GRATITUDE OF
MRS. HATCH
sacl —
By G. B. DUNHAM
(® by Short Story Pub, Co.)
EN MORRISON, the big bluffer
of the sheriff's office, with his
understudy, the junior deputy,
was sent out into the country,
a matter of fifty miles or so, to make
an arrest on an indictment for rust-
ling cattle. He brought in his man
alive, but unconsclous, pretty well
bruised, and with a dent in his oc-
ciput about the size and shape of the
butt of the deputy’s revolver.
Now, the sheriff's office had been
down on its luck all summer, and it
was of a plece with the rest that the
grand jury, just then in annual session,
instead of commending the success of
Morrison, should listen Instead to the
prosecuting attorney and to a witness
whom he hurried in from the back
country, and find a true blll against
Benjamin Morrison and William Judd,
“tffat they did, upon the sald 20th day
of August, assgfilt with intent to kill
one Job Hatch, contrary to the law in
such cases made and provided, and
against the peace and dignity of the
Commonwealth aforesaid.” The sole
remaining deputy turned the key upon
his associates, and for a time the sher-
iff’s office was woefully short-handed,
for the chief said, “If the public rather
pay my men for keeping the jail full
in that way, it's all the same to me,
and less trouble, but I'll not appoint
another man.”
The incarcerated deputies were in-
dignant, but not alarmed. They had.
on their return, given a straightfor-
ward account of the circumstances at-
tending the Injury to Hatch, which
statement they repeated without devi
ation at the trial. The sheriff sald the
thing was a dirty political trick of the
county attorney. The attorney sald he
was sure of securing a conviction, and
the prosecuting witness, pending the
trial, said nothing. There were no
dilatory motions from either side
in facet both urged a speedy trial—
and the case came up within ten days
after the indictment. During this In.
terval the condition of the unfortunate
man at the hospital was unchanged
He lay unconscious and without
speech, His wife never left him but
when went before the jury, and
her name appeared upon the indict.
ment as prosecuting witness,
Morrison and Judd scarcely recog
nized the gravity of thelr situation
until they were brought into court
upon the day of trial. That it was
to be no perfunctory prosecution was
evidenced by the attendance of an
emininet attorney, “imported,” as the
defense phrased It, “to hamstring the
fury.”
he
she
Jury being finally secured by
the usual practice of carefully exclud
ing everybody who knew anything
about the case, I found myself one of
the twelve men duly sworn to hear the
prisoners at Then
ing lawyer with the keen eye and the
soft volce, whose habit it was to work
Jurors as the potter works his clay
gave us his opening statement.
“Gentlemen,” he said, “I should not
be In this case at all but for a wom
an’'s tears. A great wrong has been
done. You cannot right it—no one
can. What you can do, and what we
expect you to do, is to punish the
wrong-doers. We shall prove to you
that the officers went to the house of
this poor man, sought a quarrel with
him, beat him unmercifully and
brought him down here to die. We
shall prove this by his wife, who saw
it, whose presence did not deter these
rufians, whose tears at length pre
valled on me to prosecute this suit.”
Repiying to this opening, the de
fense saidito the jury “In a neighbor-
ing city a big Mock, some twelve
stories high, bears the name of the
opposing counsel. It was not built
with woman's tears. The twenty
farms he owns were never bought with
tears. He works for cash only, and
in advance, and In this Instance the
cash comes from the coffers of a po-
litical committee. We shall show that
the unfortunate man was hurt by an
accident resulting from his own bad
temper, and to which the defendants
were not in any manner contributory.”
After the evidence of the attending
surgeon, who declined to swear that
the blow was or was not struck with
a revolver, Mrs, Hatch was put on the
stand. Her story was this: Only one
man came to her house—Morrison
He found Hateh at home, and, without
showing his papers or stating his busi.
ness, interfered with the ranchman’s
treatment of a viclous cow. Hatch
was unarmed and no physical match
for Morrison. After some altercation
be ran toward the house; Morrison
overtook him and felled him with a
blow on the back of the head.
