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The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-08-18
Call for Democratic Convention Ninth
Council District.

Roswell, N. NJ, Aug. 8, 1906.
Pursuant to instruction of the De
mocratic Committee for the 9th Coun-
ell District of New Mexico, a dele
gate convention from the counties
composing said district is hereby call
ed to meet in the City of Santa Fe,
on the same date as the Territorial
Democratic Convention, that is Sep
TENDER 18TH, 1906, at 2 o'clock p. m.
The various counties of said Council
District are entitled t O representation
as follows:
Chaves, 10 delegates.
Dona Ana, 8 delegates.
Eddy, 4 delegates.
Grant, 10 delegates.
Lincoln, 6 delegates.
Luna, 3 delegates.
Otero, z delegates.
Roosevelt, 5 delegates.
TOTAL, 53 delegates.
j. F. HINKLE, Chairman.
Attest: w. B. WALTON, Sec.
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A PROGRESSIVE BARBER.

George FreidenbIoom to Occupy Larg-
err and Better Quarters.
The Parlor. Barber Shop, the lead
ing t%onsorial establishment of the city
will move about September First from
PA North Main Street to 222 North
Main, the building now occupied by
E. H. Williams & Co, second o
south of First National Bank. mws
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-08-18
The celebrated Peacock to-
matOeS now on J sale at the
JOyCe-Pruit Co. Grocery.

o. T. Simon, representing the Smith
Brothers Grocery Co., of New Orleans
came in last night on business. He
kinks that Roswell mas the bright
est future of any city of the South
west, out that there is one obstacle
that must be removed before success
is complete. That is the excessive
freight rate. He says that Roswell has
the highest freight rate of any city
in the United States, except one, and
that is Globe, A. t.
J. A. Foreman mas sold the furnit-
ure and fixtures of the Richards Ho-
tel and leased the building to C. F.
Brock, who came here recently from
DuQuoin, Ill. Mr.. Brock will take
charge at once. He has a wife and
three daughters to assist him, and a
son who is a practical hotel man. The
son was employed last spring as night
clerk at the Shelby hotel. Mr.. Fore
man is giving up the hotel business
on account of the health of his wife.
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Notice to Real Estate Agents.

All property listed by Daniel & Cal
fee and Daniel & Daniel is hereby
withdrawn from the market. 44t3
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-08-18

Canyon City, Texas, and Return, $50
On account of the Reunion Exon
federate Veterans n meeting West
yon, City, Texas, August 28th, goth
and Both, the above rate is authoriz-
ed. Tickets on sale August 27 to 80,
inclusive, limit fifteen days from date
of sale. M. d. BURNS,
Agent P. v. & N. E.. Ry-
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r. r. Tickets.

r. r. Tickets.
Bought and sold. See R. L. Miller,
Ell Captain Hotel.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-07-12

TO protect myself" explained Pace. Il
had no knowledge of your operations.
1t was purely self defense"
You lic," snarled Brace "You did
it to throw me You knew that with
such a start | could have won back
to the Exchange. You were afraid of
me and you ruined me"
For the first time Pace showed i'm
patience. He must get certain letters
out in time to catch the night mail.
Come IN in the morning and argue the
matter" ne said Il cannot spare the
time TO talk tonight"
Brace IeyeIed his revolver Unless
/ YOU give me back the money YOU stole
from me-" ha said imprcsslyely, 81
shall shoot YOU down like dog, you
ana these others too. Then l shall take
the money that is really mine and flee
! have it all arranged | will count
ten"
PAGES face was beaded with perspi-
ration. No help was at hand, and this
man. driven mad by the excitement of
the panic, had them at his mercy. II
will give in." he said weakly. Come
over to the safe"
"Too late" said Brace his brain tax
ing new impression. Il am going to
kill You anyway. One, two, three
lie sank to the floor with a Groan \
huge commercial report had knocked
him scnsclcss, ana Bobby stood tri-
umphantly over the PROSTATE figure.
Il thought it was just row." he
said, until the Ghost begun t count
Then | remembered that was the way
they did with Antelope Andy" lie
hshcd the book from his hip pocket
"'QuIcL as FASH" he read. "'Ante-
lopc Andy. with herculean strength
seized the chest and brought It down
on the head Of his antagonist, Telling
him like a log l guess them half
dime books amt 10 good"
He turned to Carter, who explained
to the mystilied Pace
Il thiuk. Robert" declared the
broker, that there is good in all
things We shall have to raise your
salary to enable you to increase your
library and 50 lee provided against all
emergencies"
= don't want no raise" protested
Bobby. Give it to Carter or Miss
Mabel They want it to get married
on"
Il guess That can be arranged. too"
laughed Pace. And as soon as we can
get an aunHancc here to take care of
poor Brace Wen 20 uptown for cele-
bration dinner"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-07-12
One of the wonders of Physics,

