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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-17

facilities and tax rate. Our public
schools are excellent and are improv.
ing from day 10 day and Will soon
compare fayorably with those Of any
other state or territory in the Union
But our present tax rate, which would
practically mean confiscation OF
property If il were assessed at its full
value. naturally deters homeseekers
and investors from becoming citizens
OF oar territory. As a matter OF fact
( the taxpayer in New Mexico is not
paying any more on the dollar than in
the adjoining states and territories
The valuation has been so low that
the rate has necessarily become high
But when the taxpayer understands
that reasonable increase in valuation
Will reduce the rate think ne will at
once realize the wisdom of the ac-
ton
! sincerely hope that our constitu-
tional convention, if we are admitted
to statehood during the present ses-
sion of Congress, and if not, our ter
ritorial legislature, will limit the
amount of taxes that may be levied.
not only for territorial, but for coun.
ty and municipal purposes, so the tax
payer will readily see that by increas-
ing valuations, the present high tax
rate, especially in municipalities and
counties, would not be maintained
The increase in values during the
past year and the probable increase
for the coming year, will enable the
territorial auditor to reduce the terri
torial tax rate materially, probably to
! less than twelve mills.
The records in the auditors office
and in the offices of the various coun-
ty collectors and treasurers through
out the territory, will be placed at
your disposal, and I shall instruct all
the district attorneys to cooperate
| with you and assist you in every way
! possible, and | will appreciate it if
you will report to me any failure on
the part of any public official to rem
! der you every possible aid in the pros
ecution of your work.
The attorney general of the terri
tory and travelling auditor, have been
made ex-officio members of your COM
mission, and they will meet with you
and give you every assistance in their
power.
The work expected of you by virtue
of this appointment will not be profit
able to you, but it will be of inestim-
able benefit to the people of the ter
ritory, and l am certain they will APP
preciate your work,
am, respectfully yours,
GEORGE CURRY.
Governor of New Mexico
Armory Boards Must Report.
Office of the Adjutant General
Santa Fe, n NJ, Dec. II, 1909.
General Orders No. %.
The attention of armory boards OF
control is invited to Section 6, Chap
ter 67, of the Acts Of the Legislative
: Assembly of the Territory of New
: Mexico, 1909, which reads as follows:
Sec. 6. 1T shall be the duty of the
: armory boards of control of the vari
t Gus armories in New Mexico to sub
t nit a quarterly report to the terri
torial auditor showing the receipt
f and disbursement of all funds hand
| led by them including the amounts
herein mentioned"
The Governor directs that reports
? required by above law be submitted
. promptly on 31st instant and there
after at end of each quarter.
A. S. BROOKES,
Acting Adjutant General
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-17
NOTICE.

The Princess Bonnie Per-
formance will start promptly
at eight o'clock. Cast and
chorus will report at seven
O'Clock.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-17

Governor Curry today received
from Secretary of the Interior. Balm
ger copies Of all bills thus far in
Produced in Congress affecting New
Mexico Or any of its people, with a
request for recommendation on the
same. Quite number of local bills
are included in the batch and Cover
nor Curry and Attorney General
Frank w. Clancy are examining them
closely and will write their opinion
to the secretary of the interior short
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-17
THE SANTA FE
IN BAD LUCK
Rear End Collision Between
Trains Nos. Four and
Eight
CONNECTICUT WOMAN KILLED
Eighteen Other Passengers Bad
Iy Injured and Investigation
Asked for.

Flagstaff, Ariz., Dec. 1.-THE cause
of the wreck at Winslow, Ariz, last
night, in which Mrs. Alice Bennitt of
Hartford, Conn. was killed and eigh-
teen other passengers injured, is still
undetermined and an investigation
has been asked for. The collision was
a rear end one between the Santa Fe
Limited No 4 and Overland Passenger
No. 8. both east-bound The Over
land which left Los Angeles two
hours and a half before the Limited
on Wednesday morning, lost time on
its way to Winslow. where the Linn
tied was due to pass and it is said
the fiagman failed t. go back far
enough to stop the Limited in time to
prevent a collision. The rear tourist
car of the Overland was shattered. No
one among the injured was fatally
hurt
Thirty-Five Injured.
Flagstaff, Ariz., Dec 17.-Later re-
ports make the number of injured
thirty-five. Nearly all of the injured
were from eastern cities The injur-
ed include D. L. Parker, FL Paso, a
scalp wound; G. w. Rheinhart Of Lii
lian, Tex, head hurt; J. M. Hall of
Lillian, Tex. bruised.
Another Wreck in South.
Columbus, Ga, Dec, 17--Four per.
sons were killed and number in.
jured today by collision of the Cen.
tral of Georgia passenger train with
passenger train on the Macon and
birmingham road at Harris City
Georgia.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-23

