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Wilmarth fnwner o- 20 percent) Manager: the remaining 25 percent Is owned monB
iV.k, C J? ihn are as follows- H. L. CapelU H. B. Stevens. J. A. Smith. . J.
MundykwI?eersS Davis "h " Tra. Vciennon estate. Y. F. Payne. R. C. Canby. G. A.
Martin! Felix Martinez. A. L. Sharpe. and John P. Ramsey.
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ERALD
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DEDICATED TO THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE, THAT NO GOOD CAUSE SHALL
LACK A CHAMPION, AND THAT EVIL SHALL NOT THRIVE UNOPPOSED.
H. D. Slater, Editor-in-Chief and controlling owner has directed The Herald for 14 Years;
G. A. Martin is News Editor.
Editorial and Magazine Page
Friday.'August Thirtieth, 1912.
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AjnUSl CLU1UU& IU1U& UCtClUCU 111 UiC iUdll uuuu cictuuu iu fc"u
shown by the detailed returns. In the city, which pays four-fifths of the
county taxes, the bonds were generally favored and received a large
plurality of votes cast. But in tie valley, and the eastern part of the county,
where the people pay but a minute proportion of the total county tax, and where
the railroads constitute the. principal objects of taxation, the bonds received so
large an adverse vote as to defeat the issue. . .
Will somebody explain this queer fact? Why should the taxpayers in the
valley, or in the far eastern part of the county, object so strenuously to a measure
which, though costing them practically nothing, would result in joining up the : out
lying sections more closely to El Paso and to their more immediate neighbors?
It looks like an organized effort to defeat the bonds. And yet, there was no such
,. ,wnt in thp ritT7 Tirprinrt vahpre results of even moderate work would
have had more certain effect owing to the
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to work with, it is barely possible that tne rauroaos mu m"' m A. ,
outlying precincts to defeat the bonds, inasmuch as they are among the largest
contributors to am- aond issue; but the railroads ir. this vicinity have not been in
the habit, at least recently, of interfering with loca; affairs in such a way.
One suggestion that has been made is that some of the county commissioners
themselves were strongly opposed to the bonds, and took advantage of the com
paratively small public interest to work up adverse sentiment ln the valley and
down the county and poll a heavy vote against them. All things considered, this
looks like the most plausible explanation. Some of the commissioners have not
hesitated to state openly that they thought the bond issue premature and unneces
sary It may be that they undertook to defeat the issue through regular means
at the polls, by the simple expedient of getting a few people to vote against them
to offset the few taxpayers that ever concern themselves to vote in favor of such
sl measure.
In the absence of any other explanation as plausible, it looks as if the people
down the county and the El Paso owners of lands down that way, who have been
most active in demanding the road extension, will have to look to some members of
the commissioners' court and their friends as tie probable agents of defeat of the
bonds. Some organized work was undoubtedly done against the bonds in valley
precincts, and political officers were naturally in better position to direct the
opposition than private citizens would be.
Nevertheless, tie election furnishes a unique instance of the city voting to
assume four-fifths of the special tax burden for something that would be of no
Airrt hpnpfit to the citv. but that the special beneficiaries, who would contribute
almost nothing to the cost of carrying the
of city taxpayers in the matter was almost entirely pnuauuiiopic in us uroau
minded consideration for the needs and future development of outlying districts.
But the matter is sidetracked now, and it will be a mighty hard proposition to
work up any interest whatever in a similar movement in the near future. Certainly
the El Paso city taxpayers, have not tie slightest disposition to force upon tie
valley people or tie eastern part of tie county anything they do not want
especially when the city taxpayers foot the bills.
Were Gen. Huerta's promotion and the champagne banquets that followed, too
much for him? He has been keeping mighty quiet lately.
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The Proposed
Jl RATIONAL sequel to the pure food act is the proposed "pure-cloth" law
J2& that has been introduced in tie house of representatives. The intent of
" the proposed law is to protect the consumer against wilfully concealed
adulterations of doth and wearing apparel. It is suggested that while people will
t TiViit hniriTKr adiiltpratpfl cloth because it is cheat), thev ousht to know what
they are ouying, and the labels or descriptions of the goods should be truthful and !-
their honestv made a matter oi regulation
be subject to confiscation if tie bill becomes a law.
It is said that women buy 85 percent of tie cloth sold in this country, and
that tie average family spends more than one-seventh of its total living cost upon
fabrics. The movement to protect the buyer of cloth originated in women's clubs.
