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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-20
CURRY COUNTY EXPECTS
MANY NEW SETTLERS

Clovis, N. NJ Nov i9.--It is ex-
pected that next spring will see such
un exodus of people from the northern
states to Curry county as has not been
witnessed since this country was OPP
ened for homestead entry The town
is thrOnged with homeseekers daily
and scarcely a one leaves without in
vesting in Curry county farm land
Thes, people leave here with tho
nvowcd intention OF returning early
in the spring to lake mp their resi-
dcnee here.
one real estate firm few days ago
sold five quarter sections Of land tu
one man. who viii locate five OF his
children on ii IN the spring Other
men have bought anywhere from a
half section to e section, stating that
the land will bc occupied by them
selves ana children A representative
of the Arkansas Valley Town X Land
Co. which is the holding company for
the railroad land north of Clovis.
owned by the Santa l'e, stated to "a
Journal reporter that his company has
been selling their land as fast as they
could hand 1t out and that In most
cases II was the intention of the pur-
chusers to move onto their land next
spring.
The good crops here this year have
given "A great impetus TO realty trans
fcrs and farmers are being attracted
here from ail sections Of the north.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-20
SAYS SERIOUS MEASURES
HN GREECE LIKELY

Berlin Nov 10 Cby Wireless 10
Tuckcrton, n. J)-" According to ad-
vices from Constantinople to the
Frankfurter Zeitung." says the over
seas News agency. serious measures
are being considered la Athens in con-
nectlon with the existing situation It
Is declared that The British and
French are behaving at Salonlh as II
that port were their property and that
inslnuaiiona have heen made regard
ing the overthrow Of tho dynasty. IL
Is noted that % corps of gendarmes
stationed In New Greece, body
formed principally Of Cretans has
been openly agitating in favor OF for
mer Premier NeuiZelOs
"tt is pointed out that state Of
Siege can be proclaimed in an Greece
without the action OF parliament II q
sufficient emergency arises
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-20
SefbianS Are Retreating and
Fall Of Last Capital, Mon
astIr Is Now Conceded by
london Reports,
ATTITUDE OF GREECE
IS NOT UNDERSTOOD
Italy Is Steadily Pounding Aus
TRANS and ISoozo Front and
Godizia Is Under Heavy
Fire.
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London. Nov 10 GO D. ml-Fhe
position of the Serbian army and tho
attitude uf Greece toward the entente
powers are stlll the outstanding ques.
uonS az interest IN Europe Reliable
information ON both situations is So
meaRer that the public Is unable to
Judge what changes II any, have TAX
en- place.
Ii is thought possible that the Ser
hians will make stand on the histor-
ic plain of kossoyo east Of the Mon.
tenegrin frontier. where over five
hundred years ugo they lost their In
dependence to Turkey They must
either do this or retire into the noun
tains OF Montenegro or northern AL
bania. where, although they would hc
nearer help from the Adriatic II
would be difficult 10 keep them sun
Piled owing 10 the absence OF roads
The Austro-Hermans on the north
are now within thirty miles Of the
Mitrovitza- Prlstina line Of the Ser
bians, while the Bulgarians IN the
south are said 60 have passed Monas-
tir
AS 20 the position Of Greece. there
have been no new developments, al
though a more hopeful feeling pre-
wallis la Paris and London since DenyH
Coehln's visit TO King Constantine and
the Greek ministers
There have been lively artillery
engagements in Alsaee and at somc
other points In tfc wee' In the east
The Germans repert fhere is no mtaac
In the situation. ehilf peuograd
claims rnulsps ot tht 0ormnns on the
Dvina and Atry rIycrs
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-20
FRENCH BENT OFF
BULGARIAN ATTACK

Paris. Nov 10 G0;l5 p. M The
war office communication Issued to-
night says.
There is nothing 70 add to the pre-
Nious communication.
Army of the orient. Quiet pre-
walls on our front, except In the re-
gion of Strumltza, where the Buga-
Fians attacked u.s. They were repulsed
after having sustained serious losses
The communication Of the Belgian
war office says
There has been a sllEht lombard.
ment of our advanced posts and OF
the peryysc region our artillery re-
Piled 20 the German batteries and
brought about the dispersal Of the en-
envy workers
'At several poiut8 before our fronts
during the two previous nights our
aNiators have shellod the German en-
campments az Essen south OF Dix
nude.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-20
Lewis Has Miraculous Escape.

