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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-04-03

The esteemed Artesia Advocate
is still pounding away on that idea
OF %annesing the Pecos Valley to
Texas, which il calls THE Brain.
erd idea,' the same being a heart.
less slam at the real daddy OF the
child, Gayle Talbot. The Advo-
cate points out the fact that "A vast
majority OF the people OF the valley
are in favor OF such annexation,
and is irving to stir up a popular
movement on the subject. OF
course the thing is impossible Of
accomplishment, but there is no
denying that it has its attractive
features. Wouldn't II be- a Joke
on the other side OF the mountains,
which has looked upon us as a
treasure house all these moons
But say, right down to the bottom
OF the heart, ! would like to ask
the democratic editor il trading
Mr.. Andrews for Joe Bailey, with
a lot OF small fry thrown in as boot,
wouldn't be a good deal oil a horse
and horse case. Really, beloved,
the best plan OF all is to 20 after
independent statehood for the Pc.
cos Valley, or rather all that part
OF New Mexico east OF the noun
talns. II is the richest and best
part OF the commonwealth, with a
much larger population than many
states had upon admission, and
room Tor millions more. This
would be the most sensible gerry.
mander OF all, II the brethren real.
ly insist in b~elieveing that New
Mexico will be admitted as 1t is
next December or January, which
President TAFT has promised shall
be done II he has the power to de.
liver the goods. After all what
does II matter, 30 long as we get
statehood, in any old way a
rafting campaign for annexation
TO Texas might hasten the admis.
sion, and | TAIL to see how it could
do any harm, Send Brother Bur
nett out on the stump from the
Hope Press, and bring around
your old petition. am ready to
sign, providing the credit Tor the
idea is not permanently taken from
nv rsddy haired friend who is rec
ognlzed as ar authority on sorg-
hum. ! like Mr.. Brsinerd. lie is a
live wire. But he has no claim to
Immortality for this thing.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-04-03

Carlsbad will next week vote on
the question OF the issuance OF
bonds for the construction OF a
sewer system, and the result will
be watched with the deepest
interest by the friends OF the most
remarkable of all southwestern
towns. Any other town H. the
country would have reverted to the
desert under the vistia,icns laid
upon Carlsbad, but il not only met
them all but is taking on a civic
spirit that promises to make the
place one OF the finest little cities
in the country. There are miles
and miles oil cement walks, a splen.
did water and electric system, and
now the people are going to vote
these bonds. They realize that
is the thing to do as the next step
to the better Carlsbad, and as an
example to Tucdmcari, Portales
and other New Mexico towns OF
the same class. 1t is also in keep
ing with the development OF the
lower valley, which it must be con-
tossed equals il It does not surpass
the north.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-04-03

II is a heartless Wichita news
paper fellow who suggests that it
is a pity that the fellows who
kidnapped Willie Whitla don't get
busy in every town in the country,
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-04-03

The truth OF the matter is tha,
the young nan who fools with
debt Is on the road to the soup
kettle, with the skids creased and
no nails 10 engage with essential
parts and stop him. Unless he is
one OF a hundred, he is a goner
when he gets in debt. II is a long
shot that he will never get out,
and he will have warts on his
hands and patches on his pants
when the time comes that be should
by rights take things easy. TAX.
ing on a load OF debt is lust another
way OF selling himself into slavery
to a lot OF oily dubs who neither
toll nor spin. With the coming
OF debt his nerve leaves him, motto.
ing which the world Jumps on him
with hob.nailed boots, after a
pleasing little habit il has. The
ladder OF success has no rungs in
II so tar as he is concerned, and
he a no more climb it than a
pismire can ascend a creased pole
tail upward with a ton weight in
his mouth. /, simply cawnt be-
did, II he is the ordinary man and
no blooming genius.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-04-03

There are other phases OF this mat.
ter, too. The most OF us have a
heart. II is cussed small with
some men, but il is there. Most
men car little Tor self. Their
hearts are bound up in others.
They marry and the little tendrils
OF father love spring up and grasp
them close. The gates to a new
paradise are open and flowers bloom
where none could find ioothold
before. Every waking hour brings
pictures OF the future and the
hardest toll is a pastime. He is
saving a little and getting a start.
Then he listens to some old fat.
head say that the way to get ahead
fast is to get in debt. He does,
and then he realizes that Sherman
made a mistake in not putting
some other things in the same class
as war. He see the roses fade
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-04-03

