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El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01
KEEP YOUR aye ON SPRINGER

Springer Times: Saturday was a busy
day in Springer, the streets being lined up
with automobiles and wagons. This is a
good sign of prosperity. Three years ago
Springer had only q few autos, but now all
Of the farmers and stockmen as we'll as the
town people have a machine Of some kind.
Springer is the best town in the state for
its size. and watch its size grow.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01
WON'T HURT TO WATCH

Estancia News-Herald: The Farmers
Society of Equity says it, has what 1t be-
lieves to be reliable information that a
movement is on foot to have the present leg
~islature pass a law cancelling all tax liens
for years prior to 1912, and that unless the
people make a tremendous fuss it is likely to
succeed. 1t is a sad commentary on the es-
timation in which New Mexico legislators
are held that anybody should fear such &C
ton. But judging by the past the fear is
likely to be web founded, and this is q still
commentary.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01
Among the Boosters
SHE SHOULD WORRY

Fl. Sumner Leader: With the contract
let for a new concrete dam, and repairs on
the old dam and ditch; a s32,500 high
school, another $4,000 graded school building
contracted for; 1000 new settlers this month
and the new county assured-all in the
month Of January. We hereby rise to ask
what's the matter with Fort Sumner?
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01
RARrH STORY No. s5z4

Watch my burros a minute" said a
native wood-selIer to a p~lethoric gentle
man standing in the plaza.
Whats the matter with your, inter-
posed a bystander. Don't you know that
man is Senator Barth?"
"oh, we'll, that's all right" reJoined
the gatherer Of fasots. "PH only he
away five minutes"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

Springer Times: Prohibition is sure COM
ing in New Mexico. Let 'er come, we have
learned to be a camel. But Just because
we have learned to be a camel is no sign
that we can exist forever without a little
subscription money. It's time to water the
camel.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

NEW GOVERNOR of Arizona says
public officials should be required to
measure UP to the standard of ability
asked In commercial life.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

THE SOLONS will do we'll to remem-
Der to demonstrate to the people that
they are intelligent enough not to need
instruction by any defunct political
bosses.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

THE KING and the Kaiser, of course,
are COUSINS. Pat, refusing to enlist,
easily explained that he once interfered
in a family squabble, and niver again.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01
MacpuEE BRYAN

Des Moines Swastika: We are Indebted
to G. w. B. Bryan for copies of a number Of
house bills introduced in this session Of the
Legislature. Bryan is the author OF a bill
imposing a tax of $40 on old bachelors N
$5 on old maids, the same to go to the
school fund. This might be good for the
school fund, but hard on the bachelors and
'spinsters. 1t would seem that some one
else beat Alphabet to the fence bill, and
other things really needed, and Bryan I'M
mediately jumped onto the old bachelors.
Lay on. MacDuff!
THAT'S A FACT
Springer Times: The State Record, the
Republican mouthpiece, published AZ Santa
Fe, doesn't like the message of Governor
e. G. de Baca to the legislature. But then,
the governor didn't write the message for
the Records approval. Nor the rest of the
Republican ring.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

SOME LUCKLESS federal defendant
will mayhap make the discovery that a
sentence can begin with a Colin.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01
COMPARATIVE

Sierra Free Press: The Morning Journal
Of Albuduerque had a headline last week to
the effect that the beer supply was running
low in Germany because no restaurant in
Munich was permitted to sell one guest
more than q quart and a half of beer with
his dinner, and that in order to get more a
map would have to buy several dinners in
several restaurants. If three pipts per man
means a low beer supply what will the
Journal editor say of New Mexico IL the
antis make 1t bone-dry?
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01
LEGISLATIVE SESSION

Mcintosh Cor. Estancia News-Herald.l
The Fix family took dinner with the
Laws family.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

UNDER THE circumstances. this col
yum naturally pledges its anxious sup
port to the proposal to abolish the third
degree and the pruiseworthy project Of
renovating the Santa Re county and 9TH
or jails.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

REPRESENTATIVE GARDNER fears
we shall get our fingers pinched If we
monkey with the European situation.
Rep. Gardner is a person Of some per
spicacity.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

FRIEND SUGGESTS that we try that
peace Without Victory stuff on p.
Villa. Esq.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

THE FORMAL withdrawal of all the
Chinese in the Pershing sector has been
announced.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01
The pIRTLEss aATH
lsprlnrer Tlmes.l

