El Paso herald., March 08, 1913, Annual Fashion Edition, Image 6

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THIRTY-SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION
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ington, D. C, and New York. ... TM.. i -
Published by Herald News Co, Inc.: H. D. Slater (owner of percent) J1"" t. J C.
Wllmartn (owner of 28 percent) Manager the remaining 26 percent te "" anlonf
IS stockholders who are as follows: H. I Cape!!. H.B. Stevens. J. A. Sna"- J-
Mundy. Waters Davis. H. A. True, McGIennon estate. W. F. Payne. K. C Canny. G. A.
Martin. Felix Martinez. A. I Sharpe. and John P. Ramsey.
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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, EiitOT-in-CMei and ceatroHine owner, has directed The Herald for 15 Years;
G. A. Martin is News Editor.
EE PASO HERALD
Editorial and Magazine Page
Saturday. March Eighth. 1913.
Cooperative Southwestern Publicity
From Deming (N. M.) Graphic: "The El Paso Herald's plan, for securing
publicity for the Rocky Mountain Southwest seems in the main to be a good
one though just the least bitfselnsh. The flood of travel which will cross this
ontinent in 1S16 has the choice of a number of routes. Bl Paso wishes it to
come by way of El Paso so does Deming. Here, then, we have a sameness of
inu rests which will permit union of purpose. El Paso will have the nrst oppor
i unity to claim investors, so why propose the slogan Take the New Statesand
.:i Paso Route to San Francisco in 1915"? Here is a better one. Take the West
Texas. New Mexico and Arizona route to San Francisco in 1915
"So far as New Mexico is concerned the "new" doesn't appeal since It has
-. ithin Its borders the monuments left by a most ancient people and its legis
lators now sit in the oldest capital in the United States. 'Isn't it a misnomer
to call the land of the cliff dwellers and conquistadores "new." No one would
. ocuse IJerr-ing of living in the past, since no city has laid a heavier wager on
i he future than the hustling little metropolis of the Mimbres valley.
"If as The Herald maintains the cooperation of the railroads can be secured
the success of the enterprise is assured. For the most part Deming has found
-.hat it is safer to pay for Its own publicity and get Just what it pays for. and
. is not likely that Deming would enter into an agreement with another city
, or publicity unless that city would show a disposition to deal fairly. Every
Tnmunlty is in competition for settlers and investors and it is hard to make
i oope ration effective under such conditions. However, under the present cir
cumstances, there is a 'community interest' which can be utilized to the benefit
r.f all concerned if petty differences can be put aside."
i HAT is exactly the sort of comment
to evoke. It is only by just such discussion and analysis that we can ever
hope to get together on the proposition. Your slogan is a mighty good one,
Mr. Graphic. Maybe this one is still better:
"Take the West Texas, Old Mexico, New Mexico,
and Arizona route to San Francisco in'1915-"
Yes, leave El Paso out of the slogan. The name of this city will appear more
or less in the course of the advertising campaign. And anyhow, as the Graphic
suggests, this city is so situated that, in the necessity of things, it srill certainly
derive beaefit and take its toll from every bit of traffic that passes through this
Rocky Mountain Southwest in 1915, asd this city can well afford to be modest
about direct publicity because this dty will necessarily be one of the beneficiaries
indirectly.
The Herald has already pointed out that Deming's contribution will be but a
few hundred dollars a year. That little dty has been spending thousands per year.
That little dty has spent on direct publidty 100 times as much per capita in the
last few years as El Paso has been spending. But if say 10 percent of Deming's
annual advertising budget could be directed into the general publidty channels
suggested for the Rocky Mountain Southwest under the proposed cooperative sys
tem, there is no doubt that the few hundred dollars thus invested as part of a.
fund of $100,000 yearly, would go much further and get much better results than
the same amount spent in direct but scattering "publidty. El Paso would expect
to contribute, on a basis of relative population, $8000 to $10,000 per year for two
years to the cooperative fund.
In no other way could such splendid results be had as through this method.
El Paso should by all means confine herself to this line of cooperative southwestern
publidty for the next two years. The main thing is to direct the minds of people,
and then their travel, this way. Once in the country, once induced to stop off and
get acquainted, the travelers thus reached might be depended on to consider care-
fully the question of possible location and possible investment to look about them,
in the whole southwestern region, weigh the relative advantages of one section and
another, and gradually sift out, so that eery southwestern community would re
ceive its share of the returns.
Generally speaking, the Deming Graphic's doubts about fair play and propor
tionate benefits may be answered in this way: The advertising campaign would
be directed in a broad sense by a general committee representing the communities
and the railroads subscribing to the fund; this general committee would appoint
an executive committee; and the executive committee, which would have direct
charge of the campaign, would employ the experts of one of the bignational adver
tising agendes to handle the business in detail.