An experienced mechanic who was
asked what he regarded as the most
wonderful thing for general utility re
piled The tracking of car wheel Is
the most wonderful thing to me In the
whole range of science and invention
Here are two rails, uphill and down.
hill. round the sharp curves and along
false tangenta. and upon them fly at
more than Il mile a minute, without jar
OF jostln, a dozen heavy cars drawn by
an cn.inc Wai-hing sixty tons. Passen'
gers realize no danger, yet there Is
only the little Gange of wheel be-
tween them ana eternity. An inch and
a half of steel turned up on the inner
side OF the wheel holds up the whole
train as securely to the rails as If il
We're boltel there in grooves"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-07-12

A-~-~0~-~-~O~O~-~~~-~~-~O~-~~S &
Carter throw down the pamphlet
with an exclamation of disgust you'll
never get ahead If you read that sort
of trash" he admonishcd "Why don't
you get good books, Bobby"
These is good" protested Bobby.
They're first rate. I'll let you have
1t to read after I've finished If you
don't believe it,"
Carter fled. It was not the first time
he had sought to correct Bobby's liter
airy taste, and it generally ended in his
defeat. Once he had thought Of ap-
pcalIng to Thomas Pace, but he had a
liking for the lad, and to report to the
head of the firm that the office boy was
devoted to dime novels might simply
result in the loss of his Job,
1t was Bobby who had saved the
day when Mabel Keeler had been ac-
cused of losing aE important letter by
declaring taat he had lost it himself.
1t Ittil \tl i''bl l'N''lN''l III ms wv -
dismissal But Bobby could be sworn
at. ami this had saved the situation by
providing q vent for the "old mans
choicr.
Tyc, since that night Bobby had been
.J,1rjtc with Carter and Mabel.
Th,v ;Ep were to marry when the long
czp'ctcd raise came, and Bobby knew
t.
Il was como three hours later and the
cy, p,,s # Antelope Andy, the famous
In am Lille. were drawing to a close
wherein ne saved the girl, but did not
marry Ter in order that there might
be another romance In the next issue
of the series. when the book suddenly
shot into the desk and Bobby stood at
attention Long practice had enabled
him to tell the "old mans" hand on the
knob among a thousand.
Pace passed rapidly across the Gus
toner's space and into the cashiers
cage. The clerks looked wonderingly
at him They knew that 1t had been n
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-07-12
BERLIN is MACHINE MADE.
English Writer Calls Ii stiff, Rigid
md RectiIinenr.

