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Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-13
SILLY OLD MAN

When President McCurdy of the Mutual was made
TO state his ideas of the function Of a great life insurance
company the result was amusing indeed, until indignation
crowded out the smiles. Mr.. McCurdy said to the inves-
tigating COMMITTEES:
There has been a great mistake made about the real
province OF life insurance companies in these later years.
People have been led to believe that the main purpose
was to make money tor its policyholders. In my view
that is not the purpose of such companies. They are
eleemosynary. When a man insures in a company he
should take into consideration the fact that he has en-
tered a great philanthropic concern that is in duty bound
to spread itself, even though this growth prevents him
from realizing as much as he expected
Commenting on this, the Denver News says: 1t is
truly unkind to force men Of privileged position in the
realms Of high finance to express their ideas for public
perusal without those ideas being first edited by trusted
secretaries, more familiar with the popular ways of
thinking.
This old man, with his years of untroubied control
of a great insurance company on a s150,O00 salary, has
been so secluded from the selfish old world and its sor-
did standards that he cannot realize that the public, es-
pecially the. policybolding public, cannot see the beauty
of his conception of a life insurance company as a eharit-
able organization.
In his sheltered life it has seemed the most natural
thing in the world that this society should exist to give
$780, 900 salaries to his sons and equally beautiful chart
ties to his sons in law and support whole companies of Of
ficials and employes-all in the family-as an outlet for
the stream of gold that poured its charitable wealth into
the Golfers.
How narrow, worldly and self-seeking must it seem
TO this kindly family man that the policyholders should
wish personal dividends instead of looking gladly on at
the happiness the premiums were securing!
Then, how lacking in public spirit are these policy
holders not to rejoice in the good done by the widespread
distribution of funds made through political channels!
Think of the many made happy by the ~drtppings from
the one charity in its multiform divisions-of the legislat-
ors, the lobbyists, the campaign orators, the ward heel
es and others too numerous to mention, to say nothing
of their families-who make merry, all because they are
the beneficiaries of the benevolent dollars paid in by the
policyholders all over the world.
Truly, the delicate moral sense and unselfish altru-
ism cultivated by the secluded life of a frenzied finance
president is beautiful to contemplate!
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-13
PEOPLE TO BLAME

Lead us, o Pubic, not into temptation"--should
have been the daily prayer of n, c. D~ougherty, of Peoria,
Illinois.
Dougherty was so popular that he was entrusted for
five years with the entire school funds of his city. AS
superintendent of schools he spent the money and as
president of a bank he kept" the money. Now he is in
jail. Plainly enough he is deserving of the severest pen
atty. Plainly enough his fall is of his own v%oltion. 1t is
also pain that Dougherty's ruin is the fault of the pub
lie He is a rase of excessive confidence. He was trust
ed too mr. He was confided in too long.
f nany years there was no accounting. Dougher-
ty 1t the money as he would. His accounts were not
audted. His cash was never counted. So strong was he
is the public esteem that any suggestion Of looking into
the school funds was dismissed as unnecessary. Dough
erty is ali right said everyone. Dougherty was not all
right. But if he had been the public imposed too much
confidence in him. No man, however upright, should be
taken entirely for granted. The only safe way to treat
any public official is to require an accounting of his
funds al stated intervals. And this should be required n,
less for the mans sake than for the sake of the public
Just how much strain of temptation any man will bear IL
unknown.
Confidence is a beautiful thing. Modern business
could not be conducted without confidence. But contid
ence-especially where public officials are concerned
should always be tempered with discretion and strict su
peryisiOn Of accounts.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-13
1T WAS GIVEN As PRESENT
TO NEWLY MARRIED COUPLE
From Chicago News