With the new water ~erks eemplotsd,
you can now take = bath without getting
dirty.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

AS WE acquire you, Stephanovitch,
Virginia intends to put West Virginia
behind the bars If necessary.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

THEY MUST have a County Salary
Bill over there.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

GEORGE SAYS that the least W. W.
can do Is to Keep Us Out Of Peace In
Europe.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

MIGHT HAVE a receiver appointed
for the state.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

THERE SHOULD be an investigation
by the ordnance department to ascer-
tain why all those American soldiers at
Ruby threw away such quantities Of
ammunition. Funston reports no casual
ties. sM
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

OFFICER HIT BY Flying Bottle on
Juarez Bridge. He should give thanks,
George adds, that he wasn't hit on the
bridge OF the nose.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

OVER $1,000 people visited the Grand
Canyon last year. No wonder John
Hance gets SO he can tell those stories
without stopping for breath.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01
THE SALOONS WORST ENEMY,

Las Vegas Journal: The question OF pro.
hibition for New Mexico will be settled, one
way or the other, by a vote of the people.
The present Legislature will pass some mea-
sure submitting the question to a vote of
1.-THE people.
There is a marked sentiment against the
saloon as 1t now exists, in all portions Of
New Mexico, just as it is sweeping the en-.
tire nation. In fact, 1t Is asserted with lit
tile thought of contradiction. that the over
whelming dry sentiment, which has swept
over the nation for the past few years, is
due, more than anything else to the manner
Of the conduct Of the American saloon. And
lit is averred as a fact, that the worst enc
my of the saloon today, and for the past gen.
Grafton, is the saloon itself. Anyone who
is familiar with the question knows that
there are w~ell-conducted saloons which are
not entirely obnoxious, and that there are
saloons in every community that are con-
Quoted in such a way that. they are revolt
ing. 1t is this latter class Of saloon which
has brought the business into such disrepute
that the American nation will see the last of
liz within a decade.
Total abstinence may be a long way off,
but the American saloon, as 1t is now con-
Quoted, Is doomed. Sentiment is, of course,
against the use OF liquor, but it is more
against the manner of conducting the bust
ness. Public sentiment-that overwhelming
force Of d~estiny--says the saloon must 80.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

AND THEN speaking Of Flying Bot
ties, we presume a pile Of dead soldiers
was left on the bridge.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01
isY ITS FRUITS

are flooding the country with literature
stating that George Washington was a dis
|tiller. Let the booze peddlers state il
George ever allowed himself to be filled
with rotten liquor as it is made today and
then bundled up to the polls on election day
like so many pigs in a chute. 1t is the pro
duct Of the saloon that damns it.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

SCHEME is now being considered ip
Berlin to tie a few hundred Zeppelins to
Belgium and move it bodily over into
Bavaria.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

THE HUNGER strike is old stuff
In Belgium and Serbia.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

CARRAN1A NOW feels that maybe
he can solve the problem without the
aid OF the United States. We must ad-
nit that the United States has not given
him any spectacularly effective assist
ance.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

CAMPBELL is now dc Iacto govern
or Of Arizona. Wait until Villa hears
Of it.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

THE KAISER is busy with a grind
stone, putting a new edge IN his League
to Enforce Peace.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

WHAT IN thunder, we Indignantly
arise to inquire. would this state do TO
amuse itself without a legislature, which
Mr.. Overly Over DIVERSION proposes to
abolish?
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

TOM LAWSON is going to his Ore
gon ranch for a vacation-having un-
doubtedly heard the irrigation bitches
are leaking.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

PEARY SAYS enemy airmen could
destroy Washington two weeks after a
declaration Of war. We must be sure
and remember to declare war two weeks
later.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

MAYOR GILL Of Seattle is charged
with violation Of the federal liquor laws.
But what is a gill, compared to a pint?
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

TO GO back a few jabs. Mexico offers
al Interesting example of Victory With
out Peace.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

EVERY FEW days the state banks In
crease their resources q million dollars.
This is regarded as the natural outcome
of the growth Of the newspaper bust
ness in New Mexico.
AND THE resultant increasing num-
Der of editors.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

THEY ARE determined at least tina
Mrs. Byrne shall not qualify as q Deatf
Control expert.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01
DE sAcA COUNTY

