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pion and that vll shall not thrive unopposed.
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Very Thursday at Bl Paso. Texas; and the Sunday Mail Edition
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"cseeedliur 10.000 L i - . i t i i t t i r . -'ago tiruuu
Navarro's Successful Strategy
NKVARRO'S successful entry into Juarez wim neany iuuu men suuwa guuu
generalship. The fact that after threatening this movement for several
weeks and after numerous hostile demonstrations by the insurrectos the
federal commander was able to bring in his large force without losing a man is
very greatly to Navarro's credit
'it is altogether unlikely tiat the insurgents will make another attempt on
Juarez. The city is now very strongly defended and being an important base of
supplies and entry port it is safe to say that the government will 'make every
possible effort to save it from capture. The federal commander now has a com-
paratively secure base from which to operate 'to attack the insurgent bands and
to repair the railroads and restore communication. This will doubtless be his first
task for not only are the broken traffic lines an embarrassment to the government
and hindrance to successful campaigning but also tiis condition has ruined trade
In some lines and seriously hampered many industries thus weakening the re-
sisting power of the people and by fomenting discontent making it easier for the
insurgents to gain recruits.
It is evident that the insurgents are without a capable and responsible mili-
tary chief that they cannot successfully cooperate and that they have no well
defined plan of campaign. They might have taken Juarez but they did not
They might have captured Rabago's force but they did not They had pre-
sumably men enough to have stopped Navarro if they had concentrated in force
but they did not It now appears that the various forces have gone into the
south country whether toward Casas Grandes and Grerrero or with Chihuahua
as their objective cannot be known. Chihuahua is strongly garrisoned and the
railroads are open below. The national government is not going to abandon the
city. .Juarez was a much easier proposition for the insurgents and hardly less
important from a strategic standpoint. At onetime it looked as if the government
had decided to leave Juarez to its fate. The 'insurgents seemingly had the town
at their mercy. They let the chance go by; and there is nothing to indicate that
they would be more successful in assailing Chihuahua.
Navarro's relief of Juarez and the disappearance of the insurgent bands prob-
ably mean the end of important campaigning in this immediate vicinity. There
will be fighting along the border and there will be guerrilla warfare in the
mountains and isolated sections of northern Mezico for many months perhaps for
a year. But unless conditions are changed greatly by some factor not now
apparent the backbone of the insurgent cause is broken and the government has
successfully reasserted its authority and regained its prestige in northern Mexico.
o
The New York city board of aldermen has set a new precedent in refusing to
enact a new law because it would be impossible of enforcement The bill by the
way was aimed at hatpins of dangerous length.
o
It takes nerve to turn down a 41 -story structure when somebody wants to
build it in a. town. Seattle had an ordinance against structures of such height
but when a man came along ano showed the plans and the cash for one the
ordinance was repealed. And most towns would have done the very same thing.
o
Moving Pictures
MOVING pictures to show the progress of work on the great Elephant
Butte dam will be made by the reclamatipn service. These films wiU be
made at intervals as the work proceeds and will be connected up in such
a -way that it vriil be possible in an hour or so to show on the screen the entire
process beginning with the first excavations proceeding through the various stages
of construction showing the dam itself rapidly rising above the river's bed and
finally recording the dedication of the completed structure.
This is the first time such a remarkable application of the moving picture
idea has been attempted and the fact that the Rio Grande project has been chosen
for the test is most gratifying. The educational value of such a demonstration is
beyond measuring.
It is no longer difficult to make such records permanent and future gener-
ations avill have this wonderful series of animated pictures before them for com-
parison with the methods of a more highly developed age.
o
The city of Juarez may now safely resume its usual activities for the in-
surgents evidently have no intention of making another demonstration thereabouts.
o
Jeff Davis declares that he never referred to his constituents as "hill billies"
in any public speech." The inference is plain that he reserves the right to say
what he jolly well pleases in private conversation. Jeff is the senate freak useful
mainly as a convenient means of emptying the hall to make way for the janitors.
Proposed Telephone Merger
T IS SATO that the national organization of the independent telephone com-
panies is about to enter into a merger with the Bell system on a basis out-
lined by the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. The step has been delayed some years
longer than most people looked for.
