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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22
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and ardent eyes. How happy they had
been sitting together later on by the
river bank watching the moonlight
turn the water to silver and the grow
ing things to castles Of mystery and
shadows.
She thought suddenly. as she turned
to go upstairs, of the three white but
terflies she had watched dance away
in the sunlight that afternoon.
One for luck
But her luck was outi
The first white butterfly had flown
away.
Il think I ought to tell you, dear"
wrote a friend. that three times last
once in the park, once at Earrs court.
and once driving in a taxi She looked
quite common, and what an atrocious
hat, and I'm sure her hair was dyed.
but Walter seemed devoted. :"
It was strange that even in that mo-
ment of binding, Illuminating pain her
thoughts flew back to three pale but
terflies dancing against a sapphire
sky.
one for love!
The secCnd butterfly had flown
away!
'She must have walked in her
sleep. poor lamb" the portly landlady
declared through her tears. why, she
hadn't a trouble in the world, ami
that happy with her young man. OF
not able to come down so much, bit
she wasn't one to worry Don't she
look a picture lying there with all
them flowers, a-smiling 10 herself"
But 1 think . was because she knew
the third butterfly had flown away.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22

blaekening shoes, the porters sits by tn
car heater and stokes it. If the thermo-
meter drops below Ill, he is ashamed,
and weeps bitterly over his neglect.
People criticize the Pullman porter be-
cause OF his naughty ways and his
gloomy disposition, but we should not
forget his wrongs. What with trying to
unmake berths while the people are still
in them and getting chased with a club
because he has grabbed a sleeping passen-
ger by the nose in trying to waken him,
and what with spending a lifetime
watching sleeping and nl-natured man
kind in its stocking feet and without its
collar on, he cannot help souring a little.
So we should be kind TO the porter at
least a quarters worth each trip and
should not forget, when retiring, to at
taeh a string to a great toe and hang
it outside the berth curtain in order that
he may not be compelled to feel around
for our hair in the dark while waking
Us.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22
WORSHIP.

Must fear. indeed, accept what love
denies,
And faith receive what reason bids
disdain2
Can priestly word wash out hates
caustic stain,
Or cross or shambles purge soul OF
lies?
o signs and symbols by which con-
science buys
An anesthetic for its soul birth
pain,
Too long We charm a world which
seeks to gain
4 Iistless mansion in the dubious
skies
Arouse, o child OF mystery unguessed:
Put goodness in thy life and in thy
creed.
Today wen lived best wins the day
to be
And finds il in undreamed Of beauty
dressed,
Traditions staff is but a broken
reed
While love and truth uphold the
skies and sea,
James n West. in The Ninth Para
disc"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22
SUPPLEMENTAL
AUDIT ORDERED

Robinson & Masquellette, who recently
completed an audit of the city books, are
now engaged in making a supplemental
report dealing with the waterworks de-
partment OF the city. according to the
statement of mayor c. L. Kelly Monday
morning. The audit in this instance is
being made at the suggestion of the
mayor, and it is said when completed will
be full and detailed report of the ac-
count of the department.
The auditors in addition to performing
this work are working on the city school
books, and the bookkeeping system
adopted by the city will be put into eff
feet with reference to the school books
when the audit is finished.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22

A PULLMAN porter is a sad Sene-
~ gambian who makes beds in a
sleeping car for a living. He
makes "a beds each night and gets done
just in time to begin unmaking them in
the morning. When business Is brisk
porter sometimes has to 60 without
food for three days, because he cannot
take the end of pillow slip from be-
tween his teeth long enough to snatch
a bite
Besides making up beds, the porter has
to blacken shoes. All night long he
blackens shoes, putting black blacken-
ing on the tan ones and tan blackening
on the black ones with great care. He
blaekens all the shoes he can find and
then puts them away in a pile. Then
he goes away himself and stands out in
the cold gray dawning on the station
platform for hours at time, while his
guests ring a bell that has been dis
connected. However, he always gives the
shoes back when he gets around to it.
Sometimes a greedy guest takes a second
helping of shoes and the last man gets
left, but this is not the porter's fault,
and those who blame him wrong him
cruelty.
Porters are always dark men but
they are not as dark as their deeds.
A porter likes nothing better than to
steal the whisk broom out of the wash
room and then rent his own broom to
the passengers for a quarter apiece.
Porters are also absent minded.
While thinking about their wrongs, they
forget to waken the sleeping passenger
until the train is slowing down for his
town, thus compelling him to dress
lightly in his trousers and leap for life
with bushel of clothes in his arms.
But porters are very faithful. All night
long when he is not making berths or
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22
Our American Sporting Life


