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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-03-18
CuervO

Reek Sand Hotel, Ball y Kelly. Prop.
IGe!yo. y. NJ.
J. =. Hardin, u. 8. Com, Livery stable
and Feed Yard. Cuervo. N. NJ.
Or. A. A. Sanford, Physician and Sur
geon, Cueryo. n. NJ.
S. p. Morrison. General Merchandise
Oklahoma Hotel. Cueryo, N. NJ.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-03-18

Once In a while a woman wears a
hat that actually looks like one.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-03-18

In Alaska women have full suffrage
without opposition.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-03-18
Nara Visa

Farmers and Merchants Trust g. Saw.
ines eank, Capital Stock $4,000. o.
o. Gragg, Cashier, Nara Visa, n. NJ.
The First National Bank, Capital
Stock S25, 10000, A. p. Scissor. Cash.
Ter, Nara Visa, New Mexico.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-03-18
Santa Rosa

Santa Rosa Drug Store, Jas. p. Van
Horn, VI. d., Propr. Santa Rosa. n
VI.
Santa Rosa Mercantile Co.. General
Merchandise. Santa Rosa, y. NJ.
r. q. Ellison, General Merchandise
Santa Rosa, y. VI.
Midland Hotel, VI. G. Nuckles. Prop.
Santa Rosa, y. NJ
Jones g. Gleason, Pool Hall and Sa
loon, santa Rosa, y. NJ.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-03-18

q Read the Situation
Wanted columns,
Mr.. Business Man.
qThis column is the
ladder Of the discon-
tented ones for discon-
tent nine times in ten
spells ambition.
q Just the young man
your business needs may
be appealing to you
today.
Take a chance on the
"ambitious employed"
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-03-18
San Jon

San Jon Drug Store and Hotel, San
Jon. New Mexico.
c. =. Msrden, General Merchandise
San Jon. New Mexico.
A. r. Hurt. General Blacksmith and
Horse Sheer. San Jon, n. NJ.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-03-18
Endee

Endee Variety Drug Store, Dever &
Dever. Props, Endee, N. NJ.
!. ~. H~edseeoek. General Merchandise
Endee. y. VI.
J W Rogers. General Merchandise
EaGse, y. NJ.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-21
Race Suicide for Mosquitoes

THE fly is bred in filth. 1t can be elm
i mated by eliminating the stun it breeds
in. Absence of flies means the presence Of
cleanliness Mosquitoes, however, breed in
still or stagnant water, in puddles in uneven
cutters, in pools in the back yard, in swamps
and small ponds. 1t is not so easy to swat
the mosquito as the fly, but 1t is easy to
Illustrate the reproductive plans of the mos
quitoes. Every one knows that a little oil
spread on the surface of the breeding places
will suffocate the larvae and clear the neigh
borhood of the pests.
The recent swarms OF mosquitoes that
have been annoying the city are evidence OF
neglect of duty on the part of the authori-
ties, whose duty 1t is to appropriate money
for buying and spreading the oil or for
draining the ponds and filling the depres-
sions where water gathers. The present
equipment of the division of sanitation, con-
sisting Of seven barrels of oil and a few oil
cans and sprayers, is woefully inadequate
When the city is governed as 1t should be
thn work of mosquito prevention in summer
will be carried on as regularly as the work
of snow removal in winter Then the citi-
zens who have to stay in town can sit on
their front porches or picnic in their back
yards with comfort Although the mosqui-
toes do not believe in race suicide they
should be assisted in bringing 1t about, in
this neighborhood, anyway.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-21
THE FOLKLORE OF "COUNTING OUT"
Chdrens Passed Down From Generation to
Generation With Accompanying Rhymes for Use in Deter
mining Who Is "It"-A Dispute Among Grown-ups
BY WALTER PRICHARD EATON