They got it as a wedding gift,
A kindly and considerate boon,
Designed their hearts to please and lift
At waning of the honeymoon.
All, generous friend! Though good your
thought,
Your act Of kindness makes us moan;
You little know the woe you brought,
In giving of that gramophone.
They start it up at early morn,
Some where round half past > O'Clock,
And thence till breakfast time its tones
Are blaring DER the outraged block;
And, lest we might not fully hear,
They open have their windows thrown.
'Twere sad for pious ears to hear
What's said about that ,gramophone.
When silence reigns and all rejoice
That something's broken or gone wrong,
That libel on the human voice
Bursts forth again in strident song.
At strains of raucous vaudeville
The boldest shrink, the bravest groan,
Till longing came to main or kill
The owner Of that gramophone.
Hank! There, ye gods, 1t goes again!
Give me my hat and let me go!
| cannot stand that grim refrain,
| can't endure those notes of woe.
In desert cave or lonely shore
III dwell in peace, remote, alone,
Rather than bear it, DER and DER,
The torture of that gramophone.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-13
SELECTIONS MADE FROM
PRESS OF SOUTHWEST
Why MINING |. Neglected.

The mining industry in New Mexico has been ne
elected because of the Indifference of the businss men.
New Mexico is not blessed with the kind who open min.
ing sections and push for the development of the natural
resources of a country. How many merchants in AIbu,
querque are stalking prospectors, or developing a mining
property? In Colorado towns the merchants are all alive
TO the Importance Of opening up new country, and they
are always represented in the field by prospectors. Colo
RADIO Is no better mineral country than New Mexico, only
those in business in Colorado are more enterprising and
are building up the country. The foregoing in the In
dustrial Advertiser is rather a hard hit on business men
of New Mexico, but there is more truth than fiction in
u.-Mining Reporter.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-13

Don't wait for an expiosion-cook
With gas-the humane way.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-13

A. G. Pohl, of Phoenix, Arizona, is now engaged In
harvesting an unusually large crop of dates. He has
made no estimates yet OF just how large the crop will be
when all gathered, but il is larger than has ever before
been raised on his place and the quality Of the fruit is
unsurpassed. Some Of the trees will yield no less than
400 pounds of dates and most Of them are bearing. They
are now just in their prime, many of them being fourteen
years old, and are bearing larger crops each year. Mr..
Pohl, from his experience, has calculated that an acre Of
dates under ordinary circumstances will net the owner
a pound. Is there no place in New Mexico hot enough
and sandy enough TO warrant an experiment with this
valuable crop?
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-13
JENEz Not SPRINGS STAGE LINE

Carries the United States mail;
only line with a change Of stock en-
route; good rigs, horses and drivers;
rig leaves albuquerque every Monday.
Wednesday and Friday at 5 a. m. For
particulars, address w. L. Trimble &
Co., agents, albuquerque, N. NJ, or ].
B. BLOCK, Proprietor, Perea, N, NJ.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-13
LARGE Expectations.

This office extends its sincere thanks TO Mr.. A. X,
Campbell who so kindly rendered assistance in putting
up our shop and adjusting, lifting and regulating our
heavy presses and other machinery. This Office Is capa.
BILE Of doing the work for a city Of 5000 population, Of
which proportions we expect to be POGO tempo-First
Issue Sunnyside, n. NJ. Sun.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-13

Seats on sale at Matson's Tuesday,
October II,
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-13
Eeellna About Gamhllnn-

The authorities throughout the territory seem to be
waking up on the gambling question in New Mexico. In
Artesia the city council has prohibited it altogether, and
other towns and cities are taking steps in that direction.
It is only a question of a short time when the spirit of
civilization and Christianity will prevail in this matter
In New Mexico-Echo, Dayton, n. NJ.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-13
IVES, THE FLORIST.
Fresh Cut Flowers.

See the window display OF the Rio
Grande Wooden Mills at the Globe
store, then ask for those $3.50 walk
ing skirts.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-13

1t is said that sugar beet pulp, at present prices, is
cheaper and better feed than ground corn, when fed with
alfalfa hay. A beet sugar factory and a creamery natur-
ally go together. Roswell already has the creamery and
the alfalfa, and within a year viii also have the beet
sugar f-actory-Roswe Record.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17
Good Pocket Night Lamp.