Upon cross-examination Mrs. Hatch
contradicted herself In some minor
matters and broke down, But she was
solid as a rock on the main fact--that
her husband was struck down by the
officer. Throughout her testimony
Morrison gave the closest attention,
and, If I could read the expression on
his face. it was one of doubt and sur
prise. He looked net like a man hear
ing the faithful account of his own
misdeed. but as If he were hearing
a shocking story for the first time. |
made n mental note In Morrison's fa.
vor, but Inter. when he himself testi.
fied | rubbed It ott and went over
to the woman's side.
The court will always caution jurors
against coming to a conclusion before
\he evidence is in. But In this case
*
the bar. the visit
I came to several, all of them errone-
ous, In the course of the trial,
The testimony of Morrison and Judd
was as different as possible from that
of Mrs. Hatch. According to thelr
statement, which the ingenuity of op-
posing counsel tried In vain to break
or shake, they had not reached Hatch's
house when they met him in the road.
In a country where every man knows
and values a good horse they had at
once noticed the fine mount of Hateh,
and had engaged him In a conversa-
tion which ultimated in a horse race,
with twenty dollars up, between Hatch
and Judd.
“I'll give you a good beating.” shout:
ed Hatch, as Morrison started them
down a strip of level highway. But
his fine-looking horse was just a bit
too fat to go up against Judd's wiry
broncho, and he was beaten by a short
length, Seeing which, Hatch hit his
horse upon the head with the quirt,
causing him to rear and fall upon his
rider,
That was the whole story the men
had to tell-—suceinet, complete, but not
convincing. Over and over, on Cross
examination it was repeated by both
men like a well learned lesson. Look-
Ing and listening, I make up my mind
that this evidence was false; ergo, the
woman's was true,
After the arguments of counsel and
the verbal fireworks of the imported
lawyer, who never made arguments,
but always and everywhere stump-
speeches, the learned judge charged
us at great length to find the defend
ants gulity If they were gullty, and not
guilty if they were innocent, and we
were locked up.
In the jury room Judd, of course,
was acquitted on the first ballot. The
feeling was strong, but not unanimous,
against Morrison. He had a friend or
two who were stout In his defense,
They urged that Morrison might kill
a man on occasion—had done so per-
haps—but never from behind,
There was much argument and no
agreement until, late In the evening,
contrary to every rule of law and In
ontempt of court, some new evidence
was submitted to the jury. It came In
the form of a note to me from my
friend the doctor, shoved under the
door of the jury room behind the
balliff’s back. It read as follows:
George .—At noon today Dr. Mars.
ton and myself operated on Job
Hatch It was only one chance In
& hundred that the man would
stand it, but as he could not possi.
bly recover without it, we took that
chance, and lost, He died within an
hour. After trepanning he spoke a
number of words Indicating excite.
ment, The only connected sentence
was: “I'll give you a good beating.”
I thought you ought to know
WILL
Those were exactly the words testl
fled as used by Hatch at the
worse race, and the note, thrown into
jury, turned the balance in favor of
Morrison, and was acquitted
In another part of the West, years
later, I long wagon journey
with Morrison. 1 came know his
nature well, and proved
on many occasions.
under the tars, when
ampfires bgrned low, 1 said
without prelude:
“Ben, who killed Job Hatch?"
“His wife.”
he also
made a
to
brave
worth
summer
to him
After a slience,
“Are you sure?”
“I saw it. I went out there to ar
m and he was beating his wife,
As I rode up grabbed the gun
from his holster and hit him. It was
i+ chance blow, but woman was
frenzied and it felled him like an ox
He got about what he deserved and |
told the woman that I'd see her
through. Of course, any Jury would
have cleared her on the facts, but she
had been a girl well connected and
sald she'd rather die than have her peo
ple know, So | did what I did”
“But,” I cried, “what was the ocen
‘asion for her bad faith? Why did
she try to fasten the deed on you?
