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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-01-18

Don't forget th;.tthe U-t. Gl a
M'las S,snday Sr,p,nl at 10 Il. IN.
Singing School Friday nights
from 1:3O to $40 -'F's
Mr. and Mrs +. G.. E:'py are the
proud and Happy parents Of a 10 ID
baby girl.
Mr. $, H. Cong'lon left Sunday
for few days visit in Gunpison and
De,ivcr.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-01-18
DR.. SULLIVAN
DENTIST

will he here 22nd. -23rd. = It'll .l@5tll
and 26th.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-01-18

Mrs Addir Decker is quite ID at
her home in the city.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-01-18

W. III. Wha'en left on Sunday
train Ia attend the state nweting Of
Comfy Commissioners at De..vcftlfs
week.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-01-18

publican.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-29
Misplaced Philanthropy

county as
"a detailed Ou-htths OF tne
county generally and received large
plurality valley part OF the county
proportion county tax and Wne
taxation the bonds Ie0u "
iargean Is defeat
should the taxpayers IN m
object so stnuouSy 10
bonds
population ana
railroads aid some qet IN m
railroads Oen "
recently of interfering affairs IN such way
strongly opposed bonds and took advantage e com
adverse the
plausible Some OF the commissioners nave not
issue unnece
under through regular
people to vote against them
In the absence of plausible it looks the
to
undoubtedly against the bonds valley
precincts political naturally better position to direct the
ton han would be-
the voting
would
almost nothing bonds The interest
in
work u Certainly
disposition
vaney
especially the taxpayers foot the bills
Were promotion
muc been keeping mighty quiet lately.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-29
The Proposed Pure-CIoth Act

"purelOth" law
~ The intent of
proposed wfuIy concealed
cloth and wearing apparel It is suggested that while people viii
they Ouying should truthful
61b bg 5oa d at baeo law 'h that
IS Sao f sI9 oor Sn ne it's total living cost upon
fabrics The to protect the buyer Of cloth originated in wOTfn clubs
proportion An honest merchant will tell customer whether
be adulaed But such is the
imitation goods alleged leather
and the proportion OF such usTated goods IN the market
SILK is often of
rot and fa to pieces T c six " STOCKINGS a aduitd
woOdpulp paper Artificial
pure silk goods available reputable stores if the market price paid
many Shoppers pay
ma @ 800 a5 gb nSic notssb to Give uer and
cotton GG[n d ea9 P S a P T S P &
feeling silk
Cheap bargain linen generally adutera cotton
running
the TO the touch Dut nave learned no" TO n
full while thread smooth
cotton soaked gyCn light In the
n a proportion Of adulteraiOn.
ALL but cotton Some soc3ed aoo blowing
+bob bnD woveD So has o 2asn oualV at al Some ante
oaoug9 1ee IN tn t mas no 9u ~ td" % M
OnIea as all W f5 contain not nsnn wool % yam
for wool and cotton adue the oausc potash test Wool dssO entirely
Lea9e being sold by the pound is oadsd with glucose and Epson salts
% @ Imitation rubber a Ritb oil q%cn to soften the PRODUCT an5
waterproof goods
Pn with the onsue holes carefully reproduced and alligator skin with
Honest stuff always be had for reasonable prices but is only the we'll
TODD that afford the highest class goods and those moderate
wearing quality when in fact they are buying @ frauds would not be hard
composition goods they percentage
adulteion any:
The law the highly centralized almost
all impossible that
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-29
Dr.. arkhurs E; A: r.: sas' '

in a way to make it worse, If the
latter, il would be better for them,
and for everybody else that their
working hours should be added to
rather than they should be dimin-
ished. Better be a drudge than to
be a mischievous or a boOzing idler.
Favored UafaVOrcd Glasses.
The difference in general between
what We call the favored classes and
the oppressed classes is that the for
mer have had the opportunity to cul-
tivate their powers of thought and Of
action and have made the most of
those opportunities. Now, with eight
free hours a day. is the latter class,
the unfayored class. going to use the
means for self education and self bet
terment thus put in its hands. or is
il going to abuse its privileges and
appropriate its enlarged privileges to
the service of idleness, purposeless-
ness and dissipation Things are go
ing to work more and more in the in
terest- of those whose interests In the
centuries past have been too little con-
sidered- We shall see whether the
unfavored will rise to the level of their
increased opportunities and whether
those whose lives have been 10 some
extent lives of servitude will show
themselves worthy of the blessings Of
a larger liberty.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-29