Careful analysis of the cloth sold in the average store has shown that a very
large proportion is adulterated. An honest merchant will tell a customer whether
a piece of goods is real or imitation, and the merchant's guarantee is generally
withheld from fabrics known by the merchant to be adulterated. But such is the
strength of the demand, especially by women, for "bargains," that thu manufacture
of imitation goods of alleged silk or wool
tremendous porportions, and the proportion
is all tie fame becoming greater.
Silk is often adulterated with salts
tiTPaa: :n that tionr onalitv silk dress
or rot and fall to pieces even in disuse. When silk wears into "pinholes" it is; 1
probably adulterated with metallic salts. Cheap silk stockings are adulterated
-with woodpulp, otherwise paper, and no wonder they melt when wet Artificial j
silk does not stand moisture. Silk is worth $4.50 per pound, but ribbons that go !
under the name of silk are sometimes two-thirds tin by weight There is plenty
of pure silk goods available in reputable stores, if the market price for silk be paid. ;
But many shoppers do not care to pay for pure silk, and demand tne appearance
of silk. That is exactly what they buy: the appearance, and little else.
"Mercerized" cotton, or cotton treated with caustic potash to give luster and
crackle, enters into many "silk" goods. Ramie fiber is also much used. Pure silk (
burns with almost no ash, but silk adulterated with metallic salts leaves a con- j
siderable residue. Adulterated silk is harder in feeling than pure silk, and is more
transparent when held up to the light
Cheap "bargain" linen is generally adulterated with cotton, mercerized cotton, or :
other fiber; and "linen" fabrics are often only half linen, being made of linen thread '
running in one direction and cotton in the other. Some housewives test linen hy .
the "coolness" to the touch, but manufacturers have learned how to imitate the J
coolness by impregnating cotton with mineral salts. There are various easy tests !
for pure linen. Linen thread is full of little lumps, while cotton thread is smooth, j
The burned ash of cotton is black, while linen ash is gray. Linen soaked in glycerin i
passes the light freely, while cotton soaked in glycerin is opaque to light. In the I
laboratory, dyes are used that affect only one constituent and not the other, thus !
showing in a sample the actual proportion of adulteration. ;
Wool is adulterated in many ways. The socalled "flannelette" has no wool at
all, but is all cotton. Some socalled "all-wool" fabrics are made by blowing waste i
wool fiber with air blasts against a mesh of cotton thread, and the resulting fabric
though resembling woven wool has no wearing quality at all. Some blankets
offered as all wool contain not over one-tenth wooL Some "worsted" yarn for i
making "wool" fabrics is only cotton thread encased in wool fiber. An easy test J
for wool and cotton'admixture is the caustic potash test Wool dissolves entirely
in caustic potash, while cotton remains unchanged.
Leather, being sold by the pound, is "loaded" with glucose and Epsom salts.
Paper and wood pulp are widely used as substitutes for leather. For cheap shoes,
leather scraps are ground up with paper pulp and pressed or molded, after being
treated with imitation rubber and with oil or glycerin to soften the product and
make it somewhat waterproof. All cheap leather goods are made of very thin
slices of leather stamped and colored to imitate the hides of various anmials, such
as "pigskin" with the bristle holes carefully reproduced, and "alligator skin" with
the scales all there.
Honest stuff is always to be had for reasonable prices, but it is only the well
todo that can afford the highest class goods, and those in moderate circumstances,
or the poor, are deceived into thinking they are getting honest goods of sound
wearing quality when in fact they are buying clever frauds. It would not be hard
to set standards for government tests, and compel all makers of fabrics to state
on the label the composition of the goods they sell, with the percentage and kind
of adulteration if any. At present there is no penalty for any amount of mis
branding or cheating of this sort
The proposed law is one more step toward the highly centralized, almost
paternal, national government; but it has so much reason behind it that it is not
at all impossible that such a measure will be enacted before many years.
One-Sentence
JOURNAL BXTK1ES.
(Topeka Journal.)
Too many couples leave their love
making at the marriage altar.
The more improbable the story the
more interesting it usually 'is.
The less money a man has the aulcker
he seems to be to get It into clrcula-
tion. ;
Much of the worry is as useless as It '
Is annoying. i
.Last years straw nat looks as good
as a new one after dark.
Many of the writers of advertise
ments are experts in the fiction line.
Xelther are the best doughnuts al
ways thoSe with the biggest holes.
REFLECTIONS OP A BACHELOR.
(Iew York Press.) I
"When a man can fool a girl. It's be- !
cause she wants him to.
What a girl doesn't know she can tell j
a good deal straighter than what -she J
does. i
Girls would know more about go-
ography If they could hemstitch the
boundary lines.
A man heavily In debt has lots of
people congratulating themselves on
his being in good health. i
DiDlnmacv is treatinsr anothpr man's '
assurancps as if you bot didn't know j
that both of you were lying.