There is no question that the independent competition is all that saved the
Bell outfit from ruin through dry rot and out of date strangling methods. Active
competition brought the big combine to life caused far reaching reforms of method
reduced rates almost everywhere and vastly improved the excellence of the service
and broadened the usefulness of this wonderful invention.
Combination at this time would not be a bad thing provided the rights of
the public be fully protected and the right of government regulation unmistakably
asserted and with prudence vigorously exercised.
o
Nobody has heard of any prisoners having been taken by either side. The
gruesome suggestion is made that they all meet an accidental death before leaving
the field of battle.
o-
As a practical means of "university extension" it is now proposed in some
ouarters that the states appropriate in connection with their state university
work a sum each year large enough to pay for advertising space in the principal
newspapers in which to present a complete college course a correspondence course
upon which the student might obtain a diploma after examination or pursue
postgraduate courses at the university or at home. There could be no more
practical way to bring the benefits of higher educational facilities before the
masses of the people giving all men and women access to the stores of human
knowledge even though the conditions of their life and necessity of steady em-
ployment may preclude the enjoyment of a regular college course.
HERAUD
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ftxv "rilSS' Th Tibu-k
Of Big Dam
NCLE
WALTS
-r-n- -tTTRT t wo c -rmincr T honed to be
Jv a long low rakish craft wherein
overhaul the ships of Spain and
later longings filled any breast to slaughter
the forest aisles
and to be called
AlvrRTTTrms Rickarpe." These
of the fighter's
ail j I oiopea ms
hrrrar n. ttttrs rAmnin. while bruisers
j awake at night and see myself absorbed in fight; my foeman always left the
! ring a battered bruised and bleeding thing while I uninjured stood and bowed
and beamed upon the frantic crowd. Such dreams arc gone and now my hopes
are not for blood or prize ring ropes. I
to be on auctioneer.
Copyright 1911 by George Matthews
w f J Letters From a Bride.
eatnee hairiax s M'sweinhat Ends
OH! Mumsie. darling the -worlds Bentl e.en that z waa course the people along the border
"JJttoman'n m running home to you . have mutual intercourse that impels
mm "'""I'l' ..- hMnca I told him about Mr. Sinclair nav- tnem to get acquainted Dut Dy iar ue
r -i-viio writ Titr ?! mifipr. its because -"- """-1 " dvm. j
Bobby has dropped asleep holding my
hand and I'm afraid to stir lest i
wake him. That's the neison I'm writ-
ing in pencil; so dea.eSt please "souse
all mistakes" as 1 used to say in my
baby letters
I
told you in my letter last night.
: I was just starting for the .train
that
when vour telecram arrived didn't I?
"Well your telegram was so orceful
that I felt I must dc as you laiJ; but
1 felt very rebellions Alumsle!
A Call on the 1'fcone.
I had just gone upstairs and begun
to undress when the telephone rang
furiously.
n) -.-vo for Arrs Caton
. tinl! In'Ttmade Te horribly
s tone in it maae r.e nornuiy
A man
and some
frightened.
1 thought my
. -i 0tnn hPit-
heart would stop beat-
ing when he went on to say The"
has been a motor accident and jour
husband has been slightly nurt tnej
are bringing him home now;
flnn't be
alarmed Mrs. Caton; he is not very
badly hurt but the doctor thought you
had better be prepared."
And Mumsie. if your telegram had
not come I would not have been here.
Can you Imagine how dreadful even
the thought of it is? v
I rang for Norah and Mary and we
had everything all ready by the time
Bobby arrived.
Terror 5feld Her Back.
I tried to go to the door but I
couldn't; my legs just couldn't carry
me there.
"You go Norah" I whispered and
I hung back in the hall afraid to go
afraid to stay and sickeningly afraid
of what I might see.
And then oh Mumsie thank God
for his goodness to me I heard Bob-
by's voice his dear dear voice.
"Where are you Peggy?" he called
and. when I had courage to look there
he was very white and with his head
bound up but standing on his own legs
and with both arms held out to me.
Oh. Mumsie supposing I had not been
herel
"You poor little white baby" he said.
