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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22
YEARS AGO TO-
From The Herald of this date. 1886

The Pierson hotel is made over so
that it is practically a. new house.
A thief broke into the show window
of W. NJ. Shedd's bicycle shop and got
away with only a can of OIL
The Bryan faithful meet tonight for
a medicine talk in the law office of
Stanton & Turney.
In a ball game, Ell Paso defeated
Denver by a score of IS to II.
Fred Feldman and wife were sere-
naded last night by the McGinty band.
W. W. Turney has gone to Maria
]. l. Warren, formerly of Eddy, is in
the city.
Joe Duper of Las Cruces has moved
to this city.
J. ]. Campbell returned today on
the Santa Fe.
". J. Camp and s. l. Long of Tucson
are in town.
Charley Julian came down today from
Mesilla for a visit.
Miss Jennie Snyder arrived this
morning from Hermosillo, Meico.
J. H. Nations returned this morn
ing from a trip to Colorado.
Max Weber went north this morning
over the Santa Fe on business.
w T. HixsOn and wife returned this
morning from Chicago. where Mrs
Hixson has been visiting for several
weeks.
James NJ. Paul returned this morning
from an eastern trip after having been
gone two months.
Mrs. A. c. Wheeler and Mrs Carroll
arrived today from Toyah. Mrs.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22
The Herald's
Daily Short Story

! seems to be rather hard up. too.
will try him.
The next day was Sunday. 1t was a
| beautiful day and the major was sit
| ting at an open window enjoying the
fresh air. Fritzelwitz passed by The
major coughed, the captain looked up
and saluted.
Come up and keep me company for
a little while said the major.
Fritzelwitz came up They had a
bottle or two together and a friendly
chat. At last the major suggested a
game of escarte, and FritzeIwitz was
more than ready They went out for
dinner together and then continued
their game until very late. At first
captain Fritzelwitz won, but later luck
was against him, and when he stood
UP to go he had lost 1900 marks. but
1t was arranged that the major should
let him have a chance to win the
money back the next evening
Monday evening they played again
and the majors winnings are now
over 5000 marks. He was not at home
to anyone else. The following night
1t was just the same. Fritzelwitz was
terribly nervous and excited and play
ed wildly, while the major was calm
and cool as always.
q.
and at last he threw down his cards
and said in a voice of despair: This
has got TO stop. L cannot pay what
1 have lost, major
The major jumped up.
This is debt of honor" he said II
have already told you l am to leave
the day after tomorrow and 1 expect
you to settle before then or 1 shall
nave to report the matter to your
chief You have no right to accept
your winnings and refuse to pay when
you lose Your debt to me is a debt of
honor and you must pay when YOU
lose Your debt to me is a debt of
honor and you must pay it within "a
hours
Then L am ruined man and there
is only one thing 1 can do"
He took his hat and walked toward
the door
wait a moment" said the major.
have proposal to make to you.
VIII cancel your debt to me and be-
SIDES give You 1000 marks if you will
give me plan of the new fortress al
FIastrau before eleven tomorrow"
frltzelWltz stared at the major. too
ihuch astonished to say a word
Il GU nave your choice the major
continued L am interested in that
1--WE Lie the plan ana / will
40 as l said. Goodnight"
AS in dream the young captain
IeIl the house. He did not know what
10 DO The temptation was great. II
was easy enough to get hold of the
plans, which were indeed in his own
oIIlce, but duty, honor, conscience
Suddenly he felt hand on his
shoulder.
Curt?" 'ou'
1t was his old schoolmate and broth
er1nlaw, Fritz Dimpel
Fritz, l am ruined Tell me what
am to do"
What has happened?"
Curt told him everything. Fritz
whistled
You have been fool Curt. Really
ought not help you, but for your sis
Ter sake l will, if you give me your
Word OF honor not to gamble again.
Come along and just leave the matter
to me-"
Inc next morning at eleven Fritzel-
WIZ entered the majors room and
carefully closed the door behind him.
Ihen he produced a parcel. the con-
tents or which the major examined
carefully and locked up in his-desk.
Then he gave the captain a receipt
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22
O-- 4 Work
(hasAnass.e~

