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Saturday, August 19, 1911
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THE AFFAIR in Juarez brings up the whole question of those gambling
"concessions." The belief is steadily growing that the keno games in Juarez
possess no concessions at all. Some persons who claim to be well informed
declare that the keno permit was only a local permit paid for at the rate of so
much per night and possesses none of the features of a government concession.
The raid on the Juarez gambling houses assisted the public treasury quite
materially. The seizure of gold and silver in such large quantities is a much more
convenient way of obtaining money than through the ordinary channels of taxa
tion. It may be that sincethe general gambling houses were established with
all their variety of games running wide open, the keno games found that their
income was somewhat impaired, and it is possible that the keno interests them
selves have instigated the action of governor Gonzales. It does not seem reason
able on its face that mayor Medina would so persistently violate the laws and
defy the orders of his superior as would be implied by the stones of the situation
as told in Juarez.
Whatever the motive, the closure is a mighty good thing for Juarez and El
Paso and also for the state of Chihuahua and all of Mexico. -The running of all
kinds of gambling wide open, as has been the case in Juarez the last few weeks,
is a shameful .disgrace, and it ought not to be tolerated in any decent community
or civilized country. The same arguments that apply to the miscellaneous games,
however that have been closed in the raid, apply with no less force to the keno,
which is one of the worst robbing propositions of all. If it be true that no state
concession exists for these games that the governor feels bound to protect, nothing
..!. , arwai muld do would place him in greater favor with the more
enlightened people of his state than to put a stop suddenly, and permanently to
SucTlctioTwould win also the appreciative approval of all the people of El
Pao- but the governor need not consider that phase of the situation, but need only
consult the wishes of the intelligent and 'respectable Mexicans themselves them
selves to satisfy himself of the great harm that is being worked through the
running of the keno games.
In view of the fact that a general-raid on the keno houses is expected any
night under orders from Chihuahua, it wauia seem to be the part of wisdom for aU
Americans to stay away from the places if they wish to avoid a term in jail and
the loss of all their ready cash.
Mayor -Medina will perform a great public service if be will lay bare all the
facts in connection with this curious episode.
t "On to Roswell!"
There are plenty of bargains in valley land right now for people who really
want to farm. t ,
Funny thing that when cantaloupes are selling 12 for a quarter they are still
25 cents apiece in the hotel dining rooms. ,
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'35 in El Paso what you cannot buy in your home town," and the El Paso
stores rightnow are offering the best bargains of the year.
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A Democratic organ refers to the "labor pranks of the 1908 Democratic plat
form." Can it be possible there is a typographical error?
A Mistaken Policy
FOR A VARIETY o'f reasons the claims of persons injured and of the relatives
of persons killed on this side of the line in Arizona and Texas with bullets
fired by Mexicans during the battles in Mexican border towns, ought to be
pressed vigorously on the Mexican government. No course of action could be more
certain to react unfavorably upon the interests and personal status of Americans
in Mexico, than the attitude of complacency and neglect which has character
ized the policy of the American state department in connection with these killings
and woundings.
Immense claims are preferred by Germany, Great Britain and China on ac
count of injuries sustained by citizens of those countries in Mexico as an incident
to the Mexican revolution. Whatever the law and the precedent may be in this
case, it appears to The Herald that the right of indemnity is no less in the case
of citizens of a foreign country killed and wounded by shots fired across the
international line as they were in the battle of Juarez and the battle of Agua
Prieta. v
The failure of the United States to act promptly, vigorously and decidedly in
connection with this matter is nothing short of contemptible. Such a policy
makes no friends in Mexico. It tempts the lower element in Mexico to outra
geous excesses wherever grudges are cherished, and it subjects Americans both in
the interior of Mexico and along the border to the insults of an ignorant class who
see in our neglect and misguided magnanimity nothing but weakness, hesitation,
or fear.
These claims should be taken up by our state department on its own initia
tive, all the cases investigated, and vigorous representations made to the govern
ment at the Mexican capital. To let these wrongs pass unredressed can only leads
to repetition and greater injury in the future.
El Paso business men will rejoice at the new schedule on the Mexican Na
tional railway. They can now visit Chihuahua, without much loss of time.
