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Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-14
u. S. ACCEPTS
DIRECT FARLEY
TO SETTLE DIFFERENCES BE.
TwEE AMERICAN AND MEX
lcAN GOVERNMENTS.
NOTESENTTOCARRANzA
JOINT BOARD TO STUDY WHOLE
MEXICAN PROBLEM MAY RE-
suit FROM MESSAGE.
western Newspaper union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, July ga note formal
ly accepting Gen. C%arranza's proposal
that differences between the United
States and the de facto government of
Mexico be settled by direct negotia-
tions was handed to Eliseo Arredondo,
the Mexican mbassador-designate
Secretary OF State Lansing took a
draft Of the note to the cabinet meet
ing and had It delivered promptly
after the cabinet adjourned. The
course to be pursued already had been
agreed upon by President Wilson and
his advisers.
The text of the note follows:
Sir: / have the honor to acknowl
edge the receipt of your communica,
ton OF July 4, 1916, in which you
transmit a note addressed to me by
the secretary OF foreign relations OF
your government, and to request that
you transmit to him the following
reply:
"Mr. Secretary: l have the honor
to acknowledge the receipt of your
courteous note transmitted to me by
Senior ArredOndO on the 4th instant,
in which you refer to my notes OF
June 20 and June 25, and to assure
you Of the sincere qualification of my
government for the frank statement Of
the difficulties which have unfortu.
nately arisen in our relations along
the International boundary and the un
reserved expression of the desire Of
your government to reach an adjust
ment of these difficulties on a broad
and amicable basis. The same spirit
Of friendship and Of solicitude for the
continuance of cordial relations be
tween our two governments inspired
my government, which equally desires
an immediate solution Of the differ
enees which have long vexed both gov
ernments.
at is especially pleasing to my
government that the de facto govern
ment OF Mexico is disposed to give
quick as well as practical considera
ton in a spirit of concord to the
remedies which may be applied to tn,
existing conditions. R-eciproeating the
same desire. the government of tn,
United States is prepared immediatel!
to exchange views as to a practica
plan to remove finally and prove2t
recurrence of the difficulties which
have been the source of controversy
Accept MI. Secretary, the renewe'
assurance of my highest considers
ton.
Il am, sir. yours very sincerely,
ROBERT LANSING"
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-14

Are you inviting that queer fish,
Mr.. JimsOn2"
ayes, I'm dropping him II line
Boston Evening Transcript.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-14

Guinea pigs do not come from
Guina, nor are they pigs.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-14

Several Of the Siberian rivers now
over beds Of solid ice.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-14

Smile on wash day. That's when you use
Red Gross Bag Blue. Clothes whittier than
snow. All grocers. Adv.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-14
TABLE pELlcAcIEs

The tough ends Of steak are often
a problem In good serving. Cut the
tough end from the steak
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-14
sioux CITY ROUNDUP PRIZES.
Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming
Riders Win Championships.

Sioux City, Iowa.-The champion
ships in the Sioux City roundup have
been awarded as follows: Dutch"
HELLER, Denver. rough rider; Charles
Weir, Monument, N. M, steer roping;
Harry Walter, Cheyenne, WyO., relay
racing; Henry Morse, Wagon Mound
NJ M, bulldOgging; jean Mckay,
Cheyenne. Wye. trick roping; Harry
Waller, Cheyenne. Wyo., trick riding.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-14

China imports nearly 2O0.OOO.OOO gal.
Ions of kerosene n year.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-14
LEFTOVER DESSERTS.