hitting these relatives to come to his
house without passport.
Mormons Hardest Hit.
Perhaps the people hardest hit bv
the revolution have been the MOrmons.
President Diaz was always anxious to
get as MANY farmers into Mexico as nos
sible-farmers who would break I'D big
haciendos into small farms and till them
after the American way. Dozens of
Mormon settlements were established in
many sections of Mexico. TRAVELLING
along the Vera Cruz & Isthmus railway
one crosses broad prairies with here
and there settlements of Mormon farm
ers-men who have transformed idle soil
into wealth producing plantations The
same has been true in northern Mexico
These people went down there, taking
their all with them, and establishing
farming districts and rural towns which
remind one of prosperous sections in
Iowa or Illinois. None of the things one
sees in those states were wanting to
tell the story of thrift, energy and pros
perity; in some of the towns were three
story school buildings, built according
to the best standard in the United
States. Their schools had as extensive
courses of study and as good teachers
as those in this country.
BuJ WneTe prosperity ana happiness
dwelt Yesterday. today there Is sorrow
and calamity What the armies OF the
north and the south did to Virginia as
the fortunes of war swayed back and
forth during the sixties, that have the
armies of the government and Of the
revolutionists been doing to the Mormon
settlements in northern Mexico. That
is why they have abandoned their all
and are flOeBing back to the United
States, mayhap never to return.
The Americans in Mexico cannot COM
plain that they have not been dealt with
generously in the matter of being af
forded an opportunity to get out of the
country. The dispatching of army trans
ports to bring them off when president
Taft first issued his admonition to all
Americans, to get out. the prompt voting
by congress of 100000 and the use of
army tents for the protection of the
refugees coming across the border, and
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-29
The Hera!d's Daily
ShertStOry
THE UNEXPECTED GUEST

told her that one day 1 should be Sir
James Everard. AS all these memories
come back in great wave lie, LeIl O Ger =
beneficent providence. l stepped Ior-
ward and took her hands in mine, ana
she looked up trustingly into my lace
You can tell me all about It. can
you not2 For we are friends already!
Then out it all came-the pluIuI taIe
all too common in this world OF greed
and sin. Her father had dlSSlpaleu ms
fortune: all his life he had been a roll
ing stone always full OF some new
scheme for rehabilitatinS his dWlndllnS
fortunes: always fOredoomed 10 Iall-
ure through lack OF capaclty or perse-
verance. His last asset was his daugh-
ter's beauty OF that the girl would
not speak: but 1 saw look IN her
hunted eyes that went to my heart
A year ago her mother had died Now
there was no one to stand between her
and her fathers designs. he nao IaIIel
under the sway OF one OF ehese oouth
African milliOnaires; when she SPOKE
the name l knew it Well-too We'll ne
borrowed money of this man again and
again. He had speculated-at first
successfully; then all had been lost
He was deep in debt There was only
one way out of the trouble. Eleanor
must marry this creditor OF hls-and
to marry a millionaire seemed to the
father a thing which the heart OF any
girl must rejoice at MOI one WoIo
would he hear-anger rapidly succeed
ed to testing And Eleanor was not
Vet p. Her father was pushing her
towards the edge of the chasm- 1t
seemed TO her that there was no way
of escape; girls are sacrificed like this
to the greed or ambition OF their par
Shall I see your father for you? I
know something of the past OF this
1t would be no use" she answered
sadly. Father knows, too!
My blood suddenly boiled within me;
- T~nrn he "
IF only it were not wicked to kill
oneself: that would DE so much easier.
Sometimes 1 almost wonder
1 could stand it no longer l came
and stood over her Again as snort
time since, l got possession of her
make up my mind quickly; but this
most rnomentous decision had to be
made in the twinkling of an eye
Marry me instead. Eleanor; then /
can protect YOU Do you remember
what you told me in the boat before
we parted? When I am woman | will
marry YOU. Sir jim Well. l hold you
to that word tonight Marry me-
She had risen TO her feet; her lovely
face was quivering; in her eyes there
was a light that seemed TO illumine all
my soul
All. YOU are good. You are. good
How I love YOU for it, You would sac
rifice all your future for me; but l
can't can't. II would be doing evil
that good might come"
Doing evii-to marry the man-who
loves your
For it was true: I swear it was. I
had loved the child; now I loved the
maiden intp whom she had grown
Yes, Eleahor-believe it or not as
on will: 1 love you. Perhaps, without
knowing it. I have been waiting for
NY little child sweetheart"
A mist OF tears stood in her sweet
eyes. Her lips were quivering. and !
l. Iaw 7 z
the whispered words she had held back
till then:
I knew that I should never care for
ybOdy-eNcept Sir jim"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-29
(By E. Everett Green.

