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The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-14

Office, it is ordered that A. S. A. Wal
lace be and is hereby appointed Jus.
tice of h Feace in n for Plains
Precinct No. 8 for the present unex-
pred term.
There being no further business
the Board adjourned.
(Signed) w. NJ. ATKINSON,
Chairman.
Attest: F. P. GAYLE, Clerk.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-14

When a man does not himself be-
lieve what ne writes he usually
"overdoes it,"-and that seems to be
what is the matter with the Register.
Tribune. It's editor doesn't believe a
word of what he says this week about
Republican prospects. nationally, ter
ritorially, ncr in the county. Accord
ingly his claims are simply ridiculous.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-14

1t was. perhaps, to retain standing
with his ~rough-rider boss that Mr..
Taft explains being thrown from a
horse by charging it all to the weak
ness CT the horses ankles. 1t would
never do for him to confess that ne
can't ride the widest bronco that
ever wore hair.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-14

If there were any earnestness in
the Register-Tribune's support of any
candidate on the Republican ticket,
it would be merely because in that
particular case the editor of the r.
T. a a personal grievance against
the opposing candidate on the Dem
ocratic ticket.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-14

For the life OF us we can't see how
that rabbits foot, presented to Judge
Taft by the Virginia Bar Association,
can be of any use TO him in the race,
when a good strong horse with four
fee weakens at the ankles under the
load.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-14

Just now King Teddy is riding the
elephant, and the heir apparent
finds nothing else large enough to
carry him except q railroad car.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-14

Miss Minnie Knox left his morning
on her return to Springfield, Ill, az
ter spending three weeks here visit
ing Miss Ida M~ussenden.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-14

iNeighbor Gayle, the Democratic
candidate for Probate Clerk, makes
except to say that all the candidates
seem to be good men, and hat he is
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-14

Taft seems determined to become
a rough rider-even though he has
to search the kingdom for a horse
strong enough to stand the pressure.
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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.

glad TO have an opponent who is a
clever gentleman, in favor of a clean
campaign.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-14

Warm as you may grow over your
alleged opinions, yet thinking and
feeling are not the same thing
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-14

Complaining of the folly of fashion
is as useless as complaining when
the weather is bad.-Atchison Globe.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-14

Never tell a friend anything that
your name signed to it.-Maverick.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-14

OF course there are men who can't
be 1attered-but they are all in asy-
lums for the deaf.-Bachelor Girl.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-14

You didn't have the right kind OF
a good time if you are not good ma
tured the next day after you a it.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-14

Attest: F. P. GAYLE, Clerk.
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Mistletoe, the Curse of French Farmers

