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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15


clean the parlor window. but he had no
more than put one dab Of the wet pow
der on the glass when a voice called
20 him:
"Oh. Uncle Wiggily. Have you any
thing white I could put on my white
shoes 20 clean them: They are so
dirty
The bunny uncle looked down from
the window sill where he was sitting
He saw Arabella. the little chicken
girl, with . pair Of white shoes under
soiled with mud.
And / must clean them or I cant
20 TO the party that Jennie Cnipmuuk
IS going TO give" said Arabella. sadly
like.
''Ha, That must not be-" Uncle Wig
giIv said with a laugh. Wait a min
ute Arabella, and I'll clean your shoes
for you"
some water and the white window
powder. so that the shoes OF the chick
en- girl were soon almost like snow
Then along came Mrs. Wibblewobole,
the duck lady with . white pocketbook
that had a black streak on il because a
trolley car had run over II. and Uncle
Wiggily cleaned if off with some more
OF the white powder mean he cleaned
off the black streak from the duck
ladv's pocket DoOk-nOt the street car
And then out came Nurse Jane
We'll 1 suppose you have all the
windows cleanedc' she asked
Uncle Wiggily looked down az the
rags. at the water and the white pow
der-no. ne didn't look at the powder.
for there was none left He had given
. IL all away. Just think
@Ob. YOU funny rabbit" laughed
Nurse Jane. = never shall get Dy
window cleaned today But no matter
You were very kind Come in and
eat some apple pudding:
And Uncle Wiggily did The win
dows were not cleaned until next day.
when Nurse Jane did II herself with
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15

GLr AN pleased TO learn OF the
order of Gen. Funston advising
- national guardsmen not to
send horned toads, centipedes. and 9TH
er living things through the nails
said postmaster Z. A Shelton. 1T has
not been an infrequent occurrence for
postal clerks to discover horned toads
and lizards in the mails. Usually they
are discovered in the FL Paso post
office. but sometimes they get TIM ugh
and are not discovered until some mail
clerk in another part OF the country
finds them Unless the creatures move
about in the packages, we have no way
Of telling when they are in packages
in the mails, when the sender declares
the package contains maliabIe matter
Usually We turn the creatures loose
behind the postOffice- Upon one &C
casiOn recently, a clerk thought he had
discovered a horned toad in a package,
and took IL out behind the poStoffice
building to release the creature When
he opened the package he found i've.
venOmOus rattlesnake- The sender or
the package narrowly missed prosecu-
tiOn for this. The only reason ne was
not prosecuted was because Of the
kind heartedness Of an official OF the
district attorneys office
Another practice guardsmen should
be warned against is that Of sending
coins and bills through the mail One
$50 gold piece and several IS gold
pieces have dropped from letters in the
Il PasO postoffice. as well as smaller
coins When such is the case, and the
sender's name is not on the envelope,
the only thing we can 90 is to wait for
q complaint OF the loss. and then the
complainant must prove he was the
sender. One man complained of the
loss OF a SO gold piece sent through
the mail II could never be recovered
His next remittance was by money
NT-r Z
see why people viii risk sending coin
through the mail when money orders
may be procured al such a small cost
Ell PasS is the literary capital OF
the southwest" said J. Weinbaum. OF
Boston. special representative Of Chas-
Scribner's sons This city Is to this
section OF the country what Boston is
to the east People here are especially
interested in high class fiction. al
though all departments OF standard
literature are in demand
FL PasO's stores. both department
8 and clothing are doing a rush business,
in my opinion, and can hardly wonder
at the prosperity OF the city" said 3.
D. Donnegan. of san Antonio. Re
Gently 1 visited one Of the largest
clothing and department stores II the
city. and I saw the largest crowd, all
intent on buying. that 1 have ever seen
in any one store. The military Off
GERS and their families do 4 great deal
of trading at the local stores, while
the truck drivers, nOncOmmissiOned
officers and others who desire civilian
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15
Europe S War


