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Evening star., 1914-12-27

pit he brought letter out of inside pocket and
Laysan glmpsed its Glasgow postmark and the angular
handwriting of the address he knew to be from Mrs.
Willie Faulkner-Helen Muir that was-who owed the
great happiness of her life this partner of his "Why
John this is the girl that Helen Faulkners been writ
ing about, and he passed the letter to
American artist whose works been making the biggest
kind of hit in Paris and London But how the devil
could she get me like that? She has me-"
Smiling to himself and leading the way into the ex-
change John Laysan was reading:
Marion Craig knows the you know it, Percles.
But than just being wonderful artist she is
derful woman; indeed of the finest characters have
ever known. Some day hope you may meet and know
THERE Laysan paused and looked up. They had
come to the threshold of the black-boarded cham
Der where San Francisco keeps records of all that's
well i'll the Seven Seas, and Perices pushing
open the swinging doors.
"Helen Faulkner'n marry you off yet, old top"
Laysan saying when muttered exclamation from
Pericles sent his gaze across the floor.
On blackboard that reserved for only the most
momentous tidings red-headed clerk stepladder
that instant finishing in foot-high letters the
heading DISASTER.
A crowd with eyes only for that drcful word apd
what the bulletin writer's flying fingers Immediately
began to post beneath it, gathering from every
part of the chamber
SEATTLE June 19.-Wireess received here 1:30
this date from steamer Kodiak Wrange Alaska for Seat
te Alaskan Northern Line steamship Seminole
from Skagway June H. and Juneau June 13. carrying
three million and half bullion and gold dust for San
Francisco struck unchated rock Clarence Strait morning
June A. Sank fifteen minutes afterward. Kodiak has
board 219 survivors of total 800 Survivors
landed boats Lake Bay Prince of Wales Island. AS
sisted by trading sloop Captain Peabody, of Seminole
returned Immediately by soop wreck. Kodiak
called and sailed Lake Bay June 16 Nothing had been
heard up then Peabody Kodiak passed supposed
of wreck Saw signs. Found only deep water.
"Three million and half! Jumping Jehoshaphat!"
exclaimed Laysan as the final word of the bulletin
leaped into view.
Followed deep silence for the space of second,
and then arose of voices like the overtone
of the sea. 1t might have been the excited and
picious hour again in the previous December when the
Evening star., 1914-12-27

had through of the piling up of the Tikvah
en Nanaimo, the ship out of which Perices O'Brien
long before had stepped into his first fame as sea
master. The buzzing crowd began dissolving into the
quick elements of shipping world that must needs
take account of these dngs And they went scurry
ing off in varying directions to find phones or tee-
graph stations their voices lifted in translation of
the facts underlying the disaster:
The Seminole not an Alaskan Northern liner,
but of the Gold Coast Steamship Companys fleet;
in other words, Nillsen & Rosenthal vessel N. R.
had purchased her on the Delaware and brought her
round the Horn in the preceding winter following the
wreck of the Tikvah the lower Mexican Coast. The
day she had put her fiddle-head bows through the
Heads the Alaskan Northern Line, cramped for ton
mage had chartered her Despite the vcissitudes of
twenty five years. she had still retained good many of
the qualities of the heyday time when she had been
famous among transatlantic ferry queens. This was
her second or third trip under that charter.
"Well?' demanded Laysan in dldn t-l-tel-you-
long-ago sort of and turning his back the bue
tin board to look up into his partners serious face
Apparently Pericles did not hear him. He
scanning the news from Seattle, word by word and
line by line, and he could not help imagining that in
the spaces here and there the scared, white face of
Simon Rosenthal was playing peekaboo with him.
well, old man, what d. you make of it?" asked Lay
san in louder tone. 81 should say that something
pretty rotten has happened in Denmark"
Il think John, we'd better cut luncheon uptown to-
day and get back to the Office" Percles answer,
and he put an through Laysans and started
ward describing they went how little while before
he had Nilsen and Rosentha hurryng out of the
exchange They had their offices in the building They
had left it before the posting of the bulletin of the Sem
inoles loss and So argued Percles they must have
ceved earlier advices
"Tust about two three months earlier, Lay
sans caustic comment.
INSIDE that hour William Graves, president of the
Alaskan Northern Line, and Pericles and Laysan
closeted in the private Office of the West Coast
Wrecking & Salvage Company, poring over chart of
Alexander Archipelago the islandscattered extremity
of Southeastern Alaska.
Somewhere in there she must have struck Graves
saying indicating cluster of slets where Zarembo
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-28
DgIffY7s Again a Lie Saver