the right to climb up and cut it. He Is
carried back in triumph with his branch,
and becomes the king Of the feast
The mistletoe is gayly hung above the
entrance door - Then the young girls
pass, one by one, beneath ito be kissed
without ceremony by the first young fell
lows who can catch them after.
Now creeps in the first pagan innova-
ton, recollection rather never forgotten
by these atavistic Celts; the burning.
switched it off into feast OF hot roast
chestnuts and cold cider after kissing;
but down through the centuries sneak
ing tendency has been to get out hot
tile or fire pan and thrust it into the blaZ-
ing chimney-with the mistletoe broken up
small, on it,
Shamefacedly, or trembling, or with q
laugh of bravado, the ashes are distributed,
to be preserved in little bags hung around
the neck 1t is extremely common for
such little bags to be buried in the middle
of fields, to bring good crops. Devoted
wives keep a bag against the jags of
their husbands. A small Quantity of ash
mixed, unbeknowing, in his drink will
keep Inn sober, or less drunk, or, at the
very least, prevent him seeing blue rats,
pink snakes and gnomes. This is why
A mistletoe bough hangs outside most
Breton taverns: to guarantee drinkers
from seeing things on their way home
at night, sorcerers, devils, witches and
wee weeping babies that fly through the
air and clutch the back of the neck. And.
doubtless, the old saying that "a good
wine needs no bush refers exactly to the
bush of miStletoe.
When stronger Druid practices creep
into modern young folks Christmas
revels it is not the boy who sees the
first tuft in the forest who is let to cut
it. The white bearded ancients took a
maiden with them. Only the maid in
ancient Gau might cut the dread plant
with the golden sickle.
Where did Annie get that sickle?"
wonders, now. Monsieur de c. u
wouldn't asked for the price of five
horse. No one asks Annie questions.
She just keeps good luck-and bad-on
tap. She takes it off or puts it on. When
any one of all the countryside is dead,
she Is the first to know it. She comes.
They set her table Of the best in a
dark corner. So at every wedding, also,
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surviving mystery. Outside are the
menhirs of Menlac and kci'leSoan, sisan-
tic rocks set on end. who knows how?
Annie lives in d dolmen or five titanic
slabs.
1t is queer that the children dared APP
proach it. | have told YOU how even
the scientific schoolmaster fell sick when
Annie cursed his handkerchief by error;
how he humbly paid her cash to have
the hoodoo taken off. Her standard
but the great cut" is only made with
the first SHOWS.
We are too little to climb trees the
children whimpered. You shall cut ii
with this beautiful gold knife replied
the witch, and the kids say they had no
fear the instant that they saw it. as if
they knew all about il long ago, but had
forgotten, feeling only an immense de-
sire to hold the yellow sickle and cut
with it-cut, cut.
Climb the ladder said the ancient
woman--a short ladder placed all ready
against the short, thick stump of a
blasted oak. where grew low down, three
tender spriss of mistletoe. cut, cut"
we could not understand while 1 cut
the three sprigs," tells Berthe. Il show
ed her bigger mistletoe IL apple trees,
easy to get. but she said: Come along
She was nice old woman" But she
made us hurt the bat said Anne.
What witch's cookery went on before
those tender younglings in the twilight
of the oldest house Of all the world
prehistoric house. built before Egypt was
that Carnac dolmen, I'VE did not know
the bat was alive, or Berthe would not
have stuck the needle into it, tells little
Anne. ut screeched And the old
os I1
pale green leaves. The kids would have
run, but terrific storm had broken,
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peddlers of the Paris streets have the
old Druid type. white-oearded old chaps.
solemn, silent, dignified almost fero-
rious Does the mystic sui still draw
its ancient priest type?
] watched one such Druid of the bou-
levard. 4 laughing ruddy office boy
picked out one of his finest branches
glittering with berries. silver green,
Ten sous" said the Druid But
only have six said the office boy. TAKE
it,. replied the Druid
Then up came a fussy and rich-looking
business man. How much for the lott"
he bluffed. Ten dollars" said the Druid
cold and hard. Il did not know it was
SO dear" the rich man faltered. No
reply. and in the end he gave up 50 cents
for rusty and yellow branch with a few
Speckled berries.
1t is the right thing to carry home a
bunch of mistletoe in one hand and
bunch of holly in the other but the
kissing privilege is regularly for those
only who have no need of it. A few
years ago. however. when the ''Mistletoe
Polka came from Germany 1 remember
a gay complication. In a dancing class
of young folks they were all aGog be
cause they found directions scattered
through the music score to kiss here
II ought always to be the particular
dancer who. at that moment. should sue
coed in steering his partner under the
mistletoe-hung chandelier.
1t was a strong innovation for the
French The young folks We're aston
ished that their mothers let it go, but
more astonished to find that there was
nothing doing. Either by lack of skill
or nerve on their part each time the
piano player called out kiss here" the
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ever. and it is advocated by the authori-
ties as a military necessity.
These rich lands of Nigeria form an i'm
portant link in another big scheme which
is to join the Mediterranean countries
with both East and West Africa. This
is to combine a railroad across the Sa-
hara. TO be built by the French with one
to be made by the Germans going
through the Kameruns to the Gulf of
Guinea and branch lines extending east
and west from these two. The French
part of the road may be built southwark
to Timbuctoo. or what Is more probable
go to the southeast and strike Kano. |
went over the first 400 miles so of this
road. 1t now extends from Oran along
the border between Morocco and Algeria
to Colomb Bechar. in the heart of the
