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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1919-01-23
STATION TO STATION" RATE

When person makes toll call without specifying
versaton is desired with particular person, and the
necton established and conversation held the staton
station" rate applies.
This is determined by the airline distance toll
points and computed the basis of &c for each six miles,
up twenty miles, eight miles beyond
that distance
Station to station calls should be made by number where
Telephone Directory information is available. Where
this information is available the calling telephone
such calls may be made by giving the toll operator the
and address of the subscriber the telephone called.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1919-01-23

The United States Civil Service Com
mission has announced an examina-
ton for the County of Quay, to be held
at Tucumcari on Feb. 8, 1919 to fill
the position Of rural carrier at Gamer
on and vacancies that may later occur
on rural routes from other postoffices
in the above-named county. The ex-
animation will be open only to male
citizens who are actually domiciled in
the territory of postoffice in the said
county and who meet the other re-
quirements set forth in Form No. 1877
This form and application blanks may
be obtained from the Offices mentioned
above. Roy II. Smith, Local Sec.,
U. S. Civil Service Commission
Tucumcari, n. NJ.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1919-01-23
Cut This Out--It is Worth Money.

DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this
slip, enclose with &c to Foley & Co.,
1886 Sheffield Ave-, Chicago, H., writ
ing your name and address clearly.
You will receive in return trial pack
age containing Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound, for coughs, colds and Group
Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathar-
tic Tablets. For sale Sand Dorsey.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1919-01-23
STANDARD TOLL NIGHT RATES

The following reduced for night service "Station
to Station basis only effective 1901 m January 81
1919
$3.50 p m to 1900 midnight
About one-half Of the "station
to station" day rate
1900 midnight to 1880 m.--
About quarter Of the sta
ton to station day rate.
For the of applying night rates. the time Of day
the point at which station station message originates
is used
The minimum night rate is 25c Day apply calls
made at night when the "staon station" charge is less
than the minimum night rate.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1919-01-23
MESSENGER" CALLS

When call is made person to person basis and mes
senger required attendance Of the designated
person at public pay the distant point the mes
senger call" applies
This rate the appointment rate for the same
distance, plus any charge for messenger service.
The messenger call" computed the day rate be-
points involved whether the call is made during
the day during the night and the minimum charge 25c
Messenger charges incurred be paid if desired
conversation is held.
No messenger call" accepted where the "staton to STA
ton" is less than l5c.
Report charges apply under the general condition.,
specified for "person person calls.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1919-01-23
Poisonous Waste Causes Sickness

When the kidneys are well they fill
ter waste matter from the blood. When
sluggish or overworked, the kidneys
fail to clean the blood, and poison
Gus substances lodge in joints and mus
cles to cause aches, pains and soreness.
Foley Kidney Pills strengthen, act
quickly and relieve kidney and blad-
dertrouble. For sale by Sands Dorsey
Drug Co.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1919-01-23
He Knows Whereof He Speaks

J. F. Harper, 416 Navarro St., San
Antonio, Tex, writes: II consider Fol-
ey's Honey and Tar absolutely the
best cough remedy on the market. /
know whereof speak, having tried it
in my own family. Your remedy acts
quickly and relief is permanent" Good
for colds, coughs, Group Contains no
opiates. For sale by Sands Dorsey.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1919-01-23
REPORT CHARGE"

When "person person" call is made and the particular
person desired is not in will not talk when
telephone address of the particular desired has
been given and he be reached telephone within
hour report charge applies.
Such charge also applies if the calling party
the connection completed within hour he refuses
to talk
This charge is compensation for the operating work
performed and is usually about onefourth Of the station
o station" rate.
In any where a report charge" applies the minimum
charge is lOc and the maximum $500.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1919-01-23
APPOINTMENT" RATE

When the calling party in placing his call appoints definite
specified time which he will talk "person person.
basis conversation held the specified time
appointment" rate applies
The appointment is usually about onehalf greater
than the "station to station" rate.
The appointment computed the day rate between
the points involved whether the call is made during the day
or during night, and the minimum charge is 25c.
No appointment call is accepted where the staton
ton" rate is less than 15c
Report charges apply under the general conditions
specified for "person to person" calls.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1919-01-23
COLLECT CALLS"

Collect calls calls fer which the charges are reversed
that is, to be collected the subscriber at the dis
tant station at which the call is completed.
Such collect calls reversed charges are allowed only in
connection with "person to person" calls
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-03
THE CASUALTY REPORTS.