games bad get into the frame
for it makes Americans
exhibition athletics
thoroughly osnanIk
the peasant
the persons
In
in playAeican seldom do
certainly gratifying
cent types specialized forgotten
altogether dhs,
efficiency participation
he people Il sport sports
quarantine
guide country
fens 70
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22
UNCLE Waits DENATURED POEM
Persistence
By Walt Mason

followed
nv I'm damp; and body aded
faded? Not mueh Mary
buzzng flies and swat them with
Oh
hot" But sending forth warcy CHEEKY
Lie siunber
all take yO6r
feeling with scaping hawk swat the
block Ny May
hftyseven Million
to kill the due
skeete down to take the count And
flies live flourish under the rOofe Of
thunder and and swat and swat
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22
Prevention Cheaper Than Cure


Of
defOrmy, vitality shameuy
neglec population
thought s living
First running everywhere second
should be frequent
public
parkays
for ultimate present
they wish public
ruser having petty
thievng is grOtesque
An president
locks keeps sight time
danger
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22
SOLDIER MUSICIAN COLLAPSES
IN FRONT OF POLICE STATION

A. R. Lewis, a musician in the I'D
infantry band, fell unconscious in front
Of the police station Sunday night at
10 o'clock. due to an attack of heart
trouble. The unconscious man was taken
20 the emergency hospital in the station,
and sergeant Greet Immediately sum
m0ned physician. 1t was at first
thought the man was dead, as the beat
OF his pulse was not perceptible. Stimu-
lants were administered and the patient
was revived and sent to Fort Bliss.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22
POINTER PARAGRAPHs.

IOUICdSO NtWs-J
Flattery aimed at a sensible woman
falls flat.
It takes a man of courage to do all
of his own thinking.
All the world loves a lover. The
world likes to be amused.
But minister is seldom as black as
he dresses himself.
When you see an impecunious friend
it may prove to be a touching sight
wise man forgives his enemies to
him.
And the man who fails in a good
cause Is better than two men who
didn't try.
Many man is willing to pocket his
pride if by so doing he can pocket your
money
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press. J

A-NCh LOAh ttSS.l
High priced experience doesn't wear any
better than the cheap kind
What makes a girl so smart about
managing men Is they think they're the
ones.
A man who is a candidate for some
office can be nice even to his poor re-
lations.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22
One-Sentence Philosophy
QUAKER MEDITATIONs.

NPniladelph1a Record
None are so blind as those who sWal-
low flattery.
We live and learn, but those who
live fastest don't always learn most.
Love makes the world go round, and
even divorce isn't always on the square.
II all the worlds a stage, most of US
realize that hackers are mighty scarce.
Youngpop-'I tell you that kid Of
mine was born to rule" Singleton
Think he'll make a statesman eh?"
XOungPOp-"Ye or a janitOr-"
Tommy Pop, what is a peanut poll
tician2' Tony's Pop-'A peanut pol
itician, my son, is one who is always
looking for some one to shell out"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22
JOURNAL ENTRTFs-

Love comes fast sometimes, but it
often goes faster.
Too many gentlemen are only that
way when it's convenient
Most Of the steaks sold by the butch
ers are Of the mis- variety.
Putting on a good front is all right
If you don't try to oYerdo it
Most of the things that require con-
siderable skill TO handle, like ships,
automobiles, etc, are all referred to
as she"
1t takes a lot Of nerve for man,
who also needs a shave, to 20 into a
barber shop and only get a haircut
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22

EVERYTHING seems t be goin' up excep~
tn Teller that reads tn gas meter. Some
husbands are perfect brutes an others
have Their mustaches shaved of T. please
Their wives.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22

THIRTYSECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION
NAeI0O
20 perc1 the
Wis H A
Martin L Sharpe Ramsey
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22
= A BACHELORS DIARY

Josephine Writes Him Astounding Off the
By
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22
PULLMAN
/ PORTERS
BY GEORGE FITCH,
Author Of "At Good Old Silva

Copyright, 1912. by George MathevAdams.l
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22

The idea of chief ROjas rustler having men
thieving is grotesque.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
PREPARING FOR LAUNCHINGS.
Overhauling the Marine Railway al
Regan's Boatyard.

