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SUPPLEMENTjrO
THE MARFA NEW ERA.
SATURDAY, NOV. l»04
It appears that King Daddu was the
Jaddy a/ all kings.
WEALTHY WOMAN LEAVES
CHURCH SHE BENEFITED
BLUNDER THAT WAS FATAL.
Lfer-
“Baby born on steamship Romanic
and named after the vessel.” Poor
baby I
Dr. Wiley, chief of the government
bureau of chemistry, still insists upon
Laving his whisky straight.
A Brooklyn man advertises tnat raw
food has cured his dyspepsia. How
be will enjoy eating cooked food now!
Air ships get bigger, but it is not
clear whether the Increase of size
will make them fly longer or fall
harder.
The nurse who killed two of her pa-
tients by giving them carbolic acid for
water should have her sense of smell
repaired.
Japan needs $400,000,000. If she
gets it she can make big money by
copyrighting the recipe and putting
It on sale.
They say there are fewer and fewer
men in the co-educatlonal institutions.
It looks like the ultimate survival of
the prettiest.
Don’t you feel sorry for the Sunday
school teachers at Strasburg, Pa.,
who have just voted that there isn'i
any Santa Claus?
Sweet potatoes are quoted higher
and it is understood that the ’possum
Is also being u little more careful
these moonlight nights.
Rich Americans residing In England
have begun to marry their wealthy
country-women who live over there.
Nobody seems to know why.
A New York girl has been driven
insane by the pictures on the bill-
boards. The wonder Is that so many
other poople have escaped a similar
fate.
If Alfred Austin had had any sense
of humor he would never have pub-
lished that essay of his on "The Grow-
ing Distaste for the Higher Forms of
Poetry.”
The Marquise des Monstleri Mer-
lnvllle, formerly Miss M. G. Caldwell,
who. It will be remembered, founded
the Roman Catholic university at
Washington some years ago, has re-
pudiated her former creed and left
the Roman Catholic church.
It will be remembered that the mar-
quise des Monstiers Mcrlnville and
her sister, the Baroness von Zeed-
wltz, aro the daughters of the late
William 8. Caldwell and his wife, who
was a Breckinridge of Kentucky.
3hortly before bis death Mr. Caldwell
became a convert to Roman Catholic-
ism and left hts children to the care
it Roman Catholics in New York,
whom his wife had met in church
jircles.
The younger sister married some
fifteen years ago a German nobleman.
her mother's death inherited $500.-
000 more.
After graduating fBom a convent
she and her sister, the present Baron-
ess von Zeedwitz, went abroad tc
travel with their aunt.
On their return to America, Gwen-
dolin went to Louisville, Ky., rented
an entire floor of the Galt house, and
prepared to entertain in a mariner
new to the people of that place. Her
first public appearance was at the’
opening night of Mary Anderson J
After the play see entertained half ol
Louisville in her apartments. The
newspapers the nest morning printed
columns of not too friendly comment
on the appearance of the heiress and
especially of her Imported gown. It
was low cut and Miss Caldwell ob-
jected to the manner in which it was
OURQRLSJND BOYS
A NEW SPORT FOR GIRLS.
Girls hear their brothers talking
about baseball teams, hockey and foot-
ball teams and the like till it seems as
if the “team” is the most important
thing in the world, and that no individ-
ual game is half so much fun as one
which will permit of “team work.”
Of course some girls belong to bas-
ket ball teams, but by far the greater
number of them do not, for that sport
requires suits and an especial place to
piny, such as a gymnasium. Still there
is no reason why girls should not have
teams, too, and there are a good many
other two girls take the same position,
and at a word from the captain the
team starts. ■*’
Unless the girls know the secret of it
and start slowly, the team will not go
very far. The girls will step on each
other’s heels and toes, bump against
one another and mix things generally
unless they start right. The secret of
it is to keep step.
The captain raises her left foot as
she gives the word to start, and as she
brings it forward every other girl on
the team does the same. In short, they
Main Building Roman Catholic University.
