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P1 T. THE WASHINGTON POST: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1911. pneumatic Hutomobilc Cushion NOVEL SUBSTITUTE FOR SPRINGS AND SHOCK ABSORBERS ON MOTOR CARS. 1 I has recently been in- I by a California i i engineer a substitute for springs and shock absorbers on automobiles. Thif, is a pneumatic cushion which appears to have advantages, because it permitr the use of solid The inventor of this neiv device lias found it possible not only to construct a pneumatic shock absorber, but so to arrange.

i that it takes the place of the itself, while at the pre- i a rebound. In its present stat" this pneumatk cushion oonaist-. simply or a round rubber bulb aix or eight inches in diameter. having an open neck at its upper end and a sunttll projection at its lower. This pro- jtotiori fits into a hole in a conical wood block that is secured to the axle of the automobile, while the neck of the bulb Is set into a pipe fitting attached to the body of the machine.

This pipe, of about I'a incheB diameter, connects to a tank having a capacity of cubit- inches. Four such bulbs a the spring-, ot an automobile, fn fitting them to a car the leaves of the springs are removed with exception of the outer leaf, which is used for steadying pur- poses. A four tubes a i connecter! by separate plyep lo the tank. The action of the is a.s follows: When a of the- passes ovci an obstru tion the bottom of testing upon the rone-shaped bloek Is pushed inward, and the surface of contact of the bulb i the block i.s increased. The heavier the blow the moie the hloek sinks in.

there is continuously m- realms suppoi Ling area itlim the bulb upon which the air a'1s. the air bems a compassion of about '-Hi pound-, to the square inch ni the bulb, the pipe line and a As a io-i'lt ot the increasing (lattcncd area in (he bottom of the under a a i i i i is a i i a ineica'-es i tlie blow, i the i i i a shock lias been absorbed i i i is no i ameu the air i bulb, jiipiiiir and a not been appi eoiablj conipicssed. The cushion acts upon the same i i us the a i tn i tli i aiea is increased the ia llat- tened. in much the same a as it is i i the i i i cape there it, no increase in air presrure. uwinpr to heating of the air, and consequently no liability ot bursting.

Tlie air cir.slnon makes it possible to use solid tires UTIOII all comineivml vehicles no a a tlio size, at well us unon pleasure cars it is desired to dispense i i costly a i The i of a srood solid tiro easily double a of ,1 imeurn.it'e. QJorld Loves a JMystcry. PUBLIC NEVER GIVES UP TRYING TO SOLVE UNEXPLAINABLE DISAPPEARANCES AND HAPPENINGS. Tiibunc 1 IER.E is not a community in- His coat was a a found in the habited by man on the face of hostler's possession. His neat- earth that is i its discovered some days later In the adjacent foiest.

but no tiace local mystery. Every country of the man himself or of his paor-is. Jew- village has its haunted house rh-j or other belongings was ever found, or 1U murder puzzle, and II vflff came on from England and whare there Is no genuine enigma time Dll stIcr was convicted of but as Bathurst was and man's imagination will make one. not wearing the coat at the time of his Kvory epoch has had its great problem disappearance he was exonerated of all grandmothers to speculate and en- COI11 ty In the possible murder. It was large upon, doubters to discredit and envoi atory tellers to preserve.

ment. His wife's was tnat he had Tho Httle town of Perleberg. in Prussia, bcpn suffering from a fever and strolled into forest where lie was iaken by a sudden attack and could not summon has nursed its murder stoi-j religiously for a and every time a skeleton a id. The authorities at the time were unearthed in the vicinity the whole negligent in prosecuting the search and mystery Is given a new Impetus and octo- aK a the fate of the Ambassador has always bcen a cnisraa uT have an opportunity to tell Just what their parents toU, them of the disap- of "the English Lord" who vtas case there a evidence to prove a lost from a hostclr) in the in Xa- they had i to do i the Knglish- poleon's time and was nev.ei- found. A fc ago a farmer leveling off a hillock found a key, said to Within a few weeks anothei skeleton has bp of nglish make, a the complete been found and all the old traditions arc skeleton of a tall, powerful man.

ITe being told from one end of the civilized the bones on a and world to the other. How the does back to tlie village. In is absence the school children the re'lcs and love a pounded them up i stones, de- Benjamin Bathurst never was a man of i i all chance of identification. But Mi eat Importance; all a remains of tne sterv was revived and a.l Prussia body found were a few brittle bones and once more thrilled i the tale. The world loves to be mystified; it is never died, he was spirited away under supernatural care to recover from Ins to return when his country needed iilm.

There is no trace of a tradition that attempts to point out his bui'- lal place. The problems of royal succession, the disappearance of heirs and the like have occasioned bitter dispute and controversy in every European court. It was said at one time that Ivan IV. had killed his onb son i i Six years after Ivan's death i i came back. His mother, ho shouM have know recognized him a her c-hilci and lie was crowned, but 1 i i those in Moscow were i i a certain a the boy was onlv igorl Otrepieff.

a of the town iio had run a a from home. This may have been a scheme on the part of the ruler' enemies to depose him. but it only aroused suspicion at the time and i i seat for a time. Then he antagonized a certain element in the court by showing favor to certain Pnles, and the Russians were willing enough to believe him an impostor. He was deposed and the question of nis identity was never settled.