"You look as though 3'ou had been
frightened out of your senses; I'm not
hurt darling; only bruised a bit."
"We got him upstairs and the doctor
stayed until he was comfortably settled
in bed and then left.
The Accident to the Car.
He is only bruised and there is a
little cut on his head. It seems that he
motored out with Jack Venner and the
car skidded and ran into a tree knock-
ing them both out; but no one was se-
riously hurt.
I told him everything Mumsie just
The Mar; a e 5t
By Radcliffe Martin.
MR POBBLE wriggled in his un-
comfortable straight- backed
chair in the . back kitchen.
Mrs. Pobble seated opposite him in
an equally uncomfortable chair knit-
ted grimly. j
"I'm about sick of it all" grumbled
-r TKvin "TTtvi-t. -n.A are In this
. . tLi. .. Ur nnivi
hSds about two coals. There's only wondered in his own mind whether his
three comfortable chairs in this house daughters had communicated his lib-
and Emma and William Rogers is sit- J eral offer to' their sweethearts
tin' in one and Jane and Jack Rawson j However week after vweek and
in another and Alice -and Sam' Price
in the only one that's left." .
"Don't you want your girls to get
married?" said Mrs. Pobble grimly.
"Why don't they get married and
have it done "ftith?" replied her hus-
o "'Wro they've all been courting
a 12month or more it's cost me some- j
thin shameful already in. f irln' and gas .
and' suppers not $orgettin' wear and j
tear of furniture. There's no industry
about young wimmen nowadays. You
never rested till you got me tied up
to you."
Mrs. Pobble shook her head In mourn-
ful contradiction.
"Ifd be a terrible thing Samuel it
none of them was courtin'."
"It'd be less aggrevatin. They'd go
out and earn their llvln. and let me
'ave a bit of peace. But I'll put an
end to it. I've been thinKing tnings
over. I'll tell the girls about it when
they've done spoonin' in there an' re-
member to get supper ready.'"
"You'll do nothln' rash Samuel" ap
pealed Mrs. Pobble.
tm fln somethin' rash if I've to wait
for my supper till 'alf past 9 same as j j-our gratitood? 'Ave it your own way
last night." I then they're all as ugly as one an-
However at that moment there came i other."
a sound of kissing from the passage a j Only the interposition of the land-
pattering of hair-pins on the porch ( lord of the Red Lion .prevented a con-
and Mr. Pobble understood that his ( fict between the old' friends. Mr.
.daughters were bidding their sweet- Pobble went home in a rage. It was a
hearts "good night." ! stifling .evening. Sam and Alice had
When Mr. Pobble had satisfied a
healthy appetite be looked round the J
supper table at his daughters.
"You know I promised to give $100
each to you girls when you got mar-
ried that's $300 amongst the lot of
you."
"Yes father" murmured the girls.
"I'm going to add $50 to that to
show that I'm not mean."
"Fifty dollars each lather?" asked
Emma.
Mr. Pobble snorted indignantly.
"There's greed for you. You always '
was greedy from a child Emma. No
I'm makin' that $300 into $350 an' I'll
tell you how I'm goin' to divide It.
The first of you as gets married '11 get
$200 the second $100 and the last $50."
"Offering prizes to get rid of daugh-
ters has never been the way In my
family" said Mrs. Pobble. "You'd look
very foolish if one of your girls got
left."
"She'll 'ave no loss" exclaimed Mr.
Pobble. "The first to marry '11 be bet-
ter off; the second to marry '11 be just
as I promised before; an' as for the
third well. If 'er fellow's so slow he
Denatured Poem
a pirate on fthe deen blue sea. I'd sail
.fierce men like demons laughed nnd j
hide my wealth upon the main. And j
red men in the .west; I hoped to roam j
ana leave my vacums xnere in pn
from sea to sea "The Bad Man of the
visions passed and I became ambitions
fame. The great John L. had conquered
vvrea.iu nuum some aay iaii upuii my
scrapped for it in vain. I used to He
think 1 11 hump myself this year and try
:a
ftk 77l-i-F-
Attains.
i riT t -nrf hnw ieal-
n
Vrtntrn it all alone:. Mrs. uray
called that afternoon; Xorah let her in i
and she was In the hall when he kissed J
She Is a "Teat mlschlel maitei t
and instead of coming in she stole off
ana torn u
told Bobbj.
and told Mrs. Bently and Mrs. jentu i
TTft sa-5 he has priven me manj j
chances to tell him; but I would not
take them and he wanted me to tell
him of my own accord and not to have
to accuse me of it.
