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El Nuevo mexicano. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1890-1958, 1920-05-27
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EL pRoMlNENTE DEMocRATA, AN
TES SEcRETARio DE Ia TESO-
KERIA " DIRECTOR DE- Los FE-
IRRCCARRILES VISTA Ia GU.
DAD EL sLuNEs.
El Nuevo mexicano. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1890-1958, 1920-05-27

"Tengo eI derech0 de suponer que
ustedes hvyeron en- el momento crjti-
co sin siquiera hacer el uso de sus
armas, puesto que ninguno de uststes
reault0 herido. 81 ustedes hubieran
muerto defendiendo la vida dc 81 je-
fe amigo, quien los habfa colmado
De favores, habrian sido honra los por
la opinion pdblica y descansarian con
su conciencia tranquila Y Sc habrian
librado de 10 verguenza de su c0bar-
dfa.p
Evening star., 1920-04-04
Il II Around the City X II

made the bewildered one laugh.
Much obliged, old man, but l had my
subconsciousness at work all right, on
have cultivated a sixth sense especial
ly for lodging. What 1 want to know
is. when did the old Corcoran build
ing give way to this big white thing
and what is it? When 1 went away ten
years ago. the old red brick seemed as
the place is diked out like a bride. Com
pletely staggered me-and. Great Scott.
you've got a white marble palace over
there where l left the old Brewster
square Well, sir, little old Washington
is getting into line, isn't she?''
She's got-if you turn around and
look down the Avenue you will sec"
I'm turned around enough, as it is
reckon I'll have to take a room at this
hotel and turn in. l was prepared for
change, but-well, well. we'll"
And the man who had been away for
were a Rip Van Wrinkle who had been
away for twenty.
X
HERES a spring sign that puts one
over the official robin.
An atom of a boy was going along
Market space with his mother. He
was so tiny that he wore a frock
under his REFER, but his memory
must have stretched back to at least
one past season of blossoms, birds and
spring openings, for he piped out
and kept on piping out. as small
things will which receive no atten-
ton:
"When's circus comming, momma !?
Momma, when's circus coming? Oh,
momma which,
Perhaps "momma" didn't know, but
1t did seem TO Il woman close behind
that the child was worth an answer
of some loving sort. Still
You cant expect a mere spinster to
know how to manage children
never mind how many she has helped
to support. SO that the only value
of this incident lies in the fact that:
AS a spring sign the circus puts
one over the official robin.
n X X
AS man and his wife were get
ting in an automobile in front of
restaurant a parade of big and
handsome machines whizzed by pack
Evening star., 1920-04-04
& The w&!9eFr! @ s.; $tosies s!;% <& H.! O2 Il

the clover "Tf ] could eat grass
would not need n conscience. for moth
ing could then tempt me to devour
babies and lambs"
Just then. Dorothy. who had risen
early and heard the voices of the an
mals, ran out to greet her old friends
She hugged both the Lion and the
Tiger with eager delight. but seemed
to love the King Of Beasts little
better than she did his hungry friend,
having known him longer.
BY the time they had INDUCED In a
GOOD talk and Dorothy had told them
all about the awful earthquake and
her recent adventures, the breakfast
bell rang from the palace and the
little girl went inside to join her
, human comrades. AS she entered the
great hall a voice called out, in
rather harsh tone:
what! Are you here again.
"Yes, 1 am," she answered. looking
around to see where the voice came
from.
what brought you back?" was the
next question, and Dorothy's eye rest
ed on an antlered head hanging on
the wall just over the fireplace, and
caught its lips in the act of moving.
Good gracious!" she exclaimed. Il
thought you were stuffed"
so I am" replied the head. But
once on a time I was part Of the
Gump, which Ozma sprinkled with
the Powder of Life. I was then for
time the Head of the finest Flying
Machine that was ever known to ex-
ist and we did many wonderful things.
Afterward the Gump was taken apart
and I was put back on this wall; but
1 can still talk when I feel IN the
mood, which is not often"
IT'S very strange" said the girl.
what were you when you were hrst
alive?"
"That 1 have forgotten" replied
the Gump's Head. land do not think
it is of much Importance. But here
comes Ozma; so I'd better hush up,
for the Princess doesn't like me to
chatter since she changed her name
fl ON Tip to Ozma."
Just then the gir1ish Ruler of OF
opened the door and greeted Dorothy
with a good-morning kiss. The little
Princess seemed fresh and rosy and
in good spirits.
"Breakfast is served, dear" she
said, "and I am hungry. So don't let
Evening star., 1920-04-04

