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Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-01-16

The small island OF Sakno ~ the coast -, u,n ,-
covered with lava and volcanic ashes, the of kogon @
held oOOOO souls Is totally destroyed The Of dead j. Great
but not yet known. The disaster began January IL.
Slowly but ,ur"N the to be toward go,
ment ownership Of interstate public. u,ilr Th, j. upto,,rot. w
service Of the post on"" department aomnab and when the ap
system J., applied I" railroads the present service though all thar
can be desired perhaps Is 10 dctuioratc
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-01-16

Good bad labor union, To pr,ry
The combinations of aborug will social cme fl,
all classes. Capital learned trick of strength through rit, @
This of collective bargaining.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-01-16
i. /. /. 1. + + 1. + + + +
PERSONAL

j. ]. + !. !. !. !. /. /. /. !. 4. + /. !. + +
NJ. G. Eighmey of FL Paso, was
Deming visitor the latter part of the
week.
Capt. h. +. Orr and wife of Port
land. Oregon. were visitors 10 the
chamber of commerce Wednesday.
Hugh II. Williams stopped over
in the city Monday on his way to
attend the banquet of the Silver City
Chamber Of Commerce.
Harry Hyatt. son of J. J. Hyatt
OF Dryer, returned 10 the state
!lrgc last week after spending the
holidays with his parents.
Robert Tulloch and W. II. Tulloch
of Silver City. arrived in the city
Sounday ON their return home.
Among the prospective settlers ~
the Mimbrc> Valley. who arrived
here last week were II. l.. Davidson
of Kcokuk. Iowa. and }. ". Tu~mau
United States Commissioner Il. Y.
Mckcves received Il telegram Mon.
dnv tu the effect that the home of
POSTMASTER Wilkinson at Santa Rita
was destroyed by fire, only a few
personal effects being saved.
John Hyatt received several car,
of cattle Wednesday shipped from
Nogalcs. Aiih They were unloadcd
at Dcming and driven overland To
the Cooks peak county where they
will grazr during the winter,
Mr.. and Mr.. o. II. Ka,auaugh
col "'''''''\lI''' ''N''' were vs.. '"'
u" Inc 'h'lnh"r "' commerce Nr''''
J." TOOK over inc '',"h'asr> I'll ''' .
Foe. and the Nhmbrra Valley and
may decide to locate here.
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Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-01-16

Though the rest of New Mexico has severe Storm. , vi
Demng has had practically freezing weather and no SNOW If 90
are to have winter il must within the month
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-01-16

The question is what shall be United State, authorities do wiz,
Ojnaga9
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-01-16

wireless call yesterday brought shin and saved os m
royal mail packet Cocud off the coast If v,
just the steamer breaking up ''
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-01-16

Alfred Slrum. manager of the b.
Metallic MiuuE aud Milling com.
puuy. wa in the city last week lo
attend mrrtm. ol the beard u'
directors of the company.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-01-16

Mr.. Earl NouSirkIc with her
mother aud brothers, ha, gone To
New York for u month, visit with
relatives.
Ia" parents of Mrs, PAM J. Case
arrived here last week from Iowa TO
spend few months with their
daughter.
spend few months with their daur-
ter.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-01-16

Mr.. and Mr.. o. II, Kayauaugh
of Gainesville. Texas. were visitor,
Iu the chamber of commerce Monday
lo look over the advantages of Drru-
m. and the Mimbrr. Valley and
may decide ro locate here.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-31

The following very interesting experience in
intense "fower farming" is related by the
Gloucester Netos Reporter:
"Mr. w s. Field has three -fourths of an
set out in jonaus his farm, Hoilyhn
and made his first shipment of flowers Friday
for this year. There were six baskets in the
shipment, each basket holding 1850 flowers, and
the returns $500 per basket. Mr.. Field
has shipped many $4,000 flowers in one
year. at profit of $3.50: which isn't half
bad for three-fourths of acre.
This little plot of ground has been very
profitable for number of years. Mr.. Field
bought the farm from the NJ. *. Smith estate,
and II is said that Mrs. Smith paid off ST.
10000 motgage from her profits on jonquils
Afterwards selling several thousand dollars
worth of flowers One year, when Easter came
early and her jonauils were ready for market
she sold 81, 900 worth of flowers from that small
patch, netting $50.
MIR. Field expects TO set out an acre or so of
bulbs this fall and greatly enlarge his business
in flowers
There's an inspiration here for some energetic
Virginia woman who has an acre of land to
spare.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-31

