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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-01
FRANK q. CARPENTERS LETTER.

the empire and TO openly be the NOV
ing power in all things financial
Said count Mercati, one of the lead
Ing cfficials OF the court here. to me
the othersday
The modern Snss the strongest
element in the orient He DOS
business than the representative of any
other eastern nation. He is predoni-
nant in Cairo and Alexandria, and in
every port on the Red sea- He is the
financier OF Palestine and Syria, and
his colonies are found as far north as
Khartum, where lord Kitchener said
that the Greeks aided him greatly in
bringing order out of the chaos of the
Soudan- Turkey alone has four or five
million Creeks
The Greek Parliament.
But let me tell you something of the
government of this little country. The
Greeks have king but he Is merely
a figurehead, and a foreigner. They
do not allow him to have anything to
say about politics, and king George
understands this and keeps out 1t.
was different with Otto Of Bavaria.
who was king before George. Otto
meddled with public questions and this
caused his expulsion The Greeks tell
me that they believe in a perfect equal
.ity among themselves, and they could
rot have this if they had Greek
king. Therefore they have chosen a
Dane for the throne.
The chief business of Greece Is
done in the parliament. This is differ
eDt from our congress in that there
is only enc house. known as the
boule. This has 235 members. one be-
ing elected for every $4,000 inhabi-
tants. The kingdom is divided into
II districts, and the congressman
are elected by districts. The cleo
lions are usually held upon Sundays.
the ballot boxes being kept in the
churches In Athens the chief voting
place is the cathedral the ballot box
es being arranged in a row along
one side Of it. The boxes are so fix
ed that only one man can pass through
to vote at one time. The box is a
foot square, with a pipe hole in its
top about big enough to admit the
arm of man. This runs down into
the middle Of the box, where it meets
a partition, which divides the box
in half. On one side Of the partition
go the affirmative ballots, and on the
other the negative. The ballots are
Duckshot. and the voter, having put
his hand down into the pipe, drops
his bullet for or against the candi-
cate as he pleaSes. without the pos
sibility Of any one knowing just how
be votes. Each voter is given only !
IS many buckshot as there are can
1idates, and the Judge sees that he
has only a single ball in his hand
when he puts it into the pipe of the
box There are also other means -
preventing frauds in elections.
each candidate is usually pre-
ook out for bis rigi&sAauzann< s. r. f.
The tern = =
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-01

Copyright, 1911. by F rank G. Carpenter
Arizona republican., 1911-03-28

the saloon? What weight. legiti- mately, would the suggestion of the bank have? The volume of finance in the Salt River Valley IS exactly the same without regard to this question. There can be but one req son urged by the bankers which would have weight with business men. viz. the intimation that certain credit relations would be embarrassed if this dictation fostered by the saloons is not followed
 Shall the merchant fear the abOli- ton of the saloon because the saloon owners claim to spend one quarter of a million dollars in Phoenix every year? The principle of modern dis play in the ordinary store is the principle of suggestion. The saloon keeper gets his money from his pat rons. Most of these patrons place upon the bar of the saloon the money which should go through legitimate channels. A score of families enter the place of merchandise to spend the money which has been taken from a hundred score of families, and one buyer is being tempted by the suggestive display of goods where, if the saloon were abolished, hun dred buyers would enter the store to spend this same money and be tempt ed tO enlarge their purchases. Is it not better for the merchant to have
Arizona republican., 1911-03-28

