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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-12-05
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q" don't believe Won know much
about farming" said the patronizing
man who had just settled in the
neighborhood.
"No," answered Mr.. C%orntossel,
q" kind O. think ! don't myself. A
man that knew much about farming
wouldn't have bought a farm any
where around here in the first place"
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-12-05
Baptist

Service every sunday. Sunday
school at 10 q. m. Preaching AT
II a. m, and go u. m.
Sunday school teachers meeting
every TUESDAY night.
Prayer meeting Thursday night.
Business meeting Tuesday night
before each FIST sunday.
Everyone t. cordially invited o.
attend these services.
Milton Rocco. Paetyr.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-12-05
ANOTHER LITERARY NOTE.

Gle failed in literature, didn't
hep"
"Sure did"
whats he doing for a living
nowY'
Running a literary bureau "--
Atlanta Constitution.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-12-05

n lot ~ things
can happen be-.
tween July and
Christmas" Kate
said II to herself
aud said II aloud
80 loudly that II
startled her For
she vas alone.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-12-05

RUTH kEBEkNH LODGE so.
Meets DO" Second and -Four D. Saturday
night. oi each month at SIS o clock ~
H. oi f. Hall Visiting members welcome
LrktE BpApLEY y. g.
NAILIE MkLl. 500.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-12-05

TrCuNCNtI LODGE 80 -
NS J. o ID e..
M"rts every Thur.1a, night
atS.t5 p%."luoA 10 n. ~ T.. lllll Visiting
brother. tlWa,, welcome
q. 3 NrlLES y. q.
{. Is. p,pJun,s. Soo.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-12-05

RrTuFL ruAprFp M. ts
OkDEk or tA~IftN STAR
Meets on anil and 9Th Tuesdays Of each
month ~ p - m at Masonic llaI over Post
Dtirr
T'lrN,kpI LHu,F su ~.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-12-05
LODGE DIRECTORY.

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"a TltlN tNll LODGE SO 20
gJi hSIYuI- uf I4iuAs
A<SK Meets every "Wednesday night
&Np at $50 clock
School ~ instruction every ird Wednesday
SOCIAL program every ut Wednesday
Visiting Knight. cordially invited
s. VI WIkptuS, &. g..
K 4 DuSuHpO. n pf X. and s..
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-12-05

4. T.. A. M
Meets ON rsi and yrl Monday NJ each
month at : = m IN Masonic Hall over Post
Office
A. D. GOlrpSHFRG, W. HAFgIs
V VI. Sec
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18
NOT AN ACCIDENT.

One D. L. Savage. of Minneapolis. comes forward to announce to the world that Governor John A. Johnson. of that State. is "an accident" Well, we have 1t on the authority of a hoary old adage that accidents will happen in the best regulated families" and it might be so again for anything Mir. Savage knows. And he should bear in mind that more than one President of the United States was looked on as an accident when it was proposed to put him forward as a candidate, but he got there just the same.
 Mir. Savage goes on to show to his own apparent satisfaction that Mir. Johnson was twice elected Governor of Minnesota because of dissensfons in the Republican ranks. but this lacks much of being a conclusive argument. It Is absurd to suppose that he could have carried that State in two hotly contested elections unless he had the strength and qualifications necessary to win the support of the voters. Re- publicans are not in the habit of let ting a State slip away from them merely because of disagreements among themselves on local matters.
 We are not putting up an argument for the nomination of Governor John son at Denver. for that doesn't look like even a possibility, from present indications. We are merely defending him against the unfairness of such ar- guments as those of Mir. Savage. The supporters of any other candidate can- | not strengthen their mans chances by trying to belittle another. When the convention meets 1t must decide for It. self and the party. and if it should de- eide that this so-called accident" Is the only man to nominate we presume It will do so. Meanwhile he cannot b, discredited by the opposition of parti- sans like Savage. Johnson lacks very much of being an accident.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18