Was T. rlin made last year or the
from looking at it, Some Of the trees
IN the streets look at least ten years
old, but they must have been planted
long before the city was thought Of
Thc houses and the streets and the
lamppOsts and the statues are all much
too neat ana new to have endured the
rains of more than one winter 1t is
MI, In fact. quite too new to be com
Portable one feels afraid to sleep in
any Of IL. houses lest rheumatism
should ba lying in wait in rooms where
the plaster las not had time to harden
| drove from the station in q 'drOSh-
k' with 4 iHoa@trOusly old horse. Time
had bent his forclcgs into Il very good
Imitation 0, q SWitchback railway, and
as we plOiGol solemnly along the
brand new as, halt roadway, with the
brand now houses on either side and
an occasional brand new electric car
with a brand new driver in a brand
new Uniform, | found myself wonder.
ing what the old horse must think of II
all. One day he may have been grazing
in an open field, and when he passed
that way Il week or so later he found q
new broad boulevard, with hotels and
shops and churches and great blocks OF
fats, all sprung up like mushrooms.
Berlin. then, is Il great deal too per
feet to be satisfactory. 1t Is the ma
chine made, not the hand made, article
it was very decidedly made, not
born. There is no spontaneity in 1t, nc
life. Compared to, say, London, 1t Is
like beautiful marble statue to liv-
Ing woman.
Berlin is, in fact, an awful object
lesson to emperors and others who try
to make capital city out Of respect
able village 1t Is easy to put up i'm
posing buildings-if you have the mon
ey-and to cut out broad tree lined
roads and have everything neat and
nice and fine, but you only make your
village bigger and finer without max
ing 1t any the more a capital city
There Is no getting away from the feel
ing that Berlin is q village-a big vii
lage, q beautiful, rectilinear, new-out
of -the-bandboX village, but village all
the same.-London Chronicle.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-07-12
VICTORIA FALLS.
Called "the Most beautiful Gem OF
the Enrth's Scenery"

The IambcZi river, carrying a huge
volume Of water two miles in width, as
il reaches the western borders of Rho
desia prccipitatcs itself into a cavern
Gus gorge and thus traverses the north
cru plains Of the country
This great drop IN the river has pro
duccd the most beautiful gem Of the
carth's scenery" the Victoria falls. Al
most twice as broad rs Niagara and
two and a half times as high, an i'm
mensc mass Of water rolls over its edge
to prccipitatn itself in magnificent
spleulpr 900 sheer feet into the narrow
canyon below
UnIcterrod, the Rhodesian engineers,
without detracting from the natural
beauty Of the surroundings, threw
across the canyon a splendid $50 foot
cautalcycr bridge aul thus opened the
way 10 TlngaUyila, to Uganda, to
Cairo.
This bridge. the greatest railway en-
ginccriug triumph Of Africa, deserves
more than passing notice 1t consists
Of a central span weighing approx
m..Iv 1900 tons, 500 feet In length
and 80 feet wide The steel work Is Of
rolled steel weighing 400 pounds to the
cubic foot Th" end posts Of the bridge
are over ln. r.ot isag The pull on the
anchorage parfrus IS about 100 tons.
Tile contract Tor thn construction was
obtained hv u .r firm Of bridge
Iva
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-07-12

