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AGAZ.1NE PAGE 6 Friday, August 5, 1910. EDITORIAL A! Established April. 1881. The El Paso Herald intrudes aiso. by absorption and succession, Tne Daily News, The Telegraph. The Telegram. Tne Tribune, The Graphic. The Sun, The Advertiser, Th. Independect. Tae Journal. The Kepubliean. The Bulletin. KBMBER ASSOCIATE!! PRESS AZili A3IER- XEWSP. PUBLISHERS' Entered at the Poscoftice in El Paso. Tex., as Second Class matter. "Dedicated to th service of the people, that r.o good cause shall lack a cham pion, and that evil shall not thrive unopposed. The DaiJy Herald is Issued cix, days a -reek and tl.eWeekly Herald is published cverv Thursday, at ill Paso. Texas; and the Sunday Mail Edition is also sent to "Weekly SuDserlber. Bell Business Office ljj Hd'torJal Ttcoms fU-u Society Reporter Alj( Advsrriclng dt-sartment 116 IIERAI.B TELEPHOXfiS. tkkms "F iSvascmiTioy. T-afly Herald. pr mom- t?oe; per year. $7. Wkly Herald, per year. z. The Daily Heraid iz delivered 5v caTifrs in EPaso. rast El Paso. J? on Bliss and Tosrjce Texas, and Cludau Juarez, Mexico, at 60 cents a month. A subscriber desiring xs? address on his paper changed will piease state in his eo;n:auuIfcs.tiGn both the old and the new address. C03IPLAHVTS. Sctscribers falling to get The Herald promptly should call at the office or telephone No. 115 befcre 6;2v P tlcn. in. All GCAIIASTSKD CIRCUILATION. The Herald bases all advcrtiSi lng contracts on a guarantee of more than twice the circulation of any other E! Paso, Arizona. New Mexico or west Teras pa per. Daily average exceeding 10,000. r" Tl. lrinmifinn ftf Amftncan . A4vesiarr ha L Z.'..h i fV. report of roch examination is on file at the , New York occ of the Association. No pihec figures ci circulation guaranteed. m 97 New Mexico ... - - ONE of the most notable pump imguiu j?j" . Portales, in eastern New Mexico. Que 750 horse power Westxnghouse pro ducer gas engine is already in operation and will pump water from 47 wells already complete A second 750 horse power unit will be running m a day Ir two and the Jl equipment of 70 wells will be in operation b, next wee The Portales plant is the largest irrigation pumping plant in the United States operated with producer gas. Ten thousand acres will be irrigated. Each well has a 15 or 20 horse power motor and a six inch centrifugal pump pumping 9 00 gal lons per minute- some of the wells have a larger capacity and have tested to 500 SloTpt'minute. To transmit the electric current from the power plant o tufwelk, 60 miles of poles have been erected carrying 225 miles of copperl JStTa firm of Wichita, Kan., promoted the big irrigation project and con tracted for the instalation of the plant. In connection with this account it is interesting to know that in tie pump irrigation project at Deming, water is raised 45 feet by gasoline """ fuTl duplicate plant operated by electricity from the Deming Ice and Power company. The rates for water are 20 cents per 1000 for less than 5000 gal TsTents up to 15000 gallons, 121-2c cents up to 32,000 gallons, 10 cents per 1000 for over 32,000 gallons. The quantity of water that can be raised in this way appearTto be unlimited, and its development is very cheap- The irrigation projects are being successfully developed, and the city of Deming will also get mu nicipal water supply upon very advantageous terms. The Bio Grande valley has been very backward about developing the pump irrigation projects.- There is no reason why this valley should not have been productive under pumping for the last 10 or 20 years Even now tt would pay to put in pumping plants, reclaim the land, plant orcharos and other crops, and get the land.in'good shape for maximum profits by the time the. big dam is com- pleted. y i i - Large crops of few varieties, and cooperative handling to grade, sort, pack, and market the crops, are necessary to the development of the horticultural industries in this valley. Bankers As SOME of the best bank advertising in country paners. The country banks wtimatelv with their customers and Taners. Illustrating this observation we tisement in the Elida, N. M., Mews: "uur purpose is uiu,cixuf c c i -... the success' of our patrons, we are gratified with the progress, of our town and country and with what we have done to support its growth. We have no enemies to punish and do not i all out with you "because it might happen that you are not a customer of this bank- We think well of every financial institution in the county and hope for their prosperity. This is a drouthy time don't feel dis heartened, only a little disappointed. Stick, and everything will come out right" The last sentence is a fine example of the encouraging attitude that many bankers find it advisable to assume in times of business depression. There is everything in the suggestion of an optimistic outlook. The