desert. | also saw the railway which
leads from eastern Algeria down 10 Bisk-
ia. in the Sahara. 1t Is more probable
that the latter road will he extended
than the former. and | understand the
survey from Biskra TO Lake Chad has
been made. Tie road will go to the oasis
OF Wargla and thence up the Ichargar
valley. II will cross the Amadgor range
OF mountains at an altitude about that
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space underneath the chandelier was
empty.
Its Your mothers. chucked the piano
player "One is always standing by
me to tap with her fan when no one is
beneath the chandelier II is my signal
to call kiss here
When the boys learned the mothers
had been classifying the directions they
arranged a plot The crowd should call
out kiss here" every time couple
stopped an instant underneath that chan
deier. The other day l saw one of the
couples-married.
do YOU remember the plot OF the
'Mistletoe Polka" asked the happy
groom. When / went to get Marie 1
found her brother claimed her
Mamma made us" the bride muir
INJURED.
"All around it was the same. The old
ladies had fetched up their husbands.
Fathers started the 'Mistletoe' Polka"
ers danced with them-poor things.
kiss here the mothers called ont.
laughing. And they kissed their daush-
ters-underneath the mistletoe."
Which is far off from Annie Cloarec.
the Witch Of Carnac. and the bags Of
mistletoe-ash, wickedIy prepared, that
she gave the two children.
Yesterday | saw Monsieur de C. and
diamond ring worth 81 :rGo IN an alley Of
the Bots. The charm brings luck /
said. What luck he asked. Il took
the ring at once to the police comm;s-
sariat, where it had been already claim
ed
And Berthe: had Berthe had luck? Yes
a week after she arrived in Paris she
YVES rescued from beneath the feet of
runaway horse. scared by a taNi-auto.
The old witch doubtless means we'll but
ii seems queer luck
STERLING HELLO.
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she shows up-and has lor corner. But
where did sl" get that sickIe?'
She desired your kids to use it be-
cause of their Innocence? | asked.
Yes he said. the same idea creeps
into the young folks mistletoe hunt every
six or eight years. What can put it into
their heads? A young girl must risk
her neck in an oak tree. So much so.
that when they start out with a ladder
they are called back to give it up"
Among the more ignorant and brutal
peasants cruelty and flowing blood that
may go far indeed, with other ugly prac-
tees and crazy exaltation that has been
known to take hold of half village pop
ulation, go with burning mistletoe near
Christmas time. The ancient, awful cult.
you cannot say it wakes, it rather dreams
in modern folk.
How otherwise do you account for what
two Paris children did by twilight in an
old deserted square behind Notre Dame
Cathedral? Their nurse lost them, two
blocks away. while she paid franc for
decorative mistletoe from a hucksterlng
Norman drunkard. The two children.
with their punches. disappeared Nurse
found them, nearly an hour later, In the
middle of the old square, by fire of their
own building, very solemn.
where's your mistletoe?'
Its gone"
Yes they had burned it on a little Don
fire-"to make A charm all their own.
H"Where did they get the Matches l
asked.
They got fire from brasero round
which tramps We're warming, nurse sad.
That is all. Where did they get the
idea to burn mistletoe?
In spite of most farmers superstitions
tons of mist letoe are cut all over northern
France Were you at ST. Malo at this
moment you would see the antique nuafs
of the old seaport piled high with II.
Interpretations spectators OF the town
60 out and bring back cart loads. Three
or four little steamers load with it each
morning. Breton ports supplying nine
tenths of the mistletoe used by the Eng
fish. One reason is that England has
not enough miStletoe. but it is also true
that the French variety-though grown
on apple trees and perhaps for this cause
-is handsomer in tint, larger in leaf and
fuller in berries.
1t is a mysterious thing that the "sui"
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distance from New York 10 San Fran
cisco and two OF its tributaries are each
almost as long as from The mouth Of the
Hudson to the Great salt lake. The
navigabe waterways of the system if
stretched out in one line would reach
from New York 10 Singapore or half way
around the globe. and they are so many
that there is not spot in the whole
EonGo basin which is eighty miles dis
lance from naVig4ble waterways.
The biggest European steamers now go
UP the Eougo hundred miles from
its mouth to Matadi. At that point there
is Il railroad Two hundred and fifty miles
long. which climbs past the rapids to
Stanleypool. This road has been in
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Niger, and to extend from there 100 miles
eastward to Kano.
When this road is built all the supplies
for northern Nigeria will be sent to the
Gulf of Guinea up the Niger and Inland
by rail. and the caravan trade will be
destroyed as far as crossing the Sahara
Is concerned. This will be great blow
to the countries along the Mediterranean.
A loan for this NiEeran railway has al
ready been authorized by the British gov
eminent, and | understand that the line
is to be pushed with all possible speed.
The track is to be Of forty-iEch gauge.
and is to be completed within four years.
The cost is estimated at about S7.htnoO0
or $4,000 600, and il will be met by bonds
raised on southern Nigeria the interest
of which will be guaranteed by the gov
ernment. AS to dividends, the road will
hardly pay much for some time TO come.
1t will greatly develop the country, how
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per mines tie Cape IL Cairo extensions will
be there. ard the route to South Africa
VIII probably change, far as fast travel
is concerned. Passengers will he taken
10 Lobito bay and will thence go by rail
To the Transvaal. and especially 10 all
parts of RhodeSia. There will probably
be an extension to Lake Tanganyika and
We shall have line across the southern
OF the completion OF the Lobito bay road.
