The evening world. Newspaper, October 19, 1922, Page 22

TTS CEE AN ete Republican Ticket Against Labor Candidates. THs is the sirteenth of a series Of political surveys of the out- look of both parties in November being written by Mr. Lawrence on a tour of the country. By David Lawrence. ‘Special Correspondent of The Eve- . ning World.) DENVER, Oct. 19.—Law and order, which specifically means the maintenance of a State Constabulary, ts the big issue which has split the two old parties in Colorado and drawn a clearly defined battle line between conservatives and radicals. “Former United States Senator ef Governor Shoup, Re- whose administration has Popular, while William E. Democratic nominee, not Constabulary behing Mr. Sweet, the way, defeated the two other Demo- erat aspirants for the nomination by 8n overwhelming vote in the primaries. The other candidates were conserva- tives and much of their following ‘will naturally gravitate to the Repub- Moan ticket. qt natural to find the friction capital and Jabor deeply in the politics of Colorado. This is the State whose memories of Inbor war- fare -with its tragedies of Cripple Creek and Ludlow are still vivid. Colérade, too, has been a pioneer what has since developed into tho Allen {dea of an industrial court. Back in 1915 the Legislature Passed an act creating an industrial commission. There can be no strike or lockout, save on thirty days’ notice, gnd- the dispute must be submitted to the commission first for ‘nediation. T€ is not compulsory arbitration, as provided by the Kansas plan, but thete have been no labor troubles of ebnsequence since the industrial cpmmission began to function. “The secret of tho commission's success is its personnel. It consists of three men—a representative of labor, @ business man and a lawyer, They dc not sit as representatives of a elaxs, but as disinterested mediators. ‘They are respected because of their impartiality. ‘The State Constabulary performed excellent service during the coal and rail strikes last summer. Colorado Vee very little trouble and maintained ite cont production pretty well. ‘Mr. Sweet, the Democratic nominee, fz_calling loudly for the abolition of the cohstabulary. Although the Den- ver Post, one of the leading newspa- pers in the West, has frequently sup- ported Democratic candidates, and was a conspicuous factor in helping roodrow Wilson carry the West in 1916, the platform of the Democratic Btate-ticket 1s so thotoughly disliked that the Post has just come out ed- forlalty to-day in support of the en- tire Republican State ticket. “aie Pueblo Star Journal, the lead- fag Democratic paper in Southern } rate ee has also come out for the Republican State ticket. Here, as in North Dakota, Montana, Oregon and Towa, the issues have become far more important than traditional party Rames or Inbels, The conservative forces of the State are grouped in eosert of the Republican nominee, the radicals, as well as large Bumbers of dissatisfied farmers who are getting low prices for thelr pro- ducts, are turning to the Democratic w and order has always tri- hed when inade the issue in Colo- rado,., Zhe Republicans have the edge to-day and will probably win, unless msbre of the farmers can be stirred in favor of the Non-Partisan League doc- trine:than are yet converted. If this Were’ @ national election the State ‘Would be Republican, as the criticisin of the Harding Administration has not @mounted to much out here. But with the eampaign turned on State issues there is little ikelihood of any change fm tiie pregent political makeup of the CongressiGhal delegauon from Colo- rado. COCKRAN’S NOMINATION STANDS AS IS, SAYS COURT Melaughiin Loses Fight for Re- of Primary Bal t F, Wagn alba “permission for a tot certain of th 16th Congressional at the primary eleetion of 19 last recount was asked for McLaughlin, opponent » Cockra riified ticket by the The disap- i gross frauds, WOMEN DEPUTY SHERIFFS FOR NASSAU PROMISED apdidates of hoth partice 1 Nassau “County addressed the Northeast Civic jation at the Columbus Avenue last night. rd C. Watson, Democratic can- for Sheriff, promised to appoint sheriffs if elected, and been prominent in nounced upswing, notably and Studebaker, Hut opposed to the Speculative Fervor at High Pitch. Profit taking which set tn devel- oped in large volume in tho last two hours of business on the Stock Exchange