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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
The Herald's Daily
Short Story

man sitting writing in dusty OFFICE
thrilled him with a strange feellng OF
unrest In his youth he had so oIten
heard the Pan piping that he has no
difficulty in recognizing the song. He
knew its dangers, too He knew now
the music battered among the leaves
like silver rain drops-Or tears he
knew how II fell softly on the heart
OF woman, making Of il tning OF
wax. He thought suddenly OF Nora
alone in a wood of Pan, with green
things all about her and wicked
white moon.
81 viii love you all my life" said
the man with a beard like Pans
What is love without marrisgeE
asked the woman sagely, trying 10
shut her ears to the song Of Pan.
The man with the beard lauS neu
strangely. He caught her hands fierce
" Forget convention, he urged
This isn't the city. We are IhOu-
sands OF miles away from that gI4y
town which forbids you to love win
out a wedding ring. II love be confined
within a wedding ring, have you ever
thought how narrow that love must
necessarily be- ! may not marry you,
but'-his hands frightened on nerS- /
may love you, and VIII. his arms
went out TO hold her.
Nearer and nearer came the pipes OF
Pan. Love me badly-sadly-m
~" shriued his song The WOOD was
Iull or music raining IKE save 60
drops. or 1t might have been tear
drops among the green
Patter-patter-pat IKE
that.
But the music heard by two was
also heard by a third, searching vain
" in the road.
It led him TO the twisted path wind
ing to the clearing where the pine
cones fell. and which the moonlight
lit as with a lamp.
Just in time the woman saw hin
and henceforth was deaf to the song
OF Pan
gladly 1t was with his arms around
her that she went away from the
wood and down the hill, away rom
the moonlight that made for madness,
and the whispering leaves rustling In
But pan. undisturbed. piped out
boldly. Love me badly-sadly-Ina mad
"" He could afford to let one Wom-
an go
naHv in June were he not philos-
opher as wei as q lover
That is ons Of the secrets OF Love
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26

- HICAGO is one of the greatest
feats ever. performed by the hui
man race. 1t is only IS years
old, and yet it is the fifth city in the
world in size, and leads the world in
lung development. In 1887, Chicago con
sisted of a drug store, a main street, and
so signs, advertising malaria remedies.
Today it has 2.250.00O inhabitants, and
the city OF - years ago could be sue
ccssfully lost in the largest of its SIX
union depots
Chicago was founded in the swamp
of the shores of lake Michigan bv a lot
of 33d degree hustlers. There was no
excuse for the city, but this didn't
bother its founders. First thew manu-
featured the Chicago river out of
muddy little creek. Then they built
railroads, and encouraged people to
build towns along the railroads. and
thus provide a reason for their existence.
Later on, to save time lost BY chHls and
fever, they boosted the entire city Is
feet into the air. the greatest feat of
second story work in history. Then
they turned the Chicago river around
and made 1t run backward in order TO
get rid Of their sewerage. Finally. be-
cause the Illinois Central railroad would
not get of the lake shore. they moved
the lake shore away from it. They are
now busy revising the climate. and If
they ever have any trouble with their
electric light companies. they viii prob
ably put new sun on the night shift.
The only way to get ahead Of Chi
eagoan IS to get busy and finish up be-
fore he Is born.
Chicago was burned in 1871. with
loss OF S2OOOOO,OOO. but business was
only slightly interfered with for few
days The city captured the packing
business Of the country by loading hogs
m an endless railway and butchering
them at speed of 80 miles an hour 1t
invented the skyscraper in order to save
the trouble of building thick stone walls,
and It spent S5O.O0O,O0O in advertising
by building Worlds fair 20 years ago.
II has put 1000 miles of its railways on
Suits to save wear and tear on its cIti-
zens. and IN the late eighties. when
business was dull it went out and an
neKed p towns. four townships. two
rivers, three lakes, sleeping car trust,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
HE WANTS TO KNOW.


