The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-09-19

will turn the spirits OF the stoutest
heart toward Bugvillc with two
drinks. The only difference he.
tween the two is that each one is
worse than the other, and ANYBODY
who would touch either should ",
kicked hy burros. When a white
man has sunk so low that he likes
them, it is goodbye Mary Ann to
the land OF the tree. There is no
hope from him aud tor him. Tie
is on the skids tor a loi.. slid in.
t. ,he birthstone picking vat, with
the whole way creased. He is
Mcxicanizcd, and chile is a. mild
as watermelon, and a cigarette
lights his way to mental, moral and
physical death. \ few years OF
the two mixtures and he is dropped
into the clay along with thu carrion
OF which mcscal and pulquc have
borrowed their choice perfumes.
Icquila Is a little cleaner than eth.
cr, and quicker in action. II is
liquid hell hrc, dissolved harh.wire,
aud the devil smiles every tim, a
bottle OF it Is uncorked. You take
a drink ot It and your throat feels
like YOU have swallowed a curry
comb, Take two and 1t lcels like
YOU had a soldering iron IN your
stomach. Take three aud your
name is mud. You see every kind
OF bug and wahoo that ever tortur.
ed a diseased brain, and sooner or
later YOU become unconscious.
When YOU come to, y)u have a
taste IN your mouth that makes YOU
wonder how much the human ami.
NAL can stand and live, a headache
that lasts a week, and a hatr tor
Yourself that sticks. What a a
nation expect OF itself that at.
,cmpts TO relax and stimulate itself
with stuff like that' What won.
der that the American who is stick.
INK 10 good old American beer aud
whiskcy is getting tn, picking all
over the rcpuhlic2 II It were any
other way It would be- on, ct the
wonders OF the world.
The convention OF thu Womcns
Christian Temperance Union OF
New Mexico at Roswell last week,
was n OF the most cmlncntly ht.
ting condolences, tor Roswell has
more pure water than any other
town ~ the territory, OF the SEES.
sions. was busy and then again
am not OF the tribe Of BENJAMIN,
and the Union above all other
things believes IN water. dIdn I
attend mauy. one evening ! was
there and a pictur, on the edge OF
the gallery reminded me OF old
times, and OF tho grand woman Of
American temperance. Frances
Willard. That was a wonderful
woman, and whatsoever doubt. the
real inspiration ot tn, great leader
tails to understand what inspira.
ton Is. Her Who'll, glorious char.
actcr was bound up in her mission,
and ,h, worked tor it with 4 whole
hearted zcal snt.t mUsd man2 to
remark that u was her hrst and
only love.
There is whcr, they are mis,ak.
On, and where they AT, blind.
Did YOU ever study Miss VII.
ard picture closely, II you ever
did, and know ANYTHING about the
real humanity, YOU Sc, there the
indehnthIc stamp that marks the
border land OF III, divine, that
transforms the piaIncst tace OF the
woman who loves, OF who has low.
I'd and lost. When motherhood
has opened tn, door OF the heart,
and llto become IN truth a long,
sweet song, tn, look dccpens, the
rose Is IN lull bloom, IT'S suhticty
gone, yet glOrIou, in It's very plain.
ness 10 tho cyy.
France Willard loved. as only
a woman ot her powerful character
can, and 20 her virgin heart came
the blessing and the Gcthsomanc,
that lett upon her face a beauty
that trIumphcd over Years, and was
irlt by a muitltud, who could not
understand how a woman could
pass through tn; ire and iay, no
scars.
| have heard the story often
from my father and mother, bless
the dear old soul, back IN the biz.
yards OF lllIni. 1t was b,tore the
war, in a Chicago tar different from
the rushing, roaring, scethlng hell
Of people that II is today. over
on The north side my people lived,
on a street from which all signs Of
hcarth.nres have disappeared in
the shadows OF the wholesale
houses. Then 1t was a street OF
homes, handy to the downtown dis.
trlct and und,sturbcd by the smell
and noise OF the river OF today.
Standing then On the open thres.
hold OF womanhood, Frances VII.