A Syracuse court has decided that
wearing French high-heeled shoos is
not u sign of Insanity in a woman, but
it doesn’t lend its indorsement to
the fashion.
Some day an enterprising insurance
company will make a hit by putting
out a lino of “Halloween Insurance”
in addition to Its fire, lightning and
tornado risks.
That young man who forgot he mar
rled in the morning and married an-
other woman in the evening will get
a year In the penitentiary to strength
en his memory.
Every man who hunts deer In Ver-
mont has to pay $15 for a license.
This goes to the state, however, and
Ills friends are supposed to look after
the funeral expeusus.
A New York World reporter de-
plores the fact that the campaign
cigar is a thing of the past. But
what’s the use of exhibiting our sore
spots to the public gaze?
It is a great thing for the world
that the dispute between Russia and
England is to he settled by the big
guns at The Hague court, Instead of
the big guns of the warships.
a Lutheran, and since then also has
left the Roman Catholic communion.
The elder haH been in had health for
some years.
Prominent members of the Roman
Catholic clergy in Washington ex-
pressed their surprise at the an-
nouncement that the Marquise des
Monstiers, formerly Miss M. G. Cald-
well, and the founder of the Catholic
university at Washington had re-
nounced the Catholic iaith. In fact,
they were loath to believe she had
formed such a determination.
Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, when
asked if he could assign any reason
for the Marquise des Monstiers’ ac-
tion, he answered that he could not;
that ho knew her only as a good
Roman Catholic, and until the an-
nouncement was made had given no
thought otherwise. “It is all a mys-
tery to me.” he said.
One official of the Roman Catholic
church attributed as a possible cause,
taking the story to be correct, the
notoriety which the university gained
by the failure of Thomas E. Wagga-
man, its treasurer, by which the uni-
versity suffered considerable finan-
cial loss.
Member of Kentucky Family.
Mary Owendolln Caldwell Is a Ken-
tucky beauty and herless, her mother
described. She returned to New York
the next day.
Soon after reaching her majority,
Miss Caldwell, through her guardian,
Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, announced
to the Catholic hierarchy her Inten-
tion of endowing the Catholic univer-
sity, and a council was held to con-
sider her offer.
Such a project long had been con-
sidered, but sufficient funds had never
been provided. Miss Caldwell donat-
ed the eighty-eight acres on the edge
of Washington, erected three of the
largest buildings, including Caldwell
hall, which is the largest of the pres-
Absentmindednesa Too Great for
“Two Small Drinka.”
There is a man up on Capitol hill
who sups with a number of old col-
lege chums two or three times a year,
and usually after one of these sup-
pers he Is fit to roost with boiled owls.
The last gathering of the clan was
about a fortnight ago, and before Mr.
—well, we’ll call him Jenks—set out
for it, he promised Mrs. Jenks solemn-
ly thJR no matter what the others
did, he would drink nothing but charg-
ed water and lemonade. Mr. Jenks
came home about 2 o’clock, walking
very carefully and sedately. Mrs. Jenks
was awake, an4 she turned up the gas
as he came in.
“Are you sure you didn’t drink toe
much?” she asked.
“You hurt me when you speak like
that,” said Mr. Jenks. somewhat in-
distinctly. “I had only two small
drinks.”
Mrs. Jenks lay back on her pillow
regarding him. Under her gaze he
was most careful to bestow all his
belongings to their proper places. His
feelings were hurt, and he was deter-
mined to show his wife how unjust
her suspicions were. He was stand-
ing at the stationary washstand in
the corner of the room when she spoke
again, and it was not so much the
matter as the manner of her words
that cut.
“Charles.” she said, “you might a?
well stop trying to light the hot water
faucet. That’s the third match you’ve
wasted.”—Washington Post.
THE GIRLS’ TEAM GETTING UNDER WAY.
A Boston judge, in sentencing a cul-
prit to six months, said, "Drunk or
sober, I won’t stand for any man beat-
ing his mother.” One of these sen-
tences is unhappily ambiguous.
