The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex), Vol. 18, No. 28, Ed. 1, Thursday, July 14, 1927 Page: 3
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past
Juarez
community of about
25000 people just
across the bridge on
the Mexican side of
the river
Juarez is on the
site of the original
settlement at El Paso
del Norte its mission
church of Nues
tra Senora de Guada
lupe is more than 250
years old and in its
outlying streets old
Mexico yes and old
California as well is
faithfully preserved
There are the old
adobes dustcovered
unpaved streets with
courtyards seen
CURRENT COMMENT
jNE disease which has long fur
nished a broad field of contention
between the doctors and the people
who believe in cures by simple
remedies is the popular ailment known
hs chills The fight over cures for this
disease has been as fierce as it has been
long and it is no nearer an end today
than revolutions in Mexico The doctors
say with confidence that curing chills is
not a theory or a matter of doubt but a
demonstrated fact The antidote for
chills they say is as well known to the
profession as the antidote for snake
poison Over in South America there
grows a tree and on the tree is a bark
A person who has contracted chills may
take powdered or liquid preparations of
this bark and quit his shaking or may
steer clear of ill forms of the bark and
shake no more but in the latter event
hell have a nice quiet berth in the cemetery
with a shinyhandled coffin for his
bed
No medical man believes in his heart
that anything save quinine ever has or
can cure a genuine case of chills Of
course there are those who object to a
cuie so homely and commonplace and
who do not object to a little better profit
than can be charged on quinine alone
these make no war on pretty tablets and
nicelyflavored tonics that cover up
some of the quinines bitter without impairing
its curative qualities The sim
pleiemedy people however have no
faith in quinine or any of the remedies
that cluster about it They argue that
the cure for every disease is to be found
in the same neighborhood in which the
disease originated What if South
America had never been discovered
they ask with an air of triumph
Would all the people of North America
have died of chills It does sound
like a pretty fair argument unless it
was the original intention of the Creator
to let all the North Americans shakeout
their existence and go to a place
where chills are unknown or to a climate
so warm that chills wont hurt
the victims
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There are several cures for chills
among the simpleremedy folks but I
shall have time to mention only a few
here In my youth I was cured of a
case of chills of long standing by wearing
the blossoms of an alder bush in my
shoes This remedy I found very difficult
to apply as I had no shoes and had
to borrow a pair to take the treatment
in The remedy is unreliable for the
reason that the chills are liable to catch
a fellow without shoes and they may
come in the winter when there are no
alder blossoms There is a cure among
the simpleremedy folks however good
L PASO possesses the uncommon
advantage of having within its
metropolitan area a living historical
museum in which much of its
is faithfully mirrored This is
Mexico a
in all seasons a remedy within the
reach of the pauper who has just gone
broke on a plumbers bill as well as the
New York heir or heiress who is rich
enough to be a participant in a divorce
suit I have seen dozens cured by it
and have never known a failure The
only capital required is a yarn string
the only accessory a persimmon tree
The victim ties the string around the
tree repeating as he ties the following
words
Chills nnd fever
Grent harm youve done to me
But now Ill tic you
Round this persimmon tree
With this the chills take wings and
fly away to return no more during the
season
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A friend of mine who lived in Tennessee
and who we will call Bill Jones
because that was not his name had
chills a long time and of every kind
The old people of the community said
an ague cake had formed in Bills side
and he never would be cured until the
ague cake was scattered To scatter the
ague cake such experiments as rolling
him on a barrel and letting a billy goat
butt him in the side were tried but
without success In the long run of his
chilling Bill had contracted three kinds
of chills One variety appeared everyday
another every other day and another
every third day With so many
varieties of chills preying upon his
frame with their attendant fevers Bill
was kept busy trying to determine
whether he was too hot or too cold Once
Bills thirdday chill came on just before
midnight It did business with him
several hours and then the fever started
up But it so happened that the overy
otherday chill started business very
early the following morning and began
to work on Bill just as the fever from
the thirdday chill started to rise As
two things cannot occupy the same
space at the same time neither can a
cold disease and a hot disease prey upon
