six times
and Mendel heard six bullets whiz by
his ears and slap into Bowker’s body—
the skunk was dead before he hit the
sidewalk and the Judge, turning, sees
a total stranger strolling casual-like
toward him while he fills his pistol
cylinder with fresh cartridges. With-
out a word he walks up to the corpse
and pulls a six-shooter out of a
shoulder holster. The dead man’s
fingers are still closed on the butt.
“Tt worked, by the Lord!” says this
strange hombre. “Judge Silverberg,
Sir,” he continues, lifting his som-
brero with much respect, “vaya usted
I~ “I'm Dennis O’Hara.
And he and Bow- |
“1 visiting me' last fall and while I didn’t
Which, if you don’t know
Spanish, is a sweet line, even in Eng-
lish. It means ‘Go you with God’!”
“So it’s—over,” says the Judge in a
whisper.
“All but the funeral, your Honor.”
“I seem to have known you some-
where, my friend,” says Mendal, “but
{ your name has escaped my memory.”
I used to
"steal catle, but you reformed me.
I'm a captain in the Texas Rangers,
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bust him anyhow,” says young Den-
nis. ‘However, I promised you, the
tlast time we had an executive con-
i ference, that hereafter I'd operate
. strictly within the law, so I arranged
to make this a legal killing. I prom-
ised you I'd tote square and toting
| Square means paying my debts—and
, interest was accumulating on my debt
to you, Judge Silverberg.”
“In my youth,” says Mendel, “it
| was my ambition to marry your—er
—remarkable mother, but—er—”
“Well, is’s never too late to reform,”
i says young Dennis. “I’m exhibit A
| to prove that. Many’s the time I've
{ heard Ma say she’d have married you
{if she'd ever figured you’d have had
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26—To box 28—Always
29—Group of Scandinavian legends
20—Amount owed
33—NMetropolis
35-—Street (abbr.)
37—To look at
38—Part of ‘to be”
29—Prepositien
40—To allow
42—To shine dazzlingly
44—Evergreen tree
45—Three feet
48—In Colonial
sympathizer
49—To disfigure
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times, a British
and last week my mother wrote down ’
and told me to come up at once and do il 12 3 4 6 |6 |7 \ I
her a favor. When I got here yester-
day she told me what you were up IE 9 20 (I)
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owker lunatic before he killed you. i
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find a gun on the Dody.2and in the ;
presence of witnesses—the proposi- -
tion was simple. All I had to do was 16 17 18 I ee
to induce Bowker to heel himself this
morning; then arrange to be within 20 21 22 23 2:
distance and when he reaches for his |
weapon, beat him to the draw. So I
made a plan and Ma she undertook to 25
put it through for me. She said she
figured you wouldn’t defy this here 29
animal for anybody but her—and she LB
was right. Didn’t you tell the dis- -
eased here you would shoot at sight ?” 30 31 32 33 134
“You devious young son of a gun,”
says Mendal Silverberg. “I did! I
didn’t want to bluff Bowker because 35 [36 37 33 I 39
5 knew 43 never make good on the ;
uff an was certain, too, he’d cail
my bluff. But I disliked very much 40 42 42 43 4
to appear—well—cowardly—to such ;
an extent that I might—ah—forfeit 45 46 47 43
the respect and—er—friendship of
your excellent mother—so I perform- 0 / |
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man.”
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got him his gun and made up his I |
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longer. ; (©, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.
And your mother sent for you to Horizontal. Vertical.
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cooperate and Bowker hadn’t armed | 20—You and I 10—Spike
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y. my orders from Ma was to | 24—Note of scale 12—Thread of metal
13—Boys’ plaything (pl.)
15—Peasants (collectively)
17—Insect
18—Short sleep
tion (pl.)
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25—To marry
36—Pair working in harmony
39—Melodies
43—Military assistant
44—Affectionate
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the guts to take a wagon spoke to her ! = on
! when she spoke out of her turn.” 67 Killed During August By Autos.
The Judge looked at his watch.
“Son,” he says, “you drop into the
district attorney’s office and tell him { motor vehicles, Pennsylvania depart-
I'll not hold court today. I think I'll iment of highways, today announced
drive out to see your mother.” | that automobile accidents in Penn-
“Which I reckon he did,” Dad Tully ! gylvania for the month of August
continued, “because they were both up | totaled 2779 and were responsible for
} C | sixty-seven deaths, injuries to 2131
see no marriage certificate, Mend=l ! persons and property damages to 2252
told me they were man and wife. | vehicles. Eynon pointed out that
Nothing romantic, of course, but ex- | grade crossing accidents numbered
cellent friends and sort of looking | put four, one being fatal. Pedestri-
forward to an old age free from lone- | ans, numbering 446, were victims of
liness. Mendel, he’s bought back the | motor vehicles, and 2059 were injured
old Broken . Arrow outfit and set! while riding or driving in auto-
young Dennis up in the cook business | mobiles. Twenty-one children, be-
and that’s why I says that the hand | tween the ages of 5 and 14, were kil-
that rocks the cradle rules the world led in motor accidents, and 278 child-
and don’t you forget it.”—Hearst’s yen between these ages were injured.
International Cosmopolitan. | Analyzing the reports, Registrar
reg: Eynon said: “A noteworthy feature of
Furniture Beetle Is a | ie Jonihly 2cident Sm i
: : of the drivers who figured In ac-
Insy: Pest This Season! cidents had experience of a year or
Benjamin G. Eynon, registrar of
A little bug that was first neticed ,
in a chair that came from the White |
House has started its annual program |
of destruction of mohair tapestried !
furniture.
Dr. A. E. Back of the bureau of en-
tomology in the Department of Agri-
culture reports that his recent corre-
spondence is chiefly from housewives
who look with dismay upon the wilted
davenport and the chair cushions.
