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EDITORIAL A
EL PASO HERALD
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The Graphic The 'Sun. The Advertiser. The Independent.
The Journal The Republican. The Bulletin.
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Dedicated to the service or the jeopls that no good cause shall lack a cham-
pion and that evil shall not thrive unopposed.
The Daily Herald is issued six days a woek and the Weekly Herala is published
every Thursday at El Paso. Texas; andihe Sunday Mail Edition
is also sent to "Weekly Subscribers.
Give For Your Soul's Peace
NOT of war not of making goia to grow not of self serving is the greatest
question of this Eastertime for us here. The real question of ftrst import-
ance is this: What will you give to save the lives of the habies? In this
work there is worship there is love there is resurrection.
Through the wisdom and generosity of an El Pasoan who still declines to
let his name be made public another $5000 is available for completing the baby
sanatorium at Cloudcroft; the $5000 originally given by this same man had
already been used in erecting the main building for the sanatorium which is per-
fectly adapted to the special needs of tie work. Donations from other sources
amounting to several .thousand dollars were used in completing the equipment.
The second $5000 gift will be used to erect additional buildings and to start the
permanent endowment fund. But $5000 to $6000 more is imperatively needed right
now as a guarantee of the first year's successful maintenance and it is this fund
'to which the public win be asked to contribute promptly and liberally.
We have said that in this beautiful work there is not merely the symbol
but the fact of resurrection; through the magic of Cloudcroft even without special
provision to care for sick babies many hundreds of little lives have been saved
and scores have been literally brought from the brink of the grave coaxed back
into life after Death had already left his mark. Scores of mothers and fathers
not only in El Paso but at far distant homes have to acknowledge their debt to
Cloudcroft for the bright presence of the best beloved in the home today.
And had Cloudcroft been prepared in past years as it is now to be prepared
to receive emergency and charity cases of children and give them the best care
that science and love can insure the. joy of many families would not today be
embittered by sorrow deprivation and resentment in remembering the terrible
day when the tiny heart stopped and the dear innocent eyes lost their light forever.
The Cloudcroft baby sanatorium is to be in fact a life saving station for
desperately sick and dying babies. It is not planned as a summer resort for
ordinary children or the slightly ill nor will the little patients be allowed to
remain during the period of convalescence; but the sanatorium will be equipped
to do quick effectual work in emergencies and after the little lives in dire peril
have been brought to shore parents .will be instructed in wise care during re-
covery and will thereupon be expected to take charge of their own. The average
time for each patient will hardly exceed two weeks and He hospital will be used
to its full capacity.
If you have lost a child give that some poor mother may be spared your
hurt the wound that never never heals. If you have not lest give in thank-
fulness. If you have never had a child of your own give for your soul's peace.
It is the maintenance fund and permanent endowment that are needed now be-
fore the summer's work can be intelligently planned and successfully inaugurated.
What will you give to save the lives of the babies?
The Cloudcroft baby sanatorium is expected to be self supporting after it is
once firmly established: that is an endowment fund is desired which supple
mented by the sums paid for patients where parents can afford to pay will pro-
vide against deficits. But it is expected that much charity work will be done;
babies desperately sick will be received and given equal treatment with the rest
even if not one cent can be paid on their account. The Cloudcroft sanatorium
will be available at all times for the rescue of sick babies brought from El Paso
and elsewhere and the parents will pay what they can afford to pay nothing if
very poor. It is intended to limit the cases for the present at least to sufferers
from intestinal troubles so common among children in summer and so often fatal.
Infectious diseases will not be received or cases of any kind except the desper-
ately ill requiring emergency treatment in the life giving cool air of that holy
mount.
Preparations are making to establish the sanatorium on a basis of strict
compliance with the most rigid requirements of modern medical science. Baby
specialists will be employed as head nurse or superintendent and attending
physicians graduates of special training and experience in the best American
hospitals. A post graduate training school for nurses will be part of the plan
and much of the service of attendants will be volunteer. The sterilizing apparatus
laundry kitchen laboratory and all facilities are up to the highest standards.
The State Nurses' association meets here about the 23d of May and it is
now hoped to open the sanatorium formally on that date but it is possible it may
be available to save nfe even before that date.
Local committees will call on citizens with subscription papers within the
next few days; payment on subscriptions may be made at convenient intervals.