bankers of any com munity largely control public sentiment in the channels of business intercourse, and they can often mend a bad situation by changing their tone of voice and ex pression of countenance while talking with customers. o - " The El Paso valley used to raise the finest onions in the country and plenty of them. We have practically gone out of the onion business in this section and have thus lost most of the value of the "El Paso brand." Meanwhile the coun ties along the lower Rio Grande have been developing the onion business and it is mow on of the great wealth producers of the state. One community in south Texas shipped this year 2600 cars with cash returns of $1,500,000- It just hap pens too that the onion crop is marketed at a time whentruck of other, varieties is not at its best as a money getter. Let us revive the El Paso onion. It will bring, fame and wealth. Extend the Street Parking: T HE street parking on Magoffin avenue too late in the year for the best proved itself to be successful and extended to -every street In the city north Antonio street (east of Campbell). The first cost of parking is less than that of paving, even where it is necessary to tear out the old curbing and construct new. The maintenance of the street parking under the system adopted of cooperation with the city costs only about one-third what it would cost for each individual to take care of his -parking him self ( The parking will narrow the paved roadway, thus gratly reducing the radiation and the summer heat. The green grass and trees will be refreshing to the eye and as attractive to visitors as they are comfortable for residents. As the trees grow they will make effective wind breaks and a noticeable change in local climate -vill be brought about. The force of the high winds will be broken, dust storms will be much less frequent, evaporation from the surface -will be greatly reduced and it will be easier to grow flowers and shrubs on private ground's after the street parking system is in general use. The 30 foot roadway is ample for all the traffic of a residence street or a minor business street, and will always be sufficient no matter how large the city grows. Denver finds 24 foot roadways adequate in residence sections. o Two billion dollars worth of market value has been knocked off stocks in Wall street during the last six months. It looks as if a recovery were about due, as there has been no sufficient underlying- cause for such a break in prices. Earn ing power in the various industries has not declined in equal proportion with the decline in values' of stocks. There has been less free capital for investment and the people of the United States seem to have lost temporarily to a degree their power of initiative and some of the optimism that makes things go foifaard. The general readjustment has "been a good thing and all business enterprises will emerge from the period of disturbance with a sounder basis of values and better established earning power than before. LSSOC. Auto 1115 2020 complaints will receive prompt atten- J HERAIiD TRAV ELING AGENTS. Persons solicited to subscribe for The Herald should beware of impos ters and should not pay money to anyone unless he can show that he is legally author ized by the El Pasc Herald. exzminecland certified to niiKlirahrvn. Th- detail - A UJJUX Secretary. J Leads Progress ...: ,i;.te ;n he' Tlnitea States is at Boosters the southwest is round m cue iicua are more apt than city banks to talk possible customers through the news- quote a paragraph from a bank adver- J and Rio Grande street, though started results ror tnis summer, has already j wen piannea. xne system should be of Missouri street and south of San 'fOf Cv t AJj J JNCLE J WALTS . JX H, woodman, spare thai tree! Touch not a single" bough!" The woodman I looked at me, and mopped his furrowed brow. And from a tall brown pj- a fong? ong sTjg e drank, and said: "I jjucs jou are a conserve - tion crank. And in that case, my lad, you're surely off your bn&e; the whole thing is a fad a doggone -wild goose chase. Now, what are Pinchot's claims, that agitate these times? "We'll just review Uhe games of these here Guggenhein.s; I have the papers here, and also the re- THE ports that Garfield made last year decisions of the courts WOODMAN the text of Brandeis' speech, and Ballinger's reply that man is sure a peach -there's no green in his eve. But if we'd -l i understand the case irom nrst to last, hard and fast, we'll simply nave to start hart and if you'll lend your ears single branch! I see it's up to me to Copyright, 1910. by George Matthews The Winner (By Leslie Thonas.) fe fc fTlHERE'S a lot of these prize com I ' petitions about now," re- marked the little man in the corner of the compartment, folding his newspaper -meditatively. "Some people say they're all a take-in; 'but that's not true, as I