yesterday and was ro- sumed this morning, but demand for stocks was so increased by over nigat consideration of fundamental influences currently shaping the course of prices that profit taking was easily absorbed. Throughout the morning the list, taken as a whole, displayed a notably firm tone. Speculative fervor was kept at a high pitch by a vartety of new rumors involving stock dividends, increased cash dividends and mergers. These concerned not only ofl companies but industrial concerns and railroads as well. But it seemod doubtful whether these reports had as much to do with the market's strong tone as a more thorough appreciation of the con- tinued improvement in fundamental conditions, Instead of accepting at their face value current reports of big rallroad mergers, purchasers of ratiroad stocks to-day seamed to lay stress on the mounting volume of railroad traffic, reductions in the cost of moving transportation and the prospective in- creases In net returns and balances available for dividends. Rails showed gains extending to well beyond a point. In the case of steel shares thero was a disposition to pay more at- tention to the rising volume of incom- ing business than to the statement of the Republic Iron & Steel Company for the third quarter of the yearn which showed that operating ex- penses were not fully earned. Steol itocks after early hesitancy developed a strong tone. Certain industrial specialties have the recent pro Baldwin heaviness of these and a few other stocks that have been market leaders, tobacco shares, textiles, shipping stocks and oils all were in strong de- mand and were able to show gains of from one to extending to more than three points. The resignation of the Lloyd George Cabinet was without effect. The rate of exchange on London was strong, with demand sterling at $4.48, show- ing a gain of about a cent. ——>__——. AMENDMENT TO STAY, HARDING TELLS DRYS WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Delogates to the conference of Allied Christian Societies who called on President Harding last night just before the close of their two-day meeting, said the President declared the Nation, in his opinion, would never depart from the Eighteenth Amendment. Tho President was quoted as saying it had been found difficult to carry out provisions of the amendment an4 the Prohibition Enforcement Act in some minor details, inasmuch os It was the Administration's opinion the law always followed the flag. How- ever, he added, progress was being made. ee IDENTIFY SOCOLOW AS NORRIS’S SLAYER Two Allewea Wi Say Pris- oner Did the Shoot! BALTIMORE, Oct. 19.—Solomon De- courey, @ seventy-three-year-old Negro barber, and Charles Stodtman identified at the continuation of hia trial yester- day Walter Socolow as th yer of William B, Norris, They testified that they were passing the spot when the murder ‘as committed and were eye- witnesses of St. Socolow's counsel, after the State had rested at the night session, announced that the defense would show ‘'Socolow was not present at Madison Street and Park Avenue when William B, Norris was shot dead." > ORS. HERMINE 8. KOHNS DIES. Mrs. Hermine Straus Kolins, 77 years old, for many years a generous sup- porter and gulding spirit in Jewish charities In this city, dled Tuesday night in her home, No. 60 Park Avenue, after an illness of six weeks. Nathan Straur, merchant and philanthropist; Oscar Straus, former Ambassador to Turkey, and the late Istdor Straus, who went down with the Titanic, were her brothers. Jersey Democrats Find Comfort In the Registration Figures They Analyze the Enrolment and Can See Glorious Victory for Edwards and Silzer. Although final registration figures wero not available last night and, wil! not be for some days it is claimed at Democratic State headquarters that enough has been learned to justify them in predicting a substantial victory for Gov. Edwards, Senatorial nominee, and Judge Silzer, his running mate for Governor, In 1920, the year of the Harding landslide and the first year In which the women of New Jersey had the right of suffrage, the total registra- tion was 1,162,086; the total vote 937,- 568; Harding’s plurality, 354,664. In 1921—regarded an off year—the total vote in the State was 600,000 and the Republican plurality a little over 60,- 000, The registration in Hudson County in 1920 was 190,000, the vote 180,000, Harding's