DE BACA COUNTY
1T. Sumner Leader: Word has gone out
Ito the Republicans in the legislature not to
oppose the bill for De Baea county. The
Republican organization have figured II out
that to cut of fthe lower end of Guadalupe
that then there will be one more solid coun,
ty for the @. O.. p. Thank you, gentlemen!
But we hardly see why there should be at
present a distribution Of the offices to be
elected two years hence, OR does the Repub
lican organization expect an election for the
Offices. of those which will be vacated by the
enactment of the proposed county bill?
Cimarron News itizen: The complexion
of the legislature is far superior to proceed
ing ones, and much good may yet come
from the state house in the way of prohi-
bition. election and taxation laws, even
though, as said before. 1t may come out In
the tail end with q real flush. From this
distance 1t appears that many uncouth indi-
viduals are waiting for the governor to die
and thus take over the governors office /
with complete control and play the music
according to personal tastes. But II is q
foregone conclusion that, should New Next
co lost her governor, an unpleasant
thought, Mr.. Lindsey would infinitely follow
the program as outlined by his predecessor
to the final end. Any other program would
be preposterous.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

ONE OF the recruiting ~canvassers in
an English provincial town was a we'll
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-01

: ing TO fight for your king and country"
mo, ! beant, SIR" was the prompt re-
ply. "An' ! be surprised at you askin'
me for to do 1t. Two years ago come
next month you yourself fined I twenty
shiAings for fighting wi Bill Smith and
you said 1t wor wicked to fight, an I
promised you al | wouldn't repeat the
o~ffenseS an allus kept my word"
THE DlRTLEss BATH
(Sprlnper Tlmes.l
With the new water works compietsd,
you can now take = bath without Getting
dirty.
FRIEND SUGGESTS that we try that
peace Without Victory STUFF on p.
Villa. Esq.
THE HUNGER strike is old stuff
In Belgium and Serbia.
THE KING and the Kaiser, of course,
are COUSINS. Pat, refusing to enlist,
easily explained that he once interfered
in a family s~quabble, and niver again.
GEORGE SAYS that the least w. W.
can do Is to Keep Us Out of Peace In
Europe.
OFFICER HIT BY Flying Bottle on
Juarez Bridge, He should give thanks,
George adds, that he wasn't hit on the
bridge OF the nose.
AND THEN speaking Of Flying Bot
ties, we presume a pile Of dead soldiers
was left on the bridge.
THERE SHOULD be an investigation
by the ordnance department to ascer-
tain why all those American soldiers at
Ruby threw away such quantities of
ammunition. Funston reports no casual
ties.
AS WE acquire you, Stephanoyitch,
Virginia intends to put West Virginia
behind the bars If necessary.
MIGHT HAVE a receiver appointed
for the state.
n YY-V-Y
SOME LUCKLESS federal defendant
will mayhap make the discovery that a
sentence car begin with a Colin.
NEW GOVERNOR of Arizona says
public officials should be required to
measure UP to the standard Of ability
asked In commercial life.
y-v-N-v
THEY MUST have a County Salary
Bill over there.
OVER $1,000 people visited the Grand
Canyon last year. No wonder John
Hance gets SO he can tell those stories
without stopping for breath.
""
WHAT IN thunder, we Indignantly
arise to inquire, would this state do TO
amuse itself without a legislature, which
Mr.. Overly Over DIVERSION proposes to
abolish?
: TO GO back a few jabs, Mexico offers
an Interesting example Of Victory With
out Peace.
"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-03-09

Come Year, ago was q teacher h
xfghanistan. and during my stly In
that country was often an unwilling
witness of some horrible exhibitions
of torture. Here is one they use in the
case Of women to extract testimony.
1t consists In prymg OF the finger
nails by means of d small chisel or
brad awl. which il showed in slowly,
but firmly, from the finger tip down.
ward under the quick offthe nail, which
Is then lifted up and out
This IL another that l once saw used
In the case Of . small child who would
not own up to some petty theft: Sticks
were thrust between its fingers and
the fingers then squeezed together. 80
that the sticks crushed into the bones.
So much for women and children.
Here Is a method Of eliciting informa-
ton from an unwilling man: The cul-
prit is stripped to the waist and then
boiling oil IL clicked on to his back.
This seldom fails to nnd the mans
tongue.
The above are the chief forms Of
''fahana," or torture. for the purpose
Of elicitins information, but It must
be stated that such infections as nip
ping Of noses. tearing out tongues 81
splitting eyeballs do not come under
the heading OF "fahana." they being
punishments rather than tortures.-
London Standard Ae9
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-03-09
FINDS SUCKERS IN PLENTY


