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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
FATE OF OLD OVERCOATS.
Where Do Those of the Vintage of
Last Winter Turn Up When the
Cold Snap Comes Again?

Where do all the old overcoats go?
Every winter. there are cast aside tons
of them. many almost new. What be-
comes of them?
The old overcoat seems gradually to
fade away. 1t passes through several
steps before it reaches it's fms, and
each is in a descending scale. Perhaps
it finally ends in a rag shop or an ash
barrel.
The overcoat perhaps costs when
new something like $45. 1t was worn
by Mr.. Banker, and was the best of its
kind. 1t kept MIN warm and sheltered
him we'll till it began to wear around
the seams, and to be a bit seedy at
the edges. Then he wore it on very bad
days only, and on dark, disagreeable
nights-a new one had taken its place
as best, and it was in second class.
The next summer, he wasn't so care
full in putting it away, and the moths
got into it. When he takes it out in
the fall, there are holes here and there
in it. and it looks too bad even for
general bad days. So he gives 1T to the
janitor at the bank.
Mrs. Janitor is a good sewer. She
patches up the coat, and MI Jan1tor
wears it perhaps two winters. well.
Then, someone else gives him another
coat, and the first tramp that will help
the janitor shovel coal, the next fall.
gets the ancient overcoat. And after
that, its career takes it all over the
country, through patches and rents and
darns and finally it is SO mended that
there isn't anything left of itself. ex-
cept additions. And then it reaches
the trash heap and finally the rag shop.
And when the banker writes let
ter on his fine linen stationery per-
haps that very old overcoat is what he
does it on.-Kansas City Journal.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
CHAMINADE, THE COMPOSER.

Cecile Chaminade is probably the
most widely known of women compos-
ers. She lives near Paris, in which
city she was born August s. 1861. Her
early musical education was directed
by several fine European masters and
made of her a piano virtuoso. Her
large compositions include ballet music
and lyric symphony, but she is best
known for her many songs. The most
marked characteristic of her compost
lions is her independence of the
canons of her art. This is likely at
first to make the student credit her
with positive genius, an impression
that rarely holds long. She engages
yearly in concert tours of Europe and
several times has talked of coming to
this country.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
AN IDEAL ASSOCIATION.

Inasmuch as club-women are so uni
versally engaged in improving their
villages, the plan of the Laurel Hill
association should be very suggestive.
Its objects, faithfully carried out for
half a century, are Ito improve and Or
nament the streets and public grounds
of Stockbridge by planting and cult
waiting trees, cleaning and repairing
sidewalks, and doing such other acts
as shall tend to improve and beau
tify the village" The membership
may include any person over fourteen
years of age who has planted or pro-
tected a tree under the direction of
the executive committee, or has paid
the association one dollar or has rem
dered its equivalent in labor. Any
person under fourteen who has paid
twenty-five cents or performed work
equal to that amount is also eligible.
So the organization is sort of family
affair in which every person in the vii
lage takes pride. That the fine repu-
tation of this association has gone
forth is atteSted by the numerous let
tiers of inquiry which constantly come
to it from would-be village 'improv-
ers" in every state in the union.-Ber-
tina Damaris Knobe in the December
Womap's Home Companion.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
RISE OF AN INDUSTRIAL EMPIRE
ON PUGET SOUND.

British Columbia possesses enormous
potential resources in her iron de-
posits, but that these resources must
wait for commercial development up
on the development of these industries
which stimulate a demand for iron.
Sooner or later the political reasons
which led to the construction of Uni
ted States battleships on the Pacific
coast, for which. as we have seen,
British Columbia iron was partially
utilized. will give place to commercial
reasons conencted w,.n the develop
ment of trade on the Pacific necessi-
tating the building of a large mercan-
tile marine. Sooner OF later manufac-
turing industries with their constant
demand for the iron which is their
base will be brought into being to sup
ply the ever-increasing market of the
orient. When these things happen,
British Columbia with it's abundant
coal and lumber In direct connection
with its iron must become the seat of
a great iron industry.-H. Mortimer
Lamb, in the Engineering Magazine
for December.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
THE VOTING MACHINE.