Subscribe for the new daily pa
per before the price goes up. tt
Rev. j. G. Flanders has return
ed from MOntezuma.
Mr.. M. j. Callahan made a bust
ness trip to Macon this week.
Mr.. Dobyn Holmes was here
Thursday night from COrdele.
Mr.. Wright Terrence spent
Thursday night in brownsville.
Two car loads of Flooring, good
for sheeting.
III Booker & Bryant.
Mrs. p. B. Addison has returned
to Leary after a visit to relatives
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Smith have
returned from a short stay in At
lanta.
Miss M ildred Wooten has return
ed home after spending sometime
in Waycross.
Miss Elite TrisBett from Sheer.
wood, Mich, is visiting her broth
er Mr.. L. A. Triskett.
Mr.. Lloyd Cooper efter spending
several weeks with homefolks has
returned to Florida.
Miss Ruth Norris from Bruins
wick paid her brother Mr.. j. N.
Norris short visit this week.
Mrs. j. M. Gay returned to her
home in Atlanta today after visit
ing her parents here for sometime.
| See one of the boys or drop into
the office and get in your subscrip-
ton at the half price for the new
daily paper. If
During DR.. Holtzendorfs absence
in New York his dental Office will
be in charge of DR.. Louie Turner.
17O-3t
Mrs. Daisy Wilcox Brabham ac-
companied Mrs. Truitt Nelson
home Thurday and will be her
guest at Alamo for a week.
Now is the time to take the
Daily News-you get it at half
price until Feb. l. After that the
price goes up. If
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-23
To Issue $184,O00
OF Receivers Paper

The petition of Receivers H. M.
Atkinson and P. S. Arkwright, OF
the A. B. & A. road, for permits
sion to issue $1S5, 900 worth of re-
ceivers' certificates has been grant
ed by Judge Don A. Pardee of the
United States circuit court, and
his order is on file with the clerk
of the court in the Federal build
ing.
These certificates will be issued
for the purpose of paying off equip
ment obligations now past due.
Judge Newman, of the district
court, has approved recommended
tions of Special Master Victor L.
Smith that the stock of the Allan
ia Terminal Company and the Ala
bama Terminal Company be turn
ed over to the Atlanta, Birming
ham and Atlantic Company. The
transfer will be made at once, it is
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-23
THE SANCTUARY.

Services at the U. B. Church
tomorrow. Sunday School $3.50,
at 1O:45 Song and Praise service
$50 p. N. Y. P. G. u, 1880 Praise
service, Prayer service every
Thursday evening at 1880.
At the First NJ. E. Church on
Sunday DR.. r. IT. Robb, Dist.
Supt., will preach at 1915 a. m.
and 1880 p. m. The Sacrament OF
the Lords Supper will be observ
ed the morning service. Other
services for the day will be as u.s.
ual. Strangers are cordially in
vited to worship with us.
At the Presbyterian Church
Sunday. Sunday School 9:3Oa. NJ.
IL a. m. Subject, "Dead, but liv-
ing" 6:15 p. m. Y. P. s. Q. b.
Z p. m. Subject, quitting First
Things First.'t Special music,
Morning-Anthem ''Sing Jehovahs
Praises" Duette, ga Little
While" Evening-Anthem, Choir
Solo or Orchestra.
Baptist Church Sunday School
$50 a. m. B. Y. P. U. $3.50 p. m.
Preaching II a. m. and Z p. No.
Morning "Book of Books. D." Even
ing subject "The Son of God, The
One Perfect Example, What Would
Jesus Do?" Tuesday night, Social
gathering, short program and
humorous lecture by Rev. S. }.
Parrish, ''The Problem of Life,
and How to Solve Them. Every
body invited. Admission free.
At the Central Christian church
E. Everett Hollingworth pastor:
the mornining serman at 1O:45
will be Exceptionally Qualified Or
ficers in the ScriptuaIly ORGANIZED
church. j" At 1880, p. M, "Th'
Worlds Four Great Emancipation
Days. The bible school meets q
$3.50, the intermediate Society o
Christian Endeavor at 800, anC
the Y. ?. S. G. r. at 6:45. This l.
a church you. can feel at home in
everybody welcome.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-23
Parsonage Shower a Success

