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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-08
POTTER PALMER ARRESTED FOR
KEEPING OPEN ON SUNDAY a
COMMON TIPPLING HOUSE.

CHICAGO. Jan. S-Upon complaint
of reformer Frank Hall. a warrant for
the arrest of Potter Palmer has been
issued by Justice J. c. Everett. The
complaint alleges that on Sunday. jan
uary 6. Palmer kept open common
uppling house where drinks were sold
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-08
SENATOR kNUTE NELSON TO sue
CEED HIMSELF AS SENATOR
FORM MINNESOTA.

ST PAUL. Jan. S.-Senator Knute
Nelson has been unanimously nomi-
mated to succeed himself
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-08

w II. Seamon. the mining engineer.
is in the Sierra Madre country on busi-
ness connected with his profession
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-08

Mrs. Carruthers of Tennessee is Wis
iting her daughter, Mrs. C. c. Wimber-
ly
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-08
HIGH SCHOOL !PLAN
Is Attractive, But Il Is oubt-
fu| If Enough Money Can
Be Had 10 Build 1t
At This Time

The school board at its regular ses-
sion selected plans for the new high
school building and for substantial
additions to the Mexican and colored
schools.
Members of the board were not fully
decided whether to enlarge the Frank
lin or Mesa school, or both, or to build
a school house in the fourth ward at
cost of $4,000. By suggestion of
President Morehead the question was
left open until the taxpayers had beel
given a chance to express their views
on the subject.
No matter which way the cat jumps
it was figured out that there would
likely be a deficit and that the board
would in all probability have to bor-
row money to carry out all its plans
The $75, 600 bond issue will be insnf-
ficient to meet the requirements of
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-08

The site for the high school cost
$4,000 and the proposed site for fourth
ward school will cost $4,000. Part OF
this amount represents the premium
that will result from the bond sale.
But there will still be from $4,000 to
$40 900 deficit if all these plans are,
carried out. <,
t The Proceedings.
All members except Mr.. Shelton
| were present when President c. R.
Morehead called the school board to
| order last night. Architect Kneezell
| and Superintendent Putnam were also
on hand.
Secretary Pew read the minutes of
the previous regular meeting and also
those of the call meeting held Decem-
Der s. They were approved.
Superintendent Putnam submitted
his monthly report.
He said young lady had applied
for special work in the public schools
as pupil and he wanted to know
whether or not to admit her.
After some discussion he was told
to admit her.
|. He also asked about admitting sew
eral half day pupils and was told that
it would be good policy to admit them
provided their parents wanted them to
| attend only half of each day.
The question of holidays for the
Carnival was the next question
brought up by the superintendent 1t
was conceded that the pupils would
do but little good in their class rooms
! during the Carnival. so on motion of
Mr. Martin the superintendent was
authorized to turn the children loose
and give them a vacation until the
following Monday
Prof. Putnam said he had collected
$4s during the month of December
He brought up a bill from Emerson
& Berrien for labor. which had been
passed over from time to time Much
discussion resulted, some of the trus-
tees thinking that the bill of S39 for II
days work was too heavy. 1t was fin
ally allowed.
The superintendent said he did not
| think the Mesa school janitor was get
ting enough pay in accordance with
| the work he was doing. The janitor's
salary was raised to $3.50 from jan
| uary 1.
The secretary read a communication
from members of the Wcman's club
| asking on bhalf of the club that the
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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-08