Capt. Sonny Regain is overhauling the
marine railway at his boatyard, foot
OF 14th street southwest, in preparation
for the launching of the six or eight
large pleasure launches that have been
hauled out there since last fall. The
capstan, used to raise and lower the
cradle of the railway, is being replaced
on heavy timbers, and other work is
being done to put the railway in con-
dition for service. The launches Nep-
tune, Augusta, Rosalie and Truant. with
others. are at the yard being overhauled
and painted in preparation for the COM
ing boating season, and in the latter
part of this week or early in the COM
ing week they will be put overheard.
Bennett has the two-masted river
schooner Adlie Steffins out on his rail-
way to rebuild the hull, preparatory
to her going into commission as a
wood and lumber carrier on the river.
Considerable work was done to the hull
as she lay overheard, and a few days
ago the vessel was taken from the
water, SO that the workmen could get
at the lower part of her hull. 1t was
thought that much work would have
to be done to her, but she was found
to be in good condition, and required
little else than calking to put her
in shipshape. The vessel will be ready to
return to service in the coming month
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25

BINGHAM. On March 3D. 1912. at Philadelphia
Pa. Gen. HENRY HARRISON, son of the
late James Bingham, in his seventy first year
Relatives and friends invited to attend the
funeral services on Tuesday. March 26. n
2:3O PM, at the Second Presbyterian Church
21st and Walnut streets. Philadelphia. In
terment private. 20
CLAGETT. On Saturday. March %. 1912. al
his residence. 302 l. street southeast, HENRY
CLAGETT. in his forty eighth year.
Funera. private.
CLEGG At the residence of his daughter,
Mrs. F.. F.. Belote, 6s1 & street southwest,
ABEL. A. CLEGG, born in Ackrington, Lam
cashire. England. April 3. 1882.
Funeral private Please omit flowers. Nor
folk, Va, papers please copyl 26'
CROSON Suddenly, on Sunday, March "a.
1872 at am, at Wellington. Kan, EPPA
s., eldest OF Henry l.. Croson of Balls
ton. Va.
Funeral and interment at Wellington, Kan. 26'
FEAST On Saturday. March %, 1912. at
1915 pm, at the residence of her daugh-
ter Mrs Adle G. Guthridge, 1856 Chaplin
street northwest. ANNA NJ. j. c. GIAN-
MINI, widow of Samuel Feast, jr., Of Balti-
more, Md.
Funeral services at her late residence Mon
day, March %, at pm. baltimore pa
pers please copy.l
FEENEY. Sunday. March "a. 1912. at 4:3O PM.
at her residence, 1885 Gtstreet northeast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
DEATHS REPORTED.

The following deaths have been report
ed to the health office in the past forty
eight hours:
Mary A. Goldsborough. 20 years, 11131:
9Th street southeast.
George Ely, 50 years, 221 10Th street
southwest.
CORTLAND T. Moore, year, All II stree,
northeast.
9th street between X and L streets
northwest.
Annie M. Fisher, % years, $40 Pick
ford place northeast.
Norman Perkins, 73 years, 1919 Euclid
street northwest.
Henry Clagett, A years, BOZ L street
southeast.
Arthur L. Evans, 1 month, 1928 3Oth
street northwest.
William G.. Veerhof, 9 days, 1888 II
street northwest.
Lucian Allen, 50 years, II Madison al
ley northwest.
Anna Reeder King, So years, 311 i
Henry Adams, IS years, 347 H street
southwest.
Alonzo B. QuarIs. 2s years, Washington
Asylum Hospital.
Arthur Hollins. 25 years, 1925 D street
southeast.
Richard H. Basey, % years, 221S Geor-
gia avenue northwest.
Nathaniel L. Sydnor, 33 years. 1914
Morris road, AnacoStia.
Louisa Tolson, 81 years, 1885 7th street
northwest.
Lydia Laws, 50 years, 3OS street
southwest
Albert Smith. 81 years, Casualty Hos
pital.
Elizabeth Carpenter, 81 years, Burville,
d. c.
Charles A. CLANCY, Il years, II and Sd
streets northeast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
OBSERVE PASSION SUNDAY.
Catholic Churches of Washington
Hold Fitting Ceremonies.

