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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-01-21
HOW The MAYOR Of
ALBUQUERQUE
GOT STUNC
Being the Tale Of a Little Job Of
Vaccinating That Finally In
Glued the Whole Countryside,

There are stories sad and stories
humorous, stories uncomfortable and
stories agreeable about the recent lit
tie scattering small poX scare in AL
buquerque which is now finally dis
posed Of and which in its run mount
ed up to total Of twelve or fifteen
cases. IT'S all over now and the stories
are beginning TO come out There j.
one in particular which the mayor Of
Albuquerque tells-One occasion; in
other words. when he has to. The
mayor told it to the council last night;
told it sadly and with regret and did
the right thing.
Some two months ago when the
first case or two Of the disease APP
peared-this is as the mayor told IL
last night--he was called on the tele-
phone by a gentleman OF the cloth,
who told him that down south of town
was a child with small pox, in house
with other children and likely to eX-
pose those children TO the disease
The mayor said 1t was outside Of the
city limits and therefore out Of his
Jurisdiction. A little later in the day
he was called on the telephone by
County School Superintendent A. B..
Stroup, who told him the case was
serious and that something should be
done to protect school children in AL
buquerque He thought every one
ought to be vaccinated right away.
Would the mayor see that the city
stood hair the bill.
Mayor Mckee Is a cautious man It
was Sunday and he couldn't reach any
Of the proper city officers. He want
ed to know how much the bill would
be
About fifteen dollars" came the
reply
The mayor said he guessed the city
would stand for Its half
"A short time ago, said the mayor
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-01-21
CHAVEZ WOMAN IS
DECLARED INSANE
Alcoholism is Said to Have
Caused Lunacy of Woman
Who Set Fire to Mattress
and Nearly Burned JAIL

Judge Ira A, Abbott yesterday af-
ternoon committed Maria Baca de
Chavez, aged. 40 years, to the insane
asylum at Las Vegas upon recon-
mendation of County Physician John
f. Pearc6, who found the woman ir-
rational. The Chavez woman has
lived in Albuquerque for about ten
years, coming here from Belen with
her husband who later abandoned
her She was arrested about three
weeks ago on a charge of drunken
ness and placed in the county jail,
Here she showed marked symptoms
of insanity. She set fire to a mattress
in her room in the Jail and the build
ing narrowly escaped destruction. The
probable cause Of her insanity IS said
10 be excessive use Of alcoholic drinks.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-01-21
Never Sores.

Fever sores and old chronic sores
should not be healed entirely but
should be kept in healthy condition.
This can be done by applying Cham
berlain's Salve. This salve has no su-
perior for this purpose. 1t is also
most excellent for chapped han ], sore
nipples, burns and diseases of the
skin. For sale by all druggists.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-01-21
TO MICH FACE.

You feel as if you had one face
too many when you have neuralgia,
don't you? save the face; you may
need it; brit get rid of the neuralgia
by applying Billiards. Snow Eminent.
Finest thing in the world for rheu-
matism, neuralgia, burns, cuts, scalds,
lame back and all pains. Sold by j.
II, O'Rielly Co.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-01-21
Stomnch Tronhlc Cnrcl.

II you ave any Trouble with YOui
stomach you should take Chamber.
lain's stomach and Liver Tablets. Mr.
j. p Klote of Edna, Mo- says a
have used a great many different
medicines for stomach trouble, but
find Chamberain's Stomach and Liv-
er Tablets more beneficial than any
other remedy / ever used" For sale
by all druggists
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-01-21

OUR MERCHANTS LUNCH - IA
CARTE" Is THE SOLE TOPIC ON
THE STREET WHEN you AXE
REAL HUNGRY DROP INTO THE
FASHION CAFE AND GET \
SQUARE MEAL
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-01-21
Standard Plumbing and
Heating Company
ROSWELL, AUTowoBn,E 90.