~H HE door opened very slowly. and
very slowly she advanced into
l. the room. I lay back in my deep
arm chair beside the fire and gazed at
her. thinking it a dream.
had a touch of my old enemy-the
malarial fever, which never quite gets
out of the blood. they say.
It was a slender girlsh figue, eX-
quisitely proportional. clad all in
diaphanous white trailing garments; a
face of extraordinary loneliness
What shall I do? What shall 1 do:
oh, mother, why did you not live a lit
tie longer? There is no one to help me
now,"
Instantly understood the situation.
She had mistaken the door of her room
in this giant residential hotel such a
mistake was easily made. 1 could not
remain longer hidden; neither did ! in
tend to let her escape until 1 knew
something of the hidden terror that
beset her. 1 was not exactly an old
fOgey yet; but 1 was 80, and had trav-
eled the world over, which makes for
a FEELING OF age and experience and
my visitor could scarcely be more than
will you let me help you if I CAM
The girl started
Il beg your pardon; 1 see 1 have
made a mistake. Pray-pray forgive
mer
She stopped as though TO pick up
her cloak, and I turned up the flame
of the reading lamp.
DO not let US call it a mistake; let
US regard it as an act of Providence"
She was trembling now; her wide,
wistful gaze was fixed upon my face,
as though she would read my very
soul.
You are in trouble I said: let me
help you. | have helped other people,
and been helped myself out OF tight
corners before this. What is the use
OF talking about our common brother
hood if we may not claim the right
L i.
She sank down into a chair. In truth,
1 doubt if her limbs would have up
held her longer. She gave half fear
full look round her went to the door
and locked it; 1 brought the key and
laid it on her lap.
NO one will interrupt US now. VIII
you not tell me your trouble. 1 am al
most old enough TO be your father
if that makes things easier"
For the first time 1 saw a little
quiver-the ghost of smile-play
You don't remember me. Sir jim
but | rcmembe- YOU, l knew YOU the
moment you began to speak,
Sir jim, Who was ii that had called
me so2 In flash of memory il all came
back-that i'll served, i'll navigated yes
sci, on which ten years ago 1 had made
the voyage to Lisbon; the sweet little
maid who ran about after me, when
all the other passengers were sea sick
I recalled the conclusion of that trip;
The collision-the confusion, the peril
The child had made my charge NO
lives had been lost, but there had been
some ugly work. and the little one had
been in momentary peril of being
trampled to death. I remembered we'll
how She had chung to me-silent, white
trembling: but had uttered no outcry-
had given no trouble A light little bur-
den, she had sat on my knees all those
hours in the boat, in the cold Of the
dawn: and l had told her stories IN
muffled whispers
often I had wondered what had be-
come of the dainty little maiden. whose
name l had not known; for had called
her my Lady Sea gull. as she had called
me Sir Jim, because somebody had
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-29
TIE MANICURE LADY
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.

LhT GOT after brother Wilfred again
the other night, George" said
= the Manicure Lady.
What about?" inquired the Head
Barber.
"Oh. the same old thing-poetry."
answered the Manicure Lady. There
is no use trying to get poor brother
going on any other subject or in any
other way than poetry. His heart and
soul and what brains he has is that
wrapped up in wooing them Muses. that
he never thinks of nothing else, unless
It is change for carfare.
Il he way me and Mayme got to him
tha- time was very simple, George. You
remember 1 was telling you a week or
50 ago about how me and MaFme got
him off his balance by telling him about
some great poet named Viereck that
said all poets was insane. If you
listened half careful at the time You
will remember that I told you Wilfred
was as near going to pieces as a kid
could be.
Well. cEis TING we got to talking to
him about THIS gangster, sam Schepps,
that the district attorney had brought
back from Hot Springs. We would
never have thought of it except for a
item Mayme saw in the paper. The
article was desert bling Mister ScheppS.
the gang man. and it said that among
other things, Mister Schepps was very
fond of poetry.
"Wflfred flared right up the minute
that we told him. and wanted to bet
US everything he had that there was
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-29
UTES HOLD CARNIVAL
IN COLORADO SPRINGS

