El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-28
BURNETT MAY
Be LONDON
MAYOR
Alderman, Who Is in Will
ing to Take the Job. Has a
Good Chance Now.
LONDON PERFORMERS
ARE HARD PRESSED

London, Eng, Sept fisherman sir
/ David Burnett will probably be the
/ next lord mayor of London, in success
{ sion to sir Thomas B. Crosby, who re-
! tires in November. He has expressed a
! willingness to assume office, and as
/ he is in line for the honor, he will prob
/ ably be chosen. Sir David was sheriff
/ IN 19O7-19OS, and in the latter year was
! kniEhted- At present he is one of the
! kings He1tenants for the city
/ The growing of peppermint laven-
/ der, camOmile and other medicinal
/ plants, little known, but valuable
English industry has been hit by the
| recent storms and floods which have
devastated the low lying counties of
! England The English oils Of pepper
! mint and lavender are exported to all
I parts Of the world, where they bring
+ larger prices than other varieties be-
J cause OF the peculiar delicacy of their
: navors and aromas-
the dry weather in the late spring
I was unfavOrable for planting, and the
cold summer with its heavy rainfall
ruined the harvest AS a result very
/ little oil will be distilled, and dealers
4 have been warned to beware of the
adulteration which INSCRIPTIONS eX-
, supply the demand for the English oils
English Damage Suits.
The resolution adopted at the Trades
Union congress calling upon parlia
ment to reform the jury system has
again revived complaint that is
shared equally by the labor and liberal
parties. Recently a iberar newspaper
compared the libel damages assessed
| during the past year against various
publications and politicians and the
comparisons showed that almost in
variably laboriteS and liberals were
mulcted for heavy damages. while con-
servativeS were either relieved from
damages or compelled to pay small PEN
alties
It is claimed that this inequality is
due to the fact that judges and court
officials are mainly members of the
conservative party, and that they select
juries from publicans, who are bitter
against the liberal party on account of
the LlOyd-GeOrge budget, which put
heavy tax on the liquor trade At any
rate there viii be a determined fight
made during the coming session of par
lament for the reform of the present
system OF choosing jurors.
The resolution adopted by the labor
congress not only asks for the abolish
ment of the distinction between com
mon and special jurors. but demands
adequate payment for all jury service.
Reform Funds Run Low.
The innumerable pro and anti or
CARNATIONS which have their headquar-
tiers in London are looking forward
with considerable apprehension to the
coming winter, for the annual sub
scriptions to their Golfers have fallen
off alarmingly.
Just at present there is a distinct
tendency on the part of the general
public to reduce its doles to charities
and social organizations, and many
who have been in the habit Of making
annual subscriptions to their favorite
charities and societies are contenting
themselves with an occasional small
gift
It is. however, not the hospitals and
actively beneficient Institutions that
are at present feeling the pinch so Sc
verely as those propaganda societies
devoted to the furtherance of various
''isms." These in particular are SUI
fering from steadily diminishing in
comes Practically all of these depend
wholly for support upon the generosity
of the public, and it is becoming in
creasingly difficult to coax money from
their supporters.
Yet some of them maintain elabo-
rately furnished offices and well paid
staffs- Some are cutting down the pay
roll, while others are resorting to all
sorts of schemes to raise money. One
which at one time exerted no small in
fluence in politics declared that the
subscription habit is falling into de-
cay. He said:
mo. it is not fair to blame the in
surance act in particular for this wide
spread decline in subscriptions. The
effects of the act on the charitable in
stincts OF the public will not be felt
the state of things to recent legislation
generally, to the rise in the cost of liv-
ing and to the all prevailing sense of
discomfort and insecurity"
Women Become Bankrupts.
Women in England appear to be exer-
cising their recently acquired rights
Of bankruptcy, for during the past fis-
cal year there were 399 failures among
the members of the Iair sex. The mar
ried women failed more often than the
widow and the widow oftener than the
single woman. The report records the
failure of 161 married women, 157 wild
Ows and 81 spinsters
The preponderance of married women
may be due to the fact that her Specu
latiTe trading is due sometimes to a
dishonest husband 1t appears from the |
records that the women are much more
successful than men in coming to an
understanding with their creditors. The
report does not state whether this fact
is due to the more adrOit dealing of the
women debtors ? because the creditors
are more forbea-ing to debtors of the
gentler sex