happen to know." "You've been a prize winner?" I queried. He winked. "I should say so! I'd tell you about it too, only well, after all, fit's a good while ago non." The interest I displayed evidently flatl tered him, for, after chuckling to him self for a minute or so, he held out his paper, and tapped a page. "See this one here," he observed "cheque for two thousand pound for the person who sends in the best account of what he'd do with the money if he got it? "Well, the one I went in for was something like that, only the prize wasn't so big. A furnishing firm got it up for an advertisement of course. It hapened to catch my eye one night when I was going back from work, and I took it home and read It through care fully. Seemed to me I had a pretty fair chance. , "Two 'hundred pounds toward rent ing a house was what they offered: and when you'd chosen it they'd fill it up for you, every room, free of charge. And not only that, but they'd provide a wife for you, too. Anyone that liked, to colloct a certain number of their coupons could send in her photo, and the man who won the first prize was to take his pick, and marry one of 'em .1 dare say you'll remember aoout It"nov. Caused no end of talk at the time. "But I have'nt told you yet what you had to do to win. Well, just write down exactly how you'd behave when you "were a husband what you'd allow for house keeping, how you'd manage the home, where you'd go for your honeymoon, how you'd treat your wife, what was the best way to live happier ever after and all that sort of thing. "The papers would be read by a com mittee of ladies; and the man they thought was likely to make the best husband would get the two hundred and the furniture, not forgetting the wife. "I thought it over, and reckoned I'd go In for It; so I set to and wrote out my paper. A fiar masterpiece it was, when I'd finished. I was going to be so tenderhearted and thoughtful and gen erous that any tjirl who married me would hardly believe she was still on earth. She was to have her own' way in everything, her own banking account, latchkev, vote and goodness knows what else, while I'd work about IS 1-. ..-. An ft cVia irkifll VlQVO T hours a day so's she could have new dresses whenever he -wanted em. and a new hat every time she passed her fa vorite shop. v "Altogether it was a wonderful piece of writing. Tes, and it won me the prize, too. One morning- I got a letter asking me to call. Off I went, dressed in my Sunday best; and when I got there I saw the managing director and a lot of gentlemen from newspapers, who con gratulated me till I didn't know whether I was on my head or my heels. Then my photo -was taken. "There's just one thing more, Mr. Tre f usi,tf said thejhead of the firm, shaking me by the hand that being the fancy name I'd put on my paper, being shy by nature. "You must now go before the committee." "And wjiafil they do?" I asked him, feeling rather nervous. "Oh, only ask j-ou a few questions," he said. "It's a -mere formality. And besides, they're got the ladies' pho tographs, you know . You have to choose your future bride." "I'd forgotten about that part of the business for the moment; but I plucked up my courage, and he took me along to another room where the committee was waiting. "There were all sorts of women in,: Ladv Ponderfield the one who's always opening bazaars and running charity 1 jyprothy Jix A WOMAN, who is the mother of 'eight children and who Is mar ried to an honest, hard-working man. who earns only $1S.50 a week, writes me the following Interesting let -" muchactual helping' money ter: should we expect from our children How-much should they do for us with out overburdening themselves? That is the last thing I want them to do. I am rather of the opinion that if you raise them to be honest, self-supporting men and women, and they are not a burden to us when we are old, that is all we should expect. My husband bitterly op poses this view and says that if that is all the benefit they are to be to us, he would rather die now than to continue slaving for them perhaps for twenty years more, and then have nothing in the end." The responsibility, as between par ents and chJldrM, naturally rests upon the parents to the greater extent. Hav ing thrust life upon a child, it Is of course the father and mother's duty to do everything possible for that child. In common fairness the parents are bound to work for it, to feed it and clothe it, and to care for It Tn every way to the best of their ability, no mat ter how many sacrifices are entailed therebj'. The Greed of Parent. In all the world there Is nothing more appalling, nor sadder than that there are many parents who regard their chil dren simply as assets, little slaves who can be turned into money earners. The greatest difficulty that is found in en forcing the child labor law comes not from the greed of heartless