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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1912-11-23
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From Forty-Five to Fifty Are Much Benefited
by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

The "change of life is a most
critical period in a woman's ex-
istencc, and the anxiety felt by
women as it draws near is not
without reason.
When her system is in a de-
ranged condition, she may be
predisposed to apoplexy, or con-
gestion of some organ. At this
time, also, cancers and tumors
are more liable to form and begin
their destructive work.
Such warning symptoms as
sense of Sutfocation, hot flashes,
headaches, hackacheS, dread of
impending evil, timidity, sounds
in the ears. palpi,ation OF the
heart, sparks before the eyes,
irregularities, constipation. vari-
able appetite, weakness and
inquietude, and dizziness, are
promptly needed by intelligent
women who are approaching the
period in life when woman's
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These symptoms are calls from
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cry should be needed in time.
Lydia L. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound is prepared to meet
the needs Of women's system at
this trying period of her life. 1t
invigorates and strengthens the
female organism and builds up
the weakened nervous system.
1t has carried many women safely
through this crisis.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1912-11-23

Governor Mann. OF Virginia. has
granted a respite until Dec 10 10
Floyd Allen and his son. Claude Swan
son Allen. both condemned TO die
on Friday for their completely in the
murders at Judge Massies court room
in Hillsville, Va. The stay was unex.
pected.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1912-11-23

Caught in the collapse OF casket
display case. George Newton. seventy
years old. was killed In an undertak.
ing establishment In Raleigh. y. c.,
where he had gone 10 buy a coffin for
the burial OF his wife.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1912-11-23

A spark from the pipe John +. Gil
son. a farmer OF near Mlddletown. y.
". was smoking. lgnited his long whis.
kers. The flames spread 10 his cloth.
ing and he was burned 20 death.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1912-11-23
sehrank, Who Shot T. r., Is Insane

John Schrank. the New York man.
who shot Colonel Roosevelt In Mil
waukee. Wis, on the night OF Oct
IA, was found to be insane by the
commission OF five alienis,s appointed
10 inquire into his mental state, ac
cording to a report circulated in MIL
waukee
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1912-11-23
Insanlty Is eaehelor,s Lot.

Insanity seizes upon the bachelor
with greater ease than upon the bene.
dict. despite the worry the latter Is
imposed 10 undergo. according to the
report OF the government hospital for
3he insane.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1912-11-23
Letter 70
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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1912-11-23
twenty japanese sallers Killed.

Twenty men were killed by boiler
explosion on the japanese cruiser Ms
shin. The cruiser brought the dead &c
0sboesIe Ts~s~
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28
BETTER TIME
THAN WAS REQUIRED

Second cavalry officers can ride well
enough 10 suit Uncle Sam. At the Rus
sian test ride at the post Friday after
noon the officers of the Second made
the three miles, cleared the six hur-
dies and three bitches in 10 minutes
and 10 seconds, which is better than
the time required by the army regula-
tons Just to show that ne is as good
as his men, acting colonel Roberto.
Read took the hurdles with the other
officers. Capt. RObt. J. Reaney, who
made the test ride with the Fourth be-
fore he was transferred to the Second,
acted as timekeeper and Gen E T.
Steever was present at the test There
were no accidents. The time made was
so seconds better than the required II
minutes for the distance.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28
Wbv CRIMINALS Have LOW FOREEIEADS

