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EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE 6 Friday, January 28, 1910. EL PASO HERALD Established April, 1881. The El Paso Herald Includes also, by absorption and succession. The Dally News, The Telegraph, The Telegram, The Tribune. The Graphic, The Sun, The Advertiser. The Independent, The Journal, The Republican. The Bulletin. W MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AND A3IER. NEWSP. PUBLISHERS' ASSOG Entered at the El Paso Postoffice for Transmission at Second Class Rates. ' Indicated to the service of the people, that no good cause shall lack a cham pion, and that evil shall not thrive unopposed. 1 BelL Auto. f Business Office 115 1115 HERALD J Editorial Rooms 2020 2020 TELEPHONES. Society Reporter 1019 I Advertising department I16 " TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION". Dally Herald, per month, 60c; per year. 7. Weekly Herald, per year, , 2. The Dally Herald Is delivered by carriers In El Paso. East El Paso. Fort Bliss and Toirae. Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, at 60 cents a month. 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J it, 1T1 ifain n g iititi rtnfr i 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 - - 1 a ized to receive iu Help the Girls' IF the officials of every corporation in El Paso would do as much for the Y. w . C. A. as the El Pfco & Southwestern, it wouia be but a few days until the boarding home for girls would be a realization. A thousand dollars is the subscription of the stockholders of this concern. It is for a worthy cause, a very worthy one, and El Pasoans should contribute all that they are able towards helping these wom'en to build a home for the girls who need it. Many girls in the city, are without the ordinary comforts of life; many others are unable to get the proper surroundings and influence in their boarding places; this can all be remedied when the boarding home is erected. There, they will have proper surroundings and at a cosfso moderate that even the poorest working girl can get the benefit of he institution. It is a project worth assisting; it is a project that is vitally necessary for the city; the money invested will bring back the interest a thousand fold in making better women, better wives, better mothers, for the -future generations in El Paso. Posterity will be benefited and it will be extending a worthy charity at the present time. Young Henry Clews, if his father hadn't left him plenty of money, might have made a good detective. The name is all right for that work. , v -O She doesn't look like a woman that a man would steal a fortune 'for, does Mrs. Jeanette Stewart Ford? o And old Cochise stays wet,but the fact that an Arizona "community piled up such a large dry vote is "a sign of "the' times." Fifteen years ago, what vote would the drys have polled in Arizona? o . Hearst ran John Temple Graves for vice president for the advertising it gave the young southerner and then put the young man in Washington to writing "dope" for the Hearst papers. Which shows that William Randolph is not a bad business man after alL - - - Completing w v yE expect to resume work on the Elephant Butte dam as soon as tSie WW condemnation proceedings for the right 'of way now in progress ore W completed. I understand secretary Bollinger is favorable to the pro ject. The rest of us are and the only thing that could delay it is the lack of funds and my impression fefoat funds will he supplied for the work as rapidly qs needed. We expect to go ahead with the work .without farther delay as soon- as the con demnation proceedings are completed.' Again El Paso has assurance that the work on the Elephant Butte dam is to be carried forward without delay. The above quotation is from Arthur P. Davis, chief engineer of the United States reclamation service, to The Herald yesterday after noon. There has never been any intention of delaying work on the project any more than 'was necessary; the reclamation officials have stated all the time that work was to be resumed just as soon as the land could be condemned, but it sounds good, nevertheless, to have the statement reiterated and repeated. . The news sounds good to 'El Pasoans and valley farmers every time they hear it, no matter how 'often. . n The skeleton wasn't in Neffs closet it was only in the wood yard-. 0 El Paso, would be willing to go every day and to the matinees, too if all the shows were as good as "The Lion and the Mouse." . 0 Where is that million dollar hotel the racetrack promoters were going to bmld in Juarez? Haven't seen the foundation laid yet. o- It's high living and not high food that is at the bottom of it, says secretary Wilson. It might not be such high living if food was not so high as to make it so. Did the secretary think of that? Chamber Of Commerce Luncheons - t -n-iTn-- rpf TiiObxv cnax-- u w------ ,-- --.