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THIRTY-SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION
Superior exclusive features and complete news report by Associated Preaa Leased Wire and
P 2M SpedtaJ I Correspondents covering Arlaona. New Mexico, west Ttaas, Mexico. Wash-
PublVsIednbyDHeVafdn NeColne.: H. D. Slater (ower of U percent) .Resident; J C
Wilmarth (owner of 26 percent) Manager; the remaining 26 percent Is owned among
IS stockholders who are as follows: H. L. Capell. ITTRseJ?f' 1Sh- ;
Mundy. Waters Davis, H. A. True. McGlennon estate. W. F. Payne, R. a Canby. G. A.
Martin. Felix Martinez. A. L. Sharpe, and John P. Ramsey.
E PASO HERALD
Editorial and Magazine Page
AN INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER
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 ana controlling owner, has directed The Heraia for 15 Years;
G. A. Martin is News Editor.
Saturday, January Eleventh, 1913.
Progressive
WITH all the chance in tie worm to institute a iauuuu uuuu& .?..,
Arizona seems to be going the way of most of the other states in adopt
ing and perpetuating all the illogical, impractical, and unfair methods
that have cluttered up the tax books of American states for more than a century.
Why doesn't Arizona prove her wise progressiveness by adopting a modified form
of the single tax on land values? All taxes on improvements, all taxes on in
tangibles, all taxes on industries, are bad taxes. The further away we get from
objects of taxation that an assessor can see and touch, the more unfair the tax
becomes the more costly, the more impractical.
Under prevailing systems in most of the states, the smaller property holder
pays a grossly excessive proportion of taxes, while the larger the value of property
involved and the larger the actual income, the less in proportion does the owner
pay. Furthermore, under existing laws in most states, the user of borrowed or
invested capital gets caught easily every time, while the owner of the capital
loaned or invested is often able to escape.
If any radical departure be made from the single tax on land values, it should
be in the direction of output tax on mines, and gross receipts tax on public utilities
including railroads. As a matter of fact, however, a single tax on land values
equiiably applied would catch the railroads fairly along with all the other "owners"
and occupiers of land.
Present taxing methods in practically all of the states often result in double
and triple tax on some objects of taxation, while a vast amount of property
theoretically taxable under existing laws escapes entirely. Any- tax on stocks,
bonds, mortgages, notes, or other credits based on land or improvements is in
variably a double tax, which the user of capital, the borrower, has to pay.
Arizona would place herself in line with the best progressive thought of the
age if she were to Tefonn her whole taxing system along the lines of greater sim
plicity, gradually relieve all improvements and industries from the unequal and
double'taxation to which they are now subjected abolish all taxes on intangibles,
on evidences of debt, on personal incomes, and on credits, as hopelessly impossible
of equitable enforcement-
The basic tax should be the single tax on land values, and state boards of
equalization, county boards and local boards, working in harmony, could better
equalize the taxes than can possibly be done under present or proposed systems
based on the illogical and inequitable practice of most of the states.
o
Some EM Pasoans don't wait for ice to put on skates.
0
Question now is, how- many more patriots are going to hear the "call of the
people" before the primaries?
o
When people choose to be governed by a hereditary monarchy, why try to
douse their happiness with any new fangled modern notions of representative
democratic government? A beneficent autocrat is the ideal ruler anyhow.
o
There is a royal family, but there is also, a Warwick.
0 '
Out of the imouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise.
0
Action of the Young Men's Democratic club in naming the next mayor spares
this town the horrors of a political contest. Olhis is the "era of good feeling"
hadn't y'all noticed it?
o
Aldermen are all and always expected to sacrifice themselves with their chief.
o
Nobody cares much who is elected to city offices, provided -the. laws be rea
sonably well enforced and the $50,000 per month contributed by taxpayers be
spent with reasonable economy and efficiency.
. 0
In a mere contest for office nobody but office seekers and favor seekers can
take much interest. What the taxpayers are most interested in is results and
the taxpayers have to look out for themselves pretty much no matter who is
elected.
Abraham Lincoln's motto would be a good one for every citizen, young, old,
middle aged, male and female, to adopt as his own, and apply it in all govern
mental and municipal matters. Here it is: "I must stand with anybody that stands
right; stand with him while he is right; and part with him when he goes wrong."
If everybody would earnestly try to apply that motto to the affairs of every day,
lots of problems would clear up, and life would be happier for the vast majority.
0
Washington's official principle in dealing with the Mexican troubles seems
to be never tiTlet facts interfere with prejudice.
. c
It would be interesting to know how many antitrust prosecutions, convictions,
or decrees have resulted in an actual saving to the ultimate consumer.
o
All bread from public bakeries ought to be wrapped at the factory and never
handled -unwrapped after it leaves the baker's hands. Furthermore, the pasting)
of labels on the loaves ought to be prohibited for sanitary reasons. These matters
come within the scope of the local health officers and municipal government of
each locality.
