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Bent County register., 1888-08-11
Hero and There.

The Pueblo Merry World says
soinething will have to be done to
improve the side walks of that city
or their people will all become
string halted.-Last year the tax
schedules of Bent county numbered
one thousand eight hundred. This
year they number over four thou
sand. Bent county Is booming
The county commissioners have
raised some of the tax returns. If
they are not careful they will raise
rome folks out Of the country.-The
Las Anirhas papers run temperance
columns.-All dogs not wearing tax
tags at Las Animas are shot. Not
30 in LAMAR. A. Ligon, well
known here as the representative of
Irwin, Allen 4 Co., fell out of a
hotel window at Kansas City last
week and was badly injured. He
was here Two weeks ago.-1'he Gra.
hada Exponent speaks of DIR. Cum
nings of Las Animas. Is that
right, or do they mean of Lamar
Sixty-eight is the number of people
killed by the cars in Chicago within
the past six months.-A circus show.
ed At Ia Jpnta last Sunday, It
drew oruwd.-The democratic
state convention will be held at
Denver September 1l.-Chevenne
Wells has hew school house that
cost over three thousand dollars
There are number of republicans
In tins vicinity that should subscribe
for the REersrrR.-The hotel at
Tourist City is being moved to
Wafsenburg.-A little child, two
years old, of w. D. Russell's, was
bitten BY rattle snake at Nepesta
last week.-Twenty eight cars of
~cpl was shipped from Walsenbure
one day last week. mayor of
Denver has ordered all vicious dogs
In that city locked up or shot. The
tax tag will not save any of them
There ID town in Illinois named
Golden, and the democrats claim
It - their own on account of the
sstae' Mountain lions sre killing
Bent County register., 1888-08-11


Local politics are beginning to er-
eite considerable interest as the
county convention draws near and
the principle matter of interest in
the cointy is the man who will
tepreseht Us in the legislature.
There are humber of gentlemen
well qualified for the position men
toned, but in view. of the many mat
ters Of interest to Bent county that
are liable to come before the legis-
lsture next winter, to choose not
only man that has the ability, but
one Who has the acquaintance and
Is fortunate enough to have outside
influence that would be of great
benefit to the county, has been the
desire of the people. All things
considered, it Is thought by many
gentlemen in the county that Hon.
e. c. Goodale was not only the
most available man, but, that should
hs bs nominsted by the convention
he would certainly be elected. Mr..
Goodals has made no effort to secure
the nomination and what has been
apne is solely the work, SO far, of
those believing he is the right man
for ths place. He is being strongly
urged to make THE race by, we can
ttuthfully say, every locality, with
perhaps the exception of one town
in the county, and as we only de-
Sire what is best for tho county, and
believing he is at this time the right
man to select, we desire that his
candldaey be carefully considered
before pledges are made or support
offered other candidates.
Bent County register., 1888-08-11


young stock near Galatea.-J. R
King has sold his Ebert County
Tribune to W. T. Rethingtop.+The
Graders on the Rock Island have
been making the days and nights
hidious at Eastonville. Several ar
rests haYe been made and better
order is expected.-Female horse
thieves are getting common. A
woman stole 6 horse at Carriso, last
week, and vas captarsd near the
east line of the stats. Two female
horse thieves are in Jail at Syracuse,
Kansas.-Hundreds of democrats
who cant stand the free trade idea
are declaring their intention TO vote
the republican ticket. There are
thousands more who say nothing
about it who will vote for Harrison.
The La Junta merchants are
liberal advertisers as is shown by
the papers of that town.-Supposing
free trade would bring the price of
3 twenty dollar suit of clothes down
to Ave dollars and there was no
work for poor man, where would
he get the FIVE dollars. Free trade?
Rats! RATsl RATS! Give us pro-
lection and work. The Arkansas
river is dry two hundred miles east
of here. There is plenty of water
in the riter in this state.--A wind
and hail storm at MaSehall, Missouri
Monday night, did thirty thousand
dollars damage. The Baptist church
was blown down. Hail stones meas
uring eight inches fell.-The police
force at Pueblo has been cut down.
No money to pay is the cause-L-
F. McFaddeR broke his ankle in get
ting of train at Georgetown Sun
day.-Col. George Gibson of the
Fifth Infantry regulars, died at Las
Vegas Sunday.-Northern and east
ern Kansas had bad storm Sunday
night.-Charles Saathoff was killed
by the cars at Trinidad, Sunday
Colorado Springs is bothered with
pick. k.pockets and thieves of all kinds.
"A cyclone passed over Sumner
county Kansas, Monday, doing con.
siderable damage and iniutins
number of people. No one was
killed.-Twenty conductors on Wis
consln road are ordered in to head
quarters to explain what became of
all the cash they collected.-General
Schofield is now the commander, of
the United States army.-Martin
Myers, an engineer on the Santa Fe
road went down a bank with his
engine near Lawrence, Kansas, Mon
day, and was killed.-A man giving
his name as F. E. Wright, from Las
Animas, had his foot crushed and
his head badly cut at Cimarron, Kan
Bag, by the cars, Sunday night.
Bent County register., 1888-08-11
For President;
BENJAMIN HARRISON.