Philanthropy
l a l a .1 i.: J- this COUntV. aS
larger population and abundant material ,
.. - a a:J .nnA nmar xrrn-rlr m rno
bonds, strongly opposed. The interest
Pure - Cloth Act
Dy law. oiulu mai is uusmauueu wnv
or linen, or even leather, has assumed j
of such adulterated goods in the market
of tin, to increase the weight and size of
sroeds or silk ribbons crack when lolded.
Philosophy
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(Chicago News.)
Helpmates and soulmates are not al-
, ways synonymous.
j He who hesitates is lost especially
wnen ne is luunu out.
The trerm of susnicion ls often fatal .'
to the microbe of love.
Some men find it cheaper' to stay j
married than to pay alimony.
Love may find the way but It isn't
always able to pay the freight
After they reach the age of 40, women
laugh only when they feel like it
A political reformer is a politician
who doesn't stand In with the gang.
GLOBE SIGHTS.
(Atchison Globe.)
Ridicule is-the most effective weanon
to make ap antrrv man mnrp. sn
Sometimes a man has to wait quite
a while to be convinced that the Right
Will Prevail.
A political job is frequently a sine-
cure, but getting it represents a lot-of
real work, and unpleasant'
A man has very little use for a fan
that doesn't run by electricity or the
tabulated score from the big leagues.
Most of our educational system, how- j
oirer ic snnprini. tn that trlnqnaH f-nw, i
the socalled comic supplements children '
study on Sunday. 1
UNCLE WALT'S DENATURED POEM
So Much Noise
By Walt Mason.
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J USX contemplate that Daia-iaeeii nen; she struts anu cue."- r--endless
brag and bounce; you'd think, the way she whoops around her egg
should weigh a hundred pound, whereas it "weighs an ounce. Oh why
should any jim crow fowl stand round for hours and clack ana noi "
laid an egg? For eggs are trifling things, by heck! In summertime it takes a peck
to bring a lonely meg. The bald-faced ien keeps up her gait; the rooster gets his
voice on straight and does some yelling too; and all the other hens join in and help
to swell the frightful din, the jarring howdvdo! And all this noise that shakes
the earth about an egg that's mavbe worth a fraction of a dime! Could anything
be more absurd than is the fool "domestic bird which cackles all the time . And
yet perhaps the cackling hen is not more trifling than the men who for an office
run, who daily raise a tiresome noise describing fully to the boys the wondrous
things they've done. They'd have us think thev saved the state from some un
seemly, awful fate; they save it would again; but all the boasts you analyze, are on
a level with the cries of that old bald-faced hen. .
THE UNEXPECTED GUEST
(By E. Kverett Green.
THE door opened very slowly, and
very slowly she advanced into
the room. I lay back in my deep
aim -chair beside the fire and gazed at
her. thinking: it a dream.
I had a touch of my old enemy the
malarial fever, which never quite sets
out of the blood, they say.
It was a slender girlish flgue, ex
quisitely proportioned, clad all in
diaphanous white -trailing garments; a
face of extraordinary loveliness.
"What shall I do? What shall 1 do?
Oh, mother, why did you not live a llt-
10ew1l.nger? There ls no one t0 help me
Instantly I understood the situation.
She had mistaken the door of her room;
in this giant residential hotel such a
mistake was easily made. I could not
j lemain longer hidden; neither drd I In
. tend to let her escape until r knew
i something of the hidden terror that
beset her. I was not exactly an old
fogey yet; but I was .35, and had trav
eled the world over, which makes for
a feeling of age and experience and
my visitor could scarcely be more than
20 .
"Will you let me help you if I can?"
The girl started.-
"I beg your pardon; I see I have
made a mistake. Pray pray forgive
n?e!"
She stooped as though to pick up
her cloak, and I turned up the flame
of the reading lamp.
"Do not let us call It a mistake; let
us regard it as an act of Providence."
She was trembling now; her wide,
wistful gaze was fixed upon my face,
as though she would read my very
soul.
lou are ln trouble, I said; "let me
I e helped othe people.
corners before this, wnat is the use
of talking about our common brother
hood If we may not claim the right
to help one another!"
She sank down into a chair. In truth.
I doubt if her limbs would have up
held her longer. She gave a half fear
ful look round her. I went to the door
and locked It: I brought the key and
laid it on her lap.
"No one will interrupt us now. Will
jou not tell me your trouble. I am al
most old enough to be your father
if that makes- things easier "
For the first time I saw a little
quiver the ghost of & smile play
rcund the corners of her lips.
