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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14
MEMBERS ARE
ALWAYS KEPT
UNDER GUARD
Liberal Whips Adopt Means
of Checking Forces of AL
Factions in Body.
MARATHON SPEECHES
WARD OFF DANGER
Every Entrance and Exit Of
House Is Surrounded by
Secret Agents.

ONDON, Eng, March 1.-THE Lib
eraI whips have arranged an
- espionage system OF great ingen-
uity to keep them informed OF the
coming and gOings Of members Of par
lament and to prevent snap d1V1S-
ions" When the system was installed
a Liberal member had an experience
something like this:
his face and glancing furriTeIy to right
and left. the Liberal L NJ p. left the
district railway station at Westminster
and walked by the underground pas
sage into palace yard. There he paused
in the shadows to TecOnnoiter. Two
policemen paced slowly to and fro; an
innocent looking stranger stood by one
Of the arches absorbed apparently in
watching the pigeons flying round;
cabs.
Hurrying on and keeping close to the
wall he turned in by a little used door,
walked with silent footsteps through
several underground passages, and 50
ar last emerged in the central lobby
with a sly air Of triumph. There he
met a Liberal whip, and the following
conversation took place:
And Then He Collapsed.
Liberal N P: Hay ha-- I beat you
that time You didn't know was in.
did yOu2
Liberal Whip: Oh yes we did. Your
plug is out. Collapse Of the NJ. P
III the passage leaQluE TO the Liberal
whips room there has appeared a new
and fearful instrument Written on a
long board is the name Of every mem
Der Of the house, and by each name is
a small plug. When the owner of the
name is away from Westminster his
plug is pushed right into its hole
When he is on the premises it is pulled
out to length Of about an inch.
Plugs of Different COIOrs.
Coalition plugs are one color, Union
1st plugs are another A glance at the
board, therefore, shows the Whips the
state Of parties in the house. If the
number of Unionist plugs out exceeds
the total Of coalition plugs out and a
division is feared some lOQuacious
henchman like Handel Booth viii be
given the order to make a speech until
the danger is over.
spies Are EFeEyVV here.
This is part Of the Liberal system to
overcome their terror of SNAP divisions
another feature Of the system. as the
freedom loving NJ p. has discovered to
ms cost, consists in the placing Of spieH
at al the entrances to the house. Fv-
cry door IS now watched by the ennis
sarles OF the Liberal whips, who setF
frequent reports to the man in charRa
OF Jne plug machine. The Liberal n
r wondered whether it was the lima
cent stranger or the taxicab driver who
reported his arrival
only two routes are now open ans
unoDserYed One is by the river
names 10 the terrace; the other is by
eIOp4dne- Soon perhaps the govern
I IlC VIII nave a spy in captive bal
! t5 ap.0Fe the house and then at last
tney VIII begin to feel secure.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14

az " asnlnSton received 50 many re-
luestS ABOUT missing estates in chan
CeLy Lnal q special Investigation vas
hlaue Dy Henry White, then first Sc
feIary OF the American anbsssv her,
he reported that il would be pracfi
caIly impossible for any American to
secure an estate from the court ~
Shancery- The report showed that the
large estates constantly spoken OF ag
dormant in chancery' or ssayrsffi1el
claimants in the Bank Of EnrIan5s
were purely imaginary, and usually
the invention Of sWindlers, who oh
tam money for the prosecution o.
claims TO fictitious fortunes.
Few Funds In Chancerv
Inc funds in chancery omen to claim
are Few, averaging less than $500
eacn' Two only approaching $4,000
and most OF them inevitably Vvould
consume their own value in the eT-
renSes OF recovery. The fullest proofs
Of genealOgy are demanded. and IN
the case Of Americans such proofs are
almost impossible. Even the dearest
Claims are usually barred By the
statute OF limitations. About the time
OF TINS report the inquiries became so
ncaVY that they overloaded the CORE
spondence Of the embassy, and a
printed form OF reply was adopted and
this is In use today.
Last year when one OF these swim
clers persuaded a number Of ALLEGED
descendants in America that the Is
tate of their ancestor Sir Francis
Drake was ready for distribution bv
the court Of chancery, the swindIe
was widely exposed by the American
news papers, with the result that the
inquiries practically ceased until with
N the past few weeks.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14
MonqoZtdn Prison Horrors
Described by a Woman