We hear the name of ]. ID. Mar
tin mentioned as candidate for
county commissioner. Mr. Martin
has had considerable experience in
bounty affairs. He was at one time
sheriff of Adams county, Iowa, four
years and bridge commissioner a
year and had charge of the build
ing of humber of bridges in the
cams county.
Bent County register., 1888-08-11
Lots or money.

your money ii ready, spot cash
loans on final proofs and decided
lands GpopAIx q CoofzR. If.
, 1888-10-17
Reducing the surplus.

The disposition of the surplus In the
United States treasury engages the atten-
ton of our statesmen, but "a more vital
question has our attention, and that is the
reduction of the surplus consumptives.
Since the discovery and introduction of
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton. there has been a marked decrease in
the mortality from this dreaded disease,
and it is possible to still further reduce the
number of consumptives, How? By
keeping constantly at hand a bottle of
DR.. Kings New Discovery and using
according to directions upon the appear
auce of the first symptoms, such as a
cough, a cold, a sore throat, a chest or
side pain. Taken thus early a cure is
guaranteed. Trial bottles free at DR.. W.
n. Hunt's drug store.
, 1888-10-17
Not Injurious to Her Health.

In the face of facts like these and of
many more that might be adduced, we
cannot believe that nature has placed
before woman any constitutional barrier
to the collegiate life, but that SO far as
physical reasons are concerned, she may
enter upon it with no more fear than a
man may. That an increasing number
of women will do this, and that it is best
for the state that all should do it who
are destined to be instructors of the
youth Of the republic, is in my mind not
at all doubtful.
What is to be the result2 That is the
crucial question. On the physical health
of the educated woman it will be bene-
icial. Observation, SO far as it is now
possible, shows that the work of the full
college course is favorable to bodily
health. The regularity of hfe, the salts
faction of attainment, the pleasant COM
panionship, the general broadening of the
girl nature, tend in that direction. Speak
ing of 'nervous or n~europathic' young
women, DIR. Charles Follen Folsom, of
the department of nervous diseases in
the Boston hospital, writes that it his
opinion that ''the higher education is a
conservative rather than a destructive
force. Arthur Gilman in The Cen
turv,
, 1888-10-17

1t consists of an OK hide drawn, while
green, tightly over a stout framework of
wood, and afterward deliberately polished,
so as to look like the head Of a drum.
When dry, a slab of marble is a soft and
downy thing in comparison with it. 1t
was on snch a bed as this. with a smooth
and gaudily colored petate or mat, and a
single sheet spread over the hide, that |
was invited to repose.
examined this new instrument of tor
ture narrowly, and finally turned in with
heavy misgivings, particularly as found
that Pedro's mansion was full of .tleas,
which hal already set my nerves on a
gallop. / was weary enough, but it was
impossible to sleep-the fleas came in
hungry squadrons, and the hide bed grew
m~omentarily more rigid and ebdurate.
At last | could endure it no longer. A
bed on the ground, with my saddle for a
pillow and the sky for a roof, would have
been Il luxury itself compared with this.
l got up, unbarred the door, and went out
the corridor. The cool evening air was
welcome, and | vowed audibly not
to go to that OK hide bed again, and so re-
outside till dawn.-E. G. Squier.
, 1888-10-17
A Double Helm for the BILLIONS.

In addition to that chief remedial meas,
ure-the use of Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters-persons suffering from an acute bill
ious attack, will facilitate recovery BY the
use at first of milk and lime water and
thin gruels, and by a very gradual return
to the use Of solid foods. Fatty sub
stances should be excluded from the diet.
Blue pill is a remedy OF doubtful safety,
particularly if there be nausea and vomit-
ing, frequent concomitants of liver trouble.
The Bitters, provided its reformatory
action be not retarded and marred by gross
indiscretions in diet, will soon restore the
equilibrium of and action of the liver,
stomach and bowels, all three disordered
by biliousness. In all forms OF malarial
disease, which in everyone of its phases
presents indications of liver trouble, Hos
letters Stomach Bitters is the foremost of
specifics. The light of over thirty years
experience also shows it to be a fine rem
edy for rheumatism, kidney troubles,
dyspepsia, nervousness and debility.
, 1888-10-17
A spcc,, of Condensed Sweetness.