After another pause and the light
ing of another pipe Ben replied slow.
iy: “1 don’t know. 1 have tried to
follow a good many trails into a wom-
an's mind, but they are always blind
trails. They lead dowhere. My guess
is that she tried to do me up because
I went there to arrest her husband for
a thief. No sooner was he gone than
she began to idealize him, and she was
as flerce against me in his defense as
she had heen against him In her own
That's my guess, but all I absolutely
Know Is that she seemed very grate
ful to me for my promise to shield her
And two days after I got the worst
joit of my life when 1 was locked up
to answer her charges.”
“You must have known before the
trial came on,” sald I, “what the wom-
an meant to testify. Why not then
have given the court the facts? Why
did you stand by ber in spite of her
self?
No answer,
I wanted to get from him an avowal
that he thought he had done a brave
and genercus thing,
“Supposing you had been convicted
on her testimony?" I persisted.
But Morrison nly sald quietly,
“Then you would be waking this jour
ney alone”
rest hi
she
the
Satan Leading On?
The Rev. Mr. Potter, after he had
retired from the ministry, continued
to attend the First Presbyterian
church of Greenwood. He was a
saintly man and one time he, with
his large family entered the church,
Just as the congregation was singing
“Hold the Fort”
"It was at the verse which goes “See
the mighty host advancing, Satan
‘ending on” that the entire family, led
iy the father, came in und was sented,
The situation was so novel that there
were many smiles in the audience. ~In-
dianapolis News.
.
The Kitchen
Cabinet
(&), 1986,
Western Newspaper Union.)
continuously
when to be
and when
If you want to be
happy, you must learn
deaf, when to be dumb
to be blind
GOOD THINGS TO EAT
It
have
planning to
something different
occasionally and
always nutritions
and wholesome,
Oftentimes a
most tasty dish
may be put to
gether, quite hy
necessity, whieh
we remember Is
“the mother of Invention.”
When the watermelon
served several times and
Is somewhat dulled, try
pretty pink fruit cut into
longs, cubes or Into balls with a po
tato scoop; sdd diced pears and an
equal bulk of finely cut tender cel
ery. Mix with go good salad dressing,
or marinate with a French dressing
and when serving add the boiled
mayonnaise, Serve on lettuce. To
matoes, pears. and celery Is another
well-liked combination. If one Is us
ing yellow as the color note, the vel
low tomatoes may be used. The small
pear-shaped ones make attractive
salad,
Baked Ham.—Have a three-inch cen.
ter cut of well-cured ham. Parboll
if too salty and stick a dozen cloves
into the fat of the ham, Spread with
peanut butter, ndd a bit of water and
place In a glow oven for an hour. Re.
move from the add brown
gar with a teaspoonful of mustard,
and spread over the ham to the depth
of an inch, Pour arvund it fresh
sweet milk and put back to bake an.
other in rather a slow
thought and
food,
tnkes
good
heen
its delight
using the
straws, ob-
has
aven,
hour or two
if not baked In a hot oven, The long,
slow cooking makes the ham tender.
Summer squush, dipped
and us does
makes an nice change from the
way of serving it.
Coffee Cake Take
well-rizsen bread
cooked one egeplant,
a good cupful
better, add one
half-cupful of short.
and if no milk
was used In the bread, balf cupful of
milk. Mix well with flour, k add
little possi
Cut |
in
of
of sugar,
nead
ing as flour as
twice, then place rover |
Use
Just
moisten
and brown sugar,
3
kne
oven,
if liked, when wding
going the
with
raisins
before
the
A roll which is quick to rise is the
trefoil or Make |
them no longer than g walnut and put
inta
top milk,
clover leaf rolls
three together
Being
when
sery
woell-preased
they rise quickly
if sllowed to
gem
pans
and
anti] light, they
as feathers,
haked, riage
wili be as ligh!
Good Sandwich Fillings.
One prepare
tions and make appetizing fll
can strange combing
of
nl
sandwiches
small bits of
most leftover
out
any
Peanut
mixed
butter
with a little
whipped
well liked by
who enjoy
butter.
