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FuUR LAS VEGA3 DAILY OPTIC, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1914. (HE OAILV OPTIC ESTABLISHED 1871 PubllahM by THE OPTIC PUBLISHING CO. (Incorporated) m. M. PADGETT ..Editor. Entered at the pos toff Ice at East VkM Vegas, New Mexico tor trane isslo through the United 8Utea alia as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally, by Carrier rer Copy 1 .06 One Week -l One Month . One Year 7.80 Dally, by Mall Ctae Tear (In advance) $6.00 tlx Months (In advance) 8.00 One Tear (la arrears) 7.00 Six Months (la arrears) 3.50 WEEKLY OPTIC AND STOCK GROWER fre Terr 12 00 BU Months 1.00 (Cash In Advance for Mall Subscriptions.) Remit by check, draft or money srder. It sent otherwise we will not se responsible for loss. Specimen copies free on application. ALL PAPERS DISCONTINUED AT EXPIRATION OF TIME PAID FOR Advertisers are guaranteed the tsvrgest dally and weekly circulation af any newspaper in northern New Mexico. TELEPHONES Business Office Main 2 News Department .......Main 2 t - . - - THURSDAY. AUGUST 27, 1914. THEY CAN FIG1IT, ALKIOUT On may or may not uphold Ger i iany's position in the bloody dispute j w tearing Europe asunder, but he nnot help but admire her military t stem. From the kaiser down to ..e lowest rifleman, the German sol- lters officers and privates have . hown that they have pot only ' the training but the courage and instincts ot true soldiers. In spite of reverses and disappointments the German mil itary movement appears to be relent lessly advancing, in the face of the efforts of the allied armies' of France, England and Belgium. The German troops have hurled themselves Into attacks upon fortresses that apparent ly were Impregnable, where death -was certain for a large proportion of the attacking forces and have tri umphed. Though deeply immersed in the at tack upon Belgium in the march to ward Paris, the Germans have had time to repulse Russian attacks from the east, drive the French out of Al sace and take Ostende, which will be used as a German, base for nava op erations against England. Jn the meantime, too, the Germans have taken on another foe, Japan, and the latter nation is reported as having Its hands full in) its efforts to dislodge the forces In charge of Teutonic pos sessions! in China. -i There probably are more people in the United States who will condemn the action of the kaiser than those who will support his position. But everybody will have to admit, if latest - news dispatches are correct, that he and his soldiers are superb fighters. o . A ONLY A WISH ' Since the announsement of the nom inations at Santa Fe Tuesday night, the opposition press of the state has been callingattentioa to the "weak nets" of the Republican party and Its candidate for congress, B. C. Hernan dez, and its nominee for state corpor ation commissioner, Hugh H- Wil liams. II the republican party in the state Is so lamentably weak that the most cffcual observer can detect its feeble ness, why the necessity for enterpris ing Santa Fe and Albuquerque dailies to call the attention of the public to the fact? No doubt these papers de vouUy WISH the republican party mere as weak as they proclaim it to tie, but wishing will prove of little avail, and they cannot make the pub lic see the things they claim to see. The fact Is that the republican par ty Is stronger than ever before, is drawing the support of an increased number of voters and has placed be fore the peaple of the state candi dates whose strength at the polls Is feared by their opponents. Til C G EliM A S S 1 1 E The Germans can no longer com plain of' getting the worst of it in the news of the war given forth to the ncrld. The Germans have now got on the wire and are keeping the cable hi t to the ambassador In this country along the line which evidently must wilji. Reports of sweeping victories be discounted fully as much as the previous dispatches colored by the allies. In addition the Germans through organizations in this country are flooding the United States with pro-German literature some of which is much more extreme than the news dispatches. If the British and French have any publicity bureau, we have not heard of it On the other hand tlie mails daily bring copies of publi cations 'by' German-American soeitles circulars, and bo forth setting forth th- appalling dangei of Russian ex j uiislrm and other German bogles. It os of six ane half dozen of the other. " The Germans can no longer complain that they are having no day in court; and we shouuld advise the reader to deliberate carefully before ho arrives at a conclusion as to the percentage ot truth In the evidence of both sides of the controversy The Santa i Fe New