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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-05
UNsCRUPuLOUs CHUMs.

When flowing cups run swiftly round Our careless heads are with roses
 bound. When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healthy draughts go free
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
Telephone Development; the
Real Problem of Conversing
Specific Problem Not Stringing Wires
Many Small Things That Must BE Exactly Right

In effect, the voyage of the voice
across the continent is instantaneous
If its speed could be accurately meas
ured, a fifteenth of a second would
probably be nearly exact In other
words, message flying across. the
continent on the new transcontinent1
line, travels. not at the rate of 1850
feet per second, which is the old stage
coach speed Of sound, but at $4,000
miles per second. II il were possible
for sound to carry that far, a Hello"
uttered in New York, and travelliag
through the air without the aid Of
wires and electricity, would not reach
San Francisco until four hours later.
The telephone not only transmits
speech, but transmits it thousands OF
times faster than its own natural
speed
But, while the telephone is breaking
speed records, it must also guarantee
safe delivery to these millions Of little
passengers it carries every few minutes
in the way Of sound waves created at
the rate Of 200 a second There must
be no jostling or croWding. These tiny
waves, thousands and thousands or
varying shapes, which are made by
the human voice, and each as irreg-
ular and as different from the other
as the waves Of the sea. must not
tumble over each other or get into
each others way. but must break upon
the Pacific Coast just as they started
at the Atlantic, or all the line fl,
and the millions of dollars spent would
be wasted
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
II Years -AfO Today -
From The Herald rhr. Dat. 1905.

James Long is about again after
several weeks of sickness.
Charles Jones, who has been i'll for
the last few days, is about again.
Eugene Bruce, who has been i'll for
the past few days is about again.
j. G. Ross returned to the city yes
terday from a business trip north.
G.. J. Hartman returned to the city
last night from trip to Chihuahua.
Thomas J. Porter of Springfield
No, has come to this city to locate
Charles Lee has come to this city
with his family to make his home here
=. A Stewart a pioneer Ell PasOan,
is paying the city visit from the east
Mrs. Mary COuden has returned from
New Orleans, where she has been
visiting friends
George LangstOn returned this morn
ing from Sap Antonio, where he has
been attending court.
Mrs. j. II. Whited who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. c. e. Mclean,
has returned to Sacramento.
William B. Groce, who formerly lived
at Wichita Falls, has associated him
selt in business with T. II. Conklin and
VIII make his home here.
Mickey Welsh, who shot a cannon
cracker during the holidays. mistaking
II for Roman candle and holding it
IN his hand, is out Of the hospital
An unusually strong protest from
citizens Of FL Paso against the removal
OF consul Francisco Mallen from his
post here has been forwarded to pres
ident Diaz.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27

r 7 was less than forty years ago, on
October 9, 1876, to be exact, that
\ Alexander Graham Bell. inventor
OF the telephone. and his assistant
Thomas A. Watson, held the first con-
versation over tWO-mile wire
stretched from Boston to Cambridge
Bell was twenty mine years old;
Watson was twenty-five.
The telephone used few days ago
to talk across the continent, by these
same two men, is scarcely the same
Instrument as that upon which Bell
filed his patents. 1t may be talked over
That is the principal resemblance
Since then-Without any desire to ap
pear to mar the triumph Of DR.. Bell
and his Observation-Disclosures Of men
have labored increasingly to increase
the perfection Of the rude continuance
which carried family the sound waves
OF the human voice two miles.
Outwardly, Of course, the problem Of
the engineers who finally laid and
completed the transcOntinental line
was to string the wire from Denver
to San Francisco over the mountains
that would complete the continuous
line from Denver to New York. But the
actual construction of the line was the
least of the engineers troubles The
real problem was to make the line
talk" to send something 5000 miles
with the breath as motive power and
guard against those leaks which Wat
son feared in the first feeble test
thirty-nine years ago.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27

