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The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-08-01

fattest lot OF cattle, sheep, goats and
horses in Eddy county he ever dealt
with. So you see there is good as
well as bad"
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-08-01

Carlsbad is again in commune
ton with the outside world.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-08-01

The searchlight of publicity doesn't
in stampeding the rascals.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-08-01

A paper down the Valley having de-
voted half a column of space to de-
filming "subornation Of perjury" we
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-08-01
Nothing on the Market to Equal to
chamberiain's Collie, Cholera and
piarrhoea Remedy.

This fact is well known to druggists
everywhere. and nine out of ten will
give their customers this preparation
when the best is asked for. Mrs. ODE
Wilmer. a prominent druggist of Jop-
lin, No.. in q circular to his customers.
says: There is nothing On the mar.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-08-01

Sick headache results from a disor-
tderds condition of he stomach hi is
quickly cured by Chamberlain's Stom-
ach and Liver Tablets. For sale by
all dealers.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-08-01

ket in the way of patent medicine
which equals Chamberlain's Collie.
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for
bowel complaints. We sell and recon
mend this preparation" For sale by
all dealers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21
ENVIRONMENT A MOULDER OF
CHARACTER.
BY H. S. BIGELoW.

The other day saw a group of boys
carefully scanning theatre poster.
The picture showed a man in the act
of plunging a dagger in the throat of
a woman. The boys did not run or
scream. But their eyes were big and
the intensity of their faces showed
that the horror of the picture was not
lost upon them. Near by were two
younger children playing together in
the gutter. Their faces were smeared
with the mud made by the dish water
running over the sidewalk. and the
children were amusing themselves
floating cigar stumps in the disgusting
pool.
Rejecting upon that sad sight there
came to mind other childhood scenes
There stood out in memory a little lake
that nestled among the-hills where
Sweet-breathed cattle browsed and
where the branches of great trees were
mirrored in crystal waters. There
were the boathouse and the swimming
hole and the spring-boartf; and there
were summer nights, too, when the
leaves were still and stars We're bright
and the spirit of the child looked up in
silent wonder.
In the race of life, in the contest of
endurance, in the moral tests
that come, that child has not fair
chance who has sprung out of the mud
of the streets.
To know the breath of lilacs and the
rustic of autumn leaves, to be up with
the lark, to wet ones feet in the dew
of the pasture, to go to bed with the
song of the whip poor-will-these mem
cries are like guardian angels.
The children whose horizon is
brick wall. who must play on cobble
stones and go swimming in the canal
and be chased by the police, if they do
not grow up to be ideal citizens, shall |
Of 1,o1 sit
ment upon them? Shall we not remem-
Der their bonds?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21
THEATRE TRUST War.
The LNDOMIT4BLE BELASCO GIT-
ING THE SHOW COMBINE A
FIGHT FOR ITS LIFE.
Threatened With Extinction, He Has
Organized an Opposition Which
Has Attracted Some of the Bright
est of the Theatrical Stars.

: David Belaseo for a number of
years has been waging a war against
the theatrical trust He has been
assisted in years past by Minnie Mad
dern Fiske, the wife of Harrison Grey
Fiske, owner and editor of the Dram
ttic Mirror. This year the Shubert
brothers broke off ali business rela
lions with Klaw and Erlanger. the
moving spirits of the theatre trust and
low a combina ton with a capital of
81 100000 of Belasco, Harrison Grey
e'is1e, John G. Fisher. Frank L. Per
ey and the Shubert Brothers has been
ormed, acquiring about thirty thea
res. extending from Boston to StLou-
IS, in which they might produce theat-
~ical productions without the dictum
IF the trusts
David Belasco. ever since his sever
nee CT relations with the trust has
made strenuous efforts to acquire
theatre in the nations capital, as he
has found that the cosmopolitan ma
ture of its people assists him greatly
in determining whether new produc-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21
NARY, MOTHER OF WAsHIvGToS
Handsome Monument Erected by
Patriotic Citizens.

The monument of Mary Washing
ton, the mother of George Washing
ton, stands on the western side of
Fredericksburg, Virginia, almost und-
err the shadow of Marye's Heights,
of bloody Civil War memory. Mary
Washington died of cancer. August %,
17S9. 1t was in April that year, that
Washington rode from Mount Vernon,
to- say farewell-a final farewell
to his mother before starting for New
York to be inaugurated first Presi-
dent of the United States. In let
ter to his sister Betty Washington,
who lived in Fredericksburg, Wash
ington wrote. after learning of his
mothers death, when / was last in
fredericksburg I took my final leave
of my mother, never expecting to see
her more
Neglected Tomb.
For hundred years the grave of
this goo1 woman lay unprotected. on
what had been part of the farm of her
daughter Betty Washington. but
which became a common of the city
of Fredericksburg. For half CEN
fury the grave was marked by little
stone slab. but this disintegrated,
and disappeared. Various fruitless
efforts We're made to build monu-,
ment, and in 1880 a New York bank
er, Silas E. Burroughs, offered to give
an elaborate monument. The corner
stone was laid with imposing cere-
monies by President Andrew Jackson.
but Burroughs met with financial re-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21
Worse Than Tobacco Cigarettes.