Sanin Fe Nov I9.-1h0mas LOWS,
who lives with Mr and Mrs G. e..
Mardorf bad miraculous escape
from death yesterday nj Santa cruz.
He was riding on top Of load of ap-
pies one and half tons in all, when
he fol under the wagon ana il passed.
over him. Those who saw the acci-
dent snrlckcd in horror ana rushed
10 pick up the lad, believing him ia
tally injured. He jumped up laugh
ing His only injury was u sprained
ankle, although the heavy load had
passed over him.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-20
Former Cashier Gets Maxi
mum in Penitentiay but Is
Spared Fine of Two Thou
sand Dollars,
L0RlMER NEXT TO BE
BROUGHT TO TRIAL
f oudeon Persons Under I0dict-
ment as Result of Failure
of String of Banks in Chi
cago and Suburbs,


Morris ill. Nov ~ Charles 49,
Nunday vice president or the Ia
Sa'lc street Trust & Savings bank of
/ Chicago Of which William LorImer
was president tonight was found
guilty of oonspiring to wreck the insti-
tuition and his punishment was fixed
boy a Jury az five years imprisonment
The jury took Ave ballots They
disagreed ou the penalty nine stand-
ing at first for the maximum puuish-
ment which would have been five
years Imprisonment and % fine of two
thousand dollars Munday ana his
son J. G. Munday. were in the court
room Munday's wife, his two daugh.
tors and one son the Rev Father Jo-
soph Munday, We're not IN court.
String OF hanks Fall.
The La Sale street BANK was or
ganiaed by Munday and, according
10 charges of the states attorney In
the present trial. the word senator
was capitalized as one OF the banks
assets, When the bank failed In june.
1874, there followed the collapse Of
nine other banks and trust companies
of the so-called 'Lorlmer- Munday'
string.
Fourteen persons we're indicted. Lo-
rimer ana Munday being the chief of
them The indictments charged them
with lootlnR the institution of almost
$2,h00. 000 and with violation Of prac-
tic1lly every banking law Of the state
Munday's Trial First.
The state elected to try Munday
It tf..Ht UNs Ia
associations with MI Lorlmcr pre-
eludod q fair trial IN Chicago, a
change of venue 10 this city was
granted
II was charged that assets of the Ia
Sallc street concern we're stolen to orr
ganiZ, the other banks in the chain.
that checks had been 'kitcd" and that
the parent bank had been ins0lyent
for some time prior to the collapse
Rise Spectacular.
Munday's rise was spectacular He
went rapidly from manager of small
telegraph office to part ownership IN
eleven banks and a dozen large bust
ness concerns lie was born and
raised in Litchneld III, where his
father was Justice of the peace.
Maclay lioync, states attorney Of
Cook county. said the verdict was sat
istactory Lorimer and Henry w
Huttig. Of Mugcatine, Ia, will 40 TO
trial after the first OF next year. Hoyne
said.
Motion for a new trial will be heard
tomorrow morning
Jury Fixes Penalty
~ viii fight this case 10 the last
ditch, was the only comment thnl
Mmday would make after lhg iur5 D..
turned
The jury fixed the penalty The
verdict Was.
I'VE. the jury. find the defendant F
Charles b. Munday guilty n the form
ana manner charged in the indictment
md fix the penalty at five years Inn
prlsonment in the state penitrntiaW.'
The jury delIbcratcd Sis hours ana
twenty-five minutes, after a trial of +
eight weeks duration
Munday seemed to take the verdict
# the jury calmly AS he left the
COURTROOM q messenger handed him
elogram iuformul him that his
lome IN Chicago had been robbed
What ncNt?" the former banker
aid as he walked away
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-20
D0minatcd by Austrin.

