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The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-18
Notice of Forfeiture.

CHLORIDE, \. NJ, February 2, lSsS.
Notice Is hereby given - =. II. strong that
we have expended me hundred dollars in
labor on the Silyer hing mining claim, stu
ated in the Apache mining district, Socurro
county, New Mexico. for the year lSss, in
order to hold Possession of said premises
under section 23sl of the revised statutes OF
the United States, and II within ninety laws
from thesdate OF this notice you fail or refuse
to contribute your proportion of su~chexpend-
tture as a ~eo-owner, your interest in said
claim will become the property of the under
~signedunder said section 1884 Of said statutes,
and you viii also pay the cost OF this adver'
tisement. i. =. Reavis.
as W. L. Reavis.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-18
Notice OF .Forfelture.

CHLORIDE, n. NJ, January IL, 1883.
Notice is hereby given to A. j. Hughes that
we have expended one hundred dollars in
labor upon each of the following claims, viz. /:
the Buckeye, Ontario and Small Hopes,
situated in the Apache mining district,
Radthe- Crown. point, situated in the Palo-
mss-fnf4in distEiet, all in Soccrro county,
New Mexico, for the year 1882, in order to
hold possession o. said premises under Sec
ton 1894 of the revised statutes of the United
States, and If within 'ninety days from the
date of this notice you fail or refuse to con
tribute your proportion Of such expenditure
as II co-owner. our interest in said claims
W IL become the property of the undersigned
under said section 1924 of the said statutes
ID. NJ. LOTHIAN,
j. G. WRIGHT,
40 E.W. LAYTON. -
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-18
First National Bank
OF socoRRo-

OF 5SGcRRO-
Authorized Capital s25O,OOO. Paid in $4,000.
JOHN w. TERRY, Pres. T.J. TERRY, Cashr.
Ii. w. HARDY, Asst. Cashier.
R8-Does a general banking business. Buys
and sells county warrants. Interest paid on
time deposits,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03

every direction has been pursued for
centuries; it is not, therefore, surpris-
ing that the ground in and around
| Mecca is surcharged with excrementi-
tious matter, which rains (these are fire..
| quent in Mecca) carry by filtration into
the wells. Hagar's we'll is not a spring,
but it's water is supplied by filtration
that is, by rainwater passing down
through the underlying mass of foul
matter. But there is yet another cause
for the pollution Of Hagar's we'll; this
is the thousands of pilgrims, diseasedor
sound, who daily wash beside it, the
water they use naturally finding itsway
back into the well.
"Such being the surroundings of this
holy well and the composition of its
water, there can be no doubt that here
is a most potent source of cholera
poison, for the evidence is most con-
elusive that cholera is propagated by a
specific poison contained in the alvine
discharge of persons suffering from the
disease. Hagar's well therefore must,
according to Nh. Zohrab's description,
constitute an efficient collector of the
poison, and it would scarcely be posi-
BILE to devise a more effective means for
the diffusion of this poison throughout
Mohammedan countries.
81 presume that it would be quite inn
possible to get this we'll closed; but in
the interests of the health of Europe and
Asia efforts ought to be made to guard
the water from this abominable and
dangerous pollution. In the whole
course Of my experience / have
met with q sample of drinking water
making even a distant approach to the
degree of pollution exhibited by the
water of Hagar's WELL"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03

