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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-26

BARGAIN AT $500.
EASY TERMS
4 room brick cottage, East Fl Paso addition.
lot 5Ox140 . blocks Of car line. This is
$1,000 under price Offer good FOR short
time only
See Mr.. Robertson.
Douglas c. CrOWell.
Phone SIS s2s Mills Bldg
BUILD l BUNGALOW HOME-We will
build 20 suit you on our close in lots with "A
small first payment and balance easy You
get what you want you want H.
Howell Realty Co.
zee Herald Bldg
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-26

ATTRACTIVE SUBURBAN HOME
On TERURBAS-SS5O0-
q acres. 3 Z miles from city limits on
county macsdamized road. few steps to in
gated. 6-room residence. patio. telephone,
electric lights etc. Fruit. grapes. garden
truck, big shade trees land without i'm
provsment will soon be worth $1,000 per
acre B. ". Hale
n. T. KiIburn Co.
532 First Nat Bank Bldg. Phone Sos
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-26

Built Of dark rug brick on south front
lots-restricted district. near Lamar
school. Has an large rooms, screened
porch and basement. Hardwood floors
in living and dining room. builtin book
cases buffet and large white enamelled
kitchen abinet French doors in front
bed room Wood work in bed rooms
and kitchen finished in white enamel
No better nefghborhOOd in El Paso and
only 1900 block out We have a tenant
Who viii lease this house for as much as
the monthly payments are
PRICE $3.50.
PHILLIPS REALTY co.
Phone 1923. 401 Ist Natl Bank Bldg
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-26
JeweIry.

r q. Dun & CO.-Mercantile reports. E
Paso office, sci Guaranty Trust Bidg-
LOCAL MERCANTILE AGENCY-Rsports
and rating on individuals. collections Mem
Der Ok the National Assn OF Mercautile
Agencies Harry Pateman Mgr- Rooms
S21-322 Herald Bldg
The Washington herald., 1916-02-27
FOILED.

THE murder was to be on the next
night. The brothers were going
over the details for the last time
Meetings had not been easy lately; some
one was always happening along if they
tried to talk for a minute and they'd
developed the unpleasant sense of being
watched. That was why they had met
n the garage lately; it seemed the safest
place.
Irving assumed direction. Herbert
seemed to be weakening and the older
brother IS insisting, urging, threaten
ing.
We'll put the ladder against the side
of the house." he was saying, so that
1t will reach to the window of the bed
room. Mother and father will be in that
room. Get father first with his good eye,
and after that mother when she turns
around. Put a shot through the back of
her neck, four shots lower down, and
away We co.
More details were talked over. Tie
brothers were leaving the garage when
heavy hands were laid on their shoulders.
A struggle, tightening grip, a flashing
of silver stars. The boys were under ar
rest. Their father, grown suspicious,
had employed detectives; the plans had
been talked directly into a dictophOne.
With bolts and bars shutting them
away from their old father and mother.
from the tinseled life of gay resorts, and
from the world where they had expected
to spend money dyed with blood, the
boys confessed. They blamed each other
and softened the story of their own guilt.
yet they reeounted the details of their
plotting. They were charged with con-
The Washington herald., 1916-02-27
Read the 's s;;:;:;
Updike 4

the release Of the sons who plotted to
take his life.
That is why we are interested in the
Updike easel"
The Woman still objected. why
can't the papers print pleasant things in
stead? I'm sure everybody'd rather
read about the good things men do"
The reporter shrugged. The good
things aren't spectacular usually. The
Updike story may be unpleasant in the
same sense that oliver Twist is I'M
pleasant. It's chopped out OF rock and
the edges left unpublished. It is brutally
true to a certain type of existence.
Then there are the elements of I'M
certainty and suspense, and the fascina-
ton of trying to figure how it's all going
to come out. AS for breath-taking in
terest-you get that as you follow the
developments, chapter by chapter. Why
-supposing I just sort of sketch it
OF, newspaper way, for you; picture the
turns of the Yheels?"
The Washington herald., 1916-02-27

