THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA. HOW IT WAS DONE Wife—Now that sou are | Henvy, 1 will disclose may secret. For years 1 have been saving | up, and now (pouring a shower of | coins Into his Liat) this may tide you | over. Hushand—Oh, my darling, you manage to do It? Wife—Easlly enough. Every you sald an unkind thing to me 8 shilling into a box. —————— Sound Saxophone playing a! | loudly defended by sonorities, (Poor defense.) Another— Radio reception by snority of loud sleepers. This recalls little Janet's reply when the overnight guest exclaimed ar breakfast, “I'm such a sound sleeper,’ Janet “Oh, yes, | heard the | sound,” Loving ruined, ARAN SERRATE RRR A how did time 1 put Item college News girls’ The whole world knows Aspirin as an effective antidote for pain. But it’s just as important to know that there is only one genuine Bayer As piri n. The name Bayer is on ev ery tablet, and on the box, If it says Bayer, it's genuine ; and if it doesn’t, it is not! Headaches are dispelled by B ayer Aspirin. So are colds, and the pain that goes with them; even neuralgia, neuritis, and rheumatism promptly relieved, Get Bayer—at any drugstore with proven directions, Physicians prescribe Bayer Aspirin; it does NOT affect the heart Aspiria fs the trade mark of Bayer Man ou in Da frontier set about his task Need More Hours in y Lo a ye oN a : | The prophecy that it will be only a by listing and describing : A fo ie i The prophecy e only the “instruments of civil | few yen before » working day In or Exercise zation." He named the grant cith i} be 24 hours. is made | YOU M Ex a dil . 2 ali ¢ 2. \E San w w ax, the rifle, the boat and BY an ” . in Ba . 3 gE or YOU the horse, and then; haying put these Financial Weekly. Night frue ing. A notice it about Instruments in the hands of a restless pois out, wi he fhe sitar], Jul ruck: | others, OTHERS race of men, he started the protag msn York. | otice it about you, onists of his tale on their epic of wil irried on oil no matter how often derness-breaking. That historian A Emerson Hough, and the book “The way to the West,” published by improved | chimed, FRID Z. SUrroy cm — 1 = GOT LEFT IN THE RUSH By ELMO SCOTT WATSON NCE upon a time a his torian of the American Giasture of Mon | When You Dance i sorticacidester of Salleylieardd Ww edito riter rron s caus SIVE the large cities like New if « work for was on Hay “ ug Suk. a su bathe. was thls would be lately oltzet bs the Be Sate, Use P. D. ‘ the Bobbs-Merrill company of Indian apolis. A quarter of a century has passed and another historian of the frontier has added one more to the “instru ments of civilization,” which a tater race of restless men used in winning the West, after their fathers had found the way to it. This was the six-shooter and it seems particularly appropriate that Bebhs Merrill are alco the publishers of “Hands Up!— Stories of the Six-Gum Fighters of the Old Wild West,” as told by Fred E. Sutton and written down by A. B MacDonald, As the title indicates this book deals with the final phase of the frontier era, the days when civilization, as exemplified by the westward-pushing white man, had defivitely dispossessed the red man, established a home of serts in the recently-conquered wilderness and set about putting its ows house in order, Insofar as some membere of that bousehold found it difficul’ to breat away from certain lawless habits ae quired while what Theodore Roose velt has characterized as the “roug! work of conquering a continent” was going on, the task of law-bringing was done in a primitive fashion. Su perfluous forms were dispensed with legal technicalities ignored and the dealing out «of justice was, in the light of present-day procedure, appal lingly simple and direct. For in most cages Old Judge Colt was the fina arbiter, and from his decisions there was rarely an appeal. Mention the word “gunman” and ane maturally thinke of the gangsters in our big cities of today. But a= Emerson Hough long ago pointed out {in his “The Story of the Outlaw") it is exceedingly unfair to the gun man of the ‘Old West to compare the kliler of today with him. “The one is an assassin, the other was a war rior; the one is a dastard, the other was something of a man,” said Hough who declared that the nature of some of the crimes committed by the modern type of “gunman” “would cause a hardened desperado of the West to blush for shame.” And in that opinion Fred Sutton, who knew some of those old-time desperadoes intimately, seems to concur. In his chapter on “The Border Code” is an Hlamincting exposition of “the un written law of the Old West, which gave to every man a chance.” One instance is typleal: In a freighters’ camp at Wagon-Bed Springs two men quarreled. and after they were separated and an of ur thought the fuss was over. one of them, Arizona Jack. shot and killed the other without warning We formed what was called a lack-rahbit court Arizona was put en trial for Wis ifs end found mullty He begued for his life but the executioner fust before he pulled the trigger rebuked Him with “You're not as decent, rattlesnake, for it strikes” It was this