plurality, in the county 89,000, In 1921, with a total vote in Hudson of 125,000 the Demo- eratic plurality, was 48,000, Figures which drifted into both State headquarters last night indicate a registration of 800,000 in the State. Practically compiete figures trom Hudson — the banner Democratic county of the State and the home of Mayor Hague, the State leader and Governor £dwards—show that the registration almost equals that of 1920. An intensive registration drive was made in Hudson, Democratic leaders claim that the increased registration over last yer: in Hudson and other Democratic and And this is how the Democrats figure it out: doubtful counties is far greater in comparison than that the Repuo- Ucan counties, In 19) when Ed- ‘ards was a candidate for Governor on a & cent fare and “light beer and wine” issues, he carried the State by 14,000. Hudson gave him a plurality of 36,000, Republican Essex, “I/beral’’ on the wet and dry proposition, gave him 6,000 plurality. In the strong Re publican counties of Passaic, Mercer and Union the Republicans had only a slight margin, In 1919 the women not have a voice. Political dopesters of both parties agree that, all things being even, the women invariably vota as do their husbands, fathers, broth- ers, sons, or other male members cf their families, It 1s admitted that the women in Hudson are better or- gantzed than tn any part of tho State. Democrats claim that the issues are proc cally the same as in 1919, and willl the handicap of the failures of the national administration Mudson will o Democratic by from 75,000 to 80,00); that Essex will show a plu- rality of at least 15,000 for the Demo- atic nominees; that Hunterdon, ss’ x and Warren Counties will give increased Democratic pluralities, and that Hdwards and Silzer have more than an even chance of carrying the Republican counties of Passaic, Mid- dlesex, Monmouth and Mercer. The World News in Brief LOCAL A site has been bought for a fiv story structure to house activities « Knights of Israel No. 620, T. O. B at Fulton Avenue and 170th Str Bronx. Justice O'Malley y terday set for to-morrow morning ar- gument on the application of F. stock broker, for a for the trial of the sixteen I wainst him, charging grand far- a bucketing. fous denominati ution of two 7 Supreme Court ceny Clergy officlat chapels yesterda 1 at the at the 4 the Winter theba Crawford of the r next Sunday meeting. Actors and actresses will the ushers. DOMESTIC, Under instructions from President Harding, the Shipping Board will place at thh disposal of the Near East Rellef Hthe steamship Coeur d'Alene, for trans- porting rellef stores to Constantinople, Portraits of Theodore Roosevelt will be unveiled In armortes throughout N: York State Oct. 27, Col. Roosevelt's Adjutant’ Gén Kinkald 4 to-day, Herbert Wilson, former evangelist, and Adam Blasayk, both murderers, and pignola, a robber, who broke Jail Angeles yesterday, were recap- tured to-day, ‘They were taken without ® struggle in @ home of @ former con- viet Mrs, Nellie Grant Jones, only fdusn- ter of Gen. nt, left an estate of $75,000, according to a petl- tion for letters of adminisiration filed tn Chicago. Bhe died Aug. 8¥. h the Right Rev. Michael J. Cur- D., Archbishop of Baltimor crated Bishop of Savannah, Jobn Stephens, indicted Aug, 17 with John L. Phillip Republican State Com- Inittecrian frou Georgia, and eight others, on a charge of conspiracy to de- fraud the Goveinment In connection with the sales of surplus lumber by the War De a nt, pleaded not guilty before in Criminal Court at V Under a decision of R. of White Plains, in its complaint that Cortland as- had over-astessed watershed property more than $3,500,000 for 1916, FOREIGN. Col, Haskell of the Near East Relief, now in Moscow, says it will be neces: sary to feed 2,500,000 to stave off starva- tlon in Russia this year Five hundred persons got out of jail yesterCay in Bucharest after being con- fined three days during festivities fol- lowing the coronation of Ferdinand and Marte Lord Birkenhead, England, ts Wk States next year, sador Harvey a. Pigney, ret- ow York ‘City Lord Chancellor of to visit the United according to Aiba a Japanes th importing $100,000 arcotics to Hong Kong waa}? to jail months, Open. Air Reduction .. 63% Alaska Gold Mine = % Alaska Juneau. 1% Allled Chem .... 