is hoped
the
he would Alas hopes
still supreme busy 1t would hold iendt
might end the by that's affhed and fix the
sacred
king
by George Alznns WALT MANN
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15
FL PASO HEKALD-EDrTORIAL and MAGAZINE PAGE

family dare engage with little money as men have
dared to engage farming, having to borrow heavily
to buy the and to buy TOOLS implements and ve
stock Struggling with farm is enough; with farm
and mountain of debt besides is too much That many
farmers of New Mexico and Arizona have overcome all
that handicap few years and come out IN the clear
with fortune IN property, tribute to their courage,
their industry the productivity of the land and gOT-
ious climate.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15

some more powder she bought at the
store But IL all goes TO show you
how kind Uncle Wiggily was.
And If the roof of our house doesn't
hide down cellar and cry Boo at the
coalbfn. III tell you next about Uncle
WIggily starting the fire
Copyright, 1916. by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15

AT T. Ringing. the circus man, took
Ms chauffsu with him an ONoEe to
We're passengers. was rammed in broad
daylight by another steamer. The
chauffeur attentively watched the two
steamers approach closer and closer till
they bumped. Then he said.
Well, I'll be ID, Them guys
had tn whole ocean to get by each
other in an they couldn't pass without
hittin't'
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15
SO soon Forgotten.

Not single correspondent at shadow
Lawn recorded any anxiety expressed
by the Democratic candidate in behalf
OF the chances of the Democratic can
didate for senator in New York
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15

Il now remains 10 be seen II the re-
suit OF the election is going TO have
any appreciable effect on the higher
cost of living.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15
she.d netter De CarefuI.

Americans murdered in Korea-Head-
line. Korea should be warned that we
tolerate that sort OF thing in no nation
but Mexico.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15

We learn that lightning struck a man
in Texas and cured him Of sciatica-
And probably all the other Ills his
flesh was heir to
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15

T. Roosevelt and William Jennings
Bryan have lightly turned their
thoughts TO 1890
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15
WHATS the Matter With the L. :.

They had 40 election riots before they
could choose a president in Cuba This
country seems to be becoming decadent
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15
MORE Truth
AVA Than Poetry
BY JAMES ]. MONTAGUE.
Team Work.

What the colonel didn't do TO the
candidate Of the Chicago convention
Hi Johnson did
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15
SpeakinE OF Jonahs.

Wilson may have had his Daniels. but
Hughes had his Perkins, so they split
about even on hoOdOos.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15
HOCWALLOW LOCALS
Rr GEORCE BINCHAA

Sidney Hooks
umpired a dos
fight on MuskeC
Ridg Q Saturday
H e re N ain e q
strictly neutral.
. =
The Mail CARR
er was oTertaken
by a hard rain on
the Gander creek
road one day this
week By driving
fast h e Ike PIT u D
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15
DisquietInG Moments

L looked for a while as II the yell OF
the electoral college was going 10 be
Fifty fifty
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15
Subdividing and Settling The Land

The sale of more than 100000 worth Of land in
the vicinity of Rails Crosby county Texas within the
past 80 DAYS mostly for subdivision into small tracts
for sale to settlers long time payments IS indicative
of what is going all through the southwest where
large holdings of land being cut into small pieces
in order that ten 100 families may thrive where one
thrived before.
The days of the great landed estates Of the south
west are nearly few remain and viii doubtless
continue remain for years, but with increasing
rarity. So many people want homes that subdivision
Of large tracts is becoming and more profitable,
for those who have purchased great tracts OF gov
eminent state land the incentive to sell to willing
purchasers is strong So they sell
The cowding in of the farmers as the neigh6Ors Of
the cattemen has long been theme of fctionsts who
touch note of pathos connection with the passing
of the "old vest The breaking up of the great hold
ngs however is best for the west and for every COM
munity in it. We want people, and the kind Of people
who make out of each of land than ever
been made before. But settlers" who merely seize
the water holes and ruin Of range not
necessarily valuable to the country than the men
who have been using the range and the water to raise
livestock. Many parts of Southwest are far more
valuable permanent range than for any other use
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15

Writers who predict polygamy for Europe after the
war neglect state who Is to support the surplus
wives and children. Common experience in the United
States is that one wife is plenty
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15
The Chnuffeur'S Point of View.