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included, connecting with all trains on the
Rock Island and Sonta re Central Railroads
Leave Roswell at L y. m. Leave Torrance
on arrival Of Rock lsland train due at a
m Running tlue between the two points
hours Me6la furnished at camp Needmore
FREQ cr charge 1nuurslon pnrtle1 aoeonmo-
dated by notifying tho company Two days ID
advance
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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-01-21

If YOU WANT SOMETHING
REAL NICE AND GOOD IN THE
GROCERY LINE, You CAN AL
WAYS GET IT AT T.. G. PRATT &
CO.'S. 2f2 SO. SECOND ST.
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TO cuRE A CoLn IN ONE DAY

Take LAXATIVE BROMO QuIniue Tablets.
Druggists refund money II it falls to cure, H.
WIGROVE'S signature is on each box, gee.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-01-21
BEAUTIFUL CUPS AS
TROPHIES FOR THE
EXP OS|T| 0 n
HANDSOME DONATION IS
GIVEN BY ARTHUR EVERITT
Silver Prizes Stand Fourteen
Inches High and viii Be
Given for Best Exhibits of
Products at Irrigation Con-
greSS,

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9'''iui 'Nei'''' '''e "e'i N''"'
buquefque JeWelef' mas donated 10 the
board of control of the National Irri-
y,tiop oonoraes two heautiful silver
at. e-.,u,..... ,,.,,,. ,4a,,
''i''
ana elsht lhches "lae' 10 ne a"arueu
as tronhies for the best exhibits Of
cereals and fruits at the Irrigation
Congress and Industrial exposition.
The following letter received bv Sec
rotary Twitchen makes this very gem
prous offer.
Arthur Everitt
Manufacturing Ieweler.
AIbuouerouc. \. NJ.
Jan 20. 1908.
Col. r. f. Twitcheu, Secretary Board
of ControI 18th National Irritation
Congress. Albuaueroue. n. NJ;
Dear Sir.-For the purpose Of add
ING incentive IN the several counties
Of this territory in the way of making
a nroner showing of the agricultural
and horticultural resourcae of New
Nfexico AZ the session Of the National
Irrigation Congress and Interstate In
dustrial Expositlou which meets here
next fan have tbe honor of pre-
.en+ino two silver nrize ems TO be
awarded as follows. one for the best
oolloctiye ovbihit of cereals from any
one countv the ofher for the best col
laetiye exhibit of fruits of all kinds
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-01-21
soc Bottle Lees Liquid

These goods are prepared by TIA
Geo. II. Lee CO., Omaha. Ncb.
T.. W. FEE
GO2-GOI South First 81. Phone 10,
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13

means OF sanitation: It helps us to
keep cleans IL keeps Us warm in win
ter and dry IN summer it brings light
into dark corners 1t beauties our
homes: ii Increases our credit; it raises
our assessments; the most ignorant en-
joy it's benefit and the most highly
developed minds. whose culture is so
profound that they have forgotten all
they ever learned at college. retain it's
appreciation"
A subject so various in it's uses. so
universal in it's appreciation deserves
attention. and when zone sees by the.
author of Technology OF Paint and
varnish" that he is a member of the
American. Chemical society" The
Society OF Chemical Industry" The
American Society for Testing Ma
terials." The Society of Arts" (London),
etc. and is also a lecturer In New
York university-one sits up and takes
notice. especially when 1t is found
that the subject of house painting Is
important enough to have book writ
ten about 1t for laymen.
The author tells in the simplest pos
sible language the rise OF the various
preservative coatings now in vogue
for protection and Ornamentati0n OF
houses. He has had all kinds of ex-
perience in the manufacture and use
of paints and varnishes and writes in
telligently. The book has chapters
devoted 20 floor fnishing-to glazing.
papering. whitewashing and kalsonlin-
ing. and the author handles these sub
jects as deftly as paint. 1t is a USE
full and interesting book.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13
q The We'll in The Desert"