84% Allted Chem pf. 114% Allis Chalmers. Rect Bugar.. Car Foundry 191 Car Fay pt. Linseed O11, ‘Locomotive. . Locomotivept Radiator .... Safety Razor Bhip & Com. 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Ex Buffet ss Endicott-Johnson 84% Erle . 16 Erte 1st pi 24% ous Players . 100% Players pf... 102 er Body ..... 145 Freeport Texas .. 24% General Asphalt Gen Asphalt pf General Cigar Houston O11 Hupp Motors Indiahoma Re Int Comb Ene. Inspiration Cop Inter Cons Corp Inter Agr Chern In Agr Chem pf Inter Cement ... In Mer Mar pf. Inter Nickel .+++ Inter Nickel pf + Int Paper Invincible OU. Iron Prod Isiand Olt Jewel Tem Jowel Tea pt + Jones Bros Tt Kennecott Keyatone Tire Lucka Steel ..++ Lake E & West. Lee Rubber Lehigh Valley «+ Liggett & M. Lima Loe Loews Lott Ino . Lorillard Louls & Ni Mother Lode McIntyre P Mb Mack Truck Ino. Mallinson & Co, Man Elevated «+ Man Bhirt ....65 Marland Ol ...- Marlin Rockwell. Martin Parry «++ Mathieson Al ++ Magna Copper Maxwell Motor Maxwell Motors B Mexican . Miamt Copper .+ Middle States Ol Midvale Steel Minn & St. Louls MoK&TWI. MK &T pew Mo Pacific pf ++ Montana Power . Mont Ward . Manhattan ct National Acme National Biscult. ct 14% 59 High. 63% % 1% 84% 114% 00% “4 42% 7% m1 101 123 20% 150 mK 7” 112 W% aK 12% 30% 135 18% THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1922. Open. Low. NORM of Md pt 3% Nevada Consol . 15% sy N Or T & Mex. 81% 81% NY Central . 100 NYCh&a StL. 89% NY NH & Hart Norfolk & West . North American. North Amer pf « Northern Pac .. Oklah Ref .. Orpheum Cir . Olin Elevator ++ Owens Botting +. Pacific Develor High: Last Phillips Pet . Pieree-Arrow co-Arrow pt Pub Serv of N J. 8 Pullman Co . 131% 181% Punta Aleg Sug. 6 48 80% W% 10% 82y wublic Bteel . oy Reyn Tob pf B. Reyn Tob pt Royal Duteh Bt L & St F pf.. Bt L & Bouw .. Bt L & Bouw pf.. Savage Arms 58% DON 118% 118% Ory Southern Pacific Southern Railway 26% Bouthern Ry pf.. 70% Btand Oil of Cal. 127% Stand Oll of N J. 223% Btand Ol N J pt 117% Stewart-Warner.. 62 Btudedaker 135 Submarine Boa! Texas Conl & OM. Prans-Cont O11 Union Pacifie ... Unton Pacific pf. United Alloy Steel United Drug United Fruit U & Realty . U B Rubber . U 8 Rub Jat pf U 8 Bteel . U B Steel pt Utah Copper Utah Securities Vanadium Stee! Va Caro Chem... 27 Va Caro Chem pf 48 Wabash RR..... 112 Wabash RR pt aA 31% Weber & Hell... 11% + eT stern Union .. stinghouse Air 9® White Motors Wickwire Steel Wilson Co. Overland Corp... Overland Corp pt 424% Worthington Pump 38 White Eagle .... 81 LIBERTY BONDS, Liberty 3 1-28 opened 101.24, up, 0.02; Ist 4 1-48, 99.28, up 0.12; 2d, 99, off 0.02; 3d, 99.10, up 0.12; 4th, 99.10; new, 100.12, up 0.02; Victory 100.28, up 0.02; called, 100.16, CURB. Opened steady. Int, Rbr., 6, off 1-8; Int. P., 227-8; 8. O. Ind., 128, up 5-8; Mutual Oil, 12, off 1-8; Gulf, 651-4, up 1-4; 8. O, N. J., new, 4, up 1-8; Natl, Bise,, 36 1- Tob, Cpn., 19 1-4; City Ser FOREIGN EXCHANGE OPENED IRREGULAR. demand, 4.47%; cables, French francs, demand, .0788%; cables, 0739, off 0003. Lir demand, .0419; cables, .0419%, off 0001%. Belgian francs, demand, 0687; cables, .0687%, off .0004%. Marks, .0008%, off .0000%. Greek drachma, demand, .0248; _ cables, 0260. Swiss francs, demand, .1828; cables, .1880, off .0012. Gullders, de- mand, .8912; cables, .3915, off .000 Pesetns, demand, .1537; cables, .1539, off .0001, Sweden kronen, demand, .2666; cables, .2670, off .0001. Nor- way, demand, .1787; cables, .1791, off Denmark, demand, .2011; ca- 2015, up .0003, DEMONS ae BRIDEGROOM BRINGS BLACKMAIL CHARGE Prisoner Held on Stapleton Photographer's Complaint. Edward Weitzman, photographer of No. 98 Cana! Street, Stapleton, 8. I., called Saturday night at the home of Michael J. Nemo, No. 98 Richmond Street, West New Brighton, and al- leges that there Nemo said he had “something on'* Weitzman which he would disclose to the latter's wife un- less $50 was paid at once. There were several men with Nemo, according to Weitzman, and tte pho- tographer, afraid of a beating though he was sure Nemo had nothing ‘‘on him’ wrote a check for $10, saying the other $40 would be forthcoming whenever Nemo called at the gallery for it. Weltzman told the police and his wife, whom he had recently married, he marked four $10 bills and sent for Nemo, who arrived at the gallery this morning. When the bills had been passed, Detective Graham arrested him. In Stapleton Police Court Magts- trate