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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-12
OvercOats
Special Values in
Our Windows Now
at SIS

almost every shape and material The chinchahcoat
became such immediate and universal faVorte that
show big line of these of and it's
the with the montagnaac for the who a
finer Ncunas, too, and the rough and
the old reliable kerseys.
slim
shortm men,.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-12
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Dec. William TraGy's New York
cast IN Little Women"
Dec. 1f-Cohan and Harris's stop
TIles."
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-29

Copyright, 1913, by Frank G. Carpenter)
TO tail on the same track. and the mid
day traffic forming a big part OF the
receipts Of the road Our tramway
companies get only one trip out of the
business man every day. that IS his
fares. morning and evening. Here there
are two more fares at midday. for al
most all go home to their meals. The
cars wait for the stores to knock off
and run in long professions when
bringing them back.
The service is good and the average
fare IS equal to cents of our money
or, If you go second class, they are
cheaper. All kinds of traffic here are
lower than ours Cabs cost so cents
sold per hour, and you can have an au-
tCmObile taxi at Is cents for the first
1hTe e-Quarters OF a mile and Z cents for
every additional quarter thereafter.
Waits are charged for at $1-25 per
hour. This is so. Notwithstanding the
cabs are as good as Ou- own and they
go quite as fast
Mems Hats which Cost $40.
But it is now $3.50. The cars have emp
tied the clerks and customers into the
stores, and business is well under way.
Let US cross the plaza and stroll
ThI Ough the arcades which run along
its west side. with stores at the back.
Between the pillars are booths, where
I.C0dlerS are selling all sorts of notions.
The stores have goods Of many de-
l.
glass windows The most interesting
of all are the hat stores. They contain
headgear Of al sorts, from the most
modern mems shapes of New York and
London TO the gigantic SOmbreros Of
plush and felt which the Old-Lime Next
cans wear. These sOmbI eros are loaded
with silver and gold in the shape of en-
bTOidery and mDSt Of them have heavy
bands of gold bald round their crowns
Let US stop ard look at some of them.
Here is a hat as big around as the tire
of a limOusin.. It is of bright red,
runs round the GOwn, and it has eight
strands of SllVe- wire as a hatband.
That hat which langs above it is gray.
II is embroidered with leather, and az
the right and tie left are two SOM
brerOs Of black laced back and forth
with great bands Of silver. There are
hats as green as ne wing of that par
rot which the peldler has thrust into
our eyes. and hats of plush as white as
snow, with gOldel embroidery woven
about them. takeup one of these SOM
breros and put or a blanket to make
myself look like / Mexican, and am
photographed to SOW how they look.
My hat weighs seTeal pounds, and 1t is
worth $40
Other clothing cots almost as much.
I go into a tailoring establishment fur
Their on up the Stree and look at some
riding trousers Of hckskin, with solid
silver buttons Hnins the seams. A fine
pair costs SO, and the short round
about Jackets embroidered with silver
are likewise as higE I enter a saddle
establishment next dor which has sad
dies and brides witt trappings Of sill
yer, and am told tint the hacendado
often spends several hundred dollars on
his equestrian outfit n addition to the
cost of his horse
This land is one ofthe rich and the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-29

NE take a walk Win me through
w the business section Of Mexico
City and see how our lively sister re-
public buys, sells and gets gains. 1t
is now p. m and we are on the
Avenida de san Francisco, In the heart
OF the capital 1t is the busiest hour
of the day in Washington, Berlin, Paris
and London. Here the streets are de
serted, the stores are closed and their
show windows are covered with blinds
of corrugated iron The front doors OF
the chief business establishments are
locked with great bolts, ana the Town
makes one think Of the dead city OF
Nijni-NoVgOrOd on the Nolga when the
fair is not on.
What is the natter
Has the revolution again broken
Loose and have the people fled for their
Nothing of the kind. These are the
business conditions at O'CLOCK every
week day all the year through Inc
stores have been open from until l.
and thew will open again from 3 until
Z They are closed now for breakfast,
and the whole city, merchants ana
clerks. drummers and customers, nave
gone home for their breakfast or mid
dav siesta The average Mexican
family has only coffee and bread upon
rising, and its first real meal OF the
day is now serving. The city viii take
two hours to eat and start II on the
road to digestion, and will then go
hack TO work
Take your stand on the corner and
look up the street An hour ago II
VI as black with people, and the auto
mobiles and carriages flew back and
forth so that you could not cross
without the risk Of your life Now
fllere is not a car nor horse to be seen
and the only men are the policemen
who stand and Nope at the corners
transportation in Mexico City.
But let US go down to the plaza, ana
Wait tin the street cars bring the
crowds back from their breakfast The
plaza is the street car center to which
nearIy every electric line comes They
IUn in trains. a dozen often being nose
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-29
McCRACKEN
WRITES NEW BOOK