"You don't remember me. Sir Jim
but I remembtr you! I knew jou the
moment you began to speak!"
Sir Jim! Who was it that had called
me so? In a flash of memory it all came
back that ill served, ill navigated ves
sel, on which ten years ago I had made
the voyage to Lisbon; the sweet little
maid who ran
aoout alter me, wnen
nil tha nthor nasapnffprs wprp spa fiick.
1 Y I1...3 .1... ......nlnc-inn nf Y.A t.ln
! -hp collision the confusion, the peril,
The child I had made my charge No ,
J lives had been lost, but there had been !
some ugly work, and the little one had '
llnnn ill rrtrtTT PY1 1 J4 r V npHl Of ItPlIlST t
trampled to death." I remembered well!
i Iiow she had clung to me silent, white
' trembling; but had uttered no outcry
had given no trouble. A light little bur
' den, she had sat on my knees all those
' hours In the boat in the cold of the
dawn: and I had told her stories in
muffled whispers.
Often I had wondered what had be
I come of the dainty little maiden, whose
' name I had not known: for I had called
her my Ladv Seagull, as she had called
I me Sir Jim. because somebody had
H.
r.rariciiiir
rjv
HE labor unions have scored a
victory in the adoption of the j
' T. . ,
triKllL UUUI 1AH 1 ! nun. v.v..- ,
1 for the federal government This step !
! is the more significant because It i
marks an advance upon an eight hour i
law morp rpstrirtpd In its annlication
u i.-i i V v. -w. .7-0 l
that had already been for some years
in force, and thus shows the direc
tion in which things are moving.
Added to this is the fact that, out
side of federal action and 'in various
parts of the country there are scat
tered evidences of a tendency to re
duce the number of working hours.
This is the case in at least eight dif
ferent states, -where laws of similar
import have been enacted bearing
upon work done for the state,
or. in some cases, upon work done
under private enterprise.
It is not difficult, therefore, to
foresee what will eventually be the
general outcome. There is enough
to show that in course of time noth
ing over eight hours will be consid
ered the legitimate term of dally toll.
This situation suggests three ques
tions, as follows: What effect will
the reduction of hours have up
on wages? What effect will
it have upon the cost of production,
manufacturers or otherwise? What
effect will it have on the workers
themselves?
This third Question Is the most
oirious of 'he. thrf, and is one that
deserves to be considered carefully by
the men to whom there thus accrues !
a larger liberty of life.
The Extra Hourn.
By the arrangement contemplated
the day of 24 hours may be said to be
divided into three equal portions, of
which one portion will be devoted to
labor, a second to sleep. Now what
is going o be done with the inter
vening third section? What use is the
laboring man going to make of the
eight hours during which he is neither
working nor sleeping?
We know that both at home and
abroad the day following a holiday ls
the one in which the largest number
of cases are brought into the criminal
court in exemplification of the prov
erb that an idle head is the devil's
workshop. Which is equivalent to
saying that doing nothing in particu
lar that is good means doing every
thing In general that is bad. A boat
that is being failed toward no par
ticular port is apt to be captured by
the winds or driven upon the rocks.
AVhat then, we repeat, are working
people going to do with thpir eight
fn
jn
free murs' Thev will use them either
a way to improve their condition or j
. .. i me-iTi the ripn with
The Herald's Daily
Short Story
told her that one day I should be Sir
James Everard. As all these memories
come back in a great wave I felt cer
tainly that here was the acting of a
beneficent providence. I stepped for
ward and took her hands in mine, and
she looked up trustingly into my face.
"You can tell me all about it, can
you not? For we are friends already!
Then out it all came the pitiful tale
all too common in this world of greed
and sin. Her father had dissipated his
fortune; all his life he had been a roll
ing stone, always full of some new
scheme for rehabilitating his dwindling
fortunes; always foredoomed to fail
ure through lack of capacity or perse
verance. His last asset was his daugh
ter's beautv. Of that the girl would
not speak; but I saw a look in her
hunted eyes that went to my heart
A year ago her mother had died. .Now
there was no one to stand between her
and her father's designs. He had fallen
under the sway of one of these south
African millionaires; when she spoke
the name I knew it well too well. He
borrowed money of this man again and
again. He had speculated at first
successfully; then all had been lost.
He was deep in debt. There was only
one way out of the trouble. Eleanor
must marry this creditor of his and
to marry a millionaire seemed to the
father a thing which the heart of any
girl must rejoice at. Not one word
would he hear anger rapidly succeed
ed to jesting. And Eleanor was not
jet 2L Her father was pushing her
towards the edge of the chasm. It
seemed to her that there was no way
of escape; girls are sacrificed like this
to the greed or ambition of their par
ents every year.
