The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-07-24


with whaling laces. He fought ia.
Cuba In one Of the rebellions and made
such n fuss because Atty spaniards
were stuck up against n wall and shot
that the Cubans tin.canned him out
Of the island. Ever since his birth in
Ohio ~ years ago, IL has been perpetu
nj wal with Funston. About the first
thing he did after being commissioned
n general was to get himself called
down by President Roosevelt because
he had insulted n few United States
senators-Mr. Roosevelt Justly regard.
ing the senators M his own private
game. Then they said Funston used
TO all Flipinos full Of water 30 ms TO
get them to cough up information. That
wal never proven. Lately he has been
exiled to n far western post, where he
could not normally make war-but
even there he found . burglar to shoot
at. OF truth great Is Funstonl He IL
the Outnghtingest pup that old Kansas
ever produced, and his militant spirit
promises 20 be very much like John
Browns soul. Right sometimes, he
fights just as hard when he is wrong,
and never knows when he is licked.
You can't squelch a character like
that, whose vane always swings him
into the lime rays, and who is so
lucky that II he were to fall into a
river be would come up with a catfish
in each pocket. Might just ~ well
let him fight on aud on aud on"
Many an old timer paused before
that window at Gregory Moore's the
other day, and used 1t as n reminder Of
the days when typcwriter's were a
new tangled thing. The show was
worth n good bit Of study. II began
with the little old battered Postal. -
That was the last effort to improve on
the English idea of the type wheel,
which reached its highest design in
the Hammond-then given way for
good Of the 6xed principle Of tho type
bar rs we have Ii now. Like the
"Blicks," the Postal was all right
in It's day, but that day has been over
for n long while now. Then a step
higher in Mr.. Moore s ZOO was n vii.
liams, the girst and still the king Of
the visible writers and ever q delight
in its way. Great old machine that
incompatible in the beauty Of it's
work, which none Of the new machines
attain. With a stronger escapement
and a better type bar, and somebody
besides a lot Of chumps to make It,
IL would have swept the typewriter
world, every expert will tell you that.
That was another case Of n neglected
opportunity. Then came a study in
R~emingtons, beginning with an old No.
4, the kind that uses rubber band on
its paper feed, with a dinky carriage
and all Of the makings that developed
later into the greatest Of the invisible
machines. Then a No. 8, n step for.
ward, and at last n No. Z, with a tabu.
lator, u mass Of gimcracks and rods
that seems foolish to anyone who sabes
the modern visible machines that needs
no tabulator. Next to tho top was d
new Royal, the late machine that is
worrying the trust so much, aud which
Ia n all right. Then clear up
on top Of the row Of fifteen machines,
a shining Monarch, the very highes,
type Of the modern typewriter and
the machine which forced all Of the
makes to put on n visible model. The
whole museum emphasized the fact
that the day Of the invisible writer
IL over. The trust bucked the idea q
long time (they had 40 many Of the
invisibles In use, you know but they
had TO come TO il, aud every worth
while American maehin, now features
the visihleness that was laughed at q
few years ago. A few old moss backs
still cling to the upsidedowns, but tina,
doesn't spell anything. Some people
still ride high wheel sulkies, and use
a walking pillow, when they could just
as we'll have bicycle wheels and ride
while the soil turns. IL is getting 70
be n type writer age, and no one real
Tres It better than the makers, unles,
il is Luke MeGaffey, who began year,
ago to urge the use Of the typewriter
in the grade work Of the public schools
Every year he brings up the idea. Each
time II is turned down, though tn,
vote grains 100 per rent each time
Some Of these days the measure viii
carry. And il should. The bushes,
man Of the future can not begin hi,
knowledge Of the writing machine any
too soon.
One Of the first typewriters brought
to Roswell belonged to Dick Seay, nov
one of the hig.muck a .mueks Of tn,
Marrow Thomas Hardware Co. up a
Amafillo-and grown beyond the us'
e 80 Nha Naw TIL. ....IG. -