The Affair (?) at Sherry's.
I told him of what I had heard at the
Mnh th other day. and that people
were talking about his being so much
w"h Mrs. Bently. ' '
CTonv tn her at
Sherry's because she sent a note by a
. .ntofl tn spp. him.
XlC Ullii OLtllJCVl tW .jy.--... -
notlove her and never has;
He not
j A he has '
lbeen madlj' jealous of Mr. Sinclair.
see " " " .--. ----- .
kissed me and ilumsie ne a-a greater uumuer oi -n.inenea.iis nuu "-
"We have told each other everytnins umtea states uney are anytning out j gration Known m tne nistory or. man-
and we are never going to have English are most Canadians but they j kind. But the great change came when
troubles of this kind again. ' have seized with a firm grip upon that j a half dozen years ago Americans born
We are going to begin "all over again most admirable of English polit(cal and bred decided to emigrate. They
and when one Of US dOUOtS go siru.isl
to the other and give a chance to ex- (
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p . ... . . rA lift id '
We are in the library now. and he is
asleep on the big leatner soxa aim
nm cittinir close close beside him.
When I look at his dear face and
realize what a narrow iscape he had. 'it
makes me love him more than ever.
Learning a Great Lesnon.
I think I have learned a great les-
son Mumsie.
I have learned that for the happy
woman there can be but one man in
the world and that man her own hus-
band. I do not think I will evsr -again be
tempted to flirt with any ;nan.
That has been my grsat failing and
I think 1 am cured.
With all my heart I love Bobby -mi I
know he loves me. We are going to the
south next week and on the way home
we are going to see you and Dad.
Think of itl In a few short weeks I
shall see you both my two darlings!
I can hardly wait.
Goodby my sweet Mumsie. Bobby .is
stirring and I think he will wake di-
rectly. Love to my Daddy and with
heaps for the best Mumsie in the world
believe me your happy daughter
Peggy Caton.
p. s. Bobby is awake and he says to
tell you that I grow more dear and
wonderful every day. Isn't he the
sweetest gose Mumsie?
THE END. .
ke
The Herald's
Daily Shert Story
II
can't iick up $200 when it's offered
'im. she'll be better off if she loses im.
It's a good liberal offer that what
u lb. "
During the next week w;hen Mr. Pob-
ble returned home from 'work he al-
ways looked round the house curiously
to see if a daughter had gone dui
Avprvthintr seemed iust as usual. He
month after month passed away with
out any sudden elopement in .the family
and at last In despair of a sympathetic
hearing at heme Mr. .PoDble went and
confided his scheme to' his old friend.
Mr. Stark. After it had been explained
to him three times Mr. Stark shook
-M .
ms iieau auieimu;.
"You're working on wrong lines
Samuel. What you .ought to"'aveudone
wag to have given $200 with the
ugliest. $100 with the next ugliest and
$50 with the least ugly. Thafd 'ave
been square dealin. Now let's see
which Is the ugliest.
"Look 'ere. Stark you're talking
about my daugthersl"
Mr. Stark stared at him in a puzzled
fashion. "O course I 'am. Who do' you
suppose we was speakin' -about? Now; i
to my mind they run pretty well neck
to 'neck but if anything Jane 'as It.
She favors you more than the others."
Mr. Pobble aimed a sitden but an in-
effectual blow at his old friend.
"Are you .mad Samuel? 'Ere am I
tryin' to 'elp you out of a difficulty i
and you up an' Its at me Where's
annexed the porch; the other couple the
two cool front rooms;the back kitchen
was full of washing and Mrs. Pobble
vvas struggling with the firs 'detach-
ment of the Ironing in the' kitchen j
Mr. Pobble's wrath rose even above George Fitzgerald is expected home
ironing heat- tomorrow from Denver and It is re-
His spirits were low till a day or two ported he will start up the little smel-
later his eldest daughter announced her ter.