London, Eng, March 1.-THE ter
rible conditions Of Mongolian PRISONS
are described by Mrs. Herbert Tim
DreI BulstrOde. In the town of Urga,
Mrs. Bulstrode was able to visit the
prison and the spectacle, she said, was
SUFFICIENT to last her lifetime. The
dungeons were within a compound
1enced with spikes. Some Of the pris-
oners We're Chinese, and they were
smut up IN iron bound collins, unable
70 move. They cannot sit up" said
mrs Bulstrode- Their food is pushed
IN through narrow openings to them
ana their condition is frightful"
MRS, BulstrOde was present later at
me execution Of three MOngoI sol
dlers, who had murdered their gen
eral They had been kept for some
llne IN these coffin cells and were
taken out one morning and shot As
me image of BUddha was held I'D be-
L0te the eyes of one before he was
shoL ne cried out: It do not mind dy-
ing I only want to be a soldier when
I am horn again"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14
The Picking Of Husbands for'
Naughty Olga and Win
some Titiana Difficult.

q T. PETERSBURG, Russia, March
~ 14-"Once upon a time there was
king and he had four daughters.
And the king was much perplexed
where he should find suitable husbands
for them. For he was a kindly man
and they were beautiful girls"
One can well imagine this as the
opening paragraph of an old fairy
tale. But in this case it is an actual,
acute situation staring in the face of
that much harrassed man, the car or
all the Russias.
Several years now the scandal mon
gers of Europe have been explaining
the marriages Of expediency arranged
for the charming quartet. Perhaps they
have been right At least none of the
stories have fallen yet by the fact of
the girls wedding someone else than
the scandal mOngers' choice
The cloud of rumOrs has swirled
most thiclHly about the proud Olga,
the eldest daughter, because there is
great likelihood of her inheriting the
throne by the demise Of her tubercuIar
little brother.
Here is indeed a fitting subject for
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14

the romancer. Sweeping, imperial,
with curl OF her lip so cold and
reputation for good nature, she is
every inch a queen. There is mag
ntficence about her youthful carriage
rarely attained even by royal blood
Cares Nothing for the Throne.
Yet she cares nothing for the throne.
the ermine, the crown diamonds and
the sceptre. It is well authenticated
that she tried to throw herself away
upon her young cousin, prince Dimftri
Paulovitch, the son of the profligate
grand duke Paul
For years a romance developed be-
tween them. There were vclandestlne
meetings and the royal girl concealed
in her bosom a diamond pendant which
the young prince had given her The
revelation Of her infatuatiOn to the
car and .czarina precipitated several
fearful scenes. The grand duchess
her foot like any common girl.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14

She would not be sacrificed as a wife
for any pin headed princely Weakling-
She would marry the man Of her
choice
The car is said to have at last con-
scented. 1t was decided that the be-
trothal be published to the world
Olga Receives Shock.
And then the grand duchess Olga
had the rudest shock that ever came to
any young princess of the blood
Prime Dimitri confessed that he loved
her sister Tatana more than Olga
Where Olga is stately. TitiaRa is ir-
resistibly attractive. Where the elder
sister is magnificent imperial. capable
Of gracing a throne. the second daugh-
ter is winsome, magnetic capable Of
becoming a great actress and taking
captive the heart Of a nation with her
magic. smile.
If there had been turmoil IN the
cars household before, it was at
Continued on page ., this section. column 81
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14

United States into the group Of powers
whose voices are to be heard concern
ing the future of the islands.
be held before July. Early in June
representatives of Russia Sweden and
Norway VIII meet at Christiania to
Draw up proposals to be submitted to
the General conference to be held two
weeks later.
Great Britain, France, Holland. Ger
Tnany, Denmark and the United States
VIII be represented in the general
conference, the United States having
peen invited because Of the coal inter-
ests Of American citizens there. These
mines are located on Advent bav and
nave been worked in summer since
1903. Some of the miners occasionally
spend the winter in their quarters. and
are completely shut off from the outer
world for about eight months.
British participation is justified on
coallng operations also, while Germans
are interested as owners of an import
ant meteorological station there.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14

