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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-06
The Treasury Department
and Its Great Importance
nI-THE GOVERNMENT AT WORK.

500 to collect S1.55Sand at a Maryland
port 1t costs 1000 TO collect 81 cents.
Efforts have been made to abolish these
small ports. but political influence has
thwarted them
Preventing Smuggling.
Elaborate precautions are taken TO
prevent smuggling Men conceal dia-
monds in secret holes in their shoes,
women convert their bodies into huge
spOOiS for rare laceS or silks, or sew
New York or Chicago tags on Paris
gowns, in order to escape the payment
of duties Vessel owners try to land
dutiable goods at places where there
are no customs houses. The treasury
department. therefore must
a long, string of loOkOUtS to Illustrate
the attempts of the smugglers- The
secret service keeps a card index OF
every known smuggler in the world and
closely follows his Re
ports of all big purchases OF jewels or
other valuabIes are mad to the treas
ury department, and its officers watch
for them on every ship that comes into
port. The vessel tina would land it's
cargo elsewhere than at the port of
entry must scape the eagle eye of the
revenue cutter service, which patrols
the coasts of the country for the pur-
pse of detecting Such viOlators of the
III W. 10 GLC
vices Of the clearance of all cargo boats
from foreign ports bound for America,
the chances of running the gamut sue
c~essfully are so small that there are
comparatively few violations of the lew
f~orbidding vessels to discharge their
cargoes at other places than through
the customs house.
When a person comes into a port Of
the United States the first official to
board the vessel is the quarantine Off
cer-a representative of the treasury
department. If all on board have been
in good health and there are no COM
pIications, the visit is not an unpleas-
ant one. But if the vessel has contar
gion among its passengers or crew.
detention at the quarantine station will
follow and much inconvenience re-
suit. When the vessel is locked and
the baggage Of It's passengers unload
cd, there is a wait for the customs
inspectors to go through it. To have
ones baggage examined infinitely
ruffles many people, especially women,
but as long as a large proportion Of
the travelling public regard 1t as no
sin to smuggle, such inspection will
nave to be endured by everybody. An
inspector stays on the vessel as long as
it is in port. One week he may be sta
toned on an ocean going palace and the
next week on a filthy tramp steamer.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-06

There was nothing abnormal or GRIM
inal about the boys They were just
ruined in the rearing.
Mother made herself a doOrmat be-
fore her sons to trample on, and wipe
their feet upon, and when they were
married they expected their wives to
take the same humble position, and
when the wives didn't, trouble began.
Mother had permitted her boys to
speak to her with a lack of respect
and ~pOlitenesS and a contempt that
they would not use towards an office
boy, and when they were married they
adopted that tone toward their wives.
Mother had brought her boys up
to think that a man must have every
thing that he wants n a woman
must be humbly grateful for whatever
her lord and master chooses to give
her, and so when they were married
her sons ordered seventy-five dollar
suits of the tailor and grum0led every
time their wives asked So for d hat.
Mother had made herself a burnt
offering over the kitchen stove for her
boys, and when they married they ex-
pected their wives to cater to a thou
sand foolish whims in eating and drink
ing.
Mother had taught her sons that a
man has a right to amuse himself as he
Dle1SoS, ana II IS a woman ) QuIy AOA
give everything, and so when they were
married they continued to pursue their
bachelor amusementS, and were highly
offended that their wives dared to OBJ
ject.
Mother had taught her sons that a
woman has no rights, and when her
boys got married they developed into
tyrants on the hearthstone.
That's the kind of a husband Mother
n women like ner turn out. That Is
the kind of a husband they make by
hand to break some other woman's
heart and ruin her life. They bring up
a boy to be utterly selfish, overbear-
ing. dictatorial; they never teach him
to treat a woman with kindness or fair
ness; they encourage him in giving way
to his temper or surlinesS, and then
they send him out into the world to
marry some poor, little, innocent. in
experienced girl and make her WRETCH
ed the balance Of her days.
Il tell you, it is the crime of crimes;
a crime by the side of which murder
is merely a misdemeanor, for it would
be a thousand times more mercifuI TO
shoot the bride dead at the altar tina
it would be to doom her TO a death-ln-
life that the marriage with an utterly
selfish man means
That is the reason haven't got any
tears to Sned over Mother L am SdNlhS
them all for myself and for the other
women who have had the i'll luck that IL
have had to marry Mothers sons
Believe me, woman's greatest sin
against woman is the way she brings
ND her boys. Every mother to whom
the Lord has sent a son has it in her
hands to provide some other woman
with a good husband, and when she
doesn't do it she has committed a crime
for which there is no forgiveness IN
this world or the next"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-06