An Indianian who wishes his name
withheld for the present for prudential
reasons has perfected a voting ma
plant all other machines now in use.
He has applied for patent, and the
inventor is now at work on a machine
in it's most perfect form. There have
been two objections to the voting ma
chine. One is because they cost so
much, and the other is because they
are so cumbersome. The Lafayette
man is trying to overcome both of
these objections. He can do away
with the financial obstacle by making
a machine that will sell for 500. He
has overcome the objection to the size
of the machine by making one that
is compact and convenient. The
front of this machine is not more than
24X1S inches and is light enough to
be handled without a derrick. 1t is
said to embrace a number of features
that are not possessed by other md
chimes, and to have some advantages
over the best machine now on the mar
ket. The contrivance is arranged
SO that the voter can cast either a
is done by pressing the button. At
ter the button has been pressed once
it is automatically locked. so that it
is impossible to vote more than once
for the same candidate. If the inven-
tor has done everything now that he
claims, he has one of the biggest
things in his possession that was ever
made.-Las Vegas Optic.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
ON THE ROAD TO THE POLE.
Dr. Frederick A. Cooks Account Of
Cold Comfort in the Land of Per-
petual Ice

In the Christmas number of the Sat
urday Evening Post DIR. Frederick A.
Cook relates his experiences with the
cold in the regions Of the Antartic,
and in his article he says:
when we start out from our COM
Portable rooms at headquarters we
emerge from an agreeable temperature
of seventy degrees into an icy air of
minus forty. which makes a difference
of one hundred and ten degrees of cold
within ten seconds. This causes the
breath to come in jets of steam, and
soon the whlskers, the eyebrows and
every fragment of hair and fur about
crystals of boar frost; beautiful little
things. but they do not seem pretty at
all to the possessor, for he is constant
ly, in brushing them of, pulling out
punches of hair and blowing out warm
phrases. One never learns the real
trouble of the life of the frigid zones
until he has his face bejeweled with
icicIes.
"A somewhat similar mixture of
amusement and regret is the result
Of grasping metal implements with the
ungloved hands in low temperatures.
If there is a little excitement, such as
the chasing of a polar bear, or being
chased by one. a man is apt to forget
his mittens and picks up his rifle with
the bare hand. For a few seconds
there is no discomfort, but when the
rife is laid down the hand sticks to
it. and before the hunter separates
himself from the grip on the metal
parts he leaves a part of his skin be-
hind, frozen to the gun. This, how
ever. is one of many little accidents
which man quickly feels and slowly
forgets"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
BENEFICENT LAWS.

The approaching session of the state
legislature naturally creates a great
amount OF interest, not alone among
the people of Texas, but among in
Vestors and possible settlers outside
of the state. 1t is undeniably a fact
that the reputation Of Texas as to it's
laws, is not as good as it should be
Whether this be based upon an actual
or an imaginary condition, is not SO
much to the point as is the necessity
for the wiping away of musty cobwebs.
The lawmakers of the state, like a
new broom, should sweep the political
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
DID e. GOFORTH?
Yes. He Went Forth After He Had
Gently Ducked Charles Austin's Lit
tie Blow.

While the soldiers in the Salvation
Army barracks at IL East Missouri
avenue were preaching for the wicked
to fee from the wrath to come one of
the regular attendants at the service
saw his ancient enemy, one E. Goforth,
come into the barracks. Wrath arose
in him. and he sidled over to Goforth
and said, See me. Charles Austin.
and 1 am going to do you up" Co
forth lightly ducked the jolt that Aus
tin threw at him and it struck Mrs.
Mary Sager on the back of the head
She went down and out In the mean
time Goforth went forth. and a police
man took Austin in charge. He was
fined $25 in police court yesterday
Kansas City Journal.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
Heard In
Hotel LObbieS...