Colorado Springs. Colo, Aug. "a
shan Kive," the indian carnival,
opened here today. braves from the an
cient tribes Of Utes. to whom this ter
ritory originally belonged, jC -1eying
TO this city from their reservations and
taking active part in the chief event Of
today's program. the marking Of the
old Ute trail into the mountains.
The indians, together with a party
Of white pioneers, traced the ancient
highway Of the Utes from Colorado
Springs to the old Soda springs, Wor-
shipped by the indians as the fOuns Of
Manitou, their god Each mile of the
way was marked with a white marble
post lettered I Z. T" This trail is
the oldest known aboriginal path in
the United States, the hoofs and moe
having worn a deep and well marked
path through the hard granite
The city authorities have arranged
to celebrate Shan Kive" for three days
and have incIuded in their program
an automobile meet. q. monster parade
and open air mask fete and national
long distance balloon race, between
Capt. H E Honeywell and three other
pilots. The great balloons of these
aerial navigators were one Of the at
fractions of the day, crowds of visitors
watching the crews and handlers pre-
pare the gas bags for the race tomOr-
row
Capt Honeywell was of the opinion
that new records would be hung up II
the wind set in from the west and al
lowed the balloons free access to the
hundreds of miles of plains The Lahm
cup and a $500 silver cup offered by a
local hotel, are the prizes Honeywell,
the winner of the Kansas City elimina-
ton race on July p. leaves for the in
tsrnational balloon race at Stuttgardt.
Germany. Immediately upon the COM
pletiOn of the present race
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-29
2 4 Years Ago To-
From The Herald OF H.
This Date 1898 Ooy

Rev. a c. Wright and wife have
returned 20 the city from Alamogordo.
Mrs. R Spring, and son Harry, re-
turned from their visit to California.
a. c. Rush. of Los Angeles. is visit
ing his brother F. Rush., of this city.
Jack and &c Hubbard returned yes
terday morning from their northern
trip.
Clerk Pftman issued a marriage
license to Carl Joseph and Miss Stella
Goodman.
Mrs. Z. sidebotham and children.
of Clifton, Ariz-, are visiting II. Ed
wards and wife
Master car repairer Borcherding. Of
the 6. H, put two more men to work
in his department today.
Mrs. Adolph Sprinz is expected home
on the 5 P. today after spending
pleasant time in California.
Miss Maggie Lyons. who for the last
six months has been spending va
cation up in the mountains of New
Mexico, returned today
NJ J. MilleUt, foreman Of the 6. h
machine shop. has returned to FL Paso
from San Antonio where he was called
as witness in a case.
W. a. Rhinehart. travelling passen-
ger agent of che G. H, with head
quarters at Houston. was among the
arrivals on that train today.
Mrs. L. Baumgarten, of san Fran
cisco. arrived the early part of this
week to visit her sister. Miss Ullman,
and to be present at the marriage OF
her niece
The merchants on FL PasO street are
smiling this morning as commissioners
Ed Wales has his street cleaning force
out gathering up the refuse and trash
from the cutters and the streets
The Exchange says that great prep
arations are bling made in Demlng for
the fair to be held there on September
% and "a It win be a fine agricul-
tural, mining, mechanical and art eN-
hibit, it was stated.
c. H Cole. of the T P. received
letter from c T. Owens who is at
present stationed at Montauk Point
Mr.. Cole and Mr. Owens were working
together on the T. P. when the latter
enlisted in the Rough Riders.
Col. William Kirby, of the G. H.
blacksmith shop. headed a party OF
brother bIacksmiths to the lake near
San Elizario last sunday on a fish
ing tour. The colonel claims that
his party caught $50 of the finny
tribe, but they returned with only g..
Tom Spivy. accompanied by his wife,
returned today from Houston Mrs.
Spivy went to Houston about a
month ago to visit friends and rela-
tives. and MT. Spivy Joined her there:
The heat is so intense down there,
said Mr.. Spivy, that ] wanted to get
my family back to El Paso as soon as
possible.
Randolph Laurence. paying teller Of
the state treasury at Austin, who has
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-29

