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The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-12-16
EAGLES ELECT OFFICERS.
report of the Condition of Their
Ledge and Give Other Facts of In
tereSt.

GS&9C dHiQ 1iNC II dOAS VI
terest.
Roswell, Aerie No. 7O4, Fraternal
Order Eagles, held it's annual cleo
ton OF officers Thursday night and
following are the new officers: II. c..
kendall, president; B. F. Moon, vice
president; C. L.. Murphy, chaplin;
F. A. Mueller, secretary; w. w. Ogle
treasurer; John H. Fisher, conduc-
tor; Pat McCarley, inside guard;
Bruce Wade, outside guard; j. B.
Bell; Frank Easton and Nola Oliver
trustees; E. NJ. Fisher. aerie physi-
clan. The Initiation occurs at the
first meeting in January.
The local aerie now has 166 mem
bers. Three more were initiated last
night and ten applications were ac-
cepted and voted favorably upon.
The ten will be initiated next Thurs
day night. The lodge has $1,000 paid
on its lot for a club house which is
to be at the corner of First street
and Richardson Avenue, having clear
ed s2O7.40 on the carnival. ALI this
has been accomplished since May
6, 1904, when the lodge was institut-
ed.
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to such an extent as to prove that
there is practically an in~exhaustible
supply of good merchatable coal in
Eastern Sandoval county for many
years.
A half dozen towns now exist in
the section of country between Santa
Fe and Torrance, a distance Of 116
miles, where four years ago there
were not over a dozen Inhabitants.
The population of that section today
is estimated from 1900 to 1900 people
These were brought into New Mexico
by the construction of the Santa Fe
Central. Benefit enough from one
man. When the Albuquerque Vel
low Journal and its three or four
weekly Jackals unjustly assaulted Del
egate Andrews, people paid little at
tention to it, as their envious and
Jealous dispositions and fakish ten
denotes are too well known. The
Record, although a Democratic news
paper, should be above unjust, unfair
and indecent assaults upon public
men, even if they are Republicans
and hold Office under a Republican
administration. The New Mexican
likes the Record and hopes hat the
paper will take this gentle admonition
to heart.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-12-16

Postmaster Robt. Ke1lahin receiv-
ed a telegram ate Friday afternoon
from Acting Second Assistant Post
master General Stone stating that
the contract for carrying the mails
from Roswell to Torrance. and from
Torrance to Roswell had been award
ed TO ]. w. Stockard, n thai his
contract is to begin Jan. /, 1906, and
run to June 80, 1910. covering a pc
riod of four and a half years. The
time set out in which the trips are
40 be made is so short that it can be
made only in an automobile, and it
is really the Roswell Automobile
Company, of which Mr.. Stockard is
manager, that has the contract.
The contract will call for a trip
each way each day. Sunday included.
The mails are to leave Roswell at
one O'Clock in the afternoon and to
reach Torrance no later thar ten
O'Clock that night. Coming this way
they will leave Torrance at four in
the morning and reach Roswell at
moo the same day. The schedule
from Roswell to Torrance is nine
hours, and from Torrance to Roswell,
which means a descent of nearly
5000 feet, eight hours.
From Roswell to Torrance the auto
Eoute covers Ill miles, but a new
Eou1e. with curves eliminated. has
alreaiy been laid out that will cut
Ehe distance to about 100 miles.
There are but W streams On the
route. Salt Creek, 10 miles out, and
h Macho, two miles further on.
mail line.
Three new big machines will be
large sized cars now in use on the
line. Manager Stockard will proba-
bly, take a trip to Chicago and Cleve-
and to get them within a few days.
With these additional machines the
lime will not only be better equipped
to handle its already large passenger
business. but also to handle express.
The new machines will cost between
$4,000 and $4,000 apiece and will be
selected especially to suit the condi-
tions of this country.
A new barn for the Automobile
Company is being created on Second
street next to the City Livery Sta
BILE and there will be commodious
quarters. This will also be the depot
and office of the company. The am
CUNT to be paid for carrying the
mails has not been given out for
publication.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-12-16
Notice Of Shareholders Meeting.