In planning the advertising campaign, the first, central, and last thought would
sould be to direct travel in this direction and divert it from the northern routes.
Then care would be taken to give each community and each railroad subscribing,
such an amount of spedfic localized advertising as would be its due in proportion
to the amount of its subscription. In some of the advertisements, the generalj
inducements would be described and all the communities and railroads partidpating
in the fund would be named. In other advertisements, the special points in favor
of one locality or one railroad would be emphasized. But on the whole, and in the
course of each year's campaign, extreme care would be taken to give full recogni
tion to each and every separate community and railroad subscribing to the fund.
This would not be hard to manage. It would be a simple question of appor
tioning so many dollars of expenditure to so many dollars of contribution; so many
inches of space and so many thousands of circulation to each localized notice. This
would all be under the control of the general committee.
To set at rest any idea that there is any selfish thought uncer this scheme.
The Herald declares right at the start its hostility to any plan to spend out of this
cooperative fund, $1 in any southwestern newspaper or periodical, or in connection
with any southwestern local advertising plan. Any such method would be fatal.
The whole fund would be spent in national publications, first in national weeklies
and great dailies of general circulation in the states east of Colorado and north
of Louisiana, and second in the few Pacific coast magazines of recognized national
circulation.
As for the cooperation of the eight southwestern railroads, The Herald feels
that it can speak almost with certainty upon this phase of the plan, since it knows
the disposition of the railroad traffic men of the southwest and has had informal
assurances from certain high sources that the railroads would cooperate most gen
erously in such a plan.
If the southwestern communities will make up a fund of $50,000 per year
for two years to be spent in the manner proposed for general southwestern pub
lidty, the eight railroads wiH match this $50,000 dollar for dollar and make it
$100,000.
It is impossible to estimate the tremendous results that would flow to the
Rocky Mountain Southwest as the result of such a splendid demonstration of south
western progressive spirit; but it is certain that the result would be'as far ahead
of any desultory scattering local campaigning as the 50,000 ton ocean mail steamer
is ahead of a Sock of rafts in other words, it will Get There!
"Take the West Texas, Old Mexko, New Mexico, and Arizona route to San
Frandsco in 1915."
Boiled. Shirts and Cats
PRESIDENT WILSON has let it be known that be does not intend to daim
any preferential rights while he is president; that he will pay his way, ask
so favors, and hold fast to his place as a common ordinary dtizen tem
porarily chosen to serve his fellows; and that the lees special distinction there
is erected around him and his office the better he will like it.
Other Democrats have tried to be democratic Other Democrats have failed.
President Andrew Jackson laid his failure to the women folk, who, he asserted,
are all aristocrats in their hearts and believe in mantaining distinctions, caste,
social barrier personal and class separation from their kind. Jackson had a
special reason to speak thus of women, for there was pretty general disapproval
or some of his efforts to direct the sedal life of the capital. But on the whole, is
it not so and has it not always been so? Men on the average are not quick to
raise social caste distinctions. They are more apt to estimate their fellow humans
upon intrinsic worth. Women have an instinctive sense of sotial fitness. There
are multitudes of little details that go to make up social fitness, and women quickly
sense these things among other women, and instinctively draw lines which men
would never think of drawing.
Women in all ages, in court cirdes and offidal life, have been great sticklers
for social form, precedence, and caste. In this they have often been' aided and
"abetted by their husbands, but with the men it has been more of an enforced and
superfidal habit, while with the women it is instinctive. Men have often sought
their pleasures among companions of a social order inferior to themselves; women
almost never descend.
At Washington, since the government began, more sodal conflict, 100 times over,
has been predpitated by women than by men. Yet the foreign diplomats have
always been a problem, for they are schooled in old-world ways and dass differ
ences. Thomas Jefferson tried to abolish the "order of precedence" at his state
dinners, but the British minister, after a long series of social upheavals, due to
Jefferson's efforts at simplicity caused the abandonment of Jefferson's democratic
ideals by leaving the dining hall in obvious displeasure when he found that the
only available seat at table was one that be would not accept because it was placed
without regard to the "order of precedence" and gave him a dinner companion
that he did not care to talk to.
Not seldom, in Washington social affairs, foreign representatives have been
deeply offended by the almost universal American disregard of offidal formality.
Old timers in the diplomatic corps generally learn to disregard these things, but
some never get used to it- Americans in general have no conception or appreriation
of the highly schooled diplomatic etiquet of Europe and latin-America.
And yet, until congress settled the presidential succession, there never was
peace for two days together among the women of cabinet circles in Washington.
Women who couldn't tell a count from a discount would break up whole families
over the question whether Mrs. Jones should sit above or below Mrs. Smith at a
dinner given by the asjistant secretary of war to the governor of New Zealand.