DO everything better than .
and he'll give them the rnles everybody,
strut round like a rooster ss anc he'l|
house he does the same wav n Ais]
mother and the other grown IN /" hls|
and n e that are not grown IN 9 W.
KIND OF a fellow ought to stand ,lhst|
the fence and clap his winosNap oal
mean, his elbows-and crow. sCanno}' q
doodle-doo! L know better than uaaIa. I'M.
Sixth. Cow-in-the-parlor maSS ou''
Children that have Gow-in-tha'nnners'
manners are the kind that ara plarlor|
getting in somebody's way, or .%Says|
themselves in between people. o. pa sails
in front of people. or stepping on gong
body's feet. or on bottoms If , aome.
clothes, or leaning against people, or
tipping their own chairs over, or kno'o IT
ing down a vase, or a work-basket W.
tumbler OF water. They are as cl,o VI .
as a COW in the parlor, and do not m;sy
what they are about any more than y
COW in the parlor would what s%a .
about. III IS
Besides these kinds there is ano.,.-
kind l heard of, called the Interruntara
~Interrupters are the kind that beg;n :.
talk while other people are spesl;roo'
no matter who may be SPEAKING. $
matter if tits their father, or tba Io
mother, or company, the Interrun oheas
do not wait for anybody to stop TALKING
but break right in and say what thesv,
want to. Ivy
l suppose that a boy or a girl or ann
other person might have two kinds y
bad manners both at once. Some ~
the people at my house talked abont
this. My cousin said that if a bo,
should have pig manners and bear man,
ners both he would be bad to live Will
and so would a girl if she should. Nv
big brother said thatif a boy should hava
three, pig manners, and bear manner.
and donkey manners, he would want to
keep him in a room by himself, and So
he would a girl if she should bavs
them; and said that if a boy and a eirf
should have pig manners, and bear
manners, and donkey manners, and
post manners, and cock-a-doodie-doo
manners, all five, he would want IN
chain them up in cages; and said that
if they should have all six kinds, bio
manners, and bear manners, and don,
key manners, and post manners, and
cock-a-doodle-doo manners, and GOWN.
the parlor manners, and be interrunt.
ers besides, he would want to put each
of them under a barrel and stop up the
bungholes. / do not believe he would
stop up the b%ungholes, for then thew
could not get air to breathe. Ny moth.
err does not believe anybody could have
so many kinds of bad manners and be-
alive. Once my mother went some.
where to stay and she had to come
away because the children had such
manners she could not stay. They had
bear manners and some of the other
kinds. l think it is very hard to have
good manners all the time until you get
used to having them.-Mrs. d. N. Diaz,
IN Wide AWake.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03
Hagar's Well.

The London Lancet contains a letter
from DR.. E. FARMLAND, the well-known
English expert in water analysis, giving
an account OF the results of his exami.
nation of specimens from Hagar's well
in Mecca, the water of which is re.
garded as especially holy, large quaint.
ties being annually sent to all Mussul-
man countries. The following is an ex.
tract:
"The water is Slightly turbid and has
a saline taste; 10000 parts of it contain
in solution the very large proportion OF
1882 4 parts of solid matter, Of which a
considerable amount is organic and OF
animal origin. The water also con-
tains an enormous quantity Of nitrate
the usual product Of the decomposition
OF animal eNcreta. The previous ami
NAL contamination calculated from the
proportion OF nitrogen as nitrates and
nitrites shows that the liquid supplying
this well contains in a given volume
nearly six times as much animal mat
ter as is found in the same volume of
strong London sewage. This conclu-
sion is confirmed by the presence of a
very large proportion of common salt,
n of the chief constituents of urine.
The suspended matter in the water con-
sists chiefly of dead bacteria.
= "ln answer to my inquiries as to the
surroundings of the well. and the au-
thcnticity OF the sample, MI. Zohrab
writes me as follows: In reply to your
note regarding the water from Hagar's
well brought home by me, [ beg to
state it is authentic. 1t was brought to
me last January from Mecca by a Mo-
hammedan gentleman in whose good
faith | have implicit confidence. I NAV
also state that several Mussulmans at
Jeddah, who had frequently tasted the
water at the we'll itself, and to whom ]
showed what l had. assured me it was
genuine. There is no difficulty what
ever for a person at Jeddah to get n
quantity of the water, us the well at
Mecca is free to all, and any one may
carry away as much as he plcases. 7
nm not at all surprised at the water be-
ing heavily charged with excrementi-
tious matter. and the reason, as I will
now show, is evident. The City of
Mecca, lying in a basin, contains IL
permanent population OF about 10000
souls, and annually during the Hadii
(p~ilgrimage) from 100. 900 to $50, coo
pilgrims, who become residents for
periods varying from Il week to three
months. crowd into it. This vast influx
Of strangers finds accommodation
where it can; the well-to-do rent rooms,
the poor live in the streets. The houses
in Mecca are generally built in flats to
accommodate pilgrims; each flat is pro-
Tieed with one or two badly-constructed
1-, ~,l +I~,, ~, g-.. L.
,welve of these in each house. The
]atrines empty themselves into pits dug
outside the houses. When these get
Allied they are emptied INTO other p is,
which are made in the streets OF any
other convenient spot, and then COW
orei over with earth. For the poor,
l%atrines on the same principle are made
in and outside the town, and the same
method of emptying them is employed.
This system Of burying foul matter in
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03
The Wonderful Gopher.

