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in the world. Far from it. At certain sea-
sons of the year it is the most vicious of
all animals. And, moreover, it is as
treacherous as any. Several times the
bucks here in the park have locked horns
in deadly combat. You enter the inclos-
ure of the deer at the time of the year
they are bad humored. A buck comes
half sliding, half walking toward you with
side-wheel Bowery swagger. He comes
quietly and apparently with the most in
nocent of Intentions But watch out,
When he gets near enough to you he will
suddenly lunge with his deadly antlers.
There's a harry eagle we have which
was presented to the Zoo in 1899 by Capt
Todd, L. S. N, who captured it along the
Amazon river when he was in command
of the gunboat Wilmington. The story
of its capture is an interesting one.
These and many more incidents could
be narrated briefly on placards and placed
on the cages. Perhaps in the near future
this will be done. In my estimation, the
results would certainly be worth the trou-
BILE and expense
A teacher in one of the local grade
schools was speaking to the mother of
one of her girl pupils not long ago about
the girls absence from school.
you know she won't be promoted"
limited the teacher, unless she is more
regular in her attendance"
Yes, said the mother, land I don't
want her to be promoted. 1 want her to
stop school, and then when she gets old
er she'll get married. as every girl
ought to. My two daughters that stayed
in school aren't married yet, and the one
that didn't finish up at school could have
been married about four times, and when
she cid get married she was only nine
teen. I'm going to keep this one out of
school and bring her up right
X X X X
Talk OF strange sources of inspira-
ton" remarked a veteran newspaper
man, there is a conductor on one of our
electric car lines who finds inspiration to
whistle while his car is in motion But
invariably when the car comes to halt
the. conductor ceases whistling only to
begin again when the car starts He
whistles when he is passing along col
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suffrag sts decided the other day that
they'd get busy and active
You read about it. no doubt-how a car
rage load of them, chaperoned by pre-
sumable male who looked as lovely as
any daughter of the regiment, went down
to Wall street. bent upon telling the
fnanciers and folks that they ought to
be ashamed of 'emselyes for not making
the people at Albany pass a measure per
hitting women to vote. and all like that
how Il hilarious crowd quickly gathered
around the carriage: how the occupants
OF the carriage were unchivalrously bonn
barded with ticker take and paper bags
filled with water and ink-soaked sponges
and such like messy missiles from tn
office windows: and how the suffra gists
instead of initiating the heroic conduct O
the suffragettes of England and getting
out of the carriage and pulling the haiI
of the hilarious males. simply dissolved
into entirely feminine tears lin which, ]
have heard their male chaperon joined).
and had themselves driven anyway from
there.
Doing Nothin' to Nobody.
Well. well. It's an ungallant age. More
essentially, It's an ungallant town thi
New York. The very idea, What harm
We're those suffragists doing standing
there in a carriage in Wall street and
talking out loud. anyway? None what
ever Not a bit of harm. Very well,
then. Why couldn't they have been let
alone?
Certainly. the suffra&ists were entirel.
justified in holding an indignation meet
ing over it at Cooper Union on the fol
lowing evening. Certainly. too, tina.
| meeting would have been an unqualified
success as an Indignation meeting haC
not male rutffan at the rear of the hal
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
NEW YORK. March 6.

NEW YORK. March g. 1905.
Tn New York they're suffra- gists-not
suffra- gettes. The latter tcrminology
is distinctively English. Until quite
recently our American suffragists We're
not militant much less rampant-except
perhaps on the rostrum.
Recently. however several of the more
notable English suffragettes visited New
York. The English suffragettes told the
New York suffragists that they Ghe New
York women who believe in it, were mere
trifers: that they didn't know how 10
demand their rights that they didn't
know they were alive: that it were mere
pififingness to simply ask male brutes
for their riGhts-they ought to make the
aforesaid male brutes give EN- their
suffragettes jes' lated at the American
suffragists' mild way of doing things.
Look at the way we're making EN- in
England exclaimed the suffragettes, in
essence. TO the abashed suffragfsts
"Were showing the selfish. narrow, bigot-
ed men in England that they've got to
recognize US. Why. when we engage
lodgings in London. we never engage EN-
for more than two days at a time. for
we never know when we're going to be
arrested and sentenced 10 gaol you know
Perhaps that isn't making EN-. now.'
