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EL PASO HERALD MondaV, Mav 27, 1912 7 SHIT) FUNS Dr. C. H. Parkhurst Discusses Murder for Murder, Outlawed Doctrine. People Not the Politicians Rule.

Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists and Disciples of Christ Striving for Closer Relations North and South. Church of England and American Episcopal Church to Hold Conference Across Atlantic In Episcopal Bishops Will Attend From United States. Christian unity plans get immediate attention in the May meetings now in progress and will get further attention during the summer. Presbyterians, north, south and United, are discussing organic union, better prospects toward the United than toward the houthern. The Cumberland union did not wholly unite, lor tlie remnant that body is more active than it has been in years.

Methodist Protestants, who coquetted with the Congregation alists for several years, are now discussing plans union with the north. 1 he elections held at the May conference are said not to indicate tne real feeling in the body, which favors union. Methodists, south, whose general conference meets two years hence, are negotiating with those north, and the general conference now about ending its sessions in Minneapolis, is taking some steps which it hopes may bring southern Methodists nearer. Baptists at Des Moines and at Richmond, in their respective conventions, will advance unity in some measure, and Disciples of Christ have an active that is sending to all May meeting committees propositions of unity. Three Episcopal bishops sail early in June to attend a conference in England between the church of England and the American Episcopal church authorities, looking to leadership by these communions in bringing about the world conference on faitn and order.

A recent utterance of the Rev. Alex. P. Doyle, of the Catholic missionary union, of which cardinal Earley is president, has been well received, and indicates union tendencies among at least a part of the Catholic following. Leaders in the unity movements express gratification at rapid advances making this May, both at official meetings and in the public discussions.

and would have it pay quite as much attention to men as to money. agreed states. petition. mission ing is lapping. USUAL SEMINARY CLASSES ARE UH ADITATI-Mi THIS YEAR closing, Theological seminaries, now almost uniformly report larger classes graduating this year, and an unprecedented number of inquiries for catalogs, indicating, so the regisarars think, a greatly increased enrolment next year.

Union Theological seminary, about whose orthodoxy complaint is made in certain quarters, ends its year with the largest student body in its history, -and the largest number of inquiries. It could have 400 students instead of half that number if it had accommodations, its registrar says. Princeton reports 185 students, with 37 graduates, a larger number than for fcome years. Lane increased its student body from 55 to 68 last year and expects an enrolment of 80 this coming fall, and Yale graduates the same number as last year. Its applications for admission next year, it states, are unusually numerous.

Drew reports in hand for a new dining hall, and an increase in graduates from 29 last year to 54 this year. The Southern Baptist and Chicago seminaries, one at Louisville and the other at Chicago, and both drawing from the west and south, think the supply of ministerial timber to be undiminished. They hold their own in graduates, and report college men to be aroused as rarely before, if inquiries from them indicate they are considering the ministry as a life work. The Baptist seminary thinks the supply inadequate, but improving in quality. 3VEW RELIGIOUS MISSION TO EMPHASIZED DURING YEAR The original Chautauqua announces its intention to emphasize anew its religious mission during the season of 1912 through a comprehensive program under a new director of religious work, the Rev.

Dr. Shailer Matthew's of Chicago, and a notable staff of assistants. By organizing, grouping and enlarging religious features eo that ministers and others get the most out of correlated, devotional, practical and scholarly advantages, announces an Institute for ministers and Christian workers during the week of August 18, a school of religious teaching July to August 15, an Institute on foreign missions July 29 to August 3, and one on home missions August 5 to 10. The Mall of the Christ, one of the most unique ana beautiful buildings in the world, is to be the center of this enlarged religious emphasis, and to assist the new leader, Dr. Matthews, will be the Rev.

Dr. G. A Johnston Ross, just elected to tho chair of homiletics at Union Theological seminary; the Rev. Dr. James A.

Francis, of Clarendon Baptist church, Boston; the Rev. Dr. John A. Rice, of Fort Worth, Texas. Supplementing the religious institutes will be strong preachers through a succession of Sundays in order to give courses of sermons.

These will include Prof. P. G. Peabody, of Cambridge, and bishop McDowell of Chicago. ANT 250,000 VARIOUS LAYMEN MISSION FOR COMMITTEES CONGR EG A TIO A LI ST A NT MILLION FOR CITY WORK Fifteen states, beginning with Minnesota and extending through to the coast, and Including farther south, Utah, Nevada, Colorado and Nebraska, have now been surveyed by representatives of home mission societies, and 10 religious bodies, supporting fire in six of all home missionaries, have upon cooperation in these There is to be an end to com- At the same time most home leaders declare that overlook- quite as deplorable as For example, in one of the states surveyed, Wyoming, it is stated that 85 per cent of the population, and 30,000 children, are without adequate religiouss advantages.