"Shall I see your father for you? I
know something of the past of this
man."
"It would be no use." she answered
Eadlv. "Father knows, too!"
My blood suddenly boiled within me;
but she, looking Into the fire, was say
ing softly: .
"If only it were not wicked to kill
oneself; that would be so mucii easier.
Sometimes I almost wonder "
I could stand it no longer. I came
and stood over her. Again as a short
time since, I got possession of her
hands. -I had 'always been wont to
make up my mind quickly; but this
most momentous decision had to be
made in the twinkling of an eye.
"Marry me instead, Eleanor: then I
can protect you. Do you remember
what you told me in the boat before
we parted? "When I am a woman I will
marry you. Sir Jim." Well. I hold you
to that word tonight. Marry me!"
. She had risen to her feet; her lovely
face was quivering: in her eyes there
was a light that seemed to illumine all
my soul.
"Ah. ou are good! You are gqpd!
How T Ibvr vou for it! You would &ac-
riffPP H
all your future for me; dui t
can t-I cant. It would be doing evil
that good might come.
"Doing evi--loves
you?"
-to marry the man who
For it vs true; I swear it was. I
bad loved the child
now I loved the
maiden intb whom she had grown.
"Yes, Eleanor believe it or not as
;ou will: I love you. Perhaps, without
knowing it. I have been waiting for
.ny little child sweetheart."
A mist of tears stood in her sweet
eyes. Her lips were quivering, and I
bent and kissed them. Then I caught
the wispered words she had held back
till then:
"I knew that I should never care for
anybody except Sir Jim!"
On the Labor Unions' Vic
tory in the Adoption of the
1 teEight Hour Law.
in a way to make It worse, it tne
'alter, it would be better lor inem.
and fop everybody else. that their
wnr
working hours should be added to
rather than they should be dimin
ished. Better be a drudge than to
be a mischievous or a boozing Idler.
Kniored laf.norcd Claxsen.
lne anierence in general oeiween
what , h favSred classes and
. ODD -d elasspt: ... that the for-
The difference in general between
the oppressed classes is that the for
mer have had the opportunity to cul-
j tivate their powers of thought and of
OI-IIWH dllU lICLVe HlUt3 IUC 1IUOL U4.
those opportunities. Now. with eight
free hours a day, is the latter class,
the unfavored class, going to use the
means for self education and self bet
terment thus put in its hands, or is
it going to abuse its privileges and
appropriate its enlarged privileges to
the service of idleness, purposeless
ness and dissipation? Things are go
ing to work more and more ln the Interest-
of those whose interests ln the
centuries past have been too little con
sidered. We shall see whether the
j unfavored will rise to the level of their
increased opportunities and whether
those whose lives have been to some
extent lives of servitude will show
themselves worthy of the blessings of
a larger liberty.
BAPTIST COLLEGE OPENS AT
PLAINVIEW ON SEPT. 3
Plainvlew, Texas. Aug. :.. Wayland
Baptist college will open its fall term
September 3. and on the following
Friday evening a reception will be
given the students of the college, on
the roof garden of the building. The
opening enrolment is expected to be
about 250.
The racing teams of the Plainvlew
fire department have returned from
the Panhandle Firemen's convention at
Vernon, where they won first place in
every event. The coupling race for the
Fuqua cup was won with a time of
26 seconds, Amarillo beinir sprond. The
reel race for a purse ot $65 and a
silver trumpet, was won in 37 seconds,
Amarillo second. Canyon third. The
500 yard relay race was won with a
time of 53 seconds.
WOMAN CHARGED WITH HAVING
SMUGGLED SOTOL IN HOUSE
Mrs. Andrea Chavez, a Mexican wom
an, was arrested at her home near
Vsleta. Wednesday, on a charge of
having two and one-half gallons of
smuggled sotol. a Mexican liquor, in
her possession The arrest was m.ide
bv customs lint ridfr rtibr"-t W.
ui'-.e i ho brojght tne -voman to El
Paso Vt ednesdaj afternoon.
CONGRESS SENDS ARMY BOARD
TO INVESTIGATE BORDER CLAIMS
Dissatisfaction Over Mexico's Method of Adjusting of American Losses Forces
Government to Act
By FREDERIC
(Continued from
mitting these relatives to come to his
house without a passport.
Mormons Hardest Hit
Perhaps the people hardest hit by
the revolution have been the Mormons.
President Diaz was alwavs anxious to
get as many farmers into Mexico as pos
sible farmers who would break up big
haciendos into small farms and till them
after the American way. , Dozens of
Mormon settlements were established in
many sections of Mexico. Traveling
along the Vera Cruz & Isthmus railway
one crosses broad prairies with here
and there settlements of Mormon farm
ers men who have transformed idle soil
into wealth producing plantations. The
same has been true in northern Mexico.
