XL A Technical Error.
By O. HENRY v
""opyrlslit by Frank A. Murrey Co.
CT a NEVE It cured espe-
?0)rH cla"y fir f(MKl-
pr believing tli em
ro ue even mine
'overruled prod
ucts of our coun
try than grape
fruit, scrapple
or honeymoons.
Neverlheless, If
I may be allow
ed, I will tell you of an Indian Terri
tory feud of wuli'h I was press agent,
i-Hinp follower and accessory during
tli- Tnet.
1 was on a visit to Sam Durkee's
taw-li. whore 1 had n urea t time full
ing oh imuianieured ponies and wav
ittu; my bare hand nt the lower Jaws of
wolves about two miles away. Sam
wns a hardened person of about twen
ty five, with a reputation for going
home In the dark with perfect equa
nimity, though often with reluctance.
Over In the Creelc nation was a fam
ily hearing the name of Talum. I was
tol l that Hip Purkees and Tattling bad
been feuding for years. Several of
en h family hud bitten the grass, and
li was expected that more Nebuchad
nt:.urs would follow. A younger gen
eration of each family was growing
up, and the grass wus keeping pace
with them. Kut I gathered that they
Im I fought fairly; that they hud not
lain lu cornfields and aimed at the
division of their cuemles' suspenders
in I lie back partly, erliaps, because
t(i"ie were no cornfields, and nobody
wore more than one suspender. Nor
lull any woman or child of either
limine ever been harmed.
Sam Iiurkee had a girl. Her name
was Klla Baylies. They appeared ,to
lie devoted to each other and to have
perfect conlldence lu each other, as nil
couples do who are and have or aren't
and haven't. "She was tolerably pretty,
Willi a heavy mass of brown hair that
helped her along. He Introduced me
tit her, which seemed not to lessen her
pnrei'cuce for him. so I reasoned Unit
they were surety soul mates.
Miss llayues lived In Klngllsher.
twenty miles from the ranch. Sam
lived on a gallop between the two
place.
Due day there came to Kingfisher a
courageous young mini, rather small,
with smooth face and regular features.
He made many Inquiries, about the
business of the town mid especially of
. tic; Inhabitants cogmiuilnully.' He said
he was from Muscogee, and he looked
it. with Ills yellow shoes and crocheted
foiir-lu hanil. I met him once when I
rode lu for the mall. He said his name
was Beverly Travers, which seemed
Mtber Improbable.
(tiie day when 1 was messenger for
li.-tlf a gross of cigarette papers and a
couple of wagon tires I saw Hie alleged
Beverly Travels lu a yellow wheeled
lniKgy with Ellu liuyncs, driving about
town as ostentatiously as the black,
waxy mud would penult. 1 knew that
1'iis Information would bring no balm
of lillead to Sam's soul, so 1 refrained
from Including It In the news of the
cily that I retailed on my return. liuf
on the next afternoon an elongated ex
cowboy of the name of Simmons, an
old lime pal of Sam's, who kept a
feed store in Kingfisher, rode out lo
Hi" ranch and rolled and burned many
cli;arotles before he would talk. When ,
he did make oration his words were
loose:
'Sam, say, there's been a descrip
tion of a galoot nilscalllu' himself ltevel
I'Mged Travels Impairing the a lions
piiei-lc air of Klngllsher for the past
two weeks. You know who he was?
I(e was not otherwise than Hen Ta
lum, from the Creek Nation, son of old
)her Tut urn that your Uncle Newt
slot last February. You know what
he done this morning? He killed your
biolher Lester-allot hlui lu the eo't
bouse yard."
I wondered If Sam had heard. . He
Hilled a twig from a mesiiille bush,
chewed It n moment and said:
"lie did, did he? He killed Lester?"
"The same," said Simmons. "And
In- did more. He mil uway with your
girl, the same as to say Miss Ella
(tayues. 1 thought you might like to
know, so I rode out to Impart the lu
fo.'iiiatlon." "I am much obliged, Jim," said Sam,
taking the chewed twig from his
in nit h. "Yes, I'm glad you rude out.