Passion Sunday was observed yesterday
in the Catholic churches of the city with
fitting ceremonies. Rev Joseph MCGEE
preached at the Shrine of the Sacred
Heart, while the mission for men which
has been in progress in st. Aloysius
Church for some days. was brought to a
close, when Rev. David Hillhouse Buell.,
former president of Georgetown Univer-
sty, delivered the papal benediction.
Rev. William S. Cannon delivered the SER
mon at this service.
A mission for women which has been
in progress in ST. Stephens Church in
Pennsylvania avenue northwest also was
brought to a close by Father Hillary of
Boston, with the papal benedfction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
TERM IS MISLEADING
Crusade for Lower Car Steps
Not "HObbIe- Skirted."
MISS RICHARDS PROTESTS
Addresses Current History Club.
Complains Of Lack Of Courtesy
by Car Conductors.

Miss Janet Richards, one Of the leaders
in the crusade against the high steps on
Washington street cars, in speaking be-
fore the Current History Club at Rausch-
ers this morning defended the leaders of
the crusade against the much employed
epithet 'hobble-skirted.'
"Our movement to abolish the high step
on Washington cars is not because of the
hobble skirt" said Miss Richards, land
the hobble skirt is absolutely no issue
with u.s.
She declared that the term as applied to
the movement is misleading, because the
hobble skirt does not figure as a reason
why the companies should replace their
present cars with type of car carrying
a lower step.
Leaders in the crusade said they could
plead not guilty to the hobble skirt, and
they wish to remove any opinion that the
women are demanding the lower step be-
cause Of the Inconvenience Of the new
style in dress.
Denver Car to Be Tried Here.
1t was announced that the Washington
Railway and Electric Company has decid-
ed to make an experiment with the new
type Of Denver car, which has met with
car is described by Miss Richards as the
most satisfactory and sanitary street car
ever devised. The car has the door In
the middle and the passenger steps from
the street into the body Of the cara
height Of about ten inches. The car Is
ventilated by patent device which regu-
lateS the air according to the number OF
persons in the car by a device attached to
the spring of the car. The weight of ex-
ira persons getting into the car regulates
the air ventilation. One device. which
contributes to the safety of passengers.
prevents the car from starting until the
conductor closes the side door.
The Washington women are confident
that the interstate commerce commission
will decide in their favor.
If the commission decides against them
Miss Richards said that they will begin
all over again and stir up such sweep
ing tide of public sentiment against the
high step that it will force the street
car companies to lower the step.
will be rendered by the middle OF
April The fact that the Washing
ton Railway and Electric Company
has already ordered about fifty new
cars Of type with lower steps tnan
confident of ultimate success. The CAPT
tai Traction Company, it is claimed, + as
firmly refused to yield to the requests OF
the women unless ordered to do so by
the interstate commerce CouiIlliSSlOuL
Complaints of Conductors.
Miss Richards complained OF the man
ners of the average street car conductor ir
Washington. and said that. although they
are rough enough in New York the Wash
ington street car conductor absolutely dis
regards the comfort of his passengers
cit is seldom that conductor offers t.
+, IL CHI \
''Or lend a hand to take a heavy sui
case, while the tired woman passenger i:
trying to pull herself up the high steps
Compared with cities like Baltimore ant
Boston, the Washington street car con
ductors, with some few exceptions, ar,
discourteous and inattentive.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
DIDN'T STEAL, JUST "TO0K."
James Curtis, However, Gets Sixty
Days in Workhouse.

Il didn't Steal L only took them and
pawned them.' explained James Curtis,
colored. to Judge .Pugh regarding the
taking of a suit of clothes from Samuel
Reider, also colored
Curtis said he needed some money. and
after he pawned the. suit intended to tell
Reider about it, He was arrested, he
said. before he could do so. Reider, who
is deaf and dumb, did not testify. but
Detective Messer told the court that the
suit was recovered from the pawnshop.
Curtis went to the wOrkhouse for sixty
days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
Hammer Descends Swiftly.
Files Petition in Bankruptcy.