“This insect, commonly called the
furniture carpet beetle,” Doctor Back
says, “was first noticed in America in
1911 by the American Museum of
National History in some specimens
of curled hair from furniture that
came to this country from Russia.
“It made its appearance in the Na-
tion’s Capital in a chair that had been
given to the executive mansion by the
Turkish government in 1915. Since
that time it has become a serious pest
and is particularly bad this season,
judging from the number of requests
our office has for remedies.”
Thorough fumigation of the entire
house or the particular piece of fur-
niture affected is suggested by the
bureau as the best means of combat-
ing the destructive pest.
—
Jewish Fund
The United Palestine Appeal has
collected for all its constituent or-
ganizations $9,911,077, from Oct. 1,
1925, to July 31, 1928, an increase of
$3,160,743 over a similar period prior
to the organization of the appeal.
This was announced recently by Mor-
ris Rothenberg, chairman of the
board of directors. In three years
ending July 31, 1925, the total collect-
ed amounted to $6,750,334.
The orginizations benefiting from
the appeal are Keren Hayesod (Pal-
estine foundation fund), Hadassah
medical organization, junior Hadas-
sah, Jewish national fund, Hebrew
university and Mizrachi institutions.
Hadassah was the largest beneficiary,
receiving for medical work in Pales-
tine $1,000,000 more in the past thrze
years than in the corresponding per-
iod when it conducted an independent
campaign.
From 1922 to 1925 Hadassah sent
to Palestine $408,879, while during
the three years from. 1925 to 1928 the
medical organization in Palestine re-
ceived $1,407,155. In the three years
of the existence of the United Pales-
tine Appeal $7,264,787 was remitted
to Palestine.
more in driving. The only conclusion
to be drawn from this is that a driver,
| with increasing experience in driving,
gradually becomes more careless and
takes more chances. Confident that
his driving ability is gach as to carry
him through tight places, he disre-
gards the primary elementals of safe
driving. The disastrous results of
this disregard of the principles of
safety may be found in the fact that
211 accidents were the result of
speeding, 535 due to the driver being
on the wrong side of the road, 540 in
which the driver did not have the
right of way, and 223 due to cutting
in. The more experienced drivers
were guilty of these motor violations,
which resulted in accidents and caus-
ed seventeen deaths and injuries to
1492 persons. In most of these cases
the experienced drivers will take
chances that their more inexperienced
fellow drivers will not. This is par-
ticularly true in the accidents result-
ing from speeding, being on the
wrong side of the road, ‘jumping” the
other motorist when the other has the !
right of way, and particularly in the
vicious practice of ‘cutting in’ when
traffic is heavy.”
To Dr. Straton from a Baptist.
Among the reactions to the Rev.
John Roach Straton’s attacks on Gov.
Smith was a telegram to the minister
from John Trotwood Moore, of Nash- |
ville, Tenn.:
“Your father was pastor of the
Siloam Baptist Church at Marion,
Ala. My father and mother worship-
ped there. I grew up in it. I love it
and whatever it stands for.
card in today’s paper quoted you as
saying that your challenge to Gov.
Smith was a joke. I do not mind
yourself, but I resent your making a
joke of my church. We are going to
vote for Al Smith down here.”
The Baptist who thus resents the
activities of Dr. Straton is and has
long been the State Librarian of Ten-
nessee, in charge of the archives in
Nashville, to whom many historians
and scholars are indebted for helpful
services and suggestions. A scholar
himself, a man if intellectual capac-
ity and self-respect, he naturally de-
spises bigotry and hates hypocrisy.
The best reply Dr. Straton can
make ta him is that the attack on the
Governor was not addressed to men
of Mk. Moore's intellectual attain-
ments, but to a much lower order.
Your |
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dowdy. Wind-blown, gutter-soaked
rubbish that rides on every breeze,
swirls around the corners and finds
lodgment finally where it makes the
most muss.
The odd fact about litter is that it
never originates itself; nor does it
germinate and grow like weeds. It
springs from human indifference.
Some foreign cities, notably Munich,
make a point of keeping their streets
and sidewalks clean; Americans
merely talk about it, and keep on
strewing litter.
A city provides a great park and
thousands gather on Sundays and hol-
idays for recreation. The next day
the place looks like the path of a
cyclone, and it requires the labor of
many men many hours to celan up
the rubbish with which the public
desecrates its own premises.
i In the country tourists lunch by the
roadside and contribute the leavings
,to the god of disorder. Beauty of
wood and landscape is marred by
shrubbery blown full of the relics of
the last week’s repasts.
Rubbish in city or country is a per-
sonal matter in the scattering but a
community offense in the end. Cure
i of the evil must depend on an aroused
sense of public decency. Cities,
| towns and country districts should
have pride in being known by some-
| ting else than the litter they toler-
i ate.
Distribute 503,000 Bass During the
Month 1 of August.
The Board of Fish Commissioners
during August distributed to the
streams and waters in the Common-
wealth 503,000 black bass, ranging in
size from two to four inches and rep-
resenting a value of $150,900 if pur-
chased from a commercial hatchery.
For several years the Board of
Fish Commissioners has been devel-
oping waters at the Pleasant Mount
Hatchery which are suitable for black
bass. This is one of the most difficult
and expensive fish to propagate arti-
fically, as it requires large ranges of
feeding grounds.
During the last year Deputy Com-
misioner of Fisheries C. R. Buller has
developed a system for the propaga-
tion of the daphnae, which is very
essential in the life of the young bass.
The board is now constructing in the
neighborhood of 100 ponds for propa-
gation of the daphnae, and next year
should show a great increase in the
distribution of this speices.
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Litter is what makes a city look
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