Here's a woman who grew weaker
and weaker until chance led her to
Try Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey,
and It came to the rescue, as If
usually does. But read what she,
herself, says:
IT wish to announce what Duffy's
Pure Malt Whiskey has done Tor me.
Some time ago 1 had very bad attack
of dysentery that lasted two months. I
went to my doctor and he gave me pow
ders and medicine, but it did me no
good as I grew weaker and weaker
made me think I was getting consump-
tion of the bowels. I had tried the best
Of brandies with no result, but good luck
wanted it that my eyes fell on a Duffy
Pure Malt Whiskey ad in the evening
paper. 1 looked over it carefully and
saw it was good for weak bowels at
once bought bottle, and before it was
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-28
Patterson Predicts National Prohibition

dices is an enemy to this country
DR.. Baker could not understand why
the dryest part of the state was the
wettest. you have d magnlTlcenC
city, beautiful homes, and are build
ing the finest streets in the world,
yet you have liquor" he said. i can
understand it."
He predicted that next year the
state would go prohibition by t9'VUU
majority.
DR.. Baker stated that a national
prohibition paper would be started IN
Washington at the opening of the
next congress. He concluded by Sc
curing subscriptions to the national
prohibition campaign fund. HaIt or
the amount subscribed, Dr. Baker
said, would go to the state league
fund.
Rev. J. E. Abbott of the Weastmin--
lister Presbyterian church, delivered
the invocation before the speakers
were introduced. Mrs W. D. Howe
accompanied by Mrs. J. J. Pearce'
pianist sang a solo.
Immediately after the meeting gov
ernor Patterson and RI. Baker lett
for the Union station where they
boarded the Southern Pacific tram en-
route to Pacific coast points.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-28

personal ibertyi Why you can hunt
or fish in in this state just whenever
you want TO. Yet it is wise 20 nave
laws that govern our capriees ana de-
sIres, for if we did not nave tnose
laws, we would be wearing the SKINS
OF Wild animals and hammerlng each
other over the heads with stone axes
ana cracking hickory nuts Win our
teeth.
Views Are Changed.
MY views have undergone a change,
and 1 now look upon this business as
having no rightful place IN society 1
was born in Alabama ana my 1aIher
moved to Memphis, Tenn, when L was
a child. There were saloons on every
side, and I grew up in that environ
ment. took my first drink AT an open
BAR while attending school 1 became
lawyer, prosecuting attorney, tnen
went to congress, where / round IN
toxlcating drinks sold in each end of
the national capitol.
From congress L became governor
Oh tennessee, and was an advocate OF
local option in regard to the promo
ltion question I did not believe in
statewide prohibition and vetoed
measure to that effect
But my friends. my life has been
touched by deep sorrow, and my soul
tossed on the waves OF angry seas.
1 have seen the trail of the liquor
traffic in the courts, twice as governor
OF tennessee have seen it the storm
center Of a fierce struggle. saw
many boyhOOd friends fill untimely
graves, and at last I felt the foul
blow Of its wrath descend on me, when
had thought myself immune from
its attacks Deeply Inundated and
tortured in my own esteem, / was
groping IN the dark and needed help.
Il cast aside all principles Of opin-
ion, or thought of what the world
might say, and bowed my knees to the
throne Of an Almighty God. and there
asked Tor strength and light I arose
n changed man. From a critic of 9TH
ers, looked within: from an unhappy
man became a contenteG man, a be-
lever in divoine truth and the power
of God to cleanse the souls of men,"
Governor Patterson closed his adj
dress by declaring that the govern
ment has no right to license vice and
crime.
Baker Raps Local Politics.
Preceding governor Patterson's ad-
dress. DR.. P. A Baker, founder and
superintendent of the Anti-SaloOn
league of America, made q brief talk
DR.. Baker took rap at local politics
by CHASING the local situation as
Just as a nasty family fuss, a fam
lily falling out.
I'VE are getting too big in this
country" declared DR.. Baker ito
have national preJudiees. Any man
that tries to build Up sectional preju-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-28
Tennessee Governor
Has Weak Voice, but
SpiritedArguments.

