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Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1912-05-24
President Of the Silver City
Normal Talks of the Sum.
mer School
LAUDS DEMING SCHOOL:
Is Delighted with the Sub
stantial Improvement
Shown in the City.

DIR. C. M. Light, president of the
New Mexico Normal School and
member of the New Mexico Board
Of Education, talks about his sum
mer term. and his recent visit to
our city. DR.. Light has written a
Geography of New Mexico, in which
he describes agriculture by pump
ing in the vicinity of Deming. He
is also very much interested in the
County Unit Bill, now pending
before the legislature. To n GRAPH
lc reporter he said:
Il am here in the interests of the
New Mexico Normal School sum
mer session, which convenes at Sill
yer City. May 9th, 1912. Teach
ers are beginning to find that it
pays to attend the Normal School,
and especially the summer session.
II is not only advantageous to the
teacher who wishes to rise in the
profession in his own state, but to
those who contemplate leaving some
time for other states. The Normal
diploma il accepted as a permanent
license To teach in the following
states: Arizona. Oklahoma, Idaho,
Michigan. Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebraska, Washington and Califor-
MIA.
Last year the summer school en-
rolled 200 and from the prospects
this summer terms enrolment will
be- larger still. Every county in
the state will br represented. tn"
regular work of the school will bc
supplemented by a well planned lee
turc course given by foreign and
local talent upon subjects especially
interesting to the teaching profes'
sion. Special lines in art. music
primary teaching and manual train
inp will bc given. These are To he
taught in addition to the full pro-
gram of studies covering the
branches required for the ccrtilIca
tion of teachers, whether for coun
ty or professional certificate.
Teachers will be- allowed t'
make grades in four subjects by
recitation. These grades may he
applied On any class of certificate
county or state, and are accepted
by the State Board of Education ir
lieu of those that might be- made
by taking the Boards examination
Grades thus made are recorded ant
may be- used either for graduation
from the Normal school or for Ger
tifcation. The teacher thus has al
opportunity to build for a hlghe
class of certificate than he possesses
Ia addition Ia this regular program
of studies carried thruout the eigh
weeks, those persons who wish Il
take the Boards examination II
those studies not made by reclta
ton. will he given an opportunll.
to review them for this special pur
pose. Some institute features WI
be also introduced during the las
two weeks. Those who attend tn
full session or the last two week
will he given credit Tor INSTITUTE W
tendance.
The capacity of the institution
to take care of so many viii b
taxed to the utmost. But we ar
endeavoring to provide ample room
for all those who may come, W.
have reduced the expenses TO
minimum so that no one can sta
away on that score. Two month
hoard for $S4 and SIS tuition Is IN
total resident cost. Those who Nv
nearer than one hundred miles ar
given rate of one and one-hal
fare. But all persons who wish I
taLa ad,,antau. ~ thaaa rates mus
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1912-05-24

The customer who comes back is
the man who advertises for you. Ask
our customers If they were used
right. we'll chance the verdict. Dem
ing Lumber Co.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1912-05-24
Stevens Likes Deming Best

J. +. Stevens. agent at Gage.
expresses his preference for Dem
ing as follows;
Kindly change my address
from Gage to Deming, as | expect
to again take up my residence in
the only live town in the state in II
few days. just cant stay away
any longer While Gage is the nic-
est little place on the division |
want to again join the Booster Boys
and get in the game"
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1912-05-24

The Deming Lumber Co. can tell
you just what it will cost to build
house OF barn.
The evening world., 1912-02-15
BOY WITH PISTOL
HOLDS Up MEM
COLUMBUS CIRCLE
But Young John Gilpin Was
Simply Trying to Sell Re-
volver for Breakfast.