- good in bringing the business men of the city into closer touch with each other. It is a happy scheme and every business man in El Paso who can, should make -t a point to attend the luncheons every Thursday; get better acquainted with the other business meriTand the affairs of the city in general and imbibe some of the other f ellow's and impart some of his own enthusiasm. Th chamber of commerce is an organization formed to build up El Paso as a whole, and the more interest the members take, the better work it can do; its offi cers and directors will feel the encouragement. Every business man has to eat lunch on a Thursday; why not set aside that dav to eat with thff other business men ofthe town? Send your name in to the secretary for a ticket book and-then aHerfii the luncheons. 0 And we argoing to have an automobile fire engine. Some class to that, eh? V o- t Well, cranberries ought to be cheaper anyhow, even if the meat isn't, for the merchant ' going to save 28 cents a hundred on his freight -Eniirce the anti-smtting ordinance. It is not only filthy, but dangerous. r If the" vegetable growers raise their prices now, what will we do, with the boy cott QvSihe meat? ' ' . o While chief Ponce is dreaming, he might cast his thoughts over in the direction of the racetrack and find something worth looking into maybe he would. A new school house is reported every day in some of the neighborhood news from round about El Paso. The education of the rising generation is not being neglected in this part of the country. o Why shouldn't there be enthusiasm over the new girls' school? Isn't it some tfeimg El Paso has needed for a long time? And, like J&e military institute, it will not only afford a means of education for El Paso girls, but it will draw pupils here fra other sections. . o The mayor should receive hearty encouragement in his determination to arrest property owners who refuse to lay sidewalks, especially the people who have the money to do it. A man who has the money and refuses to put down a sidewalk when his neighbors all around him have done it, is the sort of a man who needs the prod of the law. To say the least, he is not a good citizen. Boarding Home the Dam ocrpTipr Innrhedns are cuinzrto do a lot of NCLE WALT'S U THE daughter of the horse leech is chasing up and down, in winter and m summer she stall infests the town; you find her on her errand wherever you mav live; and alwavs she is singing: "O, give, and give, and give! we want to help the heathen to buy new parasols, to give the Chinese babies nice gufcfaa percha dolls; the people up in Lapland eat blubber from a sieve; we wont to buy them oysters, so give, and giv,e, and give! ine daughter of the horse leech has always some new scheme: OVERWORKED "We plan to have a supper of egg plant and ice cream; CHARITY we'll charge ten cents admittance, and every cent we make, .will go to Aged Spinsters, to buy them pie and cake- but we are needing money and that's no winter dream so Wow a pair of sawbucks. to buy the eggs and cream." The daughter 01 rhe horee leech, she has- a winning smile; she works you for your bundle, but does the trick in style; and when you reach your cottage, and find your wife in tears, because the grocer's raging, the meat bill in arrears, because the gown she s wanted, since she was young and fair, is still a thing of moonshine and dreams and heated air, rour feeble explanation won't soothe her weary soul: "The daughter of the . ' - . -i t ! i jr 111" norse ueecn, sue snooic me ior my w" Capyright, 1909, by George Matthews a - Washington, D. C Jan. 28. Has rep resentative Mann, of Illinois, lost his sense of humor? " Mr. Mann represents the Hyde-Park district in Chicago. Folks who -know the district declare that there Is not1 enough space around many of the houses to permit the growth of. a cucumber.' There is some wonderment, therefore, as to what Mr. Mann means by a letter which he is sending to every voter In his district. The letter says: "Chlcago used to be called the 'Gar den City.' It would add much to the beauty of the city and to the pleasure and comfort of its citizens if our city (notice the political "our") could now be called 'The Garden City.' I --believe In gardens, both flower and vegetable, In the city." Mr. Mann then announces that he will help beautify "Our District" by filling it up with many new varieties of seeds. I'll Pur .M'OKni fty-p Uttle Sieos of kindness "Leave it to Jim Mann to make good 1 with the voters back home." said an other statesman from a spot not fa-: ftvm "Our "District" "There isn't a gar den within a mile of" his district, but, 1 take it f ronTme, Am will have the house- j wives building boxes on