Sooner or later the most democratic of Democrats, elected to high office, have
had to surrender to fixed soriaj customs, even if they required wearing dress suits
before noon, suspending a funeral to partake of champagne and pretzels, or seating
the Austrian ambassador above the wife of the richest brewer of the old home
town.
President Wilson will find that it is easier and safer in the long run to fall
into the ways set for him, in the sodal world of Washington, than to make himself
awkwardly conspicuous by trying to live the life of a normal human being in the
midst of artifirialities which, for small calib.red snobb'shress, sonriiTies ece 3
the worst pictures of Thackeray. And for the one insufferable snob, take the
and critiasm the El Paso Herald wishes
fellow who tries so hard to be common that he succeeds in being merely cheap.
Wilson is too mHch of a gentleman, too wise, and too good an American, to try
by any grandstand plays to demonstrate his modesty or his genuine democracy.
The "order of precedence" and the full observance of social custom are the surest
ways of keeping the peace and avoiding conspicuess immodesty which is always
the chief characteristic of the demagog.
There is no special merit in eating peas with a knife or wearing a flannel shirt
to a pinkrtea.
Where Time Counts
I
T IS allowing predous hours and days and weeks to go by without positive
action, that weakens the central government of Mexico when rebellious move
ments break out. That was Madero's way, and he paid for hesitation with ins
life. Any kind of success in Sonora, even temporary, would weaken the hold of
the new government throughout the republic, and espedally in the north. Any
manifestation of backwardness or doubtful policy will destroy the spirit of the
army; defeat in battle is not so much to be feared as a general letting down of
tension,
Negotiations and conferences and emissaries are all right up to a certain point,
then they spell weakness. The rebels of different groups, including former Ma
deristas, seem to doubt either the good faith or the ability of the Huerta govern
ment to make good its general promises. If every discontented group and evexy
disappointed leader are to take up arms against the government, the problem of
pacification becomes one for men at arms, rather than one of dvil .negotiation.
The supreme test will kome soon.
Washington will do well to watch the news from the border and the northern
states of the republic, and not depend too much on the offidal reports given out at
Mexico dty. The general situation is certainly much mixed, and Huerta seems to
hesitate about sending federal troops into the field against the northern rebels.
Whatever may be done or left undone by the Washington government, it is
plain to every observer dose to the scene of action, that the Washington govern
ment has no warrant to choose between the warring factions and support one while
opposing the others openly and covertly. Let neutrality prevail, real neutrality.
The United States has no more warrant t6 offer exceptional privileges to'one
group than to another. We have tried the ".cockeyed neutrality" policy now for a
solid year, and it has been a fraud and a failure. Better go back to the established
historical interpretation, the view sustained by all precedents of all periods and of
all nations, our own included.
The other thing for our own government to remember is henceforth to keep
its own counsel, to refrain from thinking out loud, to forbear, from making any
more false -breaks, and to make no more peremptory demands on anybody until it
has made up its mind. Better say nothing and do nothing, than go around throw
ing red pepper in touchy people's eyes while loudly protesting friendship. Moreover
it s an old maxim and a good one: "Never draw in fun the other fellow may not
see the joke."
14 Years Ago Today
From The Ilcrald This Date 1S89.
Ji D. Welch and brother came up
from Mexico last night.
Miss Sue Greenleaf came in- on the
T & P. this morning from Fort Worth.
Mrs. A. C. Gleason departed over the
Texas & Pacific for St Louis this aft
ernoon. It was reliably reported that George
Curry has been appointed by governor
Otero, of New Mexico, as a special offi
cer to arrest Oliver Lee.
E. A. Lane, who left his position in
the paint shop of the G. IL, to go to
the front with the soldier boys, is again
in his old position at this point.
Monday afternoon a very delightful
entertainment was given by the sis
ters of Loretto, at Chopin halL There,
were nearly 390 people present.
The benches in the plaza have re
cently all been painted. With the ap
proach of the concert season the plasa
is being put in a good condition.
T. B. Nichols, of Las Cruces, has pur
chased from John F. Mitchell. the
property at 70S North Campbell street
and will occupy it as a residence in the
near future.
E. P. Turner, general passenger and
ticket aeent of the T. & P.. has issued
an order to the effect that a special
rate will "be put on by that road dur
ing the cornerstone celebration.
When the northbound passengei
train of the Mexican Central, due last
evening, reached a point 61 kilometers
this side of Chihuahua, the front truck
of the engine jumped the track and
with the baggage car and third class
car, went Into the ditch.
Governor Ahumada, of the state of
Chihuahua, -will arrive tomorrow night
on the Mexican Central. It is stated
on good authority that he will per
sonally take a hand In the settlement
of the vexed question of the cutoff in
the Rio Grande, below this city.