0
El Paso knows the worst, and has experienced the worst, so far as Mexican dis
turbances are concerned. El Paso has weathered the storms successfully, and en
ters upon the new year -with unprecedented confidence.
" o
With $84,000,000 in its permanent school fund, Texas ought to have the best
schools and the best school system in the United States, instead of ranking 38th
out of 48. No other state has a permanent school fund even half as large as that
of Texas. Yet instead of regarding this immense fund as an added advantage
to augment the ordinary tax proceeds, most rural communities in Texas try to
get along practically without any local taxation at all, relying solely on the state
for support of pnblic education. The cities of Texas are as progressive as cities in
other states; but tie state as a. whole is far behind most of the other states in
school matters.
0
One-Sentence
poWed paragraphs.
'Chicago News.)
It always; costs more to acquire a
grouch than it is -worth.
No, Cordellaa dancing academy is
not necessarily a hop joint.
Before jnaxrytojr a poet a girl should
have her appetite vunputate
A girl of 10 hates t?e kissed almost
as much as a girl of 2d doesn't.
It may be all right for p. man to have
a past, if it will only staf past.
If you make a remark Jen't you en
joy having some one say. Ts-lfcato'?"
There's no monotony in the life oXa
woman who marries a man to refori
him. .
The less a nmn understands whatV
he's voting for the more excited he gets
over an election.
We would like to see a picture of the
man -who can always please himself and
his wife at the same time.
Success seldom comes to a man until
late in the game. By the time he is in a
position to get all the pie he wants he
is a dyspeptic.
Here is the recipe for rrfaking Wall
street consomme: Take a little common
stock, add seven times as much water
then catch your lamb.
HUMOR. OP TIIE DAY.
Pa, what is a rara avis?" "A Demo
crat, my son, who doesn't think he's
going to get some sort of job soon."
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Ethel He sends me kisses in all hia
letters. Marie I never did care for
mail order deliveries. Chicago News.
Whats that you say" 'I say our
ancestors didn t know beans"'" 'Well,
If prices keep going- up oar descendants
-will bcron-e vc -BiU icqua nted with
t' em. Lcw.s 1 c C -r er-Jjurrial.
Tax Methods
Philosophy
GLOBE SIGHTS.
(Atchison Globe.)
Most men are judged by their mis
deeds, and npt their good deeds.
The trouble is, when a man wins a
fight, he- feels like starting several
more.
It seems there really are Turkish
atrocities besides the cigarets they
make.
It doesn't do much good to postpone
trouble if you can still see it coming.
A lie can't endure forever, but while
it does endure, it travels a mile a min
ute. The mere face that It. can catch rab
bits isn't much of an excuse for the
greyhound.
v It is hard to convince a practical man
fcb.at there is such a thins as a poet who
majes poetry pay.
If TD author's first book creates a
sensatieSL h,e can fall down with con
siderable pKofH on later efforts.
Revenge m3iy be sweet, but its price
is a lot higherVhan suSar which barely
remains in the breach of poor men.
Generally speaking. It a mine can
produce wealth irK any other way, the
public won't be Iivited to Duy stock
in it.
REFLECTIONS Of iv2CHEI,OR
Irtew lork Presh,
Muuay nas wings that
fly
uacKwura.
An extra easy wav tn -iJ
by
a girl is to try to fool her
vvnen a man can write big che'
.v uc.ci nunics mm not to be
to -write poetrj
You cin tell tin. wa .a m
c! .is hi; -R.f, hflu 1 t 1 , .. . Ji
cr w 'a l ici wire en0a;rl.
Archbald Case Is Unique
Many O.ue.itlons Are Involved in Im
peachment Trial Before the
United State Senate.
By Fredcrio J. IlasKin
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. il.
Whatever the outcome of the
impeachment proceedings in
'.he United States senate against judge
Robert W. Archbald of the commerce
court. It seems certain that their con
clusion will mark an important epoch
in American jurisprudence. If the ver
dict of the senate, sitting as a tribunal
of impeachment, is against Arclibald,
the opponents of the growing senti
ment in favor of the recall"bf juages
will be heartened, and they will h,egin
with renewed vigor their argument
against the recall. On the other hand,
if its findings fail to. oust judge Arch
bald, this will be taken by the pro
ponenents of the recall as proof posi
tive that the present impeachment sys
tem affords no remedy against the
corrupt judge, and they will make the
most of the case in their propaganda in
favor of the recall.
Archbald Cane is' Unique.