their windows to hold the beautiful foliage he writes about. Personally, I would not take a chance. Having had some experience with secretary "Wilson's seeds' Iam fear ful of the effect on voters, but being on the majority side xf the house, Mann may be able to get some real seeds. At ,,, n, TloraM -.'IWIU- J- C .Sl M. Years "THESE AiffN H-H? I SEEDS AND YOU WflB 11 I t "Yno tttVt ftNT LM?I -&)& ?CE. to GZJ JHVfiSSi cSSM wRli3-r 3r& 1S H TPJBimE EDITOR IS HORSE WHIPPED BY ANGRY WOMAN This afternoon at 3:30, Mrs. George Darrow, who conducts a shooting gal lery on South El Paso street, went to the office of the Tribune, sent a little girl in to call out Mr. Fitch, the editor, and when he came out, horsewhipped him. fihfi was P.neered by an article published in the - paper, which she claimed reflected upon her cnaracter. El Paso crackerjacks are in train ing for the big bicycle meet, which will be held on the local track Feb. 12. Charles B. Peck, state superintendent of car service and national committee man of the Republican league, is in town on business. Colburn and Small, superintendent and assistant superintendent of bridges on the S. P., are In the city today in specting the new steel bridge. Pniintv aosoccnr TV "FT TVInn hfl! rp- turned from a' trip to Kentucky. LETTERS TO RAFFLES AGAINST THE LAW. El Paso, Tex., Jan. 26, 1910. Editor El Paso Herald: Apropos of gambling, is it a violation of any state Texas gambling law, to conduct a raffle for anything of value, as for instance, a horse, automobile, etc By answering -through the columns of The Herald yo.u may enlighten others besides my humble self, who do not wish to knowingly violate any law. In case raffles are prohibited would participants or chance buyers also be liable with the party or parties con ducting a raffle? Please oblige, Ignoramus. The statutes of Texas prohibit raffles and make it a felony to conduct one. It, would remain for the court or jury tcf decide if the person buying chances was guilty of a violation of the law. In gambling, all participants, whether operating the game or "bucking" it, are held equally guilty before the law. Some lawj'ers express the opinion that a person buying chances in a lottery would not be neld guilty of violating the law; others think they would be. THE WATER QUESTION. El Paso, Tex.. Jan. 28, 1910. Editor El Paso Herald: Quite a good deal has already been said and written about the water ques tion, especially the 90 cents minimum feature of it. The receiver wants to en force it, not because it is Just, but because he needs the money to oper ate the plant. The court allowed its collection, not because it is just, but be cause it is lawful. I am sure that the court will rescind its decision when it finds that it is unjust. The question arises how can it be lawful when it is not just? Is not the Denatured Poem C&uxin cam. Ct&Ovi Along Washington By way s. any rate I want "to see where his con stituents v'Wlll find room to do their planting." ' A neat little brochure of from 700 to 1000 pages of printed matter will be the literary introduction to the Ballinger Plnchot investigation. Later on- a ton or two of -documents will be manufac tured at the big government printing office. ' The first big contribution to the sub- ject will be the answer to the resolu tion Introduced by senator Flint a fort night ago and passed. It called for all the documents in the matter of the Glavis charges. These documents had been carefully gathered together by the interior de partment in advance, and they were promptly sent to the prlntery. Nobody dreamed what a huge order it was un til a dray peached the printing office A Wt5?W UKfcJC- 7fcwEH&gr. with the "copy." Then it became ap parent that a fine large book was to be the result. This book, which will be out in a few days, will give an idea of the immensity of the subject which is to be investi gated. To master the contents of this volume will require a trained public land lawyer, with a force of assistants, working hard for weeks. People who have begun to discover the scope of the inquiry are appalled at the pros pects. Nobody would be surprised if It should take two years to complete it. rvf fn ?flf "JRR V- V... w.v, -.-, . Ago 1?" aay J. A. Smith will leave for Dallas to night to attend a meeting of the Re publican state executive committee. The "White Oaks railroad soliciting committee raised 5000 this morning of which amount the First National bank subscribed S2000 and John Tays 1000. Twentyseven cars of ore were im ported from Juarez yesterday. A stock chute has been placed in front of the general delivery windows at the postoffice to keep people in line. The trustees of the African Methodist church took up the 75 note outstand ing against their church this morning, and the church is now out of debt. "W. A. Morehouse has subscribed 490 to the "White Oaks road. All. the pugilists are training hard for the coming fistic carnival. Metal market Silver. 