Special detective Long of the G. H.
and George Harold, of the police de-
partment are searching the woods east
Of town for the train robbers who
have been breaking open box cars for
the last few nights.
Among those who have recently been
appointed nOtaries public are: r. W.
Spence, W. NJ. Peticolas, NJ. b. Will
iams A. Hoffman, i. Craft, John
franklin, j. H. Harper, w D. Howe.
w. II. Burgess, J. A. Escajada, A. ?.
Coles and II. H. COnklin.
Maurice Kayser gave a party last
saturday in honor of the eleventh
grade. Those attending were: Misses
Lockhart, Phinney, Emma Whitley,
Evans, Johnson, Davis, Della Moye,
Rogers, Halle Irwin, Anna Shelton,
Martin Small and Kemp; Messrs. +.
hughes, North, Thomas, VOCAL, Hob
son, Z. Hughes, Reynolds, Keiser,
Moye, w. Schultz Mari, Hague, E. Kay
Section
The big Shrine delegation to the
coast was entertained here by local
Shriners last night. The reception
committee consisted of II. c. Myles, II.
A Carpenter and r. D. Richey. Others
VINO met the visitors were: Z. N. Bray,
Joseph Magoffin, A H. Richards, A
Courchesne, +. W. Brown, J. B. Wat
son, A j. Coles, W. T. Hixson T. r.
Hustled, DR.. J. 3. Brady, H. B. Char
man, G. K. Lockhart p. c. Houghton,
y Kohlberg. J. W. Eckman, John Ju-
Ian and I. Z. Hunt
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
Dorothy Dix Writes On
Picking d Bridegroom By His Looks
Aren't Girls Silly" She Asks to Judge Man by His
HEIGHT OF His Appearance?"
BY DOROTHY DIX.

3 handsome man. because he knows that
/ he mas got to get up and hustle in order
/ to attract any attention in the world.
/ Nobody is going to sit around admir-
ing his looks. and in order to get the
glad hand he's got to turn out a star
performance. IN the race of life I'd al
ways back the little man to win against
the big. handsome animal, who looks
as if he had a walkOver.
If women know what was good for
them they would all be making eyes
and signing after little men and homely
men, instead of matinee heroes, six feet
tall. and with black mustaches. For
just an iaI-around proposition the
handsome man makes the most unde-
sirable husband
To begin with, he is spoiled to death
by other women, and is sure to think
that ne can't be expected to waste all
mere wife Likewise he is certain to
appropriate the major part of the dress
fund Of the family for his own adorn-
ment He also expects his wife to
spend her time admirinE him instead
of him admiring her, and, worst of all,
ne remains young and handsome long
after his wife's good looks have faded.
and she has to stand Tor knowing that
everybody is wondering why that god
like creature ever married that little
shrimp of a woman.
On the Otke- HIND.
On the contrary. the handsome wom-
an VINO marries homely little man has
Il monopoly of the family beauty. Her
husband admires her, and flatters her,
and delights in dressing her up, and
showing her off, and never gets over
wondering how such n splendid crea-
ture ever condescended to tie up with
him Which is a most salutary and
comforting state OF mind for husband
to be in.
The little man is the preferred mat
rimOnial risk. girls. But there's only
one warning I want to whisper in your
ear, and that is watch out and see II
he's inclined to be bit tyrannical.
Truth cOmpels me to state that is the
little mans one drawback. Just because
he is small he feels that he's got to as
sert his authority a little too loudly in
order to show that he is the head of the
house. big man isn't afraid that
anybody viii think that his wife bosses
him. The little man lives under a con-
tinualI dread that people viii think he
IS henpecked and to show that he isn't
he is frequently unduly aUtOcratic.
Barring this fault, the little man
makes an ideal husband, and the girl
Is foolish who turns the man she loves
down because he isn't six feet tail
and hasn't shoulders like a prize fight
er. Cupid isn't a recruiting sergeant
who selects men for the holy estate
according to their size
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
Come On In, Everybody!

TT HEN the catemen FL PasO from all the country
Wv they will find themselves herd fresh
against the drift fence
will find the hppt earththe only
iendlst all
faith its works. which
something
hav t
forum little America
FL
of o
FL
viii be placed where they will
reading special interest to them But the general viii find
a
take pride sending such herald Of The Herald
FL
10000 and descend ascend
show what Of a hostess she
the Harrison, Jersey, factory
among the girls employed over Sc side comb One girl found it. another
they divide off the Italians against the Hebrews
hiness and intensity and red hot phases of
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
NJ arryiDg a Poor Man
From His Side of the QusOn-Some of the Things the Man Must
Do to Secure Happiness.