The other afternoon she sat on the
veranda, a gay silk work bag on her
knee All the other women were do
ing fancy work, embroidery, hem
stitching etc
The old maids work was the darn
ing of many small socks ard stock
ings. From morning until night she
is at the beck and call of her sister
and the sisters children. The service
is given lovingly, apparently without
thought of complaint.
Recording Angel Doesn't Laugh.
And yet "she hasn't got any hus
band. nor children, nor nothin', and
most every one laughs at her"
But the Recording Angel, who
writes down good deeds, does not laugh
at her.
She is born mother. this little old
maid denied her woman's birthright
She is old and faded, and the world
alludes to her, all contemptuously as
an "old maid"
What does the world know of the
passions that have famed and died in
that withered breast?
It jumps at once TO the conclusion
that. because she is unmarried. she
has been unsought, and it pities her
with a centemptuous pity that scorches
and sears her soul; but she must &C
cept it meekly
Why is it that the world pities all
old maids and not old bachelors? The
latter are twice as forlorn as the for
mer
There are thousands of old maids
doing their work in the world uncom-
plainingly, and they would be bitterly
missed If they dropped from the ranks.
Put
Every married woman takes 1t cheer
fully for granted that her old maid
sister should be a willing slave to the
children. The husbands treat them
with brotherly tolerance and ignore
them.
And all this is simply because they
have not Mrs" prefixed to their name
and are not under some mans lordly
protection and condescension
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22

Wheeler will visit for awhile before
returning home.
Rev Adolph Hoffman returned to-
day from the Methodist conference at
Las Vegas, preparatory to removing
with his family to his new charge at
Ration, n. NJ
Miss Lola B. Smith. formerly kinder
garten teacher in this city, was mar
ried recently at Waverly, Ohio. to
Earliest McCullagh OF Los angeles,
where they will live.
E S. Newman returned this morning
from Kansas City, accompanied by his
brother, c. T. Newman, a prominent
citizen Of western Colorado, who will
visit here for a few days.
George Rechkart, brother of the Nc
Ginty club president, has accepted a
position as assayer with the Common
wealth Mining and Milling company OF
Pearce, Ariz.
Exjudge A. B. Fall and Fred Ander-
son of the Rincon Weekly, had a live
" scrap at Las Cruces the other day.
The South Oregon Evangelical mis-
sion, conducted by the Trinity Metho-
dists. is meeting with success and
quite an interest is being stirred up
up down in the rescue work.
J. NJ Dean has been appointed as
j.. P Dieter's proxy in the Democrats
county chair. and will shortly call a
convention of county officers.
The bachelors and summer grass
widowers hold their postponed blowout
on Thursday night next.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22
THE LAW OF LOYALTY
Copyright, 1910. by Star Company

thing without any back talk-uttered
or expressed.
ty!
The man who has not learned TO obey
has trouble ahead OF him every step OF
the way The world has it in for him
continually, because he has il in for
the world.
The man who does not know how TO
receive orders is not fit 20 issue them
10 others. But the individual who
knows how to execute the orders Civ
en- him is preparing the way to issue
orders, and better still, TO have them
Obeyed-
There is known to me a prominent
business house that by the very force
or its directness and worth has in
CURED the enmity of many rivals. In
fact. there is very general conspiracy
on hand to put the institution down
and out.
In talking with young man employ
ed by this house be yawned and said:
oh. in this quarrel I am neutral
But you get your bread and butter
from this firm, and in a matter where
the very life Of the institution is con-
oerned I do not Sc how you can be a
neutral" And he changed the sub
ject.
The only real neutral in this game OF
life is a dead one.
Eternal vigilance is not only the
price of liberty. but of every other good
thing.
A business that is not safeguarded
on every-side by active, alert. attentive,
yigilant men is gone. As oxygen is
working night and day to dissolve. sep
arate, pull apart and dissipate, so there
is something in business that continu-
ally tends to scatter. destroy and shift
possession from this man to that A mill
lion mice nibble eternally at every
business venture
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22

