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The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-21

Those interested in growing roses
should see Riveryiew Park now. One
hundred varieties in full bloom.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-21

Those delicious cakes they have at
THE Best and prices that will come
within the means of all. Try the Sill
yer Slice or Sunbeam and you will
come again.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-21

The Upton Piano Contest will close
September 28th at 8 o'clock D. m.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES DRUG CO.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-21

Go to Riverview Park Sunday.
More beautiful than ever. Three hum
dred roses in full bloom.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-21

1.-THE Best" is the place to find every
thing good that you can think of.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-21
TO OUR PATRONS.

All advertising ON the first page or
this newspaper hereafter will be-
charged at the rate of % cents am
inch.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-21

A beautiful rose. bouquet free to
every tenth person entering Riveryiew
Sunday.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-21

At "The Best. your choice Of eat
ing and cooking apples.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1911-09-21

Leave your order for Ounces at
THE Best"
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Yes, there is carload of -four and
Feed coming to THE Best"
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WHEN In WILLIAMSON
Come and See What We Are Doing.

When you are visiting this city
make the Sohn Stores your head
quarters. Always welcome.
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THE BEST TO BE HAD

THE BEST TO BE HAD.
There is an ''indefinable some
thing" about our merchandise which
makes it desirable and salabIe.
The reason is obvious. I'VE pro-
vide the best the market affords
and ask no more for it than infe-
rior stuff.
THE SOHN STORE, Third Ave.
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No expense Is being spared to make the
Juhling Flats on Third Avenue the most
desirable apartments i'm the city.
They will open soon be open for inspection.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29
On the Tragedy Of the
Aged Women Drudges

Nothing seems to me quite go pa
thetic as just the way these poor old
women move their pals and look up
at you as you pass.
There Is nothing Of appeal or suppl
cation In their expression. They have
so long been hurried by. unnOtiksd, that
they expect nothing else. They are
only a part of the cleaning machinery
of the building. No one ever thinks Of
those kneeling figures as women. And
when they look UP at you sometimes
they are too weary to even raise their
heads), it is only with the dazed
blankness of sensibilities dulled by
years of misery and want
And If you stop and slip something
into her hand, so unused is she to re-
ceive any help that she may be too
surprised even to humble her thanks
The Picture of a Drudge.
Compare this old woman with the
men of her age and class who beg from
you on the street and exhaust the city
charities She is self-supporting. She
WORKS. She is not q tramp or sup
plicant She does not haunt the mis-
sions and bread lines. She is earning
her living-however wretched living
it may be. And she is earning it hon.
estly and by the hardest drudgery
woman can do
And yet she is gray-haired and weak
and rheumatic, If she was your moth
er or grandmother you would think
her too old. and fran for even the
highest work.
Do YOU know. Of anything more de-
serving of help than this great army
of bent-shouldered, gray-haired scrub
wcfaen?
What can be done for them as
whole? 1 do not know. I am not
sociologist. I have no new theories for
solving the problems of the poor.
But 1 do know this If each Of you
who reads this article would help in
some small way the scrub woman who
washes up the office in which you
work, 1t would bring a little happiness
te q great many pitiful old women
whose lives are more wretched than
you know.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29
FIGHT ON FLIES
NOW WIDESPREAD