-Four business men sat in a Third av-
enue car on their way down town YES
terday. Looking up from his newspa-
per, n of them said:
"Here's an item that says gopher
holes make horseback riding dangerous
on the plains. Now, 1 would like to-
know what a gopher is, anyway" look
ing around inqIiringly.
"a gopher is a striped SQUIRREL said
a tall man, in a tone Of quiet assurance.
you're mistaken, SIR" said his
%neighbor. "a gopher is a land turtle
that burrows"
81 shall have to differ from YOU,
gentlemen, interposed the fourth man.
"a gopher is neither a striped squirrel
o q turtle. 1t is a kind of a rat"
A man on the opposite seat, who had
listened to the conversation with evi.
dent interest, said:
"Excuse me, gentlemen. but you are
all mistaken. A gopher is a snake,
I've killed lots of EN-, andI know what
Pm talking about"
care you willing to back your opin.
ion?" asked the gopher-squirrel man,
taking a roll of bills from his pocket.
Certainly, sir. Here's five that says
a gopher is a snake"
The money was put into the hands Of
the gentleman who started the discus
sion. He accepted it under protest, say
ing he was positive that a gopher wasa
gray %burrowing squirrel. He had often
seen them. A heated discussion fol-
lowed, in which the words gopher,
snake, squirrel, rat and turtle figured
prominently. The money in the stake
holders hand soon amounted to
twenty-five dollars. 1t was agreed that
Webster should settle the dispute. The
gentleman alighted from the car, went
into a hotel, and a copy of the ''Un-
abridged was procured.
"Gol-gop-p-p-gopher-here it is, said
the stakeholder, as he ran his finger
down the page:
species. The name was originally given By
french settlers to many burrOwing animals
from their homecoming the earth. In Cam
ada and Illinois the name was given to a gray
purrowlng squirrel: west of the Mississippi
ana IN wisconsin to q striped squirrel, q
or a reddish or chestnut brown color, WIG
broad, mole-like fore feet. In Georglas
Florida a turtle.
AS the stakeholder refunded tho
money, he said: Gentlemen, it ap.,
pears that we are all right and all
wrong. But we have, at least, learned
something.'-N Y. San.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03
Our Young Folks.
CATASTROPHE.

