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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-05
Foreign

A writer in the Westminster Review
declares that the masses in England are
now awakening to what he formulates as
the real situation of things in that coun-
try. Thus he writes of the landlords
Everything in this landlord-ridden
country must wait upon his will and
pleasure and bow TO his decree; he must
needs have the first pickings alike of
Gods providence and mans labor; if you
put value into marsh or prairie, the first
fruits of the increase must be his; if
living in his house and the cunning of
hand or brain produces wealth for your
pocket, it will go hard but he will have
his hand in for the spoil. AS for the
slums, they are his, he made them.
There is hardly an evil which the coun-
try suffers from but his rapaclty is a
contributory cause. Nero is tabled to
have fiddled while Rome burned; he plays
while the nation rots, taking his sport on
the acres that should feed the country s
starving children. He is now crying out
that every able bodied laboring man
should be turned into a soldier-to protect
what? In the main, him and his
-
With American beef, pork and mutton
barred from her markets, Germany is
becoming a rival of France in the con-
sumption of horse flesh as food. Most
German cities, especially the large manu-
featuring towns, now possess markets for
the sale of horse meat, and dog meat is
not unknown Indeed, advertisements for
dogs to be slaughtered are frequently
published in the newspapers. Govern
ment statistics show that in 1906 upward
of 1872, 900 horses and about 1000 dogs were
killed in Germany for food. The rapid
increase in the number of horses con-
sumed is accompanied by correspond
ing decrease in the consumption of beef
End mutton, and is attributed to the
higher cost of the latter foods.
During 1908 tle German nation will build
four cruisers of $4,000 tons. But this will
not be all. If we take the law of 1907 as
the basis of our calculations, Germany III
1914 will possess thirteen armored vessels
of $4,000 tons, superior to the Dread
naught; ten armored vessels of l,SOl
tons, four of the same character of 10000
tons, five armored cruisers of $500 tons,
and one armored cruiser of 10,7O0 tons, or
total of thirty-seven armored battle
ships and fourteen armored cruisers. The
total displacement of the battleships ana
cruisers in 1907 equals about S5O,Ou0 tons.
In 1914 it will amount to 717,0OO tons. In
other words, the German navy Will be
more than doubled"
Il
what shall we do for bread?' is a
cry heard throughout England with IN
creasing bitterness this winter. and in
oil ations point to more widespread
suffering between now and the advent
of warm weather than has been ex-
perienced for many years
Throughout the Midlands and the
great Industrial centers in the north of
England, where work has been cur
tailed on account of diminishing ex-
port trade and oversupply, thousands of
men, women and children have already
been thrown on the mercies of poorly
organized charities. and are trampingl
the country looking for food. Work.
houses are crammed, and relief funds
are about exhausted at this early date.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-05