That there will be national constitu-
tional prohibition within 10 years, the
only solution OF the liquor problem,
was the declaration OF former COVER
nor Malcolm r. Patterson OF Iennes-
see. Mr.. Patterson delivered his talk
on the liquor question Friday night
to an audience that occupied the boxes
and every seat on the lower ana upper
floors of the Ell PasO theater-
AIillard Patterson introduced Z. H.
Whitaker "as the tall sycamore OF
Tennessee" who in turn introduced
former governor Patterson. Before m
introducing Mr. Patterson, Mr. WHIT
aker had a good word to say in favor
of Tom Ball, candidate for governor.
He also had words Of praise Ior Lne
Tennesseeans who died in the battle
Of the Alamo ut was an ex-governor
OF Tennessee who led the battle line
OF Texans at the battle Of san Ja-
cinto," Mr.. Whitaker declared, and
I am proud to introduce plumed
knight OF Tennessee who is also an
ex-governor of that state" AS for the
liquor traffic, Mr.. Whitaker said ne
saw the handwriting on the WALL
Patterson7s Voice weak.
IT was evident from the first effort
that Mr. Patterson was suffering from
an almost total loss Of his voice. Yet,
ried to every part Of the rheater and
Afr. Patterson held the audience un-
til the closing word Of his talk. His
delivery was good, as was his artlcu-
1atipn. Mr. Patterson knew how to
draw word pictures.
'I don't know whether It is the i'm
mensity of your state, or the real es-
ta.e I got in my throat travelling over
your plains that finds me with a
failing voice" were Mr.. Patterson
opening remarks Texas, he cOntin-
ued. reminds me of the old woman
who saw the ocean for the first time.
She said it was the first time she
ever saw a thing that there was
enough Of"
Calls Revenue Blood Money.
The former governor launched at
once into the subject OF his address,
declaring that the fight for prohi-
bition had passed the experimental
stage. 1T is time for the United
States to get out Of the liquor bust
ness" Mr.. Patterson declared. Il
want to see the time when the govern
ment viii stop taking money classed
as revenues, that is made from the
tears and blood of men and women.
And they talk about personal liberty.
That is their strong cry You say
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-28
DAILY RECORD.
Building Permits.

To J. A. Baudreaux, to build a dwelling
Ninth and Virginia: estimated value SzOVO.
To Hawkins Improvement company, 70
build a bungalow, lots and 81, block 4zo'
East EI PasO; estimated value S5OOO,,
To z. Lujan. to build an adobe ChlnuG-
hua street between Ninth and Tenth estl-
mated value SIS.
10 T. Kyriocupulus, to build a garage, SO
Prospect avenue: estimated value $500.
To J. E. Bischoff, to take down ana re-
model stand in Cleveland square, estimated
70 Manuel Aragon. to build an adobe, lot
10. block ., East Ell Paso; estimated value
Deeds Filed.
North side Of Mobile between Division
and Florida-H. D. AIcMUllen ct uX. to 5. H
AfcAIullen lots and g. block 134, Highland
Park; consideration $500; March II, 1919.
North side of Tularosa. between. San Mar
cial and alIev-Anderson- Filler Investment
company to Phoenix-El Paso Building com
pany, lot 20 and parts OF - and q, ploc5z
a. East FL Paso; consideration $1,000 March
FL Paso county. Tez.--v. E. Cammack ct
ux. TO A. NJ. Avant, sections 10 to 2, block
So Texas & Pacific survey consideration
s27550; March 9. 1914
El PasO county, TeXas--W. =. Magee to
John w Turner section IS. block IS Texas
& Pacific survey; consideration S1SSS; Feb
&c. 1914.
trella-Selma Velesca Rich to c. F. Mathews.
lots to L. inclusive, block SO. East FL
Pasos consideration $4,000; March q, 1919.
FL PasO county, TeXas-V. Z. Cammack ct
ux. to 7. ". Turner, sections q. p and %,
block SO. school land; consideration $3.50;
March g. 1914.
El Paso county, Texas. E. Cammaclz
ct ux. to Ben S. Avant, sections 25 to %,
block 80, school land; consideration S644s'
Northwest corner OF Louisville and Mar
tinez-H. T. Etheridge ct ux- to Nola a
Reid, lots Il. Is and To- block 16, Altura
Park; consideration $500; March is. 1914.
Northeast corner Of New Orleans and
Fiorida-JOhn H Malaby to G. NJ New
man. lots Is and Is, block los. Highland
Park consideration $40; March 25, 1914.
North side Of Alameda. between San
Marcial and Rayner-RiO Grande Valley
Bank and Trust company to a. L. Bartz,
lots and g. block is, East FL PasO; con-
siderauon $3.50; March To- 1914
West side of Kansas, between High and
HtL-H D. Camp and H P Jackson TO
George R. LeBaron, lot 4 and parts of 8
and s. block IS. Alexander addition; con-
sideration $4,000; March "a. 1914.
North side Of Findley between Luna and
Cebada-F1rst National bank to ". F. POr-
ter. lots II and u, block L." Payne's sub
consideration $235: March q, 1914.
North side Of Missouri. between Birch and
Maple. i. Stacy 10 H. F. Stacy lots "A.
p and 20, block 70, Bassett addition con-
siderauon 81; March IS. 1914.
Northwest corner Of Lebanon and Byron
Mrs Georgia Flint to Mrs. Edith Downing
Edger, lots q and p. block 10, Altura Park;
consideration $1S1; March 10. 1914.
Licensed to We'd
Fritz BEDFORD and Bess Emilstein-
Sam L. Alperl and Minnie POzil.
automobiles Licensed.
2l54-E. p. Manner old Fort Bliss; five
passenger Ford.
c135-N. A. Perry, 1870 Alameda avenue;
Indian motorcycle.
Births-GirIs
To Mrs Ramon Martinez, 909 Tays street:
March &c.
Births-Boys
TO Mrs. Anita II. V Perez. 1906 Park
street; March 20.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-28
PROGRAMS FOR TWO
CONCERTS ARRANGED