not begin wrong doing until they reach the average
age of eighteen years and five months. But the IN
vestigators gave no for this, except to sug
gest that their height them feeling OF manli-
ness and bravery daring.
In investigating 968 criminals the celebrated Baer
found that seventy=ve per cent of murderers had a
longer arm than their height that the distance
from finger tip to finger tip with arms outstretched
was greater than from the soes Of their feet to the
crown Of the head. OF this, Baer says: Those who
believe that crime, however much ones surroundings
may modify it. is based heredity should note Ehe
fact that in the animals just below the man, such as
apes and gorias. the reach exceeds the height"
There seems to be very little that is normal about
the criminal when studied carefully has been found
while their chest measurement varies greatly they
either have much larger much smaller chest meas
urenents than the normal man. The nearest approach
to the normal among criminals is in the weight They
of such various weights that the scientists have
declared they draw definite conclusions as to
any necessary relation between weight and crime.
While all criminals do not have black hair as thu
melodrama constantly pictures the villain" yet
there is reason for making up the actor to take
part Of criminal with black hair for it is found
the per cent Of criminals with black glossy hair is
larger than the per cent of criminals with other
colored hair BattistelH the celebrated Italian Grim
1noogst found that in 1000 persons the following per
centages in relation the hair and boards resulted
Hair black, thick and glossy in criminals. $500. 25es
Hair black, thick and glossy, in normaIs 29e
Hair glossy, in criminals SIG
Hair glossy in normals. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 34%
Rarity of boards in criminals. 6Os
Rarity Of boards, in nornals.. $3.50
These figures indicate that criminals have tendency
to black, glossy hair to glossy hair Of any
color while they refute the old time belief that men
who wore boards were more apt to De criminally in
clined, the figures show quite the reverse
One great mark among ali mankind is the forehead.
When a man sizes up a stranger he generally looks
first at his forehead if he intelligent looking
for nigh broad forehead. Among 1000 criminals it
found that less than nine per cent of them had
high foreheads while about sixteen per had ez-
tremelY low, receding foreheads
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28

n IG names for little diseases are Quffe
X common in the medical profession
- and doubtless afford no little consIf
lation to the sufferers. A recent issue on
the British Medical Journal shows that
there is the same tendency 20 give big
names to little habits.
If you pull or stroke your mustache had
itually, you have acknowledgements.
Do you svirl your cane as you walk along:
Then you are a trepsOrhabdomaniac-
Your young hopeful, when he puts his
finger in his mouth suffers from stomato-
dactylomania, and that nervous schoolgirl
who bites her nails is an onychophagOma-
MAC. Doubtless it will shock her to learn
that she is so depraYed.
And the next time you are fdgeted to
death by any one who drums on the table
with his fingers. or nervOusly crosses and
increases his legs, you can bring him to
sense Of the enormity of his crime by call
ing him either a harmoniomaniac OF a ire
podomanisc as the case may be.
There are even unconscious actions
which may be regarded as more or less dis
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28
TEXAS CITIES MAY
CHANGE CHARTERS

Austin, TexA, Dec est is held to-
day by the attorney generals depart
ment, through assistant attorney gen
eraI c. Z. MeaE. IN an opinion to ]. L
Dupree, city att orney of Victoria, that
the constitution bal amendment adopted
at the recent election giving cities OF
5000 inhabitant5 or more the authority
TO adopt and amend their charters is
self-executing ahd there viii be no need
to submit any CHARTERS or amendments
to the coming SCI siOn OF the legislature
by those cities | in Texas wishing TO
change their char tiers This means that
the cities of San AntOniO, Houston, CAL
weston, and other Texas cities may
amend or change their charters without
applying to the legislature
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28

y CHEMISTS long ago declared that criminals
not normal beings. This has been generally IN
- derstood but it has, at the time, been gen
orally misunderstood, inasmuch as the average per
ssa has believed that the difference that makes Grim
fnals abnormal Is solely a mental difference.
Arthur Macdonald, honorary president of the third
International Congress Of Criminal AnthropOlogy, has
made careful study of the results Of the researches OF
many criminal oerts and these with his own stud
les an discoveries, all to show that the criminal IS
not normal physically as well as mentally.
There re many interesting differences in physical
measurements and characteristics between the normal
and the abnormal-the criminal and the honest cit
izen In an article in THE Alienist and Neurologist
Mr. Macdonald points cut some of these differences,
which, brief, embody the interesting points told in
the following:
First-Ths brain: In criminals the brain is found,
81 almost ninetenhs Of cases investigated from post
1norten examination to be considerably lighter than
in normal people. The brain of a is lighter
than tbs brain e man, and the brain Of criminal
women is lighter than the brain Of normal women so
that this popularity holds good in both in the
matter Of crininology.
The front Of the brain Is held the seat Of In
teIigence while the back the brain is the Of
emotions and passions The heads of criminals are,
for the most part, in 'front.' narrower than
normal people while the backs Of the brains Of GRIM
inals are wider than the backs Of brains of normas
All this the scientists point out is but proof that
criminals lack the intelligence sufficient tc balance
their passions ard emotions; hence they have the ten
dency tc fellow the demands Of their emotions and
passions and lack the necessary common sense to
hold them back.
There is peculiar break in this condition that has
to do with assassins. The writer Mr. Macdonald
declares from all investigations is evident the
craniaI capacity Ct assassns is slightly larger than in
ncrraIs but the cranal capacity-that IS the sze
tbs heads larger than all others in men OF genius
Studies made in France of groups Of criminals. 200
in each group led to the discovery that the taest
criminals begin their Of wrong doing earlier by
nearly a year than the shorter criminals The tall
est begin TO commit crime, average, at seven
teen years and months while the shortest do
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28
WIN Your HANDS and FEET Go to LEEP

