The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-08-14
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The scientific fellows on discovering
the specific bug hat causes about all
the disease we have, and nov
comes along one Of the domcheads aud
announces that l~aziness Is a disease
aud that IL Is caused by a bug called
the uncinariasis. just US soon ~ the
proper toxin Is discovered, all you will
have to do will be to take "a few TYPOS
of u, and the tried feeling will slip
away from you like a dream. The
Wandering Willies will become Indus
trious lkes, aud in a little while there
will be u man ready for every job. BE
ing busy there will be no time for dc
vilment, and the jails aud such like
will he as empty rs dry cisterns Uhuhl
All very good, but | know u remedy
that knocks all your toxins galley wost,
aud makes the unciuariasia look like
thirty cents worth of dog meat. II the
patient is one Of the yoaug bucks from
fifteen to twenty one, aud that Is the
kind that are usually bothered with
IL, a slat made of u planned PAL and ap
piled at the point Of greatest equator
will have a magical OBJECT aud inspire
the keenest desire for frcnziod indus
try. | have observed this a long while,
since my dad tried it Oh ne, and have
never known it to fail. When the pa.
tiont gets beyond "a, there is no need
to worry about him. lie then either
becomes a lawyer, whom nobody ex.
poets 10 work, or marries a Texan wo.
man, who is 4 complete toxin for the
lazybug, and will make II so warm for
him If he loafs that he will hunt for
Il job in his sleep. s
The Lordsburg Liberal has disccy
cred that one of the laws Of the last
session Of the territorial legislature
makes it illegal for a woma to en-
ter a room within 100 feet Of IA saloon,
which would shut out many of the
best business houses in every town,
including printing Offices, banks aud
other places Of a distinctly high NOR.
al plane. Ga course the law is a
dead letter, but, beloved. another far.
cical act passed by the same bunch
il not lead aud in some respects II
surpasscth even the 1901 foot limit
law. refer to the new impTov.
ment law. This requires that the
consent Of a majority Of the affected
property owners mus, be had 10 all
forms of improvement which is to be
done by special assessment. That
appears innocent enough on the face
of it, but it really means the absolute
stoppAge Of all sidewalks, all street
paving, aud ali special road work,
in the territory OF New Mexico, so
long as that law Is ~unrepcaled. In
other words in a commonwealth OF
over half a million people the spirit
Of civic Improvement is absolutely
dead by legislative enactment. The
citizen doesn Z exist who will agree
to tax himself for street paving, that
is, IA a class strong enough TO make
IL possible. People always have Ia
10 ibI'cu W Whho mlIIoN VhhtHNN'
even though their installation adds
twice their cost TO the value of their
property. II this law had been in
sixty miles of concrete walks would
still have its board ways on Main
street. There can never be any street
paving in New ,lexico while the law
lasts, though the time has come when
Roswell, Albuquerque and even san.
Ia Fe Is ready Tor it. Certainly the
act is a peach, ranking right along
with the sweezy bill, the lo0lfoot
chapter aud several others that DOM
occur TO ne just now, but which are
lust as rank, Noting these miscar
riages Of right, does not the qeus'ion
arise, II a legislature elected by the
people will pass such laws, what
might they be expected to do when
they convened for the formation Of
u state constitution.