Congregational home interests, represented in their home society, propose the raising of $1,000,000 for home extension. A considerable part of this sum, if raised, is to be expended in cities. Other sums are to be used in strengthening churches at college ci ters, so as to attack the student lem, and still other sums, if the advocates of country church interests have their way, will be employed to endow the rural pastorate, the argument being that it is from the country that many of the best leaders of the come. RUSHING PALESTINE A HEAD HEALTH BOARD AND JEWS HELP Few spots on the earth are developing- in more modern fashion than is ancient Palestine. Railroads are building between principal cities, and trolley lines will soon connect all of the smaller places of note.

English capital, keen to transport sightseers of the whole Christian world, and prepared later to advertise and increase the number of such tourists, is supplementing that of the Jews. The Jewish development claims to have brought charity to an end and to have put in its place business methods. Improvement is making in farms, in common shops, In the scale of wages of laborers, and even in the founding of a health bureau and an agriculture experiment station. Last of all there is forming a publicity department similar to that maintained by California fruit growers. New efforts are making at this time to induce Jews of America, and especially of some crowded cities, to emigrate to Palestine and there help to create a political state.

Not much headway is making from here, but from Russia and Germany manv Jews are going. The Turkish constitution has removed some old restrictions, and the new blood furnished by the Zionist recruits has so developed possibilities that hardly a foot in modern Palestine can be said to be barren. ICHESON, then, had to die. The state killed him in cold blood. That is a brutal way of stating it, but it is the fact.

Brutal facts cannot be honestly stated In any but a brutal way. What was gained by killing him that would not have been gained by life imprisonment? Because he killed the girl does not establish the point beyond question that the state ought to kill him. There is more in such a conclusion than there is in the premises, which is not good logic. If he hail burned her to death that would net have justified the state in burning him to death. Blood for blood is a doctrine founded on the Old Testament regime, or, at any rate, people living in Christian times justify it by biblical authority.

There is not much that you cannot justify by biblical authority if you go back to the Old Testament for it. The Old Testament justifies wars of conquest; it justifies unlimited polygamy; it justifies indiscriminate slaughter of men, women and children and babies. So far as all matters of that kind are concerned the Old Testament is a back number. It Is pretty evident that governor Foss would have interfered with the execution of the sentence if he could have done so consistently with what he felt to be his official obligations. The Soul Revolts.

His soul revolts at the idea of butchery, when it is a human being that is butchered. The souls of nine out of 10 revolt in the same way. There is in It an element of the horrible that nine out of 10 cannot reconcile themselves to without doing more or less violence to the human nature, and anything that average humanity revolts at is inhuman, and what is inhuman is bad. It is evident from the testimony of the alienists that he was far from being normally constituted. His condition was described by them by such terms and phrases as "hysterical attacks marked by extreme emotional It is not stated by the governor how it is that the alienists, examining him in May of 1912, can confidently assert that lie was not the victim of any such attack when he committed the crime In October of 1911.

But even granting that he was morally responsible in October, 1911, and frankly conceding the enormity of the crime, killing in cold blood is the limit of atrocity, whether done by Richeson or by the state, and public morals can never be conserved by any act, however official, that operates to wound tho moral consciousness. whoever country, and its retard na- w'ith a certain cannot be innovations. SCRIPTURE. YEN allowing the great importance attaching to the presidential office, it is a thing to remember in the midst of this humiliating campaign that no chief executive, he may be, can save the neither can he wreck it. He may do much to promote terests, or he may do much to them, but whatever stability we tionally possess is vested in the people.

Whichever of the candidates now conspicuously before the public eye is elected, we shall not be four years hence very different from what we are much better nor much worse. A nation feeble in its life, petty in its character and brief in Its traditions needs but a slight obstruction to swing it off into a totally new line of development. But neither of those three attributes is predicable of the United States. Our life is a full life, running a stupendous current. Our character possesses stiffness of purpose that easily subdued to radical Tradition Rules.