rises upon murky, smoke-ciouded
horizon to do her little turn.
The star is a lady who makes every
effort to appear Vampirish and sinuous.
She Vamps and sings perfunctorily, how
ever. It's hard to be spontaneous when
your job calls for emotionalism every
thirty-fVe minutes.
The star wears her raven black hair
tightly about her head, and about her
forehead black velvet band, narrow and
sinister and thedabarish. She CARDS
herself in sleeveless, reckless, baekless
and semiskirtless gowns, and she sings
a little song with dramatic trimmings.
AS she sings she gradually works her
way out among the tables. pausing be-
fore some unattached and promising
gentleman. She embodies In her song
the secret Of her parentase-her father
being French, oo-oo la, Ia, and her
mother Spanish and therefore, with rag
time logic, she is a past mistress in the
gentle art of loving and her auditor had
better love her In high-powered and
efheaeious manner. She slides into a
serpentine series of curves to the floor
and then slides up again. She wabbles
and squirms and has an awful time.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-27

were to be taken care Of Therefore #
was decided that the mother and sister
were to die with the father
And so that they might be sure of sue
cess, they planned and replanned, care
fully arranging their alibi. They
bought a magazine rife. an automatic
pistol, Maxim silencer, a flashIight, two
black masks, cartridges and gloves to
guard against finger prints and hid them
in the attic of their home. They were
to have their fathers automobile, with
the motor running, waiting. Afterward
they were to race to Lockport, to throw
the gun and masks in the drainage canal
Then they were to hurry back to the
Hotel LaSalle where they'd be sure to
meet people they knew, so putting them
selves out of the way of suspicion.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-27

recognition from the press. Why? Well,
it tells of nature initiating humbly and
subsequently the devices of art. 1t
starts with an attempted murder,
frustrated of all things, by a dictograph.
There was the element Of the changed
will. Cabaret life and a secret marriage,
not to be bettered in any Penny Dreadful
comes next in the daily installments'
There are interesting minor details like
the padded ladder, the DISCUSSES and the
elaborate alibi. And then there's the
deeper psychological interest revealed in
the best detective manner of the boy who
wasn't quite right in his head, how be
was worked upon by brother-st Least
such is the delightful speculation the
case leads one into-who was in turn
worked upon by a cabaret singer, who
was beyond that worked upon by com
mercial interest-an unknown villaini
"And If this were not enough, the
participants OF this detective story have
dragged in the old and ever interesting
device of the substituted and spurious
baby, lively and capable of acting his
part Last of all there's the father,
broken and II, coming forward to ask
The Washington herald., 1916-02-27
NELL.

MO ornate display, no blaze Of color
~ marks a certain cabaret In W.
Madison St, Chicago. The only
clews to the identity of the place in con-
tradistinction to any ordinary cafe Is the
lurid, high-pitched wall of singing that
floats out through the portals. It's a
haven that must be discovered; a sort
of Ito the know place. However, the
limousines and expensive looking road
sters at the curb are monogrammed,
indicating names known up and down
the country
There are four entertainers in the
cabaret; two men and two women. And
at about the time that 7 o'clock diners
begin to fuss with fast vanishing re-
mains of entrees the star of the evening
The Washington herald., 1916-02-27
Ia
Ii y
BY WINIFRED VAN QUEER.