Every now and then a faker appears
on Broadway with false mustaches for
sale. The one he sports himself Is
rather a nobby hunk of hair and looks
quite natural as result Of the way It
is pasted to his lip. He soon gathers
a crowd by Offering a similar mus
tache for q nickel. Scores of people
buy, planning a joke Of some sort
But the purchaser who does not then
and there open the little envelope con-
tanning the mustache will find later
on that he has been nicely gulled.
All that the envelope contains is
wisp Of coarse hair similar to that
used In upholstering furniture. There
IL not even the semblance Of mus
tache form-just tangled wisp. II
It were disable at all 1t would make
about enough mustache to cover one
side Of lip. Does the buyer seek out
the faker and demand his money
back? He does not, for he feels like
q fool for having wasted his money on
material for third-rate piker's joke.
And besides, II the faker is not hunt
ed up Immediately he never will be
located. He doesn't care, for he has
no pride in his occupation nor perma-
nent standing. The inner circle Of
takers scorn such coarse work.-New
York Letter.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-03-09

- the question, vi there ~efe Z
s1ece, how long do you think tho col.
diers and civilians could live after the
food supplies gave out7" an English
paper answers: Science tells Us that 4
be can get drinking water an ordinary
man can exist for thirty days without
food. At the end Of that time the me-
ehinery Of the body WIN not be spoiled
and can be brought back to its former
strength by careful feeding.
About . quarter Of our body weight
Is fat, and It is mostly this fat that u
absorbed o. food during the period OF
starvation. We can absorb and burn
up our muscles until 90 per cent OF
tha1r weight IL gone. We can do the
cams with from 80 to 40 per cent OF
our- livers and digestive organs and 70
per cent Of our lungs Our hearts can
lose 10 per cent and our brains and
nervous systems can lose B per cent
Il VIM be seen that the more vital
organs-brain and heart-yield least OF
their valuable substance for the life OF
the body, while the less essential sub
stances-fat, muscle fiber, etc.-are con-
sumed flrst.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-03-09

The snly fruit, says a bulletin ot
the department Of agriculture, which
equals the persimmon In its value as
q food is the date. Nevertheless many
persons with fine persimmon trees in
their possession are allowing the fruit
to go to waste, either through ig-
norance of the many uses to which II
may be put or through prejudice.
There Il a saying in the persimmon
country that persimmons are good for
dogs, hogs and 'possums." This, how.
ever. is declared to be gross injustice
to very valuable product
One reason for the neglect Of this
fruit Il the mistaken idea that per-
simmons are unfit to eat until they
have been touched by frost As a
matter Of fact, much Of the best fruit
Is lost every year because 1t ripens and
falls to the ground. where, not being
touched by frost, it is left to rot. Such
persimmons as are not edible before
frost comes are late variety Of the
fruit, and the reason that they quicker
the mouth is because they have not
yet ripened. In general, the best fruit
Is that which ripens just before the
leaves fall.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-03-09
TOMMY ATKINS PLAYS HOUSE
Game of Chance That Is Much IN
dulged in by Soldiers Of Great
Britain.

It would be rather interesting 70
trace the origin of the soldiers game
of "house," which has such a vogue
among our men in France, both at the
base and "up. the line" House makes
no pretension to be other than a game
of pure chance, and as such it is rec
ognized by the authorities, who, While
vigorously suppressing all other forms
Of gambling, allow this outlet to the
sporting proclivities of the Tommy
who wishes to have a "flutter." To set
up "house" of this nature does not
require an elaborate outfit, says the
London Chronicle. A quantity OF
printed cards, on each of which ap-
pear Is numbers between 1 and w,
no two cards bearing the same coiA-
bination of figures, is obtained. A
bag of counters nu nbered from one to
ninety is all that is necessary to COM
plete the equipment.
Now for the game itself. The pro-
prietor of the "house" proceeds to sell
his cards to any number of men up to
twenty or thirty who wish to buy a
share in the "house." The price
charged is usually cents. Having dis
posed of his cards the banker, OF
''house proprietor" sits down and pro
ceeds to fsh out counters from his lit
tie bag, calling out the number on each
rs he draws it. If the number called
appears on any card. the owner strikes
1t out, the game being won by the man
whose card is first cleared of its mum
5ers in this way. The winner receives
the stakes, minus a certain percentage
which goes to the proprietor Of tbs
''house."
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-03-09
RECORD LIKELY 70 BE- HELD
7eorue Washington the Only candl.
date for President Who Received .
solid Electoral Vote.

