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A Womans Ruse
Original
Many years ago Edward Bixby left a
loving wife and their little ones to seel
his fortune In the west Bixby became
a prospector in Colorado and bought n
claim which he worked with a man by
the name of Clark One day Clark took
Blxby to a little pocket of rocks near
the mine and showed him where he had
placed some articles he did not care to
keep on his person There were some
money a revolver a gold pencil case n
bunch of keys and h picture of a wo
man
I want you to know where these
things are in case anything happens tc
me Clark said and having covered
the pocket with a broad flat stone lefl
no sign of the concealed articles
Some time after this Clark was taken
111 and having no relative to leave any
property to made a will leaving his
interest in their claim to Bixby though
there was then no great apparent value
in the hole they were sinking Clark re
covered but the will was not destroyed
One day Bixby left the claim for a
day to buy provisions and when ho
came back he found that Clark had
been murdered during his absence
There was no trace of the murderer
and Blxby was much puzzled as to whe
had done the deed Bixby went on dig
ging and finally struck very valuable
ore Then he filed Clarks will
He had been suspected of Clarks
murder and now that it appeared he
had a motive he was arrested He
could not prove that the murder was
committed during his absence and no
one else was known to have an inter
est in Clarks death Persons who had
sold him and Clark the claim they had
worked when it was thought to be of
little value hoping that If Bixby was
hanged they might get It back manu
factured eidence against him and
he was convicted The usual efforts
were inadp by his lawyers to save his
life but they were all failures and
finally they told him he must prepare
for death
It was only a few days before the
execution was to take place that a
young man an effeminate apparently
half witted fellow entered a saloon
at the county seat where Bixby had
been tried and was to be executed
Going to the bar he called for a drink
and in payment offered a revolver
The barkeeper while examining it no
ticed scratched upon the handle Jar
vis Clark the name of the man who
had been murdered The barkeeper
took the revolver In payment for the
drink and immediately sent it to the
authorities The young man who had
offered it was arrested and on his per
son were found two of the other articles
Clark had buried the gold pencil case
and the picture of a woman The
man could give no account of himself
and since Clark had shown the picture
to several persons they were enabled to
Identify it as his property Bixby was
released and the young man was put
on trial for the murder of Clark
Bixbys lawyers advised him to spare
no pains to convict the accused thus
vindicating himself but Bixby declar
ed that his misfortune had shattered
his nerves and he would go east to
be nursed back to health by his wife
The prosecuting attorney had objected
to his being permitted to depart Bix
by however got away before any legal
move could be made to detain him
He had had plenty of time to reach
a safe distance when the young man
who was about to be tried sent for the
prosecuting attorney When that offi
cial appeared the prisoner said to him
Im not a man Im a woman and
the wife of the man you hoped to hang
My husband wrote me where Clark had
concealed certain articles I came here
found them and produced the revolver
for the purpose which has been achiev
ed I had arranged it all with my hus
band
The astonished official ordered the
prisoner to be examined by a woman
who found her claim to be true
And now said Mrs Bixby I be
lieve the picture of the woman Clark
hid with the other articles to have
something to do with the murder Re
lease me and I will endeavor to find
out
Mrs Bixby was released and set
about the task she had assigned her
self It was not long before she discov
ered the picture to be that of a woman
who had left her husband for Clark
The erring womans husband was ar
rested for the murder but he was not
brought to trial The sympathy of the
people was in favor of one who had
simply avenged a wrong in a way that
they considered legitimate The pris
oner confessed that he had long looked
for Clark and when he found him gave
him a fair chance for his life But
fearing arrest on charge of murder he
had fled as far as possible from the
scene of his revenge
There wa a great deal of sympathy
for Bixby who had come so near being
banged for n murder he had not com
mitted and a great deal of admiration
for the woman who had saved him He
remained in hiding till his wife had un
covered the real facts of the tragedy
then on an Invitation from the people
of the region he returned took up the
work on his mine where he had left
It and became rich
The Bixby case produced a great
change for the better In the court be
fore which It was tried The court had
been placed in an absurd position In
convicting the wrong man but had
been set right by the trickery of a worn
