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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26
ARTESIA HOTEL
To Be REBUILT
Historic Old Gage Hotel to
Be Replaced With Fire
proof Structure.

Artesia. \. NJ, Feb. 26.-Plans are
being made for rebuilding the old Gage
hotel which burned to the ground
when the heating plant connected
with a barber shop in the hotel started
a fire in the basement which spread
to the hotel. causing almost total de-
struction Of the building.
The old Gage hotel was the first
hotel in Artesia and had housed many
famous men in its time. No plans
have yet been decided upon as to the
character Of the building to be erected
but IL will be a modern, fireproof
structure when it is built
Merchants in the vicinity of the no
tel are also replacing the glass
fronts to the stores which were broken
when the heat Of the hotel fire
reached the store fronts. solid
block Of plate glass was destroyed in
this way Two barber chairs, which
were carried out of the hotel barber
ship were partially destroyed by the
heat. the leather being burned from
them while they stood in front Of the
hotel.
One Of the losses in the fire were a
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26
METRO PICrURE TODAY.

The Unique presents Edmund Breese
in The Lure of Hearts Desire today
and tomorrow. This Metro production
is a gripping drama Of the Alaskan
snow covered country and high life
in New York society. There are many
interesting scenes Of the white light
districts Of New York which will be
unusually impressive with any audi
ence that has never been able to get a
comprehensive idea as to what New
Workers consider a good time on New
Years eve. The cabaret at Murray's
famous restaurant on this occasion is
a most elaborate scene and is worthy
Of a place in any production. Edmund
Breese is better in this picture than
he was in The Shooting Of Dan Nc
Grew" which everyone who saw il
classed il as one of the best pictures
ever shown in FL Paso The shows
win start at 1O:45 a. m. II noon, lis
D. m, 2.30, 3:45, 500, 6:15, 1870. S:45
and 10 p. m. Admission is % cents
Advertisement.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26
YOU'RE BILIOUS!
CLEAN LIVER AND
BOWELS TONIGHT
Don't stay headachy, sick,
or have bad breath and
sour stomach.
Wake up feeling fineI Best
laxative for men, women
and children.

Enjoy lifei Remove the liver and
bowel poison which is keeping your
head dizzy, your tongue coated, breath
offensive, and stomach sour. Don't stay
bilious. sick, headachy, constipated and
fun Of cold. Why don't you get box
of Cascarets from the drug store and
eat one or two tonight and enjoy the
incest. gentIest liver and bowel cleans
ing you ever experienced. You will
wake up feeling fit and fine. Cascarets
never gripe or sicken like salts, pills
and calomeI. They act so gently that
you hardly realize you have taken "A
cathartic Mothers should give cross.
sick, bilious or feverish children a
whole Cascaret any time-they act
thoroughly and are harmless.-Adv
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26
Ell PASO SCHOOLS MAY SUE
COUNTY SCHOOLS FOR 500

There is possibility that the FL
Paso school board will sue out writ
of mandamus against Miss Myra Wink
Ter, county superintendent of schools.
for the recovery Of nearly $500 alleged
to be due the city schools from proceeds
from the countys permanent school
fund
The county board OF education earlier
in the week authorized Miss Winkler
to pay the city S3204.50. the amount
left after deducting nearly 500 which
the county schools claim as having
been overpayments on previous pay
ments out Of proceeds from the perma-
nent school fund.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26
TODAYS ADJUSTMENTS
BURRUD's PICTURE AT wIGwAM

Monday and Tuesday the Wigwam
offers the first showing OF "A Ro-
nance Of FL PasO" The picture is a
story of El Paso. her people. indus
tries and environment, filmed by L.
J. Burrud, to show the beauty and
prosperity of Fl Paso and the South
west, throughout the east You should
personally see this picture to better
know your city. An interesting ro-
nance or A "Girl of the West and a
Man OF the East" is carried through,
which shows the spirit of the South
west Mr.. Burrud has been five months
in producing this subject. One Of the
most striking scenes is the carrying
OF an automobile loaded with pas
sengers over the aerial tramway 400
feet above the Ri } Grande and deposit
ing it on the Elephant Butte dam, the
first car on this huge project. Hun
dreds OF interesting scenes and people
you know are Incorporated in this
production. so don't miss it. A special
orchestra will furnish fitting music
Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26
EAST Ell PASO IMPROVEMENT
BONDS ARE ORDERED BURNED