informed that the presentation of the letter of recall would. therefore. be superfluous. Great excitement stirred the Turkish dipomats breast. He rushed off to the State Department. bearing in one hand Secretary Roots letter, and in the other the two com munications from the Sultan. He was told that one letter was to be pre- sented to the President and the other withheld. Mohammed Ali Bey couldn't quite comprehend.
 You see." Secretary Root explained, i've have never had Chekib Bey. there fore we cannot return him. Naturally. it is useless to ask us to return him.
 But that did not relieve the embar- rassment of Mohamed Ali Bey. Both letters from the Sultan were sealed, and he didn't know which to throw away, as he dared not break the seals on either. Secretary Root offered to relieve his perturbation and invite the Sultan's disfavor by opening the let ters. But Mohammed Ali Bey de- murred. Starting on another tract, IL was decided that Secretary Root should recall his note to Mohammed Ali Bey advising him not to present the letter recalling Chekib Bey. This would restore the status quo, The new envoy could then present both letters to President Roosevelt. who. on breaking the seals. would hand oack to the diplomat the one not needeo
 Thus was Mohammed Ali Bey sparea from the wrath of the Sultan. ana the diplomatic skill of resident Roosevelts Secretary of State satis- factorily demonstrated
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18

f hunting big game is known, as he has conhded his intention to several warm personal friends.
 It was at the recent dinner of the Hoone. and Crockett Club in this city that the President informed a few in- inmates of his intentions for next year. He was told of the opportunities for hunting in Alaska and urged to ar- range for trip there. This he said would interfere with his plan for for eign travel and would have to be con sidered. if at all, In some future time. President Roosevelt Is quoted as say ing at this time: If Mir. Taft is nom mated and elected President it will be very gratifying. It would make impos- sible any criticism If were abroa d to the effect that was dictatinE to him and being followed. or that I had dictated and had been turned down iu my suggestions"
 All the above was made public to- night with the O. K. of the whita House, and in the hope that those friendly to the President in Colorado oregon, Idaho, Arkansas and Cali Iornia will now earnestly join in the Taft movement.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18
This h My 44th Birthday
Richard Harding Davis.

Richard Harding Davis. the we'll known novelist and playwright, was born in Philadelphia. April IS, 1864. His mother was the late Rebecca Hard ing Davis, who was also prominent as a novelist. Mir. Davis received his ed- ucation at Lehigh and Johns Hopkins universities. Upon his graduation from the last named institution he took up newspaper work as 8 reporter on a Philadelphia paper. He contin- ued his work as reporter and special writer until 1890. when he became edi- tor of Harper's Weekly. In 1892 he re- signed that position to devote several years to travel and special writing, in the course of which he attended the coronation of the present Czar at Mos COW in 1Ss6. and acted as a special cor respondent of The London Times in the war between Greece and Turkey. He attained fame as a war correspondent during the conflict between the United States and Spain and later in the Rus so-Japanese war. Beginning with his early short stories of "Van Bibber,' Mir. Davis has written long list of successful novels and also several tarces that met with popularity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18
KEEP THEM APART.

Some of the Connecticut newspapers are discussing with much earnest ness and force the desirability of sep arating the liquor question from poli- tical and other matters upon which the people may be called upon to vote. The contention is a proper one, and does not in any degree affect the right or wrong of the question. The saloon men and the anti-sa1oon men. the license men and the anti-license men should all be in favor of taking the liquor question entirely out of politics. Then when an election is to be held to decide whether Or not Iiquor shall be sold in the State. or in any town or city. the voters would have but one proposition before them and would have no cause to become confused nor be in any danger of vot- ing differently from the way they in- tend.
 We are firm in our belief that the liquor question. like religion. should be entirely disassociated from pol itics. There is no propriety or justi- fcation in attaching it to politics. There is no sensible reason why the Democratic or the Republican party should make 1t part of faith or their platform and require the voters of the party to vote on it. The question of allowing or prohibiting the sale of uouors. or of licensing such business Is one which should have no connec- ,tion with politics. When voters go to the polls to vote on the question of allowing or disallowing the sale of 1,ouor they should have no other ques- tion to confuse or influence them. Then there could be expected to give voice to their real sentiments without any extraneous issues. This, as The Bridgeport Farmer suggests. would probably lessen the vote on the H. ouor question but it would be fair for each side and neither would have ground of complaint. Let liquor and nolitics each have It's own day in court.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18
HOW DOES HE KNows