shareholders of The Hagerman Ma
tionaI Bank, for the election of di-
re tors and the transaction of such
other business as may be brought be
fore it, will be held at its banking
house, in the town of Hagerman,
Tuesday, January 9th, at 3 O'Clock
p. m.
w. NJ. WASKOM,
Dec. 9-t5-Sat. Cashier.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-12-16
CONTRACT LET TO ROSWELL
AUTOMOBILE CO.
FOR 4 YEARS, 6 MONTHS

Service Will Be Started as Soon as
Additional New Machines Can Be
Brought to RosweII.-Means Better
Passenger Service as Well as Quick
er Communication With Central Por
tion of Territory.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-12-16

KEMP LUMBER COMPANY, sell
ers of Mantels. Crates. and Thing
East Fourth Street. 44tf.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09

me off my feet, lasted but the fraction
of second. AS soon as / had recov-
cred my presence of mind, saw yell
lowish column of smoke rising from
the ground, while there reached my
ears great crash of broken glass in
the direction of the arsenal. AT the
same moment several people ran out
on to the square. saw them look and
then run toward something in the
snow. | fastened my steps and per-
ceived carriage drawn by a dying
horse. The impression was like a
frightful nightmare.
"The police had formed a circle
around the debris of the carriage and
kept away the public, after making a
passage for the grand duchess, who
came running without any hat simply
a fur wrap thrown over her shoulders.
There she was kneeling In tho snow be-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09
Spider-Web Factory.

Ten years ago a French missionary
started the systematic rearing of two
kinds of spiders for their web, and
a spider web factory is now in suc-
cessful operation at Chalais- -Meudon.
near Paris, where ropes are made of
spider web intended for balloons for
the French military aeronautic section.
The spiders are arranged in groups of
II above a reel upon which the
threads are wound. 1t is by no means
easy work for the spiders. for they are
not released until they have furnished
from 80 to Al yards of thread each.
The web is washed and thus freed of
the outer reddish and sticky cover.
Eight of the washed threads are then
taken together, and of this rather
strong yarn cords are woven which are
stronger and much lighter than cords
of silk of the same thickness.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09

ed with the plotters who caused the
death of the Grand Duke Sergius.
From day to day since the raid on
the revolutionary headquarters the po-
lice have made arrests as rapidly as
the reports of the secret service agents
warranted, until it is known that some
800 prisoners have been taken. Every
possible secrecy has been maintained,
and not one word of official informa-
tion has escaped from the authorities.
1t is, however, known that many of the
prisoners are members of the Russian
nobility, and the positive documentary
evidence against several of them is be-
yond question. In the case of Prince
Obolenski, the assassin of Grand Duke
Sergius, in spite of the public excite
ment and the pressure to know the
fullest details, the police have stead.
fastly pretended that they have been
unable to identify their prisoner and
that his name and history are un-
known. This policy is pursued out OF
consideration for the other members
of the distinguished Obolenski family.
and also to conceal the truth of tbs
widespread cancerous growth of rev,s-
lutionary recruits in official and arist,,-
cratic circles.
The terror of the czar as a result of
the disclosures as to the spread of nihi-
lism among the upper classes could
hardly be more clearly shown than in
his punishment of the official in his
own household whom Prince Oboenski
indicated as being implicated in ter
rorist plots. After the arrest of this
man the czar personally examined the
evidence against him and ordered him
brought to his library What took
place at this interview has not, OF
course, been told, but it is known that
the emperor personally named the pun
ishment Seeking to find something
measurably worse than death, the en-
peror directed an immovable iron mask
to be riveted over his face. Chained
to a little window in the prison tower
overlooking the palace he was kept in
solitary confinement until he died, an
awful example to any other conspira-
tors who may be partaking of the
czar's bread.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09
Dogfsh for the Table.