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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18

F--.EA HE eagle, the buffalo and the Indian have welnigh disappeared
q from the Western prahres Inexorable civilization found them
unfit Now they are to be banished from the crisp, green
A~-~--G bank notes. their last resort, II the active imagination Of boy
sMFSTrNNs hood be excepted TOO easily counterfeted," is tho terse ex
SG&aMI1 PLANTATION. Other changes tending toward uniformity n SIM
arc contemplated. At present there are nineteen different designs. Under
the lev plan, which embodies the ideas OF officials of the Treasury Depart
ment bankers, business men dcUrrency experts there will be u I'm
designs. The possibility Of confusion will thus be reduced.
All classes of notes Of each denomination will carry thu same portrait
No portrait will appear OIL the notes of nor than n denomination
the portraits selected are easily recognizable. excepting, perhaps, those Oh
Salmon ?. Chase an Alexander Hamilton. AS Chases likeness VII 90 on
for anxiety concerning them. Men who handle money N such scale as
that ought to be as familiar with the lneamens Of the Chief Justice
the Gst Secretary Of the Treasury a thu newest alien OF these hores Il
with the portrait of Washington. which will mark tn VI DILL. n % houe
will carry tho portrait Of the man whom sone hardly count Is SECOND even
to the father O his county-Lncoln. Cleveland, who, front by i
break in his party, stood for sound money, will be used on the so notes.
As no pictures arc hung in the Louvre until after the death OF ne artst'
50 II 0 Ort ait of a living individual is used on any OF the currency isSueo
from the Bureau of Engraving an Printing in Washington Hence ne >o
sine Buchanan The $40 notes will have the portrait of Jackson, tn s5o
that of Grant, the 800 that If Franklin. Even the nw pennies Will 10
longer show poor Lo.
The artistic quality Of either gu metal money or the certlhcate Is not
a minor matter. In a certain sense the money used ~ a hatloh - lilo
measure of its civilization. Always when men reacht the stag OF eXcMtns
I'M goods which implies a certain form of community le' they heeu d
medium in which values Of varying commodities may he expressed.
Indians used shells Skins of the beaver n muskrat nae III 'e eaiS
DAYS of the Northern trapper a chrrent value Lon & inc hermann p"
lies expressed fines in cattle. Oxen were units oi value au '"op "N'
parts Whale teeth among the Fiians; glass beads and brass wire IN
Africa: caaob beads in he land Of the AZecs;r feathers among te ooun
Sea isanders-au these have been used. Now tina man las et ..e PRIME
tive stage far behind and mastered many arts. he strives TO make lis money
safe durable beautiful The men who are responsible 1or tn ontemplate
changes in the notesa are also striving to achieve tn same result
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18
FOR STORING COMPLAINTS,
100000


In all large department stores there
IS now an Office to which customers
who hHv" any fault to find or sugges-
lions to make may go. Mrs. Crawford,
how ever, on her first trip to Boston,
did not know this. Il saw most ev-
erything l set out to, in the two
days" she told her husband when she
returned to Bushby. tired but tri.
umphant, bearing many bargains and
samples; but there's one thing I re-
greet"
What's that?' inquired Mr.. Craw-
ford.
Il got shunt of Cousin Amelia for
an hour or SO this morning, just be-
fore train time" said his wife, and
took my chance to look round a lit
tie. She was in the same building,
and she agreed to meet me over by
one Of the elevators, SO when I'd
gaped round all 1 wanted went
there and waited for her.
We'll. as I ran my eye over the list
of things there were to see on tho
different floors, what should l catch
light of but complaint Bureau
II was just going to ask a country
faced clerk near by what it meant,
when along came Amelia, and my
chance was gone. l gave over asking
her things after the first hour the
day before, she had such a kind Of
superior air when she told me about
EN-.
We'll, l suppose folks never get
quite all they expect out of a visit, but
| keep wondering whether twas a
bureau for keeping liniments and old
cotton cloth and medicines for those
with complaints, same as they have
special things made for every kind Of
use nowadays, or whether it's just a
name given some particular shape OF
bureau, like Mission chairs and Queen
Anne cottages.
Il sort Of incline to think that's all
twas, but I'd like fiTst-rate TO have
seer one"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18