same code which caused even, as a warns before EI) BAY IAT AST ZR3Qy = GROLIP QF QLD TILE CO Sutton one night at a dance to the life of the notorious Billy the kid, “not selely for reason that I knew him well but simply that | could not see g@ man murdered from behind,” as Le explains it. But for all that he saved Billy from being shot in the back, the author of “Hands Up!” bas no Illusions about that young outlaw. “If ever a man de served killing, It was Billy the Kid he says, "He was a human tiger, the pitiless killer of that period In his short life of twenty-one years he Killed twenty-one men, and the most of those killings were murders in cold blood” Thos this old-timer shows a refresn lack of maudlin sentimentality for killers which ewlors the writings of others who have chron icled their dark deeds, the same type of misplaced sympathy which suves the necks of so many murderers to day. He knew many of them-—Jess: James, Cherokee Bill, Bill Doolin Crescent Sam, Belle Starr, the Dalton boys, the Jennings gang, Henry Starr Macked-faced Charley and Arkansas Tom—and, knowing them and the en vironment which shaped thelr dest) nies, he can account for what they were and what they did. But he does not glorify their crimes. He may have admired them for what good qualities they did possess, bu: he ad mires more the type of gunman who drew his rix-shooter In the cause of law and order. “Nearly all those peace officers of the old frontier were likable men, but there was nothing maudlin or Irresolute about them They knew that death was the onl penalty that would curb those wild men of the border, and when it was necessary to inflict it they did no hesitate,” says Sutton. Such were Wild Bill Hickok, whom he character izes as "unquestionably the fastes: and surest man with a six-shooter that the West ever knew.” Bat Mas terson, Pat Garrett sad Billy Tiigh man, It was men of this type who used the six-shooter as an “instru ment of civilization" “Fill your hand!” was the remark that Wild Bill made when he “got the drop on™ a bad man from Texus who had come up the trail to Hays City Kan. where Bill was marshal, swith the announced Intentlon of spilling the Hickok blond For the border code extended to these exponents of luw and order when they set about arresting a desperado and made then “give the other fellow an chance, even when It was exceedingly dangerous to do x0.” Ome of the renspns they were willing to do so was explained tn save the most done ing those President its to Oklahoma City by the veteran Billy Tilghman, as follows: *T1 thing thet always counts in a ight of that kind (between a peace officer and a bad man, equally #kil ohh the ‘draw’)—the man who he is right always has a she the man who knows he But that te Sutton, loosevelt on one of his vis ere's one iful Knows on fe - - iS wrong de not all, according explains just how these peace officers handled their six guns, and In doing so he does 8 lot of much-needed debunking of the Wild West, ar it ia presented by the mo vies, Sutton his Information first-hand, for he once saw Wild Bin demonstrate the secret of his light ning like draw and various other mat ters of Colt technique were explaine’ to him by such masters as Bat Mas terson, Billy Tilghman, Al Jennings and others. He learned about this when, as a boy, he first arrived In Dodge City. Kan., in the old days when “there was no Sunday west of Kanens City and no God, west of Fort Smith,” and was taken under the wing of such frontier notaliles as Masterson, Luke Short, Wyatt Earp Chalk Beeson and Robert M. Wright and he added to his knowledge In that turbulent period when Isaac C. Parke: was the “hanging Judge” at Fort Smith, Ark. and the outlaw gangs such as the Daltons, the Dooling and others, were making thelr last stand in what is now the state of Oklahoma The sum total of Sutton's ohserva tions, as set down In the pages of hig book, is a paraphrase of the old saying that “they who take the sword shall perish by the sword” For, as he puts it, “The six-shooter ended the lives of nine-tenths of all the outlaws of the Wild West." And i was a! most equally true of those others who took up the six-ghooter in de fense of the law. Of the four mos famous peace oflicers whom Sutton knew, three went down before a smoking six-shooter. Wild Bill's brief career as “prince of pistol eers” ended abruptly in 1876, when he wae shot down from behind In Deadwood, 8. D. Nearly a quar ter of a century after Pat Garrett had killed Billy the Kid. he himself wae shot and killed. After fifty-one yeurs a8 a peace officer Billy Tilghman “went out” as he had hoped to de “in smoke and with his bouts on. He was shot In an Oklahoma oll boom town in 1024 by 8 man whom he ha arrested and was taking to the police station. Only Bat Masterson, whe left the Wild West yours age to be come a New York newspaper man died peacefully “with his boots off,” was who got Do Not Force Plants If a plant has been growing thrift. fly for some time and then begins to go back, it probably needs a rest. and no amount of forcing wiil do any per manent good. 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