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Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-14
Lesson OF a Life

The first president of the United States was a very
rich man for his day and country. At the time of his
death, 106 years ago today, he is conservatively estt-
mated to have been worth 100000. For sixteen years
his efigy has doomed over Wall street, New York. The
lesson which the New York Evening Mail recently read,
from the presence of this statue, to the American mil
lionaire class, may well be read on this anniversary OF
loss to the whole American people. The lesson in sub
stance is this:
Washington was a rich man. He bought and sold
and got to himself much gain. He traded and traficked.
He knew a good bargain and he did not TAIL to avail
himself of it, whether it lay in selling corn and beans
or purchasing mules and molasses. But while he was
a rich man, he was at the same time a man Of cutva-
ton, of grace, of exalted patriotism and self abnegat1on.
He had a capacity for retirement and repose, as well as
for activity and accumulation. He was not a mono
maniac on the subject of money making, nor did he serve
his plantation first and his country afterward. The
plantation and its revenues were mere adjuncts to a life
in which all things were subordinated to the countrys
service.
When the magnates of Wall street glance up at
Washington in front of the sub-treasury building. or
when the nation at large remembers his death or COM
memorates his birth, they should think of this. A rich
mans duty to his country, in these days of politicians
tricks and easy debasements, is not discharged by vot-
ing. by signing a political petition, or by contributing to
a campaign fund-especially If the contribution be made
from other peoples money or is given to opposing par
ties at the same time in order to stand in" It should
involve attendance at the caucus, and good hard work,
and now and then a serious sacrifice of the chance to
make more money, in order to serve the public. 1t Es
not asked that our rich men go to Valley Forge now
adays. But it might be asked that a few of the best,
most conscientious and most highly esteemed of them
go to the legislature.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-14

The Optic says: There is a good big fight left in
the friends of separate statehood and they will spare
no effort to defeat the selfish scheme to join Arizona and
New Mexico. II appears quite likely now that Arizona
will be left out Of the equation at her own request and
New Mexico be admitted alone" Yes, just as likely as,
but no more than that the moon will turn to green cheese
and each of MS will be given his share. 1t is joint state
hood now, or indefinite territorial continuance. This
most, not all, OF those who are fighting jointure know
full well, and this is the simple and unmixed cause OF
the fight in which they are engaged.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-14
Why Branch Was Both
ImsulGed and Killed
From Pittsburu DISPATCH,
From Pittsburg Dispatch.

If there is any branch of the federal service that
needs reform more than any other it is the commission
ed force of the navy. Most of the troubles grow out OF
the belief and the teaching that officers of the army and
the navy are gentlemen-not in the American sense of
the term, but more nearly in the sense that the word is
used in Europe.
Midshipman Branch was killed because he had had
it drilled into him that he had to resent the insult
which Merriwether had offered, in the way prescribed
by the unwritten laws of the academy and approved by
practically all the officers of the navy. Public senti-
ment would not tolerate dueling with swords or pistols,
so the gentlemen" of the navy have devised the prize
ring scheme for settling the differences that in civil life
would be permitted to remain differences.
Being a gentleman in the European sense of the
would have caused him to be derided if he had been in
civil life and wanted to be called a gentleman. He had
to fight in cold blood. 1t would not have been gentle
manly had he thumped the man who is supposed to have
insulted him when the insult was given.
But the fist fight is not the worst feature in the life
of the naval officer. The thing that is the worst is the
squirming he must do, in a financial sense, TO hold up
his end as a gentleman. First he must be made over
into the artificial thing which the code of the army and
the navy recognizes as a gentleman and then he must
live up to the unwrtten laws of the caste. So many of
them try to do it that the number of ofenses against
the laws of honest dealing in the matter of money is
alaTmingly great.
or the navy thrown out for duplication of pay accounts,
embezzlement or some other offense growing out of the
supposed necessity for having money.
1t is not one Of the rules of the code of army and
navy officers of the lower grades to live within their sal
aries. After the officers get 10 the higher grades their
good American sense returns and they do live within
their incomes, and, in many instances, spend the last
years of their lives paying off debts created before they
arrive at the conclusion that the other way of living is
not worth while.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-14
Blessings Derived
From ForgetfWlmess
From Denver Times,