Special programs which offer a va
riety of selections have been prepared
by chief musician Rocco Resta, the
band director for the band concerts AT
Fort Bliss Sunday and Monday after
noon by the 18th cavalry band
For Sunday afternoon at + o'clock the
following program has been prepared:
March, National Emblem" z. z.
Bagley.
Overture. Morning, Noon and Night
in Vienna Suppe
Selection, Il. lombard" Verdi.
Waltz, The Skaters Waltz" Wal
- Fantasia, Creme de Ia Creme" To-
bani.
March, washington Greys." Gro
For Monday at p. m. the program
viii be:
March. 1.-THE Free Lance" Sousa-
Overture. i"AmazOn." Kiesler.
Waltz "Andalusia," There.
Selection. 1.-THE Pink Lady" Caryl.
Angels Serenade, "Seren2de," BragGa.
Rag. Alabama Dream" Barnard.
Chief musician Rocco -Resta, director.
H-EEn CT.AEGFGP ASK SEGAVT,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-28
GRANADA OF FORMER
PREsIDENT LOSES RosTOEEIcl

Washington, D. c. March 2S.-For-
mer president Tyler's granddaughter,
Miss Matte r. Tyler, 20 years old, viii
be succeeded as postmistress at Court
land, Va, by B. A. Williams, it is an
nounced Miss Tyler appealed per
sonally to white house officials Friday
to continue her in office
Failure on the part OF Miss TYLER
to take her recently ordered civil ser
vice examination, rather than alleged
efforts Of a clique of Virginia politi-
clans" was the departments explana-
ton of its actions.
Although arrangements have been
made to allow Miss Tyler to present
her case to president Wilson, the
Courtland office is not within the pres
idential class Of appointments.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-28

NEED GLAssESF ASK sEGALL.
MOVED TO los TEXAS STREET
Advertisement.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-12-22
More "Rightso For Men. His Plea

To the Editor OF the Mail Eag.
a large part of your valuable space
has been taken UP recently with discus
sions on woman's suffrage and equal
rights for women. Hundreds OF Wash
ington women have paraded the streets
OF the Capital on numerous occasions
with the same idea in view. Prominent
street corners are mOnopoliZed by anna
teur orators on the same subject Sup
posing that after several years cam
paigning their dream should be real
lied: we should be perfectly justified
in asking them. What are you going
to do with it," What would votes for
women and equal rights for women
mean in our beloved District of Column
bIa? The men can't vote; would an ex-
ception be made in the case OF the
women? AS far as l can sec. cur fe-
male citizens already have equal rights
They have the right to work for low
wages: they are allowed 70 hang onto
straps in the street cars the same as
the men do: and they can tell Congress
how things ought to be-and then take
what they get. Let's get UP a few
rights" for men in Washington before
We 90 any further in the equal rights
matter. 4 MERE MAN.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-12-22
Was Edison Plant Set On Firs7

To the Editor Of the Mail Bag:
A few days past had the pleasure
OF conversins with a gentleman who is
closely affiliated with Lieutenant SterI-
Ing. OF the United States submarine 10
tflla- now located. 1 believe. at Newport.
R. 1. l listened with tho keenest inter-
est to his liberal answers to all Of nv
questions. and what other information
he volunteered. During the course OF
our conversation, the new and as vet
unknown Edison submarine was men
TONED, which led me TO ask him II hs
had considered the probability of why
and by whom the Edison factory was
recently Destroyed by fire. The sugges-
tive question startled him not a little.
I wonder how many persons have
thought of the probability OF that dis
astrovs confiagrat4on being caused by
an agent Of some foreign power or pow
ers? Is II unreasonable to believe that
our warrior friends across the sea are
apprehensive OF the great inventors
genius, and fear that with his mighty
brain. he will produce an instrument OF
war which will make the United States
defensively ''invulnerable and offensive
" irresistible" and by destroying the
Edison plant hoped to at least DELAY the
perfection OF any plans the wizard
may have? II. NJ. L.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-12-22
THE EARLY SHOPPER.