employers, but the greed of heartless fathers and mothers who are willing to see their own flesh and blood mutilated, dwarfed, stunted, mentally and physically, in cot ton factories and glass works, and coal t ii - , ii -. i ana an tne projects pxmncu. tne tuiivrac away oac-K mty years; x nave il hu y Uh, woodman, chop that tree! bpare not a jump this blooming runch! Adams - ifctf The Herald's Daily Short Story matinees at the theaters; Miss Pickle iton, who writes books the novelist, that's it; Miss Fluffy Brown, from the Gnfetv theater; Mrs. .Tosiah Simpsin, the Labour, M. P.'s wife oh, and a lot more. "Upon my word, I fairly quaked they started staring at me, and all talking at once. I can't remember half of what I told 'em; anyhow, at last they were satisfied. "Now," said lady Ponderfield, "I will display the photographs, and you are to roake your choice. "Upwards of 500 photos there were altogether, I believe; but I was get tings dizzy, so at last I shut my eyes, and picked one out of the pile. "That'll do." I said. "She's good enough for me." "When I looked at her properly, though, I nearly asked for-i another chance. She was a big, tall, flashy looking girl, about six feet high, just the kind who'd be likely to make trou ble. "Her name's Miss Isobel Templeton," said lady Ponderfield, turning up a list. "We shall let her know your decision, Mr. Trefusls, and tomorrow we hope to arrange for you to meet. We have vour address. Allow us to congratulate you, and to wish you every happiness Ji' your future life." "I waited a bit, because I hadn't got the money yet, you see. But they bowed me out so I went downstairs and .there I found the manager chap and he handed me a cheque for the two hun dred. "Let us know directly-your house is chosen j-ou know" he said speaking very affable "and we'll send the furni-. ture along." "Then he wished me good luck again and so did about a thousand other peo ple, till I couldfhardly move my right arm without groaning. At last I got - away, and walked straight to the bank. and cot the money. It seemed like a dream. "Well, I couldn't do any work that day, of course, so I went home. Just after teatime there came a kneck at the door, and when I recognized who dt was I nearly fainted. Yes, Miss Iso bel Templeton the six footer; you've guessed it first time. "Is Mr. -Trefusis in?' she asked, star ing at me. I told her 'no,' which was quite true, of course. "Well. I'll wait," she said. "What time will ho be back? I am engaged to be married to him." "It took me about 10 minutes to get rid of her, and an hour or so after wards back she came. This ti-me I had to say 'Mr. Trefnsis wouldn't be babk that night made up a tale' about him going to Scotland where his parents lived, so's to tell 'em the good news. "What's his address? I'll write, she snapped. Seemed in a dangerous sort of temper. "He didn't leave any," I said. "Went off in a hurry." ."Directly she'd gpne, I started get ting ready to shift. Luckily the place wasn't mine, so there wasn't much pack ing to do. I paid the landlady that evening, too, before I "went to bed. As for sleep, though I couldn't as much as close my eyes. First thing In the morning I was off "Where to? Oh, a different neighbor hood as far a-ay as I cerald get. What for? Why, I thought it -would save un pleasantness. But then I'd lose the furniture? Yes; know that, but I didn't see any way of getting hold of it, anyhow. "What do I mean? Well, I'll tell you. Just in j'our ear, like. Don't let it go -any farther. Remember the paper I'd written the one that won the prize all about what a model husband should do? Well or some one else had given me the idea for most of It; and thougn I myself wouldn't have hadmuch ob jection to marrying this Miss Temple ton I thought It was only fair to my wife that I should consider her feelings In a matter like that." On the Earnings Of Children pits for the sake of the few dollars the poor little baby hands can bring in. Any factory inspector will tell you that parents lie about the ages of theif ehildren In order to put them to work before their time, and that these parents Sonic parents .squeeze tne life out of children for money. MX, iL ' nil bBHH MM m Germany The Most Feared By I Of Aii the Modern Nations Frederic J. Haskin I. THE GERMAN ADVANCE. v c JeJ m ERLIN, Germany, Aug. 5. The Ger man empire is a militant nation, ambitious and unafraid, adanc- ing swiftly toward its goal of world J - "!' mj . j.. io liic aiwuuiuil UL lilt? German state, of the German emperor and of every German to make the Ger man empire what I!om was and wh.it Britain is. Germany is a military stat.. but it is even more an industrial state. Germany is a nation of dreamers, but it Is even more a nation of doers. The Germans are philosophical, but they are even more practical. Germany Is the heir of all the acres in its wealth of an cient story and