The light of hope dawns. The wom-
an purchasing ag,?»t of a great Chi-
cago store was rebuked by the man-
ager of the house for buying the
plumes of birds that are protected by
law.
Still that cataract In South America,
Which is bigger than Niagara, has a
long and strenuous campaign of adver-
tising ahead of it before it can hope
to attract the hulk of the wedding
tour trade.
The new king of Saxony refuses to
recall his former wife to share the
throne with him. hut he will probably
not he so cruel as to neglect to send
her a picture of himself, seated in his
solitary splendor.
A New Jersey minister announces
tliat ho has made arrangements to
give free rides to rind from his church
by automobiles, carriages or trolley
cars, to all who will attend his serv-
ices. It In a question whether ne
couldn’t get larger audiences by charg-
ing an admission fee Instead.
Four firemen in Now York were ov-
ercome by th© Bmoko from several
cases of tobacco leaf in the cellar of a
burning building. It will ho interest-
ing to know whether the experience
cures any of them of the smoking
habit.
being one of the famous Breckinridge
family of the blue grass state. When
a little girl she inherited from her
father a fortune of $2,000,000, and at
things at which they might beat the
boys if they formed teams and prac-
ent group, and provided for the main- j ticed hard.
tenance of the university for three Here is a new wrinkle in the way of
years. Her sister, the Baroness voi girls’ teams, and we predict that if a
Zeedwitz, gave Caldwell chapel to team of girls should practice half as
the university. : hard as the boys do in their games they
For this service Pope Leo XIII. [ Would beat a team of boys who had
bestowed upon Gwendolin Caldwell a practiced quite so much,
diamond-studded medal, which he had | Five or even six girls can make the
struck especially for her, and also team, although four is the best number,
conferred the decoration of the Order S The captain holds a short stick, say.
of the Rose, which distinction no
other woman ever has held.
Tie young heiress went to Italy in
1887, and there met Prince Murat,
two feet long, in both hands, knuckles
up, bending her elbows .back until a
second stick just like the first can be
run through the crooks of her elbows
who was thirty-three years the senior behind her back. The second girl
of Miss Caldwell, and deeply in debt.
He was the grandson of Murat, king
of Naples, and of Caroline, sister of
Napoleon I.
After their engagement was an-
nounced preparations for a regal wed-
ding were made, a trousseau lit for a
queen secured, and the day for the
ceremony set.
The day before the marriage the
prince and his legal representative
and Miss Caldwell and her attorneys
met to arrange the anlenuptiul con-
tract. The prince insisted upon the
control of the fortune. Miss Caldwell
refused this. Then he offered to take
half of it. This the American girl
refused, saying that she had intended
settling $25,000 a year upon her hus-
band. The prince wanted more. Miss
Caldwell at once broke the engage-
ment and returned to America.
Miss Caldwell, in 1892, announced
her engagement to the Marquis de
Monstlers-Merinville. It was said to
be a love match. She was married
on October 19 of that year, the cere-
mony being performed by Bishop
Spalding. After her marriage the
marquise went to Paris to live and
her entertainments were notable
there. She spent much of her time in
charitable labors. Her health began
to fall two years ago. Since then she
has led the life of a recluse.
grasps this second stick, one hand out-
side each of the captain’s elbows. The
keep step perfectly, and as long as
they do this there is nothing to prevent
their going as fast as they like.
After a very little practice the team
will be going at top speed, every bit as
fast as the girls could run separately.
Now is the time to challenge a team of
btfys to a race. Do not give them a
chance to practice, but make them get
right at it, and you will beat them so
badly that they will not know where
they are at.
Remember, the more you practice the
faster you will be able to go, and if you
do beat the boys you will show them
that team work means something to
girls, after all.-New York Eveniug
Mail.
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Girl Students Celebrated Election.