A thousand dollars will endow a bed and it is expected that fraternal and re-
ligious organizations will choose this means of cooperating in the work; con-
tributors of $1000 to the endowment fund will have the privilege of naming two
persons' during a season to have the use of beds or rooms so endowed for the period
their treatment may require. Endowed beds will of course be used for general
patients except when so used for patients designated by the contributors.
El Paso never inaugurated a finer work than this and with such generous
'gifts as a beginning the response to the general appeal for support should be
prompt and liberal.
U walts Denatured Poem
S
Underwood the Alabama Tariff Maker
In the Center Of Publicity Stage Now
As Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee He Is In-
vested With All the Power the Position Ever Connoted.
OME days all things seem going wrong ind life is not a grand sweet song.
A man has work piled up so high that just to view it makes him sigh; lies
uuV iigiiL uuwu io ins OOOLSj neuua ecrv iinuuxe as it scoots; ana Willie His
nerves are all unstrung there comes a man with rubber tongue who holds him
with a clammy hand and says: "I sell Alaska land. 0 buy yourself a happy
home! I have some lemon groves near Xome or I
can sell you wooden tracts and mountains mines and
EXASPERATION cataracts and polar bears and salmon streams and
coal land claims and other dreams. Alaska fair and
' nicturesoue! Whv wear vonr life nnf. .if. vmir desk.
i. i- io- ; ii oti1 of.W v. -fi . i.aS wu a means committee has been Invested
"uc" J"" " avrciv "" "'"s-"- V:" ' " " w. """e1";" UttUUi ."". "" I with all the
tne agents always come wnen Jiie seems uuur ami out oi piumD to sea us lanas
we wouldn't have and soap and sealing wax and salve? And when Ave kill them
we're run in the same as though it were a sin.
By
Frederic
J. Haskin
J
Abe Martin
N THE new Democratic house of
representatives the posit'on of
chairman of the ways and
Copyright 19X1. by Georgre Matthews Adams.
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Success Talks To Mexr and Boys
THE WILL AND THE WAY
By Dr.
Madison
C.
Peters
power that it ever con
noted both with respect to tariff legis-
lation and to parliamentary procedure
and then a great deal more.
Oscar Wilder Underwood of Alabama
chairman of the ways and means com-
mittee is the captain of the Demo
cratic majority in the house. Speaker
there in the iron business. Oscar Un-
derwood began the practice ..of law in
his adopted home and was successful
from the beginning. In 1S94 he was
elected to congress winning a ter-
rific fight on the issue of the tariff.
Birmingham then was sharing in the
general industrial depression of the
country its boom had long ago col-
lapsed and Its business was stagnated.
Being an iron and steel center it was
urged that it was suicidal to remain" at
rip ERE ARE SOME signal Illustra- Against heaven's hand or will or bate
uvuo ui uic m.-i.A-4AA ....w- . .... i .. ttr rtri
kjl nearc ana Jiope out sun uea.i. "
f
" there's a will there's a .way.
Abraham Lincoln walked 40 miles to
borrow a book Thurlow Weed walked
two miles through the snow with
pieces of rag carpet about his feet for
shoes that he might borrow a boOk.
Cyrus Field devoted 13 years of seem-
ingly hopeless drudgery amid the
scoffs of men and crossed the Atlantic
ocean 50 times before he at last laid
the Atlantic cable.
"When Phil Sheridan found his army
retiring before the victorious Early tha
general in command said "Oh! sir we
are beaten" "Oh" said Sheridan "you
are beaten but not this army." Then
seizing his army as Jupiter "his thun-
derbolt hft Kimtrhfid vintorv from the
leTT'cf s ?ft-fQ- Tlift innna rf JntlH
Carolina commanded by Gen. Bell had
steer
Right onward."
Richard Arkwright. founder of cot-
ton manufacture in England began life
by shaving people in a cellar at a pen-
ny a shave. When Lincoln was asked
how Grant impressed him as a general
he said: "The greatest thing about him
is his cool persistence of purpose; he
has the grip of a bulldog; when he
once gets his teeth inr nothing can
shake him." With Grant it was "On to
Richmond" and "I shall fight it out on
this line if it takes all summer" that
broke the rebell'on and eventually made
Lee surrender.