The railway companies Of the United States
are claiming that data compiled by the postoffice
department shows that the railways are under.
p&iu to the extent of s2ao00,ooo annually for
varying the mails
This statement is made In pamphlet issued
blythe committee railway mail pay. represent
fng4264 railroads handling mails on 2I8 900 miles
OF line, through it's chairman. MIR. Ralph Peters,
president of the Long Island Railroad company.
The railroads point out that whereas postoffce
revenues increased over s63,000.o00 from 1907
to&1s12. the railway mail pay In that time actual
Iy decreased over $300ooo--before the parcel
post was established
The pamphlet also directs attention to the fact
that the postof56e department estimates further
Increased annual revenue of about $50 200, o00
on account OF the parcel post and In spite of this
no practical action has yet been taken AIDE.
quatey to compensate the railroads for carrying
the increased burden.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-31
BUILDING OPERATIONS TO LOOK Up.

While building operations in this country
have been dull all winter, the quietude in that
line has not been comparable to what is shown
across the Canadian border. In seventeen
selected cities in Canada the building permits
during February last fell of exactly so per cent
as compared with the same month in 1913. In
Toronto and Montreal the decrease was not so
marked but it VAS much larger than In American
cities Of comparative size
Richmond has more than held its own during
this period of inactivity though the other cities
of the South have not shown up so well. Local
real estate men and builders express the belief
that there Is period Of renewed activity just
ahead. and that the summer will witness a
gratifying increase of business in the building
trades A prediction which The Vtyginian hopes
and believes will he fulfilled.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-31
TUESDAY, MARCH 81. 1914.
TILE OPEN DOOR IN CHINA.

II there have been any doubts OF the future OF
relsxiuis freedom In China they have been dis
sipa.eci by the announced attitude of President
Yuan Shih-kai. who has issued a mandate ex-
planning the meaning and force of a previous
Official announcement regarding the restoration
~ Confsnianism as constituting China's system
OF social. ethics. This mandate points out that
religious freedom is granted fully and viii be
,pruperiy protected The mandate goes on to say;
sSsNr State, religion will be introduced as under
,thcAChing dynasty. since religious freedom cor
This is only official confirmation OF what the
american friends of she president of the republic
~ China believed to be his policy. He has
proven himself the friend Of the foreign mis-
sionarysand the Chinese Christian as well. sun
day thescabIes told OF several minor uprisings in
interior towns against American missionaries In
which one or more missionaries were badly
treated by anti-forsign mohs. President Yuan
Ehih-kai promptly teegraphed the mayors OF the
towns in which the uprisings occurred that he
would hold them personally responsible for any
further outbreaks; IN other words the heads OF
the executives will fall into the basket fgura-
lively and literally if further harm comes IT,
these messengers Of the Christian gospel.
..Back.in the dark days of the Boxer troubles.
observes the Florida TinesUnion, lit Yuan
Shih-kai, then a powerful yiceroy who not mere
" protected Christians from injury insult in
his own province. but who quietly conveyed the
news TO Washington, upon the strength Of which
the dispatch of troops to safeguard the legations
WAS determined. Since then he has done many
things for which Christian propagand4sts
properly grateful. But his most signal contribu
ton in retention of the open door for Chris
tianity is his manly decision, in face Of political
intrigue that China shall not revert to the re-
stationary ranks of nations shaekled by the bonds
O1 State religions"
With "a friend at court the American church
has an opportunity 1t never had before for the
spread of the Christian religion. The awakening
OF China spells epoch In the history of the
world. The great Of great country for
centuries in darkness will be quick to embrace
the worship of the only God as they are to take
up the commercial ideas and social ethics of the
western world There was never ripper field in
the history OF civilization for the spread Of the
gospel.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-31

