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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14

Who has filed suit for a divorce
against him. Testimony showed that
she had asked him not TO speak 10 her
al any time and that the husband re-
peatedly stopped her on the streets
and tried 10 talk to her. Judge Pol
lock heard considerable testimony and
then started 10 tell the man to keep
away from his wife and the case
would be dismissed The defendant.
however, spoke up while judge Pol
lock was still speaking and said that
he couldn't see why he couldn't speak
10 his own wife" and that the case
was framed
so that's the way you feel about
il" said the Judge Well 1 tell you
what I'm going TO do now. I'm gong
TO send an officer over TO judge
beavers court with you and put you
under peace bond until that divorce
case Is settled You ought 70 have
been a woman. You want the last
word all the time 1 usually get the
last word here"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14
WIGWAll-aIIGHT OF YIcroRY.s

Today is the last day Of the engage
ment Of Monroe Salisbury in The
Light OF Victory" at the WigWam.
This is one Of the strongest dramatic
and patriotic pictures that the Wig
wan management has had the pleas
ure in presenting in a long time. Mon
roe Sansbury Is rapidly entering the
rank Of screen favorites and in this
production he Is adding to his popu-
Iarity.
Tomorrow the WigWam will show
Fatty" Arbuckle in out West" a
Paramount comedy.
As a special Monday the Wigwam
offers ''Sparting Life the greatest
OF all racing pictures.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14
| am Sincere! Stop CaIomeI!
i Guarantee DodSOn'S Liver Tone
Listen to mel CalOmel sickens and you may lose a
days work. If bilious, oonstipated OF
headachy read my guarantee

Liven up your ST. ggish liver! Feel
fine and cheerful; make your work a
pleasure: be vigorous and fun OF am
oition- But take no nasty, dangerous
calomeL because Il makes you sick
and you may lose a days work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis OF the bones.
Caiomel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it up. That's when
you feel that awful nausea and
cramping.
Listen to mel II you want 70 enjoy
the incest. genuest liver and bowel
cleansing you ever experienced. Just
take a spoonful OF harmless Dodson's
Liver Tone tonight. Your druggist or
dealer sells you a bottle OF Dodson's
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14

hands. but all eventually died. Cow s
milk appears to give these creatures
eventually an incurable diarrhea,
while all attempts at that early age to
substitute for milk farinaceous sub
stances have also resulted in a similar
disease I do not say that II is i'm
possible to rear young elephants by
hand for we have not made q suffi-
cient number Of experiments. but il is
very difficult I therefore favor the
plan Of attempting to catch elephants
Of perhaps q year old. at which age
they do not require milk as an ex-
elusive diet One specimen Of this age
was caught and was readily tanned
and for aught I know is still alive in
captivity"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14

buys the whole house a drink-of
grape juice
Then ABOUT this time the cabaret
singer stands at your table and to
soft noise MARBLES some strain Ike
You made me love you, but I didn't
want to do it," or Won't you be my
dear, dear daddy2"
Grape juicing and dancing starts
again Crowds 90 and come until
nearly dawn.
The next day a sleepy man shuts off
his Big Ben turns over, gets little
more much needed sleep. and rushes
to work And a sleepy maiden begs;
Mama. please let me sleep a little
longer"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14
Only a Woman Can Get Last Word
With Him, Judge Tells DEPENDENT

IT'S all right to try 70 get the last
L word most Of the time but you
can't expect to get the last word all
OF the time.
One Of the places where it's hard to
get the last word Is in police court
Corporation judge Chas. z. Pollock al
ways has the last say. It's dis
missed ten days" "a hundred DAYS"
something Of the kind.
The Judge is patient during the trial
and listens carefully to testimony. but
when he decides that the defendant
is in the wrong and makes his last
say Of the penalty to be imposed
the following case is Immediately
called and little more can be said.
Recently a man was on trial on
a charge OF disturbing his wife,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14

Liver Tone for a few cents under ny
personal money back guarantee that
each spoonful viii clean your sluggish
liver better than a dose OF nasty cal
omel and thar u won't make you sick.
D0dson's Liver Tone is real liver
Medicine Youll know 90 next morn
ing because you viii wake up feeling
fine, your liver viii be working;
headache and dizziness gone stomach
VIII be sweet and bowels regular.
Dodson's Liver Tone IS entirely
vegetable. therefore harmless and can
not salivate tive u 90 your chill
dren. Millions OF people are using
Dodson's Liver Tone in-tead OF dan
gerous calomel now Your druggist
viii tell you that tbs sale OF calomel
Is almost stopped entirely here-AdV.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14
NEM sHoW AT lie MAJESTIC.