veranda, just below my window.
little, plain woman, dressed plain
" and rather dowdily, passed and
stopped for moment to watch the
play.
She passed on and was barely out of
explained, Importantly, She's an old
maid"
What's an old maid?" asked a SOL
emn, brown eyed baby
Il don't know, ut 1 guess it's some
thin pretty bad. Cause my nurse said
she was awful glad she was goin' TO DE
married; she didn't want to be no old
maid, she said"
What An Old Maid Is.
L know what it is" said a preco-
cious young person of six TT means
a old lady, who hasn't got no husband,
nor children, nor nothin, and most ev-
erybody laughs at her"
And the babies went on with their
play, handling their babies and house
hold affairs in a way that showed that
they did not reckon upon the fate of
an old maid being theirs, at any rate.
The woman in question was an old
maid, for on the hotel register, her
name read Miss A.
She is here with her sister an broth
erinlaw and their five children, and
is supposedly taking a holiday
TWO of the children, restless girls OF
SIX and eight, sleep in her room
Across the hall, a baby of six months
who is teething, sleeps with his nurse
The Old Maid Plays Nurse
The nurse is not very competent, so
most of the care of the wailing babies
falls to the old maid aunt
Nothing could be more beautiful than
her devotion and tenderness to them.
Half of the time she sends the tired
nurse in to sleep with the two little
girls and she takes care of the baby.
hear her soft voice grooming to him.
soothing him.
In the morning she helps the little
girls battle and dress.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22

TT OMORROW afternoon at O'Clock,
WASHINGTON time, summer VIII
have its official ending and au-
tumn will begin. 1t is then that Old
Sol will make his annual pilgrimage
across the equator on his journey TO
southern chimes. 1t is true, that &C
cording to our method of measuring
time he is slightly ahead of his sched-
ule. 1t takes him 20 1-3 minutes less
than a complete revolution OF the earth
around the sun to complete his journey
from one autumnal equinox to the next
Therefore. if we were TO count full
revolution of the earth around the sun
as the time between two autumnai
equfnoxes. in $4,000 years we would
find ourselves in the northern hemi-
sphere having ice harvest In July and
wheat harvest in January.
Time Reckoning a Puzzle.
This question ot time reckoning. in
one form or another always has BEEN
a puzzling thing TO humanity In by
gone generations the problem was to
adjust the yearly calendar so as to
make the seasons conform TO 1t. Before
the days of Julius Caesar long distance
timekeeping was not very accurate
thing at best He revised the calendar.
but in the 1900 years that it continued
in force, the dates got 10 days ahead
of the seasons and the enquinOctial
periods were all awry. Pope Gregory
XIII, with a view TO keeping the equi-
noxes and the calendar in harmony, 1n-'
stituted our present system of time
reckoning. which is so nearly perfect
that it will not vary more than a day
in a thousand years.
Coming down to the small divisions
of time. the basis Of the Grecian and
Roman methods was the source of the
sun across the sky from sunrise to sun
set. AS the length Of the day varied
in winter and summer, and as these
two peoples insisted upon a II hour
day at all times, it naturally followed
that their hours were shorter in win
ter than in summer. They had all sorts
of peculiar contrivances to reckon the
varying hours. One was a mOdifca-
ton of the Egyptian water clock, in
which water was used instead OF sand
as in the hour glass. In the Greek
and Roman timepiece the figure of
man with a pointer in his hand was
mounted on a piece of cork The scale
varied for every day in the year. and
was placed on a revolving drum that
made a revolution in 365 days The
hours of proper length were thus kept
before the, man with his pointer as
he descended with the ebbing of the
water. 1t was the Egyptians who di-
vided the day into 81 hours, reckoning
a day and night as one day. From that
time the world got along very well
with its day reckoning, until the tele-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22
Standard Time AS Arranged
From National Observatory
By
Frederic
I.'Haskn
THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR.

