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Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
HOW RABBIT D0DGED THE DOG
Jumps Into Flying Auto and Gasoline
Fumes XIII It's Foolish
P~ursuer.

Charles Crampsey, a Newark. N. J., bust
ness man. was driving through Caldwell
with two friends IN his automobile, when
on the outskirts OF the town they saw a
Cog pursuing a rabbit. The dog was bay
ing flercely and seemed to be gaining on
bunny. The rabbit and its pursuer came
diagonally across the field toward the road
on which the automobile was speeding, but
they were running at a speed far in excess
Of the vehicle.
As the rabbit reached the roadway It
had to leap on a stone wall that runs
parallel with the highway The elevation
brought it almost on a level with the ton
neau Of the machine, and the next instant
it had sprung across the intervening space
and landed s~quarely in the seat behind Mr..
Crampsey, who was driving.
The dog also had to leap the stone wall,
but the automobile had gone by when he
poised for a spring after his quarry, and
he missed landing where bunny did.
The rabbit, after a frightened glance
around, seemed to decide that the auto
mobile was a safe refuge and made no
effort to escape from Mr.. Crampsey. who
had put a protecting arm around Il.
But the dog gave chase to the automobile
with loud yelps. Mr.. Crampsey put on full
speed, but the animal was game, and soon
began to gain on the car. When he came
alongside. he reeled and the next moment
fell over dead.
The party got out and went back to
where the animal lay. one OF Mr.. Cramp-
sey's friends, a veterinary surgeon, said
the dog, whose heart had been weakened
by the fierce race. had succumbed to the
! gasoline fumes and was suffocated. Mr..
Crempsey took the rabbit home.-Newark
| AdYertiaer.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
BIG COAL VEIN UNDEVELoPED
Extends from Douglas, WyO., North
ward TO the
border,

According TO q report recently submitted
to the secretary OF the interior. the largest
coal field in the United States is that
which extends from Casper and Douglas.
wyo., northward to the Canadian boun-
dairy. All Of western North Dakota and
eastern Montana and that part Of Wyom-
ing lying between the Belle Fourche and
the Bighorns is an unbroken field Of low
grade bituminous coal and ignite.
As the federal statutes providing for the
sale Of coal land by the general land office
specify only the minimum charge per acre,
the townships included in this great coal
field were withdrawn from entry three
years ago and the secretary of the interior
instructed the geological survey to classify
and value the land. This work was begun
In northern Wyoming last year, when a
party under ]. A. Taft examined the erea
between Sheridan and Clearmont, and an
other party, under Z. w. Shaw, studied the
Casper-D Douglas end of the field. The work
was continuped this year by II. S. Gale,
who connected with Mr.. Taff's work on the
! south, classifying the area about Buffalo
and TRADING, and by r. w. Stone, who
carried Mr.. Taffs work eastward from
Clearmont to Rozet.
Mr.. Stone, who has just returned to
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

street level, the highest point permanently
reached by man in his activities above
ground in New York, to the extreme depth
of the elevator plunger cylinders beneath
the City Investment building, a point 800
feet below the level of Broadway, the point
OF greatest depth thus far reached by man
in his activities below ground in New York,
the city is over o~ne-quarter OF a mile
thick. Reduced to yards, this thickness Of
New York Ia 1853 yards and one foot, and
in inches the total thickness is 1900. Elk
tended over a horizontal plane, this thick
ness of New York would a little more than
equal the distance from the Battery to
Rector street or from the city hall to
Leonard street.
And II, by some giant knife, Manhattan
island could be cut like q pie, down through
the lofty Metropolitan tower, to the ex-
IRENE depth Of the elevator cylinders be-
meath the City Investing building, all un-
believers would be offered ample ocular
proof that within the last few years under
ground life in New York has developed at
an almost unbelievable rate.
Following the trail OF the elevator shafts,
endorsements have followed Easements,
and have in turn been followed by sub-sub-
Easements, until beneath the Hotel Bel
mont at fOTJy-secOnQ street ana HaTk ave-
rue elevator service has been extended
down to the fifth level, a distance of fifty
nibe feet and four inches below the level
Of the street. True, It is only the freight
Elevator cars which descend to this bottom
level at present, but passenger elevators
even now descend to the third level or
story below the street, on which the hotel
laundry is, and they will probably descend
the entire distance to the fifth level some
day. A better idea of the depth to which
activities are carried below thu surface
Of New York at this point is afforded by
the fact hat the subway. as 1t swings
from Park avenue into Forty-second street,
passes through the second level or story
Of the hotel building below the street, and
that business is daily going forward in
the three levels below the subway, as II
the situation were the most commonplace
in the world. There are numerous other
buildings in the city, especially among
those recently constructed, in which the
elevator service is extended beyond the
basement to the sub-basement.
An illustration of the growing tendency
to develop the underground possibilities Of
business life In New York was given when
plans were recently filed for a new sky
scraper, to go up on the site of the Tower
building, the original New York skyscraper,
at 50 Broadway. The plans for this new
building call for six stories below the level
Of the street.-New York Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
ALIVE FOR EVENING ONLY
A NIGHT IN SOUTH AFRICA
Scenes at n stopping Place for Pas
ON the Cape TO Cairo
Railroad.