So much has been said and written about prohibition in Maine that 1t has come to be looked on as something of a joke when any one claims that such a condition actually exists in that State. We confess to some little sur prise. however, at reading a statement recently made by Matthew E. O'Brien fin a speech do'ivrred at New Bristol. Conn. in which he made the positive assertion that there are now 35s speakeasies in Maine" The word "speakeasy" is not yet to be found in the dictionaries, but we take it to mean a place where you whisper or wink at the man behind the counter and he puts something in your soft drink. In other words. you speak easy to him and get the brand you want.
 That may be fair conclusion as to the inadequacy of Maine's prohibition laws, but the point that bothers us is to know how MT. O'Brien learned the exact number of these easy places. As we understand him he doesn't say there are about so many. or probably so many, but puts the number in definite figures without any lodging or suppo- sition. Unless ne has gone all over and through the State and sampled all such places how does he know about
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18
First American Glass.

Srockery and Glass Journal.
 The hrst American glass factory was erected in the town of Temple, N. H. Washington. in his diary, speaks of glass being made in New Haven, Conn.,, tn the year 17S9.
 One would suppose by the language ne uses that he considers 1t new and quite extraordinary affair. It was nine very war whose issue first ena bled tn s country to commence It's own manu- facturing, that Robert Hewes of Bos- ton. began to carry out the project which which he had long conceived, but had hitherto found impracticable. if not impossible, under English rule-that of making glass in America for Amer
 In 17s0 Mir. Hewes selected a site for his factory secure from the British forces (his gIassbiowers were Heasians and Waldeckers-soldiers who had de- serted from the British army), and he must have had an eye for the beauti- full In nature He chose a spot on the It's base. To the northwest of Mount Monadnock rears his granite crown standing like giant sentinel; to the north, and running east, are the Tenn pie Mountains. bold and precipitous; to the east a beautiful valley holds in its and Nashua, while to the north west Joe English Hill and the Uncanernucks Mountains conceal the city of Manches- ter.
 The place is now reached by a two- mile walk over an old road, long a stranger to travel other than by graz ing cows and nature-loving tourists. The stonework about the ovens and the foundations of the building are all that now remain to remind us that ican peoples struggle for independ- ence. '';
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18
SOME ADVERTISER RETURNS.

Columbia State.
 The editor of The Montgomery Ad. vertiser is yearning for bottle that widows cruse. This is casting a thirsty vision toward the arid times to come
 + i .... Chattanooga Times, -
 MT. Bryan, Mir. Watson and MT :: Hearst have the advantage of some or the other candidates in that each has personal organ of his own. says The Montgomery Advertiser. And IL mlsnt be added that that advantage is very much accentuated by the fact that eacn has a party of his own with which to promote his personal organ. Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
 The Montgomery Advertiser calls att tention to the fact that Bryan. wat son and Hearst have advantage or otn-- CT candidates in that each has a per sonaI organ of his own. If the organ ist would grind out: "old Glory Tn harmony the serenades of Taft, Fair banks, Foraker, ct al. with their Jews harp, accordeon, and tamoourlne, solUs H would make a noise like Sunday in Atlanta. Columbus Ledger.
 "A Woman Kicker" is the nead,ng or Leader. We have mighty. poor opin- ion of a man who would kick Wo- man.-Montgomery Advertiser. Wno said anything aDouJ kiChiHB o oi.'oti l. The Alabama brother must have been looking through his glasses the wrong way As we understand the proposi- tion it Is the woman who Is doing the kicking. And we have seen some wo.. men who were extraordinarily good kickers-they kicked gracefully.
 New Orleans World.
 The New Orleans World speaks or "running for office in a balloon" seems to us as if that is more like nying for office.-Montgomery Advertiser.
 There, does seem to be some ground for the remark of our esteemed Mont- Konery contemporary. But there are some things in favor of the other ex- pression. In the firsC place, running for office' is an idiom of the language and means that man Is candl- date" Therefore running for once in a balloon might simply mean that the candidate" was in the balloon ]; Now, on the other hand. the original meaning of the verb ito ny implies wings, and If this balloon has wings then all right. Therefore 1t would not be incorrect to say that a balloon runs with. the air currents. The original meaning of the verb ito run was to move swiftly" as applied to animate or inanimate objects. Of course, wnen- ever motion through the air Is sug- gested the mind naturally reverts to something with wings.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18
WORLDS HEALTHIEsT RACE.
Points fin Health Matters that W
 Should Learn from Sweden.

