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Real Estate and Too Late
OVER A
About 2000 a Year and an Average of About
Spend Annually in this City
This shows that the -people of El Paso
and surrounding country appreciate what
Osteopathy has done for them in the last
eight years. For its immense "business is
due entirely to its success in handling dis
eases and the kindness of its patients in
spreading the good news to others, together
with the efficacy of our newspapers, sub
stantiated by our best citizens. Osteopathy
cures so quick in all kinds of fevers and
In return to our many friends for their kindness in building up this
great business for us we publish this poem, which shows
how we appreciate you.
All! welcome touch, your hand I feel
Hy heart will thrill and Joy will steal
"Within the dark barred realms of Soul
"Where silent Torture makes her goal
lAnd withering Grief has built her fire
'Tis you, alone, can blast her pyre
My Friend.
DR. A. T.
RENE BACKETS BUDGET.
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lWI8 FIGHTING CRAFT THAT UNCLE SAM IS
NOW BUILDING
Each of Them to Carry Ten of Those Wonderful 14
inch Rifles, Which Will Be the Biggest Guns
Afloat Also 21 5-inch Guns Not Meant For
Use in Battle Puzzle How Any Vessel
Gould Stand Up Against the Blows
These Ships Could Deal
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Sept. 16.
The most -wonderful vessel eTer
built has jusx had her keel laid
in the dock yards here. She
has already been named the Texas, and,
once afloat, she will be the most for
midable fighting ship in the -world.
This, however, with the qualifying
statement that her sister, and twin
newly called the New Tork is in a
like early stage of construction at the
navy yard in Brooklyn. They will make
marvelous pair, as may be judged from
the facts respecting them presently to
be set forth. For one point, they will
carry bigger guns than any now
afloat
Three months before the outbreak
of tie war with Spain, our navy pos
sessed (in adition to other more for
midable craft such as the Oregon and
Indiana) two second class battleships.
One of these, the Maine, is now being
dug out of the muddy bottona of the
haribor of Havana. The other was the
old Tezas. which today is junk having
been utilized recently as a target, to
test the effect of uptodate projectiles. ,
Now we are to have a new Texas
to take her place. But what a differ
ence between the two! It is no exag
geration to say that if Spain had pos
sessed one ship like that now building
here, she might easily have defeated us
in the memorable struggle vof 1898.
Suhc a vessel, speedy enough to choose
her own distance, could have knockd
our best naval fighting machins liter
ally to pieces, while keeping beyond
the efective range of their guns.
Texas to Have Ten.
The Texas (like the New Tork) will
carry 10 of those wonderful 14 Inch
guns, which are new to be placed for
the first time on board of fighting
craft. There is nothing like them in
the -world today, foreign nations hav
ing contented themselves thus far with
12 inch rifles. The projectiles they
throw are 4 1-2 feet long, weighing
1400 ponncs, and are hollow, the vacant
space being packed with 40 pounds of
A high explosive which is the most
powerful in existence, its composition
being a government secret
Now, the efficiency of either one of
these vessels as a fighting machine
mav be judged -when it is explained
that the half-score gigantic breehc
loading rifles will occupy five turrets,
the latter being arranged in a straight
line from bow to stern, so that in battle
all of the guns can be fired as a borad
slde either to port or starboard. Two
of the turrets will be somewhat higher
than the other three, In order that
their guns .may fire over the others In
cases where shooting has to be done
directly ahead or directly asterji.
The two ships represent an entirely
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I new type of super-dreadnaught
One of their most Temarkable features
will be a secondary battery of 21 five
inch breech loading rifles which,
though in themselves very formidable
weapons, are not meant for use in bat
tle at all! Under such circumstances,
indeed,,, they would not even be fired
their business being merely defence
against torpedo boats. At night "they
would be utilized for this purpose in
connection with powerful searchlights.
Smashing Blows at Long; Ranee.