Mexican. Young Prince Huht Paris, Aug. 27 It is officially an nounced that Prince Ernest of Saxe Meiningen has been seriously , wounr ed and is in the hospital at Maubeuge France.. Prince Ernest Is a Bon of Prince Frederick of Saxe Meiningen who was killed at Namur August 23. He was born in 1S95 and is a lieuten ant in the Thuuringian regiment. RADNEY IS NAMED Washington, Aug. 27 President Wilson today nominated C. B. Wood to be postmaster at Phoenix, Ariz., anit W. Li. Itadney postmaster at Uos- well, N. M. HOW A NEW POPE IS CHOSEN BY CARDINALS THE GREATEST PRECAUTOIN AGAINST TRICKERY IS OBSERVED Rome, Aug, 27. The approaching conclave for the election of a succes ors to Pope Pius X is expected to oc cupy considerably les time than the similar assemblages in the past. In the first place, the entire absencesof strong rival factions In the Sacred College, such as existed at the time of the election of the late pope, is ex pected to make the selection of his successor a, matter of less difficulty. Still more Important is the change in the method of election that was pre scribed by Pope Plus some six years agj for the express purpose of sim plifying the election machinery and cutting down the time usually occu pied by the conclave in arriving at a choice. The rule for many centuries was as fellows: When, after balloting, the votes were counted and it was found that no candidate had obtained the necessary two-thirds majority, any cardinals who wished to do so were allowed to change their votes. Many popes who failed to obtain the requi site number of votes, in the ordinary scrutiny have been elected In this manner. l ,"' Pope Pius decided to abolish this an cient method of election. At the same time, however, he took meas ures to expedite the election by in ttoducing an important change. Hith crtc cardinals have been allowed "to told only .two ballots a day, one Jn tti4 jporning after mass and the other in the evening." Now the ruling pro vides for four ballots, two in the morning and two in the evening. Thus the coming papal election Is expected to take only half the time occupied during the las seven centuries. It Is said that one of the reasons for this change arose out of an inci dent at the last conclave, at which Popi Plue was elected. After the first scrutiny, when, Cardinal Ram, polla obtained more votes than any two other candidates together, it was expected in the conclave that an opportunity would be given to the cardinals who so desired to change their votes, instead of this however, the assembly immediately disbanded and voting was put off until evening, with the result that the election was protracted three days longer. On the day of the conclave all the cardinals are summoned from their cells by- a bell thrice rung, and repair to the assembly chamber. From this moment nntil the result of the voting is announced they have no communi cation save with the Vatican officials. Their clothing,' and even their food is STOMACH TROUBLES Or. R&gland Writes Interettiof Letter on This Subject. Madison Heights, Va. Mr. Chas. A. Ragland, of this place, writes: "1 have been taking Thed ford's Black-Draught for indigestion, and other stomach troub les, also colds, and find it to be the very best medicine I have ever used. After taking Black-Draught for a few days, I always feel like a new man." Nervousness, nausea, heartburn, pain in pit of stomach, and a feeling of full ness after eating, are sure symptoms of stomach bouble, and should be given the proper treatment, as your strength and health depend very largely upon your food and its digestion. To get quick and permanent relief from these ailments, you should take 1 medicine of known curative merit. Its 75 years of splendid success, in the treatment of just such troubles, proves the real merit of Thedford's Black Draught. Safe, pleasant, gentle in action, ind without bad after-effects, if is sure a benefit both young and old. For salt sverywhere. Price 25c KCia searched, lest they should contain correspondence from friends outside. If, by the greatest exercise of lenien cy, a visitor is admitted, he must speak to the Immured cardinal through a grating of iron and in a tone loud enough to be heard by the watchers. After a night of this seclu sion the conclave is formally assem bled early next afternoon, and all re pair to the Sistine Chapel, where a desk has been provided for each car dinal. In the middle of the hall are six tables and behind these an altar. Immediately in front of the altar is a table on which are two chalices for holding the ballots. Before proceed ing further, a search is made in the chapel to assure the conclave of the fact that none but those entitled to vote are present. Three Inspectors of the