The man in the Iron mask, whom Dumas immortalized, was. according to tra- i i the elder brother of Louis the King imprisoned and masked so a lie might refgn in his stead. When I-oins I and Marie Antoinette were be- Iieaded there was a general Impression that the Dauphin. Lcuis had been murdered by his jailer, but when it became once more possible for a Bourbon to claim recognition from the French public half a dozen youths appeared, each claiming to be the heir to the throne. One was shown to be Jean Marie Herva- sault, a tailor's son; another Mathurln Brumeau, the son of a wooden-shoe maker; another Francois Henri Herbert, and another Karl Wilhelm Naundorf.

The false Louises were mostly exposed, but just w-hat became of the real Louis will never be known. centuries the traditions of Ursula and her 11,001) virgins nab accepted by the church and a huge graveyard of women's bones was uncovered at Cologne some years ago tne massacre of the fair pilgrims by Huns was to be substantiated. "Ru the only record of Ursula w.xs a fjatm manuscript a was so worded tnat it might have iea-1 Ursula ami 11.000 or "Ursula ami rnadecima. This noint a brought up some years ago and i to a great scholastic and clerical a settle i Tlie storj of the a i Jew is almost as- olu as i i a and i.s similar to xtoiieB of pagan peoples much older a i i a i P.ut the puzzle is, Woo wc'-c tiie people, or tlie longr-Hved person who was able to demonstrate to the olevj- cals of the middle ages a he had seen Jesus go to Cavalry under the guard of the Roman sohllerj and had spoken with im. In 1228 A.

D. an Armenian Bisliop visiting in the West told of a man in his land who had seen the passion of Christ and was doomed to live i the Nazarcne should appear again among men. The ecclesiastic's story was doubted at the time, travelers In Armenia and other Armenian sojournevs in the West swore, they had seen the man in A i a anrl Syria, a lie spoke a languages, had traveled in cjtiartT of the earth and never aged. He bad seen all the great personages of history sinee tlie beginning of the Christian eia ami was able to tell talps ot them a were not then known, but were afterward found In old and forgotten manuscripts He was known in the East as Caitaphilus. Again a man was found and interviewed in Hamburg in who called himself Ahasuerus, and c'aimed to be the wandering 'Jew of tradition.

He was a tall, gau'it. bearded man, with a wonder- knowledge of all the languages and peoples of the earth. A priest first saw him standing in a chu'-cli listening to the sermon. He was struck by his appearance and approached him out of curiosity. The ftory he told created an enormous stir in tlie church at that time.

But this was only the beginning of a series of appearances which recurred in almost every European city for a century after. The man always answered the same description. Whence he came, whether It was always the same man. and i he finally disappeared are unsolved historic mysteries. Those who know Plato will remember his reference to the great island of Atlantis, lying off Africa and Spain, in the Atlantic Ocean.

It was a land, of tho highest culture, according to Greek tradition, visited by Greek and Phoenecian merchants of a remote historic period and finally it sank below the sea. Plato calls it Timaeus and Kritias. The Celts had a similar story about the isle of the dead, which, in their fables, came to be a land of the blessed, usually- called Avalon, Some have thought the references were to America, others have claimed that the character of the Atlantic bottom is of such a conformation that the story of great continent immediately below the surface Is more than plausible. At any rate, the whole series of shadow? tales has neier been entirely discredited nor substantiated and Atlantis remains a fascinating enigma. Betting on a Robe's Donesty.

TRAMP WHO FAILED TO LIGHT OUT WITH THE TEN SPOT EXPLAINS WHY HE STAYED. URTIB JOHNSON, fruit man from the state of Washington, and Jed Carter, York a wealthy Johnson entered the room. The tmnap, on a pal," murmured Johnson. who had made his pile booming "That's all right, old man," said Car- Oklahoma town sites, met by ter. "I may have missed it once, but next time I'll pick a winner." chance in a town Northern Missouri, second se iectlon was more promis- and spent a week in 1 reminiscing anont g-.

He was sorter oldish and wore spec- their college days. It was in the dead of tacles. At first he recoiled at the impu- winter, and the railroads were having a hard time with snow. So the two old prove that there was such a thing as hon- friends secured cozy looms in the biggest esty among the Wearly Willie fraternity, hotel the town had and made merry over and that he could do his class a benefit by submitting to the test he took the as- the good old days. signment.

They showed him where the Just across from the hotel was the City' ten-dollar bill lay, gave him some papers Hall, the ground floor of which was used to while away time and bade him aa a calaboose. It was the unwritten law of the Police Department during the voidable absence because of a sudden op- extremely bad weather that hotoes might portunity to catch a freight out of town. have shelter in the calaboose for the The ten-dollar bill had also gone to help seize the same opportunits'. night. There was a big stove and plenty Gue must have said something of fuel.