As With the Battle Of Waterloo.
They had a good day for it
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15

Domestic science experts inform that cheap cuts
Of beef are just nutritious the expensive
By the way what the cheap cuts Of fattened steer
which sells for SIS or in his lean state the
range?
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15

Columbus AIlsop thinks that while
women haven't got any right to vote,
they ought to be allowed to use their
own Judgment as to whether they
want to do the weeks washing out
in the back yard by the ash-hopper,
or down st the pond.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15

cssy1ohs ty George MssfEeg A5ar4s
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15

with it-as far as the postohce
porch
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-15

clean the parlOr window. but he had no
more than put one dab Of the wet pow
der on the glass when a voice called
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-19
FASTING.

An ocust in Youngstown, Ohio ardent advo- of fasting nature cure" indulged in oc- casiona short fasts with apparently wholesome results Finally he undertook big fast of 40 days. After that, he certain he would enjoy perfect health.
 He succeeded in doing without food for the 40 days and possibly recovered from what aed him. But just he ready upon the perfect physical and mental life, he that he couldn't eat at all He had overdone it. He had appetite digestive power He dragged feeble existence for 29 days more and then died.
 His fate is another warning of the dangers of trusting too implicitly in the antfood gospel Almost any good physician will recommend skipping occasional meal occasional whole days meals, for the tion of minor ailments, especially digestive troubles caused by overburdenng the stomach. But they will point out that moderate degree of starvation has its dangers and prolonged fasting is almost to suit in serious weakness O disorder of kind.
 The remedy is found rather avoiding both fasting and gorging. and in keeping properly bal anced rationrght proportion of proteids, fats and carbohydrates concerning which clear and practical in formation is easily obtainable.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-19
THE "WHITE COAL" MINES.

There is serious shortage of coal in Italy due ing the usual Austrian supply of the war. England has been doing her best help her ally, but is unable to send the quantity needed The fuel selling $50 ton in many parts of the country and is hard obtain at that price.
 As a result, Italy has started in to find a substitute And she has admirable ready to her hand-a store of white coal" in the Alps and Appennnes and in the mountains of southern Italy and Sicily
 The Alpine water power going to waste is incon- ceivable With proper development it is said that a small part of the available streams the southern Hanks of the Alps would suffice provide light, heat and for all of northern Italy Thus under the stress of compulsion Italy will make great step forward in utilizing her natural and will lay the founda tion for future economy and industrial expansion.
 It almost makes wish for similar failure of the coal supply in the United States We have hardly made
 beginning in the development of latent hydraulic In almost every section of the country there great fortunes to be made cities be built industries be established and comforts and be added public and private life merely by applying little of capital and engineering skill to this field of endeavor
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-19
THE FRIENDLY MOVIE MAN.

About two years the proprietor of moving pie ture theaer that stood within blocks of old ladies home conceived the idea of giving the old ladies treat He sent fifty complimentary tickets to the home and invited the women to that afternoon to the pictures
 It an unusual experience for them and they joyed every inch of the films the utmost And the proprietor made regular custom. One afternoon of every week old ladies his guests. The proprietor is enjoying it himself the ladies' which really isn't strange when you stop to think about it.
 Financially he doesn't lose anything by it because the afternoon is "a slack time, anyhow But in other ways he gains so much that lie would keep up even though there financial loss. Charity and philanthropy have ceased be attractive words. Frendliness and good will have It is those qualities in this simple act that make 1t worth while.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-19
SNAKES.

