The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-09-05

The recent death OF Ira -. San.
KEY, the great singing evangelist,
points another lesson. namely that
IL is not ALWAYS the hot air that
makes a mar famous, that there
must he something back and he.
vond that reaches the heart and
point men to better and nohlcr
things. Few remember Dwight
l.. Moody, the great preacher, who
was MIR. Sankey's running mate
Tor years, during which the two
are said to have converted more
men than any other team IN his.
tory. Moody was the hot air end
OF the combination. His cloqucncc
was matchlcss. his speaking pres.
cncc superb, he rot most OF the
! credit tor the thousands who came
TO scott and remained To pray.
! Sankcy had n sweet voice, and he
! composed hymns, not the hugwasn
that scare the emotional and move
the penlt,ntlal wraklIng, but songs
that were filled with the Saviour :
voice speaking to crring mon.
Having composed them, he set
them to music, simple, sweeping
airs that were only intended To tn
the theme, hut which Went on aud
on forever, with 4 rcstiul and re-.
dceming charm. Today MOODY is
all hut forgotten, IN l. little while
he will hc. hut the name Ut Sankcv
will live forever, tor be wrote and
sang "lh, Ninety and Nine" the
greatest OF gospel songs, and the
most illustration OF the watch.
tut ARE OF the Saviour who Is ever
willing to 20 mi on the desert Tor
n single straying sheep, the most
beautiful thought that Is connected
with all OF this religious business.
IL has been translated into every
tongue that Is spoken today on
this gray old earth. You may hear
il IN Australia, IN India, in Ger.
many, in Iapan, IN Alaska. in Liv.
q JUL A'NAA "AAtlNNNA NbNA lfdl IT,
its meaning is the same, nc matter
what the tongue, and its sublime
message will still ring on when the
mountains have been levcled 10 the
plain and the tide OF lite has ehbcd
away, leaving n cold and deserted
world. | have heard 1t tar out At
sea, when the stars OF 4 tropical
night cleaned in the CLASSY swell,
in the COW camp, by the blvouac
OF the men who srty, the flag, in
great cath, drals, in the rude meet.
ing houses Ut the backwoods, but
1t rises superior 10 time aud place
with the glorious promise tina,
though nlncty.and.nln, have been
safely gathered within the told,
the one without is worth the say.
ing aud the shepherd tender care.
The Tucuncarl News IS n great
country newspaper, one OF the
greatest IN the So.called dry coun.
trv, and it has done no greater ser.
vice IN showing that much OF the
complaint IN the dry.iarmlng coun
try comes from that class OF people
who sit in the shade OF the shack
and let the sun pump all ot the
moisture out OF the ground, when
an irrigation with good old elbow.
grease would have kept the corn
green and the est OF the crops
vigorous. For there is a great
future before the drv farming in.
dustry in New Mexico, Tor all oil
those who are not afraid TO work.
II is Tot "A business tor a man who
is afraid VI il. Some OF the finest
dry farms in the world are found
in the vicinity OF Elida, in Roosc.
welt county, and all over the terri
tory people are building up splen.
did homes and making money hy
it. But they are aot the class who
plant a crop with one Indifferent
blowing and then come around in
the fall and gather it. They pre-.
pare the seed bed properly, plant
properly, cultivate properly, and
when the harvest comes they have
the grain and the other fellow cuss.
rs the country. OF course the
great incentive to dry farming lies
in the tact that there are in New
Mexico hundreds OF thousands OF
acres OF the finest land that lies
out OF doors, to be- had Tor practi.
cally nothing, and which under
proper cultivation in a common.
sense way, will produce abundant.
Is. II the first cost oi land were
high, there would be- no such thing