L girl loves you enough to make
sacrifices for your sake. shall you
let her do it? Shall you ask the
girl you love to marry you and share
your $500 Cor 1920 or even $1,000 a
year?
BY all means if you are sure that
you viii do your share TO make your
marriage a success.
BUT if you love her a little and
yourself more, go away and let her
have sad little period Of wondering
why you did not speak, instead OF long
years of regretting that you ever did.
You don't marry for the honeymoon
but for all the moons of the long
endure when YOU are past your first
passion and youth, past the power Of
finding poverty a lark, past the glow
Of hoping for success such as your
sober judgment tells YOU can never be
attained vita your abilities. Marriage
may mean years Of sickness and anI-
iety, years Of bringing up Children
LONG autumn and winter OF life
mink of this and be honest with
yourself How. will you treat your
sweetheart when dFudging for you has
dulled her beauty and wit and charm
VIII you still be her chivalrous lover
and her devoted husband?
OF course, poverty is about the most
annoying thing in ali the world But
borne with a sense OF humOr and a feel
ing Of love and unselfish affection, it
for his wife than he ever could get at
the more formal distance Of plenty to
keep them Independent of each other
What You Must Do.
II you are the sort Of man to give
up smoking so you can give your wife
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27

a new silk waist for Christmas. or to
wear with glowing pride the awkward
ly crocheted tie she gave you on your
birthday, marry on your little income
and be assured you viii make your
wife rich beyond the dreams OF avarice
rows lunch money in taking Molly to
a movie she longs to see your small
income in no wise measures the for
tune with which you viii endow your
wife.
But if you viii let the boys inveigle
you into a game Of Kelly pool while
your wife sits at home night after
night and wonders how much mc-e
hOusekeeper 10 drudge for a stiDu-
lated salary would have cost YOU than
do her unpaid, unappTeciated services
in the name Of humanity be a bache-
Tor all your days.
Must Have drunkenness Of Love.
When q poor man asks a girl TO share
his raeager fortunes he must do IL in
the full. fine humbleness of love He
must be sure he viii try to make the
girl happy and consider her happiness
part OF MS Job as much as getting
ahead And ne must be determined to
get ahead if honesty ana industry can
make a man advance He must feel
that his wife is his partner and entitled
to her share of all he is and all he
earns. He must be thankful for the
priceless gift of her love and determined
10 be worthy OF it
a bOve all. he must be determined
ried q poor man. And with love in
both of their hearts, marriage for
man and woman who must do without
most of the luEuries of life will be
blessed with its greatest luXury-real
happiness.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
A NzR S7s4 fAg- The Southern Railway
BY GEORGE FITCH,
Author Of at Good Old sIvnah.s

1.-THE Southern railway is a vast
collection of railroad lines. which
ramble over the south. from
Washington and St Louis to the gulf,
and hold mass meetings at BirminE-
ham, Greensboro, Va; Columbia, s. c.;
Atlanta, Ga; Knoxville, Tenn, and 9TH
or we'll known junction points
The Southern Railway company owns
and leases over 1000 miles of railroad
other lines, comprising 1000 miles, are
affiliated, controlled, influenced, en-
gagged or partially welded to the sys-
tenn. Altogether, the president of the
railroad has to keep track of 40 lines,
which have separate capttalizatiOns,
bond issues, leases. and other compli
cations. Being president of a great
railroad system is not as easy and sim
pie job as remembering telephone
directory.
After a hard days work, the presi--
dent Of such a system is as likely as
not to awaken at a. m, and remem-
Der with start that he hasn't had
report from the Pedee and Pacific rail-
road six miles long for three years,
and that someone may have carried it
off in the meantime.
The Southern railway provides main
routes from washington and St. Louis
to almost every great city in the south.
It also provides unlimited scenery OF
great beauty, for the traveller. Those
Americans who spend the summer trav-
and other bush league mountains in
Europe, on the inside seat of a COM
partment, with nothing but unlimited
and unbelievable whisl1ers to look at
on the seats opposite, should insert
themselves in a parlOr car on the
Southern railroad. and travel down the
French Broad valley and other sec
lions Of the Blue Ridge mountains, ar
ranged by the Creator especially for
the delight of mankind.
The Southern railway has SlS0,O0O,-
900 stock, and pays interest on $270,-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
{ RENT girls the silly geese?