Yes, I'm right glad."
Well, Ml be rldlu' back, I reckon.
TU.it boy 1 left In the feed store don't
himw hay from oats. He shot Lester
io the back."
"Shot him In (he back."
"Yes, while he was liltchiu' his boss."
"And you suy"
"Yes, Sam. Everybody seen 'em
dine away together In a buckbeard,
With a dig bundle, like clothes, lied up
lu (lie back of It. He was diivln' the
I. am he brought over with lit id from
Muscogee. They'll ho hard- to over
time right away."
"And which"
"1 was goln' on to tell you. They
left on the tJulhrle had. Hut there's
no telliu' which forks they'll take-you
Uitow llial."
"All right. Jim. Much obliged."
"You're welcome, Sam."
Simmons rolled u cigarette am! stab-tn-1
his pony with both heels. Twen
ty yards away he reined up and called
U.i U:
"You don't wait no assistance, aa
you might say?"
".Vot any, tbaults."
"I didn't think you would. Well, so
long!"
Sam tools out and opened a bono
handled pocketkuKe and scraped a
dried niece of mud from his left boot.
I thought at first he was going to
swear a vendetta on the blade of it or
recite "The Gypsy's Curse." The few
feuds I had ever seen or read about
usually opened that way. This one
seemed- to be presented with a new
treatment. Thus offered on the stage
It would buve been hissed off.
"I wonder," said Sam, with a pro
foundly thoughtful expression, "if the
cook has aiiy cold beans left over!"
He called Wash, the negro cook, and,
finding that be had some, ordered him
to heaf up the pot and make some
strong coffee. Then we went into
Sum's private room, where he slept
and kept his armory, dogs and the
saddles of his favorite mounts. Ha
took three or four six-shooters out of
a bookcase and began to look them
over, whistling "The Cowboy's La
ment" abstractedly. Afterward he or
dered the two best horses on the ranch
saddled and tied to the hitching post.
Now, lu the feud business In all sec
tions of the country I have observed
that In one particular there Is a deli
cate but strict etiquette belonging.
You must not mention the word or re
fer to the subject In the presence of a
feudist. It would be more reprehensi
ble than commenting upon the mole
on the chin of your rich mint.
It yet lacked two hours to supper
time, but In twenty minutes Sam and
I were plunging deep Into the reheat
ed beans, hot coffee and cold beef.
"Nothing like a good meal before a
long ride," said Sam. "Kut hearty."
I had a sudden suspicion.
"Why did you have two horses sad
dled?"! asked.
"One, two one, two." said Sum.
"You can count, can't you?"
His mnthemutlcs cnrrled with It n
momentary qualm nnd a lesson. The
thought had not occurred to him that
3fotjK
Ha Pumpad Six Bullets Into tha Body
That the Brown Dreas Covared.
the thought could possibly occur to
me not lo rldu at his side on that re.l
road to revenge and Justice. It was
the higher calculus. I was booked for
the trail. 1 began to put more beans.
lu an hour we set forth at a steady
git Hop eastward. Our horses were Ken
tucky bred, strengthened by the nies
qulte grass of the west.
I knew that Hen Tiitum's curd to
play wus flight flight until he enme
within the sufer territory of his own
henchmen and supporters. He knew
that the man pursuing him would fol
low the trail to any end where It might
lead.
During the ride Sum talked of the
prospect for rain, of the price of beef,
and of the musical glasses. You would
have thought he hud never had a broth
er or a sweetheart or an enemy ou
earth. There are some subjects too
big even for the words In the "Una
bridged." Knowing this phase of the
feud code, but not having practiced It
sulllclenlly 1 overdid the thing by tell
ing some slightly funny anecdotes.
Sam lauglmd nt exactly the right place
-laughed with his mouth. When I
caught sight of his mouth I wished I
hud been blessed with enough sense
of humor to have suppressed those
anecdotes.
Our first sight of them we had lu
Outhrle. Tired and hungry, we stum
bled, unwashed, into n little yellow
plue hotel and sat nt a table. In the
opposite coiner we saw the fugitives.