1t is far easier to prepare made
dishes for entrees, salads, or even
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-14
Il TIE

Men and women are often capable Of
greater things han they perform.
They are sent into the world with
bills OF credit. and seldom draw TO
their full extent-Walpole.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-14

The series of conferences between
Counselor Polk of the State Depart
ment and Arredondo, for which the
note doubtless prepares the way, may
extend beyond the question of pro
tecting the border against future ban
dit RAGS and go into the sore need of
the Carranza government Tor financial
support.
This possibility created considerable
interest among administration Off
eials and diplomats. 1t was regarded
as an Indication that the United
States wishes to help the neighbor re-
public to bring order out Of it's In
ternal turmoil.
On instructions from Gen. Carranza,
the Mexican embassy Friday advised
the State Department Of the virtual
destruction of a de facto government
force Wednesday by a large Villa
band at COrralitOs, chihuahua, and
suggested that the American border
patrol exercise all possible vigilance
to prevent the outlaws from raidinG
into the United States.
In HIS dispatch to the embassy, Gen
C~aTranza said he feared the bandits
had crossed the desert in an attempt
to reach the border and cause further
difficulties.
He suggested that the American
troops patrol carefully between BO
quillas and Ojinaga and promised that
every possible effort would be made
by his forces to %apprehend and de
stroy the bandits.
At the same time the State Depart
ment received a report from an Amer
lean in Mexico that he had seen ant
talked with villa personally near Cor
~ralitOs. a few days before the fight re
ported In the CarTanza message.
Andres Garcia, Mexican consul, said
reports OF the Villista movement re
ceiyed at the American frontier points
have been greatly exaggerated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-29
Euening Chat
Hes Queer. "
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Hes Queer"
Yes, he's good looking, but he's
queer. Mabel says she doesn't think
he's quite all there a woman said to
me the other day in reference to a
young man who has recently come
into the neighborhood.
What makes you think that?"
"Oh, 1 don't know exactly. She
says he's been at her house with his
sister, and he acts funny, talks in
fits and starts, and doesn't always
answer when he is spoken to-"
days ago. Today l discovered that
the young man in question is not only
all there but is an unusually we'll
educated and brilliant person. He is
doubtless at least as much there as
his critic. The trouble is that he is
slightly deaf. This makes him nervous
in his manner and easily accounts for
his not always answering when spoken
to.
1t seems to me that people are al
together too quick to decide that this
person or that is not quite all there.
Whenever 1 hear that sentence pro-
nounced, 1 challenge it with What
makes you think so?''
The answers 1 get are interesting.
Sometimes 1 get no concrete evidence
only satisfaction.
Again 1 am told, I've seen him
sit in the front window with his hands
in his lap doing absolutely nothing
for an hour or more" People do sit
and think sonnet les. Are thoughts
the power that changes and molds the
woodworking
II person outrageS conventions he
is always in danger of being called
| queer" And the step from that to
He isn't all there is very short
Not to be wholly governed by con-
ventions may be the sign of a brain
above instead of below the average
Some conventions are based on right
others on expediency, others on habit
many are utterly foolish and futile
! Such man might call his censors mot
all there" with quite as much reason as
they have to apply that structure to
him. He is different from them
well, so are they different from him.
! Conventionality. some one has said
is that which DEGREES man shall not
wear a rose behind his ear. A mar
might wear rose behind his ear and
| be perfectly sane, but his chances OF
I being thought so would be small
To the attention of the persons who
are inclined to call everyone who
varies from their pattern, insane,
wish to call the definition of the word
Such a mental condition as, either
from the existence OF delusion or from
incapacity to distinguish between righ
and wrong with regard to any matter
under action, does away with individ
ual responsibility
Suppose you consider whether vol
could prove that of a man before yol
start arumor so seriously affecting hi.
standing in the communicate
tected by the Adams Newspaper Ser
vice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-29