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Magnificent peaches come from the Meailla and El Paso valleys. This fine
fruit "will become more and more of a staple product of this region. The Tularosa
and Carlsbad countries also produce splendid peaches running evenly, of large
size, plump form, and 'exquisite flavor.
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The Arizona Democrat quotes Mark A. Smith as saying that "Taft has no
right to interfere in statehood." Mark thought the Republicans of Arizona had no
right to interfere with his uninterrupted connection with a federal salary, too, but
they exercised the right nevertheless. (
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The alleged fear of annexation used by the demagogs in Canada to stir up
feeling against the reciprocity treaty is only a bugaboo so far as the United States
is concerned. Canada is just as likely to capture the United States and conceal it
somewhere about her person, as we are to annex the dominion - )
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THERE is no use in cussing when things are going wrong, for saying things
and fussing won't bring good luck along. If fortune treats you meanly
you'll find that it will pay to go around serenely, and smile the good old
way. There is no use repining if you have got an ache; there is no use in whining
as though your heart would break. It's best to sit and suffer your little pain and
grin; your luck might be much tougher than it has ever
been. Sometimes the gods correct you, and if you give
USELESS DOINGS no screech, your neighbors will respect you, and say that
- you're a peach. There is no use in ranting; the quiet man is
best; that mouth is most enchanting which often takes
a rest. Just do some silent thinking while jogging on your way; so many tongues
are clinking and clanking all the day!
Copyright, 1911. by George Matthew Adams. Ct&M 1M
Success Talks To Men and Boys
The Crime; Against Our Naturalization Laws
F
ROM my usual Success Talk I am j
turning today to a qViestlon In
which every patriotic citizen of
the republic should be interested. The
wholesale method of granting- citizen
ship has developed Into an abuse
which 'is purely American.
The -plain purpose of our naturaliza
tion law is to exclude from the elec
torate persons who fail to inform
themselves as to the nature of the
government under which they are liv
ing. No abuse can be more pernicious
than our wholesale granting of the
suffrage to men who know nothing
and care less about our American in
stitutions. Recently one judge in New Tork
naturalized 600 in one week, while an
other naturalized 500 and there were
still 1600 more waiting to get their
last papers so they could vote the
coming fall. A similar condition pre
vails throughout our whole land. Be
fore the coming fall elections our
courts will be busy manufacturing
hordes of the most debased and de
graded aliens Into voters to nullify
the votes of Americans at the ballot
box. I have visited the naturaliza
tion bureaus of New Tork and have
seen men driven in droves to the
courts by unscrupulous ward heelers;
they were put through the courts by pendence, the birthdays of Washlng
the wholesale at lightning speed by ! ton and Lincoln, and dedicate to grate-
the aid of subservient judges and then i
drlven to the polls to vote as they
were told.
Glory In Creating "Citizens."
There are judges in every great city
throughout the United States who
glory in their achievements in shov
ing foreigners through the naturaliza
tion mills of their courts at a rate of
speed which makes it 'certain that
these judges have no regard for the
sanctity of the oath which they have
taken.
Think of it. Rushing 600 foreigners,
almost imbeciles in their Ignorance,
through the naturalization court In
about 20 hours. The number of ap
plications for citizenship every year
is so enormous, it would be impossible
for the court to test the character of
each very thoroughly; but it seems to
have become the custom not to attempt
any such examination, the court re
quiring only proof of five years resi
dence and two persons who will tes
tify to good character. In some cases
the clerk conducts the examination
whjle the court is busy with other
matters.
Eighty Percent Illiterate.
Eighty percent of our immigrants
The Terror of the Desert
(By Ed Raits.)
THE small encampment of white
tents stood in a palm grove
A which bounded the village It
rwas little more. A raid had 'been made
upon the hardy French settlers by a
wandering band of Arabs, and much
blood had been spilled. So a paternal
government had sent a regiment of
zouaves to revenge the dead and pro
tect the living. The famous "Legion of
the Lost" had done Its work well, and
the Arabs had been badly defeated
and swept back into the desert whence
they came.
The expedition was practically at an
end, but one small punitive band was
not j'et returned from its business of
destroying an Arab village .which had
given shelter and help to the marau
ders Henri Lemolne paced before his tent.
