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eral, then in embryo to swallow couple
of gallons Of the Hudson river. garnished
with chewing tobacco and cooking soda,
and then to stand on his head and re-
cite 'Minnehaha. Laughing Water with
the proper feeling and emphasis, I'll bet
you that the general in embryo would
not only have played horse with him, but
he'd a-played a whole troupe of per-
forming horses with him, and a trick mule
or two, and maybe cute spotted pony.
In my minds eye l have a picture of
the party who subsequently marched
through Georgia spreading that upper
classman out nice and fiat, like one of
those deep sea waff1es known as
founder. and then. not caring for him the
way he looked as salt water buckwheat
cake rolling him together even as a
scroll, and tying his insteps around his
forehead in true love knot and other
wise making him look like something that
Frolicsome Fido, the fox terrier, had been
playing with under the front steps.
* X
And l never recall having heard that
Albert Sidney Johnston used to travel
up and down the company street on his
stomach like poached egg at the request
of another cadet who enjoyed the right
to give the command on account of his
parents having gotten married one year
earlier than Albert Sidney's did. 1t would
have taken AL, the plebe, about three
minutes, not more. to peel, core, pare,
slice and eat him.
In those ancient times Robert E. Lee
and U. S. Grant and Simon Boliver Buck
ner and few others whose names you
may have caught in casual conversation
were putting the finishing touches on
their graduation year by hiking out across
the staked plains. getting themselves shot
up with quartz, moss agate and plain flint
arrowheads. and engaging in chance con-
fiict every few minutes with passels of
roan-colored strangers who were dressed
principally in their own and other peoples
hair.
And yet even the most jealous advo-
Gates OF the present system of keying up
the young cadets by poisoning him will
admit that they succeeded in turning out
some pretty fair scrappers in the old
days at the Point. I may be wrong. Larry.
but I've got half-concealed belief that
any rising young American who'll bithely
chase himself about with 100 of the No. l
grade. hand-pcked, hard red winter or
harvest ants under his hat because some
other lad told him to hasn't got much
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You'd think there was pronounced
strain of centipede running through the
family. There was also picture OF the
fortunate young person wearing her prin-
cipal or grand entry lid. You knew she
was wearing it because you could dis
tinctly see part of her under it. Judging
by the picture. she was one of those regu-
lar millionaire's daughters with the
fashionable absence of expression that
will be so much worn this year, but the
hat was all to the French dressing, If
may use the term. 1t has CEN
ter pole and hippodrome track
around the outer rim and a superstruc-
ture and many other features. I've for
gotten the Paris name for it, but / sup
pose a person talking United States
would be safe in calling it Ringing
Brothers-three rings and an elevated
stage on vacant lot.
And you may have noticed some of
these tender lamb stews with young vege-
tables that are being turned out by the
colleges and allowed to vote just the
same as if they were human beings. L
wonder how many hard-Worked fathers
there are scattered along the eastern sea-
DOdfU III tlliS up ~ 20!
the college education of a fascinating
lad whose crowning ambition in life is to
sing tenor y a college slee club and
smoke monogram cigarettes with the
monogram side turned prominently toward
the opposite side Of the street.
e las for our leading murders, we're
constantly adding modern improvements
to them. Once upon a time when hot
headed gentleman fell out with another
gentleman over the proposition of wives,
he didn't seek vengeance accompanied by
a uniformed brass band and orchestra.
Before the deed was done, and quite often
after it was done, he stepped around like
one of those trained nurses with felt
soled slippers on In a sanitarium for ner-
vous wrecks; and If he could catch the
other fellow climbing over the back fence
with his shoes in his hand, so much the
better. But at this time any husband of
Importance would scorn to destroy his
foe without noise or excitement. The SUBJ
dued way of fattening the homicide aver
age is as old-fashioned as marble man.
tel. Among the best families it's con-
sidered vers, very de trow unless you
seek out the gentleman against whom you
feel a pique on a roof garden or at a
yacht club regatta or an old home week
or some equally large sociable function
and shoot the tar and other naval stores
out Of him with an automatic Maxim In
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under the aforesaid hat except the above
mentioned ants.