election are then choBen by ballot. Should any cardinal be so ill that he Is unable to leave his dor niitory, a committee is appointed to visit him and take his vote, which is brought to the conclave sealed and deposited In one of the chalices. Each cardinal writes on a little tf-ble in the corner of the chapel the name of the candidate be would elect, in the center . of the .voting ticket This is of an oblong form, prepared according to the directions of the bull ot Gregory XV. In the center are the words, "Ellgo In Summum Pontificera Rm. Dmmeum D. Card." (I elect Sovereign Pontiff my Lord Cardinal ), after which tbe voter inscribes the name of the candidates' he would elect. At the foot of the altar the voter lilts up his hand and exhibits the ticket between his thumb and finger. He then kneels and prays for a mo ment, after which he takes oath that he is about to elect him whom, ac cording to God, he thinks ought to be elected. He then puts the ticket on the paten and slips It from thence into the chalice, which he covers up again. Then e makes a new rever ence before the altar and returns to his place. When all have voted in like manner the six teliirjfe jfnlne the papers and proclaim the result If nocardinal has obtained the required number of votes, two thirds of the number of car dinals present the result is declared void, and the voting papers, collected together, are burned In a brazier with damp straw, the . dense smoke from which issues through a particular chimney, visible from outside and proclaims to the outer world that no election has taken place. First to cast his ballot is the dean of the college, who writes the name of his candidate on a slip of paper eight "inches in length and four in width',' which he folds, and,' sealing it at both ends, folds It once more in the middle, and then drops it In the bcwl nearest his desk. All follow in the order of their rank as members of the college.- ' The burning of the second ballots in the coming conclave will close the session of the day, and adjournment will be taken until evening. Here, again, the coming conclave is to dif fer materially from its predecessors. At the first evening session in former conclaves It was the rule to afford an opportunity to those cardinals rep resenting foreign powers to state whatever serious objections might exist to any of the candidates and which, in the event of that candidate's c i tion as pope snigut operate to the disadvantage of the Vatican board. These objections were always duly considered. Several times in the laet century did the Vatican board Sue ccssfully o? . Ibf- election of 1-3-ii- ing candidates. The right of veto was claimed at one time or another by France. Germany, Austria and Italy. But pope Pius X, soon after he came to the papal throne, abolished this right of veto, so that It will play no part In the proceedings of the con clave next week. 'Compromise candidates have sever al times been taken by general agree ment, whenever the race between two strong; cardinals has been so close as to deadlock the college. Proceeding with the election by bal lot voting is continued on the lines , Indicated until a choice is reached. and this is made known to the people by the absence of the smoke, for al though the ballots, as in the unsuc cessful instances, are also burned, the enoke is not permitted to escape. When the result is reached it is an nounced by the ringing of a bell; all the senior cardinals advance to the place occupied by the newly chosen pontiff and Inquire if he accepts the election. On receiving his affirma tive answer he is at once saluted by il;e entire college. He then announc es the name by which he desires to be known throughout the world as the head of the church. An interval then occurs during which the canopies are removed from tLe stalls of the cardinals, except that of the newly elected pope and his holiness retires to robe himself in the pontifical vestments. On bis return the fisherman's ring Is placed on his finger by the cardinal Ciimerlingo, and the new vicar of Christ gives his first solemn bene diction to the members of the sacred college from the steps of the altar. Then taking his seat on the sedia gestatorla, the pope receives the hom age of their eminences and again com municates the name which it is his pleasure to assume as pontiff. The people then flock into St. Pe ter's to see the pope and receive his blessing and the stirring scene which presents itself. Until Nicholas II, in IKS', restricted the quality of the electors to the sa- crec" college, popes were elected by both the clergy and the people. More tipn a century later Pope Alexander HI issued a decree making a two thirds vote of the cardinals necessary fr.r the election