Intension of getting married shortly. The high school football team went
Mr. Pobble expected an instant epi- i out to Fort Bliss yesterday and the
demlc of marriages but was mistaken. I soldier Wys wiped up the earth with
His other daughters seemed far Keener
about getting new dresses as brides-
maids than on becoming brides them
selves. A few months later Jane de-
cided to marry Jack Rawson. A time-
ly frost ljad thrown him out of work
and given the cautious youth leisure
for matrimony without losing his pay
on the wedding day.
It was after the wedding dinner that
Mr. Pobble appealed to his youngest
daughter. "Look 'ere you're surely
not goin' to throw yourself away on
Sam Price. A fellow that gets left
like him '11 do no good I' the world
mv---'- ti .i.-i-i i. - v. t-
Lion. 'E's a bachelor and I'll lay a
Getting Acquainted With Our
Good Neighbors To the North .
Reciprocity Agreement Will Aid Greatly in Cementing Neigh-
borly Friendship. ' '
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N ACCOUNT of the reciprocity r
tariff agreement now pending
in congress the American peo
ple are more interested in the Dominion
of Canada than they have been for
generations. "Whether or not president
Taft and premier Laurier succeed in
their efforts to make a breach in the
tariff barrier that spnarates the two
countries their action in negotiating . above the Arctic circle. About half a
this agreement certainly wi'l result in million square miles or the American
the two nations getting better ac- farea in Alaska is of the same char-
quainted than they ever have been. j acter.
The Canadians know us better than However it would be foolhardy to
we know them but there is an asto i- sa vl!at proportion of this "icy waste"
Ishins- lack of knowlfidire of each otn- is hopeless of development. Millions of
1 er's affairs on both sides of the line. I
Americans as a rule care very little
' for foreign politics and they are rare- I
ly curious to know what is going on
. in other countries even if there Is only
the separation of an imaginary l.ne
and a. strinsr of customs houses. Of
tie or noinmg aoout tneir normeru
neighbors. The Canadians on the other
hand display a hearty Interest In
.imenuau smairs uut uiey iiu.e uecu
repelled by the cold indifference of the
'
Claim the Twentieth Century.
rrh twAntitii ntiir' c nansrJVs."
gay tne Canadlans Tney believe and
-.q some show of reason that the
great development that took place in
the United States in the latter half of
the nineteenth century will be repeated
in theirown country in the immediate
future. Thev are nrosnerous. they are
..o.. they are progressive in
thought and energetic in action. They
o TA-.tnT o i.tinnt ninnoi roi
WC UV.'l.'UJJll.f tl UU11U.1 J4. WiWiiHi i.
ing. anj proudly refer to Canada as a
"rtirm" nv n t nn thp whnin.
satisfied with their estate as a depend-
ency upOQ the BrifcIsh crown but wkh
nractioal iinanimitv thev nrefr that
relation to possible absorption into the
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liuilj tne uispusiuun iu ijij muic s.l-
tentlon to substance than to form
Nominally Canada is an appanage ' of
the British empire. Certainly it would
tlght fo the integrlty of the empire
Bu(. actuall In the orainary COUrse of
affairs Canada is an Independent and
free as any nation on the ace of the
earth.
Curiously enough they think Amer-
leans have only the form and not the
substance" of political freedom i But
that notion may be the product of ig-
norance on the Canadian side of the
truth concerning their neighbors of the
south.
Is Blgsrer Than V. S.
Canada Is bigger than the United
States. That is to say. the Dominion
of Canada exclusive of Hudson Bay
shillin' you could nab 'im if you tried
'ard enough."
"Sam was talkin' about gettin' mar-
ried at Easter father" replied Alice.
"Mrs. Goddard's cottage '11 be coming i
empty then." I
"Love makes wimmen blind deaf. J
dumb .no it don make 'em dumb; I'm
w-ong there and idiots. 'Ave it your
own way but I'll not give Sam a penny
more than the $50 I promised.'