| practically the entire herd of 500 or 700 from Michael Pablo of Montana, who had carefully gathered them to- gether and protected them on his great
 ranch near Ravalli
 In the Wainwright National park
 were placed more than 500 buffalo.
 which were transported across the in- ternational boundary line by train from the Pablo ranch. The rounding up and , loading on the cars of this large num- 1 Der of untamed animals and their young was no fight task, and after a long period of hard work more than a
 hundred and fifty of the most unruly had to be left behind, having stampeded every time an attempt was made to drive them toward a corral. An especially well organized effort will be made to ship these little later. In addition seventyfive buffalo now confined in a park at Banff will be sent to the Wainwright reserve. The na- tural increase of the herd has brought up the number to nearly a thousand. In the present favorable environment it is expected that they will multiply rapidly
 Although kept within the boundaries of the reserve, the bison can hardly be said to be in confinement Their stamping ground covers an area of 107.000 acres-165 square miles. It is twenty-five miles in an air line the longest way across. A wire fence eight feet high and seventy three miles long encloses it.
 When the fence was completed it was found that twelve wild deer and one wapiti had been fenced in. Eighteen small lakes and number of streams are within the park. Prairie chickens, ducks and other game find a resting place here undisputed by the hunter.
 The park is truly buffalo para disc. The grounds bear every evidence that in other days they have been a favorite haunt of the lords of the plains. Everywhere are outlines of old buffalo trails and wallOws.
 These wallows are being reopened by the new denizens and once again the trails are being marked by the hoofs of the bison. The grasses are the kind that the buffalo specially like. As the ordinary span of a buffaIo's life is a hundred years, it may be that some of the herd are revisiting scenes of their youth.
 Michael Pablo, from whom the Ca nadian government purchased the herd, is a pure blooded Indian and one of the wealthiest of the redmen. He re- ceived s2OO.OOO from the dominion for 600 head of buffalo.
 Aroused by the loss of these buffalo. the United States has established a ma tional bison range in the F'lathead In- dian reservation, in Montana. com prising 12.s0O acres near the towns of Ravalli and Dixon, and it will he stocked by the American Bison society. Some animals for nucleus may be ob- tained from herd of about eighty, owned bysthe Conrad estate, near Ka- lispell.
Arizona republican., 1911-03-28

not today.
 To be perfectly frank. if not now, when?
 Will the saloons be ready for this election in month, in year. in ten or twenty years. or q century?
 One more pertinent question, who is the father, the real fond parent of this proposition to postpone the local option election? Is this original with the business man or has it been suS- gested by that interest which is in jeopardy as a result of the cOntem- plated election?
 The saloon is the originator of this , suggestion. The saloon managers have all brought their pressure to bear upon certain banks. And by what right. may we ask? Do not the several thousand depositors have any rights as against less than two dozen owners of grog shops? By what authority do banking officials thus propose to prostitute the con- fidence of their patrons?
 Furthermore. by what right. or by what authority of right does the banker suggest to the business man that the policy espoused and propo- gated by the saloon should be the policy of the legitimate business of this city. and business supported by many thousands who have no inter est whatever in the building up of
Arizona republican., 1911-03-28

the hundred buyers than the one? Every tradesman knows that such is the case
 A saloon town is a town where large part of the savings of the poor go into the coffers of the saloon. A large proportion of this money goes in turn out of the city to fill the. tilis of the wholesaler and the brewer. In turally gravitates to honest merchants or to the savings bank. and the depOs- its of those in modest circumstances in the savings banks are the reserve funds which, in times of financial stringency make it possible for the savings bank is the best insurance against panicS.
 So, Mir Business Man. it is up to you to swallow the bluff of seven teen managers of a business which has been out-lawed by all the courts or to do your own thinking and to cater to the great masses of the people who are honest at heart and who. without the temptation of the saloon will buy your goods, pay their bills and save a margin as a proteC- tiOn against hard times. Are you ready to decide between these two classes?
 If not now, when?
 ROBERT S. FISHER.
Arizona republican., 1911-03-28
NO KISS NOT' CARDS FOR PUOENIX BABIES
Osculaton May Spread Germs, But
 "lovin's" Just Have to be.