He has spent almost all his life In
Africa, His mother- and her husband
had come from France when Henri was
a -child of two.
No word of her story had ever- been
told, but she treated her husband with
a quiet scorn that people soon found
was well deserved. Gusta-vje Lemolne
was one of those men born with a
kink in their natures. He simply could
not keep straight. Madame eked out a
living by skilled embroidery and fine
washing done for the ladles of the
garrison. Her husband after a period
of loafing and hanging around the
most disreputable cafes in the Arab
quarter, suddenly took it into his
head to enlist .
Gustave Lemolne was universally
disliked and distrusted by his fellow
soldiers.
Then came a crisis in French af
fairs in Africa. There was trouble, se
rious trouble, with the tribes, and all
through the preparations information
kept leaking out which handicapped
the authorities. Lemolne had never
given up his trick of haunting the
Arab quarter. And suspicion fell upon
him. He Justified the suspicion by sud
denly disappearing, and the next thing
heard of him was a report that he had
been seen in the following of a rebel
sheik, and was supposed to be train
ing the Arabs in the art of war ac
cording to the French fashion.
Madame Lemolne met her trouble in
a manner which won the respeot of
all. She held up her head proudly, and
declared her determination to bring up
her little son to take his father's
trtace In the regiment and redeem that
father's bad record and she kept her
word.
Henri was 24 when he stood looking
out over the deser,t sea of sand, and
he was already on the way to become :
a corporal, with a good prospect of
promotion before him.
Something has broken the level open
rim of the horizon something that
resolved itself into a swirl of dust that
grew as he looked.
The camp turned out to watch, and
the cloud on the desert sea grew and
grow, till a troop of men and horses
was visible.
In to the midst of their cheering
comrades swept the avengers. They
had, done well; they carried out their
orders, without losing a single man,
and they had taken a prisoner, an
Arab, a man of stately, dignified fig-
ure, bronzed and bearded, who sat on
Denatured Poem
By Dr.
Madison
C.
Peters
today can neither read or writ the
Entrlish language. What do theycnow
about the constitution of the United j
States? I have seen Judgft3 obliged
to quit their chairs in order to get a
breath of pure air and to escape for a
moment the vile odors, and the police
compelled to resort to force to pre
serve order.
"What respect can such citizens feel
thereafter for the ballot they thus
acquire. Often they do not seek it f
and more frequently it is thrust upon
them. They value it so little that they
have not taken the trouble to inquire
about its advantages.
If some party driver did not hunt
them up and agree to pay, not only
court costs but something more, they
would not consent to become citizens.
Baptized at a font of corruption when
assuming the character of American
citizens, what but misuse of the power
thus ancmired is to te expected of a
large proportion of the citizens thus
made?
Mafce Naturalization Solemn.
I would make naturalization as sol
emn and impressive as a patriot's
march to battle. We have national
holidays for honoring, ror rejoicing,
we celebrate the declaration of inde
fUj memories of our patriotic dead,
worthy recognitions of history and
patriotism. There should be an
other .sacred day or days in the na
tional calendar- times appointed by
law, wherein the qualified alien might
assume the rights and duties of an
American citizen, 'under circumstances
of investigation, dignity and solemnity,
commensurate w4th the great event
days on which commerce should cease,
labor suspend, the schools be closed,
the flags float from the public build
ings and the bells of the churches be
rung.
"Let the federal courts be the scenes
of the final act, wherein shall be
gathered the officials of the common
wealth, the men, women and children;
due preliminary notice being given, let
a judicial inquiry be publicly made as j
to the qualifications of those who seek
citizenship and if they be found worthy
under the laws, let them assume the
new obligation and bearing their title
of honor, be welcomed by the applaud
ing people and the recipients of such
great prerogatives become themselves
objects of observation and congratu
lation. The Herald's
Daily Start Stry
Wshorse like a statue in their midst,
With true eastern impassivity he dls-
mounted -when ordered, and after &
brief questioning by the colonel, to
which he returned no reply, he ,was
lead Into the guard tent and strictly
watched.
Later the colonel and his officers
h-eld a court, to which came many peo
ple of the village those who were left
of them.