-
Once seven ancient ladies sat, serenely taking
tea,
Each with cap and kerchief white. knitting
on her knee:
Each with cup dsaucer quaint, SLIPPING with
asmile,
Chatting, chatting, busily, coaily, the while.
To complete the picture, in front of each a
Purring, drowsily content, plump and peace
full, sat.
Hark! a tiny, scratching noise! Each cat
cocks her ear;
Each dame drops her teacup-holds her breath
to hear.
Tempted by the silence, forth timid mousie
stole
Softly out; but wished herself back within
her hole.
Seven beasts with glazing eyes, tails erect in
Seven DANES that, screaming, hop each upon
her chair!
Spell-bound at the dreadful sight, trembling
mousie stands:
Ancient ladies weep and moan, wringing Of
their hands;
Peaceful tabbics turn and flee, overcome
with fear.
OF them all, which do you think was fright
ened most my dear?-GOidsn days..
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The FREQ night schools of Paris are
attended by $4,000 pupils.
"A ball was recently bowled against
young English cricketer's forehead,
killing him instantly.
1t is estimated that 100, 900 deaths
occur annually in England because of
the defective sewage system in the
cities.
San Clemente, an island near
Venice, has alunatic asylum containing
1000 women, the majority of whom
were brought there by unhappy love.
The ancient custom of ringing the
curfew bell has been resumed at STRAIT
ford-on-Avon. 1t may interest Shake
spearean admirers to know that the
curfew is rung upon the bell that was
tolled at the poets funeral.
The third wedding in st. Paul's
Church, London, since 1853 took place
recently, a daughter of Lord Mayor
Knight being united to Mr.. Aitkin. The
great bell was rung for the first time for
. marriage. Three hundred guests
were present at the wedding breakfast.
An impulsive youth vas fined
twenty shillings or ten days hard
labor, in a London court, the other
day, for kissing a young woman
against her will. Being all out of
sovereigns. he decided to go to prison.
His offense was bad enough, but how
shall his excuse be characterized? II
was under the influence of liquor" he
said, "or l should not have dreamed of
doing it."
The Princess Dolgorouki is still in
deep mourning for her lover, the late
Gar of Russia. They threw her out
of St. Petersburg. and her royal grip
sack after her, but they couldn't de-
prive her of her loyalty to the memory
OF the stern old monarch she loved.
History may accord her a prominence,
but the romance of the future may
more than do the unfortunate creature
justice.
I'm the City of Jerusalem three
Sundays are observed every week. The
Mohammedans observe Friday, not by
closing their shops and resting, but by
going to the mosque at certain hours
and reciting prayers. The Jews OBJ
serve Saturday, being very strict as to
their conformity to ancient custom and
ordinance. They close their shops and
are not often on the streets until after
Then they appear in their best
clothes. Sunday is observed by the
Christians of various denominations.
On that day the flags fly from the Con-
sulates of the Christian nations.
The Tartars of the Crimea have
their own peculiar ways of doing things.
When two of them want to fight a duel
they Measure off eight PAGES, bend
their heads forward and at the word
fire, or it's equivalent, rush at each
other like two billy goats. They then
continue until n is knocked out.
Neither hands nor feet are allowed to
take part in the battle. In a fight re-
Gently witnessed by some travellers the
blood streamed from the foreheads of
both the semi-savages; nevertheless
they continued butting at each other
with ferocious passion, until at length
one of them fell exhausted to the earth.
He gathered up all his remaining
strength to draw his knife from his
girdle, and with mi determined stroke
he then cut a wide cash across his
throat.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03
PITH AND POINT.

To speak of the thread of an argu.
ment would imply that the whole thing
is a "yarn."-M. 7. Life.
The late Nh. Yale, of New Haven.
left a fortune of $ 5000, 900. Like Sam
son, his strength was in his locks
Rochester Post-Eapaess.
-Greenburg (Pa.) men shot a tramp
for stealing potatoes from their field.
Such conduct is tuber-rootal for any,
thing.-PStsburgh Telegraph.
Six months after marriage: s'Weel,
weel, Sandy, how dye like the little
leddy?" "Ah, weel, Alec, I'll nae deny
that she has fine conversational pow
ers. "-Chicago Tribune.
"A Pennsylvania lady n%inetythree
years OF age milks, washes and hakes
for a family of three persons. & great
deal can be got out of old people if they
are properly managed. Young people
do not get enough rest. - Louisville
Courler-Journal.
-"Gentlemen," said the Texas man
in the restaurant when the waiter
dumped a plate Of hot soup down his
back, gentlemen, don't laugh" As
he had risen to his feet and drawn two
revolvers, his wishes were respected.
The New York Morning Journal
says that 'a man in Harlem is so fat
that the shadow he casts is as round as
a ball" He's pretty corpulent, no
doubt; but there is man in Norristown
so fat that his shadow leaves q grease
spot wherever it touches.-Norrist0Dn
Herald.
knowledge
Knowledge-who hath it? nay not thou,
Pale student, pondering thy futile lore;
A little space it shall be thine, as now
Twas his whose funeral passes at thy door
Last night Il clown that scarcely knew to spell,
Now he knows all. wondrcus miracle!
I'D vas petter,' said the German
tourist at Watkins Glen, who fell overa
precipice into a gurgling brook, I'D
was petterdat Watkins pud up some of
does warning dangers pill poards SC
dem prides und grooms apoud here
doan attend dcre funerals."-N. y
Nail.
-When Lord Coleridge returns to his
native cath and writes a book about
America, we trust he will not say that:
Chicago is a larger State than Hoboken.
that Louisville is an lsthmus that con-
meets California and Hartford; that the
Hudson River is a beautiful city; that
the A]leghanics are a lovely archipel-
ago; and that Idaho is the capital of
Brooklyn.-Puch.
Working up to it: 81 can swim the
whirlpool at Niagara" said a stranger
in a confidential whisper to a hardware
man on Woodward avenue yesterday.
''Can you?" 81 feel that 1 can. ! should
like some advice from you. Would YOU
try it if you were me?" "No, sir-no.
cir, l wouldn't think of such a thing. A
man who hasn't been in a bath-tub for
o year, nor had on a clean shirt for a
month, wouldn't stand the ghost of a
show with a whirlpool. You'd better
go and tackle a drink of water and
gradually work up TO it. '--Dehob EfA
hsss.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03
1t happened at Philadelphia that

