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The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1886-09-17
A Woderful Well.

At Bellplaine. Iowa, an artesian well
four inches in diameter. burst when
the depth of $50 feet had been reached
In boring. and instantly volume of
water was forced into the air to the
distance of several hundred feet. This
gradually increased In size and vol
vume until stream of water fully six
teen inches in diamater was formed.
and the upward force of this stream is
equal to the power of dynamite, the
water in huge volumes spoutlng high
in the air. And the supply seems in
exhaustible. Two gigantic rivers have
been formed by this water burst which
are running through the town at the
rate of twelve miles an hour aud car
rying everything before them. Houses
and lives are threatened by this pecu-
liar freak of nature. and the citizens
of the town are appalled, at their i'm
pending danger, which at present they
are powerless to overcome.
Finding 1t impossible to divert this
damaging food. an attempt was made
to insert sixteen inch boiler iron tubes
into the well but these were instantly
blown out and forced high into the air.
Finding this plan useless the terrified
people attempted to all up the huge
aperture through which this terrible
geyser was spouting its deluge. Fiji
teen car loads of stone were emptied
into the well. but these were instantly
blown out and forced upward as
though propelled by busting maya
zine of giant power. Bags of sand
were then hastily constructed and cast
into the well. but these. too. were
hurled into the air by the tremendous
force of the spouting water.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1886-09-17
Why Some People Marry.

Some people marry for the fun Of the
thing. and never see where the fun
comes In. This is discouraging.
Some marry for the sake Of a good
companion. and never discover their
mistake. This is lucky.
Man is a tickle "critter." Even Ad-
am who had his wife made to order.
found more or less fault with her.
Don't marry a man for his reputation.
II Is liable to be only u secondhand af-
fair borrowed from his ancestors.
Many women have married men for
their fine exterior. But that's all there
is to an ancient egg worth mentioning
Marriage resulting from love at first
sight is generally welded bliss on Q
par with sour milk. One or the other
gets swihdled aud often both.
Many man has married for beauty
only to learn that he paid $40 for what
can be purchased for twenty-five cents
at all druggists. This Is hard.
But few people marry for pure love.
and they In after years suspect that
what we're at the time promptings Of
the tender passions. were In all pro-
ability, but the nrst symptoms of chol.
era morbus.
The man who marries q woman
simply because she is handy arrange
ment about the house does so from q
pure business stand point, and in the
end If not compelled to support him.
she has done better than any woman I
know OK.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1886-09-17
A Tough Problem.

In the smoking car OF a Chicago
Burlington and Quincy suburban train
the other morning. two passengers
were discussing the pronunciation of
the word "Stough." which appears over
the door of small station building not
far from Hinsdale. They could not
agree, 40 they submitted the question
to Mr.. Mervin Tabor. the State insnr-
anee actuary and former school
master.
"Why." said Mr.. Tabor. IF Rough
spells ruff ! should think s-t-o-u.g-h
would spell 'stuff.'
"What do you think about itf' said
one Of the gentlemen to MIR. Watson. q
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1886-09-17

Board Of Trademxn.
Il should think II would be pronounc-
ed 'Stoo.' said Mr.. Watson; -you
know t-h-r-0- ugh spells 'throo.'-
At this junction Mr.. Caldwell. the
paper manufacturer. came In and the
question was put 10 him.
-Why." said he. anybody ought to
know that. Though. tho: s.t-o-n-R-h
'sto.' OF course
When Mr.. l.. Wood. OF Aurora, came
in he was asked for an opinion.
Il should call II -stoff.' cough
'eoff.' and | don't see how s-t-o-u-g-h
can spell anything but 'stoff.'"
At this gray haired man. with
light plug hat and the air OF a capital
list. turned around in his seat and with
the intrepldlty Of one who speaks
from absolute knowledge. said.
at is pronounced with the sound OF
'ow-'stow.
SWELL" said eof the parties 10 the
controversy. "what confounded fool
gave such an internal name TO a town
anyway"
1T was named after me-" said the
gray haired man;"I laid out the town
my name Is Slough"
For several minutes the clickity-
click Of the car wheels was the only
sound that broke the embarrassing
stiffness.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1886-09-17