A short. stocky boy took up a stand
In Columbus Circle to-day. The right
hand pocket Of his tight Jacket bulged
cminously. As a PEDESTRIAN approached
he was astonished. as we'll as p~erturbed.
TO see the boy whip out a large nickel
Vlat0d revolver. But instead OF stick
ing up the pedestrian. the lad held the
~rsvolver muzzie downward and asked:
Say. mister. want to buy q good gun
Se9 30 cents?"
The man declined with thanks and
passed on. One after mother the lad
accosted hurrytng citizens and besought
mem to buy his revolver. Finally one
changed his course and told Policeman
fItsg1bbons. on stationary post a block
away. what was going on.
The boy saw the big policeman COM
ting and dashed for the park, Fitzgib-
bons and several citizens in pursuit.
TIT lad led them a merry chase over
the snow and Ice filled gullies and
through the tangled bushes and briars,
Dot he was conered at last hear the
lake on the lower west side. lie made
no attempt to draw the revolver. which
was fully loaded. but gave himself up
like . little man.
In Children's Court the boy said he
was John Gilpdn. fourteen years old. OF
Reading. Pa.
II got sore on tho town and beat II
about tw) weeks ago. he told tn,
Magistrate. II blew into Philadelphia
and got In with a bad gang OF fcllers.
got afraid Of them and bought a gun &c
protect myself. They was a tough
bunch.
Then I got the bunch to hit the gri'
for the big city. I come all the way 4
New York by trolley cars. 1t took tw,
days and cost me Sis cents. I wa,
broke when l landed here and when
couldn't get work l had to sleep In tn,
park last night. This mornin' 1 though
I'd try to sell my CUR and get somethin
to eat.
Say, the Philadelphia cops Is all RICH,
but you New York guys has EN-
skinned"
II was decided to hold young Gilpir
until his parents could be heard from.
The evening world., 1912-02-15
DON'T USE DRUGS
FOR CONSTIPATION
lust Try Natures Cure.

We all know that constipation
brings on countless other complaints
II not taken in hand. appendiciti.
among them-also that any drug will
lose its power after being. taken 10, a
lime-but we should also know that
II Nature can be assisted instead Of being
forced, SO much the better for u health.
There is now a method OF Internal
Bathing which will keep the intes-
tines as clean and pure and free from
waste as exacting Nature can demand
which. taken occasionally. will pre-
vent constipation. biliousness. with its
depression. and the countless more
serious diseases which are caused by
the blood taking up the poisons from
the intestines and carrying them through
the system.
That method is the -. b. L. Cas-
cade," which is being enthusiastically
used by many thousands, is prescribed
by the most enlightened physician,
everywhere, and is o being shown and
explained by all Riker Drug Stores in
New York and Brooklyn.
Every one should at least investigate
this Nature-curc without delay.
ASK for Booklet Why Mar Of To-day
Is Only 50% Efficient"
The evening world., 1912-02-15
BOYS LIFT OUT A BABY
AND STEAL ITS CARRIAGE.
@ Greatest Sales Euer Planned in February---Here, Tomorrow

The Bronx police think they have cap
tured the two meanest boys In New
York.
Mrs. Katherine May Of No. 17ss Fulton
avenue started out to-day with her baby
IN its carriage for an airing. She forgot
the baby's bottle and returned into the
house. When she came out the baby
was propped against a wall and the car
rage had disappeared.
A short time later Detective Marion
OF the fremont police station saw two
boys with a baby carriage. which they
man. lie arrested them.
They gave their names as Samuel
Bloom. seventeen years old. Of No. AIS
Park avenue. and Noel Smith. sixteen
years old. OF No. +l97 Third avenue.
Magistrate House held them under $500
bali on a charge OF grand larceny.
The evening world., 1912-02-15
MAN OF MYSTERY FREEZES.

John weiser of No. $50 Cortlandt ave-
nue.. the Bronx, vent into the rear Of
the house next door. which he owns.
this morning n found the body of
William Seeler, who has been known 10
the n%eighbors as the man of mystery"
Seeler. who al about sixty years old.
had frozen to death. DR.. Benjamin Of
Lebanon Hospital said the man had
been dead three days.
Seeler would tell little Of his past. be-
yond the fact that he comes from Ber-
lin. where his brother ts q prominent
physician. He was a man OF culture
and education, but earne his living by
doing odd Jobs in the neighborhood.
When found he was on a mattress he
used as a bed and was fully dressed.
The evening world., 1912-02-15
New Receivership BiII,

ALBANY. Feb. l5.-Members OF the
Legislature and OF the State commit
tee of any political party are barred
from appointment as referee or receiver
by n court or judge DUNG their tenure
OF office In bills introduced to-day by
Assemblyman Rutland Of Broone.
The Irish standard., 1912-09-21
MeerSchaum.

Meerschaum mines in Nemlau have
been worked for 1000 years 1t is claim
ed, and the process is simple. The
mines, which Mt one time reached from
Kabe to Mihalitch, on the sea of Mar
oma, are concentrated around the city
of Eski-Sehr, and give employment to
some 5000 miners. The mines are
worked In the most primitive manner
by foreman and two to five work
men with picks. The depths Of the
pits vary greatly, and depend upon the
depths ut which reddish-brown earth
is met, which is the first indication Of
the existence of magnesite. Sometimes
this red earth is found only few
yards beneath the surface, but Or
dinarily at a depth of twenty yards,
often forty, and even sixty. In this
layer Of red earth meerschaum is
found. disseminated in nuggets OF ir-
regular shape. The size Of these rare.
ly exceeds twelve to sixteen cubic
inches, the greater part are the size
of walnut No explosives are used,
the ground being soft. Almost the en-
tire output is exported to Vienna, and
thence distributed to the various Euro
.pean countries and to the United
States, the latter buying only the I'm,
est selection.-The Argonaut. ~
The Irish standard., 1912-09-21
Japan's Royal Oxen.

