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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-28

Fl Paso and vicin-
ity Probably fair
onight and Saturday
New hTexico-To-
night and Saturday
fair, rising temDera
ture.
Arizona - Tonight
partly cloudy. cool
er extreme south
west portion and
warmer north por-
tion; Saturday gen
orally fair.
West Texas To-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-28
WEATHER BULLETIN
L :. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
WEATHER BUREAU.

Observations taken
AZ s a. m. 18th me
ridlan time: s a. m.
e Paso time Sept
IS 1917
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-28
SENTENCED 10 PENITENTIARY.

Calixtro Mendoza vas found guilty
OF assault by q prohibited weapon in
the 38th district court Friday and
sentenced 10 one year in the peniten-
tiary. Jennie Madrid. complaining
witness. said the accused fired
pistol at her front door. while she was
closing It.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-28
ROOSEVELT REVEALSHIS
Of THREAT To FIGHT GERMANY

Tells How He Forced Germany to Back Out Of Plan to
Seize Venezuela; Former President Again Flags
La Toilette This Time in Latter's Home State
and Is Loudly Cheered.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-28
S0MEEouS SMT N

i.-u- s.lu SsiturCay probably fair.
Relative humidity IN Fl Paso AZ noon
Friday. IS percent
Precipitation last "A hours CineneH)..-.
State Of Weather ..-.....-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-28

Women are admitted to the rail-
way mems union in Great Britain
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-28
Free Trial Coupon

F. 4. Stuart Co.. 8G5 Stuart
Bldg Marshall. Mich. Send me
at once, by return mail. q free
trial package Of Stuart's Calcium
Waters.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-28

In closing the meeting. Mr.. Putnam
said FL PasO would never come into
her own until il develops a firm BUSH
ness relation with Mexico, the valley
lands are under cultivation and the
power problem is solved. Regarding
the second condition. he said he
thought IL a shame that most OF our
flour comes from places zoo to 1900
miles distant. while we do not produce
but a fraction Of the butter we con-
sumo. and we import tremendous
quantities Of fruit from California"
An invitation from the University
club to Kiwanians TO become associate
members was communicated by Mr..
Putnam
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16
CHAPTER TX.
The Glass Button.

Even as the big fellow stepped light
ly just inside and to the left-as De
Spain stood-of the door and faced
him, the encounter seemed to De Spain
accidental. But before he could speak,
a second man appeared in the door
way, and this man appeared to be jok-
ing with third behind him. AS the
second man crossed the threshold, De
Spain saw Sandusky's high-voiced
little fighting crony, Logan, who now
made way, as he stepped within to the
right of the open door, for the swing
ing shoulders and rolling stride of
Gale Morgan.
Morgan, eying De Spain with inso-
lence, as was his wont, closed the door
behind him with a bang. Then he
backed his powerful frame significant
ly against 1t.
A blind man could have seen the
completeness of the snare. An unpleas-
ant feeling flashed across De SPANS
perception. 1t was only for the i'm
uncertainty was resolving itself into
rapid certainty. When Gale Morgan
stepped into the room on the heels
of his two Calabasas friends, De Spain
would have sold for less than q cup
Of coffee all his chances for life. New
ertheless, before Morgan had set his
back fairly against the door and the
trap was sprung, De Spain had
mapped his fight.
He did not retreat from where he
halted at the instant Sandusky entered.
His one slender chance was to hug to
the men that meant to kill him. Nor
gan, the nearest, he esteemed the least
dangerous of the three; but to think
to escape both Sandusky and Logan
at close quarters was, he knew. more
than ought to be hoped for.
While Morgan was closing the door,
De Spain smiled at his visitors "That
isn't necessary, Morgan-I'm not ready
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16
SYRUP Of FIGS FOR
A CH|LD'S BOWELS
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose" mother insisted
on-castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fo,E4<
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form OF
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The childrens revolt is well-found-
ed. Their tender little "insides' Sl1t
injured by them.
II your childs stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup OF Figs" Its
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take it; that 1t never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach, and that teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row.
Ask at the store for 50-cent bottle
OF California Syrup of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
Of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16
intellectually Murdered.