kind-'Personal Liberty League" Liberty is a
great boon, and no American OF Virginian should
ever fail to pay due homage to the founders OF
this glorious country guaranteeing to all the
liberty that belong to free men. but / submit
that liberty when resolved into license, be-
comes at once nuisance and should be curbed
We often hear that you cannot legislate
morals into the people" Prohibitive laws upon
statute books will not make men good but
the foundation of all statute laws was thun-
dered from Sinai. thousands of years ago-'Thou
Shalt Not" If Jehovah himself thought 1t wis
dom to declare prohibitory law to hold his people
in check, may not the constituted authorities
of today crcumscrbe the actions of man. as
to produce the largest good to the largest num-
Der?
Even under the Divine declaration the peo-
pie often rebelled but the necessity never APP
pears to have arisen, whereby the terrors or in
hibitons of this law found too drastic, nor
was it at any time necessary to repeal or modify
any section thereof. because certain OF the peo-
pie persisted in disobeying
Think you not that If the press of the State
and country would lend its influence to the en-
forcement of prohibitory law, that much of the
talk Of blind tigers would cease Is it not a.
fact that many of our papers and promn mt
citizens condone the violation of liquor laws,
who very emphatic when the offense is lar
ceny or some such violation? Why this dis
elimination?
However. ii Is writ large in the mind and con-
science of men that the 'liuuor traffic" as a
memorials, from every section of this broad
land, that appear almost daily in the Congress
s.onal Record. and will that this feel
ing Is not confined to Virginia any particular
section. but that it is nationwide, and these pro-
tests are not the mouthings of cranks fad
dists. but the best and most profound thought of
the nation To these the true opponents
of the Gospel Of Peace"
DIR. Talmage. in his lecture big Blunders,'
in closing draws very vivid picture of the
! hp ttpn of he
conauering armies of civilization and Christi
anity.
This vast army with one wing in Europe, which
marches the continent and on until 1t
stands upon the sacred soil of the Holy Land
The American wing gathering recruits 1t
crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific. across
the Pacific to the Asiatic shore Asia,
and on and on until it. too, to the Holy
Land and halts.
Where these two wings of the army OF civil
zation and Christianity shall confront each
other having encircIed the world. there will go
up shout such the world has heard
Halieujah, for the Lord God omnipotent
reigneth"
Such in prophetic vision do the temperance
forces look for the coming day when their
armies, having conquered all the States of this
glorious union, there shall be writ upon the
statute books of the nation law that banshes
forever from the soil of America the legaiized
liquor traffic
God speed the day.
c. r. WILKINSON.
Florence. S. c.. March 60 1914.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-31
NIRGINIi'S LOSS.

II in4the death yesterday at hts home in Madison
county. Va. Of Professor Bennett Puryear vir
ginia loses one who devoted his entire life to
Study OF her needs.
u Professor Puryear was for over thirty years IA
Darnbrr OF Richmond college faculty, occupying
the chair OF chemistry, with dignity. impartng
- his students that higher regard for nobler
things necessary In the upbripging of the
y0utn A graduate of Randoph-Macon college
ma afterwards a graduate student OF the Uni
yersdty At Virginia, he well ftted for the
spOsstion he oscupieain life. His writings on diff
&sreht important eubjects were widely read and
esaanneHted upon, and his work In the field OF
tsxature caused the honorary degree of LII d.
I'M ~ conferred upon him by two different insti
Si3t1ons. His work in chemistry While profess
80 ~ Richmond college. and its practical reia-
(knnahip To the needs Of our farm land has proven
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-31
With the State Press
Potatoes and the Tariff.

Potatoes growers among the Atlantic Sea-
board. in particular, and throughout the country
in general. who profess to entertain fears as to
the effect upon their industry of the free-lsting
of tubers under the Democratic tariff law, may
take both comfort and profit from bulletin
recently issued by the department OF agricul-
ture at Washington AS most sources OF for
eign imports closed by a plant disease
quarantine. the United States the country is
warned must itself produce enough potatoes
to supply home consumption or 20 without;
while Germany is pointed to furnishing OBJ
ject lesson of how needs in regard to this
important foodStuff may be met at a reasonable
pr<ce. regardless of annual variations in yield.
In Germany the area planted in potatoes ax-
gregates S,165,o0 acres against 3,5s6,000 acres
in the United States; while the average yield
there is 2e2.5 bushels per acre against 962
bushels per here.
What the potato growers. along with the
producers of other farm products in this country,
need most TO learn and apply Is the almost OBJ
vious fact that profits measured not 80 much
by the acreage planted by the outturn per
rected not so much 10 increasing the areas de-
voted to potato-raising, as to perfecting the
methods OF cultivation as to insure the maximum
yield. II the Germans on soil which has been
in almost constant use for centuries, produce,
as they are doing, over two hundred bushels of
potatoes to the acre on the average. surely there
is no apparent reason why Americans cannot
do just as well or better on land which is COM
parahvely virgin, which possesses no less de-
gree of natural fertility The problem involves
in its solution only the application Of wel-tested
scientific methods in the matters OF selecting
seed. treating the soil and planting and culti-
waiting the crop; and If this application were
generally made 1t is a safe wager that in few
short years OF average per yield of pota-
toes in the United States would equal. II not
exceed, that now obtaining in Germany. In
that event, it goes without saying that the Amer
lean grower would have nothing to fear from
foreign competition. tariff M '0,,nr
tine quarantine; while the American pub
lie would be assured OF adequate supply of
tubers at reasonable and practically steady
prices. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-31
PEOPLES FORUM