MO other branch of the executive
service comes so close TO every
citizen as the treasury depart
ment. 1t supplies US with our money
and every time We buy anything, from
a stick of candy to a farm, We utilize
the machinery of the treasury. This
department manages the finances of
tie nation, collects its internal reve-
nue. n it's customs duties, pays the
expenses of maintaining the govern
ment, and at the beginning of each
session of congress advises that body
what money viii be needed for operat-
ing the governmental machine dur
ing the year.
This by no means explains the full
scope of the activities of the depart
ment. The wal and navy departments
are expected to protect our frontiers
and shores from invasion by hostile
military and naval forces. The treas
ury department protects them from the
invasion of tar~iff-dodging imports, n
the landing of contagious diseases from
other countries. Through the life saw
ing service, it looks after the safety
of people at sea; and through the pub
lie health and marine hospital service
it looks after the health of the nation
Deals With Sentiment.
In dealing with the public credit, the
treasury department mas 10 10 WIFI one
of the most sensitive things known to
man. Not only is the public credit
affected by fact, but by sentiment as
well, and the existence of even an I'M
warranted sentiment will produce facts
sufficient to justify that sentiment.
In other words, no matter how excel
lent the condition of the treasury, if a
panicky feeling takes possession of the
people, it will cause the revenues TO
fall off to such an extent that the
treasury Immediately will be embar-
raised. The actual immediate loss of
a hundred million dollars from the
treasury would not affect it as serious
1v as even the most unwarranted
panic.
The major portion of the of
the government is collected by the GUS
toms and internal revenue services.
Since the foundation of the govern
ment approximately ten billion dollars
have come into the treasury through
the customs houses of the country.
Two-thirds of all the customs business
is transacted at the port of New York,
where it costs 2 cents to collect each
dollar of revenue. There are a num-
Der of other customs houses, some To-
Gated at important cities along the
coast and along the frontiers. while
others are found at smaller towns. At
Beaufort, North Carolina, it costs ST.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-06
III A G. TO-
At tFrom The Herald +" this date. 1890 DAY

Judge Beckham has returned from
Fort Worth.
C. c.. Blodgett went east today on
a business trip.
f. F. Nickel leaves for the City Of
Mexico to remain.
L NJ. Lawrence returned today ovtr
the Santa Fe from a northern trip.
United States district attorney Gull
berson came up last evening from San
Antonio.
L. S. Stewart has returned from Chi
cago with his wife and nurse. He is in
good spirits.
w. H. Burgess and bride are pleas
antly located at W. w. Turner's resi-
dence at ST North Oregon street.
Fred Fenchler has returned from
Kansas City and Chicago. after an alb
sence of several months. He reports
the cattle market slow.
Judge Beckham is selling today in
front OF the court house, parcels of real
estate belonging to the defunct Ell
Paso National bank, and up to noon
had disposed of $4,000 worth of prop
erty.
Joseph Magoffin has sold to j. H
Nations for $4,000. the plot of ground on
which the City meat market stands on
San Antonio street.
Ex-drum major Breckenridge of Fort
Bliss has got him a better nalf, the
knot being tied at Las Cruces.
Col. de YbarrOla has sunk a six
inch pipe at the upper dam site in n
boring SO feet, and finds sanG and fine
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-06
The Herald's
Daily Short Story