Not only is the Archbald case
epochal in its bearings, but there are
many features about it that render it
unique in the history of impeachment
proceedings. In the first place, the
Boland charges, which set the whole
proceedings into motion, were not in
themselves, of a nature to justify im
peachment. It vta.s only -when these
charges -were being investigated that
the real evidence upon which the pro
ceedings were based was found. Again,
it is unique in that it is the first time
in the history of impeachments in the
United States that the very administra
tion that appointed the judge, pro
duced the evidence upon which im
peachment proceedings against him
were based.
When the house decided to impeach
Archbald it took a step unprecedented
in the history of impeachments by the
federal government. It authorized the
manager of the impeachment proceed
ings to employ counsel, the expense in
volved to be paid out of the contingent
fund of the house. There was no limit
fixed as to the fee, and the managers
were given carte blanche in the choice
of legal talent. But so impressed were
they with the work that 29 year old
Wrisley Brown had done in investigat
ing the case for the' department of
justice, that they unanimously agreed
to ask the attorney general to allow
Brown to act as their counsel.
Senate Balks at Counsel.
It was the first time ln-Jhe history
of the senate that a. lawyer for the
house managers had ever appeared in
a case, and Brown's right to be there
was quickly questioned by senator
Bailey and others. The theory upon
which they objected to his having any
part in the procedure -was that the
power of impeachment was supposed
to lie wholly outside of the executive
branch, and that Brown's coming into
the case violated this theory, since he
was an assistant to the attorney gen
eral. The upshot of the matter was
that Brown was permitted to appear
on condition that he should not be
permitted to address the senate in the
final summing up.
Many New Questions Involved.
One point has been raised in " the
casesof judge Archbald that never liaa
been raised heretofore. Six of the ar
ticles of impeachment relato to acta
. that he is charged with having com
muted oeiore he was elevated to a cir
cuit judgeship, and while he was a dis
trict judge. The question arises
whether he can be impeached for acts
committed in another office. His at
torneys say that he cannot. In support
of this contention they assert that
president Taft was once a United
States judge, and that if he eould now
be impeached and disqualified from
holding office because of acts com
mitted while a wearer of the judicial
ermine, the gravest of consequence
might ensue. They also point out that
he was at one time solicitor general
of the United States, at another time
governor general of the Philippines,
and at yet another time secretary of
war, and that if impeachment reaches
to other offices than the one at the
time held, then no man can be sure
of his position.
Question of Jndcculiip.
Another line of argument in support
of this contention is that if impeach
ment reached back to offices formerly
......, w.t... u ..,, nuu uau uuiic niuilb
a score of years before while acting J
as umtea states district attorney, and
who had since served with credit as
district judge, circuit judge and jus
tice of the supreme court, might be
driven out of his position by his lapses
of 20 .years before.
The Impeachment managers do not
deny the general proposition that im
peachment proceedings may be upheld
only for the office of which the im
peached man is thn inoiimhent Tint
they assert that in such matters a cir- J
cult judgeship and a district judge
ship are practically one and the same
so far as impeachments proceedings
are concerned. Circuit judges are fre
quently called upon to act as district
judges, and district judges with even
more frequency assume the duties and
responsibilities of circuit judges. The
circuit judge may commit impeachable
offences while exercising the functipns
of a district judge, and the circuit
judge may commit impeachable of
fences while acting as circuit ludtre:
This, according to the impeachment,
managers, -establishes the Identity of
two positions for impeachment pur
poses. Sis charges against Judge.
But the case against Archbald does
not rest upon this argument. The first
sjx articles relate to offences com
mitted while a circuit judge. The first
charge against him since becoming a
circuit judge refers to his acquisition
of part ownership in the Katydid
culm dump, which was indirectly
owned by the Erie railroad, a litigant
before the commerce court.
The second charge against him is
that he undertook to induce the Dela
ware, Lackawanna, and Western rail
road, a litigant before his court, to buy
two-thirds of the stock of the Marian
Coal company, which owned a culm
dump at Taylor, Penn.
The third charge is that he unlaw
fully used his Influence to compel th"
Lehigh Valley Coal company, owned
by the Lehigh Valley Railroad com
pany, to lease to him and his associates
a clam dump near Shenandoah, the
while he was circuit judge and the Le
high Valley railroad a litigant beforo
the commerce court.
Charge He Consulted Attorney.
The fourth chaFge relates to a case
of the Louisville & Nashville railroad
pending before the commerce court It
charges that before the decision of the
case and after the evidence was all in
he "secretly, wrongly, and uslawfully"
held correspondence -with the attorney
for the railroad company relative to
the case.
The fifth charge is that he endeav
ored to use his influence to Induce the
Pennsylvania and Reading railroad to
lease a culm bank to Frederick
Warnke and received a promissory
note for $500 for his services The
sixth charge is that he used his in
fluence as a judge to induce the Le
high Valley railroad to buy a tract of
coal land.