that all available baggage and even por-
tons of the adVenturers' clothing were
thrown overheard. Finally they prepared
to cut loose the car itself, trusting them
selves to the ropes. Happily they were
spared this last resort, for the balloon
rose, was caught in current of air and
borne over the French coast, descending
in the forests of Guines."
The British admiralty has decided to
supply mirrors for the mess decks of war
ships, and vessels newly commissioning or
re- commissioning are to be supplied at the
time of hosting the pennant. The mir
rors are to be tmrty-six inches by twenty
inches, with unpublished oak frames. The
expense incurred is not to exceed SIS for
battlesnips and SIS or cruisers.
A public demonstration of the new full
guration" treatment for cancer has been
made in Paris by DR.. Hart, in the pres
ence of thirty prominent surgeons of all
nations. DR.. Hart, whose home is at
Marseilles, has used the treatment for
eighteen months, and in 65 per cent or
the cases the patients remain cured. BY
means of Gaiffe's electric transformer
he sends through an insulated probe an
electric spark five inches long. This is
applied with a fulgurating or flashing eff
feet on the cancerous growth, thus de-
stroying all the diseased tissue. Then
the spark Is used in lieu of a knife to
volatilize the affected part. The wound
is washed in water and antiseptic.
Sir Charles Ross, the inventor of the
Ross rifle. has for some years been ex-
perimenting with a new bullet, which VIII
fly straighter than those now in use and
with increased velocity. He has been
enabled to carry the science of the sub
jeet step further forward by securing
29O0-foot-- velocity with a cartridge that
will not wear the rifle out quickly. Two
years ago he succeeded In getting up TO
2700 feet and over, and successful trials
have since been made with the bullet in
Europe and India. 1t is now being large
ly manufactured in Canada, and also for
sporting rifles. Various powers are test
ing the cartridge. and at 1000 yards range
fifty-three degrees less elevation are re-
quired than with the British service arm.
Napoleon liked dancing among his sol
diers and unless tactical considerations
forbade, even encouraged dancing in
camp on the eve of a battle. He used to
say it put heart into the men. French
war minister is again taking up the sub
iect General Picquart is sending dane
ing masters among the regiments. He is
determined that all the men shall be
able to dance. Napoleon, of course, al
lowed his soldiers women folk to en-
camp a few miles in the rear of an army,
but modern French soldiers will not be
able to dance with their women, who,
though hors de combat at short range 100
wears ago, would in these days of Long
Toms he in danger within a few miles.
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to London. "You see" she explains, i
recently went to London, and l was nor
ribly seasick When 1 got back here
happened to say that perhaps the best
way was to fly across, if one could get an
airship reliable enough
Immediately my friends offered to
have one built for me. 1 treated the offer
as a Joke, but now the matter has be-
come quite serious. Santos Dumont and
Jacques Faure have taken it up, and the
airship is actually being built.
ut will be a dear, delightful little
darling of an airship, and l shall prob
ably be piloted on my first trip by Santos
Dumont. I shall go for my first trip be-
fore Christmas. l intend to be the first
actress to cross the channel in an air.
ship"
q
Mrs. Belva Lockwood, writing on race
suicide, says: Marriage, on the arrival
at legal age, is the normal condition of
our youth and they should be educated
in early life with a view of entering that
stage as one of the privileges of citizen
ship and the making of Il comfortable
home one of life's duties.
d"Nor should they enter the matrimonial
tate lightly and incur its responsibilities
as something that can be shuffled off on
every slight pretext, but should be made
to understand that marital VOWS are the
most sacred of obligations and that they
are to endure through all of their future
lives.
only such permanency can make a
real home, only such appreciation of the
sanctity Of the marriage relation can
create an atmosphere in which children
can properly be reared"
Madame Marchesi, the renowned
IL, II. 81 .
Americans this year Although now
quite aged she is full of energy and
has an indomitable spirit Recently
she began to learn the Russian lam
guage and still takes a lesson every
day In addition to these activities
Madame Marchesi attends to all the
domestic details of her household.
When her husband, the Marquis de Cas-
trone, had a severe attack of bron-
nursed him devotedly without interfer-
ing with her professional duties.
=
The visit of the king and queen of
Spain to Empress Eugene at Farms
borough recently will have its little
niche in history. 1t was the first time
that the empress had entertained in any
royal sense since the days of Comriegne
in 1863 For nearly forty years she has
not gone beyond a quite private recep-
ton of a few friends at dinner, and. Of
course, her dinner party to King AL
fonso and Queen Victoria Ena of
Spain was of an entirely different char
acter. Reports state that. the empress
did her honors beautifully, moving about
among her guests without any sign Of
age or fatigue.
S.
Mile. Henriette Regnier, the one
time popular dancer in the ballet at
the Paris Opera, values her legs AT
$4,000. Three years ago she was
dancing in the ballet william Tell. .
with M. STRAIT, and through his clumsi-
ness he let her fall SO heavily that one
of her legs was broken. Mile Regnier
is now cured, but she cannot dance.
She therefore claims $4,000 from NJ
STRAIT and an equal sum from M. Gall
hard, director Of the opera
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Willie Collier. the comedian. was an ir-
repressibe member of transforming
combination which some ten years ago
did the tank" towns of the middle west.
The company had been doing poor
business for several weeks when a GER
tain town in Illinois was reached. Just
before the curtain went UP that night
Collier was standing at the curtain peep
hole sizing up the audience.
''How's the house, Willie?" asked an
other player.
Well" answered Collier, there are
some out there. But" he added Impress
lively, we're still In the majority. old
boy. still in the majorityg
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ARMY and Navy