Randolph Bourne, an editor of the
New Republic, in an address recently
said American colleges are institutions
in which youths are intellectually
murdered" and the efficiency sys-
TEN upon which universities operated
has resulted lin card-indeN sys-
TEN of education impersonal and
materialistic." This indictment is
true as to the field, but there are
many institutions that are not So
those that consult the spirit more
than the intellect, and that construct
purpose and aspiration rather than
devote themselves to learning and
knowledge. The fact is that the end
Of education will never be reached or
mankind be substantially advanced
until the spiritual dominates the in
tcllectual in the training of the youth.
II is hard for scholars to understand
that the intellectual is materialistic,
hut 1t is.-Ohio State Journal.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16
CHAPTER VIII.
A Cup of Coffee.

He was willing, after a long and
bootless search, to confess to himself
that he would rather see Nan Morgan
for one minute than all women else in
the world for a lifetime. The other
incidents of the evening would have
given any ordinary man enough food
for refiection-indeed they did force
De Spain to realize that his life would
hang by slender thread while he
remained at Sleepy Cat and continued
to brave the rulers Of the sinks.
But this danger, which after all was
a portion of his responsibility in free
ing his stages from the depredations
Of the Calabasas gang, failed to make
on him the moving impression of one
moment of Nan Morgan's eyes. There
was I'm the whole world nothing he
wanted to do so much as in some way
TO please her--yet II seemed his i'll
luck to get continually deeper into
her bad graces. Every day that he rode
across the open country, his eyes
turned TO the far range and to Music
mountain. The rounded, distant, I'M
nntabIe peak--maiestic as the sun,
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16

Within two weeks he became des-
perate. He rode the gap trail from
Sleepy Cat again and again for miles
and miles in the effort to encounter
her. He came to know every ridge
and hollow on it, every patch and
stone between the lava beds and the
Rat river. And in spite of the coun-
sells of his associates, who warned him
to beware of traps, he spent, under
one preteXt or another, much of the
time either on the stages to and from
Calabasas or in the saddle toward Nor
gan's gap, looking for Nan.
Killing time in this way, after a
fruitless ride, his persistence was one
day most unexpectedly rewarded. He
had ridden through hot sun from
Sleepy Cat to Calabasas, where he had
an appointment to meet Scott and Lee
fever at five o'clock. When De Spain
reached the Calabasas barn, McAlpin,
the barn boss, was standing in the
doorway. you'd never be comm
from Sleepy Cat in the saddlew ex-
claimed McAlpin incredulously. De
Spain nodded afiirmatively as he dis
mounted. "Hot ride, sir; hot day.
commented McAlpin as he called a
man to take the horse, unstrapped De
Spain's coat from the saddle, and fol
lowed the manager into the office.
The heat was oppressive, and De
Spain unbuckled his cartridge belt,
slipped his revolver from the holster,
mechanically stuck it inside his trou-
sers waistband, hung the heavy belt
up under his coat, and, sitting down,
called for the stage report and asked
whether the new blacksmith had So
bered up. When McAlpin had given
him all minor information called for,
De Spain walked with him out into the
the very last of the boX-stalls, the
manager saw in it pony. He stopped.
This wiry, sleek-looking roam, con-
tentedly munching at the moment some
company hay, was Nan Morgan's.
whats that horse doing hereT de-
manded De Spain coldly.
Before answering, the barn boss
eyed De Spain very carefully to see
how the wind was setting, for the
pony's presence confessed an infrac-
ton of very particular rule. you
see," he began, cooking at his strict
boss from below his visorless cap
questioning Scotch eye, 81 like to keep
on good terms with that Morgan gang.
Some Of them can be very ugly. That
little pony is Nan Morgan's."
"What's her horse doing here?"
asked De Spain.
McAlpin made even the most incon-
sequential approaches to a statement
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16
Educators Oninion.

believe that organized emotion can
never take the place of brains; that
Yale's first duty in preparing American
citizens, whether for peace or war, is
to adhere to rigid standards of disci-
pline and scholarship and well-devel-
oped sense of proportionate values. i,
If our students have these things as
a basis, the more they prepare them
selves for the possible requirement Of
military service the better. Without
them the spirit of preparedness may
become danger; with them it is a
safeguard and blessing.-President
Hadley of Yale University.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16
SWAMP ROOT FOR
KIDNEY DISEASES