entire circuit of the trunk anG limbs during
four heart beats. Leaving the heart by the
large arteries near the central organ, the
blood finds the main pipes or arteries grow
smaller and smaller as hundreds OF small
arteries branch out. until at the very tips OF
the fingers and toes and all through the
skin. The arteries are no coarser than a hair,
ana this forms a marvellously small pipe to
let the blood through. Passing along the
tiny channels C1nown as capillaries) the
blood begins its return journey to the heart
through very complicated system of pipes
known as the veins. all lying nearer the
surface Of the SKIN than the arteries. It is
the circulation Of the blood that keeps the
body alive
It is evident at once that anything which
chokes of a section of this regular flow
prevents the very thing that causes life.
comparatively slight pressure sQueezes the
veins together. preventing the return Of the
blood, as anyone can see for himself by
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28
AT SPY
ACTIVITY HERE
United States Senators Complain That
Mexican Official Directs United
States Agents.

States Agents.
Washington, D. c., Dec. 2S.-At-
torney general Wickersham is investi-
eating a protest made to president
Taft by members of the senate com
mittee that inquired into conditions
along the Mexican border, against al
legged improper methods by some Of
the special agents Of the department Of
justice in enforcing the neutrality laws
in connection with the present reyOlu-
ton.
Chairman William Alden Smith and
senator A B. Fail, of the committee,
laid much of the testimony they had
gathered before the president and
called attention, it is understood, tc
were permitted to 60 to the Mexican
federals and denied to the rebels The
situation. officials point out, is the re-
suit Of the neutrality resolution
adopted by congress by which NUM-
lions of war are allowed to go only
to the established government of
Mexico
The complaints against the special
agents, referred by the president tC
the attorney general, charged, il IS
said, that Mexican consul Llorente, at
operations of the American agents ana
that there was too close friendship
between the federal agents of Mexico
and those of the United States. Of
ficials say that the protest grows out
Of the energy with which the special
agents have enforced the neutrality
resolution and that much of the criti-
cal testimony came from a special
agent who was permitted to resign.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28
DECLARE WAGES ARE
BELOW LIVING SCALE
Textile Mill workers say They Are
Unable to Live With the Wages
Below SO a Week.


Little Falls, N Y, Dec 2S.-LOw
wages which. made it impossible for
them to earn enough TO live upon was
the direct cause Of the big strike In
the textile mills here, according to the
testimony of a score Of witnesses be-
fore members Of the state board Of
arbitration. The strike has been in
progress for months and has resulted
in frequent outbreaks.
Men, women and girls who appeared
as witnesses, united IN saying their
only grievance related to wages
All the witnesses, who are members
of the Industrial Workers of the
World, were born in Europe and have
been in this country from one to 10
years.
Most of them were examined through
interpreters They were given wide
range in testifying, but their stories
varied little except as to the amount
of pay they had received. Practically
all the witnesses were piece hands.
None of them received more than SII
a week. When the law limiting their
work to 81 hours went into effect Ihey
testified that wages fell as low as 81
and S6 a week and even lower in some
cases.
Their demands, which they said led
to the strike were that they should
receive SO hours pay for "a hours work
and Is percent increase for piece work.
Hundreds of strikers gathered in the
streets today and clashed with the pO-
lice. The first cOnrict came at the
Phoenix mills, where the police cleared
the sidewalk Of massed pickets, the
second when they dispersed the strik-
ers' parade.
During the second demonstration one
CT the strikers lying prone on the side
walk refused to move Women IN
the procession began to scream that
he had been dubbed, but this the pO-
lice denied
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28
Have You Got ONkCHOPHOZOMANIA!