Talk about sweetness long drawn
outP" exclaimed a friend the other day
IF you want to realize what that term
means, you should take into your sys-
tenn II little of the sugar that drug
gists use in putting up certain prepara-
tions of q~uinine and other drugs. | went
into a Third street drug store and the
proprietor gave me Il taste. He just put
a little speck of this sugar on the end of
my tongue and informed me that it was
just 2S0 times as sweet as ordinary cane
sugar. Well, | should say it was. l
tasted hat sugar all day long, and there
is q faint suggestion of it lowering about
my palate even now. The same day
was beguilcd into taking that little speck
of condensed sweetness on my tongue
/ smoked four or Eve cigars and ate 4
hearty dinner, but tho sugar WIS more
powerful than cigars and dinner com
bined, and l tasted it through the nico-
tine and roast beef. | really believe
honey would have seemed sour after talk
ing such u dose. Pioneer Press List
pnpr"
, 1888-10-17
A Story Of .,Larrnn Jcro,ae.

One of the best stories told of the late
Larry jerome is that when travelling in
Florida not very long ago he stayed at a
hotel, the proprietor of which asked him,
when he was about TO depart, to sign his
name in n book not quite like an ordinary
hotel register, but one used, after the
fashion of an old English custom, for the
purpose of obtaining the names of dis
tinguished guests. When Mr.. Jerome
was about to place his signature with the
others, he saw that the writer just before
him had incribed the comment, Il
came here for change and rest and got it.
Quick as thought the witty clubman
pcnued beneath it. Il also came here for
change and rest, but the walters got the
change and the landlord got the rest. -
Wv York Press.
, 1888-10-17

When the sewing machine first came
Into general use it was feared that it
would do away with the means of sup
port of the sewing girls, making it a sim
pie matter for every household to COM
pass all its own sewing in comparatively
no time at all. But, contrary to con-
lecture, precisely the opposite has been
the result; for the sewing machine made
plain work SO easy that tucks, ruffles, in
servings, and all the finer fancies of the
needle, done by its aid, came to be as
much a matter of course as the plain
seam used to be. SO that work accumu-
lated beyond all expectation, and the
class of sewing girls found more to do
than they had ever dreamed of having;
and those who had worn the simplest
sort of clothes suffered from a prevalent
feeling which made plain clothes seem
to manifest a want of taste and elegance
and care for appearances.
With all this superabundance, then, of
fanciful cutting out and putting together
again, of stitching and trimming with
bands and edgings, that came in for the
white underwear with the sewing ma
chine, the outside wear presently could
not fail to correspond in intricacy; and
thus e~mbroideries, furbelows, pleatings,
draperies, and all the rest of the insignia
of fashion belonging to the gown, have
come in their turn. The consequence of
this raising of the straight seam to its
highest power is that she who once
dressed herself with simplicity would now
be out of the world in her old style and
manner, and finds it best to sacrifice her
tastes and deck herself out like a doll, as
it seems to her, and she who used to be
the French doll incarnate has to worry
her brains and her modistes to invent
something that shall exceed all previous
bambinos, and be an impossibility to her
imitators till it is time'for something else.
And thus the innocent looking little
sewing machine has brought about a
complete revolution in fine attire; has
raised dressmakers' prices from S. to
$40, with the intermediate grades, and
those far exceeding the larger figure;
has made it necessary for the woman
who used to buy her best black silk for
a dollar and ninepence a yard, and when
cut and basted for ''two and three
pence" make it up herself in three or four
afternoons, now to hire a mantuamaker
with skill at the old and a knack for the
last new wrinkle, and to pay for one
gown what would have supplied her whole
wardrobe twenty-five years ago.-Har-
per's Bazaar.
, 1888-10-17

We nave been a little surprised ct the
number of well dressed people, or rather
at the few badly dressed people, seen on
the streets. Inever saw so many neatly
attired girls, and l don't think that the
women of any large city on the globe are
so uniformly pretty. One coming from
America naturally expects to find the wo-
men of Germany very large, bony or
feshy. If you come here with that idea
In your head you will be disappointed, for
the Prussian women are petite, az a rule,
below the average stature, well formed
and quick in their movements. The men,
however, are large, muscular and some
what gross in appearance.-Cor. Chicago
Times.
, 1888-10-17
our Cand,date for Prestdent.