Mich pleasure and good CHI eer
resulted from the reception and
parsonage shower arranged by al
committee of five ladies from the
Central Methodist church, and for
which Mrs. J. G. Russell opened
her hospitable home Friday after
noon from three to five O'Clock.
The three spacious rooms thrown
together were bright with deco
rations of pink and white, Roman
hyacinths, rich and cream roses
and large palms making a lovely
combination for the mantels, side
boards and tables Tempting let
tuce sandwiches and hot chocolate
with whipped cream were served
most generously, and a delightful
social hour was enjoyed by a large
number of the members of the chuch
as well as many guests of the other
denominations. Many beautiful
and useful gifts were showered at
the door of the parsonage at the
close Of the affair, as well as a
generous silver offering which will
be used in additional furnishings.
Receiving with Mrs. Russell
we're: Mesdames J. @. Flanders, L.
W. Meakin, Wright T. Paulk, r.
I. Maffett, E. K. Farmer. Assist
ing in the other rooms were: Mes
DANES J. L. Pittman, Fred J. Clark,
Lon Dickey, Mayhue Ware, Will
liam Rogers, T. NJ. Griffin; M. W.
Cooper, R. j. Prentiss, J. 81. Mays,
e. W. Warren, and A. Fl. Den
| mark. More than fifty guests call
ed, among which were a number
of out-of- town visitors.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-23

DR.. @. A. Holtzendorf is back
from New York and reports that
his associates there, in the street
car project, are going ahead with
the positive assurance ofthe scheme
and perfect confidence in the peo-
pie here who will not brook a fail
ure.
The local subscription must be
closed up within the next week or
ten days. In the meantime they
are going ahead and preparing the
bonds and for the construction OF
the line.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-23

Blue print maps of the colony
from the best tracing ever made,
for sale at the Enterprise office. tt
Fl zgerald Weekly News will
be one dollar year after Feb. L.
Get it now for 80 cents. II
Subscribe for the Fitzgerald
nrealxlv News now, while it is 90
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-23
100000 Reward.

1 will pay $1,000 reward for the
arrest and conviction of the party
or parties who burned my residence
at Lulaville on the night of Jan
uary /. Here is an opportunity
to make fee and at the same time
render your country valuable
service by ridaing it of a bad char
acter. 16S-tf r. V. BOWEN.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-23
NOTICE.

Notica is hereby given that If no good and
sufficient cause is shown the undersigned Will
on the 9th day of March next. grant and
order est bliShing public road as follows;
Commencing at Camp Brooklyn and running
through lots of land Nos $50, $780, 49, 2l2 2s6
246, 1884, thence southeast, intersecting with
new ad at Carr and Williams place The
length of said road will be boul miles.
Ry order of Board this 18th day of January,
1909 VIM. II. BOWEN,
I'm. WARREN,
WESLEY r. WALKER,
172-4w County Commissioners.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-23

sWanted: District Agents to
sell Health & Accident Insurance"
TOP notch renewal contract. Easy
to sell. Premiums payable month
ly from 81. 90 up. Most liberal pol
icies. Cover all diseases and all
accidents. Money in it to men
and women with push and energy.
Jno P. Thornton, Atlanta, Ga.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-23
To The Farmers.

We desire the patrC mage
of every farmer in our ter
ritory. Deposit your sur
plus moneys with us and
let us help you finance next
years crop.
Farming interests are
largely represented On our
Board of Directors and we
are prepared to meet your
needs.
Exchange National Bank
J. D. Dorminey,
Cashier.
J. E. Turner, Vice-Pres.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-23

TUB tNANA3 O"'s
Dea2 SIR
l notice in a recent
issue of Enterprise you are urging
your dairymen to attend the Geor-
gia Dairy and Live stock assoei-
alton at Madison. This is a good
move, try to get them to go and
help try to get the next session
held at Fitzgerald.
We need more interest taken in
dairy and live stock in south Geor-
ola Yours very truly.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-23

Below we publish a letter receiv-
ed today from Mr.. T.. M. Paulk of
Ocilla who is a breeder of Jersey
cattle. We hope that hiss ugges-
tion will beacted upon by the To-
cal darymen:
Editor Enterprise;
Fitzgerald, Ga,
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-23

The Atlanta, Birmingham & At.
lantic Railroad calendar for 19e
containing map of the Line "a
ready for distribution, and will be
sent upon application, enclosing Q
cents to cover postage.
W. III. Leahy,
General Passenger Agent,
if Atlanta, Ga.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1909-01-23

