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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12
With Scissors and Paste



She turned 10 me-the blue sea OF her
eyes
Drowned speech ere II could strug-
gle into birth,
The raveled bronze that made her
hair seem worth
Ten times its weight in gold, shone as
the skies
At sunset, o'er those azure deeps; who
tries
To paint such loveliness fails from
the dearth
OF words-but she was framed, for
woe or mirth,
a puzzle. perfection and a prize.
She turned to me-answered the mute
appeal
Ny own eyes held, and by some hid
den law
OWNED my wishes. Like a silver
bell
Her sweet voice echoed through the
mercantile
Establishment she worked in
Have you saw
Our new line of gents fancy vests
They're swell"
Ted Robinson in Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12
The Primary in Oregon
portland oresonian.)

~ UDGE LOWELL something
I'll abolished "a
election
ofegonan surprised the that IA
the which, it may be supposed
fleet local opinion
We the Judge thoroughly Ia
tprogfessl,e for mind primaries
Is from
We have however, upbaid. only
The direct primary" Pendlcon Tribune cpubcan)
endurance contest in the political
There growing dissatisfaction working Of d.
rect primary particularly the financing side
Mnnsle pertinent
question why II should be hold
The a system" tho
Cottage Grove ,repuhicant.
line with what the sentinel has said BEFORE
The primary election has the and
the RESULT asks the Condor Times uepuboan). why
ecclon2'
The bantlng" sas the Capital
journal independent democrat III
old convention methods
The convention has gone the direct primary apparently
What
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12
My Dog

The curaie thinks sou have no soul.
know that he has none But you,
Dear MEND. whose solemn self-control
In our four-square familiar pew.
Was pattern To my youih-whose bark
called me In summer dawns to
Nave you gone down into the dark
Where none Is weloome-none mas
love-
! viii not think hose good brown ewes
Have spent their life Of truth 80
sOOr:
But in some canine paradise
Your wrath. l know, rebukes the
moon.
And quarters every vale and hill
Seeking It's master. As for
me
This prayer at least the gods fulfill,
That when ] pass the flood and see
Old charon by the Stygian coast
Take toll Of all the shades who land.
Your little. faithful. barking ghost
May leap to lick my phantom hand.
st John Lucas.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12
Hits from Sharp Wits

Money makes the mare go. but al
the races IT'S the other way about
Luck II that which enables our
neighhnrs 20 surpass ourselves.
There are 7 500 intoxicants
The parasul covers "a multitude Of
beach flirtations.
Grape-fed fox was an old Roman
dclicacy.
This Is the season when the house
keeper begins to wonder how much
100 pounds pf ice weighs Nashville
Banner.
Do not wait for a flashllght before
doing something OF getting somewhere
In which to show up as result of
the flashlight--Milw Sentinel
No man has a right to do as he
pleases unless he pleases TO do right
Knoxville journal and Tribune.
About the only originality some
men show Is when they make fool
Of themselves.
A man with high aim is never
looking for an easy mark
The more anxious a man is to argue.
the more advisable 1t is not to argue
with him.--Alhany Journal.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12
FALSE HANDS MAKE SHOWING.

If one gets tired of listening to sur
geons tell (mostly in French and Ger
mani how to cut off leg or an arm
properly at the first session of the
/ fourth congress of the international
Surgical association one could seek
amusement in the surgical instrument
exhibit sort of sldeshow in the next
room
There one could watch a young man
carve pieces out Of human skull with
miniature buzz-saw. or look at pneu-
monia bugs through a microscope. or
ask the lungmotor man to attach
J lungmotor to ones face. This last was
helpful. because for the time being 1t
saved one the trouble of breathing.
The machine did all Of the work.
But before the surgeons began their
talk. the artificial arm men gave an
exhibit. by invitation. on the platform
in the congress hall on the eighth
floor of the Astor. AS these persons
three of them-Wore their meehani-
cal arms in all languages, they were
easily understood by everybody
And everybody present, including
the great surgeons of the world,
clapped their hands and exclaimed in
surprise when T c. Gates of Kansas
lily, whose arms were dHpuldttu Juse
below the elbow couple of years ago,
picked up pen, dipped ii in ink and
dashed off his name just as if he had
regular hands instead of fiber ones
After that, armless Mr.. Gates
showed how he goes after beefsteak
and potatoes with knife and fork
how he puts on his collar, how he
buttons his shoes-in fact, how he
dresses himself every day. Not only
that but he folded papers. picked up
papers lying flat on the table patted
his hair into place and shook hands
with those Of the surgeons who asked
him questions
After all this Mr.. Gates modestiy
admitted that he can feel the engfaf-
ing on a calling card--so sensitive are
the stumps Of his arms 10 which the
false arms are attached
But, although Mr.. Gates was the
lion. the other two men. one of them
the inventor of the device. both with
one artificial arm apiece, picked dimes
and toothpicks from the floor with
their tailor-made fingers. and opened
smut and swung suitcases with their
tailor made hands
Prof. A. Depage of Brussels. presl-
dent of the congress, led the applause
n which all the surgeons joined, as
he armless ones did their two-afm
stunts.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12
rnr ANuIucAN ATTITUDE.