67c: lead, 3.90; copper, 8c; Mexican pesos, 54c. HERALD THE law based on justice? And if not, why not? There seems to be no question even with receiver Wyatt and mayor Sweeney and judge Coldwell that it would not be just to enforce the minimum rate all the time, as they only applied for it for the time of the receivership, in or der to cover the expense of operation during that time; then why should the poor man be made to pay this expense if it is unjust even if It is lawful and why should not an unjust law be re pealed and repealed at once? It seems to me that the discrimina tion In rates against the poor man is much more striking than it appears to tho average man. Let me illustrate it: The average Mexican inhabiting the southern part of the city, who is glad if he earns one dollar a day to support a large family, does not use more than about 100 gallons a month, for which the railroad company pays about 1 cent and the average consumer 2 cents, at the rate of 20 cents per 1000 gallons. Just think of it! The poor Mexican to pay 90 times as much as the railroad company, or 9000 percent more and 45 times as much as the average consumer, or 4500 percent more, and that for one of the most necessary articles for the human life, which, as air, ought to be free for every human being except the charge for operating the plant and also a minimum charge for each meter as it costs to put it in and to take care of it; but outside of that no difference or discrimination in rates whatever should exist and the railroad company should not be entitled to a lower rate on water than it should be entitled tb a lower rate of taxation because It has more property. Suppose the city would pass a tax rate of say 5 percent up to 100.00, 1T J'rss r" zv HOW THE PARTIES FIGHT. Frederic' " J. Haskin A "MTJD SLINGING" CAMPAIGN - LX The English Elections J LONDON, Eng., Jan. 28. Whenever j politics in America shows sj'mp-J toms of being rude, whenever i some Republican calls some Democrat a demagog and the Democrat retorts by calling the Republican a liar; then someone Is sure to rise up and say that only in the United States is such undig nified procedure possible. Therefore, when a visiting American finds that the British politicians use more billings gate in a week than the Americans use In a lifetime of politico, his efforts to deplore the situationjare somewhat tingedby a congratulatory feeling for the boys at home. "Liar" Used Freely. The word "lie" and "liar" have been so freely used In this British parlia mentary campaign that one wonders what has become of the boasted British dignity. Mr. Balfour has been kind enough to gather the entire Liberal propaganda within one bracket and apply the short and ugly word to the whole business. Mr. Asquith and Loyd-George have similarly used the word of three let ters in reference to the lords' defence and the "tariff reformers promises. Lloyd-George, in addition to -this, has been at some pains to specify some par ticular lies and liars, using' theplainest possible English in so doing. Alexander "Ore, lord advocate of Scot land, and an officer in th6 govern ment, early in the action, made a speech in which he Intimated that the Conservatives, if given a majority In the commons, would stop the old age pensions granted by the late Liberal parliament. Mr. Balfour retorted with the pleasant statement that Mr. Ure was telling a cold and calculated lie. The Conservative newspapers and campaign literature kept up the TJre business until the very close of the campaign. Posters quoted Mr. Ure and then added, in letters ten Inches high, "Thafs a lie." At the same time the Conservatives, who opposed old age pensions .In parliament, flooded the country with posters reading "Vote for unionism and old age pensions." To which the Liberals retorted with the He direct! Strongly Denounced. Lloyd-George in his famous Lime house speech, deliverpd two months be fore the campaign opened, undertook an exhaustive defence of his scheme for the .taxation of unearned Increment in land values. He used for Illustration two pieces of property in Cardiff. In the heart of that prosperous city stands a fine old tcastle with 500,000 square yards of land, worth a fabulous sum if it were placed on the market- Its occupant, the marquis of Bute, pays rates on an annual rental of 4605. Next door, said Lloyd-George, was a tailor shop with only S00 square yards of land, whose occupant paid rates upon an annual rental of 4935. The Welsh Liberal leader was Imme diately denounced by the Conservative press as a "liar," as a "purveyor of falsehoods," as a "mendacious mischief maker," as an "enemy of truth, law