an Circumstantial evidence was there
after not in favor
MARY ALICE BOND
iaidkiiik One In the I2ye
There Is a venerable specimen of
proverbial philosophy which says that
the man who cannot look you In the
face is dishonest No other saying has
received greater currency It strikes
the popular mind with axiomatic force
and yet it Is not a reliable test of char
acter Every confidence man who suc
ceeds in his calling has the steady gaze
of the immaculate person No person
who Is skilled in the fine art of decep
tion fails to take an obvious precaution
to Impress his dupes On the othe
hand many persons of unquestionable
Integrity are put out of countenance
by mere shyness So morbidly was this
trait developed In the case of Haw
thorne In his earlier years at least that
he would go out of his way to avoid
meeting those who desired to converse
with him It would be impossible for
such a man to cash a forged check to
borrow money from a bank on bogus
collateral
The great rascals can face the world
without shrinking New York World
Advice to the Men
Reams of advice are unloaded upon
woman telling instructing and admon
ishing her how to make home pleasant
so that the lord and master may find
comfort therein So then why should
not some advice be given to the said
lord and master For verily there is
more than one of them who make
home mighty unpleasant There is the
man who does not realize that it takes
money to make home pleasant There
is the man wno does not realize that
his wife neeas recreation and outside
amusement once m awhile so that she
can continun to make home pleasant
There is the man wno does not realize
that silence and grumpiness and a
grouch now and then do not make
home pleasant There is -the man who
does not realize that children must be
noisy sometimes and play and romp if
home is to be pleasant to them A
Woman Cor in Philadelphia Telegraph
Snakes Are Great Pasters
Snakes though at times they gorge
themselves are great fasters In the
French museum an anaconda twenty
feet long was a very small feeder
though he gamed In weight Taken
there in 1885 he had only thirty four
meals during the next five years con
sisting of a small goat or a few rab
bits The Interval between these meals
varied from twenty three to 204 days
He would not touch food unless he was
In real need of it and it was only by
watching him and noticing when he
seemed to be uneasy that his keepers
could conclude that he was lngry
During the long fast which was in
18SG many strenuous efforts were
made to tempt or force him to eat with
out the least success
Prolit and Loss
Here is a story illustrative of the
tribulations of an editor of a paper in
the west In the old days Away back
In the early eighties of the last century
a notice appeared in a journal publish
ed at Dodge City which ran as follows
In view of the fact that we cannot
pay the road tax of 10 assessed
against us this year we have been sen
tenced to a certain period of confine
ment by the judicial authorities of this
state consequently there will be no
Issue of this paper for the next three
weeks But as the state will of course
have to board us we figure that we
shall come out some S20 ahead Har
pers Weekly
The Importance of Advertising-
Time was when advertising was re
garded as blowing ones own horn
and there have been in it at times
fakes and frauds just as there have
been In other lines of business All
that has changed very perceptibly in
the past three or four decades Busi
ness men have realized that the world
is too large to ask the people in it to
hunt around and find out for them
selves what the manufacturer makes
and what the merchant has to sell The
possible consumer must be found and
told about what is for sale and why
he should buy it That is all there is
to advertising Indianapolis Star
A Remarkable Scrapbook
One of the most carefully guarded
possessions of the United States treas
ury is a scrapbook that is always kept
shut up In a massive burglar proof safe
in the bureau of engraving and print
ing Scarce any one has ever seen it
save high officials of the department
Its shabby outside gives no suggestion
of the precious contents yet pasted on
the yellow pages are proofs taken
from all the Important counterfeit
plates for paper money that have ever
been captured by the government
Tlie Easy Job Youth
Whenever I see a youth looking for
a soft snap I pity him There can
be no doubt where he will end if ho
does not change his tactics If he does
not brace up take stock of himself and
put vim and purpose and energy Into
his life he will surely join the great
army of the might have beens Suc
cess
Philadelphias Rapid Gait
These said the epicure to the
bright Philadelphia girl are snails I
suppose Philadelphia people dont eat
them for fear of cannibalism
Oh no was the answer it isnt
that We couldnt catch them Wash
ington Star
Something1 Got Away
You say the chicken soup isnt good
Why I told the cook how to make it
Perhaps she didnt catch the idea
No I think it was the chicken she
didnt catch
His Bluff
Hojack Why are you consulting the
dictionary I thought you knew how to