Nearly every night from six to that wounded his feelings," remarked a dozen waifs sat around the glowing' Johnson. "It does look a bit discouraging," ad- stove, weaving tales of the road that mkted Carter but rve gQt one more would be worth gold to the men who chance, you know." wrote books. "Maybe you'd better make the next de- JohnSon and Carter, as they sat over- tt $5." "No, sir:" retorted the man of faith, looking the street from their window in sajd ten and ten ghaU be to the end- the third story- noticed the "tourists" Got a brand-new bill to-day from a fellow slinking in of an evening and taking up who needed some change. I'm going to their eternal pilgrimages again in the DaTck iheor to 4the mlt In the morning the two walked over early morning hours. to he station, where Carter inspected "That's what makes John- the line-up.

There were all kinds, for son one afternoon, as lie noticed a pair had been a fruitful night. Finally Carter chose a little fellow with a clean of scarecrows seek admission at the hos- face and good naturea i ue eyes ls pitabie doors of the calaboose. "Once let i landg were hard, which Indicated work, 'em undei stand they have to move on and The subject seemed of a retiring disposi- they'd quit coming." "TM 's a prize," whispered Carter. "I'd "Oh, 1 don't know, returned the oPti- bac fc tha( boy tnousand ITe mist from Oklahoma. "They don't come stick'." became they want to; they have to.

The blue-eyed roadster was taken up They're IHR to get to a place where tlicic's vi oik." I'll bet every man the town's over housed will steal, and' that's why hc'i out of a job." "You're most too hard." said Carter, gently. "Lots of these poor fellows can't help being on the road. I knew a man--" "Thej're all thieves, I tell you, Jed." interrupted the orchard man. "They'll steal the hair off your head." "I won't quarrel with you. Curt," said.

Carter, "but I'll bet a hundred dollars 1 can prove you're wrong." Johnson stared at the big, round, kindly face of his companion. into the room, where he was shown a ten-dollar bill and conditions explained. "It's mighty good of you people," he murmured. "Two dollars will be a bis help to me just now." "Ton make ten if you light out," suggested Johnson. The blue eyes looked hurt.

"Because I am on the road you oughtn't "Oh, that's all right, my boy," said Carter. "He didn't, mean to hurt your feelings. You just stay here and read the and he'll feel ashamed of When they were off by themselves Carter said, with confidence: "You lose on this man, Curt. lie's got blue eyes." "Anrt a song in his voice," returned the I'm listening." "I'll pick oul three men over there." cynical Johnson. Carter explained, "put temptation in their "That song will cost you $200." way and show you at least one of the three will stand." "Go on." Tou notlped I didn't apologize to him." "But you will to-night." At the fateful hour Carter flung open "I'll bring them up here, one at a time, the door.

The blue-eyed one was there! show 'em a drawer containing a ten-dol- He had effaced himself over in a far lar bill and let 'em stay in the room all corner of the room. Carter ran and day, and at 6 o'clock in the evening will braced him. come back and find the money and the "What did I tell you?" he cried. "I tramp here. Of course I'll explain the bet knew he was true blue!" and give him for staying in the room." Johnson looked thoughtfully at the he skips out he'll be $8 ahead?" eyed cherub of the highways.

Then he "Do you want to risk $100 on it?" asked w-ent to the drawer. The new ten-dollar Carter. bill was there all right. He studied the "Sure. Til make it $200." bill attentively and then asked of the "All right.

I'll go over in the morning honest wayfarer: and pick out a man about tlie time they "Been in the room all day?" open the cages." "Yes, sir." Carter's first selection was a low, stout "You knew this bill was there?" fellow, with a gimlet eye and a wide "Yes, sir." mouth. Such homeliness, he reasoned, "Yet you novel- felt any temptation to was indicative of honesty. The probation- take it?" er listened eagerly while Carter outlined "No, sir." the plan. Then he nodded hia tousled "You're beat, Johnson," cried Carter, head up and down. gleefully.

"You might as well take your "I'm on," he said. medicine like a man." Remember," Carter warned, "I'm bank- Johnson, who had been attentively re- ing on your honor?" garding the money, suddenly asked in "Sure. 1 never went back on a pal." a caressing tone: The ten-dollar bill was placed in Car- "Why didn't you take it?" ter'ft joom, and the premises turned over "Because it was bad," replied the hon- to the' pedestrian. At o'clock Carter and est man. Rand Co Rand 6un fight REMARKABLE DUEL BETWEEN WESTERN BAD MEN TO SETTLE QUESTION OF SUPREMACY.