Candidates for the position as con
stable left vacant by the killing of
Sam Farr are plentiful. It Is said that
Juan Franco, D. a Farrell. Stanley
Good. Jim Fulgham and several others
would like to have the job and will
apply to the .commissioners' court for it.
The parade committee of the corner
stone celebration up to date has pro
cured 32 trade display floats for the big
procession on March 17. The Invita
tion committee Is now issuing invita
tions to the balL The state MaBonic
grand master has telegraphed authority
to the El Paso lodge to lay the stone
The plans for a cooperative move
ment among the railroad companies
and city and county governments, look
ing for the permanent strengthening
of the levee system. Is In a fair way to
successful execution. No details have
been given yet, but people may expect
to receive assurance at an early day
that fears from high waters may safely
be laid aside.
The last span of the old railroad
bridge which has been so conspicuous
at the foot of El Paso street for years.
past, was lowered yesterday In the
presence of a large crowd of people.
The piers of the new bridge will be
completed in a few days and it will
take only a short time then to get the
structure In a condition to withstand
the force of the annual rise in the RIo
Grande.
HPRX PLUMBING IN THE SKIES
CAUSES SMALL DOWNPOUR. HERE J
Open plumbing in the skies Satur-
day morning causea a susni raimaii. ,
The rain startea in at six o ciixyt ana
worked at its trade steadily until night
The rain then started in on a make-and-break
circuit and made umbrellas
and rain coats a recessary evil during
the remainder of the morning Saturday.
The rainfall was about -OS of an
inch which is Col. N. D. Lane's Idea
of no rain at all. The forecast for
this evening and Sunday is fair weath
er. A
One-Sentence
QU.1KBR MEDITATIONS.
(Philadelphia Record.)
There seems to be a difference be
tween taking a drop too much, and
taking a tumble.
Some men are born fighters.- They
fight for their rights, and when they
get them they fight for more.
It's all right to let your light shine
before men.but it isn't necessary to
make a pyrotechnic display of It.
An opportunity Is a good bit like a
wasp. It takes a 'lot of experience to
know bow to grasp it without being
stung.
Wlgg "Have Harduppe and his wife
returned from their wedding trip yet?"
Wagg "No; he's waiting for her father
to send a relief expedition after them."
Mrs. Rittenhouse-Squeei "They claim
that their family is as old as the hills."
Mrs. De Lancey-Place "Hills? Hills? I
don't seem to recall any Hills on my
visiting list.
GLOBE SIGHTS.
(Atchison Globe.)
Everything we can't understand
probably is art. -
You are more likely to note the mis
takes of others than your own. if you
happen to b- looking in their direction.
rood fadi'iMs who do without brcaK
fast art-nt mimir as mu h as h
J j (tu,. iq tin cereal ad erust meats
1 indicate.
ABE MARTIN
111
What's become o' th ole time con
sumer that buttered his "pie? A full
front photergraf o' a feller alius makes
him look like he wuz wanted at Mil
waukee for embezzlement ,
GOOP
John Jonathan
Do you know why John Jonathan
Was never really loved?
Because he was rough and tough,
He pulled and poked and shoved!
He was a Goop, but you and I
Can act more gently if we try!
Don't Be A Goop!
Philosophy
POINTKD PARAGRAPHS.
(Chicago News.)
Even. a lazy man never gets tired
running for office.
Naturally a beauty doctor likes, to
demand a handsome fee.
An artist may paint his wife, but
usually she paints herself.
The nicest girl a young man knows
is the one he Is most afraid of.
It's far easier to form a good char
acter than it Is to reform a bad one.
Anyway, the pen is mightier than
the sword when It comes to muckrak
ing Yes, Alonzo. there's a vast difference
between being cordial and drinking
one.
Every time a man gets his monthly
gas bill he' glad that he doesn't have
to buy fhe stuff by the ton.
Occasionally a man manages to re
main ignorant, notwithstanding the ef
forts of a lot of women to put him
wise.
' JOURNAL ENTRIES.
(Topeka Journal.)
Most men have too exalted Ideas of
the value of their own opinions.
People who are punctual usually
are forced to waste a lot of time.
It's prottv hard work to convince
n mnr. tv ho -rots a lot of them that
.- n UnooV. i a boot
i th- i i i Innri of the p. snnists"
' - ' th t ;i i lak. mu'h mor1
1 ncisi. t-iun the optimists.
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By GELETT BURGESS
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Letters to The Herald.
1A11 communications must bear the
signature of the writer, but the name
will be withheld if requested.
NATIONAL PROHIBITION.