never a bad man in the world who
loved poetry. but as long as Wilfred
didn't have much Of anything to bet.
we simply kept grinning at him-one of
those tantalizing. Joe Gallagher grins.
Poetry is too beautiful and too noble
to be liked by those hOrrid criminals,
says Wilfred. Then 1 got right in the
game with my superior literary judg-
ment and knowledge, George, and
showed him how a great poet named
Frank Villain once lived in France and
how frankie wrote most of his best
ballads when he was in the cooler
hoping against hope that he would be
able to reach some influential friend
that could spring him away from the
island. And I told him how a gent
named Mister Bunyan has wrote that
beautiful novel called Pilgrims Alb
scess, or whatever the name of it was,
while he was in a prison cell. Between
me and Mayme 1 guess we talked so
eloquent about the advantage of poets
being in Jail that I guess poor brother
won't care much now whether he gets
pinched or not. All he wants is to put
over one poem that will make the
whole world talk about him. and he
don't care where he writes it. either.
If ne thought he could write a poem
that would live through the ages he
would gladly lite it on the guillotine.
That's how much of a literary sport
Wilfred is. He wouldn't stop at Moth
ing to bring him success.
I guess he must be one Of those
fellows" said the Head Barber. who
wouldn't stop at nothing and who never
end anywhere"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-29

" HE labor unions have scored
victory in the adoption of the
l. eight hour law in all work done
for the federal government. This step
is the more significant because 1t
marks an advance upon an eight hour
law more restricted in its application
that had already been for some years
in force, and thus shows the direc-
ton in whiCh things are moving
Added tc this is the fact that, out
side of federal action and in various
parts of the country there are scat
tered evidences of a tendency to re-
duce the number of working hours.
This is the case in at least eight diff
ferent states, where laws of similar
import have been enacted bearing
upon work done for the state,
or, in some cases. upon work done
under private enterprise.
1t is not difficult, therefore, to
foresee what will eventually be the
general outcome. There is enough
to show that in course of time moth
ing over eight hours will be cOnsid-
cred the legitimate term of daily toll
tons, as follows; What effect Will
the reduction of hours have up
on wages? What effect will
it have upon the cost of production,
manufacturers or otherwise7 What
effect will it have on the workers
themselves?
This third question is the most
serious of he three. and is one that
deserves TO be considered carefully by
the men TO whom there thus accrues
a larger liberty of life
The Extra Hours.
By the arrangement contemplated
the day of "a hours may be said to be
divided into three equal portions, of
which one portion will be devoted to
labor. a second to sleep. Now what
is going 70 be done with the inter
vening third section? What use is the
laboring man going to make of the
eight hours during which he is neither
working nor sleeping2
We know that both at home and
abroad the day following a holiday is
the one in which the largest number
of cases are brought into the criminal
court. in complication of the prov
erb that an idle head is the devils
workshop. Which is equivalent to
saying that doing nothing in particu-
lar that is good means doing every
thing in general that is bad. A boat
that is being sailed toward no par
ticular port is apt to be captured by
the winds or driven upon the rocks.
What then, We repeat. are working
people going to DO with their eight
free hours2 They viii use them either
in way to improve their condition or
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-29
THE ELECTORAL BY GEORGE FI7CH
COLLEGE Author Of "At Good Old Siwash''
Copyright, 1912. BY George MathevAdams.l
electoral college is one of our
poorest institutions of learning. 1t

" HE electoral college is one of our
poorest institutions of learning. 1t
has no curriculum, no professors,
no veil, and holds only one session every
four years 1t would take a genius to
learn anything in the electoral college,
but it is very popular for all that, and
thousands of men would feel highly
honored if they had an electoral college
education.
The electoral college has a trife over
500 students, but they couldn't score a
touchdown on a well trained high school
team. They have no training and do
not even maintain a glee club. The col
lege never had even set of colors ex-
cept in the campaign of 1896, when it
adopted gold. 1t is a very old school,
having been organized in l7SS by the
builders OF the constitution in an effort
to remove the mental wear and tear of
electing a president from the common
people The trainers of the constitution
didn't have much faith in the taste Of
the common people as far as presidents
went and thought they were doing a
pretty fine thing in letting the people
elect the constables and legislators-an
opinion in which a great many we'll
grOomed gentlemen with automobiles still
agree. But after the electoral college
had come within one vote of electing
Aaron Burr president, the c. p. shivered
slightly and took up the electing job
themselves.
Since that time the life of the Presi-
Dental elector has been one of great
ease His work is light and requires no
strain on the intellect. He is NOM
mated because of his age and respect
ability and is coached in his job by the
voters in the November election. After