They were bent upon their meal, but
looked around t.t times uneasily,
The girl was dressed lu brown one
of these sniixith, half shiny, silky look
ing affairs with lace collar unit cuffs
aiid what I believe they call an ac
cordion plaited skirt. She wore a thick
brown veil down to her nose and a
broad brimmed straw hat with some
kind of feathers adorning It. The man
wore plain, dark clothes, and his hair
was trimmed very short. He was
such a man us you might see any-
here.
There they were-the murderer and
the woman he bad stolen. There we
were the rightful avenger, according
lo the code, nnd the supernumerary
who writes these words.
"What are you waiting for. Sam?" 1
said lu a whisper. "Let blm hare It
now!"
CTP
THE DAILY CAPITAL JOT
I Kum pnva n molnnrhnlv uleh
"You don't understand, but he does,"
he said, "lie knows. Mr. Tenderfoot,
there's a rule out here among white
men In the Nation that you can't shoot
a man when he's with a woman. I
never knew It to be broke yet. You
can't do it. You've got to get him in a
gang of men or by himself. That's
why. He knows It too. We all know.
So that's Mr. Hen Tutu in! One of the
'pretty men!' I'll cut him out of the
herd before they leave the hotel!" .
After supper the flying pair disap
peared quickly. Although Sum haunt
ed lobby and stairway and halls halt
the night, in some mysterious way the
fugitives eluded him, and In the morn
ing the Veiled lady In the brown dress
with the accordion plaited skirt and
the dapper young mini with the close
cropped hulr, and the buckboard with
the prunclng nags were gone.
It Is a monotonous story, that of the
ride, so It shall be curtuiled. Once
again we overlook them on a 'road. We
were about fifty yards behind. They
turned lu the buckboard and looked ut
us, then drove on without whipping up
their horses. Their safety no longer
lay In speed. Hen Tatum knew. He
knew that the only rock of safety left
to blm was the code.
So you may perceive that woman, on
occasions, may postpone instead of pre
cipitating conflict between man and
man. .But not willingly or consciously.
She Is oblivious of codes.
Five miles farther we cume upon the
future great western city of Chandler.
The horses of pursuers und pursued
were starved and weary. There was
one hotel I bat offered danger to man
and entertainment to beast; so the
four of us met again lu the dining
room at the ringing of a bell so reso
nant and large that It hud cracked the
welkin long ugo. The dining room was
not as large as the oue nf Guthrie.
Just as we were eating apple pie
how Ben Duvlses und tragedy Impinge
upon each other! I noticed Sam look
ing with keen Inteiitness at our quarry
where they were sealed ut a table
across the room. The girl still wore
the brown dress with lace collar and
cuffs and the veil drawn down to her
nose. The man bent over bis plate,
with his close cropped head held
low.
"There's a code," I heard Sam say,
either to me or to himself, "that won't
let you shoot a mun In the company of
a woman; but, by thunder, there ain't
one to keep you from killing a woman
in the company of n man!"
And quicker than my mind could fol
low his argument he whipped an auto
matic from under his left arm and
pumped six bullels into the body that
the brown dress covered the brown
dress with the luce collar and cuffs
and the uccordlon plaited skin.
The young person In the dark suck
suit, from whoe head and from whose
life a woman's glory hud been clipped,
laid her head on her arms stretched
upon the table, while people cume run
ning to raise Hen Tutum from the
floor In his feminine masquerade that
hud given Sum the opportunity to set
aside, technically, the obligations of
the code.
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Dr. Stone is a regu
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X
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Six Bravest of New
York's Finest To Be
Decorated Today
Now York, May, i. The annual pa
rade uf the Tolicc Department and the
prpHontiition o, medals for vnlor will
tuke plnre here today. It will be -led
by ConimiHsioner Woods and reviewed
by Mayor Mitchel.
Mix additions to t.e medal men of
the department will be made, Mayor
Mitchel pinning the coveted insignia on
the eonts of five patrolmen nnd a ser
Beant. The department medal of honor goes
to Polii'emun John A. MH niren, who
ruptured 11 burglar 'at the corner of
limvery and Hoimton street.