The dark comes down with African
swiftness, and at s o'clock the train stops
for the night at Choma. Instantly all Is
life and hustle. In an incredibly short
time all the natives on the train-and they
or returning from the mines-are busy
making fires by the side of the track upon
which to cook their evening meal. Our
own boy Is busy with the rest. making a
fire also and boiling water for tea.
In fifteen minutes you nave the new ex-
perience OF a dark African night, with it's
brilliant southern stars, and the blazing
fires. each within its circle OF laughing.
chattering natives, whose white teeth
CLEAN in the freight as they throw their
heads back In huge enjoyment OF any
joke. They are almost uncanny. those
cleaning white teeth. Everywhere Just
freight and black, indisting uishab figures
and row of cleaning teeth
The second evening we stop at 6 o'clock,
while 1t is still daylight, and so we get
a longer stroll. We have now made friends
with one or two other travellers, and a
little friendly gossip passes the time until
a meal is ready. 1t is so interesting to
know why these other travellers are there.
each m his way 80 different from the
traveller at home, who excites neither
interest nor surprise.
Here Is a Belgian go,ag to Congo,
manager. of course. OF some big rubber
plantation or mine. whose wife is brave
enough to accompany her husband INTO the
Back OF Beyond Here Is a native commits
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

mittee OF Safety knew the danger three
hours before Paul Revere took to night
riding.
Continuing his account, Revere says he
saw two British officers. and after leading
one into a clay pit, he turned into the
Medford road to avoid the other. and
alarmed almost every house TO Lexing-
ton" There he found Hancock and Adams
at the Rev. Mr.. Clarke's. and there I'VE
refreshed ourselves" and half an hour
later set out for Concord to protect the
stores. This prose account knocks out
Dongfellow's eighth and eleventh stanzas.
Worse, however, Is to come. Paul Revere
himself doesn't profess to have reached
Concord. When half way there, the Brit
ish officers captured him, took from him
Deacon Larkin's good horse, and mounted
him on the WORKOUT nag OF a British
| sergeant. They also addressed language 10
him. which Longfellow certainly never
would have invited children to listen and
hear" Paul was forced to accompany the
British back to Lexington, as far as the
meeting house. where he lodged them, and
went to the tavern to help move the trunks
there.
So the historians say stanza twelve
couldn't be true, granted any amount Of
poetic license. He certainly never did
come TO the bridge in Concord town as
the clock struck 2 or at any other early
morning hour.
Having completely taken the wind from
Longfellow's sails, the prose letter ends
the midnight ride, and goes into great de-
tail on a subject not connected with the
tradition.
However, the historians are not alto
gether satisfied with the Revere letter, for
he wrote It In 17gs, twenty-four years after
the ride, and, eonceding his honesty, his
memory might easily have been bad. Con-
sidering the many doubts which the learned
have come to have Of Paul Revere's ride.
Mr.. Benjamin believes that the evidence
| contained in the Hancock-Gerry letter
shows that II simply never happened at all,
outside Longfellow's poems. New York
| Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