CONTINUED From Page Five.)
gradually instead Of suddenly, as II
would have done if it had been the
result of bad food. Innumerable flies
were found around the place. but a
careful investigation showed that the
stables were perfectly clean and that
all possible precautions had been ia
ken to prevent the multiplication of
flies. The authorities were nonplused
Finally someone thought to examine a
coating of spent barley which had been
secured from a brewery and spread
over the grounds as a fertilizer. Mil
lions of baby flies were found in it.
The Fight in Norfolk.
Other puzzIng conditions sometimes
arise. The town of Norfolk. Connect
cut. has been waging a war against
flies, and in spite of the hardest work
they did not seem to decrease in num-
Der. Every sanitary precaution was
taken, and the people were puzzled
Then someone thought that perhaps
the flies they were fighting were not
house flies. So they caught a box of
. them and sent them to the American
Civic association at Washington. They
were turned over to the Bureau of
Entomology for examination-and sure
enough. Norfolk had been using house
lily ucluOuS 10 COIl1Ddl duOll4CT klUQ u
fly.
The people of the country will prob
ably be assured of hyless summer
boarding houses during the coming
summer. The American Civic associa-
ton is thinking of preparing a white
list in which all summer resorts and
boarding places which can produce
satisfactory evidence that they meas
ure up to the association standard Of
freedom from flies will be incorporated
There will be no corresponding back
list. but all the summer boarder need
do when planning his vacation is to
write to the Civic association at Wash
fngton, and he will be furnished the
list of good places.
Wherever the fly crusade has been
carried to~a proper degree of complete
ness it never has failed to accomplish
the predicted end. few years ago all
stables in the uptown business district
of Washington were ordered to keep
their manure In covered containers.
The decrease in the number of flies
the next summer was remarkable. Last
year the Bureau of Entomology nm
dertook to patrol the places where
flies might breed in the vicinity of ina
department OF agriculture. The result
was freedom from the insects that
was surprising even to the most en-
thusiastic crusaders.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29
REJOICE that live in the land
Of the free. where the freest per-
sons are the bachelor maids, or

Of the free. where the freest per-
sons are the bachelor maids, or
old maids, if you prefer.
am thankful that can eat what
like when 1 like, even If 1t happens to
be chocolate carameis at in the
morning.
am grateful that I may keep the
windows open when 1 like or close
them when 1 wish, without danger of
murder, as nearly happened in that
little domestic tiff in Philadelphia,
when the woman who wanted the win
dow open brought up in jail, and her
husband. who wanted 1t closed. made a
star entrance into a hospital.
Happy am I that can spend my own
money as I like. Show me the mar
ried woman who can say the same.
I rejoice that 1 need tolerate no to-
bacco smoke about the house, unless
it is made by my own cigaret That
1 never find ashes on my dressing
table, unless l have left them myself
am exceedingly glad also that pro-
family is never heard within these
walls. or that when it is heard. It is
of home manufacture
1 thank thee, o power that governA
the carefree existence of the latchkey
girl, that no crouch ever entsrs these
rooms except my own.
I am content, nay happy, that I do
not have to play up or. down to some
male creatures mood. If there is
temper to soft pedal, or a good i'm
pulse to play forte, they are mine.
I thank thee, o providence. of the
unwedded woman, that no one dwells
beneath my roof who kicks my dog or
leases my cat If he did.-but that is
another matter.
I am more than glad that no one in
my house finds fault with the cooking,
except myself
1 rejoice that I have nobody's trou-
bles to worry about, except my own.
/ am thankful that since 1 don't like
children, 1 have the courage to say so.
Thrice glad am I that every time l
have a cold 1 don't have to fret about
who will be my husbands next wife.
Glad am I that I can read the news
paper while my coffee is hot instead of
waiting until my lord has finished the
stock markets and the sporting page,
and the coffee has grown cold.
Thankful am I that reading the
newspaper in peace, 1 can skip the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29
HOW SOME TOWNS
GET THEIR NAMES

CONTINUED From Page Five.)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29
Young Girls Of Today
By MoNsEIGNEUR Henry B0Lo.