The girls of Wilson college, Cham-
bersburg. Pa., celebrated the recent
national election. There were torch-
light processions of both republican
and democratic students, the burning
of red Are and the display of transpar-
encies. The paraders marched to a
gymnasium hall, where Miss Helen
Parctt. an Ohio girl, represented
President Roosevelt and Miss Ethel
Ball, a daughter of Judge Ball of Wil-
mington, impersonated Judgo Parker.
Miss Mary Schultz was Charles W.
Fairbanks and Miss Clara Lee of Phila-
delphia Henry O. Davis.
In England people who drive their
automobiles at unreasonable rates of
speed and without regard for the
rights of others are called just plain
“road hogs.” It Isn’t an elegant ex-
pression, but politeness is only wasted
on such off en den.
Regretted Voting So Soon.
Representative Dalton, of West
Virginia, says that on election day a
friend of his met a darky coming from
the polls at one of the precincts and
asked: “Well. Sam, what arc they
voting for down there?” “Mars
Thomas," answered the negroj. “ills
mortrin’ dey wuz votin' fer two dollars
an’ er half, but I don’t knows what
dey Is votin' fer now. I ’spects dat I
voted too soon, Mars Thomas.”
Too Busy to See Pyramids.
The Westminster Gazette reports
the cniie of an English officer who was
stationed for two years at Cairo and
who never took the trouble to go out ■
to look at the pyramids. In explain- j
Ing his failure to aee those landmarks '
of progress he said: “What wtth polo
and parties and bridge and cricket I
never had a minute to myself."
Gave Himself Away.
Prof. Ladd. Instructor In psychology
at Yale, while lecturing before the
members of the senior class a short
time ago. unconsciously "gave him-
self away” tn this fashion: “Now, let
me Illustrate that point. One day a
celebrated psychologist, a world-
renowned psychologist, I might say,
was walking down street when I met
a little girl, and said to her—” What
the professor said was drowned in the
outburst of laughter from the stu-
dents.
Woman Master of Foxhounds.
Many women in the British Islands
hunt their own harriers, but only one,
Miss Edith Somerville, Is M. F. H.
(master of foxhounds when the title
is borne by a man). Miss Somer-
ville’s home is in Ireland, the O’Dono-
van being the honorary secretary. In
addition to being a noted sports-
woman. she is a successful novelist,
some of her books taking high rang
among the humorous works of the
past few years.
IN THOUGHT,
A froggy- sits upon a stone
And deeply does he think; ~
He seems to hold a problem vast, *
His goggle eyelids blink. . _
The question—it is doubtless this: •
Whether to sit alone,
Or jump where other iroggies sit
Just off on yonder stone!
—M. J. H., in Little Folks.,
THEODORE'S BEST ENEMY.
“Oh, dear,” sighed mother, ‘there
comes Theodore’s best enemy.”
Aunt Marcia looked up from her cro-
cheting. •-
“His best enemy!” in surprise. “I
suppose you mean best friend.”
Mother sighed another gentle sigh,
this one a little longer than the other.
“No; but I wish I did,” she said, "he’s
such a dear little enemy.”
“Why!” Aunt Marcia was looking
out of the window—“it’s—it must be—
the little boy Teddy told me about on
the way up from the depot! He said
ho had a red sweater just like his own,
and I’m certain he said they were
very Intimate—yes, I remember his
very word, “intimate!’ ”
“They are,” agreed mother. “They
are very int’mate—enemies! Walt and
see for yourself. It does not usually
take very long.”
Aunt Marcia waited—and saw. It
took a little less than five minutes. All
at once the beautiful, sunshine peace
of out of doors was spoiled by an an-
gry voice—two angry voices.
“I didn’t!’ i.V 'f-
“Yessir, you did!”
“Then, I’m a-going right home, so
there!”
“I just as lives—just as liveser, so!”
“He won't go home,” mother mur-
mured. the sorry creases in her dear
face that the angry voices always
creased, “not any further than the
gate. Then Theodore will call him
back and they’ll make up—and begin
again.”