Before them was placed that tall,
still figure. Once or twice the large
brown eyes swept round the circle of
stern, white faces, but he spoke no
word. His sentence was inevitable. He
was to be shot at sunrise the next
morning before the regiment started
on its march.
Henri stood dreaming beside the tent
where the Arab apparently shed out
the last hours of his life.
The young man shot a glance of al
most pity at the long white figure, and
as he did so it stirred and rose to a
sitting position on the ground.
He could feel the dark eyes scanning
him, although he could not see them;
then, like a man in a dream, he heard
a voice call him, softly, in French.
"Henri!" the voice called, and he
glanced round wildly.
"Henri!" One more, faint and clear,
and then an addition, "My sn!"
For a moment. the desert wheeled be
fore his eyes, and then, with a cold
clutch at his heart, came the realiza
tion of his hidden fear.
"You are my son. I knew you; you
resemble Madeline, my wife. And then
your name, my name, Lemolne how
strange it sounded! I heard them call
you, In the court today. They did not
know me fools. I did not speak lest
one should know my voice. But when I
had found you, I knew that I had
found' safety. My horse it Is tethered
near I heard It calling me It is of
the desert breed, and none can catch it
Loosen these bonds three steps, and 1
am free.
"Speak! Answer me unnatural son."
But the silence of the east seemed
to have fallen on the young man, and
he answered never a word.
The hour came at last, with a stir in
town and camp, a blowing of bugles
and a rattle of arms. Henri was re
lieved from his guard, to prepare him
self for his other, worse task. He has
been appointed a member of the firing
party.
In his ears rang his father's last
words: :
"I will pay the debt."
The sharp rip of the rifle volley rang
out, and with one wild scream the
Arab fell a huddled heap in his bonds.
After the volley, a single shot.
The men of the firing party stared
In each other's faces, and one of their
number sank slowly to the ground.
"Henri Lemolne! My God! What does
this mean?"
They raised him fearfully. He was
not dead, but was going out fast.
"Why? Why? stammered his captain.
"It was a debt I owed. He was
my father. I could not free him I
could not kill hlm and you must
have shot me anway. I disobeyed
orders I "
There was no time for a priest he
went too fast, and went believing he
had paid his debt in full. But his fel-
Iowb mourned him as a hero.-
The Multiplicity of Nationalities
Presents Problem In School Work Frederick
T.Haakin
Three-Fourths of the Boys and Girls in the JJnited States Are
Educated In Public Schools. I
FULLY three-fourths of the boys
and girls of the United States
end their education in the com
mon or elementary schools; conse
quently the common schools consti
tute the most important department of
the national educational system. That
this Is fully recognized by the nation
Itself, is evidenced by the enormous
expenditure for the support of these
schools. Nearly 300,000 buildings are
now being utilized to accommodate the
18,000,000 pupils enroled in the public
schools and the valuation of these
buildings approximates $1,000,000,000.
The expenditure for the support of all
these schools very nearly reached half
La billion last year, which was equiva
lent to an expenditure of $27 for each
pupil.
Bight Years of Graded Work.
The common school system of Amer-
ica provides for eight years of regu-
lar graded work, beginning with the
primary and ending with the final
grammar grades. In most of the
larger schools, the primary grade is
Dreceded by one or two years of kin
dergarten work. The requirements of
the eighth grade are practically the
same in all American schools, including
those ori the Panama canal zone and
the insular possessions. The course
of study has v outgrown tne original
three R's and includes systematic
grade work in writing, reading, Ehg
MoVi oHthmfttln. sreography, United
States history, vocal music, drawing, !
natural science, physical culture and, j
in many of the schools, a certain
amount of manual training work, al
though this last subject is restricted
in the smaller towns by the lack of
provision for Its equipment. The
growing demand for manual training
work, however, indicates that within
the next few years it will become as
much a part of the course In the pub
lic schools as reading or writing.
Developing Uniform Standard.
The development of a uniform stand
ard inschool work, for which ecmca
tnT-3 TinX'p been long striving, has been i
so nearly completed during tne last
decade, that there is very little dif
ference in a year's grade work in any
part of the country. With a certain
allowance for local requirements, as
has been said, the common school
course Is so uniform that a child mov
ing from one state to another is able
to take up his school work in the
same grade. s
With the attainment of this unifi
cation of standards In the grades, now
comes the feeling that a greater flex
ibility in the curriculum of the high
er grades must be secured. It is gen
erally agreed that the first six years
of school should be devoted absolutely
to the study of the fundamental
branches, but there is a growing dif
ference of opinion as to what the last
two years should embrace.