The charges which relate to his ser
vice as district judge are equally in
teresting. One relates to the payment
of his expenses to Europe by a rail
road official who was likely to be in
terested in litiit .in before the tmirt
Another has t,- d . -with foiced In 1, 5
h is a.Jle"c-J to h if r nnteii 1
OH. r hii0(s r n ti j. rg . rt
ed a raUrcad ati r. j .. s .u c "- is
ABE MARTIN
What's .become 0' th' ole time house
keeper that alius had a Jerusalem cherry
tree in. a f mater can settin' on th' win
dow sill? It's' hardly worth while t'
take a basket f market any more unless
you're out o turnips. ,
Overalls
By GEORGE FITCn,
Author of "At Good Old Slwash."
VBRALLS are the uniform ot
prosperity.
Overalls must not, however, be
confounded with dress suits. Dress suits
are merely the advetrisement of pros
perity. Overalls arc not worn much by fich
people. They are confined mostly to
men who are producing riches. Put a
captain of industry on a desert island
and at the end of a year he would be a
living skeleton hunting shrimps for food.
But give him a thousand privates in
overalls to boss and in the same time he
would be loading corn for export and
writing for automobile catalogs.
Overalls are made of cher." stout ma
terial and are made to got dirty. A
clean pair of overalls constitute an in
dictment for laziness. Kbthing looks
more ridieulous than a pair of clean over
alls except perhaps a dress suit shirt
which looks as if the owner had ueen
working in it.
On the other hand nothing adds to the
dignity of 'overalls so much as grime.
The more grease and grime a pair of
overalls accumulates the more successful
they have been in their career.
Overalls and suoeess go hand, in hand.
"The uniform, of prosperity."
Wherever the overall is found in any
abundance there also can be found the
growing crops, the advancing railroad,
the soaring buildings and the roaring
factories. The only parts of America
still in their primaeval loneliness are
those unfortunate spots which have not
known the beneficent and inspiring over
all. It takes a dozen pairs of overalls tOi
support a arees suit in the luxury to
which it is accustomed and there are
people blind enough to think that over
alls were created for this purpose.
This is the chief trouble with many
countries. When the overall must de
vote itself to the support of dress suits,
gold braid, diamond stomachers and fur
lined overcoats it becomes sullen and in
different and soon wears out in the seat.
The success of a government can be
determined from the region of greatest
wear on the overall. If this region is
on the seat the government is a failure
and will sooner or later be closed out be
low cost If, however, the seat still en
dures while the rest of the garment has
gone gloriously to rags, all is well with
the government and the saving banks
bulge witli plenty.
The emblem of America should be the
overall. It has made us mighty. (Copy
righted by George Uathew Adams.)
ALMSXS ALLEGE THREATS WERE
T. . MADE; SEEK XEW TRIAL
fnr .."V?1"1'. Va-' Jan- 10. A petition
Wvthm6?5 by the county court of
Wythevllle. Va.. was filed in the court
of ?SIs i yersinia by the counsel
or loyd and Claude Allen, sentenced
to be electrocuted Jan. 15. for the mur
r.. court tcials of Hillsville. The
petition was based on affidavits of Alpu
-nomas, who states that sheriff os-
vm' wk S"!8,?"16' had asked Mm "
Kill Floyd Allen, and of F. G. McMil
lan, who states that Foster told nim
he expected to kill Floyd and Sidna
.IIen- Other affidavits state that tnere
was bad blood between the court and
the Aliens. " "
sioner and allowing him to serve in
both capacities -
Claim Xo Criminal Intent.
The contentions of the attorneys for
ifj e Archbald have not been that he
did not do-the things charged against
him. but rather that he did not do
them with criminal intent. They con
tend that an impeachment lies only for
offences which are properly the sub
ject of a prosecution by indictment and
information in a criminal court.
The managers of the house contro
vert this doctrine, and assert that an
impeachment proceedings is a pro
ceeding to determine whether there
has been a breach of "good behavior"
In the cae of judges, and that thero
is a long line of precedents showing
that impeachable orfences are Tt
necessariU indictable offences
If the iirdict of the senate is in
favor of rrhbal.l it will bo th
fourth J.( .aitlal of a judgr l. lhit
bod I' , h 1 il. t i against n 1 1 ' .
v. il t t' n 1 j'3 r m 1 1 f 1
c' i-l j i ji r j 1 hist rj
Married Life the Third Year
They Celebrate New Ycar'.s at a
Aoisy, Crowded Broadway
Restaurant.
By Mabel Herbert Lrncr
TT WAS not quite 11, but the New
T Year's hilarity had already begun.
- The wine flushed diners were clink- 1
ing glasses, singing, whistling and
throwing gayly colored confetti.