Whereupon the suffragists of New York
hid their heads. of course. What else
was there for them to do?
But the reproof by the visiting sui
GaSettes stuck. right enough. So the
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, four of Mrs. Jobson's 'tgabbling" friends
happened to drop in that evening, and
they remained for some time When
Mrs. Jobson went upstairs she found
Mr.. Jobson wreathed in gloatful smiles.
II guess l wasn't the Foxy Bill or any
thing to fix up this scheme he said to
her. Maybe L don't know even the hrst
page OF my little book. Hit it right the
very first time. l heard mere ecnoes OF
that chinfest you had down there witt
those fool wonderland mayoe L haven
been patting myself on the back that =
wasn't caught in the trap down there
with en-
On the following evening, too, Mr.. job
son remained upstairs with his reading
and cigars and Mrs. Jobson, downstairs
felt rather lonesome, particularly as no.
body happened to call that evening. SO
the following day she fixed up something.
Mr.. Jobson had scarcely gone upstairs
to his den from the dinner table that
evening before three extremely pretty
and attractive matrons on the Jobsons
list of callers came in. They had not
been there long before Mrs. JobSon hear
a certain creakinS at the top OF the stair!
that plainly told her that Mr.. Jobson was
rubbering from the top of the landing
After about ten minutes Mr.. Jobson all
fixed up, strolled downstairs in an inno-
cent sort of way and pretended to b.
greatly surprised when he saw the three
pretty matrons with Mrs. Jobson. Then
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II" HERE are many interesting facts
about number of animals
here. said Mr.. w H. Black
burn, the head keeper at the Rock Creek
Park Zoo. yesterday. that hundreds of
people who visit the Zoo each week know
nothing of. l do not mean lot of ma
ture- fake stuff as to the loves ambitions,
sorrows and joys of the animals but
plain facts as to the place and manner of
their capture. Many of the animals are
bought from animal men in Europe who
in turn purchased them from other agents
or from the hunters direct With animals
of this class 1t is. of course, almost i'm
possible to obtain the true story of their
lives But we have a number of captives
here whose history we know beyond doubt
Did you ever watch people looking at
Gagged animals? It's rather an interest
ing study. They read the placard stating
the species and habitat of the animal
watch him moment or SO and then
turn to the next cage. But / think you
will find upon investigation that invari-
ably, even with the idiots, who can't re-
sist the desire to tease the animals, some
thought of what that animal was and did
when he was roaming wild occurs to the
mind of the average visitor. There is a
certain fascination, you know, in gazing at
a captive monarch of the wilds as he
restlessly PAGES up and down his cage
and In wondering what he would do if
he broke loose and. whether he ever
killed man before his captivity, etc
That idea, or some phase of it, occurs to
the minds of nine out of ten people who
visit the Zoo. But all they can do is to
speculate. We have been considering the
advisability of placing extra placards on
the cages of some of the animals here.
the story of whose capture we know.
Briefly the prospective placards will mar
rate the manner of the animals capture
and what depredations he committed when
he ran wild.
Such a placard would. in my mind be
of intense interest to our visitors. And
surely the animal itself would be doubly
fascinating To look at the animal and
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tough youngsters with patches on their
jeans, the boys that chewed tobacco and
stayed in swimmin' at the crick all day
even these, in time. sore upon me for
attaching overwhelmingly attaching
myself, as they took ito the polite
gang. began to call me, sneeringly. in
tones OF the profoundest contempt and
vituperation and scorn. Alcwyn. They
looked upon me as a renegade from the
gang, and that was their horrible revenge
They wouldn't let me be Smudge any
more | was Alcwyn. Bitter period for
me, that, when 1t began to be borne In
upon me that 1 was an outcast from the
tough lot that / really loved, just on ac-
count of my dish-raggy name.
But the new laws coming you hear
me! The only thing that Pm sorry about,
though, is that probably they won't make
it retroactive. If they would make it re-
troactive, 1 wonder how long you sup
pose I'd be Alcwyn hey?"
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Lucy and told her to come here from her
home in Moth Ca'lina.''
