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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-17

Observations taken
1t s A. M 18th
meridian time, Feb.
II. 1899.
Forecasts:
Fl Paso and ricln-
itT; Partly cloudy
tonight: wednesday
probably fair. some
what colder.
New Mexico and
A-iEona Fair to-
light and Wedues-
lays not m u C b
shanga in tenspera-
ure-
west TeElig To-
light partly cloudy.
Wednesday probably
fair. somewhat cold
er southwest por-
ton
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-17
THE WEATHER

I. s. DEPARTMENT OF AGRTCuITuRr
WEATHER BUREAU.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-17

Fl PasO seed Co.'S 1920 Catalog now
ready. Write or call for a copy.---Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-17
Dr.. Blacks Patients Ask His Pardon
On Ground That They Are Suffering

nATIENTS OF DR.. Byron L Black
chiropractor. now serving SEN
tence in the county jail on
charge Of ''practicing n-edicine'
without a Texas license, held meet
ing Monday evening in his office in
the Caples building and decided to
rush their petition for pardon 20 the
governor OF the state
The petition states that they have
been receiving treatment from him.
have been benefitting thereby and
that they believe they viii suffer as
result Of his confinement apd their
failure TO get their usual treatments
The Patients Organize
There were about 100 persons pres
ent at the meeting and they elected
officers as follows: J. T. Robinson,
chairman. ]. T. Gfllett, secretary P.
r. Franklin, treasurer
It was decided to address a letter
TO the doctors Of the city stating that
the patients Of DR.. Black are not
against the doctors as an organiza-
tion. but that they are being benefited
by his treatment and desire 20 have
him treat them If they want it. The
constitution Of the United States
should grant US this freedom" said
one Of the speakers IF We are Will
ing to risk treatment from DR.. Black
and are willing 70 pay him for II be-
cause he benefits US. who should have
a right 10 say we may not?"
II was decided TO have another
meeting Wednesday night 10 frame a
petition TO judge J. ~ Beaver, sheriff
Seth 3. Orndorff and county attorney
doctors have been filing the COM
plants against DIT. Black They viii
also ask the officials TO permit DR..
. Black 10 serve both sentences jointly
as is often done, IL IS said so that he
may be released in 90 days instead Of
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-17

Relative humidity in FL Paso at noon.
Tuesday. was % percent; temperature at
noon was 56.
erssipisstloa last q hours Cinehssl Isl
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-17
Essex Triurnphs Confirm
1t the New Dominant Type
It's 5O-Hors at Top Speed Endurance Mark IS In
matched But That is Proof of Only One of the Fine
Car Qualities Essex Brings to the Light Car Field

space. You who have prospected car
lined curbs for a gap In which to fit big
car, appreciate what It means to find
convenient parking.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-17

trial Of Frank A Mccormick. charged
with the murder Of Charles Brown,
was resumed here today after a new
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-17

venire had reported. Ten Jurors were
chosen last week when the trial was
postponed.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-17

er pedestrians had seen the smoke
nd flames and called the department.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-17

MCCORMICK GOES TO TRIAL.
Marysviile, Calf. Feb. 1.-THE
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-17

= think z Is inhuman 70 keep the
patients OF DR.. Black from seeing
him and getting treatment" said P.
r. Franklin. Ny boy. who is suffer
ing from paralysis, never improved
until I took him 10 DR.. Black. He Is
now much better. BE is all ] have
NY wife is dead and I am fighting to
save my boy. I asked county attorney
Pelphrey IL I might take my boy up TO
DR.. Black for treatment in his cell
II Dr.. Black did not take money for
Il. He said this would be no violation
OF the law-that the law was only
violated when money was taken. He
referred me TO the sheriff have not
been able 10 see Mt. Orndorff, but one
Of his deputies said he had given
orders that Dr. Black could not treat
any OF his patients while in jail"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-17