What the Texas (like her twin sis
ter) will depend upon is the delivery of
smashing blows at long ranges with
her great 14 Inch guns. Under pres
ent conditions the normal fighting dis-.
tance. where battleships are engaged,
would be from 6000 to 12,000 yards
that is to say, from three to six miles,
roughly speaking. They would start
firing at about six miles. Ten years
ago the fighting distance was only 2000
yards; but it is being steadily pushed
out witn tne improvement of guns and
other elements of flg-hting power.
The five inch guns are of no use at
such distances, their proper fighting
range being from 3000 to 4000 vards.
Besides, if it were attempted to em
ploy them in battle, they would make
more or less smoke and Interfere with
the fire control. When it comes to
their proper business, they are deadly
enough, each one of them being able to
throw 12 50 pound shells a minute,
loaded with high explosive. Collective
ly they are called the "torpedo defence
'battery," and the 21 of them will be
distributed all around the vessel, so as
to cover as many points of compass as
possible.
The 14 inch rifle is just a trifle over
53 1-2 feet long. Its cylindro-conical
projectile, driven by the explosion of
360 pounds of smokeless powder (which
is the load), leaves the muzzle with a
velocity of about half a mile a sec
ond. Its striking energy at the muz
zle is reckoned at 65,000 foot-tons
enough, that is to say, to lift 1000 tons
65 feet into the air. Hitting a target
two miles distant, its energy is some
thing like 50,000 foot-tons.
Imagine the effect of such a .blow
delivered upon the side of a ship.
Nothins: afloat could successfully resist
so mighty an impact. But this is only
one shout from one. gun. With all ten
of its guns concentrated upon the tar
get (the range being once corrRetlv
obtained), the Texas, at a distance of
five miles, could literally annihilate a
battleship less formidable than her
self inside of 10 minutes. Such a
"salvo" (as it is now called in naval
parlance) would deliver enough strik
ing energy to lift 10,000 tons 50 feet
EL PASO HERALD
OSTEOPATHIC INFIRMARY
acute diseases, that in old, chronic diseases
people sometimes expect too quick results,
but after they have hardened the spine by
years of drugs it takes a long time. And
some good people allow themselves to be
frightened or persuaded back into drug
taking and they nearly invariably die,
which shows they would have died long be
fore they did if Osteopathy had not helped
them. When we can get a little more time
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"When Falsehood sows her vicious seed
And idle Gossip eats the weed
And breathes her poisoned breath in ear
And murdered Truth lays on her bier
And Justice casts her scales away,
'Tis you, alone, who will not flay
My Friend.
Corner Missouri
in tiie air and this, be it noticed,
twice every minute.
Xevr Method of Fighting:.
The uptodate method of sea fighting
is to concentrate simultaneously all
the guns of a number of warships upon
a single vessel of the enemy, thus ren
demig her quickly hors de combat,
and then to turn the attack In similar
fashion upon another member of the
hostile fleet Suppose that four such
vessels as the new Texas (we shall
start building two more like her next
year) were to concentrate their gunfire
in this way upon an enemy's battle
ship how long could the latter, even
though -herself a formidable craft, with
stand the assault?
How long, indeed, could anything
aflouat stand up against such blows?
For many years there was great rival
ry between armor and guns, and it was
a question which would win out. But,
as things stand today, the gun seems to
be far and away the winner. Offence
has -become stronger, apparently, than
defence can ever -hope to b. How are
human hands to fashion any floating
object that will Teslst the impact of
a projectile -capable of piercing 26
inches of solid steel a projectile that
strikes with an energy equal to that of
a ton of steel dropped from a height
of 12 aniles?
The "Racking'' Effect.
Such a projectile, in striking a bat
tleship fairly, may not penetrate, but
it is likely to "dish" the armor plate
it hits and to start leaks. This is what
is technically known as a "racking ef
fect." Or the mighty shell, if It
chances to hit a turret, may easily jam
its machinery, preventing it from re
volving, and thus putting its pair f
big guns out of business. Or, again,
it man strike the conning tower (from
which the management of the vessel is
directed), and crack it in two.