Walter Hines Page. American am
haasador 20 the court II a. James
fcllcliously remarked the other day
IN the COURSE Of an address on Amer
team Ideals and Methods" that the
iuslslcnt question in this country was,
"What shall our children bc?r not
''What wsro our forefathersg" This
L.. he pointed ont. the dominant hope
fulnoss u American life.
~ converse explains, too. the DOM
lnsnt despair ~ too many old coun-
tries. the oldest Of which, china. wor-
ships ancestors and sells children into
slavery
Napoleon said u am my own an
cestor That is the prevailing Amer
lean sentiment Tho average Amefi-
can max have decent set OF fore
bears. but he attention il not set
upon them. though he may be- Justly
proud q them. Also he may have
descended from pirates or thieves or
ne'cr-da.uolls generally. and make
sncccss Of lie aud attain distinction
~ spite II them. he ls forward
booking. not backward looking
man. What his grandchildren may he
concerns him much more than what
his grandparents were. lie has no
power over what his parents or
grandparents we're but for his chill
drcn ana grandchildren he has dis.
flncl responsibility
in other words. the American IN
interested 10 what IS happening, what
y going r. happen aud hla part in
theso happenings rather than in
what has happened. lie lives In To-
day and tomorrow. rather than in
yesterday.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12

on The Nlrpur tablets In Philadelphia.
There were found lessons Ia gcogra.
phy arithmetic, and 10 on. but not
word about sex hygiene. mental hy-
rirue " child Psychology. IL is q
wonder how the ancients pulled
through without them. but they did.
Had they failed utterly we would not
be here 10 snecr At their ignorance.
some way. somehow, the race has
done fairly well when II had none Of
tho advantages Of sex hygiene and
child Psychology. when psychopathic
laboratories were unknown. somehow
the parents of Moses and David, Of
Plato and Pcriclcs. ~ Bacon ana
Newton. Of Shakespeare and Goethe.
Of Washington and Franklin ana JET
ferson and Lincoln. 81 Gladstone and
Woodrow Wilson. did very well with
them.
Hut h0w much greater these men
would have been II their mothers and
teachers had only known about sex
hygiene aud psyohopathh labora-
ofiesi They might have been too
.feat Possibly they might have had
educated out Of them.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12