?" HE Woman, for whom circum-
stance has picked the soft
places of life, expressed her
views
us the story Of crime an uplift to the
public? Why should the details of re-
paper?"
Because they make a good story"
replied the reporter.
"A good story" Her tone expressed
amazement and scorn. THE interest
manifested in certain crimes -murder
cases for instances incomprehensible
to me. Newspapers all over the country
devote front pages to descriptions of the
ones most concerned. Several column
wide photographs are offered those who
want to see how degenerates look, and
there are always analyses of features,
handwriting and so on by experts. Why?
The fate Of the nation does not hang
in the balance. There can be no inter-
national consequences. The country's
social life will not be changed by such
incidents. There will be no change, in
fact. excepting as concerns the criminal
and his victims"
"A good story" insisted the reporter
Conforming to the canons of fiction.
Much as you intellectuals may ieer, its
interest lies in the fact that it may be
cast in an art form. 1t initiates at least
with phenomenal accuracy what fiction
writer's do when they try to be melo-
dramatic. 1t contains every device,
every element, known to rip-rOaring
melodrama.
And people like It because it contains
all these things. Because it does it is
IN the parlance of the newspaper world
a good story. It conforms to the recog-
nized. and. If you like, canned regula-
tions Of art. 1t has not only the motives
which one recognizes from fiction, but
all Of them. Take for instance this Chi
cago story"
Spare u.s." interrupted the Woman.
How can I explain without illustrat-
ing? This Updike story, where the sons
are charged with plotting the murder Of
their father, mother and sister, for in
stance. That Is receiving plenty of
The Washington herald., 1916-02-27

Florence and Mrs. -Updike at home.
Just what would happen If he changed
his will?
Herbert, who wanted to buy cafe and
Irving, twelve years older than Herbert,
who had never been successful at any
thing, could only surmise. and the matter
troubled them more and more.
Which of them first thought of settling
1t by doing away with their father?
Later, when they cringed before the law
each blamed the other. Irving had not
been quite right" since he fell and hurt
The Washington herald., 1916-02-27
FATHER.

II ROKEN in health and crushed in
X faith, the father OF Irving and
Herbert Updike dragged himself
out to arrange for the placing OF $6O,-
600 surety for the liberty Of his sons.
In his automobile they were taken from
the county Jail to the home Of a family
friend to remain until they could be sent
west. Three indictments held over each
of them, were expected to work a guaran-
tee of their future good conduct. Their
father and mother expressed love, not to
be understood excepting by other fathers
and mothers, in a statement to the
public:
our son, irving. received on injury
to his spine during his school days.
and since that time has ShotCH signs
OF mental uHSOundneSS. 1t no time
has his symptoms indicated that he
trdS dangerous. but the family has no
doubt that this plot lrdS the sole result
of his mental condition.
His brother, Herbert, tOdS not n
guilty accomplish, but became an dp-
parent accessory for the purpose Of dis-
coreriHg and disclosing the plot, and Il
tOGS successful
His parents hare tuH confidence in
Herbert and hope that medical pos
Siblu surgical, treatment tCiII bring re-
lief to their son, irving"
Their father explained further:
Il furnished bonds myself for my
boys AS soon as they can get ready they
will go to work in the country-in the
open air. They will not return to Oak
Park until they are ready to get some
clothing and say good-by to the family.
Il feel toward them as have always
felt"
In letter the mother wrote the boys
she assured them of her affection. BE
sure that We love you both, and send
you our dearest love-" she said.
And so in few days the Updike boys
will leave for the west, while Nellye de
Onsonne Updike is realizing on the ap-
ptrtenant publicity in vaudeville.
The Woman who has found the son
places Of life uneventtul frowned disap-
proval.
at is dramatic" she admitted, and
full of what you call human interest
And it's full OF character sketchiRg and
abnormal psychology"
And a darn good storyi" opined the
reporter,
The Washington herald., 1916-02-27
PLOTS.

THURMAN d. UPDIKE finally seemed
serious about changing his will.
That all of his heirs were to share
his estate equally had long been his
promise; there were: son in the west,
o daughter In the east, Irving, Herbert,
The Washington herald., 1916-02-27

Nell Hinckley, who became Nellye de
Onsonne when she became a cabaret
singer, was the star not long ago.
Herbert Updike, son of Furman D. Up
dixie, wealthy broker of Oak Park, was
the one to whom she sang her song.
Herbert was twenty. He was fascinated.
Nellye was married to a waiter. That
did not prevent another marriage to Up
dixie, In Crown Point, Ind, last January.
And when Updike's mother visited them
at the Netherland hotel, a neighbours
baby playing about the apartment
helped create a settled atmosphere.
II was about this time that Neilye de-
veioped ambitions. A man whom Up
dixie met at the cabaret offered to sell
him cafe from which he might obtain
much profit. Nellye urged the pur-
chase. But Herbert hadn't the money.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-27

