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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
Lady Somerset.

Lady Henry Somerset, in her annual
address to the Council of the British
Women's Temperance Association,
said:
"The outgrowth of the reform for
which we are banded can be but one
that Christ should be enthroned in the
hearts and consciences of men and
women. This is the goal of all Chris
tian effort. And every deviation from
this straight line of purpose means
that we have to turn back again and
seek the path that we have lost. We
came together here not as members on
ly of a great society, but as workers
for the day when the Kingdoms of this
world shall be the kingdom of God and
of His Christ, and it is because we pro-
foundry believe this truth that as we
meet year after year, we cannot be dis
heartened, we dare not be discouraged.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
Play the Game.

Play the Game.
There's a breathless hush in the Close to-
night
Ten to make and the match to win
A humping pitch and binding light,
An hour to play and the last man In,
And It's not for the sake of a rfbboned
coat,
Or the selfish hope of a seasons fame,
But his captains hand on his shoulder
smote: yve If r-feBfe
"Play up! play up! and play the game"
The sand of the desert is sodden red
Red with the wreck of a square that
The gatling's jammed and the Colonel
dead,
And the regiment blind with dust and
smoke.
The river Of death has brimmed his banks,
And England's far, and Honor's name,
But the voice of schoo1boy rallies the
ranks:
play upi play upi and play the camel!
This is the word that year by year,
While in her place the school is set,
Every one of her sons must hear,
And none that hears it dare forget
This they all with a joyful mind
Bear through life torch in flame,
And falling fling to the host behind
play up! play up! and play the gamer!
From Onward.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
ROAD OF THE ROUGH.
DESPERATE JAIL-BREAKER IN
TROUBLE.
Frank Steadman Returning to Joliet
Prison-His Remarkable Escape from
Joliet and San Ouentin-Hard for Him
to Keep Out of Trouble.
Joliet, ILL.,, Letter.)


The Joliet prison authorities re-
ceived notice this morning of the ar
rest in California of the notorious con-
vict and jailbreaker, Frank Stead
man, alias Wheeler, alias tOhio Fat
ty," whose criminal record is known
to the police of most large cities, and
who has effected two escapes from the
San Quentin, Cal, prison, and once
from Joliet, and also has the distinc-
ton of having stabbed his cell mate to
death while an inmate of the Folsom
prison.
Steadman was first sent to San
Quentin for burglary in 1888, but soon
escaped and came back east. He next
figured in a big robbery in one of Chi
cago's suburbs, and was sentenced to
a seven-year term in Joliet, in 1898.
In May, 1894, he effected a clever es-
cape from the engine room at Joliet.
One Sunday afternoon his keeper took
him to the engine house to do some
work. The keeper had stepped into
small tool room to get something,
when the convict slammed the door to
the tool room shut and fastened 1t
with a hook, securely imprisoning the
unwary officer. Steadman found plen-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
Tennessee Prohibitionists.

The prohibitionists of Tennessee won
two victories in the last session of the
legislature. The first was in connec-
ton with the famous four-mile law.
The law, as originally enacted, provid-
ed that no licenses should be granted
for the sale of liquor within a radius
of four miles Of any schoolhouse, ex-
cept in incorporated towns. In order
to evade this provision of the law,
many small hamlets became incorpor-
ated. During the last session of the
legislature the law was so amended
that no village which in the future
shall be incorporated with a population
of less than 1000 will be allowed to
have liquor licenses within a radius of
four miles of schoolhouse. A second
success was the passage of a law for
the punishment of illegal liquor sell
ing by the terms of which the owner of
the property becomes responsible for
the illegal sales made by the tenant;
and in the event of failing to suppress
those sales after notice is subject to
heavy fine placed upon the actual Ii
quor seller
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
WOMEN AS TRAVELLERS.
Not Alone for the Pleasure of 1t, But
for Business.

Not Alone for the Pleasure of 1t, But
for Business.
AS the world grows smaller the num-
Der of women travellers grows great.
This is merely another form of say
ing that the greater security, economy
and rapidity of travel have opened new
opportunities for ambitious women. AT
the present time there are the travel
ing companion, the courier, the war
correspondent, the foreign correspond
ent, the commercial traveller, the mis-
sionary and the student, who, para
logically enough, is usually teacher.
1 would leave out of consideration the
travelling companion, because she is an
annex or attachment to the traveller
proper and is not traveller per Sc.
might also add the woman explorer,
because in the past ten years Mrs.
Alice LIE Plongeon and Miss Kingsley
have won name and fame in this field
of activity, says a writer in Frank Les
lies Popular Monthly.
Women are both fitted and untitled
for travel. They have less strength
and daring than men, but, on the 9TH
er hand, they have more tact and
greater regard for the rights of others.
In many parts of the far east small
mobs of criminals are apt to attack
the stranger within their gates. When
this occurs, the male traveller usually
gets off better than the female. On
the other hand, a far greater source of
trouble springs from the wanton or
ignorant violation Of native customs
and religious laws. Here men sin fifty
times where women do once.
Travel brings out the deep ethical
difference between the two sexes. In
London 1 have often noticed that the
average American gentleman makes
bee line for the famous inns, pubs and
music halls, while the average Ameri-
can woman goes to Westminster, st.
Paul's and the Tower of London. In
Paris the former patronizes the cafe
chantant and the Moulin Rouge, and
the latter the Louvre, Notre Dame, the
Madeleine and the Hotel des Invalides.
To be a successful traveller demands
nothing more than the small virtues
forethought, common sense, patience
and, it may be, little resignation
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
If 1 Should Die Tonight.