graph and the railroad made 1t I'M
portant that time should be Identical
over widely distributed areas rms
led to the agitation which brought
about the adoption of standard time.
One Meridian Adopted
In the early part Of 1888 there were
time reckonings in the United States
from no less than 20 different prime
meridians While the smaller COM
munities got their time from adjacent
important cities, there were upward OF
a hundred different time standards IN
use in the United States. This pro-
duced no end of confusion, led to many
accidents on the railroads, and In many
ways was most inconvenient- Two rail-
roads crossed each other. One had one
time standard and the other another.
What was more inevitable than that
they should have a collision sooner or
later? traveller going west was con-
tinuaIIy setting his watch back, and
from the standpoint of time never
knew just where he was
AI5 these inconvenience led to the
assembly of a convention of railroad
men in Chicago on October II, 1898
Following the suggestion Of Professor
Cleveland Able and Professor Sanford
Fleming, then with the Canadian Pa
cific railway, it was decided that North
America should be divided into four
time belts and that in each Of these
the railroad time should be Identical
FOR every line operating within the
belt Eastern time was to prevail in
all the region east of Pittsburg. Wheel
ing and Bristol, Tennessee Central
time was to prevail in all the region
between Eastern time points and such
places as Dodge City. Kansas; FL Paso,
Texas, and Minot, North Dakota.
line approximately from Deming, New
Mexico, through Huntington, Oregon,
and Laggan. British Columbia, was 70
form the western boundary of noun
tain time and the eastern boundary OF
Pacific time.
Standard Time Established.
This program was agreed upon and
recommended to the government. At
noon on November Is. 1883, for the
first time in history, standard time was
sent out from the naval observatory at
Washington to all the stations east of
the Pacific time belt and from the
Mare Island navy yard to stations in
that belt. From that day to this, every
properly regulate clock in the United
States has pointed to the same minute
and the same second at all times. Only
the hour hand differs. It is an hour
slower in Chicago than in Washington,
hours slower in San Francisco. Some
times this difference in time is ad-
vantageous to certain people. For in
stance, the Washington correspondent
Of a San Francisco afternoon paper
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22

can send afternoon happenings IN con-
gress TO his paper long after the New
York paper has gone to press, and the
San Francisco citizen reads later news
from Washington in his afternoon pa
per than does the citizen of Washing
ton. On the other hand, the afternoon
paper in Washington gets out three
hours earlier than that of San Fran
cisco, and the Washingtonian may be
reading about Golden Gate happen
ings before the resident of San Fran
cisco.
Accuracy OF Time.
The accuracy of the nations time
is largely in the keeping OF the navar
observatory at Washington. The meth
Oh by which that institution sets a
nations clocks is interesting and in
genious- In the first place, it has the
cooperation Of every national telegraph
and telephone line in the country. At
the hour of noon IN Washington, east
ern time, every railroad and telegraph
clock hand in the country is set to
correspond with the Washington noon.
There is a great master clock, kept in
an alright, moisture proof vault. in
which a uniform barometric pressure
and a uniform temperature is main
tanned; the latter being accomplished
by the aid of little thermOstat and
a small electric light This clock is
checked up several times a week by
observations Of the hxed or clock stars
through the transit telescope. The
Nautical Almanac shows the exact po-
sitfon OF each clock star for every hour,
minute. and second in the year, and
with the transit telescope and the
Nautical Almanac, the astronomer max
ing the observation is enabled to cal
culate the exact time to the minutest
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22

TIME very first item in the creed
of common sense is obedience.
Perform your work with a whole
heart.
Revolt may be sometimes necessary,
but the man who tries to mix revolt
and obedience is doomed to disappoint
himself ana everybody with whom he
has dealings.
TO flavor work with protest is to fail
in the protest and fail in the work.
When you revolt, why, revoIt-climb.
hike, get out, defy-tell every body and
everything to go to hades, That dis
poses of the case. You thus separate
yourself entirely from those you have
served-no one misunderStands you
you have declared yourself.
The man who quits in disgust when
ordered to perform a task which he
considers mental or unjust may be
a pretty good fellow; but the malcon-
tent who takes your order with a smile
and then secretly dlsobeys is a danger
Gus proposition.
To pretend to obey and yet carry in
your heart the spirit of revolt is TO do
half hearted. slipshod work.
If revolt and obedience are equally
in power, your engine will then stop
on the center. and you benefit no one,
not even yourself.
The spirit of obedience is the con-
trolling impulse that dominates the re-
ceptive mind and the hospitable heart
There are boats that mind the helm
and there are boats that do not Those
that do not get holes knock ed in them
sooner OR later.
To keep off the rocks, obey the rud-
der.
Obedience not to slavishly obey
this man or that, but 1t is the cheer
full mental state which responds to the
necessity of the case, and does the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22
II VARS Denafured Poem

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Copyright. 1910 by o.os. upsr. Ae.n. CnaaA1.as.~>
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22
TEXAS LAND RULINGS.