The newspapers recently told the
story Of a bad small boy, who had
come up before the juvenile court
charged with 1ncorrigibility. A num-
Der Of little girls had been called IN
to testify, and while the lawyers were
arguing the case before the probation
officer the Judge took them into his
private Office.
Now, little girls" he said, gravely,
most OF you came here in behalf of
the defendant. I have written my de-
cision on a slip Of paper. I want you
each to take one of these slips of
p and write on 1t your opinion
as to what the punishment should be
a good whipping by his mother, or
several long years in the house of
correction"
The judge left the amateur jury to
their deliberations for a few moments
and returned to find that they all
favored the thrashing.
That is exactly what I had writ
TEN" he said, triumphantly. "The
Jury is dismissed"
The sentence was carried out on
the back porch Immediately.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18

NAlrn Is SO strong In criminal circles
ard among the uneducated, the fake
"Nlark Hand" letters have taken
strange twists and turns since the
Nicoletti affair.
1t is estimated. the Chicago Inter
Ocean declares, that no less than $15,-
600 have been collected from italian
citizens on the quiet by Black Hand
takers since the Nicoletti affair. These
cheap criminals know that most peo-
fake bodily without stopping to on
slider It's truth or falsity. There Is no
Rack Hand society In America. There
are certain members Of the Mano Nera,
Chicago just sixteen Of them, in fact
-and they are well known to the de-
teCtives, but they have no organiza.
ton. Nor have they been bold enough
to try any Of the cheap tactics attrib-
utable to the Black Hand since the
first bona tide Black Hand case-tho
Spiro murder OF 1903.
The Black Hand as 1t exists to-day
in America Is nothing moro or less
than a splendid example of the psy-
chOloGY Of suggestion arising out of
the Spiro murder and the subsequent
publicity accorded to the Black Hand
method of eXtortipS money and gain
ing publicity. According to DR.. Roche
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18
SOME MARRIED MEDITATIONs.
Bv Clarence L. Cullen.

1t doesn't hurt any to express occa-
sional surprise over the (maybe) fact
that she still remains as a girl at
heart.
Don't overlook the fact that the cir
thier and wheeler she gets the more
she likes to ave you call her win
some" once in a while.
Why is it that the woman whose
ears resemble sun-dried clans is the
one who experiences the keenest han
kering for those big pendant ear
rings?
1t is difficult for a man to under
stand why he should be required to
wear toeless hose when his wife puts
In about nine hours a day needing
Irish crochet lace.
Why is it that dandrufliness, linty-
featheriness and general unkempt
blowsiness are the unfailing exterior
characteristics of the woman who walls
about her shattered ideals?"
The woman whose husband goes out
before breakfast and fetches home III
armful Of lilacs for the breakfast ia.
Bile doesn't have to worry about his
curves when he's out OF her sight,
either.
In the first place, a man couldn't be
induced to eat fudge and pickles In
alternate mouthfuls. But If he could
be, he wouldn't loll around a little
later on, wondering what in the wide
world allied his stomach.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18
WHEN LUCK FAILS.


Unhoused and often unshcltored,
wild animals suffer moro than is gen
orally understood. No one can esti-
mate the deaths of a year from severe
cold, heavy storms, high winds and
tides. In The Lay of the Land
Dallas Lore Sharp tells of whole col.
onies of gulls and terms swept away
by a great storm, and describes some
of the fatalities of the little people Of
the wood.
We have al held our breath at the
hazardous travelling of the squirrels in
the treetops. What other animals take
such risks. leaping at dizzy heights
from bending limbs to catch the tips
Of limbs still smaller. saving them
selves again and again by the merest
chance?
But luck sometimes fails. My broth
er, q careful watcher in the woods,
was hunting on II occasion, when he
saw a gray squirrel miss it's footing
in a tree. fall, and break its neck upon
a log beneath.
| have frequently known them to
fall short distances. and once l saw
a red squirrel come to grief like the
gray squirrel mentioned above. He
was sCurrying through the tops OF
some lofty pitch pines, a little hurried
and tiustered at sight of me, and near
ing the end of a high branch was in
the act of springing, when the dead
tip cracked under him and he came
tumbling hoadlOng.
The height must have been forty
| feet, SO that before he reached the
ground he had righted himself, his
tail out and legs spread; but the fall
was too great. He hit the earth heav-
lily. and before I could reach him lay
lead upon the pine needles.
TASTY, careless. miscalculated move.
mcnts are not as frequent among the
careful wild flock as among human
beings, PERHAPS, but there is abundant
evidence Of their occasional occurrence
and Of their sometimes fatal results.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18