Points fin Health Matters that We
 Should Learn from Sweden.
 London Evening News.
 With the Swedes exercise, gymnastic exercise, not mere walking, Is religion. The very criminals under sentence must have 1t. and therefore full instructions for daily gymnastics are posted even in the condemned cell. As soon would they think of depriving a malefactor of his Bible as of his days order"
 Grown folk must have 1t, and there fore the gymnasiums spring up as thick as mushrooms. The children must have it; therefore, when the State has done all that 1t can for them physically pri- vate associations take them up. Free skating rinks and toboggan slides even free toboggans and skates for the skateless-are provided less with the end of giving the children joy than of promoting that fetich Of the Swed- ish soul-public health.
 Associations for outdoor games take charge of the public playgrounds' or. ganizing so-called pedagogic games that are not only uproarins run, but develop swiftness, precision, and nerve. with Government aid. these societies send teachers of games to all the com mon schools, and the children are turned loose in the open air every day for short romp. We use these Swed- ish games in our gymnasiums and in in such of the public schools as can command the space. Why not use them out of doors and make them uni- versal?
 When a Swede has got his body built he does not leave of there. What the club IS to an English business man. the gymnasium is to the Swede He takes exercise suited to his age to keep in condition; or, if not up to the mark, puts into the nearest gymna- sium for repairs. The movement cure and massaEe-these are his substitutes for drugs. Headaches, liver complaints. nerves, dyspepsia. are all treated at least partially. by active or passive gymnastics. s,
 Medical gymnastics after the swed- ish model are more and more coming into favor with English physicians. But middle-aged English people nave a lot to learn about the therapeutic vaIue of exercise. It keeps ofr fatty degeneration: it keeps off age LOOK st inc swedes-their clean skins; their fresh color, their freedom from surplus weIvht Look at their mortahty rate wtbe lowest of the civilized world.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18

them7 It Is not probable that the own CTS or managers of such resorts would publish themselves and their business them. for that would be a suicidal act. The sale of liquor in Maine is illegal theoretically, at least--and any man carrying on such a bus,aess would be fool to publish 1t to the authorities. We suspect that the speaker was doing some guesswork. but he evidently had some foundation for his assertion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18
ENGLISH FARMERS.

South Carolina Commissioner wants
 "a Locate Them in That State.
 rommissioner Watson returned to- dav from Philadelphia with a carload of thirty-three English farmers col ,ected and brought to this country by Alex Thompson. of New Orleans. The visitors are being quartered in board ing houses here pending their distrl- button over the State.
 They will work the first year wages. purchasing after that.
 Among them are a number or young girls, with whom the Commissioner will start his experiment of solving the Southern servant problem. placing them to the best advantage in rural families.
 While North. Commissioner Watson had conferences with packers Of the proposed new line from England and Norway to Charleston and Havana. The Commissioner feels confident that with the expected return to good busi- ness conditions the line will be estab- lished in the fall.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18
The Turkish Ministers Plight.

CoiileT g w eeklN.
 Mohammed Ali Bev. the new Turk ish minister to the United States. ar rived at Washington recently. bearing on his person two sealed letters ad- dressed to President Roosevelt and the germ of a pretty diplomatic complica- tion. One of the letters introduced the new diplomat to the President and commended him. the other recalled Chekib Bey. his predecessor.
 Chekib Bey came to Washington five years ago with credentials addressed to President Mckinley. of whose as- sassination the Sultan had not heard. The Sultan is constitutionally averse to hearing of the assassination of rul- CTS, and the average Turkish diplomat is slow to break news of that character to him officially. So 1t was that Chekit Bey put off indefinitely the ordeal of calling on the Sultan to rewrite the letters and accreit him to the Roose- welt administration.
 Upon his arrival. Mohammed Al | Bey applied to the State Department to arrange for the presentation of tho two letters. But back came a note advising him that Chekib Bey haC
 never been received as minister iron Turkey to the United States. He wa
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18
How Fast Wind Travels.