To instantly obtain a light sufficient
to read the time by watch or clock
by night, without danger of setting
things on fire, is an easy matter. Take
an oblong vial of the clearest OF
glass. put into it a piece OF phosphorus
about the size of pea, pour upon
this some pure olive oil, heated to the
Uo!llng pont; the bottle to be filled
about one-third Iuil, then cork tightly.
To use the light remove the cork,
allow the air to enter, then recCrk.
The whole empty space in the bottle
will then become luminous, and the
light obtained will be a good one. AS
son as the light becomes dim its
power can be increased by opening
the bottle, and allowing fresh sup
ply of air to enter.
In very cold weather it is some
times necessary to heat the vial be-
tween the hands to increase the fluid
ity of the oil, and one bottle will last
\ winter. This ingenious continuance
may be carried In the pocket, and is
used by watchmen in Paris is all the
magazines where explosives CT inflam-
mable materials are stored lAhi
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17
A Sun Parlor for Baby.

Summing the baby is the latest
thing in baby culture. No household
is too poor to possess one of these
patent adjustable sun parlors. They
are made of some kind of hard wood
and built by the carpenter to extend
ceyond the window. The top and
sides of the little platform are coy
cred with glass, and strips Of carpet
are laid on the floor to stop up any
cracks there may be. No matter how
fiercely the wind blows or how low
the thermometer may sink the sun
parlor is always ready for the baby.
A pillow is placed on the carpeteG
floor, then the baby is warmly dressed
and well covered for its morning or
afternoon nap. Mothers who have
tried this method of summing the baby
are boasting of the gain in weight
and health and have the proud salts
faction of .. knowing they are strictly
up to date.-Philadelp Record.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17
TO DISPlACE PNEUMATIC TIRES.
Spring Wheel of Which Great Hopes
Are Entertained

The difficulty of securing a motor
wheel which shall combine the resil-
ency of that fitted with the pneumatic
tire with the hard wearing qualities OF
that fitted with the solid is, apparently,
some degrees nearer solution. mas
much as Il Becclcs engineer has pro-
duccd 4 spring wheel of which great
hopes are entertained.
Considerable ingenuity has been eX-
pended upon its construction. and II is
claimed not only that it is vastly more
durable than the wheel now in use and
equally easy running. but that the
strain set up by contact with the road
is distributed over the whole of its
mechanism, that it has spring drive,
that the shock of impact with any OBJ
ject is received by the tire alone and
absorbed by the spring drive within
the wheel. and that the chance of side
slip is scnsibly diminished.
Tho principle of the invention con-
SistS in q number of short, laminated
springs arranged tangcntially within
VIC W Httl. anu 'oIiiltNtiu dt 'iNit w
tremetieS by system of levers with
the apices Of the starslaped frame
Of the wheel and with each other. The
centre of each spring is also attached
to Il carriage. which is free to move
along curved groove on the internal
periphery of the wheel. To the outer
ppriphy is attached Il solid rubber tire.
The star shaped frame already men
toned is rigidly fixed to the centre OF
the wheel.
On starting car provided with
wheels of this character, when the
turning movement is given to the cen
tire of the wheel, the whole frame.
springs and carriages move forward
under resistance from the springs until
the eXtremities of the grooves in the
periphery are reached by the rollers Of
he little carriages. When this happens
the wheel is rigid, and frame and peri
phcry turn as one. Gradually, how
aver. the tension between the periphery
Of the wheel and its frame relaXes.
and then a steady balance is main
tanned between tEem.-LonuOn EX-
press.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17
The Pigtail's Future.