A potato wont cut on q mash
And sought an onion bed
''xhat's pie for me observed the squash
And ali the beats turned red:
800 wayf" the onion weeping cried.
'Your love cannot BE-.
The pumpkin be your lawful bride,
rou eantelops with me.
nut onward eth the tuber came
And lay down 81 her fsef.
"You caaiinower by any name
And it viii smell as svhest;
And I. too. am an early rose.
And you've cutne 20 see.
So don't turn up your lovely noso.
hut spinach at with me-"
81 don't care at All 20 we'd
So. 90 str. n you pieaser'
The modest onion meekiy said.
"And lettuce pray have peas;
50 think that you have never seen
Myself or smeiled my sigh;
Too long maiden ! have been
For favor IN your ryo."
"Ahi spare q crsss." the tuber prayed;
"My cherry shed bred bride youth be,
You are the only weeping maid
That's currant now with met"
And rs the wiiy tuber spoke.
lie caught her by surprise.
And giving her an Aftichoke,
Devoured her with bis eyes.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1886-09-17
Notice OF Contest.
u. 9. Land once. Las Cruces. \. N

u. 8. Land onioe. Las Cruces. \. NJ.
June Nth. lse8
Camplaint haying been entered at this office
By Rafael Olguin against W. T. Endsley for
abandoning his pre- .emption entry NO. Asi
dated March ilth. 1854, upon the NV ksw y
sec ~, n ksex n kew Y sec %. tip - ., T
ew, In Sierra county, N. NJ. with view 70
the cancellation of said entry; the said
parties are heraby snmmoned 10 appear Ht
this once On the seth day of July. 1854, at 10
usclock q m, 20 respond and furnish testi
many concerning said alleged abandonment.
JLnsla-ll ExUx /. .. -. s..e
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1886-09-17
Standard Facts.
know OK

Sound moves 74S miles per hour.
Envelopes we FIRST used in 1880.
Telescopes were invented in 1890.
A square mile contains 040 acres.
Light moves $4,000 miles per hour.
A barrel of rice weighs 600 pounds.
A barrel of -four weighs 1906 pounds.
A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds.
A firkin of butter weighs 30 pounds.
The irst steel pen was made In 1880.
Slow rivers dow four miles per hour.
A span Is ten and seven-eights
inches.
A hand (horse measure) Is four inchs
es.
A rife ball moves 1000 miles per
hour.
Rapid rivers fow seven miles per
hour.
Postofllces were first established In
14e4.
A storm moves thirty-six miles per
hour.
Electricity moves $1,000 miles per
hour.
The first iron steamship was built In
1880.
The irst lucifer match was made In
1902
Gold was discovered in California In
ls4s
The first horse railroad was built In
1891.
American tin discovered In 1885.
Natural gas first used from 1880 10
1885.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1886-09-17
SNYDER BROS. & sCEARCE.
ANIMAS RANCH.


PO. Las Paloinas Sierra Co N. NJ.
No stock with the above brands will be dis
posed of In any way. and any person or per-
sons found riding, leading or driving any
stock with such brand, except those employ.
ed to do 40, will be vigorously prosecuted II
found and can be caught.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1886-09-17

II appears that there are inhabited
cave dwellings in Saxony even to this
day. They are dug In a sandstone hill.
have different rooms, dark and light. as
well as chimneys. windows and doors.
and are said to be very dry and habl
table.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1886-09-17
GROZIER BROS

Young stock branded w on left shorldes. u
on left side and q on left hind quarter and
ear-rnarked swallow fork ana under bit IN
either right or left ezr. and undernit In oppo-'
site ear Horses, mules burfos and all other
stock branded w on left hind quar'er. Range
South Diamond creek, west side of Black
range. Postofiice address. Chloride, Sierra
<sunty. New Mexico.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-07
THE TELEPHONE.
An Instrument with a Future as Marvel
GUS as That of the Telegraph.