Since so large a percentage .of the
pupils never rise higher than the
common schools, it is advocated by
some that these should be arranged
to give the greatest possible amount of
general culture to those who are not
able to give a longer time to scnoui.
Many children are compelled to go to
work early, and will make great sac-
rlfices to complete the grammar
Ada Patterson
THE art of getting along is in large
part the fine art of getting
along with difficult people. For
we are all difficult, all hard to get
along with; men think it of women,
women know it of men; friends hold
this estimate of each other, and ene
mies holding it, express it in stronger
degree. Everyone has a character angle,
some of us have several of them, which
irritate our associates. The success
ful person is one who ignores these
angles or transforms them into curves.
I heard two wmen talking of such
a woman on the subway the other day.
"I hear that Jim Smith gets along with
his second wife all right. They do say
that he worried his first one into her
grave," said the first woman.
"Yes said the second woman,"
Matilde's great. I was there one day
when Jim got to fussing. "He was al
ways an awful fusser. He came out
out of his bedroom blue in the face.
Look here' he said with some extra
words I wouldn't stain my lips to
repeat. 'Just look at the tear in these
pants.
"Matilda looked at him and smiled.
She would smile at a lion with its Jaws
open to eat her, and I'll bet that after
that he'd never have the heart to eat
her. 'Jim,' she said 'you're mistaken.
That isn't a tear. It's a rip.' What
did he do? What could he do? He
laughed and then It was all over. For
if you can get a man to laughing,
and the woman, knows enough not to
say anything more about the cause of
the wrangle, she's won the day.
"Yes, she's great. Another time I
was there he had hysterics again. I
suppose you know that men have
hysterics as well as women. I thnk
it's horse and horse, just as many
hysterical men as women, only In men
we call it cussedness. Same thing.
He was having hysterics all right, fret
ting with her about something that
was nothing. I wondered how long
she'd stand it. Well, she didn't show
that she was roi'ghed up a bit, if she
was. She just smiled, looked him In
the eyes and said: 'Smith you're ex
cited'. 'She got him to laughing, and
of course, had her way."
Don't you agree with the second
woman that Matilda was great? She
had applied the healing salve of humor.
If she can lead a person to look
humorously at what he regards ser
iously, a strained situation has re
laxed, a rupture has been healed, a
break mended, a chasm bridged.
A genius at getting along is a busi
ness woman I know. Her employer
Is tubercular, bilious and dyspeptic,
a combination that does not make for
amiability nor justice. That man boils
over In wrath with a volume a geyser
never displayed. And when the mighty
flow is over, what remains of his es
sence of fault finding and vitriol of
vituperation extends itself in mean lit
tle trickles of sarcasm. Like most
coarse natures he mistakes Insolence
for wit. Once there was an eruption
within my hearing and the business
woman with the genius for getting
along with people encountered it mid
stream. To my amazement, when the
boiling and sizzling had subsided, I
heard my friend reply in cool, civil
voice:
"Thank you for pointing out my mis
take. I had much rather you showed it
to me than that any outside critic
should have done so. I will profit by
your explanation."
The man's sickly face silhouetted
school; for these a liberal curriculum,
with several elective studies, is advo
cated for the seventh and eighth
grades. In opposition to this it is
urged that when too many subjects
are undertaken, the result is a super
ficial conglomeration of facts of no
particular value to the child, and those
who hold to this theory insist that
the last two years had better be spent
in solidifying the fundamental studies
taken in the previous year. In a large
number of schools, however, the intro
duction of algebrat, more advanced
natural sciences, Latin, and one or
more modern languages is being tried
with good results, both to the child
who finishes his education in the
grammar grade and the one who goes
on to high school. i
Has a Unique Problem.
The United States has a unique
problem in its common school system
not found to such a large degree in
any other nation In the world. This
is the multiplicity of languages with
which it must cope. The ever-increas-
Ing tide of immigration brings each
year thousands of non-English speak
ing children into the public schools.