tradition, but it is fore most in the files of time as the young- j est -of the great nations of .the worlrt ' j.ij uciiiuii puupie aic tuutir man any people of the western world, the Ger man empire is the youngest state among the Occidental powers. One In L.angTiage. TheGerman people, one in language and instinct but divided in political al legiance, tv ere welded Into a nation by the iron chancellor Bismarck in th I five years between 1866 and 1871. The empire became possible in 1866; it was inevitable in lSil. In this great work the modern Vulcan took up the broken bonds of the ancient Holy Roman em- pire, heated the chains white hotin the V1 fire kindled by Frederick the Great and welded them anew with the trip hammer of the modern age of Machines. The Empire proclaimed at Versailles nearly forty years ago has justified its existence as an efficient government machine representative of a united na tion and a homogeneous people. So successful has been its remarka ble program of progress that all Eu rope now fears and distrusts the Ger mam empire. In the last two years the world has seen the British empire, the greatest power on earth, panic strick en because of the menacing growth of the Teutonic empire. But England is not alone in its fear of the Germans. The system of alliances and under standings built up by the late king Ed ward between England and several con tinental nations was due quite as much to the common distrust of William II as It .was to the diplomatic abilitv of Edward VII. Germany Im Feared. Holland and Belgium fear Germany because they see the Germans building up a grea navy and a greater mer chant marine, while having but a few third class ports. Belgium' and Hol land have the ports which Germany needs, and the low countries control the mouth of the Rhine, which is the chief artery of Genman commerce. Ger many needs the low countries and in the course of thne will have them it it I i"l i era iliAm T- l V.n "D.Ut.l. . , ; r . V " 1 I St. ch in fact protects the Belgium and Dutch frontiers from the. German le gions. The rejoicing in Holland a lit tle more than a year ago because of the birth of an heiress to the throne was remarkable because 'it was a pop ular demonstration of the general fear of German conquest. Austria, with its complex dual mon archy and its conglomerate population of antagonistic races, maynot be said to have a truly national feeling, but so far as Its national consciousness ex tends, Austria mnst fear the great Ger man empire. German speaking Austria are seldom driven to this by want, but dollar at the time, but bringing up the simply by an avarice so great thej are J child to the large sense of its respon willing to coin their children's happi- sibiiity to always help its nrents nc a ness and vouth and all that the futuw might mean to them, into gold. This is one side of the child labor question, but it is far enough from be ing the side presented by my correspon dent, who represents the loving, consci entious, poor parents anxious to" do their duty by their children, and yet who feel, rightly enough, that as soon as the children are old enough to earn money they should contribute to the family support. Sacrifices on Both Sides. In this matter, as In all others, there is a golden mean, and while it is an in Iciitous thing for parents to turn their children into mere monej'-making ma chines, neither is it right that the fath er and mother should make all the sac rifices and should work themselves to death to feed and clothe a lot of strap ping youngsters who are amply able to take care of themselves. The sense of family loyalty, of unself ishness, of duty ta others, cannot be Impressed too early on a child's mind There is no better way to do this than to make the boy orWrl, as soon as he or she begins to earn money, feel that he or she must contribute to the sup port of the home, and pay back some of the money that has been spent on him or her. A great many parents are afraid of throwing responsibility on young shoul ders, but it is this very sense of re sponsibility that makes strong men and women. The boy who saves up his pennies because he wants to help fath er with the rent, or to buy mother a nice dress. Is the kind of, boy that wo hear from later on in life. The girl who brings her pay envelope unopened home to mother on Saturday night is never the pitiful creature that we see walking the streets in tawdry finery. ' I believe, myself, that Independence is the very foundation of all character, and that the most important thing that you can teach a child is to stand alone on its own feet, and to takecare of it self wrh its own hand, and its own head. There is no easier way of inocu lating this lesson than to show the child how much its food and clothes cost, and that as soon as it begins to make money It must pay for these. Parents Are RexpoJiHilile. If you. can