At his youngest daughter's wedding
dinner Mr. Poble was in great spirits.
"Friends all" he said when the guests
had reached that state of repletion in
which they could - """
nf mnWmnnv. Me' and my wife 'ave i
lived 35 years wltohut a cross word
'pent o' course on Saturday nights
and Monday mornings and when she
wanted new clothes' or jnore 'ousekeep-
ing money. Marriage is necessary to
uman 'appiness. I was so anxious to
get my girls 'appy J P"msf d !
first to get married 5200 the second
$100 and the third $50 on their wedding
days. Sam 'ere 's been a bit slow es
run third i' the weddin stakes Still
I'm pleased to give 'im 'is $50 nw
with Alice. It's your own fault Sam.
it ain't more so don't you ever go
throwin' it in er face." .
Mr. Price grabbed tne nttie wasu
I . J !.. i-
leather bag. slowiy counteu me muuw
ana men ruse iu icj-
Friends all it looks as if 1 d been a
daughters till we was ready. They
didn'fseeno sense in running off with-
out weddin clothes an' the show. So
we settled not to go like mad folks into
marriage but to sort o' pool the prize
mnnfV' It worked out at $116.66; and
j think. Mr. .Pobble. you've treated us
. . 1U --
liberal an' you wont minu -iia- "
sort o dead-'eated In these marriage
stakes."
Years Ago To
day
from lhi Hera d u.
amDte 1807
-RVnTik Ashton arrived this afternoon
from the "Carmen mine.
Dr and Mrs. Looser came down tnis
morning from Las Cruces.
Rector Martin is recovering rapldly
from his attack of grippe.
John M. Dean has returned from Sil-
ver City where he attended court.
Sixty cars of cattle have been
brought over the river the past two
days. .
Sam Goodman jr. was taken with a
paralytic stroke the other day but. is
better now.
The government held an old hose
sale in front of the federal building
and realized $200.
Carpenters have been building
ci0thes closets for the firemen in the L
- the council chamber.
grain buyers' board of trade has
Doen organized at Chihuahua by J. M.
Kelly formerly of this city.
them -score 30 to 6
D. Y. Hadley has sold to Richard
TCeavs lots 1 to 5. bJock 1. Morehead's
addition; and Mr. Keays resells to Mrs.
Kachler lot 1 and 23 feet of lot 2 for
$600.
City clerk Kitchlns is holding down
the executive chair until the council
can meet and elect a mayor pro tern
to act during the absence of mayor
Campbell who has gone to Chicago.
The committee on entertainment for
the coming firemen's convention will
recommend at the next meeting of the
j board of directors that a public ball
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sary funds.
bit slow but when -ir. roaoie miue crjs-ls. nad so possessed her that
'andsome offer we talked things over. . . stopped to blame him for
u'o rtirln't see the fun Of keepm IS ' i.tm( cnoxulotinn Rhp Tiart snok
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the Gulf of St Lawrence and all tidal
waters nas a total or 3Vizy66o square
miles; while continental United States
including Alaska has only 3616484
square miles a balance in. favor of Our
Lady of the Snows of 113181 square
miles. But over 2000000 square miles
of the Canadian area is in the frozen
and undeveloped north much of it
acres of superb wheat fields have been
carved out or that northern waste in
the past few years and millions more
""'a.it to be claimed by the husbandman.
Perhaps it Is a fair guess to say that
Canada has resources of undeveloped
virgin land about equal to that of the
United States in 1S90
Canada Sot Crowded.
There are not nearly as many peo-
ple in Canada as there are in the United
States. Accordine: fo the estimates of
the Canadian census of 1911 the popu- 1
latlon ofthe Dlminion is 7358000. The j
population of continental United States j
including AiasKa In 1910 was 92032- j
230. Two of the states of the American
union New York and Pe rasy.vania
each has more population than all ;
Canada During the last decade the j
percentage of increase In Canada was .
37 as against 20.9 for the entire United
States. 21.6 for Pennsylvania and 25.4
for New York state. So after all. Can- I
ada i$ not doing so badly in fhe mat- j
ter of. increase. ' i
' -merlcans Emigrate.
Much of the increase on the Canadian !
side comes. from immigration from the!
