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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-07
The Braqqart.

eeCHICAGOANS are terrific brag-
garts." said Secretary G. A. Cor
mack of the New York Yacht Club
They brag especially hard when
they come to New York. s
Il motored a Chicagoan around
New York the other day, and when
we passed the Public Library he was
rather impressed.
What do you call that? he asked
Library said 1. Took three years
to build
'Humph.' said the Chicagoan. 4
guess we'd have run her up in about
three months ID
"The Grand Central station i'm
pressed him, too.
whats that. bo? he said.
Grand Central station said |.
Fine piece of work. Two years in
the building
1.-TWO weeks would have finished
her in Chicago" said the braggart.
After while the WOODWORK
building hove in sight. The Chi
cagon caught his breath despite him
self.
Gee" he said: and then. Some
building: How long to run her up.
boz
II glanced at the superb white mas
terpiece with pretended indifference.
"Can't say said. I didn't notice
her here when / passed this morn
ing"
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y..kimos As I have looked it up myself
and studied out how to initiate them
and etc. and II really amt so hard for
everybody to be their own Eskimo, and
instead OF the winter being tough win
ter Why everybody can have the time
Of their life II they enter into the spirit
of the game.
Fakes don't hardly ever live to be over
60 yrs. Of age 50 It looks like those Of
my readers that has past the score
mark may as well take this opportunity
TO bump themselfs OF in some clean
manner as it wouldn't come natural to
them to act a Eskimo part and they
would just be in rest Of us way.
Now then a man can't really feel
IKE a Eskie unlest they look like one
and pretty near all Eskimos, male and
female, is fat, SO between now and
winter we want to get a good start
towards obesity. Most gals won't have
no dinaculties along these lines and
the men folks can reach the cool by
ing up some light occupation like
match maker for Battling Levinsky.
The book says that the Eskies hasn't
only vague idears about religion 30 l
guess it won't be no strain On the
most Of US to mimick them in these
rsrards. Another laudable habit they
.-ot Is to not take no baths In winter.
They nut on their fall suit and don't
nay no more tension to it till it falls
III of them. This is why you never
read OF them croaktng from the Ia
rrin and etc. Where lot of us peo-
Sis catches cold in the winter is take
ne our close on and putting them on
arain or laying in a hot tub in the all
toeether TIL you get all steamed up
and then stepping right into cold
Ths costumes you will half to wear
9. MADE Of boots and furs and bird
skins. The gents boots comes to their
knee and the ladies to their waste t:
The story Of the at aftre milk fan fed cd
sat trimmed with roast Vermont tur-
Key skin with oyster stunning.
Eekies lives on seals and wales
witch they catch themselfs and II may
M 10 9ef onto the mack OF fishing for
these kind Of meat. but II people has
got a water front to their home why
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tough. too. When 10 it going to hap
Tomorrow morning
They're right prompt, ain't they
Ioupel Gr1pped the stout tintbers to
stop the trembling Of Ms hands. There
hie voice. "Jack!" he whispered.
"Yeah!
Have you told-'
Mills turned his head away; he could
not bear to lock upon this old friend
Of his. why. no." he said. gently:
mo. Bud. amt told. Don't aim to. il
that helps any"
The packages Of bills. You cosldn't
get nd Of them. When they find them.
they'll know"
they won't ind them bundles
Jack Mills told him; and. while Bud
could only stare with widening eyes.
he cheerfully explained: You see. I
was cold for q spell. So ! had me q
There was something hideous and
craven In the relief that leaped into
the eyes Of Bud Loupei. Mills reached
through the bars. caught the Others
shoulder. shook him upright Take a
brace. Bud" he said. gently. Go on
home"
Bud Loupel could not speak. He
turned and went stumbling toward the
door: he forgot so little a thing as
shaking his partners hand in fare
we'll. Jack watched him go: and as
the other reached the door he called:
Take care Of Jeanne. Bud"
|. Loupel turned to look back. NUT
tered low assent, went on his way.
Mills heard him speak to Russ as he
departed. Then the deputy came to
look in and make sure that the pris-
oner was still secure. He resumed
his seat on chair tipped against the
wall. just outside the door.
Mills went back to the bench against
the rear OF his cell and rolled and
smoked a cigarette Then he lay
down. ono knee crossed above the
other. and the man on guard heard
him whistling.
Heard him whistlins softly. between
his teeth. a gay and gallant and tri-
umphant little tune.
Copyright p. r. Collier 4 Son Printed by ar
rangrn,ents with the Metropolitan Newspaper
Service and The Washington star.
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But that the possibility should occur
to her is some measure of the mans
standing in the town.
One day. about seven years after
Bud and Jeanne were married. Bud
sought out Jack Mills and asked him
to get his horse and come for a ride.
Want to tell you something, Jack,
he explained.
Mills saw the trouble and distress
and they trotted out of town. When
the last building was well behind
them. Jack asked mildly: whats
on your mind, Bud?"
Bud Loupel. with some hesitation
said: I'm in trouble"
yeah! ] judged So" Mills told him
| We'll, what brand"
i've been putting money in the
| market at Wichita" Loupel said i've
| had rotten luck. It's gone"
/ Jack nodded. II got three four hun.
dred in the bank" he suggested
Take that"
IT'S not enough"
Maybe could look around and
| raise five hundred more"
I, ct wouldn't do u bit of good
Mills produced tobacco and papers
! and rolled a slow cigarette while their
| horses logged along. AT last: How
! much" he asked.
Forty four hundred"
| you've saved right smart. amt
YOU"
| Its the banks Loupel confessed
and Jack puffed deeply and expelled
! the smoke in a cloud and remark ed:
Well at a guess, I'd say you We're q
| damned fool"
Il know it
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lys that / would want to be on cud-
dleing terms with them and vice versa
About the only other thing they is
to initiate about the Eskies is their
language and as they's hardly time
now to master the real dialect why
the best thing is to make up one OF
your own along the same lines and
the principle PIT to remember is tina {
they don't only use 1 word where we
would use five and six to express the
same thot il any.
For inst. where We would say.
please pass the garlic" why a Eskie
would just say, 'Whewr'
Neighbors of mine who ] have told
them about this idear of being your
own Eskimo has snapped at the idear
like rolling on ducks back and IL
the scheme works out like / think its
libel to, why coal will be a drug store
on the market and we will all. have
the laugh on Pat and Mike.
RING w. I4ARDNER
Longs Island. November S.
Copyright. 1820D
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1t will be seen that this turnpike
road was the forerunner Of Americas
hrst steam railroad. and the stock
holders even had this In view prior to
the building OF the Baltimore and
Ohio. which parallels it.
The old stage coach Is gone, nearly
all the landmarks Of those romantic
days are lost to trace. yet there still
stands Rossburgh Inn, which houses
the Maryland experiment station, and
when last winter the writer was there II
were as though the ancient walls rang
with the memories Of those old stagefs,
for all the world u a stage. even now as
then.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-07