Messers. E. K. Farmer, j. FL
Mays and G. A. Holtzendorf re-
turned from trip to New York
and Philadelphia this morning.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-14

forward to meet him the one for
whom he had searched in vain for
two long, weary years.
"This my cousin, Jack Lynder, Mel
lie, dear. Oh! beg your pardon,
Miss Golden,'' said the noted Mrs.
Livingston, taking Jack by the arm
and leading him up to Nellie.
"Will you show Cousin Jack
through the conservatory, dear, while
I give a few orders to the servants g"
DR.. and Mrs. Livingston s conser-
vatory was faultlessly arranged, and
one of the most beautiful and famous
in the country. But all of its beauty
was lost upon the couple now seated
in shady, fragrant nook, and whom
fate had destined for each other.
Nellie, dear, met you on such
an afternoon as this, and it was then
that I realized the full meaning Of the
word love. I loved you at first sight,
and since being here and basking in
your sunny smiles [ have learned
that I cannot exist without you. Now,
look into my eyes and say, [ love you.
These three little words mean the
world to me, my fair one"
She must have said them, for on
that very 'Frainy afternoon" she
wrote to her mother:
II have at last found one whom I
love and trust, and one to whom
have given my word, with your per-
mission, to wed next June"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-14
SOME QUESTIONS WHICH PUZ-
ZLE A TEACHER.

Not long since [ heard a courage
Gus young preacher make an address
on the subject, "Is the Church de-
clining?"
He said that the Church is declin-
rapidly, sadly declining-in pow
er, in morality, in spirituality; that
it has lost the respect of the world,
and that it is looked upon by the
world as huge joke; slam, a pre-
tence, that the world, seeing the
Church doing all the things it con-
dennis the world for doing, and claim
ing to be so much better than any
body else, had quite naturally lost all
confidence in and reverence for the
Church.
He said that the Church is almost
entirely to blame for the state Of af-
fairs. The main reason for it, he
said, is the disposition Of the Church
to cater to the world, to try to make
itself popular with the world, to pa
tronize rich, influential hypocrites.
And he scored the Church for the
way it would hang on to members, es-
pecially rich ones, who had been di-
vorced and married again.
He said that one cause of the de-
cline in the moral standard of the
Church, and of folks generally, is the
literature that is being taught in the
schools-fairy tales, fables, fiction,
etc.-as we'll as the great amount of
cheap, vicious reading matter with
which the country is flooded.
/ spoke to him after his address
and asked him more specifically as to
which of the literature in the text
books he condemned. He said he
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-14

The head had been removed from
a syrup barrel by the master of the
house, in order that the quantity of
rock candy within might the more
easily be taken out.
Time passed and it became desirable
to use said barrel for the purpose of
hauling water. The "gude mon"
could not be cornered long enough
to replace hoops; so near the close Of
certain day, the mother and sailed
forth to accomplish said task.
Armed with a variety of tools, we
pried, pushed, squeezed, scuffed and
shuffed, but all in vain; the spread
ing slaves refused to unite.
Darkness caused a cessation Of he
RIGS, but the next morning they were
resumed with redoubled vigor. The
program Of the evening before was
gone over many times; fingers were
mashed, and stronger things thought
than said, but the cracks grinned just
as broadly and jubilantly as ever.
When one side had been Incorporated,
and by dint of force the other side
had almost been persuaded to come
under the hoop, out popped the first.
AS last resort the offending bar
rel was lassoed in the hope of reduc
ing it's compass. But the rope seemed
to have about as much binding force
as hair, so in sheer disgust [ de-
sisted, and stood sulkily looking down
on the mother, who not knowing what
else to do began driving down lower
hoop which had also been loosened.
AS she worked I noticed that the
slaves were drawing together, and
when it was frightened, the first hoop
slipped over with little difficulty.
FWhy didn't we think of that be-
fore!" was my contemptuOus fling at
our stupidity.
olive and learn" said the mother.
But with a memory vision of that
barrel dance, devoutly hoped every
lesson wouldn't prove quite so siren
uous.
Leonora Sheppard.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-14
AFTER THE QUARREL.
BY Charles Hanson Towne.