IN the matter of provisioning the great
battleship fleet the Army and Navy Regis
ter says:
at is planned to make the fleet SELF
sustaining as far as possible during the
one hundred and thirty days cruise inns
will be effected by stocking the store
rooms of the ships to their maximum ca
nacttv and fitting out the provision ships
with all tnst they may carry. the meet
will make three ports of call-Rio' val
naraiso and Callao-but it is not contem-
nlated that at any of those places wiz
-, much he purchased for the ships. IN
daad II would be quite out of the ques-
tion TO obtain supplies for the io'VVo Illen
of the feet The original schedule u sup
niles has been changed IN some par ~
lars. it having been founo thal ny es3
much material was needed as a. ~ 80 oe
thougbt The original estimate OF l,oooVoo
s1a,,,1ds of beef has been cut to i0V'Voo
po,,nds for instance. The high prices OF
some of the privosions will propaply re-
$50 ST. f,,rther revision of the list, Whiie
~ difeeulties of carrying certain sup,
,Iias such as vegetables ana eggs WIN
aomnel the naval authorities TO resort "
various devices to furnish those Il y
of diet and defeat the influences u 49,
oiinoote II will not be possible 10 carr
n,'rvb notatoes for the whole trip. anu
~ da6ciency will be made UP by deny
IN "a vegetables. the experiments Win
49, r.CI bove been favorably reported IL
VIM VIZ. Ia necessary to ship supplies TO the
I M where they will be called TOT
w. the provision ships on the trlp nor u
~ the Pacific. The supply OF esss mas
haen cut down to 10000 dozen, anu 'ne ill.,
naming quantity desired WIN pe the+
lilotil,l's Nv a powdered variety or that
edible, four ounces OIL lno i''''
ing dozen eggs"
following is the shipoulloihs So. g..
,ronosed by the secretary Oh the navy
for the ensuing year; Total
No. and class 49,
-Four battleshps tof tne
same class as the pela- a. -oo ooo s9s 600 600
ware class) .............'., .s7'oV''N0
-Four scout cruisers (of the
same type as the Chester ooo IA noo ooO
class) .......,.............. S'oVV'O''
Ten Festroyers tof the same
type as those recently con- o.o ooo G soo ooo
tracted for) .......,.....,.'. eo''V'O
JTo1Ir submarines (ot the
same type as those recon-
rnended as the result or
the recent competitive test
nrovided a more satisfac-
tcry type is not developed 1850 O., .oo ooo
in the meantime) ...--.'., se'o ~ SO 400
One ammunition ship '.'.' o aoo'o ooS mo oao
one repair ship .......,..''.' z'VV0'V0V -''Y's'S
Two mine laying ships tcoh-
version and equipment 1or
that purpose Of two cruis- o-oooo soo ooo
ers now on navy lisl.,.. zou'oeo o ooo' ooo
-Four fleet colliers .....-.'.-' l'oO'VoO V0V'VV
- ......... Sos. ZIG. 900
Total, s-s+.s. - ''''
Col lanes Worden Pope. assistant
o,,arternaster general. U. S. A., has been
admitted to the Society OF the Cincinnati
in Virginia by right of descent from
Gel Charles Mynn Thruston, known as
.sthe warrior parson of the revolution
Col. Thruston was minister Of the Epis-
copal church OF Gloucester and Frederick
counties, Virginia, at the beginning or
ne revolution. but left his pulpit. raised
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-05

The ants brain is larger than any other
living thing in proportion to the size.
s.
The shores of the Persian gulf are said
to be the hottest regions in the world.
Considering averages, the brain of
man is five ounces heavier than that of
woman.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-03-28
Gerhardt Valley News.
correspondence,