not earlier than the first quarter OF the 18th
century. Who made up these rhymes and
why certain ones get perpetuated is some
thing of a mystery
Another phase of childhood folk lore is
found in the catches we were all so fond of
when young. Who invents them? Who has
ever seen a new one In the making? Who
was the author of the most famous perhaps,
Of all? You will remember It, of course. 1t
was most popular at just about the age
when you were learning to count. You said
to another boy or girl IT saw a dead horse
on Chelsea Beach 1 one it." Il suppose in
Philadelphia the horse was seen at some
local point)
The other boy was supposed to reply, IT
two it."
Then you said, 1T three it," and so on, till
the other fellow affirmed that he "eight It."
and you screamed with derisive mrth, "Oh,
no, Jimmy ate dead horse!"
Then there was the "Just like me" dis-
logue. which ultimately caused the unstIs.
pecting victim to affirm that he resemblec
a monkey Another we all recall went as
follows:
Adam and Eve and Pinchme all went out
to swim. Adam and Eve were drowned.
Who was saved?
Nobody was likely to forget that one, after
1t had once been played on him.
Passing Notes in School
Clifton Johnson has somewhere recorded
the actual birth of piece of childhood
Jingle which shows, probably, how a good
many others have originated. He says that
In Enfield, Conn, a boy in school wrote
something on a piece Of paper and passed it
around. The teacher the other pupils
laughing. got hold of the paper and read
the following couplet about herself:
Three little mice ran up the stairs
To hear Miss Blodgett say her prayers
This teacher evidently had real apprecia-
tion of literature, for instead of whipping
the boy she gave him five minutes to write
| two more lines telling what happened to the
mice or to Miss Blodgett, as the case might
be. Nothing daunted, the boy turned out
this sequel:
When Miss Blodgett said Amen"
u The three little mice ran down again
used to quote that poem in my boyhood
with the name of my teacher substituted
and 1t never occurred to me that the verses
wero not as old as the very hills They
seemed always to have been handed down
from generation to generation That is the
charm of folk lore. whether adult or childish
Its origins are unknown. and 1t is per-
petpated by wireless.
very good illustration today is the
spread of the latest Ford car story. We
really have in America genuine folk litera-
ture Of the Ford car They say IL is going
to be collected, which IL a pity All folk
literature should remain oral for at least
two generations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-21
"Au RevOir but Not Good-by"

YESTERDAY dawned cold and Jitless on
i the Philadelphia streets. No more was
heard the merry and menacing emphasis OF
the jitney's little horn, no more the friendly
sign was seen. BY noon three venturesome
drivers were arrested and an incipient insur-
rection was checked. The jitney seems to
be no more.
Yet 1t will be hard to persuade Philadel-
phians that they are to be deprived, through
a legal technicality, of a service which they
really want, and which provided them with
a pleasure as unexpected as it was inexpen-
sive To those who lived within the jitney
radius the change from crowded elevated
trains and leisurely street cars was a great
blessing. Many who lived far from the main
jitney lines took a combination jitney and
street car ride to their homes after their
days work. Following the first thrush of
jitneys, the extension of hired car service, at
reasonable rates or less, supplied a method
of recreation comparable only to taking a
fiacre in Paris. In a hundred ways the jt-
ney has served the city.
Now the city is serving the jitney rather
scurvily, 1t will seem to the unbiased Regu-
lation, IL 1t is for the safety of pedestrians
and patrons. is desirable for the jtney. But
regulation which is prohibitve is a little
tainted with the unsanctifed odor OF con-
spiracy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-21
Ship From PHILADELPHIA

(u.ARENcE w. BARRON conducted a
~ nationwide advertising campaign for
the New Haven Railroad based on the catch
line ''sail from Boston," and conducted it so
successfully that when he planned 10 20 to
Europe his family, convinced by the argu-
ments In his advertisements. insisted that
he should take the ship at Boston instead
OF going 10 New York for Il.
Director Meigs. OF the Department OF
Wharves, Docks and Ferries. is persuaded
that the same sort OF an advertising cam
paien should be conducted for the beneft OF
this port. and that the catch line should be
ship from Philadelphia"
II Il were managed In the right way the
business men in this part OF the country
would soon hnd Il impossible 70 resist the
pressure Of the suggestion and the business
Of the port would boom. There Is a large
and rich country tributary 70 Philadelphia.
This is the natural shipping port for lts fac
tories. They send hundreds Of millions Of
dollars worth Of goods 10 Europe, 70 coast
ptf's ana to the Pacific. but they do no,
take atfenfaee q the facilities near Al hano
|'e business + here The facilities fqr han'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-21
GOVERNOR HARRIS, OPPORTUNITY