Featherstone to-day held Nemo in ,000 bail for examination Satur- day on a charge of extortion. Sterling, 4.48, up 1. ML ve, Start loday-Finish Tomorrow TITLE AND A Footlight Frameup Start To-Day. (Copyrighted.) OBINSON BLOCK pushed aside his plate in Morisini's restaurant on Sixth Avenu lighted a cigar, gathered up the skilfully arranged mound of change left by the waiter, and be- stowed upon the swarthy son of Na. poli precisely the proper tip. Block {s a genial, rosy-cheeked giant with a smile that never departs and a fund of theatrical stories as Umitless as his own vast humor. By personal inclination he would prefer to loaf in a great chair, smok- Ing expensive cigars and swapping yarns with his friends. Being a rich man with o string of theatres in fifteen cities, Block works hard the same as any thin man; and when he comes to comfortably, full of honors and years, he will leave some lucky soul enough money to paper Fifth Avenue with gold leaf. With his cigar getting under full headway in a cloud of smoke, he glanced across the table and sald to ™ ‘Better put off work until to-mor- row. Night is a bad time for toil. Come on uptown and see my new theatre. The bill is first rate, and to- morrow you will feel more than ever like getting on the job. Frits Mann is playing. You must have hgard him some time or other?"” I weakened. I am not now, and never have been, irrevocably wedded to work; and when R. Block states that a certain show, even in one of his own theatres, is worth seeing, you can believe him freel He has been managing vaudeville houses and owning them and hiring actors long enough to know something. about the business, “And besides,’’ continued this am!- able Satan, 1 tell you a story and show you the hero of it, all free gratis, for nothing. As J said, you must have heard of Fritz Mann. He's the hero. You're eternally hunting for stories, and here's one on a platter Wiil you go along and be amused and listen to a real story, or will you Ko home and produce a lot of hash for the eventual irritation of peaceful edit- ors who never did you any harm?"’ Robinson Block paused for a reply. My dinner had been an excellent one. So we ‘went up to his new vartety theatre on Broadway. The newest of his vaudeville thea- tres had just been opened, and learned from its owner just how many thousand dollars in mirrors, mahog- any and plush it contained: When we 1DEA ORIGINATED AND PROTECTED BY THE By Frank Condon. reached its spacious and expensive en- trance I was properly appreciative and sat through the first half of the show with @ feeling of satisfaction that I had com: It was o first-class bill, even down to the trained monkeys. Later on Block left me. He had noticed something that displeased him, and went to blast an undérling about it. Before he reappeared the audience was streaming slowly out into the red and gold room to smoke cigarettes and pass the fifteen mi; utes of intermission. “The show has been excellent, said to him. But you promised to tell me @ story about this Fritz Mann you haven't done so. I'll tell you now," Block answered. ‘Come over here and sit down. How do you like that lighting arrange- ment in the ceiling? I devised that myself, and it cost some dough, too. About Frits Mann—he's known as the Dutch Congressman. Watch this audience laugh when he comes on wonder! and make a fool speech. gift. But walt till I tell you about him. I suppose you're too young to remember an old comedy sketch called Sullivan and Smith?"" I shook my head. My acqunintance with the stage is limited and includes modern stars whose names assault one from every billboard, “Well, anyway," Brock continued reminiscently, ‘Sullivan and §mitl was one of these old-fashioned slap- stick riots that used to make @ big hit when the variety stage was younger and not #o refined, I might add that Fri ann wasn't 60 refined, elther, in olden days. That was probably be- cause he was young and compara- tively inexperienced. “Fritz was young and ardent, and even n he had a big following. His stuff was practically the same as it 's now, allowing for political changes, and he used to wander out there with an enlarged stomach and a funny Webberfield hat and make them laugh “At the time I'm telling you about Sullivan and Smith were on the same bill, a little rivalry be- tween Sullivan and Mann. Also on the same bill was Ann Chadbourne. You probably don't remember her, elther?”