Editor Virginian:


sir.--I am really glad we have three or more
papers In Richmond that the side of
temperance. and not afraid to plead with
the poor drunkard and tell him mo drunkara
shall enter into kingdom of heaven, so mat
he may stop, think and repent.
But woe to the that putteth the bottle
etc
Surely Richmond with her 80 churches and
all the Christian people, preachers and sunday
school workers. is going 10 he strong In the
Lord and in the power of his might and right
and see that Richmond goes dry in September
1t would be a shame and reflection on the
good people of Richmond for 1t to go wet
A man told he went into a store netore
We had local option, and said to the liquor mer-
chant. You building a fine house Tne
merchant turned and said, ayes. and must
thank you for that five cents got of YOU They
go to build my house" And he said to the
merchant, And that is the last five cents you
will get from me for whiskey to build your fine
house
So 1t Is with many poor men, building fine
houses for barkeepers, buying carriages or
autos for them to ride in, and his children are
poor and have TO walk
Some sixty years ago there came fine look
Ing Young man to Richmond to work with a
butcher After a while he got acquainted with
a fine-iooking young lady. Some twelve months
after, they went to party. AS usual, pad
custom. there was glass of wine at each plate.
This young told me be had never drank
anything stronger than a little cider at home.
But this young lady wanted and insisted on his
drinking q glass of wine with her. So hnally
he drank. and then the second and then out to
bar room with a who could stand II. When
he came back he lost his best girl, and got his
walking papers from the party. So out he went
with the other fellows and to Petersburg on a
two weeks drunk. He came back, went to the
country got his old sweetheart and ran away
and was married. Rut that wine drinking habit
went with him TO the end. ! heard him tell
his poor wife, when there we're three children
in the family. to forgive him, after having been
on spree for three weeks and declared that
he would suffer his right hand to be cut oft
before he would take another drink. But his
oath did not stand. The next boy In that family
was one-handed boy. he may still be living.
But after many ups and downs, this father was
drowned in the canal, at the locks, at fish
fry. But this poor broke hearted mother with
several children had to go back on small farm
with his poor old father and mother.
So sad. and yet Christian brethren and
sisters, what doing to stop it? Men what
will you do with your vote? Have you sons
and daughters? I could tell OF other
strikingly sad cases in the history OF Richmond.
May God help
G. A. SHUMAN.
Shumansyille. Va, March 80. 1914.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-31
NO OASIS THERE.

The Richmond Virginian published at Rich
mond. Va is in favor Of Statewide prohibition
and is making hard fight for the
Naturally the 'booze" handlers making it
that State ia going to be dry" old bone
long and then it will be a case OF who
laughs last. etc"
The foregoing paragraph rom the Newbern
Journal leads the Norfolk Vsgtnan-Pi1ot to dis
play its wisdom" in an editorial which 1t heads
Always An Oasis and in which our tidewater
contemporary In its exuberant srnartness breaks
into the realms of poesy, It says:
And even then there will be some as there
are in dry Newborn today, who will continue to
indulge their quiet smiles often they did
before the sources OF mirth were theoretically
scaled. For II is said by some, who claim to
know whereof they speak, that in the statl-
tory Sahara OF Carolina the spiritually in
cned still find the wherewithal for conyivial in
diligence:
I'm the desert a fountain is springing.
In the arid waste still grows tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing
That tells where the strong waters be"
It is quite evident that the Viroinian-P,lot man
has not visited Newbern since prohibition went
into effect. He will hnd 1t about as dry as the
desert of Sahara, and the "birds"-if any such
ever roasted there--have long ago taken flight
For effectiveness of the prohibition laws New
bern furnishes an object lesson and Newborn Is e
better town since prohibition took effect. as every
Newbern citizen will testify, and as the people
from the outer world who come into contact with
Newbern know.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-31
saloon and Blind Tigers.
tditnr Nirginian:

Editor Nirginian.
Sr.--It is not my purpose to abuse privilege
nor because you kind enough to print one
article from me to be constantly asking space
in your columns.
However I am keenlv interested in affairs
in good State that whatever movement is
begun that has for its purpose the betterment
of conditions, by which people are to be
surrounded. at enlsts my sympathy and
hearty support.
! am moved TO comment an editorial ap-
pearing in the Times Dispatch Of the 2sth, and
and commend II to the careful perusal of every
one interested in the suppression of the liquor
traffic.
The editorial is in support Of protest entered
by Rev. w. Fl. Stokes. a colored minister, who
complains Of conditions in Richmond. north of
Broad street and east of Brook avenue to Fifth
street, brought about by being "oyersal ooned"
In my judgment this editorial would be an ex-
celent campaign document in the effort to
throw the entire saloon power
What is bad for colored citizens, financial
ly morally. can hardly he good for white
people Says the editor How can expect
our colored citizens to rear their families in
decency, purity and seM-respect, X ill the
chief colored residential sections with saloons?"
Suppose paraphraSe this and ask: How
can expect our white citizens any of our
citizens to rear their families in decercy. pu-
rty and sef-respect. where upon the business
streets OF chief city are saloons that are
licensed by State and city to do just what Is be-
ing done by the saloons In the colored resi-
denial sections
Another paragraph appeals to me, viz: We
believe the saloon is preferable to the blind
tiger, 1t is not good in itself and ia not defensi.
BILE except the lesser Of evils" We may have
to tolerate evils that difficult Of removal
bu ] submit that Christian citizenship does
have to foster and support a. known evil.
though appear the lesser
II appears to me that the matter hinges Just
hire. 'sthc saloon 10 an eve under the ban of
all thinking people: the consequences Of Its In
ftleHee are too widely known and understood to
ADMIT of controversy therefore what ought to
be the attitude OF every Christian man and
woman toward such : proposition Simply this
r must not undertake to condone. or even be
Auicscent. hut in open opposition. for II an evil
10y only course Is to labor for It's abplishm MT
In matters Of this kind much prominence 10
given to the idea - "personats liberty =
* hAiteva RAchEaoud ,has IN oreanization OF the
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-31

to Cape Colony. and there II. nAm6.
evidence OF the same change follows
a dry post glacial period In Eneiaad.
AS an increased rainfall has baon
demonstrated for 60 many para of
the world. 1t IL only natural 10 ex~
pect compensating decrease In other
historic variations For archae0lOGlca1
pre-disposition to accent the c7aim
that central Asia IL suffering from In
creasing desiccation.
Yet 1t ID well to remember that the
extent OF such change may b e6siiy
exaggerated by attributing to resent
climatic changes the effect " bre.
historic variations. Fof archaeoeo41eal
and historical evidence show fha4 60n~
trail Asia and even the coasts ~ Fer
sia and Beluchistan had 4 votv aria,
climate In the earliest times ~ Whichs
we have human records. thak thu
Caspian Sea was at least u ansail ma
AZ low in tho NTH century - G II
now and that the African and A11e4t4
deserts are In places again paaolno
ConActing Views Exprouee1
Though It must be aAmitt4a ~
while there 10 = strong balSn1e n
opinion In favor Of the view 11lnt ~
aridity in Asia II being still tuoG0no}0,
there are weighty authorities o. M
other side.
Tho explanation Of the con6lclfn9
views may be that In central k9eS ~
desert 10 widening In some pisces IND
rainfall In central Asia has diIninioho3
Contracting elsewhere. That tn 4Q&n1
paniment TO it, increase In p1tt1
Europe. Variations In the ljflh3.
ton OF rainfall must result ffum -
considerable altofatioR In tlanS fGXal