An Instrument with Future as Marvel
Gus as That of the Telegraph. i
Experimental operations with a new
telephone are reported as giving effec-
tive results at distance of six hundred
and thirty miles, or from this city to
Cleveland, o., while an attempt to
reach Chicago was not successful. But
failure for the time being as to any
electrical experiment does not imply
that the world has reached the limit of
the possible uses it can make of what,
so far as man can guess, is the most
energetic force in the created universe
At one time the greatest telegraphic
projects seemed to have found an ap-
parent limit because it was thought
sufficient force could not be put upon
the wires, and at that very time the eyiI
was that the wires were destroyed by an
excessive application of force. All we
can conclude from failure of an cleo.
trio motor or telephone. or other APP
paratus or instrument for using cleo
tricity is, that the force has not beer
applied in the proper conditions; tina
the ingenious inventor has not vet ex.
torted from nature the secret of thai
particular case. But the telephone has
perhaps future as marvellous, com.
pared with its present condition, Al
the telegraph itself had when in it
rudimentary stage, 7, Mail ant
cypress
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-07
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.


No house in tl1e country can be
called complete home without gar
den attached to it Ploughnld's.
The manure that is permitted to
waste about many farm yards would
make luxurious supely for the gar
den.
Remove fower-pot stains from
window-sills by rubbing WIZ me
Wood-ashes and rinse with clean water.
IN. 7. Times.
Wash half brushes and combs in
soft water and liquid ammonia in the
proportion of four teaspoonfuls of
liquid ammonia to one quart Of water.
cincinnati Times
--Skillful cultivation should be the
aim of every one who raises plants
and crops. To made gardening and
farming profitable, it is necessary TO
have something in return for every
stroke that is made and for every dol
lar invested. Boston Post.
Hot chamomile bags often give re-
lief to sufferers from neuralgia. The5
are made of linen lightly filled with
chamomile blossoms; reject the stalks:
When needed, place them on a tin
plate in the oven, where they win be-
come very hot but not burn. PhilGdel-
pl.iG Press.
When the ground around a pig
pen is thoroughly underdrained, as it
should be, bare earth makes the best,
and certainly the most desirable floor.
A fresh supply of loose earth should be
thrown in twice year and removed
as manure whenever it becomes rich
enough. On no account should a
plank floor be laid within a few inches
of the ground The space beneath
will soon become a harbor for rats. Ii
plank floor is desired, make it at
least two feet from the ground and
leave it open SO that cats and dogs can
get in to destroy Vermin. San Fran
CISCO Chronicle.
The Kansas Board of Agriculture
has been experimenting with corn and
cob meal for COW feed, and the report
made public shows that it is far
superior to pure corn meal, the cattle
fed on the ground corn and cob max
ing the greater increase in weight, and
requiring less weight of feed than
those fed on corn-meal. This fact may
be of interest to farmers who are con-
venient to mills, for they all know
there is great waste in feeding I'M
ground corn to cattle, and if the cob
adds to the value of the feed, there is
no reason why it should be thrown
away WeStere Rurdl.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-07
PRAYER FOR TEMPERANCE.

An Unprecedented Demonstration in the
National House of Representatives.
Judging, says a recent Washington dis
patch to the New York Tribune, by the
comments in which Representatives
freely indulge in private, the daily pray
ers of Chaplain Milburn have strong
tendency to arouse feelings the reverse
of pious or devotional in the minds of his
hearers. The prayer this morning was
so acceptable to the total abstinence
members that they could not restrain
their enthusiasm, and the Chaplain S
!" Amen" was greeted with ripple of
applause. The Speaker apparently was
nettled by this unprecedented demon
stration. and he brought his gavel
down sharply to call the House to or
der. The prayer was as follows:
'Oh. God, answer, we beseech Thee, the
supplicatons os millions of hearts ascend
ing to Thee for the speedy c'ose of that
greatest evil OF modern society-drunken-
ness. Linked with almost every vice and
crime in a loathsome compact with gaming
houses and brothe s. it burdens the criminal
dockets of courts of justice throngs the
poor-houses, mad-houses. jails and jfbbets,
wreathed portals of delirium tremens. unbars
the posterns of life that they may stink into
the cowardly grave of SUI eide. Beginning
most often in an alluring taste in the jocund
bond of goOd-feilowship it becomes an appe-
tite and masJer-passion which destroys the
body, darkeHs the intellect, blinds the moral
sense, deadens the soul, drives God out Of
mems spirit, and paralyZing the will binds
men and women hand and foot and casts them
into hell. leaving an entail of despair and
wretchedness to their children.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-07
The Divine Law.