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-A good many years ago a sturdy Gov
ernor of Wisconsin not possessed OF much book
larnin'" was asked what led him to take
very courageous stand on certain important
issue. He replied: IT seen my duty and done
It," That remark OF jeremiah M. Rusk anlusea
the nation as much as his act had won 10
applause. Today, Nathaniel e. Harris, Coy
ernor of Georgia, confronts a great opportunity
We do not care how badly he may outrage
the rules OF syntax, we do expect him to be
man. II he fears TO obey the solemn oath ne
took less than two months ago, then the
torches carried by the murderers of Leo Frank
will light him down in dishonor TO the latest
generation. II he shall admit by inaction that
that great Commonwealth cannot punish 90
dastardly an affront TO its honor and dignity.
he VIII DO his State a greater injury than dla
the cowardly mob What would Alexander n
Stevens, Vice President Of the Confederacy ana
a REAL Governor OF Georgia, have done?
Philadelphia, August 10. S. o. NJ
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-21

said there was a snake in that bag;' ana h
was that speech which started the use Of N.
phrase in the newspapers.
THE late DR.. Joseph Brock, conventior n,
porter for the Enquirer and Richmond corn,
spondent for several outside papers was ot,ct
to catch the suggestion. Thereafter In many of
his reports he differentiated the members by
attaching to their names, respectively, the let.
ters &C. B. M s. m and w. That 4.
to say. he designated them severally es 'carpet.
bag men (aliens), scalawags (renegade VIZ
ginians); negroes and whites or loyal VII
ginians."
The editor of the Springfield Republican rise.
to remark:
Discussions by more or less elderly people
as to the origin of the phrase carpet-bagger'
or 'carpet-bag government, in the Unltd
States, doubtless would be still more enlighten.
ing to the younger generation IL they told what
the old-time carpet bag was made for. There
very young persons who never saw a carpet
bag and who haven't the remotest idea how
was used.
Carpet bags are not manufactured nowadays
Only in the garrets of our oldest families, pos.
sibly. can they be found poked away hopelessn
into dark corners. It is now amusing to recall
them, for they must have antedated the linen
duster a necessary article of travel. To h
as educational as possible. one may say that
carpet bag was just a bag made of ordinar
carpeting which was used so years ago precisely
as a leather valise suitcase is today. II was
the simplest of receptacles, with an abnormab
wide mouth. And it's capacity for shirts col
lars, stockings underclothes and cold victuah
was enormous.
mot long before the Civil War Edwin N
Stanton saw Abraham Lincoln on a hot day
enter the lobby of a hotel in Cincinnati Th
perspiring Lincoln wore long linen dustr
and, as Stanton afterward described his b.
turesque appearance, there was big w
splotch on the back of the duster that looked
like the map of Africa. OF course, Lincoln car
ried i'll his hand carpet bag. although Stanton
did not think it worth while to add that fact
to his description. For every lawyer and po-
tcian when travelling in those days carried bis
carpet bag personal luggage
Whether the late Editor McKelway of the
Brooklyn Eagle, the first man to coin .
historic political phrase out OF carpet bag q
immaterial. 1t is likely that this. literary en-
richment of Southern politics was made almost
simultaneously by different political writers
Oflce-seeking Northerners going South to help
govern that section in the period of reconstruc-
ton were naturally called carpet-baggers by
the Southern people, because about all they
took South was easily contained in their carpet
bags. Although the original article is no Longer
to be bought and no longer figures in commerce
the phrases 'carpet-bagger' and 'carpet-bas
government will doubtless last as long as the
English language is spoken"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-21
Are There Fairies7

