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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-09-13

Nor have the operations of the
land thieves been confined even to
manufactured grants, and fraudu-
lent surveys before patent. There
is a grant in New Mexico, which
was confirmed twenty-five years
ago, upon the lines of what was
undoubtedly a valid grant, thor
oughly and honestly proved. The
calls Of the grant, made in the Ian
guage Of the original petition, re-
terred to unmistakable, natural OBJ
iects, and referred to them and to
courses and distances, 50 definitely
and fully, that an honest mistake,
with reference to them or the con
ffrmed boundaries of the grant,
was impossible. The patent, and
the descriptive notes." made a
part thereof, are beyond criticism.
Nevertheless, it has been discov-
cred, that by collusive fraud to
which the final official surveyor
must necessarily have been a party
the west line of that grant was
monumented upon the ground two
and a half miles west of that des-
cribed in the field notes and patent,
and of the natural objects describ-
ed as intersccted by that line :
By this fraud, about $4,000 acres
Of mineral land have been included
within the monuments of the grant
in excess of the three hundred and
odd thousands patented to them by
the United States.
These are a few of the evils and
frauds assailed in the "grant and
land'' planks of the Republican
party. AS the only organization
proposing any definite measures Of
relief therefrop it is entitled to the
support Of every man interested in
protecting the peoples heritage
from thieves, and in protecting it
for our children.
-. -.szsz..ss
OUR friend of the Black Ronge
should go a little slow. lie is
aware that he was elected Il dele
gate under misapprehension. lie
well knows that had he been
known to have been friend OF
Prince he could not have gotten a
vote in his county convention. A
sufficient number Of the members
Of the late Convention are on re-
cord as to the facts, and conse-
quently the blunders Of the Range
IN regard to them are of no partic-
ular consequence. Itls necessary,
however, to notice one statement,
which can only emanate from dis
appointed malice.
1t was never even suggested by
the friends Of Col. Rynerson, in
caucus or out of it, that their sup
port was to be refused to Judge
Prince if that gentleman were fair
! ly nominated. The writer person.
ally assured Mr.. Beckett, of Sierra,
more than once, that while op-
posed to Judge Prince upon very
substantial grounds, he would, if
the Judge proved the choice of the
majority, go home to his county
and work for him as heartily as he
desired to work for Col. kynerson.
The lonely Prince man from Sierra
County ought to know, as a result
Of his personal conferences with
representatives of Lincoln, Grant,
Dona Ana, Sierra, San Miguel and
Valencia, that Judge Prince had
nothing to fear, except that he
could not command the votes of a
majority of the Convention.
s@.------1a-----.--.
LAST week, Hon. O. j. Folger,
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-09-13
Lincoln County Leader.
Saturday, September 13, 1884,
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY

wna- o~kfrov. 11alter q. Fropr.otcr,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27
He Was Critical.

To the place of entertainment had
resorted a gracious and gaudy youth,
gotten up regardless and resplendent
in goodly apparel. Eramored was he
of one of the singers in the opera and
he had brought with him a bouquet.
The lady appeared upon the stage to
sing her principal air, and with fever
ish eagerness he handed his floral trib-
ute to an usher and adjured him to
pass it over the footlights as the song
was ended. But when the air was
done the admirer of embodied art saw
the singer retire without his bouquet
and directly afterward the usher was
perceived Juggling the trophy up the
aisle again. You see." said the usher,
on reaching the surprised youth, Il
really didn't have. the face to hand
up your flowers for that kind of
singing. Why, she blurred her stac-
cato passages frightfully and her cres-
cendo near the finale broke right in
two in the middle. And her trills!
Great Scott! you yourself couldn't have
Jailed TO notice that she made COM
plete slump of them. l can't encour-
age that kind of work even while act
ing as somebody else's deputy" and
he showed the bouquet into the young
mans arms and disappeared into the
iobby.-BoSton Transcript
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27
The Country Editor,

The country editor lives nearer to
his readers than the city editor does.
The country editor knows by sight and
by name goodly proportion of his
subscribers. and to . large extent he is
familiar with their family history. He
personally congratulates them upon the
birth of a child, and sympathizes with
them when death takes a loved one
from the family circle. He attends the
funerals, the weddings, the anniversa-
ries, and all other sorts of gatherings.
He joins their societies, religious and
otherwise, acts as President or Secreta-
ry or as private member, discusses
questions with them, writes essays and
delivers speeches. He is a trustee of
all sorts of local enterprises, and tries
to make himself generally "useful as
well as ornamental. -Danvil.e Advert;.
SER
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27
Odd Things in England.