The American Child is the name OF
new book. just from the press OF
HOughtOn, MiffIin & Co, Of Boston,
written by Miss Elizabeth NcCracken.
daughter Of Rev. William Q. McCracken
Of Fl PasO. The book is dedicated by
the author to her father and mother.
This is Miss McCracken's second book,
her first by the same publishers, haV-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-29
CIRCUS CROWD WILL
ATTEND CHURCHES
seIIs-FIofO VIII Get TO Fl Puso in Time
For Worship, and Advance Man
GuEa RUnch ATvvzvs (.Oez

Circus folk will attend church in Fl
Paso, the calliope will play appropriate
music and the lions and elephants will
receive their weekly bath Sunday The
Sells-Floto circus viii arrive here
Sunday morning from Albuquerque for
the annual performances on Monday.
Whenever the circus performers a.,
officials OF the shows have an oppor-
tunity- Jack Beck, advance manager
Of the show SAYS. they attend church
and take part in the services. espec-
tally the music which is an attraction
to the band men Of the circus
FL PasO viii be the second date FOR
the Sells-FIoto circus after it left fbe
winter quarters in Denver. The Colo
RADIO circus always appears in III Paso
alonE with The peach blooms and the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-29

ing been styled women OF America
Miss McCracken, who is a western
girl. educated at Omaha, where her
father was an Episcopal rector for a
number OF years before his health
failed him, is editor OF Home Prog
ress.'- one OF the publications OF the
HOughtOu-1uffIin compan y and also
writes for the Outlook and the Ladies'
Home Journal She has an article in
the last issue OF the Journal, and much
of the material IN her newest book. was
published in The Outlook
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-29

moving vans and has become as much
an Institution here as the "CircO Bell
in Mexico.
Mr.. Beck. the advance manager for
the circus, has been in the circus bus
Oness since Noah staged his justly IA
nous floating shows featuring menag-
erie He was a drummer with the
Gentry dog show when that show trav-
eled in an edited box car, and has been
with the Sells-FlOtO show for a num-
Der of years. as an executive STAFF
man He also dances.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-29

NEW STATE HIGHWAY IS
MADE GOVERNMENT ROUTE.
CloudcrOft. n. H., March 29-Tht,
new state highway is now the Of
fetal route OF the United States gov
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-29

eminent. The government hs instruct
ed the mail carrier between CloudcrOnt
and AlamOgOrdO to use the new Box
Canyon road, which has been in use
only a short time.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-29

BREYEFED FOR ABRAVERT-v
The Mexican major who guarded"
3IaderO when he was shot has been
promoted Solos Angeles (CaLl
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-29
'eddIinE Goods at the Capital.

Mexico City Is full Of peddIers. and
they accost you on every block. There
are hundreds of men and women sell
ing lottery tickets. I meet one such
every time I go outside my hotel. He
is a native Mexican. six feet tail AMI
as heavy as former president Taft
He has a bright colored blanket over
his shoulders and on his head a
sombrero as big as an umbrella. He
also wears red shirt and trousers
and brown jacket, gayly embrOi-
dered- This representative OF Dame
Fortune walks up and down Sixteenth
Of September street all day long ask
ing every one to buy his lottery wares.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-29

FEXICO CITY, March 29.-COme
take a walk with me through
y the business section Of Mexico
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-21
ACCURATE JOURNALISM.