II SnOul0 DIE Tonight
If 1 should die tonight
Myfriends would look upon my quiet face,
Before they laid it in its resting-place.
And deem that death had left it, almost
fair;
And laying snow-white flowers 'gainst my
Would smooth it down with careful ten
derneSS,
And fold my hands with lingering caress-
Poor hands, SO empty and cold to-
night!
If 1 should die tonight
NY friends would call to mind with low
ing thought
Some kindly deed the icy hands had
wrought,
Some gentle word the frozen lips had said,
Errands on which the willing feet had
sped;
The memory of my selfshness and pride,
My hasty words, would all be put aside
And so I should be loved and mourned
tonight.
If I should die tonight
Even hearts estranged would turn once
more to me,
Recalling other days remorsefully;
The eyes that chill me with averted
glance
Would look upon me as of yore. per
And soften in the old, familiar way,
For who could war with dumb, uncon-
SciouS clay?
So L might rest, forgiven of all, tonight
Oh, friends, / pray tonight
Keep not your kisses for my dead, cold
brow
The way is lonely; let me feel them now
Think gently of me; I am travel worn,
My faltering feet are pierced with many
thorn,
Forgive. o hearts. estranged! forgive I
pleadI
When dreamIess rest is mine 1 shall not
need
The tenderness for which long tonight.
Anon.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
he wrench did not loosen his grasp.

the wrench did not loosen NIB grasp.
Outward and upward he swung until
Ae reached the topmost point OF the
circumference. The nicely OF his cal
culations had reaped its reward. Inc
belt stopped. He 1eaped to his feet,
Sprang through the window and was
gone before convicts or guard had re-
covered from their establishment. He
caught up a guards coat and nat,
dropped from the wall and got away
in the dusk of the evening.
1t was not long before Steadman
was in trouble again. He was arrest
ed by Chief of Police Glass of Los An
geles, and returned to his old quarters
at San Quentin. There are bars over
that high window above the big dr1v-
ing belt now. Not long after this
Steadman killed a fellow-convict in
fight, and was then transferred from
San Quentin to the new prison at Fol-
som, where he has been confined until
recently. But he did not go free, as
Capt. L. P. Hall, the assistant deputy
warden from Joliet and Special Ohcer
M. w. McClaughry, a son of the ma
jor, were on hand and arrested Stead
man at the doors of the prison. Steau-
man suspected that the Illinois au-
thorities would send for him, and the
night before his release from Folsom
was caught in the act of cutting out
the bars from his cell window by the
night guard. When searched the Off
GERS found him supplied with set OF
handcuff keys, which he intended to
use in case the Illinois officers did
come for him.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30

Don't talk like a fool, joshua" re-
marked Mrs. Harix; Ito hear you tell
it folks would be thinkin' l asked you
to marry me, and goodness knows l
never ran after you fer minute in my
life
''Well, 1 amt sayin' you run arter
me, Melinda" replied the old man,
but that don't prove nuthin' nohow.
[ reckon the trap never runs after the
mouse neither, but somehow it peers
to gather him in jist the same"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30

the murder of her sister. A great eff
fort was made to procure the commu-
tation of her sentence to imprison-
ment for life. One hundred members
of the house of commons signed an
application to the home secretary
asking for reprieve and an application
in her favor was even made to the
queen personally. In spite of all, how
ever, the sentence was carried out
The girl poisoned her imbecile sister
in order to obtain $50 insurance on her
life, which she needed for wedding
expenses. Her betrothed husband sat
by her side during the trial
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
Temperance Notes.

The following setting forth by the
Journal of Inebriety of the growing
opposition of business firms to drink
ing employees is so suggestive, as show
ing the trend of the times, that we give
Vt to our readers entire:
at is evident in many ways that
managers of large moneyed interests
and capitalists are taking up the tenn
perance question practically in de-
handing total abstinence Of all re-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
A Noted Nurse.