Agonized Audience Claps
Hands to Ears and STAN
pedes For Open Air.
COMPOSER, HOWEVER,
PLEASED WITH ART
T JENNA, Austria, March 14.-ArnoId

z JENNA, Austria March 14.-ArnoId
" Schoenberg's cubist music Is a
raging topic here. The city has
gone mad over his curious efforts.
Some charge he is putting forth wild
freaks Of dissonance simply for adver-
tising. Anyway, he is drawing enor-
nous crowds.
Schoenberg's audiences at first, often
in the middle of a piece, stamped out
of the hall, so disguised were they
with the atrocity of his compositions,
but the composer counted this as a
triumph,
AN artist, you know, is an egotist,"
says Shoenberg. He must write what
he finds necessary to his own being. I
feel as though I had discovered a new
language with a strange grammar. But
an the wcrld is asking What does It
Who Can Inst the LOngestF
The strange part of it is that Ar
mold Schoenberg has written many com
positions of the finest quality on clas-
steal lines.
Certainly a schoenberg program is
great fun. To be able to sit 1t out is
considered feat. None will today ad-
NIT that he cannot see great depths in
the vast, 1ncomprehensiVe mass OF
sound and noise" into which the COM
poser has dared to plunge the awe
stricken ears of his listeners.
New Kind OF Applause.
A complete new scheme of applause
has been created in the wake Of these I
agOnized melodies. One half Of the I
audience is there to see how the other |
half endures the affliction and to en-
JOY the fearful responses. Great sobs /
Of ZACH! OH Ali. Boo-boo," snrieks /
and groans come from every part Of .
the house. The listeners wiring their /
hands instead of clapping them.
Then they wall and swing their 1
bodies back and forth as though in dis
tress or perchance dreaming of the /
funeral Of a dear one. Gradually, one
after another, getting nervous in their
places, clap their hands over their ears
and in desperation. rush from the room,
followed by the jeers of the amused
relicts.
Ends in Stampede.
The program ends with a mad STAN /
pede for the door amid a storm Of hiss
ing and wailing and cursing for the
composer who, with smiling |
satisfaction, waves the last strokes Of
his baton.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14
Slaughter of Birds Is
Menace to Agriculture


London, Eng, March IA petition
in favor of the Plumage bill to be pre-
sented to the house of commons has
been signed by 1855 persons who
visited the Bird court Of the exhibition
of Australian manufacturers last fall.
So strong is Australian opinion in
favor of the bill that tits stated in
official circles that had the petition
been circulated publicly it would I'M
doubtedly have been signed by 50 per-
cent Of the population.
This intense feeling is due, apart
viction that systematic slaughter of
birds for the plumage market is hav-
ing most detrimental affect upon ag-
rlculture. Public opinion is also in
censed by the fact that prOhibited
skins and feathers are smuggled out
Of the country in spite of the vigfIance
of the authorities, and it is. Recognized
that only the closure of the home mar
traffic
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14

ODoN England March 14-Phycal degeneration threatening
race
-9U anu Pa-1-'45 ~
While few years practically unknown of the
OF S in
London to Of
houses
n alcoholic by in
% and which the manufacture government
thinking forbiddng
While the Fnhmen a only appetizer before
ALT is
the most popular beverage
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14

= HRISTLANIA, Norway, March IA.
The Arctic islands Of Spitz-
bergen, unclaimed and almost
uninhabited, the resort Of whaIers and
walrus hunters and the only place
within the Arctic circle visited by
tourists, are this summer to engage
the attention of the powers, including
the United states in an effort Off
clallV TO declare them neutral and
provide for their policing during the
summer months, when lawlessness on
the part Of the crews of visiting whal-
ers and seal hunters has been increas-
ing.
No power ever has made a serious
claim TO Spitzerberg on the noun
famous Islands north of Norway. and
northeast Of Greenland having been
regarded as almost valueless. But the
discovery of coal, which is being
worked principally by American cam
ital, has completely changed the OUT
look, and incidentally brought the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14

experienced to make a wife happy, and
Georges father, who is a widower, got
the impression of Mary that she was
too virtuous to manage a husband.
when this happened to be a son OF him
self.
Mother signs Over Maryss Ignorance.
lie asked Mary's mother if it was
really true that her daughter had never
had a single filtration, and Mrs Mar
Vow with deep sigh admitted that it
WAS unfortunately true, though she
nav In every way encouraged her to
flhN with men, her own experience in
lfeNhaving taught her the sad fate of
a We who did not know how to make
her husband jealous
-N&" said Mr.. Madison, 1T is quite
evldeRt that these two young people
VIII n9vcr be happy together as neither
Of theAn knows the least thing about
life. ann 10 have sown a certain 0ns1I
tContinul d on page 5, this section, column g.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14
Old 5HINl-E
Being Worked
.0HAMERIGAN5
Mythical English Estates in
Chancery Again Used
to Deceive.
WARNING is GIVEN
BY BRITISH EMBASSY