of the pope. One of the curious and not gener ally known fundamental rules of a papal election is that the choice of tho sacred college is not necessarily limited to a cleric and that any faith ful Catholic, even though he be a lay. man, is eligible. It is true that this rule is more honored In the breach than in the observance, as the last layman was elected in 1024, when Crescent lus, being raised to the pon tificate, was -immediately ordained and became John XIX. Several at tempts have been made to restrict the choice of the cardinals to clerics, but they have invariably failed. Neither does there exist any law or regulation to render compulsory the choice of an Italian. But the pre dominance of Italians in the sacred college makes the choice of their na tionality a practical certainty. The Italian majority is strong in number, but It is stronger in influence. All the affairs of the papacy are directed by the Italian cardinals residing In Rome. As heads of congregations they have the power exercised else where by cabinet ministers. Their views are carried out by Italian sub ordinates. Virtually all of the Vatican officials as well as the papal nuncios are Italian. All these people, with their influence, which is strong have nothing to gain and everything to lose from a foreign successor to Pius X, LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLICATION State of New Mexico, County of San Miguel, in the District Court. E. L. Murphy and Harry Mor rison, doing business under the firm name of Murphy and Morrison Plaintiff - vs. No. 7539 W. S. Bettis. defendant You, the raid defendant W. S. Bet tis, are hereby notified that a suit has been commenced against ycu in the District Court for the County of San Miguel and : State- of New Mexico by-' said above named plaintiffs, the nature of said suit is to recover for goods,- wares and mer chandise sold and delivered to said defendant by plaintiffs. The plaintiffs' demand is $72.43 with Interest at six per cent per an num from June 24th, 1913, and you are further notified that your prop erty, described as follows: The South east Quarter of Section 21, Township 17 North, Range 21 East, situated in San, Miguel County, New Mexico, has been attached and that unless you enter or cause to bfc entered your ap pearance in said Burt on or before the first day of October, A. D. 1914, Judg ment will be rendered against you and said property, above described, sold to satisfy the same. Plaintiffs' attorney is William G. Haydon, and hia postoffice address is East Las Vegas, New Mexico. Dated this 3rd day of August 1914. LORENZO DEI5 ADO, 6-13-20-27 Clem . HER LAST WISH IS OUT MRS. WILSON'S PLAN FOR CLEAN ING UP WASHINGTON IS IN USE Washington, Aug. 27 For fifty years the city of Washington has been fretting with a mean sociologi cal problem found in the alleys which run criss cross through the blocks of the city; and in which hundreds of negroes have been born, lived and died. For 50 years vice, disease, crime and Ignorance have been bred in alarming proportions in Washing- tons' alley homes. For 25 years the city govenjment has been pecking away at the problem and has succeed ed in cleaning up two of the worst holes ever seen in a modern city; for 15 years women's clubs and civic or ganizations have held meetings and deplored the existence of such filthy nests of homes for human beings; but it remained for Mrs. Woodrow Wilson on her dying day to whisper the wish that one of the bills for the elimination of the long stretches of alleys in Washington could be report ed and passed. Her wish has almost become law. The senate immediately passed an alley elimination bill; the house has a modifie form .of f that bill on ita calendar?1ayay,ltaf1 H up and pasg it at any time now. In the years to come visitors to Washington, will be taken into the by ways and will be shown minor streets on which workmen's cottages have been built somewhat after the fashion on the English workmen's ' homes they will be shown "interior parks,' made of the scooped-out city blocks, and will be told that the minor streets and the interior parks of playgrounds were once the villainous unlighted. unwatered, unkept alleys which made Mrs. Wilson sick at heart when she realized that the capital of the United States fostered such breeding grounds of dirt and crime. Washington's al leys constitute Its slums. The alley is distinctly a Washington product as far as its being inhabited is concerned. Washington is laid out in broad squares. On four sides of the squares are pretty decent home in every case. Through the squares run alleys which were originally in tended for the butcher, the baker, the ashman, trashman, milkman, etc. How ever, when the civil war broke out