ter a while he came back again. and
his punishment began"
81 don't UNDERESTIMATE she said.
ut was a girl" he replied. Then
his life's remorse came to him.
Did she care fer him?'
Woman-like, the mint at a romance
interested her.
He shook his head.
"Conld any woma care for a lar
who's story you have heard?"
"Eo," she spoke with d~ecision-"no.
She could pity him, her woman's heart
would go out to the mar whom every
one condemned, but she could never
love him.
lie moved his position and turned
his head in the opposite direction.
She could never love him!" he
echoed. After ell, how could he have
expected it to be otherwise?
"A woman" she continued, likes a
man to be strong, to be able to fight
she felt for him who had fallen, con.
tempt would be present"
AS he had said, the punishment had
commenced. He rose to his feet and
stood looking out over the broad ex
panse of fields facing them.
would you feel like that?" he asked
with difficulty.
She did not answer directly, for she
was weighing the subject over care
fully.
Yes" she replied at last, II an
afraid I should. You see I am no diff
ferent to the rest of my sex"-here he
would have liked to contradict her
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18

hut dare not-"fOr l admire a man
who has a will Of his own. The man
of whom you have been speaking was
weak at the best"
Eyes, he was weak" the mar said.
There are not man. men IN this
world I could respect. but-but you
are-one.'
az"
lie laughed as If the idea amused
him, and there vas silence Then ne
turned and faced her.
Il was that man." he said quietly.
She knew now why he had not told
her Of his love before. knew his reason
for the mysterious silence which had
pu2zled her and her relations.
You"
Yes. l."
He could not trust himself to say
any more, only a feeling of something
worse than misery had come over him,
and he was prepared for a storm OF
~reproaChes to be hurled at him.
But the girl knew that with her lay
the happiness Of both their lives, and
with q trembling heart she moved
closer TO him.
She felt so proud of him as he stood
| there, a still, white figure, and deep
! in her heart she was glad that he was
not the saint that others had painted
him.
and she slipped her hand into his.
causing his eyes to fill with pain. to
meet hers.
after ALL" she said tenderly. hold
ing up her lips invitingly and smiling
as she saw his face change. "circum-
| stances alter cases, Frank!"-Waver-
| lev MAGAZINE.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18
LET ME ENJOY.

Let mo enjoy the Earth no less
because the all-enucting Might
Tint fashioned forth its loneliness
Had other aims Than my delight.
About my path there fits a Fair
who throws me not a word or sign;
| will find charm in her 10th air
And laud those lips not meant ior
mine.
From manuscripts Of tender song
I~nsrirrd by scenes and souls unknown
III pour out captures that belong
To others, as they were my own.
And some day hence, toward Paradise
And all its hlr~t if surh should be
| Will asst glad, afAr-of eyes,
Ti.p' it contain no place for me.
Thomas Hardy.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18
Once Upon a Time


"And the man
"Goyc way to t~emptation," he an
sv,cron with a shrug. "colnu!tted the
forsery was discovered and punished
according to the law of the land.
Poor fellow" She spoke softly II
With a faraway look in her eyes.
"What became Of him.
The man did rot answer Immediate
". The story was harder to tell thar
he had imagined, and he had a great
mind to change the conversation. but
then. knowing so much, she might as
we'll knew al.
":!r rhnng,d d his u%nir," he contin-
ned throwing stones into the stream
at their feet. land. going to a strange
country. lived down the scandal. AT
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18

