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The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-07-20

rived and taken a position as sales
man in the cigar store of Rothenberg
& Schloss.
Miss Josie Gardner left this morn
ing for her home in Fort Worth, af-
ter spending five months with friends
in Roswell.
Master Shelley Stone went to the
DE- ranch this morning to assist in
branding and broneo-busting for a
month or six weeks.
Mrs. w. F. Stone left his morning
for her home in Duncan, L. T. She
had been here two weeks looking af-
ter property interests.
w. J. Allen, who has been here for
two months, left this morning for his
home in Konoawa, l. T. His family
will follow him later.
Engineer NJ. D. Carlton, who has
been working on the Belen Cutoff,
has been brought home sick and is
down with typhoid fever.
Leslie Pickering returned this NOR
ming from Artesia, where he has
been for two weeks working for the
| Ullery Furniture Company.
Miss Ollie Gillespie left this morn
ing for her home in Sherman, Miss,
after spending six months mere with
her brother, A. V. K. Gillespie.
Mrs. NJ. Davidson and daughter,
Miss Maud have arrived from Girard,
Kan, for a months visit with their
daughter and sister, Mrs. E. j.. d,
Arcy.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Payton departed
this morning for their home in C1ar-
linda, Iowa. They were here two
week as the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. E. Day, of North Hill.
Miss Lula Deason, who has been
here visiting her brother, Jack Dea-
son., left this morning for Oklahoma
City, where she will visit before go
ing to her home in N~orthport, Ala.
w. P. Lewis and A. R. Forsyth have
gone to the site of the Nogal Peak
Gold Mining and Milling Company's
property in the mountains and will
be gone several days looking over the
property.
Ben Allison drove up from Lake
Arthur last night bringing with him
Misses Ella and Myra Allison and
Stella Hall, who nave been VISITING
there for the past ten days. He will
remain here a few days with his
parents.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-07-20

Cheap R. r. tickets. See Ingersoll-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23
Intervention Inevitable.

The dozen warships that we have
sent to Cuba cannot go to the bush,
but General Funston can, and he will
be on the spot on Tuesday morning.
But General Funston will have no hol-
iday if he attempts to follow the In
surgents to the bush, for they know
every foot of the ground, and he does
not.
1t is already apparent that the in
surgents will go back to the bush UNI
less a new election is oroered-that is
to say, a new and fair election for
president and members of congress.
The insurgents want liberal admin
istration, and they have troops enough
to secure one unless we intervene.
Palma Is a weakling, and he and his
crowd are on their last legs. Nothing
stands behind him now but the Taft
peace commission.
Palma Is destined to fall. He is UNI
popular and Inherently weak. The In
surgents are largely half-breeds and
negroes, and they are unfit for self
government.
Intervention is the true remedy, and
in order to put the insurgents down 1t
may be necessary to send a considera-
BILE army to, Cuba. We have 10000
regulars, and perhaps 10000 of them
could be sent there, They will soon
be needed in that island, for interven-
ton must come when the "outs" say
a new president and congress must
be elected, and the "ins" refuse to
turn loose term of four years begun
last December.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23
Funeral Paueanis..

In all cities there is springing up a
demand for a lessening Of funeral ex-
penses and funeral exhibitions. The
public exhibitions of today in connee-
tion with the burial of bodies are rel
les of barbarism, and there is not a
CLEAN of sense or a bit of propriety in
them.
The Rev. Francis J. Butler, of st.
Leo's Catholic church, Dorchester
Massachusetts, has started a move
ment in his own flock to put an end
to the waste of money and the general
folly of public funerals Here are his
directions to his parishioners:
1. Announce that the funeral will be pri-
vate.
2. Invite relatives and friends generally
to attend the requiem services in the
church.
3. Hire all the carriages through the I'M
dertaker, so that he may have perfect
control over the drivers.
T. III the case Oh Ordinary private clLl-
zens, it would seem that ten carriages
would constitute a proper funeral process
sion to follow the body to the graveyard.
None should go to the graveyard but
those invited by the bereaved family. The
last act of the sorrowful parting from our
friends should be witnessed by only
sympathetic few.
o. If many flowers are sent by sympa-
thizing friends let the undertaken carry
Into the church only one small piece to
be placed on the easliet.
6. Do not request that some seml-rei-
gous song be sung at the end of the
mass. 1t detracts from the solemnity and
propriety of the church's funeral service
The effort of the pastor of st. Leos
is not in advance of public sentiment.
All feel that the time has come to trim
down the funeral parade, especially in
rich families, for while the rich in
dulge in unnecessary display, the poor
will endeavor to do likewise, and there
would be no chance for reform. A
rule should find public sanction that
strikes at all pageants in the burial of
the dead.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23
GRAY HAIR is POPULAR.