Still at that I suppose these combina-
tons OF New Orleans molasses with
gherkin pickles and English mustard for
a light breakfast and these brisk sorrel
insects with six or more legs and pinch
ers like a pair of ice hooks, for the recre-
alton hour on the campus. all go to
make up a modern military education. It's
likeAeverything else in this age Of prog
ress Fifteen or twenty years ago they
say young woman could go along very
comfortably In the best society If she
didn't have any Plimsoll marks on her
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you as you pull aside the bamboo por-
there's to peep inside. They are the bunk
rooms.
Rarely is there other light in the bunk
room save that which comes from tiny
glaSs-covered lamp, throwing q reddish
covered. on which lies Chinaman-for
40 white iiends ever smoke in Washing
toms Chinatown-his head on mating
covered block. gravely inhaling the
fumes Of the poppy through the immense
stem Of a great bamboo pill pipe. on the
bowl Of which cutters and fries little
lump of black. sticky substance. That
substance Is the gum opium, taken from
it's curiously wrought jar. and twirled
by nimble fingers over the little blaze
until it begins to burn. Then with q
deft motion it is laid over the pinhole
of the pipe and the great smoke begins.
The chances are that If you peep
through the curtains even when the
Chinaman is cooking his pilF' you will
get nothing further than a disguised
grunt of surprise from him as he i'm
perturbably goes on with his cooking
1t is safe bet that you will get moth
ing more than curious oriental look
out of his slant eyes, If you happen to
drop in at the time that the great white
smoke" is due. which comes after the
first few desultory inhalations. and i'm
mediately preceding the great. satisfy
ing. lung-filling inhalation that watts the
smoker to the land where Silvery dra CONS
fight and where flowers and foliage are
in profusion.
But il there be more than one visitor
and unknown to the smokers. not even
opium could hold them to their hunks,
and with squeals and gatherings they
make one dive at the apparently solid
wall-and disappear.
Within the 1nnermost.
More passages, dark and unlighted. and
then from behind door comes the sound
OF voices. Within many more Cinnamon
sit around a table. To the uninitiated
they each appear to be holding curl
ously wrought fan. And then one will draw
one Of his fan sticks and throw 1t on the
table. The one across losses another be.
side it and so on. Then comes a burst
of conversation and it is known that one
of them has just bagged a Celestial
"Ruedle'' in a game quite similar to the
American dominoes. But the Chinese
lottery is quite the most popular game
of chance INDUCED In by Chinatown. Slips
are sent among the merchants and their
employees bearing approximately fifty
numbers. From these numbers. for
which the drawer pays about one dollar
the player selects ten which he marks
out with his pointed rush pen. Then he
sends hem to the lottery bank. At the
time If the drawing, slip bearing the
same numbers, is returned to him, with
the IN winning numbers marked out IN
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gambling and opium smoking. In Wash
ington it is no different, the detectives
assert. Yet in Washington, unlike the
Chinese denies of other cities. these sons
of the occident modest no one care for no
one and the worst charge that may be
found against them on the blotter of the
sixth precinct within whose bounds they
live. is setting up a gaming table.
There has never been a real crime COM
mitted in Chinatown Of which the police
have any cogniZance. They are. say the
police, one of the most inOffensive of all
the foreign element in Washington.
Yet, within the high, ramshackle build
ings which line the southern side of
Pennsylvania avenue bits Of China have
been transplanted bodily. Up the dark
hallway near Sd street on Pennsylvania
avenue, four flights to the top of an old
building. and a light glimmers from a
the smell of incense and blue with smoke.
strewn with the paper prayers Of the wof-
shippers. is this, the Joss house.
The Keeper Of the Joss.
Peeping from the folds of his long gown,
sits Lee Teup, keeper of the Joss. which
grins from above him through the murk
of the censors. Day by day he tends the
god. ministering to his wants with new
supply of the sacred incense. keeping the
altar lights burning and selling the pray
ers to those who come to worship.