thousands of negroes flocked to Wash lngton and. scheming real estate men began building little shacks within the squares for the housing of the ne groes. i;The shacks fronted on the alley ways. Some of those civil war shacks are still them . Mrs. Wilson had a favorite exhibit of this sort in what is known, as Goat alley. There is no running water, there Is scarcely any light in the house, as there is but one window. It has been there for 50 years and the successive owners have reaped for tunes in rent The alley has been in habited chiefly by uncomplaining washwomen-1, who carried,, home.;, ie wash of clean white fo)ka,;, who. jwould have turned ill had they seen where their linen was being washed. When Mrs. Wilson came to WTash ington the women's welfare depart ment of the National Civic Federation was wrestling with the alley problem. Mrs. Earnest R. Bicknell, chairman of the Washington chapter of the de partment, was working at the prob lem daily, trying to arouse public In terest in the dirty outlay of narow streets and foul homes. Another woman, who afterwards became close ly associated with Mrs. Wilson in her alley cleanup tours, was Mrs.. Archi bald Hopkins, These two would call meetings and raise subscriptions and carry the entire burden, upon their own ' shoulders, and . . aa occasional newspaper! article would be the net result of -their labors. When, Mrs. Wilson became interest ed she had been a resident of the city bud a few months; and she first heard the story of the alley homes at an afternoon meeting of the women's welfare department of the National Civlo Federation. Mrs. Wilson be lieved in action. There had been sev eral years of afternoon tea sociologi cal work and it had not amounted to much In a practical way. Mrs. Wil- W, T. Greene, Hopklnton. N. IL, writes the following letter, which wlil Interest every one who has kidney trouble. "For over a year, Mrs. Greene bed been afflicted with a very stub torn kidney trouble. Foley Kidney Pills done more to complete her re covery than any medicine she has ta ken and I feel it my duty to recom mend them." O. O. Schaefer and Red Cross Drug Co. Adv. , ... : CARRIED son ordered her chauffeur to take her to Goat alley. Four or five scrawny pickaninnies were playing marble at the entrance to Goat alley when the White House car stopped there with Mrs. Wilson and several women friends. They scampered up the cobblestoned can yon, yelling the tidings as they flew, and black faces appeared at the wr dows. However, Goat alley was more or lw used to having finely dressed "white ladies" come picking their way through the dirt and filth, asking questions in stilted voices, leaving quarters and dollars, and then never coming back again. But this "white lady" did come back, She came day after day, day after day. Sometimes with the big White House Pierce limousine, some times In a friend's electric runabout; sometimes she brought a procession of cars, with senators, representa tives, ministers and business men of tne city. Mrs. Wilson would call up men at the capitol and simply force them to go with her through Goat alley and Tin Cup alley, Bear's Gap, Louse al ley, Pig alley and all the other foul, hot and filthy alleys of the city. She took Oscar Underwood and Represent ative A. Mitchell Palmer together on one trip, and the leader of the house democrats pledged himself after the trip to work for the elimination of the things he saw. He has not for gotten the pledge. There are miles of alleys .In Wash ington. There are a hundred thou sand negroes and fully a third of them live in the inhabited alleys. They die of tuberculosis at an alarming rate. The death rate of the alleys is always taken separate from the' oath rate of those living on the streets of Wash ington. Mrs. Wilson learned that in the houses on the outside of the blocks of Washington the death rate would be normal, and right at the back gates of these very folk would be negroes living in the squalor of barbaric or mediaeval ignorance who would be dying twice as fast and not 50 feet awaji. Mrs. Wilson took the committee of the District of Columbia of the sen ate through about 30 miles of alleys of the dirtiest slums in the world on a warm day, and would have received the committee's support at the expir ation of the first mile, but she made them finish the tour. She conducted the house committee of the District of Columbia through the same alleys and opened their eyes to a condition of squalor that would scarcely be be lieved. They saw, within a quarter of a mile of the- very capitol, in which half naked children and rotting veg etables and drunken men were so thick and indiscriminate that the in vestigating party had to pick its way They saw the decayed boards