Editor- 1 Paso Herald:
Referring to your editorial of March 1
5 about a. law recently enacted by
congress:
Stripped of verbiage, this law says:
Khlnmpnt nf intoxlcatlnar liouor from
one state Into another state of the !
'United States in violation of the laws
of the state receiving the shipment is
prohibited.
The last two words. "Is prohibited."
are the closing and unqualified words
of the law. They may raise the in
teresting question as to which shall do
the prohibiting the national govern
ment or the state government; or.
shall both do .so?
Prohibitionists generally will be well
satisfied if the construction of the law
places the prohibitory duty upon the
national government because that
would place the enforcement of the
law farthest away from local In
fluences. The intent of the law. as is well
inown. was limited to removal of the
bar of interstate commerce laws from
the exercise of the police powers cf
the states desiring to prohibit' the
liquor traffic
The decision of the supreme court
of the. United States on February 24
last, declaring the Mann act (prohibit
ing interstate traffic in women for
immoral purposes) constitutional. !s
interesting and significant In connec
tion with the question above sug
gested. In the course of this decision, the
court said: "Our dual form of gov
ernment has its perplexities, state and
nation having different spheres of
jurisdiction, as we have said: but It
must be kept in mind that we are
one people: and the pqiwers reserved
to the states and those conferred on
the nation are adapted to be exercised,
whether Independently or concurrently,
to promote the general welfare, ma
terial or moral."
This decision in conjunction with the
well known decisions of the same court
upholding the constitutionality of the
law prohibiting Interstate traffic In
lottery tickets, and declaring that the
liquor traffic has no inherent right
to exist and that no citizen has a
natural- right to sell intoxicating
liquor, all on the primary governmental
principle and duty of protection of the
general welfare, material and moral,
has laid a secure and constitutionally
souno foundation on which to uphold
the constitutionality of this recent
national liquor legislation embodying
precisely the same general principle.
This principle Is the one on which
rests the constitutionality of the laws
prohibiting interstate shloment of dis
eased cattle. Impure food. etc. There
is In fact, little doubt that the new
law will be upheld by the courts.
J. L. -Campbell.
PROTECT THE COUNTY ROAD,
El Paso. Texas. March 6. 101.
Editor El Paso Herald:
I noticed a large automobile tele
scoped yesterday morning at the five
mile bridge on the county road. It was
considerably mussed up and the folks
who occupied It bad neglected to sweep
up the large quantity of glass in the
rosM. I would suggest, for the consid
eration of the county authorities, that
in order to save this valuable bridge
from being battered down by the as
saults of the numerous motor cars, it
would be a good thing to armor the
western end of the concrete parapet, as
it is slowly, but surely disintegrating
from the terrific impacts of these cars.
It would seem that a jrfece of heavy
railroad steel sloped at an angle of 45
degrees and buried In concrete might
keep the approach from being rammeVJ.
something like the cowcatcher on a lo
comotive. This bridge cost the taxpay
ers a lot of money and the county au
thorities should take measures to pro
tect it.
The writer has occasion to travel over
the county road dally and noticed an
other thing of Interest to the county
authorities and automobilists, that is.
a large amount of rubbish of one kind
and another that Is dropped on the road.
They are demolishing a brick house
near Cyrus Jones's place, and hauling
the bricks to town. The Mexican team
sters are quite careless and I counted
this mornipg 42 bricks beween this
house and Evergreen cemetery. I
quit counting at this point, but they are
pretty well distributed up Alameda as
far as Magoffin avenue. Whether they
continued to fall off on this street I
oannot say. a"s, since The Herald pub
lished the report of the celebrated ge
ologist who recently inspected the pet
rified waves on Magoffin avenue. I have
avoided that thoroughfare and come
into town on Texas street, which is not
quite so dangerous, as It only has a few
such slides, gravel banks and arroyos,
which can be avoided in the daytime.
Observer.
THE REDLIGHT QUESTION.
Editor El Paso Herald:
Again the question has arisen as to
whether or not the restricted district
of the city has been closed. The dis
trict is not closed now. nor was (t en
tirely closed at the time, a few days
ago, when we all were rejoicing over
the seeming triumph of decency over
filth and vice.
There was a period of three days
when Broadway was at Its darkest,
when Its sin and degenerates were not
flaunted at every passerby, when the
pure air was undefiled by the oaths J
anu inscene wurus 01 us inmates: Din,
and may we well hang our heads in
shame, its licentiousness is again in
evidence, the brazenne&s is at the same
pitch as previously, and Broadway. El
Paso's family skeleton, with liberty
stalks again.