The first election Of Washington a.
president was held ON the first Wednes-
day Of January, 1859, the Constitution
having been ratified on the twenty-arst
Of June preceding. There was no pop
ulaf election. the electors Of all the
states that participated being chosen
by the state legislatures. as the Const-
tuition permitted. Rhode Island and
North Carolina had not yet ratified the
Constitution and did not choose cleo
tors. In New York q contest arose
that prevented . choice Of electors.
and the three states Of Rhode Island.
North Carolina and New York took no
part in the first presidential election.
At that time the electors did not vote
separately for president and Vice prest-
dent, but each one voted for two men
for president and the one receiving
the highest number Of electoral votes
became president and the next high
est vice president Only ten states
took part in the election. viz: New
Hampshire, Massachusetts,. Connect
cut, New Jersey. Pennsylvania. Dela-
ware, Maryland. Virginia. South Caro-
lima and Georgia. These ten states
then had 60 electoral votes, Of which
Washington received 50, John Adams
"a. and IS were scattering. By this
vote Washington became president ane
Adams vice president. In the second
election (1782) Is states had 1872 cleo
toral votes and Washington received
all, Adams u and 55 were scattering.
The case OF q nearly solid electoral vote
for president was in 1920, when James
Monroe was elected for a second term.
At that time there were "a states, with
232 electoral votes. The vote Of the
electoral college was: James Monroe.
231 John Quincy Adams, 1. The eight
electors from New Hampshire, like all
those from other states, had been
chosen as Monroe men, but one elector
voted for John Quincy Adams, because.
as he said, he was unwilling that any
other president than Washington
should receive a unanimous electoral
vote. BY casting one vote against
Monroe out Of total Of 81 he made
the solid electoral vote for Washington
historically unique.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-03-09
A Wonderful Aborioin.l CITY.

Near Laguna, N. NJ, may be seen
Acoma, the "sky CITY," claimed to be
the most wonderful aboriginal city In
the world 1t stands on an isolated
rock eminence 400 feet in height. The
city embraces three rows of houses
over a thousand feet in length, rising
up IN terraces four and five stories.
One Is amazed when he stops to con-
slider that the material for these build
1ngs were transported long distances
and up the cliffs upon the heads and
backs of these human burden bearers.
Their graveyard consumed forty years
in building by reason Of the necessity
Of bringing earth from the plain below.
and their church must have cost the
labor of many generations, for its walls
are sixty feet high and ten feet thick.
and it has timbers forty feet long and
fourteen inches square.-Exchange.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-03-09
aeIaium,s Postmen.

A Belgian who has money owing 70
aim often hands the account to his
postman, who passes 1t through the Of
ace, to be presented TO the debtor In
whatever locality the latter may ~
side. and II payment b made thu
creditor receives it from ~ p0stma1
on the following day. w11 but tri
ding deduction for commission.
As to newspapers, almost all regular
subscribers to a journal pay their
money to q postman, and two or three
days before the subscription expires
that official presents the notice for the
renewal of the subscription during .
fresh term.
All this makes Of the Belgian post
man a kind Of ambulating general
agency and bank Of deposit, and the
man Is obliged to have a desk slung
In front Of him and to carry locked
and chained portfolio under his arm
Tor valuables, but he gets through his
work satisfactorily. because bis rounds
are short -Pearson's Weekly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-03-09
In a caImer Moment.

The topic having turned to the sub
sect of regret. this story was recalled
by Senator Henry f. Hollis of New
Hampshire:
A German named Adam became Go
pressed ever tie wsbbly way in which
the weld was moving and ia hasty
moMeAt jumped from the town wharf
into the river. THE crowd en- return
ing from the river after fruitless en-
deaver was met by a party named
Jacob.
"Vat vas it?' Queried Jacob, looking
over the long-faced bunch. "vat vas
all der troubles apout?"
ADAM" answered one of the party.
"He just committed suicide by Jump
Ing into the river"
"Poor oldt Adam ~ mournfully COIL
mented Jacob. "He be sorry for dat
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