shiver over his first spring plunge not
knowing whether it is going to be fun
or cramps. though he risks 1t all the
same-that makes a man feel queer
and backward before his wedding to
the girl he loves-that makes him
dread the joys of heaven because the
getting there means deatn. He wants
to be, say, President, but when he
reflects on the chances against him
and recalls the defeat OF others and
the sure advantages and honors of his
present career-why, If he didn't hes-
tate over the risk he was running he
would be too irresponsible for any
clever man to write about. And
yet
What does q woman know about
poliiics-anyhow?
MAMIE LANCASTER.
Evening star., 1920-04-04

ed with laughing children. For an
instant the couple watched the young
sters. and then the man voiced a
strong and exceedingly descriptive cuss
word:
BLANK it. I promised to lend the
car to help carry those kids to the
movies and then forgot about it
blank it,"
The woman must have had the
soothing temperament of mush
poultice, for Ashe turned to him in
diligently:
Don't worry. dear. your intention
was good"
1t didn't seem to occur to her that
good intentions are the official paving
stones of a place that polite people
never mention.
That's no excuse! II every other
fellow had forgotten. what would
those poor kids have done? Blank itv
The woman patted him on the
shoulder but on the mans face was
the look that each of us wears when
we feel that we night have done a
helpful thing, and did not.
TN a big building, down a long hall,
there Is door. When it Is open
you can glimpse an entry large
enough for Observation-Disclosures
beyond vast room spiraled with
smoke, with a billiard table and comfy
chairs and mems voices and a phono-
graph jigging out jazz when it isn't
doing classics
They are the cleverest men, ever but
just to show that even a man doesn't
know everything, one of them. buying
cigar. said to another who was
lighting cigarette:
I'D like, for once, to come across an
honest-to- goodness candidate who
would admit he wanted the nomina
ton without going through the pre-
tense of preferring private life"
You'll never meet up with him. son.
They are all tarred with the same
hypocrisy-''
And passing woman on her way to
lunchroom, felt within her humble
self that she would like to stop long
enough to say to them-only, of
course. she dasn't----
ut isn't hypocrisy. 1t Is human ma :
ture that began when Adam hcsitated
over the apple. not knowing what
would come of It.; which ,na'lrs a boy
Evening star., 1920-04-04

as apparently dead today as
so much cordwood fit only for fires
or fence rails. The good old summer
time will find no foliage on their am
putated branches. but next year. please
goodness, they'll all be wearing of
the green. The tree doctor said so.
And he knows
The trees were invaded by the scale.
which. you may have noticed, looks
like glaze of gray wax. but which
is really II horde of insects whose
relentless mission is death. 1t was
situation that meant either wholesale
operation or unanimous death-and
you know the adage about the lesser
Of two evils
Some years ago our chronological
scientists abducted family of lady
bugs from the north of China and
brought them to Washington to de-
stroy the scale regardless of the
Geary law. c. L. Marlatt collected
a colony of about thirty. but only
sixteen survived the voyage. and
little after that there were only two.
been as Adam and Eve they would
doubtless have vanquished the scale
by this time, but as it happened, both
were Ewes, and the man who impaired
all this information was unable to tell
what happened next.
1t seems that our own lady bugs
that are forever flying away home
TO rescue burning children lack the
military ability Of their celestial sis
ters Hence, the surgical operations
that have left our beloved trees as
.nnarently dead as cordwood-fit only
for fires or fence rails.
*k Il
A MAN with suit case got off a
A car at 18th street. AS he touched
the ground his eyes took on bewildered
stare and he plunged forward. regard
less of an automobile that was toot-
ing at him like Il gone-mad trombone.
Another man whisked him back and
kept his hold until the two were on the
tagging.
IF you are really anxious to get run
over, go some place where you will
have more privacy"-the rescuer ad-
vised it with an offhand familiarity that
Evening star., 1920-04-04

\ HE miles of trees that for
years have marched like a
sylvan army up 18th street are
Evening star., 1920-04-04
THE HOLIDAY PROCESSION

w WHEN the Sawhorse said that
Jim was certainly the most
" " beautiful creature he had
ever seen, the old cabhorse
Evening star., 1920-04-04

AS man and his wife were get
ting in an automobile in front Of
a restaurant parade of big and
handsome machines whizzed by pack
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01
SIMPLE MATTER OF ECONOMY
French Merchant Easily Proved Why
1t Would Pay Customer to Pur-
chase the Chair.