one human frame simultaneously The
fever killed the chill as dead as a nit
and the chill left the fever as lifeless asa
salt mackerel But while the every
otherday chill was knocked into a
cocked hat the fever did appear but
luckily just as it started to rise the
everyday chill came on and the cold of
the one and the heat of the other hit
each other so hard that both were torn
by the roots from Bills frame and neither
ever appeared again
I read in the papers that a Chief of
Police in a Kentucky town ordered a
woman who was walking on the platform
at a railway station arrayed in a
through arched gate The Mission of NucBtra Senora do Gundu
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Mexico founded 1659
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ways lag
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ged troubadours who
will sing you a long ballad about the
exploits of Pancho Villa or at an open
door away from the main tide of tourist
traffic are three or four Mexican musicians
their halfIndian eyes fixed
on vacancy who will fiddle for you
the national air of La Paloma
A Old Mexico
Figures muffled in scrapes under wide
socwAeros eyes that are mournful
wh < irn they are not laughing the musical
lilt of the Mexicanized Spanish tongue
men from the desert riding legs dangling
on mules saddled with empty
sacks a sprinkling of old men and women
praying silent and without selfcon
sciousness on their knees in the aisles
of the old mission a pretty senorita or
two not quite so oblivious of mundane
affairs this is old Mexico
A block or two away is new Mexico
a section of Juarez somewhat modernized
well paved and well lighted
dazzling the Gringo tourist with
the best of wines liquors and beers and
the oldest and newest in gambling
devices
It is all very wicked very gay and is
said to take 100000 a month away
from El Paso This is one of the reasons
for the perennial agitation for the
early closing of the international bridge
which is quite another
story
Neither Mexico
nor any other country
under the sun is
all revelry or all
poetry El Paso has
a deep concern as
well in the prose of
Mexico She draws
on Juarez as well
as on her own Mexi
canAmerican population
15 per cent
of whom at last reports
could not
speak English for
her inexpensive labor
Onethird of
her business in normal
times is with
Mexico
The Days of Pancho
Villa
Pancho Villa in his days of glory
staged some thrilling battles in the
streets of Juarez which were witnessed
by El Pasoans from the American
side Many of the buildings
are still bulletscarred from these
battles There are those in El Paso
who would almost like to have
the villainous but never monotonous
Pancho back Yet no Mexican revolution
will make El Paso great In the
mountains to the south are untold almost
unexplored riches Give Mexico
peace give her adequate capital and
some of this wealth will rattlo pleasantly
in El Pasos coffers That day
will come no one dares prophesy when
Then as the American Southwest develops
so too will all the cities of the
desert first of all El Paso Her trading
territory runs from Douglas and
Bisbee on the west to Pecos on
the east When the price of copper
falls as it has fallen she feels the
pinch if new mines are successfully
opened she is none the loser She is also
mistress of the great cattle ranges and
cattle are now coming back
dress through which the sunlight made
a great revelation to stay in the shade
or put on more clothes The woman replied
that she had no more clothes with
her whereupon the policeman went
home got one of his wifes petticoats
and ordered the woman to put it on The
City Council endorsed the policemans
act and allowed him five dollars for
the skirt Some may sec in that policeman
a great officer but I see in him a
wonderful financier Five dollars for an
outofstyle petticoat at a time when
petticoats are worn but little is a splendid
deal for these parlous times when it
is so difficult to lay hands on money
The chances arc that the policemans
wife could not have sold the petticoat to
the washerwoman for more than two
dollars and it would have been a credit
deal al that price
So long as the hippocket plea and the
unwritten law function in the courts
there will bo no overproduction of convicts
If those pleas should be knocked
out the people would be taxed to build
more penitentiaries and supply more executioners
So you see that even the acquittal
of redhanded murderers has its
bright side
Again I read in the papers that a Chicago
surgeon recently removed a portion
of a mans shin bone and made of
it a backbone for the patient This is a
great triumph for the science of surgery
and one that ought to do great
good The country has many politicians
who are splendid when it comes to running
away from real issues but who areas
short on backbone as an eel These
men can now be turned into useful
statesmen by a surgical operation Takeout
the shin bones so they cant runaway
and make them good strong backbones
so they wont want to run
When the right of suffrage was first
granted to women I predicted that