Since Chinatown was has been Lee
Teup. The God is there and old Lee is
there, bu. there is no priest:
'Pliest come oftlen flom New York
explained one of the merchants there a
few nights ago. mo leglar pliest.
Havee one slome day"
Down upon the next floor are the
rooms of the Chinese Reform Associa-
tion. Here. almost beneath the shadow
of the Joss, crops out the influence of
occidental civilization. for the avowed
duty of the association is the better
ment of the American Cinnamon. Most
of the reformed have barbered their
cues. dress much the same as do Amer
leans and frOwn more or less upon those
in Chinatown who hold to the dogmas
of their race. Their rooms are COM
Portable. after the fashion of the Amer
lean club idea. This organization takes
the place of what would be a tong.
The rival organization is the Chinese
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lands of ;theru China and soon after
his entrance in the navy Quong found
that he was as literally alone as IL there
were no Acknowledged children Of thou
sand sons within a days journey. Then,
from ignoring him. came abuse from the
sons Of southern China. When he passed
between decks his countrymen pulled
aside the sleeves of their flowing blouses
lest they should be touched and contain
mated.
And lonelier and lonelier grew the little
stewards lot: less and less he loved 10
see the crews move like machinery at the
breech of the big guns; less and less ne
loved to see the flag hoisted and lowele1
and popping in the Potomac breeze. un-
til finally, one night at the hour or the
rat which in the queer Chinese Jareon
means about . in the morning. the time
when rodents leave their burrows, hs
slipped over the bows of the Dolphin ana
swan ashore.
The next night Quong sought China
town. Seeking work. he passed from shop
to shop.
every Chinese throat. and timidly Quong
answered Moth China"
Down Chinatown passed the word thaL
a pig of North Chinaman was In Its
sacred precincts. Down Chinatown went
the lonely little celestial. meeting rebuhs
and ofttimes silence.
Then the little fellow bethought him or
the mandarins of his race. who dwell in
opulence and luxury in a building over
which a great yellow flag bearing an un-
dulating black dragon waves-the chinese
legation.
Thence he wandered, and, crouched on
the steps. awaited the coming of the min
lister A foreign servant found him there.
called a policeman and Quong. the out
cast, was hailed to the police station
Thence he was returned to the Dolphin.
only again to make his escape and to
wander back to the one place in Wash
ington which is as inviolably part or
China as though situated on the banks
of the Yellow sea Again he was found
and this time the charge of vagrancy was
placed against him.
Judge kimball would not convict him.
The charge was dismissed, and in the
care of the Prisoners Aid Society
home was found for the wanderer.
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front teeth and did her hair up at the
customary intervals. The clothes she wore
didn't make SO very much difference as
long as there were enough of them at
one time A young woman stepped from
the school girl stage into her chosen
sphere in society without dropping her
father at the bankruptcy court on the
way. At least so I'm given to under
stand. But now it's different. A debu-
tante who gets her start with less than
100000 worth of portable equipment
would feel considerably like a dOminecker
pullet in parrot cage.
If YOU believe the Sunday pa pers-and
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if you can't believe them, what in
heavens name can you believe?-the ex-
pense OF launching an eighteen-year-old
girl into the inside set is not quite as
much as it costs for defense of wealthy
paranoia In a murder case where the
defendant has money in Pittsburg. but
considerably more than the outlay for
building a gunboat Of the Dubuque type.
/ was reading here the other day about
one of the biggest debuts of the COM
ing fall The young woman who's going
to debut will have more fittings than an
armored cruiser. There was one INCL
dental item Of eighty pairs Of. shoes.
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wv up to the Point that got
fired out for HAHN? -
inquired the House Detective OF the st.
Reckless.
Its all been settled by Teddy" an
swered the Hotel Clerk. AT first moth
inf happened except that Teddy said
L6eb and Wright were liars if they said
hdfd what he said and they said it was
just Ne what he said. Six of the noble
young cadets. who'd made tobasco sauce
ana nspstewed prunes such popular ar
ticfes &C diet among their fellow-students,
are stiI1 hanging around waiting to be re-
instated in a year from now, and IN the
meantime thinking UP few new things
10 brighten up the tiresome menu OF the
plebes. such as raw oysters with sugar
and cream on 'em. Two of the first-class
men have been dismissed
Dye s'pose the two will ever get
back" asked the House Detective.