The Austro-l{umanian alliance has
dominated l{umanias policy said M
Jonescue except two years ago when
Rumania sided with Serbia against
Bulgaria which was upheld by Aus
tria II was one of the causes of I'M
citing Austria TO folly In 1914 A
great mistake OF Rumanian politicians
has been To persist In this alliance
when ii has lost It's reason for exist
pnrp
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-20

So far as Germany and Austria are
concerned. officials regarded the
forthcoming protest as more or less
acadamic in view Of the fact thut their
commerce raiders and cruisers no
longer are on the high seas ana their
seizures of contfaband are limited 10
the work Of submarines. Ia reialia-
tion for the issuance Of the British
blockade orders in council, however
Germany has promulgated a list of
contraband that Includes practically
All American products. consequently
the state department has decided that
formal protest ia necessary to record
the assertion Of It's rights by The Unit
ed States.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-20
NnrnI Itcadlne ClrcIe.

Superintendent OF Public lnstruc-
tion Avian ~ white has his heart set
upon the extension OF the national
rural reading circle TO New Mexico.
New Mexico has had teachers read
ing circle for years. which rs doing
fine work. IS very popular and there Isl
a sentiment that the national circle
Continued on Page fwU.)
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-20
Alliance big Mistake.

After the conclusion of the triple
entente 10 wls evident that the euui-
lihrium forces had been re-Cstahlished
The unequal alliance became then "a
big mistake. II is tu this fatal ALI
ance lhN we owe big number Of dir
icrenccs today, so many EumaniAn OF
tcers thanks 10 it have studied n
Germany aud Austria without amy
bcuefit to our army Moreover thanks
to il. we have no artillery. infantry.
mountain artillery nor Notifications
I'm the Capathians ana no gun and
factories
Hopeless II TcutOns Win.
~ don't want to disguise the unfor-
tunatc inactivity of my country q
propose unlv To reveal "a small part of
our history which explains the great
work already accomplished since Au-
gust, 1914 If Austria, thirty years
ago, was able to force ON us an ALI
ance signifying not only renuncia-
ton of all the future but scryitude i'm
the present. what would be our stua-
Iion tomorrow ms an Austria VictOri-
ous ana In which the Magyars would
be an powerful
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-20

no discuss text books after text
books are adopted for five years
seems futile But II Is one of the live
topics on today's program AS rule,
teachers are satisfied with the text
books adopted bul there win Dee some
criticisms, nevertheless. especially Of
the readers II will be- reported that
Ina some schools the supplementary
readers are actually crowdng out Tho
rspul4t tavf ho.tr9
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04

counts" said Mrs Pumpkins, laconically That gray hair on your head isn't go- ing to make MT. litter stop holding your hand, because he'll be getting gray hairs himself pretty soon if he hasn't already got 'em, but that foolish silly nonsense that's emerging from the inside of your head will stop him from being anN Naffec- tionate husband if you don't cut 1t out About the incest trip that you'll ever take is the journey of life, but if you want to get all gray-haired and wrinkled faced because you are no longer young and do not enjoy Fourth of July firecrackers and pink lemonade! We get the kind of wrinkles that bespeak the kind of life we if you are going to fret and worry over things you can't help. you'll be dreadful old woman and your children wont love you. and when the company comes they'll be hoping you'll stay in your room so they can have a good time"
 You insult me- Mrs. litter defended.
 q only warn you" retorted Mrs. Pumpkins. Twenty years from today, this Fourth of July will be old times. Then why not get the best out of it now It will be something to build up pleasant memories on."
 I'm going to get it dyed" unused Mrs. litter.
 What are you talking about?' Mrs. Pumpkins asked.
 "I shall wear wig" Mrs Titter<an- nounced
 Don't be silly Mrs Pumpkins ad- vised. Just be natural-your own sweet self and laugh at the antics of your old fool husband and the sweetness and the youth of your angel child and remember to tuck away under your heart a big stock of common sense and a heap of under standing into your brain, and then you'll stay young and happy despite the gray hair and the yearsi"
 Anyway, haven't got that one." Mrs. litter said proudly. 'I pulled it out yes- terday."
 Let's play the Victrola," Mrs. Bump lSins suggested. You are one too many for me. I've got a new tango step to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04