There died recently in Paris Nine
Coralie Cahen, according to the Jewish
Messenger, one of the most noted nurs-
es of the Franco-German war. One
story of her work on the field is well
worth repeating. The greater part of
her nursing was done in Vendome,
where, aided by two nurses and seven
Christian sisters of mercy, she received
thousands of French and German SOL
diers. When the Prussians occupied
Vendome they wished to hold the hos
pital and plant on it the German flag.
But, warned of the enemy's intentions,
Nine. Cahe1, early one January morn
ing, visited the Prussian general, who,
surrounded by his staff, was about to
seize the building. Sir she ex-
claimed, I'VE have received your
wounded and nursed them as though
they were our own; we will continue to
do so, but we will remain in a French
ambulance; we will not have it con-
verified into German ambulance"
Madame was the reply, 1--WE are mas
ters." In the town it may be; here
no!' was the answer. I'VE are pro-
tected by the Red Cross and the French
flag; you have no right to touch either
the one or the other She conquered.
and from that day the utmost admira-
ton was openly evinced for her by the
Germans. When, after the signature
of peace, the German medical staff
were about to quit Vendome, the sur
geon-in-ch1ef asked leave to take
public farewell of the French woman.
Accompanied by the military doctors
placed under his orders, he said:
Madame, we cannot leave France
without thanking you, not alone in the
name of the German nation, but in the
name of humanity. We can never for
get that you compelled us to yield in
the face both of your patriotism and Of
your benevolence"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
The Tea Saloon in New York.

The United States Church Army ON
June 8 began its crusade to convert to
tea drinking the liquor dealers of New
York. A tea saloon was opened in
a building formerly occurred as a ''red
light" dive, and later equipped as
Raines law hotel, and within three
hundred persons.
The prices charged are as follows:
Large cup of clear tea, hot or cold, one
cent; cup Of tea with cream and sugar,
two cents; Russian tea, two cents; tea
with sandwich, pie or cake, five cents.
"A pint GROWER" for families may be
had for eight cents, the price of pint
of beer, but to all "growler" patrons
who will give up beer for tea the
Church Army offers to add 81 to the
first days payment Of twenty-four
cents, and open bank account for
them at any bank they may name, at
the end Of year returning to them the
entire amount deposited, namely, the
nice little sum of $88 with interest. To
this the Church Army will add $1.4O,
making a total of 500 to draw and use
at will
The tea saloon building has been at
tractively furnished and is leased for
three years. Others of the same char
acter are expected to be opened in the
Bowery, in Fourteenth street, and at
some point in the Wall street district.
Col. Henry H. Hadley, director Of
Church Army, having experimental
with coffee bars most successfully for
two years, feels certain that the tea
saloon will succeed not only because
heart and soul, from the highest stand
point, are consecrated to the work, but
because it is thoroughly practical His
argument is that Tea builds up; alco-
hol burns up; tea quenches thirst
beer starts a thirst
The Army imports its own tea and
uses only the best kind. 1t also teaches
the art of tea making, of which Amer
leans stand greatly in need.
Among prominent persons interested
in this new rhilanthropic departure are
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Edwin M. Knox,
Rev. E. Walpole Warren, Rev. VIM. NJ.
Hughes, and DR.. Geo. F. Shrady. DR..
Shrady, at the request of Col. Hadley,
for his opinion of the Tea movement,
replied as follows:
1T will doubtless tend to lessen the
evils of intemperance by substituting
an innocent and harmless stimulating
beverage for the different forms of al
coholic liquors now so commonly used.
Even when taken between
meals and when the stomach is empty
it is the least harmful of all stimulat-
ing beverages. The exact contrary is
the case with spirituous liquors, which
always have direct and hurtful effect
upon the stomach, especially when the
latter is empty. Every possible bad
effect from moderate and habitual tea
drinking can be obviated by making
the infusion properly
With such odds as these against
them, the saloonkeepers are naturally
taking alarm, and some of them are
talking of adding tea departments to
their business, offering the beverage on
the same terms as those of the temper
ance saloon For the church as such
to begin aggressive work against the
drink traffic by furnishing a substitute
for the liquor saloon is one of the signs
of the times which makes King Alcohol
tremble on his throne.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
The Sick Mans Burden.

Mr.. Leland, the proprietor of the
Hotel Grenoble, New York, where Mr..
Kipling lay during his illness, has had
the originals of the physicians bul1e-
tins bound into an elaborate album
bearing the title 1.-THE Sick Mans Bur-
den" He presented the volume to MI.
KipHng On the day that he sailed for
England with his family.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30

The Bridegroom: "By jove, old man,
of how little consequence 1 really am,
I don't suppose there is any more in
significant thing on earth than myself
at the present moment" His Friend:
''Wait till you've been married four or
five years."-BroOklyn Life
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
YOUNG GIRL HANGED IN LON
DON.