H. S. Osburn, representing Sparks
Bros, horse and mule dealers of Kan
sas City, has been in Ell Paso for sew
eral days buying burros for the Uni
ted States government. He finished his
work here yesterday and shipped thir-
Indian Territory last night. This is
an experiment with the government"
said Mr.. Osburn, but l think the gov
eminent will remain in the market
to some extent permanently. This
Shipment of burros go to the Indian
agencies in the territory to be used
as pack animals from the railroad sta
tons to the agencies. They are a
tough little animal and can stand any
kind of weather and travel over any
mules and answer the same purpose.
My company had a contract to supply
the first lot of them and II they prove
a success I will be back in this sec
ton to buy more this winter" Mr.. Os-
burn also sent out six packers with
his burros who have been employed by
the government in the territory. The
animals were bought here for an aver
age price of 81 and the cost of shipping
them to the territory was IS each.
They are the cheapest animal to be
found for packing purposes and may
yet be used extensively by the govern
ment.
The money panic now on in Mex
leo is a most peculiar one" said B. J.
Kuhn of the Mexican Central yester-
day. "One cannot know the exact con-
ditions without going into the country
and hearing the merchants talk of it.
Money, that is silver, is more scarce
than it has been for twenty years and
many people are becoming alarmed. l
was in Durango, Torreon. Zacatecas
and Aguascalientes last week and in
each of those cities I heard merchants
complaining about dull trade. All the
people are at work but they are paid
off in paper or gold, which to them is
no more than collateral and not con-
more money than they know what to
do with but it is useless in ordinary
trade and a panic is staring them in
the face. The expectation of silver dol
lars to the orient will have to stop
for at this rate all the silver in the
country will be taken out within a
year. There is much talk in money
circles about placing the export duty
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
HOLIDAY EXCURSION RATES.

Via The Santa Fe Route
On account of the holidays the
Santa Fe Route" will sell round trip
tickets to all points On their line in
New Mexico at one fare for the round
trip, selling dates Dec. oath, 25th., 81.
and January LIST, final return limit
January End, tickets on sale at City
and Depot offices.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
HE MIGHT NBHD ALL OF THAT.

Uncle Sam is about the only man in
the world who can go Christmas shop
ping without fear. His income is about
two million dollars a day.-Saturday
Evening Post
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21

$500 to loan at per cent. for five
years on improved business property.
B. F. Hammett & Sons,
Mills Building.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
Buttermilk. Telephone No. 1856.

Go to Hotel Don Bernardo, leading
hotel of Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Drummers' headquarters, 81 and 81. 50.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21

Phone to Kaseman for the pest
coal.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21

on money again which 1 think will be
done at the next session of congress-"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21

Hotel Pierson, American plan $2.OG
TO $500 per day. All outside rooms.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21

CEMENT SIDEWALK.
II you want a desirable walk. w. 8.
Hoffman, p. o. Box 1856.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21
CHANGE IN MEXICAN CENTRAL
LEAVING TIME.

Central will leave Ell Paso at $40 a.
m, Juarez at 10: 40 a. M, local time.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-21

DR.. ]. H. Parsons, Dentist, room IL
Plaza Block.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05
"Her TONch.0

A sailor who met with a serious acci-
dent was carried to the London hospi-
tai. The poor mother hurried to the
building to see her son. She was met
by a kind but firm refusal from the
house physician, but nothing daunted
she pleaded for admission to the poor
fellows bedside. Who could resist a
mothers entreaties? The safety of the
patient lay in his being kept absolutely
quiet, but the physician consented to
her admission on condition that she did
not speak q word. She stole softly to
his bedside and gazed as only mother
can at her unconscious boy. She dare
not speak, but a mothers love was not
to be denied all expression, and gently
laying her hand on his fevered brow
she let it rest there a moment and then
noiselessly crept from the room.
The watchful nurse heard the coma
tose sleeper murmur the words, "Her
touch" and, rousing himself, he added,
"Surely my mother has been here.
know her touch!'
All, there was an electric thrill of
sympathy in that touch which told it's
own tale to the dying Weekly
Bouquet.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05