Retort Corteous.
Benjamin Disraeli afterward
whfin - scoffed in
Clark yet is the leader of his Dartv. ! tached to the Democratic parts' merely
and he will continue to exercise a con- because Alabama was a southern state
siderable degree of power but nothing.! and that Birmingham ought to send to
comparable to that wielded by speakers j congress a protectionist and a Repub-
Cannon Henderson Crisp and Reed. ' Hcan.
Spenker Loses Poverl '"mmm" j Gets On Cleveland Platform.
In response to what they conceived -r- Underwood took the Democratic
to be the public demand the rjemnerak nomination on a tariff for revenue only
j in caucus took away from the speaker Plank he placed himself squarely on
tne power to appoint the committ&ae tne Cleveland tariff platform and
of the house. The caucus then .se-
lected the Democratic members of the
ways and means committee and in-
structed them to nominate men to
serve on all the other committees of
the house to determine upon a tenta-
fought the campaign to a successful
issue. Since that time he has had
practically no opposition and has been
re-elected every two years.
Mr. Underwood has made it clear by
reDeated nubile statements fhut h -is
tive legislative program and to draw opposed to the principle of protection
lord
the
bpfin oferwhfilmpfl at the battle of Ma-
. y. w f Paa rn efol1
nassas ana ne roae up to lien lnomasi" . .. . n -nls
Jonathan Jackson in despair exclaim-j house of commons on account .of na
intr: "Thev are beatine- us back." I race replied: "Yes. I am a Jew ana
"Then." said Jackson "we will give when the ancestors of. mat nom."""
them the bayonet." Bell rode off to re- .man were savages in -tn MKnowa lanu
join his command and cried out to them I mine were priests in -he temple
to look at Jackson saying: "There he cannot keep down a man lake tiia..
stands like a stonewall; rally behind Burke's Maxim.
"Stonewall" never left Jackson. Edmund Burke said: "Never despairj
"It is in me" said Richard Brinsley j but If you do wont on m ue.
Sheridan when told that he would nev- Franklin dined on a small loar in a
er make an orator as he had failed In J printing office with a book In his nana.
it i t- s it . v. i i t Va Hrafl nn rnr and water in a
Ulb illil speecu 111 paiiiauicui nc uc
came one of the foremost orators of his
day.
Napoleon's Patience.
Napoleon waited for an appointment
sejren years after he had thoroughly
prepared himself. Blucher although he
lost nine battles out of every 10 still
pressed On with an invincible deter-
mination which for him the title "Mar-
shal Forward." Bunyan wrote his "Pll-
.grim's Progress" on the untwisted pa-
pers used to cork the bottles of milk
brought for his meals in prison. Milton
during the long years of his blindness
held on and held out:
"Yet 1 argue not
T.nM- Hvpfl on bread and water I
j Dutch garret. George Stephenson work
ed 15 years for the first succesui
locomotive. Handel practiced on his
harpsicITord in the hay loft until every
key was hollowed by his fingers to re-
semble the bowl of a spoon.
Toil on smile on and vvirh Robert
Herrick say:
"Tumble me down ani I will sit
Upon thy ruins smilintr yet;
Tear me to tatters yet Til be
Patient in my necessity.
Laugh at my scraps of clothes and shun
Me as a feared infection.
Yet scarce-crow like. l'U walk as one
Neglecting thy derision."
up such tariff bills as it might deem
necessary to carry out the Democratic
promises to revise the tariff downward
By common consent Mr. Underwood
was made chairman of this now all-
important committee. Mr. Underwood
was born in Louisville Kentucky in
1862 and Is therefore 49 years old two
years older than was McKInley when
he introduced his famous tariff bill
and two years younger than Wilson
when he became the author of the last
Democratic tariff measure.
Mr. Underwood is the grandson of
Joseph R. Underwood who was a mem
ber of the house from-1835 to 1S43 and
ana tnat he believes in a revenue tar-
iff. He models his tariff views on the
opening paragraphs of the famous
Walker report of 1846:
"That no more money should be col-
lected than is necessary for the wants
Of the government economically administered.