All Of the East Ell Paso improvement
district bonds. amounting to $4,000,
have been ordered cancelled by the city
council and the bonds. which had been
printed have been ordered burned by
the mayor.
hearing was held at the city hall
Friday afternoon of the East FL Paso
residents who protested against the
issuing Of these bonds because OF the
increase in tax rate.
After hearing a number OF protests
it was decided to cancel the issue and
a motion was passed to this effect
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26

number Of trophy cups which were
won by Eddy county farm exhibits at
the different fairs. One was a $500
cup offered by William Randolph
Hearst at the Albuquerque irrigation
congress.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26
RLO0l POISON

Causes foul sores ulcerssin the mouth and throat.
enlarged glands, skin discusses, rheums ism. and
general rundown condition OF the system, write
fodsv for free booklet in plain envelope, giving
price and easy terms Regarding TINS reinhie home
treatment. established twenty-five years ADDRESS
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26

The Associated Charities employs a
visiting nurse to care for the sick
in their homes. mas a lodging house
for homeless men at 405 S. Campbell
St. open day and night. takes care of
tubercular men and provides relief and
helpful services for needy families and
individuals HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED
YET?-Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Today is the final showing at the
Wigwam of Theda Bara in her latest
emotional and spectacular success. De
struction." The picture gives her ex-
ceptional opportunities for the display
OF her wonderful talents and the pro-
duction is a spectacle in itself dealing
with the plants Of immense manufac-
turing firms.-Adv
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26
MOVED
The Associated Charities

To 22S Mesa Ave. Geo. D. Kendall
makes glasses right.-Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26

Now gas rOastedl
oives forth delicate appetzing aroma and produces
mild full bodied, almost syruPy liquor 1t satisfies
and invgOrates.
As there are no acidy coffees present in States
man use less sugar than is your habit.
The special price-3-lb can for $1-presents you
with an unusual inducement to start enjoying States
man today.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26
To SEEK
G0VERN0RSHIPl
Prescott Man Wishes to Get
Republican Nomination
in Arizona.

Phoenix. Ariz., Feb. 26.-Harry w.
Heap. Of Prescott. was today announced
as a candidate for the Republican nom
nation for governor. He has been a
member Of the Yavapai county board of
supervisors n number of years and is a
successful business man. At one time
he was manager of the Phoenix street
railway system.
This does not change my position In
the slightest" said tax commissioner
Tom Campbell, who has been generally
regarded as the probable Republican
candidate for governor. IF, after the
assessing season, think I can be nom
mated and elected, I shall come out for
the governorship. Mr.. Heap is admira-
bly, qualified for the office. The fact
that so many good Republicans are
seeking the nomination, or are willing
to accept It, is hopeful sign"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-05
Jdyhawker Jots

1t occurs to the Minneapolis Messen-
ger that man is like the mule in that
he kicks on little provocation.
Harmony and tranquility reign at
Avoca. The HaVensville Reviews cor
respondent there reports: All like our
new music teacher fine.
One mark of an uncuItured mind,
points out Mrs. Homer Hoch in the
Marion Record, is a pugnacious belief
that "a word to the wise is a waste of
breath"
Since the sanitary doctors were here
last summer, reports Gasaway, the Gas
Gulch correspondent for the Wilson
County Citizen, some of our farmers
use a spoon to lift the hen fruit from
the nests.
Blaine Sutton is quoted by the Hor-
ton ight-Commercial as saying:
THE funniest thing ever saw in Hor-
ton was an old man with long grey
whiskers, riding a bicycle and smok-
ing a cigarette
The trouble with buying your wife a
new dress, explains Imri Zumwalt in
his Bonner Springs Chieftain, is that
she Immediately demands a new hat to
go with it. But Imri forgot to add
that she then wants gloves and shoes
to match the hat.
Some girl pounded the piano so
hard Monday noon, states Eugene
Schultz, the High School reporter for
the Augusta Bugle, that she busted
several of the 'ivories' off the keys.
They were Way Down in Arkansaw''
when the accident happened.
A Cove City sport is-so Jealous of
his wootsie-tootsie honey bunch, re-
ports E. R. Trimmer, in the Cove
County Gazette, that he
wanted to hit somebody when he
learned the OTIS day that she had
been buying cansiy kisses atsthe cor
ner confectionery. -
Now. is the time to scatter wild
flower seed, urges the Marion Review
If you're going on journey take a
supply and scatterd them along the
roadside, from the auto, or from the
car window along the railroad route.
This is a custom we believe originated
in the east, one that if practiced may
greatly beautify the highways, and re-
turn the growth of wild flowers, which
in many Localities has become almost
extinct.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-05
OUR UNDERGRADUATES.

