El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27
Calls 1t Christmas Spasm
Rev. c. l.. Overstreef Says He Might
Describe 1t as OVERRIDING a
Good Thing; Little
Interviews.

90 UNDAY night I intend to preach
a sermon on The Christmas
- Spasm., said Rev. c. L. Over
street. of the First Presbyterian church
Il might add a subtitle and call it
overriding a good thing. People are too
much inclined to c0nfine their Christian
spirit to Christmas day When Christ
mas comes they get very generous, give
literally and with the right spirit But
when Christmas is over and almost be-
fore the paper tissue has burned ana
the Christmas ribbon picked up, they
null back in their shells. take on board
their crouch and go through the year
that way. Ny advice is TO spread the
Christmas spirit over the entire year
and call it the Christian spirit.
If the Mexican federals wiz place
their machine guns and men properly
in La Mula pass, no rebel army could
reach Ojinaga," said c. G. Jones. who
was a gunner for the Maderlstas at
Ojinaga. Il know that country like
book and I know what it would mean
to attempt to march an army through
La Mula pass with the pass properly
defended
We had an experience with La Mula
pass during the MaderO revolution
when our forces were defeated and we
were ordered to evacuate OJinaga be-
cause the federals had held the pass
uting the artillery and machine guns,
with sharpsnoOters stationed along the
hills overlooking the pass, the federals
could hold that position until the crack
of doom"
Deputy constable J. ". Brown held
a sequestratiOn writ for piano IN his
hand. He was sad he sighed
1t was Christmas. Here is a
writ said the constable, sadly
shaking his head, for a WOmans
you imagine what that home would be
without music at a time ike this.
Think about it. Woman with three or
four happy children and a plano Chill
dren's voices lifted in song Enter
hard hearted constable i have a writ
for your piano, madam Woman walls
and children's tears Christmas does
not come but once a year and 1t seems
to me that they could put or issuing
this writ. at least till after New ears
I am going TO see If I can arrange il 50
that that woman and her children VIII
have their piano this week
Abr exclaimed Capt. ". D. Greet.
as city detective Bill Smith walked
into the police station wearing a brand
new, brown velour hat, you are per-
feet study in brown I see that you
have an eve for colOrs.
This at says Billy Smith, rs
Christmas present Hi selected the
color an Hi thinks that it is most be-
coming"
piled Capt Greet. ''As a matter Of fact
it showed your acumen. You know that
all detectives should wear brown hats
for the reason that they cannot pc so
easily distinguished when wearing that
color Of headgear- When you see a
man with a brown hat on you cannot
tell whether he is detective OF Just
a plain citizen.
Clarence LongneclSer who drove into
E. Paso in his Buick car last week
ru-ea A. = HHmM TX
I have cult Ell PasO for good because
I have been over in Arizona Tor some
time. Not on your Ire i neVen L
stfII call FL PasO my home and while
I travel about the southwest great
deal I hang my hat in this town ans
expect to do so for many years TO
come"
It hope that the 10th Infantry wiz
enter a team in the City Basketball
league. said Charles Fl, Brown, OF the
soldier team in the league, ike the 22d
infantry team Of last year. Although
the ed infantry team did not win the
CITY championship last year. they GER
tainly showed up all the other teams BY
their clean. sDOrtsmanlike playing
They were the best losers, as team
that I have ever watched They never
Wrangled with the referee and IN eV-
cry game everywhere they played thew
made a fine impression If the z0tn
Infantry viii also furnish that brand
z
addition to the City league"
We made a record in steamship tick
ct sales Christmas eve, said j. p
Monroe. of the G. H. & s. A. We sold
so tickets to Europe over the French
line Nest Of these were to the Spanish
refugees Of Chihuahua who are leaving
Mexico behind them for good and all
and going hack to their former homes
in SDain. That is the largest number
of steamer tickets ever sold in the
west in one day
Unlike other branches OF the gov
eminent service. we are not given any
funds to be used for advertising pur-
poses" saws L. NJ. Lawson project en-
gineer at Il Paso of the United states
reclamation service. As a result. we
are up against it sometimes when We
need material and equipment with
which to undertake a job. Take the
Franklin irrigation canal enlargement
proposition for instance. We need ma
chinery. livestock, concrete and many
other things for that work and we
cannot advertise for them through the
newspapers We have TO depend on the
publicity given by the press in shape OF
There is another method, however. that
involves the typewriting OF long lists
of the stuff we want and then posting
these lists in conspicuous places.
Passenger travel during Christmas
week. as a rule. is very Hight" saws
ROv Davis. of the E. p. & s. w. city
ticket office 'But this year we were
surprised to find that there was no
great decrease in the number of trav-
elers passing through here. Most Of
them were going east-gOing to spend
the HOLIDAYS back where the snow Is
deep and the weather is really cold,
SUPPOSE Even on Christmas day we
sold a number of tickets over our line
and understand that the same thing
happened to the other roads In FL
PasO"
CANAL. workbench HAD To
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