Overworked waiters were dodging
in and out through the crowded tables
bringing fresh supplies of champagne,
Warren had begun fuming early in
the evening. "Five dollars graft to the
head waiter before hell reserve you a
table," he fumed, "and $5 a plate for
your supper G3d, it's a blamed impo
sition that you can't drink beer if you
want to."
But that had been earlier in the eve
ning. Now he had just ordered a fresh
bottle of champagne, seemingly indif
ferent to the exorbitant bill they .had
already run up.
His face was slightly flushed, and he
was garrulously insisting on telling p
story tp which no one seemed inclined
to listen.
Mr. and Mrs. Stevens and Mr. and
Mrs. Dawson made up their party of
six. Helen was seated between War
ren and Mr. Dawson, on whom the wine
seemed to have a rather quieting ef
fect, while it made both Warren and
Mr. Stevens most loquacious.
A Curious Custom.
But Helen was much less interested
in" the story than in the gay scene
about her. Jpvery one seemed to feel
they were licensed to relax and grow
hilarious. It is a curious custom that
favors the greeting of the New Year
with a muddled brain and the pros
pect of a racking headache the next
tfay.
Most of the men wore the fancy
paper hats given as favors by the
management, and as they were all In
faultless evening dress, the effect was
most grotesque. Some of the women
had perched the caps over their elab
orately dressed hair, but as a rule they
were as yet too self conscious to risk
loking ridiculous.
"Do you see that woman over
there?" Mrs. Stevens whispered to
Helen across the table. "The one in
pale yellow? Isn't it dreadful?"
The woman was conspicuously
gowned in shimmering pale yellow
satin, cut very low and ablaze with
jewels, and she was now busily tying
a long-' white kid glove around the
neck of her escort.
"No no, the 'order of the Garter,
not the 'order of the Glove!' some
body called out. at which there was a
fresh burst of laughter.
A man at a nearby table was doing a
sort of "turkey trot," with his arms
and shoulders, without rising from his
chair, and another -was tjapping time
with his hands and feet.
Noise In Plenty.
Helen tried to smile, but above
everything else she hated the maud
lin, foolish stage, which most men
reach when they have had much wine.
"Say," demanded Mr. Dawson ab
ruptly, "where's the horns? Haven't
heard one, have you
"I think they make quite enough
noise without any horns," commented
Mrs. Stevens. "It's really shocking
the way they carry on."
"Well, we came to" be shocked,
didn't we?I grinned Warren. "We'd
feel we hadn't got our money's worth
if it was a decent, orderly crowd."
Suddenly a party of four at a table
near the center of the room began to
sing. They were plainly professionals,
for their trained voices coud be heard
even above the uproar.
"Why, the orchestra's playing with
them," murmured Helen.
"Of course, they are hired by the
management," Mr. Dawson informed
her. "Did you think they were mere
ly diners? That's quite a trick now
to put the singers at one of the tables
as if they were guests."
Soon the after theater crowd began
to pour in, and filled up the few tables
that were still reserved.
The popping of corks and shrieks of
laugnter grew more frequent. The
waiters no longer served the cham
pagne in buckets of ice, "but slammed
the bottles on the table with no more
ceremony than if they were serving
beer. They did not even take time to
remove the empty Dottles.
The Festive Stranger.
The head waiter came around now,
distributing additional souvenirs. A
fantastic mechanical toy in the shape
of a turkey gobbler with its back filled
with candies, and a tail that spread
and feet that jerked up when you
pulled a ribbon labeled, "the Turkey
Trots."
A- stout man wearing a pink paper
tarn o'shanter at a rakish angle, now
approached their table.
"I want to shake hands with every
lady In the room," beaming with im
partial geniality. "I'm going to wish
em an a nappy .New Year.
"Sit down and have a drink.
It's I
not New Year's yet," interposed War-
ren.
as tne man made an effort to
shake hands with Helen.
"No, must shake hands with the
ladies first."
"No, have a drink first," insisted
Warren, as Helen drew back in em
barrassment "Here!" pouring him out
a glass.
The intruder perched himself on the
broad window sill by their tabla
"Here's wishing!" waving the glass.
Now I want to ask your advice," ho
began confidentally, again turning ta
Warren. "If s about matter of busi
ness, and you look like a man of dis
cretion." They all roared at this except
Helen, whose cheeks burned with re
sentment. "Oh, there you are!" A tall man
shouted to their uninvited guest on tho
window sill. "Come on back, Billy.
The girls want you."
No Place for Sentiment.
"No," protestlngly. "These are nlco
people. I like 'em. I'm going to stay. '
Suddenly from the outside came the
sound of bells and whistles. Helen
glanced at the big bronse clock over
the orchestra it was Just three min
utes to 12.
Instinctively every one arose and
waved their glasses, which seemed the
signal for a deafening din of shouts.
The next moment the lights were
turned off and the place was in dark
ness, while from somewhere a booming
gong struck 12 and th shouts grew
louder still.