4 RENT girls the silly geese?
~ They use so little real intelH-
gence in judging a man, and
! measure him by such idiotic standards
! that the wonder is that many of them
have the luck to get good husbands.
Lately ] have had an amusing and a
pathetic Illustration of this. in a mum.
Der of letters have received from
girls who say that th"y are in love with
men who are everything that a man
should be except tall. They write that
these men are moral. upright. industri-
GUS intelligent-tne very sort of men
that make the best husbands-but that
they hesitate to marry men who are
shorter than they are for fear their
friends will ridicule them.
Isn't that enough to make you laugh
or cry? Think of anybody having
little enough sense to judge a man by
his inches, as if he were a bolt Of rib
bon, and tn more Of him there was the
better bargain you got for your money!
Think of cho Jsinge & husband by his
height, as if he were a telephone polei
Let me tell you one thing, girls: 1t
isn't the distance a mans head is above
the ground that counts It's what's in
that head. Giants are nearly always
fools, and some of the greatest men
the world has ever produced have been
little men. If you were n tall girl you
would have felt perfectly foolish tan
going with a sawed-off man like Ma
pOleon. "Bobs" commanded 1000, 900
men. great grenad:ers who could al
most have put him i'm their pockets.
Kipling is an understood man, and Bar
RE isn't much bigger than a boy Jay
Gould and Hartman were both little
men. but they juggied with railroads
as children play with toys.
You could 80 on all day mentioning
the little men who do big things, for
alter all nature isn't as unjust as we
think. She is pretty apt to even up
things. and when she makes a man
who is short on stature she is more
than likely to make him long on brains
And conversely this is also true. and
when she constructs a man on grand
architectural lines. Oftener than not she
skimps on the inside furnishings OF his
skull
The Exception to the Rule.
Of course there are a few men who
are handsome and tail and brilliant,
just as there are a few women who are
beautiful and intelligent and unselfish,
but these darlings of the gods are ex-
ceptions to the rule. AS a general thing,
your gOdlke Adonis is as dull as a
meat ak and your living picture lady
has nothing but her looks to recon-
mend her.
Also the small and insignificant
locking man is fer more likely to be
ambitious and energetic than the big.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
Artistic 50 Military Advice

RTISTS maintain that designers military
~ values with soldier to
enemy Khaki only partly solves the problem 1t valuable
but winter makes the soldier
broken outline
distinguish
should
lighter O
the
get soldiers it. It will
bury
soldiers shading neat but
in hurry help the soldier
advice in color values will provide him with
have to have it.
Ameran the latest disease diagnosed by
caused by American habit working hard eating exercising
exercising
ball golf long walk in the country the
latest telephone number? 2a Apple
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27

dividends on its preferred stock. It has
a large surplus with which to chase
and corner fugitive southern railroads.
1t owns half OF the MOnOn railroad,
and 1t is a cold year when it does not
pick up some trifling system at a bar
gain, and weld it into its time table.
The Southern railroads most prom
inent passengers are president Wilson,
who often went down to see the 7:4O
come in at Charlottesville. when he
was in college, and the Vanderbilts
who own a 40 acre country home near
Asheyille, having been attracted to the
place, by the excellence of the depot
lunch counter
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
THE WAR NEWS AS
KANsANS HEAR IT
Up to Late Hour the Situation in the
jerks Homo Is Reported ms
TuchnuEed,


Unchanged.
The battle at Short Jenks's home con-
tinues undated. says the AtchisOn
Globe At II o'clock this morning Mrs.
jerks made the following official an
nOuncement: with n brilliant charge
about breakfast time thanked my hus-
band with my stalwart foot and he
doubled up and then retreated in haste.
It was almost Il rOut." At I o'clock this
morning Mr.. jerks officially announced:
The situation remains unchanged.
There have been attacks and counter
attacks on both sides. with no decisive
results. I'm now well intrenched and
confident behind a tub in the cellar.
believe / viii ultimately triumph. The
enemy is making many claims. and
making those things is the easiest
thing in the world to do. If she had a
cannon that was as rapid as her mouth
I would be compelled to admit that my
position is serious. AS it is. I concede
nothing. I will conserve my strength
and forces, with the view to getting
out of the cellar and consulting a law
yer. I urge American newspapers to
judge not until the real situation is
known. History will vindicate me and
declare that ! did not start hostilities
Ny sisterinlaw urged my wife to start
them. Ny wife didn't need a great deal
of urging"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27

in Texas and New Mexico at the present
time than in any other part of Amer
ica,' declares j. J. Mathes, of Oakland
who is here in an effort TO get a fran
chise In the new Rio Grande Baseball
association CAS- soon as l heard. that
Mr.. McCloskey was forming a league
here ] turned my business over to a
friend and came on to have a talk with
the promoter. ! have been STUDYING
conditions throughout America for
some time and I must say that Texas.
and particularly FL Paso, looks good
to me"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
C0LDWELL GETS NEW JUIGESHIP
Gov. Ferguson Appoints the
Young Lawyer to 65th
District Court Job.