Sweet Sand
wiches.-—~Chop a half cupful of raising, |
me cupful of walnuts, a fourth of a |
cupful of grated coconut, a table |
spoonful of grated chocolate ; mix with
thick sweet cream. Green
chopped fine and mixed with mayon
aaise. Figs and puts or dates finely
chopped and mixed. Nuts and raisins |
shopped fine, i
Orange marmalade, Jelly,
maple sugar, with browned almonds,
finely chopped. Equal parts of grat
#1 Swiss cheese and nuts, chopped
Dutch cheese mixed with chopped
ives or with preserved currants, |
Finely chopped celery with mayon
anise,
Ham mixed with chopped pickles |
and celery. Equal parts of ham,
wlery and mayoonaise. Cold roast |
chicken, roast beef, or cooked oysters
shopped fine and well seasoned with
solled dressing, i
Cream cheese and barde-due, adding
a bit of cream to the cheese to softer |
it.
Crean in
thous
peanut
olives
grated |
|
Quince Jelly, chopped walnut meats |
Lettuce leaves and
Cream cheese, French
lettuce,
dressing and
chopped onion and a very thin slice
of cucumber, all moistened with well
seasoned mayonnaise,
One cupful of cold roast chicken,
three olives, one pickle, a tablespoon.
ful of capers, all minced fine and
mixed with mayonnaise,
Hard-bolled eggs and water cress,
finely chopped, mixed with softened
butter,
Caviar and lemon julce.
meat and mayonnaise.
Cucumber, grated onion and mayon.
naise, Olives, pimentoes, chopped, on
lettuce with mayonnaise,
Grated cheese, seasoned with salt
cayenne, mustard and anchovy paste.
Cheese with chopped olives and
plekles added,
Murnschino cherries, nutments
chopped. Cottage or cream cheese
and chopped cherries,
Cream cheese, chives and chopped
green peppers.
Lobster
IENER'S LOOKOUT is sot
really its name at all It
” fire lookout
tation on the
Mountain in Rocky
Mountain National Park
ind Waiter Kiend® is the
watch for forest
Walter
is unique
top of Twi
Sisters
man
fires
of
Nevertheless
utlook
For right across Tahosa
Valley the i
as! Face of Longs Peak, *
Rockies.” And it
1% enacted last winter the grim strug
and mountain that
ied the mountaineers the
That dread East Face
Agnes Vallle and Walter
Dut altitude killed Agnes
Vaille after summit was won,
Walter Klener for life and
Herbert Sortland in an
at rescue. And from his lofty
exrie on the Twin Msters Kiener looks
out after day and night after
night on these very places, (Pleture
No. 8)
tocky Mountain Is the most popu.
Inr of all the national parks. Tabosa
Valley, at the foot of Longs’ Peak. is
its south entrance,
Tahosa's cup on the east: the
rest of the vast granite heap is the
park boundary. Hundreds each sea.
son climb the Risters for the magnif-
cent view, the alpine flowers, the fan-
tastic timberiine, This season thou-
sands Instead of hundreds have worn
deep the steep and narrow trall. It
is the Twin Sisters plus
Kiener,
Kiener's «
looms
sheer E
is there
Between man
of
world
did not
Kiencr,
®top
and
the
storm
suri faust
a aad |
to death
oe
temp
aay
in
It
taineers to
Ir
the
Lake
sheer,
{oer
Or ge It
from Chasm
in mw
nil
fseoent
sti
believed
be Impossible of
Princeton
Sitice then
Vis nour
1922
made ascent
eral times by
shows the
of the
It
fs wd
se ARs
enver
IEE Career
chamber of
: Et i
rade Mountain club
Walter Kiener
established
fustly bo
hefore oon
YORrs ngo.
in the
frequently
Migs Vallle
Agnes VYaille,
left
ing
He has
Colorado
done much
ing Rockles
been the compa
Elinor
Riener Denver Saturd
3 a mt
Timberline Cabin (11.300
the regular trail). At 0 a8 m. the two
climbers left for Chasm Lake and Miss
Eppich returned to Tahosa Valley
Darkness found the two climbers only
part way up the East Face. After a
favorable day the thermometer had
dropped to 14 below and the wind bad
risen. They decided climb up
rather than down. They reached the
summit at 4 a. m, Monday
There is no shelter there; they had |
to keep moving. The regular trail
down Is on the west slope. They
chose a shorter route down the north
Few have been over it, even
They had both used it
By 9:30 they had
T00 feet,
3 es vaid ano T
al Sunday at ©}
Coopnt
Peel
{0
in summer,
There is no trail.
descended about
At this point, the most dificuit of
thrilled by the herale.