The tin pail as an article Of kitchen
and pantry furniture is quite unknown
in England. II is seen only at oil and
paint shops. and never with q cover.
Coal with the English is always
''coals." What We term the ',gaiterh
they call the boot. What we call boots
they call ''Wellingtons." A barber
shop is one thing in London, hair
cutting saloon is another and separate
establishment The average English
shave is brutal performance as COM
pared with the American. The patient
must arise from the straight backed
chair, wash his own face and brush his
own hair. London newsboys do not
cry their papers-printed placards
placed on The walk notify the public,
and the boy stands BY his stock in
tr4de and seems to ponder over it
Their Livery stable" signs read
Cars on Hire;" buggies are unknown.
So is a general assortment of dry
goods AMI groceries in one shop. The
''haber-da ,her' keeps pins, needles,
stays. taps and all other minut@ nee
essary for the lady's outfit. The
wooien draper, cloths. The green
grocer never goes beyond vegetables,
save to deal occasionally in Goals. The
exceptions to this rule are with the
cooperative stores, which deal in
everything. In the sale of cooked
food, there are shops confining them
se.ves TO hams. cornca beef and few
vegetables, served hot at noon, and to
be bought from two-penny worth up
ward. There are small shops, making
speciality of eel and kidney pies; some
OF pea and beef soups, and others cook
nothing but fried fish. Crash" our
name for coarse toweling, is an un-
known term al least in London. Pro-
grammes must be bought of the thcater
ushers. Moiasses is called "treacle,"
and sold by the pound. A pie is either
a tart" or a turnover.
The English street car is .'tram,"
and the road "tramway." A pitcher
is jug" and glasses are .'tumblers."
And when you call at the bar for beer
they understand that you want porter.
Breakfast in many families is not a set
meal. but morning lunch, to be eaten
whenever you are ready. Business.
election, and militia notices are posted
on church doors, and in some places
the amount of last Sundays collection,
in pounds, shillings, pence and farth-
lngS.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27
Phillips Brooks on the Drummer"

The Rev. Phillips Brooks, in the
course of his remarks at the New En-.
gland commercial travellers dinner in
Boston said that commercial travellers
should be proud of their mission in
this most exciting and interesting nine
teenth century. This is certainly the
greatest commercial century that the
world has seen. One cannot 90 any,
where to-day but he meets the COM
mercial traveller. The speaker had
seen a caravan coming into the gates
OF Damascus, and those in that cara
van, he said, were essentially CONNER.
clal travellers, though perhaps some-
what different in aspect from the gen.
| tlemen about the table before him.
Every age has had its characteristic
men, and they were generally travel
ing men. One age had its medieval
knights, another its roaming Grecian
scholars, another its German mechanic,
who went about from point to point in
Europe. In our age the commercial
traveller is distinctive. He sets clearly
the standard of the time. But he cam
not accept the privileges without also
taking on himself the responsibilities
of his calling. On him depend the
standards of peace and morals of our
time. This world is going to increase
or decrease in integrity. charity and in
the spirit of freedom and peace, ac-
cording to the spirit of our commercial
men. In Venice there was once a law
that no ship should go to the East with
out bringing back to Venice some por-
ton of the magnificent ruins there to
put into the structure of St. Marks.
There is a certain poetical value in this
law, he averred, even for our own time;
no man and no ship has right to go
out in these modern times without
bringing back something to enrich the
humanities of the age. Great men of
old despised commerce. Virgil fore
told that, with the golden age, would
come cessation of trade. The best
and kccnest spirits of the modern age
look to commerce rs the most potent
factor in the humanizing of the world.
Iennyson, in his noble verse, discards
the conception of Virgil and sings his
ode to the glories of commerce. The
speaker believed that the best interests
OF the race were safe in the hands of
commerce and commercial men.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27
Hit or Miss