United States. For a century 'and a
quarter the American republic was the
great haven of refuge and
land of
promise for the man about to move
from one country to another. It stijl
j Is receiving the greatest tide -of immi-
wbui iu iiaua u.l nisi u me iiuji-
dreds of thousands and now they are J
J crossing the border Into western Cair- j
I ada b$ the hundreds' of thousands each
i year
Since 1902 more than half a million J
j American citizens have emigrated into j
j Canada. Two-thirds of them have fore-
j sworn their allegiance -to the Stars and j
Stripes and are now British subjects j
Not citizens mind you but subjects! '
j Subjects of an ' English "king an Eng- I
lish George' But stranger yet they j
like it. And a newly-fledged -British j
I . . . . ... ... M (
suoject ersi line a sovereign uiuzeii kh. i
Illinois now a yoter in Canada Is more
than likely to tell you that he is unal-
i terably opposed to annexation to the
United States. How does that state of
I facts agree with your old time fourth
Married Life the Second Year
Mabel'HerbertUrnerOn nttTun "BaLta?
I
I the first glow of her love for Wax.-
ren Hel?n used to long for some
e-reat test.- some ORPdrtunity f
great self -sacrifice. by which she could
jrove her devotion.
Like most romantic emotional wo-
mei SMe had renrned ' for the deepest
selfishness and indifference were grao-
:X niStehially killing mUch of 'this ardor and
Sa SJS romance she w.as still in love with.him.
TM-'r-Vm.trt n ctotho
'aU attribute's of her
j Ideajs
ben he had down ith
j the confession "I have lost just S1600.
$12QQ tQ pay it Jth all
j Qf her smolderJns i0ve and tenderness
long.fn& to proTe her love by
i t seif -sacrifice was reawek-
f ened
He're was heropportunity. Hee was
the supreme. test- But what could she
' do? How could she help him now? AH
. - ht hfk had lain aWake many!
" - . " - .... I
impractical impossible plans whirling
i through uer mina.
. H eaKer desre to help him. in this
she
his
J nQ word of reproach but had given him
j instead a great aching sympathy
I Helen's Bold Itcsclve.
j If tnere was oniy s0me one to whom
sne might go some one from wnom
h co.td borrow this S400. She wourd
v it back afterward with months of
I . . -
the strictest economy and sett-aeniai.
But tnere was i no one to whom sh.
dared turn.
. At last toward dawn came the most
1 feasible plan of all. Her jewelry. Other
women had sacrificed their jewels for
the man they loved why not she? But
would they bring enough? She had
nothing of very great value except her
two diamond rings and a small pearl
locket.
And how .would she go about getting
the money for them? A "pawnshop"
was to her hardly more than a vagut
term. She had "seen the three gilded
balls over dingy shops and knew In a
general way for what they stood. But
she had thought of such places as only
the refuge of the most destitute and
desperate. And now that she herself
should enter one of them and for such
a purpose.
And yet that wa? now her determina-
tion. A determination formed in the
gray hours of the dawn just beforo
she- fell into a heavy dream-troubled
sleep.
"When she awoke she was startled to
find it was after 9. Warren had left
for the office without awakening her.
And she knew that he had been glad' to
go. It was an escape from dwelling
any further on the confession of the
night before. To have talked or It
again would have meant only Increased
pain for them both. And to have tried
t'o Ignore It would have caused a most
strained self-consciousness.
Off to Carry It Through.
And now the day lay free before her
The day in which the plan she had
evolved in the night must be carried
through.
She dressed at once in her street
suit; told Delia she would try to be
1 back by luncheon and that she must
look after the baby even though sh6
had to neglect her work. When she
started off it was with the rings and
looket securely wrapped in her purse.
Where should she go? And what should
she say or do? She had a vague Idea
that the process of "pawning" was a
difficult and mysterious one. And what
If any one should see her enter such a
place? What would they think?
She had taken a jar to a neighbor-
I hnnfl of chean sIiods. where she had re-
i membered seeing the gilded balls. It J
Abe Martin
NWPw(i
3 PK PAY
Sf H WKJ
I never seen a athletic girl that
thought she wuz strong enough t help
her mother. Pinky Kerr says he alius
hates t' git shaved cause it makes his
hat look so ole.
of July lion tail twisting home of the
brave Uncle Sam orations?