a huge rusted key. yet it is sufficient to stimulating to the imagination and men stir the imagination and arouse the him- mllst llave fo the imagination. A for the inexplicable the world over 'l 0 1 conjure(3 1C t( ghost is indeed a barren souled place, and -Bathum was returning to England by the age that has not handed down Its way of-Hamburg i papers of iliplo- piy.zle was certainly an i period. matlc import when ho disappeared in the Beginning: In a period shrouded in the mists of tradition and rather unauthori- He was 111, so he might havo tath accumulating through lie i decade, the list of puzzles has was depressed, so he might have com- giown and the man who wants to revel in tnttted suicide; he was carrying papers rob ema to exeici-e his- speculative poytio ac les might guess and wonder for all which would have interested Napoleon, time on a few standard mysteries with- so he may have been murdered or splr- out coming any nearer a a thousand ited to a fortress by the Emperor's sen- Kor Instance, where are A a A i a King- Arthur and John Wilke" darmes; he was well equipped with rich ilolhee and valuables, so there Is a pos- 1S09. wandered Into the forest and died; Booth hurled? a was the family secret behind tlie stories of Alexander of slbliltj a the desperate characters in Russia's double, Frederick the Grout's ntighborho for his neighborhood killed and buried him doilhl rctur of Tva SO V' 1 and disappearance of Ixnns I Who w-rrc the remarkable people who are the posiblllties.

and in the appeared in Europe from the hundred jears they have been ic- down to the i all remark- 1-earsed backward and forward, dwelt ably alike in appearance, claimed to upon b(1 ono a the peasant and burgher for "WanderiiiR Jen" had -n Itncssed the around, discussed in gatherings ot i a of Jesus and had spoken to Him on diplomats German. French and Unsjlisn, and retold every time a rajr, a buckle oj A bone is found in or near Karl of Leicester? Did St. t'rstila one or .11.000 with her when she was murdered at Cologne by t.ie What did Bacon have to do His a to tne cross? Who are the psies. ilitl set i language ami dl'l they i did Count MlexsAnclro di Bathurst was a ounif man i had Cairliostro. i i i jfct tlie golil lie trained himself for the diplomatic si-altered from his i ami elaime-1 and irrimedlatcly before his mivion to 1 M- A'ienna and Budapest had been stationed uef Was land, now in Copenhagen.

He re-turned to Englairl beneatii Die sea. west of tlie pillars ol to recover from a alight and the Hercules i the Greeks kuev- as A Office, casting about for i ells- 3 nnd was 1 there a real creet person to carry out a diplomatic muwlon to the Austrian court, settled upon him. He was then L'3. hut his Knowledge of German and international Shakespeare's i i Ami politics on the continent was in his fa- finally, what became Charlie Ross, vor At that time there was considerable Belle Gunncss. John Orth, Abdul difficulty in obtaining passports through Hamul II.

and the candlestick-! of Solo- the countries under Napoleon's rule, and mon's temple i Titus brougiit to In the fal) ot IbW, when he started back Home from Vienna, Bathurst found it neces- This is by no means a complete cata- to himself as a CJerman and logue. Every one who reads it will doubt- to employ a German following to avert less i of a dozen more, hut take suaplcton. He had had little encourage- these, read even thing you can find about ment in his work from the home office, them: you will find a hundred specialists and the sense of responsibility and danger in each case Riving their individual opin- welghed upon his mind. ions or individual guesses, but who can One i while traveling the high road answer them? from Perlln to Hamburg in a private dill- Take, for example, the lost graves. We fence under the pseudonym of Koch he that Alaiic's men buried him in the to the inn at Ptrleberg, and by an River Busento in Calabria in 410 A.

D. chance determined to put up for i about a ton of jewelry and then the i Thf various servants and slew all the captives who had been em- gossiped about his excellent ployed in the funeral service. We know i-lothes and iewelry. much so. indeed, that Attila was buried in a mountain a attracted suspicion to them- rave with untold wealth, under similar i i his dionppearanr-e.

A sttlni; or a out to If IIM i he ready, and fouP't I i i i tne loor. I i a pleasant U.a'- ICM! run i i i i i a conditions, hut can locate these craves" John IJO'Mh slew i i in a a in i nn the 20th of IRKi. or a sliot Corbet, i 10 "lie has been pruen any i i a i of the iiorix dispose'! of i aie Liimt. to tradition Klncr Ar- SALADJJOTANY. INew Mail In some of the department store restaurants a salad is served that contains not iess than It distinct botanical units.

The scientific text books do not contemplate the study of botany by gourmets, but science and gastronomy can verj- easily be combined by means of the salad to which attention Is now directed. Jt is made up of apples that are descendants of those a grew in Great Britain when It was invaded by Caesar; asparagus which originally came from India, or from tlie Canary Islands; French beans, beets whose firrst parents grew on the sea coasts of Southern Europe; West Indian capers. English celery. Asiatic or cucumbers, belonging to one of very olile.st of the botanical families; nf the stock cultivated old Greeks and Homans, when all Uaul was i i i three parts, olives as mentioned in the Arabian Nights tales; onions from a Asia: peppers that are very in troolcal America; potatoes from Chile and Peru mid which were I troduced into Ire'aml as early as 13B8 i i aRenr-y Sir Walter Raleigh; radishes i a Topsy-IIke origin, and the South American tomato. Tlv i you cat a combination salad and remember, during the proc- the botanical lesson you must now perceive it contains.