They will IL the best traditions of the
academy are to be preserved, said the
Hotel Clerk. From what I've been able
to gather it's deemed necessary to feed
the future commanders-in-chief of the
land forces of the United States large
quantities of insalubrious articles while
they're acquiring their military educa-
ton. il any such there be, so they'll wear
the proper look on their naughty young
faces after they've graduated and are
leading the german at an army post hop
on almost half as much salary as union
paperhanger gets. Every time I see
young second lieutenant with O twenty
two-inch waist and a Harrison Fisher
figure going around, bent back at an
angle OF 10 degrees and gazing at mere
civilians with an expression of counte-
nance as II he'd eaten something that
hadn't agreed with him and never would,
] feel certain in my own mind that here's
one who took the full course at the Point
instead OF being appointed from civil life
on the strength Of the fact that his
father stood in with senator and he
couldn't earn a living in a store.
AT the same time I've got sneaking
notion that they did things different in
the old days, when some of the persons
who were subsequently mentioned in
connection with the big war were getting
their training. Back yonder in 1919 or
Whereabouts if any ingenious young up
perclassman had urged a great war gen
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the presence Of large crowd whose
names will attract attention IL printed
we'll up near the top Of the first column
No murder is a success any more unless
you have an Among Those Present follow
ing along after your Dead and Wounded.
Back in the times when the Rogers
brothers were in the statuary business
instead of musical comedy, IL We went
to a vaudeville entertainment-only We
didn't call it by that name then-we'd be
satisfied with a sisters act, and gifted
party in pink tights with large knotted
leg muscles doing things on the horizontal
bar. and juggler who didn't break more
than half of the plates, and couple or
talented musicians who performed Oh
listen to the knocking bird for
the hooking bird is singing in
the wildwood sweet halle on the
toothsome xylophone and then, by dip
ping the finger tips in resin and rub
bling them on the rims of row of damp
tumblers. gave lifelike and realistic imi-
tation of the sound produced by dipping
their fingers in resin and rubbing them
on the rims of row Of damp tumblers
But this year we have to have everything
that's too good or too bad for tragedy.
comedy. the drama the trained animal
show and the disrobinG room of the Ia
dies department of a Turkish bath. the
theory being that everything We shouldn't
stand for we'll sit through.
so | guess all things considered ne
ought TO bear with those bad little boys
that've been naughty up at West Point.
They're only following the bent Of a gen.
Grafton that is ever striving for the new
and the unique and progressive. And
anyway, say what you please about our
National Military Academy, but in recent
years it's turned out some OF the best
hands at thinking up cotillon figures that
the world has ever seen. Harry Lehr's
got nothing on those lads when it comes
to tactics
But s'pose a war WIZ to break out?'
said the House Detective, "Where'd the
army be with a lot of little wasp-waisted
chaps running things?'
THE army'n do very well as long as 50
many husky enlisted men keep on rising
from the ranks said the Hotel Clerk.
land the West Pointers will come in
handy for the war balloons. Wen be able
to send such a lot of them along on one
trip"
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KTO Crime of Any Conse-
~ quence Has Ever Been
Charged to the 400 Celestials
Who Radiate From the Local
Chinese Quarter-Their Sc
cretiveness in Their Methods
of Living. of Gambling and of
Hitting the Pipe" Their
Organizations and T h cir
Methods-The Powerful So
ciety to Which Every Chinese
Gambler Pays Tri butte
Chinaman's Aversion to the
Camera.
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BY IRWIN S. COBB.

TOT did the Main Guys do
with them young fellers
wv up to the Point that got
fired out for HAHN p"
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HE lid is down tight in China
town. And upon 1t sit Capt.