Forget it! There is no creed Of greater value to
humanity that that comprised in these two words. For
get what? Forget all the real or fancied injuries done
you. Forget the sights, the injustices, the misunder-
standings of your motives. Forget all in the past that
TO you seemed bad and remember only the good, Every
real or fancied wrong remembered, every desire 10 repay
the same in kind harbored, works an injury not only to
the individual who harbors it, but to society as well.
No man or woman can be true to themselves while they
harbor in their natures a sense of wrongs done them
or a desire to revenge themselves for real or fancied
injuries, sights or indignities. The most unhappy
person in existence is he who remembers all the little
unpleasantnesses that are bound to creep into every life.
The lesson taught from these is the only thing worth
remembering. Every human life might be happier than
it is if each would adopt this simple creed: Forget as
far as possible every unpleasant thing in the past. For
get the ills of the present. 1t doesn't make them or
you any better to think about them or dwell upon them
in thought or conversation. Drive them out Of mind
by turning attention to something else. Let the mind
dwell upon the pleasant, positive things in life to the
exclusion of the negative. unpleasant things, and the
result will be an increase in the sum total of human
happiness. Forget it! In the practical application OF
this creed there is health. joy and happiness for who
soever will make 1t his own.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-14
Students Foolish Error

1t was a udicrous and stupid mistake, says an e-
change, which was made by a young man, a student OF
the Dickinson School of Law, when set upon by thugs
as he was on his way to the Delta Chi fraternity for
initiation. Aren't you beginning a little early, boys?'
he demanded, thinking it was part of the initiation.
The miscreants sand-bagged him, dragged him down an
alley and separated him from $6 which they found in
his pockets. He recovered consciousness two hours
afterward. The enraged and cheated brethren of the
fraternity spent half the night looking for his assailants,
vowing that they would put them through all the courses
of an oId-fashioned Greek Letter initiation, if they
caught them.
No man in his right senses has a right to mistake
a mere hold-up for that sterling and stirring function,
a fraternity initiation. Nothing much happens in a
hold-up. The victim is swatted and robbed, it is true,
but it is done with merciful dispatch and without gansh
ostentation. He is not deprived of life. liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. He is not sequestered for a week,
to the agony of fond and foolish parents. He is not
tied to a railroad track to be obliterated by an unsched-
uled express train. He is not suffocated by poisonous
gas. He is not compelled TO jig, to amble, to lisp"
clad in baby linen, in the presence of the grinning null
titude on a city street.
We do not think it probable that highwaymen will
generally adopt the ruse of feigning an initiation.
Firstly, it could only apply to college students, and the
thieves would be likely to find unpaid board bills rather
than greenbacks In the pockets of their victims. Sec
ondly, and chiefly, the tactics of hold-ups would have to
be elaborated, brutalized and stifened up all along the
line to give them the similitude of a Greek Letter well.
come.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-14
NOTICE

. We wish to announce TO the
. public that u store will be open
. every evening until 8 o'clock,
. from now until Christmas.
. Our stock of the following
. items has just been replenished:
. Henckles' Carving Sets.
Q Henckles' Pocket Knives.
. Henckles' Razors.
. Wostenholm Pocket Knives.
. Gillette Safety Razors.
. winchester and Colt Fire Arms
. and ammunition.
. Coles Hot Blast Heaters, and
. many other articles suitable for
. a gift.
. Our samples are elegantly dis
. played and We invite you to call
. and Inspect the same. Yours
Q truly, <. j. POST & co.
o O q O O
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-14
A Progressive Order