Under cover of darkness Helen
slipped her hand Into Warren's and
tried to draw his head down, in a
mute appeal to kiss her. Bqt he stood
unbending.
"Oh dear." she whispered. "Say
something something loving! Say that
you do care and that we're going to
be very nappy- mis year
But here the lights flashed up and
h irew away impatiently, mutterine
something about, ' no place for senti
ment." The New Year had come.
In the midst of the still clamorous
uproar. Helen stood quite still with the
same nuestion throbbing in her heart
that had been there the last New Year j
and the one teiore tnat. .
What changes would this year bring
in their life together? Would it draw
them closer or atill further apart?
MAN CAITIjRKD IN ARIZONA
TO BE RETURNED TO NEVADA
Phoenix, Ar'z , Jan. 11 Extradition
Vipers nave been granted bv goverm r
Mi'iit fr Kilt 'ot n wl'O rsrap. d
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Ariz.
The Diary of A Bachelor
He Meets the Widowed Mother of
Mnnette'n l'laymate and Fears a
Marrlncc Net.
By Max
EC. 3. I had hoped to escape
making an acquaintance' at this
hotel, but find that Manette is
making that impossible. She and little
Alice Martin have become such fast
j friends it was only a matter of time
till I would be compelled to make the
acquaintance of Alice's mother.
That good fortune (or will it prove
to be bad?) befell me this morning.
Manette and I were walking in the
park when suddenly she dropped my
hand and ran to greet a little girl who
was walking with a very handsome
woman of about 30. She pulled the
little girl back to where I waited for
her and the mother followed. "This."
said Manette, trying in her baby fash
ion to. remember the instructions Miss
Hill had given her, "is Alice's mamma.
She hasn't any papa; he's in heaven.
And this," grasping my hand, "is my
most belovedest uncle Max. All the
rest of us are In heaven, too."
With "all the rest of us in heaven"
furnishing credentials which should be
food for any occasion Mrs. Martin and
bowed, and an acquaintance began
which has so far been very agreeable,
No Matrimonial Designs.
I enjoy talking with women. I have
often descended 'into the kitchen at
home and talked with the cook while
she rolled out her pies and cakes. Or,
perhaps, cakes are no't rolled out. I am
not so sure about that, but I do know
that her views of life and its problems
have furnished me with much pleasant
and profitable reflection.
Every evening when I have accom
panied Manette to the realm of the
band Man. and beguiled her with fairy
tales while he sprinkled sand on her
eyelids, I talk with Richards.' her
nurse, while waiting for the child to
fall sound asleep. Talking with a
cook and a-nurse may be frowned upon
by the millionaires, of whose class I
am a most unhappv member, but at
least they have no matrimonial de
signs upon me. '
If I speak pleasantly to any other
woman she takes it as encouragement
and straightway begins to lay a mine
to catch my heedless feet.
Dec. 10 The t time is passing both
profitably and pleasantly. Manette is
growing round and rosy once more,
and is losing her fear of every one.
She plays with Alice Martin from
morning till night.
A Suspicious Sigh.
"She needed a -Child to make her for
get," I remarked to Mrs. Martin one
day when we were watching the chil
dren playing in the sand.
"She needs the companionship of a
child all through the days of her child
hood," replied Mrs. Martin. Then, with
a sigh, she added: "Manette and Alice
are like two sisters. They are so con
genial!" I don't like that sigh. I believe I
had better send for Mrs. Jack Spencer.
She can read women: I can't. Mrs.
Martin is very handsome, very agree
able, and very clever. Moreover, her
late husband is in heaven. He is not
divorced from her. and to live with a
mam these days till ie gets to heaven
is a most creditable and unusual thing
to do.
But occasionally I catch- a look from
her that is undeniably tender. There
was a day when such a look would
have sent the warm Mood racing
through my veins. Now it sends cold
chills up my spine.
Dec. 12 Do you know, Diary, that
I never spend a dollar these days that
I do not think of the letter of that
poor, tired-out -woman who proposed
to me because she wanted a "little
harbor of her own." I have figured in
my many lonely moments that it is
costing me more here for M&nettew
Richards, Tompkins and myself In one
day than she could earn in three
months.
I spoke of her to Mrs. Martin this
evening, but she didn't seem at all In
terested. 14 Years Ago Today
From The Herald This Date 1SOS.
Engineer Love, of the T. P., is tak
ing a layoff.
Maurice McKelligon leaves January
15 for Austin. Tex., to begin his new
duties as stenographer of the federal
court.
The suit of Seiberling Borthers. rt
Illinois, vs. M. W. Stanton and others,
to recover money invested in certain
mining properties, has been set for
January IS.
Yesterday afternoon Henry Day and
Mrs. Ina B. Case, both of Juarez, Mex
ico, were united, in marriage by Rev.