/ At midday he il. so to speak. over
tapped by time He has got a whole
round Of his course behind the hasten
Ing clock. Then he begins 10 hustle
In good earnest. but the Americans.
his fellow.competitors In the race. do
not hustle. They. too. have their en-
gagements but they are quite cheer
fully late for them. They are in no
way fused towards the end Of the
day. as the stranger Is. They are sus-
tanned By the conviction that they
have been living all the time at high
pressure, and are sure that they are
never late for anything. This is part
81 the American philosophy Of life
According 10 the clock they are late
continuously and regularly late for
Everything. but tho American realizes
as the Englishman does not, that man
/ is the superior 81 the clock What af-
ter All. il a clock but a machine? What
rs the sun itself but llfeless natter
Man. as a living soul. ought TO be and
In America " the superior OF any ma
chine No self-respecting man would
allow his typewriter 10 decide what
letters he will write or let himself be
dictated 10 by his piano as 10 what
tunes he will play. A clock il no more
than typewriter. has hardly as much
soul as piano. Why should IL decide
how long a man should spend az his
lunch The American-and this Is "A
proof of the greatness OF the nation
has asserted himself against the clock
has mastered the vile thing. and now
goes through the world a free man.
unhustIed by the great impostor. time.
Why the Irish Get On In New York.
II Is something to have grasped this
philosophy, and my understanding of
Il goes FAR to console me for the loss
Of my old illusion. am also comfortcd
BY finding In the American contempt
for time an answer to question
which for many years troubled me.
Why do we lrlah get on so very well
In New York. and comparatively
speaking. so badly in London
We govern New York We have
never done NOR than worry England.
The answer is now plain TO me In
America We have found nation /
which takes q view OF time similar To
our own. The Belfast man cannot be /
regarded as Irish In this matter. Like /
the Englishman. he bows down and /
worships the idol which astronomers 1
have set up.
| suppose 1t is the astronomers who 1
are responsible for the fetish The
rest Of the Irish people are wiser. They |
are as wise as the Americans We
know as they do. that the world goes .
on just the same II every meeting. ev-
cry church service. every play starts
late that II makes no difference in /
the end whether you gobble your
meals a. quickly as the dishes are laid |
before you by perspiring walters OF
spend pleasant hours over them: that
no man Is any poorer at the end of
year by regarding his office as a club
In which he Is always ready TO enter
tain his friends with easy courtesy.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12
LENi;NINc ouH MisfoHruNEs.

The National Education association
meeting IN So Paul. closed Frida,
evening. IN many respects IT was IN,
Rrmlcst body Of educators ever as.
asmbicd ia the world, Tho prc,alenl
tome Was one Of sanity but the fad.
aials were there making their faddS
noises. pr. Francis. superintendent Of
ihe iloa Angeles eli, schoois. was moi
The only educator there whose repu.
tailpn suffered because Of foulist
Nards. lie was thu most prominent
81 the faddiais aud the most yoelfer.
oas.
i'ut az conference Of child psy
ehology specialists ii was decided
mat me children af today are on the
tabogsan and headed for premature
perdiilna. one Of the specialists d.
earcd. eWo must break up oar
entequated school system 70 save sai
children ffam destruction Another
one 81 the specialists, Mlss Mary n
Campbell associate psychologist ct
Tho pssehapathic laboratory Of the
Chicago municipal court said we
have just got 60 start an over again
~ The study ot ear children
This Young woman may he entire
y rsht. The specialists may have
grounds ior their fears that the chill
eren q to-day are going 70 the bow
VOWS X may ho That me human faee
never has understood how 10 bring %
rs children imt the children have
been BROUGHT up. or, like Topaz. they
just growd d. ANY way from far back
of the dawn OF history children have
been born into the world and have
somehow reached manhood and wo-
manhood, themselves to brlng more
children INTO the world.
Possibly We hive % thank kindly
nature faf me net mat the children
Of each succeeding generation have
been little stronger mentally and
physicaliS ga the average, ana llt.
lie better spiritually than were the
children q the preceding generation.
This pfeeess 81 benevolent evolution
is going on today just as il was TEN
thousand years ago, notwithstanding
The gloomy outlook Of our child spe-
elallats
Il was CARLYLE. il We mistake not
who said ae are al omnihuscs IN
which our grandfathefs ride. They
have been riding "a long while, 80 LONG
indeed. that We doubt II the young
lady can unseat them in her pNeho-
rathic laboratory
The other day the oldest school
books ia the world were deciphered
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12
Canon Hdnndy Finds in America
Spacious Leisure Instead of Hustle