He will be nominated by the conven-
ton and will be elected by the people, be-
cause he will come the nearest to filing
their ideal OF a chief magistrate. Elec
trio Bitters has been given the highest
well filed the ideal of a perfect tonic and
alternative. The people have endorsed
remedy in oil troubles of liver, stomach
and kidneys. For all malarial fevers and
diseases caused by malarial PoisGns, Flee
stipation. Satisfaction, guaranteed or
refunded. Price SO cents and 81
at DR.. w. n. Hunts drug store.
, 1888-10-17

An agent has just left my rooms after
wasting a half hour of time in vain at
tempts to persuade me into purchasing
a faucet filter-made in some new fan
gled way. There is really no such thing
as a filter for water that can be used at
tached to house faucets. AT best, they
have never been anything else but strain
ers, and recent experiments prove them
to be worse even than that, for they are
shown to be nests for propagation of just
such impurities as they are calculated to
remove. Far better take chances on
Croton or Cochituate direct than to have
the already laden water made a breeding
place for bacteria by so called filters.
They are not to be trusted.
This water question continues to be of
the utmost public Importance, and it
seems extraordinary that typhoid fever
and other filth diseases should not rage
to far greater extent than reports show,
if our drink is as foul as it is said to be.
l suspect that the truth is this bacteria
scare has been very much overworked.
There are leaders in the medical profess
sion who say directly that modern prac-
tice of medicine has actually nothing to
show in the way of better results than
ancient, and that n greater percentage
of patients recover in palatial hospitals
than in the rough shanties where sick
were kept a hundred years ago; and GER
tainly the past heated term, with its ac-
companying immense consumption of
water, has not shown any increased death
rate-slightly the reverse. If ones water
supply be distinctly and sensibly impure,
try some other source; otherwise, it is a
question if it be not unwise to disturb
ones mind about microscopic bacilli,
that have been swimming about ever
since Adam.-William F. Hutchinson,
NJ. D., in American Magazine.
, 1888-10-17
The Boundary Line Posts.

The iron posts that mark the northern
boundary line between the United States
and eastern Canada are at every cross
road that leads into Canada, and desig-
nate, as the inhabitants there say, Lime
49," They stand above the ground about
three feet, and nave four sides, on which
appear the following inscriptions: l.
Boundary, Aug. 0, 1912" 2. ALBERT
Smith, United States Commissioner 3.
Treaty of Washington" A. 'Lieut.
Col. l. B. B. Estcourt, II. B. NJ. Com
missioner Frank Leslie's.
, 1888-10-17
THE OLD TRYST.

Like the scent of a flower in blooming
When the dew drops on blossom and tree,
A memory comes sweetly pertaining
The dead past to me.
And the sounds of the words that were sPeen
Come floating afar TO me now,
Like the leaves that are borne from this broken
And delicate bough,
AS I walk through this forest where quivers
The silvcry bloom from the stars,
And the moon, who hangs waning Ger rivers
Wind rippled in bars.
For their kiss takes mo back to the tender
Sweet t1TE LIT TdCCu TOO sUUu,
Like the CLEAN of the stars or the splendor
That dies with the moon.
Morley Roberts in Once a Week.
, 1888-10-17

A Bridgeport Conn inventive genius
has perfected a locomotive attachment in
tho nature of a photograph, whereby
every blast of the whistle is recorded, to-
gether with the exact time at which it
occurs. This is in the interest of railway
companies, to protect them against false
representations by persons who meet with
accidents on the track.-Frank Leslie's.
, 1888-10-17
The Trade in sealakins.

The sealskin sacque is a great institu-
ton. During the time the Alaska Fur
Seal company has had the privilege of
taking seals from the waters of that ter
ritory it has paid over So, 100000 to the
government, or a sum exceeding by over
Alaska, with the seal islands included
Boston Herald.
, 1888-10-17

How can parents allow their children to
cough and strain and cough and calmly
say: "Oh! it is only a little cold." and
keep giving them cheap and dangerous
medicines, until they are down with lung
fever or consumption, when they can be
so easily relieved by Beggs' Cherry
Cough Syrup? 1t has no superior. and
few equals. For sale by W. n. Hunt,
druppist.
, 1888-10-17

DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes theory is
that a certain part of the brain receives
impressions like the plate in the camera
They are photographed there and always
remain. Sometimes we can recall them
at will and sometimes not, but they are
there-a theory that leads to very serious
thought.-Chicago Herald.
, 1888-10-17

DR.. George Harley, f. r. s., has made
an investigation which reveals abundant
evidence to prove that although man,
during his evolution from barbarism to
civilization, has increased in strength and
stature and longevity, oil the other hand
his power of recovery from bodily hurt
has materially Observation-Disclosures York
Star
, 1888-10-17

In Mississippi one of our teachers
taught her class faithfully the golden
text, Put off thy shoes from of thy feet,
for the place whereon thou standest is
holy ground The next Sunday only one
girl could remember it, and she recited it
thus: Moses, Moses, take off them
Shoes. American Missionary.
, 1888-10-17

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns and all skin e~ruptions, and positively
cures piles or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per box.
For sale BY Dr.. W. n. Hunt.
, 1888-10-17

What on earth is the reason people
will not, can not, or do not see any differ
ence in nheap nostrums put up by Cheap
John houses or irresponsible parties at
enormous profits, rather than take a med
icine of world wide reputation and one
that is giving universal satisfaction at
equal price? No medicine in the world is
giving such unparalleled satisfaction for
purifying the blood as Beggs' Blood Pu-
ritier and Blood Maker, and every bottle
that does not do its work will cost yeu
nothing. For sale by w. N. Hunt, drug
gist.
, 1888-10-17


Cheyenne. Laramie Co., Wyo.
October 2, 1888.
In accordance with the provisions OF
| Sec. 1897 of the revised statutes, public
notice is hereby given that a general cleo
ton will be held in the several precincts
of Laramie county, Wyoming Territory,
on Tuesday the 9th day of November, A.
D. 1888, for the purpose of voting for the
follo wing officers, to-wit:
Three (3) members of the council for
the first council district. consisting of the
county of Laramie.
Six (6) members of the house of repre-
sentatives for the first representative dis
trict consisting of the county of Laramie.
One a member of the house of repre-
sentatives for the twelfth representative
district consisting of the counties of Al
banv, Converse and Laramie.
One ~ delegate to congress.
One () sheriff.
One % county clerk.
One % probate judge and county treas
urer.
One ~ county and prosecuting attor-
ney.
Three (3) county commissioners.
One % superintendent of schools.
One % coroner.
One ~ surveyor.
One % assessor.
One ~ road supervisor in each road
district.
Two (2) justices of the peace for Chey-
enne precinct.
Two (2) c~onstables for Cheyenne pre-
cinct.
For each and every precinct in said
county Except cheyenne one ~ Justice
of the peace.
For each and every precinct Except
C~heyenne) one ~ constable, where such
justice of the peace and constable are de-
sired
The ballots to be used at said election
shall be plain white ten (l0) inches IN
length by three (3) inches in width and
shall be common book paper.
H. B. KELLY.
Chairman Of the Board of County Com
missionerS.
Attest:
TsEAL1 JOHN K. JEFFREY,
| o. uI Eu.-I- Il H. D..
, 1888-10-17

A tribe in the palm region of the Anna
zon cradles the young in palm leaves. A
single leaf turned up round the edges by
some native process makes an excellent
cradle, and now and then it is made to
do service as a bath tub.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
, 1888-10-17

The ORIGINAL ABIETINE ONT
MENT is only put up in large two unoe
tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old
sores, burns, wounds, ohapped hands and
all skin erurtions. Will positively cure
all kinds of piles. Ask for the ORIG
NAL ABIETINE OINTMENT. Sold
by DIR. w. n. Hunt, at 25 cents per box
by mail so cents.
, 1888-10-17

Guest TO mountain house landlordTI
think the amount of this bill is entirely
too large.
Laudlord-Too large? Just fan your
self, sir, with chat bill and get another
Whit of the pure. health inspiring noun
tain air; you'll think it's too smal-New
Nnrk sum.
, 1888-10-17

a small girl of 3 years suddenly burst
U crying at the dinner table.
why, Ethel, said her mother, what
is the NATTER"
oh whined Ethel, my teeth stepped
on my tongue. Boston Globe.
, 1888-10-17
Generositr Of a Common Sort.

There is a new baby over at Snagg's,
and when the 2-year-old baby saw it he
said:
81 div re new baby my crib"
Tom was highly commended. Then
some one asked him where he was going
to sleep.
''Wif re new baby" he answered coolly.
Detroit Free Press.