The Devil 6, Company is the new
offering at the Majestic for tonight,
Friday and Saturday. Homer Long
Of the Raymond Teal company opens
his engagement in this bill. Alma
Reubens in Madam Sphynx," is the
Triangle feature on this bill. On Sun
day. The Only Girl" will be presented.
II is a guaranteed production with a
larger cast
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14
al NEw oo,IEpY AZ RfJou.

a feature comedy bill will be shown
at the Bijou theater today and tomor-
row-a William Fox new production,
Cheating Herself" from the pen OF
Charles Mortimer-Peck, and a new
Poppy" comedy, @Ambrose's Day Off"
seashore complication. showing some
very pretty girls in stunning bathing
suits. The Current Events reel
showing come very Interesting num-
bers Will be shown also.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14
Neutrality-suspicious. aIEN.s

''Virtuous Men," the thrilling meIo-
dramatic marvel, will be seen at the
Ellanay theater today for the last
time
This picture is a fast action melo-
drama, tremendously big in presenta-
ton, fun Of thrills from start TO finish
and absoroingly dramatic throughout
Do not fail to see it at the Ellanay to-
day-it is your last chance.
Tomorrow the Ellanay presents
Alice Joyce in her latest Vitagraph
feature, The Spark Divine"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14
GARDEN-HARRY T. MoREY.

Beauty Proof with Harry T.
Mercy as the star. is a swift moving
romance with the true ring OF the
north woods and Mr.. Morey has q
splendid role in a corporal of the
northwest mounted police. who starts
out as a woman hater and literally
battles his way into the heart Of q
mysterious girl OF irresistible beauty.
The picture is at the Garden.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14

ihs grape juice jag makes him feed.
Then they dance some more, and on
and on IL goes. drinking grape juice
and dancing until the rooster crows.
The tables are cleared away by
bodied hair waitress who takes your
order every three or four minutes
About every hour some fellow gets TO
feeling unusually good, imagines he
has as much money as John D.. and
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14

Miss Jessie Alderman. a well known
American writer. Is believed 10 hold the
having visited so countries and Travelled
10000 miles.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14

Notioe-Dr. J. A. Pickett. Residence
Phi. so. omitted from July directory
ADV.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14

Sile Kildew says if the overseas sol
diers are restless and want TO get home
and wonld like for time to fly, all they
have to do is to sign 4 note payable in
three months.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14

THE Tickville railroad kills less live
L stock than almost any road, as it
is so crooked the trains can dodge any
ordinary COW.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14

Fit Smith, long z resident of this
section, has moved to a community
somewhere away off yonder. Fit was
one of our best known citizens, having
attracted much attention many years
ago by making a trip to New Orleans.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14

For passenger and light deIfOery carS-'Roya
Cord, 'Nobby', Chain. 'USco' and Plain
Also tires for motor trucks bicycles and airpIanes
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22
MARK OF TRUE GREATNESS
First Presidents Noble humility Ono
OF the Finest Attributes Of
His Character.

Great as Washington was, yet In
his breast brightly burned the light of
humility. One of the favorite pas
sages of Washington's farewell mes
sage reads as follows:
Though In reviewing the incidents
Of my administration, ! am uncon.
scious of intentional error. am. new
ertheless. too sensible OF my defects,
not to think 1t probable that / may
have committed many errors. What.
ever they may be, fervently beseech
the Almighty to avert or mitigate the
evil to which theystsay tend. l shall
also carry with 1e hope that my
country will nj cetse to view them
with indulgeE and that after a.
years of my life edirnted to its serv-
ice with an uprigkt xtAI. the fa..ts of
incompetent abf -yill be consigned
to oblivion, as mykelf soon must be TO
the mansions Of rest"
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22
GautIer and His Cats.