A. M. Lumpkin, at the parsonage of
the First Methodist Episcopal church.
The following additional bills were
allowed by the county commissioners
court yesterday: Park W. Pitman.
Fassett & Kelly. 59.25; J. R. Harper
$24; Peyton J. Edwards, $10; H. Lesin
sky, $14; W. J. Ten Eyck, $39.50.
Miss Sarah Eddy had a party yester
day in honor of her fourth birthday
anniversary. Those present were:
Frances Clark. Estelle Berrien. Mar-
garet Allen, Natalie Davis, Eileen Wall,
Virginia Stewart and Lloyd Stanton.
The Y. M. C. A. directors held one of
their regular meetings at the Y. M. C.
A. parlors last night. T. E. Morse -was
elected president; J. H. Harper, trets
urer, and Dr. J. A. Railings a direc
tor to fill the vacancy made by the
retirement of judge Allen Blacker.
Response has been received from the
following Mexican consuls who will
lend their cooperation to consul Mal
len's proposition for a suitable tribute
to the late ambassador Romero, minis
ter to the United States: A. V. Lomeli,
consul at San Diego, Cal.; E. C. Llor
ente. consul at Galveston. Tex.: Juan X.
Navarro, consul general at New York;
M. Mascarenas, Nogales, Ariz.
Are Col. Albert J.Fountain and his
little son, who weie supposed to have
been murdered several years .ago in
Mexico still alive" Yesterday there ar.
rived from Mexico AV. T. Alston, who
resided at Lincoln. N. M., prior to '
He was well acquainted with Fountain
and always believed that Fountain was
not murdered, but left the country
simply of his own volition. He say's
he believes that Fountain is still liv
ing within 100 miles of a small Ameri
can postoffue in Mexico, where he
claims to have seen a letter and pa
per addressed to A. J. Fountain.
Mrs. Robert Fulton Campbell gave
a very delightful reception yesterday
afternoon in honor of her neice. Miss
Gardener. She was assisted in re
ceiving by Miss Gardener, Mrs. J. T.
White. Mrs. John Aiken. Mrs. S. T.
Turner, and Miss May Heath. Those
assisting in the entertainment were:
Mrs. W. J Glascow. Mrs. C. C Palmer,
Mrs. A. P. Coles. Mrs Gus Buckler.
Miss Walz and Miss Race. Miss La
llan Newman and Miss Margaret Ainsa
served punch and those who assisted
in the dining room were: Mrs. C. N.
Buckler, Mrs. Max Weber. Mrs. W R
Brown, Mrs. J. W Magoffin. Mrs.
Tanner, Mrs. S. F. Williams. Mrs. K.
P. Brown and Miss Lelia Trumbull.
Lora Jane Lizzie
By Walt Mason.
AVe all sit up when Lora starts to
write a tale of broken hearts, of souls
that yearn and pant: of Ioely maiden
in the -oup be(.uie her lover flew the
ioop and ran olT Mith her aunt A
thousand women write of dress and diet
in the daily prex. of household hints and
sieh: of how to bnnjr our (.hi'dron up
i't ho to p-int .1 c'imi cm.. t lii tn
1 j e The Hi h .n,ni j 1, ns imu t
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America's First Club Woman
Anne Hutchinson Yas Denounced by
Partinn Ministers an a
Breeder of Heresies.
By 3Iadison C. Peters
ANNE HUTCHINSON was born -1
Lincolnshire. England, in ljr'1
and as a girl listened with in
tense spiritual fervor to the Rev. Jo1 a
Cotton. When Mr. Cotton became a
Non-Comformist and sailed over tr
seas to find a refuge among the Ft 1 -tans,
Anne Hutch'nson, -Kith her ha -band,
came to Boston, September
1S34, was admitted to tne ehui 1,
where she rapidly aequn.il influen
In a little frame cottage at tne ro -ner
of Washington and School strec
Boston, she instituted meetings for n.
women of the church to discuss St r
mons and doctrines. The -women cm.
from all directions across the marsh' 3
and cornfields. As originator of th"c
gatherings Anne Hutchinson may u
regarded as the first club woman 1a
America
Is Denied Church Membership.
The ministers, particularly thos a
the country, took alarm at her grow
ing infuence and banded together t
crush "the breeder of aeresies." Demi i
memberrhip in the church, all true be
lievers were warned against her insi -ious
wiles, under the pain of tn1
church's anathema. She threw t1- i
whole colony into a flame. The prog
ress of her sentiments occasioned j.