Just then the whistle of train sounded
and soon a fresh crowd was pouring
through the gates of the depot At the
very end came a bent and aged negro
woman. a basket on one arm and bundle
done up in a cloth white as the head
handkerchief that she wore in the other.
Catching sight of the two women, the
old servant emitted a subdued scream o.
delight, and dropping her bundles on the
floor FASTENED to meet them.
''Lawsy, Miss Sally. done had'n awful
time. the old woman crooned. "Yo'
know 1 amt nevah been way from home,
an 1 got long pow'ful well till we got to
de youtskirts of dis place.
"Den l mistrustioned sompin' wuz wrong
Wen ole Mistah Engine riZ hisself up and
went inter dat hole in de groun' lax a
MOLE"
THAT was the tunnel. Aunt Lucy" the
woman explained.
"Yassum, but dat smoke mos stupefac-
toned me, an eff you hadn't been heah, /
was des gwine t scream
We'll. you're all right now, Aunty. so
come along. 1 live way up northwest,
and it's getting late"
"Whar dat northwest you live, honey?"
the old negro asked. EFF hits far, den
We'll haf t hurry, cause Use got t cook
yo dinner, I spec'-and Use hongry.
X X X X *
Inc PRESIDENT, SaFO d pennsylvania
avenue bootmaker. would be pleased If
he knew what a pretty girl said about
him in my shop the other day.
'She came in to order her brother some
riding boots. I showed her the last idea
in riding boots, a splendid thing.
These said are called Roosevelts.
"She wrinkled her pretty nose.
How absurdv she said. Where, ]
should like to know. will they find pair
of Roosevelts?'
X X TX *
The street car was crowded. and the
man who wouldn't give up his seat to
the lady who was standing upon his feet
heard her say over the many bundles in
her arms to her companion:
Il am worried to death about Johnny.
he won't say his prayers any mare when
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Smudge,' and DANCED if / don't feel glowy
and strictly all right for the rest o. the
day. Any fellow that calls me Smudge
can have all I've got.
1.-THE way 1 came to shed the bully name
of Smudge and to get the AlcWyn thing
fixed on to me as a regular, relentless
thing that I couldn't get away from was
this: They made me go to dancing school,
and the dancing master introduced me TO
all Of 'em as Alcwyn.
"WeH, that settled it. ] ceased to be
wholly Smudge. When I'd meet up with
the dancing school kids on the street
and they'd call me Alcwyn, why, l could
not, of course, take it that they meant
to humiliate me and then punch 'em in
the nose for it; for they, as a matter of
fact, didn't know me as Alcwyn at all.
So I had to swallow a gup every time
they called me Alcwyn and stand for it.
And then / gradually began to be
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they were helpless in the arms of the
christening parties-hating 'em worse
than they hate ella monsters or tree
toads. and yet they've got no redress
whatever.
Zone of the most finished ducks ever
knew-a man who could and can order
dinner in seven languages. run a buzz
wagon or a motor boat with one hand
tied behind his back, lead the most in
volved cotillon ever invented, jolly the
girls till they don't know where they're
at and wear as many correct clothes in a
given space of time as any man on earth
this man has to stagger through life un-
der the horribly bedinged names of Zebu-
Ion Ezekiel. All of his pals are hep to it
that he hates these names worse'n a
doomed cat hates the brick around it's
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to he wit. and mighty engaging
Another Izaak Walton.

self to he a wit. and a mighty enga aging
one.
Another Izaak Walton.
He hasn't set out TO be funny or any
thing of mat sort but he has made some
decidedly catchy offhand epigrams; he has
hit each occasion off with singular verbal
felicity. and he has opened his face and
laughed right out loud on plenty of occa-
sioEs. He tells rafting good story; he
turns an incisive phrase as incsvely and
as picturesquely as the late Benjamin
Harrison-high praise, and Harrison was
looked upon as an icy man by some folks
who didn't know him, too and Gov.
Hughes has a way of gaining the liking of
men of all kinds with whom he comes into
contact. without being even little bit OF
handshaker.
Then. on top of all this. We md that
Gev. Hughes two chief amuSements are
reading BalZac and goin' fishin'.