For many generations Masonry was the leading
fraternal organization of the world, and she is still the
mother of them all. Not only this, but the triennial
conclaYe of Knights Templar was the largest and most
brilliant ~assemblage among the fraternities. But it
seems that the last claim can no longer be asserted.
The order of Elks, while incomparably inferior to Ma
sorry in the completeness of its ritual and the sublimity
of its teachings, appears to have passed the older order
in the size and attractiveness of its representative gath
erings.
Illustrative of this assertion, it has been announced
that between $4,000 and $4,000 Elks are expected to
travel towards Denver next year. Grand Exalted Ruler
Brown has approved the plans of the Denver committee.
Under the directions of William Maher, exalted ruler
of Denver lodge No. II, 100000 is being raised to enter
tain the visitors. In addition to this the great mines
OF Colorado, gold and silver are offering gold and silver
bullion as prizes The roads have made a rate of SIS
from Chicago and this will attract many thousands OF
extra visitors.
The plans OF the entertainment committee are
unique in details. The largest band of Indians ever
gathered together, at least during the past ten years,
will he on hand. Wyoming will join with Colorado in
furnishing a big band Of real elk from the mountains
and plains. Trips to the greatest mines in the world,
trips TO the mountains, with wild west shows of the real
order, are a few OF the things in store for the visitors.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-14
Made While GROWING.

Oriental gardeners are adopts at their work, the
most striking production Of one Of their number being
a natural arm chair, in which the required shape was
attained during the growth of a vine. Almost from it's
nrsl appearance the vine had been carefully treated in
anticipation of the use to which it was to be put. BY
the time it had attained full growth 1t was formed into
a rustic arm chair. All of the joints were made by
grating, SO that the chair is practically in one solid
piece, and after it had attained a growth Of some three
feet it was cut and thoroughly dried. Finally it was
polished, the wood taking a finish not unlike mahogany,
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-14

81, Louis Post-Dispatch: The American and the
Enghshman say: How do you do? The German: How
do you find yourself? The Frenchman: How do you
carry yourself? The Italian: How do you stand? The
Spaniard: Go with God, senior, for goodbye. The Hol-
lander: Have you had a good dinner. The Chinese:
Have you eaten your rice? The Egyptian: How do YOU
perspire? The Peace be with you.
The Persian: May thy shadow never grow less! The
Burmese rub their noses against each others cheek. ex-
claiming: Give me a smell. Arabs Of eminence kiss
each others cheek and say: God grant thee His favor
and give health to thy family.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-14
Feast Of Kisses.

halmagen' In Roumania, possesses a public festival
which is probably unique in the world. It is a little
town Of about 1900 Inhabitants, and on the morning OF
It's annual fair day the population from about eighty viii
lagos come trooping in in swaTms. To them 60 out all
the young women, married or single, OF Halmagen, each
bearing a small flower garland and vessel Of wine, ana
all attended by their godmothers-this last precaution
is taken from motives of Difference for Mrs. Grundy. As
the visitors approach the young women offer to each a
taste OF wine and-a kiss.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-14
WRITE A LETTER
TO OLD SANTA CLAUS
SO


: Attention, children of Albu- :
. querque! Santa Claus will soon .
= be getting his pack Of presents .
) ready for distribution among you .
8 Christmas eve. Write a letter to =
. the Santa Claus Editor of The .
. Evening citizen, telling In your .
3 own words just what you would .
. most like 20 have for Christmas, Z
. and the editor will see that old 4
. Santa gets your letter. Write on Z
. me side of the paper only, and .
. sign your full name and address. .
. We will do the rest. The letters .
. will be published in the issues of .
. Saturday, December 20 and 30, so :
. get your letters into the editor .
. in time for these editions. .
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-14

What joint statehood most needs just at this time
is a concentrated effort upon the democrats in congress.
Not that they can either pass the bill or defeat il but
because by hlibustering they may greatly delay the bins
coming to a vote, or, perhaps, may prevent It's being
voted upon altogether. So, If you know any democratic
senators or representatives, write to them and get your
friends to do likewise urging that no dilatory tactics be
employed against the measure which is so vital to the
interests Of New Mexico and Arizona.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-14

Springer Stocknan; So great and glorious is the
desire for education at Roy that the destrict school di-
rectors have fired the teacher, a good educator. and are
considering the adyisability of giving the job to a tim
horn gambler. They probably saw that the other man
was using his salary to support his wife and children.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-14
THE MAZE,
VIM. kieke, Propr.