Much of the black hair that is sold
in the hair market comes from China.
The London Daily News interviewed
the other day a wholesale dealer in
hair. who said: Il am not fully &C.
Guainted with Chinese customs, but I
understand in general way that the
Chinaman who disobeys the law suf-
fers the loss of his tail, which a thrifty
Government turns into cash, perhaps
to defray some part Of the cost of the
prosecution. Then 1 understand from
friend Of mine who has Travelled a
great deal in the East, that on a Chin
csc sailor dying at sea his tail is cut
off and despatched to his Government,
whether in accordance with some re-
ligious requirement or as sort Of in
formal death certificate I am unable
to say. But these tails, after their ar
rival has been duly chronicled, also,
understand, find their way to the Eng
lish and American market. Chinese
hair is coarse, but its length gives it
q special value in our business"
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Hot hands make cold feelings.
Growers do not grow in grace.
The spiritual is seldom spectacular.
The grateful cannot but be graceful.
The self-willed are but weak-willed
The upright man always leans or
God.
Walls do not make the place of wor'
ship.
\ drop of ink may make million
think. byron.
Blind obedience always ends in
blessed vision.
There is no worship Of God without
work for men.
There are no switches on the roac
beyond the grave.
All gain that cost character is an i'm
measurable loss.
Ungratcfulness is the very poison o!
manhood.-Sir T. Sidney.
We cannot be just unless we arc
You cannot blame bag of wind for
steering clear of pointed facts.
Heaven does not stop to consult the
vogue before it picks out man.
The knavishness in human nature is
the nursery of human sufferings.
Habit may be one of our best allies
as well as one of our worst enemies.
Indiscretion, malice, rashness and
falsehood produce each other.-L'En-
clos.
Blessed is the influence Of one true,
loving human soul on another.-GeOrge
Eliot
One is never more on trial than in
the moment OF excessive good fortune.
Lew Wallace.
When the preacher is satisfied with
his sermon the people are often going
away sad and empty.
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed
money, only show the poverty Of the
borrower.-Lady Blessington.
One cause, which is not always OBJ
served, of the insuliciency of riches
is that they very seldom make thei.
owner rich.-JobnSon.
No stream runs higher than iti
source; and government by the peO
pie will be no better than the people
make it.-President Cleveland.
Give the boys something more than
a runway between cutters. Give us
more Fairgrounds and there will be
less need for peniten. iaries.-Jacob
Riis.
Among the many strange servilities
mistaken for pieties one of the least
lovely is that which hopes to flatter
God by despising the world and Willy.
ing human nature.-G. H. Lewes.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17

There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
bcincurable. For great many years doctors
pronounced it local disease and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it in
durable. Science has proven Catarrh to be a
constitutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by T. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional euro
on the market. 1t is taken internally in doses
from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. 1t acts direct
ly on the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system. They offer one hundred dollars for
any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials. Address T. J. CHENEY &
Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17
Against Rate Reduction.

Atlanta, Ga.-The recent proposition
of J. Pope Brown, Chairman of the
Georgia Railroad Commission, to re
duce the passenger rate in Georgia
from three to two cents per mile was
protested against by the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, the Order of
Railway Conductors. and unions of the
blacksIniths, machinists and telegraph
ers, boilermakers, railway train mel,
carpenters and jOinerS, clerks and car
men. These organizations employed an
attorney especially to represent them,
who urged that such 4 reduction would
work against the prosperity OF the
State and lead to reduction in the
number of railroad employees as well
as of their wages. The Travellers Pro
tective Association also protested that
a reduction as proposed would result ID
fewer trains and poorer service.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17
Kansas as Center of Universe.

Thomas A. McNeal, Kansas state
printer, believes the state to be 1.-The
center of the universe" and he justi-
fies his belief in this convincing way:
scientists have noted that if a man
starts from Kansas and travels east
ward and keeps going until Kansas is
again reached and then takes the
same journey, but starting to the west
ward, the distance travelled is precise
ly the same"
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17
TORTURING HUMOR
Body Mass of Sores-Called in Three
Doctors But Grow WOrse-CureJ by
Cuticura For .5c.