ham in London Mail.)
have said To myself. is human energ,
working at high pressure. These men
have not moment to lose They are
hustling, aud II Is delightful to watch
them. Some day | shall go to Now
| York and stroll along Broadway al
noon. There l shall see hustliBg com
pared with which all | have seen be-
fore will seem like dignified calm
City of Spacious Leisure.
! went TO New York and found II a
city of spacious leisure.
ally first experience OF this strange
fact was in restaurant. ! ordered a
| lunch. a modest little luneh-some
fried chicken, an ice, and a cup OF
coffee. II took ten minutes TO get
the chicken. seven more minutes in
tervened between the removal OF its
bones and the coming of the ice Then
| had six minutes in which to digest
the ice before ] got the coffee. This
Is the ordinary procedure in American
hotels and restaurants. The Ameri-
cans themselves like it, They smoke
cigarettes after ordering their meals,
and "A cigarette or two between each
course. only people in love with
leisure would eat in such fashion
In England. and in Belfast. if you
SO into mans office to transact bus
mess you transact it and then GO
Something very unpleasant would
happen to you If you stayed. In Amer.
lea you transact your business and
then your host shows you around his
premises. takes YOU somewhere 10
lunch, exhibits the most interesting
things in his neighhorhood TO You, ana
then presses you To stay on with him
and explain thoroughly the Irish aues-
ton. with special reference to Ulster
and home rule. This is partly due to
the fact that the Americans are a
much more hospitahle and social peo-
pie than the English: but it is also
due to the Americans contempt for
tune. He realizes, as the Englishman
never does, that the clock and even
the sun are made for man, not man
for them.
\ strangers Day In New York.
The only person who is ever hustled
IN New York is the stranger who has
not yet adapted himself to American
ways He makes. let US say, ten en-
Easements for a day He gets up in
the morning convinced that he can
GET through the whole ten easily.
Three OF them are meals which he
proposes to eat. Five more are in.
terviews with people Of importance.
The other two are what are called in
America automobile rides" offered by
Aind mlllionaires who wish to show
Off the beauties of the city.
The FIRST shock is breakfast. II
lasts over into the time appointed for
the Iirst interview. He is late for |
that but the other man is later stlll. |
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12
The StOryteliers


Former Governor Folk. chief coun-
sei OF the Interstate Commerce COM
mission. said Of a certain railroad in
vestigation:
The climax was disappointing -
disappointing from every righteous
viewpoint II suggests a story of my
native Brownsville.
"A resident was showing a holiday
visitor over Brownsville in his car on
Independence day.
Do YOU see that fat, red faced
mani he said. 4 mean that man
carrying the flag in the procession.
Well. fifteen years ago he was a youth
OF rarest promise. a college graduate.
prosperous In business and with a
power of application which promised
10 land him among our greatest plu-
tocrats.
lie had some money; he invested
II In business, and his business pros
pered, He married lovely girl. She
bore him three beautiful children
And then, In an evil hour
"The narrator sighed heavily.
In an evil hour yielding to the
tempter, he began to drink beer. He
drank light beer. dark beer. even book
beer. lie drank regularly. and he en-
couraged others to drink. That was
fifteen years ago and he was then on
the high road to wealth. Today what
Is he2'
The visitor. as he regarded the fat,
warm man trudeing along under the
enormous flag, shook his head and
said.
To-day he is beggar and sot.
ehg'
No. said the resident. He Is
brewer. That's his brew
cry up there-that grey granite castle
thing up on the hill.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12
RISING FROM THE BOTTOM.

OF the 10 ranking Officers of the
Pennsylvania railroad system. 1853
Including the president) started at
the bottom, sweeping out cars, carry
ing water for laborers. working on the
right of way and other like jobs of the
very commonest kind. 1t is perfectly
certain that other men are now trav-
cling the same road TO success, but
please note that 142 of the ITO have
been in the service over twenty years.
one essential to success in any bust
ness is to remain in it,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12
FAILURE on THE DIRECT
PRIMARY.