Mrs r J. Pritchard called on The
Herald Monday afternoon and said
she approved the stand The Herald
had taken IN the case Of DR.. Black
Il want TO tell the public about my
baby boy. only eight months old" she
said. HE weighs very little more
now than when he was born Up until
recently I had been taking him TO
medical doctors. who gave him medi-
cines- He couldn't eat and was slow
ly starving. and all the medicine the
doctors were giving him didn't help.
He was steadily loosinE his vitality.
Finally ] took him to DR.. Black. After
4 few treatments. the baby's strength
began coming back and within a re-
markedly short time we were able TO
feed him a pint of milk a day prev
iously he had only been taking eight
ounces at the most I intend having
DR.. Black continue treating him and
expect he viii continue gaining under
the doctors care The baby isn't
strong yet but he is 50 much better
than I had hoped he would be from
the encouragement the medical doc
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-17
$50 Miles at More
Than a Mile a Minute

And see how It has proved endurance.
Not only IN setting the Official world long
distance endurance mark of 3O37 miles
IN so hours. Not only IN covering $50
miles In three tests, averaging more than
a mile a minute.
Even more important than It's IN
equalled 24-hour road mark Of 1901
miles, made on snow-covered Iowa coun-
Try roads, IS the durability It has shown In
the hands of more than $4,000 owners,
its positive day-in-and-day-out depend
able transportation
: The spacious interior, its luxury finish,
its soldness are qualities none would
associate with light cars they have known.
Women Ike the Essex daintiness and
beauty.
But It IS Essex performance and en-
durance that must always be its strongest
appeal. Power for the hills, speed and
endurance to which no distance IS a bar
rier, alerness and prompt pickup N
crowded tafhc-these qualities must al
ways be first.
With last years experience Of two buy
ers waiting for every Essex produced, It
is obvious that you must act promptly
to secure early delivery.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-17

Isl
7i7S EARS lSl5
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09

The difference in customs is as
great as the difference in dialect
throughout China. The following
paragraphs are only general customs
concerning a child's birth in the prov
inces of Kiangsu and Chekiang. Even
in these two provinces there are vari-
atoms. writes Miss L. I. Fong in the
Bulletin of the Chinese Committee on
Public Information.
When a home is expecting to have
it's first baby everyone is busy ma
king preparations. According to Gus
tom the wife's family is to provide a
certain amount of baby clothes, shoes
and caps In rich families they usual
ly supply everything for the child for
five or ten years.
The wife will be looked down upon
by her husbands people if her family
is not rich enough to offer plenty OF
clothes.
The egg vender always has good
bargain at the birth of baby. Three
days after the child's birth the family
present red boiled eggs to relatives,
friends and neighbors. Sometimes
1000 eggs, or even more, are given
away The eggs are first cooked in
boiling water, then dipped into red
dye mixed with vinegar and water.
The. presentation of red eggs is to-
ken that the family hopes that their
children will be as numerous as the
eggs.
Those who are not busy looking af-
ter the eggs are preparing for the
baby'se bath. Two tubs are made
ready, the bigger one for the body
and the smaller one for the head.
They put into the water of both tubs
dragons. eyes and peanuts, meaning
success in everything and long life for
the baby. While the washing is going
on the relatives will throw money into
the water for the woman servant.
Usually they are very liberal on this
kind of occasion.
The infant, after being dressed in
its clothes, is wrapped up into a bum
lie with a square wrap. In winter
cotton padded cloth is used and in
-nilder weather the wraps are simply
lined.
Seven days later the child is to ask
blessing from the bed father and
mother" On the table beside the bed
are two lighted red candles on candle
sticks. Someone takes the little in
FAINT and performs the ceremony by
bowling toward the bed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09
MILLIONS NEED
PEPTO-MANGAN
IN MANY HOMES BETTER
HEALTH IS SIMPLY A MAT
TER OF BETTER BLOOD
PEPTO-MANGAN IMPROVES BLOOD
Composed of Approved Blood Making
Elements-Put Up in Liquid
And Tablet Form

Are you tired and weak and
"blue?" Do you say to yourself,
Whats the use of living? What do
do | get out of life dragging through
this drab existence in this UNI
happy way?"
You don't feel we'll and you don't
know why you have so little energy
to do anything, and you get all tired
out before it is done. There are
millions in busy America that have
such feelings now and then and
they are to be pitied. But there is
help. Unless some serious malady
is at the bottom of their trouble, a
few weeks of Pepto-Mangan will
work a wonderful change. Pepto-
Mangan puts new vigor into the
blood, and the blood is the life fluid.
With penty of rich, red blood cours-
ing through ones body one is pretty
likely to feel good and vigorous and
be strong and look hearty.
Go to your druggist and ask for
Guides Pepto-Mangan." Be sure to
say Guides. If GUIDES is not on
the package it is not Pepto- Mangan.
It is put up in both liquid and tablet
form. Tell the druggist which you
prefer. There is no difference in
medicinal value.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09