In order to make these efficient citi
zens, they must be aided to complete
the work of the elementary schools,
handicapped at the beginning by the
fact that they do not understand a
word of the language. There are pub
lic schools in the cities In which no
less than five languages are spoken,
although all are supposedly English
schools and only English is taught.
But when the children come from for
eign-speaking homes, with no know-
ledge of the language of the country,
they must be met by someone with
whom they can converse intelligently
before their real education can begin
In public school No. -4 in New York
City there are 2000 children, fully 90
percent of whom are foreigners, yet
by the excellent syatem of instruction
provided, even the children who never
hear a word, of English at home are
able to speak It correctly before the
school year expires, and by means of
this school training are generally able
to secure self-supporting positions at
an early age. The school Is one of
the largest and best "immigrant"
schools in the country- Beside its
principal and supervisor, it has 51 j
regular, and six special, teachers. The j
children are taught all the ordinary
elementary branches in English, and
in addition have a very systematic and
well arranged course of manual train
ing. The girls are taught sewing and
domestic science in all its branches
for the care of an American home,
which differs materially from those of
their own land. The cost of this
school is higher than most of the
common schools of the country, as its
average expenditure reaches $30 per
capita annually.
California's Problem.
In California the number of children
speaking foreign languages has influ
enced the legislature to pass a bill last
year providing that in every city of
the first class there shall be at least
one public school in which the French,
German and Italian languages shall
' be taught in connection with the work:
In English. The value of this plan has
On the Art of
Getting Along
against the dark background of his
roller top desk, was a study In suc
cessive stages of surprise, gratifica
tion, relief and the admiration of one
trained Intellect for another. He knew
that he had been ill tempered. She had
construed an ill natured outburst into
measured instructions. When she rose
to leave his office, he stoopedand
picked up a paper that had slipped
from her lap and handed It to her
with a bow and a smile. She smiled
.buck.
When she joined me her face was a
shade paler and was strained. But her
voice was absolutely controled. "He has
proved that he deserves his reputation
as the most crotchetty man in the
business. He ought to be in a sanita
rium," I answered. "Why do you bear
it?" I asked in a sudden burst of sym
pathy. "Because I know what I want," she
answered. "I have a goal in view and
this post is one stage on the road. I
have determined that no personality
and no peccadillo shall stand in my
way."
"And how do you bear it?" I varied
my question. ,
"By thinking of Ahe man himself
as little as possible, and when I do, as
a poor thing whom I pity for his in
firmities, and whose ultimate I plainly
see. A business office is not our own
nor our friend's drawing room. Busi
ness hours are times of struggle, not
of social intercourse. The time spent In
talking of other than the business in
hand is wasted. We don't select our
business associates, and we don't have
to like them, nor should we assume
that they like us. We have only to
school ourselves to endure them and be
civil and expect more than civility from
them. It's a hard law, but it Is the law
of business life.
Laura In History;
Means; Persons
(Copyright, 1910,
LAURA is one of the few female
names that do not admit of
abbreviation. The famous bal
lad, "Annie Laurie" should not per
suade the unknowing that it Is the
proper thing to substitute In the
Christian name "ie" for the final "a,"
for the "Laura" referred to Is a fam
ily name, claimed by English baron
ets. A garland of leaves and flowers is
Laura's emblem and "reward of vir
tue" her sentiment.
Like the name Laurenqe or Law
rence, Laura is derived from Laure
and means "laurel crowned," Besides
St. Lawrence, the Roman, there Is an
English saint of that name, the suc
cessor oX, St, Augustine as archbishop
of Canterbury, but no fit. Laura.
Neither was there a female laureate.
The patron saint of girls named
Laura is Gudula, of whom it is re
corded by St. Hubert that she once
hung a pair of gloves on a sunbeam
penetrating the church window, and
there they hung for more than an
hour.
St. Gudula is represented carrying
a laurel crown.
Our forefathers associated the name
with the gift of prophecy, which gift,
Abe KAartin
Don't take nothin' t'day 70m caa't put
back tomorrow. Two homely people al
ius seem so clad t see one another
not yet been decided upon by educa
tors, but a number of these schools
are now In operation and are desig
nated as "cosmopolitan" schools.