1t happened at Philadelphia that a
little boy, in a mirthful spirit, struck
Richard Carmine on the neck with a
piece of custard pie. Dick grabbed the
boy, but Mrs. Carmine, mere, inter-
fered to prevent violence. At that
j%uncture a man, William McGonagh
by name, began kicking Carmine from
the rear. One kick struck in the abdo-
men. producing a fit. He was taken to
the hospital, and there showed symp.
toms of insanity, necessitating his re-
moval to a more secluded place. The
moral of this is that little boys should
not throw custard pies at people
Philadelphia Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03
An old sea CAPTAIN is prenarino +.

An old sea Captain is preparing to
make a fortune by running into South
Africa with an ice-making machine that
will turn out four tons of CONCEALED
ice a day. He will locate in East Lon
don, where imported ice sells for sixty.
two cents and a half a pound, and will
try to equal the success that attended
the efforts in a like direction Of a man
who attempted to cool the parched
Threats Of the people of San Salvador,
Central America. First thing we know
those savages will be setting up ice.
cream booths to ruin the youth of the
country Chicago Inter- Ocean,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03

"A gentleman of West Greece, N. Y,
suffered a peculiar and painful accident
recently while hitching his horses to a
carriage in which to ride to church. He
was in the act Of speaking, when one O..
the animals threw up his head, hitting
the unfortunate mar under the chin.
forcing his teeth through his tongue.
making a cut nearly an Inch wide.-
N. Y. San.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03

A Pennsylvania Judge has recently
put a stop to the curious method of
evading the Liquor law in the petro-
leum regions of that State. The sellers
have been openly retailing without
license, under the sign Of "Bottling
works." and claiming the right to do so
by virtue of q statute that bottlers of
ale, porter or beer, not otherwise en-
gagged in the sale Of Intoxicating liquors,
shall be allowed to sell the same by the
bottle, provided it is not drank on the
premises. Judge Elwell decides that
this law was repealed by a subsequent
enactmcnt.-N. Y. SIN.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03
A Modern Fable.

A dog, on a warm summer day, lay
down in the shade, and Don 1elf
asleep. He was awakened by the noise
OF a huge bull approaching bis shady
resting-place.
Get up said the bull, ''and let me
lie down there!'
NO. replied the dog, ''you have
no right to the place; l was here first
"Well," said the bull, looking inno-
Gently at the dog, but with a feroclous
twinkle in his left eye, which made the
dogs spinal column run cold and ms
lower jaw give way, ''let US toss up ZOE
it,
"Thank you," said the dog, politely;
II never gamble" and he walked
away.
Moral-Virtue has its own reward
Life.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03

a sailor belonging to the war.sn,R
Canada flung a bailiff OF Montrta,
through a plate-glass window recens,s
tor speaking d~isrespectfully OF fr'nos
George.-Gh:caoo Herald,