make' a child feel tmTt It is a shameful thing for an able-bodied in dividual to be supported by another to be a parasite upon that other you will have done much to Insure that boy or girl becoming a good citizen and of some use in the world. It is the par ents who have not the nerve to refuse to supportVidle und lazy children who are responsible for the drunken loafers of society. These will not work as long as they are sure of food and lodging at home, but if they were turned out of doors, and had to choose between the alternative of labor or starvation they would work. " ' Another argument for making chil dren contribute their quota to the fam ily support is that it calls out all that is best in a girl or boy to make them feel that others are dependent upon them. The man or voman who grows up with no sense of filial duty is a poor crea ture, and there is no way to develop this like aetuallv mjikfnir nrrlffe that the old mother and father may lean on young shoulders, and fare better and lie softer because of the work of young hands. Piny Fnlr AVI Mi Children. Of course, what proportion of the child's earnings should go to the par ents must always be decided by the in dividual case. The important thinsr. however, is not so much the individual is the only considerable part of the German world still outside the German empire. Although the two empires now work together, religious questions make them potential enemies and Austria, remembering its experience of a half century ago, will not do otherwise than as Berlin directs. Italy, although nominally true to the compact of the Driebund, hates Austria with the hate of an age long fend, and is continually more suspicious of Ger many as Germany shows more and more a disposition to back up Austrian claims for territorial aggrandizement. In the height of the war panic in Eng land, the English confidently relied upon the sympathy of Italy. France Remembers "War. France has not forgot the lesson of 1S70. It hates Germany, but it is still afraid. It Is enraptured with its al liance with its ancient enemy, perfidious Alb-ion, and depends largely upon the superior strength of the English navy to stay the appetite of the detested Germans. Germany yesterday finished j spending the French billions which it ! collected as indemnity after the tragedy of 1S70. France is prosperous, and its j peasants have other milliards to tempt t the cupidity of the Germans. The French know this, and France fears the German advance. Russia, once the German's most pow erful ally, feels that the German em peror was too much responsible for forcing the issue of a war with Japan which resulted In crippling the Musco vite Bear to the extent that the czar has been forced to take orders from Berlin as to his policy In the Balkan states, where St. Petersburg always has claimed a dominating influence. Russia's problems are in the far east, on the Pacific seaboard, and while not now playing a conspicuous role in the drama of European politics, it is certain that Russia also fears Germany. Japan, another modern and synthetic empire, is bound up hard and fast with Great Britain in a general alliance, and with its erstwhile enemy Russia in an agreement for the spoliation of Man churia. Japan is afraid of but one thing that Germany and the United States will take a determined stand to protect China and therefore block the Japanese game of continental Asiatic empire. United States Friendly. Even the United States, but recently become a conscious factor in world poli tics, has been the victim of a German was scare. At the time of the Spanish war, Geranan public sentiment was pro nouncedly anti-American, and everv body remembers admiral Dewey's un pleasant encounter with admiral Dled richs In ManIJa bay. Xaval officers whose business it Is always to suspect the existence of a war just beyond the crest of every wave, were discreetly or indiscreetly cussing German-American relations all the time until the Japanese school quarrel in San Francisco furnish ed them with a new bogie. An Ameri can admiral sang a song" which reflected upon the kaiser, and at the time of the Venevuela incident it was a rare day when there was not a new rumor of some German scheme for the destruction Continued on Page Seven.) duty, the most sacred that can come to him or her. But of one thing I wafnv my corres pondent and all other parents interest ed in this subejet. Play fair with your sons and daughters. Don't take, as a matter of course, as so many parents do, all that your daughter earns for the support of the family, and let your boys keep their earnings for their own diversion. e a trice F airfax I WE been watching, with Interest, the manners of a very pretty girl with three beaux. Just at present she is managing them chains, day by day. on her willing all beautifully, and each believes hinrr'c3ptive' and Io! at the end of the