Something which it is difficult for -tilc people Of this country to under stand is the fact that there continues tss be daily casualty reports. not solely corrections and deaths which may have occurred since the armistice was s.tgned such as deaths from wounds and disease but lists Of those killed in action and wounded.
 .sIt is now nearly five months since the last fighting was done and from the way in which the casualty reports were coming at that t:ne it was evil dent that the daily reports were those of happenings of months previous, but there has not been that piling up of cases since the armistice was signed It has been q case of clearing up the reports and yet the official government lists are just carrying the names of 99ma who have been dead killed on tle field Of battle, for practically five months and possibly longer.
 It was to te expected that many mis- takes would be made. That the erro- -iHous reports of the days when there was greater confusion are Just being straishtened out may not cause so ihdch surprise for Il is understood that, Regardless of the efforts made to pre- lent it, there have been many cases Of mistaken identity, not few cases where men of the same name living in different parts of the country have been found as well as the uncertain missing list. It has also been ex- Fisined that the mauy cases of slight y wounded were not given out in the harly reports because the men had in great majority of the ca ses been able 10 return Co their duties before their injuries could be reported, but what cannot be understood is wnJ the names 9ft tthosc who were killed on the field of Nattle are only just being forwarded, it1ndlcat,s lack Of proper provision c. cooperation somewhere.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-03

pears to be competition among the
 states to pass the strongest law and
 do it first Governor Bartlett of New
 Hampshire boasts that his state has
 passed the best one and that the state
 will be raked with a rne tooth comb and the social viper suppressed
 terbury American.
 The chairman of the democratic na- tiona1 committee, Homer $. Cum
 mings, has issued what is tantanount republican national committee. Will H. Hays. He asks MT. Hays to put his party on record on the question of the league of nations Wrth this chal- lenge ne couples the ingenious remark fthat he hopes that the project will not become a partisan question. Mir. Cum
 mings is new conner in national poli- tics, and apparently has the idea that he must do something to justify his | job. 'Ee asys MT. Hays to put his party on record, with the transparent object in view of putting MT, Hays and the party in hole. because there are hon. est differences over the covenant, The question is one of such grave import and fraught with such momentous 1 consequences to the world that it ought to be discussed. Even the lead CTS of democracy discuss it. Every l intelligent man does. Mir. Cummings | evidently hopes to make out of it the very thing that he hypocritically de- plores-a political issue. This is a piece of political bunk that establishes pretty effectuaIly the caliber of the
 new leader of the democracy-Lynr Item.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-03
THE MUSkRAT

The muskrat. as it's name would in dlcate, IS a species of rat. It is found nowhere but in America Its body is shared like that of the ordinary rat. but instead Of the short clase hair of the land sFec,es it is cove ed by a thick, reddish brown fur. and because it lives much in the water it has webbed toes.' Although very awkward on land, it is very lively and playful i'll the water. and is a great swimmer and diver.
 The home of the muskrat is general ly hole dug in the bank of the lake or stream, though sometimes on marshy lands they build dome shaped houses very much like the beavers home. When the home is on the edge of & stream or lake it is built above high water line. and forms a sort of long gallery, where six or eight of them may dwell together. There are always two holes leading from the gallery to the outside world one be- ing above water and one under.
 The hole below the water is the animals means of exit, and the hole that leads above is for ventilation. The cunning muskrat fills this hole with dried grass and leaves, so that it's enemies will not easily find it,
 There are several methods used in catching the muskrat. A method very freuently used is that of setting traps where thir paths are found. Since the animal ventures out on land only in search of food, a tempting bit of apple or carrot is more than apt to lure this unsuspecting vegetarian into
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-03
OTHER VIEW POINTS