" HIS is. in all essentials, true
story. II came through an old
friend from the southwest.
newspaper man. who telephoned
an invitation to lunch the other day. He
says he remembers, as a boy. seeing the
whole population OF his home town
embark on horseback, in wagons and
afoot 20 go to the hanging. That was
in 1881; but IT was not till twenty
vears aftsrWard that he heard from
one Chris OEeill the true inwardncss
Of that hanging, he told il to m"
over our coffee. The thing happened
in a little frontier town in the COW
country and since swift justice and
= ready rope We're characteristics OF
the time and the place. IL occasioned
only passing comment in that day.
Nevertheless, the tale may we'll bear
preserving.
cannot hope to reproduce my
friends words, nor the atmosphere OF
those reckless times, SO long dead.
which he brought back TO life for me.
Nevertheless. here IS the substance OF
the story that he told
THERE were two cowboys in the
OK O outfit, otherwise called the
Hourglass; and these two men were
pardners. This, was given to under
stand, is very different thing from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-07
By Ben Ames Williams

, ernoon, and toward sunset brought q
barrel Of kerosene from town. Men
climbed the hill above the cave. where
his bullets could not reach them. and
| poured this Oil SO that 1t ran down
into a pool Just in front Of his r.
saw at once that he could not endure
the smoke and gas. and after some
preparations shouted his surrender.
They bade him come out with his
hands in the air, and he did SO. His
boots were somewhat scorched by the
flames. Then they tied his hands be-
hind his back and his ankles beneath
the horses belly, and took him back
to town. Toward dusk he was lodged
in the calaboose there. and Nick Russ,
the deputy, went on guard outside.
About nine o'clock that night Bud
asked il he could talk with Mills.
Russ told him to go ahead. Bud asked
permission to talk privately: and,
though Russ was inclined to protest.
he was at length persuaded. The
deputy moved away from tho little.
one-room building. and Bud went in
side. Mills was confined in q rude
cell Of two-by-four timbers. Bud ap-
preached these bars. and Jack came
to meet him.
+ X i: 4
T OUPEL was sweating family. For
- Gods sake. jack" he whispered.
This is terriblev'
Mills grinned. WELL" he agreed,
1T looks right critical to me-"
IF Rand hadn't happened to get
back ahead of time .. Hadn't
come in right then o"
You didn't happen to know he was
coming. don't reckon"
Loupel cried: mo. no, Jack. Honest
to Godr
Mills nodded. IT know. I thought
wouldn't play it that low down. Is he
hurt muchT'
oh. you got him"
YEAH" said Mills. Well, that's
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The Vegetarian.
xcEoRGE BERNARD SHAW ha.

