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"Captain Molly," now being played In New York, Is full of dashing anion and thrilling situations. Elizabeth Tyree as "Molly Pitcher." makes n
captivating heroine. The above flashlight shows the already famous court scene wherein "Molly" carries herself with distinction. Later in the sea
son "Captain Molly" will make a tour of the west.
n't Sell Pistols
to Prevent Suicides
He is a shrewd, keen observer the
man who sells revolvers from behind
the counter of the hardware store. A
few sharp glances from his well trained
eyes enable him to detect pretty sure
ly the purpose of the man who seeks
the weapon.
Often and often does the salesman
spy out the contemplative suicide or
would-be murderer and by a few well
chosen words divert him from the Ill
formed purpose. He is the enemy of
coroners and the unconscious friend
and necessary accessory of the police.
One was speaking the other day of
the occasions when he had to refuse to
sell revolvers even to acquaintances.
He hated to sit down on them but
felt that to be a true friend the thing
to do was to refuse to accommodate
them.
"In the course of a few months." he
said, "we can often tell in a minute
the Intention of the man who seeks to
buy a revolver. An unhealthy pallor
overspreads the face of the would-be
suicide. Tn his hands there is a dis
tinctly nervous tremor when he hand'es
the guns. Possibly he is In a mood
to tell you of his proposed course in
an attempted bold, resigned way. If
he does, the rest is easy. It is not
error to judge that a little sympathy
or urging will revive his spirits. A
neat little con talk soon send him out
of the house In a brighter frame of
mind and the chances are that he will
stay so Perhaps It is cheating the
coroner: it is certainly depriving the
store of a little handy profit. But for
the sake of family, If the man has
one, and for the sake of his own fu
ture it is a good thing and we feel
rewarded."
Not long ago a one time wealthy
citizen of Lincoln sought out the gun
clerk of a hardware store.
"I want a revolver," he said. His
voice quaked and his whole form shook
as with ague. A ghostly whiteness
came into his face as he fingered and
thumbed the weapons set out for his
inspection.
Instantly the clerk suspected some
thing wrong.
"What do you want of a revolver?"
he asked.
"O the cats nearly bother the life
out of me." was the response, and his
form trembled.
Cats and dogs are the handiest ani
mals In existence for the man who
needs some plausible excuse Tgr buying
a gun that he ought not to have.
Finally the visitor plucked out a
weapon which he thought would satisfy
him. He seemed to realize that the
clerk did not want to sell it to him
"and he tried to get it Into his pocket
to settle the question. But he couldn't
do It. His hand shook so violently
that he could not find the pocket.
After groping for It ineffectually for
several seconds he gave It up.
"I don't believe you want this." said
the clerk. "I know It isn't cats that
are troubling you. Tou are sick. You
ought not to have a gun. I can't sell
it to you with & good conscience."
Housed to a pitch of wrath the
would-be purchaser denounced him.
"Why can't I buy what I want here?
Isn't my money Just as good as any
body's? You have no right to say I
shan't have this revolver. You are
here to sell what anybody wants to
buy and pay for. I demand the right
to have what I am ready to pay for
and If you want to avoid trouble you
will hand that gun back."
Gently, but firmly, the clerk insist
ed. "I hated to have him get angry and
I hated to refuse him, but I know as
well as I ever knew anything that he
meant no good with that gun and I
didn't let him have it. He went out
showing mad, but at heart I believe he
was pleased at my guess."
Later the clerk learned who the man
was and telephoned his folks that he
was trying to buy a devolver. They
were badly frightened and commenced
a tour of the hardware stores and
pawnshops to see if he had bought
one elsewhere. He had not and
doubtless will not. When an inquest
Is under way no hardware merchant
likes to be pointed at as the man who
provided the weapon.
I
WJ Wme of Crime
Newspaper readers have dountless
been shocked by the great wave of
crime that has been sweeping over the
country for the past two or three
weeks. Nebraska has not been exempt.
Four or five murders, foul and brutal
crimes, have been perpetrated within
the state's borders, and but one of the
scoundrels has been captured. For
three days the past week four different
man hunts were in progress in the
state, three of them in the northeastern
section.
The popular opinion that bloodhounds
are good trailers has received a pretty
severe set-back, as in neither case did
the dogs run down the escaping mur
derers. Posses of men have half
heartedly pursued the armed despera
does, but all of them seemed to be de
sirous of abandoning the chase as soon
as they could consistently do so. In
fact, they acted as though they hadn't
lost any murderers. The career of
Tracy, marked as his flight was with
the dead bodies of men who sought to
take him, has had a deterrent effect
upon the bravery of sheriff's posses in
Nebraska.
But this wave of crime why Is It?
What causes It? Are the people get
ting worse or Is life held cheaper or
what Is the matter? Here Is what
some experts say:
"The trouble," says Chief Hoagland.
"lies In the fact that parents are not
doing their duty. The whole matter
can be traced to the homes of the land.
Parents are not bringing up their chil
dren right. They don't exercise proper
control of them, their conduct, their
appetltles, their actions. They let them
run the streets at night to early be
come familiar with all forms of de
grading vice. The parents are mostly
to blame. Let them reform them
selves and keep their children on the
right path."
"There is too much sentiment in
favor of criminals," says Detective Ma
lone. "The laws are not strictly en
forced, and sentences, instead of being
heavy, are light and not at all burden
some. Very few criminals get the limit
of the law. All professional criminals
ought to be shut up for all time. They
are the fellows who do most of the
mischief, aided and abetted by the
sickly sentimentalists nmung the wom
en and long-haired men. They go about
preaching the gospel of mercy and the
criminals laugh at them and applaud
them and get out soon. This pardon
ing and paroling is all nonsense. It
ought to be stopped. The slick crimi
nals, the men to be dreaded and
feared, are the ones who get out soon.
They are shrewd enough to get some
women Interested and a parole or a
pardon they are practically the same
lets them out In a short time. While
they are In prison they have a good
time. They receive visitors In plenty,
they get their cocaine and their other
stimulants on the sly, they have leis
ure to shoot craps or play checkers
and the depraved women who come to
see them keep them In touch with the
world of crooks and crime. There are
too many people attempting to earn
salaries as reformers. There must be
a change or there will be still more
trouble."
It Is a curious fact that every young
man arrested by the police Is a cigar
ette smoker and a sufferer from dis
ease. They learned to run the streets,
early and picked up the vices of civil
ization. They are paying a heavy pen
alty but society Is paying more.
GREEN GABLES.
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