One state after another. heartily
apprpviue II the direct primary il
principle. tires Of Il in practice an,
looks about for simpler and more
workable substitute. The states tha
tried il earliest and in It's most cx.
trcme form are the first to weary
Of it.
Oregon, which has gone farthest II
nomination and legislation By The
people In nearly continuous elections
II tired Vt intermlnable voting. The
plan there now Is to substitute fol
all this, one election upon nomina.
lions by petitions in the hope that the
preferential voting for choices viii
somehow restore majority rule.
In Norih Dakota there Is dlssntis.
faction after ton years of direct pri-
mary. bat the public knows better
what il doesn't want than what it
would substitute for the present nn-
satisfactory method The objection
there IS to multiplicity Of elections TO
expense 10 candidates. to disturbance
Of business, to long tickets aud short
terms Of office
In South Dakota where for nearly
ten years the direct primary has pre-
vailed in ITS most radical form. there
is It general protest from over the
state and desire TO return to the
old system Of county aud state con-
vcntions as more expressive Of the
win Of the majority
The demand for the direct primary
came into vogue as protest against
minority nominations foisted upon
the people through packed delega-
tons to conventions Hut IL has been
demonstrated that only small nil
rorlty OF the voters can be induced to
vote az primaries and that only rich
men, OF men with rich friends can
stand the expense Of making two
campaigns-one in the party for the
nomination and the other for election
ton party Furthermore, the person
mel Of The candidates nominated and
elected TO office has been lowered
rather than improved.
The presidential campaign in 1912
gave a body blow to the primary sys-
tenn. Il showed that voters would not
go to the polls After the terrific
fight made in Ohio between Taft ana
Roosevelt for the delegates to the ma
uonal convention, less than twenty.
five per cent Of the republican voters
could be induced % record their
preference In the districts carried
by Taft, he won by less than fifteen
per cent of his party vote anyw here.
and IN only one district carried hy
Roosevelt did his deiegates get as
much as fourteen per cent Of the par
Is vote
hut the most convincing lesson
comes from the states where there.
were direct presidential preference
primaries champ Clark won over.
Wilson hy moro than two 10 one in
California Yet he had only 4a.ie5|
votes east for him. In the preslden.
tial election 2Ss t3e votes were cast
for Tho democratic nominee. In Mary
land. Clark had exactly fifty per cent
more votes at the primaries than
Wilson, vet his total vote was only
1850. The democratic vote Of the
state was ll2.ss4. Clark carried Mas
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12
The Difference.

story is told of an Irish sailor
who decided 70 walk from Newport to
Cardiff lie met cart driver and
asked:
How far is it from Newport to
Cardiff
Twelve miles, mister" was the re-
ply.
Thankee, said Pat An how far
is IL from Cardiff To Newport %
Drirer-Didn't | tell you how far
ii was from Newport TO Cardiff? Do
you suppose il is any farther the
otherway back
lrishman-Sure. and l don't know.
know il is great deal farther from
New Years day TO Christmas than
from Christmas TO New Years day
Western Mail
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12
WASTING TIME IN THE SENATE.
Washington Ietter 10 InulanapOIl
News.)


| The country Is beginning to display
Ia good deal of impotence with the
senate. Letters are coming to SEN
ators daily from business men COM
planning of the delay in completing
the presidents legislative program. If
these letters reflect correctly prevail
ing sentiment. business men are not
so much interested In what is to be
done as in the time that is to be con-
sumed in the doing. Their demand
is that legislative matters be handled
definitely and promptly. so that they
can shape their own business to cor
respond
That an awakening is needed in the
senate is apparent to everybody Pub
tic sentiment rightly expressed doubt
less could compel it to mend its ways.
individual senators freely admit that
there is no excuse whatever for the
waste Of time in connection with every
important piece Of legislation, but
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12
THE BETTER THING.

Q toiIlng bands OF mOrtals. Q I'M
wearied feet, travelling We know not
whittier, Soon, soon, it seems to you.
You must come forth on some con-
spicuous hilltop, and but a little way
further against the setting sun, desers
the spires of Ell Dorado. Little do ye
know your own blessedness: for to
travel hopefully is better thing than
to arrive, and the true success is to
labor.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12
Sin and Virtue.

1.-The late Jacob Riis. sociologist
and author, viewed with dismay," said
a New York publisher. the change
that has come over the worlds NOR
ais
Mr. Ris in his scientific sociologi-
cal way imputed this change TO the
new dances and the new revelation
gowns. He remarked to me once
about H.
" The world has changed alto
gether since l emigrated from Den
mark. In the old days girls would
speak of this or that as being as ugly
as sin. But the girls of today says
as ugly as virtue.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12

4 newspaper headline says. "Geor-
fAa democrats elect a dead man.
Georgia is not alone 20 blame for
fueh Jolly Something like nvo hun
ufeu 'teHu frrrn occupy seats IN tnr
tHo houses Of the national congress.
Without naming any names. we may
mention that New Mcxico contributed
dead one or two.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12

Colonel Roosovolfs physician dag
noses his trouble a. enlargement OF
the spleen. Taft could have told them
that the colonel has been suffering
that way for three or four years.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-12

An Edinburgh cabman was driving
an American around the sights OF the
northern city. In High street he
stopped and with a wave Of his whip
announced.
That is John Knox's house"
John Knox" exclaimed the Amer
lean. who was he?'
Good heavens man" he exclaim-
ed. did you never read your bible ?"
Westminster Gazette.