One of the most important problems
now confronting the educators is that
of devising some plan of grading that
will be flexible enough to meet the
individual needs, thus making some
provision for the laggard, who does
not keep up with his class. Under
the present system fully 15 percent of
the school children of the country are
repeating their work each year at a
great detriment to themselves, as well
as a great loss to the country. The
money cost of the repeater in school is
estimated at over $50,000,000 annually,
and this sum. Is practically wasted,
since children doing the same work
the second time ger little if any more
value from it than if completed in
one year according to the plan of the
school system.
It is claimed by some that the pres
ent course of study in the common
school is planned for the unusually
bright child instead of the average or
dull child. Whether this is true or
not, the fact remains that a. compara
tively small number of children com
plete the full eight grades without
repeating at least one year's work.
Statistics indicate that at present the
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14
Years Ago To-
From The HeraM Of rfotT
ThtoDe 18S7 UV
L M. Goodman is up in New Mexico
on business.
Gen. Williams, of Socorro, came
down this noon.
Senator Turney and wife, returned
today from Alpine.
E. A. Shelton returned last night
from Santa Rosalia.
The joint warehouse has been given
a. new tin roof.
A. B. McKle left this aftenaooa for
Roswell on a business trip.
C. J. Larmier, of the T. & P., return
ed this afternoon to Dallas.
Mrs. Rosseter and Mrs. Desmith left
this afternoon for Colorado Springs.
Manager Faulkner, of the Pecos Val
ley road, has gone onto California,
There will be a county teachers ex
amination on Friday and Saturday next.
Mr. Harvey, of the Steam Laundry
company, left for Buffalo, N. Y., this
morning.
Mrs. Younge, of Toyah, who has been
visldng friends in this city, returned
home today.
Al Watson and wife left this after
noon for Colorado Springs by way of
Fort Worth.
The Postal Telegraph company's
messenger boys are dressed in gray,
and look very neat.
B. Blumenthal and L Kline left this
afternoon over the T. & P. for a busi
ness thip to New York.
A fine new mellophone was received
last evening by George Barber, the solo
alto of the McGinty band.
George Langston, T. & P. agent at
Cisco, has returned to his station after
a short visit in this city.
W. F. Hempel, formerly with the
Consumer's Ice company, has a posi
tion with the Mexican Ore company.
The Mexican Central that came up
last night was a case of "and the cat
came back." It was no thoroughfare
with a vengeance, and there is no train,
today.
The river took on another boom
last night and was running nearly
bank full today. The canal was also
full and has overflowed its banks in
several places.
Mrs. Tozec, of Roswell. sister of J.
Calisher, arrived this afternoon with
her children from California, and is
visiting with her brother en route to
the Pecos valley.
First Lieut. Charffles W. Penrose,
of the 1th Infantry, and brother of
president Penrose, of the Common
wealth Mining company, of Arizona, is
at the "Vendome.
Professor Joseph Smith returned
from Granada this afternoon, and Mrs.
Smith and daughter will some soon.
They will for the present be domi
ciled at Chopin hall.
What the Name
Who Have Borne
by Henry W. Fincher.)
or assumption, led many a poor woman
to the stake in the days of witch burn
ing. Later Laura was welcomed as tha
personification of poetry. It was also
firmly believed that lightning would
not strike a house the mistress of
which was named Laura.
There is no queen Laura, but' the
queen of songs, the imperishable Laura
of Petrarch. She was the wife of
Hugues De Sade of Avignor, Petrarch's
chief lyric, called "Rime," and which,
was composed in the course of 40 long
ytars in honor of Laura, which moved
Byron to the question in "Don Juan":
"Think you, if Laura had been Pe
trarch's wife.
He would have written sonnets all his
life?"
Byron tells us of "Laura, a Vene
tian Lady," in his Beppo, the equiva
lent of our "Joe." "To Laura" Schiller
addressed the first poetic effusion that
attracted the attention of the critical.
The Laura Schiller loved was the pret
ty wife of a Stuttgart captain named
Vischer. The Swiss form is Lorl, and
the French Loulou; the Italian Lauretta
and Lora,
Next names: Cora and Corinne, No.
80; Theodora, No. 8l Ursula, No 83.