London is reported to be in the throes
of a new vice-a vice which is not only
getting society into turmoil, but is
also attracting the attention of the
medical fraternity 1t is the tea-leaf
cigarette habit-one in which women
are becoming the chief adopts, and
which they find great difficulty in over
coming. Once the taste for the new
weed" is acquired, it is said the SEN
sation of smoking tea cigarettes is
quite pleasant. Dizziness is caused by
constant smoking and the victims
clutch madly for invisible and
imaginary objects to support them
selves. They finally drop in an ex-
hausted and stupe6ed condition, and
then follows that wild state of dream
land said to be as varied as that caused
by powerful narcotics.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21
Fortunes in Church steeo1es.

1t is the opinion of Rev. DR.. Forbes.
Secretary of the Board of Extension
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
that enough money has been expended,
or 1t may be said wasted in building
steepies, to pay off all the church debts
or the country. Besides, he saws.
SteepieS are a relic of barbarism. and
money used in their construction can
be more usefully expended a good
many people will hardly agree with
the reverend doctor in his opinion that
church steep1es are useless or serve no
good end Grace and beauty are lent
TO thousands of otherwise common
place looking towns and cities by the
spires rising here and there from their
midst Everything cannot be strictly
unitarian, and if a thing serves to
please the eyes and senses of hundreds
or thousands of people, it is far from
being useless.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21
Famous Theatre Site.

Lafayette Theatre is comparative
Iy modern playhouse. and occupies the
site on which formerly stood the Sew
ard mansion, in which Secretary Sew
ard of Lincoln's cabinet lived when
an attempt was made to assassinate
him the same night President Lin
coin was shot. In later years the
house was occupied by Secretary
Blaine.
Last year David Belasco found all
theatres in the national capital with
closely barred doors. He was arrang-
ing to make the initial production of
..Adrea," Mrs. Leslie Carriers latest
success, and found no building in
Washington suitable for conversion
into theatre, except Convention Hall,
probably the largest auditorium south
of New York, and in years previous
used for an ice palace, for six day BIZ
cycle races. athletic meetings, and
other institutions requiring great
space This had hall some $50 feet
in length by 125 feet in width, with a
roof carried on huge semfcircular ar
ches rising to a height of nearly fifty
feet above the floor. Such a barn as
this Mr.. Belasco in few days con-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21
a Story on BaLzac.

The French alienist, EsquiroI, ON
being asked by student, is there any
sure test by which the sane can be
distinguished from the insane? invited
his questioner to dine with him and
observe. When the student entered
the dining room two other guests were
present one an elegantly-dressed
and apparently highly educated man,
while the other was somewhat I'M
couth, noisy and extremely con-
ceited. As the pupil bid his host
good night, he Remarked: The prob
lem is very simple after all !; the quiet,
well-dressed gentleman is certainly
distinguished in some line, but the
other is evidently a 1unatic, and
ought to be locked up at once"
Smiling at his pupil, Esquirol told him
that he was wrong. 1.-The quiet WELL
dressed man. he said, who talks so
nationally, has for years 1abored under
the delusion that he is God, the
Father, while the other is NJ. Honore
de Balzac, the greatest French writer
of the day."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21

York faced for weeks a coal famine
that paralyZed her activities and al
most killed her poor. Manufacturers
could not secure enough fuel to run
their plants and women on the least
side paid ten cents for as much coal
as would fill quart pail. The suf-
fering in this city was out of all pro-
portion to that of the rest of the coun-
try.
All food products come from the
outside. New York uses three million
eggs every day, and beef arrives in
whole train loads daily. The city must
go to the country for its building ma
terials, for wool. cotton. everything
that is needed to run it's factories,
stores and banks.
Dependent on the Country.
The reckless expenditures of the
city dweller are continually giving rise
to the question, 'sWhere does the mon
ey come from?" From the country,
of course. Every wildcat scheme
Wall Street to Madison Square, in
augurates its proceedings by send
ing circulars into the country. to
catch the dollars of the farmer.
The operations of the stock ex-
change are all based on the condi-
crop, slump in the production of
grain, or the prospect of one, turns the
floor of the Exchange into a pande-
inonium. Year by year the eyes of the
moneyed interests are turned to the
earth, fguratiyely speaking. and the
keenest minds of the metropolis are
Specializing as to what success the
farmer is going to have with his crops.
The results of that speculation involve
miilions-of dollars. All the country
knows what happens in New York
when the cotton crop fails. The beef
strike last year caused meat to van
ish from a million family dining
tables in New York city. In summer
eggs at 35c a dozen are too expensive
as an article of diet for more than half
the city's population
Material and money she gets from
the outside; and rarely, indeed, does
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21
REAL HEART OF THINGS.
Its Found Not in the Great Cities !;
But in Country Homes.