A French physician lately had an op-
portunity to observe a pointe de Paris
which had been lying for several days
In the stomach of child and found
that the gastric juice had acted upon
the smallest particles Of the article,
bunting the blade and point and CIV
ing the medal brown color. In this
manner might be explained the process
used in Italy to produce old coins and
medals. Large birds are made to swal-
low roughly stamped coins with the
image of Tiberius or Caligula. After
awhile the animals give off again the
coins, upon which meanwhile an ap-
preciable layer of patinG has formed.
This result is apparently due to the ac-
tion of the gastric Juices.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05
The Jefferson Bible.

'"The Jefferson Bible in the Smith
sonian institution" says the Washing
ton correspondent of the Chicago Rec
ord, "has never been printed. The
manuscript remains as it left Jeffer-
sons hands, and, although several per-
sons have proposed from time to time
to print it, no one has ever done so.
The Bible consists only Of the teach
ings Of Christ, extracts from the gos-
pei arranged in chronological order
from his birth to his ascension. and
nothing else. All controversial pas
sages are left out"
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05
Hot Spell in San Francisco.

San Francisco, Sept. 22-Last night
San Francisco suffered from the great
est heat on record. The mercury
showed 79 deg, and at o'clock in the
morning this had increased to 81 deg,
with a hot north wind which added to
the discomfort. This was the climax
of three days of extreme eat. Yester-
day the mercury registered 80 deg. in
the shade and today it reached 80, but
tonight breeze is springing up. This
heat means much suffering in San
Francisco, where the ordinary summer
temperature is seldom above 80 deg.
The signal office predicts that the
interior valleys of California will roast
tomorrow with the mercury above the
100 mark.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05

then, being led in patches of few
hundred to the river bank, was ordered
to cross over to the Chinese side. No
boats were provided and the river is a
mile wide.
The Chinese were flung alive into the
stream and were stabbed or shot at
the least resistance, while Russian vol
unteers, who lined the bank, clubbed
or shot any who attempted to land.
Not one escaped alive. ,rhe river bank
for miles was strewn with corpses.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED

BY local applications, as they cannot. reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu-
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous Innings of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in1amed
ing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is
the result, and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever:
nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an infamed condition of
the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case OF Deafness [cause by catarrhl that cannot
be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for cir
culars, free.
F. ]. CHENEY g. CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggist, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05
Massacre of Chinese.

London.-Authentic accounts have
been received here, says the Moscow
correspondent of the Standard, of a
horrible massacre at Blogovestichensk,
which was undoubtedly carried out un-
der direct orders from the Russian au-
thorities, and which then let loose the
tide of slaughter through Amur.
The entire Chinese population of
5000 souls was escorted out of a town
to spot five miles up the Amur, and
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05
Do Your Feet Ache and Burnq

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot-Ease,
powder for the feet. 1t makes tight or
new shoes feel easy gives instant relief to
corns and bunions. It's the greatest COM
fort discovery of the age. Cures swollen
feet blisters and callous spots. Aliens
Foot-Ease is certain cure for ingiowing
We have over $4,000 testimonials. 1t cures
while you walk. ALI druggists and shoe
stores sell it 25c. Trial package FREE
by mail. Address, Allen 8. Olmsteaa, LIE
Roy, N.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05

"Blinkins is going to adopt a coat
of-arms, and wants me to suggest a
suitable motto for him. Do you think
of anything appropriated"
"How did he make his money!"
Selling some kind of mineral
water
"How would 'Veni, vidi, vichy,' dor
Tribune.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05
Two Canals Binding Atlantic.