May mere man enter the counsels of the learned and dare to whisper a word of friendly dissent without be- ing overwhelmed with erudition and driven from court by the scourge of indignant learning?
 Timidity, but nonetheless positively. want to say a few words about the unit" l need not stop to define it. Every high school boy and girl in Alabama is chasing it. Almost every college is demanding it, demanding IA of them. The school that can fur nish this greatly desired scolastic requirement. is the thing we are after.
 Now it requires a school with three but each and all of these teachers much be teaching high school subjects exclusively. Not even one grammar grade student Is allowed in the school by the law of units. It doesn't mat ter much who these teachers are, but no school with lesser number can be- stow the coveted prize upon the .ambi- tionus student Three dear girls, one of whom will marry before school is
 
 purse sufficient to give her a trip next summer, aided by another who may be using her professorial throne as a basis for matrimonial campai gnins- these three can bestow units-can pre- pare a boy for college, but Mark Hop kins aided by William R. Harper, could not prepare one of our boys for en- trance upon his college career. A cer- tificste from these two would be f,., l .l vt,..., only upon examination It requires three teachers to give 14 units They ought, to be and may be good teachers, of course, but the essential thing the sine qua non, is not the ability of the faculty. but, would you believe it, is it the number three
 I happen to know two of the greatest teachers for boys that were ever asso- ciated in a preparatory school. but they could not prepare for college until they employed third teacher who not only added an unnecessary expense to the school but weak ened the work of the other two and lowered the schol- arship of the pupils It had to be done Scholarship was a good thing, but units a necessary thing. and 1t takes three teachers to give them.
 unit cannot be acquired in less than nine months. That an eager stu dent to whom time is more precious than gold could accomplish the neces- sary work for college entrance in a much shorter time counts for nothing He must give the nine months. I know of a class who practically mastered ii by April l, that was required by the law of units to jump up and down ir the same place for all of April anc May, forsooth, they could not get theil | unit without 1t. Two precious months l orth more than money thrown to tho I winds! The unit system does not ask I "how much do you know? but "how 1 long did it take you to learn what yo, are supposed to know?' We are con cerncd about brains. of course, bu l time is the main thing.
 1 You cannot get your unit with recitation periods of less than 45 minutes each. I counts for nothing that a small class cal I do more in 90 minutes than crowded class can do in O. The student in thu small class would stand a much bette | chance to be really educated than his fel low in the crowded room, but the latte
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04

walk the floor. I could not lie down or rit still sometimes for day and night tt time. I was nervous, and had very little appetite, no ambition, melancholy, and often felt as though I had not a friend in the world. After I had tried most every female remedy without suc- cess, my mother-in-law advised me to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I did so and gained in strength every day. have now no trou- ble ip any way and highly praise your medicine. It advertises itself. Mrs. s. T. HURLEY, Eldon, Missouri.
 Remember, the remedy which did this was Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. For sale everywhere.
 It has helped thousands of women who have been troubled with displace- ments, inflammation, ulceration, tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing down feeling, indigestion, nnd nervous prostration, after all other neans have failed. Why don't you try H7 Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.,, lgnn, Mass.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04

find out that life Is bounding full and rich with great griefs at which to laugh.'
 T don't care,' cried Mrs litter. q don't want to be old. If 1 should get a wrinkle I am going somewhere and get a new face. I want to be young enough to get up early tomorrow on the Glorious Fourth and dress myself in a muslin frocl and picture hat and enjoy all the Fourth of July pleasures from the time the sun rises until it goes down in the afternoon and later''
 "1 don't say that I am going out tc welcome old age with streamers of bunt. ing and brass band" Mrs. Pumpkins observed, but I do say that I am not going to grumble and growl because can't do all the things tomorrow that my 12-year-old Susie can do"
 'T went to a moving picture show the other night" Mrs. litter whimpered "and while everybody was laughing al Charlie Chaplin I was bored to death Was that old age, creeping over me? Say not so+ Perhaps I excused it by realiz- ing that I was the only person alive who had never seen Charlie Chaplin Doh you thlhk ne ls an acquired laste' perhaps like olives and caviar? Do you think 1t was that? Please say you do. ''
 But you can see Arms and the Man, or John Gabriel Borkmann, and get 1C times as much pleasure out of them as anybody I know Mrs. Pumpkins sug- gested. Be grateful for that and don't whine''
 But I want to whine" Mrs litter said foolishly.
 Then do so, if you enjoy your sor- row so much,' Mrs. Pumpkins &C., quiesced. T am truly glad I feel diff ferently about such things. I am glad that I don't have to enjoy the pleasures I used to enjoy. I can remember when I'd walk blocks to see parade pass by,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04
L<Trs a terrible and frightening mo-