The company which is interested in il is
the one which OWNS the copper mines:
and there are tens OF millions OF dollars
| might say billions Of dolarS-of min
erals awaiting its traffic possibilities.
The Lobito Bay railroad will De largely
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of the Alleghenies and will thence make
its way to kuka. on Lake Chad. The
cost of construction is estimated at about
$4,000 per kilometeT. From kuka the
Germans are expected to take the road
down through the kameruns TO the Al
lantc and there will probably be an eN-
tension westward to kano to connect
with the Nigerian line above spoken of.
and also other branches which might con-
meet with the roads OF the Congo.
Timbuctoo has always seemed one OF
the most inaccessible parts of the world.
1t will surprise many to know that it can
now be reached by steam. The French
have built railway from Hayes to the
Niger. a distance of :i!3 miles. and they
have also a road connecting St. Louis
and Dakar. One can go by steamer from
st. Louis to Hayes, and on the vessels
of the Niger from there to within Il few
miles of Timbuctoo. The time is COM
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controlled by the kongo Free State The
King of Belgium and his associates own
majority % the stock in the great
copper concession, and they will see that
il is operated in the interests Of Bel
GUMS colony. II will proba bly, be con-
nected with other roads which will open
to trade the navigable tributaries OF the
upper KCngo, and will form part of
the extensive railway system which has
been projected for that country
Few people realize what is going on as
to railroad building in the kongo Free
State. The \ongo river is as long the
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ed and where Monsieur de G. intended
To remain TIL New Year. hunting the
wolf with a pack of lean, ferocioEs
hounds.
Now they are back in Paris. with these
incoherent details of q tortured bat a
bunch of mStletoe, a golden sickle-and
a witch's Christmas preparations!
Mistletoe has always been used by
these Breton witches, and the Carnac
population has its own queer practices
with the Druid plant. 1t is land OF
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miles long, and it will be made after the
usual South African fashion. Its gauge
is three feet six inches. and the rails
weigh sixty pounds to the yard. The ties
are to be of steel, on account of the
white ants which eat everything wooden;
they will weigh seventy pounds each.
All the bridges are standardized. and the
rolling stock is the same as that used in
RhOdesia. Some OF the engines are being
built in England. but the heaviest ones
are to be supplied b. the Swiss and the
Germans.
BY the time this road reaches the cop
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HAVE again heard
of Annie Cloarec,
the witch of Car
nae; this time in
connection with q
bunch of Christmas
mistletoe.
Also two charm
ing children and
their troubled par
ents. owners of the
Morbihan chateau,
where l once visit
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NCLE SAM should
X G e p n j s @ y e
skinned as TO the
developments going
on in West Africa.
That part of the
world is practically
unknown to us. and
still its trade is
growing | j k G Il
green bay tree. All
along the coast.
from Senegambia
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From thr London Opinion.
The Nicar-ls il true, Samuel that Your
father allows games of chance to be
pla Hed in your house?
The boy--There amt no chance about Il,
Zur-they all cheats.
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lightning t.a-Les th.Siuc like snakes
among the dark mcnhirs.
Amid thunder crashes the witch cook
cry went on. Light the fire.! cried
Anne amid the din of the elements, and
showed Berthe how to strike sparks on
dry lint. Blow she commanded.
Flames danced from the glowing en-
bers. Drop this in the pan and bits
ot leaf. stem and berries sizzled and
burned TO black ash. amid dense perfumed
smoke that turned the babies heads.
This is the fathers reconstruction of
their incoherent data. Berthe pretending
that a hundred great rats dashed about
the floor while Anne saw quantities of
them in the twilight. Each child came
home with a charm-bag hanging round
the neck sewed full of witch mess-and
the queer thing is their angry parents
fear to take them off and throw them in
the gutter,
Cause my babies to participate in hor-
rid incantations, mourns the mother.
"Oh, the wicked woman," Hush" the
father says: the folks of Carnac must
not learn that are troubled; il would
get to Annie and bring bad luck
Because the Carnac peasants think that
children of whom the strange woman asks
aid about Christmas time are highly for
ttlnate; this. too in spite of the priest $
prohibition. Every few years he has to
come down on their young folks for put
ting ancient pagan practices into the in
nocent and pretty cult of Christmas mis-
tletoe
:: x
When rightly done the boys and girls
so out in merry bands 20 seek the may
OF the cold season. They go into hoary
old oak forests where sparse tufts are
found with difficulty: apple tree mistletoe,
the curse of Norman and Breton farm
ers, is fit only to be cut for Paris and
London by hard-headed or hard-up or
reckless ne'er-do-weel folks. riskn &
"guigne"-fatality or bad luck-because
while the apple species has no virtue, it is
bad TO tamper with. Superstitious farm
crs see whole orchards choke H"d pc 81
from the parasitic plant, whose vast
punches, growing out of the wood of the
smaller trees and fattening on their sap,
look like innumerdole great birds mes. s.
The young folks wander through the
depths OF the mysterious primeval forests
of America where white-bearded Drulds
whispered. eyes uplifted, seeking, The
boy who first sees TUT of mistletoe has
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THE Pest OF Norman and
l Breton Farmers Too
Superstitious to Weed 1t
From Their Orchards-Serves
Strange Uses in the Hands Of
Ominous Old Witches-Mis-
tletoe for Fun and Otherwise
The Story of the Children,
the Witch and the Luck Bags.