Phoenix democracy is not as radi- cal as foreign royalty. Dispatches tell of Queen Victoria of Spain label ing her babies, No me bese" (Do not kiss mel, and the fad is being taken up rapidly in Europe and in the east While young mothers here approve of the queens principles. they say they will not go so far as to placard their children.
 Physicians and and abet the Phoe- nix women in their cautions deliber- ations before accepting royalty's die tates. And. curiously, it was a man, physician, who propounded prob lem which probably did not occur to the consort of King Alfonso. when she pinned the Do not kiss" buttons on her children-and that is, How can a child grow up without kisses?" Kissing is as necessary to the pro- per bringing up of a baby. argued the usually unsentimental male, as
 fresh air and milk. Without kissing.
 there is no telling what an inhuman being it might grow to be. Kissing in moderation is good for
 the baby. thinks Mrs. John Young Brown, of 509 Umpty-ump avenue. Mrs. Brown has just steered her youngest daughter through the pro- miscuous kissing age. ''I think Queen Victoria's button idea a yer! good one. but 1 do believe in kissing babies. too" said Mrs. Brown.
 Babies need kisses. yet we know that baby is liable to all sorts of disease if you let anybody and ev- erybody kiss it."
 Although Mrs. Brown thinks there is nothing more adorable than baby and thinks the hardest temptation to overcome is to touch the little dimples that play about the faces of infants. she thinks one should con slider the welfare of the child as we'll as the selfish pleasure derived from the act.
 The button would remind un thnkable persons not to kiss babies. It is little short of crime to kiss babies on the mOuth," continued Mrs. Brown.
 Mrs Alden Little of 465O Some thing avenue has bravely carried out in practice a theory that hygiene lecturers have advocated, not to kiss babies on the mouth.
 "I have never kissed my babies on the mouth, or allowed others to do so. Now the children are old enough to understand the instruc- tions they have received to let no one kiss them. If they must be kissed. they are kissed on the hands. think the time custom of kiss ing the hands instead of the lips much more hygienic. anyway" said Mrs. Little "I don't care for the label fad. however. It would look as if you were conceited about your children and knew the temptation to kiss them couldn't be resisted. Even I have never kissed my babies on the mouth
 Charles Lambertz. city sanitary of ficer. declares himself against the promiscuous kissing of children, but doesn't think the baby label would do any good.
 Americans take too many chances to mind such little thing as a pla- card. They would take it as a joke There is no harm in kissing d baby on the mouth unless the per son doing it has a contagious dis ease" MT. Lambertz would not de- prive the baby of love. that sunshine of its life. The baby needs kisses But superintend the kissing"
Arizona republican., 1911-03-28
LATE SHAVER AGAIN.

virginia. er-what does that young man follow?"
 What young man, papa?'
 Why, the one that calls three nights a week and never notices the clock"
 "Oh. papa, he has political aspira- tions. He really expects to be elect ed a legislator
 "H'm. Well, tell him not to prac- tice any alI-night sessions around here"
Arizona republican., 1911-03-28
cANADA'S BUFFALO PRIZE.
Largest Herd in the World Thriving in
 Immense Enclosure.

The largest herd of buffalo in the world is now owned by Canada. They form a picturesque group as they roam over the new national reserve set apart for them near Wainwright, a city that has sprung up 125 miles east of Edmonton on the Grand Trunk Pacific railway.
 Canadians recognized the reed of action if the bison were to be preserved, and before Americans realized it, says the World Today. they had purchased
Arizona republican., 1911-03-28
IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
A communication From the Rev.
 Robert s. Fisher

To the Editor of The Republican:
 Sir-Certain business and banking interests are reported to be formu- lating statement for public con- sumption which will warn the peO- pie that the present time is mop perfume for a local option election. Some other day may be alright, but
Arizona republican., 1911-03-28
DAILY FAsH'oN ALKs
 BY MAY MANTCN
A PRACTICAL AND PROTECTIVE APRON.