Ballard Coldwell. who, during the
past two years has served as record er
of the corporation court and who was
defeated for reelection in the recent
primaries, Friday afternoon was ap-
POINTED by governor J. E. Ferguson,
as judge Of the newly created 65th
district court OF FL Paso county.
The appointment of Mr.. CoIdweu
was not unexpected, as it had been
lntimatcd from Austin. before the bill
creating the new district court became
a law, that he was favored by the
governor He had the ring endorse
ment for the position.
No Opposition to Law.
The law creating the new district
court passed both houses of the Iegis-
lature. without opposition, some time
ago. but only became a law with the
EOvernOr's signature Thursday night
The new court viii try both civil and
criminal cases and the judge will have
the power to summon grand juries for
the consideration of criminal matters.
The new court Will relieve the other
courts Of their overcrowded dockets.
The special district court, created by
the last legislature for this same pur-
nose. automatically went out Of exist
ence on Dec q of last year
Mr.. Coldwell. when he takes his seat
uuon the bench on March Is. the date
Of the beginning of the new court. viii
be one of the youngest district Judges
in Texas, being but IS years Of age
In Ell PasO Boy.
Mr.. Coldweu was born in Ell Paso
In 1886 and has spent most of his life
In this city. He was educated in the
public schools of El Paso and in 1901
entered the West Texas Military
academy at San Antonio. He remained
at this school until 1909. when he en-
tered the university of Texas.
-Four years later he graduated from
the law department of the university
and then returned to III Paso and be-
gan the practice of law. Two wears
ago he entered the race for recorder
Of the corporation court and was
elected, taking UP his duties in April.
1918. hut was recently defeated for re-
election.
Mr. Coldweu was one OF the star
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
Two Progressive Acts

SCHOOL BOARD
matters trained
recreation committee appointed the city council to include
aciiti IN
association Of America He has made excellent record Seattle city
0 a man
o. first
lis
in awhile
justice This line with the
investigators who studied
city will broad
for-S475ooO.
rather sad the police city
with the incaG of police workings policeman
snatch it and threaten dire destruction the
These rains exactly expecting they
o
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
Speeding Along

yesterday
already
fOolng
spectral snoring
IN
holiday
=
Ccopyprght by George NJ Adams) MASON.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
GERMAN VIEW OF BRITAIN

GERMAN VIEW OF BRITAIN.
Editor Ell Paso Herald:
1 came across a very clever little
rhyme in German publication recent
" relative to. the British and their
allies in the present European conflict.
Translated, the rhyme follows:
My name is Tommy Atkins.
Pm a blOOmin' clever chap,
For me cOmrade is a Cossack
An me partner is a Jap.
I'm friends with airy Gurllas
An bloody, 'eathen Skins,
With black Algerian Turkos
An other cOlored freaks.
An with all the bloomin' virtues
For which you know we shine,
Were carrying CIVILIZATION
To the people on the Rhine
A. Rehin.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
MAN CHARGED WITH FoRcEpy.

charge of forgery was placed
against c. W. Patterson. an inmate of
the county jail, Saturday morning. A
check which was cashed at the Rio
Grande Valley Bank and Trust COM
pany for $50 in favor Of a san Antonio
bank is said to have been evidence in
the case. The evidence was worked IN
by city detective H. Col
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
More Truth Than Poetry
By JAMRs }. MoNTAGuR.


Poor men should keep out Of poll
tics" says president Hadley. This ad-
vice would have barred Abraham Lin
coin, but it admits Penrose Lorimer,
Foraker and others who only will need
to flash certificates of deposits counter
signed by John d. Archbold in order
to get past the gate.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
M AMfnI Rnr-..-. of stntc.

Now is the time when public men
must think with their mouths closed ."
said William Jennings Bryan to the
reporters, And then he sighed steadily
for Is minutes.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-27
FIVE ARE ARRESTED ON
FALSE SWEARING CHARC

Indictments have been returned
against Jose PalOmino, Manuel Chavez
D. Sigala, LibradO Molina and Mike Jo-
land on false swearing in connection
with the payment Of poll taxes.