The English papers are still finding
fault with the government for permit
ting the execution of Mary Ann An
sell, the 1S-year-old girl who was
hanged the other day in London for
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
TEMPERANCE TOPICS.
NOTES OF INTEREST TO THE
ANTI-LIOUOR LEADERS.

Temperance - Opposition of Business
Men to Drinking Employes-The Tea
Saloon of New York City-Prohibi-
tionists of Tennessee Arc Active.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
CAMPFIRE SKETCHES.
GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR
THE VETERANS.

The Old Soldiers Story-The Confeder-
ate Lieutenant Pulled the Trigger That
Ended His Own Life-A Noted Nurse
How She Conquered the Germans.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30

least, for he knocked my gun around
pretty much as he pleased. Indeed, he
had such success that he was wearing
me out fast, and 1 felt that if some
thing didn't happen for my side very
soon there would be one more bluecoat
grave to dig on the morrow. He saw
his advantage, too, and with yell he
came at me again, swinging that big
sabre of his so high and strong that it
seemed to me to be the sword Of Mi
chael or of some other of those picture
people 1 remembered to have seen in
my books, and 1 made up my mind to
give him one more poke with my bay
onet for luck and let him have my
scalp if he wanted it. But he would
not give me a chance to do even this
much. He banged that COMPOUNDED
sword around my head until I could
only hold my gun up and try to save
my face so that my friends would
have something to identify me by after
the battle was over. He rained his
blows so thick that I weakened fast
and just as I began to sink from ex-
haustion he reached around with ter
rifle blow to settle me once for all.
had sunk down half to my knees with
the muSket fallen forward, and as ne
let the sword fall it struck the ham
mer Of the gun instead of the barrel
and with a crack that I could distin-
guish in all the row and the rumpus,
my old musket went off with concus-
sion that threw it clear out of my
hands and sent the entire charge
square into tie face of my foe. Even
under the exciting circumstances 1
realized that something out of the or
binary had happened, though 1 could
not tell what it was, and I cast my eyes
up as I stumbled forward. The face
of the lieutenant was not there. 1t
had been blown off by the discharge
of the gun, so close in the fight we
were, ard we went down together, both
covered with blood his blood. But
only one of us got up again."
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30

Military Incompetence Of the Chinese.
Some of the stories of Chinese ig-
norance and incompetency in military
affairs narrated by Lord Charles Be-
resford are amusing and yet pathetic
in way. The viceroy asked their dis
tinguished British rector to inspect
certain forts and give a candid opin-
ion on them. ''In one of these forts
there was a heavy battery of sixty-ton
muzzle-loading guns, which were load
ed by depressing the muzZle into the
magazine. 1 ventured to point out to
the general the danger Of this proceed
ing, and the likelihood, through care
less sponging, of the magazine being
blown up. The general congratulated
me on my acumen, and Immediately
showed me where magazine had ex-
ploded the year before from the same
cause, and had been rebuilt for prob
able repetition of this accident, which
cost no less than forty-two lives. At
another fort 1 asked to see the pow
shown some powder of Chinese manu-
facture. ! suggested that such powder
was not suitable and might burst the
gun. The general in command replied:
Yes, it does; we have lately blown the
breech off two twelve-inch ffty-ton
Krupp guns, and killed and wounded
thirty men, Before this conversation
1 had observed in fort, some distance
off, two twelve-inch Krupp guns fitted
with Armstrong breech mechanism,
and on inquiring the reason had been
informed that the breech had been
blown off, owing to the use of Chinese
powder at exercise" 1t seems incred
ible, but Lord Charles found some of
the soldiers still practiced in shooting
with bows and arrows at a target.
When at Pekin, he saw them practic
ing in an open space near the observa-
tory. Hitting the target is a detail of
minor Importance; the real merit con-
sists in the position or attitude of the
bowman when discharging his shaft.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-10-22
Profits of David Harum."

Had it not been for the receipts from
his posthumous book, David Harum, u
the estate of David Noyes Westcott
would not have covered his debts. AS
it is, the royalties from the sale of the
book promise to provide comfortably
for his three children. Margaret West
colt Macy, sister of the author and
eXecutrix of his estate, has made her
accounting before Surrogate Glass at
Syracuse, N. Y. 1t was shown that
$11, 1920 had been received from
Messrs. Appleton, the publishers of
David Harum," up to July OF the
current year. From the Lipplncotts
S157.50 was received for THE Teller
most humorous short story These
comprise the total of Mr. Westcott's
literary efforts.
AS David Harum" is still a leading
seller, large additional royalties are
expected, and great hopes are also en-
tertained from the dramatizatlon of
the book, now in progress. Mrs. MAJ
zey expended in her official capacity In
the settlement of Mr.. Westcott's es-
tate somewhat more than $1,000
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-10-22
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You hear them clear through the
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You feel them clear through the
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They grumble when over-taxed.
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Backyche is the first grumbling
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The experience of Marietta people
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