"I see," nodded Aunt Marcia grave-
ly. “I begin to understand. How
long is there usually between?”
“Five, ten, fifteen minutes—or two
minutes,” mother .said sorrowfully,
"never more than fifteen.”
It was a littio less than nine min-
utes by the dainty watch at Aunt
Marcia’s belt. The voices this time
went up. up, up. There they stayed
and said fierce, throaty things as fast
as they could say them. It was aw-
- I ful! Aunt Marcia shuddered!
Gymnasium on Liner. I “Something ought to be done,” she
the new North German Lloyd exclaimed. "Why not try doughnuts?”
Prinz Eltel Friedrich, which "I've tried those, and cookies—and
Southampton for China and peppermints. They relieve, hut never
is a gymnasium, twenty-five | cure. I am getting discouraged.”
Wait!” Aunt Marcia dropped her
On
liner
leaves
Japan.
feet long, twenty-one feet wide and fif-1
tana feet high. It contains machines pretty lapful of wools and got up. “I
for rowing, swimming anil cycling, think I have it—arbitration!” And
machines that will exercise every she was gone, with a whirl of crisp
muscle in the body, and two Swedish
electrical health machines.
skirts, out to the battlefield.
The two Intimate little enemiea were
standing, red-faced and wrathful, glar.
ing at each other. Between them, on
the gravel walk, lay a gritty-lookiug
stick of candy.
“He bit cross my mark!”
“No, never!”
“Then ho sucked cross it. so there;
an’ sucking is had as biting!”
The hard pressed little enemy ap-
pealed to Aunt Marcia. “I never did
an’tking ’cept suck my hall.”
“I saw his tongue!”
“ ’Twnsn’t, either; it was his tongue
he saw!” --------- •»%. K
“Huh. ’s if I couldn’t tell!”
“They look just ’zactly alike,
tongues do; it was his own tongue he
saw, so!”
“Oh, wait!” exclaimed Aunt Marcia,
laughing in spite of herself. “Come up
here and sit on this step, both of you.
I want to tell you something. Ready?
Well, when two countries fight—disa-
gree,” correcting herself politely, “and
can't decide whose tongue is across
the enemy’s line, they are obliged
sometimes to settle the dispute by ar-
bitration. Ar-bi-tra-tion. It’s a long
word, isn’t it? But it simply means
choosing another country that isn’t
‘int’mate’ with either of them to say
which of them is right. Now, if you
were two little countries-”
“Play we were! I’ll be ’Merica.”
“No, I want to be ’Merica!”
“America doesn’t fi—quarrel,” Aunt
Marcia interposed gravely. “One of
you can be—oh, Russia, and the other
one—er—Japan. Then we’ll get—we’ll
get”—Aunt Marcia's eyes, seeking in
spiration, lighted on the lordly old
gobbler sauntering about the yard—
"we’ll get Turkey to arbitrate! He
shall decide who shall have the candy!
Do you both agree?”
As if they would not agree to a play
like that! The old gobbler was coaxed
up, and the case—and the gritty stick
of candy—placed before him. lie eyed
it sagely—seemed to be weighing the
claims of both hostile countries—
stooped lower and lower—and gobbled
it up! Turkey had arbitrated!
There was an instant's astonished
silence, nnd then a now sound floated
into mother's cars—a nice, friendly,
jolly sound. Theodore nnd his best
enemy were laughing at the tops of
their voices.
Aunt Marcia came back smiling. “It
was quite successful.” she said. “It's
a pretty good way to settle disputes.
Everybody’s satisfied—even Turkey!”
“If It would only last,” laughed
mother. And. oddly enough, it did.
All the rest of the afternoon the beau-
tiful, sunshiny peace of out of doors
was‘undisturbed. And Theodore's
.best enemy, when he went whistling
home at night, looked for all the world
like Theodore’s best friend.'—Annie
Hamilton Donnell, in Congregational*
1st,
CAB IN FRONT OF ENGINE.