dance, 1 suppose, though that isn't alb
solutely necessary. I'll pay your price
of fifty cents an hour and the addi-
tional price of rent for an evening
suit
Botsford's heart beat at double
quick every time the amazon men
tered the junior ball, and he SIAM
mered something about already pos
sessing an evening suit. Probably the
amazon thought he had-acQuired 1t
during a short career as a waiter. He
agreed to the proposition. In tact, he
said, he would be willing to put n
the entire evening for two dollars,
from half past eight till closing time.
him at the entrance of the court
Then she whispered again: "One
thing you must remember. I'll intro
duce you as my brother and you must
keep up the bluff. No one must know
that have employed you in this way
It's a rather sore point sometimes
when girls don't have any men for
dances. You seem SO different from
the sort of men that would, be Will
ing to be hired that 1 am quite de-
pending on you to do the proper
thing"
OF course Botsford thought that he
was going to be the amaZon's escort
and that she was the one who had felt
perhaps keenly-the misfortune OF
not being able to secure a man for the
dance. He had managed to skate
with her for two hours that morning,
so probably he would be able to sur
vive four or five dances with her that
evening But, if the truth must be
told, it was the hope of seeing Betty
and the bitter thought that he would
also see the rival who was taking his
place with her that led him to accept
the proposition without murmur-
It was with decided surprise that
Botsford beheld the radiant splendor
of the girl of whose name he was still
ignorant. There was no doubt about it
she was decidedly a striking and truly
MAGNIFICENT creature in her evening
gown Then, as he was recovering
| from the surprise of this rapid change
of appearance-it was in the crowded
reception room of the dormltory,
where the girls and their escorts we're
assembling before the ball-she led
| him up to a man whom she introduced
as MIR. Smith, my fiance-" And Bots
| ford caught the sparkling CLEAN of
| a solitaire worn on her left hand
/ which her wooden glove had hidden in
| the morning.
He was wondering why he had been
employed-since she was amply sup
piled with an escort in the stalwart
| form of Mr.. SHith-when she began
| to speak in a whisper.
You are to be the escort of a little
friend. The man she intended to ask
disa ppointed her. 1 found out about
it this morning and 1 hated to have
her fun spoiled just because that brute
of man went back on her. So 1 told
| her 1 had a brother that was just
crazy to come and would like to be
her escort. Here she is
And just then Mr.. Smith led up tie
j timid little figure of Betty, as dainty
as a wood nymph, Botsford thought.
| in the pink and silver splendor of her
junior ball gown.-(Copyright 1916,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syudi
| cate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-29

Listen girls, to the Kansas Indus
trialist: The emptier a girls head is
the tighter she ties her hair ribbon
around it.
La Harpe, Allen county, goes to all
the trouble of ringing a curfew bell
at 8 o'clock each night. Why doesn't
1t tWang one of its strings?
Repeated by the Downs News:
Dad" asked a little Downs boy,
when is fathers day?" THE first of
every month";" growled the father.
The Norcatur Dispatch can imagine
no more distressing sight than to see
beautiful complexion disappearing
with perspiration on a hot summer S
day.
A farm hand is quoted by the
Woodson County Journal as saying:
The Lord must have it in for the
hired man lately, for it only rains
nights and Sundays"
There doesn't appear to be a great
deal in a name, observes the Beloit
Gazette. Arch Bonecutter is not a
candidate for coroner of Jewell coun-
ty, but for county clerk
1t is the cold, cruel world for the
girl who tries to keep up with the
zette Two years ago skirts were so
tight and walking necessarily so slow,
that there was no joy in life Now,
by the time girl gets pair OF those
1b-1ncn DOOIS ldceO, Sne is LOO IlTeu "
go any place.
Related by the Osborne County
Farmer: Now, boys said the teach
er, there were two rich men, one of
whom had made his fortune by hon
esty and industry, while the other had
made his by fraud and roguery.
Which of those two men would you
prefer to be-" There was a moment s
hesitation, when young Solomon
Isaacs inquired, "Vich made the
most?"
According to the Village Deacon of
the Osborne County Farmer, Old Bill
Shiftless says that if he had his way
about it he would make taxes so
blamed high that the rich men would
soon get tired of hogging everything
N sight, and that would give the poor
fellows a chance to get what was com
ing to them. Mr.. Shiftless also says
the way to kill of the politicians is
for the people to refuse to go to the
polls and vote for any of their candi-
dates. He says if the people would
do that the politicians would soon be
without any business and honest men
could then get an office occasionally.
Old Bill has stated several times that
# he were sheriff things would be
run right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-29