* 1 shook my head again. “She was a singer, and the reasop she got by as such was because was about the nandsomest female that people could find to look at They used to stand for her singing, which was rotten on account of her looks. To make {t interesting, Ann Chadbourne was Sullivan's sweet- heart, while this Fritz Mann you'll SLOAN FICTION SERVICE NEW YORK & Se __ hear to-night was pretty hard hit with her himself. “That was the situation. Same olf three-cornered affair that keeps the stage and novelists going to-day; only in this case, Sullivan wasn't as much out of his head about Ann as might have been. ‘He was a good looking piece of work with a grin that seemed to set the women, and naturally he had a number of lady friends hee and there from New York to Frisco. ‘But he was mighty fond of Ann, 4 figured it out that some 4 hunt up a little pine-clad hilltop and build them a cottage with climbing the eaves and settle down to a secure old age. “Sour-natured people said Sullivan drank. That might have, been true but otherwise he was a pretty good sort. “Well, nothing much happened, ex- cept that Fritz Mann and Sullivan and Smith and Ann Chadbourne, by the fortunes of booking, were playing along through the same territory and were getting by more or less, especi. ally the Sullivan rough-house sketch. “Then something began to happen to Frits Mann. TI don't know how true It is, but they say a German is inclined to melancholy, and when h once gets started he just naturally be- gins to think of ropes atid rafters. “There wasn't so much change In Mann himself as there was in the au- dience; but, believe me, there's where it showed. The audience one night began to regard him esertously, and after that @ sort of epidemic of grav- Ity hit our nightly congregations. It jainly was tough. dero was one of the stage’s best funny men going through exactly the same stunts that had knocked them silly for a couple of years; yet tho result was painful. Quite some, You'd think that Fritz was out there reading extracts from the encyclopedia on Ivory cultivation in Braail. “The audience was chilly that firat night, but Sullivan and Smith, com- Ing on a half hour later, got the same old applause and gurgles of joy. To make it short, Fritz Mann couldn't make them laugh any more, and when you stop to think that he hadn't changed a line Im his act it might make you wonder. ullivan began to wonder what ailed the German. The more he won dered, the more it interested him. had listened to Mann using the same patter and watching the audience chuckle itself wet-eyed with gle and now the same lines fell over t footilghts like wife's first cake and died dreartly on the bass drum. FINISH TO-MORROW. Love and a Family of Bears (Copyright.) (Continued from Yesterday). Dr. Fred, he pursues Me Bear. Ma Bear can't climb fast—too much winded, Makes two feet and a half against Dr. Fred's two feet four Inches. It's a close race. Ma Bear gets half way up—looks like Willis and the girls will break the top out of that tree sure! Ever see an inch worm rearing up from tho tip of a spear of grass, pro- specting for a path across the chasms? "That was Willis. Had one eye on Ma Bear and one on a bush’ on the wall of the cliff, Girls keep jiggling the troe —makes it bad for Wills. “Look out!'? he yells, swinging his arms, ‘‘I'm going to save you!" But he didn't say how—very poor busi- ness. I told you that Dr, Fred's dome hung out behind—it was full ef brains! All of a sudden he lets go all holds and drops from limb to limb out of that tree. Ma Bear keeps on climbing. Willis keeps swinging his arms. Dr. Fred skidders off acres the rocks and piled onto Ma Bear's nearest cub. Cub ki-yles. Ma Bear can't hear—Sue yelling ‘Help! help! —quick!"’ Minerva yellin “Sa-a-v-e me! S-a-v-e me!"—Willis yelling: “Lookout! I'm about to jump!"'