memorable day on the street and
PAGES appearance bore the marks of
the storm.
Garter" he said hurriedly, you
may let the clerks so, but | wish you
would stay yourself. | shall be busy
for some time and may need you. Miss
Keeler, please get your book"
With a sigh Mabel picked up her
stenographic book and followed her
employer into his private office. Car
ter dismissed the other clerks and re-
turned quietly to his books. Bobby
made himself comfortable and reached
for his beloved literature. He must
wait to copy the letters Mabel was
taking down, but he had a new issue
of The Young Pioneers" and a delay
did not worry him.
For an hour or so the outer office was
quiet. the stiffness broken only by the
scratching Of Carriers pen and the in
distinct monotone Of PAGES voice as he
dictated steadily Then with a crash
the door was thrown open SraIu rvucl
lex Brace burst in.
Bobby sprang up in surprise, Brace
was broken down Operator-a ghost
In the slang of the street; ghost Of
the past, who now and then came into
the customers room to beg stake"
from some old timer who could remem-
Der when Brace was one Of the lead
Ing operators on the street and not
broken down hanger on, playing an oc-
casional tip in the bucket shops on
money borrowed from some sympa-
thetic and prosperous acquaintance
He could have no business with Thorn
as Pace
Brace brushed him aside and strobe
through the wicket gate. Carter sprang
to intcrpose, but was thrown roughly
to one side and followed, expostulat-
ing, as the excited man forced his way
into PAGES office
Pace looked up in astonishment.
what Is 1t. Brace" he asked. His
hand sought his pocketbook
"Pve not come for n loan" laughed
Brace wildly. Il don't want your char
Ity, Tom Pace. | want Justice" He
swayed unstcadily, the light of mad
ness cleaning in his eyes. Il want
YOU to give back what you have stolen
from me"
Pace held out n bill. you are ex-
cited. Brace" he sail quietly. "Come in
In the morning and talk It over an
r,., tr.. r..r This viii Gx Won m
f,r A. n.,...t Won; H."
l..a.., .p,;,..nd fine hin fran his hand
o...I t.... r :r shrnIs .Ffva dollars -
a.. .l...t - ,-ull,. ..y,u tbinI, gou
,.,, ,,ct .ar v.fn, ~ W. r.ont =
r,3lIir, yo,,va oot II tbora In tho
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-07-12
a AUMBLE { HEROINE.
Mother Mary Teresa and the Cross of
the Lcuiuu Df Honor.

Some years AGO in city in France
III th, soldiers v.r" drawn up on the
plaza. : F,u.an in the habit of char
ity WAS called oul iu front OF the GOV
,ruor general. AID this is what he said:
"Mothc" Nary Teresa, when you
were twenty years OF age YOU received
wound from a cannon ball while as
sisting oan Of the wounded on the
field at Balaklava. In 1850 the shell
from a mitra,llcuse laid you PROSTATE
in the front ranks ON the battlefield Of
Magenta. Since then you have been in
Syria In China and in Mexico, and II
YOU were not wounded It was not be-
cause you have not exposed yourself
In 1870 you were taken up in Reis-
choffcl covered with many Saber
wounds. Such deeds Of heroism you
crowned few weeks ago with one Of
the most heroic actions which history
records. \ grenade fell upon the am
bulauce which was under your charge.
You took up the grenade I'm your arms;
You smiled upon the wounded who
looked at yau with feelings Of dismay;
you carried it a distance of eighty me-
tcrs ON laying it down YOU noticed
that il was going 10 burst You threw
yourself on the ground; II burst. You
were seen covered with blood, but
when persons came TO your assistance
you rose mp smiling as Is your wont.
You were scarcely recovered from your
wound when YOU returned to the hos
I
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-07-12

the figure I'm fne buggy beside Narbel
was SO swathcd i'm duster and wells
that no hint Of her appearance could
hc gained. and the men, with many
nudge and smile. fell in behind and
rode along
They nm turned i'm at the ranch gate
but NarNel swung his wife out of the
buggy ANA took her into the house.
Mrs. Nlrhcl viii he glad 10 meet you
when She has had a chance TO tidy
up." he said. with a grave face but
She wants the dust off first"
Culver took the horse to the stables
and then reioiucd the waiting group on
the grass plot i'm front of the house
culver knew now why Narbel had in
sisted upon a grass plot) They had not
long TO wait. for presently a gasp from
the crowd caused Culver to turn, and
there ON the step stood Narbel and
the very girl Of the picture. She was
smiling now MS She acknowledged the
various lutroductions. Culver was the
last to come up, for he had not rccov-
erred from his amazemcnt until Narbel
called 90 him.
Il feel that | ought to be very CRATE
full To YOU" she said in a low voice
.cvcn though you were trying to play
a joke"
-Tha joke seems to be on me-" he
said lamely
Il don't think there is any joke she
said decidedly. 1T was just the work
ing of fate"
lie turned to receive the farewells
Of the men from the mine, and more
than one iollcd him on his vivid imagl-
nation. 1t was clear that they thought
he had been foolinG them, and he was
glad that be- was Mt least saved their
jcers, but it was with no pleasant an
tlclpatiou that he followed Narbel and
his wife into the house.
You buildel better than you knew,
Jack. when you sent that letter | wrote
in Jest"
"Eut this is not Lucy Mears." he
stammcrcd Il thought you were go
Ing to keep faith at any cost"
Aunt Lucy died year ago" smiled
Mrs. Narhcl. Il suppose no one wrote
you. As | was the only Lucy Mears
got the letter"
and got the sweetest little woman
on earth" supplemented Narbel.
and l." wound up Culver, Il don't
know whether l should be praised or
kicked think I'd prefer the latter"
But instead hc received the praise.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-07-12
LEGEND OF THE GARTER.
Contradictory versions of the FOun-
dation nf the Order