of floors that had been the homes of rats and vermin and germs of dis ease since the first battle of Bull Run, Scarcely an alley hut has running water, and the worst feature of the Washington alley Is that occasionally it will wind in and out of the interior of a block In an aimless fashion, like a maze. A policeman on the outside of the block would never be able to tell what is going on in the inside of that maze, and the consequent condi tion of viciousness that bas grownup In Washington's alleys is the cause for the crowded police court each morning and the clang of the emerg ency hospital ambulances , every day and all night. "Well, what can w do about it? aske done of the congressmen who bad gone with Mrs. Wilson. People,. bad jbeen. asking that for 25 years. There have been hundreds of bills to -correct alley evils intro duced, and the commissioners of the District of Columbia had framed an ordinance whereby when alley homes reached a. certain stage of rottenness they, were condemned by law and torn down. This was a slow method, and alley real estate owners were fight ing off the day of reckoning by patch ing up here and there. Mrs, Wilson and her women friends held a meeting. By that time every woman in Washington wanted to Join the woman's welfare department of the National Civlo Federation. Mrs. Wilson had procured the aid -Of Rep resentative Kahn of California, who worked up a bill for the cleaning out of Goat alley. The Kahn bill received a great impetus then, but Mrs. Wil son and her friends took up the prob lem from a broader viewpoint and planned to wipe out all the alleys at once. That mean that 30,000 people would be thrown out on the streets without homes; and as a cure for that , con dition the alternative1; proposal was to establish a foundation with.igov- ernment support for the erection of the $7.50 a month brick houses. This particular bill did not meet with a great amount of favor with the Dis trict committee ofi the house. The members of that committee felt it their duty to be suspicious about the bill and could not see any good in it They believed that somewhere some one would be getting a profit put of frail To have correct time requires, first a good time piece, second it must be in good running order. . WE OFFER YOU BOTH First Class .Time Pieces First Class Repairing At TAUPERT'S 606 Douglas Ave. Out of Town Work Solicited rc:.i 'L.. the government if any money was lent for the purpose of building those small workmen's houses. Neither did the alley elimination bill receive any favor until Mrs. Wiison asked for Ita report, It was the day before Mrs. Wilson's death that the District committee of the house was in session. The tele phone bell rang in an inner office and Ben Johnson of Kentucky, chairman of the committee, wag called. The message was from Senator OIlie James, who had been to communica tion with Joseph Tumulty, secretary to the president. Ben Johnson called his committee members hurriedly to gether in his private office and told them that Mrs. Wilson, on her dying bed, had said she would be happy if she could know the alley bill would be reported and passed. The senate committee on the District of Colum bia was not in session, but Senator Smith of Maryland, chairman, rushed a, meeting, rushed out a report on an alley bill not the same one which had been introduced in the house, however, and the senate rushed it through to successful passage. All this occurred in an hour. The house committee, being in the quandary of having a perfect princi ple wrapped tip in a defective bill, re sorted to the practical method of or dering a favorable report "with amendments." So the bill will prob ably pass. It will work out so that Louse alley will be a decent little street without the drunken Saturday night broils in the unlighted pockets of its innermost recesses; and Goat alley, which started- Mrs. Wilson on her crusade, may be an interior play ground. There are many miles of other alleys, all dirty, all filled with vermin and disease. They will all be made clean by the magic, of a dying woman's wish. CHICHESTER S PILLS .TUB DIAMOND BRAND. Ladles f AikfoirDranlitfaf i 0 niBa-irauiftmna Brand 1111 In Rrrf and Unlrf tnMllir boxes, sealed with Bit Ribbon. Take o airier. Buy af your Drnviriftt. Akfrf IMJ IlVLXl DIAMOND llRANlh PILLS, for SA years known as Best, Safest. Always Keliahla SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE VictrolaVI,$25 Otherityles$15to$M0 The Victrola" is a source of endless pleasure to the en tire household. It gives everybody the kind of music they like best. Come in any time and hear your favor ite music, and find I out how you can eas ily get a Victroia. 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