Editor FL Paso Herald.
In a recent number Of The Herald
there appeared a reference to the case
Of Samuel Gompers, on trial at the
time for contempt Of court, said con
tempt consisting in having invited the
court to go to hell
There is room for doubt in this case
as to whether such an invitation con
sIitutes contempt OF whether II indi-
Gates affection for the members OF
said court and desire that In the
future life their lives might be cast
in pleasant places
You published a long list Of names
Of most distinguished men who have
passed away. All Of these men We're
consigned to hell by self appointed
agents OF the Almighty. If they have
gone according to consignment, the
devil has secured a good bargain
Even the judges Of Washlng ton
court might consider themselves high
~ hoaored by being admitted to such
a goOdly company. II Mr. Gompers
had the ROVER really TO send them to
limbo instead Of merely telling them
t. % there, / have no doubt that
those Judges would soon De enjoy lhs
che comPaDionship Of those choice
spirits.
Now arises a very serious question
II It is true that so many Of the men
-aud women alsO-WuO nave DEColLlr
noted in this world of ours for having
done something worth doing have been
sent below, who are those who have
gone u the other place? There must
be a scarcity of good society there.
II is said that there Is mere joy IN
heaven over one repentant sinner than
over rrany just. 1t is quite possible
that these whose names You men
toned were not very fond Of sinners,
repentant or otherwise, and they took
the other route to avoid such COM
We are told that heaven is popu-
lated in part by murderers who re-
pent and get their passports to that
place lust before the hangman fits the
moose around their necks and starts
them off on the last journey. Shall
those who GO there have for associates
such spirits as that of TorQuemada-
OF the Borgias, OF Catharine de Med
ici and those horrible scOundrels, her
sons2 VIII one meet there all OF those
who have served the Lord by butcher
ing .heretics2" Those who burned
witches in tar barrels and those who
hammered each other to death over
the question as to whether unbaptlze o
infants were to be damned offhandi
without benefit of clergy?'
J. Wagner.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
sOLoMoNVILLE NorEs.

So!iomonville. Ariz., Feb. 26.-D. H
Slorioge. county clerk and recorder,
IS confined to his bed.
MI and Mrs. VIM r. Chambers have
moved from SOlomonviue to Stafford
. Nj chambers has lately purchased the
Thum
J. A. Woods, school superintendent,
Ras Deen sick for some days with a
M and Mrs. Donald Brown came
over from Hayden. Ariz.. on a visit to
Iie- nome folks Mrs. Brown was Miss
Cornelia Woods. a daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. A. Woods. of SolOmviue.
mas W. Parks has returned TO Los
angeles, Calf He viii complete a
Ilnlshing course in banking
Juan baroldy left to join his father,
Luis Barclay, In FaIrbank, Ariz.
H. r. Comtu and wife are in from
Sanch2z- Mr.. Comtu is teaching the
school 81 Sanchez this winter and per
fecting his knowledge Of the spanish
language lie is an Adventist min
ister
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
Oil is STRUCK ON
RANCH NEAR ALPINE

Alpine. Texas. Feb. 26--OI has been
struck on Francis Rooney's ranch.
which IS about 40 miles south Of Al
pine. Tt cannot yet be sscertained
whether the flow can be developed
into a paying proposition. but every
indication points to the good
Henry Dryden and family, who have
been in charge or the Holland hotel,
viii leave for California IN few
weeks. steve Nixon. from Utopia
viii then take charge OF the Holland
house on March /.
Mrs W. II. Ragin has gone to visit
her son IN Colorado county
Miss Onie Billingsly, from Fl Pasos
is visiting friends in Alpine.
ny J., Jr. the fOuryearOld son OF
Mr.. and Mrs Nay BoWles died last
Saturday afternoon and was buried
Sunday.
The mothers club held its regular
monthly meeting at the school house.
Dr. 3. F. Berkeley has returned from
Del Rio. where he attended the Purity
OF the Ballot Convention
Miss Ruth Louthians from valentine
is visiting Miss Zela Pierce.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
QUAKER fluctuations.
|pnIIaueID1Ia heCOIu-I
-. Il -l--nl. f. .

fDLLLtAl A-E-l9- ~
The giIded youth is simply fashion
plated
+-s hair is not what makes IT 90 OF
me honest taxpayer supports lots
81 people who are not IN the aims
house. ma
Many newly married man Wouio
se thankful II his wife would only
cast her bread upon the waters.
From q bachelors point OF view
when a baby isn't crying there must
- romething the matter with It.
r7Ia country editor IS apt to BECOME
q vegetarian because that's the way
-.or+ 81 his Subscriptions are paid.
r. erite 81 the fact that there Is
l,nuntT on the wolf we stih have some
dsfficulty in keeping him from the
.-Ths ayes have st." announced the
presiding officer at the medical con-
Tention that was discussing the sub
IL takes the average man 2 long time
10 learn the error Of his way, but with
the Baseball player it's different he
can read it in the paper next morning.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
inc, ,r, Denatured Poem