| knew, as every schoolboy knows
the legend that a certain Countess Of
Salisbury cropped her garter at ball
ana DEat tie king, picking it up amid
the smiles oi cuurticrs, handed it TO her
with the hlppy and now immortal
phrase, "Iioui soit qui NAL y pense."
Bat this legend. | recalled, had had to
20 tI' way of the story of King Al
fred ana the cakes, the story of VII
liam Tell and The apple and many an
other prcity fairy tale Of history At
last went to Sir Nicholas Harris NicO-
las History cf the Orders of Knight
hood" whore | found delightful mass
of contradictory authority produced.
Tie tul' of the ensign and name of
.hp order Wcr" first told by PolydOre
Icr-il 1r1D-l-1JD. who wrote in the
tiGn Of Henry VII. and Henry VIII.
au3 who said that the lady was the
quarl or the kings mistress" Segar,
who, work Honor, Military and
CIVIL" ap cared in 1902, 25O years aft
CT the order WJa founded, was the first
to say that it was the Countess of Sal
i=Juy. ether writer's say that 1t was
the Countess of Kent. John Anstis
(lGG lT44. garter king Of arms, who
published several heraldic works, ridi-
cul,s II" whole story. He confesses
tHJt "a author Of Henry WIS time,
who wrote in Latin - whose work is
now entirely lost, upheld it.
Raphael IIolinshed, a chronicler who
~, t.1I In,
and says the lady was the queen which
surely rather spois the significance of
the l,@cnd Sir Harris Nicolas him,
self thinks the story is not improbable,
although he urges the fact that Jean
Froissart. who is the best contempO-
rary authority on the reign of Edward
Ill. while he has much to say about
the order in his hundredth chapter,
does not refer to it. and Nicholas ad-
mitS that thiS tells very much against
the supposed origin of the story, but
Froi">aIt may lave thought the matter
too trivial to relate By the way, feel
very much ag-rieved that G.. G. Macau,
lay In the abridged volume of Froissart
that he published through the Macmil-
lanS should have ruthlessly cut this
hundredth chapter
1t is not, may add, claimed that the
incident caused the foundation of the
Order of thr Garter, but only that II
gave Edward III. the idea for naming
the order which he had resolved to
found in any case. In the absence of
any other solution than that which
rests on these shadOwy foundations l
pretty legend. but | repeat my expires.
sion of dissatisfa with the popular
histories that they should leave such
matters as this severely alone.-Lon,
don Sphere
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-07-12
HOW BEAST MEN ARE MADE.
The HideOus and Cruel Practice of
Flesh Sculpture In China.