TEEASTJKE ISLAND. York Dead Man's' Island, famous as the Treasure Island of Robert Louis Stevenson, looms up in the Caribbean Sea, large and desolate, as your automobile turns over the crest of the military road between San Juan and Ponce. The hill is there, and it Is all so plain In outline that any reader of the fascinating tale could go without the chart almost and fr.d the treasure for himself. Four miles awav on the Porto Rico coast is the great sugar Central of La Fortuna, the largest single" fiftten-roller mill in the world. And from its upper windows you set a perfect view of Dead Man's Island, which seems to crouch like a huge leopard facing the Panama Canal-- its back all woodland and its flanks a sands' shore.

The romance of the spot was shattered recently when the owners were unable to get an advance of money from the sugar mul company in to plant it with cane. This refused because the slight a i a would make expensive irrigation and lead Man's Island was consigned again to its solitude, to remain a pnptu- to a somber and a a i only a i Keepei lues them. A.XK VAUGHAN. Whenever that name is mentioned among the old-timers of the Inland Empire a flow of flashing reminiscences is certain to ensue. In Spokane, Walla Walla.

Colfax, Cheney, Colville, Sprague. Moscow, Boise, The Dalles, and far away Prineville, anywhere in Eastern Washington, Oregon, or in Idaho, citizens are still numerous to whom Hatilc Vaughan was known. Kach one of them could probably tell a separate story of his smiling fearlessness. The Northwest had gun fighters of note in the period between 1870 and 189O, but flank Vaughan, by deed and daring, is remembered as the king of them all. A Spokane resident of to-day who prob-" ably knew Hank best is H.

W. Fairweather, former State Senator. Ho was railroad superintendent on the Northern Pacific and Oregon Railroad and Navigation in the construction period. Hank handled horses and: had frequent business with the railroad. tt was Fairweather went into a room in Walla Walla one day and found Vaughan with a gun in his hand and Congressman John Hailey on the other side of the table, unarmed, inviting Hank to commit mur- Ocr.

Hailey was administrator of the Roboy estate. Hank married Mrs Robey after her husband had been killed in the Snake Indian uprising. Of the $80,000 left her Hank had invested about $10,000 in his own fashion and felt that he needed more. He was trying to convince the administrator of the fact when Fairweather interfered. This was subsequent to Hank's falling in i a man down in Oregon who was bound out of the country with a band of horses.

Hank was only a- boy then, and may have been somewhat hazy as to the proper procedure, when Sheriff Mattox and posse rode up on the camp early one morning and shot Vaaghan's companion. At any rate, Vaughan shot the Sheriff through the face, which Mattox survived. Hank paid the penalty for that and improved an opnortunity to learn the blacksmith's trade. It was on Falrweather account that Hank once rode his horse into a saloon on Riverside avenue after a man named Florence and urged him out of town by means of bullets. It waa on one of Fairweather's trains that Hank put up his hand? at the command of three hold- i revolver in each hand.

Noc nelng particularly concerned, hp merely one of them klcl-ed the otheis off. miles from Sprasue. After a he roilc on a pass indorsed bj Vil- l-u-d. tlank a presented the tailroatl pay wagon, with about $200,000 on it. from being robbed between Spokane and Pend Oreille.

Fairweather received anonymous warning that Hank himself had planned the hold-up, but he showed Hank the warning and engaged him to guard the wagon for a day. There was no symptom of a robbery. To put Hank on nis honor was to win his allegiance. Theee are merely sample incidents from a career that would flll a book of horse and gun history. In town Hank was the extreme opposite of the popular idea! of a gun fighter.

He wore a Prince Albert coat and accessories, and his auburn hair and mustache were neatly trimmed. Occasionally he wore a. species of Vandyke beard and might have passed as a recently imported professional man upon whom it would be sinful to impose. With ordinary citizens he was happily harmless, a good-natured, soft-spoken person of more than average height, with splendid shoulders and engaging manners. Tet he always had guns Under his long coat and marvelous facility in producing them when the occasion seemed auspicious.

On the range he was an entirely different edition of the same person. From the huge white hat with the rattlesnake band to jingling spurs his was the frontier make-up--Mexican sash, guns and cartridge belt, chapps. Spanish bit and saddle. He always rode the finest horse he could and right here In Spokane he has displayed his horsemanship by picking up coins on the street from the saddle With his horse on the gallop. With more gun fights in his record than any other celebrity of the frontier, however, Hank has never bcen called a murderer.

He is credited with a reckless willingness to let the other man dra-w and shoot flrst, which ceremony completed, Hank calmly transacted his part. To have trouble of any consequence with him the seeker for such diversion had to be qualified as a gun fighter. Only men who were regarded as bad and seemed anxious to Impress the fact' aroused more than a friendly interest in Hank. In the early eighties, when he lived on a ranch near Peone Prairie, a few miles from Spokane, he had no gory affairs in this town. Yet he never heard of a man with a shooting reputation that sooner or later did not come into that gent's orbit.