New York Cor. in Pittsburg Dispatch.
New York society women and stage folk
are taking kindly to a nicrobe which has
been quite busy during recent years. 1t
is the chromophage. He makes your hair
white before your time. In other words
he will turn your October brown hair or
your raven locks into sllvery threads be-
fore the wrinkles begin to appear on your
brow. The handsome actor who has those
white hairs on his temple that the women
admire so is full of the chromophages
Bald headed men are immune from the
microbes. He only attacks the hair
and a man without hair need not worry
about the chromophage. For years it was
thought that a process of the blood killed
the coloring matter of the hair cells but
scalpologists in New York combat that
theory. They say it Is the chromophage
The microbe does not like heat, and for
that reason the woman who uses the curl
ing tongs is less likely to have gray hair
than the one who puts her hair up In pa
pers. Gray hair and white hair are now
very popular and it would not be surpris-
ing were some enterprising person to Gull
tivate the chromophage
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23
A most acute juvenal; voluble and free
of grace.
Loves Labor Lost.
Defininu the Chief Issue.

Mr.. Bryans statement in his Bijou
speech that a great change is going on
in this country is appreciated by all
observers. Democratic ideas are be-
coming popular. We are at length a
radical people, and the change has be-
come so controlling that the republi-
can party has been forced to adopt
some democratic ideas to the great
disgust of the plutocrats who had
frou their privilege-fattened purses
long maintained it.
Beyond all reasonable doubt the
campaign of 1908 will have as con-
trolling and dominant issue the over
throw of private monopoly, with a re-
vision of the mountaineering tariff
as a logical and necessary incident.
MIR. Bryan showed that If private mo-
nopoly can be crushed, socialism will
go down also, for it would then have
no field to exploit. His illustration of
the point was so snug and apt that 1t
deserves reproduction, as follows:
The trust representatives have talked so
frankly that you all ought to know what
is in prospect. The son of John d. Rookie
Teller, defending the trusts, used the best
illustration that has yet been used He
said that as the American Beauty rose
could only be brought to its perfection by
pinching off ninety mine buds that the
strength of the bush might flow into the
remaining bud, so 1t was impossible to
bring great industrial enterprises to per-
lection without pinching off the weaker
ones and smaller ones-a frank illustra-
tion-a candid statement-a brutal illus
tration. had rather have a hundred
flowers that they might give fragrance to
a hundred homes than Just have one
flower with its fragrance monopollzed by
one home. And instead of a few great
trusts, whose managers would send down
Grafton, while other people toiled without
prospects of rise, l had rather have hun
dreds and thousands and tens of thou
sands independent industries, each one
giving hope to thousands of men daily.
The democratic party is not satisfied to
punish a few trusts; 1t wants to drive out
of existence every private monopoly and
make it impossible for another one to rise
In the United States.
In this way he compactly presented
the overshadowing issue of 1908
knowing as he well does that the mo-
nopolists and tariff benefciaries will
endeavor to buy the election but trust.
ing to the virtue and intelligence OF
plain, everyday citizenship to over
come even the biggest slush fund.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23
LIEUT.. GOVERNORS SALARY.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
The Birmingham Ledger says Hon.
Henry B. Gray spent s1.5o more to get
the nomination for lieutenant governor
than the office pays. Gee, space is pow
erful cheap in some country weeklies in
Alabama.-Talladega Mountain Home.
Mr. Gray rendered an expense account
which was greater by ten times than the
amount which In the ordinary course of
events he will receive as lieutenant gov
ernor. The regular sessions of the legis-
lature are limited to fifty days. Section
ID of the constitution says:
"The compensation of the lieutenant
governor shall be the same as that re-
ceived by the speaker of the house. ex-
cept while serving as governor. during
which time his compensation shall be
the same as that allowed the governor"
The compensation of the speaker of the
house is So per day and with the legisla-
ture in session fifty days in four years,
MIR. Gray's total compensation will be
about $500. OF course, in the contingency
named above 1t would be more
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23