tinctive of classes. There is the rustic who
scratches his head, the horseman who whips
his riding-boot, the thinker who finds in
spiration in lingering his beard, stroking his
nose. or tearing paper to pieces. the heavy
dragon who tugs at his mustache, the bored
listener to a dull lecture who draws sketches
on blotting paper, the swaggerer who, in
Castlereagh's immortal phrase comes
down 70 the house Ike a crocodile, with
his hand in his breeches pocket"
These mannerisms are so habitual that
they often become necessary accomplish
ments Of the operation Of the intelligence.
Science has given the name OF "manias' to
these unconscious tricks. and does not dis
dain to classify the most trivial OF them
under that imposing head.
Thus it is that the Journal quotes thu
tfearsome diseases" mentioned above. and
Neatly concludes:
But are such things worth cataloginz
81 ID naming as 'manias?' To any one who nav
IL ink 1t important that this should be done
" venture to suggest that 'onomatomania'
the mania Of naming thing=should be
ad led to the list"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28
REBELS TAKE TRAIN
NEAR CHIHUAHUA
All Passengers Are RemOved-TrOOp
Train Sent Out Afterwards Is Not
Heard FrOm-The Strike.


Belated reports of a train holdup west
of Chihuahua city indicate a critical
condition about the state capital A
North Western passenger train this
week was captured by rebels only 10
miles from Chihuahua, the passengers
removed and the train allowed to back
into the city. WHAT became of the
passengers and the train crew is not
made known at JUarez Only the en-
9ineer, it is said. returned with the
train A troop uaiE sent out shortly
after the occurrence has not been heard
of since.
All is reported quiet within the state
capital, while the rebels roam at will
near the city limits. Railway men say
the Chihuahua shop employees of the
Mexican Central railway appear con-
tey.ted with their wages and hours. At
any rate. they did not Quiz work when
the strike was called at other places.
The Mexican Central trains arriving
at JuareZ are scheduled straight
through from Mexico City. The strike
condition is said not to have extended
north Of Torreon.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28
TUBERCULOSIS LEADS
= TEXAS DEATH LIST
Births Reported in the State During
the Month Are Far Above
the Total Death List.

Austin, Tex, Dec 2S.-TuberculOsis
again leads as the cause Of deaths in
Texas, according to the monthly report
of vitak statistics, made public today
by the department OF health. there be-
ing 2O2 deaths from that disease dur
ing the month Of November.
Pneumonia is second, with los Deaths
while 81 persons died from Brights dis
ease, SO of senility, Al from diseases OF
the heart, Sc from starvation and 81
from sudden deaths
The repoft shows the total number
of births toibe 1852. of which 4197 were
white and 565 blacks. A total Of 1887
deaths was reported during the month
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28
MCCORMICK ARRESTED ON
TELEGRAM FROM DENT. y. VI

H. Mccormick was arrested Friday
by the city detectives on instructions
of police chief J. n. Davis. who said
the arrest was made at the instance
of the authorities of Bent. y. NJ. 1t was
stated in a telegram which was received
by chief Davis that Mccormick, who
held the position of a bOOkkeeper Of the
Tularosa Copper company. had unlaW-
fully secured $500 from that company.
Mccormick denied having any cOnnec-
tiOn with the case.
Mccormick is the husband Of Mrs
Mccormick. who two months ago was
robbed of her diamonds by a daring
burglar who walked into her room at
the Alberta hotel
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28
CASTRO WILL BE SUBJECTED
TO RIGID EXAMINATION