1637, the first synod in America. Jo 1
Cotton, for policy's sake, became he-
I antagonist Her brothennlaw, F.e.
was declared guilty of sedition and
sentenced to banishment
Anne was' brought to. trial. Goi'
nor Winthrop presided, surrounded bv
his council, the clergy and magistrate
who made up the court. Mrs. Hutch
inson boldly faced her accusers, de
claring her belief that the inward re
elations of the Spirit, the conscious
judgment of the mind, are of para
mount authority. The court bamshel
her as being "a woman not fit for
our society, a,nd to be imprisoned u: -til
the court shall send you awa '
She was cast out of the church, the
records say because her revelauo.13
were a lie. The truth is she was cat
out because she was too broad ax I
progressive for the narrow and con
servative circle in which she moved
After her excommunication, with hT
husband and family, she went t
Rhode Island, where they were wel
comed and honored by Roger Williams,
the pioneer of religious liberty n
America. After the death of her hus
band she moved Into the territorj of
the Dutch at Pelham Manor, near
Rochelle. New xnrlc, .where in August
1643, the home fif the faithful, leai
less and fervent 'woman, was set a
fire by the Indians and all he famil,
excepting one child, who was earn id
captive, perished.
The Striped Robe
A Short Story.
GREAT stc-rm had devastated
the country and now the heat
was terrifle. The evenings
also were bad and on this particular
night we remained Inside the enclv--ure
of the military post drinking -ooi
drinks in silence. In the kitchen a.
roan was playing a bamboo lyre, pot
cocks were strutting along the walis
of the gardens and Mahmud was tel.
ing us stories.
Suddenly Mahmud crept .near me
with distorted face and whisperea
"Sidi, the peacocks have disappears 1.
That means that the tigress is comn
and will kill somebody."
Someone struck the big gong at tee
gate in a familiar way.
It was Sorg, a little man. all dried
up muscles and bones, with feeri".i
eyes and a face like a Chinese mask
"Is It true that the peacocks ha e
gone?" Sorg asked.
He was told that it was true
"All right," he said, "tamorrow I
shall hunt at 5 o'clock."
Sorg had his own ideas of hunting
and nothing could make him chan .a
them. The next morning at dawn :.e
left. He took his yellow dog with hi
and a belt heavy with cartridges, h 3
best gun and sword.
Sorg opened the gate There w- J
fresh tiger tracks on the ground
He began to follow the tracks wi 1
stealthy step, happy to be alone It
seemed to him as if he coald almo?
see her, and he was going to follow
her up until he met her face to face
In the thicket of vines and creepers
the tiger tracks were different th
must have stopped here and turned he1
head. Hera she had jumped, for no
could plainly see the marks of h
sharp claws in the soft ground where
she had landed.
For two weary hours Sorg followed
the trail until he came to a place
where there must have been a strug
gle. It seemed to Sorg that she was
still there, this furry dancing girl o
the forest. With her glistesmg stripe !
robe of yellow, black and white But
there was no sign of her presence anl
the tracks became confused. Had h-
lost her track? His arms felt heav--now.
In what direction could she ha e
fled?
He searched the forest in van a I
day, and when the light grew faint h
thought of returning. It was then tht
it happened.
He had almost reached the arm
post, when suddenly he heard a noise
on his left, among .the bamboo. He
thought it was his dog and called it
but an immense black and j ellow mass
jumped out into the open He saw his
danger at a glance and began to re
treat, slowlv walking backwards. hiS
eyes staring straight into those of the
tigress, now only fie paces awaj
He did not tremble nor bjirry his
step. He was in the opeu 'space now
the clearing near the army post, and
he hoped that a shot from one of u3
might save him. Slowly he continual
walking backwards perhaps a thou
sand steps, dragging the tigress be
hind him fascinated by his steadv un
flinching ees, yet ready to s.pnrsj
should he attempt to raise his gun.
We had all picked up our rifles.
soldier crept forward through tl-e
grass, flat on his stomach, and fire 1
There was a roar of fur The tigress
had been caught just as sbe had aroh-d
her back to leap, and Son; was sate
and souls, and Lora looms up strong:
she gathers up & human heart ami takes
the blamed thing all apart, and tells t3
what is wrong. And when the dailv
paper comes the house with wild ente
ment hums each wants that paper first :
tired father takes the sheet from ma,
and sister slugs him on the jaw wit'i
length of weinerwurst. Then mother
takes the rolling pin and swats Matildt
oh the chin and soaks poor Uncle James;
and when the rioting is o'er we all are
crippled up and sore, with bruises on ov.r
frames. Oh, Lora writes of slings an-i
darts -which penetiate our weary heart',
and hearts are alvas trumps; she
hands u-- chunks ot mi-orj ".nd makes us
-adder still -when r ar, n y doleful
dump- Xo jomW t -t she's all the
rage in this fake Wtiniisra age, when
sun-hine singers prrK-e, a hen neailv
eer gin we 111 e t i'i sun tin- cliestm-r
to iip'it ( 'i r up. and simj rnd
.In ( . 1 f luij by l 01 r -
Matt
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