spiracy to murder their father. mother
and sister.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-27

his spine; Herbert wanted money-much
money-soon.
Anyway it was decided that the father
was to die. Herbert was to climb a
ladder, padded and placed against the
wall, and taking aim through the window
he was to shoot their father to death.
That would eliminate the changing Of
the will.
However, as one Of the boys pointed
out, there'd be less money to share with
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01

that, and this is the only time I'll
ask you"
Here is a true story of a little
southern city. A leading attorney
was arrested for gambling. He
didn't mind paying the small fine,
but Immediately after court he en-
tered the newspaper Office and said:
"I'd rather have my right arm
cut off than have my name go in the
paper"
He meant II, too. Petty crime
would increase a hundredfold were
it not for the horror of publicity.
Whether or not it is better to
leave such items out or to print them
is a problem for each individual ed
itor to decide. There are good ar
guments on both sides. But never
theless the editor is the greatest pre-
ventive for crime that any town has.
I American Press.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01
URGES THAT CHILDREN
TAKE CARE OF TEETH

A recent investigation made by
the U. S. Public Health Service in
connection with studies of rural
school children showed that 1913 per
cent. had defective teeth. Gil per
cent. had two or more missing
teeth, and only 1919 per cent? had
had dental attention. Over IA per
cent. never used a tooth brush, $50
per cent. used one occasionally and
only PA per cent. used one daily.
Defective teeth reduce physical
efficiency. Dirty. suppurating, snag-
gleztoothed mouths are responsible
for many cases of heart disease,
rheumatism and other chronic af-
fections. The children are not re-
sponsible for the neglected state of
their teeth. The ignorant and care
less parent is to blame for this con-
dition-a condition which hampers
mental and physical growth and
puts a permanent handicap on our
future citizens. School teachers can
and are doing much in intoxicating
habits of personal cleanliness on the
rural school child. but this will fail
of the highest accomplishment un-
less parents cooperate heartily and
continuously. This is a duty which
ura oWo our chiIdran
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01
WHY AM FOR WILSON.
Hv Ida M. TarbelI,

Does any American to-day
see bigger, or more dispassion-
ate or more clearly than Presi-
dent Wilson? believe that
Progressives will see this; IL
they don't it is reflection on
their intelligence.
President Wilson has proved
; his fitness to lead the progress
: sive civilization. True. he has
not yet had time to convert the
! man who cries for his pound OF
flesh, nor alter the views of him
who fails to see that bloody war
is but the primitive expression
of savage weakness promoted
by the ignoble desire of con-
} quest or revenge. But he has
forced respect for neutrality,
and he has handled his delicate
Mexican inheritance with tact
and wisdom.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01
TEN COMMANDMENTS
As FELT IN AUSTRALIA

Last February | ventured to hint
that it was good thing that the
Ten Commandments went into effect
before the referendum was adopted,
for if put to vote now not one of
them would be likely to pass.
The Bulletin of Sydney, Austria
liza, followed up the suggestion by Of
fering a guinea for the best set OF
ten commandments suited to Aus
tralian conditions and temperament.
Now the first commandment for the
Australian is evidently: Thou shalt
rot say Thou shalt not" to him, be-
cause then he will go and do it out
of spirit of independence. So the
Bulletin awards first prize to the
following, as written in Australese
and in a form most likely to be eff
fective:
1. Yer might as we'll stick for
Ostralia.
2. Yer might as well stop bor-
rowin'.
3. Yer might as well keep from
usin' too many blank swear words.
4. Yer might as well send yer
kids to Sunday School-it won't
'urt 'em.
5. Yer might as well ave a bit
Of learnin'.
6. Yer might as we'll give yer boss
fair deal-yer might be boss yer
self some day.
7. Yer might as well stick to yer
own old woman (they're orl alikeD
s. Yer might as well make yer
own tools and buds.
.. Yer might as we'll pay yer
debts.
10. Yer'l blanky well ave ter be
\ better stoushcr than the next
bloke.-[New York Independence.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01