makes the
a wailng the neghbor while hche
\ his the
peoples cause the shining
though
public wrath be growing he doesn't need the growing
h onvho horoforn that aching. The
TOoTHACHF to
he woudn a founder; what
He tinkers
while down grOn.
pain
z4As yrung: nohn
~,,9e ont fstvle; do nod smile
Copyright. loia BY George Matthew. Adam. L0aex71la4o,4
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26

esgo has a S3O0OO0OO university, an
honestly built city hall, store so large
that it furnishes guides for its Gus
toners and a baseball team that has
won the remnant five times in SIX years
The citv is dirty. but no dirtier than
any infant 1t is very healthy, except
to cattle and hogs. The favorte diver
sions Of Chicago men are looping the
loop. taking political conventions away
from New York. showing visitors
through the stock yards, and leaving a
million to some Chicago institution
Even if you are deaf, 1t is very easy
to tell Chicago man by the way in
which he walks over other pedestrians
from behind.
Copyright, 1912, by George Mathew
Adams.)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
VeSf POCkef Essays
CHICAGO By George Fitch
By George Fitch
Author OF @At Good Old siwash.'

iour primevaI forests and a cattle ranch
It is now putting its coal wagons and
draws underground. is pushing the lake
back an additional half nile, and Is max
ing grand opera pay dividends
Chicago has IS railroads and every
one of them ends in the city Eve nun
dred passenger trains day enter the
city, and in each one Of them the porter
announces, Chicago; all out Most OF
these passengers give up trying TO md
the station to which they must transfer,
and become permanent residents Chl-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
One-Sentence Philosophy
BEST STORIES.
They Got Inside.


They Got Inside.
Preparations were being made IN
the criminal court TO sentence q negro
who had been convicted Of murder IN
the second degree Two little negro
boys peeped through the main door
way Of the criminal court room ana
addressed one Of the stern deputies,
according to the Kansas City Journal
20 you let boys in2' said the larger
OF the two.
No boys allowed said the dep
uty, disinterested.
The little negroes strolled halfway
oown me stairs leading to the street.
held conference and then returned
and again opened the door.
Mister, said the larger. addressing
the same deputy, does it make a diff
ference If We is the sons of the man
what's goin. to jan2"
The boys were sons OF the negro who
was awaiting the murder sentence.
The little incident so affected M
Friedberg and other court attaches
that they all went to judge Lstshaw
and asked him to reduce the sentence.
And the boys got inside the court
room, too
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
JAYNE SAYS 1T. STOCKTON
IS DEVELOPING RAP

Austin. Texas. Feb. 2s-Joseph
jayne. OF Pecos county. was here on
business from his home at Fort stock
ton. He said that his section OF the
state Is developing at a very rapid
rate. The orient was within 80 miles
OF Fort Stockton and work Of COM
pleting the road to thst point was
being pushed rapidly. While here he
took occasion to announce that ne was
supporting Col J. B. WOlters for sen
ator Bauey's seat IN the United states
senate
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
SWEETWATER NAN WAS HELD
on REQUEST OF SHERIFF.

Clyde Barrow. Of Sweeta alter. Tex.
was arrested Saturday night by state
ranger w. II. Barbee. Sheriff J. r.
BOND, Of Sweetwater. teIegraphed that
ne would come Sunday night to take
barrow back to SWeetwater, where it
IS alleged he is wanted on a charge
on taking some diamonds from his
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
PROTESTS AT TROTTTNG
To FINER AIS IN d

B. E. Major protests at the manner in
which undertakes 80 on a trot TO
funerals in Ell Paso-
7 have told them that when I die, If
they can't get to the cemetery in one
day in a walk. they must camp on the
road and make two days OF it, he
saws. "The dead do not know that
they trot with the corpse, but the Nv
ing know fl and some respect should be
shown to the bereaved relatives /
have heard people from all over the
country make remarks about trotting
TO funerals in Ell PasO. 1t is a shame
and should be stopped.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
TURNEY is A DELEGATE
TO SOCIOLOGICAL {

Austin, Tex Feb. 26.-Gov. Colquitt
has appointed los delegates to rep
-esenf Texas at the meeting Of the
Southern Sociological congress, which
a. 10 he held at Nashville, Tenn. on
Ma 40 inclusive. OF those appointed
is former state senator ". ". Turney'
OF III Paso.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
Solomon In Chicago