of the nation merely for the sake of
the little additional profits which such
nefarlous practices bring them.
Making public the names and adj
dresses of the firms which offer for
sale these adulterated seeds is far too
mild a punishment. Such firms should
be prosecuted and put out of business.
The consequences attendant upon los
ing a crop may prove very serious to
the farmer, He may be depending up
on the harvest to pay off a mortgage
or to provide for his family during the
winter.
When the farmer found the cookie
among the wheat, he said. IAN enemy
hath done this" but he was no great
er enemy than the scotsman who
would sell dodder seed for crimson clo-
Ver
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23
MANS lNoRATITUDE.

By Walter Harper.
Mid lifeless voids of space God fashioned
spheres;
Set sun and stars each in the proper
zone;
Mapped out the wondrous scheme of days
and years
While angels stood amazed about His
throne.
He piled the mountains till they pierced
the sky;
Scooped out the valleys of the deep and
spread
The plains with waving forests broad and
high,
Then planted coral on the oceans bed.
In that grand hour had avbgkqj---
In that grand hour man had his won
drous birth;
Amid the tumult of creations morn,
Subject to God. yet ruler of the earth
Who dares to look on godly things with
scorn.
God speaks and thunders echo back His
voice;
He frowns and lightnings scorch the
rocks and hills;
He smiles and sunshine makes the birds
rejoice
While plain and ocean with His glad
ness thrill.
The beasts of earth look UP with grati-
tude
For fruits and joys with which he
strews the sod
The flowers bow with smiles in multitude,
While man alone has said. There is no
God"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23
Wrestling Class.

II have no doubt" said c. II. Miles OF
the Birmingham Athletic club yesterday
that Farmer Burns will succeed with
his wrestling class. l understand that
many fathers are thinking of giving their
sons over to the veterans for the purpose
of having them Instructed in the art of
wrestling scientifically, and gaining at the
same time much physical strength and
general development. After the match
Monday at the jefferson between Burns
and Demetral, the Farmer will make
himself busy at once looking after pu-
pills, and it is a certainty that he will
have a good number.
''As is known, no man who has ever
visited Birmingham is more skillfln than
Burns and he is happily blessed with
the art of imparting his knowledge. He
makes himself one of the boys, works with
them, enters into their games, and in
structs them carefully and with an OBJ
ject of perfecting them In the art to
which their strength and talent bend.
He uses gentle means of teaching the
young, and with the older boys he uses
more skill and force / am certain that
the scheme will succeed"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23
Adulterated Seeds.

II there is any particular class of
ton that the laws can throw around
II, that class consists of our farming
population.
In all countries and in all ages, next
to the Almighty God Himself to Whom
we owe our life, the farmer has been
regarded as the support of our exist
ence. AS rule, the farmer is an in
genious and trusting member of So
eiety. His dealings are with Nature,
and from her he learns the lesson that
II he deals square with her, she will
reciprocate the honesty.
Two things are essentially necessa.
ry to make farming success-good
soil and good seed. In the selection of
the soil the farmer exercises his
knowledge of the subject gained by
observation and experience, and in the
selection of the seed he plants he Is
governed by the sort of crop he de-
sires to raise. What. then, must be
his disappointment, not to mention his
loss, when he finds a crop of weeds
spring up where he hoped to find n
crop of corn or clover?
The department Of agriculture an
nounced few days ago that several
big firms had been doing thriving
business selling grossly adulterated
seeds TO farmers; that these adulter
ants were not merely the harmless
sand and sawdust to be found in the
sugar bowl, but were actually the
seeds of destructive parasitic plants
which mean ruin to the farmer. 1t IS
lamentable to think that merchants
would wilfully strike such deadly
blow at the great agricultural interests
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23
The sherlff,s Bond.