And as to our traditions, they have been sufficiently long in forming to constitute a momentum that cannot be resisted nor overcome by any one man, nor by a thousand men, however revolutionary their ideas and however un- dcmesticated their ambitions. One of the most silly, presumptuous and conceited claims put forth by one of the candidates is that he Is Egotism can hardly swell itself to a more prodigious rotundity. The Titanic was a big boat, but probably the iceberg diil not know' It when it w'as struck by it. So there is a certain immovableness pertaining- to the body politic of a great people that will injure more than It can be Injured. This Is no reason why we should abate our efforts to secure 11 1 best and safest man possible for such an elevated position of responsibility, but It Is a reason why disheartenment would be proof of unreason and cowardice, however disappointing might be the issue.

Even there is no apparent necessity for the victory should be carried off hv the least dependable and most risky candidate now In the field the most that we should need to fear would lack the seriousness of a. mortal injury, or of any disablement beyond the power of our intense national vitality to restore. The citiXen who said that if Roosevelt were nominated he s'houlrt sell his property, and if Roosevelt elected lie should move to England, Is a kind of citizen who could serve us In no way so well as by his absence. The life, the strength and the soundness of our country is in its people, and belief in God and in the people are the two prime articles In the creed of orthodox citizenship. Denver Kansas City St.

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Steamship Tickets to all Parts of the World. way, THIXGS BOOMING IX MAY MEETINGS SHOW PROGRESS May meetings in England, which are many, indicate decided improvement in finances. For some years the Church Missionary society, representing the evangelicals in the Established church, and ranking- one of the two largest missionary societies in the world, has seemed to be on the losing side. Its income fell off and discouragement obtained all along- the line. This May, however, receipts are shown to have pulled up again to an even $2,000,000, the largest in the famous history.

A debt of only about $40,000 remains over from the few years of depression. In its May report the society declares there to be three great tasks before it. These tasks it thinks to be commanding ones. They art? the relief of the middle classes in India, the evangelization of pagan tribes In Africa, especially in the Soudan before the forces of Tslam claim them, and the educational work in China on Christian and also on adequate lines. the latter the society favors great universities, supplemented bv svstems that shall extend to every part of the new republic.

The British and Foreign Bible society, which had also suffered In income during the past three or four years, pulls up again this May, and because it does eo, and because the Church Missionary society does so, evangelicals In England are encouraged hevond anv recent period. The Bible soeietv distributed no fewer than 7,394,523 Bibles and New Testaments last year, and had an income amounting to $1,300,000, or nearly twice that of the American society. Societies in London, reaching out to every part of The world, report at May meetings just held, extraordinary advances on fields and almost without exception marked increases in receipts. Psalm Blessed are the undefiled in the who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

They also do no iniquity; they walk in his ways. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 0 that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. 1 will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. I will keep thy statutes: forsake me not entirely.

The, missionary movement estimates that there are 250,000 laymen in the 200,000 churches of the 1 nited 'States who are chairmen of committees and leaders in volunteer Christian effort, appointed to such positions by action of recent movements, the missionary, the men and i eligion and others. The movement thinks the number ought to be 1,000,000, for such could be employed, but appeals to the 250,000 to continue their Places and their work. The movement, In a statement just issued, expresses the belief that a large resource, and heretofore almost unworked one, is in the volunteer and unofficial worker, and for the development of that resource commends the missionary committee. This commit- i tee it would have look after support of the local church, missions at home, and missions in all parts of the w'orld, Never Closed My Eyes Last How often have you been forced to say these very words. You evidently have never tried Pills which gently regulate your system and stir your liver to action.

Sugar coated or plain your druggist. FRANCE, II. S. AND GERMANY LEAD IN CONTRIBUTIONS The Catholic society for the propagation of the faith, whose headquarters are in Lyons, France, had total receipts last year of $1,454,845, a gain of a little more than $50,000 over a the year 1910. The society is unique among missionary organizations In that it collects money one year, and after It knows the exact sum in hand, It expends it the next year.

By this plan it avoids debt. All other societies make budgets, begin expenditures, and then get both ends together without they can. France gave $605,000, or wellnigh half of all the receipts, while the United States was second on the list, with gifts of $281,234. Germany is the third contributing country, with gifts amounting to $186,000. Ttaly, Spain and Austria, strong Catholic countries, contribute to world missions of course, but do so chiefly through the orders.

Tn 1822 Lyons established Its famous society and gradually has led France, the United States and Germany into the secular rather than the regular channel of giving. The Fnited States, working in close sympathy with this French society, has recently established a foreign mission seminary, and within a fortnight its iirst building will be dedicated by cardinal Farley. This action was taken the Roman Catholic archbishops, who selected two young priests and sent them to Europe to study conditions and needs. The aim to get larger numbers of Catholic young men of America Into the foreign mission fields. Heretofore most such workers have been enlisted and educated in ranee.