We leaped upon the battlefield,
And struck our verbal blows,
And neither you nor / would yield,
Once friends, now deadly foes.
We fought the fight, then Ger the
grave
Of that which we had slain
We two clasped hands and strove to
Some shred of love-in vain!
For the pale ghost of that we slew
Rose up in all its might;
You killed the faith | had in you,
] lost your trust that night
And Something stalks between us
now:
[ look in your sad eyes,
You see the wound upon my brow
Poor fools, who once we're wise!
Cosmopolitan,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-14

would not teach, nor, if he could help
it, allow children to read, anything
that is not, or could not be, true.
I asked him what he would do with
the Uncle Remus stories, for instance,
some of which are given in our read
ers, or Hawthorne S Wonder Stories,
or some of the classical myths
He said, IT do not like the Uncle
Remus stories at all, and if | come
to one when | am teaching | either
pass it by or just say, EChildren, this
is not true, for animals don't talk. -
And he said he would do the same
way with every fable, fairy tale or
myth he came to.
He also thought it wrong to teach
children the happy deceit about Santa
Claus.
His argument against these things
is that when children read or are
taught that something is true and
then find out that it is not, it has a
tendency to weaken the moral nature
to break it down, even, in some peo-
ple-that they will think, "Well, if
that ism It true it will be all right for
me to tell something that isn't true.
The grown folks have told me stories,
so I'll tell them, too, when I find it
convenient
I agreed with him in many things
that he said, and greatly admired
his courage and honesty, for I saw at
once that when he believed a thing
to be true he would say so, even at
the risk of making himself unpopular.
So many preachers bow to public
opinion, fatter the powers that be,
and lack moral courage enough to
show up the evils that exist in the
Church, until it was refreshing to me
to hear him-not because [ wanted
the Church to get lick, but because
| know the conditions he pointed out
are true, and when we know some
thing is wrong we just as we'll say so
and go to work to right it. It is al
most impossible to remove an evil so
long as those who are in the best
position to remove it pretend that it
doesn't exist, and even participate in
it.
do not, however, quite agree with
the young minister in regard to the
harmful effects Of the Uncle Remus
stories, Santa Claus, fairy tales, and
SO on.
| know that there is a great amount
of harmful, immoral literature that is
running the plastic, impressionable
minds of the many boys and girls who
are eagerly devouring it, but it isn't
the class of literature mentioned
above.
| am of the opinion that the in
clination in children to tell false
hoods and practice deception is due
to something else besides reading ami
nal stories and fo1ru +o1oc o,o1 h.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-01-14
ON A RAINY AFTERNOON.
BY Nellie Burt.

dIuOH IHo, please, UuG 40 you HOT
care to read These words were
spoken by young man dressed in a
hunting suit Of duck to young lady
on a seat behind him in the railway
car
There was nothing striking in his
appearance except his large brown
eyes, which beamed with intelligence
and gentleness as he spoke. The lady
to whom the question was addressed
had been gazing out of the car window
for quite while, and she struck the
young man as being sad and home
sick, and so she was, for she had left
her loved ones that day after few
days vacation to return to college.
AS she turned toward him, her
dreaming eyes "seemed where fairy
lakes swan softly to and fro.' Lift
ing a late magazine which lay open on
the seat beside her, she answered in
the softest and most musical tones,
"Thank you, sir, but / have some
thing to read" Then she turned
her face to the window again and
gazed idly out at the fast falling rain.
She made very interesting picture,
as she sat there robed in her uniform,
with her college cap sitting jauntily
upon her raven curls. The young,
man, throwing aside his magazine, sat
gazing for one brief moment upon the
picture behind him, and then he spoke
again. "It's a rainy afternoon,
isn't it," Being modest, con-
scientious young woman, she debated
the question, "shall I speak, or shall
[ not" for an instant, but being so
sad and so lonesome, she yielded to
the temptation and murmured to
conscience, ''be STILL
Thus they began their conversation,
which lasted for hours.
She found that he knew several Of
her best friends at school, and that he
had also been a "college victim"
Before they had finished the discus
sion Of friends, college fares, "cuts, "
and rules, he was wondering to him
self if he should ever see her again
and what her name was, for she had
taken special care to conceal it. When
the big, fat, black porter called out
the Sstation of M the young
man s brow carried aught but pleas
ant appearance, and he longed in his
heart to knock this intruder into the
"middle Of next week" The eyes
that looked so dreamily into his a
few hours ago now met his very sauci-
ly, as much as to say, cit is all over
with you" After he saw her off the
train, she murmured short, sweet
message of thanks to the brown
eyed stranger, and gathering up her
skirts in her tiny gloved hands was
soon lost in the crowd.
Il
Two years later, as Jack Lynder