IN interesting department has been
added to the organization of the Pu-
liter papers in New York City 1t is
Bureau of Accuracy and Fair PLAY,
whose purpose is 10 trace inaccuracies
10 their source, TO * responsibility for
mistakes and, by disciplinary methods,
10 reduce errors TO a minimum.
Like every other paper in the uni
verse. the New York World contained
mistakes, some of which, at least. were
due TO members Of the World s staff.
No newspaper maker expects ever TO
mako perfect paper which shall be
without error OF any sort The verv
tact that, in the collecting and assem-
bling OF the news, il is necessary 70 rely
upon the observation and memory OF
30 many different persons. not trained
10 observe closely nor TO describe accu-
rately what they have seen, makes er.
rors inevitable. This is due, not 10 the
dishonesty OF the persons giving news
TO the reporters nor carelessness on the
part OF the reporters, but 10 the well
recognized fact that scarcely two per-
sons observing some incident will de.
scribe &c alike.
heporters arc compelled 10 rely upon
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-21

early independence and to pass lnws
that the administration at Washington
will be compelled TO veto, It is the
view Of President Taft that these
concessions, made to the Filipinos as
the result of the anti-imperialistic
theory, will bring down upon the admin
istration n host Of troubles. II Mr..
Taft proves true prophet, the Fill
pinos will be less fitted for self govern
ment two or three years from now than
they arc today, because the admins
tration in the islands will have lost its
present efficiency and will have
created dissatisfaction and civil. If not
military, tumI1i AS result the Dem
ocrats are liable to find themselves
forced to subscribe TO the Republican
doctrine that the independence OF the
Filipinos must be delayed for many
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-21

TO impress our eyes with a sensation of
yellow light the antennne emitting the
waves would have to be diminished to
the 6S00th part of millimeter in
length.
"'Is that impossible7 T do not be-
lieve so. Five or six years ago J OBJ
tanned, by the method Of cathode pro-
lection, metallic grains which had near
ly the dimensions required. More than
that, the grains of gold or Of silver in a
collodal state have almost those same
dimensions The day when we learn
how to isolate some thousands of me.
tallic grains of the requisite minuteness
and to make them vibrate electrically
they will emit visible radiations.'
The experiments which are contin-
ually being made with new forms of va.
por lamps. caused to glow by an cleo
trio current, give another promise for
the future in that they indicate the pos.
sibility that, any day, someone may
discover substance which, when elec
trically excited, concentrates its en-
ergv entirely within the limits of the
visible spectrum
Such a substance would then furnish
us with the nearest approach to "hght
without heat' that we could ever at
tain, an approach much nearer than
that made by the glow-worm with his
Wanted cold light.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-21

are eventually replaced again by the
vibrations of sound.
If we had wireless light it also would
consist of undulatioIs caught by the
antennae of receiving instrument, but
they would be shorter than those en-
ployed for telephony, and when rem
Ndered perceptible it would be the eye
instead of the ear that would be i'm
pressed by them.
The man who had this kind of light
in his house would push a button and
instantly the room would be illuminat-
ed by glowing waves caught out of the
ether, where before their transforma-
ton they had been passing IN u flood of
invisible pillows.
It would be far more mysterious than
the electric lamps Of today, for we can
see the wires that supply them with
current and connect them with the dy
wireless light would come, without any
conveying cables or tangible connec
tions of any kind, from the point where
the electric energy was produced, which
might be hundreds of miles away. with
out even an ordinary road, much less a
line OF. telegraph poles, connecting 1t
with the place where the light was re-
vealed. distant river. rolling on its
way, would have the energy of its wa.
tiers OEUleu lAIo lut NlbIdllOuS IB-
duired to produce wireless light, those
vibrations would flow away. unseen, fol-
lowing the curves Of the globe, and at
this point and that in this city, in that
village. on yonder farm, wherever a hu.
man mind willed it so, they would be
TRANSPORTED at the touch Of tiny au-
tennae into rays and beams of glorious
light.
To explain little more clearly what
making light by methods resembling
those by which we obtain waves for use
in wireless telegraphy means, / viii
quote the recent statements OF d
French physicist, l.. Houllevigue:
"Take an antenna, reduced for sim
plicity TO n vertical mast planted in the
ground. Excited electrically, it vi.
brates in the manner of sonorous
tube The vibrations emitted are, by
the laws of acoustics, four times longer
than the tube OF antenna.
" An antepna 100 meters long emits
waves of 400 meters length: if its
length were one millimeter the waves
would be four millimeters long. Now.
electric waves as short as four milli-
meters actually exist; they have been
produced and studied. They travel in
a straight line. They have been reflect.
ed by n mirror. deviated by prism and
subjected 10 all the experiments Of OF.
tics They are already light. but in
visible light. falling IN the extreme in
frared oar, Of the spectrum. In order
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-21