HEAR ALBUQUERQUE'S FAM
Gus MALE QUARTET AT PUBLIC
LIBRARY HALL, THURSDAY EV-
ENING, DECEMBER IA.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-19

pace grew SO hot that after couple of pokes the jaw
Jerry went back to again. Honey brought him
out with left abs and crossing rights and started the
rushing with swings again.
left to the mouth bounced .Jerrys head right
sent him down only to have him up the five count
Two more Jabs and right rolled Jerry down again He
came up bleeding and dazed Melody dashed in again and
Jerry made frantic attempt to stop him with wild left
Melody fought away from cinch and brought right and
left to the jaw. Jerry wred and fell hard the back of
his head striking with awful force the floor
But it was not enough. He upagain the count
OF seven and plucky started in for Melody took
his time judged his distance accurately and sent in
straight right to the jaw.
clear through under the ropes to lay fiat his face-ou
1t game exhibition errys part and the crowd
yelled to stop somethng it would not have been fair to
Melody to do it would have prevented his record show
ing another well earned knockout.
The preliminaries were of the burlesque order Two
tiny lads boxed and then Jack Curey' Of Seattle
on with Kid Scaer who ought to have been ashamed to
take the money after easy knockout like that.
longing the winner on behalf of Martin Duffy for 81 900
side bet read.
Mooney accepted the challenge last night to fight his
man in Butte on Miners union day.
WILLIE B. GOODE
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-19
Our Wav

It sometimes strikes that civilization is a sort
of Dr. Jeky and Mr.. Hyde affair. There many
tradictions III it.
1t is at materiastc and altruisc. It is sordid
and sanity 1t makes paupers and cries them 1t is
age of loot and law 1t is age Of Doodle and beatc
virtues It steals from the widow and orphan and gives
the proceeds to libraries and universities 1t is Of
frenzed finance and of hospitals and homes for the aged
and children.
And
All the while the search for moral rottenness goes
1t san age of publicity and of challenge and of protest
1t age of aspiration for public and private virtue and
of the ceaseess discussion of ethics.
Never before have public crimes been jbbeted.
Never before have the ills of society been hung to
the public gaze. Lawson is telling about frenzed finance
and Russell of the beef trust and Lincoln Sefns of the
shameessness of cities and Ray Sannard Baker of the
ruth of corporations Every magazine has its special
corps of scavengers digging at the filth And the news
papers seek most of all for the head line that tel of graft
The victims of civilization before eyes
And we go on making victims.
How these things be? Is this money grabbing so
ciety Of ours the society that builds blind asyums and
homes Of refuge. How the two dispositions go to-
gehcrf
Easily enough. Every has in him divergent i'm
pulses and society is but aggregation of individuals
The question u.s. will the better the evil desire prove the
srongcri
Can we doubt whchf If the desire for self publication
is not greater than the propensity to have and to hold
condition is sorry indeed
Ii is the DID, old struggle this difference
The day of fourishing evil and wrong is also the day
of publicity and protesttLe day Of desire for better
things.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-19
What About the Fathers?

Lille Deveroux Blake scores on Theodore Roosevelt
in this
Speaking of the presidents address to the Congress
of Mothers, in which he dwet upon the Importance of the
education of girls to be future mothers, she says
''He said very little to the duties of the future
fathers.'
She wants to know why there no congresses of
fathers and she doubts if such gathering would rank in
personnel with that of the wives and mothers.
The point is well taken
The future mothers Of the constantly being
lectured upon their duty President and paragrapher ad
wise them And it may be said the girls taking all this
advice to their hearts But appears to be address
ing the future fathers to their responsibilities and
duties When speakers and writer's talk about the
sty of ''wel born Children they always look in S
direction
1t is time to begin talking to the fathers and husbands
They need to be told that they must be clean and provdn
and energetic and sober if the children of their lons
to be sober and clean
Too long has the world looked to mothers to the
Too long have the mothers been depended upon to
the evils entaed by the fathers of the Too long
has the world maintained its double standard
riage Too long has Providence been trusted to provide
pure girls endowed for motherhood with upright and
capable husbands.
If young girls need to be trained for motherhood, then
young men need to be trained for fatherlood.
Lille Deveroux Blake is not only acute in her criticism
but she is ri ght in her deductions.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-19
Socialism VS.. Anti-SoCia|ism