The policeman was wounded three
times, but, finally making out the form
of the mun in a dark hall, opened fire.
The mini surrendered.
Patrolman John C. Cnspera will get
the lihinelunder medal for an nttempt
to arrest "Andy" Lewis, cocaine ped
lar. Unarmed. Caspers pursued Lewis
after he had been wounded twice by
the 'fugitive. He fulled to make an
arrest because his wounded leg became
paralyzed.
Sergeant Alexander C. Anderson will
get the Isaac Bell medal for rescuing
August Nelson from the icy waters of
the Last River, December 27. 1015.
The Peter F. Meyer medal will go to
Policeman. Franklin H. Trnver for a
similar rescue of William Williams, a
boatswain's mate of the lT. S. H. Wasp.
The rescued man died of pneumonia.
The medal of the Automobile club
of America will lie awarded to Folice
ninn Kdwnrd V. Doyle, for valorous eon
duct following the explosion of an am
monia plant. He entered the building
after he had been named that another
explosion was imminent, and although
badly hurt when the explosion occurred
went buck for a man he had seen lying
unconscious in the engine room.
Policeman (leorge Hngerty will get
the Brooklyn Citizens' medal for the
capture of n mun who had mortally
injured another in Hicks street, Brook
lyn. He pursued the man, who was
brandishing a revolver, nnd when tbe
fugitive hid in a hallway and fired
through the only door leading to it,
Hngerty forced the door, and captured
the slaver.
CHARGE OF THE "LIMB"
BRIGADE
Half an inch, half an Inch,
Half an inch shorter
Whether the skirts are for
Mother or daughter.
Briefer the dresses grow,
Fuller the ripple now.
White whisking glimpses show
More than they nughter.
Forward the dress parade,
Is there a man dismayed
So From the sinht. disnlaved
None could be sundered.
Their 'a not to make remark,
Clergyman, clubman, clerk,
duping from noon till dark
At the rur Hundred.
short skirts 1 0 riht of them
Shorter to left of them,
Shortest in front of them,
Plnuntercil and flirted
In hose of stripe and plain,
lined most exceeding glud,
Sporting in snuts run mad,
( nine the short-skirted.
Flashed all their aukles there,
Flashed as they turned in air
What w ill not women dure I
(Though the exhibits show
Some of them blundered.)
All sorts und shapes of pegs,
Broomsticks, piano legs;
lloro and there fairy shapes;
Built just to walk oa eggs.
Come by the hundred -When
run their ulorv fade
( the wild show they made,
All the world wondered.
(Irande duine and demoiselle.
Shop girl and liowery belle
Four hundred II 111 oh, well,
Anv old hundred.
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SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1916.
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NEW SERIAL NEXT
WEEK
The new story, "The Lost
World," by Sir A. Conan Doyle,
author of the Sherlock Holmes
stories, will begin next Satur
day. It was announced'that this
serial would begin today but the
copy did not reach this office
in time to make good that
promise.
Watch for the opening chap
ters of "The Lost Wurltl" next
Saturday.
!
Uncle Joe Cannon, 80
Tomorrrow, Not So Ran
tankerousasHeOnceWas Washington, May 6. Tomorrow will
be Uncle Joe Cannon's eightieth birth
day. His political friends and foes in
the house of representatives today cele
brated the event with an hour of speech
making filled with bouquets and no
brickbats.
"Confidentially, I wish they wouldn't
have this celebration," the ex-speaker
admitted today. "It's too much like
bringing flowers to a corpse."
" L'ncle Joe" is not the extreme par
tisan he was of old. That's why men
of all parties in the house feel so
friendly toward him. Since bis "come
back" he lias kept out of the 'lime
light. L'ncle Joe still harbors a deepseated
hatred of political reformers. Lvery
time he gets a chance tie hits one on
the head.
"I suppose," said l'ncle Joe, "a re
former bus his place. Sometimes I think
they get pretty thick. They say their
province is to fight with the Al
mighty; that the Almighty und one are
a majority.