Theoretically speaking, the Demo-
cratic statesmen take off their hats
to none in the realms of economy.
But in practice-well, that's another
story, of course: and human beings
are full of frailties, and nobody prac-
tees what he breaches, and so on and
so forth. But it does seem to come
with pretty poor grace at such a time
as this and when the nation is in such
ticklish financial straits and with I'M
usual expenditures ahead of it, for the
Democratic statesmen on the job at
Washington to be protesting so Wig
orousIy as they are against the elimi-
nation of even few chunks of pork
from the rivers and harbors appropri-
alton bill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-29

Russia is reported to be preparing
for another big offensive against the
German lines in the eastern war zones
and for the purpose of relieving, if
possible, the German pressure against
Verdun and the Austrian pressure
against the Italians. In other words,
were it not for poor, old, much-bat-
tered Russia and her marvellous re-
Operative powers, the rest of the En-
tente Allies would continue to have
much harder rows to hoe, as would
have been the case ever since the war
began. Russia's immense resources of
men and England's navy have been
the agencies which have saved the
Entente Allies from an annihilating
defeat at the hands of the Central
T3owers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-29

Perhaps you are wondering why
Mully Mole came to live in the front
yard and how he got there
Listen, I'll tell you all about it.
Mully Mole land all his brothers
and sisters and cousins and aunts)
live down in the ground all the time.
Hardly ever does he see the light of
day. He burrows under the tip-top
layer of soil and he eats insects that
he finds in the ground-grub worms,
cut worms. and any of the many tiny
creatures that live in the soil and eat
seeds and roots.
Some people who are not very OBJ
serving think that the moles eat the
seeds-but they don't. They eat the
bugs who eat the seeds. In that way
friend.
How Mully finds where the bugs
are to be found. none of us know.
Does he smell them, or does he just
happen upon them? But. anyway, he
always goes where the insects are most
plenty-you may be sure of that
Now someway, the word got to
Mully Mole that the gardener had
seeded the front lawn with fine new
seed and that lot of creatures had
come to eat the seed up. So of course
Mully made haste and came to the
1awn-and there Billy Robin saw his
tracks.
Mully must have been having fine
feast, for the ridges went up and down,
back and across the lawn. Billy
watched and saw new tracks every
day and wished he could see for him
self the little creature that Mr.. Garden
Toad talked about.
But Billy was not the only one who
noticed the ridges in the yard.
Mully Mole had not lived ir the
front lawn week before he found his
way back past the log where Tommy
T-itfie- Mouse lived and into the 1or
den patch.
Tommy noticed the marks of his
travel and called Mrs. Tommy to come
and look.
There are some new hills not far
from our log he said; land l am
perfectly sure :hey were not there yes
terday. Do come and see them"
Mrs. Tommy followed Tommy at
once and together they examined the
hills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-29

Word comes from Washington that
William Howard Taft will be for
Theodore Roosevelt for president, if
the Republican national convention so
orders. And if William Howard Taft
is willing to let bygones be bygones
after the Republican national conven-
ton. there assuredly doesn't seem to
be any sufficient reason why the lead
ers in the party who will control the
convention and the rank and file of
the party, as we'll, should not be will
ing to let bygones be bygones before
the convention and nominate as the
presidential candidate the man whom
the Republican party needs to win a
convincing victory, and the man whom
the nation so sorely needs to steer its
ship of state in the right direction
This man is Theodore Roosevelt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-29
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