One Of Gautler's peculiarities was
love for cats. As soon ms he couio
conveniently do so he afforded him
self the luxury Of twelve OF the HAND
soonest fellnes that money could pur
chase. II was an interesting sight 10
behold this Hercules in his writing
room playing with his regiment OF
cats, whom he had taught to love one
another ms they did himself. When
some OF them broke valuable oolee'
OF art--hIs study. by the way. was
curiosity shop-he seriously deiberat
ed upon getting rid Of them; but when
the man he had engaged came to re.
move the obnoxious pets. he reieh'eu
and sent him away. He named eacn
one OF them after some well-kho""
person to whom he fancied II bore W
semblance. physical or otherwise nv
seldom wrote anything without cav
or two In his lap.-Maurice Mauris
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22
Arctic Circle Flower Garden.

A flower garden in Spltzoersen
sounds like an anomaly, Spitzhergen
being within the arctic circle
party OF British travellers. struck WI"
the beauty Of plateau, called IL 'ne
Flower Garden ever after II was !"
the nineties OF last century ana NV
party that OF Sir Martin Conwas
Landing In midsummer on one OF 'ns
headlands by Dickinson bay 'ne'
were impressed with the deep wa'e,'
clear as crystal. the marvellous ~ean.
Of seaweed. the splendor OF kiea.
glacier and the sharp blue PEAKS
the mountains separating glacier i'o.
glacier: while In another diree"o'.
over Advent point. coiled wrea,hs :"
ragged clouds. Added to II all was
carpet OF Observation-Disclosures saA-
frages and dryas: so the Flower w.
den was actual after all.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22
TURKS feast OF BAIRAMr
Day That 10 Observed by Moslem Goa
responds With the Christmas
Of the Christians.

The Turk takes bis pleasures pretty
sadly: about the only time he publicly
relaxes Is during the feat OF Bairau.
which In the way Of gift giving. feast.
Ing and good win TO man corresponds
TO our Christmas. On that day every
good Moslem kills lamb. its fleece
dyed bright orange with gold or sill.
yer leaf. says the Christian Science
Monitor.
When the lamb has been sacrificed
on the morning OF the festival. Ito
flesh Is divided into three portions, one
being given TO the poor. another TO rel.
atives. the third being kept for the
household. On that day the sultan
goes TO the mosque which IL nearest
the Yildiz Kiosk-the vast sssemblsss
OF buildings which go to make up the
imperial sideoce-thousands collect
20 watch the bent. frock coated. yer
low faced. blackeyed. red fezzed little
man driven sadly by. In plain black
barouche: followed by regiments Of
cavalry. infantry and marines; alsc-a
quaint custom-by half-dozen LED
horses-beautiful. graceful Arablana
The month-long fast OF Ramazan
r. held by the Mosiem TO be divine
institution. Its observance is strictly
enJoined on all true believers over the
age OF fourteen. inyalids and travelen
only excepted. Ramazan is held 10 the
ninth month Of the Mohammedan year.
The Moslem year being lunar. Rama
zan makes In the course OF time the
round OF the seasons. But through
the winter days. from sunrise TO SUD-
set. the pious Mohammedan does not
take a bit OF food or sup OF drink;
he also abstalns entirely from eonee,
tobacco and sweets. But the moment
the echoes OF the sunset gun have
died he is at liberty to break his fasl
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22
I7,2..Wa$bin9tclt' 'l7ee