TNHE good souls who supervise-and enter
i tain-the kiddies in the summer play
grounds are concerned at an unusual wave Of
juvenile skepticism. Tales of faery are part
OF the daily diversion. Would you believe
It, the up-to-date youngster scouts Grimm,
Andersen and Perrault, He-sometimes she
asks to be shown" And a couple of
grieved teachers have asked the EVENING
LEDGER to bring the power Of the printed
word TO disconcert the doubters and to enable
those OF more faith to say triumphantly, st
told you sol"
So answering the eternal childish query we
asseverate that there ARE fairies. Why, it is
as heretical to doubt their being as to ques-
tion the personality of Santa Claus.
Many persons who can be believed think
they have seen the fairies. They are never
quite sure, OF course, for the fairies are so
elusive. so fragile, so fitting. That is what
makes them so mysteriOus--their faculty Of
coming TO those who are good enough to
see them. yet leaving the witnesses Just a
bit insure as TO the vision.
Sometimes in the summer night the songs
OF the fairies may be heard; sometimes in
lovely rustic spots the rings in which their
reveis have been held are visible to early
risers before the dew dries on flower and
grass
But these sights and sounds. like the Grail
In the Parsifal legend are only for the truly
good In heart and large in faith II all Of US,
and not merely dreamers and poets and chill
dren. We're eligible to glimpse them, through
our kindness, gentleness, forethought, how
much better our workaday world would be!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-21
Is Germanr seekinr More TroubIe7

| THE gravity OF the crisis precipitsted by
1.-The sinking Of the Arabic must not be un-
derestimated. The principle involved is the
same as that which was involved in the
Lusitania case. Neither the Lusitania nor
the Arabic was a warship. All the interna-
tional agreements and customs have pre-
scrlbed that when a belligerent merchant
ship is attacked the passengers and crew
should first be allowed 70 escape with their
lives. The Lusltania was sunk without
warning and the lives of more than one hun
dred Americans we're lost.
The note to Germany. demanding repara-
tion for this outrage, set forth the rights OF
neutral noncombatants and continued:
Friendship itself prompts It Cthe Amer
ican Government) TO say TO the Imperial
Government that repetition by the COM
manders of German naval vessels OF acts
In contravention Of those rights must be
regarded by the Government OF the United
States, when they AFFECT American citizens,
as deliberately unfriendly.
This was on July 21. Less than a month
later, on August 10. German submarine at
tacks the Arabic without warning, just as
the Lusitania was attacked, and sinks the
ship with loss OF life. There were rs Ameri-
cans on board The early reports are that
the lives Of two Of them have been lost. But
even II no American has been killed, the
attack upon the Arabic comes within the
Administrations definition of an act that is
deliberately unfriendly."
We must assume that when the State De-
partment has learned all the facts II will
take such action as is consistent with the
dignity of a great nation and with its duty
to protect at any cost the lives of its citi-
zens on the high seas.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-21
Harmony Not Yet in the ofIing

TT SEEMS to be about as long a way to
i harmony as the song says it Is to Tippe-
rary. David II. Lane said in Atlantic City
that they all agreed on Smith as the candi-
date to soldify the party and prove to the
nation that this is a Republican city.
Senator Ware says that they did not agree
and McNichol says that he does not believe
Lane said it, And harmony goes whistling
down the wind without even South Phila-
delphia pig hanging to its coattails.
And one cannot help thinking of the cpl
taph on the three weeks old baby when he
considers the Smith boom. 1t reads, as
every one remembers:
IL is so soon that done for,
wonder what was begun for
And the boom for Smith was not even
three weeks old
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-21
THE "CARPET-BAGGER"
Discussion Aroused as to Origin of Phrase.
Remarks on the Carpet Bag Itself.