, tail" But because this young girl OF
today takes liberties like an American,
fl.rts like an english girl, reads like
q NorW egian, IS omnivorous and versa
tile as a russian, uses her eyes like a
Spaniard, and tomorrow may be dressed
like q Turk, this is not enough to con-
clude that she Is quite French or even
quite Partisan
do: First. to encourage this admirable
our modern young girl of frivolity,
guided her toward a higher ideal, made
her more conscious Of the important
well as in society, and which has made
fled with being useless ornament or
charming parasite Bossuot, remem-
boring the Biblical tradition called her
a supernumerary bone.
Then we must declare war against
this odious way Of thinking, behaving
and speaking, which is characteristic
o. the young girl. who has become a
thorn in the flesh Of these who still
Fave remraTts of principles left. and
the plaything of those who no longer
respect anything.
Finally Il o4snt to be realized aven
by those who have no faith in the
church, that as religious feeling deter
ioTates, manners and morals also de-
cline and We therefore, should try to
become good Christians.
Unfortunately the best remedy is al
ways the che which it is most difficult
to make people use.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29
NOISE AT BAND CONCERTS.

Ell Paso, Tex. april %, 1911.
Editor FL Paso Herald
1 noticed on your editorial page a
few days since a brief comment on the
nlisbehayior of many children at the
band concerts which we are SO for
tunate in having at this time.
My wife and I are both lovers of
music, and when 1t is possible we go to
Cleveland square to enjoy the good
grade of music which the regimental.
bands are treating Ell Pasoans to; we
have missed very few evenings in fact
In every case the children, both boys
and girls, but more the former, are in
evidence. and among these quite a num-
Der, 10 and II years old, apparently, be-
gin their romping Immediately prior to
the first number playe<.
The first burst of mxsic seems to be
the signal and furnish the incentive for
redoubled efforts on the part of these
young rowdies to, If possible, drown
the sound of the music by means of
shouts. catcalls, etc. Not satisfied with
these alone some discordant rattles of
lound sound have beea used by many
and q continual game of hide and seek
is played among the crowd who attend
to enjoy.
In these rushes between those gath
cred at the park many women are
bumped into recklessly, feet trampled
upon dIlu Tie SuOulln5 Is Kept up Gull
tinual1y.
This is extremely provoking and. as
you state, the remedy must be applied
in the home.
There is a strong evidence that some
of these children are turned loose on
the streets by parents who do not care;
there may be many whose, parents
would correct If they knew, but the fact
remains that these chisdren should not
have the privilege OF taking those
times for their noisy play at that
particular place.
There are some grown people who
have no ear for music personally. L
never want to have business dealings
with such. for there aas always been
q strong conviction in my mind that
they are untrustworthy this may be a
misfortune but, as you stated, chill
dren should be taught to appreciate
music and be to some extent prepared to
be receptive to its refining Influence.
1t would be a pleasure to me to see
applied a solution to this problem,
which we seem to be DIP against for the
summer. Very truly.
E. z. Morrow.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29

z? ENELON, who was the most admir-
able and also the most advanced
prelate of his time. said that
young society girls should be taught
TO be less tiulid, to read and write cor
rectly.
HIS wish has been more than full
filled. we have indeed gone far beyond
It Our young society girls Of today
are no longer very timid and almost
all are very well educated. Even If this
advance were not accounted excellent,
ore must allow that it exists, and it
must be submitted TO. It is true that
many of these amiable juveniles, cured
Of tinidity, exaggerate their recovery
am told that certain salons are fire.
quented by young girls OF good birth,
but bad breeding. who affect language
and conduct which shock even the
yourg men, The little creature with
shy laugh has DISAPPEARED from history;
another species is attempting to re-
place il. one which Schopenhauer would
have called the monkey with a pig
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29

in the river which flows through the
valley in which the city is situated
From this sad catastrophe the river
came to be called el rio de las animas
perditas, literally che river OF lost
souls The city took its name from
the river. whose title came in commoa'
usage to be shortened TO Las Animas.
Cim&rron, the name Of another river,
is the Spanish for wild or ~unrulys"
a. reputation well lived up TO- Denver
was named for ]. W. Denver. an carly
governor Of Kansas Curious is the
naming Of Ouray. A certain Ute chief
was called willie" by the Americans.
But the indians in trying to pronounce
the name only succeeded in making
sOuray" out OF it. Hence in a humor-
town
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29

(continued From Page Five.)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29
HsSs' Urner