~HE defender of his eonntyy-ths
founder of Hbeyty-the friend
4 Of man History and tradition
ore explored in tain for parallel to
his character.
In the annals of modern greatness he
stands alone; ostd the nobiest names
of antiquity lose their iasfey in his
presence. Born the benefoetoy of
mankind, he united all the qualities
Necessary to an illastrioas career.
Nature made him great; he made him
self siytnoas.
Called by his country TO the defense Of
her liberties, he triamphdnily pindi-
Gated the rights of humanity, and on
the pillars of national INDEPENDENCE
laid the foundations of great repab-
lie.
Tuiee INFESTED niih Supreme Mogis-
tracy by the rronimons vote of free
people, he surpassed in the Cabinet
the giories of the field, and, volan-
royiiy resigning the seepter and the
s1cord. retired to the shades of PR
vote life.
4 Spectacle so ne1v and so sublime wos
contemplated Nth the pyofoandesi
admiration, and the name of Wash
ington, adding neac iHster to human
ity. resoHnded to the remotest regions
of the earth.
Mognonimoas IN youth, glorious through
life, great in death His highest ava
bition. the happiness of monkind. Hii
modest victory, the conquest of him
self.
Beqaeathino TO bosterity the inheritance
of his fame. and building his monn'
ment in the hearts Of his country
men, he hved the ornament of The
eighteenth century; he died regretted
BY mourning sgorld.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22
FAMOUS AS SWIFT RUNNER
Few Men, When Washington Was IN
His Prime, Could Successfully
Compete With Him.

"As to running" said Parson Weems
in his book on George Washington,
"tbe swift-footed Achilles could scarce
ly have matched his speed. 'Egad.
he ran wonderfully said my amia-
Bile and aged friend John Fitzhugh,
Esq, who knew him well. we had
nobody hereabouts who could come
near him. There was young Langhorn
Dade of Westmoreland, a clean-made,
tight young fellow and a mighty swift
runner, too; but, then, he was no
match for George. Langy, indeed, did
not Ike to give up, and would brag
that sometimes he had brought George
70 tie. But believe he was mistak.
an. for / have seen them run together
many time, and George always beat
MIN easy enough"
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22

Valley Forge. they found little or no
shelter. Even Washington slept for
several days under canvas. The SOL
diers were set to work at once TO build
shelters to protect them against the
intense cold. A prize of SO was Of
fered by Washington for the first hut
to be completed in the quickest and
most workmanlike manner. The huts
were built of logs cut in the neighbor-
ing forest and at first covered with
canvas and later with straw.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22
washinoton's slonet Rino.

The signet ring Of George Washing.
ton has been found. This ring, which,
the Father Of His Country wore MI
his life, is In the possession Of Wash.
ington woman, whose name and claim
to 1t are not made public.
The ring bears the crest Of the fam.
lily OF General washlngton's grand
mother that of the Montivuto, which
was converted colloqually into Mon.
tague. Her first husband was a Cap
.aih johnson, and by her second hus
nand. Capt. Joseph Ball, she had q
daughter Mary Ball, George Wash
ngtou's mother.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22
Mount Vernon UNCHANGED.

Mount Vernon stands today exactly
as 1t was when General Washington
was living; the trees little larger
grown, but the garden and the lawns,
the houses and barns and stables and
great vistas precisely as he would
have had them, and 1t might well be
imagined that his spirit broods over
these scenes of his earthly happiness
with fine approval of the devoted sery
ice OF his countrywomen In keeping
alive here the lamp of chiyalry IN the
souls of men.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22
HIS FAMILY SEAT
Early English Home oil
Washingtons, Manor
Of SuIgrave.

a THOUGH Warton, in Lam
~ cashire, can claim to be the
L u earliest of the discovered Eng
fish homes of the Washingtons, it Is
not until the family settled at Sui
grave, in Northamptonshire, that they
emerge definitely into history. Even
with that restriction the story is car
ried back to the sixteenth century, and
introduces US to the Lawrence Wash
ington whose curious brass effigy is
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22

the chief treasure of Sulgrave church.
He received grant of Sulgraye
manor from Henry VIII, and on pic
turesque corner of his estate he car
ried TO completion that manor house
which the American pilgrim now seeks
with such affectionate interest. Part
ly, no doubt, this picturesque building
embodies the shell of an old structure,
but ii the main it stands today as
finally remodeled by its most famous
owner.
AS at Sulgrave, so at Brington, ii is
in the village church that the memo
rails of Washington's English ances-
tors are TO be seen in richest abun-
dance. The most notable of these Is
the long stone slab in the chancel floor
now partly hidden by pews, the sur.
face of which is carefully protected
by a wooden cover. This is to the
memory of that Lawrence Washing
ton who was the uncle of the great
presidents American ancestor. Here
again is the Washington shield, but
the family arms are impaled with
those of the Butler family, one OF
whose members became Lawrence
Washington's wife.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22

the soldiers barracks In the great
military camps. The mems sleeping
quarters, for instance. were designed
by experts to meet special demand,
and the sanitary problems have been
worked out with the greatest care.
When Washington's army, after
struggling through the snow, reached
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22
Wholesome Don't.