spell Tomdlk I do I am not looking
for Information but for corroboration
RETRIBUTION
Original
The grvat American desert Is the
home of queer people and queer things
generally With us the rattlesnake is
the most dreaded of reptiles but out
there they have what they call the
Gila monster that Is more terrible than
the rattler Its bite is almost certain
death and men have been known to
end their lives with a revolver rather
than endure the agony resulting from
a Gila bite When I went out there 1
had never heard of a Gila but after I
had seen one and its effect I never
wanted to see another
One afternoon while riding past a
house or rather hut belonging to one
of the herders of a ranch near by 1
heard a clatter and turning saw a
man come galloping down the road A
child about two years old had just com
out of the house and was toddling
across the road The horseman paid no
attention to it 1 thought he didnt
see the little fellow but he did fo
just before reaching him he gave
whoop cutting at him at the same
time with his quirt The child too
young to heed stooped to pick up some
thing that pleased its baby fancy Th
horseman rode straight over him
The boys mother came to her door
just in time to see what had occurrc
With a shriek she rushed to her child
picked him up and ran with him into
the house I would have followed to
administer to her but there were oth
ers with her and to tell the truth I
had no heart for the work The man
rode on to a saloon farther up the road
where he dismounted and went inside
I have never felt so ashamed of my
self for omitting to do what honor
seemed to call for as In this case In
the east I would not hesitate to protect
a lady from a ruffian yet here was a
woman whose child had been purpose
ly trampled before her eyes and I did
not raise a hand to avenge her But
what could I do Any interference on
my part must result either in my death
or that of the man who had committed
the outrage
I reported the matter to the owner of
the ranch who told me that the boys
father was in his employ and was then
away herding cattle There was a feud
between him and the man a worthless
and desperate vagabond who had
ridden down the child to avenge some
fancied injury When the father re
turned one or the other would doubt
less bite the dust
And if the father falls there will be
two victims instead of one I re
marked
Wo cant help that out here re
plied my informant Theres too little
law to cover such cases
The next morning while riding over
the plain I came upon the childs moth
er She carried a stick and a coarse
bag and was evidently looking for
something I did not see her face for
her back was turned Suddenly I saw
her raise the stick and strike at some
thing on the ground In a few mo
ments she pickod up what resembled a
young alligator holding it by the tip
of the tail dropped it in the bag tied
up the bags mouth and carried her
burden away holding it apart from
her Then she turned and came toward
me I would have liked to ask her
what she had been about but there
was a look in her face that decided
me not to question her and she passed
on without seeming to be aware of my
presence
Curiosity got the better of me and I
turned and followed her She went to
the saloon up the road and before
reaching it I saw a man asleep on the
porch though I could not see who he
was The woman drew near him
stealthily pausing occasionally with
her eye fixcl on him till at last com
ing upon him from a point where he
could not see her she untied the mouth
of her bag held it above him and the
alligator thing it contained fell on his
breast
The man started up and on seeing
what had awakened him gave a cry as
piercing as full of despair as had
been given by the woman when her
child was run down I saw him strug
gling with something that had fastened
upon one of his hands and finally throw
it from him It crawled away and I
saw it no more The woman turned
and walked toward her home
I had seen the dreaded Gila monster
The woman had learned that her ene
my was asleep on the saloon porch and
going out on the plain had found a
Gila When attacked the monster
feigned to be dead She had therefore
no difficulty in carrying out her pur
pose She knew that when her hus
band returned the man who had run
down his child would expect to die or
kill his adversary Her husband not
knowing of the outrage would be taken
unawares She had resolved on her
own method of foiling their enemy and
avenging her child
I was surprised to learn that the
child had not been killed It had not
seemed to me that there was one
chance in a thousand for its survival
Perhaps it was that the horse one of
the noblest and kindest of dumb brutes
tried not to touch it perhaps it was
good luck perhaps an interposition of
Divine Providence Be this as it may
the child though severely injured
lived
Eut the man who had sought to kill
It day after day night after night
we heard the maniacal cries in his de
lirium and agony It was a terrible
but deserved retribution One day he
found relief and the next the child
he had sought to kill toddled out and