England has furnished a few. It was this Lyons society that early assisted the planting of Catholic churches in America. Ever since it has been granting to America, until the total sum givcVn between 1822, when the society wa.J formed, down to 1900, when Catholic America attained its majority bf" being put on the same footing as countries, exceeded Most of this money came French Catholics, but w'as granted to tierarchies that were and are Ifargely Irish. PUTTING WASHINGTON PARK INTO SHAPE Getting Things Ready for Enjoyment on First of June. Painters and carpenters are busily engaged repairing the buildings at Washington park and getting them into a presentable condition for the opening of the park on June 1.

All of the buildings on the midway have been repainted, the slide has been repaired and painted so that it can at once be used, the merrygo- round has been given a general overhauling and will soon be in running order. The natatorium has been thoroughly cleaned and whitewashed and part of the roof has been removed, to give better ventilation. The grandstands In the baseball park have also been whitewashed and look bran new. Weeds have been cut away from the paths and from around the trees, adding to the beauty of the park. The oid adobe sheds on the north side have been removed to make way for the new arch which is to be erected on the county road.

This roadway will be paved and trees will be planted on either side, while the road will be continued southward between the two rows of cottonwoods leading to the baseball grounds. MEMORIAL SERVICES TO RE HELD IN TULA ROSA Tularosa, N. May people of the Union church are practicing for memorial services Sunday. Services will be held at 2:30 iu the Union church. T.

M. Shields has returned from Carrizozo, N. where he has been attending court. F. L.

Short has returned to his home at Three Rivers, after spending several days here visiting friends. James Reagoon has gone to the San Andreas mountains to buy some cattle, The Home Mission society will give a social at the Woodman hall Thursday evening. Miss Jennie Abbott is acting as central girl while Mrs. Pet Goins is wiib her sister, Mrs. T.

T. Osbey. I. L. Fairless has opened his office adjoining the J.

W. Prude Mercantile company store. He is U. S. Commissioner.

R. S. Connell is back from Carrizozo, N. where he has been transacting: business. Mr.

and Mrs. Aco Powell have left for Harlem, Montana, to locate. Ranch Turner has rented his ranch seven miles north of town to S. Snider. J.

R. Howell has returned from Carrizozo, where he went to attend court. Mr. and Mrs. C.

L. Wood and daughter, Elizabeth, spent a day In Alamogordo. Ollie Jackson heare from his cattle ranch in lularoso canyon visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.

H. Jackson. Mrs. Medler and Mrs. Hamilton have left for their homes at Carrizozo.

after a visit here with R. S. Connell and family. The Earnest Working club will have an ice cream social at the park on Memorial day. Miss Mae Sanders and Barney Sanders are expected home from San Bernardino, where they have been attending college.

O. P. Roidzick is here from Silver City, looking over the valley. Will Harkness has arrived from Elephant Butte to visit his brother, D. D.

Harkness and family. George Hyde is at home from Carrizozo, where he has been attending court. Cloudcroft SeasonTickets Now in Effect For accommodation of cottagers, tickets at the season rate of $5.00 will be on sale May 29, 31 and daily thereafter until September 15th. Final limit September 30th. To CLOUDCROFT Lodge opens June 1st.

EUGENE FOX, General Passenger Agent. ASS AYERS CHEMISTS indepanaerrt Assay Offlee co D. W. Kkjrhart, Hi lf Agent for Or Chemical Opon, 0 Box 89 KL PAftO.TCXAA» Assay Office CRJTCHETT FKRGXJSM rer Metalluigiats AGENTS GR OHE SHIPFSM 210 Sas Francisco St. 334 1834 THHEE CHURCHES Id HOLD JOINT ones oooiniitto months Pastors Will Each Get a Two Vacation In This Schools to Have a Joint Rally In Cleveland Square Tuesday Evening to Celebrate Successful Termination of Membership Campaign.

AMERICAN DAIRY LUNCH CO. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Roberts-Banner Kodakers, ask for new price list of kodak finishing. Prices reduced. Quality unquestioned. Fred.

J. Feldman Co. A sprained ankle may as a rule be cured in from three to four days by applying- Liniment and observing- the directions with each bottle. For sale by all dealers. SENTENCE SERMONS IN PULPITS OF EL PASO leaven which has been quietly working in China is the leaven ol Christian Henry Easter, Churcli of St.