Byrnes. Lieut.. Hodges and De-
tective Armstrong Of the sixth
precinct, who climbed theron the
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-05-19

c~onfrmatory kilograms received by
other parties, the bill has not been
passed by the senate. We doubted it
at the time and sought confirmation,
which seemed to be complete, but our
query sent to the Denver headquar-
ters OF the Associated Press must
have been misunderstood Is a refer
elce to the bill having passed the
lower house. The bill is now under
consideration, as the following Asso-
ciated Press repor received this after
noon, shows:
Washington, May 49, The Senate
Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds today completed considera-
ton of the omnibus public buildings
bill which passed the house last
week. The committee added about
eight million dollars, bringing the to-
tai carried by the as report
ed to the senate to over thirty mill
ion dollars.
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are hat Bryan carried the state,
though Governor Johnson has given
him a close race. The Johnson forces
piled up a large vote in southern Ala
bama and carried perhaps half a doz-
en- counties in the state, according
to present Indications, but % enough
to endorse the Minnesota governor
for President. Returns from the coun-
try districts indicate that Bryan has
carried the state.
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Traction Company today claimed to
have more cars operating than at any
time since the beginning of the car
strike. With the approach Of day
light, the 1awlessness which co1tin-
ued throughout the night in a large
measure ceased, and cars were run
on all lines without interference.
While a number received injuries as
a result of assaults on the Ears dur
ing the night, none were seriously
Injured.
(2:25 D.. m.)-The trucks OF a SUI
perior ven al were wrecked this
afternoon and the car windows broken
by the explosion of dynamite placed
on the tracks. The car was filled with
passengers and a panic ensued, but
zone were seriously hurt.
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THERE WILL BE NO CUR
RENCY LEGISLATION.

Washington, May 19.-That there
will be no currency legislation at the
present session of congress is now
believed by many members to be al
the seante and house bills have held
several sessions in an efort to work
out something under the head of the
."Aldrich-Vreeland" bill, but are said
to have abandoned hope. AS a result
there is a decided sentiment among
the c%onferees and leaders of both
branches to let the whole subject go
over until the next session.
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ion Pacific Pennsylvania, Amalgamat-
ed Copper, Reading, ST. Paul, Illinois
Central and Northern Pacific. The
profits taken on the advance caused
a sharp decline, but the one of the
market continued strong.
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DULL TRADING AND WEAK
PRICES OF WOOL

Boston, May 19.-Dul1 trading and
weak prices prevail in the local wool
market. The dealers report little int
crest manifested in the new clip. Sup
plies, however are large, and reports
from the West indicate that the new
clip is accommodating. Territory wool
is selling lower and there have been
few transactions to make possible a
quotation of the market.
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TO ADVERTISE FOR BIDS
ON SCHOOL BOOKS.

Austin, Tex, May 19.-At a meet
ing of the state ext book commits
sio1ers yesterday, a resolution was
adopted reconsidering the action of
the commission in awarding condi-
tiOnal contracts to the American Book
Company for school books for the
state schools, and providing for ad-
vertising for bids.
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The Alumni of the Roswell High
School held a reception at the Cen
trail school building with about TWEEN
ty members present. The hall was
prettily decorated with the school
pennants and was made very homelike
versational games were the features
of the evening. Ice cream n cake
were served.
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BURLINGTON ROAD RE- I
DUCES COAL RATES.. I

Lincoln, Neb., May 19.-Forced by
competition the Burlington today an
nounced a reduction of rs cents per
ton on practically all coal shipped
from Wyoming and Colorado to Ne
,tbraska points west of Grand Island.
The lower rate was enforced by the
Union Pacific following the order of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
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The ladies of the Christian church
will give a reception in honor of
their pastor and his family Wednes-
day evening, May 20, at the church.
from 8 to 10. All members are cor
daily invited to attend. t2
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The cadets of the Military Insti-
tute held Parade on the drill grounds
at nine O'Clock this morning. There
was a large attendance of the friends
and relatives of the boys. The Insti-
tute alumni will play the cadet base
4 o'clock.
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CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS
INSTRUCTED FOR BRYAN

Fresno, Cal, May 19.-The Demo
cratic state convention today adopted
a platform ilstructing the California
Congressman Theodore A. Bell for
temporary chairman of the national
convention at Denver, July 18th.