Washington, D. c., Dec. 2s.-Cipriano
Castro, eXpresident of Venezuela, said
to be on board the steamer La TOur6tne,
due at New York from Havre Sunday,
will be detained at the Ellis Island
immigration station until secretary
Nagel, of the department of commerce
and labor. has passed upon his admis-
sion to the United States.
Mr.. Nagel has instructed commission
er of immigration Williams at New
York to subject Castro to a rigid in
SpectiOn under the immi grafton laws TO
determine his right to enter, and to
forward the result to Washington,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28

sqih eezing firmly the second joint Of his I'M
ger whereupon the first joint viii turn DARK
red in color from sudden filling of all the
arte rial blood vessels with the veins damned
up.
Ii kewfse, when the weight Of the head
rests too long upon the arm or when ops
sits upon his foot the veins are contracted.
the Rlifegiving blood fails to flow through
the Veins, the pain-centres are duIled. caus-
ing numbing sensation, and the skin be-
come Is chill No sooner is the pressure re-
lease I'd, however. than the blood which has
been held at high pressure because Of the
obsj acle Of the contracted veins, forces it,
way through at a high rate IF speed sud.
del lily fills the veins and penetrates into
ev Rry Granny Of the system from which il
had been drained on. It is this tumuItuous
eturE of the blood through its blocked I'D
c hannels, reopening the contracted veins and
Putting new life into the skin, that causes
pins and needlOsi
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28

. FORT STOCKTON, TEXAS.
$500 A%~~A&A~&AA

Fort Stockton, Tex, Dec. 2s-AU
churches in Fort stockton called of
the Christmas festivities
a. NJ. Loar. of Buena Vista was in
town on business
Misses OdOm and Westermann. who
are attending school in San Antonio,
are here to spend the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. C. Payne have left
for Kansas City. where they. expect
to make their home. Mrs. Payne was
the kindergarten principal and Mr.
Payne was the junior partner of the
law firm Of Jackson & Payne, Of this
place.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28

efDI IN and needles" is the common ex-
preston of a most annoying feeling
4 that follows upon a cramped posi-
ton. Lying down with the head resting on
the hand or arm, or sitting on the grass
crosslegged, or any similar attitude which
is strained and unnatural causes a sense Of
numbness which is called going asleep"
The feeling is one Of chilliness and lack of
sensation, the sufferer feels as though the
skin were half dead and not responsive to
the touch, and consequently, instinctively
such a person swings his arm or stamps his
foot vigorously. In half a minute so, the
numbness is succeeded by a sharp tingling
in the toes or the fingers, as the case may
be. which is usually only sharply unpleasant
but which in the case of a long continued
going asleep may become agonizing.
The whole condition depends upon the cir
culation of the blood The blood travels
through the body at express train speed and
the greater part Of it has had to make the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28
REBEL MONEY REPORTED
SENT HERE FOR RECRI

Recruiting is again being carried On
field in Chihuahua. 1t is said that
$4,000 has been sent to FL Paso by
Careveo and Salazar to be used in re-
cruiting troops for the rebel army.
The money is now being distributed,
it is said, where it will do the most
good by agents Of the rebels, who have
been at work here for the past week.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28
COL. OROZCO IS TREATED
WELL IN SAN ANTONIO

Col PascUal OroZcO, ST., is occupy
ing a private room in the new county
jail at San Antonio, is being permitted
To receive visitors and have food. fruit
and reading matter sent to him daily.
Col Orozco is not being treated as a
regular prisoner, as it is the general
belief in san Antonio that ne is guilty
of no crime and is being persscuted by
the Mexican government because ne is
the father Of the revolutionary leader.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28
LIFE SAVERS RESCUE

Wilmington, n. c, Dec. 2S.-Captain
Gould and his crew of eight men were
rescued from the schooner Savannah.
which ran ashore on Frying Pan shoals
in a heavy gale. Life savers from the
Cape Fear and Oak Island stations
took the men off
When the life savers reached Frying
Pan shoals, captain Gould and the
members Of his crew had taken refuge
IN the rigging of the schooner and had
suffered from cold and exposure.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28
sDONpT LET RANKS BE DIVIDED"
URGES HIRAM JOHNSON

let our ranks be divided. The old
machine is in full cry again hoping
people will never go back to the infamy
and degradation they knew prior to
1910"
This was one of governor Hiram
JOhnsOn's few references to state poll
tics in his address at the banquet ten
dered him by the county central COM
mittee Of the ProgressiVe party.