A man went to one Of the big fur
niture dealers to buy a writing table.
Choosing one of the least pretentfous
pieces, he asked the price It was 800
francs, which seemed rather high The
Shopman, however, added: I'VE will
add this little armchair. It isn't dear.
Only so francs"
mo. I don't want it. I have quite
enough chairs"
EXCUSE me-" said the seller. eff
you buy the desk alone, shall have
TO ask you to pay the luxury tax,
which comes to 80 francs But If you
take the chair well. I shall be able
to put down your purchases a suite
office furniture. For this the tax
limit is 1900 francs, and do not have
to charge you a purchase of $50
francs. Thus, If you take the chair.
you save 30 francs and have an extra
piece into the bargain
AS a matter of economy the chair
was bought--Le Figaro (Paris)-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01
Finnish Women Take Up All
Kinds of Employment.
Even Serve as Porters on Sleeping
Cars-Do Office and Manual
Work.

HelsingforS.-An astonishing sight
for the stranger in Finland is the num-
Der of women engaged In almost every
field of employment In England dur
ing the war one became accustomed
to the sight of women performing var
iouS kinds OF work in which previous
1y only men were engaged. But in
Finland the visitor gets the impress
sion that the women are doing every
thing.
Not only are they at heavy manual
work In fields and factories but they
have become skilled as mechanics and
have invaded business offices to an ex-
tent that is probably undreamed Of in
any other country.
In banks the proportion of women
employees to men appears to be about
ten to one. In the biggest financial
institutions in He1singfors women hold
positions involving great responsible
ty and calling for exceptional ability
At the Finnish foreign Office the AS
ISOLATED Press correspondent noticed
that women were holding offices that
would be entirely beyond the aspira-
lions of their sisters In the state de-
partment at Washington or the Brit
ish foreign Office
This change has come about almost
been greatly depleted, and large part
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01

lapse of six hours, acfdity does not
thoroughly establish itself in dead
body under this time.
It is interesting to recall in connec-
ton with Doctor Icard's test that one
of the tests commonly employed under
such circumstances has long been that
of graSping a fold of flesh with the
forceps and retaining it there for sew
era1 moments. In the case of living
body the ''pleat'' gradually returns to
normal, but when life is extinct the
compression of the flesh persists. Doc
tor Icard'S test (Which has been
adopted in the MarSeilleS hoSpitaIS)
has a double value in that it includes
the physical test of the compression of
the skin and the chemical test which
establishes q state of acidity, thus
making assurance doubly sure" and
removing from the realm of chance
the establishment of death in cases
where doubt exists
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01
Record Peean Crop.

San Saba. Texas, has won national
reputation the home of the paper
shell pecan This season has been par
ticularIy adapted to this species OF
food and 1919 will go down in history
as the banner year for San Saba
pecanS. A conservative estimate gives
the present crop as so or 60 carloads.
The product from a single tree is
selling for $40 per tree unthrashed,
while the retail value is from IT cents
to % cents per pound. Many of the
trees have an average of 500 pounds.
One buyer has contracted for 35O, 900
pounds.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01
TO MAKE MAPS FROM AIR

chimes will be employed for carrying
valuable freight, mails and passengers
There are immense rivers in French
Guiana, which, because of the presence
OF many rapids, are now only navi-
gable in canoes, which take weeks to
transport freight over distances which
the hydro-airplanes can cover in as
many hours, with always large
stretches of smooth water Offering a
suitable surface for landing and take
OFFS
The freight charges are said to be
high, and the traffic is expected to con-
sist mainly of gold, ba1ato and essence
of rosewood, which are the principal
exports of the colony The passenger
business is not expected to be heavy
These hydro-airplanes will also be
used for prospecting the. forests for
balato trees, which grow in groups.
so that the foliage can, it is said, be
readily distinguished by aviators flying
low over the tops of the forest trees
In the past the securing of fresh
sources OF balato has been work of
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01
TAKING MEMS POSITIONS

of what is left is required for military
service.
The Finnish business woman is re-
markedly keen and intelligent She
has a kind of masculine interest and
absorption in her work that seems to
admit of no margin for sentiment or
frivO1ity. She dresses simply and
smartly, as do the majority of the city
bred women of this country. An
American walking through the pr1n-
cipa1 streets of He1singfors might well
believe, judging from the costumes
and brisk walk Of the Finnish women,
that he was in the heart Of Chicago.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01
GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER.