When Sheriff Andrew Burgin declined to
incarcerate a man who confessed to the
crime of taking a human life, there was
much discussion in legal circles. The
sheriff stated that the reason he did not
arrest the man was because there was
no warrant or paper of any kind in eNis-
tence 1.-THE sheriff of jefferson county
said Mr.. Burgin, rs under bond OF
$4,000 We must have some positive
knowledge of every offense before COM
hitting a man to Jail. We cannot be too
certain or too sure. We must have proof.
II is different with a police officer. He
can arrest a man with or without war
rant or on the simple complaint of citi-
zen"
In referring to this case, Mayor Ward
yesterday afternoon told of a man who
asked to be arrested by the city officials.
1.-THE man entered this office" said the
Mayor land asked that he be arrested
| hesitated because he had not committed
any offense. Then he declared that ne
was drinking, and wanted to be locked up
in order that he might not go too far. l
argued with him, but to no avail. Finally
he asked what he could do to gain his
desired end Seeing that he was deter
n med, we finally committed him TO the
city Jail"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23
BRYAN THE STORY-TELLER.

third day of his stay in New York, he
told the newspaper men this tale:
MY former campaigns and the results
that came of them remind me of man
who came out to Nebraska to take up a
farm" said he "This man was green
horn and he did not know much about
the cyclones that sometimes visit our
prares. But he had some sort of wis
dom.
HE put a strengthening wooden fence
about his place that looked like a chicken
coop. 1t vas built in a triangular shape.
A farmer drove by when this greenhorn
was putting up his fence and commented
upon its apparent instability.
Why, the first good wind comes
along, he said. will blow your fence over
like jackstraws.'
Oh! all right said the greenhorn.
who was also an optimist. My fence is
five feet broad at the bottom and four
feet high If 1t blows over, it will be
foot higher than 1t is now
That's what l hope my political fence
is like" said Bryan, with a laugh.
Another Bryan story was lifted bodily
by Congressman Lentz in his speech at
New Haven on August 81. Mr.. Lentz
was busy holding the crowd until Mr..
Bryan should appear from the meeting
of the New England democrats in the
Tontine hotel. across the street, so the
use of the Bryan thunder was perhaps
permissible
There was once a funeral out In Ne
braska-so runs this yarn-and the preach
er who had been asked to deliver the eu-
logy was stranger in town and did not
know the departed sister very well. So
after he had said all that he could he
suggested that If anybody else could say
few words about the poor dead sister
it would be a good thing to say them.
Three or four of those who had known
the deceased In her lifetime made APP
propriate remarks. Then there was a
pause. At last one old brother rose and
said:
We'll, If we're all through speaking
about the departed sister will now make
few brief remarks on the tariff"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23
Our New Railroad King.

1t seems to be a fact that the Har-
riman-Kuhn-Loeb combine has secured
control of the Baltimore and Ohio
When that road is added to the Union
Pacific and Southern Pacific systems.
the Illinois Central, the Chicago and
Alton and the Kansas City Southern,
we see in the hands of one man 81
$40 miles of track, reaching from coast
to coast, and bearing a capitalization
of $1,7OO. 100000.
Mr.. Hartman is not practical rail-
road man. He is not civil engineer.
He had no technical training. He
sprang from family that dealt in
dry goods, but he has courage, grasp
of the situation and a genius for high
finance He has long been the real
manipulation Of the big life insurance
companies in New York. He needs
them in his big projects, and doubtless
he will retain his power over them.
The new Hartman merger exceeds
any previous attempt In that direction
Its mileage exceeds that of Great Brit.
ain. 1t outdoes the Goulds, the Van.
derbilts, the Pennsylvania group, the
]. ]. Hill combination and the Rock
Island holdings, with Its $4,000 miles
of track. In our 211.000 miles of steam
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23
Liqhts Went Out,

when the electric lights went out"
said a man last night, everyone looked
blank. Everything was blank. In the thea
tres the curtain of darkness descended
before the bell call. The vaudevill girl
changed from a giggllng thing to
frightened, sober individual.
1.-The customer at the bar raised his
stein in brilliant light and poured the
beer down his collar in utter darkness.
"a man buying a handkerchief. Electric
ity Quit he pockets the goods and gets
out.
1.-THE street car is spinning around the
curves and his eyes are following the
graceful lines of the hand of one who
sits by his side. Would that he could
but touch it. He did.
The old deacon is reading his Bible,
and, coming to. the passage, least into
hell fire." Just as the printed word van
ishes from his sight was there any harm
in his repeating those last two words
with a rising emphasis? These and many
other incidents are the result of the power
giving out last night at 1890 clock"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23
ALABAMA PRESS