"That no duty be imposed upon any
Th big scene in Prof Tansey's new
meUer drammer is where th' husband
sacrifices th' old home on Chestnut street
fer a set o new tires an' th wife is left
penniless in th streets save o' course fer
a small annuity settled upon her by a
great aunt. Heads er tails th' fur dealer
wins.
will yield the largest amount of rev
enue.
"That below such rate discrimina-
tion may be made descending in the
scale of duties; or for imperative rea
sons the article may be placed in the
duction of 2000000 ton3 a coal otupuL
of 15000000 tons a coke production of
3.000.000 tons and 70.000.000 tons of
article above the lowest rate which j steel are made each year.
of the senate from 1847 to 1S53 repre- j 1Is4L.f the free from a11 duty'
sentinc- -K-pntuMri- 0ra ttt. ' That the maximum revem
senting Kentuckj-. Senator Underwood
enue duty
was a Whitr. and th close nolitfeal ! sh?uld be Imposed on all luxuries."
friend iwiri nnMnto rf tho ooa TTatr t only does he adhere to these
- w. ..... ... .v- &awu ibu. r
Clay. As a Clay Whltr he was. natural
ly an adherent: of the protective prin-
ciple although as he came into public
life just after the passage of the com-
promise tariff in 1833 and as he re
tired before the recurrence of the pro-
principles but it is his express-id be-
In Steel Trnst District.
"The Tennessee Coal and Iron com-
1 pany or the United States steel cor
poration in other words controls one-
third of the iron and steel product in
the district- One-third of the steel
trust's iron ore holdings are in my
district A larger soft coal deposit
than Europe has furnishes a handy
fueL The cost of assembling the raw
material at the blast furnace in Bir-
Hef that the south generally agrees ! mingham is 50 cents a ton compared
with him. Mr. Underwood recently! with $5 and 6 a ton in Pittsburg.
said:
"I believe my district offers a good
illustration of the situation in the
tective agitation he never was actively i f!outn reSardlle- the tariff. When I
identified with protectionistlc legisla- i esan he Practice of law in Etrming-
tion. nam. xn 334 tne population was. 5000
Tk Mysteries Of No. 102
(By A. G. Greenwood.)
Tke Herald's
Daily Start Stery
Farmfngion N. M. has evidently heard of El Paso's success; it wants a
municipal waterworks of its own.
WALKED from Sloane Square sta-
tion trying accurately to remem-hot-
mv ;fitrs directions. I nad
never been to her new flat '-.ut when
she had kindly met me at Euston that
"evening she had given me full Instruc- j
tions and a latch Key.
got the packet with you? How' much
will you take?"
"Oh. go to the " I began but
he cut me short
" "So you won't trade?" he queried.
"We shall see. You've gone too far
mv friend. Either you trade or we
I nrnionnta Rlontrmntl i5 f! TlXKtV
Dismally I tried to recollect the ex- Gon ' 0wn - ou f 001 out with
I recaiiea .. --- - - - -
wig puunet:
I strode towards him but he raised
the revolver saying softly "No nearer
no nearer please."
'Tm not the man you take me for."
I said almost gently for I guessed I
had a lunatic to deal with. He smiled
as I spoke and I could see he' didn't
But Oscar Underwood makes it clear
that he does not inherit his grandfath-
er's Whiggery. He was educated at
the University of Virginia and. as he
himself says: "The university gave me
something better than the 'classics.
Founded by Thomas Jefferson the in-
stitution has clung to the spirit he in-
fused into it teaching his principles
even unto this day. Democracy was
founded on this teaching. I acquired
my Democracy frnm it and I never have
the city had five pig Iron furnaces but
no street cars paving or electric
lights. In 1S94. when I ran for con-
gress against Truman H.Aldrich the
Republican candidate he argued 'hat
Birmingham needed protection and a
representative who would rote for it
I followed the position of Grover Cleve-
land on the tariff and I won but the
fight was a savage one. Today Bir-
mingham has according to the last
census 132000 citizens an Increase of
04.4 percent in the last decade. It Is
departed from the faith of the creed of the most Idl &rowl ty'in the
Jefterson taught me there." claSs of 100 000 a l
After his graduation in 18S4 Mr. of greater population. Today Birming-
Underwood went to Birmingham Ala- ham's annual payrolls amount to $50 -
bama attracted by the glowing ac- 000000. It has nine jailways. 143 mile's
counts of the new iron city furnished of street car lines $150000000 invested
by his elder brother then established- in industries a yearly pig iron pro-
act directions incidentally
the name of the flats Royal Court
and heaving a sigh of relief inquired
of a policeman.