Don't lose your temper. II Is o.
more Importance to keep good tenp, a.
ed and undIsturbed even II th'ns.
60 a little wrong than to ser w
nerves OF the whole family on w.
because of some omission.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22
French In South America.

Throughout South America fr'".
Is almost universally read; editions u
the classics are In most homes ~.
hook stores are filed with 'no.. -
French writer's OF prose or verse; ~
In translation and In the original
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-02-22
lat VALLEY FORCE
Makeshift Abodes Afford.
ed Little Shelter to Pa
triot Army.

VIEW standards Of comfort. even
IN luxury, were established by
l. the government In building
The sun., 1919-07-06

What chance had Leonard Merrick ION
his own in such world?
1t sounded to us like wearied minor
devil describing hell We did not believe
it was true. We decline to believe that it
is true. If 1t Is, let Us suppress it, as the
New England spin,tcr Saii of Darwin's
theory Of the creation With regard to
most of the magazines we see We have no
objection to it. If our friends exp!ana-
ton does not explain their short stories
something else equally fearful must ex-
plain them. But among novels it has oc.
casionally happened that one has APP
pearcd without flourish of trumpcts.
quietly made lis way and presently dom
mated the book market.
Leonard Merrick's novels some years
ago had their chance in America TO do
that. They received abundant profes-
sional recognition. We should have sup
posed them just the good novels to succeed
however, ours is a naivey sophisticated
view. They didn't We have now been
trying to figure out the reason, indeperd-
emily Of the advertising theory.
The excuse for al this thinking aloud
in public is copy Of The 4ctor-Ndndger,
preface by Mr. Howells He thinks it ''in
every way the best of Mr. Merrick's stories
50 far as | know them We do not agree
with him; and-deferring discussion of its
merits for Il momcnt-we think it the Mer-
rick novel least likely to have very gen
eral appeal. It's material is restricted to
the people Of the stage, and that is ma
terlal which the large stagestrNck element
Of the public will have none of unless it is
treated in stagestruck way; while the
rest Of the public finds it overspecialized
for interest
Here is an exceedingly simple story.
beautifully spontaneous, yet formed form
is professional consideration. and spon-
taneity if anything ought 10 handicap
writer with the average reader, who cant
gratlfyingiy see for himself how clever
the writer isl, about four persons an
excessively idea,s;ic and moraliStic actor
and playwright; an able commercial
actress with typically abnormalized ego
and nature; romantic young man of
wealth; another actress of finer parts who
Sympathizes with the idealist and whose
business IN the story is to unfold him at
The sun., 1919-07-06

eight verse" as that commodity goes now,
and few BY Miss Nancy Ford, Mrs.
Emma 4. Langlotz, Mrs. Jose NJ Asensio,
Miss laura Wallen, Mrs. Constance En-
twistle Hoar, and the exceedingly graceful
and felicitOus Mr. Edward Ten Brock
Perine, among others, are not far from be-
ing poetry m any ordinary company. As
a specimen of these, we have selected
To One Who Would Not Learn TO Knit
by Miss Ford:
Here in still New England are brisk,
bright mornings
And long, golden afternoons without
alarms or warnings.
"The patchwork hills lie well content be-
meath the autumn sun,
The orchard trees are bent with f'uit. and
harvesting is done.
"The shell-wrecked soil OF Flanders a
richer harvest yields,
And death walks terribly to reap those
grim, unlovely fields.
and there are men in Flanders who battle
for the right.
Who die TO guard for Won and me this
home of all delight
"And yet You yawn and say its much too
hard for You to do;
Too hard. To knit for those who fight TO
keep your home for you!.''
SOCK SONGS Boston: The CornhiIl Com
pany. $l.2j.