It happened also that the other party often experienced the same curiosity as to Hank. It was this fateful affinity that brought Bill Singleton and Hank together. Singleton was no more quarrelsome naturally thar. Hank, but he had a reputation as a fighter to maintain, and there was always more or less speculation, which both Bill and Hank were conscious of, as to what would be the outcome should the two chance to come together. It happened one night over cards in Pat Dillon's saloon at Sprague.

The eyes of the crowd were upon them. Each appreciated fully the nature of public expectation that enveloped them. A dispute starter! a otherwise might have passed unnoticed, and both men were on their feel. voice in the saloon ins a ceased. "HOW" rln a a i 1 a i "Make it over a handkerchief if you like," Singleton replied.

"Your style suits me," was Each took hold of an end of the handkerchief and stretched it tight. Their other hands went to their guns. With that the crowd came to life in a stampede for the open country and knocked over the lamps. They separated Hank and Bill in the rush and when the riot had simmered again the two were cooled oft and became the best of friends afterward. On another occasion Hank ran across "Wilce Coyle, who had remarked rather floridly on what he would do to Vaughan If he ever had a difference.

Hank made no move for his artillery, but he stood there find talked to Coyle about the error of his in the plain manner that plainsmen had. Coyle experienced a change of heart. All this was merely preliminary to Hankos meeting with Sagebush Bro-wn. Each man had been keeping casee on the other for a long time and doubtless each had made up his mind as to exactly what he would do in the event they both looked forward to. The gunflghter was bound by his code to try the issue of supremacy whenever called on to do so, the same as if he had been a knight of the fourteenth century.

Two fighters of equal standing could not long occupy the same terrltorj. Brown was recognized as the official man of Eastern Oregon. That country had been Vaughan's old stamping ground, but he had been roaming wide for years, and Brown flourished in the meantime. Eventually It happened that Hank journeyed down into Brown's bailiwick and Brown took note of his coming. There was nothing in the nature of instant and open challenged Hank passed the time of day with old and new friends that he met, and the friends immediately began to cast up the possibilities of what they knew to be in the wind.

Never a word of vaunting purpose came from Hank. He was simply there and Sagebrush Brown was also somewhere They had a fair-sized kingdom to roam over, but they couldn't keep apart. Occasionally they saw each other watchful and careful always, both intent with hostile instinct on the other. Trifling- incidents came up gradually that tended easily under the circumstances to brew- bad blood. If Brown displayed resentment Hank was not the man to step out of the way of it.

A duel that burned its desperate character into Northwestern history was fairly in the making and no man could hope to prevent it. They had a cowboy horse race over at the Bake Ovens, below The Dalles. Hank and Brown were both there, participating in the sport. An argument arose over the merits of respective horses. Hank on one side and Brown on the other.

Both were positive as to opinion and not at all backward about expressing it. One made a statement which the other contradicted. The time had come. Ordinarily it would have been a case of shooting first, but this was different. was the final test of superiority between two champions in the keenest, quickest game on earth.

The spectators had tha duel of the day in prospect. No commonplace flash and fire program could fulfill expectations. Both principals realized this to the completeness of the fierce satisfaction of It and carried themselves accordingly. They stepped out together from the crowd. "Hand to hand?" Hank asked.

"Hand to hand," responded Brown. Tliey clasped hands, Hank sardonically smiling; Brown dark and deadly. With right hands free to snatch revolvers from their holsters the two stood in deadly embrace, primeval hatred and hostility leap- Ing from their eyes. For the instant tliey made their savage border picture there with the filue sky above and the fate the next moment heavy upon them. The strain snapped with a simultaneous movement of the right hands and a.

double report. Hank Vaughan and Sagebrush Brown lay on the ground together, their left hands still clasped. There is but one protective course in a duel like this and that is the strength and agility one principal had in holding his opponent fixed long enough to plant a bullet In a vital spot. Hank shot for Brown's heart, but Brown managed to receive the bullet in the shoulder. Brown shot for Hank's heart over their crossed hands, but missed it by hair.

It was a muzzle-to-muzzle affair between the two men who could kill under far less certain circumstances, yet neither man died. But it cost Brown an arm and Hank never fully recovered from the wound in his breast. He outlived it to die from injuries received from a bucking horse that fell on him near Pendleton, in the nineties. And there had never been a better horseman in the west, OUR POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS Before we heed the advice of an eminent Chicago professor and theologian, and discard such practices as "knocking on wood three times," after congratulating- one's self, why not stop to think whether this kind of superstition is altogether useless or evil? Relics of paganism, this and similar Indulgences of superstition may be, but perhaps they serve purpose not altogether unworthy of consideration. We may accept the fact that knocking on wood will not propitiate any higher power and thus ward off.

the blow which the gods might otherwise visit upon the vainglorious or overproud. Yet there is something worth while In the custom. The Christian religion has something to say to the person who expresses thankfulness that he is not as other men. One trained to the venerable custom of "knocking on wood" will never, if the custom Is properly sustained, congratulate himself without realizing the fact that he has done so--and done something that he ought not to have done. In other words, the absurd old superstitious custom serves the purpose of making its adherents realize folly when committed.