sioner for Northwestern Rhodesia taking
his wife and child to some distant outpost,
only to be reached after perhaps ten or
twenty days trek. One looks at the woman
with a sense of awe. She is young, pretty
and charming, and out where she is
going there is no other woman, no doctor
within perhaps eighty miles, no other child
for her child to play withholding but
days and weeks of monotony and the ST.
lence one can hear. We look at her with
awe because we know she is a heroine.
We know she is going, In a measure, to a
silent martrydom, unless the man for
for whom she goes can be all things to her.
Later on the station master regales us all
with an excellent photograph, and the rows
of clustering teeth glisten more persistently
than ever as the natives gather around,
both awed and delighted.
Then once more we all retire to sleep and
next morning awake refreshed to the con-
temptation of the loveliest part of the
whole route, the hilly district between
Kafue and Lasaakas. Kafue we had passed
the previous afternoon and gazed in sur
prise at the fine bridge across the river,
the longest bridge in Africa.
All through the last day the scenery IL
again chiefly forest and at one place the spot
20 PoiiVeu Jul where the engineer recently
alighted from his caboose and shot two
lions, while the train waited. He explains
himself how there were three or four play
ing together quite near. the line, like huge
dogs, and how, being on the back of the
train, he got in the first shot and killed
one instantly. The guard and engine
driver came hurrying along then, but before
they arrived he had put in his second shot
and bagged a second acknowledgements
Page in London Mail.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
NEW YORK UP AND DOWN
A City Considerably in n Air and
Under GrOund at Least
Five Stories.

Though much Is being said and write
about New York's growth in length and
breadth, in the number OF its inhabitants
and the height of it's s~kyscrapers, one does
not often hear the question; How thick
is New York;" Now, there may be more
answers than one to this query. II the
person to whom it is put is Inclined to
the use of slang he may translate thick"
into stupid" and reply: New York is
just thick enough to let a succession of
Tammany mayors waste her wealth until
bankruptcy stares her in the face" But
If lac takes the word thick literally he
might answer with truth that New York
City has an extreme thickness of 1000 feet.
In other words, from the uppermost tip
of the terminal light on the big Metropoli-
tan tower, which is 700 feet above the
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

The Worlds Work for December con-
tains four articles that make it a number
of unusual i~mportance: Mr.. Rockefeller, in
the third chapter Of his "Reminiscences"
discusses THE Difficult Art of Giving;'
Lieutenant Colonel ]. II. Patterson of the
English army, continues to tell in his mat
ter-of-fact way the wonderful story of
The Lions That Stopped a Railroad"
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie writes on How
Men Get Rich, and the Right View of
Wealth" and Ray Chapman Andrews gives
an account of whale Hunting as It is
Now Done" with a remarkable lot of
photographs taken by the author from
the deck of a "whaler."
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

Burton ]. Hendrick has an interesting
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
December Magazines

The fiction in the Christmas Putnam's
consists Of the final instalment of Alice
Duer Miller's novelette,, Less than KIM"
the opening pages of Shattered Idylls," a
two-part International romance by Antonio
Fogazzaro; The Shadow of the Trees" a
serious love story; Her Wolly Lamb" by
Edward Salisbury Field; and two humor-
Gus short stories in which the element
of love is introduced only incidentally if
at all" Lily" by Jeanette L. Glider. and
another of Jane Clifford's stories of Mrs.
Jared Dove, called Yours in Confidence. "
Burton ]. Hendrick has an interesting
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

The December Atlantic opens with a
Christmas talk by s. NJ. Crothers. The
Bayonet-Poker is his theme. In Ghosts"
Frank Crane protests against the inherited
notions which we imagine TO be convic-
tons Of our own. Again this month the
Atlantic presents an important article by
President Pritchett of the Carnegie Foun-
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

The December st, Nicholas is a number
of many Christmas stories and poems and
pi~ctures-"The Yule Tide Lights "a Stop
over Christmas by Claire II. Quincy:
How Christmas Was Saved" A Christ
mas play by Catharine Markham; Santa
Claus Note Book" by Lillian b. Miner;
'Santa's Surprise Party" by Gladys Hyatt
Sinclair. and for frontispiece n full page
reproduction of Julie c. Pratt's drawing
of "A Christmas Feast OF Olden Time"
The beginning of Mr.. Francis Hodgson
Burnett's new queen Silver-Bell' fairy
story; The Spring Cleaning with its
many jolly pictures by Harrison Cady.
would make a Christmas number OF any
issue of a magazine. Other happy begin
nings are the first of DIR. John c. Schapp's
Doctor Daddiman" stories for the very
little folk, and the opening chapters OF
Mary Constance Dubois new serial, eth
Lass Of the Silver Sword"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

dalton on 1.-THE Organization Of Higher
Education" There are a number Of other
articles of social and political Importance.
The stories have the taste of Christmas in
"a Beggar's Christmas" by Edith Wyatt;
''The Poor" by Henry c. Rowland And
Son." by a new writer. G. d. Mclean,
and ACROSS the Creek" by Lucy Pratt.
For poems, there are THE Rhyme Of the
voyager," by Evelyn Phinney; ITO r. p.
C. with a Baton" by Grace Hazard Conk-
ling; 1.-The Play" by M. A. De Wolfe
Howe, and Gods Hour-Glass," by r.
Valentine Heckscher.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