Says the Richmond News Leader, comment-
Ing on recent article in these columns.
George w. Douglas, In the Philadelnhta
EVENING LEDGER, credits Doctor McKsiwsv
with having originated the term carpet-baR0ey,
In politics, and first applied It TO that ra avenous
horde OF Northern Republicans who descsnSsS
upon the South to prey upon her during recon-
strucuon days. Mr.. Douglas story IL that
DOCTOR Mokelway, who was noted for his on,
tent ana descriptive vocabulary, put I'm tha
term one night over telegram from Wasbinee
ton announcing that the Administration had SEM
South. and that Manton Marble, then editou 'o 30
the world. upon seeing the proof reousstsS
Aoctol MchelWay 10 write an editortaI - -
subject This Doctor McKeway did oantion,n,
tne article 'Carpet-bag Government" ana ,,ts.
oronsly denouncing the policy VS.
Mr.. Douglas story is interesting. ana -
one VIII question that the incident occ,,r,ia ~
But We are not certain about his a,,r,b...,a'
AZ any rate. our impression a that ~ eoH.
newspaper use OF the term or phrase A., 49, - ~
naung the harpies referred To WAS A. .esis,
richmond ENQUIRER. and from that nansr o.A olu on
eoopten ~ Ihe originator, however wa ois e,s
captain Parr, Gloucester County se,,,srA "as olu
member OF the black and tan Iyndass,eHa Sinesman'
sutntlonal convention which as 10 ~ S ,,. vo.
waH hioeous ana conscienceless eonsIo.',a.S
Hon u ehehs' scalawags and Nearoas
Saptain Parr was one OF the ouaint... =.
ac,srs that ever figured In poIitics snS Vna.- aa
~. 49, nvusmanaed .sd vocabulary as opnlen, a,,S
ot his speeches he illustrated Rsn,,h,,sas IN one
vssuon OF the Negro with toy ~ ar, ,nsnlp- s
~ P.snsr The toy consisted Of htfle a. I'm ~
~ spnnf board that danced 4 a. ~ eetney ly
srrsh@ eoaIn Nte tapped with The nneer ~
erttt ne solemniy warned me conver,,,.,'
.,IIt -. w ieuo" that sneaked' down h.-+
~. black carpet bss. for. M
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-21
A PERFECT DAY

When you come TO the end Of perfect dav
And you sit alone with your thought
While the chimes ring out with a carol CAV
For the JOY that the day has brought,
Do you think what the end OF a perfect dav
Can mean 10 tired heart
When the sun goes down win flaming ray
And the dear friends have TO part9
Well. this Is the end OF a perfect dav
Near the end Of journey, too;
But It leaves a thought that IL big and sfyonr
With wish that IL kind and true.
For mem'ry has painted this perfect dav
With oolors that never fade.
Ana We ma a. ne end of perfect day
Ihe soul u friend we've made
-Csrrie Jaecbs- Tona
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-21
ON WITH THE SKATES

To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-I really don't know whether it is the
proper thing or not to thank newspaper for
its editorials, but right or wrong, / want 70
say that we feel deeply grateful for your Wei
come to the Ice Palace"
We have worked hard for number o.
months to get this proposition down to lines
that Phiadelphians will accept, and your kind
ly and favorable comment acts as balm and
a stimulant We wish further to thank you
for that perfectly fine and accurate announce-
ment you made. together with picture in your
edition of the 17th inst. q. u. DODGEsi
Philadelphia, August 20.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-21
. Misleading Casualty Reports

ALTHOUGH the business of counting the
IAdead and wounded cannot be carried on
with any degree Of precision-the belligerents
are fighting and not compiling statistics-the
Governments are pretending to satisfy a
very natural curiosity about the casualty
list. An "offciar list OF killed and wounded
and prisoners has been submitted to the
French Senate showing that the Allies have
lost L7Ss,0OO killed, while 3S5O,OOO Germans
and Austrians have lost their lives The
Teuton armies are said to have lost 1885, 900
by wounds, while the loss OF the Allies from
this cause is only 1853, ,000
OF course, these figures are incorrect. The
Allies are not going to let the Germans know
the extent of their losses. They are as likely
to magnify them to minimize them. In
either case they would attempt to deceive the
enemy And for the same reason the Ger
mans and Austrians will conceal or misrep-
resent at the present time the extent Of their
own casualties.
As matter of fact no one knows TODAY
how many men have been killed or wounded,
and no one can know with even an approxi-
mate degree Of accuracy until long after the
war is ended and the truth has been dug
out OF thousands OF reports.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-21

ding ~ are provided. or soon could be made
adequate to the largest expansion Of trade.
And the result OF such utilization Of the
water highway at our doors would benefit
both this city and those who use II in all
the rest Of the Commonwealth. But this
business will not come here unless we go
out 20 GET n
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-21

General Joe Wheeler set al example for an
men about whom reports OF their engagement
70 marry prominent women are circulated
when he said that he would consider himself
highly honeFed 10 be eneaged 10 marry the
LADY With whom his name Uas connected.