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-06

ways of the n. gives. Therefore it Is planned
to edu-ote h1~ I'd take him into the secret
service Ti- lama does not know the pur-
pose of the education. but approves or II IN
a general way, ind insists on paying his
share of the expense. The boy develops an
amazing readiness at his books. but takes
on the habits Of civilization with reluctance,
and when he leaves school at the age Of
fifteen or sixteen returns TO native garb and
habits and to the companionship Of the
lama with much joy.
\ writer in the London Academy hopes
that the novel os the future will relegate
the element Of sex love to a subsidiary
place. He need not wait for the novel of
the future. In this story this element does
not appear even in q subsidiary way.
Women appear in the pages from time TO
time. and their characters are deftly por-
trayed, but there is no love story in the or
binary sense. Instead is the beautiful af-
lection between Kim and his lama, and it
fills the place so we'll that the lack OF the
sex element is not realized until the book is
considered later.
But it is not in the mere history OF a waif
and a holy man that the chief interest OF
the book lies. 1t is the remarkable por-
trayal it gives of the manners, the Gus
toms. the complex life of a people so unlike
our own. The very atmosphere of India is
breathed by the reader of this book. An
insight is afforded into the ways of the Sc
cret service-the manner in which British
authorities keep themselves Informed as TO
what is being done by the untrustworthy
Oriental subjects of the Emperor of In
dia." Such a work could have been writ
ten only by one who knew the ground and
the people. 1t is the uthor's most sus-
tanned effort, and is undoubtedly his great
est and most important work. People who
talk lightly OF Kipling's deterioration in a
literary way must revise their opinion after
reading this book. To read kim" is to
understand India better than is possible
after reading a dozen histories and books
of travel. 1t is a work OF art, and is real
literature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-06
WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION.

When the tie between a man and a wom-
an has lost all else let il at least keep
dignity.-The Anvil.
1t is not what one ought to want, but
what one does want that molds ones life
Strength OF the Hills.
l like Nature brushed and scrubbed and
dressed up and taught to know her place.
Nature is mans enemy: She must be tanned.
The Mantle Of Elijah.
The high c Of emotion cannot be indeh-
nitely maintained. Grief and joy at the
climax last but a moment. The apex is
always a point.-The Strength OF the Hills.
Have you ever noticed that as soon as
a man admits this superstitious notion
Cthat iil-luck is II mpendingl something turns
up to corroborate it?-The Making OF a
Country Home.
The world owes all that il has and is TO
the restless, dissatisfied, disconnected man
who makes himself and others miserable,
but whose a~ttrition finally deserts the COM
monplace.-Ihe Supreme Surrender.
Men DON'T write books for amusement's
sake; 1t is their work and they have TO take
IL seriously. and carve and polish, and pol
ish and carve. Nobody dashes off things,
at least things that you can read twice;
it's all work and hard work, oo.-Phllbrlck
Howell.
Happiness, like everything else in this
world. is relative. and it can only be
weighed in the sun of experience, WITH
suffering at the other end OF the scale. l.
is only when men walk on stones that they
realize the necessity OF good Toads.-The
Supreme Surrender.
1t is only through great grief that we
come to know ourselves. We can easily
dispense with our joys; but no one would
foregc any great sorrow they have been
through. l believe we would endure II all
over again rather than that we should DC
as we were b~efOre.-Sister Teresa.
The races who shoe their feet with iron
and the skins of dead animals, who pack
boards and concrete between themselves
and the clay OF their own ~fashioning, do moi
understand, except when they go camping
how earth, that gives us all the levers
can also take them away.-kim.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-06

The local postofiice authorities at Chi
cago deserve credit for exercising 4 dis
cretionary power for the public welfare,
even though there was no express legal
warrant for the act. They have excluded
an anarchistic paper from the mails. I'M
mediateiy after her release by the Chicago
authorities for lack OF evidence to hold her
Emma Goldman wrote an article for an
anarchistic paper published in that city, in
which she lauded Czolgocz, expressed adj
miration for him and said; II cannot help
but bow in sympathy before the power of
such a soul" While the article did not in
plain terms indorse the assassination Of
President Mckinley, it did indirectly, and
the whole tone was so defiant and inflam-
matory that the postmaster, in the absence
of any law on the subject or any instruc-
tions from Washington, took it upon him
self TO exclude the paper from the mails.
His action may serve to emphasize the
need of national legislation on the subject,
for if the publisher of the paper should ap-
peal 10 the postmaster general the latter
may feel obliged to hold that. in the abb
SCilCe OF any law On the SUBJECT liz pOSldl
authorities have not the right to exclude
anarchistic papers from the mails. Per
haps it would not be safe to give all post
masters discretionary power to exclude
printed matter from the mails. but in this
particular case the public will commend
the action of the Chicago postmaster. 1t is
by no means certain that the postmaster
general could not. without any legislation
on the subject, issue an order barring all
anarchistic papers from the mails. but it is
undoubtedly competent for Congress to do
so. The postal laws and regulations ex-
clude from the mails p~oisons. obscene, lewd
or lascivious books. lottery circulars, etc,
and anarchistic papers are as bad as any
of them. The national and state govern
mehts should do everything possible to
place Anarchists on the footing of GRIM
inals and public enemies and bring them
under the ban OF the law at every turn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-06