Constipation invites other troubles
which come speedily unless quickly
checked and overcome by Green's
August Flower which is a gentle laxa-
tive, regulates digestion both In
stomach and fntestines, cleans and
Sweetens the stomach and alfmentary
canal. stimulates the liver to secrete
the bile and impurities from the blood.
1t is a sovereign remedy used in many
thousands of households all over the
civilized world for more than half
century by those who have suffered
with Indigestion, nervous dyspepsia.
sluggish liver, coming up of food, pal
pitatfon, constipation and other in
testinal troubles. Sold by druggists
and dealers everywhere. Try a bottle,
take no SubSuitute.-Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01
LITMUS PAPERS
TO TEST DEATH

as a test for death by a French physi-
clan, Doctor De1agree, who proposed
in cases where death was doubtful to
introduce ItmuS paper into small in
cisions in the muscular mass. But this
method Is likely to be repugnant to the
family of the subject-an objection
which Doctor Icard has overcome in
his experiments.
Litmus Paper Test.
The latter practitioner has made use
of very simple method for procuring
few drops of Serious matter from
the tissues without mutilating
the body. He attaches a small pair of
fOrcepS to a fold of skin and clamps
them in place, leaving them in position
for five or six minutes. At the end of
this time the forceps are removed and
in the depressfons on each side of the
"pleat'' of flesh made by the combining
instrument are seen to ooze several
drops of serum. The blue 1itmuS is
placed in contact with this fluid, and
if it turns red there is doubt that
the patient no longer lives, for the acid
test is established. Sometimes it is
necessary to wait as long as ten min
utes for the change from blue to red
+ to take place, but once apparent it is
that this test is useless before the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01
GAVE A BOOK; GOT A HUSBAND
New York Girl Evidently Was AS
Sweet Poetry Volume
She Donated.

New York.-When the Books for
Soldiers campaign was at it's height
early last year, Miss Hazel Bell Gil
bert of Sheepshead Bay, a daughter
of Detective Sergeant George p. Gill
bert of the bomb squad, turned in a
volume of poems.
The book, with her name on the fly
leaf. found its way to rest station
behind the firing lines, and there fell
into the hands of Lieut.. William J..
Edwards of the marine corps, who
wrote her a letter asking her If she
were as sweet as the verses.
When he came home he called. and
apparently found her SO, for they
were married the other day at the
honeymoon in Bermuda, Lieutenant
Edwards and his bride will live in
Washington.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01

surely proved to be- feel better and
stronger IN every way since taking it,
and the annoying symptoms have disap-
peared. - Mrs. NJ. Golden, CPS Ma
poleon St, Fremont, Ohio.
Such annoying symptoms as heat
flashes, nervousnsss, backache, head
be speedily overcome and the system
restored to normal conditions by this
famous root and herb remedy Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
IF any complications present them
selves write the Pinkham Medicine Co,
Lynn, Mass, fer suggestions how to
overcome them. The result of forty
years experience is at your service and
your letter held in strict confidence.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01
BAD BREATH
Often Caused by
Acid-StOmach

How anyone with sour, Classy
stomach. who Is constantly belchinx has
heartburn and suffers indiE estion have
anything but bad BREATH All these
stomach disorders mean just thing
Acid-StOmach
EATONIC. the wonderful stomach
remedy in pleasant tasting tablet form that
you eat like a bit Of candy. brings quick
relief from these EATON
&c sweetens the breath because 1t makes .
stomach sweet. cool and cornforta BILE. Try fe
for that nasty taste. congested throat and
"heady feeling after smoking
II neglected. Acid-StoInach may cause
q lot of serious trouble 1t leads
vousness: headaches. insomnia nelanchoiia.
rheumatism. sciatica, heart trouble ulcer
and cancer of the stomach It its
millions OF victims miserable,
lfstless. lacking in energy. all tired It
often brings about chronic invalidisTn. pre-
mature old shortening days.
You need the help thu EATONIC give
well you should You will be surprised
to see how much better will feel just
soon as you begin taking this wonderful
stomach remedy. Get a
from druggist today.
your money If satisfied
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01
AirpIanes to Be Used to Chart
Amazon Area.
French Experts Plan to Survey Route
of River From Flying
Machines