eye witnesses OF an accident to obtain
| their story of it. If the eye-witncsses
either fail TO sec exactly what hap.
pened or to describe precisely what they
thought they saw. the result is that the
reporter has a story which other eye
witnesses pronounce, ut least, inaccu-
rate. Mistakes Of this sort cannot he
avoided, although they can be and arc
minimized in every paper of standing.
There is another class Of errors which
can he practically eliminated. This is
the class due TO carelessness or slip
shod work on the part Of tho reporter
and copyresder, and 1t is 10 reach this
variety Of newspaper carclcssness that
the New York World s Bureau is in
tended. The operation OF this Bureau
will be followed with interest by news
papers all over the land, for they are
all interested in the outcome. since they
know that their principal asset is ac-
curacy and fair play. Some papers pro-
coed on the theory that the public is
gullible and can be deceived over and
over again, but no reputable paper holds
any such belief and. if the laymau were
to travel from the Atlantic 10 the Pa
cific and visit the Offices of papers of
character and standing. he would find
In every one Of them the same insist
ence on accuracy and square dealing.
frequently newspapers expend far
moro in verifying stories which come
into their Offices than they do in OBJ
tanning the original news and then, aft
or the attempt at verihcation, throw
out the story because of it's doubtful
veracity. Some wise man once said that
the great editor was he who knew what
not TO print.
The World S departure is of more i'm
portance in the great cities than in the
smaller towns Of the land, such as Salt
Lake City, for the reason that in the
large cities taking is much more gen
orally indulged in than it is in small |
cities where discovery is quicker and |
inevitable. Papers that fake are al |
ways punished sooner or later by loss |
Of subscription revenue and the respect |
Of the public which tho paper serves.
Clever journalists have evolved many |
brilliant plans to arouse interest in |
their papers and TO stimulate their cir
,ulation, but, unless honestly conducted |
with view to the public welfare, these
papers have invariably suffered decline
and loss, for of no other business was
t so truly written, "Honesty is the |
pest policy
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-21
Wirless Light
By GARRETT P. SERVIsS

From wireless telephony to wireless
light-sucb is the programme that GER
tain bold spirits have proposed for the
next great advance of practical science.
In wireless telephony voice drops
out Of circumambient space-the voice
OF a friend hundreds of miles away.
whose syllables were transformed at the
place where he spoke them into electric
undulations which spread noiselessly
through the ether like circles on a pond.
At the point where you are these pass.
ing electric waves hutter the sensitive
antennae Of receiving instrument and
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-21
A GAY OLD INDIAN.