There is only one medicine that really
stands out pre-eminent as a remedy for
diseases of the kidneys, liver and bladder.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root stands the
highest for the reason that it has proven
to be just the remedy needed in thousands
upon thousands of even the most distress
ing cases. Swamp-Root, physicians pre-
scription for special diseases, makes friends
quickly because its mild and immediate eff
feet is soon realized in most cases. 1t il
Q gentle, healing vegetable compound.
Start treatment at once. Sold at all drug
stores in bottles of two sizes-ffty cents
and one dollar.
However, If you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DIR.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, n. Y, for
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16

shine than it had looked in shadow {;
being was anywhere to be seen. The
door of the office stood ajar. De Spain,
pushing ii all the way open, walked in.
No one greeted him as he crossed the
threshold, and the unsightly room was
still bare Of furnishings except for the
bar, with its two broken mirrors.
De Spain pounded on the. bar. His
effort to attract attention met with no
response. He walked to the left end
of the bar, lifted the handrail that
inclosed the space behind it, and
pushed open the door between the mir
rors leading to the back room. This,
too, was empty. He called out-there
was no response. Mrs. McAlpin had
apparently gone home for while.
Irritated at the desertiOn of the
the heat of the afternoon, and dlsap-
pointed at the Illustration of his purs
pose, he walked back to the office. AS
he lifted the handrail and, passing
through, lowered it behind him, he
took out his watch to see how soon the
stage was due. While he held the time
piece in his hand he heard a rapid
clatter of hoofs approaching the place.
Thinking it might be Scott and Lefe-
yer arriving from the south an hour
ahead of time, he started toward the
front door-which was still open-to
greet them. Outside, hurried footsteps
reached the door lust ahead of him
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16
CHAPTER Vll-Continued.

Logan pushed back his chair. AS he
turned his legs from under the table
to rise, q hand rested on his shoulder.
He looked up and saw the brown
face and feeble smile of Scott. Logan
with his nearest foot kicked Sandusky.
The big fellow looked up and around.
Either by chance or in following the
sound of the last voice, his glance fell
on De Spain. He scrutinized for n
suspicious instant the burning eyes and
the red mark low on the cheek. While
he did so-comprehension dawning on
him-his enormous hands, fOrsaking
the pile of chips with which both had
been for q moment busy, flattened out,
palms down, on the faro table. Logan
tried TO rise. Scott's hand rested heav-
lily on him. whats the rowT de-
manded Sandusky in the queer tone
of deaf man. Logan pointed at De
Spain. "That Medicine Bend duck
wants fight"
'With man, Logan; not with q
cub" retorted De Spain, matching in
suit with insult
maybe l can do something for you, y
interrupted Sandusky. His eyes ran
like flash around the table. He saw
how Lefever had pre-empted the best
place In the room. He looked up and
back at the man standing now at his
shoulder, and almost between Logan
and himself 1t was the Indian, Scott.
Sandusky felt, as his faculties cleared
and arranged themselves every in
slant, that there was no hurry what
ever about lifting his hand but he
could not be faced down without a
show of resistance, and he concluded
that for this occasion his tongue was
the best weapon. IF 1 can," he added
stiflly, "Im at your service"
De Spain made no answer beyond
keeping his eyes on Sandusky's eyes.
Tension, overhearing the last words,
awoke to the situation and rose from
his case. He made his way through
the crowd around the disputants and
brusquely directed the dealer to close
the game. While Sandusky was CASH
ing in, Tension took Logan aside. What
Tension said was not audible, but it
IouhiCtu W qulcI tic iltlc IclOW. lHc
only thing further to be settled was as
to who should leave the room last,
since neither party was willing to go
first. Tension after a formal con-
ference with Lefever and Logan, Of
fered to take SanduslIy and Logan by
private stairway to the billiard room,
while Lefever took De Spain and Scott
out by way of the main entrance. This
was arranged, and when the railroad
men reached the street rain had ceased
falling.
Scott warned De Spain to keep with
in doors, and De Spain promised to do
so. But when they left him he start
ed out at once to see whether he could
not, by some happy chance, encounter
Nan.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16

and large man, stepping quickly into
the room, confronted De Spain. One
of the mans hands rested lightly on
his right side. De Spain recognized
him instantly; the small, dropping
head, carried well forward, the keen
eyes, the loud-patterned, shabby waist
coat proclaimed beyond doubt-Deaf
Sandusky.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16