Pecos, Texas, Sept. 20, 1910.
Editor FL Paso Herald:
1t was with a greai deaI'of pleasure
[ read your editorial of the 18th inst,
headed a Few Pertinent Remarks.
1t is just such an article as will open
the eyes of the people OF the west and
start the wheels in motion and result
In our getting something besides the
present privilege of creating Il school
fund for the children of east Texas.
Keep up the good work. Yours truly.
J. f Brown.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22
HERALD TRAV-
ELING AGENTS.

Persons solicised
&c subscribe for
The Herald should
beware Of impos-
ters ard should
no: pay money to
anyone unleas he
can show that he
is legally author
lied by the FL
Paso Herald.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22
GUARANTEED
CIRCULATION.

The Herald base5
ali ADVERT s 1 n 9
contracts on .
guara nte e OF
more than tTiSe
the circgtattoE OF
any otter FL
Pa @ 0, Arizona.
New Mexico or
west Texas pa
per. Daily average
exceeding 10000.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22
The Blockade In West Texas.


a TOT big corporations holders being hurt by the present
~ land policy mineral rights If the
object corporations it is not being served
nv hitting Nd the price rights rights have already
been d for the oil companies contracts they can
use for long the surface rights who has signed the @
vitality concerned the pe set on tne Oil % Gao ooo
it Outa section will cost from SOOOO 10
first payment in either case beng more 'nAD 'ne AS'
nan ~ the state will not sell the oil rights to anybody
absolute
deadlock but possible the state the oil rights IN these
lands the price and corporations with large
Consider oil business purely speculative what
- $40 - = sn section NAV contain until the actually
Oror5 vet the commissioner lands within
certain distance prospect high that nobody nsk paying
them on the straight gamble of oil develop
ment
Illustrating the fact that the present policy playing
tere of the te believes itself
TO be acting may made by the oil com
pes private effect that the oil corporations viii d
the state for the oil nights ano WI" n take 0e
Of anv ROYALTIES may brought Plainly
matter Of comparatively small concern to the OIL companies n P
live question with the little Fellow
The policy absolutely impossible Tor
body to develop small have not the means to buy the oil
rights to undertake the development ~OfA anu w s H.
going considerable of their capital in acquiring rights
territory absolutely barren SO M as tnsre Is anything certainty ~ a.
time
sevaton that prohibit arbitrary
IO0s anu faea IN IGNORANCE Of the true conditions and is
calculated TO prevent OIL
is impossible oil under certain of ground
until costly proved inducen there for
ANYBODY to proceed the of
for oil rights to $1,000
Under the system leaseandrOyty
the ground who
haps several discOung make something
position benefits if oil develop
ent possible; land policy
the state
by placing obligations to the large corporations
lenders tying
largely proportion right him,
demand o
The land policy
possible hold
buying holdings leasing
DEVELOPMENT policy
the
mOpohsc which delivers
By its mistaken policy blocking legitimate purposes
anything all and dscouragng
mining fectuay
practically
hopeley absurd, development
guess nothing
Justify capitalist thoroughly prospecting
the development of the field.
other
the odds in favor of Mr. Roosevelt as against Mr. Taft
asendsO threatening negro
would disgrace only
the
suffering
Chicago gamblers war
Bannge given community
its sleeve for the secretary of the interior.
developing wells
building
products either of the others
getting Cali
fOrnia nights morning
with no bedroom slippers dressing This soldering is terrible
postmaster general ground on his trim
pleasure
gets political game than any other
prominent of Bay neigh
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22
LETTERS
ITO 'the==
HERALD

Cali communications must bear the
signature of the writer. but the name
will not be published where sucn a re-
quest Is made).
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22

himself in the limelight with the east
ern voters, who control us.
1 have talked with many of the citi-
zens and have shown them your edi-
torial and they have all expressed
themselves as unanimously in favor Of
just what you recommend. Yours very
truly, Jno W. Davidson
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22

Yesterday was Tilford Moots's birth
day an his wife give him a straight
handled umbrella so he wouldn' leave it
hangin' on bar. Some folks are allus
out at tn right time.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22

a GROUP of tiny girls were play
- ing with their dolls on the hotel
veranda, just below my window.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22

break which the help
the odds in favor of against
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22

a. Balnger has given Fl Paso square DEAL and this
up its sleeve for the secretary the interior
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22

It wouldn't bystanders not su
Chicago gamblers war.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-22

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