The December number OF Van Norden
Magazine covers an unusually wide variety
Of subjects OF timely interest. Its con-
tents include twenty-one articles very pro-
fusely illustrated, including THE City
House Cleaning" by Robert Sloss; TRUSTS
That Can Be Trusted" by Walter p. Nc
CURE; Hands Across the Sea to China"
by Emil 8. Fischer of Picking. China;
Treasures of the Sea-" by Day Allen Will
ley; Fighting a Forest Fire" by Henry
Jay Case; Paper Not Made from Wood
Pulp" by r. s. Tigner; America for
Americans by Thomas Hanly; Sanity In
the Drama by Thomas Burke; "Depart-
ment Work at Washington" by Roy Gram
dali; New America" by Michael Will
liams; 1.-THE Balkan Tangle," by Louis
Springer; 1.-THE Romance Of Copper" by
William T. Partridge; People Of the Pres
ent," and others. not emitting the neces-
sery Christmas flavor in The Story of
Christmas by George Winslow, and You
and Christmas" by Herbert Everett.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

The rich, iridescent colorings Of a stained
glass window seem caught and held in the
beautiful cover design of the Christmas
Century. the Angel of the Annunclation
And color reproduction seems to have
reached a new standard in the color pages
The Holy Family" by Frank Du Mond;
THE Bath by Hugo Balm; The
Skaters" by Carl Melchers, three notable
examples of modern American art, and
""The Christmas Dinner at Mount Vernon"
by oliver Kemp. There are, besides,
twenty-six pages printed. partly or entirely,
in tint.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-08
NEW DISTRICT FOR u. S.
LAND SPECIAL AGENTS

Frank Grygla, OF Santa Fe, special
agent in land fraud cases for New
Mexico, arrived yesterday on the
automobile for a business visit of sew
eral days. He reports that a new dis
trict has been formed for the fraud
investigation department of the land
office, consisting of the Territory OF
New Mexico and to be designated as
Division No. 2. Arizona, formerly
part of this district, and some of his
assistants, including A. r. Cheever,
formerly of this city, have been trans
ferred to Arizona, Mr.. Dezendorf as
officer in charge. Roy o. Moore is in
charge of the New Mexico district
and Mr.. Grygla will come to Roswell
often to assist in the work in the Pc
o Valley.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-08
HELP THE COMMERCIAL Gu

HELP The OMM ERCiAI CLUB
The Commercial Club alone should
not be expected to bear all the ex-
.pense of the exhibit at the National
Irrigation Congress. In fact, the Club
as an organization has SO many irons
in the fire just now that it cannot
spare money enough to carry out this
enterprise without assistance. 1t will
be impossible to send a proper exhib-
it unless the farmers and fruit grow
ers are willing to contribute h pro-
ducts for display. In addition to the
funds the Club has available the citt-
zens of Roswell should contribute at
least fv hundred dollars to make
the plan a complete success. Roswell
and Chaves county should not for a
single moment entertain the thought
of being outdone by any section of
the Territory or the nation. The Irri-
cation Congress Is one of the most
important gatherings of practical far
mers and fruit growers in the United
States. and to take first prizes at Al
b~uquerque this fall will be of more
value as an advertisement Of the
greatest artesian well district In the
world than was the winning of prem.
iums at the st. Louis Exposition. The
men who attend an irrigation congress
are directly interested In the very
things which the Pecos valley wishes
to impress upon the minds OF b out.
side world. We shall y have a
better opportunity to reach the men
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-08
WANTED

WANTED To e a small cider
press. Apply at Record office. tt
WANTED A few more COWS to
pasture.-Fred Lanning. at court
house. Bats
WANTED Position as book-keeper
with mercantile firm. Three years
experience. Good references.-J. e.
Jacob. Ell Captain Hotel. 33t5.
WANTED Cotton pickers. Big cot
ton crop and plenty of work. Write
for Information to ohn Pickett,
Coanoma, Texas, Howard county. SITS
WANTED Position for general
house work. Call at this Office. 37t3.
WANTED:- Furnished or unfurnish-
ed house. four rooms or more, close
in, for select rooming and boarding
house. Can give good city reference.
Inquire 313 N. Rich.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-08
ACME COMPANY WANTS
STILL MORE GYPSUM