Bachelor Brown was n quiet man
whose scheme Of llie was q charming plan;
He merely want d TO live rt ease.
Win nobody but himself 20 please;
For bachelor Brown was much AFRAID
OF looking lorid and growing stout
He dreaded the very name of sout.
he though a wife Was useless bore.
znu notnine IN me ahnoted nlm more
ls1n eiy,ns oaucs OF suuIen ~ u~IhuEnS
Anu ne ei""Se iTo"heu "heh o'ncts iaOs~
CO.
We wonder not thrt B-chelor Brown
was not mucn liked IN his native town;
The boys Delighted TO rlay him tricks
And most or he folks III eyes would M
On distant obJt It's when he pnssed by
But he only thought that they were shy.
tso fell out on Christmas Day
when snow lay deep in the folds hard by,
And bright and Gear was tie winter SKY.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27
Woman's Weight.

When a bulky woman is seen in the
street with an exterior of irregular
folds and draperies, the observer can't
tell how much of it is human and how
much garniture. 1t might be slender
woman with great deal of garment,
or a plump one with only thin simu-
lation OF heavy covering. 1t is now,
more than at any other season of the
year, possible to graduate ones out
lines. By the way. l had letter lately
asking just how thick woman ought
to be in proportion to her length. OF
course, very young girl may becom-
ingly be thinner than q matron, but
think that l have been about right in
making up the following table:
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27

Ii you take that for a standard con-
slider also your contiguration. Ii you
are womanly in shape-that is to say,
if your lines are distinctly curved by
your framework of bones as well rs by
flesh. you do not need quite so much
weight for your height as though you
were of the neutrality-suspicious. Or
der. In selecting an outdoor garment
you ought to choose with reference to
what kind of u basis your form pro-
vides for the proposed cloak or wrap.
1t isn't necessary TO reveal your knowl-
edge to anybody else than your maker
i mean your dressmaker-but it is a
fact that the proper study of woman is
woman, the particular study being her.
self, with u view to artistic improve
ment.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27

Two gigantic eagles, which, for the
last four years, have made themselves
exceedingly disliked by carving off
lambs and poultry from Vermont
farms. were recently captured in a
steel trap at SYNDICATE. The male bird,
which died in the trap, measured seven
feet and seven inches between the tips
OF his wings and weighed twenty-five
pounds. His mate, whose wings
spread six feet, was taken alive, and
can be bought for price satisfactory
to young Mr.. Jarvis Hurd, of Sand
gate.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27

The Hungarian Ministry of Internal
Communication has issued orders that
on y officials of the rank of q ministerial
councillor shall be allowed to step on
the staircase carpets, and that all off
cials below that rank must mount or
descend on the uncarpeted strips of the
staircases. These important orders are
intended to save the state carpets.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27

A Baltimore paper says that city
alone put up the past season 14,4OO,-
600 cans of peaches, 100000 cans of
peas, 800, 000 cans of string beans, 1OO,-
0O0 cans of pears, 5000, 900 cans of to-
matocs, 1000. 200 cans of fruit and 9TH
or vegetables.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27

POUNDS.
rive r?et IN hal lrht should wei n. ...... 100
+ We ie' ne men sh0uld weign....... / q
Eve feet two lncAe, should weigh. .... l13
Eve feet three inches should weigh. ). 119
Five feet four inches should weigh. -. 13J
Five feet five inches should weigh 49,. 13S
Eve feet six inches should weigh. 144
Five feet seven inches should weigh. 10
Five feet eight inches should weigh... l:5
F.Ve rect !llne l'lches should welgh.... 1'O
FIVE tret ten teS should weigh..... l66
Five feet eleve inches should weigh 175
Six feet should WeigI lSn
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27