Correspondence,
Health not veiy good at present;
quite a lot OF la grippe.
Some homescekers are still COM
ing in and are finding a vacant
quarter here and there.
We have about sixty-fve poll
tax payers and quite a number
have not yet moved on their claims
We need in this valley a large
general merchandise store based
on reasonable prices.
There have been three attempts
to establish a postofice in this
vicinity but to no avail.
Farmers here are going to plant
cotton quite extensively for a new
country. Better look a little out.
We now have free school at the
Drake school house, under the
efficient supervision Of Miss Ruth
Drake.
Quite a number of horses have
recently died in the valley from
what is said to be either blind or
sleepy staggers.
Several small houses and shacks
we're blown down by the high
wind, Thursday, March S. We
would not care If the nonresident
bachelor shacks had blown clear
away.
Grandma Drake, after an illness
OF nearly a week, died Saturday
evening, March 7. She was over
eighty.four years old. She was
buried the following Monday in
the new grave yard. Sunday,
March IS, her funeral was
preached by Rev. Windsor, from
John I4:I. A large crowd was in
attendance both at the burial and
the sermon. She leaves a hus-
band, four children, several grand
children and a few great-grand-
children to mourn her loss.
Grandpa Drake is quite feeble.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-03-28
Dodson Doinss

Correspondence
Cattle are beginning to fatten.
Our farmers continue to break
sod.
The Dodson literary society will
meet again Saturday night the 28th.
Some of our farmers are pre-
pairing to plant.
Preaching has been going on all
week at the Dodson school house.
Vegetation has begun to crawl
into evidence. Spring time gentle
Annie.
Avery has drilled a we'll on his
place, struck water at Ga feet.
Rush did the work.
The Horton Brothers have
punched holes all over their places
and have struck no water.
There will be another picnic
crowd at Mesa Rodondo on April
5th. The purpose is to take a
number of pictures of the Spikes
cave, everybody invited, bring
your dinner.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-03-28
Quay County To Be Orsa nized

A call for county union to be
organized. All farmers uni n
locals are requested to send dele
gates to meet at Blair School
House, which is located in center
OF township 8, range "a east, the
ord and +th of April. See consti-
tuition Article I, Sec. "a. Don't
fail to be- on hand with a full dele
cation. Open for business 2 p. m.
Dime: on the ground.
F. M. BLAIR, Organizer,
Grady, N. M.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-03-28

STRAYED-One chestnut sor
rel horse, about 1871 hands high;
fresh cut in wire branded VI on
left thigh. Owner can get the ami
NAL by paying for this advertise
ment and cost of keeping. J. S.
Montana, Revuelto, N. M. FL If
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-03-28

STRAYED-From bunch of
horses which | was driving from
Tucumcari to my claim northeast
of town, on Monday Feb. 10, one
bay horse about I4K hands high,
branded G Buckle, fresh cut on
both fore legs; blazed face. Re-
ward for return to Newt Mathis,
Tucumcari, N. M. 10 tt
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-03-28
Notice Of Publication.

Notice is hereby given to all persons
who have been notified by me, and TO all
other persons now doing business without
a license, that the matter will be placed in
the hands of the District Attorney IL each
and every one does not take out a license
within thirty days OF the date OF this
notice. SAM CHADWICK,
Assessor, Quay County, N. Nj.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-03-28

We have some fine relinquhis
ments and decided farms, 3 to IS
miles from town.
I8 If De YAMPERT * PINN.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-03-28

WANTED-Married man, no
children to work on farm six miles
from town; good wages. Apply to
I8-tf. A. d. GoLDENBERG.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-03-28

If you need a Wind Mill Ander-
son will sell you the best. I4-tf
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-03-28

WANTED-To buy six good
fresh milk COWS. Write Mrs. Ten
ME Clayton, Vaughn, N. M. 23-3
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-03-28

G. T. Adair sells Blue Seal
Flour. tt
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-03-28

For first class plumbing see
Anderson. IA tt
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-26
BOY KEPT SCRATCHING.
Eczema Lasted Years-Face Was All
Haw-skln Specialists Failed, But
cutlcura Effected Cure.

"When my little boy was six weeks
old an eruption broke out on his face.
I took him to a doctor. but his face
kept on getting worse until it got so
bad that no one could look at nim.
His whole face was one crust and
must have been very painful. He
scratched day and night until his face
was raw. Then took him to all the
best specialists in skin diseases but
they could not do much for him. The
eczema got on his arns and legs and
we could not get a nights sleep in
months got a set Of Cuticura Rene
dies and he felt relieved the first time
I used them. ! gave the Cuticura
Remedies good trial and gradually
the eczema healed all up. He is now
seven years old and I think The trou.
Bile will never return. Mrs. John G.
Klumpp, so Niagara St., Newark, N.
j.. Oct. II and 22. 1907"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-26

We simply can't do without It. We
are not going to try. When Bobby
stubs or cuts his toe, It's "Ma, where's
the Lightning Oil?" When Lizzie
burns her hand or arm. It's Where's
the Lightning Oil?" When little Dicks
been playing with humble bee, IT'S
Where's the Lightning Oil29 The
echo Of all our afiictions is Where's
the Lightning Oil?" It's the balm that
makes the pain 90 way. Sincerely
yours, P. CASSIDY,
Montevallo, Ala.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-26
Kansas Glrl's AdvIce.