rs it time to start now, doctor?"
He laughs shortly
You are already sufficiently in
formed on that point by your cousin"
\ 1t sounds cool, but in the palpitating
tone she detects passionate
Il hope my companion has taken
leave sufficiently. l have come TO
fetch him."
Il am quite ready; there is nothing
to keep me here longer"
With this, Heinrich comes forward.
Once again be bows to Lisbeth, then
turns to go. What can he say in ans
wer to the anxious question in her
eyes, with the other man standing by?
DR.. Stormer is about to retire 81
lently. when she catches at his hand.
Farewell, and God protect you And
come safely back"
He bends down over the little, trem-
bling hand, and draws it to his lips.
"Auf wiederschen, Lisbeth."
1t is a SILENT journey that DR.. Stor-
mer and Heinrich Franzius make
through the air. Beneat them towns
and villages, forests and meadows.
glide by, bathed in sunshine, Swallowed
by clouds. Birds fIutter here and there,
flying ~confidingly with the airship.
until the veil Of night wraps the world
in darkness.
1t is dark all around; the electric
lantern, which they flash from time to
time, lights up only fog. thicks and
gray, and they are rushing EDWARDS
in the cloud-ocean with mad velocity
whittier?
Both mems thoughts go owards the
same woman with love and longing,
and both are feeling that they ought
to be far apart-divided by land and
sea, if possible-if they would have
peace-yet they are so closely bound
up with and dependent on each other
and both are exposed to the same un.
certain fate.
Slowly the balloon sinks lower; any
distant outlook is blurred, the men
do moi know where they are; they feel
only that they are going down, slowly.
but always down. Not a sound from
below gives them the least clue TO
their whereabouts; no shadow of q
landscape betrays whether they will
find a suitable landing place.
But what is that?
A noise greets their ears, a rushing
sound, and Kissing a dull murmur.
Mute, their eyes meet; in the same in
slant they both know that what is
heaving and groaning beneath them is
the sea, the broad, dreadful sea. Now
suddenly they can see it. quite close
under them-glassy. green waves, that
tower and sink, with greedy tongues
that lick upwards, and white, ghostly
arms that stretch towards them.
Already the car basket glides close
above the tide, and the spraying foam
drenches them, cold and wet.
No ship is in sight, no signal to be
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-06
O- L. Mother"

A HALF DOZEN women, grouped
~ abou an afternoon tea table
were almost Historically enthu-
siastic over the heart-compelling little
play called Mother" now running at
the Hackett theater, and which has
hit the feminine contingent, at least,
where it lives.
After the other women had exhaust
ed all of the adjectives in their vocab-
ulary in trying to describe how sweet
and dear and lovely the thought
the play was, and in describing how
many barrels OF tears they had wept
over it, one tired-looking little woman
put down her cup and expressed her
feelings on the subject after this
inner
Yes" she said. I've been to see
Mother n 1 think the play is ex-
quisite, and human, and heart wrench
ing, and all that, and Miss Dunn's act
ing ought to be framed and hung on
the wall along with the other. old mas
ter pictures of the Madonna
She Married Mothers Son.
But 1 could get more enthusiastic
married one of Mothers sons, and
hadn't had thirty years of living with
the kind of a mar that that sort Of
sweet, gentle, self-abnegating, self
sacrificing saint rears up.
you remember in the play, Mothers
sons are selfish beasts who have never
been taught to. consider anybody else's
pleasure, or comfort, or rights but their
own. They've been brought up to think
that they are little tinNgods hat every
body must kow-tow to- They've got to
AVE money, and they take it from their
mother and sisters wnen there is no
other wa RI Oat II and mother thinks
it's just right. They are surly brutes
who don't treat their mother and sis
tiers with even ordinary politeness, and
mother spends her time trying not to
trample on their little feelings, and
rubbing them down the right way.
They kick about the food, and mother
breaks her neck making pies with her
own hands for them.
Lovely picture of motherly devotion,
isn't it? But~it won't appeal to you
very much if you happen to marry the
mass of monumental s~elfishness and
egotism that mothers methods are re-
sponsible for producing Then you
won't see Mother with a halo about
her brow. You will know that her
proper place is among the arch GRIM
fnals, for she has done all that she
could to ruin a man, and slay the hap
piness of another woman.
These be strong words, but 1 know
what 1 am talking about. 1 speak
from experience. 1 am the victim Of
my motherinlaw. for 1 have had to
garner the harvest OF all the faults
that she cultivated in her son.
yet my motherinlaw is as good a
woman as ever lived. n is the gen.
tleSt and the kindest creature, utterly
incapable of deliberately hurting even
a fly, and yet she raised up three sons
to make the three women they mar
hied utterly miserable. And yet she
had good material to work on, too.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-06
Beatrice Fairfax o, s.: s%;.G1 Ian e,,' Not