By Adeline Knapp. Published by the Cen
tury rompany. New York Price, l.50.
Adeline Knapp. long a newspaper
woman and writer hereabouts, knows
her Arizona desert with something of
the affectionate intimacy that marks
Mary Austin's writings of the silent,
sun scorched places-knows her desert
better than she knows its people. So
one would say in no disparagement.
but in candid comment upon Miss
Knapps new novel, The Well in the
Desert" The story is not as good as
its setting. Not the play but the seen
cry is the thing.
AS a matter of course ii is a melo-
dramatic tale. Otherwise it would not
fit at all in the desert. which, in truth,
is no place for polite comedy. The
mystery and charm of the desert are
Of themselves tragic, vast, splendid.
somber- Its life-its human Hfe-is
passionate, primitive. elemental. So
Miss Knapp's story is simple enough
An Iowa lad, gone somewhat astrar
amid the temptations of the frontier, =.
unjustly accused of murder. Robbed
and betrayed by a rascally lawyer, the
consistently villainous villain of the
piece, he breaks jail: throws himself
perforce on the mercy of his betrayer.
He is far gone in consumption. and
asks only that he be given a chance to
get home TO die. The wicked lawyer
coolly turns him over to d deputy sher-
if and claims the paltry reward. On
the way to the railroad cloudburst
browns the deputy. The wretched con-
sumptive escapes. The lone survivor of
the historic Arizona camel caravan
miraculously takes him to a mountain
spring-the well in the desert'-and
there leaves him. Another small mira
81 x1-hi 10
him company for nearly two years of
solitude. He finds a gold mine. In
a struggle with a prospector whom he
had rescued from death out in the des-
ert he makes the joyful discovery that
he is no longer i'll. The pale, dry,
healing blue" of the desert. the pure
air and the simple living have cured
his sick lungs.
The man regenerate-new made in
body and soul-goes back to civiliza-
tion and begins a long and involved
struggle with the same rogue of law
yer They love the same woman. Once
she rescues Gabriel, the regenerate,
from rattlesnake ready to strike at
him helpless. Again she helps to
snatch him from band of drunken
cowboys melted by the wicked lawyer
to lynch him.
Melodrama or not. obvious or not, the
tale reads well. But it is the in
depreciation of the deserts spell that
grips. Besides a sure knowledge of
all that grows and lives in the desert.
Miss Knapp has got near the heart of
its mystery. She translates into type
something of its beauty, and yet her
descriptions are restrained, simple, in
low tones. Perhaps the best of the
book is that which tells of Gard finding
himself in the MISUNDERSTANDING lost
health and a lost soul in the solitude.
It is a good bit of work, this. And
afterward there is a vaguely suggested
touch of the mystical as If Gard had
gained in his regeneration something
of the power beyond human power-as
If, in recovering his soul, he had got
with it an attribute recognized uncon-
sciousIy of men and beasts.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13
"Don's for Bachelors and Old Maids"
BY alinna Thomas Antrim.
Henry Aitemus company,
Price. 80 cents.
m. Published by
.as fpn3ya.Grlnnfa

BY Minna Thomas Antrim Published by
Henry Aitemus company, Philadelphia.
Minna Thomas Antrim has long been
known as one of the cleVerest makers
of epigrams and smart sayings; but
she now comes forward in the role of
social mentor.
If your manners are perfect this book
will amuse you. II they are not it will
instruct you In either case II will
good manners and smart sayings rolled
into one.
Most of us know better than to eat
peas with a knife. but there are hun
dreds of little disputed points of eti-
quette which Mrs. Antrim clears up so
lightly and amusingly that it would be
difficult to commit social soleceism
after reading her advice
Affairs of the heart are not wholly
matters of etiquette. but even there
good manners never come amiss. Mrs
sharp pen; and what she has to say
about Irritation, courtship, marriage
and the eternal feminine in general is
full of shrewd common sense and
worldly knowledge.
sample or two is enough to show
Mrs Antrim's amusing style.
a man who wears tail coat be-
fore sundown or frock coat after
dark needs keeper.
1T is not imperative to lie to sus-
picious woman-always. The man who
confesses to few misdemeanors rare
ly loses the girl"
Don't discuss your ailments before
visitors Visitors prefer talking about
theirs
"The guest who deliberately wounds
his host strikes a manacled man.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13

taIe-an accurate narrative in fiction
form of motor race across the United
States.
Betty Albright is the lady. She is an
American and not new type-just
charming. Her father is a rich manu-
facturer, one of whose interests is an
automobile. manufactory, with a pol
ished sly Italian, Vannuccini, who
is trying to marry Betty. Jerry
Fleming. an American with hero"
stamped all over him, has been in love
with Betty ever since dancing school
days. He has had an inheritance of
5000, which he invests in an automo-
bile concern. hoping to make enough
out of it so that Betty can marry him.
He is an expert mechanic; has invented
all sorts of automobile contrivances.
from sand tires to brakes, and has just
perfected new engine for his ma
chine, which he thinks is the ideal
American machine for American
roads,
Betty and her father tell him he must
make good before he can have any
serious aspirations. They are all to-
gether at the Albright house one after
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13

esting things to say in this book.
The book deals mainly with the prob
lens of healing-the proofs that men
tai healing is a fact-and much new
and interesting matter is given on this
subject.
a synopsis of the contents gives a
half idea of the object of the book
The Renaissance of Mysticism, The
Dominant Problems. Causes of Revolt
Against Prevailing Systems; Proof of
Interest In Mysticism. Psychology. Ma
tural Healing. etc; Facts That Justify
the Spreading of Fads, Mystical Powers
in Mankind
Then follow three chapters devoted
to the healers In history. with an ac-
count of their works. which will be
found interesting, and another chapter
entitled Historical Proof of Senses
Denied by Common Sense"
The book Is little pamphlet and
there is much unexplained mystery and
too much spiritism, but the seeker for
information will CLEAN the good from
the book and find it of value.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13
I" The Smoky God"