r ONDON, Eng, March 1.-THE
missing estate swirdle is evil
IDENTIFY again being worked ex-
tensively in the United States. The
embassy here is overwhelmed with let
ters from American heirs" asking
how best to secure estates due them.
Some letters indicate that victims were
lnquced to part with all their prop
erly 10 pay expenses of pseudo repre-
sentatlves of the Chancery court
Ien years ago the state denartment
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14
Comedy of Love In Paris Ends Sadly
1t -:l:- IL IL IL
N1rtuOus Pair Becomes Too Frivolous
By Ia RACONTEUsE.

nARIs. France, Nia=S&. IA little
comedy OF love Wis., has been
played in the American SONY has
made good many Indignant. while
others are just amused. All ola~son-
servative hystericaI Freuchman Nse
scandalized. while their children IN
Inc incident sign of the times F.
augura ting "a new era.
Two young persons Nary Ararlo,,-
and George Madison, had found eaob
other and had sworn eternal love cbe
was Us and he was %. Neither Of fben7
had ever been in love before nav
not even fllrted with love and fbev
both agreed that this was the hes
guarantee possible for the happiness oT
their future marriage. Unfortl1nafei,-
their parents did not agree with them.
Mary's parents asserted that their
f'fure soninlaw was too young and in-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14
POOL HALL MAN ARRESTED.
III 4 I'M - - -.

William Leitner was arrested BY the
snerlIrs department Friday on an in
dtctment charging him with permit
ting pool table in his pool hall to
De used for gaming The defendant
Nas released on a $500 bond pending
mis- trial in the county court
Ramon Lara. charged bv Indictment
with selling liquor on Sunday, was ar
rested BY the shsriffs department Fri
day he was released after furnish
ing a $500 bond for his appearance in
the county court for trial
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14

in the empire came reports Of those
who have hitherto escaped taxation
In Frankfurt on the Main, the home
par excellence of Jewish millionaires,
$4,000, 600, Of which the tax collectors
knew nothing, have been revealed and
in the small town Of Remscheidt, an
honest distiller, who for years has
sworn his fortune to be $3.50, 900, now
admits that in reality he is worth con-
sIderable more than S4.00O.OOO
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-14

Schoenberg's cubist music Is a
raging topic here. The city has
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-22

HELPS
BEAUTY OF WELL KEPT LAWN
Care Taken OF Land Surrounding the
Home Adds Much to Attractive
ness Of Town.

At various times In connection with
the newspaper reports of the meetings
Of citizens associations the subject
OF well kept lawns and attractive
flower beds has been touched on, and
In a number of instances citizens as
sociations have agreed to continue
the practise previously found effec-
tive of giving awards for lawns and
flower growths of distinguished merit.
Many of the urban and suburban
neighborhoods of the district are the
handsomer, happier and more valuable
because of the care given to the land
in front or at the rear or On the grass
sides of the home. A well kept grass
plot or a carefully tended flower gar
den tells all the world which passes
that way that somebody lives there,
that there is home life there and
that order and content reigns within.
In most cases the condition of the
yard or grounds" can be and will
be ataken as an index Of the house
keeping system that is followed in
side. The garden or the lawn tended
WI SolC 6lNVo q PlOpVA bOhNh ~
the home and applied to contiguous
homes makes the neighborhood bet
ter. The climate of Washington Is
encouraging to fine gardens and every
body who lives in a house has time
enough to care for one. The lawn
mower, the rake and the spade are
fine implements of physical culture.
The security of private lawns and
flower beds is greater than it ever
Public opinion has been so
improved and educated in this mat
ter that complaint of marauding are
rare, whereas not many years ago
they were frequent. This is shown
by reference to an editorial in the
Star, May 27, 1876, which in part fol-
lows:
There is probably no place in the
country where more is done by it's
inhabitants to beautify their homes
by the cultivation of flowers, shrub
berry, ETC., than by the citizens of
Washington. Nor is there a place
where such efforts are more success
full considering the discouragements
and drawbacks under which they are
made. We refer more especially to
the pulling of flowers, the destruc-
ton of %shrubbery and the theft of
rare plants from private grounds. So
great has this abuse grown in some
parts of the city that not a few of
those who have been so frequently
raided are hesitating between giving
up the pleasant duty of ornamenting
their grounds and lying in wait for
the marauders with loaded shotguns.
The most curious thing to these suf-
ferers is the fact that the police ap-
parently never see any of the despoil-
ing, and that in spite of the stringent
law on the subject ne arrests are
made or at least no punishment is in
hicted.".
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-22
FAIRGROUNDS FOR THE CITY
Statistics Show Less Crime In Places
Where the Recreation Plan
Obtains.