mans days of holding office were over
feeling sure that every person would
vote for the woman candidate in every
contest But I erred because I didnt
understand human nature Nearly all
women who have become candidates
have been defeated The woman candidate
who is ugly gets nearly all the
woman vote but none of the male vote
Of course all the men vote for the woman
candidate who is pretty but the
women would see such a woman in Guinea
before they would vote for her
Here is another fine point of law If
you strike a man and kill him you are
guilty of murder but if you strike a
But in striking contrast to modern El
Paso is ancient Juarez gay colorful
languorous The skyscrapers of El
Paso have no meaning to Juarez The little
Mexican city is still typically Mexican
in garb manner architecture and
environment Bullfights go on as they
did 200 years ago The customs
and religion of the people are pretty
much the same as in days of the Con
quistadores Nor does El Paso interfere
with the customs and religion of Juarez
which administers its own laws and
looks after its own affairs
Purely Individualistic
Whatever an American may think or
whatever an American may say as to
the social political and economic life of
Mexico it is all perfectly immaterial
to the native Mexican lie is purely
individualistic lives his own life in his
own way and cares nothing for the opinion
of the outside world
The Elephant Butte dam opening to
cultivation 155000 acres of American
soil and 25000 acres of Mexican enabled
farmers in the neighborhood of
El Paso to raise a bale of cotton an acre
three times the American average
There turned out
to be too much cotton
and El Pasos
hopes were temporarily
dashed But
the soil is inexhaustible
It will
produce alfalfa
sweet potatoes
apples grapes
apricots citrus
fruits cantaloupes
anything
that does not demand
severely cold
weather or a very
moist atmosphere
El Paso has the
largest custom
smelter in the
world It has a
great cement
plant There are
potash deposits
near by from
which much is hoped A textile
mill makes garments for outing
wear There are cotton gins a two
By J H LOWRY
man and he falls on a pavement nnd
knocks out his brains or falls in a river
and drowns you are only guilty of simple
assault This being true it behooves
all men to take notice of where
an adversary is standing before delivering
a blow If you want an enemy to
shuffle off the mortal coil and dont
want to be charged with murder tap
him and let him kill himself accidentally+
When a woman agrees at the marriage
altar to obey the man of her
choice she means that she will obey all
commands that arc reasonable and she
docs There is not one wife in a thousand
who if told by her husband to go
to town and purchase the prettiest wrap
or the prettiest hat she can find that
would refuse to obey the command implicitly
Promises like laws must be
given a reasonable interpretation
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A California man has brought suit
against a beauty parlor owner for 25
000 damages The man walked into the
parlor and asked that his hair bo dyed
a beautiful brown The dye was put on
but horrors when the poor follow looked
in the mirror next morning he found
that his tresses were a fiery red lie
hurried to his lawyer and entered suit
for damages and if the jury is composed
of the right kind of people a verdict
will be rendered in his favor Just
here I must make an explanation As
is well known no hirsute growth is
found on my dome of thought from collar
button to Adams apple and many
have cast slurs at my marble dome even
as the children the bears ate made sport
of the bald head of good old Elisha
When the time came for mo to select a
suit of hair I walked into a supply house
and called for raven locks The clerk
expressed sorrow that they were just
out of that color I then asked for a
brown suit of hair and he said they had
none of that kind Einally I asked what
color of hair ho had in stock and he
said ho had nothing but red I politely
informed him that if I could get nothing
but rod hair I would go without any
And so I have been happy ever since
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People who refuse to believe Bible
stories because they cant understand
how the things related were done are
foolish They cant understand the
things they see done Not so long ago
1 saw a kitten that would not have
weighed half a pound cat a fish that
weighed a pound The fish was twice
as large as the kitten yet the feline
cleaned up the fish from gill to tail And
I suppose all of you have heard of the
pig that ate a bucketful of slop and
andahalfmilliondollar oil compressing
mill and great railway shops It is not
impossible that there is petroleum in
the vicinity though investors need to
remember that none has yet been found
within 200 miles of the Pass
There must be a city there as there
must be one at the mouth of the Mississippi
at the bend of Lake Michigan
and on Manhattan Island It may never
be a great city measured by cubic contents
but it can be it already is a significant
one
Where Two Cultures Meet