TT HAT becomes of the destitute old
women? There are innumerable
lodging houses and missions
and bread lines for old men. One Of
the most battling problems of every
large city is what to do with the old
and decrepit men, the tramps, the
vagabonds.
But what Of the old women? No one
seems TO hear anything about them
When there are so many charities for
the benefit Of the aged man, why are
there so few for the aged woman?
Go down the Bowery, or Third ave-
nue.. and you will see countless dingy
lodging houses. where tramps can
spend the night for cents begged
from the passerby.s But how few such
places there are for women.
have asked several of the mission
ard charity workers about what be-
comes Of the old women. They seemed
puzzled They really do not know.
Their only answer is that there seems
no need Of many charities for old wo-
men.
But why2 There are far more wo-
men in ali eastern states than men, So
where are all the wives and sisters Of
these men who fill the bread lines and
East Side lodging houses2
The only answer is that women, how
ever cid and destitute-WORKt Every
night and early morning finds an army
of gray-headed. stoop-shouldered wo-
men scrubbing the floors of the huge
office buildings all over the city.
When they are too old to be hotel
maids or work in factories or sweat
shops. they do not become tramps and
beggars as do the men, But they take
up the scrub brush and pail and spend
the rest of their days on their knees,
scrubbing through untold hours for
just enough to keep life in their weary
old bodies
Go through any large building, hotel,
apartment. or Office. early in the morn
ing. and on every few floors you will
find q kneeling figure. q gray head and
work-rounded shoulders. bending over
the scrub brush She viii draw aside
her pail to let you pass, gazing up in
a dazed sort of way.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29
Gunboats TO Canton.

Hongkong, China, April 29.-Two
British torpedo boat destroyers fhave
been sent from fhis city to Canton,
where a revolutionary outbreak oc-
CURED on Thursday. 1t is stated that
the movement was fomented by anti
Manchurs from Hongkong and Maco.
Resigns ChairzaansEfp
New York, n. Y, April 29.-Lloyd G.
GTiscom, formerly ambassador to Italy
ard close friend of former president
Roosevelt. has resigned as president of
the county Republican committee, in a
letter to Colin H Woodward, vice chair
man of the committee, Mr. Griscom
said that following an illness of sew
eTal weeks be had been advised b. his
physicians to give up his political du-
ties His successor will be elected on
May 8.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29

by traders of the Hudson Bay COM
pany on account Of their skrewdness-
French Names In Colorado.
In Colorado there are some French
names also. Thus we find Cache la
Poudre, the name of the river which
furnished the water for the famous
Greedy colony, meaning powder hid
ing place" while st. Vrain, a town,
was named after a famous French
trader of the same name. Colorado
has its Spanish quota Among towns
and cities one finds Salida. point Of
Departure Durango. named out OF re-
pect for a resident Spanish family. and
La Junta, injecting" which is located
at the junction Of two railroads. Las
Animas is OF a peculiar derivation.
Many, years ago a Spanish regiment
on its way to Florida was drowned
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29
Al d On the Jubilata OF the
Aud dtlCI SOA Bachelor Maid

How to Keep Your Husband" column,
written, by one like myself.
I rejoice that I liye in a time when
few persons believe that a bachelor
maid is glad and proud Of her state
1 deplOre the scales that hide the
light from those welded women who
believe 1t is better to be Joined with
q convict. past, present or future. than
to be unwed, TO ,consort With a wife
beaten. to slave for q lazy man, or
scorch your eyes with burning tears
over a follower after strange women.
than to be blessedly alone. But I re-
joice that some of these women are
awaking from their romantic sleep.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29
MEXICAN COMMENT.