The many and various "signs' that
fill the windows along the street dem
onstrate the resourcefulness hv the
.lessees of the -various abodes within
the district. While conniving to get
around the laws, or hoping to side
track the tide of public Indignation,
they have tried to give Broadway the
semblance of a business street It is
a slur on every decent person In the
city who follows, in decency, the vari
ous trades .that are advertised along
the "row." m
Yes. old Utah street Ts again "Broad
way." and just how long It will re
main a blot is a question that, we
trust, the present. body of grand jury
men will decide for us. We await their
verdict, and trust It mav be In our
t- favor. A verdict that will restore 're
spectability to Utah street, and at the
same time make grateful the hearts of
our women folk, protect our young men
and show the world lust how we stand
on that question In the cltv of. El Paso,
A Young Man.
A DALLAS MAN'S VIEW.
Dallas. Tex., March 5.
Editor El Paso Herald:
A short time ago while reading one
of your issues I came across a little
item which amused me very much. It
seems that a certain gentleman was
trying to help you people to raise a
hudeet. and becauo h rnt under vur
j hide and he pinched and the very truth
oi.nis assertions iiurt. you turned him
down. Now we do not know a thing
In the world about this pirso-i. hut
wc do not know that he most assuredly
told the truth.
The fact of the matter is our town
needs advertising n-ore than aftv town
In this state. Whx. the people over
In our section can not tell a ou win ther
El Paso te In Texas or in Mt-xico. Th
worst feature of your town is that it
has fhe appearanee of an overgrown
illaf e and is as awkward as an ;v i
a ear old bov wonlil be in short pint-. I
Youf rnerrhant- t. n-.t ac-om-n-lit '
.n.r and an a'! f - th m 1. i j
if ydu put anj rt of a propo-iti-ir
Useless Heroism
A Short Story.
POOR CERVIL! He had only one
arm and nobody knew anything
about the, accident which robbed
him of, the other. His explanations
had often been . contradictory, and- it
was easy to see that he wanted to
hide the truth. It must be admitted
that he had his reasons.
It happened three years ago. Cer
vll was at that time very much In
love. Her nam? was Solange: and she
baa beautiful hands, a magnificent
figure, golden hair and eyes as blue
as the sky.
In the hope of pleasing his loved one
Cerril had from time to time, played
the part of different characters, all
very much in contrast with his own
real character. He, who was at heart
sentimental and melancholy, had pre
tended to be jolly and lively, because
she loved to laugh. For six mentr.s
he had played this part, transforming
himself into a veritable clown with the
hope of winning her heart. Suddenly
he discovered that she admired courage
above all other manly- virtues, and es
pecially eourane of the notorious kind.
Now Cervll was anything but a hero.
On the contrary he "was nervous and
timid, afraid at times even of his
own shadow. His timidity had pre
vented him from taking part in any
youthful sports and he had never had
a fierht with any other boy. Boxing
to -him was the most brutal of all
sports. He would do anything In the
world to avoid a auarrel. and as soon
as there was the slightest sign of a
dispute he unvarlably sneaked away.
But the miracla happened! To please
Solange, Cervll suddenly became brave.
He took lessons In fencing, provoked
quarrels whenever he had a chance,
and In six weeks he fought three duels
and escaped without as much as a
scratch. .
After that his reputation was made.
He was known as a dare-devil, a fel
low who was afraid of nothing, out
to whom any danger had a strange
charm.
Some time later Cervll performed
two more heroic feats. He stopped a
runaway horse at the risk of hie own
life, and saved three people at a
fire.
The newspapers were full of praise
for him and one published his portrait.
He received a medal for heroism. So
lange said nothing, though he would
rather hare had one word of praise
from her lips than all the medals In
the world.
One night they were . walking to
gether at the county fair and Solange
stopped in front of a tent on which
was written in flaming letters:
"Marsouck and His Ferocious Fe
lines." On the platform outside, a man was
addressing the crowd:
"Come on, come on, ladies and gents.
You'll have to hurry if you don't want
to miss seeing the" famous Marzouck
with his tigers, panthers; leopards and
his lion. Sultan, the terrible Sultan."
"Let us go in," said Solange.
He followed her submissively, anx
ious to fulfil her slightest wish. The
performance was almost over. The ter
rible Sultan had jusf entered the cage
where Mrouck was watting for it.
Cervll looked at Solange. She was
pale, strangely pale, and her eyes
were fixed on the lion tamer with an
expression of intense admiration, that
he had never seen in them before.
Sultan- performed many tricks with
out the slightest sign of disobedience.
"There is not a bit of spirit in that
lion," said CerviL 'Tt is as tame as a
doer."
She smiled contemptuously and said:
"I know you are. considered a brave
man. but I doubt if you would care
to enter that cage."
He shrugged his soldiers.
"Why don't you do It then,"she cried. "I
dare you to do It"
Cervll said nothing. He .was think
ing. She had dared him. Well, he
accepted. His resolution was made. He
would enter the lion's cage.