These are the days when the
Christmas shopper who took good
edvice and did it early may sit back
in comfort and enjoy the hurry and
scurry of those who always think
there is "plenty of time" There is
time, of course, and perhaps some
persons get enjoyment out of the
eleventh-hour rush to the bargain
counter, but on the whole that in
creasingly large number of people
who go about Christmas shopping
leisurely have by far the best of it.
They have time to get what they
want and no doubt come much
nearer doing it. They have the fur
Their satisfaction of knowing that
they have helped materially to
lessen the strain and work upon the
storekeepers and their overburdened
clerks. Each year has shown per-
ceptible improvement in the situa-
ton, and those whose forethought
and consideration are responsible for
the improvement are justly entitled
to the pleasure they feel in being
out of the rush hour.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-12-22
THE TURKISH MISTAKE.

Bulgaria, it is reported very cir
substantially, has given assurances
to Great Britain, France, and Rus
STA that she will remain neutral.
These assurances have been secured
with special reference to the situa-
ton that might arise if Roumania
and Greece should enter the war.
These two countries would be I'M
able TO make themselves thoroughly
effective against Turkey if they
should have to fight both Turkey and
Bulgaria. Fighting Turkey alone,
in alliance with Russia and Great
Britain, is a very different matter.
So, if the report received today is
correct, diplomacy has won another
victory for the allies. To put it per-
haps more correctly, bad diplomacy
has inflicted another defeat on the
Germanic combination. That combi-
nation dragged Turkey into the war,
apparently with the idea that Bull
garia and Roumania would take
their side or remain neutral. 1t seems
to have been believed at Berlin that
Turkeys natural and traditional
enemies would all side with Turkey,
in a world crisis of this kind; an as
sumption that could hardly have
been more erroneous. The Balkan
states have their jealousies; but the
courses of the centuries have in
stilled, underneath all these incl
dental sentiments, a hatred Of the
Turk that cannot possibly overlook
the fact that right now is the time
to drive him from Europe.
Bringing Turkey into the war as
the ally of the Germanic nations was
an offense against the natural and
inevitable sentiments of Christian
Europe and of the Christian world.
Turkey in Europe is an anachronism,
a stencil, an impossibility. Once, it
was a menace. The world would do
well to recall how Sobieski and his
Poles saved Vienna, as Charles Mar
tel and his Franks saved western Eu-
rope on the field of Tours. Austria
might yet have been Mohammedan
but for Sobieski; Christian civiliza-
ton might have been extirpated in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-12-22

returned TO the asylum, but can't be
punished for conspiracy.
Insane, he can be kept in the
asylum indefinitely. Guilty of con-
spiracy, he would have to serve a
comparatively short term in prison
and then would be released. The Su-
preme Courts determination is that
the New York courts must determine
between these alternatives; and
along with this is the intimation that
if New York doesn't so determine,
then Thaw may have a chance on
habeas corpus to get his freedom.
1t is certainly a fearful and won
derful mix, with prospects that some
of its most Illuminating develop
ments, as regards our judicial sYs-
TEN, are yet to come.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-12-22
THE "OPPORTUNITIES

The Associated Charities does not
make an encouraging report on the
inflow of funds with which to finance
the Fourteen Opportunities" for ef-
fective charity work for the coming
year. The public has few more
days before Christmas, and the con-
ditions demand an earnest appeal in
behalf of these peculiarly deserving
cases.
1t would be difficult to find a way
to do practical charity work more
effectively than in making up this
fund, or series of funds, which will
be so managed as to insure that
not dollar will go to any expense,
any overhead charges, any possible
purpose save the expenses of the
families whose cases have been care
fully investigated, whose needs have
been calculated, and whose deserts
cannot be questioned.
Right now is the time to make
the contributions that will insure
that these homes may be maintained,
these families kept together, thefs
children given a chance to be reared
under the best conditions. The full
est publicity has been given to the
facts concerning the different cases;
the Associated Charities stands
ready to furnish any more detail
concerning any particular case. The
whole matter is in the hands of the
public. Will it do its share?
There is still needed, according to
the statement of the Associated
Charities this morning, S2,949 to
make up the fund sought. In these
fourteen families for which this
fund is sought are fifty-six children.
Certainly there can be no doubt of
the proper use of funds, handled un-
der the most careful supervision. for
the maintenance OF children deprived
of the ordinary means Of support for
the little people.
Checks for, contributions can be