in the present year these people will
eat 1850 tons of food and drink g..
100000 gallons of water.
Every eighteen seconds one of them
will die, and thus during the year l.
$4,000 American citizens will be ush.
cred out of the world But a baby
will be born every ten seconds, thus
during the twelve-month adding g.
$4,000 brand-new inhabitants. I'm.
happily, one in every five of these in
fants will not survive childhood.
There will be a marriage every
twenty-five seconds during the year
and every twenty-five minutes a di-
vorce.
About twelve in every 100. deaths
that occur in 1920 will be due to pneu-
monia. This is partly due to influenza,
which continues to be very deadly,
commonly winding up in what used to
be called lung fever"
Heart disease will be the malady
next most fatal. Doctors say that
Americans live too rapidly, and the
strain is showing itself in an alarming
increase of cardiac troubles. Tubercu-
losis, which until recently headed the
death list, has been pushed down to
third place by improved sanitation
and scientific efforts to stamp it out.
More Men Than Women.
Out of every 100 persons in this
country fifty-one and a fraction are
males. 1t is phenomenon apparently
attributable to immigration.
The per capita wealth of the coun-
try was a little short of $4,000 in 1910.
1t is something like three times that
much today. Property values have
gone up enormously and the shrinking
dollar has lost nearly half Of its pur-
chasing power.
New York state owns one-eighth of
the entire wealth of the country, Penn
sylvania follows with about one-tenth
and Illinois comes next with one
twelfth of the national riches. The
richest states in proportion to popula-
ton, however, are those OF the far
South.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09
CURIOUS CHINESE CUSTOMS
Various Rights Observed Upon the Birth of Child

One of the most interesting things
is the Iocket 1t is made of gold, sill
YER and Jade On it are the words,
Long life and riches" Fearing that
the child will be hard to rear this
locket is used to lock up the little life
so that the evil spirit cannot get hold
of or harm it. If the child is born IN
a family whose children died in child
hood it is believed that the evil splr-
it's are avenging some wrong that
had been done. If new baby is grant
ed to this home, before the child's
birth his parents go to the neighbors
for few coppers from each. With
this money they buy locket and i'm
mediately after the child's birth they
put it on the child's wrist or around
the neck. This kind of locket is to
remain there until the child is 20 or
80 years old, and sometimes it is worn
for life. 1t is said that whenever the
iocket is taken away the life will end,
J but no one has ever tried, for the SUI
perstition is too great.
Another way of preserving the
child's life is by the use of dress
made of small pieces of different col
ored cloth given by the neighbors The
child is safe from harm because this
dress keeps away evil spirits.
If boy is born in a home they will
treat him as a girl. They bore hole
in his left ear for an earring. If it is a
girl they will dress her up as boy.
Sometimes girls wear boys clothes
until they are II or IA years old. This
disguise in costumes makes it easier
for the child to develop.
When the child is a month old the
family will give feast known as the
, Shaving feast" The child is shaved
on this day. The hair is all shaved
off except the part in front in the
shape of a peach. The barber while
shaving must say something good
about the child's future if he wants a
handsome payment.
Months passed and soon the child
is able to play with toys. The family
They put different things, as swords,
money, pen, book, medicine, needle,
thimble, boat and bow on a table.
They let the child take whatever it
chooses. Of course, this is only
playing. Ii the child taxes a pen or
book the parents will be very hap
Ply. If it will take any bad thing they
will say that this test cannot decide
the future.
Sickness always occurs to a baby.
If the child is very sick the mother
will go to a temple and make prom
ises if the gods allow her child to live
she will consecrate his life to their
services as a monk Sometimes the
children die, but most of them live
and later become monks unwillingly.
Soon comes the child's birthday.
Men," or noodles, is the chief thing
served on this day. Servants are sent
out, taking basketsful of "mien" to
friends and relatives. Some families
give feasts on this day. The house is
very noisy with music or story telling.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09
EVERY TEN SECONDS
BABY BORN in U. S.
,s A MARRIAGE EVERY HALF
uNIITE-DIvoRcEs AVERAGE
MORE THAN TWO AN HOUR