These people went down there, taking
their all with them, and establishing
farming districts and rural towns which
remind one of prosperous sections in
Iowa or Illinois. None of the things one
sees in those states were wanting to
tell the story of thrift, energy and pros
pcrjty; in some of the towns were three
story school buildings, built according
to the best standard in the United
States. Their schools had as extensive
courses qf study and as good teachers
as those in this country-
But where prospcrtiy and happiness
dwelt vesterday. today there is sorrow
and calamity. What the armies of the
north and the south did to Virginia as
the fortunes of war swaved back and
forth, during the sixties, that have the
armies of the government and of the
revolutionists been doing to the Mormon
settlements in northern Mexico. That
is why they have abandoned their all
and are flocking baek to the "United
States, mayhap never to return.
The Americans in Mexico cannot com
plain that thev have not been dealt with
generously in the matter of being af
forded an opportunitv to get out oi the
country. The dispatching of army trans
ports to bring them off when president
Taft first issued his admonition to all
Americans, to get out. the prompt voting
by congress oi 1100.000 and the use of
army tents for the protection of the
refugees coming across the border, and
THE MANICURE LADY
By WILLIAM
GOT after brother Wilfred again
bfe
the other night, George,
said
the Manicure Lady.
"What about?" Inquired the Head
Barber.
"Oh, the same old thing poetry."
answered the Manicure Lady. "There
is no use trying to get poor brother
going on any other subject or in any
other way than poetry. His heart and
soul and what brains he has is that
wrapped up in wooing them Muses that
he never thinks of nothing else, unless
It is change for carfare.
"J he way mc and Mayme sot to him
that time was very simple. George. Tou
remember I was telling you a week or
si ago about how me and Mayme got
him off his balance by telling him about
some great poet named Viereck that
said all poets was insane. If you
listened half careful at the time yo-i
will remember that I told you Wilfred
was as near going to pieces as a kid
co'ild be.
v"eli. cnis tinu- we got to talking to
him about this B-ngster, Sam Schepp;,
thst the district attorney had brought
back from Hot Springs. We would
never have thought of It except for a
item Mayme saw in the paper. The
article was describing Mister Schepps.
the gan? man. and It said that among
other things. Mister Schepps was very
fond of poetry.
"Wilfred flared right up the minute
that we told him, and- wanted to bet
us everything he had that there was
J Years Ago To-
"Tf" From The Herald Of
' " This Date 1898
day
Rev. A. C. Wright and wife have
returned o the city from Alamogordo.
Mrs. R. Spring, and son Harry, re
turned irom their visit to California.
A. C. Rush, of Los Angeles, Is visit
ing his brother F. Rush of thbs city.
Jack and Ed H-jbbard" returned yes
terday morning from their northern
trip.
Clerk Pitman issued a marriage
license to Carl Joseph and Miss Stella
Goodman.
Mrs. E. Sidebotham and children,
of Clifton, Ariz., are visiting H. Ed
wards and wife.
Master car repairer Borcherding, of
the G. H., put two more men to work
in his lepartmert today.
Mrs. Adolph Sprlnz Is expected home
on the S. P. today after spending a
pleasant time in California.
Miss Maggie Lyons, who for the last
sis months has been spending a va
cation up in the mountains of New
Mexico, returned today.
M. J. Millett. foreman of the G. H.
machine shop, has returned to El Paso
from San Antonio where he was called
as a witness in a case.
W. A. Rhinehart. traveling passen
ger agent of the G. H.. with head
quarters at Houston, was among the
arrivals on that train today.
Mrs. L. Baumgarten, of San Fran
cisco, arrived the early part of this
week to visit her sister. Miss Ullman,
and to be present at the marriage of
her niece.
The merchants on El Paso street are
smiling this morning as commissioner
Ed Wales has his street cleaning force
out gathering up the refuse and trash
from the gutters and the streets.
The exchange says that great prep
arations are bing made in Demlng for
the fair to be held there on September
23 and 24. It will be a fine agricul
tural, mining, mechanical and art ex
hibit. It was stated.
C H. Cole, of the T. P.. received a
letter from C. T. Owens who is at
present stationed at Montauk Point.
Mr. Cole and Mr. Owens were working
together on the T. P. when the latter
enlisted in the "Rough Riders."
Col. William Kirby. of the G. H.
blacksmith shop, headed a party of
brother blacksmiths to the lake near
San Elizario last Sunday on a fish
ing tour. The colonel claims that
his party caught 150 of the finny
tribe, but they returned with only 32.