UCEoRGE BERNARD SHAW has
~ been a vegetarian for thirty-siN
years." said An editor. SHAW told me
q vegetarian story the last time Wis
tied him in London.
He said he was walking IN me =
Strand one day when a beggar held
him up and asked for a little money to
buy food, claiming he had eaten MOTH
ing for forty-eight hours: shaw gave
him a note to Frascatis lot Iuil
meal. and stopped in there the next
day to pay the bill.
at sent a poor beggar here yester-
day.' he said What do I owe you?
Seventeen and six. MI. Shaws said
the manager, with smile.
Seventeen and six. eh: And what
were the items"
".Eight beers said the manager.
three whiskys. pint OF port. -Four
cigars and a package of Virginia Gig
arettes. A true vegetarian like your
self, sir"
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1t Was Easter, Too!
CABINET officer said at a Dime

A CABINET officer said at dinner.
"A apropos of certain criticisms on
his department.:
"Politics-all politics. Nothing. not
even woman. is as cruel as politics.
and yet woman can be very cruel
The Secretary then told story
about the cruelty of woman.
Zone Easter Sunday" he said. two
ladies met on the Atlantic City Board
walk with little outcries of surprise
and joy.
"'Why, Name" said the older lady.
How fiattering this is"
.Flatteringg said the younger
lady. with a perplexed air. How SO"
..You haven't seen me- said the
older lady, 'forseventeen years-and
yet you recognize me. so to speak.
right off the bat. That means I
haven't changed so dreadfully, doesn't
it?'
THE younger lady gave a cold
laugh.
ION" she said. you see. recos-
nized your bonnet.
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The Mean Bridegroom.

BISHOP BENJAMIN BREWSTER
- said, at a wedding breakfast in
Portland:
THE meanest man j ever heard of
in nv life was a Kansas farm hand.
He rang a Kansas preacher up at IL
o'clock one night to marry him, and
after the ceremony he said:
well, parson. are We spliced now? p
absolutely said the parson. !:
.Spliced hard and fast?'
Nothing but death the parson
said. can break the sacred tie which
now binds you to this lady
".You couldn't unsplice US again.
parson. even if YOU wanted to"
"'No: the ceremony l have performed
is irrefragible and irrevocable.'
Then. parson. I'm goin' to stand
you Off for it, said the farm hand.
with a relieved look. and, taking his
wife by the arm. he departed. never
to return"
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AT Present Price of Coal,
Bean Eskimo, Says Lardner

all they half to do is make themself a
harpoon and go and set on the beach
and keep lunging through the ice tili
they get one of the big fellows L"
nibble and even il they don't seem to
fall for the bait, why you can't b..
hung for trying. as they say. Peopl,
that hasn't no repairing rights or
other kind of water on the premises
can amuse themself throwing the old
harpoon into the bath tub or wait till
the January thaw and fish in In,
sluSh.
Another Eskimo habit is for so t.
40 familys to live in the same housr
winter times so as they can cuddlr
up and keep warm, but personly l
can't think of even y that No. OF FAM
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Travelling by Stage on the
Washington-Balt