The black oxen employed to draw
the funeral car Of the late Mikado are
Of a select genius which for centuries
has been employed solely for the use
of the Japanese imperial family. No
other race of draught animals can
show such a record of exclusiveness.
The cream-colored horses reserved for
our own royal family run them close.
but some of these had once to wear
the yoke of foreign ruler. When
Napoleon occupied Hanover he seized
all the cream-colored horses in the
royal stables and took them to Paris.
The state carriage at his coronation
was drawn by eight Of these animals.
which the Parisians called "les che
vaux cafe au lait." Their employ.
ment ON this occasion so irritated
George III. that he gave up using the
others of the breed stabbed in London.
The Irish standard., 1912-09-21
home FOLKS ARE BEST
Revelation That Came to 'Girf
About to EIope. .:
BY JOANNA SINGLE.

+ The cool stiffness of the September
evening came into the little upper
room where Drusilla sat huddled on
the floor with both arms on the win.
dow sill while she waited for the dusk
to become darkness. She hardly
breathed, though she knew that her
door was locked. that she was sup
posed to have gone to bed with q
slight headache, and that her parents
would not disturb her. 1t was a task
for her heart to keep on feeling hot
and angry enough so that she could
leave them without word and slip
or to marry man-any man-but
least of all one like Henry Main,
whom they had done their best to
keep away from her. They told her
she was too young to know. Worse
than that, they wanted her to marry
Max just because she had been EN-
gagged to him before Henry came into
the neighborhood for his summers
vacation.
At thought Of Max she rose.
smoothed down her blue serge skirt
and put on her hat. Max had gone
too far when he ordered her abso-
lutely not to speak to the other man.
She did not like jealousy. He would
see now that he had made a mistake.
II he had just asked her not to--but
no, even then she could not have
helped loving the older, more sophis.
| ticated man, with his tender, master.
full ways. She did not like to go to
him in this way.
Finally she heard the little clock
on the shelf downstairs strike 10, and
though she was shivering with fear
and the misery Of leaving her own
little room, she slipped into the hall.
her shoes in her hand. She waited,
heard her fathers deep breathing
from the open room, and then slipped
! down the back stairs to the kitchen
and out into the yard. l.,
There was no moon, and Drusilla,
child as she still was, shrank from
going alone In the dark through the
field to the bit of wood where he
would be waiting for her. Max was
always prowling about, since his
farm was neighboring, and might
The Irish standard., 1912-09-21
FlkNCEE'S SKULL AS CUF
Curious Method Of German Student
to Keep His Dead Sweet
heart In Mind. ''

Paris.-Dripking from cup made
from the skull. of his flancee is the
way which German student al
strassburg has adopted to keep the
memory Of her fresh. The fact IL
vouched for by the Able Wetterle, q
famous French-Alsatian priest, whose
propaganda against Germany hal
won him several terms Of imprison
ment. He bought the grim relic from
the student to add 1t to his museum
of German civilization" at Colmar.
The girl died a year ago in the hos
pital where the student worked, 50
that the latter had little difficulty in
removing the head in the dissectina
room. The able was put on his track
by a jeweler who studded the skull
which was brought HIM. with rubiss.
The Irish standard., 1912-09-21