The Acme Cement Plaster Compa-
ny, which has ten plaster mills in
various parts of the United States,
evidently is convinced that there is
yet much plaster to be used in the
country, for it has filed On eighteen
sections of gyp land between Lake
wood and Carlsbad, in the vicinity
of the big gyp holdings of the Orien-
tai Cement Plaster Company, OF Ros-
well. The Acme people nave enough
gyp LIANT at Acme, N. M, "to plaster
the eartn," as a plaster man puts it,
but they evidently want still more
in this part of the territory, possibly
with a view of plastering some of the
other planets. The gyp deposits OF
Acme n Oriental, N. M, are the
purest and best in the world. The
plant at Acme has been shut down
this week while most of its workmen
were doing assessment work on the
new claims at oriental. It is limited
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-08

stances nor in the mood to become
purchasers. A new brand of shoes is
advertised. My friend Brown needs a
new pair. After he has cen the ad-
vertisements ten or twenty or twenty
dozen times he may take it into his
head to call for this brand at the
shoe store, OF will at least be pleased
when this now familiar and favorably
considered kind Of shoe is put before
him.
But my friends Smith and Jones
and jenkins do not need new shoes
just now; hence the effect of the ads.
will not be perceptible SO far as they
are concerned. Two Or three months
from now, when Smith goes to the
shoe store, it Is reasonable to sup
pose that he win be familiar with the
new brand and may buy a pair.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-08
ChiIdren's Party.

Mrs. John T. Mcclure entertained
a small company Of young people
with a lawn party at her home on
North Richardson avenue Wednesday
afternoon, in honor of Mr.. McClure's
daughter and son, Gretchen and Tom,
who are here from Indianola, Iowa,
On a visit.
Various games occupied the after
noon, at the conclusion of which re-
freshments we're served. In the "Bub-
BILE Contest" a prize of a post card
album was awarded to Donovan Rich
ardson for the greatest proficiency.
Those comprising the company were:
Irene Murray, Grace Geyer, Eloise
Parsons, and Gretchen Mcclure, Pal
mer Bradley, Donovan Richardson,
Willie Murray and Tom Mcclure.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-08
Classified "Ad5.'
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE Good bicycle $40. Call
600 N. Lea. to
FOR SALE A small safe. Apply
Ingersoll Book, Stationery and Art
Company. 26tf
FOR SALE Piano, 312 N. Lea. Cali
mornings. 33t5
FOR SALE My residence at 421
West College, six rooms, lot LOOK
800, a bargain.-Fred Lanning, at
court house. 34t6s
FOR SALE Eighty acres Of Hondo
land cheap, under government res
ervoir fou n one-half miles from
Roswell. Write w. E. Hester, Aus
tin, Tex, care Austin B B. team,
for Information.
FOR SALE Piano, cheap II sold
at once. Apply this office. 35t3s
FOR SALE One solid oak, wall
showcase, 13 It. long, z It. nigh and
2 IT. deep, glass front and four large
drawers. suitable for millinery or
any kind Of merchandise. Inquire
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-08
Record Want Ads. Get Results.
SUCH is LIFE.

Jones envies Smith; a grocer he,
A druggist is the latter.
Smith envies Brown and thinks to be
A railroad man is fatter.
Brown envies Johnson-Johnson IS
The village tavern keeper;
But Johnson covets jenkins biz
OF tending pillow and reaper.
While Jenkins roundly envies Jones.
Asseverating, mo sir,
You'd never see me filling stones
Were 1, by gun, a grocer"
And thus Is formed the endless chain
OF brother watching brother
And spending lots of time In vain
By envying another.
For such the fate of mortal man;
To note not what he COULD be,
But kicking 'gainst the ordered plan
To fancy wnat he WOULD be.
E L. Sabin, in Judge.
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MAKE A CLAIM AND
PRESS 1T PERSISTENTLY.

From The Chicago Post.
In the publicity lines, where a man.
ufacturer advertises his wares as for
sale by the dealer, nothing impresses
the public more than the continuous,
undaunted, cheerful repetition OF
some claim.
81 have seen that syrup ad. for six
months" says Mrs. Jones. 81 guess
I'll try it today" And there are a
thousand, five hundred thousand,
Joneses in Chicago who, without
knowing just how long they have
seen So-and-so's ad., are Influenced by
it only after it has been literally beat
en- into their heads.
That is n eason successful ad-
vertising usually requires time.
Another reason Is that when adver-
tisements start the vast majority of
the public is neither IN the circum-