The st. Louis Republic. commenting on
the fact that a daughter OF the eminent
engineer, James b. Eads. has decided TO
erect a neutrality-suspicious. memorial
TO her father in that city, says: 1T is par
t~icularly fitting that a memorial of this
character should be established in st. Louis,
for it was here, and at the mouth Of the
great river that flows in front Of the city,
that the famous engineers most notable
work was done" Not many persons, per-
haps, are aware that Mr.. lads was q ma
tive Hoosier. He was born at Lawrence
burg in 1920. and went to ST. Louis with his
fathers family in 1899. The bridge at st.
Louis and the jetties at the mouth Of the
Mississippi are usually rated as his great
est achievements. but a greater one IN
some respects was his construction, at the
beginning Of the civil war, OF eight iron
clad steamers. fully equipped. within one
hundred days. He die this under an order
direct from President Lincoln, who sum-
moned him to Washington to confer on the
subject. 1t was to the operations of these
light-draft ironclsd steamer and others
subsequently built by Mr.. Eads that Presi-
dent Lincoln referred in a letter addressed
TO a convention held at Springfield, H.,
Aug. q, 1865. Although not an official docu-
ment. it was dated from the executive
mansion and discussed the existing situa-
ton quite freely. 1t was in this letter that
Mr.. Lincoln used the expression: "The
father OF waters again goes unvexed TO
the sea. thanks TO the great Northwest for
it; nor yet wholly to them, for three hun
dred miles up they met New England, En-
pire. keystone and Jersey hewing their
way right and left" Referring to the op-
e~rations OF the river ironclads and gun
boats. he wrote:
Nor must Uncle Sans webbed feet be for
gotten. At all the traitors margins they
lave been present, not only on the deep sea,
the broad bay and the rapid river, but also
up the narrow, muddy bayou. and wherever
the ground was q little damp, they have
been and made their tracks.
The quotation is characteristic of Mr..
Lincoln, and is IN a familiar style that
could not have been used in an official docu-
ment.
Some OF the ironclads constructed by Mr..
Eads were Of great value in the Southwest
ern campaigns Of General Grant, and when
the latter became President he warmly
favored Eads's plan Of deepening the mouth
OF the Mississippi by %jetties. In July. 1875.
after the work had been authorized by
| Congress, President Grant issued an ex-
| ecutive order detailing a United States en-
gineer TO look after the interests of the
government and containing a special para
graph for 1.-The protection of James B.
Eads's interests" Subsequently he alluded
apprOyingly TO the progress of the work
IN two of his annual messages. Mr.. Eads
enjoyed the confidence and friendship of
General Grant and OF Mr.. Lincoln as long
as they lived. Though strictly a self
educated and self-made man. he was one
Of the greatest engineers and inventors
this country has produced.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-06
WASTE OF PITY.