one of them needed a stimulant to add
to her charm in any way.
It is easy to get into the habit of
taking a little drink because YOU are
tired or blue or because you don't feel
well.
The effect CT the stimulant lasts but
a short time and after it has worn off
you feel worse than ever.
And the worst of it is that the dose
gradually grows larger, until some dav
you awake to the hOrrid knowledge
that you have grown dependent upon ii.
If girls only Knew the impression
they create upon others when they take
anything to drink they would never
touch liquor in any shape or form.
Bad for the Complexion.
Nothing ages one so quickly and
nothing is so bad for the complexion
as intOxicants.
Women feel the effects of drink much
more quickly han men Their nerves
are more delicate. and ~nseque
their constitutions are more easily un-
dermined.
Half the time a girl takes a drink be-
cause she Is with people who are taking
one, and h Ices not like 10 refuse.
Remember this. girls, that the man
who really loves you. viii V urge
you to take a drink.
He will have too much regard for you
to care to see your pure young lips de-
filed by liquor.
DOn'S be afraid of being looked upon
as ~prudish.
There is not one single way in which
a drink viii benefit you and many in
which it will harm you. Be wise and
not use il.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-06

heard. nothing all around but a fear
some waste of waters. In the waves
sits Death, rocking herself calmly,
sure of her prey. 1t seems to the two
men as if they saw him. with hollow
eyes, looking up mOckingly at the bal
loon, which is quickly sinking again.
Everything now had been sacrificed
the warmer clothing, the provisions
at last. even the compass n all their
Instruments; also the ak and graphing
rope. to make the balloon rise once
more; but nearer and nearer beneath
them yawns the watery grave.
Both the men have clambered, with
stiffened. cramped hands, into the
rope-work. There, through the ragged
fog, they descry shadOwy, afar off the
hills of the coast-the prospect OF
safety.
But deeper n deeper they sink
down into the sea.
Already some of the waves wash
over their heads and threaten to rob
them of their breath and senses. They
will not be able to reach the land. but
there is nothing more they can sacri-
flee to enable the balloon to rise once
again, even for a short time. In the
sight of land they must go under!
Then DR.. Stormer says suddenly:
'Franzius. don't let US go down into
the darkness of Death with unSolved
doubt in our mindS-dOeS LiSbeth love
your"
A mile passes over Heinrich's face
"a bitter, painful smile.
No" he says, and shakes his head.
DO not distrust me; in the fear
had in her heart, she said to me: You
are true, protect him for me, SO that
he may return to me. 1 gave her no
answer; you do it instead Of me-"
A shrek sounds over the sea-a
shrek of horror, and echoes in the
distance.
The balloon rises high, but in the
car there is now only one man. Was it
a wave that swept Heinrich away in
its wild attack; was it a collapse of his
strength that renderd hin powerless.
or was it of his own free Will that he
gave up his life? Whichever it was,
freed from the weight of his body, the
balloon rises up and is driven towards
the land.
Paralysed with horror. DIR. Stormer
gazes down into the cruel wilderness
of waters beneath him. Nothing is to
be seen except the CLASSY waves-no
human head. nor arm-only far off out
of the sea-fog a boat appears. coming
towards the balloon with all speed;
then his stiffened hands loosen their
hold of the ropewOrk which he had
clutches, and he loses consciousness.
He knows nothing more-that the
balloon flys owards the land, and that
the boat follows, and close to the
shore, when the car again touches the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-06