FHE apron that
 is practical
 ' and attract
 i've and is becoming at the same timr, is one certain to win ap- proval. Here is a model that is made with sleeves ex- tended to the neck edge and which is simple yet new and smart in e fl ec t. It incl lu d e S patch pocke e s that mean com fort, it is easily adjusted, and it really covers the gown. This one is made of pcrcale trim m e d with banding. but all the materials that are used for aprons are appropriate for this one, gingham a n d chambray, linen and the like, W t h trimming either of contrast ing material or white, or of em- broidered banding. Plain blue cham bray with bands of white would be ex- ceedingly pretty. Checked gingham is much used for such garments and can be trimmed with material cut on the bias or with white or with banding. The trimming that is applied over the center front can be used or not, as liked. There is a belt adjusted over the backs that holds them in place and the closing is made with buttons and buttonholes.
 For the medium size will be required 5 yards of material P inches wide or 3H yards 36 with 3R yards of band ing.
 A May Manton pattern. No. 6o22. cut in three sizes, small 34 or 36, medium B or 40, large 42 or A in- ches bust measure. will be m ailed to any address by the Fashion De partment., of this paper, on receipt of ten cents. Of in stape which ins,,res
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-28
And Still Missing.

The Harlem woman who goes in for
the higher art has a. miniature Venus
de Milo standing on the piano, just
to show the casual caller that she's
wise to what's what
This woman has the Venus and she
also has a new hired girl, who comes
from furrin shores.
In busting the piano the other
morning, while her mistress was out
doing the marketing, the girl boWled
over the Venus. She picked it up,
picked up also a chip or two and then
began to weep.
When the mistress arrived home
an hour or SO later she found the girl
on her knees peering under and be-
hind the piano and looking in various
other directions, all of which suggest
ed that she might be searching for
something.
What Is the matetr?" asked the
mistress of the home in surprise.
'sOh, l knocked over that statchoo, -
lamented the girl, pointing to Venus.
But it doesn't seem to have dam
aged 1t any"
Eyes, 1t did," insisted the girl. al
most tearfully. ut broke off both
arms, ma'am, and haven't been abba
to find them"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-28
JAPANESE KITE FLIGHTS LOFTY TOWER TELESCOPE

In Japan there is an annual feast
day for boys, when each house having
male children hangs out strings of pa
per carp, which inflated by the breeze
become lifelike monster fish.
1T was on this feast day." says a
writer in the Wide World, that we
left Yokohama for Kamakura, once
the eastern capital of Japan, now
merely quiet little seaside village.
AS it was such an important occa-
sion the whole world made holiday,
some families hurried to the seashore
to fly their enormous humming kites,
from which the parents appeared to
derive quite as much enjoyment as
the children. The loud hum emitted
by the soaring kite as caused by a
piece Of thin bamboo, which is
stretched tightly across from shoulder
to shoulder.
This taut bamboo flament not
only acts as aeolian harp but bends
the whole kite, so that it's surface is
concaye instead of being, as in our
kites, plane. The noise when some
threescore or so Of these monsters are
in the air at the same time is deafen-
ing.
''The Japanese kite has no tail, but
is furnished with numerous long
streamers. Great competitions are
held by the owners of the kites, and
occasionally a mimic battle will be
fought in the air, the rival factions en-
deavoring by means of powdered
glass, which has been previously
worked into a definite length of the
kite strings, to saw through rivals
string, and so bring the yanquished
kite tumbling ANONYMOUSLY to the
ground
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-28
Pedler Wrote "Best Seller"