—how could she? Then I. sees Dr. Fred's head go down—Dr. Fred, he claims he pinched that cub—but I know he hit him! Did Ma Bear come? You couldn't see her for the dry bark fly- ing. Dr. Fred he goes skiddering off across the rocks. Ma Bear she skid- ders straight to her cub and licks the place where the doc has hit him When she looks around Dr. Fred has skiddered back to the tree—he’s sire doing some climbing! Ma Bear goes for him with hell fire in her eyes. Willis hasn't jumped yet—every time he gets ready the girls dggle the tree, Dr. Fred gets up out of reach be- fore Ma Bear can hook him. Ma Bear comes up that tree with a hump in her back like an inch worm inch- ing. Second branch he comes to, Dr. ‘ed turns off, But Ma Bear, she re~ fused to cut into any short circult. Willis, he begins swinging his arms some more for one big jump! Dr. Fred, he slides down over the tail of the bough to the ground— makes another run for the cub, But that cub sees him coming—yussir, and knows him! Cub skidders off across the rocks ki-yleing. Ma Bear she keeps right on climbing. Dr, Fred he falls on the second cub —he claims he pinched that one, too ~-but I saw his head go down—yussir, and I heard that cub squall—so did his m Cub bites the doctor, too— yussir, chaws off or claws off half One ear--yussir, ond breaks @ win out of his glasses. And does Ma Bear » does, a-running! , she kisses the bit place on her baby—tells him he ain't killed —looks round—sees Dr. Fred—starts for him, red-eyed and every hair a bristle. Dr. Fred starts for the treo— beats her to it, yussir, and up It. Dr. Fred tries to short-circuit Ma Bear again—but nothing to it—noth- ing but the trunk line for Ma Bear. Heaviest, limpest. deadest jackass in the world on my leg—but I keeps a pulling—hate to think of it—nearly died for every inch I made. Dr. Fred, he slides down over the tail of tho mb again! Second cub. he sees the Doc coming! Yessir, and he knows him, too! This caused delay! During which Ma Bear keeps on climbing. Top of that poor, little old pine be- gan to whip around like a fly brush Minerva, she begins to yell again: “S-a-a-ve me; Sa-a-ve me!" But the sailors say: ‘While she cracks she holds!” Willie makes his jump— very poor business—misses the bush. Sue and Minerva move up higher Ma Bear keeps on climbing—by which time Dr. Fred has corne: the cub under a rock—Doe can't get at him with his teeth—cub squalls, though, when the Doc pushes him up with a sharp splinter of granite—yus- sir, and Ma Bear lets go all holts and comes down foamin, This time there's no cub in sight— Ma Bear heads straight for Dr. Fred I’ve got my leg out—all but one foot: Dr. Fred runs and grabs up Willis gun, But the lock !s breke. I get my foot loose and bind-leg it to the rescue, Ma Bear she jumpa at Dr. Fred— Dr. Fred he climbs her, But Ma Bear downs him. But before she can chaw on him, I bashed her on the bean with a boulder. Ma Bear makes a tarantula spring at me—I skids off across the rocks—both legs working fine. Ma Bear could have run me to death, but she never could have caught me alive! When that cub of hers began to squeal—it’s the first one the doctor bit—he's way out there among the dig. rocks where it's lonesom: Ma Bear she heads for her baby—muet have known she never could ketch me altve —thank Gawd! On the way out to Cub No. 1, Ma Bear calls Cub No. 2 out from beneath his rock—none of ‘em come back—thank Gawd again! I was 50 yards away from the tree —game leg got suddenly lame—could hardly walk—yussir, very poor busi- ness heing chased by bears, Hind-legged it back as fast as J could, Saw Dr. Fred trying to sit up —he was a hard-looking sight. But the girls were coming, Sue hollered “Oh-h, Fred!’ And Minerva holl ed ‘Oh-h, Fred!'' But Sue be her to him. Falls on his neck, yussir. and kisses him in spite of his torn . Dr. Fred he does the I savvy which way the wind blows now. So doos Minerva. Bhe stiffened like she was froze onto them rocks. I didn’t have any more business there—hind-legged it on over to where I had seen Ma Sanders fall down be- tween them rocks. She was just co’ ing to—thought she was in a hou: and It was burning. Then she say “My Gawd--th'—bea Religious woman, Ma was, too. Looked around them, “Saw 8 still clucking and fussing and cooing over her man, Mmerva was standing where she had dropped—no arms to go to, maybe so. Then Willis crawls out on all fours from beliind a big rock. Head was bashed some—and one hind leg dragging. He smiles hopefully when he sees the girl— stretches out one hand—yussir, apd ys in a volee like a wounded bi “Minerva! Minerva took one good look at Wil- lis—raises her chin just three notches higher, turns square around, looks down into the charred maw of that burnt canon, stands there like the statue of a Greck Goddess—alone! Very poor business, yussir, naming that child Minerva. 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