well known medical authority declares that there is little foundation for the widespread fear of snakes. Even the poisonous ones-whch in this country re- stricted the rattesnake moccasin copperllead and coral snakedo very little harm He says that of the 100000 deaths in the United States every year, he doubts whether 10 due to snake bite. The medical records do show anywhere that many He found only case recorded in two years.
 Another authority is quoted saying: There are but few poisonous snakes and few of these enough poison to kill grown person" The rattlesnake is the poisonous serpent found in this country though rattlesnake is only oneseventh poisonous as that of the cobra.
 "There is practically death from the bites of the less poisonous snakes" says Dr. Weir Mitchell; and he says that only person eight bitten by rattle snakes dies.
 Even then the doctors agreed that most of the ratesnake victims die of fear, whskey rather than the poison. Persons bitten usually seized with wild panic which lowers their vitality and resisting power The only value of whiskey consists in its reducing this fear by making the patient drunk thus regardless consequences But that virtue by the lowering of physical resistance by hoc poisoning
 The chances of being bitten by poisonous snake seem to be about equal the chances being struck by light ming. And when a person is bitten by of the four dangerous snakes mentioned the thing to do is keep it with mild solution of hypochlorte lime strong solution of permanganate of potash These chem cals easily obtained at any drug store
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-19
WAR SUNNI ARy'

North and south of the Somme in France, British and French troops are keeping up their vigorous offen- siys and have achieved further sue cesses and put down strong German counter attacks a> ss&zlt stis,.l q South of Combles, the French have taken additional trenches, making stronger their investment of the little town. which now is almost completely surrounded. Having evacuated Denie- court, south of the river, the Germans have been driven back about two thirds of mile toward Ablaincourt. South of Barleux a German trench west of Horgny has been captured
 Fierce artillery fighting is still in progress in the sectors of the Peronne Bapaumeroad. Sunday and Monday more than 1900 Germans were taken prisoners by the French in the Denie- court sector.
 Artillery is active in the Champai- egn region. On the Verdun front the riShN~i ha'S SoptuiSu d tIeuNu Ou lilt southern slope of the famous Dead Mans Hill.
 To stem the advance of the army of the Central Powers in the Dobrujda region, Rumanians and Russians have ceased their retreat and definitely drawn their battle line. This extends along the front of Rachova-Txopadin Tuzla-running from the Black Sea to the Danube just south of the ancient double ramparts which were Trajans wall which begins at ConstanZa and runs westward to the river Both Sofia and Berlin report fresh advances in this region, while in Pennsylvania the Rumanians are reported to be con tinuing progress.
 Petrograd is silent with regard to the new offensive started by the Rus sians in the Prophet Marshes in Rus sia down into the Carpathians, but Berlin says the Germans turned to the attack along the Narayoyka river Tn Galicia, regained a greater portion of the territory lost to the Russians Sat urday, infiicJing heavy casualties on the Russians and took $500 prisoners. In the Carpathians along the Zlota- Lipa river, between the Sereth and the Stripa rivers, and to the west Of Lutsk, Russian attacks were repulsed sttb heavy losses.
 Macedonia inc French troops
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-19
4elvrNe THE PEOPLE A CHANGE"