Villa, in the vicinity of the place
he had picked for attack, made his
plans and collected his forces in lei
surely manner, says the Worlds Work
for May. After he had delivered the
attack and escaped contact with the
brief pursuit across the line, he with
drew southwark in an equally leisurely
fashion. He knew, what every officer
in the United States army knows, that
the Mexican border has for years been
patrolled, not on the basis of military
dispositions, but on the basis of polit-
ical influence. AS General Funston
said, the command was literally fritz
tered away guarding towns, ranches,
and railroads. And Villa also knew,
what is common knowledge in the
army, that nowhere along the
border was there a single command
equipped for offensive operations
across the line into Mexico. Along
that whole border there was actually
no such thing in existence as a sup
ply train. There was no such thing
in the entire United States army as a
supply train. Down on the border
they had only a small equipment of
wagons called collectively field trains
which would carry two days rations
and nothing at all in the way of or
ganized munition feed. If the army
had had a supply train: if the troops
down on the Mexican line had been
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-05

NV other brother arrives to meet us 1
shall lust surprise him and Phil, too.
You see, Phil's dear, good boy, put
I'VE always wondered about his back
bone"
His backbone?'
"Oh. I mean his nerve, his gump-
ton. He shouldn't let the family bum
die him off to South America as II ne
was two-year-old- So want to near
if he'll stand up against Gregory, my
other brother. If he does, I'm going
to let him have you. and I'll start him
in business myself and l have an eye
on you both. But if he doesn t, Wen
let him sail for South America with
Gregory, all alone"
Not a suspicion did Phil have. Aunt
Catherine decided she'd retire early.
and he walked the deck alone thinking
of Marjorie, the girl back in Boston
who hadn't cared enough for him to
even come down and see him off
And suddenly out of the night there
doomed the dark hull of big schooner,
bound from Maine with lumber Her
huge bowsprit looked like a swordfish
as it lunged into space and stabbed
through the forward end of the Sound
boat
Phil was thrown to the deck by the
shock, but got up and made for the
side where Number Eight was. Con-
fusion was everywhere, people pour
i ing out of staterooms, the boats off,
schooner shouting, but he reached
Number Eight, and stood in horror
before its splintered wreck. The point
| of the bowsprit had damned through
| it, crushing and smashing the berths
| and side.
MY aunt's in there." he gasped.
Then across the way, in Number Nine,
| the stateroom door opened and Aunt
| Catherine stood. wrapped in a serv-
iceable black silk travelling kimono.
! her little cur1s tightly wadded up and
pinned in papers. circling her black
/ silk frilly cap. And beyond her, in a
blue kimono, Phil thought he saw a
/ ghoSt-Marjorie with wide, frightened
eyes. and parted lips.
PHYS sake, Phil, 1 thought we was
wrecked sure" began the old lady,
| Ran into something, didn't we2''
How did you get here?" was all
clinging fingers Il thought Aunt
Catherine was in Number Eight, and
| that's wrecked
well, so it is said Miss Winthrop
placidly. Good thing We didn't sleep
there 1 don't like to make mistakes,
| but we must have fot into the wrong
stateroom. So you found out sooner
| than 1 expected, PHIL
Phil stepped into the stateroom and
took Marjorie in his arms. The old
| lady watched them happily.
What shall 1 tell Gregory in the
morning, when you two run up after
| your marriage license ~
Tell him 1 won't go to South Amer
| lea for the whole family" answered
Phil. I'VE don't care about the rest,
| do we, Margie, as long as we've got
Aunt Catherine" -(Copyright, 1916,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-05
AUTOS SEEM "FooL-PRooF.,,