Armed with full information I set
forth boldly; to my surprise I hit on
Royal Court mansions without the least
xiffi-lir T rnncrratulated myself
uiu-U'U'i..?. -- ir-nw. i as i spoice ana x couia see ne ui
opened the outer door of the gilding. belIeye me where.s idain bed?
ana aisaaimng i aiatc o uno-v -
switch on the lights "by the first
. .-j. - j -ii.j .-.tv in i-Yia I -' -"--'
too compiicaieu; waiacu uv " -"- . jsn y
dark.
"Second floor door on the left" she
had told me so hugging the banisters.
"Ida" he echoed .and scratched his
I pheolr ctnrtno- at- mo thrmchtf Tlllv.
switch in the second row" (it sounded l . Jg
For answer he laughed then sud-
denly pulled himself together. A gleam
shone in his eyes and I knew he had
I crept up bo as not to wake her and come t0 some determination.
Cruelty to animals:
mitt and an airplane.
To ask your small boy to choose between a baseball
When they get a motor car they call gasoline just gas.
Enlisting Oil Capital
A GROUP of El Pasoans are engaged in prsmoting the development of the
Toyah oil fields through methods often advocated by The Herald namely
spending money to make surveys investigations and reports but only
with a view to inducing outsiders of large capital and special experience in the
oil industry to come in and develop a field shown to be promising.
This city has no money aVailable for thorough exploration or development
of the oil fields in the vicinity but there should be enough money available her
to do the preliminary work of rounding up properties for prospecting securing
reports of experts and getting in touch with capital.
The Toyan fields are at present the most promising in this part of the south-
west and best worth the attention of our people. They are better known more
thoroughly explored and are already to some extent familiar to oil men through
reports of past explorations. But it is necessary to bring lands and capital to-
gether; it is necessary to have wells bored in considerable numbers at heavy ex-
pense. Our people have not the means to undertake it.
A moderate sum however spent in obtaining expert reports in holding on to
valuable leases and options and in getting in touch with capital is well spent.
The local group now trying nard to enlist important outside oil interests in the
Toyah fields deserve and should receive financial support in their conservative
and promising undertaking.
o
El Paso should have representation at the American Land and Irrigation
exposition to be held in New York in November. This is a larger undertaking
than the Chicago land show which itself is a splendid annual demonstration of
national especially western agricultural resources. The New York exposition
is under the patronage of the presidents of a score of the great railroad systems
and the governors of most of the states and Arthur E. Stilwell is the moving
spirit.
slipped my key into the lock. After a j
bachelor's dinner one is always- apt to
imagine one's relatives being some-
what suspicious about the state one
returns in. The lock annoyed it was
stiff. I bore on the key twisting it
With a report like a pistol shot it
j turned and I stepped into tne nan.
very softly I shut tne aoor anu iuc.eu
up and' then looking critically about
me considered my bearings.
"First door on the right if you want
a drink; straight on round the corner
third on your left for your bedroom"
my sister had informed me.
"Drink" thought I (we had honestly
been abstemious) and crept across the
carpeted passage noiselessly opening
the door. There was a light in the
room which let me see what a strango
place it was. The walls were hung
with tapestry the floor was parquet
with a few huge Persian rugs and
dotted Moorish stools. A great easel
stood in one corner with a picture half
finished "leaning against it while on a
littered table stood the remains of a
meal. There had evidently been one
diner. My uneasy glance went around j
the studio.
"Old Jim dry as dust Jim the solic-
itor to take up painting In his old
"This Is 102." he replied. 'Tm afraid
you've come to the wrong block. This
is Mrs. Abbott's flat" He looked at me
keenly as he gave the Information. It
staggered me. I began to apologize.
"I only hope you catch your man" I
concluded. "Blackmail as you said is
L nasty thing. The brutes who use It
deserve your threats and your revol-
ver." He laughed. "Quite so quite so" he
agreed.
"Then I'll say 'good night and wend
my way to the other block" I declared.
"I hope my entry hasn't spoiled your
trap."