Tom Spivy. accompanied by his wife,
returned today from Houston. Mrs.
Spivy went to Houston about a
month ago to visit friends and rela
tives, and Mr. Spivy joined her there.
"The heat is so intense down there,"
said Mr. Sp'vy. "that 1 wanted to get
mv familv ba'-k to El Paso as soon as
possiblp." '
Randolph Laurence, paying teller of I
the state tieasurj at Austin, who has j
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thr- navine of the transportation charges
tne paying ui . cft03 fnT
to any part 01 mc ... " TA
everv returning refugee unable to pav
it himself, tell the story of the disposi
tion of the government to do what it
can.
To Get at the Facts.
While all of these things have been
happening congress has decided, upon the
motion of senator Nelson, to attempt to
find out exactly what is the true inwajd
ness of the situation in Mexico, tvery
body knows it cosfcs money to wage wars,
and congress has a committee at work
trying to find out where the finances
ofthe armies in Mexico and tlurevolu
tions in other countries are coming from.
Some have asserted that W all 'street is
financing the revolution. Othsrs are
contending that this is improbable at
least. They point out that Wall street
has vast investments in the railroads and
mines of Mexico, and that it would
scarcely put up money tending to per
petuate the present situation, which
manifestly is adverse to the prosperity
of these "interests. ....
It is known, however, by all who are
acquainted with these countries, that all
one needs to do is to raise the standard
of revolution and financial support is
forthcoming. It happens in the little
war-ridden countries like Haiti, Santo
Domingo. Nicaragua and Honduras, as
well as in Mexico. And more often than
not it is American money that is put up.
The investigating committee is deter-
j I -cl ii.:rni.nB f !, oidioUnn
mined to sift this phase of the situation
to the bottom, and it is probable that it
will result m some very interesting rev
elations. Those who ought to be best acquainted
with the situation in Mexico profess to
see no early hope of peace. They assert
that the peon likes his job as a soldier,
and is willing to keep up the fighting
indefinitclv, so long as it affords him op
portunity to redress what he now con
siders the wrongs that have been heaped
upon him in the past. The longer hos
tilities continue the more irritating are
the international questions expected t
become, and the calmer the coun-yi re
quired to prevent the most serious inter
national difficulties.
F. KIRK.
never a bad man in the world who
loved poetry, but as long as Wilfred
didn't have much of anything to bet
we simply kept grinning at him one of
those tantalizing. Joe Gallagher grins.
'Poetry is too beautiful and too noble
to be liked by those horrid criminals,"
says Wilfred. Then I got right in the
game with my superior literary judg
ment and knowledge, George, .and I
showed him how a great poet named
Frank Villain once lived in France and
how Frankfe wrote most of his best
ballads when he was In the cooler
hoping against hope that he would be
able to reach some influential friend
that could 'spring him away from the
island. And I told him how a gent
named Mister Bunyan has wrote that
beautiful novel called Pilgrim's Ab
scess, or whatever the name of It was,
while he was In a prison cell. Between
me and Mayme I guess we talked so
eloquent about the advantage of poets
being in jail that I guess poor brother
won't care much now whether he gets
pinched or not. All he wants is to put
over one poem that will make the
whole world talk about him. and he
don't care where he writes it either.
If he thought he could write a poem
that would live through the ages, he
would gladly .ite it on the guillotine.
That's how much of a literary sport
Wilfred is. He wouldn't stop at noth
ing to bring him success."
"I guess he Mnust be one of those
fellows." said the Head Barber, "who I
wouldn't stop at nothing and who never
end anywhere."
been spending his summer vacation
here, accompanied by his wife and
daughter, left over the G. H. for his
home. Mr. Laurence stated that he
was so well pleased with EI Paso that
he was thinking of locating here.
President McKinely has selected
Juan S. Hart of the First immune
regiment for detail service with the
Cuban commission as Interpreter.
Capt Hart was born and reared in
El Paso. His father was major In
the United States army and his mother
belonged to a Spanish family of Mex
ico. He was educated at Christian
Brothers' college, St Louis.
A laughable incident occurred on
THE ELECTORAL by george fitch,
COLLEGE Author of "At Good 0Id Siwash"
(Copyright, 1912, by George Mathew Adams.)
THE electoral college 'is one of our
poorest institutions of learning. It
has no curriculum, no professors,
no yell, and holds only one session every
four years. It would tike a genius to
learn anything in the electoral college,
but it is very popular for all that, and
thousands of men would feel highly
honored if they had an electoral college
education.
