The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-06-28
WE OF THE WEST
ARE CONSERVATIVES
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States, from constable up. 1t would
develop u world of liars all right, but
enough truth would he worked out TO
show the people what 1t costs to he
elected To any office.
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At this season of the year we are
exposed To all sorts of yarns coming
from those who have the price to We
to the mountains or the seashore. May.
lac that ism I Il peach which was turned
loose last week by Tom Rossitcr, who
has been over Pine Lodge way ever
since it began 10 get warm in the
flatncss. 1t - IN regard to IA spring
which he says he observed for months
II flows II volume of water about the
size of "a horse bucket that never w
rics IN quantity, while II does in quail
ity, which made the Indians believe
II was y pet of the spirits. One day
that spring flows water that is all
solutcly pure, as clear aud fresh ~
any that ever delighted man. The
next day it will Kill Il cow 10 smell it.
aud It may stay that way II day or II
week just rs it tcels like. Then II
will change 10 IA milky sort of slime
that feels sOapy to the hands and il
warm rs the flesh. Maybe next day
il is clear and cold again, and tastes
all right, but whoever drinks of it,
acts crazy, shouting and going on like
they were drugged. The same effect
extending to animals. Then it will
boil up black as ink, and sour ~ swill.
MI of these changes have been known
10 occur III "A week, aud Tom claims to
have seen two of them in one day. The
result is that no Indian or Mexican will
go within n mile of the spring and its
value for stock is nothing. II some
scheme could be fixed to set il when
the Hatcr gets good it would be- worth
u thousand dollars, but as IL is, It's only
nSo j. rs a curiosity. so far as the
spirits having anything to do with it,
hat j. foOlishucss, uf course. II seems
10 me more like II was n sewer from
the iufcrnal regions, or the overflow
from natures chemical laboratory.
Not one person IN fifty who uses the
telephone stops Ia realize how much
trust they are placing in the operator.
OF course it ~ against the rules for
the girls to tell anything that they
hear owe the phones, and IT must be-
confessed that they keep their trust
might we'll. Once in "A while one OF
hem gives way tn the natural tendency
- talk. but IT is invariably followed
10y Il little canning party in which
ihr tn - attached To the talkative
girl. Rather of Il nice point in this
connection came up recently in a Kan
Sns town in which Il lawyer tried to
max" Il telephone g.rl tell what she
heard ia the way of damaging testi
nony for his side of "a divorce suit.
The girl admitted that she had heard
something un n particular day, but had
forgotten what it was, aud all of the
art at the lawyer, ahcttcd hy the court.
rOuldn' I make her remember. II l.
mighty fortunnt" that this condition
IT II shut face does apply to the tclc
phone girl, for as Bert Dccriug says
The telephone girl sits still in her chair
aud listens To voices from everywhere.
She hears all the gossip, she hears
all the news, she knows who Is happy
and who has the blues; she knows
all our Joys, she knows every girl who
~ chasing the boys: she knows of our
trouble. she knows of our strife; she
K nowS every man who talks mean Ia his
wife; she knows every time W. are out
with 1.-THE boys" she hears the cx
ruScS each fellow employs; she knows
every woman who has "A dark past, she
knows every man who is inclined to be-
- fast; - in fact, there's Il secret be
meath each saucy curl of that quiet,
dcmurc looking telephone girl. II the
telephone girl told all that she knows
it would turn half our friends into
hittcrcst foes; she could sow "A small
wind that would soon be a gale, engulf
Us in trouble and land us in Jail; she
could let 60 u story which, gaining in
force, would cause half our wives To
sue for divorce; she could get all our
churches mixed up in a fight and turn
all our days into %sorrowing night; in
fact, she could keep the whole town in
a stew il she II tell tenth part of the
things that she knew, oh, brother
now doesn't it make your head whirl
when you think what we W to the