Two days later there was a great
sign outside the show tent:
"Tonight at 9 oclock! Extraordinary
attraction!
"An amateur whose name we are not
permitted to make known: but whose
Initials are M. P. d. will enter the
terrible Sultan's cage, alone, armed
only with a cane. Numerous, bets have
been made."
That night every seat was sold at
double price. The tent was crowded.
In front very near the cage, and
close to Marzouck. who was extremely
nervous. Solange was sitting.
'Suddenly there was a cry:
"There he Is! It is he."
Cervll entered, a little "pale, but
smiling. He -was dressed In a light suit
and carried a slender eane.
A roar shook the tent It 'was a
long time since Saltan had roared like
that. Cervll grew visibly paler but
still he smiled. The conviction that
Solange could not help loving him
after this proof of his courage, sus
tained him.
Standing motionless, he suddenly
found himself lace to face with the
king of beasts. Both looked long at
each other, equally surprised. Evi
dently Sultan Intended to be on his
best behavior. He went closer to his
visitor, rose on bis hind legs and placed
his paw on Cervll's shoulder. Its weight
bore him down.
A crv of terror rent the air. but Sul
tan did not move. The lion keot star
ing at Its victim whose shoulder was
bruised and bleeding. Looking
steadily at the Hon Cervll arose,
walked backwards towards the door,
passed Into the next cage, and closed
the door behind him. He was safe.
"I was right" he said. "That Hon.
is quite tame and harmless."
But the words had hardly left his
lips when he fainted. He was taken
td the hospital, and a week later It
proved necessary to amputate his left
arm.
.In the meantime Solange ran away
with Marzouck. whom she later de
serted for a boxing champion.
up to them they want to see at least
"two for one."
James T. Hogan.
A MIXED RELATIONSHIP.
Editor El Paso Herald:
In Pope county. Ark, a wan named
Hodge married the daughter of a man
named Herring. Herring then married
the daughter of Hodge. Can you tell
me the relation of tho children of the
two families. Both families now have
children. .
W. A. Baker.
(The children would be each other's
uncles and aunts. Hodge, marrying
Herring's daughter, becowos a sonlnlaw
of Herring and the Hodge children
become grandchildren of Barring. The
children of Herring, natirally are the
uncles' and aunts of the Hodge chil
dren. The same logle- then applies
to the Herring children, who are
grandchildren of Hooge; M.r me ,
Hodge children are the "! i
aunts of the Herring- cmmrwi. jan
itor.)
CAN T CUT LOOSE FIIOSfEL PASO.
Portland. Oregon. March 4.
Editor El Paso Herald:
I r.-v,. lived in Portland two years
now but nh.-n I do not get my El Pas
Herald. T miss one good thing. For
manj yiars I lived with you. I lik,j
the good old town, and the flgh you
are all putttnjrup for your rights, with
the ii-anaiia y innen sabe bunch 1
have (in out a. little sketch from th-
Oregon- in i -,arba'e can with the
Hu i ta inl i l.
F. A. Merrill.
Office Fillingjs Hard Task
For the 11,000 Presidential Appoint
ments There Are 100,000
Applicants.
Oy Frederic J. HasKln
WASHINGTON. D. C, March 8.
To the person who never has
had to choose between a doza
rival claimants in the filling of one posi
tion, the claims of each urged by me.i
who know how to beg. btseeco, ar. A
even to demand, the task that confron s
a president when he assumes office
and sees l0,e applicants for ll.0C-i
jobs may not appear so serious. But 't
is a task that has almost resulted i.i
the political undoing of some presi
dents, has made enemies for others,
and has ruffled the temper even cf
such a placid chief magistrate as
William McKJnley.
It was a task that tore the Repub
lican party asunder when Garfield be
came president and received his "cuss
ing out" at the bands of Conkling; a.
task that made Innumerable enemies
for Grover Cleveland; a task that dis
gusted the younger Harrison and cau i
him to become the -human icicle in of
fice; a task that only Roosevelt couid
approach with eqninamity, and that
Taft escaped only because he started
out to carry out "my policies."
Many Office Seekers Thin ltar.
President Wilson's reputed feeling
that the best argument against an ap
pointment generally speaking, is ma-ie
by the act of the man seeking it. naa
not as might be expected, deterred tli;
office seekers. They have felt that
that was one of those "white lies" tha:
a man high in authority must tell to
save his office from swarms of offi -3
seekers who try to win his favor. It
might be estimated that there are ap
proximately a million voters in the
United States who are as willing is
Barkis that their distinguished sei--vtces
should be utilized by the Wils- n
administration, and that 1 probablv
under the fact rather than over '.lia
mark.