"I am not here to atnise them.. Near
ly all of them are honest, but once in
a while one of them Is a hypocrite."
In these days of aeroplanes and sub
marines, L'ncle Joe is proud he gave sub
stantial encouragement to Prof. Lang
ley, the Americ'au, who was jeered when
he tried to fly in a heavier-than-air ma
chine. He helped him get an appropria
tion. "You know the newspapers pounded
on old Langley and called him a fool,"
said Cannon. "'Going to fly like a
bird,' screamed the headlines derisively.
They poked fun nt me for befriending
him.
"I didn't mind it. fo tell the truth
the newspapers have kind of pleased
me. They have given me a notoriety
for profanity and wickedness." '
Speaker Clark, Democratic Leader
Kitcbiii, Sherwood of Ohio, und (iillette
of Massachusetts, were the speakers.
Rodenberg, of Illinois, was master of
ceremonies.
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local disease and prescribed local reme
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with local treatment, pronounced It Incur
able. Science has proven Catarrh to be a
constitutional disease, and therefore re
quires constitutional treatment. Hall't
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Emma Goldman, Out of ,
Prison, Will Continue Birth
Control Speeches
(By United Press.)
New York, May . " In the cause of
her motherhood I am still proud am!
glad to be a criminal," said Emma
(ioUIinnn today when she had completed
her 1.) days and walked out of the work
house on Blnekwell's Island.
Miss Goldman was a prisoner here
just -':! years ago, too. This time she
went up for publicity advocnting birth
control.
She pleaded her own ease, lost and
fcad her choice of a 100 fine or prison.
"I prefer to go to the workhouse,"
she said. "I won't buy my way out of
anything."
"I shall go right on distributing
birth control propaganda," she said to
day. " I teach it for the sake of joyous
childhood and glorified motherhood,"
she said. "There are ,'1110,000 half
starved women who need the informa
tion what kind of children do you
think theirs would bef If this is
crime, I am willing to be a criminal. I
haVe as fellow criminals the greatest
men and women of the world."
Assistant District Attorney I'nger
said Miss Goldman's speech haft been
simply "indecency in the guise of
birth control.
"The police of this office is not to
limit in any way, shape or form the
discussion of vital propaganda such as
that of birth control. Hut the law
compels us to and it is our intention to
put an end to indecencies. The address
was made in an impure and indecent
fashion to a mixed audience of men,
women and children of tender years.
Among those who helped defend
Km m a Goldman and who met her on
her release today were: Kose Pastor
Stokes, Leonard D. Abbott. Mrs. J.
Sergeant Cram, Mrs. John Sloan, Ben
Iteitnian. George Bellows and Mrs.
Hubert Henri.
THE MODERN
NEED
b a remedy for the evil effects of quick
eating, over-eating and strenuous liv
ing. The medicine that meet this
need that tonea the stomach, atima
latea the liver, regulates the bowels ia
mm
Lara S.U ml Aa? MxW. b tha W.U.
spend millions to put soldiers on farms
- I
J 5 Deanis:
ASSISTANT lo V'.
The providing- of employment for
returned soldiers is a question that .'s
demanding much attention, and it
has been with great satisfaction that
Canadians learned that the Canadian
Pacific railway is ;c take action in
this regard. -
J. S. Dennis, assistant to the presi
dent of the Canadian Pacific, makes
this statement:
"The decision of Lord Shaughnessy
to provide farm ! cmes for returned
soldiers i3.a further .proof of his
willingness to devote his p-eat
energy and ability, and the resources
of the company, to the solution of
the problems facing Canada. .
"The -task of preparing 1,000
farms involves building 1,000 houses
and 1,000 barns, constructing 1,300
miles of fence, digging 1,000 wells,
breaking and cultivating 60,000
acres. The buildings will require
20,000,000 feet of lumber; prepara
tion of the farms will entail an ex
penditure of $3,501,000.
"One thousand farms will provide
for an extremely small proportion of
returned soldiers, and the govern
ment must adopt some general policy
of providing these homes.