MOTHER Gonzales that is named Enrique hair
"a tonic manufactures Chicago, has been complained against by Katie
Hhan ground sold BY Gonzales does not
a. what claimed Chicago judge OF dnacana solomon
called before policeman who made the arrest the policeman IS named
Buns Buns is bald sentenced Gonzales to grow
fn 300 days being
wear to good report to him at the end OF the year
with policeman Buns assured Katie that fun justice would be
ss n b e bar It policeman but think OF the
Prize
city county seemingly overlooked beSeats city
council has authorized establishing municipal bank and department
which win handle money balances present In Seattle
hanks ranging from 100000 s5ooOO interest The resOu
provides handling the municipal bank It
would interesting municipal bank is to DO general banking
business making receiving It would be great chance to build
the governing along neglected in some degree
tPhsd assurances OF president mao
dOntents moving particular oeon
that anywhere uarez Why
that semny announced one SUNDAY
already south and would not attack ne
day opened crowded house Mde
today Daz and yet there is no excuse
printing real very fully
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
No TECTTRE no 1IAsONs.

y M will deliver a lecture tonight at
the Masonic temple Under the auspices
of the Scottish rites The lecture viii
begin at S o'clock and all Masons OF
this territory may attend,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
TO
THE HERALD

can communications mG=s bear the
signature Of the writer but the name
viii not be published where such re-
quest is made.)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26

Bout all our gOy'nOrs an presidents
seem Z do is study railroad time tables.
Tn teller what says quails for quail
seems t go out O. his way + git On tn
subject.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-26
ANCIENT MEXICO PRODUCED THE MOST
PERFECT CALENDAR TN WORLDS HISTORY

In Five Thousand Years It Would Not Vary So Mua
In Year 20, B. c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
THE COST OF THE SCHOOLS

For the upkeep of their schools. the
people of Kansas paid out last year
the sum of s10,00O.OO0. That's a lot
of money for the people of a state of
less than two millions in population
to expend annually for the purposes
of public education. And did the peo
pie get their moneys worth?
No one in kansas, or any other
civilized commonwealth, begrudges
cent that goes for public education, if
there is something approximating an
adequate return. The future and the
stability of these United States as a
republic depend upon the degree to
which the masses are educated. The
intelligence of a free people is their
greatest resource. 1t is best worth
conserving and developing. And so
the price of public education is cheap,
no matter what it may be. if the out
turns are in keeping with the out
lay.
ornate school buildings. however,
are not necessary in the PRONUNCIATION
of the best that there is in education.
If the statistics could be gathered
showing just how much money is ac-
tually wasted each year in Kansas on
school buildings that are altogether
too elaborate in design. their extent
would be surprising to most of the
taxpayers. Then, too, many of the
experimental but expensive fol-de-
rolls that have been added to the cur
riculums of the schools during the
past few years have retarded rather
than helped in making the public ed
cational system as serviceable as it
should be to all classes of children.
And another thing. 1t is ques-
ton if the cost of the public educa-
tional system in Kansas, and other
states for that matter, is properly APP
portioned. Too much of it, or more
than it's proportionate share may be
devoted to the high schools and high
er institutions of learning. The great
bulk of the public school children do
not even enter the high school Many
of item drop out of school before
they have reached the seventh and
eighth grades in the grammar
schools. Hence the grammar schools,
and their conduct. are of even more
Importance than are the high schools.
And yet, the children who get into
the high school appear to have the
most advantages. In the matter of
classes, for instance, those in the
grammar schools are two and three
times as large numerically as are
those in the high schools. Every
teacher and educator surely knows
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
TT IS USELESS TO WORRY.

L often worry over things,
when later I can plainly see,
That they have happened for the best
In ways mysterious to me.
Ger treasures lost, I've sometimes wept,
But presently to my relief,
pleasure unexpected came
And banished every cause for grief.
Sometimes adversely is best:
All is not bad that seems to pain.
sometimes sorrow makes us good,
Sometimes seeming loss, is gain.
What though our life is not all joy,
1t is not right to grieve and mourn
AS God is greater, than we are,
his plans are grea ter, than our own.
Grief in the heart should no more last.
Than in the sky, the clouds should stay,
For lack of both there is a Light,
To drive these shadows, far away.
All things together work for good
The blessed Holy Scriptures say,
God gives us something, every time,
lie takes from us, a thing away.
lie rules the Universe with love;
He even guides the sparrows' flight
If Him we trust and do our part,
The wrongs will, somehow all be right.
-Nella j. Iansford, in the Elk City Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13