All of whihe does not take into ac
count the frightful effects of the x
ploslon of the projectiles on landing.
Impact sets off the high explosive
packed inside of them, and they are
rent into a thousand fragments weigh
ing anywhere, from an ounce to 50
pounds. These fly in all directions,
nland are liable to kill a great many
people. The carnage in sea fights of
the future will be inconceivablv dread
ful. The big naval guns of today are
strikingly different in shape from
those of a few years ago. The latter
were strengthened by enormous steel
hoops at the breehc, to wltstand the
sudden explosion of the old fashioned
gunpowder. But the modern smoke
less powder burns very slowly, and in
consequence the rifled cannon of late
patterjn has "spindled out" in a sur
prising way, becoming very long, and
thus giving the powder plenty of time
to Tesolve itself into gases before the
projectile leaves the muzzle. When one
comes to think of the matter, it seems
surprising that the world should have
been satisfied to get along with sub
stantially the same kind of gunpowder
irom inimical times (when the Chinese
-used it) up to the twentieth century,
or very nearly. Then came the smoke
less powder, which made necessary a
change in guns.
Has Greater Penetration.
As already stated, the projectile
fired from the 14 inch gun has a muz
zle velocity of 2600 feet a second. The
shell fired from a 12 inch gun leaves
the muzzle at 2900 feet per second.
But it only weighs 870 pounds, as
against 1400 pounds. This difference in
weight signifies that much less energy
is delivered In striking the target.
Greater energy means more penetra
tion. Furthermore, the heavy shell ig
nores wind and variable air densities.
These great guns which will com
pose the formidable armament of the
Texas and the New York are deemed by
the navy departmnt the most efficient
weapons ever made. They can hit
harder blows, and strike with greatefl
accuracy, than any other rifled cannon
now existing in the world. If it be
asked how the ships carrying them
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and EI Paso Streets, EE Paso, Texas
Many New Mexican Spanish Are
Superstitious Beyond Comparison
Belief in. Witches Still Common, While Myths Are Almost Myriad.
CURIOUS and Interesting indeed Is
the collection of superstitions of
Spanish New- Mexico, given in the
Journal of American- Folk Lore.
A belief in witches appears to be quite
common. The one person who can catch
a witch is a man or ooy named John,
or Junn the Baptist.
If such a one will put his clothes on
wrong side out, or with his foot will
draw a circle around the witch, he is
at his mercy. To relatives and particu
lar friends the witches do no harm,
though tbey are absolutely incapable of
doing any good. From such people
witches do not conceal the fact that
they are witches, though as a rule great
secrecy prevails. To these confidential
friends they often tell their evil inten
tions or threats of vengeance.
A certain woman In New Mexico who
was suspected of being a witch always
carried with her, concealed under her
clothes, a bundle of rags with pins and
a small toad wrapped up in rags, which
she woula often show to her friends,
cares-sing it with her hand. New Mex
icans afsc believe tnat a witch may
lake the fGrm of a black dog. A black
1 deg, however, may represent the devil
or some evil spirit.
One of the most curious of their
myths is that of la malora. It is re
garded as. a wicked spirit -which wan
ders about in the darkness of the night
It terrorizes the unfortunate ones who
are out alone at night and has usually
the form of a large lock of wool or the
whole fleece of wool of a sheep. Some
times it takes a human form, but this
Is rare, anc the New Mexicans say that
when it has been seen in human form
it presages ill fate, death, or the like.
When it appears on dark nights in
the shape of a fleece of wool it dimin
Mshec and increases in size In the very
presence of the unfortunate one who
se.s It. It is also generally believed
that a person who sees la malora, like
one who sees a ghoot, forever remains
senseless. When asked for detailed in
formation about this myth the New
Me leans give the general reply, "It is
an evil thing."