gravel. A second pipe is down q feet
and in fine sand.
Thert is much complaint about the
condition of San Antonio street. Some
citizens refer to it as a eguIar hog
pen and then there is a gully just east
of Oregon street that plays the dickens
with vehicles. Every time that a wa
gon passes over that spot at any rate
of speed, the occupants receive a jar
that for the instant threatens to bring
their stomach into dangerous proximity
to their vocal outlets.
Governor Ahumada arrives in the
morning to drive the first spike for the
Corralitos road in the new yards of the
company.
Policeman Fernandez is very sick and
George Barrett is taking his place.
Captain Frank Barr is also very sick
and has been given three weeks layOff.
Mayor McGIennon has laid of the
sprinkIing carts. which educes the
city's expenses s240 per month.
A roll of bills amounting to $50 was
swiped Sunday night at the Monte
Carlo while the dealer and lookout
were asleep on the watch.
Holland & R~heinheimer are building
for Angus MeiseI a one story double
house on chihuahua street. to cost
$500.
The Choral union meets tonight for
rehearsal in Chopin hall
The Republican campaign committee
has opened headquarters on San Fran
cisco street.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-06
Heinrich's Sacrifice
by Helene Wit@

G6~ OOD-BYE, Heinrich, and-a
prosperous voyage"
Once again the tall, slight
man clasps the small, girlish land in
his own. and tries to catch a look from
the eyes that avoid his. They wander
over the broad space where the bal
loon. ready filled for the ascent, is
waiting. and light up as they see the
figure of another man making his way
to her through the dense crowd of
spectators.
"Lisbeth, and have you no other
word for me?" Her cousins voice
sounds subdued in her ear. t'Even to-
day nothing more?
Almost pettishly she shakes her
head and withdraws her hand.
Don't build any castles in the air,
she says quickly.
And as she ooks at him now and
recognizes the expression of suffering
in his face, there surges up within her
an indefinable feeling, the keen wish
to give him some good thing-her full
est trust. 1t seems to her as if he is
her best friend, in those hands she
must place her fate. Quickly she
stretches her hand to him again.
You are kind, Heinrich. and big and
true, 1 know it, and that is why"
She hesitates. Flushing red, she
looks away from him.
"An that is Why?"
That is why-protect my happiness,
1 confide 1t to YOU; be to him a true
shield that he may return to me-"
It is spoken; her hand trembles in
his, and in her moist eyes burns the
eager anxiety Of the loving woman for
the man she loves.
AS yet no one knows her secret.
Heinrich is the first to hear it-Hein-
rich, who is to make the ascent with
him. and who is to run all the risks
and uncertainties of the aerial voyage
with him. Dumb he stands there, his
lips tightly closed, and as Lisbeth
gaZes at his face, a sudden fear seizes
her that makes her breath halt.
What has she done? Was it right?
Was it wise? Or has she unclaimed
the passions of hate and jealousy, the
resuIts of which she can not foresee?
Of the people around her. Q
"Heinrich!'
In helpless fear she forces this one
word from her quivering lips. Her
cousin can not answer; without a word,
he steps back, giving place to the 9TH
er, who has just reached the ground.
Struggling to regain her composure,
Lisbeth looks upon him, smiling; she
sees the threatening cloud on his
brow. the Suddenly aroused doubt in
his look. and it seems to her as If she
must say something to relieve the ten
sion, but it is only the commonplace
question:
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-06

F1 HE other day I was a guest at
woman's luncheon.
OF the six guests, four were
girls of under twenty.
Would anyone like a cocktaiI?" ask
ed the hostess.
The four girls accepte her invita-
ton with alacrity.
Each mad an excuse ready and one
was tired to death from a mornings
shopping"
Another had indigestion and she
thought a cocktail might cure it.
The third took it because she loves
the cherry in it. and the fourth because
the other three urged her.
, The two Otner guests refused. They
had work to do and knew that cocktails
and work don't go together.
The girl who took the cocktail be-
cause she was tired grew very talka-
tive and told something which she
said had been cOnfided to her as an
absolute secret. But 1 know none of
you will repeat it, she said.
Naturally some one will repeat it, for
a secret confided to six women is no
longer a secret.
BY this time the girl is probably
heartily sorry for her betrayal Of her
friends confidence.
silly Conversation.
Another one of the girls giggled a
great deal and made herself and the
rest of the party unpleasantIy conspic-
uous.
Not one of the four was the modest,
ladylike girl she had been before she
took the cocktail.
Their faces were flushed and their
conversation silly.
They are all charming girls, and not