all who saw him rejoiced that it was
his would be murderer and not he who
had succumbed
S MARSHALL PHELPS
nistorlo Dnby Bottles
Bottles for bablea date back to re
mote antiquity Most people are of the
opinion that feeding bottles for babies
must be an Invention of modern times
1 According to Professor Mosby how
ever this Is not the case This gentle
man who was lecturing before an anti
quarian society stated that it was the
custom among the Greeks for the
nurses to carry a sponge full of honey
in a small pot to stop children from
crying The professor went on to say
that there are two Greek vases in the
British museum dating from 700 B C
which closely resemble the feeding bot
tles used subsequently by the Romans
In the old Roman cemetery of St Sep
ulcher Canterbury a feeding bottle
of bright red polished ware was dug
up In 1SG1 and Professor Mosby came
to the conclusion that this bottle must
huve been buried with the 111 tie Ro
man child to whose wants it had min
istered during the childs lifetime
Byron and Napoleon
The more I think of Byron the more
clear it becomes to me that he is first
second and third a tragic figure He
was the child of a loveless marriage
that constant source of huge armies of
discordant natures His upbringing
was tragic his marriage was tragic
his loves were tragic his death which
at first I thoujjht only tragic farce is
actual tragedy Byron and Napoleon
contemporaries were the analogues
and complements of each other Byron
Is the passive tragedy of the imagina
tive temperament as poet using ex
pression Napoleon Is the active trag
edy of the imaginative temperament
as warrior and world compeller em
ploying deeds Byron inevitably ends
in an abortive attempt at action in
Greece Napoleon as Inevitably in an
abortive attempt at expression the dic
tated memoirs in St Helena John
Davidson in Loudon Outlook
A Bit of Oratory
There was a time when our commerce
was carried in American ships manned
by American seamen There was a
time when the flag floated over Ameri
can cargoes and when its bright beau
tiful stars and emblematic stripes en
livened every sea and port where com
merce was known The American
looking out on the broad ocean beheld
it in the orient and in the Occident
Whither he went
To the northern wastes of snow
Or swayed where the soft magnolias
blow
it was there there to remind him of
his own native land whose sons re
sembled In their strength the gnarled
oak of her deepest forests and whose
daughters rivaled in their beauty and
loveliness the orange blossoms of her
most fragrant orange groves From a
Speech by Benton McMillin
Origin of the Postmarlc
Great Britain it is said can without
fear of contradiction claim the honor
of having originated the postmark
The first one which was used in Lon
don as long ago as 1G00 was a very
simple affair consisting of a small cir
cle divided into two parts In the top
portion were two letters Indicating the
month while in the lower half the day
of the month was shown No endeavor
was made to denote the year and It Is
only by the dates of the letters on
which the mark is impressed that It is
possible to fix the date of its use The
earliest known was on a letter written
In 1GS0 London Telegraph
Advice to Kickers
Kickers always attract attention One
class of them sells high on the market
The highest priced four legged kicker
is a hybrid creature Irritable and
somewhat unscriptural The chronic
kicker is an amusing two legged ani
mal not so dangerous however A
kicker never builds up He Is great
on tearing down The worlds happi
ness has been promoted more by com
pliments than by curses so good read
er when you feel like kicking just re
tire to the back yard and kick yourself
a few times rather than join the knock
ers chorus Kansas City Journal
An Irishmans Retort
Cyrus W Field of Atlantic cable
fame once stopped an Irish peasant to
make inquiries about Blarney castle
Receiving the information he gave the
Irishman the following conundrum
Now Mike suppose that Lucifer was
sure of us both which would he take
first do you think
The Irishman looked thoughtful for a
moment then said Yer honor I think
hed take me
Why said Field
Because hes always sure of you
Its Great Fault
Mrs Chase Oh I dont like to go to
that store Its so unsatisfactory to do
your shopping there Mrs Shoppeu
Why they have everything there Mrs
Chase Thats just It No matter what
you ask for they can suit you right
off Philadelphia Press
All the Change He Wanted
In an English court recently a man
was fined 2 for contempt of court He
offered a five pound note in payment
but was told by the clerk that he had
no change Oh keep the change was
the reply Ill take it out in con
tempt
A Backhander
Mrs Younghnsbnnd I suppose you
wish I didnt look under the bed every
night Younghusband I dont care I
only wish youd look there once in
awhile In the daytime when youre
sweeping
Evidence
The duke is dead In love with her
isnt be
He Is prepared to lay an Ms liabili
ties at ber feet Life
Gratitude has a faithful memory and
a fluent tongue
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