Boston Transcript.
 Most people at some time or otner have used the expression went .iee iRe the wind.' wishing to convey uhe iuo" of extraordinary velocity.
 Coming down to actual figures. nov. ever, the wind Is not such a speedy traveller after all. The month or Masen n more than any other in the year. mas a windy record. so the figures suppl .ed by the local Weather Bureau station for the month just ended will do 10 illustrate the fallacy of the express
 From the 1st to the 31st the wind movement, as registered at the top or the Federal buildings & was s'SSS sam mitsS: tor thirty days. Here is an average or only Ii I-2 miles an hour. speed which even slow moving frelsht steamer apprOaches.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18
DENIAL OF THIRD TERM.
President Again ReIterates His Prom
 AnA

Pre.,dept Again ReIterates His Prom
 ise
 Washington Special to N. Y. Press.
 In an indirect way 1t was Haoe l known at the White House tohlshI that the President Is not reconsiderlng his promise to retire from public ire He is to take a trip around the world and if the official spokesman for hlh is to be believed the President already has made plans that include hunting trin in Africa. as well as an outing Tn the woods of Germany with his sports man friend, Emperor William.
 The news from the White House was made public for the main purpose of Keeping !ffe in the Taft boom. or fceholders last week again began talk ing of a third term. Taft's managers did not like this and Mir. Roosevelt de- termined to make another announce ment in the hope that the friends of his administration would get on one side.
 The President desires it to be known that he will spend the first year after his retirement from the office in travel outside the United States. His nlan Is to see some of the rugged and iittls-freauented portions of foreign lands as we'll as to travel the beaten track of the tourist That the Presi- dent will indulge his fondness fol
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18
Nemn in Turkey.

Westminster Gazette. ,,
 The Turkish papers have publisher thtir version of the tragic death Of Dom Carlos, of Portugal. In the LeVaht Herald we read that the King and the Grown Prince "died on their way back to the palace after an excursion" The Stamboul says: Dom Carlos Is dead. His son, Manuel has succeeded to the throne. There Is, therefore. no cnanse in the destinies of the country" And this, of course. is in accordance with the traditions of the Ottoman press. which is neve~ allowed by the censor to any member of any royal family has died a violent death It stated that Alexander of Servia. and Queen Draga "died of indigestion at the dead or night" that President Carnot sue cumbed to chill" and that Empress Elizabeth of Austria. had a sudden attack of apopIexy on one Of the ateamboats on the Lake of Geneva.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18
A snnke-BIte KnIfe.

Chicago Journal
 lively lighting snakes in India for dozen years and more. and still these reptiles kill many thousand natives an- devised a neat pocket instrument for handy use in case of snake bite. and the Indian Government has decided to distribute the apparatus widely among the natives. It consists of small Knife in the handle of which Is cav ity. This is kept filled with .perman- ganate of potash, powerIuI anti i- bitten he immediately cuts the wound open widely and rubs the permanga- nate upon the raw surface, the eration is performed withou delay. the treatment Is said to be very effective.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-18
This Date in History
April

1156-Anjou. a province in Western France, taken by Henry II of Engla nd.
 179S--First newspaper in what IS now the Province of Ontaria. issued at Newark CNiagara.)
 17s4-Earl Camden. Chancellor of England died. ,
 1Sl7--George Henry Lewis, writer and philosopher. born. Died Nowem- Der 30, 1878
 fS59-Wiillam T. Jerome. District Att torney of New York born.
 ls6i--Confederates seized Harpers Ferry.
 IS74-Body of Livingstone, the ex- plorer. Inferred in Westminster Abbey.
 1sSS--Roscoe Conkllng died. Born Octoher 40. 1929.