New Type of Locomotive Used ir
Some Railroad Systems.
An oil-burning engine with the cab
on the front end has been In opera-
tion on the Pacific coast for some
time and locomotives of this construe"?
tlon have also been in use for several
years on Italian railways. The South
ern railway (of Italy) has recently
added to its equipment some four-cyl
inder compounds of this type.
They are of the ten-wheel class,
with the cab in front of the truck
and firebox and the cylinders at the
rear end. The coal is carried iD
bunkers at the side of the firebox
(four tons capacity), and the tender
has a cylindrical tank. The firebox
is of the Belpaire type and extends
over the frames. The cylinders are
all in a row behind the smokebox (at
the trailing end of the frames), and
all of them drive the middle driving
axle.
The arrangement of the cylinders
and valves is peculiar. The two high-
pressure cylinders are on one side
and the steam distributor is con-
trolled by a single piston valve and
Walschaert valve gear. The two low-
pressure cylinders are on the opposite
side and are also served by a single
piston valve and valve gear. The en-
gine has six driving wheels. In front
of the cab is a small platform with
side steps.
New Microbe of Consumption.
That phthisis of the lungs cannot
be cured, says a St. Louis dispatch,
was the statement made by Dr. Fred
Kolbenheyer of St. Ixmis, who, at the
tuberculosis congress, explained the
discoveries of Prof. Otto von Schroen
of the Royal university of Naples.
Prof von Schroen was unable to be
present and sent his paper to be read.
Prof, von Schroen explained that a
patient suffering from consumption
could live for years in apparent health,
but under favorable circumstances the
germ of the disease would become act-
ive and destroy the lung tissues. In
cases of phthisis of the lungs, the pro*
fessor said, he had discovered a new
germ, which, together with the germ
that had hitherto been known to doc-
tors to destroy all animal life, existed
only in cases of phthisis of the lungs.
A committee of four was appointed
to enlist the assistance and co-opera-
tion of prominent educators, manufac-
turers, philanthropists and others who
may be able In various ways to assist
in carrying on a strong educational
campaign against tuberculosis.
Dangerous Use of Arnica.
While arnica is one of the drugs
included in nearly every household
medicine chest, it is doubtful if the
average mother, who is wont to apply
it so freely to the fingers and toes
of her litle ones, realizes the risk she
runs. Although many home remedies
call for the use of arnica, it is said to
be highly dangerous to apply it to the
skin unless greatly diluted. One part
arnica to five parts water, the propor-
tions commonly advised, is said to
form a lotion the use of which is at-
tended with great danger. A corre-
spondent who has looked up the sub-
ject says that arnica should bo dilut-
ed more than ten times. “If used in
full strength,” she says, "arnica will
cause paralysis. A good combination
is that of one toaspoonful of arnica
to four tablespoonfuls of witch hazel,
and even then It should he used In
moderation, as experience has showa
—Chicago Evening Post.
Whetho
Home.
I ,, ... i lor in the Arctic- circle
I Or on India's coral strands,
! Where the winds are perfume lnden
Anil warm waves caress the sau.Is,
| Whether eastward, whether westward.
When the daylight fades to
I Where a baby runs to meet
And to kies ji-ii, that Is li
Where a baby runs to meet you—
i That Is all there Is in life;
| All there is at all worth wlpnl
to glonm,
you.
home.
lere Is
th the
the slaving____ .... .......
j Two wee dimpled arms stretched to yoiu
Tw< -----*—* »,,**--*
Two expectant eyes that v
It Is home for you wherever
There's a baby at the gat<
irtn wlpnlng.
and the strife:
stretched i
that wait;
It Is home—sweet home—forever.
Where the Hits of laughter run
tousle-headed baby,
ing playing in the sun:
It is home where every night time
shadow
)f a to
Blttlns
A
wee nif
As the evening
wee nightrobed
Now I lay me do
creep
rhUpera
flsgire whispers:
lown to s eep.”
Houston ■
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