come upon them. Now the slender
girl stole about the barn where old
Beauty, the mare, thrust out her head
and whinnied softly for attention.
Drusie stopped moment to lay her
face against the kindly old creature.
and then passed through the orchard,
trembling at every step, wondering
whether in the morning her mother
would cry, or whether she would just
look gray and old as she had done
when she saw that her daughter was
dismissing Max.
AS she came to the bit of pasture
between orchard and wood, she sud-
denly remembered Henry, and the.
magnetic half-hypnotism of him
numbed her senses and made her for
get all but him. He would take care
of her; he loved her; they would go
to the city and real life would begin
for her.
Then she recalled her big, bluff.
blue-eycd lover and his angry con-
tempt for the other man, his injus-
tice, his almost violence. AS If she
couldn't tell a good man from q bad
one. What right had he to forbid
her to see any one she liked?
! BY this, now fearless, she was en-
tering the wood path where a little
farther on was the big tree where
Henry was waiting, and where under
some bushes waited suitcase with
few things she had taken out there,
one by one, during the last few days.
She almost laughed to herself to
think she had reached the place with.
out somehow meeting Max-he had
been almost omnipresent the last few
weeks, although she would not speak
to him. Henry had gone back to the
| city, and even now no one was sup.
| posed to know that he was driving
over for her from neighboring town..
! from which they would later take a
night train. She was glad she had
/ not met Max.
Once safe in the trees she gave a
little low call like quail and waited
for an answer; but receiving none,
called again, and then listened. What
she heard was crashing of bushes
at some distance, and suddenly the
angry voices Of men,. Instantly she
hid herself. Probably Henry was
waiting for these people to pass be.
fore he showed himself. H. -.''N AZ
Flat on the ground under the brush
the girl lay. her heart going like mad
The Irish standard., 1912-09-21
81 ARE POISONED BY FLIES
People In Attendance at Sunday
School Treat Eat Meat Infected
Through Insects.

London. - Fifty people have
been poisoned by flies at Theviscoe. 81
village near St. Anstell.
One hundred and sixty people att
tended Sunday school treat, OF
whom fifty-seven were taken Ill, some
seriously. The symptoms pointed to-
poisoning and there was sus-
picion that the tea had heen poisoned
by malicious persons.
Investigations by the medical officer
of health showed that the outbreak
was confined to those who had meat
which was cooked "a hours before
His view, after inquiry and an.
alysis, was that the meat became in
fected through the agency Of flies
which were specially responsible fol-
such outbreaks.
The Irish standard., 1912-09-21
STRANGER IN DISTRESS
Widow Samples Patient Proved
to Be a Friend Indeed.
BY CLYDE JOHNSON.

The breakfast dishes had not YEA
been cleared away, and yet the
Widow Sample sat on the back porch
with her hands .clasped over one
knee and q thoughtful look on hel
face. She was woman past forty,
and owned and ran her little farm
A matter had been bothering her
for long, long time, and she was
trying to find way out.
! Three years before. when Uncle Alb
ner Gates, widower. had met with an
accident to his wagon while driving
to the village, and had called at her
house to borrow tools to make repairs,
she had thought we'll Of him and be.
lieved he had Of her. A week later
he had come back to see II she had
any hay to sell, and she smiled and
blushed as she realized that 1t was a
mere excuse. She knew that he had
tons and tons Of it in his barns.
The third time Uncle Abner called
he brought some Paris green to kill
of later bugs. He did more. He
went out to the patch and sprinkled
the STUFF over q hundred hills, and
when the widow chided him for being
80 neighborly he replied:
Pooh! Pooh! Hain't we been put
into this world to help each other!
I've allus thought a widder. woman
had a mighty hard time of it."
EYES," with a sigh.
"Their barns are allus bein' struck
by lightnin'!"
eyes,"
"Tin peddlers cheat EN-"
"They do"
"And them sewing.machine fsllerl
tuck on the price,"
EYES,"
Eyes, sir, a wilder woman has 9
mighty hard time of 1t. and I don't
care who hears me say so. Thai
is"
There followed pause long enough
to have enabled the calf to run si1
times around the hog-pen, and ther
Uncle Abner finished.
"Unless she marries agin."
The widow reached out for holly
hook blossom and slowly picked thu
The Irish standard., 1912-09-21
Penalties for Pedestrians.

The Vienna police. being of the
opinion that pedestrians are chiefly
to blame for street accidents, have is-
sued notice to the effect that a Pc
destrian, II he wishes to cross the
road, must do so in direct line, TAX
ing the shortest path Persons found
walking along the street lengthwise,
and thus endangering their own safety
and that of others, will be reprimand-
ed by the police, and in the case of
their not complying with such direc-
lions will be subject to fines vary
ing from 1s Cd to e8.-Dundee Ad.
;tertisar: }@'S "a.
The Irish standard., 1912-09-21
avis Lends A HAND
Accompaniment Changed From
One Flat to Two
BY DOROTHY DOUGLAS.