+ Spit IN the forces of organized labor is imminent.
j Inc split will come because of socialism
President Gompers clearly the conflict and his re-
cent uterances show the alarm he feels about the sua
ton He vigorously attacks the advance of socialism,
The socialist is a crusader
His politics is his religion He believes in his propa-
ganda with all his heart He makes proseytes at all times
and everywhere He will make all personal sacrifice for his
creed He is Of the stuff of which martyrs are made
In this spirit resides the power of socialism, It's ideal
ism wins the idealism to a strenuoue advocacy.
But
Socialism is up agnst the weighty conservatism that
always confronts growing couse 1t has all at once be-
come strong enough to provoke antagonsm.
Heretofore 1t may be expected that socialism will be
confronted with active opposition The lercey it
fights the more fercely will it be fought
Heretofore it has been treated with compacency-as
harmless ldeasm entertained by dreamers Now it must
become anvil as we'll as hammer
One of the btteest fights of modern times may be pre-
saged Socialism and anti socialism will occupy the arena
of labor's great organization.
1t certain anything be theoretically that the
struggle must result in a serious division of forces
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-19

"Only this"-and he voice faltered
a little-'when the dark comes. or
when I can not rub out the unsightly
spots, just turn my back upon them.
and face about and"-her voice
grew very low-'I do not tell folks {;
only the Father. That's all"
Maud is very frivolous but she
went home after I said "a few
things" with something I hope may
do her shallow little soul good Hap
piness and misery are not dependent
upon externals, but simply the point
of view to which our lives are adj
justed.
For every i'll life has an equalizfng
compensation; and a daily turning
our faces toward the sunny bits Of
it's landscape will sweeten and witty
it's darkest path.
But the idea of a woman like Maud
criticising my leal lassie, Jean!
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-19

Archie Hahn, the wonderful mid
get sprinter of the University of
Michigan and Milwaukee Athletic
club; Ralph Rose of the Chicago Ath-
letic association, and John Flana
gan of the Greater New York Ath
letic association, contemplate cross
ing the Atlantic this summer, to try
conclusions with the English weight
and dash men on their own heath.
Should this trio decide to invade
Great Britain. the Britishers will do
well to look to their laurels. Hahn
holds the worlds record for the 60
yard dash--6 1-5 seconds, which Duffy
several times failed to put below
2-5 seconds, and is today sprinting
in better form than ever before. He
should hold his own with any Eng
lish Splinter up to 220 yards.
1t is doubtful if any man in Eng
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-04-19

"I think Mrs. / Is so deceit
full" said Maud "She always acts
as if she owned the whole earth and
never had a worry; whSn everybody
knows they are disgracefully poor,
and live in such shabby rooms that
T would be ashamed to have anyone
call"
Point of view" I thought; men
tally quoting my bonny Jean, whom
| had loved as my own, ever since
her own dear mother went awaN
Refined. educated, loving the graces
of life. the very things that would
have made discords in an ignoble ma
turs never disturbed the harmony
of her daily living. Herself and nus
hand reduced by successive reverses
to living in the one room with its tiny
bedroom attached; forced to practice
the most rigid economy: without
even the spare penny to purchase
screen to hide the unsightly part or
her housekeeping. she still saw no
reason to change her point OF view
Near the one large front window
she placed a small table, with two
or three bits, relics of better days,
upon it--a piece of pretty china,
tinted rose bowl, and dainty cup
and saucer.
She pulled apart the sash curtains
of creamy cheese cloth, and in the
opening set her one plant, "skele-
ton" geranium. When the sun shone
through the green lacery 1t brought
out score of rainbow sparllles, and
On cloudy days 1t still held enough /,