Now, in our judgment, in the present
state of American society and Ameri-
can drinking customs, the social use of
wine or lager beer does carry with it
considerable peril; peril even to the
man who thinks himself most secure
against it, peril to others whom he can
not protect. If you deliberately Judge
otherwise, if you conclude that it is
safer for you to set the community in
general and your boys in particular an
example of moderation than of total
abstinence, you must judge-no one
can Judge for you; il you think this is
the safest example for you to set your
Bible class, you must judge-no one
can Judge for you. The only thing we
can judge is this. that the Divine law
of spiritual life and love, which no man
can disregard without sin, forbids US
to hazard moral good for a sensuous
pleasure. In our judgment, if we were
to use wine as social luxury in the
United States of America, we should be
violating tins law. Whether you would
violate it or no, you only can determine.
and from the decision of your own con-
science there is no appeal except to
Him who seeth the secrets of every
heart and judgeth all men with unerr-
ing justice of judgment = Christian
Union.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-07
TRUTH UNADORNED.

The Plain Business Announcement of an
Honest Rum-SeIIer.
The Idaho Democrat publishes the
advertisement which we reprint below.
On first reading it we judged it, says
the Christian UniC4e, to be either hoax
or Temperance agitator's ingenious
attempt to produce Temperance SEN
sation. But, sending for information
to a subscriber of the Christian Union
at Boise City. where this advertisement
appears, we are assured that it is a
genuine liquor saloon. There is amys-
terry about this naked truth adver-
tisement which we do not pretend to
solve. But it certainly is the truth I'M
adorned. This is, we believe, the first
case in which the Christian Union has
ever published an advertisement on its
editorial pages. And this one is pub
Ished without charge:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-07
MY TREASURES.

My children, how many2 Why bless you,
there's four;
Two rolhcking, fun-loving boys,
who always give mamma enough work to
do,
But working is one Of nay joys.
Dear Ruby who ''helps mamma lots" in for
way.
And my baby so winning and sweet.
Bright jewels adjoining my wifehood's crown
In home where angels may meet.
At the close eli the day, I sit down beside
- My baby, to lull her to sleepl
An sweet dreams of CHILDHOOD the others re.
pose:
Kind Father, Thy watch Ger item keep!
You ask am worried with trouble and care;
All, no. it is restful and sweet
To be the fond mother OF blossoms so fair.
10 guide Ia the right their young feet.
'Would wish to exchange2' Not for king,
dom or croWnl
Nor for all Of your wealth, and your
pleasures;
You keep your fairbanks and your couches OF
III keep, what is best, my four treasures.
%-ElSte G. Alien, IN Good Housekeeping.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-07
PowDERLYs LIQUOR VIEWS.
Scathing Denunciatior of the Infer
nal Drink Traffic.