If New York had known these things be-
fore maybe the man would never have
been looked upon for an instant as one OF
the chilly ones. No man who loves Bal
FAC and fiShin' could possibly lack a sense
of humor, could he?
l saw the governor meeting up with
bunch of college boys, members of
Greek letter fraternity, in a banquet room
at the Hotel Astor the other night. He
had as much fun as any of the youngsters,
and he hung around and then hung
around some more listening to the youth
full chatter, despite the fact that he had
other engagements yet to meet that night.
An engaging. thorough and, yes, even a
brilliant man, this supposed-to- be- an-icicle
governor. And, one might add, dam
gerous man-from the viewpoint. that Is.
of some few notables of his own political
party. CLARENCE l.. CULLEN.
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Not James and Michael and Patrick and
Timothy and William, but just the short
cuts to those names. exactly as I've
stated them.
when 1 got to the shaving age and
gradually began to appreciate what
tiZzy-wizzy name had been bestowed upon
me- / asked my good mother how she'd
ever happened to victimize me with that
Alcwyn thing. Never got much salts
faction from her, excepting she told me
that Alcwyn had been a real thing fash
ionable kind of a name for boys when
came along. I've doped it out this way:
1 happened into the world when sugary.
sentimental novels were the gag. If
you'll pick up bunch of the novels
of thirty-five and thirty-six years ago,
you'll observe that a good many of the
lovely pieces of male work, with the long
silky mustaches and the marble brow of
Greek god. who do the hero stunts in
those works, were named Alcwyn. That's
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neck. and so, of course. they all bolster
ously and unanimously call him Zebulon
Ezekiel There's a straight case of a
mans whole life being darkened by his
name.
Another fellow I know. bigger man
than l am, built like Percheron able
to roll a barrel of flour with his little
finger if he had to, voice like a foghorn
beard like a Kansas populiSt's, and the
father of eight husky children-this man
had the names of Ethelred Montmorency
fastened on to him when he was in his
long clothes His friends. knowing his
hatred of that stuff, have contracted this
to 'Ethy,' and he has got his molars worn
down. almost down to the gums, from
gnashing his teeth over it.
TAI the same. he's got hunk, in a way.
Five of his children are boys. and he
names them at the font, respectively, Jim
and Mike and Pat and Tim and Bill.
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he can get out of it. and his excuses are
sometimes marvels."
What's he done now?" the wornan's
companion queried. mildly Interested
We'll. he's seven years old. YOU know
and the other night he refused to say his
prayers. and when | asked him why he
wouldn't he complained that his tooth
was loose and he couldn't pray with a
loose tooth
The next night he refused to say his
prayers again on the grounds that he
couldn't.
My tooth still hurts" he complained.
but l saw there was a space in the or
chestra of his mouth. Why, where's
your tooth?' I asked
Slowly he opened his fist and there Law
the offending ivory
But it hurts just the same. he con-
tended. and 1 couldn't get him to go down
on his knees. He'll probably tell me to-
night that his hair is turning gray and
refuse again.
Here the woman tramped a little harder
on the mans feet and murmured sooth-
lngly: m sure some men would be
more comfortable Standing
& x ); = <
Representative McGavin. at dinner
recently in this city. discussed the pro-
posed % per cent duty on the dowries of
American girls who marry foreigners.
Representative McGavin spoke with bit
ter scorn Of the titled foreign BRIDE
groom. whose sole claim to distinction
consisted in monocle and an expression
Of idiotic vacuity. He denounced that
form Of international trade wherein soleC
and frayed nobility was exchanged for
American dollars, wrung from the lambs
Of Wall street. with a woman thrown in -
But take Count DASH some one in
terrupted. Count Dash can trace his
family back 500 years.
'Ah! said Representative McGavin.
Through the bankruptcy court records,
1 suppose"
X ), * *
Secretary Wilson of the Department of
Agriculture referred at a recent dinner
to the amateur florists who spring up in
the suburbs at this season by thousands
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the answer. I zephyred along at the time
when the fictional Alcwyns were strug-
Cling on the cliff with the villyun for
them forged papers. when Alcwyns were
Johnny to save this lady's
honah with meh life,' and so I got mine
They made me Alcwyn, hoping I'd grow
up that way. Thank God. I haven't. I
know that I haven't! If 1 ever dreamed
for minute that I was living up to the
name of Alcwyn, sa-a-ay!
when I was a kid I had bully nick
name and I wish I had it back. 1t was
Smudge. Smudge, in my opinion, has got
Alcwyn beaten eighteen different ways
from the jack. I don't know why they
made it Smudge, but Smudge 1t was, and
loved it and love it yet.