From ST. Louis (Mo) Globe-Democrat.
new Joan of Arc, in the person Of
Sonora Talamantes. has been developed
by the Mexican civil war. Naturally
enough. she is an insurgent.
The regular army or Mexico is not
making much of record, but the Mex
lean navy, principally composed of wa
ter carts. IS doing excellent service on
the uplands.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29

Roise comes from a word meaning
woody" and Coeur' D'Alene. the name
of a famous mining region, signifies
needle hearts" The name was orig
inally applied to an indian tribe on
account of the remark of a chief about
the meanness of the French traders.
Another authority claims. however.
that it was the name given to the tribe
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29
LETTERS
ITO the@=
HERALD

(All communications must bear the
signature OF the writer. but the name
will not be published whore SUCH re-
quest is uade).
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29
WITH
The EXCHANGES
AND THE ARMIsrICE.

From St. Louis. (Mo.) Globe Democrat.
Juarez is never alarmed; there is al
ways an armistice or some other useful
subterfuge.
Evening star., 1911-08-13

danger. Night came on before the re-
turn to camp could be made. and it was
necessary to sleep on the mountain top.
The next morning the party set out with
it's eyes on the green tree tops of Corn
creek, and rode until the horses fell be-
meath their riders. Suffering greatly, the
men staggered on toward camp, resisting
the impulse TO grovel in the sands of the
roadside, which always overtakes the
man suffering from thirst. But for the
fact that rescue party from camp APP
peared with canteens of water, the viola
tion Of the scientific principle of explora-
ton would have meant death to this gov
ernment party
Quite different from this experience
was one which Mr. Chapman passed
through in the exploration of what Is
now the Glacier National Park, in Mon
tana. He was far up on the Swan range
following a goat trail which was rough
and dangerous. He had dismounted and
was leading his horse when the animal
stumbled, knocked him down and fell
upon him in the narrow trail, which
skirted the edge of the cliff. The survey
or realized the great danger which faced
him as he lay under his fallen horse.
Were that horse to founder and fall over
the cliff there was danger of the man be-
ing carried with him. Were he in any
way to disable the rider the solitude af-
forded no hope of rescue. But, fortu-
nately. as the horse attempted to rise
the man struggled free from him. Then
the horse slid over the cliff and fell a
precipitous 800 feet before striking the
earth. The surveyor states that as the
animal fell he uttered a shrek that was
almost human in his tragic fright.
Nowhere in the United States does the
primal condition of lawlessness exist as
it does in the Big Bend of the Rio Grande
river, in Texas. Here is a stretch of
land of such an extent and Of such
scattered population that an eastern
Evening star., 1911-08-13
CONvERTlNG BOATS hTO SLED
ON An ALAS KAN LAKE

delicate and unathletic- sort of
man, yet to him Is due the credit of
wrestling many of its secrets from that
land of tragedy of the explorer. Death
valley, IN California. Here are the great
stretches of burning sand extending for
hundreds Of miles with no water to
quench the thirst of the man who would
cross them It is in the making of just
scientific mind has its particular ad-
vantage over that of the prospector.
The scientist knows exactly how far he
can travel on a given amount of food
travel, he knows exactly how much food
and water to take along. Ten pounds
extra weight make it impossible for him
to cross a given desert. shortage of
one drink Of water might make the same
accomplishment impossible. The scientist
also refuses to make a farther trip into
such region as this than he can retrace
with his given water supply.
There is section Of Death valley that
boasts in it's area Of $50 square miles but
a single watering place. known as Nor
mon well. Another section. including the
Sheep range of mountains, has only the
flow OF Corn creek, which runs Few
miles and then sinks into the sand 1t
was from this latter point that a survey
ing party under Mr. Chapman set out to
triangulate the country from the top OF
Sheep range, 5000 feet above the sea.
It developed that in one particular this
party was not truly scientific. When 1t
was five miles from camp it was discov
cred that one of the canteens had been
left behind, and this threw the reckoning
of water supply versus the distance to be
travelled somewhat out of balance. The
journey was continued. however, as it
was not regarded a dangerous one.
But when the top of the peak chosen for
the triangulation was reached 1t was
found that sister mountain was of still
greater elevation, and 1t was necessary
to climb to it's top to secure the observa-
tions de-ired. All this required more
time, and the short water supply bred