"Nlctor Hugo in The Man Who
Laughs, said an ethnologist, tells of
the sculptors Of living flesh those hor-
riblc people of the middle ages who kid
naped tender little children ANA turned
them into all sorts of monsters, dwarfs,
hunchbacks and the like. selling them
aftcrward for testers or for shoWmcn's
freaks.
The hideous ana cruel practice Of
flesh sculpture stiII continues. There IS
a tribe of Chinese gypsi"s who steal
children and turn them into So called
wild men The practice is, of course.
illegal
"A kidnapped child is faycd alive, bit
by bit. and the shaggy skin Of a dog
is grated on him. This takes year.
At the years end the poor creature is
shaggy, like Il bear. from head to foot
The child's vocal chords are destroy
ed with charcoal in an mspeakably
cruel way. He can never speak there
after He can only growl and moan
like n beast.
He IS imprisoned in a perfectly black
hole until every vcstigc of reason leaves
him. Nine months is usually a suf-
ficient confinement to accomplish this.
Finally, speechless, shaggy lunatic,
the victim is sold 10 travelling show
man and is exhibited throughout China
as a genuine wild man or beast man. |
am bound to say he looks the part"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-07-12
. TvnicoI uungnrian Village

Imagine n very broad unpaved road,
like a dusty. plowcd field and wild gar
deus trailing around and over white
thatchcI cottages. Each cottage is
one storicd. with old world caves and
a vcranda which runs along the whole
front The thatched roof seems to lean
with all its strength upon toy shaped
colOnnale. while the crcepers afford a
contrast to the whitewashcd walls If
you walk down the road at dusk you
will find nj each door one Of the house
hold vigorously brushing clouds Of dust
away from the footpath, while long
files Of clean. curly pigs are trotting
swiftly homcward and lean mongrels
ebay the whispering wind" unceasing-
ly. The men wear linen shirts and
kits. On workdays the costume has
the appearance of a long, dingy night
dress tied with Il leather girdle. ON
heydays the kilt is white and stiff. with
accordion plating. while the shirt is OF
dainty embroidery and sets Off an
elaborate worstcd waistcoat. The girls
full dress IS still more picturesque. ow
ing 10 the harmonious blending Of the
brightest prlnts-all shades and depths
Of blue and red and pink; no other col
ors-and to the graceful fall Of the
short petticoats. which do not reach the
ankle, and ere inflated by a slight sus-
picion Of Saturday Review.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-07-12
HOG MONEY!.
Origin of the Curious Old Brass
Coins of bermuda.


Coins of bermuda.
Hog money" is the name 10y which
the brass money which began to be
struck in Bermuda in 1850 came to be
known. On one face of it was a hog,
on the other ship of that period.
These old coins are very rare and high
ly priced by collectors.
The history Of this device is curious
and interesting \ Spanish vessel,
commanded 10y Juan Bermudez, on its
way to cuba with Il cargo of hogs, was
wrecked there This was in 1913. Lat
er in the same century, when the Eng
lish discovered this land, they found
country inhabited by hogs.
1t Is also interesting to note that the
English discovered it in the same way
as the Spaulards An English ship
was wrecked there. Is it any wonder
that the trCacherous coast got from
Spanish and English alike the name of
Devils Landf Yet it is one of the
most beautiful coasts in the world, and
1t has been claimed that in brilllancy
Mediterranean effects are not at all
equal to those of Bermuda
Bermuda is said to be the island of
Shakespearc's Tempest" The strange
noises which mariners heard coming
from this island, ana which they did
not then know We're produced by hogs,
caused them to say that it was haunt
ed ANA To report weird things of it,
pearSOu'S
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-07-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

There is no such thing as secret.
\ reasonable probability is the only
certainty.
Men who have violated the law say
il is not hard To do.
Romance is like fre-if you play
with it YOU are liable to be burned.
There is too little attention given to
two mighty important words, Don't
tell"
1t is a bad plan to seek to make a
good impression by following every
statement with an apology.
The trouble is when we do things
for our friends we do things we want
70 instead of what they would be pleas
ed TO have MS do.
We can't understand why people try
to deceive others but cannot under
stand Why they should try to deceive
themselves. as 50 many seem TO do
AtChisou Globe