and order" and as "a -deceiver of the public," because, as the newspapers stated, the tailor shop was not next door to the castle, but was in the next street, a half-block away. Tjloyd-GeorjjeN Reply. Lloyd-George replied that he knew that no building could be literally next door to the castle when it was sur rounded by a park, but that he used the term to indicate that the tailor shop was in the immediate neighborhood. "When I say a man is next door to a fool," said the chancellor of the ex checker, "I don't mean he lives next to one, but that he is somewhere in the neighborhood of being one." All through the campaign1, until the very last, the denunciations of Lloyd George's "lie" were repeated, and con stant reference was -made to the little tailor shop and Car ff castle, to prove i that no credence whatever should be given to anything Lloyd-George might have to say. Llcensiajr Bill. One of the many side issues in this campaign was the licensing bill, by which the Liberal government had raised the lieense tax on the sale of in toxicating liquors, and had provided that in the future such licenses might be renewed annually. For years they had been regarded as a vested rignt- In discussing the attitude of the gov ernment to the liquor trade, and the raising of license fees to a scale about one-fifth of that obtaining in New Tork, one of the leading London news papers of the Conservative type used this language in one editorial: "Utter Iniquity. Sheer brigandage. Fanatical legislation. Socialistic con fiscation. A gigantic act of public theft. A raiding expedition of partisan blackmailers. The sum of hypocrisy I with the maximum of wrong. A meas ure of plunder. A measure of fraud. The government Is acting inthe spirit With The BUNNY TO THE RESCUE. From Tempe (Ariz. News. It must be admitted that the packers can control the prices of pork and beef, but they have not yet succeeded in cor nering the visible supply of rabbit meat. Bunny may yet be called upon to come to the rescue. o TEXAS LEADS AGAIN. From Beaumont (Tex.) Enterprise. Texas led in the amount of bonds voted for good roads last year, but Texas is a big state and has many miles of road to build so that the people need not rest upon the laurels of past ac complishment. WHY DISCRIMINATE. From Farmington (N. M.) Times-Hustler President Taft complains that the postoffice department does not pay its own expenses and proposes to raise the rates on newspapers and magazines. But why this discrimination in departments? Does the war department pay? Does the navy department pay? Certainly the dis semination of useful knowledge is as worthy as the training of men to be proficient in killing other men. 4 percent up to 1000.00, and so on, a lower percentage on a larger valuation? Would the courts uphold that rate? By the way, I think it would be more proper If the city would pay for the water it is using at the same rate as every other consumer and make the tax payers foot the bill and then the poor man would pay only his prorata of it and the large property owner the larger share of it. Well, there are lots of other sugges tions which I would like to make, but of a highwayman. Robbery. Effective plunder. Confiscation. Positive brig andage. Progressive and cumulative plunder. An act of financial slaughter. A nightmare. A tremendous scheme of plunder and confiscation. A profligate Imposture. A scheme of despotic plun der. A collossal sham." And then the editorial concluded with this apology: "We feel the utter inade quacy of words to convey a due sense of the magnitude of this issue." This same newspuper, so wrought up about the tax which would raise the price of the poor man's beer, stoutly advocates the imposition of a duty of seven eents a bushel on wheat "in the Interests of the empire." German Scare Worked. The Conservative party continually attacked the Liberals for their alleged failure to keep the British navy up to the two-power standard in the face of the German naval expansicm program. The Conservative leaders declared on every stump that there was no doubt but that Germany was preparing to make war on England, and that the Liberals would not and could not meet tho grave Issue. Undoubtedly, there Is grave reason to fear hostilities between these two nations, but the way in which the Ger man scare was worked in the campaign would have disgraced an American political party. The Liberals, in reply, used the word "liar" with great freedom, and accused tho Conservatives of deliberately at tempting to bring about war so that the landlords might not be forced to give up some of their unearned wealth to help support the nation. Mr. Lloyd George, who was far and away the most picturesque and interesting figure of the campaign, whether he was right or wrong, said the German scare was