BY Willis George Emerson, author of Buell.
Hampton and The Builders Pub
lished by Forbes & Co.. Chicago Illus
trations by John A. Williams
Myth and romance and pseudo science
have played with the fantastic theory
that the earth is open at the poles and
capable of being inhabited within, and
now comes Willis George Emerson with
a story he calls The Smoky God" The
author makes himself the biographer of
an old Norseman, Olaf Jansen, whom
he permits 10 die most comfortably in a
Los Angeles bungalow TO which he re-
tired with competency after life of
wonderful adventure, during which he
and his father found the hole at the
north pole, slipped into the center of
the earth, made the acquaintance of the
people therein, lived to tell the tale and
suffer imprisonment for so called mad
ness. Jansen tells the secret to the
author the night he died.
Emerson begins his story with fore
word so convincingly told that 1t takes
the reader some time to realize Jansen
was not Of flesh and blood.
Having settled the fact that Emerson
has a lively Imagination and knows how
to tell good story, the thought comes
that Jansen Is a sort of reincarnation
of John Symmes, the old American SOL
der who died in 1929, but who after the
war of 1872 went around what there
was OF the United States at that time
telling the people that the poles were
the entrances to the center of the earth,
which was habitable, and petitioned
congress to make an appropriation for
an expedition SO that he might prove
his contention.
So while th~rs is s~thinR new abs 1T
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13
" The Circular Staircase
BY Mary Roberts Rinehart. Published
the Bohl,s- Merrill company, Indianap
Price sl.5O.

the bcDDS-Mefflll cOlupuHgs luulduhpols
Price, $50
To say that a new writer of mystery
tales is capable of as ingenious reason
ing and as subtle deduction Conan
Doyle, the master, is praise indeed; but
one can add to ii that for strange and
battling adventures this new novel by
Mary Roberts Rinehart is equal to any
thing of Anna Katharine Green's. The
Circular Staircase" is worthy of that
much praise and more. One finds in il
what Is new for a mystery story--two
very pretty love stories and well done,
too.
There is no wading through dreary
chapters while the author lays the
groundwork. The first paragraph is
about all there is Of explanation or in
PRODUCTION. From that foreword 1t is
every moment exciting adventure.
Every line deepens the mystery until
the thrilling end is reached
Mrs. Rinehart has been before the
public only four years. She has writ
ten many short stories for the better
magazines and has one successful play
to her credit. Another play by Order
of the Court is in rehearsal now in
New York and is well spoken of by the
privileged few who have seen it.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13

sionaries. He has, quoted fnte1ligently,
given credit where due and not hesi-
tated to attack statements and men.
This first volume has been compiled
to serve as an introduction to the one
on the missions of upper California,
the story of which intertwines with the
really romantic history of this state
To give the specific stories their proper
setting the author takes his readers
back to the old world in a clearly but
simply written narrative showing the
inspiration for the missionary work
and the way in which this most sig
nificant of religious propagandas was
launched This review recalls the fact
that the missionary stations In the new
world had grown so numerous in 1919
that they were formed into a province.
antedating the landing of the pilgrim
fathers by eight years This preface
covers in brief the three centuries after
the discovery of America.
The subject matter of this volume is
handled under four headings: the pc
RODS of early voyage and discovery, the
Jesuit period. the Franciscan period and
the Dominican period. The segrega-
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13

Watson, Dannys mother, washed was
a Mrs. Francis, and one does not nave
to be told she has no children or her
own, her theories about bringing them
up are so extraordinary. She pro-
ceeds to SOW seeds in Danny" but in
the end Mrs. Francis learns much
from the adorable Danny, who is Just
real and human.
Danny's sister. Pearl. is the next
most interesting character. but pa
thetic with it all. She is only u, but
takes large share of the burdens of
the family upon her shoulders, and
one just longs to take her into the
country and turn her loose with some
real children with no cares and see
how she would like it.
Mrs. McClung has a keen sense OF
humor and has made the most of it
in this charming book. One totally
forgets its inauspicious opening and
remembers only the delight of the
story.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13
" Sowing Seeds in Danny