that as good results cannot be attain
ed in imparting information of an ed
ucational character to a class of from
so to so pupils as can be obtained
with a class of % or 80. This is more
especially true where the pupils are
youngsters just beginning to pick up
the fundamentals education, the
pupils in the elementary grades. It
is safe to assert that in almost every
particular the cost of giving a pupil
a four years high school course is
materially in excess of the cost of
giving q pupil any four years of gram
mar school work. Shouldn't the re-
verse be the case? The grammar
school education is the more impor-
tant because it is the only education
that is available to the big majority
of TIE children who have to rely on
the public schools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13

| laugh
Blake was directing the police up
STAIRS She heard steps below in the
Grew back from the window, white and
| chilled
They've got him, Miss Cathie. in the
library Blake brought the news He's
Ihat bold and daring, too. They want
you to see him. Not word will he
oh, must II" Cathleen hesitated. but
the Reid blood was not made of milk.
mead up and steady nerved, she went
uoWn to the library. The burglar met
lleI gaze squarely. He was young,
sinooth-faced, towsle-haired rough
coated, hatless His curly hair w.
qrencned and curled tightly. 1t was the
halr that gave him away.
how 1o na,11s she gasped. Tommy,
"HoW could Won -, re+or+a5 ,1,r,,,,,,,-
mildly. AoiiiinS'
But I didn't know you were
Your father sent me down on the
afternoon train
But why on earth were Won IN
the roof?''
Tommy's eyes twinkIed. He raised
his handcuffed wrists.
- 1t leaked lady L was only fixing
IT. 1t was coming in awfuIly. and I
was asleep in the room underneath.
L didn't hear you arrive, even
You might have seen tn light"
But I was looking for a leak.
Won't you please explain ?'
Catnleen explained, with what dig
nIty she could gather. The man was
Mr.. THOMAS Drew, a close friend of
the family. There was a mistake.
She had no idea he was there at all.
AND she was very sorry.
When they were alone in the great
dim library, Tommy took her in his
arms with unmistakable intentions.
You said 1 was close friend of
the FAMILY" he protested land you're
the family. Do you suppose I was
going to be railroaded down south or
west while you stayed here for three
months? The governor needs some
body here to look after his business
interests, and I applied for the posi-
ton. Also, the word goes around
that I'm to be a junior partner Will
you be June bride, sweetheart ?"
Tommy, you don't know how
funny you looked in those steel
rings
1.-THE first week in June?"
Cath1een laughed and raised her
face from his coat sleeve.
eff you promise to keep off peoples
roofs. ''-(Copyrighted 1912 by Asso-
cfated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
SAYS UNCLE CAV

The fellow who quits because he
hasn't the INSIDE track wou1dn' t
know what to do with it if he had it.
He is in the same position as the dog
Opie Read used to tell about.
Mr.. Read stood on the rear plat
form of a train as it pulled out of an
Arkansas railway station. Beside him
stood the local philosopher. fierce
dog, yelping viciously and awakening
a thousand echoes among the hills,
pursued the train until it was hope
lessly distanced. AS the last yelp died
away, the native turned to Mr.. Read.
stranger he said, what do you
all reckon that dawg would "a did
with this heah train if he'd caught
it %
If you ever amount to anything, son,
you've got to get out of the fierce dog
class. You've got to quit barking for
things you can't handle. You've got
to make better use of the things you
can. A good many of US are yeIping
in the wake of express trains when we
should be chasing chickens, hunting
rabbits and making ourselves generally
useful.
1t is by being useful in small things
that we attain that power which
makes us rulers over great things. The
man who cuts figure among the
"outs" is soon one of the inns" A fact
that we often overlook is that those
who have and hold the INSIDE track"
have won it by hard work and keep it
by the same means. Nearly always
they are men who have begun ''out-
side More significant STILL they
wouldn't have the INSIDE track if
they hadn't wrested it from some one
else or created it for themselves.
No fierce dog ever had it, and he
wouldn't know what to do with it if
he had. If he did know what to do
with it, he would have it, for the
knowledge of the proper use of place
and commercial advantage is the same
knowledge that makes the attainment
of them possible.
Quit your kicking. Use your tongue
less and your brain more. Get out of
the fierce dog class Copyright, 1912,
by w. E. Wi1liams.)