Nine-tenths of the books written FOR
children in this country are trash OF
the most appalling description which
ever issued from a printing machine.
But the remaining tenth Of these books
are not only some Of the most delight
full work in the world, but are enough
to fill a child's whole literary life, how
ever capacious. to the brim from years
end to years end. AConan Doyle, Bar
RE, Anthony Hope Stanley Weyman,
Rider Haggard, Mrs, Ewing, Charlotte
Yonge AMI Henty - what would 4
French Child, nurtured On tho milk
and water of Nine. de Segur, give for
the crumbs which fall from this table
Of its English companion!
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18

unOOStruCted track.
They are 1!s"v2.!Mg The question c:
national forestry in England, and an
enthusiastic advocate of the scheme
writes TO the Spectator that there
should be an organized department as
there Is in France and Germany. He
cannot see why q national forest
should pay on one side Of the channel
and not on the other. and ne relates
some interesting experienced Of his
W to prove the valu Of tree plant.
Ing. II" says that a d0z,l years agu
he planted son" thousands Of Cors..
can Pine without an preparation OF
the ground beyond placing little plants
In the grass or bare nrable fields, the
soil Of which was such that only the
hardest working man could make a
bare living out Of it. But, bad as this
soil vas, many Of the trees grew TWEEN
ty to thirty inches in height in a year.
In another place, where cultivation Of
the land was impossible. he planted
Sitka spruce, ans during the last year
some OF these trees have made a
growth of three or our feet. OF still
anther experiment the writer says: Il
sOwed a poor, i'll placed field with
acorns about thirteen years ago, run
ming the acOrns in with the plow, and
1t is now a promising wood. People
laugh at this as a means Of making a
living, but a state which does not die,
IS in a different position. | plant be
cause 1t amuses me, and I like to see
the things young. We should remem-
Der that a wood is its own c%ultivator
and finds its own manure, its own
moisture even in the hottest summers,
and for many years requires little Ia
bOr.' 1t is obvious that the State
could do much better than the indl-
Vldual and also that it would have
acted wisely If it had tried to prevent
waste. We are more fortunate in this
country because the problem Of con-
~SfrIati0n was pressed upon US while
the country was comparatively Young,
but already enormous damage has been
done and We need not only to conserve
the old but to encourage tine growth Of
the new AS the English correspond
ent shows, 1t is possible to grow tim
Der to advantage. This can be done by
private owners, who may thus assist
in the work Of conservation, and the
government should be able to accom-
plish much on the land that it re-
serves.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18

Mr.. Carnegie congratulated the King
of ItAly upon the progress Of his cOun-
try and the nice appearance Of Rome.
Wasn't it John l.. Sullivan who said OF
his interview with Edward VII, Il
spoke atfable to the king and put him
1T his ease?
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18
THE GIRAFFE.
4 frica's Second story Worker with
the Long Distance Neck.

tfrica's Second story Worker with
the Long Distance Neck.
The giraffe is the second story work
er of the animal kingdom. 1t is a
merger of the zebra and the camel and
is also a distant relative OF the palm
tree. The giraffe consists of eight feet
Of neck equipped with a body at one
end and a head at the other In the
matter of neck it has all the rest Of
the animal kingdom beaten by a
length. The giraffe's mouth is located
so far from it's omac that 1t has tc
eat today to aDpease to-morrOWs ap'
petite. Many a giraffe has starved to
death while the first meal it had eaten
for two weeks was slowly travelling its
transcontinental esoDhagus.
The giraffe looks as If it had start
ed out to be a zebra. but, having reach,
ed the shoulders, had kept on going.
It Is very dark in color, marked by
yellowish brown stripes in a handsome
linoleum pattern. 1t lives on tree tops,
eagles nests and ~rainbOws. During the
Doer wal the British army had some
difficulty with firarfes, which formed
q great. liking for war balloons and
frequently nibbIcd them during their
| flight in order TO inha!e the gas.
why does the giraffe have a long
distance neck? Persons gwen to the
use Of commOn sens" viii realize that
Africa IS rich in insect life as well az
animal life and that all African AM
mails carry innumprahle parasites on
thetr hides The giraffP'S head is SC
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18

Apropos of signaling a message to
Mars. it may occur to some folk to
inouire why, If there be life on that
planet Of some few million years more
development than life on earth, the
Inhabitants If our sister planet have
not sent us some signals long before
this?