Clement. was, and sins here and is the purpose of Jesus that you should be saved from your now, and then go forth to others, for here is my father glorified that ye bear much 6. Welsey Webdell, Trinity Methodist chureli. devils of despair may return with reinforcements into a hoime that Is swept and varnished hut they can not find lodgment In a heart filled with the spirit of helpfulness and J. F.

Abbott, Westminster church. was necessary for lirist to human because the same nature that sinned must suffer for sin; it is nlso necessary for him to be divine so that lie could bear, not only for one man, hut for every E. II, St. Lutheran church. we ns a church desire the power of the primitive dcsciplcs, we may receive It upon meeting the same conditions which they A.

Evans, Highland Park Methodist eliurch. make our Ideals Presbyterian church. and our ideals make C. I-. Overstreet, as we may be by the perscual qualities and the ethical teachings of Jesus we must not forjret that the faith which sent the disciples forth to preach, to suffer, and to die, was faith in the everllvlng Lord, seated at the rljfht hand of the I erry J.

Rice, Cal vary Baptist church. The Cotton Bell making- extensive yards and has line for a distare Corsicana, Tex. railway has been mprovemonts to Its led tracked its main of one mile from Several carlo? have been receil ers this soasoi profits derived try. is of Colorado mules red by Plainview deal- who report immense rom this line of indus- of the liOrd church. gave as sure a remedy for evil doing when he said that by fear men depart from Roy Day, East El Paso P.aptlst used to be said, do not preach morals; now say religion Is morality.

Hansen, First Congregational churcli. the B. I he ideal of the Oaptists is a spiritual dieniocra and towards this ideal political, social and religious life of tlie world, is rapidly Highland Park Baptist church. Atwood A plan has been set on foot by C. L.

1 Overstreet, Perry J. Rice, and C. Webdell, pastors of the First Presbyterian, First Christian and Methodist churches, respectively to combine the congregations of those churches so that joint services may be conducted at these churches alternately during: the months of June, July, August. If the plan is carried the pastors propose to alternate, thus affording: each a two vacation during the summer. For the purpose of discussing ana settling the details of the plan, tne three ministers interested held Monday at the M.

C. a following the meeting of the ministers union. Sunday School Rally In I ark. Tuesdav evening, May 2S, at the Sunday schools of El Paso under the auspices of the El Paso County Sunday School association will hold a rally in Cleveland square. The rally marks the close of the campaign of the schools to increase their membership.

Rev. John E. Abbott, of the Westminister Presbyterian church, and John R. L. Nichols, a local attorney, will deliver addresses.

The Fourth cavalry band will render the music to old familiar songs, which will be sung bv the children. The following is the program for the rally: Selections by the -Fourth cavalry band. Song, by the schools, led by the band. Invocation, Rev. C.

Wesley Webdell. General report of El Paso county Sunday schools, F. A. Hodge. Song, Christian Soldiers," by the schools, led by the band.

Address, R. Nichols. Selection by the band. Address, Rev. John E.

Abbott. Song, My God to by the schools, led by the band. Benediction, Kev. E. IT.

Combs, E. E. Nold, director of singing. hurch of St. Clement.

Tuesday afternoon at 3 there will bo a meeting of the members of the St. Clement guild. The same afternoon at 4 the Altar Guild will hold a session. Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock the bible class will hold a meeting. Chaplain To Address Women.

At Trinity Methodist church. the Missionary society will hold a meeting In the assembly rooms, Tuesday afternoon at 3:15 o'clock. Chaplain Livingstone, will deliver an address to the members. The Philathea classse will have full charge of the Wednesday night prayer meeting. The following program has been prepared for the meeting of the Missionary society of Trinity church on Tuesday afternoon at 3:15: Devotional exercises to be led by chaplain Livingston, of Fort Bliss.

A solo by Miss Ann Hughes; a missionary quiz on the monthly topic for report of the Missionary council held at Washington, last month, by Mrs. H. L. Graham; the second chapter of the will be read by rs. George W.

Dennis; meeting will close with prayer by the pastor. Society lleeting. At Westminister Presbyterian church the Missionary society will hold a meeting at the residence of Mrs. George Cole, 809 North Virginia street, Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 Lutheran lass Confirmed. A class composed of Arthur Schlemmer.

Oscar Rheinheimer, Willie Brock- moeller, Willie Winker, Emil Gebler, Herbert Weaver, Elizabeth and Carlo- mie Beisswenger, Margaret Depper, and Pauline Buensen, was confirmed at The Owl Cafe San Antonio St. Strictly new and Up to date. The best of everything at popular prices. Open all night. the service held Sunday morning at St.