a good deal of unnecessary pity has been
expended by Chicagoans on the four chill
dren found living in a cave under a plank
sidewalk in one of the Chicago suburbs.
They were all Of one family, and when
dragged from their retreat by the police,
said their father and stepmother i'll treated
them and that, therefore, they ran away
from home. The youngsters had equipped
their cave with household utensils, slept on
beds of leaves, cooked their meals in a
primitive way when they could not procure
food already cooked. and were undoubtedly
enjoying what was TO them an ideal life
when discovered and returned to their par
ents. What looked to outsiders as priva-
ton m misery was probably to them the
joyous fulhllment of long-cherished plans
and dreams. Their parents may really
have mistreated them or not, but unkind-
ness is not necessary to fill the minds Of
imaginative children with wild notions of
running away. Country children would
picture themselves as finding refuge in de-
serted cabins in the fields. or in caves in
the woods; boys who had reveled in stories
OF the plains and of Indians would have
the vague but delightful West as their
goal. These children knew nothing of the
woods or of the West, but they had the in
stinct for adventure; they saw the hole
under the sidewalk, and their rich fancy
instantly invested it with all the attrac-
tions of fort or feudal castle-a place all
their W from which they would shut out
all who would interfere with their liberties.
Doubtless when they sailed out to procure
food they proceeded on the theory that they
were foraging on the enemy, and proceeded
In their other undertakings under the Won
derful veil Of imagination that makes the
world Of childhood an enchanted place quite
unlike that seen by the wide open and
weary eyes of their less happy elders. Those
Chicago children are not to be pitied as vic
Tins of a cruel stepmother. but congratu-
lated on having actually achieved what IS
to most of their kind only an unfulflled
dream. From the parents standpoint they
were naughty; from their own they were
merely making a reality of a childish vision
OF happiness.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-06
KIPLING's LATEST NOVEL.

So great has been the number of novels
offered TO the public within the past few
years, and so poor the quality of a large
proportion OF them, that critical readers,
weary with the attempt TO find gems among
them, have fallen into the way of saying
that fiction is no longer literature. They
cannot say this with truth when they con-
slider this seasons output. Plenty of rub
bish is coming from the presses, no doubt.
but what are undoubtedly TO be the sue
cesses OF the year, even from the point of
circulation. are also worthy to rank high
as literature. Gilbert Parker's Right Of
Way is one OF these; Miss Wilkins's "Por-
ton OF Labor is another; Miss Jewett's
Tory Lover is a beautifully finished
piece OF literary work; Mary Johnston 5
Audrey has the same charm of style that
belonged 10 ITO Have and TO Hold" Mrs.
Catherwood's "Lazarre" is a story so well
balanced, so fine in diction, so complete III
every way, that it may well become u
classic. And there is Kipling's Kim
To say that every reader will enjoy this
unusual and remarkable tale is 10 say too
much. 1t has qualities which viii not COM
mend (. 10 the multitude. To read 1t in a
way 10 get the most from it is 10 read it
between the lines as well as with them.
There is q story for those who run, but
there is more for those who linger. Behind
this history of the little waif, "Kimball
O'Hara"-"Kim"-looms the story Of a
great country, a strange people. 1t forms
a background which the devious wander
ings and curious adventures of this preco-
clous lad serve 10 illuminate in a wonderful
way. Kim is the son of a cOlor-sergeant OF
an Irish regiment and OF a half-easte
woman, both parents being dead. lie has
grown TO the age OF ten or eleven years in
| the city Of Lahore, cared for after a fashion
} by a sister Of his mother. but in the main
living by his wits, which are keen, and diff
fering not at all in his habits and manners
from the poorer class or native youngsters
| except in the way he exercises his wits. Ar
aged lama from the far mountains OF
| Thibet, wandering in search OF a vaguely
located sacred river. comes under his OBJ
servation, and by his childlike helplessness
and ignorance of the ways OF a wicked
world attracts the attention OF this acute
and worldly-wise boy. Kim goes TO the ole
mans assistance and is treated In a man
ner so appreciative and %benignant that his
hitherto unclaimed affections are instantly
won and he attaches himself TO the lama a.
his ''chela"-disciple. really his protector
and wanders with him over the land. To.
gether they meet with many adventures
Kim's identity is accidentally discovered
by the colonel of his fathers old regiment
note Is also made of his preternatural
' shrswdness and acquaintance With III,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-06