"Oh don't go!" he begged. "Have a
drink? I must apologize too. You
must have thought me a maniac. By
the way what name did you say at
21?'5
"Mrs. Leslie my brotherlnlaw's a
solicitor' I answered feeling some sort
of explanation was due to him.
"I see I see" he mused thought-
fully. "Just sit down only half a min-
ute while I get the whisky. That's
right there's a good fellpwTV
I heard above my own hoarse breath-
ing the rustle of a woman's clothes
and I called to her.
"Open open! I'm locked in.1
But before she made answer the
sound of many hurrying feet sounded
from the body of the building the front
door was opened and slammed.
"Stand back!" I heaTd a gruff com-
mand and the door opened sending me
reeling back as a policeman came in.
My horror of the fellow's devilish
cunning kept me dumb. Before I'could
"I give these figures to show the in
dustries of Birmingham and from their
(Continued on next page.)
14
Years Ago To-
From The Hera'd Of
This-Date 1397
day
A quartet will sing at Trinity
church Sunday.
The flowers in the plaza axe bloom-
ing and the grass is green.
Three trainloads of c2tle were
brought over today from Juarez.
The Corralitos track layers are 12
miles 'ahead of the surfacing" gang.
J. J. Ogden of New York city left
for the east today over the Santa Fe.
The Scottish Rite Masons will hold
their annual Maundy Thursday ban-
quet tonight.
Five iron bedsfeads for the paid
men of the fire department have been
installed at the Central station..
The old city council holds its last
session tonight Xext iaek mavor
1 Joseph Magoffin will be in charge.
D. i. Hadley has sold to Robert Mc-
ne said confusedly. "But you see T
wasn't quite so maniacal as you im-
agined. I had been dozing and your
appearance made me at once jump to a i
conclusion xne coincidence of your Lean lots 17-20. block 67 section H. v
collect myself the man who had left j other?"
arrival was so weird.'
I nodded. "I forgive you" I said
solemnly "on two conditions. One
that you give" a strong drink."
"Done!" he cried bubbling soda into
a half filled glass of whisky. "And the
me pointed at me. saying coldly:
"I give that man in charge. For
years he has blackmailed Mrs. Abbott
I gave him every chance to sell me
the letters. He refused and tried fo
.escape by a cock-and-bull story '
But I broke in on his level tones
half in admiration half in disgust at
his calmness.
"It's a lie a mistake officer" I
cried. I came here in error. My sister
at No. 21 "
"A Mrs. Leslie doesn't live there" in-
terjeted the man triumphantly. "That's
why I was sure. A captain "
"Capt Bond sublet the flat" I threw
back at him. "This is a ruse" I went
on turning to the stolid policeman: "a
crime-has been committed. Look there!"
The policeman's jaw fell as his eyes
lit on the poor crumpled figure lying
behind the screen..
"What's this? What's all this?" he
ejaculated heavily.
I heard the man I accused laugh.
In fascInafelT horror I watched the po-
liceman as he lumbered across the
room. Then I cried out in anger in
passionate remonstrance at his dese-
crating hands as he laid hold of the
patent leather shoe and perked it and
the body into the middle of the floor.
"Crime Is it?" he sniffed.
And the thing's head jerked from
its socket rolled to my feet! A dummy!
A thing of sawdust plaster and can-
vas -
"Mrs. Abbott was at work on the
folds of the skirt today" I heard the
man explaining. "It was left in the
only comfortable chair in the room so
I kicked it out"
Then he turned to me but before he
"Keep that story of the murdered
dummy to yourself" I murmured hid-
ing my face in the glass.
Satterthwaite addition for a consider
ation of $1250.
Corralitos engine Xo. 22 was con-
nected up at the T. P. shops this morn-
; ing and run down to the Santa Fe
yards.
It is learned from Chicago that Her-
( bert Stevenson is doing very well at
Rush Medical college and. Has received
several honors. He will be home in
June.
Ada Patterson 0n In
I was foolish for I was curious j spoke a woman came silently in-
age!" I reflected. "It can't be Ida" behind him
curious about the blackmailer and the
methods which awiaite his arrival.
My host went to the door closing it
The breadth of some of the men who are trying to exploit the resources
of the west is shown in the position taken by governor Shaffroth and others of
Colorado in preparations for their "land meeting" soon to be held in Denver. It
is stated openly that Roosevelt Pinchot and Garfield will not be welcome; these
are types of the men who thwarted Colorado in its. attempt to take the waters
from New Mexico Texas and Nebraska.