Some Of the latest stories emanating
from Mexico shed considerable light on
Victoriano Huerta. AT times the Die
tator is surhsrgcd with courage
which very much resembles the Dutch
variety that turks in the flowing bowl.
During one of the most crucial periods
of tho negotiations between Washing
ton and Mexico the Dictator dropped
out Of sight and even his friends de-
clared that they did not know where he
was
At a reception the other day, be
rushed forward and embraced our En-.
voy 'Shaughnessy. This act might be
ascribed to Latin enthusiasm or to nr.
tifcial spirits, but our guess is that it
was not Latin enthusiasm.
dispatch to the Chicago Tribune
from special correspondent declares
that by common report General Huerta
is much given to convivial pursuits. He
is said to display great prowess with
the cognac bottle and is a frequentcr Of
cafes
Although this old Indian is grim and
terrible most of the time, yet he ap-
pears to have sense Of humor that
somewhat brighteps the dark cast Of his
character.
81 am just plain old Indian is
one of his favorite phrases, and he is
accustomed to boast Of his humble or
igin. Not long ago he perpetrated
ghastly Joke at the fashionable Jockey
Club, to which he had been invited as
guest. GA few weeks ago I couldn' It
have got into this place. he said to
his entertainers. "There has been no
change in me; I am the same old Indian
that l was; but now you let me sit down
and drink champagne with you, as if
You thought I was as good as you are. -
His Jockey Club hosts laughed family,
not taking much heart in the joke.
The editor Of comic weekly, given
to cartooning public men, visited him to
learn how much cartooning Of himself
he would permit.
~ don t suppose you would give me
'33, - said the editor, referring to the
number of the constitutional provision
for the exile OF "undesirables. "
"Oh, nothing so bad as that" said
Huerta, "but we might give you 3o-30,"
which is the caliber of the weapons used
in the army.
If Huerta is an assassin, he comes by
it honestly, so to speak Under Pres-
dent DiaZ he conducted several success.
full campaigns in Sonora against the
Yaquis. All who are familiar with the
of the exiled President can
guess what manner Of campaigns these
were, but Diaz never hired press agents |
TO brag about his brutalities. Huerta's Is |
character became better known as soon |
as Madero came into power. That |
strange idealst employed Huerta on
several military expeditions, but found
him bloody and ruthless, and so after
Huerta had vanquished Orozco in Chi.
luahua, Madero shelved him and thus
made the biggest mistake of his life
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-21
ENLIGHTEN THE EAST.

y
delegates to the Conservation Congress
was avefted yesterday. The Western
ers, most of whom uphold the doctrine
that the States should control the
granting of water power franchises
were disgusted with the prevalence OF
Pinchot sentiment.
A split in the Conservation Congress
is not advisable at this time. a cam
psign of education is better than
civil war. The Eastern delegates, 1T
NAV be presumed, are unfamiliar with
the laws relating to the control of wa
ter in the West, Owing TO the fact
that irrigation does not exist IN the
East, the people of that section of the
country have never had occasion to
study the laws relating to water rights;
and it has never been impressed upon
them, therefore, that the States own
tho water within their boundaries and
have the right to control all waters
which are non-navigable.
The doctrine that the Federal gov
ernment should grant the water power
franchises seems, therefore, perfectly
normal TO them, and yet tho control
which the Federal government excr'
cises is based upon something even
cruder than legal fiction. Having
dominion over the Federal domain, the
National government controls the water
within that domain by the mere fact
that it is able to. denv rights-of-way
which give access TO the water and
the water power.
When the Eastern conservationists
come to understand more fully that the
Western policy of conservation is based
upon law and precedent, aud when
they realize that they are seltishly lock-
ing up Western riches which will bene
MT the East as we'll as the West com
mercially when developed, they are apt
10 change their point of view on con-
servation. Disruption of the congress
would not tend TO bring about this de-
sirable state of mind; on the contrary,
it would cmbitter the Eastern people
and confirm them III their prejudices.
With the Eastern people conscrga-
ton is largck fad because they have
rot very much 10 conserve. but with
the Western people II is n question
OF industrial life and death. The time
IS coming when the conHic, of views
between the East and the West will be
much more acute. The conservation
issue viii rapidly become one Of the
chief political issues of the nation.
Meantime the Wcsterners should re-
train from the policy OF secession with
reference TO the Conservation Congress
They can gain little at this time by
breaking of relations, and. on the other
hand, they may he able to accomplish
much good by letting in light upon the
Eastern delegates.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-21

Birmingham. Ala. F, L. Willis
suffered greatly from asthma and bron-
chitis, He writes "'I got no relief
until I took Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound, 1t entirely removed those
choking sensations, and never failed to
produce an easy and comfortable con"
dition of the throat and lungs. -
Schramm-J JohnsoD, Drugs, 1.-THE Never
Substitutors, Five (5) Good Stores
advertisement
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-21

The investigation in New York of
Tammany methods is revealing more
graft than could be fixed upon Sulzer,
and Murphy will be impeached by the
court OF public opinion.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-21

Someone has been telephoning and
using other underground methods to
undermine confidence in certain Wall
street banks and brokerage institutions
in an effort 10 create a panic Strange
that nobody has blamed Rockefeller
vet
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-21

The people who complain about the
high cost of Thanksgiving do not dis
play truly religious spirit.