Mr.. James NJ. Hood, of Frederick,
Md. has donated $4,000 to Franklin
and Marshall College for an astronom-
ical observatory.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27
Miller &smith.
Real Estate Agents,
Liberty Center, Henry Co.. o.

we ofer the following pieces of property st az
W acre farm 2h miles southwest of Iibertv r,s,.
ter, miles northeast from Napoleon GOOD sandv
SOL well improved; new frame house with wing gnoS
sZe, good frame barn 60 acres under cultiyaiion
rna tm9er; good spring Of water all We ar
roEno near tne mouse, good well near the barn !:
NO. orchard Of all kinds of fruit trees n n;cs
yato Wlth evergreens In front of house, Price ga
per acre, half down and the balance on time. WV
20 acres In Richfeld township, 2 miles south os
hlcnne.d Center acres clear: good soil layinO IN
across-road In good neighborhood price eeen
some cash, and the balance on time to suit.
An Excelsior and Handle Factory and paner .ra
other machinery, all in good condition and rnnnirr
order got good deal lumber and wood on hand III
!. nuiaings IN good order most as good as new This
Is Is good paying business for some man that wants
70 Work IN timber of all kinds one of the Arm wants
70 sell nan OF the whole factory or trade on nocs
1arm. Price $4,000; for cash will take leas Th;s
properly ls In Liberty Center, o growing l;vaI~
town any desire to see the factory, come and ses
ioryourself 1t Is running every day.
l6O acre farm in Richfeld township bo ar,..
cleared, the balance good heavy timber PLENTY Saw
mills not iar on. miles south of Grellton stator
on N. H. Inc improvements are frame house an5
other buildings-good fences on what is irnnrovsS
more timber than 1t will take to pay for The wboH
Iarm. Price 81, 4,000-payment easy 15CO or III soS
down, the balance to suit purchaser This ia rsrs
chance not often offered rare
Anew house and lot in Liberty Center. nla,,.s
with fruit trees. House l6x24 built with good msss.
RAJ, all In good order. Price $780, fcssh: BAL
Call on the undersigned We have manv uo,.,..
proved farms and wild land to sell at low MICS
Also al kinks Of farming implements, mae ciins.r
self-binders and any thing farmer needs.
MILLER q SMITH.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27

There are only 1852, POI living soldiers
and sailors who have never applied for
pensions.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-27
EATEN BY A LION.

"a SNOWFALL" they said in the little town,
Had made gu to man of Bachelor Brown.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-16
HonnoRsorA AFRICAN sr.AvsRr.


Mr.. SxaSLRr said IN recent lecture IN
London that the local history Of the lower
Congo must not be studied too closely ana
especially that Of the Bona, as it was alto
gether too befouled with crime, unnatural
sins and nameless atrocities for repetition.
1t was enough that it kindled them to per
severe in the new and sele-imposed mission
Of endeagoriDg to rescue the Congo from
the chance Of such great misfortune as
Portuguese rule would be to that region, to
which the International Association had at
tracted the attention of Europe. hEurope
Judged wisely and well at the forthcoming
conference, we might mark its date down
as the beginning of an era OF expansion
and growth that perhaps should 90 on ua-
checked TIL the end Of time. A slave trade
was great blight, which chung to Africa
Ike an aggravated pest, destroying men
faster than children could be born. He
overlook party Of Arab marauders on the
Congo in November OF last year, over |, 200
miles fEom the sea. They had utterly des-
dated number of villages, massacrsd all
TIE adult males who had not at once fed,
and carried off the women and children.
He never saw such sight before. In
small camp three hundred fighting men
kept in uanscles and letters 2,200 naked
women and children, their poor bodies In
crusted with dirt, all emaciated and weary
through much misery. 1t was like raven
ing human kennels-o sight to make angels
weep cruel enough to make strong men
cnrse and cry, Vengeance on the muir
derers." Here was the net result Of the
burning of us villages and the devastation
Of iorty-three districts, to glut theavarieIous
soul of q man who had constituted himself
chief Of district some two hundred miles
higher up. Though over seventy-hve years
old, here he was prosecuting his murdcrons
business, having shed so much human
blood in three months Nat, if collected into
= tank it might have suiiced to drown him
and al his thirty wires and concubines.
Those 2.3OO slaves would have to be trans
ported over two hundred miles in canoes,
and such as could not ne led would die,
aud perhaps only 800, perhaps 900, of ali
the number would ever reach their destina-
ten. This sas The latest story Of the slave
trade in Africa, and his OBJECT would be
rlly gained if he could make his hearers
symps'hize with the work and aims OF the
International Association.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-16
AN UNGRATEFUL WRETCH.
The Ill Treatment That Thackcray
. ..ired nj His Hands