Other similar practices may be defended. under a ladder may not invite supernatural destruction, but it Invites collision with a falling pot of paint, or other material, from above. The outside the leaning ladder is safer, on entirely practical, materialistic grounds. As for 33 at table, there may be no evil in the mystic number, but there might be some virtue found in unfailing attention to the number present, and in scrutiny of the list of guests and their arrangement, which the superstition encourages. Rice throwing draws attention to the bride and groom, to be sure.

Perhaps the custom is a sort test. It may be said that the bride and groom who cannot face rice cannot face much. As for the baseball mascot, or other mascot, it keeps sport from becoming overserious and overdirect. It is a diversion from the harm of overeincerity in the lighter thing of life. Breaking a mirror may not bring exactly seven years of bad luck, but the subconscious belief to that effect helped protect expensive mirrors.

Some folks believe that it is good luck to see the new moon over the right shoulder. Anyway, it is worth an effort to pay at least once-a-month attention to the moon, which is better worth seeing than some unsuperstitious folk think. Humanity is by nature bound ever to be superstitious. That being so, let us recognize the real benefits to be derived from the fact and its exercise. WHALES AND ELEPHANTS.

York Which is worth more in the open market, a dead whale or a live elephant? You guessed right. The elephant is the more valuable of these two giant creatures. A consular report from Malaysia says that elephants are used in the logging business of Burma, 6,000 in one large concession, and that each elephant "represents an Invested capital of Another consular report, from Korea that a Japanese a has taken whales in 1010 in Korean waters and that om-li whale is i allied a I "the a beam luchcr than in uoimal 5cars." Che fewest Decoration. THE ORDER OF THE MILLION ELEPHANTS AND THE tf HITE UMBRELLA. illluslrated London Xews.l The young King of the Laos territory which is under French protection, hu just, 'inaugurated in Luang Prabang the Order of the Million Elephants and the White Umbrella.

The decoration is in gold and white and green enamel. The ribbon is red, ornamented with old gold. JMystcrtous Disappearances. CASE OF DOROTHY ARNOLD RECALLS OTHER INSTANCES OF PEOPLE SUDDENLY DROPPINGc FROM SIGHT. (New York Evening Sun.

1 iTSTERIOCS disappearances such but I recall nothing more. All IE oblivion with me until, six months later, I came to as the disappearance of Doro- myselt in a distant city in the South. 1 thy Arnold have alarmed the myself driving a fruit wagon on public and baffled the police be- the street. I was utterly astounded. fore this; disappearances that inquiry I learned that I had been have had in their, suddenness apparent there and at work for some time.

life since 1 was in that stateroom lack of purpose and inexplicability much months before was an absolute blank in common with the case of Miss Arnold, me. 1 can give no account of myseli Leaving out of account the class of dis- during that period." Dr. A. E. Osborn, of California, records appearance for their own convenience, three cases of a i that embezzlers, blackmailers and so forth, come under his immediate personal at- there is still a large number erf recorded cases where the subjects have dropped tention.

The first case is that of a man past middle age, seemingly in robust health, living in a small town suburban out of sight without apparent cause or to Philadelphia. He was by trade a reason, and who have left behind them tinsmith and plumbtr and had built up untarnished reputations and solvent bank himself a thriving trade. His grown sons had already assumed the cares of accounts. Of these a small percentage and appeare( i to be are found to have met wrth violence, oth- upon a period of ease and prosperity. ers have been victims of a suicidal mania; and sooner or later a clew has come to On the Sunday on which he disappeared he had been in the all day.

About o'clock he rose fronr the lounge on light which has established the fact. The whlcl he had been reading, changed hla; dead are often easier to fllnd than are the dressing jacket for a coat and his slip- living. Of the remaining small propor- for shoes, and announced that tion there are on record a number of was going out for a breath of fresh air. He stepped out of his front door and carefully authenticated cases where the gone. Two years passed before he was subject has been the victim of a sudden and complete loss of memory.

heard of apain. Of the 3,000 inhabitants of his town none saw him leave. Although In This dislocation of memory is a variety was known to the tra of the rail- of aphasia known as amnesia, and when road connecting the small town with the the memory Is recurrently lost and re- outer world no one could recall having The stored, as alternating- personality. Society for Psychical Research and many seen him. Rewards were useless.

Innumerable theories were advanced; but they only made confusion worse. He bar! eminent psychologists, among them the taken no money with him. His businesf late William James, Dr. Weir Mitchell, affairs were in a prosperous state. I.