Tuhosa—Land of the Dwellers
her footing and slid down over rocks |
She assured
>
11.438 (No. 2).
the
north Twin, His sheltered cabin
is hidden from sight.
Longs Peak rises to 14.255 feet.
glaciers, It
1868-—nand then with great diculty
from the west and by way of The
Notch,
Youngsters
competent guides. About a thousand
visitors n year make the ascent. But
veen made,
The famous East Face of Long Peak
i
{
i
i
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i
’
With Kiener's help she
though unbroken |
Kiener left her for help at 10:80 |
a. m He reached Timberlige Cabin |
There he found a relief
Herbert Sortland,
son, Oscar Brown, Leaving Oscar
Brown to keep the fire going, Kiener
At 11.800
SRortland, twenty-three
years of age, could not keep up and
was sent back, Kiener and Christian
~he had given up hope of returning
alive—reached Agnes Vallle at 4:30.
She was dead--und had been for
was impossi!
ed to the yall
Then it
Sortiand wi
Casey Rockw
Andrews, Jack
ledge and
vain
t
timberline
others-——risked thelr
the search that was
sit He Tm “Ed
1 hursday Cou
Not
Vaille’s body
ut a
It
13,300
be reached
of about
iK
’
{eet
an elevation
the north slope, 2 feet
edge of the East Face, and abeut
50 feet above the perpetual snowdrift
on the edge of Boulderfield—which
in plain sight from the valley, sug
gests a flying bird, and is s
“The Dove” Two
back of the
is
skis were
the joint The body was
strapped to these skis and carried
with the aid of ski poles. Eight men
carried the body across Boulderfield,
relays taking part at frequent inter
vals. Further down a toboggan could
be used,
At Timberline Cabin flattered the
American Flag, worn and frayed from
the winter storms, Agnes Vaille had
done patriotic service overseas dur
ing the World War. They took down
Old Glory and lald It across her
body. And so came back Agnes Vallle
Walter Kilener, badiy frost-bitien
Denver for medical treatment; sev.
eral operations were found necessary.
Agnes Vallle's father paid the hos.
pital bills. The national park service
gave him the lookout station,
The body of Walter Sortland was
not found until February Z5--In the
Valley, within a stones throw of the
main road and of shelter, Kicners
official gaze must pass over the spot
several times a day. And he cannot
look at Longs Peak without seeing
“The Dove”
Master Craftsman
Either the burglars In France have
exquisite sensibilities or the pross
agents are adepts at the profession.
Consider the case of a burglar who
broke Into a house, packed up all the
valuables ready to take nway, and
then found that the tefant was no
other than the famous Moe, Dufious,
un lady whom he had seen any times
gyrating behind the foolizhts nt the
theater, Stricken with cromorse, he
thereupon left everything he had
planned to take, and added this note:
“I would not for anything in the world
give you pain. But you must permit
me to carry off some photographs, |
Your radiant beauty and your equal |
goodness of heart will forgive this |
petty Iarceny.” |
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Heazy Inheritance Tax
Perhaps the oldest and cortaimy the |
most drastic of inheritance tux laws in |
the world Is that of the lgorot tribes |
of the Philippines. When an Ignrot
tribesman dies, half his property Is
gold off and the proceeds used to de
fray the cost of a canav or wake. Tha
cadaver being smoked into a mummy
in a burial chair, sits hy and views
the orgy, one of wine and feasting anid
utter abandonment to the carnal peas.
nres-—gave nlone abuse of virtue, which
is not known to the Igorote and if per.
petruted would entail the death pen.
alty. Ameriean government is the
sole uplifting Influence awongst these
tribes,