It is significant because here two
cultures meet face to face Out of the
populous places to the north come
the Americans Out of the Aztec regions
to the south come the Mexicans Here at
the bridge almost always in the most
friendly fashion they confront each
other You may sit in a hotel dining
room near the Plaza and hoar jazz about
as well played as anywhere in the United
States but miles south it is a different
kind of music a different
rhythm that men march and dance to
Mexicans have one set of giftsAn
gloSaxons another You will find that
when it was caught and put into the
bucket it just about half filled it
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Its mosquito time again Since time
was young people have prayed for relief
from this awful pest The song of the
mosquito wrecks the nerves as nothing
else can and the sting of the mosquito
is the most excruciating pain to which
human flesh can bo subjected I am
glad to announce that a way has been
found to do away with the mosquito and
rejoice the more because the discoverer
is an editor Here is the plan Rub
alum on your face and hands When
the mosquito takes a bile the alum
puckers up its gazoopio so it cant sting
Then the mosquito sits down in a clamp
place tries to dig the pucker loose
catches its death of cold and dies of
pneumonia
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It is a pretty sentiment that has
moved the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals of New York to
erect a tablet in memory of the fire
horses and place same beside the fire
mens memorial monument I wonder
however if the society or the city is
caring for the few fire horses that remain
I happen to know one fire horse
that survives lie was a beauty in his
prime and seemed to partake of the
thrill of the moment when hauling the
big engine to the fire This horse is 88
years old now and has long been retired
but he is not forgotten or neglected
lie has plenty to eat and good
quarters When the weather is very
cold he is wrapped in a blanket In the
hot season he is placed in a good pasture
whore there is grass water and shade
One time he was in a pasture two miles
from town when a fire broke out When
he heard the alarm ho jumped the fence
rod galloped to town lie went to the
fire station and finding no wagon there
rushed to the scene of the fire Of
course he was disappointed when he
found a gasoline motor had his old job
The man who drove the fire horse for
many years sees to it that his old comrade
has every care and attention that
could contribute to his comfort If the
old horse dies before his keeper thoro
will be at least one mourner at his funeral
Truly its a pretty sentiment
and a beautiful recognition of faithful
service All fire horses do not meet
such a fate I remember seeing once
upon a time an old horse that had
served a town long as a fire horse driven
into town by negroes to whom he was
sold after ho was too old for fire work
The old animal was poor and showed
signs of abuse What do you suppose
he thought of the town as he gazed upon
the many buildings he had helped save
from the flames
Spanish architecture is ell represented in El Paso
crn El Paso That function is for his
brother from the chilly North But
when a young American of Mexican parentage
gives proof of artistic ability the
Rotary Club chips in and sends him East
to school And this may have more importance
in the long run than the fact
that farms in the Rio Grande valley
will produce five crops of alfalfa every
year
The raggedy mountains to the south
have given birth to bandits and to
songs Men have come riding out of
them with murder and also with the love
of beauty in their hearts What will
come out of them in the end Ask that
of the dayaftertomorrows historian
But it is well worth El Pasos while to
wait and see
Oldest Town in Texas
Ysleta a little town on the American
side 12 miles southeast of El Paso is
the oldest town in Texas It was founded
in 1G82 Its mission church 244
years old is still in a good state of
preservation although part of the walls
and roof have been rebuilt There area
few adobe houses in Ysleta that are
I fact philosophically accepted in El Paso
probably 200 years
oldEl
El Paso is well
represented by
r a i 1 w a y s The
Texas Pacific
and the Southern
Pacific are the
principal rail outlets
east and west
There has been a
marked improvement
in the equipment
and service
of the Texas Pacific
railway Under
the able supervision
of Geo D
Hunter g en e r a I
passenger agent
this road has considerably
increased
its passenger
traffic to and from
El Paso
I The Americanborn Mexican you will i Wheat in Floyd county is turning out
j be unequivocally assured does not gov from 8 to 20 bushels per acre
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Engleman & Engleman. The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex), Vol. 18, No. 28, Ed. 1, Thursday, July 14, 1927, newspaper, July 14, 1927; Tulia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth42052/m1/11/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Swisher County Library.