The street railway problem in this state has been gone over by a commits sion and their report made public out lining the remedy, which of course is to throw the burden on the people The people with backs fitted for the burden are always ready to solve the problem when it reaches them.-Niddletew Press.
 The attaching of such signatures to President Wilson's league of nations plan as those of Elihu Root and ex-
 President Taft even after a few slight amendments should be sufficient guar antee to everyone that the present form of the league Of nations is some where near the right tdea--Waterbury Democrat.
 One after another the states are passing laws to protect society against the boisheviki or I. w. w. or other an- archistic attacks on government. In most states there are laws enough al- ready if officials only had courage to enforce them. Lacking that courage l it is well that new 1&Es be passed which. shall furnish the weapon that gives tinlid police and courts conf 1 dence.. Apparently also congress needs
 to pass laws to help along deportation of enemy aliens and such. There ap-
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-03
PERFEcrINe VITAL DETAILS.

lt is to be noted with interest that tsf suggested changes in the covenant or the league Of nations as presented rG,Eiihu Root. nave been received with approval by the American peace dele 7Rtion. IL is pointed out that some of the changes which he suggests have lEready been incorporated in the amendments which have been made. Whether this was done as the result Of the expression of his views, inas- much as it has been announced that his suggestions were in the hands of the delegates several days before they were given out in this country has not been disclosed.
 But one thing has been made plain 7ns that i5 that there is a demand in this country for the making of d num- Der Of changes in the leagues consti- tuition from the way it read when brought to this country by President Wilson Even though he refused to discuss the constitution in detail after declaring that there was good and suf- hclent reason for every article. it has undergone. d thorough analysis. Weak points have been disclosed and while iUis declared that it was never con- slaered an instrument that would con- tinue for all time without changes. it is through the changes suggested by Mr. Root that provision is made for conferences which will deal with the future conditions as they come up.
 fThrough the digging into the differ ent articles of the proposed constitu- ton a league of nations promises to result that will come much nearer be- ing the kind of covenant that Is need ea.to meet existing and so far as car nes sforeseen now future conditions fol the prevention of wars. and a docu. ment which if perfected along suggest, ed lines will stand a much better show of approval by the senate of this coun. try,
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

If April is only considerate the mo- bilization of the hoe, spade and rake brigade will proceed rapidly.
 The man or the corner says: The reduced rates on the trolleys ought to bring back the days of Please step up forward"
 If it doesn't build ships any better than it erects scaffolding~ that Penn syivania shipyard isn't constructing an enviable record.
 No one is said to be molested in Budapest if he behaves. But if that is the case it cannot be that the bolshe- wiki are in control.
 The only complaint against April now that it has come in, is that it didn't close the door and shut out the cold March wind.
 After the first of July it is more than likely that the ''makin's'' will refer to other things than the tobacco for the home rolled cigarette.
 Those who are never satisfied unless summer weather is scorching hot, will sing a different song when the effect upon the ice bill is noted next August.
 There'll be no more trouble in show ing Germany where to sign the peace treaty than the allies are having amongst themselves trying to agree upon it's terms.
 When the Postal head declares that rates would be reduced by his com pany if the wire lines were returned there can be no question as to what ought to be done.
 With an alleged shortage of 7OO,00t automobiles in this country with which to fill orders, it is quite evident thai some industries are going to have plenty of business for while If as claimed the railroads of the country are in better operating con- dition than ever, with congestion cleared up, it would appear to be the very time to see that they were kept busy hauling coal
 When General AIlenby tells the trou. ble makers in Egypt T intend to dc my duty; it is for you to do yours they ought to know enough about the man to realize that he usually accom- plishes what he sets out to do. When the Germans hold up thei; hands in protestation against the thoughts of the Poles going into Po' land through Danzig, they fail to con- | slider what little impression the pro tests of the Belgians made upon them Nothing is more welcomed than thu announcement to the effect that one O | our largest industries is soon to go from ! the manufacture of war goods to thu production of a staple article widely used and much in demand. Ii augur' ] well for future industrial activity.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-03