Paul's Lutheran church. Mrs. Buensen and Miss Edna Stroh, wrere received by letter. Helen Rheinheimer, Friaz Hollmiz and William Robert Hollmiz, were baptized Sunday. Wednesday night at 8 the Christian Endeavor society of the church will give a reception to the confirmation class at the home of the pastor, Rev.

E. H. Combs, 1127 East Overland street. Friday afternoon at 2:30 the guild will meet with Mrs. C.

H. Schwankhaus, 1215 Olive street. To Give Lawn Social. The Aid society of the First Presbyterian church will give an i'ce cream lawn social Friday night at the home of Mrs. N.

E. Depew, 1016 North Stanton street. i Chaplain and Mrs. Livingstone will entertain the Barraca and Philathea societies Friday night at Fort Bliss. The Junior Christian Endeavor class Monday evening will give an old concert at the church.

Wednesday night the regular Bible study class will hold its meeting. The morning service in that church Sunday was the annual observance of day. Instead of the usual program, Rev. Dr. Overstreet delivered a sermon to the children.

Two children were received, and E. Dearing, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C.

Dearing, was baptized. Visiting Minister Preaches. At the East El Paso Baptist church, Rev. Roy Day, of Dublin, who is visiting his brother, W. B.

Day, 3219 Oro street, delivered the sermon Sunday morning. The Aid society will meet Tuesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. J. Osborn, 3310 Fruta street. Rev.

E. E. Cooley, will lead the prayer service Wednesday night. Superintendent R. E.

Harris is visiting Mrs. Harris and baby at Mineral Wells, Texas. Mrs. Victor Yelton was received as a member. The extra room which is being added to the church in order to accommodate the Sunday school classes is expected to be completed by next Sunday, and ready for classes.

llishop Coming. On his annual visit to El Paso, bishop Joseph P. Lynch, of Dallas, will arrive next Saturday. He will hold the confirmation services at the church of the Immaculate Conception Saturday afternoon at i oclock. During his stay in El Paso bishop Lynch will be a guest of father C.

M. Pinto. Successful Convention. That the Baptists held the greatest convention in the liistorv was the assertion of Rev. E.

B. Atwood, who recently returned from Oklahoma City, at which place the convention recently held. had one of the most meetings in the history of the said Mr. Atwood The sum of $2.000,000 was raised to carry on the foreign mission work next PREACHES ANNUAL SERMON FOR SCHOOL The annual sermon to the graduating class of the Douglass (negro) school was preached Sunday evening by Rev. A.

d. at the Second Baptist church. The service was attended by the pupils of the Douglass school and their friends. Commencement lass school will bV 8 oclock In the exercises will be will be by ticke CLOVIS TO VOTE ON SCHOOL BONDS Proposition Is to Build a $25,000 High School Structure. Clovis, N.

May election has been ordered by the mayor and city council for June 18, to determine whether Clovis shall issue $25,000 bonds for the erection of a city high school building. The proposition is receiving support of the citizens and it is doubted if there will develop any opposition at all. At present the city nas a $25,000 brick building and two frame buildings for tne grades, and the past term en- roled about 800 pupils. This will likely be increased to 1000 the coming term and it becomes necessary to provide more room for the increasing number of pupils. A site will be secured directly between the part of the city and the proposed site for the eastern New Mexico normal scnoox, vvnich Clovis now feels certain will located here before the adjournment of the present legislature.

There is excitement here over the announcement that construction worlc on the Clovis-Coleman -cut-off is to be started at once. Santa Fe managers at this end or the line say this line is to be built into Clovis within the next 90 days, and that construction is due to from Lubbock or Slaton within the next ten days. Prof. C. Davis has returned from the Hurley country across the Texas border and reports tiie country In a stir over the matter of irrigation.

He says they have just brought in a great well in that section which is pumping 1800 gallons per minute. Many such wells are being put down, and the whole country is alive with prospectors. Prices reduced, but nigh standard maintained In the kodak finishing department at Ask for new price list. Heid Bros. Wholesale and Retail Hay, Grain and Fieid Seeds Bell Phone Auto 036 Leon and 2nd Sts.

El Paso, Tex. exercises for Doug( held this evening at Paso theater. The free, but admission only. Those who have not recelvedVtickets, may have them calling the theater this evening. 314 SAN ANTONIO.