my little daughter was a mass of sores
all over her body. Her face was being
eaten away, and her ears looked as if they
would drop off. had three doctors, but
she grew worse. Neighbors advised Cuti-
cura, and before l had used half of the
cake of soap and box of ointment, the sores
had all healed, and my little ones skin
was as clear as a new born babes | would
not be without Cuticura if it cost five dol.
lars, instead of 70 cents, which is all it
cost us to cure our baby. Mrs. &. j..
Steese, 70l Coburn St, Akron, Ohio
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17
Women in

ness. faintness. lassitude, excitability.
irritability. nervousness, sleepless.
ness, melancholy, 'all-gone" and
"wantto- be left-a Lone feelings, blues
and hopelessness, they should remcm-
ber there is one tried and true remedy.
Lydia f. Pinkham.s Vegetable Com
pound at once removes such troubles
No other female medicine in the
world has Kceived such widespread
and unqualified endorsement. No other
medicine has such record of cures of
female troubles.
The needless suffering of women from
diseases peculiar to their sex is terrible
to see. The money which lhey pay to
doctors who do not help them is an
enormous waste. The pain is cured
and the money is saved by Lydia f.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Elk.
perience has proved this
1t is we'll for women who are i'll to
write Mrs Pinkham. at Lynn, Mass.
In her great experience, which covers
many years, she mas probably had to
deal with dozens of cases Just like
yours. Her advice is free and conf
dental.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17

Francois Dumon, French waiter,
has just left Denver, on his way home
to France, having made $4,000 in tips
in five years. OF this he made $4,000
last year at st. Louis. He speaks six
languages. His father and grandfather
were walters all their lives, and he
was brought up to the business. He is
still young man.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17

A bright youngster answered an ad-
vertisement for an Office boy in a store
in the dry goods quarter, and was
turned down because he wrote too
good hand. 1T is a ledger hand, and
you will never rise above the level of
bookkeeper.' said the merchant
New York Press.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17

tackS of kidney dlSOr-
ders which kept me in
the house for days at a
time, unable to DO any
thing. What l suffered
can hardly be told.
Complications set in.
the particulars Of which
l will be pleased to
give in n pers onal inter-
view to any one who
requires information.
This l car conscien-
tiously say, Doan's Kid
ney Pills caused a gen
eral Improvement in my
health. They brought
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17

Old DR.. Biggers', in the shape OF his
Huckleberry Cordial has been the family
physician Of many a home all over this
country, where he has cured 50 many bowel
troubles and children teething, Dysentery
Diarrhoea and FluX.
Sold by all Druggists, IS and SOC. bottle.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17

The people who never read or con-
tribute to the society columns OF the
daily papers escape much vanity and
yexatiOn of spirit.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17

FITS permanently cured. Motifs or nervous
ness after first day S use o DR.. kline's Great
NerveRestorcr, T2trialbottle and treatise free
DR.. II. II. KLINE, Ltd. .93l Arch ST., Phila., Pa.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17

nauseated. / had an acrid discharge and
pains down through my limbs SO / could
hardly walk 1t was as bad a case of female
trouble as | have ever known. Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, however,
cured me within four months. Since that
time have had occasion to recommend it to
a number of patients suffering from all
forms of female difficulties and find that
while it is considered unprofessional to rec
ommend n patent medicine, l can honestly
recommend Lydia +. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound for | have found that it cures
female ills, where all other medicine fails. 1t
is grand medicine for sick women"
Money cannot buy such testimony as
this-merit alone can produce such re-
suits, and the ablcst specialists now
agree that Lydia e. Pinkhams Vege
table Compound is the most univer-
sally successful remedy for all female
diseases known to medicine.
When women are troubled with ir-
regular, suppressed or painful men
situation, weakness, leucorrhpa, dis
placement or liberation of the womb,
that bearing-down feeling, inf]amma
ton of the ovaries. backache. bloat-
ing Tor fatulence), general debility, in
digestion, and nervous prostration or
are beset with such symptoms as dizzi
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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-06-17

The imperial pawnshop in Vienna ha
twelve auction rooms as adJuncts.