INCIDENT to about the year 1913.
had we then been living. and resi-
dent of the territory adjacent the
= present Washington and Baltimore
boulevard, we would have heard. TIA.
TIA, Tia, Taaa, Ar, Ia, Ar, AT, A." a
shrill blast from the trumpet of the
post driver. as a four-wheel rumbling
stage coach. which served for mail.
passengers and freight transportation.
drew up with sQueaking tight brakes.
in the long shadow Of q setting sun.
to discharge it's cargo at one OF the
quaint old taverns that had their place
in the crude but romantic order OF
travel in those days-days q hundred
years ago.
A trip from Baltimore to Washing
ton was. in those times. an aN-day
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was hunting for a town job. Rand
hired him on the spot iH"A- --+ 80
An hour or SO later Bud went back to
Brady's to tell Jack of his good for
tune. and Mills rolled a cigarette and
said. cheerfully: Then you're fixed
to lend me five dollars"
LAS quick as this?' Bud asked. You
must have picked 'em mighty scant."
Il didn't pick Them Jack told him.
They picked me-"
They went. out together and sought
a restaurant and food. BY supper time
Jack had job In the blacksmith
shop. He was as good with horses as
Bud was with figures That evening
they hired room. and Bud wrote a
note to the Hourglass foreman. tell
ing him not ito expect them back
again. Then they settled down to I've
the life Of sober ard substantial citi-
gems. Object. matrimony.
Now. this is not story OF how q
woman came between two men and
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gun and rockies eye and fond
ness for the society he found at
Brady's. SOMETIMES. after eating one
of Jeanie's dinners. he would take
his horse and ride ont of town and
be gone for day or two. He was
always alone on these excursions;
but ranging cowboys came across
he seemed to be just sitting around.
smoking. doing nothing at all. When
he got ready he would drift back
into town and go to work again. Old
man Ross liked him; Jeanne liked
him: everybody liked him. But the
sober citizens were also inclined to
disapprove of him; and some of the
stories that came to Jcanie's ears
made her think that when the chill
dren We're a little older she had bet
ter quit asking Jack to come to the
hou:c. She hated to think of doing
this: and because shC was kind Of
heart. il is unlikely that she would
ever have come to the actual point.
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that can't afford to do nothing only stay
home and the question il how are We
going to help from congeling?
II the 18 amendment hadn't past they
wouldn't be nothing to it as people is
whole lot Ike automobile and II you
pour enough alcohol in their radiator
why they won't freeze. But nowadays
good alcohol h like coal. try and get it,
all over the north is desperate and un-
less steps IL taken along the right lines:
why q big percent Of the los million will
spend next summer ffdeing around IN
the ice wagon and selling for 80 cts per
100 lbs.
suppose things in other places is the
came like where I live at here on Longs
Island 50 I VIII try and tell you how we
are dxed 30 as my readers can compare
Il with where they live at and maybe
prove benefit to my many admirers
and friends. Well here In our town we
got two Belgium coal dealers Pat and
Nike. We put in . order with Pat last
June for 30 ton OF coal and 80 Tar we GOT
all but 30 ton Of 1t and 1t looks like may
be We win half to ask for the order back
and burn that instead Of the coal. Pats
price 10 lS smsckers per ton witch is
very reasonable and he says he wouldn't
raise 1t much even If he had the coal.
Mike has got three ton witch he holds
at $40 per ton witch is practically give
ing 1t away and nobody wants to take
advantage Of him.
So that is how matters stands, here
and we may as well hook the facts in the
eyebail and the facts is that winter
amt no 5000 miles away. but coal is.
There is the situation in a nut cracker
and we can make the best Of it and the
next question is how can that be done?
Well in case like this kind have always
figured that a man better do like the
Romans do, only this time it's the Eski-
we are liveing at is going to be just the
same as Alaska or Greenlands izzy
mountains you might say. and as you
don't never hear Of a Eskimo freezeing
to death. why what could be sweeter
than pretend like we was Eskimos and
mouit our lifes accordingly.
I will save my readers the trouble Of
looking up in the dictionary about the
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ITO THE EDITOR: The iates. L.
S. senses shows that they's los
million people in this country
and outskirts and about 20 ton
of coal. Lucky thevs several people
that lives far enough south of the Mason
N. Dickinson line os as TO not need no
coal and they's also No. OF hired girls
and men in the plaster and carpenter
trade and members Of the White Sox
that intends to spend the winter in Paln
Beach. But that stiil leaves the Wall
st. men and newspaper writer's and etc.
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stockholders in person or by proxy.
and were respectively the owners OF
the number OF shares and the amount
OF stock annexed to, and following
their several names, to-wit:
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-07-12
Election Notices.


sHERIFF-s NOTICE OF ELECTION.
state Of Texas.
County Of Fl Paso.
Notice is hereby given that an election
Will be held on the 1ist day Of July. 1890.
at splvey's store In Common School Dis
trict No W ! OF this county as estah-
lished by order OF the County Commls-
sioners' Court o. date the nth day o.
Nav. 1914 which Is OF record IN Book 8.
pages 115-16 CT the minutes OF said SQUIRT.
20 determine whether a majority OF the
legally qualified property taxpaying vot-
ers OF that district desire 70 tax them
the state School Fund apportioned 20 said
district and 70 determine whether the
commissioners' court Of this county snan
be authorized to levy. assess and collect
annually a tax OF and az the rate Of IS
cents on the 500 valuation OF taxable
property IN said district FOR said pur-
Nj r. Henley has been appointed pre-
siding officer for said election and he
shall select two Judges and two clerks 70
assist him IN holding the same. and he
has been held make due return thereof 20
the commissioners court OF this county as
Is required by law for holding a general
election
An persons who are legally qualified
voters OF this state and county and who
are resident property taxpayers IN said
election and an voters who favor taxation
for school purposes shall have written or
printed on their ballots the words:
FOR SCHOOL TAX
And those opposed to such taxation
shall have written or printed on their
ballots the words;
Against school Tax
said election was ordered BY the County
Judge OF this county by order made On
the LIST day OF July. 1920. and this notice
Is given IN pursuance Of said order
Dated the LIST day Of July. 1929.
Deputy sheriff. Fl Paso County.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-07-12
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