Every once in a while some fellow from
the little old town in which I was raised
blows into Washington and looks me up,
and when he finds me he puts out his
paw and he says, why, hello there
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WITH THE GIFT OF SPONSORS

" HE man burdened with the foolish
front name of 'Alcwyn' was talk
ing.
Some of these days. he said. there's
going to be a law that will allow man
majority. Tackled to that personally
conducted naming law of the future will
be penalty providing that any fellow
who. upon proper notification of a change
of name or names, shall address the man
so notifying him by his old, name or
names shall be subject to Imprisonment
for ninety days and to pay a fine of $500,
or both, at the discretion of the court.
That's coming-you mark me, l know at
least a hundred fellows right here in
Washington who go around hating the
names that were dished out to them when
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-04-15
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.

pays to enforce a reasonable observ.
ance of the weekly rest day, and sa-
looms have been compelled to remove
their blinds and Green on Sunday
so as to make certain hat they OBJ
serve the closing law.
Those who remember the Silver
City of a quarter century age must
indeed marvel at the change that has
come over hat community in com
mon with FL Paso, Roswell and all
the other important centers of popu-
lation in the southwest.
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SILVER CITY AMENDS A
TERRITORIAL STATUTE
From FL Paso Herald.

FL Paso Herald.
Silver City, N. NJ, is making a noise
like Ell Paso In getting after the vio-
lators of anti-gambling and saloon
laws. A territorial judge recently
ruled that slot machines were not
included under the statute outlawing
gambling. Recognizing the slot ma
chine as one of the worst forms of
gambling. because it appeals espec-
tally to poorer people and to youths.
Silver City passed an ordinance Gov
ering the case, and the slot machine
Is now outlawed In at least one pro
eressive New Mexico community.
Silver City has also found that it
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FOR RENT.

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bath, modern, close in.-Roswell
Title and Trust Co.
A good modern S-room dwelling.
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Title and Trust Co.
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all conVeniences. Cor. 5th and Mo.
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A BOYCOTT OF DEBATE.

From Atlanta 0Ga.) Journal.
There have been many forms of
the boycott, which a been applied
to many situations, but the most
amusing and singular instance has
just occurred among the newspaper
correspondents who sit in the press
gallery of the reichstag of Germany.
A m of the Teutonic parlia-
ment, in the course of a debate on
the southeast African colony of Ger
many, which has bee the cause of
a great many scandalous revelations
and was the immediate cause of the
recent appeal to the country, made
walton that even the negroes had
souls.
This announcement was greeted
with derisive laughter, and the leader
of the clerical center party it
into his head that the obnoxious out
burst came from the press gallery.
1t has since been pointed III that the
patient correspondents in the gallery
hear so many commonplaces like this
from the members who are making
truths like honesty is the best poll
cy" and 1.-The new o sweepJ
clean"-that On the very face of
things the veteran correspondents
would not have been moved to deris-
ion or anything else except weari-
ness by such a remark.
At any rate the clerical leader los
This head and rising! on the floor re
Eferred to the correspondents as
"swine."
arose in heir wrath. After consider
ing a great many other retaliatory
plans, they finally decided to boycott
the reichstag.
There was not one dissenting
vote.
The newspapers themselves stood
behind the reporters and correspond
ents, and so far as the outside world
is concerned a silence has fallen upon
the German parliament that you could
cut with a knife.
Effective?
Let any man who knows how many
speeches are delivered solely for the
benefit of Buncombe reflect for a
moment, for the German legislature
is in nc wise different in this respect
from any other. Day after day impas-
stoned debates have beel going on,
but they reached no further than the
walls of the parliament house. The
papers have had not one line of what
has been said. The good and the bad
have had to suffer together.
A meeting of the correspondents
has been held at which it was decided
to challenge the offending speaker
unless he a~pologized for having call
ed them swine. If the challenge Is
sent it will probably be declined, as
he speaker is personally opposed t.
dueling-so it develops since this