I'm time the great cities may be-
come dominant, but it will be many
years hence, and l would be sorry
should 1 live to see the day." said
James J. Hill, President of the Great
Northern railroad THE national well
fare depends upon the prosperity of
the farm lands, the mining districts,
the lumber camps-not on the growth
of big cities. The agricultural inter
>ests in particular represent the great
est strength of the country-and will
for many years to come
Yet men stand appalled, at the spec
tacle of metropolis Let US take
New York, as our most striking eX-
ample-where the visitor gapes at the
crowded markets, the endless traffic,
the hurrying throngs, the skyscrapers,
the roaring factories, the hustle of
commerce, all the urban reek and
riot, and needless of~what lies behind,
the hidden motor power, cries:
Here is the heart of things; here is
the pulse of the national life, here the
life blood of the nation centerS, life
blood which, flowing through the veins
of commerce, gives -vigor to all the
land" New York, the heart of the
country? Rather New York the par
asite-the blood sucker.
A Giant Exhibition.
At best, New York is but monster
exhibit of the products of mines,
farms, cattle ranges, mills and factor
les, and of the rural homes where gen.
ius is born, nourished and inspired.
What more speaking symbol of these
things than the city's skyline. In it
self that skyline of marvellous archi-
lecture, save as it eXcites wonder, ad-
miration and a sense of enterprise and
activity amounts to nothing. What it
signifies in each assertion and depreS-
sion is the comparative values of the
country's material resources.
Concisely, it represents capital. Ia
Dor and raw material. OF these three
the city produces not one-in appreci-
able quantity. The raw material, the
men to handle it, the gold TO buy and
sell the finished product, come out of
the ground and from the open spaces.
New York, Chicago, st. Louis, or
any other city, has its inception in the
open country, and its existence is and
ever will be dependent upon the latter
None recognizes this more quickly
than the city man. He knows from
experience that the city suffers first,
last and most from any national dis
aSter. To go no further back than the
coal strike OF three winters ago-New
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21
Prehistoric Sculpture.

An idea Of the small brain capacity
of primi-,-e man can be gathered
from crude stone head, now on ex-
hibition, which was recently found
in field at Moriches, Long Island.
The head, while crude in its work
manship, is pronounced by ethnolo-
gists as doubtless true to nature
a representation of some savage and
prehistoric people who lived ages ago
The head is not a particularly pleas
ing bit of sculpture, as it calls up a
vision of men and women with small
brain development and huge repulsive
jaws but degree above the other
animals
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21
Loosing the Dogs of War.

But it is now war to the knife be-
tween the two forces, trust and anti
trust, thrust and ANTITRUST Wheth-
er the trust will be successful and
absorb the independents, remains to
be seen. Probably not, so long as it
has to deal with men who know their
actor proteges, know the method of the
trust know how to produce play
with unsurpassed taste and know that
the American people will pay admfs-
sion to witness an Incompatible pro-
duction all the more willingly because
of the herculean efforts made to pre-
sent it to them. Belasco, in the new
combination which he has organized
seems to have gotten his knife we'll in
between the ribs of his antagonist and
is beginning already to twist it vigor-
ously.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21

main clearing house for the whole
country All the mighty spectacle of
commerce is merely the dramatic and
gorgeously staged representation of
the nations money, material and men,
which build up the metropolitan mech
anism and set it in motion
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21

to actor and manager. The success
OF this plan opened a larger vista of
profit. and the securing of all the thea
tres in the country has led to the de-
strHction of competition with the two
formidable exceptions noted In the
other theatres the manager has be-
come the .janitor." while the syndicate
dictates prices, attractions, and other
features.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21
Money Spent Like Water.