Pine Belt News: We hope Maud will
hurry up and reach the Mountain House.
st. Clair Herald: The next legislature
should read the death knell of the gamb-
ling dehs.
Troy Herald: Pittsburg maintains its
gay ascendency as center of metropolis
tan immortality.
Russell Register: Mr.. Bryan continues
to receive ovations wherever he goes. You
can't keep a good man down
Gadsden Journal: After much parrying
and shifting about the Birmingham Com
mereial club is again engaged in holding
Vulcan sessions.
New Decatur Advertiser: You can talk
to more people through the newspapers.
a greater distance in less time at more
reasonable price. than in any other way.
Peoples Dedger: The Age-Herald of
Birmingham says. Pulling the wool over
a mans eyes is not as serious as pulling
his leg Well bet Mr.. Conner doesn't
think so either
Mobile Item: BY the way, in the tur-
moil of troubles nearer home, what has
become of Minister Leishman, who is so
anxious to show his brand new ambas-
sadorial clothes to the Sulan of Turkey?
Cullman Democrat: Good roads will even
change the appearance of the cattle.
Scrub men and scrub stock disappear with
good roads and schools. Our legislators
must do something when that 100000 is
get-at-able.
Mobile Register: Taft cannot bring
peace in Cuba too soon for Mobile. The
Instruction there has disturbed trade Be-
fore the uproar of the patriots was heard
on this side of the gulf, there was
movement on foot to establish a sugar
refinery here, which the instruction has
delayed.
Greensboro Record: Governor Jelks has
increased the appropriation for Confeder-
ate Veterans by adding thereto 100000
out of the surplus in the state treasury,
as he was authorized to do by the last leg
islature. Now If the next legislature will
give a big part of the this surplus to the
public schools then good use will have
been made of it.
Greensboro Watchman: Three young
men have been expelled from the State
university for "hazing' new students. This
action on the part of the university au-
thorities is most commendable. The prac-
tice of "hazlng'' is very brutal and
cowardly one and should be broken up in
all schools, and the University of Alabama
has set a good example by expelling the
boys found guilty of the offence.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-23
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
Bryan's Discourse.

In spite of the fact that the address
delivered by Mr.. Bryan at the Bilou
theatre was lofty and logical discus
sion,s said a warm admirer of the great
democrat yesterday TO my mind his
better effort occurred at Gelders' hall.
where he spoke to the wage-earners Of
the district.
MIR. Bryan happily seated himself be-
fore delivering this address, and by so
doing drew his hearers closer to him,
both In body and mind. This action on
the part of Mr.. Bryan left the impression
that among his audience he numbered
many friends, that he himself was one
of them, their interests his interests. 1t
was more in the nature of a fireside talk
He did not let out his stage eloquenee.
He did not try with force to drive his
points home but simply stated them, as
father would advise his children
"The logic Of Mr.. Bryan in dealing with
the labor question impressed me most
favorably. His belief that a mans value
is not measurable properly by the amount
of good that he takes from the world, but
by the amount that he furnishes his fell
low man, was one that appealed to his
hearers Then he pictured himself as
a working man. one who in his youth
MIXED the COWS, fed the horses, and made
himself useful generally. Again did he ap-
peal with convincing force to his hearers.
The entire discourse was free and heart
enlng. thoroughly characteristic of Mr..
Bryan.
mir. Bryans oratory is natural. For
this reason he carries force with his argu-
ments He presents fact with the ease,
grace and postiveness of a stream of wa
ter flowing along its path. He does not
shout and sputter and gesticulate His
every move is graceful He is in my opin-
ion the greatest of them all"