"The enlistment of 250,000 addi
tional men called "or by the- govern
Iment will double the number to be
taken care of after the war. The
western provinces have responded
ncbly to the call of the empire and
already there is a shortage of labor
of all kinds. In the effort to meet
WAR ODDITIES
' , .
L'jinion ooclen clogs are
iu such demand among womeu
wcri.ers on farms that Lincoln-
shire manufacturers have trip-
led then output in the pist
tiiret months. '
Borne Permission to work
has been applied tor by 24,-
7o0 Austriaa prisoners, iu
Italy. They will be employed
on farms ami iu the mines" of
Sardinia. - $
Aeroplane to Bombard
Battleship at Sheeps
Head Bay Today
Nw York, May G. An aeroplane
thriller will be staged at the Shuens-
keaiil Bay Sio-edway today when Avia
tor lliompson, who "bombarded New
York and Washington from the air will
drop bombs on the silhouette of a b.it
tle cruiser, will chase an armed auto
equipped with a rapid lire gun, and
after his loop-the-loop, corkscrew slide
and upside down flight will imperson
ate a wounded aviator, diking both
nanus ami teet from the controls and
tumbling to within 200 feet of the
ground.
He will also race four miles with
D.irio Kesta. in his Peugeot car, keep
ing ten feet above the track all the
way.
lu addition there will be a fight be
tween two aeroplanes, each carrying
observers with machine guns. Henry
ofidhouse of the Aero club planned
the sensational exhibition.
Let the Canital .lournal New Tnitnv
Column put your dollars on tbe right
track.
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Pure Distilled
rnone
this shortage, the government is now
auvci using in ,uuu papers in ine
United States for 50,000 laborers.
They find there is no chance of get
ting this number of men, and have
announced that from 3,000 to 5,000
is the greatest number that can be
obtained.
."The recognition cf this shortage
and the efforts of the government to
meet the situation by brinfing men
from the United States is a contra
diction of the statement at a meeting
in Montreal a short time ago by Gen.
Sir Sam Hughes, minister of militia.
tnat the enlistment in the west was
not causing any shortage of labor. . I
"Every true Canadian realizes that
Canada must ultimately send her
last man and snend her last dollar to
enable the empire and her allies to)
Dring the war to a victorious termi
nation, but why enlist men before
they can be used? '
"k is now recognized that under!
tne most favorable circumstances itl
will be the end of the year before a 111
the men now enlisttd can be trans-!
ported across the Atlantic, and after
that only 10,000 men a month ran be
sent. Many of the battalions now
authorized are much below fall
strength, and it will be months be
fore they will enlist their full quota.
"Of ther men already enlisted.
western Canada has provided more
than its share on the basis of popu
lation. We are proud of that fact,
but why drive a willing horse off its
feet?" &
Nation Wide Protest to
to Mark First Anniversary
of Lusitania Sinking
New York, May (I. One year ago.
tomorrow the Lusitunia. was torpedoed
ind sunk by a German submarine, witU
the loss of 150 American citizens.
Mew York and other cities in th
Kust and Middle West, tomorrow will
conduct services "of ajn impressive
and dignified nature, somewhat in the
nature of a protest ", according to a.
statement issued by the Americans
Rights committee.
The meeting in this city will be iiebl
in Carnegie Hall. It is not the pur
pose of those in charge of the exercises
to turn them into an active attack up
on the administration, but rather to
use them as a memorial for the Ameri
can dead who never have been aveng
ed. Schenectady and Philadelphia have
tlroailiy completed plans for sjmilir
services as have Chicago, Cleveland
and other American cities.
"WAR BRIDES" HELP AUTHOR
Cleveland, May 0 "War brides"
will enable Prof. Klroy M. Avery, who
spent thirty years of his life writing a
history of the United States, to pub
lish his work.
Five ye.irs ago, after $230,000 has
been s)ent making seven volumes of .
the history, financial difficulties over
took his publishers. So publication of
the five remaining volumes was held
1-
Mow A. W. llenn, of the National
Acme Co., has agreed to liut un .-
000 and so has Utley Wedge of Phila
delphia. Both men are saU. to have
made big profits from "V.ir brides."'
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