A Cornish gourmet, following the ad-
vice of Horace about combining pleas
ure with utility, suggests that the de-
structive dogfish, which are running the
local fishermen, would prove a val
liable addition to our cuisine. When
skinned and carefully cooked the dog
fish is more delicate than hake,"
while peculiar sweetness" of flavor
can be remedied by lemon or vinegar.
Poor Frank Buclsland long ago advo-
Gated diet of dogfish, and was once de-
lighted at being asked by some weather
bound French fishermen: "Vill you buy
dog, John?" AS matter of fact, dog
fish has been from time to time eager
ly eaten under the ambiguous euphem-
ism of fried fish" by many genera
tions of east and south Londoners.-
Westminster Gazette.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09

side the remains of her husband. She
could just be seen through the encir-
cling police. Very soon some officers
and priests arrived to transport on a
stretcher to the Monastry of Tchoudov,
near Petit Palais, the remains of the
grand duke, which were assembled with
difficulty, as the body had been fright
fully mutilated. The coachman had
been wounded in the back and the
head, but he was still in his seat and
holding the reins when they took him
down and removed him to the hospital.
The handle of the carriage door had
been thrown to distance of 200 feet,
The following morning his cigar case
was found in the snow"
The spread of the nihilist doctrines
among the aristocracy is an enigma,
and is not a hopeful evidence of the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09
SUCCEEDED IN BUSINESS.
But Failed as a Man Because of the
Various Shortcomings Here
Recorded.

He stopped growing.
He was not greater than his occu-
patton.
sunny side.
He stuffed his pocketbook, but
starved his brain.
He had no use for sentiment, which
could not be cashed.
He never learned to take the drudg.
cry out of his work.
He did not live in his upper stories,
but in the basement of his being.
He regarded his business as a means
of making living, instead of life.
He lost his early friends by neglect,
and had no time to cultivate new ones.
He never learned to enjoy little
things, to see the uncommon in the
common.
He never learned to lubricate his
life's machinery with laughter and
good cheer.
He made life grind, out of which
he got neither pleasure, profit nor in
struction.
There was only one side of his ma.
ture developed, and that was the mon.
ey-making side.
No face ever frightened at his ap.
proach, no heart thrilled at the sound
of his voice.
Society bored him, children bored
him, music and the drama were un-
known languages to him.
He never learned to enjoy himself
as he went along, but was always post
poning his happiness.
He could not rise to his feet to
| speak at a public meeting, or to put a
motion, if his life depended on it.
He used every means to develop his
business, but none to develop his mind
or to make himself larger man.
When he retired from business, he
found that, in his struggle to get the
means for enjoyment, he had MUIR
dered his capacity to enjoy.
He knew nothing of what was going
on in the world outside of his own
narrow circle; another state was like
a foreign country to him.
He read only market reports in the
newspapers. He never read articles
in magazines, and books were an un'
known quantity to him.
The idea of helping others, or of ow'
ing society, his city, or his nation, any
duty, outside of caring for his own in
terests, never occurred to him.
Recreation. relaxation, or amuse
ment of any kind was condemned by
him as a wicked waste of valuable
time which might be coined into dol
lars.-O. S. Marden, in Success Maya
zine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09
How Long Whales Live.

"As to the age to which whales live"
says DIR. True, curator of biology of the
National museum there is no accurate
data, but | am inclined to the opinion
that some of them live to an age in ex-
cess of 40 years. This theory is
borne out by the finding in a whale in
1890 of harpoon which had belonged
to a ship that was sunk during the civil
war. Ten years before the war the
ship had cruised as a whaler The es-
Inmates that whales live to be LOCO
years old are fanciful, and not based
on authoritative information. Wash
ington Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09

>muffied behind rich draperies, but they
are not the less deadly. The bomb
that killed Grand Duke Sergius was
thrown by an Obolenski-a name
which denotes one of the most distin-
'guished families of the Russian aris-
tocracy. This fact is no longer secret
the sort which the Russian police
like to embalm within their own in
scrutable comprehension. From every
indication there is more nihilism in
vited officially 70 the palace of the czar
than you would meet with In visit
to the Russian underworld. 1t may be
depended upon that there are many
persons of title who know more of the
real spirit of the Russian terrorists
than they would care to discuss in a
tete-a-tete in the czars reception
rooms.
There can be no doubt that many
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09