A ScathiRg Denunciatior of the Infer
nal Drink Trafic.
Liquor-sellers are one of the classes
prescribed by the constitution of the
Knights of Labor. In his last.address
made to the general convention of the
Knights of Labor, Mr.. Powderly said:
1.-The Temperance question is an inn
! portant one, and l sometimes think it
, is the main issue. The large number
of applications during the past year to
grant dispensations to allow the initia-
ton of rumsellers was alarming. I
have persistently refused them, and
will enjoin my successor, if he values
| the future success of the order, to shut
the doors with triple bars against the
Omission of the liquor-dealer His
natl, and that of the honest, indus
tTious \, orkman lie in opposite direc-
tiens. THIS rumseller who seeks adj
mission into = labor society does so
with the object th.at he may entice its
| members into his salo On after the meet
fIigs close. No question OF interest TO
labor has ever been satislAa ctorlly set
tied over a bar in famho1e. NO laDor
society ever admitted rumsellANr that
did not die drunkard's death. NO
workman ever drank a glass of run
who did not rob his family of the price
of it, and in doing so committed q
double crime, murder and theft. He
murders the intellect with which the
Maker hath endowed him. He steals
from his family the means of susie
nance he has earned for them. Turn to
the annals of every dead labor society,
and you will see whole pages blurred
and destroyed by the accursed foot
prints of rum. Scan the records OF a
meeting at which q disturbance took
place, and you will hear echOing
through the hall the maudlin, fiendish
grunt of the drunken brute who dis
turbed the harmony of the meeting.
"In the whole English language I
can find no word that strikes more ter
ror to my soul than the one word
rum. It was born in hell ere the fiab
no redemption had gone forth. Its
life on earth has been one of ruin to
the hopes of youth and the peace of
old age. 1t has robbed childhood of
its delights. 1t has stolen the laugh
from the lips of innocence, the bloom
from the checks of manhood. 1t has
touched the heart of old age like the
tip of poisoned arrow. It's sound, as
it gGrgles from the neck of bottle,
echoes through many desolate house
hold as the Kissing Of thousand SER
penis. You may deem me too radical
on this. point. Yet never interfere
with the rights of a man to drink If he
so elects. / hold l have right to, and
do, shun rum as | would an enraged
tiger, neither meddling with it nor al
lowing it to NEEDLE with me So long
as it keeps its distance am content to
leave it alone, but the moment it at
tempts to interfere with my rights by
coming into the Knights of Labor, then
my soul rises to arms against it, and
can find no words too bitter, no de-
nunciation too scathing to hurl against
it,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-07
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


The late William E. Forster first
gave to Mr.. Parnell the title of Ire
lands UncroWned King"
Peter NJ. Arthur: chief engineer of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, the best-paid body of skilled
artisans in the United States, is an
American of Scotch-Irish extraction.
He is fifty=fiye years old and has been
chief for ten years. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Mr.. j. C. Upton is the most Jour-
nalistic journalist in the State. He is
editor of the Newton Enterprise, owns
half interest in the Lincoln Press, has
| bought out the Dallas Current, and in
tends to start at an early date a paper
at Wilkesboro. Charlotte On CO.
Chronicle
-Rubinstein, the celebrated Russian
pianist; who visited this country a
few years ago, has been offered $780,
600 for series of one hundred con-
certs in the United States; but he says
he suffered so excessively from sea-
sickness that he will never consent to
cross the Atlantic again.
"A London dispatch says the Prin-
cess Clementina, the youngest daugh-
ter of the King of the Belgians, who will
be fourteen years old July so next,
has been selected as the bride of Prince
Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince
of Wales, now twenty-five years old.
The Princess is being educated as a
Protestant.
Justice of the Peace Kurganowski,
Of the province of Perm, in Russia,
while holding court was twice inter-
rupted by his wife-onee with the an
nouncement that dinner was ready;
and again that the soup was getting
cold, whereupon he fined her three
rubles for disturbing the dignity of his
court, and then paid the money from
his own pocket.
The story is told of John Bright
that he said to lady who spoke COM
plainingly of Mr.. Gladstone: Have
your children ever seen Mr.. Gladstone,
iliadam?" mo- said the lady, won-
deringly. ''Then," said the great
Englishmen of the people, II should
advise you to improve the earliest OPP
portunity to show them the greatest
man that England has ever produced. .
"A New York paper says Teemer,
the Pittsburgh oarsman, has hacker
worth many thousands of dollars who
never hesitates to pitt UP the funds
when anybody challenges Teemer. 1t
Is not generally known that this back.
er is a lady. Such is the case, how-
ever She is the widow of well-
known saloon-keepef of Pittsburgh,
who died year or two ago, leaving her
a big fortune.
Sam Small has given $40 for the
benefit of an Atlanta GA Mission
Sunday-school. He. writes: Il hope it
will do away with the necessity of an
entertainment. for l do not believe
these. means of getting money for the
Lords work are either to his honor on
glory. Try to avoid all such schemes.
Let the people give what they will, but
please don't barter them any thing for
the Lords sake. = Chicago Tribune.