Dr. Hodgson, of Boston, and Dr. A. E. Osborn, of San Francisco, have reported cago.

many cases of alternating personality. Two years had passed, when in a tin- Studious efforts are being made to under- in a Southern city a man suddenly dropped his work and cried out: "My stand and to explain the strange type God where am How I come of mental phenomena exhibited in these here. This isn't my shop!" It was the cases; but no one has ever yet given a missing tinsmith, who after months of clear and comprehensive explanation of somnarnbullsti sle ng i them. Such cases are by no means al- He was known as a wandering tinner, ways connected with disappearances, and who had drifted into the town and sought exhaustive studies have been made of work at his trade. No one had suspected that he was not in a normal state of types of alternating personality that have Through the efforts of the pro from first to last been carefully watched prietor of the shop he was able to com- by scientists of the first rank.

The va- municale with his family at once anc riety known as the ambulatory type, orj ti vl while workine where the patient suddenly loses all trade in the South he had for over a knowledge of his Own identity and of his year received good wages and was noted past and takes himself off, leaving no among his fellow workmen tor his care- ful and saving habits; yet when he came trace or clew, is the variety which the to he penniless, and he ha- present case calls to popular interest. Dr. H. G. Leigh, of'Petersburg, never since been able to recall what he did with his money.

The second case of disappearance re- has recorded the case of a mysterious ells- by Dr Osbom ja Qf hrj appearance that excited the popular at- ant and well-known lawyer and poti- tention and baffled the police some 20 tician, a former Congressman. He lived years ago. The subject was a Mr. lso In a town suburban to Philadelphia 0. Onp he go) up fj om degk of a small tow-n in Virginia.

At the time offir arfnjr a law book open at a page of his disappearance he was 50 years old, he had been consulting, a mass of urgent of splendid physique, In health and work unfinished in hi? desk and a ber of uncashed He walked out in fairly prosperous circumstances. He of offlce vanisho was known to be a sober, moral and in- After severs! months had passed word dustrious man, happy and contented in oame through official Government chan- his domestic relations. Born and reared ne i a he as Australia, where he in Virginia, he had conducted business-for j) a(i applied 0 the Consul to help him 20 years in the town whore he resided, reach home. He had come to himself on Coming North on a business trip to pur- a steamship nearinp an Australian perl, chase goods for his store in this city, he quite, penniless and broken in health remained here for two days, during which His passage money was forwarded ami time he transacted a good deal of busi- he returned home. After a short perioc ness, met his friends and showed no indi- recuperation he returned to his profes- cation of aberration of mind.

sion. HP has been normal since. Starting home by a steamship line on Dr. Osborn's third recorded case Is thaw-Inch he was accustomed to travel and a young Irish coachman who was sc- on which he was a well-known passenger, he registered and retired to his stateroopi. verely injured In a runaway accident ir which his brother-in-law and a frlem When the tickets were collected he was were killed.

The ac-cidcnt occurred fn ttu missing. He had suddenly and mysteri- presence of a crowd, yet in the confusior ously disappeared. No one had seen when the bodies of the two who were him leave the boat, jump or fall over- killed "had been removed from the -wreck- board. His open valise and all his clothes age no trace could be found of the coach- were found in his stateroom. The room ma n.

No one had seen him after the door was open, taken away. but the key had been catastrophe. The next day, when he wa; still being sought for everywhere, he re- Police and press looked for him in vain, appeared at the door of his home, badl Finally Investigation was abandoned, the injured and unable to speak. His recov theory that he was dead was accepted, ry was extremely slow and for a tlm and the Courts appointed an administra- hi mind appeared to be gone. He grad- tor for his estate and a guardian for his ually re-established himself, but memorj children.

Six months later he suddenly wa the last thing to return to him. Dr appeared at the home of a relative in a Osborn especially noied a complete distant Southern city. though gradual, change of outward ap- He was brought home in a composed pearance of expression, voice, almost ol but partially dazed state, able to recog- feature. When he began to pull arounf nize but few of his friends. He was re- again he was unrecognizable to his inti- duced in weight from 250 pounds to 150.

mate acquaintances. His whole charac- He wore the same jsuit he had on when ter had altered, and with it his outward he disappeared, and in his pocket was appearance. found the check and key to his stateroom. "Why," asked Dr. Osborn, "may no' He was put under treatment, and in a such changes appear suddenly? Is time a month's time had -completely recovered necessary element? "We may not yei his previous bodily and mental health, know the subtle forces accounting for th and has since remained in a perfectly original disappearing impulse; but if i normal state.

A day or two after his re- shall be found that the human face anc. turn home an abscess in his ear broke, form can within a few moments undergo and from that time on his return to from health n-ent rapldij forward. such changes as to render them mirpoognizable i a sight tliwi Mr. i own account of i i asc runs shall a plausible explanation fw as follows: "I was feeling tired a a buss da.) in so I wen I to slafroom i soinp (he and 1 to that time tias thoroushh Lonsoioui. most m.Vbterious phase ot these disappearam PS.

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