who are privileged to enjoy the melan-
choly warmth of the cZar's hospitality
and that of the grand dukes. harbor at
the same time murderous thoughts,
their normal impulses cankered by the
invidius teachings of nihilism. The
death of Sergius and the revelations
which have followed that tragedy give
evidence of this. The grand dukes
slayerwas known both to the murdered
man and to his widow, the Grand
Duchess Elizabeth. He belonged to
their stratum of society, He had no
personal grievance. He expressed great
regret to the grand duchess when she
visited him IL his cell after the assas-
sination, that he had caused her so
great grief. He fell back before her
reproaches upon an impassioned eX-
planation of the doctrines of the ter
rorists, as il there were to be found
in them some adequate excuse for his
crime. If the grand duchess found in
these teachings no consolation she at
any rate ELECTED the information that
many revolutionists are members OF
the Russian nobility. Russian aris-
tocracy, he told her, is honeycombed
with revolutionary adherents. At least
one was a palace official in the cZar's
own household.
Such, it subsequently appeared, was
! the undercurrent of revenge in the
| hearts of Russians on the afternoon of
| February II, when sledge in which
! two men were seated shot out ahead
of the grand dukes carriage as it was
passing through Senate square, Mos
COW, on the way from the palace to the
| Kremlin. The sledge then slowed up,
| allowing the carriage to pass, while
one of the men, dressed as workman
peered earnestly into the dukes car
riage, into eyes that he knew. He was
prince and in his hand was a bomb
| What occurred is best described by an
| eyewitness:
The Senate square was deserted and
presented a melancholy appearance al
the moment when | entered it at a lit.
tie before three o'clock. The snow was
deep and the weather lowering; some
men were engaged in clearing the side.
walks of the thick ice and snow which
covered them. l had remarked moth
ing unusual and had not even noticed
the grand dukes carriage, which must
nevertheless have passed very close tC
me.
''All at once, as l was approaching
the entrance, | was Mortified and al
most stunned by the most terrific ex
plosion. The. shock, which nearly threw
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09

Incidentally the police were able to
clear up the mystery of the unknown
man who was suddenly blown to pieces
on the morning of March II by the ac-
cidental explosion of a bomb in his
room in the Hotel Bristol in st. Peters
burg. Although the passport carried
by the dead terrorist was issued in
London, ostensibly to an Englishman,
it was discovered that he was a Pole,
and spoke scarcely a dozen words OF
English.
The police, in tracing his movements
prior to the explosion, found that he
had two addresses here, and documents
were found indicating that he was
watching for members of the imperial
family and ministers of state. He frc-
quently visited the government offices
The police learned that he was connect.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09
THE BOMB-THROWERS ARE NOT CON-
FINED TO THE PEASANT
CLASSES ONLY.
SLAYER OF SERGIUS WAS A PRINCE
His Unguarded Statements Sent Many Others
of the Cars Household to Prison Cells
The Terrible Punishment Pre-
scribed by Nicholas.

st. Petersburg.-"It was the best of
6imes, it was the age of wisdom, 1T was
the age of foolishness, it was the
epoch of belief, it was the epoch of in
,credulity, it was the season of light, 1t
was the season of darkness, it was the
spring of hope, it was the winter OF
despair, we had everything before us,
\ we had nothing before us, we were all
going direct to Heaven, we were all go
ing direct the other way-in short the
period was so far like the present peri
cd, that some of the noisest authorities
insisted upon its being received, for
good or for evil, in the superlative de-
gree of comparison only. There was
a king with large jaw and a queen
with plain face on the throne of Eng
land; there was a king with a large
jaw and queen with fair face on
the throne of France. In both coun-
tries it was clearer than crystal to the
lords of the state preserves of loves
and fashions that things in general
were settled forever" 1t was with this
Introduction that Charles Dickens pro-
ceeded to reveal, in the Tale of Two
Cities" the vital details of the awful
\ drama of the French revolution, pic
turing that character whom none can
put out of memory who has once read
the story-Madame Defarge, the female
creature who sat knitting, always and
persistently knitting, knitting into a
tiendish record, descriptions of those
selected to die on the guillotine when
once the wheel of fortune should bring
the revolutionists in power.
There is knitting of this kind in Rus.
'sia to-day. Nor is it the coarse and
bungling work of the peasantry. If
Count Tolstoi has not been knitting
certainly his finger of warning has
pointed in many directions. Ominous
records have been woven in the most
'unsuspected quarters. Because the con.
demned are not marched in physica,
line to the guillotine, shall it be said
their fate is the less methodcally
planned. There are those who are
of these. But also there are those who
count and those who kill The reign
of terror is not less at hand because
the Russian bomb displaces the French
guillotine. The insecurity is not less
general than in those tranquil" days
which ushered in the French revolution
London Punch with keen irony
published a cartoon entitled France i.
Tranquil" and the same peace now
' reigns in Russia. Evil plots are
matched within exclusive clubs, anC
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09