Certainly, there will be several hun
dred thousand active candidates for ap
pointment, and the majority of tn.e.
will feel that if they could lay their
cause directly before the preside t
they would be sure to land the job th' y
seek. They will, therefore, for several
moons make miserable the lives of u.i
4e people around the white house.
Diplomatic Appointments First.
The president seldom decides -inv
other appointments than those of iL -members
of his cabinet before his in
auguration. He waits to hear tl e
claims of all who are put forward ' -the
bigger berths in the department:: I
and diplomatic services, and usual!
waits until he has these decided dpon
before he takes up, except in unusual
cases, the postal, customs, internal
revenue, and department of jus tier
places in the field. Soate idea of how
the task of the president has grown
from McKinley to Wilson may be gath
ered from the fact that while McKinley
had only 4815 offices to fill with tha
advice and consent of the senate, W.i
son has 11.0.
It will be seen that although the
number of positions transferred to .he
civil service between the inauguration
of McKinley and that of Wilson goes
far up into the thousands, the tremen
dous growth of the service of Uncle
Sam gives "Wilson nearly two and a
half times as much, patronage as Mc
Kinley bad.
Burden on Cabinet ' Members,
President Wilson will have several
hundred appointments to make in the
service in Washington. In the state
department he will have three assist
ant secretaries and a half dozen or
more other prominent officials. Of
course, he will be guided largely bv
J the recommendations of the secretarv
. of state in making them. A president
very seioom goes over the heads of
his chief advisers in making such ap
pointments; unless the reasons are ex
tremely urgent he defers almost en
tirely to the selections and recommen
dations of his cabinet officers. When
there are such urgent consideraUoiis
he will probably say something like
this: "Mr. Secretary, it seems that we
cannot Ignore the claims of Mr. So and
So, and If you can see your way clear
to appoint him, I shall be pleased." Of
eourse, the secretary, when it comes
down to that gladly, unless he has th-.-most
urgent reasons, waives his own.
choice in the matter.
More usually .th president shifts the
burden to the shoulders of bis cabinet
L officers and refers the contending ap-
folio the-position being sought is gici
out
Numerous Treasury Positions.
Next to the post off fee department
the largest list of presidential appoint
ments, outside of the army and navy.
Is to be found in the treasury depart
ment Here are three assistant seco
taties, and under them the supervisu.g
architect; the director of the bureaa
of engraving and printing; the ch.ef
of the secret service: the general su -erintendent
of Hie life saing seric-;
the controler of the treasury, wao
passes upon the legality of all mod y
paid oat by the treasury; the registrar
of the treasury, a job that nearly al
ways goes to a negro; the auditors f
the several departments; the treasurer
of the United States; the controler of
the currency; the commissioner of 11.
ternal revenue; the director of 'he
mint; and the surgeon general of the
public health service.
Such positions as these the president
fills in all the departments in Washing
ton. Outside of Washington he has th
so0 post offices of the presidential
class, the several hundred customs an 1
internal revenue officials, the 500 po
sitions in the diplomatic and consul ir
service, the several hundred Unit d
States marshals and district atornejs.
and the like.
CongresHloaal Recommeadatlen.
With the positions in the several
states, including the marshalships. tne
district attorneyships, the coltector
shln, and the postmasterships. the
procedure has been somewhat simpli
fied, and certain positions are fill 1
upon the recommendations of senators
and others upon the reccmmendatior.s
of representatives. It is not probable
that the policy of the Wilson adminis
tration will depart radically from th.v.
because, although it generally is re
garded as a bad method, it seems to l--about
the most satisfactory one ot
devised for filling these places.
With the largest list of presidential
employes to appoint that ever baa con
fronted any president and with the
greatest number of hungry off 1 -a
seekers on .record, it Is easy to im
agine that, long before his battle witii
them Is over. Mr. Wilson will wish th.-t
every position In the government sti
vice outside of the presidential chair
itself were under the classified servici.
."WHO'S WHO" IN MEXICO.
There is a man in Mexico
Aud he is very blue.
He wanted to get out abook,
A Mexican "Who's Wsa"
It kept him on the jump, it did.
And also on the gness.
For all the "Who's "Has Been" be
came Ere he could go to press.
It isn"t any wonder that
His boolt was doomed to fall
A "Who" today tomorrow would
Be landed fast in jail.
When all his "Who's Who's" were in
proof
It gae the man a pain.
To tear it up and i.tart a list
Of brand new "Who'..' airaia.
To makt- the book most a curate
That had been hi-, intent.
He couldn't tell from day to day
Who would be President
Po he -it lit ira 'e up his work.
Mi , on I , ,, t -t r' ;iit
1i .v 11: 1 - ' .--i t inor i.r r "WhV
V. a -j 1 v . i ,i "
N. w i ork rreri an.