Myth of the "Weeping: Woman.
Th6 myth of the weeping woman (La
Llorona) is peculiar to Sante Fe. A
strange woman dressed In black, drag
ging heavy chains and weeping bitterly
i3 often seen after midnight walking
about the dark streets or standing at
the windows and doors of private
houses. Vague ideas are expressed
about her, but many state that she is
a soul from purgatory desiring to com
municate with some one or obliged to
atone for her sins by dragging chains
and weeping.
That any soul from purgatory or
heaven can come down to earth to
communicate with relatives and friends
is a widespread belief in New Mexico.
When the weeping woman is heard at
the door no one leaves the house; and
finally she departs, continuing her sad
lamentation and dragging heavy chains.
There are also some who state that the
llorona is an infernal spirit wandering
through the world and entering the
houses of those who are to be visited
by great misfortunes, especially death
in the family; and a few sav that she
is nothing more than an old witch.
The Spanish indians believe that the
Pueblo Indians of New Mexico have in
each pueblo a monster viper kept in a
will be able to withstand the shock of
their own gunfire, the answer is that
the explanation lies in their huge size
and in the enormous weight or fthe
and in the enormous weight of the
each have a displacement of 27,000 tons
and, of course, the chief idea held in
view In their construction is that they
shall serve as gun platforms.
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About $150,000.
we will tell you how Osteopathy cured all
these bad cases of fevers, blood poison, bad
eye troubles, when they were suffering
death; how we healed up these broken limbs
that had been bandaged so tight tubercu
losis of the bone had eaten away most of the
bone, and we cured them up; how Osteopa
thy cured all these bad abscesses, tumors,
etc., in the 1200 cases of female troubles we
have handled, a great per cent of them
BLAZER)
When all my silent tears are shed
"And waning Hope is almost dead
And Yultured Grief has come to gloat
On Memory's blazing edge of moat
And pokes her swollen mass at me,
"lis you, alone, who will not flee
My Friend.
cave and fed with seven living children
every year. The belief among the New
Mexicans of this myth is widespread
and the gradual disappearance of the
Pueblo indians is accounted for in their
opinion, by the sacrirlces to the mon
ster vipers.
The well known myth of the basilisk,
a myth found in ne&rly all countries,
is widely extended in New Mexico and
theie has one element which distin
guishes It from the oasillsk myth of
other nations. In other countries where
the myth appears it Is believed that
the basilisk is born from an egg laid
by a cock. But according to the New
Mexican belief the basilisk is said to
bo born from an old hen. There is no
egg connected with the myth at all.
After a hen is seven years old she no
longer lays eggs and she may give
birth to a basilisk.
The Old Hen Myth.
A hen which is known to be more
than seven years of age should be
killed, lest she give birth to a basilisk.
Not only in this respect
Is the New-
Mexican myth different from that of
?,P0" ? 3nfvih 5"S?Vn. ?
Mexico is not like a snake, it is not
a serpent or reptile, it has a shapeless,
ugly form resembling a deformed chick,
and is of black color. So it 1 dftscrihftri
by a New Mexican, who after going to I
a chicken house, whither he was at
tracted by the cackling of a hen, found
a basilisk, fortunately dead.
Any female bird or fowl may give
birth to a basilisk. Everywhere in New
Mexico the myth is the same. As to the
deadly effect of the eye of the basilisk,
the New Mexico myth is the same as
in other countries. If the basilisk sees
a person first the person dies; if the !
lisk dies. The story is told that in a
k ,& Was a basIIISlc
a magpies nest on toD of a tree and
the people who passed by were seen
by it and died,
Finally it was suspected that there
was a basilisk up in the tree, and a
morror being placed near the nest the
basilisk saw itself there and died. The
belief that the basilisk dies when be
holding its own image Is also a preva
lent one in all countries where the
myth is found. Even the mirror story,
with slight variations, is one that is
found in Chile, France and Spain. In
France the basilisk is also found in
wells, and may be killed by placing a
mirror over the well and allowing the
basilisk to see its own image.