BY Nellie l.. McCIung. Published by
Doubleday, Page & Co.. New YORK.
Price, 81.
If this book had come to the re-
viewer at the busy season it would
never have achieved anything but a
mention, and not complimentary
mention at that. The book opens so
badly that only a persistent reader
too tired to get up and reach for an
other book. will go farther than TWEEN
ty pages.
Oh, but If you are persistent read
er you viii be we'll rewarded, for a
more delightful little tale has not ap-
peared this summer.
Danny is the youngest child of a
poor, hard working washerwoman.
His father lis of the kind we read
about in slum stories - no good on
earth, and a real detriment to the
struggling woman trying to keep her
children alive.
.ssaone the people for whom Mrs.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13

noon, Jerry almost quarreiing because
of Vannuccini's presence, and at last in
a spirit of Dragging bet Is made: Il
will stake my interest I'm our new fac
tory against $4,000 says Jerry. ION
the outcome of the trial between your
Superba and my Nero, the. route to be
from New York to Portland, Ore"
Then begins the real story. 1t is fair
ly well written and is a mine of infor-
nation for the transcontinental auto
mobilist. The car that wins has the
most remarkable adventures that ever
befell anything on wheels.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13

1t was The Smoky God of the inner
world"
really interesting feature of this
story is the Interpolation. continued
quotations from the works of Arctic
navigators, descriptions that seem to
give the color of truth to- Emersons 6
fantastic contentious. The story closes
with an "afterword'' disposing finally
of the old Norseman.
A fitting binding and good illustra-
tions add to the attractiveness of the
book.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13
/" fadS or FaCtS''

By Rayon. author Of The Mystic Self.
etc. Published by the NJ. s. Publishing
company. Chicago Price, 75 eepts.
sort of explanatory dedication
opens this book. 1t is a quotation by
Galvani: Il am attacked by two classes
Of persons-the learned and the ig-
norant. Both of them treat me with
ridicule, and say that / am only fit to
be a dancing master for frogs, and yet
I think that l have discovered one OF
the grandest forces in nature"
The author follows with the COM
ment. Some important facts have their
origin in fads."
Rayon, the author. is veteran in
psychical research. He may be said to
have wandered from the narrow and
ethical path and strayed into the realms
OF sensationalism. but he Is, on the
whole, in earnest and has many inter
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13

by the James II. Barry company. Price
$3.50. For sale by oConnor, 9 Taylor
street, and by st. Francis orphan asylum
Watsonville, Cal.
Authors, sympathetic and antago-
nistic, others careful but not always dis
eliminating. and still others imagina-
tive, and in consequence, not reliable,
have written volumes on that ever in
teresting subject. the missions of Cali
fornia, but it has remained for Father
Zephyrin Engelhardt to separate the
wheat from the chaff and to give to
history singularly valuable contribu-
ton The first result of his labors
has just come from the press of the
James II. Barry company, San Fran
cisco, under the title of The Missions
and Missionaries of California" This
volume / deals with the work done in
Lower California, that bleak, barren
peninsula, the scene of the earliest
struggles endured by the Franciscans
and other men of holy orders who went
into the wildernesses
Father Engelhardt has had access to
archives not formerly in the hands Of
historians. and he has read every vol
uraa written on the missions and nnis-
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13

her old scorn. She "betroths" herself
to him, but puts off the "sanctification"
of the contemplated relation until her
return from abroad. When she comes
back Paul's wife is out of the way
shamefully dead. But Paul. still will
ing to be her lover. is engaged to a
rich woman. 1t is too late for him to
change his gods. Money, luxury, power,
ease-these he worships So they part.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13
+" The Car and the LADY,
BY Percy f. Megargel
Mason. Published b

BY Percy +. MeRargeI ana Grace SartwelI
Mason Published by the Baker-Taylor
company, New York. Price. $3.50.
Tt must be admitted that the pub
fishers were right when they put on
the wrapper of The Car and the Lady
the familiar announcement that it is a
tale of gripping interest" 1t is a hard
worked phrase and most often it proves
untrue. One of the authors, Megargel,
helped pilot the press agent on an au-
tomobile cross continent tour that at
tracted much newspaper attention a
few years ago. and so he was we'll quail
flied for the avowed purpose OF this