Do you believe that De Spain
could save his life by surrender
ing to the oanesters and Offer
ing to get out Of the neighbor-
hood II they spared him7 Would
you do it in these circumstances
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16

railroad division in the
infested with robbers
of belong Morgan
gang Morgan fertile valley about 20 miles
where
of the Mountain division decides to break
Henry
with John LeFere and Bob Scott In
Calabasas
Trouble at once.
Sandusy Spain fooshy becomes smi
De Spain and his aids
ing to pick Sandusky gambling house
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16

with n keen and questioning glance.
"The girl went up to the Cat on the
early stage, sir. She's coming back
this afternoon"
"what is she riding away over here
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16
Hard Work.

"Does nobody smoke in this family?
Can't you give me Il light?"
Yes, but keep it dark"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16
CTo BE Continued
influential Citizen.

Mrs. You%ywife-"My husband is a.
man I'm poIitics. 70
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-02-16

MT sayl" Mrs. Young.
)rge has voted in two
lions, and both times
way George voted."--
The Monticellonian., 1917-04-26
MANY PROMINENT MEN
 COME OUT FOR TANLAC
NOTED EX.MAYOR
 RECOMMENDS T
FORMER MAYOR FRANK V. EVANS. OF BIRMINGHAM, ALA, MAKES
 STRONG STATEMENT.

NNE of the latest additions to the O large and rapidly growing list of prominent men who have publicly in- dorsed Tanlac for the good it has done them, is the name of Hon. Frank V. Evans, former Mayor of Birmingham. Mir. Evans is one of the best known men in public life in Alabama today, being at one time editor of one of the South's greatest newspapers, the Bir- mingham Age-Herald. He was also ex- aminer of public accounts of Alabama. In telling of the benefits he had de- rived from Tanlac, Mir. Evans said:
 "For years I suffered with gastrftis and indigestion in the worst form. I was habitually eonstipated and had pains in my shoulders and headache continually. My appetite left me al- most entirely and everything I would eat hurt me. Finally l got to having awful attacks of acute indigestion, pal pitation of the heart and smothering spells. For a long time I would have one or more of these spells every night and I would wake out of my restless 'leep gasping for breath.
 'T bought a bottle of Tanlac and to ny surprise and qualification I began b feel relief after the first few doses. kept taking the medicine and now my Recovery is simply the talk of Birming- ham,
The Monticellonian., 1917-04-26
Snake Problem

This Is not new but it's worth re- beating. A man in Zion City. H., sent 1t to the News:
 Two Zion City snakes, of which there are abundance on the lake front property, had fight. One was gar ter snake and the other bullhead." Each was three feet long and in their feroety they seized each other by the tail and proceeded to swallow each other whole. They both started at the same time and at the same rate of speed.
 Now the question is, which of these two snakes survived, or rather which one was on the outside by the time the other was swallowed. the garter snake or the bulthead?
 It took five minutes for the two snakes to swallow each other and they both swallowed each other right to the tip of the fangs. Which one was on the outside when they were finished or were they both inside?-Indlanap oils News
The Monticellonian., 1917-04-26
TREATMENT AND CULTURE OF
 HARDY MANUALS
RxIIMA R. ROSE.