The regulations of the District of
Columbia to protect theatre patrons
against the danger of fire, are ex-
tremely rigorous. and it was these
that the trust used as weapon to
thwart Belasco in his endeayor to
have this last production first appear
in Washington as have other plays,
which are known as general successes
The burden of expense for this work
did not fan upon the owners of Con-
vention Hall, but upon Mr. Belasco..
who paid, in order to make this hall
into modern fire-proof theatre an
amount aggregating nearly $4,000
The present theatrical combine or
sstrust,- had first conducted legiti-
mate booking syndicate. charging for
the service five per cent.of the prof
its. an enterprise advantageous alike
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21

she even produce the men to handle
them A glance at biographies will
pains of industry,
merchant princes, men of art, profess
sions, laborers, are country bred. from
A. T. Stewart Ito go DO further back
to the Rockefellers, sClewes. Depews
and all the rest of the present day
leaders
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21

tons will be success or not. In Sep
TENDER. however, announcement was
made that he, in communion with the
Shubert Brothers, had acquired con-
troll of the Lafayette Theatre in Wash
ington, and also had taken up go
year lease on the ground on which the
theatre is built. giving them absolute
possession of the property
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21
Cities Not seIf-Dependent.

Not only is she dependent upon the
open spaces for men, material and
money, but even for trade. As COM
pared to the amount of money spent
i'll this city by out of town buyers, the
sum expended by its own inhabitants
dwindles into insignficance. In recog-
milton of this, the Merchants Associa-
ton of New York annually arranges
with railroads for cheap tranSport;-
ton, and with hotels for rock bottom
rates, and runs excursions to gather
in the out-of-town buyers
During the month of August over
400 buyers from the south and west
We're in New York, and during Septem-
Der this number largely increased.
Reckoning under the average of past
years each merchant spent more than
$4,000, and thus through the efforts
of the Merchants Association alone
more than S4O0,O00,OOO is left in the
city each year. But this is merely
fraction of the trade which the city
receives from the rest of the country
a conservative estimate places the
gross income at $3.50, 900, 900.
Each American city is clearing
house for the rural or mining district
surrounding it. and New York the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21
Even The People From The Country.

Dr. John H. Girdner, an eminent
New York physician. said recently !.
Build wall around New York city
illow no new men to enter, and in fifty
years the city viii depopulate itself
This city makes too many demands
upon those who live and work in it.
Thousands drop out each month. 1t is
the fresh country people fiocking here
day by day that furnish the brains,
sinews and pluck to carry the metrop-
oils to its destiny Its success in the
past has been due to this out-of-town
element and will continue to be-
Men, men. men, is the constant
cry that New York sends out over the
country and the response is adequate.
eager and satisfying. 1t is in this fact
that assurance of the citV'S still
greater advance lies. Capital flow
ing in from the country made Wall
street a by-word to all the world.
Material drawn from the coun-
try has made her the greatest man
ufacturing town in the United States.
Men attracted from the country
have made her financial mistress of
the western hemisphere.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21

From Life.
verted into modern playhouse
through the magic touch of gold.
which he has found to be the most Of
fensive and defensive weapon against
the combine
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-10-21
MONEY FOR POLITICS.
LEGISLATION TO PROHIBIT COR
PORTIONS MAKING CAM
PAIGN Pa YNENTS.
to Be Discussed by Congress-One
Method Suggested to Meet Deficit

There are prospects that two pieces
of legislation will be strongly advo-
Gated at the coming session of Con-
gress. both of which, however, will be
vigorously opposed. They relate to the
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-05-18

Canadian complications with the United
States are threatened by officers of the Dominion
strange condition of affairs exists on the st.
johns river, which flows through Maine into New
Brunswick and into the st. Lawrence river. Can
adam officials are arranging to send men into
Maine to cut out log booms which they claim arc
opstructlng the navigation of that river The
threat was regarded SO seriously that Secretary
Ta1t asked Hugh OBerne, the charge at the Brit
ism embassy, to call on him. Mr. Taft asked him
TO get Lord Landsdowne to advise the Canadians
to do nothing until after Senator Hale has had an
opportunity to get his bill passed. submitting the
question OF navigation of that river to joint COM
mission for settlement Mr.. OBeirne promised to
make representations to the head of the foreign
office sufficiently strong to produce an effect in
London The Canadians charge that the Ameri
cans impound the waters to logs and in that wav
deprive the Canadians Of the quantity of water
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-05-18
MAY IS, 1905

parent film, which is wound around glass CYL
inder, and upon which lens focuses a point of
light that passes through the film to selenium
cell in the cylinder. The bright and dark por-
lions of the picture the ray of light to vary
the resistance of the selenium cell to an electric
current passing through it and this variation pro-
duces corresponding instantaneous Frightening
or darkening of the glow in Tesla vacuum tube
at the receiving end of the WIRE Except pin
point aperture, this vacuum tube is covered with
wax or rubber. The light ray from the aperture
falls upon sensitive film wound upon a cylinder,
and as this cylinder and that of the transmitter
are moved in unison, the light and shade of the
original picture reproduced in proper place on
the second film, giving new photograph accu-
rate in minute detail