Tientsin was Seng -ko-lin sin, a Mon
 gol general. who later, distinguished
 himself less creditably. In 1880 he
 sought to defend Tientsin against a
 foreign expedition by erecting an i'm
 mense mud rampant outside the city
 Tientsin was captured and held for
 two years by the British and Trench,
 and the crude defense is known in the foreign quarters as 'Seng- lin sin s
 folly
 I "The region about Tientsin was
 known as Chi-chou under the Hsia dynasty, whose rulers, 4,Q00 years ago,
 already had court astronomers who could predict ecipses. Later it was
 called Va chou. in the Chou dynasty,
 marked by the western wars waged by Mu- Wang against the Dog Barbari=
 ans thought to have been ancestors of the Huns. Tientsin dates back at least to the fourteenth century. The salt industry in the neighbor-
 bod of Tientsin is prodigious. Wind mills are used to pump salt water in to the fields along the Hailo river, where the widely known Chang-lu salt is made. Before the war nearly 10000 tons were produced annually. But Tientsin is important commercially in many respects. It is a rice market, and Siberias tea formerly was shipped through there. Exports were as va ried as the needs of the dozen or so nations which had separate settle ments along five miles of the river front, and its imports were as diverse as the comnodies those nations had to exchange.
 ',Che Peiho and, Hunho rivers con- verge at Ffentsin. From the latter to the Yang gtsze- Kiang. extends the Grand i canal, that remarkable specimen of ancient engineering, mentioned by Confucius, which originally was more 1 than 1000 miles long.
 ''Tientsin has more people than Bos- l ton. It:is the pricipal city of Chih-li, and is S6 miles southeast of Picking l by rail-"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-03
s-5,.s-f.s. FRUSTRATING DAUGHTERS

q have given them up," said the mother of the two modern daughters. q have given them up definitely. l either had to do that or just go off in a convenient corner and die of eX- desperation. T graduated from the copyboolk idea of daughters long ago. so it isn't that.
 what may do- to -help-you- child,
 but I stand appalled, before the pros pect of wholesale divorces' which loom up over the next generation"
 That's just the way my mother used to talk" crushingly interrupted the woman who was likewise a parent. Every mother gives 'em up.'
 My goodness" moaned the mother l of two. Have they been suffering l this way since Eye However, Eve knew nothing about salads, which 1 brings me around to the start. Genevieve's club was to give a sort of glorified afternoon tea or spread last Saturday. There were to be thirty two present, and among other things, they decided to have pear salad, just l like mine. 1 .'Now, when make pear salad for ] dinner I do it with due reverencel and table coloring, stuffing them Swith
 cheese, hunting up little green leaves
 from accommodating ,radishes to stick
 in the ends so that the edified guests will think I have just plucked them
 off the tree.
 T hinted feebly that for thirty two persons this salad was some feat, but Genevieve and her friends cast off the
 idea airily. Oh, they'd get it done all right. Genevieve had to run up to the university Saturday morning, and was going directly from there to Mary's to help make the salad. At half past
 3 when I was starting dinner Gene yieve strolled in with friend. She l looked cheerful and calm.
 l Mother, she said blithely, lis there l any particular brand of canned pears 1 should buy for that salad?"
 l T cut myself severely with the par ing knife. My child I quavered il feeble horror, do you mean to say yot
 are just starting out to make up youl
 minds what to buy for that salad whicl you want to use inside of an hour There's half a days work on it."
 "'Well, I guess we won't tint it, Genevieve did concede. It'll taste jus
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-03