orally knows it and comes TO the conclu-
sion that official peculation and blackmail
are the rule. rather than the exception.
because they are the rule in New York.
1t may be said that this is a matter which
alone interests the inhabitants OF New
York city. Unfortunately New York is
not a walled city. The influence OF its
system OF corruption extends TO other
cities. Such men as Croker, who is the
head of this system, which lives by giving
discretion to the laws" is a factor in ma
tional politics. Party leaders in other
cities and States pay him court. Know
ing Tammany, as do most people who are
fairly intelligent. it need not be asked what
influence this example has upon American
citizenship. Already the evil practices OF
New York have spread to other cities.
Prominent police officials in Chicago are
now being investigated on specific charges
Of corruption, and the testimony already
presented condemns some of them. There
is widespread contempt of law in Chi
cago. In fact, the virus OF New York is
so contagious that the same disregard of
law by those who are sworn to enforce it
appears in many smaller cities. Wherever
a lawbreaker is favored, when one man is
permitted to break a law because he has
influence with the authorities, and another,
guilty Of the same offense, is punished
because he fails to comply with the de-
mands Of officials, the seeds of contempt
of law are sown. Thousands of young men
who see this sort of injustice come TO re-
gard the law as a system oe favoritism
and lose respect for it. Whenever a can
didate for a judgeship whose functions are
limited 70 violators of the criminal laws
declares that he will be lenient TO poor
men who are brought into his court the
rabble which cheers the sentiment knows
that the ordinary criminal laws can be
violated with impunity. All these dema-
goStc utterances and practices debase citi-
zenship and create contempt of law. Con-
tempt of law eliminates in lawlessness and
anarchy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

William Waldorf Aston has donated 60
900 TO the London Society for the Proven
ton OF Cruelty to Children to initiate a
FUND for new Offices.
This is the first time in the history Of
Kansas that the oldest timers can recall
that a bushel Of potatoes was worth more
than a bushel of peaches or apples.
The United States government is having
a machine constructed in Washington that
will isplace thirty Mathematician in the
coast survey. IL calculates the movements
OF the tide.
A wonderful nugget OF tin has been dis
covered in the mines OF North Dundas.
Tasmania. 1t Is estimated 20 weigh 800
pounds. The assay OF a small piece shows
that the large mass OF ore contains O. per
cent. of metallic tin.
1t is an extraordinary fact that men
buried in an avalanche OF snow hear dis
tnctly every word uttered b. those who
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-06
A Philadelphia DeIicacy.

Under famboyant headlines Philadelphia
papers announce with frank and open joy
BUSINESS that the scrapple season has ar
rived. So evident is the delight that a
stranger in the city can hardly fail to have
his attention attracted or TO inquire into
the character and merits of scrapple. For
it is only in Philadelphia that the article is
known; it is indigenous there. and the out
side world has never become acquainted
with it's charms. The investigating
stranger gathers the idea at once that
scrapple is a Wand; that it is one of espe-
cial toothsomeness is indicated by the gus
to which characterizes every allusion to it.
Smiles of dreamy anticipation illumine the
faces of the natives who allude to ii, and a
hopeful smacking of the lips can almost be
heard behind the printed paragraphs tell
ing Of it's arrival. But all this trembling
eagerness does not explain to the ~beniShted
outsider scrapple Is. If he asks a
Philadelphia that person looks at him with
mingled pity and wonder and replies that
scrapple is-"why, scrapple. of course" 1t
is only by dint OF perseverance that he
finally learns the exact nature of this de-
lectable delicacy. 1t is made, it appears, in
sausage factories. After the sausages are
made all the meat and fat that are left
over in the prOcess-all the scraps, in
short, hence '%scrapple' are mixed to-
gether with savors, cut up fine, stirred into
buckwheat flour or corn meal mush, then
formed into molds and fried, and behold
bliss for the Philadelphian. Some people
outside of the Quaker city are so con-
stituted that they do not relish hash under
whatever disguise, and to these a Wand
made of the ingredients described could
have no charms; but even they would not
interfere with the enjoyment of persons
whose mouths water for this singular
mess. They would not interfere, but they
are willing that Philadelphians should
lave the joy TO themselves. Everything
considered. it is no wonder that the fame
of scrapple remains purely local.