La Follette is determined to make a clown of himself over the Mexican situation
(my sister); "she couldn't paint the leg
of a table!"
Then my startled eyes fell on a
young man dressed in rather outre
evening dress velvet collar and frilled
shirt lounging in the only arm chair-
before a huge Dutch blue china stove
Even as I stared at him he opened his
eyes. An expression what emotion I
can't say flickered across hi3 face and
he jumped out of his chair.
"How did you get in?" he demanded.
"I've been waiting for your knock.
You didn't expect to see me eh?"
He paused took up a commanding
position before the fire and pulled a
revolver from his dresscoat pocket.
"Rather got you eh?" he went on
smiling grimly. "I wondered if you'd
be fool enough to .fall into my little
plot"
"It seems I've fallen Into Bedlam"
I retorted. "Who are you and what're
you talking about?"
"Now. then cards on the table" he
replied easily. "Jj'm armed and by
God I won't hesitate to stretch you
stiff if you put up any resistance. Cards
on the table skeleton keys and all or
whatever means you employed to get
into the flat Now tell me" he added
grinning evidently well pleased
"you're a bit surprised to see mo; that's
so?"
"Look here" I said heatedly "either
you're mad or you're playing such a
thundering bad joke that H
"Gently" he remonstra-tod. "You've
Then obtruding from a -screen which
stood at the side of the window I"T3aw
a shoe. It was small of patent leath-
er. Staring at it my heart stood still
for a silk stockinged ankle covered by
a white silk petticoat which In its
turn was surmounted by a white satin
dress met my horrified eyes.
My back had been turned to what I
saw now. I had had no suspicion. I
crept forward my heart bounding. In
the shadow of the screen as I peered
round it lay a woman face downwards
her head beneath a small table the
skin of her arms and of her back (sho
was in evening dress) white almost
yellow in the dim light which was
reflected behind the screen.
The silent terrible thing lying there
dazed me. Mute dead it had lain
while the stranger had spoken to me.
A lunatic yes! A maniac homicidal
who haveing committed one murder
contemplated another!
Three long strides took me to the
door. I turned the handle tugging at
it the sweat breaking out on my fore-
head when I realized it was locked.
I saw all the plot then. No wonder
he had pressed me to stay! No won-
der! When I provided the part that
was his the murderer-
I put my shoulder to the door
crashing at it dreading the mute thing
lying there fighting to leave the ghast-
ly room longing to tell my story how-
ever incredible it mierht sc.p.m. When
again Iheard a sound In tho passage J
doubtless the woman I had heard In
the passage.
"There's someone. at the door flick-
ing the letter box lid" she whispered.
"Keep silenC muttered the man
holding up his hand. He glancedat me
as though for the first time doubtful.
"'Behind the screen" he commanded.
"Quickly officer. I think this is the
ruffian I'm expecting. I I may have
made a mistake. Open the door" he
added in a whisper to the woman.
We heard her creep out "heard the
door open watched her enter with a
sinister muffled "figure of a man beside
her.
"The letters" she asked tremulously.
"Five hundred down" he retorted
without moving. "Come they're cheap.
You wouldn't like 'em read in court
now as you're married. Five hundred!"
The policeman seemed about to move
but the quivering man at my elbow
stayed jnim. I heard the rustle of bank
notes .saw the woman take the packet
and count the letters therein.
"Thirty" said the newcomer.
"There should be 30" she muttered.
He turned without speaking and
opened the door.
"It's compounding of a felony"
gasped the policeman.
"It's the salvation of a woman's
soul!" cried the woman and burst into
tears.
Later on the policeman rubbed his
chin looked uncomfortable and pock-
eted five shining sovereigns before
swallowing a stiff whisky and soda
water before taking his departure.
My host and I were left alone.
"Apologies are such meager tilings" 1
lirpHE city has done 'for him"
I said a man of an acquaintance
who had passed and been car-
ried on in one of the cross currents of
humanity that eddy about an intersec-
tion of three principal streets of the
metropolis.