as good. anyhow And how many heads of lettuce?'
 $ I cLettuce?' I moaned. That salad, lettuce should have been washed hours ago and put away to crisp. am amazed.
 CT am sure you are, said Genevieve soothingly. And what proportions for French dressing for thirty -two?'
 T was waving my hands in the air by then but they hurried so that it was after o'clock when they went out again, stin strolling, on the way to collect the pears and lettuce. They had decided the cheese also took too much time. And they wouldn't bother with the radish leaves. It would taste just as. good without r T was going to make this salad fiasco the occasion for severe lecture when once I got my hands on Gen. evieFe again, Maybe it would teach her a few things. When she arrived home for dinner-oh, my, yes! No matter if a spread ends at 25 they're ready for a square meal at 6:30. When she came home l asked very maliciously: Well, how did. the salad come out?'
 "Cenevieye looked surprised. oh, all right she said. It was fine The girls were crazy about it.
 ".Do you mean to say I gasped, that, you got that salad for thirty two people made-let alone eaten-in this space of tirne2' Why, yes said my child, still more
 surprised. Did you think we wouldn't?' If Genevieve had been ten years younger l should have spanked her and sent her to bed, as we always do when they ask us questions we can't answer I'm still furious at her, and that's why I've given her up. The very last straw a child can heap on the back of its I much enduring parent is to do some thing foolish and come out perfectly all right at the end. l want them to sol on my shoulder and mur1ner: Deal
 mother, you were perfectly right and hereafter I shall always follow your advice. Pray forgive me They al ways did that in the Sunday schoo 1 books when was 8 child, and it ir- ritates ne extremely to have them SC 1 competent and successful when by al
 rules and precepts they should bt
 struggling with failures"
 1 Don't I know it?" agreed the other l-Exchange.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-03
PUBLIC SAFETY REQUIRES IT.

In spite of it's size and the number q motor vehicles, it is taking the state of New York long time to come to the conclusion that it ought ID do something more than it has done fSr the protection of the users of it's Highways. Accidents from the man r&r in which cars are driven occur in large numbers every day It is an un- tSual day when there is not one or more fatalities and yet the number of rqachines continues to increase much more rapidly than safeguards are set up for their regulation.
 According to its last registra ton tiere were in New York over 45o.ooo automobiles, gain of 50,OOO in a year and three times the number there were four years previous. of which nbmber over 75,000 were motor trucks nsarly half of which are in New York city.
 sWith this great number of machines it cannot fail to impress other states where laws have been passed to cover s4ch matters, that there $ no require sient in that state for the physical ex-
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-03
IN THE DAYS NEWS

Tientsin scene of recent disorders in which Americans and Japanese were inv volved, is described in the following bulletin from the National Geographic society:
 ITO walk about Tientsin is to travel An afternoons stroll from the native to the British, French Italian, Rus sian and other foreign quarters gives the sensation of a magic tour through Picking, London, Paris. Rome and Pc trograd. And the windmills among the salt mounds just outside the city add a touch of Holland.
 This panorama city has had a tempestuous history. There a group of American and other foreign residents Herbert C. Hoover among them defended themselves for 8 month against the fanatic Boxers in 1900
 Since then the native city has been known as Cheng-f or Town without Walls, because the ancient barriers were demolished during the siege: Of the 300 doughty foreigners more than fifty were killed and many others wounded before military aid came.
 ''Tientsin was the scene of another famous siege, that of the Taiping rebels in 1853. Followers of Hung Sin Tsuan, who had professed Christianity and set himself up in Ranking as the
 Heavenly King marched toward Pe- king. But the Waterloo of the long haired rebels,' so called because they could not plait their queues and thus signify loyalty to the Manchus, came at Tientsin.
 'The success. of the campaign against the revoIutionists was due principally to the gallant Chinese Gor(}on,' General Charles George Cor don and his Ever -Vict0riouS rTnV But the fact would not be suspected from reading the imperial edict issued 1 by the former concuhipe who had ele- vated herself to empress dowager. The | edict set forth that This glorious vic
 tory is entirely due to the bountiftl 1 protection of heaven, to the ever pres ent help of our ancestors and to the | foresight of the expresses regent A 1 tribute is paid to the Chinese generals
 who have been combed by the wint
 and bathed in the rain,' and one O
 them was awarded the decoration O the double-eyed peacock's feather. "Commandipg the native force a