Wherever a premium exists for
eign purchases are penalized in max
ing settlements for American
goods. Russian buyers, for example,
had to pay for every dollars worth
of goods from the United States the
number of rubles worth at par $1.67
in United States coin.
France. for instance, where the
franc is worth 20 cents at par (19.3
to be exact), instead of paying prac-
tically five francs for every dollars
worth of American goods, had to pay
nearly six francs for the same value
in August.
1t is the fuctuation of exchange
rates which makes the Allies so ca
ger to float loans in the United
States, and keep the borrowed mon
ey in American banks. Then they
can pay for their purchases of sup
plies from America in American
money. and thereby avoid the pre-
NUNS which exchange rates often
exact.-[Idaho Statesman.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01
TIE COUNTRY EDITOR AS
\ PREVEXTER OF CRIME

As q force for the uplifting of
morals and the prevention of crime
the country newspaper editor stands
head and shoulders above the most
efficient police force that can be as
sombled in any community.
Fu6licity-that one wor1-eX-
riains it all.
Little does the offender object to
paying the small fine that is impos-
ed i'm a police court. Little does he
mind his friends knowing that he
has stepped momcntarily out of the
straight and narrow.
But after the court proceedings
his steps invariably lead to the local
newspaper Office. Cornering the ed
itor in some remote part of the sane
trm, conversation something like
this follows:
IL guess you heard that they pull
ed me last night. | forgot myself
and wouldn't have had it happen for
the world. II doesn't make so much
difference about myself. but just for
the sake of my wife and children
and other people, | wanted to ask If
you would do me the little personal
favor of leaving it out. You know
have always been steady subscrib-
er and always use a want ad. in your
paper when | need anything, and
just thought that maybe you could
leave this out this time. II won't
ever happen again, you can bet on
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01
HADN'T seen SONS SINCE
THE GALVESTON FLOOD
Until Few Days Ago-FamiIy
Torn From Him By Sweep.
ing Waters.

Bartlett, Tex, Oct. 2S.-w. NJ.
Cehand, a farmer near Bartlett, was
reunited a few days ago with his
two sons, James and Rudolph, whom
he had mourned as dead for sixteen
years.
The Cehand family were living in
Galveston at the time of the great
storm which swept over that city in
September, 1900. when the flood
swept in from the Gulf struck their
house it collapsed and the members
of the family were cast into the tor
rent. Mr.. Cehand managed to catch
hold of a piece of wreckage and
chung to it for several hours while
he was dashed hither and thither.
and he was finally flung up on the
mainland several miles from the site
of his wrecked home.
When his house went down Mr..
Cehand caught glimpse of his wife
and two sons as the mountain of
water swallowed them up. The two
boys, then aged three and five years,
respectively, were holding each 9TH
err in an embrace, and Mr.. Cehand
was endeavoring to reach them.
That was the last he saw OF any
member of his family since that
memorable day when they were torn
apart in the raging storm until a
few days ago his two sons, now
grown to young manhood, aliShted
from the train at Bartlett.
Mr.. Cehand made a long search |
after the storm to discover the fate !
of his wife and children; but ne
could obtain no trace of them. IL
appears now that the two boys were !
swept to a point on the mainland
remote from the spot where their
father landed and were found by a
party of rescuers and placed in the
hands of Sisters of Charity, VINO
found them home in convent in
A distant city. The older son,
remembered iio Wv"
and that of his brother, and it was
this that led to their ultimate dis
covery by their father. After re-
naming a few years in the convent
they were adopted by family living
in California. :,
The two boys were making their
home in Sacramento. Cal, when one
day few weeks ago an old friend
of the Cehand family, travelling
through California. saw James in
the street and perceived the family
He questioned James,
who told him that he was James &C.
hand.
The visitor then Informed the boy
that he thought man named &C.
hand whom he knew in Texas was
probably his father. Upon return
ing to this State the family friend
informed the elder Cehand of his
discovery. Letters were exchanged
and the two young men came here
and rejoined their father.