<<TFs terrible and frightening mo-
 ment in woman's life, observed
 - Mrs. litter, .'when she realizes that Fourth of July pleasures no longer appeal to her.. Drink ing pink lemonade at an all day picnic, eating hard boiled eggs. seeing the kid dies pop firecrackers, and watching the antics that used to appeal to you--oh dearl oh dear.
 "A pleasant moment. you mean" said Mrs Pumpkins as she slipped claret frappe and famed her buxom self with the largest of palmetto fans. We out grow our baby pranks and outlive our baby sports just as we outgrow our baby shoes and our baby clothes. It's after you've ruined your digestion by eating ham sandwiches at picnics and all the odd truck and stuff at Fourth of July barbecues and things that you come to realize how wholesome and good is plain. old vegetable soup and corned beef and cabbage. We have to be foolish in 'rder to know what good fun it is to be sen- sible''
 T found a gray hair yesterday" Mrs litter confided blushingly," and 1 simply cannot stay dressed up all day on the Fourth in order to celebrate signing Of the Decla ration of Independence Does that spell old age? Your advice, please
 Therefore hence and erstwhile it is time" Mrs. Pumpkins announced that you begin to do tatting and engage a grandma chair in which to sit beside the fireplace. I am disappointed in you. my dear friend It is only when old Father Time gets busy pushing us on toward the century mark that we really learn how to be happy. At that time we have clearing out of pastimes. We keep what we want and discard what is worthless. remember so well the day l started to grow up. It was when l discovered that the ladies, in the circus were not beautiful and that their costumes were soiled'
 "That was a very sad day for you, I'm sure" Mrs. litter interpolated.
 Mature is wise in all matters" Mrs. Pumpkins reflected, quickly. When we are children without care, without 'e responsibilities and without the high pres sure of making our own way in the world. we can afford to have dreams and iliu- sions. These we must shed when we grow our wisdom teeth and make room for others. Furthermore. there are real live Joys a thousand times sweeter and they teach us something. There is the matter of being in love, for instance Do you think for a minute that the first lovers exclamation of My darling, I love you IS half so dear half so wonderful as a plain old husbands Hello, there, old lady.' Never, Not in thousand year s . In our younger days every trhing exper- fence is tragic. We must grow older to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-04
Forensic Oratory
From the Washington Sta


 Billy Sunday, at the luncheon given oy Judge Gary in his honor in New York said:
 "Old fashioned preaching Is like old fashioned forensic oratory-you know what old Si Hoskins said of that
 We don't have no sech forensic oratory as we useter." Si. Lawyers don't crate nowadays; they only jest talk.
 "sTal1e old Bill K. Simmons of Eau Claire. If Bill was defendin' a 1owly chicken thief he'd speak with the tongue of angels. I'll never forget the peroration of his philippic in the Clay Bull case about the poisoned cat. It run like this here:'
 "The little, thin old man rose, reared back in defiant attitude and shouted in the cracked treble of age
 'Restin' upon the couch of repub- 'ican liberty as I do, covered with tho blanket of constitutional panoly as I aili, and protected by the aegis Of American equality as I feel myself to be, I despise the buzzin' of the perfes- sional inseck who has just sot down. ard defy his attempt to penetrate with his puny sting the interstices of me impervious coverin'p"