majesty. sits not 80 easy on me As you
think. Shakespeare.
"As partridge sitteth on her eggs
and hatcheth them ot."-Jer. XVIII.
Note-"The use of the verb set for sit,
in such expressions as, the hen is setting
on 10 eggs; a setting hen, ETC., although
colloquially common, and sometimes
tolerated in serious writing, is not to
be approved. "-Webster's Interna-
tional.
Don't say "sett" for set"
Note-This error, of course, is not
made in speech, but in writing.
Example: Send me your full sett OF
books" should be Send me your full
set of books"
Don't say "settle" for pay"
Example: 81 settle my bills prompt
ly," should be Ipay my bills promptly"
Don't say "since" for ago"
Example: "It was ages since" should
be ut was ages ago."
Note-"Since" looks forward from a
definite past time until now; as, He
went a month ago, and I have not seen
him since" ago" looks backward
from the present; as Years ago, it hap
pened."
Don't say "sinks down" for "sinks." "
Example: Lead sinks down in
water" should be Lead sinks; in water. ''
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09

Copyright, 1905. by Joseph b. Bowles)
Authors Note.-It is one thing to record
errors, quite another to avoid them. He
who waits for the faultless one to cast
the first critical stone waits in vain;
therefore, as one of many working for
the betterment of the English language,
l shall be pleased to receive kindly criti-
cism, If, perchance, l, too, have erred.
Ones theory often is better than ones
practice. This was eXemplified by the
teacher of language when he said to his
class: "Never use proposition to end
q sentence with"
Many years ago 1 began to be watchfu
of errors. l noted them in little book
the book grew as the years passed.
profited much; shall profit more. now
record them that may benefit others as
well as myself. Many of them are re-
corded for the first time.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09

Rock Island, ILL.,, claims the small
est colored adult in America in the
person of Minnie Dlmery. Her height
is AZ inches and she weighs 40 pounds.
She is 43 years of age, Though we'll
formed and healthy, she is below the
average in intelligence. her mental de-
velopment being that of child of six
years Her parents and brothers and
sisters are normal in every respect
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09
industrious at Play.
yonr son industrlols?"

rs your son lndustflolSF
"It depends" answered Farmer Corn
tossel "!Ie's liable to take his time
doin' cho.Hs, but if you ever get him
on second base with good hitter up
he's liable to be about the busiest
thing or earth. Star
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09
Don't say "reply" for "answer.

Examples: I'm reply TO your letter,
should be "In answer to your letter."
Note-Replies are given to state
ments accusations, arguments, ETC.,
whether verbal or written; therefore,
in general correspondence, the word
"answer" should be used.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09
Don't saw "reprove" for "rebuke. :"

Don't say "reprove" for "rebuke."
Note-These words are often used in
terchangeably, but enormously so. A
reproof is kindly given with desire to
aid; rebulze is not always prompted by
the best motives; hence, is often unkind-
ly given.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09

Don't say "reputation" Tor "charac-
ter"
Note-These words are not synony-
nous. A mans character is what he
makes it; his reputation is what his
friends or his enemies make it. A good
reputation does not always bespeak a
good character. One with noble char
acter may have bad reputation. Ones
character is what heis; ones reputation
is what he seems-sometimes viewed
through a glass darkly."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09

Don't say return back" for return" :"
Example: I'VE were compelled to re-
turn back" "The army retreated back
many miles," should be 1--WE were COM
PEELED to return" "The army retreated
many miles"