Frank Cohen, who heretofore traded as
the San Jose Wine Company, at 1894 14th
street northwest, today filed in the Su-
preme Court of the District his petition
in voluntary bankruptcy He lists his
debts at s.. 900 10. and says he has no as
sets. In his petition. filed through At
torney Mark Stearman, he states that
January %, 1912, he made an assignment
of all his property for the benefit of his
creditors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25

Capt Robert Francis Wynne, formerly
of the United States Marine Corps. died
yesterday afternoon at the home of his
j. Wynne, 915 Rhode Island avenue, aged
thirty-f1ve years.
Capt wynne had been ill for many
months of tuberculosis, contracted during
his service as an officer of the Marine
Corps. He had record for bravery and
won a medal during the fighting in China
at the time of the Boxer rebellion. He
was with a detachment Of marines which
marched to the succor of Tientsin. In
the hardships of that expedition, endured
by the American sailors and soldiers,
Capt. Wynne never spared himself, and
his friends know that what he underwent
upon the fearful trip affected his health
and temperament ever afterward.
Nursing of No Avail.
After leaving the Marine Corps, to the
service to which he was passionately
attached, his health failed rapidly. For
the past few months he had been sinking
gradually, despite the unremitting nurs-
ing and care Of his mother and family.
Funeral services for Capt. Wynne will
be held at the Church of the Imma culate
| Conception Wednesday morning at II
| O clock. with Father Connolly, pastor, of
| fciating. A solemn mass of requiem
will be celebrated and interment will bt
| in the family plot in Mount Oivet GENE.
| terry.
The funeral party will leave the Wynne
| home at 9:3O o'clock, and, besides the
| relatives, a delegation of marines viii
attend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
SOMETHING DID DROP
AND It WAS A HAMMER
Two Gentlemen Discussing
Politics Narrowly Escape
Death or Serious Injury.

An ironworker, swinging between earth
and sky from steel beam on the top OF
the Munsey building, near 14th street
and Pennsylvania avenue dropped heavy
riveting hammer shortly after noon to-
day. and then had almost an attack of
heart failure when he realized what that
the street below.
Not as Was Predicted.
implement, Judge J. A. c. Groner OF
Norfolk. president of the Benning Sand
and Gravel Company was walking in
front of the building, talking to his old
friend, Judge R A. Wade of San Fran
cisco. They were stepping briskly along,
about a foot and a half apart. Mr.
Groner was saying:
And let me tell you, Judge, that when
that Chicago convention gets going you re
going to hear something DROP
B-i-f-f!
Hammer Descends Swiftly.
The heavy riveting hammer shot down
ward SO suddenly it appeared to be a
solid shaft of black, so rapid was it's
fight. Just as the last word was out of
Mr.. Groners mouth the hammer smacked
against the sidewalk. It sounded like a
rifle shot, and the two men didn't have a
chance to dodge an inch.
The hammer, however, bounded high
in the air and leaped into the street,
where it broke in two.
A few minutes later q scared IRON
worker appeared at the front door of the
Munsey building:
You didn't see anything of hammer,
did your he asked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Marriage licenses have been issued to
the following:
Mitchell c. Anderson of this city and
Lucretia Voss of Alexandria, Va
John D. McDevitt and Louise Tally.
Clarence T. Hyatt of Cassatt, S. c., and
Mildred Goodheart of Carlisle Pa.
Page Evans, jr., and Katherine, Mat
thews.
Joseph Porter and Matilda Clagett.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
Hand Injured in Machinery.

Joseph Cassidy, 1889 Mills avenue north
east, was taken to the Casualty Hospital
this morning and treated for severe in
Jury to his hand, which was accidentally
caught in some machinery at the navy
yard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
MARRIED.

BIRD-CAHIII.. On January 10. 1912, at the
cardinals residence in Baltimore. by the Rev.
NJ. J. Cahill, brother of the bride. JOHN II.
BIRD of Plainfield, n. j., and NELLIE E.
CAHILL of Washington, ID. c.