We that another joke has been perpetraed Tally another codblooded murderer has been repreved for three months ito give the people chance" to say whether they him other cold blooded murderers to be hanged or not This farce been going for five years. of murderers have been fattened prison, repreved from time to time the people might have opportunity whether capital punishment should be maintained. Two years ago. the people spoke twice and unmstakably They declared they wanted capital punishment They farther than that They took away from the power reprieve pardon and parole which he had so grossly abused.
 They believed then the three year farce was at an end it not; the slightest pretext served for the granting of reprieves Even Villa murderer without greater influence than laws. More than
 year elapsed after the organization of the board be- fore the first hanging took place though the prison filled with waiting murderers.
 Then three friendless Mexicans hanged Of they deserved it, but they would not have ceived their if they had lighter color they had had friends with modicum influence
 We arguing in of capital punishment We would anti-capital punishment law as is proposed would life imprisonment those under such a sentence But that is not yet the law, and it may become the law. Tally, who has been reprieved until a law may passed or re- jected, has right to the benefit of such law than Chavez Perez and Rodriguez whose bones mouldering.
 We imagine the people have grown tired of being given these chances" themselves It such chances" that doing to defeat anticaptal shment legislation than all the arguments that have been made could be made. against capital punishment. We Lave the slightest doubt that Hunt the beginning of his office, had permitted the law to take its course antcapital punishment bill would have been passed by the people Certainly if he had not interfered with the people would have placed such humiliating restriction upon his powers.
 If next November. the pending anticapital punish should fail. failure may traced in measure the reprieve granted murderer Tally by the board of pardons paroles-The Arizona Re- public
 avSsss-sg .5fF& . a.tt @
 The department of agriculture reports that there are 1,716,OOOOOO eggs in cold Seems like lot of henruit but if only apiece for breakfast they wouldn't last much than two weeks
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-19
Tuesday Morning, September 19, 1916.
4 PUBLIC STRIKE.

New York City has been having street railway strike resulting in grave public inconvenience There have threats of sympathetic strike of labor organizations in behalf of the street railway The New World thereupon reminds its leaders that has yet undertaken call sympathetic strike in favor of the public
 'The public has neglected to organize in defense of rights It lacks the intelligent leadership of the unions and the capacity call into action sections of the community that similar needs and Similar inter- ess" Thus any leader of labor capital occupying high position able at will precpitae situation that stops traffic deprives millions of the opportunity to a living and threatens food famine.
 If strikes are be accepted natural and nevi- table means of settling industrial problems why, indeed shouldn't the public get into the game? Why a pub lie strike punish transportation company or arrogant group of employees, both together? Maybe few big strikes by great Citizens Protective Union suffice reduce both capital and labor to state of proper subordinaton and pave the way for rational adjustment of industrial disputes.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-19

have captured FlOrina, from the Bull garians. who were reported by Paris
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-19

retiring artillery additional ground have taken place
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-19
NEWARK GIRL AIDS
BATTLESHIP FUND
Picks 100 DandeliOnS to
Get Dime for Mar
jorie's Cause.

From Newark. y. j.. yesterday came
4. note from a patriotic little girl who
was so anxious 10 help Marjorie Ster-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-19
Federal Attorneys AIlege
c. J. FOrtman Col
leCted Graft.
TOBACCO DEALERS
DODGED REVENUE TAX
Government Unearths Wide
spread and Long Estab-
lished System.

Christopher J. Fortman. a deputy in
ternal revenue collector. was arrested
yesterday by the Federal authorities
and arraigned before Commissioners
Houghton, charged with having solic-
tied brides from tobacco dealers on the
East Side.
His arrest followed close upon the
recent raids upon tobacco dealers in
this city who were accused of defraud-
ing the government by false sales and
the evasion Of duty prescribed by law
upon all manufactured tobacco prod
ucts.
According to the allegations made by
Edward Mcdonald, who has charge OF
the prosecution, Fortman is accused oil
soliciting and collecting brides from
about fifty tobacco manufacturers, the
total of his monthly toll amounting TO
between $50 and 500.
Mr.. Mcdonald alleges this form oil
graft was generally recognized as
part of the tobacco trade, and men
going out Of business were in the habit
Of leaving verbal instructions to their
successors 70 take care Of the internal
revenue men" Even the shifting of
inspectors to other districts did not
alter the practice or stop it, II was a
mutual affair, and the shifted IN
spector, like the retiring tobacco dealer,
would see TO it that his successor IN
the district carried on the mutually
profitable grating system.
In exchange for the graft tips, MI;
Mcdonald says, the inspectors would
accept as correct any statement the to-
bacco dealer proffered Their duty re-
quired them TO make personal examina-
ton of the books and stock.
Fortman was released in $4,000 cash
bail. which he furnished himself, and
hearing was set for June =.