Of ghost stories there Is no end.
When a person dies everybody fears his
return. Children who may sometimes
have been disrespectful to him are
afraid he will pull their toes at night
And the grownups have greater fears.
People argue long and eagerly as to
whether the departed soul has gone to
heaven, hell or purgatory.
A child under seven does not sin, and
if baptized goes to heaven; but if it
has already nursed it must pass the
flames of purgatory to atone for hav
ing nursed. If older then seven the dead
person commits sin, is responsible for
it and God will judge him.
When a person goes to heaven he
usually appears to one of his relatives,
in a dream or otherwise, and gives him
the information so that no prayers need
to be offered for him. If he Is in hell
ho may likewise be given by God the
permission to come to the world to in
form his relatives not to pray for him,
he lc damned. Those who go to purga
toiy are also allowed to come to earth
on various errands, the same as those
who go to heaven.
They may come to tell their relatives
to pray for them, to pay certain debts
which they failed to pay, to reveal cer
tain truths which they had kept secret,
to tell their relatives to fulfill cer
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tain vows, such as series of prayers and
almsgiving. The information is usually
thrcugh certain signs, which are easily
understood. But besides these appari
tions, -which the New iiexicans say have
a purpose, there are a series of super
stitions which have no explanation
whatever.
The dead simply frighten people,
especially relatives and friends, with
no reason and with no purpose. A dis
tant friend or relative receives warn
ing of the death of some one by a
rap on the bed, the falling of a chair,
a sudden noise of any kind, the pres
ence "of a small bird (preferably a
white bird), a small flame rising in
the air. , a distant light, a passing
shadow or finally the real presence of
the ghost of the person, usually dress
ed in black, standing- or walking along.
Souls Return to Pray.
It is also believed that the souls from
puigatory may themselves come to
pray, and thus say the prayers they
promised in life. In a- certain house in
Santa Fe, N. M., it is said that several
souls from purgatory assemble every
Good Friday to say the rosary. Their
prayers are distinctly heard, they ring
a little bell and then disappear. In El
Kito, an old Spanish settlement in
northern New Mexico, there is a house
which has been abandoned for over a
hundred years througa fear of ghosts.
Nearly every abandoned adobe house
is said to be haunted by ghosts. The
majority of the New Mexicans, men and
women, would not enter such a house
alone at night for any consideration
? whatsoever. It is feared as much as a
STaveyara. borne JNew Mexicans are
afraid to enter a graveyard alone even
in the daytime, not to speak of the
mghL Superstitions About Bead.
Some of the curious superstitions
about the dead are summarized as fol
lows: Chests appear to good people; never
to the wicked. If a persondies on a
beautiful day he has gone to heaven;
if on a stormy day he goes to hell.
a person who crosses a funeral pro
cession will die within the year fol
io v- ing.
If one is in continual dread of some
one who has died or one whose ghost
' lias been seen It is sufficient to sly to
i him 'Tzn v. -,, ., t-,
ium. Go to h ," and one is troubled
n0 more.
If two persons call for God's judg
ment on any dispute or quarrel they die
at the same time.
" If one does not desire to be molested
by the ghost of a dead person it is suf
ficient to visit the dead body and touch
its toes.
If the vice or customs of some dead
person is commented upon or even
barely mentioned it is necessary to of
fer up a prayer for him; otherwise
he will come at night and pull the
toes of those who ridicule him.
If a person dies and leaves money
hidden he returns to disclose the secret
to one of his family.
If any one chews gum in bed he is
masticating his family.
If a person spills salt, any quantity
whatsoever, he has to come back after
death to pick it all up with his eyelids.
To be strong and have no fear of the
dead it is necessary to prav to St.
Gertrude.
God is not pleased to hear people
speak of the dead. If the dead are
laughed at evil may follow.
"When a candle is burning to the end
some one is dying.