At a meeting of the City Club IN
Philadelphia recently at which the
subject of municipal recreation was
under discussion one of the speakers
gave utterance to the sentiment: "A
foot of playground is worth an acre
of penal institutions"
1t is difficult to gauge the value of
the playground, but in every city
where a playground or a system of
Fairgrounds has been established the
testimony has been in its favor as a
beneflcent institution. Most of our
American cities did not give much
thought to the recreation idea in the
beginning, but non of them under
took to get along without prisons.
Perhaps If the Fairgrounds were more
numerous the country might be able
penal establishments.
That the playground had a civil
izing and elevating influence is not to
be doubted. Figures compiled in va
rious cities show that juvenile Of
lenses are fewest in localities where
recreation grounds are available.
They also show that there are fewer
accidents and injuries to children in
such neighborhoods. Children who
are raised up in the streets" make
trouble for themselves and for other
persons. In cities where there is not
a playground system it is inevitable
that children will play In the streets
for 1t is the nature of the child to
play,
No city ever made a bad investment
in buying a playground or in establish
ing a system of Fairgrounds.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-22
Nightmare Stories.

1t is always a question whether a
literary man should seek to 'evade In
digestion. remarks a writer in the Lon.
don Chronicle. Did not Mrs. Radcliffe
confess that some of the most thrilling
episodes in the Mysteries of IDOL
pho" came to her in a nightmare con
sequent upon eating pork chops? May
not the brownies" also, who gave
Stevenson the dream inspiration OF
~Jekyll and Hyde" have been trace
able to some similarly injudicious but
lucky mealf Personally. | have had
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-22
chlvalry Has Trials.

Chivalry exacts a certain indulgence
of feminine whims from the male sex,
but there Is a limit, according to a
Kansas City man who. after getting a
divorce from his wife. asked the court
to restore her maiden lame. He says
his wife twice attempted suicide, firt-
ed with a wife-murderer in Jail and
now is playing baseball with a bloom
or girls" team In Oklahoma. 1t is not
to be wondered at that the Judge re-
GREETED his inability to comply with
the reQuest.-Louisville Times.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-22

divine commands, narrative, lyric and
epic poetry. Its heaven and hell are
too material for modern thought. COB
viously," says Everyman. the Koran
is mean not to be read with the Eye.
but to be recited, when the repetitions
are not nearly SO pronounced. 1t re-
fleets a social order, a system of ideas
as remote from Rome and more espe-
cially from Greece, as u own are
from the North American Indian. But
neither time nor evolution can utterly
quench the fame of Mohammed's per
sonality, which carried his followers
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-22

the bridge table or club meetings or
the dance class, and who are, in fact,
equal to almost any effort but appear
ing in the morning before their hus-
bands go to business or their children
IF there are any-go to school or to
the park.
An eligible bachelor said the other
day, Il used to dream of a pretty face
across the coffee pot. but a dozen
years in a smart apartment hotel
have dispelled several illusions. To
begin with. ! hardly know a married
man there who wouldn't like TO keep
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-22
Too MANY Lonely nreakfasts.

Lord Tennyson, late in life, said
sadly to a friend. Il have taken break
fast alone for rs years" This was
after his wife became a confirmed In
valid and his family was scattered.
There are men who breakfast alone
whose wives appear very vigorous at
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-22
The Koran.

In a recent number of the London
Eyeryman is a review of the Koran
and its author Mohammed. 1t is a one
mans book, and that man not an i'm
aginative one. but essentially a man
of action and lacking in invention.
The Koran is a jumbled mass OF pre-
eepts. doctrines, threats. ~injunctlonS
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-22
Kissed OF the STAGE

Footlighte-How did he come out in
his act?
Miss Sue Brette-In a hurry.
How so?"
Why, the snake charmer followed
him, and one of her snakes Kissed him
OF the stage