Loyalty of the English..
It is often remarked that Englishmen
in the United States maintain their al-
legiance to the king and their names
on the books of the British consulate
for decades and decades while Irish
and Scotch and Canadians become nat-
uralized citizens at once on their arriv-
al in America. It used to be hard to
understand. We Amerlcansx didn't see
why the Englishmen should carry his
absurd patriotism so far. And the En-
glishman in his stolid way had noth-
ing but contempt for the Scot and the
others who so quickly changed the
king's protection for the privilege of
voting In election for the privileges of
vote might not be counted after all.
"We used to think the Englishmen
stupid but now how does it feel to
see a hundred thousand native born
Americans becoming subjects of George
V ea'ch year? The shoe Is onjjhe other
foot and we are becoming in a small
way an emigrating people.
On the other hand the United States
now receives from Canada an annual
immigration of about 55000. For near-
ly 100 years Canada sent us every
year a great number of her young men
who sought the wide opportunities of-
fered by the rapidly developing re-
public. These young men are still com-
ing but not in such numbers. A great
number of the Canadians nor coming
to the United States are mill operatives
and other laborers. The Americans
(Continued on ne-'- page.)
was a dingy little place with a promis-
cious collection of watches old jewelrv
and silver behind its barred windows.
For jt moment Helen stood uncer-
tainly at the door. And then summon-
ing all her courage she entered.
A sullen looking hard featured man
was behind the counter. He was exam-
ing a broken chain and did not even
trouble to glance up.
Helen took from her purse the little
tissue paRer package and- timidly laid it
on the counter.
' "I would like to to get some money
for these."
The man deliberately finished the
chain before he noticed her; then he
tore off the paper from the rings and
locket and let them fa.l jingling on tha
counter. '
'How much do you want?" he asked
roughly looking at her shrewdly for
the first time.
"I I should like $400."
He laughed harshly- "Four hundred
dollars! Did you think you could get
$400 on them?"
Tie Ordeal of the Pawnshop.
"Why the solitaire cost $200 and the
other ring $150 and I don't know what
the locket cost but it must have been
over $100."
"Well buyin's one thing and pawnln's
another. You'll get.no $400 on THEM."
"Then how much can I get?" she
asfted helplessly.
He examined each one critically
through a magnifying glass. Then he
threw them back on the counter before
her.
"Two hundred-and fifty doUars."
Helen gave a little gasp of dismay.
"Oh" surely you'll give more than that!"
"Two hundred and fifty dollars
that's what I'll give."
"But they are worth so much more!
He shrugged his shoulders not deign-
ing further reply.
"Couldn't you give $300?" she ven-
tured. "Two hundred and fifty dollors. Take
it or leave it. That's all you'll git
here and he turned away arid began
to arrange some things on the selves
behind the counter.
Helen waited several moments but
he paid her no further attention. He
went on with his work as though she
was not there. She gathered up the
rings and locket to return them to her
purse. Then she hesitated laid them
back on the counter and said quietly:
"I will take the $250."
Without comment the man turned
around and began to make out a re-
ceipt. "Name?" he asked briskly.
Helen started; she had not thought
of that. She must not use her own
name.
"Marie Henderson" she murmured
giving the .first npme that flashed
through her mind.
With half a grunt he wrote It down
Plainly he knew the nam was not
her own. But the ferreting out of
the truth is not part of a pawnbroker's
business.
SloTvly He Counted Them.
Thenhe went back to a safe In the
dim rear of the store 'and returned
with $250 in soiled bills. Slowly ho
counted them out before her. Helen
put the money in her purse and hur-
ried from the place. Two hundred and
fifty dollars! It was not quite enougn
6ut it would help. And it was the
best she could do!
She made her way home athrill with
the emotionalism of her self-sacrifice.
She seemed swept along on the very
heights of love. She pictured War-
ren's surprise and tenderness when he
knew. Ah. he would realize then how
much life meant to her how much
she was willingto do for his sake!
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