The man whom we had seen for an
instant then disappeared was of long
lean figure on which hung loosely a
wrinkled spotted suit His face was
pale. His eyes were sunken and be-
dimmed and shifting. His face was sal
low and as spotted as his clothes. His
lips sagged as though they hung from
loose cords. His l'nen had been neg-
lected. He looked a poor excuse for a
man.
"When I knew him 10 years ago he
was a fresh-colored clear-eyed chap
from the country. The city had done
for him." repeated my friend.
"But it hasn't done for you." I said
for he was as ruddy of cheek as clear
of eye as sturdy of form as any farm-
er bov that ever turned a furrow.
"If it hasn't." ho answered "it is
because I have led a country life in
the city." And so have all who survived
the din and dust the distractions and
temptations the competition and can-
nibalism of New Tork or any other
of the world's great cities.
The strained face the sunken red-
rimmed eyes the irritable don't stop
me I'm late already manner we asso-
ciate with city life but they are not
insperarable from it. To avoid them
and the harassed mind of which they
are the signs lead the country life in
the city. It is not easy but it can
be done.
Living the country life in the city
means regular sleep and enough of it
A man who is at the head of a suc-
cessful enterprise in this city and
who looks stronger at 50 than do most
city dwellers at SO told me that he
required nine hours' sleep and he took
it He said he would as well take out
a passenger train behind an engine
with an empty boiler as to -attempt
to do a day's work at his desk with
out having had all the sleep he need-
ed. When I see an emergency with a
special demand on my strength and
time coming I prepare for it" he said
"by sleeping ahead. I take several
extra hours' sleep either adding one
or two hours to my usual amount of
sleep at night or I force myself to
take a nap of a quarter or half hour j
during the day. Then when the emer-
gency comes I am supplied with ex
tra fuel for the run of brains and j
strength."
This man told me that when as
often happens he has to measure
strength in a battle of brains he
"sizes up his man." If the man has
the tired eyes the flaccid muscles the
Dale. JDotted fa-cp. of th dissipated
the man who sleeps nine hours feels
that his triumph Is already won
"Don't despise fools" he quotes. 1 means.
"They are our opportunities." And
there is no greater fool than'one who
j lets the siren of city life sap his vi
tality.
It is hard to turn your back upon
the light-hearted party that begs you
to join its supper after the theater
but it is not so hard as facing the
problems of a busy day witfi aching
head and tired brain the next morn-
ing. To live the country life in the city
means eating regular meals and sim-
ple ones. Roast beef seems a bit ple-
bian compared with terrapin and a
plain luncheon at 12:30 -prosaic com-
pared with the bisques and souffles
offered by a fascinating would-be
hostess if you will postpone the plain
luncheon for two hours but it is bet-
ter for the brain better for the brawn
better for the man or woman who con-
sumes it
Country life In the city includes
courting fresh air and sunshine as
persistently as a smitten youth woos
the girl of his heart The man who
endures in the city Is he who walks
to and from his office who spends
Sundays out of doors who searches
the city for its' sunny corners and pays
extra rent to secure' one of them sav-
ing on cigars and car fare for the
difference and who when his vaca-
tion arrives spends it in the woods
the mountains loafing on a lake or
river boat or peeling his nose and
steeping his soul in content on their
banks casting a fly for the fish that
may or may not come it matters lit-
tle which.
Country life begets the habit of a.
fevr friends selected as country clothes
are chosen for their wearing qualities.
That standard should be maintained in
the city. In the blackness of the crises
of our life we grope for the substan-
tial friends those who have stood for
nobleness of character for fidelity arid
truth. It were well to choose for our
playmates persons of the same sort.
The same persons should companion us
in the fair as in the stormy parts of
our voyages. "Simple friends who
stand for something worth while" is
a good motto in our choice of asso-
ciates on whatever spot on the globe
we may tarry.
Clothes are deified in the city.
Clothes that are appropriate substan-
tial and becoming are important for
they set the standard of personal val-
ues an artificial standard but an ac-
cepted one wherever humans congre-
gate In huge herds. It is wise to dress
substantially modishly and in good
taste for he who runs reads persons
by their clothes in a city. To depart
fair from the standards of good taste
in dressing may be to lose the im-
mense business profit that comes of
making a good first impression. But
keep the country view that clothes
are' a means to an end. not the city
View that they are the end of all
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