In regard to the widespread me-
chanical ignorance among autoists a
writer in Farm and Fireside SAYS:
The number of persons who have no
practical knowledge of mechanics and
yet run their own automobiles is so
amazing that have often been asked:
How do they do it? How can young
girl who doesn't know crank shaft
from the carburetor run an auto with
such grace and skill? How can a
professional man with his head stuffed
with medicine or law have the nerve
to venture miles away from a repair
shop? A small town merchant who
has run a large touring car for three
years admitted to me the other day
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-05
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

Here's something else to worry
about. An Illinois physician declares
THAT the average civilized human be-
ing is brought to an untimely grave
Through eating too much salt. And to
Emphasize the excuses in this particu-
lar, he declares that the flesh of said
average civilized human being is so
saturated with salt that the cannibals
won't eat it, But the important point
which this doctor forgets to cover is
as to whether or not the cannibals
srealize the fact that the meat on a
white mans bones is too salty for
their taste before they prepare feast
with a human piece de resistance or
after such. a meal is cooked.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-05
Euening Chat
Church and Children.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

THAT settles it," said Billy Boys
father. HE says he doesn't want to
go to church and he shan't. I won't
have him dragged to church until he
hates the sight of it as used to-"
Billy Boys mother looked shocked
''I want to form the church-going
habit in him. she said.
That's all right" said Billy Boys
father. when he gets old enough to
understand what the minister says
and to know what it all means, I'll
back You in seeing that he goes to
church. But not now, when it doesn't
mean anything to him except having
to keep still while the minister says
things that he can't understand any
more than you could if he spoke in
Hebrew. No, stree, and if you have
any respect for the House of God
shouldn't think you'd want your son
to think of it as kind of prison"
Bill Boys mother looked still more
shocked. You do say such queer
things. John" she said.
To some people any point of view
different from the one they have held
is always queer"
1 must say 1 am glad for Billy Boy
that he isn't going to be forced to go
to church just yet. His mother will
see that he goes to Sunday-school. And
that is we'll At Sunday-schooI there
And by and by when he is old enough
to understand what the minister says,
he will go to church. And that too is
well.
But now when Billy is five and
church is nothing but an endurance
test, I'm right glad he isn't going to
be forced to undergo it every Sunday.
You see, watched him one Sunday
and my heart ached for him. He is a
very active person and keeping still,
Of -,
to occupy his mind. is very hard to
him. But here, where there is next
to nothing to fix his attention, keeping
still for an hour and a half becomes
torture. He looks through the hymn
book; but could anything be more arid
than a hymn book when one cannot
read?
The child in front of him has a
picture book and the child to his right
a pencil and paper In our day such
things were never allowed, but a great
many parents nowadays have wisely
relented to that extent. Billy Boys
mother, however, is not one of them,
and Billy has nothing to occupy his
active mind.
My own pleasantest recollection of
church in the pre-comprehending days
is of the cinnamon my mother used to
carry in her pocket and dole out to
me as a bride for keeping still. To this
day the smell of dry cinnamon brings
back the memory of STRAIGHTFORWARD
pews and red cushions and the man
in the pulpit talking, talking, talking
and myself wondering when 1 dared
steal another look at the clock
All the energy that my mother ex-
pended in getting me to church and
all the discomfort I endured and not
one religious memory-was it worth
while?
Perhaps you think that's disgrace
full confession, but it has at least one
merit-it's truthfuL-(Protected by
the Adams Newspaper Service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-05
FAILURES IN APRIL.