About all some men ever give is the
glad hand.
Unlike the man who uses it, whisky
improves with age.
Women can fool the men, but they
can't fool each other.
Falling in love finally becomes a
habit with some men.
People are like coffee and tea; sick
ening when too sweet
Does a man ever become so old that
people do not watch" him?
Being sorry exacts no obligations,
and should not be so uncommon.
Try to live so you won't have to be
living something down" all the time.
A gir1 in your arms is worth two in
your dreams, but it is a lot more ex-
pensive.
the extent that his wife should prac-
tice it
The deserving prosper only if they
have the get-along quality strong
enough.
A vegetarian must have some diff
Guilty convincing his stomach he is
well fed.
Don't depend on luck for anything.
If it comes, all right, but don't depend
on it.
There are also those who never talk
of team work until they want some
one to help them.
What has become Of the old-fash-
Toned farmer who considered milking
was the women's work?
If man tends to his own business
there are plenty of people who will
call him cold-blooded.
Lavish as we are with sympathy
none of it ever goes to the gent who
loses money on a fake foot race
A man who won't allow a barber tc
comb his hair isn't necessarily cranky
The barber roach is all right for pic
mics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-29
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
When we like man we call him a
brick, but we don't want him thrown
at US.
The wise photographer doesn't guar
antee a good likeness. He guarantees
satisfaction.
The advocates of preparedness
preach that every man has a right to
swing his left.
Beauty is only skin deep" quoted
the Wise Guy. LAY. there's the rub!''
quoted the Simple Mug.
It's one thing to make both ends
meet, but quite another matter to
keep them from slipping apart again
If man feels like a fool while he
is getting married, he must feel like a
blcckhead at his wooden wedding.
Would you speak of the business
done by a drummer for a complexion
powder firm as sales under false col
ors?
No, Maude, dear; we should scarce
ly call it an elopement when a girl
allows her enthusiasm to run away
with her.
Blobbs-"Do you think we shall
recognize our friends in heaven %
Slobbs-"I hope so. Mighty few of
Us know who our friends are here"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-29

sees thirteen generations born to it
in a single year, and would. if I'M
checked to the end of the twelfth
generation multiply to the -inconceiv-
able number of ten sextillions of in
dividuals. If this brood were mar
shaled in line, ten to the inch, it
would extend to a point so sunk in
the profundity of space that light
from the head of the. procession.
travelling at the rate of one hundred
and eighty-four thousand miles a sec
ond, would take two thousand five
hundred years to reach the earth In
eight years the progeny of one pair
of gypsy moths could destroy all the
foliage in the United States. if I'M
checked.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
from the Chicago n

Remedies for prejudice invariably
fail.
1t costs more to be stingy than it
does to be charitable.
There's no place like home for a
young mans best girl.
A thing of beauty is a joy while it
continues to win out.
The politenesS of a mean man is al
ways more or less put on
Every time a lazy man looks at the
clock the day becomes longer
When the day breaks some men are
too lazy to make use of the pieces.
Some charity may begin at home.
but the best brand is directed toward
the homeless.
Don't judge a woman by the beauty
of her hair until you find out whether
it is natural or artificial
Illusions are the grand ideas We
have about ourselves; decisions are
the silly ideas other people have about
US.
She-"Kiss me again, Clarence
He-"Are you sure no one is look
ing?" She-"Tm sure I'm not"
The police are not alone in work
ing a frame-up. Many an innocent
picture has been framed in gilt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-29
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY K. MOULTON.

Not That Crazy.
There may be more than one great
For which 1 must one day atone;
But never did 1 make din
While learning on the slide from
bone.
YOUNGSTOWN Telegram
Another sin almost as bad,
For which my soul will not be torn,
Which equals slide trombones for
din
That's footing on an auto horn.
-Painesville graph-Republican-
I may be punished for some sin,
And grieve because of it while dyin'
But this thought always makes me
grin:
never voted for Bill Bryan.
Houston Post.
There may be sins charged up to me
1t may be quite list;
But this thought brings lot of glee:
lam no ''pacifist.'
Answers to Correspondents.
Percy-You say you are invited to
spend the weekend with friends and
want to know if you should dress for
dinner Yes, we would advise you to;
also for breakfast and supper.
MuS1C1an-4 GU ask now we pro-
nounce potpourri. We don't
Hank-You say your neighbor has
borrowed your vacuum cleaner and
won't bring it back. Get even with
HIM by running away with his wife.
Bachelor-You ask us what is the
best season to propose to the girl.
There is no best season. They are
all bad.
Them Movie Drammers.
never could tell, (and 1 say it with
VIM,
With him dyin' for her, and her pinin'
for him,
With his heart torn to shreds and her
heart all in tatters.
can't see just why they're so. slow
to mend matters.
I'd jump on the villain, his folks, and
I'd kill 'em
And grab off the gal in the first foot
of fillum.