1t is asserted that the future will see
two canals binding the Atlantic to the
Pacific ocean. The value Of such con-
nection can not be estimated. 1t will
bring prosperity to the nation, as
surely as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
brings health to the dyspeptic. Try it
for Indigestion, constipation, dyspepsia
or biliousneSS.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05

Rev. B. Fay Mills of Oakland has
caused a great deal of discussion by
sermon in which he defended Sunday
golf as a harmless recreation, of great
physical benefit
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05

Here's a letter from Cousin John,
who's been visitin' us all summer
He's probably tellin' us that they've
moved into fiat an can't entertain
us this winter. indianapolis Press.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05

I am sure that Piso's Cure for Con-
sumption saved my life three years
ago.-Mrs. Thomas Robbins, Maple
street., Norwich, N. Y, Feb. IL, 1900.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05
what a knight of the Garter wears.

What knight of the Garter Wears.
A Knight of the Garter dressed in
the regalia is an imposing sight. He
wears a blue velvet mantle with star
embroidered on the left breast. His
trunk hose, stockings and shoes are
white, his hood and surcoat crimson.
The garter. of dark blue velvet edged
with gold and bearing the motto, "Honi
soft qui NAL Y pense" c'Shame to him
who thinks i'll of it'), also in gold, is
buckled about the left leg below the
knee. The heavy golden collar consists
of 26 pieces, each in the form of gar
ter. bearing the motto, and from 1T
hangs the George" a badge which
represents st. George on horseback en-
countering the dragon. The "lesser
George" is smaller badge attached to
a blue ribbon worn over the left shoul-
der The star of the order consists Of
eight points, within which is the cross
of st. George encircled by the garter.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05
DAYS AND DAYS

"Seen better days, of course?" sar-
'castically asked the lady.
ooh, yes," said Dismal Dawson,
cheerfully, "but I've seed also wuss
ones. Sometimes 1 hit a house on
wash day"-Indianapolis Press.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05

In the case of the epileptic child of
Fruitvale, Alameda county, whose
father contended that the trustees had
not the power to exclude it from
school, as they did, the deputy ditrict
attorney has rendered the opinion that
the trustees are within their rights in
their action.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05

Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's 8
Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use
for their children during the teething
period.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05

KEEPING HOME SACRED.
"Did you ever live in haunted
house?"
mo, sir. I have always made it a
practice to have the bill collectors call
on me at my office"
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05
Sweet RreathILoye

An offensive breath is an insult to your friends
when it can be quickly, permanently remedied
by Cascarets Candy Cathartic. Druggists l0c
25c SOC.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05

The formula plainly printed every b0le-hence YOU
now Just you taking when you take Groves lmitatorsl
10 not advertise formula knowing that you would not buy
their you knew what contained Groves contains
Iron Quinnc put up proportions and IN ase
orm The Iron acts while the Quinine drives the
malaria out of system Any reliable druggist will tell you that
Groves the Original and that all other o-caled laStee
Chill Tones are OF other chill tones shows
that Groves superior all others in every respect You
are not experimenting when you take Grove-s superiority
and excellence having long been established groves u
1 Chill; Cure sold throughout the entire maarial sections OF
the United States No Cure, No Pay Price, SOC.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05

Fresno has collected $7O7 for the Gal
weston sufferers.
Mesa free press., 1900-10-05
ScrOfu/a

Is an ancient foe Of the race 1t at
tacks the child in the cradle, and, un-
less expelled from the blood follows
him to the grave. Hood Sarsaparilla
completely cures this disease by erad-
icating it's poisonous taints from the
blood. Thousands of grateful parents
write that their children who were tor
tured and disfgured by scrofula have
been entirely cured by this medicine.
H00Hs SaS.sapassiIka
Never Disappoints. It is the Best Medi-
cine Money can buy. All Druggists. ST..
Hood s Pills cure sick heapache. Indigestion 25c