The Ill Treatment That Thackcray Re-
ceived ut His Hands.
1hackersy's habits were anything but
nehodical, aud he found the duties Of
,diorship especially irksome. Communi
atoms from bis contributors and especially
he would.be ones annoyed and even dis.
re.sed him to an incredible degree. James
Pawn SAYS in his "Recollections:' ! re-
member his complaining OF one of them
18th yigor and irritation which amused
II E exceedingly. a young fellow had sent
linn n long story for which he demanded
.a.'icuiar attention from the greatest of
rortlists,' upon the ground that he had a
SEX sister entirely dependent on him for
support 1backeray was touched by the
appeal, ard wrote his correspondent long
letter. enclosing some pecuniary assistance
but urging him in candor sndtrue kindness
10 st once turn his mind 10 some other in
dus'ry. The reply which this letter called
forth from the young gentleman was
coucbed in the most offensive terms con-
ceiyable," and ended by telling the great.
est Of noyeliss that. although he had at
tsired by good luck the top Of the tree, he
would one daj find himself where. he de-
served to beat the bottom Of it. For
my part. said 1hackeray, upon Mr.. Payn's
showing some premonitory symptoms Of
sufrocation. Il see little 10 laugh at. What
a stupid, uugratcful beast the man must be.
And i ever / waste another half hour again
N writing to creature Of that sort, call ne
q horse or worse
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-16

Anne Boleyn had many plastic defects,

Anne Boleyn had many plastic defects
Octavia's profile was faultless mask.
Nothing in her face, and least Of all ins her
chin and nose, expressed sensibility, which
is to classic female beauty what fame is to
lamp.
Pascal said that if the nose of the Egypt
ian Queen had been a little shorter, and
therefore Irregular, the course of the world s
history wonld have taken another direction.
The truth is that the success Of Cleopatra s
nose lay in its irregularity.
Skobsloffs sister, who is married to the
Cars cousin, is as far removed as Cleopatra
or Salome from the Mary Anderson type of
classic purity; but she is the incarnation of
all the graces, and her physiognomy is elo-
quent in expressing poetry of feeling.
The last Duchessede Berri would not have
been allowed to so much ss compete at q
beauty show had she presented herself in
cogniia. Sir Walter Scott who was close
10 her at mass in the Tuileries Chapel
wrote in his diary that she was very plain,
and that her eyes were not fellows.
The Duchess of Burgundy, who lit up in
the old age of Louis Quartorze the court OF
/ Versailles and Reutralized the merose inau
ence Of Nine. dc Maintenon, had a goitrous
neck and decayed front teeth: yet she was
proclaimed beauty even by the bilious
and censorious St. Simon.
"The Countess Castiglione, who had origi-
nality, suavity and magnetism, had also
the plastic perfection which should COM
mand recognition in deciding a beauty.
There was no disputiug her loneliness;
The Countess ;naugnrated the fashion of
sleeveless ball dresses AS modesty begins
where beauty ends. she could see no hsrm
in the innovation
Marguerite de Valois, with whom most OF
the prominent Freuchmen OF her day were
at sometime CT another desperately in love,
had heavy cheeks, too prominent eyes, which
we're often congested, and thick, hanging
under-lip. She had not the vices of the
ladies' of her mothers court, though she
passed for being as naughty as they were in
her efforts to make conquests tor the pleas
nre of knowing she had power to conquer:
1t was this royal conQuet who first reSorted
10 the expedient of receiving company sit
ting up in bed, with black satin sheets to
give value to the Wilderness Of her bust and
arms.