Avis eurled herself into the big chair
BY the fire. Contentment broeded
over her soul. There was no Earring
note, not even the coppery.red of the
girls head. to mar sense OF complete
peace. She selected q bon bon from
the silver basket at her side and nib
bled 1t while she turned the pages Of
her magazine.
A little smile of pleased surprise
crossed her face. She had found q
story by one of her favorite authors.
Settling herself more comfortably
and propping her dainty slipper-clad
feet on foot-stool, Avis began her
story.
Suddenly, and without moments
warning, some one in the next house
struck tremendous chord on the
piano. Avis, with ears keenly alert to
anything musical, found herself listen
ting,
After . short prelude on the
piano, the person in the next house
began to sing. The person was q
man.
Avis sat for ten or more minutes
trying to concentrate on her story.
but always the mans voice swept
her mentality along with 1t. In
her brain she was singing each Of
those notes upon which he was
practicing. Up and down the scales
she went, reaching even the upper
register, and descending with equal
ease.
AS the spectators at race are
keyed to the pitch of squirting the
horses, as il they, too, were on the
back of those speeding animals and
were participating in the race, SO
Avis felt in regard to the voice next
door.
She, herself, could not sing. yet
when the. man stopped for moment
from his scales and vocal exercises
she sank back quite exhausted with
her efforts.
The harmony and peace of her
hour was completely gone. She could
no more follow the trend of her story
The Irish standard., 1912-09-21
Doctor. erewsoma Fec.

Representatives Of an American
doctor recently claimed the head from
a corpse. The dead man promised his
head twenty-five years previously as
payment for the Doctors services in
saving his fife. The man was shot in
the eye. The doctor performed haz-
ardous operation, and discovered that
the wounded man was able to dis.
charge normal functions with bullet
in his brain. The man said he could
not pay the doctor, but offered to will
the physician his head. The doctor
accepted, and when his patient died
he left note asking that the doctor
bs reminded Of the beQuest
The Irish standard., 1912-09-21
DYING GIRL j! CURED
Receivers After 81 Doctors Had
- Given Her Up.
Tuberouloeis.D labetss Patient eeee
Light and Hears Voloe Say: "Dor-
othy, Your GATHERINGS Are Over.
Arlse. You Can Walk.

London.-Saved by an angel who
met her at the gates Of death and
babe her turn back to mortal life.
Miss Dorothy KERN, who has been a
bedridden invalid from tuberculosis
and diabetes, ia today running about
her home. 204 Wildwood road, as
though she had never been Ill a day
In her life
Miss KERN. who IL a beautiful girl
up to die by 81 doctors Saturday
they announced that she would die be.
fore midnight. Sunday morning she
suddenly opened her eyes. Her moth.
err bent over her -..t4..
Dolly. do you know me?" she
asked
"Of course l do mamma" replied
the girl. Il am to get up. The angel
told me to. An angel from heaven
met me at the gates Of death and
brought me back"
And the girl did get up. seemingly
under a mysterious influence. and ran
downstairs. A friend Of the family.
an atheist. at sight Of her fell on HIS
knees. praying to God. .-.fs.
Not less remarkable than tho
restoration Of her physical health Is
the effect OF her inexplicable expert.
ence on her mind. She came forth
from her visit to the valley OF tho
shadow with n serene faith in an inf.
mite power, a belief in spiritual law.
clarity OF mental view and an clo-
quence Of expression usually acquired
only after years of hard study.
Miss BERN has written an open let
ter in reply to the many queries which
! In this letter she says:
Il was conscious yesterday for the
first time In several days. 1t seemed
to me that was slipping out of life.
heard the whispers and sobs and
prayers OF those who love mo best.
Everything grew black. did not
even think; | just drifted without an
effort, without q thought. into deeper
| blackness.
Suddenly saw light-dazzling-
brighter than any fire had ever seen.
Stretched from out the great golden
flame saw two hands. Then heard
sweet voice say clearly. Dorothy.
your sufferings are over. Arise. You
can walk Then heard mother ask
ing me II l knew her.
There is science of religion as
we'll as science In every phase of
the material universe. We live in tho
midst of wonderful lands. In my own
case realize that my long illness and
| quietness prepared me to receive a
message from the voice. which health
and success and ambition sometimes
atultify.
II do not feel that the anchorite. the
dreamer or any Of the ultra-religion-
lists are nearer God than any man or
woman today who accepts the truth,
and who opens the windows Of the
soul to the light Of the spiritual
world"
The Irish standard., 1912-09-21
Triumphant Philosophy.

ussNubSsOssS ''''SsSFtSs
"And you mean to tell me-" drawled
the disciple, "that there is some good
in every misfortune?"
The Arkansas philosopher made u
futile swipe at an eagle.like mosquito
before he answered.
II suttenly do say that"
"Then what good ia there in that
mosquitoes biting your"
The philosopher scratched the bite
in question and Q far away look came
into his eeys.
Didn't you ever notice." he asked,
that there are few sensations in the
world as sublime as that of scratch
ing where a mosquito has bitten you?"
Whereat the disciple marveled
greatly and went on his way.