THAT was an enormous job Uncle
Com cut out for himself when he de-
odad to count his big family. Well,
the work is about completed, and when
tho enumerators have got together the
facts they were sent to collect the as
.ombling of the data will be vastly
facilitated by electrical tabulating ma
chimes, These contrivances have been
40 far perfected since the last census
WAS taken that one Of them can do the
work of 300 clerks.
The population of the United States
in 1920. it is thought, will be at least
tO8 900, 900, but not much over that.
In 1862 Abraham Lincoln wrote in a
message to Congress that in 1920 the
United States would have approx
mately 1S6,984,335 inhabitants. This
estimate was based upon birth rate
which since 1890 had augmented the
population by more than "a per cent
for each ten-year period.
But at the time when he wrote the
birth rate had already begun to drop,
and it has been falling ever since with
surprising rapidity. During the last
decade the increase Of population has
probably not been more than IS per
cent
IS Times Around Earth.
The mind does not readily grasp
such a figure as 1OS,OOO,OOO Let us
try to put it in comprehensive terms.
Suppose all these people to be stand
ing in single file, each one with hands
on the shoulders of the person next
ahead. The line would extend sixteen
times around the earth at the equa-
tor. Or, to put it otherwise, if they
were formed sixteen abreast, they
would encircle the globe once.
Standing on each others shoulders,
they would make a human tower
10000 miles high, reaching more than
one-third of the way to the moon.
The total weight of the population
of the United States in 1920 is about
5 5000, 900 short tons. And every day
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09
An Ordinance.
For Paving and Otherwise Improving
Certain Portions of Main and Lee
Streets in the City of Dawson

Streets in the City of Dawson
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
City Council of Dawson, Georgia,
and it is hereby ordained by
authority of the same, that the city of
Dawson has this day entered into a
contract with the Pittman Construc-
ton Company, a corporation of At
lanta, Ga, for the paving with VT
rified brick, and otherwise improving
certain portions of Main and Lee
Streets in the City of Dawson.
Be it further ordained that Nam
Street from the North side of Third
Avenue to the South side of Seventh
Avenue is to be paved to an approx
innate width of ffty-three (53) feet,
and from the North side of Seventh
Avenue to the South rail of the Main
Line of the Central of Georgia Rail-
road Company to be paved forty
four (44) feet, and that Lee Street
from the East side of Stonewall street
to be paved approximately fifty-two
feet.
Be it further ordained that the
property owners abutting said paved
SCreoCS are neFeDy dSSeSSSu each oho-
third of the cost of said pavement.
Be it further ordained that GER
tain storm water sewer lines and
stormwater intake basins be installed
according to plans and specifications
Edgerly & Lowe, engineers, and the
same to be assessed against property
owners in the same proportion as
they are assessed for street paving.
Be it further ordained that concrete
curling be laid on portions of said
aforementioned streets, not other
wise already laid with granite curb
ing, and that the cost of same be
assessed against abutting property
owners in. the same proportion as it
is assessed for paving.
Be it further ordained that all
laws and parts of laws in conflict
with this ordinance be and the same
are hereby repealed.
Passed as an Emergency Ordlnan-
ce, this the second day of March
1920. F. M. M'NULTY, Mayor.
r. R. JONES, Clerk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09
WHERE POTATOES ARE
USED AS COIN IN TRADE

USED AS COIN IN TRADE
Twenty Pounds Day is Laborer's
Pay in Poland.
How would you like to get paid in
"spuds?" Can you imagine going shop
ping with a bag Of potatoes, giving
couple of dozen big ones for hat or
pair of shoes and getting lot of lit
tie potatoes in change? Or fancy
handing the conductor a potato for
a car ride or giving so many tubers
to get into the movies. Sounds rather
silly, doesn't it? And yet you would
have to get accustomed to the thing
if you were in a certain part Of Po-
land, where potatoes are now the STAN
dard currency.
In the district around Grodno, for
example, the American Red Cross re-
ports that all the local help employed
in war houseing or in the activities
of the field units is remunerated in a
weekly wage of potatoes. They are
glad to get paid that way because po-
tatoes, being staple article, do not
fluctuate like the various types of pa
per money that are in circulation.
About twenty pounds of potatoes is re-
garded as fair daily wage for an or
binary laborer.
The largest commercial transaction
which has been conducted recently in
potato currency is reported from Grod-
no, where a large land owner, whose
manor house was wrecked during the
war, refurnished the entire mansion
with articles purchased with potato
money. This involved series Of pur-
chases from local merchants, the most
important being complete set Of
drawing room furniture which cost
10000 potatoes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09
RUB RHEUMAT|SM FROM
STIFF ACHING JOINTS
Rub Soreness from joints and muscles
with small trial bottle of old
st, Jacobs Lniment
Stop dosing" Rheumatism.