sea self to be the favored one. son she Is engaged and her sister, who Two of them live in neighboring has had more beaux than she could camps. AVIth one of them she plays count all sumfner, has nothing to show ,tennis in the morning, with the other i for It but a few souvenirs and college she rides or motors In the afternoon. The third lives In the hotel, but he Is an ardent fisherman and away most 'ot the daj-. With him she spends her evenings. She never has two of them on her hands at the same time. Sho is easily the belle of the hotel, and yet there are other girls who are more likely to find themselves engaged at the end of the season than her belle ship. Too Many Benux Dan(;erous. Too many beaux at a time is one of the first rules toward making an old maid. I know that sounds ridiculous, but you find many an old maid who has bean a great belle In her youth. She is not an" old maid because she had no chance to marry, but because she would not settle down and make up her mind. She was too hard to suit. She was spoiled by attention, and al ways waited -for something better to turn up. Then, one fine day, she awoke to find herself a back number. Her ad mirers had dwindled d-jwn to boys much younger than herself, and soon they, too, fell away. .L4l.lw . ti uicvu.t liu AilLllld KJX. JU3L f tliot- tT-nc hanHenTnA fo3Atf? -twrwn-w with peevish faces and discontented hearts. The pretty girl with the three beaux may have no such fate; but she runs the risk of it. The girl with two beaux, if she is clever about It. can stimulate them by jealousy of each other; but whep she get three on her hands, she Is apt to come to grief. Of course. I do not mean that a girl cannot have half a dozen men who like her and enjoy dancing with her. etc Every attractive girl Jias that sort of attention. I mean the girl who is encouraging the serious attentions of several men at the same time. One Man KnoiiKh to Handle. The serious attentions of one man are about all the average girl can man age. Tf she has any idea of accepting him, and she should not receive hN attention if she has not. she should put her whole mind and heart on the problem of the wisdom of her choice. At the end of the summer season, it is usually the quiet mouse of a jrirl who comes home with a captive trail- inc - after he" Abe Martin TrtB WcfcA , Oasi I'd rather pay five dollars a pound fer meat than take a chance on some o' thl substitutes. If we didn't have friends we'd never git t' hear all th' mean things said about us when we buy a tourin' car. t LETTERS To th& HERALD (All communications must bear the signature of the writer, but the name will not be published where such a re quest is made). LIKES HERALD'S OUL XEW'S. Toyah, Tex., Aug. 5, 1910. Editor El Paso Herald: I am enclosing a check, and would thank you to please enter my name upon your subscription list. You have a dandy paper, and your editorial, "Lease; Don't Sell Oil Land," is the best dope I have seen in any of the papers. Yours very truly, E. Cockrell. M Years Ago To- I From The Herald Of o-iy j This Date 1890. Clay J Customs inspector Joe Dwyer seized a lot of smuggled fruit down the rrrer this morning. James Manning has sold for S300. lots 1, 2 and 3, of Magoffin's addition to W. E. Scheffler. Conductor Ben Mover was held up and robbed by tramps this morning. Judge Hunter will read a paper at the meeting of county Judges to be held in Galveston. Mrs. J. M. Dean leaves Sundav on a vis't to Fort Worth. W. A. Bourland, tmanager of the Val ley Fruit company, has just returned from a visit to Mexico C. C. Slaughter has returned from a trip to Mexico. Governor Ahumada and staff arrived this morning from Chihuahua. Col. Bitter has returned from Mis souri. Samuel. Schutz, wife and son, left on a California trip this morning. ALAMOGORDO COMPAXY IS INCORPORATED Santa Fe. X. M., Aug. 5. Incorpora tion papers were filed by the DeMier Copper company of Alamogordo, with capitalization of 5600,000. The incor porators and directors are: John R. DeMier, E. D. McKinley, O. G. Cady and W. TV. Mann, all of Alamogordo. On Too Many Beaux Spoil a Match "o one has noticed much what she has been cioing; but she has gne quietly on her way tightening- th pins. Men are a little bit afraid of the girl who has too many beaux. They like to flirt with her. but when it comes to marrying, they feel a bit uncertain. Why Men Fear Her. They wonder if she will want all this attention after marriage, and If she will be satisfied with the love and de votion of one man. Take my advice, girls; have all the fun yJU can, but don't encourage a number of men at the same tinYe. jYou can dance and laugh and be on friendly terms with a dozen men, but when it comes to serious encourage ment, be content with one. s3s&czzr' Too many heart. to juprgle vrlth may result in missing nil of them. I t !-" - -. r rssBrt j v J-" a. v &7y. sys m r n0mm