Thi superstitions and beliefs con
cerning dreams are many and various.
Some dreams are interpreted literally,
others not. Death, illness or other
msfcrtunes are. announced by dreams.
When one is desirous of having a
dream it Is sufficient to place one's
shrcs or stockings near the pillow and
a dream is sure to come.
If a person dreams hat a certain one
has died it means that a friend or rela
tive is dying or will die, but not the
one dreamed about.
Dreams.
If one dreams of blood a terrible mis
fortune Is about to happen; that one's
teeth are falling, a relative has died;
of lean meat, a child will soon die; of
fat meat, an old person will soon die;
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given up to die; also how easily Osteopathy
cured these appendicitis cases without even
operating; how we make these old, worn
out livers into as good as new; and how Os
teopathy restored all these Bright 7s dis
eases nobody else could do anything for. In
fact, we will tell you how we handled these
8000 cases of every kind of disease, most of
them given up by the others before we got
a chance at them.
When Death has stilled my aching heart
And God has bid my soul depart
The music of your love chimes loud
And echoes far beyond my shroud
;Tis you, for whom in death I smile
For you are all in life worth while
My Friend.
of a funeral, a wedding will soon fol
low: of a wedding, -death is announced;
of wealth, poverty will come; of &
black cat or black dog, an enemy is
approaching.
Some of the miscellaneous supersti
tions, in addition to others more wide
spread, are as follows:
If a young- man or young- woman is
hit with the broom oa the feet by on
who is sweeping he or she will never
be married.
If cne has Itching- In the right hand
a stranger is about to be introduced.
If two person drinlc water from the
ssme glass the last will know the first
one's secret.
The white spots in the finger nails
maicate the number of lies the person
has told.
On leaving the house on New Tear's
day o young person observes the per
son first encountered, for of a. similar
character the youn& person will be.
In the spinach a hair is always fouad,
because two godfathers once had a
fight in a spinach field.
If a young woman cuts her finger
nails on Saturday she will see her
lover on Sunday.
It is bad luck, and decidedly Improp
er to wash one's face or cut one's fiager
nails on Fridays.
Young girls must not eat sardines.
for they cause fickleness.
When a person forgets what he is
going to say it means , that It was a
If the breadcrumbs are burned up
the house will hever catch fire.
If one eats beans on New Tear"
day prosperity will follow.
If a pin sticks straight out oh a
woman s clothing her husband will
leave her or she will soon receive a
letter.
When a spider appears it brings grood
Iuck.
So that St Anthony will perform
miracles his image is hung head down.
When the image of a saint falls to
the ground it means that he has per
form ea a miracle.
When there is a ringing in the ears
a letter will soon be received, oa on,
the 20th of the month.
When there is a ringing- in the ears
people fear death.
Then a saint who is invoked will not
perform a miracle his image is put
away (imprisoned) until he performs
the miracle.
On St. Anthony's dy and also oa St.
Joseph s day one must always give
strangers to eat, since such strangers
ma' be the saints themselves
The swallow must not be killed or
even molested, since it was a swallow
that pulled off the thorns from the
ciown of Christ
"When one vawns ths o-c-n -b-jit ...
into the mouth if one does not make
the sign of the cross.
On the eve of St. John's day the white
of an ess Is placed in a glass of wa
ter and the next morning what is to
happeo in the future appears written
on the ess
On St. John's day women cut the tip
of their hair with an ax or sinui
wish it so that it may grow.
To find out If any given person is
thinking of one an egg shell is placed
over the fire. If the skin of the insida
of the shell rises the person is thinking
of the one who performs the experi
ment (Colorado).
Tim same experiment proves wheth
er the husband or lover is faithful
(Santa Fe).
It the cat washes Its face some one
will soon arrive from the direction to
ward which the cat is looking!
If a needle is lost people say, "The
devil has picked himself with it," or
"May the devil pick himself with It!
and the needle will then be found.
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