used in the same way that American politicians used to twist the Lion's tail and wave the bloody shirt, but that in America such methods were no longer permitted. American Campaign Potats. Indeed. Lloyd-George frequently came to America for campaign points. He compared the attacks made upon him to those upon Roosevelt, and said the attempt of the financiers to place the blame for the panic on Roosevelt had failed even as the attempt of the same people to blame him for driving capital out of the country would fail. The strenuous campaign methods of the great leaders w,ere imitated all down the line. Several candidates for parliament left the speaker's stand to fight with some elector of a different faith? and scores and scores of public meetings ended in free fights. OInd Sllngrfns" Contest. For that rare dignity which so marks the British, nation, the contest between Mr. Hay and Dr. Addison for an F.ast London seat, was remarkable. One set of placards remarked in big red letters "Doc. AdtSson's pills cure Hay fever." Th insult was too patent to be Ignored, and the Hay partisans countered with a blue poster appealing: "Don't vote for Addison. He makes a living by cutting up dead men's bodies and live men's stomachs." This was regarded as an insult to the medical profession, and almost everybody who could beg, borrow or steal a scrap of paper and a pencil wrote a letter to "The Times" about it. Personal peculiarities, family scan dals, private quarrels, all manner of things which in the United States are the signs of a "mud-slinging contest," were employed, during the campaign, but never was there any protest against the methods of campaigning. Each side acused the other of lying and of mud slinging and of all kinds of crimes and misdemeanors, but there was no gen eral and non-partisan protest, and each side excused and condoned the offenses of its partisans. Americans Are Bested. It probably is not possible to, con duct a hotly contested campaign with out more or less mud-slinging, but Americans may feel sure that their British cousins have them bested when it comes to a lively election mix-up. Two-thirds of the election literature sent out by both, parties In this cam paign could not be used in the United States for he simple reason that such stuff would react upon the party which distributed it. The British campaign excitement does xjpt stop with calling each other liars. Scores of speakers were bom barded with brick-bats, more than one speaker was assaulted with ancient eggs, one candidate was shot at, and several noble lords had to escape by the back way to keep out of trouble. Two young girls, canvassing votes for their father, were assaulted with volleys of eggs and stale vegetables. As the campaign came to a close everybody was calling everybody else a liar. Tomorrow How the , Newspapers Fight. Exchanges MUST BE MADE GOOD. From Albuquerque (N. M.) Journal. The correspondents of eastern jour nals, while they do not give a great deal of space to the matter of statehood for the territories, all seem to regard4the passage of a statehood bill practlcafly the same as oae the house has already passed. as a foregone conclusion. It Is one of the platform pledges, and must be made good. o FOR PURITY OF HOMES. From Dalhart (Tex.) News. Probably there Is no organization of its kind which works more for the purity of its homes than the Elks. An example of the organization's work Is found in The El Paso Herald In an account of tae capture of Charles Cnenault, of Tucum cari, who was making his way to Mex ico. Chenault was found through the efforts of the lodge and was married to Miss Bulah Hartman, who has been In school in Tucumcari. The Elks had guaranteed 4000, if need be, to accom plish this. A detective, two attorneys and two governors were appealed to in the doing because the girl's father was an Elk. 1 1 will better mind my own business, and In doing so I would nice to call the city council's attention tQ the depre ciation in value of the South El Paso street property, where I burled the few dollars I saved up and as an inheritance I am losing about 50 per,month in the difference between the income and the expenses. . I hope the city counciyjfoill do what Is right in this" matter and reduce the valuation accordingly. A. Stolaroff. DOTTIE DIALOGUES We Talk Through Oar Hat Episode. By Walter A. Sinclair. fcfcT?XCEPT for talking through, a I I"1 hat is of little use," asserted I - Dottle. "Don't you think so?" "I have admired the Duncan family, which g'j-s -wondering around, without any sky pieces," I admitted vaguely. "I presume if Mr. .Duncan was not roofed as c ritely as his pictures show him he would be forced to patronize a hatter, -he; mused. "It probably, makes the hatters mad as hatters to contemplate him," I agreed. "Just suppose