Seeds of hardy annuals should be sown in April or May. according to the latitude. in shallow boxes or pots and bed. A second sowing ought to be made from two to four weeks after for succession, SIS well as to provide against failure the first time.
 The most convenient receptacle for seed Is a shallow box from two to three inches deep and of any conven- tent size.
 The best soil for all of the smaller kinds is very fine, rich sandy loam The very best soil is that taken from old hotbeds, or from old pasture land piled up in sods and allowed to rot for two or three years and then mixed with sand and little old stable ma nure.
 Give the tiny plants plenty of air and moisture, yet not too much water. or they will damp off" Get pots two inches or more in diameter and plant the young seedlings along the edges of the pots. so that as soon as the ground is warm enough they can be easily turned out and planted singly, as by that time they will have good roots.
 Do not cover seeds DO deeply. This is a common and disastrous mistake. The exception to this rule is sweet pea. which is seldom planted deep enough. A good, general rule is to cover only to the depth of the thickness of the seeds. With medium-sized seeds like zinneas and balsams and their kind half an inch or so is none too much.
 Tiny seeds like the portulaeas need only to be pressed into the soil with the palm of the hand. Always firm the earth around flower seeds, else there is danger of their drying up be- fore roots can get firm hold on the soil
 During very dry weather, and when seedlings are first set out, water ire quently.
The Monticellonian., 1917-04-26
Homo Town &lQlps E. -1~-~---------------- ---------S
SCREENED PORCH IS DELIGHT
Be Used as an Outdoor Dining Room and as Sitting Room.

The screened porch opening into tht kitchen and overlooking the Howe garden, which every woman loves ant should take time to enjoy, is one O. the delights that Is coming for every farm wife. This porch may be uset all summer for the outdoor dining room and for a sitting room, too, i there is hot another porch, (aIst sereened on the other side of tho house.
 This porch with it's view of the love ly garden and shrubbery is q delighl from early spring when the first plum and cherry blossoms come, to the tint of late autumn flowers. Why shoul6 the view which is seen so often from early dawn till dewy eve be d chicken coop or pigpen?
 Chicken eooRs, pigpens and barn yards are indispensable but why nol arrange to have the often unsightly spots screened by shrubs? The beau. tiful elder grows in profusion nearly everywhere and there is no expensive shrub bought in q nursery which has more grace and beauty. IL grows easily and spreads so that in few years one may have a lovely back ground for the garden in front Ii is doubtful if the psalmist could have written so charmingly if he had moi been able ito lift his eyes to the hills, whence cometh my help"
 The expense of screening d porch is an item that must be considered and yet where the man of the house is at all handy with tools 1t may be done with little expense outside of the cost of lumber, screens and paint The amount of comfort enjoyed by the family on such porch cannot be estimated in dollars and cents.
 h ordinary seasons il may be used for an outdoor dining room, and sleep ing porch for baby from four to six months of the year. What home con- yenience at the same cost would be the comfort to the entire family?
The Monticellonian., 1917-04-26
SOME TIMELY HINTS

Have some fragrant foliage plants and shrubs The old kinds are fine.
 Good results in raising plants de- pend largely on the care given them. No, something for nothing" in na- ture
 Give the canna roots place in the hottest sunshine. feed plenty of ma nure and water and mulch heavily with barnyard manure.
 Soak the hanging baskets twice week by setting them in tub of wa ter. The basket can be let down by a pulley and drawn up without lift ing.
 Plant flowers for others, as well as yourself, and don't forget to take bouquet for the church on Sunday. One does well to consider the lilies even while worshiping
 The old lemon lily is just as good as it ever was, and just as beautiful.
 When working in the dirt among plants, grease the hands well with lard, rub as you would with soap, then wash in soapsuds.
 Corn and potatoes are all right, but give us little soul food in the way of flowers and fine foliage.
 Bloom is better than brambles and roses will grow wherever brambles will.
 The best time to fight weeds is now, before they get a good start. Keep right after them from the time they show up, even before the seeds are Sown.
The Monticellonian., 1917-04-26
Community Effort Not New.

Words come into fashion and go out again, much like clothes. Just now the word community is very much in vogue. We hear about community singing societies, community forums, community celebrations and commu- nifty projects of all sorts. Most of these are highly commendable.
 One reaction, though. of the frequent use of this word is to spread the idea that all this community enterprise is something new. Everything we have done is by way of community effort. It is wholesome thing to pause, some times, and remember that everything we do is a community thing. In the final analysis there is no such thing as "self-made man." The Germans have grown to understand this more than we have;, hence many of their finest achievements in cooperation.