The electoral college has a trifle over
500 students, but they couldn't score a
touchdown on a well trained high school
team. They have no training and do
not even miantain a glee club. The col
lege never had even a set of colors ex
cept in the campaign of 1S96, when it
adopted gold. It is a very old school,
having been organized in I7SS by the
builders of the constitution in an effort
to renfcve the mental wear and tear of
electing a president from the common
people. The framers of the constitution
didn't have much faith in the taste of
the common people as far as presidents
went and thought they were doing a
pretty fine thing in letting the people
elect the constables and legislators an
opinion in which a great many well
groomed gentlemen with automobiles still
agree. But after the electoral college
had come within one vote of electing
Aaron Burr president, the c. p. shivered
slightly and took up the electing job
themselves.
Since that time the life of the presi
dential elector has been one of great
easo. His work is light and requires no
strain on the intellect. He is nom
inated because of his age and respect
ability and is coached in his job by the
voters in the 2o ember election. After
rartin
e
A feller never knows where he got a
bad cold er a plugged .dime. Beets re
main within reach o' all with perfect
impunity.
the streets several afternoons ago. Jim
Milne, a sign i.alcter, was painting a
sign on the- window, of Cooper Bro
thers, and as the work he was doing
I consisted oi line tracing ne naa a Doy
3tand on the outslde w,fh an nmht
A boy came along and asxed the tei
low holding the umbrella if he did not
know that it had stopped raining.
Aboaz that time the painter knocked,
on tha glass and told the boy with
the umbre.l-i to ccme inside as he had
finished. The fellow who was so
bmart ducked his head and left
TJTE3 HOLD CARNIVAL
IN COLORADO' SPRINGS
Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 29.
"Shan Kive." the Indian carnival,
opned.here today, braves from the an
cient tribes of Utes, to whom tils ter
ritory originally belonged, ji ying"
to this city from their reservation? and
taking active part In the chief event of
today's program, the marking of the
old Ute trail into the mountains.
The Indians, together with a party
of white pioneers, traced the ancient
hjghway of the Utes from Colorado
Springs to the old Soda springs, wor
shipped by the indians as the foun. of
Manitou, their god. Each mile of the
way was marked with a white marble
post lettered "L U. T." This trail is
the oldest known aboriginal path in
the United States, the hoofs and moc
assins of countless ponies and Indians
having worn a deep and well marked
path through the hard granite.
The city authorities have arranged
to celebrate "Shan Klve" for three days
and have included in their program
an automobile mt-ja monster parada
and open air mask.fete and a national
long .distance balloon race, between.
Capt. H. E. Honeywell and three other
pilots. The great balloons of these
aerial navigators were one of the at
tractions of the day. crowds of visitors
watching the crews and handlers pre
pare the gas bags for the race tomor
row. Capt Honeywell was of the opinion
that new records would be hung up If
the wind set in from the -west and al
lowed the balloons free access to the
hundreds of miles of plains. The Lahm
cup and a $390 silver cup offered by a,
local hotel, are the prizes. Honevwell,
the winner of the Kansas City elimina
tion race on July 27. leaves for the in
ternational balloon race at Stuttgardt
Germany, immediately upon the com
pletion of ,the present race.
DRINKMAKES ISRAEL
THINK HE KILLED MAN
Salt Lake City. Utah, Aug. 29. That
he never feels guilty of murder ex
cept when drunk was the statement
made today by Steve Israel, who told
the police last night that he had mur
dered and robbed a pawnbroker at
North Topeka, Kans. Israel was sobpr
this morning and gave a peculiar ex
planation of his murder hallucination.
He was ln jail in Topeka. he said,
suffering from intoxication on the
night of the pawnbroker's murder The
morning after he came into possession,
of a newspaper in which the crime was
described in ghastly detail.
"In my shaky condition," Israel add
ed, "that horrible business sank deep
into my mind and ever since when I
drink too much it has seemed to me
that I was killing the pawnbroker."
The police will not release Israel un
til his latest statement is verified by
the Topeka authorities.
his state has indicated its choice for
president, it allows him to go to the
state capital and cast its vote with a
nice new lead pencil. Then he comes
home and rests on his laurels until he
dies, when the city newspapers give him
two lines and recall the fact that he
was once an elector.
The electoral college was invented be
cause in the early days each state con-
b
fwHAT to they Kwcrw "actff)
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"Letting the people elect the constables.
j sidcred itself to bev more important than
the nation and insisted on expressing iw
ideas as a state and no as a population.
But since state lines have become so dim
that only sheriffs and railroads can tell
where they are the college has becoma
not only useless but a good deal of a
nuisan -c ard it nill probably be i leaned
out and boarded u.-'m the near future.