Para, Brazn.-Airplanes may be en-
ployed to map the valley of the great
Amazon river. If the French are sue
cessfuI In their effort to use aircraft
for surveying the routes of the rivers
of French Guiana, it is understood
the Brazilian government will apply
the same method to the survey of the
Amazon and its aff1uents-
A Frens,a company is said to have
been formed In Cayenne, with hangers
on the Maroni river, and French ayia-
tors with flying experience gained in
the war are being employed to run the
25 hydro-a1rplanes said to have been
furnished by the government
In addition to making maps. the ma
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01
French Scientist Discovers Meth
cd to Prove if Life Is
Extinct.
PRECLUDES BURIAL ALIVE
Test Is Physico-chemicai and Has to
Do With AIkaIinity of the Body in
Life-Litmus Paper Applied to
Serum Taken From Body.

Paris.-The fear of being buried
alive is perhaps an elemental fear
one Of the horrors that have haunted
mankind through the ages. Not only
the simple and ignorant have suffered
because of 1t but wise men as well,
and some of our most gifted writer's
have employed the theme of suspended
animation for the basis of weird and
terrible tales and of poems of Dan
tesque horror.
There has been some speculation
among medical men during the war
just over as to the possibility of a
considerable number of ante-mortem
burfals of soldiers who received their
last attentions in villages where the
facilities for caring for desperately
wounded men were Of the most priIni-
tive kind.
Precedents at Hand.
Occasionally a newspaper carries a
story of victim of catalepsy or hys-
terra undergoing narrow escape from
premature burial, and recently an
English daily told of a nurse who was
found In a forest between Berlin and
PotSdam, apparently dead from an
overdose Of veronal, and who was
placed in a coffin ready for burial.
Just before closing the coffin the IN
dertaker discovered to his horror that
her heart was beating and removed
her at once to hospital, where she
was given electrical treatment, under
which she finally opened her eyes and
uttered a few incoherent words. Such
authenticated incidents cause the
reader to ask If there is not some in
fa1lib1e test OF death known to the
medical profession.
In the Review of Comparative
Pathology DR.. SEVERN Icard of Mar
settles gives the results of his investf-
cations in progress during a long
period into this subject His test is
physfco-chemica1 and has to do with
the alkalinity of the body in life. In
other words, as long life is present
In the human organism the fluids with
the exception of the urine, the gastric
juices and the sweat) are alkaline. On
the other hand, the tissues after death
are acid.
For a short period after death the
tissues are both alkaline and acid, and
the utmus paper test shows both blue
and red. But seven or eight hours at
ter death is supposed to have taken
place the test Is positives if life is ex-
tinct the acid test is unmistakab1e and
the blue paper becomes deep wine
red.
This passage from alkaIinity to acid
ity is found in all the animal series
and as far back as 1870 it was urged
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01
"cold theHead,.

Is an acute attack Of Nasal Catarrh Per.
IN the head will ind that the use Of
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE VIII
end render them less liable to colds:
Repeated attacks of Acute Catarrh may
lead to Chronic Catarrh
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is tax
en- internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous SURFACES Of the system
All Druggists 75c. Testimonials free.
$4,000 for any case of catarrh that
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE VIII not
cure.
+. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01
Numbers for Fonq sinas.

San Francisco, Cal--So many Fong
Sings appeared to charges of violation
of the federal narcotic laws that Fed
era1 Judge William Van Fleet of the
federal court here was forced to place
them in numbered chairs, such as
4sFong Sing No L, Fong Sing No 2 -
etc. down the line. Each was tread
ing on the others toes. so to speak
and all the attorneys and all the kings
men had terrible time parting them
again Forty-two Chinese faced the
charge of selling narcotics without a
license
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-01-01
A Prayer.

Almighty and living God. we be-
seech thee to look with lote and mercy
u.s. Keep us in thy faith and fear
Give grace to resist the devil and
to renounce all his works and tempta-
tons Guard us from the Iusts and
sins OF the flesh Shield us from the
corruption of the world. Make us dill
gent and faithful in our appointed
work Keep us patient under trial. In
anxiety and worry, help to find
trust and peace In thee. All of which
we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord
and Savior. Amen