Not since last August have there
been so few business reverses IN the
United States as during April, insol-
vencies in that period, as reported to
R. G. Dun & Co., numbering 1899
and supplying aggregate debts of s18,-
382,637. These figures do not include
real estate investments default in
New York, involving upward; of $24,-
1000, as this cannot properly be
classed as strictly commercial. Last
months record compares with 1890
failures for S16,8S5,2s in March;
1858 in February for SIS, 744,165. and
2,009 in January, when the amount
owed was .$25.s63,2S6. In April. a.
year ago, .2.o63 firms suspended and
the liabilities of these as a result of
several bankruptcies of unusual size
were SAB. 517,s7o. Moreover, the pres
ent Indebtedness is less than in 1914
and 1913, while the number of in
solvencies shows comparatively
small increase over those years. Ana1y-
sis of the April returns according to
occupation discloses 335 defaults in
manufacturing lines for $6,452,195,
against 400 for s9,T05,8S9 last year;
BAT for $6,424,059 in 1914, and BAL in
1913 for S6,662.356. Thus, it appears
that there were fewer manufacturing
suspensions than in the three imme-
diately preceding years, while the, sum
involved was smaller than in 1915 and
1913. and only slightly larger than in
1914. Trading failures numbered 976
and the liabilities were $7,OS6,599, as
compared with. 1,484 for $26, 300, 676
year ago; 920 in 1914 for $10,627,229
and 906 in 1918, when the total debts
were S9,310,301. The amount owed
in April, therefore, was less than in
the same period OF the three previous
years and there were fewer reverses
than in 1915, the increases ovr 1914
and 1913 being Sc and 10, respectively.
Among agents, brokers and other con-
Germs not properly included in either
manufacturing or trading, there were
! SO defaults and the total of these
was s4,S43,S43, against 80 for s6.eO2,-
| 305 last April; SO for s3,497,S56 two
years ago and ST in 1913 for but So
| 472698
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-05
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SUCH A RAIN.

Tom sat at the front window and
idly tried to make designs on the clean
window-pane. How it was raining,
On this day, of all days, For, if you
must know the secret, on this very
day, Tom was to have gone on a long
promised trip to the country. He was
to have looked at the budding trees
and picked wild flowers and perhaps
If it was very, very warm and sunny,
to have taken off his shoes and waded
for few minutes in the creek.
Wasn't that a nice plan? And do
you wonder that Tom was bitterly dis
appointed when he Weakened UP early
and heard the steady drip, drip; pat
ter, patter that promised an all-day
rain OF course you do not wonder
you woul6 have been disappointed too;
and maybe you would have settled
down at your front window, too, and
have wondered if the rain would ever,
ever stop, just as Tom did.
But wondering did no good, for the
rain kept up all day. When Tom went
back to the window after his lunch.
the sky was still leaking and leaking
and leaking and the great drops were
still chasing each other down the win
dow-pane as though they would never
stop. 1t really made Tom sleepy to
look at them.
81 don't think you are nice rain
drops at a1li'' he finally exclaimed.
You keep me home where 1 can see
no flowers, and I don't like you one
biti"
please don't say that, my friend
said a voice from under Toms very
nose. I'm fond of flowers, too.
That's the reason 1 keep coming to
earth and coming to earth and coming
to earth all the SPRING
Tom rubbed his eyes and looked.
There. balanced on a dribbling of
rain, just outside the window-pane.
stood the funniest little fellow ANYBODY
ever saw. He was round and fat, and
he was dressed in shining silver from
his head to his toe He sparkIed al
most like a dewdrop and he looked as
jolly and geod-natured as could be.
Yes. SIR" he repeated with a deter
mined nod. 81 like flowers myself
otherwise do you think that I would
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-05

equipped for offensive operations.
Villa would never have come across
the border, or if he had, we could
have promptly got him and his bandit
army. We have seen that the sud-
den test of the Columbus raid found
the general staff at Washington pre-
pared. The raid on Columbus re-
vealed how unprepared we were on
the border And this was rather
jar to most of us who. although ap-
prehensive of what dangers the Euro
pean conflict might involve, were apt
to console ourselves with the COM
forting assurances emanating from
congress and the pacifists that our
present military establishment was
thoroughly adequate for strictly Amer
lean domestic defense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-05
On the Spur
of the Moment
The American Mules Lament.
BY ROY K. MOCLTON.

The American MUGS I4aHeHI.
Whenever nations go to war,
At once they think of me;
They send their buyers from afar,
And take me DER the sea.
They make me pull their wagon loads,
Amid the shot and shell;
And If 1 balk, soldier goads
Me in the flank like, o everything.
What do 1 care for England, or
For France or Germany?
And what should I be fighting for
Where I've no sympathy?
I'm kicking to get home again,
On old Missouri soil,
Where I can live at peace with men,
And feed well for my toll.