he became bald, do you suppose he wouid dare parade around bareheaded in the nipping winter blasts?" she queried. "Even JL.ady Godiva would not dare," I cot curred. "We are confining the subject to hats," she remarked coldly. "That is easier than confining the hat to the subject sometimes," I remarked, beginning to get the drift of the con versation. "So it would appear," she observed. "I raturlly did not know that the men of my acquaintance had tken up the fad at least in January. "All. then you saw me!" I exclaimed, in understanding. "You saw the flight of the vandals, the mad dash of of what hero is associated with, hats?" "William Tell," she suggested, accent on the last word. "The very boy I Bill bowing to the hat, or at least trying to scrape a bow ing acquaintance and incidentally scraping the shins of several men ac quaintances and a few total strangers. "You looked fnnny," she giggled. ,Tell me about it" " 'Tis a sad. rendition and. really needs some sobby fiddle stuff 'Hearts and Flqwers that lump in the throat music that they play when the heroine tells the "YOU CST ME DKcLD." mark that she is 'gawn awuh and he must nevah, nev-ah see her again," said I. 'Proceed; your story strangely inter ests me," she ple1ed. "Well, you see, it was thj way," I recited. "I was bid into an opera party that nisrhrt and bar! to horrnw TTnnirlp' j self cocking hat. I didn't tell him about ity because he had loaned, it to Kendall and Kendall let me have it on promise that I wouldn't tell Knowles." "That is the plot: she questioned, arching her eyebrows. 'That is the triangle and the plot," I assented. "You can figure the rest our for yourself. I was breezing blithely -up the street at the Big Cross roads when one of the best little amateur zephyrs from Medicine Hat oozed around the nearest skyscraper and. nipped my hat" "You mean Knowless hat," she cor rected. "You call it right," I said. "But by any name it lifted --e lid regardless of the police, and the next thing- L knew it was giving- an imitation of the Wright brothers, just scraping- the snowbanks, or rather the mud on the tops of the snowbanks. I took it at full tilt there after, and, honestly, I don't see how a hat could miss so many high, priced au tomobiles, not to speak of plebeian cab hores. As for myself. I didn't care, for I carry accident insurance. I have a few black and blue spots on my shoul. ders, which Incline me to a belief that I encountered several vehicles or rock ledges during the pursuit, but I could not take oath on the fact 'You cut me deadl'" she accused. "You are lucky you did not get in my path," I replied. "Anyway, I finally was within reaching distance, wien a horse stepped on the hat and it stopped. Just then I heard a rancous laugh and turned, to see Knowles standing in the crowd, giving me the merry. Seeing he was so genial about it. l thought the psychological moment was at hand to break it to him, so I laughed, too. He said, 'You take it easy, and I replied, I didn't take it at ail; Kendall loanea it to me. Whereupon he slipped on a peal of laughter and took a tumble." "What did you do with his hat?" she asked frigidly. " "Why, what could I do, then?" I de manded. "I returned it to him, of course!" Copyright, 1910. by the New York Evening Telegram (New York Herald company). All rights reserved. THOSE SANTA FE TRAINS. From Santa Fe (N. M.) New Mexican As far as New Mexico is concerned. the Santa Fe system made a mistake when it converted El Paso train No. 10, into a California train. Not once since it runs out of Los Angeles has the train been on time and when It is five and more hours late, the inconve nience to local travel is great. When it ran out of El Paso, the train could al ways be banked upon as being on time, and travel along the Santa Fe in New Mexico way a good deal less of hardsmp than It is today, when there is not a sin gle train that can be relied upon to be on time, because starting from such dis tant points as Chicago and Los An geles every train Is subject to all the vicissitudes that cause trains to swerve from the printed schedule- If the Santa Fe system wants to please New Mexico it will mstke No. 10 an El Paso train again instead of starting it from Los Angeles. INDIAN DEPREDATION BILL. Washington, D. C, Jan. 28; Congress man Garner, of Texas, today appeared before the Indian 'affairs committee in favor, of representative Stephens's In dian depredation bill. The measure gives further protection to indians, especially - extending rights of recovery in courts to Indians as well as citizens; All the Texas delegation will support the bill. CARIERS DAY. Tomorrow belncr the last Satardny ot the month, The Herald carriers will pre sent bill- for the month of January. Subscribers will kindly note the above and be ready for the boys. i r J