Stop dosing" Rheumatism.
It's pain only; not one case in fifty
requires internal treatment. Rub
soothing, penetrating "St. Jacobs Lini-
ment" right on the ''tender spot" and
by the time you say Jack Robinson
out comes the rheumatic pain. "St.
Jacobs Liniment" is a harmless rheu-
matism cure which never disappoints
and doesn't burn the skin. It takes
pain, soreness and stiffness from ach-
ing joints, muscles and bones; stops
sciatica, lumbago, backache, neuralgia,
Timber upl Get 80 cent bottleAof
old-time, honest est. Jacobs Liniment'
from any drug store, and in a moment
you'll be free from pains, aches and
stiffness. Don't suffer! Rub rheuma
tism away.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09
OLD-TTME COLD CURE
DRINK HOT TEA
,..,..s..s........ :. .....s... :, .s.s.s..o.

Get small package of Hamburg
Breast Tea at any pharmacy. Take
tablespoonful of the tea, put cup OF
boiling water upon it, pour through
sieve and drink teacup full at any
time during the day or before retiring.
1t is the most effective way to break
cold and cure grip, as it opens the
pores of the skin, relieving congestion.
Also loosens the bowels, thus breaking
up cold.
Try it the next time you suffer from
a cold or the grip. 1t is inexpensive
and entirely vegetable, therefore safe
and harmless.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09
FOR 81 YEARS,
TOWN VOTES WET
Many Towns and Cities in Massachus,
etts and Vermont Reverse Atti-
tude on Liquor Question

BROOKLINE, Mass. - At the town
meeting Bookline joined the long list
of Massachusetts cities and towns
which have reversed long standing
no license politics on the liquor Ques-
ton and voted in favor Of license, l.
449 to 1893. 1t was the first time in
thirty years that this town had voted
wet" The vote will have no prac-
tical effect. Brookline's population is
S3,490.
100 Vermont Towns Vote "Wet."
RUTLAND, Vermont. - Incom-
plete returns from a majority Of the
ID Vermont counties late tonight indi-
cate that more than 100 of the states
PAS towns voted yes" today on the
liquor license question.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09
HOPE so

They were showing him the baby.
Eyes, of counsel" murmured the
simple fellow. "And-er-hoW Old rs IL!
Exactly three months tomorrow,
chirped the ecstatic mother
"Oh-haw-yes-er-the youngest, l
suupose?" he stammered.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09
MEN AS PARLoR MAIDS.

LONDON, Eng.-Being unable to
get satisfactory women servants,
Sir George Whichcote engaged ex-
service men. A sergeant and sail
or act as parlor maids.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09
CHILD FELL FROM STALK
CUTTER AND BROKE NECK

An Unusual and Distressing Accident
In Clay County.
Little Henry Bullock, Jr., son of
Mr., Henry Bullock of this county,
fell from stalk cutter Tuesday
morning and broke his neck. He
died Immediately afterward. The
family have great number of rela-
and friends who greatly regret the
accident.-Ft. Gaines Georgian.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09
CARUSO GIVES HIS WIFE
A 100000 NECKLACE
She Thinks 1t a Very Nice Way to
Celebrate His Birthday.

Celebrate HIS Birthday.
NEW YORK.-Before departing for
Pittsburg to fill an engagement Sat
urday night, Enrico Caruso presented
a diamond necklace of 200 matched
stones, valued at $4,000 and a bow
of sapphires and diamonds to his wife,
the former Dorothy Park Benjamin.
The occasion was the forty7seventh
birthday anniversary of the opera
star.
81 like the way he celebrates his
birthday" said Mrs. Caruso. Il think
the gifts are perfectly wonderful"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-09

Pictures, Photographs etc. framed
to order at Holladays's, Dawson.