A Lincoln county girl writes this ad-
vice TO the Kansas City Star: why
do young men do so much loafng? Go
to work. Push ahead l am but a
young girl, but | clothe myself and
have money in the bank. l lay up
more money every year than any
young man within three miles Of my
home. When they get dollar they
80 to dance and go home a dollar
out. I advise all girls to cut clear OF
loafing boys. Stand by the boy who
works. and never put your arm
through the handle OF Jug"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-26

waltz tune at the platform you could
go up and pivot" with your partner,
just to show that you were not proud,
or that you knew how to reverse. e"
Dancing went on all the time, couples
coming and going and round dancing
being succeeded by quadrilles. Some
times 1.-the and sinuous jig-dancer
got space cleared for himself to dis
port In, and great was the enthusiasm
when some girl would accept a chal-
lenge and come out on the boards to
do turn with the jig-dancer. Such ad-
yanclng and swaying and retreating;
such apparent, Indifference and then
unexampled vigor; such hammering
OF the boards and turning and twist
ing, until at the end the crowd roared
its approval and the dancers disap-
peared among the spectators.
Political society at the picnics, dem.
ocratic as it seemed at first blush, had
its lines Of demarcation, which we're
quite noticeably drawn. The wife and
daughters of the big boss" were on
hand, together with the women-folks
Of the various ofice-holders, but they
did not mingle with the average lady
picnickers. They sat by themselves
in something of exclusive grandeur,
and were pointed out by the more
ordinary of the merry-makers to their
companions.
Sometimes a possible presidential
candidate graeed the occasion by his
presence and consented to hand out
sample Of silver-tongued oratory. But
I never heard one yet who could draw
away any OF the attendance at the
baseball game or the fat women's race.
There's a limit, even to oratory.
Great was the CONSERVATION when,
as sometimes happened the food.
gates of heaven opened and drowned
the picnic grounds. The last political
picnic / attended commenced on a
very threatening day, and at last the
clouds seemed to make up their minds
to sweep the grounds. Our party had
taken alarm. with a number Of others,
and had gone down the track to where
the first train to town was stationed.
The crowd got there and iammed the
train instantly Just opposite the pic
mic ground. and a half mile from US.
was a wide platform, uncovered. on
which stood hundreds who we're wait
ing for this train. Let her go, Sam"
said the conductor; mo stop till we
get TO Chicago" Away we went. and
as we passed the picnic grounds hun
dreds more came down through the
drenchlng showers in white dresses
that stuck to their limbs and straw
hats that were being soaked to ruin.
But the train went past regardless Of
their yelis. and as It went by the car
windows we're raised and the chorus
Of the latest song was waited into
their ears.
"Ohi amt dat awful,
Amt dat a shame,
To keep my baby
out tn the rain.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-26
His First Impression.

They stood by the lake. She was
from Boston and poetical.
Are you romantlc2' she chlrped
after a long silence.
Exceedingly" replied the Chicago
man as he 1T another black cigar.
eAb. am so glad to hear #. What
does yon' yellow half moon remind
you Off
The Chicago man was thoughtful.
eWell. to tell you the truth" he re-
sponded. after a minutes meditation
1t reminds me OF the half Of q
pumpkin pie and"
But the Boston girl was gone. Such
a gross allusion to fair Luna was
more than her aesthetic nature could
tolerate.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-26

I would almost as soon think OF
running my farm without implements
as without Hunts Lightning OIL. OF
all the liniments l have ever used. for
both man and beast, It is the quickest
in action and richest in results. For
burns and fresh cuts It is absolutely
wonderful. I regard It as a house.
hold necessity. Yours truly,
S. HARRISON.
KosciuskO. Miss.