ceived from her novels in large or
ange grove, and she is not the only
writer who has put earnings from
story-writing into Florida land. Scion
Robinson put a considerable part Of
his earnings from his very popular fic-
ton into Florida lands, coming to the
state only four or five years after the
close of the Civil war"
Scion Robinson! I had not heard
that name for so long a time that
had almost forgotten that he was at
one time deemed a very successful
writer Of romances, one Of his books
having a sale in excess Of one hundred
thousand copies and standing a good
second for some years to Uncle
Toms Cabin" in point of popularity
Scion Robinson was born on a
scraggy farm in eastern Connecticut,
and learned the carpenters trade
when a boy. He gave that up when
he was young man and became a
pedler. That shift strange as it
may seem, was the turning point of
his career, and how this was the case
Scion Robinson, in the latter years Of
his life, used frequently to tell his
friends in these words:
''If I have had any success as a
writer, it was due to the opportunities
which my early carer as pedler
throughout Connecticut gave me. AS
a pedler l used to take great interest
in quaint, original characters whom
met, and I learned in that way the
habit of observation and Of discrimi-
mating observation. l learned, too, a
great deal about farming, and began
to write something for the newspapers
descriptive of farming life. In that
way became acquainted with Horace
upon the New York Tribune
We'll, the same habit of observa-
ton that l had fallen into when was
a pedler l adopted when l accepted
Greeley's offer and became a newspa-
per writer in New York. l saw many
tngs-quaint, humorous and pathe-
tic-in New York life just as l had
seen many things of like nature
while l was pedling my wares
throughout the country towns of Con-
necticut Then, one day, I wrote a
sketch based upon something which
/ saw. 1t was printed the next day.
1t seemed to touch a popular chord,
and I was asked to expand the sketch
and did so. In that way my book,
Hot Corn was written and sold in
excess of hundred thousand copies
within year.
TT was nothing but a little sketch
of New York life as I saw it, and I
never should have written that story,
or, in fact, done any other writing, but
for the happy necessity which COM
PEELED me to give up my trade as a
carpenter-for that was injuring my
health-and adept the vocation of a
pedler, where I learned to use my
eyes discriminatory
| Copyright, 1911 by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reseryed.)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-28
Story Of Abolitionist Days

that / wouldn't have been reappointed
marshal by Buchanan if it hadn't been
for William H Seward That's funny,
isn't it? Seward, you know, was the
great leader of the anti-slavery party
in the north, and yet he told me to
say to President Buchanan that If my
name was sent to the senate for re-
appointment as United States mar
shall, he would rise in executive SEES
sion of the senate and say that he
gave the nomination his cordial ap-
prevail because he thought Marshal
Rhynders was the best representa-
tive of the Democratic party in New
York
''Or course, there was a joke behind
that; Seward was very fond Of joking.
But the message that l carried from
him to Buchanan induced the latter
to send in my reappointment to the
senate, and there, in executive ses-
sion, Seward did exactly what he
promised he would do. and because
he did that my appointment was con-
firmed.
Nov how could | show my graft
tude towards an anti-slavery Repub-
ican? That was a question which 1
tried to answer for several weeks aft
er my reappointment was confirmed.
At last l said to myself:
Senator Seward is down on the
fugitive slave law He doesn't want
to see any fugitive slave arrested. I
will see to it that there won't be any
arrested while l am marshal, and I
viii do it in this way: If get a
warrant for the arrest of a fugitive
slave, I will cause that fact to be
widely circulated. l win let the fu-
gitive Slaves friends have tip. Then
they can get him out of the way
81 pledged myself to do this, and
l did do it. And it is true, as you
have heard, that rot one fugitive slave
was arrested in New York between
1857 and 1861. That was the way |
paid Senator Seward for the kindness
he did me-"
Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-28
VAST RiChEs OF CHINA

An astonishing impression of the
variety and pecu&arity of the natural
riches of China is given by the store
houses and factories Of the Hankow
export firms. Whereas the export Of
tea, the monopoly Of a few large Rus
sian houses, has for some years re-
NAMED almost stationary, the value
of the export Of oil seeds from Han
kow, to take one example of a COM
paratively unimportant article, rose
from 38 million taels in 1907 to los
in 1909
Boats bring wood tar from the up
per Yangtze in big round baskets lined
with paper to be refined and remelted
in the factories; they bring astonish-
ing masses Of the greasy product Of
the tallow tree used in European
technical industries, also cotton and
bea s, gallnuts, pigs bristles: also
skins, which are sun dried in the
yards of the storehouses and packed
by means of hydraulic presses for
sea transport
Millions of ducks eggs are, during
the few weeks Of the season, manu-
featured by the hand labor of coolie
women and children into masses of
pure dried yolk and albumeii, smelling
like biscuits. The albumen Is used in
the Photographic industry, the yolk
in the European sweet stuff manufae-
ture. On the same bank of the Yang
tse are the new cold storage houses
and the great tot acco factories of for
eign firms, and near by are ore refin-
cries, in which anthony, lead and
zinc are prepared for export.